Sounds like he needs the lastest 4-in-1 drivers from his mobo manufacturer, or directly from VIA. I had an Athlon that was moderately unstable under XP until I upgraded those.
If it's homebuilt, this could be heat. These 1 GHz+ processors sure need a lot of fans!
Unless I'm gravely mistaken, one of the flourinert compounds was used in the primary cooling loop of the Cray Y-MP supercomputers. It went through a heat exchanger to a secondary cooling loop of Freon, which then either went to a big radiator on the roof, or a smaller one immersed in a laboratory chilled water supply. Cray techs had to be certified as refrigerator repairmen as well as electronics techs.
I doubt that your machine had PCI slots, so what you were probably seeing was the faster graphical performance of a Microchannel video card. The bus was a hell of a lot faster than ISA.
This is an inductive proof. Anyone who finds the technique inelegant better worry, since pretty much the entire field of Computer Science is held up by similiar "inelegant" logic.
Come to think of it, most of Abstract Algebra is as well. Someone want to help me out here? I only audited AA at eight in the morning and dated a math major. I wasn't paying much attention to math on either occasion.
Somehow, call it intuition, I think she "gets" his sense of humor. She may be the only one, however.
It always amazes me at how seriously people take this site. Rob, Jeff, Neal, anc company I can understand, since it pays the bills. It appears the rest of us need more slack badly.
Amen. I'm reminded of William Shatner on Saturday Night Live. Between this carping and the boycott talk, there's plenty of evidence that some folks around here than need "Free Life" coupons. Badly.
Actually, they've at least partially abandoned the microkernel since NT 4.0. They couldn't get video performance to where they wanted it without having the video drivers bypass the HAL.
While this may make sense for a workstation and/or Playstation, it is idiotic for a server. It seems to me that they have enough profit to maintain a server version of the OS where a bad video call won't bring the entire freaking server down. Not to mention, why does my DB server need a web browser?!?!
And, no, I don't run X on any of *nix servers, although it is usually installed.
I thought the Harley custom program was largely a response to a thriving modification aftermarket. They essentially saw that the demand was there and moved in to take a piece of it.
There aren't very many mod shops for Powerbooks yet. If it becomes a viable business, it would make sense for Apple to try to grab a piece of that pie.
In the end, it comes down to economics. Every time Apple comes up with something interesting, there's a whole group of people who jump all over them for their prices being too high. If they had more choices, they'd be ordering parts in even smaller numbers and the prices would be even higher. They need to walk a fine line between having too many choices and being boring. I think Steve would rather die than be boring.
I don't think that the previous poster was suggesting that this software be inherently illegal. He was stating that if anyone installed this software without his permission, on his hardware, then the manufacturer of the spyware would be liable for disabling the anti-spyware he had already installed. (Whew!, this is getting confusing!)
In your scenario, there wouldn't be any legal problems, except for the fact that many states (Maryland among them) ban recording "telephone conversations" without the explicit consent of both parties. I don't know if that could be stretched to include IRC, but any NetPhone usage that was recorded might get you in trouble.
I just noticed that you have a UK address, so some of this may not apply, although I understand Europe has some pretty tought privacy laws.
What if that "someone else" was the spyware company itself, using a deceptive installer? What if the spyware company marketed the program to shareware authors specifically for the purpose of doing "stealth installs" to collect marketing information to be re-sold? Liability is not easy to determine here. Again, if it was installed by your employer on your employer's computers, you have no leg to stand on.
You can hope all you want about my company, because I'm a PHB for the purposes of this discussion.
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you mean here, so I'll omit any sarcastic comments on this one, just in case you're not saying what I think you are. I will only observe that there is a large diference between the merely legal and the ethical and that the hope of profit can cloud the issue even further.
...If I want to install this on all my company's PCs...
At which point we are no longer talking about his PC. He's merely asking for control of his own personal property. The company is asking for control of its own property. There is no conflict here.
I would hope, however, that if you did see the need to install this software on your company's machines, you would be decent enough to let the employees know that they were being monitored.
College of Wooster does it too, except that the sidewalks are the roofs of the steam conduits from the power plant to the building. I was always under the impression that this kind of thing was common in North-Central Ohio.
I always thought that the Mig-29 was an answer to the F-16, not the F-18. As I understand it, it went something like this:
<Scooby-Doo Disolve>
The U.S. builds the the F-15 to replace the aging F-4 and F-111 fighters. They spend a lot of money to build just about the best air superiority fighter buildable at the time. The Russians take one look at it and realize that they can't build a fighter as good, but that their designs are about ten times cheaper than the F-15, so they'll build a lot more.
The U.S. Air Force takes a look at the situation and tries buy a lot more F-15s to match the huge number of MIG-27s (principally) that the Soviets are building. Congress gets a look at the price tag and craps their pants.
Someone has a brilliant idea: we'll build a fighter that's not quite as good, but a whole lot cheaper. We'll use the really good stuff at critical points and still have enough of the cheaper fighters so that we're not outnumbered 10 to 1.
Congress approves. The defense industry gets a hold of the design of the cheap fighter and keeps adding widgets to it until it nearly costs as much as the original F-15. In the meantime, though, the F-15 has been upgraded a few times, so it's still technically more expensive. Both fighters are deployed.
The Soviets decide that they need to upgrade their fighters. They either research the technologies involved in building the latest U.S. fighters, or the KGB buys the plans off of a disgruntled defense worker. Instead of building one relatively inexpensive fighter with modern technology and then building a whole lot of them (a la the MIG-27 series) they decide that they need to build a fighter to compete with each of the U.S. designs.
Therefore, the current production fighters are both built as an answer to all of those Soviet MIG-27s, which are currently going out of service. Kind of ironic, when you think about it.
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How about John Romero? It would have been fun to see flashy trailers, but see the movie, released three years behind schedule, contain no action and and be slow as molasses on the screen.
And you can't walk out because you'd leave your pal, SuperFly, behind...
Short answer of course, is that there are no operational fast breeders at this time. The concept has been proved in experimental setups, both in the US and in France. It would take far less than the half-century a previous poster suggested to ramp these designs up to power generation.
The problem is the security, and it may be insurmountable. The areas of the world that could most use the cheap power are the very areas that we would never trust with the technology. If the superconductor folks could just get us a usable transmission wire, we might be able to solve this by putting the reactors in a relatively stable area and piping the power out. That's probably a half-century out, at least.
The previous comment was talking about blowing away the atmosphere with nukes. Ain't going to happen. The mass of the atmosphere alone argues against it.
The short lived isotopes do indeed suck to be around, but they aren't going to terminate life on Earth. Human life maybe, but we aren't so powerful that we can wipe out life itself.
Do not be too proud of this technological terror you have constructed.
You do know that the Mt. St. Helens eruption involved more energy than all of the nuclear weapons in the world combined? And that it occurred all in one place? Seems to me that I'm still breathing. The Earth has also withstood asteroid impacts far in excess of our puny nuclear arsenals without permanent damage to the atmosphere.
This argument is specious. I would suggest that you Google the term "breeder reactor" before worrying too much about limited Uranium supplies. If we were building fast breeders and a reclamation infrastructure we could go a very long time on the Uranium we've already extracted from the ground.
The problem is that we'd be switching to reactors that use bomb-grade Plutonium. Security around the plants (both power and reprocessing) would need to be draconian. You can also forget trying to transfer the technology to less stable parts of the world for this reason.
We're going to need a combination of conservation and judicious use of all energy technologies if we intend to get out of this mess.
Thanks for the clarification. I've always wondered how the exemption got around the Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. This pretty much explains it. Still, I stand by the sense of my previous post. Microsoft's huge income may very well allow it to buy an exemption from the law, even if it is found that Windows is a generic term.
Let's not celebrate yet. If this judge does rule that Windows is a generic term, it will most certainly be appealed. If all the appeals are lost, it would not suprise me in the least to see an attempt to "solve" the problem legislatively. Something along the lines of MLB's anti-trust exemption.
Basically, never bet against the money in a case like this.
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If it's homebuilt, this could be heat. These 1 GHz+ processors sure need a lot of fans!
Unless I'm gravely mistaken, one of the flourinert compounds was used in the primary cooling loop of the Cray Y-MP supercomputers. It went through a heat exchanger to a secondary cooling loop of Freon, which then either went to a big radiator on the roof, or a smaller one immersed in a laboratory chilled water supply. Cray techs had to be certified as refrigerator repairmen as well as electronics techs.
I doubt that your machine had PCI slots, so what you were probably seeing was the faster graphical performance of a Microchannel video card. The bus was a hell of a lot faster than ISA.
Come to think of it, most of Abstract Algebra is as well. Someone want to help me out here? I only audited AA at eight in the morning and dated a math major. I wasn't paying much attention to math on either occasion.
It always amazes me at how seriously people take this site. Rob, Jeff, Neal, anc company I can understand, since it pays the bills. It appears the rest of us need more slack badly.
Amen. I'm reminded of William Shatner on Saturday Night Live. Between this carping and the boycott talk, there's plenty of evidence that some folks around here than need "Free Life" coupons. Badly.
While this may make sense for a workstation and/or Playstation, it is idiotic for a server. It seems to me that they have enough profit to maintain a server version of the OS where a bad video call won't bring the entire freaking server down. Not to mention, why does my DB server need a web browser?!?!
And, no, I don't run X on any of *nix servers, although it is usually installed.
There aren't very many mod shops for Powerbooks yet. If it becomes a viable business, it would make sense for Apple to try to grab a piece of that pie.
In the end, it comes down to economics. Every time Apple comes up with something interesting, there's a whole group of people who jump all over them for their prices being too high. If they had more choices, they'd be ordering parts in even smaller numbers and the prices would be even higher. They need to walk a fine line between having too many choices and being boring. I think Steve would rather die than be boring.
In your scenario, there wouldn't be any legal problems, except for the fact that many states (Maryland among them) ban recording "telephone conversations" without the explicit consent of both parties. I don't know if that could be stretched to include IRC, but any NetPhone usage that was recorded might get you in trouble.
I just noticed that you have a UK address, so some of this may not apply, although I understand Europe has some pretty tought privacy laws.
What if that "someone else" was the spyware company itself, using a deceptive installer? What if the spyware company marketed the program to shareware authors specifically for the purpose of doing "stealth installs" to collect marketing information to be re-sold? Liability is not easy to determine here. Again, if it was installed by your employer on your employer's computers, you have no leg to stand on.
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you mean here, so I'll omit any sarcastic comments on this one, just in case you're not saying what I think you are. I will only observe that there is a large diference between the merely legal and the ethical and that the hope of profit can cloud the issue even further.
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At which point we are no longer talking about his PC. He's merely asking for control of his own personal property. The company is asking for control of its own property. There is no conflict here.
I would hope, however, that if you did see the need to install this software on your company's machines, you would be decent enough to let the employees know that they were being monitored.
College of Wooster does it too, except that the sidewalks are the roofs of the steam conduits from the power plant to the building. I was always under the impression that this kind of thing was common in North-Central Ohio.
<Scooby-Doo Disolve>
The U.S. builds the the F-15 to replace the aging F-4 and F-111 fighters. They spend a lot of money to build just about the best air superiority fighter buildable at the time. The Russians take one look at it and realize that they can't build a fighter as good, but that their designs are about ten times cheaper than the F-15, so they'll build a lot more.
The U.S. Air Force takes a look at the situation and tries buy a lot more F-15s to match the huge number of MIG-27s (principally) that the Soviets are building. Congress gets a look at the price tag and craps their pants.
Someone has a brilliant idea: we'll build a fighter that's not quite as good, but a whole lot cheaper. We'll use the really good stuff at critical points and still have enough of the cheaper fighters so that we're not outnumbered 10 to 1.
Congress approves. The defense industry gets a hold of the design of the cheap fighter and keeps adding widgets to it until it nearly costs as much as the original F-15. In the meantime, though, the F-15 has been upgraded a few times, so it's still technically more expensive. Both fighters are deployed.
The Soviets decide that they need to upgrade their fighters. They either research the technologies involved in building the latest U.S. fighters, or the KGB buys the plans off of a disgruntled defense worker. Instead of building one relatively inexpensive fighter with modern technology and then building a whole lot of them (a la the MIG-27 series) they decide that they need to build a fighter to compete with each of the U.S. designs.
Therefore, the current production fighters are both built as an answer to all of those Soviet MIG-27s, which are currently going out of service. Kind of ironic, when you think about it.
And you can't walk out because you'd leave your pal, SuperFly, behind...
The problem is the security, and it may be insurmountable. The areas of the world that could most use the cheap power are the very areas that we would never trust with the technology. If the superconductor folks could just get us a usable transmission wire, we might be able to solve this by putting the reactors in a relatively stable area and piping the power out. That's probably a half-century out, at least.
The short lived isotopes do indeed suck to be around, but they aren't going to terminate life on Earth. Human life maybe, but we aren't so powerful that we can wipe out life itself.
You do know that the Mt. St. Helens eruption involved more energy than all of the nuclear weapons in the world combined? And that it occurred all in one place? Seems to me that I'm still breathing. The Earth has also withstood asteroid impacts far in excess of our puny nuclear arsenals without permanent damage to the atmosphere.
The problem is that we'd be switching to reactors that use bomb-grade Plutonium. Security around the plants (both power and reprocessing) would need to be draconian. You can also forget trying to transfer the technology to less stable parts of the world for this reason.
We're going to need a combination of conservation and judicious use of all energy technologies if we intend to get out of this mess.
What color is the sky on your home planet?
And they left out a lot of the stuff that made VMS cool, too. What ever happened to version as part of the file name anyway?
Thanks for the clarification. I've always wondered how the exemption got around the Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. This pretty much explains it. Still, I stand by the sense of my previous post. Microsoft's huge income may very well allow it to buy an exemption from the law, even if it is found that Windows is a generic term.
Basically, never bet against the money in a case like this.