I'm a customer of one of the other "unlimited disk space" (for remote backup) companies. It is pretty clear that unlimited disk space does not equal unlimited bandwidth. Even on a very fat upstream, it has taken weeks to backup 40 GB.
Weeks? Are they throttling your connection down to dial-up speeds for that backup? I set up a cron job recently to back up the files and databases we have at a colo to a server at our office. The initial rsync of about 5.5 GB took several hours overnight to run; the limiting factor was the T1 at the office. I'd think a 40-GB backup job might take a couple or three days to complete; multiple weeks sounds unreasonably slow. Hopefully the backup service you're using offers something like rsync for periodic updates, as the periodic updates would otherwise take forever to go through (just checked, and the update on mine took less than a minute to run).
How many computers do you keep around for 20 years?
I still have the Apple IIe my parents bought new in 1985. If push came to shove, I could press it back into "daily-driver" use. I've even knocked together some new apps for it now that there's a not-bad C cross-compiler that targets the Apple II.
I'm with you -- mini and micro USB is much more standard than the iPod and there's no reason Apple couldn't have used USB instead. It would've possibly cost more, sure, so they did something proprietary like everyone else.
The first iPods supported FireWire and had standard 6-pin FireWire connectors on them. On later iPods, the dock connector was a way to shoehorn FireWire, USB, audio, video, and remote-control functionality into a compact connector that wouldn't chew up much board space...an important consideration for a small device. All those connectors in their usual form would've bloated the iPod into something more closely resembling some of its competition.
It's the United Nations who use both of these indexes to measure human well-being
...and we're supposed to trust the assclowns who brought us the oil-for-food scandal (among other things) to come up with a useful metric? Does it not follow that a group of socialist fraktards would choose metrics that work in favor of more socialism to get the results they want? It's like feeding weather data into an algorithm that's known to produce a graph resembling a hockey stick from nearly any input, and then claiming that the world's going to melt down...and who was responsible for that? Yet another UN agency.
Excuse me if I don't accept the UN's conclusions on anything as gospel truth.
If nothing else we do have the Phelps family wandering around still. I'm amazed nobody's attacked them yet.
Anybody who does gets sued by the Phelps [c|k]lan. Litigation is how the bastards make their "living" (such as it is). They roll into some random town and all but dare people to attack them and/or local governments to deny them whatever permits would be needed for their protests.
How the hell does giving free shipping mean that the price of the book is discounted? The book is $7.99 or whatever regardless of the price of shipping, free or not.
Besides, how is the price at which a book sells in any way the government's business? Maybe if the French spent less time strangling free enterprise and more time going after (just as a "ferinstance") the Mohammedans who light up car-b-ques every time they get their panties in a bunch, their country would be less of a shithole.
However, if you want to go beyond the superficial, the libraries... are essential.
So, the publications of the ACM and IEEE as well as the vast databases of print journals that have been digitized that most schools and universities have access to are all superficial?
1. You are taking my statement out of context.
The words those three dots replace entirely change the meaning of that sentence.
Who would've guessed that Maureen Dowd was posting on Slashdot, and that she was using the pseudonym "KanshuShintai?"
You're certainly going to end up carrying around a mini usb hub with this thing, plus spend an extra $100 on bluetooth headphones and mouse.
While it's missing a bunch of standard I/O ports, it does have a headphone jack. Since you can't use Bluetooth headphones on an airliner (which is about the only place I'd use headphones), I'd stick with the corded variety.
I thought it was per-socket starting with WinXP. Win2K made no distinction between physical processors and multiple cores on one processor because multi-core processors didn't exist when it was introduced. I haven't booted XP on my home workstation since upgrading it from an Athlon 64 to a Core 2 Quad (driver issues, no doubt), but Dell (to name just the first example I ran across) is offering XP Home (which only supports one socket) on its Core 2 Quad systems.
I mean, right now, the only real estate occupied by my love for beer is one corner of the refrigerator. If I expand much beyond that, the Spousal Acceptance Factor starts turning ugly.
That's one of the advantages of staying single: nobody to bitch about the kegerator, the fermenting fridge (with an Apple IIe parked on top as a temperature controller), hops filling half of the kitchen freezer, malt and equipment stashed away wherever I can fit them...:-)
The only problem is that American brewers don't produce good beers.
Don't lump Dogfish Head, Stone, Avery, etc. in with the megaswill brewers. American craft beer is as worthy of your consideration as any import (maybe more so, especially if you want to compare it against most other countries' megaswill brands). Heineken may beat Bud, but I'll take an Arrogant Bastard over either of them any time, any day...and if you don't agree, then you're just not worthy.:-)
Why have 1 person driving a backhoe when you could employ 20 with shovels?
I suspect it's faster and cheaper. Just in labor costs alone, a backhoe operator making $50/hr (and that should be in the ballpark for a wildly-inflated union wage) costs less than half as much as 20 unskilled laborers at $6/hr (or whatever minimum wage is nowadays). Even with the cost of renting a backhoe factored in (wild-ass guess time here...maybe $200 per day?), it's still cheaper for all but the smallest digging jobs. It should also be faster, and it's far less likely that your employees will be sidelined with injuries (which would further drive up your expenses).
(Now getting back on topic...)
Your point about the article's numbers WRT productivity of switchgrass vs. corn is well taken, though...that the article was playing somewhat fast and loose with the numbers didn't register right away, but it did after a few minutes. It's like the lightbulb display that says (1) the incandescent bulb uses 300% more power than the compact fluorescent bulb and (2) the CF uses 75% less power than the incandescent. Either statement on its own is true, but the combination of the two makes it look like there's bigger savings in a bulb switch than there really is. A simple statement that the CF uses a quarter of the power would've sufficed. Likewise, a net yield of 440% for cellulosic ethanol vs. 25% for corn ethanol would've been more honest (and still frakkin' impressive, if they get it working on an industrial scale).
Whose dollars? I'd find it hard to believe that you're paying $5/gallon anywhere in the United States for milk. I'm paying $3.25-$3.50 in Las Vegas, which has pretty much always been more expensive than most places for whatever reason (probably a combination of (1) being in the middle of a desert and (2) some protectionism for upstate dairy farmers). It's a bit more than it used to be ($2.50-$2.75), but it's not doubled.
(That's for whole milk...lowfat and skim run a little bit lower.)
I do have to say that you really need to just use the new flat Apple keyboard in order to become any good with it.
After that, the keys on a model M (or almost anything else) just seems way too tall and the travel excessive. Not to mention noisy.
I tried one the other day, as the Focus FK-2001 I've been using at home is getting flaky (Backspace tends to get stuck, and the other day the down-arrow key quit working). The flat keys just felt wrong, and there's nowhere near enough travel.
More than that, though, I was concerned about the missing keys (Insert, PrtSc, etc.) and what would happen when using the keyboard under Linux (my Mac mini shares a desk with a Core 2 Quad box that runs Gentoo).
Besides, what's wrong with noisy? Feedback when you press a key is a Good Thing. I use IBM Model Ms at work and considered picking up another one, but the "Windows keys" are useful on a Mac (they get mapped to Open-Apple, which tends to be used frequently for keyboard shortcuts). I ended up ordering one of these earlier...same key mechanism as the Model M, but with the Windows keys added. It's also USB instead of AT, so it'll plug into my KVM without an adapter.
At only 4.7GB each (8.5GB if you have money to burn), DVD-R isn't really a practical system-backup medium, except maybe for the limited case of making an image of a freshly-installed system that can be restored. It'd take at least a couple of 100-disc cakeboxes to back up the largest hard drives when full...not to mention the time it'd take to shuffle all of those discs through the burner.
Have you seen the iPhone version of youtube? It's not flash, but h.264.
.flv is just MPEG-4 video (or maybe H.264 now) and VBR MP3 audio muxed into yet another container format. If you can get an HTTP URL for the video you want (KeepVid works well with YouTube), you can download the video with Firefox or wget, play it with mplayer, transcode to a more sensible format with mencoder, etc. All that the iPhone's YouTube app is doing is automating some of these steps.
5. Slowly, with each bottle tilted to avoid frothing, fill each bottle from the tap.
Can you say "oxidation," boys and girls? (I speak from experience...not knowing any better at the time, I bottled my first two or three batches this way.)
I'm running it with 1GB of ram and a 3.0GHz P4 just fine. It was a real dog when I first installed it. But after a few tweaks its quick and my processor idle is at about 11%. I was getting the same with XP.
Something's seriously frakked with your computer if its "idle" CPU usage is 11%. Idle CPU usage should be 0%; that's what my notebook (Turion64 ML-32, 1 GB RAM, boots WinXP from a USB hard drive or Linux from the built-in drive) says right now with nothing running.
mac and windows stole from the commodore, and most of that was taken from PARC project work (xerox)
Put down the crack pipe. Nobody stole anything from Commodore because Commodore didn't have anything worth stealing. Apple paid Xerox (in stock, IIRC) for its look at what was going on at PARC. Microsoft, OTOH, saw what Apple was doing with the Lisa and Macintosh (it had been brought in to do apps such as Word and Excel) and created a poor man's knockoff of it.
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Try IE running under Wine on Linux. It'll validate as "genuine"...no kidding.
Weeks? Are they throttling your connection down to dial-up speeds for that backup? I set up a cron job recently to back up the files and databases we have at a colo to a server at our office. The initial rsync of about 5.5 GB took several hours overnight to run; the limiting factor was the T1 at the office. I'd think a 40-GB backup job might take a couple or three days to complete; multiple weeks sounds unreasonably slow. Hopefully the backup service you're using offers something like rsync for periodic updates, as the periodic updates would otherwise take forever to go through (just checked, and the update on mine took less than a minute to run).
I still have the Apple IIe my parents bought new in 1985. If push came to shove, I could press it back into "daily-driver" use. I've even knocked together some new apps for it now that there's a not-bad C cross-compiler that targets the Apple II.
The first iPods supported FireWire and had standard 6-pin FireWire connectors on them. On later iPods, the dock connector was a way to shoehorn FireWire, USB, audio, video, and remote-control functionality into a compact connector that wouldn't chew up much board space...an important consideration for a small device. All those connectors in their usual form would've bloated the iPod into something more closely resembling some of its competition.
Excuse me if I don't accept the UN's conclusions on anything as gospel truth.
Anybody who does gets sued by the Phelps [c|k]lan. Litigation is how the bastards make their "living" (such as it is). They roll into some random town and all but dare people to attack them and/or local governments to deny them whatever permits would be needed for their protests.
Besides, how is the price at which a book sells in any way the government's business? Maybe if the French spent less time strangling free enterprise and more time going after (just as a "ferinstance") the Mohammedans who light up car-b-ques every time they get their panties in a bunch, their country would be less of a shithole.
Who would've guessed that Maureen Dowd was posting on Slashdot, and that she was using the pseudonym "KanshuShintai?"
I thought you were referring to Windows itself, not Oracle running on Windows...never mind.
While it's missing a bunch of standard I/O ports, it does have a headphone jack. Since you can't use Bluetooth headphones on an airliner (which is about the only place I'd use headphones), I'd stick with the corded variety.
I thought it was per-socket starting with WinXP. Win2K made no distinction between physical processors and multiple cores on one processor because multi-core processors didn't exist when it was introduced. I haven't booted XP on my home workstation since upgrading it from an Athlon 64 to a Core 2 Quad (driver issues, no doubt), but Dell (to name just the first example I ran across) is offering XP Home (which only supports one socket) on its Core 2 Quad systems.
FTW! Mine's supposed to get here Thursday. My work machines have Model Ms (one IBM, one Lexmark) plugged in; the new one's for home use.
That's one of the advantages of staying single: nobody to bitch about the kegerator, the fermenting fridge (with an Apple IIe parked on top as a temperature controller), hops filling half of the kitchen freezer, malt and equipment stashed away wherever I can fit them... :-)
Don't lump Dogfish Head, Stone, Avery, etc. in with the megaswill brewers. American craft beer is as worthy of your consideration as any import (maybe more so, especially if you want to compare it against most other countries' megaswill brands). Heineken may beat Bud, but I'll take an Arrogant Bastard over either of them any time, any day...and if you don't agree, then you're just not worthy. :-)
I suspect it's faster and cheaper. Just in labor costs alone, a backhoe operator making $50/hr (and that should be in the ballpark for a wildly-inflated union wage) costs less than half as much as 20 unskilled laborers at $6/hr (or whatever minimum wage is nowadays). Even with the cost of renting a backhoe factored in (wild-ass guess time here...maybe $200 per day?), it's still cheaper for all but the smallest digging jobs. It should also be faster, and it's far less likely that your employees will be sidelined with injuries (which would further drive up your expenses).
(Now getting back on topic...)
Your point about the article's numbers WRT productivity of switchgrass vs. corn is well taken, though...that the article was playing somewhat fast and loose with the numbers didn't register right away, but it did after a few minutes. It's like the lightbulb display that says (1) the incandescent bulb uses 300% more power than the compact fluorescent bulb and (2) the CF uses 75% less power than the incandescent. Either statement on its own is true, but the combination of the two makes it look like there's bigger savings in a bulb switch than there really is. A simple statement that the CF uses a quarter of the power would've sufficed. Likewise, a net yield of 440% for cellulosic ethanol vs. 25% for corn ethanol would've been more honest (and still frakkin' impressive, if they get it working on an industrial scale).
Whose dollars? I'd find it hard to believe that you're paying $5/gallon anywhere in the United States for milk. I'm paying $3.25-$3.50 in Las Vegas, which has pretty much always been more expensive than most places for whatever reason (probably a combination of (1) being in the middle of a desert and (2) some protectionism for upstate dairy farmers). It's a bit more than it used to be ($2.50-$2.75), but it's not doubled.
(That's for whole milk...lowfat and skim run a little bit lower.)
I tried one the other day, as the Focus FK-2001 I've been using at home is getting flaky (Backspace tends to get stuck, and the other day the down-arrow key quit working). The flat keys just felt wrong, and there's nowhere near enough travel.
More than that, though, I was concerned about the missing keys (Insert, PrtSc, etc.) and what would happen when using the keyboard under Linux (my Mac mini shares a desk with a Core 2 Quad box that runs Gentoo).
Besides, what's wrong with noisy? Feedback when you press a key is a Good Thing. I use IBM Model Ms at work and considered picking up another one, but the "Windows keys" are useful on a Mac (they get mapped to Open-Apple, which tends to be used frequently for keyboard shortcuts). I ended up ordering one of these earlier...same key mechanism as the Model M, but with the Windows keys added. It's also USB instead of AT, so it'll plug into my KVM without an adapter.
At only 4.7GB each (8.5GB if you have money to burn), DVD-R isn't really a practical system-backup medium, except maybe for the limited case of making an image of a freshly-installed system that can be restored. It'd take at least a couple of 100-disc cakeboxes to back up the largest hard drives when full...not to mention the time it'd take to shuffle all of those discs through the burner.
Life begins at 60...60 IBUs, that is. :-)
Can you say "oxidation," boys and girls? (I speak from experience...not knowing any better at the time, I bottled my first two or three batches this way.)
When did William Shatner start posting on Slashdot?
Something's seriously frakked with your computer if its "idle" CPU usage is 11%. Idle CPU usage should be 0%; that's what my notebook (Turion64 ML-32, 1 GB RAM, boots WinXP from a USB hard drive or Linux from the built-in drive) says right now with nothing running.
Put down the crack pipe. Nobody stole anything from Commodore because Commodore didn't have anything worth stealing. Apple paid Xerox (in stock, IIRC) for its look at what was going on at PARC. Microsoft, OTOH, saw what Apple was doing with the Lisa and Macintosh (it had been brought in to do apps such as Word and Excel) and created a poor man's knockoff of it.
You need to look back a few years earlier than the Tin Lizzie for the real introduction of mass production.