And to think, they caught me 'hacking' our network a few years ago in high school and treatened to suspend me. Somehow the evidence 'conveniently' dissapeared, and within a couple weeks I had been hired on as a part-time assistant to our technology coordinator. All you gotta do is convince everyone that you were merely trying to point out obvious security flaws in the network's design, and you go from problem child to junior network administrator...
Thats the same thing I thought at first. Kinda like if you point a microscope at a microscope and see the little creatures that live inside atoms. It sounds probable to those of us with relatively no scientific knowledge... After all, we've all known old senile people with bad vision that double stack their eyeglasses, right?
Poor manufacturing processes. Its cheaper to make something one way that produces more waste, generally. Increased efficiency would cost more $ (theoretically, I know it seems that efficiency = savings) and a private company can't afford to cut into their profit margin in order to make a tiny dent in helping the environment. It would seem the EPA had the right idea and poorly exeuted it. And as consumers, we want individually wrapped packages with colorful print that we don't have to recycle, because it would require leaving our air conditioning and putting forth effort, once again to make a seemingly miniscule dent in helping the environment. We're lazy and don't like to change our ways, unless it is to the convenience of disposable luxuries.
I loved the line that read "Most legal action to block spam takes place in civil court. ISPs, including America Online, have taken on spammers in more than 100 civil cases." It always seemed to me that it would be the other way around. Ever log on to AOL and count the # of popup ads, junk banners, and spam from AOL or AOL partners in your AOL email account? You KNOW that in order to make up for giving away free service, they're selling databases of AOL user info (including e-mail addresses) to spammers to push up stock prices. Maybe they're afraid of competition??? Click here for 800 free hours of online access, pictures of real live teen sorority sluts, and info on how to make millions from your home while refinancing your morgatge!
The article gave the impression that SMT would do well to improve performance in a single-processor environment, but I wasn't clear on how SMT stacked up against SMP. I got the impression that SMP was still better. Say a 1ghz system with SMT vs a dual-500mhz SMP system, which is going to be more effective? I went from using my dual-433 celeron system with Win2000 (yes I know, MS is evil...) to testing out someone elses P4 1.5ghz box and I wasn't impressed at all. The same CPU-intensive tasks seemed to run at about the same speed, if not slower. In all honesty, most computer users (I know, not us, but TYPICAL users) would be fine with a moderate (read as 300 to 400 mhz) processor provided they had sufficient memory. I do believe that whoever mentioned making software that is less processor-intensive hit the nail on the head.
When I completed my Ohio state income taxes, there was a specific worksheet to report how much money you spent on items out of state, and after finding the total, you were supposed to multiply it out by your county tax rate and add that to your taxes. It was stated that this applied to items purchased while you were out of state, as well as to items that you bought from out of state via the internet. So basically, you would be taxed twice for anything you bought while out of state, and once to twice for any internet purchases. I'd like to have some input on if other states are doing similar things, and what/. readers think of this. Seems like a bunch of crap to me. Naturally, I claimed nothing, as I didn't buy anything from out of state... lol
Problem therein lies in either finding another way to dispose of the large quantities of pollution. We could pump them into the ground, or into the ocean, which would also surely bring about adverse effects. We could pump them into outer space, which would be not too cost effective, and would probably somehow destroy outer space and kill some species of extra-terrestrials. Or we could adapt more eco-friendly ways of manufacture, so that our billions of earthlings can live happily without killing their planet. I think we're making progress on the latter, but things always get worse before they start getting better.
So are you saying I should stockpile sunblock, winter clothes, or both?
Seriously, wouldn't these moves to maintain equilibrium occur over a longer span of time? Like the increase in temperature preceeding an ice age occuring very gradually over a period of many many years? Just as the progression from a hot climate to an ice age would take many many more years? Your logic is very thoughtful but I just can't believe that the earth would act so quickly to maintain an equilibrium, by increasing temperatures as quickly as we have seen. I'm probably wrong, but just a thought...
I'm sure that this global warming is bad and all, but what effect does it have on those of us who spend all of our time in front of our computers with the A/C cranked? They can take my guns, but they'll never take my freon!!!
We must keep the drawbacks of this plan in consideration. Without a MS operating system, they won't have the MS Office application suite, notably Word and Outlook. Oh no! But wait, 99% of the viruses known have spread through... *drum roll, badabadabadabadabada* none other than security holes in Outlook and other MS software! Think, they'll save millions more pesos by not needing extensive anti-virus monitoring to keep Outlook viruses from shutting down their network!
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And to think, they caught me 'hacking' our network a few years ago in high school and treatened to suspend me. Somehow the evidence 'conveniently' dissapeared, and within a couple weeks I had been hired on as a part-time assistant to our technology coordinator. All you gotta do is convince everyone that you were merely trying to point out obvious security flaws in the network's design, and you go from problem child to junior network administrator...
Thats the same thing I thought at first. Kinda like if you point a microscope at a microscope and see the little creatures that live inside atoms. It sounds probable to those of us with relatively no scientific knowledge... After all, we've all known old senile people with bad vision that double stack their eyeglasses, right?
Poor manufacturing processes. Its cheaper to make something one way that produces more waste, generally. Increased efficiency would cost more $ (theoretically, I know it seems that efficiency = savings) and a private company can't afford to cut into their profit margin in order to make a tiny dent in helping the environment. It would seem the EPA had the right idea and poorly exeuted it. And as consumers, we want individually wrapped packages with colorful print that we don't have to recycle, because it would require leaving our air conditioning and putting forth effort, once again to make a seemingly miniscule dent in helping the environment. We're lazy and don't like to change our ways, unless it is to the convenience of disposable luxuries.
I loved the line that read "Most legal action to block spam takes place in civil court. ISPs, including America Online, have taken on spammers in more than 100 civil cases."
It always seemed to me that it would be the other way around. Ever log on to AOL and count the # of popup ads, junk banners, and spam from AOL or AOL partners in your AOL email account? You KNOW that in order to make up for giving away free service, they're selling databases of AOL user info (including e-mail addresses) to spammers to push up stock prices. Maybe they're afraid of competition??? Click here for 800 free hours of online access, pictures of real live teen sorority sluts, and info on how to make millions from your home while refinancing your morgatge!
The article gave the impression that SMT would do well to improve performance in a single-processor environment, but I wasn't clear on how SMT stacked up against SMP. I got the impression that SMP was still better. Say a 1ghz system with SMT vs a dual-500mhz SMP system, which is going to be more effective? I went from using my dual-433 celeron system with Win2000 (yes I know, MS is evil...) to testing out someone elses P4 1.5ghz box and I wasn't impressed at all. The same CPU-intensive tasks seemed to run at about the same speed, if not slower. In all honesty, most computer users (I know, not us, but TYPICAL users) would be fine with a moderate (read as 300 to 400 mhz) processor provided they had sufficient memory. I do believe that whoever mentioned making software that is less processor-intensive hit the nail on the head.
When I completed my Ohio state income taxes, there was a specific worksheet to report how much money you spent on items out of state, and after finding the total, you were supposed to multiply it out by your county tax rate and add that to your taxes. It was stated that this applied to items purchased while you were out of state, as well as to items that you bought from out of state via the internet. So basically, you would be taxed twice for anything you bought while out of state, and once to twice for any internet purchases. I'd like to have some input on if other states are doing similar things, and what /. readers think of this. Seems like a bunch of crap to me. Naturally, I claimed nothing, as I didn't buy anything from out of state... lol
Problem therein lies in either finding another way to dispose of the large quantities of pollution. We could pump them into the ground, or into the ocean, which would also surely bring about adverse effects. We could pump them into outer space, which would be not too cost effective, and would probably somehow destroy outer space and kill some species of extra-terrestrials. Or we could adapt more eco-friendly ways of manufacture, so that our billions of earthlings can live happily without killing their planet. I think we're making progress on the latter, but things always get worse before they start getting better.
So are you saying I should stockpile sunblock, winter clothes, or both?
Seriously, wouldn't these moves to maintain equilibrium occur over a longer span of time? Like the increase in temperature preceeding an ice age occuring very gradually over a period of many many years? Just as the progression from a hot climate to an ice age would take many many more years? Your logic is very thoughtful but I just can't believe that the earth would act so quickly to maintain an equilibrium, by increasing temperatures as quickly as we have seen. I'm probably wrong, but just a thought...
I'm sure that this global warming is bad and all, but what effect does it have on those of us who spend all of our time in front of our computers with the A/C cranked? They can take my guns, but they'll never take my freon!!!
We must keep the drawbacks of this plan in consideration. Without a MS operating system, they won't have the MS Office application suite, notably Word and Outlook. Oh no! But wait, 99% of the viruses known have spread through... *drum roll, badabadabadabadabada* none other than security holes in Outlook and other MS software! Think, they'll save millions more pesos by not needing extensive anti-virus monitoring to keep Outlook viruses from shutting down their network!