I'm pretty sure it generates the program size and usage information on the fly, by going to the C:\Program Files\ directory and adding up the space that each program's installation directory is using on the disk. That's why it thrashes the disk so badly. I'm not sure how it gets the frequency of use statistics, but I bet it's probably also a pretty crude algorithm because the output is pretty useless (at least on 2000/XP). Back in the Windows 9x days when it was just a list of programs installed on your computer the add/remove programs dialog opened a lot faster.
On the Intel side, you could consider the Core i7 to be the forth generation dual cores*, with the short-lived Pentium D as the first generation, the Core Duo as the 2nd generation, the Core 2 Duo the 3rd generation. However, on the AMD side, I can only really consider the Phenom to be the 2nd generation of the dual cores, as the Athlon X2 on Sockets 939 and AM2 are otherwise similar enough that I would group them together as the first generation.
*Yes, I know that all the Core i7's currently available are quads, but I'll assume that we'll eventually see dual cores for the platform.
Sharks can't fly, though, and they would have to be smart enough to aim taking into account the refractive index difference between the seawater and the air.
Actually, they wouldn't have to worry about the refractive index difference. Since their vision and the laser both use visible light, and the light from anything they are looking at must pass through the same water-air boundry as the laser beam, all they have to do is simply point the laser at where their target appears to be in order to hit it. Even if the target is not physically in that location.
It's actually older than that. There wasn't much of a difference visually between Windows 2000 and Windows 98, with the most obvious being the switch from teal to light blue for the default background. And the 98 GUI was pretty much the same as Windows 95 if you installed IE4.
The drawback of that plan is that, if you owe anything more than ~$1000, the IRS will fine you and any interest you earned will be completely erased.
Really? I though the whole withholding scheme was merely a convienence, and you could opt to send in all your taxes in a big lump sum if you wanted to. It's not like everyone gets a W2, some people are self-employed or are contractors and can't really do it any other way until the year is done and they know how much they made.
It depends on what they sell. If it's an inelastic good, then they can just raise the price and people pretty much pay it. If it's an elastic good, raising the price doesn't work as well, so the money generally comes out of the profits.
Not to mention he went with the Dell "Energy Smart" server. Not that lower power usage isn't a good thing, but if you went and reconfigured it to use parts that weren't lower power parts (the Apple doesn't use the lower power Xeons or anything like that, so the comparision is still fair), you could knock a a few more bucks off the price of the Dell and not sacrafice performance.
Perhpas MS could take a feature from the Opera browser -- user agent spoofing, and let IE-8 users impersonate another brand so they can view standards-compliant sites as the designer intended them to be seen.
Except that they've already been doing that for a decade. Ever wonder why the word "Mozilla" appears in the user agent string for IE? It dates back to the early days of the browser wars, where the Netscape fans were purposely blocking IE, so Microsoft's response was to pretend to be Mozilla. The practice has continued since, with most other non-Mozilla browsers also adopting the same practice[*]. The only browsers that I'm aware of that don't have Mozilla in the user agent string is Opera (though Opera can be configured to send Mozilla in the user agent string by the user, and IIRC this used to be the default) and Lynx.
[*]Typical way of blocking IE was to check for the word "Mozilla" in the user-agent string, so while they were intending to block IE, in practice they were blocking anything but Netscape.
Maybe in the world of exotics and classics. I can't think of any instances where common cars for the masses like Camrys and Explorers have appreciated in value.
Actually, they no longer get the permanent Secret Service detail, as that was ended after President Clinton. I don't think it matters much, as Obama is certainly wealthly enough that he won't have to worry about money ever again so long as he's smart about it.
Sorry Cap, but that's a load of crap. The "news" media in this country carried water for The Savior in every way they possibly could the last two years--and they're still doing it. You could repaper half the White House using just the Obama covers from Time and Newsweek in 2008.
The media reports on what is exciting, because that attracts eyeballs. Fact of the matter is, Obama was exciting, and McCain was boring. Before you accuse the media of a bias though, you should take a look at the VP canidates because it was the total opposite. Sarah Palin got all attention from the media, whereas Joe Biden was mostly ignored. Why? Because Palin was exciting, and Biden was not.
Suggesting that he apply supply chain methodologies to this problem is misapplied knowledge.
Not that it hasn't been done. Nothing like wasting tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars because some bean counter doesn't want to keep a spare $2000 server around.
To break into a gated community with gaurds and security cameras, ransack over a dozen cars, and stealing three of them would take a lot of balls. Which says to me that it wasn't at all a random crime spree. It could just be someone who lives in/nearby the community and is familiar with how things work, but I would almost go as far as saying it's probably an inside job and the gaurds were in on it.
Even assuming you can even find the information, are you really going to research every single product you buy? It would take you all day just to go to the grocery store.
Perhaps he's refering to commercial construction? Shingles aren't commonly found on commercial buildings (though not unheard of), and likewise Colorbond is rarely found on residential buildings, presumably because people don't like the noise when it rains.
My experience is that cats will only hunt rodents up to a certain size. Some will hunt squirrels, but they are the rare exception. Cats will also avoid prey that can fight back viciously, and I've never seen a house cat that hunts full size rats.
Keep in mind that some orbits are more desirable than others, in terms of what territories they go over, how much it costs to get there, how fast they decay, and other factors. So in that huge volume of space, there are probably only a few areas where you're likely to find a satellite, and tons of space that's pretty much empty. To use your car analogy, imagine that a few major cities are still in place, and thus most of the cars spend most of their time traveling in straight lines between the cities rather than randomly. In that case collisions would be far more likely.
To ME's credit, it will run pretty decently on a Pentium MMX/Pentium II processor with only 128MB of ram. XP would crawl on the same computer. Most people actually "upgraded" from ME to 98SE. XP's initial adoption was rather slow, as when it came out a decent computer was still a P3 with 256MB of ram, and high end might be one of the early P4's with 512MB. So people stuck with Windows 98SE (which flew on 2000-2001 era hardware), and only really moved to XP once 2Ghz+ with 512MB of ram was more mainstream a year or two later.
DVD Players have to decode an 8Mbit 720x480 MPEG-2 signal. ATSC converter boxes have to decode a 19Mbit 1920x1080 MPEG-2 signal.
A 300MHz Pentium2 can decode DVD video. A 2000GHz Pentium4 will struggle to decode highdef ATSC video.
Your $30 DVD player doesn't have RF-out. A separate composite to RF converter will cost you $15.
That's why they have specialized chips, not an x86 CPU in there. As someone else pointed out, the chips that can decode a HD quality broadcast signal cost about $2. Ditto for the RF converter, but $15 gets you a discrete unit that you can buy at Target, etc. I'm going to guess that the actual hardware in the converter box itself is only a few bucks at most.
It's very easy to be sure of something when you're completely ignorant of the subject.
I'm sure we'll see Ferraris going for $2,000 any time now, since they're less complex than a used Ford Taurus.
Way to go with the horrible car analogy. A Ferrari is a premium brand that commands a premium price. These convertor boxes are a commodity product made by a bunch of no-name manufacturers in China that compete primarly on price, but with a government induced $40 price floor.
I would find some tall buildings that have a problem with birds flying into them, and try installing the system of lights on the building and see if the number of bird strikes go down. That would be a suitable way to run some long term tests and collect a bunch of data at low cost. If that show promise, I would put the system of lights on a slow and/or highly maneuverable plane (a stunt plane would probably work well) and testing the system by flying the plane towards the birds and seeing if they take notice, obviously turning away before striking the birds.
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I'm pretty sure it generates the program size and usage information on the fly, by going to the C:\Program Files\ directory and adding up the space that each program's installation directory is using on the disk. That's why it thrashes the disk so badly. I'm not sure how it gets the frequency of use statistics, but I bet it's probably also a pretty crude algorithm because the output is pretty useless (at least on 2000/XP). Back in the Windows 9x days when it was just a list of programs installed on your computer the add/remove programs dialog opened a lot faster.
On the Intel side, you could consider the Core i7 to be the forth generation dual cores*, with the short-lived Pentium D as the first generation, the Core Duo as the 2nd generation, the Core 2 Duo the 3rd generation. However, on the AMD side, I can only really consider the Phenom to be the 2nd generation of the dual cores, as the Athlon X2 on Sockets 939 and AM2 are otherwise similar enough that I would group them together as the first generation.
*Yes, I know that all the Core i7's currently available are quads, but I'll assume that we'll eventually see dual cores for the platform.
Actually, they wouldn't have to worry about the refractive index difference. Since their vision and the laser both use visible light, and the light from anything they are looking at must pass through the same water-air boundry as the laser beam, all they have to do is simply point the laser at where their target appears to be in order to hit it. Even if the target is not physically in that location.
It's actually older than that. There wasn't much of a difference visually between Windows 2000 and Windows 98, with the most obvious being the switch from teal to light blue for the default background. And the 98 GUI was pretty much the same as Windows 95 if you installed IE4.
Really? I though the whole withholding scheme was merely a convienence, and you could opt to send in all your taxes in a big lump sum if you wanted to. It's not like everyone gets a W2, some people are self-employed or are contractors and can't really do it any other way until the year is done and they know how much they made.
It depends on what they sell. If it's an inelastic good, then they can just raise the price and people pretty much pay it. If it's an elastic good, raising the price doesn't work as well, so the money generally comes out of the profits.
Not to mention he went with the Dell "Energy Smart" server. Not that lower power usage isn't a good thing, but if you went and reconfigured it to use parts that weren't lower power parts (the Apple doesn't use the lower power Xeons or anything like that, so the comparision is still fair), you could knock a a few more bucks off the price of the Dell and not sacrafice performance.
So, an $800 upgrade to get something that the less expensive competition already includes as standard? Yeah, that's typical Apple.
Except that they've already been doing that for a decade. Ever wonder why the word "Mozilla" appears in the user agent string for IE? It dates back to the early days of the browser wars, where the Netscape fans were purposely blocking IE, so Microsoft's response was to pretend to be Mozilla. The practice has continued since, with most other non-Mozilla browsers also adopting the same practice[*]. The only browsers that I'm aware of that don't have Mozilla in the user agent string is Opera (though Opera can be configured to send Mozilla in the user agent string by the user, and IIRC this used to be the default) and Lynx.
[*]Typical way of blocking IE was to check for the word "Mozilla" in the user-agent string, so while they were intending to block IE, in practice they were blocking anything but Netscape.
Maybe in the world of exotics and classics. I can't think of any instances where common cars for the masses like Camrys and Explorers have appreciated in value.
Actually, they no longer get the permanent Secret Service detail, as that was ended after President Clinton. I don't think it matters much, as Obama is certainly wealthly enough that he won't have to worry about money ever again so long as he's smart about it.
The media reports on what is exciting, because that attracts eyeballs. Fact of the matter is, Obama was exciting, and McCain was boring. Before you accuse the media of a bias though, you should take a look at the VP canidates because it was the total opposite. Sarah Palin got all attention from the media, whereas Joe Biden was mostly ignored. Why? Because Palin was exciting, and Biden was not.
Well, there has been some moves to standardize the connector/voltage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIAJ_connector
However, I have seen few devices that actually use the standard.
JIT isn't used for capital expenditures.
Suggesting that he apply supply chain methodologies to this problem is misapplied knowledge.
Not that it hasn't been done. Nothing like wasting tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars because some bean counter doesn't want to keep a spare $2000 server around.
The key with the Foundation books is to read the first three, and to pretend the others do not exist. And by first three, I mean by publication date.
To break into a gated community with gaurds and security cameras, ransack over a dozen cars, and stealing three of them would take a lot of balls. Which says to me that it wasn't at all a random crime spree. It could just be someone who lives in/nearby the community and is familiar with how things work, but I would almost go as far as saying it's probably an inside job and the gaurds were in on it.
Even assuming you can even find the information, are you really going to research every single product you buy? It would take you all day just to go to the grocery store.
Perhaps he's refering to commercial construction? Shingles aren't commonly found on commercial buildings (though not unheard of), and likewise Colorbond is rarely found on residential buildings, presumably because people don't like the noise when it rains.
It's quite likely that Obama may set a new record, but that doesn't change the facts from the past 40 years.
My experience is that cats will only hunt rodents up to a certain size. Some will hunt squirrels, but they are the rare exception. Cats will also avoid prey that can fight back viciously, and I've never seen a house cat that hunts full size rats.
Keep in mind that some orbits are more desirable than others, in terms of what territories they go over, how much it costs to get there, how fast they decay, and other factors. So in that huge volume of space, there are probably only a few areas where you're likely to find a satellite, and tons of space that's pretty much empty. To use your car analogy, imagine that a few major cities are still in place, and thus most of the cars spend most of their time traveling in straight lines between the cities rather than randomly. In that case collisions would be far more likely.
To ME's credit, it will run pretty decently on a Pentium MMX/Pentium II processor with only 128MB of ram. XP would crawl on the same computer. Most people actually "upgraded" from ME to 98SE. XP's initial adoption was rather slow, as when it came out a decent computer was still a P3 with 256MB of ram, and high end might be one of the early P4's with 512MB. So people stuck with Windows 98SE (which flew on 2000-2001 era hardware), and only really moved to XP once 2Ghz+ with 512MB of ram was more mainstream a year or two later.
You might want to double-check, as there is a pretty good chance that a P4 3Ghz is running some kind of DDR which is imcompatible with DDR2.
That's why they have specialized chips, not an x86 CPU in there. As someone else pointed out, the chips that can decode a HD quality broadcast signal cost about $2. Ditto for the RF converter, but $15 gets you a discrete unit that you can buy at Target, etc. I'm going to guess that the actual hardware in the converter box itself is only a few bucks at most.
Way to go with the horrible car analogy. A Ferrari is a premium brand that commands a premium price. These convertor boxes are a commodity product made by a bunch of no-name manufacturers in China that compete primarly on price, but with a government induced $40 price floor.
I would find some tall buildings that have a problem with birds flying into them, and try installing the system of lights on the building and see if the number of bird strikes go down. That would be a suitable way to run some long term tests and collect a bunch of data at low cost. If that show promise, I would put the system of lights on a slow and/or highly maneuverable plane (a stunt plane would probably work well) and testing the system by flying the plane towards the birds and seeing if they take notice, obviously turning away before striking the birds.