>You make as much sense as saying that, since I speed in my car, I probably also take heroin.
A more logical comparison would be to say that if you've been busted for heroin possession before and get pulled over for speeding, it's reasonable for the cop to assume there's a good chance you have heroin on you NOW.
Or perhaps if you have two DUIs and a cop pulls you over for driving erratically, you're PROBABLY drunk.
Saddam isn't some good little boy that's got a reputation as a juvenile delinquent because he kicked over your trash cans so now we blame him for a rash of car thefts.
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Okay, it's neat, but...
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What's it cost?
What's the fuel consumption at a REAL highway speed (note the speed of 47mph in the article)?
What's the fuel consumption with the air conditioning and radio on? No AC? What kind of effeciency hit does it take to roll the windows down? Can you roll those windows down?
Where's the spare tire?
80 liters of cargo capacity? My duffel bag won't fit in this car.
You wanna impress me, make something the size of a Honda Civic that gets 100mpg at practical speeds with a reasonable carrying capacity on fuel I can buy at the local Kwik-e-mart.
Ohyeah, and make it affordable.
An exotic one-off with an unlimited budget that can't carry a family-sized load of groceries or keep up with traffic on the highway just doesn't really impress me all that much.
Huh, that explains why battery life on my Thinkpad sucked so hard, even with all the powersaving doohickeys turned on. Maybe I shoulda gone ahead and put 2000 on it after all.
Just because Task Manager says System Idle Process says 97% doesn't mean the CPU is neccessarily receiving halt signals.
I'm not saying XP doesn't do the halt trick, I have no idea and don't much care, but it's possible for the system to show the CPU at 10% utilization and still have that 90% basically sitting there doing "no op" cycles WITHOUT sending the halts to the CPU. That's what 95/98/ME do for sure.
>If your CPU is frying, you might be inclined to >fix that issue because Windows keeps crashing, >wheras with Mandrake now happily chugging along >irregardless of your CPU getting ready to be >toasted, you won't fix it and lose the CPU
Actually, it's entirely possible that Windows would overheat the CPU while Linux would not.
Linux sends halt signal to the CPU when idle so it doesn't continue to run at full steam when nothing's going on - net result: CPU stays cooler and consumes less power. However, if you're running something like seti or primes or whathaveyou, you'd be more likely to see problems since the CPU won't be idle.
There are programs to force Windows to do the halt trick, but I've haven't played with them since the days of overclocking Celeron 300As. I seem to recall the name Waterfall, but don't quote me on that...
>In RC car races the weight is kept the minimum >possible
Might they have a weight minimum, kinda like full-scale racing?
I know that in NASCAR and F1 and CART and the like, you have to weigh at least a certain minimum. To the point of ADDING weight to the cars if needed. Basically this translates into every car basically weighing EXACTLY this amount, but...
I dunno anything about RC, do they have something like this?
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(...you must be at least this heavy to race this race...)
>Typeahead rocks my socks, but the Mozilla team >didn't invent it. Internet Explorer for the Mac >has had this for quite some time.
IE has had "fill in the box" type-ahead completion for years, but it sounds like what he's describing is different.
As an example, say you wanted to reply to this article. Instead of clicking on "Reply to This", you'd type enough of "reply" to jump the highlight to the link in the active window.
Not exactly the same thing. Not even remotely the same thing, even.
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Understandable from the point of view of the Chinese government. Expected, if you prefer.
Yes, "understandable" was a poor choice of words.
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>You make as much sense as saying that, since I speed in my car, I probably also take heroin.
A more logical comparison would be to say that if you've been busted for heroin possession before and get pulled over for speeding, it's reasonable for the cop to assume there's a good chance you have heroin on you NOW.
Or perhaps if you have two DUIs and a cop pulls you over for driving erratically, you're PROBABLY drunk.
Saddam isn't some good little boy that's got a reputation as a juvenile delinquent because he kicked over your trash cans so now we blame him for a rash of car thefts.
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What's it cost?
What's the fuel consumption at a REAL highway speed (note the speed of 47mph in the article)?
What's the fuel consumption with the air conditioning and radio on? No AC? What kind of effeciency hit does it take to roll the windows down? Can you roll those windows down?
Where's the spare tire?
80 liters of cargo capacity? My duffel bag won't fit in this car.
You wanna impress me, make something the size of a Honda Civic that gets 100mpg at practical speeds with a reasonable carrying capacity on fuel I can buy at the local Kwik-e-mart.
Ohyeah, and make it affordable.
An exotic one-off with an unlimited budget that can't carry a family-sized load of groceries or keep up with traffic on the highway just doesn't really impress me all that much.
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>Commute time by monorail will be 100% quicker than bus
Wow, so a 30 minute commute will now take 0 minutes? That's AMAZING!
Just think, if they make the monorail go faster, I can be at work before I leave the house!
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Huh, that explains why battery life on my Thinkpad sucked so hard, even with all the powersaving doohickeys turned on. Maybe I shoulda gone ahead and put 2000 on it after all.
Don't have it anymore, so it's irrelevant anyway.
Thanks for the info!
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>Look for something called "System Idle Process".
Just because Task Manager says System Idle Process says 97% doesn't mean the CPU is neccessarily receiving halt signals.
I'm not saying XP doesn't do the halt trick, I have no idea and don't much care, but it's possible for the system to show the CPU at 10% utilization and still have that 90% basically sitting there doing "no op" cycles WITHOUT sending the halts to the CPU. That's what 95/98/ME do for sure.
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>If your CPU is frying, you might be inclined to
>fix that issue because Windows keeps crashing,
>wheras with Mandrake now happily chugging along
>irregardless of your CPU getting ready to be
>toasted, you won't fix it and lose the CPU
Actually, it's entirely possible that Windows would overheat the CPU while Linux would not.
Linux sends halt signal to the CPU when idle so it doesn't continue to run at full steam when nothing's going on - net result: CPU stays cooler and consumes less power. However, if you're running something like seti or primes or whathaveyou, you'd be more likely to see problems since the CPU won't be idle.
There are programs to force Windows to do the halt trick, but I've haven't played with them since the days of overclocking Celeron 300As. I seem to recall the name Waterfall, but don't quote me on that...
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>software designed for teenage girls?
It WAS a really good paper...
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Proof that moderators don't read the articles either.
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>Shouldn't that be lewd?
Maybe he was on 'ludes when he wrote it.
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47% of people know that.
>how foobar speed DVD relates to foobar speed CD?
Forget that, I wanna know how foo speed DVD or CD relates to foo speed FLOPPY!
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>In RC car races the weight is kept the minimum
>possible
Might they have a weight minimum, kinda like full-scale racing?
I know that in NASCAR and F1 and CART and the like, you have to weigh at least a certain minimum. To the point of ADDING weight to the cars if needed. Basically this translates into every car basically weighing EXACTLY this amount, but...
I dunno anything about RC, do they have something like this?
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(...you must be at least this heavy to race this race...)
>Imagine the possibilities [...]
I'd be too worried about something popping up while it was trying to be stealthy.
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Troll?!
I LIVE in Texas and was quoting a Simpsons episode, you simple-minded onion-skinned redneck jackass.
Harumph.
Karma? Bah, do your worst. Points to spare.
>There isn't a jury alive that will convict a
>baby.
Eh, maybe Texas.
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>IE does have move-the-focus typeahead
Where? I'm on IE 6, and I don't get anything like the behavior he's describing.
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>Which means I have to sort through at least 4,
>or at most 29 links to get to the one I want.
>Seems easier to just move my hand.
Drat! This one example on one web page invalidates the use of this feature on any of the other pages out there.
Thanks for setting me right. I'm a better, stronger person for it.
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>Typeahead rocks my socks, but the Mozilla team
>didn't invent it. Internet Explorer for the Mac
>has had this for quite some time.
IE has had "fill in the box" type-ahead completion for years, but it sounds like what he's describing is different.
As an example, say you wanted to reply to this article. Instead of clicking on "Reply to This", you'd type enough of "reply" to jump the highlight to the link in the active window.
Not exactly the same thing. Not even remotely the same thing, even.
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>Pubic and facial hair can naturally be different
>colors.
I think your dentist is taking the long way to get to your teeth.
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>But with Leisure Suit Larry you had to prove
>your age by answering questions to prove your
>age.
As I recall, Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Infocom) had something similar, though I can't recall dates for which came out first.
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One copy of "Swedish Water Boiling Vacuum Pumps and You", by Kwerle...
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A quick Google for electric pickle turns up some pictures and even movies here.
Along the same lines as the eletric pickle (but totally irrelevant to the rest of the topic), there's always the sparking grape trick.
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>I hate that weather-balloon that keeps ubducting
>Aunt Laura and poking her in the brain
Her brain?
Aren't they taking kind of the long way around to get to it?
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>as it is an OS by Apple and IBM (well gone but
>still)
AFAIK, "Pink" was just the internal code name for the eventual OS planned for the PowerPC.
And we all know how THAT turned out.
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