THIS WAS POSTED BY AN AC above. People need to see this, so I am posting this at +2.
Let the whining begin. Someone will say it is because George W Bush stopped the Kyoto treaty which would have reduced greenhouse gases and prevented this.
Of course, this is wrong on three counts: # The United States Senate (including its Democrats) have blocked the treaty, not George W Bush # The Kyoto Treaty increases greenhouse gas emissions (please check section about China) # There is no evidence of human impact on global warming anyway
The RTL8129 series is a low-cost design, and thus should be considered a "connectivity solution" rather a performance-oriented product.
The RTL8139 series improves on the integration and feature set, adding advanced features such as 802.3x Flow Control and incorporating the transceiver onto a single chip. The data transfer engine remains the same, with much improved PCI burst performance in the B and C versions.
While the chip is a bus master, it's not a descriptor-based bus master. The receive side transfers packets into a single linear ring (compile-time selectable as 8KB, 16KB, 32KB or 64KB) in host memory. The driver immediately copies the packets from the ring to newly-allocated buffers ("skbuffs"). Most other Fast Ethernet designs use a descriptor-based architecture, which allows packets the chip to transfer directly into pre-allocated maximum-sized skbuffs. The driver then optionally copies only tiny packets into smaller-sized skbuffs.
On the transmit side four register sets hold the address and size of the packets to be transmitted. While this results in a rather small, fixed-size transmit queue, four entries is adequate for full performance in most environments.
The transmit performance loss comes from an initially undocumented (yes, that means it took many hours to find) word-alignment requirement of the current chip. Linux cache-aligns the IP header and following payload data when constructing a packet. When the 14 byte Ethernet header is prepended, the complete packet is 2-byte aligned, but not 4-byte aligned. The result is that all IP packets must be copied to an alignment buffer before being queued for transmit.
"n a study to be released next month by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and provided exclusively to The Jerusalem Post, Palestinian sources confirm that at least 34 Palestinian armed terrorists were killed fighting in the battle for the Jenin Refugee Camp.
The total number of Palestinian causalities in the battle was 52, a sharp contrast from the claims of Palestinian propaganda professionals who have openly stated that thousands had died.
[...] The study reveals that for the first time that Palestinian terror organizations saw themselves as "armed combatants" and not as civilians who died in a deadly massacre.
The 35 page study, which is based on primary sources, clearly illustrates that Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas prepared themselves thoroughly with automatic weapons, grenades, anti-tank missiles and explosives and perceived the confrontation with IDF troops as nothing less than a "military to military battle."
The study refutes claims by PA leaders at the time that IDF forces were attacking innocent civilians and that the only Palestinians who had perished in the battle of Jenin were innocent, unarmed Palestinian men, women and children.
[...] In addition the research indicates that Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas had created a joint bomb making facility in Jenin which produced over two tons of explosives.
The JCPA paper states that civilians were intentionally used as human shields and that both women and children were deployed by Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to divert IDF troops into ambushes and booby-trapped areas.
The Jenin Refugee Camp was prepared as a "reinforced fortress" where nearly 200 Palestinian terrorists had gathered for the battle, the JCPA research states. "
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Please leave SCO's lawyers out of this!
YOU need to pay more attention! the post directly below yours has it right!!! :->
They are real. Unless I am typing this on an imaganary laptop!
Dude, you need to get laid. Seriously!
You haven't read the treaty. Read it and you will see how messed up it is.
No. They are FACTS. Facts have no ideology. It is how one choses to interprute those facts that matters.
Don't post as an AC, and I will debate the issue with you.
THIS WAS POSTED BY AN AC above. People need to see this, so I am posting this at +2.
Let the whining begin. Someone will say it is because George W Bush stopped the Kyoto treaty which would have reduced greenhouse gases and prevented this.
Of course, this is wrong on three counts:
# The United States Senate (including its Democrats) have blocked the treaty, not George W Bush
# The Kyoto Treaty increases greenhouse gas emissions (please check section about China)
# There is no evidence of human impact on global warming anyway
How is presenting facts "shouting a cheer?"
Sadly, most of the human race thinks that way. And you know it.
They are slow.
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The RTL8129 series is a low-cost design, and thus should be considered a "connectivity solution" rather a performance-oriented product.
The RTL8139 series improves on the integration and feature set, adding advanced features such as 802.3x Flow Control and incorporating the transceiver onto a single chip. The data transfer engine remains the same, with much improved PCI burst performance in the B and C versions.
While the chip is a bus master, it's not a descriptor-based bus master. The receive side transfers packets into a single linear ring (compile-time selectable as 8KB, 16KB, 32KB or 64KB) in host memory. The driver immediately copies the packets from the ring to newly-allocated buffers ("skbuffs"). Most other Fast Ethernet designs use a descriptor-based architecture, which allows packets the chip to transfer directly into pre-allocated maximum-sized skbuffs. The driver then optionally copies only tiny packets into smaller-sized skbuffs.
On the transmit side four register sets hold the address and size of the packets to be transmitted. While this results in a rather small, fixed-size transmit queue, four entries is adequate for full performance in most environments.
The transmit performance loss comes from an initially undocumented (yes, that means it took many hours to find) word-alignment requirement of the current chip. Linux cache-aligns the IP header and following payload data when constructing a packet. When the 14 byte Ethernet header is prepended, the complete packet is 2-byte aligned, but not 4-byte aligned. The result is that all IP packets must be copied to an alignment buffer before being queued for transmit.
Is it really that damn hard to open the fridge and check the milk/oj yourself?
Do you wish to sell it?
Then how do you suggest they make money in the short term?
$15 for a nic/modem. Unless you got it off ebay, it must be a crappy (realtek) based one.
It is also 1,000.00 per copy if you wish to sell programs written with it. And currently lacks a runtime GUI builder (unless I am mistaken).
Borland ported Delphi to Linux and called it Kylix. But I am not sure how well it sold.
I remember reading in Byte magazine years ago a quote from microsoft that went something like this.
"As soon as a Unix get over 1,000,000 seats, we will port Office over to it"
Because the media doesn't die if you look at it funny.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1957862.
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subj
"n a study to be released next month by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and provided exclusively to The Jerusalem Post, Palestinian sources confirm that at least 34 Palestinian armed terrorists were killed fighting in the battle for the Jenin Refugee Camp.
The total number of Palestinian causalities in the battle was 52, a sharp contrast from the claims of Palestinian propaganda professionals who have openly stated that thousands had died.
[...] The study reveals that for the first time that Palestinian terror organizations saw themselves as "armed combatants" and not as civilians who died in a deadly massacre.
The 35 page study, which is based on primary sources, clearly illustrates that Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas prepared themselves thoroughly with automatic weapons, grenades, anti-tank missiles and explosives and perceived the confrontation with IDF troops as nothing less than a "military to military battle."
The study refutes claims by PA leaders at the time that IDF forces were attacking innocent civilians and that the only Palestinians who had perished in the battle of Jenin were innocent, unarmed Palestinian men, women and children.
[...] In addition the research indicates that Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas had created a joint bomb making facility in Jenin which produced over two tons of explosives.
The JCPA paper states that civilians were intentionally used as human shields and that both women and children were deployed by Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to divert IDF troops into ambushes and booby-trapped areas.
The Jenin Refugee Camp was prepared as a "reinforced fortress" where nearly 200 Palestinian terrorists had gathered for the battle, the JCPA research states. "
It isn't hypocracy on my part. He is guilty of crimes against humanity and should be taken care of.
As for the world court, would that be the same world court that has NO real inforcement power? What would they do? Ask nicely for him to surrender?
As an aside, why is it that everyone I debate on this issues has to hide behind an alias or be an AC?
When can you state? We need a new head of MSFT security!
Maybe. But I would not blowup innocent civilans. I would go after those directly causing what I had an issue with.
Straping bombs to oneself and blowing up women and kids is what cowards do.
After all, Halo PC IS competing against UT2k3 and Quake III.
No. It is OK because Arafat helps pay for the suicide bombers whos MAIN MISSION is to kill women and kids.