You can get a grid-tied system for about $20,000 now, so dropping the cost by 90% would put it within reach of just about anybody. Hell, I got more than $2,000 back on my taxes!
With more and more keyboards coming with an internal USB hub, this is increasingly difficult. The box my employer gave me has six available USB ports, including two on the hub.
Maybe there's a demand out there for a computer that has one USB port on the PC and one USB port on the keyboard.
The only thing worse than cell phones that play music is that incredibly annoying sound Sprint/Nextel phones make when they use the walkie talkie feature.
Well, it voids the warranty, which most people try to avoid. (Unless you're into that sort of thing.) And the type of folks who buy the Mac Mini (my parents, for one) aren't generally the same ones who are going to go about mucking about inside their case, even if it is user serviceable.
A while back some folks (Ars Technica, I think) swapped the dualies in the Mac Pro for these new quad cores and found out that it could not only see all the cores, but also utilize them. (Though they could never get it to peg the processors, even while playing 8 high-def videos on it.)
Mac OS X automatically sees and uses as many cores or processors that it has available. Final Cut Pro, the de facto video editing app for professionals these days, can see and use all these cores.
Now if you want to do that on the Windows side, I won't be of much assistance.
Yeah, Apple's totally missing the boat. If only they made some sort of "mini" Mac for consumers, or a Mac notebook. They could call that a Mac Book or something.
Never buy anything from Apple that you can't install yourself. For the Mac Pro, Apple charges $700 for 4GB (4x1GB) of RAM. You can get the same amount of RAM from DealRam for $500. The same goes for hard drives. Apple charges you $329 for a 500GB SATA drive, which you can get from NewEgg for around $200. Granted, these aren't covered by your warranty, but they often have a manufacturer's warranty
I've often though the lack of user serviceable parts in the Mac Mini was designed to sell more RAM at Apple's hugely inflated prices.
SHHHHHHH! One of the main reasons it's so good up here is idiots don't know about the place.
I feel the same way about my town (Lancaster, PA). I say where I live and anybody who doesn't know about it automatically thinks it's Amish country. That means less jerks on my roads, in my bars, and waiting in line at the grocery store.
And the best part is that I'm surrounded by fundies who think that they'll get possessed by demons if they venture into the city, so they avoid it like the plague.
I can order a pizza online, and if there's a fire I have my cell phone.
And there's absolutely no reason IP networks can't have the same service requirements that POTS systems have. In fact, Verizon's FiOS system installs a UPS backup to allow access during power outages. For a fifty bucks, I can get the same reliability from my cable broadband service.
How can you patent something like that? Could I patent "VoIP calls from Ethernet connected phones" or "VoIP calls from token-ring connected phones?" Something also tells me Verizon only patented this so that they could squash competition and keep their increasingly useless POTS system viable.
This just shows how our patent system is completely incompatible with TCP/IP. If you can patent one layer of the stack, you can halt innovation on other systems.
Also, aren't there Skype phones that do this? Why isn't Verizon suing them?
I'm an American and your guess is as good as mine. My daily driver is a 150cc scooter that gets 70mpg (3.3 l/100km) People harass me about it and I just ask them if they enjoy paying money to burn out their tailpipe.
I'll translate for those of you who don't feel like reading: Serenity and BSG have too much emotion and too little technobabble. I'm uncomfortable with the former and therefore dislike shows that deal with it.
The funny thing is, you stress over how your mix sounds and then I buy the CD and rip it to 128kbps MP3 and play it through my earbuds or my 14 year old stereo and can't hear a damned difference.
My coworkers are all switching to Macs. We write various web apps, and having three operating systems right there is a lot easier than VNCing into a system and possibly having to wait for others to finish testing.
And quite a few people around the office have considered switching their personal computers to Macs because the experience is so good. And every Mac purchased by our company is money Dell isn't getting from us.
One thing I'm looking forward to doing soon is taking my refrigerator off the grid. It'll cost about $600 and will save me at least that much in the first year. Also, I'm going to be taking the direct 12V DC off the batteries and using it to power my cable modem, router, and Vonage box so that my network and phone don't go down when the power goes out.
I bought a Dyson. My mother in law bought the highest rated one from CR. (A Hoover I think). Hers is a bear to use compared to our Dyson. It's heavy, the tools get stuck to surfaces, and it's hard to turn the brushes off for bare floors. About the only thing it does better is that the hand tools are easier to get to.
I was suprised as anyone when I read the CR rating, because I've found the claims in Dyson's ads to be generally accurate.
Just a tip: Our programmable thermostat allowed me to keep the heat at 72 (two degrees warmer than usual) when we were home and still reduce my gas bills by 40% and my electric bills by 30%. You should look into one. They'll save you more in the first month than you'll probably pay for it.
And I'm not saying rush out and buy brand-new appliances immediately. When one breaks, opt for the most efficient replacement you can afford.
So how do you propose to get the energy from the reactor to power the machines mining, transporting, and processing the ore, some of which do not run on electricity and are hundreds or thousands of miles away?
A spaceport, by definition, is where you launch and recover spacecraft. So I'd imagine that this spaceport would be used to launch and recover spacecraft.
More specifically, it will be the launching point for the Virgin Galactic fleet of space tourism vehicles, and will probably also host the launches of various space prize competitions and commercial launch companies.
If they can provide a cheaper service than ESA or NASA, I don't see why it won't be profitable for the state.
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By that definition, rm -rf / would be considered a virus.
You can get a grid-tied system for about $20,000 now, so dropping the cost by 90% would put it within reach of just about anybody. Hell, I got more than $2,000 back on my taxes!
With more and more keyboards coming with an internal USB hub, this is increasingly difficult. The box my employer gave me has six available USB ports, including two on the hub.
Maybe there's a demand out there for a computer that has one USB port on the PC and one USB port on the keyboard.
Shut up before you give someone an idea for an anime show.
The only thing worse than cell phones that play music is that incredibly annoying sound Sprint/Nextel phones make when they use the walkie talkie feature.
It's times like that I am most thankful for the invention of the iPod. Nothing like creating a personal space in a public space.
Well, it voids the warranty, which most people try to avoid. (Unless you're into that sort of thing.) And the type of folks who buy the Mac Mini (my parents, for one) aren't generally the same ones who are going to go about mucking about inside their case, even if it is user serviceable.
A while back some folks (Ars Technica, I think) swapped the dualies in the Mac Pro for these new quad cores and found out that it could not only see all the cores, but also utilize them. (Though they could never get it to peg the processors, even while playing 8 high-def videos on it.)
Mac OS X automatically sees and uses as many cores or processors that it has available. Final Cut Pro, the de facto video editing app for professionals these days, can see and use all these cores.
Now if you want to do that on the Windows side, I won't be of much assistance.
Yeah, Apple's totally missing the boat. If only they made some sort of "mini" Mac for consumers, or a Mac notebook. They could call that a Mac Book or something.
Never buy anything from Apple that you can't install yourself. For the Mac Pro, Apple charges $700 for 4GB (4x1GB) of RAM. You can get the same amount of RAM from DealRam for $500. The same goes for hard drives. Apple charges you $329 for a 500GB SATA drive, which you can get from NewEgg for around $200. Granted, these aren't covered by your warranty, but they often have a manufacturer's warranty
I've often though the lack of user serviceable parts in the Mac Mini was designed to sell more RAM at Apple's hugely inflated prices.
I feel the same way about my town (Lancaster, PA). I say where I live and anybody who doesn't know about it automatically thinks it's Amish country. That means less jerks on my roads, in my bars, and waiting in line at the grocery store.
And the best part is that I'm surrounded by fundies who think that they'll get possessed by demons if they venture into the city, so they avoid it like the plague.
There are tech companies all over the place. I live in Lancaster, PA and I work for Mapquest.
You don't have to live in a place where 1200 square foot houses cost $500,000 to get a great job with a company somebody's heard of.
You are truly wise in the way of the husband.
I can order a pizza online, and if there's a fire I have my cell phone.
And there's absolutely no reason IP networks can't have the same service requirements that POTS systems have. In fact, Verizon's FiOS system installs a UPS backup to allow access during power outages. For a fifty bucks, I can get the same reliability from my cable broadband service.
How can you patent something like that? Could I patent "VoIP calls from Ethernet connected phones" or "VoIP calls from token-ring connected phones?" Something also tells me Verizon only patented this so that they could squash competition and keep their increasingly useless POTS system viable.
This just shows how our patent system is completely incompatible with TCP/IP. If you can patent one layer of the stack, you can halt innovation on other systems.
Also, aren't there Skype phones that do this? Why isn't Verizon suing them?
I'm an American and your guess is as good as mine. My daily driver is a 150cc scooter that gets 70mpg (3.3 l/100km) People harass me about it and I just ask them if they enjoy paying money to burn out their tailpipe.
I'll translate for those of you who don't feel like reading: Serenity and BSG have too much emotion and too little technobabble. I'm uncomfortable with the former and therefore dislike shows that deal with it.
The government tried to pacify the populace of a planet with a chemical and it went bad. Sci fi enough for you?
The funny thing is, you stress over how your mix sounds and then I buy the CD and rip it to 128kbps MP3 and play it through my earbuds or my 14 year old stereo and can't hear a damned difference.
Maybe you're the one with the problem.
My coworkers are all switching to Macs. We write various web apps, and having three operating systems right there is a lot easier than VNCing into a system and possibly having to wait for others to finish testing.
And quite a few people around the office have considered switching their personal computers to Macs because the experience is so good. And every Mac purchased by our company is money Dell isn't getting from us.
One thing I'm looking forward to doing soon is taking my refrigerator off the grid. It'll cost about $600 and will save me at least that much in the first year. Also, I'm going to be taking the direct 12V DC off the batteries and using it to power my cable modem, router, and Vonage box so that my network and phone don't go down when the power goes out.
I bought a Dyson. My mother in law bought the highest rated one from CR. (A Hoover I think). Hers is a bear to use compared to our Dyson. It's heavy, the tools get stuck to surfaces, and it's hard to turn the brushes off for bare floors. About the only thing it does better is that the hand tools are easier to get to.
I was suprised as anyone when I read the CR rating, because I've found the claims in Dyson's ads to be generally accurate.
Just a tip: Our programmable thermostat allowed me to keep the heat at 72 (two degrees warmer than usual) when we were home and still reduce my gas bills by 40% and my electric bills by 30%. You should look into one. They'll save you more in the first month than you'll probably pay for it.
And I'm not saying rush out and buy brand-new appliances immediately. When one breaks, opt for the most efficient replacement you can afford.
So how do you propose to get the energy from the reactor to power the machines mining, transporting, and processing the ore, some of which do not run on electricity and are hundreds or thousands of miles away?
A spaceport, by definition, is where you launch and recover spacecraft. So I'd imagine that this spaceport would be used to launch and recover spacecraft.
More specifically, it will be the launching point for the Virgin Galactic fleet of space tourism vehicles, and will probably also host the launches of various space prize competitions and commercial launch companies.
If they can provide a cheaper service than ESA or NASA, I don't see why it won't be profitable for the state.