My math isn't perfect, but I'm pretty sure that all those spectacular savings they are talking about have to do with EVERYONE taking one bulb home. That isn't one bulb, thats 260 million bulbs. Also, first they say that if everyone replaced one bulb, they could power a city of 1.5 million people, then they say that if everyone replaced one bulb, you could power both Rhode Island and Delaware, thats a lot more than 1.5 Million people. This press release sucks.
Come back next week for your car! I'm recompiling the kernel to add support for XGL! This garage would be SOOO much cooler of cars were transparent and made litte ripply effects when they moved! It would be almost like real life!
What if it is software? Music is easy to replace, but finding a specific version of some obscure enterprise software is quite hard. Also, what if it is personal data? You can't download your old tax returns from Kazaa (hopefully).
Except Geek Squad isn't really all that low priced! I work for a small IT company (just two of us), and although we charge only slightly more per hour than Geek Squad, we tend to get jobs done in 2 hours that take Geek Squad 2 weeks and 8 man hours.
I think the problem with Geek Squad is easily explainable: At small IT companies like mine, when we hire someone, we actually pay attention to how much they know about fixing computers. At Geek Squad, just like at any other commidity buisness, hires are simply people without criminal records. I'm not saying these people are stupid, but they just don't have much know how about computers. People who work at McDonals aren't trained chefs, and probably don't even enjoy cooking that much, they just do what the manual tells them to do 8 hours a day and take home the paycheck. At Geeksquad, they do the same thing. People I work with actually care about what they do and take pride in knowing how to do it. Sometimes hiring the small guys actually gets you better service.
They aren't very good for ANY task as far as I can see. Playing an MP3 in native compiled code requires a 15 MHz processor if you don't optimize too much, or about 1% - 2% of a modern processor. Playing an MP3 in non-compiled code will eat up all the cycles on a modern P4 or Athlon 64 processor.
Has the author of this article ever USED any non-native code powered applications? Stuff written in Java and.Net (especially Java) runs like crap. Even with a fance new dual core processor and gigs of RAM, running a simple non-compiled word processor will bring your system to a standstill.
What I'm worried about is heat. My actively cooled ATI Radeon X800 XL runs at about 49C on the Windows Desktop, but when I start a game or graphics benchmark, it shoots up to 75C. If I was always using the GPU, I would think that being that hot would shorten its life considerably.
There is only one actual case where wind turbines killed hugh numbers of birds, and only because someone stupidly put the windfarm smack dab in the middle of a bird migration path. In general, each wind turbine kills 1-2 birds annually. This sounds kinda bad, but it is not significant environmentally and skyscrapers, airports, and roadways kill many more birds.
People in the US don't like being enclosed in a 4ft by 3ft cubicle for hours or days. We also wouldn't feel particularly private in a 5 ft tall cubicle surrounded by strangers.
Nope, there was a GTA3 trilogy, GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Our Rockstar overlords have informed us that Liberty Stories somehow don't count. If you look at them, they are basically the same game. Same game engine, same plot, but a new city every time.
I know this is a joke, but Ninjas were Samurai. Samurai were a broad class of people, a kind of minor royalty in Japan, with several sub-ranks. You were not allowed to cary a weapon unless you were Samurai. Ninjas were Smaurai mercinaries trained in special schools. Other Samurai were in the armies of various kings, members of local police forces, or unemployed. Samurai were also involved in politics at various levels.
Well, it isn't that simple. Windows Activation uses all sorts of encryption that is too tough to practically crack. Luckily, the way Windows checked to see if it was activated was not at all secure, and by modifying some registry settings you could fool it. This new program checks it directly, without registrty stuff.
I agree completely. A good website design should hurt your eyes if viewed on a good monitor. I litterally couldn't read stories that day because of the pink and white colorscheme, meaning OMG PONIES was the best website I have ever been too.
They never cracked activation. They circumvented it. Basically, those hacks out there simply make Windows stop checking to see if it is activated. This new program isn't fooled by the hacks, and actually checks the activation status. You h4x0rs are going to actually come up with a way to fool the activation part of windows to pirate vista.
CIT = Engineering, SCS = Computer Science. They both have completely separate admissions departments and curiculums, and transfering from one department to the other is just has hard as trasfering from one university to another (if you are accpeted by both). Carnegie Mellon University has born several names, but has never been called CIT, the current name of the Engineering Department. Carnegie and Mellon were not the same people, but two seperate people. Andrew Carnegie founded two colleges that eventually became the current university (Carnegie Technical Institute for men and Margret Morison school for women). At a later time, the Mellon family donated a significant amount of money to the school to establish a buisness school (Tepper School of Buisness), and the name of the university was changed to Carnegie Mellon University.
Also, the SCS department likes to have lots of parties celebrating its establishment, after the successful 50th aniversary party this year, I anticipate an excellent centenial extravaganza in 2018.
Sorry, the University now known as Carnegie Mellon University was never known as "Carnegie Institute of Technology", or CIT. When it started, it was called "The Carnegie Technical Institute" or CTI which is probably what you meant. When the school started creating other programs than engineering, and accepted a large amount of money from the Mellon family to start a buisness school, the University's name changed to "Carnegie Mellon University" and the Engineering program became "Carnegie Institute of Technology". The school was not associated with the Mellon family before this point. This was well before the founding of the school of Computer Science, which was sometime between 1956 and 1969 depending on which aniversary part you believe (the 50th aniversary of the department was held in 2006, while the 25th aniversary party was held in 1994.
I ate a bagel litterally 20 feet from where this was announced this morning. No joke. I go to Carnegie Mellon. Anyway, the article is wrong, the computer department is separate from CIT (Carnegie Institute of Technology, the engineering school). Computer Science is its own self contained department.
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My math isn't perfect, but I'm pretty sure that all those spectacular savings they are talking about have to do with EVERYONE taking one bulb home. That isn't one bulb, thats 260 million bulbs. Also, first they say that if everyone replaced one bulb, they could power a city of 1.5 million people, then they say that if everyone replaced one bulb, you could power both Rhode Island and Delaware, thats a lot more than 1.5 Million people. This press release sucks.
Come back next week for your car! I'm recompiling the kernel to add support for XGL! This garage would be SOOO much cooler of cars were transparent and made litte ripply effects when they moved! It would be almost like real life!
What if it is software? Music is easy to replace, but finding a specific version of some obscure enterprise software is quite hard. Also, what if it is personal data? You can't download your old tax returns from Kazaa (hopefully).
I wonder if they are Dell laptop batteries. If they are, we are probably in for a level of destruction never before seen on earth.
Except Geek Squad isn't really all that low priced! I work for a small IT company (just two of us), and although we charge only slightly more per hour than Geek Squad, we tend to get jobs done in 2 hours that take Geek Squad 2 weeks and 8 man hours.
I think the problem with Geek Squad is easily explainable: At small IT companies like mine, when we hire someone, we actually pay attention to how much they know about fixing computers. At Geek Squad, just like at any other commidity buisness, hires are simply people without criminal records. I'm not saying these people are stupid, but they just don't have much know how about computers. People who work at McDonals aren't trained chefs, and probably don't even enjoy cooking that much, they just do what the manual tells them to do 8 hours a day and take home the paycheck. At Geeksquad, they do the same thing. People I work with actually care about what they do and take pride in knowing how to do it. Sometimes hiring the small guys actually gets you better service.
It isn't toxic, but its extremely absorbant. This means it can damage your skin if you handle it too much by absorbing all the moisture from it.
They aren't very good for ANY task as far as I can see. Playing an MP3 in native compiled code requires a 15 MHz processor if you don't optimize too much, or about 1% - 2% of a modern processor. Playing an MP3 in non-compiled code will eat up all the cycles on a modern P4 or Athlon 64 processor.
Has the author of this article ever USED any non-native code powered applications? Stuff written in Java and .Net (especially Java) runs like crap. Even with a fance new dual core processor and gigs of RAM, running a simple non-compiled word processor will bring your system to a standstill.
No, it means even higher profit margins for Apple.
What I'm worried about is heat. My actively cooled ATI Radeon X800 XL runs at about 49C on the Windows Desktop, but when I start a game or graphics benchmark, it shoots up to 75C. If I was always using the GPU, I would think that being that hot would shorten its life considerably.
Fastest consumer processors are $1000. That doesn't count the Opterons or Xeons, which are priced much higher.
There is only one actual case where wind turbines killed hugh numbers of birds, and only because someone stupidly put the windfarm smack dab in the middle of a bird migration path. In general, each wind turbine kills 1-2 birds annually. This sounds kinda bad, but it is not significant environmentally and skyscrapers, airports, and roadways kill many more birds.
The offspring of the mix are fertile, but how about the offspring of the offspring?
People in the US don't like being enclosed in a 4ft by 3ft cubicle for hours or days. We also wouldn't feel particularly private in a 5 ft tall cubicle surrounded by strangers.
Nope, there was a GTA3 trilogy, GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Our Rockstar overlords have informed us that Liberty Stories somehow don't count. If you look at them, they are basically the same game. Same game engine, same plot, but a new city every time.
A strange coincidence that 90% of the human genome is unused "garbage"? I think not.
I will see it if they get Mike Tyson to play Lamar.
I know this is a joke, but Ninjas were Samurai. Samurai were a broad class of people, a kind of minor royalty in Japan, with several sub-ranks. You were not allowed to cary a weapon unless you were Samurai. Ninjas were Smaurai mercinaries trained in special schools. Other Samurai were in the armies of various kings, members of local police forces, or unemployed. Samurai were also involved in politics at various levels.
So they started looking for the best Steve Jobs clone of all the ones they scattered thoughout the world?
Well, it isn't that simple. Windows Activation uses all sorts of encryption that is too tough to practically crack. Luckily, the way Windows checked to see if it was activated was not at all secure, and by modifying some registry settings you could fool it. This new program checks it directly, without registrty stuff.
I agree completely. A good website design should hurt your eyes if viewed on a good monitor. I litterally couldn't read stories that day because of the pink and white colorscheme, meaning OMG PONIES was the best website I have ever been too.
They never cracked activation. They circumvented it. Basically, those hacks out there simply make Windows stop checking to see if it is activated. This new program isn't fooled by the hacks, and actually checks the activation status. You h4x0rs are going to actually come up with a way to fool the activation part of windows to pirate vista.
What he said.
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CIT = Engineering, SCS = Computer Science. They both have completely separate admissions departments and curiculums, and transfering from one department to the other is just has hard as trasfering from one university to another (if you are accpeted by both). Carnegie Mellon University has born several names, but has never been called CIT, the current name of the Engineering Department. Carnegie and Mellon were not the same people, but two seperate people. Andrew Carnegie founded two colleges that eventually became the current university (Carnegie Technical Institute for men and Margret Morison school for women). At a later time, the Mellon family donated a significant amount of money to the school to establish a buisness school (Tepper School of Buisness), and the name of the university was changed to Carnegie Mellon University.
Also, the SCS department likes to have lots of parties celebrating its establishment, after the successful 50th aniversary party this year, I anticipate an excellent centenial extravaganza in 2018.
Sorry, the University now known as Carnegie Mellon University was never known as "Carnegie Institute of Technology", or CIT. When it started, it was called "The Carnegie Technical Institute" or CTI which is probably what you meant. When the school started creating other programs than engineering, and accepted a large amount of money from the Mellon family to start a buisness school, the University's name changed to "Carnegie Mellon University" and the Engineering program became "Carnegie Institute of Technology". The school was not associated with the Mellon family before this point. This was well before the founding of the school of Computer Science, which was sometime between 1956 and 1969 depending on which aniversary part you believe (the 50th aniversary of the department was held in 2006, while the 25th aniversary party was held in 1994.
I ate a bagel litterally 20 feet from where this was announced this morning. No joke. I go to Carnegie Mellon. Anyway, the article is wrong, the computer department is separate from CIT (Carnegie Institute of Technology, the engineering school). Computer Science is its own self contained department.