The Zalman power supplies are also very good. I've got two of them - in my P4, it's undetectable compared to my heatsink fan (gotta get around to replacing that), though in my VIA C3, while it's just a soft "whoosh", it is the only constant source of noise.
No, but neither is a Pentium 4 or a powerful video card, and that hasn't stopped some companies. ("Gets almost 2 hours of battery life with optional extra battery!") Also, if SCSI is faster than IDE because of the SCSI bus, and not just because of 10k speeds and bigger cache sizes, then an energy-efficient laptop drive on a SCSI bus might offer better performance with the equivalent power use. Or not.
And what's the difference between that and a building that only wins because they stuck a silly spire on it? (The CN tower is a building with restaurants and elevators and all sorts of tourist junk in it.) IMO, either it should be the highest occupied floor with a certain minimum area (in which case the Sears tower wins), or the tallest free-standing structure with spires and whatnot included (in which case the CN tower wins).
I've always found that the prices of both are identical for the same brand, but I don't usually buy spindles...
They list the same prices you gave at their website, though they look like a fairly cheap brand. Does anyone know if there is any significant difference in quality between manufacturers?
No kidding. All the people bitching about it being "leaked" sound like a bunch of whiny teenagers. And personally, I've bought every PowerPack from 8.0 to 9.0 (I never saw 9.1 in stores, and I'd probably have to pay duty on top of the high U.S. price on their website - never mind that 9.0 was available at Staples while it was still on their website as a pre-order). Yeah, I know they make more money off the MandrakeClub, so what?
Castle in the Sky, but yeah. Of course, I didn't spend much time listening to the dub track. (Even the subtitling could've been done a lot better.) Though the few seconds with that dumbass from Pixar (before I skipped) at the beginning was the most painful bit.
I guess Disney wasn't quite as bad as whoever made "Warriors of the Wind", but none of the anime distro companies I know of would have done such a lame job.
Electricity in Quebec is.0474 Canadian $ (0.035 US$) per KWH and rates haven't gone up in almost a decade. That's about 20% less than natural gas and 40% less than heating oil.
It's pretty much the same story here. BC Hydro charges me.0577 per KWH, but natural gas is considerably more expensive (being on an island doesn't help). Gas was cheaper for a couple years a while back - just long enough to get a lot of suckers to install it in their homes - but then it doubled or tripled in cost. Wood, of course, is cheaper than either of them but hard to use in my apartment. My parents get a load of wood in their truck every year, though.
Well, in the case of a pharmacy manager (who does need to be able to do this), it would be because she doesn't want to spend 70+ hours a week doing the work of at least two or three people.
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to MAKE POINTLESS COMMENTS ON SHIT LIKE THIS. If you're not interested, don't click on the story, dumbass.
One thing I'd like to see would be a unit that comes with, say, four NIMH AAA batteries and a charger (some sort of cradle or a cord that plugs into the unit itself). I've got one of those little FRS radios that works this way, though I have alkaline AAAs in it since I don't use it that often and they don't lose their charge over time.
"Digital screens are harder on the eyes because we were not adapted over millions of years to read from light sources but from refracted light."
Reading from a decent-sized, reflective monochrome LCD with a good resolution (and that will last months with a set of AAAs) isn't much different from reading from a piece of paper. The closest was probably the Handera or monochrome palms (the latter were a bit more pixelated but I still read plenty of books on mine). Now it's even worse...I suppose the monochrome Zire might be okay if you've got a magnifying glass handy. And everything else is just battery-sucking colour screens that are useless without the backlight.
I'd like something similar, but I'd prefer something that could run with AA or AAAs. (Lithium batteries are often not replaceable, even when they don't explode.) A screen 5x as big is a bit much, though - the Palm V had a decent-sized one for a PDA. Something with the useable screen area of a paperback book, and which I could fit into one of my larger coat pockets, would be great.
...even if it's fairly simple, this might still be a good idea. Sure, I could get a nice tax program for about half what I pay to get my taxes done, but then I'd have to work, too. (Shudder)
Well, Vancouver used to have the bars close (2am) a while before the buses stopped running (2:30 or 3?), which made sense to me, as it made it far easier and safer to get home. Then they increased the bar hours and shortened the bus hours, which is just stupid...
I doubt all the bars will do this. When I was in res at UBC, our house went on pub crawls to all the really scuzzy places (which didn't check ID), so the first years (ie, 19) could drink, too.
As the other poster wrote, 90% hosed is better than 100% hosed, but also - since backing up my/home directory is so much easier, I find that I do so far more often. With Windows, I have to pick through gigabytes of stuff installed from CDs to get to the savegames and other files that I want to backup.
Do you know what was cut out, exactly? All I could find was this reference:
"Only six months ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place."
Btw, another act of censorship he mentions was apparently by right-wingers to suit their own objectives:
In my story, I had described a lighthouse as having, late at night, an illumination coming from it that was a "God light." Looking up at it from the viewpoint of any sea-creature one would have felt that one was in "the Presence."
The editors had deleted "God-Light" and "in the Presence."
Censors are scum, plain and simple. There's no reason to separate them based on whatever ideology they claim to support.
Actually, it's almost 20 degrees F higher than high-temperature, short-time "flash" pasteurization, and more than 30 degrees F higher than normal pasteurization. More info can be found here
Er, third degree burns are the worst kind - when the skin is burnt straight through down into the deepest layers, usually resulting in charred meat and bone. This isn't exactly "burning the tip of your tongue" hot.
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Technically that's 0.009 leagues, but who's counting?
The Zalman power supplies are also very good. I've got two of them - in my P4, it's undetectable compared to my heatsink fan (gotta get around to replacing that), though in my VIA C3, while it's just a soft "whoosh", it is the only constant source of noise.
Here's one for ya: paper ballots.
No, but neither is a Pentium 4 or a powerful video card, and that hasn't stopped some companies. ("Gets almost 2 hours of battery life with optional extra battery!") Also, if SCSI is faster than IDE because of the SCSI bus, and not just because of 10k speeds and bigger cache sizes, then an energy-efficient laptop drive on a SCSI bus might offer better performance with the equivalent power use. Or not.
And what's the difference between that and a building that only wins because they stuck a silly spire on it? (The CN tower is a building with restaurants and elevators and all sorts of tourist junk in it.) IMO, either it should be the highest occupied floor with a certain minimum area (in which case the Sears tower wins), or the tallest free-standing structure with spires and whatnot included (in which case the CN tower wins).
All this reminds me of the title of a review of X-com from way back: "Work out that nagging xenophobia problem!"
They list the same prices you gave at their website, though they look like a fairly cheap brand. Does anyone know if there is any significant difference in quality between manufacturers?
No kidding. All the people bitching about it being "leaked" sound like a bunch of whiny teenagers. And personally, I've bought every PowerPack from 8.0 to 9.0 (I never saw 9.1 in stores, and I'd probably have to pay duty on top of the high U.S. price on their website - never mind that 9.0 was available at Staples while it was still on their website as a pre-order). Yeah, I know they make more money off the MandrakeClub, so what?
Nah, that'll be the Prescott. DRM, not 64-bit, and over 100 watts? Where can I sign up?
Castle in the Sky, but yeah. Of course, I didn't spend much time listening to the dub track. (Even the subtitling could've been done a lot better.) Though the few seconds with that dumbass from Pixar (before I skipped) at the beginning was the most painful bit.
I guess Disney wasn't quite as bad as whoever made "Warriors of the Wind", but none of the anime distro companies I know of would have done such a lame job.
It's pretty much the same story here. BC Hydro charges me .0577 per KWH, but natural gas is considerably more expensive (being on an island doesn't help). Gas was cheaper for a couple years a while back - just long enough to get a lot of suckers to install it in their homes - but then it doubled or tripled in cost. Wood, of course, is cheaper than either of them but hard to use in my apartment. My parents get a load of wood in their truck every year, though.
Well, in the case of a pharmacy manager (who does need to be able to do this), it would be because she doesn't want to spend 70+ hours a week doing the work of at least two or three people.
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to MAKE POINTLESS COMMENTS ON SHIT LIKE THIS. If you're not interested, don't click on the story, dumbass.
One thing I'd like to see would be a unit that comes with, say, four NIMH AAA batteries and a charger (some sort of cradle or a cord that plugs into the unit itself). I've got one of those little FRS radios that works this way, though I have alkaline AAAs in it since I don't use it that often and they don't lose their charge over time.
Reading from a decent-sized, reflective monochrome LCD with a good resolution (and that will last months with a set of AAAs) isn't much different from reading from a piece of paper. The closest was probably the Handera or monochrome palms (the latter were a bit more pixelated but I still read plenty of books on mine). Now it's even worse...I suppose the monochrome Zire might be okay if you've got a magnifying glass handy. And everything else is just battery-sucking colour screens that are useless without the backlight.
I'd like something similar, but I'd prefer something that could run with AA or AAAs. (Lithium batteries are often not replaceable, even when they don't explode.) A screen 5x as big is a bit much, though - the Palm V had a decent-sized one for a PDA. Something with the useable screen area of a paperback book, and which I could fit into one of my larger coat pockets, would be great.
...even if it's fairly simple, this might still be a good idea. Sure, I could get a nice tax program for about half what I pay to get my taxes done, but then I'd have to work, too. (Shudder)
Oopsie, forgot to preview. My "less than" sign didn't show up.
Well, Vancouver used to have the bars close (2am) a while before the buses stopped running (2:30 or 3?), which made sense to me, as it made it far easier and safer to get home. Then they increased the bar hours and shortened the bus hours, which is just stupid...
I doubt all the bars will do this. When I was in res at UBC, our house went on pub crawls to all the really scuzzy places (which didn't check ID), so the first years (ie, 19) could drink, too.
Though even some sort of online game with *more than a tangential relationship with the original series* might be acceptable.
As the other poster wrote, 90% hosed is better than 100% hosed, but also - since backing up my /home directory is so much easier, I find that I do so far more often. With Windows, I have to pick through gigabytes of stuff installed from CDs to get to the savegames and other files that I want to backup.
"Only six months ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place."
Btw, another act of censorship he mentions was apparently by right-wingers to suit their own objectives:
In my story, I had described a lighthouse as having, late at night, an illumination coming from it that was a "God light." Looking up at it from the viewpoint of any sea-creature one would have felt that one was in "the Presence."
The editors had deleted "God-Light" and "in the Presence."
Censors are scum, plain and simple. There's no reason to separate them based on whatever ideology they claim to support.
Actually, it's almost 20 degrees F higher than high-temperature, short-time "flash" pasteurization, and more than 30 degrees F higher than normal pasteurization. More info can be found here
Er, third degree burns are the worst kind - when the skin is burnt straight through down into the deepest layers, usually resulting in charred meat and bone. This isn't exactly "burning the tip of your tongue" hot.