Uhm. The Amiga A1200, A4000, A4000T and CD32 were 32 bit. The other Amigas and the Atari ST were 16 bit computers. Right?,
The 3000 was most certainly a 32-bit computer.
Disclaimer: Some of the "box" Amigas (2000, 2500, 3000) could take 24 bit graphics cards, but they were still 16 bit internally
No, the 3000 was most certainly a 32-bit computer. What does the video card have to do with anything? Changing the video card does not change the architecture of the computer.
Gates also claims Microsoft invented personal computing.
Bwa-ha-ha!
ISTR that Gates and Allen started Microsoft to offer products for the personal computers already in existence. To quote from the Microsoft Museum "Microsoft History Trivia" document, the appearance of the MITS Altair 8800 inspired Gates and Allen to develop a BASIC language for it.
Microsoft can't even be trusted to get their revisionist history straight.
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Tire swapping is marginally harder. It just becomes yet one more thing that Customs can look for. What about the dumbasses who forget to change the tires? D'oh! Ask your local cop: the vast majority of criminals aren't going to be thorough and meticulous.
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Put down the crack pipe and think about it for half a minute.
It's not necessary to record your license plate when you have new tires installed. However, Customs can read the tags in the tires, and associate them with the plate on a particular car. If you change the plate on the car (so it looks like a different car is coming back over the border and not as if the same car is coming back from making a drug pickup), Customs will note now that the plate on the car does not match what they recorded earlier related to the tire tags.
Why would they be looking for cars that don't spend enough time on the other side of the border? Because they have learned from years of busting drug-runners that this is one thing (among many marks) to look for. Plus, checking tire tags would probably be faster than copying VINs down by hand.
The tags are passive and have no moving parts. Why wouldn't they survive in a tire, perhaps safely tucked between layers in the sidewall or bead?
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Encryption is not the same thing as anonymization, authentication, or authorization. Encryption is a method for hindering the decoding of your communications. It is not a method of disguising the identities of parties in a transaction, verifying an identity, or granting privileges to an identity.
Encryption everywhere without the rest of the infrastructure means that there is a better than average chance that the spam in your inbox has not been snooped in transit.
I use Mozilla 1.3 and IE on W2K, and both Galeon and Mozilla on Linux.
IE, Galeon, and Mozilla all scroll by a slightly different amount if you hit the page down key vs. if you click "one page" down on the scrollbar. If you hit page down, you get the last couple lines at the top of the page which were just on the bottom of the previous screenful. Clicking in the scrollbar gets you a whole new screenful.
The last browser I used which did it the way I like was Netscape 4.7x.
I probably wouldn't have even noticed except I got used to Netscape's method.
Phoenix has features that Moz just don't have... the ability to open a whole folder of bookmarks in separate tabs in one click
Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying, but Mozilla does, in fact, have this feature. I use it every day to open all of the web comics I want to read.
One thing I don't like about Mozilla's tabbed browsing is that there is only one close widget. I prefer Galeon's take, where I can have a close widget on each tab.
With pop-up blocking, Mozilla 1.3 grants finer control, with the ability to block pop-ups from specific sites. This grants me a little more leeway between no pop-ups and being able to use some UBB forums with all the JavaScript bells and whistles turned on.
This emotional chasm is what has driven many of the Great Geeks (Einstein, Feynman, et al) to pour their energy into invention and genius.
Survey says, "Bzzt!" Thank you for playing.
Feynman had great connections with other people. Read up on him. He was not only a brilliant physicist, he was also a popular teacher. Part of the joy of figuring things out was helping other people understand his insights.
It's true he was deeply affected by the death of his wife Arline. Even after that, though, he often went to places where he could be surrounded by other people. He played drums in a band!
That's a pretty small pigeonhole to say that *nix is just a server OS. To say that Linux, for example, is a server OS or desktop OS is to impose artificial limits on what it can do.
In a server, you probably want a highly reliable, stable operating system to run services on. On a desktop, why wouldn't I also want something that stable and reliable to run apps on?
Linux is capable of running network services *and* playing games, browsing the web, and reading e-mail. So is Windows, actually, but it's more due to marketing and default tuning and included software that makes the difference between Windows ' Pro and Advanced Server editions.
Have you ever installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server? If you watch the install, one of the drivers it loads is for the Toshiba Libretto floppy drive. It's either a sign that MS considers the Libretto to be server hardware or that there's not as much difference between the various Windows 2000 editions as MS would like you to think.
At any rate, I think what the original comment was meant to mean was that he was pleasantly surprised to see Linux scale down to work well on embedded devices (which would normally mean using an OS designed from the ground up to be embeddable), rather than to pigeonhole it as merely a "desktop" OS.
Other organs, like the lungs and especially the brain, can't be so readily removed.
Sure they can be. Reinstallation, however, is a bitch.
Heart and lung transplants happen all the time. So not only can they take the lungs out of a person, they can put them back in a completely different person! In order to do the procedure on lungs, the doctors would first put the patient on a heart-lung machine ("We've secretly replaced his blood with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if he can tell the differece!"), which would give them a little, er, breathing room regarding time.
The problem with doing brains is that it's still a problem to heal damage to central nervous system nerves.
If the sun were to go out, the planet would cool off and die. It would still happen even if we had all the refrigerators on the planet running at 100% duty cycles in an atmosphere composed entirely of "greenhouse" gasses such as carbon dioxide and cow farts.
BTW, the chlorofluorocarbons you mention are responsible for destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere, which allows more ultraviolet light through. That's a different problem, but related in the sense that now you could have sunburned, farting cows.
I really think that this is going to be bad for Linux as a whole.
How so? Linux is free. It doesn't matter what anyone else does. Linux will always be an available choice.
Also, the Unix-type operating systems are all designed to work with open standards. Want to share files with a Sun box? Go right ahead with NFS! Want to share files with a Windows box? Lucky for us the Samba Team is reverse engineering the SMB protocol. You can add Mac OS X and Linux and BSD boxes to a Solaris NIS domain. You can add them to an NT domain only because of the Samba Team's work.
Also, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the desktop. They even have a different architecture for their computer systems, which means they cost more to make. Therefore, to be successful, Apple has to compete with commodity beige-box PCs on features alone to get people to pay more for a Mac. Is this a bad thing? Not if it makes the computing experience worth it for Mac users.
this is far more significant than say Greece (first world-ish but insignificant) switching to Linux
I have to disagree with you there. IMO, every switch to Linux and friends is significant.
Saying Greece is insignificant would be like saying New Hampshire (pretty small by most counts such as area and population) doesn't amount to much in U.S. Presidential elections.
If you're that concerned about having kids, then why are you still wearing tighty-whiteys? Your body heat is doing more to drop yer counts than that power plant!
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Same here. I was participating in d.net long before I ever heard about SETI@home.
A quick bit of research shows that d.net's home page says "founded in 1997" and SETI@home has a research paper up from 1997 descibing the process.
So I think d.net was first with the virtual supercomputer, even though SETI (before @home) has been going on much, much longer.
Uhm. The Amiga A1200, A4000, A4000T and CD32 were 32 bit. The other Amigas and the Atari ST were 16 bit computers. Right?,
The 3000 was most certainly a 32-bit computer.
Disclaimer: Some of the "box" Amigas (2000, 2500, 3000) could take 24 bit graphics cards, but they were still 16 bit internally
No, the 3000 was most certainly a 32-bit computer. What does the video card have to do with anything? Changing the video card does not change the architecture of the computer.
They're 120mm in diameter, and pi * 120mm in circumference.
:-)
You don't work on Mars probes for NASA by any chance, do you?
If you're concerned that you're missing the subtle signals of pheromones, you could be missing the forest for the trees.
For example, if she throws a leg over and grinds on your pubic bone, she might be horny for you.
This sort of signal is immune to interference preventing the reception of pheromones, such as allergies, head colds, or even congenital anosmia.
But seriously, why the heck would I want to pay money for a crippled flight simulator?
Because the intended audience for the game is captive, somewhat uncomfortable, and most importantly, bored.
Gates also claims Microsoft invented personal computing.
Bwa-ha-ha!
ISTR that Gates and Allen started Microsoft to offer products for the personal computers already in existence. To quote from the Microsoft Museum "Microsoft History Trivia" document, the appearance of the MITS Altair 8800 inspired Gates and Allen to develop a BASIC language for it.
Microsoft can't even be trusted to get their revisionist history straight.
Tire swapping is marginally harder. It just becomes yet one more thing that Customs can look for. What about the dumbasses who forget to change the tires? D'oh! Ask your local cop: the vast majority of criminals aren't going to be thorough and meticulous.
Put down the crack pipe and think about it for half a minute.
It's not necessary to record your license plate when you have new tires installed. However, Customs can read the tags in the tires, and associate them with the plate on a particular car. If you change the plate on the car (so it looks like a different car is coming back over the border and not as if the same car is coming back from making a drug pickup), Customs will note now that the plate on the car does not match what they recorded earlier related to the tire tags.
Why would they be looking for cars that don't spend enough time on the other side of the border? Because they have learned from years of busting drug-runners that this is one thing (among many marks) to look for. Plus, checking tire tags would probably be faster than copying VINs down by hand.
The tags are passive and have no moving parts. Why wouldn't they survive in a tire, perhaps safely tucked between layers in the sidewall or bead?
Encryption is not the same thing as anonymization, authentication, or authorization. Encryption is a method for hindering the decoding of your communications. It is not a method of disguising the identities of parties in a transaction, verifying an identity, or granting privileges to an identity.
Encryption everywhere without the rest of the infrastructure means that there is a better than average chance that the spam in your inbox has not been snooped in transit.
I use Mozilla 1.3 and IE on W2K, and both Galeon and Mozilla on Linux.
IE, Galeon, and Mozilla all scroll by a slightly different amount if you hit the page down key vs. if you click "one page" down on the scrollbar. If you hit page down, you get the last couple lines at the top of the page which were just on the bottom of the previous screenful. Clicking in the scrollbar gets you a whole new screenful.
The last browser I used which did it the way I like was Netscape 4.7x.
I probably wouldn't have even noticed except I got used to Netscape's method.
Hot damn! Thanks!
:-)
Now, do you know a way to make hitting the page-down button scroll a whole screenful, as when clicking in the empty part of the scrollbar?
That would make me a happy browser indeed.
Phoenix has features that Moz just don't have... the ability to open a whole folder of bookmarks in separate tabs in one click
Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying, but Mozilla does, in fact, have this feature. I use it every day to open all of the web comics I want to read.
One thing I don't like about Mozilla's tabbed browsing is that there is only one close widget. I prefer Galeon's take, where I can have a close widget on each tab.
With pop-up blocking, Mozilla 1.3 grants finer control, with the ability to block pop-ups from specific sites. This grants me a little more leeway between no pop-ups and being able to use some UBB forums with all the JavaScript bells and whistles turned on.
This emotional chasm is what has driven many of the Great Geeks (Einstein, Feynman, et al) to pour their energy into invention and genius.
Survey says, "Bzzt!" Thank you for playing.
Feynman had great connections with other people. Read up on him. He was not only a brilliant physicist, he was also a popular teacher. Part of the joy of figuring things out was helping other people understand his insights.
It's true he was deeply affected by the death of his wife Arline. Even after that, though, he often went to places where he could be surrounded by other people. He played drums in a band!
Hardly the emotional chasm you mention.
And what better way to say, "I love you" than with the gift of a heart-shaped... uh, heart.
D'oh! I wouldn't have been redundant if a user hadn't interrupted my important work posting to Slashdot.
I'll fix that user, though. I'm setting his password to expire every day.
It's nice to see that the entire explanatory text of yesterday's APoD made it in to the Slashdot article.
Unless MagnetarJones is one of APoD's authors, though, you should give credit where credit is due.
That's a pretty small pigeonhole to say that *nix is just a server OS. To say that Linux, for example, is a server OS or desktop OS is to impose artificial limits on what it can do.
In a server, you probably want a highly reliable, stable operating system to run services on. On a desktop, why wouldn't I also want something that stable and reliable to run apps on?
Linux is capable of running network services *and* playing games, browsing the web, and reading e-mail. So is Windows, actually, but it's more due to marketing and default tuning and included software that makes the difference between Windows ' Pro and Advanced Server editions.
Have you ever installed Windows 2000 Advanced Server? If you watch the install, one of the drivers it loads is for the Toshiba Libretto floppy drive. It's either a sign that MS considers the Libretto to be server hardware or that there's not as much difference between the various Windows 2000 editions as MS would like you to think.
At any rate, I think what the original comment was meant to mean was that he was pleasantly surprised to see Linux scale down to work well on embedded devices (which would normally mean using an OS designed from the ground up to be embeddable), rather than to pigeonhole it as merely a "desktop" OS.
Yes, but more in the informal sense of "polished off" than other definitions of polish.
Sure they can be. Reinstallation, however, is a bitch.
Heart and lung transplants happen all the time. So not only can they take the lungs out of a person, they can put them back in a completely different person! In order to do the procedure on lungs, the doctors would first put the patient on a heart-lung machine ("We've secretly replaced his blood with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if he can tell the differece!"), which would give them a little, er, breathing room regarding time.
The problem with doing brains is that it's still a problem to heal damage to central nervous system nerves.
No. Global warming is caused by the sun.
If the sun were to go out, the planet would cool off and die. It would still happen even if we had all the refrigerators on the planet running at 100% duty cycles in an atmosphere composed entirely of "greenhouse" gasses such as carbon dioxide and cow farts.
BTW, the chlorofluorocarbons you mention are responsible for destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere, which allows more ultraviolet light through. That's a different problem, but related in the sense that now you could have sunburned, farting cows.
I really think that this is going to be bad for Linux as a whole.
How so? Linux is free. It doesn't matter what anyone else does. Linux will always be an available choice.
Also, the Unix-type operating systems are all designed to work with open standards. Want to share files with a Sun box? Go right ahead with NFS! Want to share files with a Windows box? Lucky for us the Samba Team is reverse engineering the SMB protocol. You can add Mac OS X and Linux and BSD boxes to a Solaris NIS domain. You can add them to an NT domain only because of the Samba Team's work.
Also, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the desktop. They even have a different architecture for their computer systems, which means they cost more to make. Therefore, to be successful, Apple has to compete with commodity beige-box PCs on features alone to get people to pay more for a Mac. Is this a bad thing? Not if it makes the computing experience worth it for Mac users.
I have to disagree with you there. IMO, every switch to Linux and friends is significant.
Saying Greece is insignificant would be like saying New Hampshire (pretty small by most counts such as area and population) doesn't amount to much in U.S. Presidential elections.
If you're that concerned about having kids, then why are you still wearing tighty-whiteys? Your body heat is doing more to drop yer counts than that power plant!
NASA engineers (and I know this is hard to believe!) are even more conservative than people tracking Debian stable.
Now *that's* funny! Damn I wish I had some mod points!