Huh? Anyone remember when DoubleClick tried to tie their cookies to privacy data a few years ago - now those people are in Google management. I fear the evil is creeping in the side door...
OK more details - I had the 512MB stick out for a while, after the machine was on Tiger. I don't have many dashboard widgets enabled, it's a 12" screen after all. And I was running iTunes regularly, with Safari and Firefox, and it was fine at 256MB. Maybe you had something else chewing through memory on yours, or a really greedy widget on your dashboard?
You could run Tiger on 512MB, but its P A I N F U L L Y S L O W
Not in my experience. I have a powerbook (G4) with 256MB in it, and it runs Tiger nicely. I did find that when I loaded it up with Safari, Firefox, a few terminal sessions, and X that it got sluggish, so I threw in 512MB more and at 768 it's very happy with that set of tasks.
What are you doing on 10.4 that fills 512MB to the point of pain?
That's a major bummer. My experience is quite different, over the last couple of years I've used dotMac Backup.app three or four times to restore things, and it's worked just fine.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
See this one for a good, cheap, ergo keyboard. The keys are oriented to allow unbent wrists, yet it's not the MS "Natural" look at all. At the price ($12.49) they sell for, I got several. I've used the one I'm typing on now for about two years so far, no binding, grinding, skips, or issues of any kind. I like the feel; unlike the several MS keyboards I've used, none of the keys bind after long use.
Beware of some vendors - check them out carefully. My dad had solar hot water heat put in his house in the late 70's (think the first Arab Oil Crisis/Embargo). The company that did the work only lasted a few years, folded, and now he just has big heavy panels on his roof that don't do anything at all any more. The wind load is significant, and during high winds there is a risk of them damaging the house, so his insurance is a lot higher.
There's a whole lot more than THD that matters when it comes to how your ear perceives "clean" sound. Intermodulation distortion is very annoying, but be sure to look out for TIM (Transient InterModulation) in particular. This kind of distortion is most often caused by opamps or other components which have plenty of gain, but insufficient speed. In trying to ramp from one level to another, they get there but the slope of the change is not the same as the incoming signal's slope. This introduces TIM.
TIM is most often noticed by humans as either a low-level irritation at the music, or as a headache, or as some call it "ear fatigue".
TIM is nowhere near as easy to measure as THD, and the FTC regulations do not require it to be disclosed. And TIM measurement devices I've seen only test a few frequencies, not a full spectrum (admittedly that would not be an easy instrument to construct). TIM is most often found when a cheap op-amp is used in a circuit (the old 741 was one of the biggest culprits).
I totally agree; Evolution is the finest email client I have used, better than Outlook XP by far. Mozilla's mail client stinks at GPG integration as well until you add on a 3rd party piece (even then it's not good), while Evolution's is quite seamless.
"I commute to work alone in this monsterous gas guzzling SUV becuase I might buy a boat and need to tow it, or haul the soccer team to Dallas, even though I don't have kids or climb a giant mountain that might spring up in the middle of Nebraska" Advertising encourages this irrational line of thinking.
I drive an SUV because the roads are so poorly maintained that driving to work in Redmond (no, not THAT company) is more like going off-road than most regular cars are comfortable with.
However, anyone using IE on mac when Camino, Mozilla, and Safari are well put together should have their head examined. Don't forget Opera too.
I absolutely agree with you on all points, except the one about Opera on Mac. I love Opera on Windoze, and on Linux. It is my fave on both platforms, hands down. In fact the Linux flavor has a really nice stacking of the window buttons in multiple rows that the Windoze flavor doesn't.
But Opera on Mac? It's gross and horrible compared to Safari or Camino or even Mozilla. It crashes frequently, doesn't render well, and overall I'd choose {shudder} IE on Mac over Opera on Mac.
And companies don't usually fire their most competent employees (at least not intentionally without other good reasons to get rid of them).
True to a point; yet it does happen when they either want to get rid of a smaller number of people yet get a larger savings on the books, hence they can the most expensive people. Or they want to get rid of those who might lead in a direction they no longer want to go, and the most capable technically are the ones others will listen to most. Lose the leaders, and the sheep are easier to herd into a canyon. Or they have done all the hard definition and design and implementation work, and want to sit on their laurels. In which case they believe maintenance can be done by cheaper assets.
Just wait till it happens to you; it's not a pleasant surprise even when they do ask you to contract back when they realize they've made a huge mistake.
is available from XI Graphics. This is a drop-in replacement for XFree86, and it includes (link points to) multimonitor support versions.
My pet peeve with the Matrox driver version is that it would not power down the second monitor, so it went to screen saver and never turned off, while the primary monitor did power off. This was indicated on the Matrox site as a known issue. From other comments here I gather there have been no releases lately of the Matrox XFree86 driver, so that's probably still true.
XI is faster than XFree86 in my subjective testing, and it works nicely. There's a free demo you can download to try it out.
If you read "Virus House", later published as "The German Atomic Bomb", you will see that the Nazis (Heisenberg, et al.) were astounded when they heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They really didn't think it could be done. Was that due to Aryan superiority beliefs or due to their science, hard to say.
One story told by my history of science prof (he had interviewed Teller, Groves, Oppy, Szilard, etc.) was that Max Born was given the assignment of calculating the neutron cross section of graphite. This is useful for determining how much the neutrons coming out of a fission would be slowed, so they can hit another nucleus. For a reactor to work, they need to be slowed a little but not absorbed. Hence the need to know the cross-section.
He apparently goofed with the decimal points, and wound up "proving" that graphite would never work. Pretty surprising since they had a small reactor going in Paris shortly after the city fell, moderated by graphite.
That's why the Nazis kept trying to build heavy water plants - they thought that was the only possible reactor medium to use. But heavy water plants are fairly obvious targets, and Allied saboteurs took most of them out.
If you want a great reference on Starlight and Time, there is a very good book by Russ Humphreys (a PhD at Sandia) which presents a fascinating explanation for 6 days and the billions of light-years we see.
The ISBN is 0890512027, check it out at Amazon or wherever you care to shop.
For those of you sentenced to using VSS, there is a much speedier front end to it, called SourceOffSite. Makes even modem access feel fast - it makes VSS into true client-server.
I'm using a Matrox 400 DualHead, and it runs two independent monitors in Winblows 2000, and in Linux, it's very cool - I am typing right now in display:0.0, and beside it is:0.1 - all on one little card. Independent start bars in KDE, separate desktop icons, like two machines with one keyboard/mouse. This is using the Matrox supplied drivers for X 4.1 BTW.
Let's see... there are 20 amino acids, 19 of those are stereoisomeric (have a mirror image). Outside of living organisms there is no way to isolate l-alanine from r-alanine, for example. So there are 20 amino acids useful to life, 19 that are not.
Now take a small protein, say 250 amino acids long. Do some probability calculations, and see how likely the first protein is. Then remember that it's supposed to generate itself in an aqueous (water) solution; but amino acids rapidly dissociate in water. So if it forms, it won't be around for long.
Assume we have a high density, a vast over-sufficiency from somewhere, of all the amino acids on hand. Further assume they never degrade. Further assume that once a bond is made that helps build the protein we want, it stays around. None of those are really valid, but let's use them to see where we can get to.
So the odds are, for a given 250-element protein, 1 out of 39 (1/39) to the 250th power.
That works out to 1.7x10^398 tries to get one protein. The lowest guesses for how many are needed for the simplest cell are 200-300 of those. As a calibration, the known universe is less than 10^30 inches across.
So how likely is this to have happened by chance? Use your brains, folks, think!!!
Just rationally, isn't it clear that chance had nothing to do with it?
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Huh? Anyone remember when DoubleClick tried to tie their cookies to privacy data a few years ago - now those people are in Google management. I fear the evil is creeping in the side door...
OK more details - I had the 512MB stick out for a while, after the machine was on Tiger. I don't have many dashboard widgets enabled, it's a 12" screen after all. And I was running iTunes regularly, with Safari and Firefox, and it was fine at 256MB. Maybe you had something else chewing through memory on yours, or a really greedy widget on your dashboard?
What are you doing on 10.4 that fills 512MB to the point of pain?
That's a major bummer. My experience is quite different, over the last couple of years I've used dotMac Backup.app three or four times to restore things, and it's worked just fine.
Can anyone improve on that one?
I looked around the site linked, and while they have 50 games archived from last year, there is no mention I can find of who won.
Anyone know where that is?
See this one for a good, cheap, ergo keyboard. The keys are oriented to allow unbent wrists, yet it's not the MS "Natural" look at all. At the price ($12.49) they sell for, I got several. I've used the one I'm typing on now for about two years so far, no binding, grinding, skips, or issues of any kind. I like the feel; unlike the several MS keyboards I've used, none of the keys bind after long use.
Recommended, at that price, it's worth a try!
Beware of some vendors - check them out carefully. My dad had solar hot water heat put in his house in the late 70's (think the first Arab Oil Crisis/Embargo). The company that did the work only lasted a few years, folded, and now he just has big heavy panels on his roof that don't do anything at all any more. The wind load is significant, and during high winds there is a risk of them damaging the house, so his insurance is a lot higher.
Caveat emptor.
There's a whole lot more than THD that matters when it comes to how your ear perceives "clean" sound. Intermodulation distortion is very annoying, but be sure to look out for TIM (Transient InterModulation) in particular. This kind of distortion is most often caused by opamps or other components which have plenty of gain, but insufficient speed. In trying to ramp from one level to another, they get there but the slope of the change is not the same as the incoming signal's slope. This introduces TIM.
TIM is most often noticed by humans as either a low-level irritation at the music, or as a headache, or as some call it "ear fatigue".
TIM is nowhere near as easy to measure as THD, and the FTC regulations do not require it to be disclosed. And TIM measurement devices I've seen only test a few frequencies, not a full spectrum (admittedly that would not be an easy instrument to construct). TIM is most often found when a cheap op-amp is used in a circuit (the old 741 was one of the biggest culprits).
I totally agree; Evolution is the finest email client I have used, better than Outlook XP by far. Mozilla's mail client stinks at GPG integration as well until you add on a 3rd party piece (even then it's not good), while Evolution's is quite seamless.
But Opera on Mac? It's gross and horrible compared to Safari or Camino or even Mozilla. It crashes frequently, doesn't render well, and overall I'd choose {shudder} IE on Mac over Opera on Mac.
Any others think this way?
Just wait till it happens to you; it's not a pleasant surprise even when they do ask you to contract back when they realize they've made a huge mistake.
That was "DOS isn't done till Lotus won't run", from DOS 2.0 development and Lotus 1-2-3, in 1983.
Try google for many references to it.
is available from XI Graphics. This is a drop-in replacement for XFree86, and it includes (link points to) multimonitor support versions.
My pet peeve with the Matrox driver version is that it would not power down the second monitor, so it went to screen saver and never turned off, while the primary monitor did power off. This was indicated on the Matrox site as a known issue. From other comments here I gather there have been no releases lately of the Matrox XFree86 driver, so that's probably still true.
XI is faster than XFree86 in my subjective testing, and it works nicely. There's a free demo you can download to try it out.
as you say, then why not just buy a used one (estate sale, whatever).
Or cubic zirconium; pretty hard to tell from diamond without a loupe
That's a brilliant post.
Some additional examples of the tyranny of the orthodox:
Jenner with the Smallpox vaccine.
TG Morton and anasthesia
Pasteur (he's not a doctor, we don't have to listen to him)
de Broglie (was about to be denied a PhD when Einstein commented how insightful his work was)
If you read "Virus House", later published as "The German Atomic Bomb", you will see that the Nazis (Heisenberg, et al.) were astounded when they heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They really didn't think it could be done. Was that due to Aryan superiority beliefs or due to their science, hard to say.
One story told by my history of science prof (he had interviewed Teller, Groves, Oppy, Szilard, etc.) was that Max Born was given the assignment of calculating the neutron cross section of graphite. This is useful for determining how much the neutrons coming out of a fission would be slowed, so they can hit another nucleus. For a reactor to work, they need to be slowed a little but not absorbed. Hence the need to know the cross-section.
He apparently goofed with the decimal points, and wound up "proving" that graphite would never work. Pretty surprising since they had a small reactor going in Paris shortly after the city fell, moderated by graphite.
That's why the Nazis kept trying to build heavy water plants - they thought that was the only possible reactor medium to use. But heavy water plants are fairly obvious targets, and Allied saboteurs took most of them out.
For some clear, simple, lucid counterpoints to the Homeobox genes being the proof of punctuated equilibria, see this PDF or this updated paper.
For those too tired of this discussion to read the papers, print them and read them later. They're worth it, especially the PDF one.
If you want a great reference on Starlight and Time, there is a very good book by Russ Humphreys (a PhD at Sandia) which presents a fascinating explanation for 6 days and the billions of light-years we see.
The ISBN is 0890512027, check it out at Amazon or wherever you care to shop.
nice troll.
No, I am certainly not a Ruckman-ite. I have many disagreements with his beliefs.
For those of you sentenced to using VSS, there is a much speedier front end to it, called SourceOffSite. Makes even modem access feel fast - it makes VSS into true client-server.
Check it out here.
Read Genesis, you'll see it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but in 7:24 "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days."
I'm using a Matrox 400 DualHead, and it runs two independent monitors in Winblows 2000, and in Linux, it's very cool - I am typing right now in display :0.0, and beside it is :0.1 - all on one little card. Independent start bars in KDE, separate desktop icons, like two machines with one keyboard/mouse. This is using the Matrox supplied drivers for X 4.1 BTW.
Highly recommended
Let's see... there are 20 amino acids, 19 of those are stereoisomeric (have a mirror image). Outside of living organisms there is no way to isolate l-alanine from r-alanine, for example. So there are 20 amino acids useful to life, 19 that are not.
Now take a small protein, say 250 amino acids long. Do some probability calculations, and see how likely the first protein is. Then remember that it's supposed to generate itself in an aqueous (water) solution; but amino acids rapidly dissociate in water. So if it forms, it won't be around for long.
Assume we have a high density, a vast over-sufficiency from somewhere, of all the amino acids on hand. Further assume they never degrade. Further assume that once a bond is made that helps build the protein we want, it stays around. None of those are really valid, but let's use them to see where we can get to.
So the odds are, for a given 250-element protein, 1 out of 39 (1/39) to the 250th power.
That works out to 1.7x10^398 tries to get one protein. The lowest guesses for how many are needed for the simplest cell are 200-300 of those. As a calibration, the known universe is less than 10^30 inches across.
So how likely is this to have happened by chance? Use your brains, folks, think!!!
Just rationally, isn't it clear that chance had nothing to do with it?