On my mini 1.42, I bench about 50% faster with a 7200 rpm 8mb 250 gig Firewire over the stock 4200 rpm 80 gig 2.5". The speedup is very obvious in use. Oh, and I boot from it.
Police officers do have disproportionately high accident rates. I don't know about truck drivers.
It is safe to assume that police officers use their radios a lot while driving during the course of doing their jobs, as they have to be dispatched and coordinated.
It's probably not fair to compare accident rates between truckers and passenger-car drivers because of longer stopping distances, at the very least (also I'm too lazy to try to find stats). How much time does the average trucker spend on the radio, anyway? It seems like relying on the stereotype in place of data isn't going to work very well.
No. The reason talking on cellphones is dangerous is that part of the act of communication involves visualizing the other person's body language, facial expressions, and surroundings. Doing that takes away cycles (for lack of a better term) from the visual-spatial aspects of driving.
When you talk to a passenger, you already know where they are and what they're doing, and body language and facial expression can be ascertained via a quick glance of a few tenths of a second. The radio doesn't require any visualizing at all, unless you're some kind of synesthesiac.
OMFG. The only thing they use is IE. That's the only thing their help desk is, uh, helpful with. I'm sure that's not where all their problems are coming from, but it speaks of an organization that isn't at all agile.
I love a lot of the things that IBM does and comes up with, but if your organization isn't flexible enough to work with more than one browser, you've got some serious problems.
Sounds like the Microsoft Lifetime Employment Program has deep roots at IBM.
It takes 1 PC2700 dimm, can handle a max of 1gb. Don't buy it from Apple, though - they want $425 for a 1gb stick, which is available elsewhere for ~$160.
I was just about to say you're wrong, but this (pdf) says you're right. It's not clear whether they moved all of them to the.90nm process, or just the 2.5's.
Because the drives retail for twice what the whole ipod goes for by itself. Currently, it's possible to make a profit by buying the ipod and selling just the drive on ebay.
We're supposed to have elections that are free and fair. Without a paper trail or other permanent and immutable (practically, at least) record of individual votes cast, how can any election be verified as either free or fair?
Might not be such a bad thing, we might wind up with more sensible speed laws then.
I'm not so sure. Although the US moved to greatly increase enforcement of drug laws, we haven't yet wound up with more sensible drug laws. All we got were more jails with more people in them. More draconian laws do not necessarily produce an effective backlash.
Amen, brother. It's not about perspective, about where one views the problem from. It's about performance. The stockbrokers were the ones who were to use the system to become more productive. They didn't because the programmers didn't know the nature of the problems they were "solving."
I've been busting my ass trying to accommodate an adaptation of SAP that would make the baby Jesus cry, all because the guys that assembled it originally had no idea what the underlying business was about. Given the structure of the system, many of the problems are insurmountable. The implementation has made us an order of magnitude less productive.
I'd like to see a job description that calls for someone to talk programming to the geeks and talk business and process to the client.
Whoa...you just reminded me of my old Toshiba T-1000. 8086 with 640k of memory and a $1000 768k ram addon that would also function as a hard drive. DOS 3.1 in rom, and solid state storage. It booted in ~1 sec and I/O was instant. If the battery went, though, I'd lose my data.
If, as rumored, Apple's new music service has significant DRM involved in it (can't copy tunes to hd, cd, etc.), this business model will completely torpedo it.
Europeans are likely to be the main beneficiaries of the upcoming economic disruption. Money will positively rush to Europe. If they keep their heads, they'll be able to buy American assets at a steep discount. Combined, they've got a bigger economy than we do, and, united, they could call the tune for a while.
Funny, but high school doesn't give you much of a way to avoid lording one's intellect over others. Everyone's in class together. What are you supposed to do? Not answer any questions? Hide your grades? Screw up on purpose?
As relentlessly hierarchical as kids are about social standing, they're also like that about intellect. Everyone in a school knows who the smartest kids are.
People just don't get that bent out of shape over the fact that someone else is twice their size and throws perfect passes. They do get bent out of shape over someone else who is smarter than they are. Just the way it is.
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On my mini 1.42, I bench about 50% faster with a 7200 rpm 8mb 250 gig Firewire over the stock 4200 rpm 80 gig 2.5". The speedup is very obvious in use. Oh, and I boot from it.
What is this latency of which you speak?
Police officers do have disproportionately high accident rates. I don't know about truck drivers.
It is safe to assume that police officers use their radios a lot while driving during the course of doing their jobs, as they have to be dispatched and coordinated.
It's probably not fair to compare accident rates between truckers and passenger-car drivers because of longer stopping distances, at the very least (also I'm too lazy to try to find stats). How much time does the average trucker spend on the radio, anyway? It seems like relying on the stereotype in place of data isn't going to work very well.
No. The reason talking on cellphones is dangerous is that part of the act of communication involves visualizing the other person's body language, facial expressions, and surroundings. Doing that takes away cycles (for lack of a better term) from the visual-spatial aspects of driving.
When you talk to a passenger, you already know where they are and what they're doing, and body language and facial expression can be ascertained via a quick glance of a few tenths of a second. The radio doesn't require any visualizing at all, unless you're some kind of synesthesiac.
OMFG. The only thing they use is IE. That's the only thing their help desk is, uh, helpful with. I'm sure that's not where all their problems are coming from, but it speaks of an organization that isn't at all agile.
I love a lot of the things that IBM does and comes up with, but if your organization isn't flexible enough to work with more than one browser, you've got some serious problems.
Sounds like the Microsoft Lifetime Employment Program has deep roots at IBM.
It takes 1 PC2700 dimm, can handle a max of 1gb. Don't buy it from Apple, though - they want $425 for a 1gb stick, which is available elsewhere for ~$160.
God will provide the decent-sized ram.
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I was just about to say you're wrong, but this (pdf) says you're right. It's not clear whether they moved all of them to the .90nm process, or just the 2.5's.
Could G5 Powerbooks be far behind?
Because the pictures show a smaller motherboard, which indicates:
.9 fab process variety, and
A) that the G5 processors used will almost certainly be of the
B) that there will be room in the case for an additional 2 hard drives, the lack of which space was a big complaint about the Rev. A models.
If you try "Asperger's Syndrome" in google, you get 84,300 hits. If you do "Ausberger's Syndrome," you get 193. Yeah, definitely 193.
Because the drives retail for twice what the whole ipod goes for by itself. Currently, it's possible to make a profit by buying the ipod and selling just the drive on ebay.
I remember getting all freaked and choked up listening to Space Oddity. Now it could become a voluntary reality. Amazing.
LOL
Funny how that computer seemed to have pretty good security...
"I'm not paranoid because they're out to get me so much as the fact that my last name is 9."
We're supposed to have elections that are free and fair. Without a paper trail or other permanent and immutable (practically, at least) record of individual votes cast, how can any election be verified as either free or fair?
Might not be such a bad thing, we might wind up with more sensible speed laws then.
I'm not so sure. Although the US moved to greatly increase enforcement of drug laws, we haven't yet wound up with more sensible drug laws. All we got were more jails with more people in them. More draconian laws do not necessarily produce an effective backlash.
Exactly. If they believed in their lawsuit, wouldn't they be buying the stock?
Safest short in the universe.
Perhaps monsieur has not noteeced ze "News for Nerds" at ze top of ze page, mmm?
I've been busting my ass trying to accommodate an adaptation of SAP that would make the baby Jesus cry, all because the guys that assembled it originally had no idea what the underlying business was about. Given the structure of the system, many of the problems are insurmountable. The implementation has made us an order of magnitude less productive.
I'd like to see a job description that calls for someone to talk programming to the geeks and talk business and process to the client.
Whoa...you just reminded me of my old Toshiba T-1000. 8086 with 640k of memory and a $1000 768k ram addon that would also function as a hard drive. DOS 3.1 in rom, and solid state storage. It booted in ~1 sec and I/O was instant. If the battery went, though, I'd lose my data.
(what are you using a 3.11 box for?)
If, as rumored, Apple's new music service has significant DRM involved in it (can't copy tunes to hd, cd, etc.), this business model will completely torpedo it.
Europeans are likely to be the main beneficiaries of the upcoming economic disruption. Money will positively rush to Europe. If they keep their heads, they'll be able to buy American assets at a steep discount. Combined, they've got a bigger economy than we do, and, united, they could call the tune for a while.
Funny, but high school doesn't give you much of a way to avoid lording one's intellect over others. Everyone's in class together. What are you supposed to do? Not answer any questions? Hide your grades? Screw up on purpose?
As relentlessly hierarchical as kids are about social standing, they're also like that about intellect. Everyone in a school knows who the smartest kids are.
People just don't get that bent out of shape over the fact that someone else is twice their size and throws perfect passes. They do get bent out of shape over someone else who is smarter than they are. Just the way it is.