Meteorites: 10ish miles per second, depending (yukon = 9.3) Relative to the Earth
Earth through space: 18.5 miles per second Relative to the Sun
Sun through space: around 155 miles per second Relative to the Galactic Centre
I don't think the name "iPod Killer" should be used until one of them actually kills an iPod -- or even wounds it. Take the case of the HD players, no one should get this moniker until they get at least 15 to 20 percent of the market. Even then, they would be classified as an "iPod Attempted Murder".
Currently, the "iPod Killer" is in the same class the Easter Bunny or the Tooth fairy.. they don't exist (and even if the did, there is a good chance that they would both own iPods).
Now, while the "iPod Killers" look really cool and they are packing hardware to kill -- not one has been sent to trial for killing. Not one has ever committed a misdemeanor . Not one has ever got a speeding ticket or parking ticket. Not one has ever cheated on their taxes. There are 11-year old Catholic school girls with bigger criminal records than these "killers" .
How about "iPod wanta-bes" (and I am not talking about functionally, because most exceed the specs -- I am talking about market share).
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ is a good place to see a lot of stories you might not run into anywhere else. While some of it may be a little crazy, it is an interesting place.
Hey, that's interesting. Did you know your school was named after a rexx interpreter?
"The hamlet of Pile of Bones was renamed in 1882 to Regina (Latin for queen) by Princess Louise, the wife of Canada's Governor General, in honour of her mother Queen Victoria, the British monarch at the time. Reginans commonly refer to Regina as the "Queen City"." http://www.fact-index.com/r/re/regina__saskatchewa n.html
Must agree with this. In Canada the average rate is less than $4/hour Canadian. The place right across the street from me is $2.50 per hour Canadian ($1.95 US).. which is less then half the rate posted.
I think the numbers in this survey are quite old.
.. we are and its fantastic. First of all, all our clients are running either Windows (98 to XP) or Mac OS X.. Adobe's plug-in is working just fine. We made a small modification to the Apache config file and feed our SVG files through the PHP interpreter first -- with PHP code embedded in the SVG file. Much of the data begin display on our clients SVG drawings are dynamic and sourced from a MySQL database. As the database is updated, the SVG drawings and figures change automatically. Saves a ton of work.
But, Mr Reagan was an exceptionally decent human being, who cared deeply about the welfare of his nation, and for 8 years did the best he knew how to make this world a better place.
Cough.. choke... please tell me this in intended to be modded as funny. You are talking about the man the gave the "Evil Empire" speech. Listen, you want to make the world a better place to live, then stop building 5 Billion dollar mega war machines.
Summary... The 2GHz G5 is *very* slightly slower than the older 2.66GHz. (3GHz machines are out now). As far as the second bar graph goes who gives a crap about how fast something is per MHz? Seriously moderators... read the article... that goes for you too ciroknight. You Apple fanboys are ridiculous sometimes.
The DUAL 2GHz G5s peform much better than the single 3GHz. I guess most people are too busy holding onto their desks while Bill is ramming them up that ass to pay attention to the article.
Frankly, us Mac "fanboys" could care less if someone could pick up a $499 4 Ghz P4. The people touting these systems are driving rusted out Ford Escorts with the bumpers held on by duct tape (or drooling over the Ford Escorts while looking out of the windows of the loser-cruiser)
Seriously now, Mac/OSX fanboys like their computers. They don't care if it is the absolute fastest or the most/least expensive. The hardware has some style and the OS simply rocks.
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
Bzzt! The G5 is an Apple naming system, not Moto's. They can call the new chip whatever they want. The most logical from a marketing standpoing is "G5".
The 970 requires that the bus speed be 1:2 of the process speed.. so this makes alot of sense.
You are going to look really silly come Monday. Say your not Dovrak, are you?
square areas and cubical volumes are pretty dashed rare
Well, outside of work (I work for an engineering firm) areas and volumes are not that rare, especially if you own a house:
Ever put flooring in your house?
Ever pave your driveway ?(based on area + volumes for base gravel)
Ever compute the area of your house used for buisness for tax purposes?
Ever calculate how big a hot water tank you need?
Ever calculate the area of your roof for replacing?
Ever calculate the area of lawn that this bottle of weed and feed will cover? (or back-calculate the volume required for your lawn?)
Of course there are many people who's biggest calculation is how many Big Gulps they can buy with the change in there pocket (hey.. wait a miniute.. volumes again!!).
And speaking on the work side.. its really fricking handy sometime to know that there are 1000 litres in a cubic metre and a litre is 10X10X10 cm box. (Try converting gallons to acre-feet in your head and you'll appreciate the metric system)
MacOSX is an alternative window manager sitting on top of BSD!
So why won't iTunes run on FreeBSD then? I tried it, it didn't work.
Umm, because you are not running Quartz, the alternative windowing manager (and probably missing the Carbon/Cocoa Frameworks). Yes, Virgina, it is that simple.
Like how everyone in your house with a computer has to buy their own copy of a song/album if your computer isn't on/connected/available?
Ahh No, you can place the music on up to three Macs (and stream via Rendevous to as many as you want!)
You mean the fact that most independent and rare music is not available because apple only has deals with the big 5 record companies producing arguably the worst music in the world? You have a bizarre idea of what music lovers want.
Umm, I will agree that most of the mainstream music is crap. But it *IS* what people are buying, therefore it is mainstream, and therefore the logical choice to sell. This next statement is obvious.. but *duh*! (It really sounds like you would just rather steal the music.. I'm sure the small, independants just love that)
Well, there is a shadow client for kazza called NEO
Also there is Limewire, Direct Connect, Aquisition, etc.. so there are lots of P2P file shareing options.
Agreed.. this story is moot.
We've had mandatory 10-digit dialing in Vancouver, BC for a couple of years now.
The most suprising part of the story is that NY was still using 7-digit dialing.
Personally, I think we should convert all phones to Hexa-decimal and get back to 7 digit dialing!
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The headline implies that the whole platform is unstable -- come you editors -- what the fuck are you thinking?
"Some XBOX 360's experiencing stability issues" would have been a lot better -- and not an out right lie.
Umm -- don't want to point out the obvious -- but you can use your iPod on a bus, train or plane -- hand held video would work just fine here.
"What? Mazda is using USB keys in all their cars??"
Ummm, no. Mazda experiments with USB key in concept car would be A LOT better.
But haven't we all used a 5 1/4 floppy as a Frisbee? It made the old "sneaker-net" in the cube farm seem so passe.
Meteorites: 10ish miles per second, depending (yukon = 9.3) Relative to the Earth
Earth through space: 18.5 miles per second Relative to the Sun
Sun through space: around 155 miles per second Relative to the Galactic Centre
Yes, its does look like Yahoo .. check of the last line of HTML source.
I don't think the name "iPod Killer" should be used until one of them actually kills an iPod -- or even wounds it. Take the case of the HD players, no one should get this moniker until they get at least 15 to 20 percent of the market. Even then, they would be classified as an "iPod Attempted Murder".
Currently, the "iPod Killer" is in the same class the Easter Bunny or the Tooth fairy .. they don't exist (and even if the did, there is a good chance that they would both own iPods).
Now, while the "iPod Killers" look really cool and they are packing hardware to kill -- not one has been sent to trial for killing. Not one has ever committed a misdemeanor . Not one has ever got a speeding ticket or parking ticket. Not one has ever cheated on their taxes. There are 11-year old Catholic school girls with bigger criminal records than these "killers" .
How about "iPod wanta-bes" (and I am not talking about functionally, because most exceed the specs -- I am talking about market share).
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ is a good place to see a lot of stories you might not run into anywhere else. While some of it may be a little crazy, it is an interesting place.
Me to ... and I will drive from BC.
Now, checking the Kindersley town calender:
Sept 29: Rotary Club meeting, Legion Meeting
Oct 2: Launch Space Craft, Flat Landers Racing Association
Oct 3: Elks Bingo
I'm not making this stuff up!!!! http://www.kindersley.wcreda.com/calendar/
I hope it was painfully obvious that I was kidding!
:) ... I just trying to enlighten the /.'ers with painfully dull Canadian prairie facts.
Yes, PAINFULLY obvious
Did you know there is actually four downs in Canadian football? Its a fact. We just always punt on the third down to be safe.
Hey, that's interesting. Did you know your school was named after a rexx interpreter?
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"The hamlet of Pile of Bones was renamed in 1882 to Regina (Latin for queen) by Princess Louise, the wife of Canada's Governor General, in honour of her mother Queen Victoria, the British monarch at the time. Reginans commonly refer to Regina as the "Queen City"." http://www.fact-index.com/r/re/regina__saskatchew
Must agree with this. In Canada the average rate is less than $4/hour Canadian. The place right across the street from me is $2.50 per hour Canadian ($1.95 US) .. which is less then half the rate posted.
I think the numbers in this survey are quite old.
> Surely it's a pretty expensive option Apple won the contract based on being the lowest priced option to give them the power they wanted.
.. we are and its fantastic. First of all, all our clients are running either Windows (98 to XP) or Mac OS X .. Adobe's plug-in is working just fine. We made a small modification to the Apache config file and feed our SVG files through the PHP interpreter first -- with PHP code embedded in the SVG file. Much of the data begin display on our clients SVG drawings are dynamic and sourced from a MySQL database. As the database is updated, the SVG drawings and figures change automatically. Saves a ton of work.
Frankly, us Mac "fanboys" could care less if someone could pick up a $499 4 Ghz P4. The people touting these systems are driving rusted out Ford Escorts with the bumpers held on by duct tape (or drooling over the Ford Escorts while looking out of the windows of the loser-cruiser)
Seriously now, Mac/OSX fanboys like their computers. They don't care if it is the absolute fastest or the most/least expensive. The hardware has some style and the OS simply rocks.
You are going to look really silly come Monday. Say your not Dovrak, are you?
- Ever put flooring in your house?
- Ever pave your driveway ?(based on area + volumes for base gravel)
- Ever compute the area of your house used for buisness for tax purposes?
- Ever calculate how big a hot water tank you need?
- Ever calculate the area of your roof for replacing?
- Ever calculate the area of lawn that this bottle of weed and feed will cover? (or back-calculate the volume required for your lawn?)
Of course there are many people who's biggest calculation is how many Big Gulps they can buy with the change in there pocket (heyWell, there is a shadow client for kazza called NEO
Also there is Limewire, Direct Connect, Aquisition, etc.. so there are lots of P2P file shareing options.
Agreed .. this story is moot.
We've had mandatory 10-digit dialing in Vancouver, BC for a couple of years now.
The most suprising part of the story is that NY was still using 7-digit dialing.
Personally, I think we should convert all phones to Hexa-decimal and get back to 7 digit dialing!
"fink install tin" -- works great!