Okay, so its probably stupid to buy a CPU and run it at a much higher speed than you should.
But if you already have a CPU and want to upgrade then the worst case is that you break your existing chip, and have to pay for the new CPU that you were going to buy anyway, whereas the best case is that it works perfectly, saving the entire cost of a new CPU.
The problem with that idea is its yet another Crew on a Starship series. That formats been done to death with TNG and Voyager. It might work as a mini series though.
Star Trek: Grits - Starring Natalie Portman as the captain of the USS Grits. Boldly pouring hot grits where no-one has poured before.
Star Trek: Microsoft/Borg- There's actually a good parody based on this somewhere, so I won't go into details.
Star Trek: Geek - Captain Taco in the USS Slashdot and his crew of engineers, engineers and more engineers. A disproportianately male crew, no command staff. Everyone just goes where people think they want to. If anyone disagrees they replicate a new ship and go in the opposite direction.
I think there were a couple of others, but even Microsoft doesn't have that many newsgroups dedicated to how much people hate it. (at least not on my server)
Well, I quite liked Alien Nation, but I felt it was just saying the same thing and repeating itself again and again towards the end, and just became a cop buddies show with funny heads.
The telemovies seemed to have much more general direction.
That would be about half the pulp and cinema sci-fi of the 30's 40's and 50's wouldn't it?
Come to think of it, Trek quite openly ripped off Gunsmoke and Wagon Train.
I think everyone gets a bit too hung up over who ripped who off though. Art inspires art. If anyone actually creates something truly original then I will be impressed.
It could be useful. So perhaps we won't need that sort of speed for a while. Its still cheap. Maybe even cheap enough to justify replacing short coax cables with fibre optics.
Incidentally, is there a way of producing data this quickly, even if its just random noise?
Lordoftherings.com had been taken. COnsidering whats there seems to be a fan site thats very enthusiastic about the new movie, it seems odd that they didn't offer to buy the domain name, or if they did, its odd that it was refused.
I wouldn't call it crap. Thats too dismissive. The origional LOTR had a lot going for it. If it had actually finished and hadn't had about half the story removed to fit the space, then it would have been good. Aesthetically it worked very well (although some people have complained that the major characters are too much more detailed than the backgrounds and minor characters).
Which kind of blows away the/. view about MS being the only company to produce bloatware, doesn't it? I've never really understood why people think that because MS do bad things ONLY MS do bad things. Most companies produce horrible unstable ugly oversized code (Netscape has demonstrated this). And I bet that if any the other companies (including Sun) were as big as MS, they would have used exactly the same tactics. The problem is lack of choice. We've got MS Office (Produced by a huge monpolistic company), Wordperfect (Produced by an incompetent bloatware company) and Star Office (Produced by a bloatware company that at least has the decency to spend a lot of its time picking in Microsoft)
It's just pretty hard to cut 1K+ pages down to a 90 minute cartoon. I think I remember that cartoon. Nice use of rotoscoping. It seemed to lose the plot about half way through and felt very rushed towards the "end". I wonder why they didn't plan for a 6 part series of films instead. Fortunately this is going to be a trilogy and the parts are longer so it should at least avoid that problem.
I think that was the Lorentz - a teletype based machine. An absolutely remarkable achievememnt when you consider that they hadn't even SEEN one of these machines.
Enigma was cracked because a letter could not be encoded to itself. Therefore if you knew the clear text, you could match it with the appropriate position on the cyphertext (No matching letters), and dramatically reduce the number of matching configurations. There were a few other tricks they learned too, such as a repeated letter sometimes matched onto the same code letter as the previous time.
If Germany demanded the return of the machine then of course the request would have to be considered. The factors to consider are that the machine was taken in war time, and so was a legitimate acquisition, and Bletchley has made sure that anyone who wishes to see it is able to do so. It might also be worth asking where they got the machine from. If it was salvaged from a sunken vessel then international law says that it belongs to whoever found it.
Yes, racism is less of a problem these days, but not all social prejudices have been eliminated, especially outside North America and Europe. There are still many countries that treat women as second class citizens.
That is just a matter of getting people to care about it.
You make it sound so easy.
The problem is that people have to perceive the prejudice as wrong. There was a time when the "No coloreds" policy was acceptable in parts of the US south. If you shouted "Bigot" at anyone who walked into those stores, then you would have been arrested and probably got very little sympathy from the rest of the community.
It would be simpler to use a Scottish or other European country ISP, and as likely to be effective. There must be some country that has ruled that ISP's are totaally non-responsible for content on their sites.
Firstly, the ISP totally overreacted, and had no consideration for their clients. Given this, I would recommend changing providers.
What we really need is a code of conduct for ISP's that deals with this sort of situation. Something that gives the customer some comeback if the site is taken down. Specifically they should have to give a reason and a specific reference as to why a site has been taken down. If the law seems unfair then they should lobby to change it. All UK ISP's are so terrified of litigation that they'll pull a site if someone even suggests that it might be libelous or might infringe copyright.
Just because we don't have a written constitution, doesn't mean that we don't have rights.
We have legal rights, as well as constitutional rights. These are made up from a long list of laws and acts of parliament as well as common law. We are every bit as protective of those rights as Americans, so stop feeling superior just because you've got a bit of paper that says you're all equal.
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Okay, so its probably stupid to buy a CPU and run it at a much higher speed than you should.
But if you already have a CPU and want to upgrade then the worst case is that you break your existing chip, and have to pay for the new CPU that you were going to buy anyway, whereas the best case is that it works perfectly, saving the entire cost of a new CPU.
use your old Amiga 500 as a door wedge
And thanks to its advanced multitasking capabilities, you can still run applications on it at the same time.
Anyway, you missed one out - the ZX81 as a cheeseboard.
The problem with that idea is its yet another Crew on a Starship series. That formats been done to death with TNG and Voyager. It might work as a mini series though.
Star Trek: Grits - Starring Natalie Portman as the captain of the USS Grits. Boldly pouring hot grits where no-one has poured before.
Star Trek: Microsoft/Borg- There's actually a good parody based on this somewhere, so I won't go into details.
Star Trek: Geek - Captain Taco in the USS Slashdot and his crew of engineers, engineers and more engineers. A disproportianately male crew, no command staff. Everyone just goes where people think they want to. If anyone disagrees they replicate a new ship and go in the opposite direction.
That guy has to be the most hated person on usenet.
Newsgroupd include
alt.ensign.wesley.die
alt.ensign.wesley.die.die
alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die
alt.wesley.crusher.die
alt.wesley.crusher.die.die
alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die
alt.borg.wesley
I think there were a couple of others, but even Microsoft doesn't have that many newsgroups dedicated to how much people hate it. (at least not on my server)
Well, I quite liked Alien Nation, but I felt it was just saying the same thing and repeating itself again and again towards the end, and just became a cop buddies show with funny heads.
The telemovies seemed to have much more general direction.
or whatever else Forbidden Planet ripped off
That would be about half the pulp and cinema sci-fi of the 30's 40's and 50's wouldn't it?
Come to think of it, Trek quite openly ripped off Gunsmoke and Wagon Train.
I think everyone gets a bit too hung up over who ripped who off though. Art inspires art. If anyone actually creates something truly original then I will be impressed.
It could be useful. So perhaps we won't need that sort of speed for a while. Its still cheap. Maybe even cheap enough to justify replacing short coax cables with fibre optics.
Incidentally, is there a way of producing data this quickly, even if its just random noise?
2 responses
1 - the cynical response - Yeah, well of course they will. Why sell us 1 cinema ticket/video/DVD when they can sell us 3
2 - the enthusiastic response - Great! This should give about 7 hours of story! Plenty of time to fully explore the whole story!
Pick the one you like best.
Lordoftherings.com had been taken. COnsidering whats there seems to be a fan site thats very enthusiastic about the new movie, it seems odd that they didn't offer to buy the domain name, or if they did, its odd that it was refused.
I wouldn't call it crap. Thats too dismissive. The origional LOTR had a lot going for it. If it had actually finished and hadn't had about half the story removed to fit the space, then it would have been good. Aesthetically it worked very well (although some people have complained that the major characters are too much more detailed than the backgrounds and minor characters).
Which kind of blows away the /. view about MS being the only company to produce bloatware, doesn't it? I've never really understood why people think that because MS do bad things ONLY MS do bad things. Most companies produce horrible unstable ugly oversized code (Netscape has demonstrated this). And I bet that if any the other companies (including Sun) were as big as MS, they would have used exactly the same tactics. The problem is lack of choice. We've got MS Office (Produced by a huge monpolistic company), Wordperfect (Produced by an incompetent bloatware company) and Star Office (Produced by a bloatware company that at least has the decency to spend a lot of its time picking in Microsoft)
It's just pretty hard to cut 1K+ pages down to a 90 minute cartoon. I think I remember that cartoon. Nice use of rotoscoping. It seemed to lose the plot about half way through and felt very rushed towards the "end". I wonder why they didn't plan for a 6 part series of films instead. Fortunately this is going to be a trilogy and the parts are longer so it should at least avoid that problem.
But surely the MPAA wouldn't use a technology that had been cracked ages ago?
How good is her upper class English spoilt brat accent?
I think that was the Lorentz - a teletype based machine. An absolutely remarkable achievememnt when you consider that they hadn't even SEEN one of these machines.
Enigma was cracked because a letter could not be encoded to itself. Therefore if you knew the clear text, you could match it with the appropriate position on the cyphertext (No matching letters), and dramatically reduce the number of matching configurations. There were a few other tricks they learned too, such as a repeated letter sometimes matched onto the same code letter as the previous time.
Shouldn't the machine go back to Germany?
If Germany demanded the return of the machine then of course the request would have to be considered. The factors to consider are that the machine was taken in war time, and so was a legitimate acquisition, and Bletchley has made sure that anyone who wishes to see it is able to do so. It might also be worth asking where they got the machine from. If it was salvaged from a sunken vessel then international law says that it belongs to whoever found it.
Yes, racism is less of a problem these days, but not all social prejudices have been eliminated, especially outside North America and Europe. There are still many countries that treat women as second class citizens.
That is just a matter of getting people to care about it.
You make it sound so easy.
The problem is that people have to perceive the prejudice as wrong. There was a time when the "No coloreds" policy was acceptable in parts of the US south. If you shouted "Bigot" at anyone who walked into those stores, then you would have been arrested and probably got very little sympathy from the rest of the community.
Okay, so we've got the techies and scientists. Where can we get the telepaths from?
And does anyone have a 10000 year old robot they don't need anymore?
Cor Blimey Guvnor. Whatdja got against us luvvable chimney sweeps?
Nice idea.
It would be simpler to use a Scottish or other European country ISP, and as likely to be effective. There must be some country that has ruled that ISP's are totaally non-responsible for content on their sites.
Firstly, the ISP totally overreacted, and had no consideration for their clients. Given this, I would recommend changing providers.
What we really need is a code of conduct for ISP's that deals with this sort of situation. Something that gives the customer some comeback if the site is taken down. Specifically they should have to give a reason and a specific reference as to why a site has been taken down. If the law seems unfair then they should lobby to change it. All UK ISP's are so terrified of litigation that they'll pull a site if someone even suggests that it might be libelous or might infringe copyright.
Just because we don't have a written constitution, doesn't mean that we don't have rights.
We have legal rights, as well as constitutional rights. These are made up from a long list of laws and acts of parliament as well as common law. We are every bit as protective of those rights as Americans, so stop feeling superior just because you've got a bit of paper that says you're all equal.
I'd say that this is more useful for packed arithmetic. This would allow 8 16 bit operations in 1 shot.
Of course longer operations are useful for cryptography.