Well it just seems to me that AMD is catching up pretty damn quick compared to their size and budget of intel. I'm just proposing this as an idea. Maybe as another user said, they have a more personal involment in the development of the chip.
Yeah, exactly, I think that explains it better. Although AMD people would have a more personal relationship and dependency in their company because of its size and potential growth factor.
I have a theory that the reason why such big companies don't have as good an edge as what they think they might is due to the work ethic of those who work there. AMD for example has yet to produce a profit. They're working like dogs to produce fast chips cheaply. Intel on the other hand has already established themselves, and the work is distributed among many people. They may have deadlines, but its not the end of the world if they miss them (unlike AMD). Its not as much a monopolistic view as it is a financial view. You can see the same thing with MS. They can miss deadlines, however if they were to reduce the devlopment team to 100 people and give them ultimatums, I think they'd produce a better system. Its just a theory of course, and there are obviously companies that can contradict. Any comments? FYI, I won't respond to flamebait, so if you want a response from me, be polite.
"It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures."
My sentiments EXACTLY. IP is GOOD, the way it may be implemented is bad. You still seem to be advocating IP, in which case I completely agree with you.
Monopolies are bad. However, saying that Joe Schmo who has patented TrueType Fonts has a monopoly over it is wrong. If Joe had a monopoly over it, then he'd own ALL the fonts, and be able to rape you financially because you can't use a gui without a font. In this case, Joe simply owns what he has produced... last time I checked that was called Capitalism, Supply and Demand. Move to China if you want to complain about IP. Become ONE with China, share your innovation, your drive to succeed, and collect your checks from the government. Live in ONE time zone, be ONE BRAIN!! I AM BORG!!! People used to fear communism, after its failure, people just take bits and pieces of it and say they want it implemented in Capitalism. With Company A produced Widgets, and had to allow anyone to produce Widgets for free, then MA' BELL will come around and rape Company A because they can create Widgets faster and sell them for less because they can afford a loss in revenue. Go analyze your philosophy a little more closely, and you'll realize that Capitalism will not function in the technological sense without IP.
You're missing my point. If you had a devine spark of innovation that would make you $30M, you'd sell out. Blowfish is a symmetric algorithm, while RSA relies on public/private keys. You're comparing apples to oranges. They're both fruit, but they're not the same thing. What have you released to the public domain that would've made you rich... you seem to be very humble.
That is a pretty BIG bug guy. Its a WHOPPER actually, since Win95 listens on both ports 137 and 139. They probably changed it back simply because the OSS community had a fix for it very soon after it was discovered. No need to be condescending though, really. Regardless of whether the kernel source I'm refering to is old or not is besides the point. The fact is that the bug exists, and that in my personal opinnion, they did it on purpose.
I have no problem with commercial companies controlling protocols either. What I do have a problem with is Microsoft trying to control the IM servers. This is their ultimate goal if they want to control the IM network. The way they'll do this is this: Open the protocol and get geeks using it widely Gain control over the majority of the servers Over a small period of time, "increase" functionality while reducing compatibility among the open source protocol. They've done it before, its nothing new. Just look at windows filesharing... Under the linux kernel|filesystems you'll see "Win 95 bug work-around" where winblows machines will respond (somewhat randomly) on a non-standard port. This "bug" was added by microsoft to eliminate non-MS OSes from communicating properly. What happens as a result is the user thinking "damn linux can't do shit with this filesharing" and they get NT to do the job.
Sorry for saying this, but you're completely wrong. First of all, the term is "ternary", and there is not a single shred of evidence that planets can't form around ternary or binary systems because our telescopes do not have the resolution power. As for the chemical makeup, the Earth's inner core it made of solid Iron. All the carbon and (relatively) heavy elements of the solar system were formed from a supernova that occurred about a billion years before the sun reached ignition. Stars are made of the same stuff, but if you knew anything about how stars are formed, you'd know that they fuse atoms starting with hydrogen and progressing to iron. When a supernova occurs, it spontaneously fuses atoms up to radioactive elements in small quantities, and scatteres its contents to the local area. There would essentially be no heavy elements orbitting the sun if it were not for this explosion. As for what this has to do with the formation of life, I don't know of a single organic structure that isn't based in part off a carbonic structure.
The only two types of people who are against IP are communists and stupid people who can't innovate. My guess is that if retardo here were to come up with a new fast encryption algorithm that was better than RSA, that he'd cash in.
I won't even read that protocol on mere principal. Besides if I were to make a client, 3 years from now it'd be non-fuctional as MS "featurizes" it and makes older versions unusable.
I say thats a lame method. Network lag could eliminate this problem altogether. Especially since CPU's are getting faster and faster, and this program can only guess. I fear not.
I'm not saying I don't think there's intelligent life out there, I'm just saying that I don't think its anywhere near us. There are 100,000,000,000 Stars in our galaxy. There are estimated 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the visible universe. So far the ratio for life/star is: 1/1*10^23 If we are the only intelligent life in the Universe, then that fact alone is divine.
"Probably 99.9% of sightings are explainable, but that still leaves a small fraction that are not so easily explained."
I say there are.1% cases that are lacking information.
Also the first radio waves from earth are around 70 lys out from Earth right now. The closest solar system that we know of is, I think, 10 lys and has a jupiter-sized planet about the same distance from its star as mercury is. The only reason why it was detected was because of its significant gravitational influence on its star. Now saying that there aren't nicely sized planets around Alpha Centauri would be false, because we can't resolve them with our telescopes. I say the best place to look for or assume life exists is within our own neighborhood. The chemical makeup of the local neighborhood of stars is very similar in content because of a star that exploded before the Sun formed and scattered heavy elements througout the local area.
Well the F-22 has luminecent panels on the bottom of it that mimic the amount of light above it. This actually started during WWII when they used lights on the belly's of the bombers to try to make them look like the sky. The project then was a failure, however during the 80's (I think) they re-instated this project when they flew a drone with luminecent panels on its belly. From that point on the project was classified. The F-22 has been reported to have this type of technology according to Air & Space magazine. As for the radio emissions reaching 50 light years, thats probably true since 50 years ago radio was still in its infancy, however if there were UFO's flying around our planet, they are also limited by the speed of light. If they got here, then their light has already reached us. And for all you who feel like responding with "warp!", "hyperspace!" I say phewy! No evidence such a thing is possible. Eistein said himself that the only way to get past the speed of light is if you were to pass through a black hole, in which case you'd become part of the black hole and never escape anyways.
If we can make a fighter jet that is virtually invisible to the naked eye (F-22) and on radar, then I think aliens would have the ingenuity to not let you see them. Plus, if they wanted to be seen and known about, they could just as easily drop onto the lawn of the White House and open their doors and make some "meep-meep" noises. Besides, judging by the amount of radio emmissions we have from TV/Radio/etc. I think if there were another civilization out there with the same amount (or superior) intelligence that they'd be glowing in the radio spectrum. Of course there is always the possibility that the light hasn't reached us, or already reached us, but I doubt it.
Weird... works for me in v. 4.51.... Although it appears that every version of IE I've used has crashed on me at some point. Kinda sucks too, because I'd email the bug to MS if I could only reproduce it with a specific procedure. For some reason though it happens randomly (obviously not literally random, but it appears random). Its the typical symptoms of a blue screen. You'll be working on something important (usually under heavy load), and BAM! blue screen.
This article says that it was traced to a Microsoft Proxy. Whether or not this is a corporate server or not is not said, so there is room for doubt. Although I can assume that is is a corporate proxy server rather than an MSN proxy server.
You prefer IE over Netscape? There are so many little things about IE that just annoy the hell out of me... one being that it hangs randomly. But honestly though, I'm not calling pro-MS people MS Gimps. I use NT at work. Hell I use NT to write papers at school if necessary and surf the web. However, when I see a message posting on some usenet group with an MSN email address or a hotmail anonymous address, it makes me wonder. Especially when they're making blatently false or misleading statements.
Every OS does have its flaws, but the fact that MS has billions of $'s pumped into its R&D, and still produces shoddy software full of fluff, spam, and "features" is evidence that their flaws are significantly larger than any Linux has or will have. The mere fact that the Linux community reponds to bug fixes in a matter of hours shows us a commitment to stability and integrity. Install time is one flaw for Linux/NT given certain circumstances. Lack of a good driver base for Linux is a huge flaw. Would I consider that a cheapshot at Linux if you were to point that out as a flaw? No I wouldn't, because I know a year from now the hardware support for linux will be significantly larger because of the recognition of hardware companies to devote resources to Linux support. Now as for NT installing slowly, or Linux installing slowly, I wouldn't call those cheap shots. As for why it took you 2 hours to install RH 6 is beyond me. Installing over a network? Maybe it was slow. Installing on a slow harddrive maybe? Or maybe you've got a slow cdrom, or have selected _every_single_package_ to install. I am however blatently telling you that you are fibbing if you are suggesting that RH 6 takes 2 hours to install. You either don't know what you're doing, are extremely slow with what you do, or you hardware is limiting the install speed.
But I've sometimes wondered who was really posting messages promoting MS on/. and other places. Of all the sys-admins I've ever come across in my life (which is short, and a small number compared to some), I've not once had one say they thought any of MS' OSes were coded well or stable. Anyone else truely meet an admin who advocated MS? I'd really like to know.
The meteors that you'll see streaking across the sky are only the size of a grain of sand. Of course they're hitting the atmosphere at 30,000 mph, but they're harmless. They happen every year around the same time, and they're called the "Perseid" shower because they'll all appear to be dropping down from that location.
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Well it just seems to me that AMD is catching up pretty damn quick compared to their size and budget of intel. I'm just proposing this as an idea. Maybe as another user said, they have a more personal involment in the development of the chip.
Yeah, exactly, I think that explains it better. Although AMD people would have a more personal relationship and dependency in their company because of its size and potential growth factor.
I have a theory that the reason why such big companies don't have as good an edge as what they think they might is due to the work ethic of those who work there. AMD for example has yet to produce a profit. They're working like dogs to produce fast chips cheaply. Intel on the other hand has already established themselves, and the work is distributed among many people. They may have deadlines, but its not the end of the world if they miss them (unlike AMD). Its not as much a monopolistic view as it is a financial view. You can see the same thing with MS. They can miss deadlines, however if they were to reduce the devlopment team to 100 people and give them ultimatums, I think they'd produce a better system. Its just a theory of course, and there are obviously companies that can contradict. Any comments? FYI, I won't respond to flamebait, so if you want a response from me, be polite.
"It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would
naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures."
My sentiments EXACTLY. IP is GOOD, the way it may be implemented is bad. You still seem to be advocating IP, in which case I completely agree with you.
Monopolies are bad. However, saying that Joe Schmo who has patented TrueType Fonts has a monopoly over it is wrong. If Joe had a monopoly over it, then he'd own ALL the fonts, and be able to rape you financially because you can't use a gui without a font. In this case, Joe simply owns what he has produced... last time I checked that was called Capitalism, Supply and Demand. Move to China if you want to complain about IP. Become ONE with China, share your innovation, your drive to succeed, and collect your checks from the government. Live in ONE time zone, be ONE BRAIN!! I AM BORG!!! People used to fear communism, after its failure, people just take bits and pieces of it and say they want it implemented in Capitalism. With Company A produced Widgets, and had to allow anyone to produce Widgets for free, then MA' BELL will come around and rape Company A because they can create Widgets faster and sell them for less because they can afford a loss in revenue. Go analyze your philosophy a little more closely, and you'll realize that Capitalism will not function in the technological sense without IP.
You're missing my point. If you had a devine spark of innovation that would make you $30M, you'd sell out. Blowfish is a symmetric algorithm, while RSA relies on public/private keys. You're comparing apples to oranges. They're both fruit, but they're not the same thing. What have you released to the public domain that would've made you rich... you seem to be very humble.
That is a pretty BIG bug guy. Its a WHOPPER actually, since Win95 listens on both ports 137 and 139. They probably changed it back simply because the OSS community had a fix for it very soon after it was discovered. No need to be condescending though, really. Regardless of whether the kernel source I'm refering to is old or not is besides the point. The fact is that the bug exists, and that in my personal opinnion, they did it on purpose.
I have no problem with commercial companies controlling protocols either. What I do have a problem with is Microsoft trying to control the IM servers. This is their ultimate goal if they want to control the IM network. The way they'll do this is this:
Open the protocol and get geeks using it widely
Gain control over the majority of the servers
Over a small period of time, "increase" functionality while reducing compatibility among the open source protocol.
They've done it before, its nothing new. Just look at windows filesharing... Under the linux kernel|filesystems you'll see "Win 95 bug work-around" where winblows machines will respond (somewhat randomly) on a non-standard port. This "bug" was added by microsoft to eliminate non-MS OSes from communicating properly. What happens as a result is the user thinking "damn linux can't do shit with this filesharing" and they get NT to do the job.
Sorry for saying this, but you're completely wrong. First of all, the term is "ternary", and there is not a single shred of evidence that planets can't form around ternary or binary systems because our telescopes do not have the resolution power. As for the chemical makeup, the Earth's inner core it made of solid Iron. All the carbon and (relatively) heavy elements of the solar system were formed from a supernova that occurred about a billion years before the sun reached ignition. Stars are made of the same stuff, but if you knew anything about how stars are formed, you'd know that they fuse atoms starting with hydrogen and progressing to iron. When a supernova occurs, it spontaneously fuses atoms up to radioactive elements in small quantities, and scatteres its contents to the local area. There would essentially be no heavy elements orbitting the sun if it were not for this explosion. As for what this has to do with the formation of life, I don't know of a single organic structure that isn't based in part off a carbonic structure.
The only two types of people who are against IP are communists and stupid people who can't innovate. My guess is that if retardo here were to come up with a new fast encryption algorithm that was better than RSA, that he'd cash in.
I won't even read that protocol on mere principal. Besides if I were to make a client, 3 years from now it'd be non-fuctional as MS "featurizes" it and makes older versions unusable.
I say thats a lame method. Network lag could eliminate this problem altogether. Especially since CPU's are getting faster and faster, and this program can only guess. I fear not.
I'm not saying I don't think there's intelligent life out there, I'm just saying that I don't think its anywhere near us.
There are 100,000,000,000 Stars in our galaxy.
There are estimated 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the visible universe.
So far the ratio for life/star is:
1/1*10^23
If we are the only intelligent life in the Universe, then that fact alone is divine.
"Probably 99.9% of sightings are explainable, but that still leaves a small fraction that are not so easily explained."
.1% cases that are lacking information.
I say there are
Also the first radio waves from earth are around 70 lys out from Earth right now. The closest solar system that we know of is, I think, 10 lys and has a jupiter-sized planet about the same distance from its star as mercury is. The only reason why it was detected was because of its significant gravitational influence on its star. Now saying that there aren't nicely sized planets around Alpha Centauri would be false, because we can't resolve them with our telescopes. I say the best place to look for or assume life exists is within our own neighborhood. The chemical makeup of the local neighborhood of stars is very similar in content because of a star that exploded before the Sun formed and scattered heavy elements througout the local area.
I say phewy, read this post.
Well the F-22 has luminecent panels on the bottom of it that mimic the amount of light above it. This actually started during WWII when they used lights on the belly's of the bombers to try to make them look like the sky. The project then was a failure, however during the 80's (I think) they re-instated this project when they flew a drone with luminecent panels on its belly. From that point on the project was classified. The F-22 has been reported to have this type of technology according to Air & Space magazine.
As for the radio emissions reaching 50 light years, thats probably true since 50 years ago radio was still in its infancy, however if there were UFO's flying around our planet, they are also limited by the speed of light. If they got here, then their light has already reached us. And for all you who feel like responding with "warp!", "hyperspace!" I say phewy! No evidence such a thing is possible. Eistein said himself that the only way to get past the speed of light is if you were to pass through a black hole, in which case you'd become part of the black hole and never escape anyways.
If we can make a fighter jet that is virtually invisible to the naked eye (F-22) and on radar, then I think aliens would have the ingenuity to not let you see them. Plus, if they wanted to be seen and known about, they could just as easily drop onto the lawn of the White House and open their doors and make some "meep-meep" noises. Besides, judging by the amount of radio emmissions we have from TV/Radio/etc. I think if there were another civilization out there with the same amount (or superior) intelligence that they'd be glowing in the radio spectrum. Of course there is always the possibility that the light hasn't reached us, or already reached us, but I doubt it.
Weird... works for me in v. 4.51.... Although it appears that every version of IE I've used has crashed on me at some point. Kinda sucks too, because I'd email the bug to MS if I could only reproduce it with a specific procedure. For some reason though it happens randomly (obviously not literally random, but it appears random). Its the typical symptoms of a blue screen. You'll be working on something important (usually under heavy load), and BAM! blue screen.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990813S0015
This article says that it was traced to a Microsoft Proxy. Whether or not this is a corporate server or not is not said, so there is room for doubt. Although I can assume that is is a corporate proxy server rather than an MSN proxy server.
You prefer IE over Netscape? There are so many little things about IE that just annoy the hell out of me... one being that it hangs randomly. But honestly though, I'm not calling pro-MS people MS Gimps. I use NT at work. Hell I use NT to write papers at school if necessary and surf the web. However, when I see a message posting on some usenet group with an MSN email address or a hotmail anonymous address, it makes me wonder. Especially when they're making blatently false or misleading statements.
Every OS does have its flaws, but the fact that MS has billions of $'s pumped into its R&D, and still produces shoddy software full of fluff, spam, and "features" is evidence that their flaws are significantly larger than any Linux has or will have. The mere fact that the Linux community reponds to bug fixes in a matter of hours shows us a commitment to stability and integrity. Install time is one flaw for Linux/NT given certain circumstances. Lack of a good driver base for Linux is a huge flaw. Would I consider that a cheapshot at Linux if you were to point that out as a flaw? No I wouldn't, because I know a year from now the hardware support for linux will be significantly larger because of the recognition of hardware companies to devote resources to Linux support. Now as for NT installing slowly, or Linux installing slowly, I wouldn't call those cheap shots. As for why it took you 2 hours to install RH 6 is beyond me. Installing over a network? Maybe it was slow. Installing on a slow harddrive maybe? Or maybe you've got a slow cdrom, or have selected _every_single_package_ to install. I am however blatently telling you that you are fibbing if you are suggesting that RH 6 takes 2 hours to install. You either don't know what you're doing, are extremely slow with what you do, or you hardware is limiting the install speed.
But I've sometimes wondered who was really posting messages promoting MS on
We don't take shots at NT, we just point out the obvious flaws.
~~Kev
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The meteors that you'll see streaking across the sky are only the size of a grain of sand. Of course they're hitting the atmosphere at 30,000 mph, but they're harmless. They happen every year around the same time, and they're called the "Perseid" shower because they'll all appear to be dropping down from that location.