Um. But even if you're doing software raid you're still not going to get more than 400mbit since that all firewire supports. For that matter you could get something with USB 2.0 (480mbit)
May your idea of a "computer" is just too limited. Your type of computer is that of a desktop tool, therefore you buy that kinda of computer.
There are many groups and projects that want to make computers more than number crunchers, at some point maybe we'll have another name for those types. Such as how a calculator is not general called a computer anymore.
I agree with what you're saying though, I like my desktop computer, I don't see this project for uses beyond speculation even in military. I think being given a robot companion for the battle field would be even more depressing.
And let me ask you. What would YOU do, if the government collectively decided to start ignoring that? Or the entire constituion for that matter? The words maybe be on paper, but they're still just words, and its still just paper.
yes, but you've got smelly dirty mexicans. And thats all over your country. Granted, we've got over fed, fat, smelly, white, dumb and rude americans here. Hmmm, I'm starting to wonder which is worse. Well, I can honestly tell you, if I ever needed to flee this country, you'd be like, 4th or 5th on my list of places to hide.
"In addition, that section makes it illegal for Federal, state, and local government agencies to deny any rights, privileges or benefits to individuals who refuse to provide their SSNs unless the disclosure is required by Federal statute, or the disclosure is to an agency for use in a record system which required the SSN before 1975. ( 5 USC 552a note)."
Any business not owned or operated by the gubberment can ask/demand your SSN. What you quote has nothing todo with this. But yeah, they probably won't require your ssn. If they asked for mine I'd give em the finger and leave without buying anything
The tip calculator was the equivilent of a Hello World, it was just something quickmto I could learn the structure of J2ME apps. Btw, an even easier way is if you live somewhere where tax is ~7.5%, you just double the tax, give or take a few cents.
I totally agree with this guy, J2ME is really cool. I went to lunch with a couple friends the other day and they both had java phones. So i came home, grabbed Sprint's Wireless Toolkit and started playing with it.
I'm really impressed how fast you can develop applications for it. One friend wanted a tip calculator, which took about 5 minutes after I figured out how everything worked. It is alittle different from standard Java and you're missing some important things such as floating point numbers (float and double are gone). So it does take some getting used to.
But most things are really easy todo, such as writing a small app to send SMS messages, the important part of the code is only about 10 lines long. Check it out, I'm planning on picking up one of the Sprint phones when my contract expires in a few months
Taxes they pay. Care to back that up with numbers? Are you even sure they even paid any taxes? Maybe you should have a look at this article in SFGate. Yes, that's right, neither Cisco nor Microsoft paid ANY federal taxes.
And just for a twist, have we considered how many jobs may have been lost because of Microsofts actions?
But lets put all that aside. What if there are millions of pissed of Joe Blows? Millions of Joe Blows that don't have the money to buy themselves votes. Is a rich person's opinion more important more important than yours? Is your opinion worth less because you didn't pay anyone to give it?
I'm sorry that you believe your employer shapes your beliefs for you. My employer does NOT represent me, nor should they ever say they do.
Smaller companies often do not have the money, because of larger companies, to buy themselves politicians. Microsoft may support thousands of people, but this country contains MILLIONS of people and there's no reason a company that supports only thousands should have enough sway to negatively affect the MILLIONS it doesn't support.
There's a couple sides to this. You're assuming that there's one kind of buyer for the X-Box, the kind that wants Microsoft to lose money. But in reality (remember NOT slashdot) there is a buyer that will buy that x-box on the shelf as well as a few games for it. If there's a bunch of X-boxes just sitting on the shelves, Microsoft won't make any more.
it essentially makes them little more than second-rate Athlon imitators which incidentally happen to consume a little less power.
I'm sorry, could you link us to the stats that show the AMD Athlon uses less power than this new transmeta chip?
Unless of course you worded that very badly and you mean that the transmeta consumes less power. In that case, you have to remember, this is NOT an athlon competitor, its competing with the P4m and P3m. Does AMD even have a decent mobile chip?
Now that we're done with that point, let's move on to the next point, about code-morphing and talking about changing the chip "to a PowerPC, MIPS, or SPARC-compatible chip in seconds" For one thing, assuming you would want todo this in a laptop, can you even imagine the problems with hardware? Can you point me to a motherboard, video card, sound card, or heck, even recent ram manufacturer that makes one component that works on x85,PPC,SPARC and MIPS platforms? Exactly, it would be a complete pain in the ass. As for embedded developers, they would face the same problem, I can't recall many recent embedded products. Chances are they've built that much on a simulator before they start purchasing chips anyway, they know what they need.Forget using it "as a testbed for new ideas" again, do it in simulation.
Transmeta "abandoned" the technology because it posed no benefit to thier target market. People have already thought of all of your ideas, and if they were feasible they would have been done. Should I just assume you were trolling?
There's been an FOIA request out for that for a long time. Some of the details of Carnivore are on the FOIA website, but much of them are blacked out. One of the problems (besides the government not wanting to give it up) is that uncle sam licensed a lot of the pieces of carnivore from other companies, meaning they can't go releasing the source to those part. Granted it was probably just an excuse not to release it.
Did anyone pay you for the trojan in Borlands Interbase? How sure are there's no trojan in Microsoft software? Would you know if there was? I'm aware you're just trolling, but keep in mind, the Interbase hole wasn't discovered for 6 YEARS when Borland open sourced it. Btw, no one ever said there was no security holes in open source software.
While I don't think this is a good idea (CDs are over priced, and they CD Burning option isn't even available yet on this site) I do think they're heading in the right direction.
Take into consideration that most people pay a flat rate for thier bandwidth and don't use all of thier available bandwidth every month. Also, they are also paying for bandwidth.
Also consider that you don't have to pay for gas to goto the record store, and with blank CDs going gor about 30 cents now, there's the money you would have spent in gas. And you don't even have to leave the house! Nor do you have to wait for the CD to be delivered.
I could see this idea working if they got rid of all the DRM crap and let people download plain old high quality MP3s.
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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Doesn't look strange to me, everything IDs as Mozila. We'll also note the default Konqueror UA is:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11)
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Um. But even if you're doing software raid you're still not going to get more than 400mbit since that all firewire supports. For that matter you could get something with USB 2.0 (480mbit)
Man, did you even read the entire posting? The nominations were posted, these are the results of the votes.
May your idea of a "computer" is just too limited. Your type of computer is that of a desktop tool, therefore you buy that kinda of computer.
There are many groups and projects that want to make computers more than number crunchers, at some point maybe we'll have another name for those types. Such as how a calculator is not general called a computer anymore.
I agree with what you're saying though, I like my desktop computer, I don't see this project for uses beyond speculation even in military. I think being given a robot companion for the battle field would be even more depressing.
And let me ask you. What would YOU do, if the government collectively decided to start ignoring that? Or the entire constituion for that matter? The words maybe be on paper, but they're still just words, and its still just paper.
yes, but you've got smelly dirty mexicans. And thats all over your country. Granted, we've got over fed, fat, smelly, white, dumb and rude americans here. Hmmm, I'm starting to wonder which is worse. Well, I can honestly tell you, if I ever needed to flee this country, you'd be like, 4th or 5th on my list of places to hide.
We should also point out that intel didn't have these nice fast intel processors to run all thier design software on when they started.
Oh you want to simulate it do you? Build it.
China has many more resources available to them than intel did when they started.
Do you even read what you quote?
"In addition, that section makes it illegal for Federal, state, and local government agencies to deny any rights, privileges or benefits to individuals who refuse to provide their SSNs unless the disclosure is required by Federal statute, or the disclosure is to an agency for use in a record system which required the SSN before 1975. ( 5 USC 552a note)."
Any business not owned or operated by the gubberment can ask/demand your SSN. What you quote has nothing todo with this. But yeah, they probably won't require your ssn. If they asked for mine I'd give em the finger and leave without buying anything
The tip calculator was the equivilent of a Hello World, it was just something quickmto I could learn the structure of J2ME apps. Btw, an even easier way is if you live somewhere where tax is ~7.5%, you just double the tax, give or take a few cents.
I totally agree with this guy, J2ME is really cool. I went to lunch with a couple friends the other day and they both had java phones. So i came home, grabbed Sprint's Wireless Toolkit and started playing with it.
I'm really impressed how fast you can develop applications for it. One friend wanted a tip calculator, which took about 5 minutes after I figured out how everything worked. It is alittle different from standard Java and you're missing some important things such as floating point numbers (float and double are gone). So it does take some getting used to.
But most things are really easy todo, such as writing a small app to send SMS messages, the important part of the code is only about 10 lines long. Check it out, I'm planning on picking up one of the Sprint phones when my contract expires in a few months
Taxes they pay. Care to back that up with numbers? Are you even sure they even paid any taxes? Maybe you should have a look at this article in SFGate. Yes, that's right, neither Cisco nor Microsoft paid ANY federal taxes.
And just for a twist, have we considered how many jobs may have been lost because of Microsofts actions?
But lets put all that aside. What if there are millions of pissed of Joe Blows? Millions of Joe Blows that don't have the money to buy themselves votes. Is a rich person's opinion more important more important than yours? Is your opinion worth less because you didn't pay anyone to give it?
I'm sorry that you believe your employer shapes your beliefs for you. My employer does NOT represent me, nor should they ever say they do.
Smaller companies often do not have the money, because of larger companies, to buy themselves politicians. Microsoft may support thousands of people, but this country contains MILLIONS of people and there's no reason a company that supports only thousands should have enough sway to negatively affect the MILLIONS it doesn't support.
There's a couple sides to this. You're assuming that there's one kind of buyer for the X-Box, the kind that wants Microsoft to lose money. But in reality (remember NOT slashdot) there is a buyer that will buy that x-box on the shelf as well as a few games for it. If there's a bunch of X-boxes just sitting on the shelves, Microsoft won't make any more.
I'm sorry, could you link us to the stats that show the AMD Athlon uses less power than this new transmeta chip?
Unless of course you worded that very badly and you mean that the transmeta consumes less power. In that case, you have to remember, this is NOT an athlon competitor, its competing with the P4m and P3m. Does AMD even have a decent mobile chip?
Now that we're done with that point, let's move on to the next point, about code-morphing and talking about changing the chip "to a PowerPC, MIPS, or SPARC-compatible chip in seconds" For one thing, assuming you would want todo this in a laptop, can you even imagine the problems with hardware? Can you point me to a motherboard, video card, sound card, or heck, even recent ram manufacturer that makes one component that works on x85,PPC,SPARC and MIPS platforms? Exactly, it would be a complete pain in the ass. As for embedded developers, they would face the same problem, I can't recall many recent embedded products. Chances are they've built that much on a simulator before they start purchasing chips anyway, they know what they need.Forget using it "as a testbed for new ideas" again, do it in simulation.
Transmeta "abandoned" the technology because it posed no benefit to thier target market. People have already thought of all of your ideas, and if they were feasible they would have been done. Should I just assume you were trolling?
Fat chicks, focus on fat chicks. I also suggest ugly girls and generally any that have low self esteem
There's been an FOIA request out for that for a long time. Some of the details of Carnivore are on the FOIA website, but much of them are blacked out. One of the problems (besides the government not wanting to give it up) is that uncle sam licensed a lot of the pieces of carnivore from other companies, meaning they can't go releasing the source to those part. Granted it was probably just an excuse not to release it.
YOU have never eaten at a really cheap really crappy chinese food joint.
That, or the poster usually eats healthy. I used to eat a lot of McDonalds, now I find that if I eat there at all it just slides right through me.
Yeah, because if it takes em all night to scan the network they're less likely to get in right?
I dunno about you, but I tend to have my keys on me more than I have my watch. I like the idea of having a drive on my keychain.
Did anyone pay you for the trojan in Borlands Interbase? How sure are there's no trojan in Microsoft software? Would you know if there was? I'm aware you're just trolling, but keep in mind, the Interbase hole wasn't discovered for 6 YEARS when Borland open sourced it. Btw, no one ever said there was no security holes in open source software.
ok add to that, non geek and non slob
there's already handwriting recognition software for linux. Checkout the iPaq linux page at www.handhelds.org
Its more hardware that I'd be concerned with seeing as how these use a funky magnetic stylus.
No kidding. I almost choked when I found out they were producing an SUV. But that new V10 GT is fucking schweet.
While I don't think this is a good idea (CDs are over priced, and they CD Burning option isn't even available yet on this site) I do think they're heading in the right direction.
Take into consideration that most people pay a flat rate for thier bandwidth and don't use all of thier available bandwidth every month. Also, they are also paying for bandwidth.
Also consider that you don't have to pay for gas to goto the record store, and with blank CDs going gor about 30 cents now, there's the money you would have spent in gas. And you don't even have to leave the house! Nor do you have to wait for the CD to be delivered.
I could see this idea working if they got rid of all the DRM crap and let people download plain old high quality MP3s.