Are they simply porting the 32-bit machine to 64-bit, or intelligently using 64-bit capabilities (I'm thinking about the expanded register space specifically)?
BTW the Carolinas look like Jersey did decades ago, and are vastly cheaper to live and retire in
Yeah, that's what I tell folks about the part of New Hampshire I live in (we've got mountains, you've got chiggers). Most of my semi-rural NJ schoolmates live in Eastern PA now. Very few can afford to live where we grew up as NYC has finally consumed it.
I've never had or heard of carmelized onions, but from the wikipedia article on them, I really doubt you could (and I'd try them, but I doubt I'd like them). That's another thing I forgot about that I cook on the stove, battered onion rings.
Gah! You can get them most places on a burger. Mushrooms and swiss for me, to complete.
If you try frying some up, hit them with a splash of cooking wine shortly before they're done. The alcohol does something amazing to the sugars in the onions. I avoid alcohol as a form of recreation, but it's fantastic here. I usually use the Chinese rice version, but a cooking sherry works as well.
My wife got me Good Eats: The Early Years for Christmas, and I was really surprised that it's worth having. I watch the show, obviously, but I figured just getting the recipes online was sufficient. There are extra "knowledge concentrate" sections along with the recipes that help you understand the 'why' better than the show. I suspect they are leavings from the first pass of the scripts which got ultimately cut, but it's worth having the books for those. Also, some of the recipes are updated from the shows. The ladies all raved over the brownies at a Girl Scouts even I went to, but, word to the wise, they're the most involved brownie recipe you'll ever attempt (compare with the Kraft 1-bowl recipe, e.g.).
Do we have any fossil evidence about the current from before the last ice age? Just thought of that now in the context of this article about us still coming out of the last one.
Apple's best profit maximization came from keeping everything proprietary for as long as they didn't have significant competition. That they're doing this is likely an indication of a sales slump vs. competition from Android. Now they'll begin the process of competing in a commoditized market.
Sure they do. Don't lie to us. We can hear their Rand-ian rhetoric for ourselves....of course you could do the Lenningrad 2-step and claim that most libertarians aren't really libertarians or some such nonsense.
Rand-ians are Objectivists. They happen to take some libertarian positions.
One cannot support the non-aggression principle while supporting the corporate form by government - it's logically inconsistent. People can call themselves whatever they want.
Intel Atom is probably consciously crippled in order to avoid it eating market share from their more profitable "upmarket" processors
Huh? So an Atom could be as fast as their desktop chips, but they keep their desktop parts artificially consuming 10x as much power and lose desktop business to AMD for it... to protect their desktop market?
Isn't it more likely that low-power chips have fewer transistors at a lower clock speed to keep the power low and so they're slower? I'm typing this on the best low-power Atom available this past spring and it is slow, but I care about the 6 hours of real battery life under Fedora more than the speed - on this particular machine.
Yes, of course, it's Unix. Apple just puts barriers in the way of applications trying to do that. If you could somehow get out of the sandbox, you'd fine, but people like their sandboxes more than they want multitasking. iPhone sales would be different if this was a major barrier for average users.
If it is not preemptive multitasking, it is not real multitasking.
Preemptive multitasking, by definition, is just an approximation to real multitasking. With multi-core cpu's with embedded memory controllers we might be getting close to real multitasking, on PC's anyway.
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Wikipedia: History written by losers
The Geek Shall Inherit
Even as someone who is very strongly in support of open government, the methods used by Wikileaks just feel a bit too... cowboyish?
Wikileaks's mission is not just free information, but to do that AND gain the maximum political impact from such releases.
They seem to be doing pretty well there. It's probably not the right organization to leak to if that's not why you're leaking.
it might end up faster on 64-bit than on 32-bit.
Are they simply porting the 32-bit machine to 64-bit, or intelligently using 64-bit capabilities (I'm thinking about the expanded register space specifically)?
It wasn't too long ago that I checked and JM didn't even run on x86_64. I'll take it as it is!
This silly little netbook I'm typing on now is even x86_64. It's running the _old_ Firefox JavaScript VM (and so Chromium will pants it).
BTW the Carolinas look like Jersey did decades ago, and are vastly cheaper to live and retire in
Yeah, that's what I tell folks about the part of New Hampshire I live in (we've got mountains, you've got chiggers). Most of my semi-rural NJ schoolmates live in Eastern PA now. Very few can afford to live where we grew up as NYC has finally consumed it.
Cricket will work with only people from sub-continent
I hear they're pretty popular in Thailand too.
I've never had or heard of carmelized onions, but from the wikipedia article on them, I really doubt you could (and I'd try them, but I doubt I'd like them). That's another thing I forgot about that I cook on the stove, battered onion rings.
Gah! You can get them most places on a burger. Mushrooms and swiss for me, to complete.
If you try frying some up, hit them with a splash of cooking wine shortly before they're done. The alcohol does something amazing to the sugars in the onions. I avoid alcohol as a form of recreation, but it's fantastic here. I usually use the Chinese rice version, but a cooking sherry works as well.
My wife got me Good Eats: The Early Years for Christmas, and I was really surprised that it's worth having. I watch the show, obviously, but I figured just getting the recipes online was sufficient. There are extra "knowledge concentrate" sections along with the recipes that help you understand the 'why' better than the show. I suspect they are leavings from the first pass of the scripts which got ultimately cut, but it's worth having the books for those. Also, some of the recipes are updated from the shows. The ladies all raved over the brownies at a Girl Scouts even I went to, but, word to the wise, they're the most involved brownie recipe you'll ever attempt (compare with the Kraft 1-bowl recipe, e.g.).
...and before that, it meant brightly colored, showy, brilliant. :)
So we can blame Liberace for this mess?
I don't believe that for one second. How did he get a girlfriend before Microsoft made him a crapload of cash?
What, you think he gave the company to Steve because he's a good executive?
The surprising thing for me is that apparently I *am* asian.
OK, I'll go scurry off and read Freakonomics now..
It's hard to tell Canadians from really boring white people.
C'mon now - if there's a guy with a Maple Leafs jersey on and he's holding a Molson - you've got pretty good odds there.
I'm pretty sure this should be categorized under "The Wrong Kind of White People".
That's half-right. David Lee Roth or, um.... oh, right, Sammy Hagar?
Do we have any fossil evidence about the current from before the last ice age? Just thought of that now in the context of this article about us still coming out of the last one.
He's just burning some books. Our soldiers are...
burning bibles too in Afghanistan.
The only reason they are doing this now is because they've gotten too much pressure not too.
Naw, the iPhone is, literally, the textbook example from The Innovator's Solution.
Apple's best profit maximization came from keeping everything proprietary for as long as they didn't have significant competition. That they're doing this is likely an indication of a sales slump vs. competition from Android. Now they'll begin the process of competing in a commoditized market.
Some not for evil examples.
So, are any of the viewers I use vulnerable?
Libertarian party
Yeah, the people who ran Bob Barr, drug warrior and anti-flag burner, as their candidate.
I could start, say, a Christian Party and say whatever I wanted, but I wouldn't be therefore representing Christians by doing so.
Sure they do. Don't lie to us. We can hear their Rand-ian rhetoric for ourselves. ...of course you could do the Lenningrad 2-step and claim that most libertarians aren't really libertarians or some such nonsense.
Rand-ians are Objectivists. They happen to take some libertarian positions.
One cannot support the non-aggression principle while supporting the corporate form by government - it's logically inconsistent. People can call themselves whatever they want.
Don't be a moron, libertarians don't support corporations.
You like it? God!
Intel Atom is probably consciously crippled in order to avoid it eating market share from their more profitable "upmarket" processors
Huh? So an Atom could be as fast as their desktop chips, but they keep their desktop parts artificially consuming 10x as much power and lose desktop business to AMD for it ... to protect their desktop market?
Isn't it more likely that low-power chips have fewer transistors at a lower clock speed to keep the power low and so they're slower? I'm typing this on the best low-power Atom available this past spring and it is slow, but I care about the 6 hours of real battery life under Fedora more than the speed - on this particular machine.
Or did I miss an update where multitasking was invented and gifted to the world by Apple?
Only if you count Mach. Their 'gifts' in this area have been more focused on multiprocessing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
Is it preemptive multitasking, or not?
Yes, of course, it's Unix. Apple just puts barriers in the way of applications trying to do that. If you could somehow get out of the sandbox, you'd fine, but people like their sandboxes more than they want multitasking. iPhone sales would be different if this was a major barrier for average users.
If it is not preemptive multitasking, it is not real multitasking.
Preemptive multitasking, by definition, is just an approximation to real multitasking. With multi-core cpu's with embedded memory controllers we might be getting close to real multitasking, on PC's anyway.