Presumably, web browsing, word processing, DVD playing, etc. According to the website it has a 9700 non-Pro with only 64 megs... Apparently, that's faster than a 9600xt, so it ought to be okay for gaming. Not sure how well it'd run Doom 3, though... (It's also pricey.)
Heh. I'm trying out a 1.5 ghz pentium M laptop right now, and it is comparable to a 2.4 ghz P4 on SiSoft Sandra - the P4 is between this system and the 1.4 ghz PM or between this and the 1.6 ghz PM, depending on the test.
I'd be more concerned about the "high performance video" than the processor. Otherwise the specs look pretty good. Personally, I've been looking for a nice quiet PM desktop for a while... if this is cheap, I might consider buying one (and formatting the drive immediately, of course).
Possibly, but the GP32 is much better for that sort of thing. Phantasy Star 4 runs flawlessly at 133 mhz (no overclocking needed) with fGEN32(download). And getting flash memory cards that fit into the DS and some sort of link or reader would be difficult and expensive - compared to using a smartmedia card in a GP32.
Strange. My dentist mentioned my teeth were in such good shape because I'd gotten all my adult teeth before fluoride was removed from the water supply (several years ago) by the nutters. I suppose business is better, though.
4. Why is fluoride added to the drinking water if it is available in other ways?
Adding fluoride to the water is the best way to provide fluoride protection to a large number of people at a low cost. That's why many towns and cities put fluoride in the water in a controlled manner. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently named fluoridation of drinking water one of the 10 most successful public health measures in this century.
I'm looking for one of the 35 watt Athlon 64 mobiles. With a good heatsink they should be quiet and fast. Unfortunately, no one seems to be shipping them to Canada. Supposedly they can work in desktop socket 754 motherboards, but the heatsink can be a problem (the chip is too low, but apparently the thermalright bolt-on ones work). There are also supposed to be 25 watt Athlon 64 and Sempron mobiles coming out next year.
There are also Pentium M motherboards, but they are hard to find and expensive. The VIA C3 1 GHz runs very cold, but runs slower than a ~500mhz P3. Also, the mini-itx board version has a rather loud fan - but it also comes in a socket 370 version, so you can put a big socket A heatsink on it and run it fanless - if you don't mind the lack of speed. I did this for a while, but it drove me nuts. So I put in a cheap Celeron 1.3 GHz (which has 256k cache, unlike the slower versions) and plugged in the cpu fan with a Zalman fan speed controller set to minimum. With a Zalman PSU and a Seagate hard drive, the system is barely audible if there is no other noise in the room. If I were to go totally fanless, I'd put in a laptop hard drive instead. (These guys had fanless PSUs in for $145 Canadian, which isn't all that bad, but they're sold out.)
Not really... that wasn't an automated email. I'm reminded more of Ender's Game:
"And do you know why you don't mean it?" Valentine asked. "Because you want to be in government someday. You want to be elected. And they won't elect you if your opponents can dig up the fact that your brother and sister both died in suspicious accidents when they were little. Especially because of the letter I've put in my secret file, which will be opened in the event of my death."
"Don't give me that kind of crap," Peter said.
"It says, I didn't die a natural death. Peter killed me, and if he hasn't already killed Andrew, he will soon. Not enough to convict you, but enough to keep you from ever getting elected."
The only drugs suitable for use in patches are extremely potent drugs, given in a few milligrams daily. (The 21 mg/day nicotine patch is the highest amount of drug in a patch that I'm aware of. The Evra birth control patch lasts for a week but gives less than 0.2 mg of hormones a day.) Even the more potent antibiotics still need a couple hundred milligrams a day to be effective. It might be possible to put one in a 24 hour patch, but that's not more convenient than taking a pill or two per day. Also, the drug would require other characteristics, eg. readily absorbed through the skin.
The drugs used for acute TB are on the order of grams per day, so an implant wouldn't work too well. But for preventative therapy (skin test but no real signs of disease) which only needs about 300 mg of isoniazid per day, it could be possible. Though for comparison, the Norplant system used six 36 mg implants over five years. Some sort of big depo shot every month might work, though.
No, it doesn't - it is a "fake" nucleoside which is activated in cells containing a viral enzyme and screws up viral replication since it can't be added to, terminating the DNA chain.
Viruses are basically just coated bits of DNA or RNA, so it's hard to call them alive in the first place. I don't think it is possible for a chemical to actually destroy them all by itself without killing the host body. Binding them with antigen is more feasible, especially if it's made by your own cells in response to a vaccine.
RTFA, Junior. "These access points are connecting to Comcast Cable Modems or to SBC DSL (or other providers) for their Internet access and then are being shared out to other residents within the same or adjacent suites."
The students are paying for commercial broadband access.
Because of firewalling/censorship? Who knows, Sparky, but the "hosing" of the system appears to be because the users are too stupid to select between the commerical or (crippled?) University systems:
"The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points."
Mod parent up.
It would make far more sense to send them to individual stars. The ability to achieve orbit around the star or a planet and send out various signals would also be good.
Huh? Who says you have to fling them out in an even distribution? Why not send those 100 rocks out towards the 100 nearest stars?
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I've mentioned this before, but I can carry around more than my weight in medical references on my PDA. I have also read dozens of novels on it, jotted down quick notes (the difference between using a pen and paper and using my PDA is that I've always been able to find said notes later), and played simple games when I was bored and already read all of the books I had loaded.
I can take it out of my pocket, instantly turn it on, read a chapter of a book/look up a drug or dosage/check my shopping list, instantly turn it off, and stick it back in my pocket. This sort of convenience is more useful to me than a laptop, though a palmtop with mram might do the trick someday.
While these machines (and other PDAs) have processors have high MHz numbers considering how small they are, there's still the whole "megahertz myth" thing...
There are probably better examples and ways to test, but here are a couple of SiSoft Sandra's reference CPU ratings:
Intel Pentium Pro 200mhz
Dhrystone ALU 540 MIPS Whetstone FPU 268 MFLOPS
Intel StrongARM PXA255 400mhz (the fastest PDA cpu listed) Dhrystone ALU 411 MIPS Whetstone FPU 7 MFLOPS
A pretty good processor and incredibly fast for most things that I use it for, but...
When I was in university, I found Word's grammar checker to be quite helpful. But the errors I caught were mainly "typos" due to exhaustion and lack of sleep. It is useless without a reasonable knowledge of English grammar.
Clippy and that damned red and green underlining were always disabled, though.
Well, there are a lot of badly written introductory books, elective courses outside one's chosen profession, and stuff covered just as well - if not better - in class notes. One feature of some of the books I kept is that they don't have any questions or answers in them, because they were written to be used as a reference textbook and not a glorified study guide.
(Though for most references I just used the library until I graduated and had the cash to buy them. I'm just glad my work has a copy of Martindale Of course, without the CDROM it's only $500...)
Ugh. That's really nice for everyone else. Though I'm surprised you could keep it for so long - at university the new versions of texts were in the reserve section and could only be loaned out a couple days, with late fees being charged by the hour. Of course, for one class I got an old version and renewed it every two weeks, but the new one was always available.
I just have my browser either delete all new cookies on exit (Opera - works better because I can keep the cookies I want) or limit cookies to the current session (Firefox).
I haven't played Doom 3 yet, but System Shock 2 was pretty damn scary even with the relatively primitive graphics and usually being able to see what I was shooting at...
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So the "tyranny of the swing states" is better?
Presumably, web browsing, word processing, DVD playing, etc. According to the website it has a 9700 non-Pro with only 64 megs... Apparently, that's faster than a 9600xt, so it ought to be okay for gaming. Not sure how well it'd run Doom 3, though... (It's also pricey.)
Oh, it has a 9700, but non-pro with 64 megs. Hmm. I guess that's okay, but not for the latest games. And too expensive at $1699US...
I'd be more concerned about the "high performance video" than the processor. Otherwise the specs look pretty good. Personally, I've been looking for a nice quiet PM desktop for a while... if this is cheap, I might consider buying one (and formatting the drive immediately, of course).
Possibly, but the GP32 is much better for that sort of thing. Phantasy Star 4 runs flawlessly at 133 mhz (no overclocking needed) with fGEN32 (download). And getting flash memory cards that fit into the DS and some sort of link or reader would be difficult and expensive - compared to using a smartmedia card in a GP32.
From the Canadian Dental Association:
4. Why is fluoride added to the drinking water if it is available in other ways?
Adding fluoride to the water is the best way to provide fluoride protection to a large number of people at a low cost. That's why many towns and cities put fluoride in the water in a controlled manner. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently named fluoridation of drinking water one of the 10 most successful public health measures in this century.
Or it hasn't been cooked long enough.
There are also Pentium M motherboards, but they are hard to find and expensive. The VIA C3 1 GHz runs very cold, but runs slower than a ~500mhz P3. Also, the mini-itx board version has a rather loud fan - but it also comes in a socket 370 version, so you can put a big socket A heatsink on it and run it fanless - if you don't mind the lack of speed. I did this for a while, but it drove me nuts. So I put in a cheap Celeron 1.3 GHz (which has 256k cache, unlike the slower versions) and plugged in the cpu fan with a Zalman fan speed controller set to minimum. With a Zalman PSU and a Seagate hard drive, the system is barely audible if there is no other noise in the room. If I were to go totally fanless, I'd put in a laptop hard drive instead. (These guys had fanless PSUs in for $145 Canadian, which isn't all that bad, but they're sold out.)
"And do you know why you don't mean it?" Valentine asked. "Because you want to be in government someday. You want to be elected. And they won't elect you if your opponents can dig up the fact that your brother and sister both died in suspicious accidents when they were little. Especially because of the letter I've put in my secret file, which will be opened in the event of my death."
"Don't give me that kind of crap," Peter said.
"It says, I didn't die a natural death. Peter killed me, and if he hasn't already killed Andrew, he will soon. Not enough to convict you, but enough to keep you from ever getting elected."
Really? How terrible! *Chugs a bottle of cookie dough*
The drugs used for acute TB are on the order of grams per day, so an implant wouldn't work too well. But for preventative therapy (skin test but no real signs of disease) which only needs about 300 mg of isoniazid per day, it could be possible. Though for comparison, the Norplant system used six 36 mg implants over five years. Some sort of big depo shot every month might work, though.
Viruses are basically just coated bits of DNA or RNA, so it's hard to call them alive in the first place. I don't think it is possible for a chemical to actually destroy them all by itself without killing the host body. Binding them with antigen is more feasible, especially if it's made by your own cells in response to a vaccine.
The students are paying for commercial broadband access.
Because of firewalling/censorship? Who knows, Sparky, but the "hosing" of the system appears to be because the users are too stupid to select between the commerical or (crippled?) University systems:
"The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points."
Indeed. Phantasy Star 4 with Fgen32 is simply beautiful. (And not included in the Phantasy Star collection for the tiny-screened GBA.)
Mod parent up. It would make far more sense to send them to individual stars. The ability to achieve orbit around the star or a planet and send out various signals would also be good.
Huh? Who says you have to fling them out in an even distribution? Why not send those 100 rocks out towards the 100 nearest stars?
I can take it out of my pocket, instantly turn it on, read a chapter of a book/look up a drug or dosage/check my shopping list, instantly turn it off, and stick it back in my pocket. This sort of convenience is more useful to me than a laptop, though a palmtop with mram might do the trick someday.
There are probably better examples and ways to test, but here are a couple of SiSoft Sandra's reference CPU ratings:
Intel Pentium Pro 200mhz
Dhrystone ALU 540 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 268 MFLOPS
Intel StrongARM PXA255 400mhz (the fastest PDA cpu listed)
Dhrystone ALU 411 MIPS
Whetstone FPU 7 MFLOPS
A pretty good processor and incredibly fast for most things that I use it for, but...
Clippy and that damned red and green underlining were always disabled, though.
(Though for most references I just used the library until I graduated and had the cash to buy them. I'm just glad my work has a copy of Martindale Of course, without the CDROM it's only $500...)
Ugh. That's really nice for everyone else. Though I'm surprised you could keep it for so long - at university the new versions of texts were in the reserve section and could only be loaned out a couple days, with late fees being charged by the hour. Of course, for one class I got an old version and renewed it every two weeks, but the new one was always available.
I just have my browser either delete all new cookies on exit (Opera - works better because I can keep the cookies I want) or limit cookies to the current session (Firefox).
Wait a second, Hedy "crosses burning on the lawns of Prince George" Fry? You voted for that loon?
I haven't played Doom 3 yet, but System Shock 2 was pretty damn scary even with the relatively primitive graphics and usually being able to see what I was shooting at...
Of course, "twice the heat" probably does apply to Intel's new chips.