Actually, the Luxim bulbs are roughly the same efficiency as high pressure sodium lamps (the yellow-tinged ones that are often used for streetlights.)
Actually, Low Pressure Sodium lamps are often used for streetlights. Just a nitpick, I know you didn't write that, but I think it's just terrible to mix good facts with wrong ones - indeed, both HPS and LPS have a yellow tinge to it, LPS lamps being practically monochromatic, unlike HPS. Also, for the GP poster,let me add that 140 lum/W is not "insanely" high, just pretty good by today's standards.
So, having pedophilia records, which should be in the top five best weapons against this, is retrograde? Fighting organized crime and, possibly, preventing terrorism attacks and loss of innocent lifes isn't worth risking some government guy knowing something about you he shouldn't need to know? Forgive me for not being selfish and sacrificing some of my "freedom" so that others can have the same or more opportunities I had while growing up.
And before someone attacks me on this matter: I cherish privacy and believe it should be fought for, but not at the expense of the benefits that could be reaped. Besides, if you're that concerned about privacy, you should already be able to know or assess when it is or not secure enough to do whatever you want to do privately. Or even take measures to *make* it secure.
Any recommendations where one can still live free and unobserved in a non-nanny state? Still whining about your dear old privacy, try living in a cave.
This has got to be one of the most *biased questions* in existence. 4.30AM, I'm going to bed.
"Hmm.. That's weird. Every time I move my mouse, I get disconnected from my 802.11g network."
That's funny -- It reminds me of a time I was running a particular version of GNU/Linux (I believe it was some RHL with linux 2.0) and was using a serial mouse and a ISA serial modem for dialup. There was a conflict with the IRQ line being shared by both devices, so the only way for me to dial up and keep the connection was to shake vigorously the mouse: the faster I shook, the faster the internets. Just picture the situation, it was weird even for the user (i.e.: me).
Fifth, controllers. For some reason, Sony will support the odd number of seven controllers on its PS3. A theory going around my house is that they suddenly realised they had more Bluetooth-width than expected and bumped up the number of possible controllers to seven. An alternative view is that they oversubscribed with eight and are now having to make the best of the limitations. Whichever, the PS3 supports more players in the same room than the Xbox 360 which only offers four. Really, though, with internet access on both machines and the new HDTV taking up most of the space in the living room why have so many friends in person; just play with them online.
Since every case comes with a bag of them, this is an issue? Take device out. Take new rails out of new bag from new case. Afix. Insert.
Or, if you're not so lucky (like two of my friends), the computer you bought pre-assembled only came with two rail-sets, which are already being used: one for the HDD, the other for the CD-R. A 15 minute installation of a new DVD drive turned out to be a fruitless afternoon, the DVD drive just sat on the bay, above the other drive.
I just don't see why the old phillips/hex/thumb screw needs replacement in this regard.
Setting aside some software related mishappens I've had in the past, I have to say the absolutely worst computer accident I have ever had was havindg spilled one litre of milk inside an open case, working computer.
I immediately turned it off, but because I was under heavy pressure of university exams, I had to put it on a corner and let it sit there, milked, for five days.
Five days up -- I inspect the inside and think to myself: I'm frobbed.
A hard and thin crust of milk was all over the motherboard, the graphic card, the CPU cooler, and there were a lot of splaters all over any other component, case wall or wire, no exeception. The crust was _so_ hard, that I couldn't scrape it with my nail from the PCBs's varnish and ICs's resin coat.
A solution occurred to me -- I stripped any paper stickers from all the components, showered them with scalding water for half an hour, and let them sit on a basin full of water for five hours. Let it air dry for the night.
This _didn't_ remove the milk crust, so I had to repeat the sequence, throwing some Ajax to the mix -- at this point, I was being very careful with its reaction with the PCB varnish and other materials.
This also didn't remove most of the crud:(
Well, that computer (my current workstation/desktop) was reassembled and thank Dog, it still works ^_^ -- better than ever, might I add.
Components affected: motherboard - ECS k7s5a 3.1 graphic card- ASUS V6800 Deluxe CPU cooler PSU's case Computer Case Hard disk's shell two ethernet NICs My heart:P
Since then I've (not) learned the lesson about eating and drinking away from the nominated places and keep spilling and messing things up.
...And Guillemont, and Hercules, and Canopus, and Obsidian, and Jaton...and so many more. You know, only a few...
I meant major brands -- None of my acquaintances have ever bought a voodoo from guillemot, Canopus and Jaton are totally strange to me, and I have no memory of ever seeing Quantum 3D's Obsidian for sale in Portugal.
Maybe my mileage was not representative of the actual scene...
Either way, I'm not seeing SLI taking off outside CAD and extreme gaming performance enthusiasts if it's imperative to buy the exact same model:(
I picked up a Voodoo 2 card way back when for the incredibly high price of $300 (which was a ton close to ten years ago with the money I was making). A couple years later, I picked up my second Voodoo 2 for $30.
Very well, but back then there were generaly only two, maybe three different Voodoo2 cards, namely STB's, Diamond's and Creative's. Today, when I check prices for graphic cards on online stores and such, I see at least five different makes and models for a given GPU. Also, in the past, when there were 2 chipsets from 3dfx (voodoo and voodoo2), the manufacturers multiplied this number by making different models with either 8 or 12MB, if I'm not mistaken - that's 4 different models per manufacturer, which were not that many. Now, assuming that the cards need to be identical, like 3dfx's SLI, this rules out cards with different manufacturer, different I/O ports (and that seems to be a trend these days), different memory type, different memory quantity, etc. PLUS, there are gazilions of GPUs per GPU line.
My point is: Dude, in three years it's going to be hell getting an identical card.
That doesn't do much to dampen our spirits though, the best 3D performance available comes at a price much like driving a Porsche or Ferrari and it doesn't come cheap.
I'm not a native english speaker, but that does not sound right ^^;
The reason why "inbreeding" in humans makes a higher rate of genetic defects is because extremely rare recessive alleles are more likely to co-occur in a human born to a family with a higher occurance for those alleles than the population at large (for instance, a brother and sister carrier).
I don't get understand something: Considering these laboratory testing species genetic variance - Don't they also have recessive alleles that would show up in the next inbreed generation?
Preemptive paragraph: Is their genetic property so highly controlled that, in fact, the lab workers know "for sure" that these recessive alleles don't exist in the said genetic property?
QNX is put in places where failure cannot happen. At all.
Not quite! QNX is a Soft Real Time Operating System - situations that need to fulfill "hard deadlines", for instance a medical monitoring device, will use a Hard Real Time Operating System.
Since when has the BSD crowd enjoyed posting flamebait? Hehe. Aren't you breaking your rules?
I believe the grandparent was trying to be funny, playing with the knowledge that there is indeed a "hip" factor in GNU/Linux zealotry and large corporation bashing
All in jest though. I want to have some BSD installs, but I am quite lacking in hardware. Perhaps one of the dying folks would leave me a spare box in their will?
You could just get a cheap harddrive with at least 5GB on it, install *BSD and dual boot.
Suggestion: Freesbie , you don't even have to install to try it out
We sure hope so. We've learned a lot about choosing names in the past year (more than we would have liked to). We have been very careful in researching the name to ensure that we will not have any problems down the road. We have begun the process of registering our new trademark with the US Patent and Trademark office.
> Viagra was designed and developed in a research effort that was originally looking for anti-hypertension drugs, and was later refocused on anti-angina drugs.
So... it was meant to be anti-angina, but is now pro-vagina.
source: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/trillion
#1 [n] (in the United States and France) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; "in England they call a trillion a billion"
#2 [n] (in Britain and Germany) the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros; "in England they call a quintillion a trillion"
I'll induce it's the American connotation being used - that's 16Terabytes!
With so much memory, it could be used as a small buffer for CERN's LHC, hehehe;)
the idea on both links you showed is exactly the same - to increase the mass, so its inertia increases, making the whine from the motor and the seak vibrations displace a lot less of the drive's enclosure. in sum - not a novelty compared to the comercial product.
by the way, that's the sleaziest temperature measurement I've ever seen: notice that the temp diode touches the alu plate, as well as the disk - obviously, he's not reading the true disk's temp.
to finalize, check out the date of the overclockers.com article, 5/8/01 - that's hardly "news", nor is it for "nerds" because of the way it was put up
end of rant (sometimes I just can't take it and stay still)
>>The days when a pro recording needed a 24-channel mixing desk, ProTools TDM hardware, a quiet room and a team of engineers are... say it after me kids... OVER!
yeah, taking into count quality music is not as important as it used to be - it's all about what MTV and radio plays, the wailing three-notes-guitar, the 7-strings bass and the berserk percussion
>XFree86 Isn't Exactly Fine-tuned for Gaming
that's hardly true - the handycap is the implementation of the GL extension you're using in your X server. XFree86 is as tuned as he can be, taking in consideration that most GPU manufacturers don't release datasheets that would serve as driver guidelines, nor do they supply drivers as good as their Windows counterparts.
It will also help improving performance if you have a preemptible kernel (like Windows does) and a better scheduler like linux2.6's.
I look at a system with plan9 on my desk (currently turned off), I read your answer, and I remember this quote: "The IQ of a crowd is inversely proportional to it's size".
This was not meant to be an offense, Farley Mullet, but I do know a couple of people who currently try out the OS, and your comment neglected to reflect that - that was not a safe assumption, but a rather centric one.
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Actually, Low Pressure Sodium lamps are often used for streetlights. Just a nitpick, I know you didn't write that, but I think it's just terrible to mix good facts with wrong ones - indeed, both HPS and LPS have a yellow tinge to it, LPS lamps being practically monochromatic, unlike HPS. Also, for the GP poster,let me add that 140 lum/W is not "insanely" high, just pretty good by today's standards.
It *has* to be.
So, having pedophilia records, which should be in the top five best weapons against this, is retrograde? Fighting organized crime and, possibly, preventing terrorism attacks and loss of innocent lifes isn't worth risking some government guy knowing something about you he shouldn't need to know?
Forgive me for not being selfish and sacrificing some of my "freedom" so that others can have the same or more opportunities I had while growing up.
And before someone attacks me on this matter: I cherish privacy and believe it should be fought for, but not at the expense of the benefits that could be reaped.
Besides, if you're that concerned about privacy, you should already be able to know or assess when it is or not secure enough to do whatever you want to do privately. Or even take measures to *make* it secure.
Any recommendations where one can still live free and unobserved in a non-nanny state?
Still whining about your dear old privacy, try living in a cave.
This has got to be one of the most *biased questions* in existence. 4.30AM, I'm going to bed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piconet
A 15 minute installation of a new DVD drive turned out to be a fruitless afternoon, the DVD drive just sat on the bay, above the other drive.
I just don't see why the old phillips/hex/thumb screw needs replacement in this regard.
Hooligans will bring portable EMP generators :-)
I like mentioning this because even though I can't really picture it in my mind, it makes me look smart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%F6dinger's_cat
Setting aside some software related mishappens I've had in the past, I have to say the absolutely worst computer accident I have ever had was havindg spilled one litre of milk inside an open case, working computer.
:(
:P
I immediately turned it off, but because I was under heavy pressure of university exams, I had to put it on a corner and let it sit there, milked, for five days.
Five days up -- I inspect the inside and think to myself: I'm frobbed.
A hard and thin crust of milk was all over the motherboard, the graphic card, the CPU cooler, and there were a lot of splaters all over any other component, case wall or wire, no exeception. The crust was _so_ hard, that I couldn't scrape it with my nail from the PCBs's varnish and ICs's resin coat.
A solution occurred to me -- I stripped any paper stickers from all the components, showered them with scalding water for half an hour, and let them sit on a basin full of water for five hours. Let it air dry for the night.
This _didn't_ remove the milk crust, so I had to repeat the sequence, throwing some Ajax to the mix -- at this point, I was being very careful with its reaction with the PCB varnish and other materials.
This also didn't remove most of the crud
Well, that computer (my current workstation/desktop) was reassembled
and thank Dog, it still works ^_^ -- better than ever, might I add.
Components affected:
motherboard - ECS k7s5a 3.1
graphic card- ASUS V6800 Deluxe
CPU cooler
PSU's case
Computer Case
Hard disk's shell
two ethernet NICs
My heart
Since then I've (not) learned the lesson about eating and drinking away from the nominated places and keep spilling and messing things up.
Very well, but back then there were generaly only two, maybe three different Voodoo2 cards, namely STB's, Diamond's and Creative's.
Today, when I check prices for graphic cards on online stores and such, I see at least five different makes and models for a given GPU. Also, in the past, when there were 2 chipsets from 3dfx (voodoo and voodoo2), the manufacturers multiplied this number by making different models with either 8 or 12MB, if I'm not mistaken - that's 4 different models per manufacturer, which were not that many.
Now, assuming that the cards need to be identical, like 3dfx's SLI, this rules out cards with different manufacturer, different I/O ports (and that seems to be a trend these days), different memory type, different memory quantity, etc. PLUS, there are gazilions of GPUs per GPU line.
My point is: Dude, in three years it's going to be hell getting an identical card.
End!
I'm not a native english speaker, but that does not sound right ^^;
>> To accelerate 1kg by 1m/s you need a force of 1N
You could have taken better care of your units >:|
Should have been:
To accelerate 1kg by 1m/s^2 you need a force of 1N
That looks right
Clicky
The reason why "inbreeding" in humans makes a higher rate of genetic defects is because extremely rare recessive alleles are more likely to co-occur in a human born to a family with a higher occurance for those alleles than the population at large (for instance, a brother and sister carrier).
I don't get understand something: Considering these laboratory testing species genetic variance - Don't they also have recessive alleles that would show up in the next inbreed generation?
Preemptive paragraph: Is their genetic property so highly controlled that, in fact, the lab workers know "for sure" that these recessive alleles don't exist in the said genetic property?
Not quite! QNX is a Soft Real Time Operating System - situations that need to fulfill "hard deadlines", for instance a medical monitoring device, will use a Hard Real Time Operating System.
Clicky - QNX is Soft Real Time
Clicky - Different Real Time concepts
I believe the grandparent was trying to be funny, playing with the knowledge that there is indeed a "hip" factor in GNU/Linux zealotry and large corporation bashing
You could just get a cheap harddrive with at least 5GB on it, install *BSD and dual boot.
Suggestion: Freesbie , you don't even have to install to try it out
A picture's worth a thousand words: clicky
Beneath the woman's neck on the screen you'll find a couple of massive reflections from the ceiling interfering with the picture.
Being a "promotional" picture, the actual experience with this screen is probably worse than that illustrated.
From the Firefox brand name FAQ, concerning their current name:
I suppose they changed their minds
* NASA, milimeters, pounds, inches. *
:)
All from the news article posted.
I know what's wrong
> Viagra was designed and developed in a research effort that was originally looking for anti-hypertension drugs, and was later refocused on anti-angina drugs.
:)
So... it was meant to be anti-angina, but is now pro-vagina.
Funny how things turn out
the idea on both links you showed is exactly the same - to increase the mass, so its inertia increases, making the whine from the motor and the seak vibrations displace a lot less of the drive's enclosure. in sum - not a novelty compared to the comercial product. by the way, that's the sleaziest temperature measurement I've ever seen: notice that the temp diode touches the alu plate, as well as the disk - obviously, he's not reading the true disk's temp. to finalize, check out the date of the overclockers.com article, 5/8/01 - that's hardly "news", nor is it for "nerds" because of the way it was put up end of rant (sometimes I just can't take it and stay still)
>>The days when a pro recording needed a 24-channel mixing desk, ProTools TDM hardware, a quiet room and a team of engineers are ... say it after me kids ... OVER!
yeah, taking into count quality music is not as important as it used to be - it's all about what MTV and radio plays, the wailing three-notes-guitar, the 7-strings bass and the berserk percussion
yeah..
>XFree86 Isn't Exactly Fine-tuned for Gaming that's hardly true - the handycap is the implementation of the GL extension you're using in your X server. XFree86 is as tuned as he can be, taking in consideration that most GPU manufacturers don't release datasheets that would serve as driver guidelines, nor do they supply drivers as good as their Windows counterparts. It will also help improving performance if you have a preemptible kernel (like Windows does) and a better scheduler like linux2.6's.
>>the answer would be a resounding "Nope!"
I look at a system with plan9 on my desk (currently turned off), I read your answer, and I remember this quote: "The IQ of a crowd is inversely proportional to it's size".
This was not meant to be an offense, Farley Mullet, but I do know a couple of people who currently try out the OS, and your comment neglected to reflect that - that was not a safe assumption, but a rather centric one.