Subtle difference. The software doesn't particularly need the data to be streamed; it could easily be changed to work some other way. But the application, accurate maps of pretty much everywhere, demands streaming.
Read more slowly. It's got considerably longer range, while employing nifty tricks to make it so that it doesn't have considerably larger power consumption. The major gotcha is that the link is rather slow -- but there are plenty of interesting applications for wireless data that can get by on a few thousand bytes per second -- or far less.
I was going to call the parent a complete idiot (or at least, ignorant and without the sense not to post) but then I re-read for attitude, and I realized that this can't be anything but a troll.
Nowhere. Not only is there no on-topic place to discuss the running of slashdot, as you've mentioned -- but there's also nobody to give a damn what you think about it anyway.
I didn't know gazpacho soup was meant to be served cold. I called over the chef and I told him to take it away and bring it back hot. He did. The looks on their faces still haunt me today!
I won't say that I've never seen ghosting -- but I've never seen ghosting since the days of STN LCDs. I watch movies and TV on my laptop (14.1" on a recent Dell) and it's more than good enough. As with another poster, I find the crispness, color purity, and lack of flicker to all be better than CRT -- but then again, I've never used a really expensive CRT.
If you found a guy to sell you a speaker for your 5500, you got ripped off badly. The thing has an internal speaker; it's just that Sharp's kernel doesn't support it as anything more than a beeper. The kernel in OpenZaurus exposes it as a 22KHz DSP device, and xmms will automaticallly switch between the headphones and the builtin speaker, the same as on any other PDA.
The battery isn't great, but it's not that bad either.
Serial, worthwhile.
Crashes? You're doing something very wrong. Yeah, it'll crash now and then, but I never had a crash with my Z that lost any data, except in the case of failed upgrades.
That said, yeah, it would definitely do to have a bigger battery, some flavor of builtin wireless, and software that doesn't suck out of the box. But Sharp has completely abandoned the relatively cheap "upright" Zs in favor of massively expensive clamshell ones.
Which is quite thoroughly true, in most cases. Unfortunately, XP (especially SP2) does have a few nice pieces of work-saving UI added, and continuing support. Oh well, it's not like we can ever get MS to admit their mistakes
Government, as an institution, is supposed to exist to solve (or at least mitigate) the people's problems.
The average person, when placed in a position of power, wishes to use that power to improve his own situation. Such a person, in a government position finds that the best way to increase his personal power is to increase the size and importance of his domain of power -- which, as we've seen, is based upon "solving" some problem that the people have.
The best method they've found so far is to create the problem with one hand while solving it with the other. Move more responsibility from the people to the government, and justify more work. Create more complications and loopholes in the tax codes, and work harder to bust tax evaders. Make more things illegal, and make law enforcement look good. It's a justification to do more, to take more of your money for your own good. It is evil. It's a million acts of small, petty evil in the guises of kindness and service.
As to the bit about the Republicans -- it's been said before that the US is run by two parties: the party of Evil and the party of Stupidity. I agree with that assessment, but I think that the roles change day-to-day. Neither one is any better than the other.
Simcop's joke was based on the grandparent's (I think) misuse of the word "efficiency". What the grandparent meant by 400% efficiency was that it moves 4 times as much heat than it emits itself -- but what "400% efficiency" means in the rest of the world is "takes one unit of energy as input, and outputs four units of energy" -- i.e. free energy.
I absolutely love the sig. I can't stand the way slashdot assumes that anyone who's actually a decent typist must be a bot. Sometimes you know exactly what you want to say and it's ready to go -- but slashdot isn't ready for you:)
Use a window manager that isn't completely moronic about focusing, and then you have two options.
1) If your "target" is fairly small, then bring it to front, but not obscuring your source. Then drag from source to target without bringing the source to front.
2) Select the thing you want to drag, and "pick it up" (start the drag operation) -- then use keyboard to bring the target window to top -- alt-tab, change desktops, whatever. Then complete the drag operation ("drop"). If you can't perform the necessary window operations with the keyboard, you're living in a world of hurt anyway.
so one time i was reading slashdot and there was this guy who was writing some crap about bananas or something and he grafted his sentences onto each other without using any kind of punctuation or anything and i think that he must have cloned his sentences or something and i got really bored reading it but then i thought wouldn't it be cool if i wrote a reply so i started typing
I could get a single-processor Itanium system for "around $2000". Or I could get a system with dualie 2GHz G5s for $2000 (less, if I'm a student).
According to your stats from the "top 500", a single G5 2.2GHz has a bit more power than a single Itanium 1.4GHz. So the 2.0 G5 x2 should be almost twice the processor, for the same price. Yeah, the Powermac is a desktop machine -- but it's a kicking one -- and the article you linked said that a "basic" 1x itanium machine "will go for just over $2000".
Other advantages: while the future of the PPC is not entirely certain right now, I'd venture to say that Itanium's future is even shakier. Dualie 2.7GHz G5 systems are already available (at a $3,000 pricepoint from Apple). I see the power/price ratio continuing to look better for PPC than Itanium for a while.
Also, there's considerably more software out there for PPC than Itanium, and probably more developers familiar with the platform.
If you want more reasons why Itanium deserves almost every slam it's ever gotten, ring me back -- or read some of the other posts here:)
Yeah, I realized after I posted that I should have said "tear it open, see how it works, find something interesting to do with it" -- but the first two bits are important steps:)
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Subtle difference. The software doesn't particularly need the data to be streamed; it could easily be changed to work some other way. But the application, accurate maps of pretty much everywhere, demands streaming.
I thought Cairo was the codename for NT 4.0?
Funny, but Pluto has, as far as anyone can tell, one satellite, which is named Charon.
A workable definition, but only if you want to include "minor planets" -- I don't see anything in your definition to exclude asteroids.
Of course, the fact that you go back and take the time to butcher your site for IE is why so few people see any reason to switch from IE.
Read more slowly. It's got considerably longer range, while employing nifty tricks to make it so that it doesn't have considerably larger power consumption. The major gotcha is that the link is rather slow -- but there are plenty of interesting applications for wireless data that can get by on a few thousand bytes per second -- or far less.
At exactly the same point at which it's justified in shooting the guy on the battlefield.
When nine hundred years old you reach, speak this well you will not, hmm?
I was going to call the parent a complete idiot (or at least, ignorant and without the sense not to post) but then I re-read for attitude, and I realized that this can't be anything but a troll.
Nowhere. Not only is there no on-topic place to discuss the running of slashdot, as you've mentioned -- but there's also nobody to give a damn what you think about it anyway.
I didn't know gazpacho soup was meant to be served cold. I called over the chef and I told him to take it away and bring it back hot. He did. The looks on their faces still haunt me today!
I won't say that I've never seen ghosting -- but I've never seen ghosting since the days of STN LCDs. I watch movies and TV on my laptop (14.1" on a recent Dell) and it's more than good enough. As with another poster, I find the crispness, color purity, and lack of flicker to all be better than CRT -- but then again, I've never used a really expensive CRT.
And probably the most popular game ever to be written in Perl.
If you found a guy to sell you a speaker for your 5500, you got ripped off badly. The thing has an internal speaker; it's just that Sharp's kernel doesn't support it as anything more than a beeper. The kernel in OpenZaurus exposes it as a 22KHz DSP device, and xmms will automaticallly switch between the headphones and the builtin speaker, the same as on any other PDA.
The battery isn't great, but it's not that bad either.
Serial, worthwhile.
Crashes? You're doing something very wrong. Yeah, it'll crash now and then, but I never had a crash with my Z that lost any data, except in the case of failed upgrades.
That said, yeah, it would definitely do to have a bigger battery, some flavor of builtin wireless, and software that doesn't suck out of the box. But Sharp has completely abandoned the relatively cheap "upright" Zs in favor of massively expensive clamshell ones.
Which is quite thoroughly true, in most cases. Unfortunately, XP (especially SP2) does have a few nice pieces of work-saving UI added, and continuing support. Oh well, it's not like we can ever get MS to admit their mistakes
Government, as an institution, is supposed to exist to solve (or at least mitigate) the people's problems.
The average person, when placed in a position of power, wishes to use that power to improve his own situation. Such a person, in a government position finds that the best way to increase his personal power is to increase the size and importance of his domain of power -- which, as we've seen, is based upon "solving" some problem that the people have.
The best method they've found so far is to create the problem with one hand while solving it with the other. Move more responsibility from the people to the government, and justify more work. Create more complications and loopholes in the tax codes, and work harder to bust tax evaders. Make more things illegal, and make law enforcement look good. It's a justification to do more, to take more of your money for your own good. It is evil. It's a million acts of small, petty evil in the guises of kindness and service.
As to the bit about the Republicans -- it's been said before that the US is run by two parties: the party of Evil and the party of Stupidity. I agree with that assessment, but I think that the roles change day-to-day. Neither one is any better than the other.
Simcop's joke was based on the grandparent's (I think) misuse of the word "efficiency". What the grandparent meant by 400% efficiency was that it moves 4 times as much heat than it emits itself -- but what "400% efficiency" means in the rest of the world is "takes one unit of energy as input, and outputs four units of energy" -- i.e. free energy.
But your grammar-deficient tirade was fun anyway.
I absolutely love the sig. I can't stand the way slashdot assumes that anyone who's actually a decent typist must be a bot. Sometimes you know exactly what you want to say and it's ready to go -- but slashdot isn't ready for you :)
Use a window manager that isn't completely moronic about focusing, and then you have two options.
1) If your "target" is fairly small, then bring it to front, but not obscuring your source. Then drag from source to target without bringing the source to front.
2) Select the thing you want to drag, and "pick it up" (start the drag operation) -- then use keyboard to bring the target window to top -- alt-tab, change desktops, whatever. Then complete the drag operation ("drop"). If you can't perform the necessary window operations with the keyboard, you're living in a world of hurt anyway.
so one time i was reading slashdot and there was this guy who was writing some crap about bananas or something and he grafted his sentences onto each other without using any kind of punctuation or anything and i think that he must have cloned his sentences or something and i got really bored reading it but then i thought wouldn't it be cool if i wrote a reply so i started typing
so one time i was reading slashdot...
and geting nice chipsets as a bonus.
don't you mean "a boatload of really sucky chipsets, among the worst of which are Intel's"?
Shouldn't it be Operation ADJECTIVE NOUN?
Operation Exploding Server maybe.
For that matter, when's the last time you remember the threat level dropping to Guarded? And what's with the colors, anyways?
Guarded? I've never heard of that one. There's a reason for the colors, and that's because the official terror alert levels are:
Green - Oscar
Blue - Cookie Monster
Yellow - Bert
Orange - Ernie
Red - Elmo
okay, yeah
I could get a single-processor Itanium system for "around $2000". Or I could get a system with dualie 2GHz G5s for $2000 (less, if I'm a student).
:)
According to your stats from the "top 500", a single G5 2.2GHz has a bit more power than a single Itanium 1.4GHz. So the 2.0 G5 x2 should be almost twice the processor, for the same price. Yeah, the Powermac is a desktop machine -- but it's a kicking one -- and the article you linked said that a "basic" 1x itanium machine "will go for just over $2000".
Other advantages: while the future of the PPC is not entirely certain right now, I'd venture to say that Itanium's future is even shakier. Dualie 2.7GHz G5 systems are already available (at a $3,000 pricepoint from Apple). I see the power/price ratio continuing to look better for PPC than Itanium for a while.
Also, there's considerably more software out there for PPC than Itanium, and probably more developers familiar with the platform.
If you want more reasons why Itanium deserves almost every slam it's ever gotten, ring me back -- or read some of the other posts here
Yeah, I realized after I posted that I should have said "tear it open, see how it works, find something interesting to do with it" -- but the first two bits are important steps :)