I'm not a member at DailyKos. This is Slashdot. And my opinion of the Tea Party is based on my own research into the Tea Party.
Keep pushing those talking points. If it's not lockstep-left-approved, it's "extreme", being pushed by "extremists". No exaggeration is out of line, no demagoguery unjustified, no statement too bold...
Ok... You're drinking a bit too much of the KoS koolaid. The "Tea Party" is hardly armed to the teeth. It hardly even exists in an organized sense. You're cherry picking phrases and grandstanding because your positions are not popular enough to carry Congress. Sorry... Sucks to be you. Elections have consequences.
Get over it. Really same thing happened to the 68K as well. It was so much better than the 8086 and the 80286 at that time but people didn't buy it. Heck you could even buy them in inexpensive computers like the Amiga and Atari ST that had far better and more advanced OSs then MS-DOS at the time.
The 68k shipped in vast numbers, but it never got the business desktop uptake that it needed to dominate. It originally shipped in what was then a non-standard DIP package, which demanded a manufacturing price premium. As an architecture it hit a major brick wall after the 68030. This was the RISC / CISC wars of the late 80's that gave birth to things like the Alpha, PA-Risc, SPARC, etc... The 68k isn't dead. It had long had standing in embedded devices, arcade game consoles, and found a home in PLC controllers and embedded systems, some of which will still be in service 20+ years from now. It just got kicked off the desktop.
Imagine if DEC had released a PDP-11 running RSX-11 for the same price as the PC? Then imagine if they had sold single chip PDP-11 CPUs and RSX-11 to other companies so they could have made clones all the while paying DEC money. The PC would have had some trouble and might have even flopped.
I have a Heathkit H11 sitting in a closet, waiting to be donated to a computer museum. It ran the 16 bit LSI-11 4 chip CPU at 2.5Mhz (circa 1975!), which was basically a full PDP-11/40 instruction set. The kit builder assembled the power supply and chassis, it retailed for $1275 in 1977. Keep in mind however that's almost $5000 in 2011 dollars. It was the high end hobby computer of the late 70's. It beat the TRS-80 model 1 by any measure available, except cost.
200,000. They have artificially low property taxes, so the state appraises the houses at 5x their value to make up for the lost revenue (at the expense of people like me not ever being able to move there and the expense of companies not being able to hire people so they move to places like Austin).
It's actually worse than that... They don't "assess" 5x their value, they force high valuation by limiting development. It goes back to prop 13 in the late 1970's. California real estate was exploding, and little old ladies on fixed incomes were being priced out of their homes by year over year property tax increases. People rebelled at the ballot box and forced prop 13 on an unwilling political class. This froze property tax valuations at the time of sale. My parents still pay property taxes at rates set in 1978.
This sets up a kind of enmity between local government and housing. They know they won't get to raise their tax assessment but once every 30 years. So they have to pre-load development to cover the expansion of services, everything from sanitation to schools. They do this with very very steep permit and planning fees. There are cities in the SF Bay Area that used to charge upwards of $70,000 in planing and permit fee's to build a single family home. This then implies that every existing house with a valid occupancy permit, even a "tear down", is worth a minimum of $70k in that city.
You can then extend these tricks up and down the whole economy. Higher than average fuel excise taxes are applied before exceptionally high sales tax. Special California-only fuel blends... Electricity prices are insane ($0.249/kwh vs. ~$0.104 here in Texas), and getting worse. Those high fuel & energy costs then result in high prices for goods and services... Which again pads the bottom line on sales taxes. Lather, rinse, repeat... They've been building a closed market on the left coast for 35+ years.
I can't shed so much as a tear for them. I'm a 5th generation Californian. In 2004 I packed up and moved to Texas, and I brought my job with me. Oddly enough, my property taxes are about the same. But I got a 10% raise by loosing the income tax. Virtually all goods & services are much cheaper.
That doesn't really apply to economy class, except the last bit.
Traveling solo perhaps. But from a cost standpoint, if you have several kids... My wife's 10 year old diesel Excursion at 18 mpg and $4/gal fuel can cross the entire continental US twice for the cost of NYC to LA tickets for 4.
WRT54G v1.0? Well... That's Linksys I guess... But run DD-WRT...
But you bring up a valid point, it's a really short list. I have a ~15 year old Cisco 2514 here. It doesn't even support 100mbit Ethernet, or even internal transceivers, but... With the right IOS image, it supports IPv6 just barely. Maybe some of the smaller office routers like the 1600's or maybe the smaller 1700's. The bigger 17xx support it.
Simple... The snow melts, the water flows a few feet out of the path of the heater, and freezes solid, exposing you to potential liability if someone slips and breaks their hip.
I was thinking the exact same thing... My property... The only way they could pull this off legally is to hand me the old screws in a little plastic bag.
You are not required to drive on public roads. In fact I have three motorized vehicles in California that are completely uninsured, and have been for 20+ years. They never leave private land.
This bill required you to buy healthcare simply for being alive.
An exception... If the bill affects taxation or revenue, it must originate in the house. The Senate can't originate tax bills. This stalled the recent "FDA food production" grab by Monsanto, I think it was S510 or something like that...
Yeah, just how different is a current router from the old ham data relays?
KA9Q NOS was a MS-DOS application running on a full size PC. It could route between a SLIP connection from the Internet to a HF/VHF/UHF radio "network", thought it was illegal to set up such a configuration. It was a reasonably full featured TCP/IP implementation, but there wasn't a lot of ability to add services. I think it had the ability to telnet out, and host FTP. It may have had naming services and possibly something like gopher, but that's not really needed to be prior art. What it was is TCP/IP routing on a wireless network. It suffered from retransmit problems on long haul links. Picture 3 stations in a line, 30 miles apart. The station in the middle hears both. The stations on the ends only hear the station in the middle. They implement CDMA and retransmit. The end stations step on each other and the middle station gets nothing but collisions. 802.11 came years later, and succeeded because it was a local area only network, and used unlicensed spectrum with no license requirement or legal restrictions on use.
So in 1988 we had wireless TCP/IP routing. The AX25 drivers in the Linux kernel were integrated into 2.0 circa 1996, and available as a patch some time before that. Jeff Tranter wrote an article for it in Linux Journal circa 1997. I believe the Linux filtering and routing stuff was pretty advanced at that point. So the Linux portion pre-dates the patent as well.
All that's left is "embedded Linux", But I'm sure there was someone running Linux on a precursor to a Soekris board back in the 90's.
The ampr.org domain dates to April 1988. Phil Karn's KA9Q NOS claims to date back to 1985. I know I established a routed connection from the east bay to Cupertino via a KA9Q "router" in San Jose using 1200 baud modems on 2m VHF radio around 1990 or 1991, and I was just repeating work that everyone else was doing.
The low-end computer monitor market is using commodity HD TV LCD's. The solution is to pony up and buy a middle tier monitor that does proper 1600 x 1200 or something aspect ratio appropriate.
Often true. Though at times judges have been known to harass or attempt to entrap a juror candidate that professes such.
If you truly believe in jury nullification, you'll keep quiet about it so you can actually use it when needed. I don't avoid jury duty. But I long ago decided that the "war on drugs" is a huge waste of time, money, and people's lives. I doubt I could convict someone of simple pot possession, without some extra circumstance like violence, or other crime.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
Your personal knowledge is disallowed and even illegal as a juror. Jurors adding testimony without cross-examination during deliberations is one of the other big things you can get in trouble for. It introduces bias of its own. That's why they usually dismiss anyone with any relevant expertise. In fact, I find having a science degree very nearly a "get out of jury duty free card".
Having actually worked in next door to a oxygen isotope lab, and having seen just how painstakingly difficult it is to do Oxygen mass spectrometry correctly...
I'm not worried about this getting abused any time soon.
About 8 or more years ago I spent a saturday morning playing GT on the PS/2. I was working on unlocking the various license classes, and was really into it for 2 or 3 hours. The wife asked me to run to the store to pick up something. About a mile from my house I realized I was driving like a complete maniac...
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I'm not a member at DailyKos. This is Slashdot. And my opinion of the Tea Party is based on my own research into the Tea Party.
Keep pushing those talking points. If it's not lockstep-left-approved, it's "extreme", being pushed by "extremists". No exaggeration is out of line, no demagoguery unjustified, no statement too bold...
It's always hilarious when liberals turn pro-America and want the FBI to imprison dissidents for sedition.
Or support free speech, so long as they agree with it, and voting rights, only for people they deem smart enough to vote.
Ok... You're drinking a bit too much of the KoS koolaid. The "Tea Party" is hardly armed to the teeth. It hardly even exists in an organized sense. You're cherry picking phrases and grandstanding because your positions are not popular enough to carry Congress. Sorry... Sucks to be you. Elections have consequences.
All this complaining for an OS that isn't even shipping yet. This news tidbit is for a developer's preview drop.
USI - 1995
USII - 1997
USIIe - 1999
USIII - 2001
USIV - 2004
Is anyone really expecting to do an OS upgrade for these post 2011? Really?
Get over it. Really same thing happened to the 68K as well. It was so much better than the 8086 and the 80286 at that time but people didn't buy it. Heck you could even buy them in inexpensive computers like the Amiga and Atari ST that had far better and more advanced OSs then MS-DOS at the time.
The 68k shipped in vast numbers, but it never got the business desktop uptake that it needed to dominate. It originally shipped in what was then a non-standard DIP package, which demanded a manufacturing price premium. As an architecture it hit a major brick wall after the 68030. This was the RISC / CISC wars of the late 80's that gave birth to things like the Alpha, PA-Risc, SPARC, etc... The 68k isn't dead. It had long had standing in embedded devices, arcade game consoles, and found a home in PLC controllers and embedded systems, some of which will still be in service 20+ years from now. It just got kicked off the desktop.
Imagine if DEC had released a PDP-11 running RSX-11 for the same price as the PC? Then imagine if they had sold single chip PDP-11 CPUs and RSX-11 to other companies so they could have made clones all the while paying DEC money. The PC would have had some trouble and might have even flopped.
I have a Heathkit H11 sitting in a closet, waiting to be donated to a computer museum. It ran the 16 bit LSI-11 4 chip CPU at 2.5Mhz (circa 1975!), which was basically a full PDP-11/40 instruction set. The kit builder assembled the power supply and chassis, it retailed for $1275 in 1977. Keep in mind however that's almost $5000 in 2011 dollars. It was the high end hobby computer of the late 70's. It beat the TRS-80 model 1 by any measure available, except cost.
200,000. They have artificially low property taxes, so the state appraises the houses at 5x their value to make up for the lost revenue (at the expense of people like me not ever being able to move there and the expense of companies not being able to hire people so they move to places like Austin).
It's actually worse than that... They don't "assess" 5x their value, they force high valuation by limiting development. It goes back to prop 13 in the late 1970's. California real estate was exploding, and little old ladies on fixed incomes were being priced out of their homes by year over year property tax increases. People rebelled at the ballot box and forced prop 13 on an unwilling political class. This froze property tax valuations at the time of sale. My parents still pay property taxes at rates set in 1978.
This sets up a kind of enmity between local government and housing. They know they won't get to raise their tax assessment but once every 30 years. So they have to pre-load development to cover the expansion of services, everything from sanitation to schools. They do this with very very steep permit and planning fees. There are cities in the SF Bay Area that used to charge upwards of $70,000 in planing and permit fee's to build a single family home. This then implies that every existing house with a valid occupancy permit, even a "tear down", is worth a minimum of $70k in that city.
You can then extend these tricks up and down the whole economy. Higher than average fuel excise taxes are applied before exceptionally high sales tax. Special California-only fuel blends... Electricity prices are insane ($0.249/kwh vs. ~$0.104 here in Texas), and getting worse. Those high fuel & energy costs then result in high prices for goods and services... Which again pads the bottom line on sales taxes. Lather, rinse, repeat... They've been building a closed market on the left coast for 35+ years.
I can't shed so much as a tear for them. I'm a 5th generation Californian. In 2004 I packed up and moved to Texas, and I brought my job with me. Oddly enough, my property taxes are about the same. But I got a 10% raise by loosing the income tax. Virtually all goods & services are much cheaper.
That doesn't really apply to economy class, except the last bit.
Traveling solo perhaps. But from a cost standpoint, if you have several kids... My wife's 10 year old diesel Excursion at 18 mpg and $4/gal fuel can cross the entire continental US twice for the cost of NYC to LA tickets for 4.
Except, he founded DEC. The Hollerith card is an IBM invention, dating back to the late 20's.
WRT54G v1.0? Well... That's Linksys I guess... But run DD-WRT...
But you bring up a valid point, it's a really short list. I have a ~15 year old Cisco 2514 here. It doesn't even support 100mbit Ethernet, or even internal transceivers, but... With the right IOS image, it supports IPv6 just barely. Maybe some of the smaller office routers like the 1600's or maybe the smaller 1700's. The bigger 17xx support it.
Simple... The snow melts, the water flows a few feet out of the path of the heater, and freezes solid, exposing you to potential liability if someone slips and breaks their hip.
I was thinking the exact same thing... My property... The only way they could pull this off legally is to hand me the old screws in a little plastic bag.
This bill required you to buy healthcare simply for your own good.
From where I sit, it seems to be for someone else's good... at my expense. Thanks... Not interested.
California. Auto Insurance.
You are not required to drive on public roads. In fact I have three motorized vehicles in California that are completely uninsured, and have been for 20+ years. They never leave private land.
This bill required you to buy healthcare simply for being alive.
An exception... If the bill affects taxation or revenue, it must originate in the house. The Senate can't originate tax bills. This stalled the recent "FDA food production" grab by Monsanto, I think it was S510 or something like that...
Yeah, just how different is a current router from the old ham data relays?
KA9Q NOS was a MS-DOS application running on a full size PC. It could route between a SLIP connection from the Internet to a HF/VHF/UHF radio "network", thought it was illegal to set up such a configuration. It was a reasonably full featured TCP/IP implementation, but there wasn't a lot of ability to add services. I think it had the ability to telnet out, and host FTP. It may have had naming services and possibly something like gopher, but that's not really needed to be prior art. What it was is TCP/IP routing on a wireless network. It suffered from retransmit problems on long haul links. Picture 3 stations in a line, 30 miles apart. The station in the middle hears both. The stations on the ends only hear the station in the middle. They implement CDMA and retransmit. The end stations step on each other and the middle station gets nothing but collisions. 802.11 came years later, and succeeded because it was a local area only network, and used unlicensed spectrum with no license requirement or legal restrictions on use.
So in 1988 we had wireless TCP/IP routing. The AX25 drivers in the Linux kernel were integrated into 2.0 circa 1996, and available as a patch some time before that. Jeff Tranter wrote an article for it in Linux Journal circa 1997. I believe the Linux filtering and routing stuff was pretty advanced at that point. So the Linux portion pre-dates the patent as well.
All that's left is "embedded Linux", But I'm sure there was someone running Linux on a precursor to a Soekris board back in the 90's.
What does that leave in the patent claims?
The ampr.org domain dates to April 1988. Phil Karn's KA9Q NOS claims to date back to 1985. I know I established a routed connection from the east bay to Cupertino via a KA9Q "router" in San Jose using 1200 baud modems on 2m VHF radio around 1990 or 1991, and I was just repeating work that everyone else was doing.
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The low-end computer monitor market is using commodity HD TV LCD's. The solution is to pony up and buy a middle tier monitor that does proper 1600 x 1200 or something aspect ratio appropriate.
You get what you pay for.
Except OpenSolaris is dead.
Often true. Though at times judges have been known to harass or attempt to entrap a juror candidate that professes such.
If you truly believe in jury nullification, you'll keep quiet about it so you can actually use it when needed. I don't avoid jury duty. But I long ago decided that the "war on drugs" is a huge waste of time, money, and people's lives. I doubt I could convict someone of simple pot possession, without some extra circumstance like violence, or other crime.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
Your personal knowledge is disallowed and even illegal as a juror. Jurors adding testimony without cross-examination during deliberations is one of the other big things you can get in trouble for. It introduces bias of its own. That's why they usually dismiss anyone with any relevant expertise. In fact, I find having a science degree very nearly a "get out of jury duty free card".
Does the world really need another petrodollar theocracy?
It would be solved in 50 years.
Having actually worked in next door to a oxygen isotope lab, and having seen just how painstakingly difficult it is to do Oxygen mass spectrometry correctly...
I'm not worried about this getting abused any time soon.
About 8 or more years ago I spent a saturday morning playing GT on the PS/2. I was working on unlocking the various license classes, and was really into it for 2 or 3 hours. The wife asked me to run to the store to pick up something. About a mile from my house I realized I was driving like a complete maniac...
Time republish "Inconstant Moon"...
And they laughed when Sun bought StorageTek!
Well... Ok... That didn't work out so well...