... you wouldn't know what socialist was if it jumped up and bit you on the bottom.
Your Democrats are fairly right-wing by everyone else's standards, and as for the Republicans, you might as well just call them the "American National Front" for want of something better.
Socialist is a bit more left-wing than moderate right-wing liberalism. In fact over here, socialist is every bit as unpermissive as the extreme right.
You have your liberals and your socialists all muddled up!
Of course it doesn't. I'm just saying that they have the wherewithall to get hold of firearms (illegally), and that guns etc. are out of reach of most people. In otherwords you have to be pretty determined and go to great lengths to get a gun here, and there must be premeditation.
You can't just have an argument with someone in the street who parked in your parking space, reach for a pistol and shoot him dead, unlike some other countries.
So what if the Royals commit adultery? Who gives a toss about them anyway? Why should I pay taxes to keep them in the style to which they have been accoustomed (sp?), etc. and have them appear in the national media ranting about their personal political and religious beliefs.
Homosexual cabinet ministers : as long as people who are having sex with each other are consenting adults, who cares if they fancy people of the same sex? Good luck to them is what I say, at least they're getting some!
Northern Ireland : yes, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and overrun by religious biggots, hatred and terrorist orgainisations, and they have guns, bombs, naseball bats, planks of wood with rusty nails in them, knives, elderly men who dress up funny and parade up and down the streets letting people of other religions and political convictions know how much they hate each other. Oh, don't forget the petrol bombs too...
Your point?
My point : this is _organised_ crime with international backing, big money, and centuries-old raging hatred, biggotry and prejudice.
That's a very Reagan-esque opinion. We here in the UK have very strict gun control and a mulit-party democracy that is more varied and effective than that of the USA.
Guess what? Hardly anyone gets shot here, and those who do are usually just bigh-time drug dealers and gangsters.
One nutter went ape in a church recently with a samurai sword though.
People were critically injured, but no one died. What if he'd been able to walk into a shop and buy a gun?
Yes, we have police armed response units, and if someone in the congregation had had a gun too, yadda yadda etc .. but, if people don't carry guns, they can't just shoot someone who looked at them the wrong way or "called their pint a poof". Usually, the worst that comes of it is a bloody nose.
Free, unregulated possession of guns does not a democracy make. It makes for suspicion, fear and opression of one's fellow human being.
Well, perhaps they'll let me fly to Mars. I have demonstrated that I can go for long periods (years) without doing it. They'd have to issue me with stainless steel underpants like in Naked Gun 33 1/3 to discourage those of inferior self-control. Oh yes, and a stack of jazz mags....
I'm actually a Linux user, but thanks for the info anyway.
The point I was making about MS flightsim is that people who play games need the fastest machines available, and most games are for Win9x, which is single-threaded, so the market is obviously for faster single-processor machines. That's why people will pay way over the odds for a 600MHz processor, when two 400's at a fraction of the price would give better performace on properly optimised code.
Why have they brought out a new K6-2 at 533MHz? Surely they should phase out the K6-2 in favour of the K6 III which has integral level 2 cache, and is therefore a bit faster at the same clock speed. What am I missing?
Why is this of any relevance to anyone who isn't runing a non-multithreaded OS (ie Win9x)?
Would we not be better served with dual- and quad-processor Athlon motherboards? After all, a 1GHz processor is going to spend a lot of its time waiting around for the RAM to deliver data.
Before the first human moon landings a treaty was ratified that stated that no nation would own the Moon, and that it would be freely available for scientific exploration to anyone that wanted it.
I would imagine that the same applies to all of the other planets,since the cost of getting there far outweighs the (present) commercial rewards.
As for the asteroids, comets and, dare I say it, other _stars_, a similar rule would apply. After all, what hard-headed, capit(a/o)l driven buisness person in this day and age would throw away those sums of money?
No, anyone who goes "out there" will do so in the name of science and exploration first.
It will be at leat 50 years until we see the Moon being exploited for commercial gain.
Low Earth Orbit.. that's another story.. Give it 5 years until the well-heeled will be going there.
Indeed, you cannot "make" anyone like you and I agree completely that it is all about getting to know people.
However, if you are a miserable, ugly, cantankerous old git like me, you just have to accept that your chances of meeting a woman who'll be more than "just friends" (as if that should be belittled) are pretty negligable.
However, when you're feeling lonely, at least you will know that you have lots of dependable friends there for you, who's judgement is not tainted by physical attraction.
It's wonderful to have these friends! They are truly what make life worth living!
The Microdrive was an endless-loop tape drive invented by Sinclair (as in ZX-81 and ZX-Spectrum) in the early 80's. The cartridge was about 1 inch square and could store 110K on its tape arrangeed in an endless loop. The Spectrum could, with the Interface One, have up to 8 of these drive attached.
In 1984 the QL came along with two of these built in, and with slightly enhanced capacity.
This was in the days of 360K floppies etc. The microdrives and their media were 1/10th of the proce. The only problem was reliability.
You can't beat a good bit of Tori to code by. If you need to code in a hurry, Megadeth does the trick. For designing code and data structures etc. Smashing Pumpkins provide the inspiration. Pink Floyd soothes the brain if it's been trying to understand some obscure algorithm, and of course debugging requres some heavyweight funk. Parliament obliges. The Mothership Connection, 500 000kW of P-Funk power...
It happened here (in the UK as previous;y stated) a couple of years before I was born.
I was brought up on metric but our sadidtic teachers humilited us with "english" ie imperial measurements without explaining the implying that we should have inherited kinowledge of them genetically.
Screw British Culture!!!
However, I have heard that the transition from Imperial to Metric was indeed a time when shopkeepers etc. took the opprotunity to increase prices.
It would be naieve to assume that that would not happen.
The metric system is so easy, intuitive and logical. It is wonderful. Personally, it has made my life so much more easy.
I only wish I'd been born and brought up in mainland Europe......
The question that should be asked here is : "why were humans (with their tendency to err) allowed to control a process when fail-safe macinery could have been used instead."
My sympathies are with the workers and their families, and the people in the vicinity exposed to the fall-out from this criticality incident.
From first impressions, it looks as if this could have been engineered out at the design stage of the plant/process.
HOWEVER, we must wait to see the findings of subsequent enquires.
Unfortunately, in this world, we learn from incidents rather than predictions.
Well, a bit over-priced and under-spec'd. The Amiga and ST were out with their Motorolla 68000's so any Z80 machine then had a limited life-time ie 16/32-bit with 16 MB addressable memory vs. 8/16-bit wih 64K addressable memory + whatever you wired up to I/O ports.
The Z80 was cool because it had separate I/O and RAM addressing on separate busses.
C compiler : Yes! I had a Spectrum 128 (like a + with extra RAM and the AY3-8192 3-channel sound chip) and ran the HiSoft C compiler. That's how I learned to code C when I was 13.
There was also an assembler/debugger/compiler suite from Ocean calld Laser Genius. I had Laser BASIC and the Laser BASIC compiler too, and the dreaded Artic FORTH.
Before that I had a ZX81 with an add-on keyboard, 16K RAM pack and a multi-tasking FORTH ROM by Skywave software. It was on a daughterboard with the BASIC ROM so you could power down and switch either ROM in and out.
I still have it in a cupboard in my parent's house. I would love to transfer that ROM code across onto a PC so I could run it in a ZX81 emulator.
The Z80 was way cool as a processor, so much easier to code for than the 6502 with its 256-byte stack, although it did have a "page 0" of quickly adressable RAM (ie the first 256 bytes) which almost made up for its poor register set.
Ah, those were the days. I wish I'd then bought a 68000 machine, but my dad wouldn't let me since they weren't "proper machines" becasue they didn't "run 1-2-3" (without an emulator).
I have all these really itchy lumps on one of my feet and if I scratch them, they come off really easily releasing lots of gunge and blood. The doctor gave me cream but it doesn't work:-(
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... you wouldn't know what socialist was if it jumped up and bit you on the bottom.
Your Democrats are fairly right-wing by everyone else's standards, and as for the Republicans, you might as well just call them the "American National Front" for want of something better.
Socialist is a bit more left-wing than moderate right-wing liberalism. In fact over here, socialist is every bit as unpermissive as the extreme right.
You have your liberals and your socialists all muddled up!
Maybe in a barbaric, corrupt country like those in the American continents there is a semi-rational case for unrestricted access to firearms.
I'm just glad I don't live in such a cesspit.
Of course it doesn't. I'm just saying that they have the wherewithall to get hold of firearms (illegally), and that guns etc. are out of reach of most people. In otherwords you have to be pretty determined and go to great lengths to get a gun here, and there must be premeditation.
You can't just have an argument with someone in the street who parked in your parking space, reach for a pistol and shoot him dead, unlike some other countries.
Are you free-basing?
So what if the Royals commit adultery?
Who gives a toss about them anyway? Why should I pay taxes to keep them in the style to which they have been accoustomed (sp?), etc. and have them appear in the national media ranting about their personal political and religious beliefs.
Homosexual cabinet ministers : as long as people who are having sex with each other are consenting adults, who cares if they fancy people of the same sex? Good luck to them is what I say, at least they're getting some!
Northern Ireland : yes, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and overrun by religious biggots, hatred and terrorist orgainisations, and they have guns, bombs, naseball bats, planks of wood with rusty nails in them, knives, elderly men who dress up funny and parade up and down the streets letting people of other religions and political convictions know how much they hate each other.
Oh, don't forget the petrol bombs too...
Your point?
My point : this is _organised_ crime with international backing, big money, and centuries-old raging hatred, biggotry and prejudice.
That's a very Reagan-esque opinion.
We here in the UK have very strict gun control and a mulit-party democracy that is more varied and effective than that of the USA.
Guess what? Hardly anyone gets shot here, and those who do are usually just bigh-time drug dealers and gangsters.
One nutter went ape in a church recently with a samurai sword though.
People were critically injured, but no one died.
What if he'd been able to walk into a shop and buy a gun?
Yes, we have police armed response units, and if someone in the congregation had had a gun too, yadda yadda etc
.. but, if people don't carry guns, they can't just shoot someone who looked at them the wrong way or "called their pint a poof". Usually, the worst that comes of it is a bloody nose.
Free, unregulated possession of guns does not a democracy make. It makes for suspicion, fear and opression of one's fellow human being.
Well, perhaps they'll let me fly to Mars. I have demonstrated that I can go for long periods (years) without doing it.
They'd have to issue me with stainless steel underpants like in Naked Gun 33 1/3 to discourage those of inferior self-control.
Oh yes, and a stack of jazz mags....
I'm actually a Linux user, but thanks for the info anyway.
The point I was making about MS flightsim is that people who play games need the fastest machines available, and most games are for Win9x, which is single-threaded, so the market is obviously for faster single-processor machines. That's why people will pay way over the odds for a 600MHz processor, when two 400's at a fraction of the price would give better performace on properly optimised code.
I really must learn multi-threaded coding.
Interesting indeed.
I hope they produce a 500MHz K6 III so that I can use it on my motherboard...
Now if they'd only release a dual Athlon motherboard.
... but I know that's no use to the people who play MS Flightsim.
Bah!
Give me a good book and I'll learn multithreading!!!!!!
Why have they brought out a new K6-2 at 533MHz?
Surely they should phase out the K6-2 in favour of the K6 III which has integral level 2 cache, and is therefore a bit faster at the same clock speed.
What am I missing?
Why is this of any relevance to anyone who isn't runing a non-multithreaded OS (ie Win9x)?
Would we not be better served with dual- and quad-processor Athlon motherboards? After all, a 1GHz processor is going to spend a lot of its time waiting around for the RAM to deliver data.
Slackware is my favourite distro for many reasons, but it's the one I started on back in '95, however, shouldn't this new release be 4.1 not 7.0?
I've had a quick shufty at the ChangeLog and it's not much different to my 4.0 distro plus a few downloads.
If the 7.0 label is for marketing purposes, I hope it works.
Slackware is very comfortable to work with and easy to administer. I hope there are many more Slackwares in the future.
Before the first human moon landings a treaty was ratified that stated that no nation would own the Moon, and that it would be freely available for scientific exploration to anyone that wanted it.
I would imagine that the same applies to all of the other planets,since the cost of getting there far outweighs the (present) commercial rewards.
As for the asteroids, comets and, dare I say it, other _stars_, a similar rule would apply. After all, what hard-headed, capit(a/o)l driven buisness person in this day and age would throw away those sums of money?
No, anyone who goes "out there" will do so in the name of science and exploration first.
It will be at leat 50 years until we see the Moon being exploited for commercial gain.
Low Earth Orbit.. that's another story.. Give it 5 years until the well-heeled will be going there.
Indeed, you cannot "make" anyone like you and I agree completely that it is all about getting to know people.
However, if you are a miserable, ugly, cantankerous old git like me, you just have to accept that your chances of meeting a woman who'll be more than "just friends" (as if that should be belittled) are pretty negligable.
However, when you're feeling lonely, at least you will know that you have lots of dependable friends there for you, who's judgement is not tainted by physical attraction.
It's wonderful to have these friends! They are truly what make life worth living!
;->
The Microdrive was an endless-loop tape drive invented by Sinclair (as in ZX-81 and ZX-Spectrum) in the early 80's. The cartridge was about 1 inch square and could store 110K on its tape arrangeed in an endless loop. The Spectrum could, with the Interface One, have up to 8 of these drive attached.
In 1984 the QL came along with two of these built in, and with slightly enhanced capacity.
This was in the days of 360K floppies etc.
The microdrives and their media were 1/10th of the proce. The only problem was reliability.
Good old Sir Clive.
Thanks!
Any album in particular?
Some git stole my Live Underslunky CD. That was the bizz.
You can't beat a good bit of Tori to code by. If you need to code in a hurry, Megadeth does the trick. For designing code and data structures etc. Smashing Pumpkins provide the inspiration. Pink Floyd soothes the brain if it's been trying to understand some obscure algorithm, and of course debugging requres some heavyweight funk. Parliament obliges. The Mothership Connection, 500 000kW of P-Funk power...
For those of you struggling against Creationism, here's a very good web site called Talk.Origins :
http://www.talkorigins.org/
Very well said! Someone needed to say it!
It happened here (in the UK as previous;y stated) a couple of years before I was born.
I was brought up on metric but our sadidtic teachers humilited us with "english" ie imperial measurements without explaining the implying that we should have inherited kinowledge of them genetically.
Screw British Culture!!!
However, I have heard that the transition from Imperial to Metric was indeed a time when shopkeepers etc. took the opprotunity to increase prices.
It would be naieve to assume that that would not happen.
The metric system is so easy, intuitive and logical. It is wonderful. Personally, it has made my life so much more easy.
I only wish I'd been born and brought up in mainland Europe......
The question that should be asked here is : "why were humans (with their tendency to err) allowed to control a process when fail-safe macinery could have been used instead."
My sympathies are with the workers and their families, and the people in the vicinity exposed to the fall-out from this criticality incident.
From first impressions, it looks as if this could have been engineered out at the design stage of the plant/process.
HOWEVER, we must wait to see the findings of subsequent enquires.
Unfortunately, in this world, we learn from incidents rather than predictions.
Will we ever learn?
Well, a bit over-priced and under-spec'd. The Amiga and ST were out with their Motorolla 68000's so any Z80 machine then had a limited life-time ie 16/32-bit with 16 MB addressable memory vs. 8/16-bit wih 64K addressable memory + whatever you wired up to I/O ports.
The Z80 was cool because it had separate I/O and RAM addressing on separate busses.
;->
Groove-tastic, pop-pickers!
C compiler : Yes! I had a Spectrum 128 (like a + with extra RAM and the AY3-8192 3-channel sound chip) and ran the HiSoft C compiler. That's how I learned to code C when I was 13.
There was also an assembler/debugger/compiler suite from Ocean calld Laser Genius. I had Laser BASIC and the Laser BASIC compiler too, and the dreaded Artic FORTH.
Before that I had a ZX81 with an add-on keyboard, 16K RAM pack and a multi-tasking FORTH ROM by Skywave software. It was on a daughterboard with the BASIC ROM so you could power down and switch either ROM in and out.
I still have it in a cupboard in my parent's house. I would love to transfer that ROM code across onto a PC so I could run it in a ZX81 emulator.
The Z80 was way cool as a processor, so much easier to code for than the 6502 with its 256-byte stack, although it did have a "page 0" of quickly adressable RAM (ie the first 256 bytes) which almost made up for its poor register set.
Ah, those were the days. I wish I'd then bought a 68000 machine, but my dad wouldn't let me since they weren't "proper machines" becasue they didn't "run 1-2-3" (without an emulator).
I have all these really itchy lumps on one of my feet and if I scratch them, they come off really easily releasing lots of gunge and blood. The doctor gave me cream but it doesn't work :-(