The exact reason Godwin's Brainfart exists is because Leftists cannot admit Nazis are socialist Leftists. It upsets their silly little equations, "Left is good and Right is bad." The fact that Nazis are Left and Nazis are bad is beyond their Big Lie Weltanschaung.
these *aren't* the people who committed the fraud. those people are gone.
Wow! A few token arrests and some people think the problem is solved.
I watched MCI burn for a year. Every single manager was "in" on it. I doubt the Clubs Fed have room for all of the truly guilty. I know there aren't enough honest people left at WorldCom for the company to function.
But as long as simplistic idiots are impressed by a handful of perp walks, most of the guilty can get even more money. Hope you like it that way.
I interviewed at Broadjump a few years ago. After some 90 minutes, I still had absolutely no idea what they did. "Software for broadband" was the only reply to my questions. When I asked if it was firmware for cable modems, I was told that the software ran on the computer not the modem.
They had over a hundred people in cubes. The place kinda had the smell of dot-con about it, so I took a job at MCI instead.
Why do politicians need money? To buy advertising, which buys editors, who hire reporters. The bought media churns, and (this amazes me but it's true) people do what the TV tells them to do!
The problem is not money. The problem is the voters. It's the Pogo Principle at work.
If campaigns cannot raise money, how will they be financed? Public financing obviously degenerates to protect the ones who make the financing laws, guaranteeing that no "new blood" ever gets in. You think the Republicrats are going to fund the Green Party? Do you think the Libertarians will accept public financing?
We gotta fix the voters. Anything else is just scratching beyond infection to gangrene.
Actually, the power does lie with the people. We can vote.
The real problem is, people vote the way TV commercials tell them to. That's why the person who spends the most usually wins. Which makes money important.
The reason we have stupid legislation is us: Pogo's Law at work again.
Now, the article may've been written in a somewhat sensationalistic manner, but the conservation organization involved makes it clear they're trying to figure out how to best spend their money.
Yeah, right, sure. Sooner or later all these stupid socialist dweebs get around to figuring out how best to spend my money.
Would you like the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Ensemb-- do you understand my point?
LSO! I'll try the others, but even without hearing it I know LSO is gonna satisfy!
If you had Chicago conducted by Solti I might cream my jeans.
How can you be so threatened at people thinking for themselves? Oh yeah, that's right, this is a nation that worships conformity.
On the contrary, the United States is perhaps (n.b. I said "perhaps") the only nation on Earth with enough individualists that a company like Apple can survive. Indeed, as much as I love my native Texas, I have to admit that California provided the unique individualist culture that made Apple possible.
The more I learn about the world, the more I realize that Americans do not have monopolies on boorishness, parochialism, stubbornness, and mindless conformity. Indeed, such are the natural states of mankind the world over. It is only the exceptional nation that can create a climate offering more.
Remember that for the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey Tribe, the Macintosh was too American (it's too bad they don't have a word for chauvinism). My own Old World tribe, the Krauts, have never valued individuality because it interferes with their National Hobby: harassing the Surrender Monkeys. Until recently, the tribes of Eastern Europe were hell-bent on destroying individuality utterly and farther east the Chicoms are still at it. In South Asia and Northern Africa, American individualism is the very spirit of the Great Satan.
In none of these places could such a soaring synthesis of singletons as Apple exist.
As someone who believes the entire antitrust law to be unconstutional, because it is nearly impossible for a given company to determine ahead of time if a given action is legal or not....
Which is one reason we have judges and trials and so forth -- different people might hold different views of the same law.
What Microsoft did, was systematically spit in the face of the law, point-by-point. It's like firing up a doobie (do the kids still call them that?) in front of police headquarters. Sure, the drug laws suck, and the Sherman Act might have flaws, but you should be prepared to pay for your civil disobedience.
Gandhi and King did jail time. So should Gates.
I believe this will tend to show that most antitrust prosecutions are based on envy and resentment, not on any objective reading of the law.
Had the government done its job and protected Apple's intellectual property (which they bought from Xerox), Microsoft would not have a monopoly. Right there is the government malfeasance which is the usual seed crystal of a monopoly kidney stone.
Also, bear in mind the historical fact that the whole "unbundled" software industry is a result of antitrust action against IBM. A lawyer's boy like Gates should have known to act better. Also remember how antitrust action against AT&T led to widespread adoption of the Internet. Breaking up or otherwise remedying Microsoft will most likely lead to the Next Big Thing.
Have you ever looked at the function entry and exit for for processors like MIPS or PowerPC? There can easily be 20-40 instructions (at 4 bytes per instruction) to save and restore registers.
It's been a decade since I've seen MIPS assembly, but I do know PPC:
stmw Store Multiple Word.... "n consecutive words starting at EA are stored from the GPRs rS through 31. For example, if rS=30, 2 words are stored." That's one instruction to store as many GPRs as you wish.
True gamers are never going to use integrated video...
True gamers are never going to move out of their parents' house. True gamers are never going to go camping - it's so offline. True gamers are never going to learn how to drive a real car. True gamers are never going to outgrow acne. True gamers are never going to learn a musical instrument. True gamers are never going to reproduce.
Guitarzan -- you do music? Then you gotta getta Mac. It's a Culture Thing that has little to do with hardware issues (since PeeCees have sound these days;-) there's just so much more Music Stuff for the Mac. I bought a used iBook and have rarely been happier with a piece of equipment. In just two years, it's become more important to me musically than my amps and stomp boxes, second only to my guitar herself!
I looked at Apple's prices last night, and the dual-processor DVD-recording machine I spec'ed out on their store was $1900. Also, in the RC5 contest, the G4s were 41% faster than Athlon XP -- and that's the kind of thing I use a computer for. Integer performance hasn't been an issue for me since chips broke 100MHz -- gimme flops, gimme flops, just gimme gimme gimme fried chicken!
Do NOT run OS X on an ibook. ibook G3 CPUs are not fast enough to run OS X at a usable speed when doing anything that shows off a lot of 2D stuff (A few days ago I wrote a simple C++ program that finds prime numbers and displays them in real-time, and the terminal updates were using almost as many CPU cycles as the number generator was.)
Just what is the timebase for the set of prime numbers?;-)
Okay, so you gots a performance bottleneck printing to Terminal.app -- Grasshopper, this is an opportunity for growth! Fire up Interface Builder & Project Builder, hook your code up to an NSTextField (is there an NSNumberField? It's been a month since I done Cocoa), and be amazed at how easy it is.
For perversity's sake, I like doing Cocoa/Java apps (using cross-plaform Java with single-platform Cocoa just makes me feel good), and run them on my G3s. Yeah, I sometimes scream at the slowness, but so far each and every time, I have found ways around the bottlenecks. They are opportunities for growth.
I gave up my moderator rights to write this, so take it to heart.
-toddhisattva
ps: The timebase question is because we really need to use the phrase "real time" more carefully. What you are doing is "as fast as possible" or something, but not "real time" because primes are timeless.
This is just a replacement of Clinton-appointed scientists with Bush-appointed scientists. That it's being compared to Reagan's improvements is excellent news. The corrections are sorely needed after Clinton's Decade of Fraud and Deceit.
When the next Democrat president is elected, there will be a Stalinist purge of these Bush folks.
And that Erin Brockovitch connection -- do we want science by industry, or science by Hollywood? Science by people who do science for a living, or science by Julia Roberts?
I personally feel we are continuing to provoke such things through our economic agenda, and that what bush's policy has been shortsighted and really retro-active.
If someone disagrees with US Government policy, they can do what China does: buy it. They don't have to murder. Don't give the animals an excuse.
I have never understood how Apple's Look-and-Feel lawsuits are substantially different from, for instance, a musician suing over Notes-and-Rhythms. The look and feel of software can take more work than the code and data (especially with GUIs), and are just as much parts of the product.
Indeed, the objections to L&F suits stem from a Command Line Mentality, from a world without look and feel. Of course the critics think UI is trivial because they've never thought about it. stdin, stdout, stderr are all anyone really needs, right?
It was the late 80s, and CLI was still the mainstay. It's obvious that the evil judge Vaughan Walker was stuck in the CLI mentality. Truly an exemplar of the saying, "what do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 80? 'Your Honor.'"
lol, microsoft has never bailed apple out of anything, and the event you're thinking of isn't a bailout, unless you think that paying $150m to a company that could afford to spend $400m on next counts as a bailout. Conceivably yes since/.ers have no grasp of finance.
It's the New Accounting pioneered by Arthur Andersen and used so successfully by Enron.
Microsoft actually has paid liars in public forums like this spreading these obviously ridiculous analyses. We've just witnessed some of this "astro-turfing," or its result.
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Man, that's so --- beautiful! Such imaginings are enough to make my heart pound and eyes water!
Godwin is merely an echo of Goebbels.
Wow! A few token arrests and some people think the problem is solved.
I watched MCI burn for a year. Every single manager was "in" on it. I doubt the Clubs Fed have room for all of the truly guilty. I know there aren't enough honest people left at WorldCom for the company to function.
But as long as simplistic idiots are impressed by a handful of perp walks, most of the guilty can get even more money. Hope you like it that way.
Well, good for the authorities!
Talent-free "music" is just sucking out loud: rap is crap, punk is junk.
RTFA - Hannibal says why he wrote these comparisons and not vs. Hammer, SPARC, Alpha....
I interviewed at Broadjump a few years ago. After some 90 minutes, I still had absolutely no idea what they did. "Software for broadband" was the only reply to my questions. When I asked if it was firmware for cable modems, I was told that the software ran on the computer not the modem.
They had over a hundred people in cubes. The place kinda had the smell of dot-con about it, so I took a job at MCI instead.
The problem is not money. The problem is the voters. It's the Pogo Principle at work.
If campaigns cannot raise money, how will they be financed? Public financing obviously degenerates to protect the ones who make the financing laws, guaranteeing that no "new blood" ever gets in. You think the Republicrats are going to fund the Green Party? Do you think the Libertarians will accept public financing?
We gotta fix the voters. Anything else is just scratching beyond infection to gangrene.
The real problem is, people vote the way TV commercials tell them to. That's why the person who spends the most usually wins. Which makes money important.
The reason we have stupid legislation is us: Pogo's Law at work again.
Yeah, right, sure. Sooner or later all these stupid socialist dweebs get around to figuring out how best to spend my money.
Not scary at all, since it's a complete LOAD OF SHIT.
LSO! I'll try the others, but even without hearing it I know LSO is gonna satisfy! If you had Chicago conducted by Solti I might cream my jeans.
On the contrary, the United States is perhaps (n.b. I said "perhaps") the only nation on Earth with enough individualists that a company like Apple can survive. Indeed, as much as I love my native Texas, I have to admit that California provided the unique individualist culture that made Apple possible.
The more I learn about the world, the more I realize that Americans do not have monopolies on boorishness, parochialism, stubbornness, and mindless conformity. Indeed, such are the natural states of mankind the world over. It is only the exceptional nation that can create a climate offering more.
Remember that for the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey Tribe, the Macintosh was too American (it's too bad they don't have a word for chauvinism). My own Old World tribe, the Krauts, have never valued individuality because it interferes with their National Hobby: harassing the Surrender Monkeys. Until recently, the tribes of Eastern Europe were hell-bent on destroying individuality utterly and farther east the Chicoms are still at it. In South Asia and Northern Africa, American individualism is the very spirit of the Great Satan.
In none of these places could such a soaring synthesis of singletons as Apple exist.
Which is one reason we have judges and trials and so forth -- different people might hold different views of the same law.
What Microsoft did, was systematically spit in the face of the law, point-by-point. It's like firing up a doobie (do the kids still call them that?) in front of police headquarters. Sure, the drug laws suck, and the Sherman Act might have flaws, but you should be prepared to pay for your civil disobedience.
Gandhi and King did jail time. So should Gates.
I believe this will tend to show that most antitrust prosecutions are based on envy and resentment, not on any objective reading of the law.
Had the government done its job and protected Apple's intellectual property (which they bought from Xerox), Microsoft would not have a monopoly. Right there is the government malfeasance which is the usual seed crystal of a monopoly kidney stone.
Also, bear in mind the historical fact that the whole "unbundled" software industry is a result of antitrust action against IBM. A lawyer's boy like Gates should have known to act better. Also remember how antitrust action against AT&T led to widespread adoption of the Internet. Breaking up or otherwise remedying Microsoft will most likely lead to the Next Big Thing.
Macs last longer. Much, much longer.
It's been a decade since I've seen MIPS assembly, but I do know PPC:
stmw Store Multiple Word .... "n consecutive words starting at EA are stored from the GPRs rS through 31. For example, if rS=30, 2 words are stored." That's one instruction to store as many GPRs as you wish.
Sometimes fewer registers is a win.
I want what you've been smoking.
True gamers are never going to move out of their parents' house.
True gamers are never going to go camping - it's so offline.
True gamers are never going to learn how to drive a real car.
True gamers are never going to outgrow acne.
True gamers are never going to learn a musical instrument.
True gamers are never going to reproduce.
Guitarzan -- you do music? Then you gotta getta Mac. It's a Culture Thing that has little to do with hardware issues (since PeeCees have sound these days ;-) there's just so much more Music Stuff for the Mac. I bought a used iBook and have rarely been happier with a piece of equipment. In just two years, it's become more important to me musically than my amps and stomp boxes, second only to my guitar herself!
I looked at Apple's prices last night, and the dual-processor DVD-recording machine I spec'ed out on their store was $1900. Also, in the RC5 contest, the G4s were 41% faster than Athlon XP -- and that's the kind of thing I use a computer for. Integer performance hasn't been an issue for me since chips broke 100MHz -- gimme flops, gimme flops, just gimme gimme gimme fried chicken!
much apologies for unintentional bolding --
grrr -- there's a difference between "b" and "br" dadgummit -- much apologizings
Just what is the timebase for the set of prime numbers? ;-)
Okay, so you gots a performance bottleneck printing to Terminal.app -- Grasshopper, this is an opportunity for growth! Fire up Interface Builder & Project Builder, hook your code up to an NSTextField (is there an NSNumberField? It's been a month since I done Cocoa), and be amazed at how easy it is.
For perversity's sake, I like doing Cocoa/Java apps (using cross-plaform Java with single-platform Cocoa just makes me feel good), and run them on my G3s. Yeah, I sometimes scream at the slowness, but so far each and every time, I have found ways around the bottlenecks. They are opportunities for growth.
I gave up my moderator rights to write this, so take it to heart. -toddhisattva
ps: The timebase question is because we really need to use the phrase "real time" more carefully. What you are doing is "as fast as possible" or something, but not "real time" because primes are timeless.
When the next Democrat president is elected, there will be a Stalinist purge of these Bush folks.
And that Erin Brockovitch connection -- do we want science by industry, or science by Hollywood? Science by people who do science for a living, or science by Julia Roberts?
If someone disagrees with US Government policy, they can do what China does: buy it. They don't have to murder. Don't give the animals an excuse.
Indeed, the objections to L&F suits stem from a Command Line Mentality, from a world without look and feel. Of course the critics think UI is trivial because they've never thought about it. stdin, stdout, stderr are all anyone really needs, right?
It was the late 80s, and CLI was still the mainstay. It's obvious that the evil judge Vaughan Walker was stuck in the CLI mentality. Truly an exemplar of the saying, "what do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 80? 'Your Honor.'"
It's the New Accounting pioneered by Arthur Andersen and used so successfully by Enron.
Microsoft actually has paid liars in public forums like this spreading these obviously ridiculous analyses. We've just witnessed some of this "astro-turfing," or its result.
Agreed!