Agreed. I have an HP zd7000 custom build, and it's given me nothing but grief. I got it because I wanted to have a mobile workstation; more along the lines of a portable PC than a laptop. I got exactly that. It has at best an hour of battery life, it overheats like a bitch, and it's too cumbersome to bring anywhere- I got the worst of all worlds. I realized that I ought to have gotten a $2000 dekstop and a $500 used ThinkPad from eBay, instead of the $2,500 monstrosity I got. With Remote Desktop, it's the best of all worlds.
That website describes the town, which would give a very good level of the lack of complicated... anything... present in the town of Warrnambool, which according to TFA, is where this all went down.
I understand what this "chainsaw ringtone" is, because I am annoyed with it as well in movies. Some phones, you can set it so it does nothing other than make a pretty graphic on the screen when there's an incoming call. No vibrate. No noise. Unless you can hear the screen illuminate pixels which tend to be smushed enough in my pocket to require one to actively look for any illumination. I do this because I would like to be able to simply leave the theater after the show, and check to see if I've missed any calls. On a date, it's much less obtrusive to do a 15 seconds flip-open, flip-closed, then to check the voicemail.
If a completely silent phone, no vibrate, no ring, nothing, still bothers you, please explain why.
I simply turn the phone on silent. No "chainsaw ringtone", and I don't check the phone either, until I've left the theater. I just want to be able to look at the phone after the movie and have it tell me who called, if anybody, as it sometimes takes hours for voicemail notification to get to my phone.
I also worked at one. One day, a girl comes in to the help desk, and seeing it was the beginning of the year and we were busy, my supervisor directed her to take a seat until one of us was free. Several minutes later, she stormed out in tears.
Several minutes after that, I get a phone call from her father, apparently trying to sort things out, because she had been "yelled at" by the "mean lady" at the help desk. Trying to get details of the problem out of him, he decided to conference in his daughter. Transcript to the best of my memory as follows:
Dad: OK, let me bridge her in.
*phone rings*
Girl: Hello?
Dad: Hi, hun, I've got the help desk on the-
Girl: (agitated) DADDY!!! NO!!! WHY'D YOU DO IT!!! I HATE YOU DADDY!!!
He tries to calm her down, and she screams "I HATE YOU" and hangs up. He sounded *very* sheepish when he said that he was going to hang up and call her back and calm her down. We never heard from either of them again.
TI is pushed *hard* in schools. You get an HP, and when going to try to explain something to a teacher, they'll look at you like you've grown a 2nd head when you start punching in RPN. Especially the younger generation of teachers coming up that were raised on TI.
Also, have you looked at a modern high school math textbook? The ones I used were designed to be used with a TI grapher. Down to not discussing what you were doing, but just giving button pressing sequences.
I use Mathmatica myself nowadays, but in high school, I needed the TI because that's what the classwork wanted.
In terms of manned spaceflight, America has the latest tech, which is quite sorry, yes, but Soyuz docked with Apollo, which predates the Space Shuttle by a wee little bit. I urge you to find a space program putting up people without using the Space Shuttle or Soyuz.
And the Chinese Shenzhou is, as the GP said, a Soyuz copy. And with good reason- it's a nice small little capsule that's quite dependable. And useless for anything other than a people-mover.
if they could produce enough stable drivers to support a wide range of hardware
That's the problem right there. One of the issues that I understand Apple has much less of is the fact that there's only a limited number of hardware and software combinations, and Apple knows how the OS will interact with the hardware, because it knows all the details on both.
Quite possibly, Apple's defination of "stable drivers" is quite more strict than yours (and mine as well), so that "It just works" is a reality, and to really protect hardware stability, they need to control the hardware platform so that the software behaves as expected.
Then again, they could just be control freaks for the sake of being control freaks.
Isn't a firewall supposed to block incoming connections unless specifically allowed? So how can this flaw with RD still affect it with the firewall turned on? TFA doesn't make much of a mention of this.
I have no idea how much money maglev rails cost to run, but you only would need to build them once, as opposed to over-and-over again with conventional systems.
If these were conscripts going into space, that'd be one thing. However, I don't see why the American public cannot accept the fact that astronauts are people who want to go up into space, while knowing the risks better than anyone else. If the people going up can't accept the risk, they don't take the offer. That simple.
The Real Big Advantage of any 911 system is that it Just Works(TM), provided the people running it aren't fucking morons (like this comment that's downthread). Imagine you're, say, somewhere where you don't know the 7 digit number. Or you're at a payphone without said big red button, barely concious due to sudden massive heart attack. That's what 911 was designed for, and when the operators/management aren't fuckheads, it actually works pretty well.
I see value in your point, but Intel knows the NetBurst bubble, well... burst. A lot of the $30 billion are from things like Dell, where they have exclusivity. And remember both AMD and Intel encourage early replacement of PC hardware, for otherwise they'd have practically no new business. Lastly, only the newest Prescotts, sometimes known as Prescott 2, have EM64T, with the earlier ones all being 32 bit. And I seriously don't think the cost savings of 90nm is being passed on to consumers, or if it is, it's only a blip.
Prescott performance did increase as clock speeds went up, but from what I understand, most of the value in Prescott is kool-aid intended to keep Intel in profits while they roll out desktop Pentium Ms (which are the real gems in Intel's lineup, along with StrongARM/XScale). Don't get me wrong, if I were to buy an Intel CPU today, I'd be more than happy with one of the 3.6 GHz parts. But I just don't think there's that much a value in the latest NetBurst stuff than was previously featured, especially with Tom's Hardware proving that Prescott's can overheat enough to throttle back during normal usage.
Well, from what I've been reading online, Apple might have chosen Intel because of the Pentium M, which benchmarks have shown can and will run neck-and-neck with AMD parts when run at similar clock speeds. In case you haven't been following Apple's lineup, the G5 towers aren't hurting for power, iMac and eMac targeted users aren't really calmoring for insane power, but the PowerBook is really hurting from still being saddled with the G4. Jobs says the conversion ought to be complete in about two years, which also lines up with Pentium-M based chip rollouts from Intel.
In addition, Intel can provide a one-stop-shop as far as silicon is concerned. They can provide not only the CPUs, but the chipsets to drive them. AMD appears to only provide chipsets reluctantly, and prefers not to enter that market.
Those raised on American media typically will not spend the thought power to raise an argument above Coke V. Pepsi. Our politics, for example, feature it heavily ("If you don't follow what we believe, you're one of them," where words like "liberal" and "conservative" become slurs).
They simply won't handle it. I betcha 80%-90% of the world can, but they won't.
and for example Red Hat vs. Apple (Vendor vs. Vendor) and... OSX is OS, Debian is not, it is just one of Linux distros out in the world.
Alright, while everyone's on the topic of nitpicking apart each other's arguments for the fun of it, isn't Red Hat a distro as well, as much as the Debian Project is a vendor for Debian GNU/Linux?
To play devil's advocate, perhaps they mean "prepare" in the sense of "We've changed everything. This is now how you program for Windows, and as you might notice, it's nothing like it was before." From what I've been hearing about Longhorn, a developer would be wise to treat going from WinNT to Longhorn along the same lines as going from WinNT to any other non-MS OS.
On a tablet pc, I can see no HWR for the notebook-replacing attempt. I'd like it as much as you sound like you would- though I'd like to be able to turn it on for things like sending emails without having to sit down and fold it around or anything.
PDAs, though, need that HWR, or at least I do. The screen's just too damn small and it doesn't write quite like paper so everything becomes illegible.
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Agreed. I have an HP zd7000 custom build, and it's given me nothing but grief. I got it because I wanted to have a mobile workstation; more along the lines of a portable PC than a laptop. I got exactly that. It has at best an hour of battery life, it overheats like a bitch, and it's too cumbersome to bring anywhere- I got the worst of all worlds. I realized that I ought to have gotten a $2000 dekstop and a $500 used ThinkPad from eBay, instead of the $2,500 monstrosity I got. With Remote Desktop, it's the best of all worlds.
That website describes the town, which would give a very good level of the lack of complicated... anything... present in the town of Warrnambool, which according to TFA, is where this all went down.
I understand what this "chainsaw ringtone" is, because I am annoyed with it as well in movies. Some phones, you can set it so it does nothing other than make a pretty graphic on the screen when there's an incoming call. No vibrate. No noise. Unless you can hear the screen illuminate pixels which tend to be smushed enough in my pocket to require one to actively look for any illumination. I do this because I would like to be able to simply leave the theater after the show, and check to see if I've missed any calls. On a date, it's much less obtrusive to do a 15 seconds flip-open, flip-closed, then to check the voicemail.
If a completely silent phone, no vibrate, no ring, nothing, still bothers you, please explain why.
I simply turn the phone on silent. No "chainsaw ringtone", and I don't check the phone either, until I've left the theater. I just want to be able to look at the phone after the movie and have it tell me who called, if anybody, as it sometimes takes hours for voicemail notification to get to my phone.
I also worked at one. One day, a girl comes in to the help desk, and seeing it was the beginning of the year and we were busy, my supervisor directed her to take a seat until one of us was free. Several minutes later, she stormed out in tears.
Several minutes after that, I get a phone call from her father, apparently trying to sort things out, because she had been "yelled at" by the "mean lady" at the help desk. Trying to get details of the problem out of him, he decided to conference in his daughter. Transcript to the best of my memory as follows:
Dad: OK, let me bridge her in.
*phone rings*
Girl: Hello?
Dad: Hi, hun, I've got the help desk on the-
Girl: (agitated) DADDY!!! NO!!! WHY'D YOU DO IT!!! I HATE YOU DADDY!!!
He tries to calm her down, and she screams "I HATE YOU" and hangs up. He sounded *very* sheepish when he said that he was going to hang up and call her back and calm her down. We never heard from either of them again.
TI is pushed *hard* in schools. You get an HP, and when going to try to explain something to a teacher, they'll look at you like you've grown a 2nd head when you start punching in RPN. Especially the younger generation of teachers coming up that were raised on TI.
Also, have you looked at a modern high school math textbook? The ones I used were designed to be used with a TI grapher. Down to not discussing what you were doing, but just giving button pressing sequences.
I use Mathmatica myself nowadays, but in high school, I needed the TI because that's what the classwork wanted.
Agreed. At the university I used to work for, the more educated one is, the less one can handle a computer.
At least the sorority girls who called the help desk knew they didn't know anything and had cute voices on the phone as well.
In terms of manned spaceflight, America has the latest tech, which is quite sorry, yes, but Soyuz docked with Apollo, which predates the Space Shuttle by a wee little bit. I urge you to find a space program putting up people without using the Space Shuttle or Soyuz.
And the Chinese Shenzhou is, as the GP said, a Soyuz copy. And with good reason- it's a nice small little capsule that's quite dependable. And useless for anything other than a people-mover.
That's the problem right there. One of the issues that I understand Apple has much less of is the fact that there's only a limited number of hardware and software combinations, and Apple knows how the OS will interact with the hardware, because it knows all the details on both.
Quite possibly, Apple's defination of "stable drivers" is quite more strict than yours (and mine as well), so that "It just works" is a reality, and to really protect hardware stability, they need to control the hardware platform so that the software behaves as expected.
Then again, they could just be control freaks for the sake of being control freaks.
Isn't a firewall supposed to block incoming connections unless specifically allowed? So how can this flaw with RD still affect it with the firewall turned on? TFA doesn't make much of a mention of this.
I have no idea how much money maglev rails cost to run, but you only would need to build them once, as opposed to over-and-over again with conventional systems.
If these were conscripts going into space, that'd be one thing. However, I don't see why the American public cannot accept the fact that astronauts are people who want to go up into space, while knowing the risks better than anyone else. If the people going up can't accept the risk, they don't take the offer. That simple.
Now, how do you guarantee quality when a very sizeable portion of Americans don't give two bumfucks about voting?
I'm assuming this is a US-centric discussion here. Any comments from the non-US people here as to how you handle broadband?
The Real Big Advantage of any 911 system is that it Just Works(TM), provided the people running it aren't fucking morons (like this comment that's downthread). Imagine you're, say, somewhere where you don't know the 7 digit number. Or you're at a payphone without said big red button, barely concious due to sudden massive heart attack. That's what 911 was designed for, and when the operators/management aren't fuckheads, it actually works pretty well.
Say what, G4 cube?
I see value in your point, but Intel knows the NetBurst bubble, well... burst. A lot of the $30 billion are from things like Dell, where they have exclusivity. And remember both AMD and Intel encourage early replacement of PC hardware, for otherwise they'd have practically no new business. Lastly, only the newest Prescotts, sometimes known as Prescott 2, have EM64T, with the earlier ones all being 32 bit. And I seriously don't think the cost savings of 90nm is being passed on to consumers, or if it is, it's only a blip.
Prescott performance did increase as clock speeds went up, but from what I understand, most of the value in Prescott is kool-aid intended to keep Intel in profits while they roll out desktop Pentium Ms (which are the real gems in Intel's lineup, along with StrongARM/XScale). Don't get me wrong, if I were to buy an Intel CPU today, I'd be more than happy with one of the 3.6 GHz parts. But I just don't think there's that much a value in the latest NetBurst stuff than was previously featured, especially with Tom's Hardware proving that Prescott's can overheat enough to throttle back during normal usage.
Well, from what I've been reading online, Apple might have chosen Intel because of the Pentium M, which benchmarks have shown can and will run neck-and-neck with AMD parts when run at similar clock speeds. In case you haven't been following Apple's lineup, the G5 towers aren't hurting for power, iMac and eMac targeted users aren't really calmoring for insane power, but the PowerBook is really hurting from still being saddled with the G4. Jobs says the conversion ought to be complete in about two years, which also lines up with Pentium-M based chip rollouts from Intel.
In addition, Intel can provide a one-stop-shop as far as silicon is concerned. They can provide not only the CPUs, but the chipsets to drive them. AMD appears to only provide chipsets reluctantly, and prefers not to enter that market.
Benchmarks of Prescott over Northwood say the older design is the better buy at the same clock speed.
This has most likely been the most educating debate on Slashdot that I've seen this year.
Congrats, and Natalie Portmans (Portmen?) to all.
Look, matey, I know a dead server when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Those raised on American media typically will not spend the thought power to raise an argument above Coke V. Pepsi. Our politics, for example, feature it heavily ("If you don't follow what we believe, you're one of them," where words like "liberal" and "conservative" become slurs).
They simply won't handle it. I betcha 80%-90% of the world can, but they won't.
Alright, while everyone's on the topic of nitpicking apart each other's arguments for the fun of it, isn't Red Hat a distro as well, as much as the Debian Project is a vendor for Debian GNU/Linux?
And it makes a great desktop OS as well.
To play devil's advocate, perhaps they mean "prepare" in the sense of "We've changed everything. This is now how you program for Windows, and as you might notice, it's nothing like it was before." From what I've been hearing about Longhorn, a developer would be wise to treat going from WinNT to Longhorn along the same lines as going from WinNT to any other non-MS OS.
On a tablet pc, I can see no HWR for the notebook-replacing attempt. I'd like it as much as you sound like you would- though I'd like to be able to turn it on for things like sending emails without having to sit down and fold it around or anything.
PDAs, though, need that HWR, or at least I do. The screen's just too damn small and it doesn't write quite like paper so everything becomes illegible.