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....and despite this you would still get laid 10 times more regularly and with a greater range of more attractive partners. Life is unfair!
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I would be considering withdrawing from COMP SCI altogether after reading this if i were you - first you hair is gonna go, then your dress sense (if you ever had it), your sense of humour is going to develop angles and you will only be able to experience one emotion at a time. My advice - do an arts degree.
THere is something more human and fun about them. I lined them up at KMart and chose the Gamecube. I dont really want to invade the alien hords, just smoke some cheeb and enjoy some fun. Try Gamecube stoned - it is perfect.:)
Girlfriend looked up into the sky and said oooohhhh isnt that a big star. Deary me! replies he, thats no star viewed from afar, thats just a plantet, get it right god damitt!
actually it is not at all an overstatement. Blakes 7 was a far better show for "the rest of the world" than cheesy star trek. more camp, more down, more mystique and most important - enough dark humor to make the trekkies bowl cut geeks jump up and down on the spot:
noooo noooo noooo (nasely geek voices inserted)
severus snape would have been at home on the deck of the liberator - he would not have been allowed near the star treck set! nobody grew, noone got in touch with their feelings and most teenagers were more concerned with feeling up jenna than understanding her emasculated power; a sentiment heartily encouraged by the english writers.
Not to mention the fact that any 12 year old could see the liberator was a FAR more stable spaceship than the stupid enterprise (how did that ship ever manage to stay together) so, if for nothing else, it was influential in reasonable starship design.
No, i dont think the G5 is a fluke. They have linked their technology to IBM who is BIGGER than intel or MS and has huge resouces and a vested interest in kepping up/ahead of intel. I think from here on in only nitpickers will be able to seperate performance of APPLE/Wintel. Just like the competition between AMD/Intel at the moment. Once IBM really has the info about how they compare to intel, they will just match the pace of intels change. Although if Itanium ever really gets going IBM might struggle.
Pixar make very warm, funny, intelligent movies. These movies would be good no matter what the format, CG, Puppet or Animated. The combination of Script, Talent, and Production is what does it. No amount of computer generated wizardry will help if the story is incomplete. Who needs 10,000 charachters on screen when good dialogue between 2 charachters can be far more engaging.
It is still too expensive. Why cant a PC maker manufacture a decent Sub Notebook for the price of an Ibook. In australia it comes in at 4200 compared to 1800 for an almost exactly configued ibook. the 12" powerbook is cheaper too. come on dell sony acer etal make an affordable sub notebook.
You are right, but really, this is the job for Apple to have tackled. That is why the zealots pay them - it gives them the freedom to inovate. When the beautiful Aqua interface was introduced it was noted by various HI people that it was not revolutionary at all - examples of Palm OS were given as a revolutionary step up in HI - but Aqua was accused, rightly, of being no more user friendly than Win95. I think if Apple would really take a chance on something new that innovation would make its way down to GNOME.
it's funny that you say this because Pre-OSX Macs were fabulously famous for their lockups.
This is totally true and something that Mac zealots almost always overlook! Maybe system 7 machines were more stable than win 95 release 1 (and this is debatable cause even back then MacOS was often flaky) but comparing win 2k or win xp to macOS8 or 9 is just a different story. Microsoft did get their act together with their 32bit multitasking OS's eventually and Apple is still a little behind. I am talking about OS9 here and have not had much experience with XP.
Apples DO have legitimate advantages over Win boxes but until now stability has not been one of them.
With such amazing performance from both cards the ultimate benchmark has to be the picture quality - which OCAddition gave to ATI Hands Down.
Given that both these cards are going to be able to give a decent frame rate with whatever program is thrown at them i would be looking at the picture quality - which after all is what we have to look at.
I mean it is like patenting a method of fitting matches into a matchbox!
How techincally advanced is it to say 12 greenish dots now 14 reddish dots etc.
Just plain dumb really - infantile technology compared to JPG.
It does one thing really well though - i use Tiffs a lot and it really does decrease the size of most tiffs - but that doesnt make it great technology.
Yeah - In Australia the Greek community did the same with the previously derogatory word "Wog". The made it humorous and the strength of their own self belief bade it a laugh "with" rather than "at". Comedy productions such as "Wogs out of Work" made us all laugh and now only the angriest redneck would heap shit on a fellow Aussie for being Greek.
PageMaker was also a primitive product that ultimately failed in the marketplace.
Yes that is true - but you cant serously call quark (as it is mostly used in v3.2) an advanced product. It beauty is its simplicity and the fact that the older versions created clean postscript.
In the words of my creativly brilliant yet technically inept friend "it is such a great little scrapbook program".
just the way that illustrator or pagemaker do it. You just put it there - it becomes its own bounding box. I still have trouble making quark do what i want after growing used to illustrator. Text is more difficult ot work with than graphics, but again, it is possible as is seen in illustrator.
yeah - same with me. I keep broadband now only because it allows me to be on the net while i use the phone - it is cheaper than maintaining 2 phone lines and thus still OK value.
As an Aussie i think we need to be constantly embarrassed about this issue. Generally speaking we are a fair country, at least compared to many others, but the current policy towards refugees is inhumane and unpopular here.
So keep up the parodies, pressure and insults until this government is embarrassed into fixing the arcane mandatory detention system.
BTW if there are any BETTER ideas for controlling the infulx of illegal refugees i would love to hear them. The best one i know is to support the countries of origin so that people do not feel the need to leave in the first place.
South Australia is a farily weird place. Lots of churches (and I mean lots of them) and really weird stuff happens there. But it also produces some of the most brilliant liberal thinkers in the country.
Salman Rushdy was there when he was in exile and he described it as the sort of place that Stephen King would set a novel. Really strange vibe, lotsa churches. THe sort of place where bad thing Happen.
of course i can do everything with a 1 GHz cpu. however, i can do it faster with a 3 GHz one
Yes but you use sooo much more electricity - is it really needed? my 1 gig duron is fine for everything i do. I dont want to drain more power for no need. My electricity bill is high enough driving my 17" monitor.
I dont want them to put a 1.8ghz processor in the ibook because i want to keep the 4 hour battery life.
For me power consumption is an issue. I dont own a V8 but in know it goes faster than my Mazda - i like the way my Mazda runs cheap!
I am about to start a medicine degree and i ablsolutely agree withyou that you dont want games. Problem is that anything old enough to limit games is also going to be (in laptop years) too old to be reliable. My Toshiba celeron 300 would be my first choice - if it still worked!!
I figure that an Ibook with a 3 year extended warantee is my best bet as it is small and not too fast, and runs MACOSX which is not a game friendly as windows.
If you have any other reliable options i would love to hear them. m
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....and despite this you would still get laid 10 times more regularly and with a greater range of more attractive partners. Life is unfair!
I would be considering withdrawing from COMP SCI altogether after reading this if i were you - first you hair is gonna go, then your dress sense (if you ever had it), your sense of humour is going to develop angles and you will only be able to experience one emotion at a time. My advice - do an arts degree.
THere is something more human and fun about them. I lined them up at KMart and chose the Gamecube. I dont really want to invade the alien hords, just smoke some cheeb and enjoy some fun. Try Gamecube stoned - it is perfect. :)
Girlfriend looked up into the sky and said oooohhhh isnt that a big star. Deary me! replies he, thats no star viewed from afar, thats just a plantet, get it right god damitt!
Cranky mood, it's the caffeine talking
yeah mee too
actually it is not at all an overstatement. Blakes 7 was a far better show for "the rest of the world" than cheesy star trek. more camp, more down, more mystique and most important - enough dark humor to make the trekkies bowl cut geeks jump up and down on the spot :
noooo noooo noooo (nasely geek voices inserted)
severus snape would have been at home on the deck of the liberator - he would not have been allowed near the star treck set! nobody grew, noone got in touch with their feelings and most teenagers were more concerned with feeling up jenna than understanding her emasculated power; a sentiment heartily encouraged by the english writers.
Not to mention the fact that any 12 year old could see the liberator was a FAR more stable spaceship than the stupid enterprise (how did that ship ever manage to stay together) so, if for nothing else, it was influential in reasonable starship design.
No, i dont think the G5 is a fluke. They have linked their technology to IBM who is BIGGER than intel or MS and has huge resouces and a vested interest in kepping up/ahead of intel. I think from here on in only nitpickers will be able to seperate performance of APPLE/Wintel. Just like the competition between AMD/Intel at the moment. Once IBM really has the info about how they compare to intel, they will just match the pace of intels change. Although if Itanium ever really gets going IBM might struggle.
Pixar make very warm, funny, intelligent movies. These movies would be good no matter what the format, CG, Puppet or Animated. The combination of Script, Talent, and Production is what does it.
No amount of computer generated wizardry will help if the story is incomplete. Who needs 10,000 charachters on screen when good dialogue between 2 charachters can be far more engaging.
I am so sick of this esoteric patent corporate raider bullshit. I hope MS fucks them up!
It is still too expensive. Why cant a PC maker manufacture a decent Sub Notebook for the price of an Ibook. In australia it comes in at 4200 compared to 1800 for an almost exactly configued ibook. the 12" powerbook is cheaper too. come on dell sony acer etal make an affordable sub notebook.
You are right, but really, this is the job for Apple to have tackled. That is why the zealots pay them - it gives them the freedom to inovate. When the beautiful Aqua interface was introduced it was noted by various HI people that it was not revolutionary at all - examples of Palm OS were given as a revolutionary step up in HI - but Aqua was accused, rightly, of being no more user friendly than Win95. I think if Apple would really take a chance on something new that innovation would make its way down to GNOME.
it's funny that you say this because Pre-OSX Macs were fabulously famous for their lockups.
This is totally true and something that Mac zealots almost always overlook! Maybe system 7 machines were more stable than win 95 release 1 (and this is debatable cause even back then MacOS was often flaky) but comparing win 2k or win xp to macOS8 or 9 is just a different story. Microsoft did get their act together with their 32bit multitasking OS's eventually and Apple is still a little behind. I am talking about OS9 here and have not had much experience with XP.
Apples DO have legitimate advantages over Win boxes but until now stability has not been one of them.
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With such amazing performance from both cards the ultimate benchmark has to be the picture quality - which OCAddition gave to ATI Hands Down.
Given that both these cards are going to be able to give a decent frame rate with whatever program is thrown at them i would be looking at the picture quality - which after all is what we have to look at.
I mean it is like patenting a method of fitting matches into a matchbox!
How techincally advanced is it to say 12 greenish dots now 14 reddish dots etc.
Just plain dumb really - infantile technology compared to JPG.
It does one thing really well though - i use Tiffs a lot and it really does decrease the size of most tiffs - but that doesnt make it great technology.
Yeah - In Australia the Greek community did the same with the previously derogatory word "Wog". The made it humorous and the strength of their own self belief bade it a laugh "with" rather than "at". Comedy productions such as "Wogs out of Work" made us all laugh and now only the angriest redneck would heap shit on a fellow Aussie for being Greek.
Embrace the chaos
PageMaker was also a primitive product that ultimately failed in the marketplace.
Yes that is true - but you cant serously call quark (as it is mostly used in v3.2) an advanced product. It beauty is its simplicity and the fact that the older versions created clean postscript.
In the words of my creativly brilliant yet technically inept friend "it is such a great little scrapbook program".
just the way that illustrator or pagemaker do it. You just put it there - it becomes its own bounding box. I still have trouble making quark do what i want after growing used to illustrator. Text is more difficult ot work with than graphics, but again, it is possible as is seen in illustrator.
yeah - same with me. I keep broadband now only because it allows me to be on the net while i use the phone - it is cheaper than maintaining 2 phone lines and thus still OK value.
you just put directly on the page - it is the frame idea that is a little left field
As an Aussie i think we need to be constantly embarrassed about this issue. Generally speaking we are a fair country, at least compared to many others, but the current policy towards refugees is inhumane and unpopular here.
So keep up the parodies, pressure and insults until this government is embarrassed into fixing the arcane mandatory detention system.
BTW if there are any BETTER ideas for controlling the infulx of illegal refugees i would love to hear them. The best one i know is to support the countries of origin so that people do not feel the need to leave in the first place.
m
South Australia is a farily weird place. Lots of churches (and I mean lots of them) and really weird stuff happens there. But it also produces some of the most brilliant liberal thinkers in the country.
Salman Rushdy was there when he was in exile and he described it as the sort of place that Stephen King would set a novel. Really strange vibe, lotsa churches. THe sort of place where bad thing Happen.
of course i can do everything with a 1 GHz cpu. however, i can do it faster with a 3 GHz one
Yes but you use sooo much more electricity - is it really needed? my 1 gig duron is fine for everything i do. I dont want to drain more power for no need. My electricity bill is high enough driving my 17" monitor.
I dont want them to put a 1.8ghz processor in the ibook because i want to keep the 4 hour battery life.
For me power consumption is an issue. I dont own a V8 but in know it goes faster than my Mazda - i like the way my Mazda runs cheap!
I am about to start a medicine degree and i ablsolutely agree withyou that you dont want games. Problem is that anything old enough to limit games is also going to be (in laptop years) too old to be reliable. My Toshiba celeron 300 would be my first choice - if it still worked!!
I figure that an Ibook with a 3 year extended warantee is my best bet as it is small and not too fast, and runs MACOSX which is not a game friendly as windows.
If you have any other reliable options i would love to hear them.
m
yeh - but really - those songs were awful enough on paper - i really hope they are not inflicted on use in "the real"