In such climates with low humidity you can use a much simpler system - you simply blow outside air over a pool of water. The water evaporates, absorbing energy from the air, cooling the air down. This uses far less energy than an aircon unit.
He's a marketroid in what was and should be primarily an engineering driven organization.
How do you figure this? These so-called maretroids are the ones that know what needs to be built to keep the company successful. Intel should be a market driven company. In order to do that, you need an extremely good marketing group and a CEO from this background can be very beneficial. No engineering driven company can last because while the products might be well made, they make the wrong products.
Add me as one data point there. I don't enjoy FPS games at all, but I do enjoy game that I can play for an hour or so, watch some pretty graphics, have a but of fun and then put it down when there's something else to do. I will be getting a Wii because it has the games that I care about, because the others are too expensive for casual gaming, and I have never been able to use the PS/XBox controllers. They just have too many buttons and wiggly bits.
I had good results with JProfiler when tracking down some memory leaks in our Java app. Found out we were hanging on to some references much longer than we should have. JProfiler lets you snapshot counts of objects (after GC), do this again after a 'test run', and then find the offending objects. You can then locate where they were allocated, who is still holding on to them and so forth. Neat.
The longhorn reset simply means they tossed away all their changes they had been doing based on the XP codebase, and restarted on the 2003 codebase. It doesn't mean they started from scratch, it means they restarted the project - one of the reasons that Vista has been so delayed.
I am not sure if you have used OS X much of late (I'm typing this on my Mini) but there's a huge amount of stuff in OS X that doesn't exist in XP - spotlight searching, the iLife apps - iPhoto in particular, expose, built in RSS reader, local user security. Vista gets a few of these - the searching, the local user security stuff and I guess you equate media center with iPhoto. I can't really comment on that.
I can't see how you can claim that Aero has a negligible impact on performace. My XP laptop is capable of running Vista, but is a country mile off being able to run Aero. It's a 1 year old laptop, 1GB RAM, Centrino, 32MB of video memory.
The bottom line for you is that you've clearly bought in to the Vista hype. There's a big, wide world out there that Microsoft didn't produce. You should try it some time.
Currently in China you have two options -
Buy a pirated DVD. This will be a single layer DVD, and the subtitles/language can be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes you get English, sometimes Chinglish, sometimes nothing. Since it is single layer, it looks worse. These cost about $1-$1.50
Buy a real DVD from large shops. These tend to weigh in at more like $5, but have decent quality, and languages.
For me visiting, I wanted the quality so I bought dozens of real DVDs (and some pirated ones when I couldn't find the real ones), but the vast majority of locals buy the pirated ones. Remember these are the people that download DiVx and think the quality is OK.
Just as stock exchanges and other markets have created the flow of money that has been the foundation of modern capitalism and the greatest wealth engine in the history of mankind, a market for innovation may well be the next step.
How often is the person with the idea and the vision the guy with the business smarts to capitalize on it? How often does a company with excellent execution thirst for the next big idea? A marketplace for ideas and innovation is possibly the solution to this.
It may be unpopular here, but in order to make such a market work properly, it's necessary to have the necessary protection for ideas and innovations - i.e., intellectual property laws need to be improved. That isn't to say that draconian laws are needed, but if I have an idea, I need a reasonable expectation that I will not get fleeced by offering it on a marketplace.
An efficient innovation market backed up by appropriate laws may well be the next driver of wealth.
Remember that currently the US government spends more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the average OECD - that amount is then doubled when you include the private spend.
In most socialized health countries, the public hospitals offer timely services for critical and accident and emergency coverage. Where they tend to fall down is what is known as 'elective' surgery. Often however this can mean the difference between life and death or at least a huge quality of life difference.
Most socialized health countries also have a parallel private stream that cater for these kinds of services. I live in such a country, and pay $400 per year in health insurance for the private sector - in case I need such elective surgery.
Dude - where does the energy come from? Hydrogen isn't an energy source. It has to be produced somehow (from the water...) requiring more energy than you can liberate. You still then need power plants powered by something - gas? wind? What?
Often companies will use a 3rd party auditor - particularly if they don't have the skills themselves. We've been through that several times, no problems. They can also help by spotting things you weren't.
You know, every player is unlockable somehow. In New Zealand all players are region free - no messing around with zones. The retailers open them up and fix them before selling them.
Yeah, we had a real tight spot once - not enough devs. One of our mediocre devs thought he could capitalize, and demanded a much bigger raise than the paltry one we gave him. We refused, and he quit. We accepted it and said good-bye. 3 days later he changed his mind - wanted his job back. We refused.
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Are you serious? What kind of company would do that? It's madness!
In such climates with low humidity you can use a much simpler system - you simply blow outside air over a pool of water. The water evaporates, absorbing energy from the air, cooling the air down. This uses far less energy than an aircon unit.
How do you figure this? These so-called maretroids are the ones that know what needs to be built to keep the company successful. Intel should be a market driven company. In order to do that, you need an extremely good marketing group and a CEO from this background can be very beneficial. No engineering driven company can last because while the products might be well made, they make the wrong products.
Add me as one data point there. I don't enjoy FPS games at all, but I do enjoy game that I can play for an hour or so, watch some pretty graphics, have a but of fun and then put it down when there's something else to do. I will be getting a Wii because it has the games that I care about, because the others are too expensive for casual gaming, and I have never been able to use the PS/XBox controllers. They just have too many buttons and wiggly bits.
I had good results with JProfiler when tracking down some memory leaks in our Java app. Found out we were hanging on to some references much longer than we should have. JProfiler lets you snapshot counts of objects (after GC), do this again after a 'test run', and then find the offending objects. You can then locate where they were allocated, who is still holding on to them and so forth. Neat.
I was looking at OS X, not Linux. Who cares about your rant?
The longhorn reset simply means they tossed away all their changes they had been doing based on the XP codebase, and restarted on the 2003 codebase. It doesn't mean they started from scratch, it means they restarted the project - one of the reasons that Vista has been so delayed.
I am not sure if you have used OS X much of late (I'm typing this on my Mini) but there's a huge amount of stuff in OS X that doesn't exist in XP - spotlight searching, the iLife apps - iPhoto in particular, expose, built in RSS reader, local user security. Vista gets a few of these - the searching, the local user security stuff and I guess you equate media center with iPhoto. I can't really comment on that.
I can't see how you can claim that Aero has a negligible impact on performace. My XP laptop is capable of running Vista, but is a country mile off being able to run Aero. It's a 1 year old laptop, 1GB RAM, Centrino, 32MB of video memory.
The bottom line for you is that you've clearly bought in to the Vista hype. There's a big, wide world out there that Microsoft didn't produce. You should try it some time.
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But in most ADT messages, EV1 is a required segment! I don't understand. Is this part of HL7 v3?
I think those that owned stock in Time Warner may disagree.
Real DVDs in China are already $5. Pirated ones are $1 or so.
Currently in China you have two options - Buy a pirated DVD. This will be a single layer DVD, and the subtitles/language can be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes you get English, sometimes Chinglish, sometimes nothing. Since it is single layer, it looks worse. These cost about $1-$1.50 Buy a real DVD from large shops. These tend to weigh in at more like $5, but have decent quality, and languages. For me visiting, I wanted the quality so I bought dozens of real DVDs (and some pirated ones when I couldn't find the real ones), but the vast majority of locals buy the pirated ones. Remember these are the people that download DiVx and think the quality is OK.
And yes, they do rock - you just try going back to some blunt knife that can't cut a tomato afterwards!
How often is the person with the idea and the vision the guy with the business smarts to capitalize on it? How often does a company with excellent execution thirst for the next big idea? A marketplace for ideas and innovation is possibly the solution to this.
It may be unpopular here, but in order to make such a market work properly, it's necessary to have the necessary protection for ideas and innovations - i.e., intellectual property laws need to be improved. That isn't to say that draconian laws are needed, but if I have an idea, I need a reasonable expectation that I will not get fleeced by offering it on a marketplace.
An efficient innovation market backed up by appropriate laws may well be the next driver of wealth.
40 Mg is 40 Megagrams - which is 40 Tons.
Nah, it's more like a "Where the bloody hell are you?" kinda place.
Best Wiki I have ever used.
Remember that currently the US government spends more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than the average OECD - that amount is then doubled when you include the private spend.
In most socialized health countries, the public hospitals offer timely services for critical and accident and emergency coverage. Where they tend to fall down is what is known as 'elective' surgery. Often however this can mean the difference between life and death or at least a huge quality of life difference.
Most socialized health countries also have a parallel private stream that cater for these kinds of services. I live in such a country, and pay $400 per year in health insurance for the private sector - in case I need such elective surgery.
I got an error popup when I tried to search - that's firefox. Live has never worked in Safari.
JIRA is great! http://www.atlassian.com.au/
Dude - where does the energy come from? Hydrogen isn't an energy source. It has to be produced somehow (from the water...) requiring more energy than you can liberate. You still then need power plants powered by something - gas? wind? What?
Often companies will use a 3rd party auditor - particularly if they don't have the skills themselves. We've been through that several times, no problems. They can also help by spotting things you weren't.
You know, every player is unlockable somehow. In New Zealand all players are region free - no messing around with zones. The retailers open them up and fix them before selling them.
Perfect!
Yikes, is that a record? I knew it was a dupe within 50 milliseconds.