I always saw SLI as a "cheap" upgrade path -- IE you buy that brand new, hot off the manufacturing line top tier gfx card today for $500, and 12-18 months later when your gaming isn't as great as it was at the start you "upgrade" with that card, which is now a second tier card (and significantly cheaper).
Total cost to you, about $750-$800* or so instead of the $1000* or so that you'd have spent to get the new "latest and greatest" card.
* prices determined after buying *both* cards, assuming the "latest and greatest" are ~$500 each, and tier 2 cards are ~$250+
I don't know what a rail map of the US looks like, but the interstates connect everything [onlineatlas.us].
not the best map, but the first one I came across in a quick google search. This also covers some (if not all) of the major canadian railroads as well.
One of the (mostly) local transformer stations blew something out during that.
From what I (vaguely) remember of the ordeal, if the station hadn't tripped the breaker (or whatever happened there) the blackout would have just been rolling blackouts for a couple of hours at a time instead of the 3 days (or more...) solid blackout that did happen.
2) You can use your doohickey thru the phone. Your son-in-law is checking your bank balance for you, and you want him to - this time. He sees the challenge, and tells it to you. You enter challenge into doohickey, give him the response, and he types it in. That gives him nothing more than a login that time, because next time, the challenge will be different, and without doohickey, he can't do anything more.
OK, so you can enter your challenge and get the response out of your (presumably) USB doohickey, but you can't get online yourself?
I like the idea nonetheless. Done correctly, it would even work in airports for (non-critical) transactions, such as getting into your yahoo/gmail/etc account.
Hard drives probably wouldn't be eclipsing 80GB if it were not for laws driving it that way.
I'm not sure it's laws in the consumer market rather than a cyclical "failure"* in thinking.
Lets take the hypothetical situation that Company A has made a 1GB drive, when all predecessors were making 250-500MB. Company (M)$ sees this, and instead of going through all the necessary steps to clean bloat from their new piece of software leaves it in, because "everyone has big drives now". Software companies start to follow in company (M)$'s footsteps, and hard drive manufacturers are then forced to make increasingly larger drives, which Joe Consumer then fills with pr0n and other random junk because the space is just *there* now....
* I say "failure" because at some level it is a flaw in the thinking regarding the whole harddrive issue that you've stated...
I am waiting for the day when neural implants can actually read the human brain, and as such, you can archive experiences to some type of storage medium. I am sure wikipedia has somewhere how much information the human brain processes a second.
I don't know how *accurate* this is, but I ran across this...
Current estimates of brain capacity range from 1 to 1000 terabytes!
"Robert Birge (Syracuse University) who studies the storage of data in
proteins, estimated in 1996 that the memory capacity of the brain was
between one and ten terabytes, with a most likely value of 3
terabytes. Such estimates are generally based on counting neurons and
assuming each neuron holds 1 bit. Bear in mind that the brain has
better algorithms for compressing certain types of information than
computers do."
There should be a "The People vs. Bandwidth Industry" site, much like "The Recording Industry vs. The People".
There, fixed that for you..
I agree that this issue has to be brought to light, and in a way that the masses will understand -- kind of like the current "we're stopping analog broadcast on Feb 9th '09; get a converter box" commercials.
Problem with their "perfectly working VR" is that it's at worst an image gallery composed of shots taken at various points of the room(s) involved (e.g., here's the bedroom, the bathroom, whatever) or at best a somewhat interactive panorama of the suite. I have not yet seen a tour that allows you to "walk through" the entire suite/apartment/house that is being presented.
I will admit that a house might still be out of line for Photosynth tours, in that it might just require too many photos to make a decent tour...
Looks pretty interesting.. Would be nice to see something like this replace the quicktime/slideshow "tours" of hotels (or houses/apartments for sale/rent) that are currently available. Though it would probably need some help insofar as distances (i.e., the hallway is "narrower" the farther you get from the focal point of the camera). Though I'd assume that the devs thought this aspect through...
Using a computer to automate this process was handled higher up by a few people... would be nice if the laws added in a clause to the effect that if some tone (say 2.6KHz) was sent to the bot it would remove the number from its DB and hang up. Granted this doesn't exempt scammers who have any tech knowledge to circumvent it... though if it was hardcoded to the firmware of 'commercial' bots it could probably work.
Said tone could be sent by answering machine, computer, cereal box toy, etc.
...40 foot cargo container to maybe 60 miles up? Using less fuel? Using a more efficient lift body? Now Shippers would start to listen. Shippers would start to consider less Ships, and Trains; and MORE aviation solutions in their Logistics.
I'm no expert in the matter, but isn't it (somewhat) of a waste of fuel/energy to lift something 60 miles up, then move it towards the intended destination? For comparison - would you climb the Grand Canyon, walk across it (say on a bridge), and climb back down just to be on the other side; or would you just take a bridge over the river at the *bottom* of the canyon?
I'm sure that where *speed* is of the upmost importance, a plane is used - but from a logistics standpoint 3-5 modern locomotives hauling a 100 car train (which can be a few thousand tons) is still the more economical choice. I believe that the average fuel consumption is something like 1 gal per 100 loaded tons per mile (excluding the locomotives...)
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I always saw SLI as a "cheap" upgrade path -- IE you buy that brand new, hot off the manufacturing line top tier gfx card today for $500, and 12-18 months later when your gaming isn't as great as it was at the start you "upgrade" with that card, which is now a second tier card (and significantly cheaper).
Total cost to you, about $750-$800* or so instead of the $1000* or so that you'd have spent to get the new "latest and greatest" card.
* prices determined after buying *both* cards, assuming the "latest and greatest" are ~$500 each, and tier 2 cards are ~$250+
I KNEW the lifeblood of the internet was pr0n!
I don't know what a rail map of the US looks like, but the interstates connect everything [onlineatlas.us].
not the best map, but the first one I came across in a quick google search. This also covers some (if not all) of the major canadian railroads as well.
One of the (mostly) local transformer stations blew something out during that. From what I (vaguely) remember of the ordeal, if the station hadn't tripped the breaker (or whatever happened there) the blackout would have just been rolling blackouts for a couple of hours at a time instead of the 3 days (or more...) solid blackout that did happen.
Will this be suspect to problems a la BGP?
2) You can use your doohickey thru the phone. Your son-in-law is checking your bank balance for you, and you want him to - this time. He sees the challenge, and tells it to you. You enter challenge into doohickey, give him the response, and he types it in. That gives him nothing more than a login that time, because next time, the challenge will be different, and without doohickey, he can't do anything more.
OK, so you can enter your challenge and get the response out of your (presumably) USB doohickey, but you can't get online yourself?
I like the idea nonetheless. Done correctly, it would even work in airports for (non-critical) transactions, such as getting into your yahoo/gmail/etc account.
And that 'no child left behind' idea didn't help too much....
Or maybe 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0. Granted everyone on /. would be able to break that pretty quick...
Might want to get a babelfish while you're at it as well.
Now what am I supposed to call my brother-in-law? Creationist!
Scientologist?
Probably started using the bank when they needed to "verify his acct information" with a CC/SSN/acct. no./whatever...
Hard drives probably wouldn't be eclipsing 80GB if it were not for laws driving it that way.
I'm not sure it's laws in the consumer market rather than a cyclical "failure"* in thinking.
Lets take the hypothetical situation that Company A has made a 1GB drive, when all predecessors were making 250-500MB. Company (M)$ sees this, and instead of going through all the necessary steps to clean bloat from their new piece of software leaves it in, because "everyone has big drives now". Software companies start to follow in company (M)$'s footsteps, and hard drive manufacturers are then forced to make increasingly larger drives, which Joe Consumer then fills with pr0n and other random junk because the space is just *there* now....
* I say "failure" because at some level it is a flaw in the thinking regarding the whole harddrive issue that you've stated...
I am waiting for the day when neural implants can actually read the human brain, and as such, you can archive experiences to some type of storage medium. I am sure wikipedia has somewhere how much information the human brain processes a second.
I don't know how *accurate* this is, but I ran across this...
and this
couldn't find anything on wikipedia though.
There, fixed that for you.. I agree that this issue has to be brought to light, and in a way that the masses will understand -- kind of like the current "we're stopping analog broadcast on Feb 9th '09; get a converter box" commercials.
Problem with their "perfectly working VR" is that it's at worst an image gallery composed of shots taken at various points of the room(s) involved (e.g., here's the bedroom, the bathroom, whatever) or at best a somewhat interactive panorama of the suite. I have not yet seen a tour that allows you to "walk through" the entire suite/apartment/house that is being presented. I will admit that a house might still be out of line for Photosynth tours, in that it might just require too many photos to make a decent tour...
That shirt (or at least one relatively similar) is/was sold on jinx
Looks pretty interesting.. Would be nice to see something like this replace the quicktime/slideshow "tours" of hotels (or houses/apartments for sale/rent) that are currently available. Though it would probably need some help insofar as distances (i.e., the hallway is "narrower" the farther you get from the focal point of the camera). Though I'd assume that the devs thought this aspect through...
They've gone plaid!
Would that happen to be 12345?
The cake is a lie.
As stated above -- IEtab = IE 'emulator' for FF. It 'works' in *nix (well, ubuntu 7 before I upgraded to a Terminal-only install of slackware)
Using a computer to automate this process was handled higher up by a few people... would be nice if the laws added in a clause to the effect that if some tone (say 2.6KHz) was sent to the bot it would remove the number from its DB and hang up. Granted this doesn't exempt scammers who have any tech knowledge to circumvent it... though if it was hardcoded to the firmware of 'commercial' bots it could probably work. Said tone could be sent by answering machine, computer, cereal box toy, etc.
nah, I think Rule 34 applies here
I'm no expert in the matter, but isn't it (somewhat) of a waste of fuel/energy to lift something 60 miles up, then move it towards the intended destination? For comparison - would you climb the Grand Canyon, walk across it (say on a bridge), and climb back down just to be on the other side; or would you just take a bridge over the river at the *bottom* of the canyon? I'm sure that where *speed* is of the upmost importance, a plane is used - but from a logistics standpoint 3-5 modern locomotives hauling a 100 car train (which can be a few thousand tons) is still the more economical choice. I believe that the average fuel consumption is something like 1 gal per 100 loaded tons per mile (excluding the locomotives...)
I'm not sure which is more outrageous at this point - people blindly following the idea that the earth is flat or Scientology....