I think they are suggesting there is no case, and there never was, but this ploy has increased the stock value dramatically, making those who knew about the accusations before they were public VERY VERY RICH.
Sure it was really brief, but it left out a lot of major cards and even left out the main reason 3dfx died: no 32-bit color support. Sure, that hardcore gamers didn't care, but the hardcore gamers only represent 0.000001% of the world market.
When the average consumer sees two card that are about the same except one is dramatically better in something EVERYBODY understands without a CS degeee, that card wins.
"They arent in a location very suitable for wind/solar either, so nuclear seems like the best non-renewable solution."
Au contraire mon frair, Alaska is PERFECT for wind power. Well, except for the detail of ice, but I figure once the turbines get started the they ought to generate enough power to heat the blades and still generate enough electricity to be useful. If Bill Gates can heat his driveway, we can heat wind generator blades.
But seriously, check out how much wind the Aleutian Islands have according to gov't wind maps: http://www.nrel.gov/wind/images/wherewind80 0.jpg
Doesn't get any better ANYWHERE in the US. All we need to do now is invent ice-proof wind turbines.
I found that putting the wires to the cpu heatsink between the heatsink and cpu does wonders for stability. After the insulation melts and the wires short, you may find that none of the fan controls on your Asus A7V motherboard work. This, however, is a bonus as now you get to make your own wires and splice and solder connectors so you can power all your fans directly from the power supply.
Newspaper degrades in a matter of weeks, if allowed to blow around town. When buried in a landfill, it easily lasts 50 years, and could last for hundreds.
Same thing with those plastic bags that degrade in the sun: bury them and they last centuries.
If the maker is quoting 50-100 years for degrade time, you can count on the discs surviving 1000's of years once buried.
I'm sure there must be a civil use for such a laser, but I can't think of one.
Using a laser as a rock drill is probably the least efficient method of drilling possible, it would make poisonous fumes, and those fumes would block the laser beam.
As for missiles, if the missle is shiney the laser will be reflected. I think.
The moon idea might work... maybe the fumes would disperse faster in zero atmosphere, and it might be cheaper than sending equipment.
I would guess a high power laser would vaporize a kernal before it could pop, but I would love to see a test!
"Laser" "Laaaaaaaser" Sorry, I had to get that out of my system.
Beautiful women??? If you find sweatshirts and stretch pants stretched to the limit, or you are a connoisseur of camel toe, maybe. Actually, if you're in to teens who smoke and drink NH might be the place for you. That and Mechanixville, NY.
The entire concept of "New Hampshire" and "night club" being in the same sentence is hilarious, especially when we're talking about Rochester NH. The only thing near Rochester is Canada. I'm surprised they even have electricity, or maybe they run generators on pinecones and permafrost. The highlight of my life in NH was living across the street from the place they broadcasted live candlepin bowling every weekend. There was a club near me, too, but there was a biker knife fight and then a fire and then it snowed and the building collapsed.
The only silicone I know of is in Southern NH, and that's in children in middle school. (I know this because my wife and I volunteered, I did not go checking out preteens, thank you very much). What kind of parent lets their kid do that, nevermind buy them for quinceanera (sweet 15) presents???
You may have seen NH in the news for the fratricide shotgun murder over how to open a bag of potato chips, or the murder over who drank the last beer, or the town that banned Shakespeare for promoting homosexuality.
I would like to see the frequency responce of wires now...
As for adding a resistor, if the output of the system is not buffered, that resistor can completely change the frequency of filters within the device and change the frequency responce, like in the archos jukebox mp3 player. Some owners have actually resorted to soldering a resistor into the jukebox.
Can Tivo do stuff that the free PVRS can do, like be a front end for emulators and get shows from the web? If so, it might be worth buying a Tivo instead of building my own.
Still, last I checked it it was $250 for a tivo and $250 to use it and $100 for the net card and $50 to use it, so it might be cheaper to build my own. But I'm lazy...
Far longer than my attention span...
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If it takes a while to load, that's because there is 200k of TEXT to download. Maybe a speed reader or the poster can maybe summarize the unpalatable conclusions...
Oh, and let me make clear, while I am not yet calling audiophile analog cables a scam, I am calling audiophile digital cables a scam.
Even normal low end stores are getting in on the scam, charging $100+ for a cable to connect your DVD player to the receiver.
What, are the bits more pristine than when using a conventional cable? Are the 1s and 0s more like 0.999 and 0.001 than 0.998 and 0.002 with cheap cables? Maybe cheap cables randomly add and subtract bits from the stream?
Not quite related, but can someone PLEASE explain what those $5,000 to $10,000 wires are supposed to do?
I have seen really expensive setups, and I beleive the amps are truely are more linear and the systems make less distortion than my POS sony receiver that randomly crashes and has to be rebooted, or my sony dvd player that I had to modify with silver paste, aluminum foil and pliers to stop it from over heating.
But wires???
Wires are usually considered passive elements, and therefore can only affect volume.
But, having taken a few transmition and power classes in my EE career, I know that all wire have capacitance and inductance. But hardly any at all. And certain configurations of wires can reduce it to theoretically zero - for instance, coaxial or parallel wires. (Twisted pairs are basically parallel, btw.)
So, is there any truth to the $10,000 wire claims, or is it all crap? Yes, yes, I am positive they are a little better, but enough to easily measure? Enough to hear? Links would be wonderful...
It just does, just like that same nothing is also a medium for light and maybe gravity wave, and space can be bent by gravity causing massless objects like light to change course. It has to do with realivity, but don't ask me any more than that...
What I find hard to believe is that if the universe could expand an extra 40 billion light years in 15 or so billion years. It expands faster than the speed of light?!? Forget red shift...
Every other post is about how we should switch to firebird. Besides having a stupid and overused name, what is the benefit?
Right now I use Opera because IE simply sucks and Netscape crashes more than a win98 box.
Opera also lets me open multiple windows, remembers what I had open in the case of a crash, lets me open links in the background with a mouse gesture (and colors the link the instand it loads), has 4 pop-up settings, and lots more.
marketers redefine electrical engineering units. Sort of like "benchmarketing" but they toy with fundamental units instead of statistics.
And now we have software and system "engineers" defending the marketers. How cute.
Remember this day when you are pissed off that your 1 TB drive is only 900 GB.
I would mock y'all more, but I need to go buy 1,000,000,000 bytes of RAM and a 16.5 to 19 inch inch 19 inch monitor. Oh, wait, that's DIFFERENT.
PS: There is one benefit to using marketer units over actual engineering units: those trick EE test questions like "how long does it take to transmit 1 MB at 1 MB per second?" (answer 1.048576 sec) will now be obsolete. Storage has always been measured in base 2 as that is how it's stored, but everything else like transmision speed are base 10.
Oh, wait, one more benefit: if we switch to trinary storage I will be very happy to use base 10.
Warning: I will email you if you don't reply here as I am very interested in this.
I live in Texas. Lets just say I'm not worried about snow on my panels. But I am worried about the cost.
Right now I easily use $1000 on just AC in the summer, maybe $2000 a year in electricty total. We have no wind down here at all, so solar panels are the only green way to go. However, I read it will cost $15,000+ to go solar and will take 30 years to pay for itself, assuming they aren't destroyed by baseball sized hail.
Are those numbers right?
Sure, I can just get a panel or two and a dc to ac converter, but it if takes 30 years to pay for itself then it doesn't make much economical sense.
I read about a trick on the web a few years ago so I tried it at home and showed my family. I cut a grape in half length-wize, but left a little skin connecting the halve, lay the two round sides on a plate, placed it in the microwave, hit start, and **ZAP!!!** -- flames, sparks, toasted grape halves flying apart.
My brother thought it was "awesome," my mom feared for her microwave, and my dad (an EE) said "ah, the grapes are about the size of the wavelength of a microwave so the grape must be acting as a dipole antenna, neat" and walked away.
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That's not what I got out of this news.
I think they are suggesting there is no case, and there never was, but this ploy has increased the stock value dramatically, making those who knew about the accusations before they were public VERY VERY RICH.
I always wanted that thing, but I settled for the dance pad that came with a gnarly olympics game.
Sure it was really brief, but it left out a lot of major cards and even left out the main reason 3dfx died: no 32-bit color support. Sure, that hardcore gamers didn't care, but the hardcore gamers only represent 0.000001% of the world market.
When the average consumer sees two card that are about the same except one is dramatically better in something EVERYBODY understands without a CS degeee, that card wins.
Why not go around town and threaten people "your vote or your life" just like in the good old days before secret ballot.
"Your PIN or your life" would work too.
"They arent in a location very suitable for wind/solar either, so nuclear seems like the best non-renewable solution."
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Au contraire mon frair, Alaska is PERFECT for wind power. Well, except for the detail of ice, but I figure once the turbines get started the they ought to generate enough power to heat the blades and still generate enough electricity to be useful. If Bill Gates can heat his driveway, we can heat wind generator blades.
But seriously, check out how much wind the Aleutian Islands have according to gov't wind maps:
http://www.nrel.gov/wind/images/wherewind8
Doesn't get any better ANYWHERE in the US. All we need to do now is invent ice-proof wind turbines.
Teflon?
So, then according to you there is no way to aim a laser weapon at it's target as the mirrors would melt?
I found that putting the wires to the cpu heatsink between the heatsink and cpu does wonders for stability. After the insulation melts and the wires short, you may find that none of the fan controls on your Asus A7V motherboard work. This, however, is a bonus as now you get to make your own wires and splice and solder connectors so you can power all your fans directly from the power supply.
I wish I could say I've never done that.
Newspaper degrades in a matter of weeks, if allowed to blow around town. When buried in a landfill, it easily lasts 50 years, and could last for hundreds.
Same thing with those plastic bags that degrade in the sun: bury them and they last centuries.
If the maker is quoting 50-100 years for degrade time, you can count on the discs surviving 1000's of years once buried.
I'm sure there must be a civil use for such a laser, but I can't think of one.
Using a laser as a rock drill is probably the least efficient method of drilling possible, it would make poisonous fumes, and those fumes would block the laser beam.
As for missiles, if the missle is shiney the laser will be reflected. I think.
The moon idea might work... maybe the fumes would disperse faster in zero atmosphere, and it might be cheaper than sending equipment.
I would guess a high power laser would vaporize a kernal before it could pop, but I would love to see a test!
"Laser"
"Laaaaaaaser"
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system.
Wasn't that basically the conclusion of all the starwars laser crap: that it would all be made useless if the incoming ICMB was shiney?
This guy is living on his own planet.
Beautiful women??? If you find sweatshirts and stretch pants stretched to the limit, or you are a connoisseur of camel toe, maybe. Actually, if you're in to teens who smoke and drink NH might be the place for you. That and Mechanixville, NY.
The entire concept of "New Hampshire" and "night club" being in the same sentence is hilarious, especially when we're talking about Rochester NH. The only thing near Rochester is Canada. I'm surprised they even have electricity, or maybe they run generators on pinecones and permafrost. The highlight of my life in NH was living across the street from the place they broadcasted live candlepin bowling every weekend. There was a club near me, too, but there was a biker knife fight and then a fire and then it snowed and the building collapsed.
The only silicone I know of is in Southern NH, and that's in children in middle school. (I know this because my wife and I volunteered, I did not go checking out preteens, thank you very much). What kind of parent lets their kid do that, nevermind buy them for quinceanera (sweet 15) presents???
You may have seen NH in the news for the fratricide shotgun murder over how to open a bag of potato chips, or the murder over who drank the last beer, or the town that banned Shakespeare for promoting homosexuality.
I would like to see the frequency responce of wires now...
As for adding a resistor, if the output of the system is not buffered, that resistor can completely change the frequency of filters within the device and change the frequency responce, like in the archos jukebox mp3 player. Some owners have actually resorted to soldering a resistor into the jukebox.
Maybe someone can explain the difference between series 1 and 2 for those of us who don't own one but are drooling over them.
Can Tivo do stuff that the free PVRS can do, like be a front end for emulators and get shows from the web? If so, it might be worth buying a Tivo instead of building my own.
Still, last I checked it it was $250 for a tivo and $250 to use it and $100 for the net card and $50 to use it, so it might be cheaper to build my own. But I'm lazy...
If it takes a while to load, that's because there is 200k of TEXT to download. Maybe a speed reader or the poster can maybe summarize the unpalatable conclusions...
Christian principles? I know you're just a troll, but you ought to know that the majority of founding fathers were Masonlic Dieists.
Here's some good quotes:
http://religion.aynrand.org/quotes.html
Oh, and let me make clear, while I am not yet calling audiophile analog cables a scam, I am calling audiophile digital cables a scam.
Even normal low end stores are getting in on the scam, charging $100+ for a cable to connect your DVD player to the receiver.
What, are the bits more pristine than when using a conventional cable? Are the 1s and 0s more like 0.999 and 0.001 than 0.998 and 0.002 with cheap cables? Maybe cheap cables randomly add and subtract bits from the stream?
Not quite related, but can someone PLEASE explain what those $5,000 to $10,000 wires are supposed to do?
I have seen really expensive setups, and I beleive the amps are truely are more linear and the systems make less distortion than my POS sony receiver that randomly crashes and has to be rebooted, or my sony dvd player that I had to modify with silver paste, aluminum foil and pliers to stop it from over heating.
But wires???
Wires are usually considered passive elements, and therefore can only affect volume.
But, having taken a few transmition and power classes in my EE career, I know that all wire have capacitance and inductance. But hardly any at all. And certain configurations of wires can reduce it to theoretically zero - for instance, coaxial or parallel wires. (Twisted pairs are basically parallel, btw.)
So, is there any truth to the $10,000 wire claims, or is it all crap? Yes, yes, I am positive they are a little better, but enough to easily measure? Enough to hear? Links would be wonderful...
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Fine, I believe that, since I know information can also travel faster than light.
But if the universe expands faster than light, then shouldn't there be a wall of darkness in every direction, since no light could reach us?
It just does, just like that same nothing is also a medium for light and maybe gravity wave, and space can be bent by gravity causing massless objects like light to change course. It has to do with realivity, but don't ask me any more than that...
What I find hard to believe is that if the universe could expand an extra 40 billion light years in 15 or so billion years. It expands faster than the speed of light?!? Forget red shift...
Every other post is about how we should switch to firebird. Besides having a stupid and overused name, what is the benefit?
Right now I use Opera because IE simply sucks and Netscape crashes more than a win98 box.
Opera also lets me open multiple windows, remembers what I had open in the case of a crash, lets me open links in the background with a mouse gesture (and colors the link the instand it loads), has 4 pop-up settings, and lots more.
Why sould I switch?
marketers redefine electrical engineering units. Sort of like "benchmarketing" but they toy with fundamental units instead of statistics.
And now we have software and system "engineers" defending the marketers. How cute.
Remember this day when you are pissed off that your 1 TB drive is only 900 GB.
I would mock y'all more, but I need to go buy 1,000,000,000 bytes of RAM and a 16.5 to 19 inch inch 19 inch monitor. Oh, wait, that's DIFFERENT.
PS: There is one benefit to using marketer units over actual engineering units: those trick EE test questions like "how long does it take to transmit 1 MB at 1 MB per second?" (answer 1.048576 sec) will now be obsolete. Storage has always been measured in base 2 as that is how it's stored, but everything else like transmision speed are base 10.
Oh, wait, one more benefit: if we switch to trinary storage I will be very happy to use base 10.
Warning: I will email you if you don't reply here as I am very interested in this.
I live in Texas. Lets just say I'm not worried about snow on my panels. But I am worried about the cost.
Right now I easily use $1000 on just AC in the summer, maybe $2000 a year in electricty total. We have no wind down here at all, so solar panels are the only green way to go. However, I read it will cost $15,000+ to go solar and will take 30 years to pay for itself, assuming they aren't destroyed by baseball sized hail.
Are those numbers right?
Sure, I can just get a panel or two and a dc to ac converter, but it if takes 30 years to pay for itself then it doesn't make much economical sense.
I read about a trick on the web a few years ago so I tried it at home and showed my family. I cut a grape in half length-wize, but left a little skin connecting the halve, lay the two round sides on a plate, placed it in the microwave, hit start, and **ZAP!!!** -- flames, sparks, toasted grape halves flying apart.
My brother thought it was "awesome," my mom feared for her microwave, and my dad (an EE) said "ah, the grapes are about the size of the wavelength of a microwave so the grape must be acting as a dipole antenna, neat" and walked away.