Yeah, that's cool you can say "it has 1,600,000 books" but how are they categorized? Is the interface for selecting and searching for books intuitive? If the laptops are targeted to a younger audience are the selected books at an appropriate reading level for the age? I mean, this is really only useful if they can create a really, really, good front end.
SCART looks pretty advanced for it's time, it's like component video right? We're all using HDMI now though, or at least we should be. I would have hoped HDMI would have eliminated country specific standards.
You'd probably only save about $15 in other states that don't have such high electricity costs. If the TV cost you $150 more, it would take 10 years to recoup that cost, by which time you'd probably already buy a new TV anyway.
You're still assuming government regulation is more efficient than market rate. Sure a more efficient TV might save you money in electricity, but what if it costs $200 more up front? What if that's because it took $200 more electricity to manufacture? We would never know, because you can't micromanage industries like this. The only reason it would save energy in California is because they force production sources that are already too expensive to begin with. The main thing I hate about liberalism is that it assumes we are all stupid up front. Oh, you are too dumb to buy an energy efficient TV, so we'll make you!
The flat-line of per capita electricity consumption is proabably because all the energy intensive industries have moved out of state and out of country along with the jobs. But if you want to promote California's technological backwardness in regards to energy production go right ahead.
Cygwin is a huge pain. Yeah, it sort of gives you a POSIX environment, but good luck getting anything to actually compile under it without hours of frustration.
Qt is okay for networking applications, but in my experience Boost has much, much better performance, not to mention better support for things like multicast without creating some hacks. Qt ends up using a lot of Qt specific classes internally to create buffers and network functions, so it ends up being slower than Boost which seems to act more as a wrapper than anything.
This is an electron scanning microscope, not a toaster. Why would you use some proprietary OS on an embedded system? Even a lot of new oscilloscopes are running Windows now and work quite well. Good luck getting all your proprietary commercial scientific libraries to compile on some random dedicated operating system in flash memory.
I get pretty upset at work when people save freaking
I agree. When I build a new system I first:
memtest86+
cpu test with something like prime95
CPU+GPU test with prime95 and then another 3D game running in the background.
If it survives that last test, then it's good. I've found overheating of my system to be the main cause of crashes. I've actually had to underclock my RAM to get it stable. If something does fail, I swap that component or add more fans and try again.
Applications limited to 2GB of RAM forever? No thanks.
How many people write drivers? And will this actually hurt hobbyists who want to write their own?
Windows 7 it's even easier than that. You just click and drag the title bar towards the top of the screen you want it to maximize too. Or, you can click the maximize button, to maximize it to the monitor the window is currently on. This is coming from someone who uses 3 monitors.
My point was, even back then there was a push to improve graphics quality. I don't see why that shouldn't change now.
Would a company that big actually insure against theft loss from a single store? I would think it would be cheaper for them to insure themselves.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
