Agreed. This is what I've experienced with my laptops. I have an Inspiron 5000. I discharge the first battery almost every day, the second can get as low as 50% before I'm done. The batteries last between 1 and 2 years, with newer batteries seeming to not last as long as the orginal ones. (BTW my original ones were recall units, they lasted almost 2 years and were down to 60% of previous runtime, but got hot enough to burn your leg. My service code sticker is BROWN (and flaking) from the heat.)
An excellent book. We used it in CSE470 and it was also used in the graduate level course. Even if you don't read all of it, you should get a copy. Mine occupies a place of honor on my Bookshelf.
Also consider getting a Beginning or 'basic' Linear Algebra book. It will help you with some of the math in the Graphics Book.
Oh, if you write in Visual C++ make sure you clean up your brushes after EVERY paint operation. The docs don't say anything about it, but those buggers leak memory like a siv!
A couple years ago my company purchased some computers from a defunct Psych clinic. There were records for a large number of government and business heavyweights in my area. Enough to do some serious damage. (and get in serious sh!znit)
The drives were low leveled, blasted, etc. Too bad. It would have been good bedtime reading. (morals suck)
Fuzzy handcuffs and a 4 poster bed! A girl came into my room the other day... She's becoming a geek but the first thing she noticed when she walked into my room wasn't the awsome computer setup I have, it was the 4 post bed. She laid down and said, "You could have some fun with this." and then went on to ask about hand-cuffs.
It would be neat to setup a game server, and have a small game launch as the screen saver running a bot. The idle computers could compete against each other.
People are all paranoid of loosing Email and the like now, but in 1 year they don't care about it any more. In 2 years, it's just wasted space. In 10 years, they won't even know who or what they were talking about..
I used to keep all my email (except junk mail). Now I have a loose 250MB limit. When I go over it, I start randomly hitting delete.
Funny thing is, there's not much worth keeping in the NEW stuff.
SO, lets make these plastics break down faster.. hmm good idea.
Now we have lots of tiny microscopic bits of plastic floating around everywhere. Free for all to ingest in the water or air they breath. When all's said and done, I'd rather have an evian bottle laying on the sidewalk than floating in the air I'm breathing.
What's the 1/2 life of the plastic molecules themselves? How toxic are they?
What about the plasticizers (sp?) in the plastic. I believe they're some of the more carciogenic chemicals we've come up with.
This sounds like a 2 edged sword moving in the wrong direction. Have I missed something?
Right, Star Trek Next Gen was WELL over $1,000,000 USD per episode. A 25% discount for what is, quite probably a better show is a good deal (much like AMD procs, don't you think?)
My guess is some of those sale prices are 'lost litres' (they don't make money on the items, or lose money on them) their sole purpose is to get the customer in to the store (happy meals are the same way. They're to get the Adults to come in and buy food)
Keeping the information from being distributed produces an ignorant customer who may go only to 1 or 2 stores to purchase their merchandise (having seen news ads only for those 2 stores). A better educated customer will go to many stores, picking up on all the 'lost litres'. In the end the customer pays less, but the stores don't make as much money.
Too much advertizing(consumer knowledge) is a BAD thing.....
Astronomers think that most galaxies in the universe, including the Milky Way, harbor black holes at their cores. But they have never before seen two such weird creatures inhabiting a single galaxy.
Wierd!?!?!? O K
Each of the smaller galaxies brought its own black hole, ranging from 10 million to 100 million times the mass of our sun, to the wedding
WTF!?!?!!
PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD
I've heard that we 'see' things through tiny vibrations of our eyes... perhaps we could do the same thing to their eyeballs and make them better drivers (wider field of vison)
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Agreed. This is what I've experienced with my laptops. I have an Inspiron 5000. I discharge the first battery almost every day, the second can get as low as 50% before I'm done.
The batteries last between 1 and 2 years, with newer batteries seeming to not last as long as the orginal ones. (BTW my original ones were recall units, they lasted almost 2 years and were down to 60% of previous runtime, but got hot enough to burn your leg. My service code sticker is BROWN (and flaking) from the heat.)
An excellent book. We used it in CSE470 and it was also used in the graduate level course. Even if you don't read all of it, you should get a copy. Mine occupies a place of honor on my Bookshelf.
Also consider getting a Beginning or 'basic' Linear Algebra book. It will help you with some of the math in the Graphics Book.
Oh, if you write in Visual C++ make sure you clean up your brushes after EVERY paint operation. The docs don't say anything about it, but those buggers leak memory like a siv!
A couple years ago my company purchased some computers from a defunct Psych clinic. There were records for a large number of government and business heavyweights in my area. Enough to do some serious damage. (and get in serious sh!znit)
The drives were low leveled, blasted, etc. Too bad. It would have been good bedtime reading. (morals suck)
Maybe his wife was into it.
Dude, when I was 4 I was wondering why the world looked round, when everyone else said it looked flat.
ACK.
WOW that's like what, 20Mbps?!?!? I didn't think 802.11b went that fast.
Check your caps dude. (Must not be a programmer)
Fuzzy handcuffs and a 4 poster bed! A girl came into my room the other day... She's becoming a geek but the first thing she noticed when she walked into my room wasn't the awsome computer setup I have, it was the 4 post bed. She laid down and said, "You could have some fun with this." and then went on to ask about hand-cuffs.
"In general relativity, one learns that any "information" cannot travel faster than light"
What about quantum pairs? Move them apart, and a change in one is reflected intantly in the other.
It has a beat? Crap. Now I KNOW white boys don't have rhythm.
...kill people.
People kill people.
Man,
Too bad my phone is through my work. I'm gonna have to talk to our account rep about BREW.
It would be neat to setup a game server, and have a small game launch as the screen saver running a bot. The idle computers could compete against each other.
(people could write bot plugins...)
People are all paranoid of loosing Email and the like now, but in 1 year they don't care about it any more. In 2 years, it's just wasted space. In 10 years, they won't even know who or what they were talking about..
I used to keep all my email (except junk mail). Now I have a loose 250MB limit. When I go over it, I start randomly hitting delete.
Funny thing is, there's not much worth keeping in the NEW stuff.
Impressive and cool.
Bumping the processor speed yet again isn't going to do squat when my win2k laptop swaps.
Give me a laptop HD as fast as a low end desktop drive and then we can talk about better cooling....
SO, lets make these plastics break down faster.. hmm good idea.
Now we have lots of tiny microscopic bits of plastic floating around everywhere. Free for all to ingest in the water or air they breath. When all's said and done, I'd rather have an evian bottle laying on the sidewalk than floating in the air I'm breathing.
What's the 1/2 life of the plastic molecules themselves? How toxic are they?
What about the plasticizers (sp?) in the plastic. I believe they're some of the more carciogenic chemicals we've come up with.
This sounds like a 2 edged sword moving in the wrong direction. Have I missed something?
Right, Star Trek Next Gen was WELL over $1,000,000 USD per episode. A 25% discount for what is, quite probably a better show is a good deal (much like AMD procs, don't you think?)
Excellent analysis. I wish I'd posed sooner. Then I could be saying what you said and you could be complimenting me. :)
It's just like the MHz barrier, the GHz barrier... etc.
We're @ a point on a curve that's going up. I mean, is the singularity when tech advances faster than 30 fps?
Hogwash.
My guess is some of those sale prices are 'lost litres' (they don't make money on the items, or lose money on them) their sole purpose is to get the customer in to the store (happy meals are the same way. They're to get the Adults to come in and buy food)
Keeping the information from being distributed produces an ignorant customer who may go only to 1 or 2 stores to purchase their merchandise (having seen news ads only for those 2 stores). A better educated customer will go to many stores, picking up on all the 'lost litres'. In the end the customer pays less, but the stores don't make as much money.
Too much advertizing(consumer knowledge) is a BAD thing.....
I read several of them, coward! lol!
Astronomers think that most galaxies in the universe, including the Milky Way, harbor black holes at their cores. But they have never before seen two such weird creatures inhabiting a single galaxy.
Wierd!?!?!? O K
Each of the smaller galaxies brought its own black hole, ranging from 10 million to 100 million times the mass of our sun, to the wedding
WTF!?!?!!
PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD
Yea, right. I have several billion electrons right here warping the fabric of space.
Who the hell thinks this crap up?
"Erm.... I don't know where you learnt your sensory neurophysiology..."
:)
I didn't.
Hmmm,
I've heard that we 'see' things through tiny vibrations of our eyes... perhaps we could do the same thing to their eyeballs and make them better drivers (wider field of vison)