The sort of USB->SATA chipsets used in USB CD-ROMs, which are universally cheap devices nowadays, will likely not pass data through faithfully enough to be useful for accurate CD ripping.
What does that mean? Obviously they can load a program off a CDROM with perfect bit-for-bit accuracy, since otherwise the program wouldn't run correctly.
To prevent uncontrolled energy dissipation you can use a fuse.
Fun fact: the spark plug in your car creates a temperature of 60,000 K (a little over 107,000 F). A cheap 4" (100 mm) magnifying glass can generate a temperature of over 600C. So, like you said, it's all about duration and area.
How about a USB enclosure for PATA drives. Granted $25 seems a lot to pay for an enclosure for a $40 dvd drive, but the real benefit is he gets to use his old drive that he knows works.
That is only true with Windows. Apple users seem eager to update the OS on their various devices.
My Macbook Pro is still running Snow Leopard for the same reason I'm disinterested in Windows 8 - later releases of OSX seemed to revolve around cellphone integration and fullscreen apps, i.e. serving Apple's interests in ecosystem lock-in. Pass.
Yes, but that's a small and temporary issue, relative to the dramatic multi-decade decline, which is due mainly not to market excess or manipulation, but to improved technology.
I actually think it would help immensely if such a service were not anonymous, and (by convention) limited to short text messages - basically like twitter. This is for two reasons, first, I simply don't think people will get excited about being mules for who knows what data payload; and second, a protocol reliant on happenstance proximity of cellphones towards an unknown exit node will be plenty slow and inefficient, even BEFORE intentionally routing it every which way for anonymity. I just don't think it's the right medium for smuggling out videos of atrocities or tactical information; for that, hand off usb sticks to trusted messengers, or whatever it is terrorists do. (I am not saying only terrorists have a need to communicate secretly and securely, only that the situation is the same whether you are rightly considered a "good guy" or a "bad guy.")
You neglected the sad part of the story, which is that Sony's huge investment in innovation for the PS3 was basically a failure. The Cell was not fast enough at graphics operations to displace the GPU, so they ended up tacking on a GPU and wound up with a weird programming model on hardware that was expensive to produce and STILL not a big breakthrough in performance. Ouch.
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Thus the expectation that next gen consoles will be mostly off-the-shelf parts. That's fine with me, so long as they equal the performance of a current $500 gaming PC. Today's chips are finally fulfilling the vision of the Cell processor, because they are expanding beyond graphics to parallel computation in general, such as physics for games. Coming from the other direction, CPUs are also fulfilling the vision of the Cell processor, because they offer GPUs that aren't horrible. Current integrated graphics are finally getting to the point of viability at 1080p, which current-gen consoles (PS3 and XBox 360) simply are not. If next year's consoles are released with integrated graphics one step beyond those reviewed in that article, on a memory architecture specialized for games, I think we are there.
I agree with you, there is a good reason that wallets are NOT rigid cuboids, like phones currently are. Flexi-phones will disappear into the pocket far better.
It's a shame, isn't it? We have all these layers and layers of security (such as user separation, private memory address space for processes, java virtual machine...) which we do not trust and are therefore essentially nothing but configuration and performance cruft. If we're really just running one application on each (virtual) machine, that machine might as well be running DOS.
Why the "of course" in your last sentence? The link between equalization among nations, yet a countervailing trend of redistribution towards the rich (and also the old, at least in the US) is not obvious to me.
Agreed it's a crappy screen resolution, but $1500 is for a Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Unfortunately $400 at wally world does not buy you that, yet.
You just pick the right parts. You include "works well with Linux" as one of the business requirements when designing the thing.
THAT is not worth $50 per laptop.
Really? I've been using Linux on laptops for over 10 years and wasted many days trying to get things to work over time. Actually I've never seen power management work correctly under linux - not in combination with hardware graphics acceleration, wifi, and external displays. (Even my MacBook running OSX still gets confused and needs an occasional reboot...) Nowadays laptops dynamically switch from Ivy Bridge graphics to the NVidia card to save power... I'd be amazed if Linux can even use both (seems like I remember a lot of tinkering on a Thinkpad T400, one of the first dual-graphics solutions, to get that working), let alone switch dynamically.
I just ordered a Windows 7 laptop from Dell and plan to shrink the Windows partition a bit to make room for a linux install. If I could have added a preinstalled Linux multi-boot as a $50 option, or a $150 option, I certainly would have (it's a work machine).
After reading the article, she comes off as an academic troll. That said, passing judgment on all critics collectively is dumb. It is useful to find a critic you tend to agree with (or, equivalently, consistently disagree with).
This article is about rising sea level, not increased incidence of storms. What is it that you don't believe? Do you think that sea level has not risen? Or that higher sea levels don't worsen flooding from storms? Or that higher sea levels are not the result of global warming? Or that warming is not the result of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere? Or that people have not caused the levels of the level of greenhouse gasses to rise? Or something else?
Before the government declared they needed to do it, private people and corporations created all the roads that weren't post roads.
Libertarianism actually comes sort of close to making sense in an environment of practically unlimited natural resources, since whatever people do has little effect on anybody else. If farm land is free, what excuse can be made for not earning a living? Unfortunately this circumstance almost never exists, although it did exist for a while after the "discovery" of the Americas (which of course is why people flooded here). But again, super-abundance of resources only exists briefly after a sudden discovery or breakthrough in technology. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Well, I can certainly confirm that bad ram can crash Linux, too. Really, if the hardware doesn't work, there's little or nothing the OS can do to protect itself. (And by the way, I found Minecraft (java) to be a much more stringent test than memtest86!)
I question whether it is even possible for something complex to become "Ready" entirely in-house, for release 1.0. I think the only way to do it is a protracted beta release. But would google have tolerated training its own replacement, as it were? If so, at what cost?
Cuomo said the total anticipated cost would "incapacitate" New York taxpayers, making federal help a necessity.
The state is seeking roughly $32 billion from the federal government. That's revised from the original $30 billion estimate.
In addition, New York will seek another $9 billion for mitigation and prevention, making the total package roughly $42 billion.
"I'm sure there will be different factions in our party, may be some in the other, who will try to resist that," Republican Rep. Peter King said. "But we have to stand together, and certainly the speaker of the house has told us that he is going to work with New York to get the money that it needs."
$40BN is 80 times Soylindra. From one storm. And it's only just getting started.
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Dang, is it that old already? This is in a corporate environment, so they'll force me to upgrade when it becomes unsupported.
What does that mean? Obviously they can load a program off a CDROM with perfect bit-for-bit accuracy, since otherwise the program wouldn't run correctly.
Fun fact: the spark plug in your car creates a temperature of 60,000 K (a little over 107,000 F). A cheap 4" (100 mm) magnifying glass can generate a temperature of over 600C. So, like you said, it's all about duration and area.
How about a USB enclosure for PATA drives. Granted $25 seems a lot to pay for an enclosure for a $40 dvd drive, but the real benefit is he gets to use his old drive that he knows works.
You had me at "Freecell is a 196 MB download."
My Macbook Pro is still running Snow Leopard for the same reason I'm disinterested in Windows 8 - later releases of OSX seemed to revolve around cellphone integration and fullscreen apps, i.e. serving Apple's interests in ecosystem lock-in. Pass.
I suppose they are treading a very blurry line here between company and personal time.
To be fair that 100 year old bulb runs at 4w and barely emits any light.
Yes, but that's a small and temporary issue, relative to the dramatic multi-decade decline, which is due mainly not to market excess or manipulation, but to improved technology.
I hope it "fails" just like solar research has - about a 90% cost reduction in 30 years.
I actually think it would help immensely if such a service were not anonymous, and (by convention) limited to short text messages - basically like twitter. This is for two reasons, first, I simply don't think people will get excited about being mules for who knows what data payload; and second, a protocol reliant on happenstance proximity of cellphones towards an unknown exit node will be plenty slow and inefficient, even BEFORE intentionally routing it every which way for anonymity. I just don't think it's the right medium for smuggling out videos of atrocities or tactical information; for that, hand off usb sticks to trusted messengers, or whatever it is terrorists do. (I am not saying only terrorists have a need to communicate secretly and securely, only that the situation is the same whether you are rightly considered a "good guy" or a "bad guy.")
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Thus the expectation that next gen consoles will be mostly off-the-shelf parts. That's fine with me, so long as they equal the performance of a current $500 gaming PC. Today's chips are finally fulfilling the vision of the Cell processor, because they are expanding beyond graphics to parallel computation in general, such as physics for games. Coming from the other direction, CPUs are also fulfilling the vision of the Cell processor, because they offer GPUs that aren't horrible. Current integrated graphics are finally getting to the point of viability at 1080p, which current-gen consoles (PS3 and XBox 360) simply are not. If next year's consoles are released with integrated graphics one step beyond those reviewed in that article, on a memory architecture specialized for games, I think we are there.
I agree with you, there is a good reason that wallets are NOT rigid cuboids, like phones currently are. Flexi-phones will disappear into the pocket far better.
It's a shame, isn't it? We have all these layers and layers of security (such as user separation, private memory address space for processes, java virtual machine...) which we do not trust and are therefore essentially nothing but configuration and performance cruft. If we're really just running one application on each (virtual) machine, that machine might as well be running DOS.
Why the "of course" in your last sentence? The link between equalization among nations, yet a countervailing trend of redistribution towards the rich (and also the old, at least in the US) is not obvious to me.
It's a 2.8 lbs ultrabook, not a high end gaming laptop. Why the XPS moniker, I do not know.
Agreed it's a crappy screen resolution, but $1500 is for a Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Unfortunately $400 at wally world does not buy you that, yet.
Really? I've been using Linux on laptops for over 10 years and wasted many days trying to get things to work over time. Actually I've never seen power management work correctly under linux - not in combination with hardware graphics acceleration, wifi, and external displays. (Even my MacBook running OSX still gets confused and needs an occasional reboot...) Nowadays laptops dynamically switch from Ivy Bridge graphics to the NVidia card to save power... I'd be amazed if Linux can even use both (seems like I remember a lot of tinkering on a Thinkpad T400, one of the first dual-graphics solutions, to get that working), let alone switch dynamically.
I just ordered a Windows 7 laptop from Dell and plan to shrink the Windows partition a bit to make room for a linux install. If I could have added a preinstalled Linux multi-boot as a $50 option, or a $150 option, I certainly would have (it's a work machine).
After reading the article, she comes off as an academic troll. That said, passing judgment on all critics collectively is dumb. It is useful to find a critic you tend to agree with (or, equivalently, consistently disagree with).
This article is about rising sea level, not increased incidence of storms. What is it that you don't believe? Do you think that sea level has not risen? Or that higher sea levels don't worsen flooding from storms? Or that higher sea levels are not the result of global warming? Or that warming is not the result of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere? Or that people have not caused the levels of the level of greenhouse gasses to rise? Or something else?
Libertarianism actually comes sort of close to making sense in an environment of practically unlimited natural resources, since whatever people do has little effect on anybody else. If farm land is free, what excuse can be made for not earning a living? Unfortunately this circumstance almost never exists, although it did exist for a while after the "discovery" of the Americas (which of course is why people flooded here). But again, super-abundance of resources only exists briefly after a sudden discovery or breakthrough in technology. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Well, I can certainly confirm that bad ram can crash Linux, too. Really, if the hardware doesn't work, there's little or nothing the OS can do to protect itself. (And by the way, I found Minecraft (java) to be a much more stringent test than memtest86!)
It is always painful coding an arbitrary maximum "I don't believe" you value though. Evidently somebody declined to do so :)
I question whether it is even possible for something complex to become "Ready" entirely in-house, for release 1.0. I think the only way to do it is a protracted beta release. But would google have tolerated training its own replacement, as it were? If so, at what cost?
$40BN is 80 times Soylindra. From one storm. And it's only just getting started.