personaly i feel that we need a new law here in the US.. if you pass a law that is found to violate the bill of rights and/or the constitution - you should be found guilty of treason (and that would go for anyone that put there name on the bill) - that would make them thing twice.. well atleast mabey thing once ?
I understand that they burn the fuel.. but honestly recharging the system in my mind is most important..
sure if it was using a fuel that you can find all over the world then your good - but it isn't.. they are going to have to create a whole new industry for this to work.. where as if it could be recharged via AC power outlets then well.. they all of the sudden become far more appealing
if they do it in a way that isn't jsut so they can cause a shortage in Intels market they are fine.. but if they shut it down to cause the intel shortage on purpose tand anyone fines a memo noteing that they did it knowing and willfuly.. well then they are goign to be in the hot seat - just like Intel is right now
What i think would be neet and would more than likly work in vending machines is to have a memory module (like for game consols) that connect to the dock port and upload an album to your ipod.. sell them for the cost of a cd.
and they can even retrive from your ipod your drm info and lock it so that the card is only good for your registered equipment.. but make it so that you don't have to have the card in to listen.
the amount of memory needed for an album with losy acc isn't much and memory is cheep..
you use the meth as a energy storage medium (as it has a higher energy density than Li) it would buffer power through a capasitor to power the laptop but if you plug it in it back charges and converts the waste back in to meth for use later - just like how we use Li batteries
i am sorry but if i can't plug this thing into an outlet to charge it - it is well worthless
i fully agree.. here at work we use Averatec laptops (they are made by MSI/TwinHead)
we only use the 12in 4lbs models - they get ~3 hours of battery life.. and a spare battery is only around 80$ the laptop around 700$ so all in all sure they could pay 2g's for a laptop with 6 hours of life.. or we can buy cheep (but decent and rugged) laptops and a spare battery for much less.. and if they destroy them (which some have done) i don't feel as bad.
i know people who have bought dell and alienware laptops.. sure they are nice and can play games and stuff.. but they can also start fires in your lap and have crap battery life... When it comes to companys you don't need all the frills.. just decent speed - lots of storage and decent life..
thankyou.. someone that saw why i said what i said..
personaly i feel ask/. is for things that you can't find answers to but it would help to see what the rest of the world does to solve a problem that isn't esily fixed
you know i remember when i bought my first domain name.. i think i paid 99$ to register it.. squaters didn't exist back then.. except for the big names and well they lost in court...
then it went to 35$ a year.. a few more of the posiable populare names where being squated..
then it went 10$ . and even less in bulk.. now we have the worst squating we have ever seen..
I would be more than happey to pay 35-99$ a year for the domains i run because i know they are worth it to me.. and if putting the price back where it was will stop this endless squating then so be it.
i can't belive he asked slashdot.. there are plenty of forums out there deticated to this type of stuff.
now one thing that grand parent AC over looked is that if they are small ther is always a cost problem.
one thing i have found is to use a T1 has the primary line for max up time services.. and then get a cheep microwave/wireless connection for fast but doesn't have to work 100% of the time - where i am you can get 2mb up 2mb down for around 200$ a month including small ip block and leased router (cisco 800's not crap netopia). and if you ask (or just reset them) they will give you accounts on them to configure them.
you just made me realize.. they are the ones higher up than us.. and they (as far as i am conserned) are violating my rights (doing wrong) Soooooo.. i say they throw all the news people in jail and all the court clears that sent the letters to the news - because they are "whistleblowers"
and yet for some reason you got moded funny (i have no clue how) - i agree they are old and i wish the other lame people out there would recoize your post as isightful - but alas all will be lost
for once i agree with an artical like this.. some of them (the zip drive) i didn't think should be up there yea it clicked but that was over all rare..
funny thing is half of the artical i didnt' read because i saw the name and was like yeap..
nomy question is more to the fact that what is to prevent someone from exploting this system and using it to spam or DOS a legit place.. with Blue you had a central server that was the only one that could authorize clients to send messages where this thing seems like it would just listen to it's peers..
opps.. you know i remeber reading that too.. and i still posted what was in my head.. sorry about that.. but looking at most of the posts here - it seems that not many people are understanding that.
on the one had i will say i do belive it has plenty of room to be streamlined
just too bad that someone couldn't get this into the BlueFrog stuff before it died.. atleast then they would have a large userbase.. but if the Blue peps are the ones that look at the e-mails to make sure someone isn't being evil and submitting normal HAM - how is that going to work without master to authorize the clients???
If you are refering to the refrence of a file format being slow.. then yes there is a diffrence between apps and formats but formats can be slow.
a prim example is look at compressed archives.. say RAR.. if you look at the diffrence between a normal RAR archive and a Solid RAR Archive. the Solid archive takes all the files and treats them like a TAR ball so that you can compare like data and get better compression.. It doesn't take much longer to create the orginal file than a normal RAR archive which treats each file on it's own basis but when extracting or updateing you have to read through every file before the one you want in the archve when reading. and when writing you have to read all the ones before to evaluate the one you have and change it and then progress and extract and recompress every other file after it instead of just skooting them over when updateing a normal archive.
both methods use the same compression methods and are of the same type and data types.. one gives you better compression but is and is faster to extract but is horid at random openings and updates where as a normal archive doesn't have the horid side affects but doesn't give you the higher compression or the speed in extracting.
One thing MS has always been very good at is making MS Word fast. the load times are impressive and the save times like wise. forget about the stability for the moment and give them credit for being fast.. now i know TFA is fud and stupid but there might be a legit argument. MS knows how to make doc files fast, they designed them to be - if ODF wasn't as thought out for speed i could see it being an issue for anyone trying to implement it, and with some implementations there really is no way to make it faster.
It is just something to think about. While the artical is dumb the argument could very well be legit. people should bash it just because it has MS writen all over it.
jsut because they release updates on wensdays and i don't thing they will have a cert'ed patch ready by wensday as this is a holiday weekend and their customers don't matter to them (at least the ones that could be infected)
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personaly i feel that we need a new law here in the US .. if you pass a law that is found to violate the bill of rights and/or the constitution - you should be found guilty of treason (and that would go for anyone that put there name on the bill) - that would make them thing twice.. well atleast mabey thing once ?
I understand that they burn the fuel.. but honestly recharging the system in my mind is most important..
sure if it was using a fuel that you can find all over the world then your good - but it isn't.. they are going to have to create a whole new industry for this to work.. where as if it could be recharged via AC power outlets then well.. they all of the sudden become far more appealing
VW already did this... it was called the IT - where everything was an option including the driver's seat and stearing wheel... etc.
if they do it in a way that isn't jsut so they can cause a shortage in Intels market they are fine.. but if they shut it down to cause the intel shortage on purpose tand anyone fines a memo noteing that they did it knowing and willfuly.. well then they are goign to be in the hot seat - just like Intel is right now
That would also open them up to lawsuites for anti competitive acts. because well it is jsut so damn obvious.
.. that they could get away with.. (i would hope they wouldn't though)
now if they bought ATI and canned them completely
What i think would be neet and would more than likly work in vending machines is to have a memory module (like for game consols) that connect to the dock port and upload an album to your ipod.. sell them for the cost of a cd.
and they can even retrive from your ipod your drm info and lock it so that the card is only good for your registered equipment.. but make it so that you don't have to have the card in to listen.
the amount of memory needed for an album with losy acc isn't much and memory is cheep..
i think it would work well
You know i was thinking something close..
you use the meth as a energy storage medium (as it has a higher energy density than Li) it would buffer power through a capasitor to power the laptop but if you plug it in it back charges and converts the waste back in to meth for use later - just like how we use Li batteries
i am sorry but if i can't plug this thing into an outlet to charge it - it is well worthless
i fully agree .. here at work we use Averatec laptops (they are made by MSI/TwinHead)
we only use the 12in 4lbs models - they get ~3 hours of battery life.. and a spare battery is only around 80$ the laptop around 700$ so all in all sure they could pay 2g's for a laptop with 6 hours of life.. or we can buy cheep (but decent and rugged) laptops and a spare battery for much less.. and if they destroy them (which some have done) i don't feel as bad.
i know people who have bought dell and alienware laptops.. sure they are nice and can play games and stuff.. but they can also start fires in your lap and have crap battery life... When it comes to companys you don't need all the frills.. just decent speed - lots of storage and decent life..
thankyou .. someone that saw why i said what i said..
/. is for things that you can't find answers to but it would help to see what the rest of the world does to solve a problem that isn't esily fixed
personaly i feel ask
you know i remember when i bought my first domain name.. i think i paid 99$ to register it.. squaters didn't exist back then.. except for the big names and well they lost in court...
then it went to 35$ a year.. a few more of the posiable populare names where being squated..
then it went 10$ . and even less in bulk.. now we have the worst squating we have ever seen..
I would be more than happey to pay 35-99$ a year for the domains i run because i know they are worth it to me.. and if putting the price back where it was will stop this endless squating then so be it.
i can't belive he asked slashdot.. there are plenty of forums out there deticated to this type of stuff.
now one thing that grand parent AC over looked is that if they are small ther is always a cost problem.
one thing i have found is to use a T1 has the primary line for max up time services.. and then get a cheep microwave/wireless connection for fast but doesn't have to work 100% of the time - where i am you can get 2mb up 2mb down for around 200$ a month including small ip block and leased router (cisco 800's not crap netopia). and if you ask (or just reset them) they will give you accounts on them to configure them.
I under stand.. i was just explaining the same thing. (trying to show an example of fast/slow file formats)
any time i see xml where it doesn't belong (which is where it mostly is used) i look away and pretend that i didn't see it..
you just made me realize.. they are the ones higher up than us.. and they (as far as i am conserned) are violating my rights (doing wrong) Soooooo.. i say they throw all the news people in jail and all the court clears that sent the letters to the news - because they are "whistleblowers"
that ... that was perfect
another good example is pyDDR - i know they guy who wrote it.. and it was a pet project to teach him self python
and yet for some reason you got moded funny (i have no clue how) - i agree they are old and i wish the other lame people out there would recoize your post as isightful - but alas all will be lost
for once i agree with an artical like this.. some of them (the zip drive) i didn't think should be up there yea it clicked but that was over all rare..
funny thing is half of the artical i didnt' read because i saw the name and was like yeap..
"I'm taking everything they say with a large grain of salt."
Well i found a sufficient supply for you... althought i don't recommend it (may be toxic to your health)
http://www.pnl.gov/energyscience/03-00/ws.htm
nomy question is more to the fact that what is to prevent someone from exploting this system and using it to spam or DOS a legit place.. with Blue you had a central server that was the only one that could authorize clients to send messages where this thing seems like it would just listen to it's peers..
I recomend Web 2.1
change log
2.1 | more interactive web - all that law crap
2.0 | more interactive web
opps.. you know i remeber reading that too.. and i still posted what was in my head.. sorry about that.. but looking at most of the posts here - it seems that not many people are understanding that.
on the one had i will say i do belive it has plenty of room to be streamlined
just too bad that someone couldn't get this into the BlueFrog stuff before it died.. atleast then they would have a large userbase.. but if the Blue peps are the ones that look at the e-mails to make sure someone isn't being evil and submitting normal HAM - how is that going to work without master to authorize the clients???
"ODF is simply a format and as such can't exactly be speed benchmarked"
you have to remember that a file format is only as fast as the best algorithm designed to read it.
If you are refering to the refrence of a file format being slow.. then yes there is a diffrence between apps and formats but formats can be slow.
a prim example is look at compressed archives.. say RAR.. if you look at the diffrence between a normal RAR archive and a Solid RAR Archive. the Solid archive takes all the files and treats them like a TAR ball so that you can compare like data and get better compression.. It doesn't take much longer to create the orginal file than a normal RAR archive which treats each file on it's own basis but when extracting or updateing you have to read through every file before the one you want in the archve when reading. and when writing you have to read all the ones before to evaluate the one you have and change it and then progress and extract and recompress every other file after it instead of just skooting them over when updateing a normal archive.
both methods use the same compression methods and are of the same type and data types.. one gives you better compression but is and is faster to extract but is horid at random openings and updates where as a normal archive doesn't have the horid side affects but doesn't give you the higher compression or the speed in extracting.
One thing MS has always been very good at is making MS Word fast. the load times are impressive and the save times like wise. forget about the stability for the moment and give them credit for being fast.. now i know TFA is fud and stupid but there might be a legit argument. MS knows how to make doc files fast, they designed them to be - if ODF wasn't as thought out for speed i could see it being an issue for anyone trying to implement it, and with some implementations there really is no way to make it faster.
It is just something to think about. While the artical is dumb the argument could very well be legit. people should bash it just because it has MS writen all over it.
i bet June 7th 2006
jsut because they release updates on wensdays and i don't thing they will have a cert'ed patch ready by wensday as this is a holiday weekend and their customers don't matter to them (at least the ones that could be infected)