It was actually a case of who you know, sort of. I played the I don't understand why card so I got sent to talk to some asitant DA to explain how and why I need to give them the money. It turns out he was new to the area and from the town my boss lived in and new of my boss. So he called up my boss who said that if I said it's true it probably is. I then filled out some legal mumbo jumbo form and the guy said he would give it to the judge who would rubber stamp it and I would get some lesser deal.
I got a letter maybe a week later saying blah was changed to blah and I got a dollar fine no points and the original court fees.
If it happened again a hundred times I doubt it would work out that way again.
It actually inspired me to take law classes for fun. ON another intersting note a studied a similar case to the one in the article, techinicaly I think the guy is still guilty of running the light because I'm pretty sure that sitting in an intersection when the light turns red in NY still counts as running the red as you should only move into an intersection if you know you can clear it, but if they did this everyone would probably get a ticket a week
In the appropriately named Courtland NY there is a massive speeding trap, it was at one point listed by AAA as a real and abused speed trap. I had gotten a ticket there a month earlier because of a malfunctioning speedometer, so I was fearful of it and made extra care to be going at or below the speed limit the next time I came through. I was in the right lane, a giant SUV was in the left lane and the cop was in the center median.
Shortly before the speed trap zone the SUV was several lengths behind me and coming up on me fast. As I saw the cop the SUV was passing and pulling away from me, I saw the cop pull out and thought another person gets nabbed. About 10 seconds later the cop pulled behind me and pulled me over, giving me a ticket for 15 MPH more then what I was going. I responded that it was probably the SUV that got tagged because I had received a ticket probably a hundred feet up the road a month ago and was making sure I was not speeding. He basically said BS. So I asked when you first saw me was the SUV behind or in front of me, he said behind. Then I asked when you got the speed was the SUV in front or behind me, he said in front, so I said then he must have been going faster and probably the person you tagged, he said no and bam a ticket, he then proceeded to give me an on the spot inspection of my car looking for reasons to give me more tickets. He said he was going to give me a ticket for not wearing my seat belt, but I showed him my car made a nonstop ear shattering buzz when the belt was unbuckled so he didn't write it.
Fast forward 3 months later at my court date. I had measured my car measured a similar SUV mapped out the location where the incident occurred found out the RADAR gun they were using, found it's beam spread and showed that
A. my car was in the "shadow" of the SUV at all times and
B. based on the officers statements on the location of the SUV and the distances between where he was sitting and where I got stopped was consistent with a vehicle going 15 MPH faster then I was.
The cop didn't bother to show up, so with this and the lack of cop I was sure I had it beat. I finished talking and turned to the Judge, where he replied, "The Court is no place for science, I find you guilty". because I plead my case I got hit wit maximum fines and maximum court costs and maximum points. Through some later wrangling I got everything but the court costs reduced.
Does this story help anyone, probably not, but it's funny. Especially with shows like CSI saying its all about the science.
This really isn't a should we do single core or mutli-core design issue at this point. Because of new issues arrising form shrinking dimensions and diminishing returns on new hardware technology the only real option for future designs is multi-core. If you think about it any single core system is going to have a max speed once that max speed is reached the only way to make it faster is to add more cores.
The only way single core system will be able to remain supreme is with new architectures and the only way to really utilize them is to re-write your code. So if you have to re-write you code anyway you might as well re-write it for the system with the most possibility.
As for how common apps can use them some apps probably won't be able to exploit them and will run slower then then they would if they had 100% resource alloaction on a single core system. However multiple applications code could be run concurrently on the different cores so even though the applications will be running slower you will be getting more done.
On a similar note. My roommate and I used to eat at one dinner quite frequently in college so frequently we were on a first name basis with and the staff. We went for lunch one day just after the new dollar coins came out. We each left two coins as tip for our lunch. We came by later that evening to get a snack and coffee after class only to be told by a waitress that we had really pissed off our lunch waitress. We asked how we pissed her off, and she replied that if we didn't like the service or the food for lunch we should have told her and not left a crappy tip. We were like crappy tip we left here four dollars. So we called her up and she was pissed we only left her a buck. We said we gave you 4 $1 coins. She started freaking out because she cashed them in for 1 $1 bill.
I saw the same thing and was equally curious. The link for each one also takes you to a different page.
I guess I am one of the few people who never got GMAIL.
All joking aside I believe the technical term is a trust.
A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry.
although I'm not sure you could legally argue reduction of competition part.
Chip supplies might not necessarily be soaked up by the PS3. Every wafer produces an assortment of chip speeds, and since the goal for every game box is to be identical, overly fast or slow chips might get out.
This chip probably isn't going to be the ni plus ultra of desktop linux computing, but it could potentially be very useful in an academic setting. Where you can have some massive vector processing for simulations( biology, chemistry, etc. ) and a CPU for running a useable OS.
If only it was that easy to redesign a chip. A chip more or less has to be designed to be portable, typically at the cost of performance. The time it takes to modify a chip, make timing, and add logic for a new peripheral mix is typically longer then building a new core. Sure, sometimes some units can be reused with minimal modifications, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated then a snip here and a wire there. I wish it was that simple, I might have been able to take a vacation last year.
One time my father, a federal employee, told me that if you worked for the federal government before 1983 you had the option of not paying social security. After 1983 all federal employee's had to pay it. The way he explained it, it was more a matter of book keeping then anything else. Instead of getting a federal pension + social security they just got a pension which was equal to post 1983's pension + social security. His conspiracy theory tilt was that the federal government was barred by law from borrowing pension money, so they made federal employees start contributing to social security so they could borrow the money from them.
How about using a Mac G5, or any Mac for that matter, as long as it uses the PPC ISA.
The next Playstation is being done with PPC as well, so maybe you could emulate it on that.
You just contradicted yourself. You said "equilibrium will not be reached", but then finished with "screwed the workers of the world".
If all of the workers of the world are scrwed you have equilibrium among the workers, which is what you are really talking about when you talk about off-shoring.
We only look at it as being screwed because we are going to have to come down a notch on the pay scale. I be the people in India don't look at it as being scrwed, the probably see it as getting what they deserve.
Are better phrasing might be what does capitalism have to do with morality now. When Teddy R. was doing his trust busting capitalism was a lot more moral. Around this times courts actually ruled the sole purpose of a company wasn't just to make revenues and profits weren't a right. People at this time were less concerened with junk and more concerened about people. Offshoring is going to happen now that companies are more or less required to make money. A lot of this is required by people like you and me. We invest in stocks which we want to go up, and they go up because companies make more profit.
Since this is an economic problem it will evetually normalize. American demand for higher salaries will deminish, Off-shored demand for higher salaries will increase. Eventualy an equilibrium will be reached. This will most likely occure more quickly, and probably hurt more, then it did in manufacturing because of reduced energy barriers. To build a car in india you need a factory. You need to export large amounts of equipment. To write programs you need a computer and a compiler. To ship software back to the US you need the internet, which is essentialy instantaneous. To ship a car back you need a giant fricking boat.
Off shoring is only going to continue while Indian labor can be leveraged to greater profits. if wages in the US go down, people can buy less. This is supposed to be offset by lower costs, but all of the saving are not going to be passed onto the consumer, some are going to be taken as profits, meaning sales will quickly stagnate unless they sell more product. This product will most likely be sold to Indians now making the big money, but since the cost of living is lower the amount of pricing leverage american companies has is less, meaning lower profits. So even though they can produce cheaper the money they make on said prodcuts in that country will be less.
I'm rambling, but to make a long story short, when things are rebalanced the people with the largest slice of the pie( the US) always lose, but they don't lose everything.
The last time it happened was around septemeber. They don't cancel the account or anything the just stop transfering. They give you a phonecall that your service has been halted and they give you a talk about how you are downloading to much and pirating music is illegal, and pirating videos is illegal, you know a very preachy sermon, then turn it back on. I think it has happened three times now at my house. A couple of other people have had it happen to them, this is in NC by the way. They told me that they don't expect people to transfer more than a gig a day.
It has happened a couple of times now where my cable modem has just stopped working, when I give TW a call they say it is because I have downloaded an excessive amount of data and should stop, because I was most likely downloading music, which I wasn't I was downloading massive waveforms from work.
I asked what acceptable was, they responding with
Road Runner is inteneded to give people constant access to email and regular webpages. streaming media and mp3's should not be downloaded with roadrunner.
Go figure, broadband is for the stuff a modem can get in seconds.
I use Time Warners Road Runnner service. I've had it cut off several times and recieved a phone call from them where they decribed how I was over using the access, sometimes I have to call them. Most of the the work was telecommuting stuff so it's really easy to rack up the gigs.
They give me a story about how I am inconvienceing other people and how downloading mp3's is illegal. The irony is I have never(past several years) downloaded mp3s from a p2p over this connection.
I have often wondered how much of Time Warners downtime was really a bandwidth throttle.
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It was actually a case of who you know, sort of. I played the I don't understand why card so I got sent to talk to some asitant DA to explain how and why I need to give them the money. It turns out he was new to the area and from the town my boss lived in and new of my boss. So he called up my boss who said that if I said it's true it probably is. I then filled out some legal mumbo jumbo form and the guy said he would give it to the judge who would rubber stamp it and I would get some lesser deal. I got a letter maybe a week later saying blah was changed to blah and I got a dollar fine no points and the original court fees. If it happened again a hundred times I doubt it would work out that way again. It actually inspired me to take law classes for fun. ON another intersting note a studied a similar case to the one in the article, techinicaly I think the guy is still guilty of running the light because I'm pretty sure that sitting in an intersection when the light turns red in NY still counts as running the red as you should only move into an intersection if you know you can clear it, but if they did this everyone would probably get a ticket a week
In the appropriately named Courtland NY there is a massive speeding trap, it was at one point listed by AAA as a real and abused speed trap. I had gotten a ticket there a month earlier because of a malfunctioning speedometer, so I was fearful of it and made extra care to be going at or below the speed limit the next time I came through. I was in the right lane, a giant SUV was in the left lane and the cop was in the center median. Shortly before the speed trap zone the SUV was several lengths behind me and coming up on me fast. As I saw the cop the SUV was passing and pulling away from me, I saw the cop pull out and thought another person gets nabbed. About 10 seconds later the cop pulled behind me and pulled me over, giving me a ticket for 15 MPH more then what I was going. I responded that it was probably the SUV that got tagged because I had received a ticket probably a hundred feet up the road a month ago and was making sure I was not speeding. He basically said BS. So I asked when you first saw me was the SUV behind or in front of me, he said behind. Then I asked when you got the speed was the SUV in front or behind me, he said in front, so I said then he must have been going faster and probably the person you tagged, he said no and bam a ticket, he then proceeded to give me an on the spot inspection of my car looking for reasons to give me more tickets. He said he was going to give me a ticket for not wearing my seat belt, but I showed him my car made a nonstop ear shattering buzz when the belt was unbuckled so he didn't write it. Fast forward 3 months later at my court date. I had measured my car measured a similar SUV mapped out the location where the incident occurred found out the RADAR gun they were using, found it's beam spread and showed that A. my car was in the "shadow" of the SUV at all times and B. based on the officers statements on the location of the SUV and the distances between where he was sitting and where I got stopped was consistent with a vehicle going 15 MPH faster then I was. The cop didn't bother to show up, so with this and the lack of cop I was sure I had it beat. I finished talking and turned to the Judge, where he replied, "The Court is no place for science, I find you guilty". because I plead my case I got hit wit maximum fines and maximum court costs and maximum points. Through some later wrangling I got everything but the court costs reduced. Does this story help anyone, probably not, but it's funny. Especially with shows like CSI saying its all about the science.
This really isn't a should we do single core or mutli-core design issue at this point. Because of new issues arrising form shrinking dimensions and diminishing returns on new hardware technology the only real option for future designs is multi-core. If you think about it any single core system is going to have a max speed once that max speed is reached the only way to make it faster is to add more cores. The only way single core system will be able to remain supreme is with new architectures and the only way to really utilize them is to re-write your code. So if you have to re-write you code anyway you might as well re-write it for the system with the most possibility. As for how common apps can use them some apps probably won't be able to exploit them and will run slower then then they would if they had 100% resource alloaction on a single core system. However multiple applications code could be run concurrently on the different cores so even though the applications will be running slower you will be getting more done.
On a similar note. My roommate and I used to eat at one dinner quite frequently in college so frequently we were on a first name basis with and the staff. We went for lunch one day just after the new dollar coins came out. We each left two coins as tip for our lunch. We came by later that evening to get a snack and coffee after class only to be told by a waitress that we had really pissed off our lunch waitress. We asked how we pissed her off, and she replied that if we didn't like the service or the food for lunch we should have told her and not left a crappy tip. We were like crappy tip we left here four dollars. So we called her up and she was pissed we only left her a buck. We said we gave you 4 $1 coins. She started freaking out because she cashed them in for 1 $1 bill.
I saw the same thing and was equally curious. The link for each one also takes you to a different page. I guess I am one of the few people who never got GMAIL.
http://turbulence.org/Works/swipe/main.html It has a java program that reads a picture of a barcode and tells you what information it contains.
All joking aside I believe the technical term is a trust. A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry. although I'm not sure you could legally argue reduction of competition part.
Chip supplies might not necessarily be soaked up by the PS3. Every wafer produces an assortment of chip speeds, and since the goal for every game box is to be identical, overly fast or slow chips might get out. This chip probably isn't going to be the ni plus ultra of desktop linux computing, but it could potentially be very useful in an academic setting. Where you can have some massive vector processing for simulations( biology, chemistry, etc. ) and a CPU for running a useable OS.
If only it was that easy to redesign a chip. A chip more or less has to be designed to be portable, typically at the cost of performance. The time it takes to modify a chip, make timing, and add logic for a new peripheral mix is typically longer then building a new core. Sure, sometimes some units can be reused with minimal modifications, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated then a snip here and a wire there. I wish it was that simple, I might have been able to take a vacation last year.
Three companies all battling with hardware made by IBM.
One time my father, a federal employee, told me that if you worked for the federal government before 1983 you had the option of not paying social security. After 1983 all federal employee's had to pay it. The way he explained it, it was more a matter of book keeping then anything else. Instead of getting a federal pension + social security they just got a pension which was equal to post 1983's pension + social security. His conspiracy theory tilt was that the federal government was barred by law from borrowing pension money, so they made federal employees start contributing to social security so they could borrow the money from them.
2 points for obscure Start Trek the Next Generation reference
How about using a Mac G5, or any Mac for that matter, as long as it uses the PPC ISA. The next Playstation is being done with PPC as well, so maybe you could emulate it on that.
You just contradicted yourself. You said "equilibrium will not be reached", but then finished with "screwed the workers of the world". If all of the workers of the world are scrwed you have equilibrium among the workers, which is what you are really talking about when you talk about off-shoring. We only look at it as being screwed because we are going to have to come down a notch on the pay scale. I be the people in India don't look at it as being scrwed, the probably see it as getting what they deserve.
Are better phrasing might be what does capitalism have to do with morality now. When Teddy R. was doing his trust busting capitalism was a lot more moral. Around this times courts actually ruled the sole purpose of a company wasn't just to make revenues and profits weren't a right. People at this time were less concerened with junk and more concerened about people. Offshoring is going to happen now that companies are more or less required to make money. A lot of this is required by people like you and me. We invest in stocks which we want to go up, and they go up because companies make more profit. Since this is an economic problem it will evetually normalize. American demand for higher salaries will deminish, Off-shored demand for higher salaries will increase. Eventualy an equilibrium will be reached. This will most likely occure more quickly, and probably hurt more, then it did in manufacturing because of reduced energy barriers. To build a car in india you need a factory. You need to export large amounts of equipment. To write programs you need a computer and a compiler. To ship software back to the US you need the internet, which is essentialy instantaneous. To ship a car back you need a giant fricking boat. Off shoring is only going to continue while Indian labor can be leveraged to greater profits. if wages in the US go down, people can buy less. This is supposed to be offset by lower costs, but all of the saving are not going to be passed onto the consumer, some are going to be taken as profits, meaning sales will quickly stagnate unless they sell more product. This product will most likely be sold to Indians now making the big money, but since the cost of living is lower the amount of pricing leverage american companies has is less, meaning lower profits. So even though they can produce cheaper the money they make on said prodcuts in that country will be less. I'm rambling, but to make a long story short, when things are rebalanced the people with the largest slice of the pie( the US) always lose, but they don't lose everything.
The last time it happened was around septemeber. They don't cancel the account or anything the just stop transfering. They give you a phonecall that your service has been halted and they give you a talk about how you are downloading to much and pirating music is illegal, and pirating videos is illegal, you know a very preachy sermon, then turn it back on. I think it has happened three times now at my house. A couple of other people have had it happen to them, this is in NC by the way. They told me that they don't expect people to transfer more than a gig a day.
It has happened a couple of times now where my cable modem has just stopped working, when I give TW a call they say it is because I have downloaded an excessive amount of data and should stop, because I was most likely downloading music, which I wasn't I was downloading massive waveforms from work. I asked what acceptable was, they responding with Road Runner is inteneded to give people constant access to email and regular webpages. streaming media and mp3's should not be downloaded with roadrunner. Go figure, broadband is for the stuff a modem can get in seconds.
I use Time Warners Road Runnner service. I've had it cut off several times and recieved a phone call from them where they decribed how I was over using the access, sometimes I have to call them. Most of the the work was telecommuting stuff so it's really easy to rack up the gigs.
They give me a story about how I am inconvienceing other people and how downloading mp3's is illegal. The irony is I have never(past several years) downloaded mp3s from a p2p over this connection.
I have often wondered how much of Time Warners downtime was really a bandwidth throttle.