Nokia has always had a vast spectrum of phones with crappy UIs. That's what the parent was talking about. Now that Apple and Google are starting to make a noticable dent in their marketshare they've been forced to actually try to build a UI that doesn't stab you in the face every time you try to look up someone's name by their phone number or attempt to change the order of the icons on the screen.
I hope a lot of publishers go and buy these things, they'll apparently be really happy with them. I just hope they aren't expecting consumers to actually buy any.
Are there any modern inkjets that don't have the chip in them that detects when the ink level goes back up and shuts off the cartridge? I don't know of any off of the top of my head.
Quality matters a lot with CFLs. With old incandescent bulbs it was no big deal to buy the knockoff brand down at Save-Mo-Money, but if you try that with CFLs you'll get the terrible Chinese knockoff ones that put out dim flickery light, take forever to start up, and die after 6 months. I reaplaced all of the bulbs in my home 6 years ago with the Commercial Electric (apparently now n:Vision) bulbs from Home Depot and have lost only a single bulb so far. They come on immediately and have moderate to no warmup time (I have a couple that need about 45 seconds to warm up, most come on at full power right away).
What's more, because US treaties are backed by the power of the Constitution, they are very difficult to repeal later down the road if they turn out to be a bad idea, or, as is more often the case, the other governments back out of the treaty and leave the US holding the bag. Few countries put as much force of law behind treaties as the US. This is also one of the reasons the US never signed on to Kyoto, because it was assumed that the other countries wouldn't be able to make the ambitious targets and would quietly back out, whereas the US would be stuck with it.
Obviously if you can see it the rainbow isn't completely contained. You can't capture a rainbow in the manner that you're thinking of because it would require a perfect vacuum (which we can mostly achieve these days), and a perfectly reflective surface (which we cannot). Every time the light bounces off of whatever you have contained it in, it will lose a bit of energy. Since it's traveling at the speed of light, you'll have enormous numbers of bounces per second and they'll quickly sap all of the energy away from the beam.
I for one would be very interested in a standard for consumer UPSes that has them output 12v DC, and an ATX (or BTX) motherboard extension that allows it to take 12v DC in for its power needs. Failing that, a DC-DC power supply could be used.
The point being that it's dumb that a UPS has to invert the power coming out of it just so the power supply can rectify it back to DC. I'd much prefer saving the step and running DC straight from the UPS to the motherboard.
Come to think of it, the standard isn't necessary, a UPS manufacturer could do this today, although they would have to bundle the dummy power supply with the UPS. The cost could even be kept somewhat reasonable if you factor in the savings from not having to buy a power supply. The only major sticking point is that most UPS vendors put out a lot of distressingly bad products and the consumer trust issue will be a problem.
You've never known anybody who is on call? SMS is unreliable, and if you're paying someone to be on-call, you want their service to be reliable. You don't want the message "Critical production server down, administrator needed" to be delayed 15 minutes because of some SMS issue. It doesn't matter nearly as much if "LOL, at movies" gets delayed, but the on-call message can literally be worth thousands of dollars per minute it is delayed. Of course on-call folks have cell phones too, but the pager tends to be the first method of communication employed.
The problem is that most of the new AAA games are console ports now, because consoles are where they money is. But none of the current generation consoles can hold a candle to even a 2 year old PC, so pretty much any halfway competent PC can play all modern games that aren't Crysis. You have to work to get a machine that can't support games (like getting one with Intel graphics).
Worse, the games that aren't just console ports are small indy developer efforts with simple graphics that rarely need more than a budget box to play.
About the only way to even being to stress a modern card is to push your monitor up to resolutions well beyond what most people's monitors can support. If you're not running WQXGA or WQUXGA there is really not much point in getting a 5970.
By this measure, aren't all governments, throughout time, fascist?
Describing fascism as a government with business interests makes the definition far too broad to be useful, the only possible reason to do so is to invoke an emotional response at the very word fascist.
The very first advantage I listed: They're cheap to make. The biggest barrier to the adoption of electric vehicles has always been the cost of the batteries.
There appear to be two primary advanages of these cars: They're cheap to make and they don't directly pollute the city air. If the power plant is downwind they could actually improve the air quality in the city. You also get "free" AC, although heating the car is an issue. Since these are primarily targeted at cities like Mumbai the cooling is more important anyway.
Seriously, do a search on Deviantart for any two dictionary (non-proper name) words. If you get more than 20 or so hits, it's almost a guarantee that at least one of them will be furries or Sonic and his furry friends.
I wonder at what point the TV manufacturers are just going to have to tweak down the maximum brightness on the TV just to meet the power requirements? You can't tweak it down forever without eventually sacrificing the total lumens.
SecondLife is basically a gigantic Internet Drama Engine. Worse, because it creates so much drama, it tends to gain the attention of the mass media who seem to think it's the final realization of "cyberspace" that they were promised in the 80s. In reality, it's Deviantart with a crappier interface.
The answer to the question is quite simple, and has been known since the 1980's. The rule of Perceptual Entropy is that you need a minimum bitrate of 176kbps for 44.1kHz stereo. If you're encoding below that, it can't possibly be indistinguishable from the original. ITU-R BS.1116-1 testing has proven that simple fact out over and over again.
So you're saying 30 seconds of complete silence encoded at 128kbps must necessarily be distinguishable from 30 seconds of complete silence at 176kbps?
Clearly there must be some relation between the complexity of the music and the number of bits necessary to encode it in such a way that is indistinguishable from the original to even a trained listener.
I think a lot of the people who are into MP3's don't have $20k worth of CDs, but they do have even more than that of music obtained from dubiously legal sources. Even the ones who didn't pirate outright may have purchased it from places like allofmp3, even though said places fail the smell test right off of the bat.
This mentality is also the reason I don't go to live rock concerts much. There's so much emphasis on making it as loud as possible that there is virtually no consideration towards the actual music. It's so bad that at the last big concert I was at (a Wheezer concert a friend really wanted to go to), I was not able to distinguish any of their songs from one another. It was literally just a wall of white noise on every song. It also made my ears ring for days afterward, and I was way up in the balcony seats. I know I sound like an old man, but that was just too damn loud.
Apparently those checks are at the behest of the Notebook manufacturers (Dell) who don't want to support multiple driver versions. This of course means that your card is stuck with whatever version of the driver it shipped with, even if that version was from 2005 and has bugs in modern games.
Luckily, MobiltyModder works and is pretty easy to use. Updating to the current driver cleared up the bluescreening issues I was having with Torchlight and everything.
This is exactly what I've noticed over the past few years. Almost all big name PC games now are Console ports, and the consoles are nowhere near as graphically powerful as even a mid-range PC solution these days, meaning that even people with older cards like 8800GTs still get more than acceptable performance out of pretty much every game on the market that isn't Crysis.
I fear this entire generation of cards will be overkill (bordering on gross overkill) until the next generation of consoles come out.
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Nokia has always had a vast spectrum of phones with crappy UIs. That's what the parent was talking about. Now that Apple and Google are starting to make a noticable dent in their marketshare they've been forced to actually try to build a UI that doesn't stab you in the face every time you try to look up someone's name by their phone number or attempt to change the order of the icons on the screen.
I hope a lot of publishers go and buy these things, they'll apparently be really happy with them. I just hope they aren't expecting consumers to actually buy any.
Are there any modern inkjets that don't have the chip in them that detects when the ink level goes back up and shuts off the cartridge? I don't know of any off of the top of my head.
In the US this case would be easy, he would just be charged $20,000,000 per DVD as per corporate wishes.
Quality matters a lot with CFLs. With old incandescent bulbs it was no big deal to buy the knockoff brand down at Save-Mo-Money, but if you try that with CFLs you'll get the terrible Chinese knockoff ones that put out dim flickery light, take forever to start up, and die after 6 months. I reaplaced all of the bulbs in my home 6 years ago with the Commercial Electric (apparently now n:Vision) bulbs from Home Depot and have lost only a single bulb so far. They come on immediately and have moderate to no warmup time (I have a couple that need about 45 seconds to warm up, most come on at full power right away).
What's more, because US treaties are backed by the power of the Constitution, they are very difficult to repeal later down the road if they turn out to be a bad idea, or, as is more often the case, the other governments back out of the treaty and leave the US holding the bag. Few countries put as much force of law behind treaties as the US. This is also one of the reasons the US never signed on to Kyoto, because it was assumed that the other countries wouldn't be able to make the ambitious targets and would quietly back out, whereas the US would be stuck with it.
Important update: Its version number is 1 higher than the old one!
Obviously if you can see it the rainbow isn't completely contained. You can't capture a rainbow in the manner that you're thinking of because it would require a perfect vacuum (which we can mostly achieve these days), and a perfectly reflective surface (which we cannot). Every time the light bounces off of whatever you have contained it in, it will lose a bit of energy. Since it's traveling at the speed of light, you'll have enormous numbers of bounces per second and they'll quickly sap all of the energy away from the beam.
I for one would be very interested in a standard for consumer UPSes that has them output 12v DC, and an ATX (or BTX) motherboard extension that allows it to take 12v DC in for its power needs. Failing that, a DC-DC power supply could be used.
The point being that it's dumb that a UPS has to invert the power coming out of it just so the power supply can rectify it back to DC. I'd much prefer saving the step and running DC straight from the UPS to the motherboard.
Come to think of it, the standard isn't necessary, a UPS manufacturer could do this today, although they would have to bundle the dummy power supply with the UPS. The cost could even be kept somewhat reasonable if you factor in the savings from not having to buy a power supply. The only major sticking point is that most UPS vendors put out a lot of distressingly bad products and the consumer trust issue will be a problem.
You've never known anybody who is on call? SMS is unreliable, and if you're paying someone to be on-call, you want their service to be reliable. You don't want the message "Critical production server down, administrator needed" to be delayed 15 minutes because of some SMS issue. It doesn't matter nearly as much if "LOL, at movies" gets delayed, but the on-call message can literally be worth thousands of dollars per minute it is delayed. Of course on-call folks have cell phones too, but the pager tends to be the first method of communication employed.
The problem is that most of the new AAA games are console ports now, because consoles are where they money is. But none of the current generation consoles can hold a candle to even a 2 year old PC, so pretty much any halfway competent PC can play all modern games that aren't Crysis. You have to work to get a machine that can't support games (like getting one with Intel graphics).
Worse, the games that aren't just console ports are small indy developer efforts with simple graphics that rarely need more than a budget box to play.
About the only way to even being to stress a modern card is to push your monitor up to resolutions well beyond what most people's monitors can support. If you're not running WQXGA or WQUXGA there is really not much point in getting a 5970.
Why would you pirate a game that doesn't have proper network support? Simply not buying it is a lot easier.
By this measure, aren't all governments, throughout time, fascist?
Describing fascism as a government with business interests makes the definition far too broad to be useful, the only possible reason to do so is to invoke an emotional response at the very word fascist.
The very first advantage I listed: They're cheap to make. The biggest barrier to the adoption of electric vehicles has always been the cost of the batteries.
There appear to be two primary advanages of these cars: They're cheap to make and they don't directly pollute the city air. If the power plant is downwind they could actually improve the air quality in the city. You also get "free" AC, although heating the car is an issue. Since these are primarily targeted at cities like Mumbai the cooling is more important anyway.
Deviantart because it's full of furries.
Seriously, do a search on Deviantart for any two dictionary (non-proper name) words. If you get more than 20 or so hits, it's almost a guarantee that at least one of them will be furries or Sonic and his furry friends.
I wonder at what point the TV manufacturers are just going to have to tweak down the maximum brightness on the TV just to meet the power requirements? You can't tweak it down forever without eventually sacrificing the total lumens.
SecondLife is basically a gigantic Internet Drama Engine. Worse, because it creates so much drama, it tends to gain the attention of the mass media who seem to think it's the final realization of "cyberspace" that they were promised in the 80s. In reality, it's Deviantart with a crappier interface.
Yes, it's a shame the laser can't be computer controlled and doesn't move at the speed of light.
Yes, IIRC they said it would take billions of dollars and 30 years to make and wouldn't be effective against ICBMs.
So you're saying 30 seconds of complete silence encoded at 128kbps must necessarily be distinguishable from 30 seconds of complete silence at 176kbps?
Clearly there must be some relation between the complexity of the music and the number of bits necessary to encode it in such a way that is indistinguishable from the original to even a trained listener.
I think a lot of the people who are into MP3's don't have $20k worth of CDs, but they do have even more than that of music obtained from dubiously legal sources. Even the ones who didn't pirate outright may have purchased it from places like allofmp3, even though said places fail the smell test right off of the bat.
This mentality is also the reason I don't go to live rock concerts much. There's so much emphasis on making it as loud as possible that there is virtually no consideration towards the actual music. It's so bad that at the last big concert I was at (a Wheezer concert a friend really wanted to go to), I was not able to distinguish any of their songs from one another. It was literally just a wall of white noise on every song. It also made my ears ring for days afterward, and I was way up in the balcony seats. I know I sound like an old man, but that was just too damn loud.
Apparently those checks are at the behest of the Notebook manufacturers (Dell) who don't want to support multiple driver versions. This of course means that your card is stuck with whatever version of the driver it shipped with, even if that version was from 2005 and has bugs in modern games.
Luckily, MobiltyModder works and is pretty easy to use. Updating to the current driver cleared up the bluescreening issues I was having with Torchlight and everything.
This is exactly what I've noticed over the past few years. Almost all big name PC games now are Console ports, and the consoles are nowhere near as graphically powerful as even a mid-range PC solution these days, meaning that even people with older cards like 8800GTs still get more than acceptable performance out of pretty much every game on the market that isn't Crysis.
I fear this entire generation of cards will be overkill (bordering on gross overkill) until the next generation of consoles come out.