Sounds unlikely. My iBook G4 came with detailed instructions for installing more memory myself. And adding an airport extreme card. It's about as open as any laptop. Don't see why they would prohibit memory upgrades on iMacs, either.
I have a normal AthlonXp 1900+ system in my "computer room" running W2k along with another, slower machine running OpenBSD 3.4-Current. I have a 10-meter long s-video cable and stereo audio cable going over to my living room, where they plug into my 6.1 surround stereo system and 32" widescreen TV. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. what the heck would I do with a "htpc" ?
I guess giving technical facts is something the slashdot community is not prepared for, they consider it trolling. Oh well, you cannot please everyone.
SATA also gives better real-world performance (as opposed to more theoretical bandwidth) by enabling tagged commands, better bus-master transfer (both have been the real reasons behind SCSI's until-now superior performance), and gets rid of the ancient C/H/S addressing scheme, thus paving a smoother road towards ever larger and larger disks without having to invent yet another kludge scheme to make it work.
The 7650. It has a big screen, 3.6M memory, you can download apps, IRC, browse the web, make your own apps, use MIDI ringtones, it has bluetooth, GPRS, IrDA.. and it's not TOO big though it's somewhat large. The user interface rocks. And it has a camera too:)
I believe it's already available in many places, perhaps under different names.. in Finland they do "custom ablation" with "wavefront analysis" under the name commercial name Zyoptix LASIK, I am sure it's available in the U.S. and some other countries as well. Anyway, this is supposed to be the high-end of LASIK, so definitely worth finding out.
There are several points in Brody's article that reflect her unfamiliarity with the Atkins diet, and recent research, making me wonder why? I am sure she can read as well as I: - Complete dismissal/inability to cover the role of insulin in fat storage - "How much of a limited category of foods can you eat before you find yourself eating less and less?" I'd say quite a lot.. my typical lunch (yes, I do Atkins) consists of about 300 grams of fatty meat cooked in butter and cream, along with tasty VEGETABLES (yes, imagine!). I am definitely not eating less, gram-per-gram, but more, calorie-wise, and still losing. And feeling good for 8 weeks now, too. - Why does she ask, what happens if someone doing the diet adds the forbidden items back? That's the same as going off the diet, and why would anyone do that? Wholesome foods = corn, potatoes, oatmeal? How did we ever reach civilization? Humans have lived for millions of years without agriculture, without the mandatory eat grain-and-sugars-or-your-brains-die food. We should all be dead millions of years ago already, if carbohydrate foods were necessary in any way. - About kidney stones: They take a LONG time to form. How did they measure the diet's effect on kidney stones in just 6 weeks? - She does mention that the diet did improve serum lipid values, decreasing LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. What she left out was that the diet does it MUCH better than the usually-recommended low-fat diet. It's DIFFICULT to lower cholesterol levels on a low-fat diet, which is why we have a multibiollion medical industry making cholesterol lowering drugs. Why use (questionable and expensive) drugs when you can use a diet? - "Why hasn't the government tested it? One possible reason is that it is unlikely to be approved by any review committee, given what is known about the effects of animal fats and cholesterol on the risk of heart disease"... Oh no, this is the unscientific "we know it's bad for cholesterol so we won't even test to see if it's bad for cholesterol" way of thinking, totall ridiculous. About diabetes, there is strong evidence it is caused by too much insulin, which is caused by eating too many carbohydrates. She should at least account for the research that says so, instead of just claiming this and that. - "The Atkins diet is shy on several vital nutrients, including the B vitamins and vitamins A, C and D"... and I thought meat and fish were a good source of the B vitamins and vitamins A and D, the fat-soluble vitamins. In fact, vegetarians often have deficiencies in the B vitamins if they do not eat supplements... - She's probably partially right about the increased food portions. Which is exactly why people should eat foods that actually make one satiated, so there will be no need to eat huge portions that will nevertheless make you screaming hungry in 2-3 hours. - She is right about the bad effects of refined sugars and white flour. Of course, this is also what Atkins forbids you to eat, ever. - "The swing back to Atkins is a response to the fact that a low-fat diet hasn't worked for a lot of people because they stuff in carbohydrates." And why do people stuff in the carbohydrates? Carbohydrates make you HUNGRY because of quickly rising and falling blood sugar levels, that's why. It's not because people on a larger scale are bad people who get into trouble because they're sinful, it's physiological. - "Eat more calories than you expend and you'll gain weight." of course that's right, but most people have a way too narrow understanding of the statement. I eat way more calories than recommended for a adult male of my size and age, and still lose weight. The excess is not STORED in my system, it is dumped out in my urine, out of my breath, in my sweat... so I am EXPENDING more than I eat, which is much easier to do on a low-carb diet than a low-fat one.
I got the impression Serial ATA was also finally going to do away with the braindead addressing schemes we've suffered from since the 512MB limit first screwed us. The 512MB limit was fixed with a kludge, then we needed to refine the kludge for 2G, yet again for 8G, then for 32G and now it would seem the biggest addressable disk size on IDE is 128G (or about 137G if you speak in disk manufacturer mathematics?) Isn't Serial ATA going to have 48-bit sector addressing, meaning you no longer deal with cylinders, sectors or heads, but simply by sector numbers? If a sector is 512 bytes, then we can address a 134217728GB disc with 48-bit sector addressing?
You all are so wrong. I have an IDE 32x CD-RW from LG attached to the _same cable_ with a CD-ROM drive, and as slave, no less. I can make a CD-to-CD copy in about 3 minutes while playing mp3's, watching DIVX, surfing the 'net and so on without ANY problems whatsoever. The key here is "buffer underrun protection", meaning if the CD-R's buffer is empty, it shuts down the laser and waits for more data, and then merrily continues from where it left off when it does get more data.
You can use a radius of about 35 kilometers for a GSM cell if you're on a sparsely populated area (barring interference from mountains, valleys and so forth). So one tower can cater quite a large area.
Many people are using GPRS with Palm/Handspring
PDA's, and I don't see why Voicestream's service
would be any different. AFAIK, all GPRS phones can be connected to a computer using a standard serial cable. The phone pretends to be a modem and when you dial a certain number, say #99*, you get a "connect" and a PPP handshake, pretty general stuff that is supported everywhere.
What I've found the coolest part in OPenBSD's ports(and probably also NetBSD pkgsrc/FreeBSD ports, though haven't tried) is that you can go in and set all kinds of options in the Makefile before you do make && make install.. for example, I was very pleasantly surprised for all the options available in the PHP4 port. No more juggling around hopelessly with binary packages when I sometimes want gd, mysql, imap, ldap and blahblah modules built into my PHP.. I just set that these are the things I want, then it fetches everything it needs, and builds them. Very nice.
That's what I meant. But if I upgrade the base-system using CVS, doesn't this mean, for example, that old files are left lying around, configuration files will be over-written or not upgraded, etc? And that you can't later ask the system, "where exactly did THIS file come from?"
It's great, but it doesn't know anything about the stuff that's part of the operating system. There's no real advantage in splitting all the stuff in BSD to Distributions, Packages and Ports (though Ports become Packages when compiled and installed, right?).
We already have Social Security Numbers and a multitude of different kinds of documents that would identify us: a social security card, a passport, a driving license... I don't see why an electronic equivalent would make any alleged oppression of citizens any more likely.
I have invented Minus One Click Shopping. In this scenario, the user buys things every day, UNLESS he goes to the vendor's web site, and clicks on all the products he does NOT want to buy on that given day. This is most useful in situations where someone would like to buy necessary items every day without going through the hassle of actually ordering them every day.
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I've always found the main strength of SETI in it's search for extraterrestrial _INTELLIGENCE_. I mean, we still haven't found anything intelligent on Earth, so surely we must look for it elsewhere.
Not true. After the disappointment with EP1, I rewatched IV-VI many times. The results were clear; episodes IV-VI were MUCH better, even though I had aged 14 years since first seeing episode IV.
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Sounds unlikely.
My iBook G4 came with detailed instructions for installing more memory myself. And adding an airport extreme card. It's about as open as any laptop. Don't see why they would prohibit memory upgrades on iMacs, either.
I have a normal AthlonXp 1900+ system in my "computer room" running W2k along with another, slower machine running OpenBSD 3.4-Current. I have a 10-meter long s-video cable and stereo audio cable going over to my living room, where they plug into my 6.1 surround stereo system and 32" widescreen TV. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. what the heck would I do with a "htpc" ?
It runs quite well under WXP; I just played a game (and got my ass kicked; for some reason all the other wizards instantly ganged up on me..)
I guess giving technical facts is something the slashdot community is not prepared for, they consider it trolling. Oh well, you cannot please everyone.
SATA also gives better real-world performance (as opposed to more theoretical bandwidth) by enabling tagged commands, better bus-master transfer (both have been the real reasons behind SCSI's until-now superior performance), and gets rid of the ancient C/H/S addressing scheme, thus paving a smoother road towards ever larger and larger disks without having to invent yet another kludge scheme to make it work.
I have a 40GB bootable partition on a 40GB hard drive, connected to an Abit BH-6 motherboard with the latest BIOS, and it works without any problems.
The 7650. It has a big screen, 3.6M memory, you can download apps, IRC, browse the web, make your own apps, use MIDI ringtones, it has bluetooth, GPRS, IrDA.. and it's not TOO big though it's somewhat large. The user interface rocks. And it has a camera too :)
I believe it's already available in many places, perhaps under different names.. in Finland they do "custom ablation" with "wavefront analysis" under the name commercial name Zyoptix LASIK, I am sure it's available in the U.S. and some other countries as well. Anyway, this is supposed to be the high-end of LASIK, so definitely worth finding out.
There are several points in Brody's article that reflect her unfamiliarity with the Atkins diet, and recent research, making me wonder why? I am sure she can read as well as I:
- Complete dismissal/inability to cover the role of insulin in fat storage
- "How much of a limited category of foods can you eat before you find yourself eating less and less?" I'd say quite a lot.. my typical lunch (yes, I do Atkins) consists of about 300 grams of fatty meat cooked in butter and cream, along with tasty VEGETABLES (yes, imagine!). I am definitely not eating less, gram-per-gram, but more, calorie-wise, and still losing. And feeling good for 8 weeks now, too.
- Why does she ask, what happens if someone doing the diet adds the forbidden items back? That's the same as going off the diet, and why would anyone do that? Wholesome foods = corn, potatoes, oatmeal? How did we ever reach civilization? Humans have lived for millions of years without agriculture, without the mandatory eat grain-and-sugars-or-your-brains-die food. We should all be dead millions of years ago already, if carbohydrate foods were necessary in any way.
- About kidney stones: They take a LONG time to form. How did they measure the diet's effect on kidney stones in just 6 weeks?
- She does mention that the diet did improve serum lipid values, decreasing LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. What she left out was that the diet does it MUCH better than the usually-recommended low-fat diet. It's DIFFICULT to lower cholesterol levels on a low-fat diet, which is why we have a multibiollion medical industry making cholesterol lowering drugs. Why use (questionable and expensive) drugs when you can use a diet?
- "Why hasn't the government tested it? One possible reason is that it is unlikely to be approved by any review committee, given what is known about the effects of animal fats and cholesterol on the risk of heart disease"... Oh no, this is the unscientific "we know it's bad for cholesterol so we won't even test to see if it's bad for cholesterol" way of thinking, totall ridiculous. About diabetes, there is strong evidence it is caused by too much insulin, which is caused by eating too many carbohydrates. She should at least account for the research that says so, instead of just claiming this and that.
- "The Atkins diet is shy on several vital nutrients, including the B vitamins and vitamins A, C and D"... and I thought meat and fish were a good source of the B vitamins and vitamins A and D, the fat-soluble vitamins. In fact, vegetarians often have deficiencies in the B vitamins if they do not eat supplements...
- She's probably partially right about the increased food portions. Which is exactly why people should eat foods that actually make one satiated, so there will be no need to eat huge portions that will nevertheless make you screaming hungry in 2-3 hours.
- She is right about the bad effects of refined sugars and white flour. Of course, this is also what Atkins forbids you to eat, ever.
- "The swing back to Atkins is a response to the fact that a low-fat diet hasn't worked for a lot of people because they stuff in carbohydrates." And why do people stuff in the carbohydrates? Carbohydrates make you HUNGRY because of quickly rising and falling blood sugar levels, that's why. It's not because people on a larger scale are bad people who get into trouble because they're sinful, it's physiological.
- "Eat more calories than you expend and you'll gain weight." of course that's right, but most people have a way too narrow understanding of the statement. I eat way more calories than recommended for a adult male of my size and age, and still lose weight. The excess is not STORED in my system, it is dumped out in my urine, out of my breath, in my sweat... so I am EXPENDING more than I eat, which is much easier to do on a low-carb diet than a low-fat one.
I got the impression Serial ATA was also finally going to do away with the braindead addressing schemes we've suffered from since the 512MB limit first screwed us. The 512MB limit was fixed with a kludge, then we needed to refine the kludge for 2G, yet again for 8G, then for 32G and now it would seem the biggest addressable disk size on IDE is 128G (or about 137G if you speak in disk manufacturer mathematics?)
Isn't Serial ATA going to have 48-bit sector addressing, meaning you no longer deal with cylinders, sectors or heads, but simply by sector numbers? If a sector is 512 bytes, then we can address a 134217728GB disc with 48-bit sector addressing?
You all are so wrong. I have an IDE 32x CD-RW from LG attached to the _same cable_ with a CD-ROM drive, and as slave, no less. I can make a CD-to-CD copy in about 3 minutes while playing mp3's, watching DIVX, surfing the 'net and so on without ANY problems whatsoever. The key here is "buffer underrun protection", meaning if the CD-R's buffer is empty, it shuts down the laser and waits for more data, and then merrily continues from where it left off when it does get more data.
You can use a radius of about 35 kilometers for a GSM cell if you're on a sparsely populated area (barring interference from mountains, valleys and so forth). So one tower can cater quite a large area.
That's just interim pricing, I am sure it will change as soon as Sonera makes up their mind. And also, it's just one timeslot ( =slow) for now.
Many people are using GPRS with Palm/Handspring
PDA's, and I don't see why Voicestream's service
would be any different. AFAIK, all GPRS phones can be connected to a computer using a standard serial cable. The phone pretends to be a modem and when you dial a certain number, say #99*, you get a "connect" and a PPP handshake, pretty general stuff that is supported everywhere.
What I've found the coolest part in OPenBSD's ports(and probably also NetBSD pkgsrc/FreeBSD ports, though haven't tried) is that you can go in and set all kinds of options in the Makefile before you do make && make install.. for example, I was very pleasantly surprised for all the options available in the PHP4 port. No more juggling around hopelessly with binary packages when I sometimes want gd, mysql, imap, ldap and blahblah modules built into my PHP.. I just set that these are the things I want, then it fetches everything it needs, and builds them. Very nice.
All right, now I'm quite convinced. I'm still new to this BSD stuff so I'm happy this got all cleared.
That's what I meant. But if I upgrade the base-system using CVS, doesn't this mean, for example, that old files are left lying around, configuration files will be over-written or not upgraded, etc? And that you can't later ask the system, "where exactly did THIS file come from?"
It's great, but it doesn't know anything about the stuff that's part of the operating system. There's no real advantage in splitting all the stuff in BSD to Distributions, Packages and Ports (though Ports become Packages when compiled and installed, right?).
We already have Social Security Numbers and a multitude of different kinds of documents that would identify us: a social security card, a passport, a driving license... I don't see why an electronic equivalent would make any alleged oppression of citizens any more likely.
In my experience, LAMP works better than Xtheater 0.5.2. Haven't tried the latest Xtheater release, though.
I have invented Minus One Click Shopping. In this scenario, the user buys things every day, UNLESS he goes to the vendor's web site, and clicks on all the products he does NOT want to buy on that given day. This is most useful in situations where someone would like to buy necessary items every day without going through the hassle of actually ordering them every day.
Thief and it's sequel, Soldier of Fortune?
I've always found the main strength of SETI in it's search for extraterrestrial _INTELLIGENCE_. I mean, we still haven't found anything intelligent on Earth, so surely we must look for it elsewhere.
Not true. After the disappointment with EP1, I rewatched IV-VI many times. The results were clear; episodes IV-VI were MUCH better, even though I had aged 14 years since first seeing episode IV.
So true! Americans are still sending cheques by mail, instead of doing all transfers electronically.