Just take a look at the site: The top torrent just now is cracked half-life2. Enough information?
If they were against bittorrent itself, they would sue azareus or other clients. But no, those are perfectly ok because they can be used without downloading copyrighted material. Thus Azareus founders even have a corp called aelitis (iirc) that sells professional data distibution via bittorrent (to e.g. blizzard)
Which absolutly negates ANY defence in the way of "we dont know what people upload, so we cant be made responsible". They check every torrent (because how else would they catch violations of those rules), but are perfectly ok with half-life2 or blade3 on their trackers...
With what lab, prototyping/manufacturing equipment, computers to run simulations, vakuum chambers to do some mbe/sputtering, REMs for analysis of the prototypes, ect? This isnt mathematics, you need more than paper and pencils to create a LCOS...
As this "security improvement" only affects computers in specially prepared rooms, WHY THE FUCK use wireless at all? A nice Cat5 is 10times faster than wifi, and even more tempest-proof than a metal painted room. Not to mention that even to most fancy cable management system will be less work and cost than painting all walls+ceiling (and what about the floor if you arent in the basement?)...
well, i agree that tom isnt very hot regarding reviews (anand is better, for special stuff of course storagereview or beyond3d rule), but i wouldnt say dan is a reviewer. He just takes every shit he gets for free and tells something about it, which is either "its cool" or "it sucks", only with more words. Every 2nd article is eiter a beggin for money (he actually posts news items "please send me money via paypal") or a blatant product placement ("click here to get those GREAT photon lights for so much cheaper"). He is nice to read because he CAN write (not like anand, where every 2nd review is 90%graphs, 10% text), so i read every article by him, but i wouldnt trust him for any purchase.
You are a bit misstaken. In fact, the gap between host cpus and printer cpus has never been wider. Back in 486 days, those printers had i960 or other cpus inside who could do some tasks faster than the host cpus. Those got faster and faster while the dedicated rasterization engines of printers crawled forward. If you buy a 2-3000$ laser printer, what do you get? At most a 300Mhz PowerPc 603 or something like that that isnt 1/10th as fast as any 500$ budget pc. The only reason PCL printers are often slower than PS native printers is the amount of data generated while rastering high res pages that have to squeeze over usb...
Of course, there are tons of PRACTIAL advantages, but not really technical ones.
You forget the proportions: The shuttles are in a low altitude orbit. A few 100km height is neglectable compared to the diameter of the earth. Its like 2cm above the surface of a soccerball. If anything is THAT close, you would need to change its direction by 90degrees... which is way harder than just change it by a few arcseconds a month ahead...
Simple reason: the 2029 data isnt listed anymore under "possible collisions" because its ruled out completely. If the hit percentage is zero, you dont have to list the date...
Because its a death-trap in the long run? It was designed to reach the x-price. Ist just reached the height, it did the 2 runs. Plus it had a real nasty spin in one that didnt remotely look funny or planned. Somewhere else, back after the second flight there was talk about needed improvements to counter such behaviour, which would be implemented in a successor. Think about it: that thing may have 95%, or lets say 99% success rate. That would be a good value for a cutting ende test-design. 2 tries without problems are very likely->xprice won. But every further try increases the "big bang" factor of a failure, negating ALL positive press, destroying the market for commercial manned space flight at least for the next decade and generally messing things up. So they rather create the new&improved spaceship2...
I generally agree with you, but 3 years ago (late 2001) a standart pc was a athlon 1.2, 256MB pc133 ram and a 60GB hd. Time flys by faster than you think...
For large backlights, fluorescent backlights are stil more efficent than LED backlights. Factor 2-3 or so. LEDs are catching up, but are still behind. OTOH, on very small displays, where very small comapct fluorescent tubes with much lower effiency have to be used, LEDs should have reached breakeven already.
And btw: the new high flux LEDs used for backlights are NOT long lived. luxons 5W emiteers have a half-intensity time of less than 5k hours. Plus LEDS-backlights are MUCH more expensive. a big screen needs 50-60 high flux leds, so wer are speaking of about 200-300$ even with mass discount.
so currently, leds are less efficient and more expensive. This will change in future, but it makes not really sense to use especially while leds as backlights.
No need for "" around the scandal: Its an app than is supposed to index all private information on a local pc (Email/documents/ect). It has to to be usefull. I dont want such a critical program auto-updating without even giving the user a notice that he isnt running the same software version anymore. Alone the fact that a new version can be downloaded and automatically executed SCREAMS security issue. One spoof/hack and we have a ton of google desktop zombies waiting for commands....
IT does work. I dont know in what extend the "did i get data from peer" factor influences propability to get an upload slot, but i have seen several time (meaning more than statistically insignificant), that after loosing upload limit the download increased significantly (factor 2 or more)
Too bad you need a lot of volts to drive a lot of ampts through someones body, so you cant seperate them like that. (just checked with my multimeter: my slightly sweaty hands have >5kohm from left hand to right hand even if i hold the contacts really tight. So 5V would give a milliamp, no matter if the source could deliver 50A...
oxygen was after the i740, iirc, which used agp texturing, too. And oxygen was slow as hell even with textures in local memory. You needed 2 or 4 to be competitive...
killing somebody is so simply, too. You dont need complicated guns, your fists and feet do it, too. So dont you see how stupid it is to ban killing people?
You live back in the 80s... Modern cpus draw 40-50W while idle alone... especially of they are from intel. Total system draw is 100-200W under load. My nice LCD used 30W. Yeah, spinning up once per day (the madness!!! OMFG how could you) may decrease you hd life a few %. Either way, chances are it will never fail, chances are it will fail tomorrow, so always running wont safe you from making backups. So yeah, in 5 years when your hd is worth crap you might have a little more runtime on your HD while you burned a few 1000 kWh to get there. Nice running, ace...
And of course its just TOO nice that the civil disobedience also provides music, movies, games, ect. without ever paying for them. Its really tough to be a dissident in digital times...
At times during the bubble, for every used fibre there were 100 dark ones. The material of the fibre isnt the cost factor, its the electronics driving them. So its easy to just dump a whole bunch instead a single one into the ground and buy the trancievers years later...
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Just take a look at the site:
The top torrent just now is cracked half-life2. Enough information?
If they were against bittorrent itself, they would sue azareus or other clients. But no, those are perfectly ok because they can be used without downloading copyrighted material. Thus Azareus founders even have a corp called aelitis (iirc) that sells professional data distibution via bittorrent (to e.g. blizzard)
Which absolutly negates ANY defence in the way of "we dont know what people upload, so we cant be made responsible". They check every torrent (because how else would they catch violations of those rules), but are perfectly ok with half-life2 or blade3 on their trackers...
With what lab, prototyping/manufacturing equipment, computers to run simulations, vakuum chambers to do some mbe/sputtering, REMs for analysis of the prototypes, ect?
This isnt mathematics, you need more than paper and pencils to create a LCOS...
As this "security improvement" only affects computers in specially prepared rooms, WHY THE FUCK use wireless at all? A nice Cat5 is 10times faster than wifi, and even more tempest-proof than a metal painted room.
Not to mention that even to most fancy cable management system will be less work and cost than painting all walls+ceiling (and what about the floor if you arent in the basement?)...
well, i agree that tom isnt very hot regarding reviews (anand is better, for special stuff of course storagereview or beyond3d rule), but i wouldnt say dan is a reviewer.
He just takes every shit he gets for free and tells something about it, which is either "its cool" or "it sucks", only with more words.
Every 2nd article is eiter a beggin for money (he actually posts news items "please send me money via paypal") or a blatant product placement ("click here to get those GREAT photon lights for so much cheaper").
He is nice to read because he CAN write (not like anand, where every 2nd review is 90%graphs, 10% text), so i read every article by him, but i wouldnt trust him for any purchase.
You are a bit misstaken.
In fact, the gap between host cpus and printer cpus has never been wider.
Back in 486 days, those printers had i960 or other cpus inside who could do some tasks faster than the host cpus.
Those got faster and faster while the dedicated rasterization engines of printers crawled forward. If you buy a 2-3000$ laser printer, what do you get? At most a 300Mhz PowerPc 603 or something like that that isnt 1/10th as fast as any 500$ budget pc.
The only reason PCL printers are often slower than PS native printers is the amount of data generated while rastering high res pages that have to squeeze over usb...
Of course, there are tons of PRACTIAL advantages, but not really technical ones.
You forget the proportions: The shuttles are in a low altitude orbit. A few 100km height is neglectable compared to the diameter of the earth. Its like 2cm above the surface of a soccerball. If anything is THAT close, you would need to change its direction by 90degrees... which is way harder than just change it by a few arcseconds a month ahead...
Simple reason: the 2029 data isnt listed anymore under "possible collisions" because its ruled out completely. If the hit percentage is zero, you dont have to list the date...
Because its a death-trap in the long run?
It was designed to reach the x-price. Ist just reached the height, it did the 2 runs. Plus it had a real nasty spin in one that didnt remotely look funny or planned.
Somewhere else, back after the second flight there was talk about needed improvements to counter such behaviour, which would be implemented in a successor.
Think about it: that thing may have 95%, or lets say 99% success rate. That would be a good value for a cutting ende test-design. 2 tries without problems are very likely->xprice won.
But every further try increases the "big bang" factor of a failure, negating ALL positive press, destroying the market for commercial manned space flight at least for the next decade and generally messing things up.
So they rather create the new&improved spaceship2...
no, the real tragedy is that the greatparent is moderated informativ....
Dont forget to retune them bimonthly. Imagine the demand for NMR-scanners :)
WTF?
Your joking, right?
A C3 1GHz with 512MB/200GB is like a ferrari with a 500W electro motor, plus a athlon today not standart? its already OUTDATED....
I generally agree with you, but 3 years ago (late 2001) a standart pc was a athlon 1.2, 256MB pc133 ram and a 60GB hd.
Time flys by faster than you think...
For large backlights, fluorescent backlights are stil more efficent than LED backlights. Factor 2-3 or so.
LEDs are catching up, but are still behind. OTOH, on very small displays, where very small comapct fluorescent tubes with much lower effiency have to be used, LEDs should have reached breakeven already.
And btw: the new high flux LEDs used for backlights are NOT long lived. luxons 5W emiteers have a half-intensity time of less than 5k hours.
Plus LEDS-backlights are MUCH more expensive. a big screen needs 50-60 high flux leds, so wer are speaking of about 200-300$ even with mass discount.
so currently, leds are less efficient and more expensive. This will change in future, but it makes not really sense to use especially while leds as backlights.
No need for "" around the scandal: Its an app than is supposed to index all private information on a local pc (Email/documents/ect). It has to to be usefull.
I dont want such a critical program auto-updating without even giving the user a notice that he isnt running the same software version anymore.
Alone the fact that a new version can be downloaded and automatically executed SCREAMS security issue. One spoof/hack and we have a ton of google desktop zombies waiting for commands....
Yeahm nobody would have thought that you spoke out of experience, it was clear you never had a tft and only spoke out of your ass, mr ac
IT does work.
I dont know in what extend the "did i get data from peer" factor influences propability to get an upload slot, but i have seen several time (meaning more than statistically insignificant), that after loosing upload limit the download increased significantly (factor 2 or more)
Too bad you need a lot of volts to drive a lot of ampts through someones body, so you cant seperate them like that.
(just checked with my multimeter: my slightly sweaty hands have >5kohm from left hand to right hand even if i hold the contacts really tight. So 5V would give a milliamp, no matter if the source could deliver 50A...
oxygen was after the i740, iirc, which used agp texturing, too.
And oxygen was slow as hell even with textures in local memory. You needed 2 or 4 to be competitive...
killing somebody is so simply, too. You dont need complicated guns, your fists and feet do it, too. So dont you see how stupid it is to ban killing people?
You live back in the 80s...
Modern cpus draw 40-50W while idle alone... especially of they are from intel. Total system draw is 100-200W under load. My nice LCD used 30W.
Yeah, spinning up once per day (the madness!!! OMFG how could you) may decrease you hd life a few %. Either way, chances are it will never fail, chances are it will fail tomorrow, so always running wont safe you from making backups. So yeah, in 5 years when your hd is worth crap you might have a little more runtime on your HD while you burned a few 1000 kWh to get there. Nice running, ace...
Finally some information between all those " i cannot get my warez fix anymore" whining.
And of course its just TOO nice that the civil disobedience also provides music, movies, games, ect. without ever paying for them.
Its really tough to be a dissident in digital times...
Yeah, i agree.
If bug-finding were so easy that 5 guys could just check 5 million lines of code, we wouldnt suffer from buggy software.
At times during the bubble, for every used fibre there were 100 dark ones.
The material of the fibre isnt the cost factor, its the electronics driving them. So its easy to just dump a whole bunch instead a single one into the ground and buy the trancievers years later...