Ah yes, the "People's Kleptocracy of California".
If you were a utility (of any sort) would you willingly choose to
do business in this state? Anyway, they do have a good point. I should be entitled to free plumbers, lawyers and food. After all, let the "big corporations" pay for it. Bread, circuses and $300 tax rebates, baby that's what its all about. Gad have we really fallen this much as a country??
Gad, the 1.5 Palimino was demonstrated already yet. Samples are out. The core is done. The only reason why AMD is not shooting these things out the door already is that the P4 is a total dog. They figure that they really don't have to eat their own children for a little while. Once the 760MP gets them some traction in the server space, it makes more sense to bring out the hammer. I dare say that when they do *ntel may lose a bit more market share than they would care to admit. Folks really are not going to go to the hassle of having several versions of their software on their shelves just so *ntel can sell a few more processors. A 32 bit mode that works will make it a dominant processor in all but the most diehard *ntelicide shops.
For better or worse, AT&T is picking up Northpoint's national DSL network and hard assets.
Telocity customers are going to go to Hughes.
Still DSL has been a dog and 1/2. Too much promise,
too little fufillment.
Somehow I doubt it. The highest that a P4 has placed in the Sciencemark database was a fairly far down the scale (26th place or some such) for a 1.7 Ghz oc'd P4 running 800 rambus. The higher places were all held by some variant of 1.2 T-birds. While I do admit that one or two of the higher places were by machines running more exotic cooling, the 1.2 tbird air-cooled and overclocked to 1.38 Hgz was still in the top 10. Given that this was a stock mobo, stock tbird, stock everything else, it sort of makes it a bit hard to justify a P4 at any price. Preliminary indications are that the long pipeline that Intel will allow you to scale up the clock, but will not provide faster execution in the commercial (rather than artificial) enviroment due to branch prediction problems.
The freedom of speech is outlawed after the government seizes firearms from its citizens. It is an attitude. The citizens are not responsible adults and must be herded like sheep following the bellweather. Yeah, I know that someone will mark this one as flamebait, but please, please, study history. It happened in Germany in 1936, it will happen again and again so long as people chant the mantra of the insane: "This time is different...".
Yeah, and besides that Mousolinni made the trains run on time. One should re-read Aesop's Fables every once in a while. Especially the one of The Man, The Horse and The Wolf.
I will remark in addition that it depends on what you mean as crime. The burglary rate is really quite a bit up. Burglars are not dumb, they may be anti-social, but they are not dumb. When they know that they will not be meeting any armed resistance, they feel much more free to practice their craft.
The permutations on this are infinate.
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You don't have to do a sucks domain. The permutations on this sort of thing are infinate:
...isevil
...eatsdogdung
...isaweenie
...hasnoballs
...etc.
...etc.
letsboycot...
dontshopat...
etc...
etc...
Somehow, I think that these folks have something better to do. But anyway, I gotta run now. Gotta register my new domain thisstrawsucks.com
Real is expensive iff the number of simultaneous viewers is large. For on demand replays, they are actually quite inexpensive, since the number of viewers at any time may even be less that their freebe server. Most folks greatly overestimate the amount of draw that they will have on multi-media. Until broadband really, really kicks in video doesn't really work well for many folks. Most folks will not do streaming video over a dial-up modem. Its really much to grim. Streaming audio, yes, streaming video no. I do not know your application or the size of your audiance, but be realistic. You may need a lot less than you think you do. I do on demand video for my company and have settled on Real. Quicktime is alas not a good real-time solution yet. It is especially unfriendly on NT platforms where you admin privs to install it. Many orgs will leat real in, but not install quicktime.
One of the rather major irritations that have been promulgated on the community is the bios coupled distribution. You buy a Dell computer and get a Windoze 2000 distribution that will only install on a Dell computer. I am sure there is some very small print someplace that makes this vaguely legal, but it sure does annoy the heck out of me. Given that Dell does not support AMD processors, this seems to be more than a small restraint of trade. Bad enough to have to buy bundled software. Even worse to buy bundled software that reverse bundles itself into the hardware.
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Besides using it for a bad smelling doormat.
Ah yes, the "People's Kleptocracy of California". If you were a utility (of any sort) would you willingly choose to do business in this state? Anyway, they do have a good point. I should be entitled to free plumbers, lawyers and food. After all, let the "big corporations" pay for it. Bread, circuses and $300 tax rebates, baby that's what its all about. Gad have we really fallen this much as a country??
Gad, the 1.5 Palimino was demonstrated already yet. Samples are out. The core is done. The only reason why AMD is not shooting these things out the door already is that the P4 is a total dog. They figure that they really don't have to eat their own children for a little while. Once the 760MP gets them some traction in the server space, it makes more sense to bring out the hammer. I dare say that when they do *ntel may lose a bit more market share than they would care to admit. Folks really are not going to go to the hassle of having several versions of their software on their shelves just so *ntel can sell a few more processors. A 32 bit mode that works will make it a dominant processor in all but the most diehard *ntelicide shops.
For better or worse, AT&T is picking up Northpoint's national DSL network and hard assets. Telocity customers are going to go to Hughes. Still DSL has been a dog and 1/2. Too much promise, too little fufillment.
Somehow I doubt it. The highest that a P4 has placed in the Sciencemark database was a fairly far down the scale (26th place or some such) for a 1.7 Ghz oc'd P4 running 800 rambus. The higher places were all held by some variant of 1.2 T-birds. While I do admit that one or two of the higher places were by machines running more exotic cooling, the 1.2 tbird air-cooled and overclocked to 1.38 Hgz was still in the top 10. Given that this was a stock mobo, stock tbird, stock everything else, it sort of makes it a bit hard to justify a P4 at any price. Preliminary indications are that the long pipeline that Intel will allow you to scale up the clock, but will not provide faster execution in the commercial (rather than artificial) enviroment due to branch prediction problems.
The freedom of speech is outlawed after the government seizes firearms from its citizens. It is an attitude. The citizens are not responsible adults and must be herded like sheep following the bellweather. Yeah, I know that someone will mark this one as flamebait, but please, please, study history. It happened in Germany in 1936, it will happen again and again so long as people chant the mantra of the insane: "This time is different...".
Yeah, and besides that Mousolinni made the trains run on time. One should re-read Aesop's Fables every once in a while. Especially the one of The Man, The Horse and The Wolf.
I will remark in addition that it depends on what you mean as crime. The burglary rate is really quite a bit up. Burglars are not dumb, they may be anti-social, but they are not dumb. When they know that they will not be meeting any armed resistance, they feel much more free to practice their craft.
Somehow, I think that these folks have something better to do. But anyway, I gotta run now. Gotta register my new domain thisstrawsucks.com
Read all about it. Lucky for them, most folks don't think.
Cuz its just a lot of fud.
muff said
no, just a dummy beowulf cluster...
Real is expensive iff the number of simultaneous viewers is large. For on demand replays, they are actually quite inexpensive, since the number of viewers at any time may even be less that their freebe server. Most folks greatly overestimate the amount of draw that they will have on multi-media. Until broadband really, really kicks in video doesn't really work well for many folks. Most folks will not do streaming video over a dial-up modem. Its really much to grim. Streaming audio, yes, streaming video no. I do not know your application or the size of your audiance, but be realistic. You may need a lot less than you think you do. I do on demand video for my company and have settled on Real. Quicktime is alas not a good real-time solution yet. It is especially unfriendly on NT platforms where you admin privs to install it. Many orgs will leat real in, but not install quicktime.
One of the rather major irritations that have been promulgated on the community is the bios coupled distribution. You buy a Dell computer and get a Windoze 2000 distribution that will only install on a Dell computer. I am sure there is some very small print someplace that makes this vaguely legal, but it sure does annoy the heck out of me. Given that Dell does not support AMD processors, this seems to be more than a small restraint of trade. Bad enough to have to buy bundled software. Even worse to buy bundled software that reverse bundles itself into the hardware.