This is smart, I like the "do everything in bits" idea. I do see (possibly) where kibi, mebi, gibi come from: kilobinary, megabinary, etc... But still, the old way is entrenched, the new way sounds reatarded and is hard to say, meebeebites? WTF? Terabit, Megabit, that's where it's at. That way, whatever base you want just perform division, lazy ass;)
Well, you're AC so I doubt you'll see this, but I'll respond anyway. You know how fucked up people are? You know dealers use little kids to avoid prosecution? These people are in it for the money and know they can use kids as a shield. They ARE predators, and they ARE bad people. Not all drug "dealers" are bad. I've met plenty of upstanding ones, but don't kid yourself that there aren't people willing to sacrifice MANY other people for their own personal gains.
I knew some shit-brained, self-important clown would respond, good ol' slashdot.
"Not for marijuana, particularly in the UK. Hashish has all but dried up, meaning that roughly 65% of everything sold is 'homegrown' rather than imported. There have been estimates that it actually feeds back into the economy because of the snacks and products to grow the dope.
This has led to a 'harder' drug economy as the dealers have ditched cannabis, acid and ecstacy in favour of heroin, crack and cocaine, but personally speaking I'd like to castrate dealers of the former two and have very little to do with the last."
Cocaine here costs $45 for a shitty line. That's an assload of money, no matter what you say. Someone is making a killing from just this one drug. Very few people will grow their own weed, because it's a scary prospect. You know, being thrown in prison for PWID.
"I was going to call you dumb, but it seemed a trifle unfair. What you completely fail to realise is that exposure goes up when it becomes legalised, meaning your potentials for Psychological and physical addiction go up, not to mention the lability to mental illness, which in turn places stress on the social systems for handling such illness. Bigger pool of people, lots more potential for things go pear-shaped."
Call me dumb? You fool. Here's a real life example to show you what "dumb" is. Greater exposure to alcohol in the States definitely does NOT mean more problems. Look at prohibition.
"Not really. I don't know anyone that hasn't at some time or another."
It seems you're in the UK. Come here and watch people say, without a sign of cognition, that drug users are bad people. You obviously don't know very many people to not know someone who hasn't tried an illegal drug. Besides, you provide anecdotal data here, which is basically bogus.
"True, but not for your reasons. Control breeds fear, fear breeds resentment."
Another ill-contrived stab, it's too bad you don't fully realize the point of the story you're posting in. Control doesn't breed fear in this instance because you're pumping the goddamn people full of drugs. Take away the ability to experience euphoria from a human, and then watch as they just become some simple worker ant.
Wow, those do look very, VERY nice. I think the dark stain on some of them is really amazing looking. I never imagined a wooden computer not looking like shit.
No it's cool, because I think I was too vague about what particularly in society is the problem: the absolution of resposibility.
If I had any say anywhere and drug use was legalized, if you committted a crime while under the influence of a drug, then the punishment would be greater, thereby enforcing greater personal responsibility. However, some aspects of society place people in positions where drugs are a viable means of escape. It's a sad truth.
People get shit on pretty hard sometimes, and at times nothing matters to them anymore. I've been there and I know a handful of people that have also been there. You just get shit on so hard you basically give the hell up, and no longer care about responsibility. Once you get that far, it takes damn near a miracle to really bootstrap yourself.
That's all I meant. Society is made by people, so in the end, people are to blame.
The principle reason that drugs are peddled in the manner that they are is because they are illegal. It's a very lucrative black economy the dealers have going on there. Massive amounts of untracable cash. So you try your best to get little Johnny hooked, and he keeps coming back to you like a rat to a feeder bar. By the time he gets so out of control that he is apprehended, he's too far out of his gourd to even provide applicible data about you to the authorities. All the while you're laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.
Make it legal, force clean production (like tattoo parlors, for example), and tax it. The gov't will make money, lower the SHIT out of the crime rate not by making drugs legal, but by disassociating money with drugs and I can almost guarantee the rate of addiction will go down. People like doing illegal things. Life is pretty fucking boring when you're broke, dead end job, creditors railing on your ass. People turn to relentless drug use. I blame society. I know PLENTY of people that can handle doing a few lines of coke every now and again. But they're criminals, even though they are just having a good time, on their own, and not causing problems. In this day and age, however, many people automatically assume drug use == bad person. I also know plenty of people who started drinking/smoking/other shit SIMPLY because it's illegal. So, logic says to eliminate the artificial reason. People are gonna do what they want when they want. It can't be stopped, so why not play into it and stop making people criminals?
Also, the person who mentioned "A Clockwork Orange" is dead on. Controlling behaviour is the absolute WORST way to get around problems. It's a bandaid, nothing more. Governments should strive to create a society where people won't have to turn to criminal behaviour to meet their needs. Not to make everyone a lab rat.
I saw a high 12's Civic at the drag strip once (you know, big front tires so it can't turn, no interior, etc). I;m sure it was turboed and possibly spraying (In fact, I don't think you can realistically get a N/A B18C5 into the 12's without MAJOR engine modifications, like 14:1 compression running race fuel).
This Honda was the loudest car at the track, hands down. The DEEP 8's Nova that needed a parachute to stop wasn't nearly as loud. The Honda was such an ear-piercing, horrid screeching sound that I had to cover my ears. I can stand a 502cid big block @ WOT with open headers right next to me, but not this thing at 1/8 mile. AND IT WASN'T EVEN FAST.
In the 80's, the cable company (specifically, the commercials on public TV with the 1-800-CABLE-ME number) said, "You won't have to watch commercials, because you pay for the channels." Then they snuck commercials in, I can only guess at the reason why.
Fast forward to now, they say "oh, you can't have seperate channels, because it would cost too much per channel." This is just simply cast off, by you at least, as being "due to economics." I call bullshit.
They have advertising to pay for the channel, but then why does the consumer pay? Or vice versa, why is there advertisement when the consumer is forced to pay, and the rates increase almost every year? Either cable TV is VERY inefficient, or someone has been making far too much money for far too long off of a product and is now trying their damnedest to hold on to a dying business model, via this "a la carte is expensive" crap.
And this, "Greed is the lube of the economy," shit is the precise reason this country is going to hell. Anything for a dollar. Disgusting.
You have to realize that's all greed. It has absolutely nothing to do with feasibility. I remember the 1980's, with 1-800-CABLE-ME, where these guys were claiming "commercial free television." That turned out to be a load of bunk. Let 'em figure out how to make it work or let 'em burn.
I think modern x86 processors have register masquerading or whatever it's called, where there are many more internal registers than the 8 GP's, 8 FP's and 4 Segments. Then the processor just remaps (you could say it binds) the underlying registers to the visible registers. So in essence, you only have 8 GPs visible, but a bunch more under the surface.
Apps don't have to be written explicitly for multi-processor systems. The OS (any OS worth a damn, at least) has a scheduler that can dole out available CPU time for tasks. If it sees that it has two processors available, it can keep piling all the load-intensive jobs to one, and keep the UI on the other so that you don't encounter the lag a burdened system has. Basically, you can imagine programs as "threads of execution," which may have their own "threads of execution." Each thread, if programmed properly (even on a single CPU system!) should be able to execute on its own without causing race conditions, data corruption, etc. Sometimes programmers have to insert blocks to pause the thread until the data is ready from another thread, or change the problem entirely so it fits a threaded model. This might seem like a pain in the ass, and it sometimes is, but the great part about threading is that if you are programming on a multiprocessor box, there is a possibility that a thread your program generates may execute on a seperate processor. This really, REALLY speeds up tasks that can be threaded and can be very helpful when a system has a lot to do at once. Here's a good example:
You have a program that generates reports. You need paper copies of these reports, which may be 100 pages long. In a single-threaded model, this program would act very slowly during printing, or may not act at all. In a multi-threaded model, your printing routine can be sent to a seperate thread, and that thread has its own execution time given to it by the system scheduler. The original program's responsiveness won't go down (unless printing eats 100% of your CPU). That's on a single CPU system. On a dual, the printing may get use of the other CPU, even though it's part of the same program. That way, TWO threads can concurrently run, keeping the most important processes as active as possible (usually the UI on a desktop machine, no one likes a laggy mouse).
...and my parents took me to the local Egghead Software to get a video game for my birthday. Being a young computer nerd, this was fine by me. Well, I chose some game that I really wanted (I now forget the title) and my mom INSTANTLY asked the sales guy if it had ANY violence in it. Yep, it sure did. So I put it down. I then chose "Blades of Steel", and the sales person told my parents you could get into a fight in the game (it's hockey, for those of you who don't know). So now, frustrated as hell, I put that game down. So then I decided on Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. Seemed to go ok, until we got home and my ma opened the package and read the manual.... "WHAT?!? WORLD WAR ONE COMBAT! YOU CAN SHOOT PEOPLE! AHHAHHAHAHHH YOU AREN'T PLAYING THIS!" I was a social retard for a while because of this constant shielding from the Chicken Little that was my mother. Hitops were 'gang shoes'... Etc etc. Funny that after all that, I still got into fist fights at least once year until I was in High School, because of my lack of height and my raising (social retard). At least I learned how to fight.:-/
Fucking stupid Tipper Gore bullshit, and my ma bought into it like a sucker.
My point? Kids are smarter than people give them credit for, and they need to be held responsible more often. I knew what the fuck the difference between fantasy and fiction was back then (I was 8), and so do kids today. In fact, I truly believe they are smart enough to game the system for protection when it comes down to it. What really needs to be done is for children to have better education. Spend all this wasted money on effectively teaching kids and giving them a future, and shut the fuck up about violence, because we all know that it's bullshit anyway.
This looks like one of the UNIX fortunes where the output is a bunch of crazy shit in capitals adlibed into a sentence. Obviously this is what happened here, because certainly no one could really say these things...:p
I will admit, they make a boatload off of cigs and booze, but you have to see that by keeping drugs illegal, it forces prices up, making the durg-bank that much more effective. Selling cocaine at current street prices, you can make a million dollars with a relatively small amount.
Also, although maintaining the prison is costly, I will bet you that the money made back from prison labor is not recirculated in the prison system. Therefore, taxes cover the building and the staff, and someone pockets all that money. I read a good quote online while looking this up "The cost is public cost and the profits are private profits."
Drug charges are pretty tough around here. Weed will get you prison time. Coke, heroin, etc will always land you in prison. LSD? Yeah, you have more than 7 "tabs" on you? You get charged with manslaughter. That's some pretty fierce sentencing. I don't really know what else to say, other than the fact that drugs are not a problem, people are a problem.
"Why would people want to ban drugs except to protect the public? there is literally no other reason."
I call bullshit. The government makes an assload of money on drug charges, and the people they put in prison are at times forced to work for a magnitude less than minimum wage. It also helps maintain the *status quo*. You don't think fucking GW Bush did drugs? He snorted ice left and right! Ever do time? No, and he was NEVER held culpable under our laws. He has protection up the ass. But if I, or any other common joe sixpack, did some blow and got caught (and yes it CAN be done responsibly), we'd be thrown in the slammer for a VERY long time, the gov't would siphon every cent they could AND make us look like just some fucked up druggie, PLUS gaining leverage to enact new laws for "your" protection from "us". If I ever tried to become president, that would be used against me. It can also be used to quell political speech, by stating I was in prison for drug charges, they could effectively shut down any argument I had because people don't think further than the last thing they hear.
In fact, in a similar vein, I have weapons charges. No, not pistols, I had two knives. KNIVES. I damn near spent time in prison for a knife. Where the fuck did my second amendment go? Right into the $2000 I had to pay to stay the fuck out of prison. Now, if I want to become the President some day, I'm pretty sure this bullshit will come up. See how things like that keep the rich in power and others out? I never used those knives for anything other than opening boxes and cutting fruit/vegetables. Yet the last time I was in a car, and my buddy got pulled over, I had to be searched. Fuck this country.
Back to my point. You know what the CIA sold to get weapons to Columbian rebels? Cocaine. Drugs are the absolute BEST bank ever. Completely untracable, unless you're a total retard. If you disagree, you aren't thinking. It all comes down to money and power, don't kid yourself otherwise. The laws we have set up just keep it that way.
Yes, as soon as I can afford it, that is my next car (Not the Beetle, but the Jetta). I love my V8, can't be beat for power and fun, but the 17 city mpg is a bit taxing. The V8 would be relegated to crusing, hauling and mods the diesel would be the scooter.
If you look at a torque vs RPM graph, you'll see that torque rises then usually falls off, but on a naturally aspirated engine, it tends (not in all cases, due to VTEC, VVT-i, cam timings, etc) to plateau for a time. In that plateau is where your fuel efficiency is greatest. Get in gear and get to the point where your torque band starts, you win. This is the idea behind constantly variable transmissions. Keep the engine in its powerband and change the gearing constantly. Only problem is you can't put too much torque to them or they fall apart.
Also, you almost made a full connection there: horsepower will almost always rise with engine RPM as HP = (tq*RPM)/5252. The almost meaning if the torque band falls off dramatically, the HP may go down. Looking again at a Dynamometer readout, you will always see torque and HP cross at 5252. This is why even though a Honda may have 240HP and my car has a paltry 225HP, my 310ft/lbs+ of torque will "own" most any Honda (except the S2000, because that car weighs almost half of mine, but it still would be a pretty good race).
I'm particularly upset at the fact I run both the CSS and XHTML validators against my completed pages with no errors returned, yet IE can't render them. When will they get around to adding FULL CSS 2.1 compliance? Seriously, the 'position: fixed' block attribute is not that hard to implement. Every graphical browser I've tested with the notable exception of IE renders it fine. And to those who would say "Just change your code for it", I quote Office Space: "No Way! Why should I change? He's [IE's] the one who sucks."
I don't think it's really indicative of anything that the 1979 literacy rate in the US was 97%. Does this "literacy rate" include other languages? How many people that enter the US do not speak English? I live near a VERY Polish part of Chicago. Not every person is fluent in English, but man alive, they can really spout out the Polsku. Same with the Mexicans that live here. I actually know a non-trivial amount of Spanish, but they can really rail to the point where I won't understand a damn word. I bet they don't get counted as literate, but they sure are.
Very good. The only problem I forsee is the gigantic legal battle that would ensue and would take years, then enforcement and also the fact that Microsoft could just pay off anyone they needed to get the law reversed.
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This is smart, I like the "do everything in bits" idea. I do see (possibly) where kibi, mebi, gibi come from: kilobinary, megabinary, etc... But still, the old way is entrenched, the new way sounds reatarded and is hard to say, meebeebites? WTF? Terabit, Megabit, that's where it's at. That way, whatever base you want just perform division, lazy ass ;)
Well, you're AC so I doubt you'll see this, but I'll respond anyway. You know how fucked up people are? You know dealers use little kids to avoid prosecution? These people are in it for the money and know they can use kids as a shield. They ARE predators, and they ARE bad people. Not all drug "dealers" are bad. I've met plenty of upstanding ones, but don't kid yourself that there aren't people willing to sacrifice MANY other people for their own personal gains.
Wow, those do look very, VERY nice. I think the dark stain on some of them is really amazing looking. I never imagined a wooden computer not looking like shit.
No it's cool, because I think I was too vague about what particularly in society is the problem: the absolution of resposibility.
If I had any say anywhere and drug use was legalized, if you committted a crime while under the influence of a drug, then the punishment would be greater, thereby enforcing greater personal responsibility. However, some aspects of society place people in positions where drugs are a viable means of escape. It's a sad truth.
People get shit on pretty hard sometimes, and at times nothing matters to them anymore. I've been there and I know a handful of people that have also been there. You just get shit on so hard you basically give the hell up, and no longer care about responsibility. Once you get that far, it takes damn near a miracle to really bootstrap yourself.
That's all I meant. Society is made by people, so in the end, people are to blame.
The principle reason that drugs are peddled in the manner that they are is because they are illegal. It's a very lucrative black economy the dealers have going on there. Massive amounts of untracable cash. So you try your best to get little Johnny hooked, and he keeps coming back to you like a rat to a feeder bar. By the time he gets so out of control that he is apprehended, he's too far out of his gourd to even provide applicible data about you to the authorities. All the while you're laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.
Make it legal, force clean production (like tattoo parlors, for example), and tax it. The gov't will make money, lower the SHIT out of the crime rate not by making drugs legal, but by disassociating money with drugs and I can almost guarantee the rate of addiction will go down. People like doing illegal things. Life is pretty fucking boring when you're broke, dead end job, creditors railing on your ass. People turn to relentless drug use. I blame society. I know PLENTY of people that can handle doing a few lines of coke every now and again. But they're criminals, even though they are just having a good time, on their own, and not causing problems. In this day and age, however, many people automatically assume drug use == bad person. I also know plenty of people who started drinking/smoking/other shit SIMPLY because it's illegal. So, logic says to eliminate the artificial reason. People are gonna do what they want when they want. It can't be stopped, so why not play into it and stop making people criminals?
Also, the person who mentioned "A Clockwork Orange" is dead on. Controlling behaviour is the absolute WORST way to get around problems. It's a bandaid, nothing more. Governments should strive to create a society where people won't have to turn to criminal behaviour to meet their needs. Not to make everyone a lab rat.
I saw a high 12's Civic at the drag strip once (you know, big front tires so it can't turn, no interior, etc). I;m sure it was turboed and possibly spraying (In fact, I don't think you can realistically get a N/A B18C5 into the 12's without MAJOR engine modifications, like 14:1 compression running race fuel).
This Honda was the loudest car at the track, hands down. The DEEP 8's Nova that needed a parachute to stop wasn't nearly as loud. The Honda was such an ear-piercing, horrid screeching sound that I had to cover my ears. I can stand a 502cid big block @ WOT with open headers right next to me, but not this thing at 1/8 mile. AND IT WASN'T EVEN FAST.
In the 80's, the cable company (specifically, the commercials on public TV with the 1-800-CABLE-ME number) said, "You won't have to watch commercials, because you pay for the channels." Then they snuck commercials in, I can only guess at the reason why.
Fast forward to now, they say "oh, you can't have seperate channels, because it would cost too much per channel." This is just simply cast off, by you at least, as being "due to economics." I call bullshit.
They have advertising to pay for the channel, but then why does the consumer pay? Or vice versa, why is there advertisement when the consumer is forced to pay, and the rates increase almost every year? Either cable TV is VERY inefficient, or someone has been making far too much money for far too long off of a product and is now trying their damnedest to hold on to a dying business model, via this "a la carte is expensive" crap.
And this, "Greed is the lube of the economy," shit is the precise reason this country is going to hell. Anything for a dollar. Disgusting.
You have to realize that's all greed. It has absolutely nothing to do with feasibility. I remember the 1980's, with 1-800-CABLE-ME, where these guys were claiming "commercial free television." That turned out to be a load of bunk. Let 'em figure out how to make it work or let 'em burn.
I think modern x86 processors have register masquerading or whatever it's called, where there are many more internal registers than the 8 GP's, 8 FP's and 4 Segments. Then the processor just remaps (you could say it binds) the underlying registers to the visible registers. So in essence, you only have 8 GPs visible, but a bunch more under the surface.
I hope that you have many pairs of spare underpants waiting nearby ;)
Apps don't have to be written explicitly for multi-processor systems. The OS (any OS worth a damn, at least) has a scheduler that can dole out available CPU time for tasks. If it sees that it has two processors available, it can keep piling all the load-intensive jobs to one, and keep the UI on the other so that you don't encounter the lag a burdened system has. Basically, you can imagine programs as "threads of execution," which may have their own "threads of execution." Each thread, if programmed properly (even on a single CPU system!) should be able to execute on its own without causing race conditions, data corruption, etc. Sometimes programmers have to insert blocks to pause the thread until the data is ready from another thread, or change the problem entirely so it fits a threaded model. This might seem like a pain in the ass, and it sometimes is, but the great part about threading is that if you are programming on a multiprocessor box, there is a possibility that a thread your program generates may execute on a seperate processor. This really, REALLY speeds up tasks that can be threaded and can be very helpful when a system has a lot to do at once. Here's a good example:
You have a program that generates reports. You need paper copies of these reports, which may be 100 pages long. In a single-threaded model, this program would act very slowly during printing, or may not act at all. In a multi-threaded model, your printing routine can be sent to a seperate thread, and that thread has its own execution time given to it by the system scheduler. The original program's responsiveness won't go down (unless printing eats 100% of your CPU). That's on a single CPU system. On a dual, the printing may get use of the other CPU, even though it's part of the same program. That way, TWO threads can concurrently run, keeping the most important processes as active as possible (usually the UI on a desktop machine, no one likes a laggy mouse).
I hope this was helpful.
...and my parents took me to the local Egghead Software to get a video game for my birthday. Being a young computer nerd, this was fine by me. Well, I chose some game that I really wanted (I now forget the title) and my mom INSTANTLY asked the sales guy if it had ANY violence in it. Yep, it sure did. So I put it down. I then chose "Blades of Steel", and the sales person told my parents you could get into a fight in the game (it's hockey, for those of you who don't know). So now, frustrated as hell, I put that game down. So then I decided on Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. Seemed to go ok, until we got home and my ma opened the package and read the manual.... "WHAT?!? WORLD WAR ONE COMBAT! YOU CAN SHOOT PEOPLE! AHHAHHAHAHHH YOU AREN'T PLAYING THIS!" I was a social retard for a while because of this constant shielding from the Chicken Little that was my mother. Hitops were 'gang shoes'... Etc etc. Funny that after all that, I still got into fist fights at least once year until I was in High School, because of my lack of height and my raising (social retard). At least I learned how to fight. :-/
Fucking stupid Tipper Gore bullshit, and my ma bought into it like a sucker.
My point? Kids are smarter than people give them credit for, and they need to be held responsible more often. I knew what the fuck the difference between fantasy and fiction was back then (I was 8), and so do kids today. In fact, I truly believe they are smart enough to game the system for protection when it comes down to it. What really needs to be done is for children to have better education. Spend all this wasted money on effectively teaching kids and giving them a future, and shut the fuck up about violence, because we all know that it's bullshit anyway.
This looks like one of the UNIX fortunes where the output is a bunch of crazy shit in capitals adlibed into a sentence. Obviously this is what happened here, because certainly no one could really say these things... :p
I will admit, they make a boatload off of cigs and booze, but you have to see that by keeping drugs illegal, it forces prices up, making the durg-bank that much more effective. Selling cocaine at current street prices, you can make a million dollars with a relatively small amount.
Also, although maintaining the prison is costly, I will bet you that the money made back from prison labor is not recirculated in the prison system. Therefore, taxes cover the building and the staff, and someone pockets all that money. I read a good quote online while looking this up "The cost is public cost and the profits are private profits."
Drug charges are pretty tough around here. Weed will get you prison time. Coke, heroin, etc will always land you in prison. LSD? Yeah, you have more than 7 "tabs" on you? You get charged with manslaughter. That's some pretty fierce sentencing. I don't really know what else to say, other than the fact that drugs are not a problem, people are a problem.
In fact, in a similar vein, I have weapons charges. No, not pistols, I had two knives. KNIVES. I damn near spent time in prison for a knife. Where the fuck did my second amendment go? Right into the $2000 I had to pay to stay the fuck out of prison. Now, if I want to become the President some day, I'm pretty sure this bullshit will come up. See how things like that keep the rich in power and others out? I never used those knives for anything other than opening boxes and cutting fruit/vegetables. Yet the last time I was in a car, and my buddy got pulled over, I had to be searched. Fuck this country.
Back to my point. You know what the CIA sold to get weapons to Columbian rebels? Cocaine. Drugs are the absolute BEST bank ever. Completely untracable, unless you're a total retard. If you disagree, you aren't thinking. It all comes down to money and power, don't kid yourself otherwise. The laws we have set up just keep it that way.
Gravity is instantaneous? What the hell did I miss?
Tell me you beat them senseless?
Yes, as soon as I can afford it, that is my next car (Not the Beetle, but the Jetta). I love my V8, can't be beat for power and fun, but the 17 city mpg is a bit taxing. The V8 would be relegated to crusing, hauling and mods the diesel would be the scooter.
If you look at a torque vs RPM graph, you'll see that torque rises then usually falls off, but on a naturally aspirated engine, it tends (not in all cases, due to VTEC, VVT-i, cam timings, etc) to plateau for a time. In that plateau is where your fuel efficiency is greatest. Get in gear and get to the point where your torque band starts, you win. This is the idea behind constantly variable transmissions. Keep the engine in its powerband and change the gearing constantly. Only problem is you can't put too much torque to them or they fall apart.
Also, you almost made a full connection there: horsepower will almost always rise with engine RPM as HP = (tq*RPM)/5252. The almost meaning if the torque band falls off dramatically, the HP may go down. Looking again at a Dynamometer readout, you will always see torque and HP cross at 5252. This is why even though a Honda may have 240HP and my car has a paltry 225HP, my 310ft/lbs+ of torque will "own" most any Honda (except the S2000, because that car weighs almost half of mine, but it still would be a pretty good race).
I'm particularly upset at the fact I run both the CSS and XHTML validators against my completed pages with no errors returned, yet IE can't render them. When will they get around to adding FULL CSS 2.1 compliance? Seriously, the 'position: fixed' block attribute is not that hard to implement. Every graphical browser I've tested with the notable exception of IE renders it fine. And to those who would say "Just change your code for it", I quote Office Space: "No Way! Why should I change? He's [IE's] the one who sucks."
You'd be delighted to know that you can also use the 'G' key on your keyboard to toggle graphics rendering.
I don't see any javascript/java errors. Is there a site where I can test them out?
I don't think it's really indicative of anything that the 1979 literacy rate in the US was 97%. Does this "literacy rate" include other languages? How many people that enter the US do not speak English? I live near a VERY Polish part of Chicago. Not every person is fluent in English, but man alive, they can really spout out the Polsku. Same with the Mexicans that live here. I actually know a non-trivial amount of Spanish, but they can really rail to the point where I won't understand a damn word. I bet they don't get counted as literate, but they sure are.
Very good. The only problem I forsee is the gigantic legal battle that would ensue and would take years, then enforcement and also the fact that Microsoft could just pay off anyone they needed to get the law reversed.