I wonder what MTV would say if studio asked for an enomorous amount of money to be able to show their videos, instead of throwing it at MTV to get more air time.
um, yes.. but aren't you just replacing the non-renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuel with a new non-renewable solid hydrocarbon fuel.
It's much better than that. Supercapacitors could not only power our cars, but they can solve a lot of the problems with renewable energy sources for generating the electricity in the first place. i.e. what good is a solar power plant at night. When automobiles start running off of grid power exclusively, the incentives for renewable power sources go up dramatically--especially if cheap, efficient high-power capacitors are available. Today's solar panels couldn't even power the convenience store inside a gas station, much less help with recharging customer's cars, but they're getting deployed nonetheless (lots of BPs have 'em).
So even if your car is still ultimately being powered by burning hydrocarbons, it's less net pollution for now, and will be decreasing all the time as non-renewable will utlimately and inevitably become more expensive than renewable power.
Gas tanks don't explode in the real world like they do on movies & tv. Gasoline needs to be in a fine mist to become explosive--a puddle of gasoline will only burn as quickly as it can breathe in oxygen. A capacitor on the other hand can release all of its stored energy instantly. A big enough cap to power a car would go off like a bomb.
Obviously they'll have safety circuitry to prevent that from happening in the event of a short . . . but I still haven't heard how they intend to make them safe in a car crash, when the capacitor itself might get ruptured or crushed.
Not much. When a bank calls, Caller ID should show bank's name rather than "Private Caller" from some call center in India.
Caller ID information is little more trustworthy than the "From" address on an e-mail. Caller ID can be spoofed with readily available VOIP equipment and absolutely anybody can change their transmitted caller ID info to anything they want easily and inexpensively without buying thier own equipment. (Great stuff for prank calls, tho.)
The only thing that keeps Intuit alive is their tax software.
As much as I despise the program, Quickbooks has a pretty huge installed base. Not to mention all the obnoxious nickle-and-diming they like to do for "added value" (payroll, merchant accounts, etc.)
Just as x86 isn't used anywhere in any significant amounts but on the desktop.
I'd hardly call x86's server and embedded presence insignificant. It doesn't dominate quite as utterly as it does on the desktop, but it's certainly existing in other niches. I've seen x86 DVD players(Toshiba's initial Blueray player was a pretty bog-standard P4 running linux from a built in USB key.), set top boxes, phone systems, kiosks, ATMs, you name it.
I couldn't agree with you more. Lead acid batteries rock for every conceivable purpose. When my iPod nano's battery needed replacement, I just cracked that puppy open and slipped in a 12v deep discharge. Works like a dream and I never leave home without it.
Which is great because I can transfer iPod tunes with SWiK in GNOME . . . which can also run on a lead acid battery . . .
Of course audio/videophiles aren't going to want this, but I'm can think of a few applications this would be convenient enough to offset the (minor, hopefully) quality loss. i.e. equipment cabinet or rack outside of main living room area. Fussing with extra-long HDMI cables or having to add repeaters into the mix can be a hassle for some.
Also w/ JPEG 2000 the artifacts are going to be pretty minor. It's compressing each frame independantly so none of the weird MPEG-esque artifacts inbetween keyframes. The wavelet compression also is smoother and less noticeably blocky than other methods. (I do wonder tho, what the compression scheme does to video streams that have already been decompressed from MPEG 2/4. Hopefully they have it tuned to not maim such streams too horribly.)
I think I'll try this with my old T21 Thinkpad. Stick a pair of headphones in the appropriate socket. Sure, there will be some tiny sound, but for all intents and purposes, silence.
Why on earth would you even want to install Vista on a P-III laptop!?
"The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all."
Oh, good. Unfortunately for the media companies, this may mean their HD content won't be played at all. Now, not only does one need the correctly DRMed driver for the correctly DRMed hardware, it's got to be on x64 Windows which has tons of compatibility issues for lots of devices on the shelves today . . . so much so, I'd be awfully surprised if x64 Vista will make up more than a small fraction of copies installed for the next couple years.
Windows is a monopoly. Not only did Microsoft bundle apps to deliberately harm competition they strongarmed or dragged their feet on any vendors and OEMs that used non-MS defaults. Once you have a monopoly you're (supposed to be) playing by modified rules. i.e. no leveraging an existing monopoly to create new ones.
Even though it's unlikely there will be significant precious metals on the moon, sending stuff back to Earth is relatively easy once everything gets up there in the first place. The trip from the Moon to the Earth is effectively "downhill."
Of course, assuming it is false, then all those beta fish in the petstores, in bowls just as long and as wide as they are, seem awfully inhumane, don't they?
If you want to see inhuman, put all the Beta fish in one luxuriously huge tank and see what they do to each other . . .
It is similar to a situation where a policeman stops you and tells you to run that stop sign so they can give you a ticket or they will arrest you, on some charge like failure to cooperate with an officer. So what do you do, just get and pay the ticket because getting arrested is much more of a hassle and fighting it will take more of your time (lost work etc...) or stand up for what is right and get arrested and fight it, even though you will loose days or weeks of work costing you more then what the ticket would bring.
No it isn't. A policeman actually has real authority and you're legally obligated to do as he says. This would be like a clerk from the city council asking you to hand over information. The correct thing to do when that happens is tell him "No." and make him go get a court order.
the problem comes when you wan't something more custom. Something from outside the distros "walled garden" the distros are very resistant to universal packaging efforts like autopackage.
Personally, I think it's a good thing that Joe Averages can't as easily install software that hasn't been made a part of the "walled garden." The "double-click, execute/install" method for Windows software from Jimbo's Shareware Hut is right up there with discs that execute software on insert as far as security and malware are concerned.
That's the beauty of open-source software--anybody can support it and become an expert just by examining the code. I'm confident HP's support technicians will have an intimate knowledge of administering and running Debian and will consistently provide helpful and accurate answers to all questions that customers bring to them . . .
Check out AutoPatcher. Not nearly as elegant as a good slipstream, but it's great for getting an older install up to date without going through update-and-reboot-a-zillion-times hell.
Once a barcode is read you just get the product code. What good is that?
You need then to lookup that code up in a database for real info.
As mentioned above, it could give you the lowest prices found on Froogle, Amazon, etc . . . or if they want to do something *really* neat, tell you if that product is available for considerably less (or on sale!) at a different store nearby.
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MTV shows videos!?
It's much better than that. Supercapacitors could not only power our cars, but they can solve a lot of the problems with renewable energy sources for generating the electricity in the first place. i.e. what good is a solar power plant at night. When automobiles start running off of grid power exclusively, the incentives for renewable power sources go up dramatically--especially if cheap, efficient high-power capacitors are available. Today's solar panels couldn't even power the convenience store inside a gas station, much less help with recharging customer's cars, but they're getting deployed nonetheless (lots of BPs have 'em).
So even if your car is still ultimately being powered by burning hydrocarbons, it's less net pollution for now, and will be decreasing all the time as non-renewable will utlimately and inevitably become more expensive than renewable power.
Gas tanks don't explode in the real world like they do on movies & tv. Gasoline needs to be in a fine mist to become explosive--a puddle of gasoline will only burn as quickly as it can breathe in oxygen. A capacitor on the other hand can release all of its stored energy instantly. A big enough cap to power a car would go off like a bomb.
Obviously they'll have safety circuitry to prevent that from happening in the event of a short . . . but I still haven't heard how they intend to make them safe in a car crash, when the capacitor itself might get ruptured or crushed.
It's a hat for your ass, where's the confusion?
Really? I always thought it meant "One's ass worn on one's head like a hat." I suppose either definition has its own merits.
Not much. When a bank calls, Caller ID should show bank's name rather than "Private Caller" from some call center in India.
Caller ID information is little more trustworthy than the "From" address on an e-mail. Caller ID can be spoofed with readily available VOIP equipment and absolutely anybody can change their transmitted caller ID info to anything they want easily and inexpensively without buying thier own equipment. (Great stuff for prank calls, tho.)
The only thing that keeps Intuit alive is their tax software.
As much as I despise the program, Quickbooks has a pretty huge installed base. Not to mention all the obnoxious nickle-and-diming they like to do for "added value" (payroll, merchant accounts, etc.)
"This is how liberty dies -- with thunderous applause."
Just as x86 isn't used anywhere in any significant amounts but on the desktop.
I'd hardly call x86's server and embedded presence insignificant. It doesn't dominate quite as utterly as it does on the desktop, but it's certainly existing in other niches. I've seen x86 DVD players(Toshiba's initial Blueray player was a pretty bog-standard P4 running linux from a built in USB key.), set top boxes, phone systems, kiosks, ATMs, you name it.
Gravity bends spacetime so mass isn't required to affect light's path around a gravity source.
I couldn't agree with you more. Lead acid batteries rock for every conceivable purpose. When my iPod nano's battery needed replacement, I just cracked that puppy open and slipped in a 12v deep discharge. Works like a dream and I never leave home without it.
Which is great because I can transfer iPod tunes with SWiK in GNOME . . . which can also run on a lead acid battery . . .
Of course audio/videophiles aren't going to want this, but I'm can think of a few applications this would be convenient enough to offset the (minor, hopefully) quality loss. i.e. equipment cabinet or rack outside of main living room area. Fussing with extra-long HDMI cables or having to add repeaters into the mix can be a hassle for some.
Also w/ JPEG 2000 the artifacts are going to be pretty minor. It's compressing each frame independantly so none of the weird MPEG-esque artifacts inbetween keyframes. The wavelet compression also is smoother and less noticeably blocky than other methods. (I do wonder tho, what the compression scheme does to video streams that have already been decompressed from MPEG 2/4. Hopefully they have it tuned to not maim such streams too horribly.)
I think I'll try this with my old T21 Thinkpad. Stick a pair of headphones in the appropriate socket. Sure, there will be some tiny sound, but for all intents and purposes, silence.
Why on earth would you even want to install Vista on a P-III laptop!?
It's like a microscopic MacGuyver . . .
"The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all."
Oh, good. Unfortunately for the media companies, this may mean their HD content won't be played at all. Now, not only does one need the correctly DRMed driver for the correctly DRMed hardware, it's got to be on x64 Windows which has tons of compatibility issues for lots of devices on the shelves today . . . so much so, I'd be awfully surprised if x64 Vista will make up more than a small fraction of copies installed for the next couple years.
Seriously people, the Snakes on a Plane jokes are not funny any more. In fact, I don't think they were ever funny.
Indeed. I've had it with these motherfuckin memes on this motherfuckin website.
Windows is a monopoly. Not only did Microsoft bundle apps to deliberately harm competition they strongarmed or dragged their feet on any vendors and OEMs that used non-MS defaults. Once you have a monopoly you're (supposed to be) playing by modified rules. i.e. no leveraging an existing monopoly to create new ones.
Even though it's unlikely there will be significant precious metals on the moon, sending stuff back to Earth is relatively easy once everything gets up there in the first place. The trip from the Moon to the Earth is effectively "downhill."
"Office for Linux" will no doubt be released immediately following Microsoft's long anticipated version of "Wings for Pigs."
Of course, assuming it is false, then all those beta fish in the petstores, in bowls just as long and as wide as they are, seem awfully inhumane, don't they?
If you want to see inhuman, put all the Beta fish in one luxuriously huge tank and see what they do to each other . . .
It is similar to a situation where a policeman stops you and tells you to run that stop sign so they can give you a ticket or they will arrest you, on some charge like failure to cooperate with an officer. So what do you do, just get and pay the ticket because getting arrested is much more of a hassle and fighting it will take more of your time (lost work etc...) or stand up for what is right and get arrested and fight it, even though you will loose days or weeks of work costing you more then what the ticket would bring.
No it isn't. A policeman actually has real authority and you're legally obligated to do as he says. This would be like a clerk from the city council asking you to hand over information. The correct thing to do when that happens is tell him "No." and make him go get a court order.
the problem comes when you wan't something more custom. Something from outside the distros "walled garden" the distros are very resistant to universal packaging efforts like autopackage.
Personally, I think it's a good thing that Joe Averages can't as easily install software that hasn't been made a part of the "walled garden." The "double-click, execute/install" method for Windows software from Jimbo's Shareware Hut is right up there with discs that execute software on insert as far as security and malware are concerned.
Think this makes it a phone for supper geeks.
PENGUIN: It's what's for dinner!
That's the beauty of open-source software--anybody can support it and become an expert just by examining the code. I'm confident HP's support technicians will have an intimate knowledge of administering and running Debian and will consistently provide helpful and accurate answers to all questions that customers bring to them . . .
*snicker*
Check out AutoPatcher. Not nearly as elegant as a good slipstream, but it's great for getting an older install up to date without going through update-and-reboot-a-zillion-times hell.
Once a barcode is read you just get the product code. What good is that? You need then to lookup that code up in a database for real info.
As mentioned above, it could give you the lowest prices found on Froogle, Amazon, etc . . . or if they want to do something *really* neat, tell you if that product is available for considerably less (or on sale!) at a different store nearby.