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The question that needs examination is what is the purpose of AMD doing this. Isn't it just a method to expand their marketing arm to include so-called independent reporters. It seems to me that any reporter that signs such an NDA is not worth listening to. I might as well read the AMD press releases.
You didn't explicitly say it, but the reaction time of the drivers is key here. The following drivers must brake harder because they have become closer during the reaction time.
Once I first voted, I started paying attention to the actions of the politicians I voted for. After a few eye-opening mistaken votes, I started to really pay attention.
Of course, it helped that I later spent 20 years near Washington, DC, where the local news was politics and my neighbors were deep into it.
Yeah. I've been watching this "in 10 years" business since I was a physics graduate student in the 1960's. For 45 years, it has been "in 10 years". I'd put my money on solar voltaic except that the oil companies beat me to it with a bit more cash and different motives.
I doubt the figures include all future costs of benefits to the injured and families of dead. Also, I suspect there will be an enormous rebuilding cost to replace equipment and supplies that may not be replaced/replenished as fast as they are being worn-out/destroyed.
The article was rather interesting, but didn't discuss my favorite theory: Happiness is often thought of being connected to one's health or economic well being, but I have considered it more connected with the rate of change of one's well being. A poor or unhealthy person can be happy if things look like they are getting better; a rich or healthy person can be unhappy if things are getting worse.
I once switched to Dvorak and had gotten up to 50 wpm, but then I had to spend some time intermittently on a Qwerty keyboard. At each session, a few minutes would be required for my brain to make the switch, but after that, as long as I didn't think about it and just let my hands work automatically, I could operate at 40 wpm. My error rate was about double or triple what it was when I could work for a long period on the Dvorak keyboard.
The brain is such an amazing programmable tool - think braille, morse code, as well as typing.
The sad thing about all the advertising that inundates us is that it simply pushes up the cost of doing business. Company A must advertise more because company B does, and the consumer always pays for it in the end. There is only so much money the consumer has to spend.
And Linux isn't the answer to all our prayers. It will work 100% out of the box, only if you install it on supported hardware, otherwise its a few hours finding an obscure patch to make things work.
Linux has the great disadvantage that the manufacturer of the computer usually doesn't test their machine with Linux and doesn't prepare the install disk. The linux distro must anticipate the wide range of hardware that might be encountered. On top of that, proprietary drivers or undisclosed hardware hooks put artificial road blocks in the way.
Its amazing that the distros do as well as they do!
We can wait 20 or 30 years until all the analysis is done and run the risk of saying "Oh, shit!!!" and our children and grandchildren saying "What a bunch of greedy idiots our parents and grandparents were."
or
We can conserve non-renewable energy sources for future generations, saving financial, human and environmental resources.
Seems like a no-brainer for those concerned for future generations. (Note: Hydrogen is no magic source - we can't just scoop it out from the sun.)
Unfortunately, he's not the right person to talk in public, he seemed to be really nervous and didn't tell anything very new. Nobody can do everything though. I'm really happy with how the 2.4 kernel evolved.
In my physics days, I had a one-on-one lunch with a guy whose work at a young age was clearly going to give him a Nobel Prize. He spoke so softly and hesitantly that I didn't get much out of the meeting. Yet 15 years later, several years after he won the Nobel Prize, I heard him talk and he was eloquent and passionate. Practice makes perfect.
Linux is a great example of the power of a meritocracy.
Franco Pavese and I wrote a 1541 Disk Alignment program that told the user how to buy a few Radio Shack parts to make a voltage probe for the joystick port. With that probe connected to a particular place in the 1541, the Comal (great language) program would graph the signal as you tweeked the alignment.
I used my C64 for years, replacing the character generator chip with one of twice the capacity to give me another character set.
Comal from Denmark was a truely magnificent language for the C64 was packed in a 64 kB expansion cartridge and fully used its sound and sprite capabilities! There is now a Linux Comal Project.
If I want speed, I get more RAM, but with hard drives I want reliability and I suspect that higher speeds bring less reliability. Does anyone have a link to an analysis of the reliability-speed tradeoff?
The only purpose of software patents is to add legal complexity so that large corporations can dominate the marketplace. Such patents will only stifle, not encourage, innovation.
The potential for the Internet to bypass corporate control of politically-sensitive information is the killer app of the Internet. This includes e-mail, mail-lists, personal www pages, special interest www pages, blogs, and especially the massive collection of small contributions for political candidates that will represent the ordinary citizen (hint: http://www.deanforamerica.com).
We once got back to our car from a day-long hiking trip and found that some unknown person had artfully placed a bouquet of Lupin on the center of the windshield of our Prius. None of the other cars of our companions had been so honored.
We have a 2003 Prius and love it. I've dreamed for decades of a car that respected the law of conservation of energy. Now I am driving one.
My wife drives it 66 miles each way to work through the mountains and gets 48 mpg. I drive more gently and usually get 52-55 mpg. Once warmed up (about 5 minutes), it gets 55 mpg through city streets with lots of stop signs and stop lights. On the highway, we got 48 mpg round trip from California to Indiana with mountain stops at Whitney Portals, North Lake (above Bishop), and the upper Rockies. The air conditioning has a barely noticeable 1 or 2 mpg effect.
I'm not a power person, but it sure has all that is necessary to zip up any mountain grade. We live in the Sierras and do lots of hiking.
The original tires were crummy and we got new ones at 10,000 miles.
Since most of the braking is done by energy regeneration, the standard brake system should last much longer. The big question that no one knows the answer to is when the big battery will need replacement and at what cost.
It cost us $23,000 US with $2000 back from the San Joaquin Valley smog authority and a significant break on Federal tax. We lust to get another, but my Honda Civic Wagon only has 290,000 miles on it so we'll have to wait until I retire it at 400,000 miles.
Is it possible that Micro$oft or a shill of theirs is buying SCOX stock to reward the McBride gang for each performance? Are their public records that could check up on this?
Is it possible that Microsoft is silently proping up SCO by buying its stock, either directly or indirectly? Are such purchases a matter of public record?
I enjoyed driving past the Dagget generator and even stopped by for more information, but it was shut down just before the California power crisis a couple of years ago. Can someone direct me to the full story about why it was decommissioned?
Air & Space: Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum, Dayton, OH; Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (don't forget its Annex, a.k.a Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA)
Science & Tech: Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; American History Museum in Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL; maybe Biosphere II, Oracle, AZ
For Geology: Grand Canyon, AZ; Dinosaur National Monument, CO; Carlsbad Caverns, NM; Meteor Crater, AZ; Yellowstone National Park, WY; Yosemite National Park, CA
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The question that needs examination is what is the purpose of AMD doing this. Isn't it just a method to expand their marketing arm to include so-called independent reporters. It seems to me that any reporter that signs such an NDA is not worth listening to. I might as well read the AMD press releases.
You didn't explicitly say it, but the reaction time of the drivers is key here. The following drivers must brake harder because they have become closer during the reaction time.
Once I first voted, I started paying attention to the actions of the politicians I voted for. After a few eye-opening mistaken votes, I started to really pay attention.
Of course, it helped that I later spent 20 years near Washington, DC, where the local news was politics and my neighbors were deep into it.
Yeah. I've been watching this "in 10 years" business since I was a physics graduate student in the 1960's. For 45 years, it has been "in 10 years". I'd put my money on solar voltaic except that the oil companies beat me to it with a bit more cash and different motives.
I then went to the other parts of http://www.senescence.info/ and found more great info. Thanks.
So after ingesting all those calories, your body still keeps asking for the vitamins, etc., that it really needs.
I doubt the figures include all future costs of benefits to the injured and families of dead. Also, I suspect there will be an enormous rebuilding cost to replace equipment and supplies that may not be replaced/replenished as fast as they are being worn-out/destroyed.
The article was rather interesting, but didn't discuss my favorite theory:
Happiness is often thought of being connected to one's health or economic well being, but I have considered it more connected with the rate of change of one's well being. A poor or unhealthy person can be happy if things look like they are getting better; a rich or healthy person can be unhappy if things are getting worse.
My new $300 computer with a Sempron 2200+, 512 MB of RAM, one 80GB hard drive, and a CD-Writer uses 60 W. It is plenty fast.
The ViewSonic VE710b monitor can use as little as 10-25 Watts depending on the brightness of the back light.
I once switched to Dvorak and had gotten up to 50 wpm, but then I had to spend some time intermittently on a Qwerty keyboard. At each session, a few minutes would be required for my brain to make the switch, but after that, as long as I didn't think about it and just let my hands work automatically, I could operate at 40 wpm. My error rate was about double or triple what it was when I could work for a long period on the Dvorak keyboard.
The brain is such an amazing programmable tool - think braille, morse code, as well as typing.
The sad thing about all the advertising that inundates us is that it simply pushes up the cost of doing business. Company A must advertise more because company B does, and the consumer always pays for it in the end. There is only so much money the consumer has to spend.
We can wait 20 or 30 years until all the analysis is done and run the risk of saying "Oh, shit!!!" and our children and grandchildren saying "What a bunch of greedy idiots our parents and grandparents were."
or
We can conserve non-renewable energy sources for future generations, saving financial, human and environmental resources.
Seems like a no-brainer for those concerned for future generations. (Note: Hydrogen is no magic source - we can't just scoop it out from the sun.)
In my physics days, I had a one-on-one lunch with a guy whose work at a young age was clearly going to give him a Nobel Prize. He spoke so softly and hesitantly that I didn't get much out of the meeting. Yet 15 years later, several years after he won the Nobel Prize, I heard him talk and he was eloquent and passionate. Practice makes perfect.
Linux is a great example of the power of a meritocracy.
Franco Pavese and I wrote a 1541 Disk Alignment program that told the user how to buy a few Radio Shack parts to make a voltage probe for the joystick port. With that probe connected to a particular place in the 1541, the Comal (great language) program would graph the signal as you tweeked the alignment.
I used my C64 for years, replacing the character generator chip with one of twice the capacity to give me another character set.
Comal from Denmark was a truely magnificent language for the C64 was packed in a 64 kB expansion cartridge and fully used its sound and sprite capabilities! There is now a Linux Comal Project.
If I want speed, I get more RAM, but with hard drives I want reliability and I suspect that higher speeds bring less reliability. Does anyone have a link to an analysis of the reliability-speed tradeoff?
Right on!
The only purpose of software patents is to add legal complexity so that large corporations can dominate the marketplace. Such patents will only stifle, not encourage, innovation.
The potential for the Internet to bypass corporate control of politically-sensitive information is the killer app of the Internet. This includes e-mail, mail-lists, personal www pages, special interest www pages, blogs, and especially the massive collection of small contributions for political candidates that will represent the ordinary citizen (hint: http://www.deanforamerica.com).
We once got back to our car from a day-long hiking trip and found that some unknown person had artfully placed a bouquet of Lupin on the center of the windshield of our Prius. None of the other cars of our companions had been so honored.
We have a 2003 Prius and love it. I've dreamed for decades of a car that respected the law of conservation of energy. Now I am driving one.
My wife drives it 66 miles each way to work through the mountains and gets 48 mpg. I drive more gently and usually get 52-55 mpg. Once warmed up (about 5 minutes), it gets 55 mpg through city streets with lots of stop signs and stop lights. On the highway, we got 48 mpg round trip from California to Indiana with mountain stops at Whitney Portals, North Lake (above Bishop), and the upper Rockies. The air conditioning has a barely noticeable 1 or 2 mpg effect.
I'm not a power person, but it sure has all that is necessary to zip up any mountain grade. We live in the Sierras and do lots of hiking.
The original tires were crummy and we got new ones at 10,000 miles.
Since most of the braking is done by energy regeneration, the standard brake system should last much longer. The big question that no one knows the answer to is when the big battery will need replacement and at what cost.
It cost us $23,000 US with $2000 back from the San Joaquin Valley smog authority and a significant break on Federal tax. We lust to get another, but my Honda Civic Wagon only has 290,000 miles on it so we'll have to wait until I retire it at 400,000 miles.
The 2004 Prius is even better!
Microsoft or one of their shill companies could be doing the buying. That would allow Microsoft to continue to fund the SCO operation.
Is it possible that Micro$oft or a shill of theirs is buying SCOX stock to reward the McBride gang for each performance? Are their public records that could check up on this?
Is it possible that Microsoft is silently proping up SCO by buying its stock, either directly or indirectly? Are such purchases a matter of public record?
I enjoyed driving past the Dagget generator and even stopped by for more information, but it was shut down just before the California power crisis a couple of years ago. Can someone direct me to the full story about why it was decommissioned?
Air & Space: Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum, Dayton, OH; Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (don't forget its Annex, a.k.a Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA)
Science & Tech: Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; American History Museum in Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL; maybe Biosphere II, Oracle, AZ
For Geology: Grand Canyon, AZ; Dinosaur National Monument, CO; Carlsbad Caverns, NM; Meteor Crater, AZ; Yellowstone National Park, WY; Yosemite National Park, CA