i.e. Is the average Mac user smarter than the average PC user?
Come on, this is a nerd site. I'd think we'd be able to avoid linguistic blunders like making absolute statements about who is smarter than whom.
I'm a Canadian who pays for Blue Cross, and it certainly doesn't tally 60% of my cost of living. In fact, as a university student I pay about $22CA per month for it. Admittedly, that's a lot for someone like me who lives on loans, but in the long run it's nothing.
Besides which, the medical system up here may have it's problems, but it does work. I too had a friend with an ingrown toe-nail and he had it removed two weeks after seeing the doctor about it. I've never been stuck waiting for medical treatment longer than it takes to get through the waiting room here.
Regardless of all that though, your friend's experience in the Scottish socialized medical program is hardly representative of the entire Canadian medical system.
ATI released a card with multiple GPUs on it a few years ago, putting a pair of Rage 128 chips onto a single card. It provided at best a marginal performance increase, but was still a neat idea at the time.
They state in the article that the muzzle velocity of one of these rounds can be as high as 6 km/sec. So we convert 44 lbs ~ 20kg and then find the energy transferred to the projectile
E = (1/2)(20 kg)(6000 m/s)^2 = 360 MJ
That gun is going to have one hell of a kick. It's been too long a day to work out the math, but it seems to be that this could really screw up the attitude control of a large ship, and perhaps even capsize something smaller (i.e. a Frigate).
When you get the shutdown warning, simply run shutdown -a at the command line to abort it. Then do your updates. The RPC service will already be dead, so you won't see another one till your reboot and restart the service.
The article calls it the "Xenon"...?
Didn't Microsoft already say they're calling it the XBox Next? Not to mention Xenon is a terrible name and will probably be rampantly mispronounced.
Hang on, I'm not arguing against what you're saying. Dumping badly named files into a lump directory will allow you to find the files, but it won't allow you to say, search for pictures with Bob in them. My point is that if you want a fairly large amount of information (i.e. all the peoples' names) tagged to each photo so you can say, search for photos with Bob in them within that directory, instead of a more broad search for all the wedding photos and then having to manually look at the pictures to find ones with Bob.
Your method is easier, admittedly, but severly reduces the amount of searchable information for each file. The meta-data system isn't being written for people like you and I, it's being written for my mom who just doesn't get it.
I guess it will add bloat too, but who cares? Chip and storage are so cheap these days, the average user (i.e. my mom) just isn't going to care.
We, the people of IT, are not the target market. It sucks, but it's true.
Oh, I absolutely agree that most people wouldn't go to the trouble to put meta-data on every single file. However, they also won't go to the trouble of renaming every file either.
So, since putting meta-data on is easier (even if only slightly), they are at least more LIKELY to tag relevant information to a photo than they might have been otherwise. It certainly doesn't worsen the situation.
Yeah but users DO suck so much. That's the whole problem. It's difficult for users like ourselves to see it from the perspective of someone who feels lost trudging through a gigantic directory tree full of thousands of photos. They don't generally have an idea of how to effectively 'rename files' or anything like that. It sounds rediculous, but it's true.
An example: Renaming files is long and time consuming. Imagine that your mom wants to label each one of 200 photos using a filename that is a list of the people that are in them. That requires a huge amount of work.
Now imagine that meta-data allows you to select multiple files at once, and then type in 'Uncle Jim' for all the selected ones. Uncle Jim is then added to a list of people for those specific photos. Then you only have to select all the files with a particular person in them and type the name once. Eventually, you'll have everyone's name tagged to their specific photos and you'll have done less work than renaming every file with a customized list.
Really, I don't know anything about WinFS or how it's actually going to work, but I can see at least SOME easier ways to do it than renaming files or putting the files in a folder called 'Wedding' which won't help you locate a specific photo WITHIN that folder.
Let me see if I understand your argument. You read the article, which means you must've read this:
"Important: Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with 64-bit AMD Opteron- or Athlon 64-based computers. It cannot be successfully installed on 64-bit Intel Itanium-based systems."...and conclude from it that Microsoft and Intel are out to beat up on AMD.
Microsoft releases an AMD only copy of it's flagship operating system, for FREE, prior to the release of Intel's 64-bit offerings, and this is somehow a conspiracy to hurt AMD's marketshare?
RTFA
While this is a valid point, for a hardcore gamer like myself I need to ask: How many bills am I going to have to pay every month?
I have upwards of 30 games I currently play in my collection - split between PC, PS2 and XBox. A service like XBox live simplifies things, and may allow a single payment for multiple game developers on consoles but that kind of consolidation will never happen on PC. There won't be a single distribution you pay once a month to cover all your gaming interests, so my credit card bill is going to be pretty long.
Although I suppose companies like Electronics Boutique could segway into turning their services into an electronic distribution hub - even if only to front you payment. Like those companies that consolidate debt.
A number of geeks I know, including myself, support the RIAA and MPAA for two main reasons:
1) The obvious, they don't mind paying for movies or music. I must admit, I mind prices for music, but I only buy or rent DVDs these days and I stopped using P2P entirely over a year ago.
2) P2P file sharing services account for something like 60% of all internet traffic now. When my pings spike to 800ms to a site that should be giving 20, or I download a Slackware ISO at 2.4kps, I support the RIAA and MPAA in fighting services like Kazaa. I'm tired of my choked internet connection. Eliminating Kazaa will speed things up by a huge amount. Go RIAA and MPAA.
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i.e. Is the average Mac user smarter than the average PC user? Come on, this is a nerd site. I'd think we'd be able to avoid linguistic blunders like making absolute statements about who is smarter than whom.
I'm a Canadian who pays for Blue Cross, and it certainly doesn't tally 60% of my cost of living. In fact, as a university student I pay about $22CA per month for it. Admittedly, that's a lot for someone like me who lives on loans, but in the long run it's nothing.
Besides which, the medical system up here may have it's problems, but it does work. I too had a friend with an ingrown toe-nail and he had it removed two weeks after seeing the doctor about it. I've never been stuck waiting for medical treatment longer than it takes to get through the waiting room here.
Regardless of all that though, your friend's experience in the Scottish socialized medical program is hardly representative of the entire Canadian medical system.
This was in the pre-catalyst days of course, so ATI's driver support was pretty substandard at the time.
ATI released a card with multiple GPUs on it a few years ago, putting a pair of Rage 128 chips onto a single card. It provided at best a marginal performance increase, but was still a neat idea at the time.
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They state in the article that the muzzle velocity of one of these rounds can be as high as 6 km/sec. So we convert 44 lbs ~ 20kg and then find the energy transferred to the projectile
E = (1/2)(20 kg)(6000 m/s)^2 = 360 MJ
That gun is going to have one hell of a kick. It's been too long a day to work out the math, but it seems to be that this could really screw up the attitude control of a large ship, and perhaps even capsize something smaller (i.e. a Frigate).
When you get the shutdown warning, simply run shutdown -a at the command line to abort it. Then do your updates. The RPC service will already be dead, so you won't see another one till your reboot and restart the service.
T'Pol uses a blue screen-scope thing. She must be into it too. Mrow.
...don't mock me.
We'll assume Tuvok is an except hmm?
The article calls it the "Xenon"...? Didn't Microsoft already say they're calling it the XBox Next? Not to mention Xenon is a terrible name and will probably be rampantly mispronounced.
Hang on, I'm not arguing against what you're saying. Dumping badly named files into a lump directory will allow you to find the files, but it won't allow you to say, search for pictures with Bob in them. My point is that if you want a fairly large amount of information (i.e. all the peoples' names) tagged to each photo so you can say, search for photos with Bob in them within that directory, instead of a more broad search for all the wedding photos and then having to manually look at the pictures to find ones with Bob. Your method is easier, admittedly, but severly reduces the amount of searchable information for each file. The meta-data system isn't being written for people like you and I, it's being written for my mom who just doesn't get it. I guess it will add bloat too, but who cares? Chip and storage are so cheap these days, the average user (i.e. my mom) just isn't going to care. We, the people of IT, are not the target market. It sucks, but it's true.
Oh, I absolutely agree that most people wouldn't go to the trouble to put meta-data on every single file. However, they also won't go to the trouble of renaming every file either.
So, since putting meta-data on is easier (even if only slightly), they are at least more LIKELY to tag relevant information to a photo than they might have been otherwise. It certainly doesn't worsen the situation.
Yeah but users DO suck so much. That's the whole problem. It's difficult for users like ourselves to see it from the perspective of someone who feels lost trudging through a gigantic directory tree full of thousands of photos. They don't generally have an idea of how to effectively 'rename files' or anything like that. It sounds rediculous, but it's true.
An example: Renaming files is long and time consuming. Imagine that your mom wants to label each one of 200 photos using a filename that is a list of the people that are in them. That requires a huge amount of work.
Now imagine that meta-data allows you to select multiple files at once, and then type in 'Uncle Jim' for all the selected ones. Uncle Jim is then added to a list of people for those specific photos. Then you only have to select all the files with a particular person in them and type the name once. Eventually, you'll have everyone's name tagged to their specific photos and you'll have done less work than renaming every file with a customized list.
Really, I don't know anything about WinFS or how it's actually going to work, but I can see at least SOME easier ways to do it than renaming files or putting the files in a folder called 'Wedding' which won't help you locate a specific photo WITHIN that folder.
Food for thought anyway.
I wasn't talking about the IA64, I was talking about Intel's x86-64 offerings which, I'm sure you'll agree, aren't out.
Let me see if I understand your argument. You read the article, which means you must've read this: "Important: Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with 64-bit AMD Opteron- or Athlon 64-based computers. It cannot be successfully installed on 64-bit Intel Itanium-based systems." ...and conclude from it that Microsoft and Intel are out to beat up on AMD.
Microsoft releases an AMD only copy of it's flagship operating system, for FREE, prior to the release of Intel's 64-bit offerings, and this is somehow a conspiracy to hurt AMD's marketshare?
RTFA
While this is a valid point, for a hardcore gamer like myself I need to ask: How many bills am I going to have to pay every month?
I have upwards of 30 games I currently play in my collection - split between PC, PS2 and XBox. A service like XBox live simplifies things, and may allow a single payment for multiple game developers on consoles but that kind of consolidation will never happen on PC. There won't be a single distribution you pay once a month to cover all your gaming interests, so my credit card bill is going to be pretty long.
Although I suppose companies like Electronics Boutique could segway into turning their services into an electronic distribution hub - even if only to front you payment. Like those companies that consolidate debt.
A number of geeks I know, including myself, support the RIAA and MPAA for two main reasons: 1) The obvious, they don't mind paying for movies or music. I must admit, I mind prices for music, but I only buy or rent DVDs these days and I stopped using P2P entirely over a year ago. 2) P2P file sharing services account for something like 60% of all internet traffic now. When my pings spike to 800ms to a site that should be giving 20, or I download a Slackware ISO at 2.4kps, I support the RIAA and MPAA in fighting services like Kazaa. I'm tired of my choked internet connection. Eliminating Kazaa will speed things up by a huge amount. Go RIAA and MPAA.