Although what I am about to quote is a review section for bad physics in a movie, I feel that info in it is related to this topic, more spcifically, the post above.
"The idea that an undifferentiated blank can pass through a type of puberty into a fully functioning individual in a matter of minutes ranks up there with the evil eye magic. There are reasons why regular puberty takes several years. Many of the mechanisms are sequential and are limited by diffusion processes which tend to be slow. We also estimate that making the conversion consumes energy at a rate of around 1 million joules (239 kcal, or about half a milkshake) per day in the form of food. Assuming normal puberty lasts 4 years, the total energy is about 1.5 billion joules. Confining puberty to a five minute time frame would require a power source of 5 million watts, the equivalent of about 4000 toasters. Magically, this poses no problem for the clones."
Gleaned from http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/6thday.html As you can see, making a clone is no easy buisness. So although the idea is quite clever, its not a viable solution...
its an elipse, but for quick maths, lets call it a retangle... that leaves them with what? 150 square kilometers to find a nice little probe of all but a few meters across when unfolded? Pin in a haystak if you ask me.
Hopefully it will spring to life like pathfinder did (or has everyone forgot the 20ish hours where pathfinder looked dead?) And once it does, we can all be happy that it made one of the most long haul journies that you can make... (thank god there were no kids on it repeatidly saying 'Are we there yet' every mile or so...)
If martians have got our little probe, hopefully they are smart enough to be able to hack our wi-fi from their Mars base and have enough time to look at slashdot; if so, would you please flip the batteries round so that the probe works?;)
I've heard of Centrino, but I classified it under a mobile processor, because thats exactly what it is. If you can prove to me that a Centrino deserves to be mentioned seperatly than a mobile processor, then I will be obliged to re-consider my view on the Centrino.
The other advantage of a laptop for you out there with the solar power is that a new laptop can run on low poer mode for a good few hours (5-6 if you decide to splash out for an extra battery).
You will be generating solar power through out the whole day, and I assume that it stores it overnight, so if worse came to the worse and you ran out of power at 4am, the battery(s) on the laptop would have enough power to take you to sunrise, assuming that you stay awake for that long:D
Most laptops these days have one of three types of chip in them, Celeron - low cache, but low power consumption, Desktop processor - high power consumption, good performance, and Mobile processors - best of both worlds.
For example, the new AMD Mobile Processors can drop down to nearly 300mhz when running of battery to peserve power.
I would say laptop, although having used one for nearly 3 years, I would say this view is slightly biased.
Well, I use a laptop at school (and still do, mind). Our school (in the UK) isn't the sort of place that plays nice, so I shelled out for a tech a(i)r bag.
To say the least, I'm very pleased. Its got a lifetime guarantee, and is very very strong. I once nearly got in a fight with a kid who had an attitude big enough to fill the Grand Canyon. I just walked away, but he came in from behind and punched at my bag repeatedly. In my bag was my laptop, and a few books. I was worried that he had damaged the laptop, but there wasn't even a single thing wrong when I checked it out.
The bag is also large enough to hold three laptops in relative safety.
Their website is www.techair.co.uk The exact bag I have is called a New York Black; http://www.coluco.com/tecair/product.asp?ProductId =36
Hopefully that was not stab at me. I pefer my units as a repersentation of SI units. Not to say that I should of expressed the drive size in meters however.:D
If it was a stab at me... then I laugh, because I'm living in the UK currently:D
For those in the UK; 0.85 Inches is a nice small 2.159cm. Although I wonder at the capacity and the sheilding from magnetic interference its going to need to keep away from even small magnetic currents erasing the data...
+ Mobo may not support it
- True, my MB that I run a 200 on limits me to 128MB ram
+ Uses obsolete and expensive EDO RAM
- Or as in my case, even worse FPM
+ Any failures may not be obvious, which takes a lot of troubleshooting time (memtest86,etc)
- Agreed, unless you live for this stuff
+ Cost of paying someone to upgrade is greater than the value of the computer
- Pay someone to do a job that I can do myself? never!
+ Retraining, data conversion, etc.
- Linux now days supports about 95% of shit that can be made on windows platforms. Retraining might not matter much due to the GIU
+ No matter what, Linux/KDE is heavier than Win98. (Things like security and a real kernel don't come for free)
- And NT/2K/XP are heavier than 98 as well... so? where is the point here?
See, here is where the skill of knowing whats needed and whats not comes into play. I agree that if it works, don't try and fix it. The only reason I shoved XP on my 200mhz is because it was OS-less, and it was the first disk that came to hand.
The only advantage of a new OS is continued support. You have to agree that although MS don't get things right, not having any patches is worse than having to patch. What if, soon after 98 is retired, that somone finds a nice secuirty hole that allows the attacker to do anything on your system? Then what? No patch, sorry, as its old. What would you do then? Upgrade? (come to think of it, this would be a nice little idea for Microsoft here, do the above to force those users to upgrade;) )
Once on my 10GB HD, I removed about 90% of the usless crap, which includes services not needed, and also the XP driver cache. Its such an old system, that I will not be plugging in anything new, so why do I need to keep a list of drivers for nearly every type of device? Beleive it or not, I've bought XP's foot print down to a nice low 258MB. Its RAM foot print is 31MB. So it suffices.
Are you saying its Impossible? Cause if so, then I will laugh. Im running XP on a 200mhz with 64Mb ram, and its running quite well. [Read: uptime: 3 weeks 1 day and still going] All I had to do was pull the shit out...
Slashdot Mirror
Although what I am about to quote is a review section for bad physics in a movie, I feel that info in it is related to this topic, more spcifically, the post above.
"The idea that an undifferentiated blank can pass through a type of puberty into a fully functioning individual in a matter of minutes ranks up there with the evil eye magic. There are reasons why regular puberty takes several years. Many of the mechanisms are sequential and are limited by diffusion processes which tend to be slow. We also estimate that making the conversion consumes energy at a rate of around 1 million joules (239 kcal, or about half a milkshake) per day in the form of food. Assuming normal puberty lasts 4 years, the total energy is about 1.5 billion joules. Confining puberty to a five minute time frame would require a power source of 5 million watts, the equivalent of about 4000 toasters. Magically, this poses no problem for the clones."
Gleaned from http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/6thday.html
As you can see, making a clone is no easy buisness. So although the idea is quite clever, its not a viable solution...
NeoThermic
its an elipse, but for quick maths, lets call it a retangle...
;)
that leaves them with what? 150 square kilometers to find a nice little probe of all but a few meters across when unfolded? Pin in a haystak if you ask me.
Hopefully it will spring to life like pathfinder did (or has everyone forgot the 20ish hours where pathfinder looked dead?) And once it does, we can all be happy that it made one of the most long haul journies that you can make...
(thank god there were no kids on it repeatidly saying 'Are we there yet' every mile or so...)
If martians have got our little probe, hopefully they are smart enough to be able to hack our wi-fi from their Mars base and have enough time to look at slashdot; if so, would you please flip the batteries round so that the probe works?
NeoThermic
I think the last message they got was:
:P
"A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C00068F8 in VxD Parachute(01)+000059F8. The current application will be terminated."
If so, then I reccomend sending Ctrl-Alt-Del as the signal to make contact again... oh well
Back on topic, great! another alpha to add to my server running Apache 2, ant the PHP beta...
Hopefully it will crash on my LongHorn Beta... that would be fun to watch...
NeoThermic
"Centrino includes a mobile processor (the Pentium M). It also includes the Intel 855 chipset and the Intel 2100 wifi chip. "
Which out of those will be saving the most power? (hint, Pentium M(obile)) What exactly is this question based on? (hint, saving power)
"Now who's the moron? (hint, its you)"
If your going to be throwing around insults, you know you can do better...
NeoThermic
I've heard of Centrino, but I classified it under a mobile processor, because thats exactly what it is. If you can prove to me that a Centrino deserves to be mentioned seperatly than a mobile processor, then I will be obliged to re-consider my view on the Centrino.
NeoThermic
The other advantage of a laptop for you out there with the solar power is that a new laptop can run on low poer mode for a good few hours (5-6 if you decide to splash out for an extra battery).
:D
You will be generating solar power through out the whole day, and I assume that it stores it overnight, so if worse came to the worse and you ran out of power at 4am, the battery(s) on the laptop would have enough power to take you to sunrise, assuming that you stay awake for that long
Most laptops these days have one of three types of chip in them, Celeron - low cache, but low power consumption, Desktop processor - high power consumption, good performance, and Mobile processors - best of both worlds.
For example, the new AMD Mobile Processors can drop down to nearly 300mhz when running of battery to peserve power.
I would say laptop, although having used one for nearly 3 years, I would say this view is slightly biased.
NeoThermic
"Besides, why needs you a laptop in 6th form, less years below?? "
:)
Being Dyslexic and Dispraxic, I need a laptop to do any of my work.
And as for the kid... he is not attending our school anymore...
NeoThermic
Well, I use a laptop at school (and still do, mind). Our school (in the UK) isn't the sort of place that plays nice, so I shelled out for a tech a(i)r bag.
d =36
To say the least, I'm very pleased. Its got a lifetime guarantee, and is very very strong. I once nearly got in a fight with a kid who had an attitude big enough to fill the Grand Canyon. I just walked away, but he came in from behind and punched at my bag repeatedly. In my bag was my laptop, and a few books. I was worried that he had damaged the laptop, but there wasn't even a single thing wrong when I checked it out.
The bag is also large enough to hold three laptops in relative safety.
Their website is www.techair.co.uk
The exact bag I have is called a New York Black; http://www.coluco.com/tecair/product.asp?ProductI
Hope thats helpful enough.
NeoThermic
Well, actualy, it would be y2.004k...
2^30 seconds --> years + 1970 = 2004.0481298833079654997463216641
Im just more worried about the 0.0481298833079654997463216641 seconds after 2004...
NeoThermic
Well...
What do you want it as?
CD's? Assuming 700mb on CD and 2000MB on 2GB HD, its all of 2.86 times as much as a CD.
DVD's? Assuming a 4.7GB DVD, its all of 0.43 times larger.
Your average 40GB HD? 0.05 Times as large...
So why choose floppy's as a comparason? Because its a nice large number... thats all.
NeoThermic
Hopefully that was not stab at me. I pefer my units as a repersentation of SI units. Not to say that I should of expressed the drive size in meters however. :D
:D
If it was a stab at me... then I laugh, because I'm living in the UK currently
NeoThermic
Hmm... eye sight is failing me more than expected :|
NeoThermic
For those in the UK; 0.85 Inches is a nice small 2.159cm. Although I wonder at the capacity and the sheilding from magnetic interference its going to need to keep away from even small magnetic currents erasing the data...
NeoThermic
+ Mobo may not support it
- True, my MB that I run a 200 on limits me to 128MB ram
+ Uses obsolete and expensive EDO RAM
- Or as in my case, even worse FPM
+ Any failures may not be obvious, which takes a lot of troubleshooting time (memtest86,etc)
- Agreed, unless you live for this stuff
+ Cost of paying someone to upgrade is greater than the value of the computer
- Pay someone to do a job that I can do myself? never!
+ Retraining, data conversion, etc.
- Linux now days supports about 95% of shit that can be made on windows platforms. Retraining might not matter much due to the GIU
+ No matter what, Linux/KDE is heavier than Win98. (Things like security and a real kernel don't come for free)
- And NT/2K/XP are heavier than 98 as well... so? where is the point here?
See, here is where the skill of knowing whats needed and whats not comes into play. I agree that if it works, don't try and fix it. The only reason I shoved XP on my 200mhz is because it was OS-less, and it was the first disk that came to hand.
;) )
The only advantage of a new OS is continued support. You have to agree that although MS don't get things right, not having any patches is worse than having to patch. What if, soon after 98 is retired, that somone finds a nice secuirty hole that allows the attacker to do anything on your system? Then what? No patch, sorry, as its old. What would you do then? Upgrade?
(come to think of it, this would be a nice little idea for Microsoft here, do the above to force those users to upgrade
Once on my 10GB HD, I removed about 90% of the usless crap, which includes services not needed, and also the XP driver cache. Its such an old system, that I will not be plugging in anything new, so why do I need to keep a list of drivers for nearly every type of device? Beleive it or not, I've bought XP's foot print down to a nice low 258MB. Its RAM foot print is 31MB. So it suffices.
So I see your point.
NeoThermic
Are you saying its Impossible?
Cause if so, then I will laugh. Im running XP on a 200mhz with 64Mb ram, and its running quite well. [Read: uptime: 3 weeks 1 day and still going]
All I had to do was pull the shit out...
NeoThermic
Star Wreck: Last Contact?
Who knows.. might be a big hit...
Serously, this looks good...
NeoThermic