I'd say that depends. The power usage of LCD TVs vary greatly. I've seen many with far higher wattage than regular CRTs. This is especially true for the larger-size and higher-resolution LCDs. So if you go from say a regular 28" or 32" widesscreen CRT to a 40" LCD (a common switch nowadays) you are quite likely to increase your power bill, not decrease it. Especially if you don't look at the specs before you buy.
You're wrong. You are describing a communist system, where wealth is distributed evenly, rather than according to how much each person is worth.
What do you mean "rather than". In a communist system each person is considered worth equally much, and the wealth is distributed accordingly, ie. equally. The only difference is really how the worth of a person is established (equal by default in the communist system or according to productivity in the capitalist system). Both systems then distribute the wealth according to this "valuation".
Well, in theory that is. Neither system has ever actually worked that way in real life. But that's another discussion...
I voted for Piratpartiet. The first reaction over the result was a bit of a disappointment, but with a little perspective, it's pretty ok. With such a close election it was bound to be difficult to win votes for a party with a limited number of questions. In addition to that, these are questions which a majority of people do not know much about, in large part because the established parties do not want to discuss it more than necessary.
It's easy do dumb-down the message to the PP just wanting free music and movies. That is not the main issue, and once you start discussing the questions of privacy, surveillance, drm, and patent with people they mostly agree that the current situation is horrible. PP has at least gotten this debate going among more people than ever before, and even if most people do not see the questions important enought to vote for PP (at least not yet) it has become harder for the established parties to give the silent treatment to these questions.
Now, it seems like about one in two hundred swedes have voted for PP. Most likely, a much larger part of these than for the traditional parties are passionate about the issues, and will continue the advocacy. Either this may lead to a much stronger result in future elections, or that the established parties start to take notice and change their ways to retain their voters. In the end, it does not matter. The PP is not about gaining power, but to change the political landscape in their three main themes: copyrights, patents, and privacy.
Was my post worth +5? Probably not, but obviously, enough appreciated it enough to mod it up....
Didn't say it was bad, or useless. Just wondering about the reasoning of modders. Say the guy/gal who found it at +4 and thought it was in desperate need of even more mod points. That, I cannot understand...
I don't think this is true at all. I think the masses think primarily on gadgets such as digital cameras, mp3-players, computers, HDTV sets and the like when they hear the word technology. Not web services.
But these companies did produce faster chips than Intel without cooperation, and Intel still prevailed. Especially the Alpha was lightyears ahead of Intel, performance-wise, in its heyday. The reasons they still failed have nothing to do with lack of technical prowess.
Report from Sweden: Cellphone rates are around 5-6 eurocents a minute (usually with some minimum charge or additional fixed fee per month though).
Your figures seem out-of-date. Prices have plummeted the last couple of years.
I have a different experience. I'm quite pleased with my DX6490.
It's easy to use, which I wanted. It has got a 10x optical zoom, which I was looking for. And the pictures look good, I have not had any serious problems with jpeg artifacts etc. I would have liked a raw or at least less compressed format though, and anti-shake since it is hard to get sharp pictures using the zoom. Also, it is a bit weak in low-light conditions (but as far as I've seen that's true for many if not most digital cameras in this range).
It's not a high-end camera though, but it is (or was, I don't think this model is produced any more) not advertised as such either. If I ever get more serious about photography I'll get a more advanced camera. For now, this one is perfect.
I strongly suspect the slashdot editors have a bet as to how many times they can post a MySQL story and have the same debate, with more or less the same bashing, arguments, and counter-arguments repeated all over again.
It's must be their secret revenge on the fraction of the readership screaming DUPE! every time they post a story resembling an earlier story. Now, they can read their latest MySQL story, point at almost any comment, and scream "DUPE!" they too!
Once again, the levy does NOT compensate for piracy, it is supposed to compensate for additional copies people make of stuff they have legally aquired. This is perfectly legal, hence not piracy.
Why the copyright holders should be compensated if I make a backup copy or move music from my CD to my mp3 player is beyond me. But somehow the usual suspects have managed to convince several governments that this is fair.
When discussing the "IP problem", the author completely ignores the fact that a great deal of core FLOSS applications are developed by those employees on paid time and released as open source by the companies (like IBM, Sun; Red Hat, Novell, MySQL etc etc).
The author seems to believe that all FLOSS is developed as a hobby.
In my opinion, the first thing you should check for is how much it will cost to buy new ink. For some inkjet models, there's actually 3rd party replacements that can be had at acceptable prices.
That said, I'd buy a laser unless you want color and don't print enough to justify the expense of a color laser. I'm in this situation, so I got a dirt cheap Epson inkjet.
Do most current equipment even support PoE? Does the modem in the table?
Anyway, if the cable modem DID support PoE it still wouldn't draw more power from the wall socket than needed for the modem itself if no PoE device is connected to it. That table only shows how much the modem actually did draw during the measurement. That doesn't prove that the modem couldn't draw more power from the socket if needed, which is what matters.
How many times will the "news" that Dell is "looking at AMD" make the headlines? We all know it'll never actually happen.
Rollins also said they may use AMD if their customers really want it. Yeah right.
Luckily, where I work, we just switched to a supplier who actually offers AMD today, so now we can finally get Opterons. This is the only strategy that will work for companies that want Opteron. Dell will never offer it. Won't happen. AMD processors have been requested for years. They say they listen to their customers, but they really don't.
I haven't seen any comment yet from anyone who's tried NeroLINUX. I have, since I already had a license for the Win version (one of very few apps I've ever bought for Win).
Well, it's far from as feature-rich as the Windows version for the time being, but it works and is easy to use. The user interface is similar to GnomeToaster as someone said, but more polished. However, I don't think it is a frontend to the usual tools, there are a number of libs in the distribution too, and there's no configuration for the usual back-end tools (cdrecord etc).
At is stands today, K3d is more feature-rich, and I wouldn't spend money on NeroLINUX if I didn't have the Win version already and could get the Linux version for free. However, it's easy to use and I'll probably do so too.
BTW, I think Nero as a company behaves very well for a closed-source shop. The application suite is not very expensive compared to all the various apps that are included, and you can download updates for free for a long time (until they release a new major version number which seems to happen quite seldom).
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I got 10, 11, 11 seconds.
(From an 8 Mbit ADSL connection in Sweden)
I voted for Piratpartiet. The first reaction over the result was a bit of a disappointment, but with a little perspective, it's pretty ok. With such a close election it was bound to be difficult to win votes for a party with a limited number of questions. In addition to that, these are questions which a majority of people do not know much about, in large part because the established parties do not want to discuss it more than necessary.
It's easy do dumb-down the message to the PP just wanting free music and movies. That is not the main issue, and once you start discussing the questions of privacy, surveillance, drm, and patent with people they mostly agree that the current situation is horrible. PP has at least gotten this debate going among more people than ever before, and even if most people do not see the questions important enought to vote for PP (at least not yet) it has become harder for the established parties to give the silent treatment to these questions.
Now, it seems like about one in two hundred swedes have voted for PP. Most likely, a much larger part of these than for the traditional parties are passionate about the issues, and will continue the advocacy. Either this may lead to a much stronger result in future elections, or that the established parties start to take notice and change their ways to retain their voters. In the end, it does not matter. The PP is not about gaining power, but to change the political landscape in their three main themes: copyrights, patents, and privacy.
What the heck? Why is a comment which is just the link you get by clicking the printer icon on the original story worth +5 ??
I don't think this is true at all. I think the masses think primarily on gadgets such as digital cameras, mp3-players, computers, HDTV sets and the like when they hear the word technology. Not web services.
But these companies did produce faster chips than Intel without cooperation, and Intel still prevailed. Especially the Alpha was lightyears ahead of Intel, performance-wise, in its heyday. The reasons they still failed have nothing to do with lack of technical prowess.
Report from Sweden: Cellphone rates are around 5-6 eurocents a minute (usually with some minimum charge or additional fixed fee per month though). Your figures seem out-of-date. Prices have plummeted the last couple of years.
I have a different experience. I'm quite pleased with my DX6490.
It's easy to use, which I wanted. It has got a 10x optical zoom, which I was looking for. And the pictures look good, I have not had any serious problems with jpeg artifacts etc. I would have liked a raw or at least less compressed format though, and anti-shake since it is hard to get sharp pictures using the zoom. Also, it is a bit weak in low-light conditions (but as far as I've seen that's true for many if not most digital cameras in this range).
It's not a high-end camera though, but it is (or was, I don't think this model is produced any more) not advertised as such either. If I ever get more serious about photography I'll get a more advanced camera. For now, this one is perfect.
You mean it wouldn't perform well on real-world floating point applications then? Like SPEC fp 2000?
Spec fp 2000 results
Oh, I dunno, I think those AMD results look pretty good...
I strongly suspect the slashdot editors have a bet as to how many times they can post a MySQL story and have the same debate, with more or less the same bashing, arguments, and counter-arguments repeated all over again.
It's must be their secret revenge on the fraction of the readership screaming DUPE! every time they post a story resembling an earlier story. Now, they can read their latest MySQL story, point at almost any comment, and scream "DUPE!" they too!
Once again, the levy does NOT compensate for piracy, it is supposed to compensate for additional copies people make of stuff they have legally aquired. This is perfectly legal, hence not piracy.
Why the copyright holders should be compensated if I make a backup copy or move music from my CD to my mp3 player is beyond me. But somehow the usual suspects have managed to convince several governments that this is fair.
When discussing the "IP problem", the author completely ignores the fact that a great deal of core FLOSS applications are developed by those employees on paid time and released as open source by the companies (like IBM, Sun; Red Hat, Novell, MySQL etc etc). The author seems to believe that all FLOSS is developed as a hobby.
In my opinion, the first thing you should check for is how much it will cost to buy new ink. For some inkjet models, there's actually 3rd party replacements that can be had at acceptable prices. That said, I'd buy a laser unless you want color and don't print enough to justify the expense of a color laser. I'm in this situation, so I got a dirt cheap Epson inkjet.
Do most current equipment even support PoE? Does the modem in the table?
Anyway, if the cable modem DID support PoE it still wouldn't draw more power from the wall socket than needed for the modem itself if no PoE device is connected to it. That table only shows how much the modem actually did draw during the measurement. That doesn't prove that the modem couldn't draw more power from the socket if needed, which is what matters.
How many times will the "news" that Dell is "looking at AMD" make the headlines? We all know it'll never actually happen.
Rollins also said they may use AMD if their customers really want it. Yeah right.
Luckily, where I work, we just switched to a supplier who actually offers AMD today, so now we can finally get Opterons. This is the only strategy that will work for companies that want Opteron. Dell will never offer it. Won't happen. AMD processors have been requested for years. They say they listen to their customers, but they really don't.
...was that it seems to be impossible to get people to write conectiva instead of connectiva.
They've changed name from Ahead to Nero!
I haven't seen any comment yet from anyone who's tried NeroLINUX. I have, since I already had a license for the Win version (one of very few apps I've ever bought for Win).
Well, it's far from as feature-rich as the Windows version for the time being, but it works and is easy to use. The user interface is similar to GnomeToaster as someone said, but more polished. However, I don't think it is a frontend to the usual tools, there are a number of libs in the distribution too, and there's no configuration for the usual back-end tools (cdrecord etc).
At is stands today, K3d is more feature-rich, and I wouldn't spend money on NeroLINUX if I didn't have the Win version already and could get the Linux version for free. However, it's easy to use and I'll probably do so too.
BTW, I think Nero as a company behaves very well for a closed-source shop. The application suite is not very expensive compared to all the various apps that are included, and you can download updates for free for a long time (until they release a new major version number which seems to happen quite seldom).