The meager 8 & 16 GB capacity is probably due to price limitations on 16GB flash chips. Sure, they could have made it larger by putting a HardDisk in the thing, but then the battery would have needed to be larger also. If you want to use it for sustained web browsing, you need to use flash memory, or the battery life would suck.
Are we sure that the headphone jack is not more than the classic headphone jack? Will it support three connector plugs (Left, Right, & Mic)?
If that were supported, than VoIP would be a piece of cake.
If not, then Skype or Vonage should come out with a bluetooth adapter that fits the Dock Connector. This would allow Stereo Bluetooth and Bluetooth headsets.
That would, quite simply, Rule.
Ah. Recent solar cell technology would beable to supply the world's energy need if we had a solar array that was a square 265 miles on a side. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 06/027228
Read your/. everything is there. Put one of those babies on the ocean and it won't even feel it's impact.
... I built my lates gaming rig. My 3 primary concerns were:
1. Able to play Oblivion
2. Total price was less than $1000
3. Low power consumption
I've got an AMD chip. An efficient PSU, and a Graphics card that is low power. I've even underclocked my processor so that I can lower the voltage, thus lowering the power consumption. (In another month or two, I'll reverse this, to see what the actual (if any) effect on the electric bill is).
But until alternative forms of electricity become more common place, I think that energy efficiency is something for big business and the common man to think about.
What we need is some sort of system to 'moderate' our congressmen. A system by which the people can let the congressmen know which decisions are good ones, and which decisions are ones only a 'troll' would make.
In this way, the congressmen that are 'moderated' higher than their peers, would have more control in congress and would be allowed to moderate other congressmen if they feel the need.
I think a system such as this would be a great benefit to our government. The only problem I see is finding a model they can use. A model that has been tried and shown to work well.
If only there were already such a system...;)
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The meager 8 & 16 GB capacity is probably due to price limitations on 16GB flash chips. Sure, they could have made it larger by putting a HardDisk in the thing, but then the battery would have needed to be larger also. If you want to use it for sustained web browsing, you need to use flash memory, or the battery life would suck. Are we sure that the headphone jack is not more than the classic headphone jack? Will it support three connector plugs (Left, Right, & Mic)? If that were supported, than VoIP would be a piece of cake. If not, then Skype or Vonage should come out with a bluetooth adapter that fits the Dock Connector. This would allow Stereo Bluetooth and Bluetooth headsets. That would, quite simply, Rule.
Ah. Recent solar cell technology would beable to supply the world's energy need if we had a solar array that was a square 265 miles on a side. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 06/027228
Read your /. everything is there. Put one of those babies on the ocean and it won't even feel it's impact.
... I built my lates gaming rig. My 3 primary concerns were:
1. Able to play Oblivion
2. Total price was less than $1000
3. Low power consumption
I've got an AMD chip. An efficient PSU, and a Graphics card that is low power. I've even underclocked my processor so that I can lower the voltage, thus lowering the power consumption. (In another month or two, I'll reverse this, to see what the actual (if any) effect on the electric bill is).
But until alternative forms of electricity become more common place, I think that energy efficiency is something for big business and the common man to think about.
What we need is some sort of system to 'moderate' our congressmen. A system by which the people can let the congressmen know which decisions are good ones, and which decisions are ones only a 'troll' would make. In this way, the congressmen that are 'moderated' higher than their peers, would have more control in congress and would be allowed to moderate other congressmen if they feel the need. I think a system such as this would be a great benefit to our government. The only problem I see is finding a model they can use. A model that has been tried and shown to work well. If only there were already such a system ... ;)