I hope they didn't do it for cooling reasons because having the case open can cause some parts to run even hotter.
It can be the equivalent of opening a window in the middle of the winter to cool your house. If your furnace is still on, that room may end up cooler, but if the thermostat is in or near that room, some parts of the house could end up even hotter than they were before.
Also, most systems are designed for a specific air-flow pattern. If you open the case, you disrupt that flow. The fan can no longer cause cool air to flow over the "hot spots" like the CPU which can cause them to get even hotter.
LOL. I was wondering if the line in question could be considered part of a "full disclosure" statement. In most cases it would be considered inappropriate to not state what hardware was used and where it came from.
And lets not forget the fact that some of us like to listen to our own background music while playing a game on the computer duing the time it takes for our favorited DVD authoring applications to encode the video.
It's because their user tests show that it is EASIER TO USE for neophytes...and young kids and anyone with any kind of motor difficulty...
The simplest way to say it is that Apple's goal is to sell the easiest to use computer in the world. The one-button mouse is the easiest mouse to use. If you can't use a one-button mouse, you aren't going to be able to use a two-or-more-button mouse either.
I'm not sure where the meaning went astray, but I hope everyone does understand the "90% kill rate" means 90% of the people who are infected will die. Kill rate has nothing to do with how easily the disease can be spread, which is what the GGP? was saying. AFAIK (I could be wrong) none of the pathogens are "massively contagious", as in becoming airborne and being transmitted through a building's ventilation system.
RTFA... it mentions that there were 3 backup generators, and that they all failed to start
And we know that's true because...
I'm not saying its not true, I just haven't had a chance yet to verify it through another source. Does anybody else have any info regarding this particular event other than the article in question?
Don't mean to be picking on you, this is also in reply to the last few posts I've read, and I'm 3/4 joking when I say this, but...
Some people have been watching too many movies, especially the article's author.
If nothing else, the last thing you want to do if there's an outrbreak is go running around exposing yourself to as many people as possible. Stay in your house and don't let anybody in until its safe. Its not like there's going to be an accidental release of a large "cloud" of infectious material that's going to take over Long Island.
They're seeing the book as much more action-packed than I did
That's probably good. What I fear more is that my kids (my oldest is just starting to read the books) will find the books "boring" compared to the movie because it isn't all action.
Well, I guess it has about as much to do with science fiction as "Scare Tactics", "Mad, Mad House", or "Crossing Over" (does anyone actually watch that show?).
Most of the live music venues around here are locally owned and operated. Maybe you're thinking only about the big "arena" style performances. I'm thinking everything from churches to bars, and all kinds of smaller theatres both privately and publicly owned.
The difference is technology companies haven't banded together to form as association for political or other purposes.
Consider how much less pull MS would have if there existed a PCMAA (personal computer manufacturer's Association of America) when it came to those restrictive licenses. I guess the PC manufacturers are too busy competing with each other whereas the recording and movie industry players have decided they can make more money by not competing.
Why select a slower, more expensive platform and take on the cost of porting one's in-house software to yet another platform, when multi-processor AMD-64 chips running GNU/Linux are a dime a dozen?
Not the high end ones!
Also keep in mind that the Velocity Engine in the G4/G5 was made for this kind of work. Its only now that it has the OS to back up the muscle. I'm guessing its the Velocity Engine that made Pixlet possible.
Maybe those Apple lawyers are better than we think. Rather than a nasty take-down letter, one of them submits the story to/. for the same effect in less time and no adverse PR.
The reason they lost that lawsuit is because they had an ageement with Microsoft which, though not intended, gave Microsoft permission to use Apple's "touch and feel". Apple's argument was that clause was there only for software Microsoft developed for the Mac, not for MS to take for their own OS. MS convinced the judge otherwise.
This is an entirely different set of circumstances.
I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution.
Aside from all the other replies about blocking out distracting music. there are very good reasons to listen to music while studying. Try a quick Google search, there are all kinds of studies showing that listening to the right kind of music while studying can help increase productivity and retention. Dead silence really isn't all that conducive to learning.
We are not flawed because we are anti-social, we are just different.
After seeing the term used so much in this discussion, I'm thinking anti-social just isn't quite right. Maybe asocial would be a bettern term. Its not like we're really anti-social, we just don't always want to be pro-social.
IIRC, that would be Baroque instrumental music. No, I can't remember where that study came from, I just remember reading it ~7-8 years ago.
I also remember them discussing that, particularly if you're reading, you don't want vocals. It tends to cause cross-circuiting if someone's essentially talking in your ear while you're trying to read. Kind of like someone saying random numbers while you're trying to do a math problem in your head.
Since I just posted a long rant about this above this is redundant, but...
The OEMs have had their hands tied when it comes to bundling software. It used to be they could pre-install and pre-configure whatever and however they wanted. Microsoft put an end to that. In fact, one of the few benefits to come from the anti-trust trial is that OEM's are once again allowed to do something as simple as put an icon for (as an example) AOL on the desktop. Where before they weren't allowed to have anything but MSN there.
I think it might be beneficial to remember how software used to be sold to OEM's. It used to be, in the DOS, early Windows days, that there was fierce competition for software companies to make deals with OEM's to get their sofware pre-installed -and the software bundle that came pre-installed is part of what distinguished one manufacturer's otherwise bland PC from another.
For example, AOL would pay OEM's to pre-install their software and have an icon visible on the desktop the first time the user booted up. That PC OEM could advertise having AOL installed and ready to make the buyer's online access simple, and AOL had another way to get their software to the user.
In those days, there were several disk drive utility makers who would make any deal they could to get their software in front of end users.
And lets not forget Netscape. At one point they were willing to pay OEM's to put their browser on the computer.
If you do go back to the DOS days, OEM's even had their own "branded" versions of DOS and completely controlled what the user saw when they first booted their machine.
But Microsoft killed all that competition at the OEM level. They said unto the OEM's thou shalt not alter Windows in any way. Thus AOL and Netscape icons on the desktop are forbidden -in fact you can't even mention them anywhere. Instead, everyone shall see MSN and IE icons.
So "Losing the Media Player in Europe" basically just means going back to those days when OEM's had more control over what the user saw when they booted the computer. It forces MS to compete fairly with Apple and Real to get their media player in front of the end-user. That's competition, that's good.
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I hope they didn't do it for cooling reasons because having the case open can cause some parts to run even hotter.
It can be the equivalent of opening a window in the middle of the winter to cool your house. If your furnace is still on, that room may end up cooler, but if the thermostat is in or near that room, some parts of the house could end up even hotter than they were before.
Also, most systems are designed for a specific air-flow pattern. If you open the case, you disrupt that flow. The fan can no longer cause cool air to flow over the "hot spots" like the CPU which can cause them to get even hotter.
LOL. I was wondering if the line in question could be considered part of a "full disclosure" statement. In most cases it would be considered inappropriate to not state what hardware was used and where it came from.
Examples include rendering, video compression,
And lets not forget the fact that some of us like to listen to our own background music while playing a game on the computer duing the time it takes for our favorited DVD authoring applications to encode the video.
Apple makes obscene profit margins on the rest of its hardware
What exactly do you consider to be an obscene profit margin? I didn't think Apple's profit margins were any greater than other computer manufacturers.
It's because their user tests show that it is EASIER TO USE for neophytes. ..and young kids and anyone with any kind of motor difficulty...
The simplest way to say it is that Apple's goal is to sell the easiest to use computer in the world. The one-button mouse is the easiest mouse to use. If you can't use a one-button mouse, you aren't going to be able to use a two-or-more-button mouse either.
Cockroaches, and other insects are alive if you haven't noticed, not only that but they make up a significant portion of that 100%.
:-)
Only if you ignore one of the most abundant forms of life on the planet -plants
I'm not sure where the meaning went astray, but I hope everyone does understand the "90% kill rate" means 90% of the people who are infected will die. Kill rate has nothing to do with how easily the disease can be spread, which is what the GGP? was saying. AFAIK (I could be wrong) none of the pathogens are "massively contagious", as in becoming airborne and being transmitted through a building's ventilation system.
RTFA... it mentions that there were 3 backup generators, and that they all failed to start
And we know that's true because...
I'm not saying its not true, I just haven't had a chance yet to verify it through another source. Does anybody else have any info regarding this particular event other than the article in question?
Don't mean to be picking on you, this is also in reply to the last few posts I've read, and I'm 3/4 joking when I say this, but...
Some people have been watching too many movies, especially the article's author.
If nothing else, the last thing you want to do if there's an outrbreak is go running around exposing yourself to as many people as possible. Stay in your house and don't let anybody in until its safe. Its not like there's going to be an accidental release of a large "cloud" of infectious material that's going to take over Long Island.
They're seeing the book as much more action-packed than I did
That's probably good. What I fear more is that my kids (my oldest is just starting to read the books) will find the books "boring" compared to the movie because it isn't all action.
Well, I guess it has about as much to do with science fiction as "Scare Tactics", "Mad, Mad House", or "Crossing Over" (does anyone actually watch that show?).
Where do you live?
Most of the live music venues around here are locally owned and operated. Maybe you're thinking only about the big "arena" style performances. I'm thinking everything from churches to bars, and all kinds of smaller theatres both privately and publicly owned.
Not really.
The difference is technology companies haven't banded together to form as association for political or other purposes.
Consider how much less pull MS would have if there existed a PCMAA (personal computer manufacturer's Association of America) when it came to those restrictive licenses. I guess the PC manufacturers are too busy competing with each other whereas the recording and movie industry players have decided they can make more money by not competing.
Oh puhleez, that's so 1999!
Sounds more '89 to me.
Why select a slower, more expensive platform and take on the cost of porting one's in-house software to yet another platform, when multi-processor AMD-64 chips running GNU/Linux are a dime a dozen?
Not the high end ones!
Also keep in mind that the Velocity Engine in the G4/G5 was made for this kind of work. Its only now that it has the OS to back up the muscle. I'm guessing its the Velocity Engine that made Pixlet possible.
Just guessing, but except for Darwin no other OS is going to support the hardware (particularly wrt future upgrades/machines) better than OS X.
I'd think they'd just keep the extra horsepower around.
Sounds like Disney is eager to upgrade their capabilities. Maybe Pixar can sell Disnye the old render farm to help them catch up.
Maybe those Apple lawyers are better than we think. Rather than a nasty take-down letter, one of them submits the story to /. for the same effect in less time and no adverse PR.
So who submitted this story?
The reason they lost that lawsuit is because they had an ageement with Microsoft which, though not intended, gave Microsoft permission to use Apple's "touch and feel". Apple's argument was that clause was there only for software Microsoft developed for the Mac, not for MS to take for their own OS. MS convinced the judge otherwise.
This is an entirely different set of circumstances.
I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution.
Aside from all the other replies about blocking out distracting music. there are very good reasons to listen to music while studying. Try a quick Google search, there are all kinds of studies showing that listening to the right kind of music while studying can help increase productivity and retention. Dead silence really isn't all that conducive to learning.
We are not flawed because we are anti-social, we are just different.
After seeing the term used so much in this discussion, I'm thinking anti-social just isn't quite right. Maybe asocial would be a bettern term. Its not like we're really anti-social, we just don't always want to be pro-social.
I was talking about the general public walking down the street blocking out the rest of the world because they wanted to be in their "cocoon".
Or it can turn into a new social phenomenon!
"Which kind of music works BEST?"
IIRC, that would be Baroque instrumental music. No, I can't remember where that study came from, I just remember reading it ~7-8 years ago.
I also remember them discussing that, particularly if you're reading, you don't want vocals. It tends to cause cross-circuiting if someone's essentially talking in your ear while you're trying to read. Kind of like someone saying random numbers while you're trying to do a math problem in your head.
Since I just posted a long rant about this above this is redundant, but...
The OEMs have had their hands tied when it comes to bundling software. It used to be they could pre-install and pre-configure whatever and however they wanted. Microsoft put an end to that. In fact, one of the few benefits to come from the anti-trust trial is that OEM's are once again allowed to do something as simple as put an icon for (as an example) AOL on the desktop. Where before they weren't allowed to have anything but MSN there.
I think it might be beneficial to remember how software used to be sold to OEM's. It used to be, in the DOS, early Windows days, that there was fierce competition for software companies to make deals with OEM's to get their sofware pre-installed -and the software bundle that came pre-installed is part of what distinguished one manufacturer's otherwise bland PC from another.
For example, AOL would pay OEM's to pre-install their software and have an icon visible on the desktop the first time the user booted up. That PC OEM could advertise having AOL installed and ready to make the buyer's online access simple, and AOL had another way to get their software to the user.
In those days, there were several disk drive utility makers who would make any deal they could to get their software in front of end users.
And lets not forget Netscape. At one point they were willing to pay OEM's to put their browser on the computer.
If you do go back to the DOS days, OEM's even had their own "branded" versions of DOS and completely controlled what the user saw when they first booted their machine.
But Microsoft killed all that competition at the OEM level. They said unto the OEM's thou shalt not alter Windows in any way. Thus AOL and Netscape icons on the desktop are forbidden -in fact you can't even mention them anywhere. Instead, everyone shall see MSN and IE icons.
So "Losing the Media Player in Europe" basically just means going back to those days when OEM's had more control over what the user saw when they booted the computer. It forces MS to compete fairly with Apple and Real to get their media player in front of the end-user. That's competition, that's good.