I wonder if you could come up with some device to prolong the battery life of a laptop. One of the main current sink besides the CPU is the backlit device of the LCD. For simplicity, let's say, dividing the LCD foot print in 3 x 3 grid. When our eye ball focus on the top left area, only the white LED behind the top left corner of the LCD is lit up. So the power consumption is cut to 1/9 of the original. When our eye ball row to the other corner, that corner will be lit up. Then of course, when we are pondering the problem, moving the eye ball off the screen area will shut off the backlit completely, or even putting the CPU into power-saving mode. I mean the cone area of our eyes could only focus on a small area of the screen, light up the whole screen is quite a luxury.
or you can go to some familiar web site, such slashdot.org. Find a familiar keyword such as "askslashdot", "firehose", "pricegrabber" that appears on the home page. Then cut and paste.
After your GM stocks fell, the Bear Stearns shrunk to almost nothing, son of your neighborhood got shot in Iraq.... one couldn't help casting some doubt over our position.
When people watch movies, the screen looks better when you turn up the screen to make it brighter. In this case the reflection glare would hardly be noticed.
Now when you use the screen for word processing. Staring at bright background would hurt the eyes. So I would turn the white background to grey background and dim the screen. My eyes would feel much better after hours in front of the screen. When the screen is dimmer, back reflection will be an issue. So I would prefer glossy screen for movies, matte screen for word processing.
After Chinese spend so much effort to organize the Olympics and subsequent investment etc. It would be a total moron for the Chinese to initiate any crackdown on the Tibetans. The Chinese don't need such negative publicity by any measure. On the other hand, the separatist Tibetans could take this opportunity to stir up a scene when the Olympic torch pass through their area. They would receive the least suppression from the govt. The timing favors the separatists. Dalai lama must have a good PR team to organize the show.
Sorry for my being skeptic, it is quite unconvincing that the central govt would crackdown on the Tibetans during the countdown of the Olympic games. On the other hand, the Tibetans marching from India, the riots in Tibet, Gangsu, ChingHai, and the well orchestrated protests in different western countries seem well planned. I am sure some Tibetans aren't happy with their lives up there, and wish they could find some way to get their message across by making the least collateral damage.
Please also unplug the webcam that you are not using. While you are hacking with your girl friend, you might not notice someone is giggling in the van which is parked outside of your house.
If the terrorists planned to strike, they would first hire a plane and spray radioactive iodide over a city. Next hour, 1/2 million people panic wave across the city because their mobile alarm sound like hell. One week later, the terrorists then drive their truck of shit to the city center.
Quoted from V.I.Arnold's On teaching of mathematics:
The mathematical technique of modelling consists of ignoring this trouble and speaking about your deductive model in such a way as if it coincided with reality. The fact that this path, which is obviously incorrect from the point of view of natural science, often leads to useful results in physics is called "the inconceivable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences" (or "the Wigner principle").
Here we can add a remark by I.M. Gel'fand: there exists yet another phenomenon which is comparable in its inconceivability with the inconceivable effectiveness of mathematics in physics noted by Wigner - this is the equally inconceivable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.
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The epicenter is about 65miles north-west of Chengdu city.
"I started the jokes, .... "
Bee Gees
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Early warning from toad migration on May 10.
Not just for the oil, but also the multi-billion dollar rose-garden reconstruction projects there.
One month after OLPC comes OGPC, G for glasses.
I wonder if you could come up with some device to prolong the battery life of a laptop. One of the main current sink besides the CPU is the backlit device of the LCD. For simplicity, let's say, dividing the LCD foot print in 3 x 3 grid. When our eye ball focus on the top left area, only the white LED behind the top left corner of the LCD is lit up. So the power consumption is cut to 1/9 of the original. When our eye ball row to the other corner, that corner will be lit up. Then of course, when we are pondering the problem, moving the eye ball off the screen area will shut off the backlit completely, or even putting the CPU into power-saving mode. I mean the cone area of our eyes could only focus on a small area of the screen, light up the whole screen is quite a luxury.
or you can go to some familiar web site, such slashdot.org. Find a familiar keyword such as "askslashdot", "firehose", "pricegrabber" that appears on the home page. Then cut and paste.
After your GM stocks fell, the Bear Stearns shrunk to almost nothing, son of your neighborhood got shot in Iraq .... one couldn't help casting some doubt over our position.
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199909/msg00020.html
How could you leave out the M$ ?
You mean mammal tissue reconstruction?
On some machine, the display could be rotated 90 degree. You then need a USB keyboard + a mouse. Less convenient but doable.
Low cost Asus parts should definitely made in Mainland. There are lots of factories run by Taiwanese in Mainland.
try get some facts, Mr tourist.
Now when you use the screen for word processing. Staring at bright background would hurt the eyes. So I would turn the white background to grey background and dim the screen. My eyes would feel much better after hours in front of the screen. When the screen is dimmer, back reflection will be an issue. So I would prefer glossy screen for movies, matte screen for word processing.
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After Chinese spend so much effort to organize the Olympics and subsequent investment etc. It would be a total moron for the Chinese to initiate any crackdown on the Tibetans. The Chinese don't need such negative publicity by any measure. On the other hand, the separatist Tibetans could take this opportunity to stir up a scene when the Olympic torch pass through their area. They would receive the least suppression from the govt. The timing favors the separatists. Dalai lama must have a good PR team to organize the show.
Sorry for my being skeptic, it is quite unconvincing that the central govt would crackdown on the Tibetans during the countdown of the Olympic games. On the other hand, the Tibetans marching from India, the riots in Tibet, Gangsu, ChingHai, and the well orchestrated protests in different western countries seem well planned.
I am sure some Tibetans aren't happy with their lives up there, and wish they could find some way to get their message across by making the least collateral damage.
The throat mikes is useful when you are riding on a F15. A neckband signal pickup is useful in scuba gears.
yes, right, sell more sub-prime CDO to them.
yes, the workers should be paid by nano-dollar.
Please also unplug the webcam that you are not using. While you are hacking with your girl friend, you might not notice someone is giggling in the van which is parked outside of your house.
If the terrorists planned to strike, they would first hire a plane and spray radioactive iodide over a city. Next hour, 1/2 million people panic wave across the city because their mobile alarm sound like hell. One week later, the terrorists then drive their truck of shit to the city center.
Quoted from V.I.Arnold's On teaching of mathematics:
The mathematical technique of modelling consists of ignoring this trouble and speaking about your deductive model in such a way as if it coincided with reality. The fact that this path, which is obviously incorrect from the point of view of natural science, often leads to useful results in physics is called "the inconceivable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences" (or "the Wigner principle").
Here we can add a remark by I.M. Gel'fand: there exists yet another phenomenon which is comparable in its inconceivability with the inconceivable effectiveness of mathematics in physics noted by Wigner - this is the equally inconceivable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.