you might get lucky and the machine will be good for a single generation of upgrade after 12-18 months.
On one hand I agree with you, but boxes built around 2004 or even earlier, I'm still maintaining some good machines that are still powerful enough to use today for 99% of apps. A 2.6 - 3.2GHZ P4 with 400MHZ ram works fine. A 2.6GHZ machine with 2 gig DDR ram I built in 2003 with a hyperthread capability is still a great workhorse. Now earlier than that, you are absolutely right. Every 12-18 months there was something bigger and better. When Intel decided to go with their D class Pentiums, I thought that was absolute shit. Now with bog standard dual core machines @ 1.6GHZ up to a whopping 3.2, I can't see any radical improvement unless the software can use multicore processing. It's the FSB and ram speed that is pushing the generation envelope and not so much the processors. The change from 32 bit to 64 bit OS will be pushed (I reckon Windows 7) and you'll see a move there. In the meantime, ex-lease P4s for around $100 each is pretty sweet! At least for another 12 months!!
Just after the first moon landing, the Flat Earth Society had this to say:
The flat Earth faced challenges posed by photographs of Earth from space and later the moon, to which member Samuel Shenton remarked: "It's easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye". The society took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society. It's all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth_society
If you really want to annoy Australian customs, then get a cheap suitcase and fill the voids with talcum powder in those zip seal plastic bags. If you're lucky, then maybe you'll get on the reality TV show 'Border Security'. Oh, by the way - be prepared for a cavity search....
All the searches (yes ALL of them) should be videotaped and the videos held for a duration significantly long enough to permit any traveler to file a claim against any loss. This should be codified into law and rigorously enforced by independent oversight.
This has already happened in Australia. A baggage handler a few years ago stole a camel suit from a suitcase and paraded up and down the bowels of the airport. He was seen by the owner who reported it to security. The guy got sacked and from then on everything is now recorded. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,12850308-2702,00.html
You can walk to Canada or Mexico. Catch a submarine, row boat, yacht or ship and if you hurry, you could walk across the ice bridges over to the continent. You may not get back though.
I meant the position of the tongue on the roof of the mouth between 'th' and 'd'. I used the Greek as it was (as told to me), an error in transcription many centuries ago. I have no link for this, or other source for that matter, so now I'll bow to your refutation. I'll keep looking though.
I should add that 'th' in 'theist' should actually be a 'd' sound as in 'deist'. The reason for why we have the-ology and the-ist is due to a Greek confusion between theta and delta and the position of the tongue as you say either sound.
Yeah, we have 2. 'Xmas in July' which is totally reserved for yuppies which you can catch in the wild in trendy places and then we have the one on the 25th of December when it's sweltering hot and most eat salads and prawns (erm shrimps - no one eats turkey by the way), while we watch the bushfires tearing through the countryside. Take your pick. And we do our taxes in July and get refunds about 2 weeks later.
Adults must be free to make their own decisions without interference by the government or requiring its approval. Adults are not like children and do not need anyone to make their choices for them. They can choose where to live, which job to take, where to go on holiday and what to do with their money, and live with the consequences. Similarly, they can choose their particular lifestyle including such things as how to live, whether to live alone or with others and who to live with.
You don't need to vote for a major party. Getting a libertarian senator into gov. will make a difference. And no, I'm not a member of the LDP.
FTA: Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file.... This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings that establish how the sender and recipient exchange the file. This trickery, unknown to either the sender or recipient, would make it possible for CopyRouter to see the underlying files, calculate a hash value and compare the files to the list of illegal files.
Now I read that like this: I want to download a driver that is compressed. The app however, asks the server for an uncompressed version of the file. I think that's impossible. Scenario 2: I ask for an encrypted file from my online storage provider. This app can then send a request that I wanted to download it unencrypted. This is also impossible as it was uploaded encrypted in the first place. This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings What? Send it as plain text? What protocol settings? Either the explanation FTA is shit or I'm missing something.
Sort of answering the thread: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/OpenOfficeorg-Grows-Up/?kc=rss When Sun Microsystems bought the little-known StarOffice productivity suite in 1999, and soon thereafter released the product's code base as open-source software, it was unclear how far the arguably quixotic initiative might reachâ"and what damage it could possibly wreak on Microsoft's ironclad grip on the office productivity market.
Now, nine years later, Sun is on the verge of a major 3.0 release of the project that grew up around that code base, OpenOffice.org. While OpenOffice.org hasn't achieved the same measure of mainstream adoption as its ideological cousin, the Firefox Web browser, the freely available office suite has helped advance the state of file format standardization, to the extent that Microsoft first developed its own open file format and is now prepared to include support for the ISO-standard OpenDocument format in Office 2007.
Are you talking about lotus symphony [lotus.com]? No, I was in a hurry. I should have said 'Star Office'. I've used it (it is OO in disguise), but found it a hassle to keep updating it. IBM sucks badly at Star Office updates.
If you know (from the cars manual for example) at what rev range the motor produces peak torque, then select a gear that uses that torque 'curve' and climb that hill in that gear, then that's the most efficient. As a guide: 4cyl 5 speed around 3000 to 4000 revs - 3rd or 4th gear, 6 cyl 2000-2500 revs. 8 cyl same or lower. Always try and balance the load with the gear so you can still accelerate in the gear you have chosen but you are holding constant speed by your throttle.
I've yet to encounter a calculus teacher who actually explains what good it is in the real world.
You use it to calculate the area under a curve, and from that, pretty much anything else. You need to be able to translate that into variables and math that you can program.
So in that manner, as it is no longer efficient, and if environmental conditions allow, we could lose our abilities to work out higher level cognitive problems as there is no need for it. Evolution as you say is always correct will invariably produce humans with only enough cognitive skills to do their daily requirements! Interesting.
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Have you got a copy? Can you torrent it for me pls???
you might get lucky and the machine will be good for a single generation of upgrade after 12-18 months.
On one hand I agree with you, but boxes built around 2004 or even earlier, I'm still maintaining some good machines that are still powerful enough to use today for 99% of apps.
A 2.6 - 3.2GHZ P4 with 400MHZ ram works fine. A 2.6GHZ machine with 2 gig DDR ram I built in 2003 with a hyperthread capability is still a great workhorse.
Now earlier than that, you are absolutely right. Every 12-18 months there was something bigger and better. When Intel decided to go with their D class Pentiums, I thought that was absolute shit. Now with bog standard dual core machines @ 1.6GHZ up to a whopping 3.2, I can't see any radical improvement unless the software can use multicore processing.
It's the FSB and ram speed that is pushing the generation envelope and not so much the processors. The change from 32 bit to 64 bit OS will be pushed (I reckon Windows 7) and you'll see a move there.
In the meantime, ex-lease P4s for around $100 each is pretty sweet! At least for another 12 months!!
Just after the first moon landing, the Flat Earth Society had this to say:
The flat Earth faced challenges posed by photographs of Earth from space and later the moon, to which member Samuel Shenton remarked: "It's easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye". The society took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society.
It's all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth_society
If you really want to annoy Australian customs, then get a cheap suitcase and fill the voids with talcum powder in those zip seal plastic bags. If you're lucky, then maybe you'll get on the reality TV show 'Border Security'.
Oh, by the way - be prepared for a cavity search....
All the searches (yes ALL of them) should be videotaped and the videos held for a duration significantly long enough to permit any traveler to file a claim against any loss. This should be codified into law and rigorously enforced by independent oversight.
This has already happened in Australia. A baggage handler a few years ago stole a camel suit from a suitcase and paraded up and down the bowels of the airport. He was seen by the owner who reported it to security. The guy got sacked and from then on everything is now recorded.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,12850308-2702,00.html
You can walk to Canada or Mexico.
Catch a submarine, row boat, yacht or ship
and if you hurry, you could walk across the ice bridges over to the continent. You may not get back though.
I meant the position of the tongue on the roof of the mouth between 'th' and 'd'. I used the Greek as it was (as told to me), an error in transcription many centuries ago.
I have no link for this, or other source for that matter, so now I'll bow to your refutation.
I'll keep looking though.
I should add that 'th' in 'theist' should actually be a 'd' sound as in 'deist'. The reason for why we have the-ology and the-ist is due to a Greek confusion between theta and delta and the position of the tongue as you say either sound.
Opening scenes of The Party (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063415/ which has got to be one of the funniest movies) has Peter Sellers driving one.
Yeah, we have 2. 'Xmas in July' which is totally reserved for yuppies which you can catch in the wild in trendy places and then we have the one on the 25th of December when it's sweltering hot and most eat salads and prawns (erm shrimps - no one eats turkey by the way), while we watch the bushfires tearing through the countryside.
Take your pick. And we do our taxes in July and get refunds about 2 weeks later.
From the LDP Site:
Lifestyle Choices
Adults must be free to make their own decisions without interference by the government or requiring its approval. Adults are not like children and do not need anyone to make their choices for them. They can choose where to live, which job to take, where to go on holiday and what to do with their money, and live with the consequences. Similarly, they can choose their particular lifestyle including such things as how to live, whether to live alone or with others and who to live with.
You don't need to vote for a major party. Getting a libertarian senator into gov. will make a difference. And no, I'm not a member of the LDP.
There are other political parties out there that will fix the issues: Try the LDP:
http://www.ldp.org.au/federal/policies/index.html
I'm sure I can get a policy statement from them if I try hard enough...
FTA: ... This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings that establish how the sender and recipient exchange the file. This trickery, unknown to either the sender or recipient, would make it possible for CopyRouter to see the underlying files, calculate a hash value and compare the files to the list of illegal files.
Encrypted files on the peer-to-peer network could not be decrypted by CopyRouter, but the company claims it can fool the sender's computer into believing that the recipient was requesting an unencrypted and uncompressed file.
Now I read that like this: I want to download a driver that is compressed. The app however, asks the server for an uncompressed version of the file. I think that's impossible.
Scenario 2: I ask for an encrypted file from my online storage provider. This app can then send a request that I wanted to download it unencrypted. This is also impossible as it was uploaded encrypted in the first place.
This is done by changing the underlying protocol settings
What? Send it as plain text? What protocol settings?
Either the explanation FTA is shit or I'm missing something.
Oh Shit! The link leads onto a 'register to view article and get inundated with spam' site.
Ignore please.
Sort of answering the thread: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/OpenOfficeorg-Grows-Up/?kc=rss
When Sun Microsystems bought the little-known StarOffice productivity suite in 1999, and soon thereafter released the product's code base as open-source software, it was unclear how far the arguably quixotic initiative might reachâ"and what damage it could possibly wreak on Microsoft's ironclad grip on the office productivity market.
Now, nine years later, Sun is on the verge of a major 3.0 release of the project that grew up around that code base, OpenOffice.org. While OpenOffice.org hasn't achieved the same measure of mainstream adoption as its ideological cousin, the Firefox Web browser, the freely available office suite has helped advance the state of file format standardization, to the extent that Microsoft first developed its own open file format and is now prepared to include support for the ISO-standard OpenDocument format in Office 2007.
It wasn't IBM but Sun... My Goof!
Are you talking about lotus symphony [lotus.com]?
No, I was in a hurry. I should have said 'Star Office'.
I've used it (it is OO in disguise), but found it a hassle to keep updating it. IBM sucks badly at Star Office updates.
What you said +1
is that the energy they are putting in is *also* removing carbon from the atmosphere
Yup, it's one of the things [sandia.gov]
I want one.
Are IBM bringing out the equivalent version of Star Office soon? - Just wondering....
Don't forget that the US has also guaranteed $67 trillion dollars over the last decade or 2.
If you know (from the cars manual for example) at what rev range the motor produces peak torque, then select a gear that uses that torque 'curve' and climb that hill in that gear, then that's the most efficient.
As a guide: 4cyl 5 speed around 3000 to 4000 revs - 3rd or 4th gear,
6 cyl 2000-2500 revs.
8 cyl same or lower.
Always try and balance the load with the gear so you can still accelerate in the gear you have chosen but you are holding constant speed by your throttle.
I've yet to encounter a calculus teacher who actually explains what good it is in the real world.
You use it to calculate the area under a curve, and from that, pretty much anything else.
You need to be able to translate that into variables and math that you can program.
I visited QLD once. Then I came back. Strange place.
I like your modality.
So in that manner, as it is no longer efficient, and if environmental conditions allow, we could lose our abilities to work out higher level cognitive problems as there is no need for it.
Evolution as you say is always correct will invariably produce humans with only enough cognitive skills to do their daily requirements!
Interesting.