I've used my debit card probably 10,000 times and never once been asked why it's not signed. I've never signed any of the credit cards I've owned. Come steal from me:P
Insurance company statistics are there for a reason. They know that 95% of 20-something Camaro drivers are aggressive drivers and cause more accidents. This isn't going to change because someone put a black box in their car. If anything, this is a ploy to charge higher rates for aggressive drivers. Why would insurance companies try to spread something like this if it wasn't to increase profits? The 95% of Camaro drivers will get their rates jacked up, while the 5% that are in a mid-life crisis will get a slightly lower rate.
I had an automatic 2003 Toyota Corolla. I got about 35mpg on highway, 27mpg in the city on average. I had a 6 mile (one-way) commute to work, as well as a daily commute to somewhere (about 10 miles on average). The key to keeping the newer econoboxes with variable valve timing from using tons of gas is staying out of the range that the second set of camshafts kick in. The primary set of cam lobes that are active at what I believe to be less than 3500rpm on the Corolla are GREAT for gas mileage. The "high performance" cam lobes are designed to give the car good pulling power when accelerating, as well as give it a decent HP figure on the dyno (marketing). I'm a very aggressive driver, and this dropped my gas mileage to 25-28mpg, even on a 1.8L 130HP engine. I now have a 2000 Honda S2000, which serves me well at 21-22mpg even flooring it everywhere:).
FYI: Increasing your tire pressure also reduces the amount of grip your car has (softer tires grip better), which is a safety concern in wet / slippery weather. Don't do this in the winter!
Seriously though, Mac's are great. It's UNIX with none of the drawbacks, and is a nice GUI with none of the tedium / lack of power. Fabulous. I suppose this really doesn't help the poster though. So I'll probalby get mod'd Troll or Offtopic.
It's interesting how people are just now noticeing that the UN is completely useless when the US ignores it's resolutions. Let's consider how Iraq continuously ignored the UN and toyed with UNSCOM inspectors. Of course, when this was happening, nobody in the media dare say that the UN resolutions mean nothing and are completely voluntary.
Have you seen the heat sink and fan combos on modern PCs? Not to mention the insane amount of noise most of them produce. The PowerMac G5's heat sinks are engineered to require less fan power, so they're bigger. The thing runs almost silently. Notebook processors are also re-engineered and contain speedstepping circuitry to reduce power consumption and subsequently, heat dissipation. Also, due to the increased profit margin on the G5 systems, as the chips are cheaper then the G4's, I'm sure Apple is motivated to move to the G5 platform for everything.
The sad thing is that the $650k that register.com is having to pay out will probably hurt some of their employees. It's not a very high margin business.
Additionally, Apple has very little of a track-record with enterprise servers. It wasn't until a few years ago that they managed to properly implement multitasking and multithreading, and to do it, they basically admitted to themselves they weren't ever going to figure it out so they copped the BSD kernel instead.
I'd say stealing the BSD kernel is a bit of a stretch. Apple bought NeXT in 96-ish and got their spinoff of the Mach-based kernel architecture (formerly used in NeXTSTeP) which is roughly based on BSD Lite2. They used it for Darwin. The sockets implementation and most of the command-line tools are almost exact copies of BSD, though. I've seen OpenBSD in a man page footnote in Mac OS X!
The fact that there are companies like IBM out there with thousands of patents that are using Linux for their business purposes, as well as the fact that Linux itself is not a legal entity, since it is owned by thousands of individuals. Going after the individuals would be futile, and you can't attack the heads of the project since they could disclaim any liability for code written by another person.
It justified the cost when we were all chugging along on our PC100 SDRAM machines while O2's smoked us at 2.1GB/sec, but now modern PCs have more memory bandwidth (almost twice) than high-priced SGI workstations?
When they make hybrid cars that are normal sized (ie: not made for small Japanese families and earthy college students), then people will start buying them. I'll wait until something Camry-sized has a hybrid engine.
=== RUNNING PERFORMANCE PROFILER ON JAVA APP === ! Performance Tip: Please use C++, instead of Java. This should lead to a noticeable performance increase. Launching "java" process...
Almost everything good about OS X has nothing to do with it's performance, so how does your stupid "it's SUPAR OPTIZMIZED!!11" idea fit in? Another fact: Video game consoles DO NOT have "better graphics" than the PC.
Holy crap... if you only knew how terribly buggy Netscape is. There are so many workarounds web designers have to implement to get around the fact that Netscape 4 has a poor HTML/CSS implementation. Creating a dynamic (Uses things like "CSS" and "JavaScript") web site that works in both Netscape 4.x and well-made browsers is hell.
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I like how everyone is so for campaign finance reform until it affects their little part of the world. How dare they!
I've used my debit card probably 10,000 times and never once been asked why it's not signed. I've never signed any of the credit cards I've owned. Come steal from me :P
Insurance company statistics are there for a reason. They know that 95% of 20-something Camaro drivers are aggressive drivers and cause more accidents. This isn't going to change because someone put a black box in their car. If anything, this is a ploy to charge higher rates for aggressive drivers. Why would insurance companies try to spread something like this if it wasn't to increase profits? The 95% of Camaro drivers will get their rates jacked up, while the 5% that are in a mid-life crisis will get a slightly lower rate.
I had an automatic 2003 Toyota Corolla. I got about 35mpg on highway, 27mpg in the city on average. I had a 6 mile (one-way) commute to work, as well as a daily commute to somewhere (about 10 miles on average). The key to keeping the newer econoboxes with variable valve timing from using tons of gas is staying out of the range that the second set of camshafts kick in. The primary set of cam lobes that are active at what I believe to be less than 3500rpm on the Corolla are GREAT for gas mileage. The "high performance" cam lobes are designed to give the car good pulling power when accelerating, as well as give it a decent HP figure on the dyno (marketing). I'm a very aggressive driver, and this dropped my gas mileage to 25-28mpg, even on a 1.8L 130HP engine. I now have a 2000 Honda S2000, which serves me well at 21-22mpg even flooring it everywhere :).
FYI: Increasing your tire pressure also reduces the amount of grip your car has (softer tires grip better), which is a safety concern in wet / slippery weather. Don't do this in the winter!
or... he could get a Mac.
Seriously though, Mac's are great. It's UNIX with none of the drawbacks, and is a nice GUI with none of the tedium / lack of power. Fabulous. I suppose this really doesn't help the poster though. So I'll probalby get mod'd Troll or Offtopic.
It's interesting how people are just now noticeing that the UN is completely useless when the US ignores it's resolutions. Let's consider how Iraq continuously ignored the UN and toyed with UNSCOM inspectors. Of course, when this was happening, nobody in the media dare say that the UN resolutions mean nothing and are completely voluntary.
What? The only purpose of computers is to process HTML, Web Graphics, and MP3s.... and for compiling the latest l33t k3rn3l p4tch3z.
Have you seen the heat sink and fan combos on modern PCs? Not to mention the insane amount of noise most of them produce. The PowerMac G5's heat sinks are engineered to require less fan power, so they're bigger. The thing runs almost silently. Notebook processors are also re-engineered and contain speedstepping circuitry to reduce power consumption and subsequently, heat dissipation. Also, due to the increased profit margin on the G5 systems, as the chips are cheaper then the G4's, I'm sure Apple is motivated to move to the G5 platform for everything.
The sad thing is that the $650k that register.com is having to pay out will probably hurt some of their employees. It's not a very high margin business.
Additionally, Apple has very little of a track-record with enterprise servers. It wasn't until a few years ago that they managed to properly implement multitasking and multithreading, and to do it, they basically admitted to themselves they weren't ever going to figure it out so they copped the BSD kernel instead.
I'd say stealing the BSD kernel is a bit of a stretch. Apple bought NeXT in 96-ish and got their spinoff of the Mach-based kernel architecture (formerly used in NeXTSTeP) which is roughly based on BSD Lite2. They used it for Darwin. The sockets implementation and most of the command-line tools are almost exact copies of BSD, though. I've seen OpenBSD in a man page footnote in Mac OS X!
Not QNX! QNX drivers run in protected mode. Hell yeah, Microkernel biznatches!
The fact that there are companies like IBM out there with thousands of patents that are using Linux for their business purposes, as well as the fact that Linux itself is not a legal entity, since it is owned by thousands of individuals. Going after the individuals would be futile, and you can't attack the heads of the project since they could disclaim any liability for code written by another person.
Memory bandwidth, eh?
Octane = 1.6GB/sec
O2 = 2.1GB/sec
Tezro = 3.2GB/sec
400MHz Dual Channel DDR = 6.4GB/sec
It justified the cost when we were all chugging along on our PC100 SDRAM machines while O2's smoked us at 2.1GB/sec, but now modern PCs have more memory bandwidth (almost twice) than high-priced SGI workstations?
Oh my God, restate your parent and get +5! Slashdot rules!
No they aren't... the MPAA even schedules major blockbuster releases so that they don't compete with eachother.
When they make hybrid cars that are normal sized (ie: not made for small Japanese families and earthy college students), then people will start buying them. I'll wait until something Camry-sized has a hybrid engine.
=== RUNNING PERFORMANCE PROFILER ON JAVA APP ===
! Performance Tip: Please use C++, instead of Java. This should lead to a noticeable performance increase.
Launching "java" process...
Seems to have worked for Honda...
The whole "there has to be a flaw" thing covers that...
Almost everything good about OS X has nothing to do with it's performance, so how does your stupid "it's SUPAR OPTIZMIZED!!11" idea fit in? Another fact: Video game consoles DO NOT have "better graphics" than the PC.
You know an airbag is only designed to work when you wear your seatbelt?
I vote DreamHost as well, very uber! They treat you like you know what you're talking about too :)
Bravo... mod parent up!
Holy crap... if you only knew how terribly buggy Netscape is. There are so many workarounds web designers have to implement to get around the fact that Netscape 4 has a poor HTML/CSS implementation. Creating a dynamic (Uses things like "CSS" and "JavaScript") web site that works in both Netscape 4.x and well-made browsers is hell.