Why do you lefties always want to "require" industry to do things. If people want to pay $3/gallon to fill up their SUV, let them. If you want a high mileage car, go buy one. If you want a city that is "good for walking" go build one and entice people to live in it.
I used to own a V8 car that got worse gas mileage than the Hummer 2 in city driving, and you know what, it was the greatest thing I've ever owned in my entire life.
The earth isn't yours. You did not pay for it. There's no special thing to protect that gives you the right to dictate the way I live my life. If you want to save some scorpions and rats, go ahead and buy some land and raise scorpions and rats.
How about building more nuclear power plants? If we got rid of all natural gas and coal plants and replaced them with nuclear power, we would not need to import any energy.
the United Nations is not competent to do anything. It was a mistake that we Americans thought invented it. Some day the rest of the world will realize it too.
There's plenty of things to do in life besides support a music industry. Screw all the labels. I haven't bought a CD in two years and still find plenty of ways to get into mischief without music. There's always radio.
Intel makes a compiler and a debugging aid for their chips. AMD should make one for theirs. It sucks to go to AMD's web page and they don't have nearly the developer resources that Intel has. If the GNU people can make a compiler for every fricking chip on the planet on their own dime, surely AMD can write a good C / C++ compiler for their chips.
It seems like we give up an aweful lot to be connected the internet 24/7. What's really the benefit? Unattended application updates? Yep, we're getting plenty of those alright.
Really, consumers do need to be running on the internet 24/7, regardless of how nouveau chi chi it is. The most secure thing would be to actually drop the underlying network connection unless a user is making a request. You know, just shut down the drivers.
I saw 9/11 on a giant screen. I was working next to a trade floor at the time. The company had installed a really large set of screens at the end of the floor to keep traders up to current events. Various financial news channels would be on at any given point in time, and on slow days, the occasional sporting event.
Jeff, a new hire along with me, stopped by my desk. He said, you have to see this, a plane just hit the World Trade Center. So we went back to the floor and stared at dumb amazement at the big screen, and watched the whole sorry show. I remember talking at that time with other people. All of is new it was an act of war, but some of us realized that our country would never be the same again. We looked at other as the buildings collapsed, and said, "well, we are a police state now." Despite all the platitudes of life moving on as normal, we all knew in some way that our country as we knew it was gone.
There were some rumours of planes also targetted buildings in Philadelphia, where my mother worked. There was of course no way to get in touch with anyone. All the phones were jammed and the main web sites were blocked because they were being pounded on so much. I managed to do as much work as I could, as if I could blot it out. They let us go early that day. Many of the traders had collegues in New York.
When I came home that day my wife had found the largest American flag we had and hung it up. She had actually been rather opposed to hanging up American flags. One of those liberals that thought patriotism was tacky, she wrote in her then journal. "Today I know what it means to be American." And then, we turned the TV off and the radio off. I couldn't watch it any more. I didn't want to think about it. But later on that evening I had occasion to go the store and I turned on NPR for a quick update.
There was the BBC, and with typical British class and elegance they dispatched with all the usual platitudes and did the simple thing. They conjured up an orchestra which played the Star Spangled Banner. And that time was the only time I actually cried at all over 9/11. And I will never forget that moment of solidarity with the British people, will never forget that in more than my lifetime, from World War II, the Cold War, and now in Iraq, the cause of freedom, freedom of the seas, freedom from tyranny, freedom of the press, and freedom of trade, has been a joint American and British project. For generations now, the United States has never had a better friend or more noble ally than the United Kingdom.
I hope that casualties are few in London. I hope that the number of people that perished are small. I hope that the wounded will recover. I hope that your nation does not go as crazy as ours did. The world needs the voice of British reason to counter American romance. Today I'm going to go buy a Union Jack and hang it up on my house. Your former colonies are with you. We are all British today.
I'm a Republican and I agree with this assessment. Yeah, the USA didn't care what happened to Germany in World War II, but I wonder how today's press would have covered the fire bombings?
Surely he could have put that proof in multiple places on the open internet. Rather than going in guns a blazing demanding a confrontation with the CEO, he could have stashed his proof everywhere, notified the FBI, and been anonymous about the whole thing. He could have certainly contacted DA's in states like such as New York. Trying to be a solo cowboy against a big corporation is stupid.
I empathise with his position. If the cops came and took all of my computer stuff, and left me with 40k of legal bills, and my employer was trying to destroy me, I would be tempted to a violent response. After all, logic dictates that if your employer is that evil and your life is ruined, maybe the best thing to do is to take one for the team so that the evil is at least checked.
The energy would have to come from nuclear power. Maybe solar would work, I dunno. I would like to see a mechanism to crack CO2 into solid carbon and O2. Then, put the O2 back into the atmosphere.
If, instead of saying, mankind is the one producing too much carbon, just say, there is too much carbon in the atmosphere. Regardless of where it is coming from, or who is to blame, we clearly as a nation need to invest in global climate control.
Besides, if we Americans could build a machine to manipulate global climate, we would also be building the ultimate terror weapon.
For example, what if we did build a giant space based reflector that simply cast a shadow on a spot on the earth. We could park that baby over a country and make its sun go out. That would freak people for sure. Don't f--- with the Americans, because they will make the sun go out!
Or, what if we could build a machine to dramatically lower the CO2 content in the air? America could manipulate CO2 content of the air to its national advantage, creating a perfect climate for the USA and its real allies regardless of what the world thinks.
The Iraqi insurgents seem to have no problem giving us fits with basic assault rifles and homemade bombs. Obviously the same could work in the USA if the citizens were behind it.
Of course it is easy to say it is a sellout to big business, but suddenly a city has some great legal tools to:
a) get rid of slumlord landlords b) get rid of abandoned factories c) get rid of walmarts d) get rid of foreign car dealerships
This is probably the most significant legal development in our lifetimes. The Japanese actually empower their cities to have similar rights. This is how they keep foreigners out of their markets. Now we can do it to them and to the Chinese. Don't like Walmart? Just sieze the land for community development.
There's a LOT for the left wing to love about this.
The whole reason interstellar travel gets ruled out is that it takes too long. But, what if humans could live for 5,000 years. Then, taking a trip to another planet would certainly be within reach.
I know its heresy, but, think about it. Maybe he just more hacked away at his stuff until he got it to "work" than he was actually a genius.
BeOS way ahead of its time but too late now.
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BeOS was a revolutionary architecture in that it was pervasively multithreaded. Threads were fast switching and everywhere, and, most importantly the entire desktop and application environment was fully multithreaded. Unlike Windows, where messages sit inside a single apartment model message queue, a BeOS window could receive multiple messages at the same time. Applications could take advantage of this to do some impressive thing. I remember watching multiple software rendered openg/l teapots and video playback in multiple windows on my dual pentuim II.
But alas BeOS was ahead of its time because right around the time BeOS first began to get noticed on the Intel world was right around the time AMD and Intel yanked up the Mhz wars and for a time it seemed like the SMP and Parallel vision of Be's future was entirely wrong. Certainly many pundits called it incorrect. But nowawadays multicore and thread on a chip cpus are coming, and it certainly looks like that we will be without an operating system that can properly exploit them and for some time.
Apple is not just the software or an off the wall chip. It's the ergonomics of the system, the entire consumer experience. Their stores are fantastic, their sales message focused, their people are friendly and helpful.
OS/X on an Intel Box is surely nirvana. You get a Unix based system with the best user interface on the planet. I'm a long time Windows fanboy but I bought my wife a PowerBook G4 and the user experience for it blows me away. There is not a single aspect of Windows XP that is as well thought out or organized as the Macintosh desktop.
Apple's going to pick up a lot of advantages. Sure, the PPC 970 is a great chip, but look at what it is talking to. Apple not only picks up Intel hardware, but also gets PCI Express, faster memory, etc. Supporting a device for Macintosh will be a lot simpler - you only have one native assembly language to worry about and so you could more easily port drivers from Windows or Linux to Mac. Those of us with bad old file formats will have a much easier time without having to worry about endian issues!
Just imagine, if you will, some of these Tiger platforms:
Dual Xeon, a couple gigs of RAM, the latest nVidia or ATI card.... who wouldn't want OS/X on that?
Finally, after a long few years without it, Apple brings some badly needed excitement to the industry! I can't wait for the new PC Macs to come out.
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Why do you lefties always want to "require" industry to do things. If people want to pay $3/gallon to fill up their SUV, let them. If you want a high mileage car, go buy one. If you want a city that is "good for walking" go build one and entice people to live in it.
I used to own a V8 car that got worse gas mileage than the Hummer 2 in city driving, and you know what, it was the greatest thing I've ever owned in my entire life.
The earth isn't yours. You did not pay for it. There's no special thing to protect that gives you the right to dictate the way I live my life. If you want to save some scorpions and rats, go ahead and buy some land and raise scorpions and rats.
How about building more nuclear power plants? If we got rid of all natural gas and coal plants and replaced them with nuclear power, we would not need to import any energy.
I'm not paying for radio if I'm listening to it.
the United Nations is not competent to do anything. It was a mistake that we Americans thought invented it. Some day the rest of the world will realize it too.
There's plenty of things to do in life besides support a music industry. Screw all the labels. I haven't bought a CD in two years and still find plenty of ways to get into mischief without music. There's always radio.
Intel makes a compiler and a debugging aid for their chips. AMD should make one for theirs. It sucks to go to AMD's web page and they don't have nearly the developer resources that Intel has. If the GNU people can make a compiler for every fricking chip on the planet on their own dime, surely AMD can write a good C / C++ compiler for their chips.
Allah I says I most blow myself up in an ocean of morons.
It seems like we give up an aweful lot to be connected the internet 24/7. What's really the benefit? Unattended application updates? Yep, we're getting plenty of those alright.
Really, consumers do need to be running on the internet 24/7, regardless of how nouveau chi chi it is. The most secure thing would be to actually drop the underlying network connection unless a user is making a request. You know, just shut down the drivers.
I saw 9/11 on a giant screen. I was working next to a trade floor at
the time. The company had installed a really large set of screens at
the end of the floor to keep traders up to current events. Various
financial news channels would be on at any given point in time, and on
slow days, the occasional sporting event.
Jeff, a new hire along with me, stopped by my desk. He said, you have
to see this, a plane just hit the World Trade Center. So we went back
to the floor and stared at dumb amazement at the big screen, and
watched the whole sorry show. I remember talking at that time with
other people. All of is new it was an act of war, but some of us
realized that our country would never be the same again. We looked at
other as the buildings collapsed, and said, "well, we are a police
state now." Despite all the platitudes of life moving on as normal, we
all knew in some way that our country as we knew it was gone.
There were some rumours of planes also targetted buildings in
Philadelphia, where my mother worked. There was of course no way to
get in touch with anyone. All the phones were jammed and the main web
sites were blocked because they were being pounded on so much. I
managed to do as much work as I could, as if I could blot it out. They
let us go early that day. Many of the traders had collegues in New
York.
When I came home that day my wife had found the largest American flag
we had and hung it up. She had actually been rather opposed to hanging
up American flags. One of those liberals that thought patriotism was
tacky, she wrote in her then journal. "Today I know what it means to
be American." And then, we turned the TV off and the radio off. I
couldn't watch it any more. I didn't want to think about it. But
later on that evening I had occasion to go the store and I turned on
NPR for a quick update.
There was the BBC, and with typical British class and elegance they
dispatched with all the usual platitudes and did the simple thing.
They conjured up an orchestra which played the Star Spangled Banner.
And that time was the only time I actually cried at all over 9/11. And
I will never forget that moment of solidarity with the British people,
will never forget that in more than my lifetime, from World War II, the
Cold War, and now in Iraq, the cause of freedom, freedom of the seas,
freedom from tyranny, freedom of the press, and freedom of trade, has
been a joint American and British project. For generations now, the
United States has never had a better friend or more noble ally than the
United Kingdom.
I hope that casualties are few in London. I hope that the number of
people that perished are small. I hope that the wounded will recover.
I hope that your nation does not go as crazy as ours did. The world
needs the voice of British reason to counter American romance. Today
I'm going to go buy a Union Jack and hang it up on my house. Your
former colonies are with you. We are all British today.
I'm a Republican and I agree with this assessment. Yeah, the USA didn't care what happened to Germany in World War II, but I wonder how today's press would have covered the fire bombings?
Surely he could have put that proof in multiple places on the open internet. Rather than going in guns a blazing demanding a confrontation with the CEO, he could have stashed his proof everywhere, notified the FBI, and been anonymous about the whole thing. He could have certainly contacted DA's in states like such as New York. Trying to be a solo cowboy against a big corporation is stupid.
I empathise with his position. If the cops came and took all of my computer stuff, and left me with 40k of legal bills, and my employer was trying to destroy me, I would be tempted to a violent response. After all, logic dictates that if your employer is that evil and your life is ruined, maybe the best thing to do is to take one for the team so that the evil is at least checked.
The energy would have to come from nuclear power. Maybe solar would work, I dunno. I would like to see a mechanism to crack CO2 into solid carbon and O2. Then, put the O2 back into the atmosphere.
If, instead of saying, mankind is the one producing too much carbon, just say, there is too much carbon in the atmosphere. Regardless of where it is coming from, or who is to blame, we clearly as a nation need to invest in global climate control.
Besides, if we Americans could build a machine to manipulate global climate, we would also be building the ultimate terror weapon.
For example, what if we did build a giant space based reflector that simply cast a shadow on a spot on the earth. We could park that baby over a country and make its sun go out. That would freak people for sure. Don't f--- with the Americans, because they will make the sun go out!
Or, what if we could build a machine to dramatically lower the CO2 content in the air? America could manipulate CO2 content of the air to its national advantage, creating a perfect climate for the USA and its real allies regardless of what the world thinks.
The problem would be that the solar panels would radiate heat back into the atmosphere.
The Iraqi insurgents seem to have no problem giving us fits with basic assault rifles and homemade bombs. Obviously the same could work in the USA if the citizens were behind it.
I guess the first question is, why are even keeping this data around. Give the historians something to argue about and delete some stuff.
Clearly, the copywrite holders of Apache or MySQL could be revoking their license, now that SCO tried to cut their throats.
Of course it is easy to say it is a sellout to big business, but suddenly a city has some great legal tools to:
.
a) get rid of slumlord landlords
b) get rid of abandoned factories
c) get rid of walmarts
d) get rid of foreign car dealerships
This is probably the most significant legal development in our lifetimes. The Japanese actually empower their cities to have similar rights. This is how they keep foreigners out of their markets. Now we can do it to them and to the Chinese. Don't like Walmart? Just sieze the land for community development.
There's a LOT for the left wing to love about this
The whole reason interstellar travel gets ruled out is that it takes too long. But, what if humans could live for 5,000 years. Then, taking a trip to another planet would certainly be within reach.
And I think to illustrate the power of the real world versus the computer, I'll take him to a farm and shoot a computer when he gets older.
I know its heresy, but, think about it. Maybe he just more hacked away at his stuff until he got it to "work" than he was actually a genius.
BeOS was a revolutionary architecture in that it was pervasively multithreaded. Threads were fast switching and everywhere, and, most importantly the entire desktop and application environment was fully multithreaded. Unlike Windows, where messages sit inside a single apartment model message queue, a BeOS window could receive multiple messages at the same time. Applications could take advantage of this to do some impressive thing. I remember watching multiple software rendered openg/l teapots and video playback in multiple windows on my dual pentuim II.
But alas BeOS was ahead of its time because right around the time BeOS first began to get noticed on the Intel world was right around the time AMD and Intel yanked up the Mhz wars and for a time it seemed like the SMP and Parallel vision of Be's future was entirely wrong. Certainly many pundits called it incorrect. But nowawadays multicore and thread on a chip cpus are coming, and it certainly looks like that we will be without an operating system that can properly exploit them and for some time.
Acrylic should just be renamed to Ugly Grey. The application looks like crap.
Yeah I would like a dual opteron as well.
Apple is not just the software or an off the wall chip. It's the ergonomics of the system, the entire consumer experience. Their stores are fantastic, their sales message focused, their people are friendly and helpful.
OS/X on an Intel Box is surely nirvana. You get a Unix based system with the best user interface on the planet. I'm a long time Windows fanboy but I bought my wife a PowerBook G4 and the user experience for it blows me away. There is not a single aspect of Windows XP that is as well thought out or organized as the Macintosh desktop.
Apple's going to pick up a lot of advantages. Sure, the PPC 970 is a great chip, but look at what it is talking to. Apple not only picks up Intel hardware, but also gets PCI Express, faster memory, etc. Supporting a device for Macintosh will be a lot simpler - you only have one native assembly language to worry about and so you could more easily port drivers from Windows or Linux to Mac. Those of us with bad old file formats will have a much easier time without having to worry about endian issues!
Just imagine, if you will, some of these Tiger platforms:
Dual Xeon, a couple gigs of RAM, the latest nVidia or ATI card.... who wouldn't want OS/X on that?
Finally, after a long few years without it, Apple brings some badly needed excitement to the industry! I can't wait for the new PC Macs to come out.
I -want- one.
Gentlemen, start your rumours!