I wonder if you won't be wasting more resources powering the inefficient 4M+ than would be used making a more modern printer every couple years? I know that my new Athlon 64x2 4200+, 2GB ram, Geforce 7600GS pc uses less energy than my old Athlon XP 2100+, 1GB ram, Geforce 5700.
I used to leave my Toughbook in sleep state for up to a week at a time, running on battery. Hibernate sucks because you can generally boot faster to a fresh boot since your OS image rarely occupies all of your RAM yet your hibernate image file must be the size of RAM and must all be read in from disk before you can do anything.
I don't find XP to be a problem in WoW, quite the opposite. With a measured investment of time you can get several characters to level cap in a year. The problem to me was the major investment of time required to make any progress once level cap was reached. Blizzard basically gave into the hardcore players and required many, many trips through 40 person dungeons in order to get better gear requiring on average hundreds of hours to get a full armor suit which would allow you to tackle the next dungeon where you would have to spend hundreds more hours to progress again. The alternative they gave was hundreds of hours of faction/honor grinding. Neither appeals to me so I canceled my account renewal as did most of my non-hardcore guild. We're hoping the expansion pack puts the fun back into the game, but I'm personally not holding my breath past the 3-6 month barrier before all of the easily reachable new content is exhausted. With the billions per year Blizzard is making on the game they can easily afford to add new content at a pace that casual gamers can consume it but they believe (correctly or incorrectly) that there is more profit to be made with yet more grindfests.
All I know is that there is a LOT of international trade going on. My dad relayed a tale of the platform for a large stamping press to me. The steel was poured in the midwest US, shipped to England to be worked, brought to Germany to be machined and planed, and finally shipped back to the US to be used as the base of an automotive stamping machine. If you can do all of that shipping and handling on a very large chunk of iron then you know it's not too expensive or unusual to ship anything else.
You wouldn't use a traditional sail, you would use something like Jacques Cousteau's Turbosail(tm), a solid masted sail which uses control surfaces rather than moving the sail to correct for changed wind direction. Turbosail saves about 35% of fossil fuel usage on average, so combined with this bubble tech could probably save over HALF of fuel usage, that's a heck of a lot. Of course scaling up of the sails from a 72 ton vessel to a 100k ton one might be a heck of an engineering challenge =)
The good news is if this really can generate a 20% reduction in fuel usage it's what is known as a disruptive technology. The change is so dramatic that once one party implements it all others must follow suite or be made obsolete. Failing to achieve a 20% reduction in one of your largest costs (soon to be largest I would guess) would mean being utterly abandoned by your customers or making zero profit.
Except luxury items are probably the least efficient items for accelerating internal velocity of money in the US economy since they are among the things most likely to be foreign produced, so taking that wealth and using it to purchase foreign made luxury goods probably slows down the internal velocity of money AND contributes to trade imbalance =)
The most funny thing about it is even IF there was such infringement (which several years of trial have shown there is not) there was a clarification of the contract terms by AT&T in a published letter to their licensees stating that such behavior was NOT covered by the contract.
There are quite a few 42" LCD's with 1920*1080 resolution on the market today. They generally have ~8ms response times and can be had as cheap as $1,300 for monitor only models or ~$1,600 for ones with integrated tuners. Other than a PC you aren't going to currently find any source material with more resolution than 1080p so there's little point to having more. Heck even the digital cinema projectors are only 2048x1080 and they project onto a >20m wide screen!
In my setup it will go in a low profile credenza. Setup the speakers next to the credenza and the LCD handing on the wall overhead and it looks MUCH better than my current hutch. Some people even go with cube type speaker setups to get a really clean look, but I'm a geek so the floorstanding tower speakers fit my aesthetic =) As to the cables, yes you run them through the wall or install channeling to hide them. Not a big deal if you own, can be a hassle if you rent though a friend got permission for channeling from his landlord.
That's funny because I have visited my motherland three times, have had my distant relatives over to the states. I continue to communicate with them about the goings-on in our lives and theirs, all without knowing the language. It helps that English is the predominant second language in that part of the world, but so long as we spoke some common language (I also speak German which many of them speak since their part of Slovenia was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian empire for several hundred years) I would be able to communicate with them and keep ties back to them. In fact I suspect I have closer ties to my native culture than most of the Francophones have with the French culture.
There's a similar spot in Utah, Zion Ponderosa Ranch and Resort. There was only one electrical outlet in my cabin, plugged in were a clock radio with two stations and a desk lamp. My cellphone didn't work and there was no phone in the cabin, just a public payphone. It was the most relaxing vacation of my life. Good value too, $100/day per person for lodging, three meals a day, and all the outdoor activities I wanted. It looks like they have added quite a few accommodations since I was there but I bet it would still be a good get away from it all vacation spot.
Down here in the US we basically expect and assume that all immigrants will give up their native language within a generation but not necessarily their culture. I am a third generation American who knows nothing of my ancestors native tongue (Slovenian) but many of the cultural traditions continue. That expectation is one of the driving forces behind the anti-mexican backlash currently occurring in this country, the mexican immigrants have held onto their native tongue for two or more generations in many enclaves and have gone so far as to change the language that official government business is transacted in in many municipalities. (There's also a large undercurrent of racism present but I'm not sure which is the predominant factor).
Yeah a LOT of that article read like CGI-101 from the mid 90's. Hell he even mentioned finger, a program most people who haven't been doing web stuff that long probably don't have a clue about.
Except GPU's are at least as high transistor count as CPU's these days and based on transistor count growth GPU's will exceed CPU's in the next one to two generations. That's a lot different then all of your examples.
Nah, plopping one factory into a depressed area rarely does much good for the area long term unless the population makes a concerted effort to reinvest the companies capital into other ventures, most importantly education. I live in the rustbelt and can tell you unequivocally that when one employer accounts for a significant fraction of the jobs in a community that the government and population are held hostage to the whim of that employer and that the result of the employer pulling out leaves the area in a bad, if not worse position then they were in to begin with.
How can you have a discussion about fluid dynamics and transonic wakes without a link to this video of an F-14 going transonic at flight desk level parallel to a carrier? That is simply one of the most amazing pieces of video I have ever seen!
I think that's EXACTLY the point of their linux distro. It's supposed to be as lean as possible to run their software and all of the code used should be tested with their software. As an enterprise customer I won't be loading a my-little-pony fansite onto the Apache instance of my Oracle DB Server. In fact I would prefer that it not be running Apache at all! What I want is a lean Linux based bootloader for Oracle that will support my HBA and NIC drivers, and if needed a shim for my backup software. Oracle tried their own proprietary OS at one time and had a difficult time getting it certified with hardware vendors, I think they will have less trouble with a stripped down Linux OS.
You really need to get out more. Outside major cities dialup and satellite is often the only method available. This is true in most of the world. Europe may have near universal broadband due to population density but everywhere else in the world your options drop off rapidly once you leave major metro areas. RDP is great, and ICA is even better, but they still suck over a dirty dialup connection with moderate packet loss or a connection with significant latency such as satellite.
Remote access/slow connection. If you want to check email in the middle of nowhere Pine through an SSH session is about a quick as you will get. Though these days for me personally my remote email access is gmail on my Blackberry for personal and my Blackberry Enterprise Server for work email. If I'm somewhere so remote that I don't have phone access for extended periods I'm there for vacation =) That said there are people who's work takes them to remote corners of the globe where slow dialup or satellite access is the only connections available.
Yep, ATM's are classical separation of privileged implementations. Just because you have access to the electronics does not mean you have access to the cash and just because you have access to the cash does not mean you have access to the electronics. The cash is usually handled by armed guards from a security company like Brinks and the electronics by a PC service company like IBM.
A machine I built recently is very power efficient(for something with a GPU) and runs the latest and greatest games. Athlon 64 x2 4600+ low power, SLI'd Geforce 7600GT's passively cooled running in a case with 2x12cm fans, 12cm power supply fan, and the 8cm CPU fan. Total max power draw between the two GPU's and the CPU is 102W, compare that to a late model Pentium 4 at 130W! The thing is almost silent, the seek noise from the HDD is the loudest noise in the machine and that's 38dB.
If you are using AMD CoolnQuiet then turning the powersaving mode to anything but the minimal power saving profile in Windows results in running at full clock and voltage all the time. With my well ventilated Athlon 63 x2 4200+ this results in a CPU temperature jump from +10 over ambient to +20 over ambient when idle. It's true that AMD's need to select minimal power saving is completely backwards and unintuitive, but it's reality for anyone running a modern Athlon.
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I wonder if you won't be wasting more resources powering the inefficient 4M+ than would be used making a more modern printer every couple years? I know that my new Athlon 64x2 4200+, 2GB ram, Geforce 7600GS pc uses less energy than my old Athlon XP 2100+, 1GB ram, Geforce 5700.
I used to leave my Toughbook in sleep state for up to a week at a time, running on battery. Hibernate sucks because you can generally boot faster to a fresh boot since your OS image rarely occupies all of your RAM yet your hibernate image file must be the size of RAM and must all be read in from disk before you can do anything.
I don't find XP to be a problem in WoW, quite the opposite. With a measured investment of time you can get several characters to level cap in a year. The problem to me was the major investment of time required to make any progress once level cap was reached. Blizzard basically gave into the hardcore players and required many, many trips through 40 person dungeons in order to get better gear requiring on average hundreds of hours to get a full armor suit which would allow you to tackle the next dungeon where you would have to spend hundreds more hours to progress again. The alternative they gave was hundreds of hours of faction/honor grinding. Neither appeals to me so I canceled my account renewal as did most of my non-hardcore guild. We're hoping the expansion pack puts the fun back into the game, but I'm personally not holding my breath past the 3-6 month barrier before all of the easily reachable new content is exhausted. With the billions per year Blizzard is making on the game they can easily afford to add new content at a pace that casual gamers can consume it but they believe (correctly or incorrectly) that there is more profit to be made with yet more grindfests.
All I know is that there is a LOT of international trade going on. My dad relayed a tale of the platform for a large stamping press to me. The steel was poured in the midwest US, shipped to England to be worked, brought to Germany to be machined and planed, and finally shipped back to the US to be used as the base of an automotive stamping machine. If you can do all of that shipping and handling on a very large chunk of iron then you know it's not too expensive or unusual to ship anything else.
You wouldn't use a traditional sail, you would use something like Jacques Cousteau's Turbosail(tm), a solid masted sail which uses control surfaces rather than moving the sail to correct for changed wind direction. Turbosail saves about 35% of fossil fuel usage on average, so combined with this bubble tech could probably save over HALF of fuel usage, that's a heck of a lot. Of course scaling up of the sails from a 72 ton vessel to a 100k ton one might be a heck of an engineering challenge =)
The good news is if this really can generate a 20% reduction in fuel usage it's what is known as a disruptive technology. The change is so dramatic that once one party implements it all others must follow suite or be made obsolete. Failing to achieve a 20% reduction in one of your largest costs (soon to be largest I would guess) would mean being utterly abandoned by your customers or making zero profit.
Except luxury items are probably the least efficient items for accelerating internal velocity of money in the US economy since they are among the things most likely to be foreign produced, so taking that wealth and using it to purchase foreign made luxury goods probably slows down the internal velocity of money AND contributes to trade imbalance =)
The most funny thing about it is even IF there was such infringement (which several years of trial have shown there is not) there was a clarification of the contract terms by AT&T in a published letter to their licensees stating that such behavior was NOT covered by the contract.
There are quite a few 42" LCD's with 1920*1080 resolution on the market today. They generally have ~8ms response times and can be had as cheap as $1,300 for monitor only models or ~$1,600 for ones with integrated tuners. Other than a PC you aren't going to currently find any source material with more resolution than 1080p so there's little point to having more. Heck even the digital cinema projectors are only 2048x1080 and they project onto a >20m wide screen!
In my setup it will go in a low profile credenza. Setup the speakers next to the credenza and the LCD handing on the wall overhead and it looks MUCH better than my current hutch. Some people even go with cube type speaker setups to get a really clean look, but I'm a geek so the floorstanding tower speakers fit my aesthetic =) As to the cables, yes you run them through the wall or install channeling to hide them. Not a big deal if you own, can be a hassle if you rent though a friend got permission for channeling from his landlord.
That's funny because I have visited my motherland three times, have had my distant relatives over to the states. I continue to communicate with them about the goings-on in our lives and theirs, all without knowing the language. It helps that English is the predominant second language in that part of the world, but so long as we spoke some common language (I also speak German which many of them speak since their part of Slovenia was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian empire for several hundred years) I would be able to communicate with them and keep ties back to them. In fact I suspect I have closer ties to my native culture than most of the Francophones have with the French culture.
There's a similar spot in Utah, Zion Ponderosa Ranch and Resort. There was only one electrical outlet in my cabin, plugged in were a clock radio with two stations and a desk lamp. My cellphone didn't work and there was no phone in the cabin, just a public payphone. It was the most relaxing vacation of my life. Good value too, $100/day per person for lodging, three meals a day, and all the outdoor activities I wanted. It looks like they have added quite a few accommodations since I was there but I bet it would still be a good get away from it all vacation spot.
Down here in the US we basically expect and assume that all immigrants will give up their native language within a generation but not necessarily their culture. I am a third generation American who knows nothing of my ancestors native tongue (Slovenian) but many of the cultural traditions continue. That expectation is one of the driving forces behind the anti-mexican backlash currently occurring in this country, the mexican immigrants have held onto their native tongue for two or more generations in many enclaves and have gone so far as to change the language that official government business is transacted in in many municipalities. (There's also a large undercurrent of racism present but I'm not sure which is the predominant factor).
Yeah a LOT of that article read like CGI-101 from the mid 90's. Hell he even mentioned finger, a program most people who haven't been doing web stuff that long probably don't have a clue about.
Wow, the 8800 is a beast! The 7950GTX is only 278 million transistors.
Except GPU's are at least as high transistor count as CPU's these days and based on transistor count growth GPU's will exceed CPU's in the next one to two generations. That's a lot different then all of your examples.
Nah, plopping one factory into a depressed area rarely does much good for the area long term unless the population makes a concerted effort to reinvest the companies capital into other ventures, most importantly education. I live in the rustbelt and can tell you unequivocally that when one employer accounts for a significant fraction of the jobs in a community that the government and population are held hostage to the whim of that employer and that the result of the employer pulling out leaves the area in a bad, if not worse position then they were in to begin with.
How can you have a discussion about fluid dynamics and transonic wakes without a link to this video of an F-14 going transonic at flight desk level parallel to a carrier? That is simply one of the most amazing pieces of video I have ever seen!
I think that's EXACTLY the point of their linux distro. It's supposed to be as lean as possible to run their software and all of the code used should be tested with their software. As an enterprise customer I won't be loading a my-little-pony fansite onto the Apache instance of my Oracle DB Server. In fact I would prefer that it not be running Apache at all! What I want is a lean Linux based bootloader for Oracle that will support my HBA and NIC drivers, and if needed a shim for my backup software. Oracle tried their own proprietary OS at one time and had a difficult time getting it certified with hardware vendors, I think they will have less trouble with a stripped down Linux OS.
The copyright notice is the inclusion of the GPL license itself.
You really need to get out more. Outside major cities dialup and satellite is often the only method available. This is true in most of the world. Europe may have near universal broadband due to population density but everywhere else in the world your options drop off rapidly once you leave major metro areas. RDP is great, and ICA is even better, but they still suck over a dirty dialup connection with moderate packet loss or a connection with significant latency such as satellite.
Remote access/slow connection. If you want to check email in the middle of nowhere Pine through an SSH session is about a quick as you will get. Though these days for me personally my remote email access is gmail on my Blackberry for personal and my Blackberry Enterprise Server for work email. If I'm somewhere so remote that I don't have phone access for extended periods I'm there for vacation =) That said there are people who's work takes them to remote corners of the globe where slow dialup or satellite access is the only connections available.
Yep, ATM's are classical separation of privileged implementations. Just because you have access to the electronics does not mean you have access to the cash and just because you have access to the cash does not mean you have access to the electronics. The cash is usually handled by armed guards from a security company like Brinks and the electronics by a PC service company like IBM.
A machine I built recently is very power efficient(for something with a GPU) and runs the latest and greatest games. Athlon 64 x2 4600+ low power, SLI'd Geforce 7600GT's passively cooled running in a case with 2x12cm fans, 12cm power supply fan, and the 8cm CPU fan. Total max power draw between the two GPU's and the CPU is 102W, compare that to a late model Pentium 4 at 130W! The thing is almost silent, the seek noise from the HDD is the loudest noise in the machine and that's 38dB.
If you are using AMD CoolnQuiet then turning the powersaving mode to anything but the minimal power saving profile in Windows results in running at full clock and voltage all the time. With my well ventilated Athlon 63 x2 4200+ this results in a CPU temperature jump from +10 over ambient to +20 over ambient when idle. It's true that AMD's need to select minimal power saving is completely backwards and unintuitive, but it's reality for anyone running a modern Athlon.