I'm pretty certain that the G3's were also made predominantly by IBM and that while the G4's were a Moto only product at first (due to Alti Vec) IBM eventually licensed AV from Moto and got into G4 production.
"Illegally obtained evidence" only pertains to searches and seizures by government agents. You are not constitutionally protected against a thief stealing your briefcase, finding it's full of kiddy porn, and in a fit of moral outrage turning it in to the police
That may be true, but a better analogy would be if a thief stole your briefcase and then attempted to introduce its contents as evidence in a civil case that the thief filed against you. I'm not so certain that a trial judge would rule that such evidence would be admissible.
You're correct. I ought to have said: any wrongs that are created by trowing out illegally obtained evidence is outweighed by the wrongs that would result from abuses that would ensue if illegally obtained evidence was allowed to be used.
It's a constitutional guarantee, at least in the US.
The thinking runs that any wrongs that are created by illegally obtained evidence is outweighed by the wrongs that would result from abuses that would ensue if illegally obtained evidence was allowed to be used.
I remember all of the hype: "Software running on the processor will translate x86 or PPC or whatever instructions on-the-fly and applications won't know the difference."
I rememember the days when Transmeta's home page was apparently blank, but had a secret message about `coming soon' if you looked at the source. In those days, I remember/. speculating about all the things you mention. But all the actual press releases I remember had TM going after the thin client/embedded/tablet market rather than the desktop market. The way back machine's earliest archive of www.transmeta.com is from 2000 and it emphasizes devices like tablet PCs and internet appliances which are certainly not the desktop niche.
In fact, before TM starting making press releases about its initial processor, the speculation on the street was that they were going to launch some sort of handheld device akin to a Palm. Look at articles on rumor sites in the last quarter of 1999. After the Crusue debuted in Jan. of 2000, most analysts conjectured that ARM had more to worry about from TM than Intel or any other x86 vendor except maybe Nat Semi with their Geode processor. Time and again, it was mentioned that the chip was geared towards subnotebooks or other small devices, especially internet appliances.
And anyone that mistook TM's approach for RISC was sorely misguided. All their marketing propaganda was truthful in that it described the chip as VLIW. It did use less power because their were fewer transisters, but it was never RISC nor was it ever advertised as RISC. That you even bring RISC up in the discussion suggests that you're remembering more about idle speculation on/. than anything that actually came out of Transmeta.
Transmeta's market was always mobile computing, but for the most part only deluded/. geeks understood that to entirely consist of `mobile desktop'. AFAICT, they have targetted single board system embedded devices and thin clients as their primary target market from the get go. The closest `mobile desktop' gets to their target market is tablet computing which isn't really in the same category.
As far as the tens of millions of Xbox 360s and PS/3s that are expected to ship in the first year that they are launched, you are quite misinformed if you think that those numbers would be nothing to an Intel. Their flagship server processor, the Xeon, is lucky to sell a million units in a quarter. In 2004, it is estimated that just under 180 million PCs shipped worldwide. From my understanding, Intel has about 80% of that market meaning that that Intel's desktop sales is about 140 million CPUs. Game consoles, if we conservatively estimate XBOX 360 and PS/3 selling 10 million units per year each, would amount to 14% of Intel's desktop market. That is hardly `nothing.'
I, for one, never cared about Transmeta because `Linus once worked there.' Transmeta was cool because (1) they were making chips using an innovative design, which is rare, and (2) they were making chips for a niche that I have an active interest in. Turns out that neither their VLIW design nor their approach at x86 emulation turned out to be efficient enough to be effective, but it is tremendously interesting technology.
You're barking up the wrong tree with your point about NeXT. The NeXT crew got purchased by Apple, engineered a takeover, and now control the single largest Unix vendor in the world. Are you suggesting Transmeta might do something similiar?
You're probably correct that ``unless someone wants their "technology" on a firesale this sucker is in game over territory'', but not for any of the reasons you listed. The real reason is simple economics. Transmeta, however an interesting display of technology, failed to deliver a product that is superior to its competition. Which is the sad part. We don't know if their approach is a technical dead end or if their particular implementation of it is a dead end.
You're also dead wrong that ``the market is only in it for FAST x86, nobody cares about power. And if they did they want to see it from intel, or AMD'' as demonstrated by Microsoft dumping x86 for PPC in the XBOX part II and Sony moving to the cell processor for Playstation part III. Not to mention that Via seems to be doing a brisk business with its low-power x86 and ARM doesn't appear to be hurting either.
In one market nich, the desktop PC, you're probably correct. But desktop PCs are a relatively small port of the market for CPUs. When's the last time anyone bought a cell phone or a PDA because of the `Intel Inside' sticker? Who cares whether or not their hardware firewall is running at the latest and greatest high speed Ghz?
1. Going to the cinema and watching movies at home are close to perfect substitutes.
2. Staying at home is more convenient.
3. Watching movies at home is less expensive.
4. The cinema experience is better in some ways (better screen, better sound), but inferior in others (no pause button when going to the can).
Consequently, most consumers prefer to stay home. The single best way to change this is to bring back neighborhood theatres that show films at low prices. If you could walk down the street and pay $2 a head instead of driving twenty minutes and paying $10 a head and movies on tape or disk cost $10 to rent, then most people would prefer to go the cinema.
First off, I'm not a lawyer. That said, I've read more than a few legal codes. In most jurisdictions for which I've read the trespassing laws, a person has to be informed that they aren't welcome before criminal trespassing can be considered to have occurred. Hence, the popularity of ``no trespassing'' signs which inform all comers that they are not welcome. A verbal message of ``don't come around here no more'' will also do the trick in many places.
The bottom line, in many places (perhaps most places) you can legally waltz into someone else's house uninvited (provided the door is unlocked), sit down on the couch and watch television unless (1) the house owner asks you to leave or (2) there is a posted sign proclaiming that trespassing is not allowed.
I'm also unaware how actionable listing contact information for relatives is. If the information is public, I can't imagine how doing so could be illegal.
Which leaves slander. There might be a case for that. Or one for defamation of character.
First off, I'm not a lawyer. That said, I've read more than a few legal codes. In most jurisdictions for which I've read the trespassing laws, a person has to be informed that they aren't welcome before criminal trespassing can be considered to have occurred. Hence, the popularity of ``no trespassing'' signs which inform all comers that they are not welcome. A verbal message of ``don't come around here no more'' will also do the trick in many places.
The bottom line, in many places (perhaps most places) you can legally waltz into someone else's house uninvited (provided the door is unlocked), sit down on the couch and watch television unless (1) the house owner asks you to leave or (2) there is a posted sign proclaiming that trespassing is not allowed.
I'm also unaware how actionable listing contact information for relatives is. If the information is public, I can't imagine how doing so could be illegal.
Which leaves slander. There might be a case for that. Or one for defamation of character.
... you mean prepare a suicide bomber to unleash the ultimate destruction upon the forces of evil, then, yeah, all they did was to wait for events to unfold.
He didn't even know that Aslan was going to suffer and die until he reached that point in the story. Then, the whole thing became ``Christian'' and then the story became `what if a Christ came to redeem another world?'
When I started The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe I don't think I foresaw what Aslan was going to do and suffer. I think He just insisted on behaving in His own way. This of course I did understand and the whole series became Christian.
But it is not, as some people think, an allegory. That is, I don't say 'Let us represent Christ as Aslan.' I say, 'Supposing there was a world like Narnia, and supposing, like ours, it needed redemption, let us imagine what sort of Incarnation and Passion and Resurrection Christ would have there.
From CS Lewis: FAQ
There are two key points here. The first is that when he started writing, he had no idea where the story was going to go. He just took it where his imagination led him. Consequently, it is fair to say that he didn't intentionally make the series `Christian'. The second is that they are a classic example of `what if?' rather than an intentional project to illustrate a theological truth as are The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters.
In fact, Lewis later did the same `what if?' project with the Pagan myth of Cupid and Psyche in Til We Have Faces.
The Screwtape Letterswas supposed to be a morality tale. If it disturbed you because it was trying to get across a fairly orthodox Christian point, that's because it was. Lewis wrote a few other `fictional' books with the same idea such as The Great Divorce. That said, I don't think it fair to saying that he was trying to manipulate his readers. It isn't his fault that most readers today aren't cognizant of the original context that The Screwtape Letters originally appeared in. His target audience was fully aware of what he was doing.
But neither The Chronicles of Narnia or his space trilogy was written for that purpose. The Chronicles were originally conceived as bedtime stories for his nieces and nephews that eventually poured themselves out into a series of novels. His space trilogy came out as his attempt to get into that new fangled new literary genre.
Most of the feedback doesn't need to get back to the brains of the unit; instead it can be handled by computational processors. Consider the way that Kamen's iBot and Segway prevent most of the feedback from going to the pilot. In the case of the iBot, 3 Pentiums do the calculations to keep the machine responding in fashion appropriate for the pilot's intent.
First, the Christian east never experienced the dark ages. If anything was the golden age of Christianity, it was the eastern Roman empire centered at Byzantium.
Second, the reason that western Europe experienced the dark ages was that the western Roman empire fell to repeated attacks by a number of various tribes (Vandals, Goths, etc.) most of which were Pagan.
If anything, it was Christianity that held society together during the dark ages in western Europe. If it hadn't been for libraries inside monasteries the written word would have virtually disappeared in the west.
Further, Christians from all eras have always been on the leading edge of progress. Gregor Mendel pioneered genetic theory. Blaise Pascal pioneered many areas of mathematics and discovered the vacuum. Louis Pasteur pioneered organic chemistry. Isaac Newton pioneered physics and calculus. Lord Kelvin pioneered modern thermodynamics.
Most of these men were not scientists in spite of being Christian, but were scientists because they were Christian. Believing that nature was God's creation, they thought that by investigating nature, they would learn more about God.
The view that Christianity has been a negative force with regards to scientific progress is an intentional distortion that was created during the Renaissance and Enlightenment and swallowed hook, line and sinker by many in the modern era. This negativity towards Christianity certainly has some basis in reason as the suppression of Galileo by the Catholic Church demonstrates. But to take that one side of the picture and present it as the full story only presents a small fraction of the entire story. For every Galileo that was persecuted by Christianity, there is a Mendel that was actively encouraged by Christianity.
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Windows 95 OEM == Windows 4.0 Windows 95 Retail == Windows 4.1 Windows 95 OEMSR2 == Windows 4.3 Windows 98 == Windows 4.4 Windows 98 SE == Windows 4.5 Windows ME == Windows 4.6
``we as a society have decided not to practice that any more, to "forget" if you will''
Modern monogamous marriage is no less convention than the polygamy of antiquity. Monogamous marriage isn't especially ancient when compared to other forms of familial structure in the ancient world. The concept of marriage has undergone a tremendous evolution just within the confines of recorded history. If we are, as right wing thinkers are prone to do, to use tradition as our guide, then polygamy ought to be acceptable. But the fact is that conventions change over time and the idea of monogamy has no more claim to be the best form of marriage than polygamy.
The notion that marriage is, and always has been, one man and one woman is a religious principle at best and outright deceptive at worst. Nobody, not even a majority of the American public, has the right to impose their religious beliefs on those who dissent. This is guaranteed by the US constitution.
BTW: you're wrong on the numbers. Even the most conservative polls show that, at most, about 60% of people oppose gay marriage. But even that is deceptive as a sizable percentage of those who oppose gay marriage support civil unions that are comparable with regards to the law, but only balk at the using the term *marriage* to describe same-sex unions.
Lastly, do you really want to hand the state the power to define marriage? The definition of marriage is, and ought to be, religious in nature. The state ought not to be in the business of deciding which consenting adults can or cannot get married. To do so is to impeded both the freedom of conscience of the individual *and* to usurp the power of the church on issues of morality.
I don't think that all my Rexx scripts that customized the WorkPlace Shell's Launchpad applet will migrate very easily.
The WorkPlace Shell is the one piece of software that I would have like to have seen IBM release as open source.
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I'm pretty certain that the G3's were also made predominantly by IBM and that while the G4's were a Moto only product at first (due to Alti Vec) IBM eventually licensed AV from Moto and got into G4 production.
That may be true, but a better analogy would be if a thief stole your briefcase and then attempted to introduce its contents as evidence in a civil case that the thief filed against you. I'm not so certain that a trial judge would rule that such evidence would be admissible.
You're correct. I ought to have said: any wrongs that are created by trowing out illegally obtained evidence is outweighed by the wrongs that would result from abuses that would ensue if illegally obtained evidence was allowed to be used.
It's a constitutional guarantee, at least in the US.
The thinking runs that any wrongs that are created by illegally obtained evidence is outweighed by the wrongs that would result from abuses that would ensue if illegally obtained evidence was allowed to be used.
I rememember the days when Transmeta's home page was apparently blank, but had a secret message about `coming soon' if you looked at the source. In those days, I remember /. speculating about all the things you mention. But all the actual press releases I remember had TM going after the thin client/embedded/tablet market rather than the desktop market. The way back machine's earliest archive of www.transmeta.com is from 2000 and it emphasizes devices like tablet PCs and internet appliances which are certainly not the desktop niche.
In fact, before TM starting making press releases about its initial processor, the speculation on the street was that they were going to launch some sort of handheld device akin to a Palm. Look at articles on rumor sites in the last quarter of 1999. After the Crusue debuted in Jan. of 2000, most analysts conjectured that ARM had more to worry about from TM than Intel or any other x86 vendor except maybe Nat Semi with their Geode processor. Time and again, it was mentioned that the chip was geared towards subnotebooks or other small devices, especially internet appliances.
And anyone that mistook TM's approach for RISC was sorely misguided. All their marketing propaganda was truthful in that it described the chip as VLIW. It did use less power because their were fewer transisters, but it was never RISC nor was it ever advertised as RISC. That you even bring RISC up in the discussion suggests that you're remembering more about idle speculation on /. than anything that actually came out of Transmeta.
AMD, IBM, Intel and Via would all be interested in buying Transmeta on the strength of Transmeta's patent portfolio alone.
Transmeta's market was always mobile computing, but for the most part only deluded /. geeks understood that to entirely consist of `mobile desktop'. AFAICT, they have targetted single board system embedded devices and thin clients as their primary target market from the get go. The closest `mobile desktop' gets to their target market is tablet computing which isn't really in the same category.
As far as the tens of millions of Xbox 360s and PS/3s that are expected to ship in the first year that they are launched, you are quite misinformed if you think that those numbers would be nothing to an Intel. Their flagship server processor, the Xeon, is lucky to sell a million units in a quarter. In 2004, it is estimated that just under 180 million PCs shipped worldwide. From my understanding, Intel has about 80% of that market meaning that that Intel's desktop sales is about 140 million CPUs. Game consoles, if we conservatively estimate XBOX 360 and PS/3 selling 10 million units per year each, would amount to 14% of Intel's desktop market. That is hardly `nothing.'
I, for one, never cared about Transmeta because `Linus once worked there.' Transmeta was cool because (1) they were making chips using an innovative design, which is rare, and (2) they were making chips for a niche that I have an active interest in. Turns out that neither their VLIW design nor their approach at x86 emulation turned out to be efficient enough to be effective, but it is tremendously interesting technology.
You're barking up the wrong tree with your point about NeXT. The NeXT crew got purchased by Apple, engineered a takeover, and now control the single largest Unix vendor in the world. Are you suggesting Transmeta might do something similiar?
You're probably correct that ``unless someone wants their "technology" on a firesale this sucker is in game over territory'', but not for any of the reasons you listed. The real reason is simple economics. Transmeta, however an interesting display of technology, failed to deliver a product that is superior to its competition. Which is the sad part. We don't know if their approach is a technical dead end or if their particular implementation of it is a dead end.
You're also dead wrong that ``the market is only in it for FAST x86, nobody cares about power. And if they did they want to see it from intel, or AMD'' as demonstrated by Microsoft dumping x86 for PPC in the XBOX part II and Sony moving to the cell processor for Playstation part III. Not to mention that Via seems to be doing a brisk business with its low-power x86 and ARM doesn't appear to be hurting either.
In one market nich, the desktop PC, you're probably correct. But desktop PCs are a relatively small port of the market for CPUs. When's the last time anyone bought a cell phone or a PDA because of the `Intel Inside' sticker? Who cares whether or not their hardware firewall is running at the latest and greatest high speed Ghz?
MRO's Maximo product does a good job at managing just about any physical plant activity.
GNUStep offers much of what Cocoa does. So porting to any platform supported by GNUStep, might not be such a horrendous task.
1. Going to the cinema and watching movies at home are close to perfect substitutes. 2. Staying at home is more convenient. 3. Watching movies at home is less expensive. 4. The cinema experience is better in some ways (better screen, better sound), but inferior in others (no pause button when going to the can). Consequently, most consumers prefer to stay home. The single best way to change this is to bring back neighborhood theatres that show films at low prices. If you could walk down the street and pay $2 a head instead of driving twenty minutes and paying $10 a head and movies on tape or disk cost $10 to rent, then most people would prefer to go the cinema.
First off, I'm not a lawyer. That said, I've read more than a few legal codes. In most jurisdictions for which I've read the trespassing laws, a person has to be informed that they aren't welcome before criminal trespassing can be considered to have occurred. Hence, the popularity of ``no trespassing'' signs which inform all comers that they are not welcome. A verbal message of ``don't come around here no more'' will also do the trick in many places. The bottom line, in many places (perhaps most places) you can legally waltz into someone else's house uninvited (provided the door is unlocked), sit down on the couch and watch television unless (1) the house owner asks you to leave or (2) there is a posted sign proclaiming that trespassing is not allowed. I'm also unaware how actionable listing contact information for relatives is. If the information is public, I can't imagine how doing so could be illegal. Which leaves slander. There might be a case for that. Or one for defamation of character.
First off, I'm not a lawyer. That said, I've read more than a few legal codes. In most jurisdictions for which I've read the trespassing laws, a person has to be informed that they aren't welcome before criminal trespassing can be considered to have occurred. Hence, the popularity of ``no trespassing'' signs which inform all comers that they are not welcome. A verbal message of ``don't come around here no more'' will also do the trick in many places.
The bottom line, in many places (perhaps most places) you can legally waltz into someone else's house uninvited (provided the door is unlocked), sit down on the couch and watch television unless (1) the house owner asks you to leave or (2) there is a posted sign proclaiming that trespassing is not allowed.
I'm also unaware how actionable listing contact information for relatives is. If the information is public, I can't imagine how doing so could be illegal.
Which leaves slander. There might be a case for that. Or one for defamation of character.
... you mean prepare a suicide bomber to unleash the ultimate destruction upon the forces of evil, then, yeah, all they did was to wait for events to unfold.
This is the same author that did for Cupid and Psyche in Till We Have Faces what he did for Christianity in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
He didn't even know that Aslan was going to suffer and die until he reached that point in the story. Then, the whole thing became ``Christian'' and then the story became `what if a Christ came to redeem another world?'
The Screwtape Letters was supposed to be a morality tale. If it disturbed you because it was trying to get across a fairly orthodox Christian point, that's because it was. Lewis wrote a few other `fictional' books with the same idea such as The Great Divorce. That said, I don't think it fair to saying that he was trying to manipulate his readers. It isn't his fault that most readers today aren't cognizant of the original context that The Screwtape Letters originally appeared in. His target audience was fully aware of what he was doing.
But neither The Chronicles of Narnia or his space trilogy was written for that purpose. The Chronicles were originally conceived as bedtime stories for his nieces and nephews that eventually poured themselves out into a series of novels. His space trilogy came out as his attempt to get into that new fangled new literary genre.
Most of the feedback doesn't need to get back to the brains of the unit; instead it can be handled by computational processors. Consider the way that Kamen's iBot and Segway prevent most of the feedback from going to the pilot. In the case of the iBot, 3 Pentiums do the calculations to keep the machine responding in fashion appropriate for the pilot's intent.
First, the Christian east never experienced the dark ages. If anything was the golden age of Christianity, it was the eastern Roman empire centered at Byzantium.
Second, the reason that western Europe experienced the dark ages was that the western Roman empire fell to repeated attacks by a number of various tribes (Vandals, Goths, etc.) most of which were Pagan.
If anything, it was Christianity that held society together during the dark ages in western Europe. If it hadn't been for libraries inside monasteries the written word would have virtually disappeared in the west.
Further, Christians from all eras have always been on the leading edge of progress. Gregor Mendel pioneered genetic theory. Blaise Pascal pioneered many areas of mathematics and discovered the vacuum. Louis Pasteur pioneered organic chemistry. Isaac Newton pioneered physics and calculus. Lord Kelvin pioneered modern thermodynamics.
Most of these men were not scientists in spite of being Christian, but were scientists because they were Christian. Believing that nature was God's creation, they thought that by investigating nature, they would learn more about God.
The view that Christianity has been a negative force with regards to scientific progress is an intentional distortion that was created during the Renaissance and Enlightenment and swallowed hook, line and sinker by many in the modern era. This negativity towards Christianity certainly has some basis in reason as the suppression of Galileo by the Catholic Church demonstrates. But to take that one side of the picture and present it as the full story only presents a small fraction of the entire story. For every Galileo that was persecuted by Christianity, there is a Mendel that was actively encouraged by Christianity.
Windows 95 OEM == Windows 4.0
Windows 95 Retail == Windows 4.1
Windows 95 OEMSR2 == Windows 4.3
Windows 98 == Windows 4.4
Windows 98 SE == Windows 4.5
Windows ME == Windows 4.6
``we as a society have decided not to practice that any more, to "forget" if you will''
Modern monogamous marriage is no less convention than the polygamy of antiquity. Monogamous marriage isn't especially ancient when compared to other forms of familial structure in the ancient world. The concept of marriage has undergone a tremendous evolution just within the confines of recorded history. If we are, as right wing thinkers are prone to do, to use tradition as our guide, then polygamy ought to be acceptable. But the fact is that conventions change over time and the idea of monogamy has no more claim to be the best form of marriage than polygamy.
The notion that marriage is, and always has been, one man and one woman is a religious principle at best and outright deceptive at worst. Nobody, not even a majority of the American public, has the right to impose their religious beliefs on those who dissent. This is guaranteed by the US constitution.
BTW: you're wrong on the numbers. Even the most conservative polls show that, at most, about 60% of people oppose gay marriage. But even that is deceptive as a sizable percentage of those who oppose gay marriage support civil unions that are comparable with regards to the law, but only balk at the using the term *marriage* to describe same-sex unions.
Lastly, do you really want to hand the state the power to define marriage? The definition of marriage is, and ought to be, religious in nature. The state ought not to be in the business of deciding which consenting adults can or cannot get married. To do so is to impeded both the freedom of conscience of the individual *and* to usurp the power of the church on issues of morality.
I don't think that all my Rexx scripts that customized the WorkPlace Shell's Launchpad applet will migrate very easily. The WorkPlace Shell is the one piece of software that I would have like to have seen IBM release as open source.
What evidence is there that the polygamy of the Hebrew patriarchs didn't exist before recorded history?
Han subscribed to the Bush doctrine.