I seem to recall it was also a matter of supply problems
That, and the impossibility of getting a G5 into a laptop.
Apple probably lost a billion dollars or more every quarter since the G5 came out, because of supply restrictions. It's a fine CPU, but we just couldn't get enough of them.
Well, a lot of people like working for someone they can learn from. Something like the apprenticeship model.
I've had managers who were great teachers, and I've had managers who were clearly out of their depth. The very worst is a manager who thinks he's technical, and wants to waste your time by interfering with your work in order to try to demonstrate his technical skills.
It's also quite possible to be a good, non-technical manager. Such a person takes it upon himself to get you what you need to get your work done. I think I've met maybe three or four of those in my entire career.
Because to me it seems like the energy used in creating that ice would end up negating the benefits
Probably not. Ever seen snowmaking systems at ski resorts? All you really need to do is blow a fine mist of water into frigid air, and you get ice crystals. Effectively, you're increasing the surface area of a given volume of water which enables it to lose heat to the atmosphere more readily.
The main thing I'm skeptical about, is whether the sheer scale makes it impractical. The ocean is very, very big. You'd need to blow a lot of water through those nozzles to make any signifcant difference in the amount of surface ice.
And what happens to the carbon once the algae die?
It gets eaten by the zooplankton, which get eaten by fish, which are eaten by bigger fish, (and so on for a couple iterations), which die, fall to the ocean floor, and feed the bottom-dwellers.
Well, yes and no. JPEG is effectively a raster of the DCT blocks. In theory, you can decompress it to any target size. In practice, it looks like crap when you try it.
I still don't understand what they have to gain by not publishing the specs for those formats (some might publish them nowadays, I haven't looked into it recently).
Apparently, they consider the post-processing they do to their RAW images in their image importing programs to be one of their major competitive advantages. They are mistaken, of course.
Well, let me wish misfortune on you as well, then.
I don't think I'll be getting any burns from boiling water, since I know how to handle a hot beverage. Nevertheless, if I should spill a cup of coffee on my lap someday, I won't be looking around for deep pockets to compensate me for my own mistake.
Ah, another non-sequitur. You have now made two unsupported assertions. I will state, for the record, that making you angry is not my purpose. If I had a purpose in this exchange, it was to make you look ridiculous, but you've done a far better job of that than I could have hoped to do.
So, to recap: you took a cheap shot at another poster, with a lame, high-school style "translation" put-down. I took you to task for it. You then claimed some error on my part, which you then failed repeatedly to state, choosing instead to resort to an affectation of superiority, with your claim that I was not comprehending when in fact you were simply dodging the question.
I inferred that you are female, because every time I have encountered the "if you don't know, I won't tell you" game, its perpetrator was a high-school chick, or (sadly), an older woman who never progressed beyond that stage.
So, here again is the question: what error do you claim I have made? (Answer it or don't, but if you don't answer it, your claim remains unsubstantiated, and your credibility erodes even further.)
He calls Craigslist the Walmart of classified ads because it siphons money out of the local economy since Craigslist doesn't employ people locally in the markets in which it operates.
Why should they?
If you can't compete, too bad. The advertisers are entitled to choose a vendor, and if the Guardian isn't a good deal, they lose. If they'd been a bit smarter about offering their ads on the net sooner than their competitors, they might not be going down the tubes today.
I hope that this also introduces a mechanism to prevent the spammers in the real estate sections. I've been seeing the same goddamned "foreclosure info" posts every single day for as long as I've been looking.
If it's not an actual property for sale, it doesn't belong in the real estate for sale section. That includes everything from the "foreclosure seKrITS!!!!!!", to the "I'll offer sexual favors for a listing" ads from desperate brokers.
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I rather doubt Apple would switch again.
Not next year, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Apple switch again if Intel slips significantly behind again.
OS X is very portable. Once you solve the endian issues, bringing it up on a new CPU isn't a Herculean task.
-jcr
I seem to recall it was also a matter of supply problems
That, and the impossibility of getting a G5 into a laptop.
Apple probably lost a billion dollars or more every quarter since the G5 came out, because of supply restrictions. It's a fine CPU, but we just couldn't get enough of them.
-jcr
Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
Nope. It's also used to turn highly-qualified Asian students away from the University of California system.
-jcr
CO2 is all you excrete? You must be a very unusual specimen, indeed then.
A very large proportion of the carbon you ingest ends up either in the proteins of your own body, or that of the bacteria in your digestive tract.
-jcr
Why would anyone still want to work for an American company in this day and age?
Because a lot of them are still fine places to work.
-jcr
Well, a lot of people like working for someone they can learn from. Something like the apprenticeship model.
I've had managers who were great teachers, and I've had managers who were clearly out of their depth. The very worst is a manager who thinks he's technical, and wants to waste your time by interfering with your work in order to try to demonstrate his technical skills.
It's also quite possible to be a good, non-technical manager. Such a person takes it upon himself to get you what you need to get your work done. I think I've met maybe three or four of those in my entire career.
-jcr
Because to me it seems like the energy used in creating that ice would end up negating the benefits
Probably not. Ever seen snowmaking systems at ski resorts? All you really need to do is blow a fine mist of water into frigid air, and you get ice crystals. Effectively, you're increasing the surface area of a given volume of water which enables it to lose heat to the atmosphere more readily.
The main thing I'm skeptical about, is whether the sheer scale makes it impractical. The ocean is very, very big. You'd need to blow a lot of water through those nozzles to make any signifcant difference in the amount of surface ice.
And what happens to the carbon once the algae die?
It gets eaten by the zooplankton, which get eaten by fish, which are eaten by bigger fish, (and so on for a couple iterations), which die, fall to the ocean floor, and feed the bottom-dwellers.
-jcr
The only consolation is the concept of helping mother nature.
I wonder if this product breaks even, energy-wise, when you account for the energy needed to manufacture it?
-jcr
In my day, any roadie worth his minimum wage could handle any equipment the band brought with them...
-jcr
With Foveon they try tackling things differently.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard anything about Foveon in at least a year. What are they up to?
-jcr
Ah yes, so jpeg is not a raster format either,
Well, yes and no. JPEG is effectively a raster of the DCT blocks. In theory, you can decompress it to any target size. In practice, it looks like crap when you try it.
-jcr
I still don't understand what they have to gain by not publishing the specs for those formats (some might publish them nowadays, I haven't looked into it recently).
Apparently, they consider the post-processing they do to their RAW images in their image importing programs to be one of their major competitive advantages. They are mistaken, of course.
-jcr
Hopefully the money will be put back into the programming of the site.
Yeah, it is rather primitive. I'd sure like to be able to search RE ads by more criteria than price.
-jcr
higher readership for my money.
That's quite unlikely, as it happens.
-jcr
Only a couple hundred bucks per unit? Sign me up!
Ok... That's one. Get back to us when you're ready to place a million-unit order.
-jcr
I'll be happy to once you actually take a stab at working out where you think I think you made the mistake
Once again, you dodge the question. Your credibility now stands at nil.
-jcr
Has the tablet market come up with a way to deal with screen scratches?
Well, we could sputter diamond-form carbon coatings on screens, at a cost of only a couple of hundred bucks per unit...
-jcr
And enjoy your 3rd degree burns.
Well, let me wish misfortune on you as well, then.
I don't think I'll be getting any burns from boiling water, since I know how to handle a hot beverage. Nevertheless, if I should spill a cup of coffee on my lap someday, I won't be looking around for deep pockets to compensate me for my own mistake.
-jcr
Ah, another non-sequitur. You have now made two unsupported assertions. I will state, for the record, that making you angry is not my purpose. If I had a purpose in this exchange, it was to make you look ridiculous, but you've done a far better job of that than I could have hoped to do.
So, to recap: you took a cheap shot at another poster, with a lame, high-school style "translation" put-down. I took you to task for it. You then claimed some error on my part, which you then failed repeatedly to state, choosing instead to resort to an affectation of superiority, with your claim that I was not comprehending when in fact you were simply dodging the question.
I inferred that you are female, because every time I have encountered the "if you don't know, I won't tell you" game, its perpetrator was a high-school chick, or (sadly), an older woman who never progressed beyond that stage.
So, here again is the question: what error do you claim I have made? (Answer it or don't, but if you don't answer it, your claim remains unsubstantiated, and your credibility erodes even further.)
-jcr
He calls Craigslist the Walmart of classified ads because it siphons money out of the local economy since Craigslist doesn't employ people locally in the markets in which it operates.
Why should they?
If you can't compete, too bad. The advertisers are entitled to choose a vendor, and if the Guardian isn't a good deal, they lose. If they'd been a bit smarter about offering their ads on the net sooner than their competitors, they might not be going down the tubes today.
-jcr
I hope that this also introduces a mechanism to prevent the spammers in the real estate sections. I've been seeing the same goddamned "foreclosure info" posts every single day for as long as I've been looking.
If it's not an actual property for sale, it doesn't belong in the real estate for sale section. That includes everything from the "foreclosure seKrITS!!!!!!", to the "I'll offer sexual favors for a listing" ads from desperate brokers.
-jcr
I think they're letting their own enthusiasm for rockets cloud their reasoning.
Maybe they just want to do it because it's fun?
-jcr
Sorry, that wasn't the magic combination of words that'd make me lose my cool.
Project much?
Why would you assume that I'm trying to make you lose your cool?
-jcr
And doubtless tens of millions of people drive intoxicated each year without incident.
Wow! What an amazingly irrelevant leap!
It is hardly surprising that the jury found that McDonalds was at fault.
Juries aren't noted for dispassionate analysis in personal-injury lawsuits.
-jcr