Global warming? Why has the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere grown so much?
What causes the rainforest devistation? People wouldn't cut all those trees down if there wasn't a market for them.
India has more than 1 billion people. Don't you think they should be prosperous enough to have 500,000 SUV on their highways? Do you have ANY IDEA what that would do to the encironment?
Would you like to live and commute in the Silicon Valley? Beijing? New Delhi? Mexico Coty? Breathe deep, friend!
What I was saying is the public perception that electricity generated to operate electric vehicles is somehow seen as not generating pollution. Electric power plants are extremely filthy beasts. Even hydroelectric plants screw up rivers because they are attached to dams.
Industry has sucessfuly convinced the public that they do not pollute. Notice how electric cars are referred to as 'zero emissions', which is bullshit.
What makes the Honda attractive is it uses technology to address the issue of economy and pollution. But the problem of expensive fuel and of pollution is overpopulation. Achieving a clean environment will always be a moving target... laws will continue to exact cleaner and cleaner burning automobiles. But nobody understands that this world is overpopulated. We don't need expensive econo cars like the Honda, we need zero population growth now.
Modded down? I don't think so. You're right on ther money. But, once a specific example gets out in the media, the judge will have to either jump out of the case, or face certain overturn on appeal. The eff lawyers are good enough to go to town with this one. blessings,
I've got an '82 Jetta Diesel that gets 48 mpg and has more than 315,000 mile on the original engine. Since it is so cheap, I don't have to work as hard as the robots that drive their piggy SUVs.
What sucks about X fonts is they've (?) never fixed its shortcomings. If you have StarOffice, CorelDraw, Framemaker and Canvas, you' have 4 additional installed directories of fonts for each app. And most will be incompatible with the others.
So to get decent fonts in a major app, you have to roll your own. If the Xconsortium (does it still exist) could finally iron out the probles, it would go a long way toward making X more useful across a broad spectrum of apps.
Those chickclick bitches promised to send me a free CD if I filled out a survey. Now they got my spam address and I didn't get any free CD or makeup or pantyhose in the mail.
I guess these 'young' babes are creative enough to get my info, but they are still motivated by money, just like the old farts.
The quickest way of killing oneself might be to happen to live in Columbia when the Yankees go bombing!
That said, I heartily endorse the PF method. Check out Rhodium's website. Nice formulas and experiences. Or The Hive for fun info about MDMA, AKA ecstacy, AKA Adam.
No government can own your mind. See that it is kept free.
By posting the Article, you are improperly disclosing Apple's trade secrets.
Aha! So Apple is trying to pull an Adobe Systems-style censor threat. The first line of defense for one of these is to reply to the email saying you refuse the validy of the email and and demand a certified letter of Apple's demand. By the time you get the paper either by messenger or fedex, the story has spread as much as possible. Anybody could compose an email posing as a lawyer, demanding article removal and threating legal action.
Translation: I know squat about actual, currently shipping Apple products, but based on my 5 minutes with a Quadra years ago, I'll make sweeping generalizations. What are these USB & FireWire things people are talking about? Isn't that 70s technology? DVD-RAM? AltiVec? Positively neanderthal!
Trivial and widely available stuff. In fact, my Super 7 computer I put together in April '99 has 100mhz SDRAM, just like the latest Apple G4s. It has UDMA 33, just like the latest G4's, it has an Nvidia graphics card, which will blow away the G4s, even WITH the holy grail AltaVec. And it is only a trailing-edge super 7 system. What a Joke! Do you work at Apple? Hi-tek my fanny!
Translation: Not only can I not get the product name right, but I'll confuse the bumbling, ill-managed pre-Jobs Apple with the focussed, tightly-run Apple of today. They're still "beleaguered", aren't they?
OK, so you DO work at Apple. Apple needs to quicken their step a bit. They need to RELEASE that set-top box and look at more than their current safe products. They are behind the tek curve big time. They still, however, exclusively bundle that crappy ATI video card with their top-end G4s, and will not unbundle it, so Matrix clearly sees the light that very few are going to throw away their bundled video card to replace it with a G400.
A 38% year-over-year growth in units shipped? What's that?
Unfortunately, it is less than 5% of the market. Motorola needs a larger return on investment in order to justify the effort needed to pump up the G4 to competitive levels. Still don't believe me? Just stick around and watch.
I heard CompUSA, Sears, and other Mac retailers absolutely hate Apple!
Best Buy hates Apple. But my point was for YOU to try and sell Apples. Don't think you qualify? Nobody does anymore, except your bloated big corporate mega-stores.
Right you are. I agree with everything you say here. Apple continues to be slightly behind the curve when it comes to new tech. I ain't gonna pee my pants over that low-end Nvidia chip.
But just think of ATI's fortunes suddenly turning if Apple switched to Nvidia for all their computers! Suddenly, ATI has ZERO market for their overpriced Mac cards. I've been watching 3dfx getting their toes wet with MacOS drivers for their cards, but with Apple bundling a card with every Mac, they won't continue developing their drivers for very long. Matrix was in the Mac video card game for a while (up to Millennium II), but dropped development when Apple did their exclusive bundling agreement.
Apple sealed their long-term fate in the desktop computer business when they killed the clones. They had warehouses of unsold (excellent but overbuilt and overpriced) 6500s. So for the short term, they kept more factories open, kept the price for Macs up and sold their 6500s, but long term they lost too much market share for them to be viable in the future.
Apple is at the mercy of Motorola for their G4. The economies of scale prevent this chip from competing with the I86s and Athlons. Motorola can't scale the mhz up on it given the volumne of sales.
So instead of Apple selling their high-end machines, and many clone companies selling many other Macs, AND APPLE SELLING MANY MORE COPIES OF ITS OS FOR $99 A POP, Apple is selling very few computers at a high profit margin, and very few copies of its OS at $99 a pop.
If any folks out there think Apple isn't greedy and arrogant, just try and become an Apple reseller!
I think this would be a fine chip for Apple's set-top box. The MX is an inferior chip for anybody's top-end machines. That said, the MX would be an improvement to those crappy ati cards and chips Apple bundles with their mid and top-end machines.
blessings,
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Miracles point to an extremely 'little' god. The only deity I can have is a bit more universal. If one can throw away as many pictures as possible, deity can be classified as being will, love and mind. The entire manifested universe can be described as combinations of will, love and mind, and on closer examination, love and mind are only aspects of will.
This larger view may not be comforting to an individual facing an impending personal difficulty or triumph, but prayer might be better directed to lesser, more personal deities.
The Open Source community is structured in a way that it need never issue stock, depend on market acceptance or wear brown shoes.
The most vital thing we have to offer this universe is our true selves. Many individuals manufacture a fake package which they seem to think represents what the external world desires of them, and even become so attached to this package that they think it is a true manifestation their inner selves.
It would be big news if Dell USED Crusoe. They won't budge from Intel unless their bottom line changes.
Compaq has financial woes and is acting conservative. I don't think this is a very big thing. There will likely be plenty of Crusoe laptops around. I feel sorry for the ZDnet reporter who had to put together the 'news' article.
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blessings,
What causes the rainforest devistation? People wouldn't cut all those trees down if there wasn't a market for them.
India has more than 1 billion people. Don't you think they should be prosperous enough to have 500,000 SUV on their highways? Do you have ANY IDEA what that would do to the encironment?
Would you like to live and commute in the Silicon Valley? Beijing? New Delhi? Mexico Coty? Breathe deep, friend!
blessings,
Electric cars are not the solution.
blessings,
The world is a crowded elevator and you're farting in it.
blessings,
What makes the Honda attractive is it uses technology to address the issue of economy and pollution. But the problem of expensive fuel and of pollution is overpopulation. Achieving a clean environment will always be a moving target... laws will continue to exact cleaner and cleaner burning automobiles. But nobody understands that this world is overpopulated. We don't need expensive econo cars like the Honda, we need zero population growth now.
blessings,
Modded down? I don't think so. You're right on ther money. But, once a specific example gets out in the media, the judge will have to either jump out of the case, or face certain overturn on appeal. The eff lawyers are good enough to go to town with this one.
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
So to get decent fonts in a major app, you have to roll your own. If the Xconsortium (does it still exist) could finally iron out the probles, it would go a long way toward making X more useful across a broad spectrum of apps.
blessings,
I guess these 'young' babes are creative enough to get my info, but they are still motivated by money, just like the old farts.
blessings,
That said, I heartily endorse the PF method. Check out Rhodium's website. Nice formulas and experiences. Or The Hive for fun info about MDMA, AKA ecstacy, AKA Adam.
No government can own your mind. See that it is kept free.
blessings,
blessings,
Aha! So Apple is trying to pull an Adobe Systems-style censor threat. The first line of defense for one of these is to reply to the email saying you refuse the validy of the email and and demand a certified letter of Apple's demand. By the time you get the paper either by messenger or fedex, the story has spread as much as possible. Anybody could compose an email posing as a lawyer, demanding article removal and threating legal action.
blessings,
Trivial and widely available stuff. In fact, my Super 7 computer I put together in April '99 has 100mhz SDRAM, just like the latest Apple G4s. It has UDMA 33, just like the latest G4's, it has an Nvidia graphics card, which will blow away the G4s, even WITH the holy grail AltaVec. And it is only a trailing-edge super 7 system. What a Joke! Do you work at Apple? Hi-tek my fanny!
Translation: Not only can I not get the product name right, but I'll confuse the bumbling, ill-managed pre-Jobs Apple with the focussed, tightly-run Apple of today. They're still "beleaguered", aren't they?
OK, so you DO work at Apple. Apple needs to quicken their step a bit. They need to RELEASE that set-top box and look at more than their current safe products. They are behind the tek curve big time. They still, however, exclusively bundle that crappy ATI video card with their top-end G4s, and will not unbundle it, so Matrix clearly sees the light that very few are going to throw away their bundled video card to replace it with a G400.
A 38% year-over-year growth in units shipped? What's that?
Unfortunately, it is less than 5% of the market. Motorola needs a larger return on investment in order to justify the effort needed to pump up the G4 to competitive levels. Still don't believe me? Just stick around and watch.
I heard CompUSA, Sears, and other Mac retailers absolutely hate Apple!
Best Buy hates Apple. But my point was for YOU to try and sell Apples. Don't think you qualify? Nobody does anymore, except your bloated big corporate mega-stores.
blessings,
But just think of ATI's fortunes suddenly turning if Apple switched to Nvidia for all their computers! Suddenly, ATI has ZERO market for their overpriced Mac cards. I've been watching 3dfx getting their toes wet with MacOS drivers for their cards, but with Apple bundling a card with every Mac, they won't continue developing their drivers for very long. Matrix was in the Mac video card game for a while (up to Millennium II), but dropped development when Apple did their exclusive bundling agreement.
Apple sealed their long-term fate in the desktop computer business when they killed the clones. They had warehouses of unsold (excellent but overbuilt and overpriced) 6500s. So for the short term, they kept more factories open, kept the price for Macs up and sold their 6500s, but long term they lost too much market share for them to be viable in the future.
Apple is at the mercy of Motorola for their G4. The economies of scale prevent this chip from competing with the I86s and Athlons. Motorola can't scale the mhz up on it given the volumne of sales.
So instead of Apple selling their high-end machines, and many clone companies selling many other Macs, AND APPLE SELLING MANY MORE COPIES OF ITS OS FOR $99 A POP, Apple is selling very few computers at a high profit margin, and very few copies of its OS at $99 a pop.
If any folks out there think Apple isn't greedy and arrogant, just try and become an Apple reseller!
blessings,
blessings,
This larger view may not be comforting to an individual facing an impending personal difficulty or triumph, but prayer might be better directed to lesser, more personal deities.
blessings,
Makes me wonder. The free PC market has already had quite a few casualties. Am I wrong, or wasn't the big free PC fad about this time last year?
blessings,
blessings,
The most vital thing we have to offer this universe is our true selves. Many individuals manufacture a fake package which they seem to think represents what the external world desires of them, and even become so attached to this package that they think it is a true manifestation their inner selves.
blessings,
Compaq has financial woes and is acting conservative. I don't think this is a very big thing. There will likely be plenty of Crusoe laptops around. I feel sorry for the ZDnet reporter who had to put together the 'news' article.
blessings,
They pay for them.
blessings,
Well... it at least seems simpler than Rambus. If they just let the Taiwan folks make it, we'll have it cheap.
blessings,
That's been my perception for a LONG time, but I recently made an honest comparison between the G4 500mhz and what's available on the Intel/AMD side.
Memory tech
G4 100 mhz bus
PC 133 mhz bus
PC Tech Faster
CPU Level 2 Cache Tech
G4 1mb at 1/2 CPU speed
PC 256k at full CPU speed
Toss Up (depends on the application)
Graphics Speed
G4 AGP 2X, ATI Rage 128 Pro
PC AGP 4X, GeForce2
PC Tech MUCH Faster
PCI slots
G4 66mhz PCI slots
PC 33mhz PCI slots
G4 Tech Faster
Disk Tech
G4 UDMA 33
PC UDMA 66
PC Tech Faster
blessings,