Its a replacement for the G5 in that its the G4's successor - at least in notebooks.
For PowerMac G5 users, no way. The intel is a 32-bit chip which would likely limit me to 2GB of ram. I have 3.5GB in my powermac and wouldn't mind a bit more.
You need the DuoCore to beat the G5. A single core wouldn't touch it.
bah, success ALLOWS for idiocy within a company. success isn't being as streamlined as possible. success is selling a product.
i don't understand why you bring school systems into it. i don't know where you live, but there are extremely excellent public school systems in this country. the school system tends to be as good as the community demands.
The article has a little bit of new info regarding leg length. However, the documentary makes paints these as creatures completely absurd. You have to be to reproduce that quickly.
Its so funny and bizzare that I didn't believe it was real.
>>Symptoms lasting two weeks or longer, and of a severity that begins to interfere with typical social functioning and/or activities of daily living, are considered to constitute clinical depression.
Its simply not internal vs. external. Its a change in behavior.
>>based mostly on the dismal performance of the first dual-CPU G4 Macs
What are you talking about? The first dual G4 Macs ran much faster than single processor machines - as long as you were running multiprocessor aware software. Unfortunately, when they were released not much was. OS X now makes great use of both processors.
>>Clicnical depression - depression without an actual cause
Maybe we travel in different social circles but I don't know anyone that doesn't have a reason to be depressed.
All depression can be defined in terms of brain chemistry. Some people heal themselves through changing their behavior. Some people need medications. Both aim to return the brain to the same state.
Your idea to have an income max for the school vouchers is interesting.
In NYC, students can attend any school in the city although they often have to submit an application. In that sense, there is some competition between the schools within this very large school system. It would be interesting to review the finer workings.
leaving the feds out is an interesting idea. also, its a viewpoint i'm unfamiliar with. however, what if there was more federal funding? part of the reason why some districts are poor and others are rich is because of the tax base. it would be great to figure out a way to even this out.
the thing that makes me uneasy about vouchers is that it can funnel money out of the public school system. further, they largely benefit the rich - the voucher isn't enough to cover private schooling, only give a price break for those that can already afford it.
>>The biggest problem I see is that the only way we can evaluation teachers is to have truly independent grading and testing systems. The most recent testing programs were passed by the unions for approval. This is not the right way to test the testers.
I agree that it would be nice to have some sort of system to judge teachers. However, how do you grade the teacher separate from the students? Further, No Child Left Behind fails miserably at this. Ask teachers how they feel about it. The teachers I know don't mind being graded, they're proud of the job they do. However, they hate having to prepare their students for such a narrow test.
>>I believe minimum wage laws keeps people poor
Damn! Where do you rank on the conservo-meter? What is minimum wage? $6? Can anyone live on that? Hell, I can understand being against the min wage because of inflation - but because it keeps people poor? So you think employers would employ twice as many people if the wage was half as much. I'm pretty sure they'd pocket the difference.
>>No one stays at the bottom long -- if they're truly valuable and hard working, they'll climb the ladder.
You're terribly optimistic.
>>My own father came to this country with no education and no money and worked his way up until retiring as the CEO of a large company.
Good for him. That doesn't mean it can happen to everyone. Also, a fair amount of luck may have helped him along.
>>Competitive charities would work to show the rich that the money actually is making a difference.
Which they already do. Why do you think the rich would start giving MORE to charity just because the government decided it didn't want to be responsible for something?
>>The food at McDonald's and Burger King is healthier
You just threw away most of the meal! The only thing you kept was the hamburger patty! And just because you lost weight eating it doesn't mean its good either.
>>I'll be working with a free market education co-op to try to prove how bad things really are.
So you already know your position and you'll set out to prove it. I'm sure you'll find plenty of evidence - and ignore plenty of evidence to the contrary.
>>Education is not a right,
I simply disagree. K-12 education should be a right. All of society suffers if its taken away from people. Shall we keep the poor stupid? (No! the rich will save them! to feed their egos!)
>>Yet I have to pay thousands a year in taxes to support the children of the lazy and irresponsible.
Thats not a very nice way to talk about your neighbors - but moreso, its a poor way to treat the future of our country.
>>has 2 teachers that should have been fired years ago
Once again, a very very small part of the problem.
>>they're poor because it means less work.
That is very, very offensive. Can you earn minimum wage and not be poor? Below a certain income level, you can't provide for yourself AND improve yourself. "The poor bring it on themselves" is an idea the right looove to push - essentially to comfort the wealthy. Yes, there are people who are poor because they work little but there are also many working poor and its unfair to lump them together.
>>Voluntary donations by the wealthy.
Now you're smoking something. Why would we expect the wealthy to magically donate to this cause?
>>The poor today already get the worst educations
No, they get poor educations because the parents don't or simply can't take part in their children's education.
>>Yet McDonalds and Burger King can provide a meal for $3
Excellent example! Should we start serving up fast food style education? Or should we import it Wal-Mart style from China? Goooo capitalism!
>>Before we had public education, our poor had higher literacy rates.
Where do you get that from? Before we had public education...when didn't this country have public education?
>>To me, it seems that public education stifles 90% of the kids in order to try to help the 10% at the bottom
And what are you basing this on? I haven't seen a public school system where i child with involved parents couldn't get an excellent education.
Why blame the unions? You're citing issues that the public typically doesn't care about. As for NYC having trouble firing teachers - its true. But its also isolated to NYC - like a lot of problems NYC has.
Your blog claims that competition (and therefore capitalism and privatization) would fix issues with our school systems. However, you remain completely silent on the fact that many poor simply wouldn't get an education. How much should we rely on churches and foundations to pick up the slack when the government decides it doesn't want to take care of a problem?
The free market can be very good at increasing productivity. There are also places where it completely fails - particularly when there just isn't much market competition involved.
Sorry, the problem is a bit more complex than "free market will fix it!"
>>Don't you see it being a better system if it is funded locally instead of sharing funds
should the money come from my right or left pocket?
>>I just see the waste in kowtowing to the teacher unions and the public worker unions.
I have a very close friend that is a teacher and I see zero proof that teachers are a problem. They're a scapegoat. The real problem is that there is a poor chain of responsibility. Teachers don't get backing from parents or the pricipal. Parents would rather blame teachers than take responsibility for their kids.
(Yes, some teachers don't pull their weight but that is a very small part of the problem)
>>but the large majority are what I would consider "dumb."
I grew up in Wisconsin as well. Outside of Milwaukee, you're not going to find anyone in the state that believes in this "public education is flawed!" nonsense. Why? It works damn well in Wisconsin.
As much as everyone wants to complain about "the system", much more fault lies in the hands of parents not wanting to take responsibility.
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Its a replacement for the G5 in that its the G4's successor - at least in notebooks.
For PowerMac G5 users, no way. The intel is a 32-bit chip which would likely limit me to 2GB of ram. I have 3.5GB in my powermac and wouldn't mind a bit more.
You need the DuoCore to beat the G5. A single core wouldn't touch it.
bah, success ALLOWS for idiocy within a company. success isn't being as streamlined as possible. success is selling a product.
i don't understand why you bring school systems into it. i don't know where you live, but there are extremely excellent public school systems in this country. the school system tends to be as good as the community demands.
An exellent and extremely entertaining documentary about the cane toad invasion is known simply as "Cane Toads"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130529/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZn x0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9Y2FuZSB0b2FkfGZ0PTF8 bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=2;ft=2 2;fm=1
The article has a little bit of new info regarding leg length. However, the documentary makes paints these as creatures completely absurd. You have to be to reproduce that quickly.
Its so funny and bizzare that I didn't believe it was real.
then how do YOU measure?
sorry man, but i think this post is a fraud.
i have a hard time believing you've done such 1337 work yet your slashdot id is so much higher than mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression
>>Symptoms lasting two weeks or longer, and of a severity that begins to interfere with typical social functioning and/or activities of daily living, are considered to constitute clinical depression.
Its simply not internal vs. external. Its a change in behavior.
>>based mostly on the dismal performance of the first dual-CPU G4 Macs
What are you talking about? The first dual G4 Macs ran much faster than single processor machines - as long as you were running multiprocessor aware software. Unfortunately, when they were released not much was. OS X now makes great use of both processors.
>>Clicnical depression - depression without an actual cause
Maybe we travel in different social circles but I don't know anyone that doesn't have a reason to be depressed.
All depression can be defined in terms of brain chemistry. Some people heal themselves through changing their behavior. Some people need medications. Both aim to return the brain to the same state.
The internet is really the only hope we have left of breaking this downward spiral...
Porn will save us!
let the fucking begin!
Its been a loooong time since i've read something that contrasts so strongly with my views that i still respect.
>>Cisco is a fucking infant.
...here I am, sexually mature and not fucking. :(
What a sexual prodigy!
Your idea to have an income max for the school vouchers is interesting.
In NYC, students can attend any school in the city although they often have to submit an application. In that sense, there is some competition between the schools within this very large school system. It would be interesting to review the finer workings.
leaving the feds out is an interesting idea. also, its a viewpoint i'm unfamiliar with. however, what if there was more federal funding? part of the reason why some districts are poor and others are rich is because of the tax base. it would be great to figure out a way to even this out.
the thing that makes me uneasy about vouchers is that it can funnel money out of the public school system. further, they largely benefit the rich - the voucher isn't enough to cover private schooling, only give a price break for those that can already afford it.
Does it matter? the intel Macs top out at 2GB ram. Your DP G5 can handle at least 4GB - and you need it if you're running those apps.
>>The biggest problem I see is that the only way we can evaluation teachers is to have truly independent grading and testing systems. The most recent testing programs were passed by the unions for approval. This is not the right way to test the testers.
I agree that it would be nice to have some sort of system to judge teachers. However, how do you grade the teacher separate from the students? Further, No Child Left Behind fails miserably at this. Ask teachers how they feel about it. The teachers I know don't mind being graded, they're proud of the job they do. However, they hate having to prepare their students for such a narrow test.
>>I believe minimum wage laws keeps people poor
Damn! Where do you rank on the conservo-meter? What is minimum wage? $6? Can anyone live on that? Hell, I can understand being against the min wage because of inflation - but because it keeps people poor? So you think employers would employ twice as many people if the wage was half as much. I'm pretty sure they'd pocket the difference.
>>No one stays at the bottom long -- if they're truly valuable and hard working, they'll climb the ladder.
You're terribly optimistic.
>>My own father came to this country with no education and no money and worked his way up until retiring as the CEO of a large company.
Good for him. That doesn't mean it can happen to everyone. Also, a fair amount of luck may have helped him along.
>>Competitive charities would work to show the rich that the money actually is making a difference.
Which they already do. Why do you think the rich would start giving MORE to charity just because the government decided it didn't want to be responsible for something?
>>The food at McDonald's and Burger King is healthier
You just threw away most of the meal! The only thing you kept was the hamburger patty! And just because you lost weight eating it doesn't mean its good either.
>>I'll be working with a free market education co-op to try to prove how bad things really are.
So you already know your position and you'll set out to prove it. I'm sure you'll find plenty of evidence - and ignore plenty of evidence to the contrary.
>>Education is not a right,
I simply disagree. K-12 education should be a right. All of society suffers if its taken away from people. Shall we keep the poor stupid? (No! the rich will save them! to feed their egos!)
>>Yet I have to pay thousands a year in taxes to support the children of the lazy and irresponsible.
Thats not a very nice way to talk about your neighbors - but moreso, its a poor way to treat the future of our country.
>>has 2 teachers that should have been fired years ago
Once again, a very very small part of the problem.
>>they're poor because it means less work.
That is very, very offensive. Can you earn minimum wage and not be poor? Below a certain income level, you can't provide for yourself AND improve yourself. "The poor bring it on themselves" is an idea the right looove to push - essentially to comfort the wealthy. Yes, there are people who are poor because they work little but there are also many working poor and its unfair to lump them together.
>>Voluntary donations by the wealthy.
Now you're smoking something. Why would we expect the wealthy to magically donate to this cause?
>>The poor today already get the worst educations
No, they get poor educations because the parents don't or simply can't take part in their children's education.
>>Yet McDonalds and Burger King can provide a meal for $3
Excellent example! Should we start serving up fast food style education? Or should we import it Wal-Mart style from China? Goooo capitalism!
>>Before we had public education, our poor had higher literacy rates.
Where do you get that from? Before we had public education...when didn't this country have public education?
>>To me, it seems that public education stifles 90% of the kids in order to try to help the 10% at the bottom
And what are you basing this on? I haven't seen a public school system where i child with involved parents couldn't get an excellent education.
>>I do blame the teachers unions.
Why blame the unions? You're citing issues that the public typically doesn't care about. As for NYC having trouble firing teachers - its true. But its also isolated to NYC - like a lot of problems NYC has.
Your blog claims that competition (and therefore capitalism and privatization) would fix issues with our school systems. However, you remain completely silent on the fact that many poor simply wouldn't get an education. How much should we rely on churches and foundations to pick up the slack when the government decides it doesn't want to take care of a problem?
The free market can be very good at increasing productivity. There are also places where it completely fails - particularly when there just isn't much market competition involved.
Sorry, the problem is a bit more complex than "free market will fix it!"
>>Don't you see it being a better system if it is funded locally instead of sharing funds
should the money come from my right or left pocket?
>>I just see the waste in kowtowing to the teacher unions and the public worker unions.
I have a very close friend that is a teacher and I see zero proof that teachers are a problem. They're a scapegoat. The real problem is that there is a poor chain of responsibility. Teachers don't get backing from parents or the pricipal. Parents would rather blame teachers than take responsibility for their kids.
(Yes, some teachers don't pull their weight but that is a very small part of the problem)
>>but the large majority are what I would consider "dumb."
Hasn't it always been that way?
Right on man.
I grew up in Wisconsin as well. Outside of Milwaukee, you're not going to find anyone in the state that believes in this "public education is flawed!" nonsense. Why? It works damn well in Wisconsin.
As much as everyone wants to complain about "the system", much more fault lies in the hands of parents not wanting to take responsibility.
the bugs produce a protein proven to block HIV infection in monkeys
...but what about treatment for those that don't believe in evolution?
clearly, another example of the scientific elites pushing their liberal agenda
actually, its to let professors take unpopular risks.
that link to the anti-circumcision page is quite a hoot!
What kind of music do terrorists listen to??
let me get this straight - you think "Leap Ahead" is refering to China?
How should AMD respond? "At Least We're Not Communists"
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