Not all states have sales tax. The ones that do go from about 4% to 8.625% (for NYC). I still don't know why the UK needs such a high sales tax rate when the Aussies get by with 10% and even the Kiwis get by with 12.5% they they both have better social programs than the UK does.
The GPS sats are spy sats. Their original purpose was to time the EMP of a nuke so they could tell which side of Berlin vaporised 1st. The fact that it could also be used to replace TRANSIT to help the sub fleet locate itself was a bonus. The original estimated costs of a civilian grade GPS reciever was in the order of $10,000 so they didn't plan on people finding geocaches with $200 hand held maping devices.
When AT&T was "The Phone Company", it funded bell labs with an internal "tax". That means that every department in the company would take 10% off the top of what they brought in and send it to bell labs. It was very well funded and the R&D consistently paid off.
Now the stock market is a major player in moving money in and out of compaines and they don't like research. It even appears that most of the major funds consider it a bad gamble in most cases. The side effects of the short sighted profit is that the US economy is loosing 1.3 billion dollars a day and the pyramid scheme that used to prop up some of the economy is falling apart.
Congress needs to start intorducing tax cuts for real R&D.
your point is valid but its like arguing which shade of brown dirt is. Some of the spaming operations are quite cleaver in their ability to hire the right people to exploit millions of machines and the ability to sell their product. The fact that Joe Scumbag doesn't sell a signle widget is inmaterial, the real enemy is the spaming operation that sold Joe Scumbag on the concept that they can send his message to a billion "op-in" email addresses.
The idea is the web site hoster is doing the spaming. The way this works in the real world is the idot that is tring to sell something talks to some spamers who convince them that its an op-in list and pays like $5000 to send his crafted message out. Of course the "demo" shows about one hit in 30 so its got to be good right? The real world is the spamer takes the cash from some moron and then may spam a different product. by that time the person paying is out of the loop an the rest of us pay. The only solution to spamers is jail or a clue by 4 to the brain.
I know a guy who started the whole "lets use computers to map the human geome" thing. I know about 20 bio people that have the brains to do good real science.
Not one of them are in the field anymore. it turns out that real science doesn't pay. We could pull of great things but we keep running off the people who can help. How many great biochemsists are working filling perscriptions at the local drug store? Too many and we will all pay at some point.
Most of us that can see well don't consider the real question of what is a blind person? It turns out that is more than people who can't see anything. It also includes people who can't see very well, people with issues involving clear vision except directly where they are looking, people that can't look at one spot for very long and people who's vision is just so poor that they can't a 144 point font a foot away. Many of the people that fit into the groups I've listed used to be able to see clearly. The were never taught brail and many of them are in their 60's or older and attempting to learn brail is very hard for them.
My mother just had her eyeballs sewed back together so once again she can see enough to read a screen (with the right magnifications) but that was a short term fix. In another decade she won't be able to see anything that isn't fuzzy.
Your missing the point. I have a mac with a logitech mouse. Ive seen the page you pointed to and none of them have the Apple name. They need to admit their mistake and move on if they want my money.
Thats not the point. The point is Apple is clueless about what I need to run and how I work and if they want me to buy a powerbook, they are going to have to give in.
Spending $100,000,000 debunking a few claims might just help 10,000 high school kids learn to think a bit clearer. That might not be a bad investment considering the large number of people who still think the face is real.
Born-again applies to most of the religions that decend from Egypt and who knows how many other religions. Modern Christianity is what you get when you take the ancient Egyptian religion, throw in just a few Greek ideas then mix with Judaism with the and add in a bit of Roman imperialism, let simmer for 1000 years and then remove as much of the Roman bits as you can. The idea of being born again was flowing throughout the Middle East for at least 5000 years ago.
The Aussie economy didn't take the hit that the US one did. Unemployment is the lowest it has ever been and housing costs are still increasing faster than inflation.
Apple may be dying but I know a large number of people that have recently bought new macs and I've been sending people off to buy macs because I do not answer window questions anymore. At the after meeting Pizza at the local lunix users group last month there were 10 people that had mac laptops out of the 30 or so people.
Of course I'm holding out on buying a new one till they come an Apple [tm] 3 button mouse.
Its a one line patch to get linux (2.2 and maybe 2.4 and maybe 2.6) to only let you open ports that equal a group your in. Its a simple fix but no one wants to do it. Even the standard/etc/groups aren't set up for this. Whatever listens to SMPT should be in group 25 and apache should be in groups 80 and 443. Then you don't need root to bind to the port and no other user can bind to the port either.
One button mouse? I'll buy a new mac as soon as it comes with an Apple [tm] 3 button mouse but not before. (and yes I know I can use a 3rd party mouse -- I do that wuth the used mac I own)
The melbourne wireless group just bought a bunch of these things for AU$80 (US$60) last week.
There is a small header for a serial port (might be ttl level). They have put out a build kit that will let you rebuild the thing in theory but I haven't checked it. I'm not sure you can build a real release version and I may want to backup the rom before I start messing around with it. The binary modules include standard drivers and some other stuff but its small and has symbols so it may not be too hard to figure out what its doing.
As soon as I get someone listed in the linux kernel to provide me a license to reverse engineer their GNUed code, then I'll start looking at just what is there and what is missing. Remember that if the code is binary only, it may be a DMCA violation to touch it with a debugger. Of course that doesn't apply downunder (well maybe it does) however local law does allow reverse engineering in several cases (thanks to a y2k law).
The device does run linux and its a bit slow doing it too. Its low on ram and flash but what do you expect for such a cheap device.
Now why is it no one has a decent decompiler for gcc? A few people have made some major headway into this over the years but they all seem to stop short and never share their work. Thats not the open source way to do things.
Is that the same junk they use in anti-bactrial sponges? I don't want that stuff anywhere near me. Take an anti bacterial sponge and wipe out the inside of a fish tank. Rinse the tank as many times as you want. Put fish in. Wait a few hours, remove dead fish.
The stuff they use is just like DDT but has an extra bit of stuff on the end to help it bond to the sponge or cutting board or mouse. The problem is that bond is going to break and the result is a DDT like molecule left on its own.
The 1st things government do when they see a hard problem that they have to solve is to throw money at it. This means that congress seems to have noticed.
yep, 486... see how well the intel marketerring worked on me:-)
The 486 was released aas a DX25, then a DX33 (with an extra wait state), SX25 and then a 50 DX&SX which had the 25mhz bus plus the faster intneral core but for some reason they never got the high performance out of the 25mhz bus as the 1st models did but that might have someting to do with the differences. The 486/25 with 16mb of ram and a 768 meg drive and a good video card and a 1024x768 monitor only cost a bit over $6000.
When you compare a single architecture (meaning one kind of one brand of processor) mhz give a VERY good idea of how performance will scale.
So why was my 25 Mhz DX Pentium faster than the 33 Mhz ones that came out after it as well as the 66 and 75 and most 100? Maybe it was becuse the 33+ machines all had a extra wait state to hit memory that mine didn't have? Some of thouse computers did some benchmarks slightly faster but windows apps were slower.
The compiler and instruction set don't matter. Years ago someone from Intel described their benchmarks as "guaranteed not to exceed" numbers. If their benchmark claimed it could do X transactions of some type per second, its almost guaranteed that you can't make it do X+1.
No reasonable army would even consider the pentagon as a primary target. The last thing you want to do to your enemy is remove a large chunk of its ineffective bureaucracy.
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Not all states have sales tax. The ones that do go from about 4% to 8.625% (for NYC). I still don't know why the UK needs such a high sales tax rate when the Aussies get by with 10% and even the Kiwis get by with 12.5% they they both have better social programs than the UK does.
The GPS sats are spy sats. Their original purpose was to time the EMP of a nuke so they could tell which side of Berlin vaporised 1st. The fact that it could also be used to replace TRANSIT to help the sub fleet locate itself was a bonus. The original estimated costs of a civilian grade GPS reciever was in the order of $10,000 so they didn't plan on people finding geocaches with $200 hand held maping devices.
When AT&T was "The Phone Company", it funded bell labs with an internal "tax". That means that every department in the company would take 10% off the top of what they brought in and send it to bell labs. It was very well funded and the R&D consistently paid off.
Now the stock market is a major player in moving money in and out of compaines and they don't like research. It even appears that most of the major funds consider it a bad gamble in most cases. The side effects of the short sighted profit is that the US economy is loosing 1.3 billion dollars a day and the pyramid scheme that used to prop up some of the economy is falling apart.
Congress needs to start intorducing tax cuts for real R&D.
your point is valid but its like arguing which shade of brown dirt is. Some of the spaming operations are quite cleaver in their ability to hire the right people to exploit millions of machines and the ability to sell their product. The fact that Joe Scumbag doesn't sell a signle widget is inmaterial, the real enemy is the spaming operation that sold Joe Scumbag on the concept that they can send his message to a billion "op-in" email addresses.
The idea is the web site hoster is doing the spaming. The way this works in the real world is the idot that is tring to sell something talks to some spamers who convince them that its an op-in list and pays like $5000 to send his crafted message out. Of course the "demo" shows about one hit in 30 so its got to be good right? The real world is the spamer takes the cash from some moron and then may spam a different product. by that time the person paying is out of the loop an the rest of us pay.
The only solution to spamers is jail or a clue by 4 to the brain.
I know a guy who started the whole "lets use computers to map the human geome" thing. I know about 20 bio people that have the brains to do good real science.
Not one of them are in the field anymore. it turns out that real science doesn't pay. We could pull of great things but we keep running off the people who can help. How many great biochemsists are working filling perscriptions at the local drug store? Too many and we will all pay at some point.
Most of us that can see well don't consider the real question of what is a blind person? It turns out that is more than people who can't see anything. It also includes people who can't see very well, people with issues involving clear vision except directly where they are looking, people that can't look at one spot for very long and people who's vision is just so poor that they can't a 144 point font a foot away. Many of the people that fit into the groups I've listed used to be able to see clearly. The were never taught brail and many of them are in their 60's or older and attempting to learn brail is very hard for them.
My mother just had her eyeballs sewed back together so once again she can see enough to read a screen (with the right magnifications) but that was a short term fix. In another decade she won't be able to see anything that isn't fuzzy.
Your missing the point. I have a mac with a logitech mouse. Ive seen the page you pointed to and none of them have the Apple name. They need to admit their mistake and move on if they want my money.
Thats not the point. The point is Apple is clueless about what I need to run and how I work and if they want me to buy a powerbook, they are going to have to give in.
Spending $100,000,000 debunking a few claims might just help 10,000 high school kids learn to think a bit clearer. That might not be a bad investment considering the large number of people who still think the face is real.
Born-again applies to most of the religions that decend from Egypt and who knows how many other religions. Modern Christianity is what you get when you take the ancient Egyptian religion, throw in just a few Greek ideas then mix with Judaism with the and add in a bit of Roman imperialism, let simmer for 1000 years and then remove as much of the Roman bits as you can. The idea of being born again was flowing throughout the Middle East for at least 5000 years ago.
The Aussie economy didn't take the hit that the US one did. Unemployment is the lowest it has ever been and housing costs are still increasing faster than inflation.
Apple may be dying but I know a large number of people that have recently bought new macs and I've been sending people off to buy macs because I do not answer window questions anymore. At the after meeting Pizza at the local lunix users group last month there were 10 people that had mac laptops out of the 30 or so people.
Of course I'm holding out on buying a new one till they come an Apple [tm] 3 button mouse.
Its a one line patch to get linux (2.2 and maybe 2.4 and maybe 2.6) to only let you open ports that equal a group your in. Its a simple fix but no one wants to do it. Even the standard /etc/groups aren't set up for this. Whatever listens to SMPT should be in group 25 and apache should be in groups 80 and 443. Then you don't need root to bind to the port and no other user can bind to the port either.
If you need the program to run, its init's job to keep it running and init does a fine job doing exactly that.
I guess you start your critical ssl apps out of the rc scripts don't you?
A well built server can take a # kill -9 -1 and still keep on going. (thats kill -SIGKILL every process)
Where in the license does it say that?
One button mouse? I'll buy a new mac as soon as it comes with an Apple [tm] 3 button mouse but not before. (and yes I know I can use a 3rd party mouse -- I do that wuth the used mac I own)
The melbourne wireless group just bought a bunch of these things for AU$80 (US$60) last week.
There is a small header for a serial port (might be ttl level). They have put out a build kit that will let you rebuild the thing in theory but I haven't checked it. I'm not sure you can build a real release version and I may want to backup the rom before I start messing around with it. The binary modules include standard drivers and some other stuff but its small and has symbols so it may not be too hard to figure out what its doing.
As soon as I get someone listed in the linux kernel to provide me a license to reverse engineer their GNUed code, then I'll start looking at just what is there and what is missing. Remember that if the code is binary only, it may be a DMCA violation to touch it with a debugger. Of course that doesn't apply downunder (well maybe it does) however local law does allow reverse engineering in several cases (thanks to a y2k law).
The device does run linux and its a bit slow doing it too. Its low on ram and flash but what do you expect for such a cheap device.
Now why is it no one has a decent decompiler for gcc? A few people have made some major headway into this over the years but they all seem to stop short and never share their work. Thats not the open source way to do things.
Is that the same junk they use in anti-bactrial sponges? I don't want that stuff anywhere near me. Take an anti bacterial sponge and wipe out the inside of a fish tank. Rinse the tank as many times as you want. Put fish in. Wait a few hours, remove dead fish.
The stuff they use is just like DDT but has an extra bit of stuff on the end to help it bond to the sponge or cutting board or mouse. The problem is that bond is going to break and the result is a DDT like molecule left on its own.
Do they have like 10,000 APs everywhere or do they have high power units? Whos AP's are they using? How does this interfeer with others 802.11b?
The 1st things government do when they see a hard problem that they have to solve is to throw money at it. This means that congress seems to have noticed.
yep, 486... see how well the intel marketerring worked on me :-)
The 486 was released aas a DX25, then a DX33 (with an extra wait state), SX25 and then a 50 DX&SX which had the 25mhz bus plus the faster intneral core but for some reason they never got the high performance out of the 25mhz bus as the 1st models did but that might have someting to do with the differences. The 486/25 with 16mb of ram and a 768 meg drive and a good video card and a 1024x768 monitor only cost a bit over $6000.
When you compare a single architecture (meaning one kind of one brand of processor) mhz give a VERY good idea of how performance will scale.
So why was my 25 Mhz DX Pentium faster than the 33 Mhz ones that came out after it as well as the 66 and 75 and most 100?
Maybe it was becuse the 33+ machines all had a extra wait state to hit memory that mine didn't have? Some of thouse computers did some benchmarks slightly faster but windows apps were slower.
The compiler and instruction set don't matter. Years ago someone from Intel described their benchmarks as "guaranteed not to exceed" numbers. If their benchmark claimed it could do X transactions of some type per second, its almost guaranteed that you can't make it do X+1.
No reasonable army would even consider the pentagon as a primary target. The last thing you want to do to your enemy is remove a large chunk of its ineffective bureaucracy.