Hard Drives have always been the bottleneck. The problem is the 10 or so milliseconds it takes the head to seek to another area of the drive. This delay will never go away until they start introducing either multiple heads, or some vastly different mechanism for reading data on the drive.
By they way, if you were to upgrade to a SATA RAID0 array with 2, 7200RPM drives you would be AMAZED at how much faster your computer is. Loading applications, especially all these 1GB game installs would be at least 250% faster than your old drive. You would notice the difference right away.
I know it sounds funny, but they are coming out with new calculators each year. If you do any kind of calculus, having a calculator that can work on problems symbolically is a real time saver. Just adding and subtracting numbers isn't enough for me. Still waiting for a handheld calculator as powerful as mathematica. Maybe someday...
That doesn't mean that you LIVE like you are wealthy. Most people who make 60k live in areas where everything costs so much, they may as well make 30k and live in some rural area and be better off. And if you're making 60k in an area like that, you're probably taxed at 25% anyway, so your real earnings are much less.
When you are making 60k and you have to live in a 1 bedroom apartment because it costs 400k for a 2 bedroom house, you don't feel so wealthy anymore.
I'll agree that the earth does not maintain a balance. The weather and the environment just does what it does. Global warming is only as "bad" as we believe it to be. If you looked at it from the perspective of lives lost, it will have little effect on the industrialized world, and maybe farmland in non-industrialized countries will slowly disappear. Then again, frozen areas in the north may become more cultivable. I'm always amused when people worry that frozen waste land is being changed from global warming, as if that's such a bad thing that the land is now more useful for our own use.
The earth and everything that lives on it besides humans doesn't care or comprehend what happens to the environment.
Do you honestly believe that "a fat American in a Humvee" is going to destroy the environment and kill millions people? Use some logic instead of emotions! The total polution generated by all Humvees can't possibly be a significant consequence to the environment. There are many more factors than Humvees that are changing the environment.
The difference is probably in transmission power, this is entirely unrelated to frequency. Besides, higher frequencies become easily obstructed. That's why cellphone providers still use frequencies below 2GHz.
Dig a few miles more. The temperature of the earth's increases the farther down you dig. My guess is this is probably not economically feasible though.
"January 1, 2007 Online support is no longer available."
What do they mean by this exactly? Does this mean they pull the website for Windows NT 4.0 and deny that it ever existed? I know a many companies still run Windows NT boxes stand alone (in a lot of industrial control systems), denying access to existing patches or online help for this OS doesn't make too much sense. I could see many Windows NT boxes still running for the next 10 years or so.
You could also build a very tall, metal fence. That might do the trick.
I wonder if people buy 5GHz wireless phones knowing that they'll need to use a frequency spectrum with 100mbps+ bandwidth to route their voice calls through a phone line that only supports 30kbps. It's a complete, inneficient waste of bandwidth. There is nothing wrong with 900MHz phones, the quality is the same. 5GHz just looks more high tech on the front of the box so people buy it.
I don't know, but when you start introducing mechanical components to memory devices you're asking for trouble. This device looks pretty fragile, the hinges look like plastic, how long could something like this possibly last?
This looks more like a solution looking for a problem. How difficult is it really to plug a memory card into a USB adapter?
It would probably be a really bad idea for a secret agent to do that trick now. Many tires are inflated with pure nitrogen. One breath of that, and you'll pass out from aphixiation.
Except drudge doesn't usually write anything, so it's not really a blog. Usually just posts links to news articles already out there. He also posts pictures on his main site that are on other servers. He doesn't generate that much original content himself.
Still, I go there quite often just because the links are sometimes pretty interesting.
This is a ridiculus assumption that this highway would be a target of terrorism. Accidents happen on highways all the time anyway (at least where I live), this would be nothing new. Probably the worst thing that could happen would be a gasoline tanker spilling completely and catching on fire.
This infastructure would not be all in one place. Note that it's a QUARTER MILE wide! There would be so much seperation between the truck and car lanes in both directions that you could really only shutdown a small portion of the highway for maybe a few hours.
Ah I remember those reasonable and prudent signs in Montana. They still had regular speed limit signs in cities, it's just the highways had signs that said "Reasonable and Prudent" and then below that "Trucks: 55" or something like that.
I wonder if that's because people didn't need to bother looking at their spedometer every few seconds to make sure they were not breaking the law. I would certainly be able to concentrate better driving if I didn't have to glance at my gauges all the time.
85 MPH? Sweet. I haven't seen many freeways in California with speedlimits greater than 65.
What are the chances of California getting a super highway like this? Probably zilch. The only projects we get here are HOV lane extensions which do little to solve the problem.
It's not likely that you can scale this endlessly. CCD sensors need a certain minimum amount of light to register an image. It's not like taking the picture is an instant event, there must be a certain minimum amount of exposure time to the sensor, and eventually the image will simply blur. Looking at the video it appears very dark, they don't talk about their lighting source, I assume they were in a brightly lit room and the darkness is a result of low exposure time per each CCD. You would really need to have a high speed strope light to achieve much greater frame rates.
I don't understand why he had to make this a hoax. It would have been very easy to purchase all the necessary hardware to make this work. My guess it would only cost maybe $500 in hardware to implement this. The only problem would be controlling how often the lights were switched. It would be impossible to have 1,000 of users simultaniously executing commands to the lights. You would have to limit the number of users who could control the system at one time.
Better yet, make a strand of 1,000 lights where each light can be turned on/off individualy. Then you could assign a single light for each client to control. That would be kind of interesting.
If you're interested in turning a real light on/off try this
It's kind of ho-hum, but it's an interesting example of their product.
So essentially, you have become a spammer by posting crap to random internet groups and forums? You are no better than the spammers. They have recruited you and you don't even realize it.
Neither checking or savings accounts can be considered investments. I assume you didn't direct deposit a pay check, so you had to pay some extra fees.
Also given the minimum $2,500 you have to put into the account, the bank is making a substantial amount of interest on your money for a year. And also, the bank probably only paid $125 for the iPod, so they probably came out ahead.
Illegal according to who? The U.N. does not dictate U.S. policy.
A couple bucks from what? If it's oil, you're wrong. The U.S. has spent far too much money on the war already, there is no way we are profitting from this war other than removing a dictator and weeding out terrorists.
Well, they can't just sign the software themselves without it looking as bad to the user. If you're using IE you only have a limited set of root certificate servers, so if a user tries to download firefox, even if it's signed by Mozilla foundation, IE will still treat that as a "potentially malacious" software.
Ha, you think $50 is outrageous? Don't you remember how much SNES and N64 games used to cost? I remember paying anywhere from $50-$70 back in the 90's for SNES,N64 games. The higher prices of cartridges didn't stop people from buying them.
If you think $50 is too much fine, just wait a couple years and buy them game from the bargain bin. That's what I usually do.
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Hard Drives have always been the bottleneck. The problem is the 10 or so milliseconds it takes the head to seek to another area of the drive. This delay will never go away until they start introducing either multiple heads, or some vastly different mechanism for reading data on the drive.
By they way, if you were to upgrade to a SATA RAID0 array with 2, 7200RPM drives you would be AMAZED at how much faster your computer is. Loading applications, especially all these 1GB game installs would be at least 250% faster than your old drive. You would notice the difference right away.
I know it sounds funny, but they are coming out with new calculators each year. If you do any kind of calculus, having a calculator that can work on problems symbolically is a real time saver. Just adding and subtracting numbers isn't enough for me. Still waiting for a handheld calculator as powerful as mathematica. Maybe someday...
That doesn't mean that you LIVE like you are wealthy. Most people who make 60k live in areas where everything costs so much, they may as well make 30k and live in some rural area and be better off. And if you're making 60k in an area like that, you're probably taxed at 25% anyway, so your real earnings are much less.
When you are making 60k and you have to live in a 1 bedroom apartment because it costs 400k for a 2 bedroom house, you don't feel so wealthy anymore.
I'll agree that the earth does not maintain a balance. The weather and the environment just does what it does. Global warming is only as "bad" as we believe it to be. If you looked at it from the perspective of lives lost, it will have little effect on the industrialized world, and maybe farmland in non-industrialized countries will slowly disappear. Then again, frozen areas in the north may become more cultivable. I'm always amused when people worry that frozen waste land is being changed from global warming, as if that's such a bad thing that the land is now more useful for our own use.
The earth and everything that lives on it besides humans doesn't care or comprehend what happens to the environment.
Do you honestly believe that "a fat American in a Humvee" is going to destroy the environment and kill millions people? Use some logic instead of emotions! The total polution generated by all Humvees can't possibly be a significant consequence to the environment. There are many more factors than Humvees that are changing the environment.
The difference is probably in transmission power, this is entirely unrelated to frequency. Besides, higher frequencies become easily obstructed. That's why cellphone providers still use frequencies below 2GHz.
Dig a few miles more. The temperature of the earth's increases the farther down you dig. My guess is this is probably not economically feasible though.
"January 1, 2007 Online support is no longer available."
What do they mean by this exactly? Does this mean they pull the website for Windows NT 4.0 and deny that it ever existed? I know a many companies still run Windows NT boxes stand alone (in a lot of industrial control systems), denying access to existing patches or online help for this OS doesn't make too much sense. I could see many Windows NT boxes still running for the next 10 years or so.
You could also build a very tall, metal fence. That might do the trick.
I wonder if people buy 5GHz wireless phones knowing that they'll need to use a frequency spectrum with 100mbps+ bandwidth to route their voice calls through a phone line that only supports 30kbps. It's a complete, inneficient waste of bandwidth. There is nothing wrong with 900MHz phones, the quality is the same. 5GHz just looks more high tech on the front of the box so people buy it.
I never liked that they did that with the @ symbol. They could have just as easily made a keyword instead of adding an ugly symbol.
I don't know, but when you start introducing mechanical components to memory devices you're asking for trouble. This device looks pretty fragile, the hinges look like plastic, how long could something like this possibly last?
This looks more like a solution looking for a problem. How difficult is it really to plug a memory card into a USB adapter?
This is the ugliest, hardest to read python code I've ever seen. How can someone abuse such a wonderful language like this?
My guess is that most of the functionality of the code is in the standard libraries imported at the begining: SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib
They could have just as well imported "p2p_lib" if such a thing existed.
It would probably be a really bad idea for a secret agent to do that trick now. Many tires are inflated with pure nitrogen. One breath of that, and you'll pass out from aphixiation.
Except drudge doesn't usually write anything, so it's not really a blog. Usually just posts links to news articles already out there. He also posts pictures on his main site that are on other servers. He doesn't generate that much original content himself.
Still, I go there quite often just because the links are sometimes pretty interesting.
This is a ridiculus assumption that this highway would be a target of terrorism. Accidents happen on highways all the time anyway (at least where I live), this would be nothing new. Probably the worst thing that could happen would be a gasoline tanker spilling completely and catching on fire.
This infastructure would not be all in one place. Note that it's a QUARTER MILE wide! There would be so much seperation between the truck and car lanes in both directions that you could really only shutdown a small portion of the highway for maybe a few hours.
Ah I remember those reasonable and prudent signs in Montana. They still had regular speed limit signs in cities, it's just the highways had signs that said "Reasonable and Prudent" and then below that "Trucks: 55" or something like that.
I wonder if that's because people didn't need to bother looking at their spedometer every few seconds to make sure they were not breaking the law. I would certainly be able to concentrate better driving if I didn't have to glance at my gauges all the time.
85 MPH? Sweet. I haven't seen many freeways in California with speedlimits greater than 65.
What are the chances of California getting a super highway like this? Probably zilch. The only projects we get here are HOV lane extensions which do little to solve the problem.
It's not likely that you can scale this endlessly. CCD sensors need a certain minimum amount of light to register an image. It's not like taking the picture is an instant event, there must be a certain minimum amount of exposure time to the sensor, and eventually the image will simply blur. Looking at the video it appears very dark, they don't talk about their lighting source, I assume they were in a brightly lit room and the darkness is a result of low exposure time per each CCD. You would really need to have a high speed strope light to achieve much greater frame rates.
You call that a real laser?
Try this:
http://www.llnl.gov/nif/
500 Terrawatts.
I don't think they'll be making a hand held version any time soon though.
I don't understand why he had to make this a hoax. It would have been very easy to purchase all the necessary hardware to make this work. My guess it would only cost maybe $500 in hardware to implement this. The only problem would be controlling how often the lights were switched. It would be impossible to have 1,000 of users simultaniously executing commands to the lights. You would have to limit the number of users who could control the system at one time.
Better yet, make a strand of 1,000 lights where each light can be turned on/off individualy. Then you could assign a single light for each client to control. That would be kind of interesting.
If you're interested in turning a real light on/off try this
It's kind of ho-hum, but it's an interesting example of their product.
So essentially, you have become a spammer by posting crap to random internet groups and forums? You are no better than the spammers. They have recruited you and you don't even realize it.
Neither checking or savings accounts can be considered investments. I assume you didn't direct deposit a pay check, so you had to pay some extra fees.
Also given the minimum $2,500 you have to put into the account, the bank is making a substantial amount of interest on your money for a year. And also, the bank probably only paid $125 for the iPod, so they probably came out ahead.
Yes, but at least 30% of that audio would be of you snoring. Might want to ommit those parts.
Illegal according to who? The U.N. does not dictate U.S. policy.
A couple bucks from what? If it's oil, you're wrong. The U.S. has spent far too much money on the war already, there is no way we are profitting from this war other than removing a dictator and weeding out terrorists.
Well, they can't just sign the software themselves without it looking as bad to the user. If you're using IE you only have a limited set of root certificate servers, so if a user tries to download firefox, even if it's signed by Mozilla foundation, IE will still treat that as a "potentially malacious" software.
Ha, you think $50 is outrageous? Don't you remember how much SNES and N64 games used to cost? I remember paying anywhere from $50-$70 back in the 90's for SNES,N64 games. The higher prices of cartridges didn't stop people from buying them.
If you think $50 is too much fine, just wait a couple years and buy them game from the bargain bin. That's what I usually do.