Re:Not the death, but certainly less market
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That's all very fine and well, but some of us work with microcontrollers that run on coin cells. They might have a 32 KHz CPU clock and draw a fraction of a microampere most of the time.
Why don't you go outside and play with your go-cart, fuel cell, and 'octane.'
And to do that, I need to impliment a tcp/ip stack on a microcontroller.
No microcontroller I know of has ethernet built into it. You're going to need an ethernet module of some sort. Why not put the complexity of the networking right in the ethernet module? Surely that's a suitable place for that stuff, and you can just talk to the world through a serial or parallel link from the controller.
The moron is the person who would not realize an early Mac would be a 128K machine. Even more of a moron would be somebody who doesn't know the difference between an Apple I and any Mac.
Definitely. And it's done in a very clever fashion. The President doesn't use an obvious Red phone to call the FBI and instantly launch a vanful of jackbooted thugs in whatever direction he chooses. There's a special Brown phone on his desk for that purpose. Because the Government (also known as 'They' to those 'in the know.') has gotten pretty clever these days. ..
He could have used the term 'Marxist' to be more correct. And yes, there are tons and tons of professors now nestled into tenure who have a whole-cloth marxist outlook.
And stating that just because it's a "European" car means less saftey isn't true.
No kidding. In a few years, exterior air-bags are going to be mandatory on all EU cars. Yes, that means airbags on the OUTSIDE of the car, to protect pedestrians. It'll add about $1000 in cost.
A lot of these low-speed accidents, if taken in an older car, would result in no significant damage to the occupants and no significant damage to the car
Yes, but the old car, if it hits anything, is likely to hit some shit new car with plastic body parts. There goes your insurance premium...
The new 'look' of automotives of the last decade or so is almost entirely the result of plastics.
Metal cars are nice, sometimes.
Re:Won't outsource IT but outsource manufacturing
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Inside Wal-Mart IT
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I bought several goldfish at WalMart last year. I think they were like nineteen cents each.
They're out in one of our ornamental ponds, I think.
Patents are like Nuclear weapons. Everyone's got them, and the minute someone uses one, the whole world is fucked.
That is somewhat of an obsolete fear now. It comes from the Cold War days when the scenario was that any nuclear exchange would result in a snowballing war of retaliation.
If, say, Pakistan drops a Nuke on India, there might be a regional exchange, and the released radiation would be bad, but it wouldn't result in armageddon.
I boycott the evil connector vendors, and the gold (plating) cartel that controls them. I buy systems with integrated sound. Cambion and Bourns, etc. suck! Evile.
I'm not sure that constitutes 'asking for help.' It's really just a directive to the shell telling where to pass the remaining lines of the script.
'Asking for help' would be if a script could have many different lines which all call different shells or interpreters.
Inform me if I am mistaken, but shell scripts are not 'reentrant' in the form that they can have multiple lines, i.e. "#!/bin/ksh" and later on "#!/bin/tcsh" for a later part of the script.
It almost seems like you've gotten your underwear in a bunch because I mentioned Microsoft and UNIX as having parallels.
UNIX didn't become free and a non-captive entity until it was broken free by the forces who liberated BSD, and those who cloned it with Linux. I have a collection of classic UNIX hardware and software, and recognize how expensive and 'controlled' it was in it's day. Why not be honest about the origins of UNIX as a captive corporate product, even one that AT+T tried to hold close and maintain control over?
AT+T were prevented from going big-time with UNIX in part because it meant a monopoly (Ma Bell) extending their monopoly. That's the history of it, no matter how people try to spin it.
Really? You're saying that anybody who calls onto the carpet a self-promoter who bootstraps up off a single issue to become big and important is part of the SCO conspiracy?
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That's all very fine and well, but some of us work with microcontrollers that run on coin cells. They might have a 32 KHz CPU clock and draw a fraction of a microampere most of the time.
Why don't you go outside and play with your go-cart, fuel cell, and 'octane.'
And to do that, I need to impliment a tcp/ip stack on a microcontroller.
No microcontroller I know of has ethernet built into it. You're going to need an ethernet module of some sort. Why not put the complexity of the networking right in the ethernet module? Surely that's a suitable place for that stuff, and you can just talk to the world through a serial or parallel link from the controller.
There are billions of 4-bit controllers out there and many instances where even 8-bit parts are overkill.
The moron is the person who would not realize an early Mac would be a 128K machine. Even more of a moron would be somebody who doesn't know the difference between an Apple I and any Mac.
Definitely. And it's done in a very clever fashion. The President doesn't use an obvious Red phone to call the FBI and instantly launch a vanful of jackbooted thugs in whatever direction he chooses. There's a special Brown phone on his desk for that purpose. Because the Government (also known as 'They' to those 'in the know.') has gotten pretty clever these days. . .
He could have used the term 'Marxist' to be more correct. And yes, there are tons and tons of professors now nestled into tenure who have a whole-cloth marxist outlook.
One doesn't need to be a party member.
Somebody using an ignorant term like 'asshat' gets prissy about how somebody else uses the term 'communist'?
5 millihertz? That's not feasible. There are dynamic registers in the silicon that need faster refreshing than that.
Reminds me of when I underclocked an AST'286 system to 512 KHz. It worked. Sort of.
Enjoy your infomercials and religious broadcasts, then.
Cellphone conversations are regularly transmitted, and third parties are prohibited from intercepting them.
The question is wether Hussein was harboring and encouraging terrorists.
Actually, no, that isn't in question.
And stating that just because it's a "European" car means less saftey isn't true.
No kidding. In a few years, exterior air-bags are going to be mandatory on all EU cars. Yes, that means airbags on the OUTSIDE of the car, to protect pedestrians. It'll add about $1000 in cost.
A lot of these low-speed accidents, if taken in an older car, would result in no significant damage to the occupants and no significant damage to the car
Yes, but the old car, if it hits anything, is likely to hit some shit new car with plastic body parts. There goes your insurance premium...
The new 'look' of automotives of the last decade or so is almost entirely the result of plastics.
Metal cars are nice, sometimes.
I bought several goldfish at WalMart last year. I think they were like nineteen cents each.
They're out in one of our ornamental ponds, I think.
McDonald's Big-n-tasty is one of their best sandwiches.
I rue the day when they took it off the dollar menu and replaced it with the crappy double cheeseburger.
It is re-entrant? If not, you are the one who is mistaken.
Patents are like Nuclear weapons. Everyone's got them, and the minute someone uses one, the whole world is fucked.
That is somewhat of an obsolete fear now. It comes from the Cold War days when the scenario was that any nuclear exchange would result in a snowballing war of retaliation.
If, say, Pakistan drops a Nuke on India, there might be a regional exchange, and the released radiation would be bad, but it wouldn't result in armageddon.
My apologies to those with obsolete fears.
I boycott the evil connector vendors, and the gold (plating) cartel that controls them. I buy systems with integrated sound. Cambion and Bourns, etc. suck! Evile.
I'm not sure that constitutes 'asking for help.' It's really just a directive to the shell telling where to pass the remaining lines of the script.
'Asking for help' would be if a script could have many different lines which all call different shells or interpreters.
Inform me if I am mistaken, but shell scripts are not 'reentrant' in the form that they can have multiple lines, i.e. "#!/bin/ksh" and later on "#!/bin/tcsh" for a later part of the script.
They don't have to buy Kodak. They simply have to arrange a cross-licensing deal.
It almost seems like you've gotten your underwear in a bunch because I mentioned Microsoft and UNIX as having parallels.
UNIX didn't become free and a non-captive entity until it was broken free by the forces who liberated BSD, and those who cloned it with Linux. I have a collection of classic UNIX hardware and software, and recognize how expensive and 'controlled' it was in it's day. Why not be honest about the origins of UNIX as a captive corporate product, even one that AT+T tried to hold close and maintain control over?
AT+T were prevented from going big-time with UNIX in part because it meant a monopoly (Ma Bell) extending their monopoly. That's the history of it, no matter how people try to spin it.
If she's going to go with the moniker 'PJ' does that mean she is part of the pajamahadeen?
Really? You're saying that anybody who calls onto the carpet a self-promoter who bootstraps up off a single issue to become big and important is part of the SCO conspiracy?
In historical context it was the telephone company developing UNIX. Kinda the same thing as Microsoft delving out into entertainment and media.
There was one telephone company, a monopoly. Remember?
The 165c has a SCSI drive. I already opened mine up and looked at the connector. The IDE drives I have laying around won't plug in.
It's okay, tho. The kind of MacOS that runs on a 68030 with 4 megs of RAM doesn't need that big a hard drive. It's a great machine within it's limits.