I just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo, and I love it. But I was beginning to worry that AMD's rocky quarter, lack-luster product line up, and soon to be cut backs, might lead to a less competitive playing field. But I'm excited to hear that AMD is still in this fight and will be upping the ante for my next PC purchase.
So much has been forgotten since the American Civil War, and what little is remembered is blamed on slavery. The Civil War was a fight for States Rights. And ever since, those rights have been being eroded. With few exceptions, we are not a united set of states so much as a republic with localized sub-governments.
I applaud Montana for standing up against this law and the continued intrusion of the federal government into state issues.
-Rick
PS: I am glad the North won the war and put an end to legal slavery in the US, but that moral victory was accompanied by the reduction of power in state governments.
The argument for you as a consumer to buy PATA or SATA is directly effected by the available functionality. The fact that manufacturers are no longer supporting bootable PATA is going to effect your purchasing decision.
The argument for the manufacturer is selecting between the current standard, and another product that for the same price can out perform the current standard and offer more features.
The two arguments then build off of each other. As consumer demand for the additional performance and functionality of SATA rose, demand for PATA fell. In response, manufactures had less of a reason to support PATA, so they are going to predominantly SATA based solutions. This migration to SATA means that PATA is losing even more functionality. That loss of functionality will drop consumer demand even lower and drive more people to switch to PATA.
I did not say it was "OK for motherboards to not support bootable PATA because PATA is dying". I said that the lack of support for bootable PATA makes SATA a better option. The fact that there is a better option means that PATA is dying.
What is nonsensical is people who are attacking me like >I personally am stabbing their PATA drives with a steak knife. Come on people, it's technology, it gets outdated and replaced. That was the entire point of this thread branch. You can't run an MFM drive in a modern computer, and eventually you wont be able to run an IDE drive in a modern computer either. Get over it.
The Bush administration has been stacking government agencies with people who have no interest in exercising their agencies power. The whole purpose of those appointments appears to be one of reduced regulation of corporate entities. But what will happen when State laws are getting in the way of the Bush administration's de-regulation plans? Will Bush and party push for federal legislation limiting state's rights to enforce stricter than federal laws? Given his actions over the last 6+ years, I wouldn't be surprised.
Sorry, answered the phone and posted with out proof reading. To clarify, the phones in the previous post are not actually in possession of anything, the apostrophe is a mistake.
The whole point of this story is that the motherboard HAS a PATA connection on it. So you don't need the network, just boot the machine off of a SATA drive and once the IDE drivers load you can access the old hard drive. 5 years from now, you probably won't be able to find a mother board with an IDE port on it, just like 10 years ago you could no longer find a mother board with an MFM controller on it.
"Advantage of using SATA for connecting an optical drive: zero."
Except that new motherboards coming out do not support bootable PATA. That's a pretty big advantage if you ask me.
"...but while new machines are being supplied with an old technology, that technology isn't dead."
And as long as English is commonly spoken, it is not dead either. That's why I said it is a "Dieing" standard, as in it is depricated, being fazed out, being given the boot, it's been sacked, it's a has been... It's not dead, but there is no reason to stick with it beyond the £6 you saved. And for the headaches the AP went through, those £6 would have been well spent.
I've seen trained officers put holes in the the chests of unarmed teenagers. I've seen highly trained Marines blow their own toes off. I've seen a skilled pistol range shooter damn near blow a man's head off because hot brass flew down her shirt.
Skilled people make mistakes every day. Unskilled people make many mistakes every day. Would more guns have helped in this situation? maybe. It's possible that the gun man could have walked into the first place, started shooting and promptly get shot himself. But it's much more likely that he would have walked in, started shooting, and in the chaos that ensued multiple people would have fired back, most of whom wouldn't even know who their target was. They would resort to shooting who ever had a gun, including each other. Sure, the guy would have been stopped in the first incident, but the cross fire would have killed 30 people anyways.
Once you look at the number of heat of the moment crimes that would escalate to guns instead of fists and knives, and the number of accidental discharges, it doesn't take long to see that while a very, VERY small number of isolated incidents may be avoided, significantly MORE incidents would occur overall.
I'm all for the 2nd amendment. But the purpose of that law was not to protect ourselves from each other, so much as it was to protect ourselves from the government. Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo; Use your boxes wisely.
I mean, I've had this 20 meg MFD drive for like 15 years now, why can't modern computers keep up with something so simple!?
Honestly here, IDE(PATA) is a dieing format. It has a competitor that is just as cheap and even better performing. A new 250GB SATA hard drive and SATA CD/DVD burner can be yours for just over $100.
I'm with ya there man, I lost a close friend in high school to a brain tumor....to go from worrying about your learning permit to worrying if you'll live to Christmas. It is nothing I'd wish on any one, let alone a child.
"CO2 is also toxic and even small increments in the percentage of the atmosphere it makes up causes health problems including dizziness, nausea, and general malaise."
So does Dihydrogren monoxide, but you don't see the world panicing over it do you?
The problem with the 'radical' approach is that there are unintended consequences. Quite a bit of which is the result of 'progress for progress sake'. The social-economic effects of fighting global climate change in a radical manner could very well be worse than the social-economic effects of not fighting GCC at all. The responsible way to handle the situation is a measured and constant approach. I agree absolutely that we NEED to do something, but we don't need to be doing everything when anything could go wrong.
That said, I'm very interested in this technology, and I imagine a large number of other investors are as well. If production can be spun up for as cheap as they are claiming, this technology will go from prototype to production in a very short time frame.
The world's agricultural system is at full stretch at present producing enough food for (most of) the world's population.
Hardly! The limitation on food production world wide has much more to do with technology distribution, shipping, trade restrictions, and taxes/subsidies. It is exactly as you stated in your first paragraph. There is plenty of food in the world, the problem is getting affordable food to the areas where it is most needed. The issue is political, not agronomy.
As the AC who replied to you said... There is a difference between an MS shill and a moron. Dvorak is a moron. He is correct about as often as the sun shines on my dog's ass. Note that my dog died 8 years ago, which was about the same time that John Dvorak was last actually right about something.
What I am getting at is this: Circuit City doesn't care one whit about the success of our civilization, and accordingly, the value of their employees as ANYTHING OTHER than "human resources" is essentially nil. There is no value in seeing them as people, because well, it makes them just slightly less profitable. Can't have that now.
Actually, they can't. If they don't cut corners, someone else (Walmart) will. And if they can't keep their overhead low enough to compete with Walmart, the consumers will shop at Walmart instead. If the consumers shop at Walmart instead, Circuit City will have to cut employees and close stores that are close to Walmarts.
The end result would be exactly the same. Some number of CC stores would close, Walmart would take over the market segment and would rehire some portion those former CC employees at a lower wage.
So you can't really say that CC is being unethical here, they're just doing what they can in a crappy situation. And it's not like taking down Walmart would end it either. There is a huge demand in the American public for low cost goods. If Walmart wasn't available to fulfill that need, someone else (KMart, ShopKo, Sams, etc...) would gladly move to fill it.
And it's not like legislating it will improve it either. With the continued growth of Internet commerce, you have international competition from organizations that are not subject to US labor laws.
Point being, so long as consumers demand the lowest possible price on goods, companies will have to cut corners to remain competitive in that market segment. If you actually want to look for someplace to start working on a solution, look at consumer debt, that's the real demon.
Don't worry, we'll just classify them all as terrorist and it won't be an issue.
-Rick
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Unfortunately, many of my good playing friends are scattered about the world. I have a few local friends I might try to recruit, and a few new friends (people I've met through WoW oddly enough) that I think might make some decent players.
Anyone else think the arguments against Net Neutrality just got a little weaker?
-Rick
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I looked into CoC long long ago, back in the high school days. Stats were all I knew back then (coming from D&D, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and Shadow Run) and CoC didn't really appeal to me for its story content. Something about winding up insane kinda put a damper on the stating up;)
But a few good story tellers (and DMs) who really took the focus off of leveling and put it into the story really changed my approach to gaming.
Damn you, now I'm starting to get an urge to fire up a WW or VTM campaign again.
-Rick
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Would they improve with a better story line instead of hack and slash? Potentially but you don't really see a lot of this in the pen and paper version of RPGing either. Sure, the GM can entertain and let the group run about with little crazy side adventures but in the end it always comes down to the same question: How much XP to the next level?
I think this varies a lot from DM to DM and system to system. White Wolf in particular has a system that really doesn't push for stating. In fact, the thing that made each of the White Wolf (VTM and WW) campaigns I've played in so much fun WAS the story. I'm a geek, through and through, I have geek friends. I used to go to hang out at a local Perkins and recap the game, in story format, to some of my geeky (but not geeky enough to dice) friends. Heck, you kick back in the smoking section and tell a chapter of an epic story and people get interested. I had one guy ask me if I was talking about a movie script. The retelling of those stories was often as much fun as playing them the first time too.
In a MMO video game, I don't think it would have much of an impact though. For two reasons: 1) The games are stat dependent. It doesn't matter how well you know the Barron, his aura is going to smack you and you need the gear (stats) to survive it. 2) As soon as anything is done once, instructions are posted on the web. It doesn't matter if you spend 4 days in the libraries learning all you can about the boss, when it comes down to it, someone can just look up the encounter on thottbot or wowhead and know it all.
Think about it, if you're telling a story from a pen and paper game to another gamer, it's new and different. If you're telling a story about how you took out a boss in WoW to another WoW player, they're going to respond with "Oh yeah, my guild took him out last week."
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I just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo, and I love it. But I was beginning to worry that AMD's rocky quarter, lack-luster product line up, and soon to be cut backs, might lead to a less competitive playing field. But I'm excited to hear that AMD is still in this fight and will be upping the ante for my next PC purchase.
-Rick
So much has been forgotten since the American Civil War, and what little is remembered is blamed on slavery. The Civil War was a fight for States Rights. And ever since, those rights have been being eroded. With few exceptions, we are not a united set of states so much as a republic with localized sub-governments.
I applaud Montana for standing up against this law and the continued intrusion of the federal government into state issues.
-Rick
PS: I am glad the North won the war and put an end to legal slavery in the US, but that moral victory was accompanied by the reduction of power in state governments.
They are two entirely separate arguments.
The argument for you as a consumer to buy PATA or SATA is directly effected by the available functionality. The fact that manufacturers are no longer supporting bootable PATA is going to effect your purchasing decision.
The argument for the manufacturer is selecting between the current standard, and another product that for the same price can out perform the current standard and offer more features.
The two arguments then build off of each other. As consumer demand for the additional performance and functionality of SATA rose, demand for PATA fell. In response, manufactures had less of a reason to support PATA, so they are going to predominantly SATA based solutions. This migration to SATA means that PATA is losing even more functionality. That loss of functionality will drop consumer demand even lower and drive more people to switch to PATA.
I did not say it was "OK for motherboards to not support bootable PATA because PATA is dying". I said that the lack of support for bootable PATA makes SATA a better option. The fact that there is a better option means that PATA is dying.
What is nonsensical is people who are attacking me like >I personally am stabbing their PATA drives with a steak knife. Come on people, it's technology, it gets outdated and replaced. That was the entire point of this thread branch. You can't run an MFM drive in a modern computer, and eventually you wont be able to run an IDE drive in a modern computer either. Get over it.
-Rick
The Bush administration has been stacking government agencies with people who have no interest in exercising their agencies power. The whole purpose of those appointments appears to be one of reduced regulation of corporate entities. But what will happen when State laws are getting in the way of the Bush administration's de-regulation plans? Will Bush and party push for federal legislation limiting state's rights to enforce stricter than federal laws? Given his actions over the last 6+ years, I wouldn't be surprised.
-Rick
Sorry, answered the phone and posted with out proof reading. To clarify, the phones in the previous post are not actually in possession of anything, the apostrophe is a mistake.
-Rick
http://www.hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us/mainnews.asp?ln gindex=18
The school will no longer except calls from phone's with their number blocked from caller ID.
-Rick
The whole point of this story is that the motherboard HAS a PATA connection on it. So you don't need the network, just boot the machine off of a SATA drive and once the IDE drivers load you can access the old hard drive. 5 years from now, you probably won't be able to find a mother board with an IDE port on it, just like 10 years ago you could no longer find a mother board with an MFM controller on it.
-Rick
"Advantage of using SATA for connecting an optical drive: zero."
Except that new motherboards coming out do not support bootable PATA. That's a pretty big advantage if you ask me.
"...but while new machines are being supplied with an old technology, that technology isn't dead."
And as long as English is commonly spoken, it is not dead either. That's why I said it is a "Dieing" standard, as in it is depricated, being fazed out, being given the boot, it's been sacked, it's a has been... It's not dead, but there is no reason to stick with it beyond the £6 you saved. And for the headaches the AP went through, those £6 would have been well spent.
-Rick
Thanks for the corrections guys, like I said, the damn thing is ancient, and my memory for acronyms is limited ;)
-Rick
I've seen trained officers put holes in the the chests of unarmed teenagers. I've seen highly trained Marines blow their own toes off. I've seen a skilled pistol range shooter damn near blow a man's head off because hot brass flew down her shirt.
Skilled people make mistakes every day. Unskilled people make many mistakes every day. Would more guns have helped in this situation? maybe. It's possible that the gun man could have walked into the first place, started shooting and promptly get shot himself. But it's much more likely that he would have walked in, started shooting, and in the chaos that ensued multiple people would have fired back, most of whom wouldn't even know who their target was. They would resort to shooting who ever had a gun, including each other. Sure, the guy would have been stopped in the first incident, but the cross fire would have killed 30 people anyways.
Once you look at the number of heat of the moment crimes that would escalate to guns instead of fists and knives, and the number of accidental discharges, it doesn't take long to see that while a very, VERY small number of isolated incidents may be avoided, significantly MORE incidents would occur overall.
I'm all for the 2nd amendment. But the purpose of that law was not to protect ourselves from each other, so much as it was to protect ourselves from the government. Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo; Use your boxes wisely.
-Rick
I mean, I've had this 20 meg MFD drive for like 15 years now, why can't modern computers keep up with something so simple!?
Honestly here, IDE(PATA) is a dieing format. It has a competitor that is just as cheap and even better performing. A new 250GB SATA hard drive and SATA CD/DVD burner can be yours for just over $100.
-Rick
I just picked up a SATA CD/DVD burner for $38 on newegg.
-Rick
I'm with ya there man, I lost a close friend in high school to a brain tumor. ...to go from worrying about your learning permit to worrying if you'll live to Christmas. It is nothing I'd wish on any one, let alone a child.
-Rick
The first one is free.
-Rick
"CO2 is also toxic and even small increments in the percentage of the atmosphere it makes up causes health problems including dizziness, nausea, and general malaise."
So does Dihydrogren monoxide, but you don't see the world panicing over it do you?
The problem with the 'radical' approach is that there are unintended consequences. Quite a bit of which is the result of 'progress for progress sake'. The social-economic effects of fighting global climate change in a radical manner could very well be worse than the social-economic effects of not fighting GCC at all. The responsible way to handle the situation is a measured and constant approach. I agree absolutely that we NEED to do something, but we don't need to be doing everything when anything could go wrong.
That said, I'm very interested in this technology, and I imagine a large number of other investors are as well. If production can be spun up for as cheap as they are claiming, this technology will go from prototype to production in a very short time frame.
-Rick
The world's agricultural system is at full stretch at present producing enough food for (most of) the world's population.
Hardly! The limitation on food production world wide has much more to do with technology distribution, shipping, trade restrictions, and taxes/subsidies. It is exactly as you stated in your first paragraph. There is plenty of food in the world, the problem is getting affordable food to the areas where it is most needed. The issue is political, not agronomy.
-Rick
As the AC who replied to you said... There is a difference between an MS shill and a moron. Dvorak is a moron. He is correct about as often as the sun shines on my dog's ass. Note that my dog died 8 years ago, which was about the same time that John Dvorak was last actually right about something.
-Rick
What I am getting at is this: Circuit City doesn't care one whit about the success of our civilization, and accordingly, the value of their employees as ANYTHING OTHER than "human resources" is essentially nil. There is no value in seeing them as people, because well, it makes them just slightly less profitable. Can't have that now.
Actually, they can't. If they don't cut corners, someone else (Walmart) will. And if they can't keep their overhead low enough to compete with Walmart, the consumers will shop at Walmart instead. If the consumers shop at Walmart instead, Circuit City will have to cut employees and close stores that are close to Walmarts.
The end result would be exactly the same. Some number of CC stores would close, Walmart would take over the market segment and would rehire some portion those former CC employees at a lower wage.
So you can't really say that CC is being unethical here, they're just doing what they can in a crappy situation. And it's not like taking down Walmart would end it either. There is a huge demand in the American public for low cost goods. If Walmart wasn't available to fulfill that need, someone else (KMart, ShopKo, Sams, etc...) would gladly move to fill it.
And it's not like legislating it will improve it either. With the continued growth of Internet commerce, you have international competition from organizations that are not subject to US labor laws.
Point being, so long as consumers demand the lowest possible price on goods, companies will have to cut corners to remain competitive in that market segment. If you actually want to look for someplace to start working on a solution, look at consumer debt, that's the real demon.
-Rick
check to make sure the code works as intended.
The next step would be to check and make sure that the intention the code works with is the intention the people desire.
-Rick
We do it because we can.
Who's to say that God didn't do it "because he could"?
-Rick
Don't worry, we'll just classify them all as terrorist and it won't be an issue.
-Rick
Unfortunately, many of my good playing friends are scattered about the world. I have a few local friends I might try to recruit, and a few new friends (people I've met through WoW oddly enough) that I think might make some decent players.
-Rick
Anyone else think the arguments against Net Neutrality just got a little weaker?
-Rick
I looked into CoC long long ago, back in the high school days. Stats were all I knew back then (coming from D&D, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, and Shadow Run) and CoC didn't really appeal to me for its story content. Something about winding up insane kinda put a damper on the stating up ;)
But a few good story tellers (and DMs) who really took the focus off of leveling and put it into the story really changed my approach to gaming.
Damn you, now I'm starting to get an urge to fire up a WW or VTM campaign again.
-Rick
Would they improve with a better story line instead of hack and slash? Potentially but you don't really see a lot of this in the pen and paper version of RPGing either. Sure, the GM can entertain and let the group run about with little crazy side adventures but in the end it always comes down to the same question: How much XP to the next level?
I think this varies a lot from DM to DM and system to system. White Wolf in particular has a system that really doesn't push for stating. In fact, the thing that made each of the White Wolf (VTM and WW) campaigns I've played in so much fun WAS the story. I'm a geek, through and through, I have geek friends. I used to go to hang out at a local Perkins and recap the game, in story format, to some of my geeky (but not geeky enough to dice) friends. Heck, you kick back in the smoking section and tell a chapter of an epic story and people get interested. I had one guy ask me if I was talking about a movie script. The retelling of those stories was often as much fun as playing them the first time too.
In a MMO video game, I don't think it would have much of an impact though. For two reasons:
1) The games are stat dependent. It doesn't matter how well you know the Barron, his aura is going to smack you and you need the gear (stats) to survive it.
2) As soon as anything is done once, instructions are posted on the web. It doesn't matter if you spend 4 days in the libraries learning all you can about the boss, when it comes down to it, someone can just look up the encounter on thottbot or wowhead and know it all.
Think about it, if you're telling a story from a pen and paper game to another gamer, it's new and different. If you're telling a story about how you took out a boss in WoW to another WoW player, they're going to respond with "Oh yeah, my guild took him out last week."
-Rick