Do we need to start using every country's official title so your dumb ass can understand us?
No, but that doesn't mean you can get away with it without it being incorrect. "People's republic" isn't a continent. Neither is Federal or Kingdom, in your examples.
The common usage of "Americans" refers to citizens of the United States of America, not the entire population of North and South America.
That doesn't make it less wrong. Take for example the megabyte/mebibyte usage. We are used to talk about megabytes in the computer world as a power of 2 instead of a power of 10, but this is wrong because mega is a SI prefix for a million.
but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr
Most people with digital cameras don't even know what flickr is. They email their pics to relatives or print them out, or just save them on their hard drive.
You just don't get what they meant. Let me rephrase the article's statement:
Most people that upload pictures to flickr, resize them.
where a few extra hours of daylight in the evening won't matter
You don't get "few extra hours of daylight". It's the same day. You don't get an extra hour of sleep. You don't get anything. You simply do everything one hour earlier.
Modern dual-core processors are more energy efficient then older processors.
This is irrelevant, as long as the new devices still consume more power than its older counterparts.
How much power does a machine with, for example, a pentium III compare with a core 2 duo machine?
Yes, they are getting more efficient, but this isn't enough. They need to consume less power than previous versions in order for actually mean something.
Sure, performance per watt can be better, but i tend to look at absolute values instead when i measure current.
I have an "old" athlon 64 3400, which handles my current load fine. How much power does it consume at idle and under full load? My guess is that it consumes less than these new chips, or very close. If someone has found out these values, please post them.
1) There's a power button. That shuts things down fully. ("I am going away from my computer now, but I'd like the power to be really off.")
The funny thing is that the power button does not turn off the machine. It actually makes it sleep> . A worldwide known symbol for turning off computers gets used to sleep machines.
Daewoo used to make a car called "daewoo matiz". Daewoo went broke, and chevrolet bought them, changing the name of the car to "chevrolet spark".
China found out about the impending release of the chevrolet spark, a company called Chery cloned it into the Chevy QQ. It outsells the spark 5 to 1.
Chevrolet is not amused, in fact is has a lawsuit against Chery because they copied their design (the car is pretty similar) and beat them to market too.
I am amazed that comments on his blog post are being deleted. I posted one around noon remembering him that ubuntu 6.10 uses novell software (gnome 2.16, which includes mono) and that he should be pushing novell to back out of the patent deal with microsoft instead of luring opensuse developers.
Let's see, we got cell phones so we could talk. Then the cool idea of texting (yawn). And now, a mobile phone that let's you talk into it, and convert that to text to send a text message? Wow!
Bah, speak for yourself. Everyone that wants to save some money, uses sms instead of calling for things that don't need a call.
In countries like mine, where a cell phone minute costs 0.5 USD, and almost all cell plans come with lots of SMS, having voice-translated SMS would be cool and save lots of time.
They have the geode as the summary says, and the OLPC project seems to be working for them. Why have 2 products that do the same? It only seems obvious that they had to cancel the communicator.
On my university in Maracaibo, Venezuela, we have such a course. It is called "software engineering".
You get a small team (between 8 and 10 people) and have to start and finish a product. The team must be divided in: an administrator (in charge of the product, releases, etc), analists, designers, coders and testers.
You have to meet deadlines and even dress up and have a presentation in order to "sell" the product.
Offtopic, but... Who is tagging every article "itsatrap"? Please stop abussing the tagging system. It is meant to be used to easily search for stories, not for memes or comments.
Since every version of php breaks compatibility somewhere, how hard would it be to rename all functions to maintain consistency in php6 or 7?
PHP has got to be the most inconsistent language out there. Check out this list
* Arguments and return values are extremely inconsistent
* PHP has separate functions for case insensitive operations
* PHP has inconsistent function naming
* PHP has no lexical scope
* PHP has too many functions in the core
* PHP lacks abstraction and takes TIMTOWTDI to bad extremes
Damn. 300 watts just for a single video card. And now read this part:
Having two SLI bridge connectors onboard may possibly allow users to equip systems with three G80 GeForce 8800 series graphics cards. With two SLI bridge connectors, three cards can be connected without any troubles.
One full megawatt just for running your video cards. It requires two slots and two power connectors.
My 6600gt already uses a power connector, which i found scary when i bought.
I want a video card that: -Powers up from its slot instead from the power supply -Plays current generation games fine at 1024x768.
Nokia released one "flashlight" model. I don't know the model, but loooks like the old 6120 ones and the light is white and located on the top of the unit. Works great.
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Do we need to start using every country's official title so your dumb ass can understand us?
No, but that doesn't mean you can get away with it without it being incorrect. "People's republic" isn't a continent. Neither is Federal or Kingdom, in your examples.
The common usage of "Americans" refers to citizens of the United States of America, not the entire population of North and South America.
That doesn't make it less wrong. Take for example the megabyte/mebibyte usage. We are used to talk about megabytes in the computer world as a power of 2 instead of a power of 10, but this is wrong because mega is a SI prefix for a million.
but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr
Most people with digital cameras don't even know what flickr is. They email their pics to relatives or print them out, or just save them on their hard drive.
You just don't get what they meant. Let me rephrase the article's statement:
Most people that upload pictures to flickr, resize them.
Come on, who doesn't have menumeters? It's even free. Handy little tool to know the transfer rate of your network card.
where a few extra hours of daylight in the evening won't matter
You don't get "few extra hours of daylight". It's the same day. You don't get an extra hour of sleep. You don't get anything. You simply do everything one hour earlier.
Modern dual-core processors are more energy efficient then older processors.
This is irrelevant, as long as the new devices still consume more power than its older counterparts.
How much power does a machine with, for example, a pentium III compare with a core 2 duo machine?
Yes, they are getting more efficient, but this isn't enough. They need to consume less power than previous versions in order for actually mean something.
This is about the desktop version (SQL Server Express). Companies don't run that, so this isn't much of a big deal. The regular SQL Server works fine.
Netherlands doesn't use tv antennas on roofs anymore. The article thinks anything different than an antenna must be digital.
Over 80% of netherlands use cable tv, which is analog.
Inaccurate.
Sure, performance per watt can be better, but i tend to look at absolute values instead when i measure current.
I have an "old" athlon 64 3400, which handles my current load fine. How much power does it consume at idle and under full load? My guess is that it consumes less than these new chips, or very close. If someone has found out these values, please post them.
1) There's a power button. That shuts things down fully. ("I am going away from my computer now, but I'd like the power to be really off.")
The funny thing is that the power button does not turn off the machine. It actually makes it sleep> . A worldwide known symbol for turning off computers gets used to sleep machines.
Daewoo used to make a car called "daewoo matiz". Daewoo went broke, and chevrolet bought them, changing the name of the car to "chevrolet spark".
China found out about the impending release of the chevrolet spark, a company called Chery cloned it into the Chevy QQ. It outsells the spark 5 to 1.
Chevrolet is not amused, in fact is has a lawsuit against Chery because they copied their design (the car is pretty similar) and beat them to market too.
There were messages with newer date than mine already approved. Mine is still "pending"
I am amazed that comments on his blog post are being deleted. I posted one around noon remembering him that ubuntu 6.10 uses novell software (gnome 2.16, which includes mono) and that he should be pushing novell to back out of the patent deal with microsoft instead of luring opensuse developers.
to banish Novell/Suse to the Linux Leper Colony.
The problem is that novell's involvement with linux software is just too big now. Novell has Mono, GTK, OO.org, GNOME developers and lots others.
Boycotting novell would mean boycotting gnome, gtk, openoffice and virtually every distro out there.
Let's see, we got cell phones so we could talk. Then the cool idea of texting (yawn). And now, a mobile phone that let's you talk into it, and convert that to text to send a text message? Wow!
Bah, speak for yourself. Everyone that wants to save some money, uses sms instead of calling for things that don't need a call.
In countries like mine, where a cell phone minute costs 0.5 USD, and almost all cell plans come with lots of SMS, having voice-translated SMS would be cool and save lots of time.
I wonder what is going to happen to these three projects?
Let's hope now Java integrates all the good features of C#, like true generics.
After the Microsoft-Novell deal, this couldn't come at a better time.
And Java 1.6 (6?) is coming really soon now.
They have the geode as the summary says, and the OLPC project seems to be working for them. Why have 2 products that do the same? It only seems obvious that they had to cancel the communicator.
This message posted with 100% Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
Better switch to something else, as you are using Novell-made apps (Mono, f-spot,tomboy and such come with gnome 2.16 which is shipped in Edgy)
On my university in Maracaibo, Venezuela, we have such a course. It is called "software engineering".
:)
You get a small team (between 8 and 10 people) and have to start and finish a product.
The team must be divided in: an administrator (in charge of the product, releases, etc), analists, designers, coders and testers.
You have to meet deadlines and even dress up and have a presentation in order to "sell" the product.
We did a small webapp that sold pizzas online
Would you pay 350$ to get a phone that can only call and receive calls, just because it runs linux?
I would rather just get a cheap candy bar nokia.
Offtopic, but...
Who is tagging every article "itsatrap"? Please stop abussing the tagging system. It is meant to be used to easily search for stories, not for memes or comments.
Since every version of php breaks compatibility somewhere, how hard would it be to rename all functions to maintain consistency in php6 or 7?
PHP has got to be the most inconsistent language out there. Check out this list
* Arguments and return values are extremely inconsistent
* PHP has separate functions for case insensitive operations
* PHP has inconsistent function naming
* PHP has no lexical scope
* PHP has too many functions in the core
* PHP lacks abstraction and takes TIMTOWTDI to bad extremes
Radeon X1950 XTX
Idle: 184
Load: 308
GeForce 8800GTX
Idle: 229
Load: 321
Damn. 300 watts just for a single video card. And now read this part:
Having two SLI bridge connectors onboard may possibly allow users to equip systems with three G80 GeForce 8800 series graphics cards. With two SLI bridge connectors, three cards can be connected without any troubles.
One full megawatt just for running your video cards. It requires two slots and two power connectors.
My 6600gt already uses a power connector, which i found scary when i bought.
I want a video card that:
-Powers up from its slot instead from the power supply
-Plays current generation games fine at 1024x768.
Is this too much to ask?
Nokia released one "flashlight" model. I don't know the model, but loooks like the old 6120 ones and the light is white and located on the top of the unit. Works great.
Disclaimer: i am venezuelan, and not a follower of Chavez.
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This is partially true. Originally, the goverment was part-owner of Smarmatic. No wonder they got chosen to supply the hardware for elections here.
As soon as the public found out, they sold their percentage of ownership.
The hardware smartmatic sells is a model that was intended to be used in Lottery calculations (source: http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2004/06/14/pol_ar