as "Iraqi Minesweepers," sent out ahead of me to stomp their way along the information superhighway, making it safe for those of us with a greater sense of self preservation, and a few more grey cells, to navigate.
That's what is refered to as 'bonk' by endurance athletes. Bonk isn't when the muscles run out of fuel, that's just getting tired. Bonk is when the muscles have consumed so much glucose the brain begins to starve.
You only have enough glusoce in your system, including stored in your liver, for about two hours of intense aerobic exercise.
That's why God invented bananas. It wasn't just a dirty joke.
The 'GPU' makers are in a war of brute forcing solutions to problems that haven't arisen yet in order to drive sales. The evidence of this is clear in 3dfx's card requiring an external brick power source and nVidia's offering requiring two cards.
They are simply at the limits of what can be put on a card, but have nowhere else to go yet.
The next logical step in this war is the "home render farm" where we replace the GPU with a graphics computer networked to the desktop.
Sheesh.
In the meantime the unwashed browsing masses and pointy hairs have figured out that Rage 128's work just fine for reading email and the odd round of Tetris.
This will only end when one of the players is willing to drop back a round, punt, and come up some *new ideas* in GPU architecture.
Which, unfortunately, puts them in the position of risking the company if they don't pull it off, which makes the stockholders edgy, which puts pressure on them to just stay the course as they are, which risks the company.
During the anti-trust trial Bill was fond of pointing out that the computer business was entirely unlike most others.
As he put it, " Microsoft is just one good idea away from oblivion."
Which is to say that if someone *else* came up with just the right good idea Microsoft products could become worthless virtually overnight.
His awareness of this simple truth may go some way to explaining his absolute ruthlessness in piling up a nest egg. (I said explain. I didn't say excuse)
Some would say that day is now.
Nor is this fact actually unique to the computer business. It's a fact of life in any hot, new developing technology. Just look up the names of automobile companies formed between 1890 and 1910. A few of them, such as Daimler and Peugot are still around, but they're the exceptions.
KFG
Has it occured to you that one of the freedoms. .
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that is being defended is the right for the citizens of a democracy to oppose, and even prevent, a war?
If not than it certainly hasn't occured to you that this freedom is exactly the *same* freedom that you think they aren't defending.
It was one of those extra credit, summer seminar thingies where the topic wasn't a particular subject, but rather the "creative process."
Dr. Pauling told me the story of how he, and dozens of others that he knew of, had "discovered" penecillin before Fleming.
You see, he walked into his lab one day and found his cultures had been infested with mold. Naturally he was upset. His experiement was ruined even before it had begun. All this mold was killing off his cultures. He had to dispose of them and start over. It seems this was a common occurance in bio labs all over the world if you weren't careful.
It took a particular *mindset* for Fleming to look at his cultures, and instead of getting upset that they had been ruined thinking, " Hey, ruining bacterium cultures is one of the things we're trying to *DO*."
Discovery is often in *how* you look at things, not what you look at.
What it really serves to point out is that the technology of search engines was based on flawed premises. That is, they didn't really understand what they were trying to accomplish.
These guys didn't accidentally invent a good search engine. They accidentally *discovered* that what a good search engine *was* was an annotation ranking method.
A subtle difference, but a critical object lesson for others trying to "invent" things.
I'm not sure about all networking standards ( your suggestion being base on Uhura being a communications officer), but for wireless standards in particular the appropriateness of your suggestion is remarkable (Uhura being Swahili for Freedom).
Conversely conversely, I know a number of guys with high compression older cars who have "made arrangements" to fill their cars with avgas. It's about half the price of CAM2 and virtually the same thing, give or take a few additives.
It's also actually easier to find than CAM2 these days since every airport has some, and almost no car oriented gas station has CAM2.
We're all equally ignorant, just about different things.
Nor is there any shame, per se, in stupidity. That would fall into the ranting against the sky being blue catagory. Real stupidity is just an inate state, like the color of one's eyes. Accept it in others, and yourself, and move on. ( I reserve the right to distress over the number of these people in congress though)
But, like you, it's the obstinately *willfull* ignorance of otherwise intelligent people that makes me want to grab the clue bat and "get their attention" as in the old joke about mules and 2x4's.
"It's not entirely impossible that the ban originally arose out of a desire to make large amounts of money on the massively overpriced phones"
Remember Deep Throat? Remember what he said? Whenever money is involved following it will generally lead to the truth.
When some rule or other just plain doesn't make sense any way you look at it you can damned well bet there's a profit, or a perceived profit, out there somewhere.
near where the planes park. Just like they do for cars really. If you don't go where the plane's park, you won't see a gas station for them.
I mean, really, it would be pretty silly to have a plane gas station at the mall, wouldn't it? So they put them back behind the hangers at *airports.*
If you're talking light prop driven planes, yes, you just put gas in them. No you do *not* put diesel in them because they aren't diesel motors.
For a small jet you *could* just put diesel in there, like if the feds were bearing down on you and that's all you had, but you wouldn't be happy about it.
You want to see a plane gas station? It's as easy as going to the local small airport and asking.
of the sort of thinking the parent poster was ranting against.
Sorry, I'm really not meaning to troll or flame. When I *mean* it I'm generally more subtle than that and considerably more snide.
But the fact is that you seem to have *entirely* missed the point being made. With rather comedic results in your first sentence, since the questions you ask are exactly the sorts of things the parent poster is getting so worked up over.
And give the man a prize. Relatedly I hate the term "back to nature." Whenever I hear someone use that phrase I tend to respond, " Excuse me? Can you tell where and when you managed to *leave* it in the first place?"
While we continue to make strides uncovering fact after fact in just about every field the quality of scientific *thinking* these days is pathetic.
There would be no harm, other than the stress of annoyance, in that, if it weren't for the fact that some incredibly wooly thinking is being used as a "scientific" basis for legislation.
Bah! I'm going to go get a cabin out in the woods of Montana if this keeps up (with a broadband connection). I'll call this " Back to Civilization."
Ummmmmm, no. No manifesto will be forthcoming. Thank you very much. I like technology, it's idiots I can't stand.
Please note also, which I also explained in my original post which seem to have failed to read, that this isn't a case of Linux replacing Windows. It's a case of Linux easing out Unix because of the obviousness of not having to pay thousands per person to use it OR most of its apps OR exepensive workstations to run them.
You might also note that MS's line here works against them. Since this is a Unix to Linux move TCO would go up by going to Windows because of the cost of retraining.
Petard? Meet MS. MS? Meet Petard. Oh? You two already know each other?
In fact it was first coined as a substitute for posslq. Now often used as a substitute for "look, it's none of your business just what our relationship is and I'm not prepared to talk about it."
Perfectly normal, married couples use it in this sense.
It's a nasty and vulgar bastardization of social language, but it has no real substitute I'm afraid.
Since the previous OS of choice was IRIX, a Unix variant, the transition to Linux was both logical and fairly easy. In the past this was done on SGI workstations because Intel CPUs simple didn't have the horsepower.
Times change.
Windows wasn't used for a few reasons. First of all, it didn't exist for starters. It might be hard for some to bear in mind how recent a development Windows really is. Then, once it did exist, it simply didn't have the stability. It also didn't have the networking and multitasking capabilities of Unix, which was much, much, MUCH more expensive than any MS product, but worth it.
Now Linux is much, much, MUCH cheaper than MS products, but still a Unix variant.
Sure it's possible to write open source software for Windows, and there's lots of it available, but Unix has been, like it or not, the OS of choice for "serious" computing ( much to the disgust of the LISP machine fans) for over 20 years, and Windows is actually the "toy" OS newcomer. Not a troll. Just an observation from someone old enough to remember.
we have an incredible fascination with spending today looking at where we were yesterday instead of where we are or where we're going.
I'm not talking about history. I love history. My shelves are well stocked with various dead trees delineating history.
I'm talking about our own lives. When we go on vacation we tend to spend most of our time *documenting* our trip rather than living it. Then we live it "in absentia" as a kind of recreational post mortem.
It's a fascinating to thing to observe, but I admit it puzzles the hell out of me.
This point was driven home to me a while ago when someone pointed out how odd it was that I only have one photograph of my SO of 10 years. I only have it because my mother took it. In my mind why would I want a photograph when I could just look at *her*?
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as "Iraqi Minesweepers," sent out ahead of me to stomp their way along the information superhighway, making it safe for those of us with a greater sense of self preservation, and a few more grey cells, to navigate.
The term "bullet sponge" also comes to mind.
KFG
That's what is refered to as 'bonk' by endurance athletes. Bonk isn't when the muscles run out of fuel, that's just getting tired. Bonk is when the muscles have consumed so much glucose the brain begins to starve.
You only have enough glusoce in your system, including stored in your liver, for about two hours of intense aerobic exercise.
That's why God invented bananas. It wasn't just a dirty joke.
KFG
spelling and grammer checker could come in handy.
KFG
in your brain.
You have push the *on* button.
Sheesh.
KFG
The 'GPU' makers are in a war of brute forcing solutions to problems that haven't arisen yet in order to drive sales. The evidence of this is clear in 3dfx's card requiring an external brick power source and nVidia's offering requiring two cards.
They are simply at the limits of what can be put on a card, but have nowhere else to go yet.
The next logical step in this war is the "home render farm" where we replace the GPU with a graphics computer networked to the desktop.
Sheesh.
In the meantime the unwashed browsing masses and pointy hairs have figured out that Rage 128's work just fine for reading email and the odd round of Tetris.
This will only end when one of the players is willing to drop back a round, punt, and come up some *new ideas* in GPU architecture.
Which, unfortunately, puts them in the position of risking the company if they don't pull it off, which makes the stockholders edgy, which puts pressure on them to just stay the course as they are, which risks the company.
Rinse and repeat.
KFG
During the anti-trust trial Bill was fond of pointing out that the computer business was entirely unlike most others.
As he put it, " Microsoft is just one good idea away from oblivion."
Which is to say that if someone *else* came up with just the right good idea Microsoft products could become worthless virtually overnight.
His awareness of this simple truth may go some way to explaining his absolute ruthlessness in piling up a nest egg. (I said explain. I didn't say excuse)
Some would say that day is now.
Nor is this fact actually unique to the computer business. It's a fact of life in any hot, new developing technology. Just look up the names of automobile companies formed between 1890 and 1910. A few of them, such as Daimler and Peugot are still around, but they're the exceptions.
KFG
that is being defended is the right for the citizens of a democracy to oppose, and even prevent, a war?
If not than it certainly hasn't occured to you that this freedom is exactly the *same* freedom that you think they aren't defending.
KFG
Lies are truth and the truth are lies.
The oldest trick in the book is to identify that aspect of your product that is going to be most harmful to your customers and spin it as a plus.
Nobody advertises 40 room mansions on 1000 acres as "spacious." That epithet is reserved for studio apartments in a "bee hive."
KFG
It was one of those extra credit, summer seminar thingies where the topic wasn't a particular subject, but rather the "creative process."
Dr. Pauling told me the story of how he, and dozens of others that he knew of, had "discovered" penecillin before Fleming.
You see, he walked into his lab one day and found his cultures had been infested with mold. Naturally he was upset. His experiement was ruined even before it had begun. All this mold was killing off his cultures. He had to dispose of them and start over. It seems this was a common occurance in bio labs all over the world if you weren't careful.
It took a particular *mindset* for Fleming to look at his cultures, and instead of getting upset that they had been ruined thinking, " Hey, ruining bacterium cultures is one of the things we're trying to *DO*."
Discovery is often in *how* you look at things, not what you look at.
KFG
What it really serves to point out is that the technology of search engines was based on flawed premises. That is, they didn't really understand what they were trying to accomplish.
These guys didn't accidentally invent a good search engine. They accidentally *discovered* that what a good search engine *was* was an annotation ranking method.
A subtle difference, but a critical object lesson for others trying to "invent" things.
KFG
I'm not sure about all networking standards ( your suggestion being base on Uhura being a communications officer), but for wireless standards in particular the appropriateness of your suggestion is remarkable (Uhura being Swahili for Freedom).
Free roaming communications. Uhura.
I like it.
KFG
Conversely conversely, I know a number of guys with high compression older cars who have "made arrangements" to fill their cars with avgas. It's about half the price of CAM2 and virtually the same thing, give or take a few additives.
It's also actually easier to find than CAM2 these days since every airport has some, and almost no car oriented gas station has CAM2.
KFG
We're all equally ignorant, just about different things.
Nor is there any shame, per se, in stupidity. That would fall into the ranting against the sky being blue catagory. Real stupidity is just an inate state, like the color of one's eyes. Accept it in others, and yourself, and move on. ( I reserve the right to distress over the number of these people in congress though)
But, like you, it's the obstinately *willfull* ignorance of otherwise intelligent people that makes me want to grab the clue bat and "get their attention" as in the old joke about mules and 2x4's.
KFG
"It's not entirely impossible that the ban originally arose out of a desire to make large amounts of money on the massively overpriced phones"
Remember Deep Throat? Remember what he said? Whenever money is involved following it will generally lead to the truth.
When some rule or other just plain doesn't make sense any way you look at it you can damned well bet there's a profit, or a perceived profit, out there somewhere.
KFG
near where the planes park. Just like they do for cars really. If you don't go where the plane's park, you won't see a gas station for them.
I mean, really, it would be pretty silly to have a plane gas station at the mall, wouldn't it? So they put them back behind the hangers at *airports.*
If you're talking light prop driven planes, yes, you just put gas in them. No you do *not* put diesel in them because they aren't diesel motors.
For a small jet you *could* just put diesel in there, like if the feds were bearing down on you and that's all you had, but you wouldn't be happy about it.
You want to see a plane gas station? It's as easy as going to the local small airport and asking.
KFG
of the sort of thinking the parent poster was ranting against.
Sorry, I'm really not meaning to troll or flame. When I *mean* it I'm generally more subtle than that and considerably more snide.
But the fact is that you seem to have *entirely* missed the point being made. With rather comedic results in your first sentence, since the questions you ask are exactly the sorts of things the parent poster is getting so worked up over.
KFG
And give the man a prize. Relatedly I hate the term "back to nature." Whenever I hear someone use that phrase I tend to respond, " Excuse me? Can you tell where and when you managed to *leave* it in the first place?"
While we continue to make strides uncovering fact after fact in just about every field the quality of scientific *thinking* these days is pathetic.
There would be no harm, other than the stress of annoyance, in that, if it weren't for the fact that some incredibly wooly thinking is being used as a "scientific" basis for legislation.
Bah! I'm going to go get a cabin out in the woods of Montana if this keeps up (with a broadband connection). I'll call this " Back to Civilization."
Ummmmmm, no. No manifesto will be forthcoming. Thank you very much. I like technology, it's idiots I can't stand.
KFG
He's from Minnesota.
KFG
not "Windows." The difference is critical.
Please note also, which I also explained in my original post which seem to have failed to read, that this isn't a case of Linux replacing Windows. It's a case of Linux easing out Unix because of the obviousness of not having to pay thousands per person to use it OR most of its apps OR exepensive workstations to run them.
You might also note that MS's line here works against them. Since this is a Unix to Linux move TCO would go up by going to Windows because of the cost of retraining.
Petard? Meet MS. MS? Meet Petard. Oh? You two already know each other?
KFG
In fact it was first coined as a substitute for posslq. Now often used as a substitute for "look, it's none of your business just what our relationship is and I'm not prepared to talk about it."
Perfectly normal, married couples use it in this sense.
It's a nasty and vulgar bastardization of social language, but it has no real substitute I'm afraid.
KFG
You seem to be confusing my explaining that Linux is cheaper than Unix and easy to port to from Unix with "cheering the linux mantra."
Mantras, sir, are not to be cheered, but either sung quietly, or not spoken at all.
KFG
Since the previous OS of choice was IRIX, a Unix variant, the transition to Linux was both logical and fairly easy. In the past this was done on SGI workstations because Intel CPUs simple didn't have the horsepower.
Times change.
Windows wasn't used for a few reasons. First of all, it didn't exist for starters. It might be hard for some to bear in mind how recent a development Windows really is. Then, once it did exist, it simply didn't have the stability. It also didn't have the networking and multitasking capabilities of Unix, which was much, much, MUCH more expensive than any MS product, but worth it.
Now Linux is much, much, MUCH cheaper than MS products, but still a Unix variant.
Sure it's possible to write open source software for Windows, and there's lots of it available, but Unix has been, like it or not, the OS of choice for "serious" computing ( much to the disgust of the LISP machine fans) for over 20 years, and Windows is actually the "toy" OS newcomer. Not a troll. Just an observation from someone old enough to remember.
KFG
It's my experience that modern marvels come to full attrition in a distressingly short time.
KFG
To make doilies, why else?
Yes, this is an actual case. She didn't get caught though.
KFG
we have an incredible fascination with spending today looking at where we were yesterday instead of where we are or where we're going.
I'm not talking about history. I love history. My shelves are well stocked with various dead trees delineating history.
I'm talking about our own lives. When we go on vacation we tend to spend most of our time *documenting* our trip rather than living it. Then we live it "in absentia" as a kind of recreational post mortem.
It's a fascinating to thing to observe, but I admit it puzzles the hell out of me.
This point was driven home to me a while ago when someone pointed out how odd it was that I only have one photograph of my SO of 10 years. I only have it because my mother took it. In my mind why would I want a photograph when I could just look at *her*?
KFG