The post office still is. Where else can you sent 4.7 GB of porn for the cost of a stamp? that's 37.6 Gbit per 37 cents. $3 for 1 gigabit is not nearly as cost effective. Over 300 times more expensive than the post office, True, you can send a CD-rom in a minute with 100mbit/second and the post office has a latency issue of usually 2-3 days. I really wonder if broadband technology can ever get to a point where it's cheaper than post for sending porn/warez/etc...
BTW, yes, you can send a DVD-r for the one ounce postage rate, as long as it complies with postal regulations when it's shipped. the weight of a single optical disk in a basic optical disc mailer is exactly one ounce, and complies with postal regulations. Of course it's not as well protetected, and could become fragmented or delaminated in shipping...
I'm willing to bet they force any high bandwith users over to the capped limit, because really how do they prove that you are or aren't running a server? or what a server is? Isn't gnutella really based on a http server? does that mean you'll get switched over to capped bandwith if you go on gnutella and they detect a lot of http traffic?
and the 5 gbit cap isn't very much at all.. that's only a single 650 MBbyte CD-rom. $18 a minute for internet access... 50 seconds a month provided and we call that cheap.. (it is 100mbit internet access afterall.)
Now the point to point link deal is really good, because you just pay the flat $100 a month, no per bandwith charges, because you're running over a dedicated private link and the data isn't going over the internet. Speaking as an experienced cable mode user, 8 gb per month is nothing at all to utilize... that's without even trying. and under a restrictive under 1 megabit downstream cap. At $112 per DVD I don't think the fact that you can get one in under 7 minutes makes up for it. hmm... 37 cents? or $112? nope, the post office STILL wins hands down.
Personally I'd never use such insecure passwords. you, me and the rest of slashdot, but what about your boss? (you know, the one who thinks Linux is some kid who plays the piano and is in love with lucy) You might as well use a list of baby names for the average joe six-packs passwords, because they make them something they can't forget, like their kids name. Most commonly used password. Secure passwords aren't common, by definition. Remember who 'god' (user) was? it was the chick that worked at that place. It wasn't the sysadmin, it was someone high up in the compnay who was braindead about security issues. Now, If they didn't get that part right I don't know what part of the movie they could have gotten right.
As a security measure only privaledged users are allowed to su to root. I always set up a system with an admin account that has the privaledge to su to root.
I don't see a single reason to logically define 'password recovery' as something so narrow as 'revealing the old password.' Afterall, replacing the old password with a new password is 'recovery' just as much as telling you what the old password was. Since you've still 'recovered' access to the account.
Haven't you even seen the movie hackers? The one thing they got right in that movie was the top three most commonly used passwords. I was merely pointing out that idealy a bute force decryptor would check those unsecure passwords first.
Well, when I said password recovery, what I meant is what I did the last time I forgot my root password on my laptop. I went in with a boot floppy and copy/pasted the admin password (which I still knew) over the root password. This is what normal people asssociate with password recovery, since only an insecure system (like IRC services) will tell you the 'old' password. That being said, there Are tools that take an/etc/shadow file and spew out the password, they take a lot longer than 15 minutes to do so though. I will tell you why that password can be broken. The key used to crypt the password is itself. There is a limit to the types of characters, and the number that can be used in a unix password. a bruteforce decryptor can be built that will try every possible combination, starting with the most likely root passwords, and essentially it's just a matter of waiting for the program to find the only string that decrypts the encrypted string to itself. I don't have the patience nor the desire to run your shadow entry through a brute force decryptor... but the reason the shadow file exists is because on shell machines there are people with the patience and the desire to run those shadow entries through a brute force decryptor. Even if it takes them a week to get the password because the system had a relatively secure password.
Buy DVDs, Since DVDs have a top and bottom optical layer, with a data layer in the middle they're more immune to scratches. Unfortunately, DVDs have delamination and data layer corrosion issues. There is also a dearth of 'good' DVD buring software. Applications like Nero don't conform to standards, and will totally screw up DVDs and CDs if the adaptec ASPI layer is installed (some applications require this under XP to work). Drives are also still very early and the format war winner/looser hasn't been determined yet. DVD-r works in more DVD players, DVD+r works in fewer, but is supported by more drive manufacturers, and all better new DVD players support both of course.
They were including the hyperspace net-uplink at area 51 that is mirroring the net to the alien overlord's homeworld. It's all so clear now. Didn't you know that's what carn/omnivore is all about? So aliens can watch us downloading porn, or something. Oh and quell the uprisings before they start. (BTW, I'm not serious here)
A petabit is the past tense of a petabite, which is what you call it when a People for the ethical treatment of animals member bites you. But seriously a petabit is ~12.8 LOCs.
If you have physical access to a machine then yes, root password recovery takes 10-15 minutes. I seriously doubt it takes that little time to do it remotely, however.
I'd like to know where your data comes from. America actually has a trend of increasing the amount of forested area. I'd also like to point out that areas like minnesota and wisconsin, where comemrcial tree farming is common produce vastly more oxygen, and vastly less CO2 than even a tropical rainforest. This is in part because the trees are all young growth, when they output the highest oxygen levels, and the old trees don't decay in the region, because they're harvested and used for building supplies, or paper, etc. Old growth rainforests also have a very terrible oxygen production rate, due to all the decaying vegitation releasing trapped co2. Also, the main source of oxygen production is, has been, and will continue to be the oceans.
Why do you believe life is so fragile that it can be broken? Global warming isn't the end of life. Total thermalnuclear annhilation of all civilzation would even fail to terminate all life. Not just cockroaches would be left either. think about those oceans for a bit. only radioactive debris from the fallout would effect the oceans directly, and then only in localized areas, most likely causing mutations. even a nuclear winter would fail to eradicate all oceanic life, no matter how many decades before all the dust cleared. Most plants actually benefit from radiation, unlike us genetically frail humans. But back to global warming. What great catastrophies does global warming cause? Sure, all that flooding, from the extra rain, cause by increased evaporation could cause some problems. sure, the loss of some desert terrain, especially in the middle east (most of which was at one time a rain forest, hense the vast oil deposits that lie below it) is a natural consequence of global warming. But remeber, our planet _used_ to be that warm, and not only did life thrive, it grew to garganum super sized sizes. I speak of course of the dinosaurs. Now maybe, just maybe 10 story tall giant lizards with a taste for human flesh could cause a slight dent in the human civilization, but even if global warming were to continue, it could take several million years of it before we saw anything that huge re-evolve.
I hate to burst your bubble, but it'd be far easier to blow up the earth than the sun. It'd be easier to crash the moon into the earth, than blow up the earth or the sun. So really, all they need to do is wrap the moon with enough superconducter to turn it into a giant electro magnet. mmm... the core of the earth is a giant ball of molten magnetic nickel and other elements. First everything metal in orbit around the earth would get sucked against the moon, as the field intensity increased, cars and other magentic objects would start flying off the earth into the moon, meanwhile the moon would gradually be moving closer, and the gravitational and magnetic forces would cause havoc with plate tectonics. dormant volcanoes would erupt, perhaps even a super volcano like yellowstone national park. when enough people were dead you could switch it off, if you didn't want to actually crash the moon into the earth. It might take a while, but eventually the earth would be destroyed. You'd have to build aluminum reinforced concrete bunkers to protect the super conductor, as they would surely try to nuke them to bits as soon as they realized what was happening. You'd also need a few atomic reactors to power the whole thing, but it's still possible.
Because in many cities there isn't a good mass-transit solution. If you're gonna slap a $3 a gallon tax on gasoline the least you can do is put some of that money into building better mass-transit systems, that run on time, and are there more than every 2-3 hours, and only operate 16 hours a day. And if you wanna talk about gas guzzlers. Buses really are, especially when you've got maybe 4 people on them, because of the above problem with the system. I agree, car ownership is very costly, especially when you need to get it fixed. That's a real set back to a low-income family. How can you afford the repair when you're barely paying your monthly bills in the first place?
I'd like to correct you on one thing. He said 'Linux' apps. Having had to mess around with screwed up./configure scripts (on FreeBSD) 'Linux' apps won't compile unmodified, because he/she doesn't realize what thier doing, or how to make the configure script platform independant. there are also the case of programs that rely on modification to the linux kernel to even run. Some CD burning software falls under this category. Now your point about compiling unix software still applies, and in fact the vast majority of what people think of as 'linux' software is actually unix software, and should compile with no modification on any unix platform.
Having logged onto battle.net 15 year olds think a 'smurf' is some elite warcraft3 player who creates new accounts and then whips thier sorry butts, because they've got 90% loss ratios and couldn't possibly think they actually suck at the game. Some of them might also get cable, since the TV show has been on some assorted networks at odd hours at various times due to syndication.
This is obviously a troll but wth... Dave does blog regularly. But it's mostly links, or very brief entries. Since you posted barry has linked back to this article. As far as 2 goes, the writing style looks a lot like the amount of effort he puts into his blog. It's not like he really got paid for doing this, If you've ever read his book Dave Barry In cycberspace he jokes about losing ten words and entire hours worth of work. when he's polishing his work (ie: getting paid) likely he spends a lot of time rewriting the same stuff. Probablly because of his editors. Oh any BTW, you got it wrong, simple dislexic mistake, it's Next Week: Slashdot inteviews Dog
Not all of us use IE. Some of us use mozilla or opera, and don't have to deal with browser trapping.
Yes, browser traping is annoying, and yes, I've even come across webpages that pop up a window even when unrequested windows are disabled in mozilla. But the torrental flood of porn ads is entirely avoidable.
Then again you mentioned work, so maybe you're not allowed to install software on there.
So true so true, which is why nearly half the power generated in the US comes from nuclear reactions of fisionable materials.
As far as these panels go though, they're supposedly cheaper because use much less silicon. Supposedly they could even recycle waste silicon scraps from the semiconductor industry to produce the panels. Their new factory is expected to begin production this fall, too. So it's not really that long before this product hits the market. Since this product is flexible, you may find it supplementing battery power for PDAs, or cell phones. I realize that it doesn't produce enough power to fully power such devices, but it could certainly keep the cell phone on standby as long as the sun is shining at the beach, and perhaps it could even trickle charge the battery, between calls.
Apparently you don't play warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos. Warcraft III does not run stable on athlon computer systems period. the only option you have it to turn off numerous graphic options until the crashes go from 'every 45 minutes' down to 'whenever it damn well feels like it, like when you're in a ladder map and about to kick thier butts, but they keep on farm hiding.' oh and it's not a graphic driver issue. something about the war3 code causes it to forget where certain bits of memory are allocated, and then when they're not there anymore poof it crashes. IT does not effect pentium systems. only athlon CPU systems, even if you've got enough processor speed and the best radeon 9700 graphic card. you have to turn the graphic capabilities below that of the card simply to prevent warcraft from handling as much memory address space, reducing the risk of triggering the bug. There is no patch, and it's entirely related to the way warcraft (and many other applications) are optomized that causes this bug in the athlon core to loose the address of the memory that the application needed. everything from DivX tools to sound drivers have had similar problems with this same athlon bug. So the question is, who's fault is it? is it AMDs? the software developers? or could it even be a flaw in the compiler when making source that is athlon optomized? The poster you replied to is wrong, however, people in buisness already buy AMD products. just because AMD products aren't as well supported, and are harder for developers to program for (very apparent due to the number of athlon related application problems I've seen) doesn't mean buisnesses won't buy them. buisnesses that are on a tight budget might just buy athlon systems, because who cares if warcraft III won't run with particles turned on with it. who cares if yoru workers can't get DivX tools to rip a DVD because it crashes half way through with a memory error. as long as word and ie run fine then it's just as good as any pentium system.
there are two ways to do this 1. have '911' phones installed in areas where they're needed. 2. offer incentive programs (tax credits etc) for putting pay phones in low income areas. in the former you have single purpose phones that can only be used for 911. in the later low-income people can have a full function pay phone should they decide to order a pizza or, they could even use it as a 'home' phone number, to apply for jobs, so that maybe someday they could afford a cell phone.
although they 'claim' it has great thermal properties they're not exactly doing it right. they vent heat from the top -- this is the right way to vent a case. they put the power supply at the bottom of the case... so that the hot air has to run past everything to the vent at the top. this is not a good practice... on the plus side -- because the heat expands inside the case the internal pressure rises as the gasses expannd causing higher internal pressure than your elevation. this lowers the boiling point of the various components inside. However the same effect can be replicated, and with cold air by having 3 air intake fans to a single air exhaist fan air pressure inside the case will rise (sliglty) as the system boots up, lowering the melting and boiling point, while also providing vast amounts of cold air. as long as the exhaust fans are at the top the hottest air is expelled keeping the temperature inside as cool as can be.
since the power supply can cause more heat than any other component thier design is flawed. but as long as the exhaust fan is pointing up on the power supply the heat shouldn't effect anything except the data cables. especially if the two side fans are intakes. So the design isn't perfect, but it should maintain an acceptable airflow. Also, since many power supplies have dual fans, the case could even use the secondary fan as a bottom air inlet, which would mean it was keeping the power supply cooler than any other case on the market -- If it has an air inlet at the bottom.
you're missing the point Aluminum is 1/3 the weight of steel. I've got a tiny little steel case that like steel automobiles weigs a ton... I've also got a giant Lian-li aluminum server case. Guess which weighs less? the lian-li.
Despite having room for 2x as many 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 drives. Aluminum can be fabed into a lighter case than steel. of course alloys are the best route for light-weight strong cases, as aluminum is relatively soft (easy to scratch). a magnesium based alloy should be about as light as plastic yet nearly as strong as steel.
you'd be better off looking into a crystal ball. just off hand where are the fusion power plants? right where they were before in space really far away. the only way to see the future is wake up tomorrow and see it for yourself as it unravels into the present. Sci-fi books are no better at predicting the future than science journals. joules vernes, HG wells both have some stories that mirror the capabilities of modern technology. and yet they're not really showing the future. Just as george orwells vision of the future in 1984 is vagualy similar to corperate america, except he got the economics wrong, as well as a few other minor points. he nailed the 'picking an enemy this month' thing on the head, although we tend to invent wars on things rather than specific targets eg: war on drugs, or terrorism. so they never really have to end.
nice taking the bible out of context. ecclesiastes chapter 10 is generally about fools, wisemen, and kings. Actually, a far better quote is the one you neglected to read right below, Ecc 10:20 "Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." So, those two quotes are not in conflict. not in context. One who is strong in faith will have little love for money, but can still realize that money is a fundamntal key to society. In fact those two quotes are both reinforcing the same ideal, that those who covet money are moving away from their faith... and should thusly not be cursed by somone looking to increase thier own faith.
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The post office still is.
Where else can you sent 4.7 GB of porn for the cost of a stamp? that's 37.6 Gbit per 37 cents. $3 for 1 gigabit is not nearly as cost effective. Over 300 times more expensive than the post office, True, you can send a CD-rom in a minute with 100mbit/second and the post office has a latency issue of usually 2-3 days.
I really wonder if broadband technology can ever get to a point where it's cheaper than post for sending porn/warez/etc...
BTW, yes, you can send a DVD-r for the one ounce postage rate, as long as it complies with postal regulations when it's shipped. the weight of a single optical disk in a basic optical disc mailer is exactly one ounce, and complies with postal regulations. Of course it's not as well protetected, and could become fragmented or delaminated in shipping...
I'm willing to bet they force any high bandwith users over to the capped limit, because really how do they prove that you are or aren't running a server? or what a server is? Isn't gnutella really based on a http server? does that mean you'll get switched over to capped bandwith if you go on gnutella and they detect a lot of http traffic?
and the 5 gbit cap isn't very much at all.. that's only a single 650 MBbyte CD-rom. $18 a minute for internet access... 50 seconds a month provided and we call that cheap.. (it is 100mbit internet access afterall.)
Now the point to point link deal is really good, because you just pay the flat $100 a month, no per bandwith charges, because you're running over a dedicated private link and the data isn't going over the internet.
Speaking as an experienced cable mode user, 8 gb per month is nothing at all to utilize... that's without even trying. and under a restrictive under 1 megabit downstream cap.
At $112 per DVD I don't think the fact that you can get one in under 7 minutes makes up for it.
hmm... 37 cents? or $112? nope, the post office STILL wins hands down.
Personally I'd never use such insecure passwords.
you, me and the rest of slashdot, but what about your boss? (you know, the one who thinks Linux is some kid who plays the piano and is in love with lucy)
You might as well use a list of baby names for the average joe six-packs passwords, because they make them something they can't forget, like their kids name.
Most commonly used password. Secure passwords aren't common, by definition. Remember who 'god' (user) was? it was the chick that worked at that place. It wasn't the sysadmin, it was someone high up in the compnay who was braindead about security issues. Now, If they didn't get that part right I don't know what part of the movie they could have gotten right.
As a security measure only privaledged users are allowed to su to root. I always set up a system with an admin account that has the privaledge to su to root.
I don't see a single reason to logically define 'password recovery' as something so narrow as 'revealing the old password.' Afterall, replacing the old password with a new password is 'recovery' just as much as telling you what the old password was. Since you've still 'recovered' access to the account.
Haven't you even seen the movie hackers? The one thing they got right in that movie was the top three most commonly used passwords. I was merely pointing out that idealy a bute force decryptor would check those unsecure passwords first.
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Well, when I said password recovery, what I meant is what I did the last time I forgot my root password on my laptop. I went in with a boot floppy and copy/pasted the admin password (which I still knew) over the root password. This is what normal people asssociate with password recovery, since only an insecure system (like IRC services) will tell you the 'old' password. /etc/shadow file and spew out the password, they take a lot longer than 15 minutes to do so though.
That being said, there Are tools that take an
I will tell you why that password can be broken. The key used to crypt the password is itself. There is a limit to the types of characters, and the number that can be used in a unix password. a bruteforce decryptor can be built that will try every possible combination, starting with the most likely root passwords, and essentially it's just a matter of waiting for the program to find the only string that decrypts the encrypted string to itself.
I don't have the patience nor the desire to run your shadow entry through a brute force decryptor... but the reason the shadow file exists is because on shell machines there are people with the patience and the desire to run those shadow entries through a brute force decryptor. Even if it takes them a week to get the password because the system had a relatively secure password.
Buy DVDs, Since DVDs have a top and bottom optical layer, with a data layer in the middle they're more immune to scratches. Unfortunately, DVDs have delamination and data layer corrosion issues. There is also a dearth of 'good' DVD buring software. Applications like Nero don't conform to standards, and will totally screw up DVDs and CDs if the adaptec ASPI layer is installed (some applications require this under XP to work).
Drives are also still very early and the format war winner/looser hasn't been determined yet. DVD-r works in more DVD players, DVD+r works in fewer, but is supported by more drive manufacturers, and all better new DVD players support both of course.
They were including the hyperspace net-uplink at area 51 that is mirroring the net to the alien overlord's homeworld.
It's all so clear now.
Didn't you know that's what carn/omnivore is all about?
So aliens can watch us downloading porn, or something. Oh and quell the uprisings before they start.
(BTW, I'm not serious here)
A petabit is the past tense of a petabite, which is what you call it when a People for the ethical treatment of animals member bites you.
But seriously a petabit is ~12.8 LOCs.
If you have physical access to a machine then yes, root password recovery takes 10-15 minutes. I seriously doubt it takes that little time to do it remotely, however.
I'd like to know where your data comes from.
America actually has a trend of increasing the amount of forested area. I'd also like to point out that areas like minnesota and wisconsin, where comemrcial tree farming is common produce vastly more oxygen, and vastly less CO2 than even a tropical rainforest. This is in part because the trees are all young growth, when they output the highest oxygen levels, and the old trees don't decay in the region, because they're harvested and used for building supplies, or paper, etc. Old growth rainforests also have a very terrible oxygen production rate, due to all the decaying vegitation releasing trapped co2.
Also, the main source of oxygen production is, has been, and will continue to be the oceans.
Why do you believe life is so fragile that it can be broken? Global warming isn't the end of life.
Total thermalnuclear annhilation of all civilzation would even fail to terminate all life.
Not just cockroaches would be left either. think about those oceans for a bit. only radioactive debris from the fallout would effect the oceans directly, and then only in localized areas, most likely causing mutations. even a nuclear winter would fail to eradicate all oceanic life, no matter how many decades before all the dust cleared. Most plants actually benefit from radiation, unlike us genetically frail humans.
But back to global warming. What great catastrophies does global warming cause?
Sure, all that flooding, from the extra rain, cause by increased evaporation could cause some problems. sure, the loss of some desert terrain, especially in the middle east (most of which was at one time a rain forest, hense the vast oil deposits that lie below it) is a natural consequence of global warming. But remeber, our planet _used_ to be that warm, and not only did life thrive, it grew to garganum super sized sizes.
I speak of course of the dinosaurs.
Now maybe, just maybe 10 story tall giant lizards with a taste for human flesh could cause a slight dent in the human civilization, but even if global warming were to continue, it could take several million years of it before we saw anything that huge re-evolve.
I hate to burst your bubble, but it'd be far easier to blow up the earth than the sun. It'd be easier to crash the moon into the earth, than blow up the earth or the sun.
So really, all they need to do is wrap the moon with enough superconducter to turn it into a giant electro magnet. mmm... the core of the earth is a giant ball of molten magnetic nickel and other elements. First everything metal in orbit around the earth would get sucked against the moon, as the field intensity increased, cars and other magentic objects would start flying off the earth into the moon, meanwhile the moon would gradually be moving closer, and the gravitational and magnetic forces would cause havoc with plate tectonics. dormant volcanoes would erupt, perhaps even a super volcano like yellowstone national park. when enough people were dead you could switch it off, if you didn't want to actually crash the moon into the earth. It might take a while, but eventually the earth would be destroyed. You'd have to build aluminum reinforced concrete bunkers to protect the super conductor, as they would surely try to nuke them to bits as soon as they realized what was happening. You'd also need a few atomic reactors to power the whole thing, but it's still possible.
Because in many cities there isn't a good mass-transit solution. If you're gonna slap a $3 a gallon tax on gasoline the least you can do is put some of that money into building better mass-transit systems, that run on time, and are there more than every 2-3 hours, and only operate 16 hours a day.
And if you wanna talk about gas guzzlers. Buses really are, especially when you've got maybe 4 people on them, because of the above problem with the system.
I agree, car ownership is very costly, especially when you need to get it fixed. That's a real set back to a low-income family. How can you afford the repair when you're barely paying your monthly bills in the first place?
I'd like to correct you on one thing. ./configure scripts (on FreeBSD) 'Linux' apps won't compile unmodified, because he/she doesn't realize what thier doing, or how to make the configure script platform independant.
He said 'Linux' apps.
Having had to mess around with screwed up
there are also the case of programs that rely on modification to the linux kernel to even run. Some CD burning software falls under this category.
Now your point about compiling unix software still applies, and in fact the vast majority of what people think of as 'linux' software is actually unix software, and should compile with no modification on any unix platform.
Having logged onto battle.net 15 year olds think a 'smurf' is some elite warcraft3 player who creates new accounts and then whips thier sorry butts, because they've got 90% loss ratios and couldn't possibly think they actually suck at the game.
Some of them might also get cable, since the TV show has been on some assorted networks at odd hours at various times due to syndication.
This is obviously a troll but wth...
Dave does blog regularly. But it's mostly links, or very brief entries. Since you posted barry has linked back to this article.
As far as 2 goes, the writing style looks a lot like the amount of effort he puts into his blog. It's not like he really got paid for doing this, If you've ever read his book Dave Barry In cycberspace he jokes about losing ten words and entire hours worth of work. when he's polishing his work (ie: getting paid) likely he spends a lot of time rewriting the same stuff. Probablly because of his editors.
Oh any BTW, you got it wrong, simple dislexic mistake, it's Next Week: Slashdot inteviews Dog
Well next time this interview (or a news story about this inteview) gets posted on slashdot, We'll be ready with the best version of the joke.
Not all of us use IE. Some of us use mozilla or opera, and don't have to deal with browser trapping.
Yes, browser traping is annoying, and yes, I've even come across webpages that pop up a window even when unrequested windows are disabled in mozilla.
But the torrental flood of porn ads is entirely avoidable.
Then again you mentioned work, so maybe you're not allowed to install software on there.
So true so true, which is why nearly half the power generated in the US comes from nuclear reactions of fisionable materials.
As far as these panels go though, they're supposedly cheaper because use much less silicon. Supposedly they could even recycle waste silicon scraps from the semiconductor industry to produce the panels.
Their new factory is expected to begin production this fall, too. So it's not really that long before this product hits the market.
Since this product is flexible, you may find it supplementing battery power for PDAs, or cell phones. I realize that it doesn't produce enough power to fully power such devices, but it could certainly keep the cell phone on standby as long as the sun is shining at the beach, and perhaps it could even trickle charge the battery, between calls.
Apparently you don't play warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos. Warcraft III does not run stable on athlon computer systems period. the only option you have it to turn off numerous graphic options until the crashes go from 'every 45 minutes' down to 'whenever it damn well feels like it, like when you're in a ladder map and about to kick thier butts, but they keep on farm hiding.'
oh and it's not a graphic driver issue. something about the war3 code causes it to forget where certain bits of memory are allocated, and then when they're not there anymore poof it crashes. IT does not effect pentium systems. only athlon CPU systems, even if you've got enough processor speed and the best radeon 9700 graphic card. you have to turn the graphic capabilities below that of the card simply to prevent warcraft from handling as much memory address space, reducing the risk of triggering the bug.
There is no patch, and it's entirely related to the way warcraft (and many other applications) are optomized that causes this bug in the athlon core to loose the address of the memory that the application needed. everything from DivX tools to sound drivers have had similar problems with this same athlon bug.
So the question is, who's fault is it? is it AMDs? the software developers? or could it even be a flaw in the compiler when making source that is athlon optomized?
The poster you replied to is wrong, however, people in buisness already buy AMD products. just because AMD products aren't as well supported, and are harder for developers to program for (very apparent due to the number of athlon related application problems I've seen) doesn't mean buisnesses won't buy them. buisnesses that are on a tight budget might just buy athlon systems, because who cares if warcraft III won't run with particles turned on with it. who cares if yoru workers can't get DivX tools to rip a DVD because it crashes half way through with a memory error. as long as word and ie run fine then it's just as good as any pentium system.
there are two ways to do this 1. have '911' phones installed in areas where they're needed. 2. offer incentive programs (tax credits etc) for putting pay phones in low income areas. in the former you have single purpose phones that can only be used for 911. in the later low-income people can have a full function pay phone should they decide to order a pizza or, they could even use it as a 'home' phone number, to apply for jobs, so that maybe someday they could afford a cell phone.
although they 'claim' it has great thermal properties they're not exactly doing it right.
they vent heat from the top -- this is the right way to vent a case. they put the power supply at the bottom of the case... so that the hot air has to run past everything to the vent at the top. this is not a good practice... on the plus side -- because the heat expands inside the case the internal pressure rises as the gasses expannd causing higher internal pressure than your elevation. this lowers the boiling point of the various components inside. However the same effect can be replicated, and with cold air by having 3 air intake fans to a single air exhaist fan air pressure inside the case will rise (sliglty) as the system boots up, lowering the melting and boiling point, while also providing vast amounts of cold air. as long as the exhaust fans are at the top the hottest air is expelled keeping the temperature inside as cool as can be.
since the power supply can cause more heat than any other component thier design is flawed. but as long as the exhaust fan is pointing up on the power supply the heat shouldn't effect anything except the data cables. especially if the two side fans are intakes.
So the design isn't perfect, but it should maintain an acceptable airflow. Also, since many power supplies have dual fans, the case could even use the secondary fan as a bottom air inlet, which would mean it was keeping the power supply cooler than any other case on the market -- If it has an air inlet at the bottom.
you're missing the point Aluminum is 1/3 the weight of steel. I've got a tiny little steel case that like steel automobiles weigs a ton... I've also got a giant Lian-li aluminum server case. Guess which weighs less? the lian-li.
Despite having room for 2x as many 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 drives.
Aluminum can be fabed into a lighter case than steel. of course alloys are the best route for light-weight strong cases, as aluminum is relatively soft (easy to scratch). a magnesium based alloy should be about as light as plastic yet nearly as strong as steel.
you'd be better off looking into a crystal ball.
just off hand where are the fusion power plants? right where they were before in space really far away.
the only way to see the future is wake up tomorrow and see it for yourself as it unravels into the present. Sci-fi books are no better at predicting the future than science journals. joules vernes, HG wells both have some stories that mirror the capabilities of modern technology. and yet they're not really showing the future.
Just as george orwells vision of the future in 1984 is vagualy similar to corperate america, except he got the economics wrong, as well as a few other minor points. he nailed the 'picking an enemy this month' thing on the head, although we tend to invent wars on things rather than specific targets eg: war on drugs, or terrorism. so they never really have to end.
nice taking the bible out of context. ecclesiastes chapter 10 is generally about fools, wisemen, and kings.
Actually, a far better quote is the one you neglected to read right below, Ecc 10:20 "Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."
So, those two quotes are not in conflict. not in context. One who is strong in faith will have little love for money, but can still realize that money is a fundamntal key to society. In fact those two quotes are both reinforcing the same ideal, that those who covet money are moving away from their faith... and should thusly not be cursed by somone looking to increase thier own faith.
Dell instructed me to pull the hard drive from my inspiron prior to servicing it... so that my data would be safe.