The link refers to an HDTV with built in wireless ultrawideband also being introduced at CES. This would seem to be an ideal companion to one of these sitting on the wall in your livingroom.
Frankly, I'd prefer cheaper with no battery. I generally use my notebook at home plugged in. If it came with a classy looking charger stand to sit with the other av gear remotes and offered 3+ hours of on-battery use, that would be cool too.
Not to mention that the heat doesn't just go away, but just transfers to the water vapor, making "somewhere else" that much warmer. And since spraying the water requires work, you produce more heat than you move.
Wait. So you're saying the SW US has been trapping their heat in water vapor and then "exporting" it to the rest of the world for a while now. Well THERE'S the problem. Global warming is your fault.
You can only lock down a system so far. But you can set one up that only boots from a chip on the motherboard, forcing said child to use their surface mount soldering skills.
Less drastically, the system should be physically tamper resistant and should only boot from a primary harddrive. This would mean the HDD could be swapped out and back, perhaps requiring a specific HDD model, and only physical intrusion would be reported when the system logs into the school network on monday morning.
HL2 based games only use a single core on my system and frequently don't even max that out. Hardly massive demand. TF2 runs well even on my 4 year old notebook.
The state is giving children access to level 0 control of hardware. If the hardware can access the unfiltered adult world (the internet and the WWW) the state is responsible for whatever dark alley these minors wander into.
Control the hardware. Children should not have root access to their state provided systems. Attempted intrusions into root access should be detectable, monitored, and enforced. The Internet should be available only on a whitelist. The children's userland should be scrutinized for inappropriate material on a regular basis. Make no illusion of privacy on these state provided systems.
That's good to know and, no, I haven't torn apart a HDD made in this century, nor for any reason other than magnet collection before the drive got tossed.
Does a 20+ year data retention figure for a properly stored HDD sound about right? Or do you think bit rot would set in sooner? I'd tend to think multiple platters would be better for this type of use (reducing data density) though I'm assuming you meant a greater number of heads would increase the chances of incurring stiction.
Do you think notebook drives would be a better choice? They tend to be designed for more abuse and for having higher use and static shock limitations. Do they also leave the drivehead over the platter?
I wouldn't mind using 2 or 3 500GB HDD for archival video footage (maybe 8-10 years, then move the data to something newer and better when it comes along). They aren't all that expensive. Maybe use different brands to minimize exposure to design flaws. Getting data off them shouldn't be a problem.
I first heard of stiction in reference to very very old hard drives. Something about not parking the drive heads off the platter when they were powered down would cause the drivehead and platter to stick together. When you powered them back up it would damage the platter or even rip off the head. I never had to deal with anything like that and, true or not, modern drives shouldn't be able to fail this way.
Driveheads now are automatically parked and don't touch the platter, headcrashes excepted. I would think if you bought a new drive, used it for a single large backup, and then stored it offline safely, that it would probably have about the same shelflife as a drive sitting in it's box new and unused.
I don't know how they're doing it in cars, but my notebook does a pretty good job at keeping track of the batteries it has chewed up and spit out over the past 4 years. What the battery and the software do is monitor how full the battery gets on each full charge. The maximum charge goes down a little each time and the software adjusts the time accordingly. I can even monitor the drain in mAH in real time and observe how much power is being used by various system loads. It's very accurate.
Of course, just a with cars running on gasoline, you'd want to leave some juice hidden under the pegged E. Also, I'd hope that you could recharge an electric car with jumper cables, seems like a gross oversight of equipment that almost every motorist carries.
Pretty much any current hardware, even something using Intel graphics, has had the ability to adequately hardware accelerate simple 3D for a while, and anything with an Nvidia or AMD/Ati chipset (VIA Chrome? not sure) can do more advanced stuff like programmable shaders. I think there's the capability, at least, to add some nice (possibly even useful) eyecandy that wouldn't bog down the system.
This would probably cause a ruckus amongst the mac users stuck with older intel integrated graphics unless they're just adding a z-plane and adding the ability to look under stuff. Apple wouldn't pull a Vista and "obsolete" recent hardware; perish the thought.
A "Wake on alarm" setting in bios is common, but not ubiquitous on PC motherboards. Such a setting may be on all macs and, if so, a utility built into the OS would make sense. However, Bios Setup on big name factory built PCs tends to be lacking in features compared to enthusiast/shop built PCs that use off the shelf motherboards sold by Asus, Gigabyte, etc...
There are plenty of Non-Mac PC utility programs that allow alterations to the Bios settings (often provided by the motherboard manufacturer) from within their respective non-mac OS, they mostly seem to revolve around adjusting clock speeds of the CPU, fan speeds, etc... These utilities generally AVOID making persistent changes (exception Bios Update Software) to bios and most bios have a setting that PREVENTs them from being able to do so. This last bit was because a virus could overwrite bios if the user was running Win98 or as an Admin (WNT+) or as a SU in *nix. Of course now that everyone is protected by using limited accounts, UAC, or sudo there's less need for this level of paranoia.
Could you have bought one in NJ or Penn and transferred the title? I know it's a another hoop to jump through, but I know someone in Cal that did that.
I am "required" by recent local ordinance to recycle already. Adding one more thing to the list would just shift the disposal cost from the garbage truck to the recycling truck. How to manage organic waste disposal for methanol production isn't even a problem if you can shift trucks from garbage pickup duty to methanol plant duty.
In my area our garbage fees are paid when we buy our bags and recyclables go into a bin (paper and cans. Recyclables are hauled off for free and you only pay for the bags you use. So there is a financial incentive. I usually save about $10-15 a month by using the bin instead of the bags that go for about $2 each.
They could do it cheaper with anything at the current price. However, this wasn't just slopped together last month with the latest hardware off newegg.
No doubt, there's a SC being built up right now around all the latest AMD parts. By the time it gets benchmarked, we'll be able to complain that something else is a better deal.
The reason funny gets modded insightful is because negative mods hurt karma, but funny doesn't add karma. Funny can draw just as much rebuttal as insightful. So if someone says something witty that holds an issue to the light of reason I'll go for the insightful mod.
Sometimes I'll mod something I regard as particularly dense as funny rather than a negative mod. But I laugh at stupid stuff in RL too.
The quad core2 cpus are about twice that. The new i7 also peaks at ~130W. Intel is back down to where they were with pentium3; around 35W per core.
The reality is that power usage/processing performance (for every manufacturer of processors) generally improves every year and it is software reliance on cpu performance that increases your electricity bill.
It was just a humorous response to the humorous idea that the Prius is a midsized car. My first midsized car was a Dodge Dart, which by today's standards is a land yacht. They get smaller every year so I figure pretty soon midsized will mean you don't have to tie your groceries to the roof of the car.
The Prius is a land yacht, and any one that drives one should be hauled off to the gallows for their "let them eat cake" attitude. Here's a car that gets 100mpg and fits a normal human being just fine.
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http://gizmodo.com/340027/westinghouse-goes-wireless-with-ultrawideband-pulse+link-hdtv
The link refers to an HDTV with built in wireless ultrawideband also being introduced at CES. This would seem to be an ideal companion to one of these sitting on the wall in your livingroom.
Frankly, I'd prefer cheaper with no battery. I generally use my notebook at home plugged in. If it came with a classy looking charger stand to sit with the other av gear remotes and offered 3+ hours of on-battery use, that would be cool too.
It' worse than that. The ringworld is unstable.
Not to mention that the heat doesn't just go away, but just transfers to the water vapor, making "somewhere else" that much warmer. And since spraying the water requires work, you produce more heat than you move.
Sounds like a rainmaker scam to me.
Wait. So you're saying the SW US has been trapping their heat in water vapor and then "exporting" it to the rest of the world for a while now. Well THERE'S the problem. Global warming is your fault.
All the Antecs I use are Seasonics.
You can only lock down a system so far. But you can set one up that only boots from a chip on the motherboard, forcing said child to use their surface mount soldering skills.
Less drastically, the system should be physically tamper resistant and should only boot from a primary harddrive. This would mean the HDD could be swapped out and back, perhaps requiring a specific HDD model, and only physical intrusion would be reported when the system logs into the school network on monday morning.
HL2 based games only use a single core on my system and frequently don't even max that out. Hardly massive demand. TF2 runs well even on my 4 year old notebook.
The state is giving children access to level 0 control of hardware. If the hardware can access the unfiltered adult world (the internet and the WWW) the state is responsible for whatever dark alley these minors wander into.
Control the hardware. Children should not have root access to their state provided systems. Attempted intrusions into root access should be detectable, monitored, and enforced. The Internet should be available only on a whitelist. The children's userland should be scrutinized for inappropriate material on a regular basis. Make no illusion of privacy on these state provided systems.
That's good to know and, no, I haven't torn apart a HDD made in this century, nor for any reason other than magnet collection before the drive got tossed.
Does a 20+ year data retention figure for a properly stored HDD sound about right? Or do you think bit rot would set in sooner? I'd tend to think multiple platters would be better for this type of use (reducing data density) though I'm assuming you meant a greater number of heads would increase the chances of incurring stiction.
Do you think notebook drives would be a better choice? They tend to be designed for more abuse and for having higher use and static shock limitations. Do they also leave the drivehead over the platter?
I wouldn't mind using 2 or 3 500GB HDD for archival video footage (maybe 8-10 years, then move the data to something newer and better when it comes along). They aren't all that expensive. Maybe use different brands to minimize exposure to design flaws. Getting data off them shouldn't be a problem.
I first heard of stiction in reference to very very old hard drives. Something about not parking the drive heads off the platter when they were powered down would cause the drivehead and platter to stick together. When you powered them back up it would damage the platter or even rip off the head. I never had to deal with anything like that and, true or not, modern drives shouldn't be able to fail this way.
Driveheads now are automatically parked and don't touch the platter, headcrashes excepted. I would think if you bought a new drive, used it for a single large backup, and then stored it offline safely, that it would probably have about the same shelflife as a drive sitting in it's box new and unused.
I don't know how they're doing it in cars, but my notebook does a pretty good job at keeping track of the batteries it has chewed up and spit out over the past 4 years. What the battery and the software do is monitor how full the battery gets on each full charge. The maximum charge goes down a little each time and the software adjusts the time accordingly. I can even monitor the drain in mAH in real time and observe how much power is being used by various system loads. It's very accurate.
Of course, just a with cars running on gasoline, you'd want to leave some juice hidden under the pegged E. Also, I'd hope that you could recharge an electric car with jumper cables, seems like a gross oversight of equipment that almost every motorist carries.
I think Spacely Sprockets and Cogsworth Cogs both use that system.
There's a demo by a guy, Johnny Chung Lee, that did just that using a Wii sensor bar and nunchuck.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii
Its the third video down. Very cool.
Software is there too.
Pretty much any current hardware, even something using Intel graphics, has had the ability to adequately hardware accelerate simple 3D for a while, and anything with an Nvidia or AMD/Ati chipset (VIA Chrome? not sure) can do more advanced stuff like programmable shaders. I think there's the capability, at least, to add some nice (possibly even useful) eyecandy that wouldn't bog down the system.
This would probably cause a ruckus amongst the mac users stuck with older intel integrated graphics unless they're just adding a z-plane and adding the ability to look under stuff. Apple wouldn't pull a Vista and "obsolete" recent hardware; perish the thought.
A "Wake on alarm" setting in bios is common, but not ubiquitous on PC motherboards. Such a setting may be on all macs and, if so, a utility built into the OS would make sense. However, Bios Setup
on big name factory built PCs tends to be lacking in features compared to enthusiast/shop built PCs that use off the shelf motherboards sold by Asus, Gigabyte, etc...
There are plenty of Non-Mac PC utility programs that allow alterations to the Bios settings (often provided by the motherboard manufacturer) from within their respective non-mac OS, they mostly seem to revolve around adjusting clock speeds of the CPU, fan speeds, etc... These utilities generally AVOID making persistent changes (exception Bios Update Software) to bios and most bios have a setting that PREVENTs them from being able to do so. This last bit was because a virus could overwrite bios if the user was running Win98 or as an Admin (WNT+) or as a SU in *nix. Of course now that everyone is protected by using limited accounts, UAC, or sudo there's less need for this level of paranoia.
Could you have bought one in NJ or Penn and transferred the title? I know it's a another hoop to jump through, but I know someone in Cal that did that.
I don't know... there was a lot of dissent that the idea that attaching pontoons to donkeys' feet was a sound one.
I am "required" by recent local ordinance to recycle already. Adding one more thing to the list would just shift the disposal cost from the garbage truck to the recycling truck. How to manage organic waste disposal for methanol production isn't even a problem if you can shift trucks from garbage pickup duty to methanol plant duty.
In my area our garbage fees are paid when we buy our bags and recyclables go into a bin (paper and cans. Recyclables are hauled off for free and you only pay for the bags you use. So there is a financial incentive. I usually save about $10-15 a month by using the bin instead of the bags that go for about $2 each.
They could do it cheaper with anything at the current price. However, this wasn't just slopped together last month with the latest hardware off newegg.
No doubt, there's a SC being built up right now around all the latest AMD parts. By the time it gets benchmarked, we'll be able to complain that something else is a better deal.
The B-58 also had separate ejection capsules that were supposed to work at Mach2+. That was 50 years ago.
The reason funny gets modded insightful is because negative mods hurt karma, but funny doesn't add karma. Funny can draw just as much rebuttal as insightful. So if someone says something witty that holds an issue to the light of reason I'll go for the insightful mod.
Sometimes I'll mod something I regard as particularly dense as funny rather than a negative mod. But I laugh at stupid stuff in RL too.
If you don't agree, metamod.
The quad core2 cpus are about twice that. The new i7 also peaks at ~130W. Intel is back down to where they were with pentium3; around 35W per core.
The reality is that power usage/processing performance (for every manufacturer of processors) generally improves every year and it is software reliance on cpu performance that increases your electricity bill.
It was just a humorous response to the humorous idea that the Prius is a midsized car. My first midsized car was a Dodge Dart, which by today's standards is a land yacht. They get smaller every year so I figure pretty soon midsized will mean you don't have to tie your groceries to the roof of the car.
The Prius is a land yacht, and any one that drives one should be hauled off to the gallows for their "let them eat cake" attitude. Here's a car that gets 100mpg and fits a normal human being just fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Z4R2uLv-A
A blob of Dielectric Grease. You cover the socket with it, before attaching the CPU so condensation doesn't form between the pins.