Note that it has to be paid when they are imported. There is no escape short of driving south of the border, buying them and smuggling them back.
Did you know that you have to pay the PST in your province of stuff bought out of province: i.e. I buy a vcr in Alberta (no provincial sales tax) and bring it home to Saskatchewan, I am supposed to submit the 6% provincial tax on that purchase to the government. That's what the HST was out east - the federal government collects both sales taxes (for a fee I assume) and sends the provincial part back to the right province. My parents used to call it the BST.
I wonder how much they save in air conditioning costs? There is costs involved besides the original purchase.
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Friend of mine was a radio tech in the armed forces. To get the class to pay attention, the instructor loudly said "If you make a mistake and get in the beam, the first thing that will happen is your testicles will explode"
You missed the entire point - go drink some coffee and come back. OSS and free OS people look at the license fee and *whiiiiine*. HEY - they wrote it, they can charge whatever the fuck they want. *You* don't have to buy it though.
So, in plain english - his point was (as a reply to another article) that it won't cause a mass migration to Linux because where they are charging the serious money... there isn't a linux product. Besides, if you are comfortable enough to spend a million dollars on a computer, you likely wouldn't blink at 400,000 for software.
MS didn't post them - they were acting as an ISP in Germany, and a customer posted them. They are basically getting sued over not promising to put them there again - how in the hell would they stop it.
It would be like slashdot getting sued over the content of a post - and losing. IIRC, they have been threatened before though
... I can see this happening. Ever read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton? That's where I see computers going - not just wearable, but embedded, using nano technology. Threads that weave into your optical nerves, etc. So to me, content control that shuts off your eyes, or portions of you field of view is completely possible. Not even that long from now - after all, people rode horses as a main mode of transportation, burned oil or wood for light only 100 years ago. Christ, one of my friends had the phone number 56 when he was growing up. Change happens fast.
As a sidenote, I really liked the hand-to-hand combat software you could load in those books - Didn't teach you any new moves, but made balance points, range of motion, etc EASY.
HP was simply not a company of printers and cheap consumer computers. Or at least, at one time, it was not. I am going to have to buy an extra calculator - they had amazing calculators, once you figured out how to use RPN. MY friend fell one day and broke the display on his 28S, and they gave him a new one. gratis!
They had amazing test intruments. The nicest ocilliscopes were HP. Sure, techtronix has some nice models, but the HP digital scopes kicked ass.
The laser printers were rock fucking solid. I have suffered through brother, samsung, toshiba, etc. I *never* had an HP printer give me trouble. Even the deskjets were not bad - for all those people out there who moan about them, what would they replace them with? Epson? Nice printer, as long as you use it constantly.
I was never fond of the computers, but in fairness, I have yet to meet a consumer machine that I like.
So it's not just the loss of a consumer computer company, although I know sometimes people at/. forget there is a world outside that - it was a company with alot of great products, and one division of the company basically took over and eviscerated the rest.
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I bought a pair of 64MB DIMMs there once, got home and there was a mismatched pair of 4MB Dimms in the bag.
They exchanged it without question - I was most certainly worried that they were going to accuse me of swapping the ram myself though.
I started early in the thread, before it starts hiding the 0's and 1's, so I got to see all the messages. There were people commenting that you could replace the insulation in the fridge and make your fridge colder. Or drop a chunk in your drink to cool it.
Replacing the insulation in your fridge may work well in the artic, but usually not where humans live. Dropping it in your drink? Where in the hell is it going to conduct the heat to?
I ignore spelling errors, and fragmentary writing, since I am likely worse than anyone else at it - but when people have such a lack of clue on the concept, they should remain quiet. I, for example, will read all about linux stories, but I sure as hell don't post there because I would be talking out my ass.
You know the quote - Better to remain quiet and thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
That so many posters confuse a heat conductor with a heat pump.
Come on - this will not be "keeping your fridge colder" or "cooling your drinks". It will just make whatever it's attached to move to the ambient temperature faster. Wrap it around your fridge and you will have sour cream in your milk, etc. Or else the coldest kitchen around.
Either it's a brain dead friday, or the collective IQ of Slashdot is lower than I assumed over the last few years.
With talk like that, we might just come down and burn down the whitehouse again. Isn't it nice to know that you got the smaller part of Niagra falls as a gift from upper canada?
Actually, the whole issue of dope boggles my mind. I don't smoke it (seriously, and I don't smoke, and I got most drinking out of my system 10 years ago) but the side effects are tame compared to most things.
And when is the last time you saw someone smoke some dope and get rowdy and into a fight? Could see booze doing it every night at the bar, but dope - laugh.
... Is a new video card form factor. Take a agp slot and make it into something the size of a socket 472 - make the video manufacturers fit the video into that area - say a couple small stacked boards so it's the shape of a cube - should give enough room.
Then people can have a case like this, but choose the video they want. I have had no end of grief with onboard sound/video, and wouldn't buy this system based on that reason alone. But I am sure they can do better. Apparently Creative Labs has come out with a sound card that hangs off a USB port. I visualize serial ATA moving drives out of the boxes (like macs in the 80's). Basically, the computer will be a hub with a bunch of components plugged into it, outside the case
Actually, AFAIK, they dump the water to absorb acoustic energy - the first launches did not have the water dumps, and there was damage to the tiles on Columbia. As well, I remember that there was serious damage to the pad - that thing is LOUD. It also happens to brown the grass for a kilometer around the pad.
Your desire for massive amounts of integrated hardware, plus 6 PCI + 1 ISA, plus SMP, would end up, I'm pretty sure, with a motherboard too big to fit into most ATX cases.
I use a abit bp6 - 5 PCI, 1AGP (Obviously) and 2 ISA. Check it out here
As part of the thread, yes, the ISA bus hangs off the PCI for keyboard, serial, parallel, etc. The USB bus hangs off PCI. Which is why intel has been working so hard to kill everything but USB. Of course, if it actually worked 1% as well as advertised, it likely would be pretty good. My experience with USB has been pretty sucky.
I am not sure how the multiple pci slots work. I think there is a limit of 2 or 3, then they start using the bridges to get the rest to work, but what sorts of diminishing returns you get, or upper limits to the # of slots, well, I could not hazard a guess. I just wish someone would come out with a agp bridge so I could run dual geforce3's with the dual monitors. Laff.
Of course, software throttling has no bearing if the monitor cannot keep up. Which was pointed out in the article - the diode in the pally could not follow the speed.
The the guy who complained about TIP throttling his machine - buy a fucking heatsink then.
Any yes, I have knocked the fan off my cpu by turning my chair around and bumping (ok, slamming) the case. Of course, the 533's don't explode in 1 second, and MBM shut it down for me.
Moot point to me - my next system is going to be athlon, 99.9999% sure it will be dual. I just dread the via chipset tho.
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Meat would have been rarer than in the modern diet, but there would have plenty of vegetarian foods, beer and bread to keep people going.
Note that it has to be paid when they are imported. There is no escape short of driving south of the border, buying them and smuggling them back.
Did you know that you have to pay the PST in your province of stuff bought out of province: i.e. I buy a vcr in Alberta (no provincial sales tax) and bring it home to Saskatchewan, I am supposed to submit the 6% provincial tax on that purchase to the government. That's what the HST was out east - the federal government collects both sales taxes (for a fee I assume) and sends the provincial part back to the right province. My parents used to call it the BST.
...a loud thunderclad was heard in the Redmond regions. Police suspect it was the sound of Mr. Gate's asshole slamming shut.
I wonder how much they save in air conditioning costs? There is costs involved besides the original purchase.
Friend of mine was a radio tech in the armed forces. To get the class to pay attention, the instructor loudly said "If you make a mistake and get in the beam, the first thing that will happen is your testicles will explode"
Immediately have quiet and attentive students.
You missed the entire point - go drink some coffee and come back. OSS and free OS people look at the license fee and *whiiiiine*. HEY - they wrote it, they can charge whatever the fuck they want. *You* don't have to buy it though.
... there isn't a linux product. Besides, if you are comfortable enough to spend a million dollars on a computer, you likely wouldn't blink at 400,000 for software.
So, in plain english - his point was (as a reply to another article) that it won't cause a mass migration to Linux because where they are charging the serious money
MS didn't post them - they were acting as an ISP in Germany, and a customer posted them. They are basically getting sued over not promising to put them there again - how in the hell would they stop it.
It would be like slashdot getting sued over the content of a post - and losing. IIRC, they have been threatened before though
... I can see this happening. Ever read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton? That's where I see computers going - not just wearable, but embedded, using nano technology. Threads that weave into your optical nerves, etc. So to me, content control that shuts off your eyes, or portions of you field of view is completely possible. Not even that long from now - after all, people rode horses as a main mode of transportation, burned oil or wood for light only 100 years ago. Christ, one of my friends had the phone number 56 when he was growing up. Change happens fast.
As a sidenote, I really liked the hand-to-hand combat software you could load in those books - Didn't teach you any new moves, but made balance points, range of motion, etc EASY.
Apparently, windows XP didn't install on them, so Ms. Fiona had them killed. :-)
Yeah, all their other stuff was very nice. Built by engineers to be used by like-minded technical staff, not sold in a drugstore.
...of the HP way.
/. forget there is a world outside that - it was a company with alot of great products, and one division of the company basically took over and eviscerated the rest.
HP was simply not a company of printers and cheap consumer computers. Or at least, at one time, it was not. I am going to have to buy an extra calculator - they had amazing calculators, once you figured out how to use RPN. MY friend fell one day and broke the display on his 28S, and they gave him a new one. gratis!
They had amazing test intruments. The nicest ocilliscopes were HP. Sure, techtronix has some nice models, but the HP digital scopes kicked ass.
The laser printers were rock fucking solid. I have suffered through brother, samsung, toshiba, etc. I *never* had an HP printer give me trouble. Even the deskjets were not bad - for all those people out there who moan about them, what would they replace them with? Epson? Nice printer, as long as you use it constantly.
I was never fond of the computers, but in fairness, I have yet to meet a consumer machine that I like.
So it's not just the loss of a consumer computer company, although I know sometimes people at
I bought a pair of 64MB DIMMs there once, got home and there was a mismatched pair of 4MB Dimms in the bag.
They exchanged it without question - I was most certainly worried that they were going to accuse me of swapping the ram myself though.
I am even more amazed that my comment got +5.
I started early in the thread, before it starts hiding the 0's and 1's, so I got to see all the messages. There were people commenting that you could replace the insulation in the fridge and make your fridge colder. Or drop a chunk in your drink to cool it.
Replacing the insulation in your fridge may work well in the artic, but usually not where humans live. Dropping it in your drink? Where in the hell is it going to conduct the heat to?
I ignore spelling errors, and fragmentary writing, since I am likely worse than anyone else at it - but when people have such a lack of clue on the concept, they should remain quiet. I, for example, will read all about linux stories, but I sure as hell don't post there because I would be talking out my ass.
You know the quote - Better to remain quiet and thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
That so many posters confuse a heat conductor with a heat pump.
Come on - this will not be "keeping your fridge colder" or "cooling your drinks". It will just make whatever it's attached to move to the ambient temperature faster. Wrap it around your fridge and you will have sour cream in your milk, etc. Or else the coldest kitchen around.
Either it's a brain dead friday, or the collective IQ of Slashdot is lower than I assumed over the last few years.
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With talk like that, we might just come down and burn down the whitehouse again. Isn't it nice to know that you got the smaller part of Niagra falls as a gift from upper canada?
Actually, the whole issue of dope boggles my mind. I don't smoke it (seriously, and I don't smoke, and I got most drinking out of my system 10 years ago) but the side effects are tame compared to most things.
And when is the last time you saw someone smoke some dope and get rowdy and into a fight? Could see booze doing it every night at the bar, but dope - laugh.
very interesting. Good to see people can think outside the box.
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I would be interested in how she learned what dope smelled like. Probably just jealous you didn't invite her down for some of that good weed.
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... Is a new video card form factor. Take a agp slot and make it into something the size of a socket 472 - make the video manufacturers fit the video into that area - say a couple small stacked boards so it's the shape of a cube - should give enough room.
Then people can have a case like this, but choose the video they want. I have had no end of grief with onboard sound/video, and wouldn't buy this system based on that reason alone. But I am sure they can do better. Apparently Creative Labs has come out with a sound card that hangs off a USB port. I visualize serial ATA moving drives out of the boxes (like macs in the 80's). Basically, the computer will be a hub with a bunch of components plugged into it, outside the case
Actually, AFAIK, they dump the water to absorb acoustic energy - the first launches did not have the water dumps, and there was damage to the tiles on Columbia. As well, I remember that there was serious damage to the pad - that thing is LOUD. It also happens to brown the grass for a kilometer around the pad.
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I use a abit bp6 - 5 PCI, 1AGP (Obviously) and 2 ISA. Check it out here
As part of the thread, yes, the ISA bus hangs off the PCI for keyboard, serial, parallel, etc. The USB bus hangs off PCI. Which is why intel has been working so hard to kill everything but USB. Of course, if it actually worked 1% as well as advertised, it likely would be pretty good. My experience with USB has been pretty sucky.
I am not sure how the multiple pci slots work. I think there is a limit of 2 or 3, then they start using the bridges to get the rest to work, but what sorts of diminishing returns you get, or upper limits to the # of slots, well, I could not hazard a guess. I just wish someone would come out with a agp bridge so I could run dual geforce3's with the dual monitors. Laff.
Of course, software throttling has no bearing if the monitor cannot keep up. Which was pointed out in the article - the diode in the pally could not follow the speed.
The the guy who complained about TIP throttling his machine - buy a fucking heatsink then.
Any yes, I have knocked the fan off my cpu by turning my chair around and bumping (ok, slamming) the case. Of course, the 533's don't explode in 1 second, and MBM shut it down for me.
Moot point to me - my next system is going to be athlon, 99.9999% sure it will be dual. I just dread the via chipset tho.
Ahhh, but you forget that through the horrors of UCITA, they can change the license on the fly....