Screw clothing to charge cellphones, etc. I can't think of a more petty use.
The major impact of this tech has nothing to do with its portability/flexibility. The article estimates that the price for a final process fab will be about 1 euro per watt, compared to a highly competitive market which has so far only produced 5.6 euro per watt glass panels.
Simply put, this would make photovoltaics as an energy source an order of magnitude more competitive, if the process is scalable.
Were that true, it would still only extend to first-generation copies.
Using Bittorrent, by definition, unless you happen to already own the work inquest, you are distributing a second generation copy.
From this: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how -much-info-2003/internet.htm site, it would appear that the total annual usenet postings are around 300 terabytes right now, meaning that if you carried every newsgroup possible, you'd have about a day of retention on only one of these units. Most newsgroup services seem to have an upper bound of about 50gb of capacity.
On a sidenote:
Honestly though, why would anyone remotely technically competant buy this? It doesn't even have any redundancy (all raid 0, meaning if a single drive fails, poof). Just what could that much cash buy?
Here's what I would buy. I'm a gamer, admittedly, but you could leave out all this and just go for a $250 Dell poweredge 420c if you were just looking for NAS (though not sure about their # of 3.5" slots, might not even be able to fit 8 with 5.25" adapters).
$350 Broadcom RAIDCore BC4852 PCIE raid card $1,000 8x 250gb IDE hard drives $120 Nforce4 board $150 athlon64 3000+ $300 2gb corsair3200 c2.5 $150 DIY watercooling system $200 Coolermaster Stacker w/ extra drivecage $110 Antec True550 EPS12v $70 16x DVDRW+- $350 6800gt $100 Game Theater XP Total: $2900 A full, decked out, near top-notch watercooled gaming system PLUS 1.75TB of redundant storage (Though I would go w/ 1.5TB with double parity).
*note* I was going to suggest 5 400gb drives in raid5 configuration, but you can get 250gb drives for 50cents/GB rather than 90 cents for the top of the line.
Of the tech-oriented people where I live, an IM is this generation's social phonecall, email is their voicemail, and the cellphone... is a cellphone, used to get in touch with people, not really something to talk in depth on.
At $5/hour, it would be quire profitable over time - new bulbs cost around 10 cents an hour(assuming a 2000 hour metal halide at $200), electricity for the whole deal(a generous 500 watts, say) is 5 cents an hour, etc. The real estate I don't know, I would assume that their 300 seat facility at ole bawltmoor would be in the inner harbor to draw attention(I don't see how they could possibly fill 300 seats in repeat customers in a rural area purely through advertising and word of mouth),which is pricy.
Taking only the technological costs into account, the business seems sound, and they'll likely make a KILLING off of drinks + food.
It all comes down to whether they can fill the seats.
"We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years."
New Fan: How did the original trilogy die?
Oldi-Fan: An old director, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire edit and destroy the original trilogy. He betrayed and murdered your trilogy.
That is a bit of a better fix than the library. It only affects ANYONE for the day or 2 it takes the DNS to propagate. If the IP is hardcoded into a bunch of virii, and the most users never actually see the IP, who suffers from changing it?
No. Violating their server puts you in bad faith and guilty of a felony. Because of our handy-dandy Homeland Security Act, you can get a life sentence for that(and don't give me bull$hit about it not being terrorism, thats not what the RIAA lawyers will argue, and when did the RIAA lawyers ever lose?). If, however, an individual unknown to an independant label posted their songs up on the RIAA website, under the provisions the RIAA is asking for/have already bought, the label would be perfectly within their rights to take down the RIAA site via whatever electronic means they have.
They leaked it because it was optimized solely for ATI. That is why the best scores that people are getting are around 40-50fps on 9700s and 8-12 on ti4600s. On other benchmarks, the largest amount the 9700 won by was around 40%. The game will not run like ass on geforce 4's when it comes out, this was just a special preview that was made to render a non-interactive movie(so that they could say it was "realtime")
I believe that the "Are not for the incumbents" part was a statement of what he THOUGHT that their intended purpose was. Instead, they are being used as convenient campaign-boosters. It's not like its any different from how we pay millions in free postage and stationary to incumbent senators and representatives.
Just on a side note: So IO is losing kinetic energy by heating itself up(I know, I know, same thing in physics, but different in astrophysics). That means that as it continues to heat itself up, it slows down, and is pulled farther into Jupiter's grav-field. Eventually, when it pierces Jupiter's upper cloud-layers, it will be going very slow orbitally, but faster vertically toward jupiter, and much hotter than it is now. Come on, children, astrophysics is fun!
You can miss them because first they put out just average cooling. The outer edges of the fan blow 90% of the air anyways(they are moving much faster), and it just wasn't any better than quiet, moderate-power axial fans. Next, they were recalled because they pose a fire hazard.
First of all, he didn't tell how much air they pushed, as they are variable speed fans. He just read it off the manufacturers site. Next, he didn't tell how loud they were - even Taco complained about that. How many bearings they have is totally irrelevant, as all modern fans are either ball-bearing(having many greased balls inside) dual ball-bearing, or sleeve bearing. It makes very little difference, except that sleeves are quieter, DBB is slightly more dependable, etc.
We were hoping that he would write something that wasn't worthy of putting on the product page - an actual critical review of the fans - the closest to which he comes when he remarks on the workmanship of one wire going to a LED.
The second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law, a universal law, which states that the universe never becomes more orderred as a whole. Some small-minded people who need boundaries to their lives think of it in application to smaller situations, so that they never have to wonder "what if?" The heat-death of the universe, an eventuality of proportions too large for you to describe, much less comprehend, is not going to happen every time anything accumulates into a larger portion(unless you are into quantum physics and 1+1=a dead cat)
It is Life+50. And btw, Life+70 would make it 2053, not 2073.:)
I find the whole idea of scientology mildly amusing. A sci-fi author decides he isn't making enough money at his current job, so he decides to start a religion. Then he does it. Amazing. *Puts on flameproof suit*Jesus, Muhammed, Zarathustra, Confucious and Siddartha Gautama were all considerred scamsters at one point or another. Scientology was a religion designed around money, for the pursuit of it and for those who had it(how many celebrities are scientologists compared to Joe Sixpacks). How suprising is it that they are going to call in lawyers to protect what they see as an exclusive club, for the rich?
Nor is it defined by the "Lets see, this children's book you just wrote will pass into the hands of the public when your great-great-great-great-great grandkids are ready to read it" lobbyists, who would(and do) put $2000 into the pockets of AOLTimeWarner every time "Happy Birthday"(writtehn in 1893) is publicly performed. The "Limited" clause has been repeatedly interpreted as being 'according to whoever throws more money at the court'. Since 1790, when it was introduced, US Copyright has been extended from 14 years to the author's entire life plus 50 years. Convince me that the Founding Fathers(meaning the spirit of the law) intended it the way it currently is and I will shut up and never download a song, pirate another piece of software, or read an ebook for the rest of my life.
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On the other hand, the question is about windows. Here's the best freeware list I've found, taken off of the neowin.net forums. These are not guaranteed Clean, but most of them are. Also, you might want to check tinyapps.org, which specializes in SMALL apps (usually not enough space for ad/spyware).
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3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services...ple/i ndex.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.h tm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/
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AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
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Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm l
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
Category IRC Clients:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
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1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2
Okay, was reading the wrong data, that was peak price, the lowest prices one can find are around E2.66 per watt for crystalline + E3.15 for thin film.
Still, 1 euro per watt would make a HUGE difference in the viability of solar.
Screw clothing to charge cellphones, etc. I can't think of a more petty use.
The major impact of this tech has nothing to do with its portability/flexibility. The article estimates that the price for a final process fab will be about 1 euro per watt, compared to a highly competitive market which has so far only produced 5.6 euro per watt glass panels.
Simply put, this would make photovoltaics as an energy source an order of magnitude more competitive, if the process is scalable.
Octavo?
Yes, but Napster certainly lost in the US.
There are various opinions of how well it would have stood up based in another country.
Were that true, it would still only extend to first-generation copies. Using Bittorrent, by definition, unless you happen to already own the work inquest, you are distributing a second generation copy.
From this: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how -much-info-2003/internet.htm site, it would appear that the total annual usenet postings are around 300 terabytes right now, meaning that if you carried every newsgroup possible, you'd have about a day of retention on only one of these units. Most newsgroup services seem to have an upper bound of about 50gb of capacity.
On a sidenote:
Honestly though, why would anyone remotely technically competant buy this? It doesn't even have any redundancy (all raid 0, meaning if a single drive fails, poof). Just what could that much cash buy?
Here's what I would buy. I'm a gamer, admittedly, but you could leave out all this and just go for a $250 Dell poweredge 420c if you were just looking for NAS (though not sure about their # of 3.5" slots, might not even be able to fit 8 with 5.25" adapters).
$350 Broadcom RAIDCore BC4852 PCIE raid card
$1,000 8x 250gb IDE hard drives
$120 Nforce4 board
$150 athlon64 3000+
$300 2gb corsair3200 c2.5
$150 DIY watercooling system
$200 Coolermaster Stacker w/ extra drivecage
$110 Antec True550 EPS12v
$70 16x DVDRW+-
$350 6800gt
$100 Game Theater XP
Total: $2900
A full, decked out, near top-notch watercooled gaming system PLUS 1.75TB of redundant storage (Though I would go w/ 1.5TB with double parity).
*note* I was going to suggest 5 400gb drives in raid5 configuration, but you can get 250gb drives for 50cents/GB rather than 90 cents for the top of the line.
This was sort of the norm for me + friends in HS.
Of the tech-oriented people where I live, an IM is this generation's social phonecall, email is their voicemail, and the cellphone... is a cellphone, used to get in touch with people, not really something to talk in depth on.
At $5/hour, it would be quire profitable over time - new bulbs cost around 10 cents an hour(assuming a 2000 hour metal halide at $200), electricity for the whole deal(a generous 500 watts, say) is 5 cents an hour, etc. The real estate I don't know, I would assume that their 300 seat facility at ole bawltmoor would be in the inner harbor to draw attention(I don't see how they could possibly fill 300 seats in repeat customers in a rural area purely through advertising and word of mouth),which is pricy.
Taking only the technological costs into account, the business seems sound, and they'll likely make a KILLING off of drinks + food.
It all comes down to whether they can fill the seats.
"We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years."
New Fan: How did the original trilogy die?
Oldi-Fan: An old director, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire edit and destroy the original trilogy. He betrayed and murdered your trilogy.
That is a bit of a better fix than the library. It only affects ANYONE for the day or 2 it takes the DNS to propagate. If the IP is hardcoded into a bunch of virii, and the most users never actually see the IP, who suffers from changing it?
No. Violating their server puts you in bad faith and guilty of a felony. Because of our handy-dandy Homeland Security Act, you can get a life sentence for that(and don't give me bull$hit about it not being terrorism, thats not what the RIAA lawyers will argue, and when did the RIAA lawyers ever lose?). If, however, an individual unknown to an independant label posted their songs up on the RIAA website, under the provisions the RIAA is asking for/have already bought, the label would be perfectly within their rights to take down the RIAA site via whatever electronic means they have.
They leaked it because it was optimized solely for ATI. That is why the best scores that people are getting are around 40-50fps on 9700s and 8-12 on ti4600s. On other benchmarks, the largest amount the 9700 won by was around 40%. The game will not run like ass on geforce 4's when it comes out, this was just a special preview that was made to render a non-interactive movie(so that they could say it was "realtime")
I think that his death wasn't really a deciding factor. We are talking about ashcroft, remember?
I believe that the "Are not for the incumbents" part was a statement of what he THOUGHT that their intended purpose was. Instead, they are being used as convenient campaign-boosters. It's not like its any different from how we pay millions in free postage and stationary to incumbent senators and representatives.
Just on a side note: So IO is losing kinetic energy by heating itself up(I know, I know, same thing in physics, but different in astrophysics). That means that as it continues to heat itself up, it slows down, and is pulled farther into Jupiter's grav-field. Eventually, when it pierces Jupiter's upper cloud-layers, it will be going very slow orbitally, but faster vertically toward jupiter, and much hotter than it is now. Come on, children, astrophysics is fun!
You can miss them because first they put out just average cooling. The outer edges of the fan blow 90% of the air anyways(they are moving much faster), and it just wasn't any better than quiet, moderate-power axial fans. Next, they were recalled because they pose a fire hazard.
It tends to smell not after a while, but for about a month after application, and it is observed mainly in the application of 1 brand, Dynamat.
First of all, he didn't tell how much air they pushed, as they are variable speed fans. He just read it off the manufacturers site. Next, he didn't tell how loud they were - even Taco complained about that. How many bearings they have is totally irrelevant, as all modern fans are either ball-bearing(having many greased balls inside) dual ball-bearing, or sleeve bearing. It makes very little difference, except that sleeves are quieter, DBB is slightly more dependable, etc. We were hoping that he would write something that wasn't worthy of putting on the product page - an actual critical review of the fans - the closest to which he comes when he remarks on the workmanship of one wire going to a LED.
Sadly, the fact that most of a billion people have linux in colleges and government jobs is probably going to make less difference to the US than the fact that the several hundred CEOs that are pumped out by the most prestigious university in the world annually, the Indian Institute of Technology, will have grown up on linux.
all the gold ever mined is said to measure less than a 10x10foot cube
The second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law, a universal law, which states that the universe never becomes more orderred as a whole. Some small-minded people who need boundaries to their lives think of it in application to smaller situations, so that they never have to wonder "what if?" The heat-death of the universe, an eventuality of proportions too large for you to describe, much less comprehend, is not going to happen every time anything accumulates into a larger portion(unless you are into quantum physics and 1+1=a dead cat)
It is Life+50. And btw, Life+70 would make it 2053, not 2073.:)
I find the whole idea of scientology mildly amusing. A sci-fi author decides he isn't making enough money at his current job, so he decides to start a religion. Then he does it. Amazing.
*Puts on flameproof suit*Jesus, Muhammed, Zarathustra, Confucious and Siddartha Gautama were all considerred scamsters at one point or another. Scientology was a religion designed around money, for the pursuit of it and for those who had it(how many celebrities are scientologists compared to Joe Sixpacks). How suprising is it that they are going to call in lawyers to protect what they see as an exclusive club, for the rich?
Nor is it defined by the "Lets see, this children's book you just wrote will pass into the hands of the public when your great-great-great-great-great grandkids are ready to read it" lobbyists, who would(and do) put $2000 into the pockets of AOLTimeWarner every time "Happy Birthday"(writtehn in 1893) is publicly performed. The "Limited" clause has been repeatedly interpreted as being 'according to whoever throws more money at the court'. Since 1790, when it was introduced, US Copyright has been extended from 14 years to the author's entire life plus 50 years. Convince me that the Founding Fathers(meaning the spirit of the law) intended it the way it currently is and I will shut up and never download a song, pirate another piece of software, or read an ebook for the rest of my life.
And the people who decided to go to OpenCourseWare want it to be free