While you're absolutely right, buying a gig BTO is just insane - a iGB stick is pricey, true, but nowhere near what the Apple Store charges. IIRC, the brick-and-mortar Apple Stores will install RAM you bring in for $30; I'd just go that route.
Actually, I have a dual 1.25 G4 tower, which probably helps the "snappiness" factor a LOT - the procs usually have a pretty balanced load; I never get hung doing one thing.
The drive's a 7200RPM ATA/100, it's about as fast as I'd get without going SCSI
Although plutonium presumably exhibits chemical toxicity like other heavy metals, this effect is insignificant (in fact, unobservable) compared to its radiotoxicity. Plutonium's toxic properties are due to the fact that it is an active alpha emitter. Alpha particles are hazardous only if they are emitted inside the body (i.e. the plutonium has been ingested).
... Swallowing 500 mg (7 curies) of plutonium as a finely divided or soluble material can cause death from the acute exposure of the GI tract in several days to a few weeks. Inhalation of 100 mg (1.4 Ci) of plutonium as particles of optimal size for lung retention can cause death from lung edema in 1 to 10 days. An inhaled dose of 20 mg (0.28 Ci) will cause death by fibrosis in about 1 month. In doses much below these values, the chronic carcinogenic effects become the important ones.
It's not botulinum toxin, but it IS some pretty nasty stuff to have in you.
And AFAIK the RTGs used in space probes are ETREMELY rugged, designed to survive being blown up by a heavy-launch rocket and fall a few hundred thousand feet all without rupturing. I had this debate with one of the "hippies" over Cassini; I tend to go with the risk being far small enough to be far outweighed by the benefits to humanity.
Of course, the amount of Pu in an RTG pales in comparison to how much has been released by nuclear testing, wo the whole argument may be moot anyway...
I still haven't upgraded from the 512 that my G4 came with, and it really seems to do just fine running Mail, Camino, iTunes, Word, AIM/Yahoo/BitchX and MT-NewsWatcher all at once - the hard drive actually goes to sleep quite often. It does start to thrash if I try and run VPC on top of all of that, but for anything you'd want to use a mini for, a half a gig ($75 extra?) should be plenty.
Oh, and a 1.25GHz G4 isn't exactly NOT blazing...no, it's not as fast as a P4 3.6, but again, for anything you'd want to use a mini for, it's more than adequate.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Mostly Harmless
AAC sounds quite a bit better (to me at least, and there's plenty of others who agree), but ALE (Apple Lossless Encoding) spanks both of them - granted it's only about 50% smaller against 90+% for mp3 or AAC, but drive space is cheap these days (i actually bought a 120 gigger recently just to rip CDs to). That being said, I do have iTunes-LAME and it does kick ass.
The entire article is about the mis-reporting of that particular event; your quote becomes totally different when it's put in context:
The most disturbing report was that Steve Jobs, after his Mac OS X Server demonstration went awry, was obviously angry, cut his speech short, and left the stage so abruptly, that when the demo began working, he was long gone. This is not what happened.
I did not have as good of a view as Mr. O'Grady did, so it possible that he did pick up a look of frustration on Mr. Jobs' face. He would have seen that on my face as well, if my grand finale failed to work. But, that notwithstanding, Mr. Jobs was a complete professional. He remained completely in control, explained that he did not know why the demo was not working now, but that it does "work really well". He then wrapped up his speech, and politely thanked and bowed to the crowd, then walked off stage. Why did he walk off the stage? Because the demo was his grand finale. He was done.
How do I know all of this? Because I watched the entire keynote once it was finally posted at ZDNET. I invite you to watch the keynote, and decide for yourselves if the keynote was a disaster or not.
The kenynote link doesn't seem to be working for me, but YMMV so I threw it in there.
An "Economy" p275 with a single 1GHz POWER4+, 1GB RAM, 36G disk, 16 meg graphics adapter, and no optical drive is a mere $5,575 - bump it up to a 1.45GHz chip, 2 gigs of ram, a DVD drive, and a (sweet 1600x1200 20") TFT panel with a 128 meg card, double the price. Go for the dual-1.45 setup with 4 gigs of RAM and two HDDs and you're looking at a cool $15,993. Granted, that box will utterly spank just about anything else that you can fit under your desk, but it's just a little pricier than what Apple offers. Kind of like comparing an F2004 to an Enzo...both lust objects, but still totally different orders of magnitude.
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But given the "outing" of MISTY into the public forum, has national security been compromised?
"I doubt it," Aftergood responded. "Other than its extravagant cost, very little concrete new information about the program has entered the public domain."
Nobody's let slip any info on the actual hardware used, they've just pointed out how much money we're spending on these projects and questioned whether we could be better spending it slesewhere. I highly doubt the technology will be released anytime soon.
Heir apparent to the entire Toyota empire perhaps? Although if they plan on going that route, I don't see them staying in business Stateside for much longer.
scion Audio pronunciation of "scion" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sn) n.
1. A descendant or heir. 2. also cion (sn) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting....i like your definition better though, those things are HIDEOUS.
Have you ever looked at 35mm negatives from the 1960s?
Yeah, I have...my grandfather was quite the photo buff, he left us probably 1500+ rolls of film. It pretty much all looks great; they were kept in a clothing closet, cool dry and dark. Don't even get me started on the med-format B&W negs my great-granduncle took in the teens and '20s - pushing 90 years old and still sharper than Delta 100.
While I agree you can most definitely learn quite a bit from books, one of the most helpful things I got out of PHOT101 wasn't any kind of technical or factual education but rather the feedback of an experienced photographer on what I was and wasn't doing right and what I needed to do to make my work go from "pictures" to "photographs" - the sorts of intangible aspect that you can't get from a book no matter how good at self-teaching you are.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you're truly serious about getting into photography, before you go drop $1500 on a DSLR with a good lens, go spend a few hundred and take an intoductory photography class at your local higher-ed institue. Sure, it'll probably be B&W Photos, but you learn the invaluable aspects of composition, lighting, proper metering ("But I used the automatic function, why can't I see their faces?"), so on and so forth - all the things that you can't really pick up by just playing around with a camera. Sure, digital cameras are making the technical end of photography available to the masses, but having a digi doesn't mean that you're magically gonna become skilled at the artistic aspect of it.
On a side note, while decent photo printers might produce brighter and longer-lasting colors, I've noticed the accuracy of the colors isn't up to good old-fashioned halide prints. I haven't directly seen any 8-ink prints yet, but I suspect even they won't quite beat out good color fils, particularly not reversal (slide) film. Sure, prints from that are noticeably more expensive, but for a really nice photo, it shouldn't be THAT much of an issue.
Oh, I completely agree; like I said I'm no huge fan of this and if it were just stamp machines, I'd be all sorts of pissy about it. It's nto though, it's a complete sales system...I'm actually of the opinion that every CC transaction should be recorded; that would be a decent impediment to fraud. Of course, I could only be saying that because I've been hit myself, but...*shrugs*
Red light cams, traffic cams, plenty of store/STM/other surveillance cams that can see the street - that's already fairly well covered. Sure, dark back roads aren't, but I wouldn't be surprised if there have been hit-and-runs caught on camera, particularly in urban environs.
While I'm none too fond of this idea, I'd hardly say that having a camera pointed at you while you're in public is taking away an "essential liberty". As others have already pointed out, that's the definition of a public place; I certainly don't feel entitled to be free from observation whilst I'm walking down the street or in the post office.
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I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader where I should have put the ", but" in my post.
"Much like HR Giger (Alien), Miyazaki melds a strong sense of the organic into the fantastic, but in a kid- and family-friendly way."
What do I win?
I'd still rather drive three hours rather than pay $425 for a gig of RAM, but YMMV...
While you're absolutely right, buying a gig BTO is just insane - a iGB stick is pricey, true, but nowhere near what the Apple Store charges. IIRC, the brick-and-mortar Apple Stores will install RAM you bring in for $30; I'd just go that route.
Actually, I have a dual 1.25 G4 tower, which probably helps the "snappiness" factor a LOT - the procs usually have a pretty balanced load; I never get hung doing one thing.
The drive's a 7200RPM ATA/100, it's about as fast as I'd get without going SCSI
No I don't; thats why I put it in quotes - just going along with the theme of the thread.
Launch failures occurr pretty regularly
And AFAIK the RTGs used in space probes are ETREMELY rugged, designed to survive being blown up by a heavy-launch rocket and fall a few hundred thousand feet all without rupturing. I had this debate with one of the "hippies" over Cassini; I tend to go with the risk being far small enough to be far outweighed by the benefits to humanity.
Of course, the amount of Pu in an RTG pales in comparison to how much has been released by nuclear testing, wo the whole argument may be moot anyway...
I still haven't upgraded from the 512 that my G4 came with, and it really seems to do just fine running Mail, Camino, iTunes, Word, AIM/Yahoo/BitchX and MT-NewsWatcher all at once - the hard drive actually goes to sleep quite often. It does start to thrash if I try and run VPC on top of all of that, but for anything you'd want to use a mini for, a half a gig ($75 extra?) should be plenty.
Oh, and a 1.25GHz G4 isn't exactly NOT blazing...no, it's not as fast as a P4 3.6, but again, for anything you'd want to use a mini for, it's more than adequate.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Mostly Harmless
AAC sounds quite a bit better (to me at least, and there's plenty of others who agree), but ALE (Apple Lossless Encoding) spanks both of them - granted it's only about 50% smaller against 90+% for mp3 or AAC, but drive space is cheap these days (i actually bought a 120 gigger recently just to rip CDs to). That being said, I do have iTunes-LAME and it does kick ass.
An "Economy" p275 with a single 1GHz POWER4+, 1GB RAM, 36G disk, 16 meg graphics adapter, and no optical drive is a mere $5,575 - bump it up to a 1.45GHz chip, 2 gigs of ram, a DVD drive, and a (sweet 1600x1200 20") TFT panel with a 128 meg card, double the price. Go for the dual-1.45 setup with 4 gigs of RAM and two HDDs and you're looking at a cool $15,993. Granted, that box will utterly spank just about anything else that you can fit under your desk, but it's just a little pricier than what Apple offers. Kind of like comparing an F2004 to an Enzo...both lust objects, but still totally different orders of magnitude.
ooh, guess i should have looked at the seconds before i posted that...d'oh! eh well, at least it gets the year right.
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But given the "outing" of MISTY into the public forum, has national security been compromised?
"I doubt it," Aftergood responded. "Other than its extravagant cost, very little concrete new information about the program has entered the public domain."
Nobody's let slip any info on the actual hardware used, they've just pointed out how much money we're spending on these projects and questioned whether we could be better spending it slesewhere. I highly doubt the technology will be released anytime soon.
...my aunt and uncle had their flight from Denver cancelled when a baggage truck blew across the tarmac and into their plane.
Heir apparent to the entire Toyota empire perhaps? Although if they plan on going that route, I don't see them staying in business Stateside for much longer.
scion Audio pronunciation of "scion" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sn)
...i like your definition better though, those things are HIDEOUS.
n.
1. A descendant or heir.
2. also cion (sn) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
Have you ever looked at 35mm negatives from the 1960s?
Yeah, I have...my grandfather was quite the photo buff, he left us probably 1500+ rolls of film. It pretty much all looks great; they were kept in a clothing closet, cool dry and dark. Don't even get me started on the med-format B&W negs my great-granduncle took in the teens and '20s - pushing 90 years old and still sharper than Delta 100.
While I agree you can most definitely learn quite a bit from books, one of the most helpful things I got out of PHOT101 wasn't any kind of technical or factual education but rather the feedback of an experienced photographer on what I was and wasn't doing right and what I needed to do to make my work go from "pictures" to "photographs" - the sorts of intangible aspect that you can't get from a book no matter how good at self-teaching you are.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you're truly serious about getting into photography, before you go drop $1500 on a DSLR with a good lens, go spend a few hundred and take an intoductory photography class at your local higher-ed institue. Sure, it'll probably be B&W Photos, but you learn the invaluable aspects of composition, lighting, proper metering ("But I used the automatic function, why can't I see their faces?"), so on and so forth - all the things that you can't really pick up by just playing around with a camera. Sure, digital cameras are making the technical end of photography available to the masses, but having a digi doesn't mean that you're magically gonna become skilled at the artistic aspect of it.
On a side note, while decent photo printers might produce brighter and longer-lasting colors, I've noticed the accuracy of the colors isn't up to good old-fashioned halide prints. I haven't directly seen any 8-ink prints yet, but I suspect even they won't quite beat out good color fils, particularly not reversal (slide) film. Sure, prints from that are noticeably more expensive, but for a really nice photo, it shouldn't be THAT much of an issue.
Yeah, I do realize that, probably should have mentioned it...maybe pass a law requiring a webcam for an online CC purchase? :D
Oh, I completely agree; like I said I'm no huge fan of this and if it were just stamp machines, I'd be all sorts of pissy about it. It's nto though, it's a complete sales system...I'm actually of the opinion that every CC transaction should be recorded; that would be a decent impediment to fraud. Of course, I could only be saying that because I've been hit myself, but...*shrugs*
Red light cams, traffic cams, plenty of store/STM/other surveillance cams that can see the street - that's already fairly well covered. Sure, dark back roads aren't, but I wouldn't be surprised if there have been hit-and-runs caught on camera, particularly in urban environs.
While I'm none too fond of this idea, I'd hardly say that having a camera pointed at you while you're in public is taking away an "essential liberty". As others have already pointed out, that's the definition of a public place; I certainly don't feel entitled to be free from observation whilst I'm walking down the street or in the post office.