Allow me to politely correct you. Joules is a discreet measurement of energy. 0.2389 Calories, or energy required to lift 1kg 0.1 meters.
A watt is a joule/second. Processors do not emit energy discretly, but rather over time, therefore the appropriate measurement is a rate, thus, heat dissipation is measured in watts.
Joule is only an appropriate measurement for discreet things... such as, "the chemical reaction consumed 30 joules of energy."
A good analogy would be, how many miles of gas did you use to goto work? 10 gallons... How much fuel does your car use? 10 miles per gallon, which again, is a RATE. The answer to "how much fuel does you car use?" is not 10 gallons. Its 10 miles per gallon.
In the same sense, a processor doesn't dissipate 30 joules of energy, it dissipates 30 joules per second, and the word for "joules per second" is WATT:)
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And even if they were going to, they wouldn't tell you anyways because that would devalue current their current stock of MP3 players. Theres your NaCl.
Is that "Global Warming" is an extremely stupid name for global warming. Global warming isn't the entire world getting warmer. In a sense, the earth and sun form a closed system (I know this is grossly inaccurate, but the sun gives us about the same ammount of energy year after year...). Weather systems redistribute the suns energies around the earth, and what we're seeing is a change in that redistribution -- some places are getting warmer (poles for instance) and other places are getting colder (such as California). So global warming should really get called something more like "holy shit california was barely warm this summer."
Also, as a person in his late 20's, I can say with absolute authority that I have *NO* patience left at all. None whatsoever. My time is extremely valuable to me personally, and to the folks who pay for it, and I consider listening/watching advertisements and bad music, or even music I dont want to listen to at the moment a sin of the highest order.
I think I am the worst case scenario in a group of people who sees *NO VALUE* in being entertained on someone elses schedule. The days of waiting for your favorite song on the radio, or your favorite episode of something are dead and gone. Between DVD purchases and internet downloads I have every episode of every show I like avaliable to me, all stored on cheap HDs. I carry the complete Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs ripped to my laptop, it doesn't even use much space! If I want to see a specific episode of something, I *WATCH THAT EPISODE*.
My *REAL* challenge with media is finding new stuff I like as my free time is almost zero. A service which could reliably recommend good music would be very valuable to me. Right now I use Amazon, a network of like minded friends, and i download tons of albums and go buy the ones I like... but this is very time consuming.
"...sweden only barely resembles a democracy"
I realize you're probably trolling here, but since we are very proud of our democratic traditions here in Sweden I would really like to know what you base this statement on.
Being the idiot that I am, I had meant to accuse sweden of being more socialist then capitalist, which my swedish friends tell me is very true... however, I minced words
"Yes...You... The retard in the back with the stupid question!?"
Opposing "stupid" law is the very essence of democracy (yes i know sweden only barely resembles a democracy). Yes they are getting publicity. Yes they are doing the public good. They probably are also trying to eliminate the single most costly component of their products. A tax which by any stretch of imagination is unjust.
I think its a confluence of events... I'm sure this has been said before... but as you mentioned home entertainment systems are cheap and good looking... Movie tickets are between 8 - 10$ in most places (9.75 where I live), movie "food" is rediculous. At one of the theaters here where I live a large coke is $5. So figure, on the low end, 40$ to goto the movies, and that doesn't count having to WAIT IN LINE to: 1 buy tickets... 2 buy popcorn... 3 Actually get a decent seat. Then when you get in the movie you have to put up with crying babies, the cell-phone-obsessed populace at large and dumb ass teenagers. Oh, and you have to watch 12 minutes of advertisements before the show.
Think about the alternative... you rent a movie for 3 - 5$, 10$'s buys all the soda/candy you could ever want, and you have none of the frustrations i've mentioned. Its a no-brainer.
People are worried about the growth of MS, which, were it to never grow again is still a company which makes a BILLION a month? By and standard thats still a HELL of a company.
Or are people worried because they bought a stock which was far overvalued due to fervor and hype which was known to everyone at the time to be unstable, unsustainable, and a bad risk?
Just think of all the 3d math that goes on behind the scenes of games today.
I'm not a game programmer... but, I have programmed games, and lookup tables were really a technique of necessity in the 80's, early 90's. Back in the day, an 86, 88, 186, 286, didnt even HAVE trig functions (unless you bought the corresponding 87 chip). The 386 was the first chip with a math co-procesor built in IIRC, but even then sin/cos were several hundred cycles which is an eternity when you're cycle counting and trying to use as many 1 and 2 cycle instructions as possible -- and THEN -- you had to maintain backwards compat with the older chips...
I would think now with hardware T&L engines and processors that do hundreds of millions of MIPS that would not be necessary.
Thats the thing... When I heard this story, I thought the ENTIRE point of the story was to laugh at the teacher making up all this bullshit to scare the thief into getting the laptop back... are we meant to believe that laundry list of data he claimed was on his laptop was actually there?
Peltiers draw a *HELL* of a lot of current and they are better at producing heat then cold (well not really, but consider room temperature to be an offset which you have to overcome).
Well, I would agree os mods are bad, but in this case I was having lockups before them. THe program that gives me the most trouble is VeriChat. I would accept an occasional lockup in verichat if it didnt hose the entire phone as well. A lockup where you have to reset your pda is one thing. A lockup which causes you not to get phone calls anymore, is VERY bad (specially since I have it in my pocket and don't know it locked up).
I have had a palm since the *ORIGINAL* US Robotics Pilot 1000. Palm OS has outlived its usefullness. My current device is a treo 650, which I *LOVE* except that it locks up CONSTANTLY. And all the little OS mod programs you have to run to actually make the thing usefull, conflict with each other and act weird.
Second of all, the programming model is HORRIBLE. Developers are still writing code for the dragonball processor and expected to write "Armlets" which are little snipets of code that run directly on the ARM processor bypassing the 68k emulation stuff.
Palm OS needs to die and be replaced by an OS with memory protection and a fairly customizable OS. Palm OS was designed to run on 8mhz processors, and it did that quite nicely, but its time has ocme and gone.
The only reason palm hasn't died completely is that the windows devices aren't any better (I've owned a few of those as well).
We're in the home stretch in the year 2005 here, I don't have my flying car, i don't have my rocket backpack, and my robot maid has gone missing. But I think its not too much to ask for a PDA that doesn't eat shit all the time and has a usable interface.
The scary part is the game isn't particularly good, or challenging... And there are people who will continue playing until there are no new challenges to encounter and then contineu to play even beyond that
Case in point I have friends who play WoW 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. They sit and chat about how all the bugs piss them off, and how the game isn't much fun anymore. I've seen them screaming mad as some bug wiped out 16 hours worth of "work". But they don't stop playing.
There's no imagined saviour. What's missing are the tools to do the job. Do you honestly think that the world is on its knees asking, no, begging, for the US to come and help?
I think in 3rd world countries the hate of America stems from their expectations taht we should help them and their dismay at our apathy. But apathy isn't the right word, I'm looking for something more like "blissful ignorance". Most americans aren't even aware of crises which to the people in them are very serious.
Yep, and the problem is in the free market you should be able to exercise your dollar votes and not buy their products. However, all the companies who have anything to do with this are all rolling out new hardware at *exactly* the same time so there simply will be no alternative. Longhorn, the new dvd format(s), TCPM compliant motherboards, chipsets, and software, all will be deployed at once. How do you like your omelets now Denver?
Im a liberal, and what you're saying is liberal bullshit:) Im talking about the people in their own countries trying to fix their own problems, instead of waiting for some imagined saviour to notice them.
And guess what, all that military spending? Keeps the world from being a lot fucking worse then it is right now (wars to avenge your daddy not-withstanding). These talking points are SO boring, so cliche, and so off the mark.
Yes, there are desperately poor people in other parts of the world. The thing that I was really striving at was that every country in the world is either:
A. Trying to take us out
B. Has the false conception that we are so rich and powerful that we could fix all of their problems if only we cared about our fellow humans enough to do so -- and are angry that we have not. Even when they can't be bothered to help eachother.
Thats *WHY* they're poor. They are incapable of or unwilling to make good decisions. Theres lots of other reasons to be poor, but that is chief among them. I happened to be in a section 9 housing area a few years ago (the government pays part of your rent). The cars were nicer then the area I live in where the houses were worth, say, 280k before the boom, and probably now, more like 450k.
A good friend of mine has a mental illness which he uses as an excuse to not work:) His mother supports him mostly... and Simultaneously he came into a small chunk of money and his mothers vehicle broke. What does the wise man do? Buys his mom a bicycle and spends the rest on electronics
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A watt is a joule/second. Processors do not emit energy discretly, but rather over time, therefore the appropriate measurement is a rate, thus, heat dissipation is measured in watts.
Joule is only an appropriate measurement for discreet things ... such as, "the chemical reaction consumed 30 joules of energy."
A good analogy would be, how many miles of gas did you use to goto work? 10 gallons ... How much fuel does your car use? 10 miles per gallon, which again, is a RATE. The answer to "how much fuel does you car use?" is not 10 gallons. Its 10 miles per gallon.
In the same sense, a processor doesn't dissipate 30 joules of energy, it dissipates 30 joules per second, and the word for "joules per second" is WATT :)
And even if they were going to, they wouldn't tell you anyways because that would devalue current their current stock of MP3 players. Theres your NaCl.
Is that "Global Warming" is an extremely stupid name for global warming. Global warming isn't the entire world getting warmer. In a sense, the earth and sun form a closed system (I know this is grossly inaccurate, but the sun gives us about the same ammount of energy year after year ...). Weather systems redistribute the suns energies around the earth, and what we're seeing is a change in that redistribution -- some places are getting warmer (poles for instance) and other places are getting colder (such as California). So global warming should really get called something more like "holy shit california was barely warm this summer."
Also, as a person in his late 20's, I can say with absolute authority that I have *NO* patience left at all. None whatsoever. My time is extremely valuable to me personally, and to the folks who pay for it, and I consider listening/watching advertisements and bad music, or even music I dont want to listen to at the moment a sin of the highest order.
I think I am the worst case scenario in a group of people who sees *NO VALUE* in being entertained on someone elses schedule. The days of waiting for your favorite song on the radio, or your favorite episode of something are dead and gone. Between DVD purchases and internet downloads I have every episode of every show I like avaliable to me, all stored on cheap HDs. I carry the complete Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs ripped to my laptop, it doesn't even use much space! If I want to see a specific episode of something, I *WATCH THAT EPISODE*.
My *REAL* challenge with media is finding new stuff I like as my free time is almost zero. A service which could reliably recommend good music would be very valuable to me. Right now I use Amazon, a network of like minded friends, and i download tons of albums and go buy the ones I like ... but this is very time consuming.
Being the idiot that I am, I had meant to accuse sweden of being more socialist then capitalist, which my swedish friends tell me is very true... however, I minced words
Opposing "stupid" law is the very essence of democracy (yes i know sweden only barely resembles a democracy). Yes they are getting publicity. Yes they are doing the public good. They probably are also trying to eliminate the single most costly component of their products. A tax which by any stretch of imagination is unjust.
Think about the alternative ... you rent a movie for 3 - 5$, 10$'s buys all the soda/candy you could ever want, and you have none of the frustrations i've mentioned. Its a no-brainer.
Or are people worried because they bought a stock which was far overvalued due to fervor and hype which was known to everyone at the time to be unstable, unsustainable, and a bad risk?
I'm not a game programmer ... but, I have programmed games, and lookup tables were really a technique of necessity in the 80's, early 90's. Back in the day, an 86, 88, 186, 286, didnt even HAVE trig functions (unless you bought the corresponding 87 chip). The 386 was the first chip with a math co-procesor built in IIRC, but even then sin/cos were several hundred cycles which is an eternity when you're cycle counting and trying to use as many 1 and 2 cycle instructions as possible -- and THEN -- you had to maintain backwards compat with the older chips...
I would think now with hardware T&L engines and processors that do hundreds of millions of MIPS that would not be necessary.
Thats the thing ... When I heard this story, I thought the ENTIRE point of the story was to laugh at the teacher making up all this bullshit to scare the thief into getting the laptop back ... are we meant to believe that laundry list of data he claimed was on his laptop was actually there?
Peltiers draw a *HELL* of a lot of current and they are better at producing heat then cold (well not really, but consider room temperature to be an offset which you have to overcome).
Hmmm ... I was thinking more along these lines:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Well, I would agree os mods are bad, but in this case I was having lockups before them. THe program that gives me the most trouble is VeriChat. I would accept an occasional lockup in verichat if it didnt hose the entire phone as well. A lockup where you have to reset your pda is one thing. A lockup which causes you not to get phone calls anymore, is VERY bad (specially since I have it in my pocket and don't know it locked up).
I have had a palm since the *ORIGINAL* US Robotics Pilot 1000. Palm OS has outlived its usefullness. My current device is a treo 650, which I *LOVE* except that it locks up CONSTANTLY. And all the little OS mod programs you have to run to actually make the thing usefull, conflict with each other and act weird.
Second of all, the programming model is HORRIBLE. Developers are still writing code for the dragonball processor and expected to write "Armlets" which are little snipets of code that run directly on the ARM processor bypassing the 68k emulation stuff.
Palm OS needs to die and be replaced by an OS with memory protection and a fairly customizable OS. Palm OS was designed to run on 8mhz processors, and it did that quite nicely, but its time has ocme and gone.
The only reason palm hasn't died completely is that the windows devices aren't any better (I've owned a few of those as well).
We're in the home stretch in the year 2005 here, I don't have my flying car, i don't have my rocket backpack, and my robot maid has gone missing. But I think its not too much to ask for a PDA that doesn't eat shit all the time and has a usable interface.
Case in point I have friends who play WoW 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. They sit and chat about how all the bugs piss them off, and how the game isn't much fun anymore. I've seen them screaming mad as some bug wiped out 16 hours worth of "work". But they don't stop playing.
I love it when some guy blows away the entire premise of an article with one sentence :) Good job.
In any case, you could make more money riding MS's descent, then most companies ascent.
I think in 3rd world countries the hate of America stems from their expectations taht we should help them and their dismay at our apathy. But apathy isn't the right word, I'm looking for something more like "blissful ignorance". Most americans aren't even aware of crises which to the people in them are very serious.
The military argument is a strawman at best.
Yep, and the problem is in the free market you should be able to exercise your dollar votes and not buy their products. However, all the companies who have anything to do with this are all rolling out new hardware at *exactly* the same time so there simply will be no alternative. Longhorn, the new dvd format(s), TCPM compliant motherboards, chipsets, and software, all will be deployed at once. How do you like your omelets now Denver?
And guess what, all that military spending? Keeps the world from being a lot fucking worse then it is right now (wars to avenge your daddy not-withstanding). These talking points are SO boring, so cliche, and so off the mark.
A. Trying to take us out
B. Has the false conception that we are so rich and powerful that we could fix all of their problems if only we cared about our fellow humans enough to do so -- and are angry that we have not. Even when they can't be bothered to help eachother.
You must be one of those foreigners who thinks that all Americans are rich.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Well, we're sure the Cell processor is Buzzword Compliant.
A good friend of mine has a mental illness which he uses as an excuse to not work :) His mother supports him mostly ... and Simultaneously he came into a small chunk of money and his mothers vehicle broke. What does the wise man do? Buys his mom a bicycle and spends the rest on electronics