Just because it's easy and portable doesn't make it for the non-techs only.
In fact, that's what makes tech cheaper for us...it's the rest of the non-techs buying a new computer whenever theirs is "broken" from too much spyware, or needs a little more RAM. If everyone bought PC hardware only when needed and jealously guarded every CPU cycle, PCs would still be as expensive as they were 20 years ago.
Aww, damn...I have an AMD64 3200, x800 Pro 256MB, and 1GB...this is pretty much exactly the recommended system and I was hoping I could scrape by. I mean, I'm getting 70fps at 1600x1200 in Half-Life 2. I was going to upgrade just the RAM pretty soon, but you're already sitting at 2 gig and talking about upgrading.
Here's a good question: anybody played Oblivion on a dual-core system yet? Oblivion was supposed to be the first game to natively support dual-core at launch. I want to know if a dual-core system kicks a single-proc's nads at playing Oblivion...if so, I might spring for that 4200+ CPU I'd planned for next year.
Looks like a lot of general updates to the EHCI and USB BIOS interfacing, doesn't specifically mention SiS USB chipsets but I'll have to try this kernel in the hopes that my laptop USB ports will finally work, having been useless since kernel 2.4 and all bug reports falling on deaf ears.
This is not a convergence device as you seem to believe, it's just a portable game system with enough onboard storage to act as an MP3 and video player. Really nothing new, except that Microsoft will have another platform to launch exclusive titles, and get a finger in the music-store pie. The size doesn't have to be any larger than Nintendo's offerings, since the storage required for a useful MP3 player amounts to a couple of chips smaller than postage stamps.
Fat Tire is pretty good. It's not recommended if you ever plan to go back to Bud. Some people don't like a sweet beer, but then some people don't like chocolate either. Ignore those mutants and grab a nice mug if you're in the southern Midwest sometime.
Try shaving (not your face) and glancing over at the aftershave bottle, "hmm that might be soothing" and blanking out the next 10 minutes because of the horrible pain.
Yeah, great idea, until you start bickering over how you didn't protect "her" villagers and you accuse her of hogging all the gold and spending it on useless trinkets.
Niven had us accomplishing interstellar travel before figuring out how to grow organs without harvesting from living people. Somehow I think we'll figure out the latter before the former, just based on the raw bulk of medical research compared to space travel research.
I don't know if this is exactly the same concept I read about some time ago, but I heard about a patent using similar terminology. And while the claim is over unity power output (the patent I read involved no moving parts) the fundamental idea was to harness the degradation of flux in permanent magnets.
In other words, they are using a permanent magnet as a type of high-density chemical-free battery, releasing the energy that was required to magnetize the material in the first place. The magnets would eventually need to be replaced, and this was mentioned in the patent I read.
While I have doubts regarding the energy density of magnets compared to chemical means, and wince when beyond-unity is mentioned without special attention to the fuel source, I think that certain aspects deserve a little consideration, at least until we determine that it's infeasible to harness the demagnetization of a permanent magnet as an energy storage material.
I pay a lot less attention to the Ask Slashdot questions than Cliff does, yet I remeber seeing this exact retarded question at least twice before. Possibly a couple times before that. It seems to me that Cliff ought to be able to remember it, I mean it's his job, and I'm just an occasional website visitor.
Your application should fit on a cheap CPLD. The Xilinx and Altera offerings can be had for under $5 in a small QFP package and generous with the Kgates.
On the other side of the board you place your TSSOP package opamps and drivers and SMD capacitors.
I built my own projector, and the bulbs are only $40. Plus they last about 10,000 hours. Granted, the projector is about as small as an end table. And it's not as bright as what's on the market today. But I still love it.
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It's not so much magic, as brute-force labor. The computers do all kinds of fancy things over in their little air-conditioned room, but the actual implementing of the orderfilling is dependent on miles of conveyor and sorting equipment, forklift drivers, and people who split up boxes into the fine-tuned per store replenishments. It's possible for a box or even a pallet to get lost, or sent to the wrong store. Misread labels can cause incorrect sorting. Equipment breakdowns can cause a backlog and inevitable mixing of orders. All of the above problems can be quickly resolved with a good management staff, and amazingly most of them are pretty damn good.
Wal-Mart has over a hundred distribution centers and warehouses scattered across the nation; Newegg's warehouse is 180,000 square feet but the smallest Wal-Mart centers are over 400,000. Most of them are around 1.5 million and some are over 2 million.
The reason nobody uses winelib is because it's completely pointless. Using DLLs is just as fast and tends to save a lot of space on your hard drive over static linking.
Valid, unless you actually want your application to WORK.
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Just because it's easy and portable doesn't make it for the non-techs only.
In fact, that's what makes tech cheaper for us...it's the rest of the non-techs buying a new computer whenever theirs is "broken" from too much spyware, or needs a little more RAM. If everyone bought PC hardware only when needed and jealously guarded every CPU cycle, PCs would still be as expensive as they were 20 years ago.
So, an underground pirahna tank that drops salesmen in and plays a sound file of your evil laughter as the trapdoor slams shut?
Linux alpha is downloadable and works fine. It's based on the Mac port.
Aww, damn...I have an AMD64 3200, x800 Pro 256MB, and 1GB...this is pretty much exactly the recommended system and I was hoping I could scrape by. I mean, I'm getting 70fps at 1600x1200 in Half-Life 2. I was going to upgrade just the RAM pretty soon, but you're already sitting at 2 gig and talking about upgrading.
Here's a good question: anybody played Oblivion on a dual-core system yet? Oblivion was supposed to be the first game to natively support dual-core at launch. I want to know if a dual-core system kicks a single-proc's nads at playing Oblivion...if so, I might spring for that 4200+ CPU I'd planned for next year.
I didn't have any problems viewing all of them...but then, I'm not the one who spelled "panorama" incorrectly...twice...and different each time.
Looks like a lot of general updates to the EHCI and USB BIOS interfacing, doesn't specifically mention SiS USB chipsets but I'll have to try this kernel in the hopes that my laptop USB ports will finally work, having been useless since kernel 2.4 and all bug reports falling on deaf ears.
This is not a convergence device as you seem to believe, it's just a portable game system with enough onboard storage to act as an MP3 and video player. Really nothing new, except that Microsoft will have another platform to launch exclusive titles, and get a finger in the music-store pie. The size doesn't have to be any larger than Nintendo's offerings, since the storage required for a useful MP3 player amounts to a couple of chips smaller than postage stamps.
My definition of "southern midwest" is everything east of the Rockies, west of Ohio, and south of Iowa. Please correct me if this is not acceptable.
Fat Tire is pretty good. It's not recommended if you ever plan to go back to Bud. Some people don't like a sweet beer, but then some people don't like chocolate either. Ignore those mutants and grab a nice mug if you're in the southern Midwest sometime.
There's gotta be a joke here about Brian Peppers....
Mod him down!
Try shaving (not your face) and glancing over at the aftershave bottle, "hmm that might be soothing" and blanking out the next 10 minutes because of the horrible pain.
I'm sure there is, but it would burn like a motherfucker.
Yeah, great idea, until you start bickering over how you didn't protect "her" villagers and you accuse her of hogging all the gold and spending it on useless trinkets.
Niven had us accomplishing interstellar travel before figuring out how to grow organs without harvesting from living people. Somehow I think we'll figure out the latter before the former, just based on the raw bulk of medical research compared to space travel research.
punished for using such an amusive system
Were you amused as a child?
none of these jobs that go like this:
.net 2.0, 4 years in perl 6, ....
Entry level position, must have 5 years experience in
and so on for an absurd laundry list of arbitrary skils which tell me that the people hiring are either clueless or insane.
Or: http://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/
Impressed?
Not really, thanks. Confirming my suspicion that while energy can be stored in a magnet, it currently isn't that much.
I don't know if this is exactly the same concept I read about some time ago, but I heard about a patent using similar terminology. And while the claim is over unity power output (the patent I read involved no moving parts) the fundamental idea was to harness the degradation of flux in permanent magnets.
In other words, they are using a permanent magnet as a type of high-density chemical-free battery, releasing the energy that was required to magnetize the material in the first place. The magnets would eventually need to be replaced, and this was mentioned in the patent I read.
While I have doubts regarding the energy density of magnets compared to chemical means, and wince when beyond-unity is mentioned without special attention to the fuel source, I think that certain aspects deserve a little consideration, at least until we determine that it's infeasible to harness the demagnetization of a permanent magnet as an energy storage material.
There IS NO Heisenburg Uncertainty Principal.
Unless there is a school named Heisenburg Uncertainty, which would be cool.
I pay a lot less attention to the Ask Slashdot questions than Cliff does, yet I remeber seeing this exact retarded question at least twice before. Possibly a couple times before that. It seems to me that Cliff ought to be able to remember it, I mean it's his job, and I'm just an occasional website visitor.
Your application should fit on a cheap CPLD. The Xilinx and Altera offerings can be had for under $5 in a small QFP package and generous with the Kgates.
On the other side of the board you place your TSSOP package opamps and drivers and SMD capacitors.
I built my own projector, and the bulbs are only $40. Plus they last about 10,000 hours. Granted, the projector is about as small as an end table. And it's not as bright as what's on the market today. But I still love it.
It's not so much magic, as brute-force labor. The computers do all kinds of fancy things over in their little air-conditioned room, but the actual implementing of the orderfilling is dependent on miles of conveyor and sorting equipment, forklift drivers, and people who split up boxes into the fine-tuned per store replenishments. It's possible for a box or even a pallet to get lost, or sent to the wrong store. Misread labels can cause incorrect sorting. Equipment breakdowns can cause a backlog and inevitable mixing of orders. All of the above problems can be quickly resolved with a good management staff, and amazingly most of them are pretty damn good.
Wal-Mart has over a hundred distribution centers and warehouses scattered across the nation; Newegg's warehouse is 180,000 square feet but the smallest Wal-Mart centers are over 400,000. Most of them are around 1.5 million and some are over 2 million.
The reason nobody uses winelib is because it's completely pointless. Using DLLs is just as fast and tends to save a lot of space on your hard drive over static linking.
Valid, unless you actually want your application to WORK.