The reason this won't work is that, in order to legally make porn, you have to keep detailed records of the names and ages of all the performers. I would guess that you have to keep copies of identification on file.
Those 2lb ultraportables make major compromises of functionality for size. The X60 is essentially sized around its 12.1" screen, while a lot of the machines you're talking about have 8.9" displays, 1.8" hard drives, and previous generation CPUs.
First things first, the fact that your employer has ridiculous IT policies doesn't mean that all of them do. You're just giving us an anecdote and then using that to imply that no company would ever spend a relatively small amount of money to equip their staff with decent hardware. I'm sorry your job sucks; start looking for a new one.
Granted, a tablet is not something that most people really want or need, but let Lenovo worry about selling enough of them. The tablet, while not a huge success, has carved itself a comfortable little niche; the people who can put its functionality to good use often become very attached to it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more corporate tablet users than consumers, as the latter tend to be far more sensitive to price.
As for support, Lenovo gives individuals the same service that volume buyers get. They recognize that there are a lot of small businesses and contractors that rely on them, and they treat you well. The thinkpad line is a high end product with a price to match, and you get the kind of service you'd expect.
Copper and zinc easily form an alloy commonly known as brass. In liquid form they'd be fully soluble: you couldn't use density-based separation. Think of it as alcohol and water - significantly different densities, but your bottle of vodka doesn't separate out into layers when left on the shelf.
High end notebooks from Dell, IBM, and possibly others all use lithium polymer batteries for their drivebay batteries, where space is extremely tight and the geometry is suboptimal for cylindrical cells. Li-polymer batteries can be made into very thin shapes and don't need a metal case to contain individual cells. Because of this, the energy density is actually higher. I think the reason they're not in widespread use is simply that they cost more.
Well, even if it's just brass, you can't exactly go to a store and buy a brass wrench. That means that someone had to design the tooling and do a small production run on a few hundred of these things. Once you add warehousing and distribution costs, a $1000 price tag might not be unreasonable.
Oh yes of course, the desert is a precious and fragile ecosystem that needs to be protected. It's not just a land of oppressive heat, sand, rock, and thorny vegation - it's home to some very rare species of, umm, cactii and scorpions, that represent, uh, valuable biodiversity that must be protected.
Nature must be sheltered from the influence of evil parasitic humans. It is to be protected for its own sake, and no other justification is necessary.
This kind of attitude has put a halt to multibillion dollar projects that would have benefitted thousands of people, and sometimes entire nations. If it were up to people like you, we'd all be freezing in the dark.
Every major consumer ISP in the world now has some form of traffic shaping in place to degrade bittorrent traffic. When BT was first launched, speeds of 200kB/s weren't uncommon; today, most torrents putter along at about 30-50kB/s. Despite my connection being able to easily sustain 55kB/s uploads, I never upload faster than 20 over BT.
While torrents have made file sharing far more widespread, accessible to basically anyone with a client and a few braincells, ISPs have succeeded in making sure that the transfer speeds are firmly in the realm of previous-generation file sharing technologies.
YouTube's appeal is that it runs in the browser and it's fast - you start playing a video and it just downloads in the background while you watch. It fulfills a promise that realnetworks, apple, and microsoft had been trying to deliver on for years: it makes streaming media easy and reliable.
This is totally useless information. Detonation velocity is the speed of the detonation front as it moves through a column of chemical explosive. It has pretty much zero applicability to the remote detection of explosions.
Here's an idea: rot13 the entire paper, and then find or make a font that has all the characters in rot13'd order. It would look fine on screen, yet be totally incomprehensible to turnitin's software.
Your theory is that it doesn't matter whether the asteroid arrives intact or in a million pieces, because the damage is done by the transfer of kinetic energy to the earth. A huge dust cloud burning up in the atmosphere will indeed release the same amount of energy as one massive rock, but the effects will be vastly different.
I think some back of the envelope arithmetic will show why.
Let's say we have a 500x500x500m block of rock heading toward us with a specific gravity of 5. That's 6.25e11 kg. Let's say it's traveling at an initial velocity of 100km/s, or 1e5 m/s.
The kinetic energy of this asteroid is 3.13e21 J, and because the asteroid's final velocity is zero, that all gets dumped on our little planet.
If that energy arrives as one big impact, we're pretty well screwed. On the other hand, if the asteroid completely burns up in the atmosphere, then all of that kinetic energy is turned into heat. So the question becomes this: just how much is 3.13e21 joules of thermal energy, and what will it do to us?
Well, let's consider how much energy the earth receives from the sun. The radius of the planet is 6350km, so it's cross sectional area is 2.17e14 square meters. The sun puts out about 1400 W/m^2 at the earth's orbit. This means that the earth gets 1.77e17 joules of energy every second.
Thus, the aforementioned asteroid will release an amount of thermal energy equivalent 17600 seconds of sunlight, or about 4.9 hours. That would probably make for some interesting weather for a couple of days, but it wouldn't have a significant and long-lasting impact on the planet's climate.
What if, instead of converting every mp3 file on your machine, you only want to do two dozen of them, from a variety of artists and albums? This is where the command line proves itself vastly inferior to the GUI.
And when Clinton was being Evil, we called him on it, just like we're doing with Bush. Zimmerman dropped off the government's radar, the clipper chip was abandoned, and export controls on encryption were largely dropped.
So I guess the difference between Clinton and Bush is that Clinton actually had to bend to the will of the people, while Bush (or the people controlling him) realized long ago that he's accountable to absolutely no one.
That said, the mention of Democrats in the text you quoted as largely sarcastic... not that there's a lack of precedent for Republican presidential campaigns spying on the other side.
As a thinkpad owner, it's kind of annoying to see apple getting so much credit for something that IBM has been doing for three years. Actually, this seems to be a recurring theme: mac fans (and apple marketing) smugly claim that apple went and showed all the PC-manufacturing scum how to build a proper intel-based laptop. These people have obviously never held a thinkpad.
As the AC that replied to your post already said, the sensor in Thinkpads is mounted on the motherboard, and the shock protection is software controlled. The laptop ships with a control panel applet that gives you a realtime 3D view of the computer: it pitches and yaws as you physically move the machine.
Wow, more pay per megabyte, pay per message, pay per minute radio services - I can hardly wait. Or maybe they'll have unlimited-as-long-as-you-don't-use-it service for $80/month.
How about allocating some spectrum in this crucial range - low enough in frequency to go through walls and remain reliable in the rain, but high enough to transmit useful amounts of information - to unlicensed wireless networking? Looking at the multi-billion dollar industry that's developed around squeezing every last bit of bandwidth out of the 2.4GHz band, one could argue that unlicensed sprectrum is actually more valuable to the nation's economy than more cellular bandwidth.
Try telling an environmentalist that - they'll look at you like you just suggested eating babies. They'll have you know that the desert is a precious and fragile ecosystem that needs to be protected. It's not just a land of oppressive heat, sand, rock, and thorny vegation - it's home to some very rare species of, umm, cactii and scorpions, that represent, uh, valuable biodiversity that must be protected.
Remember, nature is to be sheltered from the influence of evil parasitic humans. It is to be protected for its own sake, and no other justification is necessary.
The former are drugs that kill bacteria in humans while doing relatively little damage to the host. The latter are simply chemicals that kill bacteria on surfaces.
To put it simply: bleach is an antibacterial agent, and one of the most effective available. Bacteria aren't terribly likely to develop a resistance to bleach, and if they do, it's not like we've lost a viable medical treatment or anything.
I was with you until you mentioned the warmer sound of vinyl. Google "RIAA pre-emphasis curve." Once you find out what that is, and why it's necessary (hint: to overcome the pathetic limitations of the physical format), then maybe you'll stop praising a technology that's all but dead for a good reason.
The Itanium is in-order as well, isn't it? That's part of the reason for its small die area: much of the complexity is passed off to the compiler. It might not be a direct competitor to the T1, but I can see it adopting the same sort of philosophy: many small and relatively dumb cores on one die.
You're quite right about the Itanium's strong suit being mainly parallel FP-intensive supercomputer-type stuff, but if you put enough cores on a die and they're fairly power-efficient, then the somewhat lackluster integer performance of each individual core might not matter.
Meh, this is all just speculation - I'm certainly no expert here.
Recently an article was published on anandtech that puts the itanium in a new light: it's actually very efficient in terms of die area utilization. Combine this with Intel's recent announcement that they were scrapping the hardware x86 compatibility on the itanium, which takes up a fair bit of die space, and you have a very small core of the sort that's absolutely perfect for multi-core applications.
Itanium needs a lot of cache to function well, for reasons that the aforementioned article describes, but it's not unreasonable to assume that intel's shared cache technology from Yonah will make its way into Itanium.
This thing might be trying to compete with chips like the Ultrasparc T1.
One has to wonder if the soil-dwelling bacteria have a natural resistance to antibacterial agents, or if it evolved over the course of the last half century. We pump farm animals full of antibiotics that they don't really need, and said animals produce extraordinary amounts of solid waste full of highly diluted antibiotics and their metabolites. This waste becomes fertilizer, which means it's spread over huge surface areas where it leaches into the ground.
Could constant low-level exposure to antibiotics be responsible for the resistance?
A thought: what if every jew in 1939 Poland were armed with a rifle? It may not have stopped the slaughter, but some could have taken the option to die fighting, rather than be rounded up and worked to death.
Imagine trying to invade a city where every window has a sniper in it. It would look something like Iraq, but a thousand times worse. Despite the chaos there, remember that only a tiny minority of the population has actively taken up arms. There's a reason Switzerland wasn't invaded during WW2.
What of Africa's various bloody conflicts, where millions of civilians are routinely slaughtered, not by tanks, RPGs, bombs, or grenades but by ordinary men with ordinary rifles. Sometimes rifles aren't even needed, and a group of savages with machetes will hack an entire village to death. One could argue that the problem with africa is too many weapons, not too few. But really, the problem is weapons in the wrong hands. Where anarchy reigns, the only way to keep yourself alive is to level the playing field.
Don't think that America can't one day degenerate into anarchy. The presence of a stable government today doesn't guarantee one fifty years from now.
Rifles aren't just about self-defense against your common criminal.
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Actually, there's nothing in the EULA about audits. Try reading it.
The reason this won't work is that, in order to legally make porn, you have to keep detailed records of the names and ages of all the performers. I would guess that you have to keep copies of identification on file.
Those 2lb ultraportables make major compromises of functionality for size. The X60 is essentially sized around its 12.1" screen, while a lot of the machines you're talking about have 8.9" displays, 1.8" hard drives, and previous generation CPUs.
There's a simple solution to the web browsing issue: use Opera. It's the only browser with zoom that works the way it should.
First things first, the fact that your employer has ridiculous IT policies doesn't mean that all of them do. You're just giving us an anecdote and then using that to imply that no company would ever spend a relatively small amount of money to equip their staff with decent hardware. I'm sorry your job sucks; start looking for a new one.
Granted, a tablet is not something that most people really want or need, but let Lenovo worry about selling enough of them. The tablet, while not a huge success, has carved itself a comfortable little niche; the people who can put its functionality to good use often become very attached to it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more corporate tablet users than consumers, as the latter tend to be far more sensitive to price.
As for support, Lenovo gives individuals the same service that volume buyers get. They recognize that there are a lot of small businesses and contractors that rely on them, and they treat you well. The thinkpad line is a high end product with a price to match, and you get the kind of service you'd expect.
Copper and zinc easily form an alloy commonly known as brass. In liquid form they'd be fully soluble: you couldn't use density-based separation. Think of it as alcohol and water - significantly different densities, but your bottle of vodka doesn't separate out into layers when left on the shelf.
High end notebooks from Dell, IBM, and possibly others all use lithium polymer batteries for their drivebay batteries, where space is extremely tight and the geometry is suboptimal for cylindrical cells. Li-polymer batteries can be made into very thin shapes and don't need a metal case to contain individual cells. Because of this, the energy density is actually higher. I think the reason they're not in widespread use is simply that they cost more.
Well, even if it's just brass, you can't exactly go to a store and buy a brass wrench. That means that someone had to design the tooling and do a small production run on a few hundred of these things. Once you add warehousing and distribution costs, a $1000 price tag might not be unreasonable.
Oh yes of course, the desert is a precious and fragile ecosystem that needs to be protected. It's not just a land of oppressive heat, sand, rock, and thorny vegation - it's home to some very rare species of, umm, cactii and scorpions, that represent, uh, valuable biodiversity that must be protected.
Nature must be sheltered from the influence of evil parasitic humans. It is to be protected for its own sake, and no other justification is necessary.
This kind of attitude has put a halt to multibillion dollar projects that would have benefitted thousands of people, and sometimes entire nations. If it were up to people like you, we'd all be freezing in the dark.
Every major consumer ISP in the world now has some form of traffic shaping in place to degrade bittorrent traffic. When BT was first launched, speeds of 200kB/s weren't uncommon; today, most torrents putter along at about 30-50kB/s. Despite my connection being able to easily sustain 55kB/s uploads, I never upload faster than 20 over BT.
While torrents have made file sharing far more widespread, accessible to basically anyone with a client and a few braincells, ISPs have succeeded in making sure that the transfer speeds are firmly in the realm of previous-generation file sharing technologies.
YouTube's appeal is that it runs in the browser and it's fast - you start playing a video and it just downloads in the background while you watch. It fulfills a promise that realnetworks, apple, and microsoft had been trying to deliver on for years: it makes streaming media easy and reliable.
This is totally useless information. Detonation velocity is the speed of the detonation front as it moves through a column of chemical explosive. It has pretty much zero applicability to the remote detection of explosions.
Here's an idea: rot13 the entire paper, and then find or make a font that has all the characters in rot13'd order. It would look fine on screen, yet be totally incomprehensible to turnitin's software.
Your theory is that it doesn't matter whether the asteroid arrives intact or in a million pieces, because the damage is done by the transfer of kinetic energy to the earth. A huge dust cloud burning up in the atmosphere will indeed release the same amount of energy as one massive rock, but the effects will be vastly different.
I think some back of the envelope arithmetic will show why.
Let's say we have a 500x500x500m block of rock heading toward us with a specific gravity of 5. That's 6.25e11 kg. Let's say it's traveling at an initial velocity of 100km/s, or 1e5 m/s.
The kinetic energy of this asteroid is 3.13e21 J, and because the asteroid's final velocity is zero, that all gets dumped on our little planet.
If that energy arrives as one big impact, we're pretty well screwed. On the other hand, if the asteroid completely burns up in the atmosphere, then all of that kinetic energy is turned into heat. So the question becomes this: just how much is 3.13e21 joules of thermal energy, and what will it do to us?
Well, let's consider how much energy the earth receives from the sun. The radius of the planet is 6350km, so it's cross sectional area is 2.17e14 square meters. The sun puts out about 1400 W/m^2 at the earth's orbit. This means that the earth gets 1.77e17 joules of energy every second.
Thus, the aforementioned asteroid will release an amount of thermal energy equivalent 17600 seconds of sunlight, or about 4.9 hours. That would probably make for some interesting weather for a couple of days, but it wouldn't have a significant and long-lasting impact on the planet's climate.
What if, instead of converting every mp3 file on your machine, you only want to do two dozen of them, from a variety of artists and albums? This is where the command line proves itself vastly inferior to the GUI.
And when Clinton was being Evil, we called him on it, just like we're doing with Bush. Zimmerman dropped off the government's radar, the clipper chip was abandoned, and export controls on encryption were largely dropped.
So I guess the difference between Clinton and Bush is that Clinton actually had to bend to the will of the people, while Bush (or the people controlling him) realized long ago that he's accountable to absolutely no one.
That said, the mention of Democrats in the text you quoted as largely sarcastic... not that there's a lack of precedent for Republican presidential campaigns spying on the other side.
As a thinkpad owner, it's kind of annoying to see apple getting so much credit for something that IBM has been doing for three years. Actually, this seems to be a recurring theme: mac fans (and apple marketing) smugly claim that apple went and showed all the PC-manufacturing scum how to build a proper intel-based laptop. These people have obviously never held a thinkpad.
As the AC that replied to your post already said, the sensor in Thinkpads is mounted on the motherboard, and the shock protection is software controlled. The laptop ships with a control panel applet that gives you a realtime 3D view of the computer: it pitches and yaws as you physically move the machine.
Wow, more pay per megabyte, pay per message, pay per minute radio services - I can hardly wait. Or maybe they'll have unlimited-as-long-as-you-don't-use-it service for $80/month.
How about allocating some spectrum in this crucial range - low enough in frequency to go through walls and remain reliable in the rain, but high enough to transmit useful amounts of information - to unlicensed wireless networking? Looking at the multi-billion dollar industry that's developed around squeezing every last bit of bandwidth out of the 2.4GHz band, one could argue that unlicensed sprectrum is actually more valuable to the nation's economy than more cellular bandwidth.
Try telling an environmentalist that - they'll look at you like you just suggested eating babies. They'll have you know that the desert is a precious and fragile ecosystem that needs to be protected. It's not just a land of oppressive heat, sand, rock, and thorny vegation - it's home to some very rare species of, umm, cactii and scorpions, that represent, uh, valuable biodiversity that must be protected.
Remember, nature is to be sheltered from the influence of evil parasitic humans. It is to be protected for its own sake, and no other justification is necessary.
Antibiotics != Antibacterial agents.
The former are drugs that kill bacteria in humans while doing relatively little damage to the host. The latter are simply chemicals that kill bacteria on surfaces.
To put it simply: bleach is an antibacterial agent, and one of the most effective available. Bacteria aren't terribly likely to develop a resistance to bleach, and if they do, it's not like we've lost a viable medical treatment or anything.
I was with you until you mentioned the warmer sound of vinyl. Google "RIAA pre-emphasis curve." Once you find out what that is, and why it's necessary (hint: to overcome the pathetic limitations of the physical format), then maybe you'll stop praising a technology that's all but dead for a good reason.
The Itanium is in-order as well, isn't it? That's part of the reason for its small die area: much of the complexity is passed off to the compiler. It might not be a direct competitor to the T1, but I can see it adopting the same sort of philosophy: many small and relatively dumb cores on one die.
You're quite right about the Itanium's strong suit being mainly parallel FP-intensive supercomputer-type stuff, but if you put enough cores on a die and they're fairly power-efficient, then the somewhat lackluster integer performance of each individual core might not matter.
Meh, this is all just speculation - I'm certainly no expert here.
Recently an article was published on anandtech that puts the itanium in a new light: it's actually very efficient in terms of die area utilization. Combine this with Intel's recent announcement that they were scrapping the hardware x86 compatibility on the itanium, which takes up a fair bit of die space, and you have a very small core of the sort that's absolutely perfect for multi-core applications.
Itanium needs a lot of cache to function well, for reasons that the aforementioned article describes, but it's not unreasonable to assume that intel's shared cache technology from Yonah will make its way into Itanium.
This thing might be trying to compete with chips like the Ultrasparc T1.
One has to wonder if the soil-dwelling bacteria have a natural resistance to antibacterial agents, or if it evolved over the course of the last half century. We pump farm animals full of antibiotics that they don't really need, and said animals produce extraordinary amounts of solid waste full of highly diluted antibiotics and their metabolites. This waste becomes fertilizer, which means it's spread over huge surface areas where it leaches into the ground.
Could constant low-level exposure to antibiotics be responsible for the resistance?
A thought: what if every jew in 1939 Poland were armed with a rifle? It may not have stopped the slaughter, but some could have taken the option to die fighting, rather than be rounded up and worked to death. Imagine trying to invade a city where every window has a sniper in it. It would look something like Iraq, but a thousand times worse. Despite the chaos there, remember that only a tiny minority of the population has actively taken up arms. There's a reason Switzerland wasn't invaded during WW2. What of Africa's various bloody conflicts, where millions of civilians are routinely slaughtered, not by tanks, RPGs, bombs, or grenades but by ordinary men with ordinary rifles. Sometimes rifles aren't even needed, and a group of savages with machetes will hack an entire village to death. One could argue that the problem with africa is too many weapons, not too few. But really, the problem is weapons in the wrong hands. Where anarchy reigns, the only way to keep yourself alive is to level the playing field. Don't think that America can't one day degenerate into anarchy. The presence of a stable government today doesn't guarantee one fifty years from now. Rifles aren't just about self-defense against your common criminal.