Remember, they're still using Intel's chipsets, and if there isn't a laptop chipset which supports 64-bit PCI, then there isn't going to be a MBP with 64-bit PCI. Apple isn't going to make a custom bridge chip.
They don't do any business at all in the US. They require diamond buyers to fly to London to get their shipments, then these buyers may resell elsewhere in the US. In fact, if the DeBeers people ever set foot in the US, it is my understanding that they are immediately subject to arrest.
If you read that site I think you'll find that they are selling cubic zirconium, not diamonds...
Apparently so. It says "hardness 8.5". If you're going to be cheap, you might as well go for silicon carbide, which is IIRC hardness 9.5 and looks much better than CZ.
Hmm, I just bothered to RTFA,. and it appears that these are not vapor deposition diamonds, just an improved version of the "regular" process. I guess vapordep has a few years before they get there. Also, vapordeps will probably be white only.
Actually, De Beers is terrified. Over the last decade, they have pushed "genuine diamonds". Cool. A good jeweler and a bit testing could determine the difference between natural and artificial. Note, that I do not call it real vs. fake. The reason is, that they are both real. The problem is that the new artificial are not only indistinguishable, but it appears that better larger ones may be available soon for less than the cheaper "real" ones.
The first generation manufactured diamonds had impurities with the metallic salts or whatever that were used to dissolve the carbon. The current generation diamonds are vapor deposition and are (as others have said), "too perfect".
De Beers would LOVE to kill these folks.
Literally. As in with a bullet. I'm sure they would like to, but they're not willing to go quite that far for their cartel... not in a civilized country at least.
I thought for sure that when they started supporting 2GB memory chips, we would be able to put 2 2GB chips into our Mac Pros, giving us 4GB.
Virtual memory is irrelevant, as each task is still limited to a 4GB addressing space in 32-bit mode. The reason for a physical RAM limitation of 3GB is that 32-bit PCI still needs address windows for video and other peripherals. Going to 64-PCI would probably end up making things more expensive somehow. It's no problem for a high-end desktop like the Mac Pro, but for a laptop, it's probably not worth the effort in this generation.
As for speakers, the speakers on my Core-1 17" do sound better than the ones on my old G4 17".
... to listen to Howard Stern's talk about midget lesbians. That's so awesome because like there isn't any other access to midget lesbians and other assorted pervsions anywhere else on the Internet.
Oh yeah, I'm sooooooo excited over this. Not. Especially when I can get five hours of Penn Jilette weekly for FREE, one hour of which is MONKEY TUESDAY!(obligatory music)
Nintendo has been churning these things out for, what, two or three months now? And they've said that production has been ahead of estimates?
I expect to be able to walk into Fry's at 9AM Sunday morning and buy one with no problem, just like I did with the Gamecube. I only do pre-orders if there's some kind of cool pre-order swag, and so far I've only done that for Windwaker, when I would have happily paid the $5 deposit for the Ocarina disc anyhow, even if there wasn't a pre-order attached to it.
You had me until that point... because I know that Japanese use a different way of counting on their fingers! I've never quite figured out what it looks like (none of the descriptions I've ever read are worth the thousand words of a picture), but I do know that it's different, particularly for six to ten.
Of course the whole reason the sheet thing works in Japan is because, as you mentioned, the Japanese have a very high literacy rate, higher than the U.S. Esentially all (over 99%) Japanese adults can read.
Do you really want to be the soldier miming "Excuse me, grandpa, could you speak directly into this microphone and try not to mumble so much?
Yeah, that would be real fun in Japan. Every time I've heard the male Japanese guests speak at anime conventions over here, they all mumble like nobody's business. Okay, so none of them have been seiyuu (just directors, producers, and a few mangaka), which might make a difference. It's the directors and producers that I know for sure love to mumble.
"negotiation"? I don't recall us doing much negotiation with them. As far as I can tell, it was 1) we kicked their ass back in the day, 2) put them in esentially a permanent penalty box, and 3) they saw what happened in Iraq and decided they didn't really want to go through that. That's what really changed their mind.
And it certainly wasn't accomplished though appeasement.
no terrorist in the world could possibly pay what it costs to develop a nuclear weapon.
News flash: it's just been developed. NK would be happy to charge cost-plus to anyone else who wants one. Bring your own Iranian uranium and it's half price.
Il*Mart - your home of falling prices... and falling bombs!
Al Qaeda had about $1 million budget for 9/11. They could probably pass around the hat for more, but anyone who could donate big bucks to them (enough for a nuke) wouldn't, they don't want a nuclear war because it would be bad for (the oil) business, and definitely would not want the US tracking the money trail back to him and stringing him up by his balls in Bagram. Despite Tom Clancy and Jack Bauer, it's not somethng to lose sleep over.
We know that KJI just loves to sell weapons to the mideast for money.
Once someone has got the money to pay KJI, they've got the money. It doesn't matter who doesn't give them the money, just that they've got it. And where else are they supposedly trying to make a nuke? Where else are they swimming in money because their nutball leader has talked up the situation in the mideast to drive up the price of the very oil that they sell?
Not Al Queda. Iran.
"Bad for the oil business"? When the turmoil it would cause would do nothing but raise the price of oil sky-high? Again?
WTF is it with the fad these days of using CSS to make down-sized body text in freaking GRAY? I mean, it's annoying enough that it's smaller than you've set in your freaking browser preferences as the point size you'd like to read, but then they set it to 75% gray to make it even harder to read? It also doesn't help that displays these days have more pixels per inch, meaning that it goes from just being small to being microscopic. Ever since getting a MacBook Pro, I've been wearing out the command-+ in Mozilla.
And then you get this joker who ups the ante by changing the background to black?
Hint: try making the headlines bigger and leave the body text size alone.
"Computer, what are the nearest sources of gold-pressed latinum" yields no results, for me.
Well there's your problem. You asked it for sources of GPL, not where you could acquire it. Your computer doing a search of the entire Glactinet to check each and every planet for GPL ore deposits or mining, so that it could then sort by distance. Your petaQ Pentium would take approximately three months to finish that search, and that's only if you had a 100Mbit fiber connection.
That prop hasn't aged so well in Paramount's storage. Now instead of saying things like "beam me up Scotty", it says nothing but "Denny Crane!" over and over.
The Burger King is an evil homosexual man with a plastic face who runs around terrorizing the Burger populace. It is speculated that he took control of the Burger underground by viciously murdering long-time crime boss The Hamburglar with nothing but a spork and a smile.... His favorite pastime is sneaking into other mens' hotel rooms at night and penetrating them in their sleep.
Lance Armstrong's got the "Livestrong" foundation...I wonder what his would be called?
[badtaste] Diescordian? [/badtaste]
It looks like he got enough fnords sent to him for now. I'll keep a watch for a second wave of requests. No need to stuff his PP more now and either get it shut down for "fraud" or to attract the unwanted attention of a Three Letter Agency.
Speaking of which, just what kind of problems does he have with the IRS anyhow? The Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, other than them being a bit more real than the Tooth Fairy and harder to get rid of.
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Holy disestablishmentarianism, Batman!
Remember, they're still using Intel's chipsets, and if there isn't a laptop chipset which supports 64-bit PCI, then there isn't going to be a MBP with 64-bit PCI. Apple isn't going to make a custom bridge chip.
They don't do any business at all in the US. They require diamond buyers to fly to London to get their shipments, then these buyers may resell elsewhere in the US. In fact, if the DeBeers people ever set foot in the US, it is my understanding that they are immediately subject to arrest.
If you read that site I think you'll find that they are selling cubic zirconium, not diamonds...
Apparently so. It says "hardness 8.5". If you're going to be cheap, you might as well go for silicon carbide, which is IIRC hardness 9.5 and looks much better than CZ.
I'm holding out for transparent aluminum.
Hmm, I just bothered to RTFA,. and it appears that these are not vapor deposition diamonds, just an improved version of the "regular" process. I guess vapordep has a few years before they get there. Also, vapordeps will probably be white only.
Actually, De Beers is terrified. Over the last decade, they have pushed "genuine diamonds". Cool. A good jeweler and a bit testing could determine the difference between natural and artificial. Note, that I do not call it real vs. fake. The reason is, that they are both real. The problem is that the new artificial are not only indistinguishable, but it appears that better larger ones may be available soon for less than the cheaper "real" ones.
The first generation manufactured diamonds had impurities with the metallic salts or whatever that were used to dissolve the carbon. The current generation diamonds are vapor deposition and are (as others have said), "too perfect".
De Beers would LOVE to kill these folks.
Literally. As in with a bullet. I'm sure they would like to, but they're not willing to go quite that far for their cartel... not in a civilized country at least.
I thought for sure that when they started supporting 2GB memory chips, we would be able to put 2 2GB chips into our Mac Pros, giving us 4GB.
Virtual memory is irrelevant, as each task is still limited to a 4GB addressing space in 32-bit mode. The reason for a physical RAM limitation of 3GB is that 32-bit PCI still needs address windows for video and other peripherals. Going to 64-PCI would probably end up making things more expensive somehow. It's no problem for a high-end desktop like the Mac Pro, but for a laptop, it's probably not worth the effort in this generation.
As for speakers, the speakers on my Core-1 17" do sound better than the ones on my old G4 17".
That stuff is such moronic bullshit that the guy probably wasn't even born before 1984.
Oh yeah, I'm sooooooo excited over this. Not. Especially when I can get five hours of Penn Jilette weekly for FREE, one hour of which is MONKEY TUESDAY! (obligatory music)
It's also interesting how people now explain the blood on Reiser's shirt in this comic, while this comic also predates this whole arrest story. :-)
Sheesh. Too Soon.
Nintendo has been churning these things out for, what, two or three months now? And they've said that production has been ahead of estimates?
I expect to be able to walk into Fry's at 9AM Sunday morning and buy one with no problem, just like I did with the Gamecube. I only do pre-orders if there's some kind of cool pre-order swag, and so far I've only done that for Windwaker, when I would have happily paid the $5 deposit for the Ocarina disc anyhow, even if there wasn't a pre-order attached to it.
They hold up an appropriate number of fingers.
You had me until that point... because I know that Japanese use a different way of counting on their fingers! I've never quite figured out what it looks like (none of the descriptions I've ever read are worth the thousand words of a picture), but I do know that it's different, particularly for six to ten.
Of course the whole reason the sheet thing works in Japan is because, as you mentioned, the Japanese have a very high literacy rate, higher than the U.S. Esentially all (over 99%) Japanese adults can read.
Do you really want to be the soldier miming "Excuse me, grandpa, could you speak directly into this microphone and try not to mumble so much?
Yeah, that would be real fun in Japan. Every time I've heard the male Japanese guests speak at anime conventions over here, they all mumble like nobody's business. Okay, so none of them have been seiyuu (just directors, producers, and a few mangaka), which might make a difference. It's the directors and producers that I know for sure love to mumble.
"negotiation"? I don't recall us doing much negotiation with them. As far as I can tell, it was 1) we kicked their ass back in the day, 2) put them in esentially a permanent penalty box, and 3) they saw what happened in Iraq and decided they didn't really want to go through that. That's what really changed their mind.
And it certainly wasn't accomplished though appeasement.
no terrorist in the world could possibly pay what it costs to develop a nuclear weapon.
News flash: it's just been developed. NK would be happy to charge cost-plus to anyone else who wants one. Bring your own Iranian uranium and it's half price.
Il*Mart - your home of falling prices... and falling bombs!
Al Qaeda had about $1 million budget for 9/11. They could probably pass around the hat for more, but anyone who could donate big bucks to them (enough for a nuke) wouldn't, they don't want a nuclear war because it would be bad for (the oil) business, and definitely would not want the US tracking the money trail back to him and stringing him up by his balls in Bagram. Despite Tom Clancy and Jack Bauer, it's not somethng to lose sleep over.
We know that KJI just loves to sell weapons to the mideast for money.
Once someone has got the money to pay KJI, they've got the money. It doesn't matter who doesn't give them the money, just that they've got it. And where else are they supposedly trying to make a nuke? Where else are they swimming in money because their nutball leader has talked up the situation in the mideast to drive up the price of the very oil that they sell?
Not Al Queda. Iran.
"Bad for the oil business"? When the turmoil it would cause would do nothing but raise the price of oil sky-high? Again?
Even if she can't, Falco is still looking for her.
What for, to bring him back to life? I didn't know she could do resurrections.
WTF is it with the fad these days of using CSS to make down-sized body text in freaking GRAY? I mean, it's annoying enough that it's smaller than you've set in your freaking browser preferences as the point size you'd like to read, but then they set it to 75% gray to make it even harder to read? It also doesn't help that displays these days have more pixels per inch, meaning that it goes from just being small to being microscopic. Ever since getting a MacBook Pro, I've been wearing out the command-+ in Mozilla.
And then you get this joker who ups the ante by changing the background to black?
Hint: try making the headlines bigger and leave the body text size alone.
"Computer, what are the nearest sources of gold-pressed latinum" yields no results, for me.
Well there's your problem. You asked it for sources of GPL, not where you could acquire it. Your computer doing a search of the entire Glactinet to check each and every planet for GPL ore deposits or mining, so that it could then sort by distance. Your petaQ Pentium would take approximately three months to finish that search, and that's only if you had a 100Mbit fiber connection.
How much for William Shatner?
That prop hasn't aged so well in Paramount's storage. Now instead of saying things like "beam me up Scotty", it says nothing but "Denny Crane!" over and over.
Hell, I doubt if even Jeannie can help Sony out of the mess they're in now.
From TFA:
why not just open the lid?
Because that kind of suspend and resume isn't reliable (or otherwise sucks) with Windows?
(Full Disclosure: this message was typed on a MacBook Pro 17")
Protip: If the terr'ists learn how to cast "dark vortex" and "magic missile," they win. Hands down.
Our only hope is to cast TILTOWAIT back at them to counter their Wizardry of Mass Destruction.
(note: unintentional pun was only noticed about five seconds after I typed it)
Where is your God now?
The Burger King is an evil homosexual man with a plastic face who runs around terrorizing the Burger populace. It is speculated that he took control of the Burger underground by viciously murdering long-time crime boss The Hamburglar with nothing but a spork and a smile. ... His favorite pastime is sneaking into other mens' hotel rooms at night and penetrating them in their sleep.
Lance Armstrong's got the "Livestrong" foundation...I wonder what his would be called?
[badtaste] Diescordian? [/badtaste]
It looks like he got enough fnords sent to him for now. I'll keep a watch for a second wave of requests. No need to stuff his PP more now and either get it shut down for "fraud" or to attract the unwanted attention of a Three Letter Agency.
Speaking of which, just what kind of problems does he have with the IRS anyhow? The Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, other than them being a bit more real than the Tooth Fairy and harder to get rid of.