It's a lens flare. Your photo was ruined by you pointing your camera at a very bright light source. Any other camera would've also ruined your picture with a lens flare, just not a purple one. Ruined with purple or ruined without purple, your photo is still ruined because you suck at photography.
I've heard/read that most caffeine that ends up in soda and energy drinks is the caffeine that's pulled out of coffee during the decaffeination process. If all coffee growers switch to naturally caffeine-free coffee, won't that drastically reduce the supply of caffeine as an ingredient, causing its price and therefore Mt. Dew's price to spike? Uh....
Mod parent up. My first thoughts were JMS, MQ Series, or Tibco Rendezvous. In my experience, MQ Series is freakin' bullet proof, and Tibco Rendezvous is a poser in comparison.
This reminds me of a headline I saw a couple of years ago where the "Judge Deals Blow to Koby Bryant," which seems more likely than a judge dealing blow to the RIAA.
Sorry to nit, but since we are flexing our geek muscles here (the only muscles I have), Data has actually used contractions on occasion. According to Memory Alpha, "...Data also had trouble using contractions in regular speech although this was part of his programming by Dr. Soong." So apparently, it was possible for Data to use contractions, but not without difficulty and, therefore, rarity.
I'm willing to concede that HRB and MS have a marketing relationship. What I was trying to say is that there is no technical relationship. MS does not do any processing for HRB. After all, isn't it's MS technical ability that we're all worried about, not their marketing?
I do wish that I had found something other than TaxCut (= HR Block + Microsoft).
What in the world are you talking about? Taxcut is part of H&R Block. That's it. Sure, Block usually offers MS Money at a discount/free if you buy Taxcut, but trust me, that's the extent of the relationship.
With the entire Mac world abuzz with (often conflicting) reports of the Apple transition to the IBM PowerPC 970 processor family, we have decided to report a summary of all that we know at this time... not from regurgitated rumors obtained from other web sites, but from our own OEM contacts in the Apple supply pipeline.
We have no software information sources; all information we receive comes from people working in various positions in and around plants in Taiwan that actually supply parts or perform hardware assembly operations on Apple products. So, we have to leave the software speculation to sites such as Think Secret and, it now seems, eWeek.
What we know at this point is as follows:
- The IBM PPC 970 chips are now actually in volume production for only two specific end uses: IBM's own servers, and for Apple Computer.
- The plant contracted for assembly of the new Power Mac is now actually manufacturing production Power Macs with single PPC 970 processors.
- The plant contracted for assembly of the new 15.4-inch Powerbook has just now begun manufacturing production Powerbooks with the PPC 970 processor.
- The new Power Mac has a sister model with a 2-processor motherboard that is not yet in actual production, but that could be put into production at any time.
- The new Power Mac has a new case design with "metallic look plastics," and a front panel "mostly made with the same anodized aluminum surface" as the newest Powerbooks.
- The new Power Mac retains "handles," though not in the same form as the current design.
We have no sources or contacts within Apple Computer, so we cannot state that company's actual release plans for these products. However, we can say that both the new PPC 970 Power Mac and Powerbook will have substantial inventory already produced by the time of the upcoming WWDC keynote.
In closing, we want to address the performance of the new PPC 970 machines, as we do have direct information on this topic, and we consider that information to be highly reliable. Despite the recent flurry of confusing claims published by eWeek and others, we stand by our report that the new Power Mac and Powerbook have overall performance approximately 1.25 to 1.5 times that of a similarly clocked G4 on non-Altivec optimized applications. On Altivec optimized tasks, these machines have as much as 2 to 2.5 times the through performance as a similarly clocked G4. Our understanding is that this performance is occurring using bone-stock OS X 10.2.6 on pre-production single processor PPC 970 machines... an OS with none of the optimization now being rumored as being needed for supporting the PPC 970's performance potential.
Exactly what I was thinking. I have been looking into minidisc recorders (because that's what everyone else seems to be using), but this looks like a much better option than MD.
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Goddammit. I blame Feedly for putting this article in my "Today" feed.
Better get in your time machine, 'cause the AccuWeather article talking about "tonight" is from April 13.
All you need is an empty potato chip bag.
It's a lens flare. Your photo was ruined by you pointing your camera at a very bright light source. Any other camera would've also ruined your picture with a lens flare, just not a purple one. Ruined with purple or ruined without purple, your photo is still ruined because you suck at photography.
I've heard/read that most caffeine that ends up in soda and energy drinks is the caffeine that's pulled out of coffee during the decaffeination process. If all coffee growers switch to naturally caffeine-free coffee, won't that drastically reduce the supply of caffeine as an ingredient, causing its price and therefore Mt. Dew's price to spike? Uh....
... gone to stock up on Mt. Dew ...
Was there no off-the-shelf software good enough? Not for $60M? Really?
I have nothing of value to contribute to this thread, but I just had to say thank you for making me laugh out loud. Mod parent up!
Yes, as /legal/ aliens.
Yes, /legal/ immigrants.
My kingdom for mod points! Cursed booty... ha! I'm a sucker for pirate speak.
Mod parent up. My first thoughts were JMS, MQ Series, or Tibco Rendezvous. In my experience, MQ Series is freakin' bullet proof, and Tibco Rendezvous is a poser in comparison.
I think this was a competitor to the Star Wars program. It appears to be a space-based weapon of some sort.
This reminds me of a headline I saw a couple of years ago where the "Judge Deals Blow to Koby Bryant," which seems more likely than a judge dealing blow to the RIAA.
Sorry to nit, but since we are flexing our geek muscles here (the only muscles I have), Data has actually used contractions on occasion. According to Memory Alpha, "...Data also had trouble using contractions in regular speech although this was part of his programming by Dr. Soong." So apparently, it was possible for Data to use contractions, but not without difficulty and, therefore, rarity.
Headline: Man robs bank with spritz-cookie gun. Demands dough. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Admittedly, I haven't RTFA, but this also seems to support that old adage.
Or lay off 3334 employees...
...it might be the first comoponent of a Tricorder. I wonder when the other two components will be invented?
I'm willing to concede that HRB and MS have a marketing relationship. What I was trying to say is that there is no technical relationship. MS does not do any processing for HRB. After all, isn't it's MS technical ability that we're all worried about, not their marketing?
who pictured giant, inflatable (soft) walls, before I RTFA?
June 09, 2003
OEM Report: The PPC 970 Transition
With the entire Mac world abuzz with (often conflicting) reports of the Apple transition to the IBM PowerPC 970 processor family, we have decided to report a summary of all that we know at this time... not from regurgitated rumors obtained from other web sites, but from our own OEM contacts in the Apple supply pipeline.
We have no software information sources; all information we receive comes from people working in various positions in and around plants in Taiwan that actually supply parts or perform hardware assembly operations on Apple products. So, we have to leave the software speculation to sites such as Think Secret and, it now seems, eWeek.
What we know at this point is as follows:
- The IBM PPC 970 chips are now actually in volume production for only two specific end uses: IBM's own servers, and for Apple Computer.
- The plant contracted for assembly of the new Power Mac is now actually manufacturing production Power Macs with single PPC 970 processors.
- The plant contracted for assembly of the new 15.4-inch Powerbook has just now begun manufacturing production Powerbooks with the PPC 970 processor.
- The new Power Mac has a sister model with a 2-processor motherboard that is not yet in actual production, but that could be put into production at any time.
- The new Power Mac has a new case design with "metallic look plastics," and a front panel "mostly made with the same anodized aluminum surface" as the newest Powerbooks.
- The new Power Mac retains "handles," though not in the same form as the current design.
We have no sources or contacts within Apple Computer, so we cannot state that company's actual release plans for these products. However, we can say that both the new PPC 970 Power Mac and Powerbook will have substantial inventory already produced by the time of the upcoming WWDC keynote.
In closing, we want to address the performance of the new PPC 970 machines, as we do have direct information on this topic, and we consider that information to be highly reliable. Despite the recent flurry of confusing claims published by eWeek and others, we stand by our report that the new Power Mac and Powerbook have overall performance approximately 1.25 to 1.5 times that of a similarly clocked G4 on non-Altivec optimized applications. On Altivec optimized tasks, these machines have as much as 2 to 2.5 times the through performance as a similarly clocked G4. Our understanding is that this performance is occurring using bone-stock OS X 10.2.6 on pre-production single processor PPC 970 machines... an OS with none of the optimization now being rumored as being needed for supporting the PPC 970's performance potential.
IP FireWire. Sounds like you need some antibiotics. (Ba-doom ching!)
The babel fish translation:
"Jose beat with the foot and he was not crippled very, but as it is chorão, he cried very."
Um... OK. Did I say babel fish? I meant Yoda fish. My bad.
Exactly what I was thinking. I have been looking into minidisc recorders (because that's what everyone else seems to be using), but this looks like a much better option than MD.