It's sad to see legislation based upon whether or not the bulb is incandescent. Not all incandescent bulbs are evil. this one, for example, can save a lot of energy in the context of a closet or a stairwell(*), and it doesn't have the nasty tradeoff that compact fluorescent bulbs make where they contain nasty elements that need to be recycled. (And how many people are actually going to properly dispose of compact fluorescents, honestly?) Legislation that isn't conscious of the tradeoffs could end up doing more harm than good.
(*) Caveat, this bulb was taken off the market.:-(
I remember the old days when Microsoft would say with a straight face (or what passes for one in the trade rags, anyway) that they are standards compliant, dammit...we're compliant with the de facto standard. And, of course, you know who that was.
those GUI 'extras' are not what is making a 256MB G4 slow. Rather, it would be the fact that the machine is going to be constantly swapping out to disk. Get more RAM.
I think the only person who successfully defined music to only include what he liked was Heinrich Schenker.
True, and I like how Schoenberg simultaneously gave him due respect and put him in his place in his Theory of Harmony. I wish I could pull a quote, but I don't have it handy.
Nobody. The article did say that it was the second-highest score of all MSN.com properties. That's a little like saying that "Tuna Roof Sundae" is the second-most-favored flavor of icecream made by FishFlavoredIceCream.com.
"Beavers explosively attack people with their menacing teeth. They are the most deadly animals alive."
Am I the only one who, upon reading this, immediately wondered if there's stuff from Real Ultimate Power in the history of the Ninja page? Like how they love to flip out all the time, and how they're totally sweet...?
I want to become a really great guitarist. Maybe I can hire someone else to practice all those tedious scales, arpeggios, and chords. When they're done, I'll be able to play like Steve Vai!
"from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept"? More like welcome to unix of yesteryear. What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader?
In case anybody does not remember the X10 ads, I was able to find an online gallery of old X10 ads. Not at all subtle about who their target market is, are they?
Yeah, the G4 really is a nice little laptop processor if you can feed it instructions and data fast enough. Sadly, most G4 machines were unable to do this consistently because of the bus and the type of memory modules. The latest iteration of the PowerBooks made an improvement in this regard. The processor isn't much faster than the last rev, but these machines feel much faster, probably because of the increased bandwidth between the processor and memory. For audio applications like GarageBand, the AltiVec unit really increases the effective instructions-per-clock. The way they've offloaded a lot of work onto the GPU has helped to extend the life of the G4 too.
I'm sure they've run out of ways to squeeze more out of it, though.
You can already strip the fat from fat binaries using the "lipo" command (as in "liposuction"...been there since NeXT ported the OS to three different CPU architectures back in the early 90's.
90% of the posts here WOULD BE screaming bloody murder about microsoft rather than just small chitchat.
That statement is too hyperbolic to take seriously. I think you have to phrase your thesis in a supportable manner, or you're just making the same fallacious overgeneralizations as the grandparent.
The reactions are only unbelievable to you because you are applying
a fallacy: that some part of a group's reactions to one article and
another part of a group's reactions to another article must somehow
be consistent with each other...as if "slashdot readership" is a
single mind that must not harbor hipocrisy.
In truth, a large collection of individuals will have a large collection
of different opinions about different issues and it's silly to be
perplexed when you actually observe that to be the case.
And here I was thinking that science was supposed to be falsifiable, testable, and actually be a useful predictor?
You almost get it. Falsifiable is an absolute requirement. Usefulness as a predictor must merely be present, but does not need to be everpresent., as in the case of nonlinear systems with lots of feedback.
For example, The meteorologists' inability to tell me if it will be raining one year from today in Podunk, Nebraska does not invalidate the models used, nor could it be used to imply the presence of a divine hand. The limited prediction that the models do provide is considered sufficient. In fact, the theory predicts that long-term prediction is difficult...yet another correct prediction.
In the case of evolutionary theory, limited predictive ability exists as well. In particular, the theory allowed us to predict the discovery of intermediate forms. Every intermediate form discovered is a successful prediction by the theory. The discovery of some form that does not happen to be intermediate does not invalidate the model at all. That it won't predict what your ancestors will look like in a million years is immaterial with respect to the model being "useful as a predictior".
Interesting how many different perspectives one can get from trying to characterize
something as fluffy as a demographic like "mac fans into the Mhz Myth".
I would have said that this group feels that Intel ditching the P4 architecture and
creating multicore CPUs with good oomph-per-watt is a complete validation of
the viewpoint that clockspeed-at-all-costs was a losing direction.
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It's sad to see legislation based upon whether or not the bulb is incandescent. Not all incandescent bulbs are evil. this one, for example, can save a lot of energy in the context of a closet or a stairwell(*), and it doesn't have the nasty tradeoff that compact fluorescent bulbs make where they contain nasty elements that need to be recycled. (And how many people are actually going to properly dispose of compact fluorescents, honestly?) Legislation that isn't conscious of the tradeoffs could end up doing more harm than good. (*) Caveat, this bulb was taken off the market. :-(
Just reminiscing, that's all.
snarky, bad meta-level joke
Not knowing much about you, the only thing that comes to mind is to stop externalizing blame. I don't have much to go on here, though.
It wont, and I've already bought more memory for myself. Been there...saved up.
those GUI 'extras' are not what is making a 256MB G4 slow. Rather, it would be the fact that the machine is going to be constantly swapping out to disk. Get more RAM.
True, and I like how Schoenberg simultaneously gave him due respect and put him in his place in his Theory of Harmony. I wish I could pull a quote, but I don't have it handy.
Nobody. The article did say that it was the second-highest score of all MSN.com properties. That's a little like saying that "Tuna Roof Sundae" is the second-most-favored flavor of icecream made by FishFlavoredIceCream.com.
No, the term you're looking for is "anal-retentive", and it means...oh, I'm too tired to be pedantic today.
Sweet. Someone had the sense to make the wikipedia page point to the Chrysler Cordoba. That warms my heart.
It was Charles Sumner. He did not die from the beating.
Am I the only one who, upon reading this, immediately wondered if there's stuff from Real Ultimate Power in the history of the Ninja page? Like how they love to flip out all the time, and how they're totally sweet...?
I want to become a really great guitarist. Maybe I can hire someone else to practice all those tedious scales, arpeggios, and chords. When they're done, I'll be able to play like Steve Vai!
Scary. I wonder if companies are required to provide a comprehensive list of all of the different things that you can opt-out of.
Could be...but it's hard to feel bad about missing the lowest form of wit.
"from the welcome-to-the-world-of-tomorrow dept"? More like welcome to unix of yesteryear. What's with the kid that always crosses the finish line last and somehow always gets perceived as the leader?
If this were fark, this would be the perfect thread to link to the 'attention whore' girl in the bikini doing hand-stands on the beach.
In case anybody does not remember the X10 ads, I was able to find an online gallery of old X10 ads. Not at all subtle about who their target market is, are they?
I'm sure they've run out of ways to squeeze more out of it, though.
You can already strip the fat from fat binaries using the "lipo" command (as in "liposuction"...been there since NeXT ported the OS to three different CPU architectures back in the early 90's.
The "lipo" command has existed since the NeXT days. It would be trivial to wrap with a GUI. (Type "man lipo" for more detail.)
That statement is too hyperbolic to take seriously. I think you have to phrase your thesis in a supportable manner, or you're just making the same fallacious overgeneralizations as the grandparent.
The reactions are only unbelievable to you because you are applying a fallacy: that some part of a group's reactions to one article and another part of a group's reactions to another article must somehow be consistent with each other...as if "slashdot readership" is a single mind that must not harbor hipocrisy. In truth, a large collection of individuals will have a large collection of different opinions about different issues and it's silly to be perplexed when you actually observe that to be the case.
You almost get it. Falsifiable is an absolute requirement. Usefulness as a predictor must merely be present, but does not need to be everpresent., as in the case of nonlinear systems with lots of feedback.
For example, The meteorologists' inability to tell me if it will be raining one year from today in Podunk, Nebraska does not invalidate the models used, nor could it be used to imply the presence of a divine hand. The limited prediction that the models do provide is considered sufficient. In fact, the theory predicts that long-term prediction is difficult...yet another correct prediction.
In the case of evolutionary theory, limited predictive ability exists as well. In particular, the theory allowed us to predict the discovery of intermediate forms. Every intermediate form discovered is a successful prediction by the theory. The discovery of some form that does not happen to be intermediate does not invalidate the model at all. That it won't predict what your ancestors will look like in a million years is immaterial with respect to the model being "useful as a predictior".
Interesting how many different perspectives one can get from trying to characterize something as fluffy as a demographic like "mac fans into the Mhz Myth". I would have said that this group feels that Intel ditching the P4 architecture and creating multicore CPUs with good oomph-per-watt is a complete validation of the viewpoint that clockspeed-at-all-costs was a losing direction.