Prior to the release of that processor, all Intel compatible CPU's essentially licensed Intel microcode.
The Nx586 was a risc processor that translated Intel instructions into its native format. To this day, this is how all subsequent processors have functioned, including Intel processors starting with the Pentium II. The success of NexGen also spelled the death of the PowerPC breaking into the mainstream. There was no need to limit yourself to CISC's limitations when you could virtualize the whole architecture inside a RISC processor.
In 1994, everyone complained about Intel's oppressive licensing and told us RISC processors would take over the world. Then came NexGen and they were wrong. What's funny is IBM manufactured most of the Nx586 processors...
Why don't you try and think about this a little longer. The reason messages are bounced back is so the sender KNOWS the message was sent to the wrong address and thus can fix their mistake. That system is no longer feasible in this spamming world.
Google has done the next best thing by attempting to match a mistyped (or otherwise invalid) email address to the next closest valid address, that way the recipient still has a chance to receive their mail.
One technique spammers use is to note which addreses are invalid. By not bouncing messages, Google deprives them of this technique, thus raising their overall cost of doing business.
Countries with a sense of moral values will even give you many entitlements for which one as immigrant hs not paid a penny (healthcare, education).
You mean countries that share YOUR moral values. A bit presumptuous. I challenge you to find one country that has such a liberal policy that is not facing tremendous internal pressure to change such policy.
Discrimination based on citizenship is racism with another name, at least some constitutions have the good sense to extend their guarantees to anybody being in a given country.
I thought racists like to enslave people. Because someone does not want a particular kind of person living in their country does NOT mean they are racist. This world is big enough for everyone to have their own piece of it.
Citizenship should be chosen freely by an individual as an acto of commitment, not convenience and there should be no cohercion of any kind, otherwise the act of assuming a new nationality becomes meaningless.
This is a pretty meaningless statement in and of itself.
A citizen is a person owing allegiance to a nation or state and entitled to its protection. The rights conferred by our constitution and government only apply to citizens. You cannot simultaneously claim the rights of citizens yet refuse to become one.
I can also say that becoming a citizen for H1-B folks is in fact quite a difficult prospect, compared to the various vagrant immigrants who come to this country as refugees. You have to work a minimum of five years. That, is not easy no matter how you look at it.
Personally, these days, I would rather live in Russia. In 20 years Moscow is going to be a far better city than anything we have in the US. So, if your decision is based on this foresight, I commend you.
Just as Linux and other open source projects aren't really "open" in terms of accepting everything anyone throws at them, so must Wikipedia find a way to become more selective in what it accepts. The Wiki itself is such a good idea that there's just got to be a way to make it work, but frankly I can't work out a paradigm that will save it from the issues it has now.
So you have chosen Sparta over Athens as your model of choice.
We should selectively breed certain individuals to perform the functions of Wikipedia Researchers.
American Airlines most definitely has them, as does US Air. You probably just didn't notice, and I didn't mention you have to use a DC adapter.
Those are the only airlines I fly regularly so I couldn't tell you about the rest. I believe the DC power connectors are standard features on all new Airbus planes... so I would be very surprised if Alitalia didn't have them.
Business class and first class, these days, is defined more by other expensive features than a power outlet, especially given Airbus' move.
Newspapers are great for commuting. I can stand and read the newspaper on the subway. It isn't so easy with a laptop, and a PDA is just annoying to use with such a small screen.
Interestingly, with 9/11, TV was a useless source of information for us in New York, since the WTC was where most TV antennas were based. The local newspapers however worked triple time to get the papers out the door as quickly as possible.
They were equally quick with the Blackout in Septemer, 2003, running their printing presses on generators.
So why? Because they want to give MS a bone. MS likes bones, and if you don't feed them the occasional femur, they start thinking that meat would taste better. The meat of your still-beating heart, freshly ripped from your chest during the hostile takeover, or during the utter destruction of your business model.
iSeries: What was the AS/400. Mainframes. Expensive and poor bang per buck, but there are applications out there which won't run on much else.
AS/400 machines are minicomputers, not mainframes. They are also quite competetive on the market, and have been around for almost 20 years.
zSeries: IIRC, what was the S/390. Anyone care to confirm?
Those are mainframes, and are currently some of the fastest machines money can by. Want a mainframe with several hundred processors and a several hundred gigs of ram? You can get a zSeries with all of that.
Nature is all about efficiency. Animals only produce that which is not naturally available in their diet.
Humans and other primates are unusual in that they do not produce any vitamin C, but that is only because our natural diet contains a large amount of fruit which is rich in the stuff.
For most animals, it isn't that extreme and their bodies only produce just enough of a specific nutrient. Humans can produce most B Vitamins, except for B12 but you will be deficient if you don't get any in your diet.
The same is true with cholesterol, of which humans have the highest concentration in their bodies compared to all other animals, due to our large brains.
Silly me, there was me thinking that WWII was about Germany and Japan aggressive empirebuilding, not to mention pursuing their racist policies.
It is rather silly. I mean, Germany was the size of Texas when WWII started. Great Britain declared war on Germany for retaking parts of its coutnry seized after WWI. Millions of Germans lived in this regions.
At the same time, Great Britain controlled 1/3 of the entire planet, with garrisons in dozens of countries.
Who was building the empire? By what right did Great Britain get to decide who could build an empire and who could not?
I am sorry, but your post reeks of indoctrination. WWII had absolutely nothing to do with Germany building an empire, absolutely nothing. To think otherwise is foolish and ignorant of the obvious facts of the day.
Your racism theory is also quite wrong, as another poster mentioned. Germany had hundreds of thousands of volunteers from non-European countries like India, Persia, and even places like Tibet, far more than the British and Americans combined. Then of course there is the obvious: Germany's strongest ally was Japan! If racism was their goal, I don't think they would have worked so closely with a people they considered inferior by default.
American propaganda during WWII clearly painted the war as a racial struggle, demonizing the Japanese as vicious animals.
Dig deeper. Look at how WWII began at the end of the Great Depression. The world was in turmoil at the time, and it had nothing to do with building empires or racism.
America fought WWII because the Japanese bombed the shit out of Pearl Harbor.
Let's not forget that the Japanese bombing wasn't just a random act of violence. American foreign policy in the far east was far from egalitarian. The American occupation of the Phillipines was brutal to say the least, and officially justified due to the so-called inferiority of the filipino people.
Globalization is a reality, folks. You can either:
a) pretend it doesn't exist, b) complain about it, or c) live in it, as a globalist individual
You do realize WWII was primarily about this issue don't you. In those days, Globalism was called Internationaism. Modern propaganda today may belittle nationalism as being nothing more than flag waving, but the real issue was national economic sovereignty in the face of growing international financial power.
Thus, you have forgotten a major part of Option B, you can fight to preserve your way of life.
Further, only in decadent societies like Australia are people desiring the destuctrion of their historical ethnicity and way of life. The people of India don't want you there, and they don't want to be part of your global vision. The same is true for practically every other non-European country in the eastern hemisphere. It is true right now in the middle east, where the US is desperately trying to impose your vision on a hostile populace.
Move or die.
I think you meant "fight or die". Such cowardice. The future is going be far different than you ever imagined.
Did you read the post I was replying to? I don't give a shit about the rest of the world because that is not what this discussion is about. We are talking about New York City, you however are apparently telling us people can drive fast in Indiana. No fucking shit.
Read the whole thread before you jump into a discussion and post some sanctimonious bullshit like that.
God I hate people like you with a fucking passion. The speed limits are set as they are because you live in a fucking city with 8 million fucking people! Sure, you could drive at top speed on 5th avenue if there were no people.
But there are people. Lots of people. The faster you go the slower your reaction time, and the more likely you are to hit some kid who happens to cross in the path of your vehicle.
Over 1000 people a year are killed by cars. The vast majority of those cars were exceeding the speed limit, sometimes by a large margin. A lot of these people are kids, who in their naive state wondered onto the street and didn't understand how that car going 80 could get to them in seconds.
There is simply nowhere in New York City where driving 80 miles an hour is acceptable, absolutely nowhere. I hope you crash your car and end up in prison. Oh, I look forward to the day every bridge and tunnel to Manhattan has a $20 toll, that way scum like you can stay in your shit neighborhood.
Let's not forget that the rapid rise of homosexuality cannot easily be explained as mere choice, nor can the uniquely modern "feminization" of men be explained in a historical context.
Homosexuality historically (even up to WWII with homosexuality in Nazi Germany) has been a kind of super-masculinity where female values and behavior are eschewed completelyh for the artistic and warrior prowess of masculinity. The "woman trapped in a man's body" bit is a recent invention.
That said, we must assume that modern homosexuality is either a result of incredible, relentless propaganda (and thus we must re-evalute that effectiveness of propaganda technique as a whole) or there is an outside cause. With many other measurable effects of masculinity declining in western countries, such as sperm count and muscle mass, it is entirely possible that homosexuality does have an external cause.
That seems to lead to the opposite claim. Rail is obscenely expensive, and hard to extend because you have to pay for the right of way. That's expensive in a large, dense city -- PRT could use existing right of ways (i.e., going about a road).
What city are you referring to? In New York, subways primarily run under streets. Only a few instances of turns (which don't work well at right angles with a 1000 foot long train) and of course rivers does this not hold true. All elevated trains in New York are above streets.
Instead you have people working at night and putting everything in place for the morning, or shuttles to deal with missing service, or whatnot. With PRT there's builtin redundancy, so individual lines could be taken off without impacting the entire network.
The problems of which you speak are only really bad in cities that don't have express train service (ie they only have 2 tracks, not 4 or more). When you have express tracks, trains can simply be rerouted around areas where work is being performed. This happens all the time in New York. Some local stations are inconvenienced but as you say, the work is reserved for late nights mostly on the weekend.
This does happen, but people are only willing to go so far. Certain geographic areas are also unique and not easily replaced. The New York Metropolitan area is a great example. The city itself is a reason people live here. More distant satellite cities simply can't attract the talent they need to survive.
If, somehow, we stop paying immigrants to reproduce and make them work for a living, we might be able to build another New York again. But right now, even with a flood of immigration, labor is too expensive to build new subway tunnels, and too unskilled to build the kind of beautiful architecture that fills New York City.
And what is the result? Nearly utter gridlock from 7 am to 7 pm. Driving 50 miles takes you 2+ hours.
Ultimately, your theory only works if all people are interchangeable with one another, and if all locations in the country are equal. That is simply not the case.
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Park Slope and Coney Island are the opposite ends of Brooklyn. I mean, didn't you look up the address before you went there?
Prior to the release of that processor, all Intel compatible CPU's essentially licensed Intel microcode.
The Nx586 was a risc processor that translated Intel instructions into its native format. To this day, this is how all subsequent processors have functioned, including Intel processors starting with the Pentium II. The success of NexGen also spelled the death of the PowerPC breaking into the mainstream. There was no need to limit yourself to CISC's limitations when you could virtualize the whole architecture inside a RISC processor.
In 1994, everyone complained about Intel's oppressive licensing and told us RISC processors would take over the world. Then came NexGen and they were wrong. What's funny is IBM manufactured most of the Nx586 processors...
Why don't you try and think about this a little longer. The reason messages are bounced back is so the sender KNOWS the message was sent to the wrong address and thus can fix their mistake. That system is no longer feasible in this spamming world.
Google has done the next best thing by attempting to match a mistyped (or otherwise invalid) email address to the next closest valid address, that way the recipient still has a chance to receive their mail.
One technique spammers use is to note which addreses are invalid. By not bouncing messages, Google deprives them of this technique, thus raising their overall cost of doing business.
Can't say I've heard of any civilization-ending events in my lifetime.
You haven't been to see the Ruins of Detroit have you?
Countries with a sense of moral values will even give you many entitlements for which one as immigrant hs not paid a penny (healthcare, education).
You mean countries that share YOUR moral values. A bit presumptuous. I challenge you to find one country that has such a liberal policy that is not facing tremendous internal pressure to change such policy.
Discrimination based on citizenship is racism with another name, at least some constitutions have the good sense to extend their guarantees to anybody being in a given country.
I thought racists like to enslave people. Because someone does not want a particular kind of person living in their country does NOT mean they are racist. This world is big enough for everyone to have their own piece of it.
Citizenship should be chosen freely by an individual as an acto of commitment, not convenience and there should be no cohercion of any kind, otherwise the act of assuming a new nationality becomes meaningless.
This is a pretty meaningless statement in and of itself.
A citizen is a person owing allegiance to a nation or state and entitled to its protection. The rights conferred by our constitution and government only apply to citizens. You cannot simultaneously claim the rights of citizens yet refuse to become one.
I can also say that becoming a citizen for H1-B folks is in fact quite a difficult prospect, compared to the various vagrant immigrants who come to this country as refugees. You have to work a minimum of five years. That, is not easy no matter how you look at it.
Personally, these days, I would rather live in Russia. In 20 years Moscow is going to be a far better city than anything we have in the US. So, if your decision is based on this foresight, I commend you.
I think its more important for you to ask why is it you are NOT a citizen yet?
If you had come from a non-European country you would be a citizen by now.
Just as Linux and other open source projects aren't really "open" in terms of accepting everything anyone throws at them, so must Wikipedia find a way to become more selective in what it accepts. The Wiki itself is such a good idea that there's just got to be a way to make it work, but frankly I can't work out a paradigm that will save it from the issues it has now.
So you have chosen Sparta over Athens as your model of choice.
We should selectively breed certain individuals to perform the functions of Wikipedia Researchers.
American Airlines most definitely has them, as does US Air. You probably just didn't notice, and I didn't mention you have to use a DC adapter.
Those are the only airlines I fly regularly so I couldn't tell you about the rest. I believe the DC power connectors are standard features on all new Airbus planes... so I would be very surprised if Alitalia didn't have them.
Business class and first class, these days, is defined more by other expensive features than a power outlet, especially given Airbus' move.
If you are flying a major airline they are there. Discount airlines, less so.
The whole battery and plane trips story is old news for the average business traveller.
Clearly, you live in the suburbs.
Newspapers are great for commuting. I can stand and read the newspaper on the subway. It isn't so easy with a laptop, and a PDA is just annoying to use with such a small screen.
Interestingly, with 9/11, TV was a useless source of information for us in New York, since the WTC was where most TV antennas were based. The local newspapers however worked triple time to get the papers out the door as quickly as possible.
They were equally quick with the Blackout in Septemer, 2003, running their printing presses on generators.
I didn't see any facts in that particular post, just unnecessarily emotive hyperbole and the most base form of rhetoric.
Such nonsense only hurts your cause, and makes it appear as if you have everything to hide by obfuscating facts with adjectives and poetic metaphors.
So why? Because they want to give MS a bone. MS likes bones, and if you don't feed them the occasional femur, they start thinking that meat would taste better. The meat of your still-beating heart, freshly ripped from your chest during the hostile takeover, or during the utter destruction of your business model.
Don't you think this is just a bit dramatic?
I am curious, no one wants to hire people without clearance?
So, how then does someone gain this clearance?
iSeries: What was the AS/400. Mainframes. Expensive and poor bang per buck, but there are applications out there which won't run on much else.
AS/400 machines are minicomputers, not mainframes. They are also quite competetive on the market, and have been around for almost 20 years.
zSeries: IIRC, what was the S/390. Anyone care to confirm?
Those are mainframes, and are currently some of the fastest machines money can by. Want a mainframe with several hundred processors and a several hundred gigs of ram? You can get a zSeries with all of that.
Oh, did I say they run Linux?
Nature is all about efficiency. Animals only produce that which is not naturally available in their diet.
Humans and other primates are unusual in that they do not produce any vitamin C, but that is only because our natural diet contains a large amount of fruit which is rich in the stuff.
For most animals, it isn't that extreme and their bodies only produce just enough of a specific nutrient. Humans can produce most B Vitamins, except for B12 but you will be deficient if you don't get any in your diet.
The same is true with cholesterol, of which humans have the highest concentration in their bodies compared to all other animals, due to our large brains.
Silly me, there was me thinking that WWII was about Germany and Japan aggressive empirebuilding, not to mention pursuing their racist policies.
It is rather silly. I mean, Germany was the size of Texas when WWII started. Great Britain declared war on Germany for retaking parts of its coutnry seized after WWI. Millions of Germans lived in this regions.
At the same time, Great Britain controlled 1/3 of the entire planet, with garrisons in dozens of countries.
Who was building the empire? By what right did Great Britain get to decide who could build an empire and who could not?
I am sorry, but your post reeks of indoctrination. WWII had absolutely nothing to do with Germany building an empire, absolutely nothing. To think otherwise is foolish and ignorant of the obvious facts of the day.
Your racism theory is also quite wrong, as another poster mentioned. Germany had hundreds of thousands of volunteers from non-European countries like India, Persia, and even places like Tibet, far more than the British and Americans combined. Then of course there is the obvious: Germany's strongest ally was Japan! If racism was their goal, I don't think they would have worked so closely with a people they considered inferior by default.
American propaganda during WWII clearly painted the war as a racial struggle, demonizing the Japanese as vicious animals.
Dig deeper. Look at how WWII began at the end of the Great Depression. The world was in turmoil at the time, and it had nothing to do with building empires or racism.
America fought WWII because the Japanese bombed the shit out of Pearl Harbor.
Let's not forget that the Japanese bombing wasn't just a random act of violence. American foreign policy in the far east was far from egalitarian. The American occupation of the Phillipines was brutal to say the least, and officially justified due to the so-called inferiority of the filipino people.
Globalization is a reality, folks. You can either:
a) pretend it doesn't exist,
b) complain about it, or
c) live in it, as a globalist individual
You do realize WWII was primarily about this issue don't you. In those days, Globalism was called Internationaism. Modern propaganda today may belittle nationalism as being nothing more than flag waving, but the real issue was national economic sovereignty in the face of growing international financial power.
Thus, you have forgotten a major part of Option B, you can fight to preserve your way of life.
Further, only in decadent societies like Australia are people desiring the destuctrion of their historical ethnicity and way of life. The people of India don't want you there, and they don't want to be part of your global vision. The same is true for practically every other non-European country in the eastern hemisphere. It is true right now in the middle east, where the US is desperately trying to impose your vision on a hostile populace.
Move or die.
I think you meant "fight or die". Such cowardice. The future is going be far different than you ever imagined.
No offence, but NYC != world
Did you read the post I was replying to? I don't give a shit about the rest of the world because that is not what this discussion is about. We are talking about New York City, you however are apparently telling us people can drive fast in Indiana. No fucking shit.
Read the whole thread before you jump into a discussion and post some sanctimonious bullshit like that.
God I hate people like you with a fucking passion. The speed limits are set as they are because you live in a fucking city with 8 million fucking people! Sure, you could drive at top speed on 5th avenue if there were no people.
But there are people. Lots of people. The faster you go the slower your reaction time, and the more likely you are to hit some kid who happens to cross in the path of your vehicle.
Over 1000 people a year are killed by cars. The vast majority of those cars were exceeding the speed limit, sometimes by a large margin. A lot of these people are kids, who in their naive state wondered onto the street and didn't understand how that car going 80 could get to them in seconds.
There is simply nowhere in New York City where driving 80 miles an hour is acceptable, absolutely nowhere. I hope you crash your car and end up in prison. Oh, I look forward to the day every bridge and tunnel to Manhattan has a $20 toll, that way scum like you can stay in your shit neighborhood.
Let's not forget that the rapid rise of homosexuality cannot easily be explained as mere choice, nor can the uniquely modern "feminization" of men be explained in a historical context.
Homosexuality historically (even up to WWII with homosexuality in Nazi Germany) has been a kind of super-masculinity where female values and behavior are eschewed completelyh for the artistic and warrior prowess of masculinity. The "woman trapped in a man's body" bit is a recent invention.
That said, we must assume that modern homosexuality is either a result of incredible, relentless propaganda (and thus we must re-evalute that effectiveness of propaganda technique as a whole) or there is an outside cause. With many other measurable effects of masculinity declining in western countries, such as sperm count and muscle mass, it is entirely possible that homosexuality does have an external cause.
That seems to lead to the opposite claim. Rail is obscenely expensive, and hard to extend because you have to pay for the right of way. That's expensive in a large, dense city -- PRT could use existing right of ways (i.e., going about a road).
What city are you referring to? In New York, subways primarily run under streets. Only a few instances of turns (which don't work well at right angles with a 1000 foot long train) and of course rivers does this not hold true. All elevated trains in New York are above streets.
Instead you have people working at night and putting everything in place for the morning, or shuttles to deal with missing service, or whatnot. With PRT there's builtin redundancy, so individual lines could be taken off without impacting the entire network.
The problems of which you speak are only really bad in cities that don't have express train service (ie they only have 2 tracks, not 4 or more). When you have express tracks, trains can simply be rerouted around areas where work is being performed. This happens all the time in New York. Some local stations are inconvenienced but as you say, the work is reserved for late nights mostly on the weekend.
This does happen, but people are only willing to go so far. Certain geographic areas are also unique and not easily replaced. The New York Metropolitan area is a great example. The city itself is a reason people live here. More distant satellite cities simply can't attract the talent they need to survive.
If, somehow, we stop paying immigrants to reproduce and make them work for a living, we might be able to build another New York again. But right now, even with a flood of immigration, labor is too expensive to build new subway tunnels, and too unskilled to build the kind of beautiful architecture that fills New York City.
And what is the result? Nearly utter gridlock from 7 am to 7 pm. Driving 50 miles takes you 2+ hours.
Ultimately, your theory only works if all people are interchangeable with one another, and if all locations in the country are equal. That is simply not the case.