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Stereodude
Not really a
That's not how they work. They use blue lasers to excite yellow phosphors creating white light. The white light is not collimated. It's very similar to what a white LED does except they're using a blue laser to excite the phosphor instead of a blue LED.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Many HID retrofit kits have horrible edge definition and should be illegal. It's a safety issue.
Interesting possibilities open up as the video shows.
Speaking of lasers, yesterday I was reading that they have now built a rice grain sized laser.
Interesting possibilities open up as the video shows.
Speaking of lasers, yesterday I was reading that they have now built a rice grain sized laser.
Well, whatever it is will be most likely be obnoxious.
ddrueding
Fixture
I found your next avatar.
These systems are capable of identifying other cars and specifically excluding them from the beam. Having a hard time figuring out how this could be any more obnoxious than even old-fashioned headlights.
I'm half-blinded at night by excessively bright car headlights from the other side of the road.
Sorry to be skeptical, but I seriously doubt that the system will be able to identify sh*t on multilane highways with hundreds of cars. I'm sure it's nice for the driver and especially in the outback.
It's like an escalation where everyone will need superbright lights to see ahead of them and overcome the glare, then everyone will have brighter lights, and so on.
My next car will have the Klieg lights. :rofl:
Sorry to be skeptical, but I seriously doubt that the system will be able to identify sh*t on multilane highways with hundreds of cars. I'm sure it's nice for the driver and especially in the outback.
It's like an escalation where everyone will need superbright lights to see ahead of them and overcome the glare, then everyone will have brighter lights, and so on.
My next car will have the Klieg lights. :rofl:
sedrosken
Florida Man
A friend wanted to trade me his Satellite C655, specs detailed in my signature. He wanted the HDMI and USB 3.0 ports that were provided on my machine that I didn't utilize, and I wanted his obviously faster CPU. The RAM is a bit slower than I'd like, but I figure it really doesn't matter too much once you have RAM speeds in excess of 1 GHz and have an SSD. I can even use dual-channel with this machine, and as a matter of fact, I am right now. I'm using the 4GB SODIMM that came with this machine as well as the one that came with the C55, surprisingly enough it worked. He's still got the 8GB RAM upgrade.
I told him time and time again that his was the superior machine, but he said that if he was after gaming performance he wouldn't have bought a Satellite, and that he was only after the HDMI and USB 3 capabilities of my laptop.
True enough. So now I'm using a Sandy Bridge i3 instead of a Bay Trail Celeron.
I told him time and time again that his was the superior machine, but he said that if he was after gaming performance he wouldn't have bought a Satellite, and that he was only after the HDMI and USB 3 capabilities of my laptop.
True enough. So now I'm using a Sandy Bridge i3 instead of a Bay Trail Celeron.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Why is that?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Stuff breaks. Especially on crummy laptops. You probably do have a better machine now, though.
sedrosken
Florida Man
I'd imagine, being three years old, that it's out of warranty at this point.
And yes, it is better. Very much so.
And yes, it is better. Very much so.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
This is pretty awesome.
What film is that derived from?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
It's a Scandinavian ISP of some sort. They clearly did a lot of work and I thought it should be recognized.
Stereodude
Not really a
Probably LOTR or some other similar piece...
ddrueding
Fixture
If it was in an enclosure and removed quickly enough perhaps the water didn't get to the drive? The shock from the impact might also have caused damage if it wasn't straight into the water.
Stereodude
Not really a
I'm not sure I should even ask. I don't keep my portable drives or computers in the bathroom. Maybe you could try that too.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm guessing it's something like a trout trying to return to its native stream.
ddrueding
Fixture
I have a file transfer that is pegged at 222kB/s. I have no idea how big the total transfer will be (files are mostly <1MB), but I suspect it will be a few hundred GB.
Source is a telephone system that records phone calls, archive needs to happen through their crappy software running on a local workstation, destination is a NAS on the other end of 3 WAN links. Depressingly none of the WAN links are the bottleneck.
Source is a telephone system that records phone calls, archive needs to happen through their crappy software running on a local workstation, destination is a NAS on the other end of 3 WAN links. Depressingly none of the WAN links are the bottleneck.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
10.5 days for 200GB.
Have you considered a courier instead?
Have you considered a courier instead?
time
Storage? I am Storage!
Mind you, that's nearly three times faster than my DSL uplink speed in the backward world down under. 
Maybe their transfer implementation is overly sensitive to latency? Can you stage it locally and transfer it after it is complete? Mount an iSCSI LUN to the system from your remote NAS.
ddrueding
Fixture
The reason I know it isn't speed limited by the WAN links is that I had originally planned to do the file archive locally and then copy them across. It was the same speed going to the workstation that is connected via GbE to the phone system. At that point I decided to not bother with the multi-stage process and just fire the data all the way.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Out of curiosity, do we have an IRC channel?
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Not that I'm aware of...
Stereodude
Not really a
I'm half surprised someone your age knows what IRC is.
You mean like a salmon? :lol:
We tried a chat utility many years back but it never gained acceptance. If this is something people are interested in I can look into it.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Whichever. The important thing is that WD drives are just as good at being fish as storing data.
sedrosken
Florida Man
I have a QuakeNet account and a IRC client that I have set to autologin and autojoin a couple channels. I use it for chatting with a few people from another site.
Lunar, just in case you weren't being sarcastic, IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat.
QuakeNet does have a webchat thingy made in what I presume is JavaScript, and it works very well for what it is. It won't do autologin or autojoining though.
Lunar, just in case you weren't being sarcastic, IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat.
QuakeNet does have a webchat thingy made in what I presume is JavaScript, and it works very well for what it is. It won't do autologin or autojoining though.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I think we all just send PMs for non-public discussion.
sedrosken
Florida Man
Where did I say that it wouldn't be public?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I left Chrome with one tab open on cc.com (Comedy Central's web site) over night. The only addon I have installed is Adblock Plus. Chrome has six threads and is using a combined 1640MB RAM.
I am going to mention this the next time someone tells me Firefox is a memory hog.
I am going to mention this the next time someone tells me Firefox is a memory hog.