We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook
None of that makes any financial sense. I'll bet 5 internets on a 2:1 basis that within a year "instagram" is merely the name of the icon replacing "take a picture" inside the facebook app and all of the instagram social media stuff is merged into facebook.
Its a pity, I was almost getting around to installing the android app, but now its like, why bother.
The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division
So what is sony chemical division, like if you buy Sony-brand acetone then you can only use it in Sony-brand test tubes? Sony-brand chemical storage only holds Sony-brand hydrochloric acid that costs 10x as much as commodity HCl? That's how they run their electronic division...
I LOL when I thought of it, but I'm seriously betting they sell a line of completely incompatible ground-glass-joint glassware for chemists. Like instead of standard 14/20 taper, theirs is probably 16.335/23.235, that spec is trademarked and copyrighted up the wazoo, and costs 10 times as much as normal glassware and they aggressively sue anyone trying to use it with normal taper glassware. (On a slightly related note, what is it with you european chemists, on this side of the pond we use two tapers, "big and small (14/20 is the small)" yet we're taught that you guys have something like 10 mutually incompatible tapers... whats up with that... I would think you metric EU people would simply have the one taper to rule them all but no we're told you've got a dozen in common use)
Working in tech support is a bit like teaching preschool: (blah blah removed)
Rather than the blah blah, from memory it seemed more like changing diapers, over and over and over and occasionally breaking up inter-sibling rivalry. It was excellent training for parenthood.
That brings us back to "Eugenics is an example of the negative outworking of extreme evolutionary thought" and "extremists in Islam, Christianity and Evolution."
Hitler was a Christian so I donno where where all that fits in with the failed eugenics/extreme evolution thing.
We seem to agree that eugenics is not a very good evolutionary strategy...we seem to agree it has little if anything to do with "evolutionary extremists".
But how is the rest of the alignment done? Is is a manual process where and editor goes through and maps ever textbook they get a hold of? It is an automatic process based on the Table of Contents? (or index?)
It seems to me there are two important parts of making a text-book that would deserve copyright protection:
1. The narrative text/examples. 2. The 'flow'. The order by which the author chose to present the facts and lead you through the understanding.
Those are the two creative parts of the textbook. Those are what differentiate it from another 'book of facts.'
As much as I hate textbook cartels, I'd have to say that this 'alignment' process definitely has the potential to encroach on the actually creative side of textbook design, so I'd say the lawsuit has some merit. Of course, I haven't studied an 'aligned' book or the book from which it was derived. Heck, I didn't even RTFA.
I think you are trying to define the word "curriculum".
For example, my kids district enforces that the teachers teach to the "connected mathematics" curriculum as seen in this wiki article. It is possible your local district also uses connected math, or perhaps it one of the numerous competitors. Personally I grew up in the IMP era across town in the same school district, but was able to self teach to a reasonably high level, so it turned out OK anyway.
To summarize your/. post, you are of the opinion that curriculums can be copyrighted. I'm not convinced. Its like trying to copyright the concept of "heavy metal" or copyright the concepts of "hip hop". One specific implementation, sure, OK, but general fads/trends in the field seem like an overly broad coverage.
Would it not make sense that there isn't anything particularly new in geometry or algebra that forces the need for a new rewrite of textbooks every 2-3 years?
Teaching fads rotate on an interval a little longer than the reign of a typical mid-level district administrator, for obvious reasons.
What sounds easier for a "typical seagull manager"... Select a new set of textbooks, or author/oversee/demand a customized by them new curriculum?
What sounds less dangerous for a typical risk adverse mid-level district administrator, buy an entire book from a multinational corporation, or personally sign off on a new homemade curriculum? The danger is page 142 paragraph 2 line 3 might be seen as inappropriately non-multicultural, and its much safer to blame some new york text book publisher than to blame the admin who signed off on it herself.
Also whats less difficult for the high level district administrators, hire a staffmember who literally wrote the book on trigonometry or hire a staff member who just rubber stamps purchase orders from textbook publishers...
The REAL mystery is why startups are publishing these books. An established budget reprinter like Dover or a book on demand provider like lulu should be doing this "free textbook" publishing stuff. Finally, if the textbook truly is free, and I really want a paper copy, Dover or lulu is probably cheaper and much more stylish than burning my laserprinter up and stapling the printouts. Even my local printshop/photocopier place used to sell formal class notes from professors at just above the cost of copying, nicely bound, etc. So why is it all "startup startup startup"? There seem to be missing players...
blotter acid is "prior art". Hope they're not planning on patenting it for profit.
This could lead to hilarious practical jokes on the station... yo, could you pass me a teriyaki flavor strip? Hmm... this teriyaki flavor strip has a grateful dead album cover on it... WTF...
Aside from drug humor, I think it would be hilarious to print up dozens of "hot pepper strips" on the station laser jet, and feed them to the victim thinking he's lost his sense of taste, then once he's gulping the things down by the dozens give him a handful of the real habenero strips.... This is basically the old "dude bragging about econo-car mileage" practical joke, but done with spice strips instead of a gas can.
Eugenics is an example of the negative outworking of extreme evolutionary thought.
Would disagree, eugenic programs seem to be pretty strongly selected against by evolutionary pressures.
Inductive thought experiment: Assume a eugenics program is implemented where only the top 10% procreate for everyone as step x=zero. x=x+1 step is 90% of genes are not passed along to next generation. Conclusion, 90% are evolutionarily / genetically intensely motivated to wipe out the eugenics project so they get to reproduce... It would seem any program preventing reproduction by "more than a destabilizingly large group" makes the society inherently unstable toward collapse.
There is a similar line of reasoning if you assume a eugenics program requires the abolition of the "golden rule" then the society without the golden rule will become so uncivilized / unstable that they will fail... leading to the triumph of the non-eugenic competing societies. This is pretty closely tied to the "eugenics requires 1984-style civilization, which will fail, therefore the eugenic program will fail, therefore eugenics is an evolutionary fail"
You can also come up with a variety of purely scientific arguments where the more diverse the genetic pool of a society, the better the society will respond to evolutionary pressures, so the more likely that a diverse genetic pool culture will wipe out or take over a genetic monoculture. I suppose you could design a multi-ethnic eugenics program which actively tries to purify multiple simultaneous bloodlines rather than just selecting for one ideal, but that pretty much seems to be what most cultures end up doing anyway more or less all by themselves, without any (legal) enforcement.
Pretty much the only way to make a stable eugenic society seems to make it a meaningless totem... Sure we could envision theoretically sterilizing the bottom 1% of the population, but that doesn't really modify the society if we also let the bottom 5% live in prison and/or under freeway overpasses and/or die in wars anyway, so it would have little if any additional effect.
The camp, begun in 1959, was abandoned for good in 1966
Its a victim of soviet h-bomb development. The planning phase was "more or less" before decent soviet h-bombs (around 1960-ish) so everything was too close together, and/or proper spacing in a h-bomb era would make it unscalable. It would have worked pretty well as designed in a pre-h-bomb environment.
Before someone gets all excited about the timelines, a rather large military project like h-bomb deployment is not done like software, where you begin distribution as soon as a beta version complies... I'm well aware they did a tech demonstrator in the early 50s and had a reasonable device for testing by the Very late 50s... But it wasn't clear that this base would be pointless until the 60s, when it was cancelled.
Creationists should eat their own dog food and live like in the Middle Ages.
umm, you are aware of their various social and educational policies, right?
The interesting part is they always want everyone ELSE to live according to their policies, but they themselves should be free to (fill in the blank with decades of corrupt televangelists, corrupt priests, etc)
OK so you have no experience or evidence but felt like posting anyway. (I married into a churchgoing family... guess where I spent last sunday morning? None of them are believers (just social/traditional) so we all get along better than might be expected...)
this strikes me as a bad idea... a big part of going to a church service in person has to be human interactions
LOL if anything its the other way around, during services.
Non-services related activities, yeah, thats nothing but kids goofing off as kids do, and parents playing "holier than thou".
Depends where you live and work. There are tornados where I live... My work and home are off axis enough and about 20 miles apart, its quite possible for one to be wiped off the face of the earth down to bare dirt while the other just has a rainy day.
This doesn't help with some people living in hurricane land, or forest fire land... I've never lived in earthquake land but isn't 20 miles far enough to get you out of utter destruction region and into survivable region?
I work about 3 miles from a port (sea-port kind of port not TCP). Container ship from Iran carrying a container marked couscous turns out to be 10 kilotons. Well that would be a bad day to be at work, although survivable. But at home, about 23 miles away, that is just a "eh".
Or, were they actually trying to stir up a crowd of people to *literally* (not figuratively) murder GZ?
One of their front page website stories is titled "Trayvon's parents to lead nighttime rally in Miami" so... yeah, they're "literally" trying to round up a night time lynch party and get them fired up by slandering him. Imagine how many will tune in to watch, if/when the media manages to get Zimmerman lynched, which seems to be the media gameplan.
Would you see it through such hyperbolic lenses if it were a network that hewed closer to your personal worldview?
Lets see if that network matches my worldview.. lets look at their non-zimmerman slandering stories right off their own website... "Beard shares struggle to be ‘beautiful, thin and perfect’" (apparently she's a female athlete)... "Kate and William wax figures unveiled at Madame Tussauds"... "Where to buy Kate and Pippa Middleton's favorite jeans " WRT to worldview, those clowns are not on the same planet as I am. We're talking about not even being able to compare due to lack of common ground.
That might be overthinking it a bit. Lets try to figure out what the "today show" is. Is it carefully calibrated propaganda, or just irrelevant chewing gum for the mind?
Lets look at their website to see how they show themselves to the world... "Trayvon's parents to lead nighttime rally in Miami " "And the most huggable TODAY anchor is." "5 confessions of a ‘Scary Mommy’ " "Beard shares struggle to be ‘beautiful, thin and perfect’ " "Why is Savannah barefoot at the news desk? " "Kate and William wax figures unveiled at Madame Tussauds" "Hey, girl, watch out for that taxi! Gosling to the rescue ""Too-beautiful British writer: ‘The bile proves my point’ " "Matt to Ryan Seacrest: Are you taking my job?" "Has Obama locked up the Trekkie vote? " "Mom recounts saving daughters from ‘terrifying’ tornado "Where to buy Kate and Pippa Middleton's favorite jeans " "‘Reunion’s’ Levy: ‘I’m tired of being a sex symbol’ "Seeing double: Celebrities get the wax treatment "
I think a detailed analysis indicates its basically all crap... chewing gum for the mind... meaningless trivialities. Mostly "human interest stories" and "celebrity gossip". Good to hear that I'm not missing anything... according to ratings I'm part of the 99% of the population that doesn't watch that kind of trash.
Considering that only around 1% of the population watches, its probably not the ideal vehicle to propagandize to the masses.
I would imagine a show like this occasionally F-s up a lasanga recipe or mis-pronounces a TV stars name, and no one cares, its just that for once they covered something I'm told I should care about, and they were not used to the higher standard required for the scrutiny. My guess is the managers who put the B-team in charge of an A-team task will get off free by throwing their employees under the bus. Clear case of mis-management. If they had stuck to celebrity gossip, a normal screwup would have been OK and unnoticed.
Some quick googling and about 5 mil watch that show. In other words 295 million potential viewers think so lowly of it, they won't even watch it for free.
About 1 percent of the population is being misinformed.... so?
My old wii seems to output decent 480p at refresh rate. I suppose 1080p would be nice although it would obviously have no effect on gameplay or enjoyment of the console. If I wanted fancy graphics I wouldn't be playing on a TV anyway, I'd play skyrim on my 1600x1200 PC with a graphics card that cost more than a entire xbox.. And if I didn't care at all about graphics at all (lets play scrabble!) I'd be playing on my cheapie cellphone.
So again, what is this "power" they're talking about?
I think we may be descending into an audiophool era where green magic marker around the perimeter of the disk makes mario more fun. We're already there with the $50 HDMI cables, so...
I have a question for the old timers. has anyone ever implemented something like: 1) log the time and temp 2) do a run of bonnie++ or a huge dd command 3) log the time and temp 4) Repeat above about ten times 5) numerical differentiation of time and temp and also any "overtemps"
In theory run from a cold or lukewarm start that could detect a drive drawing "too much" current or otherwise being F'd up, or cooling fan malfunction I'm specifically looking for rate of temp increase as in watts expended, not just static workload temp. In practice it might be a complete waste of time.
Another one might be something like a smart reported temp vs iostat reported usage plotted on a scatterplot graph.
So the old timer question is has anyone ever bothered to implement this, and if so, did it do anything useful other than pad your billable hours?
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We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook
None of that makes any financial sense. I'll bet 5 internets on a 2:1 basis that within a year "instagram" is merely the name of the icon replacing "take a picture" inside the facebook app and all of the instagram social media stuff is merged into facebook.
Its a pity, I was almost getting around to installing the android app, but now its like, why bother.
The company will reportedly sell off its chemical products division
So what is sony chemical division, like if you buy Sony-brand acetone then you can only use it in Sony-brand test tubes? Sony-brand chemical storage only holds Sony-brand hydrochloric acid that costs 10x as much as commodity HCl? That's how they run their electronic division...
I LOL when I thought of it, but I'm seriously betting they sell a line of completely incompatible ground-glass-joint glassware for chemists. Like instead of standard 14/20 taper, theirs is probably 16.335/23.235, that spec is trademarked and copyrighted up the wazoo, and costs 10 times as much as normal glassware and they aggressively sue anyone trying to use it with normal taper glassware. (On a slightly related note, what is it with you european chemists, on this side of the pond we use two tapers, "big and small (14/20 is the small)" yet we're taught that you guys have something like 10 mutually incompatible tapers... whats up with that... I would think you metric EU people would simply have the one taper to rule them all but no we're told you've got a dozen in common use)
Working in tech support is a bit like teaching preschool: (blah blah removed)
Rather than the blah blah, from memory it seemed more like changing diapers, over and over and over and occasionally breaking up inter-sibling rivalry. It was excellent training for parenthood.
That brings us back to "Eugenics is an example of the negative outworking of extreme evolutionary thought" and "extremists in Islam, Christianity and Evolution."
Hitler was a Christian so I donno where where all that fits in with the failed eugenics/extreme evolution thing.
We seem to agree that eugenics is not a very good evolutionary strategy...we seem to agree it has little if anything to do with "evolutionary extremists".
But how is the rest of the alignment done? Is is a manual process where and editor goes through and maps ever textbook they get a hold of? It is an automatic process based on the Table of Contents? (or index?)
It seems to me there are two important parts of making a text-book that would deserve copyright protection:
1. The narrative text/examples.
2. The 'flow'. The order by which the author chose to present the facts and lead you through the understanding.
Those are the two creative parts of the textbook. Those are what differentiate it from another 'book of facts.'
As much as I hate textbook cartels, I'd have to say that this 'alignment' process definitely has the potential to encroach on the actually creative side of textbook design, so I'd say the lawsuit has some merit. Of course, I haven't studied an 'aligned' book or the book from which it was derived. Heck, I didn't even RTFA.
I think you are trying to define the word "curriculum".
For example, my kids district enforces that the teachers teach to the "connected mathematics" curriculum as seen in this wiki article. It is possible your local district also uses connected math, or perhaps it one of the numerous competitors. Personally I grew up in the IMP era across town in the same school district, but was able to self teach to a reasonably high level, so it turned out OK anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_Mathematics
To summarize your /. post, you are of the opinion that curriculums can be copyrighted. I'm not convinced. Its like trying to copyright the concept of "heavy metal" or copyright the concepts of "hip hop". One specific implementation, sure, OK, but general fads/trends in the field seem like an overly broad coverage.
Would it not make sense that there isn't anything particularly new in geometry or algebra that forces the need for a new rewrite of textbooks every 2-3 years?
Teaching fads rotate on an interval a little longer than the reign of a typical mid-level district administrator, for obvious reasons.
What sounds easier for a "typical seagull manager"... Select a new set of textbooks, or author/oversee/demand a customized by them new curriculum?
What sounds less dangerous for a typical risk adverse mid-level district administrator, buy an entire book from a multinational corporation, or personally sign off on a new homemade curriculum? The danger is page 142 paragraph 2 line 3 might be seen as inappropriately non-multicultural, and its much safer to blame some new york text book publisher than to blame the admin who signed off on it herself.
Also whats less difficult for the high level district administrators, hire a staffmember who literally wrote the book on trigonometry or hire a staff member who just rubber stamps purchase orders from textbook publishers...
The REAL mystery is why startups are publishing these books. An established budget reprinter like Dover or a book on demand provider like lulu should be doing this "free textbook" publishing stuff. Finally, if the textbook truly is free, and I really want a paper copy, Dover or lulu is probably cheaper and much more stylish than burning my laserprinter up and stapling the printouts. Even my local printshop/photocopier place used to sell formal class notes from professors at just above the cost of copying, nicely bound, etc. So why is it all "startup startup startup"? There seem to be missing players...
blotter acid is "prior art". Hope they're not planning on patenting it for profit.
This could lead to hilarious practical jokes on the station... yo, could you pass me a teriyaki flavor strip? Hmm... this teriyaki flavor strip has a grateful dead album cover on it ... WTF ...
Aside from drug humor, I think it would be hilarious to print up dozens of "hot pepper strips" on the station laser jet, and feed them to the victim thinking he's lost his sense of taste, then once he's gulping the things down by the dozens give him a handful of the real habenero strips.... This is basically the old "dude bragging about econo-car mileage" practical joke, but done with spice strips instead of a gas can.
(remember album covers? I'm old).
Eugenics is an example of the negative outworking of extreme evolutionary thought.
Would disagree, eugenic programs seem to be pretty strongly selected against by evolutionary pressures.
Inductive thought experiment: Assume a eugenics program is implemented where only the top 10% procreate for everyone as step x=zero. x=x+1 step is 90% of genes are not passed along to next generation. Conclusion, 90% are evolutionarily / genetically intensely motivated to wipe out the eugenics project so they get to reproduce... It would seem any program preventing reproduction by "more than a destabilizingly large group" makes the society inherently unstable toward collapse.
There is a similar line of reasoning if you assume a eugenics program requires the abolition of the "golden rule" then the society without the golden rule will become so uncivilized / unstable that they will fail... leading to the triumph of the non-eugenic competing societies. This is pretty closely tied to the "eugenics requires 1984-style civilization, which will fail, therefore the eugenic program will fail, therefore eugenics is an evolutionary fail"
You can also come up with a variety of purely scientific arguments where the more diverse the genetic pool of a society, the better the society will respond to evolutionary pressures, so the more likely that a diverse genetic pool culture will wipe out or take over a genetic monoculture. I suppose you could design a multi-ethnic eugenics program which actively tries to purify multiple simultaneous bloodlines rather than just selecting for one ideal, but that pretty much seems to be what most cultures end up doing anyway more or less all by themselves, without any (legal) enforcement.
Pretty much the only way to make a stable eugenic society seems to make it a meaningless totem... Sure we could envision theoretically sterilizing the bottom 1% of the population, but that doesn't really modify the society if we also let the bottom 5% live in prison and/or under freeway overpasses and/or die in wars anyway, so it would have little if any additional effect.
The camp, begun in 1959, was abandoned for good in 1966
Its a victim of soviet h-bomb development. The planning phase was "more or less" before decent soviet h-bombs (around 1960-ish) so everything was too close together, and/or proper spacing in a h-bomb era would make it unscalable. It would have worked pretty well as designed in a pre-h-bomb environment.
Before someone gets all excited about the timelines, a rather large military project like h-bomb deployment is not done like software, where you begin distribution as soon as a beta version complies... I'm well aware they did a tech demonstrator in the early 50s and had a reasonable device for testing by the Very late 50s... But it wasn't clear that this base would be pointless until the 60s, when it was cancelled.
Creationists should eat their own dog food and live like in the Middle Ages.
umm, you are aware of their various social and educational policies, right?
The interesting part is they always want everyone ELSE to live according to their policies, but they themselves should be free to (fill in the blank with decades of corrupt televangelists, corrupt priests, etc)
OK so you have no experience or evidence but felt like posting anyway. (I married into a churchgoing family... guess where I spent last sunday morning? None of them are believers (just social/traditional) so we all get along better than might be expected...)
this strikes me as a bad idea... a big part of going to a church service in person has to be human interactions
LOL if anything its the other way around, during services.
Non-services related activities, yeah, thats nothing but kids goofing off as kids do, and parents playing "holier than thou".
I'd think all the tablets would get in the way
Some of the commandments seem a little outdated.
Depends where you live and work. There are tornados where I live... My work and home are off axis enough and about 20 miles apart, its quite possible for one to be wiped off the face of the earth down to bare dirt while the other just has a rainy day.
This doesn't help with some people living in hurricane land, or forest fire land... I've never lived in earthquake land but isn't 20 miles far enough to get you out of utter destruction region and into survivable region?
I work about 3 miles from a port (sea-port kind of port not TCP). Container ship from Iran carrying a container marked couscous turns out to be 10 kilotons. Well that would be a bad day to be at work, although survivable. But at home, about 23 miles away, that is just a "eh".
Or, were they actually trying to stir up a crowd of people to *literally* (not figuratively) murder GZ?
One of their front page website stories is titled "Trayvon's parents to lead nighttime rally in Miami" so ... yeah, they're "literally" trying to round up a night time lynch party and get them fired up by slandering him. Imagine how many will tune in to watch, if/when the media manages to get Zimmerman lynched, which seems to be the media gameplan.
Would you see it through such hyperbolic lenses if it were a network that hewed closer to your personal worldview?
Lets see if that network matches my worldview.. lets look at their non-zimmerman slandering stories right off their own website ... "Beard shares struggle to be ‘beautiful, thin and perfect’" (apparently she's a female athlete) ... "Kate and William wax figures unveiled at Madame Tussauds" ... "Where to buy Kate and Pippa Middleton's favorite jeans " WRT to worldview, those clowns are not on the same planet as I am. We're talking about not even being able to compare due to lack of common ground.
That might be overthinking it a bit. Lets try to figure out what the "today show" is. Is it carefully calibrated propaganda, or just irrelevant chewing gum for the mind?
Lets look at their website to see how they show themselves to the world... "Trayvon's parents to lead nighttime rally in Miami " "And the most huggable TODAY anchor is." "5 confessions of a ‘Scary Mommy’ " "Beard shares struggle to be ‘beautiful, thin and perfect’ " "Why is Savannah barefoot at the news desk? " "Kate and William wax figures unveiled at Madame Tussauds" "Hey, girl, watch out for that taxi! Gosling to the rescue ""Too-beautiful British writer: ‘The bile proves my point’ " "Matt to Ryan Seacrest: Are you taking my job?" "Has Obama locked up the Trekkie vote? " "Mom recounts saving daughters from ‘terrifying’ tornado "Where to buy Kate and Pippa Middleton's favorite jeans " "‘Reunion’s’ Levy: ‘I’m tired of being a sex symbol’ "Seeing double: Celebrities get the wax treatment "
I think a detailed analysis indicates its basically all crap... chewing gum for the mind... meaningless trivialities. Mostly "human interest stories" and "celebrity gossip". Good to hear that I'm not missing anything... according to ratings I'm part of the 99% of the population that doesn't watch that kind of trash.
Considering that only around 1% of the population watches, its probably not the ideal vehicle to propagandize to the masses.
I would imagine a show like this occasionally F-s up a lasanga recipe or mis-pronounces a TV stars name, and no one cares, its just that for once they covered something I'm told I should care about, and they were not used to the higher standard required for the scrutiny. My guess is the managers who put the B-team in charge of an A-team task will get off free by throwing their employees under the bus. Clear case of mis-management. If they had stuck to celebrity gossip, a normal screwup would have been OK and unnoticed.
no one watches tv anymore so who cares.
Some quick googling and about 5 mil watch that show. In other words 295 million potential viewers think so lowly of it, they won't even watch it for free.
About 1 percent of the population is being misinformed.... so?
How will they change my life making them a killer device to buy?
I'd like to link them to the GPS.
Also I take it you've never played with the google-goggles app... this seems a natural connection.
I would also like indicator lamps for messages waiting.
I love how the pitch boils down to "Google goggles: they'll help you get laid". (Ukulele not included)
I've seen women in sex toy ads that look less excited about their product, than the model in the GOOG ads.
Thanks /. for the post editing button.... not
Might be granny and auntie christmas purchase marketing. "the $60 game must be better than the $30 game... I'll buy junior the $30 game"
actually isn't as powerful as
What does that mean?
My old wii seems to output decent 480p at refresh rate. I suppose 1080p would be nice although it would obviously have no effect on gameplay or enjoyment of the console. If I wanted fancy graphics I wouldn't be playing on a TV anyway, I'd play skyrim on my 1600x1200 PC with a graphics card that cost more than a entire xbox.. And if I didn't care at all about graphics at all (lets play scrabble!) I'd be playing on my cheapie cellphone.
So again, what is this "power" they're talking about?
I think we may be descending into an audiophool era where green magic marker around the perimeter of the disk makes mario more fun. We're already there with the $50 HDMI cables, so ...
twitter? Is that you?
Eventually the onboard nicad config batteries fail and leak... gotta pull them and replace with a little 2-cell AA battery holder from radio shack.
nicad juice will rot the traces if not caught in time.
Its a storage issue. Left plugged in forever, the battery never discharges so it never corrodes.
Ahh but the delta-temp over delta-time, assuming identical hardware, is a direct measurement of cooling capacity.
automatically identify sexual predators in chat logs
OK sounds good hate those guys
trying to convince the other partecipants(s) to provide some sexual favor
Whoa whoa who here, thats me and my wife not a bunch of predators.
Whoever would have guessed that the govt trying to get into my bedroom would mean they're scanning my chat logs.
I suppose Target store wants to monetize this too...
OK so that was the noob version of the question.
I have a question for the old timers. has anyone ever implemented something like:
1) log the time and temp
2) do a run of bonnie++ or a huge dd command
3) log the time and temp
4) Repeat above about ten times
5) numerical differentiation of time and temp and also any "overtemps"
In theory run from a cold or lukewarm start that could detect a drive drawing "too much" current or otherwise being F'd up, or cooling fan malfunction
I'm specifically looking for rate of temp increase as in watts expended, not just static workload temp.
In practice it might be a complete waste of time.
Another one might be something like a smart reported temp vs iostat reported usage plotted on a scatterplot graph.
So the old timer question is has anyone ever bothered to implement this, and if so, did it do anything useful other than pad your billable hours?