Comment Re:This is why... (Score 1) 175
Comment Re:Some quick math says... (Score 1) 359
This thing is putting nearly a quarter megawatt (240kw) drain on the power grid during use.
The quick charging station probably has some sort of means to store charge (e.g. large capacitors [boron/carbon nanotube supercapacitors?]), which can be charged over a great amount of time, and then quickly dissipated in to the automobile.
Comment Bad Summary (Score -1) 205
Even without TRIM you should expect similar performance characteristics until the cells in a specific region of the drive start to fail, because the drive doesn't know when its safe to reclaim blocks for the wear-leveling-- To have any wear leveling at all without TRIM the drive must actually set aside blocks, making it so that the user doesn't see all of the available space on the drive (when a block is rewritten, the drive can allocate a block elsewhere from the pool of free physical blocks, and then assign the old block to the pool of free blocks).
Comment Re:Leave Canada Alone (Score 3, Informative) 187
For this reason I use Internet2, Level 3's (4.2.2.2 - 4.2.2.4), and now google's dns servers.
Comment Re:Less useful (Score 1) 150
Ok, how many people do you know that have Android phones?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-market-share-passes-iphones-npd-data-2010-05-10
Comment Re:checks and balances, sue and cash in (Score 1) 1590
Comment Re:This isn't news... (Score 2, Informative) 172
Now I'll be waiting for someone to realize that the beta java plugin *just* became available....
Comment Re:Define "consumable" (Score 1) 240
Yeah, they're re-usable. But if it's stuck in a filing cabinet then you can't re-use it now can you.
And, even in a good office, I'd be amazed if even half of them got recycled into the system, and not lost/thrown away.
Confidential documents?
* Recovery of the last print might be possible?
* It's a pain to erase the pages (refeeding into an appliance)
Comment Re:Holy moley ! (Score 3, Interesting) 143
Comment Re:Don't engines use anti-freeze for their geers? (Score 2, Informative) 108
Antifreeze/coolant is only used in watercooled engines
Comment Re:My say on this (Score 1) 686
My say on this
"Not enough women" implies that the proportion between men/women is too unbalanced
"too many men" implies the same thing
so, are you saying that there is a target ratio of men to women that you want to hit?
If so, all your question basically is asking is whether there are too many people in the technology industry (being that the ratio could be met with less or more overall people).
Now to answer the real question, "Are there too many people in the technology industry?".........
Comment Re:Nah - I think you can blame Mafia Wars, Farmvil (Score 4, Funny) 174
I think you can blame Mafia Wars, Farmville
Thanks for reminding me. I need to harvest my crops!
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 596
Does this include forums and the like? I didn't see anything defining what a conversation is
Or responding to them verbally in a videogame when they start swearing?
Comment Re:$1 Million... Really? (Score 1) 621
I'd say they lost money on power consumption. Not up keep.
Running your processors at full speed raises the temperature of computers.
In the department where I work, we have seen many heat related computer deaths (especially with these machines: https://www.plymouth.edu/webapp/surplus/uploads/full_size/6630_dell_gx260-01.jpg ). I have seen the SMART statistics off of several hard drives that report them as running over temperature in their lifetime. The logs on the machines are also full of "cpu over temperature" warnings.