The Mac will most likely run most of the same software and be useable. The x86 box, unless you run linux, will probably cost you money to have somebody haul it off when you realize that all the Windows software updates wants the latest version of Windows.
Bull. 5 year old Mac can not be upgraded to run latest OS X. 5 year old PC runs XP and 2000 just fine thank you.
$500 x86 machines are made from the absolute cheapest and worst parts someone can slap together. I can't in any good consicence call them computers.
Then, I should regretfully state, you are a poser. Most $500 computers work just fine for years. Apple will end-of-life two generations of hardware before $500 PC breaks - while still being able to run latest Linux and even Windows.
I have never, ever used one. If you really need one - you can buy one of this small detachable ones.
Current keyboard design is an ancient artifact, that needs to die out. (And no, I hate DWORAK).
It is just all the functional keys needs to be reedsigned from the age of the dumb terminals..
People here who made the web happen? They are the reason standards started and evolved in a way they did - WWW was "a collabaration tool for high-energy physics" after all. BTW - we should invite them to do an interview here on Slashdot.
..the reason that HTML was such a piece of crap is that early folks (like them here at US in 1991 where pretty damn sure that everything will be TeX. It was designed for physics experiment collaborations to use. Everything else was not anticipated..
First webs server and browser in USA was developed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - 2 years before Mosaic and with most of its features in.
One of the guys who did it As far as I know he got noting out of it..
Three and four letter ones..
FUCK - Frail Underqualified Computer Kids
ASS - Absolutely Senseless Support
GAY - General Administrator Yanker
and so on..
Before writing all this, it would be helful to actually read the XACML spec. (I did - I am actually listed as one contributor to it).
It is nothing more then a thin XML layer on top. You can mark up LISP if you want - it means nothing exept you can use a lot of handy parsers to read it in.
..I have no idea why anybody pays twice the price for Michelin tires, while Bridgestones on my BMW and Kumho's on my girlfriends Honda work just freaking awsome, thank you..
Among the current theories that are more "exotic" then WIMPs (neutralino and friends) those that deal with the breakdown of the Newton law at large distances look like the most promising..
Many people do not realise that general relativity equation do have some fairly heavy assumptions - like requirement for the equations to be of no higher then second order. It may be possible to write a different theory that will lead to non-linear beahviour of acceleration for small forces. That would explain rotational curves (the most solid evidence for dark matter) without dark matter.
Nevertheless, WIMPs involve less new assumptions, at elast at this moment, so Brother Occam tells us it must be true..;)
Distribution of the Dark Matter must be heavily cusped in the middle of the galaxy to account to the observed rotational curves. It can not be explained by far away objects.
The second problem is that there must be a LOT of DM.. Not a few faint stars..
You either missed my point, or was too emotional to get it.
Hiring a highly educated worker creates more middle class jobs in the economy, then it takes away. H1B are, usually, a healthy middle class. They pay taxes to U.S. government, unlike overseas contractors.
Shipping work overseas, which will inevitably happen due to competitive pressure, destroys middle class jobs. Income gap is getting wider.
Preserving a healthy middle class is exactly my concern.
Any government sunctioned restriction on competition has been proven detremental in the long run.
Instead of getting all those jobs nasty foreigners got, work will be farmed out of the country altogether, growth will stagnate, and american professionals will end up with less jobs.
If you want improvement - kick out all that Mexican freeloaders on welfare. But we can not - because of the latino vote.
Stupid.
..so I can write a cross-platform tool to open their files.
ifstream("MyOfficeFile.doc", ios::in);
Crossplatform enough for you?
Oh, you mean edit the files? I remember writing VBA code that did that just fine.. Good documentation how to do that - much easier then working with a crazy-ass XML schema?
TCP/IP notorously bad for high latency/high error rate connection.
Hacking together a special use protocol with a push stream with ton of error corrections is not a big deal.
Or, what they are talking about is a connection up to the uplink station?
You wish. Most of them did just fine and have enough dough stashed away.
Those who jumped into stock craze in the late 99 and invested their retirement money are those who got fucked up. - if stock market lost 3 trillions - that means at least that much money changed hands. Into pocket of investment bankers, and yes, a fare share for those 24 year old MBA assholes..
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Bull. 5 year old Mac can not be upgraded to run latest OS X. 5 year old PC runs XP and 2000 just fine thank you.
Then, I should regretfully state, you are a poser. Most $500 computers work just fine for years. Apple will end-of-life two generations of hardware before $500 PC breaks - while still being able to run latest Linux and even Windows.
I have never, ever used one. If you really need one - you can buy one of this small detachable ones.
Current keyboard design is an ancient artifact, that needs to die out. (And no, I hate DWORAK).
It is just all the functional keys needs to be reedsigned from the age of the dumb terminals..
Informative presentation..
People here who made the web happen? They are the reason standards started and evolved in a way they did - WWW was "a collabaration tool for high-energy physics" after all. BTW - we should invite them to do an interview here on Slashdot.
Ibm - when piling license fees for obscure technologies.
They do...
..the reason that HTML was such a piece of crap is that early folks (like them here at US in 1991 where pretty damn sure that everything will be TeX. It was designed for physics experiment collaborations to use. Everything else was not anticipated..
First webs server and browser in USA was developed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - 2 years before Mosaic and with most of its features in. One of the guys who did it As far as I know he got noting out of it..
My Karma is giant and that's not fair. So: fuck you. Fuck you plenty and fuck you all. ;(
Pardon me, but being popular among 8-year old girls does not sound... umm... completly normal...
You can hire your own thugs for far cheaper then a lawers. Or you can just do it yourself, if the thugs are not too.. say.. thuggish..
Three and four letter ones.. FUCK - Frail Underqualified Computer Kids ASS - Absolutely Senseless Support GAY - General Administrator Yanker and so on..
Before writing all this, it would be helful to actually read the XACML spec. (I did - I am actually listed as one contributor to it). It is nothing more then a thin XML layer on top. You can mark up LISP if you want - it means nothing exept you can use a lot of handy parsers to read it in.
..I have no idea why anybody pays twice the price for Michelin tires, while Bridgestones on my BMW and Kumho's on my girlfriends Honda work just freaking awsome, thank you..
Among the current theories that are more "exotic" then WIMPs (neutralino and friends) those that deal with the breakdown of the Newton law at large distances look like the most promising.. ;)
Many people do not realise that general relativity equation do have some fairly heavy assumptions - like requirement for the equations to be of no higher then second order. It may be possible to write a different theory that will lead to non-linear beahviour of acceleration for small forces. That would explain rotational curves (the most solid evidence for dark matter) without dark matter.
Nevertheless, WIMPs involve less new assumptions, at elast at this moment, so Brother Occam tells us it must be true..
Distribution of the Dark Matter must be heavily cusped in the middle of the galaxy to account to the observed rotational curves. It can not be explained by far away objects.
The second problem is that there must be a LOT of DM.. Not a few faint stars..
You either missed my point, or was too emotional to get it.
Hiring a highly educated worker creates more middle class jobs in the economy, then it takes away. H1B are, usually, a healthy middle class. They pay taxes to U.S. government, unlike overseas contractors.
Shipping work overseas, which will inevitably happen due to competitive pressure, destroys middle class jobs. Income gap is getting wider.
Preserving a healthy middle class is exactly my concern.
Any government sunctioned restriction on competition has been proven detremental in the long run.
Instead of getting all those jobs nasty foreigners got, work will be farmed out of the country altogether, growth will stagnate, and american professionals will end up with less jobs.
If you want improvement - kick out all that Mexican freeloaders on welfare. But we can not - because of the latino vote.
Stupid.
Crossplatform enough for you?
Oh, you mean edit the files? I remember writing VBA code that did that just fine.. Good documentation how to do that - much easier then working with a crazy-ass XML schema?
So what exactly are you asking for?
TCP/IP notorously bad for high latency/high error rate connection.
Hacking together a special use protocol with a push stream with ton of error corrections is not a big deal.
Or, what they are talking about is a connection up to the uplink station?
Well, even if you just count the float - it is a hell of a lot of money that DID change hands..
Those who jumped into stock craze in the late 99 and invested their retirement money are those who got fucked up. - if stock market lost 3 trillions - that means at least that much money changed hands. Into pocket of investment bankers, and yes, a fare share for those 24 year old MBA assholes..
If they will not use x86 instruction set - what the F will they use? SPARC? MIPS? What on the earth for?
Maybe they just want to make smth that burns less then 80 watts and sell it to appliance makers over ARM and friends?
All in all the announcement looks like a damage control PR on the heels of a downgrade..
I can bench press 300lb, run marathons and did kickboxing in my school years.
Sign me up, sarge.
Did you try to patent Newton law as well? Or maybe kick in the butt? People like you who make this patent system absurd. Fuck you.