I didn't want to turn it into a freaking thesis... I just highlighted some of the RECENT inventions, you'll note I said "modern digital computers." I also qualified it at the end and said that Americans had made significant contributions and not that it was "invented" here. My intention was really more to highlight the contributions made by American's with a few additional notes than to summarize everything leading up to the invention.
Everything I summarized started after number 9 on the page you reference.
I didn't want to turn it into a freaking thesis... I just highlighted some of the RECENT inventions, you'll note I said "modern digital computers." I also qualified it at the end and said that Americans had made significant contributions and not that it was "invented" here.
I agree, most American's don't do post grad work at universities...however some DO (such as myself) and as far as that goes most people in ANY country don't do post grad work in a university.
Actually, baring Kenyans we are are all from a different place (that place being Kenya).
Also, I assure you that Germany didn't really appreciate Einstein around the time he came to live here...pre-WW2 Germany wasn't the greatest of places for people of Jewish decent if you remember , or did your various history courses leave that out as well...
I agree with your sentiment, HOWEVER, the US DID invent or atleast significantly develop a decent number of the products you describe.
Internet: grew out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency->ARPANET. The two most significant dates are 1969 when it was started and 1983 when the system was switched from NCP to TCP/IP. Other important work to our modern Internet was conducted by the NSF, NSFnet, based around connecting university campuses.
Computer: The computer is an evolved version of something which has existed for some time and is based on numerous contributions. Modern digital computing though can be said to be based on a handful of significant inventions and ideas. The most important of these ideas are von Neumann architecture, based on work done by John von Neumann a Hungarian-American who did the majority of his most important work at Princeton. The most important inventions where transistors (invented by Bell Labs in 1947), integrated circuits (conceived of by Britain's Geoffrey W.A. Dummer in 1952 but not successfully constructed until 1958 by Jack Kilby of TI and made into a useful device in 1962 by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor), and the microprocessor (first developed by Marcian Hoff while working at Intel).
Motor Cars: The US definitely doesn't deserve recognition for inventing much of the early technology used in cars, however Oldsmobile was the first factory to use modern assembly line techniques which were later greatly improved by Henry Ford. So while we didn't invent, we played a moderately important role...plus I don't know if I've ever met anyone who thought we DID invent the car. As an aside, most people I've known credit Mercedes-Benz for this invention, and even though that isn't quite correct it is a lot closer to the truth since Daimler and Benz separately (at first) played a huge role in the development of the modern gasoline internal combustion engine.
Modern light bulb: I'll give you this one. I believe that most American's credit Thomas Edison for this, but Heinrich Goebel or Joseph Swan (depending on what you define as the invention...) definitely deserve it. Edison actually did very little in this field, he invented a longer lasting filament but within a year or two Lewis Latimer improved significantly on Edison's filament.
telephone: Antonia Meucci is probably the father of this invention, although what we think of as a telephone should probably be credited to Philipp Reis since he was actually able to transmit voice instead of just "make or break" type signals. Again though, I think a lot of American's credit Alexander Graham Bell for this invention.
So in summary, American's basically invented the Internet, played a huge role in the evolution of the modern computer, and had smaller roles in the last three inventions. I'll agree that too many people credit this country with inventing these items, but to say that children are stupid for believing it when about half of it is CORRECT is a bit infantile. Actually you believe that the Internet and computers were invented somewhere else is just as faulty and you aren't a child.
And also that a "single strain" and a single strand are definitely two different things...
Although I HAVE actually heard a few people use the term virii when referencing multiple DIFFERENT viruses. But I have never seen it in any literature so it is probably just geek vernacular to an extent...
Searching for just the name and not the "Don" I found several non-English pages referencing the game...this isn't really TOO surprising since the game wasn't exactly a hit and wasn't actually released in the US at all.
Only the most recent? Ati supports everything from the 8500 up (two generations back, maybe more depending on how you count them). More importantly though is everything OLDER than the 8500 is supported by true open source drivers by the community.
An 8500 would actually be a decent card to look at, it is DX 8 class but is reasonably fast and should be VERY cheap to obtain...
Actually, the Pentium M is NOT a new architecture it is a Pentium III all dressed up for war. More or less it is a P3 with the P4's branch prediction unit, an ever so slightly longer pipeline, and a few other niceties from more modern processor designs.
See: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/pentium-m/pentium-m -1.html for a somewhat technical discussion...
Incorrect...this includes all PCs sold at retail channels.
"Desktop PCs with processors from Advanced Micro Devices outsold desktops based on processors from Intel in U.S. retail channels for the week ending April 24, according to research released late last week from Current Analysis. "
The problem though is that with this system you are giving at least as much power to the "pre-screener" as the court system. In other words, how do you determine what is "too hot" WITHOUT going to trial? Separately, what if you were served boiling coffee due to a malfunction and completely stupid employees, the cup literally melts in your hand and the coffee splashes onto your crotch. You just so happen to be wearing thin jogging shorts or something along those lines and you actually receive burns badly enough that you either go sterile or no longer enjoy sex...ever. Do you still think that the company should be held to only actual costs +50%? How about if the company knowingly dumps poisonous chemicals in a stream and 5 kids die after playing in that stream. The kids never go to the hospital, they die that die. There is almost NO actual cost, how would you like it if the maximum you could sue the company for was the 5-7K for burial plus 50%? Think that companies don't pollute like that, well, if your system was made into law they would start doing it real fast.
Yes, but the ACT OF BREEDING didn't introduce a mutation. It simply allowed the selector to introduce a force which didn't exist in nature, in other words selecting "not necessarily the fittest" but the best from the selector point of view.
With respect to the Earth's gravitational field, it IS perfectly flat. If it were perfectly flat in the true sense there would be a minor difference in gravity across it and wouldn't be flat from the perspective of the Earth.
Well, for starters he is referring to a VERY underpowered Via based CPU on a mini-ITX platform, NOT a dual-PPC970 workstation. Saying one can't do something is different than saying the other can't.
I read his comment more as the admins are more responsible for the problem than the programmers behind the OS. He never mentioned the people actually breaking in to the systems, obviously THEY are most at fault.
Extending your analogy to what he actually said, Masterlock isn't responsible when you don't actually LOCK the damned lock. Which, of course, they aren't nor should anyone blame them for losses suffered from the inability of the purchasers of their equipment to properly USE that equipment.
Maybe "as we know it or could even conceive" Io is not much more inviting than Cerberus or another large asteroid.
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Well, oddly enough it IS a sort of "real" word... At least supposable is a word and supposably can be made out of that same root of suppose.
Oh the other hand, I haven't seen that Friends episode (which isn't too amazing since I've only seen about 20-30 episodes total...) but I imagine it is probably funnier than many of the ones I HAVE seen...
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supposedly...
I hate being a spelling Nazi, but more than likely you also PRONOUNCE the word as "supposably" which actually means something similiar, but a bit different.
Was Herzog Zwei realtime? I remember that it was hex-tile based and so not really a modern RTS, but thought it was also a modified turn based game (like Civilization set to synchronous turns)...
I would actually say that MPEG 1 video would be as nearly universal as one could get without embedding the player. I would actually say very nearly as many platforms could play an MPEG 1 video as have a Java VM...
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I didn't want to turn it into a freaking thesis... I just highlighted some of the RECENT inventions, you'll note I said "modern digital computers." I also qualified it at the end and said that Americans had made significant contributions and not that it was "invented" here. My intention was really more to highlight the contributions made by American's with a few additional notes than to summarize everything leading up to the invention.
Everything I summarized started after number 9 on the page you reference.
I didn't want to turn it into a freaking thesis... I just highlighted some of the RECENT inventions, you'll note I said "modern digital computers." I also qualified it at the end and said that Americans had made significant contributions and not that it was "invented" here.
I agree, most American's don't do post grad work at universities...however some DO (such as myself) and as far as that goes most people in ANY country don't do post grad work in a university.
Actually, baring Kenyans we are are all from a different place (that place being Kenya).
Also, I assure you that Germany didn't really appreciate Einstein around the time he came to live here...pre-WW2 Germany wasn't the greatest of places for people of Jewish decent if you remember , or did your various history courses leave that out as well...
I agree with your sentiment, HOWEVER, the US DID invent or atleast significantly develop a decent number of the products you describe.
Internet: grew out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency->ARPANET. The two most significant dates are 1969 when it was started and 1983 when the system was switched from NCP to TCP/IP. Other important work to our modern Internet was conducted by the NSF, NSFnet, based around connecting university campuses.
Computer: The computer is an evolved version of something which has existed for some time and is based on numerous contributions. Modern digital computing though can be said to be based on a handful of significant inventions and ideas. The most important of these ideas are von Neumann architecture, based on work done by John von Neumann a Hungarian-American who did the majority of his most important work at Princeton. The most important inventions where transistors (invented by Bell Labs in 1947), integrated circuits (conceived of by Britain's Geoffrey W.A. Dummer in 1952 but not successfully constructed until 1958 by Jack Kilby of TI and made into a useful device in 1962 by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor), and the microprocessor (first developed by Marcian Hoff while working at Intel).
Motor Cars: The US definitely doesn't deserve recognition for inventing much of the early technology used in cars, however Oldsmobile was the first factory to use modern assembly line techniques which were later greatly improved by Henry Ford. So while we didn't invent, we played a moderately important role...plus I don't know if I've ever met anyone who thought we DID invent the car. As an aside, most people I've known credit Mercedes-Benz for this invention, and even though that isn't quite correct it is a lot closer to the truth since Daimler and Benz separately (at first) played a huge role in the development of the modern gasoline internal combustion engine.
Modern light bulb: I'll give you this one. I believe that most American's credit Thomas Edison for this, but Heinrich Goebel or Joseph Swan (depending on what you define as the invention...) definitely deserve it. Edison actually did very little in this field, he invented a longer lasting filament but within a year or two Lewis Latimer improved significantly on Edison's filament.
telephone: Antonia Meucci is probably the father of this invention, although what we think of as a telephone should probably be credited to Philipp Reis since he was actually able to transmit voice instead of just "make or break" type signals. Again though, I think a lot of American's credit Alexander Graham Bell for this invention.
So in summary, American's basically invented the Internet, played a huge role in the evolution of the modern computer, and had smaller roles in the last three inventions. I'll agree that too many people credit this country with inventing these items, but to say that children are stupid for believing it when about half of it is CORRECT is a bit infantile. Actually you believe that the Internet and computers were invented somewhere else is just as faulty and you aren't a child.
And also that a "single strain" and a single strand are definitely two different things...
Although I HAVE actually heard a few people use the term virii when referencing multiple DIFFERENT viruses. But I have never seen it in any literature so it is probably just geek vernacular to an extent...
Searching for just the name and not the "Don" I found several non-English pages referencing the game...this isn't really TOO surprising since the game wasn't exactly a hit and wasn't actually released in the US at all.
Only the most recent? Ati supports everything from the 8500 up (two generations back, maybe more depending on how you count them). More importantly though is everything OLDER than the 8500 is supported by true open source drivers by the community.
An 8500 would actually be a decent card to look at, it is DX 8 class but is reasonably fast and should be VERY cheap to obtain...
More than likely they will actually follow Intel's and their own Opteron strategy. In other words, simple model numbers indicating performance.
Actually, the Pentium M is NOT a new architecture it is a Pentium III all dressed up for war. More or less it is a P3 with the P4's branch prediction unit, an ever so slightly longer pipeline, and a few other niceties from more modern processor designs.
m -1.html for a somewhat technical discussion...
See: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/pentium-m/pentium-
Incorrect...this includes all PCs sold at retail channels.
"Desktop PCs with processors from Advanced Micro Devices outsold desktops based on processors from Intel in U.S. retail channels for the week ending April 24, according to research released late last week from Current Analysis. "
The very first line in the original article.
That would actually need about 500 PETAbytes of data storage. 500 terabytes of data divided by 220 million files yields about 2.2 MEGABYTES per file.
The problem though is that with this system you are giving at least as much power to the "pre-screener" as the court system. In other words, how do you determine what is "too hot" WITHOUT going to trial? Separately, what if you were served boiling coffee due to a malfunction and completely stupid employees, the cup literally melts in your hand and the coffee splashes onto your crotch. You just so happen to be wearing thin jogging shorts or something along those lines and you actually receive burns badly enough that you either go sterile or no longer enjoy sex...ever. Do you still think that the company should be held to only actual costs +50%? How about if the company knowingly dumps poisonous chemicals in a stream and 5 kids die after playing in that stream. The kids never go to the hospital, they die that die. There is almost NO actual cost, how would you like it if the maximum you could sue the company for was the 5-7K for burial plus 50%? Think that companies don't pollute like that, well, if your system was made into law they would start doing it real fast.
Yes, but the ACT OF BREEDING didn't introduce a mutation. It simply allowed the selector to introduce a force which didn't exist in nature, in other words selecting "not necessarily the fittest" but the best from the selector point of view.
With respect to the Earth's gravitational field, it IS perfectly flat. If it were perfectly flat in the true sense there would be a minor difference in gravity across it and wouldn't be flat from the perspective of the Earth.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/22/131925 5&mode=nested&tid=187&tid=88&tid=98&tid=99
Well, for starters he is referring to a VERY underpowered Via based CPU on a mini-ITX platform, NOT a dual-PPC970 workstation. Saying one can't do something is different than saying the other can't.
I read his comment more as the admins are more responsible for the problem than the programmers behind the OS. He never mentioned the people actually breaking in to the systems, obviously THEY are most at fault.
Extending your analogy to what he actually said, Masterlock isn't responsible when you don't actually LOCK the damned lock. Which, of course, they aren't nor should anyone blame them for losses suffered from the inability of the purchasers of their equipment to properly USE that equipment.
OK, maybe I should have said it isn't any more inviting than Mercury...
It also has a warm and non-static environment.
Maybe "as we know it or could even conceive" Io is not much more inviting than Cerberus or another large asteroid.
Well, oddly enough it IS a sort of "real" word... At least supposable is a word and supposably can be made out of that same root of suppose.
Oh the other hand, I haven't seen that Friends episode (which isn't too amazing since I've only seen about 20-30 episodes total...) but I imagine it is probably funnier than many of the ones I HAVE seen...
supposedly...
I hate being a spelling Nazi, but more than likely you also PRONOUNCE the word as "supposably" which actually means something similiar, but a bit different.
I must have been thinking about some other Genesis or TGFX-16 game...
Was Herzog Zwei realtime? I remember that it was hex-tile based and so not really a modern RTS, but thought it was also a modified turn based game (like Civilization set to synchronous turns)...
OR they are just loosing more money per song...
I would actually say that MPEG 1 video would be as nearly universal as one could get without embedding the player. I would actually say very nearly as many platforms could play an MPEG 1 video as have a Java VM...