CF is also pretty slow and has orders of magnitude fewer rewrites.
Fewer rewrites compared to a mechanical hard drive? I doubt it. The hard drive will likely fail much sooner from mechanical wear than a flash drive would. Besides, how many of us have written over a flash memory device over 100,000 times? Not too many people I assume. Don't forget that most flash memory writes data in a circular manner to prevent any single area of the card from being overwritten constantly. You would have to write over several terrabytes of data to a single CF card before it would fail.
I don't think it would have been possible to produce this type of device in the 70's. I don't think the type of supercapacitors this device relies simply didn't exist back then.
I remember even reading in the 90's that a 1 Farad capacitor would be extremely impracticle, now they are quite common. That is the reason this device can exist now.
Don't count on that. Much of the fuel costs on a big vehicle like an Excursion are spent in starting it from a dead stop.
Right, isn't that where something like this retrofit system would help? It seems like it is designed to assist acceleration from cold stops. Maybe the fuel innefficiency is more relating to idling for long periods of time in city driving.
SMS only allows you to directly contact other cellphone users, and unfortuntately you pay a silly $0.05 fee per each message.
IM on a cellphone using GPRS data services is much cheaper in comparison and you can contact people who are at their computers, not at their phone and see if they are available.
When I think of better quality and reception I think of the quality of the audio you are listening to when talking to a person. I think it's really time they up it to 16Khz 16 bit at the minimum. After a voice has been downsampled and scrambled through a compression algorithm it loses a lot of life. I would gladely pay $10 more a month if they could double the audio quality when the cellular bandwidth is available.
I recently purchased a Nokia 3660 on Amazon.com for $275 (and $300 in rebates). My service provider is T-Mobile. This is what I've been able to do so far:
* IM using Agile Messenger (ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo) * Send/Receive my comcast.net POP e-mail
As a plus, I can do all of these things without paying silly little per KB or per message fees. T-mobiles "t-zones" for only $5/month allows you to access unlimited GPRS data so it's a very good deal.
I tried looking for adobe's PDF reader, but it doesn't work on my phone (unsupported, the phone only has 4MB of RAM!).
I would highly recommend the 3660 though as it does quite a lot for the money. I only wish the Nokia 7610 was out, I would have chose that instead.
T-mobile with a Nokia 3660. I can check my POP e-mail from comcast. Cool stuff. Also have a wireless headset, so I think I'm pretty much adopting technology that will be common place by 2010. Can't imagine what 2020 would be like.
It's not very noticable using pliers, because you're just using the same force the "key" uses. My guess is that you may scratch the lock, but that's pretty unlikely and not very noticable.
I've seen those computer "locks" on the back of computers that need those special round keys. They replace screws to try to prevent someone from opening the case. What I found over time when working with them, is that you can just use a set of small pliers to twist them off. Not very secure at all.
We have several solar panels we use where I work and the things have to be cleaned fairly regularly to get full efficiency out of them. So don't forget to factor in the cost of labor to clean the roof of a large building that has these things.
My question is... how many kilowatts of electricity is used to produce each square foot? I'm sure it probably exeeds the ammount of energy these things produce for at least 10 years.
will you people stop buying 2.4GHz phones!
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You are doing nothing but using a low bandwidth device to pollute a frequency range that is better used on 802.11 networks.
2.4GHz phones does not mean that:
1. The sound quality is better. This is entirely dependent on the encoding algorithm the phone uses (if at all). The 2.4GHz is simply a carrier signal. 2. You get better range. You don't because 2.4GHz doesn't propogate as far.
And also, given that some 2.4GHz phones probably don't use spread spectrum, they are likely to interfere with several channels. At least bluetooth devices hop frequencies fast enough and are low power so they don't interfer.
The use of higher frequencies on phones I think is simply a product of marketing. You have people who hear about "2.4GHz" computers and think a similar increase in "GHz" will benefit their phone.
Good high quality 900MHz phones are out there, just keep looking.
Yeah, but where you can still see the graphics in the game. It's just that you can only control movement and fighting with text commands. Would be kind of cool.
Wow this is truly amazing. Anyone remember the day when we all had VCR's and we could record anything that was being broadcast and send copies to friends? Do you think the FCC was ever involved when VCR manufactures added a feature to automatically record a program at a certain day and time? No. But suddenly, now that technology as improved they want to stop it.
There was never a broadcast flag in the past, why should there be one now? Did someone force me to sign an EULA before I watch TV broadcast on public airwaves? In the past there was a natural limitation that prevented games broadcast locally from being seen in other areas of a country (the signal only transmitted so far), now the FCC wants to maintain that limitation through an artificial administrative control system?
Look, if they want to attack someone it shouldn't be the end user or the company that manufactures the device. They are only going to hurt the consumer and the hardware manufactures. Maybe shuting down websites or people who are providing copies of programs to 100's of strangers would be appropriate. But telling a manufacturer that they have to change a 1 to a 0 in their code is ludicrous. Frustrating consumers is just wrong.
All x86 CPU's today STILL support 8 bit and 16 bit software, amazing enough as that sounds. This mostly has to do with the CPU registers that exist.
Example, AH is an 8 bit register and AX is the 16 bit counter part. EAX is 32 bit, I forgot what new 64 bit registers are called... but yes you will find these instructions in old software and it can usually still run.
Does anyone else find it annoying that CSS is so much unlike HTML? I don't understand why CSS wasn't designed to be another XML format. It certainly would make it easier to work with. Instead, you have to learn entirely new rules for CSS.
Given a choice of easy, medium, hard in most video games I used to choose hard to start with. Of course now that I work, I no longer have the patience to replay a level dozens of times just for the challenge of beating a game on the hardest level. Heck, I even beat Quake 3 on nightmare mode (seriously, it's possible but very difficult), but I probably won't consider doing that when Doom 3 comes out. To me, video games now are more like a substitute for going to a movie. If I'm frustrating because I'm reloading a save every minute, it's no longer enjoyable anymore.
Yes, the color scheme looks like my monitor is washed out and my eyes keep trying to adjust to find adequate contrast. Needless to say, it's very hard to read. I'm sure it would look fine if I printed it out, but to read it on the screen just isn't very easy.
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CF is also pretty slow and has orders of magnitude fewer rewrites.
Fewer rewrites compared to a mechanical hard drive? I doubt it. The hard drive will likely fail much sooner from mechanical wear than a flash drive would. Besides, how many of us have written over a flash memory device over 100,000 times? Not too many people I assume. Don't forget that most flash memory writes data in a circular manner to prevent any single area of the card from being overwritten constantly. You would have to write over several terrabytes of data to a single CF card before it would fail.
I don't think it would have been possible to produce this type of device in the 70's. I don't think the type of supercapacitors this device relies simply didn't exist back then.
I remember even reading in the 90's that a 1 Farad capacitor would be extremely impracticle, now they are quite common. That is the reason this device can exist now.
Don't count on that. Much of the fuel costs on a big vehicle like an Excursion are spent in starting it from a dead stop.
Right, isn't that where something like this retrofit system would help? It seems like it is designed to assist acceleration from cold stops. Maybe the fuel innefficiency is more relating to idling for long periods of time in city driving.
meh!!!
IM on your phone is MUCH different than SMS.
SMS only allows you to directly contact other cellphone users, and unfortuntately you pay a silly $0.05 fee per each message.
IM on a cellphone using GPRS data services is much cheaper in comparison and you can contact people who are at their computers, not at their phone and see if they are available.
When I think of better quality and reception I think of the quality of the audio you are listening to when talking to a person. I think it's really time they up it to 16Khz 16 bit at the minimum. After a voice has been downsampled and scrambled through a compression algorithm it loses a lot of life. I would gladely pay $10 more a month if they could double the audio quality when the cellular bandwidth is available.
Maybe Nokia has just realized that people are going to buy a new phone every 2 years anyway, so why make them to last longer? (joking...)
I recently purchased a Nokia 3660 on Amazon.com for $275 (and $300 in rebates). My service provider is T-Mobile. This is what I've been able to do so far:
* IM using Agile Messenger (ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo)
* Send/Receive my comcast.net POP e-mail
As a plus, I can do all of these things without paying silly little per KB or per message fees. T-mobiles "t-zones" for only $5/month allows you to access unlimited GPRS data so it's a very good deal.
I tried looking for adobe's PDF reader, but it doesn't work on my phone (unsupported, the phone only has 4MB of RAM!).
I would highly recommend the 3660 though as it does quite a lot for the money. I only wish the Nokia 7610 was out, I would have chose that instead.
Maybe Microsoft has snuck in some DRM (digital restriction management) "enhancements" in this new release? I would not be surprised.
T-mobile with a Nokia 3660. I can check my POP e-mail from comcast. Cool stuff. Also have a wireless headset, so I think I'm pretty much adopting technology that will be common place by 2010. Can't imagine what 2020 would be like.
This is NOT fark. Please go away.
It's not very noticable using pliers, because you're just using the same force the "key" uses. My guess is that you may scratch the lock, but that's pretty unlikely and not very noticable.
I've seen those computer "locks" on the back of computers that need those special round keys. They replace screws to try to prevent someone from opening the case. What I found over time when working with them, is that you can just use a set of small pliers to twist them off. Not very secure at all.
We have several solar panels we use where I work and the things have to be cleaned fairly regularly to get full efficiency out of them. So don't forget to factor in the cost of labor to clean the roof of a large building that has these things.
My question is... how many kilowatts of electricity is used to produce each square foot? I'm sure it probably exeeds the ammount of energy these things produce for at least 10 years.
You are doing nothing but using a low bandwidth device to pollute a frequency range that is better used on 802.11 networks.
2.4GHz phones does not mean that:
1. The sound quality is better. This is entirely dependent on the encoding algorithm the phone uses (if at all). The 2.4GHz is simply a carrier signal.
2. You get better range. You don't because 2.4GHz doesn't propogate as far.
And also, given that some 2.4GHz phones probably don't use spread spectrum, they are likely to interfere with several channels. At least bluetooth devices hop frequencies fast enough and are low power so they don't interfer.
The use of higher frequencies on phones I think is simply a product of marketing. You have people who hear about "2.4GHz" computers and think a similar increase in "GHz" will benefit their phone.
Good high quality 900MHz phones are out there, just keep looking.
Yeah, but where you can still see the graphics in the game. It's just that you can only control movement and fighting with text commands. Would be kind of cool.
These text mods are great
I don't know why, but when you said this I was thinking along the lines of...
>GO NORTH
>LOOK
You see an evil imp
>ATTACK
etc....
This would actually be kind of a fun and silly project if you think about it.
Wow this is truly amazing. Anyone remember the day when we all had VCR's and we could record anything that was being broadcast and send copies to friends? Do you think the FCC was ever involved when VCR manufactures added a feature to automatically record a program at a certain day and time? No. But suddenly, now that technology as improved they want to stop it.
There was never a broadcast flag in the past, why should there be one now? Did someone force me to sign an EULA before I watch TV broadcast on public airwaves? In the past there was a natural limitation that prevented games broadcast locally from being seen in other areas of a country (the signal only transmitted so far), now the FCC wants to maintain that limitation through an artificial administrative control system?
Look, if they want to attack someone it shouldn't be the end user or the company that manufactures the device. They are only going to hurt the consumer and the hardware manufactures. Maybe shuting down websites or people who are providing copies of programs to 100's of strangers would be appropriate. But telling a manufacturer that they have to change a 1 to a 0 in their code is ludicrous. Frustrating consumers is just wrong.
"The Bureau of Land Management's instructions were strict: Startling the endangered animal could threaten its life."
So now we are more worried about not scarying a bunch of silly animals than we are successfully completing an experiment?
"Aerospace engineer David Graham and his three colleagues had a deadline.....It was 15 long minutes before the beast waddled on its way. "
4 engineers times 15 minutes seems a bit expensive to waste so they don't "frighten" a tortois.
All x86 CPU's today STILL support 8 bit and 16 bit software, amazing enough as that sounds. This mostly has to do with the CPU registers that exist.
Example, AH is an 8 bit register and AX is the 16 bit counter part. EAX is 32 bit, I forgot what new 64 bit registers are called... but yes you will find these instructions in old software and it can usually still run.
Don't remind me about how I spent $180 to buy a 56k modem from US Robotics just so I could eek out another 20kbps :(
My cable modem? It was free...
Does anyone else find it annoying that CSS is so much unlike HTML? I don't understand why CSS wasn't designed to be another XML format. It certainly would make it easier to work with. Instead, you have to learn entirely new rules for CSS.
and what if you could? Doesn't mean the pins would have the same function.
It sure would be funny though to read about all the people who bought an Intel motherboard and plugged a AMD chip into it only for smoke to come out.
Given a choice of easy, medium, hard in most video games I used to choose hard to start with. Of course now that I work, I no longer have the patience to replay a level dozens of times just for the challenge of beating a game on the hardest level. Heck, I even beat Quake 3 on nightmare mode (seriously, it's possible but very difficult), but I probably won't consider doing that when Doom 3 comes out. To me, video games now are more like a substitute for going to a movie. If I'm frustrating because I'm reloading a save every minute, it's no longer enjoyable anymore.
Yes, the color scheme looks like my monitor is washed out and my eyes keep trying to adjust to find adequate contrast. Needless to say, it's very hard to read. I'm sure it would look fine if I printed it out, but to read it on the screen just isn't very easy.