Uh, no. USB 1.0 was introduced in 1994. The firewire spec was finished in 1995. The reason USB won is because it's cheaper to implement: no royalties and less chips. BTW, IBM helped develop USB and Firewire.
Depends on the application that uses said floating point operations. According to the Spec benchmarks, Povray (a renderer I use frequently) performs much better on Core2 and Athlon64 chips than Itanium. And then there's the cost efficiency: for the price of an Itanium system, I can get four or more multicore Core2/Athlon64-based computers and render images in parallel.
Whether the Mac is a parallel product or an evolved product, the point is that the idea of user friendly computer with a WYSIWYG, mouse based GUI was not a failure. This was an early unsuccessful attempt, but in the long run the problems and costs were sorted out. You are working on a machine right now, no matter what the brand of OS, that took those basic ideas and made something successful out of them.
I use command-line exclusively you insensitive clod.
What kind of phone do you have? I have had 2 Sony Ericcson phones (my current phone and the immediate prior phone) in which I could transfer files via bluetooth to my computer, even using a Linux OS. BTW, these are essentially free phones with AT&T as my carrier.
They're actually taking a page from Apple. How? Remember how people keep saying that Mac OS X 10.2 is faster than 10.2, and 10.3 is faster than 10.2, and 10.4 is faster than 10.3? Well, MS just made Vista slow intentionally so that Windows 7 will seem faster, because it really is!*
*for those who lack a sense of humor, that was a joke by the way.
Some doctors and all pharmaceutical companies and hospitals do not want to cure you with a blue pill. Their whole existence in life is to maximize their profits, to do otherwise is not in the interest of their share holders.
As a physician, let me ask: What are you talking about? What are these diseases that you speak of that can be easily cured with a pill that the pharmaceutical companies don't want to make?
Heart disease is the most common cause of death in this country. Why? Usually, it's because of lifestyle issues: no exercise, eating poorly, smoking, etc.
The most common cancer that kills people? Lung cancer. Want to decrease the risk of lung cancer? Stop smoking.
So where's this "business opportunity" you speak of? Well here's mine: decreasing the radioactive content of "fake" whiskey to match that of the "genuinely" old stuff!
And how exactly do you know that K. S. Kyosuke does not put toast in his toaster? For your information I always buy my bread pre-toasted and then put them in my toaster.
Despite MS sales dropping 6% and profits dropping ~30%, they're still somehow the 3rd most profitable company in the world according to Fortune. They're ahead of even GE! So who's ahead of them? Exxon and Chevron.
Did you even read my prior post? If you had, you would have noticed the complications I mentioned are a result of actually being pregnant rather than the act of childbirth.
As for your rant, why didn't you have your child at home then?
Also,
The civilized alternative would have been real childbirth -- I and my brothers were all delivered breech. Yes, it takes longer than non-breech labor, but it would certainly have been less than three days.
The problem with breech is that if the baby's head is too big for the pelvis, then there's a real problem with getting the baby out. You have the rest of the body out, but not the head.
Seriously? do we really want to go down this route? We've already screwed with the planet and life enough. Do we really need to screw with it more and more by allowing human/animal hybrids?
We already have them. They're called "transgenic mice" and we use them for research. We also have bacteria with human genes too. They make insulin for diabetic people, etc.
BSE transmission is due to ingestion of infected tissue. What kind of tissue you might ask? Nerve tissue! Don't eat brains then, right? Unfortunately, your typical hamburger also has eyeballs mixed in, which contains a lot of nerve tissue.
Whoah, finally somebody who is actually against motherhood and/or apple pie. Never thought I'd see the day.
If you don't think the complications I've mentioned warrant any intervention then there's really no point in discussing this. When epidural anesthesia was introduced, there were outcries by religious people that this was unnatural, that the pain of birth must be experienced as a human condition. Seriously, why do we listen to these types of crackpot ramblings? Because they speak the loudest?
transfer or attempt to transfer a human embryo into a non-human womb... (or) transfer or attempt to transfer a non-human embryo into a human womb
This has got to be one of the stupidest thing I've ever read. The one thing that would quickly decrease the risks of pregnancy to absolutely zero is an artificial womb! Pregnancy itself has a host of potential complications that range from mildly irritating to quite deadly (eg. abdominal stria, pregnancy induced diabetes, pre-ecclampsia, ecclampsia, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary thromboemboli, amniotic fluid emboli, ectopic pregnancy, choriocarcinoma, etc.).
Hopefully this piece of legislation gets voted down.
You could say the same about almost any energy capture technology we have right now. Dams destroy river ecosystems. Solar panel production requires nasty chemicals, and their disposal is even worse. Wind farms kill birds. The list could go on.
"A team of researchers at the University of Southampton, UK, has received funding from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to learn whether otoacoustic emissions (OAE), the ear-generated sounds that emanate from within the spiral-shaped cochlea in the inner ear, can be used as a viable biometric technology like fingerprints and IRIS recognition. According to a report in New Scientist, someday instead of asking for passwords or pin numbers, a call center or bank would simply use a device on their telephone to produce a brief series of clicks in the recipient's ear to confirm the person is who they say they are."
Hmmm... I wonder if we'll get rice paddy workers interested in this. Or perhaps they're too accustomed to using their PIN numbers on the ATM machines.
Vanish -> Doom was better because you get XP and items after the battle. With X-Zone, no items are dropped and no XP. This was especially helpful when killing dinosaurs on dinosaur island to level up.
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Uh, no. USB 1.0 was introduced in 1994. The firewire spec was finished in 1995. The reason USB won is because it's cheaper to implement: no royalties and less chips. BTW, IBM helped develop USB and Firewire.
Depends on the application that uses said floating point operations. According to the Spec benchmarks, Povray (a renderer I use frequently) performs much better on Core2 and Athlon64 chips than Itanium. And then there's the cost efficiency: for the price of an Itanium system, I can get four or more multicore Core2/Athlon64-based computers and render images in parallel.
Whether the Mac is a parallel product or an evolved product, the point is that the idea of user friendly computer with a WYSIWYG, mouse based GUI was not a failure. This was an early unsuccessful attempt, but in the long run the problems and costs were sorted out.
You are working on a machine right now, no matter what the brand of OS, that took those basic ideas and made something successful out of them.
I use command-line exclusively you insensitive clod.
What kind of phone do you have? I have had 2 Sony Ericcson phones (my current phone and the immediate prior phone) in which I could transfer files via bluetooth to my computer, even using a Linux OS. BTW, these are essentially free phones with AT&T as my carrier.
Oh give me a break! Why do you need to look at porn at work?
They're actually taking a page from Apple. How? Remember how people keep saying that Mac OS X 10.2 is faster than 10.2, and 10.3 is faster than 10.2, and 10.4 is faster than 10.3? Well, MS just made Vista slow intentionally so that Windows 7 will seem faster, because it really is!*
*for those who lack a sense of humor, that was a joke by the way.
Some doctors and all pharmaceutical companies and hospitals do not want to cure you with a blue pill. Their whole existence in life is to maximize their profits, to do otherwise is not in the interest of their share holders.
As a physician, let me ask: What are you talking about? What are these diseases that you speak of that can be easily cured with a pill that the pharmaceutical companies don't want to make?
Heart disease is the most common cause of death in this country. Why? Usually, it's because of lifestyle issues: no exercise, eating poorly, smoking, etc.
The most common cancer that kills people? Lung cancer. Want to decrease the risk of lung cancer? Stop smoking.
So where's this "business opportunity" you speak of? Well here's mine: decreasing the radioactive content of "fake" whiskey to match that of the "genuinely" old stuff!
Uhm, IBM has boatloads of CPU options (POWER, PowerPC, x86, Itanium) and they've been doing pretty well.
They're a chip designer. Chip makers actually have fabrication plants.
And that's why they dropped PowerPC in favor of Intel's chips? I don't think so.
And how exactly do you know that K. S. Kyosuke does not put toast in his toaster? For your information I always buy my bread pre-toasted and then put them in my toaster.
Despite MS sales dropping 6% and profits dropping ~30%, they're still somehow the 3rd most profitable company in the world according to Fortune. They're ahead of even GE! So who's ahead of them? Exxon and Chevron.
Stole? Excuse me, but this is Slashdot. It's copyright infringement! Two completely different things there.
Did you even read my prior post? If you had, you would have noticed the complications I mentioned are a result of actually being pregnant rather than the act of childbirth.
As for your rant, why didn't you have your child at home then?
Also,
The problem with breech is that if the baby's head is too big for the pelvis, then there's a real problem with getting the baby out. You have the rest of the body out, but not the head.
We already have them. They're called "transgenic mice" and we use them for research. We also have bacteria with human genes too. They make insulin for diabetic people, etc.
BSE transmission is due to ingestion of infected tissue. What kind of tissue you might ask? Nerve tissue! Don't eat brains then, right? Unfortunately, your typical hamburger also has eyeballs mixed in, which contains a lot of nerve tissue.
If you don't think the complications I've mentioned warrant any intervention then there's really no point in discussing this. When epidural anesthesia was introduced, there were outcries by religious people that this was unnatural, that the pain of birth must be experienced as a human condition. Seriously, why do we listen to these types of crackpot ramblings? Because they speak the loudest?
Why do people make such a big deal about these things? So what if that embryo had cow mitochondria?
This has got to be one of the stupidest thing I've ever read. The one thing that would quickly decrease the risks of pregnancy to absolutely zero is an artificial womb! Pregnancy itself has a host of potential complications that range from mildly irritating to quite deadly (eg. abdominal stria, pregnancy induced diabetes, pre-ecclampsia, ecclampsia, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary thromboemboli, amniotic fluid emboli, ectopic pregnancy, choriocarcinoma, etc.).
Hopefully this piece of legislation gets voted down.
As I can recall is that Katzer is an ass and will hopefully be remembered as such.
Oh, you mean with regard to open-source licensing. Well, they're proven enforceable. Hooray!
You could say the same about almost any energy capture technology we have right now. Dams destroy river ecosystems. Solar panel production requires nasty chemicals, and their disposal is even worse. Wind farms kill birds. The list could go on.
Somewhat like "Clean diesel."
Hmmm... I wonder if we'll get rice paddy workers interested in this. Or perhaps they're too accustomed to using their PIN numbers on the ATM machines.
Vanish -> Doom was better because you get XP and items after the battle. With X-Zone, no items are dropped and no XP. This was especially helpful when killing dinosaurs on dinosaur island to level up.