It's only for very large-scale servers, so far. PowerPC are in desktops and consumer electronics; POWER are in mainframes and minis. Being focused on desktops and consumer electronis it's no suprise that Apple went Intel.
If IBM and Freescale had ironed out their availability issues and IBM had come out with a G6 with a few CELL cores on it, it might have been better to stick with PowerPC. Going Intel was better than having no chips or outdated chips. Going Opteron might have been better if they were only interested in high-end desktops; with the emphasis on consumer electronics (and iBook, iMac, and Mac Mini), going Opteron doesn't make much sense.
While XCell-N has obvious advantages in the area of time between battery replacements, Shephard advises there are some minor disadvantages. "Due to government regulations, use of a laptop powered by XCell-N is prohibited in airports, government offices, schools, hospitals, public transport, hotels, residential areas or within 12 miles of food preparation areas.". XCell-N also weighs substantially more than a regular laptop battery, coming in at 7 kilograms (15.4 lbs).
A better one would be one where you pick as an ally a murderous fundamentalist, train him as a terrorist, arm him, and pay him billions of dollars, then are suprised when he turns the weapons you gave him back on you.
Sometimes I put ideas there in the hopes that they will be picked up by industry, as they don't seem to take product ideas from the public (computer and camera manufacturers), they just ignore my messages.
I wish my employer would use something else. Something standard like SIP/RTP over IPSec. Skype is not open source, and uses a proprietary protocol, with a non-inspectable encryption implementation.
Check the terms of your employment before setting up shop on your company's hardware. Typically business frown on personal use of company resources. Worse, they pretty much pwn whatever is on them.. including your brilliant ideas squirreled away between email love letters and Mexican vacation photos. Roll your own or find a reliable hosting service.
mod parent up!!!
(The University I went to had similar policies, including expelling a student for hosting his own business stuff on the comp. sci. server. I don't know what they'd do to faculty or staff who did.)
If a disease lowers the energy requirements of the body, the cure is to eat proportionally less.
Three words: Short Bowel Syndrome. It's caused by a lot of different things (viruses, parasites, celiac, uncontrolled lactose intolerance...). It effects your ability to absorb nutrients, but not your ability to absorb calories (glucose and fats are very easy to absorb). Eating less could cause you to be malnourished yet still fat. It's best to figure out if there's a medical reason for your weight gain and deal with that before going on a diet.
The difference between a professional film camera and a amateur film camera is only the amount of work the photographer needs to do to get a given photograph.
It's the lens. Seriously. Compare Canon 50mm 1.8 (amateur), Canon 50mm 1.4 (professional), and Leica 50mm 1.4 (very very expensive professional). Each step up is a big jump in sharpness. A Canon AE-1P on manual will deliver the same results as an A1 on manual, given the same lens. The Leica only has extremely good lenses (and because it's a rangefinder the focus is more likely to be dead on where the photographer wanted it, and there's no mirror shake).
My grandmother would not know an alternate gearset if she sat on it. But I wouldn't think she'd get arrested for looking up this sort of tranny in a starbucks.
Try GURPS. It's much less prone to power gaming. When a superhero can be taken down by a grenade as easily as a conscript, you have to think about your actions a bit more. Although I noticed that the new version seems to have left out powerstones (basically mana batteries), which makes being a D&D style combat mage much more difficult in GURPS v4. It also helps to have a more mature group to play with.
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I see people from my town (VE7xxx) are tracking the suitsat. Cool.
I also see there's noone with WTF in their callsign tracking it. Bummer.
I sooo need the Hard drive space.
(runs off to buy stock in a cyanoacrilate manufacturer)...
It's only for very large-scale servers, so far. PowerPC are in desktops and consumer electronics; POWER are in mainframes and minis. Being focused on desktops and consumer electronis it's no suprise that Apple went Intel.
If IBM and Freescale had ironed out their availability issues and IBM had come out with a G6 with a few CELL cores on it, it might have been better to stick with PowerPC. Going Intel was better than having no chips or outdated chips. Going Opteron might have been better if they were only interested in high-end desktops; with the emphasis on consumer electronics (and iBook, iMac, and Mac Mini), going Opteron doesn't make much sense.
Only backwards.
A better one would be one where you pick as an ally a murderous fundamentalist, train him as a terrorist, arm him, and pay him billions of dollars, then are suprised when he turns the weapons you gave him back on you.
Or you could just watch the movie "The Siege".
I use fluoride paste and a battery on my sense of humour.
Sometimes I put ideas there in the hopes that they will be picked up by industry, as they don't seem to take product ideas from the public (computer and camera manufacturers), they just ignore my messages.
I wish my employer would use something else. Something standard like SIP/RTP over IPSec. Skype is not open source, and uses a proprietary protocol, with a non-inspectable encryption implementation.
Skype is gratis, not libre.
Has no-one noticed that April 2nd is the day after april fools day??
I was going to post a link to it too, but my internet connection went down for some reason. (probably the wind storm...)
Or just run a recieve-only email server, and send outgoing mail through your ISP's server.
mod parent up!!!
(The University I went to had similar policies, including expelling a student for hosting his own business stuff on the comp. sci. server. I don't know what they'd do to faculty or staff who did.)
Three words: Short Bowel Syndrome. It's caused by a lot of different things (viruses, parasites, celiac, uncontrolled lactose intolerance...). It effects your ability to absorb nutrients, but not your ability to absorb calories (glucose and fats are very easy to absorb). Eating less could cause you to be malnourished yet still fat. It's best to figure out if there's a medical reason for your weight gain and deal with that before going on a diet.
Not to mention stringing a power line between here and there.
I scrutineered this election... Canadians do this too.
The Poll Clerk and Deputy Returning Officer are Elections Canada employees. Only the scrutineers are volunteers.
Civic elections often use electronic voting. And civic politics is often the proving nursery for up and coming politicians. So it just takes longer.
Where only civic elections use un-verified, non-anonymizable machine voting.
It ignores you except at feeding time, and pees in your shoes when it's mad at you?
It's the lens. Seriously. Compare Canon 50mm 1.8 (amateur), Canon 50mm 1.4 (professional), and Leica 50mm 1.4 (very very expensive professional). Each step up is a big jump in sharpness. A Canon AE-1P on manual will deliver the same results as an A1 on manual, given the same lens. The Leica only has extremely good lenses (and because it's a rangefinder the focus is more likely to be dead on where the photographer wanted it, and there's no mirror shake).
My grandmother would not know an alternate gearset if she sat on it. But I wouldn't think she'd get arrested for looking up this sort of tranny in a starbucks.
Try GURPS. It's much less prone to power gaming. When a superhero can be taken down by a grenade as easily as a conscript, you have to think about your actions a bit more. Although I noticed that the new version seems to have left out powerstones (basically mana batteries), which makes being a D&D style combat mage much more difficult in GURPS v4. It also helps to have a more mature group to play with.
D'oh! Songhua river, not Harbin (city it runs through)