Does he know that zombies can slow his Internet connection and they are used to spread spam? It is pretty funny that people aren't interested in keeping their computers running in peak condition. I am curious what kind of person that refuses to take five minutes to do a check that improves computer performance for free. Even if you don't need all the performance the computer can give you, why make it worse than you have to?
I wonder if these are people that are too lazy to take their car in for a routine oil change? Computers require regular maintainance too.
Its understandable seeing as how Geico was losing 15% of its profits.
That is a pretty vague piece of information, and even so, I can't find this in any of the news stories I checked. I'm curious how much of this really has anything to do with the contended Google listings.
They do it on purpose, because they think it looks good.
Ick. I never like it when people sacrifice usability for looks, especially tacky looks.
The fact that it's hard to spot the scrollbars is irrelevant - same as using microscopic font sizes - they just tell you to "get glasses, grandpa".
I think being condescending like this is a bad idea. In fact, ignoring good graphics design is a bad idea, and they are in the wrong for it. Black-on-black (or otherwise poor contrast) scroll bars, if they are done, is being stupid, the same with tiny font sizes. There are reasons why there are sensible font sizes that have nothing to do with old age. Thankfully, some web programs allow the user to set the minimum font size that overrides that garbage.
Frankly, I have not seen this issue. I really have yet to see a web site designed for Firefox or other alternative program such that it tries to shut out MSIE.
What is wrong with a wikipedia page about a fake artist, as far as some people are concerned (see earlier slashdot article about mmorpg) there actually is/will be no difference between reality and what is found on the internet, so in those terms the BBC is actually ahead of the game.
What I see could be wrong about it is that the people that let other people write reality like this would have less of a leg to stand on when they complain about "W's" revisionism or the revisionism of any company or government. Hey, if people on the Internet can try to write things in and out of existence, then why not "W"? Unfortunately, the consequences in my example are staggering.
Or the Compaq Personal Workstation SP750, which was made in 1997. The computer is a dual Xeon-capable design for up to 550MHZ, multiple high-RPM SCSI drives and uses only two quiet high-flow low velocity 120mm fans, one "duct" for the CPUs and video, the other "duct" for the drives and power supply.
I have since bought two Compaq W8000 computers. It is a computer based on the same case, but designed around the extended ATX standard. It has three ducts, drive/power supply, CPU (up to two 2.8GHz Xeons) and the PCI/AGP card section.
I like the overall design of the Powermac G5s, but with mine, when the CPU use gets over 30% for a sufficient amount of time, the fans emit an annoying high pitch whine. My x86 machines may emit more overall noise, they are a very low turbulence rumble that is a lot more tolerable.
One thing that annoys me about some ads, is they say "in the future...", make some claims about good things, then say "...the future is now".
I also find medical ads annoying. They all seem to push a perception that things will be great if you'd take this pill or have that operation. Stuff like Viagra, Levitra and Claria are only supposed to be help people with certain medical conditions, NOT to make a healthy person have "better sex". I think mass marketing is completely wrong for that kind of product, and targeted mass marketing is also going to cause problems.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power. The problem is that given the technology of the time, and it is still largely true today, due to the physics involved, AC is generally a better long-distance electrical power transmission method.
I'm not sure how stable Tesla was, but he was right about AC.
Pick the case metal based on what you like and are willing to pay for. I love the look of aluminum as a case metal but they aren't necessarily better functioning than steel.
That and, most computer case heat transfer is through air flow, any other claim is hype or a radically different design, which ATX and BTX aren't it, more like custom case and circuit design. Unless you actually have heat sinks that transfer heat directly to the shell, the shell material doesn't make much of a difference.
You can buy the G5 shell on ebay for a cheap price but you'll need to make adapters to make it work.
I really haven't liked Lian-Li cases when I got a good close-up look.
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That they're syndicated via RSS is of little consequence; you could deliver it the same with a plain vanilla web page.
Solely "delivering" by web page would defeat the point and make it harder to get. I don't think you've actually taken the time to notice that most podcasts are also "delivered" by a plain vanilla web page, but that is beside the point.
What RSS does is enables a person to use a program to automatically download the latest recordings from all their RSS subscriptions, automatically put it in their audio library and automatically put them on their portable audio player whenever it is docked. I use a "Most Recently Added" playlist to listen to the latest stuff.
All mediums had crap when they first start out. Though it does improve a bit over time, all mediums that still exist are still flooded with crap. I maintain that the Internet is still mostly crap, but somehow Google manages to bring up the better pages on occation.
And really, it is "just" an mp3 file, but the people that say that ignore the subscription delivery method, which makes it easy to keep up without visiting several sites repeatedly.
I'd say, if it works well and is competitive, does the age of the original design really matter? Keep in mind that the core if the Pentium M is heavily re-factored in terms of the overall logic design, improved branch prediction and so on. Making something completely new for its own sake isn't a worthy goal unless there are sufficient benefits versus the cost of such a design.
For all I know, the Athlon64 core might have as much similarity with the core of the Nexgen 5x86 chip as the Pentium M might have with the original Pentium Pro. AMD had trouble designing their own CPU core, so they bought Nexgen's know-how to do this, so there is at least a definite lineage.
It is pretty tough to do a clean-sheet re-implementation, I think a lot of times you might end up redoing the same work that was already done.
While IMO excessive, the profit margin isn't that great.
The last time I saw any figures, for every copy of Windows or bought from Microsoft at retail, about 85% was profit. When heavily discounted for computer makers and large organizations, the profit margin is considerably smaller.
It's two flavours, not a drive with two connectors.
I think the drive probably tastes the same, regardless of connector, though the SATA drive might taste better because the connector doesn't try poking holes in the toungue.
One key difference is that Apple eventually closed up access to the hardware documentation, so Be couldn't support it anymore. So Be had to abandon the PPC port and dedicate themselves to x86.
I really haven't seen many such devices, or any such innovation. The problems I see is that Bluetooth, cordless phones and "WiFi" all can and do interfere, degrading each other's effective connection ability.
From their front page, the topics and concepts that the LvMI chooses is interesting. A defense of bribery? Organized Labor is state controlled? A glut of saving? I thought the problem was that people don't save enough!
Actually, the freedom of speach idea came later than religion. Sadly, the origins of settlers in America was people escaping from religious oppression, only to turn around and be religious oppressors themselves in some cases. A lot of the other freedoms we see were a result of oppression by the crown.
The GPL doesn't prevent commercialization. It does, however, reduce the chance proprietary and incompatible variations.
Companies CAN licence GPL'd software, they have to go to the software's copyright owner, and if that owner is willing, negotiate a different licence that suits the company in question.
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Does he know that zombies can slow his Internet connection and they are used to spread spam? It is pretty funny that people aren't interested in keeping their computers running in peak condition. I am curious what kind of person that refuses to take five minutes to do a check that improves computer performance for free. Even if you don't need all the performance the computer can give you, why make it worse than you have to?
I wonder if these are people that are too lazy to take their car in for a routine oil change? Computers require regular maintainance too.
D'oh. I guess it was a joke, that's what I get when I take too long to get back and finish a reply.
Its understandable seeing as how Geico was losing 15% of its profits.
That is a pretty vague piece of information, and even so, I can't find this in any of the news stories I checked. I'm curious how much of this really has anything to do with the contended Google listings.
They do it on purpose, because they think it looks good.
Ick. I never like it when people sacrifice usability for looks, especially tacky looks.
The fact that it's hard to spot the scrollbars is irrelevant - same as using microscopic font sizes - they just tell you to "get glasses, grandpa".
I think being condescending like this is a bad idea. In fact, ignoring good graphics design is a bad idea, and they are in the wrong for it. Black-on-black (or otherwise poor contrast) scroll bars, if they are done, is being stupid, the same with tiny font sizes. There are reasons why there are sensible font sizes that have nothing to do with old age. Thankfully, some web programs allow the user to set the minimum font size that overrides that garbage.
99 out of 100 webboards?
Frankly, I have not seen this issue. I really have yet to see a web site designed for Firefox or other alternative program such that it tries to shut out MSIE.
What is wrong with a wikipedia page about a fake artist, as far as some people are concerned (see earlier slashdot article about mmorpg) there actually is/will be no difference between reality and what is found on the internet, so in those terms the BBC is actually ahead of the game.
What I see could be wrong about it is that the people that let other people write reality like this would have less of a leg to stand on when they complain about "W's" revisionism or the revisionism of any company or government. Hey, if people on the Internet can try to write things in and out of existence, then why not "W"? Unfortunately, the consequences in my example are staggering.
It's not the first computer to use ducting.
Or the Compaq Personal Workstation SP750, which was made in 1997. The computer is a dual Xeon-capable design for up to 550MHZ, multiple high-RPM SCSI drives and uses only two quiet high-flow low velocity 120mm fans, one "duct" for the CPUs and video, the other "duct" for the drives and power supply.
I have since bought two Compaq W8000 computers. It is a computer based on the same case, but designed around the extended ATX standard. It has three ducts, drive/power supply, CPU (up to two 2.8GHz Xeons) and the PCI/AGP card section.
I like the overall design of the Powermac G5s, but with mine, when the CPU use gets over 30% for a sufficient amount of time, the fans emit an annoying high pitch whine. My x86 machines may emit more overall noise, they are a very low turbulence rumble that is a lot more tolerable.
Yes.
One thing that annoys me about some ads, is they say "in the future...", make some claims about good things, then say "...the future is now".
I also find medical ads annoying. They all seem to push a perception that things will be great if you'd take this pill or have that operation. Stuff like Viagra, Levitra and Claria are only supposed to be help people with certain medical conditions, NOT to make a healthy person have "better sex". I think mass marketing is completely wrong for that kind of product, and targeted mass marketing is also going to cause problems.
Edison was briliant, but yes, IIRC, he was also likely a jerk, a petty one at that.
What I heard was that he wanted to discredit alternating current (AC) power, and electrocuting animals was his way of doing it. Edison favored direct current (DC) power. The problem is that given the technology of the time, and it is still largely true today, due to the physics involved, AC is generally a better long-distance electrical power transmission method.
I'm not sure how stable Tesla was, but he was right about AC.
nate.oo "writes" stuff that was just a rip of the top of the TechWeb article. Cute.
Pick the case metal based on what you like and are willing to pay for. I love the look of aluminum as a case metal but they aren't necessarily better functioning than steel.
That and, most computer case heat transfer is through air flow, any other claim is hype or a radically different design, which ATX and BTX aren't it, more like custom case and circuit design. Unless you actually have heat sinks that transfer heat directly to the shell, the shell material doesn't make much of a difference.
You can buy the G5 shell on ebay for a cheap price but you'll need to make adapters to make it work.
I really haven't liked Lian-Li cases when I got a good close-up look.
That they're syndicated via RSS is of little consequence; you could deliver it the same with a plain vanilla web page.
Solely "delivering" by web page would defeat the point and make it harder to get. I don't think you've actually taken the time to notice that most podcasts are also "delivered" by a plain vanilla web page, but that is beside the point.
What RSS does is enables a person to use a program to automatically download the latest recordings from all their RSS subscriptions, automatically put it in their audio library and automatically put them on their portable audio player whenever it is docked. I use a "Most Recently Added" playlist to listen to the latest stuff.
All mediums had crap when they first start out. Though it does improve a bit over time, all mediums that still exist are still flooded with crap. I maintain that the Internet is still mostly crap, but somehow Google manages to bring up the better pages on occation.
And really, it is "just" an mp3 file, but the people that say that ignore the subscription delivery method, which makes it easy to keep up without visiting several sites repeatedly.
Uh, for all the reasons you stated and more, I think this may be part of why Intel is looking to change their CPU architecture.
Intel's announcement (if it is coming) is about a future product, and doesn't necessarily speak to current products.
I'd say, if it works well and is competitive, does the age of the original design really matter? Keep in mind that the core if the Pentium M is heavily re-factored in terms of the overall logic design, improved branch prediction and so on. Making something completely new for its own sake isn't a worthy goal unless there are sufficient benefits versus the cost of such a design.
For all I know, the Athlon64 core might have as much similarity with the core of the Nexgen 5x86 chip as the Pentium M might have with the original Pentium Pro. AMD had trouble designing their own CPU core, so they bought Nexgen's know-how to do this, so there is at least a definite lineage.
It is pretty tough to do a clean-sheet re-implementation, I think a lot of times you might end up redoing the same work that was already done.
As pointed out, Intel is licencing AMD's instruction set. AMD is licencing SSE 1, 2, & 3.
They have cross-licencing agreements with each other, IBM and other partners for this sort of thing.
While IMO excessive, the profit margin isn't that great.
The last time I saw any figures, for every copy of Windows or bought from Microsoft at retail, about 85% was profit. When heavily discounted for computer makers and large organizations, the profit margin is considerably smaller.
It's two flavours, not a drive with two connectors.
I think the drive probably tastes the same, regardless of connector, though the SATA drive might taste better because the connector doesn't try poking holes in the toungue.
Part of the high cost of photovoltiacs is that it takes as much energy to make one as it will ever produce in its useful life.
One key difference is that Apple eventually closed up access to the hardware documentation, so Be couldn't support it anymore. So Be had to abandon the PPC port and dedicate themselves to x86.
I really haven't seen many such devices, or any such innovation.
The problems I see is that Bluetooth, cordless phones and "WiFi" all can and do interfere, degrading each other's effective connection ability.
From their front page, the topics and concepts that the LvMI chooses is interesting. A defense of bribery? Organized Labor is state controlled? A glut of saving? I thought the problem was that people don't save enough!
Actually, the freedom of speach idea came later than religion. Sadly, the origins of settlers in America was people escaping from religious oppression, only to turn around and be religious oppressors themselves in some cases. A lot of the other freedoms we see were a result of oppression by the crown.
Let's see if HP opens up any of their sources, say, HP-UX, OpenVMS or any other software tech owned by HP.
The GPL doesn't prevent commercialization. It does, however, reduce the chance proprietary and incompatible variations.
Companies CAN licence GPL'd software, they have to go to the software's copyright owner, and if that owner is willing, negotiate a different licence that suits the company in question.