I think that a better way to go might be to make a tiny iPod nano sized phone that can connect to the nano back to back but connected so that the calls pause the music and make the headphones the hands free. That way you can just take the phone with you when that is all you need (and vice versa). They would need to be able to share the battery power for when connected while still maintaining their own battery each for when they are separate.
They could also do some fancy battery management that warns you when your music listening takes the battery below a certain % so you don't miss calls.
Although I don't think even that would make me give up my old school 15gb 3rd gen, its got the retro iPod feel (I know the 1st and 2nd gen are more retro but they were huge and I have grown attached to mine!)
(OT: I am just starting to learn Dvorak and damn it is annoying not being able to type fast! This post took ages!)
The easy way around that is renaming the.exe file. I do it for windows messenger as it randomly opens and signs in, making me sign out of msn messenger. Sadly everyone seems to use msn messenger now as I would much prefer to move to _something_ different. At least with tweaks I can remove all the extra crap that they stick onto it.
I think you mean electric hot water. Basically it runs in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep and all the industrial areas are not using much power either.
Having just built a new house here in Australia we also found another interesting bit of technology avaliable to us Aussies (maybe you can get it elsewhere too). It is a hot water tank but instead of using a standard heating element it uses an airconditioner. The great thing about them is they can achieve >100% efficency (as they are pumping heat from one place to the other). Not so great is that if it gets too cold there is not enough heat in the air to heat the water, but not much of a problem in Australia.
The money you save running one of them hardly makes it worthwile due to the extra initial outlay but it is a small investment in the future, especially considering that Australia burns a lot of coal for electricity.
I am waiting for the next gen where the processor AND the motherboard just have little cups on them and you have to put tiny little gold balls into each of the holes first:p
But in reality I think that this system could work out better. For starters heatsinks seem to be getting tighter and tighter each generation. On my 2 most recent computers I have found that removing the heatsink always brings the CPU with it. Such large surface areas form the heatspreaders create a lot of suction. Of course you can twist the heatsink a bit to break the suction but that always causes the heatsink to get scratched.
Plus whenever you have the cpu out and sitting on the desk you KNOW the pins are going to get bent. And then you have the fun of trying to straighten them with some tweezers! I have not seen a LGA socket personally yet but looking at the pictures it looks like they would be harder to bend unless you were very careless.
i am using iiNet and get redirected. This pisses me off to no extent! I don't give a crap about what they think is and is not suitable. Besides I have seen goatse / tubgirl / lemonparty etc. I hardly see how this could be worse!
No, the reason they pleaded guilty was it was cheaper to send a secratary down to the court house and plead guilty then it was to hire a team of lawyers:p
They really should sell these. Sell them for $200 each and (after retailer markups) you have made $50 per unit. Ship the same thing in a different casing (to stop the problems mentioned elsewhere about the poor selling them) to the 3rd world countries. Not only does manufacturing costs go down but if you then pipe the profits into subsidising the free ones you can get a lot more laptops out there to the 3rd world.
You could probably also put some of that money into designing the next generation of them (if it really is needed, which it probably is not) but I am sure they can already get grants to do this.
Well I live in Australia and I personally like this idea of sending the whole country into space. Sounds like fun. My only question is will my taxes go up to pay for this journey?
Wow and don't buy a painting from an art museum, there is only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas in them! Some things are more expensive than the cost of just their parts. There are many hidden costs ranging from research and design to retailer mark-up. If you can't see this than I feel sorry for you as it is very basic to understand.
Plus, 50 cents per iPod equates to quite a bit when you are selling them in the millions. And that is all lost profit. A 50 cent change in manufacturing costs can lead to $20 changes in retail price after all the mark-ups are added.
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I used to drink (or slurp) them all the time when i was young. I stopped that practice many years ago when i started getting stomach pains whenever I drank one from my local 7/11 in Hong Kong. From then on I believed that a rat must have fallen into the machine and it had NEVER been cleaned. Thus I have not had one ever since.
And on the other end they have much heaper chips too, they sell a whole lot more (like orders of magnitude more) 8051 processors (Retail 10 - 15 cents in bulk). Somehow I don't think these, which cost practically nothing have been included.
The sheer volume of these chips sold just makes it impossible to pull the $$ up to $40.
Dammit! You got me on that, now I will have to find a way to weasel out of it. I'm Australian you insensitive clod! Our money is worth a whole lot less.
So I am going to have to assume now that you were referring to Cayman Islands Dollars which takes it to around the 400M mark
Sorry I didn't pick up on the pounds/dollars bit - Every currency that I regularly use/look at is in dollars so it didn't register.
I highly doubt it will.
The MX Duo reciever is different to the MX700 reciever, it has the extra keyboard lights etc and installs as a keyboard and mouse in windows.
Maybe just upgrade to the MX3100 - which is a new gen logitech keyboard and an MX1000 in a package.
You just have to wink each eye in rapid succession to get the 3d effect, the panel is a regular one! They have quite clearly patented the idea of winking rapidly.
Will this increase power consumption significantly?
Any idea how much the platter needs to be thickened? Seems to me the added mass will require more power to spin, meaning more heat as well.
Well it will probably use more power at spinup, but keeping it spinning should not require any extra power. The only things that slow it down is the friction with the bearings and the friction with the air.
Heat should not increase too much with thicker patters as the main source of heat is from the friction between the air and the platter. This should not change too much since the platter is only slightly thicker - only that little bit of extra edge in surface area. Nowhere near as hot as adding an extra platter (like they have done on some of the larger hard drives out there).
What do you want them to do? Tell you that AMD is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you would be an idiot for buying Intel when you can get AMD cheaper? The salespersons job is *not* to give you advice and help you find what it is that suits you best; it is to give you advice on which of the products they sell would suit you best.
I work (part time while at uni) in retail and while I will try to sell the AMD computers (when we get stock of them, which is almost never) I primarily have to convince people to buy Intel since that is all we have available.
I would also love to point out to them that they if they shopped online they could get a no-brand machine with much higher specs for the same price but that's not my job. My main computer is better than all the ones we have on display yet it was cheaper than half of them all because I built it myself. 90% of the customers I see could also get away with the cheapest computers (why would you need more than a 2.8 GHz Celeron for the internet and word?) yet it is our job to sell them a more expensive box.
Morally I don't like to be the sleazy salesperson type - if it is an old granny wanting to get her emails from her children I won't try to sell her a 3Ghz P4 Gaming machine. I try to get them to spend the money on things that will be of better use to them, like a decent printer rather than the cheapest Lexmark they can find - The kind that comes with only a colour cartridge, making you shell out the cost of the printer again straight away for black.
In your case though it sounds like he was trying to unload some old stock - there was probably a bonus for him if he unloaded it.
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I think that a better way to go might be to make a tiny iPod nano sized phone that can connect to the nano back to back but connected so that the calls pause the music and make the headphones the hands free. That way you can just take the phone with you when that is all you need (and vice versa). They would need to be able to share the battery power for when connected while still maintaining their own battery each for when they are separate.
They could also do some fancy battery management that warns you when your music listening takes the battery below a certain % so you don't miss calls.
Although I don't think even that would make me give up my old school 15gb 3rd gen, its got the retro iPod feel (I know the 1st and 2nd gen are more retro but they were huge and I have grown attached to mine!)
(OT: I am just starting to learn Dvorak and damn it is annoying not being able to type fast! This post took ages!)
I do the arm thing all the time. I don't think it harms it at all, just feels weird.
The easy way around that is renaming the .exe file. I do it for windows messenger as it randomly opens and signs in, making me sign out of msn messenger. Sadly everyone seems to use msn messenger now as I would much prefer to move to _something_ different. At least with tweaks I can remove all the extra crap that they stick onto it.
I think you mean electric hot water. Basically it runs in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep and all the industrial areas are not using much power either.
Having just built a new house here in Australia we also found another interesting bit of technology avaliable to us Aussies (maybe you can get it elsewhere too). It is a hot water tank but instead of using a standard heating element it uses an airconditioner. The great thing about them is they can achieve >100% efficency (as they are pumping heat from one place to the other). Not so great is that if it gets too cold there is not enough heat in the air to heat the water, but not much of a problem in Australia.
The money you save running one of them hardly makes it worthwile due to the extra initial outlay but it is a small investment in the future, especially considering that Australia burns a lot of coal for electricity.
I for one welcome our, wait they died out! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
They just don't show the 4th dimention on their 4D tv for clarity reasons! Just push the button to change which dimention is hidden
Seriously, it would get confusing!
I am waiting for the next gen where the processor AND the motherboard just have little cups on them and you have to put tiny little gold balls into each of the holes first :p
But in reality I think that this system could work out better. For starters heatsinks seem to be getting tighter and tighter each generation. On my 2 most recent computers I have found that removing the heatsink always brings the CPU with it. Such large surface areas form the heatspreaders create a lot of suction. Of course you can twist the heatsink a bit to break the suction but that always causes the heatsink to get scratched.
Plus whenever you have the cpu out and sitting on the desk you KNOW the pins are going to get bent. And then you have the fun of trying to straighten them with some tweezers! I have not seen a LGA socket personally yet but looking at the pictures it looks like they would be harder to bend unless you were very careless.
i am using iiNet and get redirected. This pisses me off to no extent! I don't give a crap about what they think is and is not suitable. Besides I have seen goatse / tubgirl / lemonparty etc. I hardly see how this could be worse!
No, the reason they pleaded guilty was it was cheaper to send a secratary down to the court house and plead guilty then it was to hire a team of lawyers :p
yes, but it is extremely unpopular as you have to be within a few metres of the radio station and the quality is poor
well okay, a I made the up, a man can dream though, a man can dream...
They really should sell these. Sell them for $200 each and (after retailer markups) you have made $50 per unit. Ship the same thing in a different casing (to stop the problems mentioned elsewhere about the poor selling them) to the 3rd world countries. Not only does manufacturing costs go down but if you then pipe the profits into subsidising the free ones you can get a lot more laptops out there to the 3rd world.
You could probably also put some of that money into designing the next generation of them (if it really is needed, which it probably is not) but I am sure they can already get grants to do this.
Well I live in Australia and I personally like this idea of sending the whole country into space. Sounds like fun. My only question is will my taxes go up to pay for this journey?
Wow and don't buy a painting from an art museum, there is only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas in them! Some things are more expensive than the cost of just their parts. There are many hidden costs ranging from research and design to retailer mark-up. If you can't see this than I feel sorry for you as it is very basic to understand.
Plus, 50 cents per iPod equates to quite a bit when you are selling them in the millions. And that is all lost profit. A 50 cent change in manufacturing costs can lead to $20 changes in retail price after all the mark-ups are added.
I used to drink (or slurp) them all the time when i was young. I stopped that practice many years ago when i started getting stomach pains whenever I drank one from my local 7/11 in Hong Kong. From then on I believed that a rat must have fallen into the machine and it had NEVER been cleaned. Thus I have not had one ever since.
I think they are just refering to their "processors" as in pentium series (maybe itanium).
Intel sell way too many 8051 processors which are 10 - 15 cents in bulk to make it all processors.
$40 for the bit of a wafer and the packaging and pins(well not any more!) seems not too bad.
I think we can all agree that they didn't factor in the cost of building / retooling the factory.
And on the other end they have much heaper chips too, they sell a whole lot more (like orders of magnitude more) 8051 processors (Retail 10 - 15 cents in bulk). Somehow I don't think these, which cost practically nothing have been included.
The sheer volume of these chips sold just makes it impossible to pull the $$ up to $40.
Was the joke that you don't actually live in your parent's basement or that the idea of moving out of it is preposterous? :D
Duh, but the newton will have a full colour screen, that is wide... and can play videos...
Ah screw it, just add PDA functions to the video iPod that steve promised never to release (and hence is due next week).
Dammit! You got me on that, now I will have to find a way to weasel out of it.
I'm Australian you insensitive clod! Our money is worth a whole lot less.
So I am going to have to assume now that you were referring to Cayman Islands Dollars which takes it to around the 400M mark
Sorry I didn't pick up on the pounds/dollars bit - Every currency that I regularly use/look at is in dollars so it didn't register.
actually 295625000 is over half a half a billion dollars
or over one quater of a billion dollars if you will.
still way too much to spend on a system that will ultimately slow things down, force less people to use public transport and overall be ineffective.
I highly doubt it will. The MX Duo reciever is different to the MX700 reciever, it has the extra keyboard lights etc and installs as a keyboard and mouse in windows. Maybe just upgrade to the MX3100 - which is a new gen logitech keyboard and an MX1000 in a package.
You just have to wink each eye in rapid succession to get the 3d effect, the panel is a regular one! They have quite clearly patented the idea of winking rapidly.
"We can build it, we have the technology"
What do you want them to do? Tell you that AMD is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you would be an idiot for buying Intel when you can get AMD cheaper? The salespersons job is *not* to give you advice and help you find what it is that suits you best; it is to give you advice on which of the products they sell would suit you best.
I work (part time while at uni) in retail and while I will try to sell the AMD computers (when we get stock of them, which is almost never) I primarily have to convince people to buy Intel since that is all we have available.
I would also love to point out to them that they if they shopped online they could get a no-brand machine with much higher specs for the same price but that's not my job. My main computer is better than all the ones we have on display yet it was cheaper than half of them all because I built it myself. 90% of the customers I see could also get away with the cheapest computers (why would you need more than a 2.8 GHz Celeron for the internet and word?) yet it is our job to sell them a more expensive box.
Morally I don't like to be the sleazy salesperson type - if it is an old granny wanting to get her emails from her children I won't try to sell her a 3Ghz P4 Gaming machine. I try to get them to spend the money on things that will be of better use to them, like a decent printer rather than the cheapest Lexmark they can find - The kind that comes with only a colour cartridge, making you shell out the cost of the printer again straight away for black.
In your case though it sounds like he was trying to unload some old stock - there was probably a bonus for him if he unloaded it.