This is crazy! I remember that this was implemented in OS/2 Warp back in the early 1990s, plus god-awful CDE also had it. There were also add-on products from companies like Stardock that vastly extended this too.
About a year ago we built up some new machines to run Linux and found that multiple e1000 cards would cause the Ethernet connectivity to drop and become useless. We ended up replacing them with much cheaper Realtek cards and all the problems disappeared. I haven't trusted Intel since. It's as if there were some buggy interrupt interaction with the on-board Intel Ethernet in the 915 chipset.
Text doesn't even consume any voice bandwidth since it is sent over the control channel. It doesn't cost the telcos much if anything to support other than setting up various gateways. It's great since the control channel is always active for a phone anyway (whereas the voice has to be set up for incoming or outgoing calls).
Toyota's batteries are quite different than the consumer ones. Toyota's batteries are designed to be far more rugged and more efficient at charging. They also hold a lower capacity for their size compared to consumer batteries.
Toyota also treats the batteries gently, keeping the charge between 40-80% except in emergencies (like out of gas) where it can drain them to 0%.
Consumer batteries only hold about 60% of the charge put into them, so to hit 100% they take roughly 167% of their capacity. Toyota's batteries hold something like 80-85% of the charge put into them.
Consumer batteries trade reliability for capacity.
The 48/45 is somewhat laughable since I regularly get well above that in my 2006 Prius. During the first 5 minutes the milage is not that great but once the car warms up I usually get 50MPg on the freeway (average 65MPH) and at least 50 in the city.
My long term average is 44.8 but a big part of that is that my commute is not very long. If I drove further that average would be quite a bit higher.
I have migrated most of my ReiserFS partitions to either XFS or EXT3. For something like MythTV XFS is probably the better choice since it excels at large files. My experience with Reiser is that it tended to suck for large files, especially writes. I also love the XFS tools, like being able to defragment a mounted filesystem and xfsdump.
EXT3 has also made huge strides, especially with the directory hashing feature. I do not like how long fsck takes after so many mounts, though, or for recovery.
Also, regardless of filesystem, set the noatime and nodiratime parameters in fstab to see another big performance boost.
The steering is NOT drive by wire as one might think. Toyota just replaced the hydraulic power steering with electric power steering. Other auto manufacturers are starting to do the same thing now. This eliminates the power steering pump and belts required and is more reliable.
If it should fail it would be just like if the regular hydraulic power steering system failed. One advantage is that it is not tied to the engine running since it is electric and not driven by a power steering pump.
I may switch when they release a stable Linux version since Firefox tends to grab lots of resources and never release them. By making each tab a separate process it makes freeing up memory much cleaner when a tab is closed. It's also a big plus when plug-ins don't take down the whole browser when things go badly.
I just googled "Alaska Taxes" and quickly found several articles that listed the $49/barrel when a barrel cost $120. Your gas is high, but gas was not that far behind here in California, though it's come down to around $4/gallon.
Granted, they do have their own challenges, but they don't have any fiscal problems to deal with. She has indicated she has no knowledge of issues like Iraq, saying she had no idea about the surge even though her son was scheduled to go over there. But what challenges would you say Alaska has that would make other states run away screaming? Hell, they have enough money to deal with most crap thanks on their tax on oil (which she raised considerably).
Hell, they have so much oil revenue that they pay every Alaskan resident $2100, plus a big dividend to help cover the high price of gas there, and that's with no state-wide income or sales tax. They have money they need to deal with their issues, unlike most states today.
She's like George W's pick of Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court. Highly unqualified for the job of Vice President.
She's just a tax and spend Republican... tax the oil (I read about $49/barrel) and give all the extra money away to all the residents while we pay for it at the pump.
The thing is that computers built 25 years ago were far simpler and did not really stress components like they do today (especially with things like low ESR caps for switching power supplies). Low ESR caps go bad with age. They were not widely used 25 years ago like they are today. And most internal type batteries will corrode or leak within 25 years. In the case of a laptop or any rechargable battery, those will no longer work after 25 years. Lithium Ion batteries lose capacity from the day they're manufactured, even if they are not used at all, especially any batteries made for laptops.
Your 24 year old Coleco and Atari are *FAR* simpler than even the simplest laptop or computer made today with far fewer components and simpler power supplies.
Similarly, old drives tend to have problems when not in use for a long time. The lubrication tends to gum up or settle.
Hell, the flash BIOS chips will likely suffer from bit rot. After all, virtually all major components have flash now, including DVD ROM/CD ROM drives and hard drives. The old Atari and Coleco likely used OTP ROMs which last virtually forever. They probably also have very simple power supplies, probably not even switching supplies.
Archival CDs and DVDs will likely last, however, any readers or computers packed with it likely will suffer problems.
The newer the computer, the worse it will handle age.
An old computer from the 1980s could likely run forever. The components were a much larger geometry. Power supplies were not so constrained for space and were not as sensitive to things like needing low ESR capacitors. BIOS was usually stored in OTP ROM, etc. They also contained far fewer components than today's computers in many ways. The chips were huge geometries compared to today, and storage media like hard drives were only a fraction of the density of today's and not as sensitive to bit rot. Hell, power supplies today are designed with the ESR of the capacitors falling with age so they'll at least last the warranty, but not for 25 years.
I'm sorry, being a mayor of a town of 9000 doesn't qualify you to be Vice President, especially when the presidential candidate has age and a history of health problems going against him.
As for governor, Alaska has a population of 670,000, roughly twice the population of the CITY I live in.
Alaska also does not face the same challenges as other states. They basically don't have many taxes since they get all their wealth from oil, and so they don't have to deal with the budget issues other states have been stuck with. And she's only been governor for 2 years. At least George W. Bush had a lot more experience than that as governor of Texas. Also, they've been getting a huge windfall of revenue whereas most states are struggling to balance their budgets due to the high oil prices. There are no statewide income, sales, property or inheritance or state taxes (some localities have their own local taxes). Palin actually RAISED taxes on the oil companies and limited their exploration and development (which affects everyone else).
She has no international experience, or for that matter, any national experience.
Obama had millions of votes for him as a senator, several times the entire population of Alaska. Even as a state senator he represented far more people than she has as a mayor.
It is for modern computers. The older computers and capacitors do not have as much trouble as the new ones do. The new ones have much smaller capacitors, size wise, for the same value and are more sensitive. Plus, there's always the internal battery in the laptop which will probably leak and cause damage.
The grease will also dry out.
As for batteries, lithium batteries lose capacity as they age, whether or not they're used.
The problem is that solid state drives suffer from bit rot as others have described here. Flash stores data as an electric charge, but no insulator is perfect. The high density flash is probably even worse.
Also, after 25 years it is doubtful that any PC or laptop will work. The CMOS battery will likely leak all over the place, and the electrolytic capacitors will not work very well after 25 years (electrolytic capacitors also do poorly when they are unused for long periods of time).
I hate to reply to myself, but after 25 years a CD ROM/DVD ROM drive will likely not work very well due to the grease/oil solidifying and breaking down. Even the laptop will likely not boot up after 25 years. The internal CMOS battery will likely have leaked all over and the caps probably won't work after 25 years either. Some electronic components (i.e. electrolytic capacitors) go bad as they age and from non-use and these components are used both in the laptop and in any DVD or CD drive.
The CD's and DVDs might be fine if you use good archival media, but any reader will likely not work.
I agree. Though you might also throw in a laptop as well. I suggest if using a DVD to use a high quality archival DVD+R like Taiyo Yuden. DVD+R has full error correction, DVD-R does not. A high quality CDROM might be even better due to the lower bit density. Burning at the lowest possible speed would also be a good idea as well as including multiple copies of each CD.
Also, if it's sealed, throw in some humidity packets to keep the humidity under control as the temperature changes.
I once had to do this. Some idiot on MySpace set their account to use one of my email addresses. Repeated requests to Myspace went unanswered, so I just used the password recovery tool to change it and promptly deleted his account. Problem solved.
That's a good question. The white LEDs are often blue LEDs with a phosphor. The bright ones use a di-chromatic phosphor which gives a lower color rendering index. There is more information at Wikipedia.
Percentage wise it is far from the most overturned court. It has a far higher case load than any other court, so of course it has more overturned cases than other courts, but percentage wise it is about average.
I can at least vouch that the Lexar UDMA card works as advertised in my UDMA capable camera. Fake CF cards are a big problem. Avoid buying CF cards on Ebay and only buy from reputable dealers or you might get a fake Chinese card and have nothing but trouble.
It would not be possible to get the performance the camera gets if it did not use DMA mode. It may be that it uses 1K blocks like the article says they used for a workaround. The cards also work fine in UDMA capable external readers, otherwise I would be seeing a ton of messages in the camera forums I frequent. Sandisk and Lexar UDMA CF cards are frequently used with the new cameras that can support it and are widely used by professional photographers.
Also, the article said that the Sandisk card they tried worked. They did not mention anything about Lexar but did mention problems with Transcend, which is not certified for my camera.
I have been using a Lexar 300x UDMA CF card for a while in my camera (which supports UDMA) without any problems. I also know many people are using the Sandisk UDMA cards without problems as well. Both were also certified to work with my camera (Nikon D300) by Nikon.
And Gimp is a POS when it comes to editing photos due to its poor color support (only 24 bit). Most professional packages use 48-bit internally for editing. Heck, the images from my camera are in either 36 or 42-bit RAW mode, which comes in handy for adjusting curves, fixing whitebalance and highlight and shadow recovery.
Gimp can't handle the basic stuff I tend to do, plus I've found the UI to be horrible, and forget any workflow support in Gimp.
Bibble does support tagging and IPTC meta editing under the edit menu.
I have been using it for years on Linux. It's also well supported and they are generally responsive to bug fixes and updates.
It's the best $130 I've spent. When I got my new D-SLR with a new raw format it didn't take more than a few weeks until support was added, in part since the raw converter is based on the open source dcraw. It does an excellent job handling the RAW photos, plus I also bought a license to Noise Ninja which is integrated into it.
It may not be FOSS, but I have yet to find a FOSS equivalent.
The workflow support took some getting used to with the Pro version, but it's well worth it. I can crank through hundreds of photos very quickly with it.
I've also tried out the other packages like Digikam and Picasa. Picasa still has not added support for the Nikon D300 RAW format (which was released in November). None of them come anywhere close.
This generally isn't a problem. This has been a problem around Altamont Pass in California because of the type of windmills used and that it is a major bird cooridore. The larger slower moving wind mills are much less of a problem.
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This is crazy! I remember that this was implemented in OS/2 Warp back in the early 1990s, plus god-awful CDE also had it. There were also add-on products from companies like Stardock that vastly extended this too.
About a year ago we built up some new machines to run Linux and found that multiple e1000 cards would cause the Ethernet connectivity to drop and become useless. We ended up replacing them with much cheaper Realtek cards and all the problems disappeared. I haven't trusted Intel since. It's as if there were some buggy interrupt interaction with the on-board Intel Ethernet in the 915 chipset.
Text doesn't even consume any voice bandwidth since it is sent over the control channel. It doesn't cost the telcos much if anything to support other than setting up various gateways. It's great since the control channel is always active for a phone anyway (whereas the voice has to be set up for incoming or outgoing calls).
Toyota's batteries are quite different than the consumer ones. Toyota's batteries are designed to be far more rugged and more efficient at charging. They also hold a lower capacity for their size compared to consumer batteries.
Toyota also treats the batteries gently, keeping the charge between 40-80% except in emergencies (like out of gas) where it can drain them to 0%.
Consumer batteries only hold about 60% of the charge put into them, so to hit 100% they take roughly 167% of their capacity. Toyota's batteries hold something like 80-85% of the charge put into them.
Consumer batteries trade reliability for capacity.
The 48/45 is somewhat laughable since I regularly get well above that in my 2006 Prius. During the first 5 minutes the milage is not that great but once the car warms up I usually get 50MPg on the freeway (average 65MPH) and at least 50 in the city.
My long term average is 44.8 but a big part of that is that my commute is not very long. If I drove further that average would be quite a bit higher.
I have migrated most of my ReiserFS partitions to either XFS or EXT3. For something like MythTV XFS is probably the better choice since it excels at large files. My experience with Reiser is that it tended to suck for large files, especially writes. I also love the XFS tools, like being able to defragment a mounted filesystem and xfsdump.
EXT3 has also made huge strides, especially with the directory hashing feature. I do not like how long fsck takes after so many mounts, though, or for recovery.
Also, regardless of filesystem, set the noatime and nodiratime parameters in fstab to see another big performance boost.
The steering is NOT drive by wire as one might think. Toyota just replaced the hydraulic power steering with electric power steering. Other auto manufacturers are starting to do the same thing now. This eliminates the power steering pump and belts required and is more reliable.
If it should fail it would be just like if the regular hydraulic power steering system failed. One advantage is that it is not tied to the engine running since it is electric and not driven by a power steering pump.
I may switch when they release a stable Linux version since Firefox tends to grab lots of resources and never release them. By making each tab a separate process it makes freeing up memory much cleaner when a tab is closed. It's also a big plus when plug-ins don't take down the whole browser when things go badly.
I just googled "Alaska Taxes" and quickly found several articles that listed the $49/barrel when a barrel cost $120. Your gas is high, but gas was not that far behind here in California, though it's come down to around $4/gallon.
Granted, they do have their own challenges, but they don't have any fiscal problems to deal with. She has indicated she has no knowledge of issues like Iraq, saying she had no idea about the surge even though her son was scheduled to go over there. But what challenges would you say Alaska has that would make other states run away screaming? Hell, they have enough money to deal with most crap thanks on their tax on oil (which she raised considerably).
Hell, they have so much oil revenue that they pay every Alaskan resident $2100, plus a big dividend to help cover the high price of gas there, and that's with no state-wide income or sales tax. They have money they need to deal with their issues, unlike most states today.
She's like George W's pick of Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court. Highly unqualified for the job of Vice President.
She's just a tax and spend Republican... tax the oil (I read about $49/barrel) and give all the extra money away to all the residents while we pay for it at the pump.
The thing is that computers built 25 years ago were far simpler and did not really stress components like they do today (especially with things like low ESR caps for switching power supplies). Low ESR caps go bad with age. They were not widely used 25 years ago like they are today. And most internal type batteries will corrode or leak within 25 years. In the case of a laptop or any rechargable battery, those will no longer work after 25 years. Lithium Ion batteries lose capacity from the day they're manufactured, even if they are not used at all, especially any batteries made for laptops.
Your 24 year old Coleco and Atari are *FAR* simpler than even the simplest laptop or computer made today with far fewer components and simpler power supplies.
Similarly, old drives tend to have problems when not in use for a long time. The lubrication tends to gum up or settle.
Hell, the flash BIOS chips will likely suffer from bit rot. After all, virtually all major components have flash now, including DVD ROM/CD ROM drives and hard drives. The old Atari and Coleco likely used OTP ROMs which last virtually forever. They probably also have very simple power supplies, probably not even switching supplies.
Archival CDs and DVDs will likely last, however, any readers or computers packed with it likely will suffer problems.
The newer the computer, the worse it will handle age.
An old computer from the 1980s could likely run forever. The components were a much larger geometry. Power supplies were not so constrained for space and were not as sensitive to things like needing low ESR capacitors. BIOS was usually stored in OTP ROM, etc. They also contained far fewer components than today's computers in many ways. The chips were huge geometries compared to today, and storage media like hard drives were only a fraction of the density of today's and not as sensitive to bit rot. Hell, power supplies today are designed with the ESR of the capacitors falling with age so they'll at least last the warranty, but not for 25 years.
I'm sorry, being a mayor of a town of 9000 doesn't qualify you to be Vice President, especially when the presidential candidate has age and a history of health problems going against him.
As for governor, Alaska has a population of 670,000, roughly twice the population of the CITY I live in.
Alaska also does not face the same challenges as other states. They basically don't have many taxes since they get all their wealth from oil, and so they don't have to deal with the budget issues other states have been stuck with. And she's only been governor for 2 years. At least George W. Bush had a lot more experience than that as governor of Texas. Also, they've been getting a huge windfall of revenue whereas most states are struggling to balance their budgets due to the high oil prices. There are no statewide income, sales, property or inheritance or state taxes (some localities have their own local taxes). Palin actually RAISED taxes on the oil companies and limited their exploration and development (which affects everyone else).
She has no international experience, or for that matter, any national experience.
Obama had millions of votes for him as a senator, several times the entire population of Alaska. Even as a state senator he represented far more people than she has as a mayor.
It is for modern computers. The older computers and capacitors do not have as much trouble as the new ones do. The new ones have much smaller capacitors, size wise, for the same value and are more sensitive. Plus, there's always the internal battery in the laptop which will probably leak and cause damage.
The grease will also dry out.
As for batteries, lithium batteries lose capacity as they age, whether or not they're used.
The problem is that solid state drives suffer from bit rot as others have described here. Flash stores data as an electric charge, but no insulator is perfect. The high density flash is probably even worse.
Also, after 25 years it is doubtful that any PC or laptop will work. The CMOS battery will likely leak all over the place, and the electrolytic capacitors will not work very well after 25 years (electrolytic capacitors also do poorly when they are unused for long periods of time).
I hate to reply to myself, but after 25 years a CD ROM/DVD ROM drive will likely not work very well due to the grease/oil solidifying and breaking down. Even the laptop will likely not boot up after 25 years. The internal CMOS battery will likely have leaked all over and the caps probably won't work after 25 years either. Some electronic components (i.e. electrolytic capacitors) go bad as they age and from non-use and these components are used both in the laptop and in any DVD or CD drive.
The CD's and DVDs might be fine if you use good archival media, but any reader will likely not work.
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I agree. Though you might also throw in a laptop as well. I suggest if using a DVD to use a high quality archival DVD+R like Taiyo Yuden. DVD+R has full error correction, DVD-R does not. A high quality CDROM might be even better due to the lower bit density. Burning at the lowest possible speed would also be a good idea as well as including multiple copies of each CD.
Also, if it's sealed, throw in some humidity packets to keep the humidity under control as the temperature changes.
I once had to do this. Some idiot on MySpace set their account to use one of my email addresses. Repeated requests to Myspace went unanswered, so I just used the password recovery tool to change it and promptly deleted his account. Problem solved.
That's a good question. The white LEDs are often blue LEDs with a phosphor. The bright ones use a di-chromatic phosphor which gives a lower color rendering index. There is more information at Wikipedia.
Percentage wise it is far from the most overturned court. It has a far higher case load than any other court, so of course it has more overturned cases than other courts, but percentage wise it is about average.
I can at least vouch that the Lexar UDMA card works as advertised in my UDMA capable camera. Fake CF cards are a big problem. Avoid buying CF cards on Ebay and only buy from reputable dealers or you might get a fake Chinese card and have nothing but trouble.
It would not be possible to get the performance the camera gets if it did not use DMA mode. It may be that it uses 1K blocks like the article says they used for a workaround. The cards also work fine in UDMA capable external readers, otherwise I would be seeing a ton of messages in the camera forums I frequent. Sandisk and Lexar UDMA CF cards are frequently used with the new cameras that can support it and are widely used by professional photographers.
Also, the article said that the Sandisk card they tried worked. They did not mention anything about Lexar but did mention problems with Transcend, which is not certified for my camera.
I have been using a Lexar 300x UDMA CF card for a while in my camera (which supports UDMA) without any problems. I also know many people are using the Sandisk UDMA cards without problems as well. Both were also certified to work with my camera (Nikon D300) by Nikon.
And Gimp is a POS when it comes to editing photos due to its poor color support (only 24 bit). Most professional packages use 48-bit internally for editing. Heck, the images from my camera are in either 36 or 42-bit RAW mode, which comes in handy for adjusting curves, fixing whitebalance and highlight and shadow recovery.
Gimp can't handle the basic stuff I tend to do, plus I've found the UI to be horrible, and forget any workflow support in Gimp.
Bibble does support tagging and IPTC meta editing under the edit menu.
I have been using it for years on Linux. It's also well supported and they are generally responsive to bug fixes and updates.
It's the best $130 I've spent. When I got my new D-SLR with a new raw format it didn't take more than a few weeks until support was added, in part since the raw converter is based on the open source dcraw. It does an excellent job handling the RAW photos, plus I also bought a license to Noise Ninja which is integrated into it.
It may not be FOSS, but I have yet to find a FOSS equivalent.
The workflow support took some getting used to with the Pro version, but it's well worth it. I can crank through hundreds of photos very quickly with it.
I've also tried out the other packages like Digikam and Picasa. Picasa still has not added support for the Nikon D300 RAW format (which was released in November). None of them come anywhere close.
This generally isn't a problem. This has been a problem around Altamont Pass in California because of the type of windmills used and that it is a major bird cooridore. The larger slower moving wind mills are much less of a problem.