I might be a little biased, But I can usually get a 50 spindle of Imation discs for only $5, after sale price and rebate. Then again, I live an hour away from the imation factory, and the CD-r they produce have always worked beautifully for me. They're treated on top so they're not as easy to scratch as thos cheapo PNYs that are just silk screened silvers that can barely handle being burned at 16x speed... (I can burn my 16x rated imation at 24x no prob, and my 32x media at 48x, although 48x has it's own problems, with leaving gaps where data should be on 'copies' of course on a data cd made for file backups it doesn't cause a problem.
I remember when they showed that on TSS almost 2 years ago... it might not have been that exact model, and it was probably 18 months ago, i don't remember exactly. The only thing I see is that it's now down to an affordable ($230) price tag from it's initial $450 price tag. VCDs are OK quality, but 74 minutes isn't long enough, and the quality isn't good enough... DVDs are almost long enough (2 hours, at lower quality encoding) but until DVD-r can be used with high-bitrate mpeg-4 (capable of storing perhaps 6 hours of video on a DVD-r, at better quality than a 2 hour 4.7 gig DVD-r.) I don't really see that much to rave about... Although VCDs are definitely right around VHS grade video quality...
you should look into a firewire-ide bridge device then. on the cheap you can get old full height SCSI racks, with a bridge screwed onto the back so you can use IDE devices externally. or for a little more money you can get a light weight unit, that only holds a single 5-1/2 drive. although then you can't use it for mp3 playback standalone, you could add CD-rw and DVD playback capabilities. However, your HD on an older laptop couldn't keep up with DVD-r technology, my Inspiron 8100 is barely capable of doing 1x DVD burns, and it has a 30 gig HD... for 2x DVD even the 5400 rpm laptop drives might not be able to keep up.
I know... Fir, white pine, oak, cherry, stained or painted, removable cushions, built in cushions, or none at all... it's all so confusing, and really how far can you overclock them too? can you fit 7 cowboy neil's on them? or will they snap like a toothpick under that kind of load.. I've been in the same boat as you and a comprehensive review of benches is welcome in my book;-)
A lot of buisnesses are going flat panel exclusivly now. The power, and desktop spacing, and the eyestrain reduction are all very good motivators for paying a premium upfront, Espcially since valid buisness equipment purchases are a great tax write off, and flat panels offer more tax write off than a CRT, and allow you to replace CRTs that otherwise still have a high amount of value remaining, because of the 'improved' features of a LCD. (power consumption, and eyestrain while reading.) At least one local buisness here doesn't have a single CRT monitor in their building. the only CRTs are TV Sets. And they have a signifigant number of employees and computers there too, several hundred, by my estimation.
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I tried what you said with my inspiron 8100 TFT LCD (the mid-range dell screen, 1400x1050 native resolution.) Frankly they look identical, I used the same wav file of course, and the same artifacting occurs on both CRT and LCD. (where when you scroll chunks of display dissapear until you stop scrolling.) Just for the sake of completeness my test setup consisted of a. Dell inspiron 8100 with Nvidia Geforce 2go 32 MB DDR, running windows XP pro, not (sp1) patched, not using dell's version of XP that came preloaded. running in native resolution of the LCD, with the latest BIOS revision flashed, and using XP's generic Digital Flat pannel driver, instead of a dell specific driver. The laptop has a P-3M 1.0 Ghz, and is equiped with 320 MB of PC-133 SDRAM, and has a 30 GB HD. the desktop is equiped with a Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra Platinum Edition, with a single stick of 512 MB of OCZ pc2700 rev 3.2 DDR ram (CL 2-2-2 T1 timings) currently it has a single 80 GB 7200 rpm drive (for testing purposes, will be ghosting to a RAID array soon) and a ATI AIW Radeon 8500 128 MB card. This system is running XP Pro, with SP1 integrated, AKA Corperate edition. The CRT used for testing is a MAG innovision 17" (16.0 viewable) flat tube model, which was on sale a few weeks ago, for around $105. Seriously dude, it's not the LCDs that are the problem anymore. The TSS Lan party was using some pretty high end $1,000 17" LCDs to play it's weekly Nvidia Lan party, and no one there had any real issues with the quality, despite the fact they only play very fast motion FPS games like Quake3 and UT2003Demo (slated for this week.) The FUD about LCDs not being for gamers is just exactly that. The only legitimate complaint left is cost, Since a decent TFT LCD screen does cost several hundred dollars more than a comperable CRT. And cosidering that a decent gamers rig comes complete with a custom paintjob, a window and possibly some other hacks to the case, the fastest in technology, and a sticker shock of around $2,000-$5,000 price is obviously not an issue to a hardcore PC gamer. So therfor, LCDs are custom tailored to gamers, they're easier to bring per inch of viewing area to a lan party, and they're just as good, if not better.
You forgot one, we allow them to buy an addictive, cancer causing, pesticide filled stimulant that is taken by inhaling the fumes of it's burning ashes, which are then exhaled to the irritation of innocent bystanders. (nicotine is a pesticide/narcotic/carcinogen, and is added to cigarettes, besides the stuff already in the tobacco)
that is what the full color, fold out poster is for. the manual belongs on the CD/DVD possibly online, but the install guide should be on a glossy poster, that folds out. All the better retail kits have them.
(don't expect a CDRW to hold data more than 1-2 years) Excuse me, I've had a CD-burner since the 2x models came out, and so far, some daily use (mp3 audio discs) had to be replaced, and some dropped CD-r Shattered, or had the top foil torn off. But not a Single of my archival discs has failed, in any way shape or form. In fact, the readability life on CD-R is anywhere from 50 years to 150 years. Negligence will destroy any archival media. Paper has to be kept dry, but not too dry, magnetic tape can't be exposed to the elements or strong magnetic fields, hard drives have the same limitations as magnetic tape, but also are very hard to salvage should there be a mechanical failure, and in some cases, the heads will actually destroy the data to the point where it is unretrievable. Flash media has a finite number of writes before it fails, and is essentially etched into glass, making it vulnerable to being shattered, although it is usually well packaged (at least compactflash, and flash memory HDs are reasonably well packaged.) IF your archival DVDs are properly stored in DVD cases, and you NEVER Touch them, instead, buring a Second 'usage' copy then You will Not have any problems with the reliability of the media, unless your archival site is burned down in a fire. A safe deposit box should keep your data CD/DVDs reasonably safe, as the only flamable material in a safe is well protected against fire, and the walls of the safe are designed to prevent theft, as well as fire, flood, and earthquake, some are even designed to protect valuables as well as the could assuming nuclear blasts had occured nearby. (eg: underground vaults, since there isn't much that can be done for an above ground vault, in the event that a nuclear bomb were dropped in the surrounding population center) If your CDs are wearing out in 2 years they aren't being treated like archival media. And for a person like you I'd reccomend investing in some carnuba wax, and protective top side labels. between the two you should be able to extend the average life of most CDs by another two years at least. (note: plastic is a protective label, paper is a writing label, and doesn't add signifigantly to scratch immunity on the topside. BTW, you might consider adding a UV protective coating to all your windows (you can find them on google, both clear, and tinted) if you're having problems with sunlight burning out the CD-r Tinted will work better, as it blocks more spectrum. Also, don't leave them sitting in your car, unless they're well shaded, and the car is well ventilated, because it can get hot enough to warp the plastic, even if the disc itself is in the shade, because of how hot a car can get.
In this case, snopes is right, Japan Has never imported anything under "made in USA." However, there ARE some small commonweaths and countries that can import as Made in USA or Made in US. (the latter more prevalent, but ignored in snopes article.) Contrary to some people's belief the United States of America does not OWN international rights to the letters US or USA, and some countries are legally capable of importing goods into the US as 'made in US' or made in 'USA' Japan, however Is Not one of those countries. Also, remember that the initials are generally produced from the native toung's native spelling, not the english translation. So while you may be used to looking a a map full of 'english' spelling those don't correlate to many countries abbreviations.
Well, the problem with that is that sreaming takes so much bandwith that it would flood both the undersea fiberoptics and the satelite networks that make up the global pipeline, if they were really popular. America has an insane amount of unlit fiber, partially because of the cost of burrying more fiber, and partially because technology increased the capacity those same fiber optics could carry. the world does not have an insane amount of unlit fiber. This is why technologies that increase fiber capacity are so important, especially if they only require minor modifications to the equipment (eg: nothing that would require say trying to change any physical reapeaters along a several thousand mile long undersea fiber optic cable) If you can 100x fold the capacity of 'existing' undersea pipelines it would reduce the cost of bandwith greatly and perhaps increase the revenue of those pipes, because you could go for traffic volume, instead or trying to entice people into paying a premium for it. I think that some of that has already come into play, since I've noticed much improvement on my access to taiwan and german sites, but it's still not perfect, and ultimately undersea bandwith will always carry a premium over land line fiber. Although ironically, it's potenetially cheaper to use a river and underwater optic cables than to dig up a city, although I'm sure that the largest cities that would be most applicable to already have a tunnel system which would remove the cost of 'digging up the streets' however, it would be interesting if rivers made it cheaper/easier to expand fiber infrastructure beyond the 'major' hub cities.
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most of the FTPs seem to be pretty much overloaded, but a really good way to find mirrors is to use a good ftp search like alltheweb.com search for 4.6.2-disc1 or better still 4.7-disc1 (which still wasn't returing results when i posted) and hunting for fast low ping servers running unlisted mirrors, preferably finding a mirror that is geographically close to you. Just make sure you get the md5sum list from the official site. I'm currently pulling 95k of my 100k Downstream cap from an undisclosed university (.edu) mirror. much better than fighting the rush of people trying to mirror the new files from the official sites.
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There are plenty of solar pannels that can deliver 6.5 watts, or better, so a solar panel + Lithium Ion battery pack, and you've got a webcam that can pretty much run all day, with essentially no wires. the battery enables it to run even on cloudy days, although if you want the cam to run 24/7 you need to have it plugged in, or else you'd have problems with outages. And for what it's worth, none of the cameras are housed for outdoor usage either, so basically the point is that everyone has power outlets everywhere inside their house, but not everyone has an ethernet jack right next to each and every power outlet for 'convenience' sake. Besides, don't you want that girl next door to be pulling out her laptop, browsing for 802.11b networks, and find to her shock that her bedroom window is currently being broadcast across a wireless webcam;-) (BTW the 802.11b access can be overridden for cabled use too)
A few things about inkjets. First off, inkjets need to use higher DPI because the ink is essentially being spit out at the paper. they don't really know where the ink is going to land on the paper. They know more or less, and the slower the print out the more precisely they do know. Even so, in order to maake the colors correct they aren't actually putting the inks on top of each other, but simply so close that they seem to be in the same spot, but realistically i think they 1/3 or 1/4 the number to determine how many dots are being printed per pixel, in order to make all the colors needed. So a 1200x1200 DPI printer would be able to yeild only 7.2 MP, if they blend four dots per pixel to make accurate color blending. I could be wrong on this, but I Know that 300dpi is Way too low to make an 8x10 print, the inkjet might spit it out fast, but it ends up looking horrible.
Karma has no value, and besides, Cmdr Taco is considering dropping from 50 to 30, as the 'cap.' I only use the no +1 bonus if I'm not even tangential to the topic.
This is kind of off topic, but I'd like to point out why some people type in all caps all the time, and with no punctuation. People who can't speak, or can't hear need to use the telephone too. Because of this need, there is a government system to provide Telephone Relay service. Telephone relay devices have no lowercase mode. ALL TEXT IS IN CAPS. In addition, no punctuation is used, because speaking is generally faster than typing, so they take any number of shortcuts to type faster. So you end up producing a class of people who cannot type in lowercase, or shift, or use punctuation. Then there are the people like me, who have no good excuse, and simply use english inncorectly, but generally, the people who talk in all caps (and aren't novices) have had some experience with telephone relay work. I know people who can type 60 words per minute, with no punctuation, in all caps, but couldn't type worth shit using punctuation or in lower case. So before you complain, maybe you should write a perl wrapper for TDD enabled devices to punctuate and case correct for people so that eventually they learn the right way to type.
Actually, you're wrong. Despite numerous attempts including suing playboy magazine in the 80s, and making a law (in the 90s) which made 'virtual' child porn illegal It isn't 'child porn' when an adult artistically poses in a way that makes them to appear more childlike, nor is is 'child porn' when artwork depicts child-like entities in a less than fully clothed state. It is only child porn if you meet the following requirements. 1. real children were involved. or 2. you were marketing the 'virtual' (cg product) as child porn, and weren't a federal agency trying to bust a pedophile ring. This is the standard that the supreme court has been holding up as what is defined as 'child porn' and any law that doesn't take intent into it's equasion WILL be ruled unconstitutional. Would you tear down the sistine chapel because of This? Oh dear, aren't those 'children' in the boat there not wearing any clothes?!? Let's burn the Sistine chapel down because it's 'advocating' child porn!!! Art is still art, and the sistine chapel isn't promoting or encouraging pedophilia. the fact of the matter is that naked child != child porn. There has to be intent to promote pedophilia, or to harm children to make it child pornography. Laws that don't take that into consideration are in violation of the constitution, and common sense as well.
First of all, Microsoft is an american company, and the german government has little if any interest in proping up an american company. Second of all, "Open Source" software does not 'hurt' the economy. The economy is a measure of how much people can produce with their time and effort. Closed-source has been a huge drain on the economy, and this drain has only been masked by the productivity gains that Computer technology can provide. Secondly right now we have a giant corperation that has to an extent an extortion racket going, they provide you essentially the same product given a fresh paint job, and a few bug fixes, and you're expected to 'keep upgraded' and as such continue paying the extortion fees. Word processors, for example haven't changed signifigantly in a decade. only a few cosmetic changes, and bugfixes for newer hardware have come out. Now how is it 'productive' for the economy to lock this kind of technology up with prorietary license agreements requiring payment by installments? And yes if you found a way to make cars for 'free' the auto makers would go under, but if you think auto makers make up a signifigant part of the economy anymore you're saddly mistaken, and you missed the 1980s. Robots build automobiles now. Yes, they have human operators, but the number of people involved in building a car already crashed and burned in the 80s. the economy survived, because people still wanted to work, and they found ways to continue working. it may take time to adapt, but the economy has never collapsed as a result of any enabling technology. Generally, it takes pig-headed politicians, and a collapse of trade and the banks to cause total economic failure.
1. games -- with modern PC games requiring from 500 megs to 5 gigabytes for a 'full' install 320 gigs will fit you approximately 200 games. 2. DVDs -- DivX is for sharing online, real men don't recompress lossily compressed formats (like MPEG-2 the DVDs come in) at about 7 GB average per movie you could fit about 45 movies on that drive. Even if you went with DivX though, you'd need an average of 1 GB per movie, so you're only up to about 320 movies. 3. porn -- the oldest obsession, there can never be enough storage for these movies/pictures/etc.. 4. ogg/mp3/whatever -- 320 GB is a lot of music, but translates to 3000 to 6000 albums depending on the bitrate used. Losseless compression would fit fewer still, and some people would seriously rather not use a lossy compression method. 5. Archive usenet binary groups -- at 320 GB you can only pick a few groups though, otherwise you'd be changing drives pretty often... 6. put steven speilburg to shame -- with today's computers there is no reason why you can't produce the next jaws on your home PC, assuming you have the creative talents, and the 320 GB hd to fit all the video in losslessly compressed formats. 7. Create a Linux distro ISO archive. -- With distrowatch.com ranking 91 versions of linux you'll fill that 320GB pretty fast trying to archive all these little linux OSes for posterity. 8. calcualte pi to the 320,000,000,000 th digit, and store it on your HD. At one byte per digit in uncompressed format that's how many characters a 320 GB HD can hold (because of the HD industry standard of using units of 1,000 instead of 1024) 9. store approximately 160 years worth of warcraft 3 replay files. 10. Provide everyone in the world with ~ 50 bytes of 'free' storage, or provide everyone in america with 1,111 bytes. 320 GB doesn't go far, does it?
Ten good reasons, maybe not all convincing to you, but all valid uses of a 320 GB hd.
I've been using a firewire/ide bride in an old full height SCSI external case. Room for two HD rack enclosures, although unfortunately the bridge controllers have a hard time keeping up with HD technology, my current bridge can only recognize 120 GB or smaller drives, however it's easily replaceable assuming I need to. While a full height bay scsi rackmount isn't exactly compact, it is easy to disconnect so the drives can be swapped out and stored remotely.
Wind is caused by a lot of factors, but mostly by sun. So generally the strongest winds occur at mid-day, which is generally the peak usage hours for electricity. Yes, there is a degree of unpredictability to wind power... however, wind does not every completely stop blowing, and when properly sited you can have a fairly consistant power supply. The wind swept plains of North dakota alone could produce 45% of all the power of the US, and most of that power would be produced at mid-day. So yes, there is the wind power available to produce the electricity they want. the 50% figure may be a bit optimistic, but wind power can easilly scale to producing at least 1/3 of all power consumed. Also, keep in mind that idling a 'conventional' power plant costs signifigant power overhead. Since wind power naturally idles itself, a properly sited installation can greatly reduce the energy wasted by powering up conventional plants 'just for peak' operation. BTW, part of the reason idling a conventional plant wastes so much energy is the time it takes to build up the heat enough to generate steam, and then the wasted energy as it cools back down again.
You have good points in there, and the fact of the matter is that the 'competitors' out there laying curbside fiber aren't just giving you internet. They're selling you your telephone lines, over fiber, and your cable TV over fiber too. All with one monthly bill to replace your cable your internet and your phone bill. This is the model that is working for fiber, and you're right only someone looking to offer competition can really do this. The bells have huge burried copper loops in triple redundancy, that they don't even want other companies to have access to. They'd have to abandon all that infrastructure to go to fiber to the home, and you still need to install a converter to allow analog telephones to use the fiber optics for telephone service. The cable company has the same situation with it's coaxial network. Still, fiber to the home will get cheaper because of this, and the bells and the cable companies will die a slow painful death because of small start up fiber all-in-one service companies, well, the bells won't go under, since the startups will all be customers of theirs. but cable companies that aren't prepared to adapt will watch as their market share slips lower and lower.
a minor problems with this assumption... the amount of 'light' this thiner than a fishing line optical line transmits precludes sending analog visual data across it. It's sending pure digital data. So that means they need to plug in a digital device to send video data back. But you do have a good point, they can watch you, every bit of data that goes across their networks is potentially accessable to them. If you run a webcam at home it's possible for someone to along the way to try to load each image as it's transmitted. Worse yet, instant messages and irc and e-mail are all sent 'in the clear' so they can be monitored, formatted, and greped for interesting words. Quite unlike telephone calls it's technically possible to capture (short term at least) and monitor all clear text transmissions.
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I might be a little biased, But I can usually get a 50 spindle of Imation discs for only $5, after sale price and rebate. Then again, I live an hour away from the imation factory, and the CD-r they produce have always worked beautifully for me. They're treated on top so they're not as easy to scratch as thos cheapo PNYs that are just silk screened silvers that can barely handle being burned at 16x speed... (I can burn my 16x rated imation at 24x no prob, and my 32x media at 48x, although 48x has it's own problems, with leaving gaps where data should be on 'copies' of course on a data cd made for file backups it doesn't cause a problem.
I remember when they showed that on TSS almost 2 years ago... it might not have been that exact model, and it was probably 18 months ago, i don't remember exactly. The only thing I see is that it's now down to an affordable ($230) price tag from it's initial $450 price tag. VCDs are OK quality, but 74 minutes isn't long enough, and the quality isn't good enough... DVDs are almost long enough (2 hours, at lower quality encoding) but until DVD-r can be used with high-bitrate mpeg-4 (capable of storing perhaps 6 hours of video on a DVD-r, at better quality than a 2 hour 4.7 gig DVD-r.) I don't really see that much to rave about... Although VCDs are definitely right around VHS grade video quality...
you should look into a firewire-ide bridge device then. on the cheap you can get old full height SCSI racks, with a bridge screwed onto the back so you can use IDE devices externally. or for a little more money you can get a light weight unit, that only holds a single 5-1/2 drive. although then you can't use it for mp3 playback standalone, you could add CD-rw and DVD playback capabilities. However, your HD on an older laptop couldn't keep up with DVD-r technology, my Inspiron 8100 is barely capable of doing 1x DVD burns, and it has a 30 gig HD... for 2x DVD even the 5400 rpm laptop drives might not be able to keep up.
I know... Fir, white pine, oak, cherry, stained or painted, removable cushions, built in cushions, or none at all... it's all so confusing, and really how far can you overclock them too? can you fit 7 cowboy neil's on them? or will they snap like a toothpick under that kind of load.. I've been in the same boat as you and a comprehensive review of benches is welcome in my book ;-)
A lot of buisnesses are going flat panel exclusivly now. The power, and desktop spacing, and the eyestrain reduction are all very good motivators for paying a premium upfront, Espcially since valid buisness equipment purchases are a great tax write off, and flat panels offer more tax write off than a CRT, and allow you to replace CRTs that otherwise still have a high amount of value remaining, because of the 'improved' features of a LCD. (power consumption, and eyestrain while reading.)
At least one local buisness here doesn't have a single CRT monitor in their building. the only CRTs are TV Sets. And they have a signifigant number of employees and computers there too, several hundred, by my estimation.
I tried what you said with my inspiron 8100 TFT LCD (the mid-range dell screen, 1400x1050 native resolution.) Frankly they look identical, I used the same wav file of course, and the same artifacting occurs on both CRT and LCD. (where when you scroll chunks of display dissapear until you stop scrolling.) Just for the sake of completeness my test setup consisted of a. Dell inspiron 8100 with Nvidia Geforce 2go 32 MB DDR, running windows XP pro, not (sp1) patched, not using dell's version of XP that came preloaded. running in native resolution of the LCD, with the latest BIOS revision flashed, and using XP's generic Digital Flat pannel driver, instead of a dell specific driver. The laptop has a P-3M 1.0 Ghz, and is equiped with 320 MB of PC-133 SDRAM, and has a 30 GB HD. the desktop is equiped with a Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra Platinum Edition, with a single stick of 512 MB of OCZ pc2700 rev 3.2 DDR ram (CL 2-2-2 T1 timings) currently it has a single 80 GB 7200 rpm drive (for testing purposes, will be ghosting to a RAID array soon) and a ATI AIW Radeon 8500 128 MB card. This system is running XP Pro, with SP1 integrated, AKA Corperate edition. The CRT used for testing is a MAG innovision 17" (16.0 viewable) flat tube model, which was on sale a few weeks ago, for around $105.
Seriously dude, it's not the LCDs that are the problem anymore. The TSS Lan party was using some pretty high end $1,000 17" LCDs to play it's weekly Nvidia Lan party, and no one there had any real issues with the quality, despite the fact they only play very fast motion FPS games like Quake3 and UT2003Demo (slated for this week.)
The FUD about LCDs not being for gamers is just exactly that. The only legitimate complaint left is cost, Since a decent TFT LCD screen does cost several hundred dollars more than a comperable CRT. And cosidering that a decent gamers rig comes complete with a custom paintjob, a window and possibly some other hacks to the case, the fastest in technology, and a sticker shock of around $2,000-$5,000 price is obviously not an issue to a hardcore PC gamer. So therfor, LCDs are custom tailored to gamers, they're easier to bring per inch of viewing area to a lan party, and they're just as good, if not better.
You forgot one, we allow them to buy an addictive, cancer causing, pesticide filled stimulant that is taken by inhaling the fumes of it's burning ashes, which are then exhaled to the irritation of innocent bystanders. (nicotine is a pesticide/narcotic/carcinogen, and is added to cigarettes, besides the stuff already in the tobacco)
that is what the full color, fold out poster is for. the manual belongs on the CD/DVD possibly online, but the install guide should be on a glossy poster, that folds out. All the better retail kits have them.
(don't expect a CDRW to hold data more than 1-2 years)
Excuse me, I've had a CD-burner since the 2x models came out, and so far, some daily use (mp3 audio discs) had to be replaced, and some dropped CD-r Shattered, or had the top foil torn off. But not a Single of my archival discs has failed, in any way shape or form. In fact, the readability life on CD-R is anywhere from 50 years to 150 years. Negligence will destroy any archival media. Paper has to be kept dry, but not too dry, magnetic tape can't be exposed to the elements or strong magnetic fields, hard drives have the same limitations as magnetic tape, but also are very hard to salvage should there be a mechanical failure, and in some cases, the heads will actually destroy the data to the point where it is unretrievable. Flash media has a finite number of writes before it fails, and is essentially etched into glass, making it vulnerable to being shattered, although it is usually well packaged (at least compactflash, and flash memory HDs are reasonably well packaged.)
IF your archival DVDs are properly stored in DVD cases, and you NEVER Touch them, instead, buring a Second 'usage' copy then You will Not have any problems with the reliability of the media, unless your archival site is burned down in a fire. A safe deposit box should keep your data CD/DVDs reasonably safe, as the only flamable material in a safe is well protected against fire, and the walls of the safe are designed to prevent theft, as well as fire, flood, and earthquake, some are even designed to protect valuables as well as the could assuming nuclear blasts had occured nearby. (eg: underground vaults, since there isn't much that can be done for an above ground vault, in the event that a nuclear bomb were dropped in the surrounding population center)
If your CDs are wearing out in 2 years they aren't being treated like archival media. And for a person like you I'd reccomend investing in some carnuba wax, and protective top side labels. between the two you should be able to extend the average life of most CDs by another two years at least. (note: plastic is a protective label, paper is a writing label, and doesn't add signifigantly to scratch immunity on the topside. BTW, you might consider adding a UV protective coating to all your windows (you can find them on google, both clear, and tinted) if you're having problems with sunlight burning out the CD-r Tinted will work better, as it blocks more spectrum. Also, don't leave them sitting in your car, unless they're well shaded, and the car is well ventilated, because it can get hot enough to warp the plastic, even if the disc itself is in the shade, because of how hot a car can get.
In this case, snopes is right, Japan Has never imported anything under "made in USA." However, there ARE some small commonweaths and countries that can import as Made in USA or Made in US. (the latter more prevalent, but ignored in snopes article.) Contrary to some people's belief the United States of America does not OWN international rights to the letters US or USA, and some countries are legally capable of importing goods into the US as 'made in US' or made in 'USA' Japan, however Is Not one of those countries. Also, remember that the initials are generally produced from the native toung's native spelling, not the english translation. So while you may be used to looking a a map full of 'english' spelling those don't correlate to many countries abbreviations.
Well, the problem with that is that sreaming takes so much bandwith that it would flood both the undersea fiberoptics and the satelite networks that make up the global pipeline, if they were really popular. America has an insane amount of unlit fiber, partially because of the cost of burrying more fiber, and partially because technology increased the capacity those same fiber optics could carry. the world does not have an insane amount of unlit fiber.
This is why technologies that increase fiber capacity are so important, especially if they only require minor modifications to the equipment (eg: nothing that would require say trying to change any physical reapeaters along a several thousand mile long undersea fiber optic cable)
If you can 100x fold the capacity of 'existing' undersea pipelines it would reduce the cost of bandwith greatly and perhaps increase the revenue of those pipes, because you could go for traffic volume, instead or trying to entice people into paying a premium for it. I think that some of that has already come into play, since I've noticed much improvement on my access to taiwan and german sites, but it's still not perfect, and ultimately undersea bandwith will always carry a premium over land line fiber. Although ironically, it's potenetially cheaper to use a river and underwater optic cables than to dig up a city, although I'm sure that the largest cities that would be most applicable to already have a tunnel system which would remove the cost of 'digging up the streets' however, it would be interesting if rivers made it cheaper/easier to expand fiber infrastructure beyond the 'major' hub cities.
most of the FTPs seem to be pretty much overloaded, but a really good way to find mirrors is to use a good ftp search like alltheweb.com search for 4.6.2-disc1 or better still 4.7-disc1 (which still wasn't returing results when i posted) and hunting for fast low ping servers running unlisted mirrors, preferably finding a mirror that is geographically close to you. Just make sure you get the md5sum list from the official site. I'm currently pulling 95k of my 100k Downstream cap from an undisclosed university (.edu) mirror. much better than fighting the rush of people trying to mirror the new files from the official sites.
There are plenty of solar pannels that can deliver 6.5 watts, or better, so a solar panel + Lithium Ion battery pack, and you've got a webcam that can pretty much run all day, with essentially no wires. the battery enables it to run even on cloudy days, although if you want the cam to run 24/7 you need to have it plugged in, or else you'd have problems with outages. ;-) (BTW the 802.11b access can be overridden for cabled use too)
And for what it's worth, none of the cameras are housed for outdoor usage either, so basically the point is that everyone has power outlets everywhere inside their house, but not everyone has an ethernet jack right next to each and every power outlet for 'convenience' sake. Besides, don't you want that girl next door to be pulling out her laptop, browsing for 802.11b networks, and find to her shock that her bedroom window is currently being broadcast across a wireless webcam
A few things about inkjets. First off, inkjets need to use higher DPI because the ink is essentially being spit out at the paper. they don't really know where the ink is going to land on the paper. They know more or less, and the slower the print out the more precisely they do know. Even so, in order to maake the colors correct they aren't actually putting the inks on top of each other, but simply so close that they seem to be in the same spot, but realistically i think they 1/3 or 1/4 the number to determine how many dots are being printed per pixel, in order to make all the colors needed. So a 1200x1200 DPI printer would be able to yeild only 7.2 MP, if they blend four dots per pixel to make accurate color blending.
I could be wrong on this, but I Know that 300dpi is Way too low to make an 8x10 print, the inkjet might spit it out fast, but it ends up looking horrible.
Karma has no value, and besides, Cmdr Taco is considering dropping from 50 to 30, as the 'cap.' I only use the no +1 bonus if I'm not even tangential to the topic.
"Everything I needed to learn about Scamming you out of all your money I learned on Slashdot."
But since it's only tangential to this nigerian scam topic I've created a journal entry.
This is kind of off topic, but I'd like to point out why some people type in all caps all the time, and with no punctuation. People who can't speak, or can't hear need to use the telephone too. Because of this need, there is a government system to provide Telephone Relay service. Telephone relay devices have no lowercase mode. ALL TEXT IS IN CAPS. In addition, no punctuation is used, because speaking is generally faster than typing, so they take any number of shortcuts to type faster. So you end up producing a class of people who cannot type in lowercase, or shift, or use punctuation. Then there are the people like me, who have no good excuse, and simply use english inncorectly, but generally, the people who talk in all caps (and aren't novices) have had some experience with telephone relay work.
I know people who can type 60 words per minute, with no punctuation, in all caps, but couldn't type worth shit using punctuation or in lower case.
So before you complain, maybe you should write a perl wrapper for TDD enabled devices to punctuate and case correct for people so that eventually they learn the right way to type.
Actually, you're wrong. Despite numerous attempts including suing playboy magazine in the 80s, and making a law (in the 90s) which made 'virtual' child porn illegal It isn't 'child porn' when an adult artistically poses in a way that makes them to appear more childlike, nor is is 'child porn' when artwork depicts child-like entities in a less than fully clothed state. It is only child porn if you meet the following requirements. 1. real children were involved. or 2. you were marketing the 'virtual' (cg product) as child porn, and weren't a federal agency trying to bust a pedophile ring.
This is the standard that the supreme court has been holding up as what is defined as 'child porn' and any law that doesn't take intent into it's equasion WILL be ruled unconstitutional.
Would you tear down the sistine chapel because of This? Oh dear, aren't those 'children' in the boat there not wearing any clothes?!? Let's burn the Sistine chapel down because it's 'advocating' child porn!!!
Art is still art, and the sistine chapel isn't promoting or encouraging pedophilia. the fact of the matter is that naked child != child porn. There has to be intent to promote pedophilia, or to harm children to make it child pornography.
Laws that don't take that into consideration are in violation of the constitution, and common sense as well.
First of all, Microsoft is an american company, and the german government has little if any interest in proping up an american company. Second of all, "Open Source" software does not 'hurt' the economy.
The economy is a measure of how much people can produce with their time and effort. Closed-source has been a huge drain on the economy, and this drain has only been masked by the productivity gains that Computer technology can provide.
Secondly right now we have a giant corperation that has to an extent an extortion racket going, they provide you essentially the same product given a fresh paint job, and a few bug fixes, and you're expected to 'keep upgraded' and as such continue paying the extortion fees. Word processors, for example haven't changed signifigantly in a decade. only a few cosmetic changes, and bugfixes for newer hardware have come out. Now how is it 'productive' for the economy to lock this kind of technology up with prorietary license agreements requiring payment by installments?
And yes if you found a way to make cars for 'free' the auto makers would go under, but if you think auto makers make up a signifigant part of the economy anymore you're saddly mistaken, and you missed the 1980s. Robots build automobiles now. Yes, they have human operators, but the number of people involved in building a car already crashed and burned in the 80s. the economy survived, because people still wanted to work, and they found ways to continue working. it may take time to adapt, but the economy has never collapsed as a result of any enabling technology. Generally, it takes pig-headed politicians, and a collapse of trade and the banks to cause total economic failure.
1. games -- with modern PC games requiring from 500 megs to 5 gigabytes for a 'full' install 320 gigs will fit you approximately 200 games.
2. DVDs -- DivX is for sharing online, real men don't recompress lossily compressed formats (like MPEG-2 the DVDs come in) at about 7 GB average per movie you could fit about 45 movies on that drive. Even if you went with DivX though, you'd need an average of 1 GB per movie, so you're only up to about 320 movies.
3. porn -- the oldest obsession, there can never be enough storage for these movies/pictures/etc..
4. ogg/mp3/whatever -- 320 GB is a lot of music, but translates to 3000 to 6000 albums depending on the bitrate used. Losseless compression would fit fewer still, and some people would seriously rather not use a lossy compression method.
5. Archive usenet binary groups -- at 320 GB you can only pick a few groups though, otherwise you'd be changing drives pretty often...
6. put steven speilburg to shame -- with today's computers there is no reason why you can't produce the next jaws on your home PC, assuming you have the creative talents, and the 320 GB hd to fit all the video in losslessly compressed formats.
7. Create a Linux distro ISO archive. -- With distrowatch.com ranking 91 versions of linux you'll fill that 320GB pretty fast trying to archive all these little linux OSes for posterity.
8. calcualte pi to the 320,000,000,000 th digit, and store it on your HD. At one byte per digit in uncompressed format that's how many characters a 320 GB HD can hold (because of the HD industry standard of using units of 1,000 instead of 1024)
9. store approximately 160 years worth of warcraft 3 replay files.
10. Provide everyone in the world with ~ 50 bytes of 'free' storage, or provide everyone in america with 1,111 bytes. 320 GB doesn't go far, does it?
Ten good reasons, maybe not all convincing to you, but all valid uses of a 320 GB hd.
I've been using a firewire/ide bride in an old full height SCSI external case. Room for two HD rack enclosures, although unfortunately the bridge controllers have a hard time keeping up with HD technology, my current bridge can only recognize 120 GB or smaller drives, however it's easily replaceable assuming I need to. While a full height bay scsi rackmount isn't exactly compact, it is easy to disconnect so the drives can be swapped out and stored remotely.
Wind is caused by a lot of factors, but mostly by sun. So generally the strongest winds occur at mid-day, which is generally the peak usage hours for electricity. Yes, there is a degree of unpredictability to wind power... however, wind does not every completely stop blowing, and when properly sited you can have a fairly consistant power supply.
The wind swept plains of North dakota alone could produce 45% of all the power of the US, and most of that power would be produced at mid-day. So yes, there is the wind power available to produce the electricity they want. the 50% figure may be a bit optimistic, but wind power can easilly scale to producing at least 1/3 of all power consumed. Also, keep in mind that idling a 'conventional' power plant costs signifigant power overhead. Since wind power naturally idles itself, a properly sited installation can greatly reduce the energy wasted by powering up conventional plants 'just for peak' operation.
BTW, part of the reason idling a conventional plant wastes so much energy is the time it takes to build up the heat enough to generate steam, and then the wasted energy as it cools back down again.
You have good points in there, and the fact of the matter is that the 'competitors' out there laying curbside fiber aren't just giving you internet. They're selling you your telephone lines, over fiber, and your cable TV over fiber too. All with one monthly bill to replace your cable your internet and your phone bill.
This is the model that is working for fiber, and you're right only someone looking to offer competition can really do this. The bells have huge burried copper loops in triple redundancy, that they don't even want other companies to have access to. They'd have to abandon all that infrastructure to go to fiber to the home, and you still need to install a converter to allow analog telephones to use the fiber optics for telephone service. The cable company has the same situation with it's coaxial network.
Still, fiber to the home will get cheaper because of this, and the bells and the cable companies will die a slow painful death because of small start up fiber all-in-one service companies, well, the bells won't go under, since the startups will all be customers of theirs. but cable companies that aren't prepared to adapt will watch as their market share slips lower and lower.
a minor problems with this assumption... the amount of 'light' this thiner than a fishing line optical line transmits precludes sending analog visual data across it. It's sending pure digital data. So that means they need to plug in a digital device to send video data back.
But you do have a good point, they can watch you, every bit of data that goes across their networks is potentially accessable to them. If you run a webcam at home it's possible for someone to along the way to try to load each image as it's transmitted. Worse yet, instant messages and irc and e-mail are all sent 'in the clear' so they can be monitored, formatted, and greped for interesting words. Quite unlike telephone calls it's technically possible to capture (short term at least) and monitor all clear text transmissions.
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