My laptop's PSU is rated 2.7 A at 18.5 Volts, and that must be with a good safety margin. Then agian, it's an almost six-year-old, 600Mhz P!!!-M machine, with 3D Rage Pro for video and an 11" screen.
Mordern laptops, judging by the replacement PSUs available, seem to fall between 65-100W, although one Acer unit is rated at 135W.
> Nothing makes me happier than an old atm with a limited feature set...You know it's not running windows in the background, you know it doesn't have code interpretation vulnerabilities...It's simple, clean, and elegant.
Depending on your exact meaning of "old", you might be very, very wrong. Many ATMs do, in fact, run Windows.
Or you could just use Server 2003, no hacks needed there -- several users can connect at any time without any problems. Of course some applicatios are launched seperatly for each user, but for lightweight apps like web browsers, office and email it shouldn't be a problem. Oh wait, the submitter said he wanted to run OpenOffice...
Anyway, this is how it can work with thin clients. I don't know if it's possible to get several separate mouse cursors in one client session, never tried that.
> Offshoring is a particular type of outsourcing. It doesn't particularly matter to the employee whether the job goes to China, or the firm across the street - it's still not going to them.
Fine, but I doubt the poster meant just any kind of outsourcing. Because I'd guess that plumbers end up on the receiving end of outsourcing more often than not. Not many companies have a plumbing department.
Also, the difference is that outsourcing can easily go the other way around. Your company may decide to get the firm across the street to do your job, but just as easily somebody can hire your company to do part of their job. You might have a point that there is less job security in the "one company, 45 years, doing exactly the same thing" sense, but it's not like they disappear into the black hole that is China.
> You're not going to ship your house to India to get its pipes refitted.
I had the impression that at this point he was still replying to the original post which was about car manufacturing, but obviously some service jobs are very hard to move around.
> the 4.0 student [...] is in no danger of outsourcing
First of all, you probably mean offshoring. Outsourcing is when you pay an accountant to do the taxes for you. And are honestly suggesting that manufacturing jobs can't be moved to another country? Because I clearly remember everybody bitching about exactly these jobs being moved to _____* a while ago.
Finally, if you hate your current job so much, why don't you train to be a plumber now? It doesn't take four years and 100k of debt, you know.
I don't remember seeing any numbers, but if that's the case... well I'm not impressed at all. The Wii would have to be a real piece of shit not to outsell its competitors if you considerer just how much cheaper it is.
It it just one bad quarter thought? It should be clear to slashdotters that AMD's in deep shit now (no serious advances in processors, total lack of new graphics cards), but IIRC AMD posted a ~$550 billion loss in Q4 2006, so this isn't "just this one quarter".
>> net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion > So essentially, they needed 50% more revenue to break even.
As you said yourself, these numbers can misleading, partly because of large non-recurring costs, like new fabs. But it is also possible that the variable costs (costs from all additional units of production) are very high, meaning that if they increase the production by 50% to increase the revenues by 50%, they would also significantly increase the costs, say by 40%, keeping their profits deep down in parentheses:)
Fair enough, I'm not disagreeing with your statement. However, I was also in no way implying that every single (or even just a significant % of) poorly parented child will go postal (or is it "to go Cho" now?) sooner or later, but merely that there is a stronger link between bad behavior and bad parenting than video games and bad behavior. Therefore, it makes more sense to blame parenting for the children's behavior, and not games.
Again, I'm not saying that's necessarily the case with Cho. But even if it was not a problem on their part and he developed his crazy by himself, they could've seen the serious problems their son was having and do something about it. That's speculation, of course, I'm not trying to solve this case from opposite side of the planet. It's possible the parents last saw him 10 years ago when he was perfectly normal.
Holy shit, I just now noticed that this article has its own poll, how awesome is that!
My first reaction was "WTF did the relatively recent end-of-civ poll go" and then when I voted it showed this article's comment under the poll results, which was another WTF moment. When was this feature added/first used? I can already see great use for the article polls, for example the editors could try to guess the popular tags and use them for poll items.
This shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who's tried listening to audio output from a typical laptop. You can hear everything, including processor load, disk access, mouse or window movements (the sound noticeably changes depending on the cursor, hovering over a text area sounds differently than over the desktop or window resize areas) and typing. I'm sure some of that audio noise also escapes as electromagnetic emission which, can be picked up with appropriate equipment.
I'm not an expert on Van Eck phreaking, so it's possible that the previously used methods were incapable of detecting this for whatever reason, but the presence of these emissions and the possibility of spying shouldn't be surprising.
This reminds me of the scheduled tinfoil supplies delivery I need to take care of...
> And I suppose bad parents aren't an easy target or equally as often used as a scapegoat?
Well, unlike video games, there's (credible) evidence supporting the idea that bad parenting is at least partly responsible for "Antisocial behavior and conduct disorders". Signing up parents for 12-week training course resulted in their children behaving better than the control.
>> And lets not forget that you can't fire the AK47 from prone position cause the mag is too long > You could try firing it gangsta style
Well first of all, you can fire the AK47 from the prone position. I think this guy clearly proves it. But, if for some reason this is impossible, you can indeed use the gangsta "Glock Foh-Tay" style.
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Hookers and blackjack! This prince guy must have one shiny ass.
My laptop's PSU is rated 2.7 A at 18.5 Volts, and that must be with a good safety margin. Then agian, it's an almost six-year-old, 600Mhz P!!!-M machine, with 3D Rage Pro for video and an 11" screen.
Mordern laptops, judging by the replacement PSUs available, seem to fall between 65-100W, although one Acer unit is rated at 135W.
> Nothing makes me happier than an old atm with a limited feature set...You know it's not running windows in the background, you know it doesn't have code interpretation vulnerabilities...It's simple, clean, and elegant.
Depending on your exact meaning of "old", you might be very, very wrong. Many ATMs do, in fact, run Windows.
Or you could just use Server 2003, no hacks needed there -- several users can connect at any time without any problems. Of course some applicatios are launched seperatly for each user, but for lightweight apps like web browsers, office and email it shouldn't be a problem. Oh wait, the submitter said he wanted to run OpenOffice...
Anyway, this is how it can work with thin clients. I don't know if it's possible to get several separate mouse cursors in one client session, never tried that.
> Offshoring is a particular type of outsourcing. It doesn't particularly matter to the employee whether the job goes to China, or the firm across the street - it's still not going to them.
Fine, but I doubt the poster meant just any kind of outsourcing. Because I'd guess that plumbers end up on the receiving end of outsourcing more often than not. Not many companies have a plumbing department.
Also, the difference is that outsourcing can easily go the other way around. Your company may decide to get the firm across the street to do your job, but just as easily somebody can hire your company to do part of their job. You might have a point that there is less job security in the "one company, 45 years, doing exactly the same thing" sense, but it's not like they disappear into the black hole that is China.
> You're not going to ship your house to India to get its pipes refitted.
I had the impression that at this point he was still replying to the original post which was about car manufacturing, but obviously some service jobs are very hard to move around.
> the 4.0 student [...] is in no danger of outsourcing
First of all, you probably mean offshoring. Outsourcing is when you pay an accountant to do the taxes for you. And are honestly suggesting that manufacturing jobs can't be moved to another country? Because I clearly remember everybody bitching about exactly these jobs being moved to _____* a while ago.
Finally, if you hate your current job so much, why don't you train to be a plumber now? It doesn't take four years and 100k of debt, you know.
* -- Insert least favorite country here
>The Wii outsold the Xbox 360 by 25% last month.
I don't remember seeing any numbers, but if that's the case... well I'm not impressed at all. The Wii would have to be a real piece of shit not to outsell its competitors if you considerer just how much cheaper it is.
>Where did the "M" come from?
Manuscript?
It it just one bad quarter thought? It should be clear to slashdotters that AMD's in deep shit now (no serious advances in processors, total lack of new graphics cards), but IIRC AMD posted a ~$550 billion loss in Q4 2006, so this isn't "just this one quarter".
Who are they, are they opening for Anthrax? This must be Department of Homeland Security's worst nightmare.
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Viewed from above of course. There, I feel better already. Gotta go now, I wanted to take my humvee for an offroad drive today.
Unfortunately, a target designator is needed on location in order to ensure accurate delivery. Care to volunteer?
> Why aren't these groups up in arms about nuclear-powered subs that have navigated our oceans for quite some time?
They were up in arms, until the Russian government took the critics on a safety demonstration to the Barents See in one of their subs.
>> net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion
:)
> So essentially, they needed 50% more revenue to break even.
As you said yourself, these numbers can misleading, partly because of large non-recurring costs, like new fabs. But it is also possible that the variable costs (costs from all additional units of production) are very high, meaning that if they increase the production by 50% to increase the revenues by 50%, they would also significantly increase the costs, say by 40%, keeping their profits deep down in parentheses
So, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 would be like Waterworld, with 'Academician Lomonosov' being the center of the zone?
Fair enough, I'm not disagreeing with your statement. However, I was also in no way implying that every single (or even just a significant % of) poorly parented child will go postal (or is it "to go Cho" now?) sooner or later, but merely that there is a stronger link between bad behavior and bad parenting than video games and bad behavior. Therefore, it makes more sense to blame parenting for the children's behavior, and not games.
Again, I'm not saying that's necessarily the case with Cho. But even if it was not a problem on their part and he developed his crazy by himself, they could've seen the serious problems their son was having and do something about it. That's speculation, of course, I'm not trying to solve this case from opposite side of the planet. It's possible the parents last saw him 10 years ago when he was perfectly normal.
My first reaction was "WTF did the relatively recent end-of-civ poll go" and then when I voted it showed this article's comment under the poll results, which was another WTF moment. When was this feature added/first used? I can already see great use for the article polls, for example the editors could try to guess the popular tags and use them for poll items.
This shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who's tried listening to audio output from a typical laptop. You can hear everything, including processor load, disk access, mouse or window movements (the sound noticeably changes depending on the cursor, hovering over a text area sounds differently than over the desktop or window resize areas) and typing. I'm sure some of that audio noise also escapes as electromagnetic emission which, can be picked up with appropriate equipment.
I'm not an expert on Van Eck phreaking, so it's possible that the previously used methods were incapable of detecting this for whatever reason, but the presence of these emissions and the possibility of spying shouldn't be surprising.
This reminds me of the scheduled tinfoil supplies delivery I need to take care of...
> And I suppose bad parents aren't an easy target or equally as often used as a scapegoat?
Well, unlike video games, there's (credible) evidence supporting the idea that bad parenting is at least partly responsible for "Antisocial behavior and conduct disorders". Signing up parents for 12-week training course resulted in their children behaving better than the control.
Paper and editorial summary
it's already there. The first time I saw this I was sure it's some kind of pro-privacy ad, but apparently it's dead serious :(
*- Insert your favorite totalitarian government style
>> And lets not forget that you can't fire the AK47 from prone position cause the mag is too long
> You could try firing it gangsta style
Well first of all, you can fire the AK47 from the prone position. I think this guy clearly proves it. But, if for some reason this is impossible, you can indeed use the gangsta "Glock Foh-Tay" style.
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>What he's targeting is the sale of violent games to minors, in the manner of R-rated movies.
In other words, he's targeting violent video games.
>BUT, some jagoff can produce a dvd/post on the internet calling for the DEATHS of the Jews [...]
You're still talking about Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson, aren't you?
Thank you. Your check is on its way.
Regards, Apple PR department.