It just means that you can choose a benchmark that fits what you want as a result, if you like.
In fact, those "college guys" - if I understood the article correctly - were quite clearly making the point that the hardware was mostly comparable.
What would be interesting to see is things like: how would the Xserve hardware perform with a PPC Linux?
Another thing I'm very much looking forward to is the Darwin compatibility layer in NetBSD/ppc. It's been a while since I read about it, but I think one of the things used for testing was the interface engine (WindowServer? Quarz?) It would be interesting to see how running Mac OS X applications on top of the NetBSD kernel would be, compared to the normal Mac OS X kernel. Alas, the development of this seems to be progressing very slowly.
The use of this technology to power an external laptop was explicitly mentioned. (As a joke, obviously.)
In the same vein, my post was made in complete absence of seriousness, so I'm a bit disappointed to see it at "Score 3: interesting" now. I suppose talking "tongue-in-cheek" sounds funny, whereas writing while the tongue is in the same location does not affect what is written in the same way.
The ideal way to use this would IMO be to use it thought magnetic induction. That way, the device can be completely subcutaneous. It could be placed on several places in the body. To power a lower power device, you would simply place one or both hands on it (Like you naturally rest your wrists on a laptop) , or grab it, depending on the style of the device. For devices needing more power, induction zones could be placed on the rear upper thighs, simply requiring you to sit on the power receptor. I suppose the area would suffice to transfer a quite significant amount of power, of course depending on the size of your butt. As an added advantage it would provide built-in heating in the aforementioned places.
Well, I don't quite agree. Donald Duck comics as they were made by Carl Barks are superior to _anything_ in my view, even a Belgian classic like Tintin, Don Rosa's Duck stories are also worth reading, although they pale in comparison with Barks.
Given that it took me two minutes longer to post a shorter message than Fidel (Catsro, as it would seem), and having already been (fairly?) moderated redundant, I suppose it would be slightly more correct to say that I agree with Fidel. (And, no, I don't believe in reflexiveness of agreement. I reserve the right to disagree with people who agree with me.)
Judging from other comments from people who have seen the movie, it seems to be like this: It's going to be just what you didn't expect it to be. I think _that's_ quite in the spirit of Adams.
Funny you should mention Michael Palin. When I read HHGTTG, I always "see" Michael Palin as Arthur. If he were a bit younger he'd have been the perfect actor for the role IMO. I don't agree with Idle and Murray, though.
No, gravity is what causes things to fall down etc. The theory about why things fall down - how gravity works - we call "gravity theory". Gravity is a force, gravity theory is a theory about gravity.
No no no. There isn't any fifth book, which is most certainly not called Mostly Harmless. The socalled fifth and last book of the HHGTTG trilogy is a mass hallucination, and it would seem I am the only person who has realized this. Snap out of it, it doesn't exist. I would have read it if it did, and I haven't. Sometimes I believe that I have read it, but that's impossible. I can't have.
What fifth book is it that I keep hearing about???? It seems there may or may not exist such a thing, and sometimes I even imagine I may have read it, but I am absolutely sure that's impossible, as I don't believe that fifth book exists. In fact, I absolutely strongly *refuse* to believe in its existence.
I just want to state - again - that I think that Tim Berners-Lee ought to be fined heavily _and_ imprisoned for designing HTTP and HTML. Both contain uncountable design errors, which we have had to work around constantly ever since. He has done a tremendous disservice to the Internet Community. The HTTP protocol is simply a perverted form of the Gopher protocol (which itself was a trivial elaboration of the finger protocol, which is only good as protocol sample code.) And not having a proper SGML DTD from the start, but just a "loosely based on SGML" definition of HTML was outright criminal.
Oh, and the definitions of URI and URLs also sucks! Defining any constraints on the local part is the biggest mistake ever. URIs should have been like mail addresses and message IDs, which were the two prevalent object identifiers before the URL: both have a host part which defines the host to which they apply, and a local part which is just that: local - no meaning defined by the protocol. If that had been the case, there would be no need for stupid URL-encoding, which can be done wrong in so many ways, that I frankly doubt there is any way to actually do it right consistently.
I think we are very much in agreement then. As for your nostalgia for your youth - well, some of us just decide not to grow up in certain respects. Personally, I tend to specialize in shades of olive, although I have an affinity for USAF cold war subjects.
Talking about rats, I strongly believe that it is much easier to fight them when you make them visible. It only takes a cursory look at for instance this page (warning - more disgusting than goatse.cx and tubgirl combined!) to see that those neonazis are completely insane, laughable nutcases. By banning them, they are deprived of the opportunity to make fools of themselves in public.
You obviously don't know any serious modellers. The idea of a German WW II Me 109 without correct insignia is just as ridiculous as the idea of a RAF WW II Spitfire without roundels or a Soviet WW II Yakovlev without red stars. It is a matter of accuracy, not of shock value.
Fortunately, according to the news today, the EU has decided against adopting the German ban of the swastika.
Now if only the disappointed CDU voters would stop threatening legitimately elected SSW members of the Landtag in Kiel...
I suppose you can draw the line wherever you like, as long as you don't draw six lines in a manner such that it composes a four-armed rotationally symmetric figure.
But if you want to express your interest in history, for example by building plastic models of WW II German tanks or aircraft, you are not allowed to make them historically accurate by putting swastika on them.
I hope you are grateful that Hitler didn't pick a circle as his symbol, otherwise all your BMWs and Mercedeses would have to run on square wheels. And of course, the * in "verb*ten" would be strictly verb*ten.
The most frightening thing about this horrible censorship in Germany and a few other European countries is that there are politicians who want to spread it to the rest of Europe. If that happens, I will start wearing a swastika, just in spite. Oh, and I can assure you I am firmly antinazi. I just believe that free speech applies to everyone.
Banning an arbitrary geometrical shape is just stupid. Another silly example of confusing the map with the landscape, the symbol with the symbolized.
So, a swastika is a "real evil", eh? Ever heard of Korzybski? The map is not the landscape, you see. And the symbol is not the symbolized.
Banning the swastika, as it is in parts of Europe (fortunately not Denmark - yet!) is the worst kind of historical revisionism there is. It means you cannot create depictions (for example models or artwork) that are accurate, because only historical images are legal, IIRC.
If Hitler had used a circle as his symbol, I suppose we would all be riding in hovercars, because wheels would have to be banned along with all other circular forms!
Thank you for replying. It appears that the only thing I really got right was that BASF and Agfa were not related. I apologise for my faulty memory. BTW, wikipedia also has an interesting article on Agfa.
1. Those names are not random. I believe BASF stands (stood) for "Bremer Anillin und Soda Fabrik", and AGFA for "AG FArben" (Faben being colors, AG being Aktiengesellschaft = corporation)
2. I doubt BASF "used to be" AGFA, they are both old (pre-WW II?) German corporations, IIRC.
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There is however one "natural" universal law - that it is illogical (and hypocritical) to act in a way that you would not wish to see reciprocated.
Obvious nonsense.
-Lasse
It just means that you can choose a benchmark that fits what you want as a result, if you like.
In fact, those "college guys" - if I understood the article correctly - were quite clearly making the point that the hardware was mostly comparable.
What would be interesting to see is things like: how would the Xserve hardware perform with a PPC Linux?
Another thing I'm very much looking forward to is the Darwin compatibility layer in NetBSD/ppc. It's been a while since I read about it, but I think one of the things used for testing was the interface engine (WindowServer? Quarz?) It would be interesting to see how running Mac OS X applications on top of the NetBSD kernel would be, compared to the normal Mac OS X kernel. Alas, the development of this seems to be progressing very slowly.
-Lasse
No sweat. (you'd short-circuit yourself.)
-Lasse
The use of this technology to power an external laptop was explicitly mentioned. (As a joke, obviously.)
In the same vein, my post was made in complete absence of seriousness, so I'm a bit disappointed to see it at "Score 3: interesting" now. I suppose talking "tongue-in-cheek" sounds funny, whereas writing while the tongue is in the same location does not affect what is written in the same way.
-Lasse
The ideal way to use this would IMO be to use it thought magnetic induction. That way, the device can be completely subcutaneous. It could be placed on several places in the body. To power a lower power device, you would simply place one or both hands on it (Like you naturally rest your wrists on a laptop) , or grab it, depending on the style of the device. For devices needing more power, induction zones could be placed on the rear upper thighs, simply requiring you to sit on the power receptor. I suppose the area would suffice to transfer a quite significant amount of power, of course depending on the size of your butt. As an added advantage it would provide built-in heating in the aforementioned places.
-Lasse
Well, I don't quite agree. Donald Duck comics as they were made by Carl Barks are superior to _anything_ in my view, even a Belgian classic like Tintin, Don Rosa's Duck stories are also worth reading, although they pale in comparison with Barks.
-Lasse
Given that it took me two minutes longer to post a shorter message than Fidel (Catsro, as it would seem), and having already been (fairly?) moderated redundant, I suppose it would be slightly more correct to say that I agree with Fidel. (And, no, I don't believe in reflexiveness of agreement. I reserve the right to disagree with people who agree with me.)
Judging from other comments from people who have seen the movie, it seems to be like this: It's going to be just what you didn't expect it to be. I think _that's_ quite in the spirit of Adams.
-Lasse
Faithful to Adams' legacy, and not funny. There is a contradiction there, I'd say?
-Lasse
Funny you should mention Michael Palin. When I read HHGTTG, I always "see" Michael Palin as Arthur. If he were a bit younger he'd have been the perfect actor for the role IMO. I don't agree with Idle and Murray, though.
-Lasse
No, gravity is what causes things to fall down etc. The theory about why things fall down - how gravity works - we call "gravity theory". Gravity is a force, gravity theory is a theory about gravity.
-Lasse
No no no. There isn't any fifth book, which is most certainly not called Mostly Harmless. The socalled fifth and last book of the HHGTTG trilogy is a mass hallucination, and it would seem I am the only person who has realized this. Snap out of it, it doesn't exist. I would have read it if it did, and I haven't. Sometimes I believe that I have read it, but that's impossible. I can't have.
-Lasse
What fifth book is it that I keep hearing about????
It seems there may or may not exist such a thing, and sometimes I even imagine I may have read it, but I am absolutely sure that's impossible, as I don't believe that fifth book exists. In fact, I absolutely strongly *refuse* to believe in its existence.
-Lasse
The parser would say: "that doesn't parse", and that's really all it _should_ say.
-Lasse
Which is not _actually_ a problem.
-Lasse
I just want to state - again - that I think that Tim Berners-Lee ought to be fined heavily _and_ imprisoned for designing HTTP and HTML. Both contain uncountable design errors, which we have had to work around constantly ever since. He has done a tremendous disservice to the Internet Community. The HTTP protocol is simply a perverted form of the Gopher protocol (which itself was a trivial elaboration of the finger protocol, which is only good as protocol sample code.) And not having a proper SGML DTD from the start, but just a "loosely based on SGML" definition of HTML was outright criminal.
Oh, and the definitions of URI and URLs also sucks! Defining any constraints on the local part is the biggest mistake ever. URIs should have been like mail addresses and message IDs, which were the two prevalent object identifiers before the URL: both have a host part which defines the host to which they apply, and a local part which is just that: local - no meaning defined by the protocol. If that had been the case, there would be no need for stupid URL-encoding, which can be done wrong in so many ways, that I frankly doubt there is any way to actually do it right consistently.
-Lasse
I think we are very much in agreement then. As for your nostalgia for your youth - well, some of us just decide not to grow up in certain respects. Personally, I tend to specialize in shades of olive, although I have an affinity for USAF cold war subjects.
Talking about rats, I strongly believe that it is much easier to fight them when you make them visible. It only takes a cursory look at for instance this page (warning - more disgusting than goatse.cx and tubgirl combined!) to see that those neonazis are completely insane, laughable nutcases. By banning them, they are deprived of the opportunity to make fools of themselves in public.
-Lasse Hillerøe Petersen
You obviously don't know any serious modellers.
The idea of a German WW II Me 109 without correct insignia is just as ridiculous as the idea of a RAF WW II Spitfire without roundels or a Soviet WW II Yakovlev without red stars. It is a matter of accuracy, not of shock value.
Fortunately, according to the news today, the EU has decided against adopting the German ban of the swastika.
Now if only the disappointed CDU voters would stop threatening legitimately elected SSW members of the Landtag in Kiel...
-Lasse
I suppose you can draw the line wherever you like, as long as you don't draw six lines in a manner such that it composes a four-armed rotationally symmetric figure.
-Lasse
Interesting, then why is it impossible to find a plastic model kit of a WW II German aircraft which includes a swastika for the tail?
-Lasse
But if you want to express your interest in history, for example by building plastic models of WW II German tanks or aircraft, you are not allowed to make them historically accurate by putting swastika on them.
I hope you are grateful that Hitler didn't pick a circle as his symbol, otherwise all your BMWs and Mercedeses would have to run on square wheels. And of course, the * in "verb*ten" would be strictly verb*ten.
The most frightening thing about this horrible censorship in Germany and a few other European countries is that there are politicians who want to spread it to the rest of Europe. If that happens, I will start wearing a swastika, just in spite. Oh, and I can assure you I am firmly antinazi. I just believe that free speech applies to everyone.
Banning an arbitrary geometrical shape is just stupid. Another silly example of confusing the map with the landscape, the symbol with the symbolized.
-Lasse Hillerøe Petersen
So, a swastika is a "real evil", eh? Ever heard of Korzybski? The map is not the landscape, you see. And the symbol is not the symbolized.
Banning the swastika, as it is in parts of Europe (fortunately not Denmark - yet!) is the worst kind of historical revisionism there is. It means you cannot create depictions (for example models or artwork) that are accurate, because only historical images are legal, IIRC.
If Hitler had used a circle as his symbol, I suppose we would all be riding in hovercars, because wheels would have to be banned along with all other circular forms!
-Lasse
I strongly agree!
Also, the insane construction which is URL, is so bad, the inventor should be spanked blue. I'm not sure it was Berners-Lee alone, though.
-Lasse
Thank you for replying. It appears that the only thing I really got right was that BASF and Agfa were not related. I apologise for my faulty memory. BTW, wikipedia also has an interesting article on Agfa.
-Lasse
1. Those names are not random.
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I believe BASF stands (stood) for "Bremer Anillin und Soda Fabrik", and AGFA for "AG FArben" (Faben being colors, AG being Aktiengesellschaft = corporation)
2. I doubt BASF "used to be" AGFA, they are both old (pre-WW II?) German corporations, IIRC.
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4. Why, profit of course.
-Lasse
I would think that suggesting to eat seed corn is extremely bad advice?
Seed corn is typically treated with rather nasty fungicides and perhaps other chemicals, which are definitely not good to eat.
Or was this an attempt at a joke, which was merely incompatible with my sense of humour?
-Lasse