Re:Do not trust press releases, or greenwashing
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Silicon Hell
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Ever see an invoiced purchase order with four paragraphs (1/2 page) of 'you must guarantee your product doesnt have lead, CFCs, asbestos, etc' on the back of it? Well, that's what one from Applied is like. I had an AMD lease buy-back cross my desk last week with Applied semi equipment on it, and I just had a peek at the database for another look. If the internal 'thou shalt not's are anything like what they feed their vendors, I'm not worried..
I personally never open a bottle of this particular chemical unless under a fumehood wearing proper solvent gloves.
Smart man! While working at a hardware store in high school, we had a truck driver drop a case of the stuff and split a pint can. (It's sold commercially in the States as a grease solvent and is the principle agent used in dry-cleaning)
Both cashiers were puking uncontrolably just from a whiff of the stuff. In lieu of the Hazmat team, we closed the store for a couple of hours for a trip to Joes Army Navy Surplus for a couple of Soviet made gas masks to clean the mess up.
On a lighter note, try putting a few drops of it in a full, hot Styrofoam cup of coffee. The cup turns to jelly without serious deformation. Watch as your coworkers pick up the cup that dematerializes in their hand!!
If only smell were all it took!! I have known quite a few programmers on the Shower-In-A-Can regimen.. You could smell them five cubes away even through the Rite-Guard...
Leching the calcium out of your bones is right! But it's not through the skin, per se. HF just doesn't do much damage to the outmost layer, aside from a wee bit of swelling. No immediate pain either.. Dipping your finger in a 5% solution is enough to lead to loss of most of your hand or death.(HF is damn toxic. Flourosis and all)
Got a single drop of HF etching solution on my arm once. It itched for the first two hours, got red and was starting to swell by the end of the third, and by hour four I was on oxygen watching someone pump my arm full of calcium gluconate solution.
What in blue blazes are they using hydroflouric acid for?!?!
Java as a compiled, system and arch dependant binary?? Fast, sure. But you're eliminating the main reason to use Java: System independance. If you want fast, use something else!
Packing a TCP/IP stack into one of the Voyagers would be tougher than a PIC! And of what use would it be? You'd have to ping it before you went to bed to see the result in the morning, and 90% of your packets would be lost!
Just because you can't see doesn't mean you have no concept of a two dimensional surface!
I assume you can touch-type. You know, without looking, where you have to put your finger to press a given key, and you can see the result on-screen. Why would it be so terribly difficult to get an image of Netscape's layout in your head instead of the keyboard, and hear the button before you press it??
Metallica has the right, as copyright holder, do do it. It is the correct thing to do in the current model. Naming 300K Napster users is nothing more than a scare tactic; They want to make damn sure their music isn't being traded illegally, so they're going to push every proto-script kiddy offline.
But what I don't understand is Katz calling Metallica boneheaded. If you had sold your life's work into the horribly flawed monopoly model, wouldn't you be fighting for album sales? You can't sell you music online without the record companies permission, and even if you do they insist on the sane 95/5 cut.
Perhaps we should get the actual figures on who makes what from Metallica's albums, and call them on it tomorrow. Say all 300,000 names are downloads of a single song. Thats 25,000 albums. Say Metallica makes a buck off of each album (Who gets the other $16?). They prolly paid the lawyers more than that before even entering court.
Anyone from the recording industry have better figures??
Absolute car wreck.. JeffK is exactly the sort of person Saten would put in the seat next to you on the trip to Hell....
Re:Dead? It's not, but it should be.
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Motif's Not Dead
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1. The Open Group do not write Xfree. 1 1/2: I don't think TOG is writing much of anything. 2. make World is standard. 3. make does not compile everything. Remember that site dependant install file you were supposed to edit? That's what determines what is compiled.
I agree that the Imakefile stragedy bit, but hey! Even Meatloaf would agree 1 out of 3 1/2 ain't bad..
Obviously you've never been in a small town redneck bar in the south after happy-hour.. Serious genetic defect from inbreeding or massive, 'I once used mah head to stop mah pa's pickup' trauma are the only possible reasons for some of those people to exist. I used to think it might be radiation, but that would preclude their dozen children..
Re:OBJECTION - the amiga channel
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Quickies Rock!
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We have the Windows channel here in Detroit every Saturday night. AT&T does their 'Real Estate' channel in Powerpoint 97. Powerpoint runs out of memory every Saturday sometime between 5:45 and 6:15.. Fifty minutes later, Dr. Watson comes on the scene and kicks its ass.
Since they reboot the machine manually once a day at 5 am throughout the week, I can confidently say the maximum functional uptime of a NT box running Powerpoint is 37 hours.
C64's are good for more than controlling steppers and for cheesy D/A!! I worked with a guy that used one daily to interface to nearly everything.. I saw him use for everything; Dumb terminal, console on a SGI, keyboard for a mini, multimeter, low freq scope, Starlan test tool..
If it's got a plug on it, all you need is a breadboard and a C64 and you can talk to it.
Gee, I only hope they go after me.. I have been on Napster, searching for and downloading Metallica, for the last week or so. Why? My Garage, Inc. discs look like a chainsaw was dragged over them, (one was) and I needed to fill in the holes I couldn't rebuild. I'll even show them the three copies of MOP I own!! I hope Guns and Roses are next to sue me. I snagged Use your Illusion I & Appetite for Destruction via Napster this morning. Forgot my CD's at home.
Try an early Turtle Beach Daytona, or one of those awful Daytona PCI. Think a SB-16 sounds bad now?? I have bytched time and time again about Creative's soundcards, but the noise from a Daytona PCI (S3 SonicVibes) makes a flatulent walrus in heat three inches fom your ear sound quiet and pleasant.
Gawd I hope you're the one and only, because the Mastah seems to have left us for greener pastures of karma..
Oh, and it appears your last post felt the wrath of the Mighty Moderation Race, as have so many before it. If the management fized it there would sure be a bit less bytching..
Would some moderator kindly promote the post to -1?? You'll have to change your URL to read '...&threshold=-5....', but it would be the right thing to do..
Morals exist outside of our heads, and apart from any god. They're a form of mental survival guide that has been selected for by evolution time and time again.
Imagine it's 10,000 BC.
You steal something of value from your neighbor. What happens? Your neighbors beats the life out of you. You're dead, no children. (Thou shalt not steal)
You sleep with the neighbors wife? If she doesn't slit your throat while you sleep, the husband will tomorrow night. Again, you're dead, no children. (Thou shalt not commit adultery)
I can keep going, but that proves my point.
Most of the commandments and most lessons of the Bible ('the words of god') are nothing more than the 'code of conduct least likely to get you killed today'. Everything else is either a recruiting hook to get you converted or a penalty to keep you that way.
Aside from the fancy case and custom supply, this is nothing more than a $70 MediaGX installed systems board! You can prolly snag one at the next computer swap meet, complete with TV-out and onboard sound.
Exactly. The 'Project' gave me the webpage of a valve manufacturer that so happens to be 1/4 mile south of me..
I saw the easy relationship to the industrial microcontroller company that makes the stator solenoid controllers, then to the company that sold them the conveyors their assembly line runs on, over to Australia to the conveyor peoples biggest butt-buddy, who makes theit ball bearings on a press controlled by PCs made by a company that leases their chip placers from a company my employer used to own, and then to my site. Make someone eat the anti-MPAA sentiment off my boot before I go..
And then it tells me I can only play once a day. What a disappointment!!
Re:Online sales from Canada
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Fighting UCITA
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Doesn't work that way. Most contracts we have with canadian companies still have the 'Choice of Jurisdiction: New Jersey' clause in them, and the clause is enforcable. Heck, we're a canadian-owned company now, and if the 'New Jersey' clause is effective, I doubt there is any real measure we can take against UCITA except bomb-shelter limitations on a state-by-state basis.
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Ever see an invoiced purchase order with four paragraphs (1/2 page) of 'you must guarantee your product doesnt have lead, CFCs, asbestos, etc' on the back of it? Well, that's what one from Applied is like. I had an AMD lease buy-back cross my desk last week with Applied semi equipment on it, and I just had a peek at the database for another look. If the internal 'thou shalt not's are anything like what they feed their vendors, I'm not worried..
I personally never open a bottle of this particular chemical unless under a fumehood wearing proper solvent gloves.
Smart man! While working at a hardware store in high school, we had a truck driver drop a case of the stuff and split a pint can. (It's sold commercially in the States as a grease solvent and is the principle agent used in dry-cleaning)
Both cashiers were puking uncontrolably just from a whiff of the stuff. In lieu of the Hazmat team, we closed the store for a couple of hours for a trip to Joes Army Navy Surplus for a couple of Soviet made gas masks to clean the mess up.
On a lighter note, try putting a few drops of it in a full, hot Styrofoam cup of coffee. The cup turns to jelly without serious deformation. Watch as your coworkers pick up the cup that dematerializes in their hand!!
If only smell were all it took!! I have known quite a few programmers on the Shower-In-A-Can regimen.. You could smell them five cubes away even through the Rite-Guard...
Leching the calcium out of your bones is right! But it's not through the skin, per se. HF just doesn't do much damage to the outmost layer, aside from a wee bit of swelling. No immediate pain either.. Dipping your finger in a 5% solution is enough to lead to loss of most of your hand or death.(HF is damn toxic. Flourosis and all)
Got a single drop of HF etching solution on my arm once. It itched for the first two hours, got red and was starting to swell by the end of the third, and by hour four I was on oxygen watching someone pump my arm full of calcium gluconate solution.
What in blue blazes are they using hydroflouric acid for?!?!
Java as a compiled, system and arch dependant binary?? Fast, sure. But you're eliminating the main reason to use Java: System independance. If you want fast, use something else!
Packing a TCP/IP stack into one of the Voyagers would be tougher than a PIC! And of what use would it be? You'd have to ping it before you went to bed to see the result in the morning, and 90% of your packets would be lost!
Just because you can't see doesn't mean you have no concept of a two dimensional surface!
I assume you can touch-type. You know, without looking, where you have to put your finger to press a given key, and you can see the result on-screen. Why would it be so terribly difficult to get an image of Netscape's layout in your head instead of the keyboard, and hear the button before you press it??
Metallica has the right, as copyright holder, do do it. It is the correct thing to do in the current model. Naming 300K Napster users is nothing more than a scare tactic; They want to make damn sure their music isn't being traded illegally, so they're going to push every proto-script kiddy offline.
But what I don't understand is Katz calling Metallica boneheaded. If you had sold your life's work into the horribly flawed monopoly model, wouldn't you be fighting for album sales? You can't sell you music online without the record companies permission, and even if you do they insist on the sane 95/5 cut.
Perhaps we should get the actual figures on who makes what from Metallica's albums, and call them on it tomorrow. Say all 300,000 names are downloads of a single song. Thats 25,000 albums. Say Metallica makes a buck off of each album (Who gets the other $16?). They prolly paid the lawyers more than that before even entering court.
Anyone from the recording industry have better figures??
Absolute car wreck.. JeffK is exactly the sort of person Saten would put in the seat next to you on the trip to Hell.. ..
1. The Open Group do not write Xfree.
1 1/2: I don't think TOG is writing much of anything.
2. make World is standard.
3. make does not compile everything. Remember that site dependant install file you were supposed to edit? That's what determines what is compiled.
I agree that the Imakefile stragedy bit, but hey! Even Meatloaf would agree 1 out of 3 1/2 ain't bad..
Obviously you've never been in a small town redneck bar in the south after happy-hour.. Serious genetic defect from inbreeding or massive, 'I once used mah head to stop mah pa's pickup' trauma are the only possible reasons for some of those people to exist. I used to think it might be radiation, but that would preclude their dozen children..
We have the Windows channel here in Detroit every Saturday night. AT&T does their 'Real Estate' channel in Powerpoint 97. Powerpoint runs out of memory every Saturday sometime between 5:45 and 6:15.. Fifty minutes later, Dr. Watson comes on the scene and kicks its ass.
Since they reboot the machine manually once a day at 5 am throughout the week, I can confidently say the maximum functional uptime of a NT box running Powerpoint is 37 hours.
C64's are good for more than controlling steppers and for cheesy D/A!! I worked with a guy that used one daily to interface to nearly everything.. I saw him use for everything; Dumb terminal, console on a SGI, keyboard for a mini, multimeter, low freq scope, Starlan test tool..
If it's got a plug on it, all you need is a breadboard and a C64 and you can talk to it.
2 * 3 * 7 = 42
Three primes.
Strawberry, lime, grape, blueberry, tangerine or the new and ultra sexy graphite?
Gee, I only hope they go after me.. I have been on Napster, searching for and downloading Metallica, for the last week or so. Why? My Garage, Inc. discs look like a chainsaw was dragged over them, (one was) and I needed to fill in the holes I couldn't rebuild. I'll even show them the three copies of MOP I own!! I hope Guns and Roses are next to sue me. I snagged Use your Illusion I & Appetite for Destruction via Napster this morning. Forgot my CD's at home.
Try an early Turtle Beach Daytona, or one of those awful Daytona PCI. Think a SB-16 sounds bad now?? I have bytched time and time again about Creative's soundcards, but the noise from a Daytona PCI (S3 SonicVibes) makes a flatulent walrus in heat three inches fom your ear sound quiet and pleasant.
And these are the people manufacturing this!
MEEPT!
Gawd I hope you're the one and only, because the Mastah seems to have left us for greener pastures of karma..
Oh, and it appears your last post felt the wrath of the Mighty Moderation Race, as have so many before it. If the management fized it there would sure be a bit less bytching..
Would some moderator kindly promote the post to -1?? You'll have to change your URL to read '...&threshold=-5....', but it would be the right thing to do..
Morals exist outside of our heads, and apart from any god. They're a form of mental survival guide that has been selected for by evolution time and time again.
Imagine it's 10,000 BC.
You steal something of value from your neighbor. What happens? Your neighbors beats the life out of you. You're dead, no children. (Thou shalt not steal)
You sleep with the neighbors wife? If she doesn't slit your throat while you sleep, the husband will tomorrow night. Again, you're dead, no children. (Thou shalt not commit adultery)
I can keep going, but that proves my point.
Most of the commandments and most lessons of the Bible ('the words of god') are nothing more than the 'code of conduct least likely to get you killed today'. Everything else is either a recruiting hook to get you converted or a penalty to keep you that way.
Aside from the fancy case and custom supply, this is nothing more than a $70 MediaGX installed systems board! You can prolly snag one at the next computer swap meet, complete with TV-out and onboard sound.
It is a cool hack tho..
Exactly. The 'Project' gave me the webpage of a valve manufacturer that so happens to be 1/4 mile south of me..
I saw the easy relationship to the industrial microcontroller company that makes the stator solenoid controllers, then to the company that sold them the conveyors their assembly line runs on, over to Australia to the conveyor peoples biggest butt-buddy, who makes theit ball bearings on a press controlled by PCs made by a company that leases their chip placers from a company my employer used to own, and then to my site. Make someone eat the anti-MPAA sentiment off my boot before I go..
And then it tells me I can only play once a day. What a disappointment!!
Works in IE 5 as well.. Damn, that's uncool..
Doesn't work that way. Most contracts we have with canadian companies still have the 'Choice of Jurisdiction: New Jersey' clause in them, and the clause is enforcable. Heck, we're a canadian-owned company now, and if the 'New Jersey' clause is effective, I doubt there is any real measure we can take against UCITA except bomb-shelter limitations on a state-by-state basis.
I never managed to get a stable overclocked 5x86.. Not even the one I had on the specially equipped PTC mobo.. What clock/multiplier/voltage?
It's a pr70 according to AMD, and according to comparisons between it and the old P60 I once had, the P60 is faster.
What I'd like to know is why'd they release the 133 (and then orphan it) when the 120DX4 chips were selling like hotcakes?