I think the industry should seriously recondider liquid cooling. I mean if you are going to spend all that money on wires and cables, why not run tubes that could contain a cooling fluid? Then, each server could have an in/out port for a liquid connection.
Yes, but the question is where is that heat in the lamps generated from? For compact flourescent or LED bulbs my guess in that 50% or more of the eneregy is waste heat from the voltage converters and other power circuitry. The lighting element itself shouldn't (ideally) generate any heat.
They already do this. Most modern LCD displays are brighter then they already need to be. The problem is the black level. You can't reproduce the levels of darkness you need.
That's why the back light should be distributed in LCD's. You would have a perfect black level if you only lit the areas where there was any significant light source. And LED's produce very minimal heat, so temperature is not an issue. The cool thing is, if you had that much brightness your eyes would naturally adjust like they would if you went outdoors (no typical slashdot user jokes please...)
The truth is, our computer monitors are very limited in the range of colors they can reproduce. We have been stuck with 8 bit RGB for a long time now, I'm surprised we haven't moved on to 16 bit per color or even floating point by now. Internally, video cards in the future will render using floating point arithmatic, but I'm guessing they will still be transmitted as 8 bit per color RGB. Not only that, most image file formats like JPEG are only 24 bit.
Furthermore, we really need to increase contrast ratios of monitors. Having a single back-lit isn't really good enough. I would imagine something containing say a few thousand high intensity white LED's in an array would be good. This way, you could only light up sections of the monitor that need high dynamic range. With enough LED's (a few thousand, not one for each pixel) you could produce quite an interesting effect. I believe there is a monitor that some company is working on that does this.
Of course, I probably should'nt be complaining at all. I'm very happy with my 24" HD monitor I just installed today...
Naw, congress is too busy demonizing the oil industry because average joe can't afford gasoline for his 8 MPG SUV.
Seriously, does congress even understand the technology and the dirty tricks the media companies are doing? I mean, installing malware and destroying someone's operating system is NOT a good idea.
I totally agree. The "ergonomic" evaluator where I worked first suggested I tried a track ball. The track ball actually made things worse as it took far more stress on my wrist to move the trackball around than it does to move a mouse. I finally received a Wacom tablet at the suggestion of another co-worker. I've never felt pain in my wrist since then.
If you think about it OPEC might actually doing the world a favor by rationing the remaining supply of world crude oil. By doubling prices now, we are allowing the oil to last much longer than it would otherwise with a completely open tap. Also, there is absoletly no such thing as "price gouging". It's just a word used to incite anger. Yes, a monopoly can exist, however this is not the case regarding oil since so many countries produce it.
And most liberals don't really believe in "alternative energy" either. Even here where in California we have a nice windfarm, but environmentalists want to shut it down because they believe it is killing too many birds. I mean, you can't win either way with these people. Do you know what is really stifling alternative energy? Over regulation and government intervention.
Are you kidding me? I overclock my computer by 10% during the winter and increase the monitor power save timeto 30 minutes (from 10) just to warm my apartment up a little bit more. Given the double cost of natural gas this winter, keeping the area around my computer warm (where I'm sitting most the time anyway) might be more cost efficient.
Don't forget the limitations of the DVI interface itself. I highley doubt you could push that much data to the LCD without problems. I know that the new monitor I'm getting is rated at 1920x1200 at 60Hz maximum. There would be no way for me to see anything greater than 60fps. Actually that's not entirely true. If you are not using vsync, then it may draw half of the next frame on the bottom of the screen. However, I'm not sure if DVI refreshes like that or not.
Actually the UPS argument is almost valid. For example, how efficient is it to have 100 cars drive 30 miles to a retailer, when you can have 1 UPS truck drive through a city delivering packages on the most efficient route possible? My rough estimate is that the UPS truck would be about 50 times more efficient than all the vehicles together.
Okay more important question. Could anyone who works at Wal-Mart or McDonalds even AFFORD a decent car? I mean Hybrids are expensive and you can really only buy them new. I highly doubt that someone making less than $10/hour is going to be able to afford a new car, even if you gave them a $5,000 incentive. That is, unless they have absolutely no other expenses (living with their parents, etc.).
What good is detail if the photo ends up getting posted on the web the size of a postage stamp? I swear, people who develop news articles STILL don't have a clue. My monitor has 1920x1200 pixels. By showing an image a 100'th of that area is ridiculus.
That's how white LED's work if I'm not mistaken. Although instead of quantum dots, they use phosphor or some other material. Are quantum dots more efficient? Try this: Take a blue LED and shine it into a white LED that is turned off. You should see a slight white glow from the white LED, even though the originating light source is blue! Kind of a neat and simple experiment.
I'm not sure what thread to add this to but here it goes
-Movies: Copying the DVD's you purchased to your Pocket PC is a DIFFICULT process. Not only that, you are potentially breaking the law by cracking the encryption to do so. The average person doesn't have the time to bother trying to figure this out. Maybe the next generation of HD-DVD will fix this issue.
-Google everywhere: This would be a killer app for a pocket PC, but unfortunately it's still too expensive for internet service on wireless phone devices. If you have internet access on a Pocket PC anywhere with a decent web browser you should be able to access any information anywhere.
I mean overall, I can't think of what I would really need a Pocket PC for since I have a smart phone (Nokia 3660). I can pretty much run the same type of applications on my phone as the Pocket PC, the only difference is really just the screen size and CPU. The if the issue is screen size, then why not go for a tablet PC?
Why should there be a lawsuit? Is it Apple's fault you didn't spend the 10 seconds to read an online review of their product before religiously going to the Apple store and buy it?
There are still many competing MP3 players out there, you didn't have to buy the Nano.
I rent, about $850/month. No roommates. Have an OLD vehicle (1984 Honda), but I live so close to work I ride a bike most of the time. I'm also very frugal, I rarely buy things I don't absolutely need.
Yeah, some people are paying $2,500 for morgages, but my bet that's from a two income household making 80k - 100k+ a year.
If you live in California, are single, and are spending $2,500 a month on all expenses you are living beyond your means. I live off of about $1,200 in expenses every month here in the bay area. I'm saving the rest of my money for a house, which hopefully by the time the housing market crashes here won't be so expensive.
And I totally don't believe the $60k figure. Unless you're a 4.0 student coming out of a well respected university, you're not going to make that much anywhere starting out.
And why do people pay $1.99 for a ring tone that lasts 30 seconds? As expensive as $2 sounds for a TV episode sounds, you can never underestimate the wastefulness of the consumer. I don't think Apple will find any problems making money off of selling videos, as long as they have reasonable co-operation from networks, and provide enough free content themselves, someone out there will spend the money.
How about carbon nano-tube blankets? 10,000,000,000 threadcount guaranteed! Not only would they be guaranteed to last forever, stop small bullets and incomming meteors, but would also act as a highly conductive lightning shield! What more could you ask for in a blanket?
Okay, some of those claims may be questionable, I'm sure it's more than 10 billion threads.
Does 2D quality even matter anymore? Data is sent over DVI, meaning the RAMDAC specs we were used to seeing on analog signals doesn't matter anymore. As long as both companies follow DVI specs and support color profiles correctly the only thing that matters is the 2D quality of your LCD.
And will people please start using the DVI connection on the projector? I'm sick and tired of seeing blurr-o-vision on LCD presentations caused by 50 ft of VGA cable.
I second that! Every computer system I have used I set it to ISO8601. What makes me mad though is that I have to enter all these settings myself as Windows doesn't have a preset ISO8601 entry (what a shame!). Also, if you write software and stick strictly to ISO8601 parsing dates/times becomes a breeze! I always get mad when I run into a piece of code that utilizes not one, but SIX different date/time formats!
If you've never read Dilbert? What kind of statement is that? It's marketed so extensively that it would be almost impossible to have not read a Dilbert cartoon.
Considering how little RAM your Samsung TV uses, my guess you would be entitled to about $0.10. I would be reluctant to buy a $1,000 TV myself if it only had a one year warranty. If it fails after 1 year it should be considered an unfortunate, but not an unexpected event. If it lasts 2 years or more you got lucky. I consider the warranty period the average expected operating life of a product. I'm defintly not paying $1,000 for something only designed to last a year. When I buy a hard drive for example, I always look for the 5 year warranty.
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I think the industry should seriously recondider liquid cooling. I mean if you are going to spend all that money on wires and cables, why not run tubes that could contain a cooling fluid? Then, each server could have an in/out port for a liquid connection.
Yes, but the question is where is that heat in the lamps generated from? For compact flourescent or LED bulbs my guess in that 50% or more of the eneregy is waste heat from the voltage converters and other power circuitry. The lighting element itself shouldn't (ideally) generate any heat.
They already do this. Most modern LCD displays are brighter then they already need to be. The problem is the black level. You can't reproduce the levels of darkness you need.
That's why the back light should be distributed in LCD's. You would have a perfect black level if you only lit the areas where there was any significant light source. And LED's produce very minimal heat, so temperature is not an issue. The cool thing is, if you had that much brightness your eyes would naturally adjust like they would if you went outdoors (no typical slashdot user jokes please...)
The truth is, our computer monitors are very limited in the range of colors they can reproduce. We have been stuck with 8 bit RGB for a long time now, I'm surprised we haven't moved on to 16 bit per color or even floating point by now. Internally, video cards in the future will render using floating point arithmatic, but I'm guessing they will still be transmitted as 8 bit per color RGB. Not only that, most image file formats like JPEG are only 24 bit.
Furthermore, we really need to increase contrast ratios of monitors. Having a single back-lit isn't really good enough. I would imagine something containing say a few thousand high intensity white LED's in an array would be good. This way, you could only light up sections of the monitor that need high dynamic range. With enough LED's (a few thousand, not one for each pixel) you could produce quite an interesting effect. I believe there is a monitor that some company is working on that does this.
Of course, I probably should'nt be complaining at all. I'm very happy with my 24" HD monitor I just installed today...
Naw, congress is too busy demonizing the oil industry because average joe can't afford gasoline for his 8 MPG SUV.
Seriously, does congress even understand the technology and the dirty tricks the media companies are doing? I mean, installing malware and destroying someone's operating system is NOT a good idea.
I totally agree. The "ergonomic" evaluator where I worked first suggested I tried a track ball. The track ball actually made things worse as it took far more stress on my wrist to move the trackball around than it does to move a mouse. I finally received a Wacom tablet at the suggestion of another co-worker. I've never felt pain in my wrist since then.
If you think about it OPEC might actually doing the world a favor by rationing the remaining supply of world crude oil. By doubling prices now, we are allowing the oil to last much longer than it would otherwise with a completely open tap. Also, there is absoletly no such thing as "price gouging". It's just a word used to incite anger. Yes, a monopoly can exist, however this is not the case regarding oil since so many countries produce it.
And most liberals don't really believe in "alternative energy" either. Even here where in California we have a nice windfarm, but environmentalists want to shut it down because they believe it is killing too many birds. I mean, you can't win either way with these people. Do you know what is really stifling alternative energy? Over regulation and government intervention.
Are you kidding me? I overclock my computer by 10% during the winter and increase the monitor power save timeto 30 minutes (from 10) just to warm my apartment up a little bit more. Given the double cost of natural gas this winter, keeping the area around my computer warm (where I'm sitting most the time anyway) might be more cost efficient.
Who actually talks into their cellphone anymore? Headsets are sooo much l3373r.
Don't forget the limitations of the DVI interface itself. I highley doubt you could push that much data to the LCD without problems. I know that the new monitor I'm getting is rated at 1920x1200 at 60Hz maximum. There would be no way for me to see anything greater than 60fps. Actually that's not entirely true. If you are not using vsync, then it may draw half of the next frame on the bottom of the screen. However, I'm not sure if DVI refreshes like that or not.
Actually the UPS argument is almost valid. For example, how efficient is it to have 100 cars drive 30 miles to a retailer, when you can have 1 UPS truck drive through a city delivering packages on the most efficient route possible? My rough estimate is that the UPS truck would be about 50 times more efficient than all the vehicles together.
Okay more important question. Could anyone who works at Wal-Mart or McDonalds even AFFORD a decent car? I mean Hybrids are expensive and you can really only buy them new. I highly doubt that someone making less than $10/hour is going to be able to afford a new car, even if you gave them a $5,000 incentive. That is, unless they have absolutely no other expenses (living with their parents, etc.).
What good is detail if the photo ends up getting posted on the web the size of a postage stamp? I swear, people who develop news articles STILL don't have a clue. My monitor has 1920x1200 pixels. By showing an image a 100'th of that area is ridiculus.
That's how white LED's work if I'm not mistaken. Although instead of quantum dots, they use phosphor or some other material. Are quantum dots more efficient? Try this: Take a blue LED and shine it into a white LED that is turned off. You should see a slight white glow from the white LED, even though the originating light source is blue! Kind of a neat and simple experiment.
I'm not sure what thread to add this to but here it goes
-Movies: Copying the DVD's you purchased to your Pocket PC is a DIFFICULT process. Not only that, you are potentially breaking the law by cracking the encryption to do so. The average person doesn't have the time to bother trying to figure this out. Maybe the next generation of HD-DVD will fix this issue.
-Google everywhere: This would be a killer app for a pocket PC, but unfortunately it's still too expensive for internet service on wireless phone devices. If you have internet access on a Pocket PC anywhere with a decent web browser you should be able to access any information anywhere.
I mean overall, I can't think of what I would really need a Pocket PC for since I have a smart phone (Nokia 3660). I can pretty much run the same type of applications on my phone as the Pocket PC, the only difference is really just the screen size and CPU. The if the issue is screen size, then why not go for a tablet PC?
Why should there be a lawsuit? Is it Apple's fault you didn't spend the 10 seconds to read an online review of their product before religiously going to the Apple store and buy it?
There are still many competing MP3 players out there, you didn't have to buy the Nano.
I rent, about $850/month. No roommates. Have an OLD vehicle (1984 Honda), but I live so close to work I ride a bike most of the time. I'm also very frugal, I rarely buy things I don't absolutely need.
Yeah, some people are paying $2,500 for morgages, but my bet that's from a two income household making 80k - 100k+ a year.
If you live in California, are single, and are spending $2,500 a month on all expenses you are living beyond your means. I live off of about $1,200 in expenses every month here in the bay area. I'm saving the rest of my money for a house, which hopefully by the time the housing market crashes here won't be so expensive.
And I totally don't believe the $60k figure. Unless you're a 4.0 student coming out of a well respected university, you're not going to make that much anywhere starting out.
How many times would you want to listen to the same ring tone until you go nuts?
And why do people pay $1.99 for a ring tone that lasts 30 seconds? As expensive as $2 sounds for a TV episode sounds, you can never underestimate the wastefulness of the consumer. I don't think Apple will find any problems making money off of selling videos, as long as they have reasonable co-operation from networks, and provide enough free content themselves, someone out there will spend the money.
How about carbon nano-tube blankets? 10,000,000,000 threadcount guaranteed! Not only would they be guaranteed to last forever, stop small bullets and incomming meteors, but would also act as a highly conductive lightning shield! What more could you ask for in a blanket?
Okay, some of those claims may be questionable, I'm sure it's more than 10 billion threads.
Does 2D quality even matter anymore? Data is sent over DVI, meaning the RAMDAC specs we were used to seeing on analog signals doesn't matter anymore. As long as both companies follow DVI specs and support color profiles correctly the only thing that matters is the 2D quality of your LCD.
And will people please start using the DVI connection on the projector? I'm sick and tired of seeing blurr-o-vision on LCD presentations caused by 50 ft of VGA cable.
I second that! Every computer system I have used I set it to ISO8601. What makes me mad though is that I have to enter all these settings myself as Windows doesn't have a preset ISO8601 entry (what a shame!). Also, if you write software and stick strictly to ISO8601 parsing dates/times becomes a breeze! I always get mad when I run into a piece of code that utilizes not one, but SIX different date/time formats!
If you've never read Dilbert? What kind of statement is that? It's marketed so extensively that it would be almost impossible to have not read a Dilbert cartoon.
Considering how little RAM your Samsung TV uses, my guess you would be entitled to about $0.10. I would be reluctant to buy a $1,000 TV myself if it only had a one year warranty. If it fails after 1 year it should be considered an unfortunate, but not an unexpected event. If it lasts 2 years or more you got lucky. I consider the warranty period the average expected operating life of a product. I'm defintly not paying $1,000 for something only designed to last a year. When I buy a hard drive for example, I always look for the 5 year warranty.