My other point was that AMD has mocked the "glue 'em together" approach.
And rightly too. AMD has a proper chip-to-chip interconnect (Hypertransport), which makes the "glue 'em together" approach unnecessary and undesirable. On an AMD system, you just plug in another CPU. On an intel system, the font side bus architecture makes this approach quite ineffective.
Never mind, intel will be bringing out its Hypertransport competitor in 2008, a full 5 years behind AMD.
You, and all the other intel staffers, have my condolences. itanic was destined to hit the iceberg the moment it set sail, and now you've been out-engineered by a competitor who was once merely a minor nuisance.
If you suggest that it should rather be included as part of the regular income tax, then I might agree. The TV license makes no distinction as to people's ability to pay the license, and almost anyone has a TV. Yes, it would be unfair on the people who do not have a TV, but no system is fair to everyone.
Another absurdity of the TV License is that it does not apply to radio. The BBC has numerous radio stations, including the high-quality Radio 4 and Radio 3 stations, which are funded through the TV License. You do not have to have a TV License to listen to the radio.
I lived for 6 years without a TV. In that time I learned all about Linux and got seriously into BBC Radio 4 (comedy, science, current affairs, plays).
However, I was constantly badgered by the TV License people for not having a TV license, to the extent that they sent several scary-looking red letters, knocked on my door and put a threatening advert on the billboard across the road from my flat stating that three people in my street didn't have TV licenses and might be liable to £1000 fines.
A few months later I got a TV (and a license) since I wanted broadband Internet access, which was only available through a cable set top box in my area.
It's easier to drive without a license, MOT, insurance and road tax in this country than it is to operate an unlicensed television set.
The problem with a guide like this is that it returns too many false positives. The odds of a single person who fit most of those characteristics out of a group of 20,000 being a terrorist is almost nil.
...but... it makes lots of jobs for government people to do. Tony Blair's lot are at it as well.
Recently, the BBC did a deal with Microsoft regarding the distribution of digital content via its web sites. As usual, they trumpeted it as if it were a great breakthrough on news.bbc.co.uk. I'm sure google can find it.
After that, let's go for what's-his-sellout-bitch-ass from Metallica who admitted in an interview in the 90s making a mix take for a friend in the 80s.
Now, I think Lars is a monkey as much as the next man, and that his band is a sell-out Country and Western outfit, but to be fair to him, he has made amends for his previous stance on the issue. Mrs. Turgid dragged me along to see the Some Kind of Monster film, and Lars quite clearly is ashamed of and sorry for the Napster thing.
You need to take some pictures and post them on the intarweb. I love all this secret technology stuff. I'd love to work on it myself, but I'd never be able to keep my mouth shut:-)
Exposure to ionising radiation has a far worse effect on the female reproductive system than the male. This is reflected in UK Health and Safety laws. Spaceflight involves exposure to large "amounts of radiation," i.e. high doses.
However, I take your point, and I suppose the record has nothing to do with this, other than an anachronism from the days when men and women were treated very differently due to social stereotypes and prejudices.
NT was actually built from the ground up to be portable cross-platform (in fact, the dev platform was the Intel i860 an then the MIPS R4000, both RISC chips). Everything runs on top of a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that takes care of the differences between various platforms.
That all went away in NT4.0 in the name of "performance."
When I were a lad, we used to go to the swimming pool and on the way home go to the chip shop for fish and chips or chicken and chips. Those were the days before dad was a wuss and he had a car with a powerful engine.
Since dad got old and mellow and concerned about saving money, he uses MySQL despite the fact that PostgreSL has a better license and now I am allergic to the batter on the fish.
My brain has gone and I forgot the point of this post...
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My other point was that AMD has mocked the "glue 'em together" approach.
And rightly too. AMD has a proper chip-to-chip interconnect (Hypertransport), which makes the "glue 'em together" approach unnecessary and undesirable. On an AMD system, you just plug in another CPU. On an intel system, the font side bus architecture makes this approach quite ineffective.
Never mind, intel will be bringing out its Hypertransport competitor in 2008, a full 5 years behind AMD.
You, and all the other intel staffers, have my condolences. itanic was destined to hit the iceberg the moment it set sail, and now you've been out-engineered by a competitor who was once merely a minor nuisance.
Well, what more proof do you need?
/me ducks.
We have just insured the the cockroaches
You can insure cockroaches? Whatever next...
If you suggest that it should rather be included as part of the regular income tax, then I might agree. The TV license makes no distinction as to people's ability to pay the license, and almost anyone has a TV. Yes, it would be unfair on the people who do not have a TV, but no system is fair to everyone.
Another absurdity of the TV License is that it does not apply to radio. The BBC has numerous radio stations, including the high-quality Radio 4 and Radio 3 stations, which are funded through the TV License. You do not have to have a TV License to listen to the radio.
Channel 4's UK OnDemand service is the same, Windows only DRM.
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper just to buy a DVD from the pr0n shop?
I lived for 6 years without a TV. In that time I learned all about Linux and got seriously into BBC Radio 4 (comedy, science, current affairs, plays).
However, I was constantly badgered by the TV License people for not having a TV license, to the extent that they sent several scary-looking red letters, knocked on my door and put a threatening advert on the billboard across the road from my flat stating that three people in my street didn't have TV licenses and might be liable to £1000 fines.
A few months later I got a TV (and a license) since I wanted broadband Internet access, which was only available through a cable set top box in my area.
It's easier to drive without a license, MOT, insurance and road tax in this country than it is to operate an unlicensed television set.
The problem with a guide like this is that it returns too many false positives. The odds of a single person who fit most of those characteristics out of a group of 20,000 being a terrorist is almost nil.
...but... it makes lots of jobs for government people to do. Tony Blair's lot are at it as well.
What is half of $0.99?
So, do I need to build a lead-lined concrete bunker in my garden?
Recently, the BBC did a deal with Microsoft regarding the distribution of digital content via its web sites. As usual, they trumpeted it as if it were a great breakthrough on news.bbc.co.uk. I'm sure google can find it.
Hear hear. Mod up +About A Thousand insightful.
One is a Liberal, the other a Communist.
There is a larger world than the USA out there.
You call that "Conservative?"
I call it neutral. It can't be Conservative, there's no malice in it. Where is the denegration of others for being unlike you?
Actually, the problem with liberals is that they think some people are more equal than others.
No, you're thinking of Communists.
After that, let's go for what's-his-sellout-bitch-ass from Metallica who admitted in an interview in the 90s making a mix take for a friend in the 80s.
Now, I think Lars is a monkey as much as the next man, and that his band is a sell-out Country and Western outfit, but to be fair to him, he has made amends for his previous stance on the issue. Mrs. Turgid dragged me along to see the Some Kind of Monster film, and Lars quite clearly is ashamed of and sorry for the Napster thing.
You need to take some pictures and post them on the intarweb. I love all this secret technology stuff. I'd love to work on it myself, but I'd never be able to keep my mouth shut :-)
Yeah, "magnetic engines" gave me a laugh
But but but.... Mannekin Skywalker has magnetic engines in Star Wars 1.
I wonder if they can only work within the atmosphere, or if they indeed have been used to go to other nearby bodies in space?
That, sir, was your turd-in-the-punch-bowl.
My response? Francis Gary Powers. Goodnight Folks, you've been a wonderful crowd.
He was flying a U2, not an SR-71. Top speed 510mph.
Ha cha cha cha.
Exposure to ionising radiation has a far worse effect on the female reproductive system than the male. This is reflected in UK Health and Safety laws. Spaceflight involves exposure to large "amounts of radiation," i.e. high doses.
However, I take your point, and I suppose the record has nothing to do with this, other than an anachronism from the days when men and women were treated very differently due to social stereotypes and prejudices.
What are the vegans going to eat?
Earthlings?
NT was actually built from the ground up to be portable cross-platform (in fact, the dev platform was the Intel i860 an then the MIPS R4000, both RISC chips). Everything runs on top of a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that takes care of the differences between various platforms.
That all went away in NT4.0 in the name of "performance."
When I were a lad, we used to go to the swimming pool and on the way home go to the chip shop for fish and chips or chicken and chips. Those were the days before dad was a wuss and he had a car with a powerful engine.
Since dad got old and mellow and concerned about saving money, he uses MySQL despite the fact that PostgreSL has a better license and now I am allergic to the batter on the fish.
My brain has gone and I forgot the point of this post...