That word is TREASON. They know their actions cause direct harm to the people of the United States. only an insane entity would think otherwise.
So the people should just declare Motorola a Traitor to the country. What does it take, two sworn affirmations from people of good reputation? I can find two hundred without thinking.
"Theres no way to keep 100% of it unchanged and uncut, but that's true of any media conversion. "
Umm, yes there is. Destroy all the churches, destroy the FCC, and ban religion. Then it will be QUITE EASY to go 100% from book to film. It is religious groups and the religious-controlled FCC that are destroying our right to expression by impressing their moral values upon us and confusing Ethics with Morality. It's their religious censorship that prevents 100% true conversions. Eliminate that and you're free to do as you please.
I've created a few new strains of plants. I have a near-blue catnip that took four generations to produce reliably. I've got thai peppers smaller than your pinky fingernail that'll bite your ass off, took ten generations to get that down. Haven't tried pot, yet, but since I have my medical script and card for it I just might try making my own strain of cannabis. Will probably take twenty generations for that, though.
Amateurs have been doing GE for a long time,e specially the stoners.
The reason nobody wants to buy 4xSLI 2kW computers from you should be rather simple to deduce - there's no diminishing returns due to hardware increases, there's diminishing returns because you bow down to Microsoft and all the other software vendors, load YOUR brand of machines down with all sorts of bullshit that has been horribly coded just so you can simply save a dime, and those crappy programs KILL PERFORMANCE.
Second - your hardware engineering teams SUCK, or at least the prototype QA engineers do. They couldn't spot a simple LCD hinge flaw for nearly a full year. I spotted it within my first week working as a laptop repair tech, and I got the hardware recall issued after sending HP's engineering teams the evidence.
You can't sell super-powered gaming computers because you don't build a gaming system. You're so out of touch with the gaming market that it's going to slip through your fingers.
You need to hire GAMERS if you're ever going to design and sell a gaming PC or Laptop, it's that simple. We can tell you what we want - No crapware, just a CLEAN OPERATING SYSTEM, it doesn't matter which, just don't load it down with BULLSHIT that kills performance.
THOROUGH TESTING - In the short time I worked as a repair tech - your laptops had about 30 different recalls, about a third of which I'm responsible for. You know it's sad when a person with a simple GED and loads of experience can spot screwups before your own prototype engies do. I can only imagine what your desktops are like nowdays given the quality of your laptops (I bought a DV9825nr, I've had to send it in TWICE within a year.)
Counterfeit Hardware - you boys are VERY susceptible to this. This is probably one of many reasons you lost 30+ million in inventory, because you don't have teams to spot counterfeit hardware. I've seen tons of counterfeit hardware, like LCD screens and RAM, roll through the depot. Your managers go "Get to work!" and we look at the hardware and go "Umm, this isn't even HP-branded memory, it's not even made by the same company, and these LCD screens have ribbon cable connectors too large for any of the cables we use."
There are so many problems with your company that makes nobody want to buy a gaming machine - the final one I'll mention is price - with the joys of pricewatch.com, I have a high-end gaming rig for about 500 bucks. A machine with the exact same specifications from you - 800 bucks minimum. Any wonder why nobody's buying your stuff or showing you demand for it? PRICES TOO HIGH.
If you want to fix this problem, feel free to contact me. I have plenty of ideas.
Psst - I do. That's why the computer never stops running. I set it to encode something, I go do gardening. Come back, set another task, head out to do some photography. Come back, unload those photos, process them, upload wherever, make a few posts, maybe take a break and play a game, read slashdot, then set it to protein fold, cook dinner, eat, smoke a bowl, run out to the theater, etc.
You talk as if you actually knew me. Try again.
Also - how was my above post off-topic when I started the topic and was responding to comments that needed clarification?
Stupid mods must be up - did you guys come from RepublicanOperative?
My computer NEVER stops working. If I'm not gaming, I'm encoding. If I'm not encoding, I'm compiling or recording. If I'm not using it and am asleep, it's protein folding at maximum possible speed.
Kill-a-watt says 550-600 at full load, and that's just testing the computer, not monitor or other peripherals.
You also forgot to add in my other equipment which consumes power at the same rate, idle or not. Speakers excepted, they draw 40 watts idle with no sound going through them.
My power strip is at load at 1500W rating. Putting on a 60 watt light trips it out.
It's not what's in the computer more than also what's attached to the computer.
32-inch LCD for a monitor. 160 watt sound system. A mixer board that draws another 100w alone. Guitar Pedal. Webcam eats up power, and there's two of those. Transmitter for a wireless headset, more power from USB. Oh, and a 9800GTX+ takes more power than any piddly processor you can point at it, not even a P4 with shit NetBurst ate nearly the amount of power this thing does.
So everyone that's going "That's an inefficient computer" needs to realize that your concept of a computer and MY concpet of a computer are likely entirely different.
I'll be upgradig to quad SLI soon. I'll need at least a 1500W PSU to handle that plus another barrage of SATA-II drives I'm about to install.
I also have ten ULTRA320 SCSI drives I'll be hooking to the computer, as soon as I find a damned cable for it all. I have the card adapters already installed, both internal and external.
The energy expenditure is CONSIDERABLY different. Flying across the USA is NOWHERE comparable to the energy expended just getting to speed to break free from the majority of gravity's pull.
Also, if you're gonna need fuel to get to the moon, you're gonna need fuel to move stuff from the moon, granted not as much, but what're you going to do, extract it from the lunar soil? Riiiiiight. We don't have that tech.
10% my ass, more around 20-30% and that's still more than enough for our entire planet PLUS. The entire state of AZ covered in PV would power the entire North American continent, the only problem there is storage and transmission. I'm still wondering how you're going to send the energy to the earth from space. Hell, the inefficiencies alone in just converting the gathered power is going to be nuts.
Good luck putting it where ANY debris is relatively low - The Perseids should be a good enough example.
It only takes someone with a decent understanding of engineering principals to spend ten minutes thinking rationally to come to the conclusion that space power is not something we need unless we're living directly in space. Sending it to earth when we already have other power sources to tap/hybridize on the planet makes no sense.
Quit looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, it wastes money and resources.
I also have in mind an idea for solar/wind hybrids. We have Nanosolar out with thin, lightweight, printable solar panels. We have strong and lightweight carbon-fiber that can be used to build wind turbines.
Let's coat the wind turbine with the PV material from Nanosolar. No metals needed for power transmission since carbon is conductive and can be doped to be non-conductive in the places where it would matter (such as forming a trace path for power flow.)
Most wind turbines for power are located in a place with no obstructions such as hills or buildings, so usually there is maximum sun exposure under favorable weather conditions.
Bada-bing, you have solar/wind hybrid that's very feasible, doesn't require any tech that doesn't already exist, and can be improved upon with relative ease (relative being dependent upon new PV technologies.)
BTW This counts as prior art in case anyone tries to snag this idea and profit. MINE.
B. Inefficiencies in power transmission (how're you going to beam it to the surface? Microwaves? Why not just harness it at ground level and store it in batteries, and cut out several points where conversion losses would be found?)
C. Maintenance costs/damage protection/prevention - just how do you plan on keeping these things safe from random space debris flying at ultrasonic speeds?
D. energy costs to build/deploy - these things would have to be MASSIVE with current solar technologies to get usable power after factoring in loss for transmission and conversion.
We haven't even come close to getting terra-based solar power up and going as a mainstream energy alternative. Let's work on the ground before we put things in the air, gentlemen.
In a multiplayer match, youbetcha. Good players know their games and exploit their weaknesses in order to acheive maximum pwnage potential. Same thing with like the divisible by 3 framerate glitch in Q3 that allowed things like 90, 99, 333, 666, 999 FPS to affect the player's actual movement speed.
I wonder what this does for my lawsuit against EA for the SecuROM contained in Spore? Will those that purchased Spore or the Creature Creator be able to download a DRM-free version from Steam, or will they have to pay again for the DRM-free version?
This just reeks of EA trying to appease the masses and the court system.
Actually, I get better performance running at 800x600 for FPS games, at least as far as killing things goes. At lower resolutions harder shots tend to be easier because of the lack of resolution, so the game has to kinda 'guess' where you're shooting.
It's pretty much been like this since the days of Q2 with the railgun. High-res players got better graphics while I stayed on 640x480 and hit them halfway across the map while they couldn't aim for jack because of the 'pinpoint precision' of higher resolutions.
I don't see why this is modded flamebait. The GeForce 8 and some of the GeForce 9 series have this exact issue of failing because of faulty die packaging, it's been around for almost a year, and it still hasn't been fixed.
I hope that these cards don't die. Mine died within three weeks and forced me to send my laptop in for repair.
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That word is TREASON. They know their actions cause direct harm to the people of the United States. only an insane entity would think otherwise.
So the people should just declare Motorola a Traitor to the country. What does it take, two sworn affirmations from people of good reputation? I can find two hundred without thinking.
"Theres no way to keep 100% of it unchanged and uncut, but that's true of any media conversion. "
Umm, yes there is. Destroy all the churches, destroy the FCC, and ban religion. Then it will be QUITE EASY to go 100% from book to film. It is religious groups and the religious-controlled FCC that are destroying our right to expression by impressing their moral values upon us and confusing Ethics with Morality. It's their religious censorship that prevents 100% true conversions. Eliminate that and you're free to do as you please.
I've created a few new strains of plants. I have a near-blue catnip that took four generations to produce reliably. I've got thai peppers smaller than your pinky fingernail that'll bite your ass off, took ten generations to get that down. Haven't tried pot, yet, but since I have my medical script and card for it I just might try making my own strain of cannabis. Will probably take twenty generations for that, though.
Amateurs have been doing GE for a long time,e specially the stoners.
Oops, you're right, I'm thinking surge. Damnit.
Mountain Dew is made by Coca Cola, so that makes sense, the others do not.
The reason nobody wants to buy 4xSLI 2kW computers from you should be rather simple to deduce - there's no diminishing returns due to hardware increases, there's diminishing returns because you bow down to Microsoft and all the other software vendors, load YOUR brand of machines down with all sorts of bullshit that has been horribly coded just so you can simply save a dime, and those crappy programs KILL PERFORMANCE.
Second - your hardware engineering teams SUCK, or at least the prototype QA engineers do. They couldn't spot a simple LCD hinge flaw for nearly a full year. I spotted it within my first week working as a laptop repair tech, and I got the hardware recall issued after sending HP's engineering teams the evidence.
You can't sell super-powered gaming computers because you don't build a gaming system. You're so out of touch with the gaming market that it's going to slip through your fingers.
You need to hire GAMERS if you're ever going to design and sell a gaming PC or Laptop, it's that simple. We can tell you what we want - No crapware, just a CLEAN OPERATING SYSTEM, it doesn't matter which, just don't load it down with BULLSHIT that kills performance.
THOROUGH TESTING - In the short time I worked as a repair tech - your laptops had about 30 different recalls, about a third of which I'm responsible for. You know it's sad when a person with a simple GED and loads of experience can spot screwups before your own prototype engies do. I can only imagine what your desktops are like nowdays given the quality of your laptops (I bought a DV9825nr, I've had to send it in TWICE within a year.)
Counterfeit Hardware - you boys are VERY susceptible to this. This is probably one of many reasons you lost 30+ million in inventory, because you don't have teams to spot counterfeit hardware. I've seen tons of counterfeit hardware, like LCD screens and RAM, roll through the depot. Your managers go "Get to work!" and we look at the hardware and go "Umm, this isn't even HP-branded memory, it's not even made by the same company, and these LCD screens have ribbon cable connectors too large for any of the cables we use."
There are so many problems with your company that makes nobody want to buy a gaming machine - the final one I'll mention is price - with the joys of pricewatch.com, I have a high-end gaming rig for about 500 bucks. A machine with the exact same specifications from you - 800 bucks minimum. Any wonder why nobody's buying your stuff or showing you demand for it? PRICES TOO HIGH.
If you want to fix this problem, feel free to contact me. I have plenty of ideas.
Psst - I do. That's why the computer never stops running. I set it to encode something, I go do gardening. Come back, set another task, head out to do some photography. Come back, unload those photos, process them, upload wherever, make a few posts, maybe take a break and play a game, read slashdot, then set it to protein fold, cook dinner, eat, smoke a bowl, run out to the theater, etc.
You talk as if you actually knew me. Try again.
Also - how was my above post off-topic when I started the topic and was responding to comments that needed clarification?
Stupid mods must be up - did you guys come from RepublicanOperative?
Which is why we have DOSBox, which for all purposes is near-flawless.
My computer NEVER stops working. If I'm not gaming, I'm encoding. If I'm not encoding, I'm compiling or recording. If I'm not using it and am asleep, it's protein folding at maximum possible speed.
Kill-a-watt says 550-600 at full load, and that's just testing the computer, not monitor or other peripherals.
You also forgot to add in my other equipment which consumes power at the same rate, idle or not. Speakers excepted, they draw 40 watts idle with no sound going through them.
My power strip is at load at 1500W rating. Putting on a 60 watt light trips it out.
My 9800GTX+ eats more power alone than your entire computer.
Let me guess, you're not a gamer. Nor a mass-video encoder.
It's not what's in the computer more than also what's attached to the computer.
32-inch LCD for a monitor. 160 watt sound system. A mixer board that draws another 100w alone. Guitar Pedal. Webcam eats up power, and there's two of those. Transmitter for a wireless headset, more power from USB. Oh, and a 9800GTX+ takes more power than any piddly processor you can point at it, not even a P4 with shit NetBurst ate nearly the amount of power this thing does.
So everyone that's going "That's an inefficient computer" needs to realize that your concept of a computer and MY concpet of a computer are likely entirely different.
I'll be upgradig to quad SLI soon. I'll need at least a 1500W PSU to handle that plus another barrage of SATA-II drives I'm about to install.
I also have ten ULTRA320 SCSI drives I'll be hooking to the computer, as soon as I find a damned cable for it all. I have the card adapters already installed, both internal and external.
No, that's a powerhouse, as I designed it to be.
700w Rocketfish PSU
9800GTX+ Nvidia
2.6 GHz AMD Athlon64x2 5200+
Dual 1TB SATA-II and one 80GB ATA133, 16x Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW
32-INCH Samsung 1080p LCD
Mackie 802-VLZ3 Mixer
160 Watt Kinyo Sound System
Don't tell me you assumed some all-in-one crap computer. This is Slashdot, FFS.
The energy expenditure is CONSIDERABLY different. Flying across the USA is NOWHERE comparable to the energy expended just getting to speed to break free from the majority of gravity's pull.
Also, if you're gonna need fuel to get to the moon, you're gonna need fuel to move stuff from the moon, granted not as much, but what're you going to do, extract it from the lunar soil? Riiiiiight. We don't have that tech.
10% my ass, more around 20-30% and that's still more than enough for our entire planet PLUS. The entire state of AZ covered in PV would power the entire North American continent, the only problem there is storage and transmission. I'm still wondering how you're going to send the energy to the earth from space. Hell, the inefficiencies alone in just converting the gathered power is going to be nuts.
Good luck putting it where ANY debris is relatively low - The Perseids should be a good enough example.
It only takes someone with a decent understanding of engineering principals to spend ten minutes thinking rationally to come to the conclusion that space power is not something we need unless we're living directly in space. Sending it to earth when we already have other power sources to tap/hybridize on the planet makes no sense.
Quit looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, it wastes money and resources.
Let's see. 50kwh. That would run my computer for...two days no problem with monitor and broadband modem included.
Gimme two of these and some high-efficiency photovoltaics and good-bye power grid. I don't care if my house is ugly, cover the entire thing with HEPV.
I like the idea of solar/thermal hybrids.
I also have in mind an idea for solar/wind hybrids. We have Nanosolar out with thin, lightweight, printable solar panels. We have strong and lightweight carbon-fiber that can be used to build wind turbines.
Let's coat the wind turbine with the PV material from Nanosolar. No metals needed for power transmission since carbon is conductive and can be doped to be non-conductive in the places where it would matter (such as forming a trace path for power flow.)
Most wind turbines for power are located in a place with no obstructions such as hills or buildings, so usually there is maximum sun exposure under favorable weather conditions.
Bada-bing, you have solar/wind hybrid that's very feasible, doesn't require any tech that doesn't already exist, and can be improved upon with relative ease (relative being dependent upon new PV technologies.)
BTW This counts as prior art in case anyone tries to snag this idea and profit. MINE.
I should note it's just my general rejection of anything scientology-related. I just hate the mere mention of the cult in any form.
Why? Lots of reasons, the most important being:
A. Cost of putting such a LARGE array up there.
B. Inefficiencies in power transmission (how're you going to beam it to the surface? Microwaves? Why not just harness it at ground level and store it in batteries, and cut out several points where conversion losses would be found?)
C. Maintenance costs/damage protection/prevention - just how do you plan on keeping these things safe from random space debris flying at ultrasonic speeds?
D. energy costs to build/deploy - these things would have to be MASSIVE with current solar technologies to get usable power after factoring in loss for transmission and conversion.
Need more?
Yes, I got the ad as well for Scientology.org.
Quite hilarious. And yet another assurance that I won't be purchasing any membership or subscription to this site any time soon.
We haven't even come close to getting terra-based solar power up and going as a mainstream energy alternative. Let's work on the ground before we put things in the air, gentlemen.
In a multiplayer match, youbetcha. Good players know their games and exploit their weaknesses in order to acheive maximum pwnage potential. Same thing with like the divisible by 3 framerate glitch in Q3 that allowed things like 90, 99, 333, 666, 999 FPS to affect the player's actual movement speed.
I wonder what this does for my lawsuit against EA for the SecuROM contained in Spore? Will those that purchased Spore or the Creature Creator be able to download a DRM-free version from Steam, or will they have to pay again for the DRM-free version?
This just reeks of EA trying to appease the masses and the court system.
I did, with CoD2 and CoD4. At lower resolutions it's far easier to headshot than at higher, especially using the iron sights.
And just so you know, I run a fairly beefy system. half-gig 9800GTX+, 2.6GHz AMD Athlon64X2 5200+, 4GB DDR2-800.
Actually, I get better performance running at 800x600 for FPS games, at least as far as killing things goes. At lower resolutions harder shots tend to be easier because of the lack of resolution, so the game has to kinda 'guess' where you're shooting.
It's pretty much been like this since the days of Q2 with the railgun. High-res players got better graphics while I stayed on 640x480 and hit them halfway across the map while they couldn't aim for jack because of the 'pinpoint precision' of higher resolutions.
get one that doesn't use bearings, they're almost dead-silent minus the light whir that you can't hear after you're about three feet away.
I use them for providing airflow over my indoor garden of hot thai peppers and catnip and lemon cucumbers. Works like a charm.
I don't see why this is modded flamebait. The GeForce 8 and some of the GeForce 9 series have this exact issue of failing because of faulty die packaging, it's been around for almost a year, and it still hasn't been fixed.
I hope that these cards don't die. Mine died within three weeks and forced me to send my laptop in for repair.