Am I supposed to like these guys now? It's rare they say anything that I agree with. Who knows, maybe this cat is the silent minority that doesn't want the broadcast flag and strongly supports boobs on TV
Reading the FCC board?
Muni WiFi OK
Boobs on TV not OK
Surfing pr0n over Muni WiFi ?
"Officer, that horrible man is looking at women's bare ankles on a computer, over the Municipal Wireless! Oh, I'm so shocked, I've a good mind to write my a letter to my ultra conservative congressional representative!"
"Lady... that's him looking at the computer and rubbing his crotch."
Intel has fallen behind as the mainstream CPU manufacterer. I wonder how long consumer will pay a premium for slower Intel CPUs
Consumers are ignorant. They'll swoon to some cute, award winning advertising campaign designed to make them loved Intel and wonder who that other AMD company is.
Among those who want to be on the cutting edge, fastest speed, overclocking, etc. they'll know which way to go. AMD has a nice lead, but don't expect that to last as they're still relatively unknown and Dell, one of the largest PC sellers continues to snub them.
however: on the installation CD for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, the most important operating system files are no longer in the 'i386' folder; Intel systems must load the installation files now from the 'AMD64' folder. Although that might hurt the industry leader, Intel may draw comfort from the fact that it has already sold more 64-bit chips than the inventor of the x86-64 architecture, AMD.
Ha, like Microsoft will leave that called AMD64. Expect some diplomacy and a renaming. Not that anyone but techies care.
How has Intel sold more 64bit chips, unless you count the d00med itaniums.
Remember, Microsoft acquired certain rights to VMS, which they employed in designing NT, 2000 and XP. Clustering Vaxes was nothing unusual. Tho CLR doesn't strike me as the best way to develop except for the simplicity it may lend for multi threaded code.
If I were building a top 500 tho I think Microsoft would have a hell of a selling job to do. For them I think it's a long, up hill battle against experienced vendors.
The most important part is the design on those systems. They need flexibility. Windows is anything but flexible. No wonder that the top500 is mostly made up from unix/linux systems.
No argument there.
They need customized things, not a toy. The people running those supercomputers want to customize things themselves. Windows is just not ment for anything else than desktops, thats the truth and i know i'll get flamed for it.
Windows is the last operating system I'd associate with 'super computer', in any interpretation of the phrase. It's a good jack-of-all-trades platform, but I can't see running bloated code, particularly using the CLR. Maybe it's a completely different operation system than we see, as in 'only the kernel', without all the plug-and-play, DRM, and annoying as hell code which throws requestors up while your typing (to steal keystrokes and disappear to do The Bob knows what with your inadvertent instruction.)
If there's a mandatory price cap, what makes you think anybody will be interested in entering the market. etc etc etc
As in the example of telephones, the profitable part is the additional lines, services not covered by basic service agreements. Basic service, IIRC, only applies to residences, not businesses, where the rates are truly impressive.
I see your point, but in this particular case, the bandwidth is a commodity, where the library and the book store aren't offering identical products/services.
Where current periodicals, the day's newspapers and recently published books are concerned they are, as the public library is reducing revenues of the sellers. Historical materials is a fair point, but not what I was refering to. When Harry Potter 6 comes out there will probably be a dozen copies at the local library the next day.
But at the same time I'm thinking, "Why aren't the ISPs offering wireless access?" Something's terribly wrong when the government is on the cutting edge of technology.
Because it's in its infancy. Cell phones weren't really too bad back in the 80's and cable TV wasn't so bad in the 70's. Both have become much more expensive. Granted each offer more services and such, but aren't we fighting for a la carte TV, because we're tired of paying $50/mo for 10 channels we want and 60 we don't? Can we get a cap on the primary service, and let those with extra connections/services pay the luxury cost (the way it works with landline phones.)
Ok, don't want to pay taxes, that's peachy. But what if there's a local ballot issue left up to the public to add a use/sales/ or other tax to underwrite such a service, then what? If it passes by a clear majority then would it be right? That's how we approve most of our civic spending changes anyway, but a public measure. Should those who don't want to take part be exempt, until they do?
and because it's a red state then its citizens believe in smaller government. They should have to pay for internet access just like everyone else. I understand whining liberals wanting to get everything for free but this is competition against business which gives people jobs. The internet is not a right.
I can't help but notice that the cheapest, pay as I go, cell phone service still comes out to over $30 a month where I live in California. With an eye on the consolidation of the telcos I'm unconvinced you'll find cheap wifi in a few years if there's no mandatory price cap on basic service, such as there is for a home telephone (~$12/month IIRC)
private schools are generally considered far superior to government-run schools
One of the biggest problems with private run schools is that many have only focused on getting the kids past mandated tests. Don't assume all do a fine job. My public school, where I grew up were probably some of the best in the nation.
[Why don't we just privatize EVERYTHING, dammit!!]
Why not? I haven't seen a good reason yet for government to provide any services beyond resolving property disputes.
You may wish to review the total fuck-ups some of the privatisations have been in the UK.
Umt, they're all "locked up in private hands" NOW.
And I can use a half-dozen or so of them for free.
Perhaps they're just setting the hook. Subject to change without notice?
A friend uses free wifi locally and it's rather bogged down at times (reminds me of very early days of the internet where three institutions shared one T1), but for $5 a month there are a few others.
Intel, which shrugged off the idea of 64 CPU's a couple years ago, as something people didn't need, has made up for this gaffe and is not only getting ready to sell their dual core line, but have already indicated the run of the Pentium IV is soon to be over.
Next thing you'll hear from Santa Clara, 'why, we practically invented it!'
So what kind of Las Vegas act will they enlist to push dual core? Probably twins or something, as Sigfried and Roy are shutdown.
As someone who deveopes in.net I hear Mark's second-guessing 'microsoft ships software' I wondered deeply why the hell they didn't bundle the.net framework with XP.
No, but I bet he does consult with lawyers before making such statements.
I seriously worry about the quality of legal advice that could have lead to that statement. I don't think it speaks very highly of Vonage, accepting that as a worthwhile strategy.
CEO Jeffrey Citron, intentional blocking of Voice over IP traffic is more than just a competitive dirty trick -- it's an act of censorship against free speech.
My congrats to the team. It's nice to see that the lack of testing at full fuel didn't do the mission in, and that they were able to take a position in the record books.:)
He'll probably get an invite to meet the US President in the oval office of the White House, where he'll be given a hearty congratulations, stand by while the president makes an inspiring speach about 'can-do' and 'spirit of freedom' and be sent on his way with a hefty tax cut.
Whom indeed? He was solo, so clearly it'll require the first couple to fly around the world or an contortionist hermaphrodite. But that's not exactly family hour stuff.
a small crowd and a marching band that had gathered at the airstrip to welcome him."
A guy flies all around the world, non-stop, solo in a jet aircraft and that's his reception. He should have landed in France, they knew how to welcome Lindy.
The first person to fly, solo, nonstop around the moon and back will probably be greeted by a kid with a kazoo.
built soley for show..
they haven't done anything but stick a clock on the face of an empty stylish plastic box yet.
apple is shipping....
Sounds like what you'll find a lot of at a CES. Seriously, there was something called The Brick ages ago, so this still isn't anything new. And what about all this Mini ITX stuff which has been around for years? Next...
no one I knew had ever heard of, let alone used, the term "the O.C." to refer to the area.
Yeah, well TV and movies have a way of distorting reality. People who use catch-phrases they learn on TV shows are like the tourists who wear a Santa Cruz t-shirt in Santa Cruz ('geez, what a hick').
There's some stupid competition among newspaper people and civic leaders (self-appointed I'm sure) over who owns the title Surf City, SC or Huntington Beach. Rare that anyone locally refers to SC as 'Surf City' (lest they be made fun of, 'geez, what a hick') as they're too busy surfing or having to fight it out with out of townies who come in and try to steal waves. Surfing's too important here to get caught up in something as lame as ownership of some title. I'm sure actual denizens of Orange County will be duking it out soon with citizens of OC (Ocean City) Maryland for ownership of 'OC'.
Meanwhile, I'll be first in line at my TV set, ensuring it's turned off during the trailer. I'd rather see it all for the first time at the theater, good or bad.
How many "all on one" devices do consumers really need?
'Single Point of Failure' comes to mind. I.e. it does everything for you and either dies or the battery runs out and your alone in the Wilderness of the Non-Conntected. Like those goofy cartoons from years ago that said things like, "The computers all were down today so we had to think." But more like, you do without the luxuries and have to borrow cell phones or find rapidly vanishing (in the UK anyway) public phones.
Or worse, all your stuff is on the phone and some weasel breaks in and copies it all and leaves you a message like "I'm Sorry Bitch"
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Reading the FCC board?
Muni WiFi OK
Boobs on TV not OK
Surfing pr0n over Muni WiFi ?
"Officer, that horrible man is looking at women's bare ankles on a computer, over the Municipal Wireless! Oh, I'm so shocked, I've a good mind to write my a letter to my ultra conservative congressional representative!" ... that's him looking at the computer and rubbing his crotch."
"Lady
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Consumers are ignorant. They'll swoon to some cute, award winning advertising campaign designed to make them loved Intel and wonder who that other AMD company is.
Among those who want to be on the cutting edge, fastest speed, overclocking, etc. they'll know which way to go. AMD has a nice lead, but don't expect that to last as they're still relatively unknown and Dell, one of the largest PC sellers continues to snub them.
Ha, like Microsoft will leave that called AMD64. Expect some diplomacy and a renaming. Not that anyone but techies care.
How has Intel sold more 64bit chips, unless you count the d00med itaniums.
'I felt a great disturbance in the force. As though millions of voices cried out in terror, and then suddenly silenced.'
If I were building a top 500 tho I think Microsoft would have a hell of a selling job to do. For them I think it's a long, up hill battle against experienced vendors.
No argument there.
They need customized things, not a toy. The people running those supercomputers want to customize things themselves. Windows is just not ment for anything else than desktops, thats the truth and i know i'll get flamed for it.
Windows is the last operating system I'd associate with 'super computer', in any interpretation of the phrase. It's a good jack-of-all-trades platform, but I can't see running bloated code, particularly using the CLR. Maybe it's a completely different operation system than we see, as in 'only the kernel', without all the plug-and-play, DRM, and annoying as hell code which throws requestors up while your typing (to steal keystrokes and disappear to do The Bob knows what with your inadvertent instruction.)
Let me be the first radical fundamentalist to ask whether you are some heathen using an IDE or one of the vi chosen?
Please separate yourselves into camps of worthy and unclean. ;-)
As in the example of telephones, the profitable part is the additional lines, services not covered by basic service agreements. Basic service, IIRC, only applies to residences, not businesses, where the rates are truly impressive.
Where current periodicals, the day's newspapers and recently published books are concerned they are, as the public library is reducing revenues of the sellers. Historical materials is a fair point, but not what I was refering to. When Harry Potter 6 comes out there will probably be a dozen copies at the local library the next day.
But at the same time I'm thinking, "Why aren't the ISPs offering wireless access?" Something's terribly wrong when the government is on the cutting edge of technology.
Because it's in its infancy. Cell phones weren't really too bad back in the 80's and cable TV wasn't so bad in the 70's. Both have become much more expensive. Granted each offer more services and such, but aren't we fighting for a la carte TV, because we're tired of paying $50/mo for 10 channels we want and 60 we don't? Can we get a cap on the primary service, and let those with extra connections/services pay the luxury cost (the way it works with landline phones.)
Ok, don't want to pay taxes, that's peachy. But what if there's a local ballot issue left up to the public to add a use/sales/ or other tax to underwrite such a service, then what? If it passes by a clear majority then would it be right? That's how we approve most of our civic spending changes anyway, but a public measure. Should those who don't want to take part be exempt, until they do?
I can't help but notice that the cheapest, pay as I go, cell phone service still comes out to over $30 a month where I live in California. With an eye on the consolidation of the telcos I'm unconvinced you'll find cheap wifi in a few years if there's no mandatory price cap on basic service, such as there is for a home telephone (~$12/month IIRC)
One of the biggest problems with private run schools is that many have only focused on getting the kids past mandated tests. Don't assume all do a fine job. My public school, where I grew up were probably some of the best in the nation.
[Why don't we just privatize EVERYTHING, dammit!!] Why not? I haven't seen a good reason yet for government to provide any services beyond resolving property disputes.
You may wish to review the total fuck-ups some of the privatisations have been in the UK.
Perhaps they're just setting the hook. Subject to change without notice?
A friend uses free wifi locally and it's rather bogged down at times (reminds me of very early days of the internet where three institutions shared one T1), but for $5 a month there are a few others.
Maybe when it's all locked up in private hands you'll see rates more akin to those of satellite or cable TV.
Why should taxpayers fund Public Libraries when there's perfectly good bookstores around to sell them books and magazines, eh?
Next thing you'll hear from Santa Clara, 'why, we practically invented it!'
So what kind of Las Vegas act will they enlist to push dual core? Probably twins or something, as Sigfried and Roy are shutdown.
As someone who deveopes in .net I hear Mark's second-guessing 'microsoft ships software' I wondered deeply why the hell they didn't bundle the .net framework with XP.
I seriously worry about the quality of legal advice that could have lead to that statement. I don't think it speaks very highly of Vonage, accepting that as a worthwhile strategy.
IANAL, but I don't think HIAL either.
He'll probably get an invite to meet the US President in the oval office of the White House, where he'll be given a hearty congratulations, stand by while the president makes an inspiring speach about 'can-do' and 'spirit of freedom' and be sent on his way with a hefty tax cut.
did you see any wmd while you were up there?
Whom indeed? He was solo, so clearly it'll require the first couple to fly around the world or an contortionist hermaphrodite. But that's not exactly family hour stuff.
A guy flies all around the world, non-stop, solo in a jet aircraft and that's his reception. He should have landed in France, they knew how to welcome Lindy.
The first person to fly, solo, nonstop around the moon and back will probably be greeted by a kid with a kazoo.
I'm a regular contributor to WTF, the most ubiquitous internet body.
Sounds like what you'll find a lot of at a CES. Seriously, there was something called The Brick ages ago, so this still isn't anything new. And what about all this Mini ITX stuff which has been around for years? Next...
Yeah, well TV and movies have a way of distorting reality. People who use catch-phrases they learn on TV shows are like the tourists who wear a Santa Cruz t-shirt in Santa Cruz ('geez, what a hick').
There's some stupid competition among newspaper people and civic leaders (self-appointed I'm sure) over who owns the title Surf City, SC or Huntington Beach. Rare that anyone locally refers to SC as 'Surf City' (lest they be made fun of, 'geez, what a hick') as they're too busy surfing or having to fight it out with out of townies who come in and try to steal waves. Surfing's too important here to get caught up in something as lame as ownership of some title. I'm sure actual denizens of Orange County will be duking it out soon with citizens of OC (Ocean City) Maryland for ownership of 'OC'.
Meanwhile, I'll be first in line at my TV set, ensuring it's turned off during the trailer. I'd rather see it all for the first time at the theater, good or bad.
'Single Point of Failure' comes to mind. I.e. it does everything for you and either dies or the battery runs out and your alone in the Wilderness of the Non-Conntected. Like those goofy cartoons from years ago that said things like, "The computers all were down today so we had to think." But more like, you do without the luxuries and have to borrow cell phones or find rapidly vanishing (in the UK anyway) public phones.
Or worse, all your stuff is on the phone and some weasel breaks in and copies it all and leaves you a message like "I'm Sorry Bitch"
Unconnected and lovin' it.