I'm not concerned about Cyrix's performance vs Intel's low end stuff, I think it's cool that you could probably overclock one of those.18 puppies a good 60%, but what's more important is that cyrix is still alive to power cool things like the webpad and other integrated handheld devices. i know transmeta will be wonderful and great and all those things, but i doubt we'll see anything from them until november or december, and whatever that is, it will still be a 1st gen device. Cyrix has a little lead on the appliance pc market.
let's be honest, we all know that there is nothing impressive about a cyrix cpu powerwise, but if you consider that they're working on something that has video,sound and networking builtin, then you have something that may even power your cell phone in a year...
Ok, so did they patent a method to download a custom iso or is it you configure a cd and they send you a burn? If a competitor were to offer custom cds on the net, could they state that 'we are making the cds differently and thus are not infringing on your patent' or is it that regardless of the technology or technique used, no one other than CDnow can make custom cds over the web.
the SEC has to make sure that certain individuals are not purchasing more than x% of a company without declaring it to both the company and the SEC. Think of the havoc it would cause if wealthy individuals were to purchase enough shares of a company anonymously that would result in them suddenly being the controlling member. the SEC with all its faults needs to maintain control so publicly held companies have some sort of stability. We would also see instances of ceo's selling a bunch of stocks anonymously before the quarterly report goes out... (granted that could be monitored since the amount of their assets is public knowledge).
possibly the biggest nightmare this would open up for the SEC (and insider traders everywhere) would be a 24hour market (which i am all for). the big boys would no longer have the edge over the rest of us, knowing exactly where a stock will open at the next day. if they make the market 24/7 then nobody will sell stocks on ebay, since they can just as easily(and legally) sell on the market.
today's the 21st? i should mention echelon then, huh? i wonder how the nsa feels about the market?
Apparently he was in cahoots with the cfo... all in all i don't think anyone needs to worry about corel linux or wordperfect for linux... odds are this lawsuit (apparently from '97) won't affect a thing.
This will totally allow us to use modified fish or for deepsea stuff... and if they can possibly figure out a noninvasive way of inputting rather than outputting from the visual cortex, we won't need monitors anymore!
cool, i'll have to check it out... one of the things (among sooo many) i didn't really buy was that these alien guys had a longer lifespan because their planet took so long to revolve around the sun.... it would be the same as saying that living at the north pole would increase your life expectancy because of those periods of a few months of day, then a few months of night. they would technically only live one or two "days" (light then dark then light cycle) a year...
A few years back I read a book written by some sort of ph.d (one of those researchers who has a degree but whose ideas are so far fetched that no one else in his field believes him... every field has one..) that wrote of a planet that orbits our sun, but from very,very far away... the name of the book was "The Thirteenth Planet". It basically described humans being visited by powerful creatures that lived on this 13th planet and cited biblical and other ancient religious tomes pointing to the various instances where "holy" or "sacred" events occurred and tried to prove how these could only be done by these "aliens".. anyway, i digress, i'm not saying this guy is right or even sane, but the 13th planet was so far away that it only came near (relatively) to earth every like 2000 years.... like i said, i'm not one for human origins being tied to aliens (i'm a big evolution buff) but it makes me wonder how closely (if even) this is tied into that guys works or if the "ancients" ever knew about this planet....
great, now i'm going to officially be named a psychopath on/.
If Stephen Hawking was euthanized as a child (granted he wasn't born with his illness... not in it's worst stages) the scientific community would not have the insight into the universe that his genius has given us. Luckily he was born relatively normal.
Parents should consider long and hard if the only reason they are going to euthanize a child is because they feel that the child may be physically maladjusted for our society. There is no reason to assume that the child, were it "normal", would even want to live in today's norms, maybe it would want to be a recluse.... basically the parents are deciding if THEY want to deal with the burden of raising a child who will not coincide peacefully with our society. In this case, if doctors were to be able to figure out a fetus' social opinions or orientation, would the parents have the right to euthanize the child if he were not to become what they desired, or if he were to become a recluse?
Funny they should say that, netware 3.11 alone has something like 30 updates available (and these are just for the os, they have nothing to do with "critical" subsystems such as mail or www or dns etc...). And NT has a constant stream of hotfixes available (with no fanfare, requiring you to scour their ftp server for stuff), but businesses will not accept multiple updates for a linux distro? Sure it would be nice to have a single source of patches for everything installed locally on your box, even better, a trained tech to visit each box and install the patches for you! Why not just have the companies send in preconfigured boxes that they will keep "updated", which we will no longer have access to, Then everything will be peachy!
come on! every admin should know what she/he is running and administer it accordingly... businesses shouldn't worry about how many patches their admin is installing, but rather if the admin knows what she/he is installing in the first place.
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I'm not concerned about Cyrix's performance vs Intel's low end stuff, I think it's cool that you could probably overclock one of those .18 puppies a good 60%, but what's more important is that cyrix is still alive to power cool things like the webpad and other integrated handheld devices. i know transmeta will be wonderful and great and all those things, but i doubt we'll see anything from them until november or december, and whatever that is, it will still be a 1st gen device. Cyrix has a little lead on the appliance pc market.
let's be honest, we all know that there is nothing impressive about a cyrix cpu powerwise, but if you consider that they're working on something that has video,sound and networking builtin, then you have something that may even power your cell phone in a year...
Ok, so did they patent a method to download a custom iso or is it you configure a cd and they send you a burn? If a competitor were to offer custom cds on the net, could they state that 'we are making the cds differently and thus are not infringing on your patent' or is it that regardless of the technology or technique used, no one other than CDnow can make custom cds over the web.
the SEC has to make sure that certain individuals are not purchasing more than x% of a company without declaring it to both the company and the SEC. Think of the havoc it would cause if wealthy individuals were to purchase enough shares of a company anonymously that would result in them suddenly being the controlling member. the SEC with all its faults needs to maintain control so publicly held companies have some sort of stability.
We would also see instances of ceo's selling a bunch of stocks anonymously before the quarterly report goes out... (granted that could be monitored since the amount of their assets is public knowledge).
possibly the biggest nightmare this would open up for the SEC (and insider traders everywhere) would be a 24hour market (which i am all for). the big boys would no longer have the edge over the rest of us, knowing exactly where a stock will open at the next day. if they make the market 24/7 then nobody will sell stocks on ebay, since they can just as easily(and legally) sell on the market.
today's the 21st? i should mention echelon then, huh? i wonder how the nsa feels about the market?
Apparently he was in cahoots with the cfo...
all in all i don't think anyone needs to worry about corel linux or wordperfect for linux... odds are this lawsuit (apparently from '97) won't affect a thing.
This will totally allow us to use modified fish or for deepsea stuff... and if they can possibly figure out a noninvasive way of inputting rather than outputting from the visual cortex, we won't need monitors anymore!
cool, i'll have to check it out...
one of the things (among sooo many) i didn't really buy was that these alien guys had a longer lifespan because their planet took so long to revolve around the sun.... it would be the same as saying that living at the north pole would increase your life expectancy because of those periods of a few months of day, then a few months of night. they would technically only live one or two "days" (light then dark then light cycle) a year...
A few years back I read a book written by some sort of ph.d (one of those researchers who has a degree but whose ideas are so far fetched that no one else in his field believes him... every field has one..) that wrote of a planet that orbits our sun, but from very,very far away... the name of the book was "The Thirteenth Planet". It basically described humans being visited by powerful creatures that lived on this 13th planet and cited biblical and other ancient religious tomes pointing to the various instances where "holy" or "sacred" events occurred and tried to prove how these could only be done by these "aliens".. anyway, i digress, i'm not saying this guy is right or even sane, but the 13th planet was so far away that it only came near (relatively) to earth every like 2000 years.... like i said, i'm not one for human origins being tied to aliens (i'm a big evolution buff) but it makes me wonder how closely (if even) this is tied into that guys works or if the "ancients" ever knew about this planet....
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great, now i'm going to officially be named a psychopath on
If Stephen Hawking was euthanized as a child (granted he wasn't born with his illness... not in it's worst stages) the scientific community would not have the insight into the universe that his genius has given us.
Luckily he was born relatively normal.
Parents should consider long and hard if the only reason they are going to euthanize a child is because they feel that the child may be physically maladjusted for our society. There is no reason to assume that the child, were it "normal", would even want to live in today's norms, maybe it would want to be a recluse....
basically the parents are deciding if THEY want to deal with the burden of raising a child who will not coincide peacefully with our society.
In this case, if doctors were to be able to figure out a fetus' social opinions or orientation, would the parents have the right to euthanize the child if he were not to become what they desired, or if he were to become a recluse?
Funny they should say that, netware 3.11 alone has something like 30 updates available (and these are just for the os, they have nothing to do with "critical" subsystems such as mail or www or dns etc...). And NT has a constant stream of hotfixes available (with no fanfare, requiring you to scour their ftp server for stuff), but businesses will not accept multiple updates for a linux distro? Sure it would be nice to have a single source of patches for everything installed locally on your box, even better, a trained tech to visit each box and install the patches for you! Why not just have the companies send in preconfigured boxes that they will keep "updated", which we will no longer have access to, Then everything will be peachy!
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come on! every admin should know what she/he is running and administer it accordingly... businesses shouldn't worry about how many patches their admin is installing, but rather if the admin knows what she/he is installing in the first place.