And what should they do the first time OpenOffice doesn't open a document from an uber important customer properly? I somehow doubt telling the customer, "I'm sorry, we are using free software that works correctly over 95% of the time, but in this case it didn't work, could you please make sure your document is OpenOffice compatible? You may wipe out all your savings in a document or 2. Not to mention the cost of retraining, maintaining the software, etc.
It may work with governments, because people cannot very easily go with another government. It may work at home(you don't need to be nearly as professional), but honestly, after working with open office, I would not use it in a small business environment. It's just not worth the cost savings.
the year of the monkey lacked a monkey ball game. Monkeyball 3 was supposed to come out last year, but now release dates for it vary wildly.
Shame too, since the first 2 monkey ball games were such a blast(if only they hadn't screwed up monkey golf in monkey ball 2)
From TFA: "The second trick is to get rid of the fat , if you can skinny it down you can gain speed and the ability to use smaller processors and slower memory."
Um, why is using slower memory a GOOD thing? Esp. if these people are going to be using it like a textbook, it's going to be much more memory intensive than CPU intensive......
Heh, it's just more editorializing in the stories, nothing new. I really wish they would keep their opinions out of the story submissions.
(Btw, yes I am a mac lover, I would get the mini cept for I don't like the G4 bus, so I'll be going for an iMac G5)
Maybe it's just you then? I'm not trolling, I am about to graduate from Penn State w/ a B.S in Computer Engineering(minors in math and Japanese) and have turned down a $55k/yr job because I didn't really want to do that type of coding. Jobs are out there, but you can't expect to find one just by resume bombing.
Um, Saddam was killing his own people long before that picture, and the US also knew that Saddam was using chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war before this picture was taken.
Both of those reasons were used as rationales for going to war against Iraq this time, so I'm not sure what the whole, "Saddam had to screw up first" is in reference to. The war with Kuwait? Saddam invaded another soveirgn country, Iran, and the US didn't care. So what made that Rummy so different from today's Rummy?
Oh, I'm sorry, I just destroyed the fantasy of war mongerers everywhere......
It's also illegal to tamper with the odometer. If you ever sold the car, you would have to somehow prove that you didn't tamper with it, which is probably a lot harder than it sounds.
esp. when the bus speed is a paltry 167 Mhz. The real weakness of the G4 is it's bus, not what clock speeds you can crank it up to. Hell, even Dell's low end offering offer at least a 533Mhz bus....
that are replacing pda functionality. Hell, even the iPod has most of the functions of a basic pda sans an input method. I use it as my pda because my phone sucks, I just plug it into the cradle at night and it charges, updates my calendar, to do list, contacts etc.
Might not be good for people who constantly have to write stuff down, but for me it does what I need to do, oh yeah and plays music.
Then wear latex gloves and pay with cash when you go to buy your snickers.....seriously WTF does this have to do with DRM???
If you don't like it, don't use it. I thought that was how this whole "freedom" thing works, or is it that everyone is supposed to stay in a cave so you can feel free?
Grow up.
Is to sell it to one of the tin foil hat people. there is quite a market for it, just imagine, if your whole apartment is covered in foil, then you can finally take your cap off while at home.
The constitution also doesn't mention that Senators are not allowed to engage in kinky turkey sex on the steps of the capitol. It was meant to be vague, and that is probably why it is the oldest codified written national constitution still in force.
Actually, the bus on the iBooks is 133, so not much of a difference there. Which brings me to my question, is the bus speed the achilles heel of the g4?
IANACA(I'm not a computer architect) but doesn't the bus speed mean a lot when you are working with memory intensive apps? Even Dell is offering 533MHz buses on it's low end crap.
this Tuesday if the rumor sites are correct(probably nothing major like a g5 powerbook, but a g4 speed boost more than likely, though they are pushing the limits of that chip). I personally would wait until at least next Tuesday to make the decision. If new powerbooks don't come out, you may just be better off with a top of the line iBook. The price difference is too great as it stands for the bit of extra power you get with a powerbook(unless you like big screens, the iBook max rex is 1024x768)
I think you will be glad you took the plunge!
Ah yes, the very subversive "homestarrunner.com".
They afraid someone might email strong bad asking him what the thinks about the current crackdown on the Falun Gong and get "Free Country USA" to help them out?
It hasn't been released in the US, but the parts for it(if not the final assembly of some of the units) are already made. Changing designs and manufacturing processes is not cheap and it's not exactly speedy either.
Actually no, in the US every state has a different tax rate, and Apple charges the tax to where you ship the computer. In PA, where I live, it's 6%, however in Marlyand it's only 5% but in New York State it's 8.25%. Some local municipalities also have extra taxes added on, but I don't know if Apple tax those into account.
It's pretty much the same all over the world. Apple Japan is much more expensive than Apple US currently. It was cheaper for me to buy my iBook in the US and ship it air mail than it was to just buy it in Japan. I have too much time on my hands, so I will calculate just how much in dollars the base mac mini costs in various countries:
Canada: $629 CAd=$511 US, that one not so bad
UK: 339 pounds=$638, ouch!
Sweden: 4695 kronor = $675
Euro zone: 499 Euro = $652(slightly cheaper in the UK!)
Japan: 58590 Yen = $568
So yeah, aside from Canada where the difference is minimal, the rest of Apple's major markets are getting screwed.
China does this type of stuff to US products in China all the time. They have a ton of "non-tarriff" barriers. The reason the US has yet to make a major challenge to them in the WTO is that:
a. They are good at buying politicians(*Cough* Clinton *cough*) and
b. They are a major(if not the foremost) consumer of American debt. Dubya can't run his tax cut and spend government without them, so the US doesn't really make any challenges to them in the WTO.
China can always threaten to stop buying up US debt. That would mean a large spike in interest rates in order to make buying US debt more attractive to investors. It would probably also mean a tax hike, something that Dubya would like to avoid at all costs.
Cheney may have said that deficits don't matter, but sooner or later, he will learn that giving the largest dictatorship on Earth a large voice in your government is a bad idea. (Esp. when you are supposed to be promoting "freedom" and "democracy")
I would like to use these things for uploading digital pictures I take(what can I say, I'm a resolution whore), but I would rather the whole world not see my friend wearing a wedding dress with a giant Bart Simpson mask on.
It would be neat if you could put a user name/password on the torrents. Not incredibly secure, but still better than nothing.
First of all, there is something called fast ethernet, and secondly, I was talking about latency, not bandwidth. For instance, fast ethernet has about 1/10th the latency(startup time) of normal ethernet. 100Mbps is the bandwidth of ethernet.
Pretty much one of the first issues you tackle when you study parallel computing is that for small messages, latency is the real killer. Latency time is orders of magnitude more than the time per byte, and unless you are sending huge messages(which happens a lot less than you would think on most applications), latency time dominates the time it takes to actually send the bytes.
If you are interested, hop on over to amazon.com, check out a few books, fascinating topic. I took a class in it, and I have just seen the tip of the iceberg.
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And what should they do the first time OpenOffice doesn't open a document from an uber important customer properly? I somehow doubt telling the customer, "I'm sorry, we are using free software that works correctly over 95% of the time, but in this case it didn't work, could you please make sure your document is OpenOffice compatible? You may wipe out all your savings in a document or 2. Not to mention the cost of retraining, maintaining the software, etc.
It may work with governments, because people cannot very easily go with another government. It may work at home(you don't need to be nearly as professional), but honestly, after working with open office, I would not use it in a small business environment. It's just not worth the cost savings.
the year of the monkey lacked a monkey ball game. Monkeyball 3 was supposed to come out last year, but now release dates for it vary wildly.
Shame too, since the first 2 monkey ball games were such a blast(if only they hadn't screwed up monkey golf in monkey ball 2)
From TFA:
"The second trick is to get rid of the fat , if you can skinny it down you can gain speed and the ability to use smaller processors and slower memory."
Um, why is using slower memory a GOOD thing? Esp. if these people are going to be using it like a textbook, it's going to be much more memory intensive than CPU intensive......
Heh, it's just more editorializing in the stories, nothing new. I really wish they would keep their opinions out of the story submissions.
(Btw, yes I am a mac lover, I would get the mini cept for I don't like the G4 bus, so I'll be going for an iMac G5)
Maybe it's just you then? I'm not trolling, I am about to graduate from Penn State w/ a B.S in Computer Engineering(minors in math and Japanese) and have turned down a $55k/yr job because I didn't really want to do that type of coding. Jobs are out there, but you can't expect to find one just by resume bombing.
Um, Saddam was killing his own people long before that picture, and the US also knew that Saddam was using chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war before this picture was taken.
Both of those reasons were used as rationales for going to war against Iraq this time, so I'm not sure what the whole, "Saddam had to screw up first" is in reference to. The war with Kuwait? Saddam invaded another soveirgn country, Iran, and the US didn't care. So what made that Rummy so different from today's Rummy?
Oh, I'm sorry, I just destroyed the fantasy of war mongerers everywhere......
And Google.com could change their picture to Rummy shaking Saddam's hand
Oops, did I just tell an inconvient truth?
It's also illegal to tamper with the odometer. If you ever sold the car, you would have to somehow prove that you didn't tamper with it, which is probably a lot harder than it sounds.
esp. when the bus speed is a paltry 167 Mhz. The real weakness of the G4 is it's bus, not what clock speeds you can crank it up to. Hell, even Dell's low end offering offer at least a 533Mhz bus....
that are replacing pda functionality. Hell, even the iPod has most of the functions of a basic pda sans an input method. I use it as my pda because my phone sucks, I just plug it into the cradle at night and it charges, updates my calendar, to do list, contacts etc.
Might not be good for people who constantly have to write stuff down, but for me it does what I need to do, oh yeah and plays music.
Then wear latex gloves and pay with cash when you go to buy your snickers.....seriously WTF does this have to do with DRM???
If you don't like it, don't use it. I thought that was how this whole "freedom" thing works, or is it that everyone is supposed to stay in a cave so you can feel free?
Grow up.
Is to sell it to one of the tin foil hat people. there is quite a market for it, just imagine, if your whole apartment is covered in foil, then you can finally take your cap off while at home.
The constitution also doesn't mention that Senators are not allowed to engage in kinky turkey sex on the steps of the capitol. It was meant to be vague, and that is probably why it is the oldest codified written national constitution still in force.
Actually, the bus on the iBooks is 133, so not much of a difference there. Which brings me to my question, is the bus speed the achilles heel of the g4?
IANACA(I'm not a computer architect) but doesn't the bus speed mean a lot when you are working with memory intensive apps? Even Dell is offering 533MHz buses on it's low end crap.
I think you just violated Piquepaille's EULA, you will be hearing from his lawyers. The gall of some people, trying to get rid of the middleman....
If by Jewish you mean half arab....
Steve's father was an Egyptian Arab whose name is unkown, check out a bio at wikipedia
this Tuesday if the rumor sites are correct(probably nothing major like a g5 powerbook, but a g4 speed boost more than likely, though they are pushing the limits of that chip). I personally would wait until at least next Tuesday to make the decision. If new powerbooks don't come out, you may just be better off with a top of the line iBook. The price difference is too great as it stands for the bit of extra power you get with a powerbook(unless you like big screens, the iBook max rex is 1024x768)
I think you will be glad you took the plunge!
Ah yes, the very subversive "homestarrunner.com".
They afraid someone might email strong bad asking him what the thinks about the current crackdown on the Falun Gong and get "Free Country USA" to help them out?
It hasn't been released in the US, but the parts for it(if not the final assembly of some of the units) are already made. Changing designs and manufacturing processes is not cheap and it's not exactly speedy either.
Actually no, in the US every state has a different tax rate, and Apple charges the tax to where you ship the computer. In PA, where I live, it's 6%, however in Marlyand it's only 5% but in New York State it's 8.25%. Some local municipalities also have extra taxes added on, but I don't know if Apple tax those into account.
It's pretty much the same all over the world. Apple Japan is much more expensive than Apple US currently. It was cheaper for me to buy my iBook in the US and ship it air mail than it was to just buy it in Japan. I have too much time on my hands, so I will calculate just how much in dollars the base mac mini costs in various countries:
Canada: $629 CAd=$511 US, that one not so bad
UK: 339 pounds=$638, ouch!
Sweden: 4695 kronor = $675
Euro zone: 499 Euro = $652(slightly cheaper in the UK!)
Japan: 58590 Yen = $568
So yeah, aside from Canada where the difference is minimal, the rest of Apple's major markets are getting screwed.
China does this type of stuff to US products in China all the time. They have a ton of "non-tarriff" barriers. The reason the US has yet to make a major challenge to them in the WTO is that:
a. They are good at buying politicians(*Cough* Clinton *cough*) and
b. They are a major(if not the foremost) consumer of American debt. Dubya can't run his tax cut and spend government without them, so the US doesn't really make any challenges to them in the WTO.
China can always threaten to stop buying up US debt. That would mean a large spike in interest rates in order to make buying US debt more attractive to investors. It would probably also mean a tax hike, something that Dubya would like to avoid at all costs.
Cheney may have said that deficits don't matter, but sooner or later, he will learn that giving the largest dictatorship on Earth a large voice in your government is a bad idea. (Esp. when you are supposed to be promoting "freedom" and "democracy")
I would like to use these things for uploading digital pictures I take(what can I say, I'm a resolution whore), but I would rather the whole world not see my friend wearing a wedding dress with a giant Bart Simpson mask on.
It would be neat if you could put a user name/password on the torrents. Not incredibly secure, but still better than nothing.
First of all, there is something called fast ethernet, and secondly, I was talking about latency, not bandwidth. For instance, fast ethernet has about 1/10th the latency(startup time) of normal ethernet. 100Mbps is the bandwidth of ethernet.
Pretty much one of the first issues you tackle when you study parallel computing is that for small messages, latency is the real killer. Latency time is orders of magnitude more than the time per byte, and unless you are sending huge messages(which happens a lot less than you would think on most applications), latency time dominates the time it takes to actually send the bytes.
If you are interested, hop on over to amazon.com, check out a few books, fascinating topic. I took a class in it, and I have just seen the tip of the iceberg.