Then I'm screwed, I bought mine second hand several years ago. It does have a bad backup capacitor, I lost my data twice this year and had to go to a backup synch.
I dunno, I think that Muvo is ugly. I would much prefer m:robe's designs, which I think are the best looking on the market.
iPod batteries ARE replacible. There are several replacement kits out there, and most of them include tools to do it. Googling iPod battery shows lots of ads. A reputable dealer off the top of my head is Other World Computing, there are a few other reputable dealers.
I really don't think iPods are fragile. I dropped my U2 iPod four feet onto concrete TWICE and it's still working great. I've seen plenty of competitor's products that are broken just from sitting on the display shelves being handled by prospective customers.
I don't think it makes sense to switch to a new arch yet, or even add one. Developers for the Mac platform had had some rocky times, with plenty of them dropping in favor of PC.
I wouldn't want to emulate a program tuned for Gx processors.
Plenty of other Intel chips have potential in the Mac line. Heck, there is an AMD chip or two in the Power Mac G5s. Intel makes flash ROM chips, wireless and wired networking chips, lots of PCI-X stuff (one PCI-X hub chip is in Xserve G5), PCIe chips and so on. Also, Intel has a lot of fab technologies. Apple might possibly get the rights to have Intel fab G5s, if it is true that IBM's fab is having trouble supplying chips in volumes that Apple needs, or fab any other chip for that matter, including custom chips.
So more Intel chips could be in more Macs, and it doesn't have to be the CPU.
Xscale is Intel's ARM offering, used in Palm and Pocket PCs if I recall, which might make a good Newton re-entry or a specialized Tablet Mac, though I'd prefer a PPC chip and keep the ability to run current OS X software.
Some of it is bad design. I have a cell phone that lasts nearly two weeks, and I never turn it off. And it isn't a battery with a phone attached, the battery only comprises 1/5 of the size and weight.
I don't think the Ask Slashdot feature was the way to go, not for your reason but because the need and use wasn't well explained, and it was for a very niche application. From what I gather, it looks like a special-use monitor for a special need.
How does this vapor supercomputing box compare to real hardware, such as a Blue Gene node, which is a big pile of interconnected custom PPC chips, all in a box already the size of a 30" TV?
Uh, right now, America's most ardent enemies are small fries. Frankly, al Queda is a small fry. They need to be chased down and prosecuted for their deeds, yes, but they simply don't have sufficient resources to be a threat to the U.S.'s space assets. If we do continue too far, then we'll get bigger enemies.
I'd rather it be an alliance, somewhat like NATO, that protects access to space than a unilateral effort. The "go it alone" attitude doesn't get far, eventually the others will band to try to balance this power, wasting money all around.
I agree, most of my PCs are actually second hand. I have never bought a brand-new fully assembled PC, and have assembled a new PC from new parts only once (though upgraded using new parts considerably more often). Many of my purchases were used or refurbished workstations and have been rock-solid reliable despite running Windows.
I bought my mini new, though the PowerMac is refurbed. Generally, the cost of used Macs isn't worth it, refurbs are better deals IMO. I've seen listings for 1GHz G4 iMacs for $800 or so. Sorry, not when I can get a refurbed G5 1.6 or 1.8GHz iMac with the latest OS, a warranty and such for slightly more.
As slow as the bus is, the mini is actually pretty capable. I have managed to get a 1.25GHz mini to play 1080i HDV footage to a 2048x1536 screen, and I didn't notice any dropped frames. This was using VLC. It won't play HD H.264 though.
I've read all the docs and specification PDFs that were released when BTX was announced. I still contend that the BTX form factor is unnecessary.
For one, it was designed such to accomodate Intel's excessively power wasteful chips that aren't proving to be worth the power they waste.
For another, most of the changes to accomodate these wasteful chips could have been done as simple tweaks of ATX, call it ATX 3.0. Without having to contend with nearly so much of a change, ATX 3.0 cases could still have housed ATX 2.0 boards. ATX 2.0 case designs would have only needed a few changes to work. Granted, ATX 3 boards might not work so well in ATX 2 cases because the older cases wouldn't have the necessary mount points to take the stress of the extra heatsink weight.
PicoBTX is nice but given the acceptance of the small form factor ATX systems, I don't see how picoBTX is different enough to be more accepted.
Anyway, what legal systems consider termination to be a reasonable choice? Do they actually spell out different reasons for abortion?
In the US, "the sky is blue" is a sufficient reason for abortion. Even in the cases where activists tried to force a "no abortions unless the health is threatened" clause, mental hardship is a common way to get one anyway.
Now, maybe a high chance of some disorder might get some compensation for the procedure.
Road access is not, never has been, and should not be considered a basic public service. Think of how the gom't could restrict where we go!
Anyhoo;
There is nothing that requires internet service to be free, like municipal water, electricity sewage, and garbage services, they can be pay-for services. For these though, in most cases it is either government operation or a private monopoly.
I see this as just another alternative vs. the cable and telco duopoly.
The people that actually get inside of computers is actually a very small niche, and has been for decades. The number of people that have to have a high end machine has been small as well.
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Then I'm screwed, I bought mine second hand several years ago. It does have a bad backup capacitor, I lost my data twice this year and had to go to a backup synch.
I dunno, I think that Muvo is ugly. I would much prefer m:robe's designs, which I think are the best looking on the market.
iPod batteries ARE replacible. There are several replacement kits out there, and most of them include tools to do it. Googling iPod battery shows lots of ads. A reputable dealer off the top of my head is Other World Computing, there are a few other reputable dealers.
I really don't think iPods are fragile. I dropped my U2 iPod four feet onto concrete TWICE and it's still working great. I've seen plenty of competitor's products that are broken just from sitting on the display shelves being handled by prospective customers.
OS X wasn't released every few months. There were about 18 months between 10.3 and 10.4. The intervals between 10.0 to 10.1, .2 and .3 was about a year.
I don't think it makes sense to switch to a new arch yet, or even add one. Developers for the Mac platform had had some rocky times, with plenty of them dropping in favor of PC.
I wouldn't want to emulate a program tuned for Gx processors.
Plenty of other Intel chips have potential in the Mac line. Heck, there is an AMD chip or two in the Power Mac G5s. Intel makes flash ROM chips, wireless and wired networking chips, lots of PCI-X stuff (one PCI-X hub chip is in Xserve G5), PCIe chips and so on. Also, Intel has a lot of fab technologies. Apple might possibly get the rights to have Intel fab G5s, if it is true that IBM's fab is having trouble supplying chips in volumes that Apple needs, or fab any other chip for that matter, including custom chips.
So more Intel chips could be in more Macs, and it doesn't have to be the CPU.
Xscale is Intel's ARM offering, used in Palm and Pocket PCs if I recall, which might make a good Newton re-entry or a specialized Tablet Mac, though I'd prefer a PPC chip and keep the ability to run current OS X software.
The real question is:
Is the dual core Intel product multi die or single die?
I'd read the article, but the server hosting the horrible article is down.
Real talk time, they claim 90 minutes a charge.
When I use the phone, a few 1-2 min calls a day, I can go a week between charges. On a slow month, I charge twice a month.
It is a Sanyo SCP-4900. It's not even available anymore, I'm not even sure what the successor model is.
I don't understand how the DMCA covers abusing copyright on its own. I thought it was about breaking encryption.
Some of it is bad design. I have a cell phone that lasts nearly two weeks, and I never turn it off. And it isn't a battery with a phone attached, the battery only comprises 1/5 of the size and weight.
I don't think the Ask Slashdot feature was the way to go, not for your reason but because the need and use wasn't well explained, and it was for a very niche application. From what I gather, it looks like a special-use monitor for a special need.
I thought LCDs could achieve a higher resolution. There is a 22" 200ppi LCD that is something like 4000x2500 resolution, sold by IBM and Viewsonic.
Granted, I don't know what sort of specialized use this is, if it uses uncommon technologies.
How does this vapor supercomputing box compare to real hardware, such as a Blue Gene node, which is a big pile of interconnected custom PPC chips, all in a box already the size of a 30" TV?
Uh, right now, America's most ardent enemies are small fries. Frankly, al Queda is a small fry. They need to be chased down and prosecuted for their deeds, yes, but they simply don't have sufficient resources to be a threat to the U.S.'s space assets. If we do continue too far, then we'll get bigger enemies.
I'd rather it be an alliance, somewhat like NATO, that protects access to space than a unilateral effort. The "go it alone" attitude doesn't get far, eventually the others will band to try to balance this power, wasting money all around.
There hasn't been much video game innovation lately anyway.
I wonder what fraction of open source coders *really* are Americans?
Why is it that people think Intel is doing the copying when it is AOpen that is doing it?
I agree, most of my PCs are actually second hand. I have never bought a brand-new fully assembled PC, and have assembled a new PC from new parts only once (though upgraded using new parts considerably more often). Many of my purchases were used or refurbished workstations and have been rock-solid reliable despite running Windows.
I bought my mini new, though the PowerMac is refurbed. Generally, the cost of used Macs isn't worth it, refurbs are better deals IMO. I've seen listings for 1GHz G4 iMacs for $800 or so. Sorry, not when I can get a refurbed G5 1.6 or 1.8GHz iMac with the latest OS, a warranty and such for slightly more.
As slow as the bus is, the mini is actually pretty capable. I have managed to get a 1.25GHz mini to play 1080i HDV footage to a 2048x1536 screen, and I didn't notice any dropped frames. This was using VLC. It won't play HD H.264 though.
True, humans aren't necessarily the greatest cause of climate chage.
On the flip side, I don't believe for a minute that human activity as a whole doesn't have long term consequences.
I think there must be a balance of considerations between the two.
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I've read all the docs and specification PDFs that were released when BTX was announced. I still contend that the BTX form factor is unnecessary.
For one, it was designed such to accomodate Intel's excessively power wasteful chips that aren't proving to be worth the power they waste.
For another, most of the changes to accomodate these wasteful chips could have been done as simple tweaks of ATX, call it ATX 3.0. Without having to contend with nearly so much of a change, ATX 3.0 cases could still have housed ATX 2.0 boards. ATX 2.0 case designs would have only needed a few changes to work. Granted, ATX 3 boards might not work so well in ATX 2 cases because the older cases wouldn't have the necessary mount points to take the stress of the extra heatsink weight.
PicoBTX is nice but given the acceptance of the small form factor ATX systems, I don't see how picoBTX is different enough to be more accepted.
Anyway, what legal systems consider termination to be a reasonable choice? Do they actually spell out different reasons for abortion?
In the US, "the sky is blue" is a sufficient reason for abortion. Even in the cases where activists tried to force a "no abortions unless the health is threatened" clause, mental hardship is a common way to get one anyway.
Now, maybe a high chance of some disorder might get some compensation for the procedure.
It turns out that all the Earth Alpha versions kept spitting an answer, being "42", but never saying what the question was.
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Road access is not, never has been, and should not be considered a basic public service. Think of how the gom't could restrict where we go!
Anyhoo;
There is nothing that requires internet service to be free, like municipal water, electricity sewage, and garbage services, they can be pay-for services. For these though, in most cases it is either government operation or a private monopoly.
I see this as just another alternative vs. the cable and telco duopoly.
The people that actually get inside of computers is actually a very small niche, and has been for decades. The number of people that have to have a high end machine has been small as well.
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