Don't know if I'll get a personal response but what the hell. You mentioned those pictures of "a ball placed on a rubber sheet" to illustrate the curvature of spacetime. Here's my question: Since most of these massive bodies are relatively spherical, wouldn't the "curve" around the entire sphere cancel itself out since the same curve on the other side of the sphere would be the same but 180 degrees opposite? And if that's the case, wouldn't the total curve be zero and massive bodies don't actually curve spacetime? I'm not a physics guru and would really like to know. Thanks.
"The apple will be less expensive when it comes to bang for your buck"
No it won't. It might be close, but the pc will be cheaper. Especially if you are a smart shopper and can take advantage of all the rebates that are offered on pc's.
True, if by "take their head out of their ass" you are referring to substantially lowering their prices. The Xserve is priced fairly competitively, but a G5 starts at $1800 and you can get a IBM ThinkCentre S50 for around $900. When ACME Corporation has to purchase 1000 new pc's, which do you think they will choose?
Small voter turnout isn't necessarily a bad thing when you consider the entire voting age population. I don't want the village idiot making crystal meth in his trailer home to be voting for the president. Uneducated people tend to make uneducated choices. I definitely think they should have the right to vote, but that doesn't mean I want them to.
" Certain valley companies engage in a kind of white collar slave labor, IMO"
It's not slave labor if those who engage in "hot-bunking" aren't forced to do it. They do it because they can make good money and bring it back home. Slave labor only holds when the employees have no other choice where to work. I'm sure many of those people work very long hours and have little personal time, but the bottom line is they don't have to do it.
"What do the Nintendo GameCube's Gekko, Transmeta's first Crusoe chips, Cray's X1 supercomputer chips, Xilinx Virtex-II Pro processors, Agilent Tachyon chips, and the next-generation Microsoft XBox processors-which-have-yet-to-be-named all have in common? All of them were or will be manufactured by IBM."
That's quite impressive. Throw the 970 in that mix and it's even more impressive. The bottom line is that Intel isn't alone at the top of the mountain when it comes to producing high quality, fast, and reliable chips. On a side note, as a soon-to-be-graduating CS major, I dream about working at a place like IBM.
In my experience the only way to improve the presentation of a web site, document, etc. is to have a designer come up with a layout without the input from developers. After that, take what each group likes best and incorporate it into the project. Most developers I know aren't very good designers and when a bunch of them get together to improve the look and feel, what they usually get out of it is something different but not any more useful. Designers aren't always the best developers, but they tend to be very insightful on how things should "look and feel".
I know this. But look at Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, hell just about every distro and they all "look" like Microsoft Windows. Not Mac OS. So if Microsoft missed the GUI, why isn't Linux emulating OS X (or the original Mac OS based on that logic). That was my point, nothing more.
please turn off the lights, because you sir, are completely blind. EVERY OS has security holes, EVERY piece of hardware can be hacked. If Windows was a "harmless amusing piece of junk", I seriously doubt that thousands of very intelligent people would spend their entire lives developing it. Step off the high horse, look at the IT industry as it stands today, and realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't even be doing what you do today (including reading./).
perhaps i'm missing something, but the only way to view the songs is via a multi-page list. for example, if i search for "pearl jam", it will display all of the songs for sale by pearl jam on six seperate pages. i can sort them by title, album, etc. but there are no individual pages for albums, or individual pages with a listing of all their albums. that site already needs to be redesigned.
"Can the same thing happen to linux? Or do exploit authors prefer windows?"
IMHO exploit authors prefer windows simply because they want to maximize their impact. Why spend all those hours writing a virus when it will only cause problems for a few percent of the computers out there. I would think they get much more satisfaction when they see "500 million" machines infected on CNN.
I'm not trolling here, but if you are still getting pop-ups just because you use IE, well, you're an idiot. There are so many pop-up blocking apps out there that it should be a non-issue. The pop-up blocking feature that is built into the browser (soon to be added to IE) is nice, but this is hardly a feature to brag about for trying to convince someone to switch.
266 MHz pretty commom? Yeah, in 1999. Most people around here probably don't have the latest and greatest 3.4 GHz P4, but you aren't even at 1 GHz. Hell, you aren't even at 500 MHz! I can't believe that you actually expected it to work properly and didn't just install it as a test bed machine.
I guess I was wrong
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i noticed that you os x icons while using kde. where did you get the icons? i've been wondering if i could take my icons off my G5 at work and put them on my fedora box at home. thanks for any help.
I am currently a Computer Science major (last semester!) and one of the required courses is Assembly on the SPARC architecture. I took the class a couple of years ago, but at the time it was the first semester since they had switched from x86 to SPARC. I'm not entirely sure why they switched, but I really appreciated learning an architecture that I don't use on a day to day basis.
I must be one of the few people who rarely click on the paid advertising links on the right side of the search results. When I do click on them, I have found they often lead to questionable type web sites who I wouldn't want to give my credit card number to.
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Don't know if I'll get a personal response but what the hell. You mentioned those pictures of "a ball placed on a rubber sheet" to illustrate the curvature of spacetime. Here's my question: Since most of these massive bodies are relatively spherical, wouldn't the "curve" around the entire sphere cancel itself out since the same curve on the other side of the sphere would be the same but 180 degrees opposite? And if that's the case, wouldn't the total curve be zero and massive bodies don't actually curve spacetime? I'm not a physics guru and would really like to know. Thanks.
"The apple will be less expensive when it comes to bang for your buck"
No it won't. It might be close, but the pc will be cheaper. Especially if you are a smart shopper and can take advantage of all the rebates that are offered on pc's.
"Does this mean it will remain closed and non-free like the nForce ethernet driver on previous chipsets?"
Yes
True, if by "take their head out of their ass" you are referring to substantially lowering their prices. The Xserve is priced fairly competitively, but a G5 starts at $1800 and you can get a IBM ThinkCentre S50 for around $900. When ACME Corporation has to purchase 1000 new pc's, which do you think they will choose?
" 250 million dollars is only 0.0078 % of 32 billion dollars. Come on, we're suppose to be NERDS. Do the math."
Are you sure you're a NERD and not management at Enron?
Small voter turnout isn't necessarily a bad thing when you consider the entire voting age population. I don't want the village idiot making crystal meth in his trailer home to be voting for the president. Uneducated people tend to make uneducated choices. I definitely think they should have the right to vote, but that doesn't mean I want them to.
It's not slave labor if those who engage in "hot-bunking" aren't forced to do it. They do it because they can make good money and bring it back home. Slave labor only holds when the employees have no other choice where to work. I'm sure many of those people work very long hours and have little personal time, but the bottom line is they don't have to do it.
That's quite impressive. Throw the 970 in that mix and it's even more impressive. The bottom line is that Intel isn't alone at the top of the mountain when it comes to producing high quality, fast, and reliable chips. On a side note, as a soon-to-be-graduating CS major, I dream about working at a place like IBM.
As a Computer Science major who is graduating in August, I will gladly take your boring developing job.
In my experience the only way to improve the presentation of a web site, document, etc. is to have a designer come up with a layout without the input from developers. After that, take what each group likes best and incorporate it into the project. Most developers I know aren't very good designers and when a bunch of them get together to improve the look and feel, what they usually get out of it is something different but not any more useful. Designers aren't always the best developers, but they tend to be very insightful on how things should "look and feel".
I know this. But look at Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, hell just about every distro and they all "look" like Microsoft Windows. Not Mac OS. So if Microsoft missed the GUI, why isn't Linux emulating OS X (or the original Mac OS based on that logic). That was my point, nothing more.
please turn off the lights, because you sir, are completely blind. EVERY OS has security holes, EVERY piece of hardware can be hacked. If Windows was a "harmless amusing piece of junk", I seriously doubt that thousands of very intelligent people would spend their entire lives developing it. Step off the high horse, look at the IT industry as it stands today, and realize that without Microsoft, you probably wouldn't even be doing what you do today (including reading ./).
If Microsoft missed the GUI, why does almost every Linux desktop try to emulate it?
perhaps i'm missing something, but the only way to view the songs is via a multi-page list. for example, if i search for "pearl jam", it will display all of the songs for sale by pearl jam on six seperate pages. i can sort them by title, album, etc. but there are no individual pages for albums, or individual pages with a listing of all their albums. that site already needs to be redesigned.
ahh, nothing like a good ass-kicking rebuttal. good work.
For some reason, the song "Burning Down the House" comes to mind.
" an ipod killer would have to be cheaper than an ipod."
Not if the product is simply better than the iPod. Hard to imagine, but it can be done.
IMHO exploit authors prefer windows simply because they want to maximize their impact. Why spend all those hours writing a virus when it will only cause problems for a few percent of the computers out there. I would think they get much more satisfaction when they see "500 million" machines infected on CNN.
That was fast. //you know what I'm talking about
I'm not trolling here, but if you are still getting pop-ups just because you use IE, well, you're an idiot. There are so many pop-up blocking apps out there that it should be a non-issue. The pop-up blocking feature that is built into the browser (soon to be added to IE) is nice, but this is hardly a feature to brag about for trying to convince someone to switch.
266 MHz pretty commom? Yeah, in 1999. Most people around here probably don't have the latest and greatest 3.4 GHz P4, but you aren't even at 1 GHz. Hell, you aren't even at 500 MHz! I can't believe that you actually expected it to work properly and didn't just install it as a test bed machine.
So C# wasn't made by witches using:
1/4 cup lard
1/2 tsp clove oil
1 tsp ash
1/4 tsp. dried cinquefoil
1/4 tsp. dried mugwort
1/4 tsp. dried thistle
1/4 dried vervain
1/2 tsp. benzoin tincture
i noticed that you os x icons while using kde. where did you get the icons? i've been wondering if i could take my icons off my G5 at work and put them on my fedora box at home. thanks for any help.
I am currently a Computer Science major (last semester!) and one of the required courses is Assembly on the SPARC architecture. I took the class a couple of years ago, but at the time it was the first semester since they had switched from x86 to SPARC. I'm not entirely sure why they switched, but I really appreciated learning an architecture that I don't use on a day to day basis.
I must be one of the few people who rarely click on the paid advertising links on the right side of the search results. When I do click on them, I have found they often lead to questionable type web sites who I wouldn't want to give my credit card number to.