Highest incarceration rates in the world
Highest police firearm incidents rates in the world
Most repressive forfieture laws in the world, where guilt isnt even needed
& such a reliance on uncorrobarated paid snitches & plea-bargin snowballs that the whole justice system is tainted.
Police even get bonuses based on forfeitures.
That's funny resourse utilisation doesn't go up when you use them, plus HDDs about double their benchmarks
Mind you SCSI's the go in this regard, especially the more upmarket cards's which have a SDRAM slot or 2 on the card, that make fantastic caches or RAMdrive swapfiles.
it can be put at the bottom (like on the Epox, Iwill & Abit boards) sharing a backing plate slot with a PCI slot, thereby adding flexibility without any sacrifice such as losing a PCI slot.
Its much better than having a stupid useless upsidedown AMR slot there, or sorse giving up a PCI slot for a conventional AMR slot.
Besides jumpered ISA modems leave PCI modems for dead.
Actually all those Abit boards (& Epox & IWill, etc) that have an extra IDE controller, so that they support 2x4 IDE drives (instead of the normal 2x2 IDE drives) suport RAID (0,1 & 0+1) on the extra 2 IDE connectors.
Abit & Epox used a Highpoint controller, IWill uses an AMI controller, while Asus uses Promise (which on some Asus boards has to be bios hacked for RAID). All 3 brands of controller have their good & bad points.
Customers of their skin development software make & then send a copy in & then it gets linked on their website for people who want free downloads of it.
He ask "then can musicians sue other musicians something that they think sounds like their music?"
not
'then can musicians sue other musicians something that sounds like their music?'
(Just because someone may 'think' that Metallica sounds like AC/DC, doesnt necassarily mean they do sound like AC/DC)
Besides many bands sound like each other, but they don't sue each other - look at all those tribute bands that play in pubs.
If I find out about a trade secret of yours & I havent signed a NDA with you, you have absolutely no right to stop me doing waht I want with your trade secrets, including selling it to the world & making millions out of it.
The original AC Ace that the Cobra was based on, looked virtually the same as Ferraris of the early 50's, but did we see Ferrari start a law suit against AC. It even had the egg crate grill of those early Ferraris
Look at the Lexus IS200 that even has the same profile as the BMW 3 series that it competes with. Actually if you put a BMW grill on it people would think it was a BMW, complete with its high reving longitudal strait-6 of relatively low capacity. Which is a BMW signiture.
Also look at the Lexus LS400, that was more of a Merc clone than any of the IMac clones.
Look at aircraft, I don't see McDonald Douglas suing Lockheed over the Tristar because of its similaries with the DC-10 or vice-a-versa.
I could go on like this all night.
Anyway both transluzent plastic & all in one intergrated computers had been done before Apple's contributions, so they had no right to patent/trademark/copyright/whatever such ideas.
Just buy your car in Ireland, Netherlands, France or Belgium & register it with relatives or a friend in that country. The you can drive arround the UK as much as you like without having to worry about it.
If a cop pulls you up you just tell him you borrowed the car off a mate of yours from Amsterdam or whatever who drove over & is staying at your place for a while.
I did this for years, by living in Sydney, NSW, but having interstate rego from Victoria, that way I didn't have to worry about speed cameras, red-light cameras or parking tickets, but all the states have linked up their computers. So I flew to New Guinea with a bit of paper which had my engine number & body number writen on it & I payed a bribe (New Gunea is as corrupt as like any island up that way) to get a instant registration for my car back in Sydney in a made up name, then I flew back & screwed the New Guinea rego plates on my car & its back to 'no worries mate' time.
This also means I don't have to worry about a NSW rego test every year, instead I have to send some money up to a mate up there (with a bit extra for him) & he re-registers it for me.
BTW, I drive here using a New Zealand license & a motoring orginisation international permit, but that's another story.
But it means if ever I'm pulled up by the cops I have to say I'm over here on business or holiday & I'm staying with a friend & I'm driving a car I borrowed from another friend of his from New Gueinea who's staying at his place for a while. It hasn't happen yet though....touchwood.
Just buy your car in Ireland, Netherlands, France or Belgium & register it with relatives or a friend in that country. The you can drive arround the UK as much as you like without having to worry about it.
If a cop pulls you up you just tell him you borrowed the car off a mate of yours from Amsterdam or whatever who drove over & is staying at your place for a while.
I did this for years, by living in Sydney, NSW, but having interstate rego from Victoria, that way I didn't have to worry about speed cameras, red-light cameras or parking tickets, but all the states have linked up their computers. So I flew to New Guinea with a bit of paper which had my engine number & body number writen on it & I payed a bribe (New Gunea is as corrupt as like any island up that way) to get a instant registration for my car back in Sydney in a made up name, then I flew back & screwed the New Guinea rego plates on my car & its back to 'no worries mate' time.
This also means I don't have to worry about a NSW rego test every year, instead I have to send some money up to a mate up there (with a bit extra for him) & he re-registers it for me.
BTW, I drive here using a New Zealand license & a motoring orginisation international permit, but that's another story.
But it means if ever I'm pulled up by the cops I have to say I'm over here on business or holiday & I'm staying with a friend & I'm driving a car I borrowed from another friend of his from New Gueinea who's staying at his place for a while. It hasn't happen yet though....touchwood.
Because of the width of the board, if such a wide board is used in a smallish mid-tower case, the RAM can get in the way of the drives or vic-a-versa, the sloping RAM mostly negates that problem.,BR>
If you've seen the size of most 1.2GB T'bird Fansinks, I doubt you'd use it in a 1U case unless you use those fansinks that have the fan on the side (instead of the top) where the air blows across through the fins, like the Alpha PEP66.
Yesthat board is a dual Athlon/DDR SDRAM system,
Actually that chipset supports up to 8 CPUs just by adding an extra northbridge for every extra CPU, above the intitial 2 CPUs.
You can download their full X86 'free beer' non-comercial POSIX complient realtime OS
Or their 'System on a floppy' demo ('Neutrino' OS, filesystem, 'Photon' microGUI, plugin complient 'Voyager' web browser, 'Qnet' Networking, all on a bootable floppy)
With IDE floppy drives avaliable (I do have one of those, they make things heaps cleaner under bonnet, without that bloody messy floppy drive ribbin cable all over the place) & for people using the SCSI bus, SCSI floppy drives are avaliable too (they are hard to come by though, they use them in SCSI drive towers) & USB modems, printers, keyboards & mouses; all that legacy stuff is now irrelivant, for new hardware anyway - I haven't use my serial ports for years.
But he's right AT firmware sucks, PC's need modern firmware, so for example USB keyboards & mice will work in the BIOS after its been jumper defaulted, etc, etc.
MacOS x86 port exists, a W95 PPC port exists too
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Yes back in the days of the P5 Apple made a Mac OS 'classic' port, & MS also made a W95 port for the PPC CHRP/PreP.
But neither were released - can you imagine the perceived confusion, as far as apps & drivers are concerned
Mind you back in the days when the double ported BeOS (PPC & X86) looked like it might take off, one could buy apps that got arround the perceived confusion just by having both the X86 port & the PPC port of the app on the same CD.
Now imagine if the MS court judgement had made it compulsary for MS to make avaliable (independently tested) Linux, BeOS & Mac OS ports of all their applications & all ports must be avaliable together with the W32 port either in the box or on the CD, before MS could sell that application to the public.
Now I think such a policy would have a greater effect on MS's 'monopoly' than any 'splitup' of MS would.
An enforced open sourcing of the Win32 & DirectX APIs wouldn't have been a bad idea too.
Its ok for potential developers to test their software but a code morphing transmeta setup, setup to morph the hammer series would be much faster. Not at 1st, but the code morphine software speeds up as calculations get repeated - it adapts.
This was showen when the emulaters.com bloke benchmarked it. The first time it performed pathetically but, as he repeated the benchmarks it kept improving & improving till it was almost matching a Celeron clock for clock.
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Highest incarceration rates in the world
Highest police firearm incidents rates in the world
Most repressive forfieture laws in the world, where guilt isnt even needed
& such a reliance on uncorrobarated paid snitches & plea-bargin snowballs that the whole justice system is tainted.
Police even get bonuses based on forfeitures.
That's funny resourse utilisation doesn't go up when you use them, plus HDDs about double their benchmarks Mind you SCSI's the go in this regard, especially the more upmarket cards's which have a SDRAM slot or 2 on the card, that make fantastic caches or RAMdrive swapfiles.
by sacrificing the bottom ISA slot, you just lose flexibility, as they are shared.
it can be put at the bottom (like on the Epox, Iwill & Abit boards) sharing a backing plate slot with a PCI slot, thereby adding flexibility without any sacrifice such as losing a PCI slot.
Its much better than having a stupid useless upsidedown AMR slot there, or sorse giving up a PCI slot for a conventional AMR slot.
Besides jumpered ISA modems leave PCI modems for dead.
Actually all those Abit boards (& Epox & IWill, etc) that have an extra IDE controller, so that they support 2x4 IDE drives (instead of the normal 2x2 IDE drives) suport RAID (0,1 & 0+1) on the extra 2 IDE connectors.
Abit & Epox used a Highpoint controller, IWill uses an AMI controller, while Asus uses Promise (which on some Asus boards has to be bios hacked for RAID). All 3 brands of controller have their good & bad points.
That Supermicro board in a VIA dual Socket 370 board.
After Supermicro only supports Intel CPUs
I'd assume that would be a better bet
Customers of their skin development software make & then send a copy in & then it gets linked on their website for people who want free downloads of it.
He ask "then can musicians sue other musicians something that they think sounds like their music?" not 'then can musicians sue other musicians something that sounds like their music?' (Just because someone may 'think' that Metallica sounds like AC/DC, doesnt necassarily mean they do sound like AC/DC) Besides many bands sound like each other, but they don't sue each other - look at all those tribute bands that play in pubs.
over the DC8 looking like a 707 Maybe because Boeing would have been laughed out of court if they tried.
If I find out about a trade secret of yours & I havent signed a NDA with you, you have absolutely no right to stop me doing waht I want with your trade secrets, including selling it to the world & making millions out of it.
That's why 'trade secrets' are trade secrets.
& copyright law is different again.
The new Powerbook bears just as much resemblance to theslimline Titanium Vaio, as the E-Machine did to the IMac.
Or Lockhhed suing Antonov Or vice-a-versa
The original AC Ace that the Cobra was based on, looked virtually the same as Ferraris of the early 50's, but did we see Ferrari start a law suit against AC. It even had the egg crate grill of those early Ferraris
Look at the Lexus IS200 that even has the same profile as the BMW 3 series that it competes with. Actually if you put a BMW grill on it people would think it was a BMW, complete with its high reving longitudal strait-6 of relatively low capacity. Which is a BMW signiture.
Also look at the Lexus LS400, that was more of a Merc clone than any of the IMac clones.
Look at aircraft, I don't see McDonald Douglas suing Lockheed over the Tristar because of its similaries with the DC-10 or vice-a-versa.
I could go on like this all night.
Anyway both transluzent plastic & all in one intergrated computers had been done before Apple's contributions, so they had no right to patent/trademark/copyright/whatever such ideas.
Just buy your car in Ireland, Netherlands, France or Belgium & register it with relatives or a friend in that country. The you can drive arround the UK as much as you like without having to worry about it.
If a cop pulls you up you just tell him you borrowed the car off a mate of yours from Amsterdam or whatever who drove over & is staying at your place for a while.
I did this for years, by living in Sydney, NSW, but having interstate rego from Victoria, that way I didn't have to worry about speed cameras, red-light cameras or parking tickets, but all the states have linked up their computers. So I flew to New Guinea with a bit of paper which had my engine number & body number writen on it & I payed a bribe (New Gunea is as corrupt as like any island up that way) to get a instant registration for my car back in Sydney in a made up name, then I flew back & screwed the New Guinea rego plates on my car & its back to 'no worries mate' time.
This also means I don't have to worry about a NSW rego test every year, instead I have to send some money up to a mate up there (with a bit extra for him) & he re-registers it for me.
BTW, I drive here using a New Zealand license & a motoring orginisation international permit, but that's another story.
But it means if ever I'm pulled up by the cops I have to say I'm over here on business or holiday & I'm staying with a friend & I'm driving a car I borrowed from another friend of his from New Gueinea who's staying at his place for a while. It hasn't happen yet though....touchwood.
Just buy your car in Ireland, Netherlands, France or Belgium & register it with relatives or a friend in that country. The you can drive arround the UK as much as you like without having to worry about it.
If a cop pulls you up you just tell him you borrowed the car off a mate of yours from Amsterdam or whatever who drove over & is staying at your place for a while.
I did this for years, by living in Sydney, NSW, but having interstate rego from Victoria, that way I didn't have to worry about speed cameras, red-light cameras or parking tickets, but all the states have linked up their computers. So I flew to New Guinea with a bit of paper which had my engine number & body number writen on it & I payed a bribe (New Gunea is as corrupt as like any island up that way) to get a instant registration for my car back in Sydney in a made up name, then I flew back & screwed the New Guinea rego plates on my car & its back to 'no worries mate' time.
This also means I don't have to worry about a NSW rego test every year, instead I have to send some money up to a mate up there (with a bit extra for him) & he re-registers it for me.
BTW, I drive here using a New Zealand license & a motoring orginisation international permit, but that's another story.
But it means if ever I'm pulled up by the cops I have to say I'm over here on business or holiday & I'm staying with a friend & I'm driving a car I borrowed from another friend of his from New Gueinea who's staying at his place for a while. It hasn't happen yet though....touchwood.
& that's a boxed version from GoBe in the US, the European distributer does a better box set. With a full manual, 2 CDs & a boot floppy,
Because of the width of the board, if such a wide board is used in a smallish mid-tower case, the RAM can get in the way of the drives or vic-a-versa, the sloping RAM mostly negates that problem.,BR>
If you've seen the size of most 1.2GB T'bird Fansinks, I doubt you'd use it in a 1U case unless you use those fansinks that have the fan on the side (instead of the top) where the air blows across through the fins, like the Alpha PEP66.
Even then it'd be a tight fit.
Yesthat board is a dual Athlon/DDR SDRAM system, Actually that chipset supports up to 8 CPUs just by adding an extra northbridge for every extra CPU, above the intitial 2 CPUs.
You can download their full X86 'free beer' non-comercial POSIX complient realtime OS
Or their 'System on a floppy' demo ('Neutrino' OS, filesystem, 'Photon' microGUI, plugin complient 'Voyager' web browser, 'Qnet' Networking, all on a bootable floppy)
Actually I do, but
With IDE floppy drives avaliable (I do have one of those, they make things heaps cleaner under bonnet, without that bloody messy floppy drive ribbin cable all over the place) & for people using the SCSI bus, SCSI floppy drives are avaliable too (they are hard to come by though, they use them in SCSI drive towers) & USB modems, printers, keyboards & mouses; all that legacy stuff is now irrelivant, for new hardware anyway - I haven't use my serial ports for years.
But he's right AT firmware sucks, PC's need modern firmware, so for example USB keyboards & mice will work in the BIOS after its been jumper defaulted, etc, etc.
Yes back in the days of the P5 Apple made a Mac OS 'classic' port, & MS also made a W95 port for the PPC CHRP/PreP.
But neither were released - can you imagine the perceived confusion, as far as apps & drivers are concerned
Mind you back in the days when the double ported BeOS (PPC & X86) looked like it might take off, one could buy apps that got arround the perceived confusion just by having both the X86 port & the PPC port of the app on the same CD.
Now imagine if the MS court judgement had made it compulsary for MS to make avaliable (independently tested) Linux, BeOS & Mac OS ports of all their applications & all ports must be avaliable together with the W32 port either in the box or on the CD, before MS could sell that application to the public.
Now I think such a policy would have a greater effect on MS's 'monopoly' than any 'splitup' of MS would.
An enforced open sourcing of the Win32 & DirectX APIs wouldn't have been a bad idea too.
The Dreamcast uses both a native API & Windows CE, developers have a choice of which one they develop the game to work with.
Its ok for potential developers to test their software but a code morphing transmeta setup, setup to morph the hammer series would be much faster. Not at 1st, but the code morphine software speeds up as calculations get repeated - it adapts. This was showen when the emulaters.com bloke benchmarked it. The first time it performed pathetically but, as he repeated the benchmarks it kept improving & improving till it was almost matching a Celeron clock for clock.