Some people like dedicated calculators because typing in numerical formulations with a stylus on a palm's screen is really inefficient and not very comfortable.
Same way Peanut Brittle is just that - strong but brittle. Try applying slow pressure to it; it's hard to break, even if you apply a lot of force. But hit it suddenly with a mallet and it shatters.
Magnesium metal is the same way. Under road stresses, it holds the radiator in place securely. Run the truck into a tree, however, and the mount falls apart.
It's fascinating that the vast majority of Sci-Fi portrays the post-apocalyptic landscape as barren desert surrounding the old hulks of abandoned buildings. Yet in the real post-apocalyptic landscape around Chernobyl, everything is green and blooming. It seems spookier that way, but it also highlights our societal underestimation of the ability of life to go on after a disaster.
Either way, it's kind of funny (in a sad way) that when a deadly disaster removes the human element, the rest of life seems to do better for itself.
Not that this would completely invalidate the results, and they were just using whatever was most recently available for each platform for the test, but:
Sun 1.4.2 Apple 1.4.1_01
Apple's since released 1.4.2, which apparently includes some substantial performance enhancements.
Why would you shut down a profitable division, no matter how small? It's not costing anything to run - it's making money. That's like refusing a $20 check from your grandma for your birthday because you make $150,000 a year. Money is money.
And what's with the "you are foolish"? Can no one around here articulate their position in an argument without throwing in a personal attack?
But the MacBU is one of only a few divisions at MS making money. And even if it's small compared to Office/Windows, it's still positive cashflow.
MS, though profitable, is losing money hand/fist on most of it's divisions. Seen the financials for the XBox division lately? So if any unit would make them money, why wouldn't they keep it running?
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Yep, been here even longer and same story. Never seen the email system down for more than ~6 hours. I think they just turned off the mail system to halt spread of the thing, more than the servers melting - the POP server still responds instantly to a ping but it's not allowing connections.
I remember searching for pr0n on webcrawler. It was kinda funny: at one point early on I searched for "sex" and all that came up was a few Sex Pistols fan sites. A few months later I tried again, and got the results we all know and love. It just amazes me how fast smut exploded (splooged?) onto the internet.
They brought them back in CGI, only to be shut down again by the long lines of Slashdotters spilling soda and nachos on each other, trying to cram into a website that only seats 30...
I have an LG DVD/CDRW combo that I installed in my G4. Not only was it not messed up by installing Panther, but Panther has native burn support for it.
I had to do some minor hacking to get Finder/iTunes burn support for it in Jaguar.
I have not used it yet, but I hear that they have kind of dummied down the Photoshop interface to make it more consumer-software-like (eg iPhoto, PhotoDeluxe). Anyone with experience with this? 'Cause if it's true, I'm sticking with 7 anyway...
I just heard through one of the people involved that 900 machines have arrived now. Out of those, only 2 were DOA. That's less than 0.25%. Impressive. And only 200 more to go.
Actually, they paid regular.edu institution prices for all machines. They were ordered through the Apple store online. Apple did give them a break on RAM - Crucial RAM at wholesale (NOT Apple) prices, preinstalled before the machines shipped.
No, actually. I'm kinda curious to see how they arrange them. They're not blades by any means. And 1100!? Ay Caramba! Maybe they'll put them in the power plant as a replacement for the coal-burning furnace.
I guess I'll find out next week.
As another, I heard of it over a month ago, when they were ordering the machines. A friend of a friend is in charge of hooking the things up. They just started to come in this past week; I'm going to see it next week. I was gonna wait until it was built to subit it to./, but el gato, el bag...
I'm in Geology, and I knew before most CS/IT type people did. Ha. I guess it really is who you know.
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Some people like dedicated calculators because typing in numerical formulations with a stylus on a palm's screen is really inefficient and not very comfortable.
Same way Peanut Brittle is just that - strong but brittle. Try applying slow pressure to it; it's hard to break, even if you apply a lot of force. But hit it suddenly with a mallet and it shatters.
Magnesium metal is the same way. Under road stresses, it holds the radiator in place securely. Run the truck into a tree, however, and the mount falls apart.
where their server used to be?
Also, it should have been called Rupert, not Sedna. And if it was just discovered that means the end is quite nigh.
It's fascinating that the vast majority of Sci-Fi portrays the post-apocalyptic landscape as barren desert surrounding the old hulks of abandoned buildings. Yet in the real post-apocalyptic landscape around Chernobyl, everything is green and blooming. It seems spookier that way, but it also highlights our societal underestimation of the ability of life to go on after a disaster.
Either way, it's kind of funny (in a sad way) that when a deadly disaster removes the human element, the rest of life seems to do better for itself.
Not that this would completely invalidate the results, and they were just using whatever was most recently available for each platform for the test, but:
Sun 1.4.2
Apple 1.4.1_01
Apple's since released 1.4.2, which apparently includes some substantial performance enhancements.
Why would you shut down a profitable division, no matter how small? It's not costing anything to run - it's making money. That's like refusing a $20 check from your grandma for your birthday because you make $150,000 a year. Money is money.
And what's with the "you are foolish"? Can no one around here articulate their position in an argument without throwing in a personal attack?
But the MacBU is one of only a few divisions at MS making money. And even if it's small compared to Office/Windows, it's still positive cashflow.
MS, though profitable, is losing money hand/fist on most of it's divisions. Seen the financials for the XBox division lately? So if any unit would make them money, why wouldn't they keep it running?
Yep, been here even longer and same story. Never seen the email system down for more than ~6 hours. I think they just turned off the mail system to halt spread of the thing, more than the servers melting - the POP server still responds instantly to a ping but it's not allowing connections.
It's NASA's craft that works when others have failed. Perhaps this is a good sign for things to come...
I remember searching for pr0n on webcrawler. It was kinda funny: at one point early on I searched for "sex" and all that came up was a few Sex Pistols fan sites. A few months later I tried again, and got the results we all know and love. It just amazes me how fast smut exploded (splooged?) onto the internet.
They are going to absolutely go bonkers when this hits the news.
If it's on Slashdot now, it probably hit the news two weeks ago.
It'll probably hit the news again in a couple days when CmdrTaco posts it again.
So yeah, the companies are gonna go bonkers a LOT. But what do you expect from a sponsor of SCO?
They brought them back in CGI, only to be shut down again by the long lines of Slashdotters spilling soda and nachos on each other, trying to cram into a website that only seats 30...
Gentoo!
Sitting in class... taking a test in class...
Also, would a beowulf cluster of these be useful to arthropods with multifaceted eyes?
I was going to make another karma-whoring joke, but I can't remember the name of that actress, with the hot grits and all... better find my glasses...
I have an LG DVD/CDRW combo that I installed in my G4. Not only was it not messed up by installing Panther, but Panther has native burn support for it.
I had to do some minor hacking to get Finder/iTunes burn support for it in Jaguar.
When this happens, we'll all scream DUPLICATE! and link back to this story.
I have not used it yet, but I hear that they have kind of dummied down the Photoshop interface to make it more consumer-software-like (eg iPhoto, PhotoDeluxe). Anyone with experience with this? 'Cause if it's true, I'm sticking with 7 anyway...
LABrats? Why should a bunch of brats from LA be doing science?
A breader reactor? Is that a reactor built from a breadmaker?
That'll be 10.2.X version 10.0.
Er... doing fine on 2 older G4 towers...
I just heard through one of the people involved that 900 machines have arrived now. Out of those, only 2 were DOA. That's less than 0.25%. Impressive. And only 200 more to go.
Actually, they paid regular .edu institution prices for all machines. They were ordered through the Apple store online. Apple did give them a break on RAM - Crucial RAM at wholesale (NOT Apple) prices, preinstalled before the machines shipped.
No, actually. I'm kinda curious to see how they arrange them. They're not blades by any means. And 1100!? Ay Caramba! Maybe they'll put them in the power plant as a replacement for the coal-burning furnace. I guess I'll find out next week.
As another, I heard of it over a month ago, when they were ordering the machines. A friend of a friend is in charge of hooking the things up. They just started to come in this past week; I'm going to see it next week. I was gonna wait until it was built to subit it to ./, but el gato, el bag...
I'm in Geology, and I knew before most CS/IT type people did. Ha. I guess it really is who you know.