7. Do crossword puzzles or something that engages your brain most every day. You meet a lot of cute girls that way... Can you say "non-sequitur"??? I knew you could!
Gee, whenever I want to view a page that only renders in IE, I cut-and-paste the URL into IE! Seems to me the only correct approach is to not attempt any integration with IE at all, since you know damn well that whatever you do, Microsoft will find a way to break it in the next release! Gee, you don't think Microsoft is giving IE away for free out of the kindness of their hearts, do you? IE has always been free for one specific reason: to put Netscape out of business! Now, explain to me again what it is that makes you think the IE code is going to play nicely with the Netscape code...
Conventional wisdom is that exposure to cold water causes arthritis, not cures it! Having worked one summer in a fish packing plant, I can attest that people do in fact hurt very much after spending 8 hours working with cold water...
In theory cold-water energy works; anytime you have a temperature differential it can be harnessed to create energy according to the laws of thermodynamics. In practice, I'd question whether the constant pumping and maintenance (saltwater is highly corrosive) wouldn't require more energy than you get out of this system.
One more thing: it's all fun and games until you suck a whale into the input pipe! But seriously, if you pump up nutrient-rich soup from the deep, in a few years your pipe is going to be so clogged up with marine critters that your flow rate is going to tend towards zero...
Format every 3 months?!? But then I'd have to reinstall ALL her games! The 4 year old can handle shoving disks in and clicking on play, but can't get through the half-dozen popup windows needed to install software... meaning I have to listen to yells of "Daddy! Daddy!" from the other room every time she put in a new disk... No, I run Adaware and windows update every week, but I'm not starting over from scratch!
Who said they were all being maintained and kept in sync? Microsoft is generally completely focused on the version they haven't released yet, which currently would be Longhorn.
Does everybody that owns a car know how to change their own oil and fix a flat tire? How can you expect everybody that owns a computer to be able to configure their own firewall? Heck, most people can't even set the time on their VCR!
Anybody smart enough to get around port 25 blocking is probably smart enough to not get his machine owned by spammers... Yes, all ISPs should block port 25 by default, and only open it up for customers that specifically request it (and probably should charge those customers more). But then, I'm certainly not the first person to suggest this.
I can't find "23W" anywhere. All I see is "around 30 watts". I also suspect that power consumption for the final 60nm SOI chip will be different then the initial 90nm chip they are sourcing now.
Uh, maybe by buying a PS3? Should be able to make a development system out of these for under $1000. Granted, that doesn't do you any good unless you can buy the chips and build boards around them, and that probably wont happen until mid 2006.
Yeah, you can simulate it in Verilog (on a high-end Linux server, no less), and get other companies to do your fab for you, but it still costs a minimum of about $100,000 for each chip spin to get actual hardware -- hardly within reach of your average hobbyist. Add to that tens of thousands to license the cores used. I think only a handful of large companies will be designing and building chips for the forseeable future. In fact, if you can't amortize your development costs over about a million chips, it isn't really economically feasible to roll your own.
Now if someone can just tell me:
1) When will the chip be available?
2) How much power will it disipate?
3) How much will it cost?
Then maybe I can design a product around it. Until then, it's vaporware for all practical intents and purposes.
Agreed, and there is also a possibility that countries would deliberately implement incompatible "standards" as a form of protectionism. But I still think that is the direction we need to move in. I'm not sure what to do about differing health insurance pratices. (E.g. companies in Canada have a competitive advantage over US companies, as US companies have to provide health insurance for all employees while in Canada it is provided by the government. But then, paying for health through taxes shouldn't be less expensive than paying for it through payroll deductions!)
For better or for worse, a global economy means everything else being equal, the higher-cost employees are the first to get laid off. The key phrase here is "everything else being equal". IBM if offshoring these jobs to people that don't have the language skills and cultural familiarity needed to best serve IBM's customers, therefore IBM's customers will inevitably suffer. Yes, the European workers should be trying to make themselves more competitive instead of bitching about their "right" to a job, but the globalization race to the bottom means both employees and customers (at least those in high cost of living areas) suffer.
Here's an idea: don't allow any product or service to be sold in your country that isn't certified to have been manufactured in accordance withi your country's occupational safety and environmental regulations -- regardless of where it was made. With globalization, some leveling out of wages and living standards is inevitable. But we really shouldn't reward the places with the most abusive work practices, most disregard for the environment, and most corruption by giving them more business even if by using these practices they can produce products cheaper
You could have a conversation with your strawberry yogurt before you eat it.Personally, I'd rather not eat anything that screams as it goes down my throat! And the only thing I'd want to eat after having a conversation with is my wife.
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4) Share music only with friends that you trust.
While technically unlawful, if you chip in with 20 or 30 other people to buy copyrighted material and make copies for each person in the group, your chances of ever getting caught are zero (unless you really piss off a member of the group). And you wind up getting CDs/DVDs for about $1 (cost of media plus share of original) instead of $18.99 or whatever they are charging these days.
Don't like that? There is always:
5) Only listen/watch copyrighted material that is available on loan for free from your local library... at least until the **AA make that illegal too!
True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?
ISPs should still delete their logs, delete them early, and delete them often. Or are there now laws that require you to keeps logs long enough for the RIAA (or it's Canadian equivalent) to subpoena them?
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7. Do crossword puzzles or something that engages your brain most every day. You meet a lot of cute girls that way ...
Can you say "non-sequitur"??? I knew you could!
Gee, whenever I want to view a page that only renders in IE, I cut-and-paste the URL into IE! Seems to me the only correct approach is to not attempt any integration with IE at all, since you know damn well that whatever you do, Microsoft will find a way to break it in the next release! Gee, you don't think Microsoft is giving IE away for free out of the kindness of their hearts, do you? IE has always been free for one specific reason: to put Netscape out of business! Now, explain to me again what it is that makes you think the IE code is going to play nicely with the Netscape code...
In theory cold-water energy works; anytime you have a temperature differential it can be harnessed to create energy according to the laws of thermodynamics. In practice, I'd question whether the constant pumping and maintenance (saltwater is highly corrosive) wouldn't require more energy than you get out of this system.
One more thing: it's all fun and games until you suck a whale into the input pipe! But seriously, if you pump up nutrient-rich soup from the deep, in a few years your pipe is going to be so clogged up with marine critters that your flow rate is going to tend towards zero...
Format every 3 months?!? But then I'd have to reinstall ALL her games! The 4 year old can handle shoving disks in and clicking on play, but can't get through the half-dozen popup windows needed to install software... meaning I have to listen to yells of "Daddy! Daddy!" from the other room every time she put in a new disk... No, I run Adaware and windows update every week, but I'm not starting over from scratch!
You've obviously never played Doom III, have you?
Who said they were all being maintained and kept in sync? Microsoft is generally completely focused on the version they haven't released yet, which currently would be Longhorn.
Does everybody that owns a car know how to change their own oil and fix a flat tire? How can you expect everybody that owns a computer to be able to configure their own firewall? Heck, most people can't even set the time on their VCR!
They're all selling the same thing: Braaaaaaiiiiiiins!
Anybody smart enough to get around port 25 blocking is probably smart enough to not get his machine owned by spammers... Yes, all ISPs should block port 25 by default, and only open it up for customers that specifically request it (and probably should charge those customers more). But then, I'm certainly not the first person to suggest this.
I can't find "23W" anywhere. All I see is "around 30 watts". I also suspect that power consumption for the final 60nm SOI chip will be different then the initial 90nm chip they are sourcing now.
Well, yes, my MP3 collection (all of it ripped for CDs that I legally own) would require FOUR of these suckers to store the whole collection!
RFTA. It currently sucks too much power to make a portable device out of it.
No, the real question is when will it run Linux? There is no question but that it will eventually be able to do so.
Uh, maybe by buying a PS3? Should be able to make a development system out of these for under $1000. Granted, that doesn't do you any good unless you can buy the chips and build boards around them, and that probably wont happen until mid 2006.
Yeah, you can simulate it in Verilog (on a high-end Linux server, no less), and get other companies to do your fab for you, but it still costs a minimum of about $100,000 for each chip spin to get actual hardware -- hardly within reach of your average hobbyist. Add to that tens of thousands to license the cores used. I think only a handful of large companies will be designing and building chips for the forseeable future. In fact, if you can't amortize your development costs over about a million chips, it isn't really economically feasible to roll your own.
Now if someone can just tell me:
1) When will the chip be available?
2) How much power will it disipate?
3) How much will it cost?
Then maybe I can design a product around it. Until then, it's vaporware for all practical intents and purposes.
Well, it stops when it runs out of hydrogen... I mean, it's not exactly as if there are huge amounts of hydrogen floating freely all over the earth!
Agreed, and there is also a possibility that countries would deliberately implement incompatible "standards" as a form of protectionism. But I still think that is the direction we need to move in. I'm not sure what to do about differing health insurance pratices. (E.g. companies in Canada have a competitive advantage over US companies, as US companies have to provide health insurance for all employees while in Canada it is provided by the government. But then, paying for health through taxes shouldn't be less expensive than paying for it through payroll deductions!)
Here's an idea: don't allow any product or service to be sold in your country that isn't certified to have been manufactured in accordance withi your country's occupational safety and environmental regulations -- regardless of where it was made. With globalization, some leveling out of wages and living standards is inevitable. But we really shouldn't reward the places with the most abusive work practices, most disregard for the environment, and most corruption by giving them more business even if by using these practices they can produce products cheaper
You could have a conversation with your strawberry yogurt before you eat it.Personally, I'd rather not eat anything that screams as it goes down my throat! And the only thing I'd want to eat after having a conversation with is my wife.
You're from Utah? You have my profound sympathy. I'm told they don't look kindly on people that don't go along with the groupthink out there...
4) Share music only with friends that you trust.
While technically unlawful, if you chip in with 20 or 30 other people to buy copyrighted material and make copies for each person in the group, your chances of ever getting caught are zero (unless you really piss off a member of the group). And you wind up getting CDs/DVDs for about $1 (cost of media plus share of original) instead of $18.99 or whatever they are charging these days.
Don't like that? There is always:
5) Only listen/watch copyrighted material that is available on loan for free from your local library... at least until the **AA make that illegal too!
Even if it did come out, what were its chances of competing against the PS3, Xbox360, and Nintendo Revolultion?
True; if you watch it on your home computer, you won't be surrounded by people dressed as Imperial Storm troopers, Amidala, young lord Vader, etc. Uh, and this is a bad thing because... ?
ISPs should still delete their logs, delete them early, and delete them often. Or are there now laws that require you to keeps logs long enough for the RIAA (or it's Canadian equivalent) to subpoena them?