This is why I've finally dropped Firefox on my Mac.
It's been a great ride, and I thank them for what they've done. I still run it on my Work PC. (Until Google figures out how to make programs that run behind authenticated proxies).
But they've become just as complacent with their memory usage as Microsoft did with IE6 sucking. Only programs I've ever had use MORE were Photoshop when I'm doing batch processing of HDR images and VMWare when I've given the guest >1024MB of RAM, and even then, they don't beat Firefox by a large margin.
There will be times my computer is running slow as hell and I'll look up at memory usage and Firefox is above 800M, I'll kill it and start over.
Finally I had enough. I researched my 'Ad Block Plus' options and found Glimmer Blocker. It's set up as proxy which means I can use it with all Web Browsers. It supports most GreaseMonkey scripts as is. I can insert CSS, etc. Only downside (which is good) is that it doesn't do anything to https connections.
XMarks syncs all my bookmarks. LastPass syncs all my passwords and so right now Chromium and WebKit Nightly are getting 50/50 usage to see which one I like better.
Chromium has a bare minimum of extensions(XMarks, LastPass, Blank New Tab & Facebook fixer). Chrome just flys. Hell there would be times when I'd hav e Chromeium browsing the web. Safari on Youtube and Firefox having 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10.
The *ONE* thing I thought I would miss the most was Firebug. Until I realized both Chromium/Chrome and Webkit/Safari have Javascript Profiling tools built in and other stuff that put Firebug to shame. I wouldn't be surprised if it's probably what Google uses to develop most of their stuff.
I've left both browsers up for days and fired up an occasional firefox and after 20 minutes I watch my little menu bar graph creep up until my computer was swapping and being slow.
It's been a great ride, and I thank them for what they've done. But they've become just as complacent with memory usage.
There will be times my computer is running slow as hell and I'll look up at memory usage and Firefox is above 800M.
I run Glimmer Blocker on my Mac to act as a modifying proxy. It supports most GreaseMonkey scripts as is. XMarks syncs all my bookmarks. Right now Chromium and WebKit Nightly are getting 50/50 usage to see which one I like better. But with a bare minimum of plugins (XMarks, LastPass, Blank New Tab & Facebook fixer). Chrome just flys. Hell I'm writing this up in Chromium. Safari is on youtube and firefox has 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10.
The *ONE* thing I thought I would miss the most was Firebug. Until I realized both Chromium and Webkit Nightly (and Safari) have Javascript Profiling tools and other stuff that put Firebug to shame (It's probably what Google uses to develop most of their stuff).
I can see this having all 3 plugs right next to each other and Apple selling it as a bundle. If you're out on a photoshoot you can do some quick touchups on the pad, but also have a second screen when you get back to your studio.
Simpler/faster solution would be to insert a piece of paper in between all the pages to be scanned. Then do the MRI. If the OCR turns up 0 hits, mirror the page and run it through again.
Or make recaptcha users keep a mirror at their desk.
Because you can't just drive by a house with one of these. They have rather short ranges as in you have to be within a few feet. You don't even know where you're supposed to be looking.
With the thermal imager you can mount it in a van (or helicopter) drive (or fly) around neighborhoods and look for a weird temperature gradient.
Grandma's house at 80F may light up like a Christmas tree, but the whole house probably looks the same. A grower's house may have a 'normal' house but one room may light up, that's what they're looking for.
The better question is why we're spending even $30 on this. Legalize and Tax It. Heck even decriminalization would save most places a ton of money.
Thermal cameras used by the cops still cost quite a bit. We had one in the Heat & Mass lab in college and you had to give up your drivers license and student ID to borrow it out, and you couldn't even leave the building.
The cheap devices on Amazon just look like non-contact temp sensors with some fancy electronics. If someone was trying to snoop around my house with one of the devices you linked to they'd probably be close enough to hit with a baseball bat.
Not sure about Intel. But Nvidia has VDPAU which is very nice. Feature Set C even added MPEG4 decoding and SD content upscaling, all in GPU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU#NVIDIA_VDPAU_Feature_Sets)
Broadcom finally released Crystal HD drivers for Linux, which means if you have a mini PCI-E slot, you can get HD content. (http://xbmc.org/davilla/2009/12/29/broadcom-crystal-hd-its-magic/)
If you want to know what is available for what GPU/Platform, keep an eye out on the XBMC guys are doing. They seem to be at the forefront of getting hardware acceleration working on different setups http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding
Which is why, like I stated above, if I'm ever cooking for guests, family, ANYONE BUT MYSELF, I always do everything better than probably most people.
All utensils, plates, bowls get a thorough washing before I use them. All counter space, cutting boards, knives, etc get cleaned before I prep food. Hands get washed twice. I don't even use a tasting spoon. I may have a good immune system, but you guys probably don't. Last thing I'd want is for a great meal to make everyone sick.
And honestly, do you think you can actually 'taste' the shit? It may be a molecule, virii or bacterium here or there.
I recently went to India with friends and was the only person not to get Sick.
Every single one of my travel companions had the GermX out and sanitized their hands after they did ANYTHING. When I separated from the group for the second half of the trip, I don't even think I washed my hands most of the time. I had a GREAT time walking out beyond the tourist traps into the 'old city' and trying stuff in the little shops. The Indians looked at me like they had never seen a white person trying 'their' food and the white people I told the story to just kept telling me "You're going to get sick. You're going to ruin your trip." (As they excused themselves to rush back to the bathroom). The water in the mountains (Sikkim) tasted... nothing short of amazing. It put all the bottled water to shame.
I live the bachelors life and grew up in a dirty ole farmhouse. Sour cream/Jelly/AppleSauce has mold on the top? Scrape off the top and eat the rest. I've accidentally left milk out during the day and just come home, swish it around and put it back in the fridge. (As long as the taste isn't affected too much.) Unless I'm cooking for or around other people or expected to shake hands etc, I rarely wash my hands. Hell I'll go from #2 to the dinner table as long as the TP didn't break. Growing up I ate dog food, with the dogs, rolled around in the mud and put who knows what into my mouth.
And guess what. I'm NEVER sick. No headcolds, no flus, no coughs, no phlegm. I'm not allergic to peanuts or other household items because my body is bored (it's just a theory). Compared to my college roommate, who grew up in what sounded nothing less than a clean room, who was sick when the weather changed. HAD to have the bottom bunk because of random nose bleeds in the middle of the night. Took a dozen or so pills for everything and still was always sick. Went through tissue paper at a box a week.
419 E-mails are clearly going for greed. But I know quite a few older people who have almost fallen for the craigs list "I'm on vacation" scam.
Does anyone know any Nigerian that I can post in my ads that basically say "I'm not interested, don't even try?" I found some stuff or 419 eater alluding to how the guy was conceived and what stable his mother was in, after I sent it to him things stopped rather quickly (after a long list of broken english obscenities.)
I got a 'new' computer dumpster diving once. It was a Compaq. The thing wouldn't see more than 1 IDE drive per bus and had a ton of other limitations. Thankfully I found the original BIOS and flashed it and had no problems since.
I work for a fortune 50 company that sadly still uses some shoestringed Excel VBA for production stuff. (It started as a engineering test, and just migrated with everything else).
We're still running Office 2000 and I don't see us changing anytime soon.
Odd, my parents (55/60) do the same. My mom had no concept of how to go to 'gmail' other than to type 'gmail' into one of those 'empty boxes' at the top of the screen.
If Firefox didn't automatically try and parse a partial URL, they'de be lost.
My siblings seem to do ok. Where as I grew up right around the explosion of search engines seemed to hone in on what to type to get what I wanted. Hell 95% of the time I 'solve' a computer problem at work it's because the person I'm helping doesn't know how to type in what they're looking for.
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I've done all the "Fix Firefox Memory Hog" stuff in the book, on both Windows XP and OS X.
My OS X machine, the one that I referenced in my post (by saying on My Mac) doesn't have a Registry Editor.
This is why I've finally dropped Firefox on my Mac.
It's been a great ride, and I thank them for what they've done. I still run it on my Work PC. (Until Google figures out how to make programs that run behind authenticated proxies).
But they've become just as complacent with their memory usage as Microsoft did with IE6 sucking. Only programs I've ever had use MORE were Photoshop when I'm doing batch processing of HDR images and VMWare when I've given the guest >1024MB of RAM, and even then, they don't beat Firefox by a large margin.
There will be times my computer is running slow as hell and I'll look up at memory usage and Firefox is above 800M, I'll kill it and start over.
Finally I had enough. I researched my 'Ad Block Plus' options and found Glimmer Blocker. It's set up as proxy which means I can use it with all Web Browsers. It supports most GreaseMonkey scripts as is. I can insert CSS, etc. Only downside (which is good) is that it doesn't do anything to https connections.
XMarks syncs all my bookmarks. LastPass syncs all my passwords and so right now Chromium and WebKit Nightly are getting 50/50 usage to see which one I like better.
Chromium has a bare minimum of extensions(XMarks, LastPass, Blank New Tab & Facebook fixer). Chrome just flys. Hell there would be times when I'd hav e Chromeium browsing the web. Safari on Youtube and Firefox having 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10.
The *ONE* thing I thought I would miss the most was Firebug. Until I realized both Chromium/Chrome and Webkit/Safari have Javascript Profiling tools built in and other stuff that put Firebug to shame. I wouldn't be surprised if it's probably what Google uses to develop most of their stuff.
I've left both browsers up for days and fired up an occasional firefox and after 20 minutes I watch my little menu bar graph creep up until my computer was swapping and being slow.
Which is why I dropped FireFox.
It's been a great ride, and I thank them for what they've done. But they've become just as complacent with memory usage.
There will be times my computer is running slow as hell and I'll look up at memory usage and Firefox is above 800M.
I run Glimmer Blocker on my Mac to act as a modifying proxy. It supports most GreaseMonkey scripts as is. XMarks syncs all my bookmarks. Right now Chromium and WebKit Nightly are getting 50/50 usage to see which one I like better. But with a bare minimum of plugins (XMarks, LastPass, Blank New Tab & Facebook fixer). Chrome just flys. Hell I'm writing this up in Chromium. Safari is on youtube and firefox has 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10.
The *ONE* thing I thought I would miss the most was Firebug. Until I realized both Chromium and Webkit Nightly (and Safari) have Javascript Profiling tools and other stuff that put Firebug to shame (It's probably what Google uses to develop most of their stuff).
Google voice to ring all your numbers at once.
Integration with the Cinema Display will probably be there from the get go.
The latest revision includes all the plugs you need to power and display your MacBookPro.
http://www.apple.com/displays/
I can see this having all 3 plugs right next to each other and Apple selling it as a bundle. If you're out on a photoshoot you can do some quick touchups on the pad, but also have a second screen when you get back to your studio.
If you have to 'Hunt down' the control key you need to learn to type.
Not only that, Apple's shipped a 2 button capable mouse for a while. They've just disabled it by default. Macbook Pro has 'no buttons'
MRIs have resolution down to 90nm.
Simpler/faster solution would be to insert a piece of paper in between all the pages to be scanned. Then do the MRI. If the OCR turns up 0 hits, mirror the page and run it through again.
Or make recaptcha users keep a mirror at their desk.
Or damage some cheap 8.5x11 that you print out the relevant pages on.
Nokia is King as a company.
iPhone may be King as a model.
How many 'smart phones' are Nokia's sales spread across? Apple has the iPhone 3G and 3Gs. (And a few more if you split it up memory size).
Nokia's product line reminds me of Apple's in the early 90s. There's the 5530, the 5533a, 5005 WITH camera*. Etc.
* model names made up.
Because you can't just drive by a house with one of these. They have rather short ranges as in you have to be within a few feet. You don't even know where you're supposed to be looking.
With the thermal imager you can mount it in a van (or helicopter) drive (or fly) around neighborhoods and look for a weird temperature gradient.
Grandma's house at 80F may light up like a Christmas tree, but the whole house probably looks the same. A grower's house may have a 'normal' house but one room may light up, that's what they're looking for.
The better question is why we're spending even $30 on this. Legalize and Tax It. Heck even decriminalization would save most places a ton of money.
So if you were generating the same % of gas annually, would it not be in equilibrium?
Thermal cameras used by the cops still cost quite a bit. We had one in the Heat & Mass lab in college and you had to give up your drivers license and student ID to borrow it out, and you couldn't even leave the building.
The cheap devices on Amazon just look like non-contact temp sensors with some fancy electronics. If someone was trying to snoop around my house with one of the devices you linked to they'd probably be close enough to hit with a baseball bat.
This is the cheapest I could find however something like this is probably required to do what you're afraid of.
Still a valid question, but the 'cheap technology' isn't quite there yet.
I didn't know this until recently, but you script most of Adobe's CS products (Photoshop, etc) with JavaScript.
It's cross platform. The same scripts work on my Mac as they do on a Windows machine.
I already know it, syntax isn't something foreign and there is a ton websites out there for JavaScript support.
It makes stuff like making panoramas and HDR panoramas awesome.
So would 'global warming' have prevented this type of disaster?
How am I supposed to touch stuff before I buy it from Amazon?
My favorite is setting the home page of all the computers to MonoPrice cables.
Not sure about Intel. But Nvidia has VDPAU which is very nice. Feature Set C even added MPEG4 decoding and SD content upscaling, all in GPU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU#NVIDIA_VDPAU_Feature_Sets)
Broadcom finally released Crystal HD drivers for Linux, which means if you have a mini PCI-E slot, you can get HD content. (http://xbmc.org/davilla/2009/12/29/broadcom-crystal-hd-its-magic/)
If you want to know what is available for what GPU/Platform, keep an eye out on the XBMC guys are doing. They seem to be at the forefront of getting hardware acceleration working on different setups
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding
Which is why, like I stated above, if I'm ever cooking for guests, family, ANYONE BUT MYSELF, I always do everything better than probably most people.
All utensils, plates, bowls get a thorough washing before I use them. All counter space, cutting boards, knives, etc get cleaned before I prep food. Hands get washed twice. I don't even use a tasting spoon. I may have a good immune system, but you guys probably don't. Last thing I'd want is for a great meal to make everyone sick.
And honestly, do you think you can actually 'taste' the shit? It may be a molecule, virii or bacterium here or there.
I recently went to India with friends and was the only person not to get Sick.
Every single one of my travel companions had the GermX out and sanitized their hands after they did ANYTHING. When I separated from the group for the second half of the trip, I don't even think I washed my hands most of the time. I had a GREAT time walking out beyond the tourist traps into the 'old city' and trying stuff in the little shops. The Indians looked at me like they had never seen a white person trying 'their' food and the white people I told the story to just kept telling me "You're going to get sick. You're going to ruin your trip." (As they excused themselves to rush back to the bathroom). The water in the mountains (Sikkim) tasted... nothing short of amazing. It put all the bottled water to shame.
I live the bachelors life and grew up in a dirty ole farmhouse. Sour cream/Jelly/AppleSauce has mold on the top? Scrape off the top and eat the rest. I've accidentally left milk out during the day and just come home, swish it around and put it back in the fridge. (As long as the taste isn't affected too much.) Unless I'm cooking for or around other people or expected to shake hands etc, I rarely wash my hands. Hell I'll go from #2 to the dinner table as long as the TP didn't break. Growing up I ate dog food, with the dogs, rolled around in the mud and put who knows what into my mouth.
And guess what. I'm NEVER sick. No headcolds, no flus, no coughs, no phlegm. I'm not allergic to peanuts or other household items because my body is bored (it's just a theory). Compared to my college roommate, who grew up in what sounded nothing less than a clean room, who was sick when the weather changed. HAD to have the bottom bunk because of random nose bleeds in the middle of the night. Took a dozen or so pills for everything and still was always sick. Went through tissue paper at a box a week.
419 E-mails are clearly going for greed. But I know quite a few older people who have almost fallen for the craigs list "I'm on vacation" scam.
Does anyone know any Nigerian that I can post in my ads that basically say "I'm not interested, don't even try?" I found some stuff or 419 eater alluding to how the guy was conceived and what stable his mother was in, after I sent it to him things stopped rather quickly (after a long list of broken english obscenities.)
"Real" stuff like pet rocks, virtual pet rocks, virtual pets, beenie babies, prayers, etc,
Every generation has their "What the hell did we spend money on?" product. This one seems to have virtual products.
Don't forget the custom BIOS.
I got a 'new' computer dumpster diving once. It was a Compaq. The thing wouldn't see more than 1 IDE drive per bus and had a ton of other limitations. Thankfully I found the original BIOS and flashed it and had no problems since.
Or Apple users at that.
You've never lived in an area with high winds and sticky snow have you?
The blinders are to keep the sun out, not the snow.
I work for a fortune 50 company that sadly still uses some shoestringed Excel VBA for production stuff. (It started as a engineering test, and just migrated with everything else).
We're still running Office 2000 and I don't see us changing anytime soon.
Odd, my parents (55/60) do the same. My mom had no concept of how to go to 'gmail' other than to type 'gmail' into one of those 'empty boxes' at the top of the screen.
If Firefox didn't automatically try and parse a partial URL, they'de be lost.
My siblings seem to do ok. Where as I grew up right around the explosion of search engines seemed to hone in on what to type to get what I wanted. Hell 95% of the time I 'solve' a computer problem at work it's because the person I'm helping doesn't know how to type in what they're looking for.