it's not about airline security policies being secret.
it's about secret government laws.
how is it possible to be a law-abiding citizen when the government passes laws you aren't even allowed to know about? "just use common sense" is not justification, because there are thousands of laws which are not sensible at all.
what happened with itanium is intel made a number of huge gambles on technology.
in order for itanium to be successful, every single one of them had to pan out.
what happened is virtually none of them panned out.
intel blew their load on a high risk gamble, and lost. they still can't quite come to grips with the fact and are still sinking billions of dollars into a doomed architecture -- despite the fact that just about every original itanium partner has already given up on it (err.. "jumped ship", hence the itanic joke)
intel has been beating on itanium for nearly a decade and it still hasn't lived up to a single design goal.
and before the itanium defenders go "no, itanium was only ever intended for rackmount servers", that is 100% contrary to intel's own marketing literature which states that "workstation" is one of the target markets of the itanium.
malaysia and indonesia look much more promising. they are already well equipped for high tech.
thailand is nearly there, while vietnam is still struggling with the legacy of a corrupt communist system. they have no technological sector to speak of, and will not for some time. china is much more modern in that respect.
you shouldnt have to do that stuff just to get something usable.
php is usable out of the box, integrates nicely out of the box with oh just about anything you can imagine. with java you have to shore it up with bailing wire and bubblegum before its usable.
its quite simple, people find themselves far more productive in php than java. doesnt matter how semantically perfect the language is if it takes you 3 times as long to do something in java as it does in php.
every time PHP (or mysql) comes up, the trolls come out from under their rocks and whine how "php sux","mysql sux" and "java rulez","postgresql rulez" -- ranting about how you'd have to be a complete fuckwit to use php or mysql. they rant about how mysql isnt a "true relational db" or how php isn't "truly oo" blabla yaddayadda, etc. etc. and how postgresql's stored procedures will bring world peace and end world hunger.
but they are always completely missing the point.
instead of ranting about why postgresql and java are "better" than mysql or php, they should be focusing on why php and mysql are more widely used than postgresql and java.
if they focused on those issues instead of language elitism and semantic perfection, then maybe java and postgresql would be more popular.
i love the php documentation and i'd love to know what package they're using to drive it (not the language, obviously php). some kind of custom documentation-wiki or something.
"The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrent -- one of the largest BitTorrent host servers. The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities."
took all of like 3 seconds to find this.
in keeping with the usual/. tradition of journalistic excellence, we'll probably see this same "story" reposted several times in the next few days.
except the OP's pov is effectively inside the black hole, not outside. from inside the black hole, the light falling on top of you would indeed be blueshifted.
1) it already has integrated 1000bt, unless you want to go 10gbe there's no point.
2) unless you're capturing HDTV resolutions, a firewire capture device will do fine. i'm also unaware of any PCI-66 framegrabber cards that even exist (nor any which would _need_ PCI-66 to function). hell, PCI-33 is even fine for HDTV capture. bonus: you can disconnect the firewire device when not in use, and save power. also saves a slot which can be used for other devices instead.
PCI-66 is also more expensive to design boards for. PCI express is faster and simpler than PCI-66 and cheaper to design for. PCI express connector can also take much less board space, which is a major issue in SFF designs.
when almost all of the devices you would want to use are already integrated onto the motherboard, backwards compat is less of an issue... when I upgraded to my amd64 motherboards I ended up ditching a lot of expansion cards (gigabit, serial ata, firewire), because everything was already integrated.
he's already sent extortion letters to people who only make marquees and cabinets. this is 100% contradictory to his claim that he's trying to eliminate piracy. it is 100% proof he's a filthy liar.
why not just buy the samsung printer? seems to me a lot less effort, and you don't financially reward lexmark in any way (whereas when you buy a lexmark printer, you line lexmark's pockets)
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it's not about airline security policies being secret.
it's about secret government laws.
how is it possible to be a law-abiding citizen when the government passes laws you aren't even allowed to know about? "just use common sense" is not justification, because there are thousands of laws which are not sensible at all.
no, the airlines can't require whatever the hell they want.
if that were true, they'd be free to discriminate however they liked.
you're defending liars.
what's next, defending kenneth lay because "boo hoo, thats just what corporations and executives are expected to do"?
what happened with itanium is intel made a number of huge gambles on technology.
in order for itanium to be successful, every single one of them had to pan out.
what happened is virtually none of them panned out.
intel blew their load on a high risk gamble, and lost. they still can't quite come to grips with the fact and are still sinking billions of dollars into a doomed architecture -- despite the fact that just about every original itanium partner has already given up on it (err.. "jumped ship", hence the itanic joke)
intel has been beating on itanium for nearly a decade and it still hasn't lived up to a single design goal.
and before the itanium defenders go "no, itanium was only ever intended for rackmount servers", that is 100% contrary to intel's own marketing literature which states that "workstation" is one of the target markets of the itanium.
do you know which ones will?
malaysia and indonesia look much more promising. they are already well equipped for high tech.
thailand is nearly there, while vietnam is still struggling with the legacy of a corrupt communist system. they have no technological sector to speak of, and will not for some time. china is much more modern in that respect.
you shouldnt have to do that stuff just to get something usable.
php is usable out of the box, integrates nicely out of the box with oh just about anything you can imagine. with java you have to shore it up with bailing wire and bubblegum before its usable.
its quite simple, people find themselves far more productive in php than java. doesnt matter how semantically perfect the language is if it takes you 3 times as long to do something in java as it does in php.
every time PHP (or mysql) comes up, the trolls come out from under their rocks and whine how "php sux","mysql sux" and "java rulez","postgresql rulez" -- ranting about how you'd have to be a complete fuckwit to use php or mysql. they rant about how mysql isnt a "true relational db" or how php isn't "truly oo" blabla yaddayadda, etc. etc. and how postgresql's stored procedures will bring world peace and end world hunger.
but they are always completely missing the point.
instead of ranting about why postgresql and java are "better" than mysql or php, they should be focusing on why php and mysql are more widely used than postgresql and java.
if they focused on those issues instead of language elitism and semantic perfection, then maybe java and postgresql would be more popular.
i love the php documentation and i'd love to know what package they're using to drive it (not the language, obviously php). some kind of custom documentation-wiki or something.
:)
i wish they'd share
quoting from this mpaa press release:
/. tradition of journalistic excellence, we'll probably see this same "story" reposted several times in the next few days.
"The MPAA's efforts to date have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the number of servers that continue to operate. One such site that will no longer exist is LokiTorrent -- one of the largest BitTorrent host servers. The operator of that site, Edward Webber, agreed to not only pay a substantial settlement with even greater financial penalties for any further such actions, but by Court Order must provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities, which will provide a roadmap to others who have used LokiTorrent to engage in illegal activities."
took all of like 3 seconds to find this.
in keeping with the usual
depends. what's the key, b-flat?
except the OP's pov is effectively inside the black hole, not outside. from inside the black hole, the light falling on top of you would indeed be blueshifted.
so there's no problem with that plan at all.
a type3 civilization could surely convert energy to matter. problem solved?
indeed. even if someone is 100% acquitted of all charges, the mere accusation itself is enough to mark them for life as a target for vigilantes.
the insane hysteria whipped up by pseudomoralizing retards in the media, legislature, and public ends up resulting in the victimization of completely innocent people
1) it already has integrated 1000bt, unless you want to go 10gbe there's no point.
2) unless you're capturing HDTV resolutions, a firewire capture device will do fine. i'm also unaware of any PCI-66 framegrabber cards that even exist (nor any which would _need_ PCI-66 to function). hell, PCI-33 is even fine for HDTV capture. bonus: you can disconnect the firewire device when not in use, and save power. also saves a slot which can be used for other devices instead.
PCI-66 is also more expensive to design boards for. PCI express is faster and simpler than PCI-66 and cheaper to design for. PCI express connector can also take much less board space, which is a major issue in SFF designs.
when almost all of the devices you would want to use are already integrated onto the motherboard, backwards compat is less of an issue... when I upgraded to my amd64 motherboards I ended up ditching a lot of expansion cards (gigabit, serial ata, firewire), because everything was already integrated.
better to simply recommend people return the printer to the place they purchased it from, get a refund and buy a samsung instead.
he's already sent extortion letters to people who only make marquees and cabinets. this is 100% contradictory to his claim that he's trying to eliminate piracy. it is 100% proof he's a filthy liar.
someone on the mame list already contacted starrom's lawyers and they verified the starrom license is 100% transferable.
why not just buy the samsung printer? seems to me a lot less effort, and you don't financially reward lexmark in any way (whereas when you buy a lexmark printer, you line lexmark's pockets)
we dont like people who publically prostitute themselves on /. for money. hence the -1
the fucktard market. gotta love it.
that's pretty funny. interbusiness.it is one of the largest spammers on the internet. they do NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING about their spammers.
a large percentage of them are spams for italian products, in italian. i even get italian nigerian scam letters.
italian law doesn't seem to stop them.
if the processor in your laptop is able to overheat under any circumstances, then imo the laptop is flawed and defective.
actually what happened with itanium is intel made a number of huge gambles on technology.
in order for itanium to be successful, every single one of them had to pan out.
what happened is virtually none of them panned out.
intel blew their load on a high risk gamble, and lost.
too bad the r12k performs like shit.