On the second page of the article it says: a pile of 500 computers contains 717kg of lead, 1.36kg of cadmium, 863 grams of chromium and 287 grams of mercury . So where is my PC hiding that almost 1.5kg (about 3 pounds) of lead??
OK, I have moderator points, but since there's no (-1, read it!) moderation, let me direct you to the "500" number. Together, 500 of the things have that amount of those metals.
Chances are, the lead comes from the solder, mercury comes from the batteries, and chromium is probably all over the thing.
It's been more than 10 years since I've read 1984, so my details aren't there...
I remember that the war they were constantly in consisted of moving goods and material to an area where the opposing side bombed them. No casualities so the war maintained public support. The war also provided economic stimulus because factory output had to be increased to replaced the destroyed material.
I'm going to have to disagree with this one... I can't count on 2 hands how many times I've heard "now if you had a BS degree..." Nevermind that I've been doing CS-type of things for some time now. They seemed to be hung up on the "...of science" portion.
To be fair, my fine arts degree (computer arts, mind you) hasn't stopped me from getting a job from people with whom I've worked in the past. It's just resume checklists I have problems with.
Let them get colors right on LCDs before they completely replace CRTs.
Ever try to do color work on an LCD? It sucks. Colors change depending on viewing angle, and the viewing angle difference between the center of the screen and the edge is enough to change the color and luminance signifigantly. So chances are, you have your color pallete on the edge of the screen... Pick a color and use it in the center of the screen, and it appears to be a different color! Arrgh!
I do admit that if you're coding or staring at spreadsheets all day, you can't beat an LCD. In fact, I'm using one now, but when I have to use photoshop, and especially if it's something that I have to print, I find a good CRT-equipped computer.
Why not incorporate any of the Voyager or DS9 cast? I think the Voyager cast is best used in an odd-numbered episode.
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And while I suppose the handrails are required by local building codes
Around here, any footbridge that goes over a roadway is completely enclosed. If they didn't do that, at least once every year, some kids would drop bricks or something on cars as passed under. Some people were killed on the Autobahn like this a few years ago. Brick goes through windshield at 160kph...
What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
99.9% of Afghan casualties reported by our stinkin mainstream media are civilian. Not the same thing as the actual percentage. Just one more thing that pisses me off.
I'm so glad that someone sees the perspective on this matter. Someone above said something to the effect that more baby afghans have died than Americans have died of anthrax. This is such a load of horseshit. Six-thousand of our people died on 9/11. Why don't their deaths have meaning to these people? Grr.
Those problems you list were mostly fixed by the Newton 2000 series, released in like 1996!
*poor battery life
Well, yeah. Compared to a Palm. It lasted long enough for me, it's not like it died before the day was over.
*WAY too big
Yep, not pocket sized. But if you thought of it as a laptop replacement (which the 2000s pretty much were in 1996) they weren't too bad. But the large size was also a feature. It had a huge screen for a PDA, and you can write/draw all over the entire thing.
*slow as Hell
Not the 2000/2100s. 162MHz (this is 1996, remember?) StrongARM RISC processor. 8MB of RAM. Handwriting recognition happened instantly.
*crappy handwriting recognition
I have the worst doctor/childlike handwriting in the world. It was so bad that it almost flunked me out of high school (funny it didn't matter in college) The Newton 2000 and 2100 could read anything and everything I wrote. This was with the out of the box software, not 3rd party.
Bringing this back on topic: I am somewhat disappointed that Apple didn't release the second coming of Newton. If they wanted to, they could make an insanely great PDA with the advances in LCD battery and processor technolgy. But I suppose the marketplace for that sort of thing doesn't look so great considering Palm's troubles.
FWIW (which is next to nothin at the moment) NAI's PGP was being ported to MacOSX. Sorry, I don't have any links, the info came from our network guy who asked NAI about it.
the FP is a separate execution unit from the altivec unit. So when you're doing FP, the altivec isn't touched. Much the same way that when you're doing integer, your FP unit isn't touched.
On my G4, altivec is rarely used, (unless I'm using certain photoshop filters, cleaner or a couple of other apps) I swear I could remove it and I would never notice it's absense. I spend all my time waiting for I/O.
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It was evacuated yesterday (the 11th) with a bomb threat.
I task you to find one instance of it on a current piece of hardware. It's not there and hasn't been in a while. So long, that at work, I avoid any equipment with that logo because it's guarenteed to be old & slow.
I remember when they ditched the old one, a bunch of sales people came by with a collection of their new (at the time) NT/intel boxen and a bunch of marketing tripe. I wish I could remember their marketing department's take on the new "sgi" logo, I remember it making me want to puke. Nobody on the front lines (engineers and sales alike) liked the new look, much less explain it. Yes, I like the old one much better.
/. still uses the "bug" for sgi stories, did that confuse you?
Yeah, I got a tower like everyone else, but I still lusted after a cube. Don't get me wrong, the tower's OK (but fscking slow compared to an athlon) but when I'm using it to play MP3s or DVDs, it's still not quiet enough. It doesn't help that I filled it with HDs.
I'm kinda sensitive to computer noise, I realized how sick of it I was when the power went out at work and every baracuda HD spun down. Silence! It was great! I want more!
Another point: An athlon would have to live out on my balcony.
OK, let's see you enter a corner at 45MPH and pull off a perfectly controlled 4-wheel drift with your POS pickup. OK, now do it while averaging 29 MPG. I can do that with my Beemer. The BMW wasn't designed as a battering ram, or even a status symbol. They are driving machines that beg the driver to flog them more, harder, more harder! (sorry getting carried away.) Some yuppie scum see a high price tag and don't hear the car's requests for a day at the track . Oh well.
BMW is a good automotive parallel to Apple. Both do their own thing without having to answer to a domineering overlord. And both fill a niche that other manufacturers absolutely can't fill, no matter how hard they try.
BTW, when doing my work, I highly doubt your PC could do "the job" better than my G4. And I'd roll over a pickup truck/SUV around the first corner I attempt.
Physical injury is even a possibility. "You're dealing with a lot of heat," Blevins said. "I've had friends get third-degree burns working on their systems."
First degree burns, I can understand (I've barely gotten some once or twice) Second degree (blisters), I imagine are within the realm of possibility if you're stupid enough to touch something for too long. But third-degree burns? This is starting to sound like anti-drug propaganda! I can't believe they closed the article with that tripe!
Well since he was the actual genius who invented the Mac (not Jobs), I can cut him some slack as far as feeling he has some right to speak up. How big would anyone's ego be if they had invented the Mac. Heck, Gates, merely copied it for the most part, and look at him! [joke]
He did not invent the Mac, at least the Mac as we know it. His ideas of a UI were "out there" and not that great, IMO. To get an idea of what he wanted the Macintosh to become, look no further than his creation, the Canon Cat For those who won't follow that link, the cat was a command-line machine that was nothing more than a word processor (you remember those single-purpose "Brother" WPs?).
If he realized his ideal computer at Apple, the macintosh would have died a horrible death and/or certainly wouldn't have become the publishing/graphics professional's choice. MS certainly wouldn't have developed a decent GUI (I'm not arguing that Win is "decent, so don't start) so designers would probably be using $50,000 SGIs or X-acto blades and chartpak tape.
Do the Universities take & control & sell art professor's art?
If they did, they could kiss the faculty good-bye.
Maybe coders should consider their toils art and take a hike when threatened in this manner.
Am I understanding this correctly? Or am I being a crumudgeon here?
"For those of us with a spouse/partner: "
Are you saying that people who have a partner should be paid more just because they're partner-ed?
They actually did this in the '50s. Married men were paid more than single men who did the same work. This rationale was also used to keep (single, of course) women's wages down too. Does anyone here think this is right?
I sure hope you charged them accordingly?
I always got a perverse pleasure from client mistakes such as that. Particularly when the client tried to blame us.
If I was feeling un-Dogbert-like (as in, I liked the client, or she was cute & nice) I would futz with the PDF or (more often) PS file in a text editor and get it right.
I can say that firewire is here and it works now, beautifully. Why should I wait for manufacturers to develop and implement USB 2.0 mobos and devices? For a measly extra 80Mb/s? I'll wait for firewire to go to 800Mb/s later this year.
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I'm a Mo-ron today.
On the second page of the article it says: a pile of 500 computers contains 717kg of lead, 1.36kg of cadmium, 863 grams of chromium and 287 grams of mercury . So where is my PC hiding that almost 1.5kg (about 3 pounds) of lead??
OK, I have moderator points, but since there's no (-1, read it!) moderation, let me direct you to the "500" number. Together, 500 of the things have that amount of those metals.
Chances are, the lead comes from the solder, mercury comes from the batteries, and chromium is probably all over the thing.
It's been more than 10 years since I've read 1984, so my details aren't there...
I remember that the war they were constantly in consisted of moving goods and material to an area where the opposing side bombed them. No casualities so the war maintained public support. The war also provided economic stimulus because factory output had to be increased to replaced the destroyed material.
I'm going to have to disagree with this one... I can't count on 2 hands how many times I've heard "now if you had a BS degree..." Nevermind that I've been doing CS-type of things for some time now. They seemed to be hung up on the "...of science" portion.
To be fair, my fine arts degree (computer arts, mind you) hasn't stopped me from getting a job from people with whom I've worked in the past. It's just resume checklists I have problems with.
Can't Microsoft solve the noise problem?
No, but the government can! Write your senator/congressperson and tell them of this crime against humanity.
LCD Replacement ?
Let them first replace CRT first
Let them get colors right on LCDs before they completely replace CRTs.
Ever try to do color work on an LCD? It sucks. Colors change depending on viewing angle, and the viewing angle difference between the center of the screen and the edge is enough to change the color and luminance signifigantly. So chances are, you have your color pallete on the edge of the screen... Pick a color and use it in the center of the screen, and it appears to be a different color! Arrgh!
I do admit that if you're coding or staring at spreadsheets all day, you can't beat an LCD. In fact, I'm using one now, but when I have to use photoshop, and especially if it's something that I have to print, I find a good CRT-equipped computer.
Why not incorporate any of the Voyager or DS9 cast?
I think the Voyager cast is best used in an odd-numbered episode.
And while I suppose the handrails are required by local building codes
Around here, any footbridge that goes over a roadway is completely enclosed. If they didn't do that, at least once every year, some kids would drop bricks or something on cars as passed under. Some people were killed on the Autobahn like this a few years ago. Brick goes through windshield at 160kph...
What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
99.9% of Afghan casualties reported by our stinkin mainstream media are civilian. Not the same thing as the actual percentage. Just one more thing that pisses me off.
I'm so glad that someone sees the perspective on this matter. Someone above said something to the effect that more baby afghans have died than Americans have died of anthrax. This is such a load of horseshit. Six-thousand of our people died on 9/11. Why don't their deaths have meaning to these people? Grr.
Those problems you list were mostly fixed by the Newton 2000 series, released in like 1996!
*poor battery life
Well, yeah. Compared to a Palm. It lasted long enough for me, it's not like it died before the day was over.
*WAY too big
Yep, not pocket sized. But if you thought of it as a laptop replacement (which the 2000s pretty much were in 1996) they weren't too bad. But the large size was also a feature. It had a huge screen for a PDA, and you can write/draw all over the entire thing.
*slow as Hell
Not the 2000/2100s. 162MHz (this is 1996, remember?) StrongARM RISC processor. 8MB of RAM. Handwriting recognition happened instantly.
*crappy handwriting recognition
I have the worst doctor/childlike handwriting in the world. It was so bad that it almost flunked me out of high school (funny it didn't matter in college) The Newton 2000 and 2100 could read anything and everything I wrote. This was with the out of the box software, not 3rd party.
Bringing this back on topic: I am somewhat disappointed that Apple didn't release the second coming of Newton. If they wanted to, they could make an insanely great PDA with the advances in LCD battery and processor technolgy. But I suppose the marketplace for that sort of thing doesn't look so great considering Palm's troubles.
FWIW (which is next to nothin at the moment) NAI's PGP was being ported to MacOSX. Sorry, I don't have any links, the info came from our network guy who asked NAI about it.
the FP is a separate execution unit from the altivec unit. So when you're doing FP, the altivec isn't touched. Much the same way that when you're doing integer, your FP unit isn't touched.
On my G4, altivec is rarely used, (unless I'm using certain photoshop filters, cleaner or a couple of other apps) I swear I could remove it and I would never notice it's absense. I spend all my time waiting for I/O.
It was evacuated yesterday (the 11th) with a bomb threat.
Hmmm.
I think we found the perp.
OK. Tasteless. I apologise.
I task you to find one instance of it on a current piece of hardware. It's not there and hasn't been in a while. So long, that at work, I avoid any equipment with that logo because it's guarenteed to be old & slow.
/. still uses the "bug" for sgi stories, did that confuse you?
I remember when they ditched the old one, a bunch of sales people came by with a collection of their new (at the time) NT/intel boxen and a bunch of marketing tripe. I wish I could remember their marketing department's take on the new "sgi" logo, I remember it making me want to puke. Nobody on the front lines (engineers and sales alike) liked the new look, much less explain it. Yes, I like the old one much better.
I'm kinda sensitive to computer noise, I realized how sick of it I was when the power went out at work and every baracuda HD spun down. Silence! It was great! I want more!
Another point: An athlon would have to live out on my balcony.
OK, let's see you enter a corner at 45MPH and pull off a perfectly controlled 4-wheel drift with your POS pickup. OK, now do it while averaging 29 MPG. I can do that with my Beemer. The BMW wasn't designed as a battering ram, or even a status symbol. They are driving machines that beg the driver to flog them more, harder, more harder! (sorry getting carried away.) Some yuppie scum see a high price tag and don't hear the car's requests for a day at the track . Oh well.
BMW is a good automotive parallel to Apple. Both do their own thing without having to answer to a domineering overlord. And both fill a niche that other manufacturers absolutely can't fill, no matter how hard they try.
BTW, when doing my work, I highly doubt your PC could do "the job" better than my G4. And I'd roll over a pickup truck/SUV around the first corner I attempt.
Physical injury is even a possibility. "You're dealing with a lot of heat," Blevins said. "I've had friends get third-degree burns working on their systems."
First degree burns, I can understand (I've barely gotten some once or twice) Second degree (blisters), I imagine are within the realm of possibility if you're stupid enough to touch something for too long. But third-degree burns? This is starting to sound like anti-drug propaganda! I can't believe they closed the article with that tripe!
Well since he was the actual genius who invented the Mac (not Jobs), I can cut him some slack as far as feeling he has some right to speak up. How big would anyone's ego be if they had invented the Mac. Heck, Gates, merely copied it for the most part, and look at him! [joke]
He did not invent the Mac, at least the Mac as we know it. His ideas of a UI were "out there" and not that great, IMO. To get an idea of what he wanted the Macintosh to become, look no further than his creation, the Canon Cat For those who won't follow that link, the cat was a command-line machine that was nothing more than a word processor (you remember those single-purpose "Brother" WPs?).
If he realized his ideal computer at Apple, the macintosh would have died a horrible death and/or certainly wouldn't have become the publishing/graphics professional's choice. MS certainly wouldn't have developed a decent GUI (I'm not arguing that Win is "decent, so don't start) so designers would probably be using $50,000 SGIs or X-acto blades and chartpak tape.
Do the Universities take & control & sell art professor's art?
If they did, they could kiss the faculty good-bye.
Maybe coders should consider their toils art and take a hike when threatened in this manner.
Am I understanding this correctly? Or am I being a crumudgeon here?
"For those of us with a spouse/partner: "
Are you saying that people who have a partner should be paid more just because they're partner-ed?
They actually did this in the '50s. Married men were paid more than single men who did the same work. This rationale was also used to keep (single, of course) women's wages down too. Does anyone here think this is right?
OK, you can have your daycare... but being your childless co-worker, I better get $250-$600 worth of benefits relevant to my lifestyle choices.
I sure hope you charged them accordingly?
I always got a perverse pleasure from client mistakes such as that. Particularly when the client tried to blame us.
If I was feeling un-Dogbert-like (as in, I liked the client, or she was cute & nice) I would futz with the PDF or (more often) PS file in a text editor and get it right.
(probably reading snottier than I'm really being)
A review:
firewire: here now, works great. Will go faster very soon (but already fast enough for my purposes, as in, the bottleneck isn't at the firewire bus)
USB 2.0: not here yet. no devices in production.
conclusion: I'm not waiting or converting. That is, unless I see a USB2.0 product that is different AND super sexy.
Sorry I linked to articles with bad and/or outdated information, but they weren't my point.
Take a look at this little article on USB 2.0 and this one.
I can say that firewire is here and it works now, beautifully. Why should I wait for manufacturers to develop and implement USB 2.0 mobos and devices? For a measly extra 80Mb/s? I'll wait for firewire to go to 800Mb/s later this year.
What? No firewire devices besides camcorders? My favorite firewire devices are the sancube and this portable firewire raid array.
Now they (hard drive manufacturers in particular) just need to make some native firewire devices, bridges are just so... inelegant.