I've tried non-trivial medications three times in the last decade. One I asked my doctor about in a general fashion, "are there any new asthma medications I might want to try". Another I learned about in the newspaper. The last I saw on TV.
Your doctor doesn't know what you're interested unless you ask. And unless you see an ad you might not know something even exists to ask about. Sure, some people might ask about things they don't need, but that's a lot less troubling than people not asking for something they do.
I'm curious to know where this leads though. As I understand it one of the largest reasons for abandoning widespread use of GaAs semis was that there was no analog of SiO2. If I am reading these releases correctly, it's the SiO2 that's being replaced by the Ha. So if this is correct, wouldn't a GaAs system using the same methodologies be "doable"?
Forgive my newbie-ness, fab tech isn't my strong suit.
Ever song is licensed by a different company in different geographical regions. Those firms are typically under an international umbrella group, but that doesn't change anything. General Electric Canada sells different products than General Electric (US), and no-one finds that odd, so I'm not sure why anyone would be remotely surprised here.
Maury
Another fine example of military "inteligence"
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Bugged Canadian Coins?
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Can anyone here imagine a better way to make an RFID useless than putting it in the middle of a coin? And then after making these magical coins, apparently the same super-spies went all over the US and installed readers at every sensitive plant. Without anyone noticing. Wow, with spies like that, who needs bugged money?
The sad part about this is that someone believed it.
I'd love to say "get a Mac", but I have to say there is one gaping hole on the Mac side that seriously needs closing. That hole is Safari, which doesn't _currently_ have a phishing monitor. They say it's coming for Leopard though. If this is the case, in a couple of months I might just day "get a Mac".
Imagine a GPU that plugs into the existing Xeon (Core 2 versions) socket. Now the four-core CPU in the other socket can talk to it over the memory bus. Put a separate bus on the "far side" for the GPU's local memory and/or framebuffer.
> This could buy the management "time" to "instruct" everyone about > the audit and do some "beautification".
Are you kidding me? This place is the size of a small city. Apple gets 15% of their business. Consider those two facts, and ask yourself if they had either the capability or interest in doing what you suggest.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that working conditions in the rest of the world simply aren't that bad? Because Fox News had a "special" on it? Because China is the "bad guy" for the last 50 years and we can't possibly imagine that they might actually want their citizens to have a better life? Let's not forget the original story here, which showed a picture of workers excersizing and claimed it was "military drilling".
How many people reading this have actually been to China? Seen a Chinese factory complex? Talked to the workers there?
Practically every program I run under XP has a memory leak. As a result, quitting out of any of then leads to 15-20 seconds (yes, really) of disk griding while the VM dies. And this is on *quitting*. Does anyone else find it the least ironic that it takes longer to quit a program than start it?
I love listening to people complain about GC. Of course *they* are super-programmers that don't need any of this stuff, because their code never has *any* problems in it. But here I am with all these leaky programs. They leak memory all over the place and don't care. Why? Because I don't *need* to care about memory, everyone has 1GB anyway.
Can you explain how the duplexer works? I have an older (~4 years) Brother that said it supported duplexing, but basically its manual -- it prints the first sides, then a dialog comes up and you re-insert into the tray so it can print the other side. Is the DN manual or automatic duplexing?
I filed my census return online in Firefox a couple of weeks ago. It took only about 10 minutes in total (actually less, maybe 5). I actually _enjoyed_ the process.
Why would anyone believe this to be true? Someone I know was born without toes. She can walk fine. In fact, she can skateboard, surf and snowboard. There is no degradation of any mobility I am aware of.
Take one old-skool stereo headset from the 70's, make up ad copy saying its for gamers, and put it out there even though it's actually completely useless for gaming. Wheeee!!!!
Basically the.net libs are not nearly as nice as I had expected them to be. Many are surprisingly simplistic. The whole forms/dataset system really feels like a lashup to me. These will improve, I'm sure, but the paucity of 3rd party solutions and the general whimpyness as-supplied made my trivially simple project a lot of work.
But to add to the frustration, I use an external COM plugin for data gathering. Trying to get this working with.net was nightmareish. The documentation from MS is simply way too vague, and doesn't offer even remotely enough examples. I had to hunt all over and talk to people on the 'net to try to get it working, and when it didn't you get a completely generic result.
But the worst problem is that.net is still very much a bolt-on to Windoes. When you load the system,.net does not load. In fact, many of the machines in the office didn't even have it installed. What this means is that when you start your (my) 32k compiled app, it takes about 15-20 seconds for the libs to load up. That doesn't work well for my application, which runs for less than 5 seconds and then exits.
I'll be sticking with VB6. I see no compelling reason to change.
I was really looking forward to the new mini. And when I saw the bullet point come up on Ars that they had a Duo version, my jaw dropped. A Duo powered box with X1600 graphics will make one hell of a mid-range gaming box, for $799, and one that doesn't sound like a vacume cleaner on your desk.
But of course it doesn't have the X1600. It has the "useless for anything but collecting dust" Intel 950 series el-cheapo UMA decellerator.
Thanks Apple, thanks for turning what could have been a killer platform into a ho-hum web page browser.
It all depends on the house in question, and the relative cost of gas to electricity. Here in Canada, and the US I assume, gas heat was cheaper than electric for many years, but recent rises in gas prices have made this less clear today.
I lived in a house in Ireland for some time. It was built in the 1970s, and was astonishingly inefficient. I remember watching the TV one night and suddenly realizing why the house was so cold -- the drapes in the living room were blowing around, I had left a window open. Actually, the window was closed, the wind was blowing right throught the gaps around it. The whole house was like this, so if the one you end up in is similar, here's some thing:
1) there's a film you can buy that heat-shrinks to form an almost perfectly transparent barrier over your windows. You put it up in late fall and tear it down in the spring. It takes 5 to 10 minutes per window to install. The effect, if you have windows like mine, is astonishing.
2) get a timed thermostat. Set it to lower the temperature at night and during the day when no-one is home. That's 10-15% if you lower it enough.
3) you can get foam gaskets that fit behind the electrical sockets, blocking airflow into the room. Yes, I know, it sounds like this can't possibly make a difference. Wait until you have a windy night then hold your hand over a socket on an outside wall some time.
4) this one is slightly harder: buy a caulking gun, practice up on some cardboard, and then caulk around every baseboard, door and every other crack you can find. I highly recommend using the transparent silicone that you can later peel off. It costs a little more, but it's easy to fix if you blow it during application, and you can get rid of it if anyone complains. Caulking is messy when you first try it, but easy once you get the hang of it.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the US govt is yelling at companies about free speach, while illegally (yes, that's the correct word) conducting spying operations on its own citizens?
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I've tried non-trivial medications three times in the last decade. One I asked my doctor about in a general fashion, "are there any new asthma medications I might want to try". Another I learned about in the newspaper. The last I saw on TV.
Your doctor doesn't know what you're interested unless you ask. And unless you see an ad you might not know something even exists to ask about. Sure, some people might ask about things they don't need, but that's a lot less troubling than people not asking for something they do.
I'm curious to know where this leads though. As I understand it one of the largest reasons for abandoning widespread use of GaAs semis was that there was no analog of SiO2. If I am reading these releases correctly, it's the SiO2 that's being replaced by the Ha. So if this is correct, wouldn't a GaAs system using the same methodologies be "doable"?
Forgive my newbie-ness, fab tech isn't my strong suit.
Maury
Riiiiight. Like Shuttle in '79? Or Alpha in '95? Or how about Hubble in '86? *sigh*
Ever song is licensed by a different company in different geographical regions. Those firms are typically under an international umbrella group, but that doesn't change anything. General Electric Canada sells different products than General Electric (US), and no-one finds that odd, so I'm not sure why anyone would be remotely surprised here.
Maury
Can anyone here imagine a better way to make an RFID useless than putting it in the middle of a coin? And then after making these magical coins, apparently the same super-spies went all over the US and installed readers at every sensitive plant. Without anyone noticing. Wow, with spies like that, who needs bugged money?
The sad part about this is that someone believed it.
Maury
> Meanwhile, the word has also come down that
> games will be on the Zune by Summer of next year.
Just in time for nobody to give a crap.
> just for a phone merged with a iPod
It's an entire Mac, running OS X, packed into a iPod form factor.
AND an iPod.
AND a phone.
Even if it didn't have those things it would still be worth $499.
OS X's market share just went to 20% See the forest yet?
*sigh*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration
I'd love to say "get a Mac", but I have to say there is one gaping hole on the Mac side that seriously needs closing. That hole is Safari, which doesn't _currently_ have a phishing monitor. They say it's coming for Leopard though. If this is the case, in a couple of months I might just day "get a Mac".
Imagine a GPU that plugs into the existing Xeon (Core 2 versions) socket. Now the four-core CPU in the other socket can talk to it over the memory bus. Put a separate bus on the "far side" for the GPU's local memory and/or framebuffer.
> This could buy the management "time" to "instruct" everyone about
> the audit and do some "beautification".
Are you kidding me? This place is the size of a small city. Apple gets 15% of their business. Consider those two facts, and ask yourself if they had either the capability or interest in doing what you suggest.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that working conditions in the rest of the world simply aren't that bad? Because Fox News had a "special" on it? Because China is the "bad guy" for the last 50 years and we can't possibly imagine that they might actually want their citizens to have a better life? Let's not forget the original story here, which showed a picture of workers excersizing and claimed it was "military drilling".
How many people reading this have actually been to China? Seen a Chinese factory complex? Talked to the workers there?
That many, eh?
Practically every program I run under XP has a memory leak. As a result, quitting out of any of then leads to 15-20 seconds (yes, really) of disk griding while the VM dies. And this is on *quitting*. Does anyone else find it the least ironic that it takes longer to quit a program than start it?
I love listening to people complain about GC. Of course *they* are super-programmers that don't need any of this stuff, because their code never has *any* problems in it. But here I am with all these leaky programs. They leak memory all over the place and don't care. Why? Because I don't *need* to care about memory, everyone has 1GB anyway.
1Tb / 1 in. This holographi stoage is nowhere near as good as millipede.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Millipede
Can you explain how the duplexer works? I have an older (~4 years) Brother that said it supported duplexing, but basically its manual -- it prints the first sides, then a dialog comes up and you re-insert into the tray so it can print the other side. Is the DN manual or automatic duplexing?
Maury
Who came up with that one?
I filed my census return online in Firefox a couple of weeks ago. It took only about 10 minutes in total (actually less, maybe 5). I actually _enjoyed_ the process.
Maury
Why would anyone believe this to be true? Someone I know was born without toes. She can walk fine. In fact, she can skateboard, surf and snowboard. There is no degradation of any mobility I am aware of.
Or, to be more accurate:
VB, as a language, is the worst language I have used in the last 20 years.
VB as a development platform is the most productive system I have used in the last 20 years.
Hate the language, love the system. You will too.
Take one old-skool stereo headset from the 70's, make up ad copy saying its for gamers, and put it out there even though it's actually completely useless for gaming. Wheeee!!!!
I considered making the jump. I jumped back.
.net libs are not nearly as nice as I had expected them to be. Many are surprisingly simplistic. The whole forms/dataset system really feels like a lashup to me. These will improve, I'm sure, but the paucity of 3rd party solutions and the general whimpyness as-supplied made my trivially simple project a lot of work.
.net was nightmareish. The documentation from MS is simply way too vague, and doesn't offer even remotely enough examples. I had to hunt all over and talk to people on the 'net to try to get it working, and when it didn't you get a completely generic result.
.net is still very much a bolt-on to Windoes. When you load the system, .net does not load. In fact, many of the machines in the office didn't even have it installed. What this means is that when you start your (my) 32k compiled app, it takes about 15-20 seconds for the libs to load up. That doesn't work well for my application, which runs for less than 5 seconds and then exits.
Basically the
But to add to the frustration, I use an external COM plugin for data gathering. Trying to get this working with
But the worst problem is that
I'll be sticking with VB6. I see no compelling reason to change.
I was really looking forward to the new mini. And when I saw the bullet point come up on Ars that they had a Duo version, my jaw dropped. A Duo powered box with X1600 graphics will make one hell of a mid-range gaming box, for $799, and one that doesn't sound like a vacume cleaner on your desk.
But of course it doesn't have the X1600. It has the "useless for anything but collecting dust" Intel 950 series el-cheapo UMA decellerator.
Thanks Apple, thanks for turning what could have been a killer platform into a ho-hum web page browser.
How can you NOT know about this:
http://www.mosis.org/
A crackpot web page is now material for Slashdot?
I'd better get started...
It all depends on the house in question, and the relative cost of gas to electricity. Here in Canada, and the US I assume, gas heat was cheaper than electric for many years, but recent rises in gas prices have made this less clear today.
I lived in a house in Ireland for some time. It was built in the 1970s, and was astonishingly inefficient. I remember watching the TV one night and suddenly realizing why the house was so cold -- the drapes in the living room were blowing around, I had left a window open. Actually, the window was closed, the wind was blowing right throught the gaps around it. The whole house was like this, so if the one you end up in is similar, here's some thing:
1) there's a film you can buy that heat-shrinks to form an almost perfectly transparent barrier over your windows. You put it up in late fall and tear it down in the spring. It takes 5 to 10 minutes per window to install. The effect, if you have windows like mine, is astonishing.
2) get a timed thermostat. Set it to lower the temperature at night and during the day when no-one is home. That's 10-15% if you lower it enough.
3) you can get foam gaskets that fit behind the electrical sockets, blocking airflow into the room. Yes, I know, it sounds like this can't possibly make a difference. Wait until you have a windy night then hold your hand over a socket on an outside wall some time.
4) this one is slightly harder: buy a caulking gun, practice up on some cardboard, and then caulk around every baseboard, door and every other crack you can find. I highly recommend using the transparent silicone that you can later peel off. It costs a little more, but it's easy to fix if you blow it during application, and you can get rid of it if anyone complains. Caulking is messy when you first try it, but easy once you get the hang of it.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the US govt is yelling at companies about free speach, while illegally (yes, that's the correct word) conducting spying operations on its own citizens?
Maury
... Intel's standard chip set doesn't support it.
It's that simple, Apple had no part to play in that decision.