you must have a nice tan... 15 million devices broadcasting at about.2 miliwatts of microwave energy a piece... that's the equivalent of running a 15,000 watt microawave oven with the door open. not as concetrated as that, since a normal microwave has about 1-2 cubic feet, and your bedroom in your parents basement probabbly has ~1000 cubic feet, so if the microwaves were all diffused equivalently the room would average 15 watts of microwave energy, but in practice, the center of the room would be a focal point and probablly have 150 watts of microwave energy at all times.. Thats assuming you haven't amped up any of the devices, and aren't directionally focusing the microwaves... A hershey's chocolate bar would melt in about 10 minutes in the center of your room...
it's not a siphon it's an inertial pumping system. once you start the flow of water, it's easy to sustain, and more electricity can be generated from the cold water than is used in pumping it to the surface. The problem with inertial pumping is that you never want to Stop pumping water, because the energy required to start it back up is so much greater. if you're in a warm enough climate, that's fine, but in colder climates like the midwest there are going to be 'complications' in using such an 'always on' system in the spring, fall, and winter.
In those places it's more pratical to use the cold water for AC, rather than for electrical production, since it's seasonal, and you can always 'cool the outside air' if it's not warm enough to ac the building the whole time...
Now if you had said 850 TerraBytes was enough for anyone I might have agreed. 8 1/2 hours of UHDV is probably most acceptable for a removable media of the future...
you know, there is a place called a 'comic shop' Most of them are run by comic geeks, most of them have at least one guy who you need to ask the hired hands who sell kids yugioh cards what day the guy who knows comics is in... and that guy/woman whomever will be able to to help you find the comic series you like, and chances are they'll have a huge back catalog of out of print stuff, and be able to order you anything that's in reprint, and find where you can get anything that's out of print.
Bookstores sell graphic novels nowadays, but if you want service, you need to find a comic shop run by someone who loves graphic novels.
Ironically, it's been the efforts of disney to extend copyright law into perpetuity that has caused any and all legal uproar at all... kimba the white lion was old, the original right holder had lost rights to the show etc etal... in a sane copyright system kimba the white lion would have been Public domain, and disney could have openly made lion king as a film remake...
There are enough differences between the kimba TV series and the disney movie that lawyers can easily protect disney.. it's like when you have two giant metoer crashing into the earth movies... the plots seem strikingly simalar, the special effects may even look alike, but they're different enough for lawyers to defend against plagurism suits.
In addition, gpdf loads the pdfs just fine. I'd just like to point that out, because it does, as I was able to answer 0 of the practice test questions in the allotted time*..
The only one I could have solved was solved in the 'hints' pdf, so ah well --;
*= in this case the time it took me to give up on solving any of the problems...
If you're looking for living on el-cheapo, outfit a nice, cheap fleet vehicle type van (they usually have a few unfurnished models in the fleet vehicle section that only have the captain's chair for furnishing) get the tinted window option, or just buy some mini-blinds, get a port-a-potty of some type (they sell things just for van owners that will probably work) install a bed, buy an annual membership at the Y (coz that's where you're gonna need to go to shower in the mornings or whenever you need to shower) and then buy/rent some kind of parking space that someone is renting out who dosen't have a clase saying they can kick you out for not leaving your vehicle while it's parked overnights etc.. TCO is probably going to be under $30,000 for 10 years of reliable dual use as house and transportation... the car's alternator can probably be used to keep a spare lead acid battery charged (when you drive) enough to run a low power notebook, or posibly even an imac g5.. you might want to find a shade filled place to park so that you don't die in the summer, and even then it'll still be hot, but you've got that cool ocean breeze, if you can find a shaded parking place near the ocean.
And if you ever get laid off, you're ready to move anywhere in the us or canada you need to go to to find a job, as long as the town has a Y or similar place whhere members can shower day or night as they please...
Ahh the names of rejected reality tv shows are popping into my head not all of them make sense.. 'Phishing for dollars' 'BAss Phishing' 'Gator patrol' 'Malware strippers' 'clippy-- wanted: dead or alive' "america's Least wanted" 'spy vs spyware' 'C.itizen's O.rganization to P.revent S.pyware' 'The price is wrong' we could even do cartoons! 'Pop UnderDog'
Ahh, these fine diamonds are not man made. They are man 'grown' aka cultured. The seed is a real diamond, laser cut to the shape you want the crystal to form into, then like rock candy, you allow layer after layer of carbon vapor to deposit on top 'growing' like any crystal will in the right environment. The cost of 'growing' a 'pure' crystal is not going to ever be 'drastically' cheaper than 'finding' a rare stone in the ground, however, the volume you produce is limited only by raw materials (in this case carbon molecules) available.
The biggest advantage of this technology is in growing massively huge, diamonds.. which you'd have to develop technology to extract from the lowest layers of the mantle, or find the remnants of dwarf white stars that have completely transmuted thier cores from hydrogen to diamond.
It's not easy getting a diamond 1/3 the size of earth, but the easiest way is to simply grow it in space, and use raw material to build it;) We now have proven the technology needed to build said diamond, now we only need a good source of carbon... perhaps jupiter or saturn have enough to spare... robbing the earth of that much carbon would make it unlivable
In the days of the G4 apple was being 'massively out performed' However, the G5 chips got the right to use a lot of technology in technology swaps with AMD.. So the G5 chips and the athlon 64s are both capable of out performing the intel chips*, because two 'underdog' rivals pooled the best of thier respective technologies to make two very fast systems.
There is however some truth that athlon based systems can be custom built to out perform apple systems, but it's nothing massive, and the price for out performing comes in massive $$'s for performance parts...
This being said, a high performance althon system can be custom built for a lot less than the same performance that apple charges for, but apple is a re-seller, buying that kind of performance from any OEM reseller is going to add signifigant cost (eg: alienware)
The difference is I can go to the alienware site, spec out a system, and then build a comperable system myself, for a lot less, with apple, I have to order the system from them..
If IBM fell asleep at the wheel it wouldn't take long for intel and AMD to outpace the G5's but As long as IBM keeps making newer faster processors for apple, they're good to stay competitive at least with other OEMs..
*= In certain operations... due to differences in the chips, Intel's chips may perform certain operations faster, overall though, the chips are all at the same general 'level' of performance.
"Why do you have three windows open when you have tabs?"
Because badly designed websites have javascript that works when you 'click' the link and it makes a new window open, but it returns an 'error' on contects menu 'open in new tab'
Currently there is no way to 'merge' all open windows into a single existing windows in mozilla (opera may be able merge all open windows, If you're not running in single window mode in the first place.)
Also being able to reorder tabs would simplify tabbing through them... since you could reorder the ones you need most to the front. alt tab automatically reorders the list based on how you alt tab to them... perhaps some people miss auto reordering...
I realize there are engineering problems with moving the light instead of the media, one solution is to use a larger 'read' head like a CCD... also, centrifical tracks are less suited to moving the light, and disc shapes are less preferable than square or cubed shapes, and if you're using a mirror, a concave rather than a flat surface may solve some of the challenges.. you can also use refraction to split a beam and read multiple locations at once, etc etc... the point is that from an engineering standpoint it makes less sense to try and rotate the media than it does to figure out the best way to move the light. remember light can also be shifted via quantum events (ala a strong magnetic field) mirrors are just a lower power option..
I only did the math to demonstrate how we've crippled our optical read technology by trying to mimic hard drive read mechanisms.. Light is faster than anything out there, and if you're using light to read the data, you should be designing a way to use light to Seek the data too!
But thank you for reminding me that in fact the light has to travel a distance greater than the length of the pits. So for a 12 cm disc, a round trip would take at most 24 cm, it takes light roughly 1/100,000,000th of a second to make that round trip, but assuming a single non refacted beam you have to make that trip 37 billion times, the average distance would be more along the lines of 12 cm round trip, so it would take somewhere along the lines of 2 minutes resulting in an average read speed of 60X (but knowing the industry that 'average' read speed would be billed at it's 'peak' speed of 180X rather than at it's average speed of 60X;)... Of course, by not moving the media, data density can be packed much closer, allowing smaller discs to have more data, and a laser beam can be refracted to read multiple sections of the disc, which if say, you write and read 16 bits of the disc at a time, you've increased the read/write speed by 16x and refraction is easier to calibrate when the laser and media are in a locked position, rather than a 'jittery' rotational one.
I liked 14 million x better than 160x, so I guess the laser is just going to have to be refracted to read 87,500 pits at a time;)
Well, if these chips are cheap enough, it may actually make sense to go back to cartriges!
For classic gaming maybe, for portable gaming sure. but you'll never get the price of solid state memory below the cost of optical storage. you can deal with the problems optical storage has currently by moving the laser beam with microscopic mirrors, rather than trying to spin the media. The problem with optical media is and was that they used design principals that work great for Magnetic media, and tried to pair that technology with optical storage. Since light can move exponetially faster (light can be moved to read 299,792,458 meters of data per second) than any physical device, it makes massively more sense to move the light, rather than the media or the laser. At current data densities.. that means the entire content of a DVD-rom would be read in 1/19933rds of a second. In other words, you'd have a 14,351,760x DVD-rom if instead of moving the DVD you move the laser light, and managed to move the laser light at the speed of light. There are of course scienitific limitations that prevent us from manipulating a beam of light in order so that it is redirected at the speed of light, but the theoretical limits of rotational speeds for DVD media are being reached. You can probabbly spin them faster than 16X, I seem to recall that at 1x a DVD-rom is moving the disc at the same rotational speed as 4x cdrom would be rotating and cd-roms got as high as 52x before cheaper media began fragmenting in peoples drives..
So what would you rather be capped with? 18x dvd-rom drives? or not have to worry about the engineering limitations until you can figure out a way to reach 14,351,760x?
Note: to those wondering, I based my calculations on the assumption that a dvd-rom has 4.7 billion bytes or 37.6 billion pits.4 micrometers apart, for a total length of 15,400 meters. I then used the knowledge that at 1x it takes 2 hours to read that distance, and calculated the speed rating based on that. I didn't check my math twice, so I might have made a miscalculation, but if I did someone will probably coreect me.
Skype has a free voip program, and a paid service called skypeout. The 'free' program allows you to connect to other voip users over the internet. to make a pots connection with this voip software you need thier service called Skype out. Skype out serive will be regulated, should they try to operate in canada. the basic, free software will not be. As the basic free software simply allows two computers to send voice data over the internet to each other. In order to call a land line, or to allow a land line to call you, you need to pay for the skypeout service.
A time limit I'll except but I refuse to have some buracratic ninny tell me how much I can make.
Accept, you mean... Right now copyright is rediculous... the original Steamboat willy cartoon still hasn't entered the public domain, and everyone who drew so much as a part of a cel in that animation is long dead and burried.
Because the house the mouse built refuses to allow any portion of thier works to enter the public domain there are countless productions from that era that have long since been lost. there isn't a master reel from that era that has survived intact, because the chemicals used to develop the reel work against the preservation of those works. Some billionaires like Ted Turner have bought up vast libraries of old master reels for movies etc, to 'preserve' them but what about the stuff that wasn't deemed 'worth the cost of restoration'?
If copyright laws had stayed sane, digital preservation techniquies could have been done by anyone, and the resulting files could have been shared using various technologies etc. But no, congress is for sale on copyrights, so instead of material returning to the public domain, for artists who have a difficulty creating an original idea etc to use... the rights are all locked away, and the content that maybe wasn't done the best is being lost forever, and no one can try to do those old stories better...
So unlike you I do have a problem with company x being able to make unlimited revenues, because by not putting a dollar value cap in copyright law, you invite large mega corperations to profit forever, and bribe congressmen so that they never have to deal with a 'what if' someone else could make a cartoon based on the original steamboat willie mickey mouse, and not have to pay you a cent in royalties.
dual cores but only one bus.. So you can only have one front side bus multiplier, which means both cores run at the same frequency, with the same multiplier. It's true, in a dual CPU board you can have one high end CPU, and pair it with a 'cheaper' cpu, (if the bios allows it) however, the dual core cpus work in the same motherboards as their single core counterparts, and they share a single socket, and that socket doesn't have pinouts or a configuration allowing seperate halves of the dual core to run at different frequencies. They also share a memory controller, making it even less possible to have the cores on different frequencies. The bonus is that dual core cpus will work in standard, commodity single cpu boards, there is no need for an extra expensive dual cpu board to run them. and dual cpou boards are less complex than quad cpu boards, and so on and so forth.. so dual core is a good idea, and they've already done as much as they could think to do to make it work as good as possible.
They're called a "Comp Lusa" costomer;) Seriously though those cheap $500 systems from worst buy, comp lusa, circuit shitty etc.. will BSOD daily if you re-enable blue screens. the ram, or the psu, or the dvd-burner will cause most of them, usually when the dvd-burner can't draw enough power from the 230 watt psu they've got in there it'll cause a nice solid blue screen. sometimes it'll go away, but hey... you only paid $500 for the pos craputer... and it came with monitor printer, etc etc..
But it's not restricted to complusa users, sadly I have a board from asus thats total crap, and will kernel panic linux in about 4 hours (less if you run gimp filters the whole time) and bsods windows if you try to game on it... *sigh* buying a computer without researching it is just plain stupid. I read 2 stupid review sites that take bribes and call that 'research enough' and get suckered into the crappiest motherboard purchase ever;) ah well.. the board Does overclock pretty good;) well as good as it runs non-overclocked anyways...
MozFo doesn't have the sort of server infrastructure to serve millions of downloads at once. Then use Bittorrent;) if you've only got the bandwith to serve oh say 10,000 users at a time, make the updated a bittorrent front end of some kind, and then you spread the load using whatever rules you've got the dedicated 'super seeds' (aka mirrors) running on, and viola, those 10,000 people upload to another 10,000 people, maybe not completely, but the beauty of torrent is scalability, if you have 30 million people trying to download the same torrent, that means you have 30 million mirrors;) even if you can normally only serve 10,000 users with normal http etc, configured properly the people with the fastest connections will finish the dleds the fastest, and from the main mirrors, while the slow dial up users grab bits and pieces from anyone else, until the dedicated mirrors have free bandwith available. Of course they still need to get the patch sizes to be as small as possible... but bit torrent kinda takes away the 'scalability' issue to a certain extent.. if you can only have X bandwith on y servers... and that's what's limiting you, bittorrent will allow you to update everyone at once. I know, azureus wanted to update the other day, and even though 10,000 other people were downloading it, I successfully leached the update torrent with about a.1 share ratio... Remeber, even microsoft has issues serving it's updates, especially the big service packs to everyone.. but bit torrent could esentially be the solution that lets a small company bring the whole internet to a crawl, as everyone trying to download the update becomes a mirror to upload the update to everyone else... thus allowing complete network saturation;) unfortunately, the effects would be but a momentrary blip, as you'd have to be sharing some pretty large automatic updates that are continually being revised to continously saturate the internet;)
But then you need to make it available via a warez site, and bit torrent. Because if you don't do that, then there will be people who don't patch because they can't rip it off for free..
I think it's silly for anyone to say people don't need a firewall in this day and age.. Fully patched Windows* pcs without a firewall become part of a botnet in an average of 5 minutes from when they connect to the internet. Of course, you don't need a great firewall, even a software one can protect you from most threats. a simple wireless router/gateway provides adequate firewall protection to take you out of the 5 minute category.
Myself, I don't run AV software, and all the anti spyware I have is manually run which I don't often do. I simply don't use ie, and I don't download a whole lot of non OSS software. It's all either OSS, or it came off a comercially pressed CD, with a few exceptions. and those few exceptions are all pretty reliable (nero is the last commercial program I remember downloading)
Basically, if you don't use IE, and you don't read e-mail with an insecure e-mail client, and if you don't download random software 'for fun' chances are you don't need an AV software loading on boot up.
*= actual time to infection based on a study of patched sp1 systems... SP2 infection times I don't know off the top of my head, but I'm sure botnets have found weaknesses in sp2 by now..
that's easy it's 1924. and yes i did that in my head, but no i'm not telling you how many seconds it took, or if I wrote down a partial answer in this post first. multiplication is easy, there are people who can multiply complex numbers in seconds in thier heads. I'm not as fast as those people, but I learned the tricks for doing multiplication in one's head, without scratch paper. basically, the trick is to memorize the basic multiplication table, and then individualize and sum the results, and not get places wrong, and carry all the ones... so 5x 37 is 185 and 2x 37 is 74 so 1850+74 = 1924 basically, it should take a math whiz less than a minute to do the multiplication of 1337* 31337 in their heads without scratch paper. I mean it's only 41,897,596... (on that one I cheated, i'm lazy, but I coulda done it in my head, but a minute of my time is valuable, I'm reading slashdot afterall!) As a disclaimer, I can solve 13 steps of algebraic formula in my head too... in fact I can do 13 steps of algebraic solution faster than I can multiply complex numbers.
i remember hearing about someone trying to toss around an idea to tow an iceburg to solve a fresh water crisis, ah here it is so apparently is costs 3.3m euros, and you gross an estimated 10.2m euros, if you use the iceburg to generate electricity as well as water. So to answer your question you can make 6.9m euros as an ice delivery person nowadays.
and in other news, shortly after announcing the new cell processor, toshiba's research facility was destoyed in what appeared to be an atomic blast.. however no residual radiation was detected, witnesses reporting seeing numerous flashing lights across the sky, with thundering reports. also, in a nearby wasteland, several mountains collapsed into piles of rubble, for no apparent reason, and nearby seismological equipment reqistered several succeding level 10 earthquakes.
Also, the entire japanese defense force was assembled, and mysteriously disapeared in a flash of light... more on this as new information is available...
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you must have a nice tan... .2 miliwatts of microwave energy a piece... that's the equivalent of running a 15,000 watt microawave oven with the door open. not as concetrated as that, since a normal microwave has about 1-2 cubic feet, and your bedroom in your parents basement probabbly has ~1000 cubic feet, so if the microwaves were all diffused equivalently the room would average 15 watts of microwave energy, but in practice, the center of the room would be a focal point and probablly have 150 watts of microwave energy at all times.. Thats assuming you haven't amped up any of the devices, and aren't directionally focusing the microwaves... A hershey's chocolate bar would melt in about 10 minutes in the center of your room...
15 million devices broadcasting at about
it's not a siphon it's an inertial pumping system. once you start the flow of water, it's easy to sustain, and more electricity can be generated from the cold water than is used in pumping it to the surface. The problem with inertial pumping is that you never want to Stop pumping water, because the energy required to start it back up is so much greater. if you're in a warm enough climate, that's fine, but in colder climates like the midwest there are going to be 'complications' in using such an 'always on' system in the spring, fall, and winter.
In those places it's more pratical to use the cold water for AC, rather than for electrical production, since it's seasonal, and you can always 'cool the outside air' if it's not warm enough to ac the building the whole time...
Dude, I have 850 GB in files right now on 200 burned DVD-r... I can and do burn 4-8 DVD's a month with just downloaded content.
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And this is low resolution (640x480) video, I mean cmon, If I had 850GB per blank, I could have about 45 seconds of Ultra high definition content per disc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definitio
Now if you had said 850 TerraBytes was enough for anyone I might have agreed. 8 1/2 hours of UHDV is probably most acceptable for a removable media of the future...
you know, there is a place called a 'comic shop'
Most of them are run by comic geeks, most of them have at least one guy who you need to ask the hired hands who sell kids yugioh cards what day the guy who knows comics is in... and that guy/woman whomever will be able to to help you find the comic series you like, and chances are they'll have a huge back catalog of out of print stuff, and be able to order you anything that's in reprint, and find where you can get anything that's out of print.
Bookstores sell graphic novels nowadays, but if you want service, you need to find a comic shop run by someone who loves graphic novels.
Ironically, it's been the efforts of disney to extend copyright law into perpetuity that has caused any and all legal uproar at all... kimba the white lion was old, the original right holder had lost rights to the show etc etal... in a sane copyright system kimba the white lion would have been Public domain, and disney could have openly made lion king as a film remake...
There are enough differences between the kimba TV series and the disney movie that lawyers can easily protect disney.. it's like when you have two giant metoer crashing into the earth movies... the plots seem strikingly simalar, the special effects may even look alike, but they're different enough for lawyers to defend against plagurism suits.
In addition, gpdf loads the pdfs just fine. I'd just like to point that out, because it does, as I was able to answer 0 of the practice test questions in the allotted time*..
The only one I could have solved was solved in the 'hints' pdf, so ah well --;
*= in this case the time it took me to give up on solving any of the problems...
apparently +2 karma... go AC!
Phantom Buisness model
1. pitch gaming console to venture capitalists
2. collect 25 million
3. leave the country
4. Profit!! (25 million, or so)
That is assuming, they got any money... they just issued press releases, likely bogus ones to try and fool less wary investers than VC groups..
No, Really. I need to find a new place.
If you're looking for living on el-cheapo, outfit a nice, cheap fleet vehicle type van (they usually have a few unfurnished models in the fleet vehicle section that only have the captain's chair for furnishing) get the tinted window option, or just buy some mini-blinds, get a port-a-potty of some type (they sell things just for van owners that will probably work) install a bed, buy an annual membership at the Y (coz that's where you're gonna need to go to shower in the mornings or whenever you need to shower) and then buy/rent some kind of parking space that someone is renting out who dosen't have a clase saying they can kick you out for not leaving your vehicle while it's parked overnights etc.. TCO is probably going to be under $30,000 for 10 years of reliable dual use as house and transportation... the car's alternator can probably be used to keep a spare lead acid battery charged (when you drive) enough to run a low power notebook, or posibly even an imac g5.. you might want to find a shade filled place to park so that you don't die in the summer, and even then it'll still be hot, but you've got that cool ocean breeze, if you can find a shaded parking place near the ocean.
And if you ever get laid off, you're ready to move anywhere in the us or canada you need to go to to find a job, as long as the town has a Y or similar place whhere members can shower day or night as they please...
Ahh the names of rejected reality tv shows are popping into my head not all of them make sense.. 'Phishing for dollars' 'BAss Phishing' 'Gator patrol' 'Malware strippers' 'clippy-- wanted: dead or alive' "america's Least wanted" 'spy vs spyware' 'C.itizen's O.rganization to P.revent S.pyware' 'The price is wrong' we could even do cartoons! 'Pop UnderDog'
Ahh, these fine diamonds are not man made. They are man 'grown' aka cultured. The seed is a real diamond, laser cut to the shape you want the crystal to form into, then like rock candy, you allow layer after layer of carbon vapor to deposit on top 'growing' like any crystal will in the right environment. The cost of 'growing' a 'pure' crystal is not going to ever be 'drastically' cheaper than 'finding' a rare stone in the ground, however, the volume you produce is limited only by raw materials (in this case carbon molecules) available.
;) We now have proven the technology needed to build said diamond, now we only need a good source of carbon... perhaps jupiter or saturn have enough to spare... robbing the earth of that much carbon would make it unlivable
The biggest advantage of this technology is in growing massively huge, diamonds.. which you'd have to develop technology to extract from the lowest layers of the mantle, or find the remnants of dwarf white stars that have completely transmuted thier cores from hydrogen to diamond.
It's not easy getting a diamond 1/3 the size of earth, but the easiest way is to simply grow it in space, and use raw material to build it
In the days of the G4 apple was being 'massively out performed' However, the G5 chips got the right to use a lot of technology in technology swaps with AMD .. So the G5 chips and the athlon 64s are both capable of out performing the intel chips*, because two 'underdog' rivals pooled the best of thier respective technologies to make two very fast systems.
There is however some truth that athlon based systems can be custom built to out perform apple systems, but it's nothing massive, and the price for out performing comes in massive $$'s for performance parts...
This being said, a high performance althon system can be custom built for a lot less than the same performance that apple charges for, but apple is a re-seller, buying that kind of performance from any OEM reseller is going to add signifigant cost (eg: alienware)
The difference is I can go to the alienware site, spec out a system, and then build a comperable system myself, for a lot less, with apple, I have to order the system from them..
If IBM fell asleep at the wheel it wouldn't take long for intel and AMD to outpace the G5's but As long as IBM keeps making newer faster processors for apple, they're good to stay competitive at least with other OEMs..
*= In certain operations... due to differences in the chips, Intel's chips may perform certain operations faster, overall though, the chips are all at the same general 'level' of performance.
"Why do you have three windows open when you have tabs?"
Because badly designed websites have javascript that works when you 'click' the link and it makes a new window open, but it returns an 'error' on contects menu 'open in new tab'
Currently there is no way to 'merge' all open windows into a single existing windows in mozilla (opera may be able merge all open windows, If you're not running in single window mode in the first place.)
Also being able to reorder tabs would simplify tabbing through them... since you could reorder the ones you need most to the front. alt tab automatically reorders the list based on how you alt tab to them... perhaps some people miss auto reordering...
I realize there are engineering problems with moving the light instead of the media, one solution is to use a larger 'read' head like a CCD... also, centrifical tracks are less suited to moving the light, and disc shapes are less preferable than square or cubed shapes, and if you're using a mirror, a concave rather than a flat surface may solve some of the challenges.. you can also use refraction to split a beam and read multiple locations at once, etc etc... the point is that from an engineering standpoint it makes less sense to try and rotate the media than it does to figure out the best way to move the light. remember light can also be shifted via quantum events (ala a strong magnetic field) mirrors are just a lower power option..
;)... Of course, by not moving the media, data density can be packed much closer, allowing smaller discs to have more data, and a laser beam can be refracted to read multiple sections of the disc, which if say, you write and read 16 bits of the disc at a time, you've increased the read/write speed by 16x and refraction is easier to calibrate when the laser and media are in a locked position, rather than a 'jittery' rotational one.
;)
I only did the math to demonstrate how we've crippled our optical read technology by trying to mimic hard drive read mechanisms.. Light is faster than anything out there, and if you're using light to read the data, you should be designing a way to use light to Seek the data too!
But thank you for reminding me that in fact the light has to travel a distance greater than the length of the pits. So for a 12 cm disc, a round trip would take at most 24 cm, it takes light roughly 1/100,000,000th of a second to make that round trip, but assuming a single non refacted beam you have to make that trip 37 billion times, the average distance would be more along the lines of 12 cm round trip, so it would take somewhere along the lines of 2 minutes resulting in an average read speed of 60X (but knowing the industry that 'average' read speed would be billed at it's 'peak' speed of 180X rather than at it's average speed of 60X
I liked 14 million x better than 160x, so I guess the laser is just going to have to be refracted to read 87,500 pits at a time
Well, if these chips are cheap enough, it may actually make sense to go back to cartriges!
.4 micrometers apart, for a total length of 15,400 meters. I then used the knowledge that at 1x it takes 2 hours to read that distance, and calculated the speed rating based on that. I didn't check my math twice, so I might have made a miscalculation, but if I did someone will probably coreect me.
For classic gaming maybe, for portable gaming sure. but you'll never get the price of solid state memory below the cost of optical storage. you can deal with the problems optical storage has currently by moving the laser beam with microscopic mirrors, rather than trying to spin the media. The problem with optical media is and was that they used design principals that work great for Magnetic media, and tried to pair that technology with optical storage. Since light can move exponetially faster (light can be moved to read 299,792,458 meters of data per second) than any physical device, it makes massively more sense to move the light, rather than the media or the laser. At current data densities.. that means the entire content of a DVD-rom would be read in 1/19933rds of a second. In other words, you'd have a 14,351,760x DVD-rom if instead of moving the DVD you move the laser light, and managed to move the laser light at the speed of light. There are of course scienitific limitations that prevent us from manipulating a beam of light in order so that it is redirected at the speed of light, but the theoretical limits of rotational speeds for DVD media are being reached. You can probabbly spin them faster than 16X, I seem to recall that at 1x a DVD-rom is moving the disc at the same rotational speed as 4x cdrom would be rotating and cd-roms got as high as 52x before cheaper media began fragmenting in peoples drives..
So what would you rather be capped with? 18x dvd-rom drives? or not have to worry about the engineering limitations until you can figure out a way to reach 14,351,760x?
Note: to those wondering, I based my calculations on the assumption that a dvd-rom has 4.7 billion bytes or 37.6 billion pits
Skype has a free voip program, and a paid service called skypeout. The 'free' program allows you to connect to other voip users over the internet.
to make a pots connection with this voip software you need thier service called Skype out. Skype out serive will be regulated, should they try to operate in canada. the basic, free software will not be. As the basic free software simply allows two computers to send voice data over the internet to each other. In order to call a land line, or to allow a land line to call you, you need to pay for the skypeout service.
A time limit I'll except but I refuse to have some buracratic ninny tell me how much I can make.
Accept, you mean... Right now copyright is rediculous... the original Steamboat willy cartoon still hasn't entered the public domain, and everyone who drew so much as a part of a cel in that animation is long dead and burried.
Because the house the mouse built refuses to allow any portion of thier works to enter the public domain there are countless productions from that era that have long since been lost. there isn't a master reel from that era that has survived intact, because the chemicals used to develop the reel work against the preservation of those works.
Some billionaires like Ted Turner have bought up vast libraries of old master reels for movies etc, to 'preserve' them but what about the stuff that wasn't deemed 'worth the cost of restoration'?
If copyright laws had stayed sane, digital preservation techniquies could have been done by anyone, and the resulting files could have been shared using various technologies etc. But no, congress is for sale on copyrights, so instead of material returning to the public domain, for artists who have a difficulty creating an original idea etc to use... the rights are all locked away, and the content that maybe wasn't done the best is being lost forever, and no one can try to do those old stories better...
So unlike you I do have a problem with company x being able to make unlimited revenues, because by not putting a dollar value cap in copyright law, you invite large mega corperations to profit forever, and bribe congressmen so that they never have to deal with a 'what if' someone else could make a cartoon based on the original steamboat willie mickey mouse, and not have to pay you a cent in royalties.
dual cores but only one bus.. So you can only have one front side bus multiplier, which means both cores run at the same frequency, with the same multiplier. It's true, in a dual CPU board you can have one high end CPU, and pair it with a 'cheaper' cpu, (if the bios allows it) however, the dual core cpus work in the same motherboards as their single core counterparts, and they share a single socket, and that socket doesn't have pinouts or a configuration allowing seperate halves of the dual core to run at different frequencies. They also share a memory controller, making it even less possible to have the cores on different frequencies.
The bonus is that dual core cpus will work in standard, commodity single cpu boards, there is no need for an extra expensive dual cpu board to run them. and dual cpou boards are less complex than quad cpu boards, and so on and so forth.. so dual core is a good idea, and they've already done as much as they could think to do to make it work as good as possible.
They're called a "Comp Lusa" costomer ;)
;) ah well.. the board Does overclock pretty good ;) well as good as it runs non-overclocked anyways...
Seriously though those cheap $500 systems from worst buy, comp lusa, circuit shitty etc.. will BSOD daily if you re-enable blue screens. the ram, or the psu, or the dvd-burner will cause most of them, usually when the dvd-burner can't draw enough power from the 230 watt psu they've got in there it'll cause a nice solid blue screen. sometimes it'll go away, but hey... you only paid $500 for the pos craputer... and it came with monitor printer, etc etc..
But it's not restricted to complusa users, sadly I have a board from asus thats total crap, and will kernel panic linux in about 4 hours (less if you run gimp filters the whole time) and bsods windows if you try to game on it... *sigh* buying a computer without researching it is just plain stupid. I read 2 stupid review sites that take bribes and call that 'research enough' and get suckered into the crappiest motherboard purchase ever
MozFo doesn't have the sort of server infrastructure to serve millions of downloads at once. ;) if you've only got the bandwith to serve oh say 10,000 users at a time, make the updated a bittorrent front end of some kind, and then you spread the load using whatever rules you've got the dedicated 'super seeds' (aka mirrors) running on, and viola, those 10,000 people upload to another 10,000 people, maybe not completely, but the beauty of torrent is scalability, if you have 30 million people trying to download the same torrent, that means you have 30 million mirrors ;) even if you can normally only serve 10,000 users with normal http etc, configured properly the people with the fastest connections will finish the dleds the fastest, and from the main mirrors, while the slow dial up users grab bits and pieces from anyone else, until the dedicated mirrors have free bandwith available. .1 share ratio... ;) unfortunately, the effects would be but a momentrary blip, as you'd have to be sharing some pretty large automatic updates that are continually being revised to continously saturate the internet ;)
Then use Bittorrent
Of course they still need to get the patch sizes to be as small as possible... but bit torrent kinda takes away the 'scalability' issue to a certain extent.. if you can only have X bandwith on y servers... and that's what's limiting you, bittorrent will allow you to update everyone at once. I know, azureus wanted to update the other day, and even though 10,000 other people were downloading it, I successfully leached the update torrent with about a
Remeber, even microsoft has issues serving it's updates, especially the big service packs to everyone.. but bit torrent could esentially be the solution that lets a small company bring the whole internet to a crawl, as everyone trying to download the update becomes a mirror to upload the update to everyone else... thus allowing complete network saturation
But then you need to make it available via a warez site, and bit torrent. Because if you don't do that, then there will be people who don't patch because they can't rip it off for free..
I think it's silly for anyone to say people don't need a firewall in this day and age.. Fully patched Windows* pcs without a firewall become part of a botnet in an average of 5 minutes from when they connect to the internet. Of course, you don't need a great firewall, even a software one can protect you from most threats. a simple wireless router/gateway provides adequate firewall protection to take you out of the 5 minute category.
Myself, I don't run AV software, and all the anti spyware I have is manually run which I don't often do. I simply don't use ie, and I don't download a whole lot of non OSS software. It's all either OSS, or it came off a comercially pressed CD, with a few exceptions. and those few exceptions are all pretty reliable (nero is the last commercial program I remember downloading)
Basically, if you don't use IE, and you don't read e-mail with an insecure e-mail client, and if you don't download random software 'for fun' chances are you don't need an AV software loading on boot up.
*= actual time to infection based on a study of patched sp1 systems... SP2 infection times I don't know off the top of my head, but I'm sure botnets have found weaknesses in sp2 by now..
that's easy it's 1924. and yes i did that in my head, but no i'm not telling you how many seconds it took, or if I wrote down a partial answer in this post first. multiplication is easy, there are people who can multiply complex numbers in seconds in thier heads. I'm not as fast as those people, but I learned the tricks for doing multiplication in one's head, without scratch paper. basically, the trick is to memorize the basic multiplication table, and then individualize and sum the results, and not get places wrong, and carry all the ones... so 5x 37 is 185 and 2x 37 is 74 so 1850+74 = 1924 basically, it should take a math whiz less than a minute to do the multiplication of 1337* 31337 in their heads without scratch paper. I mean it's only 41,897,596... (on that one I cheated, i'm lazy, but I coulda done it in my head, but a minute of my time is valuable, I'm reading slashdot afterall!)
As a disclaimer, I can solve 13 steps of algebraic formula in my head too... in fact I can do 13 steps of algebraic solution faster than I can multiply complex numbers.
What kind of money can you make delivering ice?
i remember hearing about someone trying to toss around an idea to tow an iceburg to solve a fresh water crisis, ah here it is so apparently is costs 3.3m euros, and you gross an estimated 10.2m euros, if you use the iceburg to generate electricity as well as water. So to answer your question you can make 6.9m euros as an ice delivery person nowadays.
and in other news, shortly after announcing the new cell processor, toshiba's research facility was destoyed in what appeared to be an atomic blast.. however no residual radiation was detected, witnesses reporting seeing numerous flashing lights across the sky, with thundering reports. also, in a nearby wasteland, several mountains collapsed into piles of rubble, for no apparent reason, and nearby seismological equipment reqistered several succeding level 10 earthquakes.
Also, the entire japanese defense force was assembled, and mysteriously disapeared in a flash of light... more on this as new information is available...