I thought FCC allows 1000mW with a 24dB antenna. At any rate, it is a power that most consumer devices don't try to transmit at. The EU allows 100mW, but not sure about the antenna.
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without manual correction with rockets.
How much correction? Don't satellites even in earth orbit have correction thrusters? A C-band book I read said that as the satellite gets older, they'll often relax the "station keeping" to conserve thruster fuel.
Advertisers seem to like interruption based advertising. It does make sense as unobtrusive advertising rarely gets attention.
I don't think this is necessarily a threat, because there have been instances in the past where web hosts tried to force users to accept pop-ups or pay up if they don't accept them.
And all IE would need is a plug-in to return a false value of window.open() and pretend that information is being exchanged.
I'm not surprised about the numbers, I've heard of such several years back.
One curious thing about the article is that it doesn't mention that Alpha systems on OpenVMS tend to emulate (and translate!) the old VAX code without a hitch. I expect that OpenVMS on Itanium might have to add yet another translation layer on top of that.
I'm not sure, but I thought a lot of VAX systems have hot-plug hardware, be it CPUs, RAM, drives and add-in cards, such that downtime for maintainance and upgrades was unnecessary.
That is expecting that there is no bug in the compiler and no bug in the stdio library. That also assumes there is no bug in the executing hardware that the compiler, library or kernel doesn't manage to work around.
I don't think it is the same. VNC, X, and remote terminals don't work as well as if the program were running locally. I think it would make more sense to cache your files locally and operate on it with local software rather than transporting image bits and X objects across a network. While network bandwidth will increase, so will the local processor bandwidth too.
People scoff at manuals, but this is where it is important. Only when you do know your shit is when you ignore them, but for a first timer? Read the docs. It helps to have some common sense too.
What is needed is a fan duct. By retrospect, Apple's "zone" cooling doesn't seem so bad, every device that generates a fair amount of heat gets its own fresh air. Of course, now Apple has limited liquid cooling too, for the CPUs only.
Well, there is a Pioneer player that does a lot of what I'd want: DCDi deinterlacing, hard drive PVR, DVD recording, & DVD playback.
But that is $800. I put more than that into my HTPC though, but it has four video capture devices, one of them has a DCDi chip too, and it outputs RGB because that's what my projector does best, although it can do YPrPb component too.
SRS requires stereo. Even on a cheap TV's speakers, assuming it is stereo, SRS defintely changes how it sounds. It isn't remotely true surround but it does seem to expand the sound stage a fair bit.
Usually people don't change their TVs when a new model is out, just as well because that's wasteful.
I'm not sure why people are jumping on plasma TV so much though. While the sleek cabinets are very nice, most of the ones I see look pretty grainy unless I'm ten feet away, and the smaller ones are only 480p anyway.
I call it bad for the consumer. It is harder to keep track of what is good. Six months is not enough time for a product to gather a reputation, good or bad. When I'm new to a particular product, I generally look around for site reviews and user impressions.
That said, the auto industry isn't above having mid-year updates and mid-year introductions, they just don't do it often.
I don't think the computer necessarily benefitted from model year-itis, because products stick around for a good while after introduction and aren't removed from the market when a faster version is put out. They just don't hold themselves to introducing a new product at a specific time every year.
Say what you like, but I'd prefer to have 7.2 MP for an 8x10 print. That is calculated at 300dpi. 200dpi is noticibly blurrier in a photo print (3 MP). If I keep the print at arm's length, it might not be noticible, but at half arm's length, it is obvious to me.
You talk about saving money by switching away from HP, then suggest using non-CRT? Even the cheap LCDs still cost twice as much as CRTs, unless you get to the huge screens.
I doubt modern CRTs are harmful to children or anyone else when not abused. Saying CRT use is harmful seems to be an old wive's tale at best. The only exceptins being if you break the monitor, generally the few that do, do deliberately.
I'm not even sure about the "bad for eyes" thing, why not just set a good refresh rate?
The USB on it is probably the 12mbps one too. That is dirt slow, to say nothing of the "thumb" drive speed.
IIRC, Compact Flash cards are pretty slow too. I suspect that for less than the price of a 1GB or 2GB CF card one can buy a replacement laptop drive cheaply on eBay.
NET gains. Meaning that the gains offset the losses. So a few people lost their jobs, more than enough jobs were probably created.
I think the computer industry and the internet created a lot of jobs too. We are so used to having them that we can't do without them. I suspect that they drain our productivity a lot more than they help though. It seems contradictory, but the reason I say this is that it helps us do more things that we wouldn't have bothered doing before because they were so tedious. So rather than add to free time, for many, it might suck it up.
I ditto the fairness. When you increase the price of something beyond inflation, I think you'd have to expect at least some reduction of ticket sales anyway. Some people might be staying home just for the price, and not pirating, so it's difficult to separate that out with an information overload.
Adjusting income relative to inflation seems to be the most fair. I am pretty sure that 37% over the last three years is still quite a bit higher than inflation over the same period.
Paper printed with readable characters may last the longest when treated well, but text-only prints net about 5k of text per page, assuming no excess white space. You'd need warehouses to store terrabytes.
Why did people like the first Matrix again? There used to be vocal Matrix haters, but I guess they somehow shut up or quit participating in discussions, possibly after somehow having been exposed to the sequels.
It's like Star Wars. The original trilogy wasn't that great. I wonder if there's some sort of nostalgia. I don't think a movie series like the original SW trilogy would succeed if released today even with updated effects. Same goes for Star Trek, the latest movie made the old generation look not so bad in comparison, but that doesn't mean they were great.
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I think you are correct on the EIRP.
I thought FCC allows 1000mW with a 24dB antenna. At any rate, it is a power that most consumer devices don't try to transmit at. The EU allows 100mW, but not sure about the antenna.
without manual correction with rockets.
How much correction? Don't satellites even in earth orbit have correction thrusters? A C-band book I read said that as the satellite gets older, they'll often relax the "station keeping" to conserve thruster fuel.
Advertisers seem to like interruption based advertising. It does make sense as unobtrusive advertising rarely gets attention.
I don't think this is necessarily a threat, because there have been instances in the past where web hosts tried to force users to accept pop-ups or pay up if they don't accept them.
And all IE would need is a plug-in to return a false value of window.open() and pretend that information is being exchanged.
The last time I was in a coffee shop, there was only one person on a computer, and that person looked like a student just writing a report.
So, no, wireless internet doesn't necessarly mean an expansion of where you can do your work, you can blame that on the notebook computer.
I'm not surprised about the numbers, I've heard of such several years back.
One curious thing about the article is that it doesn't mention that Alpha systems on OpenVMS tend to emulate (and translate!) the old VAX code without a hitch. I expect that OpenVMS on Itanium might have to add yet another translation layer on top of that.
I'm not sure, but I thought a lot of VAX systems have hot-plug hardware, be it CPUs, RAM, drives and add-in cards, such that downtime for maintainance and upgrades was unnecessary.
That is expecting that there is no bug in the compiler and no bug in the stdio library. That also assumes there is no bug in the executing hardware that the compiler, library or kernel doesn't manage to work around.
Every time I see someone mention that plug in, it is not called by its name: FlashBlock. Why?
Thankfully you linked to it, but it was hard to find it the first time I saw it mentioned.
I don't think it is the same. VNC, X, and remote terminals don't work as well as if the program were running locally. I think it would make more sense to cache your files locally and operate on it with local software rather than transporting image bits and X objects across a network. While network bandwidth will increase, so will the local processor bandwidth too.
I think the theaters would already be prepared, given that nearly every fangirl pees her pants every time Orlando Bloom strikes a pose.
People scoff at manuals, but this is where it is important. Only when you do know your shit is when you ignore them, but for a first timer? Read the docs. It helps to have some common sense too.
Water cooling generally isn't necessary.
What is needed is a fan duct. By retrospect, Apple's "zone" cooling doesn't seem so bad, every device that generates a fair amount of heat gets its own fresh air. Of course, now Apple has limited liquid cooling too, for the CPUs only.
I wondered what was amiss. I think that fits.
What the heck is "deep" packet processing anyway?
Well, there is a Pioneer player that does a lot of what I'd want: DCDi deinterlacing, hard drive PVR, DVD recording, & DVD playback.
But that is $800. I put more than that into my HTPC though, but it has four video capture devices, one of them has a DCDi chip too, and it outputs RGB because that's what my projector does best, although it can do YPrPb component too.
SRS requires stereo. Even on a cheap TV's speakers, assuming it is stereo, SRS defintely changes how it sounds. It isn't remotely true surround but it does seem to expand the sound stage a fair bit.
Usually people don't change their TVs when a new model is out, just as well because that's wasteful.
I'm not sure why people are jumping on plasma TV so much though. While the sleek cabinets are very nice, most of the ones I see look pretty grainy unless I'm ten feet away, and the smaller ones are only 480p anyway.
IIRC, PNGs generally are larger in file size than the equivalent GIFs. Maintainers of high-load web servers should be concious about this.
PNG compression and decompression is a little slower as well.
I call it bad for the consumer. It is harder to keep track of what is good. Six months is not enough time for a product to gather a reputation, good or bad. When I'm new to a particular product, I generally look around for site reviews and user impressions.
That said, the auto industry isn't above having mid-year updates and mid-year introductions, they just don't do it often.
I don't think the computer necessarily benefitted from model year-itis, because products stick around for a good while after introduction and aren't removed from the market when a faster version is put out. They just don't hold themselves to introducing a new product at a specific time every year.
Say what you like, but I'd prefer to have 7.2 MP for an 8x10 print. That is calculated at 300dpi. 200dpi is noticibly blurrier in a photo print (3 MP). If I keep the print at arm's length, it might not be noticible, but at half arm's length, it is obvious to me.
Do you know what the expected price will be, especially in comparison to the price of four complete white-box systems sold in the same country?
The system isn't in HP South Africa's online store yet.
You talk about saving money by switching away from HP, then suggest using non-CRT? Even the cheap LCDs still cost twice as much as CRTs, unless you get to the huge screens.
I doubt modern CRTs are harmful to children or anyone else when not abused. Saying CRT use is harmful seems to be an old wive's tale at best. The only exceptins being if you break the monitor, generally the few that do, do deliberately.
I'm not even sure about the "bad for eyes" thing, why not just set a good refresh rate?
The USB on it is probably the 12mbps one too. That is dirt slow, to say nothing of the "thumb" drive speed.
IIRC, Compact Flash cards are pretty slow too. I suspect that for less than the price of a 1GB or 2GB CF card one can buy a replacement laptop drive cheaply on eBay.
NET gains. Meaning that the gains offset the losses. So a few people lost their jobs, more than enough jobs were probably created.
I think the computer industry and the internet created a lot of jobs too. We are so used to having them that we can't do without them. I suspect that they drain our productivity a lot more than they help though. It seems contradictory, but the reason I say this is that it helps us do more things that we wouldn't have bothered doing before because they were so tedious. So rather than add to free time, for many, it might suck it up.
I ditto the fairness. When you increase the price of something beyond inflation, I think you'd have to expect at least some reduction of ticket sales anyway. Some people might be staying home just for the price, and not pirating, so it's difficult to separate that out with an information overload.
Adjusting income relative to inflation seems to be the most fair. I am pretty sure that 37% over the last three years is still quite a bit higher than inflation over the same period.
And the prof is probably requiring a specific $100 book to get an entire 5% kickback. I guess it's fun being a tool of the publishing industry.
Paper printed with readable characters may last the longest when treated well, but text-only prints net about 5k of text per page, assuming no excess white space. You'd need warehouses to store terrabytes.
Why did people like the first Matrix again? There used to be vocal Matrix haters, but I guess they somehow shut up or quit participating in discussions, possibly after somehow having been exposed to the sequels.
It's like Star Wars. The original trilogy wasn't that great. I wonder if there's some sort of nostalgia. I don't think a movie series like the original SW trilogy would succeed if released today even with updated effects. Same goes for Star Trek, the latest movie made the old generation look not so bad in comparison, but that doesn't mean they were great.