> That's why @Home limits me to 128Kb on the upstream - it prevents me from running a 1,000 user FTP!
I'm afraid it might be the other way around!
Cable modem technology has a very much larger bandwidth downstream than upstream. This is not a question of a limit arbitrarily placed by @Home, but aa limit of the technology.
Both upstream and downstream bandwiths are shared between subscribers.
Because upstream bandwidth is smaller, it will be exhausted much faster when there are users running servers.
... the amount of electronics that is going to be thrown away in this way? I work at a small electronics firm, and from last year on it has been nearly impossible to get surface mount tantalum and ceramic capacitors.
Reason: they are being sold by the millions to manufacturers of cellphones. Who wants to sell a couple of hundred to small fish like us?
And this is for non-disposable cellphones only. Make them cheap and exposable, and demand will rise manyfold.
What I heard, at this moment, manufacturing capacity of tantalum capacitors is limited by the rate tantalum mines can dig up the raw materials.
For the surface mount ceramic capacitors, a similar situation exists for the palladium that is used in the end caps.
Any increase in demand will lead to a shortage, and suppliers will only deliver to the largest (not necessarily highest!) bidder.
Oh yes, although the phone is mainly made of paper instead of plastic, this does not mean that the components are as well...
> Note it also observed "shortened pulsation"
> which is a direct consequence of the time
> slowing down.
If I'm not mistaken, we see the time slow down for objects nearing the event horizon. That is, we see their clocks running slower and slower, until they come to a standstill.
This is exactly the opposite effect of the "shortened pulsation", where we see the pulses going faster and faster!
It sounds like he was thinking the same thing I am, namely that instead of stopping when idle and spinning all the way up to 4800 RPM (or whatever it is) when needed, it should idle at an extremely low speed, like 120 RPM (no, I didn't forget a zero) Unfortunately, normal harddisks can't do this. The head hovers over the disk on an air cushion that is produced by the fast spinning disk. Reducing the RPM with the head still over an active area of the disk will lead to a head crash.
> So I'm guessing as a printer you'd "print out" a screen
Please, don't guess, read the article. This is not about printing anything, it's just about a new technology of making color displays cheap.
It uses Light Emitting Polymer instead of LCD or LEDs, but the result is still a display as we know it. That it uses a printing technology in manufacturing the display does not change any of this.
It could make color displays on cell phones cheaper, though.
Scaling down icon sizes automatically is nice, but this is not a substitute for well-designed small icons. Creating a good-looking small icon is an art, that cannot simply be replaced by downscaling a large icon.
Or are icons present in various sizes, and is the slider used to select between these?
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I don't think that Nigger originally referred to black er african american persons, but something along the lines of greedy, selfish, lazy, self-serving persons. I think it did. Nigger and negro both stem from the Latin 'niger', which means 'black'.
When I read the article correctly, it doesn't say anything about transferring the DNA inside a living being, it is sent on the back of a postage stamp, glued on the dot in a letter, etc. They just use some random human DNA to make the information-carrying DNA 'invisible'. Later, the information carrying DNA is filtered out by using the special markers at beginning and end. So, no cancer here.
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> That's why @Home limits me to 128Kb on the upstream - it prevents me from running a 1,000 user FTP!
I'm afraid it might be the other way around!
Cable modem technology has a very much larger bandwidth downstream than upstream. This is not a question of a limit arbitrarily placed by @Home, but aa limit of the technology.
Both upstream and downstream bandwiths are shared between subscribers.
Because upstream bandwidth is smaller, it will be exhausted much faster when there are users running servers.
Therefore, they don't want you to run a server.
> Make them cheap and exposable
Oops! I meant DISposable.
My native language is not english, and even proofreading in preview missed that.
... the amount of electronics that is going to be thrown away in this way? I work at a small electronics firm, and from last year on it has been nearly impossible to get surface mount tantalum and ceramic capacitors.
Reason: they are being sold by the millions to manufacturers of cellphones. Who wants to sell a couple of hundred to small fish like us?
And this is for non-disposable cellphones only. Make them cheap and exposable, and demand will rise manyfold.
What I heard, at this moment, manufacturing capacity of tantalum capacitors is limited by the rate tantalum mines can dig up the raw materials.
For the surface mount ceramic capacitors, a similar situation exists for the palladium that is used in the end caps.
Any increase in demand will lead to a shortage, and suppliers will only deliver to the largest (not necessarily highest!) bidder.
Oh yes, although the phone is mainly made of paper instead of plastic, this does not mean that the components are as well...
> Note it also observed "shortened pulsation"
> which is a direct consequence of the time
> slowing down.
If I'm not mistaken, we see the time slow down for objects nearing the event horizon. That is, we see their clocks running slower and slower, until they come to a standstill.
This is exactly the opposite effect of the "shortened pulsation", where we see the pulses going faster and faster!
It sounds like he was thinking the same thing I am, namely that instead of stopping when idle and spinning all the way up to 4800 RPM (or whatever it is) when needed, it should idle at an extremely low speed, like 120 RPM (no, I didn't forget a zero)
Unfortunately, normal harddisks can't do this. The head hovers over the disk on an air cushion that is produced by the fast spinning disk. Reducing the RPM with the head still over an active area of the disk will lead to a head crash.
> So I'm guessing as a printer you'd "print out" a screen
Please, don't guess, read the article. This is not about printing anything, it's just about a new technology of making color displays cheap.
It uses Light Emitting Polymer instead of LCD or LEDs, but the result is still a display as we know it. That it uses a printing technology in manufacturing the display does not change any of this.
It could make color displays on cell phones cheaper, though.
Scaling down icon sizes automatically is nice, but this is not a substitute for well-designed small icons. Creating a good-looking small icon is an art, that cannot simply be replaced by downscaling a large icon.
Or are icons present in various sizes, and is the slider used to select between these?
And, how did you like it?
I don't think that Nigger originally referred to black er african american persons, but something along the lines of greedy, selfish, lazy, self-serving persons.
I think it did. Nigger and negro both stem from the Latin 'niger', which means 'black'.
For the rest of your post, I can agree.
When I read the article correctly, it doesn't say anything about transferring the DNA inside a living being, it is sent on the back of a postage stamp, glued on the dot in a letter, etc. They just use some random human DNA to make the information-carrying DNA 'invisible'. Later, the information carrying DNA is filtered out by using the special markers at beginning and end.
So, no cancer here.