On the Discovery channel they asked about luxury. The response was that people don't want luxury, just price.
Suppose there is some truth to that since flying is never comfortable but for a handful of people who can afford more space. Besides, its luxury you're going to at the end of the ride.
Makes me wonder though, why not offer a sleeping seat choice at ticket time? Pack them in like train cars where you can sit cross leg or stretch out flat. Offer a family box etc. Let the engineers figure out the safety part of restraint for landings and takeoffs.
Finally, maybe some of the other companies, (Fido, Rogers, Telus, Bell), can join me in my little boat.
Dell has sucked my consulting business pretty much dry. Now they get to see first hand what it feels like when your market is assimilated right from under you.
Time to short some stocks and just become another Dell zombie?
Seems our business climate these days are all about driving out competition and innovation through patents and outsourcing into foreign markets.
First one to the finish line wins a shopping spree at Wally World!
"Mechanical engineers at Purdue have filed patents for... "
"The patents arose from a research project funded in part by the National Science Foundation."
The idea of getting the NSF funding, (in part), the research that will later lead to mechanical engineers getting the patent would be a great way to make money at the expense of others.
Should not the patent rights be shared among those who funded the project?
Working on the latest generation of computers, its no suprise that the cheaper/generic fans are very noisy trying to turn faster to compensate for the greater cooling requirements. An efficient and inexpensive cooling solution would be more desireable, IMHO.
Has anyone else experienced the "jet engine" noise comeing from newer systems?
Guess if you make the chip with less need for cooling requirements, we'll solve the puzzle also, however, that may be the more expensive road to the solution of fan noise, no?
Didn't think anyone was really looking at my page:P
Hey, at least Lynx works!
Supercomputer creates perfect tax parasitoid.
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Tracking Your Taxes
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Have there been any studies of tax data using a supercomputer?
You could use it to predict just how much you can suck out of a system, without killing it too quickly. That way the host is efficiently milked.
The perfect parasitoid.
Parasitic wasp grubs are a good example. After a caterpillar is paralyzed by a sting, the grubs eat less-important organs first. Vital organs are saved for the last supper.;there is a point in there somewhere.:P
I was thinking maybe the 150 does not do hardware decoding and thus they wanted to compare that to similar cards. Whereas the 250 does do hardware decoding to give less CPU utilization.
Going on memory here, may have my facts wrong though.
There use to be lots of the 250's and 350's on eBay.
Not anymore. (gratefully I bought 3 of the "48432" versions for my Myth box.)
The 48432 is an OEM version that was bundled with HP boxes, if memory serves me.
This was causing some confusion for buyers, but was a great way to pickup a 250 for half the cost. Hauppage forum
I would have liked to have seen a comparison of the entire Hauppauge lineup.
There was a good link running around somewhere, anyone know of that page URL?
Slashdot Mirror
That was my first reaction.
:P
Of course we want luxury...we typically just don't want to pay for it.
On the Discovery channel they asked about luxury.
The response was that people don't want luxury, just price.
Suppose there is some truth to that since flying is never comfortable but for a handful of people who can afford more space.
Besides, its luxury you're going to at the end of the ride.
Makes me wonder though, why not offer a sleeping seat choice at ticket time?
Pack them in like train cars where you can sit cross leg or stretch out flat.
Offer a family box etc.
Let the engineers figure out the safety part of restraint for landings and takeoffs.
Finally, maybe some of the other companies, (Fido, Rogers, Telus, Bell), can join me in my little boat.
Dell has sucked my consulting business pretty much dry.
Now they get to see first hand what it feels like when your market is assimilated right from under you.
Time to short some stocks and just become another Dell zombie?
Seems our business climate these days are all about driving out competition and innovation through patents and outsourcing into foreign markets.
First one to the finish line wins a shopping spree at Wally World!
I've had so much more performance and stability, (until of course you use up installed physical memory), since paging has been turned off.
So if that's the best feature MS can offer, then it really is a pointless upgrade...umm or in my thinking *downgrade*.
Hey! :-)
That is a valid Slashdot comment and should moderated up.
lol, yes the smaller fans certainly make more noise on those devices.
The other thing that is annoying about small fans, is the lack of supply.
Could have this all backwards since its not my area of expertise.
Thinking more along the lines of Electric and Magnetic Fields, (EMF).
Sheilding
The lighting will induce currents of electricity and interference on everything around it.
Here is a good chuckle:
Home project
(The Windows95 screen shot)
Interesting sidebar:
A new electric producer
"Mechanical engineers at Purdue have filed patents for ... "
"The patents arose from a research project funded in part by the National Science Foundation."
The idea of getting the NSF funding, (in part), the research that will later lead to mechanical engineers getting the patent would be a great way to make money at the expense of others.
Should not the patent rights be shared among those who funded the project?
"The microscopic cloud of ionized air then leads to an imbalance of charge in the micro-atmosphere, and lightning results. "
Using lightning to cool a CPU?
Doesn't EMF pose a problem here?
Guess you could shield, but thats counter productive isn't it?
Ya thats true.
It would be great if they made a chip that would only need passive cooling instead of using any fans.
Working on the latest generation of computers, its no suprise that the cheaper/generic fans are very noisy trying to turn faster to compensate for the greater cooling requirements.
An efficient and inexpensive cooling solution would be more desireable, IMHO.
Has anyone else experienced the "jet engine" noise comeing from newer systems?
Guess if you make the chip with less need for cooling requirements, we'll solve the puzzle also, however, that may be the more expensive road to the solution of fan noise, no?
I like that.
Prophet and/or Profit.
lol, in other words, I've just put my finger into a hornet's nest...doh!
So now what? :P
Slashdot story:
:->
Netsky and Klez variants replace IE with Firefox.
Why do all the work?
Didn't think anyone was really looking at my page :P
Hey, at least Lynx works!
Have there been any studies of tax data using a supercomputer?
;there is a point in there somewhere. :P
You could use it to predict just how much you can suck out of a system, without killing it too quickly. That way the host is efficiently milked.
The perfect parasitoid.
Parasitic wasp grubs are a good example.
After a caterpillar is paralyzed by a sting, the grubs eat less-important organs first. Vital organs are saved for the last supper.
lol, I didn't intend the pun, honest!
lol, I had to stop at "Federal Alcohol Administration"
This sounds like it should apply to Canada, eh!
As a consultant/techie, every machine that passes through my domain is converted to FireFox.
For the slower win32 boxes I use k-Meleon.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/start/
Thanks for that.
was looking for a straight answer, my google was malformed.
I was thinking maybe the 150 does not do hardware decoding and thus they wanted to compare that to similar cards.
Whereas the 250 does do hardware decoding to give less CPU utilization.
Going on memory here, may have my facts wrong though.
There use to be lots of the 250's and 350's on eBay.
Not anymore. (gratefully I bought 3 of the "48432" versions for my Myth box.)
The 48432 is an OEM version that was bundled with HP boxes, if memory serves me.
This was causing some confusion for buyers, but was a great way to pickup a 250 for half the cost.
Hauppage forum
I would have liked to have seen a comparison of the entire Hauppauge lineup. There was a good link running around somewhere, anyone know of that page URL?
"The PVR-150MCE l.p. is easy to discount due to its comparatively poor image"
According to Hauppage:
"The WinTV-PVR-150MCE has the best video quality of any Media Center TV tuner,..."
Hauppauge PVR 150MCE
But its obvious this is not the case when you look at the comparison.
*sigh*, marketing, go figure.
lol, that is so acute!
Now how about that wildlife consumption?