Funny, I work with tritium all the time in a biology lab. No weekly medical exams needed. Maybe you should do more research on the subject before spouting all that stuff.
The Xbox was SUPPPOSED to be a money loser. They knew that and were planning for it going in. They figured it would take a few versions to overtake the market. PS2 and the GameCube had huge libraries of games from older models that they could also use as a draw, Xbox had none of that and they knew it wouldn't be as big of a draw as it could have been because of that.
This is only version one. The Xbox 360 is coming out now. MS hopes this one will break even. It's version 3 that they hope will eventually dominate the console market like they dominate the OS market. It's a long term game plan.
Losing money on version 1 does not make it a 'failure' when they were planning on it to lose money.
So exactly how would they potentially lose their "trade secrets" by letting OpenBSD, etc, redistribute the binary firmware images from their website?
IMO they are simply doing Linux work as a lever against MS. If the Linux folks are content with the status of the drivers as is, there is no need to change things. OpenBSD folks care more about openness and good licensing then Linux folks.
Maybe some of their non-critical patches actually fix an unknown exploitable hole. They might want to change the status of those fixes from optional to critical.
It will house up to 1,500 employees by next fall.
150 terabytes of storage
At first that sounded really impressive. Then I thought, I'm a geek who has two hard drives in my home desktop with a total of 500 GB of storage. Lucas is into storage of huge movie image sequences, and they only have 100 GB/employee of storage. Somehow I'd have thought they'd have more.
The only place I've seen them available is from Dell. They have them as an option on their Inspiron XPS Gen 2 systems. I don't know why that's the only place I've seen them. Maybe they haven't ramped up the pruduction to high numbers yet and are just feeding them to Dell for now. You might see if Dell will sell you on as a spare part (they might not if they are only recieving limited supplies).
Spybot and Lavasoft remove most things. If they can't be removed with those, use HijackThis. Much easier and safer than browsing manually through your registry.
I bought one to upgrad my Inspiron 8100. It runs hot, but it works fine, No meltdown. No pixie dust needed. I also have one in my i8600, and they are putting them in i6000's now.
You would think so, but apparently not if he doesn't realize NetBSD takes a lot for Free and OpenBSD as well. Having a nick with an OS name in it doesn't mean he's not an idiot.
It's not the growing up that ruined it. You have to look back at what the current state of 'sci-fi' in film was at the time. At the the technical sophistication of special effects. Star Wars went way way beyond anything on film in either category. It took things to an entirely different level.
If you've only seen it now, you've grown up with lots of equivalent sci-fi movies and effects. It's hard for you to imagine the impact that the original movie had. Groundbreaking doesn't do it justice.
That being said, sure looking at it now with some perspective, yes, the acting and storytelling aren't that great, but those were entirely washed away at the time by it's leaps ahead in other areas.
The closest reference you younger guys probably have is when the Matrix came out. That one was kinda/sorta groundbreaking in some areas, but it wasn't within an order or magnitude of the amount of impact Star Wars had. Luckily, the Wachowski brothers killed it's specialness right away with terrible sequels, so you won't be in for any trauma later in life;).
Wind resistance goes way up when you put the windows down on a car. On some cars it is much worse than others, depending on the aerodynamic shape of the car/windows.
At highway speeds, running the air conditioner is almost always going to be more fuel efficient than putting the windows down.
At slower speeds where wind resistance doesn't really come into play. cruising down residential streets at 25 MPH or stuck in stop-n-go traffic, the AC will burn more fuel than having your windows down.
What's your basis for that? When you are idling, your car is running at lower RPM, conserving fuel. Coasting in gear, your RPMs are higher. While costing, your car isn't injecting less fuel than it does while idling.
If your RPMs were high with little fuel input, your engine would run very lean. This is a very bad thing for engines. It leads to bad things like holes in your piston heads.
Yes you would, depending on who he thought his audience was. This is space.com we are talking about. Lots of general public types look at it.
Extremely experienced scientists dumb down their talks all the time for lay people. When I give a talk to my colleagues, I use entirely different language and skip over very basic stuff that I definitely do go over when I talk to the general public.
One of the things they should have tried in the review was to set the known single-threaded apps (games, etc) to run on a set CPU. Bouncing the thread back and forth between CPUs cost them some performance.
I usually do that on my dual-cpu systems when I want max performance out of a known single-threaded app.
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I never said we don't have a license or weren't trained to work with radiation. I called bullocks on needing weekly medical exams when using tritium.
Funny, I work with tritium all the time in a biology lab. No weekly medical exams needed. Maybe you should do more research on the subject before spouting all that stuff.
This is only version one. The Xbox 360 is coming out now. MS hopes this one will break even. It's version 3 that they hope will eventually dominate the console market like they dominate the OS market. It's a long term game plan.
Losing money on version 1 does not make it a 'failure' when they were planning on it to lose money.
IMO they are simply doing Linux work as a lever against MS. If the Linux folks are content with the status of the drivers as is, there is no need to change things. OpenBSD folks care more about openness and good licensing then Linux folks.
Sorry, analogies like that don't work with software.
Maybe some of their non-critical patches actually fix an unknown exploitable hole. They might want to change the status of those fixes from optional to critical.
150 terabytes of storage
At first that sounded really impressive. Then I thought, I'm a geek who has two hard drives in my home desktop with a total of 500 GB of storage. Lucas is into storage of huge movie image sequences, and they only have 100 GB/employee of storage. Somehow I'd have thought they'd have more.
The only place I've seen them available is from Dell. They have them as an option on their Inspiron XPS Gen 2 systems. I don't know why that's the only place I've seen them. Maybe they haven't ramped up the pruduction to high numbers yet and are just feeding them to Dell for now. You might see if Dell will sell you on as a spare part (they might not if they are only recieving limited supplies).
Spybot and Lavasoft remove most things. If they can't be removed with those, use HijackThis. Much easier and safer than browsing manually through your registry.
I bought one to upgrad my Inspiron 8100. It runs hot, but it works fine, No meltdown. No pixie dust needed. I also have one in my i8600, and they are putting them in i6000's now.
Dell has been installing them as an optional upgrade for a few years now. What's your point?
Think of it as male contraception.
Become aware.
Yes, lots. I've had a 60GB 7200 2.5" laptop drive for a few years now. Hitachi just came out with a 7200 RPM 100 GB drive.
You would think so, but apparently not if he doesn't realize NetBSD takes a lot for Free and OpenBSD as well. Having a nick with an OS name in it doesn't mean he's not an idiot.
Here is a clue for you. The BSD's borrow heavily from each other. That's a good thing. Where do you think FreeBSD got pf, OpenSSH, etc?
And in a critical situation, set it to overload.
'Notebook' suggests a small book you would jot notes in. This thing is friggin huge. I suggest instead that it be called a 'tome'.
If you've only seen it now, you've grown up with lots of equivalent sci-fi movies and effects. It's hard for you to imagine the impact that the original movie had. Groundbreaking doesn't do it justice.
That being said, sure looking at it now with some perspective, yes, the acting and storytelling aren't that great, but those were entirely washed away at the time by it's leaps ahead in other areas.
The closest reference you younger guys probably have is when the Matrix came out. That one was kinda/sorta groundbreaking in some areas, but it wasn't within an order or magnitude of the amount of impact Star Wars had. Luckily, the Wachowski brothers killed it's specialness right away with terrible sequels, so you won't be in for any trauma later in life ;).
"It all began 500 years ago on the planet Zeist..."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
At highway speeds, running the air conditioner is almost always going to be more fuel efficient than putting the windows down.
At slower speeds where wind resistance doesn't really come into play. cruising down residential streets at 25 MPH or stuck in stop-n-go traffic, the AC will burn more fuel than having your windows down.
Adjust your cooling accordingly.
If your RPMs were high with little fuel input, your engine would run very lean. This is a very bad thing for engines. It leads to bad things like holes in your piston heads.
Extremely experienced scientists dumb down their talks all the time for lay people. When I give a talk to my colleagues, I use entirely different language and skip over very basic stuff that I definitely do go over when I talk to the general public.
I usually do that on my dual-cpu systems when I want max performance out of a known single-threaded app.
And kill off the housekeeping mRNAs in normal cells?? Those are made for a reason...