"There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy. Finally, we shall defeat the acursed Reed Richards!"
USB2 was Intel's bus of choice from the get-go. They pushed the standard hard to chipset/mobo manufacturers. Why? Firewire controllers have much more integrated logic, aleviating much of the io overhead from the CPU. USB controllers rely on the CPU to a much greater extent to sheperd the data to and fro. Which standard do you think a CPU maker would promote?
These are not "naturally ocurring phenomena," as these simpletons posing as scientists seem to believe. Yes there is something in the tops of these thunderheads interacting with the ionosphere, and when I have it perfected everyone who laughed at my theroies will see what terrestrial gamma emissions are REALLY about!
We may not be able to hear the difference in all cases, but we do feel it.
I heard (namedrop) Rupert Nieve speak at an AES event over the Summer (/namedrop). He described a study in Japan in which he had been asked to participate. Essentially the adiologists, electrical engineers, and neurologists involved had determined that our phisiological responses were more positive to continuous analog data than to PCM digital audio. At some deep sensory level, digital audio just doesn't feel as good. Interestingly, non-PCM digital formats like SACD may be immune to this effect. The scientists thought that the agitation experienced by the test subjects was a reaction to the ultrasonic switching frequencies present in all PCM recordings.
I'm probably part of the last generation to have learned the craft on 2" tape. I love digital for all it's good points, but I hope this isn't the swansong for tape. Each tool has its own merits.
Pentium M and Centrino are examples of good Intel technology. My point is that they're still pushing Xeon's and Itaniums in that market, and you they wont sell you a Pentium M blade center or Centrino quiet entertainment pc.
Por years now, Intel has been focusing on marketing first and technology second, I'd say ever since the PIII to P4 transition. By focusing on technology that played well with focus groups (i.e. more MHz at any cost, efficeincy be damnned) instead of a more scalable long-term architechture roadmap, they've pipelined themselves into a dead end. Even with this move, they're touting it's public relations impact rather than technical breakthroughs.
AMD in comparison, puts the horse before the cart. They build better processors, then (perhaps under-)use marketting to let the world know about it.
News.com.com has reported today that Sonic Foundry auditors have decended on Redmond Washington like an army of cossaks searching for pirated copies of Sound Forge and checking that each computer has a valid liscence for any Sonic Foundry software present on the Microsoft campus.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying, "Well, we consider this a valid liscencse enforcement practice, so I guess we have to put up with it. We're just glad noone ran 'strings' on our TCP/IP stack for 'Regents of the University of California.'"
There's a simple reason: credit card fees. Merchants pay a percentage of every transaction paid via plastic to the credit card companies. If an item is returned and they refund the card, not only do they not get that fee back, they have to pay another tithe to the credit card company when they process the refund. If someone buys a $2000 item and then returns it, the merchant might be out $70 berore you even account for any labor or restocking costs.
There's a valid question of what constitutes excessive. That's done on a case by case basis. When we do draw the line, we accept that one last return and then say, "OK buddy, we're cutting you off."
To me, the FR was always something of a let-down. It tried very hard to be larger than life and succeeded all to well. To my mind, the world of Greyhawk is the once and future D&D setting. It's deliberately middle-fantasy, aggressively neutral, and sits nicely on its own.
The only people Wall Mart is good for are their shareholders. Their vendors think their getting into a huge market, but then see their margins get squeezed into oblivion. Their shoppers who decide where to shop on price alone find their downtown turn ghost town and wonder where all the manufacturing jobs went.
Win NT desktops everywhere, mostly P166s starved for RAM and thrashing their swapfiles madly. Apart from email, all our work was done via Telnet sessions to an AIX box somewhere in Texas (yes, telnet not SSH) or with Java based web apps.
Oh, wait. We did track our jobs via an.xls, as our manager came from sales and had no idea how to use a database.
I got it in the first batch that shipped. 100MHz system bus 400MHz cpu. Only HW upgrades have been more RAM and a second hard drive.
Ya know what? It's gotten faster and more responsive with each OSX update/upgrade, and is whisper quiet. I have had other, faster, machines running linux and XP, but this ol G4 keeps on truckin without complaint. I use it the most because it's the quietest, most convenient tool of the lot. I'll put it out to pasture someday, but it'll probably outlast my AthlonXP's yet.
Banks, insurance companies, university registrars, and many others continue to use AS400's for the same reason they adopted them in the first place. Managing data transactions by updating an entire screen at once is a great way to fill out forms over a terminal connection. The whole time you're typing away, it's consuming no bandwidth or server resources to speak of. When you hit send, all the data fields you just entered (and more importantly, proofread) get uploaded in one transaction, keeping system overhead low.
Nowadays, the same sort of things can be done with java based web apps, but why? Which takes more server resourses, httpd+java backend or tty? Which takes more client resources, a browser+java vm or an IBM3200 emulator? Multiply those costs by a few thousand hosts + extra bandwidth. That's why they use AS400s
I'd say that evangelical is more of an adjective than a proper noun. There are congregations in all the above faiths who walk the evangelical walk (the Catholics call them charismatics). I would also most certanly say that the Baptist church is very much Protestant. The Baptists and Anabaptists who died in Europe during the Thirty Years War stand in mute testament to their role in the Reformation.
It looks like you may be going for some sort or High Church vs Common Church distinction there, but that's more of a liturgical difference than a theological one. Lutherans have more in common with Catholics (free will, holy communion) than Prespyterians (Calvinism, predestination etc) when you actually look at their doctrine.
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This was the pound of flesh required to get William Randolph Hearst, with his corrupt media empire and his sprawling jute plantations in SE Asia, on board with the New Deal.
Hearst got even richer when all that paper/rope/cloth hemp was replaced by his jute grown in the third world. FDR got public opinion swayed in favor of the New Deal by the aformentioned media empire.
What a surprise, the hardwae accellerated units allowed higher framerates than the host-based units. How is this not obvious? The article's "benchmarks" were concerned with framerates only. What about the sound? Clarity? Dynamic range? Spatial effects?
It is quite ironic (yes, this is irony, not coincidence) that an article that purports to bemoan the neglect of sound in favor of picture proceeds to rate the audio gear based on how it impacts graphics performance.
Gentlemen of this comitee, I have in my hand a list containing the names of 65 card carrying Communists within the Depart od...
Excuse me, I meant to say 65 files that have been copied verbatem into the Linux kernel.
And no, I cannot actually show you the list. Revealing the files would compromise the ability of our brave pattern matching experts to compile further lists.
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...a Smart Tech Smart Boardrotated 90 degrees. Not only can you write on them, but it will digitize the writing into the computer.
"There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy. Finally, we shall defeat the acursed Reed Richards!"
USB2 was Intel's bus of choice from the get-go. They pushed the standard hard to chipset/mobo manufacturers. Why? Firewire controllers have much more integrated logic, aleviating much of the io overhead from the CPU. USB controllers rely on the CPU to a much greater extent to sheperd the data to and fro. Which standard do you think a CPU maker would promote?
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Especially the accursed Reed Richards.
You mean back when MS made decent software?
I heard (namedrop) Rupert Nieve speak at an AES event over the Summer (/namedrop). He described a study in Japan in which he had been asked to participate. Essentially the adiologists, electrical engineers, and neurologists involved had determined that our phisiological responses were more positive to continuous analog data than to PCM digital audio. At some deep sensory level, digital audio just doesn't feel as good. Interestingly, non-PCM digital formats like SACD may be immune to this effect. The scientists thought that the agitation experienced by the test subjects was a reaction to the ultrasonic switching frequencies present in all PCM recordings.
I'm probably part of the last generation to have learned the craft on 2" tape. I love digital for all it's good points, but I hope this isn't the swansong for tape. Each tool has its own merits.
Pentium M and Centrino are examples of good Intel technology. My point is that they're still pushing Xeon's and Itaniums in that market, and you they wont sell you a Pentium M blade center or Centrino quiet entertainment pc.
AMD in comparison, puts the horse before the cart. They build better processors, then (perhaps under-)use marketting to let the world know about it.
Am I the only one who shuddered at the sight of those glassas?
You know it's for the UK. They called it a "programme."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying, "Well, we consider this a valid liscencse enforcement practice, so I guess we have to put up with it. We're just glad noone ran 'strings' on our TCP/IP stack for 'Regents of the University of California.'"
The one time I don't preview my post, I leave a bold tag open. sigh
There's a valid question of what constitutes excessive. That's done on a case by case basis. When we do draw the line, we accept that one last return and then say, "OK buddy, we're cutting you off."
To me, the FR was always something of a let-down. It tried very hard to be larger than life and succeeded all to well. To my mind, the world of Greyhawk is the once and future D&D setting. It's deliberately middle-fantasy, aggressively neutral, and sits nicely on its own.
The only people Wall Mart is good for are their shareholders. Their vendors think their getting into a huge market, but then see their margins get squeezed into oblivion. Their shoppers who decide where to shop on price alone find their downtown turn ghost town and wonder where all the manufacturing jobs went.
Oh, wait. We did track our jobs via an .xls, as our manager came from sales and had no idea how to use a database.
Ya know what? It's gotten faster and more responsive with each OSX update/upgrade, and is whisper quiet. I have had other, faster, machines running linux and XP, but this ol G4 keeps on truckin without complaint. I use it the most because it's the quietest, most convenient tool of the lot. I'll put it out to pasture someday, but it'll probably outlast my AthlonXP's yet.
Nowadays, the same sort of things can be done with java based web apps, but why? Which takes more server resourses, httpd+java backend or tty? Which takes more client resources, a browser+java vm or an IBM3200 emulator? Multiply those costs by a few thousand hosts + extra bandwidth. That's why they use AS400s
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It looks like you may be going for some sort or High Church vs Common Church distinction there, but that's more of a liturgical difference than a theological one. Lutherans have more in common with Catholics (free will, holy communion) than Prespyterians (Calvinism, predestination etc) when you actually look at their doctrine.
Hearst got even richer when all that paper/rope/cloth hemp was replaced by his jute grown in the third world. FDR got public opinion swayed in favor of the New Deal by the aformentioned media empire.
It is quite ironic (yes, this is irony, not coincidence) that an article that purports to bemoan the neglect of sound in favor of picture proceeds to rate the audio gear based on how it impacts graphics performance.
It is good to have you back, grammar nazi.
... ant tell him it really was Built In Operating System after all.
Excuse me, I meant to say 65 files that have been copied verbatem into the Linux kernel.
And no, I cannot actually show you the list. Revealing the files would compromise the ability of our brave pattern matching experts to compile further lists.
Good Night, and God Bless Unixware.