Back in seventh grade, when I still lived with my parents, I slipped into the world of Stanislaw Lem by accident. An old copy of Memoirs found in a Bathtub was hidden away in the small sci-fi section of our rural village-library. I found the title funny, so I borrowed it. I hadn't read 1984, nor any Kafka or such dystopic material so this was my entry into a whole new genre, and it made a huge impression.
If I must choose a favorite, I think it would be the Adventures of captain Prix. But they're all mostly excellent.
The AGP bus is only limited to 133Mb/s when running in 1x-mode (32bit, 33mhz). The AGP found in computers from this millenia are quite a bit faster, with both DDR and much higher clock frequencies.
In more recent computers, the AGP is running at 8x, which means theoretical maximum speeds over 1000Mb/s.
Besides, no matter what speed you're running the bus which your graphics are sitting on, going beyond local card memory will always be slower due to latency and such.
Crime is a problem best solved by taking care of criminals. Terrorism is a problem best solved by taking care of terrorist networks. In both cases people have to learn that might doesn't make right, and when you're angry about something it is not an acceptable solution to go out shooting people.
I would say that targeting terrorist networks, is only plausible in certain situations. Yes, it might be effective if it's an isolated cult or a gang of anarchists. But when it comes to the infrastructure of general terrorism, today most often in form of islamic jihadists, you must look one step further.
One can only fight terrorism with wealth and secularization. People who work less than 12h/day, have a healthy place to live and don't feel worried about starvation, simply won't care about doing terror stuff. At that point people also stop being overly anal about religious crap.
Well, I do agree with your main point, but I have to correct you on the "getting richer" part. The US has had a higher growth in both GNP and average incomes than most European countries, for the last twenty thirty or so.
The average Swede makes about USD 25k/year before taxes. Granted, we don't pay for college or health care, but for most people, it still means quite a bit less money to spend on luxuaries.
Also, the European people is aging quite fast, so in the coming decades the costs for public health will rise very fast, while there won't be particulary many more people working and paying taxes.
There really is no utopia on either side of the atlantic.
Oh, really? When was that welchia worm as most active? I've never experienced any such slowdowns on the internet, no matter what worm who's been ravaging the net...
Perhaps it's just the awesome swedish communications infrastructure. =)
Please excuse my unprecise language. I can't figure out whether you are american, european or something entirely different. But I assume that you're american, because it is a statistically correct assumption.
In the civilized parts of Europe we usually rid our selves of politicians we dont like, by working unpaid trying to swing opinion and removing their support in a democratic way. Talking to people, arranging debates at schools and public squares, writing articles to newspapers and magazines. Etc, etc. It's actually great fun too.
We don'y buy politicians and we usually don't kill them either (even though our swedish foreign minister tradgically was murdered last week by a unknown loony).
I think you are wrong at least about Linus being unknown. Alan is probably only known among the UK MEPs and a few of the more tech savvy, but Linus is just as well known as Bill Gates.
There's quite some activity within the parliament concerning the sw-patents bill. The liberal party group (to which both my MEP and Pat Cox belongs) is very much against it.
Now, if we could only rid ourselves of those bloody conservatives...
At the end of the paragraph, it says that it is ok to store a cookie for:
"[...] sådan lagring eller åtkomst som behövs för att utföra eller underlätta att överföra ett elektroniskt meddelande via ett elektroniskt kommunikationsnät eller som är nödvändig för att tillhandahålla en tjänst som användaren eller abonnenten uttryckligen har begärt."
Wich in english translates into something like "to ease the transmission of a electronic message or supply a service the user explicitly asked for"
When typing in an URL I'd say that one is really rather explicit about asking for that website. And there for a site can store cookies related to it self.
My interpretation of the law is that it forbidds datamining using innocent peoples cookies.
Yes, at present time you make money from selling games. That doesn't give you any moral right to live on selling games in the same way for the rest of your life.
If consolemakers wan't to practically give away consoles, that's fine. They don't have any right to make profit, giving things away, though.
Unfortunatly it looks like you're side is winning, and all aspects of fair use is being bought out of the law, as we're speaking.
You might make me a communist, but I belive in the right of possesion.
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Back in seventh grade, when I still lived with my parents, I slipped into the world of Stanislaw Lem by accident. An old copy of Memoirs found in a Bathtub was hidden away in the small sci-fi section of our rural village-library. I found the title funny, so I borrowed it. I hadn't read 1984, nor any Kafka or such dystopic material so this was my entry into a whole new genre, and it made a huge impression.
If I must choose a favorite, I think it would be the Adventures of captain Prix. But they're all mostly excellent.
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The AGP bus is only limited to 133Mb/s when running in 1x-mode (32bit, 33mhz). The AGP found in computers from this millenia are quite a bit faster, with both DDR and much higher clock frequencies.
In more recent computers, the AGP is running at 8x, which means theoretical maximum speeds over 1000Mb/s.
Besides, no matter what speed you're running the bus which your graphics are sitting on, going beyond local card memory will always be slower due to latency and such.
Crime is a problem best solved by taking care of criminals. Terrorism is a problem best solved by taking care of terrorist networks. In both cases people have to learn that might doesn't make right, and when you're angry about something it is not an acceptable solution to go out shooting people.
I would say that targeting terrorist networks, is only plausible in certain situations. Yes, it might be effective if it's an isolated cult or a gang of anarchists. But when it comes to the infrastructure of general terrorism, today most often in form of islamic jihadists, you must look one step further. One can only fight terrorism with wealth and secularization. People who work less than 12h/day, have a healthy place to live and don't feel worried about starvation, simply won't care about doing terror stuff. At that point people also stop being overly anal about religious crap.
Well, I do agree with your main point, but I have to correct you on the "getting richer" part. The US has had a higher growth in both GNP and average incomes than most European countries, for the last twenty thirty or so.
The average Swede makes about USD 25k/year before taxes. Granted, we don't pay for college or health care, but for most people, it still means quite a bit less money to spend on luxuaries.
Also, the European people is aging quite fast, so in the coming decades the costs for public health will rise very fast, while there won't be particulary many more people working and paying taxes.
There really is no utopia on either side of the atlantic.
Oh, really? When was that welchia worm as most active? I've never experienced any such slowdowns on the internet, no matter what worm who's been ravaging the net...
Perhaps it's just the awesome swedish communications infrastructure. =)
Please excuse my unprecise language. I can't figure out whether you are american, european or something entirely different. But I assume that you're american, because it is a statistically correct assumption.
In the civilized parts of Europe we usually rid our selves of politicians we dont like, by working unpaid trying to swing opinion and removing their support in a democratic way. Talking to people, arranging debates at schools and public squares, writing articles to newspapers and magazines. Etc, etc. It's actually great fun too.
We don'y buy politicians and we usually don't kill them either (even though our swedish foreign minister tradgically was murdered last week by a unknown loony).
I think you are wrong at least about Linus being unknown. Alan is probably only known among the UK MEPs and a few of the more tech savvy, but Linus is just as well known as Bill Gates.
There's quite some activity within the parliament concerning the sw-patents bill. The liberal party group (to which both my MEP and Pat Cox belongs) is very much against it.
Now, if we could only rid ourselves of those bloody conservatives...
At the end of the paragraph, it says that it is ok to store a cookie for:
"[...] sådan lagring eller åtkomst som behövs för att utföra eller underlätta att överföra ett elektroniskt meddelande via ett elektroniskt kommunikationsnät eller som är nödvändig för att tillhandahålla en tjänst som användaren eller abonnenten uttryckligen har begärt."
Wich in english translates into something like "to ease the transmission of a electronic message or supply a service the user explicitly asked for"
When typing in an URL I'd say that one is really rather explicit about asking for that website. And there for a site can store cookies related to it self.
My interpretation of the law is that it forbidds datamining using innocent peoples cookies.
Yes, at present time you make money from selling games. That doesn't give you any moral right to live on selling games in the same way for the rest of your life.
If consolemakers wan't to practically give away consoles, that's fine. They don't have any right to make profit, giving things away, though.
Unfortunatly it looks like you're side is winning, and all aspects of fair use is being bought out of the law, as we're speaking.
You might make me a communist, but I belive in the right of possesion.