Essentially for free? Is that in the same way that I got the Orange and Vodafone networks that I use in the UK for free? I pay for those FREE network everytime I make a fucking call, just like the Iraqis will...
British industry had been bought up, brain-drained and mercilessly raped for the last 50 years by the US govt. My father can hardly hold back his anger at the complete annihilation the British aircraft industry that has happened at the behest of the USA. And that's a man who spent half his life working in the USA for a formerly great engineering led American company (Xerox). What the USA does abroad in the name of American "freedom" is absolutely criminal.
you will never understand this situation until you live outside the USA - the ubiquity of GSM allows one to take service for granted, inter-network operability is another given, and roaming, calling and texting across national borders is a snap. I'm in the UK - I have two different SIMs for my Nokia 8910, both of which allowed me to use my services in Morocco when I was recently on holiday there. It goes withut saying that it's becoming nigh-on impossible to lose GSM service in most of Europe and people are therefore increasingly giving up their increasingly pointless landlines.
it doesn't really matter WHAT UMTS is (yes, we all know it's CDMA in essence) because 3G is going absolutely fucking NOWHERE. GSM is where the action is, and will be for many years to come - it's becoming more and more obvious that 3G is a total waste of everyone's money and that nothing short of a "4G" IP-based network is the logical successor. Quite why anyone would try and foist a non-GSM solution on an Arabic country is totally beyond me - only someone from America (with it's hopelessly confused wireless infrastructure) would even try.
congress-people are responsible to the electorate, not to their REAL paymasters, and it'd be nice to see that at least SOME of them understand this distinction.
well, either that or the fact that the single 933 G4 and the dual 1000 G4 have VIRTUALLY THE SAME memory bandwidth. That slow, shared memory bus cripples Apple's performance every time - except maybe on dnetc key cracking - why do you think those dualie Macs have those huge L3 caches?
well, if Apple would only give the Sahara G3 (PPC 750fx)the mobo it deserves - if you check the Sahara's specs, you'll see it can clock up to 1.2Ghz, has 512KB of L2 cache, is built on a 0.13micron process and can use a 200Mhz FSB. Apple generously runs it up to 800Mhz on a 100Mhz bus - and even then it kicks the G4 arse all over town.
40GB stills files? FUCK OFF! if you need to make files with 20 megapixels of detail and about 500 layers then you can ONLY be working for the spooks with spy satellite images. Anyway, last time I checked, Photoshop had a file size limit of a couple of GBs.
you're absolutely correct and, even though my Athlon XP 2600+ IS faster than my PowerMac G4 dual 1Ghz (on most things, anyway), I am pretty disapponted with Adobe for printing such bogus graphs. What the fuck do Adobe gain by pissing off Mac users? Look what happened when Avid tried the same shit.
I tend to agree - we do video compression in the main here and we are now 6 PC workstations (All Athlon XP) vs 3 Macs, whereas 3 years ago it was 3 PCs and 6 Macs. Still, we have are looking forward very much to new PPC 970 based Macs and have fond OSx to be a big gain for networking issues that long existed with the Macs. Apple isn't dead (and WinXP is a BIG fuck-up usability wise) and I STILL prefer to work on a Mac - and that makes a Mac for me more productive.
why do they deserve it? The coalition armies are professional forces - no one forces these schmucks to sign their lives away just so they can have the opportunity to murder at the behest of a montrously corrupt / stupendously inept oil baron.
I have more respect for a man willing to risk his life protecting his home and way of life than some bumbling hick kid armed to the teeth with outrageously expensive weaponry taking a short vacation in the sun.
"Just like Star Trek, none of the ideas he presents are so far fetched that they cannot be acheived through a little more effort and research"
Ahhh! You obviously watch a different Star Trek to the one shown on my TV. The ST that I've seen has faster than light travel in ships that seemingly never need to refuel, "Aliens" that look EXACTLY like humans save for their foreheads/hairstyles - hilarious lack of respect for basic forces like gravity and inertia and sound waves that propogate through vacuums. And don't even get me started on the Holodeck...
and what - pray tell - is the dot/AG pitch of your 17"CRT monitor? Unless some CRT manufacturing miracle has occured (or you're using a mono screen) there's NO FUCKING WAY you're gonna see those pixels. So you have to ask "what's the point?" seeing as you're also going to be limiting your refresh by running at 16x12, why not poke it down to 1280x960 and push up the refresh? your eyes'll thank you for it.
Being generous (ie no underscan) your 17" screen is around 335mm wide - 335/1600 = 0.21ish. I use a Sony F400 and it's MINIMUM AG pitch (it varies across the screen) is 0.22! Being realistic, your screen is more like 315mm wide, and the pitch of your dots more like 0.26 giving you 315/0.26 = 1211.5 H as your MAXIMUM addressable resolution.
So, whether you increase the size of your fonts or not, your peering at one hell of a soft, flickery screen there.
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"or call them baby killers when they come home. Ask any Vietnam vet how that feels."
but they DO KILL BABIES - you can see the dead and dying on Al Jazeera every day if you can live with yourself afterwards.
Essentially for free? Is that in the same way that I got the Orange and Vodafone networks that I use in the UK for free? I pay for those FREE network everytime I make a fucking call, just like the Iraqis will...
British industry had been bought up, brain-drained and mercilessly raped for the last 50 years by the US govt. My father can hardly hold back his anger at the complete annihilation the British aircraft industry that has happened at the behest of the USA. And that's a man who spent half his life working in the USA for a formerly great engineering led American company (Xerox). What the USA does abroad in the name of American "freedom" is absolutely criminal.
you will never understand this situation until you live outside the USA - the ubiquity of GSM allows one to take service for granted, inter-network operability is another given, and roaming, calling and texting across national borders is a snap. I'm in the UK - I have two different SIMs for my Nokia 8910, both of which allowed me to use my services in Morocco when I was recently on holiday there. It goes withut saying that it's becoming nigh-on impossible to lose GSM service in most of Europe and people are therefore increasingly giving up their increasingly pointless landlines.
it's idiots like you that give Americans a bad name abroad
it doesn't really matter WHAT UMTS is (yes, we all know it's CDMA in essence) because 3G is going absolutely fucking NOWHERE. GSM is where the action is, and will be for many years to come - it's becoming more and more obvious that 3G is a total waste of everyone's money and that nothing short of a "4G" IP-based network is the logical successor. Quite why anyone would try and foist a non-GSM solution on an Arabic country is totally beyond me - only someone from America (with it's hopelessly confused wireless infrastructure) would even try.
congress-people are responsible to the electorate, not to their REAL paymasters, and it'd be nice to see that at least SOME of them understand this distinction.
This fucker should be locked up for corruption.
well, either that or the fact that the single 933 G4 and the dual 1000 G4 have VIRTUALLY THE SAME memory bandwidth. That slow, shared memory bus cripples Apple's performance every time - except maybe on dnetc key cracking - why do you think those dualie Macs have those huge L3 caches?
To understand the above you first have to attend some kind of primary / elementary school.
well, if Apple would only give the Sahara G3 (PPC 750fx)the mobo it deserves - if you check the Sahara's specs, you'll see it can clock up to 1.2Ghz, has 512KB of L2 cache, is built on a 0.13micron process and can use a 200Mhz FSB. Apple generously runs it up to 800Mhz on a 100Mhz bus - and even then it kicks the G4 arse all over town.
40GB stills files? FUCK OFF! if you need to make files with 20 megapixels of detail and about 500 layers then you can ONLY be working for the spooks with spy satellite images. Anyway, last time I checked, Photoshop had a file size limit of a couple of GBs.
DEFINITELY
LOSING
thank you
they very nearly did and, erm, still are...
I feel dirty
you're absolutely correct and, even though my Athlon XP 2600+ IS faster than my PowerMac G4 dual 1Ghz (on most things, anyway), I am pretty disapponted with Adobe for printing such bogus graphs. What the fuck do Adobe gain by pissing off Mac users? Look what happened when Avid tried the same shit.
I tend to agree - we do video compression in the main here and we are now 6 PC workstations (All Athlon XP) vs 3 Macs, whereas 3 years ago it was 3 PCs and 6 Macs. Still, we have are looking forward very much to new PPC 970 based Macs and have fond OSx to be a big gain for networking issues that long existed with the Macs. Apple isn't dead (and WinXP is a BIG fuck-up usability wise) and I STILL prefer to work on a Mac - and that makes a Mac for me more productive.
Any sufficiently debased science fiction is indistinguishable from daytime soap opera, you say?
why do they deserve it? The coalition armies are professional forces - no one forces these schmucks to sign their lives away just so they can have the opportunity to murder at the behest of a montrously corrupt / stupendously inept oil baron.
I have more respect for a man willing to risk his life protecting his home and way of life than some bumbling hick kid armed to the teeth with outrageously expensive weaponry taking a short vacation in the sun.
Is English your second language?
Or third?
"Just like Star Trek, none of the ideas he presents are so far fetched that they cannot be acheived through a little more effort and research"
Ahhh! You obviously watch a different Star Trek to the one shown on my TV. The ST that I've seen has faster than light travel in ships that seemingly never need to refuel, "Aliens" that look EXACTLY like humans save for their foreheads/hairstyles - hilarious lack of respect for basic forces like gravity and inertia and sound waves that propogate through vacuums. And don't even get me started on the Holodeck...
yeah, and if you become a COMPLETE recluse, you need never speak to, see or be seen by another living soul in your life!
Not using email is NOT THE ANSWER to spam.
No, I think he meant "The cheque's in the post"
"Everything else is really irrelevant"
Tell that to the people of Hiroshima.
you could at least ARGUE your point - what's the dot pitch of your screen?
Do you NOT KNOW?
and what - pray tell - is the dot/AG pitch of your 17"CRT monitor? Unless some CRT manufacturing miracle has occured (or you're using a mono screen) there's NO FUCKING WAY you're gonna see those pixels. So you have to ask "what's the point?" seeing as you're also going to be limiting your refresh by running at 16x12, why not poke it down to 1280x960 and push up the refresh? your eyes'll thank you for it.
Being generous (ie no underscan) your 17" screen is around 335mm wide - 335/1600 = 0.21ish. I use a Sony F400 and it's MINIMUM AG pitch (it varies across the screen) is 0.22! Being realistic, your screen is more like 315mm wide, and the pitch of your dots more like 0.26 giving you 315/0.26 = 1211.5 H as your MAXIMUM addressable resolution.
So, whether you increase the size of your fonts or not, your peering at one hell of a soft, flickery screen there.
You're gonna go fucking blind.
Oh my God! You mean... just like CRTs??