Yes, the reality is that there is no reasonable technology in site than rockets, which pretty much reached their limits some time ago, probably.
The most likely way for lots of people to get to space is an elevator IMHO, because it's a one-off cost for a very long life (hopefully... didn't they say that about the shuttle too:). But that will still be a really staggering undertaking, with severe problems - like, will the world public and politicians really contemplate moving an asteroid towards earth for ballast.
And while it would be an amazing experience, sitting in a car to space will not be anything like as exciting as a rocket trip I guess.
Nice idea, but tricky logistically as a lot of people who would enter would not be physically capable of doing it. You'd have to screen in advance (costly) or after the winners are announced (anti-climactic). Doable I suppose...
Why is this one of the most important things about new mobile phones?
Given that a) small screens generally require bitmaps rather than vectors to get good results (low resolution needing hand-touchups), b) there is barely a drop of SVG on the web at the moment, and c) the major desktop browsers don't thoroughly, consistently support it, it seems like one of the least important things to me.
Very interesting! So do you think Microsoft are tightening the screws, now they have managed to get acceptance of the (relatively) relaxed activation in XP...
there are 3700 openings in the US, and they have about 57000 employees worldwide. Say 40000 of those are in the US, that means they are trying to hire about 10% of their workforce. Not unmanageable, but that is a lot of unfilled positions.
For just "Software development" jobs, there are 921 openings...
Seems to me like they have a) bought a few cheap peltier chips b) use fans to get a slightly cool breeze out of them c) Assumed that this is the same as a car A/C unit
In fact car A/Cs have quite a large amount of cooling power, probably 100 times what they are producing.
As anyone with half a clue about this knows, Peltier devices are very INefficient, and are only useful in certain circumstances where the inefficiency doesn't matter (such as a really hot server chip where you don't care how much energy you waste, to get the heat out of it).
It's not like they've invented a new type of Peltier device; they openly say they bought some chips of Ebay.
It would be nice if they had discovered some new effect or configuration, but to me it sounds more like cluelessness and a bunch of equally clueless adults encouraging them. In reality cooling technology is very well understood.
It's pretty much guaranteed to be more than $100. I would say a minimum of $500 since it is basically a large OLED graphic display (or many small ones).
Slight addition: I type the name or function of the package I want...
But, wouldn't it actually better to have a kind of link that could be on a web page, and clicked to open in your package manager? Why force the user to remember some obscure name and search for it?
I understood that XBox Live does this kind of thing - is it for all games?
Seems like a bit of a no brainer.
Althought, segmenting the market like this doesn't help if there are not many people available. Then you just end up with not enough players for any game.
For example, if you write to a file in 4 chunks, 32K at a time, it uses up 4 of your writes.
From my understanding, it's not this bad. You can only ERASE in one big chunk (e.g. 128kB) but you can then write that sector in smaller chunks - typically pages of about 512 bytes IIRC.
I could be wrong... I'm rather curious about this myself because we are building a product using flash and it is not totally clear from reading datasheets what happens.
Also, tables have been around a lot longer (since HTML 1?) and older browsers will make a much better attempt at rendering them than they will fancy CSS. I don't really mind if older browsers don't make the page look pretty, but it should be readable and usable and approximate the same ideas.
That is a very thorough review (although in-depth rather than breadth). Personally I appreciate them choosing the better ones to start with, rather than wading through several dozen nearly identical budget models.
instead of using a simple text box for date entry in the format dd/mm/yyyy and hoping the user reads the explanatory note next to the field, one might use three dropdowns.
One might, but then one would make the field extremely clumsy for keyboard navigation. There are tradeoffs of course...
I've done the same as you with Asus, and have been served pretty well by them, no complaints: both motherboards and video cards. I think it really was a run of bad luck for you, as Asus are generally considered good.
Re Spamcop; The simple fact though, is that "misdirected bounces", though well intentioned, make the problem of spam quite significantly worse. It pushes the spam off to someone else. Sure, the system doing the bounces is not "spamming" but they are acting as a spam transfer system, a bit like open relays used to.
Still you obviously have a reasoned and generally reasonable stance on blacklists. Congratulations;)
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OK, it's amazing. Examples?
Your link was to a generic product page - this is not useful for a quick summary of why ASP.NET.2.0.Super2000.COM is better.
Cheers
Yes, the reality is that there is no reasonable technology in site than rockets, which pretty much reached their limits some time ago, probably.
... didn't they say that about the shuttle too :). But that will still be a really staggering undertaking, with severe problems - like, will the world public and politicians really contemplate moving an asteroid towards earth for ballast.
The most likely way for lots of people to get to space is an elevator IMHO, because it's a one-off cost for a very long life (hopefully
And while it would be an amazing experience, sitting in a car to space will not be anything like as exciting as a rocket trip I guess.
Nice idea, but tricky logistically as a lot of people who would enter would not be physically capable of doing it. You'd have to screen in advance (costly) or after the winners are announced (anti-climactic). Doable I suppose...
Why is this one of the most important things about new mobile phones?
Given that a) small screens generally require bitmaps rather than vectors to get good results (low resolution needing hand-touchups), b) there is barely a drop of SVG on the web at the moment, and c) the major desktop browsers don't thoroughly, consistently support it, it seems like one of the least important things to me.
Very interesting! So do you think Microsoft are tightening the screws, now they have managed to get acceptance of the (relatively) relaxed activation in XP...
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there are 3700 openings in the US, and they have about 57000 employees worldwide. Say 40000 of those are in the US, that means they are trying to hire about 10% of their workforce. Not unmanageable, but that is a lot of unfilled positions.
For just "Software development" jobs, there are 921 openings...
Card Systems must be looking at pretty dire times ahead losing both Visa and American Express. That would presumably be well over half their revenue.
Of course they are probably scapegoats for much general slackness, but they did have pretty severe problems.
Except for one tiny details: they are not. They are an order of magnitude LESS efficient at moving heat.
Let's not let facts get in the way of a good story though.
Seems to me like they have
a) bought a few cheap peltier chips
b) use fans to get a slightly cool breeze out of them
c) Assumed that this is the same as a car A/C unit
In fact car A/Cs have quite a large amount of cooling power, probably 100 times what they are producing.
As anyone with half a clue about this knows, Peltier devices are very INefficient, and are only useful in certain circumstances where the inefficiency doesn't matter (such as a really hot server chip where you don't care how much energy you waste, to get the heat out of it).
It's not like they've invented a new type of Peltier device; they openly say they bought some chips of Ebay.
It would be nice if they had discovered some new effect or configuration, but to me it sounds more like cluelessness and a bunch of equally clueless adults encouraging them. In reality cooling technology is very well understood.
Why are you spamming for your site, with a signature that I can't switch off? Please don't. thanks.
It's pretty much guaranteed to be more than $100. I would say a minimum of $500 since it is basically a large OLED graphic display (or many small ones).
It doesn't cope with larger than expected text - the layout is all pixel based apparently. Wouldn't be the first, but it's still silly.
Slight addition: I type the name or function of the package I want...
But, wouldn't it actually better to have a kind of link that could be on a web page, and clicked to open in your package manager? Why force the user to remember some obscure name and search for it?
I returned one here in NZ, but they made me exchange for another CD and I noticed that they wrote on the return sheet "did not like it" ... grumble.
I understood that XBox Live does this kind of thing - is it for all games?
Seems like a bit of a no brainer.
Althought, segmenting the market like this doesn't help if there are not many people available. Then you just end up with not enough players for any game.
For example, if you write to a file in 4 chunks, 32K at a time, it uses up 4 of your writes.
From my understanding, it's not this bad. You can only ERASE in one big chunk (e.g. 128kB) but you can then write that sector in smaller chunks - typically pages of about 512 bytes IIRC.
I could be wrong... I'm rather curious about this myself because we are building a product using flash and it is not totally clear from reading datasheets what happens.
Also, tables have been around a lot longer (since HTML 1?) and older browsers will make a much better attempt at rendering them than they will fancy CSS. I don't really mind if older browsers don't make the page look pretty, but it should be readable and usable and approximate the same ideas.
Or (with the latest flashblock) just right click on one of them, "allow flash on this site" and reload... Man, Flashblock rocks.
You're missing something: 4 drives in each system. ->150GB.
That is a very thorough review (although in-depth rather than breadth). Personally I appreciate them choosing the better ones to start with, rather than wading through several dozen nearly identical budget models.
instead of using a simple text box for date entry in the format dd/mm/yyyy and hoping the user reads the explanatory note next to the field, one might use three dropdowns.
One might, but then one would make the field extremely clumsy for keyboard navigation. There are tradeoffs of course...
I've done the same as you with Asus, and have been served pretty well by them, no complaints: both motherboards and video cards. I think it really was a run of bad luck for you, as Asus are generally considered good.
Why do you think it looks terrible?
According to this review it is great.
Fuck, it'll hit a billion in a few months probably.
Probably not. It's dropping very fast, according to Box Office Mojo
Re Spamcop; The simple fact though, is that "misdirected bounces", though well intentioned, make the problem of spam quite significantly worse. It pushes the spam off to someone else. Sure, the system doing the bounces is not "spamming" but they are acting as a spam transfer system, a bit like open relays used to.
;)
Still you obviously have a reasoned and generally reasonable stance on blacklists. Congratulations