How much you make is pretty meaningless without normalizing by cost of living. $50k in Idaho is effectively 2x as much as $50k in San Francisco.
That's true for housing, but by that reasoning cars, TVs, computers, prescription drugs, etc all cost 1/2 as much in SF. My 2 story 4BR/2B house costs me about 12% of my income.
is it not true? Wouldnt the money spent on the gulf war be better spent here? Or perhaps not spent at all so we weren't in debt quite so much?
Since when did "live within your means" become something that only applies to those on the left? The US "right" is every bit as socialist as the left, they just spend it on different things and hand it out to different people. The neo-cons certainly didn't leave the spending part of liberalism behind.
I think there might be some diesel hybrids in europe. The problem is that in the US, diesel fuel has traditionally been very dirty crap, and you need to meet CA emision standards. 2006 marks the year of mandated low sulfur diesel, so we might see more diesels on the road and some hybrid diesel options.
Diesel has more energy per galon than gasoline, so it gets better milage. IMHO, the biggest advantage diesel has is that it's a bit more flexible than gas -- there's several options for sources of biodiesel, so if one thing doesn't work out, we're not screwed.
It's literally "older than Moses". You can thank the Sumerians for it. Yep, those crazy people who brought us the wheel and beer also gave us 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.
My first thought for something like this would be to use it for squid. You'll still get a pretty good hit rate with 2 or 4GB, and even if it were to take a dump, it's not a big deal.
It'll be more useful in a few years when people have a bunch of spare 512MB+ dimms because everything has moved to ddr2.
My wife and I used to play WoW, but with RL, which includes children, we often dont get much uninterupted time to play. GW is a much better fit for people who get interupted a lot or can't play very often (like maybe 8 hours a month).
3. Have employees which actually DO check their mail from home AND reply even when someone's set it all up for them?
I'm guessing a single digit percentage at most.
I'd agree with the single digit percentage of users, but not companies. While most users wont need to check their email at home or on the road, some will, particularly sales people that travel a lot.
You could always roll a 10 sided dice 4 times for your ssh port. It's more secure, because if you believe that someone has compromised your dice, you've got bigger problems than an insecure linux install.
If you look at a 1u IBM Server (click on visual tour, then inside view), they've got a lot of fans -- 7 in fact, with 2 blowing over each cpu. You might not have enough fans and maybe the link above will give you some ideas on fan positioning if you have any options in your case. I'm not sure of the rpm the fans they use run at, but they're monsters and they sound like jet engines when you turn the servers on.
Right now, I've got 6 rack mount ibm servers with p4s in them and haven't had any cooling problems (the server room is ACed). So I know it can be done, but it might take a bunch of expensive fans to do it.
"20 terabytes of data" This has to be the most bloated screensaver ever!
I have users that would love to get their hands on that one.
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I realize that. I've got nothing against Macs. I'd highly recommend them for over 1/2 of the home users out there. However, how many corporations run macs? There's your main user base. The computers where I work have to run software that's only available for windows. Any advantages of switching to Mac are drastically dwarfed by that fact. So, at least in the short term, the only solution for many people is that windows improves.
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Here's a few of the things that I would want in the next version of windows:
--don't require users to run as admin. Go after sw companies that put out software such as games that require users to run as root.
--allow users to easily "su to root" for installs, reconfig, etc. Don't require a logoff/logon.
--use the 3d for something useful, like letting users run at 1280x1024 but have everything be sized as if it were 800x600. Try giving a person with bad eyesight an lcd and telling them they should run in 1280x1024. It has to be easy to change.
--never let the user lose control. I hate it when the interface hangs up and you can't do anything. This happens when printing, programs screw up, accessing some media, etc. Fix that.
--restore the uninstall information when doing a system restore. I might be wrong on this, as I've only used it on one system, but it seemed to restore uninstalled programs, but they couldn't be uninstalled again. BTW system restore is the main reason I bought xp for home. Improve that.
--a decent command shell. Hey, just port bash over, it'll save both of us some time.
--easy to use equivalent to ln -s
--easy way to schedule when the computer logs someone off automatically, and is locked from use for certain times of the day. This is for kicking the kids off the computer automatically, and preventing them from getting on in the middle of the night.
You left out one of the big ones for parents -- since everything is instanced, you can back up a little ways and your game is essentially paused. Games like WoW or DAoC dont have that ability and arent really a good option for people who often have to stop playing suddenly.
that may be true, but homemade computers are a very small part of the market. Very Very small.
BTW, HP did recently introduce a new business line that uses 939 pin athlon 64s, called the dx5150, so not all is bad for AMD (also pci-e, dvi and analog, etc). HP also had an athlon xp line (d325 iirc) that wasn't too bad - nforce2 chipset, agp slot, etc.
Does the book mention that Matrix 1 was a rip-off of an old script from 1981 called "The Third Eye"?
I'd never heard this before. It appears that she won, and won big: $2.5B for matrix and terminator. I'm guessing the axe that killed them was that she submitted it to "to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers" in the mid 80s. Wow.
I did some looking on the net and came up with a few links, but one will cover it for most who only want confirmation of the win: http://www.femmixx.com/matrixlawsuit.html
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I want a button that I can click to increase the size of the font on a page.
I'm sure I'm not the only parent who could use that when rocking a baby to sleep.
Next years version will vibrate when you get an IM. Perfect for those special chat sessions.
How much you make is pretty meaningless without normalizing by cost of living. $50k in Idaho is effectively 2x as much as $50k in San Francisco.
That's true for housing, but by that reasoning cars, TVs, computers, prescription drugs, etc all cost 1/2 as much in SF. My 2 story 4BR/2B house costs me about 12% of my income.
is it not true? Wouldnt the money spent on the gulf war be better spent here? Or perhaps not spent at all so we weren't in debt quite so much?
Since when did "live within your means" become something that only applies to those on the left? The US "right" is every bit as socialist as the left, they just spend it on different things and hand it out to different people. The neo-cons certainly didn't leave the spending part of liberalism behind.
Isn't it likely that the iq tests simply stress things that men are generally better at?
It all depends on the state you live in. In Kansas that might be 100 or 1000 years. Everywhere else, it might be millions of years.
We now have batteries powered by urine!
Honey, the laptop died, get me another beer!
I think there might be some diesel hybrids in europe. The problem is that in the US, diesel fuel has traditionally been very dirty crap, and you need to meet CA emision standards. 2006 marks the year of mandated low sulfur diesel, so we might see more diesels on the road and some hybrid diesel options.
Diesel has more energy per galon than gasoline, so it gets better milage. IMHO, the biggest advantage diesel has is that it's a bit more flexible than gas -- there's several options for sources of biodiesel, so if one thing doesn't work out, we're not screwed.
I sent that joke to my wife via IM. She didn't get it, but mon3048@nsa.gov sent me an email that said LOL!
It's literally "older than Moses". You can thank the Sumerians for it. Yep, those crazy people who brought us the wheel and beer also gave us 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.
My first thought for something like this would be to use it for squid. You'll still get a pretty good hit rate with 2 or 4GB, and even if it were to take a dump, it's not a big deal.
It'll be more useful in a few years when people have a bunch of spare 512MB+ dimms because everything has moved to ddr2.
Maybe the congressman should disclose in who's pocket he is.
I'd say most of them are located between two pockets. Some are in the back, some in the front.
After publishing a questionable study about macs, Jupiter Research's exposure went up dramatically.
The problem is, there's a lot of people who wont be able to understand this.
Bush Sr claimed be surprised that 1/2 of the american population was below average intelligence. Bush Jr relied on it.
My wife and I used to play WoW, but with RL, which includes children, we often dont get much uninterupted time to play. GW is a much better fit for people who get interupted a lot or can't play very often (like maybe 8 hours a month).
3. Have employees which actually DO check their mail from home AND reply even when someone's set it all up for them?
I'm guessing a single digit percentage at most.
I'd agree with the single digit percentage of users, but not companies. While most users wont need to check their email at home or on the road, some will, particularly sales people that travel a lot.
You could always roll a 10 sided dice 4 times for your ssh port. It's more secure, because if you believe that someone has compromised your dice, you've got bigger problems than an insecure linux install.
BTW, I never even thought of using 2222.
If you look at a 1u IBM Server (click on visual tour, then inside view), they've got a lot of fans -- 7 in fact, with 2 blowing over each cpu. You might not have enough fans and maybe the link above will give you some ideas on fan positioning if you have any options in your case. I'm not sure of the rpm the fans they use run at, but they're monsters and they sound like jet engines when you turn the servers on.
Right now, I've got 6 rack mount ibm servers with p4s in them and haven't had any cooling problems (the server room is ACed). So I know it can be done, but it might take a bunch of expensive fans to do it.
"20 terabytes of data" This has to be the most bloated screensaver ever!
I have users that would love to get their hands on that one.
I realize that. I've got nothing against Macs. I'd highly recommend them for over 1/2 of the home users out there. However, how many corporations run macs? There's your main user base. The computers where I work have to run software that's only available for windows. Any advantages of switching to Mac are drastically dwarfed by that fact. So, at least in the short term, the only solution for many people is that windows improves.
Here's a few of the things that I would want in the next version of windows:
--don't require users to run as admin. Go after sw companies that put out software such as games that require users to run as root.
--allow users to easily "su to root" for installs, reconfig, etc. Don't require a logoff/logon.
--use the 3d for something useful, like letting users run at 1280x1024 but have everything be sized as if it were 800x600. Try giving a person with bad eyesight an lcd and telling them they should run in 1280x1024. It has to be easy to change.
--never let the user lose control. I hate it when the interface hangs up and you can't do anything. This happens when printing, programs screw up, accessing some media, etc. Fix that.
--restore the uninstall information when doing a system restore. I might be wrong on this, as I've only used it on one system, but it seemed to restore uninstalled programs, but they couldn't be uninstalled again. BTW system restore is the main reason I bought xp for home. Improve that.
--a decent command shell. Hey, just port bash over, it'll save both of us some time.
--easy to use equivalent to ln -s
--easy way to schedule when the computer logs someone off automatically, and is locked from use for certain times of the day. This is for kicking the kids off the computer automatically, and preventing them from getting on in the middle of the night.
--a reasonable price.
You left out one of the big ones for parents -- since everything is instanced, you can back up a little ways and your game is essentially paused. Games like WoW or DAoC dont have that ability and arent really a good option for people who often have to stop playing suddenly.
that may be true, but homemade computers are a very small part of the market. Very Very small.
BTW, HP did recently introduce a new business line that uses 939 pin athlon 64s, called the dx5150, so not all is bad for AMD (also pci-e, dvi and analog, etc). HP also had an athlon xp line (d325 iirc) that wasn't too bad - nforce2 chipset, agp slot, etc.
Does the book mention that Matrix 1 was a rip-off of an old script from 1981 called "The Third Eye"?
I'd never heard this before. It appears that she won, and won big: $2.5B for matrix and terminator. I'm guessing the axe that killed them was that she submitted it to "to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers" in the mid 80s. Wow.
I did some looking on the net and came up with a few links, but one will cover it for most who only want confirmation of the win:
http://www.femmixx.com/matrixlawsuit.html
If you have a faster way to make $1.04 million, please feel free to share it ;)
Well, if you have over $50M, making over $1M in 6 months wont take much effort.