We um, actually out-spend many foreign nations, per student, on education as well.
Didn't any of your highschool teachers try to give you a back-handed insult by telling you how much brighter students were in [insert Warsaw pact nation here], even though many of them were stuck using nothing but slide-rules, second-rate calculators, and limited supplies of books? I got that line from teachers on several occasions(and no, it wasn't directed solely at me). That line was used, of course, to shock/jolt the class into realizing that, in the end, one's ability to learn was limited chiefly by one's commitment to learn. An impoverished child from an impoverished nation full of GODLESS COMMUNISTS(*cough*) could run circles around some of our best math students just because they tried harder.
I can't say for certain what is harming education in the US, but I don't think we can blame funding. If you don't believe me, take a look at the Washington, DC school system as a prime, if not overly cited, example. Compare the spending per student to their performance in standardized testing. It ain't pretty.
That's not much of a division. Generating sufficient electrical power to operate a television set and receiver is trivial. Private generators, solar cells, wind power, manually-operated cranks, or any other number of devices can be used to power the setup. And nobody's said that only one person can watch the set once it's receiving signals from the satellite. Even a relatively poor community in India should be able to cobble together a set, receiver, and power supply. It wouldn't be impressive by US standards, but it'd work.
They didn't kill the P4 in favor of the Pentium M. Their upcoming dual-core desktop cpus are supposedly going to be Netburst-based. I think we would all LIKE Intel to jump on the Dothan bandwagon, but whether or not they'll actually do it is completely unknown at this point. They have announced some dual-core Pentium Ms for mobile purposes, and that's it.
Not everyone's having problems scaling the clock speed of their cpus upward. There are rumours that AMD is getting their new 90 nm Athlon 64 parts up to 3 ghz on air. Not that AMD likes to label their processors based on clock speed, but nevertheless, they aren't having many problems with cramming more transistors into cpus at the moment.
Once we roll out those good old diamond transistors(any day now! No, really! um, yeah), look out.
All that aside, I suspect MS is toying with this idea in an attempt to make comparisons with its own Xbox and Xbox2 consoles with PCs easier, at least from a marketting point of view. And, if these lovely levels were set by a consortium of businesses that would be, more or less, under MS' thumb, MS could essentially dictate what hardware amounted to what level. They could use the level tags to promote particular products as being powerful(i.e. their own Xbox2 product) while tarring other products as being weak.
They could even slap unjustifiably low level tags on machines coming from OEMs that dared to ship machines with operating systems or software that compete directly with MS products. Not that they'd ever do anything like that. Teehee.
While I appreciate your generous trolling, you seem to have posted this message on Sunday, September 12th 2004 at 4:16 AM EST, 1:16 PST. I guess, if you were in Hawaii, it still would have been the 11th. However, you seem in be in Nigeria, where it most certainly was not September the 11th at the time of posting.
All that aside, is it the thought that counts, no?
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alove Complex is quite good as well. I don't see why there's so much hype over Innocense when Stand Alone Complex is kicking ass in its second season as we speak.
Simple. Dip it in tree resin and let it fossilize. It should harden into amber in . . . oh, a few million years or so. Don't be impatient, though, or all you'll get is copal.
This is the second person posting here questioning the value of DDR2 in a laptop. That was covered in the article. DDR2 runs at a lower voltage than the DDR used in i855-based notebooks(1.8v vs 2.5v). It consumes less power and produces less heat. so, yes, that is what consumers are looking for at the moment.
Pentium M systems using the i855 chipset already use DDR266(PC2100). DDR2 runs at a lower voltage than DDR, thereby producing less heat and consuming less power. If you had read the article . . . no, wait, nevermind.
Anything that lengthens the lifespan of storage devices, along with improving their reliability, is a good thing. The speed increase is not all that important.
It's not a question of "who's going to invade Canada?". It's a question of "who's going to harass shipping in and out of Canadian ports in Canadian waters?", "who's going to raid or harass Canadian fishing vessels and/or hedge in on fisheries within Canadian waters?", "who's going to harass other commercial ships in Canadian waters(cruise ships, etc)?", "who's going to ship drugs into or out of the country with a heavily armed complement?", and so forth, and so on.
Militaries do more than fight against other militaries. The US armed forces provide an excellent example of how a large, orderly, and robust military goes to work for the average citizen at home, as well as abroad. Our Coast Guard and Navy help with shoreline defense against all manner of naer do wells, our Army(particularly the Core of Engineers) helps with all manner of civilian projects and assists FEMA with disaster relief, etc. etc.
Our military does a lot for us. It does a lot for many nations in this hemisphere(just not Cuba, heh heh). If Canada did not have the option of leaning on the US of A for its own shoreline defenses, they could not provide sufficient protection for its own commercial interests in coastal shipping, offshore fishing, and offshore entertainment.
You may claim that groups who could, potentially, harass Canadian coastal waters do not exist. I would counter that they do not necessarily exist at this time due to the fact that Canada has sufficient protection for its waters(from the US). Were Canada left on its own, it would lack sufficient coastal defenses to fend off organized criminals and other "asynchronous" threats. Groups would form to exploit such obvious weakness. And, yes, I know this is the twenty-first century. I'm not talking about Blackbeard.
The primary reason I made my initial post is that I know a fellow(online, from IRC) in the Canadian military. He was involved in the Gulf War, and he has some rather harrowing tales from those times. He has often complained about the decline of the Canadian military. He is dismayed that a once-distinguished armed force that showed its bravery in World War II(to say the least) has, effectively, been mothballed. The whole "needs a military like a fish needs a bicycle" line is representative of the disrespect, if not disdain, held for the Canadian military by liberals and social reformers.
Soldiers in the Canadian military have served with distinction and merit in the past. Canada HAS found its armed forces to be useful. It is quite conceivable that Canada might want, and maybe even need, a strong military in the future. It doesn't need to be large. It does need to be well-trained, well-equipped, disciplined, and above all else, RESPECTED by its own citizenry and politicians alike.
You also have a crumbling military. It's easier to maintain extensive social spending programs when you refuse to pony up the cash to defend your own borders.
Uh what? The Celeron was orignally released using a nerfed Deschutes core(Pentium II, no, not the original Klamath) known as Covington. The first Celeron was a 266 mhz cpu with no l2 cache. Check this out if you don't believe me.
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We um, actually out-spend many foreign nations, per student, on education as well.
Didn't any of your highschool teachers try to give you a back-handed insult by telling you how much brighter students were in [insert Warsaw pact nation here], even though many of them were stuck using nothing but slide-rules, second-rate calculators, and limited supplies of books? I got that line from teachers on several occasions(and no, it wasn't directed solely at me). That line was used, of course, to shock/jolt the class into realizing that, in the end, one's ability to learn was limited chiefly by one's commitment to learn. An impoverished child from an impoverished nation full of GODLESS COMMUNISTS(*cough*) could run circles around some of our best math students just because they tried harder.
I can't say for certain what is harming education in the US, but I don't think we can blame funding. If you don't believe me, take a look at the Washington, DC school system as a prime, if not overly cited, example. Compare the spending per student to their performance in standardized testing. It ain't pretty.
That's not much of a division. Generating sufficient electrical power to operate a television set and receiver is trivial. Private generators, solar cells, wind power, manually-operated cranks, or any other number of devices can be used to power the setup. And nobody's said that only one person can watch the set once it's receiving signals from the satellite. Even a relatively poor community in India should be able to cobble together a set, receiver, and power supply. It wouldn't be impressive by US standards, but it'd work.
It might be an interesting way to commit insurance fraud.
They didn't kill the P4 in favor of the Pentium M. Their upcoming dual-core desktop cpus are supposedly going to be Netburst-based. I think we would all LIKE Intel to jump on the Dothan bandwagon, but whether or not they'll actually do it is completely unknown at this point. They have announced some dual-core Pentium Ms for mobile purposes, and that's it.
Not everyone's having problems scaling the clock speed of their cpus upward. There are rumours that AMD is getting their new 90 nm Athlon 64 parts up to 3 ghz on air. Not that AMD likes to label their processors based on clock speed, but nevertheless, they aren't having many problems with cramming more transistors into cpus at the moment.
Once we roll out those good old diamond transistors(any day now! No, really! um, yeah), look out.
All that aside, I suspect MS is toying with this idea in an attempt to make comparisons with its own Xbox and Xbox2 consoles with PCs easier, at least from a marketting point of view. And, if these lovely levels were set by a consortium of businesses that would be, more or less, under MS' thumb, MS could essentially dictate what hardware amounted to what level. They could use the level tags to promote particular products as being powerful(i.e. their own Xbox2 product) while tarring other products as being weak.
They could even slap unjustifiably low level tags on machines coming from OEMs that dared to ship machines with operating systems or software that compete directly with MS products. Not that they'd ever do anything like that. Teehee.
Ha ha I'm funny. Or am I? Hmmmmmm!
Actually, it's the Prescott that's hot now. Athlons have all gone Cool & Quiet.
You mean these guys?
You'd think they had Alan Keyes on their design team.
While I appreciate your generous trolling, you seem to have posted this message on Sunday, September 12th 2004 at 4:16 AM EST, 1:16 PST. I guess, if you were in Hawaii, it still would have been the 11th. However, you seem in be in Nigeria, where it most certainly was not September the 11th at the time of posting.
All that aside, is it the thought that counts, no?
Never threatened the US or any of its neighbors? I suppose the plot to assassinate George Herbert Walker Bush did not constitute a threat?
Yes. Apparently, it is very popular to hide elephants in M&M packages in Syria.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alove Complex is quite good as well. I don't see why there's so much hype over Innocense when Stand Alone Complex is kicking ass in its second season as we speak.
They said it was a weather balloon.
Simple. Dip it in tree resin and let it fossilize. It should harden into amber in . . . oh, a few million years or so. Don't be impatient, though, or all you'll get is copal.
This is the second person posting here questioning the value of DDR2 in a laptop. That was covered in the article. DDR2 runs at a lower voltage than the DDR used in i855-based notebooks(1.8v vs 2.5v). It consumes less power and produces less heat. so, yes, that is what consumers are looking for at the moment.
Er, what?
Pentium M systems using the i855 chipset already use DDR266(PC2100). DDR2 runs at a lower voltage than DDR, thereby producing less heat and consuming less power. If you had read the article . . . no, wait, nevermind.
Anything that lengthens the lifespan of storage devices, along with improving their reliability, is a good thing. The speed increase is not all that important.
Sorry if this reply is late.
It's not a question of "who's going to invade Canada?". It's a question of "who's going to harass shipping in and out of Canadian ports in Canadian waters?", "who's going to raid or harass Canadian fishing vessels and/or hedge in on fisheries within Canadian waters?", "who's going to harass other commercial ships in Canadian waters(cruise ships, etc)?", "who's going to ship drugs into or out of the country with a heavily armed complement?", and so forth, and so on.
Militaries do more than fight against other militaries. The US armed forces provide an excellent example of how a large, orderly, and robust military goes to work for the average citizen at home, as well as abroad. Our Coast Guard and Navy help with shoreline defense against all manner of naer do wells, our Army(particularly the Core of Engineers) helps with all manner of civilian projects and assists FEMA with disaster relief, etc. etc.
Our military does a lot for us. It does a lot for many nations in this hemisphere(just not Cuba, heh heh). If Canada did not have the option of leaning on the US of A for its own shoreline defenses, they could not provide sufficient protection for its own commercial interests in coastal shipping, offshore fishing, and offshore entertainment.
You may claim that groups who could, potentially, harass Canadian coastal waters do not exist. I would counter that they do not necessarily exist at this time due to the fact that Canada has sufficient protection for its waters(from the US). Were Canada left on its own, it would lack sufficient coastal defenses to fend off organized criminals and other "asynchronous" threats. Groups would form to exploit such obvious weakness. And, yes, I know this is the twenty-first century. I'm not talking about Blackbeard.
The primary reason I made my initial post is that I know a fellow(online, from IRC) in the Canadian military. He was involved in the Gulf War, and he has some rather harrowing tales from those times. He has often complained about the decline of the Canadian military. He is dismayed that a once-distinguished armed force that showed its bravery in World War II(to say the least) has, effectively, been mothballed. The whole "needs a military like a fish needs a bicycle" line is representative of the disrespect, if not disdain, held for the Canadian military by liberals and social reformers.
Soldiers in the Canadian military have served with distinction and merit in the past. Canada HAS found its armed forces to be useful. It is quite conceivable that Canada might want, and maybe even need, a strong military in the future. It doesn't need to be large. It does need to be well-trained, well-equipped, disciplined, and above all else, RESPECTED by its own citizenry and politicians alike.
You also have a crumbling military. It's easier to maintain extensive social spending programs when you refuse to pony up the cash to defend your own borders.
Scorpions shmorpions. It could be worse. Would you like camel spiders climbing up your walls instead?
No more Romulan Ale at diplomatic functions! Jeez.
Were you thinking about silicon micro chip rectennas?
Uh what? The Celeron was orignally released using a nerfed Deschutes core(Pentium II, no, not the original Klamath) known as Covington. The first Celeron was a 266 mhz cpu with no l2 cache. Check this out if you don't believe me.
Actually, the chipset that supports Nocona is known as Lindenhurst.