But only for 20 years - MS has a long term plan in mind here. In 20 years when Vista is released, all the Moz developers will die and IE7 will be unopposed by default.
Quartz Extreme runs on any GPU with 16MB of VRAM or more - the early white iBooks (2001 era) had 8MB of VRAM in their initial spec (moving to 16 realatively quickly), but no new Mac since late 2001 has been unable to use Quartz Extreme.
The OS also scales UI features if it detects a lower power GPU - the effects look better on more powerful machines and a scaled back on low power GPUs to help performance.
The ball has started rolling! Cue the inevitable string of replies with steadily decreasing UID tied in with "old timer" and "in my day we had to post going uphill both ways to the server!" jokes.
But that's what Zealots are fore - you just use them as fodder while your stealthed templars rip shit up with those imba warp blades. Even though they're melee only, they totally own.
Ford already makes the "Backbone of Britain" and has done for over 30 years - the Transit van.
I can see why they wouldn't introduce it to the US market, but the current turbodiesel models will do 90 (unloaded) without breaking a sweat, handle quite well for a vehicle that size, and have near-infinte utility. There are more variations to the Transit than I can count, including a pick-up bed model, that make it an ideal workhorse.
There's a reason they're still selling so many years after they first graced British roads.
I can't link it directly, but ford.co.uk has a link to the basic model range.
This is a well known trick used in the TV industry for years. If you look just slightly below the camera lens, it's almost impossible to tell you're not looking straight at it.
This is how autocue used to work, before reflective systems became popular, with a pane of glass at 45 degrees right in front of the lens that appears invisible to the camera.
They run away from you on "Legendary" mode too, just don't chase them for target practice or the Elites you didn't immediately spot will pick you off.
My only major gripe with the game was that you had to leave the extremely useful pistol behind. It was awesome for taking down Elites (and Hunters when they showed up) but you couldn't justify using a weapon slot for it when you have a shotgun and an Elite's plasma rifle (or the sniper rifle).
I know exactly what an order of magnitude is, but it seems you don't understand hyperbole. There's no need to resort to lowest common demoninator insults. Are you that short of creativity?
Such is life.
If you think the one crash involving Concorde gives it a bad record then I hope that you consider the many thousands of car crashes (note: I have no idea of the exact numbers of cra crashes per model so this number may be inaccurate, do not eat iPod Shuffle, do not drink bleach yadda yadda). I can count off the top of my head over 50 crashes that I have personally seen involving a particular brand of Ford car, so that means it has a bad safety record then. That doesn't take int account drunk driving, people hitting trees because they were showing off, the car being a passive part of the accident or being parked and hit by something else.....
If only it was black and white.
I would hazard a guess that car travel is certainly at least an order of magnitude more dangerous than air travel, depending on the type of stats you use (for example, miles travelled per passenger for aircraft vs car - there are a lot more cars than there are aircraft)
In a 1997 Newsweek magazine study testing deaths per 100 million miles for different forms of transportation, it was proven that planes have the lowest death rate per 100 million miles of traveling. Cars have.94 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, while trains have.04 deaths and planes and buses each came out the same with.01 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. Of course, you can't use those statistics alone to determine which method is the safest method of transportation. When you look at the statistics, you see that there are hundreds of automobile accidents daily across the United States, but only a small percent of these crashes involve fatalities. On the other hand, there are very few aircraft crashes in the United States per year, but when there is a crash, there is usually a fairly large loss of life involved.
Look at that, 94 times more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, which is approximately two orders of magnitude. Still, that's a lot.
Sorry to be brutal and break it down into a pure numbers game, but that's 113 people dead in the service life of the aircraft after it has flown for over 20 years. That's a pretty damn good record for any mode of transport and several thousand orders of magnitude better than the cars those people drove to the airport in.
Sometimes you're just unlucky.
You could be killed by a bus tomorrow, or in a plane crash next week. Who knows.
The G3 in the iBook (an IBM 750FX or something like that) draws 6 watts at 900Mhz.
That's six.
The heat's not really coming from the CPU in an iBook. In fact, the fan barely comes on - only in the most extreme temperatures (say using the laptop on a soft durface like a sofa or a bed when the air tempertaure is up in the "Baghdad August" range).
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But only for 20 years - MS has a long term plan in mind here. In 20 years when Vista is released, all the Moz developers will die and IE7 will be unopposed by default.
Does this exploit run on Linu......
never mind.
We covered this story back then.
This is the obligatory dupe.
The coastguard?
Seconded. I would love to play this, but there's no Mac version.
They seem to have focussed heavily on Direct X and all that jazz for their graphics engine, so I doubt they'll even consider the Mac platform.
Quartz Extreme runs on any GPU with 16MB of VRAM or more - the early white iBooks (2001 era) had 8MB of VRAM in their initial spec (moving to 16 realatively quickly), but no new Mac since late 2001 has been unable to use Quartz Extreme.
The OS also scales UI features if it detects a lower power GPU - the effects look better on more powerful machines and a scaled back on low power GPUs to help performance.
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Ok, so games is still catching up, but I think OS X makes up for that in spades in every single other area of computing vs Windows.
Now that's a hell of a coincidence! I hadn't spotted that.
My handle comes from my first and second names being mashed together by a friend of mine a long time ago.
Not long enough for a 4 figure UID though.
The ball has started rolling! Cue the inevitable string of replies with steadily decreasing UID tied in with "old timer" and "in my day we had to post going uphill both ways to the server!" jokes.
But that's what Zealots are fore - you just use them as fodder while your stealthed templars rip shit up with those imba warp blades. Even though they're melee only, they totally own.
I already have enough trouble yelling "We require more Vespene Gas!" when I am short of money in WoW, now I'll have to deal with it for real in WoS.
Given the number of rogues on my server, I think everyone would roll a Protoss Dark Templar - battlefields would look awfully empty!
This annoys me no end too, and I never have the energy to try and fix it since I search the archives so rarely.
You'd think it would be the default display...
Ford already makes the "Backbone of Britain" and has done for over 30 years - the Transit van.
I can see why they wouldn't introduce it to the US market, but the current turbodiesel models will do 90 (unloaded) without breaking a sweat, handle quite well for a vehicle that size, and have near-infinte utility. There are more variations to the Transit than I can count, including a pick-up bed model, that make it an ideal workhorse.
There's a reason they're still selling so many years after they first graced British roads.
I can't link it directly, but ford.co.uk has a link to the basic model range.
This is a well known trick used in the TV industry for years. If you look just slightly below the camera lens, it's almost impossible to tell you're not looking straight at it.
This is how autocue used to work, before reflective systems became popular, with a pane of glass at 45 degrees right in front of the lens that appears invisible to the camera.
I have never come across a peripheral I couldn't use under OS X, and I've dealt with some pretty weird and wonderful stuff.
Even stuff that needs serial to USB adapters and the like - a bit more annoying, but they still work.
There are many criticisms of OS X to be made, but driver issues is not one of them!
You've never even been in the same room as a computer running OS X have you?
Tape may be old, slow and linear, but they have been proven time and time again to be relaiable as long as you go with a tried and tested system.
If your data is really worth saving and you have the budget, you'll keep it on two types of backup medium.
I know you joke, but this /is/ their off-site backup facility.
The studio is unaffected.
Well, I'll sit out on the porch with you in the middle ground with a shotgun discuss science and dogs with you!
Hey, I'm an extreme left winger and I agree with you 100%.
We're not all alike over here in liberal land!
They run away from you on "Legendary" mode too, just don't chase them for target practice or the Elites you didn't immediately spot will pick you off.
My only major gripe with the game was that you had to leave the extremely useful pistol behind. It was awesome for taking down Elites (and Hunters when they showed up) but you couldn't justify using a weapon slot for it when you have a shotgun and an Elite's plasma rifle (or the sniper rifle).
I know exactly what an order of magnitude is, but it seems you don't understand hyperbole. There's no need to resort to lowest common demoninator insults. Are you that short of creativity?
.94 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, while trains have .04 deaths and planes and buses each came out the same with .01 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. Of course, you can't use those statistics alone to determine which method is the safest method of transportation. When you look at the statistics, you see that there are hundreds of automobile accidents daily across the United States, but only a small percent of these crashes involve fatalities. On the other hand, there are very few aircraft crashes in the United States per year, but when there is a crash, there is usually a fairly large loss of life involved.
Such is life.
If you think the one crash involving Concorde gives it a bad record then I hope that you consider the many thousands of car crashes (note: I have no idea of the exact numbers of cra crashes per model so this number may be inaccurate, do not eat iPod Shuffle, do not drink bleach yadda yadda). I can count off the top of my head over 50 crashes that I have personally seen involving a particular brand of Ford car, so that means it has a bad safety record then. That doesn't take int account drunk driving, people hitting trees because they were showing off, the car being a passive part of the accident or being parked and hit by something else.....
If only it was black and white.
I would hazard a guess that car travel is certainly at least an order of magnitude more dangerous than air travel, depending on the type of stats you use (for example, miles travelled per passenger for aircraft vs car - there are a lot more cars than there are aircraft)
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In a 1997 Newsweek magazine study testing deaths per 100 million miles for different forms of transportation, it was proven that planes have the lowest death rate per 100 million miles of traveling. Cars have
Look at that, 94 times more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, which is approximately two orders of magnitude. Still, that's a lot.
Sorry to be brutal and break it down into a pure numbers game, but that's 113 people dead in the service life of the aircraft after it has flown for over 20 years. That's a pretty damn good record for any mode of transport and several thousand orders of magnitude better than the cars those people drove to the airport in.
Sometimes you're just unlucky.
You could be killed by a bus tomorrow, or in a plane crash next week. Who knows.
You realise that Concorde has one of the very best safety records of any aircraft ever to fly, right?
The G3 in the iBook (an IBM 750FX or something like that) draws 6 watts at 900Mhz.
That's six.
The heat's not really coming from the CPU in an iBook. In fact, the fan barely comes on - only in the most extreme temperatures (say using the laptop on a soft durface like a sofa or a bed when the air tempertaure is up in the "Baghdad August" range).