LCDs dont emit any harmful radiation, and CTRs had a front made of 1cm+ thickness of lead-glass for a reason. 30KV x-rays have an mean free path lenghts there in the very low milimeter range.
The sun also doesnt dose you in xrays, because of, you know, the athmosphere around us.
1 or 2 medical x-rays with an old maschine will give you more radiation exposure than your get from the chernobyl and the nuclear tests renmants combined. A single CT scan will be more radiation than you get in a while year from all other sources together.
Not to mention that the whole "residuum magnetism" that may actually have existed in 90s HDs isnt simply possible anymore with todays track density. Any kind of remnand from the last state would be well under the paramangetic limit and completely replaced by thermal noise.
Funny or not, i have no problems using both thumb buttons on my mx500... one with the tip of the thumb, one with the base.
And i hate logitech for removing this second button in their latter mice... what use is a "go back" botton while browsing without a "go forward" one to get back to the initial position? It saves so much time doing stuff in the explorer or while browsing...
Well, thankfully, even military spysats STILL have to acknowledge the diffraction limit, so no face recoginition form orbit, ever (at least without a 10+m mirrror.
is that it doesnt work for GPUs. Instruction Parallisation was never a problem there, so the cores are inheritly as parallel as the die-size allows. If you could squeeze twice as much transistors on a chip, your GPU would have 64 instead of 32 pixel piplelines, for example. Plus dual core does nothing for the bandwith problem... (and no, going to 1024 bit memory or something isnt an option
Normally, i wouldnt dare to critique to awesome mods here (well, who am i kidding, they are a normal average of./ readers, meaning fucking morons), but where exactly is the other part of the redundance to my post here? You know, something cannot be redundant on its own...
So it uses 3$ worth of hdspace. Thats really the deciding factor of a 200$+ OS.
Btw: you realize that its the "kitchen sink" version with all crap, too? Including for example the Media Player edition? How much disk space does iDVD, for example, use again in a full install, as a point of comparison?
Where do you draw the line? The torrent file is just a hash tree. So with your argumentation, MD5s would be illegal, too, right? (same thing) What about CRC32. Is that not-illegal enough for you?
Hint: there is a difference between an summary of a work and a hash. That is that the summary is a work in itself thats derived on the original work, while the hash is just a data structure.
I once had to _really_ clean 25-30 40MByte HDs when i was in the army. They had a utility that did a 5 cycle wipe, which took well over 2hours for one HD. At first i thought it would be a nice waste of a week, but after 2 computers it became SO annoying that i build a "wiping tower" (those things were pizza-box style 386 computers from Siemens, and you can stack them ALL to make a _really_ high computer:D)
Was surprised how HOT the middle ones became. I guess the termal solution of those things didnt consider being sandwiched by fellow ones while doing maximum disk activity (as they were fanless).
I have never in my whole live seen a top-loading washing maschine (neither in someones home nor in a shop), so the problem you rave about seems as logical as somebody getting hysterical about the sky being blue. Just get over it. (also, did it ever get into your mind that front loading washing maschines can use gravity to move the cloths while turning, getting the water more often and quicker through the clothing. And as you said, its the water that cleans).
Btw, i heard once on the internet that american washing mashines work with cold water. Any truth to that?
Funny fact: in correct (germanic) pronounciation, møøse acutally is a very colloquial (and rude) word for vagina. Which makes your sentence much more funny.
Driving to a shop, spending 30 minutes or so for it, plus paying 20$ for a movie=="spend exorbinent amounts of time and energy" (hint: for most people, money== time and energy,too) to get it.
Opening a bookmark, typing in a name, clicking on a link, finding the movie ready to watch after work== simple and easy.
Maybe if there were an itunes for movies without DRM in retarted proportions (hint, idiots form movie companies: people just rip your dvds and p2p them, so _nobody_ wanting to pirate cares one bit if your stronger compressed (and usually thus worse looking) videos for download are DRMed or not) and non-idiotic price (half of a dvd at most (and even that only if its drm-free), as the quality is worse, no shelf-space renting needed, no margins for retailers,ect , no need to truck it across the contry,... the balance would shift.
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We develope next generation MRIs at the university here.
We have a 17 Tesla MRI-Microscope for small samples. Getting um resolution in 3d is really great
LCDs dont emit any harmful radiation, and CTRs had a front made of 1cm+ thickness of lead-glass for a reason.
30KV x-rays have an mean free path lenghts there in the very low milimeter range.
The sun also doesnt dose you in xrays, because of, you know, the athmosphere around us.
1 or 2 medical x-rays with an old maschine will give you more radiation exposure than your get from the chernobyl and the nuclear tests renmants combined.
A single CT scan will be more radiation than you get in a while year from all other sources together.
Not to mention that the whole "residuum magnetism" that may actually have existed in 90s HDs isnt simply possible anymore with todays track density. Any kind of remnand from the last state would be well under the paramangetic limit and completely replaced by thermal noise.
Funny or not, i have no problems using both thumb buttons on my mx500... one with the tip of the thumb, one with the base.
And i hate logitech for removing this second button in their latter mice... what use is a "go back" botton while browsing without a "go forward" one to get back to the initial position?
It saves so much time doing stuff in the explorer or while browsing...
Well, thankfully, even military spysats STILL have to acknowledge the diffraction limit, so no face recoginition form orbit, ever (at least without a 10+m mirrror.
"funny" moderations dont give karma. Nor have they ever in this millenium.
Just remember that the day your health insurance goes up because they bought your profile from google and see you are too fat...
is that it doesnt work for GPUs.
Instruction Parallisation was never a problem there, so the cores are inheritly as parallel as the die-size allows. If you could squeeze twice as much transistors on a chip, your GPU would have 64 instead of 32 pixel piplelines, for example.
Plus dual core does nothing for the bandwith problem... (and no, going to 1024 bit memory or something isnt an option
Normally, i wouldnt dare to critique to awesome mods here (well, who am i kidding, they are a normal average of ./ readers, meaning fucking morons), but where exactly is the other part of the redundance to my post here? You know, something cannot be redundant on its own...
Hm. Doesnt everybody and his dog have .Net since it came with XP SP2 and 2k SP4 or something?
So it uses 3$ worth of hdspace.
Thats really the deciding factor of a 200$+ OS.
Btw: you realize that its the "kitchen sink" version with all crap, too? Including for example the Media Player edition? How much disk space does iDVD, for example, use again in a full install, as a point of comparison?
Emule/Edonkes ed2k links are that.
Just a filename, a filesize, and a MD5 hash.
The torrent stores also hashes for every block of the file (32k-4MB), as to detect and correct errors.
Its certainly more "facts" than what a typical first page of normal websearch results on your query would yield.
Thats good enough for me.
Where do you draw the line?
The torrent file is just a hash tree.
So with your argumentation, MD5s would be illegal, too, right? (same thing)
What about CRC32. Is that not-illegal enough for you?
Hint: there is a difference between an summary of a work and a hash. That is that the summary is a work in itself thats derived on the original work, while the hash is just a data structure.
You would be surprised how strong on-the-fly compression can be today if its only 8 Mbits.
I once had to _really_ clean 25-30 40MByte HDs when i was in the army. :D)
They had a utility that did a 5 cycle wipe, which took well over 2hours for one HD.
At first i thought it would be a nice waste of a week, but after 2 computers it became SO annoying that i build a "wiping tower" (those things were pizza-box style 386 computers from Siemens, and you can stack them ALL to make a _really_ high computer
Was surprised how HOT the middle ones became. I guess the termal solution of those things didnt consider being sandwiched by fellow ones while doing maximum disk activity (as they were fanless).
and you would be able to sell a computer with this disk in it on a flea market _how_?
Plus you would actually need to open the computer and remove the disk, which can be a few minutes alone with those cheap cases
The audacity of this innovation is just stunning.
Yes, texaco engineers had planned where to drill, and how deep, knowing that there are mines beneath, too.
They fucked up.
On the bright side, nobody was killed or seriously hurt, and its just fucking great story.
I have never in my whole live seen a top-loading washing maschine (neither in someones home nor in a shop), so the problem you rave about seems as logical as somebody getting hysterical about the sky being blue.
Just get over it.
(also, did it ever get into your mind that front loading washing maschines can use gravity to move the cloths while turning, getting the water more often and quicker through the clothing. And as you said, its the water that cleans).
Btw, i heard once on the internet that american washing mashines work with cold water. Any truth to that?
This is one of the most insane things i ever happened to have missed somehow.
I noticed there is a video of the event somewhere....
Anybody got a torrent?
Its quite easy.
Erasing the data would have been work.
Setting it up again to be able to sell it as a "working computer" would have been more work.
Just taking it and selling it as is: minimum work.
Funny fact: in correct (germanic) pronounciation, møøse acutally is a very colloquial (and rude) word for vagina.
Which makes your sentence much more funny.
A bit of a logic primer:
Driving to a shop, spending 30 minutes or so for it, plus paying 20$ for a movie=="spend exorbinent amounts of time and energy" (hint: for most people, money== time and energy,too) to get it.
Opening a bookmark, typing in a name, clicking on a link, finding the movie ready to watch after work== simple and easy.
Maybe if there were an itunes for movies without DRM in retarted proportions (hint, idiots form movie companies: people just rip your dvds and p2p them, so _nobody_ wanting to pirate cares one bit if your stronger compressed (and usually thus worse looking) videos for download are DRMed or not)
and non-idiotic price (half of a dvd at most (and even that only if its drm-free), as the quality is worse, no shelf-space renting needed, no margins for retailers,ect , no need to truck it across the contry,...
the balance would shift.
Just like nVidea currently has a near monopoly in performance AMD chipsets...
oh wait...