maybe you're referring to the NV series clies, I don't know. But my Clie T615C is lighter, smaller, more stylish, AND has more features than did the Palm m130 I had just before this. All for the same price. Honestly, I don't know WHY anyone would buy a Palm brand.
And as for stability, results may vary. I had to reset my Clie once. It was from installing new apps.
I almost think there ought to be a "Slashdot Interviews" support group for all those great people who get interviewed by slashdot, and then get bashed in the comments by the vocal minority.
127,000 wasn't the money you were being offered - it was part of the return path for the email they sent you, slashdot being notorious spammers. 127.0.0.0
As for castration, I think CowboyNeal would be the most amenable of the bunch.
This has nothing to do with pimping GNOME. If SVG really does render faster than equivalent pngs, plus is fully scalable, it will probably make its way into KDE also, and anything that a) makes the UI faster, and b) makes nicer UIs less intensive is good for every non-proprietary OS. The nice thing about SVG for UI elements is that it would mean no longer including different sizes of wallpaper - one would work fine, without lossy resizing. The implications on the desktop are endless. This is a Good Thing(tm) for everyone.
A lot of people are whining about how easy it is to fool a finger printer, but I think combined with a PIN or something, it'd be pretty reasonably secure - you can't just casually pull people's prints and just charge things to the print, you'd have to study your victim, and manage to get their pin, too. It'd just be an easy way of substituting your finger for the plastic. Stealing credit card numbers is easier than stealing someone's finger print, anyway.
I don't think its so much an issue of "does it improve performance for the consumer" but, "can we match consumer performance, and get quantity up so that it will be profitable to produce"
remember... almost all those major server processors out there were designed and are sold to a very limited number of computers... if AMD can make a server processor, and sell it to the low-end servers, business, and home computers, they can make it profitable to produce the darned thing.
At that point, home computers and servers can have mostly the same silicon, produced cheaply, and advances benefit both markets very quickly.
The way I see it, AMD just wants to merge the two markets some and pick up the economies of size.
I spend a lot of my free time reading ebooks, but I actually do PRODUCTIVE thigns with mine, too. As a college student, I have more classes and assignments that I can really manage to remember without some central way of tracking them. At the beginning of each semester, I take the syllabi (sp?) for all my classes and enter important dates in the calendar, and all assignments into the tasklist. It makes my life so much simpler. And while I'd be a liar if I said I never turned in an assignment late since, it's always been by choice, and never by accident.
Ep 6 was filmed in the jungles of Guatemala - when the government found it out, they were quite upset, and tried to get them to credit the location (the jungle forests are quite beautiful, too), so now they have ironclad restrictions on filming in Guatemala.
well, with Dell's recent "get a free 15" LCD upgrade with Dimension 4550 purchase" promotion, I'm sure a lot of newbs and bargain hunters picked up LCDs. Dell is the largest retailer of new computers, after all. In addition, factor in universities and businesses (my whole university minus a few small areas went LCD), and you have A LOT of LCDs being purchased.
That kind of commenting usually only results when someone is told that they need to comment their code after the fact. If you write out in english (or whatever or your native language may be) the process that you'll be using for this method or class or whatever, and then develop the code within your outline, then you don't get extraneous code. And then of course there's the plain and simple need to explain certain not-so-obvious constructs or the reasoning behind solving a problem a certain way, but just think of the questions you ask yourself when you read someone else's code - "What is he doing here?" "How does this work?" "Why did he do that?"
and try to answer them yourself when you're coding.
well... cooling down overheating chips is just a cover... it carries an EMP device and pulses the whole data center if it detects anything covered by the DMCA. They're going to release a scaled-down version for home computers, sell them to overclockers, and pulse home computers, too.
spray down really hot people? That sounds scary. Yeah. Besides... the slashdot audience has nothing to worry about... he'll be starting with marathons - places where obviously you wouldn't find your typical slashdot reader.
Except that there are people who object to certain types of content, but the story of the movie really interests them. Allowing for edited films increases the size of the audience for the movie. Allowing certain "private clubs" (which is how they typically get around the copyright issue... it's not "public" distribution or rental - you have to be part of their "private club" which is simple enough) increases the market penetration for those marketroids, and their artistic work is appreciated by more people. There've been a lot of movies where I walk out and say "that was pretty good, except for..." where there's typically some kind of gratuitous violence or sex scene. And in some ways, it comes down to this - as an example - what's the difference between art and pornography? While one may not object to pornography personally, I think it's intolerant to not accept the fact that some people find it obscene, or choose not to subject their children to it. So the distinction between gratuitous and artistic is personal, and should therefore be left in the hands of the individual.
don't I remember hearing something about hard drive platters being spun so fast they either vibrate off the spindle and shoot off, or just shatter? I think it's a limitation of spinning just about anything fast enough.
I might almost agree with you, except, I think the so-called piracy as it exists now isn't BAD. The people who are inclined to spend money on music will download music, listen to it, and buy it if they like it. Those who are committing the true piracy are the ones who wouldn't pay for it in the first place, so there was technically nothing lost on the part of the music industry. Now, I understand this isn't COMPLETELY true... there are those who would have bought music, but now instead download it, but the increase in the purchase of music by those who already did seems to be drastically greater, so as to make up for the difference, and then some.
the term voxel is hardly new. I recall reading about 3d projections and displays and them using the term "voxel" in association with them close to 12 years ago. And it's not any stupider than calling a 3d square a "cube."
You are just thick (I don't mean to imply thick in the head... just rife) with cynicism. I believe that although cynical, you're not far off with the candidates being profiteers. The difference, and the reason why I vote, is the means of seeking that profit.
I didn't vote because the absentee ballot didn't make it to me in time (stupid guatemalan mail system), but I would have cast my ballot for Bush. Why? They both represent special interest groups. He just happens to represent my special interests better than Gore would have. *shrug*
To me it's always been a matter of hte lesser of two evils.
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maybe you're referring to the NV series clies, I don't know. But my Clie T615C is lighter, smaller, more stylish, AND has more features than did the Palm m130 I had just before this. All for the same price. Honestly, I don't know WHY anyone would buy a Palm brand.
And as for stability, results may vary. I had to reset my Clie once. It was from installing new apps.
I almost think there ought to be a "Slashdot Interviews" support group for all those great people who get interviewed by slashdot, and then get bashed in the comments by the vocal minority.
127,000 wasn't the money you were being offered - it was part of the return path for the email they sent you, slashdot being notorious spammers. 127.0.0.0
As for castration, I think CowboyNeal would be the most amenable of the bunch.
Rock on. SVG will save the world!
This has nothing to do with pimping GNOME. If SVG really does render faster than equivalent pngs, plus is fully scalable, it will probably make its way into KDE also, and anything that a) makes the UI faster, and b) makes nicer UIs less intensive is good for every non-proprietary OS. The nice thing about SVG for UI elements is that it would mean no longer including different sizes of wallpaper - one would work fine, without lossy resizing. The implications on the desktop are endless. This is a Good Thing(tm) for everyone.
A lot of people are whining about how easy it is to fool a finger printer, but I think combined with a PIN or something, it'd be pretty reasonably secure - you can't just casually pull people's prints and just charge things to the print, you'd have to study your victim, and manage to get their pin, too. It'd just be an easy way of substituting your finger for the plastic. Stealing credit card numbers is easier than stealing someone's finger print, anyway.
I don't think its so much an issue of "does it improve performance for the consumer" but, "can we match consumer performance, and get quantity up so that it will be profitable to produce"
remember... almost all those major server processors out there were designed and are sold to a very limited number of computers... if AMD can make a server processor, and sell it to the low-end servers, business, and home computers, they can make it profitable to produce the darned thing.
At that point, home computers and servers can have mostly the same silicon, produced cheaply, and advances benefit both markets very quickly.
The way I see it, AMD just wants to merge the two markets some and pick up the economies of size.
I spend a lot of my free time reading ebooks, but I actually do PRODUCTIVE thigns with mine, too. As a college student, I have more classes and assignments that I can really manage to remember without some central way of tracking them. At the beginning of each semester, I take the syllabi (sp?) for all my classes and enter important dates in the calendar, and all assignments into the tasklist. It makes my life so much simpler. And while I'd be a liar if I said I never turned in an assignment late since, it's always been by choice, and never by accident.
Ep 6 was filmed in the jungles of Guatemala - when the government found it out, they were quite upset, and tried to get them to credit the location (the jungle forests are quite beautiful, too), so now they have ironclad restrictions on filming in Guatemala.
well, with Dell's recent "get a free 15" LCD upgrade with Dimension 4550 purchase" promotion, I'm sure a lot of newbs and bargain hunters picked up LCDs. Dell is the largest retailer of new computers, after all. In addition, factor in universities and businesses (my whole university minus a few small areas went LCD), and you have A LOT of LCDs being purchased.
That kind of commenting usually only results when someone is told that they need to comment their code after the fact. If you write out in english (or whatever or your native language may be) the process that you'll be using for this method or class or whatever, and then develop the code within your outline, then you don't get extraneous code. And then of course there's the plain and simple need to explain certain not-so-obvious constructs or the reasoning behind solving a problem a certain way, but just think of the questions you ask yourself when you read someone else's code -
"What is he doing here?"
"How does this work?"
"Why did he do that?"
and try to answer them yourself when you're coding.
well... cooling down overheating chips is just a cover... it carries an EMP device and pulses the whole data center if it detects anything covered by the DMCA. They're going to release a scaled-down version for home computers, sell them to overclockers, and pulse home computers, too.
spray down really hot people? That sounds scary. Yeah. Besides... the slashdot audience has nothing to worry about... he'll be starting with marathons - places where obviously you wouldn't find your typical slashdot reader.
luck of the draw and getting in early.
the frequency of intelligible sequences of numbers always decreases with each order of magnitude.
Except that there are people who object to certain types of content, but the story of the movie really interests them. Allowing for edited films increases the size of the audience for the movie. Allowing certain "private clubs" (which is how they typically get around the copyright issue... it's not "public" distribution or rental - you have to be part of their "private club" which is simple enough) increases the market penetration for those marketroids, and their artistic work is appreciated by more people. There've been a lot of movies where I walk out and say "that was pretty good, except for..." where there's typically some kind of gratuitous violence or sex scene. And in some ways, it comes down to this - as an example - what's the difference between art and pornography? While one may not object to pornography personally, I think it's intolerant to not accept the fact that some people find it obscene, or choose not to subject their children to it. So the distinction between gratuitous and artistic is personal, and should therefore be left in the hands of the individual.
I'll agree with you on one point, and disagree with you on another.
DoD spent money and manhours = embarassingly inefficient
DoD products = highly redundant, bullet-proof, and fairly efficient
generally speaking, of course.
minor correction - ad infinitum should be ad nauseum
whoa, whoa JonKatz... save it for your column so all those of us who want to ignore you, can.
don't I remember hearing something about hard drive platters being spun so fast they either vibrate off the spindle and shoot off, or just shatter? I think it's a limitation of spinning just about anything fast enough.
I might almost agree with you, except, I think the so-called piracy as it exists now isn't BAD. The people who are inclined to spend money on music will download music, listen to it, and buy it if they like it. Those who are committing the true piracy are the ones who wouldn't pay for it in the first place, so there was technically nothing lost on the part of the music industry. Now, I understand this isn't COMPLETELY true... there are those who would have bought music, but now instead download it, but the increase in the purchase of music by those who already did seems to be drastically greater, so as to make up for the difference, and then some.
Guns don't kill people, bullets don't kill people, loss of blood from gaping wounds kills people.
BAN FLESH WOUNDS! BAN THE LOSS OF BLOOD! DOWN WITH BLOOD BANKS!
the term voxel is hardly new. I recall reading about 3d projections and displays and them using the term "voxel" in association with them close to 12 years ago. And it's not any stupider than calling a 3d square a "cube."
You are just thick (I don't mean to imply thick in the head... just rife) with cynicism. I believe that although cynical, you're not far off with the candidates being profiteers. The difference, and the reason why I vote, is the means of seeking that profit.
I didn't vote because the absentee ballot didn't make it to me in time (stupid guatemalan mail system), but I would have cast my ballot for Bush. Why? They both represent special interest groups. He just happens to represent my special interests better than Gore would have. *shrug*
To me it's always been a matter of hte lesser of two evils.
I have to ashk you about the penish mightier.
Gushy it up however you like, trebek, the question is does it work?