Given that Slashdot "editors" cannot be bothered to check theor own site (for duplicate stories) I am not surprised they don't bother to check the stores of submitters.
Heck, people have been complaining for a long time that editors don't bother to edit submission text or to add a worthwhile comment, they just copy and paste some schuck's submission and the job is done! They don't check the sumbissions claims and sometimes don't even bother to remove highly prejudiced comments.
The act of building and maintaining computers and software alone seems to far outweigh the time savings they yield. Much like humans. Add another person to a project and they take so much energy just to get up to speed, plus more labor of those already in the project to correct their mistakes.
One problem I've seen with previous heat pipe implementations is that not only did it use a fan, they used the most obnoxious fan they could. Shuttle had "quiet heat pipe technology" on the sell sheet for their mini-PCs but it was the loudest computer in the store.
One thing I don't understand is how the new technology is supposed to be the cause of the "problem". We already had email and phone, and many even had talk-only cellular for a long time to keep in touch. If I know someone that has already seen it, I can call them before deciding to go. And I can read lots of reviews on websites that go more in-depth than "Hu1k sux0rs!" or whatever.
Like hell would people as a whole "share" power gratis like people "share" music today, where people could take without providing in return.
Energy has to come from somewhere and the equipment costs money, there's no sense in giving it away if it increases your own costs. Now, if you could trade kWh credits, then that makes more sense, but you still have to have a good way of accounting for this, might as well use money.
That site doesn't explain the costs. I imagine that the element costs 3x as much because it really has 3x as many sensors, in a more expensive lithography process. I suppose one of these at 3MP might work better than an 8MP of the current kind of sensor
Unless it is free or cheap, I don't see the point in upgrading. I am still using Photoshop 5 LE (came with the camera), AutoCAD 13 (circa 1994), Corel WordPerfect Suite 8. To replace all of these with the latest version could easily cost $4000 total. Even if you cheap out in getting the latest neutered versions (Acad LT, PhotoShop Elements), that's $1000 easy total.
I really don't see the point in upgrading, unless you either want to have an infringing copy or you like to waste money. I have yet to see an adequate replacement for AutoCAD on Linux, or see a currently maintained CAD program for Mac, so they don't apply.
The FAQ is an educational tool. Some people don't even know that this stuff is pirated. Some bootleg packages are pretty darn convincing, and only telltake cues and sometimes even comparison to the real thing may be needed for people to spot them.
The licencees often don't have the time to crack down on the biggest sellers. Some licencees do take the time to join eBay's little rights-owner program and get pirated stuff cancelled, but not all.
Most of the pirated stuff is produced in other Asian countries where the government hasn't or can't sign the Berne Convention treaty, so piracy is technically legal (like Taiwan R.O.C) or the government looks the other way and only does a half hearted crack down when the owner complains These titles are imported by small-time dealers and distributors and there are simply too many.
Am I the only one here that knows that power standards world wide are not compatible?
The idiots at Wired certainly don't either.
There are two major frequencies used, 50Hz and 60Hz and probably several voltages. Europe is on 60Hz, at 220V. Japan is 60Hz at about 100V. USA, Canada 60Hz at about 120V. Of course there are other voltages, in the US I have access to 220V three phase, at 60Hz, and 440V three phase, same frequency. The voltage levels can be compensated by tranformers but it will be a long time before any region will convert to different frequencies, I'd say decades is a lower bound estimate unless politicians want a lynch mob at their gates. I have a lot of stuff that can use both frequencies, but I have a lot of stuff that can't
And let's not forget that transmitting electricity becomes more pointless the longer the distance it has to travel. Transmitting power from Maine to New York isn't such a bad idea, but Main to California is stupid, and transmitting over or through oceans is worse.
I've seen comments like this before, and you do have a very credible point.
Thankfully I've only been had 1% of the time, one time as a seller and one or two times as a buyer.
The one time I was a seller, I sent DVDs in perfect condition and even put extra protection on each disc to prevent scratches, and padded protection surrounding each keepcase, in a box. In my opinion, the customer watched it, thought it sucked, scratched them (even _both_ sides of all discs) and then complained that the discs were bad and didn't work. Since I can't prove it, there wasn't anything I could do.
I am guessing you would want a system that works without a swap file and make sure you have enough RAM. For one, I think the power needed for sufficient RAM is less than the power needed to write to a drive, whether it be solid state or mechanical.
The thing I can think of is that Intel's been working its way into the slightly bigger server (2P, 4P) market for nearly a decade, and AMD really hadn't had a serious contender until this year.
Maybe AMD is on to something, but winning a few supercomputer contracts rarely affects corporate purchasing. It will be an interesting show as they seem to have taken the a lot of the hardest work out of making a multiprocessor system.
I am a fairly heavy Windows user and I haven't seen a BSOD in over four years and I've built a few franken-puters with odd hardware. I don't game much though.
I've read about this from a few sources. I don't know why the physicians really care or why they'd try to force their agendas and their theories of humanity on others. I am curious why they do this.
From what I understand, one major respected medical association has even adopted a stance of forcing a change based on rigid criteria, and that it would be "fixed" sometimes without the parent's knowledge or consent.
It would seen that they are wasting their bandwidth just to get 28 ad exposures, with each "page" having only two paragraphs worth of comments and reloading their huge menu bars every time. Why do hardware sites have to be so ugly and absurd?
I don't think that a memory flip in the RAM means that the PSU failed.
I dunno, the MTBF in RAM for any particular bit may be 100+ years, but once you apply such statistics on a system with multigigabite RAM, I wouldn't be too surprised to find a bit flip in a days's time.
I would like more information on the test system, RAM brand, etc.
I know that the problems of reading a large hardcover would be very well offset by a small paperback, and for only a two week trip, I would only need one novel, and only for the flights.
I know I wouldn't put up with a tiny screen, and I think the palm-types otherwise would have too small of a screen and too coarse of a DPI to put up with it. I would think that you'd need to carry batteries and chargers around, and for intn'l trips, multistandard charger and that can easily add up. I suppose one added benefit of a palm unit is that most are or can be backlit for dark times.
I can see the problems of reading on a palm machine being easily offset by getting the book for free, despite having to own $300 of hardware to read an eBook of some kind.
I can see the book industry and the other industries being leery about claims of not needing a distribution chain. First you'd need to raise an incredible level of traffic to the publisher's site, and basically break the consumer tendency to just buy books at a bookstore, most of which aren't beholden to a particular publisher so you get a large selection all in _one_ place without having to visit dozens of publisher sites. So you still need a dealer "network" of some sort.
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Show me some usage stats on how much P2P traffic isn't copyright infringing. If it those files were legit, they would use web sites and FTP downloads.
Also, I believe that the theoretical fall of sales due to a boycott would only reinforce their arguments.
Given that Slashdot "editors" cannot be bothered to check theor own site (for duplicate stories) I am not surprised they don't bother to check the stores of submitters.
Heck, people have been complaining for a long time that editors don't bother to edit submission text or to add a worthwhile comment, they just copy and paste some schuck's submission and the job is done! They don't check the sumbissions claims and sometimes don't even bother to remove highly prejudiced comments.
Agreed.
The act of building and maintaining computers and software alone seems to far outweigh the time savings they yield. Much like humans. Add another person to a project and they take so much energy just to get up to speed, plus more labor of those already in the project to correct their mistakes.
One problem I've seen with previous heat pipe implementations is that not only did it use a fan, they used the most obnoxious fan they could. Shuttle had "quiet heat pipe technology" on the sell sheet for their mini-PCs but it was the loudest computer in the store.
One thing I don't understand is how the new technology is supposed to be the cause of the "problem". We already had email and phone, and many even had talk-only cellular for a long time to keep in touch. If I know someone that has already seen it, I can call them before deciding to go. And I can read lots of reviews on websites that go more in-depth than "Hu1k sux0rs!" or whatever.
Like hell would people as a whole "share" power gratis like people "share" music today, where people could take without providing in return.
Energy has to come from somewhere and the equipment costs money, there's no sense in giving it away if it increases your own costs. Now, if you could trade kWh credits, then that makes more sense, but you still have to have a good way of accounting for this, might as well use money.
One concern I've seen with Photovoltiacs is that they require as much energy to make one as it would produce in its lifetime.
Has this changed?
The thing is, any user already can set Windows to download update automatically. The smart ones would avoid though.
That site doesn't explain the costs. I imagine that the element costs 3x as much because it really has 3x as many sensors, in a more expensive lithography process. I suppose one of these at 3MP might work better than an 8MP of the current kind of sensor
5) I can't run 12-year old software on it
Software lasts more than 18 months? Wow.
Unless it is free or cheap, I don't see the point in upgrading. I am still using Photoshop 5 LE (came with the camera), AutoCAD 13 (circa 1994), Corel WordPerfect Suite 8. To replace all of these with the latest version could easily cost $4000 total. Even if you cheap out in getting the latest neutered versions (Acad LT, PhotoShop Elements), that's $1000 easy total.
I really don't see the point in upgrading, unless you either want to have an infringing copy or you like to waste money. I have yet to see an adequate replacement for AutoCAD on Linux, or see a currently maintained CAD program for Mac, so they don't apply.
I would say both would be nice. I believe a proof on paper still needs to be proved in practice.
I agree, but there are problems.
The FAQ is an educational tool. Some people don't even know that this stuff is pirated. Some bootleg packages are pretty darn convincing, and only telltake cues and sometimes even comparison to the real thing may be needed for people to spot them.
The licencees often don't have the time to crack down on the biggest sellers. Some licencees do take the time to join eBay's little rights-owner program and get pirated stuff cancelled, but not all.
Most of the pirated stuff is produced in other Asian countries where the government hasn't or can't sign the Berne Convention treaty, so piracy is technically legal (like Taiwan R.O.C) or the government looks the other way and only does a half hearted crack down when the owner complains These titles are imported by small-time dealers and distributors and there are simply too many.
Am I the only one here that knows that power standards world wide are not compatible?
The idiots at Wired certainly don't either.
There are two major frequencies used, 50Hz and 60Hz and probably several voltages. Europe is on 60Hz, at 220V. Japan is 60Hz at about 100V. USA, Canada 60Hz at about 120V. Of course there are other voltages, in the US I have access to 220V three phase, at 60Hz, and 440V three phase, same frequency. The voltage levels can be compensated by tranformers but it will be a long time before any region will convert to different frequencies, I'd say decades is a lower bound estimate unless politicians want a lynch mob at their gates. I have a lot of stuff that can use both frequencies, but I have a lot of stuff that can't
And let's not forget that transmitting electricity becomes more pointless the longer the distance it has to travel. Transmitting power from Maine to New York isn't such a bad idea, but Main to California is stupid, and transmitting over or through oceans is worse.
I've seen comments like this before, and you do have a very credible point.
Thankfully I've only been had 1% of the time, one time as a seller and one or two times as a buyer.
The one time I was a seller, I sent DVDs in perfect condition and even put extra protection on each disc to prevent scratches, and padded protection surrounding each keepcase, in a box. In my opinion, the customer watched it, thought it sucked, scratched them (even _both_ sides of all discs) and then complained that the discs were bad and didn't work. Since I can't prove it, there wasn't anything I could do.
Agreed. The older iMacs were introduced around 1996-1997. The "beige" G3s were as much as a year older.
Anyone wanting to run OS X on one of them seriously wouldn't be too far from wanting to run XP on a Pentium MMX system.
I am guessing you would want a system that works without a swap file and make sure you have enough RAM. For one, I think the power needed for sufficient RAM is less than the power needed to write to a drive, whether it be solid state or mechanical.
The thing I can think of is that Intel's been working its way into the slightly bigger server (2P, 4P) market for nearly a decade, and AMD really hadn't had a serious contender until this year.
Maybe AMD is on to something, but winning a few supercomputer contracts rarely affects corporate purchasing. It will be an interesting show as they seem to have taken the a lot of the hardest work out of making a multiprocessor system.
The inability in OE to pick up from multiple mailboxes and have each go to its own folder is a glaring fault.
Not a fault. I just use Tools->Message Rules->Mail, and set up a rule "Where Message is From Specified Account", or read the To: line.
I know that 1000bT has 10x the bandwidth, but does it have more than negligible latency gains? That might be a factor.
I've seen complaints of Ethernet being latency.
I am a fairly heavy Windows user and I haven't seen a BSOD in over four years and I've built a few franken-puters with odd hardware. I don't game much though.
But I am planning to insult every person in the Universe.
What is the life expectancy of a person that insults a Mafia Don? Or Cthulu for that matter?
I've read about this from a few sources. I don't know why the physicians really care or why they'd try to force their agendas and their theories of humanity on others. I am curious why they do this.
From what I understand, one major respected medical association has even adopted a stance of forcing a change based on rigid criteria, and that it would be "fixed" sometimes without the parent's knowledge or consent.
Thanks!
It would seen that they are wasting their bandwidth just to get 28 ad exposures, with each "page" having only two paragraphs worth of comments and reloading their huge menu bars every time. Why do hardware sites have to be so ugly and absurd?
I don't think that a memory flip in the RAM means that the PSU failed.
I dunno, the MTBF in RAM for any particular bit may be 100+ years, but once you apply such statistics on a system with multigigabite RAM, I wouldn't be too surprised to find a bit flip in a days's time.
I would like more information on the test system, RAM brand, etc.
I know that the problems of reading a large hardcover would be very well offset by a small paperback, and for only a two week trip, I would only need one novel, and only for the flights.
I know I wouldn't put up with a tiny screen, and I think the palm-types otherwise would have too small of a screen and too coarse of a DPI to put up with it. I would think that you'd need to carry batteries and chargers around, and for intn'l trips, multistandard charger and that can easily add up. I suppose one added benefit of a palm unit is that most are or can be backlit for dark times.
I can see the problems of reading on a palm machine being easily offset by getting the book for free, despite having to own $300 of hardware to read an eBook of some kind.
I can see the book industry and the other industries being leery about claims of not needing a distribution chain. First you'd need to raise an incredible level of traffic to the publisher's site, and basically break the consumer tendency to just buy books at a bookstore, most of which aren't beholden to a particular publisher so you get a large selection all in _one_ place without having to visit dozens of publisher sites. So you still need a dealer "network" of some sort.