"Beachballing?" O_O Is that an OS X thing? I've never heard that term before (in terms of computers, at least <_<)
OS X has a "mode" in which it just displays a rotating multicoloured sphere (looking like a beach ball) in place of the mouse cursor. The machine is then unresponsive. It can stay in that state for some time with some applications despite the system being theoretically robust. I don't know if it's gotten fixed since 10.4 (last version of Mac OS I used) but it was regularly quite annoying.
Um, yes... except Performer was developed on SGI machines which were always multi-CPU (for all of Performer's history anyway). It's got nothing to do with PC gaming.
Performer was early 90s, the day of the MIPS R4000 SGI machines which were single CPU (Crimson, Indigo, O2, Indy even...)
Am I missing something or is it not available for Mac and Linux?
According to the website:
System Requirements:
* Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
# 512MB of Memory, 1GB or more recommended
# Video Card: 32 MB RAM, DirectX9.0 -compliant video card and compliant audio card
# DirectX 9.0c
Might work in a virtual machine or in emulation/wine. Or not.
the car stopped being seen as an object by the majority and was now seen as a service
(that was in France, should have specified, sorry)
The US has basically always had "free" petrol. Whereas every other country has always taxed it to compensate for the huge amount of damage cars/vehicles make to infrastructure and environment.
It was presumably a political choice since pretty much all other alternatives have long since vanished or been marginalized in the US.
your gas price IS quite reasonable... or about than 7.5 dollar/gallon
You're not paying $7.50 for gas, you're paying $2 for gas and $5.50 for socialism (by the gallon).
"Socialism" being a US term meaning "decent roads" I suppose ?
As an aside, and on semi-related news, a recent sociological study showed that for the first time, the car stopped being seen as an object by the majority and was now seen as a service (as in investment/status vs. mere means of transportation).
What's more, this failure to assess risk properly is a bigger waste of tax and income than almost anything else,
While probably true, I'd love to see a proper study done on this (in any "western" country). It would certainly make for a fascinating read (berfore being proptly buried, since you have to Think of the Children, obviously)
What lol'ed me wasn't the laptop batteries but the batteries of the plane! You know, flying a plane needs batteries too. What about those? Are those safe?
I suppose in that case the risk was deemed smaller than that of a trailing power cord.
Maybe that's why we don't have electric planes. It's safer to store vast quantities of volatile, toxic, flammable fluid than to have some potentialy exploding batteries...
At any rate I'm glad somebody is looking out for my safety. I know I never could have come to their non intuitive conclusions by myself.
VPN capabilities on the iPhone are terrible, if you ask me. You either have to be running Cisco VPN or Microsoft VPN services. Where is the OpenVPN support?
You can't start having "OpenSomething" apps on a locked down iPhone. People might get strange ideas... Obviously you must be a communist or hate America (or are they done with that old meme over there yet ?).
There is also the issue of having an electrical grid that can handle that. Charging a battery in minutes with enough power to get you hundreds of miles takes a non-trivial amount of power, no matter how good your battery is.
A simple fix would be to build more roads going downhill instead of blindly following the contour lines. It would save a lot of power !
It seems obvious that planes are falling out of the sky daily because of the innumerable detonating batteries but it's all hushed up by people in dark suits. Presumably so that the public won't panic.
Thankfully I've converted all my gadgets to using a steam-engine attached to a little turbine. Carrying a few bottle of highly flammable alcohol is much safer than those unpredictable batteries.
Contrary to popular legend, homosexual behavior is prevalent in the animal kingdom. So yes, they will breed. It just won't do them much good.:\
Breeding, it doesn't mean what you apparently think it does.
And lots of animals can do without males, either by changing sex (common with numerous fish), or by doing entirely without (some fish, several insects amon others).
Privacy is not essential to a high quality of life. Having other people merely know everything you do will not decrease your quality of life. To do that, others would have to act on that information in a way that hurts you. If you are confidant that others can not use personal information against you, then there is no need for privacy.
Obviously that theoretical community of yours would not include any humans. People will use information to gain advantage on others, if only for the hell of it.
So if you have more data stored on the HD than the size of the SSD, the performance of reading this data will be ever so slightly slower than reading from the HD directly.
Obviously you need a 2TB SSD in order to get the maximum performance gains from the device.
Annoying thing is sometimes life just gets in the way of making such decisions. I hadn't flown since 2001 until March last year taking all my trips to Europe via boat, bus and train.
That's fine when you start from the UK (or some other European or pseudo-European location) but getting to Europe by train from the US (or other "foreign" place) takes forever, and don't get me started about busses.
And you should also realize that there are many organizations that still are stuck with IE6.
Well we're stuck with Gopher !
IE6 is now 10 years old. It predates Windows XP. The Windows XP which will be retired in July (or at least which ought to cease receiving support). So granted there also are orgs that are stuck with VT120s but that doesn't mean anyone has to support them.
If some people really want to develop in-house stuff using terminals or IE6, why not, but excuse us while the world moves forward. It just doesn't make sense any more to support those specifically any more (except that a terminal hooked to a machine running links or lynx or somesuch will probably work better than IE6 on a well written site).
It really seems that some people make no effort to avoid endangering themselves or others when really it's all quite simple and just requires a change of habits. Besides there's nothing like a good 60 km walk in the morning to feel refreshed all day !
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"Beachballing?" O_O Is that an OS X thing? I've never heard that term before (in terms of computers, at least <_<)
OS X has a "mode" in which it just displays a rotating multicoloured sphere (looking like a beach ball) in place of the mouse cursor. The machine is then unresponsive. It can stay in that state for some time with some applications despite the system being theoretically robust. I don't know if it's gotten fixed since 10.4 (last version of Mac OS I used) but it was regularly quite annoying.
No, some of us just remember the same crap in the 70s about how the world would be in a new ice age by now.
I'm genuinely curious - can you give me an example of scientists who predicted, in the '70s, that we'd be in an ice age by 2010?
I think it involved a global thermonuclear war and the "nuclear winter" scenario (upon which doubts have since be cast IIRC).
Um, yes ... except Performer was developed on SGI machines which were always multi-CPU (for all of Performer's history anyway). It's got nothing to do with PC gaming.
Performer was early 90s, the day of the MIPS R4000 SGI machines which were single CPU (Crimson, Indigo, O2, Indy even...)
Am I missing something or is it not available for Mac and Linux?
According to the website :
System Requirements:
* Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
# 512MB of Memory, 1GB or more recommended
# Video Card: 32 MB RAM, DirectX9.0 -compliant video card and compliant audio card
# DirectX 9.0c
Might work in a virtual machine or in emulation/wine. Or not.
the car stopped being seen as an object by the majority and was now seen as a service
(that was in France, should have specified, sorry)
The US has basically always had "free" petrol. Whereas every other country has always taxed it to compensate for the huge amount of damage cars/vehicles make to infrastructure and environment.
It was presumably a political choice since pretty much all other alternatives have long since vanished or been marginalized in the US.
your gas price IS quite reasonable ... or about than 7.5 dollar/gallon
You're not paying $7.50 for gas, you're paying $2 for gas and $5.50 for socialism (by the gallon).
"Socialism" being a US term meaning "decent roads" I suppose ?
As an aside, and on semi-related news, a recent sociological study showed that for the first time, the car stopped being seen as an object by the majority and was now seen as a service (as in investment/status vs. mere means of transportation).
You mean
You might want to
be very misrepresentative of what was actually said.
What's more, this failure to assess risk properly is a bigger waste of tax and income than almost anything else,
While probably true, I'd love to see a proper study done on this (in any "western" country). It would certainly make for a fascinating read (berfore being proptly buried, since you have to Think of the Children, obviously)
What lol'ed me wasn't the laptop batteries but the batteries of the plane! You know, flying a plane needs batteries too. What about those? Are those safe?
I suppose in that case the risk was deemed smaller than that of a trailing power cord.
Maybe that's why we don't have electric planes. It's safer to store vast quantities of volatile, toxic, flammable fluid than to have some potentialy exploding batteries...
At any rate I'm glad somebody is looking out for my safety. I know I never could have come to their non intuitive conclusions by myself.
There's been an update:
s/communist/terrorist/g
You're quite right. I obviously missed a patch there.
VPN capabilities on the iPhone are terrible, if you ask me. You either have to be running Cisco VPN or Microsoft VPN services. Where is the OpenVPN support?
You can't start having "OpenSomething" apps on a locked down iPhone. People might get strange ideas...
Obviously you must be a communist or hate America (or are they done with that old meme over there yet ?).
There is also the issue of having an electrical grid that can handle that. Charging a battery in minutes with enough power to get you hundreds of miles takes a non-trivial amount of power, no matter how good your battery is.
A simple fix would be to build more roads going downhill instead of blindly following the contour lines.
It would save a lot of power !
How many incidents with batteries occur anyway?
It seems obvious that planes are falling out of the sky daily because of the innumerable detonating batteries but it's all hushed up by people in dark suits. Presumably so that the public won't panic.
Thankfully I've converted all my gadgets to using a steam-engine attached to a little turbine. Carrying a few bottle of highly flammable alcohol is much safer than those unpredictable batteries.
Contrary to popular legend, homosexual behavior is prevalent in the animal kingdom. So yes, they will breed. It just won't do them much good. :\
Breeding, it doesn't mean what you apparently think it does.
And lots of animals can do without males, either by changing sex (common with numerous fish), or by doing entirely without (some fish, several insects amon others).
Their logo even has "GATTACA" in it.
Wow, that's so reassuring...
Privacy is not essential to a high quality of life. Having other people merely know everything you do will not decrease your quality of life. To do that, others would have to act on that information in a way that hurts you. If you are confidant that others can not use personal information against you, then there is no need for privacy.
Obviously that theoretical community of yours would not include any humans. People will use information to gain advantage on others, if only for the hell of it.
I don't think there's much point to trying to deal with Venus as it is, so the excess atmosphere has got to go.
The solution is obvious, the atmosphere that is in excess on Venus should be moved to Mars.
Then both problems are elegantly solved at once.
I'll leave the trivial implementation details to you.
So if you have more data stored on the HD than the size of the SSD, the performance of reading this data will be ever so slightly slower than reading from the HD directly.
Obviously you need a 2TB SSD in order to get the maximum performance gains from the device.
My MSI Wind Touch (Atom 330) is playing 720p without any issues, however it can't play 1080p. Mind you, on a 19' screen, 720p is way more than enough.
Screw portability, I've always wanted a netbook with a 19' screen. At least it would have a decent keyboard.
Annoying thing is sometimes life just gets in the way of making such decisions. I hadn't flown since 2001 until March last year taking all my trips to Europe via boat, bus and train.
That's fine when you start from the UK (or some other European or pseudo-European location) but getting to Europe by train from the US (or other "foreign" place) takes forever, and don't get me started about busses.
I prefer not to de-anatomized all the Anonymous Cowards.
I think it's time anonymous users were de-anathemized.
And you should also realize that there are many organizations that still are stuck with IE6.
Well we're stuck with Gopher !
IE6 is now 10 years old. It predates Windows XP. The Windows XP which will be retired in July (or at least which ought to cease receiving support).
So granted there also are orgs that are stuck with VT120s but that doesn't mean anyone has to support them.
If some people really want to develop in-house stuff using terminals or IE6, why not, but excuse us while the world moves forward. It just doesn't make sense any more to support those specifically any more (except that a terminal hooked to a machine running links or lynx or somesuch will probably work better than IE6 on a well written site).
take the subway
walk to work
result: all car accidents successfully avoided
Or move to central Australia...
It really seems that some people make no effort to avoid endangering themselves or others when really it's all quite simple and just requires a change of habits.
Besides there's nothing like a good 60 km walk in the morning to feel refreshed all day !
No no, phones are for talking. Tele-P-H-O-N-E. Sound only. No texting allowed. Heretic!
So that's what the... teletext... ? would be for ?
This phone is made for talking
And that's just what it'll do
One of these days this phone is gonna talk
All over you
(sorry)
But we're speaking about Afghanistan here, and who actually needs it?
I'm pretty sure the Afghans could find a use for it.