I thought Google search weren't exact. You know, they were more statistical in nature. The entire algorithm is not probably based on absolute number (guessing, but otherwise it would not make sense).
The thing is if Google uses this to create their index-like structure of the internet for their search engine, and it is not exactly like a RDBMS, well, so what? The MapReduce thing seems to be targeted at large sets of data and semi-accurate data mining, not exact results. No one really cares if there are 3,000,000,000 sites or 3,000,000,002 sites with Linux in it somewhere.
Comparing RDBMS to MapReduce is like comparing math function to a paper graph of that function. The first one gives you exact results for all data in its domain. The second gives out quick, pain-free and semi-accurate results for some parts of the domain.
Now, I will not be using MapReduce but then I don't see why Google should not. It is their business.
How realistic do they want the simulations? So realistic that the technology becomes classified?
Anyway, the basic of what NASA is known for is space and rocketry missions. So for STEM (Science/Tech/Eng/Math), this covers most of this. I do not know how they will cover engineering - designing rocket engines? Heat shield tests? Vehicle-debris impact simulation?? The incredible-machine-like workshops?
Math is the most hopeless area to try to stimulate. Since they want to gear this towards regular school (high school and younger) students, not PhD math students, all they can hope for is arithmetic. Sure, they can have "difficult problems" like "solve linear system of equations", but that is not what higher level math is about. Math is about logic and nothing else. Not arithmetic.
I wish them luck. They should really think *hard* about what they want from something like this. The American Army (AA) game is a relatively simple shooter with emphasis on some "formal" training and more realistic combat (which is less fun, BTW). The NASA game may be ok only if it targets people already interested in science and allows these people to interact with each other. If the game is dumbed down to the "regular student" level, they'll end up with no one there. The geeks will think the game sucks as it provides not enough challenge and the others will think it is just some stupid "educational" game.
NASA, design it for geeks first please, and maybe you'll get what you want in the end.
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PostgreSQL is under BSD license. You can make changes and close source it if you want.
MySQL is GPL with Sun now owning all copyrights. So.... not sure. As a postgresql user, this move puzzles me. PostgreSQL is a database much closer to the proprietary databases than MySQL. From an API perspective, it is kind of like PostgreSQL is the BSD in the UNIX world of proprietary databases, and MySQL is the Windows (aka, non-standard).
ALL animals have very similar thoughts and receptors to our own. Things like fear and pain are primordial and necessary for any survival. Other things that are necessary generally involve some sort of social structure in most animals, which involves, yes, thought! The only thing we think we have over animals is reason (though the lack of communication is probably what is the barrier here), though with some parts of the world as crazy as they are, I would not exactly say that many of us actually follow that reason.
Hell, even insects have pain receptors and think. They must adapt somehow.:) Like the Portia spider,
And an animal without pain cannot survive. People with a disorder that makes them unable to feel pain end up with giant burns, eat their cheeks out, etc. Nasty. Many do not survive long as they don't know when something is really wrong.
1. GM a cow that makes lots of its own growth hormones and antibiotics - farmer doesn't need to pay extra for that stuff now as it comes bundled with the cow.
2. clone the hell out of that one cow
3. army of cheap, growth hormone and antibiotic producing supercows - sell cloned eggs to farmers at $500/cow
4. profit like HELL!!!
Cloning is just a natural extension of GM. Actually, cloning is something that is needed for the GM industry.
"Perfectly-immune organism" cannot exist. That's an oxymoron. All life is just an arms race. The attacking organisms need to feed to survive and will adapt to your defenses. Then defenses have to adapt to the new attack vector. For examples, see the super-resistant MRSA? Or other superbugs? The same thing will happen to any "supercow". That's why you can't have a perfect anti-biotic - eventually something will be resistant to that anti-biotic. After all, the cells of the organism that is using anti-biotic are not all killed by it:) So, organisms will just take the traits from that make cells of the anti-biotic taking organism resistant to the anti-biotic. Problem solved.
Oh, and bananas have an immune system too.:P If plants didn't have an immune system, I don't think they would have survived these hundreds of millions of years.
While cloned doesn't really affect people as it is the same organism, GM may. Same for everything else.
Your intestines don't just absorb glucose (and proteins and fats and most of other stuff produced by bacteria that feed on the stuff you eat), but also the pesticides, herbicides, plastics, toxins, vitamins, minerals, water, etc. Many of these plastics mimic hormones. And guess what? That is very bad. Kinda sucks when your system goes out of whack because of stuff you have to eat because it is non-labeled. Long term consequences => ??????
Hell, right now I don't even think anyone should label anything. Food is getting so fscked up that the only label that matters is certified organic. Otherwise we'd end up with at least 3 labels right now - radiation, GM, cloned. The 1st one can screw up the food a bit (though not generally bad), the 2nd is ????? and the last is nothing..
Oh, and "simple thing as digestion of organic matter", is not. Point me do a definitive guide on digestion and all its feedback loops equations (including how all the gut bacteria work exactly). You know, the exact model. No go? I guess it is not that simple after all. Lots digestive problems are still labeled as "Irritable bowel syndrome" a.k.a. "something is screwed up but we don't know what".
And with GM, lol man, if you get your GM cabbage that produces antibiotics, still benign? Open your eyes a bit to what is possible with GM. GM cabbage != cabbage. In many ways the genes introduced make it a complete new sub-species and sometimes even a new species.
Or a plant that makes its own pesticide. So by your answer that GM plant is fine, but spraying some on the plant is worse?
The entire point of GM is to make the animals/plants produce pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones so you do not have to spend extra money getting that stuff./rambling - getting late.....
9/11 was man attacking man. Heck, non-US people attacking US people. Ominous. We got 2 wars with 100,000+ people dead and millions displaced out of this.
'04 Tsunami was nature with man in the way. Happens all the time. The number of casualties was the only thing that was ominous. No wars out of this.
This explains the press coverage.
The "security" stuff is kind of like the old cold war crap. You know, watch out for the "red commies" or "capitalist pigs". How many trillions were spent on that? The people making money just needed another funnel and terrorism/security is it. That's why there is so much more attention now vs. IRA days. The good old saying will probably never die - follow the money.
The problem is almost exclusively the power supplies.
Over the last few years, I had 5 power supplies fail, 2 of them with a giant bang. Heck, I'm sure that they would result in the place being burned to the ground if it wasn't for me pulling the cord out of the wall. The culprit in both cases was a cheap-ass power supply that came with the case of those $50 deals.
Scenario one. The box (P3-450) was powered off. Was changing the network card though I noticed the power supply was suspiciously warm even though it was off. When I plugged the box back in (didn't had time to turn it on), caps popped in the PS with 3 large bangs and 12V rail became 120V AC rail. Yanked the cord out of the wall within about 2 seconds but the damage was done. Everything connected to 12V was fried. Sound gone. CD/HD fried (CD drive opened spontaneously like in those horror movies and the CD that was in it flew out, hit the wall and shattered!). The mobo/CPU/ram survived as only the 12V rail was affected. Later, I plugged in the PS on the workbench and within 2 seconds there was a fire inside the power supply. I didn't wait longer to see what would happen, but I can image that the place would burn down if that PS popped in the middle of the night.
Scenario two. A different power supply. This was an old ATX power supply I was using for a different purpose - powering some equipment 5V equipment on stand-by power rail (yes, less power than it was rated for at that rail:). Was working fine for a long time. All voltages were fine. Then one day it just exploded in flames. Now, this PS was not in a PC at the time, so maybe not worthy of "burning the house down" scenario as it was only plugged in when someone was around.
The last 3 cases are power supplies that died or were about to die. One of a Antec 300W PS - that one worked fine then just stopped working. Another was an HP propriatory PS - working fine then not. Died the Right Way. And the third one was an unnamed PS that just stopped giving right voltages. The 12V went down to 9V over one year and system stability was gone.
So, at least 1 in 5 cases so far would result in "house burn down" scenario. Now, I do not keep any but the best PS boxes (Enermax) anywhere where a fire would destroy they house. The cheap ones are relegated to the concrete basement.
There is NO OTHER component of any electronic device but the power supply that can destroy your house. And yes, a monitor also has a power supply, though a bit safer than the PC box.
Of course, there is no 100% fire proof anything so the only way is to mitigate the problem, and also mitigate the energy waste problem at the same time. Unplug your devices when you are not using them. Unplug the TV/DVD/computer when you are not around. If you need the box up 24/7 (eg. server running your home phone system, bt, etc.), put that box in the basement on a concrete floor without flammables around it. For the rest, keep it unplugged when not using - surge protected works great here. This may save your house, and maybe $100+ in wasted "stand-by" power per year.
Just a reality check, but would you be happy with HD 1080p movies at 500kbps?? I thought not. Low resolution is there because of low bitrate. High resolution low bitrate is same shit.
But yes, "Watch It Now" sucks. Easier for find some interesting crap on youtube or somewhere.
When BlueRay was first unvailed it was already behind HD-DVD. It was few months late and not all glitches were fixed and all features done. Now, they are finally getting all features complete. This is the result. Incompatible upgrade.
Of course, if a player has firmware upgrade capabilities, it may not be obsolete.
Spread or fail. If humans don't spread beyond this planet, we fail. Plain and simple.
The purpose of life is to survive. Being stuck on this planet will lead to your extinction either caused by ourselves or external forces (aka. asteroid). It is just a matter of time. All the talk about military in this discussion (see other threads) just underscores that we are still thinking small. We'll kill each other for the tiny resources on this small planet instead of taking what is freely available elsewhere.
We should be at war with universe*, not ourselves. We must shed our stone age mentality, now.
* - this means in terms of "conquering" new places that are deemed inhabitable and making them habitable. Like Moon or Mars or Ganymede or Titan.
There is no software developed for linux based OSes because there is not enough people using it (small market). There is no market for it because there is little commercial software that supports linux. Classical Catch-22. Enough said.
You don't need a big crumple zone to have very good survival ratings. For example, F1's crumple zone is very small - just the tip of the vehicle. Yet, it is enough that the driver will survive crashes into a wall in excess of 100mph. Smart has a much larger crumple zone.
Now, in vehicles without crumple zones like the 70s cars, you would not make it. The vehicle would be ok though.
It is about the g-forces. A human being can survive impacts of 100g peak if they have some muscle mass so probably an old cranny would not make it, but a 30 year old would. The larger the crumple zone, the gentler the impact and more likely for the more fragile individual to survive. For perfect safety, a smart should have a 5-point restraint (there is no back seat there anyway). A helmet may be overkill;)
Then explain to me why the highest death toll per driver occurs in countries like India and China??
America is when I realized that the lines on the road in Vietnam were mostly a suggestion when I saw a bus trying to overtake a bus on a 2 lane road. Everyone casually just hopped off the road for a second to give birth to the oncoming traffic. I was the idiot that didn't try to get out of the way until the last second. As American's remember that our arrogance is our weakness.
Your humbliness is going all the way up your butt into your brain.
The driver that hit you would be 100% responsible for that collision unless he just doesn't care because they can just bribe officials anyway. Yes, you lose. But just because you can lose your life doesn't mean it was your fault! And it also means that not everyone is following The Rules.
The traffic code (last I checked) generally tells people to walk *against* traffic and cycle *with* traffic. But in US/Canada, for some retarded reason, the oppose is true for most people. They cycle against traffic and walk with traffic. Then when a cage doesn't follow the rules and hit you, you lose. On a bike you cannot really avoid the collision and so get splattered at (vehicle speed + your speed) instead of (vehicle speed - your speed) and with pedestrians you can't avoid it because it is from behind. If you could see it, you could just side-step to avoid the cage not following The Rules.
So, unless people in Vietnam are following these Rules (common sense), they are not any smarter than the typical US/Canadian cyclist/pedestrian. But with respect to drivers, the death rate in crashes speaks for itself.
AFAIK, most crashes for motorcycles are single vehicle crashes. Most crashes that are not single vehicle crashes, are because of the non-motorcycle vehicle caused the crash. And the most represented motorcycle type in single vehicle crashes is the sport bike.
Yes, there are some nuts out there on their sports bikes (and hogs), but they tend to end up in serious crashes that injure them only - single vehicle crashes. So I have not much of a problem with these people. I have a bigger problem with people yapping on their cells, eating and putting on makeup while driving their 3000 pound projectile weapons.
Sadly, the most at risk from all the turds (motorcycles and caged curds) on the road is the cyclist. The one vehicle that generally cannot keep with traffic. Happened to me a few times where a cage cuts you off and/or honks their horn on empty road just to intimidate you and/or passing within 1 ft, again for intimidation. This only happened to me during cycling and never on motorcycle. And I cycle on scenic county roads with little traffic where speed limit is 50km/h and everyone is going 70+.:(
The top speed for this car is about 70km/h on a flat road. It would be less on an incline, so probably 40-50km/h on a steep incline.
This car is for Indian and other developing countries where they don't drive that fast anyway because of poor road conditions. It is not for the fscked up roads in US and certain parts of Canada where going to the store means jumping on an highway going 100mph just so you can get to the giant Walmart Supercenter. Heck, a glued car probably would not pass safety requirements - if you want something that small just get a diesel powered Smart car and it will give you more power and burn less gas (4l/100km or about 70+mpg - diesel)
And with Smart at least you get "perks" like electronic stability program (esp®) with hill holder; anti-lockbraking system (abs) with electronic brake-force distribution;acceleration skid control; brake assist;dual-circuit brake system with servo-assistance; sequential 6-speed transmission. And a top speed of 135km/h or about 85mph vs 70km/h or 45mph for the Indian car.
T1 connection? They cost generally $400-$1000 / month. Some areas are cheaper, $250-$500. Their bandwidth is 1.5Mbps or 187.5kB/s or 463GB/month. This ends up with at least $1/mo or more for T1.
OC3 connection, 155Mbps @ $20k-45k/month gives you 47,900KB or $0.50-1.00/GB. Again, depends where you live. $15k-100k, depends on location.
The stuff you get from ISP is oversold stuff that you cannot use up. It is designed for burst traffic only that averages over their entire userbase to fill a few OC3s. You can't use up 10% of all the bandwidth of 10000 customers and expect to get away with it.
They were on a closed-track performing an experiment. You know, that is not the same as crashing your car on purpose going the wrong way on a public road because you want to commit suicide.
Actually, I remember that a *significant* number of head-on collisions are caused by a driver that wants to kill themselves. That is another reason to enforce automatic steering/vehicle control to prevent these fscktards from murdering innocent people.
As a motorcycle owner, I'd trust a computer controlled cage much more than a human controlled one.
Humans make a lot of mistakes including the stupid excuses "I didn't see you". With computer controlled stuff, the software will *see* everything down to a given size all the time. It doesn't get distracted or starts the 'stare into oblivions', both of which result in the same scenario.
Cars and SUVs and trucks are the largest obstacle to safety for cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists. Remove the recklessness from the former and the latter can only screw themselves by their own mistakes not because the cage driver just doesn't give a fsck about you because in a collision, you lose, not the cage.
1200x1024 19" HP LCD which I bought almost 3 years ago. The text is *much* better than a 1600x1200 res. CRT. *Much* better.
CRT are just blurry by comparison. The higher the refresh rate, the fuzzier they are. And the lower the refresh rate, the sorer my eyes are. You can't compare resolution of any CRT to native resolution of any LCD. CRT pixels are fuzzy be design. LCD pixels are sharp by design. Enough said.
Also, you can turn most business class LCD sideways. Generally these are the 4:3 ratio ones, so you end up with 3:4 ratio. Widescreens would be awkward sideways, I think, though I haven't tried that.
1 or 2 Mbps or Megabits per second. 1MB broadband - wtf does that mean? 1MB download total?
MB => megabyte Mb => megabit
MB/s => megabytes per second. Generally used to describe disk speed, memory speed (in the past, now in GB/s) Mb/s or Mbs => magabits per second. USed to describe network speeds.
1 byte = 8 bits unless you are living in the 70s.
BTW, 1.5 Mbps is one of the standard speeds for ADSL and would net you about 177kB/s download rate. Going at full throttle, that gives you 14.5GB/day. On 7.5Mbps speed, or 5x faster, that would give you 72.5GB/day. Since HD movies now are probably around 25-30 GB/2hours or 15GB/h, to watch that real time, you'd need a 36Mbps broadband minimum or download speed of 4.3MB/s. Since HD content will be less compressed on the 50GB discs, you'll need about 70Mbps for that to download.
For regular DVDs, they tend to be about 3GB/h so you'd need a 7Mbps service minimum to be able to watch DVD quality movies real time.
Neither of the scenarios will be a reality for vast majority of the Internet users. If it costs you $1.5/GB to get the stuff in network charges, the HD content would cost you $50-$100. The DVD would be about $12. A mailed rental DVD costs you a lot less than that and even buying one may be cheaper.
So yes, you are correct. DL is *way* off in the digital future, just keep the darn units correct.
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I thought Google search weren't exact. You know, they were more statistical in nature. The entire algorithm is not probably based on absolute number (guessing, but otherwise it would not make sense).
The thing is if Google uses this to create their index-like structure of the internet for their search engine, and it is not exactly like a RDBMS, well, so what? The MapReduce thing seems to be targeted at large sets of data and semi-accurate data mining, not exact results. No one really cares if there are 3,000,000,000 sites or 3,000,000,002 sites with Linux in it somewhere.
Comparing RDBMS to MapReduce is like comparing math function to a paper graph of that function. The first one gives you exact results for all data in its domain. The second gives out quick, pain-free and semi-accurate results for some parts of the domain.
Now, I will not be using MapReduce but then I don't see why Google should not. It is their business.
How realistic do they want the simulations? So realistic that the technology becomes classified?
Anyway, the basic of what NASA is known for is space and rocketry missions. So for STEM (Science/Tech/Eng/Math), this covers most of this. I do not know how they will cover engineering - designing rocket engines? Heat shield tests? Vehicle-debris impact simulation?? The incredible-machine-like workshops?
Math is the most hopeless area to try to stimulate. Since they want to gear this towards regular school (high school and younger) students, not PhD math students, all they can hope for is arithmetic. Sure, they can have "difficult problems" like "solve linear system of equations", but that is not what higher level math is about. Math is about logic and nothing else. Not arithmetic.
I wish them luck. They should really think *hard* about what they want from something like this. The American Army (AA) game is a relatively simple shooter with emphasis on some "formal" training and more realistic combat (which is less fun, BTW). The NASA game may be ok only if it targets people already interested in science and allows these people to interact with each other. If the game is dumbed down to the "regular student" level, they'll end up with no one there. The geeks will think the game sucks as it provides not enough challenge and the others will think it is just some stupid "educational" game.
NASA, design it for geeks first please, and maybe you'll get what you want in the end.
PostgreSQL is under BSD license. You can make changes and close source it if you want.
MySQL is GPL with Sun now owning all copyrights. So.... not sure. As a postgresql user, this move puzzles me. PostgreSQL is a database much closer to the proprietary databases than MySQL. From an API perspective, it is kind of like PostgreSQL is the BSD in the UNIX world of proprietary databases, and MySQL is the Windows (aka, non-standard).
Exactly!
:) Like the Portia spider,
ALL animals have very similar thoughts and receptors to our own. Things like fear and pain are primordial and necessary for any survival. Other things that are necessary generally involve some sort of social structure in most animals, which involves, yes, thought! The only thing we think we have over animals is reason (though the lack of communication is probably what is the barrier here), though with some parts of the world as crazy as they are, I would not exactly say that many of us actually follow that reason.
Hell, even insects have pain receptors and think. They must adapt somehow.
http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.html
And an animal without pain cannot survive. People with a disorder that makes them unable to feel pain end up with giant burns, eat their cheeks out, etc. Nasty. Many do not survive long as they don't know when something is really wrong.
The point of cloning is the following,
1. GM a cow that makes lots of its own growth hormones and antibiotics - farmer doesn't need to pay extra for that stuff now as it comes bundled with the cow.
2. clone the hell out of that one cow
3. army of cheap, growth hormone and antibiotic producing supercows - sell cloned eggs to farmers at $500/cow
4. profit like HELL!!!
Cloning is just a natural extension of GM. Actually, cloning is something that is needed for the GM industry.
You are extremely naive. Sorry.
:) So, organisms will just take the traits from that make cells of the anti-biotic taking organism resistant to the anti-biotic. Problem solved.
:P If plants didn't have an immune system, I don't think they would have survived these hundreds of millions of years.
"Perfectly-immune organism" cannot exist. That's an oxymoron. All life is just an arms race. The attacking organisms need to feed to survive and will adapt to your defenses. Then defenses have to adapt to the new attack vector. For examples, see the super-resistant MRSA? Or other superbugs? The same thing will happen to any "supercow". That's why you can't have a perfect anti-biotic - eventually something will be resistant to that anti-biotic. After all, the cells of the organism that is using anti-biotic are not all killed by it
Oh, and bananas have an immune system too.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7117/abs/nature05286.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system
While cloned doesn't really affect people as it is the same organism, GM may. Same for everything else.
/rambling - getting late.....
Your intestines don't just absorb glucose (and proteins and fats and most of other stuff produced by bacteria that feed on the stuff you eat), but also the pesticides, herbicides, plastics, toxins, vitamins, minerals, water, etc. Many of these plastics mimic hormones. And guess what? That is very bad. Kinda sucks when your system goes out of whack because of stuff you have to eat because it is non-labeled. Long term consequences => ??????
Hell, right now I don't even think anyone should label anything. Food is getting so fscked up that the only label that matters is certified organic. Otherwise we'd end up with at least 3 labels right now - radiation, GM, cloned. The 1st one can screw up the food a bit (though not generally bad), the 2nd is ????? and the last is nothing..
Oh, and "simple thing as digestion of organic matter", is not. Point me do a definitive guide on digestion and all its feedback loops equations (including how all the gut bacteria work exactly). You know, the exact model. No go? I guess it is not that simple after all. Lots digestive problems are still labeled as "Irritable bowel syndrome" a.k.a. "something is screwed up but we don't know what".
And with GM, lol man, if you get your GM cabbage that produces antibiotics, still benign? Open your eyes a bit to what is possible with GM. GM cabbage != cabbage. In many ways the genes introduced make it a complete new sub-species and sometimes even a new species.
Or a plant that makes its own pesticide. So by your answer that GM plant is fine, but spraying some on the plant is worse?
The entire point of GM is to make the animals/plants produce pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones so you do not have to spend extra money getting that stuff.
River Raid on Atari 130XE with a tape deck and "Turbo 2000" (2000 bps transfer!!! wow!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atari_130xe.jpg
Brings back memories.....
9/11 was man attacking man. Heck, non-US people attacking US people. Ominous. We got 2 wars with 100,000+ people dead and millions displaced out of this.
'04 Tsunami was nature with man in the way. Happens all the time. The number of casualties was the only thing that was ominous. No wars out of this.
This explains the press coverage.
The "security" stuff is kind of like the old cold war crap. You know, watch out for the "red commies" or "capitalist pigs". How many trillions were spent on that? The people making money just needed another funnel and terrorism/security is it. That's why there is so much more attention now vs. IRA days. The good old saying will probably never die - follow the money.
The problem is almost exclusively the power supplies.
:). Was working fine for a long time. All voltages were fine. Then one day it just exploded in flames. Now, this PS was not in a PC at the time, so maybe not worthy of "burning the house down" scenario as it was only plugged in when someone was around.
Over the last few years, I had 5 power supplies fail, 2 of them with a giant bang. Heck, I'm sure that they would result in the place being burned to the ground if it wasn't for me pulling the cord out of the wall. The culprit in both cases was a cheap-ass power supply that came with the case of those $50 deals.
Scenario one. The box (P3-450) was powered off. Was changing the network card though I noticed the power supply was suspiciously warm even though it was off. When I plugged the box back in (didn't had time to turn it on), caps popped in the PS with 3 large bangs and 12V rail became 120V AC rail. Yanked the cord out of the wall within about 2 seconds but the damage was done. Everything connected to 12V was fried. Sound gone. CD/HD fried (CD drive opened spontaneously like in those horror movies and the CD that was in it flew out, hit the wall and shattered!). The mobo/CPU/ram survived as only the 12V rail was affected. Later, I plugged in the PS on the workbench and within 2 seconds there was a fire inside the power supply. I didn't wait longer to see what would happen, but I can image that the place would burn down if that PS popped in the middle of the night.
Scenario two. A different power supply. This was an old ATX power supply I was using for a different purpose - powering some equipment 5V equipment on stand-by power rail (yes, less power than it was rated for at that rail
The last 3 cases are power supplies that died or were about to die. One of a Antec 300W PS - that one worked fine then just stopped working. Another was an HP propriatory PS - working fine then not. Died the Right Way. And the third one was an unnamed PS that just stopped giving right voltages. The 12V went down to 9V over one year and system stability was gone.
So, at least 1 in 5 cases so far would result in "house burn down" scenario. Now, I do not keep any but the best PS boxes (Enermax) anywhere where a fire would destroy they house. The cheap ones are relegated to the concrete basement.
There is NO OTHER component of any electronic device but the power supply that can destroy your house. And yes, a monitor also has a power supply, though a bit safer than the PC box.
Of course, there is no 100% fire proof anything so the only way is to mitigate the problem, and also mitigate the energy waste problem at the same time. Unplug your devices when you are not using them. Unplug the TV/DVD/computer when you are not around. If you need the box up 24/7 (eg. server running your home phone system, bt, etc.), put that box in the basement on a concrete floor without flammables around it. For the rest, keep it unplugged when not using - surge protected works great here. This may save your house, and maybe $100+ in wasted "stand-by" power per year.
Just a reality check, but would you be happy with HD 1080p movies at 500kbps?? I thought not. Low resolution is there because of low bitrate. High resolution low bitrate is same shit.
But yes, "Watch It Now" sucks. Easier for find some interesting crap on youtube or somewhere.
When BlueRay was first unvailed it was already behind HD-DVD. It was few months late and not all glitches were fixed and all features done. Now, they are finally getting all features complete. This is the result. Incompatible upgrade.
Of course, if a player has firmware upgrade capabilities, it may not be obsolete.
Spread or fail. If humans don't spread beyond this planet, we fail. Plain and simple.
The purpose of life is to survive. Being stuck on this planet will lead to your extinction either caused by ourselves or external forces (aka. asteroid). It is just a matter of time. All the talk about military in this discussion (see other threads) just underscores that we are still thinking small. We'll kill each other for the tiny resources on this small planet instead of taking what is freely available elsewhere.
We should be at war with universe*, not ourselves. We must shed our stone age mentality, now.
* - this means in terms of "conquering" new places that are deemed inhabitable and making them habitable. Like Moon or Mars or Ganymede or Titan.
There is no software developed for linux based OSes because there is not enough people using it (small market). There is no market for it because there is little commercial software that supports linux. Classical Catch-22. Enough said.
You don't need a big crumple zone to have very good survival ratings. For example, F1's crumple zone is very small - just the tip of the vehicle. Yet, it is enough that the driver will survive crashes into a wall in excess of 100mph. Smart has a much larger crumple zone.
;)
Now, in vehicles without crumple zones like the 70s cars, you would not make it. The vehicle would be ok though.
It is about the g-forces. A human being can survive impacts of 100g peak if they have some muscle mass so probably an old cranny would not make it, but a 30 year old would. The larger the crumple zone, the gentler the impact and more likely for the more fragile individual to survive. For perfect safety, a smart should have a 5-point restraint (there is no back seat there anyway). A helmet may be overkill
Your humbliness is going all the way up your butt into your brain.
The driver that hit you would be 100% responsible for that collision unless he just doesn't care because they can just bribe officials anyway. Yes, you lose. But just because you can lose your life doesn't mean it was your fault! And it also means that not everyone is following The Rules.
The traffic code (last I checked) generally tells people to walk *against* traffic and cycle *with* traffic. But in US/Canada, for some retarded reason, the oppose is true for most people. They cycle against traffic and walk with traffic. Then when a cage doesn't follow the rules and hit you, you lose. On a bike you cannot really avoid the collision and so get splattered at (vehicle speed + your speed) instead of (vehicle speed - your speed) and with pedestrians you can't avoid it because it is from behind. If you could see it, you could just side-step to avoid the cage not following The Rules.
So, unless people in Vietnam are following these Rules (common sense), they are not any smarter than the typical US/Canadian cyclist/pedestrian. But with respect to drivers, the death rate in crashes speaks for itself.
I am a motorcyclist too (and a cyclist as well ;)
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AFAIK, most crashes for motorcycles are single vehicle crashes. Most crashes that are not single vehicle crashes, are because of the non-motorcycle vehicle caused the crash. And the most represented motorcycle type in single vehicle crashes is the sport bike.
Yes, there are some nuts out there on their sports bikes (and hogs), but they tend to end up in serious crashes that injure them only - single vehicle crashes. So I have not much of a problem with these people. I have a bigger problem with people yapping on their cells, eating and putting on makeup while driving their 3000 pound projectile weapons.
Sadly, the most at risk from all the turds (motorcycles and caged curds) on the road is the cyclist. The one vehicle that generally cannot keep with traffic. Happened to me a few times where a cage cuts you off and/or honks their horn on empty road just to intimidate you and/or passing within 1 ft, again for intimidation. This only happened to me during cycling and never on motorcycle. And I cycle on scenic county roads with little traffic where speed limit is 50km/h and everyone is going 70+.
The top speed for this car is about 70km/h on a flat road. It would be less on an incline, so probably 40-50km/h on a steep incline.
This car is for Indian and other developing countries where they don't drive that fast anyway because of poor road conditions. It is not for the fscked up roads in US and certain parts of Canada where going to the store means jumping on an highway going 100mph just so you can get to the giant Walmart Supercenter. Heck, a glued car probably would not pass safety requirements - if you want something that small just get a diesel powered Smart car and it will give you more power and burn less gas (4l/100km or about 70+mpg - diesel)
http://www.thesmart.ca/index.cfm?id=4730
And with Smart at least you get "perks" like electronic stability program (esp®) with hill holder; anti-lockbraking system (abs) with electronic brake-force distribution;acceleration skid control; brake assist;dual-circuit brake system with servo-assistance; sequential 6-speed transmission. And a top speed of 135km/h or about 85mph vs 70km/h or 45mph for the Indian car.
Not in EVE. Not in EVE.
As long as you don't exploit game bugs to exploit others, you are ok.
T1 connection? They cost generally $400-$1000 / month. Some areas are cheaper, $250-$500. Their bandwidth is 1.5Mbps or 187.5kB/s or 463GB/month. This ends up with at least $1/mo or more for T1.
OC3 connection, 155Mbps @ $20k-45k/month gives you 47,900KB or $0.50-1.00/GB. Again, depends where you live. $15k-100k, depends on location.
The stuff you get from ISP is oversold stuff that you cannot use up. It is designed for burst traffic only that averages over their entire userbase to fill a few OC3s. You can't use up 10% of all the bandwidth of 10000 customers and expect to get away with it.
http://www.infobahn.com/research-information.htm
http://www.broadbandlocators.com/oc3.php
http://www.tera-byte.com/colocated.php
No cake for you! All domains now belong to NSI.
They were on a closed-track performing an experiment. You know, that is not the same as crashing your car on purpose going the wrong way on a public road because you want to commit suicide.
Actually, I remember that a *significant* number of head-on collisions are caused by a driver that wants to kill themselves. That is another reason to enforce automatic steering/vehicle control to prevent these fscktards from murdering innocent people.
As a motorcycle owner, I'd trust a computer controlled cage much more than a human controlled one.
Humans make a lot of mistakes including the stupid excuses "I didn't see you". With computer controlled stuff, the software will *see* everything down to a given size all the time. It doesn't get distracted or starts the 'stare into oblivions', both of which result in the same scenario.
Cars and SUVs and trucks are the largest obstacle to safety for cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists. Remove the recklessness from the former and the latter can only screw themselves by their own mistakes not because the cage driver just doesn't give a fsck about you because in a collision, you lose, not the cage.
1200x1024 19" HP LCD which I bought almost 3 years ago. The text is *much* better than a 1600x1200 res. CRT. *Much* better.
CRT are just blurry by comparison. The higher the refresh rate, the fuzzier they are. And the lower the refresh rate, the sorer my eyes are. You can't compare resolution of any CRT to native resolution of any LCD. CRT pixels are fuzzy be design. LCD pixels are sharp by design. Enough said.
Also, you can turn most business class LCD sideways. Generally these are the 4:3 ratio ones, so you end up with 3:4 ratio. Widescreens would be awkward sideways, I think, though I haven't tried that.
1 or 2 Mbps or Megabits per second. 1MB broadband - wtf does that mean? 1MB download total?
MB => megabyte
Mb => megabit
MB/s => megabytes per second. Generally used to describe disk speed, memory speed (in the past, now in GB/s)
Mb/s or Mbs => magabits per second. USed to describe network speeds.
1 byte = 8 bits unless you are living in the 70s.
BTW, 1.5 Mbps is one of the standard speeds for ADSL and would net you about 177kB/s download rate. Going at full throttle, that gives you 14.5GB/day. On 7.5Mbps speed, or 5x faster, that would give you 72.5GB/day. Since HD movies now are probably around 25-30 GB/2hours or 15GB/h, to watch that real time, you'd need a 36Mbps broadband minimum or download speed of 4.3MB/s. Since HD content will be less compressed on the 50GB discs, you'll need about 70Mbps for that to download.
For regular DVDs, they tend to be about 3GB/h so you'd need a 7Mbps service minimum to be able to watch DVD quality movies real time.
Neither of the scenarios will be a reality for vast majority of the Internet users. If it costs you $1.5/GB to get the stuff in network charges, the HD content would cost you $50-$100. The DVD would be about $12. A mailed rental DVD costs you a lot less than that and even buying one may be cheaper.
So yes, you are correct. DL is *way* off in the digital future, just keep the darn units correct.