Intel marketing wouldn't like clockless chips as it would cause them massive headaches in the Mhz FUD. For once real world performance comparisons would have to matter.
Parts of the Pentium 4 processor are asynchronous. In other words, you could always stick a clocked component on one end of the processor, and claim that that's the speed.
Even in "clockless computing" there's still kind of a "clock," in that a new instruction would trigger the operation instead of clock edges.
If you had a multiply instruction that took maybe 3 clock cycles in a clocked computer, you would still have 3 cycles/events/stages or whatever you wanted to call them in an unclocked computer that the instruction would need to step through. The instruction wouldn't be regulated by the clock, but pushing it through the stages would take a certain amount of time... And there might be ways to "overclock that" if you wanted to call it that... Of course, that's kind of what you said at the end:)
Man, you lost and you know it. You were caught bullshitting, and if I had any mod points, I'd mod you down. Don't even try to claim that there is some sort of pretend clock in an asynchronous processor if you look at it sideways. You're never going to overclock the asynchronous part of a processor because there's no clock, by definition. You might be able to make it run faster by mucking with other factors like the ambient temperature, but that's not what you said, and you know it! You can save no face because you are totally and completely wrong. Have a nice day.
Actually, the real culprit is the stranglehold that the music industry has on the consumers. People willingly let themselves be sheep, and I have no problem with that, but when the bad guys start affecting my choice by killing off the good guys, then they are overstepping their bounds. The music industry has done just so for years.
Your signature is a little ironic since perl is one of the very few languages with a klingon module (written by Damian Conway) that you can program in.
If you'd ever met Damian Conway, you'd know better. You probably didn't ever notice how many CPAN modules Dr. Conway created and maintains, or consider how much thought he's put into what is done. He literally doesn't have enough time in the day to perform all the improvements he wants.
I've never met Dan or Larry, but I've met Damian, and I can, with all sincerity, tell you to go fuck yourself!
Lucky that an Australian firm looking for North American PR took a bath and lost money on creating a professional 3D model of the mine:
Although the prize money, which Archibald's team shared with Taylor Wall & Associates, barely covered the cost of the project, the publicity has boosted the firm's business. "It would have taken us years to get the recognition in North America that this project gave us overnight," he says.
You don't know much about business. Anything that covers your expenses (which includes salaries, etc.) is a success assuming that you don't have other, more lucrative job offers. At the same time, this company got free advertising. In fact, since the cost of the project was barely covered, i.e. the reward was more than the cost, you could say that they were paid to advertise their product.
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I think that a period of public review for patents (suggested by another reader on Slashdot) is a great idea. There is a fly in the buttermilk though... full public disclosure may be unwelcome to the pantent applicant.
What do you think patents are for? They are there so that the public can see what is patented! If the inventor is such a schmuck that he doesn't want people to see how his invention works, then he should never get a patent. They are conflicting interests.
So, there is no "fly" in anything! You obviously didn't think your argument through.
Or were you not talking about patents at all? What the heck is a "pantent"?;-)
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Patents should last 10 years maximum, ever.
Wrong! There are some specific cases where the research money spent cannot be regained for longer than ten years. I've been told that companies that make Trucks (the kind with 16 wheels and big trailers) have this kind of situation.
Not that 10 years is too short for most patents, but perhaps an extension on the very few obvious exceptions would be worthwhile. In other words, speaking in such absolute terms for something that is so broad is silly, in my opinion.
Copyrights, on the other hand, are a very small, specific area, and your absolute time of 25 years doesn't seem so silly.
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34 years is already a lengthy time for copyright. What does Disney have it up to now? 150+?
Nope, just 95 years for a corporation. This time is so long that reconciling it in a human mind is almost meaningless. For all intents, it is eternity, just like Disney wants it.
Individual copyrights however are the copyright holder's life plus 70 years! So if I write an influential work today and I am 20 years old, then I live to be 100, you'll have your 150 year copyright. Your children would never get a chance to copy it.
Personally, I think copyrights should last about 20 years, maximum. If you produce content for a living, and you can't come up with something original in twenty years, then maybe you should consider switching fields anyways!
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Ceteris Paribus (All other things being the same) is the term for the rationale behind the situation you're describing. If somehow all the IP laws were lifted, the environment of business would have to change so drastically that your points would not only be moot, they'd look asinine.
Especially your Van Gogh example. You apparently don't see any causality between people paying him to work and the IP rights at the time, but there is a very obvious relationship.
I would love for everyone to stop giving any money to the FSF and/or RMS, and watch the guy either starve to death or come to the realization that *GASP* he's gonna get paid to write code for a company that is going to make money off it.
Dude, you're even more of a zealot than RMS! Ideology is fine, but when it comes to wishing pain upon those who believe different from you, then you've gone too far.
pubjames said: People, out of their good nature, give computers to schools to help educate children.
Microsoft lie to the schools to try to stop them accepting generous gifts that might make a tiny dent in their massive profits. This makes me so mad.
It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC.
Is this true? Even for Microsoft operating systems? They're saying it's illegal to remove an OS from a computer, any computer? F*ck*ng w**kers.
PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC. They may do so as specified in their End-User License Agreement (received at the time of purchase) as part of a permanent sale or transfer of the PC.
Listen Microsoft. You've made it very difficult so that I, as a PC purchaser, can buy a new PC without buying a Microsoft OS. You know that. So, 99% of computers that are donated to schools are likely to have a legitimate, paid for, Microsoft OS on them. You bunch of complete t*ss*rs.
The following should be included with the donation of the PC.
Why? I'll tell you why! To make it difficult for people to donate PCs to schools, that's why. I ***king hate those money grabbing, selfish, **bhe*ds at Microsoft.
Microsoft recommends that educational institutions only accept computer donations that are accompanied by proper operating system documentation. If the donor cannot provide this documentation, it is recommended that you decline the donated PC(s).
Why? So Microsoft can profit at the expense of the education of our children? You absolute ****ing *i*si*ng i*i*tic bunch of *uc*ing a**eh*les! *an** *a*s*** of the *i*** *rd***! You ****p** **s** **e*s*s!!!
Even if the specific software you received was actually free (because you're a CS student), your school is still almost certainly paying the Microsoft fee so that the general student population can get those titles for "free". In other words, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Since you've got their software on your computer, microsoft has already "won you over". If I were you, I wouldn't put any of their crap on my hard drive unless you were forced to by a class.
If I am in a private (or public) place, and some other private place is emitting electro-magnetic waves, then I should have the right to examine these waves that are coming into my personal area.
If you don't want people thermal scanning your house, you should get better insulation!
You'd better check your student fees again, bucko. You probably don't realize it, but Microsoft does not give away "free" software like you think it does. You're paying 5-10 bucks a semester for your free MS products, along with the rest of your school. Do you think MS makes more or less money this way? Hint: Most students use the OS that came preinstalled on their machines.
The hardware donations may be another matter, though, as I think that most of those are honorable donations, but I could be wrong.
I read that short article, and all I could think was, "Wow! What an Incredible Idiot!" Nobody who understands security would make that claim based on that evidence, unless they worked for Microsoft.
Yes, OpenBSD uses this list as proof of their security, but look at the scale! The fact that Microsoft is in the same league of bug reports as Linux, even though MS is proprietary speaks volumes against Microsoft.
This is actually pretty common. Here in Texas, there is a burger place called McDonalds that was simply here first. It happened all over the country, but most of the totally independant McDonalds joints were bought or went out of business.
"Linux" is a trademarked name. "*indows" is not trademarked, while "Windows" is. If you don't use the exact trademark, then the only thing you have to worry about is being confusingly similar. Lindows.com should put on their webpage that the product name is pronounced "lin-dohs-ahs" or "lin-dohs-ohs". Then, they could laugh at the MS lawyers making their argument.
"lin-dohs-ahs is confusingly similar to windows. If a carpenter was building my house and said he was going to install the lin-dohs-ahs, I would immediately think he meant the windows."
Kernel traffic is doing everybody who has limited bandwidth a favor. It increases awareness of Kernel issues, even to those who know they won't become active developers.
The original post was obviously hyperbole, but having subscribed to the list myself, I know how quickly lkml can eat up your disk quota if you aren't vigilant.
Zack Brown deserves props specifically for the bug reports you mentioned. If I found a kernel bug, I wouldn't have previously known how to report it, or whether it was already reported, without sifting through tons of mailing list archives.
I read kernel traffic weekly, and I feel like the few minutes I spend reading it really keeps me on top of what's going on.
Overall, people with a 56k modem cannot deal with lkml, and they shouldn't have to.
Yeah, I tried to upgrade a potato box to woody (wanted ipfilter for firewall AND portmapping), and I've never gotten it to boot. It
prints a whole bunch of dots, then reboots. I'm currently booting potato off a floppy, and have no idea how to procede, and no
time to mess with it...
That shouldn't happen. I love Debian so much that when I hear of someone with a problem like this, I somehow feel personally responsible.
I'd offer you help, but if you don't have time to help yourself, you probably don't have time to get help from someone else (as that might take longer). I'm so sorry you're having problems with what I believe is the best Linux distro out there.
Tom is one of the most interesting beings in LOTR. Tolkien put a lot of thought into every aspect of his books, and Tom Bombadil eventually had to go in, despite the digression from the story line. I loved reading about Tom. What is he? How old is he? Why didn't the ring affect him? There are a few really nice essays available that try to answer these questions. Maybe I just love his godlike powers. Of course, this may be what so many others hate, but I think people just don't like how the story gets off topic for a while. Or maybe they don't picture him like I do, since some poster suggested using Robin Williams for his character. Yecch! No goofball would do for the Tom Bombadil that I know.
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Even Tolkien seriously considered removing Bombadil-o from the original book. For some reason, I really like the old codger, though.
So, it really isn't too big of a decision to cut him from the movie. I think Tolkien left him in partially to show what the Hobbits (nasty hobbitses?) were trying to save. He's so powerful, yet he is truly at the mercy of the halfings. If they don't destroy the ring, he will fall to Sauron, too. I wish they could put the Tom Bombadil scenes in the DVD as an option, but that would probably be way too expensive.:-(
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Actually, the real culprit is the stranglehold that the music industry has on the consumers. People willingly let themselves be sheep, and I have no problem with that, but when the bad guys start affecting my choice by killing off the good guys, then they are overstepping their bounds. The music industry has done just so for years.
Your signature is a little ironic since perl is one of the very few languages with a klingon module (written by Damian Conway) that you can program in.
I've never met Dan or Larry, but I've met Damian, and I can, with all sincerity, tell you to go fuck yourself!
Grok means to drink.
I think that a period of public review for patents (suggested by another reader on Slashdot) is a great idea. There is a fly in the buttermilk though... full public disclosure may be unwelcome to the pantent applicant.
;-)
What do you think patents are for? They are there so that the public can see what is patented! If the inventor is such a schmuck that he doesn't want people to see how his invention works, then he should never get a patent. They are conflicting interests.
So, there is no "fly" in anything! You obviously didn't think your argument through.
Or were you not talking about patents at all? What the heck is a "pantent"?
Patents should last 10 years maximum, ever.
Wrong! There are some specific cases where the research money spent cannot be regained for longer than ten years. I've been told that companies that make Trucks (the kind with 16 wheels and big trailers) have this kind of situation.
Not that 10 years is too short for most patents, but perhaps an extension on the very few obvious exceptions would be worthwhile. In other words, speaking in such absolute terms for something that is so broad is silly, in my opinion.
Copyrights, on the other hand, are a very small, specific area, and your absolute time of 25 years doesn't seem so silly.
34 years is already a lengthy time for copyright. What does Disney have it up to now? 150+?
Nope, just 95 years for a corporation. This time is so long that reconciling it in a human mind is almost meaningless. For all intents, it is eternity, just like Disney wants it.
Individual copyrights however are the copyright holder's life plus 70 years! So if I write an influential work today and I am 20 years old, then I live to be 100, you'll have your 150 year copyright. Your children would never get a chance to copy it.
Personally, I think copyrights should last about 20 years, maximum. If you produce content for a living, and you can't come up with something original in twenty years, then maybe you should consider switching fields anyways!
Ceteris Paribus (All other things being the same) is the term for the rationale behind the situation you're describing. If somehow all the IP laws were lifted, the environment of business would have to change so drastically that your points would not only be moot, they'd look asinine.
Especially your Van Gogh example. You apparently don't see any causality between people paying him to work and the IP rights at the time, but there is a very obvious relationship.
I would love for everyone to stop giving any money to the FSF and/or RMS, and watch the guy either starve to death or come to the realization that *GASP* he's gonna get paid to write code for a company that is going to make money off it.
Dude, you're even more of a zealot than RMS! Ideology is fine, but when it comes to wishing pain upon those who believe different from you, then you've gone too far.
I just thought nobheads was spelled with a 'k', so I expounded that it was another fake word.
F*ck*ng = Fucking
w**kers = wankers (not a bad word)
t*ss*rs = tossers (not a bad word)
***king = fucking
**bhe*ds = nubheads
****ing = fucking
*i*si*ng = pilsiing
i*i*tic = idiotic (not a bad word)
*uc*ing = fucking
a**eh*les = arseholes
*an** = canoe
*a*s*** = carshed
*i*** = diddly
*rd*** = orders
****p** = crapped
**s** = nosex
**e*s*s = breasts
pubjames said:
People, out of their good nature, give computers to schools to help educate children.
Microsoft lie to the schools to try to stop them accepting generous gifts that might make a tiny dent in their massive profits. This makes me so mad.
It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC.
Is this true? Even for Microsoft operating systems? They're saying it's illegal to remove an OS from a computer, any computer? F*ck*ng w**kers.
PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC. They may do so as specified in their End-User License Agreement (received at the time of purchase) as part of a permanent sale or transfer of the PC.
Listen Microsoft. You've made it very difficult so that I, as a PC purchaser, can buy a new PC without buying a Microsoft OS. You know that. So, 99% of computers that are donated to schools are likely to have a legitimate, paid for, Microsoft OS on them. You bunch of complete t*ss*rs.
The following should be included with the donation of the PC.
Why? I'll tell you why! To make it difficult for people to donate PCs to schools, that's why. I ***king hate those money grabbing, selfish, **bhe*ds at Microsoft.
Microsoft recommends that educational institutions only accept computer donations that are accompanied by proper operating system documentation. If the donor cannot provide this documentation, it is recommended that you decline the donated PC(s).
Why? So Microsoft can profit at the expense of the education of our children? You absolute ****ing *i*si*ng i*i*tic bunch of *uc*ing a**eh*les! *an** *a*s*** of the *i*** *rd***! You ****p** **s** **e*s*s!!!
Even if the specific software you received was actually free (because you're a CS student), your school is still almost certainly paying the Microsoft fee so that the general student population can get those titles for "free". In other words, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Since you've got their software on your computer, microsoft has already "won you over". If I were you, I wouldn't put any of their crap on my hard drive unless you were forced to by a class.
If I am in a private (or public) place, and some other private place is emitting electro-magnetic waves, then I should have the right to examine these waves that are coming into my personal area.
If you don't want people thermal scanning your house, you should get better insulation!
Great.... They're doing no more than all the Linux distributions out there. At least this mostly refutes the original poster's point.
You'd better check your student fees again, bucko. You probably don't realize it, but Microsoft does not give away "free" software like you think it does. You're paying 5-10 bucks a semester for your free MS products, along with the rest of your school. Do you think MS makes more or less money this way? Hint: Most students use the OS that came preinstalled on their machines.
The hardware donations may be another matter, though, as I think that most of those are honorable donations, but I could be wrong.
I read that short article, and all I could think was, "Wow! What an Incredible Idiot!" Nobody who understands security would make that claim based on that evidence, unless they worked for Microsoft.
Yes, OpenBSD uses this list as proof of their security, but look at the scale! The fact that Microsoft is in the same league of bug reports as Linux, even though MS is proprietary speaks volumes against Microsoft.
This is actually pretty common. Here in Texas, there is a burger place called McDonalds that was simply here first. It happened all over the country, but most of the totally independant McDonalds joints were bought or went out of business.
"Linux" is a trademarked name. "*indows" is not trademarked, while "Windows" is. If you don't use the exact trademark, then the only thing you have to worry about is being confusingly similar. Lindows.com should put on their webpage that the product name is pronounced "lin-dohs-ahs" or "lin-dohs-ohs". Then, they could laugh at the MS lawyers making their argument.
"lin-dohs-ahs is confusingly similar to windows. If a carpenter was building my house and said he was going to install the lin-dohs-ahs, I would immediately think he meant the windows."
Kernel traffic is doing everybody who has limited bandwidth a favor. It increases awareness of Kernel issues, even to those who know they won't become active developers.
The original post was obviously hyperbole, but having subscribed to the list myself, I know how quickly lkml can eat up your disk quota if you aren't vigilant.
Zack Brown deserves props specifically for the bug reports you mentioned. If I found a kernel bug, I wouldn't have previously known how to report it, or whether it was already reported, without sifting through tons of mailing list archives.
I read kernel traffic weekly, and I feel like the few minutes I spend reading it really keeps me on top of what's going on.
Overall, people with a 56k modem cannot deal with lkml, and they shouldn't have to.
Yeah, I tried to upgrade a potato box to woody (wanted ipfilter for firewall AND portmapping), and I've never gotten it to boot. It prints a whole bunch of dots, then reboots. I'm currently booting potato off a floppy, and have no idea how to procede, and no time to mess with it...
That shouldn't happen. I love Debian so much that when I hear of someone with a problem like this, I somehow feel personally responsible.
I'd offer you help, but if you don't have time to help yourself, you probably don't have time to get help from someone else (as that might take longer). I'm so sorry you're having problems with what I believe is the best Linux distro out there.
Tom is one of the most interesting beings in LOTR. Tolkien put a lot of thought into every aspect of his books, and Tom Bombadil eventually had to go in, despite the digression from the story line. I loved reading about Tom. What is he? How old is he? Why didn't the ring affect him? There are a few really nice essays available that try to answer these questions. Maybe I just love his godlike powers. Of course, this may be what so many others hate, but I think people just don't like how the story gets off topic for a while. Or maybe they don't picture him like I do, since some poster suggested using Robin Williams for his character. Yecch! No goofball would do for the Tom Bombadil that I know.
Even Tolkien seriously considered removing Bombadil-o from the original book. For some reason, I really like the old codger, though.
:-(
So, it really isn't too big of a decision to cut him from the movie. I think Tolkien left him in partially to show what the Hobbits (nasty hobbitses?) were trying to save. He's so powerful, yet he is truly at the mercy of the halfings. If they don't destroy the ring, he will fall to Sauron, too. I wish they could put the Tom Bombadil scenes in the DVD as an option, but that would probably be way too expensive.