I got bored, googled the distance to be an average of 48 million miles. Converted 3e8 m/s to 671,080,888 mph (also used google. I love that site) and did the math to equal 4.29 minutes!
I'm amazed that you just happened to have that 5 minute number memorized. Do you think if we put a carbon fiber hood and an aluminum wing on light it would go even faster?
I don't know for sure, but I think that the largest cause of the failure of space based equipment is radiation. I seem to remember a small satiltite being built by a university using off the shelf parts at an insanely low price. When they had it launched, they knew it wouldn't last more then a year or so because of the radiation.
Try this, put a stick of RAM in your microwave for 3 seconds on low. Then try using it in your computer! I'm sure things aren't quite so bad in space, but it's something to be considered.
I can't imagine working on one of those missions. It must be imensely frustrating to pour your time and effort into a prove that you have no ability to help once it attempts to land. Nasa (and various other space agencies) seem to be pretty good at getting probes to Mars, but landing them safely and intact seems to be mostly beyond our abilities.
Would It be impossible to equip the "mothership" that stays in orbit while the probes are launched with a camera capable of a (relatively) realtime video stream? I'm not up to speed with the throughput of those transmitters, but wouldn't a high quality camera and video feed allow us to watch the probe for most of it's reentry to try to learn from out mistakes? As it is, we know that we've lost several probes, but no one really knows exactly why.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that most if not all LiION batteries have a built in circuit that prevents serious overcharging or serious discharging. The danger is not from faulty chargers, but from defective battery packs or ones who's protection circuit may have failed.
I suffer from the same problems mentioned in the articles. When I'm looking at some really good porn, and someone interupts me with an IM, it takes a good 10 minutes to get back in the "productivity" mood.
In all seriousness, I've long since turned off the audio alerts that come with AOL intstant messanger and usually stay online with an away message set (something witty of course). When people IM you when your "away" they don't expect an immediate response and it usually lets to delay responding to them untill you actually feel like talking.
Component video out? Even my PS2 has that. In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if a modchip was quickly released that allowed the PSX to run un-sony code. The "hacker" community might just have MP3 and DVD+/-RW support before SONY.
I haven't played Half life on over a year, but I remember playing the original science and industry mod, and it wasn't very good. At best, there were 4 to 6 servers online at any given time, with no more then 2 or 3 players on each. The guns were fairly lame, but worst of all, it took 536 bullets to kill anything. I shouldn't be able to take 4 rockets to the chest before I die.
Worst of all, once a side started to win, the new weapons gained were so overpowering that the other side rarely had a chance. I hope they fixed some of these problems.
Thoreau went home on weekends. Pansy.
My vote is for a laptop if and only if it's a Pentium M (Centrino). Get either the 1.2Ghz ultra low voltage or the 1.3Ghz low voltage. Buy a laptop with a slow 4200rpm HD and disable your infrared and extra add in ports.
Not meaning too get too offtopic, but I noticed that the order of formats in the picture goes [480i] [480p] [720p] [1080i]. Is that supposed to mean that 1080i is of higher picture quality then 720p? I assume that the number means lines of resolution, so 1080i would be higher res. Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't a 720 progressive image give you twice the effective framerate? 60 full frames per second versus 60 half frames per second?
Wow, thats a huge coincidence. I traded my 16MB PCI Banshee for a 32MB AGP TNT2. Best trade I ever made.
In fact, I loved that TNT2 so much that it took the likes of Morrowind to convince me that I needed to upgrade away from it. It even found it's way into my 3Ghz box while my 5900u was under RMA. I had to disable hardware acceleration or it actually slowed down the screen draw when I moved anything. Slow RAMDAC too... Couldn't even hardly run 1600x1200.
In all honesty, why shouldn't video cards be that expensive? Tons of people are willing to pay upwards of 3 to 4 hundred dollars on an Intel CPU, and thats just the chip.
My 5900 Ultra has twice as many transistors as my Pentium 4 (both.13, Twice the surface area right?) and came with 256Megabytes of 2.2ns DDR. Add to that the costs of the PCB, memory controller, VIVO-functionality chip, and Cooling solution and you have an expensive product.
You can't expect a fast video card for $80 because you can't assemble fast chips and fast ram for $80.
Midrange is $200-$260. Top end goes from $350 to $550. You can't get any decent DX9 hardware under $100.
You have a point. I was at an electronics store today. I watched in horror as someone picked up an ATI 9600 Pro only to return it to the shelf and grab an Nvidia 5200 because it had 256 Megabytes of RAM.
To get the high end market, all you need to do is produce a damn fast card. The midgrade market is tougher to deal with because most people grab the card with the most RAM and the prettiest box.
I know it's not the answer you want to hear, but maybe the best thing to do would be to give your children administrative access. Not having full access drives me absolutly crazy. I was practicly on the verge of killing someone when I realized windows likes to create empty folders in "Program Files" and write protect them against any means of destruction.
If you're still worried about your children mucking up your computer, I totally understand. I've troubleshooted so many computers that were dying of bloat. 55 Processes on boot can sure cause trouble. Consider building a second box for your kids, or even reaserch the possibility of doing a dual boot XP setup (is it possible?)
DirectCD let you just click and delete or replace certain files on a CD-RW. It was useful when you didn't want to have to erase the whole disk and reburn it.
Do you remember how long it used to take to burn a CD at 2x?
There really ought to be a statute of limitation with this stuff. Seriously, packet CD burning was new like 5 years ago.
1)Quietly Register Patent
2)Wait for some company to make lots of money totally legitimately
3)Sue until your stock price doubles!
a third party Mod Chip that will cancel your warranty
You must own a different console then everyone else in the world because my PS2 only came with a 90 day warrenty. Ask the tens of thousands of people who had to buy new PS2s because of faulty lasers in the v1-v3 PS2s how good their warrenty service was. I think if I had any intention of installing a mod chip, the warrenty would be the last of my worries.
Quality loss?! Thats half the bitrate! Does it give you the option of splitting across two disks?
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I'm not so sure though... At $99, Nintendo is still making a profit (small... probably) off their cube and you are in no way obligated to purchase any additional games. AOL's deal requires that the computer be financed over a 1 year period. $24 a month for dialup internet can be a pretty big turnoff.
"Harvest Moon - Friend of Mineral Town" is a blast if you're into that sort of thing. I play it like crazy. FFTactics was a good time waster. I put 50 hours into that one.
7.1 does seem a bit excessive. But then again, Sony seems to like packing half a dozen small cores into their systems rather then sticking with the traditional CPU+GPU approach.
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I got bored, googled the distance to be an average of 48 million miles. Converted 3e8 m/s to 671,080,888 mph (also used google. I love that site) and did the math to equal 4.29 minutes!
I'm amazed that you just happened to have that 5 minute number memorized. Do you think if we put a carbon fiber hood and an aluminum wing on light it would go even faster?
I don't know for sure, but I think that the largest cause of the failure of space based equipment is radiation. I seem to remember a small satiltite being built by a university using off the shelf parts at an insanely low price. When they had it launched, they knew it wouldn't last more then a year or so because of the radiation.
Try this, put a stick of RAM in your microwave for 3 seconds on low. Then try using it in your computer! I'm sure things aren't quite so bad in space, but it's something to be considered.
I can't imagine working on one of those missions. It must be imensely frustrating to pour your time and effort into a prove that you have no ability to help once it attempts to land. Nasa (and various other space agencies) seem to be pretty good at getting probes to Mars, but landing them safely and intact seems to be mostly beyond our abilities.
Would It be impossible to equip the "mothership" that stays in orbit while the probes are launched with a camera capable of a (relatively) realtime video stream? I'm not up to speed with the throughput of those transmitters, but wouldn't a high quality camera and video feed allow us to watch the probe for most of it's reentry to try to learn from out mistakes? As it is, we know that we've lost several probes, but no one really knows exactly why.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that most if not all LiION batteries have a built in circuit that prevents serious overcharging or serious discharging. The danger is not from faulty chargers, but from defective battery packs or ones who's protection circuit may have failed.
I suffer from the same problems mentioned in the articles. When I'm looking at some really good porn, and someone interupts me with an IM, it takes a good 10 minutes to get back in the "productivity" mood.
In all seriousness, I've long since turned off the audio alerts that come with AOL intstant messanger and usually stay online with an away message set (something witty of course). When people IM you when your "away" they don't expect an immediate response and it usually lets to delay responding to them untill you actually feel like talking.
Component video out? Even my PS2 has that. In all honesty, I wouldn't be surprised if a modchip was quickly released that allowed the PSX to run un-sony code. The "hacker" community might just have MP3 and DVD+/-RW support before SONY.
I haven't played Half life on over a year, but I remember playing the original science and industry mod, and it wasn't very good. At best, there were 4 to 6 servers online at any given time, with no more then 2 or 3 players on each. The guns were fairly lame, but worst of all, it took 536 bullets to kill anything. I shouldn't be able to take 4 rockets to the chest before I die.
Worst of all, once a side started to win, the new weapons gained were so overpowering that the other side rarely had a chance. I hope they fixed some of these problems.
Marvelous! Mod this guy up!
Thoreau went home on weekends. Pansy.
My vote is for a laptop if and only if it's a Pentium M (Centrino). Get either the 1.2Ghz ultra low voltage or the 1.3Ghz low voltage. Buy a laptop with a slow 4200rpm HD and disable your infrared and extra add in ports.
Not meaning too get too offtopic, but I noticed that the order of formats in the picture goes [480i] [480p] [720p] [1080i]. Is that supposed to mean that 1080i is of higher picture quality then 720p? I assume that the number means lines of resolution, so 1080i would be higher res. Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't a 720 progressive image give you twice the effective framerate? 60 full frames per second versus 60 half frames per second?
Wow, thats a huge coincidence. I traded my 16MB PCI Banshee for a 32MB AGP TNT2. Best trade I ever made.
In fact, I loved that TNT2 so much that it took the likes of Morrowind to convince me that I needed to upgrade away from it. It even found it's way into my 3Ghz box while my 5900u was under RMA. I had to disable hardware acceleration or it actually slowed down the screen draw when I moved anything. Slow RAMDAC too... Couldn't even hardly run 1600x1200.
In all honesty, why shouldn't video cards be that expensive? Tons of people are willing to pay upwards of 3 to 4 hundred dollars on an Intel CPU, and thats just the chip. .13, Twice the surface area right?) and came with 256Megabytes of 2.2ns DDR. Add to that the costs of the PCB, memory controller, VIVO-functionality chip, and Cooling solution and you have an expensive product.
My 5900 Ultra has twice as many transistors as my Pentium 4 (both
You can't expect a fast video card for $80 because you can't assemble fast chips and fast ram for $80.
Midrange is $200-$260. Top end goes from $350 to $550. You can't get any decent DX9 hardware under $100.
Thats why they called it the 3d decelerator. It's ok though, I've dealt with bad drivers before. I owned a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee.
You have a point. I was at an electronics store today. I watched in horror as someone picked up an ATI 9600 Pro only to return it to the shelf and grab an Nvidia 5200 because it had 256 Megabytes of RAM. To get the high end market, all you need to do is produce a damn fast card. The midgrade market is tougher to deal with because most people grab the card with the most RAM and the prettiest box.
I know it's not the answer you want to hear, but maybe the best thing to do would be to give your children administrative access. Not having full access drives me absolutly crazy. I was practicly on the verge of killing someone when I realized windows likes to create empty folders in "Program Files" and write protect them against any means of destruction.
If you're still worried about your children mucking up your computer, I totally understand. I've troubleshooted so many computers that were dying of bloat. 55 Processes on boot can sure cause trouble. Consider building a second box for your kids, or even reaserch the possibility of doing a dual boot XP setup (is it possible?)
10GB down? I used 8GB last night! I hope comcast doesn't find out.
I haven't laughed in several weeks. That should keep me alive durring this last day of studying for finals.
DirectCD let you just click and delete or replace certain files on a CD-RW. It was useful when you didn't want to have to erase the whole disk and reburn it.
Do you remember how long it used to take to burn a CD at 2x?
There really ought to be a statute of limitation with this stuff. Seriously, packet CD burning was new like 5 years ago.
1)Quietly Register Patent
2)Wait for some company to make lots of money totally legitimately
3)Sue until your stock price doubles!
a third party Mod Chip that will cancel your warranty You must own a different console then everyone else in the world because my PS2 only came with a 90 day warrenty. Ask the tens of thousands of people who had to buy new PS2s because of faulty lasers in the v1-v3 PS2s how good their warrenty service was. I think if I had any intention of installing a mod chip, the warrenty would be the last of my worries.
Quality loss?! Thats half the bitrate! Does it give you the option of splitting across two disks?
I'm not so sure though... At $99, Nintendo is still making a profit (small... probably) off their cube and you are in no way obligated to purchase any additional games. AOL's deal requires that the computer be financed over a 1 year period. $24 a month for dialup internet can be a pretty big turnoff.
"Harvest Moon - Friend of Mineral Town" is a blast if you're into that sort of thing. I play it like crazy. FFTactics was a good time waster. I put 50 hours into that one.
Hrm. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the people who downloaded his music aren't listening to it on a regular basis.
7.1 does seem a bit excessive. But then again, Sony seems to like packing half a dozen small cores into their systems rather then sticking with the traditional CPU+GPU approach.