Very badly. RAM is really fast for all of the above. The ideal system for speed at any cost would be a hybrid drive. It would be a ramdisk with a flash backing store and a really power backup. When the drive powered down it would write the ram to the flash. It would be very expensive and you could get the same perofrmance with a good 64-bit OS, a lot of RAM and a good RAID system.
But the CANDU isn't a fast reactor. and the IFR is a breeder reactor. It transmutes Uranium 238 into Plutonium. It doesn't get energy from the U238 so even that technically doesn't use U238.
Not at all. What you don't get is that yes I can make a ton of money off of GPL without ever giving back a dime at all. An ISP running Linux is using FOSS and making money from it. They never have to give one dollar or one line of code to do it. What you can not do is make money as a programmer off of GPL code without giving back. Well even then you can as well. So no it is one of the myths of GPL that you can not make money off of the code without giving something back. I have no problem with people writing GPL code or using the GPL for the code they right. I just have a problem with the worship of the GPL and the myths that surround it. It is a fine thing and I am a happy user of GPL software and have contributed to GPL projects.
"Even if that were not true, there is no sense in crying about the fact that you can't profit from other people's software without giving something back." Sure you can. Take a look at all the websites that use MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, and or Drupal. Or any number of ISPs that use Linux and Apache on their servers. Yes you can make money off other peoples software and give nothing back.
I know I am rare but I really don't mind paying for what I want. I don't think P2P is hurting the music industry. I think bad music is hurting the music industry. I rarely buy CDs anymore because I can not find much music that I want to listen too. I don't P2P music for the same reason. Once in a while I will buy a song from iTunes or Amazon but even then tho all that often. While I don't think that the RIAAs tactics are moral I am also tired of all the people that think they have the right to just download anything they want.
Well if you can make a reactor that can use depleted uranium then you really have something. Last time I read up on the Candu it used natural uranium not depleted.
I guess you didn't read my post all the way through. "I am more interest in that he seems to have a good background in science than his coding skills." Already said.
We have had Presidents that could make a suit, run a nuclear reactor, fly off an aircraft carrier, and fly jet fighters. I am more interest in that he seems to have a good background in science than his coding skills.
I used to be a KDE fan but I too have really grown to like Gimp on Ubuntu. It really is getting to the mythical Apple "Just works". So far the things that tick me off have all be legal and not technical. The stupid command line step that you have to do to get Decss working so you can watch DVDs is the big one. I really like FSpot and hope that they get it to be a little more stable soon. I am thinking about adding a feature to it when I have some spare time. The one application that keeps me going back to Windows right now is Microsoft Flight Simulator. I can honestly say that Ubuntu seems to be very usable for most people right now. The only issues are with stupid leagal foulup and a lack in some software categories. I would love TurboCad or Solidworks for Linux as well as FSX. OpenOffice is good enough for what I do and Quicken on-line has solved one of the road blocks for my wife..
Not being able to afford the overhead of compression is a pretty rare case. Often you can get around it by pre loading the image. Not saying that an uncompressed format would never be useful but it without a doubt a rare case and not one I can imagine comming up on Android. But heck if you must use an uncompress format then just us IFF and be done with it:)
You got it. The problem is that the Palestinian authorities have no interest in giving those kids a future. The disillusioned and hopeless are their weapons and base of power. Notice how things have improved in Northern Ireland since the economy has improved. The best weapon to fight terrorist with is hope. The problem is they know it.
Most people update computers when they stop working usually from malware or Windows dieing. It is easier and some times cheaper to buy a new PC than to do a nuke and pave. A PIII is really good enough for a lot of what people do. In your example a Pentium 133 is good enough for them to do what they need to do. Changing Accounting systems is a HUGE pain. If your current system is still supported and works why change? If your old PC is still running why change? I can see the logic of getting a new LCD screen for the power savings but in businesses it often is wise to keep what works until there is a benefit to changing. Heck for the average office worker keeping them on a PIII and skipping the hyper hot and power hungry P4 probably would have been a brilliant move.
It is called historical fiction. There are many movies in that category but none of them should or are called science fiction. How about the Right Stuff as an example. But it sure isn't science fiction or fantasy.
By that logic then Midway, The Charles Lindberg Story, or any fiction that has some technology in it should be classified as science fiction. It is at worst a historical dramatization, at worst historical fiction.
In 1990 the Apollo moon landings where no more science fiction than Lindberg's flight was in the 1950s
My wife and I went there on our Honeymoon. We went to Victoria but wanted to explore so we drove up. I thought it is a pretty nice town. I had less of a tourist feel to it than Victoria but just as friendly and we found a really cool place to eat there. All in all I liked it.
I think that original post is very true. The end user has no experienced much increase in speed. Frankly I don't think most users can experience a lot of increase in the speed of their apps. For the most part all my apps run so fast that I am the limiting factor. Only a few programs make me wait. My compiler for large jobs and when I trans code a file. Most of the time when I am waiting it is caused not by the CPU but my internet connection, hard drive, or DVD drive. For the vast number of users PCs are more than fast enough. What most people need are computers that are silent, use as little power as possible, and don't take forever to boot. Almost all PCs have more than enough CPU to edit pictures, surf the web, run quicken, do VOIP, and play media. Of course I do have one program that needs a faster CPU and that is FSX but then no PC on the planet seems to run FSX and 60FPS.
They can but then I did buy it. Or I could buy it but right now that is not likely. Once I guy that iPhone or iPod touch then that one item is no longer Apples but mine. Imagine if you bought a couch but you where not allowed to put blue pillows on it? Hey it is the manufactures couch so they have that right correct?
Some other programs that you can not port to it are. Flash, Python, Ruby, LUA, or any other interpretors. It could also exclude any program that allows macros like Excel. It would also exclude Mame and other emulators... Pretty restrictive.
All true but Walmart is missing a great opportunity at the same time. Yes there is a lot of free software for Windows and for Linux and frankly a lot of it is the same software. Thunderbird, Firefox, GIMP, Audacity, VLC and OpenOffice run on both platforms. What I can not get for free on Windows I also can not get for free on Linux or at all. TurboTax and or Taxcut, Qicken, and a lot of games. If Walmart could get software companies to offer those programs for Linux then they might make even more money from a Linux box than from a Windows Machine. apt-get is great use it to SELL software for Linux machines. Create an iTunes like store for Linux software. Sell webcams, soundcards, music players, and printers that all work with the Linux machines that Walmart is selling. I don't think Walmart really wants to go that far but it could work well for them. And no it isn't an original idea Linspire has the same plan but Walmart might have the size to pull it off.
Yes Astrology is silly in the extremely silly. But as you pointed out being a good scientist doesn't mean your a good person. So excluding people from your circle of friends based just on them reading the Astrology column in the paper is also extremely silly.
What I find so offensive is the blanket statment that should Scientists not date people that believe in Astrology. I mean should that be up to the individuals involved to decide?
"Understand that judging groups of people is as a rule wrong. It is called bigotry.
I really, really dislike anyone that belongs to the KKK. Does that make me a bigot?
If it does, should I join the KKK?"
Notice I said as a rule. Every rule has it's exceptions. I would say that people that are members of the KKK or the Nazi party are as a whole exceptions to that rule. But do you think that reading the Astrology section of the paper is in the same category as being a member of the KKK. If so then you also have some issues that need to be worked out. Also do you think that maybe somewhere their is a person that just might be member of the KKK that is really a good person that has been taught the wrong things by their parents? Do you think that it is impossible for any member of the KKK to be influenced by good people to change their ways? So yes even in the case of members of the KKK it is wrong to hate them. There is nothing wrong with hating what the KKK as a group does, teaches, and or stands for. To hate every member of the group without knowing them is wrong.
And no by not hating them doesn't mean you have to join them.
No it is bigotry to think that you should tell all scientists what they should look at in a mate. Would I date an individual that wanted a complete star chart on me to see if we could be happy? Not on our life but that is my choice. Would I date someone that looks at the Astrology page in the paper every now and then? Maybe. Yes stereotyping as a rule is wrong. I wouldn't date someone that was a devoted member of the KKK or the American Nazi party. Or frankly even a lukewarm member. But that is my individual choice and as the old saying goes every rule has it's exceptions.
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Very badly.
RAM is really fast for all of the above.
The ideal system for speed at any cost would be a hybrid drive. It would be a ramdisk with a flash backing store and a really power backup. When the drive powered down it would write the ram to the flash.
It would be very expensive and you could get the same perofrmance with a good 64-bit OS, a lot of RAM and a good RAID system.
But the CANDU isn't a fast reactor.
and the IFR is a breeder reactor. It transmutes Uranium 238 into Plutonium. It doesn't get energy from the U238 so even that technically doesn't use U238.
Not at all. What you don't get is that yes I can make a ton of money off of GPL without ever giving back a dime at all. An ISP running Linux is using FOSS and making money from it. They never have to give one dollar or one line of code to do it.
What you can not do is make money as a programmer off of GPL code without giving back. Well even then you can as well. So no it is one of the myths of GPL that you can not make money off of the code without giving something back.
I have no problem with people writing GPL code or using the GPL for the code they right. I just have a problem with the worship of the GPL and the myths that surround it. It is a fine thing and I am a happy user of GPL software and have contributed to GPL projects.
"Even if that were not true, there is no sense in crying about the fact that you can't profit from other people's software without giving something back."
Sure you can. Take a look at all the websites that use MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, and or Drupal.
Or any number of ISPs that use Linux and Apache on their servers.
Yes you can make money off other peoples software and give nothing back.
I know I am rare but I really don't mind paying for what I want. I don't think P2P is hurting the music industry. I think bad music is hurting the music industry. I rarely buy CDs anymore because I can not find much music that I want to listen too. I don't P2P music for the same reason. Once in a while I will buy a song from iTunes or Amazon but even then tho all that often.
While I don't think that the RIAAs tactics are moral I am also tired of all the people that think they have the right to just download anything they want.
Well if you can make a reactor that can use depleted uranium then you really have something.
Last time I read up on the Candu it used natural uranium not depleted.
"Fermilab.
enough said."
I guess you didn't read my post all the way through.
"I am more interest in that he seems to have a good background in science than his coding skills."
Already said.
We have had Presidents that could make a suit, run a nuclear reactor, fly off an aircraft carrier, and fly jet fighters. I am more interest in that he seems to have a good background in science than his coding skills.
That is great. :)
Hope they do well. Now if I could just get a version for under $200 for home use I would be all set
I used to be a KDE fan but I too have really grown to like Gimp on Ubuntu.
It really is getting to the mythical Apple "Just works". So far the things that tick me off have all be legal and not technical. The stupid command line step that you have to do to get Decss working so you can watch DVDs is the big one.
I really like FSpot and hope that they get it to be a little more stable soon. I am thinking about adding a feature to it when I have some spare time.
The one application that keeps me going back to Windows right now is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
I can honestly say that Ubuntu seems to be very usable for most people right now. The only issues are with stupid leagal foulup and a lack in some software categories. I would love TurboCad or Solidworks for Linux as well as FSX. OpenOffice is good enough for what I do and Quicken on-line has solved one of the road blocks for my wife..
Not being able to afford the overhead of compression is a pretty rare case. Often you can get around it by pre loading the image. Not saying that an uncompressed format would never be useful but it without a doubt a rare case and not one I can imagine comming up on Android. :)
But heck if you must use an uncompress format then just us IFF and be done with it
You got it. The problem is that the Palestinian authorities have no interest in giving those kids a future. The disillusioned and hopeless are their weapons and base of power. Notice how things have improved in Northern Ireland since the economy has improved.
The best weapon to fight terrorist with is hope. The problem is they know it.
Most people update computers when they stop working usually from malware or Windows dieing. It is easier and some times cheaper to buy a new PC than to do a nuke and pave. A PIII is really good enough for a lot of what people do. In your example a Pentium 133 is good enough for them to do what they need to do.
Changing Accounting systems is a HUGE pain. If your current system is still supported and works why change? If your old PC is still running why change? I can see the logic of getting a new LCD screen for the power savings but in businesses it often is wise to keep what works until there is a benefit to changing.
Heck for the average office worker keeping them on a PIII and skipping the hyper hot and power hungry P4 probably would have been a brilliant move.
It is called historical fiction. There are many movies in that category but none of them should or are called science fiction. How about the Right Stuff as an example. But it sure isn't science fiction or fantasy.
By that logic then Midway, The Charles Lindberg Story, or any fiction that has some technology in it should be classified as science fiction. It is at worst a historical dramatization, at worst historical fiction.
In 1990 the Apollo moon landings where no more science fiction than Lindberg's flight was in the 1950s
Yes the nastiest stuff on the planet is organic. Cobra venom, nerve gas, and your average Slashdot poster.
Yep my favorite was when I saw Organic Sea Salt....
Right up there when the Video store had Apollo 13 in the SciFi section.
My wife and I went there on our Honeymoon. We went to Victoria but wanted to explore so we drove up. I thought it is a pretty nice town. I had less of a tourist feel to it than Victoria but just as friendly and we found a really cool place to eat there.
All in all I liked it.
I think that original post is very true. The end user has no experienced much increase in speed. Frankly I don't think most users can experience a lot of increase in the speed of their apps. For the most part all my apps run so fast that I am the limiting factor. Only a few programs make me wait. My compiler for large jobs and when I trans code a file.
Most of the time when I am waiting it is caused not by the CPU but my internet connection, hard drive, or DVD drive. For the vast number of users PCs are more than fast enough. What most people need are computers that are silent, use as little power as possible, and don't take forever to boot. Almost all PCs have more than enough CPU to edit pictures, surf the web, run quicken, do VOIP, and play media.
Of course I do have one program that needs a faster CPU and that is FSX but then no PC on the planet seems to run FSX and 60FPS.
I think you are talking about NUMA and not SMP.
They can but then I did buy it. Or I could buy it but right now that is not likely. Once I guy that iPhone or iPod touch then that one item is no longer Apples but mine.
Imagine if you bought a couch but you where not allowed to put blue pillows on it? Hey it is the manufactures couch so they have that right correct?
Some other programs that you can not port to it are.
Flash, Python, Ruby, LUA, or any other interpretors. It could also exclude any program that allows macros like Excel. It would also exclude Mame and other emulators...
Pretty restrictive.
All true but Walmart is missing a great opportunity at the same time.
Yes there is a lot of free software for Windows and for Linux and frankly a lot of it is the same software. Thunderbird, Firefox, GIMP, Audacity, VLC and OpenOffice run on both platforms. What I can not get for free on Windows I also can not get for free on Linux or at all.
TurboTax and or Taxcut, Qicken, and a lot of games.
If Walmart could get software companies to offer those programs for Linux then they might make even more money from a Linux box than from a Windows Machine. apt-get is great use it to SELL software for Linux machines. Create an iTunes like store for Linux software. Sell webcams, soundcards, music players, and printers that all work with the Linux machines that Walmart is selling.
I don't think Walmart really wants to go that far but it could work well for them. And no it isn't an original idea Linspire has the same plan but Walmart might have the size to pull it off.
Yes Astrology is silly in the extremely silly. But as you pointed out being a good scientist doesn't mean your a good person. So excluding people from your circle of friends based just on them reading the Astrology column in the paper is also extremely silly.
What I find so offensive is the blanket statment that should Scientists not date people that believe in Astrology.
I mean should that be up to the individuals involved to decide?
"Understand that judging groups of people is as a rule wrong. It is called bigotry.
I really, really dislike anyone that belongs to the KKK. Does that make me a bigot?
If it does, should I join the KKK?"
Notice I said as a rule. Every rule has it's exceptions. I would say that people that are members of the KKK or the Nazi party are as a whole exceptions to that rule.
But do you think that reading the Astrology section of the paper is in the same category as being a member of the KKK. If so then you also have some issues that need to be worked out.
Also do you think that maybe somewhere their is a person that just might be member of the KKK that is really a good person that has been taught the wrong things by their parents? Do you think that it is impossible for any member of the KKK to be influenced by good people to change their ways?
So yes even in the case of members of the KKK it is wrong to hate them. There is nothing wrong with hating what the KKK as a group does, teaches, and or stands for. To hate every member of the group without knowing them is wrong.
And no by not hating them doesn't mean you have to join them.
No it is bigotry to think that you should tell all scientists what they should look at in a mate.
Would I date an individual that wanted a complete star chart on me to see if we could be happy? Not on our life but that is my choice.
Would I date someone that looks at the Astrology page in the paper every now and then? Maybe.
Yes stereotyping as a rule is wrong. I wouldn't date someone that was a devoted member of the KKK or the American Nazi party. Or frankly even a lukewarm member. But that is my individual choice and as the old saying goes every rule has it's exceptions.