I haven't seen anything so funny in a long time. Not only is it funny, it is not afraid to be cruel. If you haven't seen it, it is an English send up of the old school British documentary.
Obviously you havn't read this, which discusses a thesis by a doctor of economics. I predict a time when people will be directly wired to virtual worlds, and not live in this one, a kind of voluntary 'matrix' scenario.
Business is still business, and SAP has plenty of consultants out there still earning big $$$. All you have to do is get into the German way of thinking and learn a genuine retro language from the '80s, ABAP. (It's kind of a cross between cobol and a 4GL.)
Heresy! Tigger never talked like a good ol' boy. That is the Disney (tm) perversion of one of my favourite books. They tried to put the Disney version of Pooh Bear in our local newspaper. The howls of protest drove it out in less than a month.
This register business is totally out of control. Lets just get rid of them and have something like a 'level 0' cache. TI used to have a processor with only three registers, that used memory for everything else. I think it is ultimately easier to just have 256 high speed registers that simulate memory locations. (If you take out the registers needed to manage all these registers and transistors to handle renaming etc, you could get 1K of registers).This also makes assembly language much easier. Want to multiply two numbers, just multiply the memory locations directly. Got some tight counting loops, these will be done directly in registers. How is this going to be handled with MP machines, NUMA seems to be an obvious answer. The caching of memory to registers would have to be very fine grained, of course. In the long run, this appears to be the only logical way out.
I had a hunt for the operating system it comes with. Under the heading optional software, were the choice of redhat linux 64 and Microsoft Server. Optional, mind, and not a hint of any applications.
Kenny boy was the term of endearment that GWB used to use for Ken Lay, of Enron.
These pawn shops are not dying, they are part of a chain that is booming.
Sellers often do have power, eg, the power to pursuade, to exploit legalisms, to peddle influense, etc, all bought with dollars.
A few token heads will roll from Enron, but the real problem, abuse of power and the market, has not been solved.
Housing is an ideal example of the 'marginal utility' not reducing, and hence the poor losing out. A house that costs twice as much is four times better in terms of space, quality, location, state of repair, etc. That is because there are much less people buying in that range than there are at the bottom end of the market.
A can of Coke is very interesting, as it might sell for $1 in your country, (here it sells for more than that, another interesting facet of 'free' markets), but the actual contents are only worth about 5 cents.
One also has to ask, how free is your market system when millionaires are paid millions of dollars in subsidies for products such as sugar, etc. Just as will they aren't single mothers.
So why was it such a revelation for Ralph Nader to turn up the Ford Pinto as such a piece of rubbish. I think it is vital point out that consumerism only works when you can make a dispassionate, (ie, not overly influenced by advertising) informed choice.
The free market is a myth, like free beer and free speech and a share market that never goes down. It is something that can be approximated, or hoped for, it never really exists, though. Ask all the Enron pension holders, for example. Why is it that a $200,000 house is four times better than a $100,000 house. If I am poor and desperate for some food, I can't hold off till next week to buy some, I have to take what I can now. A free market, ideally, has two people negotiating from an equal position. This often does not happen. A pawn shop sells heaps of crap for nearlly full retail price. Why? Because a poor person who cannot afford the extra $50 for the new item has to make do with a used one for nearly as much.
Competition often goes awry. Businesses go broke, which is good for competition, bad for those depending on them for health insurance, pensions, home payments etc. Governments arn't perfect either, but at least those of us who bother, change them when they stuff up too much. Many company boards are just old boys clubs, even worse, old boys clubs with the Govt, what is worse, a president who is 'friends' with someone too young for him, or one who is a friend of 'Kenny-boy'?
I like stories like this, and I plenty of non slash dotters who are interested in having their own weather station. People who would be more interested in/. if there were more stories like this and less troll crap.
It is just hard to pick out what are your jokes from all your other spelling mistakes. I was reading SF probably long before you were born, and I get it much better than you. Jerry Pournelle writes turgid prose, is a rascist, inward looking moron. The early byte columns were interesting only because of his friend, who died pretty early on. He takes freebies on the basis that he flogs them to his readers, shamelessly advertises his families' business ventures, thinks the only country in the world that matters is the US, nearly gets himself killed driving alone in a desert without water or supplies, thinks that all the US has to do is blast a few enemies to achieve peace, endlessly praises technology that causes him so much trouble that it will probably send him to an early grave, and is a friend of the loony right. One of the funniest pieces I ever read of his was when he had that lunatic 'newt' gingrich around to a hotel room, and spent about four hours trying to connect to the internet over a modem to demonstrate it to the guy. You could just read between the lines that newt was not a happy guy, and thought jerry was an idiot. Now that was a funny piece. The fact is that greenies are not am amorphous mass of indistinguishable fools. Some are, but many aren't. The fact is, the world is being subject to massive, rapid change, the consequences of which are poorly understood, and for which many feel no responsibility.
How can I be a moron when you can't even spell the word. The book was not a joke. A joke SF book is something like Hitch Hikers Guide. It was written in an incredibly artless and clumsy style, (Probably why it was on the remainders table). I love SF, which is why I find Pournelle to be so hopeless, he writes as if it is the future, etc, and everyone thinks just like him. His characters sound like Jerry having a conversation with himself.
Maybe an Ice Age is possible, but you won't find the Greenies opposing dealing with a disaster, they just don't feel like needlessly creating one. And that'll be the day greenies actually get in a position of power like he outlines. The middle class love buying bigger, faster, more powerful cars to sit in traffic jams too much to ever give up their dreams of aquiring happiness through believing ads on TV.
Where do you think WWII came from. Without the crushing poverty of the reparations from WWI, WWII might never have happened. Which logically leads to the Marshall plan being a vital part of the West beating the Stalinist Russia. Russia wasn't beaten with weapons, it was beatan because the Russians themselves did not want Communism. Without a Marshall plan, a beaten and destabilised West Germany would have given the Communists a chance of outdoing the West with the East, with a weak West much more open to invasion from the East.
Sorry for shouting, but this is without a doubt the most addictive game I have come across. It combines strategy and tactics, without bogging down in the intricacies of supply etc of the more serious games. I can quite happily sit down and play this game until my hand has gone numb and the wife is set to walk out the door. I have deleted it several times, broken the CD and sworn I would not touch it again. What a game, it's fantastic. Could not recommend it highly enough.
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Sun is out alright, they are going to release a Linux box based on intel x86. See here.
I think they should be given the right to bear arms, preferrably large calibre and automatic, with armour piercing bullets.
No, it's just that most peole can't be bothered wasting time over shit.
The Patent King... the personification of evil.
I haven't seen anything so funny in a long time. Not only is it funny, it is not afraid to be cruel. If you haven't seen it, it is an English send up of the old school British documentary.
Come on, Daria was the best. It actually used irony, something most Americans don't seem to know exists.
Obviously you havn't read this, which discusses a thesis by a doctor of economics. I predict a time when people will be directly wired to virtual worlds, and not live in this one, a kind of voluntary 'matrix' scenario.
Business is still business, and SAP has plenty of consultants out there still earning big $$$. All you have to do is get into the German way of thinking and learn a genuine retro language from the '80s, ABAP. (It's kind of a cross between cobol and a 4GL.)
Heresy! Tigger never talked like a good ol' boy. That is the Disney (tm) perversion of one of my favourite books. They tried to put the Disney version of Pooh Bear in our local newspaper. The howls of protest drove it out in less than a month.
I beg to differ, but you are partly right. Look here
This register business is totally out of control. Lets just get rid of them and have something like a 'level 0' cache. TI used to have a processor with only three registers, that used memory for everything else. I think it is ultimately easier to just have 256 high speed registers that simulate memory locations. (If you take out the registers needed to manage all these registers and transistors to handle renaming etc, you could get 1K of registers).This also makes assembly language much easier. Want to multiply two numbers, just multiply the memory locations directly. Got some tight counting loops, these will be done directly in registers. How is this going to be handled with MP machines, NUMA seems to be an obvious answer. The caching of memory to registers would have to be very fine grained, of course. In the long run, this appears to be the only logical way out.
Hang on, there is no $64,000 dollar question, it is an urban myth. There was, however, a $64 question.
I had a hunt for the operating system it comes with. Under the heading optional software, were the choice of redhat linux 64 and Microsoft Server. Optional, mind, and not a hint of any applications.
These pawn shops are not dying, they are part of a chain that is booming.
Sellers often do have power, eg, the power to pursuade, to exploit legalisms, to peddle influense, etc, all bought with dollars.
A few token heads will roll from Enron, but the real problem, abuse of power and the market, has not been solved.
Housing is an ideal example of the 'marginal utility' not reducing, and hence the poor losing out. A house that costs twice as much is four times better in terms of space, quality, location, state of repair, etc. That is because there are much less people buying in that range than there are at the bottom end of the market.
A can of Coke is very interesting, as it might sell for $1 in your country, (here it sells for more than that, another interesting facet of 'free' markets), but the actual contents are only worth about 5 cents.
One also has to ask, how free is your market system when millionaires are paid millions of dollars in subsidies for products such as sugar, etc. Just as will they aren't single mothers.
Free speech at work.......
So why was it such a revelation for Ralph Nader to turn up the Ford Pinto as such a piece of rubbish. I think it is vital point out that consumerism only works when you can make a dispassionate, (ie, not overly influenced by advertising) informed choice.
Competition often goes awry. Businesses go broke, which is good for competition, bad for those depending on them for health insurance, pensions, home payments etc. Governments arn't perfect either, but at least those of us who bother, change them when they stuff up too much. Many company boards are just old boys clubs, even worse, old boys clubs with the Govt, what is worse, a president who is 'friends' with someone too young for him, or one who is a friend of 'Kenny-boy'?
Don't stop there, this is a very interesting topic, about which there has been a lot of opions but little facts. What exactly happened there and why?
I like stories like this, and I plenty of non slash dotters who are interested in having their own weather station. People who would be more interested in /. if there were more stories like this and less troll crap.
I think you will find the accepted /. spelling is rediculous.
I would suggest outsourcing the shuttle to the people who run airport security. They know how to get very cheap labor.
It is just hard to pick out what are your jokes from all your other spelling mistakes. I was reading SF probably long before you were born, and I get it much better than you. Jerry Pournelle writes turgid prose, is a rascist, inward looking moron. The early byte columns were interesting only because of his friend, who died pretty early on. He takes freebies on the basis that he flogs them to his readers, shamelessly advertises his families' business ventures, thinks the only country in the world that matters is the US, nearly gets himself killed driving alone in a desert without water or supplies, thinks that all the US has to do is blast a few enemies to achieve peace, endlessly praises technology that causes him so much trouble that it will probably send him to an early grave, and is a friend of the loony right. One of the funniest pieces I ever read of his was when he had that lunatic 'newt' gingrich around to a hotel room, and spent about four hours trying to connect to the internet over a modem to demonstrate it to the guy. You could just read between the lines that newt was not a happy guy, and thought jerry was an idiot. Now that was a funny piece. The fact is that greenies are not am amorphous mass of indistinguishable fools. Some are, but many aren't. The fact is, the world is being subject to massive, rapid change, the consequences of which are poorly understood, and for which many feel no responsibility.
Maybe an Ice Age is possible, but you won't find the Greenies opposing dealing with a disaster, they just don't feel like needlessly creating one. And that'll be the day greenies actually get in a position of power like he outlines. The middle class love buying bigger, faster, more powerful cars to sit in traffic jams too much to ever give up their dreams of aquiring happiness through believing ads on TV.
I have read plenty of better SF,
Where do you think WWII came from. Without the crushing poverty of the reparations from WWI, WWII might never have happened. Which logically leads to the Marshall plan being a vital part of the West beating the Stalinist Russia. Russia wasn't beaten with weapons, it was beatan because the Russians themselves did not want Communism. Without a Marshall plan, a beaten and destabilised West Germany would have given the Communists a chance of outdoing the West with the East, with a weak West much more open to invasion from the East.
Sorry for shouting, but this is without a doubt the most addictive game I have come across. It combines strategy and tactics, without bogging down in the intricacies of supply etc of the more serious games. I can quite happily sit down and play this game until my hand has gone numb and the wife is set to walk out the door. I have deleted it several times, broken the CD and sworn I would not touch it again. What a game, it's fantastic. Could not recommend it highly enough.