My multifunction home server box doesn't even have a video card (I need all those PCI and ISA slots for the modem, 2 ethernet cards, a wifi card, sound card, scsi card, video capture board). No, it doesn't have onboard video either. I didn't think it would boot that way, but it does - ABIT IT5H mobo. Though curiously it *does* require a keyboard in order to boot.
That last probe saw a landscape significantly different from all the other.
What does that mean? Viking photographed the whole planet back in the 70s, at up to 8 meter resolution. I don't see how it could come as any surprise that the landing spot is "dark and surreal."
unfortunately, the funding was nowhere near enough to send someone to Mars. which means Nasa has to cut other programs to keep up with the Bush mandate.
I don't think that's unfortunate, I think it's good. 1) the shuttle/ISS aren't worth what they cost 2) There's no particular reason to get to Mars ASAP = "money no object". Let's give NASA an ambitious, long-range goal and fund at a level to sustain steady progress. Sending unmanned missions to Mars until we can do it repeatedly seems like a very sensible way to make progress.
The Spirit cost $400 million, which is a lot of money, but the ISS lifetime cost will reach $100,000,000,000 which is insane, and for what?
Theoretically, I think it would have been nicer if Anniston's salary had only gone up to $500,000 per episode, and the amount of adversizing decreased by roughly 50%. That way everybody benefits.
I think the notion of "earning" huge sums of money by being famous is a tricky issue. On the one hand, it's what the market dictates. On the other hand, look at all the 'Seinfeld' cast members - each tried to make another show, and each failed. So what made them worth so much on 'Seinfeld'? At some level it's a lottery. Not that fame doesn't require some effort and talent, but I think there are thousands of others just as talented and devoted, who don't win the lottery.
Well, $50M is a bit of an exaggeration -- you're not going to find many (any?) examples of that high a figure -- but some actors do get paid a lot of money, even millions of dollars, to do a film, yes. Why so much? Because that's what the market is. They're paid that much because the studios are willing to pay that much, and the studios are willing to pay that much because the filmgoing public is willing to pay what it pays. That's what our priorities are.
What you're saying is that the price of making a movie is arbitrary. In other words, puncturing the MPAA members' profits needn't cause any reduction in the quality or quantity of movies at all, it might just mean top actors making $15e6 instead of $20e6 for 2 months of shooting and 1 month of promotion. (I'm not saying copying movies is moral and it's clearly not legal, just making an observation).
Of course we all know this. As "Friends" became more popular, did they cut down on the ridiculous number of commercials because the production costs were spread across more viewers? Of course not. They simply upped production costs by paying each actor $1e6 for each episode. This is not the positive side of market economics people like to talk about.
This is a terrific piece of work. I hope you enjoy your Prius, but you should be comparing this guy to a Toyota research engineer, not yourself.
Hewlett Packard likes to talk about how they started in a garage. It's people like this who carry on that spirit and who own the future, not consumers or the HP of today.
This is not correct. CTRL+KeyPad+ doesn't change the desktop size. It does change the screen resolution, but then your desktop is smaller or larger than the screen, so it will scroll when you go to the edge of the screen. This simplifies things because the window manager and apps don't even know about it. You also can't change color depth this way.
As somebody else mentioned, the real answer is the new XrandR extension. But he talked as if it were mature and fully integrated, which it isn't. In truth it may or may not be available depending on which video driver and window manager you're using, and it's not that widespread yet (ymmv).
No, surely AMD will simply change their metric to match whatever Intel is putting out. IMHO there's no way AMD will label something 4000 when it's faster than a PV 4400. That defeats the *whole point* of not using the real clock speed in the first place.
How does anything you said contradict the story summary? Only insofar as forcing CD-Wow to pay an extra 2 pounds per disc is different than forcing CD-Wow to charge consumers an extra 2 pounds per disc. In other words, scarcely different at all.
So in this case the best solution is not going to happen. If the tanks don't burn the oil, the SUVs will.
The eventual consumption of all oil doesn't bother me. Ultimately I don't see any point in NOT using it up. But we should delay the transition and get as much out of the oil as we can, since we might not find anything as cheap and convenient for the forseeable future. And burning it more slowly might dissipate the effects of pollution.
When the oil has almost gone, we will be left scrabbling for the few remaining drops. Until then it will be burnt at maximum possible speed.
Not really. There's a whole range of oil deposits, from gushers near the surface to low-grade shale from which oil must be extracted. As the supply dwindles, it will be a gradual process, drawn out by new ways to economically harvest sources that weren't economically viable before. The price will definitely rise. At some point it will be cheaper to use other sources. But unless we hurry and find some acceptable "other," it will really depress the economy.
(Personally I think we'd be fine if we just started using nuclear power to get hydrogen from water but maybe I shouldn't even open up that can of worms. Oops.)
Speaking of that, it always annoyed me to be paying to heat up the house, then paying the refrigerator to pull the heat back out again. We already have a water line to newer fridges, how hard would it be to put an outside air line. In the summer maybe you could reverse it and blow out the hot air so the fridge wouldn't be spewing hot air into the home that the central AC has to pump out.
Who's going to deny them existence? They're in conformance with Russian law, and international treaty on copyright. Buying music from them is no different than someone living in Texas driving over the border to Mexico to buy whatever stuff is cheaper there - except without the driving.
I don't know how will they do it, should be interesting to see.
Tom McGinnis, the FDA's director of Pharmacy Affairs, said in a telephone call Tuesday evening the Medicare bill recently signed into law by President George W. Bush makes it illegal to purchase re-imported prescription drugs from Canada.
After taking a look, I can't believe this place will be allowed to exist for long. It'll be cut off one way or another, just like those overseas movie download sites of last year.
On the other hand, it occurred to me what it would be like if globalization applied to people, like it applies to corporations. Don't like the pesky laws and high prices in your neck of the woods? Simple, just go shopping someplace where people are desparate or hungry, all from the comfort and convenience of your own home.
On the one hand I feel a bit shady shopping from allofmp3.com. On the other hand it's hardly any different than Dell, IBM, WalMart, and even our own government who increasingly go for the better bargain whenever and wherever they can.
I've given up on online music for now. I can get almost whatever I want on CD for about $7.50 (including 3 day shipping) in new or nearly new condition on half.com. No DRM or lossy compression. Is it as good as what online music should have been? No. But it's better than online music currently is.
I have a very simple rule for people concerned about privacy (and I am): PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS. Sacrifice a little comfort and convenience for once, in order to uphold a principle that you claim is important to you (I do).
Yes, that's right, let the free market solve the problem. Shop around and do business only with companies that promise to honor the privacy of your information, like Northwest Airlines.
I do agree that $1,400 is not worth the pleasure of a quite office - but then what other solutions are feasible?
Well, my solution is to use a laptop. (OK, it still costs $1,400, just not $1,400 more than the alternatives). In particular something with long battery life (Pentium-m) is very likely to be quiet. More and more people where I work are using laptops as their primary computer, including me. Of course this is mostly because you can take it to a meeting, travel, or a co-worker's office, but I certainly appreciate the quiet.
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Forget rolling it up, the question is whether you can sit on it without cracking it in half like an LCD.
My multifunction home server box doesn't even have a video card (I need all those PCI and ISA slots for the modem, 2 ethernet cards, a wifi card, sound card, scsi card, video capture board). No, it doesn't have onboard video either. I didn't think it would boot that way, but it does - ABIT IT5H mobo. Though curiously it *does* require a keyboard in order to boot.
Is it cheaper without Windows?
Case in point.
The Spirit cost $400 million, which is a lot of money, but the ISS lifetime cost will reach $100,000,000,000 which is insane, and for what?
I think the notion of "earning" huge sums of money by being famous is a tricky issue. On the one hand, it's what the market dictates. On the other hand, look at all the 'Seinfeld' cast members - each tried to make another show, and each failed. So what made them worth so much on 'Seinfeld'? At some level it's a lottery. Not that fame doesn't require some effort and talent, but I think there are thousands of others just as talented and devoted, who don't win the lottery.
Of course we all know this. As "Friends" became more popular, did they cut down on the ridiculous number of commercials because the production costs were spread across more viewers? Of course not. They simply upped production costs by paying each actor $1e6 for each episode. This is not the positive side of market economics people like to talk about.
Hewlett Packard likes to talk about how they started in a garage. It's people like this who carry on that spirit and who own the future, not consumers or the HP of today.
Bingo! It's odd that in this one case, the "X" way is simplistic and lacking compared to Windows and Linux.
As somebody else mentioned, the real answer is the new XrandR extension. But he talked as if it were mature and fully integrated, which it isn't. In truth it may or may not be available depending on which video driver and window manager you're using, and it's not that widespread yet (ymmv).
2) They'd rather net 40% of a $7 tube than 40% of a $0.70 tube (fictional numbers but you get the point)
3) Silver really is better anyways. Conductivity to cost ratio doesn't matter if you just need a little bit to protect an expensive component (CPU).
No, surely AMD will simply change their metric to match whatever Intel is putting out. IMHO there's no way AMD will label something 4000 when it's faster than a PV 4400. That defeats the *whole point* of not using the real clock speed in the first place.
CNN is reporting that the rover may still be able to communicate with NASA's satellite orbiting mars, and relay back data that way. Maybe.
How does anything you said contradict the story summary? Only insofar as forcing CD-Wow to pay an extra 2 pounds per disc is different than forcing CD-Wow to charge consumers an extra 2 pounds per disc. In other words, scarcely different at all.
(Personally I think we'd be fine if we just started using nuclear power to get hydrogen from water but maybe I shouldn't even open up that can of worms. Oops.)
Speaking of that, it always annoyed me to be paying to heat up the house, then paying the refrigerator to pull the heat back out again. We already have a water line to newer fridges, how hard would it be to put an outside air line. In the summer maybe you could reverse it and blow out the hot air so the fridge wouldn't be spewing hot air into the home that the central AC has to pump out.
I do know what they did for prescription drugs:
On the other hand, it occurred to me what it would be like if globalization applied to people, like it applies to corporations. Don't like the pesky laws and high prices in your neck of the woods? Simple, just go shopping someplace where people are desparate or hungry, all from the comfort and convenience of your own home.
On the one hand I feel a bit shady shopping from allofmp3.com. On the other hand it's hardly any different than Dell, IBM, WalMart, and even our own government who increasingly go for the better bargain whenever and wherever they can.
I've given up on online music for now. I can get almost whatever I want on CD for about $7.50 (including 3 day shipping) in new or nearly new condition on half.com. No DRM or lossy compression. Is it as good as what online music should have been? No. But it's better than online music currently is.
None of which changes the simple fact that this new 64 bit laptop has the same RAM capacity as any standard 32 bit laptop.
Let's see... Bart, Cart, Dart, Ee-art... Nope, can't see any problem with that!
Can anybody report on whether Linux on x86-64 is any good?