From what I remember, the light is wired into the power for the camera so there's no way to disable the light from coming on if the camera is on. That's what I remember Steve Jobs saying when they released the first Mac with the built in iSight.
It didn't stop that guy from cracking the iTunes DRM before. What was that program? Hymn? Now it's just gotten a lot harder thanks to that guy so people can't crack it any more.
The Powerbook came only with a DVI to VGA adapter and the DVI was a normal sized connector. That's not the previous version, but the version before that one, but I can assume the last gen PPC version didn't change much besides the screen brightness.
I was going to say a similar thing about wireless. Now I've never used Linux except RH8 a long time ago but that was only trying to install on my PC and it wouldn't even install so I gave up. I was watching Call For Help, Tech TV's show about technology and computers and whatnot, and they had their Linux guru on. He said that you can't even connect to a wireless network unless you know the exact SSID. Yes you can download a program, but I couldn't imagine why this wasn't built into the OS. OS X, it's just up in the tool bar and Windows will automatically show you all the wireless networks, but Linux can't even do that? Having not used it myself I can't corroborate but this guy was the linux guy so I tend to believe him.
Then there was the fact that linux didn't support his wireless card but he was able to use the Windows inf file to get it to work. But the reason that I was saying "WTF" was he had to edit some config file to get it to load the inf ever time it booted. How can anyone expect for a noob to do anything like that?
Bush is just a puppet though. He doesn't really control everything like you are led to believe. You really think stuff like this would stop after a new president is elected?
Rogers Cable in Canada does just crude traffic shaping. They always limit Bittorrent to really low speeds even if it's the middle of the night. They don't just put QOS on the packets from what I've seen. I guess it could be that their network is just sooo overloaded that if the QOS the torrent packets to the lowest priority it goes to the low speed. They are also doing selective shaping. They don't do it on their whole network, but do it in places where they are overloaded an they get complaints.
It's not a waste if it's being used for a purpose. Waste heat is usually unharnesed energy that just goes wherever it can and serves no useful purpose.
Yeah, there are definately better uses for electricity than using it for pure resistive heating. My dad installs geothermal heat pumps, so I know how efficient they are. Even air to air heatpumps are good if you live in the right climate where they'll work all the time. In the case of a heat pump we're lucky that it doesn't really cost that much to move the energy from the air or ground into our house, so it's a net gain. For example the Climate Master heat pumps we install produce around 4KW of energy for every 1KW of electricity you use. Now that's not going to be that exact figure the whole year because efficiency varies as outside temperature fluctuates.
The point I'm making about 100% efficient electric heat is that all the energy you pay for, you get out of the resistive heater. At least it's so close to 100% it'd be hard to measure exactly. This doesn't say anything about how efficient it is to get the electricity into your home.
It would also depend on the electric heater. Base boards that I've seen don't glow red hot, but an oven element does. Seeing how they are also always enclosed as well, the visible light will eventually be absorbed by the container they're in, be it a room or a furnace.
Yes, but they don't consider losses over the lines when calculating the efficiency. You base it on the energy you are paying for. Technically you are correct because there's a lot of energy loss over such great distances, but for heating, you still consider it 100% efficient because you are using 100% of the energy you pay for to heat your house. Though, it still is way more expensive than any other form of heating.
Actually, electric heating is considered 100% efficient because there is no waste heat. If they can get the OLED to use all the power to generate just light and an insignificant amount of heat, say less than 1% they'll probably say it's 100% efficient because really the wasted energy is insignificant.
It doesn't matter, by the time the government actually gets the thing deployed in the air in the case where it's needed, the bomb will probably already hit it's target.
How is it that there's no indication that they are corrupt to the core when so many MS developers are saying that they are? I'm sure that some of them are fake but there's got to be some truth to it if someone's posting on the minimsft blog. Most of the comments suggest that it's MS's managment that make it really hard to actually get work done so it's not as much the developers' faults as it is managment.
They can't even get the OS out in time, they shouldn't be expected to port all their apps to.NET as well, especially because they don't gain anything by doing it.
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Pretty damn rediculous isn't it?
From what I remember, the light is wired into the power for the camera so there's no way to disable the light from coming on if the camera is on. That's what I remember Steve Jobs saying when they released the first Mac with the built in iSight.
Now you'll be asking people to piss in your gas tank!
There's always at least ONE person who's head a joke completly goes over.
It didn't stop that guy from cracking the iTunes DRM before. What was that program? Hymn? Now it's just gotten a lot harder thanks to that guy so people can't crack it any more.
The Powerbook came only with a DVI to VGA adapter and the DVI was a normal sized connector. That's not the previous version, but the version before that one, but I can assume the last gen PPC version didn't change much besides the screen brightness.
I was going to say a similar thing about wireless. Now I've never used Linux except RH8 a long time ago but that was only trying to install on my PC and it wouldn't even install so I gave up. I was watching Call For Help, Tech TV's show about technology and computers and whatnot, and they had their Linux guru on. He said that you can't even connect to a wireless network unless you know the exact SSID. Yes you can download a program, but I couldn't imagine why this wasn't built into the OS. OS X, it's just up in the tool bar and Windows will automatically show you all the wireless networks, but Linux can't even do that? Having not used it myself I can't corroborate but this guy was the linux guy so I tend to believe him.
Then there was the fact that linux didn't support his wireless card but he was able to use the Windows inf file to get it to work. But the reason that I was saying "WTF" was he had to edit some config file to get it to load the inf ever time it booted. How can anyone expect for a noob to do anything like that?
Apple already DOES have their hardware built in far off lands. Certainly not in the US.
But, since the beginning OS X has been compiled for Intel anyways so you may say that there are 10 versions.
How many times do we need to hear this crap?
"Pure nonsesne I'm afraid."
As is about oh.. 99.99% of all philosophy.
Bush is just a puppet though. He doesn't really control everything like you are led to believe. You really think stuff like this would stop after a new president is elected?
I know a girl who knows a girl from Hiroshima that has 3 breasts, I kid you not.
Gates is just spanking the monkey..err..Balmer for the last 3 years
Rogers Cable in Canada does just crude traffic shaping. They always limit Bittorrent to really low speeds even if it's the middle of the night. They don't just put QOS on the packets from what I've seen. I guess it could be that their network is just sooo overloaded that if the QOS the torrent packets to the lowest priority it goes to the low speed. They are also doing selective shaping. They don't do it on their whole network, but do it in places where they are overloaded an they get complaints.
It's not a waste if it's being used for a purpose. Waste heat is usually unharnesed energy that just goes wherever it can and serves no useful purpose.
Yeah, there are definately better uses for electricity than using it for pure resistive heating. My dad installs geothermal heat pumps, so I know how efficient they are. Even air to air heatpumps are good if you live in the right climate where they'll work all the time. In the case of a heat pump we're lucky that it doesn't really cost that much to move the energy from the air or ground into our house, so it's a net gain. For example the Climate Master heat pumps we install produce around 4KW of energy for every 1KW of electricity you use. Now that's not going to be that exact figure the whole year because efficiency varies as outside temperature fluctuates.
The point I'm making about 100% efficient electric heat is that all the energy you pay for, you get out of the resistive heater. At least it's so close to 100% it'd be hard to measure exactly. This doesn't say anything about how efficient it is to get the electricity into your home.
It would also depend on the electric heater. Base boards that I've seen don't glow red hot, but an oven element does. Seeing how they are also always enclosed as well, the visible light will eventually be absorbed by the container they're in, be it a room or a furnace.
Yes, but they don't consider losses over the lines when calculating the efficiency. You base it on the energy you are paying for. Technically you are correct because there's a lot of energy loss over such great distances, but for heating, you still consider it 100% efficient because you are using 100% of the energy you pay for to heat your house. Though, it still is way more expensive than any other form of heating.
Actually, electric heating is considered 100% efficient because there is no waste heat. If they can get the OLED to use all the power to generate just light and an insignificant amount of heat, say less than 1% they'll probably say it's 100% efficient because really the wasted energy is insignificant.
But, according to any movie with a robot/cyborg, they only make noise when not covered with skin.
It doesn't matter, by the time the government actually gets the thing deployed in the air in the case where it's needed, the bomb will probably already hit it's target.
How is it that there's no indication that they are corrupt to the core when so many MS developers are saying that they are? I'm sure that some of them are fake but there's got to be some truth to it if someone's posting on the minimsft blog. Most of the comments suggest that it's MS's managment that make it really hard to actually get work done so it's not as much the developers' faults as it is managment.
They can't even get the OS out in time, they shouldn't be expected to port all their apps to .NET as well, especially because they don't gain anything by doing it.
Congratulations, you have just crashed his server! :D