It's easy to say that it's "not so bad" when you sit so comfortably in the upper quartile. For perspective, close to 20% of the planet doesn't even have access to CLEAN DRINKING WATER. Before the world creates another billionaire, maybe we should solve the most basic needs for more than a billion people.
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but then Coke got a healthy boost when they introduced the slightly-different-than-original Classic, which was the point of New Coke in the first place.
You can manipulate the paper trail, but that's why (in Minnesota, at least) we have bipartisan election judges at every voting precinct. As an additional security measure, state election officials can randomly select polling places after the polls close to audit the paper record, versus the electronic record. If the numbers don't match closely, you'll know that votes are being tampered with. Pulling just a few dozen sites at random should also reveal any sort of distributed attempt to fudge the numbers.
Escape from that catch phrase hell and actually test that argument. Obviously, you need more than just a handful of 30 second spots and a daily sound bite on the evening news.
For better or for worse, you have to know that the US would be in a very different situation today, if Al Gore were president.
I don't care how far along the new theme is, there's no redeeming value or promise in it for me. The old theme, designed to work with 0.9, is right here.
Dvorak is suggesting that Apple will switch to Itanium, which according to the roadmaps is nowhere near being ready for the desktop. At present, Intel is jamming larger and larger caches into Itanic until it will float against other processors in the server space, giving it an otherworldly transistor count not ready for the desktop in THIS decade -- the fabrication is simply too complex (read: $$$$), the power requirements are through the roof, and the compiler technology for IA-64 is many years from maturity. The Merced core for Itanic is absolutely useless, and I won't even get into the questions about whether even future generations will be viable.
A better 64 bit choice, particularly for Apple, will be IBM's upcoming PPC 970, which doesn't require massive retooling.
Hmm, well you start by blaming the Democrats, and then go on to explain why the Republicans are right. How could I have possibly construed your position as anything but "moderate" or "nonpartisan"?
In spite of the strides of labour, executive compensation has EASILY outstripped pay growth in blue collar jobs, so you have to ask yourself -- who's pushing whose jobs outside the borders?
You're right -- it's all labour's fault. Their radical ideas, like the 40 hour work week, vacation days, sick leave, health insurance, safe working conditions, and a living wage absolutely DEVASTATED the US economy in the 20th century. I'm sure that most people would rather go back to the way things were.
Don't be confused or misleading with the form factors -- the best-of-breed PC was represented by a laptop, and the similar-spec Mac was a desktop.
"continual rapid disc acces" scores are going to be quite similar. Laptop hard drives are somewhat crippled by their smaller platter size and lower rotational speeds, so if anything, the top-spec PC is hobbled in that respect.
You are right -- the 3.06GHz versus 2x1.25GHz comparison isn't fair -- the fastest PC processor has to go up against TWO of the fastest available G4 processors! Neither configuration is used on an OS that doesn't multitask. In both cases, background tasks would have taken away foreground application performance, not that there should have been any of note while benchmarking.
If Windows is unable to colour sync, an equally valid issue would be the question of why one would use an LCD in any situation where colour accuracy was important! Also, if you went through all the benchmarks, you'd see that there was a test using FireWire... which the Macs also lost. Perhaps the "digital screen" is a novel thing to you, but PC laptops have been doing the same for many, many years.
I sympathise with you, who thinks that spinning the numbers will somehow lead people to believe that you are indeed living in the real world.
Does this apply in Eastern Europe and the sparsely populated areas of western Russia that count as European?
Also, if this wireless network is so superior, and the population distribution is more conducive to it, why is it so much easier to get broadband in the USA or Canada?
Intel's i850 does not support PC1066 officially, and parts of that speed have only been validated since the release of i850E. Officially, the chipset simply supports a FSB that would complement that speed, if the two busses ran synchronously. Seen here: http://www.theinquirer.net/24050203.htm
That said, PC1066 has been tested before (can't find the article at Ace's Hardware), and the bandwidth of DRDRAM appears to compensate quite nicely for the P4's generally lousy architecture, as does its increased cache size (now 512k L2).
Actually, it's quite funny -- I went to bed after posting that comment, and fell asleep to a show on The History Channel, apparently about auto safety and/or the test dummy. The part of the show I caught was about a U.S. military researcher who believed that forces in excess of 15G's (then considered lethal) were survivable if experienced only briefly, and when the vehicle's occupant was well restrained. Wouldn't you know, he managed to survive 35G's, collapsed lung and detached retinas and all (he recovered), and in the process got to set the land speed record:)
I disrecall the man's name, or the name of the show -- it was on The History Channel at midnight CDT.
You may pull close to 5G's on a particularly good coaster, but the duration of that force is nowhere near the length of exposure experienced by astronauts. Similarly, in car accidents, force alone never gets blamed for injuries and deaths -- if you come across some counterforce, that's another thing altogether.
Man has been building homes and temples for millennia, yet budgeting and estimation for these projects remains nowhere near an exact science. Hardly any project can come in on time and within the budget -- that's just the nature of business. I'm continually amazed at how people in our field seem to think that this "phenomenon" is unique to software development.
On the other hand, Debian and Mozilla are two projects that are always notoriously late.
The Inquirer has an article that summarizes things nicely.
"A user won't spend more money on a flat panel monitor, but will buy a flat panel monitor when it represents better value than the CRT alternative. This means that the LCD makers have to watch the pricing moves of CRT monitor makers if they want to be sure to see a high level of demand."
I'll pay a little extra, but the price of a so-called '17 inch equivalent' 15in LCD (diagonally smaller by 1 inch) is now rising, just as it had gotten sensible. I say forget it -- my Sony CRT's are bigger, cheaper, and brighter, if not sexier.
April Fool's isn't a holiday, and it isn't stupid. You know what day it is, and complaining about the goings on of that day are like whining about flag-wavers on July 4th, or turkey eaters on Thanksgiving. Deal with it -- tomorrow is another day, and you won't have to be bothered for another year. Be grateful it's not Christmas that gets on your nerves.
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It's easy to say that it's "not so bad" when you sit so comfortably in the upper quartile. For perspective, close to 20% of the planet doesn't even have access to CLEAN DRINKING WATER. Before the world creates another billionaire, maybe we should solve the most basic needs for more than a billion people.
but then Coke got a healthy boost when they introduced the slightly-different-than-original Classic, which was the point of New Coke in the first place.
You can manipulate the paper trail, but that's why (in Minnesota, at least) we have bipartisan election judges at every voting precinct. As an additional security measure, state election officials can randomly select polling places after the polls close to audit the paper record, versus the electronic record. If the numbers don't match closely, you'll know that votes are being tampered with. Pulling just a few dozen sites at random should also reveal any sort of distributed attempt to fudge the numbers.
RAZR + Shuffle seems like a more cost-effective combo, but perhaps one fringe benefit of a ROKR is one set of headphones... I'm not sure.
As far as Moto phones go in general, you can only hope to get beauty *or* functionality, not both.
Add a healthy dose of Sturgeon's Law and I don't think it can be said any better.
Escape from that catch phrase hell and actually test that argument. Obviously, you need more than just a handful of 30 second spots and a daily sound bite on the evening news.
For better or for worse, you have to know that the US would be in a very different situation today, if Al Gore were president.
I don't care how far along the new theme is, there's no redeeming value or promise in it for me. The old theme, designed to work with 0.9, is right here.
Apparently that is a different bug they allegedly have fixed for the 0.9 release later this month. See http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html
and check out "205893 - Loading lots of images makes Firefox stop repainting."
Dvorak is suggesting that Apple will switch to Itanium, which according to the roadmaps is nowhere near being ready for the desktop. At present, Intel is jamming larger and larger caches into Itanic until it will float against other processors in the server space, giving it an otherworldly transistor count not ready for the desktop in THIS decade -- the fabrication is simply too complex (read: $$$$), the power requirements are through the roof, and the compiler technology for IA-64 is many years from maturity. The Merced core for Itanic is absolutely useless, and I won't even get into the questions about whether even future generations will be viable.
A better 64 bit choice, particularly for Apple, will be IBM's upcoming PPC 970, which doesn't require massive retooling.
Hmm, well you start by blaming the Democrats, and then go on to explain why the Republicans are right. How could I have possibly construed your position as anything but "moderate" or "nonpartisan"?
In spite of the strides of labour, executive compensation has EASILY outstripped pay growth in blue collar jobs, so you have to ask yourself -- who's pushing whose jobs outside the borders?
You're right -- it's all labour's fault. Their radical ideas, like the 40 hour work week, vacation days, sick leave, health insurance, safe working conditions, and a living wage absolutely DEVASTATED the US economy in the 20th century. I'm sure that most people would rather go back to the way things were.
Don't be confused or misleading with the form factors -- the best-of-breed PC was represented by a laptop, and the similar-spec Mac was a desktop.
"continual rapid disc acces" scores are going to be quite similar. Laptop hard drives are somewhat crippled by their smaller platter size and lower rotational speeds, so if anything, the top-spec PC is hobbled in that respect.
You are right -- the 3.06GHz versus 2x1.25GHz comparison isn't fair -- the fastest PC processor has to go up against TWO of the fastest available G4 processors! Neither configuration is used on an OS that doesn't multitask. In both cases, background tasks would have taken away foreground application performance, not that there should have been any of note while benchmarking.
If Windows is unable to colour sync, an equally valid issue would be the question of why one would use an LCD in any situation where colour accuracy was important! Also, if you went through all the benchmarks, you'd see that there was a test using FireWire... which the Macs also lost. Perhaps the "digital screen" is a novel thing to you, but PC laptops have been doing the same for many, many years.
I sympathise with you, who thinks that spinning the numbers will somehow lead people to believe that you are indeed living in the real world.
A "large" prime of type int?
... and so it must be true that every camera lets you disable the flash.
As though the flash would have a detrimental effect on the picture.
As though some people care.
As though the people who DO care remembered to turn it off.
As though the flashes can't be cleaned out of the film using a tiny fraction of the movie's gi-normous SFX budget.
Does this apply in Eastern Europe and the sparsely populated areas of western Russia that count as European?
Also, if this wireless network is so superior, and the population distribution is more conducive to it, why is it so much easier to get broadband in the USA or Canada?
I'm sorry, I guess I just have aniecdotal evidence from my personal experiences with the atrox and NVIDIA hardware that I have personally purchased.
http://www.theinquirer.net/24050203.htm
That said, PC1066 has been tested before (can't find the article at Ace's Hardware), and the bandwidth of DRDRAM appears to compensate quite nicely for the P4's generally lousy architecture, as does its increased cache size (now 512k L2).
Actually, it's quite funny -- I went to bed after posting that comment, and fell asleep to a show on The History Channel, apparently about auto safety and/or the test dummy. The part of the show I caught was about a U.S. military researcher who believed that forces in excess of 15G's (then considered lethal) were survivable if experienced only briefly, and when the vehicle's occupant was well restrained. Wouldn't you know, he managed to survive 35G's, collapsed lung and detached retinas and all (he recovered), and in the process got to set the land speed record :)
I disrecall the man's name, or the name of the show -- it was on The History Channel at midnight CDT.
You may pull close to 5G's on a particularly good coaster, but the duration of that force is nowhere near the length of exposure experienced by astronauts. Similarly, in car accidents, force alone never gets blamed for injuries and deaths -- if you come across some counterforce, that's another thing altogether.
Man has been building homes and temples for millennia, yet budgeting and estimation for these projects remains nowhere near an exact science. Hardly any project can come in on time and within the budget -- that's just the nature of business. I'm continually amazed at how people in our field seem to think that this "phenomenon" is unique to software development.
On the other hand, Debian and Mozilla are two projects that are always notoriously late.
"Macs have better graphics", "Macs are for education", whatever gets 'em through the day -- now they have a niche computer that "proves" the latter...
I'll pay a little extra, but the price of a so-called '17 inch equivalent' 15in LCD (diagonally smaller by 1 inch) is now rising, just as it had gotten sensible. I say forget it -- my Sony CRT's are bigger, cheaper, and brighter, if not sexier.
April Fool's isn't a holiday, and it isn't stupid. You know what day it is, and complaining about the goings on of that day are like whining about flag-wavers on July 4th, or turkey eaters on Thanksgiving. Deal with it -- tomorrow is another day, and you won't have to be bothered for another year. Be grateful it's not Christmas that gets on your nerves.
OK, fine... I won't tell you that this isn't an April Fool's joke, and that it hasn't been going on for weeks, if not longer.