Of course, the typical "small" business doesn't buy machines 100 at a time, they buy two or three at a time, depending on what's on sale at Office Depot. Of course, these busineses don't have "Select" contracts either.
If you're trying to imply that smaller businesses aren't bitten by this moronic Microsoft behavior, you're dead wrong. We pay for lots of Windows licenses we damn well shouldn't. Why? Because our supplier won't ship us computers without Windows installed. Why? Because, and yes, this is from the supplier, "Because we would have to pay substantially more per copy if we were to offer non-Microsoft software pre-loaded."
This was about 6 months ago. Now it's even worse.
We used to be able to order the computers without hard disks, but with the identical model seperately. This, of course, ended up costing us more than the hard disk with Windows got us back when we deleted it, but, just for the principle of the matter, we didn't order them with hard disks anyway, when the Windows OEM license wasn't to be used. Now, though, that's been ended, as well. Why? Again, at the behest of Microsoft. They saw that a substantial number of their OEM PCs were sold without disks, and therefore without Windows, so they got pissed. This all despite the distributor having to pay for each machine that went out the door. That's part of their agreement with Microsoft to get their OEM pricing.
So, now we've established that Microsoft forces the OEMs to do idiotic things to keep their license costs from going up. Now here's the real rub. Assuming that Microsoft intends to be consistent (which they sometimes are), this means that despite having purchased large numbers of machines in the past year with Windows installed, but never used, I can't re-use those licenses on other machines! If it was our distributor telling us this on their own, that would be one thing, but they are forced to do this to keep their Windows license costs down. One can't budget much for Windows these days when a reasonably fast sub-1k computer is not just easily found, but it's more the rule than the exception. Until Microsoft gets smacked down in a big way, I expect this to continue.
On the bright side, however, although they will be lining their pocket books with way too much of my money, and my client's money, they've lost. They've fucked their customers too bad in the last year. Yes, these sort of idiotic antics that remind me of kid's cartoon shows more than real life, will end up extending their survival a few years, but probably nothing more than that.
-Nathan
P.S. Note that I don't think that Microsoft is inherently evil, like some people. I do however, believe that their software sucks ass, their tech-support doesn't exist, unless you can afford to pay them a few hundred per incident, and they spout extremely unethical bullshit such as this every day of the week, can't innovate for shit, and on top of that, have the more worthless security than people who don't lock their cars. Despite all that, I figure that people should buy the software they want, for whatever reason they want it. However, I think that Microsoft bullying OEMs into pre-packaging Windows with every PC, consumer be damned and then still charging the OEM for the piece of shit software I delete from it before I even turn it on and THEN telling me that I can't even use the steaming pile of shit on another computer, despite having paid tribute to the Asscrack of Redmond(tm) with my soul. Well fuck them, they've lost, and I can't wait to see it. But, they must have some big, brass balls to shit on us and play with us like the Spanish did to the native people of Central America. Assholes...
I've both done and been through the tech support at IBM. The way the company is segmented internally, you do get a lot of finger pointing and a lot of the time one group doesn't know that a problem belongs with another grop (Or that the other group even exists.) And once the problem finds its way to the right queue, there's no guarantee that it'll get resolved speedily or at all.
Hell, we had a fairly simple problem to fix once. We had to call tech support because we weren't real familar with their Network Stations, yet the AS/400 guy loved the hell out of them for whatever reason. Anyway, it took us about 3 hours just to find the correct people to be talking to. Most of the divisions that we called would send us on to another without really knowing what they were talking about.
Finally, we got someone on the phone who was willing to actually be helpful, and spent 30 to 45 minutes just calling various groups within IBM trying to find out for us who we needed to be talking to. The only problem with this, was that we were on hold for 30 to 45 minutes. In some ways, however, this was good, given that we were getting pissed because nobody knew who we were supposed to be talking to, what a Network Station was (even after explaining it, we got transferred to the PC people at least twice), or even how to find out.
We finally got the problem resolved by calling my boss' brother, who is a manager at one of the IBM places, who then said, "Oh, I know who you should be talking to, I'll give him a call." He was at lunch, but when he got back, sure enough, he called us back and our problem was resolved within 15 minutes.
The bright side of this whole story is that the aforementioned brother had chats with other high-level IBM folks, and got quite a number of people reamed, as well as confirmation that yes, some sort of way for the phone monkeys to look up who we should be talking to given a product name or serial number would be a Good Thing. Unfortunately, it's probably never happened. It's still good, however, to be secure in the knowledge that some people got chewed out by their bosses for lil old us.;)
Now if only everyone knew an IBM manager, we'd all be in good shape. And at least you don't have to pay for the tech support you get from them (usually);)
As far as I can tell, a good deal of the world's traffic is routed in one way or another through the US. Probably most traffic destined for Australia or Latin America passes through the US, either just by the route of the fiber or actually having routers on-shore. If we (the US) wanted to screw the Internet as a whole, I'm sure we could do away with greater than half of the non-US destinations.
You also have to keep in mind that ARIN, based in the US, allocates IPs, both for US-based entities and to overseas folks. Likewise, I'm pretty sure most of the root nameservers are in the US, or at least on this side of the pond. Also, of course, the infrastructure for registering new com/net/org domains would be down until such time as an overseas entity or group took over and started updating the remaining root nameservers, if any, or began to run their own. The real bitch of this, of course, is that just about every resolver in the world is programmed with the current roots in its hints file.
On the other hand, as time goes on there are more and more links being run the other way around the globe. Ones that go through the middle east or Russia, and then on to far Eastern destinations. If this trend continues, of course, the rest of the world will be in a much better situation in case of the US being blackholed for whatever reason. I believe the same sort of trend is beginning for getting links directly to South America, and if that is the case, that would also help immensely. As far as Canada is concerned, there are probably quite a number of trans-Atlantic cables either terminating there already or which run across Newfoundland, and so could, in relatively short order, be used to get Canadian connectivity back to Europe. The big question of course, would be whether the US being gone was because of an internal will, in which case Canada would be unable or more likely unwilling to tap into the US trans-oceanic cables that run across their land, or if the problem was that the US for some reason had a major political breakdown and lost their superpower status, in which case I doubt that they would have much of a problem appropriating needed cables for their own use.
In short, for now, the Internet as a whole would be a less useful place to inhabit if the US was to go away for some reason, but as time goes on, the trend appears to be a less US-centric one. That's not to say that there's not a lot of traffic running through it, but more that later on, more traffic could be routed around it.
crack users who have children, destroying lives before they are born...
The whole idea of the crack baby has been proven to be a myth. In summary, the reason that "crack babies" are so bad off is that they live in a shithole with drug addict parents. Think about it for a second. Very few children in such a situation are going to come out well. I've seen plenty of ADD kids, and their parents weren't crackheads.
For more information, you can search on google for "crack baby myth." Here's a couple of links to get you started:
Additionally, this type of bill may strongly reform the concent of riders; two completely different concepts should not be allowed on the same bill.
We should have a constitutional convention and amend the U.S. Constitution with an amendment such as:
Being necessary to promote an informed citizenry, and to protect the rights of the Citizens by causing Laws to be more readily understandable by all it is declared to be an infringement of the rights of the people for laws to be written that include multiple concepts which are linked together in such a form that voting to pass one is a vote to pass the other. In the case of the Congress, any representative attempting to do so, shall on the first offense be suspended from his or her duties for a period of ninety days, with a temporary replacement being elected from the home district of the Representative. Upon the second offense, the Representative will then be barred from further participation or employment by any branch of the U.S. Government.
I think something like that would go a long way to keeping our rights from being infringed by the idiots in Congress.
Apparently they are easily overclockable, and no extra devices are needed to overclock--just an engineer's conductive silver pen.
You don't just need the pen, you need some etching fluid, or some other way to remove the tracing between the contacts that AMD put there. As he said, some etching fluid and a needle might just be the way to go...
But, being a practical person I understand that the right to bear arms cannot be permanently guaranteed.
Why is that? As far as I can tell, there is no reason why the people's right to bear arms cannot be permenantly guaranteed. Would you propose that because certain people choose to use the arms in a manner detrimental to society that my right to bear arms should be infringed? I would find that to be an argument which does not hold much water. Very simply, only those who choose to abuse their rights should lose such rights.
If you could find a valid reason to use a nuclear bomb in protection of either you state or the nation without impinging on the rights of others, then you would have valid reason tobear that form of arm.
I can find one very simple reason. Have you ever heard of "tactical nuclear weapons?" They are typically quite small, and have very little (comparatively) destructive power. Usually somewhere between 0.25 and 1 kilotons. In other words, somewhere about what Timothy McVeigh used on the Federal Building in OKC.
If one attaches such a thing to a projectile that has a range of 1 mile or greater, and then fires it into a large group of "enemy" soldiers, this would be a valid reason to use a nuclear warhead.
If you would agree that a similar situation would be a valid use of a fertilizer bomb, then I find it difficult to believe that you would have a problem with such a use. If you do not (with respect to the fertilizer bomb), I find it highly unlikely that you do, in fact, understand exactly what the Second Amendment is stating.
-Nathan
Disclaimer: None of this should be construed to mean that I would actually want to build my own tactical nuclear warhead, but only that I believe that it is my right as a U.S. Citizen to do so, if I were to choose to do so, and could secure the materials with which to do so without stealing them from another.
Personally, SWBell's DSL installs have always gone quite wonderfully. I work for a company that does support for lots of area businesses, so naturally, as soon as they rolled out DSL here, we ordered it for lots of our customers. The longest wait we've had so far was two weeks, and that was the first one we did; at my boss' house.
The techs we've worked with all seemed quite knowledgeable, but then we set up the computers while they fucked around outside. However, when we would discuss things with them, they all seemed to have at least half a clue. Enough, certainly, to get a network card working on a Windows installation that wasn't blown to shit. They also said that people often complain after they leave about things being broken that were broken when they got there, just hoping to get money out of them.
Anyway, now that I've rambled for a month, I ought to get to my last points. First, if you don't want PPPoE, get the 5 static IP option. Secondly, before SWB moved the DSL installation to ASI (which the techs said they did because of the FCC bitching) everything was wonderful. Most of the experienced techs, however, chose to stay with SWB and go back to doing T1 installs or whatever it is they did all day before they started installing DSL. This of course, sucks for us, given that we now know only one person who still does DSL installs. Third, if you like lots of upstream, get the 6.1Mbps/384Kbps option.
Also, the DSL service has been generally reliable out here since they rolled it out, aside from a couple of times where they lost their link to their backbone provider. Of course, now that I'm saying this, their DSLAM just went south. What fun. In any event, overall I think SWB is doing as good of a job as one can expect. Personally, I've never seen them fuck up an install too bad, they've missed 1 appointment out of 60 or so, and were late exactly once, supposedly because some lady's Win98 was blown all to shit. Just remember, this is all new stuff still in a lot of areas, and with SWB moving it all to ASI, and therefore losing most of their experienced installers, of course they're going to be having problems for a bit, but they'll probably be smoothed out. Now if only Cox would roll out cable modems here so I could get some sort of better than ISDN connectivity, I'd be happier than a pig in shit.
The question shouldn't be how much bandwidth there is, it should be how much _usable_ bandwidth there is. The answer to either, however, is "a lot." Quite a bit of the bandwidth is wasted right now. But as we become able to transmit at lower and lower power levels, the amount of frequency reuse will go nowhere but up, providing us with quite a lot of bandwidth. The only real problem is that there are upper and lower bounds to the usable frequency spectrum. Go too high, and you're talking about IR. Too low, and you're in the ultra low frequency band, where it takes a good deal of time just to get three letters across. With technologies like CDMA, one can get quite a lot out of a small chunk of spectrum, and by just changing the code used, avoid interference with other transmitters and recievers. Can't wait for it to take off for more than cellphones...
Uh, hasn't Digital/Compaq been using this on their EV/6 bus for years? I know that AMD's implementation runs at 100MHz, and they just call it a "200MHz effective rate." Sounds to me like someone in the USPTO needs to have a nice ass-kicking. Alpha has been around longer than Rambus, I think...
Is it just me, or has everyone forgotten that IBM's lovely little solution, the AS/400 has been doing this sort of things for more years than I care to remember. IIRC, it's been through at least 3 different generations of processors, and while all being wildly different, the translation has taken care of it all. No re-compiling. Once, when we went out to a site, someone gave us an AS/400 from way back when. It was slower than dirt, but it ran everything the shiny new one in the datacenter runs, despite having a different type of processor and probably everything else, too.
Hell, the thing still runs 30 year old System/36 programs. I should know, given that one of the people I work for is still using such a beast for accounting. Ah well, one day Intel or someone will figure out how to do the same sort of thing.
I just can't wait for Linux on the AS/400... God love IBM.
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I know I wouldn't want my friends seeing mine, at least the ones who haven't already seen it for whatever reason. Not knowing how your friends you've never met in person look allows you to have a bit more imagination. Besides, half the fun is pretending to be someone who you aren't normally in face-to-face encounters. If you look like you when you're playing Quake, you lose that.
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Of course, the typical "small" business doesn't buy machines 100 at a time, they buy two or three at a time, depending on what's on sale at Office Depot. Of course, these busineses don't have "Select" contracts either.
If you're trying to imply that smaller businesses aren't bitten by this moronic Microsoft behavior, you're dead wrong. We pay for lots of Windows licenses we damn well shouldn't. Why? Because our supplier won't ship us computers without Windows installed. Why? Because, and yes, this is from the supplier, "Because we would have to pay substantially more per copy if we were to offer non-Microsoft software pre-loaded." This was about 6 months ago. Now it's even worse.
We used to be able to order the computers without hard disks, but with the identical model seperately. This, of course, ended up costing us more than the hard disk with Windows got us back when we deleted it, but, just for the principle of the matter, we didn't order them with hard disks anyway, when the Windows OEM license wasn't to be used. Now, though, that's been ended, as well. Why? Again, at the behest of Microsoft. They saw that a substantial number of their OEM PCs were sold without disks, and therefore without Windows, so they got pissed. This all despite the distributor having to pay for each machine that went out the door. That's part of their agreement with Microsoft to get their OEM pricing.
So, now we've established that Microsoft forces the OEMs to do idiotic things to keep their license costs from going up. Now here's the real rub. Assuming that Microsoft intends to be consistent (which they sometimes are), this means that despite having purchased large numbers of machines in the past year with Windows installed, but never used, I can't re-use those licenses on other machines! If it was our distributor telling us this on their own, that would be one thing, but they are forced to do this to keep their Windows license costs down. One can't budget much for Windows these days when a reasonably fast sub-1k computer is not just easily found, but it's more the rule than the exception. Until Microsoft gets smacked down in a big way, I expect this to continue.
On the bright side, however, although they will be lining their pocket books with way too much of my money, and my client's money, they've lost. They've fucked their customers too bad in the last year. Yes, these sort of idiotic antics that remind me of kid's cartoon shows more than real life, will end up extending their survival a few years, but probably nothing more than that.
-Nathan
P.S. Note that I don't think that Microsoft is inherently evil, like some people. I do however, believe that their software sucks ass, their tech-support doesn't exist, unless you can afford to pay them a few hundred per incident, and they spout extremely unethical bullshit such as this every day of the week, can't innovate for shit, and on top of that, have the more worthless security than people who don't lock their cars. Despite all that, I figure that people should buy the software they want, for whatever reason they want it. However, I think that Microsoft bullying OEMs into pre-packaging Windows with every PC, consumer be damned and then still charging the OEM for the piece of shit software I delete from it before I even turn it on and THEN telling me that I can't even use the steaming pile of shit on another computer, despite having paid tribute to the Asscrack of Redmond(tm) with my soul. Well fuck them, they've lost, and I can't wait to see it. But, they must have some big, brass balls to shit on us and play with us like the Spanish did to the native people of Central America. Assholes...
I've both done and been through the tech support at IBM. The way the company is segmented internally, you do get a lot of finger pointing and a lot of the time one group doesn't know that a problem belongs with another grop (Or that the other group even exists.) And once the problem finds its way to the right queue, there's no guarantee that it'll get resolved speedily or at all.
Hell, we had a fairly simple problem to fix once. We had to call tech support because we weren't real familar with their Network Stations, yet the AS/400 guy loved the hell out of them for whatever reason. Anyway, it took us about 3 hours just to find the correct people to be talking to. Most of the divisions that we called would send us on to another without really knowing what they were talking about.
Finally, we got someone on the phone who was willing to actually be helpful, and spent 30 to 45 minutes just calling various groups within IBM trying to find out for us who we needed to be talking to. The only problem with this, was that we were on hold for 30 to 45 minutes. In some ways, however, this was good, given that we were getting pissed because nobody knew who we were supposed to be talking to, what a Network Station was (even after explaining it, we got transferred to the PC people at least twice), or even how to find out.
We finally got the problem resolved by calling my boss' brother, who is a manager at one of the IBM places, who then said, "Oh, I know who you should be talking to, I'll give him a call." He was at lunch, but when he got back, sure enough, he called us back and our problem was resolved within 15 minutes.
The bright side of this whole story is that the aforementioned brother had chats with other high-level IBM folks, and got quite a number of people reamed, as well as confirmation that yes, some sort of way for the phone monkeys to look up who we should be talking to given a product name or serial number would be a Good Thing. Unfortunately, it's probably never happened. It's still good, however, to be secure in the knowledge that some people got chewed out by their bosses for lil old us. ;)
Now if only everyone knew an IBM manager, we'd all be in good shape. And at least you don't have to pay for the tech support you get from them (usually) ;)
-Nathan
As far as I can tell, a good deal of the world's traffic is routed in one way or another through the US. Probably most traffic destined for Australia or Latin America passes through the US, either just by the route of the fiber or actually having routers on-shore. If we (the US) wanted to screw the Internet as a whole, I'm sure we could do away with greater than half of the non-US destinations.
You also have to keep in mind that ARIN, based in the US, allocates IPs, both for US-based entities and to overseas folks. Likewise, I'm pretty sure most of the root nameservers are in the US, or at least on this side of the pond. Also, of course, the infrastructure for registering new com/net/org domains would be down until such time as an overseas entity or group took over and started updating the remaining root nameservers, if any, or began to run their own. The real bitch of this, of course, is that just about every resolver in the world is programmed with the current roots in its hints file.
On the other hand, as time goes on there are more and more links being run the other way around the globe. Ones that go through the middle east or Russia, and then on to far Eastern destinations. If this trend continues, of course, the rest of the world will be in a much better situation in case of the US being blackholed for whatever reason. I believe the same sort of trend is beginning for getting links directly to South America, and if that is the case, that would also help immensely. As far as Canada is concerned, there are probably quite a number of trans-Atlantic cables either terminating there already or which run across Newfoundland, and so could, in relatively short order, be used to get Canadian connectivity back to Europe. The big question of course, would be whether the US being gone was because of an internal will, in which case Canada would be unable or more likely unwilling to tap into the US trans-oceanic cables that run across their land, or if the problem was that the US for some reason had a major political breakdown and lost their superpower status, in which case I doubt that they would have much of a problem appropriating needed cables for their own use.
In short, for now, the Internet as a whole would be a less useful place to inhabit if the US was to go away for some reason, but as time goes on, the trend appears to be a less US-centric one. That's not to say that there's not a lot of traffic running through it, but more that later on, more traffic could be routed around it.
-Nathan
crack users who have children, destroying lives before they are born...
The whole idea of the crack baby has been proven to be a myth. In summary, the reason that "crack babies" are so bad off is that they live in a shithole with drug addict parents. Think about it for a second. Very few children in such a situation are going to come out well. I've seen plenty of ADD kids, and their parents weren't crackheads.
For more information, you can search on google for "crack baby myth." Here's a couple of links to get you started:
FamilyWatch
The American Psychological Association
-Nathan
Note: I'm not saying that doing drugs or alcohol while pregnant is a good thing, only that the specific myth of the crack baby is just that, a myth.
Additionally, this type of bill may strongly reform the concent of riders; two completely different concepts should not be allowed on the same bill.
We should have a constitutional convention and amend the U.S. Constitution with an amendment such as:
Being necessary to promote an informed citizenry, and to protect the rights of the Citizens by causing Laws to be more readily understandable by all it is declared to be an infringement of the rights of the people for laws to be written that include multiple concepts which are linked together in such a form that voting to pass one is a vote to pass the other. In the case of the Congress, any representative attempting to do so, shall on the first offense be suspended from his or her duties for a period of ninety days, with a temporary replacement being elected from the home district of the Representative. Upon the second offense, the Representative will then be barred from further participation or employment by any branch of the U.S. Government.
I think something like that would go a long way to keeping our rights from being infringed by the idiots in Congress.
-Nathan
Apparently they are easily overclockable, and no extra devices are needed to overclock--just an engineer's conductive silver pen.
You don't just need the pen, you need some etching fluid, or some other way to remove the tracing between the contacts that AMD put there. As he said, some etching fluid and a needle might just be the way to go...
-Nathan
But, being a practical person I understand that the right to bear arms cannot be permanently guaranteed.
Why is that? As far as I can tell, there is no reason why the people's right to bear arms cannot be permenantly guaranteed. Would you propose that because certain people choose to use the arms in a manner detrimental to society that my right to bear arms should be infringed? I would find that to be an argument which does not hold much water. Very simply, only those who choose to abuse their rights should lose such rights.
-Nathan
I can find one very simple reason. Have you ever heard of "tactical nuclear weapons?" They are typically quite small, and have very little (comparatively) destructive power. Usually somewhere between 0.25 and 1 kilotons. In other words, somewhere about what Timothy McVeigh used on the Federal Building in OKC.
If one attaches such a thing to a projectile that has a range of 1 mile or greater, and then fires it into a large group of "enemy" soldiers, this would be a valid reason to use a nuclear warhead.
If you would agree that a similar situation would be a valid use of a fertilizer bomb, then I find it difficult to believe that you would have a problem with such a use. If you do not (with respect to the fertilizer bomb), I find it highly unlikely that you do, in fact, understand exactly what the Second Amendment is stating.
-Nathan
Disclaimer: None of this should be construed to mean that I would actually want to build my own tactical nuclear warhead, but only that I believe that it is my right as a U.S. Citizen to do so, if I were to choose to do so, and could secure the materials with which to do so without stealing them from another.
Personally, SWBell's DSL installs have always gone quite wonderfully. I work for a company that does support for lots of area businesses, so naturally, as soon as they rolled out DSL here, we ordered it for lots of our customers. The longest wait we've had so far was two weeks, and that was the first one we did; at my boss' house.
The techs we've worked with all seemed quite knowledgeable, but then we set up the computers while they fucked around outside. However, when we would discuss things with them, they all seemed to have at least half a clue. Enough, certainly, to get a network card working on a Windows installation that wasn't blown to shit. They also said that people often complain after they leave about things being broken that were broken when they got there, just hoping to get money out of them.
Anyway, now that I've rambled for a month, I ought to get to my last points. First, if you don't want PPPoE, get the 5 static IP option. Secondly, before SWB moved the DSL installation to ASI (which the techs said they did because of the FCC bitching) everything was wonderful. Most of the experienced techs, however, chose to stay with SWB and go back to doing T1 installs or whatever it is they did all day before they started installing DSL. This of course, sucks for us, given that we now know only one person who still does DSL installs. Third, if you like lots of upstream, get the 6.1Mbps/384Kbps option.
Also, the DSL service has been generally reliable out here since they rolled it out, aside from a couple of times where they lost their link to their backbone provider. Of course, now that I'm saying this, their DSLAM just went south. What fun. In any event, overall I think SWB is doing as good of a job as one can expect. Personally, I've never seen them fuck up an install too bad, they've missed 1 appointment out of 60 or so, and were late exactly once, supposedly because some lady's Win98 was blown all to shit. Just remember, this is all new stuff still in a lot of areas, and with SWB moving it all to ASI, and therefore losing most of their experienced installers, of course they're going to be having problems for a bit, but they'll probably be smoothed out. Now if only Cox would roll out cable modems here so I could get some sort of better than ISDN connectivity, I'd be happier than a pig in shit.
The question shouldn't be how much bandwidth there is, it should be how much _usable_ bandwidth there is. The answer to either, however, is "a lot." Quite a bit of the bandwidth is wasted right now. But as we become able to transmit at lower and lower power levels, the amount of frequency reuse will go nowhere but up, providing us with quite a lot of bandwidth. The only real problem is that there are upper and lower bounds to the usable frequency spectrum. Go too high, and you're talking about IR. Too low, and you're in the ultra low frequency band, where it takes a good deal of time just to get three letters across. With technologies like CDMA, one can get quite a lot out of a small chunk of spectrum, and by just changing the code used, avoid interference with other transmitters and recievers. Can't wait for it to take off for more than cellphones...
Uh, hasn't Digital/Compaq been using this on their EV/6 bus for years? I know that AMD's implementation runs at 100MHz, and they just call it a "200MHz effective rate." Sounds to me like someone in the USPTO needs to have a nice ass-kicking. Alpha has been around longer than Rambus, I think...
Is it just me, or has everyone forgotten that IBM's lovely little solution, the AS/400 has been doing this sort of things for more years than I care to remember. IIRC, it's been through at least 3 different generations of processors, and while all being wildly different, the translation has taken care of it all. No re-compiling. Once, when we went out to a site, someone gave us an AS/400 from way back when. It was slower than dirt, but it ran everything the shiny new one in the datacenter runs, despite having a different type of processor and probably everything else, too.
Hell, the thing still runs 30 year old System/36 programs. I should know, given that one of the people I work for is still using such a beast for accounting. Ah well, one day Intel or someone will figure out how to do the same sort of thing.
I just can't wait for Linux on the AS/400... God love IBM.
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I know I wouldn't want my friends seeing mine, at
least the ones who haven't already seen it for
whatever reason. Not knowing how your friends
you've never met in person look allows you to
have a bit more imagination. Besides, half the
fun is pretending to be someone who you aren't
normally in face-to-face encounters. If you
look like you when you're playing Quake, you
lose that.