That only works with an exponential resource curve. Land like just about every other resource is limited. When space runs out of those resources you drive prices up. I understand thats why we went off the gold standard, but even today the curencys worth is tied to the assets and resources of a coutry, otherwise why wouldnt a 3rd world country just print all the money they wanted to buy food etc.. Increasing the supply of money doesent change anything in the long term.
I would. Think about all the things that you would be able to acomplish. The colinization of other worlds (Granted if you only travel 1/4 the speed of light, the closest system would only take you 160 years to reach).
The last 10 years of your life in a nursing home is going to suck anyhow. As for the social and scientific stagnation, lets face it things are only getting worse now, so why not. And as for the economic devistation, lets really look at things as they are right now, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Inflation cannot be held in check. That $30,000 home your parents bought is worth probably over $150,000 today, when you are your parents age that will probably be 1.5 million. What happens to all the people that live in apartments etc. that dont own property or have financial savings, they will end up our homeless. I beleive that we are heading for a financial colapse here in the next 50 years or so and we will have to re-think our monitary policies and end up more of a socialistic society. Just my 2 cents.
Acctually, someones pockets were lined with this project. More fleecing of Americans hard earned tax dollars.
"The prototype vehicle cost between $500,000 and $1 million"
For a chevy silvarado and some PC's and other equipment they probably could have stripped from a mothballed apache helicopter, and a estimated price gap of a half a million for its budget, yes its most definitly vapor.
I would think that it would match GCC bug for bug, if it didnt match those "Features" one for one, then it wouldnt be 100% compatible. Besides, if they wanted to make it 100% IA32 ABI compatible, they would have just written the compiler that way and say its more standards complient then GCC.
We did the same thing, but we did it early and saturated the whole city with 2.4 on all 3 non overlaping channels (Aironet aggregate 33mb/sec). By the time the competitors caught up they couldnt shoot a 100ft because of the interfearence. Needless to say were the only ones left in town doing wireless broadband. And weve allready done the same with 5.5ghz and 802.11a.
HAHAHA I remember playing a DigDug (which I use to be very good at) type game in dos on my dual 800 (I know 1 proccessor wasnt used) you would hit the directional pad and the next thing youd know youd be accross the screen. It made the game more fun but a little frustrating IMHO since you needed a little more skill to play it that way.
Neither am I, microwave radiation (802.11b to be specific), however miniscule (100mw), has to be bad for you when your exposed to it for 9+ hours a day.
You must not drive very far then, I put 50k mi on a car in a year, you show me a car that can do 400k without any major problems and ill make you a rich man.
Well there are other stumbling blocks in the way at the moment, im looking for good information about the ford eec-v as well for the MP01 code revision, along with the map and data locations in the eeprom. I have the JTag and have allready dumped the bin. Emulating shouldnt be a problem throught the paralel port but i still have to build the interface circuit, ODBII is the easiest to implement out of everything (standard serial connection) and that circuit is allready built. Id like to integrate everything into a PC104 SBC in a small nice box i can bolt underneith the dash, but finding one that has a video card that i can find the spec sheet on is allmost imposible. Its about a years project alone working on it part time with access to all the information I need, if i cant find the information I need though it will be hopeless. It would take longer to build then I would have the truck.
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OK ive been lurking thought I would explain what my project is, as it would give the readers more insight. Im building a auto pc for my car, not a l33t do nothing OS. I have no grand delusions of overthrowing MS. It is going to be hooked up to the ODBII port and display data in 3D bar/line charts (like fuel injection maps, engine load by rpm, etc) as well as a few other functions like a mp3 player and mabey video. I plan on adding modules as I go so it will be modular and upgradeable. Eventually i plan on integrating it with my PCM so i can change maps on the fly. VESA of coarse is out of the question for display. Thunking back to real mode to update the display is sooo 1995:)
Obviously the reason why Americans view the Bimmers as yuppie mobiles is the price, a 325ci costs anywhere from 35-45k while the m3 is in the 50's. If they were comperable say an accord or camery then that stigma would fade fast. On a side note, why would I pay 50k for a M3 when i can get a much faster/nicer car for the same price(Vetts, compleatly restored muscle cars, etc..) Dont get me wrong, I like the M3's and even though about purchasing one a year or so ago, but in the end I bought a Ford Lightning.
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That only works with an exponential resource curve. Land like just about every other resource is limited. When space runs out of those resources you drive prices up. I understand thats why we went off the gold standard, but even today the curencys worth is tied to the assets and resources of a coutry, otherwise why wouldnt a 3rd world country just print all the money they wanted to buy food etc.. Increasing the supply of money doesent change anything in the long term.
I would. Think about all the things that you would be able to acomplish. The colinization of other worlds (Granted if you only travel 1/4 the speed of light, the closest system would only take you 160 years to reach).
The last 10 years of your life in a nursing home is going to suck anyhow. As for the social and scientific stagnation, lets face it things are only getting worse now, so why not. And as for the economic devistation, lets really look at things as they are right now, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Inflation cannot be held in check. That $30,000 home your parents bought is worth probably over $150,000 today, when you are your parents age that will probably be 1.5 million. What happens to all the people that live in apartments etc. that dont own property or have financial savings, they will end up our homeless. I beleive that we are heading for a financial colapse here in the next 50 years or so and we will have to re-think our monitary policies and end up more of a socialistic society. Just my 2 cents.
Acctually, someones pockets were lined with this project. More fleecing of Americans hard earned tax dollars.
"The prototype vehicle cost between $500,000 and $1 million"
For a chevy silvarado and some PC's and other equipment they probably could have stripped from a mothballed apache helicopter, and a estimated price gap of a half a million for its budget, yes its most definitly vapor.
I would think that it would match GCC bug for bug, if it didnt match those "Features" one for one, then it wouldnt be 100% compatible. Besides, if they wanted to make it 100% IA32 ABI compatible, they would have just written the compiler that way and say its more standards complient then GCC.
We did the same thing, but we did it early and saturated the whole city with 2.4 on all 3 non overlaping channels (Aironet aggregate 33mb/sec). By the time the competitors caught up they couldnt shoot a 100ft because of the interfearence. Needless to say were the only ones left in town doing wireless broadband. And weve allready done the same with 5.5ghz and 802.11a.
So what fox is trying to do is get chummy with the tech community. Can anyone say DRM. Fox is nothing but slow kids and fast cars anyhow.
Yeah but he didnt say it was a baseball. The only way you can cover a ball is with at minimum 1 seam, if it doesent have a seam then it was molded.
Hey now, thats only because my visual input device was overloaded.
HAHAHA I remember playing a DigDug (which I use to be very good at) type game in dos on my dual 800 (I know 1 proccessor wasnt used) you would hit the directional pad and the next thing youd know youd be accross the screen. It made the game more fun but a little frustrating IMHO since you needed a little more skill to play it that way.
Yeah ive got some cheepo cd-rs that work this way too. Hardly seems like a inovation, just a way for them to find uses for their defects.
Neither am I, microwave radiation (802.11b to be specific), however miniscule (100mw), has to be bad for you when your exposed to it for 9+ hours a day.
Yeah, ive also heard that they were working on midi over cat5. Id choose firewire over cat5 or USB any day though.
Thats been my bigest complaint, id switch everything over to apple and be done with m$ forever if I could afford it.
You must not drive very far then, I put 50k mi on a car in a year, you show me a car that can do 400k without any major problems and ill make you a rich man.
No he was talking about the really disturbing signs.... like eat at joes, or got milk :)
I dont think anyone would, unless of coarse you like being sqashed like a bug :)
Well there are other stumbling blocks in the way at the moment, im looking for good information about the ford eec-v as well for the MP01 code revision, along with the map and data locations in the eeprom. I have the JTag and have allready dumped the bin. Emulating shouldnt be a problem throught the paralel port but i still have to build the interface circuit, ODBII is the easiest to implement out of everything (standard serial connection) and that circuit is allready built. Id like to integrate everything into a PC104 SBC in a small nice box i can bolt underneith the dash, but finding one that has a video card that i can find the spec sheet on is allmost imposible. Its about a years project alone working on it part time with access to all the information I need, if i cant find the information I need though it will be hopeless. It would take longer to build then I would have the truck.
OK ive been lurking thought I would explain what my project is, as it would give the readers more insight. Im building a auto pc for my car, not a l33t do nothing OS. I have no grand delusions of overthrowing MS. It is going to be hooked up to the ODBII port and display data in 3D bar/line charts (like fuel injection maps, engine load by rpm, etc) as well as a few other functions like a mp3 player and mabey video. I plan on adding modules as I go so it will be modular and upgradeable. Eventually i plan on integrating it with my PCM so i can change maps on the fly. VESA of coarse is out of the question for display. Thunking back to real mode to update the display is sooo 1995 :)
Obviously the reason why Americans view the Bimmers as yuppie mobiles is the price, a 325ci costs anywhere from 35-45k while the m3 is in the 50's. If they were comperable say an accord or camery then that stigma would fade fast. On a side note, why would I pay 50k for a M3 when i can get a much faster/nicer car for the same price(Vetts, compleatly restored muscle cars, etc..) Dont get me wrong, I like the M3's and even though about purchasing one a year or so ago, but in the end I bought a Ford Lightning.
mabey they should rename it to DC/WWF superhero smackdown?
Thats like saying if you cant read my code, then it cant be very good code, never mind the fact that mabey your arnt a programmer.....
you find someplace that will give me $2e6 for tightening up asm, and you got yourself a programmer.
Ok thats it, im moving :)