The EPA's CO2 emissions by state disagrees. California produces about 3.5x as much CO2, for example, as Virginia. It does produce less per capita, though, as it has slightly more than 4x as many people.
The data wasn't just a snapshot of social networks. There was data gathered over time. It wasn't that a group would just be fat, but that the same group would be thin and then become fat roughly at the same time, once one member triggered it.
I am so totally wrong about the speed of the Sun wrt to the MWG, as corrected by someone else above. It's much, much, much slower than that. Still, the point holds.;)
Man, you are totally right. I didn't sleep, and made like fifty errors when I came to that number. First: I misread CMB as MWG, then pretended that the word 'sun' was where it wasn't, and then said.2c instead of.2% of c. (That is: I tried to look up the speed of the Sun around the MWG on Wikipedia, and accidentally look at the number for the MWG's speed wrt the cosmic microwave background, and then made my percent error). I thought.2c seemed really high.:P
2..5c only gives a gamma of 1.15--for the traveler the apparent travel time is divided by 1.15.
3. If we assume that the other star is not moving at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light with respect to Earth (I believe this is a safe bet for pretty much any star in our own galaxy--the sun moves at.2c with respect to the rest frame of the MWG) then if Earth sees our ship hop up to.5c, that's how fast the other star will see it going, also.
My local Micro Center just last Christmas was still clearing their stock of Deus Ex. They had twenty at least on sale for $2. Maybe we had all of them out here in Ohio!
Well. There is a sense of diminishing returns. The $100 one is usually pretty crippled compared to the $200 part, but the $400 single-card is rarely more than like 50% faster than the $200 one. Of course, it depends on the generation. The 8800 GT at $200 was so close to the speed of the much-more-expensive 8800 GTX that it was selling at $300 rather than the MSRP. ATI's 4770 over-performed at its price-point, too, such that it was more cost-effective to slap two of them together at first.
I have a T61P running Ubuntu 9.04. I get ~4 hours in XP watching fullscreen divx, but can't even get 2.5 hours in Ubuntu with absolutely everything shut off, screen as dim as possible, after running powertop and killing everything available. Yes, I use the nvidia drivers. Do you know anything else that you might have done?
It is my experience, from my t61p under Ubuntu, that the ath5k driver is the most likely thing to cause a lockup. I get about one kernel panic a day, right now, under Jaunty. Under Intrepid it was closer to every two hours. Switching to madwifi fixed it for a while, and then a kernel update set it back to daily-or-greater.
Pff. 1000 horses isn't nearly enough to reach the moon. The Saturn V generated 175,000,000 hp, though. Assuming 2.5m per horse, front to back, that gives us 437,000 km of horses, enough to go to the moon 1.13 times. It's amazing that they were able to get back with only enough horses to return about a tenth of the way!
People that make $100k a year buy $50k cars, and probably have less than that in savings unless they're well on the way to retirement. Why can't somebody that has $5 million buy a $2 million dollar car?
It's true. I never played Postal 2 because of the bad taste Postal left in my mouth. Plus, I read the reviews of it being a bunch of piss jokes of little value.
In 1997, when I was fifteen, I lied about my age so I could beta test Postal. Like any red-blooded American teenage boy, I loved killing virtual guys. Postal went a little too far for me, and I put it down after not too long (well... the beta was also almost impossibly hard). Anyway. Postal's graphics were pretty rudimentary, if I remember right, and it had a way-zoomed-out isometric view. That is to say, the gruesomeness was pretty limited to little pixelated guys (even if dismembered) and splashes of red. The thing was the audio. While a little paralyzed man crawls away from a splotch of blood, he's crying, "My legs... I can't feel my legs!" etc. etc. Anyway. Yeah.
When the drive is spun down, the OS stores all of that in RAM for later writing (either the next time an app forces a spin-up for something important, or when something needs to be read, or at a predefined time (every five/ten minutes or something?)). So unless it's something that needs to be written right away in case of a crash, it's supposed to just hang onto it. Except for perhaps bookmarks, I'd say that 'unimportant' defines everything that FF is downloading.
I guess that's maybe possible, but--and I'm not a programmer--it seems that FF oughtn't need to even *touch* the bookmark file except once at the beginning of the session and then again if you actually bookmark something. Instead, it spins up every time you you follow a link, even if it ought to be something in RAM, and certainly my browsing history is not something that's important to me after a reboot. Though, now that I think about it I guess it might be related to FF remembering what tabs you have open after a crash. This, also, is not that important to me...
Did they ever resolve this? It's still present in 3.0 for Linux. Basically, instead of being polite and letting the OS keep the disk spun down until data needs to be written, Firefox spins up the HD for writing every single time it does anything. So if you have an aggressive spin-down policy (like Ubuntu Jaunty does, at least) and you're web-browsing, your HD will spin up and down every twenty seconds or so.
Oh, man. There is nothing I hate worse than typing on than one of those Logitech keyboards that shuffle that whole block around. I can never find the home or end keys!
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The EPA's CO2 emissions by state disagrees. California produces about 3.5x as much CO2, for example, as Virginia. It does produce less per capita, though, as it has slightly more than 4x as many people.
The data wasn't just a snapshot of social networks. There was data gathered over time. It wasn't that a group would just be fat, but that the same group would be thin and then become fat roughly at the same time, once one member triggered it.
I am so totally wrong about the speed of the Sun wrt to the MWG, as corrected by someone else above. It's much, much, much slower than that. Still, the point holds. ;)
Man, you are totally right. I didn't sleep, and made like fifty errors when I came to that number. First: I misread CMB as MWG, then pretended that the word 'sun' was where it wasn't, and then said .2c instead of .2% of c. (That is: I tried to look up the speed of the Sun around the MWG on Wikipedia, and accidentally look at the number for the MWG's speed wrt the cosmic microwave background, and then made my percent error). I thought .2c seemed really high. :P
1. That's Special Relativity.
2. .5c only gives a gamma of 1.15--for the traveler the apparent travel time is divided by 1.15.
3. If we assume that the other star is not moving at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light with respect to Earth (I believe this is a safe bet for pretty much any star in our own galaxy--the sun moves at .2c with respect to the rest frame of the MWG) then if Earth sees our ship hop up to .5c, that's how fast the other star will see it going, also.
It's a crappy adblocker, though. It leaves broken image links and blank space all over the page, when it manages to block the stuff at all.
My local Micro Center just last Christmas was still clearing their stock of Deus Ex. They had twenty at least on sale for $2. Maybe we had all of them out here in Ohio!
Try to double-click the title bar *when Chrome is fullscreen* I think he might mean.
No, god dammit! Tabs stay where they are now! Tabs go near content!
Well. There is a sense of diminishing returns. The $100 one is usually pretty crippled compared to the $200 part, but the $400 single-card is rarely more than like 50% faster than the $200 one. Of course, it depends on the generation. The 8800 GT at $200 was so close to the speed of the much-more-expensive 8800 GTX that it was selling at $300 rather than the MSRP. ATI's 4770 over-performed at its price-point, too, such that it was more cost-effective to slap two of them together at first.
I have a T61P running Ubuntu 9.04. I get ~4 hours in XP watching fullscreen divx, but can't even get 2.5 hours in Ubuntu with absolutely everything shut off, screen as dim as possible, after running powertop and killing everything available. Yes, I use the nvidia drivers. Do you know anything else that you might have done?
It is my experience, from my t61p under Ubuntu, that the ath5k driver is the most likely thing to cause a lockup. I get about one kernel panic a day, right now, under Jaunty. Under Intrepid it was closer to every two hours. Switching to madwifi fixed it for a while, and then a kernel update set it back to daily-or-greater.
Dude, 20 oz of water is 5.3*10^16 Joules! That's 12 Megatons!
Pff. 1000 horses isn't nearly enough to reach the moon. The Saturn V generated 175,000,000 hp, though. Assuming 2.5m per horse, front to back, that gives us 437,000 km of horses, enough to go to the moon 1.13 times. It's amazing that they were able to get back with only enough horses to return about a tenth of the way!
People that make $100k a year buy $50k cars, and probably have less than that in savings unless they're well on the way to retirement. Why can't somebody that has $5 million buy a $2 million dollar car?
He's exaggerating. They're usually around $100 USD, but dropping. I've seen (older) internal TB drives for $70, but new versions tend around $90-110.
It's true. I never played Postal 2 because of the bad taste Postal left in my mouth. Plus, I read the reviews of it being a bunch of piss jokes of little value.
In 1997, when I was fifteen, I lied about my age so I could beta test Postal. Like any red-blooded American teenage boy, I loved killing virtual guys. Postal went a little too far for me, and I put it down after not too long (well... the beta was also almost impossibly hard). Anyway. Postal's graphics were pretty rudimentary, if I remember right, and it had a way-zoomed-out isometric view. That is to say, the gruesomeness was pretty limited to little pixelated guys (even if dismembered) and splashes of red. The thing was the audio. While a little paralyzed man crawls away from a splotch of blood, he's crying, "My legs... I can't feel my legs!" etc. etc. Anyway. Yeah.
When the drive is spun down, the OS stores all of that in RAM for later writing (either the next time an app forces a spin-up for something important, or when something needs to be read, or at a predefined time (every five/ten minutes or something?)). So unless it's something that needs to be written right away in case of a crash, it's supposed to just hang onto it. Except for perhaps bookmarks, I'd say that 'unimportant' defines everything that FF is downloading.
I guess that's maybe possible, but--and I'm not a programmer--it seems that FF oughtn't need to even *touch* the bookmark file except once at the beginning of the session and then again if you actually bookmark something. Instead, it spins up every time you you follow a link, even if it ought to be something in RAM, and certainly my browsing history is not something that's important to me after a reboot. Though, now that I think about it I guess it might be related to FF remembering what tabs you have open after a crash. This, also, is not that important to me...
Hey, that's excellent news. I gave up and just set my HD to never spin down so it didn't eat itself.
Did they ever resolve this? It's still present in 3.0 for Linux. Basically, instead of being polite and letting the OS keep the disk spun down until data needs to be written, Firefox spins up the HD for writing every single time it does anything. So if you have an aggressive spin-down policy (like Ubuntu Jaunty does, at least) and you're web-browsing, your HD will spin up and down every twenty seconds or so.
That's also true. I usually use the ctrl/shift+insert/delete for copy/pasting too. I also use page-up and page-down a lot.
Oh, man. There is nothing I hate worse than typing on than one of those Logitech keyboards that shuffle that whole block around. I can never find the home or end keys!
Oh, for mod points!