Actually NatSemi had the Geode processors out first, they sold the line to AMD. Of course, NatSemi had gotten the technology in the first place when they merged with Cyrix.
I've been looking for a cheap phone I can assign mp3 ringtones to specific callers, preferably over USB. That way, I can assign the Imperial March to the boss's number, and the best part is that since he doesn't call me when I'm in the room, he'd never know;)
i dunno wtf you need a pager for if you have a cell phone. Get a nice cell that does all the bells and whistles YOU desire and you're gtg.
Because sometimes you need to be paged.
Also, sending a page from a modem is trivial, just dial the number, pause, and dial whatever number or code you want. I can even program the ancient phone system at work to do that when someone calls after hours. If you've got a way to do that for an arbitrary cell phone provider for free, I'd love to hear about it (otherwise, you play guess the email-to-sms gateway, then get a mangled SMS with all sorts of useless header junk before you get to the text messa... which gets cut off because the headers filled up the SMS character limit).
A few cell phone providers do have "press X to page the person" in the voicemail system. Maybe this would work as long as the person remembered never to answer when the automated paging system was calling.
My sister is the only person I knew who chose "resale value" as the top criteria for buying a car. She hates the car, but at least she can sell it for more than a tenth of its value.
For the resale value to actually figure into the price of the new car, people like my sister have to be common, and I don't see that happening. In other words, when looking to buy a car, I expect people are going to say "this one doesn't have enough cupholders" or "this one doesn't have the zip I want", not "gee, I don't think I'll be able to resell this car".
That's why I work a full time job in addition to full time school. No social life, but hey, no debt.
That's how I did it. Full time student with a full time job and a bit on the side. Slept from 3AM to 7AM every day and lived on sugar and caffeine. Graduated 6 years and 150 pounds later, and the only debt I have is the 100lbs of fat I'm still trying to burn off.
Didn't have that much of a social life either. Managed to make it to a few anime club showings and met a few people I still consider friends both at work and in classes, but as far as getting a girlfriend and/or getting laid (what everyone means when they say "a life" amirite?), apparently asking girls out for a 3AM moonlit stroll through the deserted parts of campus wasn't as romantic as I had thought at the time.
It's the government's fault?! The government forces companies to list their positions with "degree required"? The government is the one keeping all the highschool dropouts from becoming rich? The government is the one telling everyone that if they want to get anywhere in life, they have to be edumacated? Face it, government-provided access to student loans is not the primary driver of demand for a college education. Harvard doesn't charge $40,000 yearly in tuition and fees just because people can get $5000 from Sallie Mae.
As for cheap mortgages, people took out second mortgages to pay for vacations, remodeling, that Hummer they always wanted and the gas to run it, cosmetic surgery, investing in rental properties, investing in the stock market... you name it, the money was cheap and easy. People said "Hey, I can get this money, what can I spend it on?" I suspect that people did not go "hey, I got 50 letters in the mail saying I can get a student loan easy, what should I spend the money on?"
Note that the above link is about all the big lies on BOTH sides. Which still makes the point that BOTH sides produced some pretty uncontested (by the press) deceptions.
Only if you're going to persist in the view that only people operating machines that stamp ink onto paper is "the press".
Otherwise, you've not only found the "contested by the press", you're standing in it.
Remember that next time a politician calls for regulating bloggers or other people since they're "not the press".
Some fraction will never be. Some other fraction will not be given a chance to be. I suspect that adjusting the "prison harshness" slider will not change either number.
There are good reasons to limit prisoner coddling to "enough to prevent riots" though.
:set paste! to avoid the headache in the first place.:set pt=<f1> to avoid the headache of typing:set paste! every time you want to switch in and out of paste mode
Why should you or the government have any say in who sits on a corporate board?
Because the corporate fiction exists at the pleasure of the government. What the government giveth...
Connecting its legality to the actual delivery of product is just plain ignorant.
I wasn't. I was stating that connecting the price of futures to the actual price of product in certain situations is just plain ignorant, yet the supposed connection is why some people are calling for it to be banned, and others are insisting that it must not.
screws up price determination.
Price determination based on fraud is already screwed up, especially when price determination these days is generally done by automatic computerized rules and can't recognize that there's something wrong when over 100% of a company's shares all show up for sale at once.
The government decides to forgive some people's mortgage debt but not others -- how is that not picking winners and losers?
That would be, if anyone in government was apparently contemplating that. I can only find one single mortgage forgiven on google (the 90 year old who shot herself). Obama's plan is to refinance ARMs into fixed rate mortgages for people who actually can afford their house and to get the people who can't afford their house to sell it, which is no more of a bailout than the government loaning billions to AIG and various banks.
If the feds didn't force banks to make bad loans, we wouldn't be drowning in foreclosures.
We'd still have the 50% of the loans made by companies that weren't banks, plus whatever percentage of bank mortgages made after Bush undid Clinton's CRA regulations.
Nice try though, next time tell us about how the $200 billion in loans mae and mac held magically turned into a 3/4 trillion dollar bailout in a desperate attempt to convince us that it's all the government's fault because no company acting on its own would ever choose to write a loan that paid more interest than prime rates.
Only over-reactors (the SEC) and straw men (the SEC is evil and wants to kill your babies!) want to make "short selling" illegal. It's the "naked" part that's the problem. If you don't think naked short selling is fraud, then I have 30,000 bridges to ocean front property in Utah to sell you, and they're all the same one, and just between you and me, that one is not actually mine to sell.
limit executive compensation -- limiting a key growth motivator
Ideally, I'd rather limit corporate incest. Ban CEOs from serving on each other's boards. Then we can say that a group of independent people with the company's best interests in mind decided that the CEO should be paid millions of dollars because he provided that value to the company, not because the CEO will vote for their raises next quarter.
pick winners and losers in mortgage foreclosures
Winners are the people who are making their payments, losers are the people who aren't. Was there some other idea in mind? I will say that there's plenty of cases where banks are shooting themselves in the foot (for instance, evicting paying renters in good standing from rental properties, instead of considering transferring the mortgage contract and ownership of the house to the renter if they want it) where the bank deserves to die a miserable death instead of begging for the government to save it from its own stupidity.
do you think speculation is good or bad for the market?
I think speculation (and derivatives and everything else mankind has and will invent as ways to gamble money) is. I also think that people need to separate speculation from the actual delivery of product when talking about the economy. For instance, the run up of commodity futures prices (even as demand for oil, etc was dropping) is easy to explain as being due to the billions of dollars that hedge funds were pouring into the commodities markets driving up demand for futures, not for the actual commodities. It's not the speculation that's "bad", it's the misinterpretation.
banks were REQUIRED to give ARMs to people, regardless of their ability to pay them back.
And then Bush undid Clinton's CRA regulations, and what happened? Banks KEPT giving ARMs to people, because they were making good money on them.
You also didn't mention the other 50% of the loan originators that weren't banks and therefore weren't required to do anything by the CRA, but gave out ARMs to people because they were making good money too. Or the apparent steering of people from prime loans to subprime loans because, surprise surprise, subprime loans were making the banks and the brokers good money.
how likely do think it is for Congress to vote for limiting *their* number of terms?
Good thing that we don't need their input. If enough people spread out over enough states wanted it bad enough, we could call a Constitutional convention and do it ourselves.
It depends... Socialism is about redistributing from the rich to the poor, not the reverse. That would be more like... roberbaronism ?
Someone wrote a journal entry some time back about it, but I don't have the link. Since we're bailing out all these big companies that screwed up, it's clear that the proper term is "failureism"
On point 1, does that mean that you could just make a program that will go through a set of files, take pixel (0,0) from each and give it a random RGB value, and the hashes would be different enough just from that that they wouldn't match up with searches for known images' hashes?
Most dupe checkers would work around that, so I don't see why the government can't either.
Network transparency is IMO the killer feature of X, it would be a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thinking about it, you should do just fine simply by having a separate userspace "Xd" server listening (with appropriate security) for remote X client connections that feeds them into the local display through whatever IPC this is going to use (likely still going to use shared memory). This would be especially easy if the local communication protocol still uses the same types of messages (if it's not the X protocol itself).
If it continues to use the X protocol, then the applications themselves would continue to keep their network transparency.
I have no problems getting insurance even though I survived.
Did you get it on your own, or as part of a group (employer) policy, though? Group policies are not allowed to not bar you from the group, but they can refuse to pay for your preexisting condition (specifically) for X years (in my experience, X varies from 0.5 to 1). That is overriden by a federal law that forces insurance companies to cover conditions covered by a previous insurance company if the patient doesn't let the coverage lapse.
Also, with a $10 copay and no coinsurance or deductible on surgeries, your plan is clearly provided directly from God, so it's already atypical.
go to the third world. see people dying of diseases and conditions 50 cents and 15 minutes of a doctor's time woudl cure
Insurance won't fix it. Insurance companies would tell the doctors that they'll pay 25 cents, forcing the doctor to turn around and charge everyone else a buck fifty to make up the difference plus the overhead for haggling with the insurance company. The insurance companies will charge the patients a dollar, telling them how lucky they are that they're insured, and how terrible it would be if they got something "expensive" without it because the doctor would charge them $1.50.
The solution isn't to nationalize insurance or force everyone to obtain insurance. The solution is to abolish "health insurance" (socialism, except without the government coercion) in favor of returning to the old "major medical" plans of yore (you know, actual insurance, against something that has a certain chance of not happening, as opposed to betting that if I let go of this rock, it won't fall down). Bonus points if hospitals would get their shit together and have realistic up-front payment plans instead of "hurrr hurrr here's your $100000000 bill, will that be cash or should we have the collection agency call you every 5 minutes?".
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Each game could come with a masked guy holding a whip.
Plus it makes the pirated version much less exciting.
The masked guy and whip only ship in the retail box?
I wonder, what opportunities does it open up that Debian on ARM doesn't?
Corporate support?
Actually NatSemi had the Geode processors out first, they sold the line to AMD. Of course, NatSemi had gotten the technology in the first place when they merged with Cyrix.
I've been looking for a cheap phone I can assign mp3 ringtones to specific callers, preferably over USB. That way, I can assign the Imperial March to the boss's number, and the best part is that since he doesn't call me when I'm in the room, he'd never know ;)
i dunno wtf you need a pager for if you have a cell phone. Get a nice cell that does all the bells and whistles YOU desire and you're gtg.
Because sometimes you need to be paged.
Also, sending a page from a modem is trivial, just dial the number, pause, and dial whatever number or code you want. I can even program the ancient phone system at work to do that when someone calls after hours. If you've got a way to do that for an arbitrary cell phone provider for free, I'd love to hear about it (otherwise, you play guess the email-to-sms gateway, then get a mangled SMS with all sorts of useless header junk before you get to the text messa... which gets cut off because the headers filled up the SMS character limit).
A few cell phone providers do have "press X to page the person" in the voicemail system. Maybe this would work as long as the person remembered never to answer when the automated paging system was calling.
My sister is the only person I knew who chose "resale value" as the top criteria for buying a car. She hates the car, but at least she can sell it for more than a tenth of its value.
For the resale value to actually figure into the price of the new car, people like my sister have to be common, and I don't see that happening. In other words, when looking to buy a car, I expect people are going to say "this one doesn't have enough cupholders" or "this one doesn't have the zip I want", not "gee, I don't think I'll be able to resell this car".
That's why I work a full time job in addition to full time school. No social life, but hey, no debt.
That's how I did it. Full time student with a full time job and a bit on the side. Slept from 3AM to 7AM every day and lived on sugar and caffeine. Graduated 6 years and 150 pounds later, and the only debt I have is the 100lbs of fat I'm still trying to burn off.
Didn't have that much of a social life either. Managed to make it to a few anime club showings and met a few people I still consider friends both at work and in classes, but as far as getting a girlfriend and/or getting laid (what everyone means when they say "a life" amirite?), apparently asking girls out for a 3AM moonlit stroll through the deserted parts of campus wasn't as romantic as I had thought at the time.
It's the government's fault?! The government forces companies to list their positions with "degree required"? The government is the one keeping all the highschool dropouts from becoming rich? The government is the one telling everyone that if they want to get anywhere in life, they have to be edumacated? Face it, government-provided access to student loans is not the primary driver of demand for a college education. Harvard doesn't charge $40,000 yearly in tuition and fees just because people can get $5000 from Sallie Mae.
As for cheap mortgages, people took out second mortgages to pay for vacations, remodeling, that Hummer they always wanted and the gas to run it, cosmetic surgery, investing in rental properties, investing in the stock market... you name it, the money was cheap and easy. People said "Hey, I can get this money, what can I spend it on?" I suspect that people did not go "hey, I got 50 letters in the mail saying I can get a student loan easy, what should I spend the money on?"
And I completely accept that it was not obvious to you.
Sorry, I was thrown by the "(by the press)" aside you threw in there, which filtered through my own bias was a stronger modifier than "pretty".
Note that the above link is about all the big lies on BOTH sides. Which still makes the point that BOTH sides produced some pretty uncontested (by the press) deceptions.
Only if you're going to persist in the view that only people operating machines that stamp ink onto paper is "the press".
Otherwise, you've not only found the "contested by the press", you're standing in it.
Remember that next time a politician calls for regulating bloggers or other people since they're "not the press".
they could be a productive citizen
Some fraction will never be. Some other fraction will not be given a chance to be. I suspect that adjusting the "prison harshness" slider will not change either number.
There are good reasons to limit prisoner coddling to "enough to prevent riots" though.
Find an interesting problem that people would like to work on.
:set paste! to avoid the headache in the first place. :set pt=<f1> to avoid the headache of typing :set paste! every time you want to switch in and out of paste mode
You may have the right to say what you wish, but if you inaccurately shout "FIRE!!!" in a crowded theater
What if I stub my toe in the dark and shout "FUCK!!!"
Why should you or the government have any say in who sits on a corporate board?
Because the corporate fiction exists at the pleasure of the government. What the government giveth...
Connecting its legality to the actual delivery of product is just plain ignorant.
I wasn't. I was stating that connecting the price of futures to the actual price of product in certain situations is just plain ignorant, yet the supposed connection is why some people are calling for it to be banned, and others are insisting that it must not.
screws up price determination.
Price determination based on fraud is already screwed up, especially when price determination these days is generally done by automatic computerized rules and can't recognize that there's something wrong when over 100% of a company's shares all show up for sale at once.
The government decides to forgive some people's mortgage debt but not others -- how is that not picking winners and losers?
That would be, if anyone in government was apparently contemplating that. I can only find one single mortgage forgiven on google (the 90 year old who shot herself). Obama's plan is to refinance ARMs into fixed rate mortgages for people who actually can afford their house and to get the people who can't afford their house to sell it, which is no more of a bailout than the government loaning billions to AIG and various banks.
If the feds didn't force banks to make bad loans, we wouldn't be drowning in foreclosures.
We'd still have the 50% of the loans made by companies that weren't banks, plus whatever percentage of bank mortgages made after Bush undid Clinton's CRA regulations.
Nice try though, next time tell us about how the $200 billion in loans mae and mac held magically turned into a 3/4 trillion dollar bailout in a desperate attempt to convince us that it's all the government's fault because no company acting on its own would ever choose to write a loan that paid more interest than prime rates.
make short selling illegal
Only over-reactors (the SEC) and straw men (the SEC is evil and wants to kill your babies!) want to make "short selling" illegal. It's the "naked" part that's the problem. If you don't think naked short selling is fraud, then I have 30,000 bridges to ocean front property in Utah to sell you, and they're all the same one, and just between you and me, that one is not actually mine to sell.
limit executive compensation -- limiting a key growth motivator
Ideally, I'd rather limit corporate incest. Ban CEOs from serving on each other's boards. Then we can say that a group of independent people with the company's best interests in mind decided that the CEO should be paid millions of dollars because he provided that value to the company, not because the CEO will vote for their raises next quarter.
pick winners and losers in mortgage foreclosures
Winners are the people who are making their payments, losers are the people who aren't. Was there some other idea in mind? I will say that there's plenty of cases where banks are shooting themselves in the foot (for instance, evicting paying renters in good standing from rental properties, instead of considering transferring the mortgage contract and ownership of the house to the renter if they want it) where the bank deserves to die a miserable death instead of begging for the government to save it from its own stupidity.
do you think speculation is good or bad for the market?
I think speculation (and derivatives and everything else mankind has and will invent as ways to gamble money) is. I also think that people need to separate speculation from the actual delivery of product when talking about the economy. For instance, the run up of commodity futures prices (even as demand for oil, etc was dropping) is easy to explain as being due to the billions of dollars that hedge funds were pouring into the commodities markets driving up demand for futures, not for the actual commodities. It's not the speculation that's "bad", it's the misinterpretation.
banks were REQUIRED to give ARMs to people, regardless of their ability to pay them back.
And then Bush undid Clinton's CRA regulations, and what happened? Banks KEPT giving ARMs to people, because they were making good money on them.
You also didn't mention the other 50% of the loan originators that weren't banks and therefore weren't required to do anything by the CRA, but gave out ARMs to people because they were making good money too. Or the apparent steering of people from prime loans to subprime loans because, surprise surprise, subprime loans were making the banks and the brokers good money.
how likely do think it is for Congress to vote for limiting *their* number of terms?
Good thing that we don't need their input. If enough people spread out over enough states wanted it bad enough, we could call a Constitutional convention and do it ourselves.
It depends... Socialism is about redistributing from the rich to the poor, not the reverse. That would be more like... roberbaronism ?
Someone wrote a journal entry some time back about it, but I don't have the link. Since we're bailing out all these big companies that screwed up, it's clear that the proper term is "failureism"
On point 1, does that mean that you could just make a program that will go through a set of files, take pixel (0,0) from each and give it a random RGB value, and the hashes would be different enough just from that that they wouldn't match up with searches for known images' hashes?
Most dupe checkers would work around that, so I don't see why the government can't either.
Network transparency is IMO the killer feature of X, it would be a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Thinking about it, you should do just fine simply by having a separate userspace "Xd" server listening (with appropriate security) for remote X client connections that feeds them into the local display through whatever IPC this is going to use (likely still going to use shared memory). This would be especially easy if the local communication protocol still uses the same types of messages (if it's not the X protocol itself).
If it continues to use the X protocol, then the applications themselves would continue to keep their network transparency.
I have no problems getting insurance even though I survived.
Did you get it on your own, or as part of a group (employer) policy, though? Group policies are not allowed to not bar you from the group, but they can refuse to pay for your preexisting condition (specifically) for X years (in my experience, X varies from 0.5 to 1). That is overriden by a federal law that forces insurance companies to cover conditions covered by a previous insurance company if the patient doesn't let the coverage lapse.
Also, with a $10 copay and no coinsurance or deductible on surgeries, your plan is clearly provided directly from God, so it's already atypical.
Americans WON'T go for preventative care without incentive.
Do what Cuba does: force them.
go to the third world. see people dying of diseases and conditions 50 cents and 15 minutes of a doctor's time woudl cure
Insurance won't fix it. Insurance companies would tell the doctors that they'll pay 25 cents, forcing the doctor to turn around and charge everyone else a buck fifty to make up the difference plus the overhead for haggling with the insurance company. The insurance companies will charge the patients a dollar, telling them how lucky they are that they're insured, and how terrible it would be if they got something "expensive" without it because the doctor would charge them $1.50.
The solution isn't to nationalize insurance or force everyone to obtain insurance. The solution is to abolish "health insurance" (socialism, except without the government coercion) in favor of returning to the old "major medical" plans of yore (you know, actual insurance, against something that has a certain chance of not happening, as opposed to betting that if I let go of this rock, it won't fall down). Bonus points if hospitals would get their shit together and have realistic up-front payment plans instead of "hurrr hurrr here's your $100000000 bill, will that be cash or should we have the collection agency call you every 5 minutes?".