It doesn't matter, the upstream to the satellite isn't much faster than dial-up.
Only benefit it not paying for another phone line.
I have starband, I use a regular dial-in modem in addition to it. Dial-in modem is the default route on my box, and I set up proxies to a proxy server connected to the satellite for web and ftp downloads.
That way I can ssh out without horrible latency, but still download at the faster satellite download speeds.
To his other questions, rain fade is real. If you have a strong enough signal normally, you won't drop service unless it's really coming down outside. Installation for starband ran about $700 or so.
Directway is slower than Starband, but if you want the OS agnostic modem, you currently have to get the small business package, which is $120 per month. Standard service still uses the 360 windows-only modem, but it's $60 per month.
In the future, there will be robots. I mean in the future, there will be a "telecommuter" account type that will assumedly allow people to get the hardware-based 480 modem without paying so much per month.
He should have referred to the mission "Waste the Wife", an assination mission where a guy wants the wife dead, and hires you to kill her.
I hereby volunteer to be a researcher for his propaganda department. It'll be hard work, playing those games all day looking for things that can be spun for a specific demographic, but I'll suffer by somehow.:)
That's not much of a solution. Most linux people aren't going to want to run a closed source driver. It makes support nearly impossible, since no one is going to even attempt to support your system if it has closed-source kernel modules installed.
These days things are more complex. You want graphics? Great. Make sure something like SDL is installed. You want easy to use graphics? Now you have to get SDL_gfx to give you primatives. You want accelerated 2D graphics? Well, I guess you'll have to run all your programs as root then.
Then you have to figure out all the compiler command line options so it can find the SDL and SDL_gfx headers.
All this just to get to the point to be ready to type something in. SDL is just an example, nearly any language/OS/graphics library is this complex.
Most of it is being converted to light and mechanical energy
I'm not sure what you are running in your computer!
All the kinetic energy in your computer eventually turns to heat, unless your computer is rolling across the room or something.
A front panel LED is negligible light, less than 1 watt. That's the only light escaping the closed system, so any other light (like a CDROM) turns to heat too.
A computer is very nearly 100% efficient, compared to any other resistive heater. A heat pump will beat a resistive heater any day though.
I wouldn't really say huge amounts of power. Most modern computers, even fully loaded, usually pull about 200 watts on the DC side. Say the power supply is 80% efficient, that's still less than 250 watts.
It's surprising how little power most components use actually. Take hard disks for instance. I once put an ammeter on an array of 4 hard disks... they pulled about 6 or 7 amps on 12 volts during spin up (about two seconds), then only about an amp or two, for all 4 disks.
So you have maybe 100 watts on your motherboard, 20-40 watts on your video card, 20-30 watts per hard disk and optical drive.
Hard disk manufacturers don't really say accurately how much power a disk uses in the datasheets. It seems they stick in boilerplate power consumption values, much higher than actual consumption turns out to be.
The flip side to this is the power supply manufacturers lying about thier power ratings. I guess that balances out in the end.:)
I think you mean maximum density, otherwise your sentence doesn't make sense.
Thanks for the clarification about how something contracting could blow a container... it wasn't clear in your earlier message you were talking about closed containers as such.
Yeah, silver recovery is a big thing. Silver probably isn't that toxic, but if you use silver halide CTP or standard film with silver components, you are most likely doing silver recovery of some sort.
Those companies that recover it probably don't make huge amounts of money. Silver is pretty damn cheap.
They do OK, but not great. In Vice City you can't change the control bindings to use a joystick with yaw control to fly the helicopter. That sucks, and makes the helicopter much harder to fly.
I played that game for hundreds of hours, and I can tell you a novice bot will never become godlike, no matter what.
There might be a little latitude within a range, but it's a lot more limited than you are implying....unless you meant some other version and not 2003.
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but just because of what they are in and of themselves.
:)
Lines of code?
We're a hell of a long way before we start talking about the morality of deleting a computer program.
is it something that you could do day-in/day-out without throwing your keyboard out the window?
No.
It's terrible. Maybe in an emergency, but not normally.
Good luck getting said "dry pair".
It's not like you can just call and order one up.
It doesn't matter, the upstream to the satellite isn't much faster than dial-up.
Only benefit it not paying for another phone line.
I have starband, I use a regular dial-in modem in addition to it. Dial-in modem is the default route on my box, and I set up proxies to a proxy server connected to the satellite for web and ftp downloads.
That way I can ssh out without horrible latency, but still download at the faster satellite download speeds.
To his other questions, rain fade is real. If you have a strong enough signal normally, you won't drop service unless it's really coming down outside. Installation for starband ran about $700 or so.
Directway is slower than Starband, but if you want the OS agnostic modem, you currently have to get the small business package, which is $120 per month. Standard service still uses the 360 windows-only modem, but it's $60 per month.
In the future, there will be robots. I mean in the future, there will be a "telecommuter" account type that will assumedly allow people to get the hardware-based 480 modem without paying so much per month.
He just needs better researchers.
:)
He should have referred to the mission "Waste the Wife", an assination mission where a guy wants the wife dead, and hires you to kill her.
I hereby volunteer to be a researcher for his propaganda department. It'll be hard work, playing those games all day looking for things that can be spun for a specific demographic, but I'll suffer by somehow.
We're not talking about machining tolerance specs here. They machined it exactly to spec, just the wrong spec. :)
I'm not sure what you mean about upgradability. It uses standard RAM.. standard PCI cards, standard case/power supply.
The only thing that might not be upgradable is the CPU/Motherboard independantly. That's not really much loss.
I usually change motherboard when I change CPU anyway.
That's not much of a solution. Most linux people aren't going to want to run a closed source driver. It makes support nearly impossible, since no one is going to even attempt to support your system if it has closed-source kernel modules installed.
I don't know about that.
These days things are more complex. You want graphics? Great. Make sure something like SDL is installed. You want easy to use graphics? Now you have to get SDL_gfx to give you primatives. You want accelerated 2D graphics? Well, I guess you'll have to run all your programs as root then.
Then you have to figure out all the compiler command line options so it can find the SDL and SDL_gfx headers.
All this just to get to the point to be ready to type something in. SDL is just an example, nearly any language/OS/graphics library is this complex.
I just thought of a new word: Babelfucked. :)
Most of it is being converted to light and mechanical energy
I'm not sure what you are running in your computer!
All the kinetic energy in your computer eventually turns to heat, unless your computer is rolling across the room or something.
A front panel LED is negligible light, less than 1 watt. That's the only light escaping the closed system, so any other light (like a CDROM) turns to heat too.
A computer is very nearly 100% efficient, compared to any other resistive heater. A heat pump will beat a resistive heater any day though.
I wouldn't really say huge amounts of power. Most modern computers, even fully loaded, usually pull about 200 watts on the DC side. Say the power supply is 80% efficient, that's still less than 250 watts.
:)
It's surprising how little power most components use actually. Take hard disks for instance. I once put an ammeter on an array of 4 hard disks... they pulled about 6 or 7 amps on 12 volts during spin up (about two seconds), then only about an amp or two, for all 4 disks.
So you have maybe 100 watts on your motherboard, 20-40 watts on your video card, 20-30 watts per hard disk and optical drive.
Hard disk manufacturers don't really say accurately how much power a disk uses in the datasheets. It seems they stick in boilerplate power consumption values, much higher than actual consumption turns out to be.
The flip side to this is the power supply manufacturers lying about thier power ratings. I guess that balances out in the end.
Most people use heat pumps, which are far more efficient.
Isn't this microwave technology just another form of induction heating really? Except the freuency is higher, so the skin effect is even worse.
Something doesn't add up here.
I think you mean maximum density, otherwise your sentence doesn't make sense.
Thanks for the clarification about how something contracting could blow a container... it wasn't clear in your earlier message you were talking about closed containers as such.
What's the motivation here? Why would they risk all this just to provide movies to the Internet at large?
Yeah, silver recovery is a big thing. Silver probably isn't that toxic, but if you use silver halide CTP or standard film with silver components, you are most likely doing silver recovery of some sort.
Those companies that recover it probably don't make huge amounts of money. Silver is pretty damn cheap.
Interesting that they took it out then..
How is this a troll... It's a serious question.. I've never heard of an "X Window Manager"...
Is this some new window manager to run on the X Window System or what??
What the fuck is the "X Window Manager"?
I'm seriously confused now.
You should have complained on resellerratings.com
Newegg staff read there, and generally that will get them sucking up to you, so you will post a retraction.
Newegg seems to generally be very good, but for the few problems, they seem to want to fix them, especially when their reputation is on the line.
They do OK, but not great. In Vice City you can't change the control bindings to use a joystick with yaw control to fly the helicopter. That sucks, and makes the helicopter much harder to fly.
Vice city is the same way. The music on your car radio doesn't even stop playing during transistions. :)
UT 2003 does this??
...unless you meant some other version and not 2003.
I played that game for hundreds of hours, and I can tell you a novice bot will never become godlike, no matter what.
There might be a little latitude within a range, but it's a lot more limited than you are implying.
One time I took the metal strip out of a rental video, and put it in my wallet. I promptly forgot about it.
It was funny weeks later when I kept setting off an inventory control system and couldn't figure out why.