I don't believe that BART was designed for 100,000/week number. I read that it carried that many riders *when it opened*, but there's no way anyone would design a grade-separated rail system for 100,000/week. That's not even a notable amount of riders for a single bus line.
Design capacity comes down to track layout, train capacity, headways and station design. The trains and stations are not particularly crowded by world standards. There is a bottleneck in the system (the transbay tube) that several different routes use, which limits headways. But honestly the system is doing pretty well serving 400,000/day.
The real issues are the electrical system, old rolling stock, and lack of maintenance. Not design capacity.
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The sound from my Asus P5Q is as interference-free as the sound from my Xonar DX. Again, rear ports only. I've heard interference on other on onboard sound and on cheaper add-on cards like the sound blaster pci, but not from this motherboard.
My last PC had terrible interference when I used the onboard sound, or so I thought. Everyone's advice was to get a sound card, and guess what? It improved nothing. The problem was the front panel audio ports, not the sound hardware. The back ports on the motherboard sounded just as good as the ports on the pricey sound card. Since I don't game and I don't record audio, the only advantage the discrete sound card had was louder headphone output, and not even by much.
Instead of added horizontal resolution on an un-rotated monitor, you should be able to get added vertical resolution on a monitor rotated 90 degrees. I know there are X packages on Linux that do this.
And they only recently made 64-bit binaries the default when compiling with gcc. Before 10.6 you'd have to use gcc-4.2 explicitly, and specify -arch x86_64.
The SD resolution you'll be restricted to is NOT 480i. It's 540p (960x540 in Widescreen). It's still better than DVD resolution (720x480 non-square pixels).
Is Apple going to allow VOIP over 3G? That would be big news. Currently I believe they allow VOIP over WiFi only, so the phone companies can continue to gouge you for voice calls on their network.
Normally making a call with GV would involve calling your GV number, and then dialing the number you wish to call (kind of like using a phone card). The GV webapp makes using GV less cumbersome.
But it sounds like you're wondering why someone would want to place an outgoing call through GV in the first place.
It uses your iPhone plan's minutes, but a local call to GV might be cheaper than a local call to another number, if you have a plan where you get to make a list of "friend" numbers with unlimited or cheap minutes (I think AT&T calls this an A-list). And as you said, it's much cheaper for long distance. Free between two US numbers, in fact (again, not including local minutes charges).
Also, you can blacklist phone numbers (known telemarketers, etc) from calling your google voice number, which for some reason the phone companies will never let you do with a regular number.
Cheap long distance, a portable phone number that you can forward to cell/home/work, and on some carriers, you can add google voice to your "circle of friends" numbers for cheaper/unlimited minutes.
The app is intended to make all of this as easy to use as the regular dialer/address book on the iPhone, rather than a cumbersome process as with a phone card.
There's a few Wii battery packs out there that allow the controller to be powered over USB with a standard A to mini-B cable. Here's one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4978 Of course, if you drain the battery pack faster than you can recharge it, you might have a problem.
Sounds like you want a monitor with a high PPI (pixels per inch). Your original monitor was 17" 4:3 (16" viewable), which at 1440x1050 is 109 ppi. You won't get that in an LCD monitor even if you get something large.
Here are some common LCD monitor sizes (>= 17") that have >= 95 PPI: 17" (5:4) 1280x1024 - 96 ppi 17" widescreen (16:10) 1440x900 - 100 ppi 20" (4:3) 1600x1200 - 100 ppi 21.5" widescreen (16:9) 1920x1080 - 102 ppi 30" widescreen (16:10) 2560x1600 - 101 ppi
So if you want something close in size to your existing monitor, get a 17" widescreen at 1440x900 (e.g. Dell E178WFP). If you want something with a comparable PPI, and equivalent resolution, get a 21.5" widescreen at 1920x1080 (e.g. Dell S2209W) If you want something with the same aspect ratio, and a higher resolution, get a 20" at 1600x1200 (e.g. Dell 2007FP).
I would pick the 20". As others have said, you can move it further away from your eyes than a CRT if size is an issue.
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I don't believe that BART was designed for 100,000/week number. I read that it carried that many riders *when it opened*, but there's no way anyone would design a grade-separated rail system for 100,000/week. That's not even a notable amount of riders for a single bus line.
Design capacity comes down to track layout, train capacity, headways and station design. The trains and stations are not particularly crowded by world standards. There is a bottleneck in the system (the transbay tube) that several different routes use, which limits headways. But honestly the system is doing pretty well serving 400,000/day.
The real issues are the electrical system, old rolling stock, and lack of maintenance. Not design capacity.
This monitor needs it: Dell 3007WFP, 2560x1600.
The sound from my Asus P5Q is as interference-free as the sound from my Xonar DX. Again, rear ports only. I've heard interference on other on onboard sound and on cheaper add-on cards like the sound blaster pci, but not from this motherboard.
Not all motherboards are like this. Some have excellent shielding and the output (from the back ports, at least) is interference-free.
My last PC had terrible interference when I used the onboard sound, or so I thought. Everyone's advice was to get a sound card, and guess what? It improved nothing. The problem was the front panel audio ports, not the sound hardware. The back ports on the motherboard sounded just as good as the ports on the pricey sound card.
Since I don't game and I don't record audio, the only advantage the discrete sound card had was louder headphone output, and not even by much.
Instead of added horizontal resolution on an un-rotated monitor, you should be able to get added vertical resolution on a monitor rotated 90 degrees. I know there are X packages on Linux that do this.
And they only recently made 64-bit binaries the default when compiling with gcc. Before 10.6 you'd have to use gcc-4.2 explicitly, and specify -arch x86_64.
They said they were able to get to a "Connect to iTunes" screen (but no further), and that it was high resolution. Where is the screenshot?
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Constraint_Token#Operation
The SD resolution you'll be restricted to is NOT 480i. It's 540p (960x540 in Widescreen). It's still better than DVD resolution (720x480 non-square pixels).
Is Apple going to allow VOIP over 3G? That would be big news. Currently I believe they allow VOIP over WiFi only, so the phone companies can continue to gouge you for voice calls on their network.
Normally making a call with GV would involve calling your GV number, and then dialing the number you wish to call (kind of like using a phone card). The GV webapp makes using GV less cumbersome.
But it sounds like you're wondering why someone would want to place an outgoing call through GV in the first place.
It uses your iPhone plan's minutes, but a local call to GV might be cheaper than a local call to another number, if you have a plan where you get to make a list of "friend" numbers with unlimited or cheap minutes (I think AT&T calls this an A-list). And as you said, it's much cheaper for long distance. Free between two US numbers, in fact (again, not including local minutes charges).
Also, you can blacklist phone numbers (known telemarketers, etc) from calling your google voice number, which for some reason the phone companies will never let you do with a regular number.
Cheap long distance, a portable phone number that you can forward to cell/home/work, and on some carriers, you can add google voice to your "circle of friends" numbers for cheaper/unlimited minutes.
The app is intended to make all of this as easy to use as the regular dialer/address book on the iPhone, rather than a cumbersome process as with a phone card.
There's a few Wii battery packs out there that allow the controller to be powered over USB with a standard A to mini-B cable. Here's one:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4978
Of course, if you drain the battery pack faster than you can recharge it, you might have a problem.
That was pretty hard to follow, what with the unrelated chatter about ARP and the origin of CRLF in HTTP headers.
Here's a better document: http://extendedsubset.com/Renegotiating_TLS.pdf with helpful diagram: http://extendedsubset.com/Renegotiating_TLS_pd.pdf
Probably 443. In the article, it says they're building this on top of SSL to maintain compatibility with existing proxy servers.
I don't think it mentioned how a client will indicate they're going to speak SPDY instead of HTTP. Probably have to read the code or spec for that.
It's safe to say now that "trillion", as an English word, means 10^12 in English-speaking places.
A 100W LED light bulb, maybe. That would be very bright.
Except that the problem here is with bookmarks. You could delete your whole history, and the location bar would still show your bookmarks.
Heh, you mean like AAA-rated mortagage-backed securities?
Some others:
19" widescreen (16:10) 1680x1050 - 104 ppi
23" widescreen (16:9) 2048x1152 - 102 ppi
You're absolutely right. I should have clarified that I'm only talking about free-standing monitors.
You can get 18.5" monitors that run at 1366x768, like the Acer X183H.
Sounds like you want a monitor with a high PPI (pixels per inch).
Your original monitor was 17" 4:3 (16" viewable), which at 1440x1050 is 109 ppi. You won't get that in an LCD monitor even if you get something large.
Here are some common LCD monitor sizes (>= 17") that have >= 95 PPI:
17" (5:4) 1280x1024 - 96 ppi
17" widescreen (16:10) 1440x900 - 100 ppi
20" (4:3) 1600x1200 - 100 ppi
21.5" widescreen (16:9) 1920x1080 - 102 ppi
30" widescreen (16:10) 2560x1600 - 101 ppi
So if you want something close in size to your existing monitor, get a 17" widescreen at 1440x900 (e.g. Dell E178WFP).
If you want something with a comparable PPI, and equivalent resolution, get a 21.5" widescreen at 1920x1080 (e.g. Dell S2209W)
If you want something with the same aspect ratio, and a higher resolution, get a 20" at 1600x1200 (e.g. Dell 2007FP).
I would pick the 20". As others have said, you can move it further away from your eyes than a CRT if size is an issue.