Just as the popular newspaper iPad/iPhone/Android applications like the evening standard and metro have failed in the UK.
No. Wait. It's handy to have the full news disconnected from the web so you can read it when you are out of range, as happens a lot when you're on the tube. I'm sure that there will be enough people willing to pay the small weekly fee for this product as well.
It doesn't affect SATA ports 0 and 1 on the chipset (the new SATA3 ports), only the four SATA2 ports 2,3,4,5. It is likely that a laptop from Apple will only use the first two ports, so there shouldn't be an issue with new MacBooks or the Mac Mini.
What "sort of downloading"? 500 MB/month is 16 MB/day on average. That's bandwidth for a full day shared between upload and download. I got more by my f*cking 56k modem in a single hour in 1999, even counting only downloads.
500 MB/month is on average less than 187 bytes per second. I know there are peak times, but is their network really so suckish that this is the cap that they have to impose?
Seriously? In 2011?
Don't use a Windows Phone 7 device on T-Mobile then!...
Wouldn't a meteor strike destroy most infrastructure, thus removing the 'reasonable conditions' for the survivors to live in?
Surely a better solution is a targeted deadly virus? One that attacks politicians, lawyers and the media?
The reality is that things aren't going to change with relation to human population, so best to work out how to feed the world and minimise poor living conditions. Most people on this website could survive in a small apartments with a single bed, a desk for a computer, and a pizza delivery slot in the wall.
McDonalds are quite clear on their website ( http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ourfood/ ) about how they make their burgers - they get cuts of beef, pack it and nothing else into a patty, and freeze it and ship it to the outlets (I hesitate to call them restaurants). 367,000 head of cattle a year, in the UK, apparently.
I've eaten enough veggie burgers to know that good brands are few and far between, and they simply don't get the texture right. The best ones are those that don't pretend to be meat and are vegetables in a casing/breadcrumbs. Vegetarian sausages don't deserve the name 'sausage', they're an insult to the concept, taste-wise, texture-wise, everything-wise. A sausage-shaped falafel would be better in most cases.
If you're a vegetarian, then eat vegetables and quit with the 'kind of similar to meat' products. If you can't do that, then learn to, or give up.
I love vegetables, grains and beans, but I also like meat - free range organic meat primarily. I'd rather eat a smaller amount of good tasting meat than a large amount of tasteless barn or cage-reared animal.
I guess with de-legging and de-shelling,they wouldn't look so bad, especially if they go a nice colour when cooked. Make it look like a shrimp, prawn, king prawn, langoustine or crayfish, and you might get some sales. Oh, and don't market it as 'Cockroach Chunks'.
I don't think I'll be queuing up for crispy fried mealworms on toast anytime soon though.
I'm sure that tinned crab meat isn't the best experience (compared to fresh crab from a... crab!), however crab is a slightly acquired taste. Also Vietnamese soft shelled crabs - they're good.
If only Microsoft offered a software development kit that most Windows developers used - they could incorporate ARM builds into it so that current software would be available for ARM in time for the release. They could even allow applications to have both ARM and x86 variants within the same application binary, as Apple do with Mac OS X software. Older applications that won't get recompiled will surely perform well enough under software emulation.
Sadly, as Microsoft don't offer any form of SDK or compilers or anything of the sort, this Windows on ARM thing is doomed to failure. Right now they're writing the bits for Windows 8 for ARM by hand, flicking switches and pressing a button to store that instruction into memory.
Because the film is distorted, and includes both interlaced frames in each image. So you scan it at a high resolution first (2k lines, for example).
So they need to de-distort. And as you will remember from your old CRT monitors and TVs, the image distorts according to the image displayed, so each frame needs to be de-distorted individually.
Then de-interlace. Then extract the information required. Then re-construct.
You used to need a three foot deep desk because of having a two foot deep monitor - now that desk can be two foot deep (or less! Shaped curved-front desks have a fatter area for the monitor and phone (if you get a phone these days)). You don't need a bookcase of folders and books, so that saves a foot or so as well.
I work in a shared office without cubicles, right now there's three people in an 18' by 12' space I guess, so we've got 72 sq ft each (and a window each). There were four people before, it's not cramped though because our needs have changed.
But it doesn't sort out the noise and privacy issues, so we all run off into a meeting room when we get a phone call. Interruptions do affect getting into the 'zone' too, so productivity does go down.
Working from home today though, hurrah. Not that I've done much.
There will always be enough men that have had enough of the incessant nagging who decide that moving to the middle of nowhere and poking ice cores for a living is a major improvement in their situation.
There are loads of FPGAs on the market with integrated PowerPC cores. There are probably FPGAs on the market with integrated ARM cores (ah yes, a post already links to one such creation). This is a dual-die package with a 60k gate FPGA. It's a nice option on the market, but it's hardly unique. The cost will be a major issue as well, although so far the prices look reasonable. But you can't put much into 60,000 gates (although maybe they're counted different from Xilinx or Spartan gates), certainly not a Minimig AGA core.
So enjoy your 600MHz Atom + FPGA. Or 1GHz. Or 1.3GHz. WIth enough FPGA to implement a C64. Yeah, I know that in industry it will be used for different purposes, but will that industry care about x86 compatibility... or continue using the existing PowerPC and ARM options?
Two years ago I bought a HP 2133 cheaply that came with Linux pre-installed.
It runs pretty nicely with Ubuntu 10.10. Note that because the netbook is VIA based (and therefore representative of the worst performance possible in a netbook) the netbook interface doesn't work (because it requires hardware graphics acceleration, and getting the VIA drivers working again is something I'd rather avoid again).
The Ubuntu font is very nice though. Therefore I'd say it's a nice OS to use on a netbook.
Anyone here thinking of getting a netbook this season would do well to wait for AMD Ontario/Zacate based netbooks for a significant boost over Atom.
It's probably what temperatures the CPU will operate at, not that it will suddenly break when it is colder.
I guess that if your car is garaged, the garage won't be as cold as the outside world, so the car will start, and thus there will be heat for the ECU to operate. Or your car will have an engine-heater that you run first.
Yeah, it's a floating arcology. The pictures look good though, like 1960s SciFi book covers.
I say - let this company research this problem, and see what they come up with. I'm sure it will be different, or be compromised, or be a lot smaller, or without a fricking giant tower in the middle that will be vulnerable to high winds. I'm sure they've got lots of physicists and engineers working on it.
The tower is 500m diameter. That's nearly 200,000 square metres of space. A family can live in 100 square metres comfortably (~1000 square foot) although those of you with 2000sqft mansions in the US might not think so. Even if the tower was eradicated and there was a 2D living space, that's 2000 families, or around 5000 people, although you might want some roads and paths and space inbetween dwellings. Even a collection of low-rise flats would house vastly more people.
I do have to also say that the Atari ST was nicely styled, far better than the Amiga with it's Commodore-inspired aesthetics. They would have made a football look like a beigey-cream brick if called to design one.
Of course the Amiga could change the colour every few pixels as well, using the Copper. A variant of this method was called SPAC (super pre-adjusted color) and it was actually used in games (e.g., Universe), not just for static screens. Flickering colours to generate intermediate colours is also a common mechanism on many older computers for static screens.
Why is it that all the Atari ST music I have ever heard is so primitive compared to the Amiga versions when it has this amazing Shifter chip? The Amiga used software mixing as well - OctaMED was one such tracker program. The Amiga audio chip supported sampled audio - not at 128kHz however, but it supported playback of different sample rates at the same time - and full DMA. I think you're underestimating the original Amiga hardware.
The Atari ST with Cubase was a good option though for musicians. But MIDI ports were cheap to add to other platforms. However having them built-in did encourage the software developers, and because the software took over the system it could guarantee response times. Of course, MIDI was a small market overall.
It's a shame the initial Atari ST wasn't the STe, the hardware was greatly improved in this over the plain-jane ST / STfm.
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So, no outage, no downtime, no lost trades.
So everything worked fine even when an unforeseen issue occurred and this should be seen as a glowing endorsement of the system that is in place now?
Just as the popular newspaper iPad/iPhone/Android applications like the evening standard and metro have failed in the UK.
No. Wait. It's handy to have the full news disconnected from the web so you can read it when you are out of range, as happens a lot when you're on the tube. I'm sure that there will be enough people willing to pay the small weekly fee for this product as well.
It doesn't affect SATA ports 0 and 1 on the chipset (the new SATA3 ports), only the four SATA2 ports 2,3,4,5. It is likely that a laptop from Apple will only use the first two ports, so there shouldn't be an issue with new MacBooks or the Mac Mini.
What "sort of downloading"? 500 MB/month is 16 MB/day on average. That's bandwidth for a full day shared between upload and download. I got more by my f*cking 56k modem in a single hour in 1999, even counting only downloads.
500 MB/month is on average less than 187 bytes per second. I know there are peak times, but is their network really so suckish that this is the cap that they have to impose?
Seriously? In 2011?
Don't use a Windows Phone 7 device on T-Mobile then! ...
Wouldn't a meteor strike destroy most infrastructure, thus removing the 'reasonable conditions' for the survivors to live in?
Surely a better solution is a targeted deadly virus? One that attacks politicians, lawyers and the media?
The reality is that things aren't going to change with relation to human population, so best to work out how to feed the world and minimise poor living conditions. Most people on this website could survive in a small apartments with a single bed, a desk for a computer, and a pizza delivery slot in the wall.
McDonalds are quite clear on their website ( http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ourfood/ ) about how they make their burgers - they get cuts of beef, pack it and nothing else into a patty, and freeze it and ship it to the outlets (I hesitate to call them restaurants). 367,000 head of cattle a year, in the UK, apparently.
I've eaten enough veggie burgers to know that good brands are few and far between, and they simply don't get the texture right. The best ones are those that don't pretend to be meat and are vegetables in a casing/breadcrumbs. Vegetarian sausages don't deserve the name 'sausage', they're an insult to the concept, taste-wise, texture-wise, everything-wise. A sausage-shaped falafel would be better in most cases.
If you're a vegetarian, then eat vegetables and quit with the 'kind of similar to meat' products. If you can't do that, then learn to, or give up.
I love vegetables, grains and beans, but I also like meat - free range organic meat primarily. I'd rather eat a smaller amount of good tasting meat than a large amount of tasteless barn or cage-reared animal.
I guess with de-legging and de-shelling,they wouldn't look so bad, especially if they go a nice colour when cooked. Make it look like a shrimp, prawn, king prawn, langoustine or crayfish, and you might get some sales. Oh, and don't market it as 'Cockroach Chunks'.
I don't think I'll be queuing up for crispy fried mealworms on toast anytime soon though.
I'm sure that tinned crab meat isn't the best experience (compared to fresh crab from a ... crab!), however crab is a slightly acquired taste. Also Vietnamese soft shelled crabs - they're good.
If only Microsoft offered a software development kit that most Windows developers used - they could incorporate ARM builds into it so that current software would be available for ARM in time for the release. They could even allow applications to have both ARM and x86 variants within the same application binary, as Apple do with Mac OS X software. Older applications that won't get recompiled will surely perform well enough under software emulation.
Sadly, as Microsoft don't offer any form of SDK or compilers or anything of the sort, this Windows on ARM thing is doomed to failure. Right now they're writing the bits for Windows 8 for ARM by hand, flicking switches and pressing a button to store that instruction into memory.
Because the film is distorted, and includes both interlaced frames in each image. So you scan it at a high resolution first (2k lines, for example).
So they need to de-distort. And as you will remember from your old CRT monitors and TVs, the image distorts according to the image displayed, so each frame needs to be de-distorted individually.
Then de-interlace. Then extract the information required. Then re-construct.
I think you mean Picture Always Lousy.
You used to need a three foot deep desk because of having a two foot deep monitor - now that desk can be two foot deep (or less! Shaped curved-front desks have a fatter area for the monitor and phone (if you get a phone these days)). You don't need a bookcase of folders and books, so that saves a foot or so as well.
I work in a shared office without cubicles, right now there's three people in an 18' by 12' space I guess, so we've got 72 sq ft each (and a window each). There were four people before, it's not cramped though because our needs have changed.
But it doesn't sort out the noise and privacy issues, so we all run off into a meeting room when we get a phone call. Interruptions do affect getting into the 'zone' too, so productivity does go down.
Working from home today though, hurrah. Not that I've done much.
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Far more accurate. Polar view, by the way, if it wasn't obvious.
There will always be enough men that have had enough of the incessant nagging who decide that moving to the middle of nowhere and poking ice cores for a living is a major improvement in their situation.
There are loads of FPGAs on the market with integrated PowerPC cores. There are probably FPGAs on the market with integrated ARM cores (ah yes, a post already links to one such creation). This is a dual-die package with a 60k gate FPGA. It's a nice option on the market, but it's hardly unique. The cost will be a major issue as well, although so far the prices look reasonable. But you can't put much into 60,000 gates (although maybe they're counted different from Xilinx or Spartan gates), certainly not a Minimig AGA core.
So enjoy your 600MHz Atom + FPGA. Or 1GHz. Or 1.3GHz. WIth enough FPGA to implement a C64. Yeah, I know that in industry it will be used for different purposes, but will that industry care about x86 compatibility ... or continue using the existing PowerPC and ARM options?
The honest people might have to take the exam again, but they revised and thus can take the exam again without too many problems.
The cheaters don't have the time to revise fully for the exam, so they will get worse marks.
The honest people win because their grades come out higher on the results curve.
HTML email isn't as bad as all that, just how Microsoft did it and how some people abuse it.
And then how Microsoft use the Word renderer in Outlook to view HTML emails after all that...
Personally I would have gone with structured emails, with quoted areas explicitly tagged, etc. But that would have inevitably used XML...
Two years ago I bought a HP 2133 cheaply that came with Linux pre-installed.
It runs pretty nicely with Ubuntu 10.10. Note that because the netbook is VIA based (and therefore representative of the worst performance possible in a netbook) the netbook interface doesn't work (because it requires hardware graphics acceleration, and getting the VIA drivers working again is something I'd rather avoid again).
The Ubuntu font is very nice though. Therefore I'd say it's a nice OS to use on a netbook.
Anyone here thinking of getting a netbook this season would do well to wait for AMD Ontario/Zacate based netbooks for a significant boost over Atom.
It's probably what temperatures the CPU will operate at, not that it will suddenly break when it is colder.
I guess that if your car is garaged, the garage won't be as cold as the outside world, so the car will start, and thus there will be heat for the ECU to operate. Or your car will have an engine-heater that you run first.
It's an e200z6 series PowerPC core from Freescale, with on-die 3MB flash and 128KB SRAM.
Maybe they should do the vertical city part on land first? It sounds like it would be useful there too, no need for the floating aspect just yet!
Yeah, it's a floating arcology. The pictures look good though, like 1960s SciFi book covers.
I say - let this company research this problem, and see what they come up with. I'm sure it will be different, or be compromised, or be a lot smaller, or without a fricking giant tower in the middle that will be vulnerable to high winds. I'm sure they've got lots of physicists and engineers working on it.
The tower is 500m diameter. That's nearly 200,000 square metres of space. A family can live in 100 square metres comfortably (~1000 square foot) although those of you with 2000sqft mansions in the US might not think so. Even if the tower was eradicated and there was a 2D living space, that's 2000 families, or around 5000 people, although you might want some roads and paths and space inbetween dwellings. Even a collection of low-rise flats would house vastly more people.
I do have to also say that the Atari ST was nicely styled, far better than the Amiga with it's Commodore-inspired aesthetics. They would have made a football look like a beigey-cream brick if called to design one.
Of course the Amiga could change the colour every few pixels as well, using the Copper. A variant of this method was called SPAC (super pre-adjusted color) and it was actually used in games (e.g., Universe), not just for static screens. Flickering colours to generate intermediate colours is also a common mechanism on many older computers for static screens.
Why is it that all the Atari ST music I have ever heard is so primitive compared to the Amiga versions when it has this amazing Shifter chip? The Amiga used software mixing as well - OctaMED was one such tracker program. The Amiga audio chip supported sampled audio - not at 128kHz however, but it supported playback of different sample rates at the same time - and full DMA. I think you're underestimating the original Amiga hardware.
The Atari ST with Cubase was a good option though for musicians. But MIDI ports were cheap to add to other platforms. However having them built-in did encourage the software developers, and because the software took over the system it could guarantee response times. Of course, MIDI was a small market overall.
It's a shame the initial Atari ST wasn't the STe, the hardware was greatly improved in this over the plain-jane ST / STfm.