Comment Re:Not sure I believe this (Score 1) 776
Exactly. Check out the pics from last weekends Boston Marathon. Try to find a single barefoot runner. Some of the best must have decided not to show up.
4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot 767
jcatcw writes "David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance. With Vista's minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's 'sub-XP,' he says. (Dell and others recommend 2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means more caching."
Comment entropy? (Score 2, Interesting) 428
This is complete bull! There is no way for this thing to "to stay aloft virtually forever" without some sort of external energy input. Entropy 101.
On a side note, does anyone know how stinking cold it is at 50,000 ft. I don't know for certain but I'm sure is a really small number (in K of course). The heat loss from such a ship must be significant at these elevations. Does anyone know how these folks propose to keep their passengers from freezing? They can't always fly in the sun; they will need some sort of energy source to keep the temperatures at levels suitable for human existence. No, their magical compressors won't be able to do much about this
On a side note, does anyone know how stinking cold it is at 50,000 ft. I don't know for certain but I'm sure is a really small number (in K of course). The heat loss from such a ship must be significant at these elevations. Does anyone know how these folks propose to keep their passengers from freezing? They can't always fly in the sun; they will need some sort of energy source to keep the temperatures at levels suitable for human existence. No, their magical compressors won't be able to do much about this
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