> Actually that chipset supports up to 8 CPUs just by adding an extra northbridge for every extra CPU, above the intitial 2 CPUs.
Uhm, NO, sorry. Wish it were true, though. The 760MP chipset supports up to TWO processors only. You'll see >2 proc support chipet(s) from other vendors, later on.
Your argument makes me wonder what people thought about the invention of the gun. Was there some wacko out there saying that because of the invention of the gun, everyone would own one, and we'd all kill each other off within a month?
Your argument only makes sense if you think that government isn't made up of PEOPLE. Laws exist, as do grassroots movements that affect change.
Perhaps we should just not do ANY medical research that could be beneficial - gosh, someone might misuse it!
Far out! That is so awesome. That's even better than Bart Simpson's idea of a half-man, half-monkey type creature. "God, schmod, I want my monkey-man!"
But think about it - what if we COULD change our DNA? I wouldn't mind getting rid of genetic diseases for good. I'm sure my entire family could do without having Diabetes, for one, and the history of cancer & heart disease isn't too pleasant, either, or the congenital heart problems and kidney problems that run in the other side of the family.
Equating fixing genetic diseases with creating Frankensteinian monsters is taking things to a major extreme. There _can_ be a happy medium, _assuming_ we can master the technology involved, which is, I'll admit, a pretty big assumption.
If they can just get rid of that Republican & Democrat DNA...*wishful thinking*
It depends on WHY the parent(s) was sterile in the first place. Plenty of people become sterile because of accidents or diseases.
Nevertheless, I'm a big believer in adoption.
But on the other hand, I think cloning _technology_ is a great thing - if they can make it possible to clone individual bodyparts, that would go a long way toward helping out people who need transplants. I'd certainly like a replacement organ to get rid of my Diabetes. *sigh*
As far as cloning someone who is genetically sterile - that's not necessarily a bad thing. What if Einstein had been sterile? Would that make cloned offspring of his a bad idea? No way! Something to think about...
Spinach? Everyone knows that wabbits like _carrots!_
I can just imagine a modern Bugs Bunny - tunnelling all over China, pops up just as the train goes wooshing by, flattening his ears straight back behind him, and says, "I _knew_ I should've made that left toin at Albuquerque..."
It depends on what you want to do, but using Flash or Shockwave, you can do a _lot_. The pros and cons of those compared to Java make them an interesting choice for _some_ uses. It also depends on what platforms you have to support - they are hardly as portable as Java.
Snatch, and another British movie to see
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I thought Snatch was very good, and quite funny. I was laughing my butt off throughout most of it. And I thought the ending was great! (wish the Concorde *really* flew that fast!:) The thing I thought when I walked out of that movie was, "That's what Quentin Tarantino _wishes_ he could do!"
Another British movie I've seen recently is MUCH BETTER, though it's a vastly different type of movie - 'Billy Elliot'. This is a great movie about a young boy in a northern England mining town during a miner's strike. He secretly substitutes ballet lessons for his dad-approved boxing lessons, and winds up doing quite well. All hell breaks loose, of course, when dad finds out. Also during all this is a lot of trouble because of the miner's strike. The movie is filled with strange and fascinating (and likeable!) characters, and it's got a fantastic soundtrack (half of which are songs by T. Rex). An amazing movie, and easily my favourite British movie. Among my top 10 right now (though that list changes a lot). Definitely worth seeing, and that's also one I'll get on DVD once it's available.
Another recent British movie that was quite nice is 'Saving Grace', about a widow who resorts to growing marijuana in her greenhouse to meet the mortgage payment. This is an hilarious movie, and well worth seeing.
Everyone's seen 'Trainspotting' and 'The Full Monty', but the one most haven't seen is 'Brassed Off', another 'mining town on strike' movie, but this one has a twist - the company brass band is the main thing - Pete Postlethwaite is the band leader trying to keep the band together despite the town falling apart because of the mine shutdown. He manages to do so, and even gets the band into a competition. Things get more interesting when a newcomer to the band causes a stir - she's a woman! (gasp) Played by Tara Fitzgerald. The movie also has Ewan MacGregor (young Obi Wan, for you geeks). An excellent movie, among the best of the recent British efforts.
I guess when all the musical talent left Britain at the end of the eighties, the talent moved over to the movie industry - there are some really excellent British movies these days.
1) A page being generated with ASP has nothing to do with whether it's viewable on a certain browser or platform. That has EVERYTHING to do with the person(s) who coded the site, and what that ASP is generating. You can generate perfect HTML or unbelievably _evil_ HTML with ASP, PHP, JSP, or Perl (hello Slashdot!).
2) What is your problem with cookies & javascript?
The GeForce2 card unveiled for the Mac is the LOW-END card that NVidia makes - the 2MX. If you buy one for a PC, you can find them for around $100 or so. I've no idea what Apple is selling them for if you (can) buy them separately, but it's probably a lot more than $100. The ATI Radeon is a more capable card in some respects, but for non-3D stuff, the GeForce2MX card is probably more than you need. I have one, and it's a great card. Why that card is the default one on the 'high-end' Macs is beyond me. It's a budget card! *shrug*
'dynamic content' has nothing to do with client-side dynamic technologies - it generally refers to sites that are generating pages on the fly, almost always out of a database, like Slashdot does with perl, or like other sites do with PHP or ASP, or JSP.
I must admit, LFS (Linux From Scratch, for those who don't know), is a very interesting-looking project. I'm using Slackware for my current Linux distro, and I'm sure I'll update to 7.2 once it's available, and use that to build my LFS partition slowly over the next several months. I'm already planning what s/w to use - it'll be an all GTK/Gnome system, and I'll try to eliminate as many dependencies on other libs as possible (no kde, lesstif, etc,) The proliferation of libs is pretty ridiculous these days. I'll also only have _one_ of each type of app - most distributions seem to want to install about 6 or more editors, 4 browsers, 5 window managers, etc. It's pretty insane. Sure, when you install all of Gnome, it's pretty huge, but keep in mind that when you do, you don't need to install a bunch of other stuff anymore (including libs). Can't wait for Gnome Helix and Nautilus to hit their prime...
"The research shows a fairly rare nuclear material, americium-242m (Am-242m), when used as an extremely thin metallic film, is capable of sustaining nuclear fission. When the film is less than a thousandth of a millimetre thick, the high-energy, high-temperature products of fission can escape the fuel and be used for propulsion in space."
That's the entire point of using this as nuclear fuel - the products of THIS fuel can be used as propulsion.
My question is, what ARE the byproducts of this process, and are they radioactive? Would a drive based on this process wind up spitting out a radioactive plume? If so, NO THANKS.
>It's FAR from perfect, but we don't have military coups even when
>our election process is completely hosed.
Variations of this was heard again and again during the recent election fiasco. I seems many Americans actually believe that their country is the only one in the world who would not have a coup, riots in the streets, etc in such a situation.
How clueless!
Nowhere in my message did I say that the US is the only country where that doesn't happen. How clueless of you to assume that I meant something I didn't even say.
And as for Americans in general, it seems to be in fashion to bash us all for something only a vocal few are guilty of. The rest of you are no saints, either, I'm betting, so you can all get off your high horses, too.
We've likely had LOTS of assholes for President, especially in the pre-tv era. You don't think we really KNOW what these men have been like, just from watching tv and reading about them, do you?
Less important than someone's personality (President Scroob - er, GWB), or lack thereof (Al Gore), is whether the person is COMPETENT (see also: the candidate we SHOULD have had: Bill Bradley). When you concentrate on personality for Presidential qualification, then you get people like Bill Clinton, or, the Anti-Gore, GWB. *sigh*
If by freedom, you mean the ability to affect change as a private citizen, then I think the U.S. is still far and away the most 'free' country on the planet. It's FAR from perfect, but we don't have military coups even when our election process is completely hosed. Any private nutcase (hello, Mr. Perot) can run for president, and might even do well (assuming he's _not_ a nutcase, that is).
You can find countries with better & socialized health care systems (and _much_ higher taxes), you can find countries with much better public education (and _much_ higher taxes). There are some countries with better stances on citizen privacy, crypto controls, and the like, but when you get right down to it, you have to take the whole of a country, not just their stance on one or two issues. And you must consider how feasible it is to affect change in that country, as mentioned above.
The U.S. has pretty good healthcare (though obviously corrupt and with a focus on after-the-fact rather than preventative care), our taxes are pretty low, we've got welfare, social security, and medicare (though those could all be overhauled pretty seriously). We've got okay public education (though thanks to 'local control', it varies wildly. Our food & fuel prices are among the lowest, also.
Grass-roots initatives are gaining in popularity (at least, they're going crazy here in the Seattle area) - anyone can start one (hello, Tim Eyman), and they often pass.
I think many people feel disenfranchised in the U.S. simply because they don't understand how the system works, and that they CAN make a difference if they have the right idea, and put in a lot of work.
As far as the political machine goes, the most obvious problem is the two party system. I'm of a mind that it should be a NO PARTY system. If you belong to a party, your loyalties go to that party, not to the people who elected you. Is every stance by your party going to be good for those that voted you in? Not hardly! Campaign finance reform needs to be done immediately, too, to minimize corruption. (Help! Help! I'm being repressed!) Something I thought was interesting was when people were 'vote swapping' via websites before the election and all the politicans were aghast at that - vote swapping, imagine that! Well, just what do you think EVERY SINGLE POLITICIANS DOES whenever they want something passed? "Sure, I'll vote for your upcoming nuke-the-whales bill if you vote for my guns-for-tots bill." And let's not even get into the people who influence politicans for a living (LEGALLY!). Yes, there's a lot wrong with the system, but the underlying freedom to change it is vast.
And what about our legal system? Now _there's_ a fucked-up mess! Instead of trying to find the 'truth' of an issue, instead we have a battle between who has the best lawyer (hi there, O.J.). And the death penalty is ridiculous considering we don't have a way of verifying _absolutely_ whether someone is telling the truth or not. Even people who confess to crimes are sometimes lying, for various reasons. You'd think videotape would be enough to convict someone of a crime, but that's apparently not the case (hello Rodney King-beating police officers). Until such time as we can absolutely, 100.000% verify whether someone has committed a crime, the death penalty should not be an option. On the other hand, keep in mind that many prison inmates have better living conditions than U.S. military field personnel do (a fact - a friend of mine was in the Gulf, and this pisses him off no end, apparently). You'd think the idea of prisons being self-supporting would be an obvious one, but I guess not. There is apparently no such thing as 'common sense'. Too bad.
Now, often when I get on a tirade like this, some dufus brings up something about how the Founding Fathers intended this or that. Completely ridiculous. First, the Founding Fathers were hardly saints - many of them owned slaves (including Thomas Jefferson, who had more to do with creating our governmental structure than anyone), plus they were all part-time politicians, and had intended that to be the case in the future for others. They had no knowledge of what this country would be like over 200 years later, but they put a process in place to change the Constitution - the process of amending the constitution. It's even been done several times already (though not for a long time). They obviously INTENDED the Constitution to be modified over time. Talk about foresight! I think their taking their own fallibility into account when creating this country was probably THE best thing they did.
Okay, that's enough - I'm tired of typing right now.
Yeah, I must've missed that. Doesn't matter - I'm gonna save over $180 a year by moving all my domains over to Dotster, as their fee is only $15 per year.
While we're on the topic of registrars - I just moved over a domain from Network Solutions to Dotster, and it was amazingly painless!
Dotster now has a web-based form to fill out that automates the process - easy as pie, and there was no fee other than the normal $15/year domain fee from Dotster. What finally prompted me to do this was Network Solutions asking for $70 to re-up my 6 year old domain (supposed to be $70 for the first two years, then $35 a year after that - all of a sudden they're back to billing in two year increments, now that they have competition? I don't think so!)
FYI, folks.
As far as the article topic - I'll have to side with register.com on this one. Anyone who uses registration info for spamming should have their pubes lit on fire.
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> Actually that chipset supports up to 8 CPUs just by adding an extra northbridge for every extra CPU, above the intitial 2 CPUs.
Uhm, NO, sorry. Wish it were true, though. The 760MP chipset supports up to TWO processors only. You'll see >2 proc support chipet(s) from other vendors, later on.
No, it's not Rambus capable.
Your argument makes me wonder what people thought about the invention of the gun. Was there some wacko out there saying that because of the invention of the gun, everyone would own one, and we'd all kill each other off within a month?
Your argument only makes sense if you think that government isn't made up of PEOPLE. Laws exist, as do grassroots movements that affect change.
Perhaps we should just not do ANY medical research that could be beneficial - gosh, someone might misuse it!
Get a grip.
Yeah, and if they each have a clone of themselves, then when the little ones grow up, they can marry each other and continue it indefinitely!
To paraphrase Mr. Spock, "It's incest, Jim, but not as we know it."
Society will get _seriously_ fucked up, but I'm sure the ratings on Jerry Springer will skyrocket!
Far out! That is so awesome. That's even better than Bart Simpson's idea of a half-man, half-monkey type creature. "God, schmod, I want my monkey-man!"
But think about it - what if we COULD change our DNA? I wouldn't mind getting rid of genetic diseases for good. I'm sure my entire family could do without having Diabetes, for one, and the history of cancer & heart disease isn't too pleasant, either, or the congenital heart problems and kidney problems that run in the other side of the family.
Equating fixing genetic diseases with creating Frankensteinian monsters is taking things to a major extreme. There _can_ be a happy medium, _assuming_ we can master the technology involved, which is, I'll admit, a pretty big assumption.
If they can just get rid of that Republican & Democrat DNA...*wishful thinking*
It depends on WHY the parent(s) was sterile in the first place. Plenty of people become sterile because of accidents or diseases.
Nevertheless, I'm a big believer in adoption.
But on the other hand, I think cloning _technology_ is a great thing - if they can make it possible to clone individual bodyparts, that would go a long way toward helping out people who need transplants. I'd certainly like a replacement organ to get rid of my Diabetes. *sigh*
As far as cloning someone who is genetically sterile - that's not necessarily a bad thing. What if Einstein had been sterile? Would that make cloned offspring of his a bad idea? No way! Something to think about...
http://www.homepower.com/
This is a great mag - nice to see others out there know of it...
Spinach? Everyone knows that wabbits like _carrots!_
I can just imagine a modern Bugs Bunny - tunnelling all over China, pops up just as the train goes wooshing by, flattening his ears straight back behind him, and says, "I _knew_ I should've made that left toin at Albuquerque..."
Just then, a Chinese hunter comes by...
Report all the abusive bullies in the school. Seems they're the _real_ violent types, right?
Maybe they can get counselling before they become alcoholic wife-beaters...
It depends on what you want to do, but using Flash or Shockwave, you can do a _lot_. The pros and cons of those compared to Java make them an interesting choice for _some_ uses. It also depends on what platforms you have to support - they are hardly as portable as Java.
I thought Snatch was very good, and quite funny. I was laughing my butt off throughout most of it. And I thought the ending was great! (wish the Concorde *really* flew that fast! :) The thing I thought when I walked out of that movie was, "That's what Quentin Tarantino _wishes_ he could do!"
Another British movie I've seen recently is MUCH BETTER, though it's a vastly different type of movie - 'Billy Elliot'. This is a great movie about a young boy in a northern England mining town during a miner's strike. He secretly substitutes ballet lessons for his dad-approved boxing lessons, and winds up doing quite well. All hell breaks loose, of course, when dad finds out. Also during all this is a lot of trouble because of the miner's strike. The movie is filled with strange and fascinating (and likeable!) characters, and it's got a fantastic soundtrack (half of which are songs by T. Rex). An amazing movie, and easily my favourite British movie. Among my top 10 right now (though that list changes a lot). Definitely worth seeing, and that's also one I'll get on DVD once it's available.
Another recent British movie that was quite nice is 'Saving Grace', about a widow who resorts to growing marijuana in her greenhouse to meet the mortgage payment. This is an hilarious movie, and well worth seeing.
Everyone's seen 'Trainspotting' and 'The Full Monty', but the one most haven't seen is 'Brassed Off', another 'mining town on strike' movie, but this one has a twist - the company brass band is the main thing - Pete Postlethwaite is the band leader trying to keep the band together despite the town falling apart because of the mine shutdown. He manages to do so, and even gets the band into a competition. Things get more interesting when a newcomer to the band causes a stir - she's a woman! (gasp) Played by Tara Fitzgerald. The movie also has Ewan MacGregor (young Obi Wan, for you geeks). An excellent movie, among the best of the recent British efforts.
I guess when all the musical talent left Britain at the end of the eighties, the talent moved over to the movie industry - there are some really excellent British movies these days.
1) A page being generated with ASP has nothing to do with whether it's viewable on a certain browser or platform. That has EVERYTHING to do with the person(s) who coded the site, and what that ASP is generating. You can generate perfect HTML or unbelievably _evil_ HTML with ASP, PHP, JSP, or Perl (hello Slashdot!).
2) What is your problem with cookies & javascript?
The GeForce2 card unveiled for the Mac is the LOW-END card that NVidia makes - the 2MX. If you buy one for a PC, you can find them for around $100 or so. I've no idea what Apple is selling them for if you (can) buy them separately, but it's probably a lot more than $100. The ATI Radeon is a more capable card in some respects, but for non-3D stuff, the GeForce2MX card is probably more than you need. I have one, and it's a great card. Why that card is the default one on the 'high-end' Macs is beyond me. It's a budget card! *shrug*
'dynamic content' has nothing to do with client-side dynamic technologies - it generally refers to sites that are generating pages on the fly, almost always out of a database, like Slashdot does with perl, or like other sites do with PHP or ASP, or JSP.
Don't tell you you actually read a *STAR TREK BOOK*!
*shocked silence*
Yeah, I've considered using the tagfiles, but it's one of those, "I'll get around to it _eventually_" type projects. *sigh*
Errr- no I don't. I use Slackware, and do the expert install - but all that junk is pre-selected. Very irritating.
And why Perl is pre-selected and Python isn't, I've got NO idea!
I must admit, LFS (Linux From Scratch, for those who don't know), is a very interesting-looking project. I'm using Slackware for my current Linux distro, and I'm sure I'll update to 7.2 once it's available, and use that to build my LFS partition slowly over the next several months. I'm already planning what s/w to use - it'll be an all GTK/Gnome system, and I'll try to eliminate as many dependencies on other libs as possible (no kde, lesstif, etc,) The proliferation of libs is pretty ridiculous these days. I'll also only have _one_ of each type of app - most distributions seem to want to install about 6 or more editors, 4 browsers, 5 window managers, etc. It's pretty insane. Sure, when you install all of Gnome, it's pretty huge, but keep in mind that when you do, you don't need to install a bunch of other stuff anymore (including libs). Can't wait for Gnome Helix and Nautilus to hit their prime...
>I can't imagine ANY serious Linux distributor that will put 2.4.0 on it's new version of Linux..
:)
Think RedHat!
"The research shows a fairly rare nuclear material, americium-242m (Am-242m), when used as an extremely thin metallic film, is capable of sustaining nuclear fission. When the film is less than a thousandth of a millimetre thick, the high-energy, high-temperature products of fission can escape the fuel and be used for propulsion in space."
That's the entire point of using this as nuclear fuel - the products of THIS fuel can be used as propulsion.
My question is, what ARE the byproducts of this process, and are they radioactive? Would a drive based on this process wind up spitting out a radioactive plume? If so, NO THANKS.
>our election process is completely hosed.
Variations of this was heard again and again during the recent election fiasco. I seems many Americans actually believe that their country is the only one in the world who would not have a coup, riots in the streets, etc in such a situation.
How clueless!
Nowhere in my message did I say that the US is the only country where that doesn't happen. How clueless of you to assume that I meant something I didn't even say.
And as for Americans in general, it seems to be in fashion to bash us all for something only a vocal few are guilty of. The rest of you are no saints, either, I'm betting, so you can all get off your high horses, too.
"what if he's an asshole?"
:)
see also: President Richard M. Nixon
We've likely had LOTS of assholes for President, especially in the pre-tv era. You don't think we really KNOW what these men have been like, just from watching tv and reading about them, do you?
Less important than someone's personality (President Scroob - er, GWB), or lack thereof (Al Gore), is whether the person is COMPETENT (see also: the candidate we SHOULD have had: Bill Bradley). When you concentrate on personality for Presidential qualification, then you get people like Bill Clinton, or, the Anti-Gore, GWB. *sigh*
If by freedom, you mean the ability to affect change as a private citizen, then I think the U.S. is still far and away the most 'free' country on the planet. It's FAR from perfect, but we don't have military coups even when our election process is completely hosed. Any private nutcase (hello, Mr. Perot) can run for president, and might even do well (assuming he's _not_ a nutcase, that is).
You can find countries with better & socialized health care systems (and _much_ higher taxes), you can find countries with much better public education (and _much_ higher taxes). There are some countries with better stances on citizen privacy, crypto controls, and the like, but when you get right down to it, you have to take the whole of a country, not just their stance on one or two issues. And you must consider how feasible it is to affect change in that country, as mentioned above.
The U.S. has pretty good healthcare (though obviously corrupt and with a focus on after-the-fact rather than preventative care), our taxes are pretty low, we've got welfare, social security, and medicare (though those could all be overhauled pretty seriously). We've got okay public education (though thanks to 'local control', it varies wildly. Our food & fuel prices are among the lowest, also.
Grass-roots initatives are gaining in popularity (at least, they're going crazy here in the Seattle area) - anyone can start one (hello, Tim Eyman), and they often pass.
I think many people feel disenfranchised in the U.S. simply because they don't understand how the system works, and that they CAN make a difference if they have the right idea, and put in a lot of work.
As far as the political machine goes, the most obvious problem is the two party system. I'm of a mind that it should be a NO PARTY system. If you belong to a party, your loyalties go to that party, not to the people who elected you. Is every stance by your party going to be good for those that voted you in? Not hardly! Campaign finance reform needs to be done immediately, too, to minimize corruption. (Help! Help! I'm being repressed!) Something I thought was interesting was when people were 'vote swapping' via websites before the election and all the politicans were aghast at that - vote swapping, imagine that! Well, just what do you think EVERY SINGLE POLITICIANS DOES whenever they want something passed? "Sure, I'll vote for your upcoming nuke-the-whales bill if you vote for my guns-for-tots bill." And let's not even get into the people who influence politicans for a living (LEGALLY!). Yes, there's a lot wrong with the system, but the underlying freedom to change it is vast.
And what about our legal system? Now _there's_ a fucked-up mess! Instead of trying to find the 'truth' of an issue, instead we have a battle between who has the best lawyer (hi there, O.J.). And the death penalty is ridiculous considering we don't have a way of verifying _absolutely_ whether someone is telling the truth or not. Even people who confess to crimes are sometimes lying, for various reasons. You'd think videotape would be enough to convict someone of a crime, but that's apparently not the case (hello Rodney King-beating police officers). Until such time as we can absolutely, 100.000% verify whether someone has committed a crime, the death penalty should not be an option. On the other hand, keep in mind that many prison inmates have better living conditions than U.S. military field personnel do (a fact - a friend of mine was in the Gulf, and this pisses him off no end, apparently). You'd think the idea of prisons being self-supporting would be an obvious one, but I guess not. There is apparently no such thing as 'common sense'. Too bad.
Now, often when I get on a tirade like this, some dufus brings up something about how the Founding Fathers intended this or that. Completely ridiculous. First, the Founding Fathers were hardly saints - many of them owned slaves (including Thomas Jefferson, who had more to do with creating our governmental structure than anyone), plus they were all part-time politicians, and had intended that to be the case in the future for others. They had no knowledge of what this country would be like over 200 years later, but they put a process in place to change the Constitution - the process of amending the constitution. It's even been done several times already (though not for a long time). They obviously INTENDED the Constitution to be modified over time. Talk about foresight! I think their taking their own fallibility into account when creating this country was probably THE best thing they did.
Okay, that's enough - I'm tired of typing right now.
Yeah, I must've missed that. Doesn't matter - I'm gonna save over $180 a year by moving all my domains over to Dotster, as their fee is only $15 per year.
While we're on the topic of registrars - I just moved over a domain from Network Solutions to Dotster, and it was amazingly painless!
Dotster now has a web-based form to fill out that automates the process - easy as pie, and there was no fee other than the normal $15/year domain fee from Dotster. What finally prompted me to do this was Network Solutions asking for $70 to re-up my 6 year old domain (supposed to be $70 for the first two years, then $35 a year after that - all of a sudden they're back to billing in two year increments, now that they have competition? I don't think so!)
FYI, folks.
As far as the article topic - I'll have to side with register.com on this one. Anyone who uses registration info for spamming should have their pubes lit on fire.