Hopefully the latest version of Blender is usable once again in OSX. The last major revision had been all but broken, simply being a gray screen if you attempted to "maximize" the blender window. Perhaps it's my video card (32mb Radeon 7000), but a new project with no wire frame to render shouldn't crash the program.
Unless there's an online course tied to the book, I never keep the book. I bought OCR software back in the day for about the cost of one book, plus a good scanner for the cost of another book. I buy the books (used), scan the entire book in, OCR it, then save it as a searchable PDF file. This takes about four hours, but I can return the book saying "I decided to change the course" for a full refund.
What happens if you need to take 100 gigs of information to a friend of client? I'll give you a hint: Taking the whole computer, or unplugging the drive from your computer and installing it in theirs isn't a good solution. You might as well just get a SATA card for the G5, and run the cables through a hole in the rear to a seperate ATX case (that you already had to gut for the drive bay holder) with it's own power supply to house the drives. At least then
You don't fuck up the air flow
you have more capacity for future drives
you're not taxing the G5's power supply
the ATX case can be used as a sort of uber fire wire (or in this case, SATA) drive, that can be plugged in to other G5s.
oh, and you don't have those stupid bolts sticking through the front of the case.
That, and the fact that AMD only has one fab plant. Most of their production is outsourced, although they're building a second plant on the same property the first one is (in Germany, i believe). Intel has litterally dozens of fab plants.
The issue is with polycarbonate, or "plexi-glass looking" hard plastic. Soda bottle and tupperware type plastics don't release the carcinogens into the fluids contained within. Careful how you spread FUD.
A data point from a year ago about technology is pretty much a moot point.
You can get dual layer DVD burners in the current crop of power macs directly from apple now. It's a little harder to put the technology in a much smaller package than your "Linux Box". The total volume of a powerbook is a little less than that of one 5.25" drive bay, where your "Box" probably has room for three or more, not to mention power supply, motherboard, hard drives, etc. I wouldn't be suprised to see a dual layer DVD burner in the laptops by mid-2006 at the latest.
The article, and rumors have been carefully worded. There's no reason intel can't produce a power pc clone chip. You'll note the article carefully sidesteps any mention of x86 or power pc platform. My guess is that all that's happening is Intel will be making g4's and g5's for Apple, rather than IBM.
most credit cards these days allow you to generate a "temporary number" for sites like napster or paypal, and put X amount of cash in there, as low as $1. the account evaporates after 24 hours or whatever. this sort of thing sounds ideal for dealing with napster.
Put a towel down (or similar), flip the CRT face down, and then pick it up like a regular box. Since > 80% of the weight is in the leaded glass at the front of the CRT, you've just changed the center of gravity to a very friendly position, rather than that weight being distributed evenly throughout the box (such as a box of canned goods).
I suppose it'd be a problem if you poured more than a gallon of water in there. So long as you don't spill your super size coke or take the tank in the shower with you, you should be fine.
Vegetable oil is about $4 a gallon. Looks like his 10 gallon tank is about half full, minus 1/8th of a gallon displacement for the components; 4.875 gallons*$4= $19.70, or about the cost of a copper heat sink + artic silver paste.
Care to bring any tech (links) to back up your statements? Specifically relating to vehicles; I don't think drag and turbulence envelopes change that drastically between 45 and 90mph. There's a big difference between a fighter jet at twice the speed of sound (and about 2000mph of variable speed) with litterally billions of dollars of research and mom's station wagon (or in this case my cheap-ass dad's caddy) at 75mph with 45mph of variable speed* and maybe 10 million dollars invested in to the aerodynamic profile.
Now, the late 90's model Toyta Camrys, they had a spoiler on the trunk that actually decreased the coefficent of drag somewhat. Went from.36 to a whopping.34 (the Prius and other high mpg cars have CoDs of.33 to.31 usually; trucks have a CoD of.4-.38 usually). That gave the Camry about 1mpg better fuel economy above 50mph or so.
*I say 45 instead of 75 because wind resistance doesn't really come in to effect until 40-45mph, and very few cars ever see above 90mph for more than a few minutes in their lifetime.
Which is exactly why the speed limit when from 70 to 55 durring the oil crisis. Someone will correct me, but wind resistance is cubed every time you double your speed. Our old '84 caddilac with trip computer got 25mpg at 64mph, but got 17-19mpg at 70mph. Closer to 28mpg at 55mph.
Ah, ok. Comming from a family who does engineering and finacial stuff, the most we ever use our printer for is word documents, PDF files, and maps.google.com. Since the laser printer works so well, when we need to do color, it goes to walmart, kinkos, or B&W photo (professional photo printer). Waaaay cheaper than buying the $200 printer + $60 in ink every 6 months:)
(plus we only do/need color printing about once every other month)
Charging cable to the xbox? Fuck that! stick a 4 port powered usb hub under the couch; there's no reason to run cables across the living room these days.
Have a gem in the middle that shows 1-4 to show what controller number you are since they're wireless.
That's what I was thinking, or perhaps it can be used to assign controller number. Sit down, push the 3 button, so when your buddies who are always #2 and #4 come in, everyone has their "usual" corner of the screen for halo.
I'll one up your Laserjet 2100 (we have one at home) and say a better option is to grab a used Laserjet II or III. They were designed to replace the parts, rather than be thrown away when something dies on it, so they'll last forever. You can pick them up on ebay for about $25. That's cheap enough to buy two extras as parts machines, and still be less than half the price you spent on your 2100:) . They only print at 300dpi though. I garuntee my two decade old LJII will still be working when the last 2100 and 1320 have failed.
Oh, and being old as dirt (as printers go), toner is appropriately (dirt) cheap.
Funny; Playstation's nearly white controllers, SNES's white (but purple tinted) controllers, and the PSOne's white controllers never had any issues. Of course they got some grit in the seams, but that's about it. Come to think of it, I've never had any brown-ness occur on any of my white computer mice from the late 80's through early 2000's (I have a silver mouse now - still no brown). All of my friend's iBooks (white) still look..... white. Even the (white) keys. Sounds like you're spreading FUD.
We both go to school out of state, so when we come home on breaks we usually end up at one or the other's houses. I do tech support for her family's home based buisness. Other times my girlfriend needs to use her computer for her buisness while I need to look somthing up for plans for the night. I can't unplug her from the network, and their router is already full (not to mention hard to reach, in the back of the liquor cabinet). When we get an apartment next summer this won't be as much of an issue:)
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Hopefully the latest version of Blender is usable once again in OSX. The last major revision had been all but broken, simply being a gray screen if you attempted to "maximize" the blender window. Perhaps it's my video card (32mb Radeon 7000), but a new project with no wire frame to render shouldn't crash the program.
maybe someone can shed some light on this issue?
Unless there's an online course tied to the book, I never keep the book. I bought OCR software back in the day for about the cost of one book, plus a good scanner for the cost of another book. I buy the books (used), scan the entire book in, OCR it, then save it as a searchable PDF file. This takes about four hours, but I can return the book saying "I decided to change the course" for a full refund.
What happens if you need to take 100 gigs of information to a friend of client? I'll give you a hint: Taking the whole computer, or unplugging the drive from your computer and installing it in theirs isn't a good solution. You might as well just get a SATA card for the G5, and run the cables through a hole in the rear to a seperate ATX case (that you already had to gut for the drive bay holder) with it's own power supply to house the drives. At least then
oh, and you don't have those stupid bolts sticking through the front of the case.
That, and the fact that AMD only has one fab plant. Most of their production is outsourced, although they're building a second plant on the same property the first one is (in Germany, i believe). Intel has litterally dozens of fab plants.
Try logging out/in again.
The issue is with polycarbonate, or "plexi-glass looking" hard plastic. Soda bottle and tupperware type plastics don't release the carcinogens into the fluids contained within. Careful how you spread FUD.
err, a little less than two 5.25" drive bays. damn you, preview button!
A data point from a year ago about technology is pretty much a moot point.
You can get dual layer DVD burners in the current crop of power macs directly from apple now. It's a little harder to put the technology in a much smaller package than your "Linux Box". The total volume of a powerbook is a little less than that of one 5.25" drive bay, where your "Box" probably has room for three or more, not to mention power supply, motherboard, hard drives, etc. I wouldn't be suprised to see a dual layer DVD burner in the laptops by mid-2006 at the latest.
he he he! you're such a funny/clever troll!
/sarcasm
The article, and rumors have been carefully worded. There's no reason intel can't produce a power pc clone chip. You'll note the article carefully sidesteps any mention of x86 or power pc platform. My guess is that all that's happening is Intel will be making g4's and g5's for Apple, rather than IBM.
my citibank "platinum" ($1000 credit limit student card) has it.
most credit cards these days allow you to generate a "temporary number" for sites like napster or paypal, and put X amount of cash in there, as low as $1. the account evaporates after 24 hours or whatever. this sort of thing sounds ideal for dealing with napster.
Put a towel down (or similar), flip the CRT face down, and then pick it up like a regular box. Since > 80% of the weight is in the leaded glass at the front of the CRT, you've just changed the center of gravity to a very friendly position, rather than that weight being distributed evenly throughout the box (such as a box of canned goods).
I suppose it'd be a problem if you poured more than a gallon of water in there. So long as you don't spill your super size coke or take the tank in the shower with you, you should be fine.
Vegetable oil is about $4 a gallon. Looks like his 10 gallon tank is about half full, minus 1/8th of a gallon displacement for the components; 4.875 gallons*$4= $19.70, or about the cost of a copper heat sink + artic silver paste.
the stuff was basically corn syrup (of a non-sticky type)
Glysterine? a.k.a. "lube". Not sure what you cut it with; distilled water I suppose.
Care to bring any tech (links) to back up your statements? Specifically relating to vehicles; I don't think drag and turbulence envelopes change that drastically between 45 and 90mph. There's a big difference between a fighter jet at twice the speed of sound (and about 2000mph of variable speed) with litterally billions of dollars of research and mom's station wagon (or in this case my cheap-ass dad's caddy) at 75mph with 45mph of variable speed* and maybe 10 million dollars invested in to the aerodynamic profile.
.36 to a whopping .34 (the Prius and other high mpg cars have CoDs of .33 to .31 usually; trucks have a CoD of .4-.38 usually). That gave the Camry about 1mpg better fuel economy above 50mph or so.
Now, the late 90's model Toyta Camrys, they had a spoiler on the trunk that actually decreased the coefficent of drag somewhat. Went from
*I say 45 instead of 75 because wind resistance doesn't really come in to effect until 40-45mph, and very few cars ever see above 90mph for more than a few minutes in their lifetime.
Which is exactly why the speed limit when from 70 to 55 durring the oil crisis. Someone will correct me, but wind resistance is cubed every time you double your speed. Our old '84 caddilac with trip computer got 25mpg at 64mph, but got 17-19mpg at 70mph. Closer to 28mpg at 55mph.
Ah, ok. Comming from a family who does engineering and finacial stuff, the most we ever use our printer for is word documents, PDF files, and maps.google.com. Since the laser printer works so well, when we need to do color, it goes to walmart, kinkos, or B&W photo (professional photo printer). Waaaay cheaper than buying the $200 printer + $60 in ink every 6 months :)
(plus we only do/need color printing about once every other month)
How many megs are required for modern printing requirements? Our LJII has two 4 meg modules; seems to work fine.
Nah, I just wash my hands once or twice a day :) I do remember the LCIIs having grimy as hell keyboards back in elementary school though.
Charging cable to the xbox? Fuck that! stick a 4 port powered usb hub under the couch; there's no reason to run cables across the living room these days.
Have a gem in the middle that shows 1-4 to show what controller number you are since they're wireless.
That's what I was thinking, or perhaps it can be used to assign controller number. Sit down, push the 3 button, so when your buddies who are always #2 and #4 come in, everyone has their "usual" corner of the screen for halo.
I'll one up your Laserjet 2100 (we have one at home) and say a better option is to grab a used Laserjet II or III. They were designed to replace the parts, rather than be thrown away when something dies on it, so they'll last forever. You can pick them up on ebay for about $25. That's cheap enough to buy two extras as parts machines, and still be less than half the price you spent on your 2100 :) . They only print at 300dpi though. I garuntee my two decade old LJII will still be working when the last 2100 and 1320 have failed.
Oh, and being old as dirt (as printers go), toner is appropriately (dirt) cheap.
Funny; Playstation's nearly white controllers, SNES's white (but purple tinted) controllers, and the PSOne's white controllers never had any issues. Of course they got some grit in the seams, but that's about it. Come to think of it, I've never had any brown-ness occur on any of my white computer mice from the late 80's through early 2000's (I have a silver mouse now - still no brown). All of my friend's iBooks (white) still look..... white. Even the (white) keys. Sounds like you're spreading FUD.
Somehow I knew I'd get a response like this.
:)
We both go to school out of state, so when we come home on breaks we usually end up at one or the other's houses. I do tech support for her family's home based buisness. Other times my girlfriend needs to use her computer for her buisness while I need to look somthing up for plans for the night. I can't unplug her from the network, and their router is already full (not to mention hard to reach, in the back of the liquor cabinet). When we get an apartment next summer this won't be as much of an issue