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Here is my prediction: instead of announcing a switch to Intel in 2006 or 2007 and instantly killing the Mac business and Apple, Steve Jobs will demo Mac OS X Tiger on an Apple / Dell / HP / Sony x86 PC side by side with a 2-way Power Mac G5 with 3.2 GHz dual core PowerPC 970MP, which can be ordered immediately and delivered within 4 weeks.

Unlike Microsoft, Apple doesn't normally hype new products until they are nearly ready. In fact, no sane company would announce future plan that would put a stop to its current revenue stream.

There is just too much vested interest in PowerPC from Mac developers and users both technologically and emotionally, and it would be suicidal for Apple to dump something that has served the core Mac community well for over a decade. It's an unnecessary risk for no apparent reward.

Journalists prefer sensational stories, or they just don't understand Apple's business and technology. A complete switch to Intel makes a dramatic story, but is not going to happen if logic and common sense prevail.

Why on earth would Apple switch when IBM Power Everywhere is kicking Intel's butt from supercomputers to next generation Sony PlayStation 3 to Microsoft Xbox 360 to Nintendo Revolution?

Compared to the legacy ridden Intel Pentium 4, IBM PowerPC is a clean and efficient RISC architecture. For comparable performance, the 2.7 GHz G5 (PowerPC 970FX) chip is half the size of the 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon P4 with 58 million transistors in G5 instead of 169 million in P4, and the power dissipation is 59 W for the G5 and 110 W for the P4.

Apple is the last company on earth that would prefer an inferior technology just for market share. A CPU switch could have made some business sense a few years ago, but not now when PowerPC is gaining unprecedented momentum.

Perhaps more importantly, this is about Mac OS X embracing the market leading Intel chips in order to break the deadly Microsoft Monoculture that has been stifling innovations and become a national security risk. Supporting both PowerPC and x86 would give Mac OS X another huge advantage over Windows and challenge the Microsoft monopoly.

Read more Intel inside Apple may break Windows monoculture.

And some people ask why is the quality of health care in the U.S. deteriorating? I also just read an article from some Boston University that showed the real reason that Doctors malpractice insurance is not due to lawsuits, but is, in fact, due to the greedy insurance companies. On the other hand: Greedy Dentists want to Screw Alaskans Mouths

Time for some changes.

Rural Alaska nuclear power gets legislative backing

I'm guessing he isn't repelling any females.

Rural Alaska nuclear power gets legislative backing

http://reprap.org/

the blog is cool too

http://reprap.blogspot.com/

This would make a better type of bot wars, building their weapons with available materials and blasting each other with them heh

No one has stayed year-round on the island since 1954

That's why you need an island that no one ever goes to. That rules out the tropical islands, like in the Jurassic Park movies.I'm talking someplace desolate that almost no one has ever heard of, and wouldn't want to go to even if they did.

President Bush to Liberate Alaska

That's why you need an island that no one ever goes to. That rules out the tropical islands, like in the Jurassic Park movies.I'm talking someplace desolate that almost no one has ever heard of, and wouldn't want to go to even if they did.

President Bush to Liberate Alaska

President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

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I wish i wouldnt rise to obvious trolls.But i cant resist and yet i havent anything better to say than this Guy

Now you know why we love the Aunty.

• Memory and resource usage
• Rendering and adhering to web standards
• Security

• Memory and resource usage
• Rendering and adhering to web standards
• Security

• Memory and resource usage
• Rendering and adhering to web standards
• Security

My thoughts on the topic.

• Memory and resource usage
• Rendering and adhering to web standards
• Security

• Memory and resource usage
• Rendering and adhering to web standards
• Security

That's why it's called Morse Code, to keep the uninitiated out of the loop. Shhhh!

"Free falling from 15,000 feet is faster than landing in a plane from the same height. Doesn't mean you want to go ahead with it." But some of us do, actually.

The King

President Bush to Liberate Alaska!

it's a dupe...:)

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This is why cancer will never be cured: http://ianmac7.blogspot.com/

If you can express the algorithms you need in a non-serial form, and get them to operate in a data-flow or other architecture which can operate on all of the data at the same time, you can really kick up your compute performance.

Of course, as long as people stick with the stupid requirement that you must be able to program it in C++ (or Java), you'll never get there.

Really big computing tasks just don't want to get squeezed down to the flow into and back out of a single serial set of instructions. It's that simple.

--Mike--

When my email arrives, I automatically receive an audible notification on my cellphone and can check the message right from the phone. So it's essentially beeing fed to me 'intravenously' so to speak. Does that make an addict of me?

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shouldn't that read http://pigeon.google.com/ ?

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Yes, because the pirate is not closed, it is down for upgrades. You can read it here (in swedish :P): http://pirazine.blogspot.com

I wrote a blog entry about that a few weeks ago.

Stephen

Nope.. its just an joke by the tpb guys.
The server is actually just down for maitinance.

http://pirazine.blogspot.com/
(swedish)

Unless you attende all honors / AP courses in high school, a public high school does a pretty piss-poor job in preparing younglings for college just because of this reason, namely , the emphasis on memorization and busywork. Even some honors classes fall prey to the same problem. Once kids get into college, they are confronted with real challenges, where you really have to understand material and not just memorize hashtables of information. That is when kids start to dropout and so forth. I completely agree with the author: we need less mindless memorization and churning and more conceptual inderstanding of the sciences and the arts inside the highschools so that the kids don't end up dropping out or jumping off bridges once in college.

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No, it's just down for maintenance. Will be back within a couple of hours.

Source: http://pirazine.blogspot.com/2005/06/pirate-bay-ne re-fr-uppgradering.html

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Is this guy: http://devrock.blogspot.com/

I don't know if he's making any money, but it's one of the few, rare, raw blogs I've read. I just wish he'd update it more often.

P.

http://oceanclub.blogspot.com/

I kinda doubt that Hulk's Blog is going to go Corporate ... ;-)

If you still think blogging is about teenagers keeping their journals, you're so 2003.

Blogging has entered business in a big way, and people getting paid to blog is a natural progression. A good blogger must be able to crank out topical posts every day, often more than one entry a day. It ain't easy. I try to keep up my graphic blog (at: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/) regularly and the best I can do is about one post every two days.

The lady in the Wall Street Journal article blogs for a yogurt company. I'm sure blogging is a more effective way of pulling in business than, say, sending out sample dispensers in supermarkets, which is kind of messy, plus the company has to provide all the samples that always get eaten by people who never buy. Of course, her blog will be even more popular now that she's got a write-up in Wall Street Journal.

http://ichikawa.blogspot.com/2005/05/texas-bans-ma rriage.html

I think that the orginal snippet of an article here is sadly lacking in information. Maybe with the pressure to hit all the attractions that person didn't have the time to really get a feel for the potential that I see in this game. What I see in Vanguard is a game that is keeping the depth I want while fixing a lot of the issues that EQ had and adding some funky twists: seabattles, diplomacy, perception system, a different crafting system to name just a few. There is so much more to Vanguard than that article conveys! For anyone who wants to read for themselves here is a link to a list of links for information about Vanguard. I recommend the E3 write ups on the fansite forums for lots of really specific descriptive goodness. There is also a good crafting link there if crafting floats your boat. http://twitchme.blogspot.com/ On the subject of casuals not liking Vanguard: The really weird thing about all this is that for 3 of the years I played EQ everyone I knew in raiding guilds called me a "casual" player. I didn't play every day and when I did play sometimes I never got any experience at all. I dabbled in crafting, learned all the languages, explored all the zones. It took me a year total to reach the level caps. When I did it was the beginning of the end of the game for me. As a casual player found I enjoyed the journey more than the end and I loved Everquest because of the difficulty. The difficulty is what gave me a longer journey to enjoy. The other mmorpg's out there right now are just too easy. The leveling is too fast and there is too much "guidance". I want to be able to make mistakes. I want to be able to deal with people in all their glory, good and bad. I want more interaction, down with instances! I want depth. I want diffculty. I want something that when I finally hit that cap I can look back and say "wow, I can't believe I finally made it!!" I want Vanguard to be that game and I think that's the direction they're going.

maybe that is our destiny.. the victory of the machine over human-kind..

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if you change the format for whatever purpose, wouldn't it by definition not be a CD anymore?

It's still a CD, it just isn't an Audio CD.

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Don't worry, I won't click this :)

Nothing would give a greater boost to the robot industry than a RoboGirl...

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If you honestly think that people's lives are better in present-day Iraq than under Hussein, I'd recommend reading some primary source accounts. Under Hussein, people had running water, reasonably reliable electricity, and stable fuel supplies. Just try to imagine turning on your tap in a city of millions and finding that nothing flows from it.

People in Iraq are forced to live in constant fear of the anarchy around them. Suicide bombers, kidnappers, a corrupt police force, and the former dregs of Saddam's jails all terrorize the citizens of Iraq every single day.

But, you say, losing some of the necessities of modern living, and even the most basic degree of personal safety and security, is a small price to pay for Freedom. I'd imagine that many would disagree with that statement, but it's beside the point anyway. The Iraqi people are far less free today than they were under Hussein. Iraq is turning into an increasingly harsh theocracy, and the first victims of it are the nation's women, who are increasingly being forced to live like those in Iran.

There wasn't much hope for improvement under Hussein, but there's even less hope now. It will take an entire generation just to bring the nation back to the standard of living it had under its former dictatorship.

It reminds my of the flight attendant who lost her job for her blog.

And then there was the Washingtonienne debacle...

Its key advantage over photovoltaics and batteries is that it stores the energy in a way which will work with our existing infrastructure (internal combustion engines).

Canola is a popular oilseed crop for biodiesel. I did a quick look, and found that the yield of canola is around 1.26 tonnes/ha and is around 40% oil by weight. This means that a hectare of canola will give about 0.50 tons of oil; if the weight of oil and the product biodiesel are approximately equal (MW of glycerol = 92, MW of methanol * 3 = 96) you'll get .50 tonne/ha/year. If it's equal in energy content to #2 petroleum diesel [119,110 BTU/lbm] (which it isn't, but this favors biodiesel) that half-tonne yields 6170 kWh of chemical energy; burned in an engine at 40% efficiency, the output is ~2470 kWh.

If the efficiency of a PV/battery electric vehicle is 65% from panel output to wheels, getting 2470 kWh to the road requires 3800 kWh at the panel. If you average 5 hours sunlight for a year (1825 hours), you'd need only 2.1 kW of average PV output to get that 3800 kWh.

Growing the canola takes a hectare (10,000 m^2) plus fertilizers and cultivation. The 2.1 kW PV system would fit on a 100 m^2 roof with plenty of space left over and requires an occasional rinsing if rain doesn't wash the dust off. The key advantage is that you can power most of your transport on next to nothing once you have made the investment in a GO-HEV, and conversion of "standard" hybrids to GO-HEVs is something that can be done by amateurs.

http://phantomprof.blogspot.com/

It is entertaining actually.

Yeah, but why do I want to meet some chubby chick who has to hang out at the dork-center to find guys

Because she might be a hard core butt slut!

They're certainly in the same vein, but the citation I'm thinking of is not among them. Churchill could probably add one or two lines to the family, such as his famous "democracy" epigram.

The source I used had some quotes from Churchhill, here it is, Collected Quotes on Politics

Seconded.

This guy has a great sense of humor. If you scroll to the bottom of his questions/answers section:

Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of "Unleashed," when you make the case for women being able to stir a man's humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote.

C. Perla, Miami

A. Wouldn't you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?


If you like laughing at Ann Coulter, please don't miss these stories:

http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/

http://backinanncoultersasssaddleagain.blogspot.co m/

(bye karma...)

This guy has a great sense of humor. If you scroll to the bottom of his questions/answers section:

Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of "Unleashed," when you make the case for women being able to stir a man's humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote.

C. Perla, Miami

A. Wouldn't you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?


If you like laughing at Ann Coulter, please don't miss these stories:

http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/

http://backinanncoultersasssaddleagain.blogspot.co m/

(bye karma...)

That would be Buridan's Ass between two piles of hay.

First Post?

I've been thinking about how one has to devote time to a Windows based machines versus a Mac. Prior to Microsoft's Monthly Update (where they release patches for vulnerabilities) it wasn't uncommon to find a new patch every few days or weeks. I've been on a Mac since September of 2004 and can count on my hands the number of patches that have been released to address vulnerabilities. The thing I've noticed is that Microsoft releases a patch after a vulnerability has been identified whereas Apple releases a patch well in advance of the public learning of the vulnerability.
I have a background in Enterprise Hosting but on the UNIX side. I've seen so many examples where sites must go down in order to apply a patch to Windows and often, that can cause problems to an application and/or site. Futhermore, when a problem is faced a common workaround is to reboot the WinTel machine ... which in turn causes a site to go down. This is very serious when a customer's business relies on the uptime of their site. In addition, many customers decide to hold off on a patch until they can test it in a staging environment. As a result, some open themselves to the vulnerability and get exploited on their production systems.

The point I'd like to make is that Windows based systems require that you spend a lot of time and effort to keep them secure and operational.

On Macs, you spend your time working and find yourself productive. This is the case with UNIX based systems. Less time is spent securing and protecting the server, your time is focused on the issues that matter most ... work, productivity, and uptime.

My hobbies include video and photo editing. I was so tired to be in the middle of editing a video sequence and then seeing the Blus Screen of Death on Windows. What angered me so much was that I would end up loosing the edits, the project would at time become corrupt, and the time I spent went down the tubes. That's when I decided to Switch.

Any thoughts or comments?

http://switchtoamac.blogspot.com/