And you can switch between any of them by installing the appropriate meta-package through the repository system. No extra charge, even.
With vista, if you want to keep your financial information on your home computer, you need to buy Ultimate, because that, inexplicably, is the only version which offers whole-disk encryption.
(I will however grant that whole disk encryption in Ubuntu is not something that a regular user is going to be able to set up. It's possible, but it's not very polished yet.)
Well, that's a good point, but if the iTunes music store is stifling new entrants into the cell phone market, then Apple will have to start worrying about monopoly rulings.
Perhaps they've learned from Bill Gates, though, and they've taken out a sizable insurance policy in the form of loose pursed lobbyists.
Is there any reason this card needs RFID as opposed to a standard credit-card style chip which requires physical contact?
You can't expect government workers to have the motivation to slide a card into a reader. Next to the reader is the best you're gonna get. It's in their contract or something.
If they're familiar with the "swords" then they might be familiar with the replicas.
They're basically 3 or 4 mil thick blocks of aluminum. They're not even tapered towards the presumed edge, let alone sharpened. And they'd be extremely awkward to wield even if they were.
No more dangerous than if the robber had used a baseball bat, if the bat had some curvy bits that forced him to hold it in the middle.
The retail price is as good a proxy as any. It can't have taken any more energy than you could get from that money by buying it on the open market, because they couldn't sell the windmills for below cost for very long.
Subsidies do muddy the issue a bit, but if can find out what they are, you can adjust the estimated retail price by it.
so, if it has a good money-pay-back-per-time, it probably has a good energy-pay-back, too.
I'd feel weird about using a (audio only) phone in the lav, too, but I can't think of any reason why I should.
Pumping Gas is just silly, what could possibly be your objection there? You're outside, there's plenty of white noise, and other people aren't exactly right next to you, and ignition danger is an old wives' tale.
Grocery stores are pretty loud, and the lines are spread out a bit. I know I don't care if the person in front of me is chatting on a cell.
What's with this stick in your craw? Try thinking about why you don't like something rather than just not liking it and then looking for a reason.
SI is the official system of weights an measures in the US. We even have our own kilogram which is periodically calibrated against the one in France.
But regardless, harassers will still be bitching even if we switch our street signs and whatnot over to SI labels. It'll be the e9/e12 billions rant, instead. And after that, something else.
iMacs *are* laptops. They have laptop specs and performance.
Frankly, it continues to amaze me that Apple is able to maintain four separate, remarkably similar laptop lines, one of which has no screen and zero mid-range desktop lines.
911 is not the only emergency number that goes through. And it certainly isn't the only one that *could* go through. The cell companies, I'm sure, would be all too happy to accommodate the prisons' needs.
Certainly the prison control center and all of the local police would be on the allow list. Lawyers and other visitors could probably have their phones put on a temporary "don't block" list, as well.
The article's suggestion of jamming the cell phones' RF emissions would be far more limiting to guards and visitors.
Handheld, "body block" is as good or better than a directional antenna. Only one null, and no big things to carry.
Mobile, you'll have an array and some DSP to get that nice arrow on your dash. Combine two cars or just multiple measurements over time with GPS and you can get the location before you even arrive.
I've always wondered why the PDA market didn't kill the graphing calculator market, or at least drive graphing calcs down to the level of scientific calcs.
Imagine some sort of small-screen matlab.. on an iPod Touch...
Agreed. The next step is to make a virtual mannequin head and map the face onto that. (with a very small number of knobs for fitting size and orientation) Like that Disney ride with the ghosts.
And after that, a few tricks to change the virtual viewpoint so it looks like you're looking at the camera and not the picture of the other person.
Dude, you had a good argument that you added one to many things to. A factor of two improvement is important for any task which takes longer than the human threshold for noticing. Pretty much anything that takes more than 100ms can be improved by making it faster. And a few things that take less than that.
Your more profound point that anything less than a factor-of-two improvement is practically indistinguishable is getting lost in the noise. Which is ironic because those 1 and 2% differences in speed among certain components are also a kind of noise when you're trying to spec out a new system.
ianare was talking about 1.5 to 5 hour improvements, too. Just his 5 hours was spread over thousands of small tasks throughout the day. It doesn't make it any less of a productivity hit.
"gas guzzlers" are already fairly aerodynamic. And nothing about the power-plant affects drag.
If an electric car is so anemic that it needs a special "super aerodynamic body" to have acceptable performance, then that same body over a gasoline car would provide more than enough improvement to take electric cars out of the running until gas gets really expensive.
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Damn it. I had mod points yesterday. I'd really like to know what the answer to this question is.
And you can switch between any of them by installing the appropriate meta-package through the repository system. No extra charge, even.
With vista, if you want to keep your financial information on your home computer, you need to buy Ultimate, because that, inexplicably, is the only version which offers whole-disk encryption.
(I will however grant that whole disk encryption in Ubuntu is not something that a regular user is going to be able to set up. It's possible, but it's not very polished yet.)
So, net win for the rest of us either way.
Well, that's a good point, but if the iTunes music store is stifling new entrants into the cell phone market, then Apple will have to start worrying about monopoly rulings.
Perhaps they've learned from Bill Gates, though, and they've taken out a sizable insurance policy in the form of loose pursed lobbyists.
Is there any reason this card needs RFID as opposed to a standard credit-card style chip which requires physical contact?
You can't expect government workers to have the motivation to slide a card into a reader. Next to the reader is the best you're gonna get. It's in their contract or something.
If they're familiar with the "swords" then they might be familiar with the replicas.
They're basically 3 or 4 mil thick blocks of aluminum. They're not even tapered towards the presumed edge, let alone sharpened. And they'd be extremely awkward to wield even if they were.
No more dangerous than if the robber had used a baseball bat, if the bat had some curvy bits that forced him to hold it in the middle.
The retail price is as good a proxy as any. It can't have taken any more energy than you could get from that money by buying it on the open market, because they couldn't sell the windmills for below cost for very long.
Subsidies do muddy the issue a bit, but if can find out what they are, you can adjust the estimated retail price by it.
so, if it has a good money-pay-back-per-time, it probably has a good energy-pay-back, too.
Over what time period do you use 1.2 kWh?
The instantaneous rate might not be important, but the daily or weekly production is.
I'd feel weird about using a (audio only) phone in the lav, too, but I can't think of any reason why I should.
Pumping Gas is just silly, what could possibly be your objection there? You're outside, there's plenty of white noise, and other people aren't exactly right next to you, and ignition danger is an old wives' tale.
Grocery stores are pretty loud, and the lines are spread out a bit. I know I don't care if the person in front of me is chatting on a cell.
What's with this stick in your craw? Try thinking about why you don't like something rather than just not liking it and then looking for a reason.
SI is the official system of weights an measures in the US. We even have our own kilogram which is periodically calibrated against the one in France.
But regardless, harassers will still be bitching even if we switch our street signs and whatnot over to SI labels. It'll be the e9/e12 billions rant, instead. And after that, something else.
No, all of the energy is converted to heat in the end. *everything* that uses electricity is a 100% efficient space heater.
Which is a misnomer, because space heaters are actually 0% efficient. They convert low entropy energy to high entropy without performing any work.
And technically, CPUs are pretty low efficiency, too. Since computation is not work in the thermodynamic sense.
iMacs *are* laptops. They have laptop specs and performance.
Frankly, it continues to amaze me that Apple is able to maintain four separate, remarkably similar laptop lines, one of which has no screen and zero mid-range desktop lines.
911 is not the only emergency number that goes through. And it certainly isn't the only one that *could* go through. The cell companies, I'm sure, would be all too happy to accommodate the prisons' needs.
Certainly the prison control center and all of the local police would be on the allow list. Lawyers and other visitors could probably have their phones put on a temporary "don't block" list, as well.
The article's suggestion of jamming the cell phones' RF emissions would be far more limiting to guards and visitors.
Look at all the other features surrounding it. Sunlight comes from the bottom left. Making it concave. I'm going to go with, possible volcanic cone.
Handheld, "body block" is as good or better than a directional antenna. Only one null, and no big things to carry.
Mobile, you'll have an array and some DSP to get that nice arrow on your dash. Combine two cars or just multiple measurements over time with GPS and you can get the location before you even arrive.
Wouldn't it make a *lot* more sense to just make a deal with the cell phone companies to fail to route non-emergency calls?
I've always wondered why the PDA market didn't kill the graphing calculator market, or at least drive graphing calcs down to the level of scientific calcs.
Imagine some sort of small-screen matlab.. on an iPod Touch...
Agreed. The next step is to make a virtual mannequin head and map the face onto that. (with a very small number of knobs for fitting size and orientation) Like that Disney ride with the ghosts.
And after that, a few tricks to change the virtual viewpoint so it looks like you're looking at the camera and not the picture of the other person.
What is a complex number?
Math is all kinds of weird.
Whatever happened to those flat-panel CRTs we used to see on slashdot all the time?
Uh.. it's only a $50 pricing difference if you were already going to buy a $2800 laptop.
If you only need a regular macbook, it's a $1550 option.
(and the more expensive laptop is only 30% faster, so really it doesn't seem like that great of a deal to me.)
Dude, you had a good argument that you added one to many things to. A factor of two improvement is important for any task which takes longer than the human threshold for noticing. Pretty much anything that takes more than 100ms can be improved by making it faster. And a few things that take less than that.
Your more profound point that anything less than a factor-of-two improvement is practically indistinguishable is getting lost in the noise. Which is ironic because those 1 and 2% differences in speed among certain components are also a kind of noise when you're trying to spec out a new system.
ianare was talking about 1.5 to 5 hour improvements, too. Just his 5 hours was spread over thousands of small tasks throughout the day. It doesn't make it any less of a productivity hit.
"gas guzzlers" are already fairly aerodynamic. And nothing about the power-plant affects drag.
If an electric car is so anemic that it needs a special "super aerodynamic body" to have acceptable performance, then that same body over a gasoline car would provide more than enough improvement to take electric cars out of the running until gas gets really expensive.
Star Trek doesn't have cannon.
Or canon, for that matter, thanks in part to their "brilliant" decision to let the body puppets think they can direct.
Where do you get your info about churches from? The TV show, "Touched by an Angel?"