This was my NYC cheap eats run for dinner tonight. My ex-girlfriend Jacqueline wanted some cheap high-quality Chinese recommendations. Her new boyfriend is a chef. - Mitchell Tsai
(1) $4.50 ($4.00 takeout, 4 dishes, rice, soup) - Lunch Box Buffet. 195 Centre St (just north of Canal) - Yelp http://yelp.com/biz/lunch-box-... Village Voice http://villagevoice.com/locati... The NON-Americanized version of "Panda Express". Food like Mom serves (not Michelin) Choice from ~80-100 dishes for dinner. 5 dishes & soup. - Mitchell Tsai
(2) $8.00 - Fruit from Chinese vendors [not pictured] 1 lb Chilean cherries $2.50, 3 Asian pears $1, 4 large tangerines $1, 1 lb Longans $3.50 - Mitchell Tsai
(3) $1.00 (5 dumplings for $1) - Fried Dumpling. 106 Mosco St
(between Mott St & Mulberry St) - Yelp http://yelp.com/biz/fried-dump... Decent quality dumlpings at a killer price. It wasn't good to go at 7 pm. The dumplings had been sitting around too long. Hot Sour Soup $1. You can get frozen ones for home. - Mitchell Tsai
(6) $1.49 (Blueberry whole-milk Brown Cow Yogurt) [not pictured] Morton Williams Supermarket - 130 Bleecker St (next to "The Bitter End" http://bitterend.com/schedule.... - my favorite place for music) http://mortonwilliams.com Die-hard Californian has to do the healthy food. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
(7) $5.50 (chicken kabob sandwich) ??? place north of Bleecker St where I went after tonight's concert Syrian owner. - Mitchell Tsai
Saeedeh: Some of these have "soup" inside (not just crab, meat, and vegetables). They are special to Shanghai, China. Do any Iranian dolmeh have soup inside? Poland has pierogies, but I like Chinese dumplings better. - Mitchell Tsai
William: I'm not a vinegar fan. I just use soy sauce - admittedly, soy sauce is a little too sweet for this. I'll have to figure out some sauce combination I like for these. - Mitchell Tsai
Siao long bao! Although Joe's isn't my favorite, still love these things. =) - saeba
Saeba: Where are your favorite dumplings? I'm going to try some other places tomorrow. - Mitchell Tsai
I spent a lot of money on these in SF-Chinatown once, dim sum, fresh lobster... nice memory, also the all-dumpling place in Beijing I went to, very very nice - anna awesomesauce
"Microsoft isn't just worried about ceding 30 percent of the netbook market to Linux. It's also worried that if people get used to Linux on netbooks, they'll consider buying Linux on desktop PCs." - silpol
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MS's main cash cow is Office, not OSes. If fears come true, expect a native port and KDE integration ;) - 9000
@9000 KDE integration? we will get into golden stream then, again... lol - silpol
The three processors officially launched yesterday are the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition (3.2GHz), the Core i7-940 (2.93GHz) and the Core i7-920 (2.66GHz). Each new Core i7 boasts four cores, with each core supporting two instructional threads and all four cores sharing 8MB of Level 3 cache. - Mitchell Tsai
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As well as counting features like a new power-saving Turbo Boost - to adjust clock speed on individual cores depending on what applications are running - the Core i7 also counts an integrated memory controller which communicates with the double data rate (DDR) memory chips, eliminating the front side bus altogether. - Mitchell Tsai
But probably because the Core i7 platform is aimed squarely at overclockers and enthusiasts, the price is equally over enthusiastic. Putting together a decent processor, motherboard and triple-channel memory comes to about $700, for instance, and Intel quotes bulk prices for 1,000-unit shipments starting at $999 on the high end to $284 on the low end. - Mitchell Tsai
Pricing at CNet http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001... The new chip also has the latest Intel power-saving technologies, allowing desktops to go into sleep states formerly reserved for Intel-based notebooks. - Mitchell Tsai
And it ushers in the age of the "monolithic die" for Intel. (AMD has been doing this for over a year now.) The core i7 is one of Intel's first processors to put four cores on one piece of silicon, referred to as a monolithic die. Previous Intel quad-core chips cobbled together two dual-core die. - Mitchell Tsai
Other features include QuickPath, which doubles the memory bandwidth of previous Intel "Extreme" platforms, and Hyper-Threading Technology, which allows multiple computing threads to run simultaneously, effectively enabling the chip to do two things at once. - Mitchell Tsai
Each Core i7 processor features an 8 MB level 3 cache and three channels of DDR3 1066 memory. - Mitchell Tsai
Intel claims fastest processor on the planet [vnunet - 11/18/08] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/n... The quad-core processor has 731 million transistors and is built to handle single, double and quadruple-threaded applications. - Mitchell Tsai
Gelsinger said that power management has been built in so that for single or double threaded software two cores will shut down while the others overclock, or turbo boost themselves, to handle the workload. - Mitchell Tsai
http://techpowerup.com/index.p... Intel Core i7 processor holds a new world record of 117 for the SPECint_base_rate2006 benchmark test that measures the performance of a processor. This is the first time ever for any single processor to exceed a score of 100 points. - Mitchell Tsai
The Intel Core i7 processor also offers unrivaled performance for immersive 3-D games - over 40 percent faster than previous Intel high-performance processors on both the 3DMark Vantage CPU physics and AI tests, popular industry computer benchmarks that measure gaming performance. The Extreme Edition uses 8 threads to run games with advanced artificial intelligence and physics to make games act and feel real. - Mitchell Tsai
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a review of building standards for manufactured homes after nearly 500 of them went up in flames in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the San Fernando Valley. - Mitchell Tsai
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David Fishman, an Upper West Sider who turned 12 last month, decided to take himself out for dinner one night last week. David aspires to be a food critic — he has some vague notion that he could make a living writing for the Zagat guides — and the new Italian spot on Amsterdam Avenue near 73rd Street seemed worthy of investigation. - Mitchell Tsai
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I checked our S3 account - still live. My pure speculative conjecture ;) is that they had an early peak at the new CDN product and something is subtly different in the live rollout. - Mike Taylor
I won tix for 'Quantum of Solace' tonight, hope it lives up to the high expectations and hype. As for the interior shots here, (esp. the one on the right), I was gonna say something, but I think I'll keep my mouth shut. - wyclif
Yeah I'll bet Bond knows a lot about interiors. Especially pink interiors (shown right)... Hmm...was that even funny? I hope so, because I'm about to hit post and subject the rest of you to it. - David Adam
liked for the photos. Thumbs down on David's joke :-) - Jason Toney
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