Umm, no. I flew 4 times in the past two weeks on AA. One of them was an America West flight. But the rest were regular AA. None of them had seat power in coach. Maybe 1st class.
I agree with you in principle, but I find it surprising that you're a long-time computer person and didn't infer in a few seconds what VT stood for. It's a pretty hot topic. But I guess you said you've "been involved with and around computers and electronics." That's pretty vague. It could mean that you've watched television and played Zork.
In my view, if you didn't understand the title, you're probably not going to have any interest in the content. If you have no idea what VT is, why would you care if it is turned on?
I think it's silly to hold online news sites to the same standards as, say, journal publications. They're just trying to pump out the latest info to the people who care. If you don't know what the acronym stood for, it probably wasn't written for you. If you still think you care, go look it up as suggested.
Maybe not. Traffic jams are interesting beasts. If traffic can be diverted as soon as the accident happens, then the congestion might be minimal. It would be easier for emergency vehicles to get there and take care of business, and the jam may never materialize to the extent it does now.
Most of the time when you get to a traffic jam, the instigating event has long been cleared and you're dealing with the residual mess which can last for hours. If 75% of that traffic could be diverted soon after the incident takes place, then the damage done to traffic patterns could be minimized. Of course, this means you have to deploy the system in almost all the cars on the road, which is a pretty daunting task. Not likely to happen for a couple decades.
Huh? They save energy because they use less energy to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent. They're inherently more efficient, and thus produce less heat for a given light output.
What's confusing?
Or, perhaps, he just chose the wrong adjective. Replace "normal" with enlightened or emotionally healthy.
Just because it has become normal doesn't mean it's right.
It's not just you. BGII was the best video game D&D experience I've had, and it's not close to my first. IWD was pretty good, but not close to BG, and especially BGII. The story of NWN certainly didn't compare to BGII. I also liked the big parties of the older games.
I play a lot of FPS, but am a sucker for a good D&D-type adventure. The best stories I've played through are BGII and (though not at all D&D, but more of a RTS strategy game without resources) a game called Myth by the pre-Microsoft Bungie. Those games caused more sleepless nights than any other.
From my point of view, you actually made my point, which is that you must not have more than a couple years of financial data if the paper stack is that small. I guess you're not planning on getting audited. If you take the best-case paper trail(someone who saves only 3 years of data) to someone with a computer from 1999 (my point when I exaggerated about the 80's comp.), then of course you can make it bigger. You said computers are cumbersome, to which I would say that your computer might be, but not all are.
As contrast, I could put everything needed in a laptop bag. So just because it CAN be bigger, doesn't mean it has to be.
Finally, in the last comment I was just being silly. The;) was supposed to suggest that. Guess it didn't work. 22 year olds are probably too busy making porn to watch it.
You paper bills take up less space? OK, so you're 22? Or perhaps you're using hardware built in the 1980's?
Regarding backup, I actually use FolderShare to distribute my important files (encrypted transfer) to several computers including my laptop. All my Money files, Taxcut returns, important scanned receipts, etc. are shared between a few computers. All these files, including my digital pictures, are around 12 gig. So for the cost of around 50 gig, I have quadruple redundancy of important files. I also manually back up to an external drive occasionally. But one computer crashing won't really affect me in the short-term, as I always have three backups. Later, I just do a clean install and then restore important files.
As for the porn comment, I guess you are 22!;)
Alarmingly high? You find it alarming that 1 of every 100 articles on a free web-based encyclopedia has plagiarized material. You are clearly much less cynical than I am. I would have guessed at least 5%, probably more.
Regarding firewire, the devices you listed won't use up the bandwidth of FW 400 (I'm assuming you mean DSLR??). Almost all of them have FW400 interfaces, and those that do have 800 aren't really capable of using that bandwidth.
Regarding your crashes, I've actually had to replace more Mac's than PC's. I've had one Mac HDD crash and one motherboard fry. I've had only a motherboard go bad on a PC. But anyway, all this is likely anecdotal. The Mac is basically using the same hardware so failure rates are likely the same. Sounds like you had a run of bad luck. I typically don't use major vendors but assemble the hardware myself. I get preassembled stuff from places like Monarch if I'm lazy. My one bad motherboard was from a Dell PIII system I bought about 7 years back and haven't bought any desktops from the major vendors since. I'll stick with Thinkpad for laptops until Lenovo proves they've messed up a good thing.
I think Mac's are good products, but I don't think you'll notice significantly fewer problems in the long run. I have to help my Mac friends repair and recover just as much as my PC friends, and I've probably got fewer Mac friends.
The activation thing doesn't bother me. The only reason Mac doesn't do it is because they control the hardware. They know you've bought the hardware because you've got a Mac.
Hmm, Aluminum vs. Magnesium alloy - advantage Thinkpad.
FW800 - What devices do you have that use FW800 and are actually faster because of it? I know I have none. Quick, make something up.
Drop-tilt sensors were developed by Thinkpad and are standard on all Thinkpads (DOH!!).
Thinkpad has a keyboard illuminator built into the top of the screen that is also useful as a light. More functional and much less cheesy than the backlit keyboard in my book. To each his own.
MagSafe power connector is neat. I must say that I've never come close to pulling my computer off the table by the power cord. Maybe you're more of a klutz than me.
The Client Security Solution is not a subscription, but the software that integrates the fingerprint reader, allowing you to log into anything by swiping your fingerprint. Much less useful than your little camera, I'm sure!
Thinkpad service is usually rated higher than Apple service. Comes with 3 years accidental damage and Thinkpad on-site service. Forgot to copy-and-paste that. Don't you have to pay extra for AppleCare, which this essentially is (with better service).
You think the Thinkpad doesn't have an ExpressCard slot? Of course it does.
Ambient Lighting Sensors?? You would pay for that if you had the choice?
The software is your choice. I find nothing on iLife compelling. If you do, great. The cost of the software is a wash between XP and OSX. It's a choice. I said that in the beginning. The discussion was which purchase gives you more hardware for a better price.
So after addressing the above, you're saying that you would pay $200 to have a significantly lower resolution screen, a significantly less powerful graphics card all for FW800 (over FW400), the MagSafe, the iSight camera, and ambient lighting sensors? That's fine, but I really find it difficult to argue that this is a wash from a cost-analysis standpoint.
The Xeons in the Mac Pro are indeed quite a bit more expensive than the Core 2 Duos. In fact, for $2600 the Mac Pro is a pretty damn good deal. For everything else, I would agree that you can get more hardware for your money elsewhere.
Whether it is worth it or not is completely subjective. It might be worth it for you. It's not for me. And yes, I've used OSX enough to decide.
The original point is not irrelevant. Why can't you get an equivalent PC? You can certainly get one that is close enough for the differences to be trivial. Even if you couldn't, it wouldn't make the point "irrelevant", just impossible to prove. But you can, so it is (possible to prove, that is).
I can configure a more powerful Thinkpad for at least $200 cheaper than a similar Macbook Pro. The Thinkpad doesn't have a camera, but has a higher resolutions screen, better graphics card, Wireless N (if you want it), and most importantly (for me) the pointer-nipple known as Trackpoint. For what I use a notebook for (CAD, finite element post-processing), there is just no comparison. Obviously others find the the Macbook Pro design and OSX superior and thus are quite willing to pay more for less hardware. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Bullshit. See my other post. Macs do cost more. That's fine, you can make a good argument they should, but they cost more. Comparing it to Dell and then upgrading it with their horribly overpriced upgrades is not a valid argument. Only idiots do that.
The Mac Pro IS the one exception, although I can still configure a faster equivalent PC from someplace like Monarch for a little cheaper, (with XP/Vista upgrade instead of OSX). I am guessing that Intel is giving Apple a significant price break on the processors.
I'm tired of this argument. If you want to pay more for a Mac, that's fine, but don't say you can't get a good PC for cheaper. It's just not true. The only Mac you can come close to arguing that with is the desktop Mac Pro, since they are workstation processors that Intel must be giving Apple a significant price break on. Just configured a thinkpad with better graphics, higher resolution display, wireless n integrated, $200 cheaper. And Thinkpads are not considered cheap notebooks. You can get it $2000 if you wait for a sale. Perhaps you think the little camera is worth over $200?
ThinkPad Z61e 9450GBU $2,303.00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2, 667MHz FSB) (Standard) 1 Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 41U3118 1
Display type: 15.4 inch WUXGA TFT (1920x1200) (Standard) 1
Memory: 1GB PC2-5300 CL5 NP DDR2 SDRAM SODIMM 2
Graphics: 256MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 (Standard) 1
Ports: 3 USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, 3-1 digital media reader (SD/MMC/MS), S-Video out, External Display, External Microphone/Line-In, Headphone / Line out (Standard),
Hard drive: 120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive,
Optical device: 8x Max DVD Recordable Ultrabay Enhanced Drive,
Integrated communication: 56K V.92 Designed Modem (Standard),
Integrated Ethernet: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (Standard),
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN: Wi-Fi wireless upgradable and Bluetooth (Standard),
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters: ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Security: Client Security Solution and Integrated fingerprint reader (Standard)
I would argue that basic physics (for instance, the first three semesters at college) has changed very little over the last 20 years. Certainly the basics of mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics has changed very little. The more esoteric topics such as string theory have advanced, but they have very little relevance to anyone except academics in physics.
The energy imparted to the vest/person is directly related to the force. Again, you're treating momentum as a magnitude and not a vector. It has direction. The momentum change of a purely elastic collision is twice that of one that is purely inelastic. Thus for the same impact time, the force imparted will be twice. Said another way, the total energy imparted to the vest/person is twice for a purely elastic as for a purely inelastic collision. Reflececting the bullet in the opposite direction does the person no favors.
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Yo Meat, You just made his (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) point! Look at the title of the article! ;)
Umm, no. I flew 4 times in the past two weeks on AA. One of them was an America West flight. But the rest were regular AA. None of them had seat power in coach. Maybe 1st class.
You majored in hydrogen chloride???
I agree with you in principle, but I find it surprising that you're a long-time computer person and didn't infer in a few seconds what VT stood for. It's a pretty hot topic. But I guess you said you've "been involved with and around computers and electronics." That's pretty vague. It could mean that you've watched television and played Zork. In my view, if you didn't understand the title, you're probably not going to have any interest in the content. If you have no idea what VT is, why would you care if it is turned on? I think it's silly to hold online news sites to the same standards as, say, journal publications. They're just trying to pump out the latest info to the people who care. If you don't know what the acronym stood for, it probably wasn't written for you. If you still think you care, go look it up as suggested.
It's not much worse that what you stated, which could be interpreted as a byte is one eighth of a bit.
/8 Tb) = 37.5 TB.
I understood what you were trying to say, but it wasn't clear. Try:
300 Tb * (1 TB
or to generalize:
x Tb * (1TB / 8 Tb) = x/8 TB.
Simple mistake (or abmiguous notation, if you prefer), but kind of funny since you were ribbing the parent about simple math!
Maybe not. Traffic jams are interesting beasts. If traffic can be diverted as soon as the accident happens, then the congestion might be minimal. It would be easier for emergency vehicles to get there and take care of business, and the jam may never materialize to the extent it does now. Most of the time when you get to a traffic jam, the instigating event has long been cleared and you're dealing with the residual mess which can last for hours. If 75% of that traffic could be diverted soon after the incident takes place, then the damage done to traffic patterns could be minimized. Of course, this means you have to deploy the system in almost all the cars on the road, which is a pretty daunting task. Not likely to happen for a couple decades.
Huh? They save energy because they use less energy to produce the same amount of light as an incandescent. They're inherently more efficient, and thus produce less heat for a given light output. What's confusing?
Or, perhaps, he just chose the wrong adjective. Replace "normal" with enlightened or emotionally healthy. Just because it has become normal doesn't mean it's right.
It's not just you. BGII was the best video game D&D experience I've had, and it's not close to my first. IWD was pretty good, but not close to BG, and especially BGII. The story of NWN certainly didn't compare to BGII. I also liked the big parties of the older games. I play a lot of FPS, but am a sucker for a good D&D-type adventure. The best stories I've played through are BGII and (though not at all D&D, but more of a RTS strategy game without resources) a game called Myth by the pre-Microsoft Bungie. Those games caused more sleepless nights than any other.
My T42 sleeps fine. It might fail to come out properly once every 20 times. It takes longer than it used to though.
African or European?
From my point of view, you actually made my point, which is that you must not have more than a couple years of financial data if the paper stack is that small. I guess you're not planning on getting audited. If you take the best-case paper trail(someone who saves only 3 years of data) to someone with a computer from 1999 (my point when I exaggerated about the 80's comp.), then of course you can make it bigger. You said computers are cumbersome, to which I would say that your computer might be, but not all are.
;) was supposed to suggest that. Guess it didn't work. 22 year olds are probably too busy making porn to watch it.
As contrast, I could put everything needed in a laptop bag. So just because it CAN be bigger, doesn't mean it has to be.
Finally, in the last comment I was just being silly. The
You paper bills take up less space? OK, so you're 22? Or perhaps you're using hardware built in the 1980's? Regarding backup, I actually use FolderShare to distribute my important files (encrypted transfer) to several computers including my laptop. All my Money files, Taxcut returns, important scanned receipts, etc. are shared between a few computers. All these files, including my digital pictures, are around 12 gig. So for the cost of around 50 gig, I have quadruple redundancy of important files. I also manually back up to an external drive occasionally. But one computer crashing won't really affect me in the short-term, as I always have three backups. Later, I just do a clean install and then restore important files. As for the porn comment, I guess you are 22! ;)
Alarmingly high? You find it alarming that 1 of every 100 articles on a free web-based encyclopedia has plagiarized material. You are clearly much less cynical than I am. I would have guessed at least 5%, probably more.
Regarding firewire, the devices you listed won't use up the bandwidth of FW 400 (I'm assuming you mean DSLR??). Almost all of them have FW400 interfaces, and those that do have 800 aren't really capable of using that bandwidth.
Regarding your crashes, I've actually had to replace more Mac's than PC's. I've had one Mac HDD crash and one motherboard fry. I've had only a motherboard go bad on a PC. But anyway, all this is likely anecdotal. The Mac is basically using the same hardware so failure rates are likely the same. Sounds like you had a run of bad luck. I typically don't use major vendors but assemble the hardware myself. I get preassembled stuff from places like Monarch if I'm lazy. My one bad motherboard was from a Dell PIII system I bought about 7 years back and haven't bought any desktops from the major vendors since. I'll stick with Thinkpad for laptops until Lenovo proves they've messed up a good thing.
I think Mac's are good products, but I don't think you'll notice significantly fewer problems in the long run. I have to help my Mac friends repair and recover just as much as my PC friends, and I've probably got fewer Mac friends.
The activation thing doesn't bother me. The only reason Mac doesn't do it is because they control the hardware. They know you've bought the hardware because you've got a Mac.
Hmm, Aluminum vs. Magnesium alloy - advantage Thinkpad.
FW800 - What devices do you have that use FW800 and are actually faster because of it? I know I have none. Quick, make something up.
Drop-tilt sensors were developed by Thinkpad and are standard on all Thinkpads (DOH!!).
Thinkpad has a keyboard illuminator built into the top of the screen that is also useful as a light. More functional and much less cheesy than the backlit keyboard in my book. To each his own.
MagSafe power connector is neat. I must say that I've never come close to pulling my computer off the table by the power cord. Maybe you're more of a klutz than me.
The Client Security Solution is not a subscription, but the software that integrates the fingerprint reader, allowing you to log into anything by swiping your fingerprint. Much less useful than your little camera, I'm sure!
Thinkpad service is usually rated higher than Apple service. Comes with 3 years accidental damage and Thinkpad on-site service. Forgot to copy-and-paste that. Don't you have to pay extra for AppleCare, which this essentially is (with better service).
You think the Thinkpad doesn't have an ExpressCard slot? Of course it does.
Ambient Lighting Sensors?? You would pay for that if you had the choice?
The software is your choice. I find nothing on iLife compelling. If you do, great. The cost of the software is a wash between XP and OSX. It's a choice. I said that in the beginning. The discussion was which purchase gives you more hardware for a better price.
So after addressing the above, you're saying that you would pay $200 to have a significantly lower resolution screen, a significantly less powerful graphics card all for FW800 (over FW400), the MagSafe, the iSight camera, and ambient lighting sensors? That's fine, but I really find it difficult to argue that this is a wash from a cost-analysis standpoint.
Garage Band so STFU?? How many pimples did you pop today?
The Xeons in the Mac Pro are indeed quite a bit more expensive than the Core 2 Duos. In fact, for $2600 the Mac Pro is a pretty damn good deal. For everything else, I would agree that you can get more hardware for your money elsewhere.
Whether it is worth it or not is completely subjective. It might be worth it for you. It's not for me. And yes, I've used OSX enough to decide. The original point is not irrelevant. Why can't you get an equivalent PC? You can certainly get one that is close enough for the differences to be trivial. Even if you couldn't, it wouldn't make the point "irrelevant", just impossible to prove. But you can, so it is (possible to prove, that is). I can configure a more powerful Thinkpad for at least $200 cheaper than a similar Macbook Pro. The Thinkpad doesn't have a camera, but has a higher resolutions screen, better graphics card, Wireless N (if you want it), and most importantly (for me) the pointer-nipple known as Trackpoint. For what I use a notebook for (CAD, finite element post-processing), there is just no comparison. Obviously others find the the Macbook Pro design and OSX superior and thus are quite willing to pay more for less hardware. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Bullshit. See my other post. Macs do cost more. That's fine, you can make a good argument they should, but they cost more. Comparing it to Dell and then upgrading it with their horribly overpriced upgrades is not a valid argument. Only idiots do that. The Mac Pro IS the one exception, although I can still configure a faster equivalent PC from someplace like Monarch for a little cheaper, (with XP/Vista upgrade instead of OSX). I am guessing that Intel is giving Apple a significant price break on the processors.
I'm tired of this argument. If you want to pay more for a Mac, that's fine, but don't say you can't get a good PC for cheaper. It's just not true. The only Mac you can come close to arguing that with is the desktop Mac Pro, since they are workstation processors that Intel must be giving Apple a significant price break on. Just configured a thinkpad with better graphics, higher resolution display, wireless n integrated, $200 cheaper. And Thinkpads are not considered cheap notebooks. You can get it $2000 if you wait for a sale. Perhaps you think the little camera is worth over $200? ThinkPad Z61e 9450GBU $2,303.00 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 (2.33GHz, 4MB L2, 667MHz FSB) (Standard) 1 Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 41U3118 1 Display type: 15.4 inch WUXGA TFT (1920x1200) (Standard) 1 Memory: 1GB PC2-5300 CL5 NP DDR2 SDRAM SODIMM 2 Graphics: 256MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 (Standard) 1 Ports: 3 USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, 3-1 digital media reader (SD/MMC/MS), S-Video out, External Display, External Microphone/Line-In, Headphone / Line out (Standard), Hard drive: 120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive, Optical device: 8x Max DVD Recordable Ultrabay Enhanced Drive, Integrated communication: 56K V.92 Designed Modem (Standard), Integrated Ethernet: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (Standard), Integrated WiFi wireless LAN: Wi-Fi wireless upgradable and Bluetooth (Standard), Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters: ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Security: Client Security Solution and Integrated fingerprint reader (Standard)
You're daydreaming....about RAID-5??? What excites you more, it's partial redundancy or it's marginal performance improvement?
I would argue that basic physics (for instance, the first three semesters at college) has changed very little over the last 20 years. Certainly the basics of mechanics, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics has changed very little. The more esoteric topics such as string theory have advanced, but they have very little relevance to anyone except academics in physics.
Sure it could, but it's been done before.
The energy imparted to the vest/person is directly related to the force. Again, you're treating momentum as a magnitude and not a vector. It has direction. The momentum change of a purely elastic collision is twice that of one that is purely inelastic. Thus for the same impact time, the force imparted will be twice. Said another way, the total energy imparted to the vest/person is twice for a purely elastic as for a purely inelastic collision. Reflececting the bullet in the opposite direction does the person no favors.