WRONG. There is no law in the United States stating that cash MUST be accepted.
Legal tender for all debts public and private simply means it is an approved form of payment in the eyes of the government. If the government were overseeing the payment of a debt, legal tender is something the government is able to evaluate properly. Paying your buddy in beaver pelts? The government doesn't have to hear your case when he says you only gave him 17 good pelts, since 3 were damaged. If you do get the case taken to court, there's no guarantee of the government being right, giving a crap, etc. in terms of the value of those pelts.
Whoever you're dealing with certainly has the option to require a different form of payment. Yes, that includes the government.
His greatest accomplishment so far is that he convinced the IOC to not bring the Olympics to Chicago.
I'm not even trolling (though I do hate the Olympics and love to troll) - the city of Chicago was in NO WAY prepared to host the Olympics, most of the people there were against the idea, and money needs to be spent on useful shit in that city.
Yes, Russia did a lot to stop Hitler in WWII in Eastern Europe. Yes, they took far more casualties than anyone else (including holocaust victims).
But there's this little thing called Western and Southern Europe, and there's this little ocean called the Pacific Ocean.
In terms of "person was nationality", you're an idiot. Do you think just because Benz is credited as being the inventor of the automobile that he provided them to the world in any way?
There were people who designed and built automobiles before him, his is just the most similar to the modern design. And they didn't do a damn thing for mankind. It wasn't until Henry Ford that automobiles became attainable for the average person.
But of course you know this, and you just want to troll.
A country that provided the world with such things as electricity, the automobile, the outcome of WWII, the internets, manned space exploration, etc.
The global financial system is pure bullshit. It's all numbers in a database, and those numbers do NOT correspond to anything tangible. They're produced out of thin air. It is not a problem unique to the US, nor does any nation's "debt" or "surplus" have any actual meaning.
Financial ruin IS avoidable - go back to the gold standard and stop bailing out the morons (from giant companies to the individual). And of course, don't tax the people out the ass for stupid shit. Politicians and huge companies don't want any of that though.
Keep shitting on the US, though, because the rest of the world is totally so much better off and owes the US nothing.
The fact that it's been handled like trash and we will be forever tied to 32-bit leads me to believe the next architecture will be 128-bit with support for the 32-bit instruction set, with most 64-bit instructions being replaced by 128-bit ones, and the 64-bit instruction set as a whole being dropped.
No, it means a 128-bit architecture will still be able to run Windows 8.
That is, the architecture supports a different mode that the Windows 8 kernel includes.
Knowing the history of teh bits, this simply means Windows 8 will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and 128-bit processors will be able to run in 32-bit mode, but not 64-bit mode.
So yet again, we will be stuck without 64-bit drivers or optimization, let alone 128-bit drivers or optimization.
32-bits should be more than enough for anybody.
(I HOPE Windows 8 is 64/128, and 128-bit processors are 32/64/128, but I know better than to expect anything sensible).
Farnsworth: "This is no ordinary honey! It's produced by vicious space^H robo bees. A single sting of their hideous neuro^H robotoxin can cause instant death!"
With HTML5 not being supported by MS, and only certain codecs being supported by Apple, the video tag isn't worth shit, unfortunately.
Besides, flash video players are all about the bloat - look at youtube/hulu, you've got captions, annotations, ads, menus at the end, etc.
I haven't looked into the other new tags, but flash for video should have died years ago.
Last I checked embed src="file.ext" worked fine, and my browser loaded a plugin/full app to handle whatever it was. (Though it's not actually part of the spec, is it?) It wasn't pretty, and it just played the video. But that's all I want. Sadly, everyone else loves "teh web 2.0" and demands all the bits and bobs.
We've had streaming protocols for ages that worked directly in the browser, or by opening up a media app. We can always improve the protocol and the codec without touching flash.
The problem is it's not about the content anymore. The content is the lure. No one wants to serve up site.com/videos/video1.mp4 through straight html. They want you to go to site.com, see ads, click around, add comments, see a list of related and sponsored videos, and maybe watch the actual video.
This is why flash (and similar) will live on, regardless of the alternatives.
In Nobel's own words: "The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."
Seems to me someone shouldn't win for doing something that benefits their pocket books first, and mankind second.
Angry emails to the Nobel Foundation, GO!
Postal address: The Nobel Foundation P.O. Box 5232, SE-102 45 Stockholm, Sweden Street address: Sturegatan 14, Stockholm Tel. +46 (0)8 663 09 20 Fax +46 (0)8 660 38 47 E-mail info@nobel.se comments@nobelprize.org
Sony has NEVER been a reputable vendor in terms of video game consoles.
The PS and PS2 had terrible failure rates. Not 360 RRoD levels, but still, most of my friends went through 3 or 4 PSs and 2 or 3 PS2s.
The PSP was equally shit early on - wonky UMD drives, lots of dead pixels, the square button not working, bad screen quality (aside from dead pixels), a few battery issues, etc. In general though, the units didn't outright fail - they just had defects^H unique design decisions. Compared to the tank that is the original DS, and Nintendo's generous handling of dead pixel returns, Sony looked really bad.
The PS3 is their most solidly built gaming device yet. Still, I waited to get a later revision (a 40 GB MGS4 model, so I don't have the PS2 hardware in there, and I think I have a smaller RSX...).
Early models may have some overheating issues, and the very early models had some shitty wireless (including bluetooth) issues.
My advice to people about Sony hardware would be:
Video games? Go slim or go home. (But don't ever go to PS Home - that's trash).
TVs? Go if the price is right (usually isn't).
Anything else? No. I don't know if this is all a result of manufacturing moving outside of Japan or what, but they simply don't put out the (physical)quality they used to.
And always expect to cough up the $$$ for repairs.
Usually, Nintendo products are fucking invincible. I'm on my 4th Wii. 1: GPU fried 2: Controllers wouldn't sync 3: Repeatable game lockups in a couple of games. 4: Still going...
2 and 3 had the failures right when I got them, and it was a year ago when Wiis were still hard as fuck to find, so it was obvious they were just recertifying mobos and swapping them out.
But Nintendo's service was free and fast, and they actually communicated with me.
I simply refuse to "jump in" and get a 360 because of all the hardware problems, and because of the horrible cost of accessories (I need the wireless adapter, and it's just got a price drop... to $80).
I hope Sony is indeed improving on the hardware quality front. I know they still suck at customer service though, so I wouldn't risk it beyond a game console/handheld, and maybe a TV (where they do have a good history of quality).
Mac A - I don't know about computers but I like to use them.
Mac B - I know about computers, but I also like shiny, trendy things.
Windows A - I don't know about computers, but I know this one, and I need to use it.
Windows B - I know about computers, but not enough to waste my time with Linux.
Windows C - I know all about computers and I just keep this box around for games, guests, knowing how to troubleshoot for friends/family. All my other PCs run Linux.
Linux A - I am a NERD.
Linux B - I am a NERD, but sadly, I still keep a Windows box around.
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WRONG.
There is no law in the United States stating that cash MUST be accepted.
Legal tender for all debts public and private simply means it is an approved form of payment in the eyes of the government. If the government were overseeing the payment of a debt, legal tender is something the government is able to evaluate properly. Paying your buddy in beaver pelts?
The government doesn't have to hear your case when he says you only gave him 17 good pelts, since 3 were damaged. If you do get the case taken to court, there's no guarantee of the government being right, giving a crap, etc. in terms of the value of those pelts.
Whoever you're dealing with certainly has the option to require a different form of payment.
Yes, that includes the government.
Citrix: GoTo Hell.
NanoPower is the obvious answer.
You mentioned Woody Allen and Mia Farrow.
Thank you for ruining my Friday.
His greatest accomplishment so far is that he convinced the IOC to not bring the Olympics to Chicago.
I'm not even trolling (though I do hate the Olympics and love to troll) - the city of Chicago was in NO WAY prepared to host the Olympics, most of the people there were against the idea, and money needs to be spent on useful shit in that city.
Yes, Russia did a lot to stop Hitler in WWII in Eastern Europe. Yes, they took far more casualties than anyone else (including holocaust victims).
But there's this little thing called Western and Southern Europe, and there's this little ocean called the Pacific Ocean.
In terms of "person was nationality", you're an idiot. Do you think just because Benz is credited as being the inventor of the automobile that he provided them to the world in any way?
There were people who designed and built automobiles before him, his is just the most similar to the modern design. And they didn't do a damn thing for mankind. It wasn't until Henry Ford that automobiles became attainable for the average person.
But of course you know this, and you just want to troll.
Yes you were shitting on the US, when you should have been shitting on all politicians.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the entire world is being fucked by this here "recession".
No, I don't watch sports. Or American Idol.
Or much TV at all.
Keep stereotyping americans though, eventually you'll get one right.
This is the US we are talking about.
A country that provided the world with such things as electricity, the automobile, the outcome of WWII, the internets, manned space exploration, etc.
The global financial system is pure bullshit.
It's all numbers in a database, and those numbers do NOT correspond to anything tangible. They're produced out of thin air. It is not a problem unique to the US, nor does any nation's "debt" or "surplus" have any actual meaning.
Financial ruin IS avoidable - go back to the gold standard and stop bailing out the morons (from giant companies to the individual). And of course, don't tax the people out the ass for stupid shit. Politicians and huge companies don't want any of that though.
Keep shitting on the US, though, because the rest of the world is totally so much better off and owes the US nothing.
The fact that it's been handled like trash and we will be forever tied to 32-bit leads me to believe the next architecture will be 128-bit with support for the 32-bit instruction set, with most 64-bit instructions being replaced by 128-bit ones, and the 64-bit instruction set as a whole being dropped.
The last thing the 486, I mean 586, I mean 686, I mean x86, I mean x86-64, I mean IA64, ISA needs is more instructions.
I often refer to them as
Killer
Maybe
Giggle
Terror
Pedo
Once people start using PB-scale storage, I'll need to decide on one for EB.
Exactly.
Windows 8 is scheduled in launch in 2048.
No, it means a 128-bit architecture will still be able to run Windows 8.
That is, the architecture supports a different mode that the Windows 8 kernel includes.
Knowing the history of teh bits, this simply means Windows 8 will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and 128-bit processors will be able to run in 32-bit mode, but not 64-bit mode.
So yet again, we will be stuck without 64-bit drivers or optimization, let alone 128-bit drivers or optimization.
32-bits should be more than enough for anybody.
(I HOPE Windows 8 is 64/128, and 128-bit processors are 32/64/128, but I know better than to expect anything sensible).
Setting up a barrier to access that contribution to mankind is antithetical to the goal of benefiting all of mankind.
The original Xbox remains, once modded, one of the best HTPCs you can get.
No it doesn't.
It lacks the horsepower to handle HD content.
XBMC was great, but it's limited by the hardware, and the 360 has thus far not seen a true successor to it.
Leela: "What's the mission?"
Farnsworth: "Collecting honey. Ordinary honey."
Leela: "That doesn't sound so dangerous."
Farnsworth: "This is no ordinary honey! It's produced by vicious space^H robo bees. A single sting of their hideous neuro^H robotoxin can cause instant death!"
So your firearm is a...fire...arm?
With HTML5 not being supported by MS, and only certain codecs being supported by Apple, the video tag isn't worth shit, unfortunately.
Besides, flash video players are all about the bloat - look at youtube/hulu, you've got captions, annotations, ads, menus at the end, etc.
I haven't looked into the other new tags, but flash for video should have died years ago.
Last I checked embed src="file.ext" worked fine, and my browser loaded a plugin/full app to handle whatever it was. (Though it's not actually part of the spec, is it?)
It wasn't pretty, and it just played the video. But that's all I want. Sadly, everyone else loves "teh web 2.0" and demands all the bits and bobs.
We've had streaming protocols for ages that worked directly in the browser, or by opening up a media app. We can always improve the protocol and the codec without touching flash.
The problem is it's not about the content anymore. The content is the lure. No one wants to serve up site.com/videos/video1.mp4 through straight html. They want you to go to site.com, see ads, click around, add comments, see a list of related and sponsored videos, and maybe watch the actual video.
This is why flash (and similar) will live on, regardless of the alternatives.
Exactly why I brought up the comment about my Wii.
Anecdotal evidence isn't worth anything.
The original revisions of the PS, PS2, and PSP were crap in terms of reliability.
The 360 is an utter failure.
Nintendo products are very reliable.
These are simple truths that can be verified through many forms of data collection.
Scrumtrulesence is a perfectly cromulent word.
Insert tired old joke about Nobel/Noble.
In Nobel's own words:
"The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."
Seems to me someone shouldn't win for doing something that benefits their pocket books first, and mankind second.
Angry emails to the Nobel Foundation, GO!
Postal address: The Nobel Foundation
P.O. Box 5232, SE-102 45 Stockholm, Sweden
Street address: Sturegatan 14, Stockholm
Tel. +46 (0)8 663 09 20
Fax +46 (0)8 660 38 47
E-mail info@nobel.se
comments@nobelprize.org
Sony has NEVER been a reputable vendor in terms of video game consoles.
The PS and PS2 had terrible failure rates. Not 360 RRoD levels, but still, most of my friends went through 3 or 4 PSs and 2 or 3 PS2s.
The PSP was equally shit early on - wonky UMD drives, lots of dead pixels, the square button not working, bad screen quality (aside from dead pixels), a few battery issues, etc.
In general though, the units didn't outright fail - they just had defects^H unique design decisions.
Compared to the tank that is the original DS, and Nintendo's generous handling of dead pixel returns, Sony looked really bad.
The PS3 is their most solidly built gaming device yet. Still, I waited to get a later revision (a 40 GB MGS4 model, so I don't have the PS2 hardware in there, and I think I have a smaller RSX...).
Early models may have some overheating issues, and the very early models had some shitty wireless (including bluetooth) issues.
My advice to people about Sony hardware would be:
Video games? Go slim or go home. (But don't ever go to PS Home - that's trash).
TVs? Go if the price is right (usually isn't).
Anything else? No. I don't know if this is all a result of manufacturing moving outside of Japan or what, but they simply don't put out the (physical)quality they used to.
And always expect to cough up the $$$ for repairs.
Usually, Nintendo products are fucking invincible. I'm on my 4th Wii.
1: GPU fried
2: Controllers wouldn't sync
3: Repeatable game lockups in a couple of games.
4: Still going...
2 and 3 had the failures right when I got them, and it was a year ago when Wiis were still hard as fuck to find, so it was obvious they were just recertifying mobos and swapping them out.
But Nintendo's service was free and fast, and they actually communicated with me.
I simply refuse to "jump in" and get a 360 because of all the hardware problems, and because of the horrible cost of accessories (I need the wireless adapter, and it's just got a price drop... to $80).
I hope Sony is indeed improving on the hardware quality front. I know they still suck at customer service though, so I wouldn't risk it beyond a game console/handheld, and maybe a TV (where they do have a good history of quality).
No.
Mac A - I don't know about computers but I like to use them.
Mac B - I know about computers, but I also like shiny, trendy things.
Windows A - I don't know about computers, but I know this one, and I need to use it.
Windows B - I know about computers, but not enough to waste my time with Linux.
Windows C - I know all about computers and I just keep this box around for games, guests, knowing how to troubleshoot for friends/family. All my other PCs run Linux.
Linux A - I am a NERD.
Linux B - I am a NERD, but sadly, I still keep a Windows box around.
Computer Savvy (expect some overlap)
Less - - - - - - - More
Mac Windows Linux
And in most households there is one person who actually owns those machines.
It says "owners", not "users".
If daddy bought you your Macintosh, then he owns it.
So yes, it's about marketshare, it's obvious, and there's no news here, but nothing is misleading.
Cool story, bro.
So when do people get that right?