I think everyone should purchase 5 button mice. I have it mapped to back, and forward. I don't need to move my mouse pointer across the screen at all...in fact I don't even look at teh toolbar at the top. My thumb goes back to where I just left...and my pinky goes forward to the thing I just backed up from. Its beautiful...and damn is it fast.
So...you go fishing and reel it into the boat and just take a bite out of its side? you are brave. I spose though...I'm a lowly midwesterner from minnesota...I like to cook my fish...I guess I figured oriental food was just raw eggs and shellfish and stuff...not raw whole fish.
They are trying to make disks more reliable. Fluid dynamic bearings (FDB) don't wear out as easily as ball bearings. You know...that grinding sound that your disk makes as it spins up and searches for data...yeah that goes away with FDB. I was just checking out a drive by western digital yesterday with FDB...a 160Gig unit. I think it was about a buck a gig, and I would assume much more reliable than my current lowly 30Gig and 20Gig drives... ahhh...progress...
Hell, I remember being able to work on those REAL hard disk drives. You know, the cartridge ones. Roughly 15 inches in diameter...placed on a unit that stands up to your waist...with a reader arm as big around as my thumb that juts in and out like a pogostick....
Yeah, those were the days. Those drives are still usefull for the sake of basic electronics study though...makes it nice so that the students can see teh inner workings of a disk drive. I think they only stored like 8 Megabytes....maybe less.:) Sure beat tapes at least.
Hark! When I use too much pansy juice in my coffee...the coffee leaves an aftertaste of... of...that RAW fish I ate last week.
How the heck does anyone know what a RAW fish tastes like? There are some seriously screwed up folks in this operation...do we want people that eat raw fish testing food to make it 'better' for us?
Wow.
Maybe I should eat raw fish too...then I could make lots of money in geneology and chemistry...
This is such a typical problem for lawyers. They are such pompus ass haughty morons that think so much of themselves. They think that they control the world.
Most people would be pretty upset if somebody left bad comments for them, especially if it were unfounded...but come on...Sueing ebay for 'offensive' comments made by another?
Get a life buddy...and grow some skin. You can't please everybody, and nobody else is responsible for you being a jerk.
I may be a little bit late to mention this...but it seems that nobody else has...
what is the memory architectures being compared here? 333Mhz DDR Ram is going to whip the llamas ass every time against 100Mhz Dimms...or 800 Mhz Rambus(read, rammed it in your ass if you bought this crap).
I admit that I am unaware of the current state of mac evolution as it pertains to memory architecture....but I would imagine that it is not pressed very hard, since the processor speeds themselves are so much lower. You don't have a bottleneck with 100Mhz ram if your processor is plodding along at 800Mhz...it doesn't matter how efficient the cpu is, it doesn't need data at the rate that the 4Ghz cpus in use by intel do. Most of intels problem with the whole rambus screwup was because rambus had poor design when it came to this thing called 'wait states'.
Also, the use of different rpm harddrives automatically make this test unuseful. Also, what are the transfer speeds? ata133? ata100? Is DMA an ongoing possibility with each of the machines?
While I myself run photoshop on a win2k platform, and very happily with only 768Megs pc2300 DDR ram...I run a 7200rmp drive with ata100...and all that makes a big difference when I need to load stuff up and perform a transform or filter. I run a 1.3 Gig athlon. --even with this knowledge, I am pretty sure there are plenty of Macs out there that can whip my butt. But then I only spent $400 to build my machine...over a year and a half ago.
wow. super cool. somewhat tedious...but way cool.
and yes, this does belong on slashdot. News for nerds. Stuff that matters. This is nerdy, and could really matter if you actually learn how to do one of these and then pop it out in front of somebody someday. supercool. very slashdotty.
So...they are using points to represent real life things...kind of like film and computer imaged MRIs...
The only difference in this entire thing appears to be that somebody decided to use a digital system to record the data instead of a traditional analog version.
Honestly, whoever thought that making a dot is harder than making a polygon must have eyes in the back of their head...because they are looking backward. My old apple II could make dots...in lowres and hires modes!
The shortcut in any software and rendering technology at that time was to tell the computer to make a 'line'. This was a collection of dots...made with one line of code...rather than 300+...depending on the length of the line.
I think the super nintendo was the first console system to ever do polygon graphics...which adds the third dimension...and in order to draw more than one dot in a three dimensional space...you tell the software to render a polygon...and fill in all the spots within the borders of that polygon.
So...is this a dot graphic off an old Okidata dot matrix printer and an apple II? Or is this a polygon dot which has sides? Or is this really just a bunch of PhDs with their heads up their asses that really don't know a thing about imaging?
These people are not physicists, and they are not computer geeks. These people wouldn't know a capacitor from a 'black box' if their life depended on it. They also don't know a shred of any computer language, or have a clue what pRon sites their kids are surfing while they are in their bedrooms.
Doctors don't know the first thing about computer imaging. And I don't know the first thing about the medical mystery that is life...other than what my college physiology classes taught me. I don't make my opinion on medical issues sound authoritative...I wish these bafoons would keep their opinions on imaging from going around the world with the assumption that they are authoritative...because they aren't.
Stupid people.
dots. my God in Heaven...please save us.
The test pilot for this aircraft died a few years ago. The test aircraft did not have the parachute.
He had spent about 10 years behind the sticks of F-15s, F-86s, and F-16s.
He knew how to fly very well...at least this idiot had the parachute. Some people really shouldn't be in the air.
This aircraft was produced in my hometown. It is made by Cirrus Designs Corporation. They just started delivering their planes a couple years ago. Their aircraft are called the SR20 and SR22.
These aircraft are designed and built in Duluth, Minnesota. Their test pilot, who was a jet fighter pilot in the Air National Guard(I knew him) actually died during a test flight about 4 years ago...the parachute had not been installed on the test platform. Very sad to see a test pilot killed in an aircraft that is designed to have the parachute for exactly that purpose.
The next week our fighter wing flew the 'missing man formation'. I shed a tear.
On the positive side, this system will probably help save numerous other lives in the future. I highly recommend this company's aircraft to any pilot...
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I think everyone should purchase 5 button mice. I have it mapped to back, and forward. I don't need to move my mouse pointer across the screen at all...in fact I don't even look at teh toolbar at the top. My thumb goes back to where I just left...and my pinky goes forward to the thing I just backed up from. Its beautiful...and damn is it fast.
No mouse movement at all...just clickclickclick.
Dilbert in his mind..."why can't I have a neat checkbook on steroids?"
Thus was born the Super Checkbook...complete with wall plugin and wireless connectivity!
Dilbert says to himself again..."I don't even need to walk up to the counter to pay anymore! I can just beam my check over!"
So...you go fishing and reel it into the boat and just take a bite out of its side? you are brave. I spose though...I'm a lowly midwesterner from minnesota...I like to cook my fish...I guess I figured oriental food was just raw eggs and shellfish and stuff...not raw whole fish.
They are trying to make disks more reliable. Fluid dynamic bearings (FDB) don't wear out as easily as ball bearings. You know...that grinding sound that your disk makes as it spins up and searches for data...yeah that goes away with FDB.
:) Sure beat tapes at least.
I was just checking out a drive by western digital yesterday with FDB...a 160Gig unit. I think it was about a buck a gig, and I would assume much more reliable than my current lowly 30Gig and 20Gig drives...
ahhh...progress...
Hell, I remember being able to work on those REAL hard disk drives. You know, the cartridge ones. Roughly 15 inches in diameter...placed on a unit that stands up to your waist...with a reader arm as big around as my thumb that juts in and out like a pogostick....
Yeah, those were the days. Those drives are still usefull for the sake of basic electronics study though...makes it nice so that the students can see teh inner workings of a disk drive. I think they only stored like 8 Megabytes....maybe less.
I am a scientist testing the equipment....
Hark! When I use too much pansy juice in my coffee...the coffee leaves an aftertaste of...
of...that RAW fish I ate last week.
How the heck does anyone know what a RAW fish tastes like? There are some seriously screwed up folks in this operation...do we want people that eat raw fish testing food to make it 'better' for us?
Wow.
Maybe I should eat raw fish too...then I could make lots of money in geneology and chemistry...
Almost worth watching in the early part of the 4th quarter...but went downhill fast.
I saw a political cartoon in my local paper a couple days ago. It was the 'Ex-Viking Quarterback East versus Ex-Viking Quarterback West Bowl'.
I thought it was funny. Vikings management both got rid of two superbowl quarterbacks...I hate my team sometimes.
Wow. Are you serious? Where did you get that information?
This is such a typical problem for lawyers. They are such pompus ass haughty morons that think so much of themselves. They think that they control the world.
Most people would be pretty upset if somebody left bad comments for them, especially if it were unfounded...but come on...Sueing ebay for 'offensive' comments made by another?
Get a life buddy...and grow some skin. You can't please everybody, and nobody else is responsible for you being a jerk.
I may be a little bit late to mention this...but it seems that nobody else has... what is the memory architectures being compared here? 333Mhz DDR Ram is going to whip the llamas ass every time against 100Mhz Dimms...or 800 Mhz Rambus(read, rammed it in your ass if you bought this crap). I admit that I am unaware of the current state of mac evolution as it pertains to memory architecture....but I would imagine that it is not pressed very hard, since the processor speeds themselves are so much lower. You don't have a bottleneck with 100Mhz ram if your processor is plodding along at 800Mhz...it doesn't matter how efficient the cpu is, it doesn't need data at the rate that the 4Ghz cpus in use by intel do. Most of intels problem with the whole rambus screwup was because rambus had poor design when it came to this thing called 'wait states'. Also, the use of different rpm harddrives automatically make this test unuseful. Also, what are the transfer speeds? ata133? ata100? Is DMA an ongoing possibility with each of the machines? While I myself run photoshop on a win2k platform, and very happily with only 768Megs pc2300 DDR ram...I run a 7200rmp drive with ata100...and all that makes a big difference when I need to load stuff up and perform a transform or filter. I run a 1.3 Gig athlon. --even with this knowledge, I am pretty sure there are plenty of Macs out there that can whip my butt. But then I only spent $400 to build my machine...over a year and a half ago.
If mac had more than one button on the mouse...I just might leave my wife for something this good lookin.
wow. super cool. somewhat tedious...but way cool. and yes, this does belong on slashdot. News for nerds. Stuff that matters. This is nerdy, and could really matter if you actually learn how to do one of these and then pop it out in front of somebody someday. supercool. very slashdotty.
So...they are using points to represent real life things...kind of like film and computer imaged MRIs... The only difference in this entire thing appears to be that somebody decided to use a digital system to record the data instead of a traditional analog version. Honestly, whoever thought that making a dot is harder than making a polygon must have eyes in the back of their head...because they are looking backward. My old apple II could make dots...in lowres and hires modes! The shortcut in any software and rendering technology at that time was to tell the computer to make a 'line'. This was a collection of dots...made with one line of code...rather than 300+...depending on the length of the line. I think the super nintendo was the first console system to ever do polygon graphics...which adds the third dimension...and in order to draw more than one dot in a three dimensional space...you tell the software to render a polygon...and fill in all the spots within the borders of that polygon. So...is this a dot graphic off an old Okidata dot matrix printer and an apple II? Or is this a polygon dot which has sides? Or is this really just a bunch of PhDs with their heads up their asses that really don't know a thing about imaging? These people are not physicists, and they are not computer geeks. These people wouldn't know a capacitor from a 'black box' if their life depended on it. They also don't know a shred of any computer language, or have a clue what pRon sites their kids are surfing while they are in their bedrooms. Doctors don't know the first thing about computer imaging. And I don't know the first thing about the medical mystery that is life...other than what my college physiology classes taught me. I don't make my opinion on medical issues sound authoritative...I wish these bafoons would keep their opinions on imaging from going around the world with the assumption that they are authoritative...because they aren't. Stupid people. dots. my God in Heaven...please save us.
The test pilot for this aircraft died a few years ago. The test aircraft did not have the parachute. He had spent about 10 years behind the sticks of F-15s, F-86s, and F-16s. He knew how to fly very well...at least this idiot had the parachute. Some people really shouldn't be in the air.
This aircraft was produced in my hometown. It is made by Cirrus Designs Corporation. They just started delivering their planes a couple years ago. Their aircraft are called the SR20 and SR22. These aircraft are designed and built in Duluth, Minnesota. Their test pilot, who was a jet fighter pilot in the Air National Guard(I knew him) actually died during a test flight about 4 years ago...the parachute had not been installed on the test platform. Very sad to see a test pilot killed in an aircraft that is designed to have the parachute for exactly that purpose. The next week our fighter wing flew the 'missing man formation'. I shed a tear. On the positive side, this system will probably help save numerous other lives in the future. I highly recommend this company's aircraft to any pilot...