I'm sure M$ are considering those very points, and no doubt many more. The whole point of research is to find out what is possible, and how. And if it's not possible, what needs to be done/invented to make it possible.
My son's school is planning to introduce GCSE Computer Science into the curriculum form September, that is assuming enough pupils want to take up the option. Might have to get out my Acorn Electron from the loft during the summer hols...
I did exactly the same and saw a THD of -93dB, which isn't even 16 bit! £3 worth of DAC for £150? I bet it doesn't do DTS or AC3 either but is plain PCM so not much use for watching movies. And a cheap'n' nasty digital volume control can only lose bits on the way so giving even poorer THD.
Just as the Age of Enlightenment gave way to Romanticism, so rational scientific enquiry is giving way to touchy-feely emotion-led decision making now. An easy bandwagon for politicians and other ignorati to jump on.
You don't *need* to manipulate people to reduce population growth. All you need to do is give people the chance to get out of poverty - and the best way of doing that is to give them access to plentiful quantities of cheap energy with which they can make life more comfortable and productive. Then the pressures on having a large family (because survival rates are low and children are a resource that can be put to work) dissipate. OK, so on a per capita basis CO2 might go up, if there's a lower population then the total CO2 (or whatever gas is flavour of the month) will go down.
I would have thought it would be very good idea for the likes of Microsoft/Apple/Google to encourage their employees to use devices form competitors... on the proviso that they each write up their experiences stating WHY they have chosen an alternative product. Might be the best way for the developers of said products to get feedback on what could be done better etc, and would reduce the likelihood of not-invented-here syndrome from taking hold.
Sell TVs with 2HD resolution, so that in 3D mode you get full HD. Not that anyone at a sensible viewing distance could tell the difference, unless they are selling 200" screens.
Not only are the frequency allocation and transmission standards jumbled up, but it uses more power than 3G, which is worse than 2G. Expect mobile phone standby times to drop again...
Mine's the one with the car battery in the man bag.
For once I think they should have a word... all that lounging around whilst tapping away on laptops must be chiropractor's wet dream. By the time these kids reach 30 Google will have either assimilated their brains directly, or disappeared.
I stopped using Blueyonder/Telewest/Virgin-whatever email years ago, when they first went to Exchange server and kept screwing up. Looks like they've jumped form the frying pan into the fire.
Been using it for several years, glued to DVBViewer recording Service via DABDig so I can click on a programme in digiguide and get it to record every instance on whatever channel. If only it linked to XBMC PVR, the rest of the family could join in.
How can any system of any quality have continual hum? Either they've used a piss-poor PSU with low ripple rejection, a cheap EI-core transformer or some very nasty amplifier chips.
Terrible. Utterly terrible. 20% tops, just for the novelty factor.
The State doesn't have any money of its own so either consumers pay directly through higher bills or pay indirectly through higher general taxation. Heads the green lobby wins, tails the rest of society loses.
There's a lot more to it than pixel count, esp when motion artefacts cause the resolution to drop. For instance, a cheap way of deinterlacing broadcast video is to merge alternative lines, this halving the vertical resolution. More sophisticated deinterlacers use temporal as well as spatial cues to decide how to resolve picture detail ("3D" deinterlacing).
As far as I recall, when I looked at it the xbox only allows you to limit total time per day, not the hours played. We have to take my son's xbox controllers away from him at 10pm, as the internet connection dies and his PC logs out automatically, but we can't have the xbox do the same.
That's the hard limit, there is a soft limit of 9.30 which he rarely complies with.
Waiting for "Destroy All Monsters" to get all spitty and angry, and the other moral relativists to pop up in defence of Ahmedinnerjacket and his bunch of loonies.
Only takes one mention of the I-word (or the associated A-word) to get the venomous hate-mongers boiling over with their petty spiteful rage and fury etc. etc.
More brainwashing for the young and gullible, I suspect. The kids on that camp that was shot up by the right-wing nutter were having fun pretending to be Hamas terrorists; I wonder which buckets of scum these far-right types want to emulate - the Hitler Youth?
Basically, a GSM phone that attaches to an iPod to turn it into a 2G phone. This must be the same in order to allow two networks to be active at the same time. Clever.
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Re: Points to ponder...
I'm sure M$ are considering those very points, and no doubt many more. The whole point of research is to find out what is possible, and how. And if it's not possible, what needs to be done/invented to make it possible.
On a brighter note
My son's school is planning to introduce GCSE Computer Science into the curriculum form September, that is assuming enough pupils want to take up the option. Might have to get out my Acorn Electron from the loft during the summer hols...
Re: The difference is clear?
I did exactly the same and saw a THD of -93dB, which isn't even 16 bit! £3 worth of DAC for £150? I bet it doesn't do DTS or AC3 either but is plain PCM so not much use for watching movies. And a cheap'n' nasty digital volume control can only lose bits on the way so giving even poorer THD.
Climate "science"
Just as the Age of Enlightenment gave way to Romanticism, so rational scientific enquiry is giving way to touchy-feely emotion-led decision making now. An easy bandwagon for politicians and other ignorati to jump on.
Aye, we're all doooooomed.
Re: Avoiding the tinfoil hat for a moment...
You don't *need* to manipulate people to reduce population growth. All you need to do is give people the chance to get out of poverty - and the best way of doing that is to give them access to plentiful quantities of cheap energy with which they can make life more comfortable and productive. Then the pressures on having a large family (because survival rates are low and children are a resource that can be put to work) dissipate. OK, so on a per capita basis CO2 might go up, if there's a lower population then the total CO2 (or whatever gas is flavour of the month) will go down.
Gaia needs nuclear/shale/whatever.
The BBC and a Grauniad Journo not entirely impartial
Who'd a thunk it!
Stoopid
I would have thought it would be very good idea for the likes of Microsoft/Apple/Google to encourage their employees to use devices form competitors... on the proviso that they each write up their experiences stating WHY they have chosen an alternative product. Might be the best way for the developers of said products to get feedback on what could be done better etc, and would reduce the likelihood of not-invented-here syndrome from taking hold.
Re: How?
How hard is it to use W*kipedia to answer your questions, unless they were purely rhetorical?
Here, have this one on me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second
You're welcome!
Re: Sex toys.
Or is that because every c*** wants one?
Here's an idea
Sell TVs with 2HD resolution, so that in 3D mode you get full HD. Not that anyone at a sensible viewing distance could tell the difference, unless they are selling 200" screens.
Re: Charitable giving
Here's an idea: They could give it all to billg to invest in good works. I'm sure he wouldn't spend it on Apple shares and close the shop down.
Hardly revolutionary
The usual Chinese crap emporium has this little beauty:
http://s.dealextreme.com/search/118531
It's what's on the inside that counts
And it looks as rank as the new Focus. Such a shame.
Now, put the 2.0l Ecoboost in it and I might reconsider.
Re: 'nix
'nux, surely?
All they have to do to get the cash
is to somehow link it to AGW.
Socket to me
As opposed to a TCP socket, or a socket set (for playing with your nuts)...
One word
fuse
3D
3D HD helmet cams FTW!
LTE seems like a mess
Not only are the frequency allocation and transmission standards jumbled up, but it uses more power than 3G, which is worse than 2G. Expect mobile phone standby times to drop again...
Mine's the one with the car battery in the man bag.
Re: Simple solution
What, all the time? That'll make the weekly shop for 5 people a bit of a challenge...
Haven't heard of those SI units...
"Using the energy equivalent to that consumed by just one lightbulb to perform the calculations of 100 laptops."
Is that a 3w CCFL or a 500w floodlight? V-Tech "my first laptop" or Alienware gaming rig?
Bleedin' elf'n'safety
For once I think they should have a word... all that lounging around whilst tapping away on laptops must be chiropractor's wet dream. By the time these kids reach 30 Google will have either assimilated their brains directly, or disappeared.
Let me sit on that one for a while
Is it Anna or Belle?
Symbian (l)users?
I guess we just disappear below the noise floor.
*Obvious*, innit?
How else would the Party Apparatchik order whores? It's the *people* (i.e. ordinary citizens) who are not supposed to use their phones.
Teleworst
I stopped using Blueyonder/Telewest/Virgin-whatever email years ago, when they first went to Exchange server and kept screwing up. Looks like they've jumped form the frying pan into the fire.
"Red flag"
I like what you did there!
Just what we need
An even less reliable drive from OCZ. Had enough Vertex drives die on me to keep well away.Which will be fantastic
When every single programme can be watched for at least a year after first broadcast.
Digiguide FTW
Been using it for several years, glued to DVBViewer recording Service via DABDig so I can click on a programme in digiguide and get it to record every instance on whatever channel. If only it linked to XBMC PVR, the rest of the family could join in.
There's already an ICS tablet available, with Google's blessing
I've happy with my 8-inch Gingerbread one, but you can now enjoy 7 inches of Ainol with your Ice Cream Sandwich for $140.
http://www.ownta.com/ainol-novo7-android-4.0-tablet-pc-with-wifi-otg-8gb-paladin-edition.html
What a rip-off
How can any system of any quality have continual hum? Either they've used a piss-poor PSU with low ripple rejection, a cheap EI-core transformer or some very nasty amplifier chips.
Terrible. Utterly terrible. 20% tops, just for the novelty factor.
Doesn't matter if the state is skint or not
The State doesn't have any money of its own so either consumers pay directly through higher bills or pay indirectly through higher general taxation. Heads the green lobby wins, tails the rest of society loses.
Resolution
There's a lot more to it than pixel count, esp when motion artefacts cause the resolution to drop. For instance, a cheap way of deinterlacing broadcast video is to merge alternative lines, this halving the vertical resolution. More sophisticated deinterlacers use temporal as well as spatial cues to decide how to resolve picture detail ("3D" deinterlacing).
Anybody who writes "shud"
is an illiterate twat.
That is all.
As an owner of a Novo 8
I'm pleased to say that the brand name does not appear on the casing.
At least the kids didn't have to sit through another interminable ICT lesson
The one with the winter lining, obviously.
Give them a taste of their own medicine
No mobile tower or other electrically powered device within 1000m of the residence of a member of the Green party. It's for the children!
xbox
As far as I recall, when I looked at it the xbox only allows you to limit total time per day, not the hours played. We have to take my son's xbox controllers away from him at 10pm, as the internet connection dies and his PC logs out automatically, but we can't have the xbox do the same.
That's the hard limit, there is a soft limit of 9.30 which he rarely complies with.
Unofficial ports
LG stopped supporting the GT540 at 2.2, but CyanogenMod works brilliantly (2.3.4) and now ICS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbHT-w0RzeA
Gooapple V5
Shame it's not 3G
I can feel the heat already
Waiting for "Destroy All Monsters" to get all spitty and angry, and the other moral relativists to pop up in defence of Ahmedinnerjacket and his bunch of loonies.
My favourite
I always seem to be driving in the opposite direction to MR60 MEZ (Mr. Gomez). Don't know who he is, but he drives a very nice car.
Tastes like shit to me
Was that too obvious?
Even many billions won't get Apple that far
The world is a very big place.
Trust you
Only takes one mention of the I-word (or the associated A-word) to get the venomous hate-mongers boiling over with their petty spiteful rage and fury etc. etc.
So boring.
May I be the first to say
That girl's got some balls!
And I should imagine not much chance finding another victim/boyfriend after this.
What do you expect America to do?
March south into Mexico? I'm sure that would really go down well with the Mexican government.
Surely it's up to the Mexican government to sort out this problem (and call for assistance if they want).
"Training" Camps
More brainwashing for the young and gullible, I suspect. The kids on that camp that was shot up by the right-wing nutter were having fun pretending to be Hamas terrorists; I wonder which buckets of scum these far-right types want to emulate - the Hitler Youth?
Probably just an iPod peel
Basically, a GSM phone that attaches to an iPod to turn it into a 2G phone. This must be the same in order to allow two networks to be active at the same time. Clever.
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