...or any other boot loader like rEFIt is *not* a virtual machine. This only applies to people using paralells and the like and applies equally to *anyone* who runs Vista in a VM (and this was expected a while ago too I seem to remember)... In other words, this is non-news people...
There is whole lot of difference between people at the NSA knowing about security *holes* in vista and an intentionally implemented backdoor you know....
AFAIK, my speakeasy dsl line has no such bandwidth restriction on it... (and I'm pretty sure there where months where my family has passed 100GB d/led with room to spare). That said, it's not the typical consumer line. You're right in that most providers don't let you do that, because they tend to oversell their bandwidth
FTA: "The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
'xactly! One of my former highschool teachers who was a writer on the side used (and still uses to this day I believe) a mac classic to do his writing on, he had a beefier machine (really his wife's) for anything else, but his writing was done on that, he liked it better (less distractions)
...A physical plant needs management too, companies have janitors, cleaning people, and general maintenance staff on hand (though in a large, multi-company office building, it's usually covered at a building level and so you may not see it directly in your company). They use plumbers, electricians, etc all the time. It *is* constantly maintained. Try living with unmaintained office building for a couple months and see how well you do. In large buildings, it's not even out of house (a state which IT may be reaching in some cases btw), they have a full maintenance staff on hand, not on call the way you have with your plumber.
Starbucks provides a good atmosphere, by and large, to sit and drink your coffee. Sure, it's not as homely as mom and pops down the street, but you *always* know that when you go into a starbucks, any starbucks, itll be a good atmosphere to sit, drink your Jo, and read a paper/get work done/study/etc. Have you ever tried to sit and read at a McDonalds or a Dunkin Donuts? Ugh! But I can go into any starbucks in midtown, grab a cup of coffee, and read.
It's a known comfort level, with a known, decent (not great but fine for 90% ppl out there) cup o' caffiene
Sounds like you had a defective product you shouldve returned when you noticed the flaw. My 15" PB sleeps like a dream, for days on end if I need it to (longest I've ever tried without plugging it in was just over a week, and while the battery was pretty depleted (~10%), it was still fine). Dunno what I'd do without sleep, instant on = ease of use in school. Only time it gets powered off or cycled is updates and when I've somehow managed to run the battery down almost completely.
Naw, not showing your age, just exposure. I'm 20 and it was my first thought too. Admittedly though, my Dad's been in the industry for over 30yrs. We have *tons* of old machines with ISA and tons of ISA cards around
and at that speed, you could probably start watching the movie a few minutes after starting the download and watch it to the end without interruption. There's no need necessarily to let the *whole* movie download before you start, just enough that you won't end up paused half an hr in because you caught up to the download:-P
It's not just the *direct result* of research that's important, it's what it took to get there. NASA has done far far more for the average person than you can think. Everything from pigments to insulaters to computers to metalic alloys to... the list goes on. The problem is, a lot of that stuff was tangental to the research. The blue sky research produced a great deal of practical stuff that was not initially predicted. A private corp would have canceled the projects that produced these things long before they came to fruition because *the basic research goal wasnt profitable*, and the cost of developement too high. That's where the government comes in. It's there to spend money on a far larger scale than private industry can, with no need to look for long-term *financial* incentive. You think the interstates wouldve been built by private industry?
There is a place for private industry in space, a big one. When we reach the point of commercial feasibility in space, private industry will play a huge roal. But to get there, the Govt needs to finance the research that private industry can't, won't, and can't be expected to.
Sure, but it was only through the efforts of *other* smart people that such things are proven wrong. There *is* a reason for peer review and a reason for scientific credulity you know.
or not...
I'm guessing this and other replies will be visible later though
Otherwise slashdot is going to fast start resembling fark
Though I just checked your profile, I *think* that you were replying to me, but it's so, uh, farked up, dunno
That's a bit different. A drivers license for example is really to establish you've been vetted as a safe driver to drive on public roads. It has nothing to do with permission to cross state lines and such (which is what the GPs quote is really about).
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...or any other boot loader like rEFIt is *not* a virtual machine. This only applies to people using paralells and the like and applies equally to *anyone* who runs Vista in a VM (and this was expected a while ago too I seem to remember)... In other words, this is non-news people...
There is whole lot of difference between people at the NSA knowing about security *holes* in vista and an intentionally implemented backdoor you know....
AFAIK, my speakeasy dsl line has no such bandwidth restriction on it... (and I'm pretty sure there where months where my family has passed 100GB d/led with room to spare). That said, it's not the typical consumer line. You're right in that most providers don't let you do that, because they tend to oversell their bandwidth
FTA: "The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
'xactly! One of my former highschool teachers who was a writer on the side used (and still uses to this day I believe) a mac classic to do his writing on, he had a beefier machine (really his wife's) for anything else, but his writing was done on that, he liked it better (less distractions)
...A physical plant needs management too, companies have janitors, cleaning people, and general maintenance staff on hand (though in a large, multi-company office building, it's usually covered at a building level and so you may not see it directly in your company). They use plumbers, electricians, etc all the time. It *is* constantly maintained. Try living with unmaintained office building for a couple months and see how well you do. In large buildings, it's not even out of house (a state which IT may be reaching in some cases btw), they have a full maintenance staff on hand, not on call the way you have with your plumber.
Starbucks provides a good atmosphere, by and large, to sit and drink your coffee. Sure, it's not as homely as mom and pops down the street, but you *always* know that when you go into a starbucks, any starbucks, itll be a good atmosphere to sit, drink your Jo, and read a paper/get work done/study/etc. Have you ever tried to sit and read at a McDonalds or a Dunkin Donuts? Ugh! But I can go into any starbucks in midtown, grab a cup of coffee, and read.
It's a known comfort level, with a known, decent (not great but fine for 90% ppl out there) cup o' caffiene
Generally, that law holds about as much water as an incontinent dog.
Bad example! A dog, even an incontinent one, is mostly made up of water. Now, an incontinent dog put through a food dehydrator.... There we go
64bit build on the "2" one maybe? Doesnt really make sense though since tiger isnt 64bit on intel, it'd have to be a build for leopard...
you could try using tsocks...
"Great Scott" is most likely copywritten from Back to the Future so it's fine, his own security guards probably shot him on his orders!
Sounds like you had a defective product you shouldve returned when you noticed the flaw. My 15" PB sleeps like a dream, for days on end if I need it to (longest I've ever tried without plugging it in was just over a week, and while the battery was pretty depleted (~10%), it was still fine). Dunno what I'd do without sleep, instant on = ease of use in school. Only time it gets powered off or cycled is updates and when I've somehow managed to run the battery down almost completely.
Naw, not showing your age, just exposure. I'm 20 and it was my first thought too. Admittedly though, my Dad's been in the industry for over 30yrs. We have *tons* of old machines with ISA and tons of ISA cards around
Just goes to show, Apple knows hard and black is the way to go!
and at that speed, you could probably start watching the movie a few minutes after starting the download and watch it to the end without interruption. There's no need necessarily to let the *whole* movie download before you start, just enough that you won't end up paused half an hr in because you caught up to the download :-P
It's not just the *direct result* of research that's important, it's what it took to get there. NASA has done far far more for the average person than you can think. Everything from pigments to insulaters to computers to metalic alloys to... the list goes on. The problem is, a lot of that stuff was tangental to the research. The blue sky research produced a great deal of practical stuff that was not initially predicted. A private corp would have canceled the projects that produced these things long before they came to fruition because *the basic research goal wasnt profitable*, and the cost of developement too high. That's where the government comes in. It's there to spend money on a far larger scale than private industry can, with no need to look for long-term *financial* incentive. You think the interstates wouldve been built by private industry?
There is a place for private industry in space, a big one. When we reach the point of commercial feasibility in space, private industry will play a huge roal. But to get there, the Govt needs to finance the research that private industry can't, won't, and can't be expected to.
Sure, but it was only through the efforts of *other* smart people that such things are proven wrong. There *is* a reason for peer review and a reason for scientific credulity you know.
Going to bring up a problem that LiquidCoooled brought up in another thread, hopefully it's visible here.
Looks like replies are broken, perhaps data-base limitation, see LiquidCooled's post here
or not... I'm guessing this and other replies will be visible later though Otherwise slashdot is going to fast start resembling fark Though I just checked your profile, I *think* that you were replying to me, but it's so, uh, farked up, dunno
seems to work now
That's a bit different. A drivers license for example is really to establish you've been vetted as a safe driver to drive on public roads. It has nothing to do with permission to cross state lines and such (which is what the GPs quote is really about).
There's this thing called posting what you know about... Got some bad news for ya... Yeps.... You failed.
te be fair, how do you know the GP wasnt posting using lynx on his toaster, watch, llama or something? I mean, it *is* slashdot...
To be pedantic, that's not a KDE thing, but an X thing. I do that on XFCE (I find both KDE and Gnome too bloated personally) all the time.
AFAIK on 10.4 only the PPC version is 64-bit. We'll have to wait till 10.5 for 64bit mode on x86, right now it runs in 32-bit.