even just making the Kindle show up as a USB printer, would be perfect for me, Ctrl+P away goes my current browsing for offline/sideline useage.
Rest of your points are valid, but..
Second, battery life of the display would be moot, the laptop/phone would die hours earlier. Third, you'd waste lots of battery life of the device on transmission.
1)suggestion was make it a USB device, that would eliminate any power load on the display, if completely USB powered display, means 2 displays, one plug in at the airport... 2) Most laptops can run all day if the screen is shutoff, and minimal hard drive use. More to the point is, when using a laptop for work their is very little of the screen that I need active. IE I will have mostly static reference materials, and graphs of data. Then I will have a window that I compose my report/notes/program in. I can't fit this on a 2#, 9" Asus eee PC. so I lug around a 19" Laptop everywhere I go (that screen probably requires 4* the battery of a 9" also.) If properly supported By apps, and the OS, that external display would be perfect, probably more since it is tougher and lighter than current stand alone LCD, than the low power aspect.
It would be good (as you pointed out) to have it store a good chunk of data. So one could start out using it as a auxiliary display, then dump the entire manual to this display, close the lid on my laptop while reading web pages, with page up/down keys...
Also I would want a attachment device so it can be attached to the 9" Laptop, not juggling 2 screens while in use.
wow, didn't realize their owned by Sears, well Fastenal and the on base stores (AAFES) also sell exchange craftsman, and aren't own3d. Stanley tools, and Pittsburgh have been a adequate replacement for me (I live and work out of town, so mail order replacement of Stanley tools generally works better for me anyway.)
too valuable to me to boycott the company as a whole.
if spyware is your only complaint, I agree. Agreed, you will never get sears to change through a boycott. I was a craftsman tool junkie, probably spent a average of $500 a month their, I quit cold turkey 3 years ago, and haven't missed them. Craftsman tools are available from Kmart,Lands' End, The Great Indoors, Orchard Supply Hardware, etc. And they honor the warranty just the same. No matter how you deal with a skunk, your eventually going to pickup the stink. By not going to sears for anything, you make sure their are competitors, and they stay, not the skunk. I got fed up with all their practices, 1) they keep dropping warranties from more and more of their tools, don't trust that friendly return to stay, and dropping lines tools with no replacement available = no warranty. 2) the ripped me off with their credit card, and didn't care. 3) they repeatedly ripped off my girlfriend in the tire shop (her response was "well you go their too") 4) they 2* sent her out knowingly with missing lug nuts, and no warning, and a "prove it" responses.
Harbor freight is my new tool junkie location, some of their stuff is crap, but most Pittsburgh tools also have lifetime warranties. And if you play the on-sell game, it is easily 1/3 the cost of sears. so buy 3 and throw away whatever breaks.
typically enjoy moderate to peak output less than 20% of the time. In other words, to reach cost parity with coal they actually need to be 5 times cheaper
were talking cost per KwHr, not cost per maximum output. Looking at my electric bill now. Actual cost of the electricity is less than half my bill (and that doesn't count the Tax's I pay for the REA that maintains the national grid), so if you kept the current infrastructure needs, nuclear can't cut my bill by much. Since current Nuclear tech cannot allow customers to supply their own needs, which means you need tons of copper maintained and grown for all electric useage. Since with todays tech, I can eliminate my electric bill with solar, I can only cut my bill by 1/4 with nuclear. Therefore nuclear needs to be 1/4 the cost per kw Hr in order to compete with solar.
If all cars went electric in 5 years, and we started building nuclear plants today, we would still need more copper or aluminum than we can produce in 5 years time to go nuclear.
My opinion is replacing our dirty electric power with nuclear needs done for industry. But we need to stop subsidizing power delivery, and make sure if our power grid goes down people are not dieing because the lost their only heating, cooling, and sanitary needs.
your glass must be in a vacuum. My glass is full, but at it's current temperature and pressure I could displace enough air to add 25.6* more liquid as is currently contained within.
Give me two million bucks - the supposed cost to archive just ten films - and I *guarantee or your money back*
Article says movie industry makes ~1/3 of their profit comes from the archives. With it costing $200 million to make these movies, you going to have to come up with a trillion $ guarantee if just half those movies are a hit and something goes wrong.
$$$ does seam excessive, I think I see the issue. They want to archive the day after shooting, and forget about it for 15 years. Their are plenty of digital media that could survive that time, but the devices to play back the media won't survive that long in storage. A facility for all movies a sort of library of congress for movies could solve this cheaper (per movie anyway), but then security is a hassle, since copies would be so easy for the staff... Where as their film required such expensive equipment to play/copy, and no yearly upkeep needed, they need a new model.
A better comparison would have been a 2002 RX-7. It weighs 100# less than the TESLA, makes 20% more torque, and goes 300 miles further between fillups (which takes 10 minutes, not 4 hours). Since it cost $50,000 less (when new, now much less) you could drive it 500,000 miles on $3/gallon gas before you recoup the difference. And is a touch faster than the Tesla.
The cummins is heavy, granted. (2200 must be for a entire 4WD drive train, then engine is 1000-1100 lbs.) It's the Engine I know, would not be a fit for a car since it is meant for 100% duty cycle, not a single flash like the tesla.
their is a limit to the amount of calories the human body can digest. For example in college I had a goal to gain 10 pounds (165 was my goal) I was on the swim team and swam up to 6 miles a day. Everything but the 10 pints of beer was part of my diet (weekend diet only.) If I missed the cafeteria, I often ate 2 large pizzas for dinner, I ate 3-4 bowls of cereal + pastries for breakfast every morning, and would cough down 5-6 peanut butter, and banana sandwiches every lunch (on top of a regular meal.) I would gain about 1# a week, as long as I was careful not to over eat and get sick. I was never able to break 165 until the exercise was reduced. (now I would have to lose 35# to get back to 165 though.) somewhere around 10-15k cals / day is the limit I am told, eating normal food. Of course lots of supplements let pro football players, etc top that.
agreed. I only have a problem with wayyy more torque statement, it was silly. Of course my transmission, in 1st gear is allowing this full torque application at about 4MPH, and the 6 gears allows it to be applied all the way to 100MPH. Up to that 4mph it would be shredding the tires with that torque available (even with the torque it has available, is more than 2 tires can handle on dry pavement loaded or otherwise.)
that diesel is a v10... excuse me, it is a 5.9L I6 24V (how do 24V divide by anything but 6*4) And I have ran at that torque continuously for 45 minutes pulling a trailer up a moutain. That car makes this torque for 6 seconds max.
Don't get me wrong, this is a cool car. but wayyyy more torque is a silly statement. You could get more torque out of a 2L 2Cylinder diesel that would weigh much less, and proven to last 200,000 miles making this torque all day. When a electric car beats Rod Millens Pike peak challange time (in a 2Liter motor making 1000hp btw) then you can say more torque (not wayyyyy)
They have wayyyyy more tourque than a comparable weight V8 engine.
not if you count the weight of the whole system currently. I mean the torque added doesn't make up for the added weight of the Honda hybrid components. Only reducing weight through use of more expensive alloys in the bumpers, etc allowed for performance improvement.
Besides, as you point out, engine peak torque of a gas engine is only important in transmission design. peak torque # has no impact on peak performance with the proper transmission mated to the V8, with a true CVT transmission peak HP would be the only matter determining performance.
Don't get me wrong, electric transmission systems give much better torque control, and simplify the drive train. But performance per weight is not yet one of them. Gas is so much denser than most batteries. If your going more than a few miles, power to weight is not a pure electric systems strength.
2000 ran old programs just fine, worked with hardware just fine, and once MS
I agree with the GP, my experience at the time was with at small companies, we had win2000 on "servers", but no laptops/ fewer desktops came with 2000, so we had 9x on those. "servers" because those were mostly file/print, not much more. but more reliable than 9x. but when XP came of age, it was what came on everything, and was better than 9x, and comparable to 2000. So we went XP on all windows. (we had a number of unix box's still)
The key was ease, which is the main reason to use windows anyway, correct? Sure you could get 2000 at the time, and with slow ass internet, eventually get drivers... Or Buy what was available, and just upgrade your old hardware to match the XP that came with the new. (still had a slow download, but only to improve old hardware, not on all new H/W as well, so 9x -> XP was same effort as 9x -> 2000)
Now with Vista out their, we got a volume licenses of XP, and fast internet to get drivers we want...
I thought that was the reason Home only supported a single CPU, otherwise it has the power to be a server, so you need Pro.
Does anyone really know if Home now supports multiple core? It seams those laptops default to home, and home shows multiple CPU's. but it sure seams dual core laptops run much faster once upgraded to PRO, where as non duo core seamed little difference. (could just be my imagination though.)
The power-savings you refer to, is spinning down just the drive, still the SATA/PATA spec. What I refereed to is the "USB device". Reading the reviews of this drive, reveals the electronics get really hot on this drive, hotter than the drives motor parts. Granted the proper path to take seams to be lower power consuming electronics, rather than powering down the USB portion.
I am in the market for a new server and was interested in the Seagate products
I think your safe. This (so far) is only about a single model line of Seagate USB drives. SATA/PATA drives have sufficient powersaving built into their specifications, their is no need to invent a new power saving method, which is what this seams to be. Apparently their is a lack of protocol for putting a USB device in standby, and being able to bring it back.
if their current perceptions are proven wrong, by their own admission, that pretty much throws out their recommendation, correct?
Although Nokia does basically say, we have already licensed the other formats, so their is no additional cost to Nokia. They do admit this wouldn't be true for everyone.
your correct, more starving people down the road seams to be what is happening. Because food is now free thanks to donations, it isn't possible to make money farming. So now we broke the food chain, how do you brake the new chain of dependence, no food, because theirs no farming. no farming, because food is supplied for free... You gotta start teaching something useful with value. It has already been shown, that some how-to info like how to setup a solar light, instead of burning oil removes pollution, and disease from inside their homes. Capture gas from animal waste gives cheaper, and cleaner burning heat for cooking... these are just 2 of 10 thousand things that could be stored on a laptop, put it on paper, and once read that paper is used for other purposes, and gone.
Interesting. I just bought one of these drives last week, and formated it ext3. I couldn't figure out why it always seamed to back up my data fine, but then the next morning (if left on) would always come back with a journal entry corrupt. forcing a unmount, and a fsck, then remount.
Wonder if my systems journal updates were too close to this timeout, so occasionally they just miss. Maybe a machine with lower utilization % would never have a problem. Being used for nightly backup, if I use ext2 this probably won't cause a problem. And why use a journal for a file system that will only ever have 2-3 tar files on it anyway.
I guess I will return the drive regardless though, no reason to use a device with a known timing issue lurking.
There is a lot, and I mean a *lot* of misinformation on YouTube.
yeah well, their was a *lot* of misinformation on slashdot long before it was on YouTube (don't get me started on the common mis beliefs that get +5 informative, like magic properties of electric motor's)
capacity to add another gig of flash, and XP could run on it. How much educational software would then fit in the machine?
the summary does say SD card, not memory. (which FYI is already in the OLPC specification http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SD )
I would assume M.S. would want to sell 5GB sd cards, or similar with some apps, and a installer that overwrites linux on the internal flash. And they want SD, so they can require a signature off the card to lock down copying.
since http:www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ already fits a XP under a CD (well, it'll run most XP programs, with the XP kernel...) short of full office, not sure why 1GB + USB/sd isn't enough.
all of them, except possibly planes are pretty much only stop for maintaince, or resource conflicts. IE truck driver required breaks, or tracks busy...
Company I work for ships overseas constantly. Trust me (many/most?) ships never stop, except for the unload/load time. They do all maintenance/rebuilds, etc while at sea. Need a engine rebuild? Shutdown one engine, for just long enough to remove the crank bolts, many will pull cylinders (one at a time), hone, and replace rings in a running engine. Ever take a cruise? watch those guys, their constantly painting, remodeling, repairing on every cruise, because they only pull into dock long enough to unload/reload. Same since the dawn of shipping, thats why they sway "swab the decks matie" because ships avoid shore time whenever practical. Even the military ships seam to only stop when dry-dock is required for stuff below the waterline (even that is now done while in tow on all but the biggest ships, that can't be hoisted into a dry dock vessle at sea.
I have setup these type of websites at my current company, and just turned on passwords for that directory in apache. Of course that alone assumes everyone who is allowed to look at one application is allowed to look at all applications. possible that programmer is told to setup a application for internal use. Management later tells IT to allow outside access, IT moves application to another server, never turns on security. Someone learns they can allow outside people access to their applications by sending a link...
Perfectly good code later ruined by IT and management.
theres also a noose hanging from the projector on the roof
ya, I was a little surprised by that, with the availability of remote display projectors, and adapters for existing projectors. Granted getting Wireless encryption working on Vista can be a royal pain. I would expect anyone presenting in a MS war room to be able to get a remote display working though.
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Rest of your points are valid, but..
1)suggestion was make it a USB device, that would eliminate any power load on the display, if completely USB powered display, means 2 displays, one plug in at the airport...
2) Most laptops can run all day if the screen is shutoff, and minimal hard drive use. More to the point is, when using a laptop for work their is very little of the screen that I need active. IE I will have mostly static reference materials, and graphs of data. Then I will have a window that I compose my report/notes/program in.
I can't fit this on a 2#, 9" Asus eee PC. so I lug around a 19" Laptop everywhere I go (that screen probably requires 4* the battery of a 9" also.) If properly supported By apps, and the OS, that external display would be perfect, probably more since it is tougher and lighter than current stand alone LCD, than the low power aspect.
It would be good (as you pointed out) to have it store a good chunk of data. So one could start out using it as a auxiliary display, then dump the entire manual to this display, close the lid on my laptop while reading web pages, with page up/down keys...
Also I would want a attachment device so it can be attached to the 9" Laptop, not juggling 2 screens while in use.
wow, didn't realize their owned by Sears, well Fastenal and the on base stores (AAFES) also sell exchange craftsman, and aren't own3d.
Stanley tools, and Pittsburgh have been a adequate replacement for me (I live and work out of town, so mail order replacement of Stanley tools generally works better for me anyway.)
if spyware is your only complaint, I agree. Agreed, you will never get sears to change through a boycott. I was a craftsman tool junkie, probably spent a average of $500 a month their, I quit cold turkey 3 years ago, and haven't missed them. Craftsman tools are available from Kmart,Lands' End, The Great Indoors, Orchard Supply Hardware, etc. And they honor the warranty just the same.
No matter how you deal with a skunk, your eventually going to pickup the stink. By not going to sears for anything, you make sure their are competitors, and they stay, not the skunk.
I got fed up with all their practices, 1) they keep dropping warranties from more and more of their tools, don't trust that friendly return to stay, and dropping lines tools with no replacement available = no warranty. 2) the ripped me off with their credit card, and didn't care. 3) they repeatedly ripped off my girlfriend in the tire shop (her response was "well you go their too") 4) they 2* sent her out knowingly with missing lug nuts, and no warning, and a "prove it" responses.
Harbor freight is my new tool junkie location, some of their stuff is crap, but most Pittsburgh tools also have lifetime warranties. And if you play the on-sell game, it is easily 1/3 the cost of sears. so buy 3 and throw away whatever breaks.
were talking cost per KwHr, not cost per maximum output.
Looking at my electric bill now. Actual cost of the electricity is less than half my bill (and that doesn't count the Tax's I pay for the REA that maintains the national grid), so if you kept the current infrastructure needs, nuclear can't cut my bill by much. Since current Nuclear tech cannot allow customers to supply their own needs, which means you need tons of copper maintained and grown for all electric useage.
Since with todays tech, I can eliminate my electric bill with solar, I can only cut my bill by 1/4 with nuclear. Therefore nuclear needs to be 1/4 the cost per kw Hr in order to compete with solar.
If all cars went electric in 5 years, and we started building nuclear plants today, we would still need more copper or aluminum than we can produce in 5 years time to go nuclear.
My opinion is replacing our dirty electric power with nuclear needs done for industry. But we need to stop subsidizing power delivery, and make sure if our power grid goes down people are not dieing because the lost their only heating, cooling, and sanitary needs.
your glass must be in a vacuum. My glass is full, but at it's current temperature and pressure I could displace enough air to add 25.6* more liquid as is currently contained within.
Article says movie industry makes ~1/3 of their profit comes from the archives. With it costing $200 million to make these movies, you going to have to come up with a trillion $ guarantee if just half those movies are a hit and something goes wrong.
$$$ does seam excessive, I think I see the issue. They want to archive the day after shooting, and forget about it for 15 years. Their are plenty of digital media that could survive that time, but the devices to play back the media won't survive that long in storage. A facility for all movies a sort of library of congress for movies could solve this cheaper (per movie anyway), but then security is a hassle, since copies would be so easy for the staff...
Where as their film required such expensive equipment to play/copy, and no yearly upkeep needed, they need a new model.
A better comparison would have been a 2002 RX-7. It weighs 100# less than the TESLA, makes 20% more torque, and goes 300 miles further between fillups (which takes 10 minutes, not 4 hours). Since it cost $50,000 less (when new, now much less) you could drive it 500,000 miles on $3/gallon gas before you recoup the difference. And is a touch faster than the Tesla.
The cummins is heavy, granted. (2200 must be for a entire 4WD drive train, then engine is 1000-1100 lbs.)
It's the Engine I know, would not be a fit for a car since it is meant for 100% duty cycle, not a single flash like the tesla.
their is a limit to the amount of calories the human body can digest.
For example in college I had a goal to gain 10 pounds (165 was my goal) I was on the swim team and swam up to 6 miles a day. Everything but the 10 pints of beer was part of my diet (weekend diet only.) If I missed the cafeteria, I often ate 2 large pizzas for dinner, I ate 3-4 bowls of cereal + pastries for breakfast every morning, and would cough down 5-6 peanut butter, and banana sandwiches every lunch (on top of a regular meal.) I would gain about 1# a week, as long as I was careful not to over eat and get sick. I was never able to break 165 until the exercise was reduced. (now I would have to lose 35# to get back to 165 though.)
somewhere around 10-15k cals / day is the limit I am told, eating normal food. Of course lots of supplements let pro football players, etc top that.
agreed. I only have a problem with wayyy more torque statement, it was silly.
Of course my transmission, in 1st gear is allowing this full torque application at about 4MPH, and the 6 gears allows it to be applied all the way to 100MPH. Up to that 4mph it would be shredding the tires with that torque available (even with the torque it has available, is more than 2 tires can handle on dry pavement loaded or otherwise.)
that diesel is a v10...
excuse me, it is a 5.9L I6 24V (how do 24V divide by anything but 6*4)
And I have ran at that torque continuously for 45 minutes pulling a trailer up a moutain. That car makes this torque for 6 seconds max.
Don't get me wrong, this is a cool car. but wayyyy more torque is a silly statement. You could get more torque out of a 2L 2Cylinder diesel that would weigh much less, and proven to last 200,000 miles making this torque all day. When a electric car beats Rod Millens Pike peak challange time (in a 2Liter motor making 1000hp btw) then you can say more torque (not wayyyyy)
FYI the Telsa's peak torque of 200 ft lbs is 1/3 that of the 610 lb.-ft of my 2006 Cummins diesel 6 cylinder (stock).
not if you count the weight of the whole system currently. I mean the torque added doesn't make up for the added weight of the Honda hybrid components. Only reducing weight through use of more expensive alloys in the bumpers, etc allowed for performance improvement.
Besides, as you point out, engine peak torque of a gas engine is only important in transmission design. peak torque # has no impact on peak performance with the proper transmission mated to the V8, with a true CVT transmission peak HP would be the only matter determining performance.
Don't get me wrong, electric transmission systems give much better torque control, and simplify the drive train. But performance per weight is not yet one of them. Gas is so much denser than most batteries. If your going more than a few miles, power to weight is not a pure electric systems strength.
I agree with the GP, my experience at the time was with at small companies, we had win2000 on "servers", but no laptops/ fewer desktops came with 2000, so we had 9x on those.
"servers" because those were mostly file/print, not much more. but more reliable than 9x.
but when XP came of age, it was what came on everything, and was better than 9x, and comparable to 2000. So we went XP on all windows. (we had a number of unix box's still)
The key was ease, which is the main reason to use windows anyway, correct? Sure you could get 2000 at the time, and with slow ass internet, eventually get drivers... Or Buy what was available, and just upgrade your old hardware to match the XP that came with the new. (still had a slow download, but only to improve old hardware, not on all new H/W as well, so 9x -> XP was same effort as 9x -> 2000)
Now with Vista out their, we got a volume licenses of XP, and fast internet to get drivers we want...
I thought that was the reason Home only supported a single CPU, otherwise it has the power to be a server, so you need Pro.
Does anyone really know if Home now supports multiple core? It seams those laptops default to home, and home shows multiple CPU's. but it sure seams dual core laptops run much faster once upgraded to PRO, where as non duo core seamed little difference.
(could just be my imagination though.)
The power-savings you refer to, is spinning down just the drive, still the SATA/PATA spec. What I refereed to is the "USB device".
Reading the reviews of this drive, reveals the electronics get really hot on this drive, hotter than the drives motor parts. Granted the proper path to take seams to be lower power consuming electronics, rather than powering down the USB portion.
I think your safe. This (so far) is only about a single model line of Seagate USB drives.
SATA/PATA drives have sufficient powersaving built into their specifications, their is no need to invent a new power saving method, which is what this seams to be. Apparently their is a lack of protocol for putting a USB device in standby, and being able to bring it back.
if their current perceptions are proven wrong, by their own admission, that pretty much throws out their recommendation, correct?
Although Nokia does basically say, we have already licensed the other formats, so their is no additional cost to Nokia. They do admit this wouldn't be true for everyone.
your correct, more starving people down the road seams to be what is happening.
Because food is now free thanks to donations, it isn't possible to make money farming.
So now we broke the food chain, how do you brake the new chain of dependence, no food, because theirs no farming. no farming, because food is supplied for free...
You gotta start teaching something useful with value.
It has already been shown, that some how-to info like how to setup a solar light, instead of burning oil removes pollution, and disease from inside their homes. Capture gas from animal waste gives cheaper, and cleaner burning heat for cooking...
these are just 2 of 10 thousand things that could be stored on a laptop, put it on paper, and once read that paper is used for other purposes, and gone.
Interesting.
I just bought one of these drives last week, and formated it ext3. I couldn't figure out why it always seamed to back up my data fine, but then the next morning (if left on) would always come back with a journal entry corrupt. forcing a unmount, and a fsck, then remount.
Wonder if my systems journal updates were too close to this timeout, so occasionally they just miss. Maybe a machine with lower utilization % would never have a problem.
Being used for nightly backup, if I use ext2 this probably won't cause a problem. And why use a journal for a file system that will only ever have 2-3 tar files on it anyway.
I guess I will return the drive regardless though, no reason to use a device with a known timing issue lurking.
yeah well, their was a *lot* of misinformation on slashdot long before it was on YouTube
(don't get me started on the common mis beliefs that get +5 informative, like magic properties of electric motor's)
the summary does say SD card, not memory. (which FYI is already in the OLPC specification http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SD )
I would assume M.S. would want to sell 5GB sd cards, or similar with some apps, and a installer that overwrites linux on the internal flash. And they want SD, so they can require a signature off the card to lock down copying.
since http:www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ already fits a XP under a CD (well, it'll run most XP programs, with the XP kernel...) short of full office, not sure why 1GB + USB/sd isn't enough.
I have setup these type of websites at my current company, and just turned on passwords for that directory in apache. Of course that alone assumes everyone who is allowed to look at one application is allowed to look at all applications.
possible that programmer is told to setup a application for internal use. Management later tells IT to allow outside access, IT moves application to another server, never turns on security. Someone learns they can allow outside people access to their applications by sending a link...
Perfectly good code later ruined by IT and management.
ya, I was a little surprised by that, with the availability of remote display projectors, and adapters for existing projectors. Granted getting Wireless encryption working on Vista can be a royal pain. I would expect anyone presenting in a MS war room to be able to get a remote display working though.
Think voting machines. So far that has been the most requested approach, a verified hash code from open source, that is verified on each machine...