No, I'd rather live in a country where it's legal to carry around certain guns and weapons, and where people have the sense enough to make sure that criminals don't happen by freely sharing information and being nice/helpful to eachother. Frankly, I'd like to see a lisencing system where you could have any kind of weapon (assualt rifle, firearm, ect), but must pass a standardised test in order to be allowed to carry it (namely, fire the firearm accuratly), and where certain weapons (tanks, helicopters, explosives, ect) there is a test that you must pass in order to use. The tests and information are all administered at libraries, and are payed for with tax money.
And, there's laws against being mercenaries. There is no law against owning a firearm, operating one at a range, moving one unloaded in the back of your trunk, or obtaining certain weapons. If course, the government would be free to regulate gun shops, but it couldn't tell them they can't sell certain weapons, nor impose such a tax on a firearm that they are impossible to obtain.
In a society of good people, when those good people are able to defend themsevles, the society will be good. It's said that there's 20k deaths in america from guns. How many of those are criminals, and how many times have guns prevented crime? Compair with britton, where criminals go from street to street jiggling doorknobs and windows to try to get into people's homes, and where defending yourself from an intruder is illegal, much less lunging to the rescue of your next door neighbor.
It's a poor solution for raid, since if the OS goes, there goes your raid. If you use hardware, at least it'll autodetect.
Mabye I'm wrong and the people have a good solution for it, but still. Personally, if it's a 500mhz box, I'm guessing you're going to be using ATA133 PCI cards along with it, and frankly, raiding those won't net you much more speed. SCSI is what gets you the speed, but as it is you're looking at probably a max of 50 or 60MBps output.
I'd just stick a 100mbps card on it, hook up all 8 drives via 2 IDE ATA133 PCI (2 controllers a card) cards, with the OS installed on a raided partition spread across 4 of the disks, and backed up onto 4 other drives. Setup a cheap batch script that backs up all the files onto a second set of disks when the machine isn't being used, or use a backup program, as well as scanning for data errors/loss every week or so. It works if all it's doing is serving files. Additionally, if you set the "primary" drive as master, and the "backup" drive as slave, and you only use the primary drives for serving data, you'll have no problem.
Really, I'd think Raid Lv5 for 8 drives would be a bit excessive and/or inefficient, considering the PCI bus only gives so much bandwidth. Now, if we were talkin SCSI raid with 64 bit, 66mhz PCI, then your solution would be a good one.
I prefer a little bit more of a...proactive solution. Namely, owning a firearm. Now, what person would even think of trying to steal your wallet if you were packing a gun?
I remember last year I got a Tribes 2 Construction mod scare-a-thon going. The idea was to build creepy things and on haloween, show them off on hosted servers. Did't get too many buildings, but I did get plenty of visitors to my 3v1l maze.
Still, I would've liked to see more trigger treators(to my house, not the server). Kinda sad people get afraid of nothing. Man, and I loved scaring the shit outta children. Now though, we're lucky to get 5 or 6 people come around, from like packed streets 5 years ago. It was one of the last "get out n' see your neighbors" events.
MMM...kinda makes me want to put the server up on haloween with the same maze. Now with half a T1 I can probably host close to 20 people...mmmm. It'd be fun to hear the bouncy room again, heh.
What about asteroid impact? It's not like titan is magic or anything and therefor immune. If the radar says the surface is smooth, I'd probably guess it's either got one hell of a corrosive atmosphere inwhich case I'd wonder how it'd stay corrosive, or the surface is made of some kind of slowly waving goo, mabye with properties like corn syrup + water, perhaps.
As for life, depends on how hot the planet is. For all we know there may be a liquid surface and beneath that there's some form of life creating chemical energy to live off of and expelling it's waste as a gas.
Either way, if there's life and oil on titan, bush'll wage war to get at it, heh.
You don't get it; I think Nintendo is aware of all the other things associated with their games; hell, there's an entire hentai industry there if you look. There's some crap around that if a little kid saw it would probably ruin their lives for years to come. So, Nintendo going after these people for making a relitivally harmless comment on a freggin webpage seems pretty steep to me. I can understand wanting to keep a family friendly image, but I'd think they'd realize that they'd be creating a PR mess, and knowing Nintendo, they're smarter than that. We're talking about a company that planned for a $250 million yen fine from the japanese government (about $2 million USD) for monopolization and regonalization of their disks for their systems.
No, something far more bizzare is going on here besides Nintendo trying to protect their corporate image.
I believe it's the 8th time they've tried to convince the UK people of this by announcing a program if my count is right, in the past 2 years. Apparently, all 33 million of them are giving the government the good ol' n' sturdy one fingered salute. They'll do mass protests and burn their ID cards they will. Now enough of them seem pissed off that the people in government are beginning to get the message that continuously forcing this kind of thing on them is wrong and won't work, time to change strategies. Kinda reminds me of the IP law for software that was forced, and forced, and forced for about 2 years and eventally signed in a very weak state.
We represent Nintendo of America Inc.( "Nintendo"), the owner of the trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of the
above-referenced sexually explicit Web site. This use is unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property
rights."
Since when is expressing your views on a webpage or indexing yourself in a search engine a violation of intellectual property law?
Nintendo just made themselves look like a bunch of litigous assholes. I am, however, curious as to why they'd do such a stupid thing.
In America, it's the sender, not the reciever, who is guilty of copyright infringement. If I make a dub of a DVD and give it away, I am breaking copyright law, not the person I gave it to. Now, if someone from a foreign county is doing the sending legally, then who do you sue?
Mabye I'm wrong or pointing out canadian law or something, but still, it's pretty funny. They can't do a damn thing about it, heh.
Actually, there are a lot of bad people and a lot of good people in government. I don't think that, per se, everyone in government is plain evil and trying to take over the country, however I have seen some documentaries where congressmen say things like "they sneak things into bills and my they (their aids) don't catch it in time".
With that said, the judicial branch, as a whole, isn't that corrupt. Yes, the supreme court is full of old people who barely know what is going on in the world and are lied to an auful lot; just listen to jack valenti talk to them, if you look around to find some recordings he is sinisterally
humble when talking to the supreme court. There are patches, such as LA county for example, or Chicago (mostly localised in cities I would think(, which are corrupt to the core, but as a whole the judicial branch isn't that bad yet.
Frankly, I'd like to wring congresses neck for keeling over to the demands of the exeuitive branch and splitting their powers into a number of branches under exeuitive order. For some reason, they think americans want that kind of dictatorship.
Waitasec, WinXP costs $199, $299 for the corp edition. Win2k, last time I checked, costed $99, so we're talking Win2k, on a machine made from $1 of components.
But seriously, enough of the monopoly price jokes. You might be able to pull it off with linux, A gig or two of flash memory, 64meg of real memory, a small powersupply, an ITX mobo and a power-efficient motherboard with a built in ethernet jack, runnin' a stripped down version of linux...in a cardboard box case.
Now, if we can all fit that into say, something the size of a nintendo...w0000, home-sized cluster computing! Just get a bookshelf, fill er' up with junked parts from the dumpster of your local tech shop, and away you go.
The input is CISC, the execution is RISC. 4 or 5 commands may come in at any given point, the execution unit does only 1 command at a point, per pipeline, anyway. I forget which command, but one command for the 8086 required 83 clock cycles to complete.
Although, I will admit, the newer processors are getting more and more complex, and the command sets are more cisc-ish in nature. I dunno, I guess it depends on the technology; if a logical 8 bit AND is your idea of a risc function, then by all means, the Itanium is a CISC processor with RISC functions. If, however, your idea of a RISC function is, say, shifting unicode text 100 places to the left and the inserting 100 unicode characters from a stack, then by all means, the Itanium is a RISC processor.
Not to get grammar nazi on you, but periods, question marks, paragraphs, spaces, and semicolons. When your reading speed hits around 100 or 200wpm, they become necissary, or else reading something becomes a trainwreck.
People do indeed form into groups of rabblerousers, but the problem is that they don't think. Nature sets a species against itself to compete, you'll notice how many different animals fight over resources. If you've got small birds in your area, in the spring lay out some christmas streamers on the ground and watch the birds go nuts for it; eventually, a fight will break out.
Pack animal mentality tends to be that of working together to achieve a goal while remaining seperate. Alpha males, for example, exist because animals are by nature self centered. In nature, size is everything, and if you're stronger, faster, and bigger than all the other animals, you're getting first dibs on the kill.
Humans are different, since they have intellect and the ability to think long term. When you think about an action, you set a goal or as I call it, a metric. We all have the common goal of survival, which then spurrs off into sub-goals like eating, finding shelter, then into building houses, then into finding nails, then into finding steel for the nials, ect.
Humans can come to the realization that working together is far more beneficial than working against eachother. They form governments to facilitate that working together. You will find that as we transitition between the pack-animal phase that things tend to get more and more complicated.
Good and evil are simply judged against the metric
of suffering; things that are evil tend to creat suffering and death, which is now what any society was facilitated to creat. Good tends to relieve suffering, and is also loving, caring, compassionate, helpful, ect. These emotions and ideas facilitate the growth and profit of the individuals of our society.
Now, of course name calling has far deeper implications and causes, but I feel the need to make the point that there are those in our society who like the idea of slavery. That is one of their tactics; divide and conquer.
First, I'm talking a risc/cisc architecture like the x86.
When you're talking about 64 addressing lines, your talking about addressing a fscksum of memory and devices. But, in addition, those lines allow for other possibilities: for example, sending 2 or 3 write commands with attached data and 2 32 bit addresses on the 64 bit bus simultaniously with an extra address decoder either on the chip or on the memory controller, or to some other device. Although, I don't know weither or not they've thrown that in as of yet. 64 bit numbers don't occur that often, afaik, but I'm not a coder so:P.
The data bus advantage, however, is bigger. The x86 architecture has a command decoder, whereas you can send several commands in a single clock. With 32 more bytes, you get twice as many commands in a clock. Additionally, you can address more commands (but seriously, the first x86 had 38 commands, and that has increased by 10x in the past few years).
Aside from that, you're throwing on more features into the processor. But, that's been here in the past 20 years of processor developement anyway. The article tends to be unclear on this. You're essentially expanding the bus to feed more buffers/pipelines.
Come to the realization that "conservative", "radical", "democrat", "republican", "liberal", "anarchist", "nazi commie assclown extremist", ect, are all terms those in power have created to label us. Why? Well, you label someone, then give people mud, and slings. What's next? They fight, and organize behind opposing sides, instead of getting together and talking.
It is then far easier to enslave people without them noticing when you've got people who won't even sit down to have a logical debate or admit they're wrong when prooven so. It's even more entertaining and saddening when those making the point feel the need to insult the other side; stupidity is limitless, and thus, the insulting of stupidity can be made on just about any basis, no matter what level of intellectual developement is required to make that accusation. If you've got a population of people who make accusations of this kind, heh, you've got sheeple.
I'm going to make one simple point here, and that is this. The medical industry in the U.S. doesn't exist to make patients healthy. Why? Because they profit off of their sickness, and are bound by law to make as much profit as possible. Therefor, it's far more profitable to prolong their problems indefinatly and sell them cures, rather than cure the problem in the first place. It is far more profitable to find a drug that relieves the symptoms of a cold, rather than cure the cold itself.
Whatever way you attempt to justify it, weither it's the canadians supposedly ripping off the poor pharmesutical companies, or the poor consumers getting ripped off by them, a for-profit medical industry with few, if any, regulations such as our "proud" american system, is a horror to behold.
While you may want to think that "oh, well, that CAN'T be right!" and that I'm a crackpot, think about this; there are thousands of plants on earth that have healing properties to them. Why don't you see on the bottle a simple cure for burns such as aloe-vera? Why don't you see a simple anti-viral cure such as garlic pills? The reason is that a pharmesutical corp can't make enough money off of a plant, so they research something infinitly more complicated so they can patent it, and sell it to the public, meanwhile manipulating the media to never talk about herbology. Yes, there are medicines that do that, and yes, there are doctors who do prescribe them, but not on a massive scale. If the cure to cancer was in a virus of pond water, or drinking a fscksum of orange juice, nobody would dare advertise it, becuase some medical giant that has investments in radiation treatment equipment would lose their money.
So really, you can bash the "healthcare is a human right" people all you want, but in reality, I rather think something smells foul here and it has the government and these medical corps names written all over it. Some greedy assclown somewhere figures he can make money by exploiting dumb people who must have medicine to live, and decides to screw over millions of people, sounds about right.
Am I saying a state sponsored medical system would be better? No, I am however pointing out that these corporations are bound by law to make people sicker.
Yea, but you fail to realize that when an industry, such as the gaming industry, is controlled by so few publishers and game creators, that they're all going to form a cartel-type situation where they feel they have to stay compeditive. Google was never a profit driven company, netzero and juno lost out to small ISP's and big ISP's, and Geocities sucks because there was adaquete competition and advertising wasn't there. People only have a choice when there's widespread competition in an industry, and when that industry isn't controlled by a few large players. Look at TV, it's controlled by 6 major companies in the US, how many people still watch it?
Seriously, did they break into people's computers and do searches? Did they use P2P searches (which are about as reliable as a slashdot poll)? Did they run around a small part of the US looking for information? No, the story says "analysts" and "researchers", without naming names as far as I read.
You know what this is? This is akin to the old conspiracy theorist FUD model of writing, with a journalistic twist. The conspiracy theorist fud model simply states that you state the problem, in as worrying as words possible, every 2 or so sentances inbetween prooving it. For example:
"Researchers at NY university said that an asteroid is going to hit the earth within 2/3 months. This asteroid will wipe out ALL of the life on the planet. It is the size of texas."
Ect, ect ect and so on. Journalists write it in a journalistic way, however, instead of having the FUD every 2-3 sentances, they restate their thesis in a different way, then proceed to use words such as "researchers" or "analysts" over and over to somehow give it credibility. So, how did they get the information?
The "analysts and researchers" are "NPD group". They have a spyware app called "music watch digital", you know, the one that is put onto EMI's CD's and loaded onto the machine via autorun. You know, the one that can be disabled by the shift key? Yea, that one, the one that catalouges a persons harddisk and sends it back to whoever.
Now, the next question is, why would ZD net have a MS sponsored article written by a CNET staff member? Oh, wait, there's a second article at the bottom of the page, talking about a "maturing" mp3 market. You know, the market that is now going towards paying for DRM'd disabled music online? Notice the mention of sony, apple, and MS's players which will undoubtedly go towards people looking into these players and music services?
This equates to "our spyware app says that the mp3 may be dieing. People are using these players". Must be a slow news day or somethin'.
Slashdot Mirror
Downloaded at 40k/sex.
They call it "Freudian typo".
I'd call it a very expensive hooker myself...
No, I'd rather live in a country where it's legal to carry around certain guns and weapons, and where people have the sense enough to make sure that criminals don't happen by freely sharing information and being nice/helpful to eachother. Frankly, I'd like to see a lisencing system where you could have any kind of weapon (assualt rifle, firearm, ect), but must pass a standardised test in order to be allowed to carry it (namely, fire the firearm accuratly), and where certain weapons (tanks, helicopters, explosives, ect) there is a test that you must pass in order to use. The tests and information are all administered at libraries, and are payed for with tax money.
And, there's laws against being mercenaries. There is no law against owning a firearm, operating one at a range, moving one unloaded in the back of your trunk, or obtaining certain weapons. If course, the government would be free to regulate gun shops, but it couldn't tell them they can't sell certain weapons, nor impose such a tax on a firearm that they are impossible to obtain.
In a society of good people, when those good people are able to defend themsevles, the society will be good. It's said that there's 20k deaths in america from guns. How many of those are criminals, and how many times have guns prevented crime? Compair with britton, where criminals go from street to street jiggling doorknobs and windows to try to get into people's homes, and where defending yourself from an intruder is illegal, much less lunging to the rescue of your next door neighbor.
But what if it jamms or the round is a dud? What if you fire, and everyone else draws their gun and shoots you?
If all the good people carried around guns and kept out of eachothers business, then our society would be FAR better off.
It's a poor solution for raid, since if the OS goes, there goes your raid. If you use hardware, at least it'll autodetect.
Mabye I'm wrong and the people have a good solution for it, but still. Personally, if it's a 500mhz box, I'm guessing you're going to be using ATA133 PCI cards along with it, and frankly, raiding those won't net you much more speed. SCSI is what gets you the speed, but as it is you're looking at probably a max of 50 or 60MBps output.
I'd just stick a 100mbps card on it, hook up all 8 drives via 2 IDE ATA133 PCI (2 controllers a card) cards, with the OS installed on a raided partition spread across 4 of the disks, and backed up onto 4 other drives. Setup a cheap batch script that backs up all the files onto a second set of disks when the machine isn't being used, or use a backup program, as well as scanning for data errors/loss every week or so. It works if all it's doing is serving files. Additionally, if you set the "primary" drive as master, and the "backup" drive as slave, and you only use the primary drives for serving data, you'll have no problem.
Really, I'd think Raid Lv5 for 8 drives would be a bit excessive and/or inefficient, considering the PCI bus only gives so much bandwidth. Now, if we were talkin SCSI raid with 64 bit, 66mhz PCI, then your solution would be a good one.
I don't like laden, but I like stock brokers and lawyers even less...
With a little luck, they'll eliminate eachother and leave me the hell alone.
I prefer a little bit more of a...proactive solution. Namely, owning a firearm. Now, what person would even think of trying to steal your wallet if you were packing a gun?
I remember last year I got a Tribes 2 Construction mod scare-a-thon going. The idea was to build creepy things and on haloween, show them off on hosted servers. Did't get too many buildings, but I did get plenty of visitors to my 3v1l maze.
Still, I would've liked to see more trigger treators(to my house, not the server). Kinda sad people get afraid of nothing. Man, and I loved scaring the shit outta children. Now though, we're lucky to get 5 or 6 people come around, from like packed streets 5 years ago. It was one of the last "get out n' see your neighbors" events.
MMM...kinda makes me want to put the server up on haloween with the same maze. Now with half a T1 I can probably host close to 20 people...mmmm. It'd be fun to hear the bouncy room again, heh.
What about asteroid impact? It's not like titan is magic or anything and therefor immune. If the radar says the surface is smooth, I'd probably guess it's either got one hell of a corrosive atmosphere inwhich case I'd wonder how it'd stay corrosive, or the surface is made of some kind of slowly waving goo, mabye with properties like corn syrup + water, perhaps.
As for life, depends on how hot the planet is. For all we know there may be a liquid surface and beneath that there's some form of life creating chemical energy to live off of and expelling it's waste as a gas.
Either way, if there's life and oil on titan, bush'll wage war to get at it, heh.
You don't get it; I think Nintendo is aware of all the other things associated with their games; hell, there's an entire hentai industry there if you look. There's some crap around that if a little kid saw it would probably ruin their lives for years to come. So, Nintendo going after these people for making a relitivally harmless comment on a freggin webpage seems pretty steep to me. I can understand wanting to keep a family friendly image, but I'd think they'd realize that they'd be creating a PR mess, and knowing Nintendo, they're smarter than that. We're talking about a company that planned for a $250 million yen fine from the japanese government (about $2 million USD) for monopolization and regonalization of their disks for their systems.
No, something far more bizzare is going on here besides Nintendo trying to protect their corporate image.
I believe it's the 8th time they've tried to convince the UK people of this by announcing a program if my count is right, in the past 2 years. Apparently, all 33 million of them are giving the government the good ol' n' sturdy one fingered salute. They'll do mass protests and burn their ID cards they will. Now enough of them seem pissed off that the people in government are beginning to get the message that continuously forcing this kind of thing on them is wrong and won't work, time to change strategies. Kinda reminds me of the IP law for software that was forced, and forced, and forced for about 2 years and eventally signed in a very weak state.
We represent Nintendo of America Inc.( "Nintendo"), the owner of the trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of the above-referenced sexually explicit Web site. This use is unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights."
Since when is expressing your views on a webpage or indexing yourself in a search engine a violation of intellectual property law?
Nintendo just made themselves look like a bunch of litigous assholes. I am, however, curious as to why they'd do such a stupid thing.
Thank you!!!!!!!!! I'v been wanting to know how to do that for SO Freggin long it isn't funny. :-)
In America, it's the sender, not the reciever, who is guilty of copyright infringement. If I make a dub of a DVD and give it away, I am breaking copyright law, not the person I gave it to. Now, if someone from a foreign county is doing the sending legally, then who do you sue?
Mabye I'm wrong or pointing out canadian law or something, but still, it's pretty funny. They can't do a damn thing about it, heh.
Actually, there are a lot of bad people and a lot of good people in government. I don't think that, per se, everyone in government is plain evil and trying to take over the country, however I have seen some documentaries where congressmen say things like "they sneak things into bills and my they (their aids) don't catch it in time".
With that said, the judicial branch, as a whole, isn't that corrupt. Yes, the supreme court is full of old people who barely know what is going on in the world and are lied to an auful lot; just listen to jack valenti talk to them, if you look around to find some recordings he is sinisterally humble when talking to the supreme court. There are patches, such as LA county for example, or Chicago (mostly localised in cities I would think(, which are corrupt to the core, but as a whole the judicial branch isn't that bad yet.
Frankly, I'd like to wring congresses neck for keeling over to the demands of the exeuitive branch and splitting their powers into a number of branches under exeuitive order. For some reason, they think americans want that kind of dictatorship.
Comes from one person taking a dump on something/someone else. Allow for me to demonstrate:
:(
Hunger/Gatherer 1: W00, W00, AHH. I MAKE PAINTING of rhynoscerous on GROUND!
Leader HG: *Looks at it for a second, then bends over and takes a dump on it*
HG1:
Waitasec, WinXP costs $199, $299 for the corp edition. Win2k, last time I checked, costed $99, so we're talking Win2k, on a machine made from $1 of components.
But seriously, enough of the monopoly price jokes. You might be able to pull it off with linux, A gig or two of flash memory, 64meg of real memory, a small powersupply, an ITX mobo and a power-efficient motherboard with a built in ethernet jack, runnin' a stripped down version of linux...in a cardboard box case.
Now, if we can all fit that into say, something the size of a nintendo...w0000, home-sized cluster computing! Just get a bookshelf, fill er' up with junked parts from the dumpster of your local tech shop, and away you go.
The input is CISC, the execution is RISC. 4 or 5 commands may come in at any given point, the execution unit does only 1 command at a point, per pipeline, anyway. I forget which command, but one command for the 8086 required 83 clock cycles to complete.
Although, I will admit, the newer processors are getting more and more complex, and the command sets are more cisc-ish in nature. I dunno, I guess it depends on the technology; if a logical 8 bit AND is your idea of a risc function, then by all means, the Itanium is a CISC processor with RISC functions. If, however, your idea of a RISC function is, say, shifting unicode text 100 places to the left and the inserting 100 unicode characters from a stack, then by all means, the Itanium is a RISC processor.
Not to get grammar nazi on you, but periods, question marks, paragraphs, spaces, and semicolons. When your reading speed hits around 100 or 200wpm, they become necissary, or else reading something becomes a trainwreck.
People do indeed form into groups of rabblerousers, but the problem is that they don't think. Nature sets a species against itself to compete, you'll notice how many different animals fight over resources. If you've got small birds in your area, in the spring lay out some christmas streamers on the ground and watch the birds go nuts for it; eventually, a fight will break out.
Pack animal mentality tends to be that of working together to achieve a goal while remaining seperate. Alpha males, for example, exist because animals are by nature self centered. In nature, size is everything, and if you're stronger, faster, and bigger than all the other animals, you're getting first dibs on the kill.
Humans are different, since they have intellect and the ability to think long term. When you think about an action, you set a goal or as I call it, a metric. We all have the common goal of survival, which then spurrs off into sub-goals like eating, finding shelter, then into building houses, then into finding nails, then into finding steel for the nials, ect.
Humans can come to the realization that working together is far more beneficial than working against eachother. They form governments to facilitate that working together. You will find that as we transitition between the pack-animal phase that things tend to get more and more complicated.
Good and evil are simply judged against the metric of suffering; things that are evil tend to creat suffering and death, which is now what any society was facilitated to creat. Good tends to relieve suffering, and is also loving, caring, compassionate, helpful, ect. These emotions and ideas facilitate the growth and profit of the individuals of our society.
Now, of course name calling has far deeper implications and causes, but I feel the need to make the point that there are those in our society who like the idea of slavery. That is one of their tactics; divide and conquer.
First, I'm talking a risc/cisc architecture like the x86.
:P.
When you're talking about 64 addressing lines, your talking about addressing a fscksum of memory and devices. But, in addition, those lines allow for other possibilities: for example, sending 2 or 3 write commands with attached data and 2 32 bit addresses on the 64 bit bus simultaniously with an extra address decoder either on the chip or on the memory controller, or to some other device. Although, I don't know weither or not they've thrown that in as of yet. 64 bit numbers don't occur that often, afaik, but I'm not a coder so
The data bus advantage, however, is bigger. The x86 architecture has a command decoder, whereas you can send several commands in a single clock. With 32 more bytes, you get twice as many commands in a clock. Additionally, you can address more commands (but seriously, the first x86 had 38 commands, and that has increased by 10x in the past few years).
Aside from that, you're throwing on more features into the processor. But, that's been here in the past 20 years of processor developement anyway. The article tends to be unclear on this. You're essentially expanding the bus to feed more buffers/pipelines.
Come to the realization that "conservative", "radical", "democrat", "republican", "liberal", "anarchist", "nazi commie assclown extremist", ect, are all terms those in power have created to label us. Why? Well, you label someone, then give people mud, and slings. What's next? They fight, and organize behind opposing sides, instead of getting together and talking.
It is then far easier to enslave people without them noticing when you've got people who won't even sit down to have a logical debate or admit they're wrong when prooven so. It's even more entertaining and saddening when those making the point feel the need to insult the other side; stupidity is limitless, and thus, the insulting of stupidity can be made on just about any basis, no matter what level of intellectual developement is required to make that accusation. If you've got a population of people who make accusations of this kind, heh, you've got sheeple.
I run a benchmarking app and leave it on, and my room is toasty all winter long. Infact, if the window is closed, it gets too warm.
I'm going to make one simple point here, and that is this. The medical industry in the U.S. doesn't exist to make patients healthy. Why? Because they profit off of their sickness, and are bound by law to make as much profit as possible. Therefor, it's far more profitable to prolong their problems indefinatly and sell them cures, rather than cure the problem in the first place. It is far more profitable to find a drug that relieves the symptoms of a cold, rather than cure the cold itself.
Whatever way you attempt to justify it, weither it's the canadians supposedly ripping off the poor pharmesutical companies, or the poor consumers getting ripped off by them, a for-profit medical industry with few, if any, regulations such as our "proud" american system, is a horror to behold.
While you may want to think that "oh, well, that CAN'T be right!" and that I'm a crackpot, think about this; there are thousands of plants on earth that have healing properties to them. Why don't you see on the bottle a simple cure for burns such as aloe-vera? Why don't you see a simple anti-viral cure such as garlic pills? The reason is that a pharmesutical corp can't make enough money off of a plant, so they research something infinitly more complicated so they can patent it, and sell it to the public, meanwhile manipulating the media to never talk about herbology. Yes, there are medicines that do that, and yes, there are doctors who do prescribe them, but not on a massive scale. If the cure to cancer was in a virus of pond water, or drinking a fscksum of orange juice, nobody would dare advertise it, becuase some medical giant that has investments in radiation treatment equipment would lose their money.
So really, you can bash the "healthcare is a human right" people all you want, but in reality, I rather think something smells foul here and it has the government and these medical corps names written all over it. Some greedy assclown somewhere figures he can make money by exploiting dumb people who must have medicine to live, and decides to screw over millions of people, sounds about right.
Am I saying a state sponsored medical system would be better? No, I am however pointing out that these corporations are bound by law to make people sicker.
The more people will believe it.
The art, then, is to get people to believe not the lies, but whatever you tell them. For at some point, they challenge the lie, and find the truth.
Yea, but you fail to realize that when an industry, such as the gaming industry, is controlled by so few publishers and game creators, that they're all going to form a cartel-type situation where they feel they have to stay compeditive. Google was never a profit driven company, netzero and juno lost out to small ISP's and big ISP's, and Geocities sucks because there was adaquete competition and advertising wasn't there. People only have a choice when there's widespread competition in an industry, and when that industry isn't controlled by a few large players. Look at TV, it's controlled by 6 major companies in the US, how many people still watch it?
Seriously, did they break into people's computers and do searches? Did they use P2P searches (which are about as reliable as a slashdot poll)? Did they run around a small part of the US looking for information? No, the story says "analysts" and "researchers", without naming names as far as I read.
You know what this is? This is akin to the old conspiracy theorist FUD model of writing, with a journalistic twist. The conspiracy theorist fud model simply states that you state the problem, in as worrying as words possible, every 2 or so sentances inbetween prooving it. For example:
"Researchers at NY university said that an asteroid is going to hit the earth within 2/3 months. This asteroid will wipe out ALL of the life on the planet. It is the size of texas."
Ect, ect ect and so on. Journalists write it in a journalistic way, however, instead of having the FUD every 2-3 sentances, they restate their thesis in a different way, then proceed to use words such as "researchers" or "analysts" over and over to somehow give it credibility. So, how did they get the information?
The "analysts and researchers" are "NPD group". They have a spyware app called "music watch digital", you know, the one that is put onto EMI's CD's and loaded onto the machine via autorun. You know, the one that can be disabled by the shift key? Yea, that one, the one that catalouges a persons harddisk and sends it back to whoever.
Now, the next question is, why would ZD net have a MS sponsored article written by a CNET staff member? Oh, wait, there's a second article at the bottom of the page, talking about a "maturing" mp3 market. You know, the market that is now going towards paying for DRM'd disabled music online? Notice the mention of sony, apple, and MS's players which will undoubtedly go towards people looking into these players and music services?
This equates to "our spyware app says that the mp3 may be dieing. People are using these players". Must be a slow news day or somethin'.