You know, back in 2004 when ADSL was just taking off in New Zealand, a 10GB/month cap was a top-shelf offering, only taken up by users willing to pay a premium.
In high-speed enlightened connected 2009 the high-end cap is now... 10GB/month.
Be careful who you say that around - there's plenty of new age nutters who believe humans are tied by some invisible cord to the planet and any space-related illness must be caused by spiritual separation from Mother Earth.
As someone else has pointed out here, "OK" is a perfectly valid verb, synonymous with "Yes, I Authorise this action" but considerably less wordy and (and this is an important point) very easy to rapidly distinguish from the alternative choices.
Is there a particular HCI study that makes a legitimate case against "OK". Perhaps something from http://www.ok-cancel.com/?
Perhaps you can explain to the GP how he can go about casting off the shackles of oppressive full-time employment to step up to the pinnacle of glorious on-toppedness, while still managing to feed his family.
But please, keep it brief so us slaves have time to read it.
Enjoying having XP favor Core0 heavily with that new 4core cpu you'll get with your $500 comp in 2 years, I haven't seen this phenomenon, anyone else care to comment?
not to mention that you need XP64 to even use a quadcore.. That's just wrong. XP 32 will happily run on four cores. Perhaps you're confusing Microsoft's artificial 2 processor limit for Windows XP?
Second, rendering 2 viewpoints puts far more load on the GPU than rendering just one. You need the fastest available single GPU nvidia graphics card in order to play recent games.
Only twice the processing load at worst. Simply dropping the resolution from 1600x1200 to 1024x768 will more than compensate for any fill-rate issues, and geometry issues are at least in part still tied to this. As for memory, you'd still only need to store your textures once, and the extra screen buffers and geometry caches for stereo rendering shouldn't be all that hungry.
So... by your logic there's no point designing computer products for doctors, architects, etc because they happen to be a smaller market than teen gamers? I'm very, very glad you don't work in marketing or product design.......
You don't work in marketing or product design, do you?
It sounds like this kind of equipment really needs something like 3 Laws built in - "A machine shall not provide more than X dosage for Y period of time". But not intentionally flawed like Asimov's portrayal.
After all the logic, interface programming, presets, etc, the machine simply compares the requested dose with its permitted maximums and bails if it's outside these parameters. This would be implemented on a separate chip and impossible to change.
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I was with you all the way up to "Edison Bulbs are superior"...
Hmm, do you think perhaps the wrong lizard got in?
You know, back in 2004 when ADSL was just taking off in New Zealand, a 10GB/month cap was a top-shelf offering, only taken up by users willing to pay a premium.
In high-speed enlightened connected 2009 the high-end cap is now... 10GB/month.
*weeps quietly into teacup*
I think that's the working name for the next OS X release. You know, once they run out of big cat names...
Be careful who you say that around - there's plenty of new age nutters who believe humans are tied by some invisible cord to the planet and any space-related illness must be caused by spiritual separation from Mother Earth.
Though that's not always the case. The 6.06 release was originally meant to be 6.04.
Of course that's LTS so...
What is he, like 12 or something?
64-bit? Isn't that some kind of Linux thing?
Seriously, it's like developers (not just driver writers) have an aversion for going anywhere near 64-bit hardware.
Cool. Can you point me to the apt repo for 10.4?
thanks
I'm guessing you were last in a thrift store some time in 1999.
I don't get it.
As someone else has pointed out here, "OK" is a perfectly valid verb, synonymous with "Yes, I Authorise this action" but considerably less wordy and (and this is an important point) very easy to rapidly distinguish from the alternative choices.
Is there a particular HCI study that makes a legitimate case against "OK". Perhaps something from http://www.ok-cancel.com/?
Problems come up more often when going the other way.
The government has bailed out homeowners. It's bailed out big businesses. Why can't it also help students?
You just answered your own question.
Oh good.
Perhaps you can explain to the GP how he can go about casting off the shackles of oppressive full-time employment to step up to the pinnacle of glorious on-toppedness, while still managing to feed his family.
But please, keep it brief so us slaves have time to read it.
I don't know, what has the local corner dairy ever done for you for free?
Unless you're joined to an AD domain, or using 64-bit XP. Then the rules change again.
sudo apt-get install html2text
Enjoying having XP favor Core0 heavily with that new 4core cpu you'll get with your $500 comp in 2 years,
I haven't seen this phenomenon, anyone else care to comment?
not to mention that you need XP64 to even use a quadcore..
That's just wrong. XP 32 will happily run on four cores. Perhaps you're confusing Microsoft's artificial 2 processor limit for Windows XP?
and XP64 is buugggyy
No argument here.
You, sir, deserve a +5, funny. Thanks, I needed that.
(just in case anyone is still in the dark, I was thinking of "Wake me up when September ends")
Second, rendering 2 viewpoints puts far more load on the GPU than rendering just one. You need the fastest available single GPU nvidia graphics card in order to play recent games.
Only twice the processing load at worst. Simply dropping the resolution from 1600x1200 to 1024x768 will more than compensate for any fill-rate issues, and geometry issues are at least in part still tied to this. As for memory, you'd still only need to store your textures once, and the extra screen buffers and geometry caches for stereo rendering shouldn't be all that hungry.
So... by your logic there's no point designing computer products for doctors, architects, etc because they happen to be a smaller market than teen gamers? I'm very, very glad you don't work in marketing or product design. ... ...
You don't work in marketing or product design, do you?
I think that he has a valid point though, he just got one part wrong - the /hardware/ should prevent this. Or firmware. See my 3 Laws post above.
Do you think he deliberately spread lies? Using 'domain' instead of 'host' was an honest mistake. Let it go.
Or do you have a condition that prevents you from doing so? If so, I apologize unreservedly and wish you well on your path to recovery.
It's not uncommon to use "dub dub dub", or for those who want to avoid sounding like boy scouts, some people still regularly use "world wide web".
It sounds like this kind of equipment really needs something like 3 Laws built in - "A machine shall not provide more than X dosage for Y period of time". But not intentionally flawed like Asimov's portrayal.
After all the logic, interface programming, presets, etc, the machine simply compares the requested dose with its permitted maximums and bails if it's outside these parameters. This would be implemented on a separate chip and impossible to change.