Marijuana contains THC, in several different forms. THC, and its interactions with canaboids, are the active agent.
Crack is freebased cocaine, a chemical proccess that enables the cocaine to be effectivly smoked. Freebased cocaine is not soluble in water, so can not be snorted. The 'worse side effects' part is that smoking delivers a more intense, shorter, immediate high, leading to a stronger (potential) addiction.
Yes. I'm fully aware that the Cell, as it is now, would deliver a slower experience than mid to high end computers now deliver. It would still be adequate for web surfing and wordprocessing though, leveraging 3D hardware would give a lot of snappy, and targeting content manipulating apps at the Cell's SPEs would deliver awesome speed.
The whole bitching about aid thing sucks. I am not a fan of US politics in any way, and yes, they could have done more money after the tsunami. But people in disasters don't need money, they need help. The US had 2000+ Navy personel in Indionesia in 2 days. With water purification and medical aid. That matters.
It should be obvious that the US can take care of itself financialy better than anyone. I'm sure they could use trained rescue personel from anywhere, and they're getting them. I heard today that a guy I know (search and rescue) flew down this morning (Canada). So there.
It can bond with itself, forming rings, chains, and other interesting structures. (Buckyballs, tubes, etc) It can bond with many other elements, and it's size is conducive to forming several bonds with small atoms.
Maybe it's not a given that it would be good at the common industrial uses of diamonds. As it's formed from evenly sized tubes of carbon atoms, it might not Carry a strong, sharp edge, and that it might have a grain. I imagine the structure is pretty squished though, just like diamond, only with fewer flaws.
In some googling on this, I've become confused. "ultrahard fullerene" is C-60 buckyballs compressed at high temperature also. I see many different values quoted for UHF hardness and diamond. This Russian paper gives a value of 1 TPa in 1988!
The Atkins diet works. If you can get your body into ketosis, you can eat more calories than you consume, and continue to burn fat.
There's no way it's good for you, though. Most people can lose weight through a few small changes in lifestyle. Add a 20 min walk a day and never eat mayo, for example, and you probably drop 250 calories from the average diet.
No, I'm not whining about it. I also see no obligation for Apple to help me, and they are welcome to try to stop it being done. What I do in the comfort of my home with a shrink wrapped OS X and a PC is none of their buisness.
The other question; 'Should Apple have the right to stop people from telling others how?'. I think not, and not because 1 10\/3 \/\/4r3z, but because it's more in line with the established concepts of property rights as we have them.
Regardless, I haven't installed OSX86, nor do I plan on it in the near future. If I could buy a copy of Tiger and crack it to run on my PC I would probably do it, mostly out of curiosity, but I wouldn't be bothering Apple for support.
I live in BC, in an outdoor-sports mad town, and in the depths of winter I often see folks commuting on bikes in snowstorms. That's a bit much for me, and only ride when it's dry. Last year I was very fortunate and lived ~500 feet up a mountain from town, and had many days when I could ski to town, arriving at work not too sweaty and very awake. My coworkers were all like "Dude, skis are for old people, snowboarding is where it's at.", so maybe it was holding me back. I've since moved, and will no longer be able to do that, so maybe a promotion is in my future!
I don't understand where the guy works that he can't take a bike (bad neighbourhood?) but loses brownie points for rollerblading to work. Nice old ten speeds are cheap, and the most efficient form of transportation. About the 'unproffesional' angle; Screw the promotion and live the life you want. (to the naysayers; yeah, yeah, kids, responsibilities, drug habit, whatever.)
But Apple can't go around handing out DMCA violation notices to every person running an illegal copy of their software, so they're going to lean towards something stronger.
Personally, I feel that companies have the right to try to control pirating (software, music, movies), but when I own a legal copy I should be able to run it or play it on whatever I want. I also think Joe Sixpack feels much the same, but will only know it when he runs into the coming wave of digital handcuffs. I expect a backlash.
I would give up some life expectancy for 10 IQ points, if I could have been born with it.
Several neurological and nerve diseases are associated with high IQ. I don't think I would be down with one of those, although some are milder than others.
You didn't like "Grapes of Wrath"? Huh. It is, IMHO, one of the best books ever written.
But that's just me. I havn't read any of the Potter books, and I doubt they are high art, but I see a hell of a lot of kids reading them, and that makes Rowling great in my book.
That's probably true. IQ of a population, by design, graphs as a bell curve. Graphed separately, the male curve is a little to the right and wider than the female, meaning males have more dunces and idiots.
Lynn and others have published on this before. I haven't read this paper, but "men are smarter" is probably still a gross oversimplification of the data.
If I had a manager who could work to keep me out of meetings, instead of a manager who measures how well their doing by the number of meetings had, I might still have a job!
The XServe has my vote as the sexiest rack mount server, but I'm not physically exposed to server hardware too often. Are there any other superslick servers out there?
I don't know for sure, but my bet is yes, the linux installed will ship with gcc. IST wants this CPU everywhere. They want onto the desktop and into content creation systems. They've released a complete description of the CPU (apparently, I havn't read it), and released patches for linux already. I think that they (and possibly Nintendo) are going to try to leverage openness this time around, like we all always knew they could.
It could make an awesome base for a PC! Look at it this way; 90% of the CPU load on the average PC is integer calculations. 90% of the tasks people are doing on PCs have been done fast enough for years; think web surfing, email, word processing. The few times machines hit full load for any length of time is when the user is doing something like rendering video/audio, PS filters and gaming, all areas that could shine* on the Cells SPEs.
Intel and AMD, with market share to keep, have chosen to tackle the MHz-cap by going symmetrically multicore. The IBM-Sony-Toshiba alliance was free to tackle it differently, and I think they might be on to something. Remember that Cell is a family of CPUs, not just the one chip. Future versions might be even better suited for a PC.
* And by 'shine' I mean 'like a supernova'. The known demos of the Cell in action promise a leap in power (in this class of problem) bigger that getting an 8087 gave us back in the day.
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Not as bad as this one.
The OP obviously knows all that. News Flash; Computers in corporate enviroments are expected to run at very high load, 24/7.
Crack is freebased cocaine, a chemical proccess that enables the cocaine to be effectivly smoked. Freebased cocaine is not soluble in water, so can not be snorted. The 'worse side effects' part is that smoking delivers a more intense, shorter, immediate high, leading to a stronger (potential) addiction.
Yes. I'm fully aware that the Cell, as it is now, would deliver a slower experience than mid to high end computers now deliver. It would still be adequate for web surfing and wordprocessing though, leveraging 3D hardware would give a lot of snappy, and targeting content manipulating apps at the Cell's SPEs would deliver awesome speed.
It should be obvious that the US can take care of itself financialy better than anyone. I'm sure they could use trained rescue personel from anywhere, and they're getting them. I heard today that a guy I know (search and rescue) flew down this morning (Canada). So there.
It can bond with itself, forming rings, chains, and other interesting structures. (Buckyballs, tubes, etc) It can bond with many other elements, and it's size is conducive to forming several bonds with small atoms.
Yeah, that's like, a lot of squeegeing.
In some googling on this, I've become confused. "ultrahard fullerene" is C-60 buckyballs compressed at high temperature also. I see many different values quoted for UHF hardness and diamond. This Russian paper gives a value of 1 TPa in 1988!
PS. In the US, we spell "vegetables", "fries".
There's no way it's good for you, though. Most people can lose weight through a few small changes in lifestyle. Add a 20 min walk a day and never eat mayo, for example, and you probably drop 250 calories from the average diet.
Wow. Did slashdot start going downhill that fast?
The other question; 'Should Apple have the right to stop people from telling others how?'. I think not, and not because 1 10\/3 \/\/4r3z, but because it's more in line with the established concepts of property rights as we have them.
Regardless, I haven't installed OSX86, nor do I plan on it in the near future. If I could buy a copy of Tiger and crack it to run on my PC I would probably do it, mostly out of curiosity, but I wouldn't be bothering Apple for support.
I don't understand where the guy works that he can't take a bike (bad neighbourhood?) but loses brownie points for rollerblading to work. Nice old ten speeds are cheap, and the most efficient form of transportation. About the 'unproffesional' angle; Screw the promotion and live the life you want. (to the naysayers; yeah, yeah, kids, responsibilities, drug habit, whatever.)
Personally, I feel that companies have the right to try to control pirating (software, music, movies), but when I own a legal copy I should be able to run it or play it on whatever I want. I also think Joe Sixpack feels much the same, but will only know it when he runs into the coming wave of digital handcuffs. I expect a backlash.
Several neurological and nerve diseases are associated with high IQ. I don't think I would be down with one of those, although some are milder than others.
But that's just me. I havn't read any of the Potter books, and I doubt they are high art, but I see a hell of a lot of kids reading them, and that makes Rowling great in my book.
Lynn and others have published on this before. I haven't read this paper, but "men are smarter" is probably still a gross oversimplification of the data.
If I had a manager who could work to keep me out of meetings, instead of a manager who measures how well their doing by the number of meetings had, I might still have a job!
The XServe has my vote as the sexiest rack mount server, but I'm not physically exposed to server hardware too often. Are there any other superslick servers out there?
I don't know for sure, but my bet is yes, the linux installed will ship with gcc. IST wants this CPU everywhere. They want onto the desktop and into content creation systems. They've released a complete description of the CPU (apparently, I havn't read it), and released patches for linux already. I think that they (and possibly Nintendo) are going to try to leverage openness this time around, like we all always knew they could.
Intel and AMD, with market share to keep, have chosen to tackle the MHz-cap by going symmetrically multicore. The IBM-Sony-Toshiba alliance was free to tackle it differently, and I think they might be on to something. Remember that Cell is a family of CPUs, not just the one chip. Future versions might be even better suited for a PC.
* And by 'shine' I mean 'like a supernova'. The known demos of the Cell in action promise a leap in power (in this class of problem) bigger that getting an 8087 gave us back in the day.
Yes it does (pass vga=0x31F to the kernel). Text is quite readable on my display, but YMMV depending on video card, compiled in fonts, and moitor.
"Ask Slashdot: Building Secures Computers?" posted by Cliff @ 7:32PM.
He'll pass out by 10, I bet.