I do. I have a quad coming right now (Q9550). I run CAD design and also rendering and animation of buildings. I can be designing in the CAD (1 CPU) and have a rendering using 3 CPU's at the same time and not effect the response time of the rest of my work (several rednering pograms will use everything you've got to render as quick as possible). I used to have to do one at a time. I could wait for hours for a detailed rendering and not be able to get any other work done. Yes, this is XP I'm talking about and using.
but those are suspect. The Mac is assumed to be benign, loving, friendly, sarcastic, and never harmful. The perfect choice. Probably walking right past the unit every day and just smiling at each other.
This is exactly what Apple is not well versed in doing...testing software that will have to run on millions of configurations and hardware scenarios. They are used to writing something that runs on a simple OS and hardware that is their design. Welcome to the big world that MS gets to play in and be blamed for everyday.
I'm putting my money that its a Mac server that everyone passes by and says, "Oh, that's Mac, it couldn't possibly be that. Why bother checking. It must be from the Evil Empire. We're looking for black, not white."
When interrupted by an email, I can easily determine my next move at work in about 30 seconds. But, then again, Solitare isn't that hard to lose focus on.
The original question had to do with the real benefit of these cars. We got off to the wrong start with the whole stupid idea of stealing them. Whatever!!! What about the polution it takes to generate the electricity (public power plants) to charge the cars. Assuming the person isn't using their own power generation, how much more electricity will we need to power a country of these cars and what will the pollution cost be. I remember hearing something once about the washing of diapers causing more environmental problems that disposable too.
Look at this carefully. He is mixing ingredients...not creating anything. He is using "source code" from something else. There is no way he is going to create DNA or recreate the processes that each living cell goes through without stealing from something else. Let's get real and past the hype. He's trying to get headlines somewhere from people that are willing to get excited.
Every heard of the car that runs on water!!!!
The mechanical that I refer to is the gears, motor, bearings, spinning and churning away with relatively large power consumption compared to memory. It is fragil and slow. It is only cheap today because everyone grabbed hold of it and stopped thining alternatives. Much the same thinking is going into drives as Microsoft OS. ust because we started there doesn't mean we should always head in that direction.
Well, I'm glad that people 50 years ago didn't think that way or you would be replacing the tubes in your calculator right now and not have a transitor. Just because it requires expensive machines today doesn't mean that newer technology can't do it faster and cheaper tomorrow. It wasn't long ago that the static chip became something you could purchase and use in things like a digital camera. You're thinking is exactly what I'm suggesting we not continue to do, and that is give up and assume that what we have and they way things are made is the only way it ever will be. Do you expect that 50 years from now we'll still be using CD and DVD or HDD? I would hope not!!! I'm just suggesting more time, energy, and innovation be put into non-mechanical, prone to fail, slow, high energy consumption and fragil devices. Anyone else out there??????
We keep having excitement about great advancements in mechanical storage. WHY?!?!?! If developers could stop leading us in the wrong direction because it excites some by huge numbers, perhaps we could focus more on faster static memory and get a 1TB on a chip...that won't were out...that won't die when scratched...that can have high transfer speeds... Anyone else out there tired of looking at last decades technology getting bigger and faster and want to head down smaller, cheaper, faster, stronger, less mechnical...
The title doesn't match the research statement. Duh! If Apple will rule the home entertainment, this implies that most people will have it in their homes (at least some may read it that way). What that really means IS WE WILL ALL BE RICH AND THEN ABLE TO AFFORD ALL APPLE HIGH-END FLASHY STUFF TO LOOK COOL IN FRONT OF OUR FRIENDS THAT REALLY DON'T CARE!!!!!
Like most of the initial announcements (that come way to early!), this has not been tested and shouldn't get anyone thrilled. Haven't we learned yet that there are consequences and effects related to the things we do? What is the by-product of these bateria? What conditions does it take for them to live and multiply in? When we have these little buggers all over the place, what affect on human health could it have? Don't throw your bags out the window just yet!
Uh, this is nothing exciting. How many PC's have you bought in a store. Not many. This is retail outlets. Dell sells three times as many computers and tons more over $1000 direct from them to you without the overhead cost of a store filled with cool glass displays and backlighting. The apple stores are designed to be more like a nightclub. They want people to come in and fall in love with the piece of hardware and its smooth round corners. You spend the extra money so you can make love to it.
Post the stats on all computer sales and see Apple still with a very small bite of the global sales. Don't get too excited Macaddicts.
I see where you are coming from. I'll play devils advocate to see where our thinking leads us...At least we're having an intelligent discussion that doesn't have to lead to calling each others names...which is usually what people do when they have nothing intelligent left to say.
If you own a television in the US, active ads are pushed into and interrupt your viewing (at least much of time in the US...I realize not everywhere in the world). We don't have a right to not have them pushed in front of us, but you can find tools to get around it like TIVO. Rather than demand commercials be banned, we find a way to avoid them.
I'd also be interested to hear your thoughts on the radio advertisements, since they tend to be very annoying to me but hard to tune out as you drive down the road.
We did finally make a move against telemarketers a few years back, but that became an extreme inconvenience when eating dinner and wasting your time telling someone to go shove it!
The other fact, that might be interesting for discussion sake, is that most people don't "own" an email address. Most, it seems, get their email for free from either Gmail or Yahoo or something. If you are given something for free to use, how far are they allowed to go with their advertisements?
At least in the States, I think we confuse freedom of speech with freedom FROM speech. You have the right to say what you want, but I don't necessarily have the right to stop you from saying it (unless what you are saying is hateful in race or sexual preference...then you can go to jail). We don't have freedom from advertisements and marketing. We do have freedom to make any false statements and exaggerated claims through advertising, though.
I wish what you state could be true, but in a free market society of the US, we cannot avoid it. You would have to drive down the highways and not look left or right and see a billboard. You would never watch television with commericals and not listen to radio either. You really can't read the newspaper or even browse news media websites. For that matter, don't look to the top or right on a Google search. Advertisements are everywhere. You have the right to look at it or listen to it, but you cannot always tune it out or stop it before it comes to you.
If you personally were in the business of making a product and selling it, you're glad that your advertisments are seen by many and make sales by a few. (Do you work for a company that advertizes?) If none of this happened, you wouldn't have much to purchase from. Businesses would see less sales and have less incentive to make new products (if nobody see or hears about them and then buys their products). Half of the time I see something that I want to purchase because of a ad. I didn't even know it existed until the ad showed it. There are benefits to counter the annoyance.
I'm just hoping the new version displays the web the way that IE does. I realize most everyone on the blog is just Pro anything free and Anti anything MS, but when I first starting using FF, I noticed all over where images and items on websites were out-of-place. I then switched back to IE and everything looked right. If FF can just produce all websites as consistently as IE, I'll make the switch.
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Your analogy is not correct. Email is more like snail-mail. And yes, anyone can send email to your mailbox via snail-mail and not go to jail. The difference is that snail-mail costs them something.
The real solution is to get all the stupid people off the web that actually make purchases from companies that they received a spam email from. They keep spammers continuing to spam. If the idiot purchaser got off the web, the spam would quickly dry up. Ultimately, this battle will never end...there will always be idoits that can get on the web.
That can be the only reason for replying to this thread whatsoever. Hey, why don't we talk about the original pong game and the potential that has for creating world peace! About as interesting....
Finally, something intelligent! I thought I remember hearing (but haven't been tracking) the talk about making transistors with something other than ceramic. The metallic based transistor should have MUCH less energy loss through heat. Perhaps there is research that someone else has heard of (usually in the universities) that is talking about really high efficiency and minimal heat loss (the two kinda go together).
If we continue to make the chips more efficient (perhaps radically!), we may not be as crazy about moving everything to other countries. The idea of moving to cooler climates is the low-tech solution to the problem.
Why is this whole discussion about where everyone should run off to. Rather than spending billions on relocations and construction and cabling, wouldn't that money be better spent of working toward cooler chips (I'm talking operating temp, of course) and more efficient chips?
Please someone help redirect the course of this discussion by giving out some real genius on how the current computers could run on less power and produce less heat. What technology have you heard? Where should we be putting our support to help struggling technologies get out there. Everyone is worried about cars and trucks and ozone. This is a great "green" project too!
This is my only problem with \. They only put up stories about technology that they feel is important. What about the technology behind good lagers and beers?!?! I mean, the real genius is found in cracking hops not MACs. I want to find solutions to hacking the code behind some of the most popular Ale's formulas, not Dlls. This will also diversify our discussion a little more since there are no good beers in America.
It took me the better part of an hour to read through all that, and I was only reading because you mentioned beer at the beginning. Who cares!! Where's my Heineken!!!! This kind of discussion always goes better with beer. At least you can throw your bottle on the ground and have it break to make your point seem to matter.
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I do. I have a quad coming right now (Q9550). I run CAD design and also rendering and animation of buildings. I can be designing in the CAD (1 CPU) and have a rendering using 3 CPU's at the same time and not effect the response time of the rest of my work (several rednering pograms will use everything you've got to render as quick as possible). I used to have to do one at a time. I could wait for hours for a detailed rendering and not be able to get any other work done. Yes, this is XP I'm talking about and using.
but those are suspect. The Mac is assumed to be benign, loving, friendly, sarcastic, and never harmful. The perfect choice. Probably walking right past the unit every day and just smiling at each other.
This is exactly what Apple is not well versed in doing...testing software that will have to run on millions of configurations and hardware scenarios. They are used to writing something that runs on a simple OS and hardware that is their design. Welcome to the big world that MS gets to play in and be blamed for everyday.
It would be easy that way, but the "boss" refused to buy switches that could reveal such answers. "These hubs are working just fine..."
I'm putting my money that its a Mac server that everyone passes by and says, "Oh, that's Mac, it couldn't possibly be that. Why bother checking. It must be from the Evil Empire. We're looking for black, not white."
When interrupted by an email, I can easily determine my next move at work in about 30 seconds. But, then again, Solitare isn't that hard to lose focus on.
The original question had to do with the real benefit of these cars. We got off to the wrong start with the whole stupid idea of stealing them. Whatever!!! What about the polution it takes to generate the electricity (public power plants) to charge the cars. Assuming the person isn't using their own power generation, how much more electricity will we need to power a country of these cars and what will the pollution cost be. I remember hearing something once about the washing of diapers causing more environmental problems that disposable too.
Look at this carefully. He is mixing ingredients...not creating anything. He is using "source code" from something else. There is no way he is going to create DNA or recreate the processes that each living cell goes through without stealing from something else. Let's get real and past the hype. He's trying to get headlines somewhere from people that are willing to get excited. Every heard of the car that runs on water!!!!
Even starting with people still in it may not have done it. Let's see, someone on drugs..."cool, its raining, Dude." Someone with a hooker, ...shower ;)
I guess they decided to stick that probe where the sun does shine...call the probe the Enimator?
The mechanical that I refer to is the gears, motor, bearings, spinning and churning away with relatively large power consumption compared to memory. It is fragil and slow. It is only cheap today because everyone grabbed hold of it and stopped thining alternatives. Much the same thinking is going into drives as Microsoft OS. ust because we started there doesn't mean we should always head in that direction.
Well, I'm glad that people 50 years ago didn't think that way or you would be replacing the tubes in your calculator right now and not have a transitor. Just because it requires expensive machines today doesn't mean that newer technology can't do it faster and cheaper tomorrow. It wasn't long ago that the static chip became something you could purchase and use in things like a digital camera. You're thinking is exactly what I'm suggesting we not continue to do, and that is give up and assume that what we have and they way things are made is the only way it ever will be. Do you expect that 50 years from now we'll still be using CD and DVD or HDD? I would hope not!!! I'm just suggesting more time, energy, and innovation be put into non-mechanical, prone to fail, slow, high energy consumption and fragil devices. Anyone else out there??????
We keep having excitement about great advancements in mechanical storage. WHY?!?!?! If developers could stop leading us in the wrong direction because it excites some by huge numbers, perhaps we could focus more on faster static memory and get a 1TB on a chip...that won't were out...that won't die when scratched...that can have high transfer speeds... Anyone else out there tired of looking at last decades technology getting bigger and faster and want to head down smaller, cheaper, faster, stronger, less mechnical...
The title doesn't match the research statement. Duh! If Apple will rule the home entertainment, this implies that most people will have it in their homes (at least some may read it that way). What that really means IS WE WILL ALL BE RICH AND THEN ABLE TO AFFORD ALL APPLE HIGH-END FLASHY STUFF TO LOOK COOL IN FRONT OF OUR FRIENDS THAT REALLY DON'T CARE!!!!!
Like most of the initial announcements (that come way to early!), this has not been tested and shouldn't get anyone thrilled. Haven't we learned yet that there are consequences and effects related to the things we do? What is the by-product of these bateria? What conditions does it take for them to live and multiply in? When we have these little buggers all over the place, what affect on human health could it have? Don't throw your bags out the window just yet!
Uh, this is nothing exciting. How many PC's have you bought in a store. Not many. This is retail outlets. Dell sells three times as many computers and tons more over $1000 direct from them to you without the overhead cost of a store filled with cool glass displays and backlighting. The apple stores are designed to be more like a nightclub. They want people to come in and fall in love with the piece of hardware and its smooth round corners. You spend the extra money so you can make love to it. Post the stats on all computer sales and see Apple still with a very small bite of the global sales. Don't get too excited Macaddicts.
I see where you are coming from. I'll play devils advocate to see where our thinking leads us...At least we're having an intelligent discussion that doesn't have to lead to calling each others names...which is usually what people do when they have nothing intelligent left to say. If you own a television in the US, active ads are pushed into and interrupt your viewing (at least much of time in the US...I realize not everywhere in the world). We don't have a right to not have them pushed in front of us, but you can find tools to get around it like TIVO. Rather than demand commercials be banned, we find a way to avoid them. I'd also be interested to hear your thoughts on the radio advertisements, since they tend to be very annoying to me but hard to tune out as you drive down the road. We did finally make a move against telemarketers a few years back, but that became an extreme inconvenience when eating dinner and wasting your time telling someone to go shove it! The other fact, that might be interesting for discussion sake, is that most people don't "own" an email address. Most, it seems, get their email for free from either Gmail or Yahoo or something. If you are given something for free to use, how far are they allowed to go with their advertisements? At least in the States, I think we confuse freedom of speech with freedom FROM speech. You have the right to say what you want, but I don't necessarily have the right to stop you from saying it (unless what you are saying is hateful in race or sexual preference...then you can go to jail). We don't have freedom from advertisements and marketing. We do have freedom to make any false statements and exaggerated claims through advertising, though.
I wish what you state could be true, but in a free market society of the US, we cannot avoid it. You would have to drive down the highways and not look left or right and see a billboard. You would never watch television with commericals and not listen to radio either. You really can't read the newspaper or even browse news media websites. For that matter, don't look to the top or right on a Google search. Advertisements are everywhere. You have the right to look at it or listen to it, but you cannot always tune it out or stop it before it comes to you. If you personally were in the business of making a product and selling it, you're glad that your advertisments are seen by many and make sales by a few. (Do you work for a company that advertizes?) If none of this happened, you wouldn't have much to purchase from. Businesses would see less sales and have less incentive to make new products (if nobody see or hears about them and then buys their products). Half of the time I see something that I want to purchase because of a ad. I didn't even know it existed until the ad showed it. There are benefits to counter the annoyance.
I'm just hoping the new version displays the web the way that IE does. I realize most everyone on the blog is just Pro anything free and Anti anything MS, but when I first starting using FF, I noticed all over where images and items on websites were out-of-place. I then switched back to IE and everything looked right. If FF can just produce all websites as consistently as IE, I'll make the switch.
Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Your analogy is not correct. Email is more like snail-mail. And yes, anyone can send email to your mailbox via snail-mail and not go to jail. The difference is that snail-mail costs them something. The real solution is to get all the stupid people off the web that actually make purchases from companies that they received a spam email from. They keep spammers continuing to spam. If the idiot purchaser got off the web, the spam would quickly dry up. Ultimately, this battle will never end...there will always be idoits that can get on the web.
That can be the only reason for replying to this thread whatsoever. Hey, why don't we talk about the original pong game and the potential that has for creating world peace! About as interesting....
Finally, something intelligent! I thought I remember hearing (but haven't been tracking) the talk about making transistors with something other than ceramic. The metallic based transistor should have MUCH less energy loss through heat. Perhaps there is research that someone else has heard of (usually in the universities) that is talking about really high efficiency and minimal heat loss (the two kinda go together). If we continue to make the chips more efficient (perhaps radically!), we may not be as crazy about moving everything to other countries. The idea of moving to cooler climates is the low-tech solution to the problem.
Why is this whole discussion about where everyone should run off to. Rather than spending billions on relocations and construction and cabling, wouldn't that money be better spent of working toward cooler chips (I'm talking operating temp, of course) and more efficient chips? Please someone help redirect the course of this discussion by giving out some real genius on how the current computers could run on less power and produce less heat. What technology have you heard? Where should we be putting our support to help struggling technologies get out there. Everyone is worried about cars and trucks and ozone. This is a great "green" project too!
This is my only problem with \. They only put up stories about technology that they feel is important. What about the technology behind good lagers and beers?!?! I mean, the real genius is found in cracking hops not MACs. I want to find solutions to hacking the code behind some of the most popular Ale's formulas, not Dlls. This will also diversify our discussion a little more since there are no good beers in America.
It took me the better part of an hour to read through all that, and I was only reading because you mentioned beer at the beginning. Who cares!! Where's my Heineken!!!! This kind of discussion always goes better with beer. At least you can throw your bottle on the ground and have it break to make your point seem to matter. Apple. Crash Different!