"no i don't mean just leaving the computer booted up all the time the parts inside the computer slow down as they get older."
If that is happening, you've got hardware engineering problems, not OS problems.
Just speaking from my meager 6 years of semiconductor fab and design experience. Shit doesn't degrade gracefully in hardware. It starts throwing errors left and right then dies outright. There is no steady slowdown that increases and then suddenly reverts when you reinstall the OS.
I've got 33MHz computers from 286 days, still just as fast as they ever were (one still runs a multi-node BBS!)
I still have a 98SE machine that runs extremely quickly.
Here's the trick - LEARN THE FUCKING OS.
I'm not slowing down. I've taken timed measurements of boot-up times and maintained them over the course of several years.
I've been at a steady 13 second boot from power-on for the past 3 of those years on 7. 8 years on XP at 17 seconds, 13 years on 2K at 8 seconds. 98SE (on a 450MHz P3 laptop with 640MB RAM) at 6 seconds for about 15 years (one reinstall because of a botched driver, not the fault of the OS.)
I also had WinME running as smoothly as 98, but the mobo died there and that machine is hence retired.
And that's on top of changing hardware every other year where feasible. All machines still operational with the exception of the one mentioned right above.
Sounds like you and those you know don't know the OS, how it works, or how to utilize it.
"Both my gaming machine and personal laptop have serious performance issues after 8 or so months"
Meanwhile I've been running the same Windows 7 install since the tail end of 2009. That's with a fuckton of install, uninstall, and the occasional defrag and registry cleaning, especially on this tiny 120GB disk. Still runs exactly as it did back then.
My 5w headphones capable of shaking themselves off my head to Young Bleed's 'How Ya Do Dat' still aren't fucking loud enough for my pleasure.
And I stand next to 4kW stacks daily.
Still have nearly-perfect hearing, minus the really odd gap at 15kHz-16kHz (about 1.3kHz lower than the mosquito buzz frequency, which I can plainly hear at the age of 32.)
"Do you have any earthly idea how difficult it is to get all this going at 60Hz at once within the three interconnects without any large fraction of microinversion messing it up"
Yea, it's really simple - Transmit as HVDC at 0Hz.
"The states have the right to legislate their own local economy."
When it comes down to a product from one state being sold in another, no they do not. This is EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE CONSTITUTION.
" They are not preventing Tesla from selling their cars, they're simply saying "if you want to sell here, you must be an auto dealer."
Wrong, they are not saying that. They are saying they are not allowed to sell directly in that state without licensing the dealership rights to someone, first. That is an illegal restraint of trade and violation of Tesla's right to license their invention/product as they see fit, among other things.
"Do you have a theory on what grounds Tesla could use to take the matter to court?"
This is an interstate commerce issue and thus Tesla has the right to sue the fuck out of the states for violating that.
Done, easily provable, absolutely indefensible in the courtroom.
The states will fall in this legal battle. They hung themselves with this, and since there is record of it happening in a lot of states, Tesla is going to win.
I won't be surprised to see car dealerships getting named in the lawsuit, either. Tesla will win against them on illegal restraint of trade. Tesla will bring out every bit of campaign 'donation' and make the case that these states were bought out, bribed, and then go into RICO lawsuits.
Tesla's going to win. Any angle they take, there's evidence in spades to support their case and absolutely demolish the other side.
Austentite sucks because it is too ductile, until you drop in other alloying elements and carbon. That's why it's used in pans, some silverware, etc. It is not typically used in things where a lot of pressure is expected unless it has undergone a two (sometimes three) step hardening and alloying process.
One thing it's REALLY good for - rotary hard drive enclosures, for shielding, exactly because it is not magnetic.
"Unless you have a very big heavy-duty resistor (rheostat) in your wall dimmer, it's not directly controlling the AC line."
Welcome to a house built in the 1950s, where you have rheostats almost as big as your fist sheathed in asbestos for heat protection. They take FORCE to turn.
You think you know, but you're missing so much detail to the point that you don't know. Looks like jenningsthecat knows pretty well, too.
You're probably too young to even know how things were done half a century ago.
"This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut."
You could almost say the same for Apple products back in the G3/G4 iBook/PowerBook series.
When roughly two out of three came off the line defective and were immediately caught in testing and sent back for refurbishing.
Then repair depots getting shipments of logic boards with sand in them.
Glad I don't work that nonsense any longer. I'll take my home job where 15 minutes of work nets me 80 bucks, every day.
"Even high CRI (color rendering index) LED lighting has a nasty spike in the blue region."
Would you like to know why?
Because that blue led is now so damned efficient and the remote phosphor tech doubly so.
Going by input power/output power, the blue LED is almost 65%-70% efficient. It would have to be to get Cree's current 5150K LED at 300+ lumens per watt.
"However, despite their luminous outputs having increased steadily over that time, they still fall behind more conventional forms of lighting in terms of brightness."
There's not one goddamned thing on this planet that can touch an LED, now. The sun only hits ~93 lumens per watt, once you get all the really complicated math down.
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"no i don't mean just leaving the computer booted up all the time the parts inside the computer slow down as they get older."
If that is happening, you've got hardware engineering problems, not OS problems.
Just speaking from my meager 6 years of semiconductor fab and design experience. Shit doesn't degrade gracefully in hardware. It starts throwing errors left and right then dies outright. There is no steady slowdown that increases and then suddenly reverts when you reinstall the OS.
I've got 33MHz computers from 286 days, still just as fast as they ever were (one still runs a multi-node BBS!)
I still have a 98SE machine that runs extremely quickly.
Here's the trick - LEARN THE FUCKING OS.
I'm not slowing down. I've taken timed measurements of boot-up times and maintained them over the course of several years.
I've been at a steady 13 second boot from power-on for the past 3 of those years on 7. 8 years on XP at 17 seconds, 13 years on 2K at 8 seconds. 98SE (on a 450MHz P3 laptop with 640MB RAM) at 6 seconds for about 15 years (one reinstall because of a botched driver, not the fault of the OS.)
I also had WinME running as smoothly as 98, but the mobo died there and that machine is hence retired.
And that's on top of changing hardware every other year where feasible. All machines still operational with the exception of the one mentioned right above.
Sounds like you and those you know don't know the OS, how it works, or how to utilize it.
"Why are facebook apologising to all LGBTs and not just Drag Queens?"
You do your user name a great disservice.
Drag Queens are a huge part of the LGBT community. When you piss off the Queens, everyone else comes after your throat.
We're a tightly-knit group like that.
What security nightmare? Still rolling sans firewall, DMZ, and the only thing I have to worry about is a DDoS hitting my multiplexed cable modems.
Hah, I have a system running Win2K with SP4.
It's a 1.8 GHz P4 with 768MB PC-3200 DDR, on an IDE HDD.
It boots faster than my dual core 64-bit laptop with 2GB RAM with Windows 7. By about 50% less time.
2K with everything updated is roughly 2GB, total size.
"Both my gaming machine and personal laptop have serious performance issues after 8 or so months"
Meanwhile I've been running the same Windows 7 install since the tail end of 2009. That's with a fuckton of install, uninstall, and the occasional defrag and registry cleaning, especially on this tiny 120GB disk. Still runs exactly as it did back then.
My 5w headphones capable of shaking themselves off my head to Young Bleed's 'How Ya Do Dat' still aren't fucking loud enough for my pleasure.
And I stand next to 4kW stacks daily.
Still have nearly-perfect hearing, minus the really odd gap at 15kHz-16kHz (about 1.3kHz lower than the mosquito buzz frequency, which I can plainly hear at the age of 32.)
Yea, ain't no smartphone, tv, or laptop coming with 50,000w of beat-your-ears-in sound system.
"because online storage in the capacities required simply doesn't exist."
Uh, yes, they do exist. You know what a flywheel is, yes?
Do you even basic power generation, son?
"Do you have any earthly idea how difficult it is to get all this going at 60Hz at once within the three interconnects without any large fraction of microinversion messing it up"
Yea, it's really simple - Transmit as HVDC at 0Hz.
"The states have the right to legislate their own local economy."
When it comes down to a product from one state being sold in another, no they do not. This is EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE CONSTITUTION.
" They are not preventing Tesla from selling their cars, they're simply saying "if you want to sell here, you must be an auto dealer."
Wrong, they are not saying that. They are saying they are not allowed to sell directly in that state without licensing the dealership rights to someone, first. That is an illegal restraint of trade and violation of Tesla's right to license their invention/product as they see fit, among other things.
"You have to break them too (or at least get blocked from acting due to the laws) in order to gain standing for any court actions."
Just drop it in federal court for the states violating the Federal Government's right to control interstate commerce, thus causing Tesla damages.
Done, provable, evidence in spades. RICO lawsuits to follow against car dealerships after that ruling.
And I'll guarantee you Tesla won't settle. They'll end this shit once and for all.
"Do you have a theory on what grounds Tesla could use to take the matter to court?"
This is an interstate commerce issue and thus Tesla has the right to sue the fuck out of the states for violating that.
Done, easily provable, absolutely indefensible in the courtroom.
The states will fall in this legal battle. They hung themselves with this, and since there is record of it happening in a lot of states, Tesla is going to win.
I won't be surprised to see car dealerships getting named in the lawsuit, either. Tesla will win against them on illegal restraint of trade. Tesla will bring out every bit of campaign 'donation' and make the case that these states were bought out, bribed, and then go into RICO lawsuits.
Tesla's going to win. Any angle they take, there's evidence in spades to support their case and absolutely demolish the other side.
"The trash you buy for stainless silverware now a days is an iron mix and will rust"
No, the trash most people buy today that they think is stainless is usually chrome-plated crap.
Good stainless steel (that includes surgical-grade stainless, which is highly magnetic) will not rust.
"Anything that has a iron mixture will rust over time."
Except Austentite has iron in it, so that directly contradicts your claim - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Austentite sucks because it is too ductile, until you drop in other alloying elements and carbon. That's why it's used in pans, some silverware, etc. It is not typically used in things where a lot of pressure is expected unless it has undergone a two (sometimes three) step hardening and alloying process.
One thing it's REALLY good for - rotary hard drive enclosures, for shielding, exactly because it is not magnetic.
"Stainless steel is not magnetic."
What? Only Austentic steel is non-magnetic. Ferritic and Martensitic steels are.
And Austentite sucks.
" This is confirmation, not as bendable as believed!"
Correct, it's even more bendable. The iPhone 5 could take nearly double the force.
Which means the phone got weaker structurally with the upgrade.
Apparently the idiots downvoting have no clue.
No, it doesn't. If you want to get rid of the flicker, use a remote phosphor with persistence.
In case you didn't notice, both are wired as a rectifier, one full, one half.
"Unless you have a very big heavy-duty resistor (rheostat) in your wall dimmer, it's not directly controlling the AC line."
Welcome to a house built in the 1950s, where you have rheostats almost as big as your fist sheathed in asbestos for heat protection. They take FORCE to turn.
You think you know, but you're missing so much detail to the point that you don't know. Looks like jenningsthecat knows pretty well, too.
You're probably too young to even know how things were done half a century ago.
"This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut."
You could almost say the same for Apple products back in the G3/G4 iBook/PowerBook series.
When roughly two out of three came off the line defective and were immediately caught in testing and sent back for refurbishing.
Then repair depots getting shipments of logic boards with sand in them.
Glad I don't work that nonsense any longer. I'll take my home job where 15 minutes of work nets me 80 bucks, every day.
Excuse me? Cree has their own fabrication. What the fuck are you talking about?
"The real breakthrough in LED lighting is getting rid of electrolytic capacitors in the power supply."
That's nothing.
I just did away with the power supply entirely.
Give me a good remote phosphor with a fair amount of persistence, no more flicker.
Man, you're full of shit. Every LED light I've owned has gone well over that.
"Even high CRI (color rendering index) LED lighting has a nasty spike in the blue region."
Would you like to know why?
Because that blue led is now so damned efficient and the remote phosphor tech doubly so.
Going by input power/output power, the blue LED is almost 65%-70% efficient. It would have to be to get Cree's current 5150K LED at 300+ lumens per watt.
"However, despite their luminous outputs having increased steadily over that time, they still fall behind more conventional forms of lighting in terms of brightness."
Bullshit. We're pumping 300+ lumens per watt, 5150K, 350mA drive current, 85C operating temperature.
There's not one goddamned thing on this planet that can touch an LED, now. The sun only hits ~93 lumens per watt, once you get all the really complicated math down.