Can't find SPEC results at spec.org for Apple??
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Why aren't there any SPEC numbers from Apple submitted to SPEC? Usually this means that a company knows they will show poor results. And I suppose in Apple's case they aren't reliant upon fast CPUs since they have those sexy designs and OS X now. But to win converts from the x86 camp they really should have some results submitted soon.
backup built-in and a laptop would give you plenty of computer to handle 250 email and 100 websites. You will have to sit down and do some capacity planning. How many emails do you expect to be sent and received each day? How many web hits/day? You should be able to find an inexpensive laptop to run your servers. Make sure it has USB ports and maybe even buy a backup laptop just in case. Then you can expand as you need to via USB devices. Now if you expect to stream audio/video your needs would differ.
You really need to define how the system will be used before you go spend any money. Maybe come up with 3 different scenarios: Light use, medium use and heavy use and see where that takes you.
at least do some leg work your self, calling tech support should be the last resort because you know who you're going to end up talking to. I spent 5 minutes doing some research and found that those IPs lead me to lop.com and also to their wonderful bag of tricks: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html
I think it's a great resource to be able to listen to the words as they were spoken, we all know how poorly email communications can be. How many times has someone completely misread an email you've sent? A lot gets lost in the written word. But.....
Everytime I see (or hear) something about the Supreme Court I think back to the 2000 Pres. Election. They so undermined their objectivity and tarnished their role in our society that I just have a hard time at each mention of the name. I wonder if the lack of posts here means that others feel the same way I do toward the Supreme Court now?
I think it should be renamed to: The Burrito Supreme Court
yeah that sounds about right....
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.
Now I'm beginning to believe it." -- Clarence Darrow
sure to get Bill Evans too, there's a concert in Tokyo that's very good. Really any Bill Evans is good to have around. Chet Baker is wonderful.Find a good jazz radio station to listen to and jot down the ones you like. KLON from Long Beach is good and you can listen live via the net. Diana Krall's not bad (she's about to marry Elvis Costello BTW). Remember with any jazz that the more you listen to songs the more you like them. I've found that sometimes I won't like a song the first time thru but find after hearing it more that I enjoy it more than the previous listen.
biodegradable containers have been around for a
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couple of years now Earthshell has been making biodegradable containers for a while, McDonalds already uses them. And so does the National Park Service.
Why don't you have a section for the stories that don't get posted?
It can't be because you're worried about anyone questioning your editorial skills. And we know it's not personal.
So why not have a section for all those stories that get denied?
Not to be a wet blanket, but while Helios is really neat it's not terribly useful.
You're not a wet blanket, just wrong. They have already completed HDTV trials, lots of other applications to follow. Cell towers will be replaced by these. Cell towers have been unpopular in most areas. No one wants to live next to one. These can be easily launched and can be made cheaply.
It might be cheaper than launching a satellite in some cases,
It's definitely cheaper than launching a satellite
For the cost to build and operate the vehicle it clearly doesn't have any commercial potential
Oh really, can you provide some facts to support that claim? You simply just don't know what you are talking about. Have a look at Skytower Global and look at Aerovironment too.
All the software for the system costs more than the hardware does! (ie... Alias, Maya, AutoCAD)
Well yes it'll cost a lot more since you'd have to have AutoCad ported to Irix and there's no such thing as Alias anymore. Maya you can still buy and it is cheaper then it once was, although it took SGI way too long to figure out who Maya's competitors are...and price Maya accordingly.
verification. Facial thermography measures patterns of heat emitted by the face. Combine that with voice recognition or voice verification and it'd be hard to beat.
and all the latest goings-on with aliens. Maybe this isn't so far fetched afterall. I wonder if it would really take another 250 years to figure out how to time-travel. I thought it would be doable sooner than that. Although maybe with the shortage of students studying the hard sciences and the popularity of Fox this is about right. But on the other hand it's all just reverse engineering if you believe in a supreme being. And we all know reverse engineering is not real science or is it? Wait is real science reverse engineering...? It's all becoming blurry....
You don't know what you're talking about. Let me try to get it through to you what that stat means. There's a direct correlation between the number of desktop users and the number of developers writing software that runs on that desktop. That's a fact that's unrefutable. Sorry if it doesn't fit in with your view of the world. If you have some facts to refute this please present them.
and try to convince me that it has already arrived, but since you cannot do that try to tell me when it will. You're not allowed to cite any surveys or studies. Use only real examples that can be easily confirmed. And no analogies allowed either. Oh...and good luck.
That article is very interesting. It makes me feel sickened to read about ASCAP and their lawyers. They are using intimidation to protect and continue their business. Not many judges around these days willing to risk their life going against ASCAP. The only hope is that musicians pull their greedy heads out of their asses and tell ASCAP to piss off. Of course ASCAP is intmidating them too. It's going to take someone with real guts to turn the tables against ASCAP. I suppose informed consumers can help. I think what we're really going to see (as some else eluded to) is that the music industry will go through an upheaval and it will never be the same again. People are not getting their music the way they used to and the music industry is too heavy on their feet to do anything about it. But I sure don't care. I have essentially stopped buying music. I have enough already.
Most cable ISPs will give out a new IP address whenever the MAC or OID changes on the firewall/router. So why not just keep changing that and keep getting a new IP. Who's to know? Do they ID subscribers via the cable modem|dsl modem ? Anyway I am personally going to abstain from buying any music in any form until the music industry morons realize that file sharing is not the reason their industry is sucking right now. It sucks because there's so much crap and most people just aren't buying that much music anymore. Turn on the radio these days and you'll discover that talk radio shows are the big winners.
At the very large software company I work for they are implementing this (although I'm a bit worried about the difference in what they're calling it). Our head-honcho, Bill, insists that it will make our software rule for eternity. And this will reap great dividends for our followers in the form of monetary and productivity gains.
broadband, 3G next....it's already happening. The "blimps" seem to have some advantages but if you look at the history of some technologies the first to "do it" seems to be more important then having the best answer. aerovironment has lots of other excellent products too, so they have a track record of success and they already have contracts with the military and large telecom companies, so they have a foot in the door too.
"The Pathfinder-Plus 121-foot wingspan, solar-powered aircraft, is a smaller version of AeroVironment's 247-foot wingspan Helios aircraft which, during NASA testing in Hawaii last summer, shattered the world altitude record for non-rocket powered aircraft by flying to 96,863 feet - well above the 60,000 to 70,000 feet targeted for commercial telecom services. As part of the NASA development program, multi-day flight capability will be demonstrated next year with the Helios solar/electric airplane using the world's first fuel cell based aircraft energy system that enables the aircraft to operate through the night "
checkout: http://skytowerglobal.com/begin.html
and parent company: http://www.aerovironment.com/news/news-a rchive/60k newswire.html
This guy has too many "x" marks. At HP he was selling printers. How hard is it to sell HP printers. At SGI he made a feeble attempt to sell NT workstations. (that idea started before he arrived BTW) His main claim was to change the logo and the name. Wow! The branding study cost $10 million. Nice job if you can get it. On to MS. Initially he was involved in selling cars on the internet. (internet used car salesman) They booted him up and then out. So he's the chameleon and will say anything. If it was OS/2 he would say the same thing. He's reading from a script.
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Why aren't there any SPEC numbers from Apple submitted to SPEC? Usually this means that a company knows they will show poor results. And I suppose in Apple's case they aren't reliant upon fast CPUs since they have those sexy designs and OS X now. But to win converts from the x86 camp they really should have some results submitted soon.
backup built-in and a laptop would give you plenty of computer to handle 250 email and 100 websites. You will have to sit down and do some capacity planning. How many emails do you expect to be sent and received each day? How many web hits/day? You should be able to find an inexpensive laptop to run your servers. Make sure it has USB ports and maybe even buy a backup laptop just in case. Then you can expand as you need to via USB devices. Now if you expect to stream audio/video your needs would differ.
You really need to define how the system will be used before you go spend any money. Maybe come up with 3 different scenarios: Light use, medium use and heavy use and see where that takes you.
at least do some leg work your self, calling tech support should be the last resort because you know who you're going to end up talking to. I spent 5 minutes doing some research and found that those IPs lead me to lop.com and also to their wonderful bag of tricks: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html
U J: www.doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html+&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
google cache:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YWJyJu-dhn
I'm not surprised that they're up to doing this stuff.
Everytime I see (or hear) something about the Supreme Court I think back to the 2000 Pres. Election. They so undermined their objectivity and tarnished their role in our society that I just have a hard time at each mention of the name. I wonder if the lack of posts here means that others feel the same way I do toward the Supreme Court now?
I think it should be renamed to:
The Burrito Supreme Court
yeah that sounds about right....
sure to get Bill Evans too, there's a concert in Tokyo that's very good. Really any Bill Evans is good to have around. Chet Baker is wonderful.Find a good jazz radio station to listen to and jot down the ones you like. KLON from Long Beach is good and you can listen live via the net. Diana Krall's not bad (she's about to marry Elvis Costello BTW). Remember with any jazz that the more you listen to songs the more you like them. I've found that sometimes I won't like a song the first time thru but find after hearing it more that I enjoy it more than the previous listen.
couple of years now Earthshell has been making biodegradable containers for a while, McDonalds already uses them. And so does the National Park Service.
Why don't you have a section for the stories that don't get posted?
It can't be because you're worried about anyone questioning your editorial skills. And we know it's not personal.
So why not have a section for all those stories that get denied?
Hmmmmmmm?
Not to be a wet blanket, but while Helios is really neat it's not terribly useful.
You're not a wet blanket, just wrong. They have already completed HDTV trials, lots of other applications to follow. Cell towers will be replaced by these. Cell towers have been unpopular in most areas. No one wants to live next to one. These can be easily launched and can be made cheaply.
It might be cheaper than launching a satellite in some cases,
It's definitely cheaper than launching a satellite
For the cost to build and operate the vehicle it clearly doesn't have any commercial potential
Oh really, can you provide some facts to support that claim? You simply just don't know what you are talking about. Have a look at Skytower Global and look at Aerovironment too.
So what's your point?
and because of that and problems when it's windy this is a much better solution:
SkyTower
I suppose time will tell. I'm putting my money on SkyTower.
All the software for the system costs more than the hardware does! (ie... Alias, Maya, AutoCAD)
Well yes it'll cost a lot more since you'd have to have AutoCad ported to Irix and there's no such thing as Alias anymore. Maya you can still buy and it is cheaper then it once was, although it took SGI way too long to figure out who Maya's competitors are...and price Maya accordingly.
I think I'd get one of these, they look well thought out:
http://www.lumatec.com/UltraLife.htm
verification. Facial thermography measures patterns of heat emitted by the face. Combine that with voice recognition or voice verification and it'd be hard to beat.
http://ferrari.com/ferrari/images/challenge_strada le/780x490/profilo.jpg
and all the latest goings-on with aliens. Maybe this isn't so far fetched afterall. I wonder if it would really take another 250 years to figure out how to time-travel. I thought it would be doable sooner than that. Although maybe with the shortage of students studying the hard sciences and the popularity of Fox this is about right. But on the other hand it's all just reverse engineering if you believe in a supreme being. And we all know reverse engineering is not real science or is it? Wait is real science reverse engineering...?
It's all becoming blurry....
desktop-throne?
You don't know what you're talking about. Let me try to get it through to you what that stat means. There's a direct correlation between the number of desktop users and the number of developers writing software that runs on that desktop. That's a fact that's unrefutable. Sorry if it doesn't fit in with your view of the world. If you have some facts to refute this please present them.
and try to convince me that it has already arrived, but since you cannot do that try to tell me when it will. You're not allowed to cite any surveys or studies. Use only real examples that can be easily confirmed. And no analogies allowed either. Oh...and good luck.Look at
zeitgeist
Check out this pie chart of client accesses to google for Jan 2003:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/jan03_pie
It's from this page:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
What more really needs to be said.
revised
Things I want to do this weekend:
1) Clean the barbeque grill
2) Vacuum the living room
3) Build a weather satellite station
4) Profit....
a fascinating if somewhat dated article
That article is very interesting. It makes me feel sickened to read about ASCAP and their lawyers. They are using intimidation to protect and continue their business. Not many judges around these days willing to risk their life going against ASCAP. The only hope is that musicians pull their greedy heads out of their asses and tell ASCAP to piss off. Of course ASCAP is intmidating them too. It's going to take someone with real guts to turn the tables against ASCAP. I suppose informed consumers can help. I think what we're really going to see (as some else eluded to) is that the music industry will go through an upheaval and it will never be the same again. People are not getting their music the way they used to and the music industry is too heavy on their feet to do anything about it. But I sure don't care. I have essentially stopped buying music. I have enough already.
Most cable ISPs will give out a new IP address
whenever the MAC or OID changes on the firewall/router. So why not just keep changing that and keep getting a new IP. Who's to know? Do they ID subscribers via the cable modem|dsl modem ? Anyway I am personally going to abstain from buying any music in any form until the music industry morons realize that file sharing is not the reason their industry is sucking right now. It sucks because there's so much crap and most people just aren't buying that much music anymore. Turn on the radio these days and you'll discover that talk radio shows are the big winners.
At the very large software company I work for they are implementing this (although I'm a bit worried about the difference in what they're calling it). Our head-honcho, Bill, insists that it will make our software rule for eternity. And this will reap great dividends for our followers in the form of monetary and productivity gains.
The "blimps" seem to have some advantages but if you look at the history of some technologies the first to "do it" seems to be more important then having the best answer. aerovironment has lots of other excellent products too, so they have a track record of success and they already have contracts with the military and large telecom companies, so they have a foot in the door too.
"The Pathfinder-Plus 121-foot wingspan, solar-powered aircraft, is a smaller version of AeroVironment's 247-foot wingspan Helios aircraft which, during NASA testing in Hawaii last summer, shattered the world altitude record for non-rocket powered aircraft by flying to 96,863 feet - well above the 60,000 to 70,000 feet targeted for commercial telecom services. As part of the NASA development program, multi-day flight capability will be demonstrated next year with the Helios solar/electric airplane using the world's first fuel cell based aircraft energy system that enables the aircraft to operate through the night "
checkout:
http://skytowerglobal.com/begin.html
and parent company:
http://www.aerovironment.com/news/news-
This guy has too many "x" marks. At HP he was selling printers. How hard is it to sell HP printers. At SGI he made a feeble attempt to sell NT workstations. (that idea started before he arrived BTW) His main claim was to change the logo and the name. Wow! The branding study cost $10 million. Nice job if you can get it. On to MS. Initially he was involved in selling cars on the internet. (internet used car salesman) They booted him up and then out. So he's the chameleon and will say anything. If it was OS/2 he would say the same thing. He's reading from a script.