I'd watch out. All those geek chicks that would be flocking to your door for building such a contraption might end up being shocked, and have to stay away.
I'd leave it off by default, and just flip the switch every time some kid wants to sell me cookies. Hah!
That's just fantastic! Way in the future, the next time one of the Enterprise's computers goes on the fritz you can unthaw a COBOL programmer to help Geordi debug it!
This type of memory may eventually become useful for storing vast amounts of data, but because the stability of each bit of information depends on one or a few atoms, it likely to be used for applications where a small number of errors can be tolerated. "I would not want to trust my bank account to a memory where a single atom could wipe out my savings," said Himpsel.
Considering I don't store much money in my bank account, I sure as hell would risk my account being drained from $10 -> $0 along with the equal risk that its value will go from $10 -> 3.3E23 dollars.:)
It's sure as hell better than to use a gigantic "Laser" to get lots of money.
Bill Hicks (God rest his soul) had a stand-up monologue back in 1993 about going to a particularly isolated part of Texas/Oklahoma, and asking for a cup of coffee.
The attendant then asked him if he wanted the 64oz, or the large? "If you want the large, you'll have to pull round back with your truck."
Listening to comedy from 5-10 years ago shows two trends in the general public: upsizing and diversifying.
One of Denis Leary's better rants from Lock n' Load was about how "You can get every other flavor of coffee out there except COFFEE FLAVORED COFFEE. They've got mochachino, they've got cappachino, frapachino, rappachino, Al Pacino, WHAT THE FUCK?"
Think about it, though. Next time you go to a 7-Eleven, and you fill up a 64 ounce drink with Vanilla Coke. Think about whether or not it'll fly nowadays. Think about whether or not Crystal Pepsi would have made it today with Britney Spears and Austin Powers hawking it.
What was there back then, anyways? That's not a Pepsi, that's a Crystal Pepsi. And that's not a Dark Michael Jackson. That's a new and improved White, light, and refreshing Michael Jackson!
I only wish that Tab would have still been a major player in soft drinks nowadays. With all the saccharine, they could have people like Denis Leary doing commercials for "New and Improved Cancer-Causing Cranberry Tab!"
Doesn't sound like a good idea? Oh well. Maybe that one's only for the smoking demographic.
The people at junkfax.org are apparently planning a large class-action suit against fax.com as well
And why? Did fax.com send them 5.4 million dollars of spam-infringing material?:)
Maybe it's me, but perhaps the Shareholders of companies running spam should get all the email from uce@ftc.gov forwarded to their private AOL accounts.
I'm reminded of an old joke one of my math professors used to tell me.
There were a group of people in a room of different professions, and a theorem was put forth onto the board that stated that all Odd Numbers Are Prime. Each person was supposed to disprove this.
The mathematician started off by looking at each number.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9.... 9 is not prime, the theorem is false.
The social worker turned in a long sheet of paper going "2 is prime, 4 is prime, 6 is prime..." etc.
Hollywoods biggest fear is that Britney Spears will try to make another movie.
Didn't you see the new Austin Powers movie? It's my hopes that she *does* make another movie. This time with the guy who plays Mini-Me as her boyfriend.
Indeed, by Thursday the risk had dropped to 3.9-in-1-million and on Sunday NASA said the rock no longer posed any risk for the year 2019, though a minor risk remained for a date in 2060.
With odds like that, chances are I would have won the lottery by then.
And knowing my piss poor luck, it'll be *right* before the asteroid lands smack on top of Los Angeles.
This might be just me, but will the interface of the nv30 be 64 bit or 128 bit? A quad-pumped 64 bit interface isn't all that much different than a dual-pumped 128 bit interface.
If the nv30's memory interface is only 64 bit, the main reason to wait for the card is its die shrink. DDR-II is a nonissue.
And, pray tell, why should we be concerned all the time with getting users onto the bandwagon?
Perhaps because things tend to become better with larger numbers of masses using it. And perhaps because some things tend to wither and die when the userbase doesn't increase.
I want it to be popular among the educated computing community, but I couldn't care less about little Johnny using it.
Nice philosophy for writing an OS, but where do you draw the line? "Nobody below my knowledge base should be using this?" Oh please. What next? Everyone using linux should know how to write stuff in BASH? Everyone should be proficient in C/C++? Everyone should be a kernel hacker?
Sorry, but an OS that's like that isn't an Operating System. It's a toy. Linux is not a toy, nor is it just your toy.
I want people to use Linux who actually bother reading man pages, understanding things etc. -- clearly you don't.
Yeah, I'm going back to windows now. And I'm not coming back until I learn RPM... Oh that's right! I'm trying to learn something by using this OS. My mistake.
Not exactly sure why, but congrats Taco and crew, you've lost another reader (and writer for Linux sites and magazines -- I'll reference K5 in future instead).
I'll keep a look out for Anonymous Coward within the linux circles.
You know what I want you to do? I want you to go upstairs to that apartment where that guy keeps playing that Barry Manilow record 'Copacabana' over and over and over again. I want you to ring the doorbell, and when he answers the door, I want you to stab him in the neck with a number 2 pencil over and over and over again because he must PAY! Chop him up and put him in the freezer and as you leave the apartment light the place on fire!
</Denis Leary>
God I'd have fun saying that to people as they're walking down the street.
I want them to make a C3P0 model. With it understanding 6 million forms of communication, it's only a matter of time for 3P0 to decipher all those SlashCode Perl modules I've been trying to understand.
Then 3p0 tells me that the modules are really written in Brainf*ck. That's okay. 3p0 can decipher that for me too.
But for now, I'll pay to have r2d2 use its electric circuits to shock random people who come to my doorstep. That'll teach'em a lesson for making fun of my Star Wars lunchbox!
"At club Perversion, all of our mp3s are ripped at 360k/sec. While you dine and dance with many of our Gothic Ravers, and sample some of our fine variety of blood viles, know that you get the highest quality remixes of Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, and Cradle of Filth."
The estimate is done on one of those Pentium 1's with a FDIV malfunction. That way, not only will the asteroid crash into the sun, but by the time it does it will have crumbled and melted away into the size of a thimble.
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I'd sacrifice my ex-girlfriend to the monitor god to get one of those plasma displays.
Two birds with one stone.
I'd leave it off by default, and just flip the switch every time some kid wants to sell me cookies. Hah!
That's just fantastic! Way in the future, the next time one of the Enterprise's computers goes on the fritz you can unthaw a COBOL programmer to help Geordi debug it!
Considering I don't store much money in my bank account, I sure as hell would risk my account being drained from $10 -> $0 along with the equal risk that its value will go from $10 -> 3.3E23 dollars. :)
It's sure as hell better than to use a gigantic "Laser" to get lots of money.
The attendant then asked him if he wanted the 64oz, or the large? "If you want the large, you'll have to pull round back with your truck."
Listening to comedy from 5-10 years ago shows two trends in the general public: upsizing and diversifying.
One of Denis Leary's better rants from Lock n' Load was about how "You can get every other flavor of coffee out there except COFFEE FLAVORED COFFEE. They've got mochachino, they've got cappachino, frapachino, rappachino, Al Pacino, WHAT THE FUCK?"
Think about it, though. Next time you go to a 7-Eleven, and you fill up a 64 ounce drink with Vanilla Coke. Think about whether or not it'll fly nowadays. Think about whether or not Crystal Pepsi would have made it today with Britney Spears and Austin Powers hawking it.
What was there back then, anyways? That's not a Pepsi, that's a Crystal Pepsi. And that's not a Dark Michael Jackson. That's a new and improved White, light, and refreshing Michael Jackson!
I only wish that Tab would have still been a major player in soft drinks nowadays. With all the saccharine, they could have people like Denis Leary doing commercials for "New and Improved Cancer-Causing Cranberry Tab!"
Doesn't sound like a good idea? Oh well. Maybe that one's only for the smoking demographic.
And why? Did fax.com send them 5.4 million dollars of spam-infringing material? :)
Maybe it's me, but perhaps the Shareholders of companies running spam should get all the email from uce@ftc.gov forwarded to their private AOL accounts.
That'll show'em.
There were a group of people in a room of different professions, and a theorem was put forth onto the board that stated that all Odd Numbers Are Prime. Each person was supposed to disprove this.
The mathematician started off by looking at each number.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9.... 9 is not prime, the theorem is false.
The social worker turned in a long sheet of paper going "2 is prime, 4 is prime, 6 is prime..." etc.
The physicist turned in the following:
1... 3... 5... 7... 9 (Experimental Error), 11, 13.....
Now that's a midget porn flick I'd watch!
I wonder if they have Lucas on film begging Speilburg to come on to help with Episode 3.
Naw, he's too busy starring with Tom Cruise in the new Austin Powers movie.
So, what if they put it in a curling iron? If someone hacks your home network, will they turn the curling iron remotely so that your house burns down?
Who has stock in this idea? Tim Burton? :)
This is one big conspiracy to make breakfast time look like something out of Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
With odds like that, chances are I would have won the lottery by then.
And knowing my piss poor luck, it'll be *right* before the asteroid lands smack on top of Los Angeles.
I won! I won! ..................
SPLAT!
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001july/bch2001 0709006702.htm
This is what I found claiming it's Quad Pumped. I'm not saying the article is right, but I'm just looking for an article that claims otherwise.
Thanks!
If the nv30's memory interface is only 64 bit, the main reason to wait for the card is its die shrink. DDR-II is a nonissue.
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/cinefx/defa ult.asp
Joy.
Perhaps because things tend to become better with larger numbers of masses using it. And perhaps because some things tend to wither and die when the userbase doesn't increase.
I want it to be popular among the educated computing community, but I couldn't care less about little Johnny using it.
Nice philosophy for writing an OS, but where do you draw the line? "Nobody below my knowledge base should be using this?" Oh please. What next? Everyone using linux should know how to write stuff in BASH? Everyone should be proficient in C/C++? Everyone should be a kernel hacker?
Sorry, but an OS that's like that isn't an Operating System. It's a toy. Linux is not a toy, nor is it just your toy.
I want people to use Linux who actually bother reading man pages, understanding things etc. -- clearly you don't.
Yeah, I'm going back to windows now. And I'm not coming back until I learn RPM... Oh that's right! I'm trying to learn something by using this OS. My mistake.
Not exactly sure why, but congrats Taco and crew, you've lost another reader (and writer for Linux sites and magazines -- I'll reference K5 in future instead).
I'll keep a look out for Anonymous Coward within the linux circles.
I don't hate RPM, and I suppose I oversimplified my woes to the point where the answer seems *that* obvious. Joke's on me posting at 4am. But...
Kind of makes you wonder what it must be like to be a big industry and buy into RedHat's tech support.
"You never even read the RPM man page. What kind of linux user are you?"
Uh huh... That'll get users onto the bandwagon.
God I'd have fun saying that to people as they're walking down the street.
I want them to make a C3P0 model. With it understanding 6 million forms of communication, it's only a matter of time for 3P0 to decipher all those SlashCode Perl modules I've been trying to understand.
Then 3p0 tells me that the modules are really written in Brainf*ck. That's okay. 3p0 can decipher that for me too.
But for now, I'll pay to have r2d2 use its electric circuits to shock random people who come to my doorstep. That'll teach'em a lesson for making fun of my Star Wars lunchbox!
Then, when I try to get rpmgraph-core installed, it requires rpmgraph to be installed already.
No wonder only nerds only use linux: the average layman does not WANT to know what the word Recursive means.
Uhhh... Uhhh... Uhhh... I can do their webpage!
Oh yippee! At least *real* insects only carry diseases. I'm scared the government wants to turn me into a borg.
Sorry, but enthusiastic bantor about Operating Systems are reserved for Linux items only.
This story has angered the Open Source Gods. Retract this open enthusiasm at once, or fear their retribution.
"At club Perversion, all of our mp3s are ripped at 360k/sec. While you dine and dance with many of our Gothic Ravers, and sample some of our fine variety of blood viles, know that you get the highest quality remixes of Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, and Cradle of Filth."
And people ask me why I stay at home so much...
Damnit, my license is at stake here!
The estimate is done on one of those Pentium 1's with a FDIV malfunction. That way, not only will the asteroid crash into the sun, but by the time it does it will have crumbled and melted away into the size of a thimble.