Jewish people having guns in the 1950s wouldn't stop anything. Poland had guns, and they got shat on. So did France and most of Eastern Europe. They even had tanks, air forces and aircraft carriers. Your argument is so fatally flawed it stopped being an argument before you even raised it. Guns kill people. Less guns, less deaths. No government tanks are going to roll into your bathroom if you decide to not "pack heat" on the toilet. By your logic, the rest of the civilised world is crawling with murder and opressive governments. Take a look in the mirror, buddy - no-one's jealous of the US.
Do you even know what the UN does? If you think it's a global government, you need to stop watching so much Fox.
err.. PATRIOT act, anyone? It's not as if grossly-unconstitutional legislation slips into being never happens... All someone has to do is put the right spin on it, and 7/10 Americans will gladly give up their constitutional rights. Sad but true.
Just run it through a series of tiny pipes that you put in your mouth (like a gum-shield, but further in your mouth, over your tongue). The clean air is heated to exactly the temperature of your body with little fuss, and suffers no contamination in the process. Like a refridgerator. but oral. there's a thought;)
Exactly. I'm not trying to cause upset here, but if there were sunset provisions on the US constitution, people wouldn't be running around the 21st century with firearms, like they were back in the 1700s... It was a great idea then, but now, it's kinda flawed. We have police, armies and strengthened diplomacy now.
I'm all for tradition, but when it causes huge amounts of pain and suffering, surely it has to go. Sunset provisions cause society (well, the judiciary, anyways) to look on laws passed in different socio-political climates, and decide whether they're suitable for now, as opposed to when they were first written.
Nearly as good is the tech support on Nissan Skylines... connect your phone to the car, call Nissan in Japan, and they'll take the timings from your engine, and re-send new ones direct to the chip in the engine. 10 minutes, and you're done!
Seriously - union/federation/whatever. He wrote 2001, devised the geosyncronous orbit, and doesn't hang around on slashdot pointing out incredibly slight mistakes. Give him a break already!:-P
This isn't some glorious attempt to spread the good word of Democracy(TM) across the country, but a cheap-ass shot to scrape the last few votes together they can.
Don't kid yourself - if a candidate has a good enough message, he doesn't need spam. Jesus didn't spam, and he still has more followers than Bush ever had (and Jesus has been dead for ages).
Seriously - do you believe that? Have you seen the deanforamerica website? If you spent more than 5 seconds on it, you'd see the support for Dean is widespread. The only reason you don't know, is because you watch Fox, where dean supporters are called "deaniacs", and he's written off every time he's mentioned. The republican candidates are seen as being buoyant simply because their supporters are the media, and influential people with power. It's not hard to trash opponents when most media outlets are on your side, and it's not hard to look good with those same friends.
Claiming "Dean has the opposite position of the average American on just about every political issue" is sheer ignorance. Dean is committed to protecting peace, freedom, justice and the core American ideals. The only things he doesn't share with other politicians is the fact he doesn't have a price, and he respects the lives of everyone. This man is a real politician, not just a professional one. If you're an American, you should agree with Dean. If not, go vote Bush.
Don't just hear what people are saying, but figure out why they're saying it, and to whom they are accountable.
It's scary and true - how a popular campaign (whether you support it or not) can be effectively destroyed by a sound bite. Not even a bite containing racist slurs or threats against nuns, but some shouting. Not even lone shouting, but shouting in a crowd. It makes no sense. If every politician who shouted with a crowd was forced to quit their campaign, there would be no-one in office.
I happen to support dean, but if it happened to anyone else I'd be just as annoyed. This is no way to settle a general election.
It wasn't just the thermal diode. It's the whole system of slowing the processor down to acceptable levels.
Oh, and the AMD chips do have thermal diodes, they're just not quick enough to tell when the cooling's failing. I think they sample the temperature every second or so, which is long enough to let the magic smoke run wild
You seriously think that's a good value to teach a kid? If you can't see a problem with that, you really do need help. That's absolutely, positively no way to live your life, let alone teach it to your poor kid.
If I had kids, I'd teach them to respect other people. As the bible says, "forgive our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us". I'm not a bible nut or anything, but that's good advice.
I'd hardly say that having an NYC cop on your side is good proof your argument is correct - after all, they seem to think rectally-applied broom handles are a sanctioned form of interview.
The lack of thermal diodes is due to bad physical design, the maths error was a logical flaw. The P4s can do maths fine now, but you can still use an athlon to cook your dinner:-P
The real problem isn't the technology, but the users. The same principle behind users opening unknown attachments also exhibits itself in the form of people deleting their windows directory.
Windows, through its near-global adoption and ease-of-use (you can argue the point, but as 98% of desktops are windows, it's a weak argument) has users of every technical ability. It has the users too dumb to use linux. Those guys are the ultimate trojan horse. They just sit there, willingly running anything given to them. It's akin to a dumbass in front of a linux machine, and someone tells them to type in "rm -rf/" as root. It's not the technology's fault, but the user's.
The reason we don't see as much of this happening on linux isn't solely due to the fact linux is more secure, but because what disruption would be caused by it? Making a linux virus isn't such an accolade as a Windows one, as you can bet it's not going to be on the news when released. The same goes for Macs. The most popular and wide-spread software is always the first to get its copy-protection removed, the first on FTP sites, and the first with known exploits.
Remember "security through obscurity"? Well, the reverse applies, too.
Try putting two AGP graphics cards into your computer:)
This is the next evolution in peripherals. Every slot in your PC will be able to take every sort of device you can think of, including the latest and fastest video card(s). Like the old PCI-only days, but with better-than-AGP speed, across the board.
It's very possible to have an external fire in a case. Sure, everything's fireproofed, but all it takes is something hotter than normal to come out of the case. Cases are riddled with ventilation, and also plastic. If some of that plastic melted and caught fire, it could feasibly run out of the box and cause a fire.
Power supply fires are pretty cool. They have more magic smoke than most components:-P
The thing about AMD chips is, they don't know when they're running ridiculously hot, as that video on Toms Hardware showed. With the cooling removed. a P4 slows down and runs as fast as it can without being too hot. The AMD simply doesn't realise, and promptly bursts into flames.
Since when is taking retaliatory action "defending"??? Your argument makes no sense at all.
He wasn't screaming "I'm going to kill your child!" - you have no claim to "defending" your kid. You were just being an over-reacting drama-queen.
If those are the values you teach your kid - hitting strangers and destruction of property - then they'd better make room at the local juvenile detention center, as that's where they'll be heading in about 12 years.
"I went down protecting my baby" - how is hitting someone after the fact protecting?? Are you American? From the mid-west?:-P
"You try watching a kid sometime, 24/7 without a break"
Then you shouldn't have a kid. I mean, really. If you can't look after it in public (but expect others to do so for you, as you clearly do), you don't deserve a kid. Dog owners who can't look after their dogs get their dogs taken away.
Just because you love your kid and think the sun shines out of their ass, doesn't mean to say it's not the most annoying thing one can encounter when out of the house.
Well, some would say having kids walking about is just as rude as talking on a mobile phone. Where I live, London, you see parents letting their kids walk all over some of the most crowded streets in the world, or around airports. Sure - it's great that kids can get out, but letting them get in the way of people who actually have to do stuff is just bad parenting.
Maybe you should have been looking after your kid better? Kids are hard to spot, and have a ridiculous habbit of being completely, 100% oblivious to their surroundings for most of the time.
You mean the Pentium IV heatsinks which weighed nearly 1lb and required a reinfoced motherboard and case to support it properly?
No, I'm talking about the heatsink/fan combos on every Athlon since the early days, which if it fell off, results in the CPU bursting into flames. Intel chips can go through a lot more than Athlon chips. Think of them like horses. The AMD is the racehorse, and the Intel is the mule (sure, if this was real the Mule would run at a similar speed as the racehorse). You can load a mule up with a bunch of wood, and it'll totter on. Try that with a racehorse, and you'll be having Shergar sausages by dinnertime. The AMD chips are good, when they work, but vary their operating conditions too much (like removal of heatsink, etc) and you run an increased risk of screwing something.
I'm not slighting AMD here, I'm just pointing out a major difference between the chips' designs.
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Do you even know what the UN does? If you think it's a global government, you need to stop watching so much Fox.
err.. PATRIOT act, anyone? It's not as if grossly-unconstitutional legislation slips into being never happens... All someone has to do is put the right spin on it, and 7/10 Americans will gladly give up their constitutional rights. Sad but true.
Just run it through a series of tiny pipes that you put in your mouth (like a gum-shield, but further in your mouth, over your tongue). The clean air is heated to exactly the temperature of your body with little fuss, and suffers no contamination in the process. Like a refridgerator. but oral. there's a thought ;)
I'm all for tradition, but when it causes huge amounts of pain and suffering, surely it has to go. Sunset provisions cause society (well, the judiciary, anyways) to look on laws passed in different socio-political climates, and decide whether they're suitable for now, as opposed to when they were first written.
Don't mess with Texas
Nice idea, though :) I'd love it if it were true ;)
Nearly as good is the tech support on Nissan Skylines... connect your phone to the car, call Nissan in Japan, and they'll take the timings from your engine, and re-send new ones direct to the chip in the engine. 10 minutes, and you're done!
nah, man - midi rules :)
Seriously - union/federation/whatever. He wrote 2001, devised the geosyncronous orbit, and doesn't hang around on slashdot pointing out incredibly slight mistakes. Give him a break already! :-P
With all due respect, influential corporations with large amounts of money are exempt from doing very little, if they want to...
Don't kid yourself - if a candidate has a good enough message, he doesn't need spam. Jesus didn't spam, and he still has more followers than Bush ever had (and Jesus has been dead for ages).
Seriously - do you believe that? Have you seen the deanforamerica website? If you spent more than 5 seconds on it, you'd see the support for Dean is widespread. The only reason you don't know, is because you watch Fox, where dean supporters are called "deaniacs", and he's written off every time he's mentioned. The republican candidates are seen as being buoyant simply because their supporters are the media, and influential people with power. It's not hard to trash opponents when most media outlets are on your side, and it's not hard to look good with those same friends.
Claiming "Dean has the opposite position of the average American on just about every political issue" is sheer ignorance. Dean is committed to protecting peace, freedom, justice and the core American ideals. The only things he doesn't share with other politicians is the fact he doesn't have a price, and he respects the lives of everyone. This man is a real politician, not just a professional one. If you're an American, you should agree with Dean. If not, go vote Bush.
Don't just hear what people are saying, but figure out why they're saying it, and to whom they are accountable.
I happen to support dean, but if it happened to anyone else I'd be just as annoyed. This is no way to settle a general election.
I wondered how long it would take for a comment like that to appear - thanks! :-P
Oh, and the AMD chips do have thermal diodes, they're just not quick enough to tell when the cooling's failing. I think they sample the temperature every second or so, which is long enough to let the magic smoke run wild
You seriously think that's a good value to teach a kid? If you can't see a problem with that, you really do need help. That's absolutely, positively no way to live your life, let alone teach it to your poor kid.
If I had kids, I'd teach them to respect other people. As the bible says, "forgive our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us". I'm not a bible nut or anything, but that's good advice.
I'd hardly say that having an NYC cop on your side is good proof your argument is correct - after all, they seem to think rectally-applied broom handles are a sanctioned form of interview.
The lack of thermal diodes is due to bad physical design, the maths error was a logical flaw. The P4s can do maths fine now, but you can still use an athlon to cook your dinner :-P
Windows, through its near-global adoption and ease-of-use (you can argue the point, but as 98% of desktops are windows, it's a weak argument) has users of every technical ability. It has the users too dumb to use linux. Those guys are the ultimate trojan horse. They just sit there, willingly running anything given to them. It's akin to a dumbass in front of a linux machine, and someone tells them to type in "rm -rf /" as root. It's not the technology's fault, but the user's.
The reason we don't see as much of this happening on linux isn't solely due to the fact linux is more secure, but because what disruption would be caused by it? Making a linux virus isn't such an accolade as a Windows one, as you can bet it's not going to be on the news when released. The same goes for Macs. The most popular and wide-spread software is always the first to get its copy-protection removed, the first on FTP sites, and the first with known exploits.
Remember "security through obscurity"? Well, the reverse applies, too.
This is the next evolution in peripherals. Every slot in your PC will be able to take every sort of device you can think of, including the latest and fastest video card(s). Like the old PCI-only days, but with better-than-AGP speed, across the board.
Power supply fires are pretty cool. They have more magic smoke than most components :-P
The thing about AMD chips is, they don't know when they're running ridiculously hot, as that video on Toms Hardware showed. With the cooling removed. a P4 slows down and runs as fast as it can without being too hot. The AMD simply doesn't realise, and promptly bursts into flames.
He wasn't screaming "I'm going to kill your child!" - you have no claim to "defending" your kid. You were just being an over-reacting drama-queen.
If those are the values you teach your kid - hitting strangers and destruction of property - then they'd better make room at the local juvenile detention center, as that's where they'll be heading in about 12 years.
"I went down protecting my baby" - how is hitting someone after the fact protecting?? Are you American? From the mid-west? :-P
Then you shouldn't have a kid. I mean, really. If you can't look after it in public (but expect others to do so for you, as you clearly do), you don't deserve a kid. Dog owners who can't look after their dogs get their dogs taken away.
Just because you love your kid and think the sun shines out of their ass, doesn't mean to say it's not the most annoying thing one can encounter when out of the house.
Maybe you should have been looking after your kid better? Kids are hard to spot, and have a ridiculous habbit of being completely, 100% oblivious to their surroundings for most of the time.
That's not true at all. With a good in-ear set you don't have to raise your voice at all. With bluetooth, it's even easier.
No, I'm talking about the heatsink/fan combos on every Athlon since the early days, which if it fell off, results in the CPU bursting into flames. Intel chips can go through a lot more than Athlon chips. Think of them like horses. The AMD is the racehorse, and the Intel is the mule (sure, if this was real the Mule would run at a similar speed as the racehorse). You can load a mule up with a bunch of wood, and it'll totter on. Try that with a racehorse, and you'll be having Shergar sausages by dinnertime. The AMD chips are good, when they work, but vary their operating conditions too much (like removal of heatsink, etc) and you run an increased risk of screwing something.
I'm not slighting AMD here, I'm just pointing out a major difference between the chips' designs.