Just start sending emails about terrorists and oil on the Moon to your grandma. I'm sure the NSA will pass it on, and in due time the Moon will be toast.
They announced the game was going under and everybody left. That's just sad. They should have told players the game is going to end and promised a massive spectacle. Then in the last month:
1) flood the world with gold and crazy items
2) make all the NPCs go berserk
3) give people random powers and turn off all controls on player/NPC killing
4) unleash monsters with random stats everywhere
5) let anyone on the internet download a client and play
When the servers go down then you pull the plug. I think it would have been hilarious!
To be fair, if a computer is going to die it will typically happen quickly. Toshiba should have caught the problem during the burn in. Dell has no excuse.
I bought a 12" iBook last fall and upgraded the ram myself. Never buy Apple's ram (except possibly on the Mac Mini). Anyways, the iBook is nice, and I was recommending them to people up until a few months ago. I'm waiting to see if the Intel versions come out next week. If they don't, the G4 iBook is a good machine. It is quite a bit slower than a Pentium M, but for the weight, battery life, and price it is very competitive. My only complaint is that the keyboard on it feels cheap. The keys had a way of catching my fingers initially. I am basically happy with it. If it were lost, stolen, or destroyed I would certainly get a new one.
I was thinking, could someone make a program which takes URLs out of slashdot's RSS feed and automatically hits the Coral cache to ensure that a cached copy is available ? If a subscriber did it, all the better.
Further, there are only six cities in the US with the population density to support light rail (in the rest, buses would actually be more efficient).
In my experience (Vancouver BC) building mass transit creates demand for high density housing. We built our first rapid transit line in 1986, and ten years later you could see residential towers around most of the stations - wherever the municipal governments allowed it. In 2001 we opened a second line and the towers are there already. These are 20-30 story residential towers, in groups of 3-10 around most stations, where previously there were just some old houses. The towers being built now have integrated commercial development, ie: a good grocery store and basic services are less than a 5 minute walk from your apartment.
Provided there is demand for real-estate, why not build this way ? People don't want to drive an hour or more to work, and then drive again to the grocery store, and again to the mall, etc. You can waste your entire life sitting in traffic. Rapid transit has network effects. The system becomes more valuable as you build it, and if cities aren't building it now because their density is low then they are completely backwards.
I'd argue that these are one and the same. Something made for humans has to be asthetically pleasing.
That is the most absurd statement ever. Personally, I like things that "work". I see many things which are designed to "look good", yet "don't work". I can't say I agree with your statement at all.
How is dual-cpu going to be cheaper than dual-core in the long run ? Dual-core chips require less junk on the motherboard. Once they improve the lower yields it should be cheaper than dual-cpu.
"...who's going to be doing renders and such where dual cores really shine, on a laptop?"
I give talks with my laptop, usually about some sort of algorithm, and usually with an implementation. I would love a faster computer. I currently use a 12" 1GHz iBook, which is slow, athough it has great battery life for the weight. Before you ask: I need some sort of unix and I don't want to piss around trying to get wireless or sleep mode or whatever working, only to find out it will never work under Linux.
For me the main advantage is that 64-bit processors can multiply longer integers in hardware. The difference between calling a single multiply instruction and the GMP multiply function is quite significant.
Lately, people in the music industry have said the same basic issues have been intensified by the growing popularity of pricey gadgets like Apple's iPod and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, as well as the rising prices for games that go with the new platform.
Well, I guess we know who they're going to sue next!
Slashdot Mirror
I.e. this is a purely commercial transaction and what the Chinese gov't does with the equipment, they will do.
The creed of every arms dealer.
I was expecting something a little better than this, like maybe some fast code to study and use.
I'll share my most dangerous idea soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Just start sending emails about terrorists and oil on the Moon to your grandma. I'm sure the NSA will pass it on, and in due time the Moon will be toast.
They announced the game was going under and everybody left. That's just sad. They should have told players the game is going to end and promised a massive spectacle. Then in the last month:
1) flood the world with gold and crazy items
2) make all the NPCs go berserk
3) give people random powers and turn off all controls on player/NPC killing
4) unleash monsters with random stats everywhere
5) let anyone on the internet download a client and play
When the servers go down then you pull the plug. I think it would have been hilarious!
I would have liked to see them go out with a bang. Unleash hordes of monsters into the towns and have the server randomly modify items!
The first thing I thought of when I read the title was "iRadio = idiot Radio". Of course I own an iBook. Oh well.
To be fair, if a computer is going to die it will typically happen quickly. Toshiba should have caught the problem during the burn in. Dell has no excuse.
I bought a 12" iBook last fall and upgraded the ram myself. Never buy Apple's ram (except possibly on the Mac Mini). Anyways, the iBook is nice, and I was recommending them to people up until a few months ago. I'm waiting to see if the Intel versions come out next week. If they don't, the G4 iBook is a good machine. It is quite a bit slower than a Pentium M, but for the weight, battery life, and price it is very competitive. My only complaint is that the keyboard on it feels cheap. The keys had a way of catching my fingers initially. I am basically happy with it. If it were lost, stolen, or destroyed I would certainly get a new one.
I was thinking, could someone make a program which takes URLs out of slashdot's RSS feed and automatically hits the Coral cache to ensure that a cached copy is available ? If a subscriber did it, all the better.
Still no .wmf support ? When is Linux going to be ready for the desktop ?
No, I'm referring to SkyTrain.
Further, there are only six cities in the US with the population density to support light rail (in the rest, buses would actually be more efficient).
In my experience (Vancouver BC) building mass transit creates demand for high density housing. We built our first rapid transit line in 1986, and ten years later you could see residential towers around most of the stations - wherever the municipal governments allowed it. In 2001 we opened a second line and the towers are there already. These are 20-30 story residential towers, in groups of 3-10 around most stations, where previously there were just some old houses. The towers being built now have integrated commercial development, ie: a good grocery store and basic services are less than a 5 minute walk from your apartment. Provided there is demand for real-estate, why not build this way ? People don't want to drive an hour or more to work, and then drive again to the grocery store, and again to the mall, etc. You can waste your entire life sitting in traffic. Rapid transit has network effects. The system becomes more valuable as you build it, and if cities aren't building it now because their density is low then they are completely backwards.
No problem, wait 5 years for him to discover RSS.
Plus if someone wants to argue you can settle it with a headshot.
I'd argue that these are one and the same. Something made for humans has to be asthetically pleasing.
That is the most absurd statement ever. Personally, I like things that "work". I see many things which are designed to "look good", yet "don't work". I can't say I agree with your statement at all.
It is Indian for Cootch. Where do you think all of Intel's engineers are ?
What if the cellphone CPU is just as powerful as laptop CPU?
Then you own an Apple laptop.
How is dual-cpu going to be cheaper than dual-core in the long run ? Dual-core chips require less junk on the motherboard. Once they improve the lower yields it should be cheaper than dual-cpu.
"...who's going to be doing renders and such where dual cores really shine, on a laptop?"
I give talks with my laptop, usually about some sort of algorithm, and usually with an implementation. I would love a faster computer. I currently use a 12" 1GHz iBook, which is slow, athough it has great battery life for the weight. Before you ask: I need some sort of unix and I don't want to piss around trying to get wireless or sleep mode or whatever working, only to find out it will never work under Linux.
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more OEMS will slip through your fingers."
Oh wait, no they don't.
For me the main advantage is that 64-bit processors can multiply longer integers in hardware. The difference between calling a single multiply instruction and the GMP multiply function is quite significant.
I do math calculations in the background with my 12" 1 Ghz iBook, and it does go 4 hours at 100% cpu with the display set just shy of full brightness.
Lately, people in the music industry have said the same basic issues have been intensified by the growing popularity of pricey gadgets like Apple's iPod and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, as well as the rising prices for games that go with the new platform.
Well, I guess we know who they're going to sue next!
These are long overdue for the scrap heap
4 lbs, 4 hours of battery at full load, $1000 US.