That's a bit of a stretch, I think. I applaud Sarbines-Oxley or whatever it;'s called. I don't think corporations are people and I don't think they should have rights. You don't have to send private emails from your work email address, and in fact it's against most companies' policies. Use your own email account from your own computer or phone.
Perhaps if elections here were publicly funded the corporatti would have less influence in this country, and perhaps we, the people, would have more freedom.
That's true. There's always someone smarter, more knowledgable, more creative, faster, stronger. And if you think you know everything, you can't learn anything.
Wisdom begins with the realization of one's own ignorance.
You want me to get these kids off your lawn for you?
I'm enjoying it for the sweet revenge for what they did to my PC when my daughter installed XCP. Karma's a bitch. Whoever hacked them, kudos. I'll raise my glass in a toast tonight.
Well, I never asked many questions in high school because my teachers were not competent. Once I learned to read they didn't teach me much else.
College was different. Asking questions in college was far more productive than researching. With the internet it's a lot easier to do basic research (looking in wikipedia for citations to follow, for example). Old habits die hard.
If I'm having lunch with a medical doctor and want to know if there's a new treatment for arthritis, I don't whip out my phone and look it up on wikipedia, I simply ask the doctor. Same thing. If I'm in a "room" full of computer geeks and have a question about a CPU, I simply ask. Which has the added advantage of stimulating discussion.
You should be able to play Wolfenstein or DOOM; 386s were about 16 to 20 mz back then IIRC. The Atom I had in the netbook was 100 times as fast (although I don't know about the size of the chip's instruction sets, which would make a big difference).
Back around 2000 the average x86 CPU was only ten times as fast as the original IBM PC's 4 mhz. I'm not familiar with the ATOM chip, but unless it's a real throwback it should be able to emulate an old x86 with little problem, provided the emulator was well written (preferably in assembly).
I had a cataract caused by steroid eyedrops. You most likely had the older monofocal implants. Mine was implanted in 2006, three years after the FDA approved the CrystaLens. I also was extremely lucky. Most people have 20/20 to 20/25 vision after a CrystaLens implant, the eye I got it in is now 20/16. The other eye is still 20/400, but then again I can see things REAL close with that eye.
My beard was sparse at age 24, too (My youngest daughter is your age).
FOUR retinal detachments? Jesus H. Christ! I had a detachment a couple of years after the implant, and that vitrectomy was hell. FOUR? Wow, man, you've been through some damned shitty times. I hope you didn't have to get a scleral buckle, that would even be worse (Thank God I never had to have oneof those)! I got lucky with the vitrectomy as well; the surgeon said "if I had a retinal detachment, I'd want it right where yours is." The vision after the vitrectomy was actually better than before the detachment, because I don't have any "floaters" in that eye now.
And actually, even though I am pretty old, I don't feel old. Yet. My dad says I'm old, my daughter says "you're not old. Next year you'll be old!"
Well, I know I'm a whole lot more sucessful with the ladies than when I was young. As to fashion, when I was a teenager with my short hair and glasses, I wasn't the least bit sucessful. Back then, few young people wore glasses. Mostly, young people didn't wear glasses and old people did. These days, almost all the young folks have specs, but the geezers have had cataract surgery that negates the need. With the new implants you don't even need reading glasses.
I attribute the myopia to too much reading at too young an age. Today's young people grew up with computers, while computers grew up with me.
If nerds aren't fashionable, why do so many here seem be nerd wannabes?
Two hints to success with the ladies -- self confidence and eye contact. a decent haircut and a goatee don't hurt, either.
As to technology, it was always fashionable. The difference between now and then is just that the technology was a lot more primitive, but everybody wanted a big twenty five inch color TV and a good stereo.
The only stupid question is one that isn't asked. Nobody knows everything (and I asked the question before I had my first cup of coffee). I got my UID by being on slashdot ten years or so ago. I'm 59 years old and my synapses aren't as well oiled as they used to be.
My first computer was a slide rule. My second computer I built out of two potentiometers, a voltmeter, and a battery. When I was a teenager I made a little extra cash by converting cheap transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and selling them to friends.
These days it's fashionable to be a nerd, but I was a nerd back when we were pariahs.
Since Linux runs well on ARM, then I don't see what the big deal is about not being able to run legacy Windows apps in Win 8. All you'd have to do would be to install Linux dual-boot on your Windows 8 machine, and run your legacy Windows apps under Wine in Linux. Maybe I still need more coffee...
Speaking of WINE, I have a question I want to ask that's usually asked as a joke, but I'm asking it seriously. Will this chip run Linux? How hard would it be to port Linux to it? I've sworn off Microsoft products, so if Windows is all this chip will run it's a no-starter for me.
Nothing, why should it be a problem? Oregon may have other taxes that would cost more than sales tax; say, property or income taxes (I have no idea how high or low Oregon's taxes are).
Businesses move to different states for tax reasons all the time. A lot of businesses threatened to leave Illinois when it doubled its income tax last year.
When I visit friends in Cahokia, I always cross the river to buy gasoline. Missouri's gasoline tax is half of Illinois, and gas is usually 10-20c cheaper than here.
Damn, dude, I'm 59 and the only time I ever told anybody to get off my lawn was at slashdot. Of course, I never caught anybody smoking pot in my yard, either.
Yes, overrated was the perfect mod for my comment. But that's the danger of trying to make a joke on slashdot, you run across grumpy old men like me who are in way too bad a mood to get the joke and run the risk of getting a "flamebait" or "troll".
You don't think states should have the right to collect sales tax? I'd suggest that there simply be no sales tax on internet sales, that Amazon pay whatever tax rate applies in the state that Amazon ships the books from.
I was going to mod this discussion, dammit. You call yourself a nerd? "Buy a copy?" WTF, son? It's online!
Turn in your geek card. Since I posted in this thread, someone please mod the parent... well, there's no moderation for "fucking stupid" or even possibly "shilling for a corporation that wants your money". Overrated will have to do.
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That's a bit of a stretch, I think. I applaud Sarbines-Oxley or whatever it;'s called. I don't think corporations are people and I don't think they should have rights. You don't have to send private emails from your work email address, and in fact it's against most companies' policies. Use your own email account from your own computer or phone.
Perhaps if elections here were publicly funded the corporatti would have less influence in this country, and perhaps we, the people, would have more freedom.
None of the bill of rights are.
That's true. There's always someone smarter, more knowledgable, more creative, faster, stronger. And if you think you know everything, you can't learn anything.
Wisdom begins with the realization of one's own ignorance.
You want me to get these kids off your lawn for you?
Anybody who trusts Sony after all the various customer-rapings Sony has committed in the last ten or fifteen years deserves to have their data stolen.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If you buy Sony you're begging to be abused.
I'm enjoying it for the sweet revenge for what they did to my PC when my daughter installed XCP. Karma's a bitch. Whoever hacked them, kudos. I'll raise my glass in a toast tonight.
Die, Sony, Die.
Indeed, I come here for the comments. Often I learn something here. Nobody knows everything.
I would have thought that after XCP they'd be done. So I'm not holding my breath.
Man, I've been really lucky.
Well, I never asked many questions in high school because my teachers were not competent. Once I learned to read they didn't teach me much else.
College was different. Asking questions in college was far more productive than researching. With the internet it's a lot easier to do basic research (looking in wikipedia for citations to follow, for example). Old habits die hard.
If I'm having lunch with a medical doctor and want to know if there's a new treatment for arthritis, I don't whip out my phone and look it up on wikipedia, I simply ask the doctor. Same thing. If I'm in a "room" full of computer geeks and have a question about a CPU, I simply ask. Which has the added advantage of stimulating discussion.
You should be able to play Wolfenstein or DOOM; 386s were about 16 to 20 mz back then IIRC. The Atom I had in the netbook was 100 times as fast (although I don't know about the size of the chip's instruction sets, which would make a big difference).
Back around 2000 the average x86 CPU was only ten times as fast as the original IBM PC's 4 mhz. I'm not familiar with the ATOM chip, but unless it's a real throwback it should be able to emulate an old x86 with little problem, provided the emulator was well written (preferably in assembly).
I had a cataract caused by steroid eyedrops. You most likely had the older monofocal implants. Mine was implanted in 2006, three years after the FDA approved the CrystaLens. I also was extremely lucky. Most people have 20/20 to 20/25 vision after a CrystaLens implant, the eye I got it in is now 20/16. The other eye is still 20/400, but then again I can see things REAL close with that eye.
My beard was sparse at age 24, too (My youngest daughter is your age).
FOUR retinal detachments? Jesus H. Christ! I had a detachment a couple of years after the implant, and that vitrectomy was hell. FOUR? Wow, man, you've been through some damned shitty times. I hope you didn't have to get a scleral buckle, that would even be worse (Thank God I never had to have oneof those)! I got lucky with the vitrectomy as well; the surgeon said "if I had a retinal detachment, I'd want it right where yours is." The vision after the vitrectomy was actually better than before the detachment, because I don't have any "floaters" in that eye now.
And actually, even though I am pretty old, I don't feel old. Yet. My dad says I'm old, my daughter says "you're not old. Next year you'll be old!"
Well, I know I'm a whole lot more sucessful with the ladies than when I was young. As to fashion, when I was a teenager with my short hair and glasses, I wasn't the least bit sucessful. Back then, few young people wore glasses. Mostly, young people didn't wear glasses and old people did. These days, almost all the young folks have specs, but the geezers have had cataract surgery that negates the need. With the new implants you don't even need reading glasses.
I attribute the myopia to too much reading at too young an age. Today's young people grew up with computers, while computers grew up with me.
If nerds aren't fashionable, why do so many here seem be nerd wannabes?
Two hints to success with the ladies -- self confidence and eye contact. a decent haircut and a goatee don't hurt, either.
As to technology, it was always fashionable. The difference between now and then is just that the technology was a lot more primitive, but everybody wanted a big twenty five inch color TV and a good stereo.
You forgot something in your post-- "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!"
Well, to quote a fictional Asimov character whose name escapes me, "Ya know, the old brain cells get calcified" (Second Foundation).
Of course I forgot to say it! ;)
The only stupid question is one that isn't asked. Nobody knows everything (and I asked the question before I had my first cup of coffee). I got my UID by being on slashdot ten years or so ago. I'm 59 years old and my synapses aren't as well oiled as they used to be.
My first computer was a slide rule. My second computer I built out of two potentiometers, a voltmeter, and a battery. When I was a teenager I made a little extra cash by converting cheap transistor radios into guitar fuzzboxes and selling them to friends.
These days it's fashionable to be a nerd, but I was a nerd back when we were pariahs.
Since Linux runs well on ARM, then I don't see what the big deal is about not being able to run legacy Windows apps in Win 8. All you'd have to do would be to install Linux dual-boot on your Windows 8 machine, and run your legacy Windows apps under Wine in Linux. Maybe I still need more coffee...
Speaking of WINE, I have a question I want to ask that's usually asked as a joke, but I'm asking it seriously. Will this chip run Linux? How hard would it be to port Linux to it? I've sworn off Microsoft products, so if Windows is all this chip will run it's a no-starter for me.
Nothing, why should it be a problem? Oregon may have other taxes that would cost more than sales tax; say, property or income taxes (I have no idea how high or low Oregon's taxes are).
Businesses move to different states for tax reasons all the time. A lot of businesses threatened to leave Illinois when it doubled its income tax last year.
When I visit friends in Cahokia, I always cross the river to buy gasoline. Missouri's gasoline tax is half of Illinois, and gas is usually 10-20c cheaper than here.
That was my point. If your business is in Missouri, you're doing business in Missouri and should only be collecting Missouri sales taxes.
Damn, dude, I'm 59 and the only time I ever told anybody to get off my lawn was at slashdot. Of course, I never caught anybody smoking pot in my yard, either.
Yes, overrated was the perfect mod for my comment. But that's the danger of trying to make a joke on slashdot, you run across grumpy old men like me who are in way too bad a mood to get the joke and run the risk of getting a "flamebait" or "troll".
Actually I did miss the joke. I was in a really bad mood and should not have been posting at all; I just broke up with my GF Sunday =(
You don't think states should have the right to collect sales tax? I'd suggest that there simply be no sales tax on internet sales, that Amazon pay whatever tax rate applies in the state that Amazon ships the books from.
I was going to mod this discussion, dammit. You call yourself a nerd? "Buy a copy?" WTF, son? It's online!
Turn in your geek card. Since I posted in this thread, someone please mod the parent... well, there's no moderation for "fucking stupid" or even possibly "shilling for a corporation that wants your money". Overrated will have to do.
"Buy a copy" my ass. Now get off my lawn!
Somebody actually uses Bing? Now THAT would be front page news!
I just gave you a couple of upmods in other posts, but PLEASE don't crapflood or troll again, OK?