How about "whitied-out"? or "honkey-paint"?? (also, I'd LOVE to see what "kiked-up" would refer to in terms of a car)
If you are referring to it being derogatory towards Asians, I have friends that are Asian and heard the term from them, and they have no issues with me seeing a Riced car and pointing at it and laughing and yelling and throwing things at the car.
I should also note that there are many riced cars in countries that have little to no Asian population - in Bermuda there is an amazing display of Riced out cars, which you will find in a nearly entirely black population.
Thanks for caring though - without uptight people such as yourself, others might enjoy life too much and religion and goverment have told us that is a bad thing.
This would allow me to fufill my quest to fully rice out my desktop computer. I have swollen fenders on it, a pumping neon glow that throbs to the beat of ABBA, and of course the ubiquitous spoiler that keeps my computer from flipping over when I'm crusing.
If my computer could change colors as you walk around it like some of those wonderful paint jobs that I've seen on many a Honda Civic... well, then I would probably shit my pants with joy. Come to think of it, and judging my that smell, I guess it doesn't have to be with joy.
I hope that having color changing exteriors won't cause them to give up hope of the slowest JVM, fire causing power supplys, and expensive underclocked RAM.
I personally feel that there aren't enough games out there that deal with rape. I think *every* game should involve some raping of the indigenous people in order to win it. I am quite certain that the series of Indiana Jones games on the PC could have been amazing had there been more rape. And the current Spider Man series would really take well to a nice rape scene or two towards the end making full use of his web slinging prowess and that tight fitting costume.
The only game that I can think of that wouldn't be made 200% better with some nice rape scenes would be Grand Theft Auto - that wholesome game would just be ruined if rape were entered into that equation of love and affection. Unless it was prison rape and really graphic. In that case, sign me up for two please.
I own stock in a company that has been fighting patent and legal issues with this (AASTROM BIOSCIENCES INC [NASDAQ SC : ASTM ]).
There is so much controversy around the stem cell research and the funding of it, that even though the stuff they do doesn't involve "killing off babies" (not how I look at it, but how it is seen by many conservatives that apparently don't read much on cognitive development - or don't trust what they read) - they still run into many stopping blocks.
all that said, I also question how well the company is being run, but apprently I don't quesiton it enough to sell of my shares in it.
The pituitary gland secretes it and it backs off by about 25% every 10 years starting in your late 20s. It helps reduce bodyfat, increase vascularity, and with testosterone it will also increase lean body mass (will not do so on its own). Any growth from it largely comes from its stimulation of IGF-1 (insulin like growth factors). Bodybuilders mix it with insulin to get to the freakish size that they are now (not to mention it helps if your body already isn't very good at producing myostatin).
In obvious terms, the spam is worthless and you shouldn't bother with it. Reasons why: 1) HGH is expensive, but WAY more expensive through these clincs that are spamming 2) worse yet, HGH is frequently faked, or people try to sell precursors or things that will stimulate natural production - they don't work (although IV glutamine has shown some response - but not oral). 3) once you start using outside sources of HGH, your body will shut down its own production, and for the most part, once it shuts down, it isn't coming back. 4) the side effects of giganticism are largely falsehoods - you would need HUGE doses of HGH for a long time, and your growht plates would need to not be fused yet - so when you are 10 and hit the HGH hard, then you will be tall and grow caveman-like features, but otherwise, you aren't likely going to. The GH gut (large protruding abdomen) is argued to be a falsehood as well, but there seems to be fighting on either side how much that is true. It seems that the gut (seen in nearly all bodybuilders) is more likely from overfeeding and high levels of other hormones in the system, as well as torn abdominal supporting structures).
If you want to improve your body health and shape, you are far better off (in terms of health, long term side effects, and cost) just buying fish oils. Fish oil is nearly all Omega-3s. The regular diet of the average person is high in Omega-6 but low in Omega-3 - raise up the latter and you will improve your insulin sensitivity as well as increase testosterone production, not to mention increased permiability in the cell membrane.
I guess the thing is slashdotted or perhaps the "proper" authorties are taking action on it. damn, I wanted my credit cards to be raped and pillaged.
of those three, froogle is the only one useful
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at least for me. the first one is annoying and I have no need at all for it. the best part about it is the cute little bunny icon.
the second one is also useless to me, I much prefer just a regular search with the small snippet from what is on that page, from that page - I don't care what other's say about it on their pages.
but I really like the froogle thing. aside from the naming scheme that is sesame street in style, it actually provides something useful in today's consumer world. as long as we can buy things, we are a better people. bless us jesus.
I used to love his stuff
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My uncle got me one of his books when I was in middle school. I then proceeded to read everything he ever had published that I could get my hands on.
Now I don't enjoy his books at all and I find him to be sort of behind the curve (but in terms of what the general public knows, he is still ahead of the curve).
I'd much rather read Neal Stephenson in terms of books that have a technical backing to the story. And NS wrote about nano way before MC. MC is just jumping on the bandwagon - and will likely cause a "stir" with it simply because more people read his stuff. Generally speaking, if a lot of people read and like an author, I'm finding that I don't tend to like it. Maybe I'm just a dick, or an elitist snob. But if a book makes the NYT bestseller list, or Oprah's list, then I steer clear of it. (that said, I did enjoy Cold Mountain)
I get roughly 100-300 messages a day, and probably around 20 of those are actually for me and from people I know.
I have filters setup on the client side, but just haven't really bothered to set up server side stuff yet (procmail and the like).
normally I'm not all that patient, but I guess this is one area that doesn't really bug me that much.
I used to go through and unsubscribe to them all in the feeble hope that would help, but not sure it did much (many ignore it, others send you more or sign you up to more with that, and others have "broken" unsubscribe methods).
I think I get so many because I own a few URLs and spammers then assume I own companies (while technically that isn't entirely untrue - I am starting up a small financial consulting business, I'm not exactly a rich CEO at this point - yet those are the bulk of the e-mails I get).
from what I can tell, if you want to avoid spam - don't ever sign up at a gambling site, and have two e-mails - one that you give to friends, and one that you give to random things on the web. obviously always click the "don't send me shit" button, but they frequently ignore that anyway. and then setup your server (if you have one) and/or domain so that it only passes through the e-mails to addresses that exist (as opposed to anythingAtAll@mydomain.com).
on the side I own my own financial analysis company and write all the software for that.
in terms of where I work day to day, I currently program games and have worked in the telecom industry in the past.
to say my own code never has bugs in it is out and out lying - everyone's code has bugs in it. but I really don't have that many - I am pretty good about writing it well.
I find it interesting how people on here get so inflamed when someone states that they don't like something. The article mentions XP, I mention that I'm not a personal fan of it, and then state the reasons why. Then people come in and immediately point out that I am obviously an idiot for not thinking the way they do, which is in the way of the main article.
All I'm saying is that I prefer not to program in the XP environment. I agree that if it is done well, I've seen it reduce the number of bugs, and yes, you can get a lot done in the amount of time allotted to it. So on paper, it looks wonderful to a manager. But to a person sitting there programming it, or rather, I should say "to me sitting there programming" it sucks. I HATE working with other people because I end up getting stuck with the brunt of the work, or teaching some newbie how to do it, and then get none of the credit.
If I'm going to be writing code that is good, I am selfish and want the credit for it.
Does that mean XP is somehow invalidated because I said that? No - I was just stating that for me, and what I do, I don't like it. I find it too stressful, and I dislike the close interaction that it needs for it to be successful.
LOL - actually my code doesn't really have that many bugs. I am pretty diligent about making sure that it doesn't. I think instead of XP, it is much more of a benefit to instill some personal desire in your employees for the product to be good and succeed. And I don't personally feel that forcing them into the XP environment does anything towards that end, it just adds social stress and discomfort to those that don't like social programming - which is a large portion of the coders I know.
I like how I got modded to a "Troll" status slashdot style - if you don't agree with something, you aren't allowed to talk about it:)
I personally prefer to be on my own. I could see how managers prefer it because it forces more work to be done and yeah, it prevents a lot of errors, from my experience. But I hate it - I hate working right with someone else. I personally would rather to just be near someone and ask them questions about code if need be, but I hate the XP experience personally.
In ever interview I've seen with him - they always say "you did all of this, yet don't seem to be getting much money from it." He always replied "well, I enjoy working here, and I don't really want to discuss the money side of it - I'm very happy with it all."
and then now this - it is like everyone asking him all the time why he isn't suing them, he finally was like... "hmm, yeah, I guess maybe I should."
and them not making any profits? that is interesting accounting.
I am pretty sure there are a few "originals" - my college had one in ther Rare Books Library that you could see under glass, but obviously not take out and molest.
Not to say that makes the theft of this one any better, but I just wanted another chance to post about rare books. Those things fascinate me.
Especially them rare books with nekkid chicks in 'em.
It was like he was from some future time and then went back there and was bored, knew he couldn't tell anyone how or why he was there. So he decided to make the most of it and write and say stuff, get money from it, hang out, womanize, etc etc. but then grew tired of it and decided to drink himself to death. so a less pleasant story than the Twain one, but that was what it made me think of. I don't of course really think that is true, but it was what I pondered as I read the article.
Poe was someone that has always piqued my curiosity - I worked on his cipher, eventually breaking it, and I've read all of his works. I grew up near where his haunts were, and just tend to always perk up and listen when things about him come up. I hope to someday be found face down in a puddle on the side of the road after a long binge of drinking to eventually die of pneumonnia (sp?). that just seems like the way to go if you ask me.
or strippers/whores, X, heroin, and coke. one of the two.
I don't find it at all slow
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Especially the newest release - they sped up a lot of the UI stuff. Nice and snappy. Normal applications like e-mail, Word, that sort of thing, quick. Hard to say on the Photoshop stuff, and plus I don't really care if something takes half a second or a full second to do if I'm waiting on some complex PS thing.
That said, I've only used the machines of friends and coworkers, I don't personally own a mac.
I do think they are really pretty.
But I do a lot of Java programming and the Mac is retarded slow with its Java compared to just about any other system out there. Even the newest one - the newest one seems to have even slower OpenGL somehow. I also don't like that Mac has Java 1.3, and from what I can tell, you are fixed at that until they decided that they will upgrade it in their own release, regardless of the fact that there is 1.4x out for sometime now, which actually has a lot of things that some of us need and use.
All in all, I think the Mac is plenty fast, after all it is stupid to look at only the nominal speed of the processor. Look at Seti or Distributed net -there you can see that the G4 and G3 kick major ass, largely due to their much larger cache size. And for everyday use, the Mac seems like it is just fine.
But when people say it is "better" I'm not sure I agree with them - I no longer think it sucks (OS X is pretty nice), but it isn't really of any use to me until either it becomes cheaper than a comparable PC system, or until it becomes faster than a comparable PC system. but right now, for my personal use of it, it is only prettier, and I don't really care about that. At least, I don't care enough to pay $2K more for a laptop that is snazzier looking than the one I sit here and type on, but slower and ill equipped for how I make my living.
lol - I hear that. I'd like to write it all in C, but for the turnaround time and the cross platform nature of it all, I need to do it in Java. I use the Intel systems as the cheapest/fastest benchmark and then if the clients want to use other things, that is fine by me, but it is up to them.
but I'm not going to personally sit all day on a Mac system to do all the stuff when I know 99% of my customers refuse to use it.
maybe someday I will have the luxury of time to write it all for the various different systems. until then, no mac.
and for the record - look around, Java is just as fast as C++ on many many tasks - but yeah, if you mean C, then yes, far slower. and I'm too dumb to do it all in assembly:)
I might eventually get one so that I can program things for Macs, and maybe use it also for the mundane stuff like e-mail and web surfing and the like. Maybe excel stuff.
But in terms of doing real work, everything I do needs performance (neural net stuff), and regardless of the people on here that will bend over backwards to say that the mac is faster on seti (look at the cache), or opens photoshop faster (hmmm... does photoshop help me run neural net code faster... hell if I know), but in terms of true performance - esp in Java which is what the damn thing is running, it is slower. If it was truly faster in that sense, then I would totally get one today.
Hell, I'd be pretty happy if I could even just upgrade the JDK in the thing.
I've had the 6500...something I've had the 8860, I currently have the 8890, but I MUST HAVE the 8910i, or at the very least an 8910. That is the coolest phone - like the said, well, the 8890 is great, but let's fix everything that is wrong with it.
The bummer is, not only can I not have it in the states now, I'm moving this summer and it doesn't look like the phone will work in that country either (Bermuda - they have a 1900 setup there, and the Nokia 8910/8910i is 900/1800 - waaaaah).
My current phone (8890) should work, but WOW would I frickin love the 8910i.
yeah, they don't sell enough of them to make certain things feasible, so I'm just as happy that GM owns them now (I own a Saab). Ford owns Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Volvo. BMW briefly owned Land Rover and now Ford owns that too. BMW is pretty much the only luxury company left that is all by itself. the rest all share parts and labor to drive down costs and increase reliability.
I personally don't like nor trust Ford, so I won't be in anything they touch, but Saab still has a great deal of freedom and control in what they do while still under GM, but now they have a larger bankroll with which to do things like the new engine that a poster above noted.
Saab's newest 9-3 sport sedan has all of its electronics talking to each other over a fibre optic line - supposedly allowing more crap to be added later with greater bandwidth for cooler new features and stuff. I don't really see how it will have an effect on me, but I think it is a cool idea in general.
Saab is owned by GM, soi I don't know if it is a trend that all of GM is heading towards, or if Saab is somehow special.
in my area (cambridge MA), there are two options. you can either have a cable modem, or not. but if you do, it is through media one - which is now AT&T. I can't stand them, but they are getting better after many a lawsuit against them (not that I'm suing them, but it is nice to see other people are). At least on the good side, when they come to install the crap, if you just tell the person you know what you are doing, then they will just leave all of the stuff and let you sign something to show that they were there and left the stuff. The rest you can do yourself, call in and get the hardware activated, and you are good to go.
I've had DSL in the past here and it was like that too, although went on to die and I quit the service because the customer service was soooo bad.
and there is no way I will ever ever ever go back to dial up at my home. no way. ever ever ever.
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I wasn't familliar with that site nor that author before but I love it!
I'm gonna go back after work and read around there a bit more.
How about "whitied-out"? or "honkey-paint"??
(also, I'd LOVE to see what "kiked-up" would refer to in terms of a car)
If you are referring to it being derogatory towards Asians, I have friends that are Asian and heard the term from them, and they have no issues with me seeing a Riced car and pointing at it and laughing and yelling and throwing things at the car.
I should also note that there are many riced cars in countries that have little to no Asian population - in Bermuda there is an amazing display of Riced out cars, which you will find in a nearly entirely black population.
Thanks for caring though - without uptight people such as yourself, others might enjoy life too much and religion and goverment have told us that is a bad thing.
This would allow me to fufill my quest to fully rice out my desktop computer. I have swollen fenders on it, a pumping neon glow that throbs to the beat of ABBA, and of course the ubiquitous spoiler that keeps my computer from flipping over when I'm crusing.
If my computer could change colors as you walk around it like some of those wonderful paint jobs that I've seen on many a Honda Civic... well, then I would probably shit my pants with joy.
Come to think of it, and judging my that smell, I guess it doesn't have to be with joy.
I hope that having color changing exteriors won't cause them to give up hope of the slowest JVM, fire causing power supplys, and expensive underclocked RAM.
I personally feel that there aren't enough games out there that deal with rape. I think *every* game should involve some raping of the indigenous people in order to win it.
I am quite certain that the series of Indiana Jones games on the PC could have been amazing had there been more rape.
And the current Spider Man series would really take well to a nice rape scene or two towards the end making full use of his web slinging prowess and that tight fitting costume.
The only game that I can think of that wouldn't be made 200% better with some nice rape scenes would be Grand Theft Auto - that wholesome game would just be ruined if rape were entered into that equation of love and affection.
Unless it was prison rape and really graphic. In that case, sign me up for two please.
I own stock in a company that has been fighting patent and legal issues with this (AASTROM BIOSCIENCES INC [NASDAQ SC : ASTM ]).
There is so much controversy around the stem cell research and the funding of it, that even though the stuff they do doesn't involve "killing off babies" (not how I look at it, but how it is seen by many conservatives that apparently don't read much on cognitive development - or don't trust what they read) - they still run into many stopping blocks.
all that said, I also question how well the company is being run, but apprently I don't quesiton it enough to sell of my shares in it.
The pituitary gland secretes it and it backs off by about 25% every 10 years starting in your late 20s.
It helps reduce bodyfat, increase vascularity, and with testosterone it will also increase lean body mass (will not do so on its own).
Any growth from it largely comes from its stimulation of IGF-1 (insulin like growth factors).
Bodybuilders mix it with insulin to get to the freakish size that they are now (not to mention it helps if your body already isn't very good at producing myostatin).
In obvious terms, the spam is worthless and you shouldn't bother with it.
Reasons why:
1) HGH is expensive, but WAY more expensive through these clincs that are spamming
2) worse yet, HGH is frequently faked, or people try to sell precursors or things that will stimulate natural production - they don't work (although IV glutamine has shown some response - but not oral).
3) once you start using outside sources of HGH, your body will shut down its own production, and for the most part, once it shuts down, it isn't coming back.
4) the side effects of giganticism are largely falsehoods - you would need HUGE doses of HGH for a long time, and your growht plates would need to not be fused yet - so when you are 10 and hit the HGH hard, then you will be tall and grow caveman-like features, but otherwise, you aren't likely going to.
The GH gut (large protruding abdomen) is argued to be a falsehood as well, but there seems to be fighting on either side how much that is true. It seems that the gut (seen in nearly all bodybuilders) is more likely from overfeeding and high levels of other hormones in the system, as well as torn abdominal supporting structures).
If you want to improve your body health and shape, you are far better off (in terms of health, long term side effects, and cost) just buying fish oils.
Fish oil is nearly all Omega-3s. The regular diet of the average person is high in Omega-6 but low in Omega-3 - raise up the latter and you will improve your insulin sensitivity as well as increase testosterone production, not to mention increased permiability in the cell membrane.
I can go on and on...
I guess the thing is slashdotted or perhaps the "proper" authorties are taking action on it.
damn, I wanted my credit cards to be raped and pillaged.
at least for me.
the first one is annoying and I have no need at all for it.
the best part about it is the cute little bunny icon.
the second one is also useless to me, I much prefer just a regular search with the small snippet from what is on that page, from that page - I don't care what other's say about it on their pages.
but I really like the froogle thing. aside from the naming scheme that is sesame street in style, it actually provides something useful in today's consumer world.
as long as we can buy things, we are a better people.
bless us jesus.
My uncle got me one of his books when I was in middle school. I then proceeded to read everything he ever had published that I could get my hands on.
Now I don't enjoy his books at all and I find him to be sort of behind the curve (but in terms of what the general public knows, he is still ahead of the curve).
I'd much rather read Neal Stephenson in terms of books that have a technical backing to the story. And NS wrote about nano way before MC. MC is just jumping on the bandwagon - and will likely cause a "stir" with it simply because more people read his stuff.
Generally speaking, if a lot of people read and like an author, I'm finding that I don't tend to like it.
Maybe I'm just a dick, or an elitist snob. But if a book makes the NYT bestseller list, or Oprah's list, then I steer clear of it.
(that said, I did enjoy Cold Mountain)
I get roughly 100-300 messages a day, and probably around 20 of those are actually for me and from people I know.
I have filters setup on the client side, but just haven't really bothered to set up server side stuff yet (procmail and the like).
normally I'm not all that patient, but I guess this is one area that doesn't really bug me that much.
I used to go through and unsubscribe to them all in the feeble hope that would help, but not sure it did much (many ignore it, others send you more or sign you up to more with that, and others have "broken" unsubscribe methods).
I think I get so many because I own a few URLs and spammers then assume I own companies (while technically that isn't entirely untrue - I am starting up a small financial consulting business, I'm not exactly a rich CEO at this point - yet those are the bulk of the e-mails I get).
from what I can tell, if you want to avoid spam - don't ever sign up at a gambling site, and have two e-mails - one that you give to friends, and one that you give to random things on the web.
obviously always click the "don't send me shit" button, but they frequently ignore that anyway.
and then setup your server (if you have one) and/or domain so that it only passes through the e-mails to addresses that exist (as opposed to anythingAtAll@mydomain.com).
I guess a lot of that is common sense to most.
uh oh - Dartmouth is gonna be pissed now.
I suppose it depends on what you are writing.
on the side I own my own financial analysis company and write all the software for that.
in terms of where I work day to day, I currently program games and have worked in the telecom industry in the past.
to say my own code never has bugs in it is out and out lying - everyone's code has bugs in it. but I really don't have that many - I am pretty good about writing it well.
I find it interesting how people on here get so inflamed when someone states that they don't like something. The article mentions XP, I mention that I'm not a personal fan of it, and then state the reasons why.
Then people come in and immediately point out that I am obviously an idiot for not thinking the way they do, which is in the way of the main article.
All I'm saying is that I prefer not to program in the XP environment. I agree that if it is done well, I've seen it reduce the number of bugs, and yes, you can get a lot done in the amount of time allotted to it. So on paper, it looks wonderful to a manager.
But to a person sitting there programming it, or rather, I should say "to me sitting there programming" it sucks. I HATE working with other people because I end up getting stuck with the brunt of the work, or teaching some newbie how to do it, and then get none of the credit.
If I'm going to be writing code that is good, I am selfish and want the credit for it.
Does that mean XP is somehow invalidated because I said that? No - I was just stating that for me, and what I do, I don't like it. I find it too stressful, and I dislike the close interaction that it needs for it to be successful.
LOL - actually my code doesn't really have that many bugs. I am pretty diligent about making sure that it doesn't.
:)
I think instead of XP, it is much more of a benefit to instill some personal desire in your employees for the product to be good and succeed.
And I don't personally feel that forcing them into the XP environment does anything towards that end, it just adds social stress and discomfort to those that don't like social programming - which is a large portion of the coders I know.
I like how I got modded to a "Troll" status slashdot style - if you don't agree with something, you aren't allowed to talk about it
Just like Clinton.
I personally prefer to be on my own. I could see how managers prefer it because it forces more work to be done and yeah, it prevents a lot of errors, from my experience.
But I hate it - I hate working right with someone else.
I personally would rather to just be near someone and ask them questions about code if need be, but I hate the XP experience personally.
In ever interview I've seen with him - they always say "you did all of this, yet don't seem to be getting much money from it."
He always replied "well, I enjoy working here, and I don't really want to discuss the money side of it - I'm very happy with it all."
and then now this - it is like everyone asking him all the time why he isn't suing them, he finally was like... "hmm, yeah, I guess maybe I should."
and them not making any profits? that is interesting accounting.
I am pretty sure there are a few "originals" - my college had one in ther Rare Books Library that you could see under glass, but obviously not take out and molest.
Not to say that makes the theft of this one any better, but I just wanted another chance to post about rare books. Those things fascinate me.
Especially them rare books with nekkid chicks in 'em.
...a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court.
It was like he was from some future time and then went back there and was bored, knew he couldn't tell anyone how or why he was there. So he decided to make the most of it and write and say stuff, get money from it, hang out, womanize, etc etc. but then grew tired of it and decided to drink himself to death.
so a less pleasant story than the Twain one, but that was what it made me think of.
I don't of course really think that is true, but it was what I pondered as I read the article.
Poe was someone that has always piqued my curiosity - I worked on his cipher, eventually breaking it, and I've read all of his works. I grew up near where his haunts were, and just tend to always perk up and listen when things about him come up.
I hope to someday be found face down in a puddle on the side of the road after a long binge of drinking to eventually die of pneumonnia (sp?). that just seems like the way to go if you ask me.
or strippers/whores, X, heroin, and coke.
one of the two.
Especially the newest release - they sped up a lot of the UI stuff. Nice and snappy.
Normal applications like e-mail, Word, that sort of thing, quick.
Hard to say on the Photoshop stuff, and plus I don't really care if something takes half a second or a full second to do if I'm waiting on some complex PS thing.
That said, I've only used the machines of friends and coworkers, I don't personally own a mac.
I do think they are really pretty.
But I do a lot of Java programming and the Mac is retarded slow with its Java compared to just about any other system out there. Even the newest one - the newest one seems to have even slower OpenGL somehow.
I also don't like that Mac has Java 1.3, and from what I can tell, you are fixed at that until they decided that they will upgrade it in their own release, regardless of the fact that there is 1.4x out for sometime now, which actually has a lot of things that some of us need and use.
All in all, I think the Mac is plenty fast, after all it is stupid to look at only the nominal speed of the processor. Look at Seti or Distributed net -there you can see that the G4 and G3 kick major ass, largely due to their much larger cache size.
And for everyday use, the Mac seems like it is just fine.
But when people say it is "better" I'm not sure I agree with them - I no longer think it sucks (OS X is pretty nice), but it isn't really of any use to me until either it becomes cheaper than a comparable PC system, or until it becomes faster than a comparable PC system.
but right now, for my personal use of it, it is only prettier, and I don't really care about that.
At least, I don't care enough to pay $2K more for a laptop that is snazzier looking than the one I sit here and type on, but slower and ill equipped for how I make my living.
lol - I hear that.
:)
I'd like to write it all in C, but for the turnaround time and the cross platform nature of it all, I need to do it in Java.
I use the Intel systems as the cheapest/fastest benchmark and then if the clients want to use other things, that is fine by me, but it is up to them.
but I'm not going to personally sit all day on a Mac system to do all the stuff when I know 99% of my customers refuse to use it.
maybe someday I will have the luxury of time to write it all for the various different systems. until then, no mac.
and for the record - look around, Java is just as fast as C++ on many many tasks - but yeah, if you mean C, then yes, far slower.
and I'm too dumb to do it all in assembly
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I hear that.
I like the way they look. Pretty.
I might eventually get one so that I can program things for Macs, and maybe use it also for the mundane stuff like e-mail and web surfing and the like. Maybe excel stuff.
But in terms of doing real work, everything I do needs performance (neural net stuff), and regardless of the people on here that will bend over backwards to say that the mac is faster on seti (look at the cache), or opens photoshop faster (hmmm... does photoshop help me run neural net code faster... hell if I know), but in terms of true performance - esp in Java which is what the damn thing is running, it is slower.
If it was truly faster in that sense, then I would totally get one today.
Hell, I'd be pretty happy if I could even just upgrade the JDK in the thing.
I've had the 6500...something I've had the 8860, I currently have the 8890, but I MUST HAVE the 8910i, or at the very least an 8910.
That is the coolest phone - like the said, well, the 8890 is great, but let's fix everything that is wrong with it.
The bummer is, not only can I not have it in the states now, I'm moving this summer and it doesn't look like the phone will work in that country either (Bermuda - they have a 1900 setup there, and the Nokia 8910/8910i is 900/1800 - waaaaah).
My current phone (8890) should work, but WOW would I frickin love the 8910i.
GI Joe has frickin had them for years now.
yeah, they don't sell enough of them to make certain things feasible, so I'm just as happy that GM owns them now (I own a Saab).
Ford owns Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Volvo. BMW briefly owned Land Rover and now Ford owns that too.
BMW is pretty much the only luxury company left that is all by itself.
the rest all share parts and labor to drive down costs and increase reliability.
I personally don't like nor trust Ford, so I won't be in anything they touch, but Saab still has a great deal of freedom and control in what they do while still under GM, but now they have a larger bankroll with which to do things like the new engine that a poster above noted.
Saab's newest 9-3 sport sedan has all of its electronics talking to each other over a fibre optic line - supposedly allowing more crap to be added later with greater bandwidth for cooler new features and stuff.
I don't really see how it will have an effect on me, but I think it is a cool idea in general.
Saab is owned by GM, soi I don't know if it is a trend that all of GM is heading towards, or if Saab is somehow special.
in my area (cambridge MA), there are two options. you can either have a cable modem, or not. but if you do, it is through media one - which is now AT&T.
I can't stand them, but they are getting better after many a lawsuit against them (not that I'm suing them, but it is nice to see other people are).
At least on the good side, when they come to install the crap, if you just tell the person you know what you are doing, then they will just leave all of the stuff and let you sign something to show that they were there and left the stuff.
The rest you can do yourself, call in and get the hardware activated, and you are good to go.
I've had DSL in the past here and it was like that too, although went on to die and I quit the service because the customer service was soooo bad.
and there is no way I will ever ever ever go back to dial up at my home. no way. ever ever ever.