What offended were all these environmental claims about power dissipation of a 10 year old CPU. As if the energy and resources required to make all the new ones doesn't count. You want to be environmentally friendly? Take it all into account. Don't just pay lip service. That's what offended me. And it's Sunday, I don't work today, so I needed something else to upset me.:)
Anyone else get tired of the snide remarks about the hardware? And the stupid "environmental" digs at the CPU? How come no one ever slams software for needing dual core 2GHz processors... to browse the Web or take notes? How about writing software that can still run on 10+ year old hardware, wouldn't that be better for the environment than needing a world-wide oil-driven infrastructure to make the new CPUs and chips and plastic cases?
Oh but no, that would need actual programmers (instead of drag and dropper "programmers"), and it's easier to mock hardware than admit that there's something deeply wrong with modern software.
I could use something to soften old vinyl cables used on 40 year old Tektronix gear. I have a few probes (P6032, P6042) that have stiff cables. This is bad because it puts a lot of strain on the conductors inside since the cable no longer flexes as before.
Great, I have a lot of original manuals from eBay. My 547 came from Radio Canada so it was in excellent shape. Had the HV transformer re-potted by Bill Schell so it should be good for a few centuries. I scanned and OCR'ed the 1S1 manual, ever seen that one in the wild?
Are you on Tekscopes? I have a 547 and 567. Lots of plugins, sampling heads and probes. I have a P6032 that works. Good to see another collector into these beasts that's younger than the beasts...
Why is it bullshit? I did the same thing to my computer, I can do that kind of stuff. It's a PIII-866 running W2K. The computer started failing more and more often and one day stopped reacting at all; nothing happened on power up. Saw all the big caps had bulging tops. Got the mobo out, heated up the desoldering gun, removed the caps and replaced them with caps from a more recent but otherwise dead AMD mobo. Works fine since then. I'll probably squeeze a few more years out of this machine.
I think part of the problem is that publishers charge OUTRAGEOUS amounts to subscribe to these journals yet expect scientists to publish for free. Furthermore, these "respectable" publishers bundle their journals, so if you want one, you gotta get all twenty. And there's starting to be a revolt in the science world and one way to start it is to show how full of crap some of these journals are.
Unless you walk around naked and can eat bugs, you already pay taxes for infrastructure, you buy shoes, you buy food and shelter. So what's your point?
If people live to be 1000 years old, do you think they'll eventually learn the difference between ITS and IT'S, and that plurals don't need an apostrophe? Or that "alot" is not a word,"lots" doesn't take an apostrophe and "no one" really is two words?
Aging is a program, it's not an inherent property of matter. Look up progeria, you get 12 years olds with the same symptoms as 80 year olds. Look the same too. Aging is a fucking horror, the sooner we can control it the better.
1) The nano instant before a proton decays, the atom is exactly the same as any other atom of the same element. Show me a test that can tell me when a proton will decay inside an atom. Besides, that isn't an "age" you are pointing me to. The atom still behaves exactly the same the instant before. Then you have a brand new atom of another element, with you guessed it, no age.
2) I doubt that.
3) Well yes, if I have an age, how come I can make young babies? Where did that come from?
1) I think matter itself doesn't have an age. Can you tell one single atom of carbon from another? They are exactly identical, react the same way over and over again, and there is no test, even in principle, which can tell you how "old" one single atom is. Correct?
2) Another example: if I eat at Subway's, and some poor 80 year old guy eats at Subway's, how come his body takes the ageless atoms and arranges them as "80 year old" cells? When he poops them out the next day, and they can be used to grow new lettuce, I can feed a kid and he will then make "kid aged" cells with the *same* atoms, correct?
3) If atoms don't have an age, how come we do? Is the pattern degrading? If so, how can we make babies? Where does the "new" pattern come from?
4) How important is Alagebrium in the near future?
5) Any news on Brooke Greenberg? How important is she?
Hm I guess I'm too much of a hardware guy. You'd be surprised how often people ask if they can just rip out the LCD and use it on a desktop machine. They ask "how different from DVI can it be?" I say "in every way", and they usually don't believe me.
About a month later I ask how the project is going and they just say either 1) They bought a monitor, or 2) Admit it's a tough problem!
No, you can't re-use the screens as monitors for your desktop PC. At least not in an effective way, ie it will cost you far less in time and aggravation to simply buy a new LCD monitor. They are quite reasonably priced.
Again, I think you are wrong. There was a big stir just a few months ago about Apple displays being 18 bit. I think most LCD panels sold for PCs are still 18 bit panels, which is why you'll find it incredibly hard to get a simple, blunt "24 bits per pixel" mentioned on the box, or the company's website. But you'll get a gigantic "2ms response" sticker on the box. At best, you'll get something like "16 million colors" which means 18 bit, and 16.7 million colors when it's a true 24 bpp display.
As for the 1600, the trade-off you have for a true 24 bpp display is narrower viewing angle and slower response time, this is due to the physics of the crystals. Check out the National Semi page for lots of info on what exactly a liquid crystal is, what the different types are and how they're driven, and lots of amusing info on the guts of LCD panels.
But for the dithering, it's sort of like buying CDs with 16 bit samples, but CD players only having 12 bit DACs but it not being written anywhere. But then, if no one can tell, why choose 16 bits in the first place? This reminds me of the waning days of Minidisc when suddenly everyone here became a very critical, golden-eared audiophile and could tell the difference between a CD and MD, but the same people turn around to their 18 bit displays, can't tell the difference, and go on thinking they are 24 bits.
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What offended were all these environmental claims about power dissipation of a 10 year old CPU. As if the energy and resources required to make all the new ones doesn't count. You want to be environmentally friendly? Take it all into account. Don't just pay lip service. That's what offended me. And it's Sunday, I don't work today, so I needed something else to upset me. :)
Oh but no, that would need actual programmers (instead of drag and dropper "programmers"), and it's easier to mock hardware than admit that there's something deeply wrong with modern software.
Yeah saw it too! I burst out laughing and I'm still chuckling to myself ten minutes later. Kudos to the Farker who came up with that one!
I could use something to soften old vinyl cables used on 40 year old Tektronix gear. I have a few probes (P6032, P6042) that have stiff cables. This is bad because it puts a lot of strain on the conductors inside since the cable no longer flexes as before.
Great, I have a lot of original manuals from eBay. My 547 came from Radio Canada so it was in excellent shape. Had the HV transformer re-potted by Bill Schell so it should be good for a few centuries. I scanned and OCR'ed the 1S1 manual, ever seen that one in the wild?
Are you on Tekscopes? I have a 547 and 567. Lots of plugins, sampling heads and probes. I have a P6032 that works. Good to see another collector into these beasts that's younger than the beasts...
Why is it bullshit? I did the same thing to my computer, I can do that kind of stuff. It's a PIII-866 running W2K. The computer started failing more and more often and one day stopped reacting at all; nothing happened on power up. Saw all the big caps had bulging tops. Got the mobo out, heated up the desoldering gun, removed the caps and replaced them with caps from a more recent but otherwise dead AMD mobo. Works fine since then. I'll probably squeeze a few more years out of this machine.
On the C64, IIRC, the candy was more of the ear candy variety. There were a lot of terrible games with great Rob Hubbard sound tracks on the 64.
I think part of the problem is that publishers charge OUTRAGEOUS amounts to subscribe to these journals yet expect scientists to publish for free. Furthermore, these "respectable" publishers bundle their journals, so if you want one, you gotta get all twenty. And there's starting to be a revolt in the science world and one way to start it is to show how full of crap some of these journals are.
But oh so expensive.
Unless you walk around naked and can eat bugs, you already pay taxes for infrastructure, you buy shoes, you buy food and shelter. So what's your point?
Er, because they're already possessive?
Beats me, every single one of my replies in this thread has been ignored. Oh well, back to trolling, I guess!
If people live to be 1000 years old, do you think they'll eventually learn the difference between ITS and IT'S, and that plurals don't need an apostrophe? Or that "alot" is not a word ,"lots" doesn't take an apostrophe and "no one" really is two words?
Right here. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Brooke+Greenberg%22&btnG=Search&meta=
Aging is a program, it's not an inherent property of matter. Look up progeria, you get 12 years olds with the same symptoms as 80 year olds. Look the same too. Aging is a fucking horror, the sooner we can control it the better.
I think one of these stories might be fun. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15
Looks like it's solved... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagebrium
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15
2) I doubt that.
3) Well yes, if I have an age, how come I can make young babies? Where did that come from?
4) Look it up. Its more fun that way!
5) See 4.
2) Another example: if I eat at Subway's, and some poor 80 year old guy eats at Subway's, how come his body takes the ageless atoms and arranges them as "80 year old" cells? When he poops them out the next day, and they can be used to grow new lettuce, I can feed a kid and he will then make "kid aged" cells with the *same* atoms, correct?
3) If atoms don't have an age, how come we do? Is the pattern degrading? If so, how can we make babies? Where does the "new" pattern come from?
4) How important is Alagebrium in the near future?
5) Any news on Brooke Greenberg? How important is she?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagebrium
About a month later I ask how the project is going and they just say either 1) They bought a monitor, or 2) Admit it's a tough problem!
No, you can't re-use the screens as monitors for your desktop PC. At least not in an effective way, ie it will cost you far less in time and aggravation to simply buy a new LCD monitor. They are quite reasonably priced.
Again, read this.
As for the 1600, the trade-off you have for a true 24 bpp display is narrower viewing angle and slower response time, this is due to the physics of the crystals. Check out the National Semi page for lots of info on what exactly a liquid crystal is, what the different types are and how they're driven, and lots of amusing info on the guts of LCD panels.
But for the dithering, it's sort of like buying CDs with 16 bit samples, but CD players only having 12 bit DACs but it not being written anywhere. But then, if no one can tell, why choose 16 bits in the first place? This reminds me of the waning days of Minidisc when suddenly everyone here became a very critical, golden-eared audiophile and could tell the difference between a CD and MD, but the same people turn around to their 18 bit displays, can't tell the difference, and go on thinking they are 24 bits.
Life on this planet never ceases to amaze and befuddle me.