That's it! I just had a genius solution on how to solve the economy problem!
Here's the plan: we do away with money and just SUE people for the things we need! I need some computer parts, so I'll sue Newegg for some stupid thing, they'll fold, and I'll get parts in a settlement! Next I'll take on the grocery store for some more beer!
Yes, and how many people who would buy this for the overclocking don't have a giant copper heatsink that mounts to the motherboard using the 4 mounting holes, much less watercooling (most waterblocks have an adjustable mechanism)?
I guess it would depend on how you classify the "response rate". Is it people reading the email, visiting the website of the product or service being hawked, or just a flat out purchase? I'd say that if you checked all those, it would decrease sharply on that last one.
If they integrated something like AdAware or some other sort of spyware killer into their Antivirus Corporate products, I think it would be that much more appealing to the people who do shop for that sort of thing. Heck, I'd even buy it if they put it in the personal edition too.
Yeah, so everybody complain about the prize. Go ahead, I know more people will. But hey, I guess that's what/. is all about.
I already submitted my design, I started working on it right after I read the contest post. You know why? To me, $75 is a decent amount of money. I could use it at Think Geek to get some Penny Arcade swag and help out the guys there. Or get some cool new tech gadget and maybe post a review somewhere about it and further the geek knowledge. Or something else neat... I dunno.
So grouse if you want, but you'd better do what you say and not enter... because then I'll have a better chance to win.
Go ahead and mod me down, I'm probably at the karma cap anyways, I have the points to spare.
The Austin, Minn., food company, which introduced Spam in 1937, challenged Spam Arrest's applications to trademark its company name.
They aren't suing because they use the word "Spam" in their company name, it is the fact they are trying to get a trademark of their company name (Spam Arrest), which Hormel is trying to stop. The use of the word "spam" to refer to junk email has already been addressed by them. This time, it is in regards to somebody using their trademark in a manner they have not approved of.
Hrm... maybe you could claim like ISPs do and claim that you're a carrier and not responsible for your users? (I forget the exact technical term) I guess if it is in their TOS that you are, then you really can't argue with that... although maybe the courts would see it a different way.
I didn't see Nemesis, but regardless of film quality, if Patrick Stewart (btw, isn't it Stewart?) thought the film was good and won't do any more because the movie didn't do that well, I just think that sounds a little childish. That's sort of like "You won't do [whatever] so I won't be your friend anymore!"
One would think he'd take extra care to make sure that the next movie (if there is a next movie) was damn good, as to not duplicate Nemesis's's's poor performance.
He writes that as though in his grandfather and great grandfather's day we all had no choice for OSes
Sorry, but in his grandfather and great grandfather's day, there were no computers, much less operating systems. And they had to walk uphill in the snow for miles to do whatever it is they were doing... seems like they did that a lot back then.
Yes, you are correct. The distinction comes from which side of the equation (cloud or ground) has which charge.
On an interesting side note, if you can find some slow-motion video of a lightning strike (which is probably out there somewhere, they had it on the Discovery Channel a few times) look for the little "streamers" (I think that's the term). The small branches of electricity that come up from the target. When the main bolt hits one of them, it connects to the ground and you have the main strike (BIG bolt).
There's 3 types of lightning: Cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. I guess you can figure out which has the positive and negative charge if, as stated above, charge flows from - to +.
Interesting how Apple did no comparisons to the Opteron... it is a 64-bit processor too, and the Athlon 64 (which is coming out soon) is based on similar architecture. I guess they didn't want to bring up the fact that the Opteron can even beat the Xeon, running at almost twice the clock speed, in some real world tests, and coming pretty close in others.
If you would have read the article, it says, and I quote:
"Incidentally, if readers who view the above patents are puzzled by their recent dates, it's because both were filed as continuations of previous filings, going back to the dates listed above. Which is why it took so long for the patents to be granted."
So by filing continuations of the filings, it can be assumed they were either keeping up with the technology or sort of "sitting on it" until it was somewhat popular before allowing it to be issued.
If the Mac hardware wasn't so freaking expensive or the OS ran on x86 I think OSX would have lots more market share. Heck, I know I would at least give it a try.
With all the money the RIAA is bringing in from settlements involving college students and other people who can't afford to fight their shaky accusations, they should have plenty to keep their lawsuit machine running.
Exactly. A P4 has a longer pipeline then a PIII, so any branch misprediction will result in a longer time penalty for a pipeline flush. The PIII 1ghz I have sitting on my floor over there --> is an equivelant of about a P4 1.8ghz.
Although the longer pipe does allow for ramping of clock speeds higher then before (part of the reason AMD added 2 more stages to the Opteron and by association the Athlon64) it needs to be complemented with a more efficient branch prediction algorithm.
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That's it! I just had a genius solution on how to solve the economy problem!
Here's the plan: we do away with money and just SUE people for the things we need! I need some computer parts, so I'll sue Newegg for some stupid thing, they'll fold, and I'll get parts in a settlement! Next I'll take on the grocery store for some more beer!
Yes, and how many people who would buy this for the overclocking don't have a giant copper heatsink that mounts to the motherboard using the 4 mounting holes, much less watercooling (most waterblocks have an adjustable mechanism)?
Better then being rewarded with a nice pretty pink slip.
A similar story is on CNN.com too.
I guess it would depend on how you classify the "response rate". Is it people reading the email, visiting the website of the product or service being hawked, or just a flat out purchase? I'd say that if you checked all those, it would decrease sharply on that last one.
If they integrated something like AdAware or some other sort of spyware killer into their Antivirus Corporate products, I think it would be that much more appealing to the people who do shop for that sort of thing. Heck, I'd even buy it if they put it in the personal edition too.
Yeah, so everybody complain about the prize. Go ahead, I know more people will. But hey, I guess that's what /. is all about.
I already submitted my design, I started working on it right after I read the contest post. You know why? To me, $75 is a decent amount of money. I could use it at Think Geek to get some Penny Arcade swag and help out the guys there. Or get some cool new tech gadget and maybe post a review somewhere about it and further the geek knowledge. Or something else neat... I dunno.
So grouse if you want, but you'd better do what you say and not enter... because then I'll have a better chance to win.
Go ahead and mod me down, I'm probably at the karma cap anyways, I have the points to spare.
If I win they will accuse me of cheating, or if they can cheat they will do so in order to beat me.
Obligitory Penny Arcade link in reference to your comment.
No, you could say IN SOVIET RUSSIA t-shirt designs YOU!
:-)
Or... IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Slashdot dupes YOU!
Hey, that's a good one for the contest! If somebody wins with that, then Rob has more of a sense of humor then we all thought
Hormel's product = SPAM
Junk email (UCE) = spam
Read that link in my comment. They said it is ok to use "spam" as long as you do not use it as "SPAM" when referring to junk email.
The Austin, Minn., food company, which introduced Spam in 1937, challenged Spam Arrest's applications to trademark its company name.
They aren't suing because they use the word "Spam" in their company name, it is the fact they are trying to get a trademark of their company name (Spam Arrest), which Hormel is trying to stop. The use of the word "spam" to refer to junk email has already been addressed by them. This time, it is in regards to somebody using their trademark in a manner they have not approved of.
Hrm... maybe you could claim like ISPs do and claim that you're a carrier and not responsible for your users? (I forget the exact technical term) I guess if it is in their TOS that you are, then you really can't argue with that... although maybe the courts would see it a different way.
I didn't see Nemesis, but regardless of film quality, if Patrick Stewart (btw, isn't it Stewart?) thought the film was good and won't do any more because the movie didn't do that well, I just think that sounds a little childish. That's sort of like "You won't do [whatever] so I won't be your friend anymore!"
One would think he'd take extra care to make sure that the next movie (if there is a next movie) was damn good, as to not duplicate Nemesis's's's poor performance.
He writes that as though in his grandfather and great grandfather's day we all had no choice for OSes
Sorry, but in his grandfather and great grandfather's day, there were no computers, much less operating systems. And they had to walk uphill in the snow for miles to do whatever it is they were doing... seems like they did that a lot back then.
Yes, you are correct. The distinction comes from which side of the equation (cloud or ground) has which charge.
On an interesting side note, if you can find some slow-motion video of a lightning strike (which is probably out there somewhere, they had it on the Discovery Channel a few times) look for the little "streamers" (I think that's the term). The small branches of electricity that come up from the target. When the main bolt hits one of them, it connects to the ground and you have the main strike (BIG bolt).
There's 3 types of lightning: Cloud to ground, ground to cloud, and cloud to cloud. I guess you can figure out which has the positive and negative charge if, as stated above, charge flows from - to +.
I guess you're referring to the Athlon64, but there is still the Opteron. And it is available.
Interesting how Apple did no comparisons to the Opteron... it is a 64-bit processor too, and the Athlon 64 (which is coming out soon) is based on similar architecture. I guess they didn't want to bring up the fact that the Opteron can even beat the Xeon, running at almost twice the clock speed, in some real world tests, and coming pretty close in others.
If you would have read the article, it says, and I quote:
"Incidentally, if readers who view the above patents are puzzled by their recent dates, it's because both were filed as continuations of previous filings, going back to the dates listed above. Which is why it took so long for the patents to be granted."
So by filing continuations of the filings, it can be assumed they were either keeping up with the technology or sort of "sitting on it" until it was somewhat popular before allowing it to be issued.
If the Mac hardware wasn't so freaking expensive or the OS ran on x86 I think OSX would have lots more market share. Heck, I know I would at least give it a try.
In all the years I've read /., I have never seen anybody quote the Blues Brothers. Bravo :-) I love that movie.
With all the money the RIAA is bringing in from settlements involving college students and other people who can't afford to fight their shaky accusations, they should have plenty to keep their lawsuit machine running.
Clock speed != instruction issue speed, same way as clock speed is not an indicator of performance.
Exactly. A P4 has a longer pipeline then a PIII, so any branch misprediction will result in a longer time penalty for a pipeline flush. The PIII 1ghz I have sitting on my floor over there --> is an equivelant of about a P4 1.8ghz.
Although the longer pipe does allow for ramping of clock speeds higher then before (part of the reason AMD added 2 more stages to the Opteron and by association the Athlon64) it needs to be complemented with a more efficient branch prediction algorithm.
"Diabolicious!"