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It really depends on when your page-outs are... 1,401 Views / 18 Replies  
It really depends on when your page-outs are happening. If you are constantly switching between all your open applications and the page-outs are coming in a constant stream, then you need more RAM...
Posted by menglish, on Jul 29, 2005 at 12:49 PM, in Mac Desktops
I just received a dual 2.7 to replace my g4 450,... 1,743 Views / 20 Replies  
I just received a dual 2.7 to replace my g4 450, what prompted me to finally pull the trigger was a technical presentation I saw a few weeks ago by Intel's chief IA32 microprocessor architect from...
Posted by menglish, on Jul 26, 2005 at 11:37 AM, in Mac Desktops
I dont have as much experience with this life... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
I dont have as much experience with this life thing as you, but one of the things I've learned is that time is one of my most precious commodities, there never seems to be enough for all the things I...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 11:22 PM, in Political/War Lounge
But the lender is a corporation that doesn't need... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
But the lender is a corporation that doesn't need a house. Nor can it gain from the benefits of home ownership. The fact that a corporation has money, but doesn't buy a house with it, means nothing...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 09:58 PM, in Political/War Lounge
One's home has been, in general, a phenomenal... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
One's home has been, in general, a phenomenal investment for the majority of people who buy. The combination of leverage and tax incentives make it a long term bet that is relatively orders of...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 09:55 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Every financial transaction involves some degree... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Every financial transaction involves some degree of risk. Some people are so risk averse that they only feel comfortable with transactions that involve the very minimum of risks (for instance...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 09:52 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Well, supposedly this phenomenon was not present... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Well, supposedly this phenomenon was not present as recently as 2002, so it would certainly be difficult for a textbook maker to have noticed it, incorporated it into a textbook and gotten it out to...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 09:37 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Heh...granted, you have no obligation to convince... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Heh...granted, you have no obligation to convince me of anything. I just find your reasons for being convinced that these articles aren't to be trusted weak. I point out why I think your...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 08:46 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Oop, just missed the cut-off, which is, I... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
Oop, just missed the cut-off, which is, I believe, 38 these days?
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 08:19 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Housing as an investment has all kinds of other... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Housing as an investment has all kinds of other costs associated with it that are not present for someone who lives in their home. Upkeep and management fees, they wouldn't invest in houses with...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 08:17 PM, in Political/War Lounge
The reference to the stretched borrower is most... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
The reference to the stretched borrower is most definately anecdotal, but nowhere is the article being ambiguous about it's statistics. It's talking about interest only loans. There are not...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 08:09 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Out of curiosity, why don't you? 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
Out of curiosity, why don't you?
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 06:21 PM, in Political/War Lounge
It turns out that these two things can be... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
It turns out that these two things can be mutually exclusive in many places. Living in the Silicon Valley it is simply not realistic for me to save even the $450k that would be necessary for me to...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 06:17 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Here's one of the quotes that has lead me to... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Here's one of the quotes that has lead me to believe that this whole thing is not just about under-intelligent reporters simply not understanding the situation correctly:



That quote is from an...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 06:12 PM, in Political/War Lounge
sure, but we're not living in an episode of 24 ... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
sure, but we're not living in an episode of 24

The things we need to do now with our military, that we can't do, are things like restabalize Afghanistan, again.
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 04:24 PM, in Political/War Lounge
True, but it turns out we don't want to destroy... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
True, but it turns out we don't want to destroy the world. Maybe I should have been more explicit...We can't do what we _want_ to do with only our force.
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 03:40 PM, in Political/War Lounge
A mortgage that includes a second deed of trust... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
A mortgage that includes a second deed of trust doesn't characterize the repayment nature of either of the loans in the mortgage. All it tells you is that one of those loans is secondary to the...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 03:36 PM, in Political/War Lounge
yes, I think all the people who originally said... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
yes, I think all the people who originally said that we didnt' need to bow to world opinion have now realized that we can't do _everything_ by ourselves with force, we just don't have the military...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 03:09 PM, in Political/War Lounge
This is one of many aspects of home-ownership... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
This is one of many aspects of home-ownership that I will miss. Having a home in Portland, OR didn't help me enough in attempting to make a transition to a home in Palo Alto, CA. So I'm back to...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 03:06 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I don't see that the article I linked too... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
I don't see that the article I linked too conflates "interest only" loans with some other less risky type of loan that can sometimes go by the name "Jumbo Mortgage".

It explains fairly succinctly...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 03:03 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I think you answered your own question here: ... 1,297 Views / 13 Replies  
I think you answered your own question here:
"Computer Engineering has more math and science courses that are required, plus a couple of hardware courses, and it takes a bit longer to complete the...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:44 PM, in Developer Center
I thought moral equivalency was supposed to be... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
I thought moral equivalency was supposed to be this huge failing of people who don't support the war? It's not a bad thing though if we're equating _our_ actions to bad people? Only if we're...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:33 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I should add, that realistically I don't think... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
I should add, that realistically I don't think that the lower price ranges in alot of these hot markets is going to do much dropping. I think there is probably a fair bit of pent-up demand of people...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:29 PM, in Political/War Lounge
But then once they leave that professional fast... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
But then once they leave that professional fast track, their salary also has left the professional fast track. Agregate numbers like housing data do not reflect the "fast track success stories" they...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:25 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Refering to your chart. If you take the orange... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Refering to your chart. If you take the orange portion of the graph in the first couple years out, that gives you a significantly smaller overall payment (the figures I've heard is around 30%). ...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:21 PM, in Political/War Lounge
If your dual loan, with a standard loan for the... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
If your dual loan, with a standard loan for the majority and a smaller loan for what would conventionally be a down payment was refered to as a "Jumbo Mortgage" by someone, it sounds like the term is...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 02:13 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Well, since we are talking about torture, why... 7,250 Views / 267 Replies  
Well, since we are talking about torture, why hasn't anyone brought up the rendition program? Where suspects are knowingly being sent off to places like Syria and Uzbekistan for the express purpose...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 01:55 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Well, what I've been reading is that the numbers... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
Well, what I've been reading is that the numbers for truly interest only (as described in this article (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNG5CCS82U1.DTL)) are rising at...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 01:15 PM, in Political/War Lounge
I think rising interest rates could cause some... 2,064 Views / 70 Replies  
I think rising interest rates could cause some serious problems for all those interest only loans out there too (50% in California and 33% nationwide last year). Then we'd start to see serious...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 14, 2005 at 01:00 AM, in Political/War Lounge
I think it has to do with the percieved cachet of... 2,497 Views / 56 Replies  
I think it has to do with the percieved cachet of the Mac. Whether the PPC was better than the Pentium or not, it was different. The subculture of the Mac has strong roots in the notion of being a...
Posted by menglish, on Jun 7, 2005 at 08:06 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The key difference between a micro-kernel and a... 781 Views / 11 Replies  
The key difference between a micro-kernel and a monolithic kernel is how many different services get to run in "kernel" mode or "protected" mode (giving the running process all privileges on the...
Posted by menglish, on Aug 27, 2004 at 04:43 PM, in macOS
 
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