Check out the Thinkpad X Series for your uber-small laptop. It's pretty much equivalent to the 12" iBook for form factor.
The Sony Viao 505's are also similar.
And both offer clip on extenders that give you the features of a larger laptop (OPtical drives, PC-Cardslots, 2nd batteries)
IBM Makes 2 Docks currently. 1 is a port replicator (Intended as a portable version) and the second is a big-ass dock with a half-length PCI slot and an extra ultrabay.
You obviously haven't grasped the difference between a Prototype (Which is an engineering testbed) and a Show Car (Which is _often_ a mock up or has an onlder driveline). The Cadillac 12 and Cien Show cars were just that, one offs for the show circuit, not prototypes.
Engineering and Marketing do NOT use the same vehicles, and prototypes are rarely pretty enough for Show use anyways (Since the SHeet metal is finalized late in the design cycle anyways.)
What you see at a car show is a mock-up not a prototype. It's often as not either not a functional vehicle, or it will be built from a current vehicle )Forex: The original Viper prototype was built on top of a shortened Durango fram and driveline. These are generally used for testing out the reaction to the styling. Very rarely do you see anything built as is. Chrysler did do this a couple of times (Prowler & Viper) due to extremely good reactions and easy engineering (Viper is heavily Durango based, Prowler's drive line is almost straight from an LH car).
Prototypes are used for enjineering and performance testing. They often wear covering to disguise the actial look of the vehicle, and also sometimes have some sheetmetal off the previous model, as a disguise. Every major car mag will publish the occasional 'Spy Shot' of an upcoming model that was spotted on the road by some enterprising photog. Hiding styling is very important, as the design cycle on styling is short, and often certain styles end up as fads, hiding styling until the pre-release marketing is started is a major issue.
No, the models were a rollback. The OS 9 Machines were Single CPU only and slower than the OS X models until the G5 was announced, then they rolled back the models (And massively dropped the price, previously Apple had jacked the price of the OS 9 machines up). So the best way to characterize the rollback is the OS 9 machines got a speed boost and added DP models.
No, the 12" couldn't support 2GB of RAM. It only has 1 ram slot.
It can support up to 1152MB of RAM, since the current memory controller only supports up to 1GB DIMMs. The availability of 1GB SO-DIMMs did bump the Max RAM capacity though.
Get a copy of an app called AppleKeys, available from download.com, it maps the alt & windows keys back to where you expect them to be (They're reversed when using a Mac keyboard on a PC).
IBM also still makes nice keyboards without 16 zillion stupid buttons.
Depends on MB rev. USB2.0/Firewire 800 MB's don't boot OS 9, Older boards do. CPU speed is irrelevant, as there are 1GHz systems that don't boot OS 9 and 1.25GHz systems that do.
Apple rolled back the MB rev on G4 desktops when the G5's were announced. The current shipping G4's are actually based on an older motherboard than the systems introduced in Jan 2003. The Jan 2003 models don't boot OS 9.
Microsoft makes its own mice, has since the days of the original J-Mouse. In fact it's Logitech's biggest competitor, and the inventor of the Scroll Wheel. MS Hardware is actually somewhat innovative (They invented the scroll wheel, were the first manufacturer of the modern optical mouse, made the first 4 axis joystick, and also once made an interesting phone which was integrated with a PC.) While MS software tends to be uninnovative, their hardware is not.
Because unless they do, their $400 wonder card is being bootfucked by ATI's $200 card (look at the numbers, the 9600 pro is faster than the 5900 Ultra for HL2).
And ATi's old 9500 Pro is faster than the 9600 Pro.
Radeon 9800 and GeforceFX 5900 Ultra are neck & neck on DX8 Games. (Seems the FX is a bit faster in benchmarks, 9800 in real world).
DX9 games that have been benchmarked all show a moderate to large speed advantage for the Radeon (Anywhere from 15% or so in the new Tomb Raider to the 50% advantage in HL2). Even the 9600 Pro and 9500 Pro are giving the highend FX card a run for it's money.
The FX performs about the same as the 9800 Pro at DX8 stuff (in fact the 5900 Ultra is a bit faster at DX8 performance). All previous comprehensive tests have been primarily DX8 based.
This is the first real DX9 game to come out, and the FX has already had it's DX9 performance called into question several times.
This is quite believable, ATi has heavily optimised the Radeons for DX9, and it looks like it is going to pay off for them.
The songs you are shareing ARE copyrighted. It's inherent upon creation of the song. However, the copyright holder may choose to allow you to share it, which in your case, they have.
I'm to the left of Weber, but not by much. He's much further to the right than you might think, especially in his loathing of beaurocrats (Which he comes by honestly, his problesm with INS are legion).
There's definite political commentary in the later Honor novels. It starts showing up in Honor of the Queen with the Houseman incident, and is full blown by Ashes of Victory. The difference in Weber's apprroach may have fooled you. His political bad guys aren't the Peeps (Although he doesn't like the Legislaturalists, he can be almost kind about Rob Pierre) but the Liberals of Manticore itself. Baron High Ridge is to a great extent all of Clinton's bad points, and few of his good ones.
So was the Republic of Haven 200 years before the current setting. They took some ideas that have cropped up in the US(Rather similar to the ones that are currently driving California's economy southward) and ran with them. Over about 200 years, this eventually gave them the Legislaturalists and the Mob (It's a nicer version of what happened to the US in Pournelle's CoDominium). While it is now similar to the French Revolutionary period (Well prior to the Theisman Coup) the groundwork is very much that of the left wing of the Democratic Party's platform, run amuck.
Read some of the history of Haven. It was very much like the US, went heavily into the Welfare state (think California), and ended up with a French Style revolution. The current state of Haven is very much like the 1st Republic, but it's history is very much US inspired.
The Sollies are a combination of US power and Polish Aristocracy-type politics (The necessity for unanimous consent).
Sure, they won in The Apocalypse Troll, but there's little mention of them in his other series (other than the Dahak books, and then it's more a question of Western Civilization winning).
In fact, his most popular series most definitely has the US-type society not winning. (You can make arguments on whether the Peeps or the Sollies are teh US, but Manticore is definitely the UK equivalent).
And Weber's only got one endless series universe, the Honorverse. The rest of his are either on-shot's or trilogies (Well, the Starfire stuff went 4 books, bu the last is simply the second half of the 3rd book).
And Webscriptions doesn't really serialize novels. Baen just breaks the books into the first 1/2, and the last 2 quarters. These books weren't intended for serialization.
First off, Spier's one of the few real SF writers still going to WorldCon. Look at a list of top SF writers, and note that they all went to DragonCon instead, or just didn't show to any con on Labour Day. WorldCon is so damned pretentious that the folks writing decent SF don't want anything to do with it.
And sales are down? Last I heard, Baen Books, the last bastion of Heinlein-esque SF is ramping up it's runs, because Baen's last couple of newbies are selling real well (Ringo and Flint specifically). I would suspect it is the pre-eminence of boring intellectual literature from most SF publishing houses that is killing sales, while Baen's exploding spaceships and rednect time-travellers continue to entertain. And sadly, Spider himself has fallen to this disease, his newer works simply do not compare to the original Callahan's and Lady Sally's books.
Well, it mattered culturally, and fit in quite well with the supposed origins (too few women). And the scene with the rednecks and the family photo made it for me.
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Check out the Thinkpad X Series for your uber-small laptop. It's pretty much equivalent to the 12" iBook for form factor. The Sony Viao 505's are also similar. And both offer clip on extenders that give you the features of a larger laptop (OPtical drives, PC-Cardslots, 2nd batteries)
IBM Makes 2 Docks currently. 1 is a port replicator (Intended as a portable version) and the second is a big-ass dock with a half-length PCI slot and an extra ultrabay.
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You obviously haven't grasped the difference between a Prototype (Which is an engineering testbed) and a Show Car (Which is _often_ a mock up or has an onlder driveline). The Cadillac 12 and Cien Show cars were just that, one offs for the show circuit, not prototypes.
Engineering and Marketing do NOT use the same vehicles, and prototypes are rarely pretty enough for Show use anyways (Since the SHeet metal is finalized late in the design cycle anyways.)
What you see at a car show is a mock-up not a prototype. It's often as not either not a functional vehicle, or it will be built from a current vehicle )Forex: The original Viper prototype was built on top of a shortened Durango fram and driveline. These are generally used for testing out the reaction to the styling. Very rarely do you see anything built as is. Chrysler did do this a couple of times (Prowler & Viper) due to extremely good reactions and easy engineering (Viper is heavily Durango based, Prowler's drive line is almost straight from an LH car).
Prototypes are used for enjineering and performance testing. They often wear covering to disguise the actial look of the vehicle, and also sometimes have some sheetmetal off the previous model, as a disguise. Every major car mag will publish the occasional 'Spy Shot' of an upcoming model that was spotted on the road by some enterprising photog. Hiding styling is very important, as the design cycle on styling is short, and often certain styles end up as fads, hiding styling until the pre-release marketing is started is a major issue.
No, the models were a rollback. The OS 9 Machines were Single CPU only and slower than the OS X models until the G5 was announced, then they rolled back the models (And massively dropped the price, previously Apple had jacked the price of the OS 9 machines up). So the best way to characterize the rollback is the OS 9 machines got a speed boost and added DP models.
The Jan PowerMacs don't, the Jan 15 inch was not a real change from the previous (Only the CPU changed)
No, the 12" couldn't support 2GB of RAM. It only has 1 ram slot.
It can support up to 1152MB of RAM, since the current memory controller only supports up to 1GB DIMMs. The availability of 1GB SO-DIMMs did bump the Max RAM capacity though.
Yes there are, from Apple.
Get a copy of an app called AppleKeys, available from download.com, it maps the alt & windows keys back to where you expect them to be (They're reversed when using a Mac keyboard on a PC).
IBM also still makes nice keyboards without 16 zillion stupid buttons.
They disappeared for a while with the unlamented iMac/B&W G3 Keyboard. They came back with the Pro Keyboard, introduced with the original DP G4's.
Depends on MB rev. USB2.0/Firewire 800 MB's don't boot OS 9, Older boards do. CPU speed is irrelevant, as there are 1GHz systems that don't boot OS 9 and 1.25GHz systems that do.
Apple rolled back the MB rev on G4 desktops when the G5's were announced. The current shipping G4's are actually based on an older motherboard than the systems introduced in Jan 2003. The Jan 2003 models don't boot OS 9.
Yeah, but when you buy Corporate hardware, you don't go to Oracle. You go to Sun, HP or Compaq.
You don't buy Hardware from a DB company or DB software from a Hardware company (Unless it's IBM, which does everything)
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Nope, completely untrue.
Microsoft makes its own mice, has since the days of the original J-Mouse. In fact it's Logitech's biggest competitor, and the inventor of the Scroll Wheel. MS Hardware is actually somewhat innovative (They invented the scroll wheel, were the first manufacturer of the modern optical mouse, made the first 4 axis joystick, and also once made an interesting phone which was integrated with a PC.) While MS software tends to be uninnovative, their hardware is not.
Because unless they do, their $400 wonder card is being bootfucked by ATI's $200 card (look at the numbers, the 9600 pro is faster than the 5900 Ultra for HL2).
And ATi's old 9500 Pro is faster than the 9600 Pro.
You're missing the fine print.
Radeon 9800 and GeforceFX 5900 Ultra are neck & neck on DX8 Games. (Seems the FX is a bit faster in benchmarks, 9800 in real world).
DX9 games that have been benchmarked all show a moderate to large speed advantage for the Radeon (Anywhere from 15% or so in the new Tomb Raider to the 50% advantage in HL2). Even the 9600 Pro and 9500 Pro are giving the highend FX card a run for it's money.
Because feature and support-wise DX9 is way ahead of OpenGL for gaming.
It sucks, but it is the case, and will be until OpenGL Matures.
And the Linux market for games makes the Mac gaming market look huge. HL2 will eventually show up on the Mac, but don't bet on Linux.
The FX performs about the same as the 9800 Pro at DX8 stuff (in fact the 5900 Ultra is a bit faster at DX8 performance). All previous comprehensive tests have been primarily DX8 based.
This is the first real DX9 game to come out, and the FX has already had it's DX9 performance called into question several times.
This is quite believable, ATi has heavily optimised the Radeons for DX9, and it looks like it is going to pay off for them.
The songs you are shareing ARE copyrighted. It's inherent upon creation of the song. However, the copyright holder may choose to allow you to share it, which in your case, they have.
I'm to the left of Weber, but not by much. He's much further to the right than you might think, especially in his loathing of beaurocrats (Which he comes by honestly, his problesm with INS are legion).
There's definite political commentary in the later Honor novels. It starts showing up in Honor of the Queen with the Houseman incident, and is full blown by Ashes of Victory. The difference in Weber's apprroach may have fooled you. His political bad guys aren't the Peeps (Although he doesn't like the Legislaturalists, he can be almost kind about Rob Pierre) but the Liberals of Manticore itself. Baron High Ridge is to a great extent all of Clinton's bad points, and few of his good ones.
So was the Republic of Haven 200 years before the current setting. They took some ideas that have cropped up in the US(Rather similar to the ones that are currently driving California's economy southward) and ran with them. Over about 200 years, this eventually gave them the Legislaturalists and the Mob (It's a nicer version of what happened to the US in Pournelle's CoDominium). While it is now similar to the French Revolutionary period (Well prior to the Theisman Coup) the groundwork is very much that of the left wing of the Democratic Party's platform, run amuck.
Read some of the history of Haven. It was very much like the US, went heavily into the Welfare state (think California), and ended up with a French Style revolution. The current state of Haven is very much like the 1st Republic, but it's history is very much US inspired.
The Sollies are a combination of US power and Polish Aristocracy-type politics (The necessity for unanimous consent).
Umm, hardly.
Sure, they won in The Apocalypse Troll, but there's little mention of them in his other series (other than the Dahak books, and then it's more a question of Western Civilization winning).
In fact, his most popular series most definitely has the US-type society not winning. (You can make arguments on whether the Peeps or the Sollies are teh US, but Manticore is definitely the UK equivalent).
And Weber's only got one endless series universe, the Honorverse. The rest of his are either on-shot's or trilogies (Well, the Starfire stuff went 4 books, bu the last is simply the second half of the 3rd book).
And Webscriptions doesn't really serialize novels. Baen just breaks the books into the first 1/2, and the last 2 quarters. These books weren't intended for serialization.
First off, Spier's one of the few real SF writers still going to WorldCon. Look at a list of top SF writers, and note that they all went to DragonCon instead, or just didn't show to any con on Labour Day. WorldCon is so damned pretentious that the folks writing decent SF don't want anything to do with it.
And sales are down? Last I heard, Baen Books, the last bastion of Heinlein-esque SF is ramping up it's runs, because Baen's last couple of newbies are selling real well (Ringo and Flint specifically). I would suspect it is the pre-eminence of boring intellectual literature from most SF publishing houses that is killing sales, while Baen's exploding spaceships and rednect time-travellers continue to entertain. And sadly, Spider himself has fallen to this disease, his newer works simply do not compare to the original Callahan's and Lady Sally's books.
Well, it mattered culturally, and fit in quite well with the supposed origins (too few women). And the scene with the rednecks and the family photo made it for me.