have a 1kw (yes, you read that correctly) power supply.
As a serious gamer... in order to set up a 4x SLI video card setup you Need at least 1.0-2.0 KW power supply. just the graphic cards themselves consume an ungodly amount of power, 4 sli cards draw more than double the power the entire PC used to draw back in the days when the voodoo 3 was 'the latest and greatest' throw in dual core processor, and dual channel ram (that's actually quad channel since dimms are already dual channel to the slot;) add in all the power a feature rich motherboard draws, add all the power the fans use, add all the poer the hd/optical drives use, add all the power of okay, if you have Quad SLI configuration you don't have any add in card slots available (since each sli card takes 2 slots) but if by some clever engineering feat your system say, had water cooling on each sli card, and as such the slots below them were open and you could put in add in cards.. you could add in all the perhiprial cards, and even if you don't have periphrials, you could have 'powered' usb 2.0 devices such as a sound card, or video tuner/capture card... so you'd have to add in all those watts of power, and you'd wind up with a computer that would fry out anything below a 1.2 KW psu.. depending on the type of cooling rig you've got, jet engine noise fans, water cooling tank that doubles as hot tub, refridgerant based cooling, etc.. and depending on the bling factor (cold cathodes, LEDS, dedicated system temperature monitor LCD setup) you could easilly be running into the 2 KW or greater range.
oops, contains very little sulphur.. but i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that petrol diesel destroys catalytic converters, while bio diesel doesn't... and frankly, we'd have to produce a LOT of bio diesel to replace all the petrol diesel being sold, something that would take a lot more source oil. only 2% of 'cars' run diesel, but i've yet to see a semi that burns anything else, and most farm equipment burns diesel too.
a side note, the original design that later became a diesel engine ran on pure peanut oil, no conversion needed..
Well, as you shouldn't be too worried, if biodiesel becomes extremely widespread, one can use a catalytic converter -- because biodiesel contains no sulphur or other chemicals to 'destroy' the converter a world where only biodiesel is produced would be one where diesel vehicles came with emision reducing catalytic converters.
this is definitely a very good piece of news though:) breakthroughs like this one improve the economic outlook of growing algae and converting it to biodiesel for 'profit' which means someone who had the vision and the desire to try and find the money to start such a business might have a much more impressive future outlook for profitability.
isn't it a bit presumptuous to say take fact "people are now buying more diverse music" and then assume that 'why it's all p2p's fault! because people can share music on the internet they're buying into smaller bands!' where is the evidence to support that relationship? how would you draw that conclusion?
Could this new diversity of music be a side effect of something else? like consumer anger at the RIAA member recording labels for lawsuits against people's grandmas?, and trying to take away rights from artists? sure the 'internet' enables people to find indy bands music, and sample it, but what then does p2p have anything to do with That? sounds more like people are going to portal sites, and content aggregators, not using some 'p2p' application to find 'new' music.
I'm just not seeing how one can conclusively pin the current state of the music industry on one factor like p2p software.
I'm thinking that those 4 languages are the ones spoken most predominately in asia, or at least parts of asia near japan... once you cut out the rest of the world it makes a lot more sense.
it's still useful, even if it's more useful to people interested in asian language or traveling to asia than to people in the rest of the world.
So now the race is on, who can build skynet first? google? microsoft? or linux users?
I think humanities last best hope is that it's microsoft.. humanity is saved by a BSOD (or perhaps by a gaping security hole that allows users to set terminators to target skynet)... of course google will never take skynet out of beta, and linux users would make skynet overly complicated, and abandon the project half way to completion.. when the lead developer gets a real job.
why spend for no 'monetary' gain when you could create vast stretches of aquaculture, produce unfathomable yields of bio oil, and put fossil fuel consumption into a much needed early grave? all while making trillions of dollars, and creating millions of jobs... bio fuel is the way to go, even after the energy consumed refining it the percentage of energy yeild far exceeds photovotaics. not to mention bio oil is easier to stockpile and ship than electricity.
All the energy we consume (except atomic) came at one point from the sun, so if methods exist to increase how much energy we can extract from the sun (and they do, by several orders of magnatude) then we should easily be able to beat this problem, people just need the conviction to commit to the change that needs to happen.
Urine is sterile unless one of the following conditions are == true.
1. you have an STD that causes urine to become a transmission point (very rare)
2. you have an infection (usually indicated by a strong odor, or pus color) (somewhat rate)
3. you're sick with a virus (common)
4. you're bleeding when you pee, and your blood contains a contagious pathogen/HIV. (normally blood is 'sterile' too, and normally HIV will 'break down' without continuous blood exposure within minutes) (rare)
now, 2 things to note 1. running water alone does not make a urinal sterile in the case of 1 or 2, and may be insufficent in the case of 3.
2. even an 'infected' urnial cannot transmit it's infection unless you come into physical contact with it. No, a urine stream does not count, as 'gravity' and 'fluid dynamics' make it physiologically impossible for one to become infected from one's own urine stream.
the Only downside of this technology is replacing the odor filter, and even a 'normal' urinal becomes pretty rank without a 'deoderizer' tablet.
There IS a solution. it's not necisarily the 'easiest' solution but there is one... and yes, it involves a Total Stop to Buring fossil fuels. but wait a minute we need coal we need oil we need we need! Wrong! plastic can be made from natural ester chains, 'bio oils' diesel can be produced from any oil, 'bio diesel' any source of sugars can be converted into 'ethanol.'
But how? how do we produce enough bio oils and bio fuels to supply energy to everyone? well, for one thing you take the most efficient life form on the planet at converting the energy of the sun into oils and sugars (mostly oils though) Algeas. they are up to 49 times more efficient than soy beans at producing bio oil per acre of land. they can be grown directly in the oceans (aqua culture) or on 'presently wasted' lands, like deserts, if a sufficiently cost effective way of desalinating ocean water enough to create salt or fresh water tanks on dry land to support this algae.
bio fuel is 100% carbon cycle neutral. for every ton of green house gasses burned using them you convert a ton back into oxygen and plant materials to repeat the cycle. same with any other greenhouse gasses burning bio fuels produces.
The best thing about bio fuels is that if you covered about 2% of the surface of the earth with aqua culture or vats (an area roughly the size of all the 'lower 48' states west of the missisippi) you could supply enough bio energy to sustain the entire planet (all 6 bn people) at the energy consumption level of the typical american today. virtually unlimited energy compared to the 'reserves' of fossil fuels that the consumption of are responsible for global warming.
and what's more ironic? the US spent Triple the amount of money on subsudies for oil exploitation than it weould take to 'jump start' bio energy production based on algae into a comprehensive solution to at least the united states energy consumption. if we matched every dollar spent for oil exploitation with a dollar for algae production and refining.. we'd be able to compete with oil and coal prices for algea based energy production.
pretty pathetic. i realize that if you want 'cheap' algea you need to subsudize it heavily, and as long as you're making 'cheap oil' by essentially covering half the cost of exploiting it... cheap algea will require heavier subsudies to 'match' oil prices... but look at all the money that the mid east makes off pumping oil out of the ground... and think about that when you realize that the US could easily spend the resource needed to have double or triple the energy output of the mid east in about 10 years.
Algea technologies were dismissed as being 'too expensive' 30 years ago but that was before we were spending over 2 bn a year subsudizing oil prices... frankly i think it's time someone hit the world with a clue stick, and pointed out that Bio oil from algea has the potential to gross about 100 trillion dollars a year globally... if you would just spend the trillion dolalrs it would take to build that much algae oil infrustructure.
what other technology can you build today that can virtually gaurentee you a 100:1 return on investment over the next 30 years?
I would. Because a 'security' patch from my then dialup ISP broke my windows networking based filesharing between my desktop and laptop PC (connected via 10 base T) I spent months in frustration trying to get files to copy between my computers, but then i read about this thing called 'linux' and bought this book on it with slackware.. well slackware and me didn't get along, so searched on the internet, and viola, i heard of this thing called 'FreeBSD' well, the installer was so slick and nifty (to me, at that time) compared to linux, and it had all these handbooks i could use to set up and configure ppp to auto dial, use compression, etc etc.. i got consistantly better dialup results than i ever had with windows, usenet binaries were downloading almost 3 times faster (because of the compression that i had set up in the configuration) and it was all golden, I never dialed out from a windows or bothered to try from linux again, ever. that freebsd box (a lowly 486, with external 56k modem) gave me almost 7 years of use as a dialout box... and when i went to cable modem, I used freebsd (albeit on a k6-2 based system) as my firewall, and even though windows had a zillion problems and issues through those years, my windows experience was delightful and problem free the whole time. All because i had heard of this thing called 'open source' because windows had so many problems for me.
all because of a security patch from my isp, that turned off a feature of windows that i was using on a daily basis even though it had gaping vulnerabilities.
yup, i didn't learn about open source because of FUD, it was because windows was broken. all this spyware crap that are causing people to abandom computer in the trash should be causing a dramatic rise in open source adoption too, because the 'easiest' way to secure a windows pc is to take it off the internet, and use an open source pc as your 'internet pc' or even to go so far as to use a CD rom bootable linux distro 'internet' and to use 'windows' for everything else.
well motorola has the worst design teams on the planet (cable modems that erupt in balls of fire, cellphones that blow up in your pocket sending people to the hopsital, digital set top boxes that have to be power cycled to change channels etc etc..) so the failure of the ROKR surprizes no one.
like the GP said, all you need to add is memory card support, make sure the battery life while playing back is good, and make sure you have a standard stereo headphone jack and include a pair of wrap arounds or earbuds with the phone... And make sure they can get songs Directly from their PC, using both 'to go' drm and no drm mp3 support. that means having some kind of mini usb 2.0 port on the phone, and a cable with the phone.
tying the phone into the pc would also allow a lot of other cool features like address book synching etc.. so there really is no reason other than 'bad design' for an mp3 capable phone to 'fail'
I actually have about 5 or 6 floppy drives in my house but 2 of them are 5 1/4";) now in my current desktop PC i have none installed.
not to mention that if you perform the install from 'within windows' you can go online to check for an 'updated installer' which should copy over drivers, but that's probably a moot point since if you have windows, you might not need to install windows.
btw, if you're the R K Callaghan i think you are i know where you live;) but i could be wrong, and it's no big deal..
I beg to differ RIAA Radar will help music listeners Find out if a band or artist Should be boycotted or bought and supported;)
so instead of just boycotting the artists of the lobbying group formed by profiteering labels. you can do Much better if you Acutally Support smaller artists who don't want to have anything to do with those evil profiteering exploitative labels.
That way musicians can continue to sing, people can continue to enjoy music, and only the fools who believed they were entitled to the ears and pocketbooks of everyone in the world will suffer..
dos? what's that is it like cp/m? or is it more like applebasic? well? will it still support my programs? can it handle a 3 mhz Z80 processor? will it allocate all my 80k of RAM? will it fit on my 64 kb floppies? or will i need something bigger and fancier? do i need to soldier on anything extra to my mainboard like a ROM to make it work?
actually the lowest price i see is $20, and that's from an internet wholesaler, not 'retail' as you claim.
Still I said $40 and was wrong, but the p-3 733mhz uses more than $ worth of silicon than a $10 price could bear profit on (after fabrication costs etc), so i don't see how you can claim some magical $9.45 retail price... just because some liquidator on the internet (who no longer has said chips in stock) was freeing up warehouse room for someone who no longer wanted p-III 733MHz chips lying around...
8080, 8086, and 486 chips are still being made, sold, and purchased to this day.
but apparently not on the internet since froogle can't find a single 8080 8086 or 80486 microprocesser for sale. plenty of books about them, but no microprocessors... are you sure people are still making such pathetically antiquated chips? hrm... i'm not so sure at all..
you actually got me thinking there, what if instead of 'just' reflecting the heat of the sun, a large bonfire was built in a pit near where the array of mirrors were, aligned in such a way that the mirrors could reflect the heat of the fire and the light of the sun at the target simultaneously. bronse isn't as effective as mirror polished silver, but with two sources of radiation to focus the likelyhood of causing the target to catch on fire would increase but then you'd have to align the mirrors very precisely, because you'd want to align the intersection point of two sources of radiant light to a single convergance point using hundreds of polished shield/mirrors. also, if 100 mirrors in the array wasn't enough why not try 1000 or 10,0000? even if it's harder to get 10,000 people to align on the same target, you have a far greater margin of error if say only 1/2 of them can manage to point at the same ship at the same time..or course that may not be fitting into historical accuracy, but i'm just saying, if you're trying to recreate something that works to instantly fry a ship made of ancient ship materials, why not keep going until you figure out at what point it becomes feasible and 'realistic' to have such a terror weapon that can sink a fleet of ships while they're still out of bow range.
barely palatable... come friday circuit city will have 512MB memory cards for $9.99 After Rebates. for $30 I can have 1.5 GB of SD or Compact Flash memory, that will connect to any device with a memory card slot/ide controller... including several portable mp3 players, pdas, digital cameras, some printers, i think they're selling memory sticks for $15 AR so you could get 1 GB of storage that would work in your PSP.. Some TVs even have memory card slots to do photo slide shows!
USB? great i can use it on a computer or a laptop, maybe one model of mp3 player, maybe some digital camera out there... there might be some pda out there that supports usb... sure, not everyone has a pin thru for compact flash to ide, and sure not every modern pc has flash card readers standard... but they make a SD card + 'thumbdrive sized' usb sd card reader at least with that the memory card would be usable in Any device that used SD memory/has a usb port instead of just the latter...
albeit, this solution is dependant on the quality of your waveform digitalization, so the 'quality' will never exceed the capabilities of the DAC, but it's definitely more precise than any off the shelf hardware you mentioned.
ahh wikipidia is wrong again, the primary method of lauching greek fire was through slings and catapults, although an arrow or balista could easily be coated in it and ignighted upon being fired. the 'flame thrower' version was a novel and innovative way of using greek fire as a more terrifying weapon.
but it probably wasn't around in time for that battle.. unless the greek were keeping such a military weapon a secret, for 4 hundred years before someone else let the cat out of the bag claiming to be it's inventor;)
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have a 1kw (yes, you read that correctly) power supply.
;) add in all the power a feature rich motherboard draws, add all the power the fans use, add all the poer the hd/optical drives use, add all the power of okay, if you have Quad SLI configuration you don't have any add in card slots available (since each sli card takes 2 slots) but if by some clever engineering feat your system say, had water cooling on each sli card, and as such the slots below them were open and you could put in add in cards.. you could add in all the perhiprial cards, and even if you don't have periphrials, you could have 'powered' usb 2.0 devices such as a sound card, or video tuner/capture card... so you'd have to add in all those watts of power, and you'd wind up with a computer that would fry out anything below a 1.2 KW psu.. depending on the type of cooling rig you've got, jet engine noise fans, water cooling tank that doubles as hot tub, refridgerant based cooling, etc.. and depending on the bling factor (cold cathodes, LEDS, dedicated system temperature monitor LCD setup) you could easilly be running into the 2 KW or greater range.
As a serious gamer... in order to set up a 4x SLI video card setup you Need at least 1.0-2.0 KW power supply. just the graphic cards themselves consume an ungodly amount of power, 4 sli cards draw more than double the power the entire PC used to draw back in the days when the voodoo 3 was 'the latest and greatest' throw in dual core processor, and dual channel ram (that's actually quad channel since dimms are already dual channel to the slot
oops, contains very little sulphur.. but i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that petrol diesel destroys catalytic converters, while bio diesel doesn't... and frankly, we'd have to produce a LOT of bio diesel to replace all the petrol diesel being sold, something that would take a lot more source oil. only 2% of 'cars' run diesel, but i've yet to see a semi that burns anything else, and most farm equipment burns diesel too.
a side note, the original design that later became a diesel engine ran on pure peanut oil, no conversion needed..
Well, as you shouldn't be too worried, if biodiesel becomes extremely widespread, one can use a catalytic converter -- because biodiesel contains no sulphur or other chemicals to 'destroy' the converter a world where only biodiesel is produced would be one where diesel vehicles came with emision reducing catalytic converters.
:) breakthroughs like this one improve the economic outlook of growing algae and converting it to biodiesel for 'profit' which means someone who had the vision and the desire to try and find the money to start such a business might have a much more impressive future outlook for profitability.
this is definitely a very good piece of news though
isn't it a bit presumptuous to say take fact "people are now buying more diverse music" and then assume that 'why it's all p2p's fault! because people can share music on the internet they're buying into smaller bands!' where is the evidence to support that relationship? how would you draw that conclusion?
Could this new diversity of music be a side effect of something else? like consumer anger at the RIAA member recording labels for lawsuits against people's grandmas?, and trying to take away rights from artists? sure the 'internet' enables people to find indy bands music, and sample it, but what then does p2p have anything to do with That? sounds more like people are going to portal sites, and content aggregators, not using some 'p2p' application to find 'new' music.
I'm just not seeing how one can conclusively pin the current state of the music industry on one factor like p2p software.
I'm thinking that those 4 languages are the ones spoken most predominately in asia, or at least parts of asia near japan... once you cut out the rest of the world it makes a lot more sense.
it's still useful, even if it's more useful to people interested in asian language or traveling to asia than to people in the rest of the world.
So now the race is on, who can build skynet first? google? microsoft? or linux users?
I think humanities last best hope is that it's microsoft.. humanity is saved by a BSOD (or perhaps by a gaping security hole that allows users to set terminators to target skynet)... of course google will never take skynet out of beta, and linux users would make skynet overly complicated, and abandon the project half way to completion.. when the lead developer gets a real job.
you could wear pants and shoes... and maintain them regularly...
why spend for no 'monetary' gain when you could create vast stretches of aquaculture, produce unfathomable yields of bio oil, and put fossil fuel consumption into a much needed early grave? all while making trillions of dollars, and creating millions of jobs... bio fuel is the way to go, even after the energy consumed refining it the percentage of energy yeild far exceeds photovotaics. not to mention bio oil is easier to stockpile and ship than electricity.
All the energy we consume (except atomic) came at one point from the sun, so if methods exist to increase how much energy we can extract from the sun (and they do, by several orders of magnatude) then we should easily be able to beat this problem, people just need the conviction to commit to the change that needs to happen.
so in other words (what you really meant) is that he (grand-parent) needs to something about his LISP?
Urine is sterile unless one of the following conditions are == true.
1. you have an STD that causes urine to become a transmission point (very rare)
2. you have an infection (usually indicated by a strong odor, or pus color) (somewhat rate)
3. you're sick with a virus (common)
4. you're bleeding when you pee, and your blood contains a contagious pathogen/HIV. (normally blood is 'sterile' too, and normally HIV will 'break down' without continuous blood exposure within minutes) (rare)
now, 2 things to note
1. running water alone does not make a urinal sterile in the case of 1 or 2, and may be insufficent in the case of 3.
2. even an 'infected' urnial cannot transmit it's infection unless you come into physical contact with it. No, a urine stream does not count, as 'gravity' and 'fluid dynamics' make it physiologically impossible for one to become infected from one's own urine stream.
the Only downside of this technology is replacing the odor filter, and even a 'normal' urinal becomes pretty rank without a 'deoderizer' tablet.
There IS a solution. it's not necisarily the 'easiest' solution but there is one... and yes, it involves a Total Stop to Buring fossil fuels. but wait a minute we need coal we need oil we need we need! Wrong! plastic can be made from natural ester chains, 'bio oils' diesel can be produced from any oil, 'bio diesel' any source of sugars can be converted into 'ethanol.'
But how? how do we produce enough bio oils and bio fuels to supply energy to everyone? well, for one thing you take the most efficient life form on the planet at converting the energy of the sun into oils and sugars (mostly oils though) Algeas. they are up to 49 times more efficient than soy beans at producing bio oil per acre of land. they can be grown directly in the oceans (aqua culture) or on 'presently wasted' lands, like deserts, if a sufficiently cost effective way of desalinating ocean water enough to create salt or fresh water tanks on dry land to support this algae.
bio fuel is 100% carbon cycle neutral. for every ton of green house gasses burned using them you convert a ton back into oxygen and plant materials to repeat the cycle. same with any other greenhouse gasses burning bio fuels produces.
The best thing about bio fuels is that if you covered about 2% of the surface of the earth with aqua culture or vats (an area roughly the size of all the 'lower 48' states west of the missisippi) you could supply enough bio energy to sustain the entire planet (all 6 bn people) at the energy consumption level of the typical american today. virtually unlimited energy compared to the 'reserves' of fossil fuels that the consumption of are responsible for global warming.
and what's more ironic? the US spent Triple the amount of money on subsudies for oil exploitation than it weould take to 'jump start' bio energy production based on algae into a comprehensive solution to at least the united states energy consumption. if we matched every dollar spent for oil exploitation with a dollar for algae production and refining.. we'd be able to compete with oil and coal prices for algea based energy production.
pretty pathetic. i realize that if you want 'cheap' algea you need to subsudize it heavily, and as long as you're making 'cheap oil' by essentially covering half the cost of exploiting it... cheap algea will require heavier subsudies to 'match' oil prices... but look at all the money that the mid east makes off pumping oil out of the ground... and think about that when you realize that the US could easily spend the resource needed to have double or triple the energy output of the mid east in about 10 years.
Algea technologies were dismissed as being 'too expensive' 30 years ago but that was before we were spending over 2 bn a year subsudizing oil prices... frankly i think it's time someone hit the world with a clue stick, and pointed out that Bio oil from algea has the potential to gross about 100 trillion dollars a year globally... if you would just spend the trillion dolalrs it would take to build that much algae oil infrustructure.
what other technology can you build today that can virtually gaurentee you a 100:1 return on investment over the next 30 years?
I would. Because a 'security' patch from my then dialup ISP broke my windows networking based filesharing between my desktop and laptop PC (connected via 10 base T) I spent months in frustration trying to get files to copy between my computers, but then i read about this thing called 'linux' and bought this book on it with slackware.. well slackware and me didn't get along, so searched on the internet, and viola, i heard of this thing called 'FreeBSD' well, the installer was so slick and nifty (to me, at that time) compared to linux, and it had all these handbooks i could use to set up and configure ppp to auto dial, use compression, etc etc.. i got consistantly better dialup results than i ever had with windows, usenet binaries were downloading almost 3 times faster (because of the compression that i had set up in the configuration) and it was all golden, I never dialed out from a windows or bothered to try from linux again, ever. that freebsd box (a lowly 486, with external 56k modem) gave me almost 7 years of use as a dialout box... and when i went to cable modem, I used freebsd (albeit on a k6-2 based system) as my firewall, and even though windows had a zillion problems and issues through those years, my windows experience was delightful and problem free the whole time. All because i had heard of this thing called 'open source' because windows had so many problems for me.
all because of a security patch from my isp, that turned off a feature of windows that i was using on a daily basis even though it had gaping vulnerabilities.
yup, i didn't learn about open source because of FUD, it was because windows was broken. all this spyware crap that are causing people to abandom computer in the trash should be causing a dramatic rise in open source adoption too, because the 'easiest' way to secure a windows pc is to take it off the internet, and use an open source pc as your 'internet pc' or even to go so far as to use a CD rom bootable linux distro 'internet' and to use 'windows' for everything else.
well motorola has the worst design teams on the planet (cable modems that erupt in balls of fire, cellphones that blow up in your pocket sending people to the hopsital, digital set top boxes that have to be power cycled to change channels etc etc..) so the failure of the ROKR surprizes no one.
like the GP said, all you need to add is memory card support, make sure the battery life while playing back is good, and make sure you have a standard stereo headphone jack and include a pair of wrap arounds or earbuds with the phone... And make sure they can get songs Directly from their PC, using both 'to go' drm and no drm mp3 support. that means having some kind of mini usb 2.0 port on the phone, and a cable with the phone.
tying the phone into the pc would also allow a lot of other cool features like address book synching etc.. so there really is no reason other than 'bad design' for an mp3 capable phone to 'fail'
I actually have about 5 or 6 floppy drives in my house but 2 of them are 5 1/4" ;) now in my current desktop PC i have none installed.
;)
not to mention that if you perform the install from 'within windows' you can go online to check for an 'updated installer' which should copy over drivers, but that's probably a moot point since if you have windows, you might not need to install windows.
btw, if you're the R K Callaghan i think you are i know where you live
but i could be wrong, and it's no big deal..
I beg to differ RIAA Radar will help music listeners Find out if a band or artist Should be boycotted or bought and supported ;)
so instead of just boycotting the artists of the lobbying group formed by profiteering labels.
you can do Much better if you Acutally Support smaller artists who don't want to have anything to do with those evil profiteering exploitative labels.
That way musicians can continue to sing, people can continue to enjoy music, and only the fools who believed they were entitled to the ears and pocketbooks of everyone in the world will suffer..
google is 12% more 'evil' than microsoft
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I like that sig! how much will bill gates pay me per if i use it as my sig? 1 cent per post? i could have like 20 bucks easy ...
since they invented masochism, the sexual pleasure or gratification of having pain or suffering inflicted upon the self
dos? what's that is it like cp/m? or is it more like applebasic?
well? will it still support my programs? can it handle a 3 mhz Z80 processor? will it allocate all my 80k of RAM? will it fit on my 64 kb floppies? or will i need something bigger and fancier? do i need to soldier on anything extra to my mainboard like a ROM to make it work?
actually the lowest price i see is $20, and that's from an internet wholesaler, not 'retail' as you claim.
Still I said $40 and was wrong, but the p-3 733mhz uses more than $ worth of silicon than a $10 price could bear profit on (after fabrication costs etc), so i don't see how you can claim some magical $9.45 retail price... just because some liquidator on the internet (who no longer has said chips in stock) was freeing up warehouse room for someone who no longer wanted p-III 733MHz chips lying around...
8080, 8086, and 486 chips are still being made, sold, and purchased to this day.
but apparently not on the internet since froogle can't find a single 8080 8086 or 80486 microprocesser for sale. plenty of books about them, but no microprocessors... are you sure people are still making such pathetically antiquated chips? hrm... i'm not so sure at all..
you actually got me thinking there, what if instead of 'just' reflecting the heat of the sun, a large bonfire was built in a pit near where the array of mirrors were, aligned in such a way that the mirrors could reflect the heat of the fire and the light of the sun at the target simultaneously. bronse isn't as effective as mirror polished silver, but with two sources of radiation to focus the likelyhood of causing the target to catch on fire would increase but then you'd have to align the mirrors very precisely, because you'd want to align the intersection point of two sources of radiant light to a single convergance point using hundreds of polished shield/mirrors. also, if 100 mirrors in the array wasn't enough why not try 1000 or 10,0000? even if it's harder to get 10,000 people to align on the same target, you have a far greater margin of error if say only 1/2 of them can manage to point at the same ship at the same time..or course that may not be fitting into historical accuracy, but i'm just saying, if you're trying to recreate something that works to instantly fry a ship made of ancient ship materials, why not keep going until you figure out at what point it becomes feasible and 'realistic' to have such a terror weapon that can sink a fleet of ships while they're still out of bow range.
well if you call $40 nothing, then yeah i guess a 733 mhz cpu costs 'nothing'
and i'd rather loose $126 than $399 on the xbox 360
you just spent $399 on a game console would you like to (a)bort (r)etry or (f)ail?
(didn't somebody test these things before saying "let's get them out the door for xmas 2005?")
barely palatable... come friday circuit city will have 512MB memory cards for $9.99 After Rebates. for $30 I can have 1.5 GB of SD or Compact Flash memory, that will connect to any device with a memory card slot/ide controller... including several portable mp3 players, pdas, digital cameras, some printers, i think they're selling memory sticks for $15 AR so you could get 1 GB of storage that would work in your PSP.. Some TVs even have memory card slots to do photo slide shows!
USB? great i can use it on a computer or a laptop, maybe one model of mp3 player, maybe some digital camera out there... there might be some pda out there that supports usb... sure, not everyone has a pin thru for compact flash to ide, and sure not every modern pc has flash card readers standard... but they make a SD card + 'thumbdrive sized' usb sd card reader at least with that the memory card would be usable in Any device that used SD memory/has a usb port instead of just the latter...
a really good one might be _very_ expensive
Try $600, and that's for the PC and 24-bit DAC, and quality microphone.
wtf does he mean? http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavesurfer/ why a totally free waveform analysis software...
albeit, this solution is dependant on the quality of your waveform digitalization, so the 'quality' will never exceed the capabilities of the DAC, but it's definitely more precise than any off the shelf hardware you mentioned.
ahh wikipidia is wrong again, the primary method of lauching greek fire was through slings and catapults, although an arrow or balista could easily be coated in it and ignighted upon being fired. the 'flame thrower' version was a novel and innovative way of using greek fire as a more terrifying weapon.
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but it probably wasn't around in time for that battle.. unless the greek were keeping such a military weapon a secret, for 4 hundred years before someone else let the cat out of the bag claiming to be it's inventor