Yeah, just think about it, those 1082 paperbacks would have to be an average of 9.2" wide to make the shelf that long. When was the last time you saw a paperback more than 2 or 3 inches wide? Unless this is a collection of the thickest books ever published, there is no way that figure is accurate.
IMHO, the screen on a Palm is quite large enough to read an ebook. I ran through dozens of books on the bus in College. I found the palm screen to be very easy on the eyes and my Palm IIIe was easier to carry around than a book (plus it did so much more).
As long as the screen isn't too puny (see: most cellphones), and your device has a convienent "page down" key (see: all palms) reading on the screen is quite nice. If you're coming home at night you can even pop on the backlight, although this mode is a bit harder on the eyes.
I love the elegant simplicity of Weasel reader and it's semi-auto chapter marking text converter too.
One of the biggest "holy crap" moments I've ever had in a movie is the end of Nausicaa where the God Soldier fires its beam at the approaching herd of Ohmu and it is like a line of nuclear explosions on the horizon.
You know what though? ATI always has "good" drivers just around the corner. Heck, I know it's not a really fair comparision, but for just one game (City of Heros) I have a desktop with a GeForce 5900 and a laptop with a Mobility Radeon X300. Now, the X300 is a low end card, so I'm not expecting a whole lot out of it, but the fact that 20% of the time it forgets to render scenes entirely (on the latest drivers no less!) and just leaves the screen black is just annoying. The fact that it messes up the cursor sometimes doesn't help either.
This isn't a new thing either. I've had various ATI cards going back to the Mach 64 and problems with the drivers have always been there. People on Slashdot say all of that is in the past, but it keeps coming up again and again.
You've fallen behind on your Washington Buzz-Speak. "Morals and Values" is "stuff that plays well in the Bible belt". Blowing up towelheads is a good example. Also, the whole Terry Schivo thing was all a big stunt to show off what kind of values the administration has. I still think it's funny how the autopsy came back "yep, she was a vegetable", as if anybody in Washington actually cared about the facts in that case.
It also means no environmental protections among other things. Libertarians never seem to understand the tragedy of the commons, or they think that the invisible hand will somehow fix it. Most libertarian thories either completely ignore or handwave issues dealing with nonrenewable resources and consequences that must be delt with as a society as a whole.
Heck, I used to be a Libertarian until I realized that they're all a bunch of tax dodging corporate fat cats.
We had some 3Com cards at work that had special hardware on them to offload the encryption. They were expensive and when I ran tests with them I couldn't manage to get them to provide any better performance than a run of the mill Ethernet card. On the other hand, I'm not sure the drivers were ever quite working right either.
Bram mentions that a malicious user would be able to poison an Avalanche based system by uploading bogus data. BitTorrent gets around this by precomputing checksums on each chunk of data and storing them in the.torrent file. Why would this approach not work for Avalanche? You would have to precompute the hashes on the FEC codes instead, but I don't see where it is fundamentally different than BitTorrent.
I love when they get a grainy still from a security camera and notice a tiny spot in the glass and are able to "process" the image with "algorithms" to turn those 4 pixels into a perfectly clear image of the perps face.
I also love the magic blue lights that can detect anything. I know those have some basis in reality, but it seems like they can be set to detect anything. Motor Oil? Coke? Sweat? It doesn't matter, whatever it is it can't hide from the blue light (sometimes with Orange goggles).
Heck, why waste time with Universal Healthcare? They should be focused on World Peace and the elimiation of all diesease first. All of this other stuff is just a waste of time.
The big complaint I had with the math department teachers in my school is that they were a lot more interested in the most exotic proofs of the month than they were in stuff that is actually useful in real life. As a result I spent a lot of time learning how to prove obscure mathematical concepts instead of learning stuff that I'm likely to use outside of the Math department. There is such a thing as too much love of math.:)
It sounds like Google Maps had to sign an agreement not to let the image data be used for commercial purposes. I wonder if they got a letter telling them to take down the offending site or be sued?
It's really a combination of Google being overvalued and Time Warner being undervalued. AOL really did a number on TWs market capitalization, but they still have enormous money making assets in their media companies that can't be overlooked. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple more rounds of layoffs at TW to cut costs and make themselves look batter to investers.
From what I've been able to tell over the years, the damages in these cases is almost completely made up. The FBI loves to post huge numbers on cases like these because it makes them look important. More realistic estimates based on administrator time and business lost due to the servers being unavailable tend to be far lower.
Typically, those "This C&D letter is secret and should not be shared with anybody" lines are attached to letters that have absolutely no legal leg to stand on, but the laywer is hoping that you don't know that and wants to make sure you don't mention it to anybody with actual knowledge of the law. From what I can tell, this tactic often works as sites are taken down with barely a word as to why other than "legal reasons, too expensive to fight". I'm betting a good 95% of the C&D letters sent out are on shaky legal ground at best.
2. Note the lack of fans. Moving air is about 5x more efficient at transferring heat than still air. They could reduce the size of the sink just by adding some fans.
I suppose you missed the giant fan right in the middle of the heatsink?
It'll never work because the fan motor requires 1.4kW of power. That's plenty of reason.:)
Obviously the bikes are still faster (your sports bike has more than double the horsepower of the car already!), but it's easy to see how the insane power to weigh ratio drops off rapidly as you start adding stuff like a driver and gas.
It depends. Some banks are actually combined into regional bank networks that otherwise operate sepreately. For instance, my buddy has an account a Bank X down the street. When he went across town he discovered that his ATM card didn't work in the Bank X ATM because that ATM was on a different network even though it had the same name.
I don't know if this is the case here, but it is plausable. On the other hand, most bank tellers are competely clueless about stuff like this, so who knows.
The problem with your analogy is that most people would realize that a hand grenade is bad. This is more like if you lived in the 50s and had milk delivered every other day. One day you get your milk, open it up, and it explodes.
Well, the hardware does have a smidgen of future-proofing in it, since you can be fairly sure that 512MB will be enough memory to run games for at least a couple of years, and games that need the full 512MB WILL run worse on the much cheaper 256MB card.
Of course you could probably buy the 256MB card now and upgrade to a 512MB in a couple of years and end up paying less for both cards combined than you will for this card alone. $1,000 really doesn't make much sense, except that the price will undoubtedly come down quite a bit as time goes on.
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Unless of course you're trying to get work in Hollywood and get passed over because you aren't the flavor of the week.
Yeah, just think about it, those 1082 paperbacks would have to be an average of 9.2" wide to make the shelf that long. When was the last time you saw a paperback more than 2 or 3 inches wide? Unless this is a collection of the thickest books ever published, there is no way that figure is accurate.
IMHO, the screen on a Palm is quite large enough to read an ebook. I ran through dozens of books on the bus in College. I found the palm screen to be very easy on the eyes and my Palm IIIe was easier to carry around than a book (plus it did so much more).
As long as the screen isn't too puny (see: most cellphones), and your device has a convienent "page down" key (see: all palms) reading on the screen is quite nice. If you're coming home at night you can even pop on the backlight, although this mode is a bit harder on the eyes.
I love the elegant simplicity of Weasel reader and it's semi-auto chapter marking text converter too.
One of the biggest "holy crap" moments I've ever had in a movie is the end of Nausicaa where the God Soldier fires its beam at the approaching herd of Ohmu and it is like a line of nuclear explosions on the horizon.
You know what though? ATI always has "good" drivers just around the corner. Heck, I know it's not a really fair comparision, but for just one game (City of Heros) I have a desktop with a GeForce 5900 and a laptop with a Mobility Radeon X300. Now, the X300 is a low end card, so I'm not expecting a whole lot out of it, but the fact that 20% of the time it forgets to render scenes entirely (on the latest drivers no less!) and just leaves the screen black is just annoying. The fact that it messes up the cursor sometimes doesn't help either.
This isn't a new thing either. I've had various ATI cards going back to the Mach 64 and problems with the drivers have always been there. People on Slashdot say all of that is in the past, but it keeps coming up again and again.
You've fallen behind on your Washington Buzz-Speak. "Morals and Values" is "stuff that plays well in the Bible belt". Blowing up towelheads is a good example. Also, the whole Terry Schivo thing was all a big stunt to show off what kind of values the administration has. I still think it's funny how the autopsy came back "yep, she was a vegetable", as if anybody in Washington actually cared about the facts in that case.
It also means no environmental protections among other things. Libertarians never seem to understand the tragedy of the commons, or they think that the invisible hand will somehow fix it. Most libertarian thories either completely ignore or handwave issues dealing with nonrenewable resources and consequences that must be delt with as a society as a whole.
Heck, I used to be a Libertarian until I realized that they're all a bunch of tax dodging corporate fat cats.
It's scary how well it's working too. I don't think Bram has sold a single copy of BitTorrent since Avalanche was announced.
This is a documented phonominom.
We had some 3Com cards at work that had special hardware on them to offload the encryption. They were expensive and when I ran tests with them I couldn't manage to get them to provide any better performance than a run of the mill Ethernet card. On the other hand, I'm not sure the drivers were ever quite working right either.
Bram mentions that a malicious user would be able to poison an Avalanche based system by uploading bogus data. BitTorrent gets around this by precomputing checksums on each chunk of data and storing them in the .torrent file. Why would this approach not work for Avalanche? You would have to precompute the hashes on the FEC codes instead, but I don't see where it is fundamentally different than BitTorrent.
I love when they get a grainy still from a security camera and notice a tiny spot in the glass and are able to "process" the image with "algorithms" to turn those 4 pixels into a perfectly clear image of the perps face.
I also love the magic blue lights that can detect anything. I know those have some basis in reality, but it seems like they can be set to detect anything. Motor Oil? Coke? Sweat? It doesn't matter, whatever it is it can't hide from the blue light (sometimes with Orange goggles).
Heck, why waste time with Universal Healthcare? They should be focused on World Peace and the elimiation of all diesease first. All of this other stuff is just a waste of time.
There's a little saying I like to pull out in times like this:
"You gotta do what you can with what you got."
It is as true as it is ungrammatical.
Sure, all you have to do is lobby Congress to extend copyright indefinatly. If that isn't stealing from the public domain, I don't know what is.
The big complaint I had with the math department teachers in my school is that they were a lot more interested in the most exotic proofs of the month than they were in stuff that is actually useful in real life. As a result I spent a lot of time learning how to prove obscure mathematical concepts instead of learning stuff that I'm likely to use outside of the Math department. There is such a thing as too much love of math. :)
It sounds like Google Maps had to sign an agreement not to let the image data be used for commercial purposes. I wonder if they got a letter telling them to take down the offending site or be sued?
It's really a combination of Google being overvalued and Time Warner being undervalued. AOL really did a number on TWs market capitalization, but they still have enormous money making assets in their media companies that can't be overlooked. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple more rounds of layoffs at TW to cut costs and make themselves look batter to investers.
From what I've been able to tell over the years, the damages in these cases is almost completely made up. The FBI loves to post huge numbers on cases like these because it makes them look important. More realistic estimates based on administrator time and business lost due to the servers being unavailable tend to be far lower.
Typically, those "This C&D letter is secret and should not be shared with anybody" lines are attached to letters that have absolutely no legal leg to stand on, but the laywer is hoping that you don't know that and wants to make sure you don't mention it to anybody with actual knowledge of the law. From what I can tell, this tactic often works as sites are taken down with barely a word as to why other than "legal reasons, too expensive to fight". I'm betting a good 95% of the C&D letters sent out are on shaky legal ground at best.
It'll never work because the fan motor requires 1.4kW of power. That's plenty of reason.
You forgot to add the mass of at least one person into those calculations. Obviously you can't drive a vehicle with no drivers.
I'm going to assume you weigh 150lbs.
Car: 1.175 tonnes, 80bhp == 68 bhp/tonne
Commuter bike: 0.295 tonnes, 78bhp == 264 bhp/tonne
Sports bike: 0.265 tonns, 170bhp == 642 bhp/tonne
Obviously the bikes are still faster (your sports bike has more than double the horsepower of the car already!), but it's easy to see how the insane power to weigh ratio drops off rapidly as you start adding stuff like a driver and gas.
Nothing like a couple of assholes on the Internet ruining stuff like this for everyone.
It depends. Some banks are actually combined into regional bank networks that otherwise operate sepreately. For instance, my buddy has an account a Bank X down the street. When he went across town he discovered that his ATM card didn't work in the Bank X ATM because that ATM was on a different network even though it had the same name.
I don't know if this is the case here, but it is plausable. On the other hand, most bank tellers are competely clueless about stuff like this, so who knows.
The problem with your analogy is that most people would realize that a hand grenade is bad. This is more like if you lived in the 50s and had milk delivered every other day. One day you get your milk, open it up, and it explodes.
Well, the hardware does have a smidgen of future-proofing in it, since you can be fairly sure that 512MB will be enough memory to run games for at least a couple of years, and games that need the full 512MB WILL run worse on the much cheaper 256MB card.
Of course you could probably buy the 256MB card now and upgrade to a 512MB in a couple of years and end up paying less for both cards combined than you will for this card alone. $1,000 really doesn't make much sense, except that the price will undoubtedly come down quite a bit as time goes on.