Yes, and I was far too hasty with my calculation - thanks for calling me on that one... regardless, that's still roughly 4 times as dense as Europe - and if you talk to folks in NJ (my beloved homestate), you might get the idea that some of them are four times as dense, too......
As an US American (who drives VWs): >In the US, aside from a dead battery and alternator problems, an engine failure's cause is usually anything BUT the electrical system.
Let's take a look >Dead fuel injector Those are a pain, but are usually relegated to high mileage conditions or poor maintenance (not too much to do, though).
>broken belts User error - lack of preventative care... a quick check during an oil change should let you know when to replace these before they break - the ones that are critical for engine function aren't usually that hard to keep an eye on.
>stupid idiot who didn't change the oil for 2 weeks after the "Check oil" light came on, Severe user error. Oil changes should never be dependant on an idiot light appearing. Simple, easy, basic entry level care maintenance (How hard is it to drive to a discount oil change place, dealership, or even Walmart these days...
A little care goes a long way... heck, most of the maintainance schedules are handed to a person along with the car (hint: it's the book in the glove box that has "Maintenance" or "Maintenance Schedule").
What you'd be looking at is something akin to the system in NY/NJ (a very high population density*)... a lot of puplic transportation - subway, PATH train system, local and commuter busses (some of which are already changed over to CNG), etc.... works amazingly well. It's not perfect, but all things considered, it is rather efficient.
* - NJ pop. density = 1,134.5 people per sq mi. = 2938 people per sq km.
One other place to check out is Headroom for various headphones and headphone amps, as well as some interesting info on amps... I have a set of Sennheiser HD-580s, and I haven't found a soundcard or portable player that can properly drive them (though they are easier on amps than some others). The amp is a must... even a relatively cheap (battery powered) headphone amp makes a world of difference (plus, with battery power, you have one less AC supply to worry about - get some NiMH rechargables and have a ball).
I have bought from Headroom, but I don't work for them or know anyone who does.
I think you better slow down there - I'm creating a committee to appoint a task force to create an action item to look into the dealings of previous mentioned sub-committee and sub-sub-committee, starting with the requisite fact-finding missions in Geneva and Oahu.
Ah, but the IBM drives can speed throttle, so you can run at full speed while on AC power, and run at reduced speed on battery... The best of both worlds (aside from the heat issues).
Ah, thanks - though I played some chess back in the 6-8th grade timeframe, I never caught that one, though apparently, that would be where I stand (or sit).
>The technique of stripping M1 and M2 from dissenters.
Been working too long in the embedded space where M1 and M2 are memory spaces with different access times or on different levels of the memory hierarchy... it's been quite a while since I thought about the general economic terms (as one could guess from the balance of my checking account)...
So what heck does "I'm papz at chess" mean? the word doesn't show up in online dictionaries... a real quick google on 'papz chess' and just 'papz' doesn't seem to be very revealing.
Putting both processor cores on a single die also requires the duplication of the L1 caches, and (preferably, though not necessarily) the L2 cache as well. This creates a *much* larger, hotter chip, with lower yields, making it far less attractive to the desktop market.
Without a duplicated L2 cache on the chip, the cores could easily become starved for bandwidth, and the number of cast-outs and line fills on the L2 would be greatly increased, lowering performance. This can be seen on the P-IV chips (Prestonia) with hyperthreading (Jackson technology, IIRC)... in that case, there isn't a second full core, just a replication of certain execution units and such, but has only one L2 cache. It does provide a solid 25-35% performance gain on a lot of typical workloads, but does add extra heat, etc.. Fun for the whole family.
Of course, the team Fox had doing the Twins/Angels series (and the Twins/Oakland Series) are even worse... Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons make you want to turn off the audio even faster... The pre/post/ingame stuff with Kennedy/Zelasko is completely intolerable, and smacks of typical Fox coverage - all (bad) style, no substance...
Joe Buck is pretty good, especially with a decent partner.
Ah, pennies these days are but a copper shell around a zinc center... one easy trick is to scratch part of the edge of a penny off, then place it in some nitic acid*, and soon you have a hollow penny - the zinc is dissolved very quickly, and the thin copper shell is clean and crushable...fun and entertaining.
(*) - I take no responsibility for any accidents you may have involving acids...
Yeah, add that, a "Type-R" sticker, a couple pounds of vinyl tape, a glass pack muffler for your CPU fan, and I bet your computer will be faster than ever...
I find this to be a more than suitable server for home use, and actually, it can be taken to work if you need some service there, too.
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In the US it is usually gaffer's tape or gaff tape. Quite a bit nicer for many uses - you can tape a bunch of cables to a carpetand when you remove the tape, the glue isn't all over the cables and carpet (unlike duct tape). Audio reinforcement crews go through that stuff like water, and it is worth its weight in gold.
Well, aside from the fact that you would need a whole lot of Ping-Pong(TM)* balls, when you translate that to an electrical signal, you'd have to deal with clocking. With the difficulting in getting the bit across neatly, it becomes even more difficult to send a correlated clock signal on an equivalently phased path or embed a signal into the pulses (which requires more decode logic and can create quite a delay inside of a chip).
* - since geeks tend to get picky about silly differences (such as Open Source vs open source), I'll just mention that table tennis is the general term, and Ping Pong is a brand name, and at one time, had slightly different rules. [/pedantic]
hah - you don't need nearly that many... use gzip and get that number down to half or less... that's only 41667 CDs - even less if you use bzip2. That should cut a lot of your costs right there;-)
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Mozilla does allow quick font size changes with [ctrl]- and [ctrl]+ A much better feature than tabbed browsing...
Yes, and I was far too hasty with my calculation - thanks for calling me on that one... regardless, that's still roughly 4 times as dense as Europe - and if you talk to folks in NJ (my beloved homestate), you might get the idea that some of them are four times as dense, too......
As an US American (who drives VWs):
>In the US, aside from a dead battery and alternator problems, an engine failure's cause is usually anything BUT the electrical system.
Let's take a look
>Dead fuel injector
Those are a pain, but are usually relegated to high mileage conditions or poor maintenance (not too much to do, though).
>broken belts
User error - lack of preventative care... a quick check during an oil change should let you know when to replace these before they break - the ones that are critical for engine function aren't usually that hard to keep an eye on.
>stupid idiot who didn't change the oil for 2 weeks after the "Check oil" light came on,
Severe user error. Oil changes should never be dependant on an idiot light appearing. Simple, easy, basic entry level care maintenance (How hard is it to drive to a discount oil change place, dealership, or even Walmart these days...
A little care goes a long way... heck, most of the maintainance schedules are handed to a person along with the car (hint: it's the book in the glove box that has "Maintenance" or "Maintenance Schedule").
What you'd be looking at is something akin to the system in NY/NJ (a very high population density*)... a lot of puplic transportation - subway, PATH train system, local and commuter busses (some of which are already changed over to CNG), etc.... works
amazingly well. It's not perfect, but all things considered, it is rather efficient.
* - NJ pop. density = 1,134.5 people per sq mi. = 2938 people per sq km.
One other place to check out is Headroom for various headphones and headphone amps, as well as some interesting info on amps... I have a set of Sennheiser HD-580s, and I haven't found a soundcard or portable player that can properly drive them (though they are easier on amps than some others). The amp is a must... even a relatively cheap (battery powered) headphone amp makes a world of difference (plus, with battery power, you have one less AC supply to worry about - get some NiMH rechargables and have a ball).
I have bought from Headroom, but I don't work for them or know anyone who does.
Now if they could do that for a three-button mouse or a Trackman Marble (three buttons - no wheel needed), that would be a sweet pointing device...
I think you better slow down there - I'm creating a committee to appoint a task force to create an action item to look into the dealings of previous mentioned sub-committee and sub-sub-committee, starting with the requisite fact-finding missions in Geneva and Oahu.
Ah, but the IBM drives can speed throttle, so you can run at full speed while on AC power, and run at reduced speed on battery... The best of both worlds (aside from the heat issues).
Sounds easy...
while (distance 26.2mi)
{
self.place_one_foot_in_front_of_the_other();
}
self.collapse();
Simple!
Ah, thanks - though I played some chess back in the 6-8th grade timeframe, I never caught that one, though apparently, that would be where I stand (or sit).
>The technique of stripping M1 and M2 from dissenters.
Been working too long in the embedded space where M1 and M2 are memory spaces with different access times or on different levels of the memory hierarchy... it's been quite a while since I thought about the general economic terms (as one could guess from the balance of my checking account)...
So what heck does "I'm papz at chess" mean? the word doesn't show up in online dictionaries... a real quick google on 'papz chess' and just 'papz' doesn't seem to be very revealing.
Putting both processor cores on a single die also requires the duplication of the L1 caches, and (preferably, though not necessarily) the L2 cache as well. This creates a *much* larger, hotter chip, with lower yields, making it far less attractive to the desktop market.
Without a duplicated L2 cache on the chip, the cores could easily become starved for bandwidth, and the number of cast-outs and line fills on the L2 would be greatly increased, lowering performance. This can be seen on the P-IV chips (Prestonia) with hyperthreading (Jackson technology, IIRC)... in that case, there isn't a second full core, just a replication of certain execution units and such, but has only one L2 cache. It does provide a solid 25-35% performance gain on a lot of typical workloads, but does add extra heat, etc.. Fun for the whole family.
Yeah, but those drives are tougher to send to the off-site data-vault than tapes/DVDs...
Of course, the team Fox had doing the Twins/Angels series (and the Twins/Oakland Series) are even worse... Thom Brennaman and Steve Lyons make you want to turn off the audio even faster... The pre/post/ingame stuff with Kennedy/Zelasko is completely intolerable, and smacks of typical Fox coverage - all (bad) style, no substance...
Joe Buck is pretty good, especially with a decent partner.
Ah, pennies these days are but a copper shell around a zinc center... one easy trick is to scratch part of the edge of a penny off, then place it in some nitic acid*, and soon you have a hollow penny - the zinc is dissolved very quickly, and the thin copper shell is clean and crushable...fun and entertaining.
(*) - I take no responsibility for any accidents you may have involving acids...
Must be for all of those ups and downs....
Yeah, add that, a "Type-R" sticker, a couple pounds of vinyl tape, a glass pack muffler for your CPU fan, and I bet your computer will be faster than ever...
>Grandma: [with a look on her face like she just smoked a QP of weed] huh?
I've apparently been spending too much time working on infiniband lately... I read that as a "Queue Pair" of weed...
I find this to be a more than suitable server for home use, and actually, it can be taken to work if you need some service there, too.
In the US it is usually gaffer's tape or gaff tape. Quite a bit nicer for many uses - you can tape a bunch of cables to a carpetand when you remove the tape, the glue isn't all over the cables and carpet (unlike duct tape). Audio reinforcement crews go through that stuff like water, and it is worth its weight in gold.
Well, aside from the fact that you would need a whole lot of Ping-Pong(TM)* balls, when you translate that to an electrical signal, you'd have to deal with clocking. With the difficulting in getting the bit across neatly, it becomes even more difficult to send a correlated clock signal on an equivalently phased path or embed a signal into the pulses (which requires more decode logic and can create quite a delay inside of a chip).
* - since geeks tend to get picky about silly differences (such as Open Source vs open source), I'll just mention that table tennis is the general term, and Ping Pong is a brand name, and at one time, had slightly different rules. [/pedantic]
Yes, but would you be able to see through it? :-)
hah - you don't need nearly that many... use gzip and get that number down to half or less... that's only 41667 CDs - even less if you use bzip2. That should cut a lot of your costs right there ;-)