Sure, but the super computers using accelerators represents 23% of list performance. In addition the usage of accelerators tripled from June 2011 to November 2012, so there seems to be a trend here.
GP is living in Europe and is enthusiatically praising it and you have to critizise him for one slip-up. Thanks for giving us other europeans a bad name and confirming the "snooty european" stereotype. Asshole.
"This is true, but legalizing drugs doesn't just effect the people that are going to use them. It will effect society as a whole."
Of course, more on that below.
"If anyone can start taking something like cocaine or heroine (even in small doses), addiction will climb and so will the care of the people addicted, which will mean higher prices for health care for us."
Do you have any evidence that supports that addiction rates will climb? Seem like run-of-the-mill anti-drug hysteria to me.
"Not only that, but what about the people that decide to drive while stoned/high? There are enough people in this world killing the innocent while drunk..I don't think we need to add even more due to being high."
People drive under the influence of drugs right now. Legalizing won't make any difference. Irresponsible drivers are the real problem here, drugs and alcohol are just what they use.
"If drugs were ever legalized, we would also need a registration program. That registration program would allow potential employers to decide whether or not to hire you based on your legal drug usage."
How would you like it if you were denied a job because you're doing a perfectly legal activity in your own free time? A registration program? WTF? Should it include race, sexual orientation, hair color, religion, sports team preference, film taste, music taste etc. too? Wouldn't want to hire any unsavory elements.
Here are some benefits from legalizing drugs: - Police resources would be freed up to go after other criminal activity - Border police could use more resources checking for weapons, terrorists etc.
- Prices of drugs would drop, which would lead to... - Lower crime, since people don't have to commit crime to support their habits - The breakdown of the drug cartels and other organized crime - No more funding of civil wars in various drug-producing third world countries
- Increased quality of the drugs, so less overdoses and other health problems - People being allowed to do what the fuck they want with their own bodies
So you see, in addition to GP's point that using drugs is a personal issue, there are also economic and moral arguments for the legalization of drugs. The only arguments I see against legalization is that there *might* be more people using drugs. Well, that a few more people use cheap, clean drugs is easily outweighed by the fators outlined above.
Nice that Rome made it to the list. If any Rome-fans here hasn't heard of it yet, Rome: Total Realism 6.0 is out, check http://rometotalrealism.com/. It adds so much to the game, and does away with all the historical stupididties of the original game, like the anachronistic egyptians.
It is something to be excited about because now Intel has *nothing* to counter AMD's top processors. How this impact competition and market shares remains to be seen.
After reading the speech and the critique, Rob Enderle comes more across as a someone who has serious personalty disorders which borders on paranoia, rather than a serious analyst. Has anyone done a background check on him? What is this situation which Bill Gates supposedly saved him from? What credentials does he have, other than a big dirty mouth?
A real documentary is supposed to DOCUMENT something. In fact, here's the definition from dictionary.com:
Documentary: "Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter."
I have seen PLENTY of real documentaries. Turn to the discovery channel or PBS and you're likely to find one right now.
This is insightful? You need a reality-check. The maker of the documentary will always influence the documentary. What you are displaying is the old view held by positivists that you can step outside a social process and describe it as an independent observer. This is of not possible, not in the social sciences, and certainly not in a popularized work. You should know this if you had some basic training in epistemology.
Tanenbaum is this european guy who once upon a time in the 80s wrote a textbook on operating systems which came with a simple UNIX-like operating system called "Minix".
As a european I'm flattered that you think that Tannebaum is one too, but he's really an american working at a european university. The textbook you refer to, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, is an excellent introduction to operating systems and the second edition is from 1997. It is an important book for us linux geeks, as it is the book that inspired Linus to write his own operating system.
Amiga users never died - there are still thousands of them. It wouldn't surpriseme if they equal BSD users.
Yeah riiiight. Firstly, Amiga have been continuing development for a long time. They realsed OS 3.9 a few years ago, this time it was actually them (OS 3.5 was written by somebody else).
So was OS 3.9, Amiga Inc. hasn't released anything of value. Oh, and two incremental updates of an OS in 10 years is not continuing development. They've also been developing an embedded technology called Amiga DE which is already in use in several mobile phone units (cellphones for those Americans).
DE is based on TAO Intent which Amiga Inc. did not develop. DE doesn't even run on AmigaOS AFAIK. Amiga OS 4.0 is designed to run on a new computer, called the AmigaOne. This is a new motherboard designed by the UK company Eyetech, to which you can attach your A1200 motherboard for running older programs natviely, should you want to. Yes, that's right - the A1200 motherboard becomes the AmigaOne's daughterboard.
All of this is false. MAI designed the board, *not* Eyetech. You can't attach your A1200 motherboard, that was an old scrapped design which didn't even reach beta status. When the old design didn't work out they rebranded MAI Teron PPC boards AmigaOne and sold them instead. The computer is based on the PPC architecture, I believe with G3 or G4 processors.
1999 called, it wants it's processors back.
There have been add-ons for the A1200 motherboard which add G3 processors for a while now,
These were launched ca. 1997 and were based off PPC 603 (604 for the A4000). I think you meant G2.
but these were expensive and pointless.
You don't say... As for software and games, there are several developers still producing software and many excellent games too (a recent one which springs to mind is Nightlong, a very graphics heavy point-and-click adventure, like Broken Sword 3).
1998 called too, it wants it's game back. http://www.trecision.com/videogames/index.h tml Many of these use the PPC CPUs available for the Amiga, and also many ofthe graphics cards too.
Yep, the Permedia2/Voodoo3 coupled with a 604e just can't be beat when it comes to running the greatest games of 1998. The Amiga still lives, and it's not gonna die without a fight.
But I've got a +4 dagger against zombies and I will defeat it.
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Sure, but the super computers using accelerators represents 23% of list performance. In addition the usage of accelerators tripled from June 2011 to November 2012, so there seems to be a trend here.
GP is living in Europe and is enthusiatically praising it and you have to critizise him for one slip-up. Thanks for giving us other europeans a bad name and confirming the "snooty european" stereotype. Asshole.
"This is true, but legalizing drugs doesn't just effect the people that are going to use them. It will effect society as a whole."
Of course, more on that below.
"If anyone can start taking something like cocaine or heroine (even in small doses), addiction will climb and so will the care of the people addicted, which will mean higher prices for health care for us."
Do you have any evidence that supports that addiction rates will climb? Seem like run-of-the-mill anti-drug hysteria to me.
"Not only that, but what about the people that decide to drive while stoned/high? There are enough people in this world killing the innocent while drunk..I don't think we need to add even more due to being high."
People drive under the influence of drugs right now. Legalizing won't make any difference. Irresponsible drivers are the real problem here, drugs and alcohol are just what they use.
"If drugs were ever legalized, we would also need a registration program. That registration program would allow potential employers to decide whether or not to hire you based on your legal drug usage."
How would you like it if you were denied a job because you're doing a perfectly legal activity in your own free time? A registration program? WTF? Should it include race, sexual orientation, hair color, religion, sports team preference, film taste, music taste etc. too? Wouldn't want to hire any unsavory elements.
Here are some benefits from legalizing drugs:
- Police resources would be freed up to go after other criminal activity
- Border police could use more resources checking for weapons, terrorists etc.
- Prices of drugs would drop, which would lead to...
- Lower crime, since people don't have to commit crime to support their habits
- The breakdown of the drug cartels and other organized crime
- No more funding of civil wars in various drug-producing third world countries
- Increased quality of the drugs, so less overdoses and other health problems
- People being allowed to do what the fuck they want with their own bodies
So you see, in addition to GP's point that using drugs is a personal issue, there are also economic and moral arguments for the legalization of drugs. The only arguments I see against legalization is that there *might* be more people using drugs. Well, that a few more people use cheap, clean drugs is easily outweighed by the fators outlined above.
Time to take the War on Drugs to Mars. Can't have those evil martians poisoning our children! Oh, it's methANE, you say? Nevermind.
Nice that Rome made it to the list. If any Rome-fans here hasn't heard of it yet, Rome: Total Realism 6.0 is out, check http://rometotalrealism.com/. It adds so much to the game, and does away with all the historical stupididties of the original game, like the anachronistic egyptians.
I, for one, welcome our new Icelandic cyborg overlords.
It was Intel's answer to the AMD threat.
Probably not, since when Itanium development started, AMD was no threat. It was more likely an answer to AIM's POWER/PowerPC and DEC Alpha.
Other countries haven't admitted it (Iraq, Saudi Arabia), but there is no reason to believe they aren't (or haven't) gone down that road covertly.
I'm confident that the current rulers of Iraq have admitted to having a large arsenal of nukes.
It is something to be excited about because now Intel has *nothing* to counter AMD's top processors. How this impact competition and market shares remains to be seen.
Better plot and acting too. I'd take Bela Lugosi over that Hayden Whatshisname at any time. Even when dead he was a better actor.
After reading the speech and the critique, Rob Enderle comes more across as a someone who has serious personalty disorders which borders on paranoia, rather than a serious analyst. Has anyone done a background check on him? What is this situation which Bill Gates supposedly saved him from? What credentials does he have, other than a big dirty mouth?
Then just boot from a DOS floppy and run aboot.bat within C:\ReactOS.
A Canadian project, is it?
Ummm, that's complete bullshit.
A real documentary is supposed to DOCUMENT something. In fact, here's the definition from dictionary.com:
Documentary: "Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter."
I have seen PLENTY of real documentaries. Turn to the discovery channel or PBS and you're likely to find one right now.
This is insightful? You need a reality-check. The maker of the documentary will always influence the documentary. What you are displaying is the old view held by positivists that you can step outside a social process and describe it as an independent observer. This is of not possible, not in the social sciences, and certainly not in a popularized work. You should know this if you had some basic training in epistemology.
Tanenbaum is this european guy who once upon a time in the 80s wrote a textbook on operating systems which came with a simple UNIX-like operating system called "Minix".
As a european I'm flattered that you think that Tannebaum is one too, but he's really an american working at a european university. The textbook you refer to, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, is an excellent introduction to operating systems and the second edition is from 1997. It is an important book for us linux geeks, as it is the book that inspired Linus to write his own operating system.
Amiga users never died - there are still thousands of them. It wouldn't surpriseme if they equal BSD users.
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Yeah riiiight.
Firstly, Amiga have been continuing development for a long time. They realsed OS 3.9 a few years ago, this time it was actually them (OS 3.5 was written by somebody else).
So was OS 3.9, Amiga Inc. hasn't released anything of value. Oh, and two incremental updates of an OS in 10 years is not continuing development.
They've also been developing an embedded technology called Amiga DE which is already in use in several mobile phone units (cellphones for those Americans).
DE is based on TAO Intent which Amiga Inc. did not develop. DE doesn't even run on AmigaOS AFAIK.
Amiga OS 4.0 is designed to run on a new computer, called the AmigaOne. This is a new motherboard designed by the UK company Eyetech, to which you can attach your A1200 motherboard for running older programs natviely, should you want to. Yes, that's right - the A1200 motherboard becomes the AmigaOne's daughterboard.
All of this is false. MAI designed the board, *not* Eyetech. You can't attach your A1200 motherboard, that was an old scrapped design which
didn't even reach beta status. When the old design didn't work out they rebranded MAI Teron PPC boards AmigaOne and sold them instead.
The computer is based on the PPC architecture, I believe with G3 or G4 processors.
1999 called, it wants it's processors back.
There have been add-ons for the A1200 motherboard which add G3 processors for a while now,
These were launched ca. 1997 and were based off PPC 603 (604 for the A4000). I think you meant G2.
but these were expensive and pointless.
You don't say...
As for software and games, there are several developers still producing software and many excellent games too (a recent one which springs to mind is Nightlong, a very graphics heavy point-and-click adventure, like Broken Sword 3).
1998 called too, it wants it's game back.
http://www.trecision.com/videogames/index.
Many of these use the PPC CPUs available for the Amiga, and also many ofthe graphics cards too.
Yep, the Permedia2/Voodoo3 coupled with a 604e just can't be beat when it comes to running the greatest games of 1998.
The Amiga still lives, and it's not gonna die without a fight.
But I've got a +4 dagger against zombies and I will defeat it.