True. However, in the case of a satellite in geostationary orbit, doesn't it actually require less energy to push it a little bit faster so it goes to away?
You have very valid concerns over the life of solid state media, and in general I share your cynicism concerning marketing claims, however the core technology for solid state drives is a lot older than the drives themselves. Flash memory and associated wear out aren't brand new problems, and the claims for SSD life aren't that outrageous given current flash memory tech. At least clueful people are in the habit of not trusting single drives for storage of data they care about...
Very true. Spending $2 million to protect something worth $1 billion is an easy choice to make. However, the cost of the drones does have bearing on how many can be built and deployed. Getting zerged is a bitch.
I could see it being a problem if you're preventing an otherwise competent user from installing tools they need to do their job. If your interface to your IT department is lightweight enough that it doesn't take long to have a site admin install software, then it's less of an issue. If it takes a day + lots of red tape to install anything on the machine, it might be the cost of un-borking the machine when the user does something wrong is less than the cost of waiting for the computer to be worked on over its life.
...you could take a low voltage source, convert to AC and step up the voltage with a transformer. Not that big of a deal.
While that is doable, it's not trivial. Even at 95% conversion efficiency that's a nontrivial amount of waste power to get rid of. Transformers also get kinda chunky with increasing power throughput requirements.
While we're at it, can we convince the people that design audio interfaces that gui knobs don't work? They're a bear to run with a mouse and have next to no precision. I'd rather have a text box for the small, inexpensive, not written to often control. Sliders are fine though, and would totally rock on that interface.
That device looks strikingly like the little credit card scanner things the iDrones at Apple retail stores carry around... Would be deliciously ironic if they were actually using them
There's often an inverse relationship by how often someone points out how good they are at anything, and how good they really are. Obligatory wiki link.
How else would you study nuclear reactor physics;) But really, they are a bit more common than you might think. One particularly fun design is the TRIGA design.
Wait, what?! I think the printer companies are as evil as the next/.er, but that's a whole new kind of evil. That's almost cell-phone company evil, come to think of it. Have you personally run into this kind of behavior?
The newer ones should. It seems manufacturers responded favorably to some of the initial pains of burnt in plasma displays. Current displays should have a time to half brightness of approximately 100,000 hours. Granted, that number is taken from a guide to buying plasma TVs, so a bit of bias in the long lived direction is to be expected. Even so, the lifespan is such that the display element will likely not be the limiting factor.
As for flat screen CRT adjustment taking some time, I think it has less to do with manufacturers allowing end users to maintain their product than it does with the complexity of translating from polar coordinates to Cartesian. Getting a square image out of a beam that is modulated by angle is a bit tricky. A plasma display would not suffer from this, since like LCDs they control each display element separately.
In any event - my purpose was not to flame you, but to scratch one of my pet peeves, which is people making statements of fact that aren't. For use as a computer monitor - I think you're right. LCDs for computers don't improve in every way over state of the art CRT. However, LCD tech brings with it its own advantages, not the least of which is decreased desktop footprint, long life (60,000 hours+), ease of use, and lower power consumption.
Actually, they're not. In the case of the monitors, it's an established fact that CRT viewing angles, especially Trinitrons, are better than any flat tech we have today.
Despite their disadvantages, plasma displays are current flat tech, and they match flat screen CRTs, but without the phenomenal pain in the ass that is adjusting a flat screen CRT well.
If a student is taking the teacher's/Professor's time, then you would have to assume that they have a desire to learn.
I *so* want that to be true. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be. I don't know if it's related to people being at the school on scholarship money, parents money, or misunderstood major requirements. Take the computer science students in the quantum mechanics class. It's required for their major, yet half of them don't have any interest in the class and don't see any need for learning it in the first place. At which point do we draw the line in education between fairness and equality and the real world where you most definitely can fail, and nobody will help you...
You certainly have a funny concept of not guilty of a felony then. It's an unfortunate side effect of our justice system where in order to keep freedoms you might want you have to defend the semi-bastards, such as the guy described by the GP. A $20 cd does not deserve a felony.
... even though they use the same NAND flash technology
Not a lame FTFY joke I promise. FRAM does exist and is around, but it can't compete with NAND flash in cost per bit yet. Pretty much all consumer nonvolatile storage lives on flash.
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This has a pretty good explanation of the origin of the phrase.
I *really* hope they don't use AT&T for that service...
True. However, in the case of a satellite in geostationary orbit, doesn't it actually require less energy to push it a little bit faster so it goes to away?
You have very valid concerns over the life of solid state media, and in general I share your cynicism concerning marketing claims, however the core technology for solid state drives is a lot older than the drives themselves. Flash memory and associated wear out aren't brand new problems, and the claims for SSD life aren't that outrageous given current flash memory tech. At least clueful people are in the habit of not trusting single drives for storage of data they care about...
Very true. Spending $2 million to protect something worth $1 billion is an easy choice to make. However, the cost of the drones does have bearing on how many can be built and deployed. Getting zerged is a bitch.
Perhaps because relative size comparisons, while less precise, are faster to recognize than decoding a set of dimensions.
Except you're not buying the device. You're buying the ability to interact with their software ecosystem.
I could see it being a problem if you're preventing an otherwise competent user from installing tools they need to do their job. If your interface to your IT department is lightweight enough that it doesn't take long to have a site admin install software, then it's less of an issue. If it takes a day + lots of red tape to install anything on the machine, it might be the cost of un-borking the machine when the user does something wrong is less than the cost of waiting for the computer to be worked on over its life.
Just because Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world doesn't mean he craps daisies and technological innovation.
Nope. That job belongs to Steve Jobs ;)
...you could take a low voltage source, convert to AC and step up the voltage with a transformer. Not that big of a deal.
While that is doable, it's not trivial. Even at 95% conversion efficiency that's a nontrivial amount of waste power to get rid of. Transformers also get kinda chunky with increasing power throughput requirements.
While we're at it, can we convince the people that design audio interfaces that gui knobs don't work? They're a bear to run with a mouse and have next to no precision. I'd rather have a text box for the small, inexpensive, not written to often control. Sliders are fine though, and would totally rock on that interface.
That device looks strikingly like the little credit card scanner things the iDrones at Apple retail stores carry around... Would be deliciously ironic if they were actually using them
Sort of, except it seems like most companies try to bury their non-contract plans in an unmarked grave.
There's often an inverse relationship by how often someone points out how good they are at anything, and how good they really are. Obligatory wiki link.
How else would you study nuclear reactor physics ;) But really, they are a bit more common than you might think. One particularly fun design is the TRIGA design.
The lines on my income tax form for Medicare and Social Security, and the giant number behind them.
Seems like quite a bit would be sequestered in the wood until it decomposes through some method.
Battery life, and the e-ink display.
Wait, what?! I think the printer companies are as evil as the next /.er, but that's a whole new kind of evil. That's almost cell-phone company evil, come to think of it. Have you personally run into this kind of behavior?
Since intentionally interfering with the proper operation of *any* radio station already is illegal, you'd be right.
As for flat screen CRT adjustment taking some time, I think it has less to do with manufacturers allowing end users to maintain their product than it does with the complexity of translating from polar coordinates to Cartesian. Getting a square image out of a beam that is modulated by angle is a bit tricky. A plasma display would not suffer from this, since like LCDs they control each display element separately.
In any event - my purpose was not to flame you, but to scratch one of my pet peeves, which is people making statements of fact that aren't. For use as a computer monitor - I think you're right. LCDs for computers don't improve in every way over state of the art CRT. However, LCD tech brings with it its own advantages, not the least of which is decreased desktop footprint, long life (60,000 hours+), ease of use, and lower power consumption.
Okay, I'm done. I'll get off your lawn now.
Actually, they're not. In the case of the monitors, it's an established fact that CRT viewing angles, especially Trinitrons, are better than any flat tech we have today.
Despite their disadvantages, plasma displays are current flat tech, and they match flat screen CRTs, but without the phenomenal pain in the ass that is adjusting a flat screen CRT well.
If a student is taking the teacher's/Professor's time, then you would have to assume that they have a desire to learn.
I *so* want that to be true. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be. I don't know if it's related to people being at the school on scholarship money, parents money, or misunderstood major requirements. Take the computer science students in the quantum mechanics class. It's required for their major, yet half of them don't have any interest in the class and don't see any need for learning it in the first place. At which point do we draw the line in education between fairness and equality and the real world where you most definitely can fail, and nobody will help you...
You certainly have a funny concept of not guilty of a felony then. It's an unfortunate side effect of our justice system where in order to keep freedoms you might want you have to defend the semi-bastards, such as the guy described by the GP. A $20 cd does not deserve a felony.
... even though they use the same NAND flash technology
Not a lame FTFY joke I promise. FRAM does exist and is around, but it can't compete with NAND flash in cost per bit yet. Pretty much all consumer nonvolatile storage lives on flash.
FRAM
NAND flash