While building up the Martian atmosphere to 'normal' pressures and such is nice, what about the gravity over there? I believe part of the reason Mars' atmosphere isn't as thick as Earth's has to do with the inability to hold on to the atmosphere. The solar 'wind' will strip the air right off the planet.
no, it isn't. as others have pointed out, overclockers are a small minority. if a large number of less clued-in customers repeatedly buy remarked CPUs without knowing it, and some of them fail, it soil's AMD's image. around this area (NW Ohio) there used to be a big problem with k6-2's being dead on arrival, or unstable at their rated clock speeds (25-50%?), leading many to run to Intel with their wallets. i think AMD wants to get away from having a reputation like that, being the 'flaky' chip maker. if a few hundred overclockers have to run their boxes at the rated speed, or alternately buy Intel, for AMD to have a good reputation for making dependable products, so be it.
i don't think the comparision to the auto industry is valid, either. by overclocking the CPU, you're using a 'lesser' CPU to do the job of a better one, whereas with a car, you're actually changing lesser parts out for better ones, i.e. changing the stock cam and putting one in with bigger lobes, etc. and the new cam would be designed to perform better than the previous one needed to. besides, even in australia i don't think there's been a problem with people finding 12 horse Briggs & Strattons under the hood where a big V8 was supposed to be.
i've only read a couple of his books, but haven't been disappointed.. how about Jesus on Mars? i admit it sounds lame, but i think its an interesting book, and an interesting concept, and worth the read.
stay away from piers anthony. period. if you read one of his books, you've read all of them. as several million other people have mentioned, 'a canticle for liebowitz' is a good one. its interesting, but kinda boring, and funny and sad. definitely worth it tho.
i'd offer more but i accidentally gave in to the dark side when i was a small scifi-ling, and ended up in the fantasy section. if you make the same mistake, two great fantasy series are 'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan, and 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' by Tad Williams.
Arthur C Clarke books are always good for a quick read, and are occasionally thought-provoking, too.
something else, try to stay away from the star trek franchise, the McDonald's of sci-fi books. most of them are pretty much the same, and they're too quick a read, really. basically just adventure stuff.
of course McDonalds food is sort of an adventure, too. is that crunchy thing a roach or a twice-fried grease ball with a chewy theoretically potato center?
oh, and remember, don't step in the piers anthony. its squishy and icky.
"The Internet is indeed a splendid tool of wonder, but there is a dark side of hacking, crashing networks and viruses that we absolutely must address," she said.
nice parallel structure. but wow, first its the information superhighway! now its a splendid tool of wonder! in a couple of years, i bet Janet will be claiming she invented it.
and this guy, here, very eloquent:
"It is perhaps not Big Brother we should be worried about, but big browser," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. "We need to be fearful that the aggregation of information, if it is misused, is very terrifying."
"we need to be fearful that the aggregation of information is very terrifying"?
We have these stupid fucking media driven news shows with the ability to "alter reality"
ever hear of a non-'media-driven' news show?
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO REBEL....NOW !!!! WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE. SO GET OFF OF YOUR FUCKING ASSES ADN STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES OR PREPARE TO BE FUCKED UP THE ASS ON A DAILY BASIS.
i think they have something of a point, but not really. sure, people would love to install 1 patch instead of 21. however, i think any company with a clue is going to want 21 patches installed if thats the way the patches come. saying anything else is like saying they don't want their box to be secure. which is interesting, especially in light of ZDnet's admission. aren't they kinda saying they wanted the PR from the "contest", but they didn't really feel like securing the linux box?
so i guess the apocalypse is held at bay by a nonprofit website, eh? heh. that's funny, but pathetic if you're serious.
in the first part of your er.. essay, you said "everybody is frantic, stressed, tethered, broke or worn out trying to manage." this is a ridiculous overgeneralization. i'd expect to see things like this on Hard Copy, or Dateline or something. it made me laugh, so thanks. another funny part was how we're "bombarded" by "inventions and advances we might not need or understand." why are they here, then? why are these inventions and advances present? is there some dark Brotherhood of the Creative Genius repeatedly whispering "what hath god wrought?" in the moonlit night, and conspiring to spend a lot of time, effort, and money to befuddling the masses with gizmos and gadgets running on pure FM? i fail to see the cellphone as harbinger of the apocalypse, even when someone's rings when i go see a movie at the theater. of course, i think its understood that the "everybody" in your essay refers to people who already own such dread devices as PDA's and pagers, and know everyone else on the planet also has one. and remember, this nonproblem is going to be solved by a nonsolution, the magical, mystical Webpage of the Ages, called clotho for whatever reason. i'm sure clotho.org's IP will mean just as much as the name. since i hear around 40% of the american population doesn't own or have regular access to a computer, and something well above 90% of the rest of the world doesn't have access to a computer, clotho.org will essentially become a service catering to the rich, letting them know its okay to be rich, and that its their burden they carry for the less electronically endowed, not a caped crusader.org robbing from the rich so that they can run the site without banner ads.
my vision of the apocalypse? in the battered ruins of what was formerly america, after the american section of the internet fell to pieces, innumerable BBS's rise from the ashes, entice subscribers with access to more ringdown lines, and battle for supremacy over a big game of Baron Realms Elite.;)
I guess I'd have to disagree with your analysis of the Suck article. Once you stop looking at the pictures and read the article, you'll notice that the article never says economic success is evil or wrong, just that it will change the future of the OS.
As I understand it, or as the legend goes, the development of Linux was/is done primarily on a want-this-feature basis. A programmer wants his or her box to do this or that, so the programmer makes it happen, one way or another, and then shares the code. In the past, all that would matter was the code, because that's all there was. From the code, one derived an ego boost at solving a problem and passing on the solution, experience from doing whatever was done, and a reputation for being a horrorshow hacker, or whatever.
Now, with the economic success of Red Hat and friends, you can get paid for it. This translates into something more direct than a warm and squishy feeling, something more immediately gratifying. Since money is more gratifying than feelsgood acts, money will be the driving force behind Linux development. Joe Programmer won't be writing a kernel module for device X because he feels like it anymore, he'll do it because his boss told him to.
And that is what will change the OS. But remember, it isn't Suck that said it was a bad thing.
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hmmm... Well, you seem to be implying then that prescription drugs are more dangerous than illicit drugs, which is probably an overgeneralization. But to make that determination, wouldn't you have to take the ratio of the number of illicit drug users compared to the number of illicit drug user deaths, and do the same for prescription drugs/prescription drug deaths? I think that would be an oversimplification too, you'd have to take usage habits into consideration, too. Perhaps you should say instead that prescription drugs kill more people because of poor usage habits that aren't really talked about because precription drug companies are "okay." You know what I mean. "I have a bad headache, so instead of taking two asprine like the bottle says, i'll take seven, and wash it down with a few glasses of brandy, and take some Tums, the magic ones with Holy Calcium of the Ages (tm) included for fat people in commercials, to calm my stomache after eating those herbal and vitamin supplements on an empty stomache." Just a thought.
Also, about nine years ago, when I was in sixth grade, during one of those DARE-esque "special" classes in school where they interrupt science or math class to talk about drugs (i'm sure that's why US math and science scores are down - they interrupt class for a different indoctrination period), I asked the teacher what the most dangerous illegal drug was, and he completely freaked out. Complete change in demeanor and an expression of what I assume was shock. He spent something like ten minutes assuring me that all drugs were created equal, and were therefore equally dangerous. He almost pleaded for me to believe it. It was very odd. So, Mr. Chipka, maybe next time I WILL teach class..
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Who benefits from the war on drugs? Well, drugs and/or alcohol were involved in about a third of all violent crimes last year, or maybe the year before. Any politician who is tough on other people's drugs can be considered a "good guy" and is immediately elected and reelected. Of course booze won't be mentioned in any big tirades against crime (unless consumed by a teenager), they contribute too much money to the Republican/Democrat Pary. Which brings us to the second beneficiary. Legal drugs. Tobacco and alcohol corporations benefit, they're "okay." Pharmacudical/chemical interests also benefit. Actually, I read that the whole "reefer madness" thing was sponsored by a logging company, because hemp paper was better than tree paper, and they had extensive deforestation rights. I haven't been able to check on that tho. And of course, the CIA can keep selling the illegal stuff.;)
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Do I see a coney hat with eyeholes in it in your future? Heh.
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What's the difference between option A and B? It seems to me that option A leads directly to B, in which case option B is not actually "bullshit," but the result of meaningful opinion. Now, to stick my tongue out to all of you who say the Bible is completely useless (btw, there's an extreme duality here, some say its a magic book full of all knowledge, and others say it isn't worth the bookmark that comes with it; I disagree with both), there's a quote somewhere in there dealing with this. Something to the effect of "raise a child in the way that he should go, and all his life he shall not depart from it." Now, I do believe this is true, you know, that parents have a direct influence on a child's future. Considering that, if a child is raised "in an environment that encouraged individualism, intelligence, and free thought," I'd expect that to lead to a child more likely to say "you can't control me." Right? But of course, we can't have teenagers running about saying what they think, property is to be seen and not heard. Maybe I'm wrong, and they will live "happy socially constructive lives and generally doing their best to help forward Hassan." I don't know, that's my take on it at least.
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I figured it was just pessimism on the rise. After you see so many stupid bills become law, and notice the chance a given bill has to pass into law is inversely proportionate to its Stupidity Factor, you just gradually stop trying to get your hopes up that something will make sense, and call bills law. Chalk it up to Murphy's Bill.
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Well, as long as you're going down, how about linking some neat drug-related sites for us? Here's a few:
true, but a well piloted ariloulaleelay skiff could smoke the crap out of most of the ships in that game. ur-quan/ kor-ah dreadnoughts, all dead. except that damnable chimmr. and it wasn't TOO bad vs the sa-matra.
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While building up the Martian atmosphere to 'normal' pressures and such is nice, what about the gravity over there? I believe part of the reason Mars' atmosphere isn't as thick as Earth's has to do with the inability to hold on to the atmosphere. The solar 'wind' will strip the air right off the planet.
If I'm wrong, fine, but tell me why.
no, it isn't. as others have pointed out, overclockers are a small minority. if a large number of less clued-in customers repeatedly buy remarked CPUs without knowing it, and some of them fail, it soil's AMD's image. around this area (NW Ohio) there used to be a big problem with k6-2's being dead on arrival, or unstable at their rated clock speeds (25-50%?), leading many to run to Intel with their wallets. i think AMD wants to get away from having a reputation like that, being the 'flaky' chip maker. if a few hundred overclockers have to run their boxes at the rated speed, or alternately buy Intel, for AMD to have a good reputation for making dependable products, so be it.
i don't think the comparision to the auto industry is valid, either. by overclocking the CPU, you're using a 'lesser' CPU to do the job of a better one, whereas with a car, you're actually changing lesser parts out for better ones, i.e. changing the stock cam and putting one in with bigger lobes, etc. and the new cam would be designed to perform better than the previous one needed to. besides, even in australia i don't think there's been a problem with people finding 12 horse Briggs & Strattons under the hood where a big V8 was supposed to be.
i've only read a couple of his books, but haven't been disappointed.. how about Jesus on Mars? i admit it sounds lame, but i think its an interesting book, and an interesting concept, and worth the read.
stay away from piers anthony. period. if you read one of his books, you've read all of them. as several million other people have mentioned, 'a canticle for liebowitz' is a good one. its interesting, but kinda boring, and funny and sad. definitely worth it tho.
i'd offer more but i accidentally gave in to the dark side when i was a small scifi-ling, and ended up in the fantasy section. if you make the same mistake, two great fantasy series are 'The Wheel of Time' by Robert Jordan, and 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' by Tad Williams.
Arthur C Clarke books are always good for a quick read, and are occasionally thought-provoking, too.
something else, try to stay away from the star trek franchise, the McDonald's of sci-fi books. most of them are pretty much the same, and they're too quick a read, really. basically just adventure stuff.
of course McDonalds food is sort of an adventure, too. is that crunchy thing a roach or a twice-fried grease ball with a chewy theoretically potato center?
oh, and remember, don't step in the piers anthony. its squishy and icky.
She sure has a way with words:
"The Internet is indeed a splendid tool of wonder, but there is a dark side of hacking, crashing networks and viruses that we absolutely
must address," she said.
nice parallel structure. but wow, first its the information superhighway! now its a splendid tool of wonder! in a couple of years, i bet Janet will be claiming she invented it.
and this guy, here, very eloquent:
"It is perhaps not Big Brother we should be worried about, but big browser," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. "We need to be fearful that the aggregation of information, if it is misused, is very terrifying."
"we need to be fearful that the aggregation of information is very terrifying"?
how very telling.
We have these stupid fucking media driven news shows with the ability to "alter reality"
ever hear of a non-'media-driven' news show?
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO REBEL....NOW !!!! WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE. SO GET OFF OF YOUR FUCKING ASSES ADN STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES
OR PREPARE TO BE FUCKED UP THE ASS ON A DAILY BASIS.
oh no! its the great homosexual menace! gasp!
i think they have something of a point, but not really. sure, people would love to install 1 patch instead of 21. however, i think any company with a clue is going to want 21 patches installed if thats the way the patches come. saying anything else is like saying they don't want their box to be secure. which is interesting, especially in light of ZDnet's admission. aren't they kinda saying they wanted the PR from the "contest", but they didn't really feel like securing the linux box?
so i guess the apocalypse is held at bay by a nonprofit website, eh? heh. that's funny, but pathetic if you're serious.
.org robbing from the rich so that they can run the site without banner ads.
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in the first part of your er.. essay, you said "everybody is frantic, stressed, tethered, broke or worn out trying to manage." this is a ridiculous overgeneralization. i'd expect to see things like this on Hard Copy, or Dateline or something. it made me laugh, so thanks. another funny part was how we're "bombarded" by "inventions and advances we might not need or understand." why are they here, then? why are these inventions and advances present? is there some dark Brotherhood of the Creative Genius repeatedly whispering "what hath god wrought?" in the moonlit night, and conspiring to spend a lot of time, effort, and money to befuddling the masses with gizmos and gadgets running on pure FM? i fail to see the cellphone as harbinger of the apocalypse, even when someone's rings when i go see a movie at the theater. of course, i think its understood that the "everybody" in your essay refers to people who already own such dread devices as PDA's and pagers, and know everyone else on the planet also has one.
and remember, this nonproblem is going to be solved by a nonsolution, the magical, mystical Webpage of the Ages, called clotho for whatever reason. i'm sure clotho.org's IP will mean just as much as the name.
since i hear around 40% of the american population doesn't own or have regular access to a computer, and something well above 90% of the rest of the world doesn't have access to a computer, clotho.org will essentially become a service catering to the rich, letting them know its okay to be rich, and that its their burden they carry for the less electronically endowed, not a caped crusader
my vision of the apocalypse? in the battered ruins of what was formerly america, after the american section of the internet fell to pieces, innumerable BBS's rise from the ashes, entice subscribers with access to more ringdown lines, and battle for supremacy over a big game of Baron Realms Elite.
I guess I'd have to disagree with your analysis of the Suck article. Once you stop looking at the pictures and read the article, you'll notice that the article never says economic success is evil or wrong, just that it will change the future of the OS.
As I understand it, or as the legend goes, the development of Linux was/is done primarily on a want-this-feature basis. A programmer wants his or her box to do this or that, so the programmer makes it happen, one way or another, and then shares the code. In the past, all that would matter was the code, because that's all there was. From the code, one derived an ego boost at solving a problem and passing on the solution, experience from doing whatever was done, and a reputation for being a horrorshow hacker, or whatever.
Now, with the economic success of Red Hat and friends, you can get paid for it. This translates into something more direct than a warm and squishy feeling, something more immediately gratifying. Since money is more gratifying than feelsgood acts, money will be the driving force behind Linux development. Joe Programmer won't be writing a kernel module for device X because he feels like it anymore, he'll do it because his boss told him to.
And that is what will change the OS. But remember, it isn't Suck that said it was a bad thing.
hmmm... Well, you seem to be implying then that prescription drugs are more dangerous than illicit drugs, which is probably an overgeneralization. But to make that determination, wouldn't you have to take the ratio of the number of illicit drug users compared to the number of illicit drug user deaths, and do the same for prescription drugs/prescription drug deaths? I think that would be an oversimplification too, you'd have to take usage habits into consideration, too. Perhaps you should say instead that prescription drugs kill more people because of poor usage habits that aren't really talked about because precription drug companies are "okay." You know what I mean. "I have a bad headache, so instead of taking two asprine like the bottle says, i'll take seven, and wash it down with a few glasses of brandy, and take some Tums, the magic ones with Holy Calcium of the Ages (tm) included for fat people in commercials, to calm my stomache after eating those herbal and vitamin supplements on an empty stomache." Just a thought.
Also, about nine years ago, when I was in sixth grade, during one of those DARE-esque "special" classes in school where they interrupt science or math class to talk about drugs (i'm sure that's why US math and science scores are down - they interrupt class for a different indoctrination period), I asked the teacher what the most dangerous illegal drug was, and he completely freaked out. Complete change in demeanor and an expression of what I assume was shock. He spent something like ten minutes assuring me that all drugs were created equal, and were therefore equally dangerous. He almost pleaded for me to believe it. It was very odd. So, Mr. Chipka, maybe next time I WILL teach class..
Who benefits from the war on drugs? Well, drugs and/or alcohol were involved in about a third of all violent crimes last year, or maybe the year before. Any politician who is tough on other people's drugs can be considered a "good guy" and is immediately elected and reelected. Of course booze won't be mentioned in any big tirades against crime (unless consumed by a teenager), they contribute too much money to the Republican/Democrat Pary. Which brings us to the second beneficiary. Legal drugs. Tobacco and alcohol corporations benefit, they're "okay." Pharmacudical/chemical interests also benefit. Actually, I read that the whole "reefer madness" thing was sponsored by a logging company, because hemp paper was better than tree paper, and they had extensive deforestation rights. I haven't been able to check on that tho. And of course, the CIA can keep selling the illegal stuff. ;)
Do I see a coney hat with eyeholes in it in your future? Heh.
What's the difference between option A and B? It seems to me that option A leads directly to B, in which case option B is not actually "bullshit," but the result of meaningful opinion. Now, to stick my tongue out to all of you who say the Bible is completely useless (btw, there's an extreme duality here, some say its a magic book full of all knowledge, and others say it isn't worth the bookmark that comes with it; I disagree with both), there's a quote somewhere in there dealing with this. Something to the effect of "raise a child in the way that he should go, and all his life he shall not depart from it." Now, I do believe this is true, you know, that parents have a direct influence on a child's future. Considering that, if a child is raised "in an environment that encouraged individualism, intelligence, and free thought," I'd expect that to lead to a child more likely to say "you can't control me." Right? But of course, we can't have teenagers running about saying what they think, property is to be seen and not heard. Maybe I'm wrong, and they will live "happy socially constructive lives and generally doing their best to help forward Hassan." I don't know, that's my take on it at least.
I figured it was just pessimism on the rise. After you see so many stupid bills become law, and notice the chance a given bill has to pass into law is inversely proportionate to its Stupidity Factor, you just gradually stop trying to get your hopes up that something will make sense, and call bills law. Chalk it up to Murphy's Bill.
Well, as long as you're going down, how about linking some neat drug-related sites for us?
Here's a few:
Jolt
INFACT Homepage
Altavi sta: Simple Query "drug related"
This was just a lazy search for sites. I'm sure there are plenty of drug or paraphenalia related web sites around.
maybe someday i'll even know how to do those link things. heh.
If you'd like some actual statistics on teenage driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (), teenage drivers make up 6.7% of all drivers on the road, and were drivers in 17% of all police reported accidents. Which is not to say that they were at fault, just that they were there. Many of the letters Katz summarized or quoted from were from people aged 16 or 17. If these children, as you say, have no idea as to what is good or bad for them by now, they have a lot of catching up to do. One or two years from now, they will emerge from the magic chrysalis of enlightenment, and will have gone from "children making stupid children decisions" to "adults making mature mistakes." Also, you noted that children are the responsibility of their parents. But the theaters here have usurped that responsibility. I recall one message Katz related said the person in question actually had a permission slip from his parents to see whatever movie it was, but was walked out.
if you could enumerate those, please..?
true, but a well piloted ariloulaleelay skiff could smoke the crap out of most of the ships in that game. ur-quan/ kor-ah dreadnoughts, all dead. except that damnable chimmr. and it wasn't TOO bad vs the sa-matra.