They claim an MTBF in the ballpark of 50 years, but that's just a number pulled out of their rectal cavity.
If you take a large number of drives and perform scientifically valid MTBF failures, you would certainly come up with a number less than half of that, and perhaps as low as 10% of that.
I think you're a little confused here. This is Microsoft, not Apple. It's the Surface, not a giant iphone. Visual Studio might cost something (and there are, BTW, free versions of VS), but there's absolutely no licensing you need in order to develop for Windows (of the NT or Mobile kind). Get gcc, your favorite IDE, or just a HEX editor and start writing whatever you want.
I'm not familiar with Xbox 360 development but I'm pretty sure the conditions aren't any worse than for the other consoles, and quite likely noticeably better judging by the large collection of small independently made games available for download.
Civ4 is easily moddable so there's probably no need to rely or Firaxis to do anything.
I haven't heard about RFID in tires but even if that's the case, you can always remove or disable them. Doing the same with TPMS will, at best, result in your car constantly bitching about flat/missing tires. Or maybe even violating some new nanny-state law.
Doing any other kind of tracking requires a lot more effort tham putting a primitive scanner under a manhole cover or something.
First of all, you can make as good an argument that telecoms aren't natural monopolies (bonus non-wikipedia article). Also, I don't see how you can go from "monopolies are to be regulated" to "telecoms should be government owned". But anyway...
Here's my practical example with a state owned telecom. We've had a government owned telecom here in the Czech Republic up until late 2005, IIRC. It was known as the "yellow pigs" (for the color of their logo, nothing racist, ok;) ). It sucked balls. Huge, hairy, sweaty donkey balls. How about ~$100 a month for as many hours of dialup? Or not even offering DSL while it was already available everywhere else? All while the mostly unregulated cable companies were offering reasonably priced and fast connections. When DSL was finaly made available, it was, of course, half the speed of cable at twice the price, not to mention an unkown portion of my income.
Things have improved very slowly, but they're actually competitive now that the whole operation is owned by Telefonica o2. The dominant cable comapny is offering 6M/512K for around 30 bucks, and O2 has a similar offer. 8M is available too, although it's obviously more expensive.
Retaining current customers is, indeed, in most cases cheaper than gainng new ones, but that doesn't necesserily justify blowing billions on infrastructure just so that grandma can forward lolcats faster.
Basically, why not bundle (OMG) ponies for free with each broadband subscription too? Sounds great to me!
I don't know what to think of the news here as I've just started reading Quicksilver. It's been a slow start so far, but it wasn't unpleasant so I'll continue as long as my trust in Neal is strong. What I do question though is my ability to read the 3000 pages or so of the Baroque Cycle while also making progress on Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich (which for me appears to progress in real time) before Anathem is out. Oh well, I really enjoyed Cryptonomicon so I'll probably make it through Quicksliver too.
I think the main issue here is that Asus shifted its target market with the more expensive EEE. With the 7" low-end models, the EEE was the cheapest laptop, so if you had only $250 to spend, it was the only (new) option. The small size was just a bonus*. However, once the price approaches $500 or so, it has to compete with all the cheapo 14" laptops*. Whether one choses smaller size over performance and features depends, of course, on individual needs.
*- at least for some people who are looking for just a laptop, not specifically an ultraportable.
Works fine (well, not exactly) in the Czech Republic.
I had the episode download automatically with RSS/bittorrent, but I checked the site anyway and was pleasantly surprised. There wasn't any Buffering... going on, and the video quality was actually better than the 0TV rip which looks rather shitty on my 22" monitor. Strangely though, I can't hear any sound, which is kind of a deal breaker:). Also, fullscreen doesn't maximize the video on the whole screen as does youtube, but only within the browser window.
If that's fixed, I'll give it a try with the next episode and probably keep using it if the ads aren't too annoying.
I recently put together a new PC with the Q6600. I had to RMA the motherboard so when I removed the stock heatsink, just as you say, the thermal compound wasn't covering the whole area. I reaplied some of my own, and put everything back together. This got rid of the large variation of core temperatures (used to be up to 6-7 degrees) and also lowered the overall temp. Now after a long run of 100% utilization it gets up to around 67-69C. Not exatly super cool, but safe.
Anyway... if anyone is looking for a replacement, I'd suggest doing some research first as some impressive looking solutions end up being barely, if at all, better than the stock cooler or are more trouble than it's worth. There's a two part review at tomshardware, for instance.
Here's one available for purchase right now. You can read more about the concept on this collaborative electronic encyclopedia page. I heard flying busses are also available.
Smooth plastic roads aside, these wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the stinkin' cops. You could easily do 150 in a proper BMW, and even 250 isn't unachievable. The 14 year old McLaren F1 was getting very close and the Bugatti Veyron actually exceeds that prediction.
Cheap knockoff fire (not of that kind) in your pants. Obviously, this would never happen with an official 100% Apple certified iProduct, no fucking way.
>won't they eventually start running low on personnel?
Sure, but then they'll just start strapping the explosives to random retarded/crazy people. If one RTFA, it appears that the women didn't actually have Down syndrome as originally claimed, but were possibly schizophrenic instead. Convincing these folks should be quite a bit easier than selling the 72 virgins story.
>What is an option for computers without the pcmcia slots as far as mobile broadband. I have an iBook....it has no slot.
Maybe you'll pay more attention the next time people tell you to get a proper laptop;-)
To answer your question though, you should be able get a 3G/HSDPA connection with most modern smartphones/communicators (which are not iphones, that is), and then connect that to your laptop through USB or Bluetooth. Your laptop has those, right?
I was going to recommend something like this basically.
If you drop the DVD-R requirement, any PDA or smartphone should do the trick, really. I recently got an HTC S730. The slide-out keyboard is actually pretty good for emails and notes, but I could imagine it'd get old pretty fast if your writing style approaches Neal Stephenson's levels of verbosity. As the parent suggests, this could solved with a bluetooth keyboard, although I'm yet to try that. Unlike the Nokia tablet however, this thing not only is a functional GSM phone, but also looks like one too. This means less attention to yourself since phones are much more common in 3rd world countries than shiny gadgets with huge touchscreens.
Still, if I were doing something like that, I'd probably also consider something more powerful. Like maybe a TyTN II, or better yet, something with a VGA screen. It's quite a bit more expensive than an S730, but also much more capable due to the tilting* touchscreen. I still have my old Asus A600 PDA, and there are things at which it's still much better than the S730. You could write your rants in a full office environment with something like SoftMaker Office, resize and edit the photos from your camera in PocketArtist before uploading them, etc.
I hope this doesn't sound like an ad, I've actually happily used all this stuff (except for the TyTN), and while I'm not sure if this would be my final choice for a trip like that, I'd certainly think about this solution.
PS. Looking at the HTC product listing, they also have some sort of weird laptop/tablet/PDA hybrid thingie called Shift which seems pretty small and light (7", 800g).
*The tilt feature could be useful if you put the device on the table while typing on the BT keyboard.
Does anyone else think that Answer #2 conflicts with Answer #3? Did he just not answer the guy's direct question? (i.e. "what are you going to do to protect me from being arrested?")
First of all, both of those questions were pretty stupid. What do you want him to say to #2, that Americans can't handle the truth? As for the other one, I think it's pretty clear and specific. He's not going to protect stoners in any way other than making drugs a state issue. Whether he thinks the "dirty hippies" belong in jail or not is irrelevant.
I'm not a crazy RP supporter, so I'll admit that the copyright answer is pretty weak.
> So does that mean only 5 percent of their customers are making good use of what they paid for?
No, it means that the grandma who uses her connection to look at photos of grandkids is subsidising the user who leaves bittorent sharing warez^WLinux ISOs 24/7.
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Where did you pull these numbers from?
>Exorbitant license fees or no surface for you!
I think you're a little confused here. This is Microsoft, not Apple. It's the Surface, not a giant iphone. Visual Studio might cost something (and there are, BTW, free versions of VS), but there's absolutely no licensing you need in order to develop for Windows (of the NT or Mobile kind). Get gcc, your favorite IDE, or just a HEX editor and start writing whatever you want.
I'm not familiar with Xbox 360 development but I'm pretty sure the conditions aren't any worse than for the other consoles, and quite likely noticeably better judging by the large collection of small independently made games available for download.
Civ4 is easily moddable so there's probably no need to rely or Firaxis to do anything.
> I did a little bit of research and found out which company owns Dunkin Donuts. The latter was pretty much the nail in the coffin ...
What's so bad about Dunkin' Brands that you can't have a donut & coffee?
I haven't heard about RFID in tires but even if that's the case, you can always remove or disable them. Doing the same with TPMS will, at best, result in your car constantly bitching about flat/missing tires. Or maybe even violating some new nanny-state law.
Doing any other kind of tracking requires a lot more effort tham putting a primitive scanner under a manhole cover or something.
First of all, you can make as good an argument that telecoms aren't natural monopolies (bonus non-wikipedia article). Also, I don't see how you can go from "monopolies are to be regulated" to "telecoms should be government owned". But anyway...
;) ). It sucked balls. Huge, hairy, sweaty donkey balls. How about ~$100 a month for as many hours of dialup? Or not even offering DSL while it was already available everywhere else? All while the mostly unregulated cable companies were offering reasonably priced and fast connections. When DSL was finaly made available, it was, of course, half the speed of cable at twice the price, not to mention an unkown portion of my income.
Here's my practical example with a state owned telecom. We've had a government owned telecom here in the Czech Republic up until late 2005, IIRC. It was known as the "yellow pigs" (for the color of their logo, nothing racist, ok
Things have improved very slowly, but they're actually competitive now that the whole operation is owned by Telefonica o2. The dominant cable comapny is offering 6M/512K for around 30 bucks, and O2 has a similar offer. 8M is available too, although it's obviously more expensive.
Retaining current customers is, indeed, in most cases cheaper than gainng new ones, but that doesn't necesserily justify blowing billions on infrastructure just so that grandma can forward lolcats faster.
Basically, why not bundle (OMG) ponies for free with each broadband subscription too? Sounds great to me!
I don't know what to think of the news here as I've just started reading Quicksilver. It's been a slow start so far, but it wasn't unpleasant so I'll continue as long as my trust in Neal is strong. What I do question though is my ability to read the 3000 pages or so of the Baroque Cycle while also making progress on Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich (which for me appears to progress in real time) before Anathem is out. Oh well, I really enjoyed Cryptonomicon so I'll probably make it through Quicksliver too.
I think the main issue here is that Asus shifted its target market with the more expensive EEE. With the 7" low-end models, the EEE was the cheapest laptop, so if you had only $250 to spend, it was the only (new) option. The small size was just a bonus*. However, once the price approaches $500 or so, it has to compete with all the cheapo 14" laptops*. Whether one choses smaller size over performance and features depends, of course, on individual needs.
*- at least for some people who are looking for just a laptop, not specifically an ultraportable.
Works fine (well, not exactly) in the Czech Republic.
:). Also, fullscreen doesn't maximize the video on the whole screen as does youtube, but only within the browser window.
I had the episode download automatically with RSS/bittorrent, but I checked the site anyway and was pleasantly surprised. There wasn't any Buffering... going on, and the video quality was actually better than the 0TV rip which looks rather shitty on my 22" monitor. Strangely though, I can't hear any sound, which is kind of a deal breaker
If that's fixed, I'll give it a try with the next episode and probably keep using it if the ads aren't too annoying.
I recently put together a new PC with the Q6600. I had to RMA the motherboard so when I removed the stock heatsink, just as you say, the thermal compound wasn't covering the whole area. I reaplied some of my own, and put everything back together. This got rid of the large variation of core temperatures (used to be up to 6-7 degrees) and also lowered the overall temp. Now after a long run of 100% utilization it gets up to around 67-69C. Not exatly super cool, but safe.
Anyway... if anyone is looking for a replacement, I'd suggest doing some research first as some impressive looking solutions end up being barely, if at all, better than the stock cooler or are more trouble than it's worth. There's a two part review at tomshardware, for instance.
The truck balls.
Here's one available for purchase right now. You can read more about the concept on this collaborative electronic encyclopedia page. I heard flying busses are also available.
Smooth plastic roads aside, these wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the stinkin' cops. You could easily do 150 in a proper BMW, and even 250 isn't unachievable. The 14 year old McLaren F1 was getting very close and the Bugatti Veyron actually exceeds that prediction.
> Watch as movie theater revenues plummit and game sales sky rocket.
You mean, like this?
> Next step left as exercise for the student.
Cheap knockoff fire (not of that kind) in your pants. Obviously, this would never happen with an official 100% Apple certified iProduct, no fucking way.
>won't they eventually start running low on personnel?
Sure, but then they'll just start strapping the explosives to random retarded/crazy people. If one RTFA, it appears that the women didn't actually have Down syndrome as originally claimed, but were possibly schizophrenic instead. Convincing these folks should be quite a bit easier than selling the 72 virgins story.
This keyboard sounds like a good idea when you're faced with trying to memorize this (nice pdf, lame html list).
Well that, and, as others already mentioned, unfamiliar apps with thousands of keyboard shortcuts.
>What is an option for computers without the pcmcia slots as far as mobile broadband. I have an iBook....it has no slot.
;-)
Maybe you'll pay more attention the next time people tell you to get a proper laptop
To answer your question though, you should be able get a 3G/HSDPA connection with most modern smartphones/communicators (which are not iphones, that is), and then connect that to your laptop through USB or Bluetooth. Your laptop has those, right?
I was going to recommend something like this basically.
If you drop the DVD-R requirement, any PDA or smartphone should do the trick, really. I recently got an HTC S730. The slide-out keyboard is actually pretty good for emails and notes, but I could imagine it'd get old pretty fast if your writing style approaches Neal Stephenson's levels of verbosity. As the parent suggests, this could solved with a bluetooth keyboard, although I'm yet to try that. Unlike the Nokia tablet however, this thing not only is a functional GSM phone, but also looks like one too. This means less attention to yourself since phones are much more common in 3rd world countries than shiny gadgets with huge touchscreens.
Still, if I were doing something like that, I'd probably also consider something more powerful. Like maybe a TyTN II, or better yet, something with a VGA screen. It's quite a bit more expensive than an S730, but also much more capable due to the tilting* touchscreen. I still have my old Asus A600 PDA, and there are things at which it's still much better than the S730. You could write your rants in a full office environment with something like SoftMaker Office, resize and edit the photos from your camera in PocketArtist before uploading them, etc.
I hope this doesn't sound like an ad, I've actually happily used all this stuff (except for the TyTN), and while I'm not sure if this would be my final choice for a trip like that, I'd certainly think about this solution.
PS. Looking at the HTC product listing, they also have some sort of weird laptop/tablet/PDA hybrid thingie called Shift which seems pretty small and light (7", 800g).
*The tilt feature could be useful if you put the device on the table while typing on the BT keyboard.
Sure, but Toughbooks, unlike pretty much all other laptops, are monkey-approved. I'd like to see your puny Eee match that.
> I'm a free person.
Ha, that's just what they want you to think!
First of all, both of those questions were pretty stupid. What do you want him to say to #2, that Americans can't handle the truth? As for the other one, I think it's pretty clear and specific. He's not going to protect stoners in any way other than making drugs a state issue. Whether he thinks the "dirty hippies" belong in jail or not is irrelevant.
I'm not a crazy RP supporter, so I'll admit that the copyright answer is pretty weak.
> So does that mean only 5 percent of their customers are making good use of what they paid for?
No, it means that the grandma who uses her connection to look at photos of grandkids is subsidising the user who leaves bittorent sharing warez^WLinux ISOs 24/7.
>So you're getting all excited about a statistical tie, when we're spending $6700 per head and they're spending $251?
Yeah, I'd be getting pretty excited too. The Cubans eat shoots and leaves, while the Americans get this. Seems like a bargain.