Its not quite so much a problem. You CHOOSE to go to Trinity (or other colleges like that), it isn't forced upon to you. If sex, drugs, and alchohol (probably also evolution) holds appeal to you, then obviously the school isn't the right choice. In fact, being a college student, I can see some of the appeal. I go to a school where drinking is a major problem. It would be quite peaceful to not have to lock my door all weekend so drunk people don't stagger in and pass out on the floor. On the other hand, I couldn't deal with the whole "no partying at all" thing.
In other news, a Canadian University has banned music, idleness, and electricity. "All embellishments to life are the work of the devil. Good living comes through hard work in the fields, and beatings for impure thoughs. Plus, a little yellow fever never hurt anyone too bad." said a school recruitment official.
What about that ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 DV I had? That not only managed to send uncompressed Video over the AGP bus to the CPU, but also a Firewire port!
Ya but they can't do that and maintain the Apple user experience. steve Jobs is FANATICAL about that, during the iPod developement, he hired a guy for the sole purpose of designing the texture and color of the click wheel. Thats it...
If Apple released their OS to everyone, they would need to have drivers for all the hardware that a user might encounter. They could not possibly write all those drivers themselves, so they would have to rely on the hardware manufacturers to do that. Many hardware manufacturers are not that keen on hiring a developer to write drivers for an OS that has only 5% market share, so most hardware would be driverless. This means graphics cards, motherboards, network cards, ect... Therefore, Mac OS would run poorly on the vast majority of hardware (as it does now if you try and install it on your generic P4). By not reselling the OS, Apple has created a controlled hardware landscape that they can cope with and maintain their high level of "simpleness".
Lets see, facts taken out of context?
1. There is a sex minigame in every copy of San Andreas (as of that point)
That seems pretty true to me.
2. Six year olds play San Andreas
Also true, although not exactly Take Two's fault.
3. Take Two lied about the fact taht the minigame was in fact hidden in the game, and not an add on.
Proven true, look it up.
I see no facts out of context. Face it, Take Two created a game, left sexual content in that game, which is played by children. Now, I like GTA, and enjoy playing it, but face it, Take Two F*cked up big time.
He was both. He actually invented all those earth shattering devices like the light bulb and record player. He also successfully marketed these, and created his own invention company, which cranked out THOUSANDS of inventions (mostly invented by his workers).
Having non-flexable armor, even on non-flexing parts of the body, allows for faster and easier movement. Think about it, a space suit has flexable material at every human joint, but it is still a pain to manuver in.
Yes, but this does not outweight the advantage of better transformers for AC. Back in the early 1900's, there was a hugh battle over whether our power infrastructure would be AC or DC. Many great minds had a huge stake in this debate. Eventually, AC won out, mostly because it was easier to tranform to higher or lower voltages, making sending it long distances much more efficient.
BTW, Tesla was the oddball, he was all for wireless electricity. Sadly, his proposed wireless transmission device, the tesla coil, had a nasty habit of electrocuting people who steped within a 20 foot range. Not to mention it was hideously inefficient.
Point taken, here the problem lies not in math, but in hardware. It is easy to change high voltage AC into low voltage DC with relatively high efficiency (70-80%). It is VERY hard to change the voltage of DC with high efficiecy, (like 30%). So you end up wasting lots of power that way. Plus, 120V AC current, if you get shocked, hurts like a B#TCH, but just leaves your ego bruised. 120V DC current will instantly cause your heart to stop. Better have a friend with a defibulator ready every time you plug in that laptop, or turn on that lamp.
The problem is that wires have resistance, which wastes power turning it into heat. The amount of power wasted follows this equation
% Power loss = Power * Resistance / Voltage Squared
So, with a length of wire that has a resistance of 10 Ohm, with 120V at 1 amp (120W), you lose
%P = 120W * 10 Ohm / 120V^2
or 8.3% of the total power, about 10W.
If you were to run the same amount of power over a 5V line (120W, or 24A), you would lose
%P = 120W * 10 Ohm / 5V^2
or a whopping 48% of your power, about 58 Watts. So you see, having all those transformers is actually more efficient. This is the reason why we have high voltage lines. The power that comes into your house is 120V, but if it were to be 120V all the way from the power plant 20 miles away, most of the power would be lost. So, power is sent on high tension wire at about 200,000V, then steped down to several thousand volts on main streets, then to less than 1,000V for your side street, then finally transformed down to 120V (or 240V if you live in some countries) right before it goes to your house. This minimizes loss.
On the other hand, if you have lots of devices that all use the same voltages right next to eachother, it can be efficient to get a single transformer. Musicians (like me), who have dozens of effects pedals that run on 9V, can buy special power bricks that power up to 6 devices. You can buy these from musician's supply stores (like musiciansfriend.com). You can even make one from parts at radioshack. You have to make sure you have a beefy transformer, then wire on several plugs in parallel.
If you want more info about power line waste, there is good info at: http://www.bsharp.org/physics/stuff/xmission. html
Have you been staying up to date on Vista? I believe here is how the state of DRM stands on Vista:
To boot your computer, you must attach brain probes and the stress sensing supository. If you even think about using non-DRMed content, your computer shocks you with 40,000v.
I built a PVR this summer, total cost of about $3,000, as a workstation/gaming computer/PVR. Its no different from setting up a regular computer. How come we get so many tutorials, its not hard, especially with Windows Media Center: Put the system together, install Windows, tell it your area code, and watch TV.
Obvious that Linux was gonna win that race, in fact, I wasn't aware until now that it hadn't already been done. Linux already has drivers for the EFI thingy that just needed to be modified and compiled, as well as some other minor stuff, I'm sure. The real challenge is getting Windows, a closed source OS that is not supposed to be particularly portable (as in able to be ported to different platforms) to boot on the new Mac without the help of MS.
Mazada used a couple of rotary engines in the 1980's and 1990's in cars. Despite the more efficient design, the rotary engine just didn't have the engineering history behind it that the gas engine had, so it tended to be somewhat weak, loud, and sluggish. Mazada has in the past few years started working on the engine again, and it is currently in a couple of sports cars that Mazada sells.
I could be wrong, and I'm too lazy to check or care (take that flamebaiters!), but aren't those toads the ones that put out halucenogenic toxin if you lick them? I'm pretty sure it was bufotoxin.
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I'm pretty sure it was the Steelers.
Its not quite so much a problem. You CHOOSE to go to Trinity (or other colleges like that), it isn't forced upon to you. If sex, drugs, and alchohol (probably also evolution) holds appeal to you, then obviously the school isn't the right choice. In fact, being a college student, I can see some of the appeal. I go to a school where drinking is a major problem. It would be quite peaceful to not have to lock my door all weekend so drunk people don't stagger in and pass out on the floor. On the other hand, I couldn't deal with the whole "no partying at all" thing.
Lets see, thats 5.1 channel audio on the iMac, plus 10 times 2 channel on the ipods... I can listen to music in 25.1 channel surround!
Callahans of the world rejoice!
In other news, a Canadian University has banned music, idleness, and electricity. "All embellishments to life are the work of the devil. Good living comes through hard work in the fields, and beatings for impure thoughs. Plus, a little yellow fever never hurt anyone too bad." said a school recruitment official.
Yes, but its hard when you are in jail, or on parole.
Ya, but if you have a graphics card AND a TV tuner AND a firewire port on one card, you need a bridge, be it all on a PCI card or all on an AGP card.
It was an AGP to PCI bridge that didn't work right in 90% of systems you installed it in.
What about that ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 DV I had? That not only managed to send uncompressed Video over the AGP bus to the CPU, but also a Firewire port!
Taking Deli meat out of the floppy drives of Apple SE/20's. My friends used to love doing that.
Ya but they can't do that and maintain the Apple user experience. steve Jobs is FANATICAL about that, during the iPod developement, he hired a guy for the sole purpose of designing the texture and color of the click wheel. Thats it...
If Apple released their OS to everyone, they would need to have drivers for all the hardware that a user might encounter. They could not possibly write all those drivers themselves, so they would have to rely on the hardware manufacturers to do that. Many hardware manufacturers are not that keen on hiring a developer to write drivers for an OS that has only 5% market share, so most hardware would be driverless. This means graphics cards, motherboards, network cards, ect... Therefore, Mac OS would run poorly on the vast majority of hardware (as it does now if you try and install it on your generic P4). By not reselling the OS, Apple has created a controlled hardware landscape that they can cope with and maintain their high level of "simpleness".
Lets see, facts taken out of context? 1. There is a sex minigame in every copy of San Andreas (as of that point) That seems pretty true to me. 2. Six year olds play San Andreas Also true, although not exactly Take Two's fault. 3. Take Two lied about the fact taht the minigame was in fact hidden in the game, and not an add on. Proven true, look it up. I see no facts out of context. Face it, Take Two created a game, left sexual content in that game, which is played by children. Now, I like GTA, and enjoy playing it, but face it, Take Two F*cked up big time.
He was both. He actually invented all those earth shattering devices like the light bulb and record player. He also successfully marketed these, and created his own invention company, which cranked out THOUSANDS of inventions (mostly invented by his workers).
Having non-flexable armor, even on non-flexing parts of the body, allows for faster and easier movement. Think about it, a space suit has flexable material at every human joint, but it is still a pain to manuver in.
Yes, but this does not outweight the advantage of better transformers for AC. Back in the early 1900's, there was a hugh battle over whether our power infrastructure would be AC or DC. Many great minds had a huge stake in this debate. Eventually, AC won out, mostly because it was easier to tranform to higher or lower voltages, making sending it long distances much more efficient.
BTW, Tesla was the oddball, he was all for wireless electricity. Sadly, his proposed wireless transmission device, the tesla coil, had a nasty habit of electrocuting people who steped within a 20 foot range. Not to mention it was hideously inefficient.
Point taken, here the problem lies not in math, but in hardware. It is easy to change high voltage AC into low voltage DC with relatively high efficiency (70-80%). It is VERY hard to change the voltage of DC with high efficiecy, (like 30%). So you end up wasting lots of power that way. Plus, 120V AC current, if you get shocked, hurts like a B#TCH, but just leaves your ego bruised. 120V DC current will instantly cause your heart to stop. Better have a friend with a defibulator ready every time you plug in that laptop, or turn on that lamp.
The problem is that wires have resistance, which wastes power turning it into heat. The amount of power wasted follows this equation
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% Power loss = Power * Resistance / Voltage Squared
So, with a length of wire that has a resistance of 10 Ohm, with 120V at 1 amp (120W), you lose
%P = 120W * 10 Ohm / 120V^2
or 8.3% of the total power, about 10W.
If you were to run the same amount of power over a 5V line (120W, or 24A), you would lose
%P = 120W * 10 Ohm / 5V^2
or a whopping 48% of your power, about 58 Watts. So you see, having all those transformers is actually more efficient. This is the reason why we have high voltage lines. The power that comes into your house is 120V, but if it were to be 120V all the way from the power plant 20 miles away, most of the power would be lost. So, power is sent on high tension wire at about 200,000V, then steped down to several thousand volts on main streets, then to less than 1,000V for your side street, then finally transformed down to 120V (or 240V if you live in some countries) right before it goes to your house. This minimizes loss.
On the other hand, if you have lots of devices that all use the same voltages right next to eachother, it can be efficient to get a single transformer. Musicians (like me), who have dozens of effects pedals that run on 9V, can buy special power bricks that power up to 6 devices. You can buy these from musician's supply stores (like musiciansfriend.com). You can even make one from parts at radioshack. You have to make sure you have a beefy transformer, then wire on several plugs in parallel.
If you want more info about power line waste, there is good info at:
http://www.bsharp.org/physics/stuff/xmission
Have you been staying up to date on Vista? I believe here is how the state of DRM stands on Vista: To boot your computer, you must attach brain probes and the stress sensing supository. If you even think about using non-DRMed content, your computer shocks you with 40,000v.
nVidia does the same thing with MPEG2. Lets throw our stones where they are due.
I built a PVR this summer, total cost of about $3,000, as a workstation/gaming computer/PVR. Its no different from setting up a regular computer. How come we get so many tutorials, its not hard, especially with Windows Media Center: Put the system together, install Windows, tell it your area code, and watch TV.
Obvious that Linux was gonna win that race, in fact, I wasn't aware until now that it hadn't already been done. Linux already has drivers for the EFI thingy that just needed to be modified and compiled, as well as some other minor stuff, I'm sure. The real challenge is getting Windows, a closed source OS that is not supposed to be particularly portable (as in able to be ported to different platforms) to boot on the new Mac without the help of MS.
Mazada used a couple of rotary engines in the 1980's and 1990's in cars. Despite the more efficient design, the rotary engine just didn't have the engineering history behind it that the gas engine had, so it tended to be somewhat weak, loud, and sluggish. Mazada has in the past few years started working on the engine again, and it is currently in a couple of sports cars that Mazada sells.
I could be wrong, and I'm too lazy to check or care (take that flamebaiters!), but aren't those toads the ones that put out halucenogenic toxin if you lick them? I'm pretty sure it was bufotoxin.
Dang it, you weren't supposed to listen to me!
Probably never, they have been making outrageous performance claims since their introduction, and no one seems to care.