So we've got the one atom thing down now. The trick is getting a whole lot of atoms to do it at the same time. If we can convince the porn industry that it would be beneficial to them, We'll be teleporting around the world in less then 5 years. Maybe I should patent teleporting prostitutes.
An ATI video card and a PPC processer is considered proprietary? If anything Sony's setup is more proprietary then the GC. By the way, why would Nintendo need to quit makine consoles and concentrate on the portable market when they already dominate it.
Yea, bullshit. A quick google tells me that there were 42 police officer deaths in 1999. Not too bad for a country of nearly 300 million. The U.K. has a population of 60 million, one fifth the population of the U.S. According to the BBC there were 14 police deaths in 2002.
The death of a police officer in the United States is NEVER a minor story. As is, I'd still rather be a police officer then a coal miner.
I may be completely wrong but I had heard that one of the reasons that cell phones aren't allowed on planes has to do with the fast moving high altitude phones being unneccesarily demanding on the system that coordinated the passing of a cell phone signal from tower to tower as you move.
I'm pretty sure appleseed is already out in theatres in japan. We're just waiting for it to get released on DVD so it can be fansubbed. Of course, it would be really nice of em to release the jp DVD with an english subtitle track so people could buy the original.
By the way, heres the trailer for appleseed. Quite a beautiful CG animation to behold. apple.co.jp trailer
Maybe its just me, but I thought that JPEG wasn't very good at high contrast areas (black ink on white paper) and was better suited to things like photographs.
You must live in California. We've got a state regulated dairy industry with an outrageous amount of pull in the legislature. We (I work at a supermarket) were recently issued a memo stating that the minimum price for a single gallon of milk had been raised and that we are not allowed to sell or buy the milk at any price below that.
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No. You're wrong. Taxing the shit out of petroleum in the U.S. would have consequences so dire you can't even begin to imagine. The United States is NOT Europe. Most people live 20 to 30 miles away from their place of work with some living even farther. Because of the lack of a usable and succesful form of mass transit in most U.S. cities, a massive gasoline tax would take a huge amount of money right out of the hands of the people keeping our economy alive. The U.S. rail system is not an option in many cases, and remember that most every consumer product you buy is shipped for the most part by diesel trucks. The United States isn't Europe, and a high tax is ABSOLUTLY NOT the first step to reducing dependence on the automobile. 1. Build and finance usable forms of mass transit 2. Make sure that the public transit is capable of sucessfully allowing wage workers to commute. 3. Gradually make cars less attractive.
You know, originally I thought that the PSP was the most awesome handheald ever for being able to play movies. Then it occured to me, the UMD is not going to be a writable media and any movie you're going to play on it is going to be purchased. That means I don't get to toss my divx movies onto my handheld and watch them while waiting in the dentist office. The PSP won't be the new walkman without a harddrive or writable media, maybe the new gameboy, but not the walkman.
Except they aren't using lead acid batteries. They're using Nickel Metal Hydride batteries. I know that NiMH batteries aren't as bad on the enviorment as NiCad batteries but that doesn't mean that they're being recyled completely.
"To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes." - Newton Baker, US minister of defense (1921)
Replying to yourself is taboo, but so is being an idiot and failing to notice that the chart is scaled. AM radio only takes up slightly more then 1Mhz of spectrum.
I love this PDF of the Radio Spectrum. If you look carefully you'll see that there really isn't an amazing amount of space in the FM spectrum so it wouldn't take too many unlicensed channels to cause problems. Incidently, I feel that the AM spectrum is a greater waste of radio spectrum then all other wastes combined. Heck, FM and HAM combined use less then half the spectrum of AM. I know that lower frequencies don't carry as much information, but surely there is a better use for that low frequency space then AM radio... I wouldn't mind if they killed AM radio and allowed wireless internet using the AM band. Might be slow, but you'd have coverage from all over.
You have safety in obscurity. I guarantee you that as soon as the spyware companies see a market worth exploiting in the MAC community, they're going to write malware for Mac. Do macs not get viruses because of their ultra sleek look and superior OS? Nope, they don't get em because virus writers prefer to write for the more popular OS.
More then likely the Java/Bytever was a javascript virus sitting in your temporary internet files that IE had decided not to run. I see them on my machine's scans occasionally, but they never do more then sit idleing in the Temp internet files. I've never seen one running.
The big problem that I see is that the CPU isn't responsible for all of the laptop's power consumption. The hard drive, GPU, chipset, RAM, and screen all use a ton of power too. That said, the one thing that Intel really did right was that Pentium-M processor. I desperatly tried to convince my friend to get one, but instead he bought an Alienware with a 3.06Ghz desktop chip. (No speed throttling ability whatsoever) The result? 55 minutes of battery life on a single batter, just shy of two hours with the extra battery. Thats if you're just surfing the net.
It's really disapointing that the Mobile Radeon 9700 doesn't use the same core as its 8 pipeline desktop brother. The mobile one is actually just a slightly higher clocked 9600. (4 pixel pipelines.)
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No HDTV out video cards? My Fx5900 does HD out with a DVI to component video adapter.
So we've got the one atom thing down now. The trick is getting a whole lot of atoms to do it at the same time. If we can convince the porn industry that it would be beneficial to them, We'll be teleporting around the world in less then 5 years. Maybe I should patent teleporting prostitutes.
You're right. Mpeg2 isn't so bad but if you want realtime Divx+MP3 encoding you're going to have to shell out for a 2.4Ghz+.
An ATI video card and a PPC processer is considered proprietary? If anything Sony's setup is more proprietary then the GC.
By the way, why would Nintendo need to quit makine consoles and concentrate on the portable market when they already dominate it.
I must have been the only person who saw that first line and thought I saw
"You'd prefer security through obesity?"
Yea, bullshit. A quick google tells me that there were 42 police officer deaths in 1999. Not too bad for a country of nearly 300 million. The U.K. has a population of 60 million, one fifth the population of the U.S. According to the BBC there were 14 police deaths in 2002.
The death of a police officer in the United States is NEVER a minor story. As is, I'd still rather be a police officer then a coal miner.
I may be completely wrong but I had heard that one of the reasons that cell phones aren't allowed on planes has to do with the fast moving high altitude phones being unneccesarily demanding on the system that coordinated the passing of a cell phone signal from tower to tower as you move.
Oops, I had competely missed that. I was wondering why you hadn't linked it if you were going to mention it. Heh.
I'm pretty sure appleseed is already out in theatres in japan. We're just waiting for it to get released on DVD so it can be fansubbed. Of course, it would be really nice of em to release the jp DVD with an english subtitle track so people could buy the original.
By the way, heres the trailer for appleseed. Quite a beautiful CG animation to behold. apple.co.jp trailer
Maybe its just me, but I thought that JPEG wasn't very good at high contrast areas (black ink on white paper) and was better suited to things like photographs.
You must live in California. We've got a state regulated dairy industry with an outrageous amount of pull in the legislature. We (I work at a supermarket) were recently issued a memo stating that the minimum price for a single gallon of milk had been raised and that we are not allowed to sell or buy the milk at any price below that.
No. You're wrong.
Taxing the shit out of petroleum in the U.S. would have consequences so dire you can't even begin to imagine. The United States is NOT Europe. Most people live 20 to 30 miles away from their place of work with some living even farther. Because of the lack of a usable and succesful form of mass transit in most U.S. cities, a massive gasoline tax would take a huge amount of money right out of the hands of the people keeping our economy alive. The U.S. rail system is not an option in many cases, and remember that most every consumer product you buy is shipped for the most part by diesel trucks. The United States isn't Europe, and a high tax is ABSOLUTLY NOT the first step to reducing dependence on the automobile.
1. Build and finance usable forms of mass transit
2. Make sure that the public transit is capable of sucessfully allowing wage workers to commute.
3. Gradually make cars less attractive.
You know, originally I thought that the PSP was the most awesome handheald ever for being able to play movies.
Then it occured to me, the UMD is not going to be a writable media and any movie you're going to play on it is going to be purchased. That means I don't get to toss my divx movies onto my handheld and watch them while waiting in the dentist office. The PSP won't be the new walkman without a harddrive or writable media, maybe the new gameboy, but not the walkman.
If by untaxed you mean 25% taxed... then you're right. 50 cents on every gallon is tax.
And you're absolutly right. I see compression artifacts ALL the times in my DVDs (areas of near solid color, like skies) and it drives me nuts.
Except they aren't using lead acid batteries. They're using Nickel Metal Hydride batteries. I know that NiMH batteries aren't as bad on the enviorment as NiCad batteries but that doesn't mean that they're being recyled completely.
3 days? My Samsung a310 gets 1 day. When I have to make high-power analog calls, the phone gets hot and drains the battery in 30 minutes of talking.
"To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes." - Newton Baker, US minister of defense (1921)
Replying to yourself is taboo, but so is being an idiot and failing to notice that the chart is scaled. AM radio only takes up slightly more then 1Mhz of spectrum.
I love this PDF of the Radio Spectrum. If you look carefully you'll see that there really isn't an amazing amount of space in the FM spectrum so it wouldn't take too many unlicensed channels to cause problems.
Incidently, I feel that the AM spectrum is a greater waste of radio spectrum then all other wastes combined. Heck, FM and HAM combined use less then half the spectrum of AM. I know that lower frequencies don't carry as much information, but surely there is a better use for that low frequency space then AM radio... I wouldn't mind if they killed AM radio and allowed wireless internet using the AM band. Might be slow, but you'd have coverage from all over.
You have safety in obscurity. I guarantee you that as soon as the spyware companies see a market worth exploiting in the MAC community, they're going to write malware for Mac. Do macs not get viruses because of their ultra sleek look and superior OS? Nope, they don't get em because virus writers prefer to write for the more popular OS.
More then likely the Java/Bytever was a javascript virus sitting in your temporary internet files that IE had decided not to run. I see them on my machine's scans occasionally, but they never do more then sit idleing in the Temp internet files. I've never seen one running.
The big problem that I see is that the CPU isn't responsible for all of the laptop's power consumption. The hard drive, GPU, chipset, RAM, and screen all use a ton of power too.
That said, the one thing that Intel really did right was that Pentium-M processor. I desperatly tried to convince my friend to get one, but instead he bought an Alienware with a 3.06Ghz desktop chip. (No speed throttling ability whatsoever) The result? 55 minutes of battery life on a single batter, just shy of two hours with the extra battery. Thats if you're just surfing the net.
It's really disapointing that the Mobile Radeon 9700 doesn't use the same core as its 8 pipeline desktop brother. The mobile one is actually just a slightly higher clocked 9600. (4 pixel pipelines.)
Lsass.exe, Local Security Authority Service.
I think it's port 445... or somewhere around there.-