While you're analogy seems rather poor, if I go with it anyway, I chose option a in the 2006 elections, then after 6 months I found out that I was going to jail for 6 years anyway. Lesson learned: There is no real difference between choices a and b.
I used to think like you, and even held my nose and voted for some Democrats in the 2006 elections. After seeing how inept and spineless they are when it comes to taking on Bush and the neocons in the past six months, I'm pissed. You can bet I won't be making the same mistake again, and I don't care if people like you think "I'm throwing my vote away". Quite simply, a vote for the major parties is a vote for the status quo, and reasoning like yours is not helping things.
making the students register their MAC address to know which person in the room was making the connection.
Almost every University I know of does this. Hook an unknown computer up to the network, and you are directed to a page to enter your Student ID and password in order to get access to the network. My school even did this for the so-called "public" Wi-Fi they had. It was very clearly MAC based, as spoofing the MAC address of an approved would get you on the network. Methods to get around this were specifically banned from being connected to the network (such as a router that does NAT) - though they really couldn't enforce it. Doesn't the University of Washington do the same thing?
What the license grants you is irrelevent. Either you respect other's licenses, or do not request that anyone request yours. To do otherwise is to be hippicritical.
Well, look at it this way, you may decide that licenses like EULAs and the GPL are bogus, but you're still going to respect copyright law. By exercising your rights under copyright law, you would be breaking Microsoft's EULA but not violating the GPL in any manner.
I would guess cheap/flakey hardware on the PC side, and/or the possibility of bad drivers. I would guess that almost certainly if he installed XP natively on his Mac (via Bootcamp) he would also find it very stable.
Well, it's my personal experience with Asus and Gigabyte that have turned me off of them. Here's my experience with them between my PC and my friend's PCs in terms of Socket A AMD systems:
Still going: 1 Soltek board (which is my desktop) 1 Jetway board 1 Biostar board
Take that as you will, though it continues with the AMD64 stuff, friend who spent a lot of money on a high end Asus Socket 939 board had problems, the Soltek socket 754 board I used in a computer I built for my sister is running fine.
Biggest problem I see in the AMD world is the lack of good motherboards. nVidia stuff really isn't that great, but it's the best that's out there (better than AMD's own chipsets, in my opinion). It seems that Socket A stuff is actually getting kind of scarce as the machines are getting scrapped now when the board konks out. The Intel P4 systems built in the same era just keep chugging along.
I simply took the number you calculated for the energy needed to move Venus, and divided it by the total output of the sun and came up with ~1.8 days. The point is, that we have more than enough energy, it's just a matter of using it in a useful way, even for more mundane things here on Earth. But hey, if we can't figure out how to use a 3.86E26 watt fusion generator in the sky with enough fuel to run for another 4.5 billion years, maybe we should go extinct.
Ok. You want to move venus from.7 AU to 1 AU. Well, lets take a look at the the energy requirements to pull off such a feat.
Step1-Change the orbit: The safest method would be simply to increase the orbital velocity of the planet. Venus is moving at 35,000 m/s. Increasing that by 1% would require 0.3X10^30 J of energy. E=1/2mv^2.
Step 2- we would need to stabilized the orbit when reaches Venus 1AU. We would have to slow the planet to 30,000 m/s (v=sqrt(G*M(sun)/r) or Earths orbital velocity). That would require 60X10^30 J.
While that is a whole lot of energy, you're also forgetting that we have a 3.86E26 watt fusion generator in the sky. By my math, if we could harness 100% of the sun's output in the process, we could move Venus from.7 AU to 1.0 AU in a mere 1.8 days. If we could only harness 0.5% of the sun's output, we could still move it in a year. In my mind, the only question left is how.
All right, and what can you do with a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo that you can't with 1.8 GHz?
Nothing really, and there probably isn't anything that I can do on a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo that I can't do on my Sempron 3000+. But I can do it faster, and that's the whole point. The video decoding example is a good one. With my 2Ghz Core 2 Duo I can usually reencode mpeg2 to xvid in less time than it takes to watch the actual video. Compare to about 3x as long on the Sempron.
I don't know about the Intel side of things, but over on the AMD side of things, I wouldn't buy a Gigabyte or Asus board. For some reason, they have a good reputation for quality, but my experience is that they are junk with high failure rates. Personally I have had a lot more luck with what I call the "second tier" manufacturers like Soltek and Foxconn, and I don't mind the few extra bucks I save either (stay well away from the "third tier" such as PCCHips and ECS though). On the Intel side though, you are safe buying an Intel branded board - they are very solid. I also wouldn't buy an AMD chipset either - I was never happy with my AMD chipset boards either - they always seemed a little quirky and never worked quite right. I would only go with an nVidia chipset myself.
Of course, you're mileage may vary. I still have some K6-2 systems kicking around that I built, dating from the days when VIA made good chipsets.
No, you are spreading disinformation. Go on, visit the Intel website for Core2Duo processors and find *any* reference to a gurantee that the processor will work for xyz years.
It's called a warranty, and for any processor you buy from Intel directly (a boxed retail processor) it's three years. If the processor dies within that time period under normal use, Intel will replace it. Otherwise, you are right - I've never seen a processor go flaky or die ever, even overclocked ones and really old ones. The only time I've seen a bad one is when someone bent all the pins to hell.
Well, I'm not always multitasking all the time, sometimes I'm just surfing the web (for example). Why not have the web browser take up the entire screen? Yeah, I know about the "Zoom" feature, but why should I be constantly rezooming every time I go to a site with a different layout? Just maximize the window and be done with it.
So, uh... what made all the 19 terrorists in 2001? What made those that blew up the Cole? What made those that blew up our embassies in Africa? What made those that blew up Marine Barracks in Lebanon?
You mean Osama Bin Ladin and the Taliban? The guys that the US trained and supplied with weapons back in the 80's?
I think the poster was refering to the fact that Sirius (and I believe XM too) have an option where you can stream their stations over the internet in addition to having a satelite reciever.
It wouldn't be so bad if Apple would give us a maximize button. On a Mac, you have to drag the window to the top left, then move the mouse cursor to the bottom right of the window, then drag it to the bottom right of the screen. Be sure to get all the way over too, or else you'll end up clicking on something else when you try to apply Fitt's law to the scroll bars. Compare to one mouse click on any other OS.
It is YOUR fault you do not want to work for the same wage as illegal immigrants do. Do not blame somebody else for taking your job. Blame yourself.
That might be a valid point if everyone was on a level playing field. However, the illegals do not play by the same rules, and that's part of the problem.
Having been around long enough to remember people saying the same about the iPod and that it wouldn't do a thing to change the music business beacuse it was a niche product that was way to expensive and would only become popular with Apple fanbois I'll take that prediction with a grain of salt.:-D
Actually, the iPod initially was a niche product that was very expensive and would only be sold to Apple fanboys. Then Apple made the iPod available to Windows users and everything changed.
Shrink it down for other mobile phones, fine, but don't degrade my iPhone browsing just because you lump all mobile browsing together.
On the other hand, why should he go out of his way for the iPhone? It seems pretty clear that he isn't making special versions for all the other phone/PDA type devices out there, so why should the iPhone be any different?
I'm pretty sure your insurance company, and the government of Britain also want that;-)
That's a very valid point. I would want it to be my camera system, not something the government mandates, or the insurance company installs and owns. Nowadays, you could likely work it in your favor - people wouldn't expect it to be there, and you could use the footage if it helps your case, and pretend it doesn't exist if it doesn't. However, if such systems became commonplace, the police might just automatically demand you turn over the footage during any incident, which could defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.
If every website told IE users to fuck off and come back with a real web browser the world would be a much better place.
Actually, that was tried, and Microsoft responded by modifying their User Agent string. That's the reason that even today, the User Agent string in Internet Explorer 7 has the word "Mozilla" in it.
That's not what I want though. I want a camera under my control, preferably two (front and back) automatically recording anytime the car is running to some durable media like flash. This should be easily doable with today's technology for a few hundreds dollars installed, would require virtually zero user interaction if set up right, and such a system could easily pay for itself the first time it records a crime or a traffic accident.
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While you're analogy seems rather poor, if I go with it anyway, I chose option a in the 2006 elections, then after 6 months I found out that I was going to jail for 6 years anyway. Lesson learned: There is no real difference between choices a and b.
I used to think like you, and even held my nose and voted for some Democrats in the 2006 elections. After seeing how inept and spineless they are when it comes to taking on Bush and the neocons in the past six months, I'm pissed. You can bet I won't be making the same mistake again, and I don't care if people like you think "I'm throwing my vote away". Quite simply, a vote for the major parties is a vote for the status quo, and reasoning like yours is not helping things.
making the students register their MAC address to know which person in the room was making the connection.
Almost every University I know of does this. Hook an unknown computer up to the network, and you are directed to a page to enter your Student ID and password in order to get access to the network. My school even did this for the so-called "public" Wi-Fi they had. It was very clearly MAC based, as spoofing the MAC address of an approved would get you on the network. Methods to get around this were specifically banned from being connected to the network (such as a router that does NAT) - though they really couldn't enforce it. Doesn't the University of Washington do the same thing?
What the license grants you is irrelevent. Either you respect other's licenses, or do not request that anyone request yours. To do otherwise is to be hippicritical.
Well, look at it this way, you may decide that licenses like EULAs and the GPL are bogus, but you're still going to respect copyright law. By exercising your rights under copyright law, you would be breaking Microsoft's EULA but not violating the GPL in any manner.
The difference is that this has always been Apple's stance and business model since day dot. You want Mac OS, buy a Mac - it has always been this way.
Not always, You're forgetting the clone days, which is a lesson that Apple won't soon forget.
Microsoft doesn't like how that story ends.
Well, if you really want to know, just ask IBM about OS/2.
I would guess cheap/flakey hardware on the PC side, and/or the possibility of bad drivers. I would guess that almost certainly if he installed XP natively on his Mac (via Bootcamp) he would also find it very stable.
Well, it's my personal experience with Asus and Gigabyte that have turned me off of them. Here's my experience with them between my PC and my friend's PCs in terms of Socket A AMD systems:
Dead:
3 Asus boards
2 Gigabyte boards
1 MSI board
1 Chaintech board
1 PCChips board
Still going:
1 Soltek board (which is my desktop)
1 Jetway board
1 Biostar board
Take that as you will, though it continues with the AMD64 stuff, friend who spent a lot of money on a high end Asus Socket 939 board had problems, the Soltek socket 754 board I used in a computer I built for my sister is running fine.
Biggest problem I see in the AMD world is the lack of good motherboards. nVidia stuff really isn't that great, but it's the best that's out there (better than AMD's own chipsets, in my opinion). It seems that Socket A stuff is actually getting kind of scarce as the machines are getting scrapped now when the board konks out. The Intel P4 systems built in the same era just keep chugging along.
I simply took the number you calculated for the energy needed to move Venus, and divided it by the total output of the sun and came up with ~1.8 days. The point is, that we have more than enough energy, it's just a matter of using it in a useful way, even for more mundane things here on Earth. But hey, if we can't figure out how to use a 3.86E26 watt fusion generator in the sky with enough fuel to run for another 4.5 billion years, maybe we should go extinct.
Ok. You want to move venus from .7 AU to 1 AU. Well, lets take a look at the the energy requirements to pull off such a feat.
.7 AU to 1.0 AU in a mere 1.8 days. If we could only harness 0.5% of the sun's output, we could still move it in a year. In my mind, the only question left is how.
Step1-Change the orbit: The safest method would be simply to increase the orbital velocity of the planet. Venus is moving at 35,000 m/s. Increasing that by 1% would require 0.3X10^30 J of energy. E=1/2mv^2.
Step 2- we would need to stabilized the orbit when reaches Venus 1AU. We would have to slow the planet to 30,000 m/s (v=sqrt(G*M(sun)/r) or Earths orbital velocity). That would require 60X10^30 J.
While that is a whole lot of energy, you're also forgetting that we have a 3.86E26 watt fusion generator in the sky. By my math, if we could harness 100% of the sun's output in the process, we could move Venus from
All right, and what can you do with a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo that you can't with 1.8 GHz?
Nothing really, and there probably isn't anything that I can do on a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo that I can't do on my Sempron 3000+. But I can do it faster, and that's the whole point. The video decoding example is a good one. With my 2Ghz Core 2 Duo I can usually reencode mpeg2 to xvid in less time than it takes to watch the actual video. Compare to about 3x as long on the Sempron.
I don't know about the Intel side of things, but over on the AMD side of things, I wouldn't buy a Gigabyte or Asus board. For some reason, they have a good reputation for quality, but my experience is that they are junk with high failure rates. Personally I have had a lot more luck with what I call the "second tier" manufacturers like Soltek and Foxconn, and I don't mind the few extra bucks I save either (stay well away from the "third tier" such as PCCHips and ECS though). On the Intel side though, you are safe buying an Intel branded board - they are very solid. I also wouldn't buy an AMD chipset either - I was never happy with my AMD chipset boards either - they always seemed a little quirky and never worked quite right. I would only go with an nVidia chipset myself.
Of course, you're mileage may vary. I still have some K6-2 systems kicking around that I built, dating from the days when VIA made good chipsets.
No, you are spreading disinformation. Go on, visit the Intel website for Core2Duo processors and find *any* reference to a gurantee that the processor will work for xyz years.
It's called a warranty, and for any processor you buy from Intel directly (a boxed retail processor) it's three years. If the processor dies within that time period under normal use, Intel will replace it. Otherwise, you are right - I've never seen a processor go flaky or die ever, even overclocked ones and really old ones. The only time I've seen a bad one is when someone bent all the pins to hell.
Well, I'm not always multitasking all the time, sometimes I'm just surfing the web (for example). Why not have the web browser take up the entire screen? Yeah, I know about the "Zoom" feature, but why should I be constantly rezooming every time I go to a site with a different layout? Just maximize the window and be done with it.
So, uh... what made all the 19 terrorists in 2001? What made those that blew up the Cole? What made those that blew up our embassies in Africa? What made those that blew up Marine Barracks in Lebanon?
You mean Osama Bin Ladin and the Taliban? The guys that the US trained and supplied with weapons back in the 80's?
Your objectivity clearly has an anti-Bush agenda...
It's related to reality's well known liberal bias.
I think the poster was refering to the fact that Sirius (and I believe XM too) have an option where you can stream their stations over the internet in addition to having a satelite reciever.
It wouldn't be so bad if Apple would give us a maximize button. On a Mac, you have to drag the window to the top left, then move the mouse cursor to the bottom right of the window, then drag it to the bottom right of the screen. Be sure to get all the way over too, or else you'll end up clicking on something else when you try to apply Fitt's law to the scroll bars. Compare to one mouse click on any other OS.
Who isn't copying these days? It's too difficult to be innovative, really.
Funny, I don't see people posting things like that in the Vista articles around here.
It is YOUR fault you do not want to work for the same wage as illegal immigrants do. Do not blame somebody else for taking your job. Blame yourself.
That might be a valid point if everyone was on a level playing field. However, the illegals do not play by the same rules, and that's part of the problem.
Having been around long enough to remember people saying the same about the iPod and that it wouldn't do a thing to change the music business beacuse it was a niche product that was way to expensive and would only become popular with Apple fanbois I'll take that prediction with a grain of salt. :-D
Actually, the iPod initially was a niche product that was very expensive and would only be sold to Apple fanboys. Then Apple made the iPod available to Windows users and everything changed.
Shrink it down for other mobile phones, fine, but don't degrade my iPhone browsing just because you lump all mobile browsing together.
On the other hand, why should he go out of his way for the iPhone? It seems pretty clear that he isn't making special versions for all the other phone/PDA type devices out there, so why should the iPhone be any different?
I'm pretty sure your insurance company, and the government of Britain also want that ;-)
That's a very valid point. I would want it to be my camera system, not something the government mandates, or the insurance company installs and owns. Nowadays, you could likely work it in your favor - people wouldn't expect it to be there, and you could use the footage if it helps your case, and pretend it doesn't exist if it doesn't. However, if such systems became commonplace, the police might just automatically demand you turn over the footage during any incident, which could defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.
If every website told IE users to fuck off and come back with a real web browser the world would be a much better place.
Actually, that was tried, and Microsoft responded by modifying their User Agent string. That's the reason that even today, the User Agent string in Internet Explorer 7 has the word "Mozilla" in it.
That's not what I want though. I want a camera under my control, preferably two (front and back) automatically recording anytime the car is running to some durable media like flash. This should be easily doable with today's technology for a few hundreds dollars installed, would require virtually zero user interaction if set up right, and such a system could easily pay for itself the first time it records a crime or a traffic accident.