Why exactly does it run slow? Is it the OS itself or the browser?
It's the OS.
I work on a cross-platform PC/Mac app. Among the code I maintain is some floating-point computation-intensive code. No UI calls at all. It's three times slower on OS X than the same code running on OS 9. Why? Ya got me.
Solar power, you make me laugh. Do you know how much energy it takes to make a solar panel?
Irrelevant, since solar plants use curved mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a much smaller area of solar cells than the area reflected.
Windmills are the same problem. You need too many of them all over the landscape to have any benefit.
So put 'em offshore. There's plenty of continental shelf on the east coast.
Really, though, the proof of the viability of various energy generation methods will come from countries that have limited access to fossil fuels and nukes.
Many alternatives are more freely available than hydrogen, but none of them are particularly efficient nor cheap, except for nuclear, and the only reason we don't use more nuclear power is solely because of political factors.
There's the insurance risk, too. Nuclear plants have the special protection of the Price-Anderson Act, greatly limiting their liability. Before that's repealed/not extended, I for one am not willing to see more nuclear plants. I'd expect the insurance industry to give a relatively rational evaluation of the true risks.
In which case, we'll have to convert to other forms of energy anyway. We can synthesize oil, so plastics can still be made. And if supplies of fossil fuels drop, the prices will go up, so conversion/efficiency improvements will start long before the supplies drop precipitously.
I have three gamepads, two joysticks, a scanner, a mouse, and two digital cameras, all USB. I think my printer can talk USB too. I've considered getting USB rudder pedals, a steering wheel, and a graphics tablet also, and a PDA that talks USB.
There's no reason a PS/2 wireless keyboard should work any better than a USB one.
Note that some of the ports support USB 2.0, which is 480Mbps rather than 12. That's acceptably fast enough for most things, especially if you plug your slow stuff into the USB 1.1 ports.
You mean like a power button that turns the power on, and then off again ?
I own or make use of three different machines (HP Pavillion, Dell Optiplex, and an original iMac); *none* of them have a power switch that works that way. I've had to unplug all of them in cases of OS failure.
Those in power, that is, the power to limit your freedom and mine, inherited that power in a fairly unbroken succession going back, at minimum, centuries. Everyone else is subject to their will.
Other than Bush, admittedly a decent example of your claim, who among today's powerful has such an inheritance? Last century's most powerful monarchy, England, is now merely a figurehead (and England itself has lost all real control of its Empire). The Tsars died in 1917. The French aristocracy lost their heads. Monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are largely recent creations, tribal leaders elevated to more powerful positions.
But what about the economically powerful? Gates, Ellison, Walton (Wal-Mart) are pretty new to real wealth. Where are the long lasting real fortunes?
Total freedom means survival of the strongest and least scrupulous and those valuable to them, i.e. mainly the freedom to be robbed, raped, murdered and suppressed.
Au contraire.
We live in a world of absolute freedom. We just choose to use that freedom to form governments to prevent the unscrupulous from abusing others.
Also remember that materials are not the entire bottom line of the publishing industry. Authors, pinters, managers, marketeers, advertisers, etc. need to be paid more every year...
...the cost of whose services should also go up at a rate similar to inflation. Don't claim the same thing twice. If half the costs go up by inflation, and so do the other half, the whole thing goes up by the rate of inflation, not double it!
Also, the default shipping option is "media mail", which takes up to 1 month within the 48 states
It's amazing to me that it can be that inefficient; you would think that at a certain point, the warehousing costs would exceed the shipping costs for faster service.
A Freudian slip about the Microsoft attitude perhaps? We could of course be reading too much into one word (Nah!), but if I were talking about educating my employees, I'd like to think I'd say they were "enlightened."
I'm not particularly thrilled that Blizzard is attacking bnetd with the cadre of ninja attack lawyers, but what are their other options?
Grin and bear it.
The WarCraft III piraters aren't using BnetD, they're using a hacked version which isn't available from bnetd.org. The pirates are distributing a multi-megabyte WCIII file, and presumably distributing the hacked bnetd along with it. Do you think this lawsuit is going to change that?
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People just page me, and I call them back.
What do you do if you have a friend who is similarly situated?
Result: internet telephone calls are prohibited on Palaunet.
Don't worry, I'm sure the U.S. will invade there soon enough. They're just a ways down the list.
Rich people don't get rich by spending. :)
Sure they do (although it's by spending other people's money...)
Why exactly does it run slow? Is it the OS itself or the browser?
It's the OS.
I work on a cross-platform PC/Mac app. Among the code I maintain is some floating-point computation-intensive code. No UI calls at all. It's three times slower on OS X than the same code running on OS 9. Why? Ya got me.
How do you think Oracle would treat the whole country?
Like a baby treats a diaper.
This is totally separate from any payoffs from Microsoft which might show up and influence Jobs, of course.
I think the payoff is the continued development of the Mac version of Office.
The screen measures just four inches in diameter
[Boggled look] The screen is round?
If the same tracks were available free then people would still rip them off. End of. Full stop.
And no matter how secure you try to make banks, people will rob them. So building a bank is pointless?
Solar power, you make me laugh. Do you know how much energy it takes to make a solar panel?
Irrelevant, since solar plants use curved mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a much smaller area of solar cells than the area reflected.
Windmills are the same problem. You need too many of them all over the landscape to have any benefit.
So put 'em offshore. There's plenty of continental shelf on the east coast.
Really, though, the proof of the viability of various energy generation methods will come from countries that have limited access to fossil fuels and nukes.
Many alternatives are more freely available than hydrogen, but none of them are particularly efficient nor cheap, except for nuclear, and the only reason we don't use more nuclear power is solely because of political factors.
There's the insurance risk, too. Nuclear plants have the special protection of the Price-Anderson Act, greatly limiting their liability. Before that's repealed/not extended, I for one am not willing to see more nuclear plants. I'd expect the insurance industry to give a relatively rational evaluation of the true risks.
Eventually, we will run out [of fossil fuels].
In which case, we'll have to convert to other forms of energy anyway. We can synthesize oil, so plastics can still be made. And if supplies of fossil fuels drop, the prices will go up, so conversion/efficiency improvements will start long before the supplies drop precipitously.
What great usb hardware exists?
I have three gamepads, two joysticks, a scanner, a mouse, and two digital cameras, all USB. I think my printer can talk USB too. I've considered getting USB rudder pedals, a steering wheel, and a graphics tablet also, and a PDA that talks USB.
There's no reason a PS/2 wireless keyboard should work any better than a USB one.
Note that some of the ports support USB 2.0, which is 480Mbps rather than 12. That's acceptably fast enough for most things, especially if you plug your slow stuff into the USB 1.1 ports.
You mean like a power button that turns the power on, and then off again ?
I own or make use of three different machines (HP Pavillion, Dell Optiplex, and an original iMac); *none* of them have a power switch that works that way. I've had to unplug all of them in cases of OS failure.
Those in power, that is, the power to limit your freedom and mine, inherited that power in a fairly unbroken succession going back, at minimum, centuries. Everyone else is subject to their will.
Other than Bush, admittedly a decent example of your claim, who among today's powerful has such an inheritance? Last century's most powerful monarchy, England, is now merely a figurehead (and England itself has lost all real control of its Empire). The Tsars died in 1917. The French aristocracy lost their heads. Monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are largely recent creations, tribal leaders elevated to more powerful positions.
But what about the economically powerful? Gates, Ellison, Walton (Wal-Mart) are pretty new to real wealth. Where are the long lasting real fortunes?
Gov't employees get paid the same amount whereveer you go, so pick a place where your money will go father.
That's not quite true, there are locality adjustments, but they're not large enough to cover the cost difference.
Total freedom means survival of the strongest and least scrupulous and those valuable to them, i.e. mainly the freedom to be robbed, raped, murdered and suppressed.
Au contraire.
We live in a world of absolute freedom. We just choose to use that freedom to form governments to prevent the unscrupulous from abusing others.
Also remember that materials are not the entire bottom line of the publishing industry. Authors, pinters, managers, marketeers, advertisers, etc. need to be paid more every year ...
...the cost of whose services should also go up at a rate similar to inflation. Don't claim the same thing twice. If half the costs go up by inflation, and so do the other half, the whole thing goes up by the rate of inflation, not double it!
Also, the default shipping option is "media mail", which takes up to 1 month within the 48 states
It's amazing to me that it can be that inefficient; you would think that at a certain point, the warehousing costs would exceed the shipping costs for faster service.
Ditto "It hung in the air the same way bricks don't."
I was surprised by this quote too.
A Freudian slip about the Microsoft attitude perhaps? We could of course be reading too much into one word (Nah!), but if I were talking about educating my employees, I'd like to think I'd say they were "enlightened."
I'd like to see the following integrated, myself:
MP3 player
PDA
Good-sized hard drive with firewire/USB2.0 interface
I've seen two of these together, but never all three.
I'm not particularly thrilled that Blizzard is attacking bnetd with the cadre of ninja attack lawyers, but what are their other options?
Grin and bear it.
The WarCraft III piraters aren't using BnetD, they're using a hacked version which isn't available from bnetd.org. The pirates are distributing a multi-megabyte WCIII file, and presumably distributing the hacked bnetd along with it. Do you think this lawsuit is going to change that?
*blink*. Have you ever worked on anything of more than, say, 100,000 lines of code?
Perhaps anything bigger than that should be factored into multiple projects, with a rarely changed and well-documented interface between them?
Somewhere more than 100,000 lines is probably larger than one person can grok, depending on how well-organized the code is.
ROTFL! I see some poor moderator got sucked into ranking all that bafflegab as "informative".
Perhaps Slashdot could hire him to do April Fool's Day articles next year?