1984 was a work of fiction designed to warn people of its possibility of becoming a reality. If I remember correctly, the term is speculative fiction. Literature is not just for entertainment.
Even if it was not exaclty correct. That was not the point. The point was to watch ourselves so that we do not end up in a similiar <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=dystopia& r=2">dystopia</a>.
Regardless of what I mean to say, it is you (the readers, some of which have mod points) who interpret what I say. I am just trying to clear things up a bit so I don't end up with a slew of -1's.
...donating to *cough*bribing*cough* the governments of entire countries that consider using something other than Microsoft's products doesn't seem to be anti-competative. No siree.
Then again this is the company that basically pulled out their member infront of the US judicial system and said, "Suck on dis! Who's yer Daddie!?!"
P.S. to the trigger happy mods, I am not trying to troll. I am just expressing my frustration with the situation.
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Personally, I'd go with a KT266A motherboard made by either Epox, Asus, or Abit.
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Get a decent motherboard. It'll make a world of difference. For me it was UDMA transfer rates from 5MB/sec to 27MB/sec and stable output to my SB128.
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Methinks that the thriving broadband market their may have something to do with the lack of near omnipotent media and telco corporations that hike prices by making an artificially low supply and by legally bribing other corporations and the government. But then again, I'm just another American consumer wh0re.
Eh, where do you live? 1 in 5 in the US have at least one. Hell, I spent the last 2 years living where the university down the road had a 1 in 2 infection rate (The highest in the country).
Either that or the person who tells me is. So far I haven't caught him in a lie yet. Anyways, if I recall correctly the test was for holding a sustained 52X throughout the entire read. If I recall correctly, in the real world the speed varies over disk. In any case, the article points out possible ways to increase the speed without increasing spin rate. It is possible the manufacturer just called it 99x instead of trying to explain that it actually used one of those methods at a lower spin rate.
Actually, try going to Asia and getting the coolest gear/fastest computer parts. There is a good chance that if you get the highest tech stuff, when you get back the US gov will take it if they find out. Did you know there are 99X CDROM drives and 266mhz SDRAM(not 133mhz DDR) out? Guess what? The feddies get wind and they're gone.
Heh, more power to them. My vision of the US and innovation now is of some guy jerking off to forged corporate earnings reports and using research papers as the cleanup rag.
I think you may have a nova and a supernova confused.
If I remeber my astronomy correctly, a supernova is when the entire star "panics" and "goes byebye." In other words there is nothing left but the expanding debris cloud. I do not remember the details and I am not current on the theories on the matter, but I remember something about the stellar core starting to fuse iron and the neutrino emissions not being able to make it out of the star's gravity well.
A nova is where a star blasts off its outer layers. This can happen if it is near a companion star and draws off too much of the companion star's gases or in the death throws of a large mass star where the outer layers are blasted off leaving the ultra dense iron core(AKA neutron star or pulsar if its magnetic poles do not line up with its rotational poles) or a black hole(or whatever). The debris cloud is then called a planetary nebula(a misnomer that stuck).
Can the RIAA pull a BSA sue me for mp3's of foriegn music? That's the vast majority of what I have. I find current American music to be, umm, slightly lacking. Maybe I'm starting to get old.;P
IMWO (In My Worthless Opinion) the government is a big corporation itself. Actually I think every large social organization is a honest threat to the freedoms of individuals, as the groups power increases when people are more amendable to its desires. Slaves are easier to control than those that are free.
Tried that, the best I got was free labor on the second master cylinder. They claim each time I went in was a seperate problem with the brake system and that they are not obligated in anyway to refund any money.
...I had a brake problem for years, every couple of days to weeks, the computer would bitch about something wrong with the brakes (brake warning light). All the places I took the truck to basically kept saying, "We can't do anything because we can't read the computer codes." So, I kept having to take the truck to the GM dealer and pay their premium prices to "fix" the truck.
1 set of pads and disks replaced and cleaned, 2 master cylinders, a brake computer, and a dump valve later, after bitching relentlessly with the dealer about the problem, the light stopped coming on, yet the problems with the brakes continued. The truck liked to drift to the left or right when braking, sometimes hard. I suspected they cut the line to the warning light somewhere.
After taking the truck in for inspection at another place that is reputed as trustworthy, they replaced my brake lines (the only thing the dealer hadn't) saying that they where old and that the drifting was a sure sign they where wearing out. Problem fixed. Over a thousand dollers to fix a $50 problem thanks to GM.
"Today the RIAA donated a undisclosed large sum of money to Moby to help out with the poor financial situation caused internet pirates."
Its never that the music sucks, the prices are too high, or the customers (God forbid that these are actually individual people and not compulsary consumer whores) are pissed over business practices, its always those damn pirates.;P
Hey, if a Verizon class action suit is filed on a national level, sign me up! $199 proprietary DSL modems and $80 to install a single jack "sometime between 8 and 5" my ass!
Some of this is because some of us are trying to get windows users over to linux. You can't do that if you say, "Yeah, it doesn't blue screen, but its a pain in the ass and you can't do half the shit you can in windows without being a professional computer nerd."
Think "install." This had been going on during windows installs. In other words, the files on the CDROM did not match the files that where recorded on the hard drive during the copying process.
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...or they could just rate it by average floating point operations per second and average integer operations per second.
1984 was a work of fiction designed to warn people of its possibility of becoming a reality. If I remember correctly, the term is speculative fiction. Literature is not just for entertainment.
& r=2">dystopia</a>.
Even if it was not exaclty correct. That was not the point. The point was to watch ourselves so that we do not end up in a similiar <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=dystopia
Regardless of what I mean to say, it is you (the readers, some of which have mod points) who interpret what I say. I am just trying to clear things up a bit so I don't end up with a slew of -1's.
Then again this is the company that basically pulled out their member infront of the US judicial system and said, "Suck on dis! Who's yer Daddie!?!"
P.S. to the trigger happy mods, I am not trying to troll. I am just expressing my frustration with the situation.
Personally, I'd go with a KT266A motherboard made by either Epox, Asus, or Abit.
Get a decent motherboard. It'll make a world of difference. For me it was UDMA transfer rates from 5MB/sec to 27MB/sec and stable output to my SB128.
Methinks that the thriving broadband market their may have something to do with the lack of near omnipotent media and telco corporations that hike prices by making an artificially low supply and by legally bribing other corporations and the government. But then again, I'm just another American consumer wh0re.
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Let the flames begin.
Eh, where do you live? 1 in 5 in the US have at least one. Hell, I spent the last 2 years living where the university down the road had a 1 in 2 infection rate (The highest in the country).
Any other geeks want to put together some money for a round trip to japan with a few crates full of hamburgers?
...I thought the point of it was to make fun of society's obsession with hiding human sexuality. But thats me...
Oh great, now I'm either crazy or gulible. ...and a republican, joy... I'll just shut up and jerk off in the corner now. :P
Either that or the person who tells me is. So far I haven't caught him in a lie yet. Anyways, if I recall correctly the test was for holding a sustained 52X throughout the entire read. If I recall correctly, in the real world the speed varies over disk. In any case, the article points out possible ways to increase the speed without increasing spin rate. It is possible the manufacturer just called it 99x instead of trying to explain that it actually used one of those methods at a lower spin rate.
Actually, try going to Asia and getting the coolest gear/fastest computer parts. There is a good chance that if you get the highest tech stuff, when you get back the US gov will take it if they find out. Did you know there are 99X CDROM drives and 266mhz SDRAM(not 133mhz DDR) out? Guess what? The feddies get wind and they're gone.
Heh, more power to them. My vision of the US and innovation now is of some guy jerking off to forged corporate earnings reports and using research papers as the cleanup rag.
Gee, I'm grumpy tonight...
I think you may have a nova and a supernova confused.
If I remeber my astronomy correctly, a supernova is when the entire star "panics" and "goes byebye." In other words there is nothing left but the expanding debris cloud. I do not remember the details and I am not current on the theories on the matter, but I remember something about the stellar core starting to fuse iron and the neutrino emissions not being able to make it out of the star's gravity well.
A nova is where a star blasts off its outer layers. This can happen if it is near a companion star and draws off too much of the companion star's gases or in the death throws of a large mass star where the outer layers are blasted off leaving the ultra dense iron core(AKA neutron star or pulsar if its magnetic poles do not line up with its rotational poles) or a black hole(or whatever). The debris cloud is then called a planetary nebula(a misnomer that stuck).
Can the RIAA pull a BSA sue me for mp3's of foriegn music? That's the vast majority of what I have. I find current American music to be, umm, slightly lacking. Maybe I'm starting to get old. ;P
I wonder if this can be used to heat treat all that sapphire/ruby rough I have...
Sorry, had to say it...
China: Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
...can't beat $20 for 100 shares of a major telecom/isp.
IMWO (In My Worthless Opinion) the government is a big corporation itself. Actually I think every large social organization is a honest threat to the freedoms of individuals, as the groups power increases when people are more amendable to its desires. Slaves are easier to control than those that are free.
Tried that, the best I got was free labor on the second master cylinder. They claim each time I went in was a seperate problem with the brake system and that they are not obligated in anyway to refund any money.
...I had a brake problem for years, every couple of days to weeks, the computer would bitch about something wrong with the brakes (brake warning light). All the places I took the truck to basically kept saying, "We can't do anything because we can't read the computer codes." So, I kept having to take the truck to the GM dealer and pay their premium prices to "fix" the truck.
1 set of pads and disks replaced and cleaned, 2 master cylinders, a brake computer, and a dump valve later, after bitching relentlessly with the dealer about the problem, the light stopped coming on, yet the problems with the brakes continued. The truck liked to drift to the left or right when braking, sometimes hard. I suspected they cut the line to the warning light somewhere.
After taking the truck in for inspection at another place that is reputed as trustworthy, they replaced my brake lines (the only thing the dealer hadn't) saying that they where old and that the drifting was a sure sign they where wearing out. Problem fixed. Over a thousand dollers to fix a $50 problem thanks to GM.
I can already smell it...
;P
"Today the RIAA donated a undisclosed large sum of money to Moby to help out with the poor financial situation caused internet pirates."
Its never that the music sucks, the prices are too high, or the customers (God forbid that these are actually individual people and not compulsary consumer whores) are pissed over business practices, its always those damn pirates.
Hey, if a Verizon class action suit is filed on a national level, sign me up! $199 proprietary DSL modems and $80 to install a single jack "sometime between 8 and 5" my ass!
Some of this is because some of us are trying to get windows users over to linux. You can't do that if you say, "Yeah, it doesn't blue screen, but its a pain in the ass and you can't do half the shit you can in windows without being a professional computer nerd."
Think "install." This had been going on during windows installs. In other words, the files on the CDROM did not match the files that where recorded on the hard drive during the copying process.