1600x1200 on a 6 inch screen you better have a magnifying glass to read the type then reading glasses would not be enoungh.
I think something about the size of a legal document is ideal with an 8"x11" screen that can be used in landscape or portrait modes.
Also most US cell phones are small almost too small you loose them and the old amps phones the bricks had the longest range of all cell phone standards at around .
One reason they were able to make cell phones smaller was there was more cell towers so they were able to use a 300 miliwatt vs 1.5 to 3 watt transmitter to get a reliable connection in most parts of the country.
Also the change from 800-900mhz to 1.8ghz to 2.4ghz allowed anteenas to be smaller.
Think before you post.
I think 17" is the pratical limit for a laptop and 14" or 15" being ideal.
I find even apple's 17" powerbook a little big though the big screen is good for getting work done.
20" is just too big I'd also worry about breaking that huge screen weight is not a serious issue for me but being able to use it easily is.
I think this should be called a luggable vs a laptop since it doesn't fit on one's lap.
Yes real wealth is what one can do with their money ie it's buying power. Even dealing with different regions in the US a person with 100K in the midwest is far more wealthy then a person with 100K in LA or NYC. Also money with out freedom is worthless as what good is it if you cannot use it as you please? Though on the freedom issue someone brought up earilier in the US it seems more wealth does often mean greater freedom ie you can afford a laywer if the government tries to over step it's bounds.
Umm I don't see apple using Itallium or Xscale about the only things I seen PC manufactures not use that intel offers.
Also dell shipped conroe based machines before apple did also apple is using only intel's while the clone manufactures are making use of all X86 suppliers AMD who has more experiance with 64bit and multi processors then intel, VIA they have the most effcient X86 processor on the market using half the watt per flop as core duo.
I see nothing innovative in apple's new hardware nothing at all other then the use of a DRM chip which most PC manufactures are smart enough to steer clear of because users do not want such a feature.
The only innovation they have seems to be OSX.
Apple's hardware is not unique anymore it's just a PC now and with some effort you can run OSX on any old PC just make sure it has a supported gpu,sound device etc.
I'm somewhat disapointed with apple's present hardware offerings.
I wish they kept the PPC platform esp since PA semi made the laptop chip they needed and it's better then intel's core ie is 64bit has an onboard PCI-e controller and two DDR2 memory controllers and uses only 5 to 13 watts.
Tell me does yohna or even conroe come close to this http://www.pasemi.com/processors/1682M.html
Other gripes no PCMCIA on the macbooks and to get a usable graphics card you must buy the macbook pro.
Though since they have OSX on X86 I'd like to see it offered for normal PCs esp since I seen acer and sony laptops that have better battery life and offer a 3d card for a lot less money.
I agree it was stupid to kill all the legacy ports like that as it forced many users to buy adpaters. The success of the imac partly was due to the third party suppliers such as belkin comming to the rescue with legacy adapters.
If you have even a freshmen college level knowege of chemistry you'd know this story is bunk.
It would be impossible to sneek enough raw ingerients to make a bomb powerfull enough to bring a jumbo down.
I think some one mxing several gallons of rather noxous chemicals to produce several pounds of HE would be kinda hard to miss .
Also all the compounds I can think of also would require hours of reaction time at room temps and would require drying before they can be used.
Also large jet aircraft are more robust then most people think a good example would be to watch the myth busters episode on explosive decompression.
It took 2lbs of C4 to make an explosive decompression event occur which isa far more powerfull explosive then the acetonepreoxide british and pakistani officals were talking about.
So the reaction by DHS and the TSA is totaly unesscary and only shows how incompetent these organizations truely are.
Their banning drinks from people in what is an extremely dry environment is a greater danger then any mixed onboard bomb. The humditity on the average airliner during flight is around 5 to 10% which is dryer then the sahara.
China will become a competitor and they are farther along then you think.
As for DRM once they are powerfull engough they'll just tell you where to go and they'll excute your lawyers in the most violent manner they can think of to any lawyers wanting to try and force DRM crap on the chinese maybe you should read up on history so you'll get an idea of your fate.
Heck they'll never really enforce it as pirate dvds and electronics are good for the chinese economy they may make one or two examples but mostly it'll be bussines as usual.
think you can asshat them around with laws and copyrights you will be in for a very rude awakining and the end result could be china becoming the USA's master.
How obtuse can you be you have absolutely no knowledge of chemistry.
Besides if your neighbor wanted to kill you he/she would just get a gun or maybe just use a blunt object and bash in what little gray matter you have as that would be easier and cheaper.
As for securety only a fool trades freedom for securety.
Because the cell processor in the PS3 is over 5x more powerfull then any X86 chip you can buy right now and it's only $500 the cost of a high end graphics card .
Heck a top of the line 64bit AMD or intel CPU that is not as powerful as Cell can set you back much more then $500.
You should not be compairing the PS3 to a celleron or even a sempron as it's in a diffrent class compair it to a power mac G5 or a good AMD64 or xeon box.
This not something new a console that doubled as a computer it's as old as the home computing movement going back to the mid 1970s long before the first IBM PC.
The ballyastrocade could be expaned to be a home computer and eveen have 64K as with the coleco vision which could be exanded into a coleco adam.
All Sony did was bring back a very old concept because a console really is just a sepcailized computer.
The Atari 5200 was pretty much an Atari 800 with less ram and no keyboard the Xbox 1 really was just a low cost all in one legacy free PC and MS did miss the boat on not allowing it to be used as such.
This was very popular in Japan such as the famicom disk drive and keyboard add ons and systems that stradled the definition of console and computer such as the MSX, FM towns and X6800 series.
Much of the original Xbox's sucess was the fact it could be hacked to be more computer like and rip dvds run linux etc.
It was this that took away PS2 sales even though the PS2 has a little better selection of games.
With the 360 being locked down with very an invasive DRM having the PS3 more open and allowing even just protected media rips could be a coup.
Good to know the BATF is not the real enemy here it means it'll be easier to fight this.
We must fight the CPSC and show them that us adults have no need or want for nanny laws.
I agree this is a terrible crime being perputrated on futer generations.
As a kid DIY chemistry was one of my favorite passtimes if I did not get that early start I might have never pursued a career in the sciences.
As for methlabs making glassware illegal will do jack and sh** to stop them if you are even slightly inventive you can find other ways.
As the article quoted the Mr coffee in every office has three things regulated in Texas A filter,a pyrex flask and a hotplate.
Also many truely great inventions were done by home chemists and tinkers A good example would be an amazing subtance known as fire paste.
If you care about the future of this country then you must keep science from becoming a crime as this country will very quickly fall behind the parts of the world that choose not to stifle the persuit of knowledge.
As laws like this would have gotten 90% of the great scientific minds of the past century thrown in jail.
This time these people have gone too far they messed with the holy of holies.
They have gone too far in this paroia over methlabs and terrorism just about every great chemist or engineer started out doing DIY home chemistry ecxperiments.
What kind of country do we live in if the simple quest for knowage becomes a crime.
This is not good for the country either as the US has been falling behind on science test scores and will fall behind the rest of the world if the pursuit of knowledge becomes a crime it will deter children from learning about science and there will be less engineers and scientists or at the very least less great ones.
To make a very long story short it would eventually cause the USA to become a third rate has been of an economic and military power.
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Those who give up liberty for a little temperary securety will end up with and deserve niether."
Benjaman Franklin
Yes it is very similiar to the Hall-Heroult process.
Though they are not seeing the big picture as titanium at $3 a pound will not only benifit the aerospace industry but just about every industry looking for a tough yet light weight metal.
An example would be the automotive industry at those prices it would be competitive to aluminum but superior to Al for use in body panels for example.
It also can be used in engines for conneting rods which equals greater engine durability.
Over all use of low cost titanium could makea car 33% more fuel efficeint and eleminate rust.
64bits not nesscary what rock have you been living under. IA-32 had many serious sissue amoung which a difficulty in handling files over 4.5GB and registor starvation only 8 general purpose registers.
AMD64 and EMT64 adressed all these issues and more with register count being doubled to 16 general purpose and 16 SIMD regs.It and also added a flat segment free 48bit adressing mode. Also AMD64s are on average 30% faster in 64bit mode vs 32bit mode such a compressing a 7zip file or encoding divx.
As for 64bit OSes take your pick linux has had 64bit support since 2003 XP-64 is out and windows server 2003 for X86 is 64bit only.
Until core is 32bits you will be buying a dead end chip that may not run Vista which will likely be 64bit. So I consider yohna a very poor buy on not supporting 64bit extentions esp when even semprons are now 64bit. To drive home how outdated 32bit is even game machines such as the Xbox 360 are 64bits now.
The FDIV bug was far woprse then the AMD heating bug and atleat AMD is offering free replacemnts right off vs having to be sued into offering free replacements like another chip company who had the FDIV bug.
Also this requires a tight repeted loop the FDIV bug gave an error right off.The FDIV was not harmless if the chip was used in a guidince system the FDIV bug could cause something to go far off course also if you were using an early pentium in scientific research the cumlative errors could ruin your data.
The retirment schedule does create more scheduling pressure as they need to complete ISS before 2010.
As for the CEV it's a step in the worng direction and will not reduce costs and since the CLV uses an SRB it would not increase safety.
Also it and would not be able to maintian ISS or perform earth and microgravity science.
Also the design will be very out of date by the time it flies in 2012 to 2014 and would need yet another spacecraft to replace it.
The private spacecraft like the t/space cxv or the planet space silver dart are far better designs then nasa's cev which is largely an inflexable dead end design.
Sorry they are going too far and there is no war on the level of WWII and no vast risk to national securety.
This is nothing more thena grab for power and an attempt to make a hell on earth police state.
It would not benifit the average US citizen in any way but will do them great harm.
I agree it also reminds me of an instance of when a fireman almost was sentenced to prison for an arson because he bought camping fuel and lots of matches using one of those rewards cards.
He was hosting firemens cookout at a campsite.
The police siezed the data base and the prosecutor made a judgement and a very worng one based on that data base vs doing any real detective work.
The fireman only was spared this injustice because the real perputrator felt bad because someone got killed and came forward and turned himself in something that almost never happens.
But this is proof this type of monitoring is a very bad thing and only a complete vaccum head would tolerate it.
It seems these Congress people are working agianst the american people trying to create an Orwellian hell which is something the people do not want. We should vote them out and press law suits etc because we are supposed to be in control of the government congress is supposed to serve us the people. When a memeber of congress or the senate works agianst us he or she should basicly be fired because they acted agianst the best interest of their boss which is the people. For trying to pass such an invasive law the end of their political careers is the only fitting punishment they should not even be allowed to run for city dog catcher afterwards.
Why not just buy some solar panels or windmills?
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For 10,000USD you could generate your own power vs store power you bought at reduced cost.
10K can buy a very large wind turbine or serveral small 400 to 1200 watt ones with enough left over for batteries and invertors.
Some small 800watt wind generators can be had for under $500 $10,000 USD can buy enough of those you'd be selling power vs buying it.
That money also can purchase nearly 3KW worth of 80 - 160watt solar panels these would likely out last the power storage device serveral times over plus offset green house gasses.
Polititions that sell out to the media companies like this make me sick .
One I like being able to listen to radio froma linux box or even an amiga that has a PPC card.
No way will I resort to running windows just to listen to an online radio station.
Also it's unfair to the broadcasters in forcing them use an inferior and not free or even low cost close prioperitary codec wrapper.
So they are forced to spend more and offer an inferior product.
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1600x1200 on a 6 inch screen you better have a magnifying glass to read the type then reading glasses would not be enoungh. I think something about the size of a legal document is ideal with an 8"x11" screen that can be used in landscape or portrait modes. Also most US cell phones are small almost too small you loose them and the old amps phones the bricks had the longest range of all cell phone standards at around . One reason they were able to make cell phones smaller was there was more cell towers so they were able to use a 300 miliwatt vs 1.5 to 3 watt transmitter to get a reliable connection in most parts of the country. Also the change from 800-900mhz to 1.8ghz to 2.4ghz allowed anteenas to be smaller. Think before you post.
I think 17" is the pratical limit for a laptop and 14" or 15" being ideal. I find even apple's 17" powerbook a little big though the big screen is good for getting work done. 20" is just too big I'd also worry about breaking that huge screen weight is not a serious issue for me but being able to use it easily is. I think this should be called a luggable vs a laptop since it doesn't fit on one's lap.
Yes real wealth is what one can do with their money ie it's buying power.
Even dealing with different regions in the US a person with 100K in the midwest is far more wealthy then a person with 100K in LA or NYC.
Also money with out freedom is worthless as what good is it if you cannot use it as you please?
Though on the freedom issue someone brought up earilier in the US it seems more wealth does often mean greater freedom ie you can afford a laywer if the government tries to over step it's bounds.
Umm I don't see apple using Itallium or Xscale about the only things I seen PC manufactures not use that intel offers. Also dell shipped conroe based machines before apple did also apple is using only intel's while the clone manufactures are making use of all X86 suppliers AMD who has more experiance with 64bit and multi processors then intel, VIA they have the most effcient X86 processor on the market using half the watt per flop as core duo. I see nothing innovative in apple's new hardware nothing at all other then the use of a DRM chip which most PC manufactures are smart enough to steer clear of because users do not want such a feature. The only innovation they have seems to be OSX.
Apple's hardware is not unique anymore it's just a PC now and with some effort you can run OSX on any old PC just make sure it has a supported gpu,sound device etc.
I'm somewhat disapointed with apple's present hardware offerings. I wish they kept the PPC platform esp since PA semi made the laptop chip they needed and it's better then intel's core ie is 64bit has an onboard PCI-e controller and two DDR2 memory controllers and uses only 5 to 13 watts. Tell me does yohna or even conroe come close to this http://www.pasemi.com/processors/1682M.html Other gripes no PCMCIA on the macbooks and to get a usable graphics card you must buy the macbook pro. Though since they have OSX on X86 I'd like to see it offered for normal PCs esp since I seen acer and sony laptops that have better battery life and offer a 3d card for a lot less money.
I agree it was stupid to kill all the legacy ports like that as it forced many users to buy adpaters.
The success of the imac partly was due to the third party suppliers such as belkin comming to the rescue with legacy adapters.
If you have even a freshmen college level knowege of chemistry you'd know this story is bunk. It would be impossible to sneek enough raw ingerients to make a bomb powerfull enough to bring a jumbo down. I think some one mxing several gallons of rather noxous chemicals to produce several pounds of HE would be kinda hard to miss . Also all the compounds I can think of also would require hours of reaction time at room temps and would require drying before they can be used. Also large jet aircraft are more robust then most people think a good example would be to watch the myth busters episode on explosive decompression. It took 2lbs of C4 to make an explosive decompression event occur which isa far more powerfull explosive then the acetonepreoxide british and pakistani officals were talking about. So the reaction by DHS and the TSA is totaly unesscary and only shows how incompetent these organizations truely are. Their banning drinks from people in what is an extremely dry environment is a greater danger then any mixed onboard bomb. The humditity on the average airliner during flight is around 5 to 10% which is dryer then the sahara.
China will become a competitor and they are farther along then you think. As for DRM once they are powerfull engough they'll just tell you where to go and they'll excute your lawyers in the most violent manner they can think of to any lawyers wanting to try and force DRM crap on the chinese maybe you should read up on history so you'll get an idea of your fate. Heck they'll never really enforce it as pirate dvds and electronics are good for the chinese economy they may make one or two examples but mostly it'll be bussines as usual. think you can asshat them around with laws and copyrights you will be in for a very rude awakining and the end result could be china becoming the USA's master.
How obtuse can you be you have absolutely no knowledge of chemistry. Besides if your neighbor wanted to kill you he/she would just get a gun or maybe just use a blunt object and bash in what little gray matter you have as that would be easier and cheaper. As for securety only a fool trades freedom for securety.
Because the cell processor in the PS3 is over 5x more powerfull then any X86 chip you can buy right now and it's only $500 the cost of a high end graphics card . Heck a top of the line 64bit AMD or intel CPU that is not as powerful as Cell can set you back much more then $500. You should not be compairing the PS3 to a celleron or even a sempron as it's in a diffrent class compair it to a power mac G5 or a good AMD64 or xeon box.
This not something new a console that doubled as a computer it's as old as the home computing movement going back to the mid 1970s long before the first IBM PC. The ballyastrocade could be expaned to be a home computer and eveen have 64K as with the coleco vision which could be exanded into a coleco adam. All Sony did was bring back a very old concept because a console really is just a sepcailized computer. The Atari 5200 was pretty much an Atari 800 with less ram and no keyboard the Xbox 1 really was just a low cost all in one legacy free PC and MS did miss the boat on not allowing it to be used as such. This was very popular in Japan such as the famicom disk drive and keyboard add ons and systems that stradled the definition of console and computer such as the MSX, FM towns and X6800 series. Much of the original Xbox's sucess was the fact it could be hacked to be more computer like and rip dvds run linux etc. It was this that took away PS2 sales even though the PS2 has a little better selection of games. With the 360 being locked down with very an invasive DRM having the PS3 more open and allowing even just protected media rips could be a coup.
Good to know the BATF is not the real enemy here it means it'll be easier to fight this. We must fight the CPSC and show them that us adults have no need or want for nanny laws.
I agree this is a terrible crime being perputrated on futer generations. As a kid DIY chemistry was one of my favorite passtimes if I did not get that early start I might have never pursued a career in the sciences. As for methlabs making glassware illegal will do jack and sh** to stop them if you are even slightly inventive you can find other ways. As the article quoted the Mr coffee in every office has three things regulated in Texas A filter,a pyrex flask and a hotplate. Also many truely great inventions were done by home chemists and tinkers A good example would be an amazing subtance known as fire paste. If you care about the future of this country then you must keep science from becoming a crime as this country will very quickly fall behind the parts of the world that choose not to stifle the persuit of knowledge. As laws like this would have gotten 90% of the great scientific minds of the past century thrown in jail. This time these people have gone too far they messed with the holy of holies.
They have gone too far in this paroia over methlabs and terrorism just about every great chemist or engineer started out doing DIY home chemistry ecxperiments. What kind of country do we live in if the simple quest for knowage becomes a crime. This is not good for the country either as the US has been falling behind on science test scores and will fall behind the rest of the world if the pursuit of knowledge becomes a crime it will deter children from learning about science and there will be less engineers and scientists or at the very least less great ones. To make a very long story short it would eventually cause the USA to become a third rate has been of an economic and military power. Quote" Those who give up liberty for a little temperary securety will end up with and deserve niether ."
Benjaman Franklin
Yes it is very similiar to the Hall-Heroult process. Though they are not seeing the big picture as titanium at $3 a pound will not only benifit the aerospace industry but just about every industry looking for a tough yet light weight metal. An example would be the automotive industry at those prices it would be competitive to aluminum but superior to Al for use in body panels for example. It also can be used in engines for conneting rods which equals greater engine durability. Over all use of low cost titanium could makea car 33% more fuel efficeint and eleminate rust.
64bits not nesscary what rock have you been living under.
IA-32 had many serious sissue amoung which a difficulty in handling files over 4.5GB and registor starvation only 8 general purpose registers.
AMD64 and EMT64 adressed all these issues and more with register count being doubled to 16 general purpose and 16 SIMD regs.It and also added a flat segment free 48bit adressing mode.
Also AMD64s are on average 30% faster in 64bit mode vs 32bit mode such a compressing a 7zip file or encoding divx.
As for 64bit OSes take your pick linux has had 64bit support since 2003 XP-64 is out and windows server 2003 for X86 is 64bit only.
Until core is 32bits you will be buying a dead end chip that may not run Vista which will likely be 64bit.
So I consider yohna a very poor buy on not supporting 64bit extentions esp when even semprons are now 64bit.
To drive home how outdated 32bit is even game machines such as the Xbox 360 are 64bits now.
The FDIV bug was far woprse then the AMD heating bug and atleat AMD is offering free replacemnts right off vs having to be sued into offering free replacements like another chip company who had the FDIV bug. Also this requires a tight repeted loop the FDIV bug gave an error right off .The FDIV was not harmless if the chip was used in a guidince system the FDIV bug could cause something to go far off course also if you were using an early pentium in scientific research the cumlative errors could ruin your data.
Yes Lets put Our back stabbing congress men and women over the shuttle's wings to protect the RCC from foam. After trying stuff like this http://news.com.com/Congress+may+consider+mandator y+ISP+snooping/2100-1028_3-6066608.html?tag=nefd.t op
They have it comming.
The retirment schedule does create more scheduling pressure as they need to complete ISS before 2010. As for the CEV it's a step in the worng direction and will not reduce costs and since the CLV uses an SRB it would not increase safety. Also it and would not be able to maintian ISS or perform earth and microgravity science. Also the design will be very out of date by the time it flies in 2012 to 2014 and would need yet another spacecraft to replace it. The private spacecraft like the t/space cxv or the planet space silver dart are far better designs then nasa's cev which is largely an inflexable dead end design.
Sorry they are going too far and there is no war on the level of WWII and no vast risk to national securety. This is nothing more thena grab for power and an attempt to make a hell on earth police state. It would not benifit the average US citizen in any way but will do them great harm.
I agree it also reminds me of an instance of when a fireman almost was sentenced to prison for an arson because he bought camping fuel and lots of matches using one of those rewards cards. He was hosting firemens cookout at a campsite. The police siezed the data base and the prosecutor made a judgement and a very worng one based on that data base vs doing any real detective work. The fireman only was spared this injustice because the real perputrator felt bad because someone got killed and came forward and turned himself in something that almost never happens. But this is proof this type of monitoring is a very bad thing and only a complete vaccum head would tolerate it.
It seems these Congress people are working agianst the american people trying to create an Orwellian hell which is something the people do not want.
We should vote them out and press law suits etc because we are supposed to be in control of the government congress is supposed to serve us the people.
When a memeber of congress or the senate works agianst us he or she should basicly be fired because they acted agianst the best interest of their boss which is the people.
For trying to pass such an invasive law the end of their political careers is the only fitting punishment they should not even be allowed to run for city dog catcher afterwards.
For 10,000USD you could generate your own power vs store power you bought at reduced cost. 10K can buy a very large wind turbine or serveral small 400 to 1200 watt ones with enough left over for batteries and invertors. Some small 800watt wind generators can be had for under $500 $10,000 USD can buy enough of those you'd be selling power vs buying it. That money also can purchase nearly 3KW worth of 80 - 160watt solar panels these would likely out last the power storage device serveral times over plus offset green house gasses.
Polititions that sell out to the media companies like this make me sick . One I like being able to listen to radio froma linux box or even an amiga that has a PPC card. No way will I resort to running windows just to listen to an online radio station. Also it's unfair to the broadcasters in forcing them use an inferior and not free or even low cost close prioperitary codec wrapper. So they are forced to spend more and offer an inferior product.