When I went in to Best Buy to look at plasma TV's (nothing on the web beats a real-world viewing of a potential purchase),
TVs of all kinds at Best Buy are a notable exception to this philosophy. Last time I was looking for TVs, the feed was a worse-than vhs quality, terribly grainy, dark live concert recording. Split amongst like forty screens.
And as dark as the feed was, some of the TVs' settings were such that much of the frames were blown out.
If Best Buy's display* were all one had to go on, one might be inclined to wonder aloud about what the big deal is with this newfangled high def that everyone's talking about.
*and talking to a salesperson for evaluation doesn't help. They bring out a dvd player unless you specifically request a blu-ray player, and they bring out a dvd unless you specifically request a BD, and even then, you don't get a professionally compressed CGI film. You get a poorly compressed, poorly transferred from grainy, over processed film-stock old horror movie. Where the first five minutes are footage of an old standard-definition television set.
The truly mind-boggling thing about the surreal experience, however, was that all of the televisions were universally badly configured and fed. There wasn't a single "this is the one we're trying to push" model on any shelf in any price-range.
even an in-room color setting tuning
I don't know about best-buy's version of this, but in general I'd go for it. Depending on the model, a lot of the adjustments aren't even exposed through the menu system, and the test pattern generators I've seen for HD are stupidly expensive. (stupid, because with HDMI, every player should be able to push a perfect test pattern off a cheap mass-produced BD).
Retail companies have no reason to make that work though. If the information really was easy to consolodate, then they'd have to compete on price alone.
On the other hand..
What do we even need retailers for, anyway? With the internet, why can't we just buy everything right from the factory.
For refrigeration, you'd be concerned with coefficient of performance (COP), rather than efficiency. It's a related term, basically the inverse of efficiency, but it refers to how much energy you need to use to move a given amount of energy between two temperatures.
But your numbers are weird. A refrigerator at 50% (COP of 2) sounds reasonable for a small device or large temperature difference, but COP of 20 is really good.
A COP of 5 percent would be horrific. 20W required to move 1W, a modern processor would require more electricity than a two-burner electric range at full power... I'd only put up with that kind of number for very specific applications. (like, if I needed to recycle a small amount liquid nitrogen in a sealed, difficult to access device or something)
By the way, why didn't you just slather a layer of nonconductive lacquer over the motherboard? Surely that would've been cheaper than a complicated heat exchanger, desiccant and sealed box trick.
especially with Apple leveraging their near monopoly to promote a different player.
I think you will be surprised to know that the overwhelming majority of iPod owners have a Microsoft OS on their computers, whose hardware was also not made or sold by Apple. So, if you could kindly explain how that constitutes monopoly leveraging, I'd be interested to hear.
You laugh, but I talked to the welding supply guy not too long ago, and two things were apparent:
The process is not all that dissimilar to milk delivery: you provide the bottle they put stuff in it. For small amounts, though, you have to leave the bottle at the shop and they fill it when the truck comes.
I've always been more of a fan of underclocking, myself. Or as you say, regular-clocking.
ten or even thirty percent just isn't that much of a difference in performance to justify a stability headache OR paying an extra couple hundred bucks.
To be interesting, the performance improvement per dollar ought to be significantly better than linear, and at least double. Or you need an application that is CPU bound, time sensitive, and has large processing chunks. 30% isn't going to make much difference in UI performance. Spend that money on RAM.
Problem is, if the cars aren't economic without subsidy, there's a good chance they're actually not releasing less pollution, when considering the entire system.
If they want to mandate something, they should just mandate that every vehicle sold comes with a "nutrition" label that's divided into sections detailing the energy and pollution caused by production and the estimated per-mile releases.
In windows, you can also drag down to the tab on the task bar that corresponds to the destination app. This will change the focus, and then you can finish dragging into the window.
Writing the notes facilitates the memory much better than merely having the notes. The students need to learn to A) take good notes and B) take lots of notes.
The "bad notes" bit is relevant, but you have to be really careful about how you make a crutch like that available.
That has to be handled between both the applications involved as well as the OS. Photoshop has to have a way of understanding svg, and illustrator has to have a way of knowing "that collection of objects, convert it to svg and place in the clipboard", and have some way of negotiating with illustrator that it needs the vector objects and not a raster object.
and so on.
That said, the last time i was in the apple store, the salesman was very proud of the fact that you could drag images from web pages into iWork. (and that said, firefox seems to allow you to do the same thing on windows, as well as text)
I think he means, as basic functionality of the OS. i.e. without having to download any sketchy third-party apps.
One thing is sorta ok, but if you have to download a special app for every one of your UI niggles, you end up wasting far more resources than ordinary feature bloat wastes. I know because I've tried it.
It's much better to just try and figure out the "windows way" or the "mac way" or the "x way" for your taskload; the taskflow their developers envisioned for your use case, with as few personal modifications as possible.
Plus, using stock OS features means you won't be all used to a specialized way of doing things when you have to use other computers.
Uh.. How much did your half watt transmitter draw? I've got a HT that goes down to 50 mW in some bands, but it sure as hell draws quite a bit more than that.
Receivers are pretty sensitive, but digital computers and many other electronic components just aren't nearly as efficient. yet.
No you don't. Not compared to the other sizeable numbers you'd be working with when multiplying other things by several hundred million people every day.
Uh.. That was *always* the intent. If you want something edgy that you can use to look down your nose at someone, you've got to put some actual effort in.
And not Gentoo effort.
Only LFS will give you that kind of cred.
Or, you can enjoy a well-polished mainstream OS with too many brown/orange themes ( I call this the "starbucks colors" although they're everywhere from supermarkets to cafes to book stores )
ought to be more than enough. And it will go a little faster, too. ( and you might think rc4 even quicker, but at least on my machine, aes is so much faster than disk that it doesn't matter )
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into being an adequate president. Hopefully, and I had more hope for Hillary producing this, the Obama administration will attempt some folly too great to be ignored, and which will result in a return to glorious split-party gridlock at the mid-term elections.
Remember all the problems with the Government Shutdown?
Exactly.
But my hope is low. Obama feels like a Carter, except without the principles.
The third millennium. Using the reckoning that was devised in an era and place where the concept of "zero" was still poorly understood by the population at large.
If you want to use some other reckoning, you're welcome to it. But you should probably specify it somewhere and/or define it in some publication.
Uh.. I think speaking on it is one of his tools for cleaning up the mess. A big, "Hey, stop asking for this delayed release thing, it's only hurting you" message.
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TVs of all kinds at Best Buy are a notable exception to this philosophy. Last time I was looking for TVs, the feed was a worse-than vhs quality, terribly grainy, dark live concert recording. Split amongst like forty screens.
And as dark as the feed was, some of the TVs' settings were such that much of the frames were blown out.
If Best Buy's display* were all one had to go on, one might be inclined to wonder aloud about what the big deal is with this newfangled high def that everyone's talking about.
*and talking to a salesperson for evaluation doesn't help. They bring out a dvd player unless you specifically request a blu-ray player, and they bring out a dvd unless you specifically request a BD, and even then, you don't get a professionally compressed CGI film. You get a poorly compressed, poorly transferred from grainy, over processed film-stock old horror movie. Where the first five minutes are footage of an old standard-definition television set.
The truly mind-boggling thing about the surreal experience, however, was that all of the televisions were universally badly configured and fed. There wasn't a single "this is the one we're trying to push" model on any shelf in any price-range.
I don't know about best-buy's version of this, but in general I'd go for it. Depending on the model, a lot of the adjustments aren't even exposed through the menu system, and the test pattern generators I've seen for HD are stupidly expensive. (stupid, because with HDMI, every player should be able to push a perfect test pattern off a cheap mass-produced BD).
Retail companies have no reason to make that work though. If the information really was easy to consolodate, then they'd have to compete on price alone.
On the other hand..
What do we even need retailers for, anyway? With the internet, why can't we just buy everything right from the factory.
For refrigeration, you'd be concerned with coefficient of performance (COP), rather than efficiency. It's a related term, basically the inverse of efficiency, but it refers to how much energy you need to use to move a given amount of energy between two temperatures.
But your numbers are weird. A refrigerator at 50% (COP of 2) sounds reasonable for a small device or large temperature difference, but COP of 20 is really good.
A COP of 5 percent would be horrific. 20W required to move 1W, a modern processor would require more electricity than a two-burner electric range at full power... I'd only put up with that kind of number for very specific applications. (like, if I needed to recycle a small amount liquid nitrogen in a sealed, difficult to access device or something)
By the way, why didn't you just slather a layer of nonconductive lacquer over the motherboard? Surely that would've been cheaper than a complicated heat exchanger, desiccant and sealed box trick.
I think you will be surprised to know that the overwhelming majority of iPod owners have a Microsoft OS on their computers, whose hardware was also not made or sold by Apple. So, if you could kindly explain how that constitutes monopoly leveraging, I'd be interested to hear.
You laugh, but I talked to the welding supply guy not too long ago, and two things were apparent:
I've always been more of a fan of underclocking, myself. Or as you say, regular-clocking.
ten or even thirty percent just isn't that much of a difference in performance to justify a stability headache OR paying an extra couple hundred bucks.
To be interesting, the performance improvement per dollar ought to be significantly better than linear, and at least double. Or you need an application that is CPU bound, time sensitive, and has large processing chunks. 30% isn't going to make much difference in UI performance. Spend that money on RAM.
Atom uses 60W???
Why not just get core 2 mobile, then?
If there was 1 Gbps fiber available, open wlreless and municipal wifi would never work....
That's a very good point. Put the time capsule in a vacuum tube, pump out the air, replace with argon, seal the whole thing up.
Problem is, if the cars aren't economic without subsidy, there's a good chance they're actually not releasing less pollution, when considering the entire system.
If they want to mandate something, they should just mandate that every vehicle sold comes with a "nutrition" label that's divided into sections detailing the energy and pollution caused by production and the estimated per-mile releases.
In windows, you can also drag down to the tab on the task bar that corresponds to the destination app. This will change the focus, and then you can finish dragging into the window.
I don't see your point. The tax payers pay the teacher's salary so the kids can take the class, which rationally includes taking notes.
If the class wasn't worth keeping notes from, then why even offer it? Why waste the students' time like that?
Uncool.
Writing the notes facilitates the memory much better than merely having the notes. The students need to learn to A) take good notes and B) take lots of notes.
The "bad notes" bit is relevant, but you have to be really careful about how you make a crutch like that available.
That has to be handled between both the applications involved as well as the OS. Photoshop has to have a way of understanding svg, and illustrator has to have a way of knowing "that collection of objects, convert it to svg and place in the clipboard", and have some way of negotiating with illustrator that it needs the vector objects and not a raster object.
and so on.
That said, the last time i was in the apple store, the salesman was very proud of the fact that you could drag images from web pages into iWork. (and that said, firefox seems to allow you to do the same thing on windows, as well as text)
I think he means, as basic functionality of the OS. i.e. without having to download any sketchy third-party apps.
One thing is sorta ok, but if you have to download a special app for every one of your UI niggles, you end up wasting far more resources than ordinary feature bloat wastes. I know because I've tried it.
It's much better to just try and figure out the "windows way" or the "mac way" or the "x way" for your taskload; the taskflow their developers envisioned for your use case, with as few personal modifications as possible.
Plus, using stock OS features means you won't be all used to a specialized way of doing things when you have to use other computers.
If it's worth buying, it's worth keeping. University buy-back programs are a joke.
Please point us to a reasonable costing motherboard that supports 64 GB of RAM.
Seriously. That sounds pretty awesome to me.
Uh.. How much did your half watt transmitter draw? I've got a HT that goes down to 50 mW in some bands, but it sure as hell draws quite a bit more than that.
Receivers are pretty sensitive, but digital computers and many other electronic components just aren't nearly as efficient. yet.
No you don't. Not compared to the other sizeable numbers you'd be working with when multiplying other things by several hundred million people every day.
Uh.. That was *always* the intent. If you want something edgy that you can use to look down your nose at someone, you've got to put some actual effort in.
And not Gentoo effort.
Only LFS will give you that kind of cred.
Or, you can enjoy a well-polished mainstream OS with too many brown/orange themes ( I call this the "starbucks colors" although they're everywhere from supermarkets to cafes to book stores )
Hell,
ought to be more than enough. And it will go a little faster, too. ( and you might think rc4 even quicker, but at least on my machine, aes is so much faster than disk that it doesn't matter )
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into being an adequate president. Hopefully, and I had more hope for Hillary producing this, the Obama administration will attempt some folly too great to be ignored, and which will result in a return to glorious split-party gridlock at the mid-term elections.
Remember all the problems with the Government Shutdown?
Exactly.
But my hope is low. Obama feels like a Carter, except without the principles.
The third millennium. Using the reckoning that was devised in an era and place where the concept of "zero" was still poorly understood by the population at large.
If you want to use some other reckoning, you're welcome to it. But you should probably specify it somewhere and/or define it in some publication.
Heh, no caching, eh. How did it *use* the code?
Uh.. I think speaking on it is one of his tools for cleaning up the mess. A big, "Hey, stop asking for this delayed release thing, it's only hurting you" message.