Actually, I prefer it to Opera on my 200-MHz i-Opener. With tabs, it seems a bit faster and does not occupy half the screen with banner ads and useless toolbars.
It's you who can't read, actually. RTFA and note that it mentions the 15-incher about 5 times and says that it will be discontinued. Unless the source is BS, it IS discontinued.
Nice troll. However, you can't measure the success of Linux by how much money it makes. It is a non-profit cause, and as such can not make money. You can't sell Linux, you sell products and services based on it. Considering that nearly everything in the distro is free software, I can't see how monetary measurments can show success or failure.
The blinking 12:00 thing is not because people don't know how to set it. It is because they do not care about how to set it. In fact, my vcr doesn't have its time set, because I simply don't care about it. What the hell is it useful for, anyway? Programming those things involves pushing many buttons in a completely illogical sequence and provides few tangible benefits.
Sir, if you are going to critique the education system, please make sure your spelling doesn't suck. I see about 5 horrible spelling errors in your short post. As such, I don't believe that you are a credible authority. Please learn to spell or use a spellchecker. Here is the list of the spelling errors in your post:
You can't recycle plastic at all. You can burn it, but you can't recycle it any better than paper. Recycled plastic, at best, can be used to make some solid park benches or something, but it can't be re-used as plastic. Besides, plastic can't grow out of the ground, unlike trees. You have to make it from oil.
The GFCI won't save your equipment in case of a water leak/short, although it will prevent people from getting shocked. Transistors blow on the order of nanoseconds, while a gfci takes a few hundred milliseconds to shut off - it's a mechanical device. Also remember that GFCIs don't protect against overcurrent - they only shut down when there is a disbalance between the current in the hot and neutral lines (i.e. some of the electricity is going to fault ground or possibly through somebody). If you want protection from shorts (as in hot connected to neutral), almost every surge protector has a built-in breaker, and your house has fuses and breakers to protect against that.
Dude, get a better power supply. Antec makes some really nice ones, and so do several other companies. 400 or 500W is the minimum for such a system. Then, remove every single fan from that system and put it back in only if you are positive that it is necessary. Most good power supplies have a connector supplied with variable voltage (depending on load). Attach all fans to these and it will slow them down when it is not necessary.
Basically, your problem is that you have too many fans but in the wrong locations. If you move them somewhere where they will be more effective but slow down the speed you will dramatically reduce noise and improve cooling.
Actually, resistive heaters are 100% efficient if you ignore the losses in transmission lines (i.e. they convert 100% of the electricity you put into them into usable heat). Now, getting that heat to the ice to melt it is another matter, but it has nothing to do with resistive heaters.
They caused no economic damage? Are you fucking out of your mind? The government estimate was around $50 million. Keep in mind that a hack job also involves expensive personnel costs to investigate and repair, and that he hacked stuff hundreds of times.
There are many restrictions on what you can do as a ham. First, you may communicate only with other hams. Read the rules for third-party messages -- they are not permitted in most cases. Secondly, there are several rules on prohibited content. You may not, for example, view websites with profanity, purchase anything, view any websites with any advertisements, or do anything even remotely commercial over that connection. Thirdly, I am pretty sure that the limit on 802.11b is not 1500W but rather something around 100W, with required frequency hopping. Also, I am not exactly sure how you're going to identify your 802.11b station. Remember, it has to be done so that anyone with appropriate equipment can read it - inserting your callsign in the data stream doesn't count since it is virtually impossible to read it.
Finally, the 802.11b devices probably don't meet the criteria required for ham-operated equipment. Read the FCC rules.
If you build a transmitter, you will have the same rights as someone who bought a transmitter. There is no difference between buying and building one according to FCC regs. However, if you build one and it does not meet FCC regs (transmits outside of your channel, too much power, bad signal, etc) then you're in trouble. Also, on some channels, your radio might be required to be certified by the FCC (such as the FRS frequencies).
Also, LPFM is not license-free. I think what you're referring to is that the FCC permits very low-power devices to transmit on parts of the broadcast band (I believe the regs say that 100 yards is the maximum distance). LPFM is a broadcast service with different power limits (100W or so), requires a license, and is only available in a couple of states.
If Microsoft makes an OS that requires Palladium support from the processor, any chip company whose main segment is PC processors will make processors that support it. This includes Transmeta and anyone else.
Remember, companies do not do what they think is "right", they do whatever makes or helps make money. That includes employing Linus -- the only reason they do it is because they think it is a good R&D investment.
Low power consumption is nice, but adequate performance is more important, and innovative technology without good marketing is worthless.
First, Lite-on had a 52x drive for a while now. Secondly, even 24x drives burn a cd in 2.5 minutes. Thirdly, this is just a blatant plug for a shitty hardware review site.
You can't "license" your wifi station and get permission to use more power. You are operating in the 2.4 GHz band, which is unlicensed; thus, you cannot operate at any more power than the FCC permits for that band. And buying spectrum in another band, assuming your equipment can even operate there, is much more complex and expensive than you think.
Wifi is a wireless LOCAL area network technology. Any attempts to make it into a WAN are pointless, as it is not designed for that. It won't work well, and it would be too expensive. In any case, you would have to have a $500 repeater every 50 meters. Sounds pretty expensive to me.
If anyone creates viable wireless networks in the near future, that would be the cellphone companies. They already have most of the infrastructure deployed, and are the only ones who have expertise in that field. Cellular networks are pretty much the only good way to deploy cheap, scalable wireless data services.
WTF does your senator have to do with open codecs? That's like writing to your senator asking him/her to make everyone use Linux. Besides, the people who make the codecs are entitled to their work, and shouldn't have to release it if they don't want to. Patents are another issue, and possibly the most important one, but your post didn't mention that.
If you have an infinite source of random numbers or you are calculating an irrational number you could potentially have anything in that signal given enough numbers - a circle, a copy of this post, or anything else. You could certainly have 500 zeroes in a row.
You are dead wrong. 5 million non-paying customers are far better than 5 paying customers. When you have 5 million customers, you have the potential for 5,000,000 paying customers. If you have 5, there is not much room to grow, and you will have to shut down. The first step to making money is having an audience, and not simply having two people who pay a small monthly fee.
Sir, you are completely wrong. The client-server model is ALWAYS more efficient: you don't have to waste resources on coordinating your p2p nodes, and the server can have as much bandwidth as needed. Any p2p network works like a pyramid scheme: each active user has to have 10 other inactive users actively uploading stuff to him in order to get even a halfway reasonable download throughput. That's fine if everyone has a high-speed, 24/7 connection but never uses it for downloading files, but that's not how it works in real life.
Also, I beg to wonder: have you actually tried USING freenet? It is absolutely unusable, incredibly slow, and didn't work for the most part when I tried it. I am not even going to talk about the liability of possibly having illegal files stored on your hard drive without your knowledge or control.
The Internet will become inexpensive only when bandwidth costs fall dramatically, and no p2p solution will change that.
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Actually, I prefer it to Opera on my 200-MHz i-Opener. With tabs, it seems a bit faster and does not occupy half the screen with banner ads and useless toolbars.
It's you who can't read, actually. RTFA and note that it mentions the 15-incher about 5 times and says that it will be discontinued. Unless the source is BS, it IS discontinued.
Nice troll. However, you can't measure the success of Linux by how much money it makes. It is a non-profit cause, and as such can not make money. You can't sell Linux, you sell products and services based on it. Considering that nearly everything in the distro is free software, I can't see how monetary measurments can show success or failure.
Phoenix is slightly faster and has a far better rendering engine. Not to mention it's free.
If it's a 911 emergency phone, do you want people yakking away on it while someone is having an emergency? Brilliant.
The blinking 12:00 thing is not because people don't know how to set it. It is because they do not care about how to set it. In fact, my vcr doesn't have its time set, because I simply don't care about it. What the hell is it useful for, anyway? Programming those things involves pushing many buttons in a completely illogical sequence and provides few tangible benefits.
Is this a troll?
Sir, if you are going to critique the education system, please make sure your spelling doesn't suck. I see about 5 horrible spelling errors in your short post. As such, I don't believe that you are a credible authority. Please learn to spell or use a spellchecker. Here is the list of the spelling errors in your post:
absolutly, positivly, completly, fundimentals, grammer
Most of these seem extremely careless. Please read what you post before you do so.
You can't recycle plastic at all. You can burn it, but you can't recycle it any better than paper. Recycled plastic, at best, can be used to make some solid park benches or something, but it can't be re-used as plastic. Besides, plastic can't grow out of the ground, unlike trees. You have to make it from oil.
The GFCI won't save your equipment in case of a water leak/short, although it will prevent people from getting shocked. Transistors blow on the order of nanoseconds, while a gfci takes a few hundred milliseconds to shut off - it's a mechanical device. Also remember that GFCIs don't protect against overcurrent - they only shut down when there is a disbalance between the current in the hot and neutral lines (i.e. some of the electricity is going to fault ground or possibly through somebody). If you want protection from shorts (as in hot connected to neutral), almost every surge protector has a built-in breaker, and your house has fuses and breakers to protect against that.
Dude, get a better power supply. Antec makes some really nice ones, and so do several other companies. 400 or 500W is the minimum for such a system. Then, remove every single fan from that system and put it back in only if you are positive that it is necessary. Most good power supplies have a connector supplied with variable voltage (depending on load). Attach all fans to these and it will slow them down when it is not necessary.
Basically, your problem is that you have too many fans but in the wrong locations. If you move them somewhere where they will be more effective but slow down the speed you will dramatically reduce noise and improve cooling.
There are several "inventors" of television. For example, Zworykin is yet another one. The one you talk about depends on your nationality, I suppose.
Actually, resistive heaters are 100% efficient if you ignore the losses in transmission lines (i.e. they convert 100% of the electricity you put into them into usable heat). Now, getting that heat to the ice to melt it is another matter, but it has nothing to do with resistive heaters.
They caused no economic damage? Are you fucking out of your mind? The government estimate was around $50 million. Keep in mind that a hack job also involves expensive personnel costs to investigate and repair, and that he hacked stuff hundreds of times.
There are many restrictions on what you can do as a ham. First, you may communicate only with other hams. Read the rules for third-party messages -- they are not permitted in most cases. Secondly, there are several rules on prohibited content. You may not, for example, view websites with profanity, purchase anything, view any websites with any advertisements, or do anything even remotely commercial over that connection. Thirdly, I am pretty sure that the limit on 802.11b is not 1500W but rather something around 100W, with required frequency hopping. Also, I am not exactly sure how you're going to identify your 802.11b station. Remember, it has to be done so that anyone with appropriate equipment can read it - inserting your callsign in the data stream doesn't count since it is virtually impossible to read it.
Finally, the 802.11b devices probably don't meet the criteria required for ham-operated equipment. Read the FCC rules.
If you build a transmitter, you will have the same rights as someone who bought a transmitter. There is no difference between buying and building one according to FCC regs. However, if you build one and it does not meet FCC regs (transmits outside of your channel, too much power, bad signal, etc) then you're in trouble. Also, on some channels, your radio might be required to be certified by the FCC (such as the FRS frequencies).
Also, LPFM is not license-free. I think what you're referring to is that the FCC permits very low-power devices to transmit on parts of the broadcast band (I believe the regs say that 100 yards is the maximum distance). LPFM is a broadcast service with different power limits (100W or so), requires a license, and is only available in a couple of states.
If Microsoft makes an OS that requires Palladium support from the processor, any chip company whose main segment is PC processors will make processors that support it. This includes Transmeta and anyone else.
Remember, companies do not do what they think is "right", they do whatever makes or helps make money. That includes employing Linus -- the only reason they do it is because they think it is a good R&D investment.
Low power consumption is nice, but adequate performance is more important, and innovative technology without good marketing is worthless.
The judge interprets the law. The jury finds if the defendant is guilty or not of violating the law. At least that's how I understand it.
First, Lite-on had a 52x drive for a while now. Secondly, even 24x drives burn a cd in 2.5 minutes. Thirdly, this is just a blatant plug for a shitty hardware review site.
setence structure?
If you are going to comment on other people's grammar, make damn sure that your post is free of grammatical and spelling errors.
You can't "license" your wifi station and get permission to use more power. You are operating in the 2.4 GHz band, which is unlicensed; thus, you cannot operate at any more power than the FCC permits for that band. And buying spectrum in another band, assuming your equipment can even operate there, is much more complex and expensive than you think.
Wifi is a wireless LOCAL area network technology. Any attempts to make it into a WAN are pointless, as it is not designed for that. It won't work well, and it would be too expensive. In any case, you would have to have a $500 repeater every 50 meters. Sounds pretty expensive to me.
If anyone creates viable wireless networks in the near future, that would be the cellphone companies. They already have most of the infrastructure deployed, and are the only ones who have expertise in that field. Cellular networks are pretty much the only good way to deploy cheap, scalable wireless data services.
WTF does your senator have to do with open codecs? That's like writing to your senator asking him/her to make everyone use Linux. Besides, the people who make the codecs are entitled to their work, and shouldn't have to release it if they don't want to. Patents are another issue, and possibly the most important one, but your post didn't mention that.
If you have an infinite source of random numbers or you are calculating an irrational number you could potentially have anything in that signal given enough numbers - a circle, a copy of this post, or anything else. You could certainly have 500 zeroes in a row.
You are dead wrong. 5 million non-paying customers are far better than 5 paying customers. When you have 5 million customers, you have the potential for 5,000,000 paying customers. If you have 5, there is not much room to grow, and you will have to shut down. The first step to making money is having an audience, and not simply having two people who pay a small monthly fee.
Cable companies can not determine what channel you are on if you use regular analog cable - the technology doesn't allow that. Digital - possibly.
Sir, you are completely wrong. The client-server model is ALWAYS more efficient: you don't have to waste resources on coordinating your p2p nodes, and the server can have as much bandwidth as needed. Any p2p network works like a pyramid scheme: each active user has to have 10 other inactive users actively uploading stuff to him in order to get even a halfway reasonable download throughput. That's fine if everyone has a high-speed, 24/7 connection but never uses it for downloading files, but that's not how it works in real life.
Also, I beg to wonder: have you actually tried USING freenet? It is absolutely unusable, incredibly slow, and didn't work for the most part when I tried it. I am not even going to talk about the liability of possibly having illegal files stored on your hard drive without your knowledge or control.
The Internet will become inexpensive only when bandwidth costs fall dramatically, and no p2p solution will change that.