A stun gun is weaponry? And how does any of this not show respect to the people in the medical profession? IMHO, if a patient won't behave themselves, then they should be restrained, punished, or booted out the door. The people trying to help them shouldn't have to put up with such crap.
They're still drunk after waiting 5 hours to be seen? Don't let them drink in the damn waiting room! Also do you let these drunk, violent people roam the hospital or are they kept in the emergency room area? This thing isn't going to be interacting with people and if they are so bad, you need to restrain and/or sedate them. Sounds like the hospital staff is letting the inmates run the assylum.
If it is that big of a problem, then I'm sure the manufacturers can install some stun guns for use when it senses some thug assaulting it.
But according to this article, the new chip will have 8x the video RAM and will allow them double the clock speed.
If this is the case, they will probably include a way for new games to determine if they are on the new hardware revision. Yes timing is important, but it depends on how the developers are doing it. If they are using some known hardware quality like screen refresh rate, they may be able to use higher polygon counts on the new hardware. The older games would spend more time in an idle state waiting for the next refresh. If they are dependent on how fast a program will run due to the cpu clock speed (like the really old PC games that required the turbo button to be off), then this would definitely would be a bad thing.
That would be the case if the corp had standardized on the PDA being used and they were the main buyers. But only
1/4 of PDAs are bought by corporations. I don't care what everyone else uses since I'm the one that would be paying for it and it will only need to sync with my computer at home.
Almost sounds like she was reading from a MS 'fact sheet'. A guy I know bought a dev model at JavaOne and it didn't seem to have any of those qualities based on time I was able to play with it. It wasn't that much bigger than my Palm VIIx. I'd get one if I had the money.
If you're on an SGI, use the ImageVision libraries/tools. We were using it to process big images (60K x 20K x 5, 16 bits per channel) nearly 10 years ago. It will read as much of the image that is needed and will cache some of the tiles so going back over an area won't require another disk read. If the output is to an SGI video card, some image processing operations will be hardware accellerated. ImageVision homepage
1. Yeah, KDE3 seems to bit speedier than KDE2. From everything I've seen, it actually uses a bit more memory, but in turn, performance is greater.
Of course that's if you have enough memory and it doesn't start going into swap. I just had to add memory to a KDE machine to make it barely usable instead of pig slow. I'd rather spend my money on something else than on memory for each new release of KDE. No thanks. I'll pass on this one.
Moonshine from that era was known to cause blindness but people took that risk.
That's because some of the producers were mixing in large amounts methyl alcohol (wood alcohol) or were just incompetant when it came to distilling. Methyl alcohol breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid in the body. This is what caused blindness and/or death. While it is present in small amounts in may natural products, larger amounts of ethyl alcohol are also present (ethanol is the anitdote for methanol).
People had been making their own whiskey a long, long time before Prohibition. In some cases it was to turn grain into something more portable and profitable, in others it was to avoid paying taxes. Given the same risk, it was more profitable for the people to smuggle whiskey than beer or wine. Why do people drink beer or wine now instead of whiskey? It's cheaper per liter and it takes more liquid to get really drunk. Most people social drinkers and probably aren't out to get drunk really fast (depending on the region, there are people who make, drink and sell illegal moonshine). Those that do want to get drunk really fast and/or like the surge of alcohol hitting their system are going to go for the hard stuff. Would a powdered cocaine user or crackhead start chewing coca leaves if it suddently became legal? Probably not because they're used to the rapid rush.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the picture of the toilet next to a 1st gen iBook on a stand. Weren't these machines referred to as the 'Apple Toilet Seats'?
That's odd, because that's exactly how I use Galeon: middle click on links so they will open in new tabs and continue to scroll around and browse in the current tab while the others are loading. A consistent thing that will bog it down is having several tabs up and having animations going in the tabs or opening a new tab while several (20+) others are still being used. I usually have the animation stuff turned off, but doesn't affect some sites (probably using a different method to perform the animation.). This is with 1.0.3 (I haven't tried 1.2.0 yet).
I regularly use galeon on a p233 and it works great..even with slashdot's big stories. What are you trying to view that causes it to crawl? View pages with a thousand different animated gifs and/or java applets?
I used to run Gnome 1.4 on a P233 w/ 128M of RAM at work and it ran fine for me. If you think Nautilus is slow, then don't run it! You can still run gmc or no file manager at all (I prefer the latter). IMHO, it's still far better than the versions of KDE that I've used. I have Mandrake 8.1 on a Celeron 450 and it is dog slow. Bumping the memory up to 128M helped but it was still a lot slower than Gnome 1.4+WindowMaker when it was a RedHat machine.
FWIW, the version of nautilus included in Gnome 2 is supposed to be much, much faster.
You've over estimated the US taxes. According to this web page, taxes only account for 22% of the cost of fuel in the US, but it's 73% of the cost of fuel in the UK. The BBC also had an interesting chart showing the amount of petroleum used by each area of the world.
I wouldn't be surprised. When a guy I worked with went to Africa to help out with some computer installations, he said his hotel was inside a perimeter fence and it had guards that were armed with guns and machettes. He said it wasn't uncommon for him to go out the gate in the morning and find a new patch of blood where a guard had caught someone trying to break in and promply hacked them to death the night before.
I didn't say anything about the shuttle. Who paid for a good chunk of the R&D that went into developing those disposable rockets? The military and NASA. Having a line of rockets powered by the Saturn V's engines would be better at launching the commodity type payloads. NASA pretty much put all its eggs in one basket (the Shuttle) in the 70s, but was it due to budget constrains or politics? I don't know.
That depends if the companies in question have the capital in order to do all the R&D and if the management decides that rate of return on that capital is sufficient for them to invest in it. What NASA initially gets may not be commericially viable, but in the process much is learned and with a few iterations it does become viable. Many companies don't want to or can't wait a couple iterations for something to become viable. The standard answer that many have is that for every $1 spent on NASA, $7 is generated due to commercial spinoffs. It's the same reason for any sort of research funded by the Govt. Or do you think the DARPA guys should have just sat back and took the position of "Well, if interconnecting diverse computers over a large geographical distance with a common protocol has genuine commercial potential, let's just wait until the vendors develop something on their own and drop it on our doorstep."?
As far as your second point, actually yes. Companies always have projects that don't work the way that they're supposed to. The key thing is what is learned and how what was completed can be put to good use (ie turning lemons into lemonade). In your example, those servers can always be used for something else (renderfarm, database cluster, etc.). I also wouldn't consider the Shuttle a complete failure. It's expensive compared to some other alternatives, but it's still very useful.
The R&D efforts always have commercial spinoffs. Lightweight plastics with scratch resistant coatings an example that I've always heard about. Some companies even advertise their products are the result of NASA research (whether it's true or a gimmick, I don't know). The people bitching about NASA probably don't think about how communications or weather satellites effect their lives, but at some point it was cutting edge technology that was developed at NASA or other agencies like it around the world. It is a PR problem because most people don't know what is being worked on that will change how they live in the future. Unfortunately, NASA's failures get more attention than their successes. Do you want to farm everything out to the ESA? Why abandon another area? I find it embarrassing that the US car manufacturers have pretty much given up on trying to produce efficient cars (unless they get govt grants to squander on experimental cars that will never be built) and have left that to the Europeans, Japanese and Koreans.
But you're stuck with the CPU. The CPUs could be removed from the earlier iMacs, so I'm guessing that at some point one could upgrade the new iMac with a faster G4. That is, if Apple didn't cripple it in order to insure demand of future versions.
I wouldn't mind getting one of these boards if I had the money available for it.
No kidding. From the site, they said that one with a socket would cost no more than 15% more than the soldered version. I can't see how that would cost that much more. Since they consider the CPUs scarce because Apple uses most of them, why not use a socketed cpu? They could make some boards, sell them, and let the customer worry about availability. Also, what if a part is determined to be bad during the final round of testing after the CPU has been soldered on? If it was a socket board, they could just take the CPU out and use it in another board w/o much trouble. Saying you can just sell the board to someone else if you want to upgrade just doesn't seem like a good option. I'd rather leave everything in place and just take the cpu out. There are enough aftermarket Mac accelerator vendors that do this, they should too.
And how much did that equipment cost compared to the Sirius radios? I'm guessing that they don't want to make the radios even more expensive than they already are and have made something cheap enough to work under optimal conditions. Unfortunately, these conditions probably only exist in the middle of nowhere without a competing signal for another 50-100 miles.
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A stun gun is weaponry? And how does any of this not show respect to the people in the medical profession? IMHO, if a patient won't behave themselves, then they should be restrained, punished, or booted out the door. The people trying to help them shouldn't have to put up with such crap.
They're still drunk after waiting 5 hours to be seen? Don't let them drink in the damn waiting room! Also do you let these drunk, violent people roam the hospital or are they kept in the emergency room area? This thing isn't going to be interacting with people and if they are so bad, you need to restrain and/or sedate them. Sounds like the hospital staff is letting the inmates run the assylum.
If it is that big of a problem, then I'm sure the manufacturers can install some stun guns for use when it senses some thug assaulting it.
But according to this article, the new chip will have 8x the video RAM and will allow them double the clock speed.
If this is the case, they will probably include a way for new games to determine if they are on the new hardware revision. Yes timing is important, but it depends on how the developers are doing it. If they are using some known hardware quality like screen refresh rate, they may be able to use higher polygon counts on the new hardware. The older games would spend more time in an idle state waiting for the next refresh. If they are dependent on how fast a program will run due to the cpu clock speed (like the really old PC games that required the turbo button to be off), then this would definitely would be a bad thing.
Corporate purchase and acceptance of a PDA is what is necessary for a company to make money.
Not if only 1/4 of PDA purchases are made by corporations. Sure it helps, but corporate acceptance isn't everything.
That would be the case if the corp had standardized on the PDA being used and they were the main buyers. But only 1/4 of PDAs are bought by corporations. I don't care what everyone else uses since I'm the one that would be paying for it and it will only need to sync with my computer at home.
Almost sounds like she was reading from a MS 'fact sheet'. A guy I know bought a dev model at JavaOne and it didn't seem to have any of those qualities based on time I was able to play with it. It wasn't that much bigger than my Palm VIIx. I'd get one if I had the money.
If you're on an SGI, use the ImageVision libraries/tools. We were using it to process big images (60K x 20K x 5, 16 bits per channel) nearly 10 years ago. It will read as much of the image that is needed and will cache some of the tiles so going back over an area won't require another disk read. If the output is to an SGI video card, some image processing operations will be hardware accellerated. ImageVision homepage
1. Yeah, KDE3 seems to bit speedier than KDE2. From everything I've seen, it actually uses a bit more memory, but in turn, performance is greater.
Of course that's if you have enough memory and it doesn't start going into swap. I just had to add memory to a KDE machine to make it barely usable instead of pig slow. I'd rather spend my money on something else than on memory for each new release of KDE. No thanks. I'll pass on this one.
Moonshine from that era was known to cause blindness but people took that risk.
That's because some of the producers were mixing in large amounts methyl alcohol (wood alcohol) or were just incompetant when it came to distilling. Methyl alcohol breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid in the body. This is what caused blindness and/or death. While it is present in small amounts in may natural products, larger amounts of ethyl alcohol are also present (ethanol is the anitdote for methanol).
People had been making their own whiskey a long, long time before Prohibition. In some cases it was to turn grain into something more portable and profitable, in others it was to avoid paying taxes. Given the same risk, it was more profitable for the people to smuggle whiskey than beer or wine. Why do people drink beer or wine now instead of whiskey? It's cheaper per liter and it takes more liquid to get really drunk. Most people social drinkers and probably aren't out to get drunk really fast (depending on the region, there are people who make, drink and sell illegal moonshine). Those that do want to get drunk really fast and/or like the surge of alcohol hitting their system are going to go for the hard stuff. Would a powdered cocaine user or crackhead start chewing coca leaves if it suddently became legal? Probably not because they're used to the rapid rush.
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the picture of the toilet next to a 1st gen iBook on a stand. Weren't these machines referred to as the 'Apple Toilet Seats'?
I believe you are referring to the Sloan Valve.
That's odd, because that's exactly how I use Galeon: middle click on links so they will open in new tabs and continue to scroll around and browse in the current tab while the others are loading. A consistent thing that will bog it down is having several tabs up and having animations going in the tabs or opening a new tab while several (20+) others are still being used. I usually have the animation stuff turned off, but doesn't affect some sites (probably using a different method to perform the animation.). This is with 1.0.3 (I haven't tried 1.2.0 yet).
I regularly use galeon on a p233 and it works great..even with slashdot's big stories. What are you trying to view that causes it to crawl? View pages with a thousand different animated gifs and/or java applets?
I used to run Gnome 1.4 on a P233 w/ 128M of RAM at work and it ran fine for me. If you think Nautilus is slow, then don't run it! You can still run gmc or no file manager at all (I prefer the latter). IMHO, it's still far better than the versions of KDE that I've used. I have Mandrake 8.1 on a Celeron 450 and it is dog slow. Bumping the memory up to 128M helped but it was still a lot slower than Gnome 1.4+WindowMaker when it was a RedHat machine.
FWIW, the version of nautilus included in Gnome 2 is supposed to be much, much faster.
You've over estimated the US taxes. According to this web page, taxes only account for 22% of the cost of fuel in the US, but it's 73% of the cost of fuel in the UK. The BBC also had an interesting chart showing the amount of petroleum used by each area of the world.
I wouldn't be surprised. When a guy I worked with went to Africa to help out with some computer installations, he said his hotel was inside a perimeter fence and it had guards that were armed with guns and machettes. He said it wasn't uncommon for him to go out the gate in the morning and find a new patch of blood where a guard had caught someone trying to break in and promply hacked them to death the night before.
I didn't say anything about the shuttle. Who paid for a good chunk of the R&D that went into developing those disposable rockets? The military and NASA. Having a line of rockets powered by the Saturn V's engines would be better at launching the commodity type payloads. NASA pretty much put all its eggs in one basket (the Shuttle) in the 70s, but was it due to budget constrains or politics? I don't know.
That depends if the companies in question have the capital in order to do all the R&D and if the management decides that rate of return on that capital is sufficient for them to invest in it. What NASA initially gets may not be commericially viable, but in the process much is learned and with a few iterations it does become viable. Many companies don't want to or can't wait a couple iterations for something to become viable. The standard answer that many have is that for every $1 spent on NASA, $7 is generated due to commercial spinoffs. It's the same reason for any sort of research funded by the Govt. Or do you think the DARPA guys should have just sat back and took the position of "Well, if interconnecting diverse computers over a large geographical distance with a common protocol has genuine commercial potential, let's just wait until the vendors develop something on their own and drop it on our doorstep."?
As far as your second point, actually yes. Companies always have projects that don't work the way that they're supposed to. The key thing is what is learned and how what was completed can be put to good use (ie turning lemons into lemonade). In your example, those servers can always be used for something else (renderfarm, database cluster, etc.). I also wouldn't consider the Shuttle a complete failure. It's expensive compared to some other alternatives, but it's still very useful.
The R&D efforts always have commercial spinoffs. Lightweight plastics with scratch resistant coatings an example that I've always heard about. Some companies even advertise their products are the result of NASA research (whether it's true or a gimmick, I don't know). The people bitching about NASA probably don't think about how communications or weather satellites effect their lives, but at some point it was cutting edge technology that was developed at NASA or other agencies like it around the world. It is a PR problem because most people don't know what is being worked on that will change how they live in the future. Unfortunately, NASA's failures get more attention than their successes. Do you want to farm everything out to the ESA? Why abandon another area? I find it embarrassing that the US car manufacturers have pretty much given up on trying to produce efficient cars (unless they get govt grants to squander on experimental cars that will never be built) and have left that to the Europeans, Japanese and Koreans.
But you're stuck with the CPU. The CPUs could be removed from the earlier iMacs, so I'm guessing that at some point one could upgrade the new iMac with a faster G4. That is, if Apple didn't cripple it in order to insure demand of future versions.
I wouldn't mind getting one of these boards if I had the money available for it.
No kidding. From the site, they said that one with a socket would cost no more than 15% more than the soldered version. I can't see how that would cost that much more. Since they consider the CPUs scarce because Apple uses most of them, why not use a socketed cpu? They could make some boards, sell them, and let the customer worry about availability. Also, what if a part is determined to be bad during the final round of testing after the CPU has been soldered on? If it was a socket board, they could just take the CPU out and use it in another board w/o much trouble. Saying you can just sell the board to someone else if you want to upgrade just doesn't seem like a good option. I'd rather leave everything in place and just take the cpu out. There are enough aftermarket Mac accelerator vendors that do this, they should too.
Didn't SGI have a 3D card for PCs in the early 90s?
And how much did that equipment cost compared to the Sirius radios? I'm guessing that they don't want to make the radios even more expensive than they already are and have made something cheap enough to work under optimal conditions. Unfortunately, these conditions probably only exist in the middle of nowhere without a competing signal for another 50-100 miles.
Have you tried out the one at http://spellchecker.mozdev.org?
And they are probably much stronger than the pencil magnet that he suggested using. I use them to stick things to my cubicle walls.