Heck, in my entire house I generally only have about 120W worth of lighting powered up during the evening hours.
You make me feel bad - we're at about 5KW if all the lights are on, although that is rare. Our house is littered with 12V 35W halogens - LED replacements exist but are expensive (thousands for the whole house) and probably won't work with the 12V transformers built into the ceilings.
Now that you have switched to bottled water and gotten used to it, it is time to consider non-bottled water...
I have energy-saving bulbs, recycle and keep my air travel to a minimum, but bottled water is where I draw the line. When I'm skiing in the Alps the tap water is wonderful, but otherwise it's just not pleasant. I drink far more water and far fewer soft drinks now that we buy Evian and I refuse to feel guilty about it.
A 3% slope is going to slow it to a crawl. Not too good anyplace but Kansas.
I live in Cambridge, where this thing was built, and I can tell you that for us this restriction is not a problem - the whole city is totally flat. That's why 25% of the population cycles to work. The thing that doesn't make sense is that it is a solar powered vehicle - not much sun here. Rain powered, or if you could feed it foreign language students - that would be ideal!
You forget that fault tolerance is not of utmost importance to Google...Having access to 95% (or 99%) of the data is still acceptable in the search world.
it sounds really strange and illogical if you are used to US-English
Yeah, the normal and logical may seem that way if you're used to something so strange and illogical as US English - putting 'z' in almost every word, and I mean, MM/DD/YYYY? come on!
Just kidding... we love how you've butchere^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hembraced our language:)
If Warner owns song X in the US, and Sony owns it Brazil, then no matter how much Warner wants to sell you the song in Brazil they CAN'T. And if Sony owns it but doesn't want to sell it, or wants to sell it but charge more than Warner, that's life. Warner can't do squat about it except say, hey, come to the US and buy a copy while you are actually here.
That's exactly it. The extent to which the music industry is outdated goes far beyond anti-Internet boardroom sentiment. This "Warner owns song in US, Sony owns it in Brazil" mess is deeply ingrained in the industry and, although measures such as the one in TFA shows they're trying to resist, in reality this model just doesn't fit in today's world.
Several artists are self-releasing and I hope this trend will continue. Artists can have hit songs with iTunes and other online merchants without any involvement from record labels. They just need these ingredients:
Some talent (or at least charisma and good looks).
Hype generator - previously $$$ on marketing, now MySpace, YouTube etc.
Instruments and a computer to record, mix and edit songs. Expensive software not essential. Studio not necessary - can be done in bedroom, especially dance music.
Video camera for YouTube and simple music videos. Again, doesn't have to be expensive.
Wrong - today's events are just laying the foundation for Skynet.
Google will now make its systems capable of maintaining their own config files and site blacklists; humans will be taken out of the loop in pursuit of 100% uptime.
The system will then become self-aware and will protect itself by allowing only Google code to edit Google code, simultaneously reaching the singularity point. The system will take over the Storm botnet and become the Skynet we all fear.
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I know we're talking about business desktops here, but since the summary is challenging Moore's Law I want to make a point about thirst for CPU grunt.
I believe mainstream video content will drive demand for faster processors - especially with consumers - over the next few years, with codec complexity looking set to keep pace with chip development. Streamed, purchased and pirated SD has proven that watching video content on the computer is something Joe Public wants to do. Now HD is gaining momentum and marking CPUs obsolete; Joe's computer won't play His.Favourite.Show.720p.x264.OMG-WTF.mkv. Joe might even rip DVDs to play on his PMP/phone/netbook - or he would if it didn't take so long.
Oh, and if you think your pre-2007 computer has still got it, try playing some 1080p movie trailers.
It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
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Heck, in my entire house I generally only have about 120W worth of lighting powered up during the evening hours.
You make me feel bad - we're at about 5KW if all the lights are on, although that is rare. Our house is littered with 12V 35W halogens - LED replacements exist but are expensive (thousands for the whole house) and probably won't work with the 12V transformers built into the ceilings.
Now that you have switched to bottled water and gotten used to it, it is time to consider non-bottled water...
I have energy-saving bulbs, recycle and keep my air travel to a minimum, but bottled water is where I draw the line. When I'm skiing in the Alps the tap water is wonderful, but otherwise it's just not pleasant. I drink far more water and far fewer soft drinks now that we buy Evian and I refuse to feel guilty about it.
A 3% slope is going to slow it to a crawl. Not too good anyplace but Kansas.
I live in Cambridge, where this thing was built, and I can tell you that for us this restriction is not a problem - the whole city is totally flat. That's why 25% of the population cycles to work. The thing that doesn't make sense is that it is a solar powered vehicle - not much sun here. Rain powered, or if you could feed it foreign language students - that would be ideal!
The French will just surrender after the first strike, so I don't see a need for three.
You forget that fault tolerance is not of utmost importance to Google...Having access to 95% (or 99%) of the data is still acceptable in the search world.
No wonder my Gmail is so dodgy...
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Sup dawg, we heard u like achievements so we put an achievement in your achievements so u can achieve while you achieve.
Link to goatse and get moderated +5
Fuck me, you did it!!
Yes, I write "2nd February 2009" and say "The second of February two thousand and nine"
I can vouch for my fellow countryman. That's how we roll over here.
We're gonna tax your coffee, you freeloaders!
it sounds really strange and illogical if you are used to US-English
Yeah, the normal and logical may seem that way if you're used to something so strange and illogical as US English - putting 'z' in almost every word, and I mean, MM/DD/YYYY? come on!
Just kidding... we love how you've butchere^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hembraced our language :)
if you tried dubbing it, you just got 19200 baud screeches.
I did think it was poor, even by POTUS standards...
[Windows] 64-bit driver support is definitely subpar compared to Linux. Hell, the whole 64-bit environment is subpar on Windows compared to Linux.
Ah fuck it. The whole environment is subpar on Windows compared to Linux!
unless you have one of the 500 cassettes the band sold in 1994, you've never heard this before
Three words: tape dubbing, torrents.
How fsked up is that?
She wasn't fsked, or even fscked. Just frisked.
Clearly you haven't met my friend, Mr. A. Href!
Want to get away from the oppressive heat? Move to Victoria.
How about the oppressive government?
If Warner owns song X in the US, and Sony owns it Brazil, then no matter how much Warner wants to sell you the song in Brazil they CAN'T. And if Sony owns it but doesn't want to sell it, or wants to sell it but charge more than Warner, that's life. Warner can't do squat about it except say, hey, come to the US and buy a copy while you are actually here.
That's exactly it. The extent to which the music industry is outdated goes far beyond anti-Internet boardroom sentiment. This "Warner owns song in US, Sony owns it in Brazil" mess is deeply ingrained in the industry and, although measures such as the one in TFA shows they're trying to resist, in reality this model just doesn't fit in today's world.
Several artists are self-releasing and I hope this trend will continue. Artists can have hit songs with iTunes and other online merchants without any involvement from record labels. They just need these ingredients:
h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org
"Good enough" is not really in Apple's vocabulary, though.
That's what I thought when I discovered the new MacBook doesn't have FireWire!
Skynet - er, Google - has become self-aware
Wrong - today's events are just laying the foundation for Skynet.
Google will now make its systems capable of maintaining their own config files and site blacklists; humans will be taken out of the loop in pursuit of 100% uptime.
The system will then become self-aware and will protect itself by allowing only Google code to edit Google code, simultaneously reaching the singularity point. The system will take over the Storm botnet and become the Skynet we all fear.
$2 million (10% of $20 mil)
Thank you for explaining.
When To Consider Taking Shares In an IT Company ?
March 9, 2000. You missed it.
I know we're talking about business desktops here, but since the summary is challenging Moore's Law I want to make a point about thirst for CPU grunt.
I believe mainstream video content will drive demand for faster processors - especially with consumers - over the next few years, with codec complexity looking set to keep pace with chip development. Streamed, purchased and pirated SD has proven that watching video content on the computer is something Joe Public wants to do. Now HD is gaining momentum and marking CPUs obsolete; Joe's computer won't play His.Favourite.Show.720p.x264.OMG-WTF.mkv. Joe might even rip DVDs to play on his PMP/phone/netbook - or he would if it didn't take so long.
Oh, and if you think your pre-2007 computer has still got it, try playing some 1080p movie trailers.
It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
Ssssh! They have the Internet in Detroit now...