There in fact was a Bishop in the Viking settlement in New Foundland who did (while briefly) have some correspondence with an other Bishop in Iceland.
Whether the Church was able to conclude that from this Bishop's experiences there in fact was a "new world" is pretty unknowable. They likely didn't even think much about it at all.
These phase change coolers have proven themselves to be somewhat destructive to P4's in the long term though. After a couple of months of use, the chips mysteriously die. Now typically when chips die in overclocking its due to electron migration from rediculous overvolting (and this is more true with.13u chips). However several people have had thier P4's die with only nominal (~1.6 volts, most p4's defaualt to 1.5) overvolting while useing these phase change coolers. Turns out, Intel only specifies these chips for operation to temperatures down to 20 F, and what happens is the supercooling causes the chip to become so brittle, that even slight virbrations can cause damage to the chip, thus killing it.
The upcoming specs for DX9 and OGL 2.0 have features (128-bit color, displacement mapping, much bigger shader program support) that can begin to render in real time stuff that used to only be possible on the massive render farms owned by folks like Pixar and SKG Dreamworks. However the fist chips that impliment these features, the Radeon 9700 and nVidia's NV30 likely don't have sufficient performance to be able to make heavy use of these features realistically using only one chip.
However, when using AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x) it is possible to put more than one AGP device on a port, and thus massive SLI configurations can be made realistically enabling the heavy use of the new DX9 and OGL2 features. ATI or nVidia may design boards with 4 or 8 chips per board, all running off of one AGP slot (would probably require and external power supply) that they couls sell for a few grand a peice to companies wishing to get into the realtime, high fidelity, near realistic 3d graphics buisness.
The reason that Gentoo can get away with having such an incredibly "hard core" install, and yet still gain a substantial following, even from non "hard core" users (typically refugees from RPM-hell distro's), is because of the incredibly well written, strait-forward documentation that Gentoo provides. The install documentation clearly spells out how the whole installation and post-install configuration is to be done, without overwhelming the user.
Using a 1 or 2u rackmount chassis, and building my pc into that and mounting it under my desk...kind of a hack, but it could work and make the PC a heck of a lot harder to steal....
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And if anyone is ever visiting Denver and you have some spare time, you owe it to yourself to spend an afternoon at the Tattered Cover bookstore. Absolutely fabulous place, literally four floors of 1/4 city block, wall to wall with books, with lots of very comfy chairs to do your perusing in....keep an eye out too for the old guy reading a newspaper that seems to be sitting just a little bit too still...
What if the Internet itself had its own law, independent of the jusridiction of any other state? Would this be at all possible? It could be argued that the internet, since it recognizes no geographical boundaries, and exists in its own "cyber-space" could have its own soveriegnty. Computers connected to the internet would be subject to the "law of the internet" and their owners would be responsible for those computers under "internet law." Users of the Internet could have "citizenship," pay some taxes, vote in "internet-land" elections....why not?
Why not just build your own system? It isn't all that hard beyond spending the time to figure out what components you want. And you get exactly the hardware you want, with exactly the features you want, without paying the MS tax, at typically a lower price, and a better overall quality system to boot.
What's even better, is to go into a software store, pick up boxed sorfware product, go up to a clerk, and say, "I'd like to open this here, before I purchase it so that I can find out the full terms of the EULA." Now if you make half of a scene (i.e. slightly raising your voice, but not too loud, and carrying a slightly agitated expression) the clerk may let you do this in order to aviod the scene of kicking you out, or of you making a bigger scene of the situation. Then once the clerk has let you open the box in his presence, and you read the EULA, you proudly express that you disagree with the liscence terms, and thus will not buy the product. Now the store has an unsellable (probably, depends on the packaging) piece of software, and they've not recieved a dime from you.
You might want to lower your AGP settings in your bios. If they are at 4x, lower them to 2x. Try turning off agp options like fast writes and side band adressing. This might help if you have a mobo with a flacky agp implimentation.
There once was a period of time when what was then the "united States of America had a what could be described as a liberterian government. The government under Articles of Confederation provided for VERY independent States, and an incredibly weak national government (which from what I undstand, is a major part of liberterianism).
Economically and politically it was an unworkable system. Disputes between states had no means for resolution; each state had its own banks printing money with huge variations in actual value; The national government had no means to raise money to fund any type of national defense; inter-state transportation systems were impossible to develop as the individual states refused to cooperate; some northeastern states where british loyalists were still dominant were reconsidering their independence from mother Britian; and a host of other problems plagued the system under the Articles of Confederation.
Granted, it could be argued that with some modification, the Articles could have preserved what today could be called a "liberterian spirit" and been "made" workable, but finding a place to draw the line on those "modifications" wouldn't be all that easy.
The Constitution that came out of the problems of the Articles of Confederation isn't perfect, but it has worked well in the past. Whether it works now is certainly questionable, but arrangment of having a superior federal government over locally focused state governements has in the past "worked."
The current incarnation of the VIA C3 is not based on the old Cyrix 686 designs, but rather the Centaur developed core that was used in the IDT WinChip. Via did buy both companies, and for a while, the early socket-370 (ppga--designed for the original mendacino celeron) C3's were based on the Cyrix core, but after the Cyrix design ran into a brick wall regarding clock rate, Via switchted over to the Centaur based design.
Could this be used ala the NT hardware abstraction layer? Specifically, could this be used to keep nasty drivers from hosing your system? I know that typically a bad module is likely just going to not load, spitting out unresolve symbols, causing no real harm, but there may be cases where third party drivers may properly load, but end up causing nasty problems.
You have to build the sun jre from source code. This is something that Gentoo 1.3/1.4 users have had to do for quite some time, and it is quite a pain in the bum. You can find instrutcions on how to go about building the jre from soure here.
No, you buy your Epson or Canon printer at Costco, use it until the heads get clogged (usually 9-15 months) and then take it back to Costco who will give you your full money back, no matter how long its been, with or without reciept. Then get a new printer with higher resolution that prints faster than what you had before for maybe $10 more than what you bought 9-15 months before. Now this isn't anything I've actually done of course...but you've got to love Costco's return policy....
In Oregon, it is illegal to pump your own gas. You have to have an attendant do it for you. Gas does typically cost about 10 cents/gallon more though....
This is exactly what I had in mind. Apple could get some vendor (motorola or Ibm) to outfit a ppc chip with a hypertransport bus, and hve it connected to a hammer ht link. Now to make this work, the bios would have to be engineered to handle both chips (getting a bios to handle i/o's for two completely different architectures would be a nightmare though), and the kernel would have to hacked up so as to make sure that ppc code got executed on the ppc, and x86 code got executed on the hammer. This would allow apple to maintain full ppc legacy compatability without resorting to emulation.
Why don't the casino's hire these counters and pay them decent money to help them perfect their side of the game. At the end of the article the "Kevin" guy is told that he's too good for the casinos. If that is the case, then if you can't beat them, join them.
This type of thing though is usually prevented by the sysadmin by having a supervisor password in the BIOS, and the bios be configured to only boot from the local hard disk.
That conclusion would probably fall in the category of "likely enough", but the details of precisely how are way up in the air and could have been wildly different from predicted, resulting a timeline utterly unpredictable from what we know. For all we know slavery in an independant confederacy might have been ended if the British decided to invade the Confederacy and take it back as their own.
The bottom line is that the only history that we can KNOW is from what actually happened. Historical speculation is worthless in studying historical reality.
It can be fun to speculate about what might have happened if things had happened diferently, but all that can come out of it is merely speculation. You cannot make good predictions of "what might have happened" when simply a million other things could have taken place. The fact of the matter, is that History has played out in specific, unique, and particular ways that have shaped the present. There is no changing the past. Thus, value judgements of events in the past based on speculation of what might have been if events had happened differently are utterly worthless.
Speculation is fun, but it isn't real.
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So they are the ones who engineered the strain that causes excessive munchies!!!!!
There in fact was a Bishop in the Viking settlement in New Foundland who did (while briefly) have some correspondence with an other Bishop in Iceland. Whether the Church was able to conclude that from this Bishop's experiences there in fact was a "new world" is pretty unknowable. They likely didn't even think much about it at all.
It's not "Tar-get" with a hard g, its "Targ`et" with a french like pronunciation!
These phase change coolers have proven themselves to be somewhat destructive to P4's in the long term though. After a couple of months of use, the chips mysteriously die. Now typically when chips die in overclocking its due to electron migration from rediculous overvolting (and this is more true with .13u chips). However several people have had thier P4's die with only nominal (~1.6 volts, most p4's defaualt to 1.5) overvolting while useing these phase change coolers. Turns out, Intel only specifies these chips for operation to temperatures down to 20 F, and what happens is the supercooling causes the chip to become so brittle, that even slight virbrations can cause damage to the chip, thus killing it.
Well, the typical upgrade for Girlfriend 1.0 is actually Wife 1.0, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax. See here: Here
The upcoming specs for DX9 and OGL 2.0 have features (128-bit color, displacement mapping, much bigger shader program support) that can begin to render in real time stuff that used to only be possible on the massive render farms owned by folks like Pixar and SKG Dreamworks. However the fist chips that impliment these features, the Radeon 9700 and nVidia's NV30 likely don't have sufficient performance to be able to make heavy use of these features realistically using only one chip.
However, when using AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x) it is possible to put more than one AGP device on a port, and thus massive SLI configurations can be made realistically enabling the heavy use of the new DX9 and OGL2 features. ATI or nVidia may design boards with 4 or 8 chips per board, all running off of one AGP slot (would probably require and external power supply) that they couls sell for a few grand a peice to companies wishing to get into the realtime, high fidelity, near realistic 3d graphics buisness.
The reason that Gentoo can get away with having such an incredibly "hard core" install, and yet still gain a substantial following, even from non "hard core" users (typically refugees from RPM-hell distro's), is because of the incredibly well written, strait-forward documentation that Gentoo provides. The install documentation clearly spells out how the whole installation and post-install configuration is to be done, without overwhelming the user.
Using a 1 or 2u rackmount chassis, and building my pc into that and mounting it under my desk...kind of a hack, but it could work and make the PC a heck of a lot harder to steal....
And if anyone is ever visiting Denver and you have some spare time, you owe it to yourself to spend an afternoon at the Tattered Cover bookstore. Absolutely fabulous place, literally four floors of 1/4 city block, wall to wall with books, with lots of very comfy chairs to do your perusing in....keep an eye out too for the old guy reading a newspaper that seems to be sitting just a little bit too still...
What if the Internet itself had its own law, independent of the jusridiction of any other state? Would this be at all possible? It could be argued that the internet, since it recognizes no geographical boundaries, and exists in its own "cyber-space" could have its own soveriegnty. Computers connected to the internet would be subject to the "law of the internet" and their owners would be responsible for those computers under "internet law." Users of the Internet could have "citizenship," pay some taxes, vote in "internet-land" elections....why not?
Why not just build your own system? It isn't all that hard beyond spending the time to figure out what components you want. And you get exactly the hardware you want, with exactly the features you want, without paying the MS tax, at typically a lower price, and a better overall quality system to boot.
BYO is the best way to go.
What's even better, is to go into a software store, pick up boxed sorfware product, go up to a clerk, and say, "I'd like to open this here, before I purchase it so that I can find out the full terms of the EULA." Now if you make half of a scene (i.e. slightly raising your voice, but not too loud, and carrying a slightly agitated expression) the clerk may let you do this in order to aviod the scene of kicking you out, or of you making a bigger scene of the situation. Then once the clerk has let you open the box in his presence, and you read the EULA, you proudly express that you disagree with the liscence terms, and thus will not buy the product. Now the store has an unsellable (probably, depends on the packaging) piece of software, and they've not recieved a dime from you.
You might want to lower your AGP settings in your bios. If they are at 4x, lower them to 2x. Try turning off agp options like fast writes and side band adressing. This might help if you have a mobo with a flacky agp implimentation.
There once was a period of time when what was then the "united States of America had a what could be described as a liberterian government. The government under Articles of Confederation provided for VERY independent States, and an incredibly weak national government (which from what I undstand, is a major part of liberterianism). Economically and politically it was an unworkable system. Disputes between states had no means for resolution; each state had its own banks printing money with huge variations in actual value; The national government had no means to raise money to fund any type of national defense; inter-state transportation systems were impossible to develop as the individual states refused to cooperate; some northeastern states where british loyalists were still dominant were reconsidering their independence from mother Britian; and a host of other problems plagued the system under the Articles of Confederation. Granted, it could be argued that with some modification, the Articles could have preserved what today could be called a "liberterian spirit" and been "made" workable, but finding a place to draw the line on those "modifications" wouldn't be all that easy. The Constitution that came out of the problems of the Articles of Confederation isn't perfect, but it has worked well in the past. Whether it works now is certainly questionable, but arrangment of having a superior federal government over locally focused state governements has in the past "worked."
The current incarnation of the VIA C3 is not based on the old Cyrix 686 designs, but rather the Centaur developed core that was used in the IDT WinChip. Via did buy both companies, and for a while, the early socket-370 (ppga--designed for the original mendacino celeron) C3's were based on the Cyrix core, but after the Cyrix design ran into a brick wall regarding clock rate, Via switchted over to the Centaur based design.
Could this be used ala the NT hardware abstraction layer? Specifically, could this be used to keep nasty drivers from hosing your system? I know that typically a bad module is likely just going to not load, spitting out unresolve symbols, causing no real harm, but there may be cases where third party drivers may properly load, but end up causing nasty problems.
You have to build the sun jre from source code. This is something that Gentoo 1.3/1.4 users have had to do for quite some time, and it is quite a pain in the bum. You can find instrutcions on how to go about building the jre from soure here.
No, you buy your Epson or Canon printer at Costco, use it until the heads get clogged (usually 9-15 months) and then take it back to Costco who will give you your full money back, no matter how long its been, with or without reciept. Then get a new printer with higher resolution that prints faster than what you had before for maybe $10 more than what you bought 9-15 months before. Now this isn't anything I've actually done of course...but you've got to love Costco's return policy....
In Oregon, it is illegal to pump your own gas. You have to have an attendant do it for you. Gas does typically cost about 10 cents/gallon more though....
That would be an expensive experiment. Last I checked brita filters were going for $8 each....
This is exactly what I had in mind. Apple could get some vendor (motorola or Ibm) to outfit a ppc chip with a hypertransport bus, and hve it connected to a hammer ht link. Now to make this work, the bios would have to be engineered to handle both chips (getting a bios to handle i/o's for two completely different architectures would be a nightmare though), and the kernel would have to hacked up so as to make sure that ppc code got executed on the ppc, and x86 code got executed on the hammer. This would allow apple to maintain full ppc legacy compatability without resorting to emulation.
Why don't the casino's hire these counters and pay them decent money to help them perfect their side of the game. At the end of the article the "Kevin" guy is told that he's too good for the casinos. If that is the case, then if you can't beat them, join them.
This type of thing though is usually prevented by the sysadmin by having a supervisor password in the BIOS, and the bios be configured to only boot from the local hard disk.
That conclusion would probably fall in the category of "likely enough", but the details of precisely how are way up in the air and could have been wildly different from predicted, resulting a timeline utterly unpredictable from what we know. For all we know slavery in an independant confederacy might have been ended if the British decided to invade the Confederacy and take it back as their own. The bottom line is that the only history that we can KNOW is from what actually happened. Historical speculation is worthless in studying historical reality.
It can be fun to speculate about what might have happened if things had happened diferently, but all that can come out of it is merely speculation. You cannot make good predictions of "what might have happened" when simply a million other things could have taken place. The fact of the matter, is that History has played out in specific, unique, and particular ways that have shaped the present. There is no changing the past. Thus, value judgements of events in the past based on speculation of what might have been if events had happened differently are utterly worthless. Speculation is fun, but it isn't real.