>>>Sound cards used to be sold because their ability to decode sound was done on the card rather than having the CPU doing it
Precisely.
The great power of the Atari, Commodore, and Amiga computers wasn't some amazing software, but they had 3-4 processors inside instead of just 1 (like PCs had). PC owners had to buy a separate GPU and SPU in order to get decent performance.
Why? Because I remember when none of these OSes exist. When the world of computers was "open" and anyone could win. It was time of uncertainty AND excitement. In fact the #1 selling computers upto 1985 were the TRS-80 (70s), Atari 400/800(early 80s), and Commodore 64 (1983-). The Apple Macs and IBM PCs were not yet the dominant platforms they eventually became.
Aside:
PC/GEOS mentioned in the article originated on the Commodore 64 as a Mac-like clone OS. Apparently it's still being sold: http://www.breadbox.com/
DesqView is listed in the article as arriving in 1985: "DESQview sold only a tiny fraction as many copies as Windows did, but it was one of the few packages here that qualified, for a while, as a success. At some point, though, sticking with DOS apps and running them in DESQview went from a perfectly understandable decision to a weird affectation."
I dislike windows. Now I have Puppy Linux (based on Ubuntu 10.0) which fit inside just 96 MB of memory, but I still need windows for some apps. Like my Netscape ISP and Accelerator software.
Yes. Woe. Windows was complete crap prior to 95, which is why I mostly used Mac OS and Amiga OS. Hell even the lowly Commodore=64 had a better "windowing" system called GEOS. I only moved to windows 98 because atari died, commodore died, and apple looked like it was heading the same direction.
From the article: "I considered only environments which were designed to run on IBM-compatible PCs, and which (like pre-1995 versions of Windows) ran on top of DOS rather than replaced it. (That's why the Mac OS and OS/2, for instance, aren't here.)"
>>>There are many more scientists that are telling those first scientists to shut up.
Okay I provided a link to the USC scientists who mailed a letter tothe White House and warning about the increased skin cancer risk. Where is YOUR link for scientists telling the USC scientists to shut up? (waits) Doesn't exist does it? Your claim is false.
For the same reason Comcast blocks bittorrents. Because they are both private, corporate monopolies and
there's nobody willing to stop them. (Look how the Audit the Fed bill died.)
>>>It's only a monopoly if a government has forbidden another company to enter that market.
And that's precisely what's happened. Local or state governments have blocked competition from entering, via the use of exclusive licenses to Comcast (or cow or time-warner or...)
On a per TRIP basis, cars, trains, and buses are all safer than airplanes.
That's because takeoff and landing in a plane is FAR more dangerous than "takeoff" and "landing" in the other modes of travel. That raises the per trip fatality rate higher for planes.
Yep profiling seems to work for the Israelis. Or eliminate the search completely (other than the standard Xraying of suitcases). Your American odds of dying in an airplane bombing are 1 in 500,000. That is about the same as your risk of drowning in a tsunami or getting hit by a meteorite. I think I'd rather take that vanishingly-small risk, rather than take the 1-to-1 risk that some TSA officer will be playing with my ___, touching my wife's ___s, and/or fondling my kid's ___.
If you really want to be afraid, fear your car. Odds of dying in a car is 1 in 100.
"A group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raised concerns about the 'potential serious health risks' from the scanners in a letter sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology in April... 'While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high,' they wrote."
Does Firefox have a "Debug And QA UI" addon like SeaMonkey has? I've found this extension to be extremely useful and would love to use it with fox. If you don't know what I'm talking about read more here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/212342/
>>>What about all the other socialist services you enjoy, such as roads and highways, food inspections, parks, etc.?
Roads == in the constitution Inspections == regulating commerce among the states Parks == unconstitutional usurpation of power, but...
I happen to like parks so I'd submit an amendment to the 50 Member States for their approval. If they accept it (very likely) then the Central Government's Park Service may continue. If they reject it, then the parks shall be returned to their original owners. In many cases the original owner was the US but in some cases the parks would revert to state control. (For example Yellowstone originally belonged to the Wyoming government and Congress took it illegally.)
>>>The lack of ethics in a field which purports to have some level of authority, for justices' sake. Or, the level to which greed will strip so many individuals of some semblence of conscience. >>>
"Ambition and avarice... when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effect." - Benjamin Franklin was discussing government when he wrote those words. - "And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters?"
"It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government, and be your rulers."
Your question makes no sense. The answer is obvious: You would handle all packets identically regardless of content.
If the "pipes" start to get full, install new faster pipes to relieve congestion. If that's not practical impose ~250GB limits + 5 cents/extra GB so people will limit themselves (in the same way they limit how much electricity or water they use).
>>>pinko who will undermine your countries economy...
The local internet, by definition, is not a free market. It's a monopoly just like the phone and electric monopolies and needs to be regulated the same way. IMHO rather discuss net neutrality, the FCC should just impose the same Common carrier rules the phone company must follow, where they are required to handle all calls equally regardless of content.
I sell that labor for money. So yes money is a product of my body. And I'm not lying about socialism. As Judge Napolitano once put it, "A man knocks on your door and he holds a gun. He demands 20% of your paycheck, so he can give it to the poor. That's called theft, even if the man is Uncle Sam." - When a man works, he deserves to get paid AND he deserves to be able to keep that payment for himself, except for a few necessary things (such as an army to protect his home from invasion). .
>>>The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability
My lone Amish neighbor who tilled the fields, planted the seeds, and later harvested the crops (or sold them for cash) would vehemently disagree with that. He did the work by himself as an individual - it was not a collective effort - so the reward should go to himself. He should not be forced by government to hand-over ~40% of his crops/cash to the person who, like Aesop's grasshopper, played all summer. .
>>>commodore64 love has a history of posting extreme right wing/libertarian remarks
In other words I'm like Thomas Jefferson. I could not be prouder of that fact.
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Probably prices haven't dropped because your fees are being used to upgrade other people from 50k dialup to 7000k DSL (people like me).
Oh good.
Then why all the fear, uncertainty, and doubt?
Why can't the Linux community just develop a new operating system?
i.e. Stop using unix.
>>>Sound cards used to be sold because their ability to decode sound was done on the card rather than having the CPU doing it
Precisely.
The great power of the Atari, Commodore, and Amiga computers wasn't some amazing software, but they had 3-4 processors inside instead of just 1 (like PCs had). PC owners had to buy a separate GPU and SPU in order to get decent performance.
This article makes me feel old.
Why? Because I remember when none of these OSes exist. When the world of computers was "open" and anyone could win. It was time of uncertainty AND excitement. In fact the #1 selling computers upto 1985 were the TRS-80 (70s), Atari 400/800(early 80s), and Commodore 64 (1983-). The Apple Macs and IBM PCs were not yet the dominant platforms they eventually became.
Aside:
PC/GEOS mentioned in the article originated on the Commodore 64 as a Mac-like clone OS. Apparently it's still being sold: http://www.breadbox.com/
DesqView is listed in the article as arriving in 1985: "DESQview sold only a tiny fraction as many copies as Windows did, but it was one of the few packages here that qualified, for a while, as a success. At some point, though, sticking with DOS apps and running them in DESQview went from a perfectly understandable decision to a weird affectation."
I dislike windows. Now I have Puppy Linux (based on Ubuntu 10.0) which fit inside just 96 MB of memory, but I still need windows for some apps. Like my Netscape ISP and Accelerator software.
>>>a tale of woe for the rest of us
Yes. Woe. Windows was complete crap prior to 95, which is why I mostly used Mac OS and Amiga OS. Hell even the lowly Commodore=64 had a better "windowing" system called GEOS. I only moved to windows 98 because atari died, commodore died, and apple looked like it was heading the same direction.
From the article: "I considered only environments which were designed to run on IBM-compatible PCs, and which (like pre-1995 versions of Windows) ran on top of DOS rather than replaced it. (That's why the Mac OS and OS/2, for instance, aren't here.)"
>>>Privatize all gains and socialize all losses, thats the [Corporatist] Way (tm)
fixed that for you.
And of course both parties are corporatist.
(whispers)
aka fascist
>>>There are many more scientists that are telling those first scientists to shut up.
Okay I provided a link to the USC scientists who mailed a letter tothe White House and warning about the increased skin cancer risk. Where is YOUR link for scientists telling the USC scientists to shut up?
(waits)
Doesn't exist does it?
Your claim is false.
For the same reason Comcast blocks bittorrents.
Because they are both private, corporate monopolies and
there's nobody willing to stop them. (Look how the Audit the Fed bill died.)
>>>It's only a monopoly if a government has forbidden another company to enter that market.
And that's precisely what's happened. Local or state governments have blocked competition from entering, via the use of exclusive licenses to Comcast (or cow or time-warner or ...)
>>>Schools all over the country would be closed for weeks because so many parents would keep their children home.
And the overall education level would go up, since home schooling (i.e. reading books) is far more effective than government schooling.
I used to think the same, until I found-out that scientists are warning these machines can cause skin cancer. See my message further below.
On a per TRIP basis, cars, trains, and buses are all safer than airplanes.
That's because takeoff and landing in a plane is FAR more dangerous than "takeoff" and "landing" in the other modes of travel. That raises the per trip fatality rate higher for planes.
Yep profiling seems to work for the Israelis. Or eliminate the search completely (other than the standard Xraying of suitcases). Your American odds of dying in an airplane bombing are 1 in 500,000. That is about the same as your risk of drowning in a tsunami or getting hit by a meteorite. I think I'd rather take that vanishingly-small risk, rather than take the 1-to-1 risk that some TSA officer will be playing with my ___, touching my wife's ___s, and/or fondling my kid's ___.
If you really want to be afraid, fear your car. Odds of dying in a car is 1 in 100.
"A group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raised concerns about the 'potential serious health risks' from the scanners in a letter sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology in April... 'While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high,' they wrote."
Continued - http://www.prisonplanet.com/naked-body-scanners-may-be-dangerous-scientists.html
Updated - http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-naked-scanners-airports-dangerous-scientists.html
I've not noticed any Firefox memory problems since 3.5, and 4.0 is even more robust.
Still not as tiny as SeaMonkey but a lot better than in the past.
Speaking of addons:
Does Firefox have a "Debug And QA UI" addon like SeaMonkey has? I've found this extension to be extremely useful and would love to use it with fox. If you don't know what I'm talking about read more here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/212342/
>>>What about all the other socialist services you enjoy, such as roads and highways, food inspections, parks, etc.?
Roads == in the constitution
Inspections == regulating commerce among the states
Parks == unconstitutional usurpation of power, but...
I happen to like parks so I'd submit an amendment to the 50 Member States for their approval. If they accept it (very likely) then the Central Government's Park Service may continue. If they reject it, then the parks shall be returned to their original owners. In many cases the original owner was the US but in some cases the parks would revert to state control. (For example Yellowstone originally belonged to the Wyoming government and Congress took it illegally.)
>>>The lack of ethics in a field which purports to have some level of authority, for justices' sake. Or, the level to which greed will strip so many individuals of some semblence of conscience.
>>>
"Ambition and avarice... when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effect." - Benjamin Franklin was discussing government when he wrote those words. - "And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters?"
"It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government, and be your rulers."
Your question makes no sense. The answer is obvious: You would handle all packets identically regardless of content.
If the "pipes" start to get full, install new faster pipes to relieve congestion. If that's not practical impose ~250GB limits + 5 cents/extra GB so people will limit themselves (in the same way they limit how much electricity or water they use).
>>>pinko who will undermine your countries economy...
The local internet, by definition, is not a free market. It's a monopoly just like the phone and electric monopolies and needs to be regulated the same way. IMHO rather discuss net neutrality, the FCC should just impose the same Common carrier rules the phone company must follow, where they are required to handle all calls equally regardless of content.
.....idiots who say dumb things like "Linux is at end of lifecycle" get promoted to apparatchik positions.
- How it be called in Engwish? Ack da! We call "sosialist job sekurity".
>>>Money is the 'product of your body?!?'
LABOR is the product of my body.
I sell that labor for money. So yes money is a product of my body. And I'm not lying about socialism. As Judge Napolitano once put it, "A man knocks on your door and he holds a gun. He demands 20% of your paycheck, so he can give it to the poor. That's called theft, even if the man is Uncle Sam." - When a man works, he deserves to get paid AND he deserves to be able to keep that payment for himself, except for a few necessary things (such as an army to protect his home from invasion).
.
>>>The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability
My lone Amish neighbor who tilled the fields, planted the seeds, and later harvested the crops (or sold them for cash) would vehemently disagree with that. He did the work by himself as an individual - it was not a collective effort - so the reward should go to himself. He should not be forced by government to hand-over ~40% of his crops/cash to the person who, like Aesop's grasshopper, played all summer.
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>>>commodore64 love has a history of posting extreme right wing/libertarian remarks
In other words I'm like Thomas Jefferson.
I could not be prouder of that fact.