Everyone should take notice that an ES-class Alpha cluster is at 2nd place while the only Itanium2-type cluster to ever compare comes in at 8th place and then 35th place. The first model of Itanium doesn't even appear on the list until about 111th place! Itanium2 may be a huge step from the first Itanium, yet Top500.org clearly shows that Alpha technology is superior to Intel's Itanium. A few people in this forum are critical that Intel would start producing Alpha if the Itanium2 flops, yet I seriously doubt any Alpha workstations would be made for average availability. The only customers to receive an Alpha would be large coroporations willing to pay the high price, and I seriously doubt that Intel would want to put in the hands of customers a technology they want replaced with their in-house flop Itanium2. The purpose of Intel is to buy their competition, then the market, and raise the price. Intel doesn't want any complete computer being sold that doesn't have their brand of technology in it. Low-power technology included. I hear VIA's Nehemia architecture and Transmeta's Crusoe technology are verry good replacements if you don't like energy-sucking Athlon and Itanium, but there is a limit to how low power you can go with seriously suffering performance.
Many X auto-configuration utilities will detect a graphics accelerator and enable the driver with an option for it to be safe on performance. Some drivers can't be enabled at full performance on a number of graphics accelerator and motherboard combinations. Check your/etc/X11/XF86Config file for your "Device" section for a 'Option "noaccel"' or 'Option "SWcursor"' and remove those lines. There are also many other "Option"(s) settings on drivers that may limit performance. Speaking of performance, why are you allowing XFree86 to be the king of the hill on your graphics accelerator? Go check DirectFB or FBdri to see if you can bump XFree86 off your graphics accelerator and put it on a Framebuffer device so you can benefit from a superior graphics subsystem. I'm not knocking XFree86 or X in general, it does things with telnet and XLib that Win32 users can only dream of. The point of using a Framebuffer driver is to optimize performance of your mostly-used applications; for example, if you have support in DirectFB then you can use DirectFB sub-project DirectFBGL and have openGL or GLX applications render quicker as well anything based on GTK+ will benefit as GTK+ support in DirectFB is native and lets you bypass any X overhead. Alas, the more people think of bypassing X technology then the worse applications can become, in perspective of flexibility and network-transparent graphics rendering. That's why X should always be built into applications, it is better to have flexibility than to have a castrated higher-performing product.
I have ascertained that Project Gutenberg has made some verry grave mistakes in their alleged duplicate of the "Constitution of the United States of America." Project Gutenberg's duplicate of the "Unanimous Declaration of Indepenance of July 4, 1776" appears to be correct. Yet, let me get to the truth in their alleged duplicate unamended "Constitution of the United States of America." I searched the Project Gutenberg archive for the the titular commercial charter for these united States of America and discovered a modern, (un?)intentionaly misleading, and incorrect entry. There are some discrepancies that are noticable. Project Gutenberg claims they are providing the "Constitution of the United States of America" as NOT AMMENDED and NOT REVISED, yet this is disputed because not until the alleged "14th Ammendment" was there ever spoken in the alleged "Constitution..." a "United States" in any RECEIVERSHIP for PUBLIC DEBTS. As provided duplicate from Project Gutenberg's archive,
BlockQuote EvidenceOf14thAmendment
{ "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress,
become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dockyards,
and other needful Buildings;--And" }
The previous quoted text is substance of the alleged "14th Amendment"! It is of nature defining a "United States" limited to jurisdiction of 10 square miles! This was known as the "Act of 1871", to create a "Government for the District of Columbia" of which to emancipate (aka Transfer of Title of Ownership) the "slaves" into ownership by an alleged "United States" as secured property and further provides for the naturalization and granted federal citizenship as well as granted privileges of the alleged "United States" to own property outside its lawful jurisdiction of 10 square miles and expand its "possesions". According to law, if an attempt is to be made to FREE a slave (aka Bondservant) then a process to manumit must ensue. According to Webster's Dictionary and Black's Book of Law, as well as some sources on Dictionary.com, manumit is the "dissolve of Title of Ownership" and emancipation is the "transfer of Title of Ownership". Yet, who is to argue a slave's freedom from an oppressive Master and unto a new Master that is more lenient or kind (aka United States)? In support of my testimony, I will provide evidence in the United States Code, that the United States spoken of in the 14th Amendment is a corporation! According to USC Title 27, Section 3002,
(15)
''United States'' means -
(A) a Federal corporation;
Continuing my testimony and perusing to Article Six, there is more evidence that Project Gutenberg's claim of providing "Constitution..." as unamended,
BlockQuoth MoreEvidenceOfAmendment
{ "All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." }
If anyone wants to read all the true and correct history of the colonies as they re-organized into united States, the beginning of the federal ussurpation, the Continental Congress, and the creation of the alleged "United States" federal corporation withou
We all know SCO does not want to reveal they secrets they say is their property. It's already been revealed! If SCO wants to send a bill to people or artificial entities (corporations) to use their intelectual property, then they should've obyed the Patent Laws by registering the IP in question at the patent office as theirs. Then, after the conclusion of their monopoly to profit on their IP, the IP patent is dissolved and the knowledge becomes Public Domain. Yet, according to the Bible, if IP was a secret that was never published, then the following scripture would gracefully adapt to todays situation...
Deuteronomy 29:29; The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
This is agreeable, and so is Thomas Jefferson's intention of patents on IP. Anyone willing to second this motion for the Bible and Thomas Jefferson?
Landover Baptist: a hateful-inspired church, fake Christians, don't quote Bible in context, slander people in the Bible, and give a bad name to everyone that quotes the bible for its kindness.
Landover Baptist is the only hateful Church I know of that can mention God and Homosexual and alleged "Niggers" in one sentance.
I'm waiting for God to begin his orbital bombardment of Landover Baptist, because it's the Gomora of today. They spread lies just as Mormon doctrine says that "black people have black skin to reflect the sins they comitted in a previous life." Landover Baptist, please just roll over and die because all you do is act *in the flesh* and not *int the spirit*.
I'm one l33t m0f0 ruffian lookin' for trouble. I enjoy walking along dusty areas, running my fingers through high-bandwidth pingfloods, and I'm looking for a woman that can withstand my long int without segfaulting. 64bit processing tech at its finest; high quality that lasts and lasts
Surprisingly, this Alpha system outperforms my friend's Pentium3 700MHz system and was bought in 1999!!!! Old, but fast! The latest hardware is too hot and breaks in less than 2 years; why can't they have quality as they first made them? Is it that higher-quality draws too high pricetag and too low of sales shuffle? I still know people with 8086 and 80286 and 80486 technology that has quality that of a rock! Even those nice DEC Alpha Multia systems (running at 166MHz) are running solid with their 64bit long int and perform equal to a Pentium 100MHz of their time! Today's tech is horrible, with exception to Transmeta's Crusoe arch and Via's Nehemia.
The Old Testament transcribes preserved the tense the testament was given. Kill who, heathens that raped and pillaged their own or just kill innocent people? And so the first Words of God are preserved by Moses, and among those is "Though shalt not kill" and ammended by their purity-minded justification,
Numbers 25:6-8; "6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel."
If you read through the Old Testament, specifically the "Pentateuch" (known as the first 5 books, through Moses), then you will know that the House of Israel was repeatedly disobeying the commandments given to them. I speak Biblicaly, whereas if I were like you and prejudicialy concluded the Old and New Testaments as fiction and there was not god that created them other than the lies of Isral, then it would be correct as any other fable that the House of Israel failed many times because it didn't adhere to the laws that they (or was it YHVH?) created. According to scripture, Israel was in slavery for a few hundred years in Egypt because they allegedly didn't keep their laws, and this was documented history of Israel! And what about the inquisition and conquest, besides the people that participated in such violated all that Jesus Christ spoke of? Just because Apostle Paul wrote a large ammount of the New Testament does not mean his words override Jesus Christ's. Many times does Paul speak of a father on Earth, despite Jesus Christ said (Matthew 23) to call no man on earth your father.
How many slashdotters acuse eachother of being trolls when the accused are actualy not trolls? You are at liberty to accept the true words of Jesus Christ and not those AnteChrist that acted repugnant to Jesus Christ's words (Ante=greek, in place of). When someone says they are a follower of Jesus and they act repugnant to Jesus Christ's commandments, then you bare witness of a liar or are in seek of rebuke, yet...
Ephesians 6: 12-13; "12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
Zionism -- are you not aware of the prodacle Jews that secretly control every aspect of living today? They are cruel, they commit horrendous ussury as well as the other sinful deeds in complete violation of scripture. Given I have perceived your attitude, I'm somewhat assured you are aware of the truth in the insolvent nature of the United States corporation's bankruptcy at the hands of the international bankers Abraham Linoln strove to secretly establish financing from? Although I am drawn back to your words of horrendous transgressions committed by those before us that were against and acted in place of Jesus Christ... let me continue. Jesus Christ emphasized the first ten commandments in the ministry, in his following words:
Romans 13: 8,9; "8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
And let me emphasize unto you what Jesus spoke of abou
First of all, you say Jews are the "chosen people" without regard to scripture. The House of Israel allowed conversion into their law, despite what God said IIRC. Yet, getting to Jesus Christ, see accordingly for those without the House of Israel...
Romans 12:1; "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
Accordingly, if Jesus Christ is accepted as the Saviour by non-Jews, you will be redeemed into God's Matrix! This is the Good Matrix, not the (bad) Matrix from Hollywood's Hellivision or the United States Corporation.
Secondly, if God granted us life to be "living soul" and thus give us conditions while we are "living soul", then that would mean God is living and we are the ones that were dead beforehand. Think about it.
God -> creates "living soul" God granted "living soul"
This fits perfectly on why God (aka YHVH, aka Jehova, aka Lord of Hosts) is always referred to as the living God and even by "Jesus Christ." Compliant with...
Deuteronomy 5:26; "For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?"
Psalm 42:2; "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"
Jeremiah 10:10; "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation."
Matthew 16:16; "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Matthew 22:32; "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
Mark 12:27; "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err."
Luke 20:38; "For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him."
John 6:69; "And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God."
Romans 9:26; "And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
Scripture was quoted from the Authorized Version (King James Bible; a public domain transcription), without the copyrighted willfully false bibles known as New International Version, American Standard, New American Standard, New King James Version, and Century New King James Version, and many more copyrighted and "...by our expression written permission..." works of evil art.
It's inexpensive, $100 direct from >a href="http://www.softfield.com/vr3.html">Softfield or maybe $70 direct from Softfield's eBay sales, or even more inexpensively purchase a Vtech Helio (linux compatible) from eBay for about $25(used, missing items) to $55.00 (used and complete or new). The Vtech Helio has a faster (~70MHz) CPU than the Softfield VR3 version 2's (~66MHz) CPU, but it has less ROM/RAM (6MB/8MB) than the SoftfieldTech's VR3 version 2's ROM/RAM (16MB/16MV). Keep in mind, Vtech Helio perhaps has a hack that lets you replace the RAM/ROM to larger ammount, but I'm still looking. Oh and remember the Softfield VR3 version 2 is different than the original Agenda Computing VR3 (Agenda only has ROM/RAM 16MB/8MB or 8MB/16MB?)
Great graphing calculators with the correct software, nonetheless! There is an emulator for graphics calculators, but why bother when you could have PERL or PYTHON or GCC or a X Server/Framebuffer...the programability is endless, but the space is limited!
Oh Lord and Master Jesus Christ, I pray you shine light upon this tortured living soul for he hath ommitted the many dimensions of the many flavors of SCSI... Single-Ended (SE), High-Voltage Differential (HVD), and Low-Voltage Diferential (LVD).
May we all be forgiven.;-)
Seriously, this is an excellent point
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The GPL is not specific to Linux. You can have an application built upon Win32 and released under the GPL, and it will not run on Linux. The point of the GPL is not to help any particular operating system, yet to assist software to have a conditional freedom and authority backed by copyright law in recognition that if it were true public domain then it could be "hi-jacked" into another software.
The GPL establishes penalties for people or artificial entities that don't provide the sourcecode of the software, yet the GPL states it is voluntary to accept the GPL and if not accepted then copyright law is the premise for not accepting the GPL's distribution rules. And in copyright law, whoever using the copyrighted software needs the permission of the copyright owner on use of the alleged "software." GPL is a harmless fuzzball, fear the copyright owner.
If you want true freedom, then software would be released anonymously in the Public Domain and the risk is someone could steal the software and claim they own it. An example of a Public Domain work is the Authorized Version Bible aka King James Version Bible of 1611 A.D. All the recent alleged "Bibles" such as "New International Version", "American Standard", "New American Standard", "New King James Version" (false King James AV), and "Century New King James" (false King James AV), and many more are all actualy copyrighted! They are known as false Bibles because in their preface or inserts there is a text from a corporation that establishes conditions of their usage, unlike Public Domain bibles such as the King James Authorized Version Bible and also Gutenberg Bible. Further example, the NIV aka "New International Version" manifests conditions upon the reader: "The NIV text may be quoted and/or reprinted up to and inclusive of one thousand (1,000) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing the verses quoted do not ammount to more than 50% of a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted comprise more than 50% of the total work in hich they are quoted." In short, the NIV changes the many books of the Bible in such little ways to change the outlook and image of God's message and issues a copyright'd patent proclaiming they own and say how much you can quote without express permition! How long before a alleged "Bible" is released that says you can only read it on Sunday and only upon the permission and interpretation of an alleged "father of the Catholic Church" and you must accept the Catholic Church without condition as the divine authority of all scripture:
"For the Roman pontiff (pope), by reason of his office as VICAR OF CHRIST, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal POWER over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise UNHINDERED." --CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1994, P. 254 #882
"[W]e hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty." --POPE LEO XIII
"...We declare, state and define that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of all human beings that they submit to the Roman Pontiff [pope]." --POPE BONIFACE VIII, BULL UNUN SANCTUM, 1302
"No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!" --Pope Leo X, 1516
Although I may seem offtopic, my point I try to emphasize is copyrights are evil to the extent they can regulate and infringe upon others by use of truth and law that is vested in the mere essence of man if not written on paper. The GPL uses copyrights for the good of mankind, as if to turn copyrights into a double-edged sword, yet even the GPL can be used for evi
It's a worthy post that deserves a complimentary post. According to Jesus Christ, the truth will set us free! Subjectively...
GNU software is voluntary. Labeling GNU and FSF as being a communism is a lie, as the history has shown us that all alleged communists use military dictatorship with force and intimidation to implement political views and governance.
Have we forgetten about a government vested in the people? Have we forgotten that the people are self-governing with unalienable rites and are consented for their voluntary and willfull grant of revokable privilege for governance or excise from a foreign artificial entinty or State? Today, most states use duress and coercion upon all in attempt to bequest unalienable right to travel, force to pay a third income tax, force to register children, force to accept their general welfare, force all to be held responsible for the decisions of a false and unlawful representative in an unlawful congress, and force to use fiat money of which provides no liability of any office or otherwise in a court of law (fiat money is infinite and against establishing commercial liability of unlawful people and unlawful artificial entities).
To the best of my present knowledge and witness, the employees at the artificial entity known as GNU don't force any to use their software. They have proved that all knowledge is free to all (and perhaps construed to be of a more public domain).
What HP laptop? By any chance, a ze4145?
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HP has been making some verry bad decisions on every aspect of their laptops...right down to the extra 10 cents for a better connector to the laptop's teflon ribbon of the keyboard. I know this one lady whose HP Laptop (ze4145) started repeating the keystroke "H" ad infinitum. We obviously thought it was a bad keyboard or a stuck "H" key, and we had success by pressing a combination of other keys and it would stop repeating the "H" key indefinitly. The letter "H" still would come back. I installed an external keyboard and it would bypass the problematic built-in keyboard...and while using the external keyboard the error would return only when you pressed a key on the interated keyboard or sometimes not. I just told her to send it back to Circuit City for the 6 month warranty of repairs, but she didn't... 6 months goes by and I ask her what became of her HP ze4145 and like I said; she let the warranty expire... I troubleshooted the HP ze4145 laptop again and found that disconnecting the laptop's integrated keyboard would stop it from indefinitly producting the letter "H." I suggested that it was a bad keyboard and all was needed was a replacment. On another desktop computer, we launched Microsoft IE and went to order the replacment keyboard from HP for $60 including shipping. Microsoft's IE webbrowser didn't have 128bit SSL to securely order ther part through HP's website (it was an early version 5 of IE, and I don't fancy restarting the whole computer to upgrade it), so I happily downloaded webdog's Slim Mozilla (a version of Mozilla with all the bloat removed, browser-only, quick download BTW) and we continued the order without restarting the computer.
Four days later, she receives the replacment keyboard... I examine and affirm that it is the correct keyboard and with the same type of shitty Teflon pressure-point ribbon cable. I first turn-on the ze4145 laptop without any keyboard again and now the scenario has changed...it's repeating the letter "H" now without any keyboard installed. She didn't need a new keyboard, she needed A NEW LAPTOP. What are the chances of the laptop's keyboard controller going bad? Before, it didn't give us hint of the repeating "H" error with the integrated keyboard dis-connected and now it did! Troubleshooting only hinted the keyboard was causing the error, but come time to install the new keyboard and after doing a pre-test we found that the keyboard's controller had been the problem.
Well, at-least Circuit City was nagging at her to renew her warranty. What is the chance they will not cover her on this damaged hardware she let sit for 6 months to do anthing about it? All I know is if someone pays $1500.00 for a laptop, it breaks in some way and lets it set for 3 months, must probably not be enthusiastic with using a laptop? Laptops are over-priced for what little they benefit. The same can be accomplished on a desktop-type computer whose motherboard is crammed into a laptop-sized pizza-box shell and a flatpanel on the opposing shell. Not to mention, the HP ze4145 is using a Athlon XP 1800+ and hot air is belching out the upper left corner. I don't remember Pentium 200MHz laptops being that hot.
What is realy needed is a more portable desktop computer: the hardware is easier to replace, as when something goes bad it is as easy as a Heated IC extractor or replacing the entire motherboard. If that's what today's laptop's are meant to achieve, then let me say they surely failed.
The referenced website obviously is hosted by a Commodore64, because it hasn't crashed yet unlike those diesel-powered Rackmount Quad Pentium4+Extreme Xeon servers that can't handle a slashdotting.
This brings the bigger questions:
Could the age^H^H^H maturity of a computing technology [Commodore64] be the deciding factor of how well it outperforms this much younger technology Intel and AMD shoves in everyone's server rooms?
Could anyone provide any benchmark scores on an Imaginary BeoWULF cluster of Commodore64's? I heard some number, like about 750 [giga]Flops, but I don't want to spread rumors...;-)
According to research I have done, copyright law only applies to commercial use. Many people disagree and provide no supporting evidence or a poorly attempted and flawed case-law. Before anyone accuses me of being a quack, let me provide what Codified Federal Regulations provides on what a "Crime" realy is and as well further notes...
27 CFR 72.11, "Commercial crimes. Any of the following types of crimes (Federal or State): Offenses against the revenue laws; burglary; counterfeiting; forgery; kidnapping; larceny; robbery; illegal sale or possession of deadly weapons; prostitution (including soliciting, procuring, pandering, white slaving, keeping house of ill fame, and like offenses); extortion; swindling and confidence games; and attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or compounding any of the foregoing crimes. Addiction to narcotic drugs and use of marihuana will be treated as if such were commercial crime."
Yes, that is correct: they created "crime" and defined "crime" to only be of a commercial nature, all crime is commercial! This does not diminish the truth that stealing real property is theft of a sort.
Many people will wonder how this applies to Copyright Law, given the scope is not established in a clear way. To provide a better suggestion, it is deemed a "Crime" for infringing upon Copyright law, so perhaps the federalies are applying that using a copyright without the copyright owner's permission is counterfeit. Yet, this only applies if the subjective Copyrighted material is being used in Commerce: this involves commercial gain aka troll_element 3) profit! If you download a Copyright material, did not pay for it, are not using it in commerce (no commercial gain, no troll_element 3) profit!), then it is obvious you are not breaking any laws and hence are not a "criminal."
Here are some quotes from letters between Thomas Jefferson and various other people and speaking on Copyrights in the Bill of Rights ammendments,
"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity, which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of fourteen years; but the benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to that of their general suppression." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98
"I like [the declaration of rights] as far as it goes, but I should have been for going further. For instance, the following alterations and additions would have pleased me...... Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding __ years, but for no longer term, and no other purpose..." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:450
"It would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors... It would be curious... if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolen
From the URL you provided, I received the opposite idea. I don't like diving into metaphores, as I think if slashdot.org participants were awarded on the accuracy of their metaphores then the Trolls would be posting minimum of "+5: Shakespeare." The following quotes, taken in context of the sections they were given, speak for themselves that IEEE754 is a standard that allows poorly written FPU code to be written on an architecture that supports a poorly-written FPU compliancy. At-least with non-IEEE754 architectures, code is written for the architecture or abstracted within the application for somewhat cross-architecture porting, and bugs are not hidden. I'm not saying IEEE754 is a bad standard, it just allows bad things to happen while allowing the application to progress without crashing. Yet, my idea of cutting corners is obviously different then yours. I understand "cutting corners" in both a Biblical perspective as well as the flawed perspective as denoting quality. The Alpha is not cutting corners, neither are the other architectures. The architecture designers simply recognize IEEE754 as what it realy is and let the software-side of things implement IEEE754 while making the FPU at the circuit level have performance and optimizations. Perhaps, I still don't understand your idea of non-IEEE754 architectures "cutting corners", whereas they lose precision in some way? I don't see any bug-reports of Alpha losing precision in its non-IEEE754 FPU, do you? I'm getting ahead of myself, here are the following quotes from the,a href="http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/ross-essa ys.html">webpage URL you provided in your post that I consider to be self-explanitory...
Con's of IEEE754
4.It is expensive to implement. When the standard was ratified, exactly two companies produced floating point arithmetic chips that attached to microprocessor CPU chips. Intel sold the 8087 and National Semiconductor sold a chip for the NS32 processors.
Here is how they compared on multiply: .....70 uS Intel, full IEEE 754 support in HW .....5 uS NSC, no IEEE 754 support
Example two, about 17 years later...
Here is how they compared on SpecFP95: .....9 Intel, Pentium II, IEEE 754 compatible .....50 DEC Alpha 21264, IEEE 754 hostile
5.The targeted users have ignored it for 20 years.
6.No RISC microprocessor has ever implemented IEEE 754 floating point.
7. Buyers and Manufacturers of scientific (number crunching) computers are often IEEE-754 hostile.
10. The exception mechanism is incompatible with modern kernels and computing hardware.
Pro's of IEEE754
Continuing computations after errors does have a certain value... Unfortunately, the net result of this new behavior in practice is something much darker... inevitable -- is that people aren't finding the stupid divide-by-zero bugs any more. Is this really a big problem?...2,000 programs in The NetBSD Packages Collection. Many of these programs use at least a little bit of floating point, often for noncritical functions such as statistics or image conversion. Almost every last one of these is developed or is maintained on the PeeCee. Consequently, it isn't very important for those developers to fix the stupid math bugs, especially if it just affects the statistics in cycle zero, or the color chosen when the intensity bits are zero, or whatever. The problem here is that the breakage just isn't serious enough, when you do have error-ignoring IEEE 754 floating point. As a result at any given time many of these packages are broken on a system that doesn't implement the IEEE 754 floating point standard. When run on such a system, the program traps and stops. That the trapping routine lacked any importance in the active case is now of no help. While one can argue that it's just great that 754 enabled
You are making a incorrect comparison in computing technologies. UltraSPARC III is for higher precision, but it is way out of its competitive market by two years ago. Pentium 4 is built for highest performance at the expense of power consumption. In a more objective comparison with the UltraSPARC III, we would compare performance/initial cost/power consumption (and forecasted power consumption cost to price barrier). UltraSPARC III is built for good performance on its implemented hardware, thus it utilizes its bus and memory architecture to optimum. The Pentium 4 does not perform with the mathematical precision and architecture efficiency as does a UltraSPARC III. The Pentium 4's memory architecture isn't even being used to full efficiency because of the nature of x86 being a pro-legacy architecture.
The biggest black sheep of the industry is the legendary Alpha architecture. It's a 100% 64bit precision platform with highest efficiency per watt and it was purposely bought by Intel to be silenced and migrate all its users to the Itanium architecture. Not even an Itanium2 can perform as well as an Alpha of two years ago (21264/ev6). The only downfall of Alpha is the legitimate and objective comparison of performance/initial cost as being the notion it is highly non-competitive with other offers. The reason it is not as competitive with other architectures is not based on fabrication costs: it is based on it being the better architecure that was purchased before its parents' bankruptcy (DEC...Compaq?), and to try to recover the R&D costs of the overly-invested lesser architecture known as Itanium.
People who still use Alpha already know that if it is buried then the only logical successor would be a Power4 hands down. All the while, HP's PA-RISC is being incorporated into the same Itanium architecture to migrate its dwindling userbase to Itanium. So much is going wrong in the idustry it makes me sick to the stomach.
For me, bad spelling comes with using shorthand too often. Please forgive me. To destroy what legible words that remain, let it be known that I typed the previous post on a laptop. That's not an excuse and only announces that my spelling ability has corroded from using too much shorthand. I still have a good vocabulary, just slippery spelling; you pointed too much, and I'll dive back into my literature books. I'll do anything to prevent my posts from looking like I was taught by an Engrish Teacher. Thanks!
Now to explain some of my points. Legal defenitions are not always what we would expect them to be when they are utilized daily by alleged "officials". As most of us know from past case law, the hidden meanings of these contruments surface and often expose their instrumentality and premise. Arriving at my point, "Crime," As defined in 27 CFR 72.11, means "Commercial crimes. Any of the following types of crimes (Federal or State): Offenses against the revenue laws; burglary; counterfeiting; forgery; kidnapping; larceny; robbery; illegal sale or possession of deadly weapons; prostitution (including soliciting, procuring, pandering, white slaving, keeping house of ill fame, and like offenses); extortion; swindling and confidence games; and attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or compounding any of the foregoing crimes. Addiction to narcotic drugs and use of marihuana will be treated as if such were commercial crime.." Please check that previous URL on what else is in Section 72.11 as it is verry gut wrenching in its applicability and is an outright violation of private property and contract law. According to FCR, and as well the alleged "United States", they created the criminals (ie defined criminals). As well, they create the "Prison" to hold the criminals they created. What may seem like fishing on a beach with your pet doggy one day may later be found as a misdemeanor for fishing without their permission and stealing their(?) fish and having a dog in area where they are not allowed(?). They come in the name of the "United States" or the "State of *" vessels, and true it is evident of another entity that is both foreign and not registered in the County Clerk.
an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
(C)
an instrumentality of the United States.." The previous information reveals that United States is a Federal corporation, and any person registered in the United States corporation is an agent. If you think that is outstanding, perhaps you should read above (10). According to Title 28 Section 3002 Element 10, defines as "Person" as, "(10) ''Person'' includes a natural person (including an individual Indian), a corporation, a partnership, an unincorporated association, a trust, or an estate, or any other public or private entity, including a State or local government or an Indian tribe." This provides that the alleged "United States" is a person. Ponder on that for a while because as many people suspected in the alleged "14th Amendment" of a "Constitution for the united States of America", there was declared a "citizen of the United States" and we have been seeing more "Constitution of the United States" nowdays instead of "Constitution for the united States of America." Keep in mind, United States Code is derived from the "Constitution of the United States" and not the "united States of America." And according to the Act of 1871,.
Moving back to "Persons," and "Crime," let me reveal to you that there are "Persons" created by law and there is "Crime" c
SBC's general council has obviously had some council! They are not disagreeing with the RIAA; merely conditionaly agreeing with the RIAA upon proof of claim. For those of you sovereignty-type people, perhaps you would piss your pants to discover that while SBC is conditionaly agreeing to the RIAA, that subscribers to SBC are actualy vulnerable by acting in a Public/Body Corporate capacity and that SBC is not Private as it is governed by the FCC. The content of the RIAA's claims is not meritless, yet neither has the RIAA provided oath of office to represent the copyright and patent holders of the allegedly "infringed" data being processed through SBC's securitities (their data network services). Perhaps a lesson in copyright law should warrant that copyrights only apply to commercial actions. Using copyrighted and patented property is not against the law in the realm of non-commercial; be weary of using copyrighted software in a corporation, as corporations are inclusivly commercial in their nature. So, this leaves us whether SBC is liable for their (think commercial) corporation transporting copyrighted and patented tangible property to its subscribers. Be afraid for SBC...non-commercial use, need not apply unless by the RIAA's administration of force and intimidation has taken effect.
If the govt announce that by 2006, they were going to publish everyone's name and SSN, and if you currently use SSN as a validator, you need to change now or face fines of $100k/day, maybe we could do something about this.
You are verry evil and think stealing $100,000 fiat US dollars (see goldismoney.info forums) by most-anticipated use of military force will solve problems. I suppose, as usual, you will respond to requests on howto re-inforce the collection of this fine by use of the same STANDING ARMY held over our heads that is also used to infringe upon the allegedly un-infringible 2nd Ammendment to the Constitution for the united States of America? Or perhaps, that you ignore that a State cannot diminish the rights of "We, the People" because States are Public corporations that are subserviant and created by mankind and thus no groups of mankind operating under a fake/artificial name (ie McDonalds, Levitz Furniture, Arco Gas) can compel contracts (steal) or diminish the unalienable rights from "We, the People"? But you forget, the standing army used to protect us only applies to "citizens of the United States" (from the Act of 1871, to create a government for Washington D.C., aka United States Corporation), thus a Security Agreement must exist by the forming of the three-party agreement (contract) of an alleged "citizen of the United States" to be Secured by the U.S. Military (just another corporation)? That explains why there aren't any "We, the People" remaining in these united States of America, and that only exists the alleged United States and the alleged non-state private corporations operating as "State of *" fictions and that the Emergency War Powers Act does not allow the existance of anything but "citizen of the United States". If you think I'm wrong, then perhaps you should read this page of cornell law of the United States corporate code and I quote the pertinent information,
(* means my emphasis, ** means my quote)
TITLE 28 > PART VI > CHAPTER 176 > SUBCHAPTER A > Sec. 3002.
Definitions...
(2) "Court" means any court created by the Congress of the United States, *excluding the United States Tax Court.
(**Congress didn't create the United States Tax Court, and as well all the courts are financed by the Federal Reserve System! Congressman McFadden discloses the Federal Reserve is a private corporation and as well discusses the fraud!)
(3) "Debt" means -
(A) an amount that is *owing *to *the United States on account of a *direct *loan, *or *loan *insured or *guarunteed, by the *United States; or
(B) an amount that is *owing *to the *United States on account of a fee, duty, *lease, *rent, , *service, *sale of real or personal property, *overpayment, *find, *assessment, *penalty, restitution, *damages, *interest, tax, bail bond forfeiture, reimbursement, recovery of a cost incurred by the United States, or *other source of indebtedness to the United States, *but *that *is *not *owing *under the *terms of a *contract *originally *entered into by only *persons *other than the United States;...
(**Anything outside of the United States is not debt! The use of Federal Reserve Notes, aka fiat money, is an adhesion contract that constructivly declares you are received it as a loan from the United States! It is debt money! Gold and Silver are exempt of being used as debt money, as they are Lawful Money!**)
(8) "Judgment" means a judgment, order, or decree entered *in *favor *of *the *United States in a *court *arising *from a *civil or *criminal proceeding *regarding a *debt.
(13) "Security Agreement" means an agreement that creates or provides for a *lien.
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Everyone should take notice that an ES-class Alpha cluster is at 2nd place while the only Itanium2-type cluster to ever compare comes in at 8th place and then 35th place. The first model of Itanium doesn't even appear on the list until about 111th place! Itanium2 may be a huge step from the first Itanium, yet Top500.org clearly shows that Alpha technology is superior to Intel's Itanium. A few people in this forum are critical that Intel would start producing Alpha if the Itanium2 flops, yet I seriously doubt any Alpha workstations would be made for average availability. The only customers to receive an Alpha would be large coroporations willing to pay the high price, and I seriously doubt that Intel would want to put in the hands of customers a technology they want replaced with their in-house flop Itanium2. The purpose of Intel is to buy their competition, then the market, and raise the price. Intel doesn't want any complete computer being sold that doesn't have their brand of technology in it. Low-power technology included. I hear VIA's Nehemia architecture and Transmeta's Crusoe technology are verry good replacements if you don't like energy-sucking Athlon and Itanium, but there is a limit to how low power you can go with seriously suffering performance.
Many X auto-configuration utilities will detect a graphics accelerator and enable the driver with an option for it to be safe on performance. Some drivers can't be enabled at full performance on a number of graphics accelerator and motherboard combinations. Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config file for your "Device" section for a 'Option "noaccel"' or 'Option "SWcursor"' and remove those lines. There are also many other "Option"(s) settings on drivers that may limit performance. Speaking of performance, why are you allowing XFree86 to be the king of the hill on your graphics accelerator? Go check DirectFB or FBdri to see if you can bump XFree86 off your graphics accelerator and put it on a Framebuffer device so you can benefit from a superior graphics subsystem. I'm not knocking XFree86 or X in general, it does things with telnet and XLib that Win32 users can only dream of. The point of using a Framebuffer driver is to optimize performance of your mostly-used applications; for example, if you have support in DirectFB then you can use DirectFB sub-project DirectFBGL and have openGL or GLX applications render quicker as well anything based on GTK+ will benefit as GTK+ support in DirectFB is native and lets you bypass any X overhead. Alas, the more people think of bypassing X technology then the worse applications can become, in perspective of flexibility and network-transparent graphics rendering. That's why X should always be built into applications, it is better to have flexibility than to have a castrated higher-performing product.
I have ascertained that Project Gutenberg has made some verry grave mistakes in their alleged duplicate of the "Constitution of the United States of America." Project Gutenberg's duplicate of the "Unanimous Declaration of Indepenance of July 4, 1776" appears to be correct. Yet, let me get to the truth in their alleged duplicate unamended "Constitution of the United States of America." I searched the Project Gutenberg archive for the the titular commercial charter for these united States of America and discovered a modern, (un?)intentionaly misleading, and incorrect entry. There are some discrepancies that are noticable. Project Gutenberg claims they are providing the "Constitution of the United States of America" as NOT AMMENDED and NOT REVISED, yet this is disputed because not until the alleged "14th Ammendment" was there ever spoken in the alleged "Constitution..." a "United States" in any RECEIVERSHIP for PUBLIC DEBTS. As provided duplicate from Project Gutenberg's archive,
BlockQuote EvidenceOf14thAmendment { "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dockyards, and other needful Buildings;--And" }
The previous quoted text is substance of the alleged "14th Amendment"! It is of nature defining a "United States" limited to jurisdiction of 10 square miles! This was known as the "Act of 1871", to create a "Government for the District of Columbia" of which to emancipate (aka Transfer of Title of Ownership) the "slaves" into ownership by an alleged "United States" as secured property and further provides for the naturalization and granted federal citizenship as well as granted privileges of the alleged "United States" to own property outside its lawful jurisdiction of 10 square miles and expand its "possesions". According to law, if an attempt is to be made to FREE a slave (aka Bondservant) then a process to manumit must ensue. According to Webster's Dictionary and Black's Book of Law, as well as some sources on Dictionary.com, manumit is the "dissolve of Title of Ownership" and emancipation is the "transfer of Title of Ownership". Yet, who is to argue a slave's freedom from an oppressive Master and unto a new Master that is more lenient or kind (aka United States)? In support of my testimony, I will provide evidence in the United States Code, that the United States spoken of in the 14th Amendment is a corporation! According to USC Title 27, Section 3002,
(15)
''United States'' means -
(A)
a Federal corporation;
Continuing my testimony and perusing to Article Six, there is more evidence that Project Gutenberg's claim of providing "Constitution..." as unamended,
BlockQuoth MoreEvidenceOfAmendment { "All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." }
If anyone wants to read all the true and correct history of the colonies as they re-organized into united States, the beginning of the federal ussurpation, the Continental Congress, and the creation of the alleged "United States" federal corporation withou
We all know SCO does not want to reveal they secrets they say is their property. It's already been revealed! If SCO wants to send a bill to people or artificial entities (corporations) to use their intelectual property, then they should've obyed the Patent Laws by registering the IP in question at the patent office as theirs. Then, after the conclusion of their monopoly to profit on their IP, the IP patent is dissolved and the knowledge becomes Public Domain. Yet, according to the Bible, if IP was a secret that was never published, then the following scripture would gracefully adapt to todays situation...
Deuteronomy 29:29;
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
This is agreeable, and so is Thomas Jefferson's intention of patents on IP. Anyone willing to second this motion for the Bible and Thomas Jefferson?
Yea, Amen!
Landover Baptist: a hateful-inspired church, fake Christians, don't quote Bible in context, slander people in the Bible, and give a bad name to everyone that quotes the bible for its kindness.
Landover Baptist is the only hateful Church I know of that can mention God and Homosexual and alleged "Niggers" in one sentance.
I'm waiting for God to begin his orbital bombardment of Landover Baptist, because it's the Gomora of today. They spread lies just as Mormon doctrine says that "black people have black skin to reflect the sins they comitted in a previous life." Landover Baptist, please just roll over and die because all you do is act *in the flesh* and not *int the spirit*.
I'm one l33t m0f0 ruffian lookin' for trouble. I enjoy walking along dusty areas, running my fingers through high-bandwidth pingfloods, and I'm looking for a woman that can withstand my long int without segfaulting. 64bit processing tech at its finest; high quality that lasts and lasts
AlphaPC 164UX motherboard, 63MHz Bus, 633MHz 21164 ev56 CPU; dated 1999.
Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 (Voodoo2 SLI in one PCI slot); dated 1998
VisionTek Xtasy PCI Radeon 9100 128MB; dated 2003 (excellent DRI-accelerated openGL too!)
Surprisingly, this Alpha system outperforms my friend's Pentium3 700MHz system and was bought in 1999!!!! Old, but fast! The latest hardware is too hot and breaks in less than 2 years; why can't they have quality as they first made them? Is it that higher-quality draws too high pricetag and too low of sales shuffle? I still know people with 8086 and 80286 and 80486 technology that has quality that of a rock! Even those nice DEC Alpha Multia systems (running at 166MHz) are running solid with their 64bit long int and perform equal to a Pentium 100MHz of their time! Today's tech is horrible, with exception to Transmeta's Crusoe arch and Via's Nehemia.
The Old Testament transcribes preserved the tense the testament was given. Kill who, heathens that raped and pillaged their own or just kill innocent people? And so the first Words of God are preserved by Moses, and among those is "Though shalt not kill" and ammended by their purity-minded justification,
Numbers 25:6-8;
"6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel."
If you read through the Old Testament, specifically the "Pentateuch" (known as the first 5 books, through Moses), then you will know that the House of Israel was repeatedly disobeying the commandments given to them. I speak Biblicaly, whereas if I were like you and prejudicialy concluded the Old and New Testaments as fiction and there was not god that created them other than the lies of Isral, then it would be correct as any other fable that the House of Israel failed many times because it didn't adhere to the laws that they (or was it YHVH?) created. According to scripture, Israel was in slavery for a few hundred years in Egypt because they allegedly didn't keep their laws, and this was documented history of Israel! And what about the inquisition and conquest, besides the people that participated in such violated all that Jesus Christ spoke of? Just because Apostle Paul wrote a large ammount of the New Testament does not mean his words override Jesus Christ's. Many times does Paul speak of a father on Earth, despite Jesus Christ said (Matthew 23) to call no man on earth your father.
How many slashdotters acuse eachother of being trolls when the accused are actualy not trolls? You are at liberty to accept the true words of Jesus Christ and not those AnteChrist that acted repugnant to Jesus Christ's words (Ante=greek, in place of). When someone says they are a follower of Jesus and they act repugnant to Jesus Christ's commandments, then you bare witness of a liar or are in seek of rebuke, yet...
Ephesians 6: 12-13;
"12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
Zionism -- are you not aware of the prodacle Jews that secretly control every aspect of living today? They are cruel, they commit horrendous ussury as well as the other sinful deeds in complete violation of scripture. Given I have perceived your attitude, I'm somewhat assured you are aware of the truth in the insolvent nature of the United States corporation's bankruptcy at the hands of the international bankers Abraham Linoln strove to secretly establish financing from? Although I am drawn back to your words of horrendous transgressions committed by those before us that were against and acted in place of Jesus Christ... let me continue. Jesus Christ emphasized the first ten commandments in the ministry, in his following words:
Romans 13: 8,9;
"8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
And let me emphasize unto you what Jesus spoke of abou
First of all, you say Jews are the "chosen people" without regard to scripture. The House of Israel allowed conversion into their law, despite what God said IIRC. Yet, getting to Jesus Christ, see accordingly for those without the House of Israel...
Romans 12:1;
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
Accordingly, if Jesus Christ is accepted as the Saviour by non-Jews, you will be redeemed into God's Matrix! This is the Good Matrix, not the (bad) Matrix from Hollywood's Hellivision or the United States Corporation.
Secondly, if God granted us life to be "living soul" and thus give us conditions while we are "living soul", then that would mean God is living and we are the ones that were dead beforehand. Think about it.
God -> creates "living soul"
God granted "living soul"
This fits perfectly on why God (aka YHVH, aka Jehova, aka Lord of Hosts) is always referred to as the living God and even by "Jesus Christ." Compliant with...
Deuteronomy 5:26;
"For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?"
Psalm 42:2;
"My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"
Jeremiah 10:10;
"But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation."
Matthew 16:16;
"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Matthew 22:32;
"I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
Mark 12:27;
"He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err."
Luke 20:38;
"For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him."
John 6:69;
"And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God."
Romans 9:26;
"And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."
Scripture was quoted from the Authorized Version (King James Bible; a public domain transcription), without the copyrighted willfully false bibles known as New International Version, American Standard, New American Standard, New King James Version, and Century New King James Version, and many more copyrighted and "...by our expression written permission..." works of evil art.
Great graphing calculators with the correct software, nonetheless! There is an emulator for graphics calculators, but why bother when you could have PERL or PYTHON or GCC or a X Server/Framebuffer...the programability is endless, but the space is limited!
Oh Lord and Master Jesus Christ, I pray you shine light upon this tortured living soul for he hath ommitted the many dimensions of the many flavors of SCSI... Single-Ended (SE), High-Voltage Differential (HVD), and Low-Voltage Diferential (LVD).
;-)
May we all be forgiven.
The GPL is not specific to Linux. You can have an application built upon Win32 and released under the GPL, and it will not run on Linux. The point of the GPL is not to help any particular operating system, yet to assist software to have a conditional freedom and authority backed by copyright law in recognition that if it were true public domain then it could be "hi-jacked" into another software.
The GPL establishes penalties for people or artificial entities that don't provide the sourcecode of the software, yet the GPL states it is voluntary to accept the GPL and if not accepted then copyright law is the premise for not accepting the GPL's distribution rules. And in copyright law, whoever using the copyrighted software needs the permission of the copyright owner on use of the alleged "software." GPL is a harmless fuzzball, fear the copyright owner.
If you want true freedom, then software would be released anonymously in the Public Domain and the risk is someone could steal the software and claim they own it. An example of a Public Domain work is the Authorized Version Bible aka King James Version Bible of 1611 A.D. All the recent alleged "Bibles" such as "New International Version", "American Standard", "New American Standard", "New King James Version" (false King James AV), and "Century New King James" (false King James AV), and many more are all actualy copyrighted! They are known as false Bibles because in their preface or inserts there is a text from a corporation that establishes conditions of their usage, unlike Public Domain bibles such as the King James Authorized Version Bible and also Gutenberg Bible. Further example, the NIV aka "New International Version" manifests conditions upon the reader: "The NIV text may be quoted and/or reprinted up to and inclusive of one thousand (1,000) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing the verses quoted do not ammount to more than 50% of a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted comprise more than 50% of the total work in hich they are quoted." In short, the NIV changes the many books of the Bible in such little ways to change the outlook and image of God's message and issues a copyright'd patent proclaiming they own and say how much you can quote without express permition! How long before a alleged "Bible" is released that says you can only read it on Sunday and only upon the permission and interpretation of an alleged "father of the Catholic Church" and you must accept the Catholic Church without condition as the divine authority of all scripture:
"For the Roman pontiff (pope), by reason of his office as VICAR OF CHRIST, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal POWER over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise UNHINDERED."
--CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1994, P. 254 #882
"[W]e hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."
--POPE LEO XIII
"...We declare, state and define that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of all human beings that they submit to the Roman Pontiff [pope]."
--POPE BONIFACE VIII, BULL UNUN SANCTUM, 1302
"No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!"
--Pope Leo X, 1516
Although I may seem offtopic, my point I try to emphasize is copyrights are evil to the extent they can regulate and infringe upon others by use of truth and law that is vested in the mere essence of man if not written on paper. The GPL uses copyrights for the good of mankind, as if to turn copyrights into a double-edged sword, yet even the GPL can be used for evi
It's a worthy post that deserves a complimentary post. According to Jesus Christ, the truth will set us free! Subjectively...
GNU software is voluntary. Labeling GNU and FSF as being a communism is a lie, as the history has shown us that all alleged communists use military dictatorship with force and intimidation to implement political views and governance.
Have we forgetten about a government vested in the people? Have we forgotten that the people are self-governing with unalienable rites and are consented for their voluntary and willfull grant of revokable privilege for governance or excise from a foreign artificial entinty or State? Today, most states use duress and coercion upon all in attempt to bequest unalienable right to travel, force to pay a third income tax, force to register children, force to accept their general welfare, force all to be held responsible for the decisions of a false and unlawful representative in an unlawful congress, and force to use fiat money of which provides no liability of any office or otherwise in a court of law (fiat money is infinite and against establishing commercial liability of unlawful people and unlawful artificial entities).
To the best of my present knowledge and witness, the employees at the artificial entity known as GNU don't force any to use their software. They have proved that all knowledge is free to all (and perhaps construed to be of a more public domain).
HP has been making some verry bad decisions on every aspect of their laptops...right down to the extra 10 cents for a better connector to the laptop's teflon ribbon of the keyboard. I know this one lady whose HP Laptop (ze4145) started repeating the keystroke "H" ad infinitum. We obviously thought it was a bad keyboard or a stuck "H" key, and we had success by pressing a combination of other keys and it would stop repeating the "H" key indefinitly. The letter "H" still would come back. I installed an external keyboard and it would bypass the problematic built-in keyboard...and while using the external keyboard the error would return only when you pressed a key on the interated keyboard or sometimes not. I just told her to send it back to Circuit City for the 6 month warranty of repairs, but she didn't... 6 months goes by and I ask her what became of her HP ze4145 and like I said; she let the warranty expire... I troubleshooted the HP ze4145 laptop again and found that disconnecting the laptop's integrated keyboard would stop it from indefinitly producting the letter "H." I suggested that it was a bad keyboard and all was needed was a replacment. On another desktop computer, we launched Microsoft IE and went to order the replacment keyboard from HP for $60 including shipping. Microsoft's IE webbrowser didn't have 128bit SSL to securely order ther part through HP's website (it was an early version 5 of IE, and I don't fancy restarting the whole computer to upgrade it), so I happily downloaded webdog's Slim Mozilla (a version of Mozilla with all the bloat removed, browser-only, quick download BTW) and we continued the order without restarting the computer.
Four days later, she receives the replacment keyboard... I examine and affirm that it is the correct keyboard and with the same type of shitty Teflon pressure-point ribbon cable. I first turn-on the ze4145 laptop without any keyboard again and now the scenario has changed...it's repeating the letter "H" now without any keyboard installed. She didn't need a new keyboard, she needed A NEW LAPTOP. What are the chances of the laptop's keyboard controller going bad? Before, it didn't give us hint of the repeating "H" error with the integrated keyboard dis-connected and now it did! Troubleshooting only hinted the keyboard was causing the error, but come time to install the new keyboard and after doing a pre-test we found that the keyboard's controller had been the problem.
Well, at-least Circuit City was nagging at her to renew her warranty. What is the chance they will not cover her on this damaged hardware she let sit for 6 months to do anthing about it? All I know is if someone pays $1500.00 for a laptop, it breaks in some way and lets it set for 3 months, must probably not be enthusiastic with using a laptop? Laptops are over-priced for what little they benefit. The same can be accomplished on a desktop-type computer whose motherboard is crammed into a laptop-sized pizza-box shell and a flatpanel on the opposing shell. Not to mention, the HP ze4145 is using a Athlon XP 1800+ and hot air is belching out the upper left corner. I don't remember Pentium 200MHz laptops being that hot.
What is realy needed is a more portable desktop computer: the hardware is easier to replace, as when something goes bad it is as easy as a Heated IC extractor or replacing the entire motherboard. If that's what today's laptop's are meant to achieve, then let me say they surely failed.
The referenced website obviously is hosted by a Commodore64, because it hasn't crashed yet unlike those diesel-powered Rackmount Quad Pentium4+Extreme Xeon servers that can't handle a slashdotting.
;-)
This brings the bigger questions:
Could the age^H^H^H maturity of a computing technology [Commodore64] be the deciding factor of how well it outperforms this much younger technology Intel and AMD shoves in everyone's server rooms?
Could anyone provide any benchmark scores on an Imaginary BeoWULF cluster of Commodore64's? I heard some number, like about 750 [giga]Flops, but I don't want to spread rumors...
"Steal This Computer Book 3 ['cause I know you won't buy it from 'zon]" -by Wallac3 W4ng
"Under The Bleachers" -by Seymore Butts
"Scurrying through the Sewers of netBSD and Swiss-Cheese Security." -by Theo 'duh Ratd
"The cold shoulders of GNU/Linux and the secure iceburgh their penguines nest upon." -by Bill Gates
27 CFR 72.11,
"Commercial crimes. Any of the following types of crimes (Federal or
State): Offenses against the revenue laws; burglary; counterfeiting;
forgery; kidnapping; larceny; robbery; illegal sale or possession of
deadly weapons; prostitution (including soliciting, procuring,
pandering, white slaving, keeping house of ill fame, and like offenses);
extortion; swindling and confidence games; and attempting to commit,
conspiring to commit, or compounding any of the foregoing crimes.
Addiction to narcotic drugs and use of marihuana will be treated as if
such were commercial crime."
Yes, that is correct: they created "crime" and defined "crime" to only be of a commercial nature, all crime is commercial! This does not diminish the truth that stealing real property is theft of a sort.
Many people will wonder how this applies to Copyright Law, given the scope is not established in a clear way. To provide a better suggestion, it is deemed a "Crime" for infringing upon Copyright law, so perhaps the federalies are applying that using a copyright without the copyright owner's permission is counterfeit. Yet, this only applies if the subjective Copyrighted material is being used in Commerce: this involves commercial gain aka troll_element 3) profit! If you download a Copyright material, did not pay for it, are not using it in commerce (no commercial gain, no troll_element 3) profit!), then it is obvious you are not breaking any laws and hence are not a "criminal."
Here are some quotes from letters between Thomas Jefferson and various other people and speaking on Copyrights in the Bill of Rights ammendments,
"The saying there shall be no monopolies lessens the incitements to ingenuity,
which is spurred on by the hope of a monopoly for a limited time, as of fourteen
years; but the benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful to be opposed to
that of their general suppression." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME
7:98
"I like [the declaration of rights] as far as it goes, but I should have
been for going further. For instance, the following alterations and
additions would have pleased me......
Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in
literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not
exceeding __ years, but for no longer term, and no other purpose..." --Thomas
Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:450
"It would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to
inventors... It would be curious... if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of
an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and
stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all
others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called
an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it
to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because
every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me,
receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his
taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely
spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual
instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been
peculiarly and benevolen
Con's of IEEE754
.....70 uS Intel, full IEEE 754 support in HW
.....5 uS NSC, no IEEE 754 support
.....9 Intel, Pentium II, IEEE 754 compatible
.....50 DEC Alpha 21264, IEEE 754 hostile
4.It is expensive to implement. When the standard was ratified, exactly two companies produced floating point arithmetic chips that attached to microprocessor CPU chips. Intel sold the 8087 and National Semiconductor sold a chip for the NS32 processors.
Here is how they compared on multiply:
Example two, about 17 years later...
Here is how they compared on SpecFP95:
5.The targeted users have ignored it for 20 years.
6.No RISC microprocessor has ever implemented IEEE 754 floating point.
7. Buyers and Manufacturers of scientific (number crunching) computers are often IEEE-754 hostile.
10. The exception mechanism is incompatible with modern kernels and computing hardware.
Pro's of IEEE754
Continuing computations after errors does have a certain value...
Unfortunately, the net result of this new behavior in practice is something much darker... inevitable -- is that people aren't finding the stupid divide-by-zero bugs any more. Is this really a big problem?...2,000 programs in The NetBSD Packages Collection. Many of these programs use at least a little bit of floating point, often for noncritical functions such as statistics or image conversion. Almost every last one of these is developed or is maintained on the PeeCee. Consequently, it isn't very important for those developers to fix the stupid math bugs, especially if it just affects the statistics in cycle zero, or the color chosen when the intensity bits are zero, or whatever. The problem here is that the breakage just isn't serious enough, when you do have error-ignoring IEEE 754 floating point. As a result at any given time many of these packages are broken on a system that doesn't implement the IEEE 754 floating point standard. When run on such a system, the program traps and stops. That the trapping routine lacked any importance in the active case is now of no help. While one can argue that it's just great that 754 enabled
You are making a incorrect comparison in computing technologies. UltraSPARC III is for higher precision, but it is way out of its competitive market by two years ago. Pentium 4 is built for highest performance at the expense of power consumption. In a more objective comparison with the UltraSPARC III, we would compare performance/initial cost/power consumption (and forecasted power consumption cost to price barrier). UltraSPARC III is built for good performance on its implemented hardware, thus it utilizes its bus and memory architecture to optimum. The Pentium 4 does not perform with the mathematical precision and architecture efficiency as does a UltraSPARC III. The Pentium 4's memory architecture isn't even being used to full efficiency because of the nature of x86 being a pro-legacy architecture.
The biggest black sheep of the industry is the legendary Alpha architecture. It's a 100% 64bit precision platform with highest efficiency per watt and it was purposely bought by Intel to be silenced and migrate all its users to the Itanium architecture. Not even an Itanium2 can perform as well as an Alpha of two years ago (21264/ev6). The only downfall of Alpha is the legitimate and objective comparison of performance/initial cost as being the notion it is highly non-competitive with other offers. The reason it is not as competitive with other architectures is not based on fabrication costs: it is based on it being the better architecure that was purchased before its parents' bankruptcy (DEC...Compaq?), and to try to recover the R&D costs of the overly-invested lesser architecture known as Itanium.
People who still use Alpha already know that if it is buried then the only logical successor would be a Power4 hands down. All the while, HP's PA-RISC is being incorporated into the same Itanium architecture to migrate its dwindling userbase to Itanium. So much is going wrong in the idustry it makes me sick to the stomach.
For me, bad spelling comes with using shorthand too often. Please forgive me. To destroy what legible words that remain, let it be known that I typed the previous post on a laptop. That's not an excuse and only announces that my spelling ability has corroded from using too much shorthand. I still have a good vocabulary, just slippery spelling; you pointed too much, and I'll dive back into my literature books. I'll do anything to prevent my posts from looking like I was taught by an Engrish Teacher. Thanks!
." The previous information reveals that United States is a Federal corporation, and any person registered in the United States corporation is an agent. If you think that is outstanding, perhaps you should read above (10). According to Title 28 Section 3002 Element 10, defines as "Person" as, "(10)
Now to explain some of my points. Legal defenitions are not always what we would expect them to be when they are utilized daily by alleged "officials". As most of us know from past case law, the hidden meanings of these contruments surface and often expose their instrumentality and premise. Arriving at my point, "Crime," As defined in 27 CFR 72.11, means "Commercial crimes. Any of the following types of crimes (Federal or
State): Offenses against the revenue laws; burglary; counterfeiting;
forgery; kidnapping; larceny; robbery; illegal sale or possession of
deadly weapons; prostitution (including soliciting, procuring,
pandering, white slaving, keeping house of ill fame, and like offenses);
extortion; swindling and confidence games; and attempting to commit,
conspiring to commit, or compounding any of the foregoing crimes.
Addiction to narcotic drugs and use of marihuana will be treated as if
such were commercial crime.." Please check that previous URL on what else is in Section 72.11 as it is verry gut wrenching in its applicability and is an outright violation of private property and contract law. According to FCR, and as well the alleged "United States", they created the criminals (ie defined criminals). As well, they create the "Prison" to hold the criminals they created. What may seem like fishing on a beach with your pet doggy one day may later be found as a misdemeanor for fishing without their permission and stealing their(?) fish and having a dog in area where they are not allowed(?). They come in the name of the "United States" or the "State of *" vessels, and true it is evident of another entity that is both foreign and not registered in the County Clerk.
As defined in (United States Code) Title 28 Section 3002 (15), as defined "(15)
''United States'' means -
(A)
a Federal corporation;
(B)
an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
(C)
an instrumentality of the United States.
''Person'' includes a natural person (including an individual Indian), a corporation, a partnership, an unincorporated association, a trust, or an estate, or any other public or private entity, including a State or local government or an Indian tribe." This provides that the alleged "United States" is a person. Ponder on that for a while because as many people suspected in the alleged "14th Amendment" of a "Constitution for the united States of America", there was declared a "citizen of the United States" and we have been seeing more "Constitution of the United States" nowdays instead of "Constitution for the united States of America." Keep in mind, United States Code is derived from the "Constitution of the United States" and not the "united States of America." And according to the Act of 1871,.
Moving back to "Persons," and "Crime," let me reveal to you that there are "Persons" created by law and there is "Crime" c
SBC's general council has obviously had some council! They are not disagreeing with the RIAA; merely conditionaly agreeing with the RIAA upon proof of claim. For those of you sovereignty-type people, perhaps you would piss your pants to discover that while SBC is conditionaly agreeing to the RIAA, that subscribers to SBC are actualy vulnerable by acting in a Public/Body Corporate capacity and that SBC is not Private as it is governed by the FCC. The content of the RIAA's claims is not meritless, yet neither has the RIAA provided oath of office to represent the copyright and patent holders of the allegedly "infringed" data being processed through SBC's securitities (their data network services). Perhaps a lesson in copyright law should warrant that copyrights only apply to commercial actions. Using copyrighted and patented property is not against the law in the realm of non-commercial; be weary of using copyrighted software in a corporation, as corporations are inclusivly commercial in their nature. So, this leaves us whether SBC is liable for their (think commercial) corporation transporting copyrighted and patented tangible property to its subscribers. Be afraid for SBC...non-commercial use, need not apply unless by the RIAA's administration of force and intimidation has taken effect.
Question for slashdotters: are you a secured party?
If the govt announce that by 2006, they were going to publish everyone's name and SSN, and if you currently use SSN as a validator, you need to change now or face fines of $100k/day, maybe we could do something about this.
...
You are verry evil and think stealing $100,000 fiat US dollars (see goldismoney.info forums) by most-anticipated use of military force will solve problems. I suppose, as usual, you will respond to requests on howto re-inforce the collection of this fine by use of the same STANDING ARMY held over our heads that is also used to infringe upon the allegedly un-infringible 2nd Ammendment to the Constitution for the united States of America? Or perhaps, that you ignore that a State cannot diminish the rights of "We, the People" because States are Public corporations that are subserviant and created by mankind and thus no groups of mankind operating under a fake/artificial name (ie McDonalds, Levitz Furniture, Arco Gas) can compel contracts (steal) or diminish the unalienable rights from "We, the People"? But you forget, the standing army used to protect us only applies to "citizens of the United States" (from the Act of 1871, to create a government for Washington D.C., aka United States Corporation), thus a Security Agreement must exist by the forming of the three-party agreement (contract) of an alleged "citizen of the United States" to be Secured by the U.S. Military (just another corporation)? That explains why there aren't any "We, the People" remaining in these united States of America, and that only exists the alleged United States and the alleged non-state private corporations operating as "State of *" fictions and that the Emergency War Powers Act does not allow the existance of anything but "citizen of the United States". If you think I'm wrong, then perhaps you should read this page of cornell law of the United States corporate code and I quote the pertinent information,
(* means my emphasis, ** means my quote)
TITLE 28 > PART VI > CHAPTER 176 > SUBCHAPTER A > Sec. 3002.
Definitions...
(2) "Court" means any court created by the Congress of the United States, *excluding the United States Tax Court.
(**Congress didn't create the United States Tax Court, and as well all the courts are financed by the Federal Reserve System! Congressman McFadden discloses the Federal Reserve is a private corporation and as well discusses the fraud!)
(3) "Debt" means -
(A) an amount that is *owing *to *the United States on account of a *direct *loan, *or *loan *insured or *guarunteed, by the *United States; or
(B) an amount that is *owing *to the *United States on account of a fee, duty, *lease, *rent, , *service, *sale of real or personal property, *overpayment, *find, *assessment, *penalty, restitution, *damages, *interest, tax, bail bond forfeiture, reimbursement, recovery of a cost incurred by the United States, or *other source of indebtedness to the United States, *but *that *is *not *owing *under the *terms of a *contract *originally *entered into by only *persons *other than the United States;
(**Anything outside of the United States is not debt! The use of Federal Reserve Notes, aka fiat money, is an adhesion contract that constructivly declares you are received it as a loan from the United States! It is debt money! Gold and Silver are exempt of being used as debt money, as they are Lawful Money!**)
(8) "Judgment" means a judgment, order, or decree entered *in *favor *of *the *United States in a *court *arising *from a *civil or *criminal proceeding *regarding a *debt.
(13) "Security Agreement" means an agreement that creates or provides for a *lien.
(15) "United States" means -
(A) a Feder