This can be done with a standard web server. Simply set up a web server that makes all your music available on your network, then point your iPod Touch to it. Compatible music files will play in "Quicktime".
I used NOD32 for a few years when I was on XP, and I liked it. But when I installed it on my Windows 7 PC (32 bit, latest version of NOD), it made everything really slow.
Right now I'm running with no AV, which is probably bad even with Win7's improved security compared to XP.
True. I can only post to/. by carrier pigeon. Sometimes my comments get lost and are accidentally posted to Digg instead, where they are usually buried for actually making sense.
I don't remember specifically which ones I looked at. I know I can see individual stars in some globular clusters and most open clusters, though some globular clusters are just fuzzy areas.
Planets and clusters are probably the easiest objects to find with a 4" telescope (same size as mine). Planets are really easy to find since you can usually spot them, and you should be able to see some detail- moons around Jupiter, and Saturn's rings.
Clusters (globular, open, etc) may be a bit harder to find and harder to see, but some of them are impressive with even a 4" telescope. The Messier objects shouldn't be too hard to find with a star chart.
The latest processors have greatly improved power management features. My Pentium 4 3GHz used something like 20 watts idle according to my motherboard's power meter utility. My new Core 2 Quad (9550) uses about 6-9 watts idle, and it's overclocked to 3.4GHz. A lot of the improvement in these laptops may come from Intel, since there's only so much Asus can do.
If an LCD saves 60 watts over a CRT and is used 40 hours a week where electricity costs $.10/KWh, you would save $96 over 8 years. Except in winter, where the extra 60 watts offsets a fraction of your heating bill, though it is not as cost-effective as gas heat or a heat pump.
Of course--A graphical schematic with 600 million transistors would be useless.
Intel probably has a custom HDL compiler/synthesizer, which they use to create the actual gates (or a description of gates they send to be manufactured, to be precise). If someone wanted to make an exact copy of an Intel chip, they would need the output, so a listing of gates and wires and their positions, not the code that went into Intel's compiler/synthesizer (unless they had access to that too). Otherwise there's no way a generic compiler/synthesizer could match the optimizations Intel's does, not to mention any hand tweaking.
I though AMD was starting to outsource it's fab work to save money.
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That means whoever they are outsourcing to probably has 45nm (newest Phenoms) and certainly 65nm capability. Maybe no one with a 45nm process would clone an Intel chip (if all the 45nm fabs are in countries where there would be a risk of lawsuit, for example), but someone with a 65nm process could clone a slightly older Core2Quad, which are still fairly competitive with the i7's.
Redhat makes most of their money off support and providing a complete system, IIRC. When's the last time you called Intel about your CPU, or install a patch for it?
Intel is making tons of money off their chips, and they have little competition. There's AMD, but they are only barely keeping up. If the Core i7 schematics were released, any old fab company could start making their own i7's for next to nothing. There would be no R&D to pay for and almost no cost to them other than what actually goes into manufacturing a chip. Maybe they wouldn't use the latest 45 or 32nm process Intel is using, but at 65nm they would still likely function the same (assuming you could fit the die in the standard package), and they would be drop-in replacements for Intel's i7s. Sure they would use a bit more power, but for most people the significantly lower price would be worth it. Lower prices would give Intel less incentive to develop new architectures, and development would slow down.
Sure, people take RHEL and use it for free (Cent OS), but big companies still go with RHEL for support. And Red Hat is arguably taking something that is already free (Linux) and charging for it, making money off almost nothing. Intel developed their architectures and they are making money off them, so they have absolutely no incentive to give them away for free.
Proprietary stuff isn't always bad, and it's the "everything should be free" attitude that is keeping Linux from becoming more widespread, with many distros not including proprietary drivers or closed source software at all.
The people that make this stuff have to be paid if you expect results. A loosely organized group of software or hardware developers can't match a big company that can afford to pay good developers. Furthermore, if no one is paying good developers, college students will have no reason to study to be one, and technology will stagnate.
Real chips were made up at some point.
Computer architecture classes should teach you the concepts, then when you go work for Intel you can find out all about the latest secret architectures, and you can apply what you learned in CA to making them better. Obviously you can't expect Intel to give out schematics for Core i7's or they would quickly go out of business.
As for hitting the brakes to slow a car down, another issue pops up, says the Times. "The ES 350 and most other modern vehicles are equipped with power-assisted brakes, which operate by drawing vacuum power from the engine. But when an engine opens to full throttle [like in a runaway car situation], the vacuum drops, and after one or two pumps of the brake pedal, the power assist feature disappears."
A dirty coal plant can put out a lot worse than CO2. Various oxides of sulfur and nitrogen which can cause acid rain and are probably stronger greenhouse gasses than CO2. Then there's mercury, other heavy metals, and radioactive isotopes that are released into the air. Finally, don't forget particulate (ash), which may cause a reverse greenhouse effect by blocking out sunlight, but makes the air very dirty.
Of course, diesel has impurities too, and without a good emissions control system it might be as bad as coal, but the point is you can't judge the environmental impact of an energy source on CO2 alone.
Try over 1000C. Hard drive platters use a cobalt alloy for the magnetic layer (according to Wikipedia), and the curie temperature of cobalt is 1121C, though it may be different for the specific alloy used. This is problematic because the melting point of the aluminum that makes up most of the platters is 660C.
Why do you think everyone needs quality equipment? I have been using cheap headphones (earbuds) that come with my MP3 players for years, and I was perfectly happy. I started reading bad things about iPod headphones, so I decided to try some $30 ones that got good reviews. The sound quality is much better, but now I can hear all the flaws added along the way, especially MP3 compression under 256k and background noise in my computer's sound card (I think the new headphones are higher impedance, so I have to use them at a lower volume setting, so the signal is lower but the noise is the same, so the SNR is worse). I can also hear flaws in the music itself to some extent, but in most cases I probably wouldn't even notice if a note was wrong since I don't know much about music.
I was perfectly happy before, and I am somewhat happy now, though not perfectly happy since I can hear all these flaws. I could get a better sound card and re-encode everything in FLAC, but then I might start noticing that the headphones are really not very good compared to $150+ ones, and the cycle would repeat. Why go down the slippery slope when people can be perfectly happy with average equipment? The point of music is entertainment, not listening to what you consider "real" or "good" music with not even the slightest deviation in sound from what the artist heard. I listen to music I like, and I don't listen to music I don't like. I don't care if someone else considers it "good" or not, though I will take suggestions when I am looking for new music. A lot of times people will give some old artist as an example of "great" music, then I go listen to it, and I never find myself really liking any of it.
Could your definition of "good" music be related to the purity? Classical is very pure and expertly composed, with just a few particular instruments. Later, more instruments were invented, and they had new sounds that purists would say are not "real" music. Then, electric amplification, with all its distortion was introduced. More recently electronically synthesized and now computer synthesized music (including effects like autotune) became more common. Personally, I find myself liking music with a new and different sound more than "purer" music even if the latter has more of an underlying musical basis.
Most colleges have minimum system requirements, which a netbook will not meet. For example, at my school the minimum for incoming freshmen this year is a Core 2 Duo (or equivalent) 2 GHz or better; 2gb or more of RAM unless running VM on OS X, then 3gb or more; 120gb or more hard drive; 120gb or more USB hard drive; 128mb video memory; a/g/n wireless; ethernet; DVD burner; and USB flash drive. The form factor should be a laptop. While no one is going to do anything if you don't get a laptop that meets these specs, if you show up for class with only a Netbook that can't run the CAD software you need, the professor doesn't have to accommodate you. Plan on spending a lot of time in the computer lab.
A system like that can be found for $1000 or less, and it should last a good 3-4 years assuming it does not break first. Considering all the other costs of college, $1000 is not really that much.
Both Mac and Windows systems are officially endorsed, but usually Windows is easier since it is more popular. In my CS class we used Visual C+++ Express as an IDE, which is Windows only. One of the TAs got Xcode to do everything VC++ could do, but there were tiny issues that would come up (like makefiles and capitalization) that still made it necessary to use VC++, at least for final testing. In another class we used Matlab, but the Mac version is slower than the Windows one, especially to start up. Sometimes collaboration on a project is necessary, but Macs won't be able to open MS Office files properly (I haven't tried Office Mac 08 yet, though).
VM is not good enough for me because it is slow and anything graphical might not work well. This year I am bringing my desktop PC in addition to my Macbook Pro so I can have the best of both worlds. If I wasn't such a power user, I might just put Bootcamp on my MBP and use that.
I actually do that to browse the web on my cell phone. Internet access is too expensive on my plan ($2/mb or $2 million to fill up my 1tb hard drive), but I have unlimited texting. To use it, I email the URL of the page I want to my server, and the server gets the page with wget or curl, strips out any HTML, and sends it back to me 140 characters at a time. It is quite basic right now, but I could add a lot more logic, like replying with "more" to get more than the first 5 pages.
Third party ISPs could set up servers that you dial into. All you would need is something to connect he computer to the phone line that comes out of the VOIP box, like some kind of modulator-demodulator, maybe call it modem for short. And they could advertise by giving away millions of optical disks.
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Actually, the i5's in question also support hyperthreading. The only difference is a tiny speed and cache boost in the i7. http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=47341,43560,43544
Also, they should have named the mobile ones m5 and m7 (or i5m and i7m if BMW has a problem with them using M5).
What is this iRony of which you speak? Is it a new Apple product that has not been announced yet, perhaps a new line of macaroni and cheese?
This can be done with a standard web server. Simply set up a web server that makes all your music available on your network, then point your iPod Touch to it. Compatible music files will play in "Quicktime".
Someone even put up instructions about it. http://www.pixelcity.com/iphone-streaming-music/
I used NOD32 for a few years when I was on XP, and I liked it. But when I installed it on my Windows 7 PC (32 bit, latest version of NOD), it made everything really slow. Right now I'm running with no AV, which is probably bad even with Win7's improved security compared to XP.
True. I can only post to /. by carrier pigeon. Sometimes my comments get lost and are accidentally posted to Digg instead, where they are usually buried for actually making sense.
I don't remember specifically which ones I looked at. I know I can see individual stars in some globular clusters and most open clusters, though some globular clusters are just fuzzy areas.
Planets and clusters are probably the easiest objects to find with a 4" telescope (same size as mine). Planets are really easy to find since you can usually spot them, and you should be able to see some detail- moons around Jupiter, and Saturn's rings.
Clusters (globular, open, etc) may be a bit harder to find and harder to see, but some of them are impressive with even a 4" telescope. The Messier objects shouldn't be too hard to find with a star chart.
Did the police try a spike strip?
You mean like Digg?
The latest processors have greatly improved power management features. My Pentium 4 3GHz used something like 20 watts idle according to my motherboard's power meter utility. My new Core 2 Quad (9550) uses about 6-9 watts idle, and it's overclocked to 3.4GHz. A lot of the improvement in these laptops may come from Intel, since there's only so much Asus can do.
If an LCD saves 60 watts over a CRT and is used 40 hours a week where electricity costs $.10/KWh, you would save $96 over 8 years. Except in winter, where the extra 60 watts offsets a fraction of your heating bill, though it is not as cost-effective as gas heat or a heat pump.
Of course--A graphical schematic with 600 million transistors would be useless.
Intel probably has a custom HDL compiler/synthesizer, which they use to create the actual gates (or a description of gates they send to be manufactured, to be precise). If someone wanted to make an exact copy of an Intel chip, they would need the output, so a listing of gates and wires and their positions, not the code that went into Intel's compiler/synthesizer (unless they had access to that too). Otherwise there's no way a generic compiler/synthesizer could match the optimizations Intel's does, not to mention any hand tweaking.
I though AMD was starting to outsource it's fab work to save money. Link
That means whoever they are outsourcing to probably has 45nm (newest Phenoms) and certainly 65nm capability. Maybe no one with a 45nm process would clone an Intel chip (if all the 45nm fabs are in countries where there would be a risk of lawsuit, for example), but someone with a 65nm process could clone a slightly older Core2Quad, which are still fairly competitive with the i7's.
Redhat makes most of their money off support and providing a complete system, IIRC. When's the last time you called Intel about your CPU, or install a patch for it?
Intel is making tons of money off their chips, and they have little competition. There's AMD, but they are only barely keeping up. If the Core i7 schematics were released, any old fab company could start making their own i7's for next to nothing. There would be no R&D to pay for and almost no cost to them other than what actually goes into manufacturing a chip. Maybe they wouldn't use the latest 45 or 32nm process Intel is using, but at 65nm they would still likely function the same (assuming you could fit the die in the standard package), and they would be drop-in replacements for Intel's i7s. Sure they would use a bit more power, but for most people the significantly lower price would be worth it. Lower prices would give Intel less incentive to develop new architectures, and development would slow down.
Sure, people take RHEL and use it for free (Cent OS), but big companies still go with RHEL for support. And Red Hat is arguably taking something that is already free (Linux) and charging for it, making money off almost nothing. Intel developed their architectures and they are making money off them, so they have absolutely no incentive to give them away for free.
Proprietary stuff isn't always bad, and it's the "everything should be free" attitude that is keeping Linux from becoming more widespread, with many distros not including proprietary drivers or closed source software at all.
The people that make this stuff have to be paid if you expect results. A loosely organized group of software or hardware developers can't match a big company that can afford to pay good developers. Furthermore, if no one is paying good developers, college students will have no reason to study to be one, and technology will stagnate.
Real chips were made up at some point. Computer architecture classes should teach you the concepts, then when you go work for Intel you can find out all about the latest secret architectures, and you can apply what you learned in CA to making them better. Obviously you can't expect Intel to give out schematics for Core i7's or they would quickly go out of business.
I'm using PasswordSafeSWT on OS X, and aside from the slowness to start, it works fairly well.
Clearly the only fiscally sound thing to do would be to burn all your money.
As for hitting the brakes to slow a car down, another issue pops up, says the Times. "The ES 350 and most other modern vehicles are equipped with power-assisted brakes, which operate by drawing vacuum power from the engine. But when an engine opens to full throttle [like in a runaway car situation], the vacuum drops, and after one or two pumps of the brake pedal, the power assist feature disappears."
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A dirty coal plant can put out a lot worse than CO2. Various oxides of sulfur and nitrogen which can cause acid rain and are probably stronger greenhouse gasses than CO2. Then there's mercury, other heavy metals, and radioactive isotopes that are released into the air. Finally, don't forget particulate (ash), which may cause a reverse greenhouse effect by blocking out sunlight, but makes the air very dirty.
Of course, diesel has impurities too, and without a good emissions control system it might be as bad as coal, but the point is you can't judge the environmental impact of an energy source on CO2 alone.
Try over 1000C. Hard drive platters use a cobalt alloy for the magnetic layer (according to Wikipedia), and the curie temperature of cobalt is 1121C, though it may be different for the specific alloy used. This is problematic because the melting point of the aluminum that makes up most of the platters is 660C.
I am using iWork and NeoOffice. iWork usually does a better job making the document look right. I just got Office 08, but I haven't tried it yet.
Why do you think everyone needs quality equipment? I have been using cheap headphones (earbuds) that come with my MP3 players for years, and I was perfectly happy. I started reading bad things about iPod headphones, so I decided to try some $30 ones that got good reviews. The sound quality is much better, but now I can hear all the flaws added along the way, especially MP3 compression under 256k and background noise in my computer's sound card (I think the new headphones are higher impedance, so I have to use them at a lower volume setting, so the signal is lower but the noise is the same, so the SNR is worse). I can also hear flaws in the music itself to some extent, but in most cases I probably wouldn't even notice if a note was wrong since I don't know much about music.
I was perfectly happy before, and I am somewhat happy now, though not perfectly happy since I can hear all these flaws. I could get a better sound card and re-encode everything in FLAC, but then I might start noticing that the headphones are really not very good compared to $150+ ones, and the cycle would repeat. Why go down the slippery slope when people can be perfectly happy with average equipment? The point of music is entertainment, not listening to what you consider "real" or "good" music with not even the slightest deviation in sound from what the artist heard. I listen to music I like, and I don't listen to music I don't like. I don't care if someone else considers it "good" or not, though I will take suggestions when I am looking for new music. A lot of times people will give some old artist as an example of "great" music, then I go listen to it, and I never find myself really liking any of it.
Could your definition of "good" music be related to the purity? Classical is very pure and expertly composed, with just a few particular instruments. Later, more instruments were invented, and they had new sounds that purists would say are not "real" music. Then, electric amplification, with all its distortion was introduced. More recently electronically synthesized and now computer synthesized music (including effects like autotune) became more common. Personally, I find myself liking music with a new and different sound more than "purer" music even if the latter has more of an underlying musical basis.
Most colleges have minimum system requirements, which a netbook will not meet. For example, at my school the minimum for incoming freshmen this year is a Core 2 Duo (or equivalent) 2 GHz or better; 2gb or more of RAM unless running VM on OS X, then 3gb or more; 120gb or more hard drive; 120gb or more USB hard drive; 128mb video memory; a/g/n wireless; ethernet; DVD burner; and USB flash drive. The form factor should be a laptop. While no one is going to do anything if you don't get a laptop that meets these specs, if you show up for class with only a Netbook that can't run the CAD software you need, the professor doesn't have to accommodate you. Plan on spending a lot of time in the computer lab.
A system like that can be found for $1000 or less, and it should last a good 3-4 years assuming it does not break first. Considering all the other costs of college, $1000 is not really that much.
Both Mac and Windows systems are officially endorsed, but usually Windows is easier since it is more popular. In my CS class we used Visual C+++ Express as an IDE, which is Windows only. One of the TAs got Xcode to do everything VC++ could do, but there were tiny issues that would come up (like makefiles and capitalization) that still made it necessary to use VC++, at least for final testing. In another class we used Matlab, but the Mac version is slower than the Windows one, especially to start up. Sometimes collaboration on a project is necessary, but Macs won't be able to open MS Office files properly (I haven't tried Office Mac 08 yet, though).
VM is not good enough for me because it is slow and anything graphical might not work well. This year I am bringing my desktop PC in addition to my Macbook Pro so I can have the best of both worlds. If I wasn't such a power user, I might just put Bootcamp on my MBP and use that.
I actually do that to browse the web on my cell phone. Internet access is too expensive on my plan ($2/mb or $2 million to fill up my 1tb hard drive), but I have unlimited texting. To use it, I email the URL of the page I want to my server, and the server gets the page with wget or curl, strips out any HTML, and sends it back to me 140 characters at a time. It is quite basic right now, but I could add a lot more logic, like replying with "more" to get more than the first 5 pages.
Third party ISPs could set up servers that you dial into. All you would need is something to connect he computer to the phone line that comes out of the VOIP box, like some kind of modulator-demodulator, maybe call it modem for short. And they could advertise by giving away millions of optical disks.