Is there any reason this same technology can't be used on LCD TVs without the need to make everything flicker?
Viewing angle most probably, while a single person use does not require the viewing angle to be very wide, for TV it's a must. The best I was able to find is Samsung 193P. Yet is claims only 20 ms response time, and it's probably the best timing they were able to get in either gray-to-gray or ISO's black-to-white. So ghosting will be present on that panel.
...apparently I don't quite understand how switches learn to direct packets.
Switch operates on a level below IP protocol, i.e. all it need to know which MAC addresses come from which physical ports. That's all it want to know - MAC-to-switch_port mapping - to push frames through the wires.
...how many things REALLY take such advantage of Altivec that its worth keeping it around?
Good point! It seams that Altivec used to be a real necessity for Quartz to run at a tolerable speed in all older OS X (including Panther). Yet now Quartz Extreme in Tiger can offset a lot of formerly Altivec load to GPU. Hence provided platform is equipped with a decent graphical subsystem, Altivec is not that important for fast drawing anymore. And that might be one of the bigger reasons why the transition is possible now...
who would buy a G5 iMac right now knowing that in a year it'd be a cut-off technical backwater for the company?
Well, it does not have to be G5. CNet article mentioned "mini"s. Maybe the issue between Apple and IBM are G4s and Apple just might want to have an alternative/additional supply of G4s, maybe with an option to take some/all G5 production to Intel as well. After all G4 (non embedded) might be close to EOL(*) for IBM, yet it's a very profitable venture for Apple (at least for now)
I don't care if it is unethical for me to sign a document (in bad faith) saying that you own everything I think of.
Well, then you become the statistical one who represent a "fact", for the management, that the system works, and maybe even right. And then those of us who refuse to sign such an atrocious agreement get "Everybody else signed and did not have a problem with it. What is wrong with you?" response.
For contracts completed in 2004, Falcon I is offered for $5.9 million and Falcon V for $15.8 million plus modest range fees that vary by launch location. A half bay flight of Falcon V will be available at $8.9 million to accommodate customers with payloads in between Falcon I and V.
pyrites? Common mineral that consists of iron disulfide, has a pale brass-yellow color and metallic luster, and is burned in making sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid??;-)
...for starters the designer doesn't run with a "build and test" mentality. There are formal methods for bridge design...
:-)
You are making an assumption here, that some very clever people just sat and developed those formal methods for bridge building. And then bridge engineers, as responsible professionals studied them and started building briges, very formally and by applying methods to prove the stability and properties of the bridge...
How do you think those formal methods have been developed in the first place?! If not via "build and test"? How many bridges have fallen down before designers new enough to formalize their methods?
There's a windows program for the windows reader that lets you turn off all kinds of goodies...
You do not need a program for that - just move everything, but Search.api and Search5.api out of plug_ins folder into optional folder and enjoy pure reader;-) More info can be found here and plug in descriptions here.
There is a way to "shrink" Reader's memory usage. There was/is a recepe to make Reader 6 load faster. And though 7.0 is not very slow to start up, the same recepe is still useful to follow as most of plug-ins are not needed for each and every document you read. I found that keeping only EWH32.api, HLS.api, IA32.api, Search.api, and Search5.api in plug_ins gives me all the functionality I ever wanted from the Reader, yet keeps almost 30M of other stuff out of automatic preloading.
How do you know if someone has sent you an email? Do you have to poll all the possible senders?
No, you would receive a notification (a header) using a conventional transport. A header would specify where to load a message from. It's somewhat like when you configure your POP3 MUA today to auto-load headers only. The difference is that the body of a message will be stored remotely - by a sender.
This design is not without issues - when a sending server is allowed to erase the body of a message? - but SPAM-wise it's near perfect, IMHO.
Nah, that "its 64-bit architecture." was probably correct;-) there are some (minor) differences... and they would want developers to embrace their architecture.
...you've clearly cut & pasted that from Microsoft's employees manual, in violation of your NDA.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Microsoft employee.
AFAIK only paragraph 5 is covered by the NDA, and the original post clearly omited the content of it. The rest is not news and is widely used in the industry.
...just demonstrates how unworkable the hub-and-spoke system of flight scheduling is
Quite possibly that is a big factor. Yet Southwest, at least for now, cannot be used as a litmus test. Their timely fuel hedging helps them reduce the cost enormously. (see also here)
...and devices are too tightly tied to a specific kernel.
"Devices" is obviously incorrectly used word. But the idea is sound and(!) proven. And more the once: "All resources in Plan 9 look like file systems." The system would much more interesting if "everything is a URL" concept is supported (by a usespace a daemon) below GUI level.
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(*) I have no idea what I'm talking about ;-)
- $150 buys much more than 3 hours for a particular coder, or
- solution already exists and need only some tweeking, so it can be done in 3 hours
If a coder-solution combination falls under on of these cases a coder might "bid" for a bounty, the rest of us... will read slashdotAir Foyle HeavyLift does charter that single flying AN-225 that is considered "the world's largest aircraft". (specifications)
Reinventing the wheel... because 'It Just Works'
Screenshots give out a very strong "smell" of Eclipse ;-)
pyrites? Common mineral that consists of iron disulfide, has a pale brass-yellow color and metallic luster, and is burned in making sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid?? ;-)
You are making an assumption here, that some very clever people just sat and developed those formal methods for bridge building. And then bridge engineers, as responsible professionals studied them and started building briges, very formally and by applying methods to prove the stability and properties of the bridge...
How do you think those formal methods have been developed in the first place?! If not via "build and test"? How many bridges have fallen down before designers new enough to formalize their methods?
This design is not without issues - when a sending server is allowed to erase the body of a message? - but SPAM-wise it's near perfect, IMHO.
Or... Mindstorm - less abstract, hence IMHO for the beginners could be more attractive. And... you can keep the kit to play with it after the fair ;-)
Nah, that "its 64-bit architecture." was probably correct ;-) there are some (minor) differences... and they would want developers to embrace their architecture.
AFAIK only paragraph 5 is covered by the NDA, and the original post clearly omited the content of it. The rest is not news and is widely used in the industry.