I guess you could, but its not made for it. This isn't a "low power" desktop chip, but a low power cellphone chip, power consumtion and processing power are less by several orders of magnitude. As the article says, this thing can handle output at 1024x768, which is the MINIMUM acceptable on modern desktops. The chip also has hardware on it for interfacing with the camera in webphones, which is unnecessary for a PC.
Ya, the fusion from this device is more of a curious byproduct, which is why it has taken 2 decades for anyone to actually admit it works. However, it has low power requirements and isn't terribly radioactive when you turn it off, making it idea for medical and security systems.
1. My computer will not play Hi-Def because it is not made by Dell or Sony. 2. My monitor will not play Hi-Def, because it is not made by Dell or Sony. 3. I cannot fart without permission, because I am not made by Dell or Sony.
Not much else can come as a shocker to me right now in terms of BlueRay.
ZFS has 128 bit file tables. To writw a file that would take up that much space to an hd would require more energy than has reached earth from the sun in the last few eons.
Wasn't the decenteralization of computers (from dumb terminals and mainframes to desktops) a reaction to the bottlenecks of processing power, in that it was cheaper and faster (performancewise) to stuff a processor into the terminal, than to add more processing power to mainframes?
I would think in todays atmosphere, this would be just as big a problem. At this point, we are at a wall in terms of processing power. Current processors are as fast as we can make them without melting (using current tech). In fact, we have to resort to multiple processors on one chip as a workaround. I would think that internet based applications owuld have the same problem with getting enough processing power to handle 1,000's of users into a small and economical space. For this reason, I can see things like MS word being web based, but Photoshop and Windows itself? I don't think so.
Assuming this is a serious question, the answer is one core. Vista makes use of multiple cores, but there are not necessary. For instance, Vista will run on the Athlon XP 3200+ (single core) or Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (single core, hyperthreading) just fine.
Buick? You mean the size of a dust mote. If a dust particle weighs 1/100 of a gram, and you are going roughly the speed of light, the kinetic energy of the dust particle relative to you (assuming that the dust particle is roughtly standing still) is
.00001kg x (2.998 x 10^8 m/s)^2 898800400000 Newtons 9806 or so Newtons Per Ton 1,000,000 tons per MegaTon 20 Megatons per Hydrogen bomb
Thats 4.6 Hydrogen Bombs of energy that the dust particle has relative to you. Do you want to collide with 4.6 Hydrogen Bombs? I don't think that NLST is practicle, even if it turns out to be possible. What we need is a way to simultaniously transport stuff.
Nice personal attack. Let me clarify:
Because of ocean and air currents (which I recommend looking up if you are interested), Great Britian gets a constant supply of warm air and water, whereas Alaska is about as cold as should be expected at that latitude. I don't believe there is a simpler or more complete answer to be had. This effect can be seen in other places to. For instance, Cape Cod's water is ALWAYS frigid because the trade currents dump water from Iceland there. Florida's water is warm because the Gulf of Mexico catches warm currents from the equator.
The general idea is that there are climate bands circling the world, significantly effecting the ecosystem. One of the main effects of global warming would be the shifting of these climate bands, which would do much more hard to the global population than a 1 Degree Celcius raise in global temperature.
The most recent Vista build has been reported to work fine with Aero Glass on a Athlon XP 1600+. Thats 4 years old. When XP came out, it ran on four year old computers. Face it, your P166 is over a decade old, and you can't run the latest and greatest out of redmond on it. My brother recently bought a computer identical to MS's recomended specs for vista brand new from emachines for $499. Thats A64 3200+, 512MB RAM, ATI X200 Graphics. That will run Aero Glass just fine.
Ya, game disks are rediculous. However, so far, the biggest hard drive included with a game console is 20GB. Games range from 3-8GB, so thats 2-6 games storable on the hard drive. Many hardcore gamers have hundreds of games, and very few gamers would be satisfied with 2 games. As for downloading games, even with a 512k broadband connection, 8GB is still a day's worth of downloading. With a 56k connection, which MANY people still use in the US, it would be months of downloading.
Let me explain a little about "Global Warming" for those who only know it from television news (many of us, including me a year ago).
Global warming does not mean that every single place on the globe will get warmer at the same rate. It is an average climate change. In fact, many places will actually get colder. Here is how it works:
Because of the way the earth spins, and the distrobution of land and water, there are "climate bands" going around the globe. At the top, there is a cold one (obviously), beneath that, a "warm" band, then a cooler one, and a warm band again at the equator. This explains some of the wierd things about global climates, including how Alaska and Great Britian are at about the same latitude, but the climates are radically different.
Global warming would cause these bands to shift. At the top and bottom of the world, there would be significant warming on the ice caps, causing significant and possibly even complete melting. Below that, the "cold" bands would move and put places with previously warm and wet climates into a colder, dry zone. These areas would still be habitable, however, the ecosystems would suffer because they would have to deal with a completely new climate, either signicantly warmer, colder, wetter, or dryer than previously.
At the equator, there would also be signficant warmning, causing deserts to grow rapidly (most signifcantly the sahara, which would destroy cropland in africa, and cause even more starvation).
Also, a shift in the major air and water currents (eg the gulf stream) would create new and much more severe weather patterns all over the globe. Some claim the record number of huricanes in the last year are the result of global warming (no real evidence of this that I know of).
Lastly, Global warming is not necessarily caused by humans, or specifically by CO2 and other green house gasses. The earth undergoes periodic, unpredictable and mysterious warm and cold periods, some short, some long. The most recent was the "little ice age". Look it up. That being said, it has been well proven that CO2 absorbs heat from infrared light and releases that heat instead of reflecting it. It is also true that humanity has been dumping much more CO2 into the atmosphere than ever in earth's history. However, scientists will probably never have conclusive proof that this causes global warming, as earth's atmosphere is unimaginably complex.
Ya, but the point is that is pretty niche. Lotus Espirits sell like 300 a year, compaired to the 300,000 or so Ford Explorers that sell in the US alone. The lotus doesn't have AC, the Ford has a DVD player...
On the other hand, people expect much different things out of cars and gaming consoles. IMHO there is a balance that needs to be struck. At some point new features cross the line of being useful and just adding to the price (Anyone ever used that firewire port on PS2? Didn't think so.) As long as Sony keeps things reasonable, it will be fine. I don't know if a PVR would be a great idea. It would be terribly expensive to impliment (lots of extra hardware), and knowing sony and their crappy media PCs, it would be barely functional and DRM riddled.
Don't under estimate office space. I interned at the same company my mother works at last summer. For the first two weeks I got a corner office (nicer than my mom's office, THAT pissed her off), and it was great. Then they finally processed me and I moved into a little teeny cubicle. I was SOOO much more producive in the office, becuase I didn't have the destraction of listening in on the various conversations of people in my cubical block, and people didn't tend to just walk right into my office unless they had a reason (good to know I'm feared;) but they would barge right into the cubical and give me other stuff to do.
The red cross also threatened legal action against the Stanford math department for "repleated and blatant use of our symbol in mathematics to convey addition".
I have been using this all day. This was my first experience with Opera, but I figured it was time to give it a try. Here is what I thought:
Ease of use: Still not up to Firefox standards, but about as good as IE7 (I'm not a huge fan of that interface). You can easily change the theme, but some things are frustratingly un-customizable (in Firefox you can drag just about anything anyplace and expect it to do something).
Speed: WOW! Even on my dual core 2.8 with 2GB RAM, Opera still renders pages noticably faster than IE or Firefox. Plus, no (or fewer) pesky memory leaks. Also, Opera tended to use about 2/3 of the RAM as Firefox with as many tabs open. How do they do that?!?!
Downsides: Opera has a couple downsides. For one, it still doesn't have IE's universal exceptance, I still had to open IE to get to Yahoo! sites (shudder). Plus, I found that Opera had mysterious and quite common rendering errors on CSS heavy pages (as in navigation bars would not show up). This maybe because of the beta status, but it was frustrating.
Opera also has much fewer plugins and add-ons available to enhance functionality. This is probably due to the smaller user base and closed source nature of the program.
After a day with Opera, I am sad to say that I switched back to Firefox for my main browser. However, Opera will remain on my machine, and I will continue to download new versions to see how things improve.
No, we are not. The military has ALWAYS been involved in space, in fact, much less now than before. Lets look:
1960's - space race between the US Military and USSR Military. The astronauts and cosmonauts were/are military pilots. - ALL space missions are military, and much of what is aboard the various satilites and manned flights is secret until decades later. - We launch DOZENS of spy satillites, and I assume the USSR had just as many.
Now - NASA hasn't actually flew anything in quite a while. All launches and rocket building is contracted out to various companies, both in the US and in Europe. NASA now just builds research satilites, and pays to get them launched into space. - Most satilites and basically all launches are for buisnesses, telecommunication satilites, both public (TV, Telephone) and private (corporate communications). - Former top secret government satilites services now available to the world (ever heard of GPS) - Competitions for AMERATURE rocket builders sponsored by the government (Private rocket manufacturing and launching has been going on for a long time, but by big companies).
All the government is trying to do these days is establish SOME sort of regulator agency so that people don't blow themselves up with backyard rockets, or get into orbit and crash into a $1 billion satilite.
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All us PC people could handle 2.16 GHz back in 2002. You will get used to it. Go ahead, it is a flame, after all...
I guess you could, but its not made for it. This isn't a "low power" desktop chip, but a low power cellphone chip, power consumtion and processing power are less by several orders of magnitude. As the article says, this thing can handle output at 1024x768, which is the MINIMUM acceptable on modern desktops. The chip also has hardware on it for interfacing with the camera in webphones, which is unnecessary for a PC.
You would want three files at least.
Ya, the fusion from this device is more of a curious byproduct, which is why it has taken 2 decades for anyone to actually admit it works. However, it has low power requirements and isn't terribly radioactive when you turn it off, making it idea for medical and security systems.
I for one, already knew, from slashdot alone:
1. My computer will not play Hi-Def because it is not made by Dell or Sony.
2. My monitor will not play Hi-Def, because it is not made by Dell or Sony.
3. I cannot fart without permission, because I am not made by Dell or Sony.
Not much else can come as a shocker to me right now in terms of BlueRay.
ZFS has 128 bit file tables. To writw a file that would take up that much space to an hd would require more energy than has reached earth from the sun in the last few eons.
Wasn't the decenteralization of computers (from dumb terminals and mainframes to desktops) a reaction to the bottlenecks of processing power, in that it was cheaper and faster (performancewise) to stuff a processor into the terminal, than to add more processing power to mainframes? I would think in todays atmosphere, this would be just as big a problem. At this point, we are at a wall in terms of processing power. Current processors are as fast as we can make them without melting (using current tech). In fact, we have to resort to multiple processors on one chip as a workaround. I would think that internet based applications owuld have the same problem with getting enough processing power to handle 1,000's of users into a small and economical space. For this reason, I can see things like MS word being web based, but Photoshop and Windows itself? I don't think so.
Assuming this is a serious question, the answer is one core. Vista makes use of multiple cores, but there are not necessary. For instance, Vista will run on the Athlon XP 3200+ (single core) or Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (single core, hyperthreading) just fine.
How can something be vaguely available? Isn't it available or not?
Buick? You mean the size of a dust mote. If a dust particle weighs 1/100 of a gram, and you are going roughly the speed of light, the kinetic energy of the dust particle relative to you (assuming that the dust particle is roughtly standing still) is
.00001kg x (2.998 x 10^8 m/s)^2
898800400000 Newtons
9806 or so Newtons Per Ton
1,000,000 tons per MegaTon
20 Megatons per Hydrogen bomb
Thats 4.6 Hydrogen Bombs of energy that the dust particle has relative to you. Do you want to collide with 4.6 Hydrogen Bombs? I don't think that NLST is practicle, even if it turns out to be possible. What we need is a way to simultaniously transport stuff.
Maybe HP still should. I'm sure another 2% (or whatever Gateway has) of market share could not hurt HP at this point.
Nice personal attack. Let me clarify: Because of ocean and air currents (which I recommend looking up if you are interested), Great Britian gets a constant supply of warm air and water, whereas Alaska is about as cold as should be expected at that latitude. I don't believe there is a simpler or more complete answer to be had. This effect can be seen in other places to. For instance, Cape Cod's water is ALWAYS frigid because the trade currents dump water from Iceland there. Florida's water is warm because the Gulf of Mexico catches warm currents from the equator. The general idea is that there are climate bands circling the world, significantly effecting the ecosystem. One of the main effects of global warming would be the shifting of these climate bands, which would do much more hard to the global population than a 1 Degree Celcius raise in global temperature.
No, it is a net global warming, as in if you take the average temperature now, then after global warming, there will be an increase.
The most recent Vista build has been reported to work fine with Aero Glass on a Athlon XP 1600+. Thats 4 years old. When XP came out, it ran on four year old computers. Face it, your P166 is over a decade old, and you can't run the latest and greatest out of redmond on it. My brother recently bought a computer identical to MS's recomended specs for vista brand new from emachines for $499. Thats A64 3200+, 512MB RAM, ATI X200 Graphics. That will run Aero Glass just fine.
Ya, game disks are rediculous. However, so far, the biggest hard drive included with a game console is 20GB. Games range from 3-8GB, so thats 2-6 games storable on the hard drive. Many hardcore gamers have hundreds of games, and very few gamers would be satisfied with 2 games. As for downloading games, even with a 512k broadband connection, 8GB is still a day's worth of downloading. With a 56k connection, which MANY people still use in the US, it would be months of downloading.
Let me explain a little about "Global Warming" for those who only know it from television news (many of us, including me a year ago).
Global warming does not mean that every single place on the globe will get warmer at the same rate. It is an average climate change. In fact, many places will actually get colder. Here is how it works:
Because of the way the earth spins, and the distrobution of land and water, there are "climate bands" going around the globe. At the top, there is a cold one (obviously), beneath that, a "warm" band, then a cooler one, and a warm band again at the equator. This explains some of the wierd things about global climates, including how Alaska and Great Britian are at about the same latitude, but the climates are radically different.
Global warming would cause these bands to shift. At the top and bottom of the world, there would be significant warming on the ice caps, causing significant and possibly even complete melting. Below that, the "cold" bands would move and put places with previously warm and wet climates into a colder, dry zone. These areas would still be habitable, however, the ecosystems would suffer because they would have to deal with a completely new climate, either signicantly warmer, colder, wetter, or dryer than previously.
At the equator, there would also be signficant warmning, causing deserts to grow rapidly (most signifcantly the sahara, which would destroy cropland in africa, and cause even more starvation).
Also, a shift in the major air and water currents (eg the gulf stream) would create new and much more severe weather patterns all over the globe. Some claim the record number of huricanes in the last year are the result of global warming (no real evidence of this that I know of).
Lastly, Global warming is not necessarily caused by humans, or specifically by CO2 and other green house gasses. The earth undergoes periodic, unpredictable and mysterious warm and cold periods, some short, some long. The most recent was the "little ice age". Look it up. That being said, it has been well proven that CO2 absorbs heat from infrared light and releases that heat instead of reflecting it. It is also true that humanity has been dumping much more CO2 into the atmosphere than ever in earth's history. However, scientists will probably never have conclusive proof that this causes global warming, as earth's atmosphere is unimaginably complex.
Hope this is informative.
Ya, but the point is that is pretty niche. Lotus Espirits sell like 300 a year, compaired to the 300,000 or so Ford Explorers that sell in the US alone. The lotus doesn't have AC, the Ford has a DVD player... On the other hand, people expect much different things out of cars and gaming consoles. IMHO there is a balance that needs to be struck. At some point new features cross the line of being useful and just adding to the price (Anyone ever used that firewire port on PS2? Didn't think so.) As long as Sony keeps things reasonable, it will be fine. I don't know if a PVR would be a great idea. It would be terribly expensive to impliment (lots of extra hardware), and knowing sony and their crappy media PCs, it would be barely functional and DRM riddled.
Except BlueRay players are $1600 and up, and the PS3 will be $400. Doesn't mean much if BlueRay looses the format war though.
Don't under estimate office space. I interned at the same company my mother works at last summer. For the first two weeks I got a corner office (nicer than my mom's office, THAT pissed her off), and it was great. Then they finally processed me and I moved into a little teeny cubicle. I was SOOO much more producive in the office, becuase I didn't have the destraction of listening in on the various conversations of people in my cubical block, and people didn't tend to just walk right into my office unless they had a reason (good to know I'm feared ;) but they would barge right into the cubical and give me other stuff to do.
The red cross also threatened legal action against the Stanford math department for "repleated and blatant use of our symbol in mathematics to convey addition".
Hi hal2814. My name is Frank. Thats all...
Supposedly true, although I tried to set up several plugins that did not work correctly. This includes Quicktime, Flash, and ActiveX.
I have been using this all day. This was my first experience with Opera, but I figured it was time to give it a try. Here is what I thought: Ease of use: Still not up to Firefox standards, but about as good as IE7 (I'm not a huge fan of that interface). You can easily change the theme, but some things are frustratingly un-customizable (in Firefox you can drag just about anything anyplace and expect it to do something). Speed: WOW! Even on my dual core 2.8 with 2GB RAM, Opera still renders pages noticably faster than IE or Firefox. Plus, no (or fewer) pesky memory leaks. Also, Opera tended to use about 2/3 of the RAM as Firefox with as many tabs open. How do they do that?!?! Downsides: Opera has a couple downsides. For one, it still doesn't have IE's universal exceptance, I still had to open IE to get to Yahoo! sites (shudder). Plus, I found that Opera had mysterious and quite common rendering errors on CSS heavy pages (as in navigation bars would not show up). This maybe because of the beta status, but it was frustrating. Opera also has much fewer plugins and add-ons available to enhance functionality. This is probably due to the smaller user base and closed source nature of the program. After a day with Opera, I am sad to say that I switched back to Firefox for my main browser. However, Opera will remain on my machine, and I will continue to download new versions to see how things improve.
Did you even read the parent? The guy wants headphones that WONT filter out noise.
No, we are not. The military has ALWAYS been involved in space, in fact, much less now than before. Lets look:
1960's
- space race between the US Military and USSR Military. The astronauts and cosmonauts
were/are military pilots.
- ALL space missions are military, and much of what is aboard the various satilites and
manned flights is secret until decades later.
- We launch DOZENS of spy satillites, and I assume the USSR had just as many.
Now
- NASA hasn't actually flew anything in quite a while. All launches and rocket
building is contracted out to various companies, both in the US and in Europe.
NASA now just builds research satilites, and pays to get them launched into space.
- Most satilites and basically all launches are for buisnesses, telecommunication
satilites, both public (TV, Telephone) and private (corporate communications).
- Former top secret government satilites services now available to the world (ever
heard of GPS)
- Competitions for AMERATURE rocket builders sponsored by the government (Private
rocket manufacturing and launching has been going on for a long time, but by big
companies).
All the government is trying to do these days is establish SOME sort of regulator agency so that people don't blow themselves up with backyard rockets, or get into orbit and crash into a $1 billion satilite.