Now everyone just go out on the internet and sign him up for one snailmail spam. It's not precisely the same, but him getting a few 1000 coupons for personalized cheques, and "Pomato" plants might make me feel a little better at the end of the day.
Ha! I had four of those watches... More accurately, by fifth grade, I'd lost 4 of those. Couldn't keep my hands on them, but couldn't live without them. I'd fill the thing with my friends' phone numbers, along with test/quiz dates, then a couple months later I'd lose it.
Shortly after, I swore off all wrist watches, and went to all sorts of extremes to avoid carrying one. (my PalmV kept remarkably good time for weeks on end). I'd love to get one of these, and simultaneously 1) relive a part of my childhood, and 2) have a use for my palm software again.
Chinese is pictographic, meaning there is typically SOME relationship between the meaning of a word and the symbols its made up of. Your example (assume, ass u me), doesn't make sense because in english, the letters "ass" don't mean the same thing in each word you see.
In chinese, each character is made up of radicals which are based on concepts, not like A, B, C, which no longer carry any meaning in and of themselves.
But there are ways that the symbols can be translated into a non significant meaning. IIRC, the japanese kanji for Japan, literally means "Land of the Sun", but I think it also could be (erroneously, and meaninglessly) translated into "day book"
I remember that!! I used to carry my McGuyver around at college. It's actually a bike tool made by a company called Topeak. I don't think it has over 100 tools... [whipping it out] lessee...
8mm wrench, 9mm wrench, 10mm wrench, 15g, 14g, P#1 flathead, straight blade, saw, mini pliers, scissors, magnefying glass, ruler, scaler, bottle opener, miniflathead, can opener, 6 hex wrenches, nail file, tweezers, mini phillips, #2 phillips, fork, awl.... I think officially its only got 33 on there...
There's probably a few I've missed, since this thing looks like a porcupine with all the tools sticking out.
I used to do that, just whip out my wire cutters and kill branches along my path. I mean, if I'm going to walk by there 3 times a day, I'm not putting up with branches. I ususally carry a leatherman wave (although recently switched to a Juice XE6), and my car keys (along with keys), currently carries a Swiss army knife (flashlight, tweezer, file, knife, scissors), a tape measure, bottle opener, carpenter's level, and a kokopelli for good luck.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
Personally, I don't think it's about carrying 1300 devices, but making do with the 30 or so you do carry around.
Back in the day when G3's came out, G3's were legitimately beating PII chips at the same clock at virtually every benchmark. The G3-500Mhz could squarely trounce a PIII-650Mhz in non-Photoshop benchmarks. It was a good time to be a mac users;) *remenisce*
I think a 400 Mhz indigo imac is a little more than a year old, but a lack of ram can account for a significant performance bottleneck. If that things running 9.1 and has 64MB or less, it's going to run like a cow. OS 9.1 will easily use 40 MB of ram for itself, or around 23 if you have virtual memory turned on. If your library can cough up $20 for another 128 MB, that iMac will be much happier. Of course, apple shipped a bunch of machines with 32-64 MB ram, and OS9, which meant you pretty much needed an instant RAM upgrade.. but I digress. My father has a 400Mhz iMac, which had only 64 MB, and every operation was unbearably slow, since the computer was constantly swapping data in and out of vram. He was about to chuck it out the window 'till I upgraded it with an additional 128. Now, everything's dandy.
IIRC, Win98 will run relatively fine with 64 MB ram, so a PII233 w/ 64MB will trounce a 400Mhz iMac w/ 64, but I think at 128 MB, their performance should be equal for most tasks, with computationally intensive tasks going to the iMac.
The powerpc G3 and G4 chips were designed to be (among other things) embedded chips where power consumption and heat dissipation are much more important. They do run mobile versions of the G4, like the last couple laptops used 7451, or 7440 G4's, while the desktops used 7450 or 7455 vs. The differences are usually that the mobile versions use less power, and support less L3 cache.
However for the original poster, this might not apply because all laptop chips downshift when running on battery- to save power consumption, duh.
First off, my laptop's cpu does not downshift. I tell it not to. Second, its a desktop chip masquerading as a laptop chip, which causes more problems. They don't technically downshift because they're missing SpeedStep circuitry. Instead, the timer sends the CPU empty cycles every other cycle, so the processor only does work half its cycles. This effectively lowers power consumption and performance, without techincally changing the speed of operation (because the desktop processor can't change speed)
Re:eliminating the spaces...
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wouldn't using all those fresnel's kill your viewing angle? I don't think you could view it in a classroom setup, unless given a really long room.
There are those projector hacks where people attach a hood to their tv/monitor, then pass it through a fresnel and onto a surface. If you built 16 mini fresnel rear projectors, I think you'd end up with something like the setup they use in bestbuy, which is like a bunch of rear projection TV's.
..And it would costs abouts $200 a pop to get converter boards to use those LCD monitors on a desktop display. A lot of people assume that it's economically advantageous to use laptop LCD's instead of desktop ones. Typically, it doesn't cost less to use a laptop screen with a desktop, and the only places it makes sense is when you very specifically need like a 12.1" or 8.4" screen in a dash board or control panel. This thread talks about the technical problems associated with laptop screens on the desktop, and these guys carry everything you need to do it. Check it out, it's really expensive, even if you have 16 laptops with identical LCD's.
If by "about as much" you mean only $2000 more, and 1/6 the storage, then I see what you mean. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but these machines are a bit different: Xserve: 1-2 1Ghz G4 256-2048 MB RAM 1-4 UATA HD's (hotswapping, either 60-120GB)
If you compare the base model units, the Xserve is about $1000 cheaper. If you deck them both out to nice big $7000 boxes, Xserve has 400 more gigs of storage. You may find the Xserve unacceptable because it lacks scsi, or your apps need 6 gigs of RAM (that's fair enough), but they do give you _something_ in return (namely, lots of cheap storage)
At least in my case, the guy didn't even _try_ to install anything. I was impressed that he even knew how to set up an iMac from the TCP/IP control panel (I've had horrid experience trying to convince broadband technical support to even talk to me if they know I have a mac). The only thing he tried to do was set the default homepage of IE to some broadband portal, and I was like "Uh, this is my girlfriend's machine, and you _really_ don't want to do that."
Then when he left, I whipped out the router and got everybody else on-line;)
It looked like AT/really old HW. 10 386/486 POS boxen are going to be way slower than even a two hundred dollar PC, use 5x as much power, have 1/20th the storage, take orders of magnitude longer to set up, and 10x the space. Plus, it looks as if those pc's had been stripped of all drives, cards, etc.
Then go to a pawn shop or used computer store and pick one up for $20. Or better yet come to Portland, ME, my neighbor throws out about 1 per week.
computer can be quite distracting
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The lexus 430 LS (along with a bunch of other luxury cars these days) sport an in-dash lcd and GPS/travel software that's highly configurable. The thing can dload all sorts of local business and landmark addresses, provide directions to any location, and acts as a navigation/multimedia controller, for the souped up audio system and optional DVD playback (you just tap the map, and it'll tell you how to get there).
Lexus at least seems rather aware of the fact that computing while driving might be severely distracting, and they post a warning saying that you should NOT drive and watch the screen at the same time (You have to click "OK" to get the GPS screen to come up), and they've even laid out most of the map/travel computer controls on the passenger side, so the driver isn't looking for restaurants while speeding through busy intersections.
I can't believe that's all it took to improve my airport signal. Not that my apt is huge, but now I get 4 bars strength everywhere inside, instead of 0-2 in the bedroom. This little "part" must have come loose in like EVERY tibook ever made. I'm speechless, stupified. I used to work for Apple, they've got fleets of Ti's out there, and noone's ever mentioned this. Must be a new "discovery". Any rate, thanks for pointing it out!
A good friend of mine used to rent games from RedOctane, since they always had superior selection to the local video stores. In particular, it seemed hard to get new RPG's in a reasonable amount of time, and we were RPG nuts (still are, really). So the selection and the import titles made it completely worth it. That, and the serial port based modchip in our PSX meant we could "acquire" about 3 games a week, for $20 a month.
I've also noticed in some of their screen shots, that their new custom desktop (widgets etc.) are eerily aqualicious. Lots of jelly-like spherical buttons, shiny, shaded bubbly menu bars that are "slightly" transparent, an emphasis on blue...
These have already been linked, but the screen shots definitely have more than a passing resemblance
Well, Apple does have to defend their Trademarks or they become generic and anybody will be able to call their MP3 player an iPod.
That's funny. I remember the iPod media blitz, where Jonathan Ives (apple's lead industrial design guy), says, "Our goal was to design the very, very best MP3 player that we could; to design something that could become an icon. And, you know, we'll see if that's the case, or not."
And, you know, the second another product shows up with a name "remotely" like iPod, they get letters from Apple legal.
...and the difference between "hypothesis", "theory" and "law" is mainly who you knew in the world of academia in the 1800's and 1900's. We have plenty of theories that have been proven more rigorously than laws, and vice versa, etc. We've found exceptions to lots of scientific law over 50 years old, thanks to technological advancements. The nomenclature of theory vs. law has held little to no relationship in terms of scientific rigour for longer than any of us have been here (unless you happen to be like 140 years old, in which case, GO YOU:) !!)Creationists and Anti-Evolutionists like to harp on the fact that Evolution is often referred to as a theory. Regardless of whether creationism or evolution is correct, this holds about as much significance as saying, "Evolution is spelled with an 'E', therefore my kids shouldn't have to learn it.*"
Well put. Creationist Science, much like Christian Science*, is NOT a science. So much of the "Creationist Science" rhetoric seems more like academic attrition than any science at all. They look for increasingly hard to explain phenomena, with no regard for the larger, more patternistic (or evolutionarily "behaved") systems out there, then refute the entire theory of evolution by pointing wildly at their red herrings.
Their inappropriate use of the word "science" maligns the reputation of legitimate science for academics and researchers everywhere.
P.S. you didn't miss much in the article, its repetitious, involves lots of exploding beetles, and eventually resorts to name calling (an ad hominum attack as a result of ad hominum attacks),
* I have nothing against Christian Scientists. It is a legitimate religion. Additionally, all the Christian Scientists I know agree with the sentiment that their faith is indeed not a science.
You can always try this out, just get a Nintendo64, and rent Starcraft64, and you're off! I've heard that it's both really awful, and good for what it is.
I've seen screen shots with abominably low resolutions, having only 4 groups of 9 hot-keyed, instead of 9 groups of 12, and split screen two player mode. As a big fan of the original SC, I don't think I could deal. One of my friends who is also a big Starcraft fan said that in the N64 vs. you tend to abandon all micro and go for mid tech swarm tactics, since everything else is impossible to pull off with the analog control stick.
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Now everyone just go out on the internet and sign him up for one snailmail spam. It's not precisely the same, but him getting a few 1000 coupons for personalized cheques, and "Pomato" plants might make me feel a little better at the end of the day.
Ha! I had four of those watches... More accurately, by fifth grade, I'd lost 4 of those. Couldn't keep my hands on them, but couldn't live without them. I'd fill the thing with my friends' phone numbers, along with test/quiz dates, then a couple months later I'd lose it.
Shortly after, I swore off all wrist watches, and went to all sorts of extremes to avoid carrying one. (my PalmV kept remarkably good time for weeks on end). I'd love to get one of these, and simultaneously 1) relive a part of my childhood, and 2) have a use for my palm software again.
The GBA was free, but besides the point.
Funny that, my Palm was free.
Chinese is pictographic, meaning there is typically SOME relationship between the meaning of a word and the symbols its made up of. Your example (assume, ass u me), doesn't make sense because in english, the letters "ass" don't mean the same thing in each word you see.
In chinese, each character is made up of radicals which are based on concepts, not like A, B, C, which no longer carry any meaning in and of themselves.
But there are ways that the symbols can be translated into a non significant meaning. IIRC, the japanese kanji for Japan, literally means "Land of the Sun", but I think it also could be (erroneously, and meaninglessly) translated into "day book"
I just modded this +1 funny, and it came up -1 Redundant. I think I'll lay off the mod points for a bit.
I remember that!! I used to carry my McGuyver around at college. It's actually a bike tool made by a company called Topeak. I don't think it has over 100 tools... [whipping it out]
lessee...
8mm wrench, 9mm wrench, 10mm wrench, 15g, 14g, P#1 flathead, straight blade, saw, mini pliers, scissors, magnefying glass, ruler, scaler, bottle opener, miniflathead, can opener, 6 hex wrenches, nail file, tweezers, mini phillips, #2 phillips, fork, awl.... I think officially its only got 33 on there...
There's probably a few I've missed, since this thing looks like a porcupine with all the tools sticking out.
I used to do that, just whip out my wire cutters and kill branches along my path. I mean, if I'm going to walk by there 3 times a day, I'm not putting up with branches. I ususally carry a leatherman wave (although recently switched to a Juice XE6), and my car keys (along with keys), currently carries a Swiss army knife (flashlight, tweezer, file, knife, scissors), a tape measure, bottle opener, carpenter's level, and a kokopelli for good luck.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
Personally, I don't think it's about carrying 1300 devices, but making do with the 30 or so you do carry around.
Back in the day when G3's came out, G3's were legitimately beating PII chips at the same clock at virtually every benchmark. The G3-500Mhz could squarely trounce a PIII-650Mhz in non-Photoshop benchmarks. It was a good time to be a mac users ;) *remenisce*
I think a 400 Mhz indigo imac is a little more than a year old, but a lack of ram can account for a significant performance bottleneck. If that things running 9.1 and has 64MB or less, it's going to run like a cow. OS 9.1 will easily use 40 MB of ram for itself, or around 23 if you have virtual memory turned on. If your library can cough up $20 for another 128 MB, that iMac will be much happier. Of course, apple shipped a bunch of machines with 32-64 MB ram, and OS9, which meant you pretty much needed an instant RAM upgrade.. but I digress. My father has a 400Mhz iMac, which had only 64 MB, and every operation was unbearably slow, since the computer was constantly swapping data in and out of vram. He was about to chuck it out the window 'till I upgraded it with an additional 128. Now, everything's dandy.
IIRC, Win98 will run relatively fine with 64 MB ram, so a PII233 w/ 64MB will trounce a 400Mhz iMac w/ 64, but I think at 128 MB, their performance should be equal for most tasks, with computationally intensive tasks going to the iMac.
The powerpc G3 and G4 chips were designed to be (among other things) embedded chips where power consumption and heat dissipation are much more important. They do run mobile versions of the G4, like the last couple laptops used 7451, or 7440 G4's, while the desktops used 7450 or 7455 vs. The differences are usually that the mobile versions use less power, and support less L3 cache.
However for the original poster, this might not apply because all laptop chips downshift when running on battery- to save power consumption, duh.
First off, my laptop's cpu does not downshift. I tell it not to. Second, its a desktop chip masquerading as a laptop chip, which causes more problems. They don't technically downshift because they're missing SpeedStep circuitry. Instead, the timer sends the CPU empty cycles every other cycle, so the processor only does work half its cycles. This effectively lowers power consumption and performance, without techincally changing the speed of operation (because the desktop processor can't change speed)
wouldn't using all those fresnel's kill your viewing angle? I don't think you could view it in a classroom setup, unless given a really long room.
There are those projector hacks where people attach a hood to their tv/monitor, then pass it through a fresnel and onto a surface. If you built 16 mini fresnel rear projectors, I think you'd end up with something like the setup they use in bestbuy, which is like a bunch of rear projection TV's.
..And it would costs abouts $200 a pop to get converter boards to use those LCD monitors on a desktop display. A lot of people assume that it's economically advantageous to use laptop LCD's instead of desktop ones. Typically, it doesn't cost less to use a laptop screen with a desktop, and the only places it makes sense is when you very specifically need like a 12.1" or 8.4" screen in a dash board or control panel. This thread talks about the technical problems associated with laptop screens on the desktop, and these guys carry everything you need to do it. Check it out, it's really expensive, even if you have 16 laptops with identical LCD's.
If by "about as much" you mean only $2000 more, and 1/6 the storage, then I see what you mean. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but these machines are a bit different:
Xserve:
1-2 1Ghz G4
256-2048 MB RAM
1-4 UATA HD's (hotswapping, either 60-120GB)
Sun LX50:
1-2 1.4Ghz PIII
256-6144 MB RAM
1 SCSI-160 HD's (36-72 GB)
If you compare the base model units, the Xserve is about $1000 cheaper. If you deck them both out to nice big $7000 boxes, Xserve has 400 more gigs of storage. You may find the Xserve unacceptable because it lacks scsi, or your apps need 6 gigs of RAM (that's fair enough), but they do give you _something_ in return (namely, lots of cheap storage)
At least in my case, the guy didn't even _try_ to install anything. I was impressed that he even knew how to set up an iMac from the TCP/IP control panel (I've had horrid experience trying to convince broadband technical support to even talk to me if they know I have a mac). The only thing he tried to do was set the default homepage of IE to some broadband portal, and I was like "Uh, this is my girlfriend's machine, and you _really_ don't want to do that."
;)
Then when he left, I whipped out the router and got everybody else on-line
It looked like AT/really old HW. 10 386/486 POS boxen are going to be way slower than even a two hundred dollar PC, use 5x as much power, have 1/20th the storage, take orders of magnitude longer to set up, and 10x the space. Plus, it looks as if those pc's had been stripped of all drives, cards, etc.
Then go to a pawn shop or used computer store and pick one up for $20. Or better yet come to Portland, ME, my neighbor throws out about 1 per week.
The lexus 430 LS (along with a bunch of other luxury cars these days) sport an in-dash lcd and GPS/travel software that's highly configurable. The thing can dload all sorts of local business and landmark addresses, provide directions to any location, and acts as a navigation/multimedia controller, for the souped up audio system and optional DVD playback (you just tap the map, and it'll tell you how to get there).
Lexus at least seems rather aware of the fact that computing while driving might be severely distracting, and they post a warning saying that you should NOT drive and watch the screen at the same time (You have to click "OK" to get the GPS screen to come up), and they've even laid out most of the map/travel computer controls on the passenger side, so the driver isn't looking for restaurants while speeding through busy intersections.
I can't believe that's all it took to improve my airport signal. Not that my apt is huge, but now I get 4 bars strength everywhere inside, instead of 0-2 in the bedroom. This little "part" must have come loose in like EVERY tibook ever made. I'm speechless, stupified. I used to work for Apple, they've got fleets of Ti's out there, and noone's ever mentioned this. Must be a new "discovery". Any rate, thanks for pointing it out!
A good friend of mine used to rent games from RedOctane, since they always had superior selection to the local video stores. In particular, it seemed hard to get new RPG's in a reasonable amount of time, and we were RPG nuts (still are, really). So the selection and the import titles made it completely worth it. That, and the serial port based modchip in our PSX meant we could "acquire" about 3 games a week, for $20 a month.
I've also noticed in some of their screen shots, that their new custom desktop (widgets etc.) are eerily aqualicious. Lots of jelly-like spherical buttons, shiny, shaded bubbly menu bars that are "slightly" transparent, an emphasis on blue...
These have already been linked, but the screen shots definitely have more than a passing resemblance
Well, Apple does have to defend their Trademarks or they become generic and anybody will be able to call their MP3 player an iPod.
That's funny. I remember the iPod media blitz, where Jonathan Ives (apple's lead industrial design guy), says, "Our goal was to design the very, very best MP3 player that we could; to design something that could become an icon. And, you know, we'll see if that's the case, or not."
And, you know, the second another product shows up with a name "remotely" like iPod, they get letters from Apple legal.
Check it out:
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Water: 4.196
Kerosene: 2.100
Whaddya know? I sure wouldn't have thought of it, but then again, I don't design fighter planes.
...and the difference between "hypothesis", "theory" and "law" is mainly who you knew in the world of academia in the 1800's and 1900's. We have plenty of theories that have been proven more rigorously than laws, and vice versa, etc. We've found exceptions to lots of scientific law over 50 years old, thanks to technological advancements. The nomenclature of theory vs. law has held little to no relationship in terms of scientific rigour for longer than any of us have been here (unless you happen to be like 140 years old, in which case, GO YOU :) !!)Creationists and Anti-Evolutionists like to harp on the fact that Evolution is often referred to as a theory. Regardless of whether creationism or evolution is correct, this holds about as much significance as saying, "Evolution is spelled with an 'E', therefore my kids shouldn't have to learn it.*"
*That goes for Economics and English as well!!
Well put. Creationist Science, much like Christian Science*, is NOT a science. So much of the "Creationist Science" rhetoric seems more like academic attrition than any science at all. They look for increasingly hard to explain phenomena, with no regard for the larger, more patternistic (or evolutionarily "behaved") systems out there, then refute the entire theory of evolution by pointing wildly at their red herrings.
Their inappropriate use of the word "science" maligns the reputation of legitimate science for academics and researchers everywhere.
P.S. you didn't miss much in the article, its repetitious, involves lots of exploding beetles, and eventually resorts to name calling (an ad hominum attack as a result of ad hominum attacks),
* I have nothing against Christian Scientists. It is a legitimate religion. Additionally, all the Christian Scientists I know agree with the sentiment that their faith is indeed not a science.
You can always try this out, just get a Nintendo64, and rent Starcraft64, and you're off! I've heard that it's both really awful, and good for what it is.
I've seen screen shots with abominably low resolutions, having only 4 groups of 9 hot-keyed, instead of 9 groups of 12, and split screen two player mode. As a big fan of the original SC, I don't think I could deal. One of my friends who is also a big Starcraft fan said that in the N64 vs. you tend to abandon all micro and go for mid tech swarm tactics, since everything else is impossible to pull off with the analog control stick.