...I found a 1934 high school science book, and found it to be one of the most informative books I've ever read....other than the sections on chemistry and physics, it was still accurate, and those sections were only lacking because of discoveries we've since made in those fields (new elements, quantum theory, etc). Especially helpful were the practical examples; when discussing electricity, they wouldn't just give dry theory. They'd give an excellent diagram and lay out in detailed, plain language how a dynamo works. I immiedietly thought "If they'd had books like this in my time, I'd have gotten straight A's". There was a lot of emphasis on teaching science in relation to everday practical work, such as engineering and construction. Lots of things like examples of the internal combustion engine, steel construction, concrete usage...you name it, heat, light, sound, they layed out some kind of practical everyday example to give it meaning and make sense. That's desperately needed in textbooks. Similarly, I've found grammer books from that period much superior to what kids get in school today, especially the rhetoric books. Today, most people see rhetoric as speech, but then, rhetoric covered both speaking and writing, and students had to study both. I think we've suffered a bit by not making that emphasis anymore.
You're going to get advice to just use MS Small Business Server....
No...don't do it. Yeah, the price is attractive, with everything in one box. But the problem is that a lot of the things in SBS are crippled, and as one consultant put it, "SBS is a Frankenstein of complexity underneath". And if you're getting the version with SQL, you have to buy hardware and memory that's so beefy, you could have bought two inexpensive servers otherwise (unless you like your network and mail to crawl). SBS limits what you can do with your network. It's the same old Microsoft story...they've come up with a model for doing things, great, but if that model doesn't fit how you do things, then you're screwed. Want to run a website locally? If you do it on SBS, you're opening your whole network up to those dangers that come with that territory. Want Outlook Web Access? Same thing. That's the problem with server consolidation in general, and SBS in particular. You've got all this great stuff in one box, but if the box goes down, everything goes down.
If you're dead-set on SBS, than use a web and mail hosting service, and get a box with dual processors and lots of memory. And I mean Lots.
Ask the Chinese survivors of Nanking how many tears they shed for the Japanese after Hiroshima.
Ask the survivors of the Bataan Death March how many tears they shed for Japan.
Ask the Philipinos that survived the Manila Massacre how many tears they shed for Japan.
I bet all of the people that carried up pieces of human remains from Pearl Harbor don't give a shit. I bet the veterans of the Pacific island hopping campaign don't give a shit. Nor the prisoners of war all over Asia.
Slashdot and religious conservatives...agreeing on something.
RC's (some of them, anyway) think a chip like this might be the "mark of the beast"; if you don't accept it, you wont be able to work, eat, or travel. Amazing that I'm seeing so many similar predictions for slashdotters here...
Sorry, but the Cal team can't name it Xena after all...
But IAU member and astronomer Pam Kilmartin, of Canterbury University's Mt St John Observatory, said any name would have to be approved by the IAU and naming guidelines were "quite stringent"...
The new planet was "transneptunian" - beyond Neptune - in the so-called Kuiper Belt, which meant any planet discovered there had to be named after the Greek gods of creation or gods of the underworld, Pam Kilmartin said.
"Britain is a signatory to the European convention on human rights which makes the freedom of speech and freedom of expression an essential part of British law."
Since when does free speech include the right to advocate the slaughter of innocents? Since when does free speech involve the right to tell people "convert to Islam, or be killed"?
They can co-exist if most users can resist the opposing forces of the two sectors: Microsoft-style "open is bad" vendors, and their polar opposites, everything-but-free-as-in-speech is bad zealots *cough*RMS*cough...
And commercial doesn't necessarily mean closed anyway.
...don't go to DisneyWorld. End of problem. It's a private park, not government or public property. Don't like their policies? Don't do business with them.
....Unless you need the dual-core chips, the "cheap" option, the AMD Athlon 64 4000+, is nearly $400 less than its Intel competitor, the Intel Pentium 4 670. It's still $100 cheaper than Intel's least expensive dual core chip.
If price of cpu's were really such a big factor, AMD might have been alot more willing to offer discounts than Intel.
True, but rock bottom price wasn't the goal here.
1- Apple wanted not only better chip prices, but better laptop chips. While AMD arguably has better desktop processors, they have nothing that can compete with the Pentium M in terms of performance and battery life. And the Powerbook is what drove this change, not the desktop stuff.
2- Steve Jobs is a label whore, marketing gear to the label whore public. In his mind, Intel = Levi's, while AMD = Wrangler. Good jeans, those Wranglers, but only those low class Wal Mart rednecks wear them. It just wouldn't do to put those low cost AMDs into an Apple.
Any church that has to have a "mission statement" about their "core values" is in deep trouble. Their mission statement and core values should be readily apparent in their Bibles. Same for Synagogues and Mosques.
Ahh, the tinfoil hat conspiracy mongering at Slashdot.
While I'm sure Intel chips will cost Apple less than the IBM chips, and could lower their costs, this wasn't about price. This was about saving Apple from death in the PC business.
Fact: despite the early promise of PowerPC, Intel's offerings are beating the dog shit out of that line. There's no comparison in performace. Yes, PPC does more work per clock cycle, but they're so far behind in terms of clock speed that it doesn't matter. There is no megahertz myth here. Clock speeds DO matter. And no one making PPC chips, Freescale nor the mighty IBM, can keep up with Intel. For PCs, Intel is the king . AMD makes some better desktop offerings, has some better prices, but doesn't have Intel's product range, especially in laptops.
Make no mistake...while OSX is the best PC operating system on the market, the supporting hardware was starting to suck. Compared to the PC world, most of Apple's offerings were stuck in late-90's levels of hardware performance, while charging a premium price. Is it any wonder that some anaylists were predicting a drop of Apple's market share to around 1.5 percent by 2008?
Apple did this so they could be a viable competitor. That's it. Intel has better chips, especially for portables. No one makes anything as good as the Pentium M for laptops. Not AMD. And certainly not IBM. Big Blue was never going to get a G5 into a Powerbook anytime soon. And when they did, it would still lag performance-wise (especially in battery usage) compared to it's Intel rivals.
Apple cannot survive at their present size on Ipods alone. This was a cold, calculated decision by Jobs and Co. to get competitive again. You can now take off those foil hats.
Actually, advance science, stop our reliance on crude oil, and then just leave them the fuck alone.
Like running, hiding, and ignoring them will help.
The Quran calls for believers to convert the whole world, by the sword if neccessary...
"And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah) and (all and every kind of) worship is for Allah (alone). But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against As-Zatimun (the polytheists and wrong doers)" (Surat Al-Baqarah 2:193).
The stated final goal for Al Quaida is Islamic world government. We can run, hide, ignore them all we want. They're not stopping until they get what they want.
The USS Cole is a US-flagged vessel of war, and if that's not a valid military target then I don't know what is.
That would be perfectly true....IF WE WERE AT WAR WITH SOMEBODY AT THE TIME.
...but it was a perfectly legal and valid attack by just about any standard.
Legal? Valid? What laws are you looking at???
We weren't at war with anyone. We were on a port of call, at the permission of the host goverment. International law, the laws of the Seas, you name it...we had every right to be where we were, doing what we were doing. Furthermore, we were attacked not by a country, but by a terrorist group bent on Islamic world goverment. What happened was a cowardly act of murder. It was in no way legal, and to call it valid raises serious questions about your own judgement.
So the EU Parliament voted it down...so? The individual national patent offices still have the last word. In this case, the EUP has about as much enforcement power as I do.
My nine-going-on-ten year old loves his PS2, moreso since I put a wireless bridge on it so he can play games online. I buy his games, and I always look at the ratings; but then I consider what kind of game it is too. I'll even let him play M rated games depending on the circumstances. For instance, he loves Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which is rated M for truly horrid looking creatures, ghastly Nazi experiments, and scary stormtroopers. But it's basically Indiana Jones meets a horror movies. He can handle that, so Wolfenstein is in. He asked for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, however, and Daddy said "Hell No". Because, in my parental opinion, the former game is sci-fi/horror fantasy, and the latter glorifies real criminal behavior. That's my call as a father to make. He also can't have God of War because it supposedly contains some pretty explicit sexual scenes, so that's out.
The parent has to use their best judgement. My nephew isn't allowed to play Wolfenstein type games (he's the same age as my son) because he's still terrirfied of things that go bump in the night. You can't take that kid to a horror movie. He curls up and covers his eyes. So his parents act accordingly with his computer entertainment.
Our new office's copier uses NetBSD as it's OS. I'm pretty sure the company hasn't dropped a dime in the foundation's pocket. I'm a supporter of the BSD license, but if companies are using the OS, and not pitching in even a pittance voluntarily, perhaps a gentle reminder of how much expense it would cost to move to a new OS is order? Perhaps another reminder of how if they went to say, ohhhh, Linux, that they'd have GPL issues to deal with? Yeah...that sounds like it's worth a check for a couple of grand to me...
...I saw it when it first came out in 1977, several times actually, and I distinctly remember seeing the "Episode IV" at the beginning of the space scroll and thinking "what the....episode LV???" (Hey, I was Eight at the time...gimme a break).
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I had the same problem with Konq yesterday, but when I moved to a machine with Mozilla, I didn't have the problem. It's an annoying bug, whatever it is...
...that Anakin is shown at the end of Jedi with Obi Wan and Yoda in the great afterlife of the light side of the force....he couldn't have gotten there without turning back to the good side. Nice theory, but sorry, back to the drawing board...
...to apply the same kind of censorship the FCC effectively has doled out for some time to the traditional media.
How the hell does the FCC censor the traditional media, other than on issues like nudity? Political content isn't regulated in US newspapers at all, save for defamation issues, and those must be pressed in civil court. Papers are perfectly free to defame first, and pay for it later. Same goes for television. Unless you think things like revealing classified military secrets are protected journalism, you can't possibly think the US Media is controlled by the goverment without a huge tin foil hat. If you guys were right, Democratic Underground, MoveOn, Air America...none of that could exist. Neither could National Review or Free Republic, for that matter. Or Slashdot either. I know the paranoia runs high here, but Jesus, get some perspective.
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...I found a 1934 high school science book, and found it to be one of the most informative books I've ever read....other than the sections on chemistry and physics, it was still accurate, and those sections were only lacking because of discoveries we've since made in those fields (new elements, quantum theory, etc). Especially helpful were the practical examples; when discussing electricity, they wouldn't just give dry theory. They'd give an excellent diagram and lay out in detailed, plain language how a dynamo works. I immiedietly thought "If they'd had books like this in my time, I'd have gotten straight A's". There was a lot of emphasis on teaching science in relation to everday practical work, such as engineering and construction. Lots of things like examples of the internal combustion engine, steel construction, concrete usage...you name it, heat, light, sound, they layed out some kind of practical everyday example to give it meaning and make sense. That's desperately needed in textbooks. Similarly, I've found grammer books from that period much superior to what kids get in school today, especially the rhetoric books. Today, most people see rhetoric as speech, but then, rhetoric covered both speaking and writing, and students had to study both. I think we've suffered a bit by not making that emphasis anymore.
You're going to get advice to just use MS Small Business Server....
No...don't do it. Yeah, the price is attractive, with everything in one box. But the problem is that a lot of the things in SBS are crippled, and as one consultant put it, "SBS is a Frankenstein of complexity underneath". And if you're getting the version with SQL, you have to buy hardware and memory that's so beefy, you could have bought two inexpensive servers otherwise (unless you like your network and mail to crawl). SBS limits what you can do with your network. It's the same old Microsoft story...they've come up with a model for doing things, great, but if that model doesn't fit how you do things, then you're screwed. Want to run a website locally? If you do it on SBS, you're opening your whole network up to those dangers that come with that territory. Want Outlook Web Access? Same thing. That's the problem with server consolidation in general, and SBS in particular. You've got all this great stuff in one box, but if the box goes down, everything goes down.
If you're dead-set on SBS, than use a web and mail hosting service, and get a box with dual processors and lots of memory. And I mean Lots.
Ask the Chinese survivors of Nanking how many tears they shed for the Japanese after Hiroshima.
Ask the survivors of the Bataan Death March how many tears they shed for Japan.
Ask the Philipinos that survived the Manila Massacre how many tears they shed for Japan.
I bet all of the people that carried up pieces of human remains from Pearl Harbor don't give a shit. I bet the veterans of the Pacific island hopping campaign don't give a shit. Nor the prisoners of war all over Asia.
Slashdot and religious conservatives...agreeing on something.
RC's (some of them, anyway) think a chip like this might be the "mark of the beast"; if you don't accept it, you wont be able to work, eat, or travel. Amazing that I'm seeing so many similar predictions for slashdotters here...
Sorry, but the Cal team can't name it Xena after all...
"Britain is a signatory to the European convention on human rights which makes the freedom of speech and freedom of expression an essential part of British law."
Since when does free speech include the right to advocate the slaughter of innocents? Since when does free speech involve the right to tell people "convert to Islam, or be killed"?
They can co-exist if most users can resist the opposing forces of the two sectors: Microsoft-style "open is bad" vendors, and their polar opposites, everything-but-free-as-in-speech is bad zealots *cough*RMS*cough...
And commercial doesn't necessarily mean closed anyway.
...don't go to DisneyWorld. End of problem. It's a private park, not government or public property. Don't like their policies? Don't do business with them.
....Unless you need the dual-core chips, the "cheap" option, the AMD Athlon 64 4000+, is nearly $400 less than its Intel competitor, the Intel Pentium 4 670. It's still $100 cheaper than Intel's least expensive dual core chip.
True, but rock bottom price wasn't the goal here.
1- Apple wanted not only better chip prices, but better laptop chips. While AMD arguably has better desktop processors, they have nothing that can compete with the Pentium M in terms of performance and battery life. And the Powerbook is what drove this change, not the desktop stuff.
2- Steve Jobs is a label whore, marketing gear to the label whore public. In his mind, Intel = Levi's, while AMD = Wrangler. Good jeans, those Wranglers, but only those low class Wal Mart rednecks wear them. It just wouldn't do to put those low cost AMDs into an Apple.
Any church that has to have a "mission statement" about their "core values" is in deep trouble. Their mission statement and core values should be readily apparent in their Bibles. Same for Synagogues and Mosques.
Ahh, the tinfoil hat conspiracy mongering at Slashdot.
While I'm sure Intel chips will cost Apple less than the IBM chips, and could lower their costs, this wasn't about price. This was about saving Apple from death in the PC business.
Fact: despite the early promise of PowerPC, Intel's offerings are beating the dog shit out of that line. There's no comparison in performace. Yes, PPC does more work per clock cycle, but they're so far behind in terms of clock speed that it doesn't matter. There is no megahertz myth here. Clock speeds DO matter. And no one making PPC chips, Freescale nor the mighty IBM, can keep up with Intel. For PCs, Intel is the king . AMD makes some better desktop offerings, has some better prices, but doesn't have Intel's product range, especially in laptops.
Make no mistake...while OSX is the best PC operating system on the market, the supporting hardware was starting to suck. Compared to the PC world, most of Apple's offerings were stuck in late-90's levels of hardware performance, while charging a premium price. Is it any wonder that some anaylists were predicting a drop of Apple's market share to around 1.5 percent by 2008?
Apple did this so they could be a viable competitor. That's it. Intel has better chips, especially for portables. No one makes anything as good as the Pentium M for laptops. Not AMD. And certainly not IBM. Big Blue was never going to get a G5 into a Powerbook anytime soon. And when they did, it would still lag performance-wise (especially in battery usage) compared to it's Intel rivals.
Apple cannot survive at their present size on Ipods alone. This was a cold, calculated decision by Jobs and Co. to get competitive again. You can now take off those foil hats.
Like running, hiding, and ignoring them will help.
The Quran calls for believers to convert the whole world, by the sword if neccessary...
The stated final goal for Al Quaida is Islamic world government. We can run, hide, ignore them all we want. They're not stopping until they get what they want.
That would be perfectly true....IF WE WERE AT WAR WITH SOMEBODY AT THE TIME.
Legal? Valid? What laws are you looking at???
We weren't at war with anyone. We were on a port of call, at the permission of the host goverment. International law, the laws of the Seas, you name it...we had every right to be where we were, doing what we were doing. Furthermore, we were attacked not by a country, but by a terrorist group bent on Islamic world goverment. What happened was a cowardly act of murder. It was in no way legal, and to call it valid raises serious questions about your own judgement.
So the EU Parliament voted it down...so? The individual national patent offices still have the last word. In this case, the EUP has about as much enforcement power as I do.
What Games Do Women Play?
Where do you even start with a question like that?
My nine-going-on-ten year old loves his PS2, moreso since I put a wireless bridge on it so he can play games online. I buy his games, and I always look at the ratings; but then I consider what kind of game it is too. I'll even let him play M rated games depending on the circumstances. For instance, he loves Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which is rated M for truly horrid looking creatures, ghastly Nazi experiments, and scary stormtroopers. But it's basically Indiana Jones meets a horror movies. He can handle that, so Wolfenstein is in. He asked for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, however, and Daddy said "Hell No". Because, in my parental opinion, the former game is sci-fi/horror fantasy, and the latter glorifies real criminal behavior. That's my call as a father to make. He also can't have God of War because it supposedly contains some pretty explicit sexual scenes, so that's out.
The parent has to use their best judgement. My nephew isn't allowed to play Wolfenstein type games (he's the same age as my son) because he's still terrirfied of things that go bump in the night. You can't take that kid to a horror movie. He curls up and covers his eyes. So his parents act accordingly with his computer entertainment.
So that's why OpenOffice is a dog, speeedwise. I've got a 2 gig P4 at work, and I'd had wounds heal faster than OO.org starts up at times...
No, and I always wondered about it. I've seen stills of the scene...
Here's what you're looking for...
I was perusing the manual when I saw the note on its' OS. They clearly state it's NetBSD. We've got the 2522.
Our new office's copier uses NetBSD as it's OS. I'm pretty sure the company hasn't dropped a dime in the foundation's pocket. I'm a supporter of the BSD license, but if companies are using the OS, and not pitching in even a pittance voluntarily, perhaps a gentle reminder of how much expense it would cost to move to a new OS is order? Perhaps another reminder of how if they went to say, ohhhh, Linux, that they'd have GPL issues to deal with? Yeah...that sounds like it's worth a check for a couple of grand to me...
...I saw it when it first came out in 1977, several times actually, and I distinctly remember seeing the "Episode IV" at the beginning of the space scroll and thinking "what the....episode LV???" (Hey, I was Eight at the time...gimme a break).
I had the same problem with Konq yesterday, but when I moved to a machine with Mozilla, I didn't have the problem. It's an annoying bug, whatever it is...
...that Anakin is shown at the end of Jedi with Obi Wan and Yoda in the great afterlife of the light side of the force....he couldn't have gotten there without turning back to the good side. Nice theory, but sorry, back to the drawing board...
How the hell does the FCC censor the traditional media, other than on issues like nudity? Political content isn't regulated in US newspapers at all, save for defamation issues, and those must be pressed in civil court. Papers are perfectly free to defame first, and pay for it later. Same goes for television. Unless you think things like revealing classified military secrets are protected journalism, you can't possibly think the US Media is controlled by the goverment without a huge tin foil hat. If you guys were right, Democratic Underground, MoveOn, Air America...none of that could exist. Neither could National Review or Free Republic, for that matter. Or Slashdot either. I know the paranoia runs high here, but Jesus, get some perspective.