I'd like to see where the poster found that Data has 90PB of storage. It's always listed in "gigaquads" where they never define a quad.
In Star Trek 2, there's a video game that takes up 50 meg of storage in the Genesis research station computer, and the lab manager keeps complaining that it's wasting a huge amount of the station's space. Even by the time TNG came around, 50 meg wasn't very much, so Star Trek made sure they'd never use real, modern world units again.
I doubt the poster's source is part on the cannon.
If one is a convicted pedophile, it means children have already been harmed. Putting cameras in *every* home in the country will go a long way to preventing pedophiles from getting their first victims.
Good, then let's install cameras throughout your house, bedrooms and bathrooms too. If you've got nothing to hide, you won't object. The cameras will make sure you aren't a pedophile with kidnapped children hidden in your house.
If you object, clearly you are guilty since you said you wouldn't object if you had nothing to hide.
Of course in keeping with the story, not only would the police have access to the cameras but your employer and coworkers as well.
It's better to have the camera in your phone than no camera if you're out somewhere and want to snap a picture...but the quality of even the best phone cameras is crap compared to a $50 credit-card-sized digital camera at the office store.
My "real" camera's lens is bigger than my cell phone. Just because of optical limitations alone, you'll never have a decent camera in a cell phone.
Also, at 39 meg/file, 1 gig only holds 25 pictures. At that rate, most people with a digital camera will take far more than a few GB of photos in a day.
Nobody said of the same size. Read before you post.
13MP, 24 bit color = a 39 megabyte file. That's what the parent was talking about saving. If you save a 39 megabyte jpg instead, that would be the stupid choice.
Can others sued by them use this to show that the RIAA is suing people at random with allegations that are hard to disprove and no real evidence and get their cases dismissed?
Looks like MacWorld magazine was a little premature in reporting that the new Apple iMac Core Duo doesn't live up to Apple's speed claims. The folks over at MacSpeedZone have done some performance testing of their own that debunks MacWorld's results and shows that the new iMac Core Duo DOES live up to the hype.
There's 2 conflicting reports, so automatically the one that makes the new macs sound bad is a premature that needs to be debunked, and the one that makes the new macs sound good is right and does that debunking.
BSMA is not a real math degree it's a science degree;). FWIW I have a B.Math from U of Waterloo.
Except for one mathematically ignorant post saying he's used to Fahrenheit so the percentages make sense to him and your reply which doesn't actually say anything, every other reply agrees with me.
I'm not making the same mistake by using Celsius, I was saying both numbers are meaningless for the same reason, and giving my arbitrary scale as a further example.
How do they come off saying a reduction from 78 to 64 degrees F is an 18% reduction in temperature? The Fehrenheit scale is arbitrary and does not have a meaningful zero point.
In celsius, their reduction is 26 to 18 degrees, a reduction of 31%
Why not define a new scale with the same degrees but 0 degrees (new scales) = 63 degrees F. Now on the new scale they've reduced the temperature from 15 to 1 degree, a reduction of 94%....wow that's way better than their lousy 18%.
The tubes were glowing brightly with the TV off (I could see it through the vents), and it was just as bright in off mode as on. The heat pouring out of the vents was also just as high, and much hotter than a modern large screen CRT when it's on.
I'm talking about pre-transistor when there were a lot of tubes kept at a very high temperature.
For a modern CRT, do a test; leave it plugged in and off for 10 hours then see how long it takes to come on. Then repeat by leaving it unplugged for 10 hours. There won't be much (any?) difference. I don't think it's using much power to keep the tube idling.
Back in the vacuum tube days, when you turned on your TV it would take a few minutes for the tubes to warm up before you could use it. Then "instant on" was invented. Basically the tubes were left at full power 24/7, so the TV was drawing almost as much power "off" as on, with few people realzing it, and tubes took a lot of power.
Maybe the Europen TVs today are a hold-over from that.
If you use master loot throughout the instance it will take 10 hours for a simple ubrs run instead of 2 hours. master loot is only viable on the bosses.
If they're in America and choose to play on an American server, they can speak the language of the land. English. They can't go into a random restaurant and expect service in Chinese.
Same deal if they are in China and want to play on an American server...it's an English language server for a multiplayer game. They can learn to communicate with the players or they can't get very far in the game.
So if you're a gold farmer, hanging around with your gold farming buddies at the gold farming office, wouldn't you just team up with them instead of trying to solicit groups with American players, who are likely to just slow you down?
Gold farmers often join groups with regular players to "ninja" the loot drops. Basically the whole group works to get a good item, then the farmer grabs it and runs. Not only does that mean they steal the item, they leave the group shorthanded and angry, so the group usually gives up and disbands right away.
First, communication is essential to every group in an MMO. People don't form a group to go off and do their own thing at a task, they from a group to work together. If it's an English speaking group and someone does not speak and understand English, they'll be unable to do what they're supposed to in the group, and it will cause the whole group to fail. Making sure everyone speaks the same language is only common sense when forming a group.
Second, Warcraft has servers in most of the world including China. There is no legitimate reason for a Chinese player to be playing on an American server.
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That won't end well.
Go to Wikipedia and look up "French Revolution" to see some prior art for your idea.
I'd like to see where the poster found that Data has 90PB of storage. It's always listed in "gigaquads" where they never define a quad.
In Star Trek 2, there's a video game that takes up 50 meg of storage in the Genesis research station computer, and the lab manager keeps complaining that it's wasting a huge amount of the station's space. Even by the time TNG came around, 50 meg wasn't very much, so Star Trek made sure they'd never use real, modern world units again.
I doubt the poster's source is part on the cannon.
From the article, the samples they took were from remote areas, forests and icefields distant from cities.
The direct measurements are taken much closer to people so people can take the measurements.
Cities do produce a lot of heat, all the fuels being burned release a huge amount of heat, this is local warming though, not global.
So the study has shown that cities in the 20th century were warmer than remote wilderness has been for the past 800 years....that shows nothing.
You're missing the point
If one is a convicted pedophile, it means children have already been harmed. Putting cameras in *every* home in the country will go a long way to preventing pedophiles from getting their first victims.
Good, then let's install cameras throughout your house, bedrooms and bathrooms too. If you've got nothing to hide, you won't object. The cameras will make sure you aren't a pedophile with kidnapped children hidden in your house.
If you object, clearly you are guilty since you said you wouldn't object if you had nothing to hide.
Of course in keeping with the story, not only would the police have access to the cameras but your employer and coworkers as well.
The big advantage of digital is you can fit so many more pictures without needing to carry lots of film cartridges.
It's better to have the camera in your phone than no camera if you're out somewhere and want to snap a picture...but the quality of even the best phone cameras is crap compared to a $50 credit-card-sized digital camera at the office store.
My "real" camera's lens is bigger than my cell phone. Just because of optical limitations alone, you'll never have a decent camera in a cell phone.
Also, at 39 meg/file, 1 gig only holds 25 pictures. At that rate, most people with a digital camera will take far more than a few GB of photos in a day.
Nobody said of the same size. Read before you post.
13MP, 24 bit color = a 39 megabyte file. That's what the parent was talking about saving. If you save a 39 megabyte jpg instead, that would be the stupid choice.
Can others sued by them use this to show that the RIAA is suing people at random with allegations that are hard to disprove and no real evidence and get their cases dismissed?
Looks like MacWorld magazine was a little premature in reporting that the new Apple iMac Core Duo doesn't live up to Apple's speed claims. The folks over at MacSpeedZone have done some performance testing of their own that debunks MacWorld's results and shows that the new iMac Core Duo DOES live up to the hype.
There's 2 conflicting reports, so automatically the one that makes the new macs sound bad is a premature that needs to be debunked, and the one that makes the new macs sound good is right and does that debunking.
BSMA is not a real math degree it's a science degree ;). FWIW I have a B.Math from U of Waterloo.
Except for one mathematically ignorant post saying he's used to Fahrenheit so the percentages make sense to him and your reply which doesn't actually say anything, every other reply agrees with me.
In what way is that math sketchy?
Just because it goes way over your head doesn't make it sketchy.
I'm not making the same mistake by using Celsius, I was saying both numbers are meaningless for the same reason, and giving my arbitrary scale as a further example.
How do they come off saying a reduction from 78 to 64 degrees F is an 18% reduction in temperature? The Fehrenheit scale is arbitrary and does not have a meaningful zero point.
In celsius, their reduction is 26 to 18 degrees, a reduction of 31%
Why not define a new scale with the same degrees but 0 degrees (new scales) = 63 degrees F. Now on the new scale they've reduced the temperature from 15 to 1 degree, a reduction of 94%....wow that's way better than their lousy 18%.
Their number is totally meaningless.
Also, "undervolting" is not a word.
A real dog is devoted to its master and euphoricly happy to see him/her.
A robot dog is a pile of parts running a program.
The Viewsonic A91f+ 19" CRT take 100W while running. It's EnergyStar compliant which means it must consume less than 2W while idle.
My definition of "much" says that a >98% reducion in power is "much" less power.
The tubes were glowing brightly with the TV off (I could see it through the vents), and it was just as bright in off mode as on. The heat pouring out of the vents was also just as high, and much hotter than a modern large screen CRT when it's on.
I'm talking about pre-transistor when there were a lot of tubes kept at a very high temperature.
For a modern CRT, do a test; leave it plugged in and off for 10 hours then see how long it takes to come on. Then repeat by leaving it unplugged for 10 hours. There won't be much (any?) difference. I don't think it's using much power to keep the tube idling.
Back in the vacuum tube days, when you turned on your TV it would take a few minutes for the tubes to warm up before you could use it. Then "instant on" was invented. Basically the tubes were left at full power 24/7, so the TV was drawing almost as much power "off" as on, with few people realzing it, and tubes took a lot of power.
Maybe the Europen TVs today are a hold-over from that.
For example, can I create g.oogle@gmail.com and get a copy of all email sent to google@gmail.com?
If you use master loot throughout the instance it will take 10 hours for a simple ubrs run instead of 2 hours. master loot is only viable on the bosses.
If they're in America and choose to play on an American server, they can speak the language of the land. English. They can't go into a random restaurant and expect service in Chinese.
Same deal if they are in China and want to play on an American server...it's an English language server for a multiplayer game. They can learn to communicate with the players or they can't get very far in the game.
This is not a race issue. It's a language issue.
So if you're a gold farmer, hanging around with your gold farming buddies at the gold farming office, wouldn't you just team up with them instead of trying to solicit groups with American players, who are likely to just slow you down?
Gold farmers often join groups with regular players to "ninja" the loot drops. Basically the whole group works to get a good item, then the farmer grabs it and runs. Not only does that mean they steal the item, they leave the group shorthanded and angry, so the group usually gives up and disbands right away.
First, communication is essential to every group in an MMO. People don't form a group to go off and do their own thing at a task, they from a group to work together. If it's an English speaking group and someone does not speak and understand English, they'll be unable to do what they're supposed to in the group, and it will cause the whole group to fail. Making sure everyone speaks the same language is only common sense when forming a group.
Second, Warcraft has servers in most of the world including China. There is no legitimate reason for a Chinese player to be playing on an American server.