The last time I really liked gestures was when I had a touchpad, Opera's gestures seemed more intuative on that. I don't use them now that I have a real mouse.
At least in the windows version there is a small x button on the far right, of the tab bar, that closes a tab. It isn't in exactly the same place as Opera's was, but I would occasionally kill the app when I was going for a window in opera.
If you have a tourney with viewers, I suggest a projector so the viewers can follow the ingame action, or they will get bored quite quickly. Almost every large LAN party I have been to, has had crappy equipment, having a place with a full 100BaseT switched network would really be a step up from most geek organized LAN parties.
This seems like a good application for a room full of SunRay terminals and an E250/E450 or one of the newer 480s if you have money coming out the wazoo. They come with a really cool card that stores access to all their personal preferences so when they log on, their terminal is already configured for their use. Last time someone did a study it was nearly the same upfront costs as the same number of windows running desktops and a workgroup server.
If you get the server cheap on ebay, a free license of Solaris 8, and buy the SunRays from either sun or someone else, I would guess it might be close in cost to PCs and Linux.
It also makes your life easier, since there is less administration on the single server.
They did both get a majority of electoral votes, which are the only ones that matter. Odd question, does anyone know what happens if no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes?
AMD was only cheaper for non mainstream users who purchased their own components from the grey market and assembled them. If you look at AMD's 1000 unit pricing, the are lower than Intel's but quite competitve. Last time I checked, in June, the discount of street prices to OEM prices was 40% for AMD vs. 5% for Intel. If AMD had better control over their channel, you would be singing a very different tune. Also, if AMD advertised more, pricing would be quite similar, and they would probably take more contol over their top tier buyers, similar to Intel.
Yes, Opteron will be cheaper than Itanium but might only be significantly cheaper for those who assemble their own systems.
I have a morgan core duron at 1100 mHz, with the cheapest coolermaster I could find (a friend gave it to me, when he got a CPU/fan combo K6), and it usually runs at about 50C in a small case with only the powersupply fan.
Isn't that the point of a review? I prefer biased reviews because then you get opinions rather than just lists of benchmarks. For example, the Filthy critic is quite biased in his reviews of movies, but I tend to agree with him regularly. On the other hand if Ebert doesn't like a film, I usually do. Nothing against Ebert, we just have nearly opposite taste in film. So, I still like his reviews. A review I would find useless would be something like, the film was 88 min long, shot on Kodak film, starring a list of actors, and involving this plot. For CPUs I want to know, what the review thought of it, did it seem stable, easy to OC, cool, etc. Not just table after table of frame rates and specs. I think we all can see, after a few columns, where a reviewer's sympathies currently lie and adjust.
You kids these days, when I was growing up, we had to melt sand to make transistors if we wanted our own CPUs. Then we usually had to start over because there were too many impurities in the sand to get it to work at 1 Hz. Then when we had a working CPU we had to make a 1 bit J/K flip flop to store the bit of data. We could not do much with that because no one though of keyboards we just turned leds on and off.
spam is bad to read
time for it to fall and die Bayes theory is key
Incidentally here are some rules for haiku, they really should have a nature reference if they are truly haiku, its another form of poetry if there isn't a nature reference.
My sister made more than me, per hour, and I have a professional job w/ college degree, after graduating from high school and working for resturants in the summers during college. If you have any ability to make people enjoy their meal, you can make excellent money on tips.
I wish more teachers began teaching math as a language. It wasn't until pre-calc or calc that a teacher explained they language, of couse by the time you reach calc in high school you already speak the language at a working level, but everyone who did not make it that far, probably never had that realization.
I use about 200 kWh a month in the summer and about 1000 kWh in the winter for a small apartment with electric heat in Montana. Thats almost 7,000 kWh per year, admittedly winter in Montana is not exactly usual, but a fridge computer, water heater, oven, and lights are all I use in the summer, for 1 person thats about 2400 kWh if i did not have electric heat or lived somewhere that is always temperate.
I actually keep thinking of going a little further north to Edmonton or Calgary. Although, its cold enough in the winter here in Montana. (I realize that they at least have a longer growing season up there but I believe it gets colder on the really cold days than here.) One thing that I still have not gotten used to is the higher proportion of nice cars there. Are they cheaper or do Canadians just spend more of their monthly budget on cars? Currently, I go up to take advantage of exchange rates, and great bargins on speakers. Its always a pretty fun trip.
Also, what are the taxes like? I can get used to the sales tax, but what are income tax levels up there?
Actually they do, but they charge much higher prices. 3DLabs is the best known x86 3D rendering cards, NVIDIA and ATI have some offerings as well under the Quadro and Fire brands, also SGI, SUN, HP, and IBM all sell their own proprietary cards for several thousand as well (for their respective platforms). I think the author of the article wants to purchase video game cards for the few hundred bucks they cost, do a driver update, and have something competitive with the much more expensive professional cards.
I guess what I am most curios about is how many times is Oracle, DB2, or MS SQL used when it really isn't necessary? Does any one have any ideas? From stories like mine, admittedly not very statistically significant, it seems that there are quite a few times one of the big ones is purchased, when it really is not necessary.
Trucks are exempt from the federal fleet CAFE rules. SUVs are classified as trucks, so neigher has to have the same fuel saving equipment, but it also has to meet local juristictions emmisions requirments. (Note, I don't live in an area that has emmissions tests, so I don't know if they also vary from model to model.) However just like computer speed is determined by more than more than just processor speed, there are many more things than engine size that determine speed and towing capacity. The vipers transmission and driveline are probably not heavvy enough to do towing for very many miles. Also the Viper probably does not have a heavy enough frame to attach a hitch to that will pull anythin over a few hundred pounds. So while the engine might have a larger displacement, it still cant tow better than a RAM.
Your absolutly correct, the other form of damages is called compensatory damages, which includes lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, etc. Usually these are no larger than 1-2 million unless its a wrongful death suit. My own idea for legal reform would be that all punative damages over say $1 million, goes to the government. Since it is only intended to punish the guilty party, why should the lawyers and lawsuit bringers be made rich?
Also, on the McDonald's suit, normal hot coffee (160-170 F, 70-75 C 343-348 K) doesn't give you second and third degree burns. The coffee was well above normal temperatures (its been a while but I think it was around 200 F (93C, 366 K), and the company had a pretty dumb reason for keeping it that hot, I think it saved them a batch a day if it was kept so hot. Needless to say the jury, in most states juries decide damages, and judges review them, felt that this was an aweful practice and hit McDonald's pretty hard. I can not remember if the award was later reduced, but if it was not that would indicated that it was pretty rational.
Similar mechanisms were also used by submarines to hit moving targets with torpedos. Also pilots used them well into the 1980s to aid plotting a route.
I have to agree with this, there are certainly many applications that require the name, stability, and configurability of one of the big providers. However, I have noticed a pretty distrubing trend, distrubing to me as a software analyst anyway, the firm I work with purchases loans as an investment, it buys a few hundered loans a year. They originally used a spreadsheet to track payments, balances, and other info about the loans. As this became unmanagable, it was decided that a database would be needed, they bought a new system and put oracle on it. By the time hardware, software, and the consultants were paid, the bill was quite large, all to track about 1500 loans! Say what you will about Access, but this was about the perfect application for it. MySQL or PostgreSQL would have worked, but no one there knew how to manage it. There are people who could be taught how to create and manage access, especially for something this small.
I also am beginning to believe that these sorts of applications of enterprise databases, for something like this, I would guess that most managmets would be quite receptive to a no liceses cost alterative to Oracle. This is starting to give me the hebejebes about investing in enterprise database companies.
I homeschooled for a few years 7-9 grade. It was awesome. I had the opportunity to raise calves, learn about running a business, in addition to my normal studies. Incidentally, Washington has excellent homeschooling laws, you can go in for selected classes, I took a great biology and jazz band class, while doing math, enlish, PE (unfortunately mostly yard work), and the rest at home. I went back into high school, both for the social aspects, and to have a real transcript when applying for college. We also moved to a much better school district.
For diploma's most of the homeschoolers got a GED, usually at about 16-17, and you had to take a placement test each year, but no one every saw the results. I think the state was worried because the average scores were usually quite a bit higher than the state's average.
Yeah but this picks the 15 most "interesting points" since the spams usually have certain words like offer, enlarge, a common domain, a link, etc, which the have to do to ensure sales/clicks. While normal messages contain links, it is very unlikely that a spam won't. The article mentioned that there was a new domain that the author did not catch but the software already had added as a likely indicator of spam. Also, I think it looks at what you actually have in your good message list and bad message list, and I believe it calcs the percentage from that. So unless the spams were custom tailored to match the uncommon words in your inbox, so new words could become an very likely inicator of spam one or two high percentages shouldn't throw off too many false positives.
Your point about foreign languages seems quite correct. It probably would ncrease the false positives, especially if the person had just started emailing you. But it does seem like one of the better ideas for combating spam form the user end.
Their made by casio, and really only run a few very specialized apps. The feature on them, from CNBC when they were introduced, only showed a trade ticket program. It was pretty impressive, it connects wirelessly all over the building to the traders computer showing what trades customers wish to make. It won't stop them from being largely replaced by computers though, most of the volume is already done electronically, through SuperDOT, the traders make good TV so there here for a while.
It has always surprised me that there is not a low cost disto being sold in the checkout lines at any of the major stores I shop. I do not have a Fry's nearby but Staples, Office Max, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and the others could probably sell a few, and if you got $5 retail you could probably count on $2-$3 wholesale, for something like a cheap Lycoris or Mandrake.
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The last time I really liked gestures was when I had a touchpad, Opera's gestures seemed more intuative on that. I don't use them now that I have a real mouse.
At least in the windows version there is a small x button on the far right, of the tab bar, that closes a tab. It isn't in exactly the same place as Opera's was, but I would occasionally kill the app when I was going for a window in opera.
If you have a tourney with viewers, I suggest a projector so the viewers can follow the ingame action, or they will get bored quite quickly. Almost every large LAN party I have been to, has had crappy equipment, having a place with a full 100BaseT switched network would really be a step up from most geek organized LAN parties.
This seems like a good application for a room full of SunRay terminals and an E250/E450 or one of the newer 480s if you have money coming out the wazoo. They come with a really cool card that stores access to all their personal preferences so when they log on, their terminal is already configured for their use. Last time someone did a study it was nearly the same upfront costs as the same number of windows running desktops and a workgroup server.
If you get the server cheap on ebay, a free license of Solaris 8, and buy the SunRays from either sun or someone else, I would guess it might be close in cost to PCs and Linux. It also makes your life easier, since there is less administration on the single server.
They did both get a majority of electoral votes, which are the only ones that matter. Odd question, does anyone know what happens if no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes?
AMD was only cheaper for non mainstream users who purchased their own components from the grey market and assembled them. If you look at AMD's 1000 unit pricing, the are lower than Intel's but quite competitve. Last time I checked, in June, the discount of street prices to OEM prices was 40% for AMD vs. 5% for Intel. If AMD had better control over their channel, you would be singing a very different tune. Also, if AMD advertised more, pricing would be quite similar, and they would probably take more contol over their top tier buyers, similar to Intel.
Yes, Opteron will be cheaper than Itanium but might only be significantly cheaper for those who assemble their own systems.
I have a morgan core duron at 1100 mHz, with the cheapest coolermaster I could find (a friend gave it to me, when he got a CPU/fan combo K6), and it usually runs at about 50C in a small case with only the powersupply fan.
Isn't that the point of a review? I prefer biased reviews because then you get opinions rather than just lists of benchmarks. For example, the Filthy critic is quite biased in his reviews of movies, but I tend to agree with him regularly. On the other hand if Ebert doesn't like a film, I usually do. Nothing against Ebert, we just have nearly opposite taste in film. So, I still like his reviews. A review I would find useless would be something like, the film was 88 min long, shot on Kodak film, starring a list of actors, and involving this plot. For CPUs I want to know, what the review thought of it, did it seem stable, easy to OC, cool, etc. Not just table after table of frame rates and specs. I think we all can see, after a few columns, where a reviewer's sympathies currently lie and adjust.
You kids these days, when I was growing up, we had to melt sand to make transistors if we wanted our own CPUs. Then we usually had to start over because there were too many impurities in the sand to get it to work at 1 Hz. Then when we had a working CPU we had to make a 1 bit J/K flip flop to store the bit of data. We could not do much with that because no one though of keyboards we just turned leds on and off.
spam is bad to read
time for it to fall and die
Bayes theory is key
Incidentally here are some rules for haiku, they really should have a nature reference if they are truly haiku, its another form of poetry if there isn't a nature reference.
Remember the crap from the old days did not last to today.
My sister made more than me, per hour, and I have a professional job w/ college degree, after graduating from high school and working for resturants in the summers during college. If you have any ability to make people enjoy their meal, you can make excellent money on tips.
I wish more teachers began teaching math as a language. It wasn't until pre-calc or calc that a teacher explained they language, of couse by the time you reach calc in high school you already speak the language at a working level, but everyone who did not make it that far, probably never had that realization.
I use about 200 kWh a month in the summer and about 1000 kWh in the winter for a small apartment with electric heat in Montana. Thats almost 7,000 kWh per year, admittedly winter in Montana is not exactly usual, but a fridge computer, water heater, oven, and lights are all I use in the summer, for 1 person thats about 2400 kWh if i did not have electric heat or lived somewhere that is always temperate.
I actually keep thinking of going a little further north to Edmonton or Calgary. Although, its cold enough in the winter here in Montana. (I realize that they at least have a longer growing season up there but I believe it gets colder on the really cold days than here.) One thing that I still have not gotten used to is the higher proportion of nice cars there. Are they cheaper or do Canadians just spend more of their monthly budget on cars? Currently, I go up to take advantage of exchange rates, and great bargins on speakers. Its always a pretty fun trip. Also, what are the taxes like? I can get used to the sales tax, but what are income tax levels up there?
Actually they do, but they charge much higher prices. 3DLabs is the best known x86 3D rendering cards, NVIDIA and ATI have some offerings as well under the Quadro and Fire brands, also SGI, SUN, HP, and IBM all sell their own proprietary cards for several thousand as well (for their respective platforms). I think the author of the article wants to purchase video game cards for the few hundred bucks they cost, do a driver update, and have something competitive with the much more expensive professional cards.
I guess what I am most curios about is how many times is Oracle, DB2, or MS SQL used when it really isn't necessary? Does any one have any ideas? From stories like mine, admittedly not very statistically significant, it seems that there are quite a few times one of the big ones is purchased, when it really is not necessary.
Trucks are exempt from the federal fleet CAFE rules. SUVs are classified as trucks, so neigher has to have the same fuel saving equipment, but it also has to meet local juristictions emmisions requirments. (Note, I don't live in an area that has emmissions tests, so I don't know if they also vary from model to model.) However just like computer speed is determined by more than more than just processor speed, there are many more things than engine size that determine speed and towing capacity. The vipers transmission and driveline are probably not heavvy enough to do towing for very many miles. Also the Viper probably does not have a heavy enough frame to attach a hitch to that will pull anythin over a few hundred pounds. So while the engine might have a larger displacement, it still cant tow better than a RAM.
Your absolutly correct, the other form of damages is called compensatory damages, which includes lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, etc. Usually these are no larger than 1-2 million unless its a wrongful death suit. My own idea for legal reform would be that all punative damages over say $1 million, goes to the government. Since it is only intended to punish the guilty party, why should the lawyers and lawsuit bringers be made rich?
Also, on the McDonald's suit, normal hot coffee (160-170 F, 70-75 C 343-348 K) doesn't give you second and third degree burns. The coffee was well above normal temperatures (its been a while but I think it was around 200 F (93C, 366 K), and the company had a pretty dumb reason for keeping it that hot, I think it saved them a batch a day if it was kept so hot. Needless to say the jury, in most states juries decide damages, and judges review them, felt that this was an aweful practice and hit McDonald's pretty hard. I can not remember if the award was later reduced, but if it was not that would indicated that it was pretty rational.
Similar mechanisms were also used by submarines to hit moving targets with torpedos. Also pilots used them well into the 1980s to aid plotting a route.
I have to agree with this, there are certainly many applications that require the name, stability, and configurability of one of the big providers. However, I have noticed a pretty distrubing trend, distrubing to me as a software analyst anyway, the firm I work with purchases loans as an investment, it buys a few hundered loans a year. They originally used a spreadsheet to track payments, balances, and other info about the loans. As this became unmanagable, it was decided that a database would be needed, they bought a new system and put oracle on it. By the time hardware, software, and the consultants were paid, the bill was quite large, all to track about 1500 loans! Say what you will about Access, but this was about the perfect application for it. MySQL or PostgreSQL would have worked, but no one there knew how to manage it. There are people who could be taught how to create and manage access, especially for something this small.
I also am beginning to believe that these sorts of applications of enterprise databases, for something like this, I would guess that most managmets would be quite receptive to a no liceses cost alterative to Oracle. This is starting to give me the hebejebes about investing in enterprise database companies.
I homeschooled for a few years 7-9 grade. It was awesome. I had the opportunity to raise calves, learn about running a business, in addition to my normal studies. Incidentally, Washington has excellent homeschooling laws, you can go in for selected classes, I took a great biology and jazz band class, while doing math, enlish, PE (unfortunately mostly yard work), and the rest at home. I went back into high school, both for the social aspects, and to have a real transcript when applying for college. We also moved to a much better school district. For diploma's most of the homeschoolers got a GED, usually at about 16-17, and you had to take a placement test each year, but no one every saw the results. I think the state was worried because the average scores were usually quite a bit higher than the state's average.
Yeah but this picks the 15 most "interesting points" since the spams usually have certain words like offer, enlarge, a common domain, a link, etc, which the have to do to ensure sales/clicks. While normal messages contain links, it is very unlikely that a spam won't. The article mentioned that there was a new domain that the author did not catch but the software already had added as a likely indicator of spam. Also, I think it looks at what you actually have in your good message list and bad message list, and I believe it calcs the percentage from that. So unless the spams were custom tailored to match the uncommon words in your inbox, so new words could become an very likely inicator of spam one or two high percentages shouldn't throw off too many false positives.
Your point about foreign languages seems quite correct. It probably would ncrease the false positives, especially if the person had just started emailing you. But it does seem like one of the better ideas for combating spam form the user end.
Their made by casio, and really only run a few very specialized apps. The feature on them, from CNBC when they were introduced, only showed a trade ticket program. It was pretty impressive, it connects wirelessly all over the building to the traders computer showing what trades customers wish to make. It won't stop them from being largely replaced by computers though, most of the volume is already done electronically, through SuperDOT, the traders make good TV so there here for a while.
It has always surprised me that there is not a low cost disto being sold in the checkout lines at any of the major stores I shop. I do not have a Fry's nearby but Staples, Office Max, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and the others could probably sell a few, and if you got $5 retail you could probably count on $2-$3 wholesale, for something like a cheap Lycoris or Mandrake.