Say a law was passed such that the liability would be limited to the amount paid for the software, unless otherwise agreed, like insurance or a special additional paid support package giving greater liabilities.
iBackup appears to be a service, not software. Paying a service to backup, when they don't is like paying someone to mow your lawn and you wonder why the grass is still long and you didn't hear any lawn mowers.
A guarantee doesn't mean they'll never lose the data, just that they'd reimburse you a certain amount if the data is lost. No warranty I've seen said that a product would never fail, it just outlines a reimbursement in the form of a repair or replacement should it fail.
And, um, the hot McDonald's coffee wasn't about the fact that the coffee was hot, it was about the coffee being like twenty or thirty degrees hotter at one restaurant than the book calls for (170 degrees F vs. 140 degrees F, I think). Coffee is supposed to be hot, but if it is hot enough to deform, then it is far too hot. Granted, people shouldn't be cradling hot drinks between their legs, but businesses shouldn't be serving coffee that is thirty degrees out of spec. And that restaurant was getting complaints of too-hot coffee but they ignored them.
I know an application programmer that said that the data needed on the PDA came close to filling up a 1GB stick.
The latest developments are rarely for consumers. There are always some people that have a business need to get the latest and greatest, and can justify paying twice as much for 10% faster, or five times as much for twice as much space.
Sure, there are PDAs with multiple memory slots, but if the first slot is used by GPS for example, a two-slot PDA doesn't exactly leave much left for memory.
It reads to me that iBackup don't even guarantee that they will even back it up AT ALL. OK I grant that backups can fail, but not backing up at all is pretty sad for a service that has "backup" in its company name! Sounds to me to be a bunch of retards.
At least with FedEx, they will compensate you if they lose the package, provided you declared a value. I think $100 coverage is free with the shipment.
My AP's AC->DC power supply is rated to 1A output at 12V . That is 12W. Given that sunlight is about 2kW/m^2 on a bright sunny day, and assuming a 10% conversion efficiency out of a panel (I think some are 15%), you might only need a panel that is about 25cm by 25cm. It is not all that large.
Say you buy a 30cm x 30cm panel that generates current at 12V and buy small battery pack to store charge in the bright spots and to supplement power when a cloud passes, I think it could easily be done.
I've been thinking of doing a "portable" repeater setup, but using a parabolic dish to bring a wireless connection a kilometer from the base station. I've done a basic proof of reception, I just need to build something like that.
n the past, information was more ephemeral; books would decay or be lost over time. Just because we have the capacity virtually eternal data storage doesn't mean we should.
As it is, books generally last longer than digital storage. Books are also readable longer because they don't require special format readers that go out of style every five to ten years. CDs seem to be an exception because DVDs were wisely made backward compatible, floppy and tape formats didn't stay backward compatible for very long, but then, writable CDs have a tendency to decay quickly.
The only reason digital data might last longer is if someone regularly makes a fresh backup, so that the data doesn't decay so much that the ECC can't correct it.
SCSI itself isn't hotter, the higher RPMs make the drives hotter.
In one system, I use one 15k RPM drive as my system drive, and an 80GB 7200RPM IDE for plain mass storage. The boot time is slightly faster but app load time is a lot quicker.
I agree. I recently bought a system that happened to include Windows XP. I did most of your recommendations, and turned off menu drop shadows too, which is in a different dialog box, I don't remember where. I noticed that was lagging the system for a useless effect. nVidia has a feature that allows menus to be translucent, but I noticed a slight lag using that too.
In short, I think I might just go back to using Windows 2000 for a primary Windows system, and boot into XP for games only.
"Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time..."
Sheesh. As if double click wasn't annoying and contrived enough. How about as many as five clicks, and the duration varies between long and short clicks? Is there a prior art in this, like freaking MORSE CODE?
I think the point is that people want long life but not the responsibility. As it sits, no one lives much longer than 120 anyway, and I think the point is to up that apparent biological limit.
People can live longer by being safer, etc, so many people die of alcohol and death-wish related activities, unfortunately, I don't think scientific research can "fix" that.
The labels should consider selling their product the way DEC used to sell software: licenses and copies on media are two separate products.
And their pricing was conveniently left out. This wasn't always the way they did it. The machine, if sold for use with UNIX, often included a licence as part of the price. The media kit costed $99, a separate licence somewhere near $1000. Actual books costed hundreds more, not sure how much. I think one can get a hobbyist licence now that costs $99, I'm not sure if that included any CDs or not.
Funny how that doesn't really translate to the real world.
If you opened a paper mail (or package!) meant for your neighbors, but accidentally shipped to your box instead, you would be committing a federal crime in the US, the exception being certain authorities when they have established probable cause or have a warrant.
I don't know how other countries handle it but I imagine that it is common.
tweaked guassian blur to lessen the harsh edges digital cameras are still prone to leave in the unedited image file.
Ick, do digital cameras run edge enhancement on their images? At least I think that's something that the pro-grade digital cameras would smartly avoid.
There is a project in which a bunch of small cameras are put in polar orbit for being able to rapidly survey a region supposedly after a major natural disaster. Several nations and companies are in this project, they can do what they want with them except just after a natural disaster which they would be temprarily cooperatively commandeered for the situation at hand.
The idea was that a ring of these satellites would chase after each other in a single orbit, while the earth spins under it. The reason this is useful is that commercial satellite photography takes too long to get to the right place, days if you are lucky, and with the series of small satellites, you get images within hours.
It could have military uses too as with the old spy satellites, the reason North Korea surprised the Pentagon & CIA was that North Korea knew when those satellites would be overhead and thus planned all their movements to avoid being photographed.
Athlon64 was about nine months late, but hardly years, they managed to eke some Opterons out before the Athlon version was released.
Intel will be switching sockets, but IIRC, because of the increased FSB speeds, I thought the next bump was to be 1.2GHz so the pins themselves needed to go away I gues because that is into the microwave region. That might have been temporarily scrapped though, now that they've halted the development of post-Prescott P4 chips in favor of developments based on the Pentium M core.
For the thermally and electrically concious, 10k RPM drives may not be wise, but a LOT of heat? My 15k drives do get warm. I guess it's probably good to check storagereview.com to be sure, they are one of the few sites that measure things that don't necessarily affect speed, namely heat and noise.
even though I'd need to reinstall XP to enable HT.
I highly doubt you need to reinstall XP to enable hyperthreading.
I didn't need to reinstall W2k to do so, there was a way to switch from uniprocessor kernel to multiprocessor kernel in the System Hardware control panel. I sure as heck hope they didn't change that for XP. Google it to be sure, unless you want to reinstall for the sake of reinstalling.
i despise sony VAIOs. terrible battery life, terrible heat... well ok this may be outdated information. ever since my company bought a bunch (which ended up sitting in the cupboards unused, they were so terrible)
Smart companies (if they exist) would have rolled out a handful before getting a huge bulk of them...
I think the real fault here is the "desknote" trend where they put full desktop processors into a notebook, a P4 rather than a P4m. Regular P4s have no dynamic clock throttling and they aren't fabbed with mobile use in mind, so they run all-out bake-mode. They don't advertise battery life on desknotes because they practically don't have any, usually it is less than one hour. In short, desknotes are more like luggable desktops.
People that buy desknotes often don't seem to be aware of these consequences. Desknotes are fine for those that KNOW this, because a lot of people don't use them for travel, just for going from desk to desk where there's always an outlet, just don't expect to go outdoors to do work for several hours.
Dual channel wasn't that great a benefit for Athlon 64 anyway, although I suspect latency is a smidge shorter for unbuffered.
IMO, the FX series isn't exactly a toy, either, and buffered allows more memory and bigger sticks per channel. This might mean that pro gear that got by with FX might have to switch to Opteron for the next upgrade.
I've heard that too often those flourescent sidelights are hard to find, and are often specific to the model.
Even so, sadly, I think people would more likely just upgrade the display. 45,000 hours is about five years worth of use, assuming 40 hours a week use.
D'oh, I forgot to be more specific, the fade isn't lag time, but rather, as the screens age, some colors will go dimmer faster than others, changing the overall "color tone" of the screen. I see no point in buying an OLED screen when only one good color is still useful. Now, using the "white" compound with color filters in front of them might have to suffice, provided the color of white is stable.
I haven't seen any word on whether the primary colors can be truly SMPTE compatible. If it isn't, then it would be much harder to calibrate the screen to make it look the way it should.
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Say a law was passed such that the liability would be limited to the amount paid for the software, unless otherwise agreed, like insurance or a special additional paid support package giving greater liabilities.
Would that make you happy?
iBackup appears to be a service, not software. Paying a service to backup, when they don't is like paying someone to mow your lawn and you wonder why the grass is still long and you didn't hear any lawn mowers.
A guarantee doesn't mean they'll never lose the data, just that they'd reimburse you a certain amount if the data is lost. No warranty I've seen said that a product would never fail, it just outlines a reimbursement in the form of a repair or replacement should it fail.
And, um, the hot McDonald's coffee wasn't about the fact that the coffee was hot, it was about the coffee being like twenty or thirty degrees hotter at one restaurant than the book calls for (170 degrees F vs. 140 degrees F, I think). Coffee is supposed to be hot, but if it is hot enough to deform, then it is far too hot. Granted, people shouldn't be cradling hot drinks between their legs, but businesses shouldn't be serving coffee that is thirty degrees out of spec. And that restaurant was getting complaints of too-hot coffee but they ignored them.
I know an application programmer that said that the data needed on the PDA came close to filling up a 1GB stick.
The latest developments are rarely for consumers. There are always some people that have a business need to get the latest and greatest, and can justify paying twice as much for 10% faster, or five times as much for twice as much space.
Sure, there are PDAs with multiple memory slots, but if the first slot is used by GPS for example, a two-slot PDA doesn't exactly leave much left for memory.
It reads to me that iBackup don't even guarantee that they will even back it up AT ALL. OK I grant that backups can fail, but not backing up at all is pretty sad for a service that has "backup" in its company name! Sounds to me to be a bunch of retards.
At least with FedEx, they will compensate you if they lose the package, provided you declared a value. I think $100 coverage is free with the shipment.
My AP's AC->DC power supply is rated to 1A output at 12V . That is 12W. Given that sunlight is about 2kW/m^2 on a bright sunny day, and assuming a 10% conversion efficiency out of a panel (I think some are 15%), you might only need a panel that is about 25cm by 25cm. It is not all that large.
Say you buy a 30cm x 30cm panel that generates current at 12V and buy small battery pack to store charge in the bright spots and to supplement power when a cloud passes, I think it could easily be done.
I've been thinking of doing a "portable" repeater setup, but using a parabolic dish to bring a wireless connection a kilometer from the base station. I've done a basic proof of reception, I just need to build something like that.
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Does this make this a sixth level domain?
n the past, information was more ephemeral; books would decay or be lost over time. Just because we have the capacity virtually eternal data storage doesn't mean we should.
As it is, books generally last longer than digital storage. Books are also readable longer because they don't require special format readers that go out of style every five to ten years. CDs seem to be an exception because DVDs were wisely made backward compatible, floppy and tape formats didn't stay backward compatible for very long, but then, writable CDs have a tendency to decay quickly.
The only reason digital data might last longer is if someone regularly makes a fresh backup, so that the data doesn't decay so much that the ECC can't correct it.
SCSI itself isn't hotter, the higher RPMs make the drives hotter.
In one system, I use one 15k RPM drive as my system drive, and an 80GB 7200RPM IDE for plain mass storage. The boot time is slightly faster but app load time is a lot quicker.
I agree. I recently bought a system that happened to include Windows XP. I did most of your recommendations, and turned off menu drop shadows too, which is in a different dialog box, I don't remember where. I noticed that was lagging the system for a useless effect. nVidia has a feature that allows menus to be translucent, but I noticed a slight lag using that too.
In short, I think I might just go back to using Windows 2000 for a primary Windows system, and boot into XP for games only.
"Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time..."
Sheesh. As if double click wasn't annoying and contrived enough. How about as many as five clicks, and the duration varies between long and short clicks? Is there a prior art in this, like freaking MORSE CODE?
I think the point is that people want long life but not the responsibility. As it sits, no one lives much longer than 120 anyway, and I think the point is to up that apparent biological limit.
People can live longer by being safer, etc, so many people die of alcohol and death-wish related activities, unfortunately, I don't think scientific research can "fix" that.
The labels should consider selling their product the way DEC used to sell software: licenses and copies on media are two separate products.
And their pricing was conveniently left out. This wasn't always the way they did it. The machine, if sold for use with UNIX, often included a licence as part of the price. The media kit costed $99, a separate licence somewhere near $1000. Actual books costed hundreds more, not sure how much. I think one can get a hobbyist licence now that costs $99, I'm not sure if that included any CDs or not.
Funny how that doesn't really translate to the real world.
If you opened a paper mail (or package!) meant for your neighbors, but accidentally shipped to your box instead, you would be committing a federal crime in the US, the exception being certain authorities when they have established probable cause or have a warrant.
I don't know how other countries handle it but I imagine that it is common.
Is the school really mandating it, or just strongly recommending it? IIRC, very few switches don't autonegotiate down to 100bFX.
Have you tried VNC over gigabit?
I think there is a bandwidth throttling so it doesn't saturate the connection. I haven't figured out where the limiter seting is in the source.
tweaked guassian blur to lessen the harsh edges digital cameras are still prone to leave in the unedited image file.
Ick, do digital cameras run edge enhancement on their images? At least I think that's something that the pro-grade digital cameras would smartly avoid.
There is a project in which a bunch of small cameras are put in polar orbit for being able to rapidly survey a region supposedly after a major natural disaster. Several nations and companies are in this project, they can do what they want with them except just after a natural disaster which they would be temprarily cooperatively commandeered for the situation at hand.
The idea was that a ring of these satellites would chase after each other in a single orbit, while the earth spins under it. The reason this is useful is that commercial satellite photography takes too long to get to the right place, days if you are lucky, and with the series of small satellites, you get images within hours.
It could have military uses too as with the old spy satellites, the reason North Korea surprised the Pentagon & CIA was that North Korea knew when those satellites would be overhead and thus planned all their movements to avoid being photographed.
Athlon64 was about nine months late, but hardly years, they managed to eke some Opterons out before the Athlon version was released.
Intel will be switching sockets, but IIRC, because of the increased FSB speeds, I thought the next bump was to be 1.2GHz so the pins themselves needed to go away I gues because that is into the microwave region. That might have been temporarily scrapped though, now that they've halted the development of post-Prescott P4 chips in favor of developments based on the Pentium M core.
For the thermally and electrically concious, 10k RPM drives may not be wise, but a LOT of heat? My 15k drives do get warm. I guess it's probably good to check storagereview.com to be sure, they are one of the few sites that measure things that don't necessarily affect speed, namely heat and noise.
even though I'd need to reinstall XP to enable HT.
I highly doubt you need to reinstall XP to enable hyperthreading.
I didn't need to reinstall W2k to do so, there was a way to switch from uniprocessor kernel to multiprocessor kernel in the System Hardware control panel. I sure as heck hope they didn't change that for XP. Google it to be sure, unless you want to reinstall for the sake of reinstalling.
i despise sony VAIOs. terrible battery life, terrible heat... well ok this may be outdated information. ever since my company bought a bunch (which ended up sitting in the cupboards unused, they were so terrible)
Smart companies (if they exist) would have rolled out a handful before getting a huge bulk of them...
I think the real fault here is the "desknote" trend where they put full desktop processors into a notebook, a P4 rather than a P4m. Regular P4s have no dynamic clock throttling and they aren't fabbed with mobile use in mind, so they run all-out bake-mode. They don't advertise battery life on desknotes because they practically don't have any, usually it is less than one hour. In short, desknotes are more like luggable desktops.
People that buy desknotes often don't seem to be aware of these consequences. Desknotes are fine for those that KNOW this, because a lot of people don't use them for travel, just for going from desk to desk where there's always an outlet, just don't expect to go outdoors to do work for several hours.
I think that's like saying RIP wireless networking because Microsoft exited that market.
I wouldn't know why people would pay $400 though, I've been using a Palm m100 that I paid $75 for maybe three or four years now.
Dual channel wasn't that great a benefit for Athlon 64 anyway, although I suspect latency is a smidge shorter for unbuffered.
IMO, the FX series isn't exactly a toy, either, and buffered allows more memory and bigger sticks per channel. This might mean that pro gear that got by with FX might have to switch to Opteron for the next upgrade.
I've heard that too often those flourescent sidelights are hard to find, and are often specific to the model.
Even so, sadly, I think people would more likely just upgrade the display. 45,000 hours is about five years worth of use, assuming 40 hours a week use.
D'oh, I forgot to be more specific, the fade isn't lag time, but rather, as the screens age, some colors will go dimmer faster than others, changing the overall "color tone" of the screen. I see no point in buying an OLED screen when only one good color is still useful. Now, using the "white" compound with color filters in front of them might have to suffice, provided the color of white is stable.
I haven't seen any word on whether the primary colors can be truly SMPTE compatible. If it isn't, then it would be much harder to calibrate the screen to make it look the way it should.