Intel is so intent on winning the "Megahertz race" because they are the ones who created it. They have spent millions of dollars beating into the head of every mainstream comsumer the pseudo fact that "MHz measures how fast your computer runs".
Most people reading this probably get general computer questions from friends/family/non-IT co-workers on a daily basis. How often have you asked someone what kind of computer they have and gotten the response "400 Megahertz Intel"? You ask what brand it is and even list off the big ones and they respond with a blank look. That blank look you got warms the heart of Intel's ad guys. This person can't remember the name of the company that has their name plastered across the box the computer came in, but they know the manufacturer of the CPU inside the computer, that at best has a little silver decal on the outside.
On a sidenote: I think that the Intel manufactured "Megahertz race" hasn't hurt AMD nearly as bad as it has hurt Apple, who in many ways have superior CPUs, but at considerably lower clock speeds.
I won't even get into "How much memory do you have?"...."20 gigs".
I read it the same way you did. I think that a harness of some kind would be necessary to keep you from shattering both your knees.
The foot supports would be underneath you and would allow the environment to be very immersive. The hand "poles" would not only make you look and feel like a muppet, but would probably limit your range of motion considerably.
Cool idea, though.
With an efficient rebreather, you wouldn't have to carry that much oxygen (assuming a normal spacewalk lenght stay), and you could keep it at relatively low pressure. If your space suit is leaking enough O2 into the atmosphere to start a fire, your bigger problem is that you were counting on that O2 to keep breathing.
Unless Hollywood has lied to me (and they never have before), we could acomplish the moon excavation mission with a week's planning. We send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to the moon with a nuke, keep Billy Bob Thornton back on the ground (with beeskits and mustard), and have Liv Tyler cry and look hot the whole time. They can dig that hole in like 4 hours and have time left over for witty banter.
I have always heard that Bishop Usher came up with the 6000 year figure by adding up everyone's age in the bible. The questions that nobody has been able to answer for me are these: Does the bible really list the age at which every person mentioned had children? Does the bible really have a continuous lineage from Adam to Jesus? Help me out here.
You are right for calling out CT, but I know what he means, because I feel the same way. If I voted for Nader and GWB took my state 49-46-5, I would be pissed off. I made my statement and all that good American stuff that my forefathers died for...and I ended up with a functionally retarded president who hasn't accomplished a thing in his life that didn't have to do with his name. For me, the most important thing about this election is the fact that the guy we elect is going to nominate between 2 and 4 supreme court justices. I am willing to vote for a man that I truly dislike just to prevent GWB from having that power. If Bush gets elected, you can vote against him in four years and try to kick him out. But those Supreme Court justices are going to be around for next 15 to 30 years.
-B
Republicans are still completely for personal freedom and a minimum of government...whenever it suits them. Bring up gun regulation or welfare and Republicans scream about "Big Government". But as soon as someone wants to control their own reproductive rights, smoke a joint, or play Quake, then all of the sudden the government should be involved.
Nice job stating the argument that I preemptively rebutted in my original post. Every single spending bill from 1980-1988 had Ronald Reagan's signature at the bottom. If there were any veto overrides during those years, it required the help of congressional Republicans.
Were you alive in the 80s? Remember that old guy, Ronald Reagan? We can thank him for a pretty hefty percentage of that debt. What party was he a member of? And don't give me the "But the democrats were in Congress", it takes Congress and the President together to pass a budget.
I know that was a troll, but I hear it all the time. One of Reagan's main campaign issues was balancing the budget and he more than tripled our debt. For some reason this small fact has been completely erased from most people's memories.
Gore is pretty up front about the fact that he was born into politics. Bush is being presented to the people as an "outsider" who hasn't been corrupted by "Washington". People don't seem to notice that he has the same name as the guy that ran our country eight whole years ago. That's why he is referred to as "George W" or "Dubya" all the time.
I think Canada is an even better comparison. They get virtually the same movies/TV/video games/web sites and their juvenile crime rate is considerably lower.
Can you really order a fufme unit? The web site looks so legit, but I can't imagine anyone really wanting to bone a drive bay (and I can imagine a lot). Are there people out there saying, "Phone sex is cool, and cybersex is pretty good, but I really wish I could hump my computer case while I do it"?
For those of you who havn't seen the fufme unit before, follow the link above and check out the CG image at the top of the FAQ page.
Basically, has anyone actually seen a real fufme drive or read any indication that it's a joke?
-B
Moderators: This article is as close to on-topic as you can get for this question and I've wanted to ask it for a while.
I don't know the movie, but it reminds me of this Dennis Miller rant:
"Scientists estimate that by the end of this century, via the means of Virtual Reality, a man will be able to simulate making love to any women he wants to through his television set. You know, folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Bark-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka, all right?!"
His dates and his technology are a little off, but you know what he means.
Yes, acording to foresight.org, Drexler has a "Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Molecular Nanotechnology". The headline from this story is technically true because Drexler had to create his own course of study and have it approved by some board at MIT, they didn't have "nanotech" in the course catalog and aparently still don't. IIRC, the guy who started Games magazine created his own PhD in the study of games.
Drexler already has a degree in nanotechnology. If I remember the book jacket correctly (it's been a while), he went to some board at MIT, outlined a course of study for himself and asked for a PhD in Nanotech.
Here's the excerpt from wwww.foresight.org:
"Dr. Drexler received an S.B. degree from M.I.T. in Interdisciplinary Science, an S.M. degree from M.I.T. in Engineering (while a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow), and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Molecular Nanotechnology..."
-B
There is a show on The History Channel about the original Ponzi scheme and it's awesome. He basically went from being flat broke to being insanely rich in a matter of months (Hi Rob). After he got too much attention, some smart news reporter published the fact that Ponzi would need to be buying several times as many International Reply Coupons as had really been printed.
The Privacy Manager in Indiapolis picks up anything that doesn't give a real legit Caller ID message. Unknown, blocked, private, anything, will send you into it.
Ameritech, here in Indianapolis, offers a service called "Privacy Manager". For about 3 bucks a month, any call that doesn't bring up a Caller ID message gets sent to a voicemail type system that asks the caller to say their name or company that they're from. After they do that, your phone rings and a voice says, "Would you like to accept a call from.." then plays the message that was just recorded. If you hit 1, it just connects you like a normal phone call. If you hit 2, it plays a message saying, "The recipient has declined to take your call. Please remove them from your call list."
It sounds cool, but unless you get a TON of telemarketers, it's not worth hassling your friends. I canceled mine after my uncle called from an airport payphone to tell me his flight was changed and was cut off twice by the service.
How much did those bad boys cost in 85? I like to collect old machines, but my price limit is 25 bucks.
If anyone wants to pick up a very cool old computer, get a hold of a Tandy 100 or 102. It's a portable computer about the size of a dictionary that runs on 4 AA batteries for a month. I used to keep addresses and phone numbers in a 102 at school. You get some really great looks when you pull out a 15 year old computer in a EE class to get someone's number.
I havn't read the book in years, but I thought the implication was that the government was intentionally retrieving organisms from the upper atmosphere/space that no human would have immunity to.
Hotmail is being migrated to Win2000 entirely for marketing reasons. The sales people need to be able to say, "Win2000 works for huge operations like Hotmail, it will surely work for your e-commerce company." I think it's a great test. If Hotmail crashes and burns, it will be a major public humiliation for MS and they would deserve it. If Hotmail does fine running Win2000, then good for them, they managed to design an actual working OS.
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Intel is so intent on winning the "Megahertz race" because they are the ones who created it. They have spent millions of dollars beating into the head of every mainstream comsumer the pseudo fact that "MHz measures how fast your computer runs".
Most people reading this probably get general computer questions from friends/family/non-IT co-workers on a daily basis. How often have you asked someone what kind of computer they have and gotten the response "400 Megahertz Intel"? You ask what brand it is and even list off the big ones and they respond with a blank look. That blank look you got warms the heart of Intel's ad guys. This person can't remember the name of the company that has their name plastered across the box the computer came in, but they know the manufacturer of the CPU inside the computer, that at best has a little silver decal on the outside.
On a sidenote: I think that the Intel manufactured "Megahertz race" hasn't hurt AMD nearly as bad as it has hurt Apple, who in many ways have superior CPUs, but at considerably lower clock speeds.
I won't even get into "How much memory do you have?"...."20 gigs".
-B
I read it the same way you did. I think that a harness of some kind would be necessary to keep you from shattering both your knees.
The foot supports would be underneath you and would allow the environment to be very immersive. The hand "poles" would not only make you look and feel like a muppet, but would probably limit your range of motion considerably.
Cool idea, though.
-B
With an efficient rebreather, you wouldn't have to carry that much oxygen (assuming a normal spacewalk lenght stay), and you could keep it at relatively low pressure. If your space suit is leaking enough O2 into the atmosphere to start a fire, your bigger problem is that you were counting on that O2 to keep breathing.
-B
Unless Hollywood has lied to me (and they never have before), we could acomplish the moon excavation mission with a week's planning. We send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to the moon with a nuke, keep Billy Bob Thornton back on the ground (with beeskits and mustard), and have Liv Tyler cry and look hot the whole time. They can dig that hole in like 4 hours and have time left over for witty banter.
-B
I have always heard that Bishop Usher came up with the 6000 year figure by adding up everyone's age in the bible. The questions that nobody has been able to answer for me are these: Does the bible really list the age at which every person mentioned had children? Does the bible really have a continuous lineage from Adam to Jesus? Help me out here.
-B
You are right for calling out CT, but I know what he means, because I feel the same way. If I voted for Nader and GWB took my state 49-46-5, I would be pissed off. I made my statement and all that good American stuff that my forefathers died for...and I ended up with a functionally retarded president who hasn't accomplished a thing in his life that didn't have to do with his name. For me, the most important thing about this election is the fact that the guy we elect is going to nominate between 2 and 4 supreme court justices. I am willing to vote for a man that I truly dislike just to prevent GWB from having that power. If Bush gets elected, you can vote against him in four years and try to kick him out. But those Supreme Court justices are going to be around for next 15 to 30 years.
-B
Republicans are still completely for personal freedom and a minimum of government...whenever it suits them. Bring up gun regulation or welfare and Republicans scream about "Big Government". But as soon as someone wants to control their own reproductive rights, smoke a joint, or play Quake, then all of the sudden the government should be involved.
-B
Nice job stating the argument that I preemptively rebutted in my original post. Every single spending bill from 1980-1988 had Ronald Reagan's signature at the bottom. If there were any veto overrides during those years, it required the help of congressional Republicans.
-B
Were you alive in the 80s? Remember that old guy, Ronald Reagan? We can thank him for a pretty hefty percentage of that debt. What party was he a member of? And don't give me the "But the democrats were in Congress", it takes Congress and the President together to pass a budget.
I know that was a troll, but I hear it all the time. One of Reagan's main campaign issues was balancing the budget and he more than tripled our debt. For some reason this small fact has been completely erased from most people's memories.
-B
Gore is pretty up front about the fact that he was born into politics. Bush is being presented to the people as an "outsider" who hasn't been corrupted by "Washington". People don't seem to notice that he has the same name as the guy that ran our country eight whole years ago. That's why he is referred to as "George W" or "Dubya" all the time.
-B
Stop bogarting the J, dude.
-B
I think Canada is an even better comparison. They get virtually the same movies/TV/video games/web sites and their juvenile crime rate is considerably lower.
-B
Can you really order a fufme unit? The web site looks so legit, but I can't imagine anyone really wanting to bone a drive bay (and I can imagine a lot). Are there people out there saying, "Phone sex is cool, and cybersex is pretty good, but I really wish I could hump my computer case while I do it"?
For those of you who havn't seen the fufme unit before, follow the link above and check out the CG image at the top of the FAQ page.
Basically, has anyone actually seen a real fufme drive or read any indication that it's a joke?
-B
Moderators: This article is as close to on-topic as you can get for this question and I've wanted to ask it for a while.
I don't know the movie, but it reminds me of this Dennis Miller rant:
"Scientists estimate that by the end of this century, via the means of Virtual Reality, a man will be able to simulate making love to any women he wants to through his television set. You know, folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Bark-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka, all right?!"
His dates and his technology are a little off, but you know what he means.
-B
Yes, acording to foresight.org, Drexler has a "Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Molecular Nanotechnology". The headline from this story is technically true because Drexler had to create his own course of study and have it approved by some board at MIT, they didn't have "nanotech" in the course catalog and aparently still don't. IIRC, the guy who started Games magazine created his own PhD in the study of games.
-B
Drexler already has a degree in nanotechnology. If I remember the book jacket correctly (it's been a while), he went to some board at MIT, outlined a course of study for himself and asked for a PhD in Nanotech.
Here's the excerpt from wwww.foresight.org:
"Dr. Drexler received an S.B. degree from M.I.T. in Interdisciplinary Science, an S.M. degree from M.I.T. in Engineering (while a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow), and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Molecular Nanotechnology..."
-B
There is a show on The History Channel about the original Ponzi scheme and it's awesome. He basically went from being flat broke to being insanely rich in a matter of months (Hi Rob). After he got too much attention, some smart news reporter published the fact that Ponzi would need to be buying several times as many International Reply Coupons as had really been printed.
-B
The Privacy Manager in Indiapolis picks up anything that doesn't give a real legit Caller ID message. Unknown, blocked, private, anything, will send you into it.
-B
Ameritech, here in Indianapolis, offers a service called "Privacy Manager". For about 3 bucks a month, any call that doesn't bring up a Caller ID message gets sent to a voicemail type system that asks the caller to say their name or company that they're from. After they do that, your phone rings and a voice says, "Would you like to accept a call from.." then plays the message that was just recorded. If you hit 1, it just connects you like a normal phone call. If you hit 2, it plays a message saying, "The recipient has declined to take your call. Please remove them from your call list."
It sounds cool, but unless you get a TON of telemarketers, it's not worth hassling your friends. I canceled mine after my uncle called from an airport payphone to tell me his flight was changed and was cut off twice by the service.
-B
How much did those bad boys cost in 85? I like to collect old machines, but my price limit is 25 bucks.
If anyone wants to pick up a very cool old computer, get a hold of a Tandy 100 or 102. It's a portable computer about the size of a dictionary that runs on 4 AA batteries for a month. I used to keep addresses and phone numbers in a 102 at school. You get some really great looks when you pull out a 15 year old computer in a EE class to get someone's number.
-B
I havn't read the book in years, but I thought the implication was that the government was intentionally retrieving organisms from the upper atmosphere/space that no human would have immunity to.
-B
Hotmail is being migrated to Win2000 entirely for marketing reasons. The sales people need to be able to say, "Win2000 works for huge operations like Hotmail, it will surely work for your e-commerce company." I think it's a great test. If Hotmail crashes and burns, it will be a major public humiliation for MS and they would deserve it. If Hotmail does fine running Win2000, then good for them, they managed to design an actual working OS.
-B
Harvey Keitel is Sport, the greatest white pimp in film history. He's Jodie Foster's pimp that De Niro kills.
-B
Did you see Taxi Driver? True Romance? Superfly? Pimps Up Hoes Down? Pimps rock.
-B
http://www.panix.com/~stern/bad_crazy/bc6.html#Ano ther Reason to Fly Coach
Actually, he took a crap on the first class drink cart.
While I was looking for that link, I found this one
http://www.flyana.com/rage.html
It talks about some interesting causes of "air rage".
-B