The picture tube is a giant lead lined piece of glass which contains a vacuum and doesn't hold a charge. What you have to watch out for is the capacitors on the high voltage power supply, which contain several kV of potential. And most picture tubes are amazingly tough (the older it gets the more fragile of course).
The great thing about credit cards is the "Expiration date" is really no security feature at all. There is no "extra check" to see that the expiration matches the card when making card not present transactions. You generally only need to pick a date in the future.
HDTV uses MPEG-2 as the compression protocol. Henceforth, it will fit into the allocated airspace for OTA broadcasts (not as much density as analog TV)
Those small power supplies for Mini-ITX systems probably aren't very efficient anyway, and they'd be undersized for a Celeron system most likely. Try looking for some Seasonic power supplies. They claim 80% efficiency, and in my expierience do actually live up to that claim (supply produces far less heat than cheapo supplies). Here is a random link from Pricewatch: http://www.shentech.com/sesssuto30ac.html. I've found them at Fry's before, they even had a rebate once.
Striping disks is ideal for when you have a large streaming read. The disks can be synchronized as to stagger the reading, and you in theory can get almost 2x the read speed. Striping sucks when you have multiple concurrent reads from different parts of the disk (which is very seek dependent). In a stripe, since the data is stored on two disks, both disks will need to seek to the same spot to perform a read. Whereas in a mirror, since each disk is an identical copy, you get much better throughput on random access since each disk can be reading a different section of the disk concurrently (and not have to synchronize).
Of course this is only considering reads. Writes are another story. Striping will give you high streaming rates again, whereas mirroring won't see any speed improvement, and probably a small drop in performance unless your controller has a lot of onboard battery backed cache and can delay writes.
You forgot 3ware. They make some very nice and very high performing SATA RAID controllers. They're all hardware RAID and have excellent Linux/FreeBSD support. They're also all 64bit/66MHz PCI compatible.
The rendering is probably not at all different from your current '3d goggles' type rendering which basicly any video card on the market can do. It renders two frames, one intended for each, and somehow informs the goggles which one to show to which eye. The problem often is the reduced refresh rate, since you're now drawing 2 distinct pictures (one for each eye) on a single display device.
The Apple Store computers are set up with two partitions. One is hidden and contains the ASR (Apple Software Restore) image, while the other is the normal boot partition. They're setup to image at some point from their hidden partition. I'm sure they also have a FireWire disk with the image when someone hoses the computer totally. (No, I don't work there, just poked around one day:))
Generally Li-ions are packed in proprietary packages since they need some temperature monitoring (or in the case of laptop batteries, there is even more circuitry inside) while charging, since the batteries are prone to explode if charged incorrectly. But the actual Li-ion batteries are often made in cells which are pretty close to the standard AA and AAA sizes. Just pop apart some laptop batteries for an example. Of course this rule doesn't always hold, for small form fitting batteries for iPods and such.
The AMD Alchemy is smaller, but with the C3+chipset being Intel/PC compatible, there already is a large base of software available for the C3. By extension, there are many more people familiar with programming things on PC operating systems, which makes the C3 an appealing choice. The Alchemy is more custom. While I'm sure the development kit for the Alchemy is good, it can't match the available software base of PCs. Need to add a DNS server? There are numerous ones available which meet different needs. While you probably could port one of the DNS servers to run on the Alchemy, this is a time consuming operation.
I found this part of the release notes particulary interesting:
OpenSSL now directly uses the new AES instructions some VIA C3 processors provide, increasing AES to 780MBytes/second (so you get to see a fan-less cpu performing AES more than 10x faster than the fastest cpu currently sold).
I don't know if the fanless assertion is right (the AES instruction is available in the newer (step 8?) Nehemiah processors, which I don't think there is a fanless version yet on the market.) Of course someone will prove me wrong.
Now all VIA needs to do is make a network centric Nano-ITX board (drop the video, audio, firewire, usb, etc etc, and add in two more good ethernet ports), and this could be a serious IPsec/VPN platform.
You're forgetting the professional 3d market. 3d modeling and design used to be done on IRIX machines. Thats been moving to Linux slowly (and some Windows, but many shops who used IRIX seem to find Linux more up their alley)
Just to make a point, but the preview features of the KDE file selector are the same throughout KDE. So you get a PDF preview not only in KPDF, but in Kmail or Konqueror.
Firstly, they border on monopolistic and can force manufacturers like Dell to use their integrated chipsets. By offering the cheapest video cards on the market and likely offering package deals (CPU and GPU together) to drag the cost down further, there are a number of Benjamins on the line for the likes of Dell in using Intel's graphics chips.
Why then have I seen the majority of Dells with Radeon 7500 or 9000s (in Optiplex systems) and NVidia GeForce 4s (in Dimensions)? Dell picks the Intel integrated solution when it has a low cost system where anything besides displaying Word documents isn't in the machine's target market. This is only one market that Dell sells to. They do produce something besides the sub-$700 PC.
Community Colleges have gone up a fair bit since then (used to be $11/unit, now its more).
UC Davis Fees and Tuition is $5,853 a year now. But, its still very cheap compared to many other schools and states.
You could always sign the blacklist received, so unless the actual distributed blacklist client is compromised, the authenticity of the list can be validated. You still have one publisher, but everyone who wants to use the blacklist would have to run their own distributed client. Really not a bad idea.
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The picture tube is a giant lead lined piece of glass which contains a vacuum and doesn't hold a charge. What you have to watch out for is the capacitors on the high voltage power supply, which contain several kV of potential. And most picture tubes are amazingly tough (the older it gets the more fragile of course).
The great thing about credit cards is the "Expiration date" is really no security feature at all. There is no "extra check" to see that the expiration matches the card when making card not present transactions. You generally only need to pick a date in the future.
You mean GM. Examples of Toyota-GMs include the Corolla (made in Fremont, CA) which was also the Geo Prizm, and the Pontiac Vibe/Toyota Matrix.
HDTV uses MPEG-2 as the compression protocol. Henceforth, it will fit into the allocated airspace for OTA broadcasts (not as much density as analog TV)
And /. ate my link: 35mm film
I guess 35mm is totally inferior since its what most movies are shot on. 35mm.
Those small power supplies for Mini-ITX systems probably aren't very efficient anyway, and they'd be undersized for a Celeron system most likely. Try looking for some Seasonic power supplies. They claim 80% efficiency, and in my expierience do actually live up to that claim (supply produces far less heat than cheapo supplies). Here is a random link from Pricewatch: http://www.shentech.com/sesssuto30ac.html. I've found them at Fry's before, they even had a rebate once.
Clicking on a link in Thunderbird gets Firefox started... It works differently on Windows (Firefox needs to be the default browser) vs. Linux
Of course this is only considering reads. Writes are another story. Striping will give you high streaming rates again, whereas mirroring won't see any speed improvement, and probably a small drop in performance unless your controller has a lot of onboard battery backed cache and can delay writes.
You forgot 3ware. They make some very nice and very high performing SATA RAID controllers. They're all hardware RAID and have excellent Linux/FreeBSD support. They're also all 64bit/66MHz PCI compatible.
The rendering is probably not at all different from your current '3d goggles' type rendering which basicly any video card on the market can do. It renders two frames, one intended for each, and somehow informs the goggles which one to show to which eye. The problem often is the reduced refresh rate, since you're now drawing 2 distinct pictures (one for each eye) on a single display device.
Many video cards, when operating in OpenGL, VSync by default, so I agree with you here.
The Apple Store computers are set up with two partitions. One is hidden and contains the ASR (Apple Software Restore) image, while the other is the normal boot partition. They're setup to image at some point from their hidden partition. I'm sure they also have a FireWire disk with the image when someone hoses the computer totally. (No, I don't work there, just poked around one day :))
Some info on deploying OS X ASR images: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/asrx-original.html
We use ASR to image the base machines for the labs here at UC Davis, and then deploy the software install sets using Radmind
Are you speaking from expierience here? :)
Generally Li-ions are packed in proprietary packages since they need some temperature monitoring (or in the case of laptop batteries, there is even more circuitry inside) while charging, since the batteries are prone to explode if charged incorrectly. But the actual Li-ion batteries are often made in cells which are pretty close to the standard AA and AAA sizes. Just pop apart some laptop batteries for an example. Of course this rule doesn't always hold, for small form fitting batteries for iPods and such.
The AMD Alchemy is smaller, but with the C3+chipset being Intel/PC compatible, there already is a large base of software available for the C3. By extension, there are many more people familiar with programming things on PC operating systems, which makes the C3 an appealing choice. The Alchemy is more custom. While I'm sure the development kit for the Alchemy is good, it can't match the available software base of PCs. Need to add a DNS server? There are numerous ones available which meet different needs. While you probably could port one of the DNS servers to run on the Alchemy, this is a time consuming operation.
I found this part of the release notes particulary interesting:
OpenSSL now directly uses the new AES instructions some VIA C3 processors provide, increasing AES to 780MBytes/second (so you get to see a fan-less cpu performing AES more than 10x faster than the fastest cpu currently sold).
I don't know if the fanless assertion is right (the AES instruction is available in the newer (step 8?) Nehemiah processors, which I don't think there is a fanless version yet on the market.) Of course someone will prove me wrong.
Now all VIA needs to do is make a network centric Nano-ITX board (drop the video, audio, firewire, usb, etc etc, and add in two more good ethernet ports), and this could be a serious IPsec/VPN platform.
You're forgetting the professional 3d market. 3d modeling and design used to be done on IRIX machines. Thats been moving to Linux slowly (and some Windows, but many shops who used IRIX seem to find Linux more up their alley)
Just to make a point, but the preview features of the KDE file selector are the same throughout KDE. So you get a PDF preview not only in KPDF, but in Kmail or Konqueror.
No. There is a bit on the DVD header which tells the player whether or not to enable Macrovision.
Firstly, they border on monopolistic and can force manufacturers like Dell to use their integrated chipsets. By offering the cheapest video cards on the market and likely offering package deals (CPU and GPU together) to drag the cost down further, there are a number of Benjamins on the line for the likes of Dell in using Intel's graphics chips.
Why then have I seen the majority of Dells with Radeon 7500 or 9000s (in Optiplex systems) and NVidia GeForce 4s (in Dimensions)?
Dell picks the Intel integrated solution when it has a low cost system where anything besides displaying Word documents isn't in the machine's target market. This is only one market that Dell sells to. They do produce something besides the sub-$700 PC.
My Sony G400 only draws 135W.
There is IRM. It integrates an asset database with a trouble ticket system, which in many cases makes lots of sense.
Community Colleges have gone up a fair bit since then (used to be $11/unit, now its more). UC Davis Fees and Tuition is $5,853 a year now. But, its still very cheap compared to many other schools and states.
You could always sign the blacklist received, so unless the actual distributed blacklist client is compromised, the authenticity of the list can be validated. You still have one publisher, but everyone who wants to use the blacklist would have to run their own distributed client. Really not a bad idea.