Thankfully the Michigan tax form has a sort of amnesty program. For any purchases short of $1000 per item, you can look up a chart and pay a certain amount based on your earnings. I think I paid like $10.
The state (Michigan) probably isn't worth it, but it seems the #1 reason I hear from people moving out of California is the taxes.
If you checked my info, you'd probably notice this:
Karma: Excellent
I don't think routine trolls get excellent karma.
The only other post I find in my post list that was modded down was for flamebait was another post putting down Debian for what I saw as a legitimate problem, that being geriatric software labeled as "stable".
I guess the Debian mindshare must be protected at all costs, even if it took them way too long to get Sarge out when other distributions had perfectly fine stable releases about every year.
Maybe because the release they call "stable" is actually a euphemism for "hopelessly obsolete"?
This is my actual opinion, not a troll. I've had too many incompatibilities because one year old software was TOO NEW to work with the latest "stable" release because "stable" used libraries a few versions old.
Somehow, I think that this should have been moderated as "funny", like trying to find the Bacon number of an actor.
Re:Studies on Dvorak - the patent holder
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Advocating Dvorak
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One thing I would like to see is a multi-decade comparison to see if the CTS benefits are there. I ended up switching the mouse to my left hand on many of my computers because of wrist issues.
Some people advocate the klicky-type keyboards. I tried them but I really don't see the benefits, and most of them are AT DIN-5, a few are in mini-DIN PS/2, no USB. I think those keyboards are clunky.
A good $50 keyboard seems to have most of the touch-type abilities as people claim are exclusive to the clickies, where the "feel" of a successful button press exactly coincides with a key send to the computer. Only in the cheap keyboard were those disconnected.
That figure of speech has never made sense to me. Why would I want to have a cake and not be able to eat it? Do I just want to let it sit and rot?
Anyhow, the "Big Brother" ad is 21 years old now. I can't imagine holding any person or company to a standard for that long, because it denies them a chance to change their opinion, for better or worse.
I really don't consider the Apple pricing to be unreasonable considering the fit and finish of the components. The pricing of Powermacs is in line with Opteron and Xeon workstations, but is generally quieter.
The Powermac's case uses 1/8" thick aluminum sheet for the side plates, 3/32" thick between them. Heck, even the Mac mini uses a pound of aluminum. The components inside these things look top-notch to me, without the corner cutting known to the budget PC industry.
I think that five of the ten wealthiest alums from the college I went were actually drop outs. The only reason they are considered alums is because the college has a weasel definition: if you pass one semester, you are an alum.
In general, it's not a good idea, but there do exist people whose skills may be stifled
I personally don't think the battery being somewhat difficult to replace really is a problem if the chore only has to be done every two or three years. It's not that hard to get into.
I think it is more laughable that people that pride themselves in having the "uber skill" of "building" computers have such a hard time getting into such a simple case as the iPod. Not having exposed screws doesn't make it a difficult to disassemble object. If you want my unvarnished opinion, it keeps out the people that shouldn't be inside it in the first place, lacking adequate resourcefulness and all.
For the record, I don't care about open source if the program works. I use both pay-for commercial and open source software, depending on what I personally determine for myself to be the best solution for the given task. There is a time for ideals, but there is a time for reality too. Most of the apps I do use on OS X happen to be free & open.
BTX isn't being widely adopted because it doesn't show enough benefit vs. the ATX family of standards. I'm more convinced that a modified ATX could be made as ATX 3.0 with standard ATX bolt patterns would be better for the industry as ATX 3.0 than BTX will be.
BTX does make useful changes, just none that merit a completely new standard, IMO.
Going to BTX means redoing a lot of the stock case tooling, at least a LOT more than a hypothetical ATX 3.0 would do.
I guess Intergraph didn't invent it. It dates back to the 50's. Intergraph happened to have a patent on some part of the technique, Intel infringed and had to pay up big time after a suit.
Debian isn't helpful if it remains being hopelessly obsolete. Sorry, but when I find that I need software three revisions old, and the latest Debian only supports the version four revisions old, I get disappointed.
Re:MULTIthreading != Hyperthreading
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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My
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Hyperthreading isn't necessarily a kludge. It works very well and is often well worth the sliver of a die to implement, so long as the operating system knows the difference. It was never intended to be a replacement for a full dual processor system, I don't think it was ever sold as such.
It isn't Intel's technology either, Intergraph invented it, although Hyperthreading (TM) is Intel's branding of the idea. Alphas were supposed to get it, maybe EV7 has it, I'm not sure, it might have been something suposed to go into EV8.
Game software will eventually take advantage of multiple cores. I doubt Microsoft would be paying for a three core PPC for XBox2 if it didn't make a worthwhile difference.
Making CPUs that run at a higher clock is proving to be prohibitive, so other means must be used to take advantage of extra transistors. I personally would prefer a slightly wider issue single CPU core, but the benefits go down, adds a lot of complexity, and that doesn't use many more transistors.
Microsoft has said several times that one CPU package == one CPU for the purposes of licencing. They said this for hyperthreading and dual core, both still count as only one CPU. Windows XP will show four CPUs on a dual Xeon system if hyperthreading is on, and it will run.
I don't think an extra two drives will be a significant problem, being that hard drives often dissipate about 10W each, a drop compared to the CPU heat.
There are commercial kits for adding drives that do this better.
I wonder if the transition to desktop versions of Intel's dual core Yonah chips will allow for better thermal management and more space for expansion.
One major main reason the cooling system for the G5s is so huge is that the G5s are very power hungry and run hot. I bought a dual 2.5 G5 and the amount of heat flowing from it noticably flows out from under the desk. I'm second guessing the choice of buying this thing vs. a 20" iMac especially as the heat of summer is going up. My Xeon workstations have considerably more expansion capabilities, are reasonably quiet and don't seem to pump out as much heat, too bad I don't care much for Windows or Linux anymore.
One thing of contention now is, when all desktop CPUs go dual core, will Apple have to use two of them for their high end Macs, for four processors?
You don't necessarily need to switch the sets to take advantage of ATSC, hopefully set-top tuners will be much cheaper.
In all likelyhood, you will get clearer reception because ghosting and static aren't a factor. Also, ATSC bitstreams can be split into as many as four standard definition streams, some stations have 24 hour weather on one of those sub channels. As a Michigan resident, I even saw a speech by Mr. Governator talking about his plans on education.
I have a 27" 4:3 NTSC CRT set that properly displays 16:9 anamorphic image, it will display all 480 visibe scan lines in a squeezed vertical space, making the image a true 16:9 with black bars. It was pretty common starting about 2000 or so.
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Thankfully the Michigan tax form has a sort of amnesty program. For any purchases short of $1000 per item, you can look up a chart and pay a certain amount based on your earnings. I think I paid like $10.
The state (Michigan) probably isn't worth it, but it seems the #1 reason I hear from people moving out of California is the taxes.
If you checked my info, you'd probably notice this:
Karma: Excellent
I don't think routine trolls get excellent karma.
The only other post I find in my post list that was modded down was for flamebait was another post putting down Debian for what I saw as a legitimate problem, that being geriatric software labeled as "stable".
I guess the Debian mindshare must be protected at all costs, even if it took them way too long to get Sarge out when other distributions had perfectly fine stable releases about every year.
I had the misfortune of having to install "Debian stable" several months ago, when it WAS a few years obsolete.
Why would I use testing or unstable on a production system? I want stable, not obsolete. Stable doesn't have to mean obsolete.
Maybe because the release they call "stable" is actually a euphemism for "hopelessly obsolete"?
This is my actual opinion, not a troll. I've had too many incompatibilities because one year old software was TOO NEW to work with the latest "stable" release because "stable" used libraries a few versions old.
Somehow, I think that this should have been moderated as "funny", like trying to find the Bacon number of an actor.
One thing I would like to see is a multi-decade comparison to see if the CTS benefits are there. I ended up switching the mouse to my left hand on many of my computers because of wrist issues.
Some people advocate the klicky-type keyboards. I tried them but I really don't see the benefits, and most of them are AT DIN-5, a few are in mini-DIN PS/2, no USB. I think those keyboards are clunky.
A good $50 keyboard seems to have most of the touch-type abilities as people claim are exclusive to the clickies, where the "feel" of a successful button press exactly coincides with a key send to the computer. Only in the cheap keyboard were those disconnected.
That figure of speech has never made sense to me. Why would I want to have a cake and not be able to eat it? Do I just want to let it sit and rot?
Anyhow, the "Big Brother" ad is 21 years old now. I can't imagine holding any person or company to a standard for that long, because it denies them a chance to change their opinion, for better or worse.
I really don't consider the Apple pricing to be unreasonable considering the fit and finish of the components. The pricing of Powermacs is in line with Opteron and Xeon workstations, but is generally quieter.
The Powermac's case uses 1/8" thick aluminum sheet for the side plates, 3/32" thick between them. Heck, even the Mac mini uses a pound of aluminum. The components inside these things look top-notch to me, without the corner cutting known to the budget PC industry.
I think that five of the ten wealthiest alums from the college I went were actually drop outs. The only reason they are considered alums is because the college has a weasel definition: if you pass one semester, you are an alum.
In general, it's not a good idea, but there do exist people whose skills may be stifled
Definitely not the Rolls-Royce of computing.
I don't think anyone implied that. I would call the $300 PC the "authentic replica Rolex" of computing.
I've only heard it on Armageddon, I don't remember the guy's name
I personally don't think the battery being somewhat difficult to replace really is a problem if the chore only has to be done every two or three years. It's not that hard to get into.
I think it is more laughable that people that pride themselves in having the "uber skill" of "building" computers have such a hard time getting into such a simple case as the iPod. Not having exposed screws doesn't make it a difficult to disassemble object. If you want my unvarnished opinion, it keeps out the people that shouldn't be inside it in the first place, lacking adequate resourcefulness and all.
For the record, I don't care about open source if the program works. I use both pay-for commercial and open source software, depending on what I personally determine for myself to be the best solution for the given task. There is a time for ideals, but there is a time for reality too. Most of the apps I do use on OS X happen to be free & open.
BTX isn't being widely adopted because it doesn't show enough benefit vs. the ATX family of standards. I'm more convinced that a modified ATX could be made as ATX 3.0 with standard ATX bolt patterns would be better for the industry as ATX 3.0 than BTX will be.
BTX does make useful changes, just none that merit a completely new standard, IMO.
Going to BTX means redoing a lot of the stock case tooling, at least a LOT more than a hypothetical ATX 3.0 would do.
If it's twice as many packets, that's doubling the workload!
Now you have both typing and and conversational math. You will go far.
Slashdot used to be a OS advocacy site for Linux. Now, Slashdot is an OS advocacy site for Apple. Of course you should care.
I guess Intergraph didn't invent it. It dates back to the 50's. Intergraph happened to have a patent on some part of the technique, Intel infringed and had to pay up big time after a suit.
Debian isn't helpful if it remains being hopelessly obsolete. Sorry, but when I find that I need software three revisions old, and the latest Debian only supports the version four revisions old, I get disappointed.
Hyperthreading isn't necessarily a kludge. It works very well and is often well worth the sliver of a die to implement, so long as the operating system knows the difference. It was never intended to be a replacement for a full dual processor system, I don't think it was ever sold as such.
It isn't Intel's technology either, Intergraph invented it, although Hyperthreading (TM) is Intel's branding of the idea. Alphas were supposed to get it, maybe EV7 has it, I'm not sure, it might have been something suposed to go into EV8.
Game software will eventually take advantage of multiple cores. I doubt Microsoft would be paying for a three core PPC for XBox2 if it didn't make a worthwhile difference.
Making CPUs that run at a higher clock is proving to be prohibitive, so other means must be used to take advantage of extra transistors. I personally would prefer a slightly wider issue single CPU core, but the benefits go down, adds a lot of complexity, and that doesn't use many more transistors.
Microsoft has said several times that one CPU package == one CPU for the purposes of licencing. They said this for hyperthreading and dual core, both still count as only one CPU. Windows XP will show four CPUs on a dual Xeon system if hyperthreading is on, and it will run.
I don't think an extra two drives will be a significant problem, being that hard drives often dissipate about 10W each, a drop compared to the CPU heat.
There are commercial kits for adding drives that do this better.
I wonder if the transition to desktop versions of Intel's dual core Yonah chips will allow for better thermal management and more space for expansion.
One major main reason the cooling system for the G5s is so huge is that the G5s are very power hungry and run hot. I bought a dual 2.5 G5 and the amount of heat flowing from it noticably flows out from under the desk. I'm second guessing the choice of buying this thing vs. a 20" iMac especially as the heat of summer is going up. My Xeon workstations have considerably more expansion capabilities, are reasonably quiet and don't seem to pump out as much heat, too bad I don't care much for Windows or Linux anymore.
One thing of contention now is, when all desktop CPUs go dual core, will Apple have to use two of them for their high end Macs, for four processors?
So you are going to both exterminate emacs users and take down the vi fanboys? So you must be a user of one of those newfangled "other" editors?
You don't necessarily need to switch the sets to take advantage of ATSC, hopefully set-top tuners will be much cheaper.
In all likelyhood, you will get clearer reception because ghosting and static aren't a factor. Also, ATSC bitstreams can be split into as many as four standard definition streams, some stations have 24 hour weather on one of those sub channels. As a Michigan resident, I even saw a speech by Mr. Governator talking about his plans on education.
I have a 27" 4:3 NTSC CRT set that properly displays 16:9 anamorphic image, it will display all 480 visibe scan lines in a squeezed vertical space, making the image a true 16:9 with black bars. It was pretty common starting about 2000 or so.