Just wanted to point out it probably "takes" a lot of power to run than it outputs, which applies for any laser. Lasers aren't particularly great if just want a lot of emissions for little power input, mostly because they're expensive and inefficient. They're great for what they're used for (obviously).
Actually, switching just the cells of the battery would be extremely coarse in terms of control, hard to design electronics for, and horribly abusing the battery. Battery packs like the one used here can easily go out of balance as it is, and in the case of lithiums, it's actually extremely dangerous.
When a pack goes out of balance, because the cells discharged at different rates, they have different voltages. So, when they are charged in series without a balancer, the pack would be charged to the correct voltage, but some would be undercharged and some overcharged. Over-charged lithium cell == fire, smoke, and explosions.
The KillaCycle actually uses A123Systems M1 cells, which can be overcharged and over-discharged, and tend not to explode or go out of balance (at least when they are all used together) like LiPos do. However, your scheme would pretty much destroy any lithium pack and compromise the cells because of unbalanced discharge.
They set about downloading the biggest file they could get hold of so the Wi-Fi signal was working as powerfully as possible - and took the peak reading during that, says our noble science teacher.
Wait, so the size of the file downloaded affects what the power output of the Tx now? What kind of science teacher is this, who would confuse power with energy? Neither side knows any better than the other in this one...kids versus media?
Basically, the tests in this review are really limited by the GPU's performance, and not by the OS/library/app/CPU combo. It's impossible to reliably tell if the tests would be limited by WINE or Cedega compared to XP or or the native linux port simply because the graphics card will not run the test fast enough. While I'm sure the memory-hogging gunk in Vista, combined with the "modest" system they used, would slow down the benchmarks a little, the significantly lower performance in Vista is no doubt the result of poor drivers, and not as a result of some problem with the implementation of the windows API (which is what is supposed to be tested here). Heck, it would have been a better test if they just used some sort of "office benchmark," that isn't graphically intensive, so they could test the difference in the performance of the different platforms. That might be unfair because of not testing Cedega's 3D goodies, but at least it'll give some results a bit more meaningful.
Except there won't be any buttons. You just have to tilt it and hold it up against your ear. Would be kind of awkward carrying that in your pants though.
Well, a dimmer will either be a potentiometer that "burns off" part of the voltage so the voltage drop across the bulb will be lower, thus less heat/light from the bulb, reduces the duty cycle of the power to the bulb so it gets the power less of the time, or uses a switching voltage regulator to step down the voltage. If the dimmer is the second kind, and if bulbs really do shorten their lives by switching on and off, it's possible that it would be a problem. However, the AC you get from the wall is basically rapid switching anyways, so then it wouldn't make any difference at all. Also, the two voltage lowering types would help bulb life, if only because lower voltage->lower heat and (not sure about this) I think incandescent bulbs burn out by evaporation of the filament. But, I guess if you add the filament's whole rapid heat expansion thing when you switch the bulb on, it could go either way. Hrm...
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The Wright Brothers achievement was ''not'' building an aeroplane that could get off the ground; it was building an aeroplane that they ''and others'' could get (relatively!) ''safely'' off the ground.
What? Their first airplanes were insanely unstable. It was harder to control than a F/A-22 now, except the F/A-22 has a powerful computer to keep it stable. It had next to no dihedral and its horizontal stabilizer was in front of the plane, while the vertical stab had next to no moment (so it was pretty useless, though better than nothing). They could pilot it because they had practised on equally unstable unpowered gliders for years. What they achieved was a new, working model of aerodynamics (as nothing had existed at the time for propeller design and the existing knowledge about wings were wrong), a light, high-powered gasoline engine, and an airplane that could get off the ground and was cheap. It was however, not at all safe or even remotely pilotable by modern standards.
Well, look at New York City. In a few *rich parts of* Manhattan and *parts of rich* suburbs in the lesser-known counties around it, Verizon offers $35/month fiber packages. Of course, not all of it, and not even the highest-density areas. They'll only run fiber to your house if you live in a rich zone. Which is really unfair, but that's what happens when the government takes a hands-off approach to telecom regulation. It's not about the population density, it's about whether they're paying for it. btw, they only started supplying dsl to my area (in New York, currently without fiber) last year. So I probably won't be getting fiber for quite a few years.
Even Sony has one of these. The Sony Bean MP3 player has a menu feature exactly as a tree, and I don't see them getting sued (I would want to though...).
Sure, nvidia doesn't offer an OSS solution, like releasing the interface specs so a OSS driver can be written, but at least it makes a good effort in making a proprietary drivers. ATI's drivers are crap, and they don't offer an OSS solution. And some of us are gamers, and we just don't care whether it's open source or not, since the nvidia proprietary drivers do provide better performance than ATI's.
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BTW, OS X's Spotlight is used in exactly the same way, including the keyboard shortcut (on a mac mini with a normal keyboard, the cmd key is mapped to alt, so it'd be alt-space too).
Since it gets its power through induction, I can imagine that it wouldn't have a large range. Combine that with the larger capacity, and it makes it more suitable for payment systems, like the wireless credit card stuff that RFID proponents have been hailing (since you wouldn't want somebody reading your chip from faraway, and the bigger the "number" is, the harder it is to copy to another chip).
Maybe cellphones will come with holders for these, and all you have to do is swipe your cellphone across a register to pay.
And what about sports? Take american football. Is having kids putting on helmets and slamming into each better than playing a violent video game? You don't control or visualize a character beating up hookers, but you actually...oh wait, you don't.
But it's still more violent.
And then there are all of those future slashdotters. What do they do when the football players join the army and kill people or start asking for tech support? Why, they play violent video games. As you can see, people who play violent video games become harmless, but a little pathetic, a rather sad situation.
Nah, the smaller, slower, and smellier ones will get eaten alive by the super-mosquitoes. So we might end up with super-Athenians carrying super-mosquitoes. o_o
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If your search engine were so great yet so undervalued, why hasn't it been bought out by Google already?
Just wanted to point out it probably "takes" a lot of power to run than it outputs, which applies for any laser. Lasers aren't particularly great if just want a lot of emissions for little power input, mostly because they're expensive and inefficient. They're great for what they're used for (obviously).
Actually, switching just the cells of the battery would be extremely coarse in terms of control, hard to design electronics for, and horribly abusing the battery. Battery packs like the one used here can easily go out of balance as it is, and in the case of lithiums, it's actually extremely dangerous.
When a pack goes out of balance, because the cells discharged at different rates, they have different voltages. So, when they are charged in series without a balancer, the pack would be charged to the correct voltage, but some would be undercharged and some overcharged. Over-charged lithium cell == fire, smoke, and explosions.
The KillaCycle actually uses A123Systems M1 cells, which can be overcharged and over-discharged, and tend not to explode or go out of balance (at least when they are all used together) like LiPos do. However, your scheme would pretty much destroy any lithium pack and compromise the cells because of unbalanced discharge.
Basically, the tests in this review are really limited by the GPU's performance, and not by the OS/library/app/CPU combo. It's impossible to reliably tell if the tests would be limited by WINE or Cedega compared to XP or or the native linux port simply because the graphics card will not run the test fast enough. While I'm sure the memory-hogging gunk in Vista, combined with the "modest" system they used, would slow down the benchmarks a little, the significantly lower performance in Vista is no doubt the result of poor drivers, and not as a result of some problem with the implementation of the windows API (which is what is supposed to be tested here). Heck, it would have been a better test if they just used some sort of "office benchmark," that isn't graphically intensive, so they could test the difference in the performance of the different platforms. That might be unfair because of not testing Cedega's 3D goodies, but at least it'll give some results a bit more meaningful.
You mean the Haggunenon Admiral's flagship, of course.
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Except there won't be any buttons. You just have to tilt it and hold it up against your ear. Would be kind of awkward carrying that in your pants though.
Well, a dimmer will either be a potentiometer that "burns off" part of the voltage so the voltage drop across the bulb will be lower, thus less heat/light from the bulb, reduces the duty cycle of the power to the bulb so it gets the power less of the time, or uses a switching voltage regulator to step down the voltage. If the dimmer is the second kind, and if bulbs really do shorten their lives by switching on and off, it's possible that it would be a problem. However, the AC you get from the wall is basically rapid switching anyways, so then it wouldn't make any difference at all. Also, the two voltage lowering types would help bulb life, if only because lower voltage->lower heat and (not sure about this) I think incandescent bulbs burn out by evaporation of the filament. But, I guess if you add the filament's whole rapid heat expansion thing when you switch the bulb on, it could go either way. Hrm...
The Wright Brothers achievement was ''not'' building an aeroplane that could get off the ground; it was building an aeroplane that they ''and others'' could get (relatively!) ''safely'' off the ground.
What? Their first airplanes were insanely unstable. It was harder to control than a F/A-22 now, except the F/A-22 has a powerful computer to keep it stable. It had next to no dihedral and its horizontal stabilizer was in front of the plane, while the vertical stab had next to no moment (so it was pretty useless, though better than nothing). They could pilot it because they had practised on equally unstable unpowered gliders for years. What they achieved was a new, working model of aerodynamics (as nothing had existed at the time for propeller design and the existing knowledge about wings were wrong), a light, high-powered gasoline engine, and an airplane that could get off the ground and was cheap. It was however, not at all safe or even remotely pilotable by modern standards.
FWWM-Crystal + Ubuntu = "FUBUNTU" ? And I thought Ubuntu sounded enough like stuffing things "up yours" as it is...
Snakes on a Plane will win a best picture Oscar?
Well, look at New York City. In a few *rich parts of* Manhattan and *parts of rich* suburbs in the lesser-known counties around it, Verizon offers $35/month fiber packages. Of course, not all of it, and not even the highest-density areas. They'll only run fiber to your house if you live in a rich zone. Which is really unfair, but that's what happens when the government takes a hands-off approach to telecom regulation. It's not about the population density, it's about whether they're paying for it.
btw, they only started supplying dsl to my area (in New York, currently without fiber) last year. So I probably won't be getting fiber for quite a few years.
Even Sony has one of these. The Sony Bean MP3 player has a menu feature exactly as a tree, and I don't see them getting sued (I would want to though...).
See you in a few years.
Does it really take that long to boot?
Sure, nvidia doesn't offer an OSS solution, like releasing the interface specs so a OSS driver can be written, but at least it makes a good effort in making a proprietary drivers. ATI's drivers are crap, and they don't offer an OSS solution. And some of us are gamers, and we just don't care whether it's open source or not, since the nvidia proprietary drivers do provide better performance than ATI's.
BTW, OS X's Spotlight is used in exactly the same way, including the keyboard shortcut (on a mac mini with a normal keyboard, the cmd key is mapped to alt, so it'd be alt-space too).
Since it gets its power through induction, I can imagine that it wouldn't have a large range. Combine that with the larger capacity, and it makes it more suitable for payment systems, like the wireless credit card stuff that RFID proponents have been hailing (since you wouldn't want somebody reading your chip from faraway, and the bigger the "number" is, the harder it is to copy to another chip).
Maybe cellphones will come with holders for these, and all you have to do is swipe your cellphone across a register to pay.
In my day, it was defined as two nybbles.
And what about sports? Take american football. Is having kids putting on helmets and slamming into each better than playing a violent video game? You don't control or visualize a character beating up hookers, but you actually...oh wait, you don't.
But it's still more violent.
And then there are all of those future slashdotters. What do they do when the football players join the army and kill people or start asking for tech support? Why, they play violent video games. As you can see, people who play violent video games become harmless, but a little pathetic, a rather sad situation.
The (mis)quote is from a Simpsons episode.
Nah, the smaller, slower, and smellier ones will get eaten alive by the super-mosquitoes. So we might end up with super-Athenians carrying super-mosquitoes. o_o
* WinYY (after WinXX) - They blocked the chimney
Santa Claus is malware?
Just go for a refill afterwards, and you'll feel better.
Imagine what this could do for converting a 2D film to 3D. With the appropriate technology, we could have 3D movies that are worth a darn.
In German speaking countries, "wie" That would be prenounced "vee"...