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Is there a reason that Mozilla should spend considerable resources making the Linux version of their product faster than the Windows version of their product? I don't really see how it's their problem.
You can pick up a used Xbox for $50 from gamestop.com and put XBMC(the software which Boxee forked from) on it. It's a very nice media center for playing any media shared on your network. The only downside is that the xbox does not have the processing power to decode HD content, and has no input for recording content. To get those things, you probably will have to spend 500-600.
Disclaimer: It may cost you a little more than $50, since in order to hack the xbox to run xbmc, you need a particular game, a memory card, and an adapter that allows your computer to write to the memory card. Luckily for me, a friend of mine already had all those though.
So the once usable land is now covered with water.
Now if you cover the surface of the water with floating solar panels, you get double the land use!
You could even throw some windmill rigs in there between the solar panels. Triple purpose action!
LEDs appear very bright when viewed directly for two reasons:
1) They are nearly a perfect point light source.
2) They light output is typically very directional.
But when you try to illuminate a room with one, you have to spread out this concentrated beam so much that it's not nearly as bright as your first impressions might make you think.
I have noticed this problem with all the floodlight style bulbs that I have tried, but rarely with the bare spiral bulbs. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the enclosed flood lights dissipate heat less effectively than regular ones.
http://1000bulbs.com/ has a huge selection of CFLs in varying power ratings and color temperatures. A couple years ago I replaced all my incandescents with some 13W 5000K bulbs I bought on that site. They come on instantly(ok maybe.5 sec delay) at full brightness. I got 5000K color temp. since it is supposed to be closest to sunlight, though some people may prefer a warmer look. The ones I got are called Longstar IIRC, I'm not sure if the exact same ones are still available.
Performance Race is Shifting Towards Perf. / Watt
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In recent years not only has CPU performance been increased, but the efficiency in terms of power consumption per unit of work has greatly improved.
Even if the majority of users begin realize they have no practical use for top end CPUs with gobs processing power, everyone still benefits from higher efficiency CPUs. It reduces electric bills, simplifies cooling systems, allows for smaller form factors, etc. I think in the future the power efficiency will become more important as people start to care less about having the ultimate killer machine in terms of processing power. People are already performing actions on their mobile devices(iPhone, Blackberry, etc) which were possible only on a desktop in past years. The strict power requirements of these devices with tiny batteries will continue to demand improvements in CPU technology.
I'm waiting for the day when it is common to see completely passively cooled desktop computers, with solid state hard disks, no moving parts, sipping just a few watts of power without emitting a single sound.
I don't know how much bandwidth you were able to get out of yours, but using the Netgear ethernet over powerline device, I only get about 8Mbps as opposed to the *200Mbps* advertised. Though I'm not sure how they can claim to get 200Mbps from a 100Mbit Ethernet port.:-/
I measured the speed of my wireless router and it was still about twice as fast.
Apparently the performance of these varies wildly dependent on you home wiring.
You know how everyone wanted a Linux-based operating system that "just worked" on a wide variety of hardware with drivers for everything? And didn't throw a shit-fit if you moved the hard disk to a completely different machine and tried to boot it up?
That's why Linux takes so long to boot these days. You can have very good hardware compatibility or you can have very good boot speed. You can't have both. (Well, until someone invents persistent RAM.)
BIOS configuration is peristent...
What if a BIOS existed that could learn your hardware configuration, and optimize itself for that configuration. The first time you boot, it would try to detect every possible piece of hardware under the sun to find out what you have. Once it figured that out, it could possibly write to itself to remember those settings. Every subsequent boot would skip all the nonsense and only initialize the hardware you need. If you later need to change your hardware configuration, the BIOS could have an option to run super detect mode again by pressing a key during boot.
I'm not a BIOS programmer, but it at least seems to me that something like this could be technically feasible with today's technology.
Not connected with CES but related is the fact the Chinese government has declared its intention to force all digital phone makers to use a standard USB connector from the charger. That would mean that a single charger would do for all of your devices and would save an immense amount of wastage and frustration.
I never thought I'd say this, but: Three Cheers for the Chinese Government!
I haven't had a chance to use SketchUp yet, but from the screenshot it looks slightly similar to Wings 3d http://www.wings3d.com/
I may be completely off comparing the two, but it's definitely a fun program to play with anyways. Open source and more intuitive than other alternatives such as blender IMHO.
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Booting Linux from drive A ...
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Phew, only 750 more boot disks to go.
Is there a reason that Mozilla should spend considerable resources making the Linux version of their product faster than the Windows version of their product? I don't really see how it's their problem.
In that case it's quite clear what to call it: Anonymium
Not for a "sports car"
That is not already covered by OBD and J2534 standards?
noobs
British "Imperial" gallons are larger than US gallons. ~4.5L vs ~3.8L. So that's actually 63.2 US mpg. Still impressive, though.
No, this is what you need.
Plenty of space for each wart to plug in directly.
Every car actually does this. It's called an alternator.
I think this wiki must be outdated. I have a 1.6 xbox, and I used MechAssault softmod just fine for installing XBMC.
You can pick up a used Xbox for $50 from gamestop.com and put XBMC(the software which Boxee forked from) on it. It's a very nice media center for playing any media shared on your network. The only downside is that the xbox does not have the processing power to decode HD content, and has no input for recording content. To get those things, you probably will have to spend 500-600.
Disclaimer: It may cost you a little more than $50, since in order to hack the xbox to run xbmc, you need a particular game, a memory card, and an adapter that allows your computer to write to the memory card. Luckily for me, a friend of mine already had all those though.
So the once usable land is now covered with water.
Now if you cover the surface of the water with floating solar panels, you get double the land use!
You could even throw some windmill rigs in there between the solar panels. Triple purpose action!
LEDs appear very bright when viewed directly for two reasons:
1) They are nearly a perfect point light source.
2) They light output is typically very directional.
But when you try to illuminate a room with one, you have to spread out this concentrated beam so much that it's not nearly as bright as your first impressions might make you think.
I have noticed this problem with all the floodlight style bulbs that I have tried, but rarely with the bare spiral bulbs. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the enclosed flood lights dissipate heat less effectively than regular ones.
.5 sec delay) at full brightness. I got 5000K color temp. since it is supposed to be closest to sunlight, though some people may prefer a warmer look. The ones I got are called Longstar IIRC, I'm not sure if the exact same ones are still available.
http://1000bulbs.com/ has a huge selection of CFLs in varying power ratings and color temperatures. A couple years ago I replaced all my incandescents with some 13W 5000K bulbs I bought on that site. They come on instantly(ok maybe
In recent years not only has CPU performance been increased, but the efficiency in terms of power consumption per unit of work has greatly improved.
Even if the majority of users begin realize they have no practical use for top end CPUs with gobs processing power, everyone still benefits from higher efficiency CPUs. It reduces electric bills, simplifies cooling systems, allows for smaller form factors, etc. I think in the future the power efficiency will become more important as people start to care less about having the ultimate killer machine in terms of processing power. People are already performing actions on their mobile devices(iPhone, Blackberry, etc) which were possible only on a desktop in past years. The strict power requirements of these devices with tiny batteries will continue to demand improvements in CPU technology.
I'm waiting for the day when it is common to see completely passively cooled desktop computers, with solid state hard disks, no moving parts, sipping just a few watts of power without emitting a single sound.
I don't know how much bandwidth you were able to get out of yours, but using the Netgear ethernet over powerline device, I only get about 8Mbps as opposed to the *200Mbps* advertised. Though I'm not sure how they can claim to get 200Mbps from a 100Mbit Ethernet port. :-/
I measured the speed of my wireless router and it was still about twice as fast.
Apparently the performance of these varies wildly dependent on you home wiring.
BIOS configuration is peristent...
What if a BIOS existed that could learn your hardware configuration, and optimize itself for that configuration. The first time you boot, it would try to detect every possible piece of hardware under the sun to find out what you have. Once it figured that out, it could possibly write to itself to remember those settings. Every subsequent boot would skip all the nonsense and only initialize the hardware you need. If you later need to change your hardware configuration, the BIOS could have an option to run super detect mode again by pressing a key during boot.
I'm not a BIOS programmer, but it at least seems to me that something like this could be technically feasible with today's technology.
If you RTFA, you can see they show the difference in boot time between the exact same build of 9.04, with only the filesystem differing.
The PCI bus is based on a 33MHz clock
I never thought I'd say this, but: Three Cheers for the Chinese Government!
I haven't had a chance to use SketchUp yet, but from the screenshot it looks slightly similar to Wings 3d
http://www.wings3d.com/
I may be completely off comparing the two, but it's definitely a fun program to play with anyways. Open source and more intuitive than other alternatives such as blender IMHO.
If a project is never delivered at all, then no one can say it was delivered late.
It is my belief that the other 5% delivered nothing at all!
Wouldn't want to use it in space though.
Good point, because as we all know: In space, no one can hear you blue-screen.
(electric company pays YOU)
Where do you think you are, Soviet Russia?
Mmm, fried vulcanized mushrooms. Not much different from calamari I would imagine.