Look, I support gun ownership and I am pro-2nd amendment, but I am far more worried about losing my right to speak my mind or my right to keep to myself than I am of losing my right to stockpile automatic weapons.
I'm worried about losing any rights protected by the Constitution & its amendments. However, the 2nd Amendment is the one that lets us keep the means to protect the rest of our rights.
You cited the quote correctly, but got the content wrong. Here's the original:
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
The Alphas are RISC CPUs so, what clock speed do they have to run at to top the Pentium at 3GHz?
According to the latest SPEC benchmarks, to beat a 3060 MHz P4 in floating point, an Alpha would need to run at 1340 MHz, not much higher than the current 1250 MHz Alpha. For integer performance, it would need to run at about 1600 MHz.
However, Intel's own Itanium gets almost 1.5x the floating point performance at 1/3 the clock speed. Also, the PIII would outperform the P4 in integer ops at equal speed and come close in floating point.
Here's the data:
SPECfp 2000
CPU MHz base peak AthlonXP(2800) 2000 782 843 ASUS A7N8X P4 3060 1092 1103 Dell Precision Workstation 350 PIII 1000 329 340 Dell Precision Workstation 420 Xeon 2800 878 887 Dell Precision Workstation 530 Sparc64 1350 1004 1241 Fujitsu PrimePower 900 Alpha 1250 1019 1365 hp Alphaserver ES45 68/1250 Itanium2 1000 1431 1431 hp server rx5670 Power4 1450 1221 1295 IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2
SPECint 2000
CPU MHz base peak AthlonXP(2800) 2000 878 913 ASUS A7N8X P4 3060 1085 1130 Dell Precision Workstation 350 PIII 1000 454 462 Dell Precision Workstation 420 Xeon 2800 921 957 Dell Precision Workstation 530 Sparc64 1350 747 847 Fujitsu PrimePower 900 Alpha 1250 845 928 hp Alphaserver ES45 68/1250 Itanium2 1000 807 --- hp server rx5670 Power4 1450 909 935 IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2
Still, technically speaking, VHS was inferior to the other two.
This is a myth. VHS was able to record a movie in a single tape. In at lest this aspect VHS was superior to betamax.
Notice the other parent poster said technically speaking? Ability to record on one tape is irrelevent, and you have to reduce the quality to record more on the tape!
Copyrighting prices is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
No kidding, since it isn't possible to copyright factual information.
The phone companies tried to stop third party telephone directories from being published, but got shot down in court. The courts ruled that the information in the directories is not copyrightable.
I just feel bad that he is having to cough up so much dough to fight something so ridiculus.
If everything turns out well he'll get reimbursed by WalMart.
Note that I am sure the design would have to be approved by a county/city engineer, but so does every house built.
That's not the case everywhere in the US. Some places don't even reqire building permits. Where my parents' live (Benton County, MN) only land-use permits are required. There isn't even a county building code there.
I haven't used it recently, but I remember AutoCAD 12 and 13 allowed a user to use the menu or the command-line alternately. Any action could be done in either location, and the bonus was that menu, mouse activities generated events in the command-line pane.
You are correct sir! As long as I've used AutoCAD (since Rel 9, around 1988) they've allowed multiple modes of interaction. Autodesk added new modes with subsequent releases, while still retaining the old ones. Here's a partial list:
Command line
Screen menus: like a sidebar, first by pressing a key, mouse support added later
Tablet menus: both the digitizer tablet and the buttons on the puck
Pull-down menus
Keyboard shortcuts
Popup context menus
Plus, all of the above are customizable and programmable, using the built-in LISP interpreter, C, C++, or VBA.
There are very few applications with graphical interfaces I don't get frustrated with and bitch about besides AutoCAD (if only they hadn't abandoned Unix with Rel 14).
We all know about the coup that happened. Now look. One party in all three branches! Woop for democracy! Democracy for all the world!!! Or Else!!!!
First, the US is not a democracy, never was, and hopefully never will be. The framers of the Constitution were vehemently opposed to pure democracy.
Second, there hasn't been anything even close to a coup in the US, ever. The main reason why is because civilian control of the military was one of our founding principles, and anything else now seems unthinkable.
Actually, according to this, The American people voted Democrat. The Electoral college voted Republican.
Your link is from the 2000 election. In case you hadn't noticed, there was an election just a couple weeks ago that posted Republican gains all across the country. It was the first time in US history the sitting president's party gained seats in the House in a mid-term election. They also control the senate now and there are still more Republican governors than Democrat (only 26-24, but they gained).
The fairest way to have an election that is going to effect the entire country is to have each person's vote count equally. This would also encourage more voters. Growing up In Alaska...
It would really make it less fair. If every vote was equal, the candidates would only need to campaign in a handful of large cities. They could make a promise to raise taxes on everyone else and give the city residents free cash and they'd win.
Under the electoral college, presidential candidates spend an inordinate amount of time in New Hampshire and Iowa, because they have early primaries. If every vote was equal, they wouldn't stop in either state. Alaska would be in the same situation.
He also argued that slavery is justified and women belong in the home. Do you wish that caught on too?
Seriously, that quote has been used to advocate taking all children away from their parents and the state raising them.
I think the article explained it best:
The whole issue was argued three centuries ago, and it was established as a principle of democracy that, when the author is dead, his work becomes the property of all. This was modified slightly to allow the first generation after his death to continue to collect royalties, presumably to protect widows and children. But that's all that was intended. There was no argument ever made for a third- or fourth-generation royalty, much less a perpetual assignment of royalties to a corporation that never dies.
If we could only revert back to the framers' original intent.
DOS is fundamentally different than an operating system (for example, Unix or NT).
I agree that DOS doesn't provide all the services of a CS book defined OS, but Windows and any standard Unix or Linux are a whole lot more than just an OS.
Why would anyone logically think that they would embrace a standard that will put their competitors on an equal playing field?
The standard will not put competitors on an equal playing field. It will be based on existing OpenOffice file formats. Therefore it will give competitors a lead.
Microsoft has as much access to the code as anyone else. How would that give their competitors a lead?
We've all encountered Samba, Sendmail, and Kernel panics too.
That's a very bold statement. I've never encountered these in 7 years of running Linux. Other people I know have had kernel panics, but they're the ones who run bleeding-edge development kernels.
OTOH, almost every Windows box I've ever used has crashed at some point, some quite often. Windows NT was quite stable, before version 4, when they moved the GUI into kernel space.
Corruption is the absolute rule in our government. Explain DMCA, Patriot act, Mickey Mouse Protection act, Homeland Security (alone and with all the riders) in any other way.
You didn't read the post you're replying to very carefully. In fact, if you'd finish reading the rest of the sentence you quoted, you wouldn't need an explanation:
(most law buying takes place over the table rather than under it and is thus not "corrupt" behaviour)
The Titan IVB's max payload is 47,800 lbs from FL or 38,800 lbs from CA.
Yes, using the shuttle to launch a telecommunications satellite into orbit would be a waste of money - for much the same reason that using a 24-foot U-haul truck to go pick up milk from the store would be a waste of money.
Right, and that's why they're only used for missions needing a human presence now. If you look at the future planned Space Shuttle missions, you'll notice none of them are strictly spacelift.
Like the space shuttle, this "landshark" sounds like it was engineered for coolness and not from genuine requirements.
Now that is a troll. The space suttle has performed very well as a reusable launch vehicle with very good turn around time. Figure out the cost of disposable rockets for each of the shuttle's missions and you might see the practicality.
Are you kidding? The space shuttle shouldn't even be called reusable, as the airframe and solid rocket boosters are reused only after major refurbishment. It takes months for NASA & their contractors to gut the shuttle and prepare it for a new mission.
As far as comparing it to rockets, the shuttle is more reliable, but what else would you expect from the precautions they take when human lives are at stake. Even though its operating costs have been reduced by 40%, unmanned rockets are still much more economical. That's why the shuttle is only used for missions requiring a human presence, like ferry flights to the space station, repairing satelites, etc. The overwhelming majority of space launches are still unmanned rockets.
Let's see where those home schooled kids are when they're 25.
The idea that the social aspects of school are a red herring seems to be based entirely only the immediately observable. The home schooled kids don't belong to cliques or follow trends, and they seem to have more "book learning" (which I assume is what you mean by saying they are more informed/better educated). OK, great, but where does that get them?
5 years down the road they still haven't learned to fit in. They have serious social problems, which all to often lead to other problems with drugs and alcohol (and sex, well, the girls anyway) which only exacerbate the social problems making it even more difficult for them to find/make friends. They often have difficulty handling pressure or criticism, but at the same time are very arrogant and have no trouble criticizing others.
How are these problems any different from kids going to public school? I've found them much less prevalent in the people I know who were home schooled.
Yes, these are generalizations, and yet they hold true for every single person I've met who was home schooled. Some of them have been tolerable, but all too many have been highly irritating.
My experience has been much different. I went to public school, but I have many friends who were home schooled, and know many more. I've found that people who were home schooled are just as well adjusted as other people. Granted, I've met some that had poor interpersonal skills, but usually their parents sheltered them far too much. However, I've met plenty of people like that who attended public schools.
I believe some of the current trends in education will be far more harmful than anyone could even imagine from home schooling. The massive over-prescription of drugs like Ritalin is going to screw up a lot of kids. Even worse are the schools banning all competitive sports & activities, so nobody has to be a loser. When those kids graduate, they're going to find a world that just isn't fair, and be utterly unprepared to deal with it.
It is not an issue of "no social life", obviously that is easily worked around. The issue is one of social education, which is very hard to get without putting the kid in a school situation. If that valuable social experience is a red herring, well, so is your assertion that all kids learn in public school is to "conform and be politically correct and to not 'think', only parrot approved dogma."
I believe kids can receive an equal or better social education outside of school.
By reading the article, you would have realized that Dr. Gelernter is stating that we need to distance ourselves a bit farther from the OS than we are now. Current user interfaces are tied too closely to the nature of the operating system.
Correct, but by finishing the article, you'd realize that Dr Gelernter also thinks we should all give up and use Windows.
Providing open source to China is immoral? ya, 1 billion people do not all hate us. Grow up, China has problems, they are our rivals. But Chinese are no more enemies than Russians were under the Soviets. Most Chinese are moral and peaceloving. And if they go open source, then they will be heros too.
I guess you don't recognize sarcasm.
But to respond to your comment, the Chinese and Soviet-era Russian people were never our enemies. However, the vast majority of them have absolutely no say in the conduct of their governments. Only a small handful of ruling elites control all the power.
Besides, the Chinese government is largely switching to Linux. It's been covered severaltimesbefore on/.
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The Alphas are RISC CPUs so, what clock speed
do they have to run at to top the Pentium at 3GHz?
According to the latest SPEC benchmarks, to beat a 3060 MHz P4 in floating point, an Alpha would need to run at 1340 MHz, not much higher than the current 1250 MHz Alpha. For integer performance, it would need to run at about 1600 MHz.
However, Intel's own Itanium gets almost 1.5x the floating point performance at 1/3 the clock speed. Also, the PIII would outperform the P4 in integer ops at equal speed and come close in floating point.
Here's the data:
SPECfp 2000
CPU MHz base peak
AthlonXP(2800) 2000 782 843 ASUS A7N8X
P4 3060 1092 1103 Dell Precision Workstation 350
PIII 1000 329 340 Dell Precision Workstation 420
Xeon 2800 878 887 Dell Precision Workstation 530
Sparc64 1350 1004 1241 Fujitsu PrimePower 900
Alpha 1250 1019 1365 hp Alphaserver ES45 68/1250
Itanium2 1000 1431 1431 hp server rx5670
Power4 1450 1221 1295 IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2
SPECint 2000
CPU MHz base peak
AthlonXP(2800) 2000 878 913 ASUS A7N8X
P4 3060 1085 1130 Dell Precision Workstation 350
PIII 1000 454 462 Dell Precision Workstation 420
Xeon 2800 921 957 Dell Precision Workstation 530
Sparc64 1350 747 847 Fujitsu PrimePower 900
Alpha 1250 845 928 hp Alphaserver ES45 68/1250
Itanium2 1000 807 --- hp server rx5670
Power4 1450 909 935 IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2
If they're from a disgruntled employee who leaked them early, the employee could be held liable for divulging trade secrets or something similar.
If the prices were in a flyer sent out by WalMart, they don't have a leg to stand on.
The phone companies tried to stop third party telephone directories from being published, but got shot down in court. The courts ruled that the information in the directories is not copyrightable.
If everything turns out well he'll get reimbursed by WalMart.
- Command line
- Screen menus: like a sidebar, first by pressing a key, mouse support added later
- Tablet menus: both the digitizer tablet and the buttons on the puck
- Pull-down menus
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Popup context menus
Plus, all of the above are customizable and programmable, using the built-in LISP interpreter, C, C++, or VBA.There are very few applications with graphical interfaces I don't get frustrated with and bitch about besides AutoCAD (if only they hadn't abandoned Unix with Rel 14).
Second, there hasn't been anything even close to a coup in the US, ever. The main reason why is because civilian control of the military was one of our founding principles, and anything else now seems unthinkable.
It would really make it less fair. If every vote was equal, the candidates would only need to campaign in a handful of large cities. They could make a promise to raise taxes on everyone else and give the city residents free cash and they'd win.
Under the electoral college, presidential candidates spend an inordinate amount of time in New Hampshire and Iowa, because they have early primaries. If every vote was equal, they wouldn't stop in either state. Alaska would be in the same situation.
Seriously, that quote has been used to advocate taking all children away from their parents and the state raising them.
I think the article explained it best:
If we could only revert back to the framers' original intent.
OTOH, almost every Windows box I've ever used has crashed at some point, some quite often. Windows NT was quite stable, before version 4, when they moved the GUI into kernel space.
Consumer Versions:
Windows 1
Windows 2
Windows 3
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows XP Home Edition
Workstation Versions:
Windows NT 3.1 Workstation
Windows NT 3.5 Workstation
Windows NT 3.51 Workstation
Windows NT 3.52 Workstation
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional
Server Versions:
Windows NT 3.1 Server
Windows NT 3.5 Server
Windows NT 3.51 Server
Windows NT 3.52 Server
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 2000 Server
.NET Server
There, that cleared up everything, right?
The Shuttle's max payload to orbit is 63,500 lbs, but in practice the payload capability is between 41,000 & 55,000 depending on the launch azimuth.
The Titan IVB's max payload is 47,800 lbs from FL or 38,800 lbs from CA.
Right, and that's why they're only used for missions needing a human presence now. If you look at the future planned Space Shuttle missions, you'll notice none of them are strictly spacelift.
As far as comparing it to rockets, the shuttle is more reliable, but what else would you expect from the precautions they take when human lives are at stake. Even though its operating costs have been reduced by 40%, unmanned rockets are still much more economical. That's why the shuttle is only used for missions requiring a human presence, like ferry flights to the space station, repairing satelites, etc. The overwhelming majority of space launches are still unmanned rockets.
My experience has been much different. I went to public school, but I have many friends who were home schooled, and know many more. I've found that people who were home schooled are just as well adjusted as other people. Granted, I've met some that had poor interpersonal skills, but usually their parents sheltered them far too much. However, I've met plenty of people like that who attended public schools.
I believe some of the current trends in education will be far more harmful than anyone could even imagine from home schooling. The massive over-prescription of drugs like Ritalin is going to screw up a lot of kids. Even worse are the schools banning all competitive sports & activities, so nobody has to be a loser. When those kids graduate, they're going to find a world that just isn't fair, and be utterly unprepared to deal with it.
I believe kids can receive an equal or better social education outside of school.
But to respond to your comment, the Chinese and Soviet-era Russian people were never our enemies. However, the vast majority of them have absolutely no say in the conduct of their governments. Only a small handful of ruling elites control all the power.
Besides, the Chinese government is largely switching to Linux. It's been covered several times before on