I can only find informal evidence at the moment, but Longhorn will supposedly have very steep graphics card minimum requirements: AGP 8x or PCI Express, 64MB (128MB recommended).
I found the specs mentioned here but they match what I recall reading in the press back when those stupid wafting windows were being shown off.
Hmm... OS X can do much of that stuff today with minimum requirements of AGP 4x and 16MB. Yeah, it's not terribly smooth, but it works, dammit.
would someone, for the love of god, tell them that pastels are really bad for eys strain over significant time intervals (or with that ugly shit, 10 seconds)? Please, ditch the pastels. I'm NOT a machead, but Apple's done a good job of picking colors with slightly lower saturation levels, with the result being a very pleasing interface. WinXP (and evidently this crap) make me want to slit my wrists.
Pastels are low-saturation colors! From m-w.com, pastels are "any of various pale or light colors". The colors that XP uses by default, the jarring orange, bright red, and oh-so green... those are saturated. And they're the ones that strain your eyes, draw attention to themselves, etc. These sorts of things are discussed thoroughly in psychology literature.
I'm not saying this new color scheme is great or anything, but anything's better than XP's default color scheme.
Incidently, Apple uses some very saturated colors in its Aqua interface, but it uses them fairly sparingly, to draw attention to useful, important widgets like the scroll bar, the OK button, etc., and not the the entire window border, or the whole task bar. Ack.
Re:beware the differences between the 1.6 & th
on
G5s Start Shipping
·
· Score: 1
Yes, the 1.6GHz model is significantly less advanced than the others. I read an intial review/reaction article way-back-when in which the author strongly recommended getting at least the 1.8GHz model. Can't remember the source, sorry...
It's not so odd that it'll be in Tucson. U of A has a premier Planetary Sciences program which includes the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory. In an alternate universe where I tried a bit harder, I was admitted to their graduate program and am now involved with the Phoenix Project.:^p
Ohhh, I get it: it's "odd" that the *Phoenix* Project will be in Tucson and not *Phoenix.*
No, they mean all the known and numbered asteroids in our solar system. There's around 50,000 of them, and most of them are (relatively) tiny.
I don't think they've found asteroids (or any other small objects) outside of our solar system -- they're just too small to detect. We can't even detect Earth-sized objects yet (but we'll see them soon, hopefully).
Duh, didn't you know that global warming was invented by Democrats so they could have an excuse to raise taxes?;)
Honestly, I saw some congressman or senator say that at a press conference several years ago (I was young, and don't remember much more than that). Uh-oh, off-topic... oh well.
*Phew* - I was able to rescue this email message from the Eudora Trash. I've become habituated to throwing away anything that shows up from "Yahoo! Delivers" and the sender "Yahoo! Mail" looks pretty similar in a glance.
I wish they wouldn't use such over-formatted farking HTML email. I had to make the damn message about 3 inches wide (1024 @ 15") to make the paragraphs line up. They'd be worth dumping if I didn't have so much pointing at my Yahoo address. Sigh... trapped!
Slashdot Mirror
I found the specs mentioned here but they match what I recall reading in the press back when those stupid wafting windows were being shown off.
Hmm... OS X can do much of that stuff today with minimum requirements of AGP 4x and 16MB. Yeah, it's not terribly smooth, but it works, dammit.
Pastels are low-saturation colors! From m-w.com, pastels are "any of various pale or light colors". The colors that XP uses by default, the jarring orange, bright red, and oh-so green... those are saturated. And they're the ones that strain your eyes, draw attention to themselves, etc. These sorts of things are discussed thoroughly in psychology literature.
I'm not saying this new color scheme is great or anything, but anything's better than XP's default color scheme.
Incidently, Apple uses some very saturated colors in its Aqua interface, but it uses them fairly sparingly, to draw attention to useful, important widgets like the scroll bar, the OK button, etc., and not the the entire window border, or the whole task bar. Ack.
Yes, the 1.6GHz model is significantly less advanced than the others. I read an intial review/reaction article way-back-when in which the author strongly recommended getting at least the 1.8GHz model. Can't remember the source, sorry...
Yes, but slashcode also needs to allow users to correct their mistakes.
It's not so odd that it'll be in Tucson. U of A has a premier Planetary Sciences program which includes the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory. In an alternate universe where I tried a bit harder, I was admitted to their graduate program and am now involved with the Phoenix Project. :^p
Ohhh, I get it: it's "odd" that the *Phoenix* Project will be in Tucson and not *Phoenix.*
I don't know... I could swear I heard somewhere that in Britain, "billion" could / used to mean "one million million."
Don't forget that in Britain (and many other countries) bills of different values have differnt physical sizes.
No, they mean all the known and numbered asteroids in our solar system. There's around 50,000 of them, and most of them are (relatively) tiny.
I don't think they've found asteroids (or any other small objects) outside of our solar system -- they're just too small to detect. We can't even detect Earth-sized objects yet (but we'll see them soon, hopefully).
Honestly, I saw some congressman or senator say that at a press conference several years ago (I was young, and don't remember much more than that). Uh-oh, off-topic... oh well.
Yes, yes! A million times yes!
Use of the backwards, *ahem* Imperial/Conventional system in scientific applications can bite my shiny metal ass!
*Phew* - I was able to rescue this email message from the Eudora Trash. I've become habituated to throwing away anything that shows up from "Yahoo! Delivers" and the sender "Yahoo! Mail" looks pretty similar in a glance.
I wish they wouldn't use such over-formatted farking HTML email. I had to make the damn message about 3 inches wide (1024 @ 15") to make the paragraphs line up. They'd be worth dumping if I didn't have so much pointing at my Yahoo address. Sigh... trapped!