thanks man. I was confused about the hyundai thing....i thought they made bios chips...i think i was thinking of AMI instead of Hyundai. Thanks for clearing that up. I undertood the thing about SDRAM and Rambus's claim for the DDRSDRAM and such...but i didn't realize that Hyundai was involved.
synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai
Ok, call me uninformed...but what does this have to do with hyundai? and what exactly does synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai mean? when i hear the word Synchronous...i ussually think of SDRAM, not rambus.:) someone...please explain what that sentence means.
it might have been a little more than 2 feet...one of my friends told me there was no way it would break...so..being the curious person i was...i dropped it. (it was no good anyways.) and it shattered. I was gonna make a keychain from it...i wasn't all that happy with him. his nick is mattH if you want to flame him for me.:)
This certainly beats those "dropped from 3 feet with minimal damage" stress tests.....geez! I once dropped a pentium chip about 2 feet and the whole silicon package shattered. I dunno about sending it into space though....
IE also gives you linkes to HOtmail and such...and the MSN radio station and such...i think that Netscape might have more, but IE has more altogether...think of when you install windows...you get all sorts of things that give you oppurtunities to get more MS junk. I personally prefer IE, and Netscape definitely has many things that go back to netscape...i also hate all the windows that ask me if i want to make it my default browser/messanger/everything.... If I wanted that to be my default, i would set it to that myself. I hate when every new audio/email/browser askes me that. argh..it drives me nuts..and RealPlayer won't stop when i say no..it asks me everytime!
At the place where I work, Camp Susque we have to schedule things down to the very minute because of how hectic things can get. Unfortunately, these beautifally laid out schedules often go awry, because people forget to ring the bells signifying the time to move on to the next thing on the schedule. So, everything gets moved and we have to change schedules to fit everything in. Basically, any schedule is not laid in stone and is fairly flexible...and everything works out in the end. I figure, as long as somone starts work at 9 and ends by 5, the ends justify the means and the scheduling doesn't matter.
first of all, why cellphones and not digital or satellite phones? i have been told they have a little more coverage and such...
second of all, my experience with cellphones is not a happy one. We have a huge cell phone tower on the mountain across from us, which is great if you are in a 2 mile radius of the tower. If you happen to go behind a mountain from it, or go in a different valley, nothing works. So, if you are planning on doing a lot of travel in Trout Run PA, then your best bet is to get something other than a cellphone. Smoke signals work great if the wind is right.
Or if you look at it another way, They are doing an EXCELLENT job because we don't even know what they are doing....for all we know, they might have prevented 4 nuclear world wars, we just don't know it. So while we are busting on them for sitting on their lazy butts in chatrooms, we might have agents in the field that are protecting our welfare....if we don't know how well of a job they are doing, that must mean they are doing an excellent job of keeping it all really lowkey.
Or, maybe they do suck at what they do and have us think that they suck at what they do so that we think they don't suck.....erm...that didn't make sense.
"innovative, out-of-the-box, unconventional thinkers
Someone at our government being unconventional? whoa....whoda thunk it?
But really, these people work at the CIA, did they think they wouldn't get caught? or were they expecting to lose their laptops before they did get caught.....
uh huh...if a layman like myself thinks these things are butt-ugly...then...who are you selling these to? industry experts such as yourself? I was under the impression you were trying to sell them to normal people.....
Phew...I was SO tired of seeing those stupid annoying ads on TV and in my magazines. Not only did they look incredibly stupid, they also bogged down my magazines and had stupid ads on TV...stupid netpliances, good riddance.
at first, this looked sorta cool, but then i feel sorta dirty. I mean...sure..transmeta..very cool and geekish...oooh...and linux too! very cool. UGH! AOL! ack! a cool thing from the wrong people.:(
Let me think about this....when someone built Mt. Rushmore from legos, everyone was really impressed with the skill and art and patience and all..but when someone builds star wars scenes, it is a waste of time from someone that has way too much time on his hands.
I, for one, would like to congratulate this achievement...nothing I would put a bumper sticker on my car for though...and i wouldn't want to be the proud father that has to be proud of their child....
First of all, I was wondering if maybe Intel could some up with some more creative chip names then just using stupid numbers...at least with AMD you have Duron and thunderbird and stuff....intel has Xeon and Pentium 1,2,3,4.
Second of all, who would want a Pentium 4? Besides the stupid kid in my computer class who saw it in a magazine....it will require a 454 gram heat sink...that is a full pound of steenkin aluminum (or whatever metal they use) A brand new mobo design is needed, and a new case with supports for the processor and the heatsink! Unless they sell a conversion kit with it....
Third of all, they are using.18 die set...it would make more sense to me to center new products around.13 or something a little smaller...
also..I heard some talk (rumors..not necessarily true) that a new powersupply is needed as well. This new Pentium 4 chip is full of heat, sucks up the wattage, and requires redesigned cases and mobos. Unless they are faster than 5 Ghz...i think I will stick with my AMD processor, thank you very much. It has a much smaller price tag, and better performance if you ask me.....
anyways...that is my opinion....
This is an interesting turn of events, Last night, I went to bed after reloading CNN about a million times. I saw it the EV go from bush to gore to bush to gore and then stayed at Bush....I was knew that they had to recount Florida, but I figured it would be done by the morning..I woke up, loaded CNN again, and was shocked that it still hadn't come up. I was surprised at the number of voters this year though..I knew voter apathy was pretty high, but this is a far higher turnout than anyone had expected. Especially in Florida. In my rural village of Trout Run in PA, we had more voters this year than the last 10 years or so...more than 300! anyways..this is all pretty exciting and tense...I am thinking that Bush will win Florida (and therefore the election) due to the absentee ballots from military people that are abroad. I don't know...i guess we will see by the end of the day though.
naww..I think that IE has not beaten Netscape by any means. In fact, at our school, we only have netscape, and that is the same at some colleges i have visited. Netscape might not be as popular, but it hasn't lost the browser war.
I personally like IE better, I am not sure why. A lot of my friends ask me why i like it better and I never have a good answer. Now I might, but I still wouldn't underestimate Netscape, Mozilla etc....I don't see Microsoft having an opensource browser, do you?
and some new drivers written for it, we could have a pretty cool force feedback chair for Quake! Or we could program it to give us backrubs....I remember some userfriendly comics about ergo chairs.
drat...I was hoping to make a beowolf cluster joke...something along the lines of it not being necessary...you already have more than enough power...I was also going to couple that into a quake joke...but unfortunately, it is too late....(i was also hoping it would be modded as insightful)
I remember reading a "Bloom County" cartoon about this a long time ago with Opus speaking of the phenomenom as a comparison to smoking...and how even if a million people do it, it is still a stupid thing (referring to the millions of penguins that fall over) I always sorta thought that Bloome County was the official Linux cartoon.....
WOOHOO! I got a.11 but all it said was nice....did anyone get higher than a.11? This reminds me of a reflex tester we had at this farming expo when you had to release a simulated cornstalk before you got pulled into a harvester...we all went in thinking we could let go in plenty of time, but lo and behold, it would actually pull you in long before I could let go....gotta love those snap rolls. (i guess this is a hick thing)
This is a little interesting...about a month ago I saw a Madrake boxed set at Wal-Mart along with books and stuff for around 30.00. I considered buying it till I realized I could go home and download it for free...or I could download redhat...and then I went and pretended I was twelve to get free popcorn and forgot about the whole ordeal. I love those smiley face stickers.
I first saw this story about 2-3 years ago in "Compressed Air" magazine which was distributed freely by Ingersoll-Rand It was a very cool magazine, and it always had cool articles. The one I am speaking of had a large writeup about a competition in Deleware where these MASSIVE air compressors (hmmmm..and several were made by ingersoll-rand...conspiracy? or is the magazine biased?) that powered these pumpkin chucking devices. I thought this was really cool, but because of my young age and lack of ability, I was forced to build a potato gun instead, which doesn't have quite the same power. So the other day I looked up this pumpkin thing and I was completely blown away by all the stuff they did now..there were hundreds of pages about it. I was very impressed.
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thanks man. I was confused about the hyundai thing....i thought they made bios chips...i think i was thinking of AMI instead of Hyundai. Thanks for clearing that up. I undertood the thing about SDRAM and Rambus's claim for the DDRSDRAM and such...but i didn't realize that Hyundai was involved.
synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai Ok, call me uninformed...but what does this have to do with hyundai? and what exactly does synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai mean? when i hear the word Synchronous...i ussually think of SDRAM, not rambus. :) someone...please explain what that sentence means.
sorry...my bad. I meant ceramic..not silicon. Sorry about that.
it might have been a little more than 2 feet...one of my friends told me there was no way it would break...so..being the curious person i was...i dropped it. (it was no good anyways.) and it shattered. I was gonna make a keychain from it...i wasn't all that happy with him. his nick is mattH if you want to flame him for me. :)
This certainly beats those "dropped from 3 feet with minimal damage" stress tests.....geez! I once dropped a pentium chip about 2 feet and the whole silicon package shattered. I dunno about sending it into space though....
IE also gives you linkes to HOtmail and such...and the MSN radio station and such...i think that Netscape might have more, but IE has more altogether...think of when you install windows...you get all sorts of things that give you oppurtunities to get more MS junk. I personally prefer IE, and Netscape definitely has many things that go back to netscape...i also hate all the windows that ask me if i want to make it my default browser/messanger/everything.... If I wanted that to be my default, i would set it to that myself. I hate when every new audio/email/browser askes me that. argh..it drives me nuts..and RealPlayer won't stop when i say no..it asks me everytime!
Ack! scary thought! even on /.'s voting page we aren't supposed to trust the results! I wonder what would happen if they recounted one of them. :)
At the place where I work, Camp Susque we have to schedule things down to the very minute because of how hectic things can get. Unfortunately, these beautifally laid out schedules often go awry, because people forget to ring the bells signifying the time to move on to the next thing on the schedule. So, everything gets moved and we have to change schedules to fit everything in. Basically, any schedule is not laid in stone and is fairly flexible...and everything works out in the end. I figure, as long as somone starts work at 9 and ends by 5, the ends justify the means and the scheduling doesn't matter.
first of all, why cellphones and not digital or satellite phones? i have been told they have a little more coverage and such...
second of all, my experience with cellphones is not a happy one. We have a huge cell phone tower on the mountain across from us, which is great if you are in a 2 mile radius of the tower. If you happen to go behind a mountain from it, or go in a different valley, nothing works. So, if you are planning on doing a lot of travel in Trout Run PA, then your best bet is to get something other than a cellphone. Smoke signals work great if the wind is right.
Or if you look at it another way, They are doing an EXCELLENT job because we don't even know what they are doing....for all we know, they might have prevented 4 nuclear world wars, we just don't know it. So while we are busting on them for sitting on their lazy butts in chatrooms, we might have agents in the field that are protecting our welfare....if we don't know how well of a job they are doing, that must mean they are doing an excellent job of keeping it all really lowkey.
Or, maybe they do suck at what they do and have us think that they suck at what they do so that we think they don't suck.....erm...that didn't make sense.
"innovative, out-of-the-box, unconventional thinkers
Someone at our government being unconventional? whoa....whoda thunk it?
But really, these people work at the CIA, did they think they wouldn't get caught? or were they expecting to lose their laptops before they did get caught.....
uh huh...if a layman like myself thinks these things are butt-ugly...then...who are you selling these to? industry experts such as yourself? I was under the impression you were trying to sell them to normal people.....
/me is half scared he is feeding a troll
Phew...I was SO tired of seeing those stupid annoying ads on TV and in my magazines. Not only did they look incredibly stupid, they also bogged down my magazines and had stupid ads on TV...stupid netpliances, good riddance.
at first, this looked sorta cool, but then i feel sorta dirty. I mean...sure..transmeta..very cool and geekish...oooh...and linux too! very cool. UGH! AOL! ack! a cool thing from the wrong people. :(
Let me think about this....when someone built Mt. Rushmore from legos, everyone was really impressed with the skill and art and patience and all..but when someone builds star wars scenes, it is a waste of time from someone that has way too much time on his hands.
I, for one, would like to congratulate this achievement...nothing I would put a bumper sticker on my car for though...and i wouldn't want to be the proud father that has to be proud of their child....
First of all, I was wondering if maybe Intel could some up with some more creative chip names then just using stupid numbers...at least with AMD you have Duron and thunderbird and stuff....intel has Xeon and Pentium 1,2,3,4.
.18 die set...it would make more sense to me to center new products around .13 or something a little smaller...
Second of all, who would want a Pentium 4? Besides the stupid kid in my computer class who saw it in a magazine....it will require a 454 gram heat sink...that is a full pound of steenkin aluminum (or whatever metal they use) A brand new mobo design is needed, and a new case with supports for the processor and the heatsink! Unless they sell a conversion kit with it....
Third of all, they are using
also..I heard some talk (rumors..not necessarily true) that a new powersupply is needed as well. This new Pentium 4 chip is full of heat, sucks up the wattage, and requires redesigned cases and mobos. Unless they are faster than 5 Ghz...i think I will stick with my AMD processor, thank you very much. It has a much smaller price tag, and better performance if you ask me.....
anyways...that is my opinion....
you don't often hear the words cowboy and volcano in the same sentence. at least, not where I come from.
This is an interesting turn of events, Last night, I went to bed after reloading CNN about a million times. I saw it the EV go from bush to gore to bush to gore and then stayed at Bush....I was knew that they had to recount Florida, but I figured it would be done by the morning..I woke up, loaded CNN again, and was shocked that it still hadn't come up. I was surprised at the number of voters this year though..I knew voter apathy was pretty high, but this is a far higher turnout than anyone had expected. Especially in Florida. In my rural village of Trout Run in PA, we had more voters this year than the last 10 years or so...more than 300! anyways..this is all pretty exciting and tense...I am thinking that Bush will win Florida (and therefore the election) due to the absentee ballots from military people that are abroad. I don't know...i guess we will see by the end of the day though.
naww..I think that IE has not beaten Netscape by any means. In fact, at our school, we only have netscape, and that is the same at some colleges i have visited. Netscape might not be as popular, but it hasn't lost the browser war.
I personally like IE better, I am not sure why. A lot of my friends ask me why i like it better and I never have a good answer. Now I might, but I still wouldn't underestimate Netscape, Mozilla etc....I don't see Microsoft having an opensource browser, do you?
and some new drivers written for it, we could have a pretty cool force feedback chair for Quake! Or we could program it to give us backrubs....I remember some userfriendly comics about ergo chairs.
drat...I was hoping to make a beowolf cluster joke...something along the lines of it not being necessary...you already have more than enough power...I was also going to couple that into a quake joke...but unfortunately, it is too late....(i was also hoping it would be modded as insightful)
does this count as a joke? or is it not allowed?
I remember reading a "Bloom County" cartoon about this a long time ago with Opus speaking of the phenomenom as a comparison to smoking...and how even if a million people do it, it is still a stupid thing (referring to the millions of penguins that fall over) I always sorta thought that Bloome County was the official Linux cartoon.....
WOOHOO! I got a .11 but all it said was nice....did anyone get higher than a .11? This reminds me of a reflex tester we had at this farming expo when you had to release a simulated cornstalk before you got pulled into a harvester...we all went in thinking we could let go in plenty of time, but lo and behold, it would actually pull you in long before I could let go....gotta love those snap rolls. (i guess this is a hick thing)
This is a little interesting...about a month ago I saw a Madrake boxed set at Wal-Mart along with books and stuff for around 30.00. I considered buying it till I realized I could go home and download it for free...or I could download redhat...and then I went and pretended I was twelve to get free popcorn and forgot about the whole ordeal. I love those smiley face stickers.
I first saw this story about 2-3 years ago in "Compressed Air" magazine which was distributed freely by Ingersoll-Rand It was a very cool magazine, and it always had cool articles. The one I am speaking of had a large writeup about a competition in Deleware where these MASSIVE air compressors (hmmmm..and several were made by ingersoll-rand...conspiracy? or is the magazine biased?) that powered these pumpkin chucking devices. I thought this was really cool, but because of my young age and lack of ability, I was forced to build a potato gun instead, which doesn't have quite the same power. So the other day I looked up this pumpkin thing and I was completely blown away by all the stuff they did now..there were hundreds of pages about it. I was very impressed.