I heard a nasty rumor that the Game Cube needs an HDTV set to get 60 fps; regular sets will only get 30 fps. If that's true, Nintendo blew it big time -- IMO the most impressive aspect of the PS2 is it's fluid 60fps animation in practically all situations.
I've heard this other nasty rumor that NTSC TV's can only show 30 frames per second total. 60 frames per second is nice, but since most TV's out there can't/won't even show it then you're really SOL. I don't really see the problem with the GameCube running with the stardard that most TV's can show and besides, most PS2 games run at 30 frames per second anyway. 60fps is just really a marketing number.
Boxed processors come with a heatsink in the box, they do not come with the heat sink already attached. If you're did, then you got a model that some one hand run and returned.
It looks like they don't want the customers (i.e. us) to buy from them directly, but those people like Universities and corporations who want custom enginers for their own customers.
From what I understand of the processor design this isn't true at all. It's not software emulation running on the OS like FX!32, but embedded in the hardware its self. It can boot an IA32 os like Dos 6.22 or Linux or Windows XP. The IA64 instruction set can detect and identify IA32 instructions and execute them in seperate hardware. Some instructions are treated in the way you descibe (but even then its in software on the chip), but the vast majority are treated in the hardware its self. The reason its so slow is that the IA64 wants three instructions per clock cycle. IA32 is really one instruction about ever other cycle. Read here for more information.
Itanium can run un-modified x86 and in certain cases PA-RISC binaries unmodified. Look at the specs, there was no clean break. Intel learned with the i960 and the 8080 that clean breaks are not liked by those designing the systems at all. The x86 stayed around and will continue to stay around for as long as Intel stays around. Intel will have nothing else.
Since you don't have to pay to view the site, the site will be the source of many trolls. Most of the reasonable people will move on to somewhere else, while only trolls will remain since they don't really care what's on the page they'll be the only ones here. Site strength should have nothing to do with the number of adds sold, but the content and the community built around the site. When Slashdot sold out to Andover.net, it was to keep the site running because a bigger company would have the cash and resources to carry the site in the "bad" times. For the adds it all depends on where they are. I find the big ads even less interesting that the normal ones. Internet ads were over priced and based on some fictious statistic called clickthrough. I mean does TV have anything like clickthrough? Radio? Newspapers? I know billboards? No, none of those things had anything like clickthroughs. They're all about getting the name out there not how many people walked into the store on a certain date. Take my word, in a few months the AC's will be about all that's left.
On the first point, that the house has the power of the purse, it doesn't mean squat. All it means is that bills must originiate in the house. The normal rules of bills matter. So if the Senate drags its heels than it doesn't matter. The bill does not be come law. Don't you remember your School House Rock.
And on the second point, all items must have sales tax collected. If you buy mail-order dog food from California and you live in Kansas, you are still legally required to pay Kansas sales tax on the item. With mail-order it is the responsiblity of the purchaser and not the seller to pay the tax. This has been generally ignored and not enforced by the states because its not worth it and in the end it all pretty much evens out. With the Internet, the ban was extened to include e-transactions into mail order. Taxes were still required to be paid, although no one did it. Now the times is up, the states have simplified the system between themselves to ease the collection and they are going to do so. They are losing quite a bit of money on transactions and they want their cut back. Some states like, Tennessee need the money badly.
So yes, you are going to be taxed. You are going to be taxed soon, and there is nothing to either worry about or prevent it.
Are you arguing that it was wrong during WWII of the US and Britain to classify the fact that both the German and Japanese codes had been broken?
They're a differemce between national security and just shutting up about something. This is part of that difference. Most things that fall into the former do not come anywhere closer to something a long the lines of the latter
There is a lot of hysteria here about the erosion of rights. I am a bit hysterical about it myself. But remember that the US is very frightened right now. We are effectively at war. And if you read history, you will learn that the US has often suspended rights during wartime. Abe Lincoln suspended habeas corpus (the granddady of all rights) during the civil war! But once the country feels safe again, rights get restored. It feels crappy now, and it may be the end of the Republic, but things may get better later.
The only problem with this analysis is that we're not at war. What country are we fighting, were is the declarion of war. A war has objectives, targets, end games. This current "war" has none of these things. And do these national security issues and suspention of rights really make us safer? What is the threat and will these rights prevent the threat from occuring or is it really just an excuse to spend big on defense and give the Justice department leaders what they really think they need. Will the current ideas stop harm from occuringo or will those wanting to do harm, just find different ways to cause harm. Suspension of Habeas corpus by Lincoln was to prevent Maryland from joining the Confedrecy and then automaticly losing DC. What does this cybercourt prevent? How does some kid messing with a computer fall into this bounds? Ask you self why this is needed? Cyberterror is always been a completely silly idea to me. If you don't want your computer system hacked, don't put it on the Internet. Don't bet on maybe it will get better, because it never works. All we can do now is prevent it from getting any worse. One can only hope the Supreme Court knocks some sense into the other branch, but that is probably too much to ask.
There is precisely one justification for the secret courts established under the Foreign Intellgence Surveillance Act: national security. The secret courts that meet in that jurisdiction concern themselves with matters of espionage and highly sensitive information that would jeopardize national security if made public.
This is a really weak justificaton. None of the other rights has any sort of limitation, except if the right infringes on another right. National Security is almost always a cover for something that someone has screwed up or something that if known the public wouldn't buy at all. Or in the worst and most unfortunate case to take away constitutional rights because no other means of accomplishing that task is available. If the government is a government of the people and for the people, there should be no need for things to be classified from the people. Worry about our plans falling into others hands? Not really, because the others either know the plans already or that we should have plans that are so fool proof that knowing them will show the other side the invetablity of their actions will lead to them losing. We don't except secrecy in information security plans, why should it be all that different for physical security plans? The information is needed for all those conserned to make an informed descision.
Even subtracting the US from the equasion, AOL has the most subscribers world wide. They're in almost every country, and have the lead in a lot of them. The thing of it is, they have 20% percent instead of 80% in these countries since the competition is more fearce and people have some loyality to the local brand.
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Go to plamos.com and go to handspring and download the code. The source is available for palmos if you sign up as a developer. The API is the same, but parts of the code are definately different. PalmOS is really not that big. It's not Windows2000, it's PalmOS.
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There is a lot of under the hood changes for Handspring and the Cleos. You just don't see them, because the API is the same. It's something called compatiblity I think.
A lot of times the CEOs are installed by the VCs. The founders know not to grow that fast, but because the VC wants his money back with profit now, he'll use his ownership of the company to see to it that the event he's looking for does occur.
If they're doing it for financial gain its not a terrorism act by any definition (Congress may prove me wrong though). Terrorism in inherently political. If hacking was done for political purposes, then it would terrorism. Guess Linus and RMS are on the same level as bin Laden though. Oh well.
Read Linux gram's article. It says in a feature incomplete pre-beta demo of Solaris 9 there is no GNOME 2.0. There is no GNOME 2.0 ( just an alpha version) for shipping versions of redhat, let alone for pre-beta versons of Solaris. This article is just placed here to pull traffic to LinuxGram and doesn't really add anything.
Except that the high-end game curve has not been keeping up with the processor speed curve. Back in the day, the top of the line processor was need to run the game. You needed a 386/25 or a 386/33 to run games that came out within a month or so of the shipping date of the processor. Now the specs require a PII 233 or a PII 400 or equivelent. I've yet to see a game that on the box requires a PIII/1G. Have you? They do require some sort of 3d graphics card, but technology wise, the games try to aim for the greatest penetration of market share, which is about at the 300MHZ-600MHz. That is unlikely to change, since most of these people won't even think about upgrading any time soon, even if the newer computers make the internet "go faster!"
I mean first, metal music was forcing kids to kill themselves, then metal music was forcing kids to kill their parents. Then, Tipper Gore thought metal music was destroying America. Now, Anthrax is killing the USPS? Who'd of thought. I always thought the RIAA wanted to prevent music transfered over the internet. Now others want Anthrax transmitted over email. How weird.
That is the basis, where gambling's basis is a game of chance. Even though they both have a different basis, they are treated exactly the same by the public at large. Do you really, truely think that people invested in Eazel because the model was sound? Or that William Shatner was cool enough to justify Priceline being worth more than Ford Motors? The basis no longer matter, watch video of day traders and video of gamblers at the slots. They do the exact same things. Day traders take a 4 letter set and then buy and sell all day with no real idea of what the company actually does. They gamble that a company will make 32 cents a share for Q2 instead of 31. If they make 30 cents the company sucks, even if it still made billions of dollars that quarter, but because it didn't meet some silly figure by 1 cent it's hammered. Why? On your view that shouldn't matter, because the company is sound. But it does. No, but over the last 3 or 4 years we've seen companies shoot right up, because everyone wanted to get in and make some money. Almost always without paying attention to what was actually going on. And to top it off the guys making the descisions are the guys moving the volumes, and because of it the "large companies" are forced to respond on the same trends that are generated by the day traders, because they don't want to lose money. Granted this system can only last for so long, but it only scares away those gamblers with nothing to lose.
Whether it is gambling or not, I really don't care. But since it is treated by the public at large as gambling. The system is set up to encourge that point of view. I've seen a number of good companies destroyed because they've been forced to play the game called IPO. In the end, it's all the same to me.
Gambling is illegal. The new economy is based on it. The stockmarket is just legallized gambling. Some people are good, some people are bad and most people really have no idea what they're doing. They're just interested in taking a risk to maybe make some money. So, there. Gambling is legal.
Not powered by Oracle and Java. Haven't you been reading. Must be powered by Oracle and Java or the entire system is completely worthless.
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But extra attention would mean that it was seen by all and not lost in some sort of random occurance. Burt is there because Osama wants the world to see Bert!
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Err...but PII heatsinks clipped on (and could be easily clipped off), so it really wasn't attached like a socketed chip.
I heard a nasty rumor that the Game Cube needs an HDTV set to get 60 fps; regular sets will only get 30 fps. If that's true, Nintendo blew it big time -- IMO the most impressive aspect of the PS2 is it's fluid 60fps animation in practically all situations.
I've heard this other nasty rumor that NTSC TV's can only show 30 frames per second total. 60 frames per second is nice, but since most TV's out there can't/won't even show it then you're really SOL. I don't really see the problem with the GameCube running with the stardard that most TV's can show and besides, most PS2 games run at 30 frames per second anyway. 60fps is just really a marketing number.
Boxed processors come with a heatsink in the box, they do not come with the heat sink already attached. If you're did, then you got a model that some one hand run and returned.
It looks like they don't want the customers (i.e. us) to buy from them directly, but those people like Universities and corporations who want custom enginers for their own customers.
From what I understand of the processor design this isn't true at all. It's not software emulation running on the OS like FX!32, but embedded in the hardware its self. It can boot an IA32 os like Dos 6.22 or Linux or Windows XP. The IA64 instruction set can detect and identify IA32 instructions and execute them in seperate hardware. Some instructions are treated in the way you descibe (but even then its in software on the chip), but the vast majority are treated in the hardware its self. The reason its so slow is that the IA64 wants three instructions per clock cycle. IA32 is really one instruction about ever other cycle. Read here for more information.
Itanium can run un-modified x86
Slower than a 150MHz Pentium, yeah.
I said it could do it, I didn't say it could do it well.
Itanium can run un-modified x86 and in certain cases PA-RISC binaries unmodified. Look at the specs, there was no clean break. Intel learned with the i960 and the 8080 that clean breaks are not liked by those designing the systems at all. The x86 stayed around and will continue to stay around for as long as Intel stays around. Intel will have nothing else.
Since you don't have to pay to view the site, the site will be the source of many trolls. Most of the reasonable people will move on to somewhere else, while only trolls will remain since they don't really care what's on the page they'll be the only ones here. Site strength should have nothing to do with the number of adds sold, but the content and the community built around the site. When Slashdot sold out to Andover.net, it was to keep the site running because a bigger company would have the cash and resources to carry the site in the "bad" times. For the adds it all depends on where they are. I find the big ads even less interesting that the normal ones. Internet ads were over priced and based on some fictious statistic called clickthrough. I mean does TV have anything like clickthrough? Radio? Newspapers? I know billboards? No, none of those things had anything like clickthroughs. They're all about getting the name out there not how many people walked into the store on a certain date. Take my word, in a few months the AC's will be about all that's left.
On the first point, that the house has the power of the purse, it doesn't mean squat. All it means is that bills must originiate in the house. The normal rules of bills matter. So if the Senate drags its heels than it doesn't matter. The bill does not be come law. Don't you remember your School House Rock.
And on the second point, all items must have sales tax collected. If you buy mail-order dog food from California and you live in Kansas, you are still legally required to pay Kansas sales tax on the item. With mail-order it is the responsiblity of the purchaser and not the seller to pay the tax. This has been generally ignored and not enforced by the states because its not worth it and in the end it all pretty much evens out. With the Internet, the ban was extened to include e-transactions into mail order. Taxes were still required to be paid, although no one did it. Now the times is up, the states have simplified the system between themselves to ease the collection and they are going to do so. They are losing quite a bit of money on transactions and they want their cut back. Some states like, Tennessee need the money badly.
So yes, you are going to be taxed. You are going to be taxed soon, and there is nothing to either worry about or prevent it.
Have a nice day.
Are you arguing that it was wrong during WWII of the US and Britain to classify the fact that both the German and Japanese codes had been broken?
They're a differemce between national security and just shutting up about something. This is part of that difference. Most things that fall into the former do not come anywhere closer to something a long the lines of the latter
There is a lot of hysteria here about the erosion of rights. I am a bit hysterical about it myself. But remember that the US is very frightened right now. We are effectively at war. And if you read history, you will learn that the US has often suspended rights during wartime. Abe Lincoln suspended habeas corpus (the granddady of all rights) during the civil war! But once the country feels safe again, rights get restored. It feels crappy now, and it may be the end of the Republic, but things may get better later.
The only problem with this analysis is that we're not at war. What country are we fighting, were is the declarion of war. A war has objectives, targets, end games. This current "war" has none of these things. And do these national security issues and suspention of rights really make us safer? What is the threat and will these rights prevent the threat from occuring or is it really just an excuse to spend big on defense and give the Justice department leaders what they really think they need. Will the current ideas stop harm from occuringo or will those wanting to do harm, just find different ways to cause harm. Suspension of Habeas corpus by Lincoln was to prevent Maryland from joining the Confedrecy and then automaticly losing DC. What does this cybercourt prevent? How does some kid messing with a computer fall into this bounds? Ask you self why this is needed? Cyberterror is always been a completely silly idea to me. If you don't want your computer system hacked, don't put it on the Internet. Don't bet on maybe it will get better, because it never works. All we can do now is prevent it from getting any worse. One can only hope the Supreme Court knocks some sense into the other branch, but that is probably too much to ask.
In 1999, 40% of AOL users are oversees.
AOL Latin America, 173 call centers in Brazil. Partnerships with banks reaching up to 17 million customers
German indicators putting AOL second and Compuserve third. (Remember Compuserve and AOL are the same thing.
AOL usage statistics of UK. AOL's three services are about the same level as the biggest Freeserve
AOL operates under a lot of different names in a lot of different places. Your friends can be using AOL and not even know it.
There is precisely one justification for the secret courts established under the Foreign Intellgence Surveillance Act: national security. The secret courts that meet in that jurisdiction concern themselves with matters of espionage and highly sensitive information that would jeopardize national security if made public.
This is a really weak justificaton. None of the other rights has any sort of limitation, except if the right infringes on another right. National Security is almost always a cover for something that someone has screwed up or something that if known the public wouldn't buy at all. Or in the worst and most unfortunate case to take away constitutional rights because no other means of accomplishing that task is available. If the government is a government of the people and for the people, there should be no need for things to be classified from the people. Worry about our plans falling into others hands? Not really, because the others either know the plans already or that we should have plans that are so fool proof that knowing them will show the other side the invetablity of their actions will lead to them losing. We don't except secrecy in information security plans, why should it be all that different for physical security plans? The information is needed for all those conserned to make an informed descision.
Even subtracting the US from the equasion, AOL has the most subscribers world wide. They're in almost every country, and have the lead in a lot of them. The thing of it is, they have 20% percent instead of 80% in these countries since the competition is more fearce and people have some loyality to the local brand.
Go to plamos.com and go to handspring and download the code. The source is available for palmos if you sign up as a developer. The API is the same, but parts of the code are definately different. PalmOS is really not that big. It's not Windows2000, it's PalmOS.
There is a lot of under the hood changes for Handspring and the Cleos. You just don't see them, because the API is the same. It's something called compatiblity I think.
A lot of times the CEOs are installed by the VCs. The founders know not to grow that fast, but because the VC wants his money back with profit now, he'll use his ownership of the company to see to it that the event he's looking for does occur.
If they're doing it for financial gain its not a terrorism act by any definition (Congress may prove me wrong though). Terrorism in inherently political. If hacking was done for political purposes, then it would terrorism. Guess Linus and RMS are on the same level as bin Laden though. Oh well.
Read Linux gram's article. It says in a feature incomplete pre-beta demo of Solaris 9 there is no GNOME 2.0. There is no GNOME 2.0 ( just an alpha version) for shipping versions of redhat, let alone for pre-beta versons of Solaris. This article is just placed here to pull traffic to LinuxGram and doesn't really add anything.
It would cut into Microsoft's profits. Does there need to be another reason?
Except that the high-end game curve has not been keeping up with the processor speed curve. Back in the day, the top of the line processor was need to run the game. You needed a 386/25 or a 386/33 to run games that came out within a month or so of the shipping date of the processor. Now the specs require a PII 233 or a PII 400 or equivelent. I've yet to see a game that on the box requires a PIII/1G. Have you? They do require some sort of 3d graphics card, but technology wise, the games try to aim for the greatest penetration of market share, which is about at the 300MHZ-600MHz. That is unlikely to change, since most of these people won't even think about upgrading any time soon, even if the newer computers make the internet "go faster!"
I mean first, metal music was forcing kids to kill themselves, then metal music was forcing kids to kill their parents. Then, Tipper Gore thought metal music was destroying America. Now, Anthrax is killing the USPS? Who'd of thought. I always thought the RIAA wanted to prevent music transfered over the internet. Now others want Anthrax transmitted over email. How weird.
In other news, Anthrax is going to change it's name to "Basket Full Of Puppies"
That is the basis, where gambling's basis is a game of chance. Even though they both have a different basis, they are treated exactly the same by the public at large. Do you really, truely think that people invested in Eazel because the model was sound? Or that William Shatner was cool enough to justify Priceline being worth more than Ford Motors? The basis no longer matter, watch video of day traders and video of gamblers at the slots. They do the exact same things. Day traders take a 4 letter set and then buy and sell all day with no real idea of what the company actually does. They gamble that a company will make 32 cents a share for Q2 instead of 31. If they make 30 cents the company sucks, even if it still made billions of dollars that quarter, but because it didn't meet some silly figure by 1 cent it's hammered. Why? On your view that shouldn't matter, because the company is sound. But it does. No, but over the last 3 or 4 years we've seen companies shoot right up, because everyone wanted to get in and make some money. Almost always without paying attention to what was actually going on. And to top it off the guys making the descisions are the guys moving the volumes, and because of it the "large companies" are forced to respond on the same trends that are generated by the day traders, because they don't want to lose money. Granted this system can only last for so long, but it only scares away those gamblers with nothing to lose.
Whether it is gambling or not, I really don't care. But since it is treated by the public at large as gambling. The system is set up to encourge that point of view. I've seen a number of good companies destroyed because they've been forced to play the game called IPO. In the end, it's all the same to me.
Gambling is illegal. The new economy is based on it. The stockmarket is just legallized gambling. Some people are good, some people are bad and most people really have no idea what they're doing. They're just interested in taking a risk to maybe make some money. So, there. Gambling is legal.
Not powered by Oracle and Java. Haven't you been reading. Must be powered by Oracle and Java or the entire system is completely worthless.
But extra attention would mean that it was seen by all and not lost in some sort of random occurance. Burt is there because Osama wants the world to see Bert!