Except that the Normans weren't French, they were transplanted Vikings. Sure they spoke French and lived in France, but they were (and still are) culturally distinct from the French.
There's also disadvantages to RISC; binaries tend to be bigger (x86 has variable sized instructions) and that uses up some of the larger cache that RISC chips tend to have.
Also PowerPC processors are big-endian, so they need more space to store things. Motorola tried to compensate for this by adding L2 cash - a special kind of rebate when you buy the processor. They also introduced out-of-order execution which means that even when the processor is broken it still works.
This is one of those problems far more complex than you might think. If you want a spellchecker to semantically correct what you're writing, you have to be writing something that is itself semantically correct. To deterrmine whether something is semantically correct is an ideological decision - ideological meaning "common sense". Alternatively you could turn away from monolithic ideology towards Derrida's gramatological interpretation of French structuralism and decide that meaning is transigent and that even the dichotomies that establish much linguistic meaning are unbalanced.
So we're probably better off with the wavy lines for now.
blah blah but anyway the performance is impressive
Dude, if it's so great why are you in here arguing the toss about the new Mac?
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Maybe. I just put a Belkin 802.11g PCI card in my power mac (the half-ton shaving mirror one) and it works fine as an Airport card, no drivers to install or anything.
Mind you, Belkin's rebate system is a total fraud. Absolute total broad daylight fraud. Go ahead you assholes, sue me. I dare you. Sue me right now. Fraudsters.
We put together a 'crew' of three Americans, one Scot, a Vulcan, someone Asian, a Klingon, a hologram, a Borg, a couple of hot chicks in tight outfits and put them all on a starship in the Neutral Zone!
We told them they had to save the Earth from total destruction!
We didn't tell them to reverse the polarity!
Watch as the characters fight, love, conspire and fight each other to bongo music! Every week you choose a character to be beamed off into oblivion! Coming to UPN this fall!
I think one of the Huntsville Saturn Vs - the vertical one - is a dummy. They also have a dummy shuttle which had been used as a boilerplate to practise moving and loading the real thing, so the dummy Saturn might have been a boilerplate for something. The horizontal Saturn V is kind of run down, with a hornets nest inside the (boilerplate) command module.
Incidentally, Huntsville has a better rocket garden than Johnson and Kennedy put together. The only other place with stuff as interesting is at White Sands.
(Did a four month road trip across the southern US last year).
In the US you have to declare income in kind, as well as in cash. This means if you win something you have to pay tax on it, and, incidentally, can deduct gambling losses from your return.
If you have a reasonable income then your top rate of tax is 40% or so, so you have to pay 40% of the value of your winnings in tax. This is also why you can't get a martini with two olives. Three is fine, one is fine, but you can't have two.
It doesn't matter how good or well-calibrated your monitor is. We see real objects' colors because they reflect light; the process is subtractive. The computer monitor transmits light; the process is additive. If you look at a real object in bright sunlight, it looks brighter. If you look at a computer monitor in bright sunlight, it looks dimmer.
Expecting representative color from a transmissive display is like expecting photographs of lightbulbs to glow in the dark.
And when you add the ascent and descent. What do you get?
Most of the energy you expend lifting the plane to its cruising altitude is stored in the plane. When you descend you get the energy back, so except for friction, there's no extra energy used to go up and down.
These are well-spotted. Remember that readers of newspapers will not know what an index is. They have this simplistic picture of the Internet in their heads.
Just as you seem to have a simplistic picture of the newspaper readers.
If MS kicked enough money back to Amazon.com and eBay to cover the losses they'd suffer from lost customers, they'd do it. Eventually, people wanting to use the aforementioned sites(and sites like them) would migrate to Longhorn, or they'd use internet cafe terminals running Longhorn to access the sites.
This is the opposite of a good idea (unless you're a Microsoft shareholder, and even then it's not really that great).
Software should be adopted because it suits the task at hand, not because it is forced on you through some Mafia-like business deal. Passport failed because users didn't like it; setting up obstacles to force users to take it up is stupid.
If users are going to use a client-side application, why not use a password manager?
Like KeyChain in OS X? Well, if MS were to put something like this in Windows then they're saying Passport doesn't work, which would make for some sticky upper management meetings.
Also there was that Mac game where you have to keep finding out these bizarre secret codes and phrases and solve really weird logic puzzles, and all the time you're not quite sure what the objective is.
You know the game; it was called CodeWarrior PowerPlant.
Although the site was anonymous, meaning anyone can LOG IN, the SCO may still have ground to stand on if they displayed a terms of use when you login, and say something like "if you don't agree to these terms, you are not permitted to download and must log out immediately."
Here is the agreement from SCO's ftp site:
Welcome to SCO's UnixWarez Site
All downloads are for BACK-UP only. If you are from a law enforcement agency then you are not allowed to log on. No kiddie pr0n. Upload to download. No leeching. Enjoy.
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You're forgetting the (surprisingly well-written) animated series from the 1970s.
You know what would be really good? A Star Trek radio serial.
The Battle of Hastings 1066
Except that the Normans weren't French, they were transplanted Vikings. Sure they spoke French and lived in France, but they were (and still are) culturally distinct from the French.
There's also disadvantages to RISC; binaries tend to be bigger (x86 has variable sized instructions) and that uses up some of the larger cache that RISC chips tend to have.
Also PowerPC processors are big-endian, so they need more space to store things. Motorola tried to compensate for this by adding L2 cash - a special kind of rebate when you buy the processor. They also introduced out-of-order execution which means that even when the processor is broken it still works.
Done!
The Mac Mini has a switching PSU; 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz.
You're forgetting the time spent filling out rebate cards. If you're building a PC from scratch you're going to spend a week clipping barcodes.
Plus half of the rebates don't come through. Yes, Belkin, I'm talking about YOU. Bastards.
This is one of those problems far more complex than you might think. If you want a spellchecker to semantically correct what you're writing, you have to be writing something that is itself semantically correct. To deterrmine whether something is semantically correct is an ideological decision - ideological meaning "common sense". Alternatively you could turn away from monolithic ideology towards Derrida's gramatological interpretation of French structuralism and decide that meaning is transigent and that even the dichotomies that establish much linguistic meaning are unbalanced.
So we're probably better off with the wavy lines for now.
That kind of explains my "Born To Loose" tattoo.
blah blah but anyway the performance is impressive
Dude, if it's so great why are you in here arguing the toss about the new Mac?
Maybe. I just put a Belkin 802.11g PCI card in my power mac (the half-ton shaving mirror one) and it works fine as an Airport card, no drivers to install or anything.
Mind you, Belkin's rebate system is a total fraud. Absolute total broad daylight fraud. Go ahead you assholes, sue me. I dare you. Sue me right now. Fraudsters.
OK, here's my pitch:
Star Trek: The Reality Show
We put together a 'crew' of three Americans, one Scot, a Vulcan, someone Asian, a Klingon, a hologram, a Borg, a couple of hot chicks in tight outfits and put them all on a starship in the Neutral Zone!
We told them they had to save the Earth from total destruction!
We didn't tell them to reverse the polarity!
Watch as the characters fight, love, conspire and fight each other to bongo music! Every week you choose a character to be beamed off into oblivion! Coming to UPN this fall!
Dude, you're being kind of pedantile.
I think one of the Huntsville Saturn Vs - the vertical one - is a dummy. They also have a dummy shuttle which had been used as a boilerplate to practise moving and loading the real thing, so the dummy Saturn might have been a boilerplate for something. The horizontal Saturn V is kind of run down, with a hornets nest inside the (boilerplate) command module.
Incidentally, Huntsville has a better rocket garden than Johnson and Kennedy put together. The only other place with stuff as interesting is at White Sands.
(Did a four month road trip across the southern US last year).
Art is different in that it is not functional, you watch it, you waste your time with it, but ultimativly you don't produce anything with it.
So you're saying that these games would be functional without the art? There's more to art than just being pretty.
In the US you have to declare income in kind, as well as in cash. This means if you win something you have to pay tax on it, and, incidentally, can deduct gambling losses from your return.
If you have a reasonable income then your top rate of tax is 40% or so, so you have to pay 40% of the value of your winnings in tax. This is also why you can't get a martini with two olives. Three is fine, one is fine, but you can't have two.
It doesn't matter how good or well-calibrated your monitor is. We see real objects' colors because they reflect light; the process is subtractive. The computer monitor transmits light; the process is additive. If you look at a real object in bright sunlight, it looks brighter. If you look at a computer monitor in bright sunlight, it looks dimmer.
Expecting representative color from a transmissive display is like expecting photographs of lightbulbs to glow in the dark.
And when you add the ascent and descent. What do you get?
Most of the energy you expend lifting the plane to its cruising altitude is stored in the plane. When you descend you get the energy back, so except for friction, there's no extra energy used to go up and down.
These are well-spotted. Remember that readers of newspapers will not know what an index is. They have this simplistic picture of the Internet in their heads.
Just as you seem to have a simplistic picture of the newspaper readers.
Before I went to ITT Tech I couldn't even spell the word 'engineer'.
Now I are one.
If MS kicked enough money back to Amazon.com and eBay to cover the losses they'd suffer from lost customers, they'd do it. Eventually, people wanting to use the aforementioned sites(and sites like them) would migrate to Longhorn, or they'd use internet cafe terminals running Longhorn to access the sites.
This is the opposite of a good idea (unless you're a Microsoft shareholder, and even then it's not really that great).
Software should be adopted because it suits the task at hand, not because it is forced on you through some Mafia-like business deal. Passport failed because users didn't like it; setting up obstacles to force users to take it up is stupid.
If users are going to use a client-side application, why not use a password manager?
Like KeyChain in OS X? Well, if MS were to put something like this in Windows then they're saying Passport doesn't work, which would make for some sticky upper management meetings.
Also there was that Mac game where you have to keep finding out these bizarre secret codes and phrases and solve really weird logic puzzles, and all the time you're not quite sure what the objective is.
You know the game; it was called CodeWarrior PowerPlant.
CD sized laserdiscs? Aren't laserdiscs simply 12" sized CDs?
Laserdiscs are analogue encoded, CDs are digital.
Macs have pretty nice cases... until you decide to do some upgrades - then you find out that the really big case has no place to put anything.
You should get a Shuttle mini-ATX case; they're like Dr Who's TARDIS.
On the outside they're really small and on the inside they're full of crap.
Although the site was anonymous, meaning anyone can LOG IN, the SCO may still have ground to stand on if they displayed a terms of use when you login, and say something like "if you don't agree to these terms, you are not permitted to download and must log out immediately."
Here is the agreement from SCO's ftp site:
Welcome to SCO's UnixWarez Site
All downloads are for BACK-UP only. If you are from a law enforcement agency then you are not allowed to log on. No kiddie pr0n. Upload to download. No leeching. Enjoy.
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