Well AMD does have that hyper-transport bus they invented that Sun is already working on integrating into their system, All this move by intel does is speed AMD's transition to the new bus on their own chipsets.
The security for this thing better make taking on fort Knox's tanks and guards seem like a piece of cake. It would probably be better to hide the plutonium somewhere and have a seperate representative memorial rather than risk putting the real stuff at risk of being stolen or bombed.
Most of the posts here have been about old intel stuff but at a lot of places (especially colleges) you can find old SPARC and MIPS based systems in the junk closets. These systems can be a gold mine for anyone without a lot of money but who is interested in real Unix workstations. A really lucky friend of mine even found an old Ultra 1 in a junk pile, and other stuff like SGI Indys and Sun IPX should be fairly easy to find abandoned somewhere.
Actually some stations in the SF Bay Area have been putting in diesel lately, two stations within a mile of my house have them now (i live near the SF airport). With all gas over $2/gallon here, $1.80 for diesel looks pretty good.
Flaimbait? How was my above comment flaimbait? It's a valid question in the context that Kvamme donated thousands of dollars and now has a job. Whoever did the moderation please explain.
Kvamme speaks with obvious affection and admiration for the president (both he and his wife have donated thousands of dollars to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party).
I wonder what the rest of the pricelist for jobs looked like? How much would I have to pay to get the job of ambassador to France or the Bahamas?
"...The huge third world nations, China and India..."
I was just wondering at what level of achievement do we promote China and India up from "Third World" Status? I find it strange to put China and India on the same level as Ethiopia and Cambodia.
China and India are building satellites, climbing the technology ladder rapidly, and have stable governments yet they are referred to "Third World" what do they have to do to get the title of "Second World" nation? Or at least no longer be bunched with less stable nations.
Israel probably could, but think about the situation in that part of the world. A modern jet fighter from Israel could reach the border in a matter of minutes and just that fact helps keep tensions up in that part of the world. A satellite launching system that could conceivably carry a warhead would reach the border in a matter of seconds, which would hardly help the situation there.
Maybe Israel could use India's launching facilities to launch a system of their own since Israel is India's #2 arms supplier behind Russia. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a big problem to arrange something like that if Israel felt it was in their interests to have satellite-launching capability.
I really doubt there's a back door in this version
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The NSA has some really smart people in it and they aren't oblivious to the idea of social engineering. They have to know that everyone and their mother will go the code line by line looking for any unusual functions or classes. It would be stupid to even attempt to hide something like a backdoor in their first attempt to reach out to the open source community, they have to gain a level of trust before they can even think about sneaking something in.
Right now most people would be apprehensive to say the least to run any code from the NSA without looking through it first and this general mentality will probably remain for the first few software releases from them, but at some point they will achieve some level of trust so that the amount of eyeballs looking through the code will begin to drop off. That is the point that the NSA could start sneaking in some sort of backdoor. They probably wouldn't suddenly include the entire code at first either. Maybe just a couple new lines in version 5, another 3 in version 6.5, and so on, allowing time for the people still looking through the code to see, test, and pronounce individual lines by themselves benign until they have the whole package in there.
Of course they'd eventually get caught if they tried it but probably not before some famous Linux users like China or some terrorist group had been lulled into trusting the security of the NSA's additions to the code and deploying it on their systems. I mean the NSA doesn't like in a vacume, they know about China and Germany rejecting many kinds of commercial software because of possible security problems and if the NSA has been spying though a backdoor in closed source OS's they wouldn't let a window like that dissapear without at least trying to keep it open.
This could all be a bit of needless paranoia on my part and i hope it is, but like i said earlier they got some really smart people at the NSA and if anyone could and wanted to sneek in a backdoor they could.
I think (can't be sure) you mistook the purpose of my whole argument. I have nothing against the theory of evolution, in fact I believe in it. The purpose of my argument was the use of the word "evolution" to describe the theory. The semantic meaning of the word evolution means, "a gradual process in which something changes into a better and/or more complex form". As someone I'm guessing has taken a biology course or two can you tell me that one plant or animal is outright better than another animal or plant that lives or has ever lived on this plant? And can you say the added complexity for an organism is always better? All I was saying is if we called it the "Theory of Natural Selection" it wouldn't change any of the scientific evidence and meaning behind it but it would be more semantically correct. Basically I'm arguing for a better label for the theory, not against the theory.
Also as a side note:
In the years following the publication of Darwin's book the term evolution became popularized to label his theory but if you look through Darwin's "Origin of Species" you'll see how he painstakingly tries to avoid using the term "evolution" to describe the slow natural adaption of an organism to its environment over time.
There is no such thing as "evolution" supported in science. Natural Selection is what Darwin wrote about and what modern science supports. The term evolution denotes that a certain species is generally "better" than all the species that preceded it on the planet while Natural Selection merely states that the morphology and behavior best suited to a particular environment will out-compete less well tuned varies of plants or animals.
A case in point would be that a polar bear isn't generally better than a grizzly bear but that each is ideally suited to its particular environment. A grizzly bear would be out-competed by a polar bear in the polar bear's natural habitat and vise-versa.
Therefore, remember its Natural Selection we scientists believe in even though the media might have you believe that it's called evolution. Semantics? Maybe but why leave a hint of a hole in your next Natural Selection argument when you don't have to.
Re:It goes against meaning, check your dictionary!
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"The facts speak for themselves. These 'scientists' are no better (and in some cases worse than) the palm-readers at a fairground or the astronomers 'predicting the future' by the position of the planets."
Astronomer - n. Someone who studies the makeup and position of objects in the universe beyond the atmosphere of earth.
Astrologer - n. Someone who studies heavenly bodies with a view on predicting their influence on human affairs.
I remember that, I was driving down Trousadale in Burlingame and actually saw a flash from the short circut at the substation near cyote point in San Mateo. They gave us the day off from school that day =).
Actually the simpler problem is that the chips aren't on the market yet.
About my earlier post. I assumed that the only market they could really compete in would have to be as high powered palm top because at the high end you have Intel and AMD in speed wars, in laptops you again have Intel and AMD fighting it out and even Intel is catching up to the low power abilities of the Transmeta products there, therefore my feeling was that palmtops were the place that Transmeta could gain a foothold since that market still has room for more players. After getting a profitable foothold could they move up to laptops and maybe even desktops but they need to get something out there on the market to bring in cash for further developments.
They aren't competing with the Palm, they are competing to be in the Palm and other portable devices. Their real competition are the Intel StrongARM and Motorola Dragonball Z chips which continue to gain market share while we wait for Transmeta's product to arrive.
Weren't the computer graphics used in Titanic, the highest grossing movie of all time, rendered on a cluster of Linux boxes to save money? Yet more hypocrisy from the MPAA. They call "open source" stealing and then use it to help make the most money ever made off of one film.
I smell a libel lawsuit that we could win. This defamation is so obvious that even a computer-illiterate pro-corporate biased judge couldn't rule against it. Then again the Judge could be computer-illiterate pro-corporate biased idiot judge.
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Well AMD does have that hyper-transport bus they invented that Sun is already working on integrating into their system, All this move by intel does is speed AMD's transition to the new bus on their own chipsets.
He said laptop, not PC, where can the average person go and buy the parts to make their own MS free laptop????
The security for this thing better make taking on fort Knox's tanks and guards seem like a piece of cake. It would probably be better to hide the plutonium somewhere and have a seperate representative memorial rather than risk putting the real stuff at risk of being stolen or bombed.
Most of the posts here have been about old intel stuff but at a lot of places (especially colleges) you can find old SPARC and MIPS based systems in the junk closets. These systems can be a gold mine for anyone without a lot of money but who is interested in real Unix workstations. A really lucky friend of mine even found an old Ultra 1 in a junk pile, and other stuff like SGI Indys and Sun IPX should be fairly easy to find abandoned somewhere.
Actually some stations in the SF Bay Area have been putting in diesel lately, two stations within a mile of my house have them now (i live near the SF airport). With all gas over $2/gallon here, $1.80 for diesel looks pretty good.
Flaimbait? How was my above comment flaimbait? It's a valid question in the context that Kvamme donated thousands of dollars and now has a job. Whoever did the moderation please explain.
Kvamme speaks with obvious affection and admiration for the president (both he and his wife have donated thousands of dollars to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party).
I wonder what the rest of the pricelist for jobs looked like? How much would I have to pay to get the job of ambassador to France or the Bahamas?
well if you count that way the island of Hawaii beats everything. It's 30-something thousand feet above the point in the sea floor it starts from.
China and India are building satellites, climbing the technology ladder rapidly, and have stable governments yet they are referred to "Third World" what do they have to do to get the title of "Second World" nation? Or at least no longer be bunched with less stable nations.
Israel probably could, but think about the situation in that part of the world. A modern jet fighter from Israel could reach the border in a matter of minutes and just that fact helps keep tensions up in that part of the world. A satellite launching system that could conceivably carry a warhead would reach the border in a matter of seconds, which would hardly help the situation there.
Maybe Israel could use India's launching facilities to launch a system of their own since Israel is India's #2 arms supplier behind Russia. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a big problem to arrange something like that if Israel felt it was in their interests to have satellite-launching capability.
The NSA has some really smart people in it and they aren't oblivious to the idea of social engineering. They have to know that everyone and their mother will go the code line by line looking for any unusual functions or classes. It would be stupid to even attempt to hide something like a backdoor in their first attempt to reach out to the open source community, they have to gain a level of trust before they can even think about sneaking something in.
Right now most people would be apprehensive to say the least to run any code from the NSA without looking through it first and this general mentality will probably remain for the first few software releases from them, but at some point they will achieve some level of trust so that the amount of eyeballs looking through the code will begin to drop off. That is the point that the NSA could start sneaking in some sort of backdoor. They probably wouldn't suddenly include the entire code at first either. Maybe just a couple new lines in version 5, another 3 in version 6.5, and so on, allowing time for the people still looking through the code to see, test, and pronounce individual lines by themselves benign until they have the whole package in there.
Of course they'd eventually get caught if they tried it but probably not before some famous Linux users like China or some terrorist group had been lulled into trusting the security of the NSA's additions to the code and deploying it on their systems. I mean the NSA doesn't like in a vacume, they know about China and Germany rejecting many kinds of commercial software because of possible security problems and if the NSA has been spying though a backdoor in closed source OS's they wouldn't let a window like that dissapear without at least trying to keep it open.
This could all be a bit of needless paranoia on my part and i hope it is, but like i said earlier they got some really smart people at the NSA and if anyone could and wanted to sneek in a backdoor they could.
btw- please forgive any spelling errors
I think (can't be sure) you mistook the purpose of my whole argument. I have nothing against the theory of evolution, in fact I believe in it. The purpose of my argument was the use of the word "evolution" to describe the theory. The semantic meaning of the word evolution means, "a gradual process in which something changes into a better and/or more complex form". As someone I'm guessing has taken a biology course or two can you tell me that one plant or animal is outright better than another animal or plant that lives or has ever lived on this plant? And can you say the added complexity for an organism is always better? All I was saying is if we called it the "Theory of Natural Selection" it wouldn't change any of the scientific evidence and meaning behind it but it would be more semantically correct. Basically I'm arguing for a better label for the theory, not against the theory.
Also as a side note:
In the years following the publication of Darwin's book the term evolution became popularized to label his theory but if you look through Darwin's "Origin of Species" you'll see how he painstakingly tries to avoid using the term "evolution" to describe the slow natural adaption of an organism to its environment over time.
There is no such thing as "evolution" supported in science. Natural Selection is what Darwin wrote about and what modern science supports. The term evolution denotes that a certain species is generally "better" than all the species that preceded it on the planet while Natural Selection merely states that the morphology and behavior best suited to a particular environment will out-compete less well tuned varies of plants or animals.
A case in point would be that a polar bear isn't generally better than a grizzly bear but that each is ideally suited to its particular environment. A grizzly bear would be out-competed by a polar bear in the polar bear's natural habitat and vise-versa.
Therefore, remember its Natural Selection we scientists believe in even though the media might have you believe that it's called evolution. Semantics? Maybe but why leave a hint of a hole in your next Natural Selection argument when you don't have to.
"The facts speak for themselves. These 'scientists' are no better (and in some cases worse than) the palm-readers at a fairground or the astronomers 'predicting the future' by the position of the planets."
Astronomer - n. Someone who studies the makeup and position of objects in the universe beyond the atmosphere of earth.
Astrologer - n. Someone who studies heavenly bodies with a view on predicting their influence on human affairs.
I'll soon be able to get my ass whooped at chess by a computer the same way the pros do.
Comic book store guy, "Worst Peripheral, Ever!"
I remember that, I was driving down Trousadale in Burlingame and actually saw a flash from the short circut at the substation near cyote point in San Mateo. They gave us the day off from school that day =).
here's the link
eBay cracks down on members' offline deals
After years of hearing about them we can finally get a chance to see what the Crusoe can really do.
There was an article about this on CNET.com two days ago.
Sony's Transmeta-powered laptops to hit market next month
Hitachi has a Crusoe powered laptop coming out in November.
Actually the simpler problem is that the chips aren't on the market yet.
About my earlier post. I assumed that the only market they could really compete in would have to be as high powered palm top because at the high end you have Intel and AMD in speed wars, in laptops you again have Intel and AMD fighting it out and even Intel is catching up to the low power abilities of the Transmeta products there, therefore my feeling was that palmtops were the place that Transmeta could gain a foothold since that market still has room for more players. After getting a profitable foothold could they move up to laptops and maybe even desktops but they need to get something out there on the market to bring in cash for further developments.
They aren't competing with the Palm, they are competing to be in the Palm and other portable devices. Their real competition are the Intel StrongARM and Motorola Dragonball Z chips which continue to gain market share while we wait for Transmeta's product to arrive.
Weren't the computer graphics used in Titanic, the highest grossing movie of all time, rendered on a cluster of Linux boxes to save money? Yet more hypocrisy from the MPAA. They call "open source" stealing and then use it to help make the most money ever made off of one film.
I smell a libel lawsuit that we could win. This defamation is so obvious that even a computer-illiterate pro-corporate biased judge couldn't rule against it. Then again the Judge could be computer-illiterate pro-corporate biased idiot judge.