Are you sure the movie companies agree with that? I seem to remember Fox UK recommending that UK customers bought R1 Simpsons boxed sets not that long ago...
Give it a rest! At the same clock speed* the PPC 970 uses L E S S power than an MPC 7445. It also supports some lovely power saving modes and rapid clock speed scaling that the G4 doesn't. That 90W figure is for T W O 2Ghz 970s.
Not true actually, the few benchmarks done by REAL USERS (ie owners) so far on the 1.6Ghz machine show it to be significantly slower than the dual 1.42Ghz G4 on some important Altivec benchmarks. The plain fact is that the Altivec implementation on the MPC 7455 is years ahead of that on the PPC 970. Moto know it, Apple know it and IBM know it. Users will learn it.
The 970 still kicks ares on integer and - especially - floating point 'marks though...
My girlfriend spends far more time playing games than I do. She plays Scrabble and Bejeweled on her Palm several times every day. Yet I'm the one who BUYS the games for my PS2, she plays some of them, too.
When I lived in Sutton, I cycled to work in central London. Despite having FOUR bikes stolen over the course of 18months, it still beat the train/tube.
When I lived in Crouch End, I used the bus and tube and it was (an expensive) nightmare. I would frequently turn up at Finsbury Park to find the station CLOSED due to over crowding - and it would stay like that for up to 30 mins as a crowd of THOUSANDS built up outside.
When I lived in Fitzrovia, I walked.
Now that I live in Amersham, I drive. For two of us, the marginal cost of doing so is just over ONE QUARTER that of taking the train, and it takes the same amount of time (though driving is MUCH quicker outside commuter hours).
My point is that people will always tend towards using the most rational FORM of transport for the conditions that they find themselves presented with. For the vast majority of people in the UK, the best choice is to use a private car, and that looks likely to stay the same in the absence of a major social upheaval.
Asking whether a car that CAN'T do 150mph is safe at 150mph is a moot point, don't you think?
The fact is that EVERY DAY there are people chipping up and down German autobahns at 130mph, yet they are not considered lunatics by the average German man in the street. If you do the same in Britain or the USA you're treated like a dangerous criminal, yet the conditions of the road and the vehicles on it are likely very similar.
Where do speed limits come from? How can it possibly be reasonable that they stay the same over the course of decades? How is it that KNOWN accident blackspots will get a speed camera, but the speed limit left unchanged? Why is it that long stretches of well surfaced motorway are limited at 70mph when conditions would allow up to twice that speed without a significant increase in the risks to the users of that road? Perhaps cars and roads are such an emotive issue that there's no chance of ever having a sensible debate about them, it certainly seems to me - as a British motorist - that car owners and drivers (ie most of us) are fair game for taking the blame for any and all of our social ills, and expected to pick up the tab for them, too.
Yes, I do believe that a more efficient road system is a safer road system, I also believe that environmental factors have a huge role in safety. As to having crashes - I've been driven into four times over the last year. Two of those were rear enders due to traffic jam, and two were people who don't know what mirrors are for. As to the mortality rate on British roads, it's relatively low by international standards, but I think comparisons to air traffic are pretty pointless. After all, we all understand from an early age the dangers inherent in private car use, and are obliged to do as much as we can to ensure our own safety and that of others. That so many of us take that responsibility too lightly is a shame, but fining people who drive in bus lanes isn't going to help.
That doesn't really make any sense, does it? Why is 90mph inherently any less safe than 60mph? The fact is, it isn't - 150mph is perfectly safe UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS. Do YOU think that every road with a 70mph limit is safe at that speed under ALL conditions? I don't, yet that what the current rules specify.
For the record, I drive my four seat car with two of us on board, though I do drive it alone outside of the daily commute. You sound rather to me like a typical public transport refusnik - deliberately blind to the fact that private transport is FAR more important in our society than public, and therefore deserving of attention in preference.
The funny thing is, I don't want to commute to work by car or any other means. I used to live less than 10mins walk from my workplace in central London, but was pretty much forced out due to the financial impossibility of living in Fitzrovia in the long term.
Well, you've just shot yourself in the foot. I'd be quite happy to have a speed limit WARNING system in my car, even better if it were backed up by a variable speed limit system like the M25 has - but I'm a (fairly) responsible, fully paid up and accountable motorist. I'm not your problem NOW, and I won't be in the future whether there's a nanny-chip or not.
My remedy to traffic problems would go like this:
1) FINISH THE FUCKING ROAD SYSTEM! Christ on a bike it's a fucking shambles! Every day I drive down the A40 in and out of London. Three lanes all the way EXCEPT for the two lane bridge that has been there - due for widening - for nearly FORTY YEARS. Finish the M23/A23. Finish the M4. Finish the A406. There are HUNDREDS of partially built major roads all over the country, and it's time they were finished so we can at least see if the original strategy had any merit.
2) Impose a separate (and punitive) testing and regulation system for private vehicles of over 2000Kg. Make School bus use COMPULSORY where applicable.
3) Toll new road projects to get them out of the meddling hands of government, and get blighted properties PROPERLY compensated as part of the road building business plan.
4) Enforce strict Diesel particulate limits in cities - STRONGLY encourage the use of hybrid / zero emission vehicles by public transport providers.
These four measures are really just the start of a realistic approach to road transport in the UK, with a ridiculous 4% of total journeys made by rail these days, it's even arguable that the whole rail system be shut down with the main and branch lines turned into roads.
"Why do kids buy Pokeman cards? Okay? To what purpose? Who cares?"
It's a GAME. It has a point. Your commodity computer has NO POINT, none. People want notebooks. Smaller, thinner, lighter, tougher, faster, cheaper, longer lasting NOTEBOOKS. People don't want a tray if computing ice cubes. If you don't have an application for your dream hardware, no-one is gonna buy it. No-one buy Tamagotchi or Furbies anymore, do they?
1) You're gonna ruin all the food in the freezer. 2) WHY would people buy these things again? 3) you seem far more concerned with the number of blue LEDs that you might be able tohave twinkling than to any purpose WHATSOEVER for these computers. 4) What on Earth are you babbling about?
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We should smack it anyway for the practice!
+2 Excellent!
No, it's a lot of MASS
About the same mass as one fat American, or a European car.
Are you sure the movie companies agree with that? I seem to remember Fox UK recommending that UK customers bought R1 Simpsons boxed sets not that long ago...
Hungary's so fucking great that my brother's Hungarian girlfriend is living illegally in London.
Why not just buy the DVDs? The maker of 'Curb your Enthusiasm' are clearly making something that you value.
Why is theft acceptable these days?
VLC is compromised in many areas, though it has its uses.
you aced it
discussion over
So does everywhere else.
Where did you get the idea that Harriers have a good safety record? You'll be telling me that helicopters are safer than trains next...
Your finance or your furnace?
What on Earth is wrong with you two?
She's absolutely gorgeous.
shouldn't that be small FRY?
Give it a rest! At the same clock speed* the PPC 970 uses L E S S power than an MPC 7445. It also supports some lovely power saving modes and rapid clock speed scaling that the G4 doesn't. That 90W figure is for T W O 2Ghz 970s.
...but less useful for a Photoshop user.
Not true actually, the few benchmarks done by REAL USERS (ie owners) so far on the 1.6Ghz machine show it to be significantly slower than the dual 1.42Ghz G4 on some important Altivec benchmarks. The plain fact is that the Altivec implementation on the MPC 7455 is years ahead of that on the PPC 970. Moto know it, Apple know it and IBM know it. Users will learn it.
The 970 still kicks ares on integer and - especially - floating point 'marks though...
My girlfriend spends far more time playing games than I do. She plays Scrabble and Bejeweled on her Palm several times every day. Yet I'm the one who BUYS the games for my PS2, she plays some of them, too.
Amen to that.
When I lived in Sutton, I cycled to work in central London. Despite having FOUR bikes stolen over the course of 18months, it still beat the train/tube.
When I lived in Crouch End, I used the bus and tube and it was (an expensive) nightmare. I would frequently turn up at Finsbury Park to find the station CLOSED due to over crowding - and it would stay like that for up to 30 mins as a crowd of THOUSANDS built up outside.
When I lived in Fitzrovia, I walked.
Now that I live in Amersham, I drive. For two of us, the marginal cost of doing so is just over ONE QUARTER that of taking the train, and it takes the same amount of time (though driving is MUCH quicker outside commuter hours).
My point is that people will always tend towards using the most rational FORM of transport for the conditions that they find themselves presented with. For the vast majority of people in the UK, the best choice is to use a private car, and that looks likely to stay the same in the absence of a major social upheaval.
Asking whether a car that CAN'T do 150mph is safe at 150mph is a moot point, don't you think?
The fact is that EVERY DAY there are people chipping up and down German autobahns at 130mph, yet they are not considered lunatics by the average German man in the street. If you do the same in Britain or the USA you're treated like a dangerous criminal, yet the conditions of the road and the vehicles on it are likely very similar.
Where do speed limits come from? How can it possibly be reasonable that they stay the same over the course of decades? How is it that KNOWN accident blackspots will get a speed camera, but the speed limit left unchanged? Why is it that long stretches of well surfaced motorway are limited at 70mph when conditions would allow up to twice that speed without a significant increase in the risks to the users of that road? Perhaps cars and roads are such an emotive issue that there's no chance of ever having a sensible debate about them, it certainly seems to me - as a British motorist - that car owners and drivers (ie most of us) are fair game for taking the blame for any and all of our social ills, and expected to pick up the tab for them, too.
Yes, I do believe that a more efficient road system is a safer road system, I also believe that environmental factors have a huge role in safety. As to having crashes - I've been driven into four times over the last year. Two of those were rear enders due to traffic jam, and two were people who don't know what mirrors are for. As to the mortality rate on British roads, it's relatively low by international standards, but I think comparisons to air traffic are pretty pointless. After all, we all understand from an early age the dangers inherent in private car use, and are obliged to do as much as we can to ensure our own safety and that of others. That so many of us take that responsibility too lightly is a shame, but fining people who drive in bus lanes isn't going to help.
That doesn't really make any sense, does it? Why is 90mph inherently any less safe than 60mph? The fact is, it isn't - 150mph is perfectly safe UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS. Do YOU think that every road with a 70mph limit is safe at that speed under ALL conditions? I don't, yet that what the current rules specify.
For the record, I drive my four seat car with two of us on board, though I do drive it alone outside of the daily commute. You sound rather to me like a typical public transport refusnik - deliberately blind to the fact that private transport is FAR more important in our society than public, and therefore deserving of attention in preference.
The funny thing is, I don't want to commute to work by car or any other means. I used to live less than 10mins walk from my workplace in central London, but was pretty much forced out due to the financial impossibility of living in Fitzrovia in the long term.
Well, you've just shot yourself in the foot. I'd be quite happy to have a speed limit WARNING system in my car, even better if it were backed up by a variable speed limit system like the M25 has - but I'm a (fairly) responsible, fully paid up and accountable motorist. I'm not your problem NOW, and I won't be in the future whether there's a nanny-chip or not.
My remedy to traffic problems would go like this:
1) FINISH THE FUCKING ROAD SYSTEM! Christ on a bike it's a fucking shambles! Every day I drive down the A40 in and out of London. Three lanes all the way EXCEPT for the two lane bridge that has been there - due for widening - for nearly FORTY YEARS. Finish the M23/A23. Finish the M4. Finish the A406. There are HUNDREDS of partially built major roads all over the country, and it's time they were finished so we can at least see if the original strategy had any merit.
2) Impose a separate (and punitive) testing and regulation system for private vehicles of over 2000Kg. Make School bus use COMPULSORY where applicable.
3) Toll new road projects to get them out of the meddling hands of government, and get blighted properties PROPERLY compensated as part of the road building business plan.
4) Enforce strict Diesel particulate limits in cities - STRONGLY encourage the use of hybrid / zero emission vehicles by public transport providers.
These four measures are really just the start of a realistic approach to road transport in the UK, with a ridiculous 4% of total journeys made by rail these days, it's even arguable that the whole rail system be shut down with the main and branch lines turned into roads.
'warm' usually describes a slightly rolled off treble response. 'Bright' or 'hard' would be the opposite subjective statement.
"Why do kids buy Pokeman cards? Okay? To what purpose? Who cares?"
It's a GAME. It has a point. Your commodity computer has NO POINT, none. People want notebooks. Smaller, thinner, lighter, tougher, faster, cheaper, longer lasting NOTEBOOKS. People don't want a tray if computing ice cubes. If you don't have an application for your dream hardware, no-one is gonna buy it. No-one buy Tamagotchi or Furbies anymore, do they?
Your plan makes no sense at all.
1) You're gonna ruin all the food in the freezer.
2) WHY would people buy these things again?
3) you seem far more concerned with the number of blue LEDs that you might be able tohave twinkling than to any purpose WHATSOEVER for these computers.
4) What on Earth are you babbling about?
"...and there ya go supercompiting for the masses."
We ALREADY HAVE supercomputers on our desks (and in our bags). And what do we do with them? Rip off DVDs and play Unreal Tournament.