Indeed, we should all be content to walk our own paths. We should be content in the knowledge that for whatever reason the choices made differently work for the other person.
FWIW my XP is on 24/7. But I will qualify that. It has run 24/7 since I reformatted it Linux.
Prior to that it ran ME, later XP, and it wouldn't stay on for more than a few hours before dying horribly. I eventually traced the problem back to the Via chipset and the drivers for the old ATI graphics card I was using.
Linux makes the system run much cooler, and the Kernel has workarounds for the issues with the Via chipset. I run a special build of X for the ATI card that also allows me to use the TV tuner.
Hey, that's required in the Beatelguis system! I was going to buy a summer place out there, but between the commute and the cost of insurance it was out of the question.
I'd laugh but my great grandfather had a place out where the crab nebula is now. It had some lovely blue siding. It blew all over the fricken place.
You have to stop buying hardware that falls off the back of a truck my friend.
Not only do I run an Athlon-XP at home, I have a K6 that has been serving web-pages since 2000. Continuously, in a non-airconditioned apartment and in a dusty hayfield. While there were a few chipset oopsies for my mother board, that was Via's goof. They made the mobo chipset (and the Linux kernel compiled around it.) BTW, intel chipsets have every bit as many work arounds.
Fans you are on your own about. Having had fans quit on PIII's as often as Athlons I'd say your argument is a straw man.
Did you have problems? I don't doubt it. Do they have anything to do with your AMD microprocessor? Hell no.
And don't forget about thermonuclear war, the Spanish Flu II, grey-goo, and some numbnuts oceanologist cracking the seal of the Elder Gods.
Everyone else is content by knowing they'd go in a blink. I just know I'd be that one guy who manages to walk away, wandering the Universe like Arther Dent. And I don't mean that in a positive way, there are a lot of people, places, and things in this world a care a lot about.
No silly. They right hand books has an entry for particle accellerator. The left hand book has the same entry as "Particle Projection Canon". Don't you know the art of ambidextrous accounting?
Frankly if they spent a fraction of that amount on Science Education we would be getting somewhere too. Or combine OSS and Science Education to develop a set of textbooks that don't need to be re-purchased every year because the publisher re-orders the chapters.
You're right, they didn't create any cells at all. Viruses are acellular organisms.
I hate to bust your bubble. Viruses are bundles of protiens that hijack living cells. They lack the means to do anything on their own. That is their M.O. It is what they do.
From Dictionary.com:
Virus: pl. viruses 1. a) Any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals, and bacteria that often cause disease and that mostly consist of a core RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms. b) A disease caused by a virus.
2. Something that poisens one's sole or mind. Ex. The pernicious virus of racism.
Well except that Ebola by itself is a "harmless" virus that produces copies of itself by the billions. It just so happens to do so inside of mammalian cells.
Once a cell is infected with a virus, it is hijacked and reprogrammed to produce new copies of the virus until the cell literally explodes.
Well you answer a question with a question. The Department of Energy does bith Military and Civilian research.
The DOE does nuclear testing amoung other things. And I don't mean scantron sheets for plant operators. They used to blow things up with nuclear weapons. Since the test ban treaty they have been blowing up simulated thing with simulated nuclear bombs inside of massive clustered computing arrays.
The array runs Linux, BTW. Remember that the next time someone calls Linux a religion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Operating System for beatnicks and hippies.
Natural viruses live with the constraint that if they kill their hosts outright they can't spread and quickly die out. (Read "The Andromeda Strain" for a great book on the subject.)
And don't think that complexity in virual structure is required to make something lethal. Ebola is a VERY simply virus. So simple that it kills it's host in weeks by rupturing all of its cells from virus production. Fortunately, Ebola generally strikes in isolated regions of Africa where an infected person only has the potential to infect a few dozen people before the outbreak is contained.
If you recall the mouse-killing viruse from a few weeks ago was actually an accident. They were working on something that would sterilize the rodents. What they ended up with is something increadibly lethal.
A simple-self replicating virus that works in human cells could be the deadliest thing we ever produce.
I've worked with our planetarium's computer. Imagine, if you will, a computer screen 80 feet in diameter, in a room with perfect darkness, perfect reflectivity, and all the noisy equipment banished to a backroom.
You use the screen a lot differently when projected. A desktop screen is treated like a piece of scribble paper. You try to fill in every square inch with crap. A projected screen takes you back to the days of on window at a time. Since your eyes need so much more time to navigate the screen, your attention is at the center of a projected screen. A desktop screen is treated like paper again, you trapse the edges first, and then move to the center. As such, you almost always operate with one window at a time maximized, oversize icons, and a larger font size.
(Sniff) I miss the days of having $3,700 bucks to spend on this and that... No wait a minute. I've never had a time where I've had more that $100 bucks that wasn't allocated for bills. If I added up all the goofy things I bought that were frivilous over the last 5 years, it MIGHT add up to $3,700.
I don't envy those who can afford it. I am very content with what I do have. I have a cute little house, a car that's paid off. A wife. A kid. A job that understands that my family come first.
For now if I want a "theater" experience, I'll walk 3 blocks to the movie theater and pay 8 bucks for the privilage. Rental vids and playstation look fine on my 20".
And I'll actively seek out friends like yours who have the Sony HD-20. Does he/she live in Philadelphia by any chance?
I have a newborn. At this point I'm arguing $100 for a new CRT, and the merits of taking the bus versus parking.
Of course I know I have only to wait until the little one starts to watch movies... Muhahahaha. Then it will be a matter of do disney movies look better under LCD or DLP?
My Wife and I had a tiny apartment before we moved into our tiny house. We have been doing pretty will with just a 20" monitor (a cast-off from work). Our computer is our DVD player, and we have TV card that lets us plug in the Playstation. (Not bad considering the computer is Linux;) We don't watch any network TV. I'm too cheap for cable, and TV reception is crappy even with rabbit ears.
I definitely know what you mean by the center of attention for guests. We actually seat folks on all 4 sides of the room. We have a wireless mouse and keyboard which lets us control everything from the couch.
I should add that the reason a 20" screen works in my application is largely due to the size of my living room. 12' x 10'.
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FWIW my XP is on 24/7. But I will qualify that. It has run 24/7 since I reformatted it Linux. Prior to that it ran ME, later XP, and it wouldn't stay on for more than a few hours before dying horribly. I eventually traced the problem back to the Via chipset and the drivers for the old ATI graphics card I was using.
Linux makes the system run much cooler, and the Kernel has workarounds for the issues with the Via chipset. I run a special build of X for the ATI card that also allows me to use the TV tuner.
Mollifies fears? It's inventing fears! Fears based on an premise that flies in the face of legal tradition.
I'd laugh but my great grandfather had a place out where the crab nebula is now. It had some lovely blue siding. It blew all over the fricken place.
Ow come on, it's just dogs...
I had a bad experience!
Not only do I run an Athlon-XP at home, I have a K6 that has been serving web-pages since 2000. Continuously, in a non-airconditioned apartment and in a dusty hayfield. While there were a few chipset oopsies for my mother board, that was Via's goof. They made the mobo chipset (and the Linux kernel compiled around it.) BTW, intel chipsets have every bit as many work arounds.
Fans you are on your own about. Having had fans quit on PIII's as often as Athlons I'd say your argument is a straw man.
Did you have problems? I don't doubt it. Do they have anything to do with your AMD microprocessor? Hell no.
Don't you guys read the portage changelog?
Everyone else is content by knowing they'd go in a blink. I just know I'd be that one guy who manages to walk away, wandering the Universe like Arther Dent. And I don't mean that in a positive way, there are a lot of people, places, and things in this world a care a lot about.
Or maybe, you insensitve Creton?
Mea Culpa.
Good point.
I had to work a paper route for my first (chepo) bike. My sisters each got a Trek that they never use.
No silly. They right hand books has an entry for particle accellerator. The left hand book has the same entry as "Particle Projection Canon". Don't you know the art of ambidextrous accounting?
Frankly if they spent a fraction of that amount on Science Education we would be getting somewhere too. Or combine OSS and Science Education to develop a set of textbooks that don't need to be re-purchased every year because the publisher re-orders the chapters.
Viruses are RNA or DNA with a protein skin. They don't even metabolize. They simply hijack cells and reprogram them to be virus factories.
I hate to bust your bubble. Viruses are bundles of protiens that hijack living cells. They lack the means to do anything on their own. That is their M.O. It is what they do.
From Dictionary.com:
Once a cell is infected with a virus, it is hijacked and reprogrammed to produce new copies of the virus until the cell literally explodes.
The DOE does nuclear testing amoung other things. And I don't mean scantron sheets for plant operators. They used to blow things up with nuclear weapons. Since the test ban treaty they have been blowing up simulated thing with simulated nuclear bombs inside of massive clustered computing arrays.
The array runs Linux, BTW. Remember that the next time someone calls Linux a religion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Operating System for beatnicks and hippies.
The problem with lawyers is that they accumulate in the food chain. Predators don't eat them out of professional courtesy.
No, actually.
Natural viruses live with the constraint that if they kill their hosts outright they can't spread and quickly die out. (Read "The Andromeda Strain" for a great book on the subject.)
And don't think that complexity in virual structure is required to make something lethal. Ebola is a VERY simply virus. So simple that it kills it's host in weeks by rupturing all of its cells from virus production. Fortunately, Ebola generally strikes in isolated regions of Africa where an infected person only has the potential to infect a few dozen people before the outbreak is contained.
If you recall the mouse-killing viruse from a few weeks ago was actually an accident. They were working on something that would sterilize the rodents. What they ended up with is something increadibly lethal.
A simple-self replicating virus that works in human cells could be the deadliest thing we ever produce.
I haven't watched Network TV for more than an few hours in the last 3 years. And no cable either. TV is a waste of time and money.
You use the screen a lot differently when projected. A desktop screen is treated like a piece of scribble paper. You try to fill in every square inch with crap. A projected screen takes you back to the days of on window at a time. Since your eyes need so much more time to navigate the screen, your attention is at the center of a projected screen. A desktop screen is treated like paper again, you trapse the edges first, and then move to the center. As such, you almost always operate with one window at a time maximized, oversize icons, and a larger font size.
I don't envy those who can afford it. I am very content with what I do have. I have a cute little house, a car that's paid off. A wife. A kid. A job that understands that my family come first.
For now if I want a "theater" experience, I'll walk 3 blocks to the movie theater and pay 8 bucks for the privilage. Rental vids and playstation look fine on my 20".
And I'll actively seek out friends like yours who have the Sony HD-20. Does he/she live in Philadelphia by any chance?
Of course I know I have only to wait until the little one starts to watch movies... Muhahahaha. Then it will be a matter of do disney movies look better under LCD or DLP?
I definitely know what you mean by the center of attention for guests. We actually seat folks on all 4 sides of the room. We have a wireless mouse and keyboard which lets us control everything from the couch.
I should add that the reason a 20" screen works in my application is largely due to the size of my living room. 12' x 10'.
You could just but $100 in food and give the food to them, you know. And a food bank doesn't give cash to the needy. They buy food.