Has a keyboard, although it doesn't have some of the control keys on, but I haven't done anything complicated enough to need them yet, just basic SSH access for simple commands.
I've also gotten VNC to work on it, but it's kind of a pain to use with a small screen, but it is possible. nice thing with t-mobile is the data plan is only $20/month.
1500M of cat5 doesn't work well because the spec is only good to 100M (obviously). Patton electronics makes some nice xDSL modems that I have had success with for distances of about 2 miles (haven't tested them any further than that).
You can use direct burial cable too and save yourself a bunch of money. Think you could do this all for less than $2,000 + your time.
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Maybe DDR3 is the memory industries way of keeping people on 32-bit OS's interested in their product? Because you can't really use much more than 2GB in a 32 bit system, and that's selling for about $50 now for DDR2 (I paid over $300 a year and a half ago!).
If you want real performance improvement get a 64 bit OS and 8GB DDR2 instead of 2GB DDR3. It will probably cost less and you'll notice the performance improvement as fewer accesses to HD (given you're OS knows how to pre-fetch intelligently).
Yeah I was skeptical of steam when it first came out for this same reason. But I went with it because I figure I'm saving them money and getting rid of all the middle men that box up software. But now... a company as big as Microsoft abandoning a music authentication server? Wow... I mean, it just worries me that 10 years from now I may not be able to load up Half Life 2 and show my kids what video games used to be like. I mean, I can still load Doom and Quake just fine (although I can't figure out how to get Quake CTF working).
Steam really should have a "retirement" system where a game doesn't require internet activation after say 5 or so years of it being on the market. I mean, in good faith and all to their customers.
Twisted pair isn't self shielding. If you have interference it still travels down both wires. What happens is at the receiver, you can cancel out the interference because the pairs are opposite voltages of eachother. Problem is, you can only cancel out so much interference and in very noisy electrical environments shielding is still a must.
We use twisted pair cables without shield because it's the cheapest. Not necessarily because it's the best at minimizing noise.
I can think of two examples where this didn't really help the larger of the two divisions. And maybe this is just my perspective as a consumer and brand confusion that occurs when companies try to split.
When Palm split into a software company and a hardware company (palmOne and PalmSource). It was short lived for sure, and I always wondered what the benefit was when they did that. When HP spun off their instrumentation division (Agilent) could be another example. I know Agilent is still doing pretty good but HP not so much. I just thought it was a bad idea as a user of HP's instrumentation because it really associated quality with the rest of their product lines. I think IBM probably made the same mistake spinning off Lenova, since now their high quality laptops are no longer associated with their company.
I think Motorola splitting off the handset division will be the death of that division. It's stock will be more volatile since it's now only focused on a very large, very competitive market. A few too many bad product releases and the new spinoff is bankrupt, with no parent company to back it up.
In the future there will be a HUGE advantage for SSD in low end desktops. There is a large fixed cost for all the mechanical parts of a hard drive. If you're developing a low cost consumer level PC for office/internet apps, having a single chip integrated on the motherboard could reduce costs significantly. The question is... how can the PC manufactures remove the bloat in their OS's to make this feasible?
So basically you don't care if it's legal or illegal, you admit the system is wrong, you don't mind forcing other people to subsidize your non-purchase of music, and laws are okay to break as long as your own moral standards and feelings aren't affected.
Sounds like selfishness to me.
I mean, gosh, at least go out and buy a CD from a local band every once and awhile.
possess a warm sound which CDs are not able to reproduce"
Every time I hear "warm sound" when describing records I want to hit someone...
Please please please quantify "warm sound" in respect to some hard metric. Is it frequency response at certain levels? Dynamic range? Why don't you just activate your "warm sound" filter on your CD player and get the same result?
Hey, maybe you should I don't know... read up on your history before making stupid comments? I did read the article. It specifically said there was one internet cafe in the entire country. You'd find more even in poorer African countries.
There is no U.S. blockade of Cuba, that happened only during the Cuban missile crisis. Any other country is still free to trade with Cuba without intervention from the U.S.. The Soviet Union continued to do so during the cold war.
And they aren't socialists, it's communism. The U.S. spent billions if not trillions fighting the soviet union in the 80's and we basically won. But you're probably not from the U.S. so you'll go on making up history to make us look like the bad guy while the people of Cuba continue to live under a dictator with restricted freedom.
yeah because passing around USB keys is so much more advanced then... oh I don't know. Actually having internet access? Why don't you question why the Cuban government hasn't allowed internet access into their country? Don't blame the U.S., there are plenty of other countries in the world that would offer to help. A fiber or microwave link to Mexico is definitely doable.
And you're saying that the people are not "doing it with subversive intentions in mind". Well, then why doesn't Cuba open up their countries internet access to everyone? You know... like the perfect democracy they claim they have? What is Cuba afraid of then?
I think I remember reading an article on Tomshardwareguide where they tried running one dual core, and a single core CPU in the same system for 3 cores. While they got it to boot the OS, a lot of applications failed to run.
I'm guessing there is a lot of code out there that's looking for power of 2 number of cores. A program might run fine with 1,2,4,8, or 16 cores, but if you do some kind of odd number I wouldn't be surprised if several applications just refused to run. It will be interesting to see what kind of compatibility testing AMD has done with this new processor.
In the end though, this just seems like another last ditch attempt by AMD to marginally compete on the lower end market with Intel. Intel says they have no need for 3 core chips since their yields are so much higher.
Maybe another way to think of it is that earth used to be like Titan and had a vast sea of hydrocarbons too until life evolved to metabolize it and turn it into living things.
$21M wouldn't buy too much in the government. Maybe they could convert about 100 buildings, and that's pretty minor considering the size of the government. Wouldn't it be better if they even made 1 discovery that made LED lighting 10% more efficient? Multiply that times the millions of potential commercial customers and the $21M in research more than pays for itself. Still, even more could be done just about educating people about how wasteful incandescents are. I'm amazed at how many $500k homes I've been in that have dozens of 60W bulbs running (with another 120W/ea of AC to offset the heat in the summer).
Your wrong! Most white LED's use a layer of phosphorescent. White LED's emit UV frequencies that stimulate a small yellowish phosphor layer on the top. You can see this if you look at them close enough. I even have some surface mount UV LED's at work that come with phosphor filters that emit white light. In the future, I think they will get more efficiency out of RGB LED's since they don't have to go through the phosphor layer, but it will be hard to get broad spectrum out of them.
I think the better question is, if 80GB is too much, what can we use that is cheaper? I think flash memory will definitely start making its way into a lot of lower end business class PC's that don't need more than 16GB or so memory. It could be integrated right onto the motherboards. The only trick would be getting Microsoft to have a smaller/customizable version of the OS that doesn't require so much bloat that you're not going to use for office applications.
The warming effect of CO2 is from holding in solar radiation, not human derived energy sources. You keep forgetting the less than 0.01% of the heat being generated on the surface. You could also think of the opposite problem, the geothermal plants are cooling the earth down at a faster rate since they are allowing thermal energy to escape to space faster.
But it's spurious arguments like this as to why I'm in so much disagreement with most environmentalist. For example, they can't explain the difference between parts per trillion of a contaminant vs. parts per million and they end up saying any contamination is bad, even if it's less than background levels that exist in nature!
You got to be kidding... you are now worried that power plants are generating heat??? In case you haven't noticed, we have this giant thing called the sun that pounds the earth's surface with around 150+ petawatts of energy. Total world energy production is about 15 terrawatts. Wouldn't that be less than 0.01% of the total warming of the planet?
The hazardousness of beryllium is usually way over stated. Only about 10% of the population even has a reaction to it and only if it's in a dust form above a certain concentration. If it's a spy satellite, I would be more worried if they were using a nuclear source to power the thing since the material could be dense enough to possibly return in one piece.
Yes, because you really want to present your brand new LCD TV that's perfectly smooth and flat on the outside, except for this little piece of tape hanging on it. Could you imagine Steve Jobs presenting the iPhone with a bit of tape covered over it?
Have you ever seen a Cat5e or fiber cable before??? For one, cat5e only uses 22-24 awg. Very very small gauge. The mass of copper in it is mostly a negligible cost of the cable. And get this... the cat5e cable is covered in PLASTIC insulation. The individual wires and the outer set. Even if you use plastic fiber, it's still going to be brittle and will need padding and another layer of plastic to protect it when it gets pulled through walls.
Like anything, the major cost isn't the materials, it's manufacturing. At work, if I buy a specialized heavy gauge $100 spool of copper cable, it's only about $25 in the price of the copper. If you're buying specialty data communication cable, most of the cost is just in it's manufacturing, not in the copper.
Easy. After 20 years, cut the tree down, burn it, and measure the CO2 emissions it produces.
Seriously though, what's the point of planting a tree? Are we saying that somehow by putting a tree sapling in the ground is going to be somehow more efficient than the native plants that would grow on that some spot of land and consume the same water etc...
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Has a keyboard, although it doesn't have some of the control keys on, but I haven't done anything complicated enough to need them yet, just basic SSH access for simple commands.
I've also gotten VNC to work on it, but it's kind of a pain to use with a small screen, but it is possible. nice thing with t-mobile is the data plan is only $20/month.
1500M of cat5 doesn't work well because the spec is only good to 100M (obviously). Patton electronics makes some nice xDSL modems that I have had success with for distances of about 2 miles (haven't tested them any further than that).
You can use direct burial cable too and save yourself a bunch of money. Think you could do this all for less than $2,000 + your time.
Maybe DDR3 is the memory industries way of keeping people on 32-bit OS's interested in their product? Because you can't really use much more than 2GB in a 32 bit system, and that's selling for about $50 now for DDR2 (I paid over $300 a year and a half ago!).
If you want real performance improvement get a 64 bit OS and 8GB DDR2 instead of 2GB DDR3. It will probably cost less and you'll notice the performance improvement as fewer accesses to HD (given you're OS knows how to pre-fetch intelligently).
Yeah I was skeptical of steam when it first came out for this same reason. But I went with it because I figure I'm saving them money and getting rid of all the middle men that box up software. But now... a company as big as Microsoft abandoning a music authentication server? Wow... I mean, it just worries me that 10 years from now I may not be able to load up Half Life 2 and show my kids what video games used to be like. I mean, I can still load Doom and Quake just fine (although I can't figure out how to get Quake CTF working).
Steam really should have a "retirement" system where a game doesn't require internet activation after say 5 or so years of it being on the market. I mean, in good faith and all to their customers.
Twisted pair isn't self shielding. If you have interference it still travels down both wires. What happens is at the receiver, you can cancel out the interference because the pairs are opposite voltages of eachother. Problem is, you can only cancel out so much interference and in very noisy electrical environments shielding is still a must.
We use twisted pair cables without shield because it's the cheapest. Not necessarily because it's the best at minimizing noise.
I can think of two examples where this didn't really help the larger of the two divisions. And maybe this is just my perspective as a consumer and brand confusion that occurs when companies try to split.
When Palm split into a software company and a hardware company (palmOne and PalmSource). It was short lived for sure, and I always wondered what the benefit was when they did that. When HP spun off their instrumentation division (Agilent) could be another example. I know Agilent is still doing pretty good but HP not so much. I just thought it was a bad idea as a user of HP's instrumentation because it really associated quality with the rest of their product lines. I think IBM probably made the same mistake spinning off Lenova, since now their high quality laptops are no longer associated with their company.
I think Motorola splitting off the handset division will be the death of that division. It's stock will be more volatile since it's now only focused on a very large, very competitive market. A few too many bad product releases and the new spinoff is bankrupt, with no parent company to back it up.
In the future there will be a HUGE advantage for SSD in low end desktops. There is a large fixed cost for all the mechanical parts of a hard drive. If you're developing a low cost consumer level PC for office/internet apps, having a single chip integrated on the motherboard could reduce costs significantly. The question is... how can the PC manufactures remove the bloat in their OS's to make this feasible?
So basically you don't care if it's legal or illegal, you admit the system is wrong, you don't mind forcing other people to subsidize your non-purchase of music, and laws are okay to break as long as your own moral standards and feelings aren't affected.
Sounds like selfishness to me.
I mean, gosh, at least go out and buy a CD from a local band every once and awhile.
Every time I hear "warm sound" when describing records I want to hit someone...
Please please please quantify "warm sound" in respect to some hard metric. Is it frequency response at certain levels? Dynamic range? Why don't you just activate your "warm sound" filter on your CD player and get the same result?
Hey, maybe you should I don't know... read up on your history before making stupid comments? I did read the article. It specifically said there was one internet cafe in the entire country. You'd find more even in poorer African countries.
There is no U.S. blockade of Cuba, that happened only during the Cuban missile crisis. Any other country is still free to trade with Cuba without intervention from the U.S.. The Soviet Union continued to do so during the cold war.
And they aren't socialists, it's communism. The U.S. spent billions if not trillions fighting the soviet union in the 80's and we basically won. But you're probably not from the U.S. so you'll go on making up history to make us look like the bad guy while the people of Cuba continue to live under a dictator with restricted freedom.
yeah because passing around USB keys is so much more advanced then... oh I don't know. Actually having internet access? Why don't you question why the Cuban government hasn't allowed internet access into their country? Don't blame the U.S., there are plenty of other countries in the world that would offer to help. A fiber or microwave link to Mexico is definitely doable.
And you're saying that the people are not "doing it with subversive intentions in mind". Well, then why doesn't Cuba open up their countries internet access to everyone? You know... like the perfect democracy they claim they have? What is Cuba afraid of then?
How are those "no risk" treasury bonds doing for you with 0.8% return in an environment of 8% inflation??
Everything has risk. You have to know how to deal with it. I have never heard of anyone getting wealthy through treasury bonds.
I think I remember reading an article on Tomshardwareguide where they tried running one dual core, and a single core CPU in the same system for 3 cores. While they got it to boot the OS, a lot of applications failed to run.
I'm guessing there is a lot of code out there that's looking for power of 2 number of cores. A program might run fine with 1,2,4,8, or 16 cores, but if you do some kind of odd number I wouldn't be surprised if several applications just refused to run. It will be interesting to see what kind of compatibility testing AMD has done with this new processor.
In the end though, this just seems like another last ditch attempt by AMD to marginally compete on the lower end market with Intel. Intel says they have no need for 3 core chips since their yields are so much higher.
Maybe another way to think of it is that earth used to be like Titan and had a vast sea of hydrocarbons too until life evolved to metabolize it and turn it into living things.
$21M wouldn't buy too much in the government. Maybe they could convert about 100 buildings, and that's pretty minor considering the size of the government. Wouldn't it be better if they even made 1 discovery that made LED lighting 10% more efficient? Multiply that times the millions of potential commercial customers and the $21M in research more than pays for itself. Still, even more could be done just about educating people about how wasteful incandescents are. I'm amazed at how many $500k homes I've been in that have dozens of 60W bulbs running (with another 120W/ea of AC to offset the heat in the summer).
Your wrong! Most white LED's use a layer of phosphorescent. White LED's emit UV frequencies that stimulate a small yellowish phosphor layer on the top. You can see this if you look at them close enough. I even have some surface mount UV LED's at work that come with phosphor filters that emit white light. In the future, I think they will get more efficiency out of RGB LED's since they don't have to go through the phosphor layer, but it will be hard to get broad spectrum out of them.
I think the better question is, if 80GB is too much, what can we use that is cheaper? I think flash memory will definitely start making its way into a lot of lower end business class PC's that don't need more than 16GB or so memory. It could be integrated right onto the motherboards. The only trick would be getting Microsoft to have a smaller/customizable version of the OS that doesn't require so much bloat that you're not going to use for office applications.
The warming effect of CO2 is from holding in solar radiation, not human derived energy sources. You keep forgetting the less than 0.01% of the heat being generated on the surface. You could also think of the opposite problem, the geothermal plants are cooling the earth down at a faster rate since they are allowing thermal energy to escape to space faster.
But it's spurious arguments like this as to why I'm in so much disagreement with most environmentalist. For example, they can't explain the difference between parts per trillion of a contaminant vs. parts per million and they end up saying any contamination is bad, even if it's less than background levels that exist in nature!
You got to be kidding... you are now worried that power plants are generating heat??? In case you haven't noticed, we have this giant thing called the sun that pounds the earth's surface with around 150+ petawatts of energy. Total world energy production is about 15 terrawatts. Wouldn't that be less than 0.01% of the total warming of the planet?
The hazardousness of beryllium is usually way over stated. Only about 10% of the population even has a reaction to it and only if it's in a dust form above a certain concentration. If it's a spy satellite, I would be more worried if they were using a nuclear source to power the thing since the material could be dense enough to possibly return in one piece.
Yes, because you really want to present your brand new LCD TV that's perfectly smooth and flat on the outside, except for this little piece of tape hanging on it. Could you imagine Steve Jobs presenting the iPhone with a bit of tape covered over it?
Have you ever seen a Cat5e or fiber cable before??? For one, cat5e only uses 22-24 awg. Very very small gauge. The mass of copper in it is mostly a negligible cost of the cable. And get this... the cat5e cable is covered in PLASTIC insulation. The individual wires and the outer set. Even if you use plastic fiber, it's still going to be brittle and will need padding and another layer of plastic to protect it when it gets pulled through walls.
Like anything, the major cost isn't the materials, it's manufacturing. At work, if I buy a specialized heavy gauge $100 spool of copper cable, it's only about $25 in the price of the copper. If you're buying specialty data communication cable, most of the cost is just in it's manufacturing, not in the copper.
Easy. After 20 years, cut the tree down, burn it, and measure the CO2 emissions it produces.
Seriously though, what's the point of planting a tree? Are we saying that somehow by putting a tree sapling in the ground is going to be somehow more efficient than the native plants that would grow on that some spot of land and consume the same water etc...
Yeah, but where am I going to exhaust the cold air? I live in an apartment so I can't modify it to do that.