90% or greater A (I think A+ was considered like 96 or greater IF pluses were used)
80% - 89% B
70% - 79% C
60% - 69% D
59% or lower F
Honestly, it was that way for me pretty much through High School, and I was a Navy Brat - moved every three years usually, except High School was in four different schools (public Jr High in CA, public High in HI, parochial High in HI, parochial High in FL).
Only in college (and in only in later classes) did I start hearing about this "curve" thing.
Granted, I'm 37 now and the last time I attended a school was in 2004 for a Masters degree...
Rebooting into Windows is so 2006... Tell me about it! Parallels, dude! If you have to reboot Windows, you can always use your favorite Mac based browser to websurf while your Windows install is rebooting.
Personally, I use a bootcamp partition with Parallels, but since the original Windows install, I've never actually booted the Mac into Windows.
Imagine that the universe is like the rubber surface of a balloon. Note that we only consider the actual space ON surface to be the universe. Now as the balloon expands...
Now just imagine what's going to happen if the universe slips out of God's hands while he's trying to blow it up!
(joke - I'm Agnostic)
Which reminds me, we need to come up with a word for calling whatever it is that happens when you let go of a balloon and it flies around the room... then we could have a cult waiting for the "Cosmic (Whatever)".
Which is also why (and I think this is fairly common in the vernacular) to use the term "hack" as applied to coding to mean something along the lines of "A code tidbit that uses a kind of brute force or inelegant (and possibly buggy) solution to a problem because the 'proper' methods are unknown (due to inexperience) or aren't working for some reason (which makes one feel like they've been banging their head against concrete)."
I did some unrealscript coding recently where the function calls to correct a bug (that shouldn't have actually existed in the first place) didn't appear to actually correct the bug. So instead I rewrote the code to change the value of a variable for the object experiencing the bug directly. The best analogy I can come up with is that, instead of using the "shutdown" option in the GUI, or using the power button on the front of the box, I flip the switch on the power supply on the back of the machine.
Sean Bucci, a former Boston-area disc jockey, set up WhosaRat.com after federal prosecutors charged him with selling marijuana in bulk from his house. Bucci is under house arrest awaiting trial.
There's something about a guy being accused of selling drugs from his house being under house arrest that's just wrong.
At least his incarceration isn't hindering his enterprise.
Although from what I understand he'll have an easier time of it when he actually goes to prison.
Can you be sure of that? I saw something on Discovery (or was it History?) where they were interviewing F22 pilots, and they were mentioning flying against F-15s. They said that it really didn't get all that challenging until it was at least 4 on 1. And even then, sometimes it wasn't a big deal.
Mind you, the EuroFighter may greatly outclass an F-15.
In addition, this is not a company who will stand still... I wonder what their beta products look like? WiFi maybe? Course, it will have the FCC to contend with... but so will all the other WiFi capable cell phones coming out...
Funny thing about the BlackBerry; they don't have a touchscreen. From what I understand, they don't need it, and their testing probably indicates that the standard scroll wheel interface they use now is just "better", and the less you have things touching the screen, the better.
This is one reason why I think the iPhone is going to be a disappointment to a lot of folks who get them. I went to Apple to take a look at their plans, and when I went into the "How do I send an SMS message?" thing and saw the touch screen keyboard pop up, I thought to myself: "Great, another way people will muss up their screen and probably end up scratching the darn thing in the long run.
I just recently got a BlackBerry 8703e (dropping a Treo 650) and I must say - I'm happier with the BlackBerry. No stylus to contend with, the push function for email just "works" (where the push function for Sprint's Business Connect didn't always, based usually on when they upgraded the software)...
The only drawback of a BlackBerry I've seen so far is that (at least with Sprint, and probably some other providers), there's always a "BlackBerry specific" data plan you have to be put on when you get one. And those data plans are always more expensive than other "unlimited data plans" available from the cell provider, because they *know* you'll be using the data constantly (my 8703e is always connected to the data network).
Thing is though, between Jabber and the Google Talk program for BlackBerry, I have my AIM, MSN, and Google Talk contacts on my BlackBerry. I get my Google Mail on it. And, I get my work email on it (it'd be nice if work had a BES, but worst case I could always put one on the network myself if I had to). There isn't a "full sync" of my mailboxes, but that's only a "nice thing to have" - and then only because there's older mail I'd like to see, and some mail stored in sorted inboxes I'd like to have, too. On the other hand, it's better off for me that I don't have some of that email, as it would just result in me doing more work when I'm not actually at work. And as a consolation, I can set up so that messages from my main inbox get sorted into other boxes at sync time.
Movies aren't a big deal for me. MP3s, honestly, aren't a big deal for me (if I want music, I get my iPod, which I usually only end up using when riding my bike or on an air plane). More storage would be nice (I think the 8703e only has 64MB and no mem card slot), but I haven't had an issue running out of space yet. No camera was, in a way, a selling point.
The device, while slightly wider than my Treo, is shorter and thinner, and lighter.
You can't yet use it as a Bluetooth modem for a Mac, like I could my Treo... but you can use it as a modem for a Windows machine with the USB cable, and probably Bluetooth too if you wanted, and maybe USB/Mac (haven't tried it yet).
I dunno - talk to me in 6 months when it's no longer a new toy, I guess.
It sucks to be smart I guess... too intelligent to get myself into a situation where I can blame someone else for something bad happening to me and sue them for all they have.
I agree. I still use plain text when I can and am usually quicker to delete an email out of reflex if it has a background or colored text. I only want email to convey information - you want to put a picture on it? Attach it and I'll be more likely to open it and actually look at it then delete it.
Sorry - bit of a rant... really hate fancy email.
In spite of all the warnings (tags, dept header), it was hard not taking this seriously. I would not have been surprised if this had been a real news item - and I'm sure we'll see something just as crazy before too long...
Thing is, when you say "they want $50 for any home theater system," I got the image (to borrow from Robin Williams) of two guys with the middle name "the" showing up at my place and knocking on my door (like "Jimmy the Fish" or "Johnny the Shark"). Because let's face it - the *IAA is just the new Mob, specializing in extortion using the legal system, whose lawyers should have the middle name "the".
I was just thinking, "Great, YouTube is owned by Google but still it's own thing. So I still have to go to two different places when I want to find a particular video... "
So the question is: should we stick with Opterons because of binary compatibility (yes, Opterons and Core Duo are binary compatible - but there's less likely a problem between Opterons than between AMD/64 and IA/64)
Okay. Either I'm totally confused or you're totally confused.
Unless you're going to do something totally insane and buy an Itanium based system, why does IA/64 come into the equation?
Unless I've totally missed the boat (it's been known to happen), Opteron and Core Duo (and, outside of Itanium, you could basically say "any AMD chip and any Intel chip with 64 bit support" - qualifying it because AFAIK Intel still fabs 32 bit only chips) would both support x64 based OS's. AMD64 == Intel EM64T == "x64" these days (unless, like I said, I totally missed something).
So the answer is:
If a cluster of rack mount Core 2 Duos will out perform a cluster of Opterons, and you've got no other reason to pick one or the other (stabiliy, power usage, etc), they will both run "AMD/64" operating systems (I guess it's possible that a distro producer/company might compile something that would run on AMD/64 but not Intel EM64T - but that would be a bit stupid I think).
I would be amazed if your only Intel based option for clustering required Itanium based hardware. In fact, call Dell - I'm sure they'll give you something that's Xeon based that can cover x64 (which is Intel EM64T, which is bascially equivalent to AMD/64) based operating systems. Trust me, I know - I'm running two of my systems with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 for 64-bit AMD64/Intel EM64T)" (copy and pasted straight from my RHN account).
Summary: AMD/64 is not strictly for AMD chips. AMD/64 is the original term for the now more generic "x64" instruction set supported by both AMD and Intel 64 bit capable chips; Intel terms their instruction set as "Intel EM64T" - but it's basically the same thing. It's the reason that there aren't two versions of Windows XP 64 bit (unless there's an XP version for Itanium, in which case I missed something). IA/64 refers only to OS/software that runs on Itanium chips - which I think the Slashdot crowd mostly agrees was a dismal failure and is dying too slow a death... but also has absolutely nothing to do with Core 2 Duo (beyond being manufactured by the same company).
In short, I think it was the "-n" option that said simply, "use only if disk or processor is on fire" and provided no details about what the option actually did (IE, did not sync disks before rebooting).
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Dude things have gotten easy for you people:
...
90% or greater A (I think A+ was considered like 96 or greater IF pluses were used)
80% - 89% B
70% - 79% C
60% - 69% D
59% or lower F
Honestly, it was that way for me pretty much through High School, and I was a Navy Brat - moved every three years usually, except High School was in four different schools (public Jr High in CA, public High in HI, parochial High in HI, parochial High in FL).
Only in college (and in only in later classes) did I start hearing about this "curve" thing.
Granted, I'm 37 now and the last time I attended a school was in 2004 for a Masters degree
Why does this feel like a dupe?
Personally, I use a bootcamp partition with Parallels, but since the original Windows install, I've never actually booted the Mac into Windows.
"I'm sailing, away
Now just imagine what's going to happen if the universe slips out of God's hands while he's trying to blow it up!
(joke - I'm Agnostic)
Which reminds me, we need to come up with a word for calling whatever it is that happens when you let go of a balloon and it flies around the room ... then we could have a cult waiting for the "Cosmic (Whatever)".
(I get to be treasurer!)
Hmmmm ...
I did some unrealscript coding recently where the function calls to correct a bug (that shouldn't have actually existed in the first place) didn't appear to actually correct the bug. So instead I rewrote the code to change the value of a variable for the object experiencing the bug directly. The best analogy I can come up with is that, instead of using the "shutdown" option in the GUI, or using the power button on the front of the box, I flip the switch on the power supply on the back of the machine.
This is not to say that your post isn't well written, just that there's a word there that makes my brain stumble.
You use "mores" when I think you mean "morals". Unless there's a definition of "mores" I'm unfamiliar with.
There's something about a guy being accused of selling drugs from his house being under house arrest that's just wrong.
At least his incarceration isn't hindering his enterprise.
Although from what I understand he'll have an easier time of it when he actually goes to prison.
Watch out, Jimmy Olsen.
Those are not mutually exclusive.
Mind you, the EuroFighter may greatly outclass an F-15.
The Treo did it for free (required a software upgrade at the time, that was it).
Funny thing about the BlackBerry; they don't have a touchscreen. From what I understand, they don't need it, and their testing probably indicates that the standard scroll wheel interface they use now is just "better", and the less you have things touching the screen, the better.
This is one reason why I think the iPhone is going to be a disappointment to a lot of folks who get them. I went to Apple to take a look at their plans, and when I went into the "How do I send an SMS message?" thing and saw the touch screen keyboard pop up, I thought to myself: "Great, another way people will muss up their screen and probably end up scratching the darn thing in the long run.
I just recently got a BlackBerry 8703e (dropping a Treo 650) and I must say - I'm happier with the BlackBerry. No stylus to contend with, the push function for email just "works" (where the push function for Sprint's Business Connect didn't always, based usually on when they upgraded the software) ...
The only drawback of a BlackBerry I've seen so far is that (at least with Sprint, and probably some other providers), there's always a "BlackBerry specific" data plan you have to be put on when you get one. And those data plans are always more expensive than other "unlimited data plans" available from the cell provider, because they *know* you'll be using the data constantly (my 8703e is always connected to the data network).
Thing is though, between Jabber and the Google Talk program for BlackBerry, I have my AIM, MSN, and Google Talk contacts on my BlackBerry. I get my Google Mail on it. And, I get my work email on it (it'd be nice if work had a BES, but worst case I could always put one on the network myself if I had to). There isn't a "full sync" of my mailboxes, but that's only a "nice thing to have" - and then only because there's older mail I'd like to see, and some mail stored in sorted inboxes I'd like to have, too. On the other hand, it's better off for me that I don't have some of that email, as it would just result in me doing more work when I'm not actually at work. And as a consolation, I can set up so that messages from my main inbox get sorted into other boxes at sync time.
Movies aren't a big deal for me. MP3s, honestly, aren't a big deal for me (if I want music, I get my iPod, which I usually only end up using when riding my bike or on an air plane). More storage would be nice (I think the 8703e only has 64MB and no mem card slot), but I haven't had an issue running out of space yet. No camera was, in a way, a selling point.
The device, while slightly wider than my Treo, is shorter and thinner, and lighter.
You can't yet use it as a Bluetooth modem for a Mac, like I could my Treo ... but you can use it as a modem for a Windows machine with the USB cable, and probably Bluetooth too if you wanted, and maybe USB/Mac (haven't tried it yet).
I dunno - talk to me in 6 months when it's no longer a new toy, I guess.
It sucks to be smart I guess ... too intelligent to get myself into a situation where I can blame someone else for something bad happening to me and sue them for all they have.
I agree. I still use plain text when I can and am usually quicker to delete an email out of reflex if it has a background or colored text. I only want email to convey information - you want to put a picture on it? Attach it and I'll be more likely to open it and actually look at it then delete it. Sorry - bit of a rant ... really hate fancy email.
And I had to try to tag the article "metricmartians". Because if they were "englishstandardunitsmartians", they might have gotten it right.
Thing is, when you say "they want $50 for any home theater system," I got the image (to borrow from Robin Williams) of two guys with the middle name "the" showing up at my place and knocking on my door (like "Jimmy the Fish" or "Johnny the Shark"). Because let's face it - the *IAA is just the new Mob, specializing in extortion using the legal system, whose lawyers should have the middle name "the".
Is that some kind of Freudian slip? ;)
do old people get the joke.
I was just thinking, "Great, YouTube is owned by Google but still it's own thing. So I still have to go to two different places when I want to find a particular video ... "
Okay. Either I'm totally confused or you're totally confused.
Unless you're going to do something totally insane and buy an Itanium based system, why does IA/64 come into the equation?
Unless I've totally missed the boat (it's been known to happen), Opteron and Core Duo (and, outside of Itanium, you could basically say "any AMD chip and any Intel chip with 64 bit support" - qualifying it because AFAIK Intel still fabs 32 bit only chips) would both support x64 based OS's. AMD64 == Intel EM64T == "x64" these days (unless, like I said, I totally missed something).
So the answer is:
If a cluster of rack mount Core 2 Duos will out perform a cluster of Opterons, and you've got no other reason to pick one or the other (stabiliy, power usage, etc), they will both run "AMD/64" operating systems (I guess it's possible that a distro producer/company might compile something that would run on AMD/64 but not Intel EM64T - but that would be a bit stupid I think).
I would be amazed if your only Intel based option for clustering required Itanium based hardware. In fact, call Dell - I'm sure they'll give you something that's Xeon based that can cover x64 (which is Intel EM64T, which is bascially equivalent to AMD/64) based operating systems. Trust me, I know - I'm running two of my systems with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4 for 64-bit AMD64/Intel EM64T)" (copy and pasted straight from my RHN account).
Summary: AMD/64 is not strictly for AMD chips. AMD/64 is the original term for the now more generic "x64" instruction set supported by both AMD and Intel 64 bit capable chips; Intel terms their instruction set as "Intel EM64T" - but it's basically the same thing. It's the reason that there aren't two versions of Windows XP 64 bit (unless there's an XP version for Itanium, in which case I missed something). IA/64 refers only to OS/software that runs on Itanium chips - which I think the Slashdot crowd mostly agrees was a dismal failure and is dying too slow a death ... but also has absolutely nothing to do with Core 2 Duo (beyond being manufactured by the same company).
You mean like:
"You've got to admit, 50 is a very high IQ for a lawyer."
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Re ference/ManPages/man2/reboot.2.html
In short, I think it was the "-n" option that said simply, "use only if disk or processor is on fire" and provided no details about what the option actually did (IE, did not sync disks before rebooting).
See if you can find references to the old SunOS 4.1.3 man page for "reboot".