The car should be within the range of city to highway. If it isn't in there, then you should demand your money back.
I don't think that is that simple. The EPA tests are standardized, and I bet that if you drive in a manner, place and weather that the EPA tests use, you'd probably get those numbers. Drive in snow, rain, cold, heat (with A/C on) you might see something different. This is exactly why people say that benchmarks don't tell the whole story, the tests to arrive at the figures registered by the EPA is a benchmark, no more, no less.
My guess, if you've bothered to read the Wiki entry linked on the specs page, is that the answers are yes, yes, yes and yes, respectively. The mesh networking idea seems pretty interesting, worth a look-up.
Unless you are a fan of broadcom or something, I don't see how this is necessarily a selling point.
This meshcube does have a pile of miniPCI slots which I think would be useful for many point-to-point relays to set up a mesh (one for service, four for connecting to adjacent lattice points) in contrast, a similar setup using that model Linksys would require five of them.
That's a lot better. One thing that concerns me is that the Evo machines are generally sold with a three year next-business-day onsite warranty, so it does seem kind of cheap to make the customer do the upgrade if a tech was supposed to do that. For something so simple as this, I suppose it's not a huge problem. I have an N600c machine and from my understanding of the service manuals, are very similar to the N610 and N620 machines, which are pretty easy to work with the memory.
you won't find liquid cooling in a Dell, Toshiba notebooks
Dell and Compaq have been using heat pipes in _some_ designs as far back as five years ago. That is techically a phase change cooling, one of the phases are liquid.:)
You can get some IBMs and Toshibas that are designed ruggedized, I think they can be run over with heavy machinery.
I am rarely in a situation where my Powerbook picks up a G signal.
That's why you make a G signal.
For internet access spots, B should do fine.
The idea is to get a more recent standard such that when it gets widely adopted, you are ready for it, rather than having to upgrade or add cards when it does become popular.
What they don't tell you is that it takes considerable guidance to hit a target, regardless of the amount of fuel.
Even large model rocketry has been around for decades and I don't think there is a recorded instance of it being used to attack people or things. What terrorist organizations are more likely to use are Russian built shoulder-launched weapons, while inaccurate, are much better guided than any model rocket I've heard about.
Silicon manufacture is one of the most inefficient and ecologically wasteful manufacture methods available because of the amount of water it uses and the caustics needed.
A dual layered DVD costs somewhere around a dollar a piece NOW. Compare the 9GB it can hold with any kind of RAM storage now. I bet you don't have 4GB of RAM now, that would cost hundreds of dollars. And the next DVD format will hold about 25GB per layer. Mechanical storage has historically been the toughest thing to beat on cost, solid state being the most expensive. Silicon (or some other nano circuit fabbing process) has a long ways to go to catch up.
I loved Firefly for one because it was fresh. The captain didn't make long monologues about morality.
I loved the tension of legal / moral between him and the Companion (sorry, I forget her name).
It also gladly showed a future were humanity remains imperfect and is still subject to civil war and tyranny because that is practically human nature, IMO.
I also loved Firefly because it didn't try to take itself too seriously, some Whedon style humor pops up here and there.
What I find interesting is that those thirteen episodes are better thought out (IMO) than the first thirteen episodes of nearly any other sci-fi TV show I've seen, although I haven't seen the old Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
While the Outlaw Star Japanese animation predates it and has many similar ideas and structures, I think Firefly does a better job with it. Some did say it was a rip-off of Outlaw Star but that was only based on seeing too little of Firefly, something like a promo shot.
Both sites might as well be SubSurface or SixFeetUnder, the way they've been slashdotted.
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For the record, one of the reasons I like to use Linux because it costs me very little money. (I buy commercial distros about half the time so I'm not a total leech...)
I think that is commendable (I just paid for SuSe 9.1 Pro), but my understanding is that there are several non-commercial distribution organizations that would gladly accept cash to keep their servers up and such.
As I do hope to gain financially from Linux soon, when I do, I hope to make donations to organizations that develop the OSS software that I use in return.
According to Via's site, the board is available fanless when used with a 8000MHz or 1GHz CPUs. The 1.2GHz CPU model was the one unfortunately pictured. Might I add, that is one TALL fansink. I hope the slower models have a much thinner one.
The thing is, that we have a federal judge that says it's OK for airlines to violate privacy policies because s/he doesn't believe anyone reads them. Fortunately and unfortunately, a law unread is just as valid as a law that is read. Not a lot of people have a habit of reading the constitution of their country, but that doesn't make it less valid either.
Apparently it is also OK to lie about how much info is given out.
Also, with who knows how many people knowing my credit card number, what kind of reasonable faith that no one is going to use it and blacken my credit record?
I have to ask if that judge would like someone to paint a billboard in his den every ten minutes, and go through all his notes while I'm at it. That's pretty much what adware and spyware do, respectively.
That's kind of the reason why I think no country should have veto power on the UN Security Council.
I think the UN should be inspecting Iraq now for human rights violations, because claims that the prisoner abuse is over doesn't hold much water with those that don't take to those that don't trust the US.
IIRC, the system is a statistical method. They have to test a small percentage of processors from any given batch, and than go down a bit to make sure all chips in the batch will work at the advertised speed. If you happen to get a good chip that OCs like mad, then maybe you got lucky.
I suppose a bomb with a rocket attached to it is classified as a missile. I can see it being a possible hypersonic-jet missle. I think one US armed service has something that is hypersonic but it is a rocket and not a jet.
A jet can use air as one fuel component, a rocket has to carry all of its combustibles. Anyhow, at these speeds, one doesn't need explosives, the kinetic energy from such a hypersonic jet-missle is enough to cause plenty of damage.
Police show up after a crime has been committed, and at that point you're already a victum. How is this protection?
This is something a lot of people seem to forget.
Making a law doesn't mean that everyone complies, and in some ways, even basic self defense is illegal in some states. I think mace spray is illegal in some locales. So are small people expected to be at the mercy of large people that desire to violate their rights? I guess people are expected to be mugged while the perp runs and never gets caught.
I'm not sure how well usenet compares with walking down the street minding your own business. Nobody needs to know who you are if you aren't causing trouble.
If you commit a crime, then you would eventually have to be identified. One can't testify against themselves, but I doubt one can legally avoid being identified.
Use a real mobile chip for a moble computer. A 2GHz Dothan is very competitive with a standard P4. With a fuel cell notebook, I want ten hours of battery life, not two and a half.
They knew where to put the cartridge, but that was supposedly to make up for something else they couldn't do competently: hot swap cards. They supposedly wanted to make sure the thing is off before a game can be swapped.
It was still a lame attempt, if you've seen the switch-lock on the original Game Boy, you couldn't physically get the game in or out of the slot without shutting it off first.
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The car should be within the range of city to highway. If it isn't in there, then you should demand your money back.
I don't think that is that simple. The EPA tests are standardized, and I bet that if you drive in a manner, place and weather that the EPA tests use, you'd probably get those numbers. Drive in snow, rain, cold, heat (with A/C on) you might see something different. This is exactly why people say that benchmarks don't tell the whole story, the tests to arrive at the figures registered by the EPA is a benchmark, no more, no less.
Is it an access point? A router? A bridge? What?
My guess, if you've bothered to read the Wiki entry linked on the specs page, is that the answers are yes, yes, yes and yes, respectively. The mesh networking idea seems pretty interesting, worth a look-up.
along with the broadcom chipset
Unless you are a fan of broadcom or something, I don't see how this is necessarily a selling point.
This meshcube does have a pile of miniPCI slots which I think would be useful for many point-to-point relays to set up a mesh (one for service, four for connecting to adjacent lattice points) in contrast, a similar setup using that model Linksys would require five of them.
That's a lot better. One thing that concerns me is that the Evo machines are generally sold with a three year next-business-day onsite warranty, so it does seem kind of cheap to make the customer do the upgrade if a tech was supposed to do that. For something so simple as this, I suppose it's not a huge problem. I have an N600c machine and from my understanding of the service manuals, are very similar to the N610 and N620 machines, which are pretty easy to work with the memory.
you won't find liquid cooling in a Dell, Toshiba notebooks
:)
Dell and Compaq have been using heat pipes in _some_ designs as far back as five years ago. That is techically a phase change cooling, one of the phases are liquid.
You can get some IBMs and Toshibas that are designed ruggedized, I think they can be run over with heavy machinery.
I am rarely in a situation where my Powerbook picks up a G signal.
That's why you make a G signal.
For internet access spots, B should do fine.
The idea is to get a more recent standard such that when it gets widely adopted, you are ready for it, rather than having to upgrade or add cards when it does become popular.
What they don't tell you is that it takes considerable guidance to hit a target, regardless of the amount of fuel.
Even large model rocketry has been around for decades and I don't think there is a recorded instance of it being used to attack people or things. What terrorist organizations are more likely to use are Russian built shoulder-launched weapons, while inaccurate, are much better guided than any model rocket I've heard about.
"Portability is for canoes"?
Like Chevy Chase in Caddyshack:
"A flute with no holes is no flute. A doughnut with no holes is a danish."
Nice fantasy.
Silicon manufacture is one of the most inefficient and ecologically wasteful manufacture methods available because of the amount of water it uses and the caustics needed.
A dual layered DVD costs somewhere around a dollar a piece NOW. Compare the 9GB it can hold with any kind of RAM storage now. I bet you don't have 4GB of RAM now, that would cost hundreds of dollars. And the next DVD format will hold about 25GB per layer. Mechanical storage has historically been the toughest thing to beat on cost, solid state being the most expensive. Silicon (or some other nano circuit fabbing process) has a long ways to go to catch up.
I loved Firefly for one because it was fresh. The captain didn't make long monologues about morality.
I loved the tension of legal / moral between him and the Companion (sorry, I forget her name).
It also gladly showed a future were humanity remains imperfect and is still subject to civil war and tyranny because that is practically human nature, IMO.
I also loved Firefly because it didn't try to take itself too seriously, some Whedon style humor pops up here and there.
What I find interesting is that those thirteen episodes are better thought out (IMO) than the first thirteen episodes of nearly any other sci-fi TV show I've seen, although I haven't seen the old Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
While the Outlaw Star Japanese animation predates it and has many similar ideas and structures, I think Firefly does a better job with it. Some did say it was a rip-off of Outlaw Star but that was only based on seeing too little of Firefly, something like a promo shot.
Both sites might as well be SubSurface or SixFeetUnder, the way they've been slashdotted.
For the record, one of the reasons I like to use Linux because it costs me very little money. (I buy commercial distros about half the time so I'm not a total leech...)
I think that is commendable (I just paid for SuSe 9.1 Pro), but my understanding is that there are several non-commercial distribution organizations that would gladly accept cash to keep their servers up and such.
As I do hope to gain financially from Linux soon, when I do, I hope to make donations to organizations that develop the OSS software that I use in return.
According to Via's site, the board is available fanless when used with a 8000MHz or 1GHz CPUs. The 1.2GHz CPU model was the one unfortunately pictured. Might I add, that is one TALL fansink. I hope the slower models have a much thinner one.
The thing is, that we have a federal judge that says it's OK for airlines to violate privacy policies because s/he doesn't believe anyone reads them. Fortunately and unfortunately, a law unread is just as valid as a law that is read. Not a lot of people have a habit of reading the constitution of their country, but that doesn't make it less valid either.
Apparently it is also OK to lie about how much info is given out.
Also, with who knows how many people knowing my credit card number, what kind of reasonable faith that no one is going to use it and blacken my credit record?
I have to ask if that judge would like someone to paint a billboard in his den every ten minutes, and go through all his notes while I'm at it. That's pretty much what adware and spyware do, respectively.
First ammendment rights, my arse.
"Think outside the tank"
Somehow I am associating "think tank" with "drunk tank". Somehow that seems to fit these days.
That was poorly worded. Sorry. A lot of people don't trust the US, so I think it's a good idea to have other parties check Iraq out thoughroughly.
That's kind of the reason why I think no country should have veto power on the UN Security Council.
I think the UN should be inspecting Iraq now for human rights violations, because claims that the prisoner abuse is over doesn't hold much water with those that don't take to those that don't trust the US.
IIRC, the system is a statistical method. They have to test a small percentage of processors from any given batch, and than go down a bit to make sure all chips in the batch will work at the advertised speed. If you happen to get a good chip that OCs like mad, then maybe you got lucky.
I suppose a bomb with a rocket attached to it is classified as a missile. I can see it being a possible hypersonic-jet missle. I think one US armed service has something that is hypersonic but it is a rocket and not a jet.
A jet can use air as one fuel component, a rocket has to carry all of its combustibles. Anyhow, at these speeds, one doesn't need explosives, the kinetic energy from such a hypersonic jet-missle is enough to cause plenty of damage.
Police show up after a crime has been committed, and at that point you're already a victum. How is this protection?
This is something a lot of people seem to forget.
Making a law doesn't mean that everyone complies, and in some ways, even basic self defense is illegal in some states. I think mace spray is illegal in some locales. So are small people expected to be at the mercy of large people that desire to violate their rights? I guess people are expected to be mugged while the perp runs and never gets caught.
I'm not sure how well usenet compares with walking down the street minding your own business. Nobody needs to know who you are if you aren't causing trouble.
If you commit a crime, then you would eventually have to be identified. One can't testify against themselves, but I doubt one can legally avoid being identified.
Ugh... desknotes are bad enough!
Use a real mobile chip for a moble computer. A 2GHz Dothan is very competitive with a standard P4. With a fuel cell notebook, I want ten hours of battery life, not two and a half.
They knew where to put the cartridge, but that was supposedly to make up for something else they couldn't do competently: hot swap cards. They supposedly wanted to make sure the thing is off before a game can be swapped.
It was still a lame attempt, if you've seen the switch-lock on the original Game Boy, you couldn't physically get the game in or out of the slot without shutting it off first.
Add to that capitalization rules. That was the hardest part for me.