>Since Microsoft feels that MikeRoweSoft.com is too similar to their name and gets the poor guy to rename his site, the W. bro's could (and really ought to) go after Microsoft for the obvious takeoff of their movie's title.
Prior art would show that Metallica owns the use of the word Reloaded before the Matrix and Microsoft. You know what type of litigious bastards they are. I bet Lars throws a lawsuit before noon on Friday.
>>The market for 64-bit processors is not yet established,
>That is incorrect. The 64bit processor market is well established in the medium to large enterprise. The 64bit consumer market is not established and it may very well be that there is none.
I really like that... You should turn that into your.sig
litigious bastards is the reason we have HOT!!! on our coffee cups and the reason why humans don't evolve anymore. You can't evolve if you don't cull the weak!
They looked at Opterons and they looked at Dell( Xeons.) THEY WERE REJECTED based on cost and performance issues ( the G5 can perform a fused multiply + add in one clock cycle, multiply that times billions of iterations ) and thats something the Opteron cannot do. The G5 was the clear winner out of all the chips on the market, and Apple was the clear winner of the platforms considered, and they considered *ALL* of them worth considering.
The success of the venture simply proves the superiority of keeping an open mind and not bringing tired old pre-conceptions (Apple's slow, Apple sux, etc.) to your work.
They took the scientific approach. How novel of them! If only we could get the rest of humanity to take such an approach and hell we might get somewhere!
Of course this is simple. They make the profit from those that don't send in the rebates. Sounds like the whole insurance scam, well I don't use it, so why do I have it?
Did Virginia Tech's System X have any impact on Apple release the Xserve G5?
Did the Xserve get any benefit from the optimization of the Big Mac?
Is Virginia Tech going to lose money on this deal?/still pissed at Dell for not offering Athlon's, I wanted a 64 bit processor and AMD and Apple were the only companies offering them three months ago
I don't know what connection you got or what computer but I pulled the download in 23 seconds via BT. BT is suited for ANY popular files, no matter the size. It just seems to work better with larger files because of comparing FTP to BT is like comparing a combustion piston engine with a turbofan engine. I am still sharing and am sad that I have only shared the file.706 of the file despite having an upload cap of 30kB/s, it has been running for about an hour now even.
Last I heard they are/were working on one... I forget which city but I know it was either Pittsburgh, or Baltimore. They haven't even started construction....
Actually no, Sean O'Keefe whispered into Dubya's ear that video from Bin Laden's latest tape looks surprisingly like the images we are getting back from the rovers.
I am no expert, but it seems to me that there is no way to determine whether a file is legit or not, at least not via an algorithm. It ends up being a voting system, and even with that it can be faulty. The best way is small secure networks, and those networks branching out and connecting with other small networks. Also using a couple different random sources to check a random bit(s) every so often is also a good idea. Like whether bits 256 through 264 is 0101 0101 or if it is 0101 1101.
If you used iTunes, you would know most albums cost $9.99, except for 10 tracks or less, at ten tracks it is $9.90, and 9 tracks at $8.91, 8 @ 7.92, 7 @ 6.93, 6 @ 5.94, 5 @ 4.95, 4 @ 3.96, 3 @ 2.97, 2 @ 1.98, and 1 for 99 cents.
For more than ten songs it is almost always $9.99, there are certain cases where it isn't but those are few and far between, for 2 CD albums the price doubles to $19.98.
At 50 cents a song, I personally think that the bandwidth, production costs, and business model would fail.
Probably has something to do with bandwidth costs. If you could redownload music anytime you wanted it would hog bandwidth, I expect someone to make a P2P service that might not be supported by Apple but allows redownloading of songs, the key is you would have to verify with the Apple server or have a file on your computer to unlock the songs. You can have the AAC file on your computer but you can't listen to it unless you are verified.
I know that Kazaa has been flooded with tons of bad song files. The popular ones at least. Record companies have found out that for a hash on a song it does the first 300kb or something and then uses it exponentially.
I don't know of any other fairly popular file sharing program that you can find anything with, also it seems to be that there have been success with online music purchasing, specifically iTunes with 25 million songs downloaded.
Not really big news, everyone knew if the companies offered a dollar per song, and this is years ago, napster-era stuff, that people would buy it, but the record companies wanted to buck the consumer and squeeze that last few pennies out by not changing the industry despite what the people actually wanted.
Firefly has more in common with Star Wars than Farscape, how could he confuse the two?
Pilot that plays with toy dinosaurs to pass the time during spaflight? No, but I would like to point out the Dejarik game with Chewie and C-3PO Shameless western feel? Yes, give Luke a horse instead of an X-wing, a gun instead of a lightsaber, and it starts to turn into a western, even the Cantina screams of a cliche dive bar in a Western. Cute geek girl? Does Natalie Portman count? She's cute, and geeks like her! Outlaw badass captain? Han Solo is THEE Badass outlaw captain.
From the samples of the lunar soil that were brought back, I think that we found out that the moon has a heavy concentration of titanium dioxide. For those that don't know, titanium is super strong, and super light. I don't know the mass or the tensile strength, but I have heard it is as light or lighter than aluminium and as strong or stronger than steel. The SR-71 is made of about 90% titanium and it isn't even practical at the moment except for very fast supersonics. Although having access to cheap titanium might make the airline industry a lot safer if our planes and cargo holds were titanium.
Hell we might bring enough back to build a few battleships or aircraft carriers.
Scientists even suspect that the moon has a titanium rich core.
I vote for mining, I think we could benefit from this. We could build machines to create the primary parts of the space station, the chassis so to speak, and then just ship up the internals and maybe an insulating outer layer. With titanium we wouldn't have to worry about micrometeorites as much because we could make the titanium thick enough.
We could pump the power down through way of Montana and the Dakotas, although moving those 4 people that live in those states elsewhere would probably be a good idea. Oh, and don't forget to move the reservations, I think we still got land in New Mexico to give them, if not annex part of Mexico and give to them.
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>Since Microsoft feels that MikeRoweSoft.com is too similar to their name and gets the poor guy to rename his site, the W. bro's could (and really ought to) go after Microsoft for the obvious takeoff of their movie's title.
Prior art would show that Metallica owns the use of the word Reloaded before the Matrix and Microsoft. You know what type of litigious bastards they are. I bet Lars throws a lawsuit before noon on Friday.
>>The market for 64-bit processors is not yet established,
>That is incorrect. The 64bit processor market is well established in the medium to large enterprise. The 64bit consumer market is not established and it may very well be that there is none.
Nobody needs more than 128k of RAM.
I really like that... You should turn that into your .sig
litigious bastards is the reason we have HOT!!! on our coffee cups and the reason why humans don't evolve anymore. You can't evolve if you don't cull the weak!
Duke Nukem Forever is due out this year... Ten bucks says it will be worse than Daikatana.
They took the scientific approach. How novel of them! If only we could get the rest of humanity to take such an approach and hell we might get somewhere!
And of course the mountains were made of cocaine.
That will be 11 minutes if you use the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Of course this is simple. They make the profit from those that don't send in the rebates. Sounds like the whole insurance scam, well I don't use it, so why do I have it?
Show them how you can download the entire Internet in about an hour.
Did Virginia Tech's System X have any impact on Apple release the Xserve G5?
/still pissed at Dell for not offering Athlon's, I wanted a 64 bit processor and AMD and Apple were the only companies offering them three months ago
Did the Xserve get any benefit from the optimization of the Big Mac?
Is Virginia Tech going to lose money on this deal?
If everyone else jumped off a bridge would you? /mom
They did, but instead of stainless steel it was made out of titanium and Apple made it.
It is hard to find a 1.21 Gigawatts processor for it though... And it overheats like a bitch.
I don't know what connection you got or what computer but I pulled the download in 23 seconds via BT. BT is suited for ANY popular files, no matter the size. It just seems to work better with larger files because of comparing FTP to BT is like comparing a combustion piston engine with a turbofan engine. I am still sharing and am sad that I have only shared the file .706 of the file despite having an upload cap of 30kB/s, it has been running for about an hour now even.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&c2coff=1&q=Wickenburg+Arizona+maglev&spell= 1
... mumbling?
I am not an expert and I don't know what you are talking about A Coward, but Google pulls up nothing, you should maybe elaborate your
Last I heard they are/were working on one... I forget which city but I know it was either Pittsburgh, or Baltimore. They haven't even started construction....
Actually no, Sean O'Keefe whispered into Dubya's ear that video from Bin Laden's latest tape looks surprisingly like the images we are getting back from the rovers.
I am no expert, but it seems to me that there is no way to determine whether a file is legit or not, at least not via an algorithm. It ends up being a voting system, and even with that it can be faulty. The best way is small secure networks, and those networks branching out and connecting with other small networks. Also using a couple different random sources to check a random bit(s) every so often is also a good idea. Like whether bits 256 through 264 is 0101 0101 or if it is 0101 1101.
If you used iTunes, you would know most albums cost $9.99, except for 10 tracks or less, at ten tracks it is $9.90, and 9 tracks at $8.91, 8 @ 7.92, 7 @ 6.93, 6 @ 5.94, 5 @ 4.95, 4 @ 3.96, 3 @ 2.97, 2 @ 1.98, and 1 for 99 cents.
For more than ten songs it is almost always $9.99, there are certain cases where it isn't but those are few and far between, for 2 CD albums the price doubles to $19.98.
At 50 cents a song, I personally think that the bandwidth, production costs, and business model would fail.
Probably has something to do with bandwidth costs. If you could redownload music anytime you wanted it would hog bandwidth, I expect someone to make a P2P service that might not be supported by Apple but allows redownloading of songs, the key is you would have to verify with the Apple server or have a file on your computer to unlock the songs. You can have the AAC file on your computer but you can't listen to it unless you are verified.
I know that Kazaa has been flooded with tons of bad song files. The popular ones at least. Record companies have found out that for a hash on a song it does the first 300kb or something and then uses it exponentially.
I don't know of any other fairly popular file sharing program that you can find anything with, also it seems to be that there have been success with online music purchasing, specifically iTunes with 25 million songs downloaded.
Not really big news, everyone knew if the companies offered a dollar per song, and this is years ago, napster-era stuff, that people would buy it, but the record companies wanted to buck the consumer and squeeze that last few pennies out by not changing the industry despite what the people actually wanted.
And some of them are beowulf clusters, so THEY are one computer.
Firefly has more in common with Star Wars than Farscape, how could he confuse the two?
Pilot that plays with toy dinosaurs to pass the time during spaflight? No, but I would like to point out the Dejarik game with Chewie and C-3PO
Shameless western feel? Yes, give Luke a horse instead of an X-wing, a gun instead of a lightsaber, and it starts to turn into a western, even the Cantina screams of a cliche dive bar in a Western.
Cute geek girl? Does Natalie Portman count? She's cute, and geeks like her!
Outlaw badass captain? Han Solo is THEE Badass outlaw captain.
From the samples of the lunar soil that were brought back, I think that we found out that the moon has a heavy concentration of titanium dioxide. For those that don't know, titanium is super strong, and super light. I don't know the mass or the tensile strength, but I have heard it is as light or lighter than aluminium and as strong or stronger than steel. The SR-71 is made of about 90% titanium and it isn't even practical at the moment except for very fast supersonics. Although having access to cheap titanium might make the airline industry a lot safer if our planes and cargo holds were titanium.
Hell we might bring enough back to build a few battleships or aircraft carriers.
Scientists even suspect that the moon has a titanium rich core.
I vote for mining, I think we could benefit from this. We could build machines to create the primary parts of the space station, the chassis so to speak, and then just ship up the internals and maybe an insulating outer layer. With titanium we wouldn't have to worry about micrometeorites as much because we could make the titanium thick enough.
We could pump the power down through way of Montana and the Dakotas, although moving those 4 people that live in those states elsewhere would probably be a good idea. Oh, and don't forget to move the reservations, I think we still got land in New Mexico to give them, if not annex part of Mexico and give to them.
This is cool, maybe when I am wearing my tinfoil hat then it might actually become useful!