Video games fall under the 2 year rule. What comes out tomorrow will not show up in games for at least two years. If you buy into all the BS marketing and buying the latest and the greatest you are going to be in a constant state of dissappointment since nothing can live up to the hype and nothing is ever ready to go at launch.
DirectX 10 other than a few limp patches and demos does not exist, hardware accelerated physics nope not yet, SLI or Dual and Quad GPU's hardly give a return on the investment unless you are running multiple monitors, etc etc etc. None of this is worth getting worked up about. Unplug out brain from the marketing driven fanboy/hater game and just enjoy ride. Graphics and computing power is fabulous compared to what it was just a few years ago, and the fact that MS has set an actual standard is kick ass so that when you go out and buy a card and game that says DX10 on the side you can actually count on it being exactly what it says it is. That beats the "good ol" days before DirectX where you had to wait for your graphic card manufacturer or the game publisher to come out with a patch so that your graphics card would be supported and when they didn't you were just shit out of luck.
Africans have always out produced Westerns when it comes to children, but when the mortality rate of infants was near 50% and that of children was another 40% it tended to balance out in the end, but thanks to people giving just $5 a month to provide a child with clean water and the innoculations that they need Africa has turned into a giant baby mill. The only helpful advice the care providers give them after that is to tell them to love Jesus and that birth control is the devil.
You just gave me a great idea, next goat humping spell Nazi that bugs me on/. all I have to do is tell him to "Piss off you wanker, I'm British" and to hell with the spell checker!
Yeah!
Not to be rude though I've noticed that UK English is not even English English, unless of course you guys got around to narrowing it down to just 5 or so versions when I wasn't looking.
I hereby theorize that cramming peanuts into your arsehole will cause levitation.
There, now that I've officially theorized this, I can say, "In theory, cramming peanuts into your arsehole will cause levitation." and it's perfectly true.
You can theorize all you want but until critical mass of enough people referencing each other (ie Supports of Inteligent Design, the Democratic Party, and Everything Wrong in the World being the US's fault and in no way shape or form Europe's.) no absolute truth can be gleaned from said theory.
Right now it's a novelty price point issue. There is no way they'll stay above $300 for a 32gb drive for very long. Give it a year or two and you'll probably see just that. Considering you can get 16gb in a flash drive a laptop flash drive or a 3.5 HD shell has a silly amount of empty space which can be used to increase capacity and performance. There is no reason they couldn't set up and internal RAID like arrangement to be able to saturate a SATA connection. Right now we just have to wait for market and Mooore's to work their magic on price point.
If that is too much to ask for then they just need to set up rows of SATA/USB ports that just let me plug 10-15 memeory sticks straight into the mother board so that a standard RAID solution can be used.
This is a niche market item one that I have a use for in my media PC since it is already plumbed for water cooling and my end goal is to make it 100% silent. Solid state drives are very interesting they use less than 1 watt and are compeletely silent and fairly cool, but they are very slow and the price per unit is unacceptable for my storage needs. If I were to use them it would be to simply to make a front device for the living room and then put a full blown noisy server in a closet someplace else in the house.
Now as far as power useage, HD's are hardly the big pig in the PC, most pull all of 5-10watts and considering how fast they seem to double in capacity, that just drives the power consumption per unit of storage down requiring fewer drives and less power to get the same results.
The biggest wasters are the CPU, Video Card, and the Power supply. We have seen some big improvements these past few years it's just that those gains have been for the most part entirely devoted to improving performance rather than power efficiency.
This is, to my mind, the grossest abuse of Moore's law that can be had. Instead, we should be building smaller and lower powered devices. Perhaps it simply reflects how cheap energy is that we choose to build computers this way.
I never understood the whole let's live off of bark and roots mentality of the long haired hippy freak crowd, but just like cars if you want one that is very efficient then go get one, they are readily available. The average performing PC and Mac is exactly what you are wanting to see built and are getting more so every year, but if what you want is a high-performance gaming rig, well then you are going to have to take a hit in the gas mileage to get it. That's just the way it is.
I'm not all about shitting on mother earth, I for one think water cooling a PC is a wonderfull opportunity to be a little more eco-friendly. When I move back into the states next year and buy a house, I plan on setting up my big giant noisy, BOINC number crunching, water cooled media server next to an extra water heater tank that I'll set up. That way I can use the waste heat of the machine to pre-heat water for the main hot water heater.
There won't be any condensation unless you chill the water.
Solid state is the future, but right now it is very slow, small, and expensive. Until they start offerring them at flash chip prices and in a SATA format so you can RAID enough of them together to get some usefull performance numbers stardard HD will still be on top.
If the guy is dumb enough to lock himself into the expensive contract for a piece of Apple cripple-ware then he is most certainly dumb enough to want to sue over the battery.
I took a look at Dewalts website, originally I saw them in Popular Science. They're a lithium phosphate mix. The magazine article was alot more optimistic as to longevity and recharge rate, though those numbers probably came from researchers not based on what is actually available. Dewalt's website claims 2000 cycles and 1 hour recharge time. Not bad considering most packs these days only get 200-500 cycles out of them. The battery packs are set up in 36vdc packs are a bit on the larger size, but at the same time considering they're a 2.4 amp hour battery they are quite small compared to other types. Personally I think it's big step in the right direction since you want your batteries to last as long as possible when it comes to being installed in something like a car.
We're on the same page, I agree with everything you said, I just wanted to make a point without digging into the specifics. I too like the on-demand systems, but once I get around to buying a house or building one I still plan on having a solar system in place to pre-heat the water.
I find it criminal that most houses in the western and southern states still are being built without including or even offering any type of solar solution. The relative costs of the systems compared to that of the house and other goods and services we Americans piss away our money on are getting very small.
Something as small as giving up a two a day habit of two adults from the local Starbucks for a year would easily cover the base cost for a nicely sized solar water heater.
These guys may be proffessionals, but they also tend to have A-type personalities, and that includes "the rules don't apply to me because I'm a pro" attitude to go along with it.
Besides alcohol is the least of NASA's worries, most of these guys probably don't sleep for a day or two before launch due to the excitement/stress level they're under. Personally I'll take the guy that's a little on the drunk side, but who has been sleeping all week over the guy who has enough coffee and Red-Bull in him so that doesn't need the Shuttle to make it to orbit.
In latest news, after years of frustrating requests for new gear that have gone unfull-filled . Troops in the field resorted to putting thousands of Post-it notes on their Humvees and on their old body army.
Pvt Parts was quoted "Yeah they're crap for camouflage and look fucking stupid, that and some joker keeps writing "I luv the cock" and sticking it on my back, but man do they stop the bullets."
Also in the news FBI has arrested three men with suspected terrorist links in an Office Depot this morning, trying to buy three pallets of inkjet paper without having proper I.D. nor the required Federal permits to make the purchase.
You have to remember all they are esentially doing is just putting in a wall charger to the Prius to allow you to recharge the batteries without the engine. That 8 mile range is already available if you have the electric only button installed in the car and a way to fully recharge the batteries. As it is the Prius's recharging schedule does not recharge the battery to 100% to be gentler on the battery as well as leave room for regenative breaking, so there is room for a little extra night time charging.
There is a little understood fact about Toyota's hybrid cars. They are actually fully functional all electric cars that just happen to have smaller battery packs and gasoline engines for recharging. Once Toyota commits to plug-in's, it would not take much to swap out the engine for bigger battery packs and leave gasoline behind.
The "all electric" mode range improvements could become an annual selling point as the batteries get better/cheaper. Eventually the motors could become much smaller and only be used on trips that are longer than your daily commute or say if you forget to plug it at home or the office.
Sure the Engineering feat is not all that impressive, but the fact that they have changed their mind-set in what is notoriously the most conservative, foot dragging industry, without the standard threat of government intervention, is very impressive.
DeWalt is putting a new Li-on battery in their rechargeable power tools this year. It doesn't have that much greater storage than what is available now, but they are claiming they can recharge to 80% capacity in five minutes since they don't get as hot or give off oxygen during the recharge. They are saying as well that do to the less wear and tear on the cells that they are going to get at least a 10 fold increase in the number of recharge cycles out of them.
We have more than enough hi-tech welfare programs thank you very much. Instead of throwing tens of billions at yet another program for them to build up only to cancel after 10 years, because they can't figure out how to make "Unobtainium", how about just say spending the same money on putting solar hot water heating on every house in the US. The raw science and engineering break-throughs are wonderful and necessary, and I'm all for going into space, but come on we don't need big government projects to take care of the problem. We have gotten to the point where our energy delima is no longer a technical one, but a social and political one.
Other than swapping out compact florencent light-bulbs in the home, solar hot water heating systems are about the easiest thing you can do that doesn't actually require a change over to a tree-hugging life style. You can hook them into a regular hot water heating system, even in freeze prone areas, and you won't even see a difference, other than you gas or electric bill will drop substantially.
We'll spend $3000 on a over-priced and over-hyped iPod (iPhone) that just end up in the trash in a year or two, but my God spending $5000 on a solar hot water system that will give a family of four most of their hot water for free for the next ten years is just too much too ask.
-1 Troll. It's an improvment. I just wait for another Apple Fan boy circle jerk love fest articles and say something mean about Steve Job's mother or how much the iPhone sucks and people that buy it are mindless drones that should get me a lower score.
Secondly, most newsletters are opt-in or double opt-in only. That means people ask for them and go to the trouble of double opting for them. If there is a great abundance of newletters out there then by simple deduction it follows that a great number of people want newsletters.
I get newsletters all the time that I chose not to opt-in or specifically opt-ed out. Most newsletters aren't worth the paper they're printed on, financial or otherwise. If it is that important to me I check up on it on a regular basis.
But mainly all my parent post was to see if I could pull a negative Karma. I've been getting postive for so long I just want to see how much it'll take to get to drop.
First off both Goodmail and Hotmail are garbage, period end of story. If you are still using them as email service you are a fucking idiot.
Second I think I'm in the majority here, but who the fuck wants newsletters? I consider them to be spam just like the crap I'm not interested in. I don't mind clicking on a shortcuts, links, or typing in an address especially if it means that I can have an empty email box. Quit being lazy and just update your webpage.
I say more power to them if they are wanting $1400 out of your ass, or better yet give me the option of setting the price that gets paypalled directly to me every time someone sends me some garbage. I'd make $10-15 a day just off the sites I do frequent.
Holographic this and that for what the last 15 years, and no product to date that is worth anything? Duke Nukem Forever will hit the shelves before this "just around the corner" tech ever will.
Optical media is garbage and always has been and is an overly fragile way to store data. It's only redeeming feature is once the discs get bellow $1 they effectively become disposeable.
In another year or so, flash chips will reach a price point that'll make them a cost effective alternative for buying movies on DVD's, they've already reached that point for music CD's.
Once the industry notices that, and gets over their DRM OCD, I say good riddance to optical media.
1. Learn how to fix your own fucking computer, it's not that hard.
2. Never digitize anything that you don't want the entire world to see, or at least store it elsewhere such as on an external drive that can be easily unplugged and put away.
3. There are plenty of pictures of your wife already on the internet. Don't play dumb. You put them there. She's a dirty whore and you know it, that's why you married her. Don't blame it on the Geek Squad guy just because her mom accidently found them in a Google search when she miss typed "Sunday Bible Study" and instead put "Everyday household items I like shoved up in my ass while sucking cock."
Her mom is a dirty whore too, don't buy that I love Jesus bit.
Oh no, MS knows what drivers I'm using!? They know what software I've run and had crashed. Oh God no, they might know what mods(cheats) I have installed for Battlefield 2.
Next thing you know Nazi (MS) storm troopers will be showing up at any moment at my front door to steal my tin foil hat, my Birthday, and inalienable right to be a MS hater.
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100%, Every single music CD that I've ever bought still works. Even the ones that I got in 1985.
DirectX 10 other than a few limp patches and demos does not exist, hardware accelerated physics nope not yet, SLI or Dual and Quad GPU's hardly give a return on the investment unless you are running multiple monitors, etc etc etc. None of this is worth getting worked up about. Unplug out brain from the marketing driven fanboy/hater game and just enjoy ride. Graphics and computing power is fabulous compared to what it was just a few years ago, and the fact that MS has set an actual standard is kick ass so that when you go out and buy a card and game that says DX10 on the side you can actually count on it being exactly what it says it is. That beats the "good ol" days before DirectX where you had to wait for your graphic card manufacturer or the game publisher to come out with a patch so that your graphics card would be supported and when they didn't you were just shit out of luck.
Africans have always out produced Westerns when it comes to children, but when the mortality rate of infants was near 50% and that of children was another 40% it tended to balance out in the end, but thanks to people giving just $5 a month to provide a child with clean water and the innoculations that they need Africa has turned into a giant baby mill. The only helpful advice the care providers give them after that is to tell them to love Jesus and that birth control is the devil.
Yeah!
Not to be rude though I've noticed that UK English is not even English English, unless of course you guys got around to narrowing it down to just 5 or so versions when I wasn't looking.
You can theorize all you want but until critical mass of enough people referencing each other (ie Supports of Inteligent Design, the Democratic Party, and Everything Wrong in the World being the US's fault and in no way shape or form Europe's.) no absolute truth can be gleaned from said theory.
If that is too much to ask for then they just need to set up rows of SATA/USB ports that just let me plug 10-15 memeory sticks straight into the mother board so that a standard RAID solution can be used.
Now as far as power useage, HD's are hardly the big pig in the PC, most pull all of 5-10watts and considering how fast they seem to double in capacity, that just drives the power consumption per unit of storage down requiring fewer drives and less power to get the same results.
The biggest wasters are the CPU, Video Card, and the Power supply. We have seen some big improvements these past few years it's just that those gains have been for the most part entirely devoted to improving performance rather than power efficiency.
This is, to my mind, the grossest abuse of Moore's law that can be had. Instead, we should be building smaller and lower powered devices. Perhaps it simply reflects how cheap energy is that we choose to build computers this way.
I never understood the whole let's live off of bark and roots mentality of the long haired hippy freak crowd, but just like cars if you want one that is very efficient then go get one, they are readily available. The average performing PC and Mac is exactly what you are wanting to see built and are getting more so every year, but if what you want is a high-performance gaming rig, well then you are going to have to take a hit in the gas mileage to get it. That's just the way it is.
I'm not all about shitting on mother earth, I for one think water cooling a PC is a wonderfull opportunity to be a little more eco-friendly. When I move back into the states next year and buy a house, I plan on setting up my big giant noisy, BOINC number crunching, water cooled media server next to an extra water heater tank that I'll set up. That way I can use the waste heat of the machine to pre-heat water for the main hot water heater.
Solid state is the future, but right now it is very slow, small, and expensive. Until they start offerring them at flash chip prices and in a SATA format so you can RAID enough of them together to get some usefull performance numbers stardard HD will still be on top.
Man I've lost my touch at pissing people off. Where are the negative 5's at?
I don't see why this surprises anyone.
I took a look at Dewalts website, originally I saw them in Popular Science. They're a lithium phosphate mix. The magazine article was alot more optimistic as to longevity and recharge rate, though those numbers probably came from researchers not based on what is actually available. Dewalt's website claims 2000 cycles and 1 hour recharge time. Not bad considering most packs these days only get 200-500 cycles out of them. The battery packs are set up in 36vdc packs are a bit on the larger size, but at the same time considering they're a 2.4 amp hour battery they are quite small compared to other types. Personally I think it's big step in the right direction since you want your batteries to last as long as possible when it comes to being installed in something like a car.
I find it criminal that most houses in the western and southern states still are being built without including or even offering any type of solar solution. The relative costs of the systems compared to that of the house and other goods and services we Americans piss away our money on are getting very small.
Something as small as giving up a two a day habit of two adults from the local Starbucks for a year would easily cover the base cost for a nicely sized solar water heater.
These guys may be proffessionals, but they also tend to have A-type personalities, and that includes "the rules don't apply to me because I'm a pro" attitude to go along with it.
Besides alcohol is the least of NASA's worries, most of these guys probably don't sleep for a day or two before launch due to the excitement/stress level they're under. Personally I'll take the guy that's a little on the drunk side, but who has been sleeping all week over the guy who has enough coffee and Red-Bull in him so that doesn't need the Shuttle to make it to orbit.
Pvt Parts was quoted "Yeah they're crap for camouflage and look fucking stupid, that and some joker keeps writing "I luv the cock" and sticking it on my back, but man do they stop the bullets."
Also in the news FBI has arrested three men with suspected terrorist links in an Office Depot this morning, trying to buy three pallets of inkjet paper without having proper I.D. nor the required Federal permits to make the purchase.
There is a little understood fact about Toyota's hybrid cars. They are actually fully functional all electric cars that just happen to have smaller battery packs and gasoline engines for recharging. Once Toyota commits to plug-in's, it would not take much to swap out the engine for bigger battery packs and leave gasoline behind.
The "all electric" mode range improvements could become an annual selling point as the batteries get better/cheaper. Eventually the motors could become much smaller and only be used on trips that are longer than your daily commute or say if you forget to plug it at home or the office.
Sure the Engineering feat is not all that impressive, but the fact that they have changed their mind-set in what is notoriously the most conservative, foot dragging industry, without the standard threat of government intervention, is very impressive.
DeWalt is putting a new Li-on battery in their rechargeable power tools this year. It doesn't have that much greater storage than what is available now, but they are claiming they can recharge to 80% capacity in five minutes since they don't get as hot or give off oxygen during the recharge. They are saying as well that do to the less wear and tear on the cells that they are going to get at least a 10 fold increase in the number of recharge cycles out of them.
Other than swapping out compact florencent light-bulbs in the home, solar hot water heating systems are about the easiest thing you can do that doesn't actually require a change over to a tree-hugging life style. You can hook them into a regular hot water heating system, even in freeze prone areas, and you won't even see a difference, other than you gas or electric bill will drop substantially.
We'll spend $3000 on a over-priced and over-hyped iPod (iPhone) that just end up in the trash in a year or two, but my God spending $5000 on a solar hot water system that will give a family of four most of their hot water for free for the next ten years is just too much too ask.
People have their priorities ass-backwards.
-1 Troll. It's an improvment. I just wait for another Apple Fan boy circle jerk love fest articles and say something mean about Steve Job's mother or how much the iPhone sucks and people that buy it are mindless drones that should get me a lower score.
I get newsletters all the time that I chose not to opt-in or specifically opt-ed out. Most newsletters aren't worth the paper they're printed on, financial or otherwise. If it is that important to me I check up on it on a regular basis.
But mainly all my parent post was to see if I could pull a negative Karma. I've been getting postive for so long I just want to see how much it'll take to get to drop.
Second I think I'm in the majority here, but who the fuck wants newsletters? I consider them to be spam just like the crap I'm not interested in. I don't mind clicking on a shortcuts, links, or typing in an address especially if it means that I can have an empty email box. Quit being lazy and just update your webpage.
I say more power to them if they are wanting $1400 out of your ass, or better yet give me the option of setting the price that gets paypalled directly to me every time someone sends me some garbage. I'd make $10-15 a day just off the sites I do frequent.
Newegg.com
1 gig Kingston micro SD, about the size of your pinky finger nail $8
2 gig SD $15
4 gig SD $34
8 gig SD chip $65
16 gig CF $120
Those are retail prices right now. So some time next year sounds about right.
Optical media is garbage and always has been and is an overly fragile way to store data. It's only redeeming feature is once the discs get bellow $1 they effectively become disposeable.
In another year or so, flash chips will reach a price point that'll make them a cost effective alternative for buying movies on DVD's, they've already reached that point for music CD's.
Once the industry notices that, and gets over their DRM OCD, I say good riddance to optical media.
I'm quite drunk at this point, so fuck your mother...I did.
2. Never digitize anything that you don't want the entire world to see, or at least store it elsewhere such as on an external drive that can be easily unplugged and put away.
3. There are plenty of pictures of your wife already on the internet. Don't play dumb. You put them there. She's a dirty whore and you know it, that's why you married her. Don't blame it on the Geek Squad guy just because her mom accidently found them in a Google search when she miss typed "Sunday Bible Study" and instead put "Everyday household items I like shoved up in my ass while sucking cock."
Her mom is a dirty whore too, don't buy that I love Jesus bit.
Next thing you know Nazi (MS) storm troopers will be showing up at any moment at my front door to steal my tin foil hat, my Birthday, and inalienable right to be a MS hater.