All logical conclusions. When anything migrates, it has to stop and refuel and rest eventually. Also, it's not like there's one bird flying his ass off for 3000 miles all by himself. Ever notice the reverse V formation geese use when migrating? It's the most efficient formation for distance flying. The lead bird does most of the work, and each bird in sequence behind the lead does less and less work to stay aloft, because they're in a drafting chain. The birds at or near the back of the V are working the least while the lead works the most. They often rotate the lead bird out from one of the rear birds.
Another advantage ducks and geese have is that they are able to build up great fat reserves which is converted into energy for long endurance flight. Simply compare the meat of a chicken to the meat of a duck and it becomes obvious which one has more fat content. Ducks and geese also need these fat reserves to survive colder climates for short periods of time as well (pre-migration).
You're correct on your point of wingspan/size ratio of ducks/geese/swans. It seems the longer a bird must fly the greater the wingspan is needed. See the albatross for the best example of this. They have a wingspan of up to 11' 11" (no that's not a typo, 11 feet 11 inches total wingspan).
I guess the author was using an alarmist tactic to show that the child death rate is crazy high. If 1 in 5 worldwide child deaths occur in India, how many child deaths per capita does that represent in India?
The difference between the tech in the XP-M and the Core Duo is such that you can't really compare them. Now, compare a Turion64 and a Core Duo, and you're getting close. An even more accurate comparison would be the Turion64 dual core vs. the Core Duo, if they finally released them.
As far as noise and heat goes, yeah, the XP and XP-M should run hotter and be noisier since the tech is so far behind, generation-wise. The Athlon XP chips were the last of the 'hot' AMDs, and all of the 64 bit chips run cool and quiet (sorry for the marketspeak but they really do). Plus, the A64 and A64 dual core chips are a performance bargain, particularly when AMD will slash prices on the socket 939 chips late this month.
I've worked with both the Core Duo and the A64x2's, and I want to say that the A64x2 runs much cooler. That could be because my experience with the Core Duo is limited to a MacBook Pro that was so hot you could fry eggs on it. It was fast though, so it wasn't like it was getting hot for nothing like some older p3/p4 laptops.
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It's funny how Indians are so myopic about their own country. Despite dozens of studies by the UN and the WHO, they're in a perpetual state of denial. One merely has to walk down the street in India to see just how bad the conditions are. The child death rates are unbelievably high and the gaping maw between the wealthy and the poor only continues to grow. Plus the poor are extremely uneducated with a national literacy rate of only 65%. Even with the US having 12% living below the poverty line, we stand at an excellent 99% literacy rate.
The link you posted to the CIA factbook was wrong. From the factbook, on poverty in India, they say "Population below poverty line: 25% (2002 est.)". So that's 4 years old to begin with.
The infant mortality rate is rather high, and if 1 in 5 children in India die, that's pretty damn bad. Luckily for India, and according to the factbook, there are 24 births for each 8 deaths so the population should continue to explode as long as people have something to eat, and with women averaging 2.73 births each, so much the better.
It's not nearly as rosy as Indians would have you think. Why do you think they send their best doctors and scientists overseas? They're not doing it to do the world a favor, they're doing it to escape desperate poverty, a wrecked environment, and the depressed state that is India.
You're shooting for the tin can and hitting the side of the barn with this kind of argument. The fact remains that in America, rich white guys are in the top 5% of earnings and power, so everything trickles downhill. That trickle leads to a white congress (for the most part). Plus, your facts are wrong. Not only are there women in congress, there are even black women. From a ten second google search:
The Capitol will also welcome three new members to Congress, in addition to Barack Obama in the Senate, and returning Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney following the 2004 Election. There is now a record 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
What is this CBC they mention? A coalition of blacks in congress.
Seriously, the next time you feel the need to cut and paste some junk, outdated article, don't. It just makes you look bad.
I've noticed this on alot of the consumer-level Dells, but not so much on corporate hardware like the Latitudes. A client of mine bought a dirt-cheap $500 Dell desktop with 512mb of ram, P4 3.x, etc. and it is dog slow. Even after upgrading the memory to a full 1gb it still chugs along slowly. Maybe it's got a terrible bus speed or just a poor motherboard, or maybe some junk 5400rpm hard drive. For now it's a mystery.
Nah, but they are offering free Apple Laptop Gloves with the purchase of MacBook Pros now. They look like golfing gloves, fingerless, with asbestos palms and a white Apple logo.
It'd be even better if they were smart enough to plot a direct route back to the nest after making one of their standard 'randomly walk a few steps in any direction' trips. Still pretty fascinating though..and from an engineering standpoint, very elegant. The FSM did a fine job.
According to AuMutar you're right. Wow, I didn't know a retailing giant could have such pull with a manufacturer. Does this mean they'll start shipping printers without ink next and charging out the wazzoo for ink packs?
You're missing the point on the secret shoppers. The candy and receipt just proves they were there at that time so their employer has some idea that the data they collected is valid and dated correctly.
It's not Best Buy's fault that those printers aren't coming with USB cables, it's HP's fault for being so damn stingy. Unless the damn thing is wireless, pack a USB cable in. If Sony sold the PS3 with no power supply it'd be world war 3.
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Yay, my grammar troll bait caught two! I get a +4 cloak of haste now. Thanks guys!
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I totally agree with the author in that I like having a real book in my hands when I'm working on something new, difficult, etc. I don't think the value of a book can ever be underestimated.
Never, ever put something with VENTS and FANS on pillows or carpeting or anything else that will clog the air flow. Check the bottom of your laptop, I'm betting it has some vents there to suck cool air over some heat sinks.
My wife was the worst about this. I finally brought her a thick magazine (Glamour or some crap) every time she used it. Eventually she had a fat magazine everywhere she went to use it, and stuck it under the laptop so the thing didn't spontaneously combust.
They really should eradicate the term 'laptop'. First of all I haven't used too many notebook/portable computers that sit comfortably on my lap. Second, it's extremely bad posture. Third, these days computers just get way too hot. One of my clients bought a 15" MacBook Pro and I swear you can cook eggs on the left side of the thing near the speaker, and that's on the TOP of the unit where you rest your palms.
You're still operating under the presumption that Myspace bears responsibility for something completely out of their control.
If I were to walk to the nearest bar, and write 'for a great blowjob call me at xxx.xxx.xxxx' on the bathroom wall, someone called me and ass raped me after we met, would the bar be responsible? No. It's foolish to think they would. The bar inadvertently provided the forum, but the persons involved in the crime (myself and the assrapist) were responsible. Had I not put my personal info out there, we never would have met. Had I not agreed to meet up with a complete stranger, none of that would have happened.
Sure, you can blame the parents, or you can blame the rapist, or you can blame the foolish girl. But Myspace has nearly zero liability in this matter.
It doesn't matter if your engineers build a portable gold generator which doubles as a time travel device if the average schmuck can't even find the on switch. I help support an international company that uses Notes company-wide, and it's the most painful thing to configure and troubleshoot, ever. Even setting up the client on a fresh install is a hassle, so much so that the head honchos in Sweden cooked up a 5 page Word document, complete with at least 24 screen shots, just to make it easy for everyone in remote offices.
The same configuration with Exchange/Outlook would require no more than a single paragraph with POP or Exchange server addresses and maybe an intranet link to a corporate PAB file.
What's interesting to note here is that the Indian government played a big role in the quality of life expansion.
Take a look at Mexico in contrast. 2 years ago, illegal immigrants sent around 12 billion dollars back home. This was more than twice the highest foreign investment in Mexico. Last year, they sent back an estimated 17 billion. This was the second highest income for the entire country of Mexico; mexican oil brought in the highest income, but not much higher.* Yet Mexico remains dirt poor, despite the huge influx of cash they're receiving from El Norte and their illegal migrant workers. Ultimately, Mexico's government is to blame for the consistent failure to raise standards of living.
It really makes you wonder just how much damage corruption does to a floundering Third World nation. It also makes the point that throwing money at a problem won't even begin to solve it most of the time.
*Paraphrasing Dilip Ratha, World Bank senior economist
The gameplay did suck. It's like playing Battlefield 2 over a 600 ping connection. You're dead before you realize what killed you..or you moved a split second too early or too late. Feedback is critical with any type of gaming.
It was popular because it looked cool. That's about it. I doubt it'll be any less frustrating or any more fun in HD.
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All logical conclusions. When anything migrates, it has to stop and refuel and rest eventually. Also, it's not like there's one bird flying his ass off for 3000 miles all by himself. Ever notice the reverse V formation geese use when migrating? It's the most efficient formation for distance flying. The lead bird does most of the work, and each bird in sequence behind the lead does less and less work to stay aloft, because they're in a drafting chain. The birds at or near the back of the V are working the least while the lead works the most. They often rotate the lead bird out from one of the rear birds.
Another advantage ducks and geese have is that they are able to build up great fat reserves which is converted into energy for long endurance flight. Simply compare the meat of a chicken to the meat of a duck and it becomes obvious which one has more fat content. Ducks and geese also need these fat reserves to survive colder climates for short periods of time as well (pre-migration).
You're correct on your point of wingspan/size ratio of ducks/geese/swans. It seems the longer a bird must fly the greater the wingspan is needed. See the albatross for the best example of this. They have a wingspan of up to 11' 11" (no that's not a typo, 11 feet 11 inches total wingspan).
I guess the author was using an alarmist tactic to show that the child death rate is crazy high. If 1 in 5 worldwide child deaths occur in India, how many child deaths per capita does that represent in India?
The difference between the tech in the XP-M and the Core Duo is such that you can't really compare them. Now, compare a Turion64 and a Core Duo, and you're getting close. An even more accurate comparison would be the Turion64 dual core vs. the Core Duo, if they finally released them.
As far as noise and heat goes, yeah, the XP and XP-M should run hotter and be noisier since the tech is so far behind, generation-wise. The Athlon XP chips were the last of the 'hot' AMDs, and all of the 64 bit chips run cool and quiet (sorry for the marketspeak but they really do). Plus, the A64 and A64 dual core chips are a performance bargain, particularly when AMD will slash prices on the socket 939 chips late this month.
I've worked with both the Core Duo and the A64x2's, and I want to say that the A64x2 runs much cooler. That could be because my experience with the Core Duo is limited to a MacBook Pro that was so hot you could fry eggs on it. It was fast though, so it wasn't like it was getting hot for nothing like some older p3/p4 laptops.
It's funny how Indians are so myopic about their own country. Despite dozens of studies by the UN and the WHO, they're in a perpetual state of denial. One merely has to walk down the street in India to see just how bad the conditions are. The child death rates are unbelievably high and the gaping maw between the wealthy and the poor only continues to grow. Plus the poor are extremely uneducated with a national literacy rate of only 65%. Even with the US having 12% living below the poverty line, we stand at an excellent 99% literacy rate.
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The link you posted to the CIA factbook was wrong. From the factbook, on poverty in India, they say "Population below poverty line: 25% (2002 est.)". So that's 4 years old to begin with.
The infant mortality rate is rather high, and if 1 in 5 children in India die, that's pretty damn bad. Luckily for India, and according to the factbook, there are 24 births for each 8 deaths so the population should continue to explode as long as people have something to eat, and with women averaging 2.73 births each, so much the better.
Actual link to the CIA factbook is http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
It's not nearly as rosy as Indians would have you think. Why do you think they send their best doctors and scientists overseas? They're not doing it to do the world a favor, they're doing it to escape desperate poverty, a wrecked environment, and the depressed state that is India.
You're shooting for the tin can and hitting the side of the barn with this kind of argument. The fact remains that in America, rich white guys are in the top 5% of earnings and power, so everything trickles downhill. That trickle leads to a white congress (for the most part). Plus, your facts are wrong. Not only are there women in congress, there are even black women. From a ten second google search:
The Capitol will also welcome three new members to Congress, in addition to Barack Obama in the Senate, and returning Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney following the 2004 Election. There is now a record 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
What is this CBC they mention? A coalition of blacks in congress.
Seriously, the next time you feel the need to cut and paste some junk, outdated article, don't. It just makes you look bad.
Dude, that has to be the best summary of the ruling ever. Please post this every single time people start crying about piracy.
I've noticed this on alot of the consumer-level Dells, but not so much on corporate hardware like the Latitudes. A client of mine bought a dirt-cheap $500 Dell desktop with 512mb of ram, P4 3.x, etc. and it is dog slow. Even after upgrading the memory to a full 1gb it still chugs along slowly. Maybe it's got a terrible bus speed or just a poor motherboard, or maybe some junk 5400rpm hard drive. For now it's a mystery.
Nah, but they are offering free Apple Laptop Gloves with the purchase of MacBook Pros now. They look like golfing gloves, fingerless, with asbestos palms and a white Apple logo.
It'd be even better if they were smart enough to plot a direct route back to the nest after making one of their standard 'randomly walk a few steps in any direction' trips. Still pretty fascinating though..and from an engineering standpoint, very elegant. The FSM did a fine job.
Goddamn moderators killed my parent post. I think there's been some evil crossbreeding between Digg and Slashdot in the mod pool. Oh well...
According to AuMutar you're right. Wow, I didn't know a retailing giant could have such pull with a manufacturer. Does this mean they'll start shipping printers without ink next and charging out the wazzoo for ink packs?
You're missing the point on the secret shoppers. The candy and receipt just proves they were there at that time so their employer has some idea that the data they collected is valid and dated correctly.
It's not Best Buy's fault that those printers aren't coming with USB cables, it's HP's fault for being so damn stingy. Unless the damn thing is wireless, pack a USB cable in. If Sony sold the PS3 with no power supply it'd be world war 3.
Here's a link to a good illustration of the problem with the MacBook Pro: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/05/15/macbo ok/story.jpg
Yay, my grammar troll bait caught two! I get a +4 cloak of haste now. Thanks guys!
I totally agree with the author in that I like having a real book in my hands when I'm working on something new, difficult, etc. I don't think the value of a book can ever be underestimated.
Never, ever put something with VENTS and FANS on pillows or carpeting or anything else that will clog the air flow. Check the bottom of your laptop, I'm betting it has some vents there to suck cool air over some heat sinks.
My wife was the worst about this. I finally brought her a thick magazine (Glamour or some crap) every time she used it. Eventually she had a fat magazine everywhere she went to use it, and stuck it under the laptop so the thing didn't spontaneously combust.
They really should eradicate the term 'laptop'. First of all I haven't used too many notebook/portable computers that sit comfortably on my lap. Second, it's extremely bad posture. Third, these days computers just get way too hot. One of my clients bought a 15" MacBook Pro and I swear you can cook eggs on the left side of the thing near the speaker, and that's on the TOP of the unit where you rest your palms.
Bah, you can't compare Microsoft to Enron. Enron ripped off the US, Microsoft continues to ripoff the ENTIRE PLANET.
You're still operating under the presumption that Myspace bears responsibility for something completely out of their control.
If I were to walk to the nearest bar, and write 'for a great blowjob call me at xxx.xxx.xxxx' on the bathroom wall, someone called me and ass raped me after we met, would the bar be responsible? No. It's foolish to think they would. The bar inadvertently provided the forum, but the persons involved in the crime (myself and the assrapist) were responsible. Had I not put my personal info out there, we never would have met. Had I not agreed to meet up with a complete stranger, none of that would have happened.
Sure, you can blame the parents, or you can blame the rapist, or you can blame the foolish girl. But Myspace has nearly zero liability in this matter.
A good post indeed, it's a shame that you're AC and nobody will ever read it.
It doesn't matter if your engineers build a portable gold generator which doubles as a time travel device if the average schmuck can't even find the on switch. I help support an international company that uses Notes company-wide, and it's the most painful thing to configure and troubleshoot, ever. Even setting up the client on a fresh install is a hassle, so much so that the head honchos in Sweden cooked up a 5 page Word document, complete with at least 24 screen shots, just to make it easy for everyone in remote offices.
The same configuration with Exchange/Outlook would require no more than a single paragraph with POP or Exchange server addresses and maybe an intranet link to a corporate PAB file.
What's interesting to note here is that the Indian government played a big role in the quality of life expansion.
Take a look at Mexico in contrast. 2 years ago, illegal immigrants sent around 12 billion dollars back home. This was more than twice the highest foreign investment in Mexico. Last year, they sent back an estimated 17 billion. This was the second highest income for the entire country of Mexico; mexican oil brought in the highest income, but not much higher.* Yet Mexico remains dirt poor, despite the huge influx of cash they're receiving from El Norte and their illegal migrant workers. Ultimately, Mexico's government is to blame for the consistent failure to raise standards of living.
It really makes you wonder just how much damage corruption does to a floundering Third World nation. It also makes the point that throwing money at a problem won't even begin to solve it most of the time.
*Paraphrasing Dilip Ratha, World Bank senior economist
The gameplay did suck. It's like playing Battlefield 2 over a 600 ping connection. You're dead before you realize what killed you..or you moved a split second too early or too late. Feedback is critical with any type of gaming.
It was popular because it looked cool. That's about it. I doubt it'll be any less frustrating or any more fun in HD.
Hypoallergenic or not, I don't like cats. Too brainless to be a real companion, yet too smart to be dinner.
Personally, I welcome our Hot Coffee Unlocking overlords.