"Don't ever let people know that they aren't free, or they'll have to go around killing and maming to prove that they are."
You have freewill. You were born with it. We are the only species on the planet who feels a moral obligation to sacrifice our freewill to a government. Don't feel obligated to let someone else make your decisions for you, when you have the natural awareness to make them yourself. Nuf said.
1. Never been on TV. This is to assure that I haven't been brainwashed by the media.
2. Has a basic understanding of human rights and freewill.
3. Has nothing to gain from being President. This probably precludes anyone who actually wants to be President. If you want to be President, you're probably not qualified.
4. Someone I've actually met. This is for the same basic reasons as rule 1.
Other than that, it's basically a personal preference thing. I think if everyone voted following these rules, we'd be less likely to get someone in office who is going to maintain the status quo and screw us over the first chance they get. When this country was founded, you voted for someone you actually knew, and not someone that was force fed to you by the media. Now whoever gets in is the lesser of the available evils. Sometimes people just vote for someone because they think he is the likely winner, which is the absolute stupidest thing you can do, because maybe THAT'S why he's the likely winner.
I'm not sure about the quality of the stack in Win2K, but I remember reading that it had essentially an identical signature to BSD's. My theory is that the Win2K TCP/IP code is "inspired" by the BSD source code. So maybe that means it's actually decent.
You're right about the HX. It would do 512 Megabytes if you had a TAG RAM chip on your motherboard. However, it was strictly limited to 66 Mhz or less bus speed.
According to JC's PC News and Links. (www.jc-news.com/pc), there should be dual Athlon boards out in Q1, probably January of February. Tyan is supposed to be the first to manufacture one.
If you go to www.slota.com/motherboards/ they list 45 different slota motherboard models. The 5 you mention are just the mainstream OEM boards, there are a lot more.
However, I've seen 4 out of the 5 you mention (Asus, FIC, Gigabyte, and MSI), and my favorite is the Gigabyte. It has onboard temperature and voltage sensors, is incredibly stable, and doesn't seem to need a 300 watt power supply. It also hasn't had the compatibility problems the FIC and Asus have. (The FIC had a voltage regulation bug that caused random reboots on their early boards, and the Asus has had problems with Ultra class video cards. There are other issues as well...)
I agree that the Athlon is a great chip. But most of the motherboards (with the exception of the Gigabyte, which I think is awesome) suck. I hope this gets worked out, so there can be some fair competition for a change.
Well, it did have one advantage - an onboard cache controller, which allowed it to cache large amounts of RAM, about 512 Megabytes. Most of the other Intel chipsets of that era (FX, VX, TX) would only cache 64 megabytes, which left people wondering why adding more RAM slowed down their machine.
I think the biggest advantage of these new chips is the.18 process they are using, which is what leads to the greater overclocking potential. Most of the.18 aluminummines will do 800 Mhz, where the physical limitation of the.25's was about 590. Still, I'll never own one, because I'm going to have an Athlon...
Nitrous is available as a product called "whip-its". It's manufactured for making whipped cream, but is usually sold at adult bookstores. I'm not sure exactly why....
Cool edit pro. I've also tried Cakewalk, Digital Orchestrator Pro, and a few other demos. I always come back to Cool Edit, though, because I really like it.
Every time there is a new processor announced, someone points out that most people probably don't need anything faster then XXX-Mhz. However, some people really do.
I own part of a small recording studio. We record and mix down on a PC. I am currently using a 450Mhz K6-III. I will probably upgrade to a 1Ghz Athlon, or maybe a dual 1Ghz Athlon, when they are available - here's why:
On a 200 Mhz processor, noise reduction took about 25 minutes per song. Multiply that times about 15 songs, and your looking at about 6 hours of computer time for the mixdown stage of a CD. With a k6-III 450, this is down to about 5-7 minutes, which means the same process takes less than 2 hours. With a 1Ghz Athlon, we should be down to about 45 minutes. 45 minutes is a lot less than 6 hours.
Though it may not matter to most people, there are some applications (Audio, Video, Rendering, Stock Trading) that will always benefit from more speed. So I say - bring it on, the faster the better. When I can do all the effects on a whole song before my finger gets off the mouse button, that will be fast enough. Until then, I'll be on the happy trail of yearly upgrades.
Rule # 1: If it's on Slashdot, it automatically becomes "News for Nerds", because this is the news, and this is where the nerds are.
Rule # 2: Most stories have at least one post that says "Is this really news for nerds?". I think this is a waste of a perfectly good post.
Rule # 3: If you don't like a story, skip over it. I, for example, tend to skip over anything written by JonKatz, because I can't stand his writing style. But I don't go bitch about it (except right now, of course).
Rule # 4: Somebody cares. One persons earth shattering news is another persons complete drivel.
I agree from a technological point of view, as well as a real life point of view.
I work part time as a tech for an ISP. We are paying less than half as much for a T1 line as we were 2 years ago, and the POP (Point of Presence) we are using has gone from an OC-12 to an OC-48, so we have 4 times the bandwidth on the phone company level. So Moore's law proves to be true for our bandwidth, as well as the phone company's.
You seem to be using using the example of a single person to stereotype and label a larger group. I wish, for your own benefit, that you weren't so shallow. You can't judge a group of people based on one person. Not all hippies are bad. Some of them are wonderful selfless people who really do apply their beliefs to everyone equally. Every group of people has a few assholes. There are asshole hippies, asshole jocks, asshole nerds, etc. But try not to stereotype an entire group of people based on a single example, because that's just plain stupid.
I agree with you on this. AMD depends on the techie/OEM market to sell many of their chips. It is basic common sense that this would help them.
By the way, the AMD processors I have owned so far are:
AMD 286/16, AMD 386/25, AMD 486/40, AMD 5x86/133, AMD K6-2/350, and an AMD K6-3/450. I'm holding out on the Athlon until the dual (or quad) processor boards come out. If I'm going to go above 450, I want to be able to put in more than one processor.
From the creators, based on the type of utility it is, I'd almost guarantee it. If you're really paranoid, download about 5 copies from different sites and compare them. Or ask yourself why you're so paranoid.
My main reason for being against Gore is that I believe he has a positive stance on censorship. Tipper Gore (his wife) spearheaded both the music censorship and Internet censorship efforts.
So, if you are in favor of censorship, vore for Gore. Otherwise, I would find someone else to vote for.
In Mozilla M10, the proxies worked but you had to edit the files manually. (There are details at mozilla.org on how to do this.) I'm not sure if the proxy setup is working on M11. If it doesn't appear to be, you can also do it the M10 way with a text editor.
Well, yes, actually. It asks your permission to remember passwords, and it's open source so you can make sure it doesn't hose you. So you get the convenience of not typing passwords, with most of your paranoia problems being irrelevant. I'd say that a Good Thing (TM).
With most other Linux distributions you don't have to worry about this kind of crap.
I think Corel is doing some really good things towards increasing acceptance of Linux. However, I think they need to get legal and financial staff that aren't so anal retentive.
One of the joys of Linux is not having to sweat the details of different license agreements. That's one of the reasons we are often chossing Linux over Digital Unix and Solaris where I work. I realize that many people are really tired of hearing Linux users complain about license agreements. But I think Corel would be better off - financially and legally, if they would just GPL this stuff.
Actually, it's also legal when congress DOES it. Like withholding money from states (that the people gave them to start with) if they don't pass laws that are outside the congress's jurisdiction.
If anyone else did it, it would be called extortion. And it would be illegal. When congress, or the pawns or congress, do it, it is legal.
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The funny thing is, that protection of the public domain is a concept that goes all the way back to U.S. Constitutional law, and probably the charters of other countries as well. The original idea of copyrights was to allow a short amount of protection to allow for the original creator to profit from his work.
Does anybody actually follow the constitution anymore, or do they just pick and choose the parts they want to pay attention to?
I agree that there should be some sort of organization to take care of this sort of thing. But why in the hell isn't the whole constitution being protected like it's supposed to be?
As far as the length of copyrights, when the original 28 year term was chosen, the flow of information was much slower than it is now. I think a comparable term in today's society would be about 5 years. I also don't believe in imprisonment for intellectual property violations. Imprisonment was only justifiably created to protect us from violence. How about this - the original creator gets 5 years from public release to sell something that no one else can sell, with strictly financial penalties. Then the information becomes public, which allows a free flow of information and much freer learning, thought, and experience of artistic expression.
Or for that matter, we could all just choose to share our free thought, and forget this whole stupid idea completely.
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This reminds me of a quote from "Easy Rider":
"Don't ever let people know that they aren't free, or they'll have to go around killing and maming to prove that they are."
You have freewill. You were born with it. We are the only species on the planet who feels a moral obligation to sacrifice our freewill to a government. Don't feel obligated to let someone else make your decisions for you, when you have the natural awareness to make them yourself. Nuf said.
Following are my rules for choosing a president:
1. Never been on TV. This is to assure that I haven't been brainwashed by the media.
2. Has a basic understanding of human rights and freewill.
3. Has nothing to gain from being President. This probably precludes anyone who actually wants to be President. If you want to be President, you're probably not qualified.
4. Someone I've actually met. This is for the same basic reasons as rule 1.
Other than that, it's basically a personal preference thing. I think if everyone voted following these rules, we'd be less likely to get someone in office who is going to maintain the status quo and screw us over the first chance they get. When this country was founded, you voted for someone you actually knew, and not someone that was force fed to you by the media. Now whoever gets in is the lesser of the available evils. Sometimes people just vote for someone because they think he is the likely winner, which is the absolute stupidest thing you can do, because maybe THAT'S why he's the likely winner.
Peace, and good luck,
Barleyguy.
I'm not sure about the quality of the stack in Win2K, but I remember reading that it had essentially an identical signature to BSD's. My theory is that the Win2K TCP/IP code is "inspired" by the BSD source code. So maybe that means it's actually decent.
You're right about the HX. It would do 512 Megabytes if you had a TAG RAM chip on your motherboard. However, it was strictly limited to 66 Mhz or less bus speed.
According to JC's PC News and Links. (www.jc-news.com/pc), there should be dual Athlon boards out in Q1, probably January of February. Tyan is supposed to be the first to manufacture one.
If you go to www.slota.com/motherboards/ they list 45 different slota motherboard models. The 5 you mention are just the mainstream OEM boards, there are a lot more.
However, I've seen 4 out of the 5 you mention (Asus, FIC, Gigabyte, and MSI), and my favorite is the Gigabyte. It has onboard temperature and voltage sensors, is incredibly stable, and doesn't seem to need a 300 watt power supply. It also hasn't had the compatibility problems the FIC and Asus have. (The FIC had a voltage regulation bug that caused random reboots on their early boards, and the Asus has had problems with Ultra class video cards. There are other issues as well...)
I agree that the Athlon is a great chip. But most of the motherboards (with the exception of the Gigabyte, which I think is awesome) suck. I hope this gets worked out, so there can be some fair competition for a change.
Well, it did have one advantage - an onboard cache controller, which allowed it to cache large amounts of RAM, about 512 Megabytes. Most of the other Intel chipsets of that era (FX, VX, TX) would only cache 64 megabytes, which left people wondering why adding more RAM slowed down their machine.
.18 process they are using, which is what leads to the greater overclocking potential. Most of the .18 aluminummines will do 800 Mhz, where the physical limitation of the .25's was about 590. Still, I'll never own one, because I'm going to have an Athlon...
I think the biggest advantage of these new chips is the
Normally, I'd write you off as a hot grit troll. But I'd really love to see the clever answer l0pht would come up with for this one.
Nitrous is available as a product called "whip-its". It's manufactured for making whipped cream, but is usually sold at adult bookstores. I'm not sure exactly why....
Cool edit pro. I've also tried Cakewalk, Digital Orchestrator Pro, and a few other demos. I always come back to Cool Edit, though, because I really like it.
Every time there is a new processor announced, someone points out that most people probably don't need anything faster then XXX-Mhz. However, some people really do.
I own part of a small recording studio. We record and mix down on a PC. I am currently using a 450Mhz K6-III. I will probably upgrade to a 1Ghz Athlon, or maybe a dual 1Ghz Athlon, when they are available - here's why:
On a 200 Mhz processor, noise reduction took about 25 minutes per song. Multiply that times about 15 songs, and your looking at about 6 hours of computer time for the mixdown stage of a CD. With a k6-III 450, this is down to about 5-7 minutes, which means the same process takes less than 2 hours. With a 1Ghz Athlon, we should be down to about 45 minutes. 45 minutes is a lot less than 6 hours.
Though it may not matter to most people, there are some applications (Audio, Video, Rendering, Stock Trading) that will always benefit from more speed. So I say - bring it on, the faster the better. When I can do all the effects on a whole song before my finger gets off the mouse button, that will be fast enough. Until then, I'll be on the happy trail of yearly upgrades.
Rule # 1: If it's on Slashdot, it automatically becomes "News for Nerds", because this is the news, and this is where the nerds are.
Rule # 2: Most stories have at least one post that says "Is this really news for nerds?". I think this is a waste of a perfectly good post.
Rule # 3: If you don't like a story, skip over it. I, for example, tend to skip over anything written by JonKatz, because I can't stand his writing style. But I don't go bitch about it (except right now, of course).
Rule # 4: Somebody cares. One persons earth shattering news is another persons complete drivel.
I'll get off my soapbox......
#244, this has got to be a record for first posts!!! Fricking idiot!
I agree from a technological point of view, as well as a real life point of view.
I work part time as a tech for an ISP. We are paying less than half as much for a T1 line as we were 2 years ago, and the POP (Point of Presence) we are using has gone from an OC-12 to an OC-48, so we have 4 times the bandwidth on the phone company level. So Moore's law proves to be true for our bandwidth, as well as the phone company's.
You seem to be using using the example of a single person to stereotype and label a larger group. I wish, for your own benefit, that you weren't so shallow. You can't judge a group of people based on one person. Not all hippies are bad. Some of them are wonderful selfless people who really do apply their beliefs to everyone equally. Every group of people has a few assholes. There are asshole hippies, asshole jocks, asshole nerds, etc. But try not to stereotype an entire group of people based on a single example, because that's just plain stupid.
"Hey sheep! If you want to get out of the pen, you need to talk to the sheepherder."
Yeah, right.
I agree with you on this. AMD depends on the techie/OEM market to sell many of their chips. It is basic common sense that this would help them.
By the way, the AMD processors I have owned so far are:
AMD 286/16, AMD 386/25, AMD 486/40, AMD 5x86/133, AMD K6-2/350, and an AMD K6-3/450. I'm holding out on the Athlon until the dual (or quad) processor boards come out. If I'm going to go above 450, I want to be able to put in more than one processor.
If he didn't want the answer, he wouldn't have asked the question. Mellow out, dude.
From the creators, based on the type of utility it is, I'd almost guarantee it. If you're really paranoid, download about 5 copies from different sites and compare them. Or ask yourself why you're so paranoid.
My main reason for being against Gore is that I believe he has a positive stance on censorship. Tipper Gore (his wife) spearheaded both the music censorship and Internet censorship efforts.
So, if you are in favor of censorship, vore for Gore. Otherwise, I would find someone else to vote for.
In Mozilla M10, the proxies worked but you had to edit the files manually. (There are details at mozilla.org on how to do this.) I'm not sure if the proxy setup is working on M11. If it doesn't appear to be, you can also do it the M10 way with a text editor.
Well, yes, actually. It asks your permission to remember passwords, and it's open source so you can make sure it doesn't hose you. So you get the convenience of not typing passwords, with most of your paranoia problems being irrelevant. I'd say that a Good Thing (TM).
With most other Linux distributions you don't have to worry about this kind of crap.
I think Corel is doing some really good things towards increasing acceptance of Linux. However, I think they need to get legal and financial staff that aren't so anal retentive.
One of the joys of Linux is not having to sweat the details of different license agreements. That's one of the reasons we are often chossing Linux over Digital Unix and Solaris where I work. I realize that many people are really tired of hearing Linux users complain about license agreements. But I think Corel would be better off - financially and legally, if they would just GPL this stuff.
Actually, it's also legal when congress DOES it. Like withholding money from states (that the people gave them to start with) if they don't pass laws that are outside the congress's jurisdiction.
If anyone else did it, it would be called extortion. And it would be illegal. When congress, or the pawns or congress, do it, it is legal.
The funny thing is, that protection of the public domain is a concept that goes all the way back to U.S. Constitutional law, and probably the charters of other countries as well. The original idea of copyrights was to allow a short amount of protection to allow for the original creator to profit from his work.
Does anybody actually follow the constitution anymore, or do they just pick and choose the parts they want to pay attention to?
I agree that there should be some sort of organization to take care of this sort of thing. But why in the hell isn't the whole constitution being protected like it's supposed to be?
As far as the length of copyrights, when the original 28 year term was chosen, the flow of information was much slower than it is now. I think a comparable term in today's society would be about 5 years. I also don't believe in imprisonment for intellectual property violations. Imprisonment was only justifiably created to protect us from violence. How about this - the original creator gets 5 years from public release to sell something that no one else can sell, with strictly financial penalties. Then the information becomes public, which allows a free flow of information and much freer learning, thought, and experience of artistic expression.
Or for that matter, we could all just choose to share our free thought, and forget this whole stupid idea completely.
Just tossing out ideas.
Barleyguy.