I've had 2 x286 AMD boxes, a 486 box, a K-6, and I'm currently running a Duron... the only processor problems I've had are needing a special patch for the K6 and that the K6 ran a bit hot. The K7 actually runs cooler than the K6.
The biggest stability problem I've had came out of Redmond, not AMD. I've even managed to get W98SE to run stably in this box the last few months.
I find my experience more believable than your rant.
Write to the Secretary of Commerce and your Congresscritter asking just why we are still funding ICANN?
What do they produce that's worth paying for either by taxpayers or domain holders or registries?
If they are not accountable to the users and they aren't accountable to the national TLDs, it is time they are held accountable by the taxpayers.
The Internet and the root servers worked just fine without this bureaucracy and it'll work just fine after the last person leaves the ICANN office s and turns off the lights.
I didn't know that solar power was too weak beyond the mars orbit to power anything; I would have thought it stronger than that.
That isn't quite true, it's just not the way one would want to power a vehicle. For a fixed installation, you can build solar concentrators as big as you need... the thermite/water/plastic blob trick works just as well around the orbit of Jupiter as anything else, you just need more reflectors for X amount of power.
it's pretty zany to imagine that just about every form of online publishing, from full-time news organizations to occasional bloggers to moderated chat rooms, would be covered. But it's no accident. A January 2003 draft envisioned regulating only "professional on-line media." Two months later, a March 2003 draft dropped the word "professional" and intentionally covered all "online media" of any type.
OK, this applies to EU. Would an offense against this be extraditable under the Cybercrime Treaty if someone in EU government was sufficiently offended?
That's the "SCO wins on all counts and really, truly 0wNz Linux." scenario.
It isn't consistent with the SCO VP of Engineering selling all of his stock, including exercising all his options. If he thought SCO was a good investment (and a Linux owned by SCO probably would be), why did he go to the trouble of selling all of it?
So why would the VP of Engineering think SCO a BAD investment?
I don't know for sure, either but the way to bet is that he agrees with the rest of us here on the validity of the SCO lawsuit.
There aren't any new oil fields left to bring on line, and demand is still increasing.
If there wasn't an oil supply problem, why would the US go to war to take over a nation that supplies oil?
Unless you believe that the US really did go to war to stop Saddam from deploying what now appear to be imaginary weapons of mass destruction, or to save the citizens of Iraq from Saddam's (unfortunately not imaginary) oppression. If you do, go back to your Trekkie fantasies, you have no business in an adult public policy discussion.
making major investments in things which will strenghten the US economy and employ people in jobs best done in America? For instance, rebuilding the US into a hydrogen economy (which has to be done, the oil IS running out, taking over Iraq bought us a few years at best)
US corporate CEOs are rewarded for making or beating quarterly profit targets or stock price targets, if they do, their stock options get triggered and they make serious money. This is a major reason why books are often cooked so the company seems to have a steady increase in profit every quarter, usually by deferring when major sales are posted. Especially helpful when something major goes wrong, the money that they've stashed can reappear magically... and the company seems to have made their profits grow miraculously again.
Anyone with the remotest clue about business knows that NO revenue stream grows constantly all the time, companies have good quarters and bad ones. But that's not what reports on profits will generally show.
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This means that if they outsource core business profits and get a short-term bump in profits, they will do this even knowing that they are funding new competition in Bangalore in a few years that understands their business better than they do and have their customer lists.. They figure that they won't be at the company by then and their successors can clean up the mess, or go bankrupt. Not a problem for the current CEO generation either way, they'll already have cashed out.
Conversely, if they are offered a venture that'll cost the corporation major money NOW but will guarantee it major profits starting 5-10 years out and into the indefinite future, they will NOT bother. Why should they? There's nothing in it for them and the negative reaction of industry analysts also looking for short-term profit bumps will mean. . . NO stock options.
If the UFO crashes are for real, and we can assume that the number of unreported crashes that happened in uninhabited areas that were never reported are in proportion, then we can conclude that the UFO is even more dangerous than the Space Shuttle as a form of transportation.
Perhaps they should start running Linux-based guidance and control software.;-)
You may not feel the pain/strain as your mind is inundated by other,
more important datum. Here is a url with simple pictures and descriptions
of some integral stretches to prevent RSI and prolong comfort;
http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/rsi/RSIMIT/exercise.ht ml.
People who do not have carpal tunnel can get an incredible amount of
help out of work with a physical therapist with experience dealing with RSI/CTS supervised by a doctor. Get a medical diagnosis first, preferably involving an electromyogram which can determine definitively whether or not the median nerve is really compressed or not. I had tendinitis a few years ago which was originally diagnosed as CTS, I considered this a wakeup call.
And if you've really screwed the pooch and the doctor is recommending carpal tunnel release surgery, be warned, I've met more than one person who's tried carpal tunnel release... and
is not happy with the results, anyone contemplating that procedure should probably check into the balloon release described below first.
"Sunday February 25, 1996 Balloon catheter relieves pressure on median nerve in carpal tunnel"
"A new procedure to alleviate carpal tunnel syndrome uses a balloon
catheter to stretch and expand the ligament and relieve pressure on the
median nerve in the carpal tunnel of the wrist. This avoids cutting the
ligament when conventional therapy is not effective."
"According to a study of 120 patients treated with the new procedure during the past four years, 85 percent had marked clinical improvement in relief of wrist pain and numbness, and 95 percent reported
overall satisfaction with the outcome."
I don't have any for your point of view and not a whole lot for you.
You've obviously never had wrist problems connected with keyboard use and haven't figured out that other people might not have habits or skeletal structure identical to yours. I barely escaped RSI myself, I took a medical diagnosis of tendonitis (the original was RSI) as a wakeup call and listened to my physical therapist.
I hope you find out that you are full of shit from personal experience, your employer tells you to suck it up and deal and quit if you don't like it, and that when you go to the Labor Board, this study is cited in denying you workers' comp.
Not to say that the industrial situations you describe don't lead to RSI.
I've also seen grocery store clerks with wrist braces several times. They don't seem to be hauling 60 or 80 pounds of anything. Their problems must be imaginary, too, right?
The fix is the same whether in the data processing or the industrial workplace, use ergonomic design, don't push people past their physical limits and where this applies, teach people physical habits that put less stress on the wrists.
I rather suspect the study methodology was intended to generate exactly the "no correlation" results they got by people with a full understanding of the problems involved.
Scientific integrity is something that is bought and sold these days, and the results of a study on a controversial topic can be generally predicted by finding out who paid for it.
Do you think that it's likely that terrorists will use these means, now that it's been announced that the government is collecting it?
I think terrorist access to this kind of database is an even bigger concern. Given the number of people who will need and the larger number of people who will access to the database, will all of them be security cleared?
I heard security clearance invesigations were 6 months behind before Homeland Security started growing its tentacles.
If I were into serious terror, if I wanted to attack a major target, I'd want to use this kind of database first to find out who worked at the target and after that, what they were into (e.g. drugs, homosexuality, gambling debts, and anything else that can be inferred from buying and websurfing patterns) that their bosses or family or neighbors might be concerned about... i.e. this is a great way to collect blackmail information.
They are anti-porn like you. The following is what they stand for, from a quote from the article linked to above. You obviously stand for the same things.
Someday, I hope you wind up working in the kind of outsourcing operation described below. You like great companies? So go to the Third World and admire WalMart from the bottom up.
"The work is literally sickening, since thereâ(TM)s no health and safety enforcement. Workers have constant headaches and nausea from paint-dust hanging in the air; the indoor temperature tops 100 degrees; protective clothing is a joke; repetitive stress disorders are rampant; and thereâ(TM)s no training on the health hazards of handling the plastics, glue, paint thinners, and other solvents in which these workers are immersed every day."
I won't be reading your new novel. You appear ignorant of the basic science and technology that generally underpins any SF worth reading.
OK, my point is: let's concentrate on trying to get clean water to everyone on earth before throwing such huge amounts away on space games. Simple things make life better for all, and humanity's basic resource is not knowledge, science, or exploration, but humans.
You deserve the "troll" tag, but your delusion is sufficiently common that I'm going to reply anyway.
We're running out of oil.
We have a huge and growing Third World population who want living standards comparable to the USA.
The problems you cite can be solved by throwing enough energy at them.
Alternative energy sources limited to the Earth as a closed system can not sustain our lifestyles [the wasteful side is granted. Which one of your computers are you giving up for the sake of humanity?], let alone make a significant impact on improving Third World living standards.
The energy required to solve these problems is available by the terawatt from the sun. The only way to get that kind of power without massive ecological disruption on earth (you *really* want to pave the Sahara with solar cells?) is to build powersats to collect it and beam it to earth. This requires massive investments in alternative launch technology (either the Space Elevator or rail guns big enough to launch payload by the ton into orbit) and the rest of the infrastructure required to make industrial operations not only possible, but cost-effective and convenient in Earth orbit, the moon, and ultimately, the rest of the solar system.
We can do this now, and pay for this with annoying inconveniences (say, world market prices for gasoline in the USA, for instance based on increased taxes) or we can do this later, when the resource allocations to do this will result in a lot of people not getting enough to eat. We will do this, or our children won't be living in a technological society. Remember the good old days when only a small fraction of kids live long enough to be adults? That's what you're asking for.
As for your delusion about humanity's basic resource being humans, I recommend watching the Fox network for 48 hours in a row as a cure.
P2P and Internet Radio is simply an extension of traditional fair usage into the digital domain.
Analog taping off the radio and swapping tapes is covered under standard fair usage.
What's the difference between taping to cassette (or for the older people, to reel-to-reel) tape and to your hard drive?
What if your FM radio is an adaptor plugged into your PC that records to the HD? What's the difference between this and a portable AM-FM-cassette player which allows recording off the air by punching a couple of buttons?
The RIAA bought enough politicians to make taping to a hard drive illegel.
Only tards like you and the RIAA are capable of confusing this with any sort of moral imperative.
A US high-tech community which will not organize effectively to defend its own freedom of speech rights or its right to make a living using technology and can not be convinced to make contributions towards defending its rights to organizations unless there's a tax deduction in it for them is not going to go forth and reclaim the RF spectrum as a public resource.
I've seen discussion of embedding RFID tags inside the rubber of an auto tire. I want to see you remove those tags from your car just before you take off merrily down the freeway at a high rate of speed.
With respect to fixing the problem, the last resort with respect to getting money into Congress in time to make any difference is to get the vendors who already have PACs and lobbyists on board to get the laws changed.
This is as unlikely as some geek who made his money in the dot-com glory days and managed to keep it suddenly deciding that we need a high-tech user PAC NOW and underwriting his determination with a $2-3M check to get things rolling.
At this point, there are NO credible good answers for the US. Those of us who want to keep making technology need to start shopping foriegn countries and figure out how to pay for getting over there and making new lives for ourselves in foriegn lands.
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Never been to South Carolina in my life.
You are a prime example of the kind of geek cluelessness about politics that was instrumental in the passage of the DMCA. Presumably, you believe that more of the same, i.e. more non-profit geek advocacy groups intended to "educate" politicians and more money given to the ones we've got will SAVE THE WORLD.
Learn something about how the political process really works (I don't care if you got "As" in social studies) before you drool about it in public again.
Google is your friend... well, maybe Yahoo in your case.
For quite a few years, the military / aerospace sector has basically been building on electronic and computer technology developed for the private consumer sector.
Perhaps it's time for another driver for new technology to show up on the market. Especially given the increasingly successful attempt to suppress new consumer technology by the *AA (RIAA/MPAA) organizations.
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The biggest stability problem I've had came out of Redmond, not AMD. I've even managed to get W98SE to run stably in this box the last few months.
I find my experience more believable than your rant.
What do they produce that's worth paying for either by taxpayers or domain holders or registries?
If they are not accountable to the users and they aren't accountable to the national TLDs, it is time they are held accountable by the taxpayers.
The Internet and the root servers worked just fine without this bureaucracy and it'll work just fine after the last person leaves the ICANN office s and turns off the lights.
That isn't quite true, it's just not the way one would want to power a vehicle. For a fixed installation, you can build solar concentrators as big as you need... the thermite/water/plastic blob trick works just as well around the orbit of Jupiter as anything else, you just need more reflectors for X amount of power.
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it's pretty zany to imagine that just about every form of online publishing, from full-time news organizations to occasional bloggers to moderated chat rooms, would be covered. But it's no accident. A January 2003 draft envisioned regulating only "professional on-line media." Two months later, a March 2003 draft dropped the word "professional" and intentionally covered all "online media" of any type.
OK, this applies to EU. Would an offense against this be extraditable under the Cybercrime Treaty if someone in EU government was sufficiently offended?
It isn't consistent with the SCO VP of Engineering selling all of his stock, including exercising all his options. If he thought SCO was a good investment (and a Linux owned by SCO probably would be), why did he go to the trouble of selling all of it?
So why would the VP of Engineering think SCO a BAD investment?
I don't know for sure, either but the way to bet is that he agrees with the rest of us here on the validity of the SCO lawsuit.
There aren't any new oil fields left to bring on line, and demand is still increasing.
If there wasn't an oil supply problem, why would the US go to war to take over a nation that supplies oil?
Unless you believe that the US really did go to war to stop Saddam from deploying what now appear to be imaginary weapons of mass destruction, or to save the citizens of Iraq from Saddam's (unfortunately not imaginary) oppression. If you do, go back to your Trekkie fantasies, you have no business in an adult public policy discussion.
US corporate CEOs are rewarded for making or beating quarterly profit targets or stock price targets, if they do, their stock options get triggered and they make serious money. This is a major reason why books are often cooked so the company seems to have a steady increase in profit every quarter, usually by deferring when major sales are posted. Especially helpful when something major goes wrong, the money that they've stashed can reappear magically... and the company seems to have made their profits grow miraculously again.
Anyone with the remotest clue about business knows that NO revenue stream grows constantly all the time, companies have good quarters and bad ones. But that's not what reports on profits will generally show. .
This means that if they outsource core business profits and get a short-term bump in profits, they will do this even knowing that they are funding new competition in Bangalore in a few years that understands their business better than they do and have their customer lists.. They figure that they won't be at the company by then and their successors can clean up the mess, or go bankrupt. Not a problem for the current CEO generation either way, they'll already have cashed out.
Conversely, if they are offered a venture that'll cost the corporation major money NOW but will guarantee it major profits starting 5-10 years out and into the indefinite future, they will NOT bother. Why should they? There's nothing in it for them and the negative reaction of industry analysts also looking for short-term profit bumps will mean. . . NO stock options.
Perhaps they should start running Linux-based guidance and control software. ;-)
I would have modded you down to zero for encouraging an irrational fear of guns... you expect brownie points for political correctness on slashdot?
It's more oriented towards small businesses and ISPs without the resources to build complete backup sites a few thousand miles away.
You may not feel the pain/strain as your mind is inundated by other, more important datum. Here is a url with simple pictures and descriptions of some integral stretches to prevent RSI and prolong comfort; http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/rsi/RSIMIT/exercise.ht ml.
This is from my own home page:
People who do not have carpal tunnel can get an incredible amount of help out of work with a physical therapist with experience dealing with RSI/CTS supervised by a doctor. Get a medical diagnosis first, preferably involving an electromyogram which can determine definitively whether or not the median nerve is really compressed or not. I had tendinitis a few years ago which was originally diagnosed as CTS, I considered this a wakeup call.
And if you've really screwed the pooch and the doctor is recommending carpal tunnel release surgery, be warned, I've met more than one person who's tried carpal tunnel release... and is not happy with the results, anyone contemplating that procedure should probably check into the balloon release described below first.
"Sunday February 25, 1996 Balloon catheter relieves pressure on median nerve in carpal tunnel"
"A new procedure to alleviate carpal tunnel syndrome uses a balloon catheter to stretch and expand the ligament and relieve pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel of the wrist. This avoids cutting the ligament when conventional therapy is not effective."
"According to a study of 120 patients treated with the new procedure during the past four years, 85 percent had marked clinical improvement in relief of wrist pain and numbness, and 95 percent reported overall satisfaction with the outcome."
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons web site carpal balloon release info.
You've obviously never had wrist problems connected with keyboard use and haven't figured out that other people might not have habits or skeletal structure identical to yours. I barely escaped RSI myself, I took a medical diagnosis of tendonitis (the original was RSI) as a wakeup call and listened to my physical therapist.
I hope you find out that you are full of shit from personal experience, your employer tells you to suck it up and deal and quit if you don't like it, and that when you go to the Labor Board, this study is cited in denying you workers' comp.
Not to say that the industrial situations you describe don't lead to RSI.
I've also seen grocery store clerks with wrist braces several times. They don't seem to be hauling 60 or 80 pounds of anything. Their problems must be imaginary, too, right?
The fix is the same whether in the data processing or the industrial workplace, use ergonomic design, don't push people past their physical limits and where this applies, teach people physical habits that put less stress on the wrists.
I rather suspect the study methodology was intended to generate exactly the "no correlation" results they got by people with a full understanding of the problems involved.
Scientific integrity is something that is bought and sold these days, and the results of a study on a controversial topic can be generally predicted by finding out who paid for it.
I think terrorist access to this kind of database is an even bigger concern. Given the number of people who will need and the larger number of people who will access to the database, will all of them be security cleared?
I heard security clearance invesigations were 6 months behind before Homeland Security started growing its tentacles.
If I were into serious terror, if I wanted to attack a major target, I'd want to use this kind of database first to find out who worked at the target and after that, what they were into (e.g. drugs, homosexuality, gambling debts, and anything else that can be inferred from buying and websurfing patterns) that their bosses or family or neighbors might be concerned about... i.e. this is a great way to collect blackmail information.
They are anti-porn like you. The following is what they stand for, from a quote from the article linked to above. You obviously stand for the same things.
Someday, I hope you wind up working in the kind of outsourcing operation described below. You like great companies? So go to the Third World and admire WalMart from the bottom up.
"The work is literally sickening, since thereâ(TM)s no health and safety enforcement. Workers have constant headaches and nausea from paint-dust hanging in the air; the indoor temperature tops 100 degrees; protective clothing is a joke; repetitive stress disorders are rampant; and thereâ(TM)s no training on the health hazards of handling the plastics, glue, paint thinners, and other solvents in which these workers are immersed every day."
OK, my point is: let's concentrate on trying to get clean water to everyone on earth before throwing such huge amounts away on space games. Simple things make life better for all, and humanity's basic resource is not knowledge, science, or exploration, but humans.
You deserve the "troll" tag, but your delusion is sufficiently common that I'm going to reply anyway.
We're running out of oil.
We have a huge and growing Third World population who want living standards comparable to the USA.
The problems you cite can be solved by throwing enough energy at them.
Alternative energy sources limited to the Earth as a closed system can not sustain our lifestyles [the wasteful side is granted. Which one of your computers are you giving up for the sake of humanity?], let alone make a significant impact on improving Third World living standards.
The energy required to solve these problems is available by the terawatt from the sun. The only way to get that kind of power without massive ecological disruption on earth (you *really* want to pave the Sahara with solar cells?) is to build powersats to collect it and beam it to earth. This requires massive investments in alternative launch technology (either the Space Elevator or rail guns big enough to launch payload by the ton into orbit) and the rest of the infrastructure required to make industrial operations not only possible, but cost-effective and convenient in Earth orbit, the moon, and ultimately, the rest of the solar system.
We can do this now, and pay for this with annoying inconveniences (say, world market prices for gasoline in the USA, for instance based on increased taxes) or we can do this later, when the resource allocations to do this will result in a lot of people not getting enough to eat. We will do this, or our children won't be living in a technological society. Remember the good old days when only a small fraction of kids live long enough to be adults? That's what you're asking for.
As for your delusion about humanity's basic resource being humans, I recommend watching the Fox network for 48 hours in a row as a cure.
Analog taping off the radio and swapping tapes is covered under standard fair usage.
What's the difference between taping to cassette (or for the older people, to reel-to-reel) tape and to your hard drive?
What if your FM radio is an adaptor plugged into your PC that records to the HD? What's the difference between this and a portable AM-FM-cassette player which allows recording off the air by punching a couple of buttons?
The RIAA bought enough politicians to make taping to a hard drive illegel.
Only tards like you and the RIAA are capable of confusing this with any sort of moral imperative.
A US high-tech community which will not organize effectively to defend its own freedom of speech rights or its right to make a living using technology and can not be convinced to make contributions towards defending its rights to organizations unless there's a tax deduction in it for them is not going to go forth and reclaim the RF spectrum as a public resource.
I've seen discussion of embedding RFID tags inside the rubber of an auto tire. I want to see you remove those tags from your car just before you take off merrily down the freeway at a high rate of speed.
Since you're obviously a tard, nobody buys information from you anyway.
This is as unlikely as some geek who made his money in the dot-com glory days and managed to keep it suddenly deciding that we need a high-tech user PAC NOW and underwriting his determination with a $2-3M check to get things rolling.
At this point, there are NO credible good answers for the US. Those of us who want to keep making technology need to start shopping foriegn countries and figure out how to pay for getting over there and making new lives for ourselves in foriegn lands.
You are a prime example of the kind of geek cluelessness about politics that was instrumental in the passage of the DMCA. Presumably, you believe that more of the same, i.e. more non-profit geek advocacy groups intended to "educate" politicians and more money given to the ones we've got will SAVE THE WORLD.
Learn something about how the political process really works (I don't care if you got "As" in social studies) before you drool about it in public again.
Google is your friend... well, maybe Yahoo in your case.
Sorry. Slashdot and for that matter, most modern browsers don't support the blink tag.
Why should the people of South Carolina care what you think?
You're part of the problem. You will never be anything else.
For quite a few years, the military / aerospace sector has basically been building on electronic and computer technology developed for the private consumer sector.
Perhaps it's time for another driver for new technology to show up on the market. Especially given the increasingly successful attempt to suppress new consumer technology by the *AA (RIAA/MPAA) organizations.