> Let me introduce to you the concept of > something called "chemical bonds" and > something called "energy."
Hey, no problem: Global warming means more energy, right?
And we can easily exploit it, since temperature differences are what make engines run. Here's my plan: Take a big wire, put one end in the cold past, and the other end in the hot future....
I enjoyed and appreciated your comments, but I must take exception to the phrase "bootable floppy" which has been an oxymoron in my house since 1998. I haven't found an actual use for the dusty floppy disks or drives in my closet, but perhaps "bootable" images can (I confess my ignorance) be burned onto a CD somehow, in order to boot them?
Actually, polystate logic could save our asses. The major problem right now is heat disipation. If your voltages switch only 20% as much on average, you're only disipating 8% as much power.
You want real EMP resistance, you go fluidic. I've seen circuits from Russian nuke triggers that were pure mercury fluidics, and would operate with GV/m ambient fields.
"We" being who? Plenty of porn is produced in Europe, Russia, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Ukraine, Georgia.... It just has lower production values.
> If you can't resolve the issue, because of > *your* screwup (which might be the case, > since Microsoft made the rules pretty clear > I think), then too bad.
I have to point out that MICROSOFT DOESN'T MAKE THE RULES.
This was covered over at Carnicom last year in beautiful detail. Clifford first noticed it because of the slowdown in the earth's rotation. He's got a rack of quartz clocks that he uses to approximate an atomic clock. The redistribution of angular momentum is truly awesome, and the implications for the behaviour of the liquid core of the earth are yet to play out. You can read about Clifford's best work here: http://www.carnicom.com/time6.htm
As a conservative republican, i can assure you that i will not be voting for george bush this year. were kerry not skull&bones, i would vote for him, but there are no democrats who have not already sold their presidency to AIPAC, so I will vote Libertarian.
No, the virgin birth has been a consistent part of the gospels since they were written. Fragments of Mark dated to ca. 60 C.E. can be found in the Bodelian Library at Oxford, so you are at least 240 years off.
The point is that you can't deliver an app in a reasonble (i.e. minimized) download, to run on most of the Windows systems out there: Windows 95, 95 OSR2.5, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0 sp6a, and 2000 Pro SP4..NET is only useful for enterprises in which all the systems are "upgraded" (more like "migrated") to XP. That's a rare environment. It probably only happens in small businesses or colleges.
Yes, economy of scale determines who provides the most bang for the buck, but there are more dimensions to the purchasing decision than mips, mflops, and $$. There are watts and hours and then, god forbid, intangibles.
ARM and PPC have the best shot at displacing ia32 and its best successor, amd64, because they accomodate very real market segments. We keep waiting for commodity PPC hardware, but it never emerges because the OSS community isn't big enough to drive sales to economical volume; but some magical event could happen at any moment in PPC-land, nonetheless, as IBM is quite motivated to see it happen. ARM has economy of scale, but no one is pushing its performance into competitive domains right now.
Here, here! Send the little extornists back to extornia where they belong. After all, aren't we in the middle of a war on extornism? If God didn't want us to make war on the little extornists, She wouldn't have made them so much smaller than we are!
Personally, I don't care if they come in companies, troops or battallions; I say: Smash them!
PowerPCs are "brainiac" chips. They do a lot more per cycle than do the more deeply pipelined ultrasparcs, which in turn do a lot more per cycle than do the absurdly deep x86s.
You're kidding, right? Their workarounds include such gems as "rewrite the object" and suggestions to use Microsoft-proprietary nonstandard mechanisms.
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That's great in the UK, but nobody has them
in the US or Canada. Any readers know a US
individually purchasable analog currently
available?
> Let me introduce to you the concept of
> something called "chemical bonds" and
> something called "energy."
Hey, no problem: Global warming means more
energy, right?
And we can easily exploit it, since
temperature differences are what make
engines run. Here's my plan: Take a big
wire, put one end in the cold past, and
the other end in the hot future....
Uh, nevermind.
> Do you think they are about to drop this
> venture and just stick with a dual core 64
> xeon processor?
No, not unless shareholders decide to rebel
and stop the bleeding.
Yeah. And you couldn't fly a Soyuz without
duct tape. I guess that's why duct tape is
such a famous success.
buy another one on ebay for $200.
I enjoyed and appreciated your comments, but
I must take exception to the phrase "bootable
floppy" which has been an oxymoron in my house
since 1998. I haven't found an actual use for
the dusty floppy disks or drives in my closet,
but perhaps "bootable" images can (I confess my
ignorance) be burned onto a CD somehow, in
order to boot them?
Actually, polystate logic could save our asses. The major problem right now is heat
disipation. If your voltages switch only 20%
as much on average, you're only disipating
8% as much power.
You want real EMP resistance, you go fluidic.
I've seen circuits from Russian nuke triggers
that were pure mercury fluidics, and would
operate with GV/m ambient fields.
"We" being who? Plenty of porn is produced
in Europe, Russia, Korea, Japan, China,
Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Ukraine,
Georgia.... It just has lower production values.
> If you can't resolve the issue, because of
> *your* screwup (which might be the case,
> since Microsoft made the rules pretty clear
> I think), then too bad.
I have to point out that MICROSOFT DOESN'T
MAKE THE RULES.
*thwack* goes the clue stick.
If your location can be tracked, you can be
destroyed by a space-based laser.
I hope you vote right.
This was covered over at Carnicom last year
in beautiful detail. Clifford first noticed
it because of the slowdown in the earth's
rotation. He's got a rack of quartz clocks
that he uses to approximate an atomic clock.
The redistribution of angular momentum is
truly awesome, and the implications for the
behaviour of the liquid core of the earth
are yet to play out. You can read about
Clifford's best work here: http://www.carnicom.com/time6.htm
Folgers
As a conservative republican, i can assure you
that i will not be voting for george bush this
year. were kerry not skull&bones, i would
vote for him, but there are no democrats who
have not already sold their presidency to AIPAC,
so I will vote Libertarian.
No, the virgin birth has been a consistent part
of the gospels since they were written. Fragments of Mark dated to ca. 60 C.E. can
be found in the Bodelian Library at Oxford,
so you are at least 240 years off.
just delete realsched.exe from your disk.
problem solved.
No, hatred is usually fueled by injustice.
There is jc.exe, and GNU ld, both of which
link Java programs very nicely, thank you.
Yes, Java has several linkers.
.NET is
For example there is jc.exe, and GNU ld.
> No one asks for a linker to statically link to user32 or GDI.
That's because these are stable ABIs.
not a stable ABI.
The point is that you can't deliver an app .NET is only useful for enterprises in which
in a reasonble (i.e. minimized) download,
to run on most of the Windows systems out
there: Windows 95, 95 OSR2.5, 98, 98SE, ME,
NT 4.0 sp6a, and 2000 Pro SP4.
all the systems are "upgraded" (more like
"migrated") to XP. That's a rare environment.
It probably only happens in small businesses
or colleges.
Yes, economy of scale determines who provides
the most bang for the buck, but there are more
dimensions to the purchasing decision than
mips, mflops, and $$. There are watts and
hours and then, god forbid, intangibles.
ARM and PPC have the best shot at displacing
ia32 and its best successor, amd64, because
they accomodate very real market segments.
We keep waiting for commodity PPC hardware,
but it never emerges because the OSS community
isn't big enough to drive sales to economical
volume; but some magical event could happen
at any moment in PPC-land, nonetheless, as
IBM is quite motivated to see it happen.
ARM has economy of scale, but no one
is pushing its performance into competitive
domains right now.
Here, here! Send the little extornists back
to extornia where they belong. After all,
aren't we in the middle of a war on extornism?
If God didn't want us to make war on the little
extornists, She wouldn't have made them so
much smaller than we are!
Personally, I don't care if they come in
companies, troops or battallions; I say:
Smash them!
Not buying their stuff isn't enough for me.
Here are some other ways to help them lose money:
1) When they put their money down, move it
while they're not looking. The back of the sock drawer is a good hiding spot.
2) Give them their change in Sacajawea dollars, then make them wait for their happy meals on a big leather couch.
3) Put up fake powerball jackpot signs.
4) Sue them for some crime they did.
I'm sure you can think of more.
PowerPCs are "brainiac" chips. They
do a lot more per cycle than do the more
deeply pipelined ultrasparcs, which in turn
do a lot more per cycle than do the absurdly
deep x86s.
You're kidding, right? Their workarounds
include such gems as "rewrite the object"
and suggestions to use Microsoft-proprietary
nonstandard mechanisms.