I totally agree with you on every point... For me, DVD quality is more than good enough, and I couldn't imagine the point of upgrading to Blu-ray or HD-DVD. maybe my eye sight isn't that good anymore, but I just can't even see the difference.
I would pay to upgrade when the media gets significantly smaller so that it can be used in portable devices - I would see the point of that.
This won't have any impact because there is no cost for domain registers to "taste" the domain for 5 days - only CPU and network cost and if you do too many whois lookup's they' block you.
I am also 30, but I've had my home phone number for 12 years, and my cell number for 6 years. My parents have had the same number for over 40 years, and I know a lot of other people who have had the same number for 20-30 years.
It's pretty easy to shield components against radiation such as electromagnetic pulse. Plus, I'm sure the cars could have some kind of hardware "safe shutdown" built into them so that if the computer fails it comes to a graceful halt and alerting the driver.
I think the consumer would need to have some kind of control panel where they can set the difference in price (between day and night etc) they are willing to accept. This would obviously have to be at least high enough to pay for the cost of charging/discharging the system. Only if the price the utility was willing to pay was high enough would the batter then be allowed to be used.
My_movie_name.divx.removethis
works great too - then you can write a simple script to parse off.removethis from all the files once they are on your computer.
As long as they use some kind of version control system, there should be a record of who first introduced the code, and the time and date. Since he's very new, chances are the code was added before he worked there which should keep him out of trouble.
If he's really worried about legal problems for himself, it might be good to backup some of that information, and document his findings somewhere.
Well I've only seen one car fire (actually a Chev. pickup truck) and it DID explode, right out in front of my school when I was a kid. Turned out the guy had just come from the repair shop and the mechanic had made some kind of serious mistake causing fuel to leak everywhere I guess...
The Mercedes-Benz SL500 has electronic only braking system: http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2002/02/28/036447.html
Although it does have a backup hydrolic system in case of electrical falure, I would be willing to be it won't always be kept in working order by people not bothering to bring their car in for service.
I think Fujitsu has a better idea here, because I might be using my monitor with my DVD player, cable box or other device - all of which would then need to know how to turn the display off to save power.
I think there are a lot of other devices that could benefit from having the transformer turning off when not being used. How about a cell phone charger that turns off the power to the transformer (again with a relay) and turns it back on only when a cell phone is plugged in? How about a TV that uses the same technology, would require a larger capacitor, but it could do the same thing, waiting for the right IR remote signal to turn the TV on, otherwise all power would be off.
I think you've got it there - the transformer AKA power supply uses a lot of power when the monitor is doing nothing at all - IE in stanby mode. The relay will disconnect the power supply, and store the tiny amount of power needed to turn back on the relay in a capacitor - seems like a good idea to me.
Yes - it is possible to configure google desktop that way (disabled by default) there are also a few programs out there that were designed to access google desktop search remotly: http://www.asabox.com/goolag/index_en.htm
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I totally agree with you on every point... For me, DVD quality is more than good enough, and I couldn't imagine the point of upgrading to Blu-ray or HD-DVD. maybe my eye sight isn't that good anymore, but I just can't even see the difference. I would pay to upgrade when the media gets significantly smaller so that it can be used in portable devices - I would see the point of that.
An amazing number of people end up sharing "My Documents" on their windows boxes, I think that is the main result of the myth.
Blackberry already makes "business" versions of their camera phones without cameras just for that reason.
This won't have any impact because there is no cost for domain registers to "taste" the domain for 5 days - only CPU and network cost and if you do too many whois lookup's they' block you.
Maybe we could use these interweb tubes I keep hearing about?
I am also 30, but I've had my home phone number for 12 years, and my cell number for 6 years. My parents have had the same number for over 40 years, and I know a lot of other people who have had the same number for 20-30 years.
Or possibly pass legislation to make it illegal to have encryption that takes them longer than n seconds to crack - something to that effect.
True, but Kona coffee tastes sooo good you don't have to drink as much of it :) Anyone who's had it knows what I'm talking about.
I'm glad I was not the only one thinking that same thing.
It's pretty easy to shield components against radiation such as electromagnetic pulse. Plus, I'm sure the cars could have some kind of hardware "safe shutdown" built into them so that if the computer fails it comes to a graceful halt and alerting the driver.
wow homers got one of those robot cars!
(crash!)
one of those AMERICAN robot cars...
This just goes to show, nothing,not even exploits run on Vista...
I think the consumer would need to have some kind of control panel where they can set the difference in price (between day and night etc) they are willing to accept. This would obviously have to be at least high enough to pay for the cost of charging/discharging the system. Only if the price the utility was willing to pay was high enough would the batter then be allowed to be used.
That's a much better suggestion :)
My_movie_name.divx.removethis works great too - then you can write a simple script to parse off .removethis from all the files once they are on your computer.
Knowing the media formats of the future is easy as pie, whatever Sony is not doing will win. History repeats itself time and time again.
True, but how many times per month can you get away with that?
As long as they use some kind of version control system, there should be a record of who first introduced the code, and the time and date. Since he's very new, chances are the code was added before he worked there which should keep him out of trouble. If he's really worried about legal problems for himself, it might be good to backup some of that information, and document his findings somewhere.
Well I've only seen one car fire (actually a Chev. pickup truck) and it DID explode, right out in front of my school when I was a kid. Turned out the guy had just come from the repair shop and the mechanic had made some kind of serious mistake causing fuel to leak everywhere I guess...
The Mercedes-Benz SL500 has electronic only braking system: http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2002/02/28/036447.html
Although it does have a backup hydrolic system in case of electrical falure, I would be willing to be it won't always be kept in working order by people not bothering to bring their car in for service.
It's okay, they're running VBE (Vista Battlefield Edition)
I think Fujitsu has a better idea here, because I might be using my monitor with my DVD player, cable box or other device - all of which would then need to know how to turn the display off to save power.
I think there are a lot of other devices that could benefit from having the transformer turning off when not being used. How about a cell phone charger that turns off the power to the transformer (again with a relay) and turns it back on only when a cell phone is plugged in? How about a TV that uses the same technology, would require a larger capacitor, but it could do the same thing, waiting for the right IR remote signal to turn the TV on, otherwise all power would be off.
I think you've got it there - the transformer AKA power supply uses a lot of power when the monitor is doing nothing at all - IE in stanby mode. The relay will disconnect the power supply, and store the tiny amount of power needed to turn back on the relay in a capacitor - seems like a good idea to me.
Yeah, download a divx from a torrent site - and it plays fine. Funny how that works.
Yes - it is possible to configure google desktop that way (disabled by default) there are also a few programs out there that were designed to access google desktop search remotly: http://www.asabox.com/goolag/index_en.htm