Qualcomm is the biggest problem with CDMA. They're responsible for making the technology so expensive, GSM was able to flourish. Don't worry, not a huge fan of them in some areas of technology.:-/
Say all you want about Verizon and how crappy some of their phones are, but from my personal experience with Verizon, AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, and Nextel, I'll never give up my Verizon service. I've carried a phone from every major carrier (except T-Mobile) for work for over ten years, while at the same time carrying my personal phone from Verizon. You simply cannot beat the coverage in the US when it comes to Verizon's network.
Phone "lock-in" and "crippling" is something brought on by the carrier, not the technology. Verizon may not have the best marks on some of their phones, but it's nothing that has concerned me in over a decade. They provide the tools if you want to manage your data yourself, or can take care of things in the stores. The BlueTooth fiasco with their V710 phones was unfortunate, but never hindered my use of their network or that particular phone.
GSM isn't going to be around much longer anyways... Everyone's going to convert to a newer version of CDMA eventually, with backwards compatibility for today's GSM/CDMA systems. GSM is cheaper to deploy (the ONLY reason it's even still around), but cannot handle the same number of calls that CDMA can with the same amount of frequency spectrum. GSM will get more and more expensive as the airwaves become more demanding on the efficiency of your frequencies.
...that I am actually doing stuff on my own to reduce my energy consumption. I don't need a treaty to switch my house to CFLs, or keep my automobiles in good running condition for better fuel economy.
No, I'm not perfect. But I'm doing what I can, and thinking ahead. Not all of us here in the USA are complete dolts.
As someone who has been running CFLs for a few years, I can definitely say they save a boat load of money on the electric bills.
But a 24 Watt fridge? That's gotta be either a tiny Peltier based unit, or the number is way wrong. The one I have isn't old, and was one of the smaller units available (freezer up top, fridge on the bottom), and it still draws quite a bit of juice. I'm interested in what kind of fridge you have, if it does in fact only draw 24W.
Interesting. I've never noticed a drop in fuel economy on any of my vehicles, regardless of the ethanol content. I check my fuel economy at every fill-up too.
So, you're saying my '89 Honda Prelude Si would get ~45MPG if I switched to non-ethanol blended fuel? Or my poor beat up '88 Honda Civic LX would get over 50MPG?
Obviously, I don't have a heavy right foot, but nothing short of a diesel engine transplant is going to get either of my cars another 10MPG.
This technology can be applied across all piston-driven internal combustion engine platforms:
"The concept, known as variable valve actuation, would enable significant improvements in conventional gasoline and diesel engines used in cars and trucks and for applications such as generators, he said. The technique also enables the introduction of an advanced method called homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI, which would allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil and the production of harmful exhaust emissions."
"The new method would eliminate the mechanism linking the crankshaft to the camshaft, providing an independent control system for the valves."
VVT without camshafts has not been around since the 1960s. That's the difference... individual valve control that isn't mechanically driven by the crankshaft.
ATI makes chipsets for AMD systems outside of the GPU areas. They've had mobile chipsets for notebooks for a while, and you can get desktop motherboards with ATI chipsets.
AMD's purchase of ATI makes them more like Intel, because now they have CPUs, a decent array of motherboard chipsets, and GPUs all under one roof.
Let's just hope they can sort everything out internally and start putting some decent products out on shelves soon.
People play in Second Life, and there are plenty of gold farmers in other online games. Make the role of an average citizen/shopkeeper in this world so that there is some miniscule financial reward, like the gold farmers get, and you'll have plenty of people willing to play!
I cannot provide links at the moment, but I do remember when StarOffice was a seperate entity in the software world. Sun bought them, and OpenOffice was born (or became popular) around the same time.
The pushing point for OpenOffice is you don't have to worry too much about the OS you are using. OO exists in many forms, and is fairly uniform between OSs.
Speed is not an issue for some people, especially when you have a limited amount of funds for computer hardware and software.
Interesting, because I just dumped the last of my Windows systems for Ubuntu (Feisty Beta), and they run OO just great. Pentium III 1.0Ghz systems w/512MB of RAM, nothing really fancy about them.
Sounds like you've got a load of stuff installed... maybe it's time to trim your packages and services? I'm just running the default install of Ubuntu Feisty with a couple extra apps installed.
It's actually faster on these systems than it was on a P4 1.8Ghz w/256MB of RAM running Windows XP.
Funniest thing I've seen all day. How many times do you plan on rebuilding the engine during those 350k miles? How about the trannie? A lot of complaints about the F350 not sure about the diesel cummings.
He'll never have to rebuild the engine if he performs regular maintenance. Diesels are hard to kill if you actually maintain them properly. I had an '84 Chevy K5 Blazer 4x4 with the 6.2L V8 diesel, and I sold it at 300,000 miles with the original engine and transmission (700R4 trans rebuilt once at 200K miles).
Newer transmissions are built much better than those found even ten years ago, especially the autos typically mated to newer diesel engines in trucks. Again, chances he'll need a rebuild are pretty slim with proper maintenance.
Ford doesn't use Cummins engines, they use PowerStroke diesels. Dodge uses Cummins in their trucks. I don't know what a "cummings" is.
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Qualcomm is the biggest problem with CDMA. They're responsible for making the technology so expensive, GSM was able to flourish. Don't worry, not a huge fan of them in some areas of technology. :-/
Say all you want about Verizon and how crappy some of their phones are, but from my personal experience with Verizon, AT&T/Cingular, Sprint, and Nextel, I'll never give up my Verizon service. I've carried a phone from every major carrier (except T-Mobile) for work for over ten years, while at the same time carrying my personal phone from Verizon. You simply cannot beat the coverage in the US when it comes to Verizon's network.
Phone "lock-in" and "crippling" is something brought on by the carrier, not the technology. Verizon may not have the best marks on some of their phones, but it's nothing that has concerned me in over a decade. They provide the tools if you want to manage your data yourself, or can take care of things in the stores. The BlueTooth fiasco with their V710 phones was unfortunate, but never hindered my use of their network or that particular phone.
GSM isn't going to be around much longer anyways... Everyone's going to convert to a newer version of CDMA eventually, with backwards compatibility for today's GSM/CDMA systems. GSM is cheaper to deploy (the ONLY reason it's even still around), but cannot handle the same number of calls that CDMA can with the same amount of frequency spectrum. GSM will get more and more expensive as the airwaves become more demanding on the efficiency of your frequencies.
Someone should dig into this and see if there are any GPL'd bits that need to be disclosed.
Fortinet has a product that operates in a similar fashion (FortiGate systems). Fortinet was busted for GPL violations in April of 2005.
OK, average of 24 Watts. I didn't pick up on that. ;-)
I get what you're saying, though. Nice setup you have there.
...that I am actually doing stuff on my own to reduce my energy consumption. I don't need a treaty to switch my house to CFLs, or keep my automobiles in good running condition for better fuel economy.
No, I'm not perfect. But I'm doing what I can, and thinking ahead. Not all of us here in the USA are complete dolts.
As someone who has been running CFLs for a few years, I can definitely say they save a boat load of money on the electric bills.
But a 24 Watt fridge? That's gotta be either a tiny Peltier based unit, or the number is way wrong. The one I have isn't old, and was one of the smaller units available (freezer up top, fridge on the bottom), and it still draws quite a bit of juice. I'm interested in what kind of fridge you have, if it does in fact only draw 24W.
The HP desktops and laptops they currently sell don't seem to have any NASCAR affiliations, so I doubt the Dell systems will either.
Interesting. I've never noticed a drop in fuel economy on any of my vehicles, regardless of the ethanol content. I check my fuel economy at every fill-up too.
So, you're saying my '89 Honda Prelude Si would get ~45MPG if I switched to non-ethanol blended fuel? Or my poor beat up '88 Honda Civic LX would get over 50MPG?
Obviously, I don't have a heavy right foot, but nothing short of a diesel engine transplant is going to get either of my cars another 10MPG.
Also works great for those annoying lights/indicators on the dash of your car!
This technology can be applied across all piston-driven internal combustion engine platforms:
"The concept, known as variable valve actuation, would enable significant improvements in conventional gasoline and diesel engines used in cars and trucks and for applications such as generators, he said. The technique also enables the introduction of an advanced method called homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI, which would allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil and the production of harmful exhaust emissions."
FTFA:
"The new method would eliminate the mechanism linking the crankshaft to the camshaft, providing an independent control system for the valves."
VVT without camshafts has not been around since the 1960s. That's the difference... individual valve control that isn't mechanically driven by the crankshaft.
FTFA:
"The new method would eliminate the mechanism linking the crankshaft to the camshaft, providing an independent control system for the valves."
Providing precise valve control without using camshafts is a fairly big leap in engine tech for your average car or truck.
You'd think we were all Ferengi around here, or something.
ATI makes chipsets for AMD systems outside of the GPU areas. They've had mobile chipsets for notebooks for a while, and you can get desktop motherboards with ATI chipsets.
AMD's purchase of ATI makes them more like Intel, because now they have CPUs, a decent array of motherboard chipsets, and GPUs all under one roof.
Let's just hope they can sort everything out internally and start putting some decent products out on shelves soon.
Amen! :-)
People play in Second Life, and there are plenty of gold farmers in other online games. Make the role of an average citizen/shopkeeper in this world so that there is some miniscule financial reward, like the gold farmers get, and you'll have plenty of people willing to play!
T6Broadband, around Rockford, IL, USA, has decent speeds and a fairly wide open policy on bandwidth usage.
http://www.t6broadband.com/
A company I used to work for had AJAX capabilities in most of their products as far back as 2000. This patent is completely worthless.
I cannot provide links at the moment, but I do remember when StarOffice was a seperate entity in the software world. Sun bought them, and OpenOffice was born (or became popular) around the same time.
The pushing point for OpenOffice is you don't have to worry too much about the OS you are using. OO exists in many forms, and is fairly uniform between OSs.
Speed is not an issue for some people, especially when you have a limited amount of funds for computer hardware and software.
Interesting, because I just dumped the last of my Windows systems for Ubuntu (Feisty Beta), and they run OO just great. Pentium III 1.0Ghz systems w/512MB of RAM, nothing really fancy about them.
Sounds like you've got a load of stuff installed... maybe it's time to trim your packages and services? I'm just running the default install of Ubuntu Feisty with a couple extra apps installed.
It's actually faster on these systems than it was on a P4 1.8Ghz w/256MB of RAM running Windows XP.
Good luck sorting out THAT physics engine!
I haven't purchased a CD in over five years. I do not illegally download music. I don't even purchase music online legally!
It's entirely possible to boycott these asshats of album sales, and save some money at the same time.
No kidding. The only idiot around here is the person you replied to.
Vote, and do it as an informed individual. Help everyone you can become informed.
The more people we have who are educated about the people and issues at the voting booths, the better off we all are.
He'll never have to rebuild the engine if he performs regular maintenance. Diesels are hard to kill if you actually maintain them properly. I had an '84 Chevy K5 Blazer 4x4 with the 6.2L V8 diesel, and I sold it at 300,000 miles with the original engine and transmission (700R4 trans rebuilt once at 200K miles).
Newer transmissions are built much better than those found even ten years ago, especially the autos typically mated to newer diesel engines in trucks. Again, chances he'll need a rebuild are pretty slim with proper maintenance.
Ford doesn't use Cummins engines, they use PowerStroke diesels. Dodge uses Cummins in their trucks. I don't know what a "cummings" is.