No way. If you check the specs, that thing runs continuously at 91% peak power. So, as I said, running a few apps, you're looking at a hundred bucks a month extra in your power bill (at 12.5cents per kilowatt/h).
Ok, so not only does this thing cost $489.00, if you do out the math, your average electricity cost (if you leave your computer on 24/7, running, say, bittorrent and other goodies) is going to be around a hundred bucks a month extra. ( 1000w x 0.125 cents_per_kwh x 24 / 100).
Why not put all that money into a video card? or a processor? Something where you'll see a real performance gain
Although the situation in Iraq is sure to monopolize a big chunk of their time, they also want to spend time on issues like digital communication, intellectual property law, and computer security.
What's frightening is that the majority of congressmonkeys in office are either completely oblivious, or they consider orwellian DRM to be a "solution". I mean, honestly, can you expect a solid understanding of technology issues from a generation that doesn't even use direct deposit?
Now that these companies are actually producing products instead of touting them on paper, will they realize (falsely or not) that it's not worth pushing DRM?
Absolutely not. This is a group of individuals that apparently read the story about the golden goose, and didn't get the moral of the story.
What's up with the Boston Globe?
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The Boston Globe's having a bad run lately. First that false story about Homeland Security checking up on library borrowing habits, and now this BS. If anyone should be gone, it's their editor.
They were a penal colony founded on crimials, but their nation was definitely NOT founded on a basis of criminality, regardless of what the british thought at the time.
That's much like America... from King George's point of view, America is a country founded by "terrorists". We practically *invented* guerilla warfare, for christ's sake.
It's all a matter of perspective. My British friends celebrate July Fourth as "Good Riddance Day".
Well, considering the Mororola RAZR phone is one of the hottest-selling out there, and the Apple iTunes phone is a flop, I'd say I believe the guy from Motorola.
Not to mention complete, balls-out arrogance as to their own importance:
We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets.
So the RIAA did $12 billion in sales last year (link) That's *total* of all sales, including sales of downloads. In comparison, General Motors had $193 billion in revenue. (link)
You tell me which one's the real "great economic asset".
No DRM for at least a year, online business models proving that they can work, the R*AA losing a case...
No DRM maybe.. except widespread use of "copy prevention" bloatware like Starforce... and the occasional Sony rootkit.
Which brings up a good point: the lack of public outrage about the whole Sony debacle. That's the way to track the real "winners" and "losers". The fact Sony can get away with that kind of stuff with no retribution or brand damage really shows who's on top in all of this.
Though given this is Jack Thompson there's a good chance they won't let him speak at all.
Either way, the guy gets what he wants.
1. If they let him ask his question, he gets to be the outrageous outspoken anti-videogame guy at the shareholder's meeting. And he'll get media attention.
2. If they don't let him speak, then he gets to be the outspoken anti-videogame guy at the shareholer's meeting -- whose ideas are too controversial to be heard. And he'll get media attention.
The way the media in this country works (based on fear and exaggeration), it's a lose-lose.
Can't someone just swap/steal/disable the tracking device? Seems to me just another way to track the average citizen and not those wishing to avoid authorities."
In this case, the "tracking device" is the license plate, which is tracked with a large network of cameras. So the short answer to your first question would be "yes", and the answer to your second question would also be "yes".
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No way. If you check the specs, that thing runs continuously at 91% peak power. So, as I said, running a few apps, you're looking at a hundred bucks a month extra in your power bill (at 12.5cents per kilowatt/h).
Just imagine how many neon lights and LEDs you could power in your modded case with that thing! It'd be like the sun!
You mean you can't look directly at it without going blind? Dude, most "overclocker premodded" cases come like that out of the box.
that should be ( 1000w x 0.125 cents_per_kwh x 24hours x 30days / 100). As DaVinci himself wrote in the Codex Leicester, "My bad".
Ok, so not only does this thing cost $489.00, if you do out the math, your average electricity cost (if you leave your computer on 24/7, running, say, bittorrent and other goodies) is going to be around a hundred bucks a month extra. ( 1000w x 0.125 cents_per_kwh x 24 / 100).
Why not put all that money into a video card? or a processor? Something where you'll see a real performance gain
I've got a 1.21 Jigawatt power supply. Powered by some plutonium I stole from some terrorists in a VW bus down at the twin pines mall.
Although the situation in Iraq is sure to monopolize a big chunk of their time, they also want to spend time on issues like digital communication, intellectual property law, and computer security.
What's frightening is that the majority of congressmonkeys in office are either completely oblivious, or they consider orwellian DRM to be a "solution". I mean, honestly, can you expect a solid understanding of technology issues from a generation that doesn't even use direct deposit?
Now that these companies are actually producing products instead of touting them on paper, will they realize (falsely or not) that it's not worth pushing DRM?
Absolutely not. This is a group of individuals that apparently read the story about the golden goose, and didn't get the moral of the story.
The Boston Globe's having a bad run lately. First that false story about Homeland Security checking up on library borrowing habits, and now this BS. If anyone should be gone, it's their editor.
They were a penal colony founded on crimials, but their nation was definitely NOT founded on a basis of criminality, regardless of what the british thought at the time.
That's much like America... from King George's point of view, America is a country founded by "terrorists". We practically *invented* guerilla warfare, for christ's sake.
It's all a matter of perspective. My British friends celebrate July Fourth as "Good Riddance Day".
"Screw the nano." -- Motorola CEO Ed Zander
Well, considering the Mororola RAZR phone is one of the hottest-selling out there, and the Apple iTunes phone is a flop, I'd say I believe the guy from Motorola.
Not to mention complete, balls-out arrogance as to their own importance:
We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets.
So the RIAA did $12 billion in sales last year (link) That's *total* of all sales, including sales of downloads. In comparison, General Motors had $193 billion in revenue. (link)
You tell me which one's the real "great economic asset".
Oh yeah right, next thing you know, you'll be telling us all that tinfoil hats don't work.
To paraphrase the famous quote: Those who would give up essential privacy to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither privacy nor safety.
I read that and was thinking "Suprafluid", and I was all "Damn I can make a suprafluid by boiling a pot of water".
You obviously have a defective robot.
You mean it being ten feet tall and breathing fire is a defect?
damn.
No DRM for at least a year, online business models proving that they can work, the R*AA losing a case... No DRM maybe.. except widespread use of "copy prevention" bloatware like Starforce... and the occasional Sony rootkit.
Which brings up a good point: the lack of public outrage about the whole Sony debacle. That's the way to track the real "winners" and "losers". The fact Sony can get away with that kind of stuff with no retribution or brand damage really shows who's on top in all of this.
there's no mention of this in the bible, google earth is just a theory of atheist scientists
Santa himself is an atheist invention-- real Christians refer to the phenomenon as "intelligent burglary".
Any mention of the 6 to 8 black men that accompany him?
No, you're thinking of that movie Brokeback Mountain.
It's Santa Claus ffs! There is no "e" on the end of it!
Perhaps they're referring to DVD shipments of that Tim Allen movie?
the Norad Santa site is http://www.noradsanta.org/
You forgot the number 1 greatest game of 2005. Duke Nukem Forever.
So when are these available on desktop machines? It's gonna be hard to pitch buying a laptop instead of a workstation to the IT manager.
Though given this is Jack Thompson there's a good chance they won't let him speak at all.
Either way, the guy gets what he wants.
1. If they let him ask his question, he gets to be the outrageous outspoken anti-videogame guy at the shareholder's meeting. And he'll get media attention.
2. If they don't let him speak, then he gets to be the outspoken anti-videogame guy at the shareholer's meeting -- whose ideas are too controversial to be heard. And he'll get media attention.
The way the media in this country works (based on fear and exaggeration), it's a lose-lose.
Can't someone just swap/steal/disable the tracking device? Seems to me just another way to track the average citizen and not those wishing to avoid authorities."
In this case, the "tracking device" is the license plate, which is tracked with a large network of cameras. So the short answer to your first question would be "yes", and the answer to your second question would also be "yes".
You've never heard of a .Claus file? You can open it with Stuffit Expander.
(Yeah, I never have it installed, either)