I would say that Privacy is a subset of freedom, and that freedom with privacy is much more desirable than freedom without privacy. The US constitution protects privacy to some extent, but I would like to see it better protected.
There are many legitimate business that cell used laptops and cellphones online. I used to work for one. The first thing we would do when we got a computer was to format the hard drive, seems prefectly reasonable to me. In the year I worked for that company we probaly sold over a thousand used computers on eBay and I would be horrorified to find out if any of them were stolen. I would also be pissed if I got arrested for it.
Selling used computers to a used computer dealer is as reasonalbe as selling a used car to a car dealer. The economics are even the similar in terms of dealers paying less than the item is actually worth so that they could make a profit.
It's not like there is a list of stolen computers to look out for when you are in that business. There are no VIN numbers or anything like that.
I have seen a business here in Denver that will list items on eBay for you and treat it like a consignment. Are they running a fence too?
I guess I really don't need anything other than a sharp rock and a couple of sticks to survive. In fact I am certain that many of my ancestors did just fine with only that. But one day one of my ancestors learned about bronze. And a few hundreds years later they learned about Iron. Those guys that bought in to bronze sure were stupid, they should have waited and invested in iron. Instead all of their smelting abitlity was tied up in an inferior alloy.
We had some Dell 1650's that were terrible! One of them had the integrated VPU catch on fire. It wasn't even warm in the server room that day. Another 1650 burnt up its RAM. A few months ago we had to replace all of the 1650's with 1850's. Why we didn't switch to a different product line I will never know.
I installed 2k Pro on my roommates machine that was a PI 200 Mhz. It ran suprisinly well for several years. It would even run Word and Winamp at the same time.
don't be dumb. If you are a US male citizen then you have to register for the draft, otherwise you are breaking the law. Once registered I imagine they track you fairly closely until you age beyond the draft (24 I think).
Even though it is illegal to not register for the draft I haven't heard of anyone getting in trouble for not registering recently.
You are confusing sport with game. Sport doesn't nessisarily pit two sides against each other, see gymnatsics, skiing, etc. Many sports are games (Football, baseball) and some games may be sports. But there are some activities that are one and not the other.
Vinge wrote about something like this in "A Deepness in the Sky', only he called them localizers. The bad part is they made the police state more powerful than Orson Wells ever imagined.
To put that in some sort of perspective, it would be the equivalent of launching 54 trillion Blue whales into space.
This provides me with no perspective what-so-ever. Please provide units such as 'Empire State Buildings' or 'Gibraltar's'. 54 trillion is still to big to think about.
I don't know what state you are in but in my state, Colorado, we pay taxes for our interstates - they are far from free. And the reason that we havn't developed mass transit is becuase the country is just too fricken big! If there was profit to be made there a private company would have picked it up by now. Look at the US passenger rail system, Amtrak is 100% government run and operated, becuase there is no profit in it. There is no profit in it becuase it not effiecent. Germany is about the size of Oregon, we have dozens of states that large and larger.
Goods distrubution is another matter entirly. Trains are used in this role more than you might think, espiecally for heavy loads, coal for example. In this part of the country coal is mined in Wyoming and Montana then transported by train to power stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and maybe others. Each train is about 100 cars long and each car weighs about 100 tons. When I lived next to a rail line I saw 10 to 30 of these a day. There is no way that could be done with semi's. And there is a huge amount of money involed in that.
I do agree that the interstate highway system has increased urban sprawl, and that is a bad thing since it will make the inevitable transition to mass transit much more expensive. Not to mention the envirmental impact of suburbs. Thats one of the reason's I moved downtown.
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I would say that Privacy is a subset of freedom, and that freedom with privacy is much more desirable than freedom without privacy. The US constitution protects privacy to some extent, but I would like to see it better protected.
and this is compared to the hundreds or thousands of non-hybrid cars you see a day. Hybrids aren't even 1% of autos yet.
Selling used computers to a used computer dealer is as reasonalbe as selling a used car to a car dealer. The economics are even the similar in terms of dealers paying less than the item is actually worth so that they could make a profit.
It's not like there is a list of stolen computers to look out for when you are in that business. There are no VIN numbers or anything like that.
I have seen a business here in Denver that will list items on eBay for you and treat it like a consignment. Are they running a fence too?
I guess I really don't need anything other than a sharp rock and a couple of sticks to survive. In fact I am certain that many of my ancestors did just fine with only that. But one day one of my ancestors learned about bronze. And a few hundreds years later they learned about Iron. Those guys that bought in to bronze sure were stupid, they should have waited and invested in iron. Instead all of their smelting abitlity was tied up in an inferior alloy.
We had some Dell 1650's that were terrible! One of them had the integrated VPU catch on fire. It wasn't even warm in the server room that day. Another 1650 burnt up its RAM. A few months ago we had to replace all of the 1650's with 1850's. Why we didn't switch to a different product line I will never know.
It doesn't matter where they learned it, it's still wrong.
I installed 2k Pro on my roommates machine that was a PI 200 Mhz. It ran suprisinly well for several years. It would even run Word and Winamp at the same time.
aw man.
That's weak. I guess it's still pretty revolutionary, just not to the degree I was thinking.
Ludicrous speed is what it means.
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What caught my eye was this, from Game Spy:
System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS.
It seems to me that that blow most super computers out of the water, see http://top500.org/lists/plists.php?TB=1&M=11&Y=20
This seems ridiculously fast... Am I missing something?
I have also moved many times since i registered. But I still think they could find me if they wanted me. Surly they could at least ask the Post Office
don't be dumb. If you are a US male citizen then you have to register for the draft, otherwise you are breaking the law. Once registered I imagine they track you fairly closely until you age beyond the draft (24 I think).
Even though it is illegal to not register for the draft I haven't heard of anyone getting in trouble for not registering recently.
no sane person starts using nukes when the civilian population is not at risk. even then sanity is debatable.
Sorry I didn't make my self clear.. Games and sports are not mutally exclusive items, and neither requieres an opponent.
You are confusing sport with game. Sport doesn't nessisarily pit two sides against each other, see gymnatsics, skiing, etc. Many sports are games (Football, baseball) and some games may be sports. But there are some activities that are one and not the other.
Refer to Merriam-Webster if you doubt me.
I wonder how long it will be before MS needs something crunched and makes a distributed project part of the Windows?
He's got an underwear model for a wife, i don't think he needs any more life.
Instead of forcing quadrant to work you should probaly make up a new word or phrase.
Damn, I hate when that happens..
Vinge wrote about something like this in "A Deepness in the Sky', only he called them localizers. The bad part is they made the police state more powerful than Orson Wells ever imagined.
Land is also evenly distributed around the Globe, yet there have been wars for land since the begininning of history.
This provides me with no perspective what-so-ever. Please provide units such as 'Empire State Buildings' or 'Gibraltar's'. 54 trillion is still to big to think about.
It just so happens that Colorado is chalk full of mountains.
I dont think they have to much to worry about in that department this beast has way more than 32 processors.
I don't know what state you are in but in my state, Colorado, we pay taxes for our interstates - they are far from free. And the reason that we havn't developed mass transit is becuase the country is just too fricken big! If there was profit to be made there a private company would have picked it up by now. Look at the US passenger rail system, Amtrak is 100% government run and operated, becuase there is no profit in it. There is no profit in it becuase it not effiecent. Germany is about the size of Oregon, we have dozens of states that large and larger.
Goods distrubution is another matter entirly. Trains are used in this role more than you might think, espiecally for heavy loads, coal for example. In this part of the country coal is mined in Wyoming and Montana then transported by train to power stations in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and maybe others. Each train is about 100 cars long and each car weighs about 100 tons. When I lived next to a rail line I saw 10 to 30 of these a day. There is no way that could be done with semi's. And there is a huge amount of money involed in that.
I do agree that the interstate highway system has increased urban sprawl, and that is a bad thing since it will make the inevitable transition to mass transit much more expensive. Not to mention the envirmental impact of suburbs. Thats one of the reason's I moved downtown.
wow. That's interesting. To think I wasted my last mod point on a funny troll.