And you know what? I'll take enlightened self-interest over kindness any day. At least, then I know where I stand. But if someone is being kind to you for no apparent reason, you really have to wonder about their actual agenda.
On the other hand, a lot of foreign investment in the United States maufacturing sector was driven by comparatively cheap energy costs. People seem to focus solely on passenger vehicles when discussing energy use: sure, go back to the 70's during the original "energy crisis" and it's true... high prices encourage the manufacture and sale of smaller, more efficient passenger vehicles. Duh. However, there's a lot more to a major industrial economy than cars. A lot more. And I don't think you realize the impact upon your lifestyle that higher energy cost is going to have. Virtually everything you buy involves power and petroleum products (plastics, for example) somewhere in the manufacturing chain. As this trend continues, and it will, what you pay at the pump will seem insigificant compared to what you'll end up paying for everything else. Expensive petroleum affects the entire economic output of any industrialized nation... motor fuels are only a part of that. I'll go a step further and say that petroleum, crude oil, is far too valuable to be wasted moving cars around. Everything from plastics to medicines are made from petroleum. We should reserve its use for those purposes and stop blowing it out of our tailpipes.
In any event, what you're basically saying is that our culture (and that of every other high-tech country on the planet) is going to be changing dramatically in the near future, and in most cases not for the better. China's modernization may (or may not) ultimately be good for them, but it sure as hell isn't good for the rest of us.
I didn't say it did... I said the Apple/// offered one. And the reason that it was removed is because they never got the part to work properly. I owned a Thunderware Thunderclock board for my Apple ][ machines. Worked very well, I probably still have it in a box somewhere.
The fact that the CPU itself has no master clock is absolutely irrelevant to timing applications. You can bet your bottom dollar that the processor will sink interrupts, and that there will be a timer/counter component to the chip. Timing won't be a problem.
Nope. All the pre-Mac Apple machines were based upon the MCS6502 and its derivatives. All were clocked, the original Apple ][ Standard at 1 Mhz. The Apple///'s selling point was that it had a hardware real time clock, which was removed in later revisions because of quality issues.
Some years ago during the science segment of a local news broadcast, the announcer was discussing Uranus, and he simply could not make himself pronounce it properly. He kept putting the accent on the first syllable, getting redder and redder the whole time. Finally he said it right, and everyone else just lost it completely and burst out laughing. One of the funniest things I've ever seen on the news.
{sigh} well, to paraphrase Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks, "... and I gotta tell ya, two outa three ain't bad."
On the other hand, the rights granted to corporate entities are not enshrined in the Constitution: they are of much more recent vintage. If those were revoked or severely restricted, problems with undue influence in government might improve substantially. In any event, we aren't talking about "redress of grievances", in the sense that a organization is being unfairly impacted by the law. We are talking about corruption, pure and simple, businesses that have discovered that a little bribery in the right places can make them billions. Yes, it's true, Congress was always corrupt, even back in Colonial times. But somehow I doubt the Founders intended the Constitution to protect criminal activity on this scale.
Depends upon the type of cancer. Some cancers grow so fast and spread so quickly that by the time you have symptoms you're toast. Early detection is the key, of course, although it didn't help my uncle who died of lung cancer... as I recall (and this was over twenty years ago so I may have it wrong) it was something called "oat-cell carcinoma". It metastasized very, very fast and he went through a hellish six months of radiation and chemotherapy and died anyway.
Well, considering that a good portion of the ISP market is the telephone market that's very true. Ironic that this is all happening after the breakup of old AT&T, which ostensibly was to provide competition and better service for subscribers. Looks like we're going to have AT&T back again in the near future... in name only, with SBC and the rest of the Baby Bells under the hood. And that scares me, with whackjobs like Edward E. "why should they get to use my pipes for free?" Whitacre in charge.
Hah... nice THX reference there. That number appears in the old Duke Nukem 3D game on a screen in a hidden room. Sort of an homage to George Lucas, or something like that.
Which all sounds well and good until you consider the truly insane degree to which copyright law has been perverted by these people, with the willing complicity of Congress. All civilized cultures eventually come to understand that if you want people to respect the law, the law must and should respect the people. Period. End of statement. That is simply not happening in this case: the penalties for copyright infringement (and I use that term specifically, we aren't talking about piracy here) are simply too far out of line. And that is the crux of the problem: the RIAA is using a legal structure originally put in place to deter true piracy, that is, the illegal mass duplication and sale of copyrighted materials against ordinary citizens who have no desire to profit by their actions. Those laws are really not appropriate in these case, and they give the media companies too big a hammer. If you want to claim that I "stole" (and I use that term loosely) some songs, bill me for the tracks. If you ask nicely I might even pay for them just to make you go away. Otherwise here's my attorney's phone number.
Ultimately, they should be told (in no uncertain terms) that if they wish to accuse someone (anyone) of committing copyright infringement that they need better "evidence" than an IP address and a timestamp. If they feel their rights are being infringed then they should have to provide real evidence of wrongdoing. The automated "justice" being meted out by the RIAA is simply too unreliable. They know this full well, and make every effort to avoid going to court. Their track record in court has not been good, and interestingly they don't seem to have any interest in examining their victim's computer equipment to verify that their threats are on target. Probably because they know that often they are not.
Yes, and apparently there's a lot of biological slowness on Slashdot this evening, although I think that it might have more to do with copious quantities of liquor than delayed development of the cerebral cortex.
Turn off the CPU fan on an AMD processor and you'll destroy some hardware. Speedstep would keep an Intel chip from frying, but AMD's don't have anything comparable so far as I know. Tom's Hardware has a nice video of what happens when you remove the cooling fan on a working processor... the AMD chip cooked itself and part of the motherboard but the Intel just ran slower and slower.
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And you know what? I'll take enlightened self-interest over kindness any day. At least, then I know where I stand. But if someone is being kind to you for no apparent reason, you really have to wonder about their actual agenda.
I'd say someone who's monthly electric bill is in the $40-$50 range.
On the other hand, a lot of foreign investment in the United States maufacturing sector was driven by comparatively cheap energy costs. People seem to focus solely on passenger vehicles when discussing energy use: sure, go back to the 70's during the original "energy crisis" and it's true ... high prices encourage the manufacture and sale of smaller, more efficient passenger vehicles. Duh. However, there's a lot more to a major industrial economy than cars. A lot more. And I don't think you realize the impact upon your lifestyle that higher energy cost is going to have. Virtually everything you buy involves power and petroleum products (plastics, for example) somewhere in the manufacturing chain. As this trend continues, and it will, what you pay at the pump will seem insigificant compared to what you'll end up paying for everything else. Expensive petroleum affects the entire economic output of any industrialized nation ... motor fuels are only a part of that. I'll go a step further and say that petroleum, crude oil, is far too valuable to be wasted moving cars around. Everything from plastics to medicines are made from petroleum. We should reserve its use for those purposes and stop blowing it out of our tailpipes.
In any event, what you're basically saying is that our culture (and that of every other high-tech country on the planet) is going to be changing dramatically in the near future, and in most cases not for the better. China's modernization may (or may not) ultimately be good for them, but it sure as hell isn't good for the rest of us.
I didn't say it did ... I said the Apple /// offered one. And the reason that it was removed is because they never got the part to work properly. I owned a Thunderware Thunderclock board for my Apple ][ machines. Worked very well, I probably still have it in a box somewhere.
Space efficiency is relative. Conventional crops are only planted in one plane ... a hydroponics installation could be many levels deep.
The fact that the CPU itself has no master clock is absolutely irrelevant to timing applications. You can bet your bottom dollar that the processor will sink interrupts, and that there will be a timer/counter component to the chip. Timing won't be a problem.
Nope. All the pre-Mac Apple machines were based upon the MCS6502 and its derivatives. All were clocked, the original Apple ][ Standard at 1 Mhz. The Apple ///'s selling point was that it had a hardware real time clock, which was removed in later revisions because of quality issues.
Some years ago during the science segment of a local news broadcast, the announcer was discussing Uranus, and he simply could not make himself pronounce it properly. He kept putting the accent on the first syllable, getting redder and redder the whole time. Finally he said it right, and everyone else just lost it completely and burst out laughing. One of the funniest things I've ever seen on the news.
{sigh} well, to paraphrase Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks, "... and I gotta tell ya, two outa three ain't bad."
On the other hand, the rights granted to corporate entities are not enshrined in the Constitution: they are of much more recent vintage. If those were revoked or severely restricted, problems with undue influence in government might improve substantially. In any event, we aren't talking about "redress of grievances", in the sense that a organization is being unfairly impacted by the law. We are talking about corruption, pure and simple, businesses that have discovered that a little bribery in the right places can make them billions. Yes, it's true, Congress was always corrupt, even back in Colonial times. But somehow I doubt the Founders intended the Constitution to protect criminal activity on this scale.
No, I understand they will only be using the DNA activation feature for DVD releases of CSI.
Try the FBI. I can't believe that outfit isn't running afoul of some serious Federal laws somewhere.
Depends upon the type of cancer. Some cancers grow so fast and spread so quickly that by the time you have symptoms you're toast. Early detection is the key, of course, although it didn't help my uncle who died of lung cancer ... as I recall (and this was over twenty years ago so I may have it wrong) it was something called "oat-cell carcinoma". It metastasized very, very fast and he went through a hellish six months of radiation and chemotherapy and died anyway.
Well, considering that a good portion of the ISP market is the telephone market that's very true. Ironic that this is all happening after the breakup of old AT&T, which ostensibly was to provide competition and better service for subscribers. Looks like we're going to have AT&T back again in the near future ... in name only, with SBC and the rest of the Baby Bells under the hood. And that scares me, with whackjobs like Edward E. "why should they get to use my pipes for free?" Whitacre in charge.
In other words, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. I'll be damned ... that Wirth guy was right after all.
Hah ... nice THX reference there. That number appears in the old Duke Nukem 3D game on a screen in a hidden room. Sort of an homage to George Lucas, or something like that.
Which all sounds well and good until you consider the truly insane degree to which copyright law has been perverted by these people, with the willing complicity of Congress. All civilized cultures eventually come to understand that if you want people to respect the law, the law must and should respect the people. Period. End of statement. That is simply not happening in this case: the penalties for copyright infringement (and I use that term specifically, we aren't talking about piracy here) are simply too far out of line. And that is the crux of the problem: the RIAA is using a legal structure originally put in place to deter true piracy, that is, the illegal mass duplication and sale of copyrighted materials against ordinary citizens who have no desire to profit by their actions. Those laws are really not appropriate in these case, and they give the media companies too big a hammer. If you want to claim that I "stole" (and I use that term loosely) some songs, bill me for the tracks. If you ask nicely I might even pay for them just to make you go away. Otherwise here's my attorney's phone number.
Ultimately, they should be told (in no uncertain terms) that if they wish to accuse someone (anyone) of committing copyright infringement that they need better "evidence" than an IP address and a timestamp. If they feel their rights are being infringed then they should have to provide real evidence of wrongdoing. The automated "justice" being meted out by the RIAA is simply too unreliable. They know this full well, and make every effort to avoid going to court. Their track record in court has not been good, and interestingly they don't seem to have any interest in examining their victim's computer equipment to verify that their threats are on target. Probably because they know that often they are not.
Yes, and apparently there's a lot of biological slowness on Slashdot this evening, although I think that it might have more to do with copious quantities of liquor than delayed development of the cerebral cortex.
You know, I'm not sure that I've ever seen a comment that was quite that far off topic, and believe you me I've wandered pretty far myself.
Turn off the CPU fan on an AMD processor and you'll destroy some hardware. Speedstep would keep an Intel chip from frying, but AMD's don't have anything comparable so far as I know. Tom's Hardware has a nice video of what happens when you remove the cooling fan on a working processor ... the AMD chip cooked itself and part of the motherboard but the Intel just ran slower and slower.
You've forgotten that toilet seats cost $500.
... the aforementioned "gold disk" from which the grandparent poster receives his applications.
Ah yes
That's HALarious, buddy, just HALarious.
Unless you know you're going to lose, and would rather the precedent not get set until you can win.
Our political system amazes me...if we could only harness all that wasted energy.
From what I understand, they haven't had to turn the furnaces on in Washington D.C. for years, since Congress provides plenty of forced-air heating.
But only a wild fanatic would deny the major benefits of Java to platforms such as Linux.
... well. There you go then.
Yes
Ah ... the beauty and elegance of recursion.