Same here. I like building computers (for others). And the A64 is a beauty. But I probabaly will never switch to a MAC simply beacuse, as far as I can tell, there is too much proprietry parts in it, even with the PCI bus. OSX may be pretty but I bet you can't control the world with a MAC. I can make anything connect to the PC, knock together a program and then interface it to anything in the outside world. Last time I tried it with a MAC, I got pissed off and threw it against a wall. YES- I threw it against a wall, then told my boss that if he didn't get a PC, I'm gone. Now I use PC's (I'm still here) and have never looked back. We do not use PC's for office stuff (except for the office staff) - only for pure Engineering and you can't do that with the MAC's I last used. Maybe it is different now but I bet not.
So....I often down load pictures of WWII aircraft, usually in.jpg , . gif or.bmp format. Using your suggestion, I suspect the cops would be pretty pissed off after a while when all they recieve is mustangs, spitfires etc instead of the CP that the ISP told them I might have been downloading. Sorry, but what a plonker of an idea...
Not only that but a patent actually has to be an "Original work", that is not likely to have been easily created/thought of etc by your peers. IE: If any software/hardware engineer is capable of designing it, then in theory it is not patentable, it won't be "Original" enough. Patents are normally granted without vigourous checking and it might take a few years before the patent office decides that it is not original enough / good enough to deserve a patent.
I would have thought software is better off with copywrite not a patent !! Any comments?
Tail rudder ?? It is the rudder... what other rudder is there so that you have to say tail rudder ??
I doubt you were awake when you alledgedly used the rudder only to try to turn an aircraft. If you had noticed, the aircraft would have yawed rather roughly in the direction you wanted but the first (maybe second) thing that would have happened is the appropriate wing had dropped, in other words the aircraft would have tried to roll. IE : the aircraft was acting like you used the controls to roll, but it would have been very unstable and potentially violent. If you had continued pushing the rudder (left or right is irrelevant) you will have ended up in a rather steep spiral dive - very quickly unless you did a lot of other things to correct for it. Rather nasty at low altitudes.
Your average 'Joe Blow' will not have a hope in controlling it.
It does help if you have a pilots license before making statements that you are certain about.
Vectored thrust !!... I guess that means Harriers. Somehow I doubt it in the near or distant future. Unless you're happy to pay $10-20000 in fuel for a short 100Km hop..and were willing to pay a few million for the Harrier. Even though a Harrier is a very old plane, it still is the only practical one that can hover properly. As well, it's an utter bitch to hover and land even with computer assistance and experienced pilots often stuff up. How will a clueless Joe Blow manage it? BTW, the JSF is still a way down the track so the Harrier is still the only one, and even if you take away the military stuff, it will still cost quite a few million.
Is there anything that compares with Sim City?
Sure there is:
1. Going for a run
2. Walking the dog
3. Swimming, surfing etc
4. Hiking.... etc etc etc.. get the picture..... ?
There's more to life than games. In fact, if everyone stopped buying crap they don't really need, then you might find the prices come down and you can then stop whinging about the prices. You guys have it lucky. Here in Oz games are around $80.00 - $100 a pop.
I got better things to do than waste my money on what is in reality shit....
It's simple really..... No one is brainwashed ! If you want to get paid, you do what you are told (as long as it's within the laws). They are not Gods, they are employers, and expect you to follow some rules whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, why are you still working there?
Here in Oz a PhD is lucky if he makes $AUD100K per year. A plumber is pretty incompetent or lazy if he make $100K or less.
I have a Masters and am an Electronic Engineer, tops is about $AUD60k. My mate who is a carpenter and has a plumbing ticket was upset last financial year when his income was a shade under &AUD150K.
If you ever talk to him you would realise he is a dumb ass.
He loves his job even though it is a bit hard at times and I'm bored shitless. But I wonder who is the dumb ass !!!
Well architected OO solution ????????
You mean bloatware don't you? As well, 'well architected' and OO are contradictory terms.
If you hand craft in assembler, you then will get well architectured code. Even though it may take 10 times as long to write, it will be 100 time more efficient and a hell of a lot smaller (assuming the programmer is competent in assembly and a OO language).
As for running twice as fast in 18 months - no way. Like I mentioned before, bloatware effectiveley prevents newer code from running faster on faster machines. Using assembler, code will automatically run faster on faster machines, it's the nature of the beast because it directly translates into machine code. Bloatware OO caode eventually does as well but nowhere as elegantly or efficiently as assembler.
If its not very efficient, then its done by a piss poor programmer. I'd rather have a programmer working for me who is efficient even though (s)he is slower, not someone who slaps crap code together quickly because the oo language allows him to.
I beg to differ with the person who begs to differ with the person who is begging to differ.
Here in Oz a plain vanilla phone is readily available and won't go away for years yet.
After all it's just a bloody phone, who cares anyway. Does one really need those features that are designed to suck your wallet dry. Note I said 'need' as opposed to want.
I don't have a mobile because it is nice to not have to talk to anyone. Although my eldest daughter has one grafted to the side of her head..:-)
Actually, all web sites are either free or members only where you pay to use / view the contents of the site.
If they are free then that is because the author wants it to be like that. If not free then you pay for the privilege of getting on the site.
No mistakes made at all.
My ISP tried something similar. After a few fruitless discussions with their billing dept and various 'supervisors' etc. I sent them an email asking if they would like to attend a court case and explain to the magistrate the meaning of the word - 'unlimited' .
Funny, I got 3 months free service after that, and so far no word about limiting me...
I guess you just have to stand up to the bastards and tell them to F@#K off sometimes..
Decryption keys can be broken. Any engineer worth his salt can come up with a 'black box' cracker. If you can hear it, it can be copied. Simple - a good mike or three into an analoge (pre)amp(s), into a good A/D converter (or use the sound card A/D). There you go - it's copied.
Phoenix going for "trusted computing" - who cares. Never get a motherboard with a Phoenix type BIOS - Problem solved. I have only copied old classic LP's. Moden music is in my opion shit, and to me its not worth downloading or copying. I can understand others liking it though etc.
It's simple - if you don't like what is happening with music or Phoenix or whatever - vote with your wallet. Don't buy it! You will live if you don't get the latest "dohickey"or song or whatever, and if enough people vote with their wallets then the companies that screw you around won't live long. Instead of instant gratification, how about some patience. It pays in the long run. And you may get a chance to kick the RIAA's or whomevers arse - hard.
I was joking a bit over the "important" comment. Although my daughter would say she and her friends are so important that everytime they wipe their butts they must tell each other about it...:-).
With me (I work for the second biggest carrier here - Optus but do not have any staff discounts etc) the landline rental is about $AU21 per month and call waiting,voice mail and all the other "bells and whistles" add about $5.00 to the monthly charge. As I said before, the call costs within a city and suburbs is a fixed $0.18c per call no matter the length of time. Our basic infrastructure is about 80-90 years old (Telstra's) while the Optus infrastructure is about 14yrs old. A few days ago I made a call to a friend in Darwin (about 3000kms away - I'm in Melbourne) that lasted about 33 minutes. Total cost was $4.55. Although that is after 7.00pm when it is cheaper. If the call was made during the day it would have been about $12.00
No offence intended but I feel sorry for you yanks. Here in Australia a landline local call costs me 18c for as long as I like, no time restrictions. That is typical of call charges though I hear that Telstra (our biggest carrier) charges 22c for as long as required. Interstate / long distance calls are also dirt cheap per minute. Far less than the equivalent time for a mobile call. ( Mobile = cellphone). Mobiles are still relatively expensive per 30 seconds call time. Anyway, what can be so important that people need to be contactable every second of the day. To me an emergency is or work requirements are the only justification for having one. Nobody is that important that they must be contactable every second of the day.
I, as well, don't see the nescessity of having a phone grafted to the side of my head. My eldest daughter may as well have the graft done. Who the hell needs to talk to someone every minute of the day? The old saying, " Silence is Golden " is still a truism for me. As well, being an electronic engineer, I am well aware of the hazard of a radio transmitter 2 inches from my brain. It may only be five watts but that is still a fair bit of power cooking the inside of the head. Yes it is attenuated but the effect of this type of radiation is cumulative. Individual doses aren't much but the overall dose counts. I bet that in 10-20 years the cases of brain tumours will sky rocket. And no, I do not believe the " experts" who say there is no hazard. They are probabaly funded by the carriers any way. Time will tell!
Here in Australia there are very strict gun laws. So far there has been very few of the shootings etc that happen with monotonous regularity in the states, not none, just very very rare. No doubt the gun laws helped.
Why does a normal decent human being need a gun for anyway, unless they are paranoid lunatics? or want to shoot harmless animals that can't defend themselves. Either way, complete nut cases that should be locked away. No I am not an anti-gun freak, I just do not see the point of gun ownership. I have also been in the Aust. military and am an expert on military weapons. I know what they really do to soft targets. There can be no logical or reasonable reason why civilians need weapons. Who do you want to shoot? School kids? police doing their jobs or what?
Since I do not believe in piracy, why are you making a publice statement that or all of us do these things.
I pay for all I use, I will not pay for shit.
Wanna talk to my lawyer ?
Bells and whistles are only a good thing to pea brains with the IQ of a retarded walnut.
You may try to design the crap you mentioned above and I will not look at it or download it.
I am assuming by your attitude that you only will be involved with dick enlarging machines. So what are you offering other than bells an whistles ???
So your content is worth looking at ??????
Then what.....
Ultimately, who cares if a company blocks me. I win because they don't get my cash, They loose...
Content on the net is all that counts, not advertising companies trying to peddle their dick enlarging machines.
Just like TV, good content on the web is as rare as hens teeth....
Free is actually not the point,
of course we all paid in some form or another. Right now I am paying to use the bandwidth that reads/and posts to this forum.
The point is that since we are paying for it already, what right do advertisers have to foist their crap on us? If we want to get rid of it, we should be able to do so. I am paying for the time it takes to download the crap. If the advertiser wants me to read/look at his crap, he should pay me for my personal time and download time.
No,
The parasite is the one who tries to foist their rubbish on those that do not want it. Subscription sounds better simply because you get what you want, not the crap that floats along with it like a parasite, which describes 80% of the content of the net or TV.
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Same here. I like building computers (for others). And the A64 is a beauty. But I probabaly will never switch to a MAC simply beacuse, as far as I can tell, there is too much proprietry parts in it, even with the PCI bus. OSX may be pretty but I bet you can't control the world with a MAC. I can make anything connect to the PC, knock together a program and then interface it to anything in the outside world. Last time I tried it with a MAC, I got pissed off and threw it against a wall. YES- I threw it against a wall, then told my boss that if he didn't get a PC, I'm gone. Now I use PC's (I'm still here) and have never looked back. We do not use PC's for office stuff (except for the office staff) - only for pure Engineering and you can't do that with the MAC's I last used. Maybe it is different now but I bet not.
So....I often down load pictures of WWII aircraft, usually in .jpg , . gif or .bmp format. ...
Using your suggestion, I suspect the cops would be pretty pissed off after a while when all they recieve is mustangs, spitfires etc instead of the CP that the ISP told them I might have been downloading.
Sorry, but what a plonker of an idea
Even that makes no sense. Forget simplicity for computers. The better way is day - month - year. IE: 30th November 2004.
Not only that but a patent actually has to be an "Original work", that is not likely to have been easily created/thought of etc by your peers. IE: If any software/hardware engineer is capable of designing it, then in theory it is not patentable, it won't be "Original" enough. Patents are normally granted without vigourous checking and it might take a few years before the patent office decides that it is not original enough / good enough to deserve a patent. I would have thought software is better off with copywrite not a patent !! Any comments?
Tail rudder ?? It is the rudder... what other rudder is there so that you have to say tail rudder ?? I doubt you were awake when you alledgedly used the rudder only to try to turn an aircraft. If you had noticed, the aircraft would have yawed rather roughly in the direction you wanted but the first (maybe second) thing that would have happened is the appropriate wing had dropped, in other words the aircraft would have tried to roll. IE : the aircraft was acting like you used the controls to roll, but it would have been very unstable and potentially violent. If you had continued pushing the rudder (left or right is irrelevant) you will have ended up in a rather steep spiral dive - very quickly unless you did a lot of other things to correct for it. Rather nasty at low altitudes. Your average 'Joe Blow' will not have a hope in controlling it. It does help if you have a pilots license before making statements that you are certain about. Vectored thrust !! ... I guess that means Harriers. Somehow I doubt it in the near or distant future. Unless you're happy to pay $10-20000 in fuel for a short 100Km hop..and were willing to pay a few million for the Harrier. Even though a Harrier is a very old plane, it still is the only practical one that can hover properly. As well, it's an utter bitch to hover and land even with computer assistance and experienced pilots often stuff up. How will a clueless Joe Blow manage it? BTW, the JSF is still a way down the track so the Harrier is still the only one, and even if you take away the military stuff, it will still cost quite a few million.
Is there anything that compares with Sim City? Sure there is: 1. Going for a run 2. Walking the dog 3. Swimming, surfing etc 4. Hiking .... etc etc etc .. get the picture..... ?
There's more to life than games. In fact, if everyone stopped buying crap they don't really need, then you might find the prices come down and you can then stop whinging about the prices. You guys have it lucky. Here in Oz games are around $80.00 - $100 a pop.
I got better things to do than waste my money on what is in reality shit....
It's simple really..... No one is brainwashed ! If you want to get paid, you do what you are told (as long as it's within the laws). They are not Gods, they are employers, and expect you to follow some rules whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, why are you still working there?
Here in Oz a PhD is lucky if he makes $AUD100K per year. A plumber is pretty incompetent or lazy if he make $100K or less. I have a Masters and am an Electronic Engineer, tops is about $AUD60k. My mate who is a carpenter and has a plumbing ticket was upset last financial year when his income was a shade under &AUD150K. If you ever talk to him you would realise he is a dumb ass. He loves his job even though it is a bit hard at times and I'm bored shitless. But I wonder who is the dumb ass !!!
Well architected OO solution ???????? You mean bloatware don't you? As well, 'well architected' and OO are contradictory terms. If you hand craft in assembler, you then will get well architectured code. Even though it may take 10 times as long to write, it will be 100 time more efficient and a hell of a lot smaller (assuming the programmer is competent in assembly and a OO language). As for running twice as fast in 18 months - no way. Like I mentioned before, bloatware effectiveley prevents newer code from running faster on faster machines. Using assembler, code will automatically run faster on faster machines, it's the nature of the beast because it directly translates into machine code. Bloatware OO caode eventually does as well but nowhere as elegantly or efficiently as assembler. If its not very efficient, then its done by a piss poor programmer. I'd rather have a programmer working for me who is efficient even though (s)he is slower, not someone who slaps crap code together quickly because the oo language allows him to.
I beg to differ with the person who begs to differ with the person who is begging to differ. Here in Oz a plain vanilla phone is readily available and won't go away for years yet. After all it's just a bloody phone, who cares anyway. Does one really need those features that are designed to suck your wallet dry. Note I said 'need' as opposed to want. I don't have a mobile because it is nice to not have to talk to anyone. Although my eldest daughter has one grafted to the side of her head..:-)
Actually, all web sites are either free or members only where you pay to use / view the contents of the site. If they are free then that is because the author wants it to be like that. If not free then you pay for the privilege of getting on the site. No mistakes made at all.
My ISP tried something similar. After a few fruitless discussions with their billing dept and various 'supervisors' etc. I sent them an email asking if they would like to attend a court case and explain to the magistrate the meaning of the word - 'unlimited' . Funny, I got 3 months free service after that, and so far no word about limiting me ...
I guess you just have to stand up to the bastards and tell them to F@#K off sometimes..
Decryption keys can be broken. Any engineer worth his salt can come up with a 'black box' cracker. If you can hear it, it can be copied. Simple - a good mike or three into an analoge (pre)amp(s), into a good A/D converter (or use the sound card A/D). There you go - it's copied. Phoenix going for "trusted computing" - who cares. Never get a motherboard with a Phoenix type BIOS - Problem solved. I have only copied old classic LP's. Moden music is in my opion shit, and to me its not worth downloading or copying. I can understand others liking it though etc. It's simple - if you don't like what is happening with music or Phoenix or whatever - vote with your wallet. Don't buy it! You will live if you don't get the latest "dohickey"or song or whatever, and if enough people vote with their wallets then the companies that screw you around won't live long. Instead of instant gratification, how about some patience. It pays in the long run. And you may get a chance to kick the RIAA's or whomevers arse - hard.
I was joking a bit over the "important" comment. Although my daughter would say she and her friends are so important that everytime they wipe their butts they must tell each other about it ... :-).
With me (I work for the second biggest carrier here - Optus but do not have any staff discounts etc) the landline rental is about $AU21 per month and call waiting,voice mail and all the other "bells and whistles" add about $5.00 to the monthly charge. As I said before, the call costs within a city and suburbs is a fixed $0.18c per call no matter the length of time. Our basic infrastructure is about 80-90 years old (Telstra's) while the Optus infrastructure is about 14yrs old. A few days ago I made a call to a friend in Darwin (about 3000kms away - I'm in Melbourne) that lasted about 33 minutes. Total cost was $4.55. Although that is after 7.00pm when it is cheaper. If the call was made during the day it would have been about $12.00
No offence intended but I feel sorry for you yanks. Here in Australia a landline local call costs me 18c for as long as I like, no time restrictions. That is typical of call charges though I hear that Telstra (our biggest carrier) charges 22c for as long as required. Interstate / long distance calls are also dirt cheap per minute. Far less than the equivalent time for a mobile call. ( Mobile = cellphone). Mobiles are still relatively expensive per 30 seconds call time. Anyway, what can be so important that people need to be contactable every second of the day. To me an emergency is or work requirements are the only justification for having one. Nobody is that important that they must be contactable every second of the day.
I, as well, don't see the nescessity of having a phone grafted to the side of my head. My eldest daughter may as well have the graft done. Who the hell needs to talk to someone every minute of the day? The old saying, " Silence is Golden " is still a truism for me. As well, being an electronic engineer, I am well aware of the hazard of a radio transmitter 2 inches from my brain. It may only be five watts but that is still a fair bit of power cooking the inside of the head. Yes it is attenuated but the effect of this type of radiation is cumulative. Individual doses aren't much but the overall dose counts. I bet that in 10-20 years the cases of brain tumours will sky rocket. And no, I do not believe the " experts" who say there is no hazard. They are probabaly funded by the carriers any way. Time will tell!
Here in Australia there are very strict gun laws. So far there has been very few of the shootings etc that happen with monotonous regularity in the states, not none, just very very rare. No doubt the gun laws helped. Why does a normal decent human being need a gun for anyway, unless they are paranoid lunatics? or want to shoot harmless animals that can't defend themselves. Either way, complete nut cases that should be locked away. No I am not an anti-gun freak, I just do not see the point of gun ownership. I have also been in the Aust. military and am an expert on military weapons. I know what they really do to soft targets. There can be no logical or reasonable reason why civilians need weapons. Who do you want to shoot? School kids? police doing their jobs or what?
Since I do not believe in piracy, why are you making a publice statement that or all of us do these things. I pay for all I use, I will not pay for shit. Wanna talk to my lawyer ?
Bells and whistles are only a good thing to pea brains with the IQ of a retarded walnut. You may try to design the crap you mentioned above and I will not look at it or download it. I am assuming by your attitude that you only will be involved with dick enlarging machines. So what are you offering other than bells an whistles ??? So your content is worth looking at ?????? Then what .....
Ultimately, who cares if a company blocks me. I win because they don't get my cash, They loose... Content on the net is all that counts, not advertising companies trying to peddle their dick enlarging machines. Just like TV, good content on the web is as rare as hens teeth....
Free is actually not the point, of course we all paid in some form or another. Right now I am paying to use the bandwidth that reads/and posts to this forum. The point is that since we are paying for it already, what right do advertisers have to foist their crap on us? If we want to get rid of it, we should be able to do so. I am paying for the time it takes to download the crap. If the advertiser wants me to read/look at his crap, he should pay me for my personal time and download time.
No, The parasite is the one who tries to foist their rubbish on those that do not want it. Subscription sounds better simply because you get what you want, not the crap that floats along with it like a parasite, which describes 80% of the content of the net or TV.