*sigh* The 19th century is calling, and they want their kids working on mines, the women as second class citizens, and the robber barons back.
Yet another libertarian that wants to get back to the good old days of libertarian supply-side economics, which ended up in the economic meltdown that was the depression of 1929. Every time we try your approach we end up with bread lines, and the last time we tried a massive liberal approach: the new deal, we ended up with a society that was able to take on 2 fronts in a world war and win it, the largest economic expansion in the past couple of centuries, the extension of the average life span by almost 2 decades, and Americans playing golf on the moon.
But, noooo... you'd assume that after being wrong on almost every issue, social Darwinists would just shut the hell up.
This current caval sure likes to keep information from the public, and for such a secretive bunch they surely don't like to extend the same courtesy to their citizens. Mind you, we pay the administration's salaries so at the end of the day they are our employees... and I would surely love to know what my employees are up to.
Nope, the pledge of allegiance was first coined by a socialist named Francis Bellamy in 1892. Funny how all the right wing wackos nowadays seem to love the new and improved pledge, and tend to forget it was a socialist (anything more anti-American according to those same right wing wackos?) of all people who came up with those words. Except, well... the whole "under god" nonsense.
It is all about symbolism, most authoritarian/backward cultures/regimes seem to favor symbols since they tend to discourage the deep discussion of concepts. That is why you will see flag been treated as some sort of deity nowadays....
But, when you consider that the other significant source of uranium is Kazakhstan, and that they may be royally pissed off after the whole Borat movie came out...
Well, I guess we should be jailing US Officials then. Afterall the US government is the biggest arms dealer in the world, so I see it fit to apply the counter example you provided.
However, there is this never ending hypocrisy with the US. They do not allow online gambling, since that could be controlled by foreigners, but it is OK for them to have a whole damn state that is pretty much dedicated to the business of gambling, prostitution, etc.: Nevada. It is not OK to drink before 21, but they can drive at 16, and enter the army at 18. You can not show a breast on TV, but pretty much every public restroom I have been in the US offered nearly no privacy, I don't care about boobs and/or genitalia on my tely, I care however about the fact that I can see my neighbour taking a quite painful dump after the three chicken enchiladas he just ingested. Or the fact that they can catch a nobody on the airport, on transit, but their FBI pretty much missed one of their top 10 most wanted men. A renegade mormon pedofile, which pretty much owns a whole town in Arizona, with a permanent address, and like 10 wives -most of the underage-, and who was only aprehended after a traffic check after being in the most wanted list for months if not years. Or the fact that they can spend billions bombing the shit out of other countries, but somehow seem unable to protect their own people when a hurricane strikes... and on and on....
If you are going to correct people, at least make sure you too are not equally clueless:
GUI: No Xerox did not develop the gui, they refined it, they applied it, but they certainly did not came up with the concept of GUI. Several academic systems, and yes even commercial ones predate Alto's use of GUI.
Ethernet: It was a co-development between DIGITAL, Intel and Xerox (PARC). Not just Xerox.
Web Brower: Mosaic wasn't the first browser CERN came up witht he first browser and the concept of distributed hypertext.
I think you are wrong, my calculations clearly show that if the Amiga had had a 82.334235543546778566Mhz processor it would have been its ideal processor speed at introduction and ergo it would have not only dominated the computer industry, but also it would have accelerated the downfall of the Soviet empire.
My calculations also show that any other computer at exactly 79.32434324505460289503Mhz would have just run a lot faster.
Well, Longhorn is based on NT codebase... which was actually developed on RISC machines. Windows 2000 was the last version to run on things other than x86. And well, WindowsCE runs mostly on RISC machines (embedded type processors). So the claim that any Windows OS is not compatible with RISC is a little bit moot.
Actually yours wasn't funny at all, ergo the premise of your argument is false. I guess I can't see the difference between an insult veiled as a lame atempt at comedy and an unveiled insult.
No, I never mentioned evolution... I just said that according to the bible men come from a puddle of mud. I don't know about you, but unless biology has changed dramatically I have never seen a human created from a pile of dung and mud.....
Because one is about facts and reason and the other is about taste. Censorship by standars and mass acceptance, or perception of, is just another form of censorship.
If we had followed the same path, we would have been eating feces long time ago, afterall if we following correctness from numbers... it is clear that 10^12 flies can't be wrong.
A lot of what we consider today to be masterpieces happened to be rather offensive to the standards of the community where they were being created. Had they followed the classical "let the market speak" approach to acceptance of a cultural product, we would be a much poorer society w/o those works of art.
A group which has already forced people to accept that humans come from mud and dung, which has been proven false. A group that has argued that the earth was a) flat, b) the center of the universe, and c) that its core was some sort of purgatory. Well, with such "hit rate" when it comes to factual information... I am inclined to think that this group should be nowhere allowed to force moral or cultura standards with such low accuracy when it comes to actual fact, no matter the number of followers.
Actually the correct example of scalability would come from SGI, their altix machines get over 512 proc single image system. Which no one in the list of signataries can even come close, so the whole issue of linux and scalability is pfffff.....
Actually NT IS a microkernel, they moved somethings closer to the kernel (such as the GDI and other stuffs) for performance issues. But for the most part even XP is a microkernel, not pure in the sense of academic projects like Mach though...
Most Alpha design people ended up at intel actually... the DEC/Intel settlement forced a lot of the ppl in DEC side to work at intel, and most Alpha designers had been transferred to Itanium. And a few months ago, HP sold off most the Itanium design team to Intel. So Intel has far more ppl from Alpha than AMD does by a loooooooong shot.
Actually the R4000 had problems with its early revs that could not execute the whole 64bit instruction set. So the R4000s were not used in 64bit mode much.
It came earlier than the alpha though, so for all intents and purposes the R4000 was the first commercial 64bit RISC micro.
LOL, funny how you are denouncing the space program while using a device that most likely uses VLSI components. Guess what the push for MSI and later LSI which lead to VLSI was made mostly by NASA requirements for highly integrated devices using this new thing called a "transistor" which until then no one really had a use for, except for some fancy qualities as an amplifier.
Thank goodness you were in no way shape or form in charge of any basic research programme.
NASA and the space program may not be responsible for some "great new products" however the need to apply new solutions to manned space challenges is what has pushed the state of the art in a significant way. If you can not see that just go and bugger off, sometimes the worst idiot is the one who things he knows it all.....
I guess before we continue this debate, I must ask you to please go and look up the definition of "sovereign" because it painfully clear that you are using concepts for this discussion and you do not even have the slightest clue what those concepts' definitions are. In any case, I will also ask you to go ahead and understand what a straw man is when applied to debates. Because you keep on using them over and over and over again...
But in any case, just so you can enjoy your Kool Aid, I will refer you to the following historical precedent:
"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam."
- Peter Grose, in a page 2 New York Times article titled 'U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,' September 4, 1967.
That happened a few months before the Tet offensive, I am aware that you may not even know what that is. But enjoy....
Once you grow up you may understand that you can not bomb a sovereign nation into democracy. Cheers... and yes Iraq was a sovereign country.
Hahahaha, nice. Well, as long as you get to define that democracy is a system where you get to vote unknown candidates because an invading army told you to vote, then OK. But please keep your brand of "democracy" as far away from my country as possible.
As per your definition of sovereign country I'd very interested in finding out what it is. Because nowhere in the Oxford English dictionary does it mention that a nation to be sovereign has to be a democracy. In fact the word sovereign derives from monarchy which is by definition a dictatorship....
As dealing with complexity, well... I must tell you that I so happen to be a veteran (yup from one of them Eurowussie countries) and I happened to see actual fire action in the former Yugoslavia. So spare me the "complexities" and the "moral obligations" that were so "imperative" which you blisfuly ignore, but I must trust you they were imperative, right?
As per the official count, again funny how the Pentagon has said many times that they were not conducting official body counts. How can you cite an "official" count that does not exist as proof of anything?
The fact still remains, your government decided to invade a sovereign country based on a claim that has proven to be false. Thus the thousands of civilians killed are indeed a result of a criminal endeavour. You can sit down and masturbate to your self righteous Bushista propaganda all you want, still it does not change the fact that you are indeed supporting a criminal enterprise. Just because Saddam was a bad person does not give you nor your ilk the right to invade another country on false premises and nonexistant threats. Why? Because that makes you the aggressor... try to dress it up as "freedom" or "dancing happy shinny people" who can now vote because a muslim cleric faced Bush who was the least interested in helding these elections. So please spare me the crappola... it is always interesting to see the degree of delusion some of you are employing. The koolaid is indeed far more powerful than we anticipated.
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*sigh* The 19th century is calling, and they want their kids working on mines, the women as second class citizens, and the robber barons back.
Yet another libertarian that wants to get back to the good old days of libertarian supply-side economics, which ended up in the economic meltdown that was the depression of 1929. Every time we try your approach we end up with bread lines, and the last time we tried a massive liberal approach: the new deal, we ended up with a society that was able to take on 2 fronts in a world war and win it, the largest economic expansion in the past couple of centuries, the extension of the average life span by almost 2 decades, and Americans playing golf on the moon.
But, noooo... you'd assume that after being wrong on almost every issue, social Darwinists would just shut the hell up.
This current caval sure likes to keep information from the public, and for such a secretive bunch they surely don't like to extend the same courtesy to their citizens. Mind you, we pay the administration's salaries so at the end of the day they are our employees... and I would surely love to know what my employees are up to.
Nope, the pledge of allegiance was first coined by a socialist named Francis Bellamy in 1892. Funny how all the right wing wackos nowadays seem to love the new and improved pledge, and tend to forget it was a socialist (anything more anti-American according to those same right wing wackos?) of all people who came up with those words. Except, well... the whole "under god" nonsense.
It is all about symbolism, most authoritarian/backward cultures/regimes seem to favor symbols since they tend to discourage the deep discussion of concepts. That is why you will see flag been treated as some sort of deity nowadays....
But, when you consider that the other significant source of uranium is Kazakhstan, and that they may be royally pissed off after the whole Borat movie came out...
Well, I guess we should be jailing US Officials then. Afterall the US government is the biggest arms dealer in the world, so I see it fit to apply the counter example you provided.
However, there is this never ending hypocrisy with the US. They do not allow online gambling, since that could be controlled by foreigners, but it is OK for them to have a whole damn state that is pretty much dedicated to the business of gambling, prostitution, etc.: Nevada. It is not OK to drink before 21, but they can drive at 16, and enter the army at 18. You can not show a breast on TV, but pretty much every public restroom I have been in the US offered nearly no privacy, I don't care about boobs and/or genitalia on my tely, I care however about the fact that I can see my neighbour taking a quite painful dump after the three chicken enchiladas he just ingested. Or the fact that they can catch a nobody on the airport, on transit, but their FBI pretty much missed one of their top 10 most wanted men. A renegade mormon pedofile, which pretty much owns a whole town in Arizona, with a permanent address, and like 10 wives -most of the underage-, and who was only aprehended after a traffic check after being in the most wanted list for months if not years. Or the fact that they can spend billions bombing the shit out of other countries, but somehow seem unable to protect their own people when a hurricane strikes... and on and on....
So good job chaps! or even better; good luck!
pfffffft. Wrong! Everyone knows ROBOTS are Ninja's real enemy. Even a second grade school girl knows that!
Why using an OR with your previous post? The poster was obviously retarded AND did not read the article.
You get what you pay for... *Louisiana Purchase*
If you are going to correct people, at least make sure you too are not equally clueless:
GUI: No Xerox did not develop the gui, they refined it, they applied it, but they certainly did not came up with the concept of GUI. Several academic systems, and yes even commercial ones predate Alto's use of GUI.
Ethernet: It was a co-development between DIGITAL, Intel and Xerox (PARC). Not just Xerox.
Web Brower: Mosaic wasn't the first browser CERN came up witht he first browser and the concept of distributed hypertext.
Just my 2 cents.
I think you are wrong, my calculations clearly show that if the Amiga had had a 82.334235543546778566Mhz processor it would have been its ideal processor speed at introduction and ergo it would have not only dominated the computer industry, but also it would have accelerated the downfall of the Soviet empire.
My calculations also show that any other computer at exactly 79.32434324505460289503Mhz would have just run a lot faster.
True dat, if that was not a case of the pot calling the kettle back, I do not know what it was.
Well, Longhorn is based on NT codebase... which was actually developed on RISC machines. Windows 2000 was the last version to run on things other than x86. And well, WindowsCE runs mostly on RISC machines (embedded type processors). So the claim that any Windows OS is not compatible with RISC is a little bit moot.
Actually yours wasn't funny at all, ergo the premise of your argument is false. I guess I can't see the difference between an insult veiled as a lame atempt at comedy and an unveiled insult.
Well jeez, 25GB/s badwith to local memory is laughable to you? Jesus tap danding christ on a pogo stick!
No, I never mentioned evolution... I just said that according to the bible men come from a puddle of mud. I don't know about you, but unless biology has changed dramatically I have never seen a human created from a pile of dung and mud.....
Because one is about facts and reason and the other is about taste. Censorship by standars and mass acceptance, or perception of, is just another form of censorship.
If we had followed the same path, we would have been eating feces long time ago, afterall if we following correctness from numbers... it is clear that 10^12 flies can't be wrong.
A lot of what we consider today to be masterpieces happened to be rather offensive to the standards of the community where they were being created. Had they followed the classical "let the market speak" approach to acceptance of a cultural product, we would be a much poorer society w/o those works of art.
A group which has already forced people to accept that humans come from mud and dung, which has been proven false. A group that has argued that the earth was a) flat, b) the center of the universe, and c) that its core was some sort of purgatory. Well, with such "hit rate" when it comes to factual information... I am inclined to think that this group should be nowhere allowed to force moral or cultura standards with such low accuracy when it comes to actual fact, no matter the number of followers.
Actually the correct example of scalability would come from SGI, their altix machines get over 512 proc single image system. Which no one in the list of signataries can even come close, so the whole issue of linux and scalability is pfffff.....
Actually NT IS a microkernel, they moved somethings closer to the kernel (such as the GDI and other stuffs) for performance issues. But for the most part even XP is a microkernel, not pure in the sense of academic projects like Mach though...
Most Alpha design people ended up at intel actually... the DEC/Intel settlement forced a lot of the ppl in DEC side to work at intel, and most Alpha designers had been transferred to Itanium. And a few months ago, HP sold off most the Itanium design team to Intel. So Intel has far more ppl from Alpha than AMD does by a loooooooong shot.
Actually the R4000 had problems with its early revs that could not execute the whole 64bit instruction set. So the R4000s were not used in 64bit mode much.
It came earlier than the alpha though, so for all intents and purposes the R4000 was the first commercial 64bit RISC micro.
Sorry but the CELL potential for 25GFlops single precision not double.
1 word: Firewire... jeez.
LOL, funny how you are denouncing the space program while using a device that most likely uses VLSI components. Guess what the push for MSI and later LSI which lead to VLSI was made mostly by NASA requirements for highly integrated devices using this new thing called a "transistor" which until then no one really had a use for, except for some fancy qualities as an amplifier.
Thank goodness you were in no way shape or form in charge of any basic research programme.
NASA and the space program may not be responsible for some "great new products" however the need to apply new solutions to manned space challenges is what has pushed the state of the art in a significant way. If you can not see that just go and bugger off, sometimes the worst idiot is the one who things he knows it all.....
I guess before we continue this debate, I must ask you to please go and look up the definition of "sovereign" because it painfully clear that you are using concepts for this discussion and you do not even have the slightest clue what those concepts' definitions are. In any case, I will also ask you to go ahead and understand what a straw man is when applied to debates. Because you keep on using them over and over and over again...
But in any case, just so you can enjoy your Kool Aid, I will refer you to the following historical precedent:
"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam."
- Peter Grose, in a page 2 New York Times article titled 'U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote,' September 4, 1967.
That happened a few months before the Tet offensive, I am aware that you may not even know what that is. But enjoy....
Once you grow up you may understand that you can not bomb a sovereign nation into democracy. Cheers... and yes Iraq was a sovereign country.
Hahahaha, nice. Well, as long as you get to define that democracy is a system where you get to vote unknown candidates because an invading army told you to vote, then OK. But please keep your brand of "democracy" as far away from my country as possible.
As per your definition of sovereign country I'd very interested in finding out what it is. Because nowhere in the Oxford English dictionary does it mention that a nation to be sovereign has to be a democracy. In fact the word sovereign derives from monarchy which is by definition a dictatorship....
As dealing with complexity, well... I must tell you that I so happen to be a veteran (yup from one of them Eurowussie countries) and I happened to see actual fire action in the former Yugoslavia. So spare me the "complexities" and the "moral obligations" that were so "imperative" which you blisfuly ignore, but I must trust you they were imperative, right?
As per the official count, again funny how the Pentagon has said many times that they were not conducting official body counts. How can you cite an "official" count that does not exist as proof of anything?
The fact still remains, your government decided to invade a sovereign country based on a claim that has proven to be false. Thus the thousands of civilians killed are indeed a result of a criminal endeavour. You can sit down and masturbate to your self righteous Bushista propaganda all you want, still it does not change the fact that you are indeed supporting a criminal enterprise. Just because Saddam was a bad person does not give you nor your ilk the right to invade another country on false premises and nonexistant threats. Why? Because that makes you the aggressor... try to dress it up as "freedom" or "dancing happy shinny people" who can now vote because a muslim cleric faced Bush who was the least interested in helding these elections. So please spare me the crappola... it is always interesting to see the degree of delusion some of you are employing. The koolaid is indeed far more powerful than we anticipated.