Perhaps we could all communicate better with each other, but the point of computer languages is to communicate with the computer. Perhaps I just need to look around more, but I have yet to find a language that is as fast as C, yet has all the fancy-schmancy features of more recently developed PLs.
I too am tired of relearning syntax, but I find that every time I do, I learn something new, and usually that more than makes up for the annoyance of relearning 'Hello World'.
I am not opposed to DRM, in principle, but the companies behind today's implementations of DRM need to get thier head on straight. Limiting what we are able to do with our own property is only going to force us to search out non-DRM solutions. I'm not a big fan of WMP, but I realize that a lot of people use it. The default settings will just push people to using mp3/Winamp again.
Perhaps there is a way to protect both the IP of musicians as well as the fair use rights we are seeing slowly torn from us, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
Blackjack has long been known to have the closest to even odds. If you play smart, and can count into a 7 deck shoe, you can do really well, as long as you get lucky before the casino realizes what you're up to. It's a private business, and they won't hesitate to kick you out when you start to win consistently. Sadly, I am not one of those people.
Well, that's all well and good, but many of the major OEMs have proven that they can provide good tech support and warrenty plans. Also, they'll almost certainly be around in three years, if something breaks. Can you say the same for the 'local shop'? Maybe, but if you're buying 500 computers for $1000, are you willing to take that chance? I wouldn't.
I doubt Dell pays anything near retail price for microsoft OS's. The price difference would probably be only $50 or so. Maybe they're pocketing the money they saved to pay the laywers when M$ sues them.:^)
Primarily, it's because if you don't know what you're doing, Linux can be a bitch to set up. I know, I was up until 1:00am last night trying to set up iptables for port forwarding with my new spiffy DSL connection. I was unsuccessful. Can you imagine the volume of tech support calls coming in for linux? Dell would lose more money retraining thier tech support than they'd ever gain in reduced licensing costs; remember, they probably pay much less than retail for OS licenses.
Now, granted, the corporate customers buying in large quantities, which is where these computers are going, are likely more experienced linux users than I, but linux distros are monstrous, complicated things, and there are a huge number of things that can go wrong, through inattention to detail, or other small mistakes.
Perhaps they'll partner with a Linux distributor in the future, to make up for this, but it will have to be cost effective. Until then, I'm going to continue building my own systems, with parts that I've hand picked for performance, reliability and price. I may spend a few more dollars, and a whole lot more time on it, but I enjoy it (kinda), and I'll know exactly what's there, and who to call if it craps out on me. It's not quite a Dell service agreement, but for now, I'll take it.
Well, in the short term, you can get cheaper knives, but for the love of all things holy, stay away from the "never-need sharpening" crap that they push in the infomercials and at Wal-Mart. The fact is, they will need to be sharpened; you just can't do it. Sure they'll cut, they are in fact just tearing the food, which isn't so bad, until you end up using too much force, slip, and tear whatever body part you carelessly left in the path of the knife. A sharp knife is much easier to be safe with.
Look for Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. He has a chapter on what you need in order to "cook like the pros". On the top of the list is, to paraphase, a good chef's knife.
Basicly, it's the diffence between a German Shepard and a Poodle. They taste different:)
Seriously, though you could probably use beer yeast to make bread, give it a try. On the other hand, do not try to make beer with bread yeast. Beer yeast has been bred with very specific characterics in mind. The flavor and texture character of the beer is strongly influenced by the yeast chosen. Bread yeast will most likely produce an alcoholic liquid that even the most degenerate of/.ers wouldn't drink.
Well, in my experience, it's easiest to teach by example. She probably doesn't enjoy cooking, which is the fastest way to make sucky food. Instead of going out on Saturday night, stay in, invite a few friends over, and cook up a small informal dinner party. Get everyone to help out, and you'll all have fun. In the process, she may start to enjoy cooking, and if not, she'll see what everyone else is doing, and pick up ideas, hints, etc. Bonus: She doesn't even have to know what you're trying to do, and thus, won't get all huffy and offended.:)
Find a good recipe for beef stew, and follow it. It's cheap, freezes well, leftovers are actually better than fresh, and it pretty easy to cook, if you pay attention to what you're doing. Use lean beef, and season it well, and you will fill all of the above requirements.
Who cares if the drivers are open source? If the drivers work, and Nvidia's do, why bother? They put a huge amount of effort into driver development, and don't want to give the source away. It's their right.
Add a teaspoon or so of oregano, and it goes great with pizza. Also, when you take it out of the oven, turn it upside-down over a cooling rack, and any extra butter from the bottom of the pan will flow back through the bread, making it extra-fatty. ummmm..... fatty....arghhh
There is a commercial program that already does this. Sierra's Home Division released a program several years ago called "Mastercook". I can't find it on their website, so it's probably discontinued. It's a pretty good package. It comes with 8-10 cookbooks in electronic format, complete with pictures, a pantry inventory program, and ingredient database. If you actually have accurate entries of everything in your pantry, you can call up a list of everything that can be made with what you have on hand. You can also search for recipes that include a certain set of ingredients.
Umm, Faculty offices, staff offices, Library computers..... Think about it.
There is also a connection in every classroom. I'm surprised it's not higher than 16,000.
Well, this is a closed system, so the water won't escape the hose, and if it was getting hot enough to create steam, it would likely just burst. I'm willing to bet that they've engineered it so that this doesn't happen. On the other hand, maybe not...
As to condensation, that would only happen if you brought the computer from a cold environment into a warm one, and didn't allow it to acclimate for twenty minutes or so. This isn't a new problem; you're not supposed to operate "any" computer that is cooled below ambient for just that reason. Also, the cooling system can only cool the processor down to room temp. Without a compressor and refrigerant, that's the best you can do.
Actually, I think the freezing point is around
-15C I don't have a link handy, but there was a nut with too much money who used Flourinert, liquid nitrogen, and a styrofoam cooler to super chill his mobo... Until the Fluorinert started to gel up in his colling lines...:^)
And the rest of it comes from where, exactly... I don't know about your air conditioner, but mine uses (insert environmentally friendly freon replacement here). The best you can do in a cooling system like this one is maintain a temp that is closer to ambient, because you aren't using a compressor and a liquid that is gaseous at room temp. Which is what you want anyway; otherwise the condensation would likely cause problems faster than a leak.
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Perhaps we could all communicate better with each other, but the point of computer languages is to communicate with the computer. Perhaps I just need to look around more, but I have yet to find a language that is as fast as C, yet has all the fancy-schmancy features of more recently developed PLs.
I too am tired of relearning syntax, but I find that every time I do, I learn something new, and usually that more than makes up for the annoyance of relearning 'Hello World'.
I am not opposed to DRM, in principle, but the companies behind today's implementations of DRM need to get thier head on straight. Limiting what we are able to do with our own property is only going to force us to search out non-DRM solutions. I'm not a big fan of WMP, but I realize that a lot of people use it. The default settings will just push people to using mp3/Winamp again.
Perhaps there is a way to protect both the IP of musicians as well as the fair use rights we are seeing slowly torn from us, but I'll be damned if I know what it is.
Blackjack has long been known to have the closest to even odds. If you play smart, and can count into a 7 deck shoe, you can do really well, as long as you get lucky before the casino realizes what you're up to. It's a private business, and they won't hesitate to kick you out when you start to win consistently. Sadly, I am not one of those people.
Well, that's all well and good, but many of the major OEMs have proven that they can provide good tech support and warrenty plans. Also, they'll almost certainly be around in three years, if something breaks. Can you say the same for the 'local shop'? Maybe, but if you're buying 500 computers for $1000, are you willing to take that chance? I wouldn't.
I doubt Dell pays anything near retail price for microsoft OS's. The price difference would probably be only $50 or so. Maybe they're pocketing the money they saved to pay the laywers when M$ sues them. :^)
Primarily, it's because if you don't know what you're doing, Linux can be a bitch to set up. I know, I was up until 1:00am last night trying to set up iptables for port forwarding with my new spiffy DSL connection. I was unsuccessful. Can you imagine the volume of tech support calls coming in for linux? Dell would lose more money retraining thier tech support than they'd ever gain in reduced licensing costs; remember, they probably pay much less than retail for OS licenses.
Now, granted, the corporate customers buying in large quantities, which is where these computers are going, are likely more experienced linux users than I, but linux distros are monstrous, complicated things, and there are a huge number of things that can go wrong, through inattention to detail, or other small mistakes.
Perhaps they'll partner with a Linux distributor in the future, to make up for this, but it will have to be cost effective. Until then, I'm going to continue building my own systems, with parts that I've hand picked for performance, reliability and price. I may spend a few more dollars, and a whole lot more time on it, but I enjoy it (kinda), and I'll know exactly what's there, and who to call if it craps out on me. It's not quite a Dell service agreement, but for now, I'll take it.
Well, in the short term, you can get cheaper knives, but for the love of all things holy, stay away from the "never-need sharpening" crap that they push in the infomercials and at Wal-Mart. The fact is, they will need to be sharpened; you just can't do it. Sure they'll cut, they are in fact just tearing the food, which isn't so bad, until you end up using too much force, slip, and tear whatever body part you carelessly left in the path of the knife. A sharp knife is much easier to be safe with.
Look for Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. He has a chapter on what you need in order to "cook like the pros". On the top of the list is, to paraphase, a good chef's knife.
Basicly, it's the diffence between a German Shepard and a Poodle. They taste different :) /.ers wouldn't drink.
Seriously, though you could probably use beer yeast to make bread, give it a try. On the other hand, do not try to make beer with bread yeast. Beer yeast has been bred with very specific characterics in mind. The flavor and texture character of the beer is strongly influenced by the yeast chosen. Bread yeast will most likely produce an alcoholic liquid that even the most degenerate of
Well, in my experience, it's easiest to teach by example. She probably doesn't enjoy cooking, which is the fastest way to make sucky food. Instead of going out on Saturday night, stay in, invite a few friends over, and cook up a small informal dinner party. Get everyone to help out, and you'll all have fun. In the process, she may start to enjoy cooking, and if not, she'll see what everyone else is doing, and pick up ideas, hints, etc. :)
Bonus: She doesn't even have to know what you're trying to do, and thus, won't get all huffy and offended.
Find a good recipe for beef stew, and follow it. It's cheap, freezes well, leftovers are actually better than fresh, and it pretty easy to cook, if you pay attention to what you're doing. Use lean beef, and season it well, and you will fill all of the above requirements.
Not quite true. "Many Faces of Go", the best one they have currently, can't beat decent players, but can beat weak players, like myself. :)
Somebody needs a bran muffin.
It may not be terribly interesting, but there are people who use these things every day at home and at work.
If you don't like the story, stop reading, and quit your bitching, asshole.
"...average joe user looking to build a cluster or distributed computing system. "
umm.. right.
Who cares if the drivers are open source? If the drivers work, and Nvidia's do, why bother? They put a huge amount of effort into driver development, and don't want to give the source away. It's their right.
Add a teaspoon or so of oregano, and it goes great with pizza. Also, when you take it out of the oven, turn it upside-down over a cooling rack, and any extra butter from the bottom of the pan will flow back through the bread, making it extra-fatty. ummmm..... fatty....arghhh
There is a commercial program that already does this. Sierra's Home Division released a program several years ago called "Mastercook". I can't find it on their website, so it's probably discontinued. It's a pretty good package. It comes with 8-10 cookbooks in electronic format, complete with pictures, a pantry inventory program, and ingredient database. If you actually have accurate entries of everything in your pantry, you can call up a list of everything that can be made with what you have on hand. You can also search for recipes that include a certain set of ingredients.
Umm, Faculty offices, staff offices, Library computers..... Think about it. There is also a connection in every classroom. I'm surprised it's not higher than 16,000.
The women's college to which he was refering was Mather College, which joined up with Adelbert College to form Western Reserve University.
WhY CaN'T EiThEr Of YoU UsE CaPiTaLiZaTiOn CorReCtLy? It's much easier to read when you use it the way you were taught in school. See?
Well, this is a closed system, so the water won't escape the hose, and if it was getting hot enough to create steam, it would likely just burst. I'm willing to bet that they've engineered it so that this doesn't happen. On the other hand, maybe not... As to condensation, that would only happen if you brought the computer from a cold environment into a warm one, and didn't allow it to acclimate for twenty minutes or so. This isn't a new problem; you're not supposed to operate "any" computer that is cooled below ambient for just that reason. Also, the cooling system can only cool the processor down to room temp. Without a compressor and refrigerant, that's the best you can do.
Actually, I think the freezing point is around -15C I don't have a link handy, but there was a nut with too much money who used Flourinert, liquid nitrogen, and a styrofoam cooler to super chill his mobo... Until the Fluorinert started to gel up in his colling lines... :^)
And the rest of it comes from where, exactly... I don't know about your air conditioner, but mine uses (insert environmentally friendly freon replacement here). The best you can do in a cooling system like this one is maintain a temp that is closer to ambient, because you aren't using a compressor and a liquid that is gaseous at room temp. Which is what you want anyway; otherwise the condensation would likely cause problems faster than a leak.