Microwaves will work only work on one frequency, which is the frequency that water likes to vibrate at. So it's not like they can change the frequency because then it would do a crappy job of heating the food. I suppose they could be very well sheilded.
My AMD 2000+ Has run SETI@Home all the time it's on since I got it. Lets see... in 10 months thats about 7200 hours. And it's fine.
My AMD K6-III 450 likewise has been running SETI since I got it, close to 5 years ago(?). No problems, the damn thing is still running the original fan too (must be a record!)
If you are going to survey the residents, I suggest you phrase things in English. 95% of the residents probably have no idea what CAT5, IDF, and WIFI are.
I could see using an AMD Athlon processor in a hot glue gun. Not only would it melt the glue like crazy, you could run Linux on it! Now imagine a beowolf cluster of hot glue guns... oh... maybe not then.
You mean you are going to buy the first edition when it comes out? I plan on renting that. I'll buy the special edition.
I'm kind of tired of the re-release game they play with DVDs - though it is nice with Lord of the Rings that they tell you in advance that there is a special edition coming out. But I do expect after the third movie for a super-duper special edition box set we'll all have to have.
They are about the only large company serious about making high-performance gaming computers. No one else offers such a beast (try finding any other name brand computer with anything better than a GeForce MX card, ha!) They are very nice computers, though if you don't mind building it yourself you can usually get a comperable system cheaper, though it may not look as pretty.
Get a Dvorak board. The drivers are builtin to just about every OS, and the economic cost to convert is next to nothing (usually you can pry the keys off your current board and rearrange them in 5 minutes). Of course, learning to type again is a pain in the ass but is well worth it if you ask me.
The question is, why take a really really fast disk drive and use that for a swap file? If you have problems with the swap file being to slow, put in more Ram.
I guess there are the problems with operating with poor swap file management though. The other problem is how much ram you can put in. Now it wouldn't be too hard to bump up against the 4GB limit, but once the 64bit AMD chip comes out, you could in theory install 17 million terabytes of ram, and that should be enough for anybody. *ducks*
I've played both PS2 and PC versions of GTA3 and I must say, I prefer the PC version. The graphics are so much nicer, and cleaner. You see a lot of detail, in the PC version that's simply missing out of the PS2 version, like what many of the signs and billboards say.
Another nice thing about the PC version is the controls. Shooting in the PS2 version was a crapshoot, while using the mouse just seems so natural on the PC. People complain about driving cars on the PC, but I got used to it quick.
One last nice thing about the PC version is the ability to make your own radio station with your own MP3's. The builtins radio stations are funny, but after the 1000th loop around, I prefer my own music.
So I'm not going to buy a PS2, I'm just waiting patiently to see how good the PC port of Vice City is.
I have found very few video glitches in the game at all. About the only problem I have had is with 32bit color, when it gets foggy in the 2nd city it can be a bit choppy. I changed it to 16bit color, and it was gone (and I can't tell the difference between 65k colors and 16M+ anyway). I have a Radeon 8500 by the way.
As for Vice City, I have heard it's a terrible game. I don't have a Playstation so I haven't played it yet.
I'm the same way. If there is a rebate, I won't buy it. Maybe I pay a little more, but on the other hand I don't have to bother with playing their little game of cutting up boxes, making copies, mailing an envelope of proper size and postage, calling up several times to bitch, etc. enc.
If enough people would just not buy things with rebates, the companies will stop doing it. And I think it's getting to the point where people are just getting tired of the rebate game and look elsewhere.
With a 400Mhz processor and 64MB of ram, this little display has quite a bit of power packed in it. Which begs the question, anyone gotten Linux to run on it yet?
Seriously, who tints their monitor? Why would thoy do that? Doing something like that have never even crossed my mind. Is he of the same crowd that puts the super-spoilers on Hondas? Or is he of the same crowd that uses the CD drive to hold his drink? Did he simply not know of the brightness control? Curious minds wish to know.
Seriously, I am getting sick of buying something like a Mp3 player and having to flash it's rom a few times with newer firmware before the damn thing works right. Really, overall flashrom is a good thing, but it sure seems to make some developers lazy when it comes to releasing working products.
Perhaps the idea of phone numbers is outdated, and we need something different. Think like a DNS server for phone numbers, and the phone number as an IP address. You would punch in something like Bob Smith, and the phone company or whatever would look up the number and dial it for you. You could easily change numbers, and people wouldn't even have to know about it. Just like if a web server changes IP addresses, it's not a big deal (usually) - just need a change in the DNS server.
There are other issues, like would people accept it, what to do about the 100,000 Bob Smiths out there, and how could one implement this over the existing network?
The only real practical solution I can see without starting over from scratch would be to have "smart" phones with modems in them, that could talk to the computers in the phone companies. Then if I change my number, the smart phones would all get the new information from the phone companies, and quitely change the speed-dial memories without the user even knowing. But this brings up other problems. Do you really want the phone company to know everyone you have programmed in speed-dial?
It's not just printers, though they are have been cheapened a lot. Computers in general have gotten cheaper. Computers used to be built like tanks with metal, and were held together with screws. Now they are made with cheap plastic and snap-together cases. Keyboards used to last for years, now you are lucky to get a year of use out of one before breaks. Even simple little things like case fans. It's rare to find an old 286 with a dead fan in the power supply, but newer systems the fan seems to croak after 1-2 years.
About the only thing that I have seen any real improvement on is mice. Getting rid of the moving parts really helped, though the buttons tend to fail on optical mice after a while. Never had that happen on a ball mouse, but then again maybe I never used one long enough for the buttons to break.
Many fridges come with a water/ice dispenser on the front. Damn handy too, I wish I had one but I dislike the side-by-side fridges, and generally those are the only models that have them.
I've always wanted to install a cooled water fountain in my house. Now that would be cool.
Why don't they do something like this? They could take a camera (somewhat better than X10 I would think), and they could do an inspection by simply tossing them overboard. It would be cheap, probably higher resolutuon than a spy satellite.
I guess you do have the problem of space junk. I see two solutions, either do it in a lower orbit so the camera will eventually burn up, maybe as the shuttle starts to descend - though I don't know how low they could go before they couldn't abort a landing. Either that, or I suppose they could make a retrievable one - just use the arm to place it outside, the pilot would then do a roll or whatever so the camera can see the underside of the shuttle, then use the arm to retrieve it. Sounds cheap and simple to me. Probably makes too much sense if you ask me.
That's not a perpetual motion machine of the first kind. That's just a motor with a really big fuel supply.
A perpetual motion machine of the first kind is basically a machine that loses almost no energy because it has so little friction, air drag, resistance, etc. Because it loses energy so slowly, it can continue to move for a very long time. But because it's moving doesn't mean you can continously extract energy from it, as any attempt to extract energy will slow it down and eventually stop it. You will never get more energy out than is already "stored" in the machine.
An example is something like a flywheel. Get it spinning, and because a well built flywheel has almost no friction, it will spin for a very long time. But try to extract any energy from it and it will quickly slow down and stop. Same with a simple pendulum.
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Microwaves will work only work on one frequency, which is the frequency that water likes to vibrate at. So it's not like they can change the frequency because then it would do a crappy job of heating the food. I suppose they could be very well sheilded.
My AMD 2000+ Has run SETI@Home all the time it's on since I got it. Lets see... in 10 months thats about 7200 hours. And it's fine.
My AMD K6-III 450 likewise has been running SETI since I got it, close to 5 years ago(?). No problems, the damn thing is still running the original fan too (must be a record!)
If you are going to survey the residents, I suggest you phrase things in English. 95% of the residents probably have no idea what CAT5, IDF, and WIFI are.
On the other hand, it matches the default XP interface perfectly!
I could see using an AMD Athlon processor in a hot glue gun. Not only would it melt the glue like crazy, you could run Linux on it! Now imagine a beowolf cluster of hot glue guns... oh... maybe not then.
Now there's one I'd like to see!
And who said that Super Mario Brothers was a bad movie? That movie is hilarious! I can't stop laughing everytime I see it.
You mean you are going to buy the first edition when it comes out? I plan on renting that. I'll buy the special edition.
I'm kind of tired of the re-release game they play with DVDs - though it is nice with Lord of the Rings that they tell you in advance that there is a special edition coming out. But I do expect after the third movie for a super-duper special edition box set we'll all have to have.
They are about the only large company serious about making high-performance gaming computers. No one else offers such a beast (try finding any other name brand computer with anything better than a GeForce MX card, ha!) They are very nice computers, though if you don't mind building it yourself you can usually get a comperable system cheaper, though it may not look as pretty.
Get a Dvorak board. The drivers are builtin to just about every OS, and the economic cost to convert is next to nothing (usually you can pry the keys off your current board and rearrange them in 5 minutes). Of course, learning to type again is a pain in the ass but is well worth it if you ask me.
The question is, why take a really really fast disk drive and use that for a swap file? If you have problems with the swap file being to slow, put in more Ram.
I guess there are the problems with operating with poor swap file management though. The other problem is how much ram you can put in. Now it wouldn't be too hard to bump up against the 4GB limit, but once the 64bit AMD chip comes out, you could in theory install 17 million terabytes of ram, and that should be enough for anybody. *ducks*
I've played both PS2 and PC versions of GTA3 and I must say, I prefer the PC version. The graphics are so much nicer, and cleaner. You see a lot of detail, in the PC version that's simply missing out of the PS2 version, like what many of the signs and billboards say.
Another nice thing about the PC version is the controls. Shooting in the PS2 version was a crapshoot, while using the mouse just seems so natural on the PC. People complain about driving cars on the PC, but I got used to it quick.
One last nice thing about the PC version is the ability to make your own radio station with your own MP3's. The builtins radio stations are funny, but after the 1000th loop around, I prefer my own music.
So I'm not going to buy a PS2, I'm just waiting patiently to see how good the PC port of Vice City is.
Yeah, but would you want to destroy all those cool vintage cars in GTA3? But picking up a hooker in a Mini would be kind of cool.
I have found very few video glitches in the game at all. About the only problem I have had is with 32bit color, when it gets foggy in the 2nd city it can be a bit choppy. I changed it to 16bit color, and it was gone (and I can't tell the difference between 65k colors and 16M+ anyway). I have a Radeon 8500 by the way.
As for Vice City, I have heard it's a terrible game. I don't have a Playstation so I haven't played it yet.
I'm the same way. If there is a rebate, I won't buy it. Maybe I pay a little more, but on the other hand I don't have to bother with playing their little game of cutting up boxes, making copies, mailing an envelope of proper size and postage, calling up several times to bitch, etc. enc.
If enough people would just not buy things with rebates, the companies will stop doing it. And I think it's getting to the point where people are just getting tired of the rebate game and look elsewhere.
But we all know that DRM is useless, as it will be cracked as soon as it's unleashed.
And if all else fails, take a picture of the phone with another camera-phone-thingy and send it on it's way.
With a 400Mhz processor and 64MB of ram, this little display has quite a bit of power packed in it. Which begs the question, anyone gotten Linux to run on it yet?
Seriously, who tints their monitor? Why would thoy do that? Doing something like that have never even crossed my mind. Is he of the same crowd that puts the super-spoilers on Hondas? Or is he of the same crowd that uses the CD drive to hold his drink? Did he simply not know of the brightness control? Curious minds wish to know.
Seriously, I am getting sick of buying something like a Mp3 player and having to flash it's rom a few times with newer firmware before the damn thing works right. Really, overall flashrom is a good thing, but it sure seems to make some developers lazy when it comes to releasing working products.
Perhaps the idea of phone numbers is outdated, and we need something different. Think like a DNS server for phone numbers, and the phone number as an IP address. You would punch in something like Bob Smith, and the phone company or whatever would look up the number and dial it for you. You could easily change numbers, and people wouldn't even have to know about it. Just like if a web server changes IP addresses, it's not a big deal (usually) - just need a change in the DNS server.
There are other issues, like would people accept it, what to do about the 100,000 Bob Smiths out there, and how could one implement this over the existing network?
The only real practical solution I can see without starting over from scratch would be to have "smart" phones with modems in them, that could talk to the computers in the phone companies. Then if I change my number, the smart phones would all get the new information from the phone companies, and quitely change the speed-dial memories without the user even knowing. But this brings up other problems. Do you really want the phone company to know everyone you have programmed in speed-dial?
It's not just printers, though they are have been cheapened a lot. Computers in general have gotten cheaper. Computers used to be built like tanks with metal, and were held together with screws. Now they are made with cheap plastic and snap-together cases. Keyboards used to last for years, now you are lucky to get a year of use out of one before breaks. Even simple little things like case fans. It's rare to find an old 286 with a dead fan in the power supply, but newer systems the fan seems to croak after 1-2 years.
About the only thing that I have seen any real improvement on is mice. Getting rid of the moving parts really helped, though the buttons tend to fail on optical mice after a while. Never had that happen on a ball mouse, but then again maybe I never used one long enough for the buttons to break.
Many fridges come with a water/ice dispenser on the front. Damn handy too, I wish I had one but I dislike the side-by-side fridges, and generally those are the only models that have them.
I've always wanted to install a cooled water fountain in my house. Now that would be cool.
Yeah, and that poor little Camry withstood a helluva lot of abuse before giving up. They really built those things to last...
Why don't they do something like this? They could take a camera (somewhat better than X10 I would think), and they could do an inspection by simply tossing them overboard. It would be cheap, probably higher resolutuon than a spy satellite.
I guess you do have the problem of space junk. I see two solutions, either do it in a lower orbit so the camera will eventually burn up, maybe as the shuttle starts to descend - though I don't know how low they could go before they couldn't abort a landing. Either that, or I suppose they could make a retrievable one - just use the arm to place it outside, the pilot would then do a roll or whatever so the camera can see the underside of the shuttle, then use the arm to retrieve it. Sounds cheap and simple to me. Probably makes too much sense if you ask me.
That's not a perpetual motion machine of the first kind. That's just a motor with a really big fuel supply.
A perpetual motion machine of the first kind is basically a machine that loses almost no energy because it has so little friction, air drag, resistance, etc. Because it loses energy so slowly, it can continue to move for a very long time. But because it's moving doesn't mean you can continously extract energy from it, as any attempt to extract energy will slow it down and eventually stop it. You will never get more energy out than is already "stored" in the machine.
An example is something like a flywheel. Get it spinning, and because a well built flywheel has almost no friction, it will spin for a very long time. But try to extract any energy from it and it will quickly slow down and stop. Same with a simple pendulum.
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