I was really rooting for the latest Athlon/Turion 64 X2's, but my recent laptop has a Core 2 Duo. AMD was ahead for a while, but they're playing catch-up again, and I'm not really surprised if their prices reflect this. Intel has been 65nm for over a year now, and it shows in power usage at the very least. I'll admit this is an interesting war to witness, however.
It's running a cut-down OSX on it... what do you think? They're not going to list every single little application the thing can run. 30GB? The only reason it's that small is due to the use of flash memory. The whole point of this device is that it's only slightly larger than a Moto SLVR, and is a full PDA running OSX with a touch-screen that nearly covers the full dimensions of the phone itself.
Way smaller than the current equivalent smart-phones, giant screen, and 5 hours of battery life with all of that? That's at least twice the time I get from my RAZR and it does so much more I want to cry. If it weren't Cingular only, I'd punch out my Mom for one of these things.;)
Hey, that's an awesome idea! Socks never come with warnings that wearing them will make hard flat surfaces dangerous to walk on due to reduced friction! I'll be rich!
I think the concern here was that even 15 months ago, Postgres was at least in the 8.0 tree, a vast improvement over the 7.4 tree which itself offered not insignificant advances over 7.2 and 7.3. The linked table of pros/cons for each database is dated February 2005, and browsing the postgres archives informs me that 8.0.1 was released by that point. If they waited two months, 8.0.2 would have been available. As it stands, the 8.0 tree was deprecated back in November of 2005, and the future now sits squarely on 8.2 after 8.1 experienced a short life of roughly a year.
The truth of the matter is that postgres is a rapidly fluxuating target. I remember waiting five years for mysql 5.0 to finally see the light of day, and during that time postgres has truly experienced a ridiculous flurry of revisions and tweaks sometimes requiring alterations to their core storage format. That they do this all while providing full ACID compliance is a Godsend.
I don't begrudge MySQL their success, but the roots of that database were thanks to simplicity and speed, like where SQLite is now. It's also an evolving product, but I think its lost the original focus in the mad rush of (friendly) competition all products eventually engage.
But what about Compiz? That just slaps directly into a XOrg installation and makes use of 3d video card features, requiring little memory or CPU usage to accomplish this mighty feat. In the video I link, they're rotating the desktop cube with videos playing on top of each other, in the crease of the cube... all in realtime. This is on old video cards such as ATI x200's.
Seriously, MS has taken so long with this, even Linux has passed it.;)
Dude, chill. If I'm reading the parent correctly, the interpreters charge more than his wife does, so in effect, his wife would be paying the deaf people to be clients. Empathy or not, that's downright asinine. Especially when word gets around and she gets inundated with deaf clients. So it's either: go out of business altogether, or leave whichever field the ruling affects.
Funny, my Nintendo DS is accurate enough to play games on continuously, for hours, months at a time. Making an accurate touch screen isn't exactly brain surgery. If a $130 consumer-device can accomplish such a mighty feat, why not a "robust" voting system? The boxes these people are tapping are probably giant buttons, and people are likely to press in the middle, not an edge where a few pixels *might* pick a different candidate.
I'm not willing to say it's a conspiracy, but there's definitely a vast amount of incompetence involved, and we're basing the future of our democracy on these buggy pieces of shit. That just fills me with pride and confidence. No really, it does.
About four of those are composites, and contain blocks for dynamic IPs. Each link goes to the usage page for the blacklist, and if you want, you can just block dynamic IPs by using the correct subdomain.
I also haven't noticed the increase as much. Then again, I'm a bad admin and disallow dynamic IPs from sending mail to my system. Botnets have no teeth when the systems that have been compromised are summarily ignored.
If the US is listed at 42%, it obviously doesn't include property tax, sales tax, state and local taxes, etc. We don't pay all of our taxes up front, but oh hell yes, we pay them. I'd be willing to wager we're much higher on the list when the real rate is considered. And many of the countries on that list have national health care for their dime... we don't.
So think outside the box. I picked up 20lbs of frozen Elk from a farm in South Dakota. Even after shipping, it cost less than beef in the area, and it's much healthier meat. The guy runs the farm with himself and his kids, and even has pictures of the Elk grazing on his land. Apparently a couple states are really big for Elk and Bison farming, and you'd never find higher quality and fairly priced meat.
But we understand the basic idea. Sometime it's too expensive to do the right thing when you're on a budget.
Couldn't it also be that since Autism is a spectrum of disorders centered on social development, that if an area has more snow and the kids spend more time inside, they get less social interaction and therefore get scores indicating autism in psycological tests? Jumping directly to the conclusion that something inside the house caused a child's autism, instead of the act of being inside itself, seems a bit hasty.
Nothing but the iPod works with iTunes. That's how it works. Just like with Ford's statement "You can have any color you want, so long as it's black," iTunes is like, "You can use any music player you want with iTunes, so long as it's an iPod."
But like most other players out there, it does Plays-for-sure and mp3 so if you don't mind using a Microsoft technology, any playsforsure service works fine. I just rip my own CDs to mp3, so iTunes support is irrelevant.
The Sansa isn't just 8GB. That article doesn't tell you, but it has a micro-SD expansion slot. Current cards of that type are at 2GB, and you know they're only going to get bigger. Add in an FM tuner, voice recording, video playback, better scratch resistance, and a user-replacable battery, and you have what is in my opinion, a better overall product. And unlike Apple products, you can buy from 3rd party vendors for a discount. So far, Froogle tells me the Sandisk Sansa e280 goes for roughly $200, give or take $15 for a range of various vendors.
Seriously, this is fucking bogus. What the fuck is wrong with these assholes? Oh shit, there's a company offering multiple services over a medium that's been around for over 40 years, obviously nobody ever thought of this before! It's sure a good fucking thing a wire carrying an electrical signal is so hard to comprehend! Why, heaven forbid filthy thieves like Comcast get away with using internet packets for their intended purpose! Jesus, thank you Cisco for saving us all! Hey Cisco, I have a patent for you: a method of providing multiple services (smell, sound, bass) from a single orifice (my ass), better send me a fucking check now, or I'll sue! Cock suckers.
(Yes, I'm drunk. Thank you Chicago for having approximately 50,000 bars per capita. Yes, this is an example kids, don't post drunk!)
That's what I was wondering. We're talking about Debian here, easily the slowest releasing distribution in the Linux world. Are they saying they can't submit patches to the Mozilla foundation so Mozilla can check the fixes for bugs or come up with a better patch, because they can't wait that long? Sure, Firefox is open source, but what Debian is distributing is not Firefox. It's somewhat sad Debian had to react in a petulant manner and come up with a childish reactionary name like "IceWeasel." I seem to remember them forcing vendors to remove "Debian" from their name, too...
Heh, that's why I said "then again..." Other people made the same point, so I won't reiterate. I mean, if I were a poor Indian, I might consider stealing from Western Country X if it meant a big payoff. And a "Big Payoff" isn't so hard to pull of in poor countries. It's a natural consequence of sending financial services to unscrupulous providers that bid low and hire badly.
I saw this coming last year when several banks here stated they were moving many services unrelated to call centers, out of the US for financial reasons. It would appear that people generally don't care about others, which is only exacerbated by national identity detracting from emotional identification. What does an Indian care about some schmuck from the UK? About as much some guy in the UK cares about an Indian.
Then again, it could be argued that by sending financial services to the lowest bidder, banks are encouraging wholesale fraud. It's probably a combination of many factors, these only being the low-hanging fruit. I'd like to think banks would be more responsible with our money, but apparently charging outrageous interest rates on loans and transactions isn't enough of a profit.
It's not just that. The name "Sony" once meant quality. Now it seems they can't do anything right. I'd stay away from Sony products simply because it seems they break or explode frequently.;)
Sure, sports would do it. Want to play baseball all day? Go ahead.
Then again, there's always the holodeck, or its Matrix equivalent, for when you really want to go nuts. It's not quite the Star Trek future, but read Manna. Oddly enough, I see us going the way the US did in that story: everyone works to buy things, once that's over, you're a burdon. I'd love to influence the latter Australian outcome somehow, of course.
But isn't that the point of technology? If we had machines to do everything for us, replicators to give us anything we wanted, and so on, how is that ruining any generation? We could spend our lives being artists, researching history, or anything else we *want* to do without fear of starving or putting up with a mean old boss. We're so tantalizingly close to this, I can't imagine why anyone would want to go back. Just a few short generations, and humanity will have the means to do essentially whatever it wants.
Now, I'm not saying we or our governments will use that power responsibly or evenly, but it's there.
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I was really rooting for the latest Athlon/Turion 64 X2's, but my recent laptop has a Core 2 Duo. AMD was ahead for a while, but they're playing catch-up again, and I'm not really surprised if their prices reflect this. Intel has been 65nm for over a year now, and it shows in power usage at the very least. I'll admit this is an interesting war to witness, however.
Except maybe the probability of getting caught and having your entire plans foiled. This is especial true in a dessert.
Iraq is delicious?
It's running a cut-down OSX on it... what do you think? They're not going to list every single little application the thing can run. 30GB? The only reason it's that small is due to the use of flash memory. The whole point of this device is that it's only slightly larger than a Moto SLVR, and is a full PDA running OSX with a touch-screen that nearly covers the full dimensions of the phone itself.
;)
Way smaller than the current equivalent smart-phones, giant screen, and 5 hours of battery life with all of that? That's at least twice the time I get from my RAZR and it does so much more I want to cry. If it weren't Cingular only, I'd punch out my Mom for one of these things.
Hey, that's an awesome idea! Socks never come with warnings that wearing them will make hard flat surfaces dangerous to walk on due to reduced friction! I'll be rich!
I think the concern here was that even 15 months ago, Postgres was at least in the 8.0 tree, a vast improvement over the 7.4 tree which itself offered not insignificant advances over 7.2 and 7.3. The linked table of pros/cons for each database is dated February 2005, and browsing the postgres archives informs me that 8.0.1 was released by that point. If they waited two months, 8.0.2 would have been available. As it stands, the 8.0 tree was deprecated back in November of 2005, and the future now sits squarely on 8.2 after 8.1 experienced a short life of roughly a year.
The truth of the matter is that postgres is a rapidly fluxuating target. I remember waiting five years for mysql 5.0 to finally see the light of day, and during that time postgres has truly experienced a ridiculous flurry of revisions and tweaks sometimes requiring alterations to their core storage format. That they do this all while providing full ACID compliance is a Godsend.
I don't begrudge MySQL their success, but the roots of that database were thanks to simplicity and speed, like where SQLite is now. It's also an evolving product, but I think its lost the original focus in the mad rush of (friendly) competition all products eventually engage.
But what about Compiz? That just slaps directly into a XOrg installation and makes use of 3d video card features, requiring little memory or CPU usage to accomplish this mighty feat. In the video I link, they're rotating the desktop cube with videos playing on top of each other, in the crease of the cube... all in realtime. This is on old video cards such as ATI x200's.
;)
Seriously, MS has taken so long with this, even Linux has passed it.
Extream? Financhaly? Garenteed? "There going?" Desprate?
Holy $deity, our schools really are failing to educate future generations!
Please tell me the parent is a spoof... please?
Dude, chill. If I'm reading the parent correctly, the interpreters charge more than his wife does, so in effect, his wife would be paying the deaf people to be clients. Empathy or not, that's downright asinine. Especially when word gets around and she gets inundated with deaf clients. So it's either: go out of business altogether, or leave whichever field the ruling affects.
Funny, my Nintendo DS is accurate enough to play games on continuously, for hours, months at a time. Making an accurate touch screen isn't exactly brain surgery. If a $130 consumer-device can accomplish such a mighty feat, why not a "robust" voting system? The boxes these people are tapping are probably giant buttons, and people are likely to press in the middle, not an edge where a few pixels *might* pick a different candidate.
I'm not willing to say it's a conspiracy, but there's definitely a vast amount of incompetence involved, and we're basing the future of our democracy on these buggy pieces of shit. That just fills me with pride and confidence. No really, it does.
Blacklists, my friend. Here's my current list:
rsync-mirrors.uceprotect.net : Level 2 - Fast local blocking
combined.njabl.org - For dynamic IPs and other
dnsbl.sorbs.net - For open relays
relays.ordb.org - For open relays
list.dsbl.orgM - Various types of Unsecured servers
dnsbl.tqmcube.com - dynamic IPs, spam trap
bl.spamcop.net - Spam trap
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org - Known spammers, exploited servers
l2.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net - Spam friendly ISPs
dnsbl.ahbl.org - Realtime composite
About four of those are composites, and contain blocks for dynamic IPs. Each link goes to the usage page for the blacklist, and if you want, you can just block dynamic IPs by using the correct subdomain.
I also haven't noticed the increase as much. Then again, I'm a bad admin and disallow dynamic IPs from sending mail to my system. Botnets have no teeth when the systems that have been compromised are summarily ignored.
If the US is listed at 42%, it obviously doesn't include property tax, sales tax, state and local taxes, etc. We don't pay all of our taxes up front, but oh hell yes, we pay them. I'd be willing to wager we're much higher on the list when the real rate is considered. And many of the countries on that list have national health care for their dime... we don't.
So think outside the box. I picked up 20lbs of frozen Elk from a farm in South Dakota. Even after shipping, it cost less than beef in the area, and it's much healthier meat. The guy runs the farm with himself and his kids, and even has pictures of the Elk grazing on his land. Apparently a couple states are really big for Elk and Bison farming, and you'd never find higher quality and fairly priced meat.
But we understand the basic idea. Sometime it's too expensive to do the right thing when you're on a budget.
Couldn't it also be that since Autism is a spectrum of disorders centered on social development, that if an area has more snow and the kids spend more time inside, they get less social interaction and therefore get scores indicating autism in psycological tests? Jumping directly to the conclusion that something inside the house caused a child's autism, instead of the act of being inside itself, seems a bit hasty.
Nothing but the iPod works with iTunes. That's how it works. Just like with Ford's statement "You can have any color you want, so long as it's black," iTunes is like, "You can use any music player you want with iTunes, so long as it's an iPod."
But like most other players out there, it does Plays-for-sure and mp3 so if you don't mind using a Microsoft technology, any playsforsure service works fine. I just rip my own CDs to mp3, so iTunes support is irrelevant.
The Sansa isn't just 8GB. That article doesn't tell you, but it has a micro-SD expansion slot. Current cards of that type are at 2GB, and you know they're only going to get bigger. Add in an FM tuner, voice recording, video playback, better scratch resistance, and a user-replacable battery, and you have what is in my opinion, a better overall product. And unlike Apple products, you can buy from 3rd party vendors for a discount. So far, Froogle tells me the Sandisk Sansa e280 goes for roughly $200, give or take $15 for a range of various vendors.
I plan on buying one, personally.
I'm not really sure, but I think it involves your mom.
(Seriously, it's offering voice, TV and internet from the same service. Completely lame patent and all that jazz.)
Seriously, this is fucking bogus. What the fuck is wrong with these assholes? Oh shit, there's a company offering multiple services over a medium that's been around for over 40 years, obviously nobody ever thought of this before! It's sure a good fucking thing a wire carrying an electrical signal is so hard to comprehend! Why, heaven forbid filthy thieves like Comcast get away with using internet packets for their intended purpose! Jesus, thank you Cisco for saving us all! Hey Cisco, I have a patent for you: a method of providing multiple services (smell, sound, bass) from a single orifice (my ass), better send me a fucking check now, or I'll sue! Cock suckers.
(Yes, I'm drunk. Thank you Chicago for having approximately 50,000 bars per capita. Yes, this is an example kids, don't post drunk!)
That's what I was wondering. We're talking about Debian here, easily the slowest releasing distribution in the Linux world. Are they saying they can't submit patches to the Mozilla foundation so Mozilla can check the fixes for bugs or come up with a better patch, because they can't wait that long? Sure, Firefox is open source, but what Debian is distributing is not Firefox. It's somewhat sad Debian had to react in a petulant manner and come up with a childish reactionary name like "IceWeasel." I seem to remember them forcing vendors to remove "Debian" from their name, too...
Heh, that's why I said "then again..." Other people made the same point, so I won't reiterate. I mean, if I were a poor Indian, I might consider stealing from Western Country X if it meant a big payoff. And a "Big Payoff" isn't so hard to pull of in poor countries. It's a natural consequence of sending financial services to unscrupulous providers that bid low and hire badly.
I saw this coming last year when several banks here stated they were moving many services unrelated to call centers, out of the US for financial reasons. It would appear that people generally don't care about others, which is only exacerbated by national identity detracting from emotional identification. What does an Indian care about some schmuck from the UK? About as much some guy in the UK cares about an Indian.
Then again, it could be argued that by sending financial services to the lowest bidder, banks are encouraging wholesale fraud. It's probably a combination of many factors, these only being the low-hanging fruit. I'd like to think banks would be more responsible with our money, but apparently charging outrageous interest rates on loans and transactions isn't enough of a profit.
It's not just that. The name "Sony" once meant quality. Now it seems they can't do anything right. I'd stay away from Sony products simply because it seems they break or explode frequently. ;)
True. But good luck on ending the war on drugs. ;)
Sure, sports would do it. Want to play baseball all day? Go ahead.
Then again, there's always the holodeck, or its Matrix equivalent, for when you really want to go nuts. It's not quite the Star Trek future, but read Manna. Oddly enough, I see us going the way the US did in that story: everyone works to buy things, once that's over, you're a burdon. I'd love to influence the latter Australian outcome somehow, of course.
But isn't that the point of technology? If we had machines to do everything for us, replicators to give us anything we wanted, and so on, how is that ruining any generation? We could spend our lives being artists, researching history, or anything else we *want* to do without fear of starving or putting up with a mean old boss. We're so tantalizingly close to this, I can't imagine why anyone would want to go back. Just a few short generations, and humanity will have the means to do essentially whatever it wants.
Now, I'm not saying we or our governments will use that power responsibly or evenly, but it's there.