I know nothing about quantum well diodes, but the screens are already LED on virtually all smart phones.
Get your facts straight, almost every phone out there is still using a thin film transistor (TFT) LCD screen, including iPhone, Palm Pre, HTC G1.
The only smart phone I know that uses an LED screen is the Samsung Galaxy (color AM-OLED)
There might be a handful more, but nowhere near virtually all.
People are stupid. If you tell someone it's $500, they'll say "Holy crap I can't afford that." If you tell them it's 25 easy payments of only $49.99 they'll think it's a lot cheaper.
This is not rocket science, it's basic arithmetic. Unfortunately, the average American failed basic arithmetic so it might as well be rocket science.
The multiple partition thing really grinds my gears. There is no reason to make multiple partitions on a single drive. There are lots of myths floating around which are based on nonsense.
Myth 1. Seperate partitions will make your system faster
Bullshit, the hard drive will be thrashing even more trying to get to the swap space that's on a partition that's at the edge of the platter.
Myth 2. Separate partitions will make your system more reliable
Bullshit, if the hard drive crashes the whole thing is gone. If you get a destructive virus all your files will be affected.
Myth 3. You can upgrade hard drive easier if you have data in a separate partition
Bullshit, I've upgraded many computer hard drives by simply copying the single partition to the new bigger hard drive and expanding it to fill the new drive. Takes only a few clicks. How do you idiots upgrade hard drive? By reinstalling the whole operating system and files?
Myth 4. Separate partitions are less likely to get fragmented
Bullshit, the separate partitions means it's already in two giant fragments that can't ever be defragmented.
Myth 5. I have to use separate partitions because I really like having data on D: and other crap on C:
Bullshit, use subst instead.
Myth 6. You can reinstall windows (or upgrade windows) easier if you have data in a separate partition
Bullshit, this is only true if you're idiotic enough to actually put all your data into random folders on the main drive. If you have a propensity to place your mp3 files in "c:\program files\" and your p0rn into "c:\windows\system32" then you have other problems and shouldn't be using a computer. All your data files on a Windows XP machine should be in "c:\documents and settings\username\", that's it.
The truth is, if you have partitions C: and D:, it is very likely that you'll run out of space on one partition when you have plenty space on the other, then what? You'll have to resize your partitions or get a new hard drive. What a waste of time.
The whole multiple partitions on a single drive was the product of people trying to find some advantages to the shortcomings of FAT where 512MB was the reasonable limit for a partition. Sure you could do a 2GB partition but the 32kB slack space per file would suck up a quarter of the drive. So people resorted to doing multiple 512MB partitions, one for apps, one for data, one for p0rn, etc, avoiding the slack space problem. FAT was all we had back then, but there's no reason to keep doing this in NTFS or any other semi-competent file system. Get over it already!
I've heard it all, people go through great lengths to defend their multiple partitions idea because they were convinced by someone 15 years ago that it's a good idea (it was back then, but not anymore) and they can't accept that things change. Now they're just zealots who have no clue about what they're talking about. The multiple partitions died in the 90's. As the New York Times headline from December 31st 1999 puts it best: "MULTIPLE PARTITIONS ARE A THING OF THE PAST"
If my calculation is correct, the outer edge of a 3.5" plate spinning at 15000 RPM is moving at 69.82m/s, which is about 20% of speed of sound. It's fast, but it's nowhere near the speed of sound.
However, it has one major hurdle to overcome: it doesn't support Windows.
Well, duh: CPUs aren't programmed for operating systems, operating systems are programmed for CPUs. You can make a x86 compatible CPU and have Windows run on it, but if you have a different CPU architecture you can scream until you're blue in the face, it will never support Windows. So, really: Windows doesn't support it and Windows will never be able to support anything other than x86 CPUs. There's no way Microsoft can port all that code to work on a different CPU.
The reason Atom is power hungry and slow by comparison isn't because Intel sucks at making CPUs, it's because they felt the need to stick to the x86 architecture to make the CPU compatible with Windows. The x86 instruction set was designed over three decades ago, the only reason we are still using it is because of Microsoft Windows. Why did Apple jump onto the x86 bandwagon I have no idea, maybe because everyone's doing it? So much for "think different".
I came here to say this. Why not encourage environmentally friendly behavior, instead of punishing for adhering to the status quo.
Because it doesn't have anything at all to do with being environmentally friendly. It's just a way of sucking more money, they know certain percentage will not switch to paperless, so there's a nice source of extra income. I highly doubt the paper bill costs them $1.50 to send, I'm sure it's more like 50 cents including postage. They have 33 million subscribers, if 10% forget to sign up for paperless, that's 3.3 million bucks they're getting every month, 30 million annually, that's enough to buy a very big luxury yacht every year, that's the bottom line.
If they reduced your bill instead of increasing it, they would have absolutely nothing to gain from it, instead it would cost them. Fuck the environment, it's the $ in their pocket they care about.
How long before someone claims Coca Cola's method of mixing their ingredients is infringing some shitty ass patent on something and gets a court order to have Coca Cola disclose their secret ingredient and formulas?
Looks like it's the successor of N800 series, and new feature is the built-in phone and back mounted camera. I had an N810, and that thing is awesome. The 800x480 display really sets them things apart from other gadgets of similar size which resort to 320x480. It makes a world of a difference when you're browsing the web.
One would think that me sharing my movies that I bought with my own money would be considered appropriate use of my internet connection that I am paying for with my own money.
Really the measure of efficiency should be in terms of distance per energy, something like km per Joule.
Follow my math and tell me if it checks up:
I drive a second generation Prius, and based on my gas pump visits and odometer readings I get about 45 miles per gallon. One gallon of gasoline contains about 130MJ of energy. That means Prius get 72.4km/130MJ, which is roughly 0.55km/MJ, which is about 2.00km/kWh if you consider 1 MJ = 0.2777kWh.
According to Wiki page, the Chevy Volt's battery is total of 16kWh but only 8.8kWh is usable. The battery range of the Volt is said to be 64km, which means it gets 64km/8.8kWh which is 7.27km/kWh, so it is about 3.635 times more efficient than my second generation Prius when running exclusively on electricity.
As mentioned above, I know from my experiments that the Prius gets 45mpg, so the Chevy Volt is then getting the equivalent of 163mpg when it is running exclusively on the plug-in power (first 64 kilometers on battery).
So, here we go, based on the facts we have (and assuming that my calculations are correct), the 230mpg is bullshit, and that's not even counting the internal combustion engine which will dramatically lower the efficiency.
So where did the 230mpg come from? Perhaps it's really a code for the date they plan to have this car ready: on February 30th.
... I thought twitter was only for reading up about what Ashton Kutcher is doing right this very second. OOOoH He's taking a dump, what a delight to know!
There is no such thing as ad block! There's no way to block ads, even if you used browsers other than the one that came with your Windows. Those other browsers (Chrome and Firefox) are just IE rebranded anyway, don't use them. IE is safer and better. Just click on the ads and buy stuff they advertise and they will go away, I guarantee it. Stop talking about ad blocks, that's something that doesn't exist, there will never be such thing as ad block. You all know it's as absurd, nobody can stop ads. Jesus loves ads. This whole article is one big April fool's joke, don't pay attention to any of it. In fact, stop reading right now and go back to watching porn or dancing rabbits.
Okay, the long paragraph above most likely bored the morons so they wont even realize there's other stuff written here. So for those who are not morons with short attention spans: ads are a way to make suckers pay for shit you otherwise would need to pay for yourself, it's a selective tax on stupidity. Ads are the reason I can get my news for free and get other people provide a service without me having to pay a dime. Let's keep it that way, please. Use an ad blocker and stfu about it, yes?
If a book of phrases in alphabetical order is not copyrightable, neither is a list of words in alphabetical order. Why is it that Webster refused to give me a list of words in the English dictionary?
Yeah, but no oil in North Korea... and their midget leader is a joke more than anything else. The Japs could just send military equivalent of hello kitty armed with a sly swatter and invade the whole country overnight. But nobody wants to do that, nobody wants to open that can of worms because destabilizing a dictatorship creates a nightmare as the citizens are too brainwashed for any other system and putting your own dictator causes them to rebel against you even more. Only stoopid Americans blinded by smell of oil would wreak havoc by removing a well established and respected dictator and try to replace him with democracy, like in Iraq.
So, as long as north korea doesn't have oil, we're safe.
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I know nothing about quantum well diodes, but the screens are already LED on virtually all smart phones.
Get your facts straight, almost every phone out there is still using a thin film transistor (TFT) LCD screen, including iPhone, Palm Pre, HTC G1.
The only smart phone I know that uses an LED screen is the Samsung Galaxy (color AM-OLED)
There might be a handful more, but nowhere near virtually all.
People are stupid. If you tell someone it's $500, they'll say "Holy crap I can't afford that." If you tell them it's 25 easy payments of only $49.99 they'll think it's a lot cheaper.
This is not rocket science, it's basic arithmetic. Unfortunately, the average American failed basic arithmetic so it might as well be rocket science.
The multiple partition thing really grinds my gears. There is no reason to make multiple partitions on a single drive. There are lots of myths floating around which are based on nonsense.
Myth 1. Seperate partitions will make your system faster
Bullshit, the hard drive will be thrashing even more trying to get to the swap space that's on a partition that's at the edge of the platter.
Myth 2. Separate partitions will make your system more reliable
Bullshit, if the hard drive crashes the whole thing is gone. If you get a destructive virus all your files will be affected.
Myth 3. You can upgrade hard drive easier if you have data in a separate partition
Bullshit, I've upgraded many computer hard drives by simply copying the single partition to the new bigger hard drive and expanding it to fill the new drive. Takes only a few clicks. How do you idiots upgrade hard drive? By reinstalling the whole operating system and files?
Myth 4. Separate partitions are less likely to get fragmented
Bullshit, the separate partitions means it's already in two giant fragments that can't ever be defragmented.
Myth 5. I have to use separate partitions because I really like having data on D: and other crap on C:
Bullshit, use subst instead.
Myth 6. You can reinstall windows (or upgrade windows) easier if you have data in a separate partition
Bullshit, this is only true if you're idiotic enough to actually put all your data into random folders on the main drive. If you have a propensity to place your mp3 files in "c:\program files\" and your p0rn into "c:\windows\system32" then you have other problems and shouldn't be using a computer. All your data files on a Windows XP machine should be in "c:\documents and settings\username\", that's it.
The truth is, if you have partitions C: and D:, it is very likely that you'll run out of space on one partition when you have plenty space on the other, then what? You'll have to resize your partitions or get a new hard drive. What a waste of time.
The whole multiple partitions on a single drive was the product of people trying to find some advantages to the shortcomings of FAT where 512MB was the reasonable limit for a partition. Sure you could do a 2GB partition but the 32kB slack space per file would suck up a quarter of the drive. So people resorted to doing multiple 512MB partitions, one for apps, one for data, one for p0rn, etc, avoiding the slack space problem. FAT was all we had back then, but there's no reason to keep doing this in NTFS or any other semi-competent file system. Get over it already!
I've heard it all, people go through great lengths to defend their multiple partitions idea because they were convinced by someone 15 years ago that it's a good idea (it was back then, but not anymore) and they can't accept that things change. Now they're just zealots who have no clue about what they're talking about. The multiple partitions died in the 90's. As the New York Times headline from December 31st 1999 puts it best: "MULTIPLE PARTITIONS ARE A THING OF THE PAST"
You can't add security, you can only add insecurity. A system is as secure as the weakest point of entry.
That having been said, all plug-ins reduce security, including Flash and Silverlight, this is no different.
My HP48GX was stolen when I was in college. I was almost done with school so I couldn't justify buying another one with my college money.
Luckily, I found an HP48 emulator for the Android. It's the next best thing even though it doesn't have infrared or sound like the real thing.
Speed of sound at sea level: 340.29 m/s verify
((3.5 inches) * (2.54 (cm / inches)) * pi) * (((15000 / minute) * (1 minute)) / (60 second)) * (0.01 (meter / centimeter)) = 69.8218967 m / s verify
If my calculation is correct, the outer edge of a 3.5" plate spinning at 15000 RPM is moving at 69.82m/s, which is about 20% of speed of sound. It's fast, but it's nowhere near the speed of sound.
However, it has one major hurdle to overcome: it doesn't support Windows.
Well, duh: CPUs aren't programmed for operating systems, operating systems are programmed for CPUs. You can make a x86 compatible CPU and have Windows run on it, but if you have a different CPU architecture you can scream until you're blue in the face, it will never support Windows. So, really: Windows doesn't support it and Windows will never be able to support anything other than x86 CPUs. There's no way Microsoft can port all that code to work on a different CPU.
The reason Atom is power hungry and slow by comparison isn't because Intel sucks at making CPUs, it's because they felt the need to stick to the x86 architecture to make the CPU compatible with Windows. The x86 instruction set was designed over three decades ago, the only reason we are still using it is because of Microsoft Windows. Why did Apple jump onto the x86 bandwagon I have no idea, maybe because everyone's doing it? So much for "think different".
I came here to say this. Why not encourage environmentally friendly behavior, instead of punishing for adhering to the status quo.
Because it doesn't have anything at all to do with being environmentally friendly. It's just a way of sucking more money, they know certain percentage will not switch to paperless, so there's a nice source of extra income. I highly doubt the paper bill costs them $1.50 to send, I'm sure it's more like 50 cents including postage. They have 33 million subscribers, if 10% forget to sign up for paperless, that's 3.3 million bucks they're getting every month, 30 million annually, that's enough to buy a very big luxury yacht every year, that's the bottom line.
If they reduced your bill instead of increasing it, they would have absolutely nothing to gain from it, instead it would cost them. Fuck the environment, it's the $ in their pocket they care about.
The day you invent anti-stupid technology, the stupid will get stupider.
Sign me up too please! Here's my name, address, birthday, social security number, bank account and routing number, credit card number.
Thanks!
How long before someone claims Coca Cola's method of mixing their ingredients is infringing some shitty ass patent on something and gets a court order to have Coca Cola disclose their secret ingredient and formulas?
ouch, the sonic boom from that woosh knocked me off my chair.
I conquer.
Looks like it's the successor of N800 series, and new feature is the built-in phone and back mounted camera. I had an N810, and that thing is awesome. The 800x480 display really sets them things apart from other gadgets of similar size which resort to 320x480. It makes a world of a difference when you're browsing the web.
"Apple Inc., incorporated on January 3, 1977, designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers..."
From their company profile
Just in case you're too stupid to know: PC stands for Personal Computer.
Marketing is bullshit? Shocking!!! Bill Hicks was right? Sorry to burst your bubble.
One would think that me sharing my movies that I bought with my own money would be considered appropriate use of my internet connection that I am paying for with my own money.
Really the measure of efficiency should be in terms of distance per energy, something like km per Joule.
Follow my math and tell me if it checks up:
I drive a second generation Prius, and based on my gas pump visits and odometer readings I get about 45 miles per gallon. One gallon of gasoline contains about 130MJ of energy. That means Prius get 72.4km/130MJ, which is roughly 0.55km/MJ, which is about 2.00km/kWh if you consider 1 MJ = 0.2777kWh.
According to Wiki page, the Chevy Volt's battery is total of 16kWh but only 8.8kWh is usable. The battery range of the Volt is said to be 64km, which means it gets 64km/8.8kWh which is 7.27km/kWh, so it is about 3.635 times more efficient than my second generation Prius when running exclusively on electricity.
As mentioned above, I know from my experiments that the Prius gets 45mpg, so the Chevy Volt is then getting the equivalent of 163mpg when it is running exclusively on the plug-in power (first 64 kilometers on battery).
So, here we go, based on the facts we have (and assuming that my calculations are correct), the 230mpg is bullshit, and that's not even counting the internal combustion engine which will dramatically lower the efficiency.
So where did the 230mpg come from? Perhaps it's really a code for the date they plan to have this car ready: on February 30th.
I hope my calculations are correct.
I was just walking down the street, out of nowhere voting machines came and attacked me and stole my wallet.
Duh! But we can't do anything about it, there aren't any laws against cartels, trusts and monopolies in America. Just pay your bill and shut up.
*sweeps antitrust legislation under the carpet*
... I thought twitter was only for reading up about what Ashton Kutcher is doing right this very second. OOOoH He's taking a dump, what a delight to know!
There is no such thing as ad block! There's no way to block ads, even if you used browsers other than the one that came with your Windows. Those other browsers (Chrome and Firefox) are just IE rebranded anyway, don't use them. IE is safer and better. Just click on the ads and buy stuff they advertise and they will go away, I guarantee it. Stop talking about ad blocks, that's something that doesn't exist, there will never be such thing as ad block. You all know it's as absurd, nobody can stop ads. Jesus loves ads. This whole article is one big April fool's joke, don't pay attention to any of it. In fact, stop reading right now and go back to watching porn or dancing rabbits. Okay, the long paragraph above most likely bored the morons so they wont even realize there's other stuff written here. So for those who are not morons with short attention spans: ads are a way to make suckers pay for shit you otherwise would need to pay for yourself, it's a selective tax on stupidity. Ads are the reason I can get my news for free and get other people provide a service without me having to pay a dime. Let's keep it that way, please. Use an ad blocker and stfu about it, yes?
If a book of phrases in alphabetical order is not copyrightable, neither is a list of words in alphabetical order. Why is it that Webster refused to give me a list of words in the English dictionary?
one day you'll open the fridge and spam will tumble out.
Yeah, but no oil in North Korea... and their midget leader is a joke more than anything else. The Japs could just send military equivalent of hello kitty armed with a sly swatter and invade the whole country overnight. But nobody wants to do that, nobody wants to open that can of worms because destabilizing a dictatorship creates a nightmare as the citizens are too brainwashed for any other system and putting your own dictator causes them to rebel against you even more. Only stoopid Americans blinded by smell of oil would wreak havoc by removing a well established and respected dictator and try to replace him with democracy, like in Iraq.
So, as long as north korea doesn't have oil, we're safe.
females actually do "grow a set" too, they are just kept inside and they function slightly differently.