I just want to add that people think "Good Samaritan Law" is where you are FORCED by law to help someone. However, in most states, the law is actually designed to protect the person who makes their own decision to help from malpractice suits.
Example: Someone gets into a car accident and you decide to help him. You pull him out of the car and bandage his wounds. The bandage material used whas not sterile and he gets an infection that kills him. Good Samaritan law prevents his family from suing you.
IANAL, but I've never heard of any law that forces you to help someone.
100 MHz? What the hell are you talking about? Did you mean 100 GHz? If so, it is probably not a digital chip.
Anyway, at the moment no one can make complicated germanium circuits cost-effectively. All the processing techniques are silicon-based.
And germanium is rare, compared to silicon. And the power dissipation is driven by laws of physics. It isn't some stupid little snag, it is a show-stopping problem.
You seem to think that these practical problems are no big deal, but the practical problems are actually the most significant ones in something as emminently practical as running a chip fab.
I don't see it as "No Big Deal", but I'd like to see more development in areas that show promise, rather than trying to squeeze more out of a material which is now causing the posting of this article.
I mean, I'm sure it's cool to spend $3 million to get another.02 GHz out of a chip, but what if the money was spent to find a better material with more capability?
I remember macslash running an article a little under a year ago about how a Germanium chip had reached nearly 100 mhz but wasn't on the desktop because of the cooling requirements and the lack of practical bus application.
You mean, we're stalled at 3 Mhz? That's BS. We have a 100 Mhz chip, if you can crank the bus speeds to make it practical and make it drain less power so it doesn't overheat without a liquid nitro system.
I think the statement here is that now that a country is willing to ban games, the "experiment" begins, to see whether games make an actual difference in the behavior of normal citizens.
And be glad I don't have mod points, I'd have modded you as Troll for assuming someone's race just because they disagree with you on an issue. I get so pissed off when people here someone is for finding out the truth (rather than making assumptions), they have to be white or something. I know that's not what you were saying, but if you'd actually read what is written, you'd know that is what you sound like.
I'd really like to see how this turns out so that all the "Games Cause Columbine" crackheads can STFU if it turns out a certain way.
Gun Control is an innovative concept. I think we should also institute Crowbar Control to prevent burglars from breaking into houses. Oh, let's also have Hand Control (Cut off people's hands) to keep people from breaking into houses. While we're at it, let's have Car Control to keep people from doing hit-and-runs.
Because the tool creates the motivation. It's never the person using the tool who's the pissed-off punk who pulls the trigger and kills someone. No, the gun jumped out of the punk's underwear drawer and leaped in his hands, and as Madriker in the Legend of Eldean, motivated the punk to do his evil deed. Hell, we can't even prosecute him, he was merely being used by the gun! He's as much a victim as the girl whose family now has to live without their daughter.
I think people who are for Gun Control are on the same level as the DRM-and "trusted computing-pushers. Because they try to eliminate the tools of freedom (Yeah, I said it. The Colonists of the US and the peasants of the French didn't launch revolutions by slapping their oppressors with fish) because they MIGHT be used by their owners for illegal things.
A hearty F-U to anyone who automatically assumes I'm a criminal because I own a gun, and double it to the same m0f0 who thinks I'm a criminal for having MP3's.
The target of the slashdotting can always take their server down temporarily.
But the point is that it's the weekend, so the admin, is probably not at the office to take it down. Probably at home updating goatse.cx for all we know.
Uh, it *is* something like that. If you look at how well-off those 10% actually are, the difference between the living of the 90% and a herd of goats is statistically insignificant.
Just FYI, I am officially in that bottom 90%.
I own a computer that is too damn fast for what I use it for. I own a laser printer. I also have Creative Labs Audigy Sound Connected to Cerriden-Vega speakers. My bed is highly comfortable and not made of straw. I go to anime conventions (The trips cost $200 even before I enter the door). I own cases of Red Bull, Dr. Pepper, and Arizona Iced Tea. My house features central air and heating and I'm rarely uncomfortable inside. I watch TV on a large widescreen. I play PS2. I also enjoy a large collection of DVDs.
Damn, wherever you live, the goats are living pretty damn well. Why aren't people crossing the border illegally en masse to take jobs as farm cattle, in order to get "Goat Benefits"?
In the US, kids get more on the metric system in the schools than they do on the English system (Believe it or not). In the US, it's about 2 years where they teach the English system, and then they switch to teaching pure metrics from then on. Every year of middle and high school (6-12th grades) featured an entire 9-week period concentrating on the teaching and refreshing of metric measurements and concepts.
The thing is, though, that the 30+ crowd (who have money and power) are the ones who don't want to switch, because they are so used to their precious inches, feet, yards, and miles.
But there's probably more teaching here in the US now on the Metric system than most European countries...unless they do the 9-week refresher every year there, too.
Sorry, but the way you phrased it sounded much like the vapid citizens of the EU who constantly act like 90% of the US is on the streets while the top 10% is easy pimpin' out of big suites and using the botton 90% as sex slaves for goatse experiments.
I look like I'm under 17 -- would she piull me off? Would she object (or help) if she saw me pulling myself off?
No. If you told her you were older, you could show ID and she'd let you go ahead. It's not like this little old lady's going to yank someone out of their chair and open a can of whoop-ass.
Real poverty with 2% unemployment, healthcare and retirement benefits even for the guy who flips burgers at the local McD's.
I believe you. (/sarcasm) I think you need to stop reading the Guardian. The US is not the root of all evil, and believe it or not, MOST Americans share in major prosperity. The problem is that newspapers only highlight negative news. It's the same thing, we only hear about the bad shit that goes down in Europe. If I went on reports, I'd probably believe Europe was a hellhole. However, I lived there, so I know better.
And proudly biased papers LOOK actively for every vestige of negative news. It's the old saying, "The escaped inmate who looks for a prison guard is bound to find him."
Well, at my library, we have 10 computers and 6 are called "Kid-safe" (filtered) and 4 are "Adults-only" (unfiltered). If a librarian sees someone under 17 using the unfiltered one, she pulls him/her off.
Of course, kids.us is for the US. I mean, there's nothing that stops a kids.uk or kids.cx (please, no jokes).
And a funny thing is that most Americans here barely care enough to look at US websites, let alone go to great lengths to read articles from the UK and other European countries designed to discuss how stupid we are.
One thing I found interesting is that one of the sources that the article lists says that DVD's and software are not covered under First Sale. But funny me, I have a used computer parts store nearby that has used software near the front (which I use often, because I'm able to find old software I like, like the copy of Blade Runner I grabbed 6 months ago). And there's not a pawn shop in my city that DOESN'T sell used DVD's. Some of the guys even have the gall to re-shrinkwrap them!
Such concentrated violations of Copyright Law aren't bringing much attention to my city here (and it's big and close to DC).
However, I think the taking away of rights out there is definately in different "zones". It's like in the game Jenga. When you're pulling pieces away, you always take pieces that won't make the block tower fall. They're taking away our rights, but they don't want a collapse of the system. They just want to scare everyone enough to the point of taking it up the ass everytime we wanna listen to the latest music.
I have it on pretty good authority that the info that the CoS wanted censored is still in there - it's just been blocked from public view for the time being. I know that's not a perfect solution, but it will have to do until there is enough funding to stand up to those bastards.
As to my recall, Google didn't spend a dime standing up to the CoS. Why? Because CoS knows its DMCA complaints are bogus, especially when applied to other people's sites. It's only applicable if they are handing out the "secret teachings" that are actually still copyrighted.
I wonder how quickly you'd bend over when there's an army of Scientologist lawyers at your door and they tell you to remove some pages, many of which that contain the horror stories about how the CoS ruins the lives of people who dare to stand up to them.
My guess is faster than you can say, "Yessir, right away sir, just call me Mr. Goatse!"
You know, that would've been an interesting and concise comment if I hadn't already been dealing with the shit that the Church of Scientology cranks out. Start picketing in front of an Org and be a regular poster to alt.religion.scientology. Then tell act like I don't know the shit they throw around.
...except for the fact that he allowed the Church of Scientology to bend him over and use him like a toy. Why doesn't he get some Google backbone and refuse to bow to their DMCA threats?
On a nonexistent game. What's your point? Do you think this website is real? Do you actually think you can touch or feel any website? And people work hard on them. Can you touch or feel software? Yet people spend hundreds of dollars on software.
anything dealing with a lightsaber can be built and should be just a property of the jedi prefrence...as far as the tiny lightsaber. why would you want it? it is not built for you it is built for yoda.
Why would you want anything owned by someone legendary?
Yeah, why the hell would someone want the telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell to make the first phone call?
Why would anyone want a guitar used by a famous musician?
Why would anyone want any collectable of that sort?
It's not the item itself, it's the aura and mystique of an item used by someone of great skill and ability. Hell, any who has used eBay knows that people gladly pay for anything that has been owned or used by someone famous. Shit, just look up "Star Trek" or "Star Wars" on eBay, and notice how many Movie Props are there. Most don't even have any function, but people pay multi-thousand dollar amounts for them.
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At least he can go to Oz.
Art Bell loves it?! Awww shit! I MUST have it, I mean, d00d, he was ON THE FUCKING MARK about Y2K, wasn't he? Oh...wait.
...the Fetish Frontier. These are the voyages of the Latexship Boobyprize.
I just want to add that people think "Good Samaritan Law" is where you are FORCED by law to help someone. However, in most states, the law is actually designed to protect the person who makes their own decision to help from malpractice suits.
Example: Someone gets into a car accident and you decide to help him. You pull him out of the car and bandage his wounds. The bandage material used whas not sterile and he gets an infection that kills him. Good Samaritan law prevents his family from suing you.
IANAL, but I've never heard of any law that forces you to help someone.
100 MHz? What the hell are you talking about? Did you mean 100 GHz? If so, it is probably not a digital chip.
.02 GHz out of a chip, but what if the money was spent to find a better material with more capability?
Anyway, at the moment no one can make complicated germanium circuits cost-effectively. All the processing techniques are silicon-based.
And germanium is rare, compared to silicon. And the power dissipation is driven by laws of physics. It isn't some stupid little snag, it is a show-stopping problem.
You seem to think that these practical problems are no big deal, but the practical problems are actually the most significant ones in something as emminently practical as running a chip fab.
I don't see it as "No Big Deal", but I'd like to see more development in areas that show promise, rather than trying to squeeze more out of a material which is now causing the posting of this article.
I mean, I'm sure it's cool to spend $3 million to get another
Oh, sorry, my sleep-deprived self has just been corrected by the Anon Coward.
Germanium chip @ 100 GHz
Stalled @ 3 Ghz.
Of course, I'm sure this caused noone confusion, but eh.
I remember macslash running an article a little under a year ago about how a Germanium chip had reached nearly 100 mhz but wasn't on the desktop because of the cooling requirements and the lack of practical bus application.
You mean, we're stalled at 3 Mhz? That's BS. We have a 100 Mhz chip, if you can crank the bus speeds to make it practical and make it drain less power so it doesn't overheat without a liquid nitro system.
I think the statement here is that now that a country is willing to ban games, the "experiment" begins, to see whether games make an actual difference in the behavior of normal citizens.
And be glad I don't have mod points, I'd have modded you as Troll for assuming someone's race just because they disagree with you on an issue. I get so pissed off when people here someone is for finding out the truth (rather than making assumptions), they have to be white or something. I know that's not what you were saying, but if you'd actually read what is written, you'd know that is what you sound like.
I'd really like to see how this turns out so that all the "Games Cause Columbine" crackheads can STFU if it turns out a certain way.
Yes, I forgot why Australia's gun laws are so strong. We have laws against felons owning guns, too.
Gun Control is an innovative concept. I think we should also institute Crowbar Control to prevent burglars from breaking into houses. Oh, let's also have Hand Control (Cut off people's hands) to keep people from breaking into houses. While we're at it, let's have Car Control to keep people from doing hit-and-runs.
Because the tool creates the motivation. It's never the person using the tool who's the pissed-off punk who pulls the trigger and kills someone. No, the gun jumped out of the punk's underwear drawer and leaped in his hands, and as Madriker in the Legend of Eldean, motivated the punk to do his evil deed. Hell, we can't even prosecute him, he was merely being used by the gun! He's as much a victim as the girl whose family now has to live without their daughter.
I think people who are for Gun Control are on the same level as the DRM-and "trusted computing-pushers. Because they try to eliminate the tools of freedom (Yeah, I said it. The Colonists of the US and the peasants of the French didn't launch revolutions by slapping their oppressors with fish) because they MIGHT be used by their owners for illegal things.
A hearty F-U to anyone who automatically assumes I'm a criminal because I own a gun, and double it to the same m0f0 who thinks I'm a criminal for having MP3's.
The target of the slashdotting can always take their server down temporarily.
But the point is that it's the weekend, so the admin, is probably not at the office to take it down. Probably at home updating goatse.cx for all we know.
Uh, it *is* something like that. If you look at how well-off those 10% actually are, the difference between the living of the 90% and a herd of goats is statistically insignificant.
Just FYI, I am officially in that bottom 90%.
I own a computer that is too damn fast for what I use it for. I own a laser printer. I also have Creative Labs Audigy Sound Connected to Cerriden-Vega speakers. My bed is highly comfortable and not made of straw. I go to anime conventions (The trips cost $200 even before I enter the door). I own cases of Red Bull, Dr. Pepper, and Arizona Iced Tea. My house features central air and heating and I'm rarely uncomfortable inside. I watch TV on a large widescreen. I play PS2. I also enjoy a large collection of DVDs.
Damn, wherever you live, the goats are living pretty damn well. Why aren't people crossing the border illegally en masse to take jobs as farm cattle, in order to get "Goat Benefits"?
In the US, kids get more on the metric system in the schools than they do on the English system (Believe it or not). In the US, it's about 2 years where they teach the English system, and then they switch to teaching pure metrics from then on. Every year of middle and high school (6-12th grades) featured an entire 9-week period concentrating on the teaching and refreshing of metric measurements and concepts.
The thing is, though, that the 30+ crowd (who have money and power) are the ones who don't want to switch, because they are so used to their precious inches, feet, yards, and miles.
But there's probably more teaching here in the US now on the Metric system than most European countries...unless they do the 9-week refresher every year there, too.
Sorry, but the way you phrased it sounded much like the vapid citizens of the EU who constantly act like 90% of the US is on the streets while the top 10% is easy pimpin' out of big suites and using the botton 90% as sex slaves for goatse experiments.
I look like I'm under 17 -- would she piull me off? Would she object (or help) if she saw me pulling myself off?
No. If you told her you were older, you could show ID and she'd let you go ahead. It's not like this little old lady's going to yank someone out of their chair and open a can of whoop-ass.
Real poverty with 2% unemployment, healthcare and retirement benefits even for the guy who flips burgers at the local McD's.
I believe you. (/sarcasm) I think you need to stop reading the Guardian. The US is not the root of all evil, and believe it or not, MOST Americans share in major prosperity. The problem is that newspapers only highlight negative news. It's the same thing, we only hear about the bad shit that goes down in Europe. If I went on reports, I'd probably believe Europe was a hellhole. However, I lived there, so I know better.
And proudly biased papers LOOK actively for every vestige of negative news. It's the old saying, "The escaped inmate who looks for a prison guard is bound to find him."
Well, at my library, we have 10 computers and 6 are called "Kid-safe" (filtered) and 4 are "Adults-only" (unfiltered). If a librarian sees someone under 17 using the unfiltered one, she pulls him/her off.
Of course, kids.us is for the US. I mean, there's nothing that stops a kids.uk or kids.cx (please, no jokes).
And a funny thing is that most Americans here barely care enough to look at US websites, let alone go to great lengths to read articles from the UK and other European countries designed to discuss how stupid we are.
One thing I found interesting is that one of the sources that the article lists says that DVD's and software are not covered under First Sale. But funny me, I have a used computer parts store nearby that has used software near the front (which I use often, because I'm able to find old software I like, like the copy of Blade Runner I grabbed 6 months ago). And there's not a pawn shop in my city that DOESN'T sell used DVD's. Some of the guys even have the gall to re-shrinkwrap them!
Such concentrated violations of Copyright Law aren't bringing much attention to my city here (and it's big and close to DC).
However, I think the taking away of rights out there is definately in different "zones". It's like in the game Jenga. When you're pulling pieces away, you always take pieces that won't make the block tower fall. They're taking away our rights, but they don't want a collapse of the system. They just want to scare everyone enough to the point of taking it up the ass everytime we wanna listen to the latest music.
...ever see Blade Runner? Coming soon! Brand new Voight-Kampf machines to use your eyes to test your emotional responses.
I have it on pretty good authority that the info that the CoS wanted censored is still in there - it's just been blocked from public view for the time being. I know that's not a perfect solution, but it will have to do until there is enough funding to stand up to those bastards.
As to my recall, Google didn't spend a dime standing up to the CoS. Why? Because CoS knows its DMCA complaints are bogus, especially when applied to other people's sites. It's only applicable if they are handing out the "secret teachings" that are actually still copyrighted.
I wonder how quickly you'd bend over when there's an army of Scientologist lawyers at your door and they tell you to remove some pages, many of which that contain the horror stories about how the CoS ruins the lives of people who dare to stand up to them.
My guess is faster than you can say, "Yessir, right away sir, just call me Mr. Goatse!"
You know, that would've been an interesting and concise comment if I hadn't already been dealing with the shit that the Church of Scientology cranks out. Start picketing in front of an Org and be a regular poster to alt.religion.scientology. Then tell act like I don't know the shit they throw around.
...except for the fact that he allowed the Church of Scientology to bend him over and use him like a toy. Why doesn't he get some Google backbone and refuse to bow to their DMCA threats?
Oh, I forget that honor is dead on the internet.
On a nonexistent game. What's your point? Do you think this website is real? Do you actually think you can touch or feel any website? And people work hard on them. Can you touch or feel software? Yet people spend hundreds of dollars on software.
anything dealing with a lightsaber can be built and should be just a property of the jedi prefrence...as far as the tiny lightsaber. why would you want it? it is not built for you it is built for yoda.
Why would you want anything owned by someone legendary?
Yeah, why the hell would someone want the telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell to make the first phone call?
Why would anyone want a guitar used by a famous musician?
Why would anyone want any collectable of that sort?
It's not the item itself, it's the aura and mystique of an item used by someone of great skill and ability. Hell, any who has used eBay knows that people gladly pay for anything that has been owned or used by someone famous. Shit, just look up "Star Trek" or "Star Wars" on eBay, and notice how many Movie Props are there. Most don't even have any function, but people pay multi-thousand dollar amounts for them.