I have an LCD monitor at work. There's some problem with the machine, such that the screen saver *never* runs. The monitor is always on.
I have burnin after less than a year of the Windows Locked/Login rectangle. I now manually move it after I lock the screen or logout.
-- Andyvan
I'm assuming you're trying to be funny. The ice in the arctic is already floating in water, hence no sea level rise when it melts. This is why the melting of ice on land (Greenland, Antarctica) is significant.
Yes, the test for this took place here in San Diego. We have a "car-pool" lane that's in the center of the freeway. It's two lanes South in the morning, and two lanes North in the evening. They did the testing on this on a weekend.
I saw the picture in the paper of 5 or 6 cars driving single-file at 65 mph, completely computer-controlled.
I disagree with your statement that pagers are outdated. I work in a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), and *no* phones or PDAs are ever allowed inside.
How do people reach me?
They page me. One-way pagers are allowed.
I also have my meeting reminders sent to me as a page.
They meant that the extinction of the *animals* is indirect. Through destruction of the rain forest, the environment is changed, which affects the animals.
Compare this to killing the animals directly (Dodo).
If WCDMA is using CDMA with "GSM2", how does it differ from a convergence?
I understood the original poster to want the ability to change providers easily, combined with the superior efficiency of CDMA. Doesn't WCDMA provide that?
-- Andyvan
CDMA is very popular in Asian markets and they have streaming videophones. GSM is in the European market and I would guess that CDMA to GSM ratio worldwide is close to 50% if not tilted to the CDMA a little. Which technology is better? I think CDMA is a little better; however, I think that neither is quite perfect. Some years from now, A common technology will bridge the two and the war will be over and maybe perfection?
1) The CDMA to GSM ratio is nowhere close to 1. There are way more GSM phones.
I have the Archos, and found it incredibly useful on a recent trip to Germany. A German friend had some video he had recorded, and I was able to dub it onto my Archos (PAL format).
When I got home to the US, I was able to view it in NTSC format, and have since put it onto a DVD.
I also used it to off-load 2 different cameras, watch a movie, and listen to music.
Oh, almost forgot, I also used it to record a concert via the microphone, and to record a couple of tracks from an LP via the line-in.
I didn't miss having a laptop at all, though I do have a PDA to do laptop-like stuff.
The original poster is quite serious. It *is* a pain in the butt to have write-only registers. This is very common.
What this means is that you write some control values to the registers, which causes the hardware to do something.
If you later wish to use those values, you can't just read them back from the registers. You have to have "shadow" registers which cache the last value written to the real hardware registers.
"Does Bluetooth take less power than UWB per byte?"
I don't know.
Certainly running hot for a small percentage of the time, vs. low power much of the time, will put a different kind of load on a battery.
Also, waking up every so often and grabbing everything at high speed so that you can go back to sleep again only works if the other side can give you a lot of data during the device's "up" time.
I would also imagine that waking up might introduce some burstiness, and hence lag, into the data stream.
Sorry, I wasn't clear.
I meant to say that Bluetooth won't be displaced easily from low-power (battery powered), low-bandwidth devices, such as mice, headsets, etc.
-- Andyvan
In their case study, they state
"Linux environment provides a level of security and stability unavailable elsewhere".
Maybe that level is lower, not higher?;-)
Bluetooth is much slower, typically around 700kbps. Bluetooth consumes much less power, so don't expect Bluetooth to be pushed out on your headset or wireless mouse, for example.
Do what I do: Put the DVD in, turn down the sound and go gather your refreshments, go to the restroom, etc.
Come back in 10 minutes and the DVD is usually sitting at the menu waiting for you.
We do this as a matter of habit now.
-- Andyvan
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I have an LCD monitor at work. There's some problem with the machine, such that the screen saver *never* runs. The monitor is always on. I have burnin after less than a year of the Windows Locked/Login rectangle. I now manually move it after I lock the screen or logout. -- Andyvan
FYI: They're referring to a "modern" Beetle, which weigh considerably more than a "classic" Beetle does.
My apologies if you were trying for funny.
-- Andyvan
That's the only one I can think of, assuming it's not already available for the Mac.
-- Andyvan
songs (and other Apple artists) electronically, as Apple Computer will own those rights.
I can see why they might not like that prospect.
-- Andyvan
You do realize he was referring to Prohibition?
-- Andyvan
I'm assuming you're trying to be funny. The ice in the arctic is already floating in water, hence no sea level rise when it melts. This is why the melting of ice on land (Greenland, Antarctica) is significant.
-- Andyvan
Yes, the test for this took place here in San Diego. We have a "car-pool" lane that's in the center of the freeway. It's two lanes South in the morning, and two lanes North in the evening. They did the testing on this on a weekend.
I saw the picture in the paper of 5 or 6 cars driving single-file at 65 mph, completely computer-controlled.
-- Andyvan
Only Notepad and Wordpad come included with Windows. Word and Publisher are separate products.
I do agree that I've never understood why *both* wordpad and notepad are available. I *never* use Notepad.
-- Andyvan
They're always able to make blurry photographs sharp, and it only takes about 10 seconds...
-- Andyvan
I disagree with your statement that pagers are outdated. I work in a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), and *no* phones or PDAs are ever allowed inside.
How do people reach me?
They page me. One-way pagers are allowed.
I also have my meeting reminders sent to me as a page.
There is no other RF device I can wear in a SCIF.
-- Andyvan
They meant that the extinction of the *animals* is indirect. Through destruction of the rain forest, the environment is changed, which affects the animals.
Compare this to killing the animals directly (Dodo).
-- Andyvan
If WCDMA is using CDMA with "GSM2", how does it differ from a convergence?
I understood the original poster to want the ability to change providers easily, combined with the superior efficiency of CDMA. Doesn't WCDMA provide that? -- Andyvan
CDMA is very popular in Asian markets and they have streaming videophones. GSM is in the European market and I would guess that CDMA to GSM ratio worldwide is close to 50% if not tilted to the CDMA a little. Which technology is better? I think CDMA is a little better; however, I think that neither is quite perfect. Some years from now, A common technology will bridge the two and the war will be over and maybe perfection?
1) The CDMA to GSM ratio is nowhere close to 1. There are way more GSM phones.
2) The "common technology" is called WCDMA.
-- Andyvan
I would hope that the legislation is less broad than the description in both the summary and the FA.
If I put my home movies (or songs) in a shared folder, but never commercially release it, am I in violation?
-- Andyvan
I have the Archos, and found it incredibly useful on a recent trip to Germany. A German friend had some video he had recorded, and I was able to dub it onto my Archos (PAL format).
When I got home to the US, I was able to view it in NTSC format, and have since put it onto a DVD.
I also used it to off-load 2 different cameras, watch a movie, and listen to music.
Oh, almost forgot, I also used it to record a concert via the microphone, and to record a couple of tracks from an LP via the line-in.
I didn't miss having a laptop at all, though I do have a PDA to do laptop-like stuff.
-- Andyvan
They reviewed 6 boards, and came to a different conclusion: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2393
-- Andyvan
The original poster is quite serious. It *is* a pain in the butt to have write-only registers. This is very common.
What this means is that you write some control values to the registers, which causes the hardware to do something.
If you later wish to use those values, you can't just read them back from the registers. You have to have "shadow" registers which cache the last value written to the real hardware registers.
-- Andyvan
I don't know.
Certainly running hot for a small percentage of the time, vs. low power much of the time, will put a different kind of load on a battery.
Also, waking up every so often and grabbing everything at high speed so that you can go back to sleep again only works if the other side can give you a lot of data during the device's "up" time.
I would also imagine that waking up might introduce some burstiness, and hence lag, into the data stream.
Good question!
-- Andyvan
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant to say that Bluetooth won't be displaced easily from low-power (battery powered), low-bandwidth devices, such as mice, headsets, etc. -- Andyvan
In their case study, they state "Linux environment provides a level of security and stability unavailable elsewhere". Maybe that level is lower, not higher? ;-)
Bluetooth is much slower, typically around 700kbps. Bluetooth consumes much less power, so don't expect Bluetooth to be pushed out on your headset or wireless mouse, for example.
-- Andyvan
Maybe saline solution is not completely inert after all, and so is not a good placebo.
-- Andyvan
It's the lisa we can do.
--Andyvan
FYI: UCSD Pascal had menu bars at the top of the screen in 1977.
Does this predate Xerox?
Do what I do: Put the DVD in, turn down the sound and go gather your refreshments, go to the restroom, etc. Come back in 10 minutes and the DVD is usually sitting at the menu waiting for you. We do this as a matter of habit now. -- Andyvan