I haven't had many good nights of sleep ever since I got divorced. It doesn't matter if I try to sleep on a bed, recliner, or anything else. To make matter worse, I was assigned to a big project at about the same time that required a lot of late nights, often with the help desk staff calling me at home. It seemed that if I ever tried to go to sleep before midnight, I would get a call not long after I went to sleep. This lasted for most of a year. So, I kept staying up later and later to the point that it's rare that I go to sleep before 3 or 4am - staying awake until I can't stand it any longer and just zonk out for 3-4 hours until I have to start getting up for work.
A nice side effect of this is that I can easily drive to see a band during the week in a city 200 miles away and not be dragging into work the next day. I need to find other good uses for this time. Or at least better than arguing with jerkoffs on various messageboards.
At any rate, I'll have to put up with it to write child support checks for another 93 months. Then, my purpose in life will be finished and I won't care what happens after that.
Gates was born rich. He could have frittered away his life doing nothing but going to parties, playing golf, etc. The fact that he decided to start a company is one of the few redeeming qualities of the man.
What is wrong with children inheriting whatever their parents have managed to build during their lives?
I think you missed a decimal place. At that price, it's actually about $5400 per processor. That's not much more than what some of these processors cost.
As it is written, the Patriot Act isn't limited to terrorism. It is essentially a big patch file to existing US laws. Unless it a particular section specifically limits it to fighting terrorism (w/ a reference to how that is defined), then it can be used against any criminal activity.
It is the bag of goodies that the FBI and other agencies wanted from Congress at the time. They did the same sort of thing after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The politicians want to appear that they are doing something about the problem, so they give them what they want, for the most part.
If I ever clean my place up, it will be to reorganize things for more hardware and/or to find something that I know I have, but forgot where I put it (or has been covered up by other stuff).
Getting rid of it would go against my pack rat instincts.
But that is still in the crowded NE corridor as it's called where it makes sense to use it. An Amtrak train runs behind my apt building. It only stops at that terminal at 6am or 11pm and only on certain days. It would still be cheaper and take less time for me to get in a car and go to the either destinations that train services. And I could do it whenever I wanted to.
We used to have lots of different passenger rail lines at one point. However, given the subsidies that the highway system received and the lack of convenience when compared to driving. People only put up with that BS with airports because it's usually a lot faster. However, given the current check-in and security procedures, I know a few people that decided that the extra time driving was worth not having to endure the airport. If you compare the US to those countries, you'll also notice that outside of the NorthEast, the population density is a LOT less.
Given Amtrak's prices, I think the only people who bother are those who want to take a 'land cruise' vacation and not actually use it to just get from point A to point B.
It wouldn't be too bad if they were more practical. The batteries have to be replaced in a few years (3-5 I think) and that will cost a lot, which would drastically offset any savings in fuel expensess. One would be better off with a cheap diesel or motorbike (do they even make diesel bikes?). If one can't balance very well, then there are motorcycles with two rear wheels. I see lots of old people driving around on them all the time on the interstate.
It would have been nice to have the N64 compatibility mode with the game cube. Users could trade in their existing cartridge games for the disc based versions for the GC. Or even an optional cartridge reader. Everyone that really plays a lot of games on these systems usually has one that's their favorite that they play all the time. Not having to have two consoles hooked up to a TV would be a plus.
What signals does this send to existing game developers? Should they work on games for the current XBox, the new one, or both? What should they do about XBox1 games that are in development and won't be ready until after the intro of the new machine? At least with the compatibility mode, the PS2 had a big library of games the users could still buy or rent. The users could sell their old PS1 and keep their favorite games. For developers, it meant that for a short period of time, new development on games for the old system would still be profitable.
What if he's working for some acronym agency of the UN or something else? I guess you want to leave Iraq the way it is instead of trying to make it better.
What is it about musicians (Hatch is one) and the RIAA that seem to think that the pop crap that they shovel on to the airwaves or any place else is so damn important that they need to overhaul copyright laws and restrict technology? About 90+% of this garbage will be forgotten in less than a year, but the draconian laws will continue to harm technological innovation for years to come.
The 'limited time' phrase with respect to copyrights wasn't meant to be an eternal method for milking royalties from the public. Why doesn't the music industry just wise up and treat P2P trading for what it is: free advertising. CD sales should also be considered a 'loss leader' and meant to drive ticket sales to live concerts. Oh, yeah. That would require cultivating musicians that actually put on a good live show and don't require a small army of sound engineers to make something that sounds halfway decent. Not to mention giving up control to the people who create the music and their fans. What was I thinking!
That's without drives or controller. Just the metal brackets. I'm not a machinist, but that seems pretty damn expensive for just a few small metal plates with threaded holes and screws. I wonder how long it will be before similar items will be on sale on ebay for $50.
So what are you guys using for cases for these systems? Any ol' full ATX tower with a bunch of drive bays? I know for SCSI systems, one could buy an external enclosure, put 4+ drives in it, plug it into the external SCSI port, and go. Is there anything similar for ATA/SATA?
What can't you modify? They give you the source for most of it so you can modify it to fit your environment and business requirements.
Some of the upgrades are necessary. Govts tend to get cranky if you're not withholding the proper amount of taxes. However, in my experience, it was always good to wait to apply the tax upgrades as long as possible because they would often include some bugs. I'd rather let the early adopters pull their hair out and wait for the resulting patches from PS.
New PeopleSoft installs aren't trivial matters especially when it still has to interface to several home grown systems. Depending on the requirements, it can take years to replace an old mainframe based system with PeopleSoft, SAP, or any other ERP product. That's why consultants for those products make big bucks (they better...working your ass off and living in hotels for years at a time doesn't sound like fun to me).
BTW, quite a bit of PeopleSoft is written in COBOL, so the mainframers will be happy about that.
That just measures start up time. How about having it run ls on a directory with lots of files or cat a very large text file? That would be a better test the text rendering and scrolling capabilities of each one.
I'm not surprised with your results. In my experience, Gnome has always been faster than KDE.
I have OS X 10.2.8 on an old beige G3 tower (300MHz I think). It's got a 3d card in it, but I don't think it's one of the models that Quartz can use. Even though it is about 1/3 of the clockspeed of one of my linux machines, safari feels much faster than the browsers on the linux box (the text looks better too). So much so, I have found myself muttering "damn this is fast" from time to time.
And little time devoted to optimizing. That's what it looks like to me, whether it's Gnome,KDE, or OOo. Mozilla was painfully slow while they were in the adding features more, but once they took the time to sit down and start identifying the bloat, it got better (still not perfect). Look at Nautilus as another example. The first iteration had lots of nifty features, but it was slow. Alan Cox got frustrated with this, profiled the code, and then sent the Nautilus team the profiler output and suggestions to speed it up. To me, this sounds like something that the project team should have already done. Why did it take a widely known hacker like Alan to make them take notice?
Maybe there should be some Code-Bloat Nazis that are independant of the various major projects . They would analyze the software for speed, memory footprint, etc. and then report back to the developers where this is room for improvement.
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I haven't had many good nights of sleep ever since I got divorced. It doesn't matter if I try to sleep on a bed, recliner, or anything else. To make matter worse, I was assigned to a big project at about the same time that required a lot of late nights, often with the help desk staff calling me at home. It seemed that if I ever tried to go to sleep before midnight, I would get a call not long after I went to sleep. This lasted for most of a year. So, I kept staying up later and later to the point that it's rare that I go to sleep before 3 or 4am - staying awake until I can't stand it any longer and just zonk out for 3-4 hours until I have to start getting up for work.
A nice side effect of this is that I can easily drive to see a band during the week in a city 200 miles away and not be dragging into work the next day. I need to find other good uses for this time. Or at least better than arguing with jerkoffs on various messageboards.
At any rate, I'll have to put up with it to write child support checks for another 93 months. Then, my purpose in life will be finished and I won't care what happens after that.
Gates was born rich. He could have frittered away his life doing nothing but going to parties, playing golf, etc. The fact that he decided to start a company is one of the few redeeming qualities of the man.
What is wrong with children inheriting whatever their parents have managed to build during their lives?
I think you missed a decimal place. At that price, it's actually about $5400 per processor. That's not much more than what some of these processors cost.
As it is written, the Patriot Act isn't limited to terrorism. It is essentially a big patch file to existing US laws. Unless it a particular section specifically limits it to fighting terrorism (w/ a reference to how that is defined), then it can be used against any criminal activity.
It is the bag of goodies that the FBI and other agencies wanted from Congress at the time. They did the same sort of thing after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The politicians want to appear that they are doing something about the problem, so they give them what they want, for the most part.
The cops won't ticket Mexican plates and so they drive like bats out of hell.
What? Why not?
If I ever clean my place up, it will be to reorganize things for more hardware and/or to find something that I know I have, but forgot where I put it (or has been covered up by other stuff).
Getting rid of it would go against my pack rat instincts.
But that is still in the crowded NE corridor as it's called where it makes sense to use it. An Amtrak train runs behind my apt building. It only stops at that terminal at 6am or 11pm and only on certain days. It would still be cheaper and take less time for me to get in a car and go to the either destinations that train services. And I could do it whenever I wanted to.
We used to have lots of different passenger rail lines at one point. However, given the subsidies that the highway system received and the lack of convenience when compared to driving. People only put up with that BS with airports because it's usually a lot faster. However, given the current check-in and security procedures, I know a few people that decided that the extra time driving was worth not having to endure the airport. If you compare the US to those countries, you'll also notice that outside of the NorthEast, the population density is a LOT less.
Given Amtrak's prices, I think the only people who bother are those who want to take a 'land cruise' vacation and not actually use it to just get from point A to point B.
nah, they'll just enslave them like they've been doing for centuries before the Europeans.
It wouldn't be too bad if they were more practical. The batteries have to be replaced in a few years (3-5 I think) and that will cost a lot, which would drastically offset any savings in fuel expensess. One would be better off with a cheap diesel or motorbike (do they even make diesel bikes?). If one can't balance very well, then there are motorcycles with two rear wheels. I see lots of old people driving around on them all the time on the interstate.
It would have been nice to have the N64 compatibility mode with the game cube. Users could trade in their existing cartridge games for the disc based versions for the GC. Or even an optional cartridge reader. Everyone that really plays a lot of games on these systems usually has one that's their favorite that they play all the time. Not having to have two consoles hooked up to a TV would be a plus.
What signals does this send to existing game developers? Should they work on games for the current XBox, the new one, or both? What should they do about XBox1 games that are in development and won't be ready until after the intro of the new machine? At least with the compatibility mode, the PS2 had a big library of games the users could still buy or rent. The users could sell their old PS1 and keep their favorite games. For developers, it meant that for a short period of time, new development on games for the old system would still be profitable.
That's what XFCE is supposed be for.
They were right. The reason they can't find a lot of it is because it's been sold as scrap metal, hidden, or moved out of the country in other ways.
What if he's working for some acronym agency of the UN or something else? I guess you want to leave Iraq the way it is instead of trying to make it better.
What is it about musicians (Hatch is one) and the RIAA that seem to think that the pop crap that they shovel on to the airwaves or any place else is so damn important that they need to overhaul copyright laws and restrict technology? About 90+% of this garbage will be forgotten in less than a year, but the draconian laws will continue to harm technological innovation for years to come.
The 'limited time' phrase with respect to copyrights wasn't meant to be an eternal method for milking royalties from the public. Why doesn't the music industry just wise up and treat P2P trading for what it is: free advertising. CD sales should also be considered a 'loss leader' and meant to drive ticket sales to live concerts. Oh, yeah. That would require cultivating musicians that actually put on a good live show and don't require a small army of sound engineers to make something that sounds halfway decent. Not to mention giving up control to the people who create the music and their fans. What was I thinking!
That's without drives or controller. Just the metal brackets. I'm not a machinist, but that seems pretty damn expensive for just a few small metal plates with threaded holes and screws. I wonder how long it will be before similar items will be on sale on ebay for $50.
So what are you guys using for cases for these systems? Any ol' full ATX tower with a bunch of drive bays? I know for SCSI systems, one could buy an external enclosure, put 4+ drives in it, plug it into the external SCSI port, and go. Is there anything similar for ATA/SATA?
What can't you modify? They give you the source for most of it so you can modify it to fit your environment and business requirements.
Some of the upgrades are necessary. Govts tend to get cranky if you're not withholding the proper amount of taxes. However, in my experience, it was always good to wait to apply the tax upgrades as long as possible because they would often include some bugs. I'd rather let the early adopters pull their hair out and wait for the resulting patches from PS.
New PeopleSoft installs aren't trivial matters especially when it still has to interface to several home grown systems. Depending on the requirements, it can take years to replace an old mainframe based system with PeopleSoft, SAP, or any other ERP product. That's why consultants for those products make big bucks (they better...working your ass off and living in hotels for years at a time doesn't sound like fun to me).
BTW, quite a bit of PeopleSoft is written in COBOL, so the mainframers will be happy about that.
Then it's even better because the competing linux machine uses an AGP card w/ the manufacturer's X drivers and the Mac has a PCI video card.
That just measures start up time. How about having it run ls on a directory with lots of files or cat a very large text file? That would be a better test the text rendering and scrolling capabilities of each one.
I'm not surprised with your results. In my experience, Gnome has always been faster than KDE.
I have OS X 10.2.8 on an old beige G3 tower (300MHz I think). It's got a 3d card in it, but I don't think it's one of the models that Quartz can use. Even though it is about 1/3 of the clockspeed of one of my linux machines, safari feels much faster than the browsers on the linux box (the text looks better too). So much so, I have found myself muttering "damn this is fast" from time to time.
And little time devoted to optimizing. That's what it looks like to me, whether it's Gnome,KDE, or OOo. Mozilla was painfully slow while they were in the adding features more, but once they took the time to sit down and start identifying the bloat, it got better (still not perfect). Look at Nautilus as another example. The first iteration had lots of nifty features, but it was slow. Alan Cox got frustrated with this, profiled the code, and then sent the Nautilus team the profiler output and suggestions to speed it up. To me, this sounds like something that the project team should have already done. Why did it take a widely known hacker like Alan to make them take notice?
Maybe there should be some Code-Bloat Nazis that are independant of the various major projects . They would analyze the software for speed, memory footprint, etc. and then report back to the developers where this is room for improvement.
Do you know if anyone has informed the OOo people of this test? They might not be aware of it.