Anybody who's ever used a pneumatic tool in a shop would probably say it'd work just fine. However, if you've ever seen the size of a tank needed to hold enough air to actually do some work (25 gallons is small) you'd think twice about carrying that around.
Uhh... You can't charge a battery by connecting a voltage with a lower potential than the battery itself. You can't go too high above the voltage of the battery, but for most battery types 1-2 volts above the voltage of the battery is good. For lead-acid batteries (12.5 volts) they charge well at 14.5 volts. If you hooked up something less than 12.5, you would only discharge the battery, not charge it.
1) Agreed, not all tasks benefit from parallel processing, but those that do would love running on 100 CPUs.
2) Not necessarily. Low powered embedded-style chips like these can cost on the order of a dollar or two apiece. Consider that the new P4 chips are $$$$, and the price isn't that different.
3) With some clever arrangement (multiple dies on one physical package, etc) you could easily fit 100 CPUs into a normal desktop case. Add into that the fact that you wouldn't need any heatsinks (just some air moving over each core).
You might be tired of the hand-held controller scheme, but for a lot of things, it works fairly well. I think that joysticks/keyboards/mice are also suited to different styles of games, but I think you implied "standard input devices" when you said "hand-held controller".
Nintendo's DS has the nifty touch-screen and microphone which it uses for input in different games, sometimes in very creative ways (Feel the Magic is a great example).
Why is it then that television stations always have to blur out faces of people that they didn't get to sign their permission sheet things? Or... is that a thing of the past? Or is it just an ethical thing, not a legal thing?
For those that aren't reading whom I'm responding to, apparently there's a series of images that can pop up. The one that I saw was the storefront with no problems at all. Another one apparently has a UPS truck all in the way.
What is really odd is it lets ANYBODY change ANYTHING
That is odd... It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen at this point almost. I wonder if/who a store could sue if someone put a defamitory description on this thing.
When I RTFA'd, they mentioned that if they don't have any direct info about you, they'll use an IP->ZIP translator/database to guess where you are. They were a couple towns over from where I am.
I was taking a virtual drive around Boston, and could clearly see many people's faces. Do those people know that they're photographed, and on the internet for all to see?
Otherwise, very interesting. Some of the storefronts for businesses I know of were one or two pictures off to the left or right though, guess they're still working out the bugs.
I have a question pertaining to all of this. What options are there available for hard disk encryption? Can it be done just as well in software as with hardware (as an inline IDE device that physically encrypts the data)?
I use Linux, so there's probably some options available to me. How do you gain access to the disk? I assume the boot partition must be non-encrypted, and asks you for the passphrase to gain access to the encrypted root partition?
No. Which would you find more fun, watching a NASCAR race, or participating in a simulation of one? Even though NASCAR is "teh pewp" of the auto-racing world, it'd still be fun to drive (even if it's simulated) in a race.
I blame them for all the spelling mistakes we see on the web Without TV, we'd resort to reading, so we'd probably have a higher standard of literacy here.
I also blame punctuation mistakes on the television.
Honestly, since I've installed Linux (of the Gentoo flavor) Life has been a breeze as far as popups/spyware/viruses. The one downside is the lack of many (not any) games that are good. But... since these people resorted to using their machines as utilities for sorting photos, typing documents, Linux is great at that, they probably won't miss the games anyway.
Maybe this would help step up math again. Instead of having a box with buttons on it that magically spits out answers, you still have to write down the equations in front of you. This could act like a tutor, if it sees you writing 5 x 3, then it will automatically know 15, but maybe it could hint to you, or say "this is multiplication", and not just tell you the answer.
Yeah, I'm a little confused about that myself. I live in the US, and that means what I think you think it means to me also... We must both have missed the class on this one.
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Anybody who's ever used a pneumatic tool in a shop would probably say it'd work just fine. However, if you've ever seen the size of a tank needed to hold enough air to actually do some work (25 gallons is small) you'd think twice about carrying that around.
-Jesse
Uhh... You can't charge a battery by connecting a voltage with a lower potential than the battery itself. You can't go too high above the voltage of the battery, but for most battery types 1-2 volts above the voltage of the battery is good. For lead-acid batteries (12.5 volts) they charge well at 14.5 volts. If you hooked up something less than 12.5, you would only discharge the battery, not charge it.
-Jesse
1) Agreed, not all tasks benefit from parallel processing, but those that do would love running on 100 CPUs.
2) Not necessarily. Low powered embedded-style chips like these can cost on the order of a dollar or two apiece. Consider that the new P4 chips are $$$$, and the price isn't that different.
3) With some clever arrangement (multiple dies on one physical package, etc) you could easily fit 100 CPUs into a normal desktop case. Add into that the fact that you wouldn't need any heatsinks (just some air moving over each core).
-Jesse
You might be tired of the hand-held controller scheme, but for a lot of things, it works fairly well. I think that joysticks/keyboards/mice are also suited to different styles of games, but I think you implied "standard input devices" when you said "hand-held controller".
Nintendo's DS has the nifty touch-screen and microphone which it uses for input in different games, sometimes in very creative ways (Feel the Magic is a great example).
-Jesse
Why is it then that television stations always have to blur out faces of people that they didn't get to sign their permission sheet things? Or... is that a thing of the past? Or is it just an ethical thing, not a legal thing?
-Jesse
Oh I see :) Carry on then.
For those that aren't reading whom I'm responding to, apparently there's a series of images that can pop up. The one that I saw was the storefront with no problems at all. Another one apparently has a UPS truck all in the way.
-Jesse
What is really odd is it lets ANYBODY change ANYTHING
That is odd... It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen at this point almost. I wonder if/who a store could sue if someone put a defamitory description on this thing.
-Jesse
When I RTFA'd, they mentioned that if they don't have any direct info about you, they'll use an IP->ZIP translator/database to guess where you are. They were a couple towns over from where I am.
-Jesse
Why? I see nothing remarkable about that at all.
-Jesse
I was taking a virtual drive around Boston, and could clearly see many people's faces. Do those people know that they're photographed, and on the internet for all to see?
Otherwise, very interesting. Some of the storefronts for businesses I know of were one or two pictures off to the left or right though, guess they're still working out the bugs.
-Jesse
I have a question pertaining to all of this. What options are there available for hard disk encryption? Can it be done just as well in software as with hardware (as an inline IDE device that physically encrypts the data)?
I use Linux, so there's probably some options available to me. How do you gain access to the disk? I assume the boot partition must be non-encrypted, and asks you for the passphrase to gain access to the encrypted root partition?
Does anybody have more info on hd-encryption?
-Jesse
No. Which would you find more fun, watching a NASCAR race, or participating in a simulation of one? Even though NASCAR is "teh pewp" of the auto-racing world, it'd still be fun to drive (even if it's simulated) in a race.
-Jesse
start the looting yet?
-Jesse
I blame them for all the spelling mistakes we see on the web Without TV, we'd resort to reading, so we'd probably have a higher standard of literacy here.
I also blame punctuation mistakes on the television.
-Jesse
Haha, those are the photos _after_ they got done with makeup and post-shoot editing. Bahahaa.
-Jesse
Especially when pusher robot throws grandma down the stairs (know that reference?) to protect her from the terrible secret of space.
-Jesse
The Least Significant Bit isn't standardized yet? Yeesh.
-Jesse
Honestly, since I've installed Linux (of the Gentoo flavor) Life has been a breeze as far as popups/spyware/viruses. The one downside is the lack of many (not any) games that are good. But... since these people resorted to using their machines as utilities for sorting photos, typing documents, Linux is great at that, they probably won't miss the games anyway.
-Jesse
You could hack someone's finger off with a sharp implement, and then get their stuff.
-Jesse
Maybe this would help step up math again. Instead of having a box with buttons on it that magically spits out answers, you still have to write down the equations in front of you. This could act like a tutor, if it sees you writing 5 x 3, then it will automatically know 15, but maybe it could hint to you, or say "this is multiplication", and not just tell you the answer.
-Jesse
They sure haven't *returns to "history of sex" marathon*
-Jesse
Yeah, I'm a little confused about that myself. I live in the US, and that means what I think you think it means to me also... We must both have missed the class on this one.
-Jesse
We don't have the resolution to see the landers themselves, but we can see their Shadows if we try hard enough.
-Jesse
My high-gain beef-stew cantenna cost me about $2 for the dinty moore can.
I can get signals from a house down the street at a distance of about 300 feet, through 3 other houses.
-Jesse
If you're _lucky_ the giant SUV ONLY weighs 5000 lbs... They weigh ridiculous amounts these days.
-Jesse, just bought a 3,300 pound truck.