Parent is 100% correct. However I don't think you can get OLED monitors... yet. Quite a few cellphones use OLED screens though, such as my galaxy S.
OLED screens don't have a backlight at all. In an LCD screen the pixels are actually acting as filters, blocking part of the light from the backlight. In an OLED screen the pixels emit light themselves - black pixels are turned off and consume zero power.
For this reason turning the screen brightness down dramatically affects my battery life.
If minecraft has taught me anything, it is that hitting magma unexpectedly is a Very Bad Thing.
I sincerely hope that they had a bucket of water handy to put themselves out, and that they weren't foolish enough to be digging the block they were standing on when they hit magma.
Are you on drugs? I brought a corned beef sandwich once when I was in the UK, turns out they used spam.
I totally thought someone had put something from a can of catfood in my sandwich and I was bitching to my workmates until someone confirmed it was genuine spam.
I couldn't eat it, and I seriously doubt if my cat would have either.
Problem is there is undoubtedly lots of different stuff in tears - probably many thousands of different compounds. Big job to see which compound is having that effect.
I doubt if he was full of it... "that asshole" that you are talking about is geohot, who was part of the team behind the original iphone jailbreak & unlock, and he's also developed jailbreaks for lots of versions of IOS.
So his credentials are pretty good... he'd already proved himself at the time he started hacking the PS3.
I'd be very surprised if you don't own something that has an ARM core. They are _everywhere_ If you've brought a cellphone since about 2005, or brought a consumer router from linksys, buffallo, asus or many others, or most media player gadgets then you'd probably find an ARM core in them.
Yes, once you've figured out how the checksum is generated. But once you have figured out where/how the checksum is generated you could also modify that code to always return "checksum validates" or somesuch...
Read the article - you are barking up the wrong tree. The problem is people who were paid on thursday haven't had their pay go in yet. Doesn't matter what date you scheduled a payment to go out if you don't have any cash in your account because your deposits haven't been processed...
Negative outcomes will happen in life. Get over it.
Man you really hit the nail on the head with that one. You've expressed what I see as the major problem with today's world as succinctly as I've ever seen it put before. I should make that my sig.
Everyone buys into the mainstream media/government scaremongering so badly that they have totally lost perspective of what they are giving up to mitigate what is really a tiny risk - we are so scared of things like terrorism, germs, kids having an accident/getting sick/getting snatched by a nutter that we don't really enjoy life any more.
The researchers claim to be working on a tool, dubbed Proc_Scope that will use specific numerical expressions to identify the processor type, and to be working on an algorithm that can help identify a specific processor.
That all sounds quite involved and somewhat fragile.
Or you could just use the CPUID instruction. Its been around since the original pentium.
Wow, nice straw man. The registry has nothing to do with itunes suckiness. Itunes is bloated and slow. its a what, 100mb download for a fancy media player and organiser. Winamp, foobar2000, mediamonkey and pretty much every other media player I've used over the years are tons lighter, quicker and just plain work better.
I mean, itunes can't even automatically pick up new media you put in the media folder on your computer.
FWIW, the registry is NOT slow. And you don't have to "open the database" to get each setting. When you log on your registry hive is loaded into memory, and its pretty quick. However, it does suck having a bunch of programs settings stored in one binary file, and file associations on windows do suck.
That is also what was so good about Stargate SG1. It was quite common for a scientist-type character to say to one of the other characters "we found this gizmo on an old abandoned planet. Their technology was way ahead of ours. We have no idea how it works, but you press this button here, and this happens! Isn't that handy!"
Typically the networks here hype the shit out of upcoming shows or new seasons, highlighting the fact that it is "fast-tracked" from the US. 1/3rd of the way through the season they will without warning suddenly either miss a few weeks, or show a few re-runs of old episodes in random order, without advertising that it is a re-run. Sometimes a few new epoisodes will be shown, but the ratings probably aren't what the network hoped (because they have successfully driven away a decent proportion of their viewers)
They they will move the show to another timeslot, 11:30 on a weeknight or something. Possibly they will randomly change the timeslot each week week for a few weeks after this.
Another few weeks of this and the show will disappear without a trace, never to be mentioned again.
They have done this with supernatural, V, house, NCIS.
A lot of people here now just download torrents of shows if they like the torrent. Of course, the networks now winge that "internet is destroying us".
This would be great for pirates, who the hell would the MPAA and RIAA sue if everybody in one region shared a single IP#?
If a large number of people were behind a NAT device then I don't reckon those people could accept incoming connections - meaning they couldn't seed at all, making their speeds suck, and everyone else's speeds suffer as well (less seeders)
So, maybe MPAA/RIAA are fine with this idea. We should all be happy content consumers, we don't need the ability to distribute our own bits at all.
And about it taking 25 seconds to boot? Well guess what, my itouch takes longer than that to boot. Iphones and ipads I've played with all take much longer than that to boot too.
Seriously, WTF is it with people obsessing with boot times? If you need to reboot your computer/device more than once a week these days, then you are doing something wrong.
Every laptop I've owned in the last 10 years has had the ability to last more than a week in "sleep" mode before the battery goes flat, and wakes almost instantly.
It's still a lousy excuse for not doing the actual work.
When the Finnish block list leaked (for the first time) it turned out a lot of the sites were actually hosted in countries where child porn is illegal (and where you could actually assume the police might act on it). Guess what the Finnish police did? They just slapped the sites on their secret list, and did not inform the police in the countries where the crime was being committed.
Yep, and lets not also forget that a LOT of the sites had nothing do do with child porn. And some dude did an analysis of the sites and listed the results on his blog. Not the actual sites, just out of x sides, y were child porn, z were gay porn, etc etc. This proved the "quality" of the blacklist was fairly shakey at best.
And guess what? His site was then added to the blacklist
One other thing, by the way: I fully expect that on Kraken shipping Chrome and Opera are faster than Firefox 3.6.
Firefox 3.6 is pretty sluggish compared to the latest 4.0 betas, and I beleive that b6 will have a lot more JS optimisation enabled.
So yeah, I'd expect FF 3.6 to be the slowest of the bunch. Excluding IE of course, which is in a whole different league of slow. Actually, there are probably several empty leagues between FF/Chrome/Safari/Opera and IE
And another useless factoid is the team behind Outlook Web Access invented AJAX. (call it web 2.0 if you are that way inclined) (but wait, I thought microsoft never did anything truely innovating...)
They wrote an ActiveX control for IE 4 to do asyncronous http requests that could be called from client-side scripts on the page for OWA in exchange 2000. Microsoft saw the potential in this, and added support for XMLHTTP into IE 5. It was quite a few years until the rest of the world woke up to the potential of this technique, and AJAX really took off.
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In high school I'm guessing you probably worked with DC current... where the current does NOT vary over time, so the power factor is 1
.9,
With AC power the parent is correct. However I think the power factor used by most devices is over
Parent is 100% correct. However I don't think you can get OLED monitors... yet. Quite a few cellphones use OLED screens though, such as my galaxy S.
OLED screens don't have a backlight at all. In an LCD screen the pixels are actually acting as filters, blocking part of the light from the backlight. In an OLED screen the pixels emit light themselves - black pixels are turned off and consume zero power.
For this reason turning the screen brightness down dramatically affects my battery life.
They hit magma while digging? Ouch.
If minecraft has taught me anything, it is that hitting magma unexpectedly is a Very Bad Thing.
I sincerely hope that they had a bucket of water handy to put themselves out, and that they weren't foolish enough to be digging the block they were standing on when they hit magma.
Are you on drugs? I brought a corned beef sandwich once when I was in the UK, turns out they used spam.
I totally thought someone had put something from a can of catfood in my sandwich and I was bitching to my workmates until someone confirmed it was genuine spam.
I couldn't eat it, and I seriously doubt if my cat would have either.
Problem is there is undoubtedly lots of different stuff in tears - probably many thousands of different compounds. Big job to see which compound is having that effect.
I doubt if he was full of it... "that asshole" that you are talking about is geohot, who was part of the team behind the original iphone jailbreak & unlock, and he's also developed jailbreaks for lots of versions of IOS.
So his credentials are pretty good... he'd already proved himself at the time he started hacking the PS3.
I'd be very surprised if you don't own something that has an ARM core. They are _everywhere_
If you've brought a cellphone since about 2005, or brought a consumer router from linksys, buffallo, asus or many others, or most media player gadgets then you'd probably find an ARM core in them.
IIRC the original athlon actually licensed some of the features of the alpha from DEC too...
Yes, once you've figured out how the checksum is generated. But once you have figured out where/how the checksum is generated you could also modify that code to always return "checksum validates" or somesuch...
Read the article - you are barking up the wrong tree. The problem is people who were paid on thursday haven't had their pay go in yet. Doesn't matter what date you scheduled a payment to go out if you don't have any cash in your account because your deposits haven't been processed...
Negative outcomes will happen in life. Get over it.
Man you really hit the nail on the head with that one. You've expressed what I see as the major problem with today's world as succinctly as I've ever seen it put before. I should make that my sig.
Everyone buys into the mainstream media/government scaremongering so badly that they have totally lost perspective of what they are giving up to mitigate what is really a tiny risk - we are so scared of things like terrorism, germs, kids having an accident/getting sick/getting snatched by a nutter that we don't really enjoy life any more.
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I've never understood this obsession with boot times, particuarly on a laptop with good sleep/suspend support.
Every laptop I've owned since 2001 has been very reliable at suspend/resume, taking only a couple of seconds to go to sleep or wake up.
And a full charge on the battery will last over a week on suspend.
The researchers claim to be working on a tool, dubbed Proc_Scope that will use specific numerical expressions to identify the processor type, and to be working on an algorithm that can help identify a specific processor.
That all sounds quite involved and somewhat fragile.
Or you could just use the CPUID instruction. Its been around since the original pentium.
I suggest you chuck a large block of chocolate over the fence as a special treat for it. I hear dogs really love that stuff.
Wow, nice straw man. The registry has nothing to do with itunes suckiness. Itunes is bloated and slow. its a what, 100mb download for a fancy media player and organiser. Winamp, foobar2000, mediamonkey and pretty much every other media player I've used over the years are tons lighter, quicker and just plain work better.
I mean, itunes can't even automatically pick up new media you put in the media folder on your computer.
FWIW, the registry is NOT slow. And you don't have to "open the database" to get each setting. When you log on your registry hive is loaded into memory, and its pretty quick. However, it does suck having a bunch of programs settings stored in one binary file, and file associations on windows do suck.
That is also what was so good about Stargate SG1. It was quite common for a scientist-type character to say to one of the other characters "we found this gizmo on an old abandoned planet. Their technology was way ahead of ours. We have no idea how it works, but you press this button here, and this happens! Isn't that handy!"
At least you've got it better than australian TV.
Typically the networks here hype the shit out of upcoming shows or new seasons, highlighting the fact that it is "fast-tracked" from the US. 1/3rd of the way through the season they will without warning suddenly either miss a few weeks, or show a few re-runs of old episodes in random order, without advertising that it is a re-run. Sometimes a few new epoisodes will be shown, but the ratings probably aren't what the network hoped (because they have successfully driven away a decent proportion of their viewers)
They they will move the show to another timeslot, 11:30 on a weeknight or something. Possibly they will randomly change the timeslot each week week for a few weeks after this.
Another few weeks of this and the show will disappear without a trace, never to be mentioned again.
They have done this with supernatural, V, house, NCIS.
A lot of people here now just download torrents of shows if they like the torrent. Of course, the networks now winge that "internet is destroying us".
Or maybe the iphone 4 is more sensitive to water than the 3gs?
Can't buy ARM outside a cellphone? Are you kidding?
Check this out - this is just one I found with about 5 seconds
http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKND01
There are dozens of ARM boards out there suitable for DIY/embedded systems
This would be great for pirates, who the hell would the MPAA and RIAA sue if everybody in one region shared a single IP#?
If a large number of people were behind a NAT device then I don't reckon those people could accept incoming connections - meaning they couldn't seed at all, making their speeds suck, and everyone else's speeds suffer as well (less seeders)
So, maybe MPAA/RIAA are fine with this idea. We should all be happy content consumers, we don't need the ability to distribute our own bits at all.
And about it taking 25 seconds to boot? Well guess what, my itouch takes longer than that to boot. Iphones and ipads I've played with all take much longer than that to boot too.
Seriously, WTF is it with people obsessing with boot times? If you need to reboot your computer/device more than once a week these days, then you are doing something wrong.
Every laptop I've owned in the last 10 years has had the ability to last more than a week in "sleep" mode before the battery goes flat, and wakes almost instantly.
Windows 7 shares the same kernel as server 2008 R2.
It's still a lousy excuse for not doing the actual work.
When the Finnish block list leaked (for the first time) it turned out a lot of the sites were actually hosted in countries where child porn is illegal (and where you could actually assume the police might act on it). Guess what the Finnish police did? They just slapped the sites on their secret list, and did not inform the police in the countries where the crime was being committed.
Yep, and lets not also forget that a LOT of the sites had nothing do do with child porn. And some dude did an analysis of the sites and listed the results on his blog. Not the actual sites, just out of x sides, y were child porn, z were gay porn, etc etc. This proved the "quality" of the blacklist was fairly shakey at best.
And guess what? His site was then added to the blacklist
One other thing, by the way: I fully expect that on Kraken shipping Chrome and Opera are faster than Firefox 3.6.
Firefox 3.6 is pretty sluggish compared to the latest 4.0 betas, and I beleive that b6 will have a lot more JS optimisation enabled.
So yeah, I'd expect FF 3.6 to be the slowest of the bunch. Excluding IE of course, which is in a whole different league of slow.
Actually, there are probably several empty leagues between FF/Chrome/Safari/Opera and IE
And another useless factoid is the team behind Outlook Web Access invented AJAX. (call it web 2.0 if you are that way inclined)
(but wait, I thought microsoft never did anything truely innovating...)
They wrote an ActiveX control for IE 4 to do asyncronous http requests that could be called from client-side scripts on the page for OWA in exchange 2000. Microsoft saw the potential in this, and added support for XMLHTTP into IE 5. It was quite a few years until the rest of the world woke up to the potential of this technique, and AJAX really took off.
You can read the full history of OWA here.