Tell me is a DVD more or less expensive to produce?
Because I often see GOOD movies for sale a Fry's for $9.99 to $15.99 this includes more content, often has music videos as extra's and is STILL CHEAPER than the soundtrack for the same movie.
If DVD's can sell for that price, than the way I see it CD's should be $5 to $10. That price I would pay.
Hmm, the company needs to learn some physics. (and I neet to learn how to spell)
From the website you linked:
"This high efficiency is made possible by the use of polarization, which causes absolutely no loss in the available light energy, yet organizes the light to aid its conversion to deliverable electric current."
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sunglass4.htm
"A polarized filter passes only the light that does not match its orientation. Only the part of the light wave that is not aligned with the slots in the filter can pass through. Everything else is absorbed."
It seems to me that if the filter absorbs light not in the correct orientation, then the available light energy would be decreased.
So who is right? howstuffworks.com or polar-solar.com?
Electric engines may be fairly efficent, but batteries are not.
"Energy efficiency is calculated on the amount of power used from the battery while discharging divided by the amount of power delivered to the batter while charging, multiplied by 100 to yield percent. Pout x 100/Pin . A lead-acid battery has an efficiency of only 75-85%. The energy lost appears as heat and warms the battery. Keeping the charge and discharge rate of a battery low, helps keep a battery cool and improves the battery life.
http://xtronics.com/reference/batterap.htm
"The above losses don't include losses in the charging circuit which can run any where from 60 to 80% - thus the overall- total efficiency is the product of these numbers and ends up being 45 to 68%. (To further this example and to show why physics and not some corporate conspiracy is the reason we don't have electric cars - suppose the controls and motors on a car were 85% - the over all efficiency is now only 38 - 58%. You can see that an electric car would use about twice the energy than a conventional car - not to mention the great cost of the regular replacement of batteries. This is why batteries are best used where only intermittent, or very low power use is required.)"
So a electric car uses ~TWICE the energy of a gasoline one. Yah, that's for sure the way to decrease our energy use..
I have a PS2, I also have a Xbox, my roomates have a Jaguar, Sega, Nintendo. etc.
But I also have a PC running Windows for games.
Why?
There are many types of games that do not translate well to a console, you just can't enjoy them as well as with a keyboard, mouse and higher than 400 lines resolution (TV).
Just try to play NWN, Lineage, Q3, UT2k3, EQ, Diablo2, CS, etc. on a console. (yes some of them have console versions, but they are not nearly as good as on the PC)
For that matter, try to get an expansion pack or mod for any console game. (CS, DOD, CTF/H/B, RA FvF etc. etc.)
Or how about making your own mod for a game? (did that for Q1, havn't had time sence)
Yes consoles have their place, but they are a very small part of the gaming world.
If we were ment to only eat plants we would not be omnivores, and we would be able to digest plant matter better. Wheather it be by evolution or by design, one of our advanages as humans is being omnivorious.
"Omnivores eat plants, but not all kinds of plants. Unlike herbivores, omnivores can't digest some of the substances in grains or other plants that do not produce fruit."
==>Lazn
I was thinking about this, this AM.. (dangerous I know, thinking will soon be illegal too, but anyway)
The problem the RIAA is having is a issue of supply and demand.
Hear me out.
No matter how HUGE the demand for online music, once it is in digital format on HD's the supply is infinite. You have too much supply for no matter how much demand.
Look at it this way:
If we put a base on Mars, and started terraforming the planet, how much will air on Mars cost? It will be in short supply. It will cost money to make. So unless it is a communist base, AIR WILL COST MONEY. What does that have to do with the question of the RIAA?
Simple: Air production on Mars is mostly controlled by 5 big companies: Universal Air, Sony Air, etc. etc.
These companies make billions.
Fast forward several centuries and the Terraforming is complete. Now outside the base is breathable air. But the Air companies seeing their market dissapearing press Mars Govt. to require people to wear spacesuits and helmets outside the base at all times. Because only criminals and crazy young punks have ever gone outside without them in the past. And now the Air companies make even more profit because they came up with a new way to produce Air. (just bottle the stuff outside and sell it to the people wearing suits)
When supply is infinite, unless the free market is destroyed, value is nill nada nothing.
And when you copy something on a computer you do not loose the original, so supply is infinite.
Just my rambling thoughts.
Shuttle's mini PC's are cool, but:
on
Shuttle SS40G Mini-PC
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Shuttle's mini PC's are cool, but untill they have a AGP slot they are missing out on a large potential market: The LAN gamer. If I could get one with a AGP slot, I would buy one right now, lugging full sized PC's around is not the most fun thing I have done. I know there is another vendor with a mini PC with a AGP slot, but it is not as easy to find, nor is it as well built. (if I remember the review I saw)
One of the earlier great minds (forget who) said this:
If you and I each have a apple (toothbrush), and we share apples, afterwards, we each only have one apple. BUT if we share ideas, afterwards, we each have two ideas.
No matter how much we try to make music, movies, performances, etc. into physical items, they are not, when it comes down to it they are ideas.
Before the technology existed to record music, it was always performed. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, the traveling bard etc. They got paid for their performance, recordings of their work did not exist. AND in general current artists make their money performing, the record contracts are just marketing contracts, not income.
The fact that due to a technological quirk artist's performances TEMPORARILY became physical commodities doesn't mean that this is the way things SHOULD be. They never used to be physical commodities, and again, they no longer are. This is the way of things, live with it.
read it... you are the one who needs to get your priorities straight. (besides it is not 20,000 more like 6,500 not that that makes it any less tragic, just less sensationalized)
I know that arming crew members with standard firearms is too dangerous in a plane (explosive depresurization etc) but what about giving them something like this (tranquilizer gun): http://www.pneudart.com/projector/proj_179b.html
Especially if there were at least two people armed with those on each flight. (say pilot and head steward/stewardest)
It give them a chance to stop such future trageties in the future.
Tell me how "cybersquatting" is any different than real estate purchasing?
If you think McDonalds is going to want to build a McDonalds on the corner of 7th and Main, and you buy the land for cheap before they come and buy it from you for twice what you paied for it, it is legal.
If you think some company might want to use company.place.domain and you buy it cheap before they come suddenly you have to give it up and loose your investment.
A new development following the tracking of kids. Now we can implant a chip in the back of your child's head that lets our computers drive them around by remote controll. Plus if they get out of range they automatically just sit down untill they are again brought in range.
Never have to worry about them getting in trouble again. Because the software in our computers that controlls your child never acts bad, or improperly.. they will get good grades in school because they have access to all the answers in the databases of the comptuers that drive them.
God bless America.. Forget free and brave, we are civilised. (civilsed n : controlled, not necessarily self control)
Slashdot Mirror
(of course, the *truly* funny thing to do would be to moderate this as 'redundant.' Get it? I slay me.)
Ask and you shall recieve.
==>Lazn
I'll be your house-husband, even raise the kids.
But I can't have them for you, so you would miss some work for that, unless you prefer adopton.
==>Lazn
Tell me is a DVD more or less expensive to produce?
Because I often see GOOD movies for sale a Fry's for $9.99 to $15.99 this includes more content, often has music videos as extra's and is STILL CHEAPER than the soundtrack for the same movie.
If DVD's can sell for that price, than the way I see it CD's should be $5 to $10. That price I would pay.
==>Lazn
"Ludicrous Speed captain."
"They went plaid!!"
==>Lazn
So how is it better than a cappuccino pc that has been out for years?
http://www.cappuccinopc.com/
==>Lazn
Thanks, I looked and looked for that page.
Just hidden from people like me.
==>Lazn
Yesterday I tried to delete my account, but I can not, it will not let me.
I do not ever intend to use ebay, but it seems my account will forever be there.
Annoying that.
Hmm, the company needs to learn some physics. (and I neet to learn how to spell)
From the website you linked:
"This high efficiency is made possible by the use of polarization, which causes absolutely no loss in the available light energy, yet organizes the light to aid its conversion to deliverable electric current."
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sunglass4.htm
"A polarized filter passes only the light that does not match its orientation. Only the part of the light wave that is not aligned with the slots in the filter can pass through. Everything else is absorbed."
It seems to me that if the filter absorbs light not in the correct orientation, then the available light energy would be decreased.
So who is right? howstuffworks.com or polar-solar.com?
==>Lazn
Electric engines may be fairly efficent, but batteries are not.
/Pin . A lead-acid battery has an efficiency of only 75-85%. The energy lost appears as heat and warms the battery. Keeping the charge and discharge rate of a battery low, helps keep a battery cool and improves the battery life.
"Energy efficiency is calculated on the amount of power used from the battery while discharging divided by the amount of power delivered to the batter while charging, multiplied by 100 to yield percent. Pout x 100
http://xtronics.com/reference/batterap.htm
"The above losses don't include losses in the charging circuit which can run any where from 60 to 80% - thus the overall- total efficiency is the product of these numbers and ends up being 45 to 68%. (To further this example and to show why physics and not some corporate conspiracy is the reason we don't have electric cars - suppose the controls and motors on a car were 85% - the over all efficiency is now only 38 - 58%. You can see that an electric car would use about twice the energy than a conventional car - not to mention the great cost of the regular replacement of batteries. This is why batteries are best used where only intermittent, or very low power use is required.)"
So a electric car uses ~TWICE the energy of a gasoline one. Yah, that's for sure the way to decrease our energy use..
==>Lazn
I have a PS2, I also have a Xbox, my roomates have a Jaguar, Sega, Nintendo. etc.
But I also have a PC running Windows for games.
Why?
There are many types of games that do not translate well to a console, you just can't enjoy them as well as with a keyboard, mouse and higher than 400 lines resolution (TV).
Just try to play NWN, Lineage, Q3, UT2k3, EQ, Diablo2, CS, etc. on a console. (yes some of them have console versions, but they are not nearly as good as on the PC)
For that matter, try to get an expansion pack or mod for any console game. (CS, DOD, CTF/H/B, RA FvF etc. etc.)
Or how about making your own mod for a game? (did that for Q1, havn't had time sence)
Yes consoles have their place, but they are a very small part of the gaming world.
==>Lazn
http://www.qrg.ils.nwu.edu/projects/MarsSim/SimHTM L/info/whats-an-omnivore.html
If we were ment to only eat plants we would not be omnivores, and we would be able to digest plant matter better. Wheather it be by evolution or by design, one of our advanages as humans is being omnivorious.
"Omnivores eat plants, but not all kinds of plants. Unlike herbivores, omnivores can't digest some of the substances in grains or other plants that do not produce fruit."
==>Lazn
I was thinking about this, this AM.. (dangerous I know, thinking will soon be illegal too, but anyway)
The problem the RIAA is having is a issue of supply and demand.
Hear me out.
No matter how HUGE the demand for online music, once it is in digital format on HD's the supply is infinite. You have too much supply for no matter how much demand.
Look at it this way:
If we put a base on Mars, and started terraforming the planet, how much will air on Mars cost? It will be in short supply. It will cost money to make. So unless it is a communist base, AIR WILL COST MONEY. What does that have to do with the question of the RIAA?
Simple: Air production on Mars is mostly controlled by 5 big companies: Universal Air, Sony Air, etc. etc.
These companies make billions.
Fast forward several centuries and the Terraforming is complete. Now outside the base is breathable air. But the Air companies seeing their market dissapearing press Mars Govt. to require people to wear spacesuits and helmets outside the base at all times. Because only criminals and crazy young punks have ever gone outside without them in the past. And now the Air companies make even more profit because they came up with a new way to produce Air. (just bottle the stuff outside and sell it to the people wearing suits)
When supply is infinite, unless the free market is destroyed, value is nill nada nothing.
And when you copy something on a computer you do not loose the original, so supply is infinite.
Just my rambling thoughts.
Shuttle's mini PC's are cool, but untill they have a AGP slot they are missing out on a large potential market: The LAN gamer. If I could get one with a AGP slot, I would buy one right now, lugging full sized PC's around is not the most fun thing I have done. I know there is another vendor with a mini PC with a AGP slot, but it is not as easy to find, nor is it as well built. (if I remember the review I saw)
re: "If it becomes too hot, this happens with a zero-volt battery meaning the subtrate probably doesn't work anymore."
They said it can produce electricity from heat, so if it becomes too hot, the battery gets charged.
If it works at all that is.
If you and I each have an apple, and we share apples, after sharing, we each only have one apple.
/= Apples.
If you and I each have an idea, and we share ideas, after sharing we each have two ideas.
Ideas
The fastest raid controller on the planet is IDE. (this might have changed, but I know it was the fastest not too long ago)
http://www.3ware.com/products/Escalade7000DS4-1
Real measured sustained 180MB/s reads and 127MB/s writes.
Of course that is a pricy card.
==>Lazn
And it is tasty too.
:)
One of the earlier great minds (forget who) said this:
If you and I each have a apple (toothbrush), and we share apples, afterwards, we each only have one apple. BUT if we share ideas, afterwards, we each have two ideas.
No matter how much we try to make music, movies, performances, etc. into physical items, they are not, when it comes down to it they are ideas.
Before the technology existed to record music, it was always performed. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, the traveling bard etc. They got paid for their performance, recordings of their work did not exist. AND in general current artists make their money performing, the record contracts are just marketing contracts, not income.
The fact that due to a technological quirk artist's performances TEMPORARILY became physical commodities doesn't mean that this is the way things SHOULD be. They never used to be physical commodities, and again, they no longer are. This is the way of things, live with it.
==>Lazn
Perhaps true, but 1TB = 1000GB not 100GB.
EACH DRIVE in the TB server is 160GB
I disagree
http://www.overclockers.com/tips665/
read it... you are the one who needs to get your priorities straight. (besides it is not 20,000 more like 6,500 not that that makes it any less tragic, just less sensationalized)
==>LaznYou are not allowed to patent "concepts" only mechanisms.
thus this patent suit is bunk.
Motorolla just decided it was cheaper to pay them off rather than fight them in court.
I know that arming crew members with standard firearms is too dangerous in a plane (explosive depresurization etc) but what about giving them something like this (tranquilizer gun): http://www.pneudart.com/projector/proj_179b.html
Especially if there were at least two people armed with those on each flight. (say pilot and head steward/stewardest)
It give them a chance to stop such future trageties in the future.
Just a thought.
==>Lazn
Tell me how "cybersquatting" is any different than real estate purchasing?
If you think McDonalds is going to want to build a McDonalds on the corner of 7th and Main, and you buy the land for cheap before they come and buy it from you for twice what you paied for it, it is legal.
If you think some company might want to use company.place.domain and you buy it cheap before they come suddenly you have to give it up and loose your investment.
It looks the same to me.
==>lazn
"The papers and forms don't exist for an application like this."
Umm the FAA dosn't own space. Just go.
(I am sure europe would be interested to know the american government seems to think it owns everything around the earth)
==>Lazn
A new development following the tracking of kids. Now we can implant a chip in the back of your child's head that lets our computers drive them around by remote controll. Plus if they get out of range they automatically just sit down untill they are again brought in range.
Never have to worry about them getting in trouble again. Because the software in our computers that controlls your child never acts bad, or improperly.. they will get good grades in school because they have access to all the answers in the databases of the comptuers that drive them.
God bless America.. Forget free and brave, we are civilised. (civilsed n : controlled, not necessarily self control)
==>Lazn