You missed the point. They're going to make money!!
After this they'll do the custom TLDs, then do away with the whole thing and eventually they'll sell us the domains we really wanted in the first place. Why let people pay once when they'll be happy to pay three or four times.
I don't think AMD really cares about competing with top-end Intel processors. It takes a lot of R&D investment with very little return (it's a tiny market segment)
In the low/mid range AMD rules the roost in terms of value for money.
Did the article mention that people who buy second had gas cars worry about the transmission and whether the previous owner ran the engine in properly, always changed the oil on schedule and always warmed it up before screeching off down the street?
EV batteries bring new problems to the table but they also eliminate a whole bunch of other old-fashioned mechanical problems. If the study wasn't paid for by Big Oil they might have mentioned that.
In my case that move was "yesterday". Am I doing it wrong?
I've lived through ISA/VESA/PCI, SCSI/IDE/SATA, serial/parallel/USB... nothing fits or connects any more. I really don't believe there'll be SD card readers in shops in 100 years time.
I live in Spain and last time I looked at my electricity bill I was getting 20% of my electricity from 'renewables' (wind, solar, etc).
I think we can get up to 30% of supply from renewables on a windy day and you can't drive on a major road these days without passing trucks loaded with wind turbine blades so it can only go up.
It sounds easy... but does the average person (or even slashdot reader) have any idea how big the Sahara Desert really is? Answer: About as big as the whole of the USA.
Plus there's the teeny problem of building something stable on top of shifting sand dunes and transporting the stuff once you generate it (make liquid hydrogen and ship it?)
With this they won't be necessary - it's designed to display warnings for local traffic conditions so it presumably has built-in GPS to know where you are.
All the cops need to do is wait at major intersections and pull over all the cars whose plate is displaying "SPEEDER!"
Let her publish her email/web activity on the web for six months before doing this.
She's got nothing to hide, right?
The sooner we encrypt everything, the better. Why aren't we doing it now? Seriously. Is it because the Boys In Black pay regular visits to Microsoft to make sure messenger stays as plain ASCII?
Of course the consequences will be awful but at least the anti-software patent people will have a perfect analogy for their arguments and one that the public (and politicians) can understand.
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Yeah, but:
a) "Decent" laptops are way too heavy to carry around. Once you've tried a netbook there's no going back.
b) You still have to plug them in if you're going to do a full day's work.
c) You can't adjust distance between screen/keys or raise/lower the screen or tweak the ergonomics in any way.
d) Nasty laptop keys vs. Model M... you decide.
The article may turn out to be correct for home users but it makes no sense at all in the corporate world.
Wind turbines constantly adjust their blade angles to match the wind. The idea is to keep them turning at a constant rate no matter what the wind speed is (i.e. they *don't* spin faster in high winds then in low winds). In a hurricane they just turn the blades to minimum angle and keep right on generating.
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What would the multitasking performance be like?
You missed the point. They're going to make money!!
After this they'll do the custom TLDs, then do away with the whole thing and eventually they'll sell us the domains we really wanted in the first place. Why let people pay once when they'll be happy to pay three or four times.
Yearly consumption is about 20 billion cubic feet
Reserves are measured in hundred of trillions of cubic feet
So...enough for tens of thousands of years even if we double or triple the consumption, plenty to keep going until somebody invents the ZPM.
(Assuming I haven't mixed up what Americans think of as "billion" and "trillion")
I don't think AMD really cares about competing with top-end Intel processors. It takes a lot of R&D investment with very little return (it's a tiny market segment)
In the low/mid range AMD rules the roost in terms of value for money.
Did the article mention that people who buy second had gas cars worry about the transmission and whether the previous owner ran the engine in properly, always changed the oil on schedule and always warmed it up before screeching off down the street?
EV batteries bring new problems to the table but they also eliminate a whole bunch of other old-fashioned mechanical problems. If the study wasn't paid for by Big Oil they might have mentioned that.
In my case that move was "yesterday". Am I doing it wrong?
I've lived through ISA/VESA/PCI, SCSI/IDE/SATA, serial/parallel/USB... nothing fits or connects any more. I really don't believe there'll be SD card readers in shops in 100 years time.
I live in Spain and last time I looked at my electricity bill I was getting 20% of my electricity from 'renewables' (wind, solar, etc).
I think we can get up to 30% of supply from renewables on a windy day and you can't drive on a major road these days without passing trucks loaded with wind turbine blades so it can only go up.
This is being run by lawyers who get paid by the hour, ergo. nobody's dropping anything, ever.
It goes on *forever*.
It sounds easy ... but does the average person (or even slashdot reader) have any idea how big the Sahara Desert really is? Answer: About as big as the whole of the USA.
Plus there's the teeny problem of building something stable on top of shifting sand dunes and transporting the stuff once you generate it (make liquid hydrogen and ship it?)
In the street, just like every other air conditioner in the world.
Finally ... a CPU that can cool itself. No noisy heatsink required!
With this they won't be necessary - it's designed to display warnings for local traffic conditions so it presumably has built-in GPS to know where you are.
All the cops need to do is wait at major intersections and pull over all the cars whose plate is displaying "SPEEDER!"
That would be cool. Apart from that it's all fail.
FTA: "The move is intended as a moneymaker for a state facing a $19 billion deficit. "
You didn't think *you'd* get the money, did you?
Take warning from this: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Russian-Plan.aspx
You know how many people gave their lives to create that freedom? Now we should throw all that away to save *one*....?
There's still not enough of them, obviously...
The government would be able to do that anyway...
Let her publish her email/web activity on the web for six months before doing this.
She's got nothing to hide, right?
The sooner we encrypt everything, the better. Why aren't we doing it now? Seriously. Is it because the Boys In Black pay regular visits to Microsoft to make sure messenger stays as plain ASCII?
Most of the "skills" they're learning aren't going to help them much in life. eg. Surfing for porn.
I really, really hope they do this.
Of course the consequences will be awful but at least the anti-software patent people will have a perfect analogy for their arguments and one that the public (and politicians) can understand.
Yeah, but:
a) "Decent" laptops are way too heavy to carry around. Once you've tried a netbook there's no going back.
b) You still have to plug them in if you're going to do a full day's work.
c) You can't adjust distance between screen/keys or raise/lower the screen or tweak the ergonomics in any way.
d) Nasty laptop keys vs. Model M ... you decide.
The article may turn out to be correct for home users but it makes no sense at all in the corporate world.
I wonder if they picked up the underlying homoerotic messages in Teletubbies?
The reason that one broke is because the blade-pitch control mechanism failed.
Believe it or not, million dollar windmills are designed by proper engineers who think about things like hurricanes.
Wind turbines constantly adjust their blade angles to match the wind. The idea is to keep them turning at a constant rate no matter what the wind speed is (i.e. they *don't* spin faster in high winds then in low winds). In a hurricane they just turn the blades to minimum angle and keep right on generating.