I always thought it was a little bit nuts to have jets flying low above dense areas of the city.
Actually - the most dangerous part of flying on an airplane is the drive to the airport. You're more likly (on a per mile basis) to die in your car, than in a commercial plane. If we put the airports out in the countryside, then perhaps more people would die due to the increased car travel to and from the airport.
No. A better analogy is: "if someone car-jacks your sister and drives off a cliff, should you shoot his mom?"
Possibly. In all seriousness, people who raise degenerate childern should be held accountable ( unless there are mitigating circumstances.) If the crajacker was just a bad apple then the mom should be given sympathy - but if the carjacker was on of a group of crappy childern, then, in a just world, the mother shoud be given a lawsuit.
Anyways - you say xenophobic is if there is somthing bad with it. The rate we are going, the world is going to turn into some kinda bland-gray cultural goo. Bleah. I just feel a sorry for any European who sees their culture going down the crapper, gripes about it, then gets labeled as a racist by the likes of people named 'Godwin O'Hitler.' Hmmm. Me thinks you have an axe to grind.
Genetically - one human is 99.9999% the same as another human. So if you feel that race determins behavour, then you are an idiot. Culture helps determine behavior, and some cultures are non-copatible. Look what happened to the American indian culture when the European culture came to their land - it was pretty much genocide. Look whats hapening to the French culture when the Algerians came and decided that they diden't want to become French, but decided to behave like they did before. Not fun.
A lot of the backlash against immigrents in Europe is caused by the fact that most European governemts went into a fit immigration after the WWII to help build their enonomies. Unfortunatly - instead of geting hard working people who wanted to become europeans themselves, they got a bunch of overbreading rif-rafs who sponge off the socialist governemts. France now has a higher crime rate than the USA and a huge un-employment problem - and Germany will have more foreigners by 2030 than native Germans. Granted, a racest backlash is wrong, but it is due to the real problems that face native Europeans.
Totalitarian leftist rule is the sane way to go, my son.
Congrat! You almost had a good troll! If you had a bit more subtly, you would probably have had a reply by now. Keep up the good work - you'll get there someday. Maby.
And how Mr. Master can you catogize Hitler, or any true Fascist government, as left wing?
I'm not speaking for Reality Mastser -
Hitler was a leader of the National Socialist party . And even if you discount that -the only diferance between a faciest and a socialist is that the facist wants the governemnt to controll the means of production, while the socialist wants the government to own then means of production. A capitolist wants individual people to own the means of production. Clearly capitalism is a bit better - we've been to the moon and made the polio vaceane; all the Hitler/Stalin/Mao have done is murder a hundred million people.
I can't stress how haveing a near-zero compile and link time improves your coding speed. You can literally use the Borland's OP compiler as a 'coding spellcheck' - just hit the build button and in a flash, you cursor is at the first error.
THE JOINT VENTURE which produces mobos for the DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha microprocessor is suffering from a severe shortage of DDR cache memory, according to sources acutely close to the acute famine.
The UP 1500 Alpha, which supports a 21264 Alpha at up to 800MHz speed and comes with 4MB or 8MB of level two DDR cache, is intended to arrive in July, with typical systems costing around $4,500.
But a shortage of cache for the processor is hampering production, leaving system integrators truly "up in arms" and Samsung embarrassed at the short-fall.
Most extended instruction sets (MMX,SSE,3dNow,Veocity) that work on large chunks of floating point data at a time are not designed for accuracy - they are designed for speed. In an environment where precision is required only IEEE floating point is of vale - the extended instructions are great for Quake, Photoshop and benchmarks, but hopefully nobody is using them for real work.
You assertion that X86 processors are 'brilliant engineering' is a but odd - X86 processors have a lot of cruft around to deal with old 8-Bit,16-Bit (Real and Protected) and 32-Bit modes. The Alpha and other chips that have been introduced in the last few years don't have all that garbage lying around and can concentrate on doing things correctly - where X86 designeres spend a lot of time making the things backwards compatible. Instead of being a 'Porche' as you described it - they end up being a VW Bug with a turbine engine graftwed on the hood - it works but it sure is ugly.
Recently though, English speaking people on the east end of the Atlantic have been using a simplified rule for determining when to use plural vs. singular. An entity that has multiple people get a plural, while here in America we have kept the hard-to-remember rule that a company is a singular entity. Though I'll forgive any ESL person who makes this mistake - I find it sad that the Queen's English is being dumbed down.
I think Microsoft has done a great job of making WindowsXP appear to be faster - My Win95 box on crapy hardware takes 90 seconds to boot, my XP box with great hardware takes fifteen seconds to see the log in screen - after that though the hard drive churns for another minuit. So to uninformed users - they think XP boots in fifteen seconds, not the real boot op time of a minuit or so.
Microsoft missed out on what (IMHO) make open source truly great, It not a money or company issue , it's that OSS mimics two mechanisms found in nature:
First of all - I love FreeBSD for fileservers and OpenBSD for firewalls and VPN gateways. Increasingly Linux has been making great strides in file-system stability, and I imagine in a few years I'll be happily installing Linux fileservers instead of FreeBSD. And it doesn?t matter one bit if Linux or FreeBSD 'win' - because they are both evolving toward an optimum. Just like how sharks (a fish) and whales (a mammal) are evolving to an optimum underwater shape. In addition, if OpenBSD comes up with another security patch - Linux can quickly mimic the new behavior - just like one species of bacteria can swap genetic code with another species to quickly acquire a new resistance to a new threat.
This is the true two pronged advantage of open source - is that the development model mimics Darwinian style evolution, and that and gains in one piece of open source software can be rapidly assimilated in another.
Apricorn has a USB drive thats powered exclusivly by the USB cable - it's has a battery for a bit of a boost during spinup. http://www.apricorn.com/ezstorage.html
Imagine the consernation of your grandchilder opening a chest and finding a silvery metal disk - would they know what to do with it? We have the same problem in our generation - there are thousands of audio recordings that were recoreded on wire http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dmorton/wire_recorders.htm
- many of theses spools get trown out when the childeren of the recoreded don't know what they are.
We do have a solution - we can keep the data files in an active file system. As technology progresses, we just copy from the old method of storage to the new.
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Increasingly, what oprerating system you have is becomming irelevent:
We are NOT hated around the world - I've been fortunate to be able to travel, and 99.99% of the people love Americans. We are generouros, tolerent and interesting. If someone treats you badly or ruddly in a forign county, most likely it due to YOUR behaviour - you were either being boorish, snobbish or booring.
We are loved so much that people litterly will risk their lives just trying to get in to our country. And they come here not because of our purple mountains, wal-mart or Oprah - they come here because there are Americans here, for all our faults.
Care to explain how civilisation should have responded to WWII? Should we have has a love in, while the Germans were killing TEN MILLION PEOPLE in Europe and the Japanese were killing TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE in Asia? I hope we have the courage to defend the defenseless - and not sit on our butts when people are being murdered.
The database is used for clothing manufaturers and designers - now that you know that, then parsing 'German textile management system' should be a bit easier.
There's this German textile management system called Koppermann that I was curious about - it's really flexable as far as I could tell. Whell, I fired up the ODBC browser to take a look in its MS-SQL tables as I kid you not: THEY IMPLEMENTED AN OO DATABASE IN A FLAT TABLE DATABASE. The had a giant user interface table that had rectord like this:
Argh! The madness of it all. Everything of substance was in these two tables. I'll admit that it's a nice hack, and they can tell all their clients that their data is 'easily exported into a CSV file.', but good greif! It reminds me of those people whoe made so many # define macros in C as to make it look like Pascal.
Bondheadguy should have told us his intentions, as it would make his problem easier:
The fact the he only need to store faces makes the job easier - no need to store video of people milling about in the bacground. I presume his software is smart enough to tell if there is a visible face - he should just discard the video if there are no large faces visible to scan.
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I always thought it was a little bit nuts to have jets flying low above dense areas of the city.
Actually - the most dangerous part of flying on an airplane is the drive to the airport. You're more likly (on a per mile basis) to die in your car, than in a commercial plane. If we put the airports out in the countryside, then perhaps more people would die due to the increased car travel to and from the airport.
No. A better analogy is: "if someone car-jacks your sister and drives off a cliff, should you shoot his mom?"
Possibly. In all seriousness, people who raise degenerate childern should be held accountable ( unless there are mitigating circumstances.) If the crajacker was just a bad apple then the mom should be given sympathy - but if the carjacker was on of a group of crappy childern, then, in a just world, the mother shoud be given a lawsuit.
Anyways - you say xenophobic is if there is somthing bad with it. The rate we are going, the world is going to turn into some kinda bland-gray cultural goo. Bleah. I just feel a sorry for any European who sees their culture going down the crapper, gripes about it, then gets labeled as a racist by the likes of people named 'Godwin O'Hitler.' Hmmm. Me thinks you have an axe to grind.
So you're racist, right?
Genetically - one human is 99.9999% the same as another human. So if you feel that race determins behavour, then you are an idiot. Culture helps determine behavior, and some cultures are non-copatible. Look what happened to the American indian culture when the European culture came to their land - it was pretty much genocide. Look whats hapening to the French culture when the Algerians came and decided that they diden't want to become French, but decided to behave like they did before. Not fun.
A lot of the backlash against immigrents in Europe is caused by the fact that most European governemts went into a fit immigration after the WWII to help build their enonomies. Unfortunatly - instead of geting hard working people who wanted to become europeans themselves, they got a bunch of overbreading rif-rafs who sponge off the socialist governemts. France now has a higher crime rate than the USA and a huge un-employment problem - and Germany will have more foreigners by 2030 than native Germans. Granted, a racest backlash is wrong, but it is due to the real problems that face native Europeans.
Totalitarian leftist rule is the sane way to go, my son.
Congrat! You almost had a good troll! If you had a bit more subtly, you would probably have had a reply by now. Keep up the good work - you'll get there someday. Maby.
I'm not speaking for Reality Mastser -
Hitler was a leader of the National Socialist party . And even if you discount that -the only diferance between a faciest and a socialist is that the facist wants the governemnt to controll the means of production, while the socialist wants the government to own then means of production. A capitolist wants individual people to own the means of production. Clearly capitalism is a bit better - we've been to the moon and made the polio vaceane; all the Hitler/Stalin/Mao have done is murder a hundred million people.
I can't stress how haveing a near-zero compile and link time improves your coding speed. You can literally use the Borland's OP compiler as a 'coding spellcheck' - just hit the build button and in a flash, you cursor is at the first error.
From here: http://www.theinquirer.net/02040103.htm
Samsung Alpha board suffers from DDR famine
And fails to deliver on 1GHz Alpha
By Pete Sherriff , 31 March 2001
THE JOINT VENTURE which produces mobos for the DEC (sorry Compaq) Alpha microprocessor is suffering from a severe shortage of DDR cache memory, according to sources acutely close to the acute famine.
The UP 1500 Alpha, which supports a 21264 Alpha at up to 800MHz speed and comes with 4MB or 8MB of level two DDR cache, is intended to arrive in July, with typical systems costing around $4,500.
But a shortage of cache for the processor is hampering production, leaving system integrators truly "up in arms" and Samsung embarrassed at the short-fall.
Most extended instruction sets (MMX,SSE,3dNow,Veocity) that work on large chunks of floating point data at a time are not designed for accuracy - they are designed for speed. In an environment where precision is required only IEEE floating point is of vale - the extended instructions are great for Quake, Photoshop and benchmarks, but hopefully nobody is using them for real work.
You assertion that X86 processors are 'brilliant engineering' is a but odd - X86 processors have a lot of cruft around to deal with old 8-Bit,16-Bit (Real and Protected) and 32-Bit modes. The Alpha and other chips that have been introduced in the last few years don't have all that garbage lying around and can concentrate on doing things correctly - where X86 designeres spend a lot of time making the things backwards compatible. Instead of being a 'Porche' as you described it - they end up being a VW Bug with a turbine engine graftwed on the hood - it works but it sure is ugly.
People who leave those things on their TV's should be gently throttled until they see reason.
Recently though, English speaking people on the east end of the Atlantic have been using a simplified rule for determining when to use plural vs. singular. An entity that has multiple people get a plural, while here in America we have kept the hard-to-remember rule that a company is a singular entity. Though I'll forgive any ESL person who makes this mistake - I find it sad that the Queen's English is being dumbed down.
OS-9? Level One or Two ;)
Did you OS-9 run on a 6809, or one of those new fangled 68000's?
Little known fact - Philips set-top game/thingy CDI ran OS-9.
No Score +1 Bonus for me, I'm offtopic here!
I think Microsoft has done a great job of making WindowsXP appear to be faster - My Win95 box on crapy hardware takes 90 seconds to boot, my XP box with great hardware takes fifteen seconds to see the log in screen - after that though the hard drive churns for another minuit. So to uninformed users - they think XP boots in fifteen seconds, not the real boot op time of a minuit or so.
I was using XP (beta 2 mind you)...
Oh, and 6 months up-time BTW, no crashes.
I thought all the RC's and Betas of XP had a 180 day limit.
Microsoft missed out on what (IMHO) make open source truly great, It not a money or company issue , it's that OSS mimics two mechanisms found in nature:
First of all - I love FreeBSD for fileservers and OpenBSD for firewalls and VPN gateways. Increasingly Linux has been making great strides in file-system stability, and I imagine in a few years I'll be happily installing Linux fileservers instead of FreeBSD. And it doesn?t matter one bit if Linux or FreeBSD 'win' - because they are both evolving toward an optimum. Just like how sharks (a fish) and whales (a mammal) are evolving to an optimum underwater shape. In addition, if OpenBSD comes up with another security patch - Linux can quickly mimic the new behavior - just like one species of bacteria can swap genetic code with another species to quickly acquire a new resistance to a new threat.
This is the true two pronged advantage of open source - is that the development model mimics Darwinian style evolution, and that and gains in one piece of open source software can be rapidly assimilated in another.
Great idea, but someone beat you to it ;)
Apricorn has a USB drive thats powered exclusivly by the USB cable - it's has a battery for a bit of a boost during spinup. http://www.apricorn.com/ezstorage.html
while(1){ amazementThatWithAllTheCrazyShitGoingOnInTheWorldR ightNowYourFaithInHumanityIsBasedOnWhetherTVIsFree OrNot++; }
Hey - that variable name is too long for my Wang. I think my friends PDP-8 would have problems as well.. but thats another story....
Imagine the consernation of your grandchilder opening a chest and finding a silvery metal disk - would they know what to do with it? We have the same problem in our generation - there are thousands of audio recordings that were recoreded on wire http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dmorton/wire_recorders .htm
- many of theses spools get trown out when the childeren of the recoreded don't know what they are.
We do have a solution - we can keep the data files in an active file system. As technology progresses, we just copy from the old method of storage to the new.
Increasingly, what oprerating system you have is becomming irelevent:
4 7_STO48570,00.html
Solaris and FreeBSD both run Linux binaries and AIX should soon http://www.exquip.com/software/ibmaix.chtml
and HP-UX is not far behind: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV
We are NOT hated around the world - I've been fortunate to be able to travel, and 99.99% of the people love Americans. We are generouros, tolerent and interesting. If someone treats you badly or ruddly in a forign county, most likely it due to YOUR behaviour - you were either being boorish, snobbish or booring.
We are loved so much that people litterly will risk their lives just trying to get in to our country. And they come here not because of our purple mountains, wal-mart or Oprah - they come here because there are Americans here, for all our faults.
war is a no-win game.
Care to explain how civilisation should have responded to WWII? Should we have has a love in, while the Germans were killing TEN MILLION PEOPLE in Europe and the Japanese were killing TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE in Asia? I hope we have the courage to defend the defenseless - and not sit on our butts when people are being murdered.
The database is used for clothing manufaturers and designers - now that you know that, then parsing 'German textile management system' should be a bit easier.
There's this German textile management system called Koppermann that I was curious about - it's really flexable as far as I could tell. Whell, I fired up the ODBC browser to take a look in its MS-SQL tables as I kid you not: THEY IMPLEMENTED AN OO DATABASE IN A FLAT TABLE DATABASE. The had a giant user interface table that had rectord like this:
ControllID
ParentControllID
DataType
FormLocationX
FormLocationY
Then they had a giant data table like this
DataID
ParentDataID
ControllID
Data
Argh! The madness of it all. Everything of substance was in these two tables. I'll admit that it's a nice hack, and they can tell all their clients that their data is 'easily exported into a CSV file.', but good greif! It reminds me of those people whoe made so many # define macros in C as to make it look like Pascal.
Bondheadguy should have told us his intentions, as it would make his problem easier:
The fact the he only need to store faces makes the job easier - no need to store video of people milling about in the bacground. I presume his software is smart enough to tell if there is a visible face - he should just discard the video if there are no large faces visible to scan.