I get nervous when great shows turn into open-ended properties. Babylon 5 was able to sustain itself for the most part because of a pre-imagined story arc, that was designed from the beginning for 5 seasons only. DS9, after the first season, seemed to get into gear for the Dominion story arc, which lasted 6 seasons, although only getting into high gear on the latter half. I don't want to see the mostly tight story of BSG turn into the equivalent of spaghetti code for overextending its possibilities.
These must be special wormholes. Typical wormholes, if they existed, would create a shortcut in space-time within the same universe. Or maybe these hypothetical constructs are not wormholes, but something else?
They're going to plug in Cell CPUs into the mainframe via just plain PCI? Don't they mean PCI-X or PCI-E? I'd think using a Hypertransport bus would be perfect for co-processors, too.
1) This isn't related to technology in any way, and does not belong on/.
2) Kucinich is one of the most, if not the most, radical Leftist in Congress. His support in his own party's mainstream is negligible. This is pure showmanship, as by the time any such impeachment proceedings came into being, the Bush Presidency would already have been completed. This is a ploy designed to gain support among those that have experienced a psychotic break with reality, in a futile attempt to become President. I think liberals are smarter than the MoveOn.org crowd sometimes credits them for.
"Our students can't make change, but their scores on insipid post-modern nonsense is amazing." Unfortunately, they'll all be self-alienated crazies working at fast-food establishments for life.
What happens if I'm on the laptop keyboard, then the desktop keyboard? As I'm more attuned to the laptop atm, the desktop keyboard will have a different usage pattern. If I go from this keyboard to one on another desktop, it will be even more off.
Why should a company's power usage statistics be public knowledge? You can't know how much toilet paper I use, what phone numbers I call, etc. There's a reasonable expectation of privacy within private transactions.
Police are notorious for placing themselves above the law. On the road, I see them speeding like crazy, and have been tailgated more than once by a police car. Not all police do this, I imagine, but they tend to be among the most aggressive and pushy drivers on the road.
ACCESS PalmOS Linux, or Something Else?
on
Palm to go Linux
·
· Score: 1
ACCESS, who own the PalmOS (except the piece Palm bought the rights to development to), has said for over a year that the next version of PalmOS will be running Linux, with a current PalmOS compatible front-end. Is the article talking about this, or something new, that Palm itself is creating a Linux PDA OS?
Well, I managed to have them pay back the "termination" charge. They gave me 1.5MBps instead of 3Mbps originally, had to re-provision the line for 3.0Mbps, which meant terminating and reestablishing DSL service. After yelling at them for an hour, they said they'd waive the charge. Then of course later, when I got DSL back, the charge re-appeared. So that took yelling at them for 45 minutes. So firm persuasion can be far easier and more efficient than a lawsuit. Any good lawyer will tell you, suing is the last resort. They didn't violate the TOS. They violated common sense and coordination.
Verizon FiOS just rolled out in my area a couple weeks ago. I've been using Earthlink since late fall, and it will cost me $149.95 to move from Earthlink to FiOS. I'd get several megabits more down for less cost with Verizon, but Earthlink has trapped me into its mediocre services (customer service is all over the place, and it can take multiple phone calls to straighten things out). Keeping customers in sub-par service with extremely high termination fees will just anger customers. Earthlink, this means you.
Airplanes are full of obnoxious louts that don't belong out of the attic, much less in public. If people start blabbing about their pathetic, meaningless lives in a claustrophobic metal tube, I won't even need boxcutters.
If Australia decided to confer upon a chimpanzee human rights (and I'd argue that the chimpanzee must be aware of what those human rights entail, and to request said rights of his or her own accord), would the chimpanzee be given human rights on the basis of a minor or an adult? Does it have basic human rights such as the right to own property, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote? If it kills, is it put to death as an adult, or spared as a minor? Is the chimpanzee a minor, whereby it has restricted rights, and resides under the protection of a custodial guardian? If so, under what rubric is it decided what rights it does and does not have on account of its minority status?
I think what's missing is that x86 was ditched, over a decade ago. What you are seeing now are varying ISAs (AMD at one time called this RISC86 [do they still use this term? Is RISC86 still used, or was it dumped after the K6?], unaware what Intel calls its solution) on a chip with a small front-end that to the outside world looks like x86.
Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Intel and AMD research ventures, etc. etc. Major breakthroughs, whether utilized by their creators or not, have most certainly come out of private industry. I do not dispute that some breakthroughs have resulted from "public" funding of research ventures, but the amount of dollars invested for results, both practical and theoretical, must be vastly increased over that of the civil sector for an equal number of breakthroughs. I am not a vulgar scientist, and I do not have an amoral view of life, in which the only motivating factors are how much I can get from whatever possible source, regardless of the method of extraction. I am equally concerned with whether the funds allocated for my own use are through voluntary cooperation, or through coercive (i.e. violent or under the threat thereof) methods. To do good, one must first do no harm. Taking a million dollars in tainted funds, even if it would save two million lives, is not morally justifiable.
Many inventions, especially in medicine, rely on the *fact* of evolution.
Which medicines rely on a specifically Darwinian theory of evolution? Evolution in and itself, such as mutation of strain A into strain AB (note it is still a sub-species of strain A), is not something either side contests.
Technically (or in theory) we live in a republic, not a democracy. The problem with a democracy is when you bestow upon 51% of the voters the ability to pick the pockets of the other 49% for their own pet causes, you end up with monolithic groupthink, no competition, and therefore no innovation. There should not be a choice between "scientific" research and faith-based initiatives on the government dole. The free-market, while imperfect, is a far better allocator of scarce resources among a cornucopia of options beyond the binary options of government administrations. I'd rather convince 10% of the population that my idea is correct and thereby gain funding through voluntary means than convince 51% of the population that my idea is correct, and then proceed to plunder the entirety of the productive citizenry for my own pleasure.
How does this matter? Whether people believe in evolution or not is irrelevant. People are not going to stop inventing, trading and banking simply because they disagree with someone else about a purely abstract idea. The world will not end. This is just elitist preening.
"President Vladimir Putin has also taken note, backing the construction of a $650 million technology business district with $100 million in state funding for infrastructure."
That torpedoes things. Throwing money at business districts et al to artificially inflate development results in mostly empty business districts, and a more likely than not depressed economy where built, while businesses happily locate to areas of low taxes, rule of law, and respected property rights. Russia's business climate is dismal, its political climate threatening. Ham handed attempts to entice technology businesses to places themselves in such a poor business environment will fail. Successful governments attract business by limiting their intrusions into the economy, and keeping taxes and the regulatory burden low. Trying to essentially bribe businesses to move in with a new shiny office park will not hide the regressive decrepit state of affairs in Putin's Russia.
How soon before Speakeasy becomes a walking joke, con artists, and destroyer of customer machines, like Geek Squad did after being bought out by Best Buy?
Slashdot Mirror
French-press. Anything else is sacrilege (except for espresso).
"What are your favorite beans?"
Arabica, you charlatan. No person that knew what they were talking about would dare ask such a basic question.
I get nervous when great shows turn into open-ended properties. Babylon 5 was able to sustain itself for the most part because of a pre-imagined story arc, that was designed from the beginning for 5 seasons only. DS9, after the first season, seemed to get into gear for the Dominion story arc, which lasted 6 seasons, although only getting into high gear on the latter half. I don't want to see the mostly tight story of BSG turn into the equivalent of spaghetti code for overextending its possibilities.
These must be special wormholes. Typical wormholes, if they existed, would create a shortcut in space-time within the same universe. Or maybe these hypothetical constructs are not wormholes, but something else?
They're going to plug in Cell CPUs into the mainframe via just plain PCI? Don't they mean PCI-X or PCI-E? I'd think using a Hypertransport bus would be perfect for co-processors, too.
1) This isn't related to technology in any way, and does not belong on /.
2) Kucinich is one of the most, if not the most, radical Leftist in Congress. His support in his own party's mainstream is negligible. This is pure showmanship, as by the time any such impeachment proceedings came into being, the Bush Presidency would already have been completed. This is a ploy designed to gain support among those that have experienced a psychotic break with reality, in a futile attempt to become President. I think liberals are smarter than the MoveOn.org crowd sometimes credits them for.
"Our students can't make change, but their scores on insipid post-modern nonsense is amazing." Unfortunately, they'll all be self-alienated crazies working at fast-food establishments for life.
What happens if I'm on the laptop keyboard, then the desktop keyboard? As I'm more attuned to the laptop atm, the desktop keyboard will have a different usage pattern. If I go from this keyboard to one on another desktop, it will be even more off.
Why should a company's power usage statistics be public knowledge? You can't know how much toilet paper I use, what phone numbers I call, etc. There's a reasonable expectation of privacy within private transactions.
Police are notorious for placing themselves above the law. On the road, I see them speeding like crazy, and have been tailgated more than once by a police car. Not all police do this, I imagine, but they tend to be among the most aggressive and pushy drivers on the road.
ACCESS, who own the PalmOS (except the piece Palm bought the rights to development to), has said for over a year that the next version of PalmOS will be running Linux, with a current PalmOS compatible front-end. Is the article talking about this, or something new, that Palm itself is creating a Linux PDA OS?
Well, I managed to have them pay back the "termination" charge. They gave me 1.5MBps instead of 3Mbps originally, had to re-provision the line for 3.0Mbps, which meant terminating and reestablishing DSL service. After yelling at them for an hour, they said they'd waive the charge. Then of course later, when I got DSL back, the charge re-appeared. So that took yelling at them for 45 minutes. So firm persuasion can be far easier and more efficient than a lawsuit. Any good lawyer will tell you, suing is the last resort. They didn't violate the TOS. They violated common sense and coordination.
Verizon FiOS just rolled out in my area a couple weeks ago. I've been using Earthlink since late fall, and it will cost me $149.95 to move from Earthlink to FiOS. I'd get several megabits more down for less cost with Verizon, but Earthlink has trapped me into its mediocre services (customer service is all over the place, and it can take multiple phone calls to straighten things out). Keeping customers in sub-par service with extremely high termination fees will just anger customers. Earthlink, this means you.
Airplanes are full of obnoxious louts that don't belong out of the attic, much less in public. If people start blabbing about their pathetic, meaningless lives in a claustrophobic metal tube, I won't even need boxcutters.
If Australia decided to confer upon a chimpanzee human rights (and I'd argue that the chimpanzee must be aware of what those human rights entail, and to request said rights of his or her own accord), would the chimpanzee be given human rights on the basis of a minor or an adult? Does it have basic human rights such as the right to own property, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote? If it kills, is it put to death as an adult, or spared as a minor? Is the chimpanzee a minor, whereby it has restricted rights, and resides under the protection of a custodial guardian? If so, under what rubric is it decided what rights it does and does not have on account of its minority status?
I think what's missing is that x86 was ditched, over a decade ago. What you are seeing now are varying ISAs (AMD at one time called this RISC86 [do they still use this term? Is RISC86 still used, or was it dumped after the K6?], unaware what Intel calls its solution) on a chip with a small front-end that to the outside world looks like x86.
Xerox PARC, IBM Research, Intel and AMD research ventures, etc. etc. Major breakthroughs, whether utilized by their creators or not, have most certainly come out of private industry. I do not dispute that some breakthroughs have resulted from "public" funding of research ventures, but the amount of dollars invested for results, both practical and theoretical, must be vastly increased over that of the civil sector for an equal number of breakthroughs. I am not a vulgar scientist, and I do not have an amoral view of life, in which the only motivating factors are how much I can get from whatever possible source, regardless of the method of extraction. I am equally concerned with whether the funds allocated for my own use are through voluntary cooperation, or through coercive (i.e. violent or under the threat thereof) methods. To do good, one must first do no harm. Taking a million dollars in tainted funds, even if it would save two million lives, is not morally justifiable.
Which medicines rely on a specifically Darwinian theory of evolution? Evolution in and itself, such as mutation of strain A into strain AB (note it is still a sub-species of strain A), is not something either side contests.
Technically (or in theory) we live in a republic, not a democracy. The problem with a democracy is when you bestow upon 51% of the voters the ability to pick the pockets of the other 49% for their own pet causes, you end up with monolithic groupthink, no competition, and therefore no innovation. There should not be a choice between "scientific" research and faith-based initiatives on the government dole. The free-market, while imperfect, is a far better allocator of scarce resources among a cornucopia of options beyond the binary options of government administrations. I'd rather convince 10% of the population that my idea is correct and thereby gain funding through voluntary means than convince 51% of the population that my idea is correct, and then proceed to plunder the entirety of the productive citizenry for my own pleasure.
How does this matter? Whether people believe in evolution or not is irrelevant. People are not going to stop inventing, trading and banking simply because they disagree with someone else about a purely abstract idea. The world will not end. This is just elitist preening.
It's PC Magazine. Fact checking, anyone?
That torpedoes things. Throwing money at business districts et al to artificially inflate development results in mostly empty business districts, and a more likely than not depressed economy where built, while businesses happily locate to areas of low taxes, rule of law, and respected property rights. Russia's business climate is dismal, its political climate threatening. Ham handed attempts to entice technology businesses to places themselves in such a poor business environment will fail. Successful governments attract business by limiting their intrusions into the economy, and keeping taxes and the regulatory burden low. Trying to essentially bribe businesses to move in with a new shiny office park will not hide the regressive decrepit state of affairs in Putin's Russia.
How soon before Speakeasy becomes a walking joke, con artists, and destroyer of customer machines, like Geek Squad did after being bought out by Best Buy?
At the point of gun. Works for government.
Huh? All 50 States? Even those without a sales tax?
Disintegrator.