This contrasts with the latest PowerBooks and my previous laptop a Sony Vaio (ain't it cute) which both got up to scorching temperatures within minutes of lap top use.
Funny world. I have one of those scorching Powerbooks, swapping it for a Vaio Z1 (nice Centrino chip - 3 hours plus battery life on first charge with two WLAN cards active!).
This Vaio is not hot at all (temperature wise) - been running it for hours on AC power (full speed) without any discomfort. The only annoyance is that a loud fan kicks in when the CD drive is in use under AC power.
That's why I like Apple's Software Updater: it basically just download the package to a temporary directory, run it then delete the file - but since OS 10.2 (I think) there is an option to download the file to your desktop; that way it stays there after installation.
Aren't people aware that the things were invented in America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants seeking to differentiate their restaurants in the mining communities?
I think you were thinking of fortune cookies, not chopsticks. I can assure you, coming from South-East Asia, that the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans all have been using chopsticks for millenias.
Which is why there was much backslapping when a Chinese archaeologist claimed to have found a fork in a cave in China dated to about 3000 BC - it's not that they have not discovered forks, it's that they have "moved on".
And no, my chopstick handling is still rather poor. I can use it to eat rice though:p
players will have to have the.net Framework (~20 meg, of which I note 1.1 is now downloading on Microsoft update.)
Just received my new computer and surprise surprise, it did not actually ship with.NET Framework, which I have had to install to run #Develop.
Wish Microsoft bundles both Java and.NET - wasn't the whole reason why.NET does not come bundled yet, Microsoft's apprehension of being forced to bundle Java too?
While certain features of OSX (such as the movie listings) don't work properly in.jp
They don't work in UK too, FWIW. But there are loads of third-party Sherlock plugins, or if you don't want a heavyweight interface, Konfabulator has a lot of Japanese widgets for fetching news, displaying traffic and things like that.
For those who have not heard of it, Konfab is a great program for displaying custom-made widgets on the screen, with Quartz rendering, and the widgets are plain javascript!
These pseudo-random jamming signal would still be located around your real home system, so there is no stopping the alien intelligence from realising what you are doing and home in on the real system.
This happens in real life too; I believe some anti-aircraft missiles have a backup mode where they home in on the source of the jamming signal.
Presumably if you locate the MP3 file in question, copy it to another file and change one of the ID3 fields in the new file, the music manager software will think it's a new file that you can then copy a further two more times?
Just a thought. Can't verify it since I don't have a NetMD (I did have a first-generation MP3 CD player, it was quite a novelty at that time), but it might be less painful than having to do MP3-CD-MP3-MDLP conversion.
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.. might want to try looking at Ark Linux, the latest alpha of which was recently featured in an OS Newsinterview.
Red Hat compatible RPMs, latest KDE (the CVS of 3.1.1), simplified configuration (looks a bit like WinXP, I'm tempted to see if my folks back home would like it), and the lead developer is Bero of Red Hat KDE and dvdrecord fame.
IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough.
IMHO, the point of this laser is that it's portable. Say the US Army is deploying in a third country that does not have a ground-based anti-ballistic laser emplacement. You can quickly deploy a 747 and have a functional missile defense shield.
Or if a rogue state is threatening an allied country, you can quickly deploy an airborne laser to protect it.
The nice thing is that the 747 probably will be much more secure than other large planes like the E3 AWACS or the RC-135 recconaisance plane: an enemy fighter approach, and you just zap it out of the sky.
There is a Gentoo-Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo CD available. You still have to configure X before launching the game though:(. But neat concept - hooked a friend of mine on to the platform:p
No, I'm more of an OS X/Red Hat person myself. I like having a stable platform to compile stuff on top of.
Ah yes, it was the Proton for component-launching. Makes sense really - the Space Shuttle currently is the jack-of-all-trades solution to space flight. No surprises really given all the compromises that went into its design.
The reason NASA cannot pay the Russian is the involvement of Russia in Iran's nuclear programme, though. What's happening currently is the European Space Agency paying the Russians for stepping in to replace American shuttle missions for resupply purposes. Launching big new modules probably require American participation of some sorts - or Chinese, perhaps? They're practically the only major space power left out of the ISS.
For people who want binary I don't think Linux is ever going to get there.
It is rather a pity, really. Apart from NeXT being a Mach/BSD to begin with, who's to know how big a deal the lack of stable driver binary interface is to Apple in choosing to go with Mach/FreeBSD (with weird Mach-O executables) instead of Linux (or MkLinux if they want to keep the microkernel)?
You know, there's a certain irony in that. That is basically how the Russians send supplies to both their old Mir station and the ISS: Progress rockets carrying cargo, and Soyuz capsules for sending crews.
They had a space shuttle prototype called Buran - a replica of the STS - but it did not get used eventually. Wonder if they knew something we don't? (like, it costs too much too operate)
I'm not American so I have to be even more careful (funny eh? Used to be that countries only have jurisdiction over their own citizens and populace).
Then again, tell that to the 'illegal combatants' from Western countries - Britain, Canada, Sweden - as well as some luckless Americans - now held up in Guantanamo Bay.
one of the Magnate Races is THE best ground combat race in the game
Bulrathi? Darlok? arrgh. Still waiting for my game to come. Getting the Mac version so it'll be a few more weeks... oh, can one use magnate populace as spies as well? Since the Darloks, well...:)
Nope. What I want is if AOL pipes the output of/dev/random to their CDs. So clueless people will say 'wow cool! Pre-computed random bytes' and use it for their GnuPG keys.
Which won't be random at all, then I can be the evil Master of Darkness! Muahahahaha!
1. AOL puts/dev/random into CD 2. Clueless n00bs use AOL CD for 'one-time pad' 3. I get to read credit-card numbers 4. Profit!!!
Yes, I can sympathize. It's inevitable really - they have to make the game good enough for most people, so most will have some pet features cut.
I'm hoping that what is left is good enough to keep me hooked - I must admit I find the new battle system quite appealing. In MOO:I ships are grouped by class, so my pet strategy was having an insane fleet of fighter-bombers carrying no shielding whose job is to swarm past the defense screen and bombard the planet to oblivion:p. In MOO2 that's not possible - but lo and behold, we now have... task classes:)
The Harvesters don't really live up to the pre-release hype though. Oh well. Mac version not out until sometime next month, so I can actually get all my university work done and play during the holiday.. yay!
Oh, having 'magnate civilization' sounds cool though. How good is the implementation? Always liked the Elerians - telepathic Amazonians:)
They should still do.. Steve Jobs cancelled its flotation on the stock market before finally disbanding the division, so they should still own all the rights to it.
But since Apple just outsource the OS for the iPod, who's to know they won't just license PalmOS for such a combo device?
Interesting. Not that I use Windows XP much anyway, and the latest ATI drivers seem to have fix that auto-reboot problem, but for reference, where do I change that setting?
Note: I still see BSODs when other components crash, just not the video drivers.
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Funny world. I have one of those scorching Powerbooks, swapping it for a Vaio Z1 (nice Centrino chip - 3 hours plus battery life on first charge with two WLAN cards active!).
This Vaio is not hot at all (temperature wise) - been running it for hours on AC power (full speed) without any discomfort. The only annoyance is that a loud fan kicks in when the CD drive is in use under AC power.
Funnily enough, it's not there. Maybe they are pitching XP more at home users? Funny considering my copy is actually XP Professional...
That's why I like Apple's Software Updater: it basically just download the package to a temporary directory, run it then delete the file - but since OS 10.2 (I think) there is an option to download the file to your desktop; that way it stays there after installation.
I think you were thinking of fortune cookies, not chopsticks. I can assure you, coming from South-East Asia, that the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans all have been using chopsticks for millenias.
Which is why there was much backslapping when a Chinese archaeologist claimed to have found a fork in a cave in China dated to about 3000 BC - it's not that they have not discovered forks, it's that they have "moved on".
And no, my chopstick handling is still rather poor. I can use it to eat rice though :p
Just received my new computer and surprise surprise, it did not actually ship with
Wish Microsoft bundles both Java and .NET - wasn't the whole reason why .NET does not come bundled yet, Microsoft's apprehension of being forced to bundle Java too?
Oh, I don't know. Photoshop works fine under Linux.
10 years of Wine finally paid off. I think you can get Wine to work in FreeBSD, including Crossover Office, as well - using lxrun
They don't work in UK too, FWIW. But there are loads of third-party Sherlock plugins, or if you don't want a heavyweight interface, Konfabulator has a lot of Japanese widgets for fetching news, displaying traffic and things like that.
For those who have not heard of it, Konfab is a great program for displaying custom-made widgets on the screen, with Quartz rendering, and the widgets are plain javascript!
These pseudo-random jamming signal would still be located around your real home system, so there is no stopping the alien intelligence from realising what you are doing and home in on the real system.
This happens in real life too; I believe some anti-aircraft missiles have a backup mode where they home in on the source of the jamming signal.
Presumably if you locate the MP3 file in question, copy it to another file and change one of the ID3 fields in the new file, the music manager software will think it's a new file that you can then copy a further two more times?
Just a thought. Can't verify it since I don't have a NetMD (I did have a first-generation MP3 CD player, it was quite a novelty at that time), but it might be less painful than having to do MP3-CD-MP3-MDLP conversion.
Regards,
.. might want to try looking at Ark Linux, the latest alpha of which was recently featured in an OS News interview.
:)
Red Hat compatible RPMs, latest KDE (the CVS of 3.1.1), simplified configuration (looks a bit like WinXP, I'm tempted to see if my folks back home would like it), and the lead developer is Bero of Red Hat KDE and dvdrecord fame.
And did I mention Apt?
... they expect me to soil my notebook's keyboard by typing on it with greasy fingers?
:p
Then again there is the geek stereotype of dirty pale-faced guys munching on pizza. Me, greasy food and laptops do not go hand-in-hand.
Who do they think they are... Starbucks?
IMHO, the point of this laser is that it's portable. Say the US Army is deploying in a third country that does not have a ground-based anti-ballistic laser emplacement. You can quickly deploy a 747 and have a functional missile defense shield.
Or if a rogue state is threatening an allied country, you can quickly deploy an airborne laser to protect it.
The nice thing is that the 747 probably will be much more secure than other large planes like the E3 AWACS or the RC-135 recconaisance plane: an enemy fighter approach, and you just zap it out of the sky.
There is a Gentoo-Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo CD available. You still have to configure X before launching the game though :(. But neat concept - hooked a friend of mine on to the platform :p
No, I'm more of an OS X/Red Hat person myself. I like having a stable platform to compile stuff on top of.
Considering most Orientals are lactose intolerant, and from personal experience, absolutely loathe cheese?
:p
Maybe it's a ploy to commoditize cheese, and thus knocking it off its current status as a delicacy?
Ah yes, it was the Proton for component-launching. Makes sense really - the Space Shuttle currently is the jack-of-all-trades solution to space flight. No surprises really given all the compromises that went into its design.
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The reason NASA cannot pay the Russian is the involvement of Russia in Iran's nuclear programme, though. What's happening currently is the European Space Agency paying the Russians for stepping in to replace American shuttle missions for resupply purposes. Launching big new modules probably require American participation of some sorts - or Chinese, perhaps? They're practically the only major space power left out of the ISS.
Reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010
It is rather a pity, really. Apart from NeXT being a Mach/BSD to begin with, who's to know how big a deal the lack of stable driver binary interface is to Apple in choosing to go with Mach/FreeBSD (with weird Mach-O executables) instead of Linux (or MkLinux if they want to keep the microkernel)?
You know, there's a certain irony in that. That is basically how the Russians send supplies to both their old Mir station and the ISS: Progress rockets carrying cargo, and Soyuz capsules for sending crews.
They had a space shuttle prototype called Buran - a replica of the STS - but it did not get used eventually. Wonder if they knew something we don't? (like, it costs too much too operate)
Then again, tell that to the 'illegal combatants' from Western countries - Britain, Canada, Sweden - as well as some luckless Americans - now held up in Guantanamo Bay.
Bulrathi? Darlok? arrgh. Still waiting for my game to come. Getting the Mac version so it'll be a few more weeks... oh, can one use magnate populace as spies as well? Since the Darloks, well...
Nope. What I want is if AOL pipes the output of /dev/random to their CDs. So clueless people will say 'wow cool! Pre-computed random bytes' and use it for their GnuPG keys.
/dev/random into CD
Which won't be random at all, then I can be the evil Master of Darkness! Muahahahaha!
1. AOL puts
2. Clueless n00bs use AOL CD for 'one-time pad'
3. I get to read credit-card numbers
4. Profit!!!
Note for FBI and NSA: this is a joke!!
Yes, I can sympathize. It's inevitable really - they have to make the game good enough for most people, so most will have some pet features cut.
:p. In MOO2 that's not possible - but lo and behold, we now have... task classes :)
:)
I'm hoping that what is left is good enough to keep me hooked - I must admit I find the new battle system quite appealing. In MOO:I ships are grouped by class, so my pet strategy was having an insane fleet of fighter-bombers carrying no shielding whose job is to swarm past the defense screen and bombard the planet to oblivion
The Harvesters don't really live up to the pre-release hype though. Oh well. Mac version not out until sometime next month, so I can actually get all my university work done and play during the holiday.. yay!
Oh, having 'magnate civilization' sounds cool though. How good is the implementation? Always liked the Elerians - telepathic Amazonians
Regards,
D-oh! Obviously beta-testing the game
They should still do .. Steve Jobs cancelled its flotation on the stock market before finally disbanding the division, so they should still own all the rights to it.
But since Apple just outsource the OS for the iPod, who's to know they won't just license PalmOS for such a combo device?
Interesting. Not that I use Windows XP much anyway, and the latest ATI drivers seem to have fix that auto-reboot problem, but for reference, where do I change that setting?
Note: I still see BSODs when other components crash, just not the video drivers.
Thanks,
Michel
Either is fine :). As long as they don't then fix the website to work only for IE *and* Safari/KHTML :p