Well, if they start taxing internet-based purchases, I'll just use the Internet to find a vendor, and I'll start purchasing through them by mail instead of by phone or internet.
I personally don't give a shit if it's by email, web, phone, mail, smoke signals, shortwave radio, or whatnot. As long as it's interstate, it shouldn't be taxed by a state.
Well, as unglamourous as a "butt print" is, it would be interesting to see if one can be identified by how one's pressure applies. Different parts push harder due to shape and posture, so if you happen to sit more on your left hip than on your right it should show...
Let's just hope that the software doesn't create a visual 3d model of someone's ass as a rendered image. *shudder*
It won't be able to recognize you by weight if it continues to do absolutely everything for you, like ordering food and changing the channel on the TV without requiring you to get up...
I wonder if they built an AI into it to intelligently determine who the occupant is by weight gain over time...
If one looks at the newsgroups as historically how something like this works, the.museum TLD is a highly restrictive, highly controlled domain. It's entire purpose is for respected institutions to be listed. So, them having a master index and a reply indicating an invalid domain makes sense, since the entire domain listing easily scrolls through a few screens only. It would be the equivalent of a comp or sci newsgroup; highly structured groups with moderation and content rules.
.com is the tld equivalent of alt., where anyone can create and post anything, without moderation, without structure. Attempting to impose structure, in the form of sitefinder, is stupid in this instance, since the organizations represented in.com are usually for-profit or attempting to jockey for position. If I have a business, do I now have to register every possible combination of my domain to keep idiots from being redirected to a customer of mine because they paid verisign to add them to the referral page for a misspelling of my domain name? I also have to worry about verisign giving precedence to domains registered through them in the recommended sites, and if I have a godaddy.com-registered domain, will I end up being denied business that would normally have realised that they made a typo, to fix it and come to me?
This is the real problem that I have with sitefinder. It being in the hands of a commercial organization who has exhibited a systematic behaviour of putting profit before anything else will only exploit this situation. They will start selling placement on messed up domain entries, they will start denying domains registered through other registrars the same regular placement as their own, and they will destroy what had been a fairly free and open system.
I'd recommend that if Verisign doesn't immediately stop this insanity that we write to our legislators and demand that control of the TLDs that versign manages be removed and handed to ICANN to deal with directly.
I could well enough. I can't now, since it's been years since I've been to a Dewey library frequently, but I remember which of the hundred level categories the subjects fit into, and some of the categories specifically within. Not everything, but close enough that I could find what I needed by browsing titles after I found the right subsection.
I believe that's the way it should be, in an intuitive catalogue.
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"The "leave it" part is dropping out and living in a small shack in Montana with no connection to the outside world or much else."
But then what am I going to do for a living? Send packages to people via the mail?
I never liked LOC, but I was taught Dewey. I could walk into a Dewey library that was properly signed (by number range) and find anything that I wanted, without having to consult the catalog. When I got to college, I had to deal with the college having three libraries, with different segments being in different buildings (ie, science library, law library) without being labelled as such in the catalog, only to get up and over to the section in the main library where the segment would be in order, to find a sign saying that those books were in the other building.
Needless to say, this implementation gave me a particular distain for LOC, and even if it is a better system, I don't think that I'll ever like it.
Perhaps they needed a chip *now* and their Prescott chip wasn't really where they wanted, so they're releasing it as a 32 bit chip...
Remember, a lot of OEMs use Intel processors exclusively. So, Intel's not having a solution that AMD has had available for testing and now for production for a cheap price is egg on the face of Intel. If they get the "Prescott 32 bit" chips to be successful, then when they get the "Prescott 64 bit" chips to market, the name will have already established itself.
Who the hell names their chip after a town in Northern Arizona anyway? Sheesh.
"I'll stick with Intel, thanks. Any of you guys actually have a *good* AMD processor?"
My 450MHz AMD K6-2 worked fine, at 4.5x100MHz, my 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird worked fine, and my Athlon XP2400+ (2.055 GHz after some interesting bus overclocking) works just fine.
I've never had a problem with them. Do you know what you're doing? Setting the voltage levels is required on the older boards, and that actually means reading the provided motherboard manual.
I'm looking forward to a dual-AMD 64 bit configuration for home at some point, it looks pretty sweet.
I have a Compaq Armada 5250 or somesuch, with the full monitor-on-top style docking station. I don't use it anymore, since it's only a Pentium 133, but it was a nice machine back in its day. The trouble is that the dock is large enough and clunky enough to deal with (all connectors except headphones on the back or underneath) that it's really not as practical as it would initially seem. Yeah, it makes for a good place to store the laptop, but it makes the monitor sit high enough to be annoying, and it doesn't offer any real expansion beyond the dual PS/2 slots over what the laptop itself had. Nor does the laptop have enough video memory to make use of the external display having a resolution beyond 800x600. So, in the end, it was an expensive lemon.
What if it's both? I have a multivolume disk array. What happens if I end up replacing one of my drives with a disk that looks like it should be big enough by the specs only to find out that its four or five megabytes too small? They're probably not going to buy my logic for why I'm returning it...
Well, one problem that I've encountered in distros like debian is that there are rather annoying dependencies. There are things that require a local MTD. There are things that require EMACS. That's just dumb if it only makes one obsecure call.
"Everyone: do the world a favor and pull a "Clinton-exit-manuever" on the marketers in your office: sneak in after they leave and pry the "X" keys off of their keyboards. Thank you."
But then all they'll have time for is 'entertaining' the interns, much like the aforementioned President...
Thing is though, any hardware can be a diskless terminal as long as it supports booting network or using a boot rom. So, that old weird PCI AMD 486 laying around can get a boot rom-based ethernet card, and voila! Xterm. Many new ethernet cards support it without needing the rom. It's a lot cheaper to continue with the "upgrade the backend" mentality if the front end user machine is even cheaper, and like another poster said, a PII can be found surplus for $50 in many cities, in quantity, with identical hardware configurations (where some ohter large company got rid of them because they were too old). The "Thin" machine, which is less of a machine, shouldn't cost exhorbiantly more unless it's industrial grade. Somehow I doubt that modern HP terminals will compete with the old 700RX's and Envizex I-series machines from the early '90s...
When I can go buy a cheap $129 Via C3 motherboard with integrated everything, slimline case, memory, keyboard, mouse and flat panel for $500, why should I consider buying this thin client? Once you get away from the standard PC mentality, the costs do become increasingly important...
"No overt attack neccesary; he would flip a switch, sit back and look forward to his 70 virgins that Allah[0] will be handing over in a few minutes while the crew futiley scramble around until the inevitable crash."
If we design our aircraft so poorly as to not have any manual controls, then some re-evaluation needs to occur. There's a reason that we have trained pilots that go through fairly extensive training on a particular aircraft (and are certified on only the particular plan/cockpit configuration that they fly regularly), is because they are supposed to be experts in what they do. If an electronics bug can cause a plane to fall from the sky, then the electronics have way too much control over the flaps, engines, rudder, and ailerons, and even if the computer is capable of making adjustments, the plane should still be manually controllable. I mean, what if lightning strikes a plane in the exact wrong place and it manages to cook the onboard computers?
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Yes, it's just physics, existing public domain parts, and a brain, but I'm sure that won't matter in a court of law these days.
Overheard in a Best Buy or Virgin Megastore as someone reaches for a CD from a major distributor:
"It's Evil! Don't Touch It!"
POOF!
Well, if they start taxing internet-based purchases, I'll just use the Internet to find a vendor, and I'll start purchasing through them by mail instead of by phone or internet.
I personally don't give a shit if it's by email, web, phone, mail, smoke signals, shortwave radio, or whatnot. As long as it's interstate, it shouldn't be taxed by a state.
Well, as unglamourous as a "butt print" is, it would be interesting to see if one can be identified by how one's pressure applies. Different parts push harder due to shape and posture, so if you happen to sit more on your left hip than on your right it should show...
Let's just hope that the software doesn't create a visual 3d model of someone's ass as a rendered image. *shudder*
It won't be able to recognize you by weight if it continues to do absolutely everything for you, like ordering food and changing the channel on the TV without requiring you to get up...
I wonder if they built an AI into it to intelligently determine who the occupant is by weight gain over time...
If one looks at the newsgroups as historically how something like this works, the .museum TLD is a highly restrictive, highly controlled domain. It's entire purpose is for respected institutions to be listed. So, them having a master index and a reply indicating an invalid domain makes sense, since the entire domain listing easily scrolls through a few screens only. It would be the equivalent of a comp or sci newsgroup; highly structured groups with moderation and content rules.
.com is the tld equivalent of alt., where anyone can create and post anything, without moderation, without structure. Attempting to impose structure, in the form of sitefinder, is stupid in this instance, since the organizations represented in .com are usually for-profit or attempting to jockey for position. If I have a business, do I now have to register every possible combination of my domain to keep idiots from being redirected to a customer of mine because they paid verisign to add them to the referral page for a misspelling of my domain name? I also have to worry about verisign giving precedence to domains registered through them in the recommended sites, and if I have a godaddy.com-registered domain, will I end up being denied business that would normally have realised that they made a typo, to fix it and come to me?
This is the real problem that I have with sitefinder. It being in the hands of a commercial organization who has exhibited a systematic behaviour of putting profit before anything else will only exploit this situation. They will start selling placement on messed up domain entries, they will start denying domains registered through other registrars the same regular placement as their own, and they will destroy what had been a fairly free and open system.
I'd recommend that if Verisign doesn't immediately stop this insanity that we write to our legislators and demand that control of the TLDs that versign manages be removed and handed to ICANN to deal with directly.
Isn't that called a trace? Or another fancy name would be a lead? I think that there are people with prior art...
I could well enough. I can't now, since it's been years since I've been to a Dewey library frequently, but I remember which of the hundred level categories the subjects fit into, and some of the categories specifically within. Not everything, but close enough that I could find what I needed by browsing titles after I found the right subsection.
I believe that's the way it should be, in an intuitive catalogue.
"The "leave it" part is dropping out and living in a small shack in Montana with no connection to the outside world or much else."
But then what am I going to do for a living? Send packages to people via the mail?
Tell that to SCO, since that's all they seem to run on their webserver...
I never liked LOC, but I was taught Dewey. I could walk into a Dewey library that was properly signed (by number range) and find anything that I wanted, without having to consult the catalog. When I got to college, I had to deal with the college having three libraries, with different segments being in different buildings (ie, science library, law library) without being labelled as such in the catalog, only to get up and over to the section in the main library where the segment would be in order, to find a sign saying that those books were in the other building.
Needless to say, this implementation gave me a particular distain for LOC, and even if it is a better system, I don't think that I'll ever like it.
Perhaps they needed a chip *now* and their Prescott chip wasn't really where they wanted, so they're releasing it as a 32 bit chip...
Remember, a lot of OEMs use Intel processors exclusively. So, Intel's not having a solution that AMD has had available for testing and now for production for a cheap price is egg on the face of Intel. If they get the "Prescott 32 bit" chips to be successful, then when they get the "Prescott 64 bit" chips to market, the name will have already established itself.
Who the hell names their chip after a town in Northern Arizona anyway? Sheesh.
"I'll stick with Intel, thanks. Any of you guys actually have a *good* AMD processor?"
My 450MHz AMD K6-2 worked fine, at 4.5x100MHz, my 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird worked fine, and my Athlon XP2400+ (2.055 GHz after some interesting bus overclocking) works just fine.
I've never had a problem with them. Do you know what you're doing? Setting the voltage levels is required on the older boards, and that actually means reading the provided motherboard manual.
I'm looking forward to a dual-AMD 64 bit configuration for home at some point, it looks pretty sweet.
I have a Compaq Armada 5250 or somesuch, with the full monitor-on-top style docking station. I don't use it anymore, since it's only a Pentium 133, but it was a nice machine back in its day. The trouble is that the dock is large enough and clunky enough to deal with (all connectors except headphones on the back or underneath) that it's really not as practical as it would initially seem. Yeah, it makes for a good place to store the laptop, but it makes the monitor sit high enough to be annoying, and it doesn't offer any real expansion beyond the dual PS/2 slots over what the laptop itself had. Nor does the laptop have enough video memory to make use of the external display having a resolution beyond 800x600. So, in the end, it was an expensive lemon.
What if it's both? I have a multivolume disk array. What happens if I end up replacing one of my drives with a disk that looks like it should be big enough by the specs only to find out that its four or five megabytes too small? They're probably not going to buy my logic for why I'm returning it...
NEW Extreme Computing! Computers Gone Wild!!! College Spring Break!
A preview...
man shouting to sexy computer chassis:Take it off! (shakes a strand of discrete components) Take that top off!
Computer chassis lid is removed, computer shakes it's microprocessor seductively
Yours for only $349.95! Check us out at www.intel.com!!
Well, one problem that I've encountered in distros like debian is that there are rather annoying dependencies. There are things that require a local MTD. There are things that require EMACS. That's just dumb if it only makes one obsecure call.
Otherwise, I've been really happy with Debian.
I'm sure that this company will claim trademark infringement on at least one of the designs...
Some posts are saying that he'll never get laid, while others are commenting something about a 'breeder'. C'mon folks! Which is it?
Ten-queue very much. I'll be here all week...
Sorry, had to be done...
"Everyone: do the world a favor and pull a "Clinton-exit-manuever" on the marketers in your office: sneak in after they leave and pry the "X" keys off of their keyboards. Thank you."
But then all they'll have time for is 'entertaining' the interns, much like the aforementioned President...
"Wow. I consider myself to be a "database programmer" and I have no fucking clue what you're talking about."
I consider myself to be the Grand Poobah of the Holy Order of the Lemur, but that doesn't mean that I am as far as reality is concerned...
Thing is though, any hardware can be a diskless terminal as long as it supports booting network or using a boot rom. So, that old weird PCI AMD 486 laying around can get a boot rom-based ethernet card, and voila! Xterm. Many new ethernet cards support it without needing the rom. It's a lot cheaper to continue with the "upgrade the backend" mentality if the front end user machine is even cheaper, and like another poster said, a PII can be found surplus for $50 in many cities, in quantity, with identical hardware configurations (where some ohter large company got rid of them because they were too old). The "Thin" machine, which is less of a machine, shouldn't cost exhorbiantly more unless it's industrial grade. Somehow I doubt that modern HP terminals will compete with the old 700RX's and Envizex I-series machines from the early '90s...
When I can go buy a cheap $129 Via C3 motherboard with integrated everything, slimline case, memory, keyboard, mouse and flat panel for $500, why should I consider buying this thin client? Once you get away from the standard PC mentality, the costs do become increasingly important...
"No overt attack neccesary; he would flip a switch, sit back and look forward to his 70 virgins that Allah[0] will be handing over in a few minutes while the crew futiley scramble around until the inevitable crash."
If we design our aircraft so poorly as to not have any manual controls, then some re-evaluation needs to occur. There's a reason that we have trained pilots that go through fairly extensive training on a particular aircraft (and are certified on only the particular plan/cockpit configuration that they fly regularly), is because they are supposed to be experts in what they do. If an electronics bug can cause a plane to fall from the sky, then the electronics have way too much control over the flaps, engines, rudder, and ailerons, and even if the computer is capable of making adjustments, the plane should still be manually controllable. I mean, what if lightning strikes a plane in the exact wrong place and it manages to cook the onboard computers?