look, buster, for less than double that $80 Apple will sell you OSX 10.1.1 AND OS 9.2.1. Yeah, I'm sure you get 2000+ apps, but I understand there are something like 15000 apps available for the MacOS. Linux is a hobbyists OS - face it.
WTF the fuck is that supposed to be? 5.1 is 5 channels plus 100Hz right? So, is 10.2 10 channels plus 200HZ or is someone just escalating numbers to impress teenagers again? This is the dumbest crap I've ever heard of.
...is really VERY cool. You should see the way in which ITN 'reported' this story on their Evening News show. The put it in the the HILARIOUS '...and finally' slot - basically treating the whole thing as a joke. The two (massively overpaid) presenters - no, they're NOT journalists - were laughing when they went back to the studio. W A N K E R S.
ridiculous! surely no-one is proposing TANKS of LIQUID hydrogen? I thought we were in the era of the fuel cell? FWIW I reckon the WTC would have fared better against the Hydro-plane. Better 500 frozen than 5000 burned and crushed.
how tired - 2 years ago a 500Mhz G3 was 30% faster than a 500Mhz PIII (100Mhz RAM). As a general rule, we find a 733Mhz G4 to be approximate to a 1200Mhz Athlon. And approximate is the best you can ever do with this shit, although it is is probably true that the fastest x86 chip around is faster than the best G4 for most tasks. This situation MAY change with the G5 - the G4 has been a production nightmare. Doesn't make much of a difference to the fact that Apple make top-class computers for real world tasks. That's why people buy them you know...
you point is valid, but your example wrong. There are now MANY single drives available that can breach 40MB/s. I have a small array in this machine - 2 x Fujitsu MAJs (10K U160) on an ATTO UL3D card, striped. Performance is sustained read of 84MB/s, write of 67MB/s. Cache peaks are over 240MB/s. Lovely and quiet too! We also have IBM Ultrastars that'll beat 44MB/s sustained.
eh? aircraft tend to move quite fast, so that's air in high volumes and at low temps - ideal for cooling. the same approach would be MUCH less effective at low speeds on the ground - or in a computer.
bizarrely, iMacs (like all Apple computers) come fitted with a variety of different HDs - each with it's own acoustic properties. It's strange to think that Apple go to all that effort to remove fans, and then allows the fitment of both loud and quiet HDs. It's a perfectly normal 3.5" ATA device though, so you could swap out for a more silent one if desired.
imagine the equivalent on radio - some guy whispering "your listening to WGBX Detroit" over and over again in the background. You'd probably do a "Bad Leiutentant" on your car stereo - at least I would
Oh come on! The God Makers isn't THAT bad - certainly not at the EE "Doc" Smith level.... And be fair, if you consider Dune as a trilogy (I think it works best like that), then it's a significant body of work by itself - those books are HUGE. Asimov may have written 300+, but they're so short you can polish them off in a lunchtime - that's why there are so MANY Foundation and Galactic Empire books. Never enjoyed Heinlein as much as Asimov myself, but his talent is obvious nontheless. A writer who I have enjoyed, and yet who seems to have disappeared from the annals of SF was Andrew M Stephenson, autor of "Nightwatch" and "The Wall of Years". Good stuff if you can find it. The City and the Stars is a lovely book, but why did Clarke write it so many times? Who's willing to bet that Clarke's "Fountains of Paradise" space elevator doesn't come to pass?
sure, some of his work is "hard" the man had a fairly serious drug problem, was treated like shit by his publishers and lived during a cold-war that clearly scared the guy half to death. Huxley, on the other hand was a dandy and socialite, highly regarded not just by his peers, but by the literary establishment in London. HIS work is like a moderately absorbing, drunken after-dinner conversation.
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in that case you should be a Mac user
Not quite, the idea was to build a computer that REAL PEOPLE could use. People with lives and stuff.
Is your real name Dr Frankenstein by any chance? You HAVE created a monster, who wants to bet that an iMac is faster? Anyone?
There's also a small outfit called IMB or something that has some PPC gear...
look, buster, for less than double that $80 Apple will sell you OSX 10.1.1 AND OS 9.2.1. Yeah, I'm sure you get 2000+ apps, but I understand there are something like 15000 apps available for the MacOS. Linux is a hobbyists OS - face it.
WHAT? how the FUCK did you find out about Project X? are you a spy?
yes AND no - your "sub channel" has a bandwidth of 100Hz (hence ".1"). I ALSO KNOW A CRACKING OWL SANCTUARY.
WTF the fuck is that supposed to be? 5.1 is 5 channels plus 100Hz right? So, is 10.2 10 channels plus 200HZ or is someone just escalating numbers to impress teenagers again? This is the dumbest crap I've ever heard of.
exactly WHAT interest do NASA have in a B R I T I S H project?
...is really VERY cool. You should see the way in which ITN 'reported' this story on their Evening News show. The put it in the the HILARIOUS '...and finally' slot - basically treating the whole thing as a joke. The two (massively overpaid) presenters - no, they're NOT journalists - were laughing when they went back to the studio. W A N K E R S.
ridiculous! surely no-one is proposing TANKS of LIQUID hydrogen? I thought we were in the era of the fuel cell? FWIW I reckon the WTC would have fared better against the Hydro-plane. Better 500 frozen than 5000 burned and crushed.
why the fuck would a render farm box need a GF3? much more sensible to make it headless. You clearly have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
how tired - 2 years ago a 500Mhz G3 was 30% faster than a 500Mhz PIII (100Mhz RAM). As a general rule, we find a 733Mhz G4 to be approximate to a 1200Mhz Athlon. And approximate is the best you can ever do with this shit, although it is is probably true that the fastest x86 chip around is faster than the best G4 for most tasks. This situation MAY change with the G5 - the G4 has been a production nightmare. Doesn't make much of a difference to the fact that Apple make top-class computers for real world tasks. That's why people buy them you know...
your .sig makes ABSOLUTELY no sense - what point were you attempting to make with it again?
Panasonic Toughbook perhaps?
you point is valid, but your example wrong. There are now MANY single drives available that can breach 40MB/s. I have a small array in this machine - 2 x Fujitsu MAJs (10K U160) on an ATTO UL3D card, striped. Performance is sustained read of 84MB/s, write of 67MB/s. Cache peaks are over 240MB/s. Lovely and quiet too! We also have IBM Ultrastars that'll beat 44MB/s sustained.
or Paradroid 90! The ULTIMATE - for me - Gribbly's Day Out - that game took me p l a c e s !
Informative? well, yes - but utterly factually incorrect. Idiot poster + idiot moderation is a VERY bad combination.
I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT! It's the missing link!
eh? aircraft tend to move quite fast, so that's air in high volumes and at low temps - ideal for cooling. the same approach would be MUCH less effective at low speeds on the ground - or in a computer.
bizarrely, iMacs (like all Apple computers) come fitted with a variety of different HDs - each with it's own acoustic properties. It's strange to think that Apple go to all that effort to remove fans, and then allows the fitment of both loud and quiet HDs. It's a perfectly normal 3.5" ATA device though, so you could swap out for a more silent one if desired.
imagine the equivalent on radio - some guy whispering "your listening to WGBX Detroit" over and over again in the background. You'd probably do a "Bad Leiutentant" on your car stereo - at least I would
Oh come on! The God Makers isn't THAT bad - certainly not at the EE "Doc" Smith level.... And be fair, if you consider Dune as a trilogy (I think it works best like that), then it's a significant body of work by itself - those books are HUGE. Asimov may have written 300+, but they're so short you can polish them off in a lunchtime - that's why there are so MANY Foundation and Galactic Empire books. Never enjoyed Heinlein as much as Asimov myself, but his talent is obvious nontheless. A writer who I have enjoyed, and yet who seems to have disappeared from the annals of SF was Andrew M Stephenson, autor of "Nightwatch" and "The Wall of Years". Good stuff if you can find it. The City and the Stars is a lovely book, but why did Clarke write it so many times? Who's willing to bet that Clarke's "Fountains of Paradise" space elevator doesn't come to pass?
sure, some of his work is "hard" the man had a fairly serious drug problem, was treated like shit by his publishers and lived during a cold-war that clearly scared the guy half to death. Huxley, on the other hand was a dandy and socialite, highly regarded not just by his peers, but by the literary establishment in London. HIS work is like a moderately absorbing, drunken after-dinner conversation.
No, you're not the only one. The only thng Gibson ever invented was his dreadful sub-genre. Awful writer, worst kind of pulp.