When I worked at Fry's electronics an old AV guy told me the best way to tell which is the better cable is to setup a simple graph with price on y axis and the weight per same length on the x axis.
I call bullshit! There's no way anybody even remotely this well-informed ever worked in Fry's. At Fry's, explaining the products is the customer's job.
I second that. Sirius has 3 different NPR/PRI feeds, plus a bunch of other world news stations. Apparently CBC is coming to Sirius too. I'm not a fan of "talk" stations, but they have a bunch of those as well, at all ends of the political spectrum.
Oh and they have a bunch of music stations as well. None of them have ads.
The next geration of consoles, no matter the brand, will be freaking amazing.
The specs are amazing, but of course you could homebrew your own with similar specs provided you have enough money. I'm interested to see if the console prices stay low enough ( $300) for regular folks.
I don't think it'll be as bad as all that. I predict wireless but with a charging base station (like your cordless phone, for instance). I don't doubt they will incorporate force feedback into the gamepad too, given that it's integral to the existing XBox. Of course, if you're gaming for 10 hours straight...
I disagree. You can also split your stock in order to *give people the impression* your stock is going to somehow increase in value. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has never split its stock, which is all you need to know about stock splits, AFAIC.
As a Linux and Mac user, I have to know: what is the appeal of running Linux on your Mac? The only thing I miss in OS X is seamless X11 integration (Mac you have to run X apps from within an annoying X11 server). So, what's the appeal?
I could imagine an SMP job where you immediately spawn N new processes each which computes a certain subset of a given dataset. Assuming you never collected the results at the end (say, you just write out the results to files on disk for later analysis), you would technically never need inter-process communication, thus no serial processing by a single "master" process.
But yes, you're right. You almost never do this in parallel processing, and in that sense the post is misleading in assuming there is anything but a theoretical possibility of no overhead in an SMP.
Why do you need a wireless connection between earphones in your jacket and an mp3 player that's located *in your jacket*? Given bluetooth's limited range, are you really going to leave your player at the bottom of the hill?
(OK, I guess you can always argue that you don't want to get strangled on the wires or something...)
I wonder if the next expansion pack will be "The Sims: Grad School". Watch as the Sim parents have a breakdown when they find out Bobby Sim is doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology...
There's something about the implication of calling it "just a theory" thatis more than a bit insulting. Let's put it this way: do churches want me coming in and putting stickers in the bible saying "The existence of God is just a theory"? How is this any different?
I was an international student, and had one of those SSNs that immediately identified you as unemployable and undeserving of credit. So anyone who wanted to steal my identity was really barking up the wrong tree.
Anyhow, it never made sense why they used SSNs rather than university-assigned student numbers Isn't the point of SSNs that they're for, oh, I don't know, Social Security purposes only? Since students pay the University, not the other way round, why would they need your SSN in the first place.
The study looked at frequencies in the 8xx MHz range (GSM bands), so it's not clear if it also extends to Bluetooth, which works at 2.45 GHz. Presumably the risk is that at the MHz range DNA tends to continuous shatter and rebuild itself, and occasionally mutations occur. It's not clear that this also happens at frequencies in the GHz range too, but it's notable that Bluetooth uses amplitudes orders of magnitude weaker than cell phones. That's because Bluetooth has a range of only a few meters, whereas cell phones have a range of several KM.
Note that if the GHz range is also risky, your home cordless phone is also going to be a risk. OTOH, I believe it's also the case that the signal it emits is a lot weaker than a cell phone.
There's also the option of not buying into HDTV. That has worked enormously well for most North Americans so far, to the point where deadlines for phasing in HDTV and phasing out analog have been pushed back, and people continue to not run out and buy overpriced new TVs that support it.
I watch a lot of TV, but ss nice as HDTV surely is, I can't say that I miss not having it.
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I call bullshit! There's no way anybody even remotely this well-informed ever worked in Fry's. At Fry's, explaining the products is the customer's job.
I second that. Sirius has 3 different NPR/PRI feeds, plus a bunch of other world news stations. Apparently CBC is coming to Sirius too. I'm not a fan of "talk" stations, but they have a bunch of those as well, at all ends of the political spectrum.
Oh and they have a bunch of music stations as well. None of them have ads.
The next geration of consoles, no matter the brand, will be freaking amazing. The specs are amazing, but of course you could homebrew your own with similar specs provided you have enough money. I'm interested to see if the console prices stay low enough ( $300) for regular folks.
I don't think it'll be as bad as all that. I predict wireless but with a charging base station (like your cordless phone, for instance). I don't doubt they will incorporate force feedback into the gamepad too, given that it's integral to the existing XBox. Of course, if you're gaming for 10 hours straight...
I disagree. You can also split your stock in order to *give people the impression* your stock is going to somehow increase in value. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has never split its stock, which is all you need to know about stock splits, AFAIC.
Don't forget they also have all of Canada's red meat!
As a Linux and Mac user, I have to know: what is the appeal of running Linux on your Mac? The only thing I miss in OS X is seamless X11 integration (Mac you have to run X apps from within an annoying X11 server). So, what's the appeal?
Gee, I didn't know you could fit that many CS students into a VW Bug.
I could imagine an SMP job where you immediately spawn N new processes each which computes a certain subset of a given dataset. Assuming you never collected the results at the end (say, you just write out the results to files on disk for later analysis), you would technically never need inter-process communication, thus no serial processing by a single "master" process. But yes, you're right. You almost never do this in parallel processing, and in that sense the post is misleading in assuming there is anything but a theoretical possibility of no overhead in an SMP.
Why do you need a wireless connection between earphones in your jacket and an mp3 player that's located *in your jacket*? Given bluetooth's limited range, are you really going to leave your player at the bottom of the hill? (OK, I guess you can always argue that you don't want to get strangled on the wires or something...)
I wonder if the next expansion pack will be "The Sims: Grad School". Watch as the Sim parents have a breakdown when they find out Bobby Sim is doing a Ph.D. in Anthropology...
There's something about the implication of calling it "just a theory" thatis more than a bit insulting. Let's put it this way: do churches want me coming in and putting stickers in the bible saying "The existence of God is just a theory"? How is this any different?
I was an international student, and had one of those SSNs that immediately identified you as unemployable and undeserving of credit. So anyone who wanted to steal my identity was really barking up the wrong tree.
Anyhow, it never made sense why they used SSNs rather than university-assigned student numbers Isn't the point of SSNs that they're for, oh, I don't know, Social Security purposes only? Since students pay the University, not the other way round, why would they need your SSN in the first place.
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Isn't this in itself grounds for bannination from Slashdot? Somebody, please... think of the children!
The study looked at frequencies in the 8xx MHz range (GSM bands), so it's not clear if it also extends to Bluetooth, which works at 2.45 GHz. Presumably the risk is that at the MHz range DNA tends to continuous shatter and rebuild itself, and occasionally mutations occur. It's not clear that this also happens at frequencies in the GHz range too, but it's notable that Bluetooth uses amplitudes orders of magnitude weaker than cell phones. That's because Bluetooth has a range of only a few meters, whereas cell phones have a range of several KM.
Note that if the GHz range is also risky, your home cordless phone is also going to be a risk. OTOH, I believe it's also the case that the signal it emits is a lot weaker than a cell phone.
There's also the option of not buying into HDTV. That has worked enormously well for most North Americans so far, to the point where deadlines for phasing in HDTV and phasing out analog have been pushed back, and people continue to not run out and buy overpriced new TVs that support it.
I watch a lot of TV, but ss nice as HDTV surely is, I can't say that I miss not having it.