tjstork wrote: > Good God. People are pathetic, listening to Linus as if he has great insights as to > the mysteries of the universe. He's just a kernel developer that was in the right place > at the right time to do the right thing.
AC wrote: > to do the right thing? don't you mean to rip off the right thing? linus is the guy > who made yet another version of unix and now people are acting like it's revolutionary. > he didn't really bring anything new to the table.
Sorry guys, you posted in the wrong forum. Try www.windowsforum.org:)
Linus is treated with respect here because he supports his arguments with the reasoning behind them... something that many of us still struggle to do. At least that way you can know whether you disagree with his reasoning or his facts. Props, though, to tjstork for using his real ID to say this.
Actually, from TFA he's not really the PC Magazine Editor anymore. It looks like this was his final see-ya-later editorial.
According to him, this feeling about Vista was nine-months in the making. I think that the statement says more about the magazine in that he waited until his next gig was secure before he felt that he could say this.
Don't the hard drive companies actually use both bases for prefixes? If I buy a 500 GB hard drive with 16 MB of RAM cache, that's not actually 16,000,000 bytes of cache, is it?
If you notice, non-addressable data tends to be in powers of 10, such as streaming media and hard drives, whereas addressable media is in powers of 2, such as RAMs and ROMs.
I'm personally hoping to see the 1.1 TB drive soon so that I can see the 1 in front of the capacity number.
Our judges and juries attempt to settle items that they can relate to and understand the importance of, such as loosing life, property, or liberty.
Is the judicial system really qualified to test for items such as obviousness in a technical field in order to dismissing a patent. For every witness that says it is obvious, I'm sure the opposing side will say it's not. Perhaps we should have a select group of technical judges just for this purpose.
That's because you could only open the banana using MPAA-licensed tools. You wouldn't be able to clone bananas or plant bananas to make new banana trees. Your new bananas take away potential sales of MPAA bananas. I think that this is also true of several Genetically Engineered crops (not the tools part).
I used the Parallax basic stamp to teach several robotics classes for high-school students about 9 to 6 years ago and was disappointed in it's very limited basic. As I remember, Parallax basic only allowed for "if then goto ", and not "if then else ". Further, you could only travel about 4 gosubs deep in the stack. I don't know if this has changed.
Then I found the BasicX 24 pin stamp, which is pin for pin compatible to the parallax basic stamp. The cost for one was about the same as the Parallax, but BasicX offered better volume discounts.
The BasicX programming language was modelled after Visual basic, meaning you could have functions, arrays, and even interrupts. My first post-"hello world" program was to use interrupts to blink two lights on the chip. One interval was 3.14159 seconds, the other was 2.71828 seconds. I remember the code being fairly easy to write. Unfortunately, I never taught the high school class again to see how the students latched on. Instead I moved onto finishing my graduate degree, but this chip still sticks in my head.
I strongly recommend looking at www.basicx.com before designing a curriculum.
Unfortunately NC State's Burlington Labs reactor is still easily viewable. I hope they blur it soon so the terrorists won't be able to know it's there.
When comparing fixed purchases to annual expenditures, you need to compare apples to apples.
Financing $9000 over 20 years is a more realistic comparison, because even if you can afford it, that $9000 up front is not earning interest for you.
Financing for 20 years at 6.25% (current home rates), makes a total payment of about $15,788.
I'm assuming maintenance is not needed, tax deductions, don't exist, 6.25% is feasible, and that you have no value for the space it will take up.
This means that you are really paying about $0.15 per kW hour. Not too much different, but the way of thinking might influence the decision.
Interesting. I seemed to have read the same article you are thinking of . However when I checked my latest consumer reports, it surprised me that Snapper was rated near the worst in terms of reliability.
The website requires a subscription, so it's a somewhat worthless link for this topic.
The summary of the brand repair history is that 62,000 readers who bought a mower between 2000 and 2005 reported on their reliability. Of the self-propelled mowers:
Toro had 16% repairs
Honda had 16% repairs
Troy-Bilt had (editing data so it's not direct copying) repairs
Craftsman had 18% repairs
Lawn-Boy had 21
Yard Machines had 22% repairs
Snapper had 24% repairs
John Deere had 24% repairs
So as you say, they may pride themselves on quality, but several reports show it to be the other way for their most recent lines. I'm keeping my eye on them.
Disclaimer: I don't work for any company mentioned or any competitor. Since Consumer Reports doesn't take in ad revenue, their data is not free, so I hope that they understand that this could be interpreted as an advertisement for them.
1) They're going to sell lyrics and sheet music online, say $2 to $10 each. Maybe a fee-based searchable lyric database that also lets you buy the song, ringtone, sheetmusic, or just donate money for all the times you heard the song on the radio.
2) They're trying to damage thier own sales. Clearly their profits are not correlating with thier own claims of damages. They've already made many disks less desirable by making them difficult to rip, but that doesn't reduce sales enough. By reducing sales, they can prove they were right to pursuade legeslators to enact significant power on their behalf.
3) I can't think of a three, but a list with only two entries is not epistemologically satisfactory.
Hi. I'm looking for someone to enforce my deed for lunar land. My country won't do it because it has no jurisdiction. I am trying to assemble my own army, but I have no money left since I spent most of it acquiring the entire crater out beyond the 10 mile mark of the perimeter. Please help, as my only other recourse is a contact I have in Nigeria. Thanx.
...the company's most significant new product cycle since Windows 95
Really?
I was itching for windows 2000 to come out. It finally allowed an NT based system to have all the necessary features, like USB, that Windows 98 and ME had. It finally allowed the company to drop development of those products and provide a stable, standard base for all Operating systems. What does lon^h^h^h vista have that I notice as missing that will change the OS landscape?
No, it's not UWB. Unless PCs and radios are the same because they both have displays, make sound, and draw power.
Typical transmissions use a center or carrier frequency and have what's called sideband noise, which is a fairly strong signal around the carrier frequency. This sideband is information needed as part of the primary transmission, but it is noise to its neighboring frequencies. This makes your 96.6 FM station really have an allocation of 96.5 to 96.7 MHz. The tuner locks into the carrier frequency and then gathers the information from the sidebands.
Ultra wide band distributes all of its information across several frequencies (generally near 1 GHZ of bandwidth with center frequencies varying from 3 to 10 GHz) without providing any RF power above the FCC limits for stray radiation, even at the center frequency.
xMax, however, is designed for sub-GHz channels. It places a significant amount of power on the center/carrier frequency like traditional transmissions. In contrast to traditional transmissions, however, xMax spreads the sideband information over a large bandwidth and thus the power amplitude per frequency is below the FCC mandated power limits for stray radiation (like UWB).
The net effect for xMax is that the primary signal it is so narrow that it can slip in between the existing allocated channels without emitting sideband information into neighboring, already channels. This makes it attractive for a way to cram more information into limited spectrum.
It's not clear how the change to laptops will work, he conceded. "I'm sure there are going to be some adjustments. But we visited other schools using laptops. And at the schools with laptops, students were just more engaged than at non-laptop schools," he said.
Sound's like a plan!
They must have been more engaged because the laptop was teaching them, right?
We've replaced $350 worth of textbooks with $850 worth of electronics. Let's see if they get smarter.
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tjstork wrote:
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> Good God. People are pathetic, listening to Linus as if he has great insights as to
> the mysteries of the universe. He's just a kernel developer that was in the right place
> at the right time to do the right thing.
AC wrote:
> to do the right thing? don't you mean to rip off the right thing? linus is the guy
> who made yet another version of unix and now people are acting like it's revolutionary.
> he didn't really bring anything new to the table.
Sorry guys, you posted in the wrong forum. Try www.windowsforum.org
Linus is treated with respect here because he supports his arguments with the reasoning behind them... something that many of us still struggle to do. At least that way you can know whether you disagree with his reasoning or his facts. Props, though, to tjstork for using his real ID to say this.
Actually, from TFA he's not really the PC Magazine Editor anymore. It looks like this was his final see-ya-later editorial. According to him, this feeling about Vista was nine-months in the making. I think that the statement says more about the magazine in that he waited until his next gig was secure before he felt that he could say this.
Don't the hard drive companies actually use both bases for prefixes?
If I buy a 500 GB hard drive with 16 MB of RAM cache, that's not actually 16,000,000 bytes of cache, is it?
If you notice, non-addressable data tends to be in powers of 10, such as streaming media and hard drives, whereas addressable media is in powers of 2, such as RAMs and ROMs.
I'm personally hoping to see the 1.1 TB drive soon so that I can see the 1 in front of the capacity number.
Our judges and juries attempt to settle items that they can relate to and understand the importance of, such as loosing life, property, or liberty.
Is the judicial system really qualified to test for items such as obviousness in a technical field in order to dismissing a patent. For every witness that says it is obvious, I'm sure the opposing side will say it's not. Perhaps we should have a select group of technical judges just for this purpose.
>Notice that is really is hard to tell the nut job from the wack job.
One is 20 bucks, the other is 25.
That's because you could only open the banana using MPAA-licensed tools. You wouldn't be able to clone bananas or plant bananas to make new banana trees. Your new bananas take away potential sales of MPAA bananas. I think that this is also true of several Genetically Engineered crops (not the tools part).
He hates these cans!
1985: Commodore announces the high-end Commodore as the Amiga, which means girlfriend in Spanish.
2007: Commodore announces the high-end Commodore as the XX, which is the genetic signature of a girlfriend (Even Spanish ones).
Why do they think that we-OMG I WANT ONE!!!
I used the Parallax basic stamp to teach several robotics classes for high-school students about 9 to 6 years ago and was disappointed in it's very limited basic.
As I remember, Parallax basic only allowed for "if then goto ", and not "if then else ". Further, you could only travel about 4 gosubs deep in the stack. I don't know if this has changed.
Then I found the BasicX 24 pin stamp, which is pin for pin compatible to the parallax basic stamp.
The cost for one was about the same as the Parallax, but BasicX offered better volume discounts.
The BasicX programming language was modelled after Visual basic, meaning you could have functions, arrays, and even interrupts.
My first post-"hello world" program was to use interrupts to blink two lights on the chip. One interval was 3.14159 seconds, the other was 2.71828 seconds. I remember the code being fairly easy to write. Unfortunately, I never taught the high school class again to see how the students latched on. Instead I moved onto finishing my graduate degree, but this chip still sticks in my head.
I strongly recommend looking at www.basicx.com before designing a curriculum.
It it was the FCC, behind it, then they would have started with the San Onofre reactor because it most looks like Boobies
Unfortunately NC State's Burlington Labs reactor is still easily viewable. I hope they blur it soon so the terrorists won't be able to know it's there.
Actually, it's not just podcasts. This post has DRM enab(=! ïK & .áÉ d@ @Bàe@AuAÅ4t h\L gi÷W14b (2£]CD) 371 /65
When comparing fixed purchases to annual expenditures, you need to compare apples to apples. Financing $9000 over 20 years is a more realistic comparison, because even if you can afford it, that $9000 up front is not earning interest for you.
Financing for 20 years at 6.25% (current home rates), makes a total payment of about $15,788. I'm assuming maintenance is not needed, tax deductions, don't exist, 6.25% is feasible, and that you have no value for the space it will take up.
This means that you are really paying about $0.15 per kW hour. Not too much different, but the way of thinking might influence the decision.
I had a friend who farted into a jar, put a dollar in it, and give it to his little brother.
The reaction was worth the dollar.
I never realized that connection before. For those not in the know about Total Annihilation
Interesting. I seemed to have read the same article you are thinking of . However when I checked my latest consumer reports, it surprised me that Snapper was rated near the worst in terms of reliability.
The website requires a subscription, so it's a somewhat worthless link for this topic.
The summary of the brand repair history is that 62,000 readers who bought a mower between 2000 and 2005 reported on their reliability. Of the self-propelled mowers:
Toro had 16% repairs
Honda had 16% repairs
Troy-Bilt had (editing data so it's not direct copying) repairs
Craftsman had 18% repairs
Lawn-Boy had 21
Yard Machines had 22% repairs
Snapper had 24% repairs
John Deere had 24% repairs
So as you say, they may pride themselves on quality, but several reports show it to be the other way for their most recent lines. I'm keeping my eye on them.
Disclaimer: I don't work for any company mentioned or any competitor. Since Consumer Reports doesn't take in ad revenue, their data is not free, so I hope that they understand that this could be interpreted as an advertisement for them.
A couple of strategies
1) They're going to sell lyrics and sheet music online, say $2 to $10 each. Maybe a fee-based searchable lyric database that also lets you buy the song, ringtone, sheetmusic, or just donate money for all the times you heard the song on the radio.
2) They're trying to damage thier own sales. Clearly their profits are not correlating with thier own claims of damages. They've already made many disks less desirable by making them difficult to rip, but that doesn't reduce sales enough. By reducing sales, they can prove they were right to pursuade legeslators to enact significant power on their behalf.
3) I can't think of a three, but a list with only two entries is not epistemologically satisfactory.
As it is said: years in the lab can save hours in the library. Didn't evolution figure this out years ago?
Hi. I'm looking for someone to enforce my deed for lunar land. My country won't do it because it has no jurisdiction. I am trying to assemble my own army, but I have no money left since I spent most of it acquiring the entire crater out beyond the 10 mile mark of the perimeter. Please help, as my only other recourse is a contact I have in Nigeria. Thanx.
Really?
I was itching for windows 2000 to come out. It finally allowed an NT based system to have all the necessary features, like USB, that Windows 98 and ME had. It finally allowed the company to drop development of those products and provide a stable, standard base for all Operating systems.
What does lon^h^h^h vista have that I notice as missing that will change the OS landscape?
Word has it that Saudi Arabia just placed a large order for these things. Even the convicted thieves are rich.
Actually, I think he meant to say that RSS was Atom's knell in the coffin. My spelling checker says that's correct.
No, it's not UWB. Unless PCs and radios are the same because they both have displays, make sound, and draw power.
Typical transmissions use a center or carrier frequency and have what's called sideband noise, which is a fairly strong signal around the carrier frequency. This sideband is information needed as part of the primary transmission, but it is noise to its neighboring frequencies. This makes your 96.6 FM station really have an allocation of 96.5 to 96.7 MHz. The tuner locks into the carrier frequency and then gathers the information from the sidebands.
Ultra wide band distributes all of its information across several frequencies (generally near 1 GHZ of bandwidth with center frequencies varying from 3 to 10 GHz) without providing any RF power above the FCC limits for stray radiation, even at the center frequency.
xMax, however, is designed for sub-GHz channels. It places a significant amount of power on the center/carrier frequency like traditional transmissions. In contrast to traditional transmissions, however, xMax spreads the sideband information over a large bandwidth and thus the power amplitude per frequency is below the FCC mandated power limits for stray radiation (like UWB).
The net effect for xMax is that the primary signal it is so narrow that it can slip in between the existing allocated channels without emitting sideband information into neighboring, already channels. This makes it attractive for a way to cram more information into limited spectrum.
Actually the marketing word they used is "inhale".