Not really. If an Apple laptop or iMac had to put up with the thermal and material wear issues resulting from malware that your common $400 Dell does on a daily basis, there'd likely be a number of wrongful death lawsuits. Yeah, the original iMacs and iBooks were bad, and they've improved a bit (ok, substantially) since then, but they're still liable to simply fail due to excessive heat (whereas a PC would have the fan kick up a notch, the Mac has none).
Have you ever used a Mac? Seriously you think the fans won't "kick up a notch"?
You've just made me realise: what sci-fi isn't "dated" by now?
Of course I generally watch stuff on DVD rather than TV these days, but I don't remember even hearing of any recent good sci-fi shows that aren't a remake or a continuation of some show from the 20th century.. in fact, even if you take out the "good", what fresh stuff has there been?
Though it has to be said that dated doesn't mean bad. Lightsabers are incredibly dated, but I still want one:) and the BSG remake was pretty damn good.
at which point the bottleneck will simply be your harddisk / the devices internal flash memory.
Modern SSDs are optimized for high data rates, flash memory in ipods/usb sticks, not so much. Even if you fix that, that slow HDD in your laptop will be the limiting factor.
Pretty sure even normal laptop hard drives don't peak below the speed of WiFi
It may also be the Itanium that fully redeems the brand name and sheds the last vestiges of negativity that have dogged the chip since it launched ten years ago. Poulson incorporates a number of advances in its record-breaking 3.1 Billion transistors. It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila processors and offers up to eight cores and 54MB of on-die memory.
That is so ridiculous that it is not funny.
Biggest complain about Itanic was always absence of cheap versions, something companies can put on engineer' desks.
Seeing what people do around AMD64 architecture, I doubt Itanic would ever become mainstream - it would remain forever a pet platform of HP's service unit. Similar to IBM's POWER: something sufficiently incompatible so that customers can't migrate overnight to competitor's platform.
Yes, HPUX is the only major OS for the platform in the West - but (so I've heard from Intel sales and engineering folks) Japan (specifically Fujitsu) buys a lot of these things. So do some major companies in the US - but they also write their own applications/OSes for the platform (ie, they're NOT running HPUX on it).
Basically this technology turns the browser from a platform-independent, architecture-independent development platform into an architecture-dependent one. That is, if somebody developed their little app for Intel and I'm on a Mac or Arm, the app won't work for me.
Macs for the past several years have been running Intel CPUs.
i'm obviously not sure about the grandparent, but from a foreign (non-US) perspective, the military budget is by far the most visible non-essential activity that the US engages in.I don't see the money being pissed away in bureaucracy in the US (hell, i have to pay attention to see it over here, that's how good those bandits are at hiding themselves), i do however see the US engaging in all sorts of "war on terrorism" military campaigns, with no other obvious goal then securing oil and playing a game of middle eastern sock-puppet theather
Just a thought, but if the US was in it for "securing oil".. then shouldn't oil be way less expensive now that it is?
even riskier for the good will because there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
This is why the Black Watch have done so well in Afghanistan. Everyone loves Scottish people, we just naturally get on well with folk. As one of the guys in Helmand put it in an interview on the BBC "We can play football in the streets with your kids, or we can really spoil your day. The choice is yours."
Plus, the Scots have the ultimate weapon: they have bagpipes.
The last four digits of a US SSN are allocated in sequence from 0000 to 9999 for a given SSN group. They are exactly and completely uninterpretable and arbitrary.
We may be a bit different here in Indiana, but we don't let the defendants know our names here. The judge was pretty careful about instructing us during the selection process. How could a jury possibly return a guilty verdict in a murder trial if the defendant knew their names and could then extract revenge?
This is just nuts!
Everyone in the room knows the name of potential jurors once they have been placed into the box for questioning - at least in NY and NC.
Widows 3 was half baked too. Imagine for a moment there was no iphone (or mac) to compare andorid (win 3) to. both would seem amazing. But the are kind of a joke compared to the seamlessness of the apple garden. Win3 more so. andorid is pretty polished.
The difference this time is that there's no substantial price differential. even the cheapest android is only a couple hundred less than the apple model. not so in the days of win 3. Also the Apple SDK has made it more not less enterprise ready.
So it's hard to make comparisons.
Following that logic, Apple (or IBM with OS/2) should have roundly and soundly whomped (a technical term) Windows in the marketplace back in the 80s and 90s... but didn't. Personally, I think they will continue to retain their lead for a Long Time, but it's not a completely fair comparison to Windows 3 back in the day.
>The whole 1900s-era system of making billions from mass media (magazines, radio, tv) is collapsing as the "masses" fragment and go in different directions across the web. Look at TV ratings - a top show in the 70s used to be watched by 40% of America. Now it's downto 7-8% with nets like CW scrapping the bottom at only 1%.
1% of ~320 million is still a lot of people, though:)
The MRI imaging requires the patient hold his or her breath for 10 seconds. Instead of just breathing out normally, the patient exhales into a helium-impermeable bag
Note to self: next time doing MRI in the hospital, do not inhale that stuff, don't want to imagine where it came from...
And why do they talk about a X-Ray of a chest then compare it to inhaling He-3 for an MRI? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare a normal MRI scan and an He-3 enhanced scan?
It still amazes me that other Christian groups will laugh at the silliness of Joseph Smith's Moroni story and then turn around with a straight face and talk about a first-century illiterate peasant revolutionary (killed by the Romans, no less) being the "son" of a omniscient, omnipresent being and flying up to heaven.
It's all stupid shit to an outsider.
And what amazes me is that anyone could think Jesus was an "illiterate peasant"
Not all Christians are exclusionist lunatics, believe it or not. There are some very progressive Christian denominations (UCC, Disciples of Christ, etc.) that try not to exclude people, regardless of their beliefs.
Unfortunately, such denominations are shrinking in favor of more conservative Protestant movements. If you wonder why American Christians seem to be becoming more extreme, it's because they are. The moderates are leaving the Church entirely or gradually sliding into the more conservative sects. I'm not sure what's causing it, I just know the membership of "mainline" Protestant denominations is falling in the US, whereas the very conservative wings (Baptists, etc.) are swelling.
Inclusivity is not compatible with the exclusive truth claims of Christ and the Bible - that's why inclusive denominations (or, as you put it, "progressive") are faltering: they cannot take a stand when everything is included.
Looking at probably independent sites (the tech report, tom's...), you have to get fairly high in the end for Intel platforms (ie, CPU+Chipset+motherboard) to be cost-competitive at a given level of performance, at that's for PCs heavily skewed towards the Gamer and Enthusiast market.
Most of the money made in the CPU world is not in the "Gamer and Enthusiast market" - it's in the server market.
A recent study of 1222 undergraduates found that... "As more and more people are using the Internet illegally (i.e. limewire etc.), I feel that the chances of being caught or the consequences of my actions are almost insignificant. So I feel no pressure in doing what ever everybody else is doing/using the Internet for."
limewire!? How recent is this study?
Probably pretty recent - I've run into recent graduates in the past few months still using it
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Not really. If an Apple laptop or iMac had to put up with the thermal and material wear issues resulting from malware that your common $400 Dell does on a daily basis, there'd likely be a number of wrongful death lawsuits. Yeah, the original iMacs and iBooks were bad, and they've improved a bit (ok, substantially) since then, but they're still liable to simply fail due to excessive heat (whereas a PC would have the fan kick up a notch, the Mac has none).
Have you ever used a Mac? Seriously you think the fans won't "kick up a notch"?
You've just made me realise: what sci-fi isn't "dated" by now?
Of course I generally watch stuff on DVD rather than TV these days, but I don't remember even hearing of any recent good sci-fi shows that aren't a remake or a continuation of some show from the 20th century.. in fact, even if you take out the "good", what fresh stuff has there been?
Though it has to be said that dated doesn't mean bad. Lightsabers are incredibly dated, but I still want one :) and the BSG remake was pretty damn good.
I like Eureka - and it came out in this century.
at which point the bottleneck will simply be your harddisk / the devices internal flash memory.
Modern SSDs are optimized for high data rates, flash memory in ipods/usb sticks, not so much. Even if you fix that, that slow HDD in your laptop will be the limiting factor.
Pretty sure even normal laptop hard drives don't peak below the speed of WiFi
It may also be the Itanium that fully redeems the brand name and sheds the last vestiges of negativity that have dogged the chip since it launched ten years ago. Poulson incorporates a number of advances in its record-breaking 3.1 Billion transistors. It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila processors and offers up to eight cores and 54MB of on-die memory.
That is so ridiculous that it is not funny.
Biggest complain about Itanic was always absence of cheap versions, something companies can put on engineer' desks.
Seeing what people do around AMD64 architecture, I doubt Itanic would ever become mainstream - it would remain forever a pet platform of HP's service unit. Similar to IBM's POWER: something sufficiently incompatible so that customers can't migrate overnight to competitor's platform.
Yes, HPUX is the only major OS for the platform in the West - but (so I've heard from Intel sales and engineering folks) Japan (specifically Fujitsu) buys a lot of these things. So do some major companies in the US - but they also write their own applications/OSes for the platform (ie, they're NOT running HPUX on it).
I'm NOT running an x86 capable processor...
You have an Itanium, too?
Basically this technology turns the browser from a platform-independent, architecture-independent development platform into an architecture-dependent one. That is, if somebody developed their little app for Intel and I'm on a Mac or Arm, the app won't work for me.
Macs for the past several years have been running Intel CPUs.
i'm obviously not sure about the grandparent, but from a foreign (non-US) perspective, the military budget is by far the most visible non-essential activity that the US engages in.I don't see the money being pissed away in bureaucracy in the US (hell, i have to pay attention to see it over here, that's how good those bandits are at hiding themselves), i do however see the US engaging in all sorts of "war on terrorism" military campaigns, with no other obvious goal then securing oil and playing a game of middle eastern sock-puppet theather
Just a thought, but if the US was in it for "securing oil" .. then shouldn't oil be way less expensive now that it is?
At this point there's nothing sexy or special about the shuttle. It's a 20+ y/o technology that served it's purpose but is now outdated and expensive.
The Challenger exploded in 1986 - the shuttles are more than 30 years old (and the actual tech behind them closer to 40).
even riskier for the good will because there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
This is why the Black Watch have done so well in Afghanistan. Everyone loves Scottish people, we just naturally get on well with folk. As one of the guys in Helmand put it in an interview on the BBC "We can play football in the streets with your kids, or we can really spoil your day. The choice is yours."
Plus, the Scots have the ultimate weapon: they have bagpipes.
We're still in Afghanistan because the Taliban are still in Afghanistan. You know, those assholes from Pakistan?
You mean the brave freedom fighters who chased the eeeeevil Russkies out of Afghanistan in the early 90s?
wrong decade - you meant the 80s
Bah! "Copied" is more like. And, in copying it, ran into the same problems that plagued the shuttle design.
The Soviets did do something we've yet to do: their one and only test flight of the Buran was completely unmanned from launch to orbit to landing.
Right, and by also asking for their city of birth they can get the first five digits.
No, you can't - you can only derive the area number from whence the application was sent, and the group number of that batch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security_number#Structure
The last four digits of a US SSN are allocated in sequence from 0000 to 9999 for a given SSN group. They are exactly and completely uninterpretable and arbitrary.
Note, though, that the method of assigning the initial sets of numbers is slated to change this summer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security_number#Structure
We may be a bit different here in Indiana, but we don't let the defendants know our names here. The judge was pretty careful about instructing us during the selection process. How could a jury possibly return a guilty verdict in a murder trial if the defendant knew their names and could then extract revenge?
This is just nuts!
Everyone in the room knows the name of potential jurors once they have been placed into the box for questioning - at least in NY and NC.
I can't get Windows 3.0 to run in colour on my 8086 with EGA graphics. Anyone help?
I'm serious. Best I can find out is that Windows 3.0's colour drivers require at least a 286, so I'm stuck with monochrome for now.
Hast thou considered asking thy question on SuperUser?
Widows 3 was half baked too. Imagine for a moment there was no iphone (or mac) to compare andorid (win 3) to. both would seem amazing. But the are kind of a joke compared to the seamlessness of the apple garden. Win3 more so. andorid is pretty polished.
The difference this time is that there's no substantial price differential. even the cheapest android is only a couple hundred less than the apple model. not so in the days of win 3. Also the Apple SDK has made it more not less enterprise ready.
So it's hard to make comparisons.
Following that logic, Apple (or IBM with OS/2) should have roundly and soundly whomped (a technical term) Windows in the marketplace back in the 80s and 90s... but didn't. Personally, I think they will continue to retain their lead for a Long Time, but it's not a completely fair comparison to Windows 3 back in the day.
>The whole 1900s-era system of making billions from mass media (magazines, radio, tv) is collapsing as the "masses" fragment and go in different directions across the web. Look at TV ratings - a top show in the 70s used to be watched by 40% of America. Now it's downto 7-8% with nets like CW scrapping the bottom at only 1%.
1% of ~320 million is still a lot of people, though :)
The MRI imaging requires the patient hold his or her breath for 10 seconds. Instead of just breathing out normally, the patient exhales into a helium-impermeable bag
Note to self: next time doing MRI in the hospital, do not inhale that stuff, don't want to imagine where it came from...
And why do they talk about a X-Ray of a chest then compare it to inhaling He-3 for an MRI? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare a normal MRI scan and an He-3 enhanced scan?
just sayin'
want something a lot more black and white than Watchmen.
so *THAT'S* why it didn't do well: it was shot in COLOR!
but I don't remember seeing anything about that or him writing/reading in the bible.
Really? haven't read it much, then, eh?
How about the passage where he is invited into a synagogue, handed a scroll, and reads from the prophet Isaiah?
It still amazes me that other Christian groups will laugh at the silliness of Joseph Smith's Moroni story and then turn around with a straight face and talk about a first-century illiterate peasant revolutionary (killed by the Romans, no less) being the "son" of a omniscient, omnipresent being and flying up to heaven.
It's all stupid shit to an outsider.
And what amazes me is that anyone could think Jesus was an "illiterate peasant"
Not all Christians are exclusionist lunatics, believe it or not. There are some very progressive Christian denominations (UCC, Disciples of Christ, etc.) that try not to exclude people, regardless of their beliefs.
Unfortunately, such denominations are shrinking in favor of more conservative Protestant movements. If you wonder why American Christians seem to be becoming more extreme, it's because they are. The moderates are leaving the Church entirely or gradually sliding into the more conservative sects. I'm not sure what's causing it, I just know the membership of "mainline" Protestant denominations is falling in the US, whereas the very conservative wings (Baptists, etc.) are swelling.
Inclusivity is not compatible with the exclusive truth claims of Christ and the Bible - that's why inclusive denominations (or, as you put it, "progressive") are faltering: they cannot take a stand when everything is included.
Looking at probably independent sites (the tech report, tom's...), you have to get fairly high in the end for Intel platforms (ie, CPU+Chipset+motherboard) to be cost-competitive at a given level of performance, at that's for PCs heavily skewed towards the Gamer and Enthusiast market.
Most of the money made in the CPU world is not in the "Gamer and Enthusiast market" - it's in the server market.
A recent study of 1222 undergraduates found that... "As more and more people are using the Internet illegally (i.e. limewire etc.), I feel that the chances of being caught or the consequences of my actions are almost insignificant. So I feel no pressure in doing what ever everybody else is doing/using the Internet for."
limewire!? How recent is this study?
Probably pretty recent - I've run into recent graduates in the past few months still using it