Precisely. The only time SGI took a stab at NT - actually, it was their subsidiary MIPS that did - was at the beginning of Windows NT, when they made a workstation called the Magnum based on an R4000 CPU and an EISA bus (mirroring DEC's first foray into the NT market w/ an Alpha 150MHz on the same configuration). That was somewhere in 1994-95, before Windows 95 was even out
Not the only. The SGI Visual Workstations didn't show up until 2002, initially running NT4 and moving to Win2K some time later and this was SGI, not MIPS.
Pick your borders more carefully. If you're on the MEXICAN side of the border, you could probably kill a police officer the size of a prized Hereford and not be extradited, unless life in prison / no parole and the death penalty are off the table
"After the snatch in broad daylight, he was transferred to U.S. military bases in Italy and Germany before being moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He was held for a year and released in 2004.
De Sousa was among 26 Americans convicted in absentia for their alleged role in the operation. None of the defendants, who fled the country, has been in Italian custody"
So a trial that convicted TWENTY-SIX CIA agents / officers and the ONLY person who's going to face Italian justice is a WOMAN born in INDIA? You've come a long way, baby.
"Searching sucked. Google really cleaned up that space"
I was working Internet tech support back then and was one of the 1st on the team to discover Google, which was probably thanks to Slashdot as I was reading it regularly for more than a year before signing up. It was shocking how much quicker it was than any established search engine, even AltaVista which used to keep so much cached in RAM. But the real advantage was that the truly relevant pages where almost always at the top of the list and you never had to go beyond the 1st page when other engines may have what you really wanted 2, 3 or more pages down
" received billions of taxpayers money for nothing" For nothing?? Dude, they're not making apps and their annual sales have now crossed $5 billion. They established an upscale automaker in California, employing thousands who have to pay taxes. And this is mostly skilled manufacturing which has been fleeing the USA for decades. The Gigafactory, when completed, will have ~5000 workers earning $25 / hr. If the Solar City deal goes through and with the moves already made in energy storage, they could become a powerhouse of American manufacturing.
There's plenty of opportunity for them to screw up and they may well crash & burn even if they make mostly the right moves but that's a far cry from getting "billions of taxpayer money for nothing"
Haven't driven a Ford in a LONG time; had a Tempo that I'll would have happily put a bumper sticker on that read "my other car is a Trabant"
Drove a Volvo station wagon for a summer about 20 years ago that was a great car - lots of capacity, respectable power and surprisingly good handling. Had a VW Golf that was just fantastic and was considering a Volt until the GM ignition fiasco came to light.
So if I don't go with Tesla, I'll be looking for another new (to me). Perhaps I'll finally go Japanese although I drove a Corolla last summer and didn't like it at all.
"$200 to $150 isn't exactly the bottom falling out of the price"
A 25% drop in something that will last 7-15 years is a big deal at the corporate / industrial / institutional / utility level, especially when it's *already* seen a +40% drop in just the 4 previous years.
I believe that was the best-case *cell* cost for LG Chem but there are still substantial costs to assembling hundreds into a managed pack with active cooling
Battery prices have been falling very quickly for years. They were estimated to be ~$600 per kWh in 2012 and expected to reach $200 per kWh by 2020 and $160 by 2025 http://www.plugincars.com/lith...
We may already be at the $200 level or getting close and *should* beat that $160 level by 2019.
Steel cage bodies?? EVs aren't the only ones requiring those.
There are limits to an expectation of privacy and you're caught out, it's tough cookies for you. Hogan was screwing someone else's spouse, which many, many, many people have done - and been caught. While those people were fucking, I'm sure they had "an expectation of privacy" but once caught by whatever means, that's no longer a valid argument, especially when you're a public figure.
And whatever balls are dangling from exposure are going to be deservedly slapped as well.
"1. "Sell" product to customer 2. Send in audit team 3. Announce that the customer is not in compliance with their license 4. Extract $$$ from customer to become compliant 5. Goto 2."
I think we used to refer to step 2 as the Business Software Alliance, who somehow had police SWAT at their beck & call
And I can't help but wonder if much of it is because security was an afterthought for so long and if we would have been better off and designed for it from the get-go, even though it would have meant rewriting or scrapping decades of code. The counterargument i was hearing back in the late 80s was that too much would have to be redone - and that was before the explosive growth that's seen a billion people walking around with more computing power in their pockets than most companies had available back then.
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Precisely. The only time SGI took a stab at NT - actually, it was their subsidiary MIPS that did - was at the beginning of Windows NT, when they made a workstation called the Magnum based on an R4000 CPU and an EISA bus (mirroring DEC's first foray into the NT market w/ an Alpha 150MHz on the same configuration). That was somewhere in 1994-95, before Windows 95 was even out
Not the only. The SGI Visual Workstations didn't show up until 2002, initially running NT4 and moving to Win2K some time later and this was SGI, not MIPS.
http://www.cnet.com/news/nt-wo...
"At least Kubrick fans will always remember IBM"
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I won't
Pick your borders more carefully. If you're on the MEXICAN side of the border, you could probably kill a police officer the size of a prized Hereford and not be extradited, unless life in prison / no parole and the death penalty are off the table
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/ar...
"After the snatch in broad daylight, he was transferred to U.S. military bases in Italy and Germany before being moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He was held for a year and released in 2004.
De Sousa was among 26 Americans convicted in absentia for their alleged role in the operation. None of the defendants, who fled the country, has been in Italian custody"
So a trial that convicted TWENTY-SIX CIA agents / officers and the ONLY person who's going to face Italian justice is a WOMAN born in INDIA?
You've come a long way, baby.
"that you cannot direct harm in one country from another and be immune from prosecution simply because you did it from elsewhere"
Unless you happen to be working for a government of course.
Given their history of acting as agents provocateurs, I'm good with that, too
Here's a small taste - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wearing those tend to get you beaten & arrested on the ground more than not.
" The FBI should have "FBI" written in big letters on the side of their surveillance vehicles so that everybody knows who they are!"
Like on police cars? I think that's exactly what they should do.
"Searching sucked. Google really cleaned up that space"
I was working Internet tech support back then and was one of the 1st on the team to discover Google, which was probably thanks to Slashdot as I was reading it regularly for more than a year before signing up.
It was shocking how much quicker it was than any established search engine, even AltaVista which used to keep so much cached in RAM.
But the real advantage was that the truly relevant pages where almost always at the top of the list and you never had to go beyond the 1st page when other engines may have what you really wanted 2, 3 or more pages down
" received billions of taxpayers money for nothing"
For nothing?? Dude, they're not making apps and their annual sales have now crossed $5 billion.
They established an upscale automaker in California, employing thousands who have to pay taxes. And this is mostly skilled manufacturing which has been fleeing the USA for decades. The Gigafactory, when completed, will have ~5000 workers earning $25 / hr.
If the Solar City deal goes through and with the moves already made in energy storage, they could become a powerhouse of American manufacturing.
There's plenty of opportunity for them to screw up and they may well crash & burn even if they make mostly the right moves but that's a far cry from getting "billions of taxpayer money for nothing"
Haven't driven a Ford in a LONG time; had a Tempo that I'll would have happily put a bumper sticker on that read "my other car is a Trabant"
Drove a Volvo station wagon for a summer about 20 years ago that was a great car - lots of capacity, respectable power and surprisingly good handling.
Had a VW Golf that was just fantastic and was considering a Volt until the GM ignition fiasco came to light.
So if I don't go with Tesla, I'll be looking for another new (to me). Perhaps I'll finally go Japanese although I drove a Corolla last summer and didn't like it at all.
"$200 to $150 isn't exactly the bottom falling out of the price"
A 25% drop in something that will last 7-15 years is a big deal at the corporate / industrial / institutional / utility level, especially when it's *already* seen a +40% drop in just the 4 previous years.
I believe that was the best-case *cell* cost for LG Chem but there are still substantial costs to assembling hundreds into a managed pack with active cooling
Battery prices have been falling very quickly for years. They were estimated to be ~$600 per kWh in 2012 and expected to reach $200 per kWh by 2020 and $160 by 2025
http://www.plugincars.com/lith...
We may already be at the $200 level or getting close and *should* beat that $160 level by 2019.
Steel cage bodies?? EVs aren't the only ones requiring those.
"but miles driven until that range has deteriorated to something unacceptable"
What range would be unacceptable?
There are limits to an expectation of privacy and you're caught out, it's tough cookies for you.
Hogan was screwing someone else's spouse, which many, many, many people have done - and been caught.
While those people were fucking, I'm sure they had "an expectation of privacy" but once caught by whatever means, that's no longer a valid argument, especially when you're a public figure.
And whatever balls are dangling from exposure are going to be deservedly slapped as well.
"No, jail is no option because she is a woman"
Don't tell Martha Stewart that; she'll be pissed she had to be federally raped for 6 months
Not sure that racist ass Hogan is much better; only now he can definitely be considered much wealthier.
"Nadella has altered the bargain, every couple of weeks for the past two years. What the fuck makes you think he won't alter it farther?"
So Nadella is Darth Vader? Does that mean Gates was Palpatine?
We know what happened (to) B4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"1. "Sell" product to customer
2. Send in audit team
3. Announce that the customer is not in compliance with their license
4. Extract $$$ from customer to become compliant
5. Goto 2."
I think we used to refer to step 2 as the Business Software Alliance, who somehow had police SWAT at their beck & call
And I can't help but wonder if much of it is because security was an afterthought for so long and if we would have been better off and designed for it from the get-go, even though it would have meant rewriting or scrapping decades of code.
The counterargument i was hearing back in the late 80s was that too much would have to be redone - and that was before the explosive growth that's seen a billion people walking around with more computing power in their pockets than most companies had available back then.
which has a dark side, but no matter
I think there's much more nasty stuff that passes the fecal-oral route than you'd likely get from raw milk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That said, I do NOT drink or eat unpasteurized dairy
"non-hygenic practices like drinking raw milk"
pretty sure not washing hands properly after wiping arse killed more ancestors than raw milk