I drive a 2001 VW Jetta (2.8L 6 cylinder), which the EPA lists at 19/28. I average just about 28 on the highway at 75MPH, but it drops quickly if you go higher. I was once patient enough to calculate mileage while driving 70MPH, and came up with nearly 30MPG -- not a bad improvement really.
With city driving, however, I rarely get more than 15-17MPG. Could be my lead foot and all that low end torque, though...
Err... how can you "emulate" a hard drive, if you don't have one?
Who knows what RAM prices will be like when Xbox 2 comes out, but given enough main memory, it doesnt seem like the old titles would suffer for lack of space (except for things like ripping your own music tracks).
Your post sums it up perfectly; I just saved five minutes by not writing it on my own;)
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The previous post mentioned Japan (where the poster currently lives) and Australia (where the poster is from). I don't think he insulted, or even mentioned, or even implied that he was mentioning, America there, champ.
Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure how I missed it given that I have a copy of the Mythical Man Month with the "Silver Bullet" essay sitting right on my desk:)
"Mythical Man-Month" anyone? Father of modern software project management (although admittedly, this may be a dubious honor)? I mean I guess it's great that Larry Ellison is up there and all, but I'd prefer to see actual computer scientists on the list as opposed to "business people".
Interesting...I admit, I never heard of overheating Mac Pluses. My dad bought one a few months after they came out, and it finally was replaced (before it actually gave out!) by my grandfather in 1999. To my knowledge, it never suffered from heat problems, but I suppose some of those random "type 11" crashes could very well have been due to overheating.
That's the rub -- the last court ruling on (I believe) the Sonny Bono copyright extension act type thingie essentially said that even life + XX years is "limited". Running with that logic, any copyright term that is not infinity must therefore be "limited". Wheee.
While I certainly agree with the spirit of your post, it seems the main beef is with the cellphone input system -- wouldn't it make more sense to attack the problem from that angle, since it would also help the "phone experience" in other ways?
Maybe (probably) I'm just being difficult here, but I see something like this as a cop-out in all honesty. If I'm outside Chez Foobar and want to order dinner, surely there is a better way for me to connect with them than making them post a barcode?
I'm sure they threw some intelligent questions in there somewhere, but the article certainly didn't reflect that. Asking things like why he wears his hair long is just, well, unfuckingbelievably slimy, for lack of a better term.
Of course I don't believe that was the entire line of questioning, but I think people in positions of such power need to be very careful about how they conduct their business. My bet is that as law enforcement professionalism increases, the general population's image of cops at the donut shop decreses, and this, I think, can only be a good thing.
I seem to remember working on some old Barracudas (probably 10k RPM, UW-SCSI era or so) that sounded about like a huge prop-driven military cargo plane...
Given that Apple has positioned the mini iPod (or is it iPod mini?) again the "ultra-portable" players, it doesn't surprise me that the excellent design and substantially larger capacity have won out. Most of the lower end MP3 players ship with several hundred megs of storage; iPod mini clearly blows this away, despite carrying a healthy price premium.
What does surprise me is that so many people opt for the mini over the standard iPod. It's really not *that* much smaller, so perhaps it's the colors? An extra 50 bucks for 6 gigs extra storage, at the price of a slightly larger form factor, seems like a no-brainer to me...
Has anyone found any decent software for a mini-disc player?
Yes, I find that iTunes works wonderfully. Of course, you need to get rid of those stupid minidisc players and get an iPod, but hey - I'm much happier now personally:)
Any CS department that allows themselves to be considered a "fallback" is doing the entire CS community a huge disservice. Are they teaching programming with VB6 and database design with Access (or MySQL) or something?
Knowing GM, they put it somewhere the dealership won't be able to find it either. Homer Simpson is clearly moonlighting in the auto industry as an ergonomics expert, and he ain't working for his brother.
I bought my wife a Net MD for christmas last year, based on the fact that it "supported MP3 format" -- stupid, stupid, stupid.
Had I done some research, I would have realized that MP3 support is NOT native. In fact, you need to run OpenMG jukebox, which is about the sorriest excuse for a "music library manager" I've ever seen. It is slow, bloated, crashes constantly, and is positively littered with Engrish in both the application and documentation.
In a nutshell, we made 5 MD "mixes", and that's it. The thing's too much of a pain in the ass to use on a regular basis.
What happened to the Sony that was the undisputed king of technology just a few short years ago??
On a serious note, someone should point out to the author that if an attacker can gain access to your network (wireless or physical), you have much bigger problems than default settings on your OS X boxen.
Anyway, the guy makes some valid points, but it would be nice if he didn't sound like an 8 year old when doing so. But I guess this is what "journalism" has to offer these days...
I believe this was the year that a US judge ruled that corporations have the same basic rights, including freedom of speech, as individuals. It's been downhill ever since...
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And more importantly, Mozilla is NOT vulnerable without you actually DOING something to make it vulnerable. That's not remotely true of IE...
I drive a 2001 VW Jetta (2.8L 6 cylinder), which the EPA lists at 19/28. I average just about 28 on the highway at 75MPH, but it drops quickly if you go higher. I was once patient enough to calculate mileage while driving 70MPH, and came up with nearly 30MPG -- not a bad improvement really.
With city driving, however, I rarely get more than 15-17MPG. Could be my lead foot and all that low end torque, though...
Last I checked, a Windows 2003 server license with 5 (FIVE!) client access licenses was about $3700.
Err... how can you "emulate" a hard drive, if you don't have one?
Who knows what RAM prices will be like when Xbox 2 comes out, but given enough main memory, it doesnt seem like the old titles would suffer for lack of space (except for things like ripping your own music tracks).
Firewire!
Your post sums it up perfectly; I just saved five minutes by not writing it on my own ;)
The previous post mentioned Japan (where the poster currently lives) and Australia (where the poster is from). I don't think he insulted, or even mentioned, or even implied that he was mentioning, America there, champ.
Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure how I missed it given that I have a copy of the Mythical Man Month with the "Silver Bullet" essay sitting right on my desk :)
"Mythical Man-Month" anyone? Father of modern software project management (although admittedly, this may be a dubious honor)? I mean I guess it's great that Larry Ellison is up there and all, but I'd prefer to see actual computer scientists on the list as opposed to "business people".
1) Kill anyone who makes these fucking camera phones
2) Kill anyone who buys these fucking camera phones
3) SMASH THEES FUCKING CAMERA PHONES INTO MILLIONS OF TINY PIECES!
Interesting...I admit, I never heard of overheating Mac Pluses. My dad bought one a few months after they came out, and it finally was replaced (before it actually gave out!) by my grandfather in 1999. To my knowledge, it never suffered from heat problems, but I suppose some of those random "type 11" crashes could very well have been due to overheating.
That's the rub -- the last court ruling on (I believe) the Sonny Bono copyright extension act type thingie essentially said that even life + XX years is "limited". Running with that logic, any copyright term that is not infinity must therefore be "limited". Wheee.
While I certainly agree with the spirit of your post, it seems the main beef is with the cellphone input system -- wouldn't it make more sense to attack the problem from that angle, since it would also help the "phone experience" in other ways?
Maybe (probably) I'm just being difficult here, but I see something like this as a cop-out in all honesty. If I'm outside Chez Foobar and want to order dinner, surely there is a better way for me to connect with them than making them post a barcode?
http://www.tinyurl.com/foobar/ -- does a barcode *really* make this easier?
I'm sure they threw some intelligent questions in there somewhere, but the article certainly didn't reflect that. Asking things like why he wears his hair long is just, well, unfuckingbelievably slimy, for lack of a better term.
Of course I don't believe that was the entire line of questioning, but I think people in positions of such power need to be very careful about how they conduct their business. My bet is that as law enforcement professionalism increases, the general population's image of cops at the donut shop decreses, and this, I think, can only be a good thing.
Maybe they should be serving their website from SSDs
*waits for the groans*
I seem to remember working on some old Barracudas (probably 10k RPM, UW-SCSI era or so) that sounded about like a huge prop-driven military cargo plane...
I've heard that with golf instead of hunting too. Great joke, either way.
Given that Apple has positioned the mini iPod (or is it iPod mini?) again the "ultra-portable" players, it doesn't surprise me that the excellent design and substantially larger capacity have won out. Most of the lower end MP3 players ship with several hundred megs of storage; iPod mini clearly blows this away, despite carrying a healthy price premium.
What does surprise me is that so many people opt for the mini over the standard iPod. It's really not *that* much smaller, so perhaps it's the colors? An extra 50 bucks for 6 gigs extra storage, at the price of a slightly larger form factor, seems like a no-brainer to me...
Has anyone found any decent software for a mini-disc player?
:)
Yes, I find that iTunes works wonderfully. Of course, you need to get rid of those stupid minidisc players and get an iPod, but hey - I'm much happier now personally
Any CS department that allows themselves to be considered a "fallback" is doing the entire CS community a huge disservice. Are they teaching programming with VB6 and database design with Access (or MySQL) or something?
Knowing GM, they put it somewhere the dealership won't be able to find it either. Homer Simpson is clearly moonlighting in the auto industry as an ergonomics expert, and he ain't working for his brother.
I bought my wife a Net MD for christmas last year, based on the fact that it "supported MP3 format" -- stupid, stupid, stupid.
Had I done some research, I would have realized that MP3 support is NOT native. In fact, you need to run OpenMG jukebox, which is about the sorriest excuse for a "music library manager" I've ever seen. It is slow, bloated, crashes constantly, and is positively littered with Engrish in both the application and documentation.
In a nutshell, we made 5 MD "mixes", and that's it. The thing's too much of a pain in the ass to use on a regular basis.
What happened to the Sony that was the undisputed king of technology just a few short years ago??
The parallels in writing styles are striking.
On a serious note, someone should point out to the author that if an attacker can gain access to your network (wireless or physical), you have much bigger problems than default settings on your OS X boxen.
Anyway, the guy makes some valid points, but it would be nice if he didn't sound like an 8 year old when doing so. But I guess this is what "journalism" has to offer these days...
I believe this was the year that a US judge ruled that corporations have the same basic rights, including freedom of speech, as individuals. It's been downhill ever since...