I've never seen anything that said the older games wouldn't work, and it really doesn't make sense, as I thought GBA was a 16 bit superset of the GB instructions.
SGI and Cray have been working on I2 systems for at least a year or two before Opteron was released. People dismiss Itanium2 but it does perform pretty well, much better than the original Itanium.
I think Itanium has some features not available in Opteron. One I know for sure is available lock-stepping for extra fault tolerance, according to an AMD engineer I asked, AMD has no plans for it.
Some people actually like Paypal. Maybe you'd like to accuse iPod lovers of astroturfing? Linksys / Cisco lovers? Or is astroturfing reserved for groups on slashdot whose opinion are a minority? There's a lot of brand loyalty on slashdot, despite the air of anti-corporatism.
This page raises some good possible issues about at least one anti-paypal site, and shows that some claims against paypal payments are also true of many other forms of payment:
I had seen something almost like this. The reason I say almost is that much of the mechanicals were practically identical. The difference was that while the main electronics board looked very similar, the differences were a lot more than just a few jumpers. And somehow, one really did work better than the other, partly in the tuner, and partly in the playback quality. There might be lesser grade components on board assembly, like wider tolerances allowed on caps and resistors of one versus the other.
ECC memory is vital for servers as you can't afford to be swapping memory modules in and out of a production server in an attempt to track down a problem.
The support is definitely a reason for businesses to pay more.
ECC is something necessary not just for the reason you state, but because bits do flip at random. IIRC, even the top rated brands might experience a bit flip per gig per week or higher. It is insignificant for gamer machines, but that is bad for servers.
I have seen two dual processor capable systems operate with only two fans. I kid you not.
One is a Compaq Evo W6000, capable of up to two 2.8GHz Xeon chips. There is one fan in the power supply, another on the exhaust side of a fan duct that joins like a "Y". The fan duct also has gaps around the chipset heatsink, so it too gets forced air.
The other is a Compaq SP700, capable of up to two 550MHz Xeon CPUs. There is one 12cm fan on the intake of the power supply, and another 12cm fan that forces air inbetween two processors with their heat sinks back-to back.
Both systems are pretty quiet. People rave about Shuttle's quiet little cubes, but I don't know why. They use a nice heat pipe system but then attach a racket of a fan to the other end of the heat pipe.
Isn't share price kind of irrelevant when one can buy and own fractional shares? In the end, the per share dividend is relative, you should get the same money in dividends if you owned a company 10 shares at $100 or 100 shares at $10, assuming the number of shares scales such that you still own the same fraction of the company.
In the end, the only difference share price makes is the perception of fools.
I don't understand why these groups are allowed to give away items by "value" rather than being required to drop cash. I'm pretty sure that those CDs aren't worth $15 but will probably be charged against the settlement to the tune of $18 because of the suggested retail price.
I wonder if this information would aid plotters. I remember hearing of one person that was prevented from getting his 6th straight win because someone attacked him. Now it would be easier for people to know where to go to attack their favorite rider's opponent.
Head-related transfer functions only works on one person at a time, and falls apart if the listener is looking in a direction not expected by the mix.
People keep arguing that only stereo + sub is necessary, but almost always, they completely forget that is only for the small group that is sitting in the sweet spot, which is usually only a few percent of the room's floor area. Some people watch alone or with a very small crowd, but it falls apart the closer you fill the room. 5.1 allows people to be seated in a far larger percentage of the room's area.
They don't say what type of cabinet these speakers will have? I imagine that dozens of coils could fit in a plane- type enclosure, in an array. So you might only have to fit five or six enclosures, hung on the wall like picture frames. One of the pictures seems to bear this out, it does look like flat arrays.
Clusters more often need high bandwidth, low latency. I don't know if 10Gb fixes the latency concerns of gigabit.
The typical trend is that the fastest links are sparingly used as interconnects in the server rooms, and those links gradually filter out to the rest of the servers, then to the desktop as the need arises. It was that way with ethernet, 10Mb, 100Mb, gigabit and eventually with 10Gb.
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I don't use a command prompt and I don't ask anyone else to either.
I don't think your analogy fits, because you've never seen people go on domestic v. import, GM v. Ford v. Chrysler arguments. Or carburetor v. fuel injection. FWD v. RWD v. AWD. And some people believe that SUVs are safer, yet federal crash statistics don't bear this out, minivans are safer, quite a bit more so too. There's all kinds of idiotic arguments that car nuts get into.
People don't complain about how auto technology is so bad even when their car is in the shop, but they do when someone has to checkup their computer.
Why do people complain about how hard it is to program a VCR clock? While some interfaces are a bit arcane, if they can't fathom how to read the freaking manual (not like I need one personally) then there's a problem.
And yes, I can handle an exhaust manifold. I am pretty sure I can rebuild an engine provided I have the service manual. The transmission I'd generally leave to professionals though.
I believe the government is being wasteful enough as it is.
Criminalizing civil offences for the MPAA, RIAA and SPA. I bet there are a lot of people drawing from the welfare programs fraudulently, but that doesn't seem to be checked. The military is being given equipment it doesn't want or need, because of pork barrel. The USA does not need to be stockpiling helium. There are too many middlemen and odd certifications required in government purchasing. The government doesn't need to be paying $1000 for a single hammer, among other things.
Just a few examples of waste that can be cleaned up should someone find the will and the way to fund everything properly.
Perhaps a poor example, since all current Airport Extreme models have an external antenna connector...
Apparently, it is still up to Apple to certify the device for use with an external antenna. Just because it is there, doesn't mean it is legal to use it for an antenna with a gain higher than what Apple certified it with. I'm not even sure if there is a way to get a third party to certify the AE with an antenna.
What I've seen elsewhere is that unlicenced doesn't mean unregulated.
I do wish there was some easier way to get things done. If only Linksys is allowed to certify Linksys components, then where does that leave owners of Linksys products if they decide not to certify antennas of decent gains? They just released 7dB antennas for their products, which isn't enough in my opinion.
I don't mind ATMs but one thing that does bug me is the progression to self-scan lanes in stores. It looks like a poor excuse to dump cashiers, and the systems are slower too. Four self-scan lanes seem to barely keep up with two cashiers, and still require intervention and supervision by at least one person. It seems like an effort to skimp on minimum wage work backfired, but still, I try to avoid going to stores that try to squeeze out another job by replacing it with bad service and an insulting and tedious self-scan system.
I would guess that 20s are a nice intermediate denomination. It probably keeps the machines mechanically simpler. If you try to get too cute, extra mechanical complexity can bite the maintainer and owners in terms of cost and time wasted, and cause more problems than the extra little convenienve solves.
I'd say, just take the extra money. For me, the minimum flat fee bites, so it's not worth taking out less than $20 anyway, and for an amount like $75, you may just as well take the extra, you'll find a use for the extra $5 soon enough, or something comes up that you didn't expect.
I avoid using those things because of the fees. I can keep my money in a bigger bank so I am more likely to avoid the fees, but the disadvantage of much poorer customer service outweighs the reduction of ATM fees.
The problem is that creationism is pseudo-science, often by people trying to "prove" their religion, or trying to find a way to squeak in religion edgewise as a subject legitimately teachable in public schools.
For one, one does not read a book intended for spiritual enlightenment as a history book. That is the using-a-saw-as-a-hammer approach, such that its usefulness is somewhat limited because that is outside the scope of the texts. Have you ever tried to read about the complete history of Nevada in a book about the WW II nuclear programs? It majorly falls short.
Many of the same people read far too literally into such texts, particularly concerning the creation accounts, of which there are at least two accounts in the Hebrew Torah. Both are conflicting accounts, if you take them literally. If one says one is literal, the other non-literal, then you have an argument on which one is literal.
The people that try to claim that the earth is young and claim that is provable now, either are lying, are ignorant or couldn't pass a decent set of college science and math classes such as calculus, statistics, geology and second-year chemistry, because they pass off "facts" that seem to contradict some basic experiments I've done. Some try to make up some BS theories on radiation, but there are greater holes in those theories than they claim are in old-earth and evolution theories.
But this monkey likely tells us nothing about either theory.
France has the Mirage series if fighters and lots of other aircraft. I have a book outlining the airforces of many of the world's powers, and counted fourty different kinds of aircraft still in service.
They build the Exocet missiles, the kind sold to Persian Gulf, such as the one that hit one of the U.S. navy ships in the 90's. They are a pretty big exporter of military technology, which I think is one of the reasons they objected to intervention with Iraq because their companies did a lot of business with the Hussein government and wanted their cozy business arrangements back.
They also have nuclear weapons, and have tested them over the objections of Greenpeace.
I think every EU nation with water borders has a navy.
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I've never seen anything that said the older games wouldn't work, and it really doesn't make sense, as I thought GBA was a 16 bit superset of the GB instructions.
SGI and Cray have been working on I2 systems for at least a year or two before Opteron was released. People dismiss Itanium2 but it does perform pretty well, much better than the original Itanium.
I think Itanium has some features not available in Opteron. One I know for sure is available lock-stepping for extra fault tolerance, according to an AMD engineer I asked, AMD has no plans for it.
Some people actually like Paypal. Maybe you'd like to accuse iPod lovers of astroturfing? Linksys / Cisco lovers? Or is astroturfing reserved for groups on slashdot whose opinion are a minority? There's a lot of brand loyalty on slashdot, despite the air of anti-corporatism.
This page raises some good possible issues about at least one anti-paypal site, and shows that some claims against paypal payments are also true of many other forms of payment:
Adzooks: Paypal ain't my buddy
I had seen something almost like this. The reason I say almost is that much of the mechanicals were practically identical. The difference was that while the main electronics board looked very similar, the differences were a lot more than just a few jumpers. And somehow, one really did work better than the other, partly in the tuner, and partly in the playback quality. There might be lesser grade components on board assembly, like wider tolerances allowed on caps and resistors of one versus the other.
ECC memory is vital for servers as you can't afford to be swapping memory modules in and out of a production server in an attempt to track down a problem.
The support is definitely a reason for businesses to pay more.
ECC is something necessary not just for the reason you state, but because bits do flip at random. IIRC, even the top rated brands might experience a bit flip per gig per week or higher. It is insignificant for gamer machines, but that is bad for servers.
I have seen two dual processor capable systems operate with only two fans. I kid you not.
One is a Compaq Evo W6000, capable of up to two 2.8GHz Xeon chips. There is one fan in the power supply, another on the exhaust side of a fan duct that joins like a "Y". The fan duct also has gaps around the chipset heatsink, so it too gets forced air.
The other is a Compaq SP700, capable of up to two 550MHz Xeon CPUs. There is one 12cm fan on the intake of the power supply, and another 12cm fan that forces air inbetween two processors with their heat sinks back-to back.
Both systems are pretty quiet. People rave about Shuttle's quiet little cubes, but I don't know why. They use a nice heat pipe system but then attach a racket of a fan to the other end of the heat pipe.
I'd have to think that hiding company data from your major owners takes some balls.
If I owned a business, I know I wouldn't appreciate the people operating it hiding all the details I ask for.
Isn't share price kind of irrelevant when one can buy and own fractional shares? In the end, the per share dividend is relative, you should get the same money in dividends if you owned a company 10 shares at $100 or 100 shares at $10, assuming the number of shares scales such that you still own the same fraction of the company.
In the end, the only difference share price makes is the perception of fools.
Plus my phone gets battery life measured in days rather than hours.
Funny you mention that. My phone, a Sanyo SCP-4900, goes 7 to 9 days on a single charge, and I never turn it off, I usually forget to do that.
I replace the batteries on my Palm m100 maybe twice a year, and they are AAA alkalines.
To judge usability, you actually have to evaluate the product as used by the target audience.
I'm sure the judges don't want the necessary lobotomies in order to do that.
"What does this button labeled 'menu' do, does it give you a list of things you can do?".
I don't understand why these groups are allowed to give away items by "value" rather than being required to drop cash. I'm pretty sure that those CDs aren't worth $15 but will probably be charged against the settlement to the tune of $18 because of the suggested retail price.
I wonder if this information would aid plotters. I remember hearing of one person that was prevented from getting his 6th straight win because someone attacked him. Now it would be easier for people to know where to go to attack their favorite rider's opponent.
Head-related transfer functions only works on one person at a time, and falls apart if the listener is looking in a direction not expected by the mix.
People keep arguing that only stereo + sub is necessary, but almost always, they completely forget that is only for the small group that is sitting in the sweet spot, which is usually only a few percent of the room's floor area. Some people watch alone or with a very small crowd, but it falls apart the closer you fill the room. 5.1 allows people to be seated in a far larger percentage of the room's area.
They don't say what type of cabinet these speakers will have? I imagine that dozens of coils could fit in a plane- type enclosure, in an array. So you might only have to fit five or six enclosures, hung on the wall like picture frames. One of the pictures seems to bear this out, it does look like flat arrays.
Clusters more often need high bandwidth, low latency. I don't know if 10Gb fixes the latency concerns of gigabit.
The typical trend is that the fastest links are sparingly used as interconnects in the server rooms, and those links gradually filter out to the rest of the servers, then to the desktop as the need arises. It was that way with ethernet, 10Mb, 100Mb, gigabit and eventually with 10Gb.
I don't use a command prompt and I don't ask anyone else to either.
I don't think your analogy fits, because you've never seen people go on domestic v. import, GM v. Ford v. Chrysler arguments. Or carburetor v. fuel injection. FWD v. RWD v. AWD. And some people believe that SUVs are safer, yet federal crash statistics don't bear this out, minivans are safer, quite a bit more so too. There's all kinds of idiotic arguments that car nuts get into.
People don't complain about how auto technology is so bad even when their car is in the shop, but they do when someone has to checkup their computer.
Why do people complain about how hard it is to program a VCR clock? While some interfaces are a bit arcane, if they can't fathom how to read the freaking manual (not like I need one personally) then there's a problem.
And yes, I can handle an exhaust manifold. I am pretty sure I can rebuild an engine provided I have the service manual. The transmission I'd generally leave to professionals though.
I believe the government is being wasteful enough as it is.
Criminalizing civil offences for the MPAA, RIAA and SPA. I bet there are a lot of people drawing from the welfare programs fraudulently, but that doesn't seem to be checked. The military is being given equipment it doesn't want or need, because of pork barrel. The USA does not need to be stockpiling helium. There are too many middlemen and odd certifications required in government purchasing. The government doesn't need to be paying $1000 for a single hammer, among other things.
Just a few examples of waste that can be cleaned up should someone find the will and the way to fund everything properly.
Perhaps a poor example, since all current Airport Extreme models have an external antenna connector...
Apparently, it is still up to Apple to certify the device for use with an external antenna. Just because it is there, doesn't mean it is legal to use it for an antenna with a gain higher than what Apple certified it with. I'm not even sure if there is a way to get a third party to certify the AE with an antenna.
What I've seen elsewhere is that unlicenced doesn't mean unregulated.
I do wish there was some easier way to get things done. If only Linksys is allowed to certify Linksys components, then where does that leave owners of Linksys products if they decide not to certify antennas of decent gains? They just released 7dB antennas for their products, which isn't enough in my opinion.
I thought those connectors were old standards.
Have you not found adaptor pigtails? It's not that hard.
I don't mind ATMs but one thing that does bug me is the progression to self-scan lanes in stores. It looks like a poor excuse to dump cashiers, and the systems are slower too. Four self-scan lanes seem to barely keep up with two cashiers, and still require intervention and supervision by at least one person. It seems like an effort to skimp on minimum wage work backfired, but still, I try to avoid going to stores that try to squeeze out another job by replacing it with bad service and an insulting and tedious self-scan system.
I would guess that 20s are a nice intermediate denomination. It probably keeps the machines mechanically simpler. If you try to get too cute, extra mechanical complexity can bite the maintainer and owners in terms of cost and time wasted, and cause more problems than the extra little convenienve solves.
I'd say, just take the extra money. For me, the minimum flat fee bites, so it's not worth taking out less than $20 anyway, and for an amount like $75, you may just as well take the extra, you'll find a use for the extra $5 soon enough, or something comes up that you didn't expect.
I avoid using those things because of the fees. I can keep my money in a bigger bank so I am more likely to avoid the fees, but the disadvantage of much poorer customer service outweighs the reduction of ATM fees.
I thought Dells running Linux costed more than Windows, at least that was the case when I last checked several months ago.
The problem is that creationism is pseudo-science, often by people trying to "prove" their religion, or trying to find a way to squeak in religion edgewise as a subject legitimately teachable in public schools.
For one, one does not read a book intended for spiritual enlightenment as a history book. That is the using-a-saw-as-a-hammer approach, such that its usefulness is somewhat limited because that is outside the scope of the texts. Have you ever tried to read about the complete history of Nevada in a book about the WW II nuclear programs? It majorly falls short.
Many of the same people read far too literally into such texts, particularly concerning the creation accounts, of which there are at least two accounts in the Hebrew Torah. Both are conflicting accounts, if you take them literally. If one says one is literal, the other non-literal, then you have an argument on which one is literal.
The people that try to claim that the earth is young and claim that is provable now, either are lying, are ignorant or couldn't pass a decent set of college science and math classes such as calculus, statistics, geology and second-year chemistry, because they pass off "facts" that seem to contradict some basic experiments I've done. Some try to make up some BS theories on radiation, but there are greater holes in those theories than they claim are in old-earth and evolution theories.
But this monkey likely tells us nothing about either theory.
France has the Mirage series if fighters and lots of other aircraft. I have a book outlining the airforces of many of the world's powers, and counted fourty different kinds of aircraft still in service.
They build the Exocet missiles, the kind sold to Persian Gulf, such as the one that hit one of the U.S. navy ships in the 90's. They are a pretty big exporter of military technology, which I think is one of the reasons they objected to intervention with Iraq because their companies did a lot of business with the Hussein government and wanted their cozy business arrangements back.
They also have nuclear weapons, and have tested them over the objections of Greenpeace.
I think every EU nation with water borders has a navy.