he got it from in-breeding probably. You can get viagra for the floppy, but I'm not sure what can be done about the 3.25".//oldest computer joke around, but had to keep it alive.
I don't dooubt for a second that it wasn't a RockStar employee who released the mod in the first place. It was just way too soon after the game's release to be otherwise.
Yup. In California, the sidewalk is on private property, but is under "eavesment." As is the little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, where the DSLAM was. I really dont like the power line eavesments. My property is only 75' wide, but 25' of it is eavements.
We pay for the internet infrastructure as well. That's my backyard thier cable is draped across. There are "infrastructure" charges on my phone bill. Those are perfectly good streets that are getting dug up. My neighbor down the street has a DSLAM parked on the sidewalk in his front yard and he can't do anything about it.
There's a whole lot of someone else's property the telecoms get to use for free.
There's little reason for a telecom to uprade it's infrastructure. If they do, they have to give away access to competitors. Cable companies have no such restrictions.
Dell is Intel's best customer. Intel bends over backwards seven different ways to keep them happy. Intel will give Dell what they want, or Dell will build AMD systems. There's been several times when rumors of Dell selling AMD based systems. Shortly after that, Dell quashes the rumor and announces a major new partnership with Intel.
The AMD processors embed the DDR controller into the processor. There is no FSB to speak of. The AMD Northbridge takes the hypertransport from the processor and splits it to PCIe, SATA, and your other peripherals. The DDR core that is embedded with the AMD processor is a heat hog, but at least there is no FSB, which is worse. The dual core Opteron has two memory channels on the processor.
The Intel processor does not embed the DDR controller. The DDR controller is part of the northbridge for both single and dual core designs. There is an 500-800MHz front side bus connecting the proc to the NB in Intel arch.
To properly compare to AMD power consumption with Intel, you have to compare the both processor and the chipset. These fundamental differences make direct processor power comparisons meaningless.
The traditional flash devices are NOR flash devices. They are by nature more reliable than NAND flash but are expensive to amnufacture. NOR flash devices can withstand more write write cycles than a NAND flash. BIOS flash are NOR, as are most of the solid state flash drives used in telecom and aerospace. This is why NOR flash is marketed to embedded/industrial customers and NAND flash is marketed to the consumer market.
The real problem is that MS has a billion trillion gazililon lines of code to maintain and retrofit with "secure" code. Much of this code was written in the days when security was an afterthought and bugs were treated as an annoyance, rather than a threat.
IBM is untouchable. They have the largest patent portfolio and and one of the best IP Law programs around. You can't threaten it with a lawsuit.
IBM is very focused on what it wants, and what it doesn't want. I can't say that of Microsoft. IBM is also very disruptive in that is gives away lots of tech to customers, and even some competitors, in markets that IBM doesn't play in.
IBM is established, deeply, in one of Microsoft's main target markets, the Enterprise server space. IBM provides HW, SW, and services and has done so for better than 80 years (anti-trust limitatons nowithstanding). It's hard to compete with that with software products that come in a shrink wrapped box.
That prof is useless. He fell for his own fallacy and then fell for another one. He as making an invalid comparison, as well as associating class hierarchy where one does not exist. Of course professors don't come from high schools and elementary schools, the skills are different. His statement only demonstrates his own hubris. By his statement, kindergarten teachers high school teachers professers. This is simply not true. Professors don't teach college because they are better teachers. Likewise, kindergarten teachers teach kindergarten because they choose to, not because they aren't good enough teachers to teach in high school. Professors come from Assistant Professors, Lecturers, and Lab Assistants.
I actually think the premise for the original show was better. They Cylons weren't "Our sins that came back to haunt us". They Cylons were closer in concept to Saberhagen's Beserkers. We happened to piss them off by meddling in someone else's intergalactic war. They didn't beat us to death with preachy, moralizing narrative either.
I the O.G. Adama, Starbuck, and Boomer better, but I'm happy to see that there's no Muffet or bratty kid. I think the addition of a separate civilian government/president was genius and I like the new XO. The guy playing the new Adama (can't remember name) is about the best choice for the role. I like that the captain isn't the superior wise all-knowing being that nearly other Sci-Fi shows posess. Starbuck is just way over the top. The whole Baltar (sp?) thread was so annoying that I stopped watching the show.
Despite all this, it is one of the best shows out there.
I somewhat agree. However equating a government organization with a philosophical concept is a mistake, even negatively. It's a type mismatch. Property rights are a concept. They don't exist at all without laws, be it common law or written law. The concept has different meaning between different cultures and countries.
I prefer an bureaucratic organization of the Executive branch to determine what constitutes homesteading or interference. I can't trust the Legislature to make this determination, too many vested interests and they're technically not qualified. The judiciary is only useful to determine if interference has occured. The judiciary should not, and really can't be expected to set those limits themselves. Their job is interpretation and arbitration, not enforcement. The judicary can only get involved once the damage is done, and someone asks for redress. I prefer a proactive, preventative approach that the FCC provides. Whether the FCC, or something else, the service that is provided must be provided. The FCC should be severely limited in scope, however. It currently isn't.
btw markov_chain, Good points. You are correct on both. I remember reading an article about this guy a couple years ago. All I got out of it was that he was really excited about it. It may have been the same article.
The internet will be regulated. In some countries it already is. There's too much money and power for the government to ignore it.
I'm not a fan of the FCC, but they do have some value. The FCC helps a great deal with blocking interference. The FCC doesn't have much to do with helping wireless devices talk to each other, but they have alot to do with seeing to it that calls don't get dropped when the neighbor's microwave turns on. Yes, this used to happen. The Secret Services' radios used to make garage doors go bonkers during Reagan's term in office. Wireless units don't interfere because of signal and noise filtering. Companies only cooperate when they have a vested interest in doing so. There comes a point when a company gets large enough or has enough of a captive audience that they don't need to cooperate with competitors and upstarts.
The article you link even admits it's own bias. "I have to confess that I'm biased when it comes to David Reed." Unfortunately, I don't have a Salon subscription to read the rest of the article. I never trust a journalist when they write about math, most don't study more than algebra and dont study physics. The first page was almost accurate, but didn't yet discuss that an electric wave has a charge and a photon does not. Since electric fields have charge, they interact when they come in contact. The color metaphor is misleading as well. If you've seen a black light theater, or blue man show, then you know it's difficult to discern to item of the same color standing in line. A black ball in front of a black wall is invisible to the eye if there is no reflection or shadow cast by the ball. There must be contrast for the ball to be visible. It is similarly difficult for radio recievers to distinguish a small signal when there is a wall of noise behind it. Turn your car radio to an AM station and drive around high power lines, you will hear static. It can be done with filtering, but get's expensive fast when the environment gets noisy. Cell phones have both HW and SW filtering and also use a fairly complex transmission wave that is pretty distinctive.
My post is a bit all over the place, but my feeling is that we need many of the services provided by the FCC, including reduction of electronic interference. I also think that there is too much money, information, and power in the internet as a medium for the government to leave it alone.
It's my backyard these Telco's dragged their ugly as cables across. I would very much like to charge to tear the cables down or charge them rent.
Telco and power utlities are the most heavily subsidized industry out there. They aren't subsidized with money. The government gives them a piece of every property in the US by granting eavesments, regardless of whether the property owner wants thier service or not. That 10' wide swath through my property in California is worth about $150,000. As long as these subsidies/eavesments are in place, the government (the people) have every right to regulate, even dictate, their business.
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he got it from in-breeding probably. You can get viagra for the floppy, but I'm not sure what can be done about the 3.25". //oldest computer joke around, but had to keep it alive.
I don't dooubt for a second that it wasn't a RockStar employee who released the mod in the first place. It was just way too soon after the game's release to be otherwise.
Yup. In California, the sidewalk is on private property, but is under "eavesment." As is the little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, where the DSLAM was. I really dont like the power line eavesments. My property is only 75' wide, but 25' of it is eavements.
We pay for the internet infrastructure as well. That's my backyard thier cable is draped across. There are "infrastructure" charges on my phone bill. Those are perfectly good streets that are getting dug up. My neighbor down the street has a DSLAM parked on the sidewalk in his front yard and he can't do anything about it.
There's a whole lot of someone else's property the telecoms get to use for free.
We see this real time in sports games, for instant replays or "what if" scenarios.
yup, and it looks like, but the article isn't clear, that the judge is merely interpreting company policy to say it extends to web surfing as well.
not a big deal
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I'm still upset that I can't kill random scientists, or even the good guys. I wanted to pick one up and shake him with the gravity gun, but noooooo.
There's little reason for a telecom to uprade it's infrastructure. If they do, they have to give away access to competitors. Cable companies have no such restrictions.
Can it cook a giant tub of popcorn!
"Can you point an 8" spike through a rail road tie with your penis"
Dell is Intel's best customer. Intel bends over backwards seven different ways to keep them happy. Intel will give Dell what they want, or Dell will build AMD systems. There's been several times when rumors of Dell selling AMD based systems. Shortly after that, Dell quashes the rumor and announces a major new partnership with Intel.
Where else am i supposed to store my passwords?
The AMD processors embed the DDR controller into the processor. There is no FSB to speak of. The AMD Northbridge takes the hypertransport from the processor and splits it to PCIe, SATA, and your other peripherals. The DDR core that is embedded with the AMD processor is a heat hog, but at least there is no FSB, which is worse. The dual core Opteron has two memory channels on the processor.
The Intel processor does not embed the DDR controller. The DDR controller is part of the northbridge for both single and dual core designs. There is an 500-800MHz front side bus connecting the proc to the NB in Intel arch.
To properly compare to AMD power consumption with Intel, you have to compare the both processor and the chipset. These fundamental differences make direct processor power comparisons meaningless.
The traditional flash devices are NOR flash devices. They are by nature more reliable than NAND flash but are expensive to amnufacture. NOR flash devices can withstand more write write cycles than a NAND flash. BIOS flash are NOR, as are most of the solid state flash drives used in telecom and aerospace. This is why NOR flash is marketed to embedded/industrial customers and NAND flash is marketed to the consumer market.
The real problem is that MS has a billion trillion gazililon lines of code to maintain and retrofit with "secure" code. Much of this code was written in the days when security was an afterthought and bugs were treated as an annoyance, rather than a threat.
Face it, he's getting old. And the frequent kitten massacres (pr0n) aren't helping.
IBM is untouchable. They have the largest patent portfolio and and one of the best IP Law programs around. You can't threaten it with a lawsuit.
IBM is very focused on what it wants, and what it doesn't want. I can't say that of Microsoft. IBM is also very disruptive in that is gives away lots of tech to customers, and even some competitors, in markets that IBM doesn't play in.
IBM is established, deeply, in one of Microsoft's main target markets, the Enterprise server space. IBM provides HW, SW, and services and has done so for better than 80 years (anti-trust limitatons nowithstanding). It's hard to compete with that with software products that come in a shrink wrapped box.
That prof is useless. He fell for his own fallacy and then fell for another one. He as making an invalid comparison, as well as associating class hierarchy where one does not exist. Of course professors don't come from high schools and elementary schools, the skills are different. His statement only demonstrates his own hubris. By his statement, kindergarten teachers high school teachers professers. This is simply not true. Professors don't teach college because they are better teachers. Likewise, kindergarten teachers teach kindergarten because they choose to, not because they aren't good enough teachers to teach in high school. Professors come from Assistant Professors, Lecturers, and Lab Assistants.
I don't like my ISP's TOS, but it's the only one ISP I can get. I can't go without because my work requires an internet connection.
I actually think the premise for the original show was better. They Cylons weren't "Our sins that came back to haunt us". They Cylons were closer in concept to Saberhagen's Beserkers. We happened to piss them off by meddling in someone else's intergalactic war. They didn't beat us to death with preachy, moralizing narrative either.
I the O.G. Adama, Starbuck, and Boomer better, but I'm happy to see that there's no Muffet or bratty kid. I think the addition of a separate civilian government/president was genius and I like the new XO. The guy playing the new Adama (can't remember name) is about the best choice for the role. I like that the captain isn't the superior wise all-knowing being that nearly other Sci-Fi shows posess. Starbuck is just way over the top. The whole Baltar (sp?) thread was so annoying that I stopped watching the show.
Despite all this, it is one of the best shows out there.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Too bad they went to rails, I'd rather they just went away.
I somewhat agree. However equating a government organization with a philosophical concept is a mistake, even negatively. It's a type mismatch. Property rights are a concept. They don't exist at all without laws, be it common law or written law. The concept has different meaning between different cultures and countries.
I prefer an bureaucratic organization of the Executive branch to determine what constitutes homesteading or interference. I can't trust the Legislature to make this determination, too many vested interests and they're technically not qualified. The judiciary is only useful to determine if interference has occured. The judiciary should not, and really can't be expected to set those limits themselves. Their job is interpretation and arbitration, not enforcement. The judicary can only get involved once the damage is done, and someone asks for redress. I prefer a proactive, preventative approach that the FCC provides. Whether the FCC, or something else, the service that is provided must be provided. The FCC should be severely limited in scope, however. It currently isn't.
btw markov_chain,
Good points. You are correct on both. I remember reading an article about this guy a couple years ago. All I got out of it was that he was really excited about it. It may have been the same article.
The internet will be regulated. In some countries it already is. There's too much money and power for the government to ignore it.
I'm not a fan of the FCC, but they do have some value. The FCC helps a great deal with blocking interference. The FCC doesn't have much to do with helping wireless devices talk to each other, but they have alot to do with seeing to it that calls don't get dropped when the neighbor's microwave turns on. Yes, this used to happen. The Secret Services' radios used to make garage doors go bonkers during Reagan's term in office. Wireless units don't interfere because of signal and noise filtering. Companies only cooperate when they have a vested interest in doing so. There comes a point when a company gets large enough or has enough of a captive audience that they don't need to cooperate with competitors and upstarts.
The article you link even admits it's own bias. "I have to confess that I'm biased when it comes to David Reed." Unfortunately, I don't have a Salon subscription to read the rest of the article. I never trust a journalist when they write about math, most don't study more than algebra and dont study physics. The first page was almost accurate, but didn't yet discuss that an electric wave has a charge and a photon does not. Since electric fields have charge, they interact when they come in contact. The color metaphor is misleading as well. If you've seen a black light theater, or blue man show, then you know it's difficult to discern to item of the same color standing in line. A black ball in front of a black wall is invisible to the eye if there is no reflection or shadow cast by the ball. There must be contrast for the ball to be visible. It is similarly difficult for radio recievers to distinguish a small signal when there is a wall of noise behind it. Turn your car radio to an AM station and drive around high power lines, you will hear static. It can be done with filtering, but get's expensive fast when the environment gets noisy. Cell phones have both HW and SW filtering and also use a fairly complex transmission wave that is pretty distinctive.
My post is a bit all over the place, but my feeling is that we need many of the services provided by the FCC, including reduction of electronic interference. I also think that there is too much money, information, and power in the internet as a medium for the government to leave it alone.
It's my backyard these Telco's dragged their ugly as cables across. I would very much like to charge to tear the cables down or charge them rent.
Telco and power utlities are the most heavily subsidized industry out there. They aren't subsidized with money. The government gives them a piece of every property in the US by granting eavesments, regardless of whether the property owner wants thier service or not. That 10' wide swath through my property in California is worth about $150,000. As long as these subsidies/eavesments are in place, the government (the people) have every right to regulate, even dictate, their business.
Maybe he resigned to dedicate more time to teaching anti-ID classes...