Those little packets you see in electronics bags purpose isn't actually to keep you product dry, any sufficient ammount of water able to get all the way in to your package is much more than those poor little nodules can take care of.
The packets are actually designed to make the product and packaging dry in the first place, sucking any humidity out of the package to begin with. By the time these little guys get to you, they're usually all used up.
Most dessicants I am familiar with are clear. After they saturate, the tracers become orange or pink, letting you know that they are saturated.
I've read that you can bake them in the oven to bring them back, but i've never had the need to try.
Although people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, there is often need to collect the evidence to verify the facts of the case. If you go out and shoot someone, and it gets caught on video tape, they're going to find all your guns, round them up and send them off to some balistics lab for testing. You woun't see me argue with that. It makes sense and part of me sleeps a little better at night knowing that this is the way it is.
A lot of federal laws cover severe things that need elevated levels of attention.
The same would go for someone hacking into a bank. If they catch traffic from your computer hacking into a bank and stealing money, wether or not you're doing it, they need to take your computer. It needs to be analyzed and the people responsibe tried.
The true travisty here is accusing these uncappers of a Federal crime, this is realistically at most a misdemeanor. What the users did was blantantly wrong, I'm sure there's some 'no tamper' clause in one of the service contracts.
I think it would have been far more appropriate to black-list these people from local broadband, maybe the local Cable co work together with the local dsl providers, make it so these people can't get back online. That should be a deterrant enough.
There was absolutely no need to drag the feds in for this, it's little more than publicity stunt and a huge waste of our money.
What laws need more than anything else they can never have, true common sense, if they had that ninety-nine percent of the court systems would be pointless.
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actually the new IPAQ 5400 (due out soon) will have a fingerprint scanner on it. the strange thing is the sensor is only.5mm high, you have to swipe your finger across it.
Although this would proably leave a very small cross secion of the print behind, it shouldn't be enough to get a good capture of. (now the ones you leave on the sides and bottom. . . well that's another story)
pshhhaww, why would they go through the trouble to bug the computer directly? Wouldn't that be a horrible waste of their time?
I mean why not just keep an eye on the internet traffic for the whole library, I'm sure they all get their service from some place fairly standard and traceable.
They most likely tap network at some point where they can watch whole library system with one sniffer.
I can see some of the sex scene cuts just because the channel is otherwise child oriented (and not likely to be on the parental block list) But for goodness sakes, editing the blood out of scenes! cripes even the simpsons show a little blood from time time to time.
I'd pay access fees for a varied all anime network.
It might not have been great anime, none the less it was a step toward getting great anime some US airtime.(and it was cheap) If nothing else it did make it a little easier to get more good stuff in main stream places. (Suncoast, Blockbuster)
Oh well, guess some things just were never meant to be common-place here:(
They sent me two guys, one 'seasoned' one in training.
I was running win2k before they supported it, to appease the installers i ran win98 system in a fullscreen VMware. You should have seen the look on their faces when the win2k desktop popped up for a second while the virtual machine rebooted.
they installed all kinds of stuff, the IE on that image never worked the same again.
All I had to do was take note of the IP and PC Name, (they were using some funky DHCP via NetBios carp) shut down the vm and cram the IP and Name into the 2k install. bam! instant access.
interesting, the world being hopelessly overpopulated?, I'm not too sure where you live.
I'm in the Baltimore/DC corridor myself, and while everything right around here is quite tight (i.e. you don't see a vacant field or large patch of trees that aren't planned) surely does not mean that I can go just north of the baltimore beltway and be amidst forrests and unmaintained land.
People cram themselves into cities for convienence to work and such, then they cram themselves into suburbs for the same reason, these places are grossly overpopulated, but that is purely by their own discresion. If you're area is overpopulated and you don't like it you do have a choice, move.
The big push to colonize and industrialize the US has caused every square inch of land to be owned by someone, any inch not claimed around your property would be claimed by someone else, they why would anyone leave anything unclaimed? Land ownership equates to riches.
While I agree that there are vast areas of overpopulation, there are much greater areas of unmaintained land.
You could certainly take this as a first step towards that direction, but i'd suggest you have a little linux faith that the community would not allow things to progress in that direction for too long.
Just as it's easy to see that which m$ has done poorly, it takes a bit of reflection to realise that which they've done right.
I'm certain it's no coincidence that the mainstay of the workflow for win95-98-nt4wks-nt4srv-win2kpro and win2ksvr are nearly indentical, nor is it strange that winxp adds functionality while still maintaining many old ways to get to stuff.
Any winblow$ user can easy pass knowledge of how to use programs along to any other user without having even the slightest knowledge of how the os really works.
In M$ junk, apps mostly behave the same, Cutting and pasting works cleanly across all applications (including text and binary data), the toolbars on most apps mirror each other, it's very easy to navigate most base apps because most base apps work alike.
Yes there needs to be unification in the linux desktop and application base, and as long as there they maintain an easy way to break that unification or modify it as any user sees fit, linux sill still holds a superior edge to windows dull and slow progressing feature list.
I don't think they're out to become MS i think they're out to become something bigger and better, and honestly, I'm all for it, I seriously doubt they could do as good of a job of being jerks as M$ does anyway.
bleh too early for comtemplation, must have caffiene!!!!!!
i certainly see what you're saying and i agree to an extent, however, let's look at screening as it applies to this case in real life.
Of the terror groups that have claimed responsiblity for the attacks a year ago, the majority of activists in these groups do fit a certain profile.
While it's true "the number of stereotypees exceeds the number of known terrorists by several orders of magnitude...." how many of the terrorists (in this case) fit the "young radical Islamic fundamentalist stereotype".
I'll try to make this point, if I assemble a group of 500 people, evenly distributed in race and ask you to blindly pick out the 5 NBA basketball players in the group,(selecting only 10 people) you're not going to start selecting caucsaion and asian and people by the hordes. There are short white guys in basketball, and yes you're probably going to miss them, but does that mean that you'll choose random short white guys for the lineup, I doubt it.
Yes profiling is to an extent ineffective,(look at John Walker) and there will be many many many false positives, but if you lack the time and abilities to check everyone 100% you have to do some basic filtering. If not, just close the boarders and airports now there's no way to handle that many people with that much resolution.
it's not like they're screening 100 people attending a concert at your local bar, We're talking about some of the busiest airports in the world.(not to meantion quite a significant ammount of border with neighboring countries)
absolutely correct, i haven't seen anything physicslike since school about 8 years ago, i was simply attempting to validate that 12 car batteries would neither provide enough energy to propel the car through the maximum claims they make nor even through the minimum claims they make..2 gallons of gas, hmmm auto engines appear to be less than 30% efficient (http://www.geocities.com/rvd48uk/engines.html)
so at three or four times that fuel ammount, maybe they could scrape out 9.8 miles.;) --mike
no energy in, no energy out, it's pretty easy to rule this one out.
things now do go much farther and run longer on less power than they ever have before, the lcd alarm clock on my desk runs nearly a year on one AA battery. But when you take into account the the digital circuitry in the clock is microscopic and the lcd material consumes almost no power you also realize that its reall accomplishment is nothing more than having very little waste.
now ianaam (i am not an auto mechanic) but if memory serves me correctly a Delorian is a substantially weighty automobile. If you were an intelligent individual, wouldn't you use some lightweight mazda miata or something of the sort?
now they claim the car is only able to travel 9.8 miles without their "TEV" unit. This means that the combination of that motor, battery source and
chassis is essentially inefficient.
If the only power to the motor is from the batteries and the engine/chassis never changes, this "TEV" would have to either make the engine highly efficient or recharge the batteries.
heat and friction would dictate there's not much to be done by a black box to make the motor that much more efficient; So logic would dictate they must be "charging" the batteries. This is fundamentally impossible, many people don't realize there is a direct coorelation between electrical, heat and physical energy. There is a limit on how much physical energy be derrived from a unit of electrical energy. they claim to be going 100 miles on 12 car batteries in a delorian? lets look at the raw math with no friction or waste.
<begin technical energy conversion babble> 1 horsepower (1hp) is a measurement of mechanical energy that it takes to move a 1 pound object 550 feet in one second. (550 flb/s)
1hp=550ft * 1lb / 1sec
a deLorean weighs 1400 lbs. (http://www.dmcnews.com/backissues/feb98files/dml3 27.html) (i'll assume for now that the gas engine weighs the same or less than the electric motor and it's 12 batteries)
in a perfect world with no friction or waste
550 ftlb/sec in 1 hp 100 miles is 528000 feet there are 7200 seconds in 2 hours a total mechanical energy of 186 hp is expended to move the delorian 100 miles in 2 hours (50 mph) 186hp = (1400*528000/7200) / 550 or 93hp to move it 100 miles in 4 hours (25mph) 93hp = (1400*528000/14400) 550
a decent car battery can output about 50-60 amps per hour that's about of 600-720 watts for an hour. 1 horsepower is approximately equivalent to 746 watts. i'll asssume these batterys kick arse and deliver 1hp for an hour Their 12 batteries would deliver a theoretical 12hp/hour or 6hp/2hr
their choice in chassis and batteries alone dictate that their maximum distance would be 6hp=(1400lbs*y ft/7200sec)/550fps y=16971.43ft y=3.214 miles
the electricity in the 12 batteries, only has enough energy to move 1400 pounds 3.21 miles. No matter what you do to it, reguardless of the efficiency of their motor and any magic they do to the electricity, that's all the energy they have to work with.
</end technical energy conversion babble> as for magic recharging: If you take energy out of the battery to turn the wheels to a speed, a 100% efficient use of the spinning wheels to charge the battery to it's origional state would take the car back to zero miles per hour. It's a "you can't have your cake and eat it too" scenerio.
People did once think that the world was flat, fine, they were entitled to. Physics was a fledgeling. We knew very little about anything. Since those days, many very intelligent people have been teaching intelligent children for years, who grow up with those teachings, learn more and grow to teach others. We're grown past primary ingorance now. (most of us anyway)
people who fail to quickly debunk this type of farce lack the general physics education to recognize the impossibility.
There I am in the middle of my mid evening TLC. (the learning chan.) Enjoying some junk yard wars or something of the like, when, in the middle of the show, this icon appears on the bottom right of the screen, ok no biggie, it's about 2 inches the same size you see on comedy central or cartoon network, then it expands to 5 inches tall (on a 25 inch tv) and there's two people pantomiming an advertisement for their new designing space show or something like that. Even though I was into the content on the show i was watching, I couldn't concentrate on the show for at least 30 seconds while these two dorks pointed at a sign listing their show and time. I decided right then and there that there was a snowballs chance in hell that i'd watch anything with that advertising tactic, worst thing is this is a cable channel I pay for this!
nast advertising technique, it's inescapable, if you turn it off in the middle you loose some of the show.
puts me in mind of those flash and dhtml ads that popup on the websites each unique visit.
Sure the P4 does bench significantly higher on some applications, particularly the ones that were compiled utilizing the intel(r) compiler and optimized for intel(r) processing. You'll see as you dredge through the benchmarks, things specifically engineered for the P4 run very well, blowing the doors off the other processors, but the P4 does generally trail the pack MHZ/MHZ (even if you use the real MHZ of the athalon) for apps not designed specifically for it. (nearly anything the average user would use)
for the proof (and the pudding) see the following links comparing the processors at DIVX encodeing, quake, kernel compilation, floating point and work per clock cycle comparisons. Toms Hardware Benchmark including MPEG 4 Encoding Make sure you check our the Clock For Clock Comparison
as far as drives, that's a whole nuther independant problem, followed closely by bus speed, ATA Spec, memory speed and if a $25 GPU can do more math than a CPU, why send math all day to a $500 processor?
I don't necessarily support conspiracy theories, but about the intern comment, there wasn't a republican out there that didn't want this on the 6'o'clock news,(and rightfully so it served their cause) that certainly had something to do with it's speed through the press. There has been plenty of time to cover things up, In times past i'm sure she would have just disapeared before anything became of in the public eye. He was certainy not the first president to have an afair.
an ir emmiter and detector circuit made of parts from da shack should last quite some time even on a AA battery, to get more mileage slap in a 6v lantern battery and it should go on for months on end.
you can find plans to make the circuit at the following website
First problem would be that there's no easy and efficient way to change the voltage of the DC power without turning it first back in to AC. Addidng resistance just wastes the power you were trying to save. All devices would have to run from a standard voltage. I guess you could have multiple taps at each outlet for different voltages (that connect to different taps in the primary converter) but most likely the primary larger transformer would end up wasting as much as the sum of all the little bricks you have around the house. Not to meantion the fact that if a brick isn't in use you can unplug it, the big 'hummer' in your electrical closet would have to be the gatekeepr for all your power needs.
Absolutely, the window manager dosen't make the os, it just makes it a little more exciting if it's pretty. Standardization of API is needed also More time needs to be spent on UI for the hard stuff like NAT and firewalling, it needs to be in a place where the common home user can get to it and configure it without much knowledge of how it works. If the window manager maintains some resembalance to windows/mac (and how can it now) people are generally able to get around in it. There is still the matter of how do you get off the shelf programs to install and operate. Unfortunately the only answer for that will be that the os will have to come with a delivery system pointing you to easy to use installers on the net. You certainly can;t expect your average store chain to start carrying linux titles (even if they were generally available boxed) not until linux becomes a more popular solution for the desktop will it be able to be supported bu all the things that make windows a viable desktop solution. One day the tide will mellow out, i think linux will be there, but there's still a long journey to get there.
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no no no, you have to wait until both you and the driver see's the car!
our admin, foolhearty soul buys into the conspiracy theory, now he's starting to get into photography, I'm waiting for the revelations to start.
Ahh dessicants,
Those little packets you see in electronics bags purpose isn't actually to keep you product dry, any sufficient ammount of water able to get all the way in to your package is much more than those poor little nodules can take care of.
The packets are actually designed to make the product and packaging dry in the first place, sucking any humidity out of the package to begin with. By the time these little guys get to you, they're usually all used up.
Most dessicants I am familiar with are clear. After they saturate, the tracers become orange or pink, letting you know that they are saturated.
I've read that you can bake them in the oven to bring them back, but i've never had the need to try.
yes and no,
Although people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, there is often need to collect the evidence to verify the facts of the case. If you go out and shoot someone, and it gets caught on video tape, they're going to find all your guns, round them up and send them off to some balistics lab for testing. You woun't see me argue with that. It makes sense and part of me sleeps a little better at night knowing that this is the way it is.
A lot of federal laws cover severe things that need elevated levels of attention.
The same would go for someone hacking into a bank. If they catch traffic from your computer hacking into a bank and stealing money, wether or not you're doing it, they need to take your computer. It needs to be analyzed and the people responsibe tried.
The true travisty here is accusing these uncappers of a Federal crime, this is realistically at most a misdemeanor. What the users did was blantantly wrong, I'm sure there's some 'no tamper' clause in one of the service contracts.
I think it would have been far more appropriate to black-list these people from local broadband, maybe the local Cable co work together with the local dsl providers, make it so these people can't get back online. That should be a deterrant enough.
There was absolutely no need to drag the feds in for this, it's little more than publicity stunt and a huge waste of our money.
What laws need more than anything else they can never have, true common sense, if they had that ninety-nine percent of the court systems would be pointless.
actually the new IPAQ 5400 (due out soon) will have a fingerprint scanner on it. the strange thing is the sensor is only .5mm high, you have to swipe your finger across it.
there's a picture of it herehttp://www.brighthand.com/article/iPAQ_5400
Although this would proably leave a very small cross secion of the print behind, it shouldn't be enough to get a good capture of. (now the ones you leave on the sides and bottom. . . well that's another story)
Not too sure about UV but most ccd's are sensitive to infra-red.
The support Gnome perfectly as well, if you're into such things.
pshhhaww, why would they go through the trouble to bug the computer directly? Wouldn't that be a horrible waste of their time?
I mean why not just keep an eye on the internet traffic for the whole library, I'm sure they all get their service from some place fairly standard and traceable.
They most likely tap network at some point where they can watch whole library system with one sniffer.
just my 2 cents
true dat,
I can see some of the sex scene cuts just because the channel is otherwise child oriented (and not likely to be on the parental block list) But for goodness sakes, editing the blood out of scenes! cripes even the simpsons show a little blood from time time to time.
I'd pay access fees for a varied all anime network.
now what am I gonna do at 12:30am????? Pr0n?
:(
It might not have been great anime, none the less it was a step toward getting great anime some US airtime.(and it was cheap) If nothing else it did make it a little easier to get more good stuff in main stream places. (Suncoast, Blockbuster)
Oh well, guess some things just were never meant to be common-place here
They sent me two guys, one 'seasoned' one in training.
I was running win2k before they supported it, to appease the installers i ran win98 system in a fullscreen VMware. You should have seen the look on their faces when the win2k desktop popped up for a second while the virtual machine rebooted.
they installed all kinds of stuff, the IE on that image never worked the same again.
All I had to do was take note of the IP and PC Name, (they were using some funky DHCP via NetBios carp) shut down the vm and cram the IP and Name into the 2k install. bam! instant access.
interesting, the world being hopelessly overpopulated?, I'm not too sure where you live.
I'm in the Baltimore/DC corridor myself, and while everything right around here is quite tight (i.e. you don't see a vacant field or large patch of trees that aren't planned) surely does not mean that I can go just north of the baltimore beltway and be amidst forrests and unmaintained land.
People cram themselves into cities for convienence to work and such, then they cram themselves into suburbs for the same reason, these places are grossly overpopulated, but that is purely by their own discresion. If you're area is overpopulated and you don't like it you do have a choice, move.
The big push to colonize and industrialize the US has caused every square inch of land to be owned by someone, any inch not claimed around your property would be claimed by someone else, they why would anyone leave anything unclaimed? Land ownership equates to riches.
While I agree that there are vast areas of overpopulation, there are much greater areas of unmaintained land.
But who want's to live in the middle of nowhere?
--Mike
You could certainly take this as a first step towards that direction, but i'd suggest you have a little linux faith that the community would not allow things to progress in that direction for too long.
Just as it's easy to see that which m$ has done poorly, it takes a bit of reflection to realise that which they've done right.
I'm certain it's no coincidence that the mainstay of the workflow for win95-98-nt4wks-nt4srv-win2kpro and win2ksvr are nearly indentical, nor is it strange that winxp adds functionality while still maintaining many old ways to get to stuff.
Any winblow$ user can easy pass knowledge of how to use programs along to any other user without having even the slightest knowledge of how the os really works.
In M$ junk, apps mostly behave the same, Cutting and pasting works cleanly across all applications (including text and binary data), the toolbars on most apps mirror each other, it's very easy to navigate most base apps because most base apps work alike.
Yes there needs to be unification in the linux desktop and application base, and as long as there they maintain an easy way to break that unification or modify it as any user sees fit, linux sill still holds a superior edge to windows dull and slow progressing feature list.
I don't think they're out to become MS i think they're out to become something bigger and better, and honestly, I'm all for it, I seriously doubt they could do as good of a job of being jerks as M$ does anyway.
bleh too early for comtemplation, must have caffiene!!!!!!
i certainly see what you're saying and i agree to an extent, however, let's look at screening as it applies to this case in real life.
Of the terror groups that have claimed responsiblity for the attacks a year ago, the majority of activists in these groups do fit a certain profile.
While it's true "the number of stereotypees exceeds the number of known terrorists by several orders of magnitude...."
how many of the terrorists (in this case) fit the "young radical Islamic fundamentalist stereotype".
I'll try to make this point, if I assemble a group of 500 people, evenly distributed in race and ask you to blindly pick out the 5 NBA basketball players in the group,(selecting only 10 people) you're not going to start selecting caucsaion and asian and people by the hordes. There are short white guys in basketball, and yes you're probably going to miss them, but does that mean that you'll choose random short white guys for the lineup, I doubt it.
Yes profiling is to an extent ineffective,(look at John Walker) and there will be many many many false positives, but if you lack the time and abilities to check everyone 100% you have to do some basic filtering. If not, just close the boarders and airports now there's no way to handle that many people with that much resolution.
it's not like they're screening 100 people attending a concert at your local bar, We're talking about some of the busiest airports in the world.(not to meantion quite a significant ammount of border with neighboring countries)
before someone manages to hack it and make it crush itself.
hmmmmm
absolutely correct, i haven't seen anything physicslike since school about 8 years ago, i was simply attempting to validate that 12 car batteries would neither provide enough energy to propel the car through the maximum claims they make nor even through the minimum claims they make. .2 gallons of gas, hmmm auto engines appear to be less than 30% efficient (http://www.geocities.com/rvd48uk/engines.html)
;)
so at three or four times that fuel ammount, maybe they could scrape out 9.8 miles.
--mike
no energy in, no energy out, it's pretty easy to rule this one out.
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things now do go much farther and run longer on less power than they ever have before, the lcd alarm clock on my desk runs nearly a year on one AA battery. But when you take into account the the digital circuitry in the clock is microscopic and the lcd material consumes almost no power you also realize that its reall accomplishment is nothing more than having very little waste.
now ianaam (i am not an auto mechanic) but if memory serves me correctly a Delorian is a substantially weighty automobile. If you were an intelligent individual, wouldn't you use some lightweight mazda miata or something of the sort?
now they claim the car is only able to travel 9.8 miles without their "TEV" unit. This means that the combination of that motor, battery source and
chassis is essentially inefficient.
If the only power to the motor is from the batteries and the engine/chassis never changes, this "TEV" would have to either make the engine highly efficient or recharge the batteries.
heat and friction would dictate there's not much to be done by a black box to make the motor that much more efficient; So logic would dictate they must be "charging" the batteries. This is fundamentally impossible, many people don't realize there is a direct coorelation between electrical, heat and physical energy. There is a limit on how much physical energy be derrived from a unit of electrical energy. they claim to be going 100 miles on 12 car batteries in a delorian? lets look at the raw math with no friction or waste.
<begin technical energy conversion babble>
1 horsepower (1hp) is a measurement of mechanical energy that it takes to move a 1 pound object 550 feet in one second. (550 flb/s)
1hp=550ft * 1lb / 1sec
a deLorean weighs 1400 lbs. (http://www.dmcnews.com/backissues/feb98files/dml
(i'll assume for now that the gas engine weighs the same or less than the electric motor and it's 12 batteries)
in a perfect world with no friction or waste
550 ftlb/sec in 1 hp
100 miles is 528000 feet
there are 7200 seconds in 2 hours
a total mechanical energy of 186 hp is expended to move the delorian 100 miles in 2 hours (50 mph)
186hp = (1400*528000/7200) / 550
or 93hp to move it 100 miles in 4 hours (25mph)
93hp = (1400*528000/14400) 550
a decent car battery can output about 50-60 amps per hour
that's about of 600-720 watts for an hour.
1 horsepower is approximately equivalent to 746 watts.
i'll asssume these batterys kick arse and deliver 1hp for an hour
Their 12 batteries would deliver a theoretical 12hp/hour or 6hp/2hr
their choice in chassis and batteries alone dictate that their maximum distance would be
6hp=(1400lbs*y ft/7200sec)/550fps
y=16971.43ft
y=3.214 miles
the electricity in the 12 batteries, only has enough energy to move 1400 pounds 3.21 miles.
No matter what you do to it, reguardless of the efficiency of their motor and any magic they do to the electricity, that's all the energy they have to work with.
</end technical energy conversion babble>
as for magic recharging:
If you take energy out of the battery to turn the wheels to a speed, a 100% efficient use of the spinning wheels to charge the battery to it's origional state would take the car back to zero miles per hour. It's a "you can't have your cake and eat it too" scenerio.
People did once think that the world was flat, fine, they were entitled to. Physics was a fledgeling. We knew very little about anything. Since those days, many very intelligent people have been teaching intelligent children for years, who grow up with those teachings, learn more and grow to teach others. We're grown past primary ingorance now. (most of us anyway)
people who fail to quickly debunk this type of farce lack the general physics education to recognize the impossibility.
There I am in the middle of my mid evening TLC. (the learning chan.) Enjoying some junk yard wars or something of the like, when, in the middle of the show, this icon appears on the bottom right of the screen, ok no biggie, it's about 2 inches the same size you see on comedy central or cartoon network, then it expands to 5 inches tall (on a 25 inch tv) and there's two people pantomiming an advertisement for their new designing space show or something like that. Even though I was into the content on the show i was watching, I couldn't concentrate on the show for at least 30 seconds while these two dorks pointed at a sign listing their show and time. I decided right then and there that there was a snowballs chance in hell that i'd watch anything with that advertising tactic, worst thing is this is a cable channel I pay for this!
nast advertising technique, it's inescapable, if you turn it off in the middle you loose some of the show.
puts me in mind of those flash and dhtml ads that popup on the websites each unique visit.
well, yes and no.
Sure the P4 does bench significantly higher on some applications, particularly the ones that were compiled utilizing the intel(r) compiler and optimized for intel(r) processing. You'll see as you dredge through the benchmarks, things specifically engineered for the P4 run very well, blowing the doors off the other processors, but the P4 does generally trail the pack MHZ/MHZ (even if you use the real MHZ of the athalon) for apps not designed specifically for it. (nearly anything the average user would use)
for the proof (and the pudding) see the following links comparing the processors at DIVX encodeing, quake, kernel compilation, floating point and work per clock cycle comparisons.
Toms Hardware Benchmark including MPEG 4 Encoding Make sure you check our the Clock For Clock Comparison
as far as drives, that's a whole nuther independant problem, followed closely by bus speed, ATA Spec, memory speed and if a $25 GPU can do more math than a CPU, why send math all day to a $500 processor?
out with the old --> in with the new
try
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2002/bofs.php
possibly depricated . . .
I don't necessarily support conspiracy theories, but about the intern comment, there wasn't a republican out there that didn't want this on the 6'o'clock news,(and rightfully so it served their cause) that certainly had something to do with it's speed through the press. There has been plenty of time to cover things up, In times past i'm sure she would have just disapeared before anything became of in the public eye. He was certainy not the first president to have an afair.
an ir emmiter and detector circuit made of parts from da shack should last quite some time even on a AA battery, to get more mileage slap in a 6v lantern battery and it should go on for months on end.
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you can find plans to make the circuit at the following website
http://www.reconnsworld.com/ir_ultrasonic_basic
First problem would be that there's no easy and efficient way to change the voltage of the DC power without turning it first back in to AC. Addidng resistance just wastes the power you were trying to save. All devices would have to run from a standard voltage. I guess you could have multiple taps at each outlet for different voltages (that connect to different taps in the primary converter) but most likely the primary larger transformer would end up wasting as much as the sum of all the little bricks you have around the house. Not to meantion the fact that if a brick isn't in use you can unplug it, the big 'hummer' in your electrical closet would have to be the gatekeepr for all your power needs.
Absolutely, the window manager dosen't make the os, it just makes it a little more exciting if it's pretty. Standardization of API is needed also More time needs to be spent on UI for the hard stuff like NAT and firewalling, it needs to be in a place where the common home user can get to it and configure it without much knowledge of how it works. If the window manager maintains some resembalance to windows/mac (and how can it now) people are generally able to get around in it. There is still the matter of how do you get off the shelf programs to install and operate. Unfortunately the only answer for that will be that the os will have to come with a delivery system pointing you to easy to use installers on the net. You certainly can;t expect your average store chain to start carrying linux titles (even if they were generally available boxed) not until linux becomes a more popular solution for the desktop will it be able to be supported bu all the things that make windows a viable desktop solution. One day the tide will mellow out, i think linux will be there, but there's still a long journey to get there.
this guy packages openssh and cygwin hooks into one installer, we use it for all kinds of admin.