Those 1.42Ghz G4s are not overclocked. See this thread for details. Basically, they're 1.4Ghz stamped chips from Moto (or IBM, or whoever makes them), and 20Mhz is not overclocking. In fact, the 1.42Ghz claim is just a byproduct of the bus multiplier: 167Mhz bus*8.5 Multiplier=1419.5Mhz on the processor.
This seems rather odd to me. With QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) being open source and Free, I can't imagine that streaming in Quicktime is any more expensive for NPR than streaming in WMP and Real.
too bad these networks couldn't also invest in some decent reporters willing to ask the difficult questions of who/how/why/is forsaking the world to depose of an isolated dictator worth it?
oh well. they'll have plenty of opportunities to do so wherever the U.S. invades next. (Iran? N. Korea? Egypt? Pakistan?)
I certainly don't need the speed. I wasn't schpieling against Apple--I've used macs for 15 years and type this response on an iBook500 happily running 10.2.4.
This is a great processor for Apple, and I'm sure they know it. It's fast, it's made by a reliable vendor with an interest in continued development, it's (basically) fully compatible with their existing OS, it's altivec compatible, it provides a great incentive for people to upgrade/switch.
So yes. Like I said--no doubt Apple is chomping at the bit for the 970.
(and so are we users looking to buy a new computer in the upcoming year or two)
how many people have been holding off (or switching to other platforms) on a new Apple computer purchase for these new chips. I'm sure Apple is chomping at the bit waiting for these chips to be mass produced so that they can get them into Powermacs (and hopefully Powerbooks too), like, yesterday.
The POWERLite series (which is basically what the 970 is) is a great alternative to x86 for Apple for quite a few years ahead. Not only does IBM have an incentive to keep producing these chips at ever-greater clock speeds (something that Motorola with the G4 doesn't seem to have a great deal of interest in doing) because IBM actually uses these in their Blade servers, but it sets up a nice roadmap for successive generations of chips (the POWER5 is just around the corner, with a Power5Lite a la PowerPC 980 coming shortly thereafter? Such a chip is probably only a year and a half off and, running MacOSX, would rocksock).
Apple's web browser, Safari, has a rather elegant alternative: the SnapBack feature. If you type in a web address and then dig deep into nested set of links, you can go back to your original page with the click of a button. You can set any page to be the page you snap back too as well. Makes for very quick and easy googling!
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I get my Word of the Day every day from Merriam Webster. Don't know if it's any better or worse than dictionary.com, but the m-w.com word of the day is quite nice (so long as you tell them to not send you html emails).
In the summer and fall of 2000, I worked in the press office of a high profile congressional race (Washington's 1st Congressional District, where Microsoft resides, in fact). Part of my job included trying to get as many letters in support of my candidate published in the dozen area papers as possible. I was quite successful in getting letters published without ever having to form letters. Here's how:
From among all of our campaign volunteers, I gathered a group of people specially interested in helping out with our media efforts. I had a core media volunteer list of about 75 people. Every week, I would send an email to these people with talking points for these letters and addresses for the papers I hoped them to send their letter to. Every time, without fail, that I sent out these talking points four or five letters would be published within a week. I think the reason I had such success was because I can't write letters as well as the collective efforts of 75 people. If the issue is education, a volunteer teacher will always write a better and more viable letter than me. If the issue is Social Security, a retiree will have a more impassioned response than any 20 year old could ever hope.
So in the end, I think form letters are a way of cheating. They discourage people from calling upon their own experiences in writing letters and getting involved in issues. With a carefully selected pool of volunteers, it's not very difficult to get letters published.
Why? These other taxes you cite go towards existing social and governmental services. Your argument would make sense only if the internet were provided as a social service. Last I checked, the government got out of the internet infrastructure business long ago (and in fact, internet infrastructure if anything suffers from oversupply these days). Unless you'd suggest that the government should subsidize internet access--not necessarily a bad idea actually--then your analogy really isn't.
After all, do sales taxes collected from regular commercial merchants used exclusively to fund the furtherence of commerce? Of course not. Regular sales taxes fund roads, schools, Medicare and anything else state governments spend their money on.
Microsoft had initially hoped to donate this amount in-kind to schools, right? In other words, Microsoft had wanted to donate this amount in software and other Microsoft products. Ostensibly, the schools were to receive the benefit. The problem from the perspective on many individuals and competitors (such as Apple) was that this would allow Microsoft to extend its monopoly into a market it didn't already have a monopoly in.
Today, we have this settlement, which allows consumers to claim a voucher. We also have a request by California Gov. Davis to cut funding to social services and education, as well as to increase state income taxes. Consumers should be allowed to settle their increased tax bill by handing over their settlement voucher to the California government, in exchange for a guarantee that the voucher would be used to purchase computer technology equipment and other educational resources for state schools. Perhaps also the California government should be awarded any unclaimed consumer vouchers after a certain (short) settlement period. This way, schools would be able to purchase whatever resources best fit their needs (instead of having free Microsoft products handed to them), and some of the sting of the increased taxes could be reduced.
What the CodeWeavers license really does is allow the consumer who might be sued by Microsoft to seek (and get) indemnification for all damages due in a civil action to Microsoft from CodeWeavers. The above poster is quite right in pointing out that an invocation of the DMCA would present quite a problem for the CodeWeavers customer. The DMCA is a criminal statute and one can not seek indemnification for criminal acts (one may be still be excused for criminality by means of insanity etc. or justified if your criminal actions were preventing an even greater harm, but these defenses are often difficult to win with).
Not entirely. The court held that the trial court did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendant. And while they do mention the "purposeful availment" test (whether the defendant directed his commercial activities towards the state), he could have been brought to trial in a California state court if he, say, lived in California, was served with process in California, consented to jurisdiction by a California court (by, say, showing up in court and not contesting its jurisdiction over his person).
Anyway, Pavlovich fell into none of these categories. But this doesn't mean he can't be sued in another state or federal court. Just not California.
Mac.com offers free IMAP support. Schweet! Yay for owning an Apple computer (high costs be damned: I paid a very competitive price for my iBook and it includes a great, free IMAP service as well as wonderful, clean, ad-free webmail from a company that doesn't sell my contact information).
I am an Oberlin College student. To the uninitiated, Oberlin College (in Oberlin, OH) is about 30 minutes from Cedar Point, the amusemtn park with the largest number of roller coasters in the world. I went to Cedar Park for the first time today (I am a senior here, and will be graduating next week). I went on all of their roller coaters and truly believe that going on such big, amazing and exciting coasters was a transcendental experience. Smooth and surreal.
I didn't wait in line for 2 hours to go on the world's most amazing coaster (the ironically named 'Millenium Force' coaster---truly astounding and so smooth!) to be limited in the number of G's they would let me pull. Come on now, I knew what I was getting myself into: the fear is part of the thrill.
Heh. My situation is actually the mirror image of what this book discusses. I have been trying to find a way to exact some revenge (electronicallly) on somebody who has something coming to him (a real googly-eyed, drooling f*cktard). But I haven't been able to find any good ways to do this! (google, surprisingly, has been little help).
Any slashdotters have advice to help somebody who seeks a bit of online revenge?
No new features? It now has spell check and a healing tool (try it, and you'll never want to go back to Photoshop 6 again). Sensible features, not bloat. Nice work Adobe!
For those of ya'll who didn't know, and because Jon Katz didn't include this stuff in his review, George Soros is quite an interesting guy. His personal background is quite important to consider in the context of such a book on globalization. George Soros is a very wealthy man, who made his millions doing currency speculation (you know, the kind of thing that, unfettered, ruined many East Asian economies circa 1997-1998). He has since turned philanthropist, running the Open Society institute. OSI is dedicated to:
"promote the development and maintenance of open societies around the world. OSI does this by supporting an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform, and by encouraging alternative approaches to complex and controversial issues."
From what I understand, he is committed personally and professionally to helping ensure that globalization proceeds in an open, democratic (in a broad sense) manner.
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Those 1.42Ghz G4s are not overclocked. See this thread for details. Basically, they're 1.4Ghz stamped chips from Moto (or IBM, or whoever makes them), and 20Mhz is not overclocking. In fact, the 1.42Ghz claim is just a byproduct of the bus multiplier: 167Mhz bus*8.5 Multiplier=1419.5Mhz on the processor.
Don't forget that the DP1.25Ghz PowerMac is now old news--the DP1.42Ghz new PowerMac provides a nice boost over the old 1.25.
Time for some new benchmarks.
This seems rather odd to me. With QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) being open source and Free, I can't imagine that streaming in Quicktime is any more expensive for NPR than streaming in WMP and Real.
too bad these networks couldn't also invest in some decent reporters willing to ask the difficult questions of who/how/why/is forsaking the world to depose of an isolated dictator worth it?
oh well. they'll have plenty of opportunities to do so wherever the U.S. invades next. (Iran? N. Korea? Egypt? Pakistan?)
I certainly don't need the speed. I wasn't schpieling against Apple--I've used macs for 15 years and type this response on an iBook500 happily running 10.2.4.
This is a great processor for Apple, and I'm sure they know it. It's fast, it's made by a reliable vendor with an interest in continued development, it's (basically) fully compatible with their existing OS, it's altivec compatible, it provides a great incentive for people to upgrade/switch.
So yes. Like I said--no doubt Apple is chomping at the bit for the 970.
(and so are we users looking to buy a new computer in the upcoming year or two)
here. Here's some support for my claim about the Power5Lite:
http://www.oscast.com/stories/storyReader$130
bottom line? It's coming. And soon.
how many people have been holding off (or switching to other platforms) on a new Apple computer purchase for these new chips. I'm sure Apple is chomping at the bit waiting for these chips to be mass produced so that they can get them into Powermacs (and hopefully Powerbooks too), like, yesterday.
The POWERLite series (which is basically what the 970 is) is a great alternative to x86 for Apple for quite a few years ahead. Not only does IBM have an incentive to keep producing these chips at ever-greater clock speeds (something that Motorola with the G4 doesn't seem to have a great deal of interest in doing) because IBM actually uses these in their Blade servers, but it sets up a nice roadmap for successive generations of chips (the POWER5 is just around the corner, with a Power5Lite a la PowerPC 980 coming shortly thereafter? Such a chip is probably only a year and a half off and, running MacOSX, would rocksock).
Yum.
Apple's web browser, Safari, has a rather elegant alternative: the SnapBack feature. If you type in a web address and then dig deep into nested set of links, you can go back to your original page with the click of a button. You can set any page to be the page you snap back too as well. Makes for very quick and easy googling!
linkage.
In the summer and fall of 2000, I worked in the press office of a high profile congressional race (Washington's 1st Congressional District, where Microsoft resides, in fact). Part of my job included trying to get as many letters in support of my candidate published in the dozen area papers as possible. I was quite successful in getting letters published without ever having to form letters. Here's how:
From among all of our campaign volunteers, I gathered a group of people specially interested in helping out with our media efforts. I had a core media volunteer list of about 75 people. Every week, I would send an email to these people with talking points for these letters and addresses for the papers I hoped them to send their letter to. Every time, without fail, that I sent out these talking points four or five letters would be published within a week. I think the reason I had such success was because I can't write letters as well as the collective efforts of 75 people. If the issue is education, a volunteer teacher will always write a better and more viable letter than me. If the issue is Social Security, a retiree will have a more impassioned response than any 20 year old could ever hope.
So in the end, I think form letters are a way of cheating. They discourage people from calling upon their own experiences in writing letters and getting involved in issues. With a carefully selected pool of volunteers, it's not very difficult to get letters published.
Why? These other taxes you cite go towards existing social and governmental services. Your argument would make sense only if the internet were provided as a social service. Last I checked, the government got out of the internet infrastructure business long ago (and in fact, internet infrastructure if anything suffers from oversupply these days). Unless you'd suggest that the government should subsidize internet access--not necessarily a bad idea actually--then your analogy really isn't.
After all, do sales taxes collected from regular commercial merchants used exclusively to fund the furtherence of commerce? Of course not. Regular sales taxes fund roads, schools, Medicare and anything else state governments spend their money on.
Today, we have this settlement, which allows consumers to claim a voucher. We also have a request by California Gov. Davis to cut funding to social services and education, as well as to increase state income taxes. Consumers should be allowed to settle their increased tax bill by handing over their settlement voucher to the California government, in exchange for a guarantee that the voucher would be used to purchase computer technology equipment and other educational resources for state schools. Perhaps also the California government should be awarded any unclaimed consumer vouchers after a certain (short) settlement period. This way, schools would be able to purchase whatever resources best fit their needs (instead of having free Microsoft products handed to them), and some of the sting of the increased taxes could be reduced.
Just a thought...
The writeup forgot to mention that both Safari and Keynote are open source.
What the CodeWeavers license really does is allow the consumer who might be sued by Microsoft to seek (and get) indemnification for all damages due in a civil action to Microsoft from CodeWeavers. The above poster is quite right in pointing out that an invocation of the DMCA would present quite a problem for the CodeWeavers customer. The DMCA is a criminal statute and one can not seek indemnification for criminal acts (one may be still be excused for criminality by means of insanity etc. or justified if your criminal actions were preventing an even greater harm, but these defenses are often difficult to win with).
Not entirely. The court held that the trial court did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendant. And while they do mention the "purposeful availment" test (whether the defendant directed his commercial activities towards the state), he could have been brought to trial in a California state court if he, say, lived in California, was served with process in California, consented to jurisdiction by a California court (by, say, showing up in court and not contesting its jurisdiction over his person).
Anyway, Pavlovich fell into none of these categories. But this doesn't mean he can't be sued in another state or federal court. Just not California.
Serial to USB adapters are commonplace. Drop those legacy ports, and the price of your next rig drops accordingly.
Mac.com offers free IMAP support. Schweet! Yay for owning an Apple computer (high costs be damned: I paid a very competitive price for my iBook and it includes a great, free IMAP service as well as wonderful, clean, ad-free webmail from a company that doesn't sell my contact information).
Why not just use IMAP? Mail stays on the server unless you choose to download it. Simple.
I am an Oberlin College student. To the uninitiated, Oberlin College (in Oberlin, OH) is about 30 minutes from Cedar Point, the amusemtn park with the largest number of roller coasters in the world. I went to Cedar Park for the first time today (I am a senior here, and will be graduating next week). I went on all of their roller coaters and truly believe that going on such big, amazing and exciting coasters was a transcendental experience. Smooth and surreal.
I didn't wait in line for 2 hours to go on the world's most amazing coaster (the ironically named 'Millenium Force' coaster---truly astounding and so smooth!) to be limited in the number of G's they would let me pull. Come on now, I knew what I was getting myself into: the fear is part of the thrill.
I know he's supposed to be full of anger and angst, but mostly he just comes off as constipated and bitchy.
yeah yeah, cheap shot
oops! I Did it again!
Heh. My situation is actually the mirror image of what this book discusses. I have been trying to find a way to exact some revenge (electronicallly) on somebody who has something coming to him (a real googly-eyed, drooling f*cktard). But I haven't been able to find any good ways to do this! (google, surprisingly, has been little help).
Any slashdotters have advice to help somebody who seeks a bit of online revenge?
No new features? It now has spell check and a healing tool (try it, and you'll never want to go back to Photoshop 6 again). Sensible features, not bloat. Nice work Adobe!
"promote the development and maintenance of open societies around the world. OSI does this by supporting an array of activities dealing with educational, social, legal, and health care reform, and by encouraging alternative approaches to complex and controversial issues."
From what I understand, he is committed personally and professionally to helping ensure that globalization proceeds in an open, democratic (in a broad sense) manner.
(one can only deal with so much sarcasm in one day)