IMO, chipsets are what kept Intel in the game during the "craptastic" P4 era. Sure the AMD chip was better, but I had to run it on a POS Via chipset -- I've still got my P4/i850/RDRAM setup from the heady days of the Northwood 1.8->2.4 overclock and it's I/O performance is pretty damned good.
Jake: What are you going to do now, Mr. Hotrodder? The cops got your name, your address--
Elwood: Nope, they don't got my address. I falsified my renewal. I put down 1060 West Addison.
Jake: That's Wrigley Field...
SCENE: Vladimir Putin and his deputy are a meeting of the Politburo. He and his deputy are dressed in dark glasses, black suits, white shirts, skinny black ties and black pork pie hats.
DEPUTY: We're putting the [USSR] back together. PUTIN: You were the backbone, the nerve center of a great [communist nation]. You can make that live, breath and jump again. [Freedom of the press, capitalism]? Look at you in those candy ass monkey suits. And I thought I had it bad in Joliet. POLITBURO MEMBER #1: At least we got a change in clothes sucker, you're wearing the same shit you had on three years ago. POLITBURO MEMBER #2: [Putin] ain't lying though. We had a [country] powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I'm now trying to figure out a way to build a socialist construct within a completely free market framework in a fair and non-coercive way. I'm interested in any ideas that anyone has about better and non-coercive ways of maintaining the efficiency of a truly free market.
Why dick around with socialism when you can go straight to communism (Note: I don't mean communism in the "OMG! Red scare" fashion)? Move to Oregon and start a commune with people who feel the same way. While communism on the scale of a nation blows chunks, it's completely workable in small scale, opt-in/opt-out environments like a commune.
On a different note, there's a fine distinction between "regulation" and "internalizing externalities". Regulation specifies a means, internalization specifies the end. Internalizing externalities is, for the most part, compatible with free market/libertarian ideals while regulation, for the most part, is not. I'll throw out my favorite example:
Here in the US we passed laws that mandated an average fleet fuel economy (specifying the means). The laws were flawed in such a fashion that it resulted in incentives to manufacturers to create, market, and sell vehicles that were less fuel efficient. The (IMO) proper resolution to the problem is not to dink around with more regulation (i.e. upping CAFE standards) but to force automotive consumers to bear the true costs of their behavior (most folks would include "fighting pointless wars in Iraq" and "dealing with OMG XOBX HUEG greenhouse gas emissions levels" as costs that have to be covered. YMMV).
A former coworker used a slightly different explanation -- FMH (Fly Marketing Hotties). If you've got weak tech (or aren't the market leader) hire some hot chicks and you're golden. They don't even have to have sales skills -- call them "Account Reps" or "Presales Engineers" ("Account Rep" is better, as it makes the client think they're going to have regular contact with said hottie).
When we had to work with really crappy software, we'd speculate as to what kind of favor(s) the executive responsible for purchasing it got as a deal maker.
Never mind that banning asbestos created more danger because removing asbestos is more dangerous than using it properly...
The situation with asbestos is worse than you make it out to be. Asbestos comes in many forms. These forms vary in the degree of harm they cause to humans. And yet, there is no distinction made between the forms.
Microsoft bidding on DoubleClick brings to mind the following joke:
A duck hunter is out early one morning hunting ducks. He's not having a lot of luck and he's about ready to pack it in and go home. Then he catches a break and shoots a duck. The duck falls to the ground on the other side of a fence. He hops the fence to grab the duck and a farmer appears from nowhere and asks "What are you doing with my duck?" The hunter says "That's my duck! I shot it." The farmer replies "Doesn't matter -- it's on my land. But I'll tell you what. We'll take turns kicking each other in the nuts as hard as we can until one of us gives up. The winner keeps the duck. Oh, and I kick first." So the farmer winds up and kicks the hunter square in the nuts. The pain is so awful the hunter throws up and then collapses. 10 minutes later, he tentatively gets to his feet and says "Okay, my turn." To which the farmer replies "That's okay, you can keep the duck."
I have a sneaking suspicion Microsoft wasn't that interested in DoubleClick. But they wanted to make damn sure that Google overpaid for it.
Just buy an old SGI O2 (if you're going to do analog only) or Octane (if you want SPDIF in). They're practically free (there was a Craigslist post with 6 Octanes for $120 in SoCal within the last two weeks), they're made for audio, and to be honest, Irix is light years ahead of Linux when it comes to a rational and sane interface for configuring the audio hardware. Plus, the mixer (called 'audiopanel' in Irix) goes to 11
Others have already mentioned the possibility, but I'll chime in in my own defense -- There are 3 lanes. I was in the middle lane. I was traveling faster than the cars to the right of me. I was preparing to move into the slowest possible lane out of (un)common courtesy to Mr. Asshat. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
And, of course, it was an actual case of insurrection and rebellion (and I would argue that the public safety did require it).
In order to call it rebellion, you have to ignore the posibility that belonging to the union was voluntary.
Regardless of that, Lincoln supended habeas corpus all over the union -- I can (potentially) see temporary suspensions in the border states, but in the far north?
Look, I don't expect everyone to agree with me. It's fine if you want to ignore both history and what is going on around you, that's your prerogative and one engaged in frequently by the majority of the population of the USA. But the simple fact is that our current president has a worse record in every way than any former president!
I think you're the one that's ignoring history. "Honest" Abe Lincoln did everything that W. is accused of doing, and more, and all on a larger scale. That he's lionized today only proves that institutionally we believe that the ends justify the means.
The problem with the Scottsdale traffic cameras is that they're trivially simple to circumvent if you're already enough of an asshat to play "Pole Position" in real life.
True story: I was driving on the loop 101 while traffic cameras were still operating. I saw a clapped out 70-something Chevy truck approaching at an estimated 80 MPH. As I have at least some situational awareness, I signaled for a change into the right lane. Mr. Asshat ignores my signal and whips into the right lane (strike one: Passing on the right, strike two: Ignoring signalled intentions). Then, as we approach the traffic camera installation, he pulls down his sun visor and rotates it so that it is between his face and the camera. This leaves him with maybe as much field of vision as your average submarine driver gets from a periscope (strike three: Endangering others). He then jets by the camera at 80.
At this point, I'm tempted to buy a Janet Napolitano mask and wear that whenever I drive the loop 101. When I get the letter asking me who was driving, I'll just forward it to the governor's office;)
The original Boeing 737s were designed back in the day when a slide-rule was the calculating device of choice for engineers. After seeing the fantastic results from the 757 vs. 767 wing* Boeing decided to give computers a go when redesigning the 737 for the -600/700/800 series. The computer modellers loaded up the existing design and said "Hell, we can shave a boatload of weight off this design!" and proceeded to do just that. During flight testing, huge cracks developed in the tail -- whoops, the model wasn't quite as good as they thought. Boeing had to stop the 737 next-gen production line for a month and they took a billion dollar charge against earnings. That right there should give you pause as to the statement about models determining whether planes crash and burn.
*The 757 and 767 were designed at the same time. Boeing wanted to duplicate some of the commonality benefits that Airbus had with it's then-current generation A3XX aircraft. They used the wing design to test out computer modelling vs. manual design. The 767 wing was designed the old way and the 757 wing was designed with computers. The 757 wing turned out better than expected and makes the plane something of a hot-rod.
There's no significant difference between a 1 year old and a 7 year old 737. The newest 737s (-600/700/800/900) all date back to 1998. I was a Boeing employee at the time and I still have my "Next Gen" 737 puzzle and umbrella from the Renton launch.
The oldest 737s aren't in service in the US -- they don't meet noise requirements and they use fuel like nobody's business. The second generation 737s (-300/400/500) are the oldest 737s you're likely to find in service in the US.
Commercial aircraft have 3 tiers of navigation systems:
1) VOR/DME
2) INS
3) GPS
VOR/DME is the least accurate -- it depends on ground based transmitters and the reception pattern is limited. INS on newer aircraft uses ring-laser gyros: No moving parts, no chance for interference, and very accurate. GPS has been added to most modern aircraft even if it doesn't show up in the cockpit as a navigational aid. The Honeywell (nee Allied Signal) Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning Computer prefers GPS input.
Shielding the comm/nav antennas sounds like a good idea until you realize that oftentimes nav aids and aircraft controllers are not oriented in front of a moving aircraft. It's quite common to refer to a VOR that is to the left, the right or even behind the aircraft as a waypoint. Since totally shielding the antennas would render them useless, the only option would be to shield the area where they're exposed to the passenger cabin. That, however, would seriously impair the pilots ability to use all the nav aids available to him.
Commercial aircraft antennas are typically installed on the tops and bottoms of the fuselage -- you'd see a significant effect with a minimal amount of shielding directly around the installation point.
Samir: No, not again. I... why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window
You are fucking high if you think a nut or a bolt are perfect things for printing.
Fasteners are more than just physical objects with a particular shape -- they also depend on the intrinsic material properties. You know, stuff that's only imparted by forging, heat treating, etc. If you don't believe me, try this as an experiment:
Go out into your garage, remove a/the cylinder head cover from your car's engine, remove a cylinder head bolt, heat it cherry red with a blowtorch and put it back. Dollars to doughnuts you'll soon be making a tow-truck assisted trip to your local dealership.
Regarding that Mini vs. F-150 picture, the people who stage the test and take that picture warn against using them as direct comparisons.
It's important to note that both tests can only be used to get an idea of how the vehicle would perform in a collision with a vehicle of similar size and weight or in a single-vehicle collision, which results in essentially the same forces as a collision with a similarly sized vehicle. They cannot be used to assess how a vehicle would fare if it collides with a vehicle that is significantly different in size.
Note, that for the Mini, that's what it looks like when it hits another Mini @ 40 -- good luck if it hits anything bigger, like, you know, an xB;)
The highest speed limit I've ever heard of in the USA is 75mph
You've never heard of the Montana "Speed Limit: Reasonable and Prudent" sign?
Regardless of that, there are reasons to have a car capable of exceeding the posted speed limit. To wit: I used to live out in the boondocks of Western Washington (state, not DC). The posted limit on the Auburn-Black Diamond Road (ABD) is (or was) typically between 40 and 50. However, there would also be instances of people driving farm implements on said road. In order to get to my destination in a timely fashion (i.e. at a speed greater than 15 mph) I would have to pass those tractors. The ABD has always been a moderately busy road and it only has a few straight and level portions. Therefore I would have to pass those tractors and I would frequently exceed the posted speed limit in an attempt to safely pass.
If the car manufacturers want to make cars that go over 100mph, keep it to the realm of muscle cars that manage to get 15mpg
Well, 15 mpg would be a decrease for the latest models of the Corvette which manage 24-30 mpg on the highway
More generally, I'd say your arguments fall under the "I don't need it, so there's no reason why anyone would ever need it" umbrella. You drive an Elantra, you probably don't have any kids, and you've probably never even tried to get one car seat into your car, let alone three. Therefore nobody needs anything bigger than an Elantra. If you come back with anything at all, you'll mention that your parents managed to stuff you and your 27 siblings into an old Datsun B210 and so that's good enough for anyone...
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Nah, I'd say he's neck in neck with Lincoln for worst...
IMO, chipsets are what kept Intel in the game during the "craptastic" P4 era. Sure the AMD chip was better, but I had to run it on a POS Via chipset -- I've still got my P4/i850/RDRAM setup from the heady days of the Northwood 1.8->2.4 overclock and it's I/O performance is pretty damned good.
Jake: What are you going to do now, Mr. Hotrodder? The cops got your name, your address-- Elwood: Nope, they don't got my address. I falsified my renewal. I put down 1060 West Addison. Jake: That's Wrigley Field...
SCENE: Vladimir Putin and his deputy are a meeting of the Politburo. He and his deputy are dressed in dark glasses, black suits, white shirts,
skinny black ties and black pork pie hats.
DEPUTY: We're putting the [USSR] back together.
PUTIN: You were the backbone, the nerve center of a great [communist nation]. You can make that live, breath and jump again. [Freedom of the press, capitalism]? Look at you in those candy ass monkey suits. And I thought I had it bad in Joliet.
POLITBURO MEMBER #1: At least we got a change in clothes sucker, you're wearing the same shit you had on three years ago.
POLITBURO MEMBER #2: [Putin] ain't lying though. We had a [country] powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Not five comments ago you were advocating socialism -- there's a stunning winner that's worked everywhere it's been tried.
A former coworker used a slightly different explanation -- FMH (Fly Marketing Hotties). If you've got weak tech (or aren't the market leader) hire some hot chicks and you're golden. They don't even have to have sales skills -- call them "Account Reps" or "Presales Engineers" ("Account Rep" is better, as it makes the client think they're going to have regular contact with said hottie).
When we had to work with really crappy software, we'd speculate as to what kind of favor(s) the executive responsible for purchasing it got as a deal maker.
This is /. -- what did you expect?
The situation with asbestos is worse than you make it out to be. Asbestos comes in many forms. These forms vary in the degree of harm they cause to humans. And yet, there is no distinction made between the forms.
There are third party implementations of MAPI -- last year we looked into a pure Java one. The unfortunate choking point was the
$10K/server license.
Microsoft bidding on DoubleClick brings to mind the following joke:
A duck hunter is out early one morning hunting ducks. He's not having a lot of luck and he's about ready to pack it in and go home.
Then he catches a break and shoots a duck. The duck falls to the ground on the other side of a fence. He hops the fence to grab the duck
and a farmer appears from nowhere and asks "What are you doing with my duck?" The hunter says "That's my duck! I shot it." The farmer replies "Doesn't matter -- it's on my land. But I'll tell you what. We'll take turns kicking each other in the nuts as hard as we can until one of us gives up. The winner keeps the duck. Oh, and I kick first." So the farmer winds up and kicks the hunter square in the nuts. The pain is so awful the hunter throws up and then collapses. 10 minutes later, he tentatively gets to his feet and says "Okay, my turn." To which the farmer replies "That's okay, you can keep the duck."
I have a sneaking suspicion Microsoft wasn't that interested in DoubleClick. But they wanted to make damn sure that Google overpaid for it.
Just buy an old SGI O2 (if you're going to do analog only) or Octane (if you want SPDIF in). They're practically free (there was a Craigslist post with 6 Octanes for $120 in SoCal within the last two weeks), they're made for audio, and to be honest, Irix is light years ahead of Linux when it comes to a rational and sane interface for configuring the audio hardware. Plus, the mixer (called 'audiopanel' in Irix) goes to 11
Others have already mentioned the possibility, but I'll chime in in my own defense -- There are 3 lanes. I was in the middle lane. I was traveling faster than the cars to the right of me. I was preparing to move into the slowest possible lane out of (un)common courtesy to Mr. Asshat. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
The problem with the Scottsdale traffic cameras is that they're trivially simple to circumvent if you're already enough of an asshat to play "Pole Position" in real life.
;)
True story: I was driving on the loop 101 while traffic cameras were still operating. I saw a clapped out 70-something Chevy truck approaching at an estimated 80 MPH. As I have at least some situational awareness, I signaled for a change into the right lane. Mr. Asshat ignores my signal and whips into the right lane (strike one: Passing on the right, strike two: Ignoring signalled intentions). Then, as we approach the traffic camera installation, he pulls down his sun visor and rotates it so that it is between his face and the camera. This leaves him with maybe as much field of vision as your average submarine driver gets from a periscope (strike three: Endangering others). He then jets by the camera at 80.
At this point, I'm tempted to buy a Janet Napolitano mask and wear that whenever I drive the loop 101. When I get the letter asking me who was driving, I'll just forward it to the governor's office
I'll weigh in with some real industry experience.
The original Boeing 737s were designed back in the day when a slide-rule was the calculating device of choice for engineers. After seeing the fantastic results from the 757 vs. 767 wing* Boeing decided to give computers a go when redesigning the 737 for the -600/700/800 series. The computer modellers loaded up the existing design and said "Hell, we can shave a boatload of weight off this design!" and proceeded to do just that. During flight testing, huge cracks developed in the tail -- whoops, the model wasn't quite as good as they thought. Boeing had to stop the 737 next-gen production line for a month and they took a billion dollar charge against earnings. That right there should give you pause as to the statement about models determining whether planes crash and burn.
*The 757 and 767 were designed at the same time. Boeing wanted to duplicate some of the commonality benefits that Airbus had with it's then-current generation A3XX aircraft. They used the wing design to test out computer modelling vs. manual design. The 767 wing was designed the old way and the 757 wing was designed with computers. The 757 wing turned out better than expected and makes the plane something of a hot-rod.
There's no significant difference between a 1 year old and a 7 year old 737. The newest 737s (-600/700/800/900) all date back to 1998. I was a Boeing employee at the time and I still have my "Next Gen" 737 puzzle and umbrella from the Renton launch.
The oldest 737s aren't in service in the US -- they don't meet noise requirements and they use fuel like nobody's business. The second generation 737s (-300/400/500) are the oldest 737s you're likely to find in service in the US.
Samir: No, not again. I... why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window
You are fucking high if you think a nut or a bolt are perfect things for printing.
Fasteners are more than just physical objects with a particular shape -- they also depend on the intrinsic material properties. You know, stuff that's only imparted by forging, heat treating, etc. If you don't believe me, try this as an experiment:
Go out into your garage, remove a/the cylinder head cover from your car's engine, remove a cylinder head bolt, heat it cherry red with a blowtorch and put it back. Dollars to doughnuts you'll soon be making a tow-truck assisted trip to your local dealership.
The highest speed limit I've ever heard of in the USA is 75mph
You've never heard of the Montana "Speed Limit: Reasonable and Prudent" sign?
Regardless of that, there are reasons to have a car capable of exceeding the posted speed limit. To wit:
I used to live out in the boondocks of Western Washington (state, not DC). The posted limit on the Auburn-Black Diamond Road (ABD) is
(or was) typically between 40 and 50. However, there would also be instances of people driving farm implements on said road. In order to
get to my destination in a timely fashion (i.e. at a speed greater than 15 mph) I would have to pass those tractors. The ABD has always
been a moderately busy road and it only has a few straight and level portions. Therefore I would have to pass those tractors and I would
frequently exceed the posted speed limit in an attempt to safely pass.
If the car manufacturers want to make cars that go over 100mph, keep it to the realm of muscle cars that manage to get 15mpg
Well, 15 mpg would be a decrease for the latest models of the Corvette which manage 24-30 mpg on the highway
More generally, I'd say your arguments fall under the "I don't need it, so there's no reason why anyone would ever need it" umbrella. You drive
an Elantra, you probably don't have any kids, and you've probably never even tried to get one car seat into your car, let alone three. Therefore
nobody needs anything bigger than an Elantra. If you come back with anything at all, you'll mention that your parents managed to stuff you and your 27 siblings into an old Datsun B210 and so that's good enough for anyone...
Hey, I saw that too. I think the show was titled "This Is Spiral Ramp" and there was a bit about how Khufu wanted his pyramid to go to 11...