I don't think anyone suggested it was Ethernet/802.3.
Simply put, any 8 wires with sufficient shielding and an appropriately sized modular connector and proper pinout could replace this $500 cable. Cost? ~20 cents. Here, I found a premade one for you - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable
Although I would be the first to agree that there is a lot of snake-oil around in the so-called "audiophile" market, there is a place for everything. Despite the limitations, I do use compressed files on my iPod, simply because I am aware that when used with street earphones in a high ambient noise environment, the defects are much less noticeable.
So, this guy gets paid at least $174,000 per year plus all those awesome perks and retirement plans that none of us peons could ever get, and he can't do his own homework?!
What does this guy do all day?
Work for a win in the next congressional election.
Are you concerned about the additional overhead related to setting up https connections partially or entirely negating the performance benefits of SPDY in many environments?
Will it be able to, for instance, stream recommended alternative videos or advertisements while the video is paused, for instance? It's not that I want that, but a lot of site owners do.
Sorry, but those site owners can fuck off. If I tell the browser (or component therein) that I want things to stop moving, stop making noise, and stop chewing up CPU cycles and running up my power bill, then I want them to STOP!
Flash is particularly bad in this regard, and this (along with its limited platform availability and general flakiness) is why I'm not a fan of it. When I can get a working, robust flash player that pays attention to *me* more than to the bits coming over the internet, let me know.
Just like I'm welcome to run obtrusive ads, you're welcome to enjoy my content elsewhere. Piracy is something of an equalizer in that regard.
Count me as one of those leery afraid to apply patches because there's never any indication in the update applet about whether they'll force a reboot or not.
So I can ignore useless (for me) "malicious software removal tool" patches and play it safe, or I can apply a patch and hope that I don't have to manually stop the Windows Updates service to prevent an undesired reboot.
Guess which one I pick?
(Posted from a legit win7 licensed box that gets rebooted when storms knock out my power..)
Insightful post, which scared the heck out of me. However, TFA clearly indicates that any browser will do, and you'll be able to read off-line. Unless they're developing a custom plug-in for every browser everywhere that encrypts data on your disk, it's probably just plain old HTML. I suspect you'll be able to simply use file/save to save your book. However, you could be right.
FYI Google Gears would already facilitate all of this, and already works in all the major browsers (and is, of course, built into Chrome).
The right question is who cares when the NSA is spending $2 billion just on the structure for a building (1 million square feet big) to house computers which will do who knows what for signals intelligence. Not to mention another facility in San Antonio being built which will be the size of the Alomodome.
Let's not care about that but nitpick over something ~1% the size and far less destructive to our liberties.
Volume 56, Number 17 November 5, 2009
well, a book review from the future is a good enough source for me..
Would your friend rather that they used real bullets?
I would, yes. There is likely to be a lot more accountability, congressional hearings, and the like when police start mowing down unarmed crowds of protesters.
The families who took the money were on the edge of desperation - looking for any way out.
Say what?
I could have purchased a home in 2003 on an interest-only mortgage with all the other idiots, but I knew that I wouldn't be able to afford the payments once they included the principal.
Was I on the edge of desperation because I was *GASP* forced to keep renting?
Would you make it windows based? Using a mouse while driving is very dangerous, you know...
I know you're trying to be clever, but Windows 7 has the best touchscreen support out-of-the-box for consumer stuff at the moment. Combined with the fact that Windows is the only OS right now with useful navigation software..
So, I have this eeepc. I don't know exactly how much power the screen itself draws, but I can guess, since the machine draws about ten watts with the screen on at full brightness and six with it off -- so let's say four watts, for a 10" screen. This screen's about the same aspect ratio as a widescreen TV, so no monkey business here. It's been optimized to hell to decrease power usage, obviously, but it hasn't affected the cost much -- the whole computer was $300 or so.
Let's say you want a 40" display. Since area goes as linear dimension squared, if everything scales in the naive way this puts us at 32 watts. If anything this is a conservative estimate, since the 40" display will have fewer pixels than sixteen eeepc screens. Of course, you've got to decode the image, and that requires some computing -- probably no more than 10W for that. Let's say eight watts for sound (since the volume will probably be set at 1W or so, and 12% efficiency seems reasonable), and we're still coming in just at 50W.
Somehow I doubt you can get a 40" television that only uses 50W.
And, somehow I doubt your eee is as bright as a typical 40" TV, or has the same viewing angle range. I don't disagree they're wildly inefficient, and IANAEE, but you're comparing apples and oranges.
For what it's worth, I just looked up my TV's consumption (just googled it) - and at regular usage it's 406W.:(
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Sigh. This again...
DenonLink is not ethernet.
I don't think anyone suggested it was Ethernet/802.3.
Simply put, any 8 wires with sufficient shielding and an appropriately sized modular connector and proper pinout could replace this $500 cable. Cost? ~20 cents. Here, I found a premade one for you - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable
This was the most insightful answer possible to my quip, thank you.
I *lived* with someone with aspergers.
I've lived with schizophrenics.
You know about those roommates.com type services right? Methinks you need a new strategy for finding people to share a living space with..
Although I would be the first to agree that there is a lot of snake-oil around in the so-called "audiophile" market, there is a place for everything. Despite the limitations, I do use compressed files on my iPod, simply because I am aware that when used with street earphones in a high ambient noise environment, the defects are much less noticeable.
Snake oil? Nonsense.
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
employs high level tin-bearing alloy shielding not typically available in commercial cabling, to eliminate data loss caused by noise.
I know my cat 5 is losing bits all the time..
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
Also one time I accidentally plugged it in backwards and all my bits _fell out_.
Whether you should hope is hard to determine without pics.
Sometimes simply knowing the gender is enough.
So, this guy gets paid at least $174,000 per year plus all those awesome perks and retirement plans that none of us peons could ever get, and he can't do his own homework?!
What does this guy do all day?
Work for a win in the next congressional election.
Another reason to use SSH keys.
Speaking of which, you didn't notice the client asking you to accept & store the unrecognized hash for known_hosts?
The fine print clearly stated that you will not receive their computer printer/combo/etc. until after you mail off the last payment!
So it's like social security?
Are you concerned about the additional overhead related to setting up https connections partially or entirely negating the performance benefits of SPDY in many environments?
As soon as that is available, I expect flash games to peak within 2-3 years. And then slowly die out.
I remember thinking that while playing miniature golf shockwave games from CremeSavers a decade ago.
Will it be able to, for instance, stream recommended alternative videos or advertisements while the video is paused, for instance? It's not that I want that, but a lot of site owners do.
Sorry, but those site owners can fuck off. If I tell the browser (or component therein) that I want things to stop moving, stop making noise, and stop chewing up CPU cycles and running up my power bill, then I want them to STOP!
Flash is particularly bad in this regard, and this (along with its limited platform availability and general flakiness) is why I'm not a fan of it. When I can get a working, robust flash player that pays attention to *me* more than to the bits coming over the internet, let me know.
Just like I'm welcome to run obtrusive ads, you're welcome to enjoy my content elsewhere. Piracy is something of an equalizer in that regard.
If you want something that "works for everyone" then Flash isn't it.
I'm familiar with the laughable Flash performance on linux.
That said, it's statistically irrelevant.
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/PC.html
For 1 billion of the 1 billion PCs* on the internet, they have modern Flash that works.
*Rounding intentional.
Indian givers.
sorry.
Count me as one of those leery afraid to apply patches because there's never any indication in the update applet about whether they'll force a reboot or not.
So I can ignore useless (for me) "malicious software removal tool" patches and play it safe, or I can apply a patch and hope that I don't have to manually stop the Windows Updates service to prevent an undesired reboot.
Guess which one I pick?
(Posted from a legit win7 licensed box that gets rebooted when storms knock out my power..)
Insightful post, which scared the heck out of me. However, TFA clearly indicates that any browser will do, and you'll be able to read off-line. Unless they're developing a custom plug-in for every browser everywhere that encrypts data on your disk, it's probably just plain old HTML. I suspect you'll be able to simply use file/save to save your book. However, you could be right.
FYI Google Gears would already facilitate all of this, and already works in all the major browsers (and is, of course, built into Chrome).
The right question is who cares when the NSA is spending $2 billion just on the structure for a building (1 million square feet big) to house computers which will do who knows what for signals intelligence. Not to mention another facility in San Antonio being built which will be the size of the Alomodome.
Let's not care about that but nitpick over something ~1% the size and far less destructive to our liberties.
Volume 56, Number 17 November 5, 2009
well, a book review from the future is a good enough source for me..
Is it 1997 again? s/rapidshare/geocities
Hardcopy Playboy. It gets around the web monitoring software.
Which explains why the user doesn't have a free hand to Win+L.
Yes I know I could take less drastic measures, but I have yet to WANT to press the windows key, so fuck it.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
No the club operated just like ACORN
Well that explains a lot about your attitude.
The first time they only used the LRAD. I managed to get an empty canister of the gas once the police left.
Your sink is filthy.
Would your friend rather that they used real bullets?
I would, yes. There is likely to be a lot more accountability, congressional hearings, and the like when police start mowing down unarmed crowds of protesters.
The families who took the money were on the edge of desperation - looking for any way out.
Say what?
I could have purchased a home in 2003 on an interest-only mortgage with all the other idiots, but I knew that I wouldn't be able to afford the payments once they included the principal.
Was I on the edge of desperation because I was *GASP* forced to keep renting?
Would you make it windows based? Using a mouse while driving is very dangerous, you know...
I know you're trying to be clever, but Windows 7 has the best touchscreen support out-of-the-box for consumer stuff at the moment. Combined with the fact that Windows is the only OS right now with useful navigation software..
So, I have this eeepc. I don't know exactly how much power the screen itself draws, but I can guess, since the machine draws about ten watts with the screen on at full brightness and six with it off -- so let's say four watts, for a 10" screen. This screen's about the same aspect ratio as a widescreen TV, so no monkey business here. It's been optimized to hell to decrease power usage, obviously, but it hasn't affected the cost much -- the whole computer was $300 or so.
Let's say you want a 40" display. Since area goes as linear dimension squared, if everything scales in the naive way this puts us at 32 watts. If anything this is a conservative estimate, since the 40" display will have fewer pixels than sixteen eeepc screens. Of course, you've got to decode the image, and that requires some computing -- probably no more than 10W for that. Let's say eight watts for sound (since the volume will probably be set at 1W or so, and 12% efficiency seems reasonable), and we're still coming in just at 50W.
Somehow I doubt you can get a 40" television that only uses 50W.
And, somehow I doubt your eee is as bright as a typical 40" TV, or has the same viewing angle range. I don't disagree they're wildly inefficient, and IANAEE, but you're comparing apples and oranges.
For what it's worth, I just looked up my TV's consumption (just googled it) - and at regular usage it's 406W. :(