the school board is a direct extension of state government
To be clear, the "state" that a school board is a "direct extension of", is North Carolina, not the Federal Government of the United States of America.
Agreed. For a fact to be scientifically acceptable, it must be tested and quantified. Relying on common knowledge doesn't advance knowledge, but testing it might.
There is so much cultural and historical pull that some scientific body changing their definition probably isn't going to work for the public unless they can explain the new definition in non-jargon, and explain that people in the profession made an honest mistake and this is the fix.
Basically, I'd call Pluto as "grandfathered" in forget about it. I'm not even convinced that it really matters, some scientists and pedants harrumphing doesn't change the solar system, just what they call certain bodies.
Titanium has been tried for notebook computers. The stuff is hard to form, I think hard to machine, and it's hard to get anything to stick to it. Apple used it for what is now called the "TiBook". It had a colored surface coating to give it the color that people thought titanium had because the real color wasn't as exciting.
So are you encouraging a high return rate? Pushing Linux onto people that don't ask for it is a little disingenuous as the current standard is Windows. Most people don't consider that there are alternatives, but those alternatives don't have the apps that they want and they shouldn't have to relearn how to use a computer if they don't want to. Even if the alternative operating systems have equivalent apps, forcing them to relearn how to use all their apps and such is a bit much. It strikes me as disingenuous of a crowd to say they demand software choice when they are really demanding that people be forced onto a different platform from what they are expecting, against their will. You have the choice now, so I suggest not throwing it back in their face as not good enough.
My experience is that Configure to Order systems do offer Linux if it is supported, and it's easy to pick.
The problem is that games are more or less still intrinsically tied to the hardware it is coded on because of their computer based nature, and audio is just a hard coded waveform. I'm not sure why the console makers have a problem with emulation, Sony and Microsoft should licence out that platform because they make their money on games. Their main concern is to prevent the distribution of unauthorized game copies, so long as an emulator doesn't ignore that, I don't see why the console makers should be concerned.
Many of the heavy manufacturing plants use something like 440V three phase to power huge motors continuously, is a 34.5kV really necessary if a manufacturing plant didn't have the need?
There's the problem of dot pitch. I'd love that for playing HD video and looking at photos, but damn, 150dpi is tiny for any current user interface. Teens and young adults can handle that just fine, but generally they'll probably find in a decade that they won't be able to use that density anymore. I like having smother text and UI elements, not blurry ones or tiny ones. I like sitting back a bit for general use, so I usually set my 21" CRT to SXGA+, for looking at the occasional HD video and good photos, then I might occasionally kick it as high as quad XGA. I hope Vista and Leopard allow me to have true point-size text but crisper text and sharper photos at the same time.
At a max of about 2.5W on write, a notebook hard drive isn't the biggest power draw in a notebook. Idle power is maybe half that.
You have the screen (flourescent backlight) (likely tens of watts) and the CPU (Intel Core Duo is 31W), probably the GPU too. Cutting the CPU to an LV chip (Core Duo LV is 15W) might give you a two or four more hours, depending on the display and the GPU. Don't tell me that saving one watt is going to save an hour of power on battery time.
I've seen a video show that described the inflatable habitat. The "skin" is actually many layers of alternating materials to seal, insulate and absorb micrometeoriods, maybe some of the layers are self-healing, but I'm not certain. They showed a sample inflation in a vacuum chamber and it's pretty impressive.
I agree, though noise measurement isn't that hard to do, the typical hardware site is probably too lazy to do it. Thankfully Storage Review measures hard drive noise (and heat, and I think power), but lately, that is negligible, now the focus has to be put on optical drive noise.
Reliability is harder to measure though, if it doesn't make a coaster during the normal round of tests, then it is probably assumed to be good enough.
There are enthusiast sites like CDFreaks that check P1 and P2 error rates on the written optical media, which is good to check.
PDF is a static or finalized output for documents not intended to be edited by the end user, except for adding mark-ups. It can be changed, but not as easily as taking someone's.doc and making changes.
It they wouldn't spend 40% of every page as purely site navigation, I think they could knock that down to 200 pages or less. The high profile PC hardware "enthusiast" sites tend to allow at most 10% of each page as actual article. The next time I read some weenie claim that Internet articles are always better, I'll have to point to Tom's Hardware as a strong counterexample, just one sample from an entire genre of sites that excercise all the don'ts of site navigation design.
How do you keep people honest? Seriously, I know the MPAA is dishonest, but they are made up of people, and my experience is that most people are dishonest at least on occasion if they think they can get away with something.
I really don't see the benefit of your suggested program from the MPAA perspective.
I don't see what the problem with music rental services as they exist, for the cost of less than album a month you get access to a few million tracks. If you spent that much in your lifetime on CDs, that would be less than 10k songs that you would eventually buy and you get the opportunity to sample music that you wouldn't have risked buying a CD.
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The IBM 390 isn't relevant to the discussion because IBM still has the mainfreme business, they only sold off the desktop and notebook business. IBM still sells workstations, both RISC and x86, though I guess they don't sell "mobile workstations".
I don't understand why copyright infringement is justified in a crowd that condemns GPL violations, a person that says one is acceptable and not another is contradicting themselves as both rely on copyright law. Professional video production work is very expensive and I don't see the incentive in removing any fair chance at an income stream.
Amid all the hype, I wonder how many companies actually consider these issues? Given the scrutiny a company gives to US applicants, do most companies forget to apply that scrutiny when trying overseas work, in a blind mad dash to save money?
I don't see how oppression helps fight oppression. By not giving musicians their due, both the RIAA and AllOfMP3 are harming the musician's ability to use their skills as they see fit, especially if they see fit to make a career of it. I'm not the person to say that musicians should give their music away for free or at subsistence pricing. I wouldn't want someone taking my work and giving it away for free or a pittance unless I was getting properly paid for it and I don't see that happening.
And no, I am not a musician or in the audio field whatsoever.
Macs are 100% capable of running all the latest games, and doing it well. Hell, these days they are basically a typical x86 machine with a totally ideal OS.
The inexpensive Macs are using integrated graphics (mini, MacBook), so the ability to run the latest games is impared at best. Maybe they'll run games intended for the mid Radeon 9xxx series, but that's about the best performance you'll get out of them. The mini isn't positioned for gaming use, and is unsuited for it anyway.
You can get the most recent powerful video cards no problem, so it's not like performance is an issue, especially considering that every new Mac has a cutting edge Intel CPU in it (other than the G5s).
"The G5s"? You mean the PowerMacs? The only Mac with an upgradeable graphics card? Not only that, the PowerMacs are technically workstations, they aren't desktops targeted towards consumer gaming use. Sure, Dellienware sells more expensive gaming desktops but I would bet that most PC gamers have computers that are worth $1k US or less, so assuming they'll spring $1600 for an iMac with a decent size screen or $2k for a tower with an upgradeable video card is a bit much.
Apple's computers may do well for the "Nintendo" type games, quirky games that aren't designed for the highest triangle rates but rather just being plain fun.
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the school board is a direct extension of state government
To be clear, the "state" that a school board is a "direct extension of", is North Carolina, not the Federal Government of the United States of America.
I don't understand why the actions of a school board has anything to do with the U.S. Government.
Agreed. For a fact to be scientifically acceptable, it must be tested and quantified. Relying on common knowledge doesn't advance knowledge, but testing it might.
There is so much cultural and historical pull that some scientific body changing their definition probably isn't going to work for the public unless they can explain the new definition in non-jargon, and explain that people in the profession made an honest mistake and this is the fix.
Basically, I'd call Pluto as "grandfathered" in forget about it. I'm not even convinced that it really matters, some scientists and pedants harrumphing doesn't change the solar system, just what they call certain bodies.
For starters, it has a high strength to weight ratio and has a much higher melting point. It may be more durable from a fatigue perspective.
Titanium has been tried for notebook computers. The stuff is hard to form, I think hard to machine, and it's hard to get anything to stick to it. Apple used it for what is now called the "TiBook". It had a colored surface coating to give it the color that people thought titanium had because the real color wasn't as exciting.
You can boot from floppy, then tell the machine to boot from cd.
It's not always as simple as that. Computers from a decade ago don't necessarily offer booting from CD.
So are you encouraging a high return rate? Pushing Linux onto people that don't ask for it is a little disingenuous as the current standard is Windows. Most people don't consider that there are alternatives, but those alternatives don't have the apps that they want and they shouldn't have to relearn how to use a computer if they don't want to. Even if the alternative operating systems have equivalent apps, forcing them to relearn how to use all their apps and such is a bit much. It strikes me as disingenuous of a crowd to say they demand software choice when they are really demanding that people be forced onto a different platform from what they are expecting, against their will. You have the choice now, so I suggest not throwing it back in their face as not good enough.
My experience is that Configure to Order systems do offer Linux if it is supported, and it's easy to pick.
The problem is that games are more or less still intrinsically tied to the hardware it is coded on because of their computer based nature, and audio is just a hard coded waveform. I'm not sure why the console makers have a problem with emulation, Sony and Microsoft should licence out that platform because they make their money on games. Their main concern is to prevent the distribution of unauthorized game copies, so long as an emulator doesn't ignore that, I don't see why the console makers should be concerned.
Many of the heavy manufacturing plants use something like 440V three phase to power huge motors continuously, is a 34.5kV really necessary if a manufacturing plant didn't have the need?
There's the problem of dot pitch. I'd love that for playing HD video and looking at photos, but damn, 150dpi is tiny for any current user interface. Teens and young adults can handle that just fine, but generally they'll probably find in a decade that they won't be able to use that density anymore. I like having smother text and UI elements, not blurry ones or tiny ones. I like sitting back a bit for general use, so I usually set my 21" CRT to SXGA+, for looking at the occasional HD video and good photos, then I might occasionally kick it as high as quad XGA. I hope Vista and Leopard allow me to have true point-size text but crisper text and sharper photos at the same time.
At a max of about 2.5W on write, a notebook hard drive isn't the biggest power draw in a notebook. Idle power is maybe half that.
You have the screen (flourescent backlight) (likely tens of watts) and the CPU (Intel Core Duo is 31W), probably the GPU too. Cutting the CPU to an LV chip (Core Duo LV is 15W) might give you a two or four more hours, depending on the display and the GPU. Don't tell me that saving one watt is going to save an hour of power on battery time.
I've seen a video show that described the inflatable habitat. The "skin" is actually many layers of alternating materials to seal, insulate and absorb micrometeoriods, maybe some of the layers are self-healing, but I'm not certain. They showed a sample inflation in a vacuum chamber and it's pretty impressive.
I agree, though noise measurement isn't that hard to do, the typical hardware site is probably too lazy to do it. Thankfully Storage Review measures hard drive noise (and heat, and I think power), but lately, that is negligible, now the focus has to be put on optical drive noise.
Reliability is harder to measure though, if it doesn't make a coaster during the normal round of tests, then it is probably assumed to be good enough.
There are enthusiast sites like CDFreaks that check P1 and P2 error rates on the written optical media, which is good to check.
PDF is a static or finalized output for documents not intended to be edited by the end user, except for adding mark-ups. It can be changed, but not as easily as taking someone's .doc and making changes.
It they wouldn't spend 40% of every page as purely site navigation, I think they could knock that down to 200 pages or less. The high profile PC hardware "enthusiast" sites tend to allow at most 10% of each page as actual article. The next time I read some weenie claim that Internet articles are always better, I'll have to point to Tom's Hardware as a strong counterexample, just one sample from an entire genre of sites that excercise all the don'ts of site navigation design.
How do you keep people honest? Seriously, I know the MPAA is dishonest, but they are made up of people, and my experience is that most people are dishonest at least on occasion if they think they can get away with something.
I really don't see the benefit of your suggested program from the MPAA perspective.
I don't see what the problem with music rental services as they exist, for the cost of less than album a month you get access to a few million tracks. If you spent that much in your lifetime on CDs, that would be less than 10k songs that you would eventually buy and you get the opportunity to sample music that you wouldn't have risked buying a CD.
The IBM 390 isn't relevant to the discussion because IBM still has the mainfreme business, they only sold off the desktop and notebook business. IBM still sells workstations, both RISC and x86, though I guess they don't sell "mobile workstations".
just a serious of 4-page stories.
What? Were the stories that serious?
I don't understand why copyright infringement is justified in a crowd that condemns GPL violations, a person that says one is acceptable and not another is contradicting themselves as both rely on copyright law. Professional video production work is very expensive and I don't see the incentive in removing any fair chance at an income stream.
Amid all the hype, I wonder how many companies actually consider these issues? Given the scrutiny a company gives to US applicants, do most companies forget to apply that scrutiny when trying overseas work, in a blind mad dash to save money?
I don't see how oppression helps fight oppression. By not giving musicians their due, both the RIAA and AllOfMP3 are harming the musician's ability to use their skills as they see fit, especially if they see fit to make a career of it. I'm not the person to say that musicians should give their music away for free or at subsistence pricing. I wouldn't want someone taking my work and giving it away for free or a pittance unless I was getting properly paid for it and I don't see that happening.
And no, I am not a musician or in the audio field whatsoever.
If copyright infringement and directly aiding it is legal in Sweden, then Sweden is in violation of the Berne Convention treaty.
Right to their own view? How about being true? George "nuculer" Bush and all his Bushisms seem to establish his "moronity".
Macs are 100% capable of running all the latest games, and doing it well. Hell, these days they are basically a typical x86 machine with a totally ideal OS.
The inexpensive Macs are using integrated graphics (mini, MacBook), so the ability to run the latest games is impared at best. Maybe they'll run games intended for the mid Radeon 9xxx series, but that's about the best performance you'll get out of them. The mini isn't positioned for gaming use, and is unsuited for it anyway.
You can get the most recent powerful video cards no problem, so it's not like performance is an issue, especially considering that every new Mac has a cutting edge Intel CPU in it (other than the G5s).
"The G5s"? You mean the PowerMacs? The only Mac with an upgradeable graphics card? Not only that, the PowerMacs are technically workstations, they aren't desktops targeted towards consumer gaming use. Sure, Dellienware sells more expensive gaming desktops but I would bet that most PC gamers have computers that are worth $1k US or less, so assuming they'll spring $1600 for an iMac with a decent size screen or $2k for a tower with an upgradeable video card is a bit much.
Apple's computers may do well for the "Nintendo" type games, quirky games that aren't designed for the highest triangle rates but rather just being plain fun.