I should have mentioned that in my last post, I should also not be up at 4:56 AM. but in any case I am.
I personaly feel that there is no reason to belive in god, and I don't mean like "It's good for you" or whatever.
If you want me to belive somthing, you need to prove it, or at least come resonably close. There is no evidence that god exsists, so why belive in him?
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The textbook definition of an atheist is someone who believes that it can be *proven* that God doesn't exist. Is this what you believe?
Um, it can't be proven that god dosn't exist, just like it can't be proven that Santa Claus dosn't exist.
It dosn't mean you should belive in ether one though...
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Is it possible to learn to design motherboards and such without having a degree in electrical engineering?
Well, obviously you can learn anything without actualy getting a degree, but you can't build a motherboard without knowing a lot about EE. and you wouldn't be able to build a modern one with out several hundred thousand dolars worth of facilitys (I think)
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Kids shouldn't be using a calculator til high school, IMO. Use your head! That's what it's for!
Yes, that's a great Idea, linear Algibra is just so much fun without a calculator, I mean, I know I love spending hours doing redundant calculations so I can graph an equasion by hand!
Oh, I'm sorry, I guess you ment we should still be teaching kids worthless addition and subtraction untill there 15 so they get borred and sick of math. Yes! the same for everone!
If you've missed my point, its that you are an idiot.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
All simiconductors function, and have always functioned at room temprature, what do you think is running the PC your using?
and if your talking about superconductors, No one ever said that it was imposible, and I really doubt that someone with enough know-how to build a room-temprature one (witch I doubt has happend, btw) wouldn't know about its potential limitations
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't like apple at all, but Jobs actualy knows what hes doing. He may have alienated a lot of the mac-arati, but then he is selling a lot more boxes, and the company is making a lot more money...
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't like apple at all, but Jobs actualy knows what hes doing. He may have alienated a lot of the mac-arati, but then he is selling a lot more boxes, and the company is making a lot more money.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
AX, BX, CX, DX, you forgot SP BP CS IP flags and probably more of the orgional 8086 arcitecture. that's nine.
Over time, x86 has grown quite a bit, with floating point/mmx, SSE, 3dnow and a whole slew of other registers for other stuff (and don't forget that the 'X registers can be split into *h and *l).
Still less then PPC, though. The main diffrence is in that on x86 the registers are exsplicetly named, and have diffrend spesific functions (like the acumulater(AX), the coutner(CX), the stack pointer(SP), the code Segment(CS), etc)whereas RISC systems have numbered registers that can be used for anything.
But, this guy obviously didn't know what he's talking about at all
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Pin-yin Rominzation, the system used to write the chinese spoken language in roman characters is taught in Chinese schools, and has been for decades. Every one there with an education knows how to do it.
English is also taught.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Chinese characters on a PC. (at least to my knowledge) In spite of this view, I still use a Mac as my primary computing device, with a Linux box running a close second.
I havn't had to much trouble entering chinese characters into My PC, check out windowsUpdate if you have win98, and get the Global IME stuff.
you just type the pin-yin into the keyboard (without the tone marks) and the characters show up on the screen. There are other methods to.
You do need to know how to use a standard keybord, and pin-yin. Given the fact that English, and pin-yin are taught in all chinese schools now, I don't really think that's much of an issue.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
While you could still do all your acounting with an abucus, it would be stupid.
all technology advances, the Apple ][ was an amazing design, and survived long Long after steve jobs intended (actualy, most of the pre-mac time was spent hyping the apple III witch never got off the ground).
But ultimately, the apple II was an 8bit, OSless macine, while beautiful, and elegeant it had to become obsolete sometime.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
when you're using a computer, nowadays, you are probably going to be using more then one program.
Would you like it if one of the programs you were using was able to crash the entire computer? Well, if you answered no, then you probably want to be running with Memory protection, since that's what it does. While Average Joe User probably dosn't really know what Memory Protection is, they probably dislike system crashes as much programers, I would think.
Premtive Multitasking makes it imposible for one application to freez the computer.
Memory protection and Multitasking arn't just toys for programers, they offer real improvements for users.
Now, applications Can crash windows 9x, by calling buggy OS functions. But these are due to bugs, not design failure. Windows NT, witch is much less buggy then 9x (but I likes my backwards compatiblity with dos, thank you) Can stay up for months or even years under normal single user loads.
I've used Macs at my highschool (graduated last year), and I can tell you from personal exsperance that I would have loved it if those things had protected memory.
btw, sorry for all the spelling errors, I'm away from a spellchecker right now:(
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
The only diffrence between the two is the laser used. DVD drives cost about the same amount. In anyevent, DVD moves cost about as much as audio CDs, so I don't see why putting movies on CD would make them any cheaper.
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I should have mentioned that in my last post, I should also not be up at 4:56 AM. but in any case I am.
I personaly feel that there is no reason to belive in god, and I don't mean like "It's good for you" or whatever.
If you want me to belive somthing, you need to prove it, or at least come resonably close. There is no evidence that god exsists, so why belive in him?
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
The textbook definition of an atheist is someone who believes that it can be *proven* that God doesn't exist. Is this what you believe?
Um, it can't be proven that god dosn't exist, just like it can't be proven that Santa Claus dosn't exist.
It dosn't mean you should belive in ether one though...
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Is it possible to learn to design motherboards and such without having a degree in electrical engineering?
Well, obviously you can learn anything without actualy getting a degree, but you can't build a motherboard without knowing a lot about EE. and you wouldn't be able to build a modern one with out several hundred thousand dolars worth of facilitys (I think)
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I mean, wouldn't it have made a lot more sense just to leave it plugged in?
Besides all the stuff woz would have written would have been burned into ROMs
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Kids shouldn't be using a calculator til high school, IMO. Use your head! That's what it's for!
Yes, that's a great Idea, linear Algibra is just so much fun without a calculator, I mean, I know I love spending hours doing redundant calculations so I can graph an equasion by hand!
Oh, I'm sorry, I guess you ment we should still be teaching kids worthless addition and subtraction untill there 15 so they get borred and sick of math. Yes! the same for everone!
If you've missed my point, its that you are an idiot.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
All simiconductors function, and have always functioned at room temprature, what do you think is running the PC your using?
and if your talking about superconductors, No one ever said that it was imposible, and I really doubt that someone with enough know-how to build a room-temprature one (witch I doubt has happend, btw) wouldn't know about its potential limitations
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't like apple at all, but Jobs actualy knows what hes doing. He may have alienated a lot of the mac-arati, but then he is selling a lot more boxes, and the company is making a lot more money...
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Woz is one of the best tetris players in the world, infact He had to start using fake names to get in the pages of Nintendo power after a while :P
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
people all over the world have been calling woz a god, and he's probably started to belive it.
and he would be right. Woz Is a god, and he can say whatever he damn-well pleases
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't think woz has had much of anything to do with the design of the Mac.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
I don't like apple at all, but Jobs actualy knows what hes doing. He may have alienated a lot of the mac-arati, but then he is selling a lot more boxes, and the company is making a lot more money.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
AX, BX, CX, DX, you forgot SP BP CS IP flags and probably more of the orgional 8086 arcitecture. that's nine.
Over time, x86 has grown quite a bit, with floating point/mmx, SSE, 3dnow and a whole slew of other registers for other stuff (and don't forget that the 'X registers can be split into *h and *l).
Still less then PPC, though. The main diffrence is in that on x86 the registers are exsplicetly named, and have diffrend spesific functions (like the acumulater(AX), the coutner(CX), the stack pointer(SP), the code Segment(CS), etc)whereas RISC systems have numbered registers that can be used for anything.
But, this guy obviously didn't know what he's talking about at all
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
someone pointed this out already, but BSD was not writen by mainframe programers. Unix was always about mini, and later, microcomputers (PCs)
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Pin-yin Rominzation, the system used to write the chinese spoken language in roman characters is taught in Chinese schools, and has been for decades. Every one there with an education knows how to do it.
English is also taught.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Chinese characters on a PC. (at least to my knowledge) In spite of this view, I still use a Mac as my primary computing device, with a Linux box running a close second.
I havn't had to much trouble entering chinese characters into My PC, check out windowsUpdate if you have win98, and get the Global IME stuff.
you just type the pin-yin into the keyboard (without the tone marks) and the characters show up on the screen. There are other methods to.
You do need to know how to use a standard keybord, and pin-yin. Given the fact that English, and pin-yin are taught in all chinese schools now, I don't really think that's much of an issue.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
What do you think the most revolutionary technology of this millenium (well, the last 999 years anyway)
what's the problem with including technology from 1000ad, or 999ad?
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
While you could still do all your acounting with an abucus, it would be stupid.
all technology advances, the Apple ][ was an amazing design, and survived long Long after steve jobs intended (actualy, most of the pre-mac time was spent hyping the apple III witch never got off the ground).
But ultimately, the apple II was an 8bit, OSless macine, while beautiful, and elegeant it had to become obsolete sometime.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
don't let the idiots near the system, there far to stupid.
God forbid they should ever have to learn anything
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Netscape isn't brining down the OS, the OS is brining itself down.
Or, more likely the 3rd party video driver, wich needs to run outside of Protected memory in order to fuction brought your system down.
what do you think a GPF is anyway?
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
when you're using a computer, nowadays, you are probably going to be using more then one program.
:(
Would you like it if one of the programs you were using was able to crash the entire computer? Well, if you answered no, then you probably want to be running with Memory protection, since that's what it does. While Average Joe User probably dosn't really know what Memory Protection is, they probably dislike system crashes as much programers, I would think.
Premtive Multitasking makes it imposible for one application to freez the computer.
Memory protection and Multitasking arn't just toys for programers, they offer real improvements for users.
Now, applications Can crash windows 9x, by calling buggy OS functions. But these are due to bugs, not design failure. Windows NT, witch is much less buggy then 9x (but I likes my backwards compatiblity with dos, thank you) Can stay up for months or even years under normal single user loads.
I've used Macs at my highschool (graduated last year), and I can tell you from personal exsperance that I would have loved it if those things had protected memory.
btw, sorry for all the spelling errors, I'm away from a spellchecker right now
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
Win3.1 and higher have memory protection. I don't know about earlyer versions, but I would assume that 3.0, and '386' or whatever did as well.
Just what do you think a GPF is?
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
And thta one crucial shift--preemptive multitasking/protected memory-- is something Microsoft hasn't managed to do yet.
What the hell kind of crack are you smoking? What the hell do you think a GPF error (witch you mac-heads love to talk about) Is?
General Protection Fault. Windows has had memory protection since at least 3.1 (what was that 1993?).
Win 3.1 also had premtive multitasking of MS-DOS box apps, but this was pretty lame.
Windows 95 has fully premtive multitasking, for all applications (and much better compatiblity for old DOS apps).
You can say that these things are not true, but you would be wrong, and prove yourself to be completly ignorent of what Windows is.
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Thank you for that one sentace AC post.
While you are free to think that, you will be wrong as long as you do.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
well, we wouldn't be complaining today if they had actualy put that OS on there MACs. But they didn't, and so, we complain.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
DVD disks are not anymore exspensive then CDs.
The only diffrence between the two is the laser used. DVD drives cost about the same amount. In anyevent, DVD moves cost about as much as audio CDs, so I don't see why putting movies on CD would make them any cheaper.
"Suble Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",