Google ranks pages according to the number and "reliability" of sites that link too it. Since O'Reilly's website is already linked to by many, anything he posts to the net will be considered useful by Google. It's a great system huh? Too bad it is easy to fool.
Yes, but there is a good reason for doing it. Monster makes $1 per foot of cable in profit, Bose makes $50 per speaker, and Denon makes $75 per reciever. If you buy 6 more, than Bose, Denon and Monster get richer! See, its a win win situation!
Doesn't usually?!? So in what cases have you seen a 3.2 GHz processor going for $320 and a 3.8 GHz processor going for $380? It has always been the case that companies know that people who want the best will pay pretty close to anything for it, and that is where the big profit margins are. Intel makes much more selling 300 LB 20 year olds P4EEs than it does selling Dell 2.4 GHz Celerons.
Well, there is a difference between a geek hacking a disposable camera to be reuseable, which is smart and practical, and a geek spending hours of careful labor destroying a disposable camera to get the pictures off of it, which is stupid.
BTW: I agree with your sig.
Not to mention that they haven't been able to communicate with the CAMERA yet. They took the flash chip off the board and communicated with that. I hope you all like desoldering microscopic pins.
Use open office! It has the amazing security feature of opening so slowly that by the time it loads, there is a new version available that contains any security fixes you might need.
I've used Maxtors that are quite smart. They realize that by allowing me to put data on it, it would be possible to compromise it, so they don't allow me to read or write right out of the box.
Oh my goodness! You mean some indian people are criminals too?!?!? My goodness, how could that be? I mean they are foreign! Really...
You could do the same thing with american call center employees, if there were any left...
This isn't a good thing, of course, identities being sold, but I don't really see it as an argument against outsourcing. The arguements about the poverty of india making them dishonest is crap. Indians working in call centers and other outsourced jobs are some of the highest educated and highest paid workers there. They are the upper class. They don't need more money, in general, and are greatful for what they get, even though it seems like almost nothing to us fat americans. Of course there are still criminals there, just like here. I think this article is a more effective arguement against phone-in-banking than outsourcing.
I guess they weren't paying enough for focus groups who could have told them the same thing. Honestly, developing search algorythyms to pick out our desires seems so much harder than paying a teenager $5 to tell a marketing specialist what they they thought. Heck, I'm 18, and I would be glad to tell you how much I hate paying for SMS messages for food.
Seeing the dancing ABIO videos, I would think writing a program to hump all attractive females would be simple. You might have to clue it in as to who is attractive by covertly pressing a few buttons, though... Now for step 2, getting attractive ladies to come to your appartment. My recomendation is to name it something other than "The Linux Lair".
This is done for the same reason as with the Intel machines. Apple does not make as much money on bundled OSes than with OS copies they sell separately. Therefore they have a lower tolerance for piracy. They don't want you to be able to update your 4 macs to Panther when you buy a Mac Mini, but they turn the other way when you buy a single liscence of OS X separately and do just that.
I'm sure they thought of that. They probably made it so that the OS itself checks every time it boots for the correct hardware, not just the install. Maybe these developer versions would work if you had the exact same motherboard and processor, since the DEV kits are probably rebadged ASUS or something, because they dont fit in the cases very well. If apple designed them, even the prototypes would be designed on the same layout as the current G5s.
Apple has announced the new 1.5 Petabyte iPod. Holding 250,000,000 songs encoded in 96kbps AAC, or 3 songs in Intels new High Definition Audio format. Although it is the size of a small delivery truck, Apple has not increased the battery size from previous iPods to "conserve battery power". Even with Apple's newly implemented power conservations schemes, the iPod 1.5p gets aproximately.0034 seconds of battery life, before the battery melts in a spray of toxic superheated lithium and acid. Several have already been purchased by Michael Jackson, Sting, and Ben Afleck.
There is a lot of difference in power consumption and heat between the Radeon 9200 vs. the 6200. The 9200 is basically a Radeon 8500, but built on a smaller die size, to reduce heat and power, and underclocked compaired to the 8500. This leads to very little heat and power use. While the 6200 is not the glutton that the 6800s or x850s are, it still requires lots of power and a large heatsink.
You're right, by modern standards the iMac is not a budget system. But the iMac did USED to be the cheapest Mac ever sold by Apple. It is still billed as a "consumer system" as opposed to the "professional" Powermac systems.
Apple's developement kits are 32 bit machines, pretty clearly showing that Apple does not intend to use 64 bit processors off the bat. That leaves the Celeron and the Pentium M, and I doubt Mac users would stomach a Celeron. The G5, at least initially, will be better at some things than the x86 Macs. This simply comes from the difference in the architexures. The G5 has the Alti-vec, which right now has a lot more optomized code for it than similar extensions on the PC (SSE, MMX, and 3DNow!). This also explains why the laptops first. While everyone who buys a powerbook wants a modern powerful computer, no one expects it to outperform a G5. Hence the Pentium M makes perfect sense. Once chips Apple finds appropriate are available from Intel, the more powerful desktops will be converted.
There are dozens of bottlenecks for gigabit ethernet. The point is not to transfer 1 gb/s, but to transfer more than 100 mb/s. Cards with processors on them is not a new idea. Lots of "managed" ethernet cards already exist. This may be the first gigabit one, though. They are useful in severs who's processor has better things to do than cruch TCP/IP crap. In conclusion, there is a place for a $500 ethernet card, but it is in one of the orfaces of an SCO exec.
G5 to x86 converstion will begin in the middle of 2006, and end in 2008. Somehow I doubt Apple keeps a three year supply of processors on hand. The Powermac series will be one of the last to go x86. One of the main reasons for the switch was because Apple was frustrated with a lack of a G5 for notebooks. The G4 processor is now quite outdated. First the notebooks will go x86, then the budget desktops; Mac Mini and iMac, and lastly the Powermac and XServe. The computers that already have G5s are not in desparate need of a new processor, unlike the lower end stuff and portable equiptment.
Migrant sugar cane worker Francis Muhambe was quoted: "As a migrant sugar field worker, earning close to $5 per 75 hour week, I often wish I could sit down on the job and check my GMail account on my brand spanking new Sony X505 mini-laptop. Now only one of my life's wishes has yet to be granted, a cure for my daughter's polio."
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Anyone have an MP3 of the event?
Google ranks pages according to the number and "reliability" of sites that link too it. Since O'Reilly's website is already linked to by many, anything he posts to the net will be considered useful by Google. It's a great system huh? Too bad it is easy to fool.
Yes, but there is a good reason for doing it. Monster makes $1 per foot of cable in profit, Bose makes $50 per speaker, and Denon makes $75 per reciever. If you buy 6 more, than Bose, Denon and Monster get richer! See, its a win win situation!
Doesn't usually?!? So in what cases have you seen a 3.2 GHz processor going for $320 and a 3.8 GHz processor going for $380? It has always been the case that companies know that people who want the best will pay pretty close to anything for it, and that is where the big profit margins are. Intel makes much more selling 300 LB 20 year olds P4EEs than it does selling Dell 2.4 GHz Celerons.
In solviet bloc Poland, broadband hooks up you!
Well, there is a difference between a geek hacking a disposable camera to be reuseable, which is smart and practical, and a geek spending hours of careful labor destroying a disposable camera to get the pictures off of it, which is stupid. BTW: I agree with your sig.
Not to mention that they haven't been able to communicate with the CAMERA yet. They took the flash chip off the board and communicated with that. I hope you all like desoldering microscopic pins.
Use open office! It has the amazing security feature of opening so slowly that by the time it loads, there is a new version available that contains any security fixes you might need.
I've used Maxtors that are quite smart. They realize that by allowing me to put data on it, it would be possible to compromise it, so they don't allow me to read or write right out of the box.
Oh my goodness! You mean some indian people are criminals too?!?!? My goodness, how could that be? I mean they are foreign! Really...
You could do the same thing with american call center employees, if there were any left...
This isn't a good thing, of course, identities being sold, but I don't really see it as an argument against outsourcing. The arguements about the poverty of india making them dishonest is crap. Indians working in call centers and other outsourced jobs are some of the highest educated and highest paid workers there. They are the upper class. They don't need more money, in general, and are greatful for what they get, even though it seems like almost nothing to us fat americans. Of course there are still criminals there, just like here. I think this article is a more effective arguement against phone-in-banking than outsourcing.
I guess they weren't paying enough for focus groups who could have told them the same thing. Honestly, developing search algorythyms to pick out our desires seems so much harder than paying a teenager $5 to tell a marketing specialist what they they thought. Heck, I'm 18, and I would be glad to tell you how much I hate paying for SMS messages for food.
Seeing the dancing ABIO videos, I would think writing a program to hump all attractive females would be simple. You might have to clue it in as to who is attractive by covertly pressing a few buttons, though... Now for step 2, getting attractive ladies to come to your appartment. My recomendation is to name it something other than "The Linux Lair".
In a sad but ironic twist, London was demolished and devoured by a pack of hungry, hungry hippos...
This is done for the same reason as with the Intel machines. Apple does not make as much money on bundled OSes than with OS copies they sell separately. Therefore they have a lower tolerance for piracy. They don't want you to be able to update your 4 macs to Panther when you buy a Mac Mini, but they turn the other way when you buy a single liscence of OS X separately and do just that.
I'm sure they thought of that. They probably made it so that the OS itself checks every time it boots for the correct hardware, not just the install. Maybe these developer versions would work if you had the exact same motherboard and processor, since the DEV kits are probably rebadged ASUS or something, because they dont fit in the cases very well. If apple designed them, even the prototypes would be designed on the same layout as the current G5s.
Apple has announced the new 1.5 Petabyte iPod. Holding 250,000,000 songs encoded in 96kbps AAC, or 3 songs in Intels new High Definition Audio format. Although it is the size of a small delivery truck, Apple has not increased the battery size from previous iPods to "conserve battery power". Even with Apple's newly implemented power conservations schemes, the iPod 1.5p gets aproximately .0034 seconds of battery life, before the battery melts in a spray of toxic superheated lithium and acid. Several have already been purchased by Michael Jackson, Sting, and Ben Afleck.
There is a lot of difference in power consumption and heat between the Radeon 9200 vs. the 6200. The 9200 is basically a Radeon 8500, but built on a smaller die size, to reduce heat and power, and underclocked compaired to the 8500. This leads to very little heat and power use. While the 6200 is not the glutton that the 6800s or x850s are, it still requires lots of power and a large heatsink.
You're right, by modern standards the iMac is not a budget system. But the iMac did USED to be the cheapest Mac ever sold by Apple. It is still billed as a "consumer system" as opposed to the "professional" Powermac systems.
Apple's developement kits are 32 bit machines, pretty clearly showing that Apple does not intend to use 64 bit processors off the bat. That leaves the Celeron and the Pentium M, and I doubt Mac users would stomach a Celeron. The G5, at least initially, will be better at some things than the x86 Macs. This simply comes from the difference in the architexures. The G5 has the Alti-vec, which right now has a lot more optomized code for it than similar extensions on the PC (SSE, MMX, and 3DNow!). This also explains why the laptops first. While everyone who buys a powerbook wants a modern powerful computer, no one expects it to outperform a G5. Hence the Pentium M makes perfect sense. Once chips Apple finds appropriate are available from Intel, the more powerful desktops will be converted.
There are dozens of bottlenecks for gigabit ethernet. The point is not to transfer 1 gb/s, but to transfer more than 100 mb/s. Cards with processors on them is not a new idea. Lots of "managed" ethernet cards already exist. This may be the first gigabit one, though. They are useful in severs who's processor has better things to do than cruch TCP/IP crap. In conclusion, there is a place for a $500 ethernet card, but it is in one of the orfaces of an SCO exec.
G5 to x86 converstion will begin in the middle of 2006, and end in 2008. Somehow I doubt Apple keeps a three year supply of processors on hand. The Powermac series will be one of the last to go x86. One of the main reasons for the switch was because Apple was frustrated with a lack of a G5 for notebooks. The G4 processor is now quite outdated. First the notebooks will go x86, then the budget desktops; Mac Mini and iMac, and lastly the Powermac and XServe. The computers that already have G5s are not in desparate need of a new processor, unlike the lower end stuff and portable equiptment.
And so that IBM thundercloud shall remain forever on the horizon until it slams into the mountain of not actaully selling anything.
Migrant sugar cane worker Francis Muhambe was quoted: "As a migrant sugar field worker, earning close to $5 per 75 hour week, I often wish I could sit down on the job and check my GMail account on my brand spanking new Sony X505 mini-laptop. Now only one of my life's wishes has yet to be granted, a cure for my daughter's polio."
Command line internet: because graduate students have decided the internet wasn't hard enough to navigate as is.