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People said the iBook looked like a toilet seat. Well this one is an entire toilet. Sorry Apple, you lose again.
I mean, the thing not only looks like shit, but it looks like somewhere you'd take a shit. Nice work Intel, I hope it has the full 3 gallon flush to get the PIII down the drain.
AltiVec is what Apple calls the Velocity Engine. I like AltiVec better, but however Apple wants to do it. I'm surprised more aren't discussing AltiVec, it is maybe the G4s most amazing feature.
Even if it becomes cheap and you can reconnect the nerve tissue so you aren't parylysed, there will be a problem:
not enough bodies.
Because 1) not that many people die w/ their body in a perfectly healthy state, those that do would also have had to agree to be used, and would have to be rushed to storage fast. There would be hardly any that would meet all the requirements. 2) If it becomes cheap enough, there will be lots of competition for a few bodies, and there could be a black market.
So, we need artificial bodies.
Actually what we really need is nanotech that will keep you healthy forever like in "The First Immortal" by James Halperin, but that's another story.
I understand what you're saying, and those incidents you discussed are really sad, but I don't think it invalidates my point. The vast majority of this country is not racist, and the few weirdos like Matt Hale or the World Church of the Creator are looked at as psychos.
But when things like the million man march, etc. are organized I just think that is very negative. If whites had a huge white-power march, minorities would scream about racism. And they'd be right. Why not just let it die.
IMO, the best situation would be, at some point inthe future, for skin color to be as important as hair color. You don't see red-heads marching and asking for more roles on TV.
My point is that if black leaders keep hilighting differences in culture, how blacks are better, etc., racism will never die.
My ancestors who came to this country God knows how many years ago were German and French and Italian and I have no idea what else. But I don't care. I think of myself as an American. I think it's strange when people say, oh you're English or German or something. After a certain number of years here(IMO, as long as you were born here and basically consier yourself American), you are just American.
These people who try to convince me of how great such and such African culture is just seem weird. It's like: who cares, what does that have to do with you? My great great(who knows how many) grandfather fought in the civil war. So what? Does that make me look better? I don't think so.
I took AP Computer Science and guess what: no blacks. But there were 2 Indian Americans(as in India, not the Iroqois), and there was only one girl. So yes there are problems. But our school is about 50% female and no one is stopping the girls to take computer science. No one is stopping blacks either. If they choose not to, that's their choice, and it's no fault of mine.
There are people who have almost all the episodes on tape, and trade to get more. Unfortunetely I don't have any Comedy Central ones on tape, and they won't trade for other things. There's also an MST3K VCD project, but I'd rather have tapes.
If anyone knows a good place with someone nice enough to just take maybe 2 or three tapes and then send one back w/ episodes on it, I'd love to find it. Lets start a Slashdot MST3K tape trading club.
This was some type of almost cult. He said that we were inferior to him. That he didn't hate us, but in the same way he didn't hate monkeys. Marijuana use also seemed to be a part of this group.
... that at least some in this country have common sense.
I hate listening to Jesse Jackson or people at the NAACP saying shit like they'll sue NBC to make them put clacks in starring roles on TV. Others saying how racist or insulting Jar-Jar is: YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC
Guess what, I bet one of the big reasons racism will continue is that some minorities feel they must shout from the hilltops about racial inequalities, etc. If they'd just shut up, people wouldn't care.
I have a part time job at a big company, and I needed to get my PC set up for NT and Lotus Notes and all. Guess what, the senior computer tech is black. But who cares. He's just a person. There's no conspiracy of people trying to oppress minorities, blacks in inner cities probably don't do any worse percentage wise than whites in inner cities. It's just that far more blacks are in inner cities than whites.
There are people at my HS in the suburbs who are black and whose parents pay a tuition so their kids can get a better education. Good for the parents.
Unfortunetely, many of these kids don't care and don't do work. Some do, and they do just as well as the kids that live in the suburbs.
I had aa kid in my math class two years ago, who was black, and who came in from the city. Well we had some weird debates in math class about racism. This kid was probably the most paranoid person I've ever talked to. He thought that the gov't was out to get blacks, that we were racists, that in fact we were inferior to him(and inferior to all blacks, he said he belonged to the 5% ers, anyone heard of this?), etc.
He was probably the most racist person I've ever known.
We also had a black speaker come to our school and talk to us about a bunch of things. One of the things she said was that pehaps John Brown(the pre-civil war guy) was really a good person, that the US gov't was making laws that prohibited people(aimed at blacks) from congregating in groups greater than 3 in public(meaning you couldn't go to a park w/ 3 other friends(this was supposed to be back years ago to try to stop protests)). That the US brought in cocaine to give to blacks in the inner city to put down protests. She also said that blacks should have a vioce in gov't. I asked what blacks would do different than whites, she said blacks wouldn't get power so why think about it. What BS. She also totally distorted facts about that incident in NYC last year where the cops shot the unarmed guy like 20 times.
She also vaguely mentioned that she worked in some gov't agency. We asked FBI, CIA? She said she couldn't say, but it was much higher-up than that.
My point is not that all blacks are like this, or that most are. That isn't true. But there are some people that love to get power by saying these things, and because the US treated minorities like shit for so long, now everyone thinks they're right or we should just let them preach this nonsense.
Everyone is basically equal, there is still some racism, but it is going down with every new generation. Let's not keep it going like this.
I also think affirmative action is about the worst idea ever. Hire people because they're qualified, not to be diverse.
I bought a pair a Adidas shoes in like March '97 for $30 at this big sale. I'm still wearing them now and haven't bought any other shoes since. They're real comfortable, but I'll probably have to replace them before school starts this year because they are falling apart and look like shit.
Who is the hell would spend that much on shoes?
BTW, My family is middle class and we live in the suburbs, my brother and sister have both buy many pairs of shoes every year.
Be got a big fat check from Intel, and now doesn't seem to interested in devoloping for PPC. Well on their site it says the reason that the BeOS doesn't work with Apple G3s is Apple won't tell Be the specs.
Well fine, but when these puppies come out, Be damn well better run on them, or we'll know what a bunch of liars those guys are.
On a side note, I'd love to buy one of these things, especially if it would run OS X Server or OS X(it's possible). Apple needs some competition, it's prices are way too high right now(seriously, go to the Apple store and do some customizations and check the prices, they're ridiculous).
Another casualty has been our tax dollars wasted sending people who did nothing wrong to jail.
I don't care if W. Bush used drugs, as long as he doesn't care if we do.
Note: I actually do not use drugs and really have no desire to, just like I really feel no need to own a gun, but I'm adament that we need to have that right.
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People said the iBook looked like a toilet seat. Well this one is an entire toilet. Sorry Apple, you lose again.
I mean, the thing not only looks like shit, but it looks like somewhere you'd take a shit. Nice work Intel, I hope it has the full 3 gallon flush to get the PIII down the drain.
G4 info here:
d uctor/cpu/7400.html
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/products/semicon
and lots of it. Anyone know estimated spec, MIPS, or GigaFLOPS for Merced at a certain MHz?
Here's a Motorola link with spec scores, MIPS, and lots of other G4 info:
d uctor/cpu/7400.html
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/products/semicon
Can anyone see this story on the main page? I can't. I only got to it by going from my user info to my previous comment to the story. What the fuck?
Here's some Photoshop benchmarks from a Mac site. Got G3s, overclocked G3s, P3s, Dual P3s, etc.
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http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/tips/photoshop5perf.
AltiVec is what Apple calls the Velocity Engine. I like AltiVec better, but however Apple wants to do it. I'm surprised more aren't discussing AltiVec, it is maybe the G4s most amazing feature.
From Motorola:
l eases/7400_pr.html
350MHz: $210
400MHz: $275
450MHz: $355
500MHz: $475
Can someone post P3 and K7 prices in comparison? They must be cheaper, but these look better than I thought.
Here's the document:
http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/library/press_re
Here's AltiVec info:
http://www.motorola.com/AltiVec/
Jobs said Apple had the biggest(I'm assuming the deal with Samsung helped them out).
Yes it sucks, but now that the G4 has AGP, you can toss it for a TNT2 or what not.
Watchthe keynote here:
y bold99/
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/se
and then go to www.apple.com and look at the pics
HOLY SHIT
BTW, you can only get a cinema display w/ a G4, not separate. What will PC users do?
Even if it becomes cheap and you can reconnect the nerve tissue so you aren't parylysed, there will be a problem:
not enough bodies.
Because
1) not that many people die w/ their body in a perfectly healthy state, those that do would also have had to agree to be used, and would have to be rushed to storage fast. There would be hardly any that would meet all the requirements.
2) If it becomes cheap enough, there will be lots of competition for a few bodies, and there could be a black market.
So, we need artificial bodies.
Actually what we really need is nanotech that will keep you healthy forever like in "The First Immortal" by James Halperin, but that's another story.
No chance! So 'mir mir' means 'world peace'. Cool.
Yeah, or "Peace, world", like you're a hippy or something.
I understand what you're saying, and those incidents you discussed are really sad, but I don't think it invalidates my point. The vast majority of this country is not racist, and the few weirdos like Matt Hale or the World Church of the Creator are looked at as psychos.
But when things like the million man march, etc. are organized I just think that is very negative. If whites had a huge white-power march, minorities would scream about racism. And they'd be right. Why not just let it die.
IMO, the best situation would be, at some point inthe future, for skin color to be as important as hair color. You don't see red-heads marching and asking for more roles on TV.
My point is that if black leaders keep hilighting differences in culture, how blacks are better, etc., racism will never die.
My ancestors who came to this country God knows how many years ago were German and French and Italian and I have no idea what else. But I don't care. I think of myself as an American. I think it's strange when people say, oh you're English or German or something. After a certain number of years here(IMO, as long as you were born here and basically consier yourself American), you are just American.
These people who try to convince me of how great such and such African culture is just seem weird. It's like: who cares, what does that have to do with you? My great great(who knows how many) grandfather fought in the civil war. So what? Does that make me look better? I don't think so.
I took AP Computer Science and guess what: no blacks. But there were 2 Indian Americans(as in India, not the Iroqois), and there was only one girl. So yes there are problems. But our school is about 50% female and no one is stopping the girls to take computer science. No one is stopping blacks either. If they choose not to, that's their choice, and it's no fault of mine.
I suck at typing. I don't know how I hit two keys down, but... is clack any kind of slur anyway? Not to my knowledge.
There are people who have almost all the episodes on tape, and trade to get more. Unfortunetely I don't have any Comedy Central ones on tape, and they won't trade for other things. There's also an MST3K VCD project, but I'd rather have tapes.
If anyone knows a good place with someone nice enough to just take maybe 2 or three tapes and then send one back w/ episodes on it, I'd love to find it. Lets start a Slashdot MST3K tape trading club.
This was some type of almost cult. He said that we were inferior to him. That he didn't hate us, but in the same way he didn't hate monkeys. Marijuana use also seemed to be a part of this group.
I can think right now which show I'd want to have all the episodes of on one of these puppies...
... that at least some in this country have common sense.
I hate listening to Jesse Jackson or people at the NAACP saying shit like they'll sue NBC to make them put clacks in starring roles on TV. Others saying how racist or insulting Jar-Jar is:
YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC
Guess what, I bet one of the big reasons racism will continue is that some minorities feel they must shout from the hilltops about racial inequalities, etc. If they'd just shut up, people wouldn't care.
I have a part time job at a big company, and I needed to get my PC set up for NT and Lotus Notes and all. Guess what, the senior computer tech is black. But who cares. He's just a person. There's no conspiracy of people trying to oppress minorities, blacks in inner cities probably don't do any worse percentage wise than whites in inner cities. It's just that far more blacks are in inner cities than whites.
There are people at my HS in the suburbs who are black and whose parents pay a tuition so their kids can get a better education. Good for the parents.
Unfortunetely, many of these kids don't care and don't do work. Some do, and they do just as well as the kids that live in the suburbs.
I had aa kid in my math class two years ago, who was black, and who came in from the city. Well we had some weird debates in math class about racism. This kid was probably the most paranoid person I've ever talked to. He thought that the gov't was out to get blacks, that we were racists, that in fact we were inferior to him(and inferior to all blacks, he said he belonged to the 5% ers, anyone heard of this?), etc.
He was probably the most racist person I've ever known.
We also had a black speaker come to our school and talk to us about a bunch of things. One of the things she said was that pehaps John Brown(the pre-civil war guy) was really a good person, that the US gov't was making laws that prohibited people(aimed at blacks) from congregating in groups greater than 3 in public(meaning you couldn't go to a park w/ 3 other friends(this was supposed to be back years ago to try to stop protests)). That the US brought in cocaine to give to blacks in the inner city to put down protests. She also said that blacks should have a vioce in gov't. I asked what blacks would do different than whites, she said blacks wouldn't get power so why think about it. What BS. She also totally distorted facts about that incident in NYC last year where the cops shot the unarmed guy like 20 times.
She also vaguely mentioned that she worked in some gov't agency. We asked FBI, CIA? She said she couldn't say, but it was much higher-up than that.
My point is not that all blacks are like this, or that most are. That isn't true. But there are some people that love to get power by saying these things, and because the US treated minorities like shit for so long, now everyone thinks they're right or we should just let them preach this nonsense.
Everyone is basically equal, there is still some racism, but it is going down with every new generation. Let's not keep it going like this.
I also think affirmative action is about the worst idea ever. Hire people because they're qualified, not to be diverse.
Just my 2
I bought a pair a Adidas shoes in like March '97 for $30 at this big sale. I'm still wearing them now and haven't bought any other shoes since. They're real comfortable, but I'll probably have to replace them before school starts this year because they are falling apart and look like shit.
Who is the hell would spend that much on shoes?
BTW, My family is middle class and we live in the suburbs, my brother and sister have both buy many pairs of shoes every year.
Me, I'll stick with what feels good.
Do all the Ambrosia people lurk on Slashdot, or did you just come to see this story?
BTW, I live in Rochester, own a Mac, and tons of us Mac users still want internet EV. Go Ambrosia!
Be got a big fat check from Intel, and now doesn't seem to interested in devoloping for PPC. Well on their site it says the reason that the BeOS doesn't work with Apple G3s is Apple won't tell Be the specs.
Well fine, but when these puppies come out, Be damn well better run on them, or we'll know what a bunch of liars those guys are.
On a side note, I'd love to buy one of these things, especially if it would run OS X Server or OS X(it's possible). Apple needs some competition, it's prices are way too high right now(seriously, go to the Apple store and do some customizations and check the prices, they're ridiculous).
He died of cancer, moron. Maybe he got pneumonia from the chemo or something.
Another casualty has been our tax dollars wasted sending people who did nothing wrong to jail.
I don't care if W. Bush used drugs, as long as he doesn't care if we do.
Note: I actually do not use drugs and really have no desire to, just like I really feel no need to own a gun, but I'm adament that we need to have that right.
Sorry I am stupid, forgot link.
and a program called Macromedia SoundEdit, w/ SWA export. I find the quality to be excellent. Anyone else here used that?
Here's a link to a Macintouch.com column w/ comparisons of different(Mac) encoders. Soundedit takes a long time, but it is the best.