I heard one of those monkeys actually shouted back to the neuroscientist as the miter blade was cutting through his skull, "Take your stinking saws off me, you damned dirty grape!"
You make light of such a scenario, but many Defense department contractors establish such provisions for recent hires; necessitated by federal requirements, while Engineers earning 6 figures await their security clearance. They call them leper colonies.
> And I especially like the idea from the article that it retains data when the power switches off - true instant on computers at last.
Among other things, the optical (laser) crystal lattice CPU being researched by an AT&T engineer some twenty years ago would have this property as well. Obviously, nothing materialized from it. Let's wish this magnetic venture more success.
A tad bit old, yes. The Registry article equally so. Is this blast from the past Tuesday here on/.? If so, might I request an article or two on Deborah Harry of Blondie fame? Circa 1982? I've been thinking about her all day long. Just make something up about guitar technology or somethiing to CYA on a tech news site afterall. And please include pics of Deborah and the guitar, or just Deborah. You decide.
Norman E. Borlaug, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, for breeding semi-dwarf, disease-resistant high-yield wheat and instructing farmers in its cultivation to help ease starvation.
Whoop! Gig 'em ag. And congrats! By the way, I'm still waiting for the purple carrot to hit my local HEB grocer. That would definitely curb my appetite. Or maybe not. I bet 2 tablespoons of melted butter lavished atop my purple carrot with a sauerkraut side and a kolbase would keep things rolling...
Past Nvidia development strategy for their mobile chips was to reduce power consumption on two fronts, both the CPU and GPU; which meant lowering the core clock, memory speed, and pixels per clock in the mobile chips.
Also, the old Go GPUs had a newer transform and lighting engine. It offloaded the geometry and rendering calculations from the CPU to the GPU, which removes some burden from the CPU and reduces the drain on the battery. You can see here one such heads up comparison between a 7800 Go GTX and 7800 GTX (desktop). The hardware tradeoffs are minimal and very respectable in performance.
I would imagine any power consumption development spawning from a next gen Go GPU goes immediately into the next gen desktop line, assuming no performance penalty for that particluar market. I'm not sure, but I would believe the pinout for mobile chips is different than desktop lines, so it would also mean a recast of a new fab to plop a Go chip in there, transforming it to a desktop one while incurring some manufacturing cost.
I'm waiting for AMD to finally take prominance on the desktop stage. Yes, I'm a closet Intel fanboi of some decades. These power to performance advantages between Intel and AMD go back and forth, back and forth. However, I'm thiiiiis close to making my next linux system an AMD, for current obvious reasons. I too wish linux would make such great market strides with Windows, as AMD has to Intel. My only worthless synopsis is that both cases show how serious an obstacle it is while breaking into time proven Wintel monopol, err, standards, no, um, markets. I welcome any such competition. Please mod me redundant, and not very insightful.
Yes, sir. But from one man to another, your solution makes too much sense. I admit (in hindsight and honest reflection), it's just something I came up with to cover my tracks (so to speak) in between quick commercials breaks on ESPN. And, I do have a habit of folding old socks back in with the new for laziness, err, efficiency's sake. So your point is well taken!
What if caveman paints big breasted cavewoman, next to teradactyl egg and pigosaurus leg images over fire, followed by big belly stick caveman with heart overhead? Tone? I'd say cromagnon satisfaction baby! Obviously left in appreciation for his wife; an apropos valentine day card if you will. I think how you couple pictures or sentences together is what conveys specific tone, along with a message. I believe words are just extensions of multiple abstract picture associations in our head, yet to convey some message like the caveman. That grouping of pictures (or words) in careful precise order on paper is what conveys that tone, and with content (but in that order). Emoticons need not apply. Typically, they are thrown in as a mere after thought, and that's when it sounds stilted and somewhat punctually cliche. They are ineffective in directing that same degree of precision. By definition, they supplant tone content which the writer is incapable of conveying (for various benign reasons) at an earlier stage. And who can keep up with the (almost) daily creation of them?
Yes, sir. I agree brevity is the real brain burglar here. But my concern for this new internet medium (and the new genre of punctuation, emoticons, which flow from it), is the daily mental exercise of sloppy discourse inherent in it, like habitual television viewing gradually stealing the imagination from book readers of past, so will effective writing fade in time in lieu of self governing controls in place on emails and forums. So I say take the time, or allow Counselor Nothing or Delegate Void to poke and prod for a response in one's behalf. The latter is very effective, always illicits a personal response in the reader, and is yet notorious for extinguishing flames!
I know we agree conceptually on the problem, so forgive me in advance for my prejudice against emoticons (which is my own failing, I admit). I say, blast them all back to emotihell from whence they came! I just wish there were some sort of emoticon to convey the hatred I am feeling for emoticons right now. Oh, man, do I have problems! But I never claimed to adapt well to change either, so please forgive me on that one too. In keeping with analogies, I am every bit the dinosaur watching a huge smoking comet tail entering into our atmosphere, laying sideways on his belly with labored breathing while tears roll down my cheek scales, and in between the cracks of my fading vision, my last image is of one caveman circling "O_o" in deer blood on my own belly...
Really? Emoticons? or excusicons? Ever seen these?
"...and Gnome is better. You're just dumber than a doorknob.;)"
"...if Christians knew any better. o_O But they don't.:>"
...excuses for poor behavior. They are ripe with abuse, and some actually believe a well placed strategic one will somehow absolve them of poor tact with the reader. But it doesn't.
You can convey tone in writing, ever since the dawn of caveman with fingers dipped in deer blood, painting ideal stick cavewoman with two giantic circles and dots. All it takes is a little bit of creative effort, you know, like wiping your sock across the wet toilet seat first, then tapping it with your foot making it sound like you set it down for your nearby attentive lady. See? From serious to stupid in 9.2 seconds flat; message preserved with maximum impact. That's not so hard, now is it?
I've seen several posts (in email and forums) where people use emoticons in place of punctuation, in addition to mid sentence. Oh my lanta.
My opinion? Death to emoticons! It takes very little effort (much like in a formal letter) to convey tone along with your content. For example, sometimes I like to pick fuzz from my belly button and sell it on eBay as Ming dynasty tapestries. I inject that anecdotal sentence there, to lessen the pain here. Emoticons are sloppy, informal, lazy, and prone to abuse and misinterpretation. You see?
You are wrong on so many levels as a Catholic, I wouldn't even know where to start. A good place would be to set aside your Protestant bigotry for one. As a Catholic who attended private Catholic schools all his life (with some 12+ years of Theology), who was just about raised by nuns and priests, who has a cousin who is a priest, who has a father who almost was a priest himself (having attended several years in Seminary), who talks to the Monsignor of our diocese just about every day (as I hold his mail and clean his pool), and who also reads the Catechism and Bible daily, I am no more representative of the next Catholic than the one you purport to be as a whole, although I try to be the best one I can, daily.
However, I will say this, your statement that your church does not believe the Bible is even an historical record, is not only alarming from a purely scientific archaeological one, but even more so on a Christian level. I wish you well on your journey.
Yes. In fact, the benign ruffruffus bacterium we inhale from our canine's shedding fur, not only fights off these pussy parasites, but is what also drives us men to lie on the couch and scratch ourselves.
Was that when Jack Tramiel took over shortly? My Atari timeline is a little sketchy. However, I've seen Atari restructure in worse scenarios than this, having to completely drop product lines. Those numbers in the article didn't seem that alarming either. Just the loss of their primary creditor. Others will pick up the slack.
That there's a keeper! Much obliged. That "groove salad" section is pretty swank and freekie deekie like. I have several Enya CD(s) and it reminds me a bit of her music with some extra pepper for flava. Good stuff. Already added it to my Amarok playlist...
I was hard pressed to find a case with Microsoft as the plaintiff too. Most people just pay licensing fees to Microsoft instead of stepping into the court arena with that legal juggernaut. And with over 3000 patents and more granted each year, I'm sure Microsoft has issued several cease and desist orders like this for the.ASF video format.
As a defendant, of course, there are many MS has had to defend themself against; DRM, video, et cetera.
Here's a link showing some timeline of Microsoft engaged in various legal battles since 1982.
"Microsoft said Thursday it would expand the protections against intellectual property lawsuits it offers to manufacturers who make devices that run Windows."
...and (at the very bottom)...
"In other news Thursday, Microsoft said it acquired FutureSoft Inc.'s DynaComm i:filter product for blocking employees' access to Web sites that contain pornography, gambling, and spyware from corporate PCs."
so, what if funbags.com, losemyshirt.net, and icu.biz all develop their own PDA for fun on the run? I smell lawyer brain cooking in confusion on that one.
> "...In light of all the IP suits flying around,..."
It actually didn't pass my mind until you just mentioned it. And the first thing which surfaced was a bunch of light bulbs dressed in three piece Armanis getting hurled against walls by Ballmer. So, thanks for the image.
I agree that an internet only audience hurts. If you're like me, I soak up SportsRadio 1310 (The Ticket) all day long like a kitchen sponge, in the car, office, and home.
I don't know how huge WOXY.com's market is, since all I get is mysql errors (at present) from their site. However, The Ticket once had a subscription internet pay service too, but quickly abandoned it, maybe in part to my email responses and others. I told them in no uncertain terms there were other internet sports feeds I could listen to for free.
When you're WOXY.com (internet only), you have stiff and countless competition to your content across the world even. When you're WOXY.com (both streams), you're content is at least localized to your city with fewer competitors, as a fallback while growing your internet market.
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I heard one of those monkeys actually shouted back to the neuroscientist as the miter blade was cutting through his skull, "Take your stinking saws off me, you damned dirty grape!"
You make light of such a scenario, but many Defense department contractors establish such provisions for recent hires; necessitated by federal requirements, while Engineers earning 6 figures await their security clearance. They call them leper colonies.
Among other things, the optical (laser) crystal lattice CPU being researched by an AT&T engineer some twenty years ago would have this property as well. Obviously, nothing materialized from it. Let's wish this magnetic venture more success.
A tad bit old, yes. The Registry article equally so. Is this blast from the past Tuesday here on /.? If so, might I request an article or two on Deborah Harry of Blondie fame? Circa 1982? I've been thinking about her all day long. Just make something up about guitar technology or somethiing to CYA on a tech news site afterall. And please include pics of Deborah and the guitar, or just Deborah. You decide.
Norman E. Borlaug, Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas, for breeding semi-dwarf, disease-resistant high-yield wheat and instructing farmers in its cultivation to help ease starvation.
Whoop! Gig 'em ag. And congrats! By the way, I'm still waiting for the purple carrot to hit my local HEB grocer. That would definitely curb my appetite. Or maybe not. I bet 2 tablespoons of melted butter lavished atop my purple carrot with a sauerkraut side and a kolbase would keep things rolling...Also, the old Go GPUs had a newer transform and lighting engine. It offloaded the geometry and rendering calculations from the CPU to the GPU, which removes some burden from the CPU and reduces the drain on the battery. You can see here one such heads up comparison between a 7800 Go GTX and 7800 GTX (desktop). The hardware tradeoffs are minimal and very respectable in performance.
I would imagine any power consumption development spawning from a next gen Go GPU goes immediately into the next gen desktop line, assuming no performance penalty for that particluar market. I'm not sure, but I would believe the pinout for mobile chips is different than desktop lines, so it would also mean a recast of a new fab to plop a Go chip in there, transforming it to a desktop one while incurring some manufacturing cost.I'm waiting for AMD to finally take prominance on the desktop stage. Yes, I'm a closet Intel fanboi of some decades. These power to performance advantages between Intel and AMD go back and forth, back and forth. However, I'm thiiiiis close to making my next linux system an AMD, for current obvious reasons. I too wish linux would make such great market strides with Windows, as AMD has to Intel. My only worthless synopsis is that both cases show how serious an obstacle it is while breaking into time proven Wintel monopol, err, standards, no, um, markets. I welcome any such competition. Please mod me redundant, and not very insightful.
Yes, sir. But from one man to another, your solution makes too much sense. I admit (in hindsight and honest reflection), it's just something I came up with to cover my tracks (so to speak) in between quick commercials breaks on ESPN. And, I do have a habit of folding old socks back in with the new for laziness, err, efficiency's sake. So your point is well taken!
Yes, sir. I agree brevity is the real brain burglar here. But my concern for this new internet medium (and the new genre of punctuation, emoticons, which flow from it), is the daily mental exercise of sloppy discourse inherent in it, like habitual television viewing gradually stealing the imagination from book readers of past, so will effective writing fade in time in lieu of self governing controls in place on emails and forums. So I say take the time, or allow Counselor Nothing or Delegate Void to poke and prod for a response in one's behalf. The latter is very effective, always illicits a personal response in the reader, and is yet notorious for extinguishing flames!
I know we agree conceptually on the problem, so forgive me in advance for my prejudice against emoticons (which is my own failing, I admit). I say, blast them all back to emotihell from whence they came! I just wish there were some sort of emoticon to convey the hatred I am feeling for emoticons right now. Oh, man, do I have problems! But I never claimed to adapt well to change either, so please forgive me on that one too. In keeping with analogies, I am every bit the dinosaur watching a huge smoking comet tail entering into our atmosphere, laying sideways on his belly with labored breathing while tears roll down my cheek scales, and in between the cracks of my fading vision, my last image is of one caveman circling "O_o" in deer blood on my own belly...I have good news - I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to GEICO.
Really? Emoticons? or excusicons? Ever seen these?
"...and Gnome is better. You're just dumber than a doorknob."...if Christians knew any better. o_O But they don't.
...excuses for poor behavior. They are ripe with abuse, and some actually believe a well placed strategic one will somehow absolve them of poor tact with the reader. But it doesn't.
You can convey tone in writing, ever since the dawn of caveman with fingers dipped in deer blood, painting ideal stick cavewoman with two giantic circles and dots. All it takes is a little bit of creative effort, you know, like wiping your sock across the wet toilet seat first, then tapping it with your foot making it sound like you set it down for your nearby attentive lady. See? From serious to stupid in 9.2 seconds flat; message preserved with maximum impact. That's not so hard, now is it?My opinion? Death to emoticons! It takes very little effort (much like in a formal letter) to convey tone along with your content. For example, sometimes I like to pick fuzz from my belly button and sell it on eBay as Ming dynasty tapestries. I inject that anecdotal sentence there, to lessen the pain here. Emoticons are sloppy, informal, lazy, and prone to abuse and misinterpretation. You see?
However, I will say this, your statement that your church does not believe the Bible is even an historical record, is not only alarming from a purely scientific archaeological one, but even more so on a Christian level. I wish you well on your journey.
Yes. In fact, the benign ruffruffus bacterium we inhale from our canine's shedding fur, not only fights off these pussy parasites, but is what also drives us men to lie on the couch and scratch ourselves.
I second that. "Insightful"? hardly. "Funny"? questionable. "Trite"? ding! ding! ding!
That seems kind of like harsh measures, doesn't it? I mean, c'mon. He didn't ask you, " How do we kill the parasites controlling us?
...not until your stomach rumbles and are inexplicably drawn to drink some.
Was that when Jack Tramiel took over shortly? My Atari timeline is a little sketchy. However, I've seen Atari restructure in worse scenarios than this, having to completely drop product lines. Those numbers in the article didn't seem that alarming either. Just the loss of their primary creditor. Others will pick up the slack.
That there's a keeper! Much obliged. That "groove salad" section is pretty swank and freekie deekie like. I have several Enya CD(s) and it reminds me a bit of her music with some extra pepper for flava. Good stuff. Already added it to my Amarok playlist...
"1.6 percent of the domains infected the first IE configuration, the one mimicking a naive user blithely clicking 'Yes;'"
That's not so alarming, as you have a choice."(on IE) about a third as many domains (0.6 percent) did drive-by downloads by planting spyware even when the user rejected the installations."
That IS, as you have no choice.As a defendant, of course, there are many MS has had to defend themself against; DRM, video, et cetera.
Here's a link showing some timeline of Microsoft engaged in various legal battles since 1982."Microsoft said Thursday it would expand the protections against intellectual property lawsuits it offers to manufacturers who make devices that run Windows."
"In other news Thursday, Microsoft said it acquired FutureSoft Inc.'s DynaComm i:filter product for blocking employees' access to Web sites that contain pornography, gambling, and spyware from corporate PCs."
so, what if funbags.com, losemyshirt.net, and icu.biz all develop their own PDA for fun on the run? I smell lawyer brain cooking in confusion on that one.It actually didn't pass my mind until you just mentioned it. And the first thing which surfaced was a bunch of light bulbs dressed in three piece Armanis getting hurled against walls by Ballmer. So, thanks for the image.
IBM maybe? I like your synopsis on this. And I agree.
I don't know how huge WOXY.com's market is, since all I get is mysql errors (at present) from their site. However, The Ticket once had a subscription internet pay service too, but quickly abandoned it, maybe in part to my email responses and others. I told them in no uncertain terms there were other internet sports feeds I could listen to for free.
When you're WOXY.com (internet only), you have stiff and countless competition to your content across the world even. When you're WOXY.com (both streams), you're content is at least localized to your city with fewer competitors, as a fallback while growing your internet market.