That mechanism looks like a lot of complexity and cost to save what probably amounts to a single watt. How much more energy would it take to make that over a one watt fan? Not only that, a large passive heat sink would probably do even better, nothing to break and it would just use existing air flow. I've yet to own a computer that has or needs a fan just for the chipset, not necessarily through trying, it's not really that necessary to have.
Aluminum makes up 8% of the Earth's crust. The earth's composition of carbon appears to be much lower, the same page shows it's 0.03% of the earth's total weight. That doesn't say much of how easy it is to collect either resource, but abundance doesn't seem to be the answer. I think it's the strength-to-weight ratio that makes carbon nanotube materials interesting, but it's still pretty expensive to make.
I do have to wonder about those people that "bought" a plot on the moon. It's not yours if you can't defend it and no government or space program recognizes it as yours. If all they thought they were really getting is a novelty certificate, then that's fine.
I think they should be able to make those prices once they ramp up the volume.
Why buy a Eee PC when I can get a Dell cheapie of the moment with 12X the power at the same or LESS price. Last one I got was $369.99 on one of their 1 day sales. I can do way more than the eeepc and saved money.
As far as I'm concerned, that amount of power really isn't that important. I'd rather have a computer that's a good fit rather than one that has 20x-30x more power than I need, runs hotter than is comfortable (at idle!) and bigger than I need and has features that I won't use. And it's not a Dell. I've never owned a Dell in my life and I'd like to keep it that way.
I'm interested and I'll be looking for it once it is past its early adopter phase.
The thing is, this terabit standard was "supposed" to be available now. I think the point was that the standard was way too far ahead of its time. Gigabit is just now becoming a baseline standard any day now. 10Gbit is barely on the horizon, 100Gbit still just a fantasy. Terabit will probably happen eventually, though I don't know if it would ever be used in a home because of the pressure to stick to wireless.
Quite possibly if we do end up with asteroid miners, they'll be throwing away cheap carbon compounds like diamonds, in favor of useful ores like iron or nickel.
Iron and nickel are extremely cheap and plentiful on earth. If it's mined for return to earth as a paying mining project, it won't be iron and nickel. As it is, only Helium-3 is worth going to space to mine, and I'm not sure I even believe that's viable. First, it assumes that fusion power is viable, it may be but it may take a long time to become commercially viable. Second, one of the most expensive parts of space exploration is the fuel/energy needed to get into and escape earth's orbit, and it's the energy that we want to get back.
The only thing I can't figure out is why they let the internet happen. Seems like a really bad move on their part; now I have a voice.
I can think of two possibilities with respect to your worldview. Either they don't have the kind of control you think they do, or it's really a grand distraction to make you think you have a voice when you really don't have one at all.
Real property is imaginary in many ways too. At most, it's a piece of paper that declares something is yours. Sometimes it specifies certain lines.
I think calling IP "imaginary property" completely undercuts the argument of those that try to use it. If it's imaginary, then why do you want it, why are these people typically the kind that load up their internet pipe trying to get it?
I've hand-held long tele shots pretty well, and still see the wood grain in the building's exterior at maximum magnification. Image stabilization is really nice. Also, it helps to make sure it's optical image stabilization. Fuji and some others promote cameras that simply boost the ISO, without offering anything like sensor-shift stabilization.
I really don't think megapixels should be a consideration anymore. New York Time's David Pogue did a test with walk-by people on the street, asking them to compare 5MP, 10MP and 15MP shots on 11x17 prints. He found only one person that could tell the difference. Too high of a megapixel in a point and shoot with a tiny sensor and tiny lens is just going to be noisy anyway.
Who told you the lie that McCain is a liberal? He goes with the Republican party 85% of the time. I understand that conservative talk radio are doing that, but really, at least some of them are just upset with his position on illegal immigrants. If voting lock-step with your party only 85% of the time makes one a traitor, I don't think I really want to be a part of that party.
This kinda makes me wonder if NASA and other space agencies purposely over-estimate the useful lives of their spacecraft.
It's easy to make such a statement if you didn't know the history of rovers & other landers.
Before the Rovers Spirit & Opportunity, there were NO rovers that lasted 90 days on another planet before dying. The predecessor, Sojourner, lasted 83 days. Before that, I think the record was 56 days. 90 days was a good goal. They thought the solar panels would just get covered with dust. They could have put on dust cleaners, but that has a weight penalty, and they decided to use the weight for science payload. They got lucky when they found they can get cleaned from the wind storms.
But most PS3 owners have never used it to play a Blu-Ray movie. The last survey showed that half of them weren't even aware PS3 was HD capable (similar for XBox360). About a quarter of the PS3 owners actually used it as a Blu-Ray drive. That said, a quarter of PS3s still dwarfed HD DVD's total numbers (computer + X360 addon + standalone players).
So maybe most owners unwittingly bought a Blu-Ray player, but that didn't mean much unless those owners actually used them as such. What those figures are, whether that quarter bought them intending to use a lot as Blu-Ray, or whether they would have preferred the other format or at least a choice, we don't know.
I'm not sure what Amazon is doing to compete with Microsoft. I hardly think the Amazon MP3 thing is something that can really be called competition. Even the Kindle isn't much either.
I think the problem is that the popular definition of theory is quite different from the scientific definition. Calling it "just a theory" in the popular terms undercuts what it is and tries to leave in some "wiggle room" for Intelligent Design, which is really "just a hypothesis", but it is often presented as a fact.
While maybe Apple and its shareholders might consider it piracy, the phones them selves were purchased fair and square. It looks like Apple does make money on each one sold, activated or not.
I remember that Apple is supposedly working on a deal for China
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That mechanism looks like a lot of complexity and cost to save what probably amounts to a single watt. How much more energy would it take to make that over a one watt fan? Not only that, a large passive heat sink would probably do even better, nothing to break and it would just use existing air flow. I've yet to own a computer that has or needs a fan just for the chipset, not necessarily through trying, it's not really that necessary to have.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/tables/elabund.html
Aluminum makes up 8% of the Earth's crust. The earth's composition of carbon appears to be much lower, the same page shows it's 0.03% of the earth's total weight. That doesn't say much of how easy it is to collect either resource, but abundance doesn't seem to be the answer. I think it's the strength-to-weight ratio that makes carbon nanotube materials interesting, but it's still pretty expensive to make.
I do have to wonder about those people that "bought" a plot on the moon. It's not yours if you can't defend it and no government or space program recognizes it as yours. If all they thought they were really getting is a novelty certificate, then that's fine.
I think they should be able to make those prices once they ramp up the volume.
Why buy a Eee PC when I can get a Dell cheapie of the moment with 12X the power at the same or LESS price. Last one I got was $369.99 on one of their 1 day sales. I can do way more than the eeepc and saved money.
As far as I'm concerned, that amount of power really isn't that important. I'd rather have a computer that's a good fit rather than one that has 20x-30x more power than I need, runs hotter than is comfortable (at idle!) and bigger than I need and has features that I won't use. And it's not a Dell. I've never owned a Dell in my life and I'd like to keep it that way.
I'm interested and I'll be looking for it once it is past its early adopter phase.
The thing is, this terabit standard was "supposed" to be available now. I think the point was that the standard was way too far ahead of its time. Gigabit is just now becoming a baseline standard any day now. 10Gbit is barely on the horizon, 100Gbit still just a fantasy. Terabit will probably happen eventually, though I don't know if it would ever be used in a home because of the pressure to stick to wireless.
Quite possibly if we do end up with asteroid miners, they'll be throwing away cheap carbon compounds like diamonds, in favor of useful ores like iron or nickel.
Iron and nickel are extremely cheap and plentiful on earth. If it's mined for return to earth as a paying mining project, it won't be iron and nickel. As it is, only Helium-3 is worth going to space to mine, and I'm not sure I even believe that's viable. First, it assumes that fusion power is viable, it may be but it may take a long time to become commercially viable. Second, one of the most expensive parts of space exploration is the fuel/energy needed to get into and escape earth's orbit, and it's the energy that we want to get back.
The only thing I can't figure out is why they let the internet happen. Seems like a really bad move on their part; now I have a voice.
I can think of two possibilities with respect to your worldview. Either they don't have the kind of control you think they do, or it's really a grand distraction to make you think you have a voice when you really don't have one at all.
The bank in question is Swiss.
Real property is imaginary in many ways too. At most, it's a piece of paper that declares something is yours. Sometimes it specifies certain lines.
I think calling IP "imaginary property" completely undercuts the argument of those that try to use it. If it's imaginary, then why do you want it, why are these people typically the kind that load up their internet pipe trying to get it?
I've hand-held long tele shots pretty well, and still see the wood grain in the building's exterior at maximum magnification. Image stabilization is really nice. Also, it helps to make sure it's optical image stabilization. Fuji and some others promote cameras that simply boost the ISO, without offering anything like sensor-shift stabilization.
I really don't think megapixels should be a consideration anymore. New York Time's David Pogue did a test with walk-by people on the street, asking them to compare 5MP, 10MP and 15MP shots on 11x17 prints. He found only one person that could tell the difference. Too high of a megapixel in a point and shoot with a tiny sensor and tiny lens is just going to be noisy anyway.
Pathfinder lasted 83 days. Sojourner could still be operating as far as we know.
I suppose that's a valid point, maybe not much is known about the actual fault, but I really doubt the rover is still operating.
You're right, I screwed that up.
No one but Gore is to blame for Gore not being able to get enough votes.
I'd say that's probably the truth. If he could have carried his own state, he would have won.
I'd ask you to back up your opinions, but then, whatever. You sound exactly like the kind of person the grandparent post was trying to warn us about.
Who told you the lie that McCain is a liberal? He goes with the Republican party 85% of the time. I understand that conservative talk radio are doing that, but really, at least some of them are just upset with his position on illegal immigrants. If voting lock-step with your party only 85% of the time makes one a traitor, I don't think I really want to be a part of that party.
How many supercomputers would be needed to spell check for a million monkeys?
This kinda makes me wonder if NASA and other space agencies purposely over-estimate the useful lives of their spacecraft.
It's easy to make such a statement if you didn't know the history of rovers & other landers.
Before the Rovers Spirit & Opportunity, there were NO rovers that lasted 90 days on another planet before dying. The predecessor, Sojourner, lasted 83 days. Before that, I think the record was 56 days. 90 days was a good goal. They thought the solar panels would just get covered with dust. They could have put on dust cleaners, but that has a weight penalty, and they decided to use the weight for science payload. They got lucky when they found they can get cleaned from the wind storms.
There are more compact desktops. Some even use notebook computers as a desktop.
Or maybe its because when we joined /. that we were (and likely still are) adolescents with mentalities and tastes?
We go to Digg for that.
But most PS3 owners have never used it to play a Blu-Ray movie. The last survey showed that half of them weren't even aware PS3 was HD capable (similar for XBox360). About a quarter of the PS3 owners actually used it as a Blu-Ray drive. That said, a quarter of PS3s still dwarfed HD DVD's total numbers (computer + X360 addon + standalone players).
So maybe most owners unwittingly bought a Blu-Ray player, but that didn't mean much unless those owners actually used them as such. What those figures are, whether that quarter bought them intending to use a lot as Blu-Ray, or whether they would have preferred the other format or at least a choice, we don't know.
That's an easy trap to fall into. Non-tech businesses benefit from broadband too.
I'm not sure what Amazon is doing to compete with Microsoft. I hardly think the Amazon MP3 thing is something that can really be called competition. Even the Kindle isn't much either.
A BB gun couldn't even cause a welt in your fellow angels at point-blank range.
I think the problem is that the popular definition of theory is quite different from the scientific definition. Calling it "just a theory" in the popular terms undercuts what it is and tries to leave in some "wiggle room" for Intelligent Design, which is really "just a hypothesis", but it is often presented as a fact.
While maybe Apple and its shareholders might consider it piracy, the phones them selves were purchased fair and square. It looks like Apple does make money on each one sold, activated or not.
I remember that Apple is supposedly working on a deal for China