the problem is that many people live in seattle, wa, and want to go to disneyland, ca or disneyworld, fl, not just somewhere where you can drive in the same time it takes to find a train station, buy tickets, and then board, travel, get off, and then rent a car b/c you didn't drive and thus have poor personal travel options inside the city.
airlines kick ass when it comes to distances of thousands of miles that need to be traveled in less than a day. of course in europe, it'd different, where the population density is alot higher and your buisness isn't thousands of miles away and a train to the next town is about as far as you're ever going to go
as in "the haberdashers opinion in the creepy crawly incident was a moot point"? which is correct? moot, or mute? i was of the understanding that it's moot.
i'm aware of the US's uniqueness in the fact that we have a freedom of the press, and "free" governments in general (except china, ect) generally let the press do as they may, within reason. how often does the UK gov put gag orders on the press? if they can gag the gag orders, it seems like this would be somthing that happens fairly often...
i'm not a history major or anything, but i'm curious, why wern't the US media allowed to cover the vietnam, or was it korean, war? i mean it's understandable that the governement would withold details of war for tomorrow's attack, but as i understand it there was more or less a gag order on the entire war. or maybe i'm completely wrong.
i think you're more worried about the chemicals/gels in tampons and diapers being absorbed into the blood stream than a combination of organic (potato) and powdered "neosporin". that, and potatoes are plentiful and Really Fucking Cheap.
took it for 3 years in high school...blah. i think latin would be more interesting/less daunting if you didn't spend an entire year translating the aneid.... i mean, for god's sake, if your homework for one night (every night) is 20 lines, and it's only every other day you *might* finish a sentence, you don't feel like you're accomplishing anything. i never got around to taking latin 4 (translating cutulis) but i heard it kicked ass and was alot easier/less daunting.
sure the aneid is the defacto latin "teaching tool", but how about somthing vauguely interesting? kids (myself) these days don't have the want (or need) for such devotion to a subject.
oh yeah, and other than SAT vocab, i didn't really see any major advantage, sans being able to walk into nearly any cathedral in europe and be able to read the inscriptions:) pretty cool when you're on a month long class trip with mostly girls:)
came up with a source... i knew i read this somewhere...
"The chip promises to goose Macintosh clock speeds, which right now trail Intel's Pentium line significantly. Pete Sampson, IBM senior PowerPC architect, says that the PowerPC 970 will reach clock speeds of 1.8 GHz and will also be able to do a lot more with each processor cycle. Current G4 CPUs can issue three instructions per cycle; the PowerPC 970 will issue eight."
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55722,00.ht ml
um, actually, no i don't. i think the 8ghz figure is based off of the fact that the chip is being built w/ enormous scalability in mind, and the fact that the first generation of chips is going to be built on the 0.13 micron process, and that 0.1 micron process is right around the corner, meaning it *should* scale to 4GHz without breaking a sweat.
as for the P4, before ibm announced it's 64 bit "consumer" power4 (allegiedly), i think intel's roadmap called for exploaiting the p4 core (in some fashion or another) all the way to 7.5 or 8 ghz over the next 3 years (toms hardware said somthing about only releasing a faster chip every now and then to keep sales steady for the next couple of years, but that the p4 would scale up no problem). other than that, i know for sure the processor cycles are correct, but i can't cite anything off the top of my head right now.
the P4 executes 1 instruction per cycle. the G4 does 3 (the basis of apples "megahertz myth" myth), so this is a huge step up.
as for the laptop part, hell yeah. my tibook by the end of 2003 should be nearing the end of it's "useful lifespan" - whatever that is, and i'll probably sell it for half of what i bought it for then and buy the latest, greatest "G5" laptop once it's avalible. that's the plan, at least. i'm in college after all.... and apple has a tendancy to take forever to release a new laptop based on a new processor design.
There's likely to be a wait for any firm answers. NASA lists a Venus mission as only a "medium priority," causing Schulze-Makuch to say, "Forget about the chances, if we go to war with Iraq."
The European Space Agency is planning a 2005 launch of its Venus Expression mission...
heh. why don't we get funding from GWB to send weapons inspectors to venus, so we can add those "evil bacteria" to the "axis of evil".... it's not as if our military budget isn't fucking enormous as it is, a little probe to venus wouldn't be anything particularly costly to the military...
refined sugar + water = a pretty cheap power supply to me, even if i do have to carry the water around. airlines will give you all the water you want, which, coincidentally, is probably where this battery would be most successful to start off with.
i think i already know the awnser, but the article says "Chemical reactions inside the cell strip electrons from the hydrogen atoms to produce a voltage that can power a circuit.
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
so does the e.coli eat it's excrement (hydrogen) and produce electricity? i'm guessing it's the cell in the battery that does this...
secondly - let's sterilize the hell out of our current landfills, and introduce this bacteria to them! same thing goes for our mouths - no more cavities!
I don't mean to start a flame war on the benefits of Firewire v. USB - so don't get started
i don't see how one could start a flame war, as the only 2 advantages USB (in any form) has over firewire is initial cost & greater abundance of prehiprials.
i haven't read the article yet, and probably won't, but oh well. yeah. they've been absorbing more data than they can examine from 2-3 sattelities over the past 35-ish years, and the ozone hole actually closes durring either the winter or summer months, and then reopens again as it weakens again. so yes, it does close, and they have good reason to be suspicious. a better question might be "does the "soft spot" of the earth open up from time to time on a somewhat regular schedule over a period of centuries, or did we really fuck things up?"
my guess is a litte from column a, a little from column b. (although more from A than B)
my friend has one of those. very unusual display, never seen one since till i saw the link there in the post. his is going on 2 years now, and it's as bright as ever. if you think about it, cell phones are only actually "used" about 3-7% of their total life (unless, of course, you're one of those fuckers who always has to be on the god damned phone), so the display in reality should last as long as the phone does otherwise.
i think the ibooks get 5 hours out of the box running everything normally. my powerbook g4 550, @ the lowest brightness/contrast setting, will get about 5 and a half hours of battery use with basic typing and slashdot websurfing. of course, the hard drive has spun down, but it works for me.
if you're using a laptop for CAD work, you're probably using the laptop as a "desktop replacement" where 99.99% of your CAD work is done at a desk where you have a handy "real" optical mouse of sorts. the trackpad is merely a crutch until you get to the next poweroutlet where you can comfortably use a real mouse again.
why the hell did you ever install the mouse driver that came with it? generic mouse drivers that come with your OS don't generally suck. (and they don't normally cause problems with software, as the software was written with the default drivers in mind)
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the problem is that many people live in seattle, wa, and want to go to disneyland, ca or disneyworld, fl, not just somewhere where you can drive in the same time it takes to find a train station, buy tickets, and then board, travel, get off, and then rent a car b/c you didn't drive and thus have poor personal travel options inside the city.
airlines kick ass when it comes to distances of thousands of miles that need to be traveled in less than a day. of course in europe, it'd different, where the population density is alot higher and your buisness isn't thousands of miles away and a train to the next town is about as far as you're ever going to go
yeah, but a) it's running 1GHz slower than the P4, and b) i doubt it's dealing with ultra-long ints (or is that the point of FP? i dunno..)
as in "the haberdashers opinion in the creepy crawly incident was a moot point"? which is correct? moot, or mute? i was of the understanding that it's moot.
i'm aware of the US's uniqueness in the fact that we have a freedom of the press, and "free" governments in general (except china, ect) generally let the press do as they may, within reason. how often does the UK gov put gag orders on the press? if they can gag the gag orders, it seems like this would be somthing that happens fairly often...
i'm not a history major or anything, but i'm curious, why wern't the US media allowed to cover the vietnam, or was it korean, war? i mean it's understandable that the governement would withold details of war for tomorrow's attack, but as i understand it there was more or less a gag order on the entire war. or maybe i'm completely wrong.
i think you're more worried about the chemicals/gels in tampons and diapers being absorbed into the blood stream than a combination of organic (potato) and powdered "neosporin". that, and potatoes are plentiful and Really Fucking Cheap.
you forgot "battlefield bullet wound trauma G.I. Joe"...
or somthing
11.0 Pengerine Falcon
11.1 Millenium Falcon
11.2 African Swolow
11.3 European Swollow
or whatever. my attempt at a vauge monty python reference.
took it for 3 years in high school...blah. i think latin would be more interesting/less daunting if you didn't spend an entire year translating the aneid.... i mean, for god's sake, if your homework for one night (every night) is 20 lines, and it's only every other day you *might* finish a sentence, you don't feel like you're accomplishing anything. i never got around to taking latin 4 (translating cutulis) but i heard it kicked ass and was alot easier/less daunting.
:) pretty cool when you're on a month long class trip with mostly girls :)
sure the aneid is the defacto latin "teaching tool", but how about somthing vauguely interesting? kids (myself) these days don't have the want (or need) for such devotion to a subject.
oh yeah, and other than SAT vocab, i didn't really see any major advantage, sans being able to walk into nearly any cathedral in europe and be able to read the inscriptions
came up with a source... i knew i read this somewhere...
t ml
"The chip promises to goose Macintosh clock speeds, which right now trail Intel's Pentium line significantly. Pete Sampson, IBM senior PowerPC architect, says that the PowerPC 970 will reach clock speeds of 1.8 GHz and will also be able to do a lot more with each processor cycle. Current G4 CPUs can issue three instructions per cycle; the PowerPC 970 will issue eight."
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,55722,00.h
but again, it doesn't cover the speed claim
um, actually, no i don't. i think the 8ghz figure is based off of the fact that the chip is being built w/ enormous scalability in mind, and the fact that the first generation of chips is going to be built on the 0.13 micron process, and that 0.1 micron process is right around the corner, meaning it *should* scale to 4GHz without breaking a sweat.
as for the P4, before ibm announced it's 64 bit "consumer" power4 (allegiedly), i think intel's roadmap called for exploaiting the p4 core (in some fashion or another) all the way to 7.5 or 8 ghz over the next 3 years (toms hardware said somthing about only releasing a faster chip every now and then to keep sales steady for the next couple of years, but that the p4 would scale up no problem). other than that, i know for sure the processor cycles are correct, but i can't cite anything off the top of my head right now.
the P4 executes 1 instruction per cycle. the G4 does 3 (the basis of apples "megahertz myth" myth), so this is a huge step up.
as for the laptop part, hell yeah. my tibook by the end of 2003 should be nearing the end of it's "useful lifespan" - whatever that is, and i'll probably sell it for half of what i bought it for then and buy the latest, greatest "G5" laptop once it's avalible. that's the plan, at least. i'm in college after all.... and apple has a tendancy to take forever to release a new laptop based on a new processor design.
it should scale up to 8GHz. plus, it does 8 instructions per cycle, vs. the G4's 3 per cycle, vs. Intel's P4's 1 instruction per cycle
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/news/2002/1014_powerpc. html
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/news/2002/1014_powerpc. html
There's likely to be a wait for any firm answers. NASA lists a Venus mission as only a "medium priority," causing Schulze-Makuch to say, "Forget about the chances, if we go to war with Iraq."
...
The European Space Agency is planning a 2005 launch of its Venus Expression mission
heh. why don't we get funding from GWB to send weapons inspectors to venus, so we can add those "evil bacteria" to the "axis of evil".... it's not as if our military budget isn't fucking enormous as it is, a little probe to venus wouldn't be anything particularly costly to the military...
USB has 4 wires, correct? Ok, so you have a "hub" with USB leads, on two of the wires you run +/- 5V @ 100ma, and the other two @ 5V @ 500 ma
fire wire cables will run it's native voltage on the first pair of wires, 12v @ xxx ma on a second pair of wires, and 12 v@ xxx ma on the third pair.
everyone else will have to get step down/up adaptors that either combine 2 cables or degrades it down to 7.5v or somthing.
how about firewire? it supports higher voltage/amperage/whatever, and a similar plug design.
refined sugar + water = a pretty cheap power supply to me, even if i do have to carry the water around. airlines will give you all the water you want, which, coincidentally, is probably where this battery would be most successful to start off with.
i think i already know the awnser, but the article says "Chemical reactions inside the cell strip electrons from the hydrogen atoms to produce a voltage that can power a circuit.
Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours.
so does the e.coli eat it's excrement (hydrogen) and produce electricity? i'm guessing it's the cell in the battery that does this...
secondly - let's sterilize the hell out of our current landfills, and introduce this bacteria to them! same thing goes for our mouths - no more cavities!
I don't mean to start a flame war on the benefits of Firewire v. USB - so don't get started
i don't see how one could start a flame war, as the only 2 advantages USB (in any form) has over firewire is initial cost & greater abundance of prehiprials.
i haven't read the article yet, and probably won't, but oh well. yeah. they've been absorbing more data than they can examine from 2-3 sattelities over the past 35-ish years, and the ozone hole actually closes durring either the winter or summer months, and then reopens again as it weakens again. so yes, it does close, and they have good reason to be suspicious. a better question might be "does the "soft spot" of the earth open up from time to time on a somewhat regular schedule over a period of centuries, or did we really fuck things up?"
my guess is a litte from column a, a little from column b. (although more from A than B)
my friend has one of those. very unusual display, never seen one since till i saw the link there in the post. his is going on 2 years now, and it's as bright as ever. if you think about it, cell phones are only actually "used" about 3-7% of their total life (unless, of course, you're one of those fuckers who always has to be on the god damned phone), so the display in reality should last as long as the phone does otherwise.
i think the ibooks get 5 hours out of the box running everything normally. my powerbook g4 550, @ the lowest brightness/contrast setting, will get about 5 and a half hours of battery use with basic typing and slashdot websurfing. of course, the hard drive has spun down, but it works for me.
if you're using a laptop for CAD work, you're probably using the laptop as a "desktop replacement" where 99.99% of your CAD work is done at a desk where you have a handy "real" optical mouse of sorts. the trackpad is merely a crutch until you get to the next poweroutlet where you can comfortably use a real mouse again.
why the hell did you ever install the mouse driver that came with it? generic mouse drivers that come with your OS don't generally suck. (and they don't normally cause problems with software, as the software was written with the default drivers in mind)
i think VB 5 or 6, i forget which, learning edition, actually has a "web browser" as a sample, complete with back, forward and home buttons.