You don't have to be a "math god" to see the problems with the "theory". I'd estimate a solid high school physics class ought to provide sufficient background.
I think the average/. reader would be pretty surprised at the kind of costs people are willing to bear. A few months ago I was planning to swing by a friend's house to install a new stick of memory. This guy can completely disassemble and reassemble any automobile on the road, but he wasn't willing to crack the case and snap in some extra memory. Anyway, the day before I was supposed to drop by, he e-mailed me to proudly announce that he took care of it himself -- by paying CompUSA something like $150 to install it for him.
The cost of Windows would have to skyrocket dramatically before any significant number of "average users" would care enough to look for an alternative like Linux.
Buy linux, and don't have to call anyone who will make you answer stupid pointless questions.
Instead, it'll be the users asking the stupid questions.
"I bought your Linux at Barnes & Noble. Why doesn't it work?"
"Last week I called and you told me how to install your Linux. Why doesn't my Word Perfect CD work any more?"
"The other day you made me install something called StarOffice. I think that messed up my son's Doom 3 CD. It used to work before we installed your Linux."
Yeah, because a 4GHz Pentium with 2GB of RAM and a 200GB RAID1+0 array randomly cranking through 15,000 MP3s in the background while you play Doom 3 at 1600x1200 on a 21" LCD is just crap in comparison to "the good old days".
Sure, sometimes I miss assembly. Usually that happens only a few hours before I wake up with a hangover.
I figure at some point, more "thinking peoples games" will rise up from the ashes of these sadistic, unrealistic twitch-fests, which will remind gamers of what it's really like playing a game, instead of merely playing a victim or a victimizer.
They're not hard to find if that's actually your area of interest. Search for servers hosting games of Go or Diplomacy. It doesn't get much more "thinking people" than that. Or if those are too sedate, play one of the hundreds and hundreds of online racing sims.
Examples are easy to find, which leads me to believe that you aren't much of a gamer at all, you just want to whine about The Dreaded Simulated Violence. What a unique and compelling viewpoint you've provided for our consideration.
What's the difference whether the display was actually driven by the iPod for their demo? The point is the image quality, not to "prove" to anyone that their electrical interface works like everybody else's interface.
Actually, "nanotechnology" WAS coined as a way to describe building machines. "Nanoscale" is a better word, IMHO, for much of what is now described as nanotech.
If these looked like paper, it would be ez to make a digital pic frame out of it
They only "look like paper" in the sense that their display has better legibility with ambient light (e.g. without backlight). There wasn't anything which suggested the displays would be thinner than a traditional LCD, and quite a bit which suggested the displays would be more or less identical in that respect.
Requires Java, but with a relatively small investment of time, you can learn the rules fairly easily here, along with a nice assortment of problems to solve at the end of the tutorial:
Current list of formats that work with all modern personal computers (without requiring a special adapter):
- USB Flash Drives
You obviously haven't used many of them. I have a friend whose line of work involves moving data between many machines in many locations, and as a result he owns a frighteningly huge pile of removable media devices. I'd say his USB drives manage about a 75% success rate without installing drivers under both XP and MacOS. On the other hand, CF and CF2 are running 100% (because they're basically just IDE, as far as I know -- could be wrong, but there only appears to be a single resistor on my CF-to-IDE adaptor card).
I also tend to think USB must be processing-intensive for the "host" device, since there aren't any non-PC electronics out there with USB ports (such as cameras).
You didn't mention where you live, but around here a dishwasher is maybe $350 and that isn't a terribly large cash transaction, unless you're act like a choad and whip out a wad of ones and fives. Handing the cashier seven fifties at somewhere like Home Depot wouldn't get you a second glance.
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You don't have to be a "math god" to see the problems with the "theory".
I'd estimate a solid high school physics class ought to provide sufficient background.
in a slim hope that he gets murdered by Data.
Shit, I'd pay $3 million just to see THAT.
True, true. :)
Remind me, when's the commodity-hardware X86 release due, again?
I think the average /. reader would be pretty surprised at the kind of costs people are willing to bear. A few months ago I was planning to swing by a friend's house to install a new stick of memory. This guy can completely disassemble and reassemble any automobile on the road, but he wasn't willing to crack the case and snap in some extra memory. Anyway, the day before I was supposed to drop by, he e-mailed me to proudly announce that he took care of it himself -- by paying CompUSA something like $150 to install it for him.
The cost of Windows would have to skyrocket dramatically before any significant number of "average users" would care enough to look for an alternative like Linux.
Cool, that's a much better version.
I saw the one in my sig on a t-shirt somewhere a few days back.
Buy linux, and don't have to call anyone who will make you answer stupid pointless questions.
Instead, it'll be the users asking the stupid questions.
"I bought your Linux at Barnes & Noble. Why doesn't it work?"
"Last week I called and you told me how to install your Linux. Why doesn't my Word Perfect CD work any more?"
"The other day you made me install something called StarOffice. I think that messed up my son's Doom 3 CD. It used to work before we installed your Linux."
That'll be fantastic.
And I think the Starbuck character is attractive, in a tomboyish sort of way.
I think she's attractive in a "bend her over a chair-ish" way.
Yeah, because a 4GHz Pentium with 2GB of RAM and a 200GB RAID1+0 array randomly cranking through 15,000 MP3s in the background while you play Doom 3 at 1600x1200 on a 21" LCD is just crap in comparison to "the good old days".
Sure, sometimes I miss assembly. Usually that happens only a few hours before I wake up with a hangover.
There really isn't anything to keep normal people, as well as criminals, from listening to communications.
Where I live, "as well as criminals" is redundant.
It's "sonny-boy", not "sunny-boy".
Lost the "Senior Programmer" job in the bustling metropolis that is "Davenport, FL", eh?
We really should treat them as respected but at worst slightly verbally handicapped peers.
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Slightly?
Peers?
You've been reading WAAAAY too much
I figure at some point, more "thinking peoples games" will rise up from the ashes of these sadistic, unrealistic twitch-fests, which will remind gamers of what it's really like playing a game, instead of merely playing a victim or a victimizer.
They're not hard to find if that's actually your area of interest. Search for servers hosting games of Go or Diplomacy. It doesn't get much more "thinking people" than that. Or if those are too sedate, play one of the hundreds and hundreds of online racing sims.
Examples are easy to find, which leads me to believe that you aren't much of a gamer at all, you just want to whine about The Dreaded Simulated Violence. What a unique and compelling viewpoint you've provided for our consideration.
What's the difference whether the display was actually driven by the iPod for their demo? The point is the image quality, not to "prove" to anyone that their electrical interface works like everybody else's interface.
The word you're looking for is "nanoscale".
And Wikipedia is hardly a definitive reference.
Actually, "nanotechnology" WAS coined as a way to describe building machines.
"Nanoscale" is a better word, IMHO, for much of what is now described as nanotech.
If these looked like paper, it would be ez to make a digital pic frame out of it
They only "look like paper" in the sense that their display has better legibility with ambient light (e.g. without backlight). There wasn't anything which suggested the displays would be thinner than a traditional LCD, and quite a bit which suggested the displays would be more or less identical in that respect.
Can't recommend a good place to read the rules
Requires Java, but with a relatively small investment of time, you can learn the rules fairly easily here, along with a nice assortment of problems to solve at the end of the tutorial:
http://playgo.to/interactive/
(searching 4.472.000.000 nodes in about 4 hours on a P4 2.0Ghz)
4-hours is on a single p4 machine is just a joke
More than 310000 nodes per second is quite a lot of work.
Current list of formats that work with all modern personal computers (without requiring a special adapter):
- USB Flash Drives
You obviously haven't used many of them. I have a friend whose line of work involves moving data between many machines in many locations, and as a result he owns a frighteningly huge pile of removable media devices. I'd say his USB drives manage about a 75% success rate without installing drivers under both XP and MacOS. On the other hand, CF and CF2 are running 100% (because they're basically just IDE, as far as I know -- could be wrong, but there only appears to be a single resistor on my CF-to-IDE adaptor card).
I also tend to think USB must be processing-intensive for the "host" device, since there aren't any non-PC electronics out there with USB ports (such as cameras).
I'm all for hopping the next transport to Tatooine.
Yeah? Who's gonna fly it kid, you?
This seems like an odd line of inquiry for a US Senator, as other posters have alluded.
I'm interested in hearing the explanation behind this inquiry.
No, we write "go to" as JMP.
You didn't mention where you live, but around here a dishwasher is maybe $350 and that isn't a terribly large cash transaction, unless you're act like a choad and whip out a wad of ones and fives. Handing the cashier seven fifties at somewhere like Home Depot wouldn't get you a second glance.
nothing is worse them MS Offices great "history clipboard" that you CANNOT turn off
I believe Outlook allows you to disable this, and it affects all other Office apps. Go here:
Tools > Options > Other > Advanced Options
Then uncheck "Show Paste Options buttons".