I'd actually like a lean Mozilla browser and a separate Mozilla mail app. No webpage creation, no messenger, no chat/irc. I'll definitely keep an eye on Phoenix.
Why keep an eye on it? I'm using it as my daily browser right now on my older laptop and it's working great!
In another post, someone calculated the cost at about $30,000 in electricity, assuming 300 watt power supplies.
But when you said "all the used energy was energy that could have been saved by turning the computers off!", you were being a little ignorant.
Did you ever stop to think that some people don't leave their computers on just to run the dnet client, and that it runs in the background as they're, say, posting a comment to slashdot? Or that the client is running on a computer that is left on 24/7 anyway, known as a server? Silly guy...
Sorry, you are a bit lame. You can use the location bar as your google search tab. Just enter the search words, hit the search button or choos in the recent url list "Search Google for". Of course you have to make sure in your prefs, that google will be used for the location bar. See, there is absolutely no need for additional waste of space like in IE.
Actually, although I find the Google search from the address bar very useful, I still would like the full Google toolbar as in IE... It adds lots of other overlooked features which I use quite often. In order of my usage: search term highlighting in current page, parent folder (can be used to reach "home" page), google translation into English, and google's cache of page. Then there's the "Google search site" and Pagerank indicator, which I don't really care about. But still, Google toolbar is extremely useful to me, and I'm sure many other people as well.
I agree wholeheartedly, and this has been my philosophy for upgrading for several years. I always stay a minimum of one, preferrably two cycles away from the latest, greatest thing. It's certainly the best ratio of price to performance. By the way, it's "a lot". You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
One hot day, I went into my BIOS and checked out the hardware section, only to find that my CPU and case were 256 degrees F, and
my CPU fan was spinning at several hundred-thousand RPMs
you said "_all_ video cards (reputable ones) have fans."
FYI, I happen to be the proud owner of an Asus GeForce2 video card with just a heat sink, as well as an MSI NForce motherboard with a heat sink on the chipset. That brings me down to 2 fans, but still not quiet enough for my taste...
Actually, if you re-read the context of what you quoted... What I said was: "XBox port of MAME...downloads have now been removed... Thank goodness for P2P!"
Good one, though! =P
As an American living in Europe (Germany to be exact) for about 1 year now, one thing I really had to adjust to was the signs on the autobahn. They don't label their highways here with north/south/east/west at all, they only give city names in the direction the highway goes. It's very frustrating for me, but I think I can understand the reason for it here, different languages. As well as the fact that many times highways don't strictly go in one direction. In Oklahoma City, there's actually a piece of I-240 westbound that goes....east! I think it's more common in interstates that are bypasses or loops around city traffic.
Just thought you might be interested...
I actually mentioned Mozilla to a computer-literate collegue of mine, and asked a week later to see how he liked it. He had some sort of tcp-monitoring software installed, and saw that when he was using Moz it was sending some information out it shouldn't have been, and promptly uninstalled it. When he told me, I didn't believe him and thought he had made some sort of mistake. That was only a few days ago, and now this headline on/. What a let-down.
And after downloading the 35 meg or so for all the installer files, the installer crashed. I wasn't expecting it to be bug-free, but come on!
Don't think I'll even bother again until 6.1
1. I work for the US Air Force, maintaining the navigation systems you talk about on AWACS. Of course, I don't speak for my employer, either. 2. Normally, my job is performed on the ground, but I fly on the aircraft I maintain when I go TDY to Saudi, Turkey, Las Vegas, etc. 3. The ILS system you speak of stands for "Instrument Landing System". "Glideslope" is the up/down portion of it. It does not use an "interference pattern" to determine the plane's position in relation to the runway. Instead, there are 2 different RF frequencies aimed above and below the desired landing angle. The signals overlap somewhat, and that's the place you want to be. If one signal is stronger than the other, you know you're either too far up or down. 4. These signals are nowhere near as susceptable to interference as you imply. There have been times I've done extensive testing on this system while toying with a laptop, or talking on a cell phone. In fact, the antenna for glideslope is located in the nose of the plane, right next to our Weather RADAR system, which is used up to the moment the gear hit the runway. It is my opinion that the FAA goes way overboard with their regulations for using electronic devices on aircraft. After all, if there's a possibility that my laptop could interfere with a critical navigation system, they shouldn't let me use it at all. And if they're worried about it interfering specifically with ILS, they should only require us to turn them off during IFR (bad weather) approaches and take-offs. Just my $.02, Randy
AMD is in the business of making CPUs. That's right, business. In order to survive, they need to focus on the high-end chips, because that's where all the money is. They probably make 20 times the profit on a single 750 chip than on a 350 K6-2. I'm in the same boat as you, and can't afford the high prices they want for Athlons right now, but I still rejoice with each new release. Why? Because it means the prices will soon be dropping for the somewhat slower chips, to the affordable range. And before you say Intel has a better "attitude" towards the consumer market than AMD, why do think that such a thing as Celeron exists?!? If it wasn't for AMD, Celeron probably wouldn't a word in your vocabulary. Think about it.
I hate to do this, but I figured "why not get these smart guys' input on the subject?", so here we go: The previous poster was kind enough to list 0-9 and their respective binary equivalent. Take notice of the code for the number 6: "01-100", which appears as two thin lines separated by a thin space. Now grab your nearest recent grocery store purchase (or follow this link if you're lazy) and take a gander at the calibration marks: the identical markings at the beginning, middle, and end. Yep, you guessed it! 6's, each 'n every one of them! So now you have 666 in every UPC code. And the relivant scripture: Revelations 13:16-18 says "16. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17. so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666." Spooky! To me, anyway. All we need is UPC codes on our hands/foreheads for a prophesy from 1000's of years ago to come true! You guys think this is a weird coincidence, or maybe the guys that came up with the UPC code decided to make an inside joke or something? My uncle showed me this like 10 years ago, I'd be curious to hear what you guys think about it...
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Many people don't realize the wool has been pulled over their eyes in other areas as well. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this???
The point is... who cares what's written.. what matters is, that we understand what writter wanted to say.
Just curious... Does 'writter' rhyme with 'critter'?
How about if you could get the CPU and motherboard for $130??
I'd actually like a lean Mozilla browser and a separate Mozilla mail app. No webpage creation, no messenger, no chat/irc. I'll definitely keep an eye on Phoenix.
Why keep an eye on it? I'm using it as my daily browser right now on my older laptop and it's working great!
In another post, someone calculated the cost at about $30,000 in electricity, assuming 300 watt power supplies.
But when you said
"all the used energy was energy that could have been saved by turning the computers off!",
you were being a little ignorant.
Did you ever stop to think that some people don't leave their computers on just to run the dnet client, and that it runs in the background as they're, say, posting a comment to slashdot? Or that the client is running on a computer that is left on 24/7 anyway, known as a server?
Silly guy...
Sorry, you are a bit lame. You can use the location bar as your google search tab. Just enter the search words, hit the search button or choos in the recent url list "Search Google for". Of course you have to make sure in your prefs, that google will be used for the location bar. See, there is absolutely no need for additional waste of space like in IE.
Actually, although I find the Google search from the address bar very useful, I still would like the full Google toolbar as in IE... It adds lots of other overlooked features which I use quite often. In order of my usage: search term highlighting in current page, parent folder (can be used to reach "home" page), google translation into English, and google's cache of page. Then there's the "Google search site" and Pagerank indicator, which I don't really care about. But still, Google toolbar is extremely useful to me, and I'm sure many other people as well.
I'm using Mozilla 1.1, have 6 tabs open, and it's only using 19,642K of RAM. What are YOU doing???
I agree wholeheartedly, and this has been my philosophy for upgrading for several years. I always stay a minimum of one, preferrably two cycles away from the latest, greatest thing. It's certainly the best ratio of price to performance.
By the way, it's "a lot". You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
Is your CPU "fan" really a jet/turbine?
you said "_all_ video cards (reputable ones) have fans."
FYI, I happen to be the proud owner of an Asus GeForce2 video card with just a heat sink, as well as an MSI NForce motherboard with a heat sink on the chipset. That brings me down to 2 fans, but still not quiet enough for my taste...
Actually, if you re-read the context of what you quoted...
What I said was:
"XBox port of MAME...downloads have now been removed... Thank goodness for P2P!"
Good one, though! =P
As an American living in Europe (Germany to be exact) for about 1 year now, one thing I really had to adjust to was the signs on the autobahn. They don't label their highways here with north/south/east/west at all, they only give city names in the direction the highway goes. It's very frustrating for me, but I think I can understand the reason for it here, different languages. As well as the fact that many times highways don't strictly go in one direction. In Oklahoma City, there's actually a piece of I-240 westbound that goes....east! I think it's more common in interstates that are bypasses or loops around city traffic.
Just thought you might be interested...
I actually mentioned Mozilla to a computer-literate collegue of mine, and asked a week later to see how he liked it. He had some sort of tcp-monitoring software installed, and saw that when he was using Moz it was sending some information out it shouldn't have been, and promptly uninstalled it. When he told me, I didn't believe him and thought he had made some sort of mistake. That was only a few days ago, and now this headline on /. What a let-down.
You said:
They must have a rack of cordless screwdrivers on constant charge
What the heck is a cordless screwdriver? I've never seen a screwdriver with a cord...
And after downloading the 35 meg or so for all the installer files, the installer crashed. I wasn't expecting it to be bug-free, but come on!
Don't think I'll even bother again until 6.1
1. I work for the US Air Force, maintaining the navigation systems you talk about on AWACS. Of course, I don't speak for my employer, either. 2. Normally, my job is performed on the ground, but I fly on the aircraft I maintain when I go TDY to Saudi, Turkey, Las Vegas, etc. 3. The ILS system you speak of stands for "Instrument Landing System". "Glideslope" is the up/down portion of it. It does not use an "interference pattern" to determine the plane's position in relation to the runway. Instead, there are 2 different RF frequencies aimed above and below the desired landing angle. The signals overlap somewhat, and that's the place you want to be. If one signal is stronger than the other, you know you're either too far up or down. 4. These signals are nowhere near as susceptable to interference as you imply. There have been times I've done extensive testing on this system while toying with a laptop, or talking on a cell phone. In fact, the antenna for glideslope is located in the nose of the plane, right next to our Weather RADAR system, which is used up to the moment the gear hit the runway. It is my opinion that the FAA goes way overboard with their regulations for using electronic devices on aircraft. After all, if there's a possibility that my laptop could interfere with a critical navigation system, they shouldn't let me use it at all. And if they're worried about it interfering specifically with ILS, they should only require us to turn them off during IFR (bad weather) approaches and take-offs. Just my $.02, Randy
AMD is in the business of making CPUs. That's right, business. In order to survive, they need to focus on the high-end chips, because that's where all the money is. They probably make 20 times the profit on a single 750 chip than on a 350 K6-2.
I'm in the same boat as you, and can't afford the high prices they want for Athlons right now, but I still rejoice with each new release. Why? Because it means the prices will soon be dropping for the somewhat slower chips, to the affordable range.
And before you say Intel has a better "attitude" towards the consumer market than AMD, why do think that such a thing as Celeron exists?!? If it wasn't for AMD, Celeron probably wouldn't a word in your vocabulary. Think about it.
I hate to do this, but I figured "why not get these smart guys' input on the subject?", so here we go:
The previous poster was kind enough to list 0-9 and their respective binary equivalent. Take notice of the code for the number 6: "01-100", which appears as two thin lines separated by a thin space.
Now grab your nearest recent grocery store purchase (or follow this link if you're lazy) and take a gander at the calibration marks: the identical markings at the beginning, middle, and end.
Yep, you guessed it! 6's, each 'n every one of them! So now you have 666 in every UPC code.
And the relivant scripture: Revelations 13:16-18 says
"16. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
17. so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."
Spooky! To me, anyway. All we need is UPC codes on our hands/foreheads for a prophesy from 1000's of years ago to come true!
You guys think this is a weird coincidence, or maybe the guys that came up with the UPC code decided to make an inside joke or something?
My uncle showed me this like 10 years ago, I'd be curious to hear what you guys think about it...
/.ed already? That's gotta be some kinda RECORD!!?
do shut up.
Take a trip to Texas dude, and you'll find 5 point Bud.
I know, us OKies make a trip down to the border every other weekend to restock!!
You guys are all gonna realize how insignificant this is when the world ends next year.