I wouldn't call it an entire system. He had no keyboard, no mouse, no ethernet, and no picture on his monitor (probably because the graphics card was in sleep mode). I know someone is going to say he might be using wireless, but no way is he using bluetooth and wireless networking and only using 12W.
Also, he is using a microdrive instead of the stock HDD.
Sounds like both times your alternator was weak and wasn't properly charging the battery before it finally died. Thus, your quite weak battery didn't last long powering the car.
The battery life of the controllers was stated as 24 hours many time by the presentators.
And we are supposed to be impressed by this? If my consoles with wired controllers needed new batteries every 24 hours, I would of sent a truckload of AA batteries to the landfill by now.
What's wrong with wired controllers anyway? The cords are a tad short, but buy some extensions and all was fine.
And just to get this out there: I dont use Opera. I used to, but switched to firefox when Opera starting crashing every five seconds (this is not a problem I've heard anyone else complain of)
It depends on what version. Pretty much every major release of Opera is somewhat buggy, but after a few point releases it gets stable. Right now, the current version (8.00) has some, uh, issues, but the previous version (7.54) is pretty solid.
The G5 was fast 2 years ago. Now, we have dual core x86 chips running faster than ever. Apple's one update to the G5 Powermac line in the meantime was so pathetic as to be hilarious.
Looking at the second line, which is what really matters, the server drive is faster (no real surprise there). The reason why your laptop does so well in the cached reads is either because it has really fast ram, or a lot of it, or both.
It's completely full. There is no more room, and, if space were no issue, Apple would most certainly have used a 3.5" drive, if only for reasons of specifications (larger drive for the money) and cost.
And there is no reason why Apple couldn't of made the Mini slightly larger, and crammed a 3.5" drive into it. For whatever reason, the slow 2.5" drive in the Mini was an intentional move by Apple. My guess is that it has to do with Apple's history of purposely mucking with their low end machines in order to sell their higher end models.
I think the poster was refering to companies where all the workstations basically run 24x7. Sure, there are places that turn them into large cluster computers at night, but that's the exception. Most of the time those computers just sit there and idle during the night/weekends.
I don't think the point of using unknowns is to help them launch their hugely successful acting career. It's about making movies cheaply. And Star Wars (atleast the first one) did this very well.
I used to do that too. Hmm... I wonder if I still have those tapes around? My new car happens to have a tape deck so I actually have a way to listen to them again.
Most home PCs now are the $500 complete systems sold by companies like Dell, Gateway, eMachines, etc. used primarily to browse the internet and do email. Most of these people are not really interested in games past Solitiare and games.yahoo.com. I suppose it may be true that most high end PC's are bought for games though.
I've run Linux with the nv driver, and the nVidia drivers, and had no problems with either (other than the nv ones being rather slow). This is with nForce 2 cards, so who knows with the newer ones.
Ha! The true power users have a Dvorak keyboard! Though I must admit, the z key is still a bit of a pain. But I can easily nail the G and H keys with my right pointing finger.
Mine are the same way. I've even repaired the button on them a couple of times with a drop of hard epoxy. The problem with them, that I have found is that the plastic piece that pushes the switch down gets worn to the point where it can't hit the switch reliabibly anymore. A bit of epoxy is all that is needed to make them as good as new (that is, until it happens again).
Why do you say such inaccuracies? drives going back to the first drives ever made used kilobyte = 1000 bytes. It has always been that way and that is the correct way because a hard drive is not binary addressed data rather it is arbitrary based on the number of bits that fit on a circle of metal. Nobody "previously agreed that a kilobyte was 1024 bytes" because that is a blanket incorrect statement.
Actually, way back in the day, a harddrive kilobyte was 1024 bytes. It was sometime around when a 20-40MB drive was all the rage that marketing-speak took over and all the confusion started. The whole bait-and-switch thing is what people are pissed off about.
Apparently, no one sent the memo to the manufacturers of RAM ands flash memory, where a 512MB memory stick means 512*1024*1024 bytes. It's just the harddrive manufacturers which propogate this gigabyte=10^9 bytes marketing bullshit.
I don't like widescreen on the computer. With most web surfing I do, I find most sites have a column of text in the middle, with huge columns of nothing along both sides of it. With word processing, you have scroll more, or shrink the font down which negates the point of the wide screen. Most spreadsheets tend to expand down more, rather than horizontal. It's pretty neat if you do graphics work with large, horizontal images, but it's hell if you have to deal with vertical images. With a 4:3 monitor, in Photoshop your work area is squarish in shape when you take away the space used by the palettes, etc - which is a good compromise.
I don't get the push towards wide screen. It just seems like a step in the wrong direction. Even for movies and TV, I really don't see the point.
Maybe he's just refering to the Mac users. The only Apple tower right now is the G5 tower, which seems to be a pretty slow seller compared to the all-in-ones/notebooks/Mac Mini. Probably because they are quite underspec'd for the price (imho).
I agree. Don't break the speed limit, and you should not have any trouble with the traffic cameras.
The way I see it is somewhat of a philosophical discussion. The issue is the difference between the spirit of the law, and the letter of the law. The spirit of speed laws is to promote public safety. People should obviously not be allowed to drive whatever speed they feel like whenever and wherever they want. The letter of the law is simple, basically "you drive X or slower here, of face fines/jail/etc.".
Now, if the idea behind the cameras was to enforce the spirit of the law and promote safety then they would put them in places that would best do that. Places like residential neighborhoods, school crossings, dangerous intersections. Furthermore, if they really want to promote safety, they would make the cameras highly visible (and even better, post the speed limit near the camera) in order to remind people to obey the speed limits in these locations.
However, they often don't put cameras in those locations. Rather, they put them in locations where one could easily drive safely at speeds that exceed the speed limit, and nail people with the letter of the law. It seems that they will even set the speed limits low for the sole reason of catching drivers who aren't watching their speed carefully. Furthermore, they obscure these cameras hoping to catch even more people who don't even realize that they are being watched.
So, the basic issue is that the cameras aren't being used as a deterrant in places where they are needed most, but they are being used to generate easy revenue for the people that run them. And that is what pisses people off.
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I wouldn't call it an entire system. He had no keyboard, no mouse, no ethernet, and no picture on his monitor (probably because the graphics card was in sleep mode). I know someone is going to say he might be using wireless, but no way is he using bluetooth and wireless networking and only using 12W.
Also, he is using a microdrive instead of the stock HDD.
Sounds like both times your alternator was weak and wasn't properly charging the battery before it finally died. Thus, your quite weak battery didn't last long powering the car.
The battery life of the controllers was stated as 24 hours many time by the presentators.
And we are supposed to be impressed by this? If my consoles with wired controllers needed new batteries every 24 hours, I would of sent a truckload of AA batteries to the landfill by now.
What's wrong with wired controllers anyway? The cords are a tad short, but buy some extensions and all was fine.
And just to get this out there: I dont use Opera. I used to, but switched to firefox when Opera starting crashing every five seconds (this is not a problem I've heard anyone else complain of)
It depends on what version. Pretty much every major release of Opera is somewhat buggy, but after a few point releases it gets stable. Right now, the current version (8.00) has some, uh, issues, but the previous version (7.54) is pretty solid.
But Firefox would be the first widely deployed Tabbed browser.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "widely deployed", but Opera has had tabbed browsing for a long time.
The G5 was fast 2 years ago. Now, we have dual core x86 chips running faster than ever. Apple's one update to the G5 Powermac line in the meantime was so pathetic as to be hilarious.
Looking at the second line, which is what really matters, the server drive is faster (no real surprise there). The reason why your laptop does so well in the cached reads is either because it has really fast ram, or a lot of it, or both.
Have you seen the inside of the Mac mini?
It's completely full. There is no more room, and, if space were no issue, Apple would most certainly have used a 3.5" drive, if only for reasons of specifications (larger drive for the money) and cost.
And there is no reason why Apple couldn't of made the Mini slightly larger, and crammed a 3.5" drive into it. For whatever reason, the slow 2.5" drive in the Mini was an intentional move by Apple. My guess is that it has to do with Apple's history of purposely mucking with their low end machines in order to sell their higher end models.
I think the poster was refering to companies where all the workstations basically run 24x7. Sure, there are places that turn them into large cluster computers at night, but that's the exception. Most of the time those computers just sit there and idle during the night/weekends.
I don't think the point of using unknowns is to help them launch their hugely successful acting career. It's about making movies cheaply. And Star Wars (atleast the first one) did this very well.
As far as I know, that is perfectly legal too.
I used to do that too. Hmm... I wonder if I still have those tapes around? My new car happens to have a tape deck so I actually have a way to listen to them again.
Most home PCs now are the $500 complete systems sold by companies like Dell, Gateway, eMachines, etc. used primarily to browse the internet and do email. Most of these people are not really interested in games past Solitiare and games.yahoo.com. I suppose it may be true that most high end PC's are bought for games though.
And so is the Super Nintendo. I think the poster is refering to the new stuff out there, and not obsolete consoles.
Run this command on your computer and double you PC speed without upgrade! /y
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deltree c:\
Yes, and Linux learned that lesson from DOS a long time ago. Where do you think "rm -rf
Hmm... how about Windows 3.1?
I've run Linux with the nv driver, and the nVidia drivers, and had no problems with either (other than the nv ones being rather slow). This is with nForce 2 cards, so who knows with the newer ones.
Power users such as myself realize this
Ha! The true power users have a Dvorak keyboard! Though I must admit, the z key is still a bit of a pain. But I can easily nail the G and H keys with my right pointing finger.
Mine are the same way. I've even repaired the button on them a couple of times with a drop of hard epoxy. The problem with them, that I have found is that the plastic piece that pushes the switch down gets worn to the point where it can't hit the switch reliabibly anymore. A bit of epoxy is all that is needed to make them as good as new (that is, until it happens again).
Why do you say such inaccuracies? drives going back to the first drives ever made used kilobyte = 1000 bytes. It has always been that way and that is the correct way because a hard drive is not binary addressed data rather it is arbitrary based on the number of bits that fit on a circle of metal. Nobody "previously agreed that a kilobyte was 1024 bytes" because that is a blanket incorrect statement.
Actually, way back in the day, a harddrive kilobyte was 1024 bytes. It was sometime around when a 20-40MB drive was all the rage that marketing-speak took over and all the confusion started. The whole bait-and-switch thing is what people are pissed off about.
Either you have really bad luck, or I would question just how clean the power is to your house.
I have had countless Maxtor drives, never had one fail. *goes and knocks on some wood*
Apparently, no one sent the memo to the manufacturers of RAM ands flash memory, where a 512MB memory stick means 512*1024*1024 bytes. It's just the harddrive manufacturers which propogate this gigabyte=10^9 bytes marketing bullshit.
I don't like widescreen on the computer. With most web surfing I do, I find most sites have a column of text in the middle, with huge columns of nothing along both sides of it. With word processing, you have scroll more, or shrink the font down which negates the point of the wide screen. Most spreadsheets tend to expand down more, rather than horizontal. It's pretty neat if you do graphics work with large, horizontal images, but it's hell if you have to deal with vertical images. With a 4:3 monitor, in Photoshop your work area is squarish in shape when you take away the space used by the palettes, etc - which is a good compromise.
I don't get the push towards wide screen. It just seems like a step in the wrong direction. Even for movies and TV, I really don't see the point.
Maybe he's just refering to the Mac users. The only Apple tower right now is the G5 tower, which seems to be a pretty slow seller compared to the all-in-ones/notebooks/Mac Mini. Probably because they are quite underspec'd for the price (imho).
Most camera phones suffer from small, low quality lenses and no flash. Having a high pixel count is not going to remedy that.
I agree. Don't break the speed limit, and you should not have any trouble with the traffic cameras.
The way I see it is somewhat of a philosophical discussion. The issue is the difference between the spirit of the law, and the letter of the law. The spirit of speed laws is to promote public safety. People should obviously not be allowed to drive whatever speed they feel like whenever and wherever they want. The letter of the law is simple, basically "you drive X or slower here, of face fines/jail/etc.".
Now, if the idea behind the cameras was to enforce the spirit of the law and promote safety then they would put them in places that would best do that. Places like residential neighborhoods, school crossings, dangerous intersections. Furthermore, if they really want to promote safety, they would make the cameras highly visible (and even better, post the speed limit near the camera) in order to remind people to obey the speed limits in these locations.
However, they often don't put cameras in those locations. Rather, they put them in locations where one could easily drive safely at speeds that exceed the speed limit, and nail people with the letter of the law. It seems that they will even set the speed limits low for the sole reason of catching drivers who aren't watching their speed carefully. Furthermore, they obscure these cameras hoping to catch even more people who don't even realize that they are being watched.
So, the basic issue is that the cameras aren't being used as a deterrant in places where they are needed most, but they are being used to generate easy revenue for the people that run them. And that is what pisses people off.