I don't recall any popular vote in favor of interning people of Japanese ancestry.
Given the propensity of dictatorships like the U.S. has been since 1862 to commit genocide over and over again with no redress or repercussions, I'll take my chances with democracy.
I have two bookshelves, roughly 800x2200x200cm, with 50x spindles of optical disks in 5 shelves with 10 stacks of 3 spindles on each shelf. I think the bookshelves were $25 each. I dedicate specific shelves to specific topics, and usually leave 10 or so available slots on each spindle, so it is easy to maintain alphabetic order within a topic.
> your financial support of the intelligence community's operations does not imply that you have a right to the information they uncover
This is where we begin to disagree. Much of the black budget is black because in a democracy or under rule of law such behaviour would never be allowed. Never has any slogan been used to such evil ends as has "national security".
If patents were required in order to incent pharmas to produce drugs, then there wouldn't be a vast market in generics. There is a vast market in generics, however. The only reasonable argument for patents as incentives is as incentives to invent. However, pharmas have concluded that it is not worthwhile to pay for your own research, when you can leverage off of publically subsidized research. A reasonable conclusion, based on self-interest, not on the public interest, that. Risk is thus avoided, and profits are still captured. This appears on the face of it to be against the public interest. However, Bob Dole did very, very well by it. Not well enough to be POTUS, but very well nonetheless.
The people in question need to support this product to end users. Of course they need it to do their jobs. The moral of the story is simple Apple + Lawyer = Bullet Hole in the Foot.
Downloading is not copyright infringement. Uploading may be copyright infringement, depending on the content.
Firing your front-line customer support people for trying to understand what the hell you are paying them to do is just freaking stupid. Apple = Stupid.
Bzzt. RTFA. They "downloaded" Leopard. They did not release it. They caught it. These people would get a zillion copies of the official release when it came out, but they wanted to prepare to do their jobs better by getting an advance look at it, like a few million of the customers they need to support. Apple is just shit-headed, firing people for trying to do their jobs better.
Actually, we know of four distinct opiate receptors, and it is hypothesized that only one of these is critical to the analgesic role of opiates, while the other three relate to the euphoric effects.
But really, morphine is far less addictive than, say, nicotine, or alprazolam. Those benzodiazepines are murder (sometimes literally) for withdrawal. Morphine is grossly underprescribed, like most pain killers, because of the DEA terror campaign against people with chronic pain.
However, the patents in question are crap. TiVo did nothing that wasn't obvious. They put the lego blocks together. That's not innovation. It adds nothing to society.
It's not a question of right or wrong, it's a question of application. The correct domain of application for the Core 2 Duo is heavy on cache hits (big cache wins), and doesn't require scaling to large processor counts. The correct domain of application for AMD is whatever blows the cache on Intel, or requires sockets counts > 2.
They're tightening their SOI and going to 65nm, so power dissipation is going down. Look at the Turion 64 x2 mobile line, for example. The quad-core Athlon 64s and Opterons will be using similar technology, so you're looking at ~75w for a quad-core at the high-end clock steppings.
Interestingly, in China, they have been "hitting" the phone since there were phones. "Da dianhua" is much more appropriate with touchpads than it was with rotary dials.
Core 2 suffers in comparison to AMD when it comes to problems larger than cache, and especially, especially when it comes to SMP motherboards. Yes, netburst always sucked, but Core 2 still doesn't have an on-die MMU, or anything like HyperTransport 3.0.
They had to fudge the benchmarks to make that claim. I'd pit my 16 core 8-way SMP Opteron box against your 16 core 8-way Intel box on *any* workload, any time. Then if we use the kind of workload I run, with large cache-bashing data sets, long strides, scatter-gather, &c... It won't be pretty for the old man.
> it is not at all clear that AMD's approach is superior to Intel's
I take it you've never sat at the wheel of an 8-way SMP, AMD, then Intel. The AMDs are like a team of well-trained coach horses, while the Intels are like wild stallions on acid. They just don't work together as a team. Sure, you rope them together, and they will end up going in the same direction, but it's not the direction in which each of them is pulling individually. I'd say an 8-way Intel looks more like a 5-way system than a 6-way system, while the 8-way AMD scales more like an 8-way than a 7-way.
> The real strength of the Opterons has been in DBMS servers
And in scientific/graphics computing. Anything, really, where the big phat cache on a Conroe/Woodcrest isn't enough to make up for the sucksass off-die memory controller. That means anything where your problem set is much larger than the cache. I'll take an Athlon 64 x2 over a Woodcrest Core 2 Duo any day, dollar for dollar, because I'm not pushing the same web pages over and over all day. I'm rendering big data, walking big data, and running lots of VMs. The same goes double, triple for an SMP system, where HT 3.0 at 1600MHz or 2000MHz can shine, and expose the doggy unscalable memory bus architecture on the Intel chips.
> Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents) to assert that 'humans developed... from earlier species of animals.' Iceland, meanwhile, has an 85% acceptance rating for evolution.
Similar numbers for belief in fairies. 85% in Iceland, with Americans near the bottom.
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It's quite trivial to bundle GTK or JRE in an NSIS installer .exe. Presumably you're not equally illiterate?
I don't recall any popular vote in favor of interning people of Japanese ancestry.
Given the propensity of dictatorships like the U.S. has been since 1862 to commit genocide over and over again with no redress or repercussions, I'll take my chances with democracy.
And it is contemptible behaviour that elicits contempt for the courts.
I have two bookshelves, roughly 800x2200x200cm, with 50x spindles of optical disks in 5 shelves with 10 stacks of 3 spindles on each shelf. I think the bookshelves were $25 each. I dedicate specific shelves to specific topics, and usually leave 10 or so available slots on each spindle, so it is easy to maintain alphabetic order within a topic.
> your financial support of the intelligence community's operations does not imply that you have a right to the information they uncover
This is where we begin to disagree. Much of the black budget is black because in a democracy or under rule of law such behaviour would never be allowed. Never has any slogan been used to such evil ends as has "national security".
...half of the money you earned last year...
Now what about the stuff you paid for and would really like to use, like Angelina Jolie?
If patents were required in order to incent pharmas to produce drugs, then there wouldn't be a vast market in generics. There is a vast market in generics, however. The only reasonable argument for patents as incentives is as incentives to invent. However, pharmas have concluded that it is not worthwhile to pay for your own research, when you can leverage off of publically subsidized research. A reasonable conclusion, based on self-interest, not on the public interest, that. Risk is thus avoided, and profits are still captured. This appears on the face of it to be against the public interest. However, Bob Dole did very, very well by it. Not well enough to be POTUS, but very well nonetheless.
It wouldn't make much sense to stockpile missile guidance computers...
WHEN YOU HAVEN'T GOT ANY FREAKING MISSILES, now would it?
They were fired for trying to do their job, supporting Apple's customers and business. That's just idiotic.
The people in question need to support this product to end users. Of course they need it to do their jobs. The moral of the story is simple Apple + Lawyer = Bullet Hole in the Foot.
Downloading is not copyright infringement. Uploading may be copyright infringement, depending on the content.
Firing your front-line customer support people for trying to understand what the hell you are paying them to do is just freaking stupid. Apple = Stupid.
Bzzt. RTFA. They "downloaded" Leopard. They did not release it. They caught it. These people would get a zillion copies of the official release when it came out, but they wanted to prepare to do their jobs better by getting an advance look at it, like a few million of the customers they need to support. Apple is just shit-headed, firing people for trying to do their jobs better.
Obviously they can. No can't is involved, merely a won't. Piss on them then.
Actually, we know of four distinct opiate receptors, and it is hypothesized that only one of these is critical to the analgesic role of opiates, while the other three relate to the euphoric effects.
But really, morphine is far less addictive than, say, nicotine, or alprazolam. Those benzodiazepines are murder (sometimes literally) for withdrawal. Morphine is grossly underprescribed, like most pain killers, because of the DEA terror campaign against people with chronic pain.
Your assessment of the case seems fair to me.
However, the patents in question are crap. TiVo did nothing that wasn't obvious. They put the lego blocks together. That's not innovation. It adds nothing to society.
If you're too young to reliably use a headset instead of holding the antennae to your cranium, then you're too young for a cell phone.
It's not a question of right or wrong, it's a question of application. The correct domain of application for the Core 2 Duo is heavy on cache hits (big cache wins), and doesn't require scaling to large processor counts. The correct domain of application for AMD is whatever blows the cache on Intel, or requires sockets counts > 2.
Got a good AM2 board for a recent Linux kernel? I would like an SMP board, but I know that's asking a lot...
They're tightening their SOI and going to 65nm, so power dissipation is going down. Look at the Turion 64 x2 mobile line, for example. The quad-core Athlon 64s and Opterons will be using similar technology, so you're looking at ~75w for a quad-core at the high-end clock steppings.
> we still also "dial" the phone
Interestingly, in China, they have been "hitting" the phone since there were phones. "Da dianhua" is much more appropriate with touchpads than it was with rotary dials.
Core 2 suffers in comparison to AMD when it comes to problems larger than cache, and especially, especially when it comes to SMP motherboards. Yes, netburst always sucked, but Core 2 still doesn't have an on-die MMU, or anything like HyperTransport 3.0.
> holds the crown
They had to fudge the benchmarks to make that claim. I'd pit my 16 core 8-way SMP Opteron box against your 16 core 8-way Intel box on *any* workload, any time. Then if we use the kind of workload I run, with large cache-bashing data sets, long strides, scatter-gather, &c... It won't be pretty for the old man.
> it is not at all clear that AMD's approach is superior to Intel's
I take it you've never sat at the wheel of an 8-way SMP, AMD, then Intel.
The AMDs are like a team of well-trained coach horses, while the Intels are
like wild stallions on acid. They just don't work together as a team.
Sure, you rope them together, and they will end up going in the same direction,
but it's not the direction in which each of them is pulling individually.
I'd say an 8-way Intel looks more like a 5-way system than a 6-way system,
while the 8-way AMD scales more like an 8-way than a 7-way.
> The real strength of the Opterons has been in DBMS servers
And in scientific/graphics computing. Anything, really, where the big phat cache on a Conroe/Woodcrest isn't enough to make up for the sucksass off-die memory controller. That means anything where your problem set is much larger than the cache. I'll take an Athlon 64 x2 over a Woodcrest Core 2 Duo any day, dollar for dollar, because I'm not pushing the same web pages over and over all day. I'm rendering big data, walking big data, and running lots of VMs. The same goes double, triple for an SMP system, where HT 3.0 at 1600MHz or 2000MHz can shine, and expose the doggy unscalable memory bus architecture on the Intel chips.
> Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents) to assert that 'humans developed ... from earlier species of animals.' Iceland, meanwhile, has an 85% acceptance rating for evolution.
Similar numbers for belief in fairies. 85% in Iceland, with Americans near the bottom.