Somebody at Google wanted some beer money, and convinced their manager somehow to let them file. You get a bonus of a few hundred bucks at most companies for contributing to the wallpaper collection of patents in the hall the CEO likes to escort visitors through.
By the 'tragedy where four people were killed' do you mean the instance where Ambassador Stevens, an openly gay man, was captured by Islamic Terrorists, then tortured and sodomized before being killed?
There couldn't possibly have been anything premeditated there. It's common practice when a gay man is tortured, sodomized, and murdered, to just say four people were tragically killed. And then the media typically blames it on a film that riled up the murderous torturers. Happens all the time. Nothing to see here. Let's all move along now. We've got people to get elected in a week or so.
You can't just take the thing out of the colorful display box it sat in at the department store, take the styrofoam packing blocks off the ends, and plug it in.
It isn't even all the same brand, from the same company!
But not the internals of the FPGAs themselves. Just an ABI. Like the binary blobs sometimes wedged into Linux. It couldn't scale and was kept proprietary. So it died.
I wasn't the one who brought up the Amiga in a Windows 3 thread. Not being an Amiga zealot doesn't make one a Non-Amiga zealot.
IBM wanted to go back to being IBM. The pandora's box that their open hardware PC design had released into the world wasn't working out well for the three-piece suits still trying to run the place. The cloners were slaughtering them.
And the market then said 'fuck you' to their shiney new proprietary design. Microchannel and OS/2 were great as long as you wanted to keep spending the 2+ times as much as really stupid people were on real PC/XT and PC/AT boxes. The rest of us were buying Taiwanese clone boxes.
I suppose if you were already a 'Professional' corporate type you'd only just recently relinquished the power of wearing that white coat and being allowed in the 'Machine Room' with the conductive floor, so OS/2 and Microchannel was a real relief. Besides, your boss was paying for all of it anyways.
The Amiga was a very closed proprietary design from a single company. The whole design depended on closed-source ASICs (each given a girl's name) clumped together to provide the 'advanced' graphics and sound features.
It couldn't scale up, and it was single sourced and a closed architecture from a single company. It was never, ever, going to survive in the era of incremental megahertz/megabytes, and the rise of the phillips screwdriver hardware hacker brigade.
Proprietary closed crap designs are nice, up to a point. Then you realize how boxed in it makes you.
In other words, commodity hardware was already slaughtering proprietary stuff. So the 'features' that could be tweaked into a closed design were making their way out into the bigger world.
You people keep talking about the plastic case machines your dad bought you in a department store, because you were kids at the time Win 3 came out.
If you'd been adults you would have been buying a new graphics card and monitor for Windows. Spending, incidentally, about as much as that cheap dept. store toy machine cost.
Of course some of us were poor young adults at the time, and glorying to be running our pirated copies of In-A-Vision on 'real' Windows at last (the Win 2 Runtime that came with it wasn't really very satisfactory) using our Hercules Graphic cards and amber screen monitors.
Money was better spent on a faster modem and maybe a new motherboard (turbo, and fast, 10 MHz instead of the old 8) We already had 640K and a 286 was well beyond reach.
At that time, the cheapest way to get a hard drive on an Amiga was to buy a PC clone and do some awkward shit to 'slave' it to the Amiga. How fucking lame.
I use Airplane mode, with wifi turned back on, exclusively on my smartphone. Because it's not used as a phone and actually has never been activated. It's a Boost phone that was $40. I've rooted it, but not so far been able to figure out which activation binaries to rip out. It screams at me with popups after every reset that it's in Airplane mode, because it really wants to be activated. It's a really nice pocket wifi computer and a very low cost android flavor iPod Touch.
go read "A People's History of the United States". Pretty much everything you were taught in grade school was bull shit.
Likewise, a bunch of what you read in that book was bullshit. The use of "A People's... " in the title should have been a dead giveaway. History the way China would have us interpret it.
The fact that you say such ignorant shit about The Constitution clenches it.
Check the Buckley-flavor Conservatives at places like National Review. They favor scaling back the War on Drugs too.
Who doesn't favor a scale back of the WoD? People in the pockets of 'Big Prison' among others. People who are beholden to the 'Treatment Industry'. Some of the religious zealots. The Big Businesses (tobacco and alcohol) who have perfectly good legal drugs for you to buy. The people who want to spend all the tax dollars that the legal drug businesses pay. And of course, lots of big government types in general.
What are the constitutional bounds of this 'empowered communications authority'? If, as you say, it could 'escalate up' to a federal investigation, you are implying it would be something with lesser authority.
We don't need 'World Cyber Police' yet. There isn't a democratic framework for it to operate within.
We will always need trucks for short haul. But long haul trucks can be eliminated quite effectively by rail transport. The warehouses and distribution depots can be located along the rail lines, and trucks can be restricted to driving no more than 100 miles from the depots. Or a formula like "trucks can only drive to the halfway point between depots".
The tax is to pay for maintenance because of road wear. Spewing 5x more pollution is bad, but it isn't the point of the tax to 'punish' anybody for anything. It's to tax everybody who uses the road equally for the wear they cause on the road.
And a heavy hybrid with the big battery might be causing more wear than, say, a VW Beetle that is in such bad shape it only gets 9 miles per gallon. So if anything the hybrid should pay more.
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40k is a lot of code, when it's not been written in layers of glop-gloop abstraction.
Somebody at Google wanted some beer money, and convinced their manager somehow to let them file. You get a bonus of a few hundred bucks at most companies for contributing to the wallpaper collection of patents in the hall the CEO likes to escort visitors through.
because Google?
No, scratch that. It doesn't work anymore.
Do they sell 2600 on Amazon? I have these visions of adverts recommending 2600 to me popping up all over the web as I browse.
The narrative for Hillary Clinton is "she hasn't been convicted of anything so she's electable."
It's so sad that there is a portion of the American public that will fall for that.
There are so many thousands of other people better suited to be president.
Did I type 'thousands' up there?? OMG.
Probably those damned spammers got ahold of her addy the first sixteen times, but things finally calmed down.
That funny smell is something else. Look! It's probably coming from that pony over there!
By the 'tragedy where four people were killed' do you mean the instance where Ambassador Stevens, an openly gay man, was captured by Islamic Terrorists, then tortured and sodomized before being killed?
There couldn't possibly have been anything premeditated there. It's common practice when a gay man is tortured, sodomized, and murdered, to just say four people were tragically killed. And then the media typically blames it on a film that riled up the murderous torturers. Happens all the time. Nothing to see here. Let's all move along now. We've got people to get elected in a week or so.
Buckstar.
Does anybody even go there? Do they have a clown and a burglar as mascots yet?
You can't just take the thing out of the colorful display box it sat in at the department store, take the styrofoam packing blocks off the ends, and plug it in.
It isn't even all the same brand, from the same company!
But not the internals of the FPGAs themselves. Just an ABI. Like the binary blobs sometimes wedged into Linux. It couldn't scale and was kept proprietary. So it died.
I wasn't the one who brought up the Amiga in a Windows 3 thread. Not being an Amiga zealot doesn't make one a Non-Amiga zealot.
IBM wanted to go back to being IBM. The pandora's box that their open hardware PC design had released into the world wasn't working out well for the three-piece suits still trying to run the place. The cloners were slaughtering them.
And the market then said 'fuck you' to their shiney new proprietary design. Microchannel and OS/2 were great as long as you wanted to keep spending the 2+ times as much as really stupid people were on real PC/XT and PC/AT boxes. The rest of us were buying Taiwanese clone boxes.
I suppose if you were already a 'Professional' corporate type you'd only just recently relinquished the power of wearing that white coat and being allowed in the 'Machine Room' with the conductive floor, so OS/2 and Microchannel was a real relief. Besides, your boss was paying for all of it anyways.
The Amiga was a very closed proprietary design from a single company. The whole design depended on closed-source ASICs (each given a girl's name) clumped together to provide the 'advanced' graphics and sound features.
It couldn't scale up, and it was single sourced and a closed architecture from a single company. It was never, ever, going to survive in the era of incremental megahertz/megabytes, and the rise of the phillips screwdriver hardware hacker brigade.
Proprietary closed crap designs are nice, up to a point. Then you realize how boxed in it makes you.
In other words, commodity hardware was already slaughtering proprietary stuff. So the 'features' that could be tweaked into a closed design were making their way out into the bigger world.
You people keep talking about the plastic case machines your dad bought you in a department store, because you were kids at the time Win 3 came out.
If you'd been adults you would have been buying a new graphics card and monitor for Windows. Spending, incidentally, about as much as that cheap dept. store toy machine cost.
Of course some of us were poor young adults at the time, and glorying to be running our pirated copies of In-A-Vision on 'real' Windows at last (the Win 2 Runtime that came with it wasn't really very satisfactory) using our Hercules Graphic cards and amber screen monitors.
Money was better spent on a faster modem and maybe a new motherboard (turbo, and fast, 10 MHz instead of the old 8) We already had 640K and a 286 was well beyond reach.
At that time, the cheapest way to get a hard drive on an Amiga was to buy a PC clone and do some awkward shit to 'slave' it to the Amiga. How fucking lame.
Also Google. But not for any evil purposes.
Right.
I use Airplane mode, with wifi turned back on, exclusively on my smartphone. Because it's not used as a phone and actually has never been activated. It's a Boost phone that was $40. I've rooted it, but not so far been able to figure out which activation binaries to rip out. It screams at me with popups after every reset that it's in Airplane mode, because it really wants to be activated. It's a really nice pocket wifi computer and a very low cost android flavor iPod Touch.
General Electric was a big contributor to Obama's campaign.
They also essentially bankrolled Ronald Reagan's early political career.
And Warren Buffet makes a ton of money from the fact that the pipeline is blocked so the Oil Cars have to run on his railroad track.
go read "A People's History of the United States". Pretty much everything you were taught in grade school was bull shit.
Likewise, a bunch of what you read in that book was bullshit. The use of "A People's... " in the title should have been a dead giveaway. History the way China would have us interpret it.
The fact that you say such ignorant shit about The Constitution clenches it.
Or a just plain nutz sites like DailyKos, Lucianne, or the festering pit called DemocraticUnderground?
Do you shout at the radio if Rush comes on it? Good, that means Rush is good for at least something.
Check the Buckley-flavor Conservatives at places like National Review. They favor scaling back the War on Drugs too.
Who doesn't favor a scale back of the WoD? People in the pockets of 'Big Prison' among others. People who are beholden to the 'Treatment Industry'. Some of the religious zealots. The Big Businesses (tobacco and alcohol) who have perfectly good legal drugs for you to buy. The people who want to spend all the tax dollars that the legal drug businesses pay. And of course, lots of big government types in general.
Protection rackets don't work that way.
Get on board with their new stuff!
You're soaking your fingers in it.
What are the constitutional bounds of this 'empowered communications authority'? If, as you say, it could 'escalate up' to a federal investigation, you are implying it would be something with lesser authority.
We don't need 'World Cyber Police' yet. There isn't a democratic framework for it to operate within.
We will always need trucks for short haul. But long haul trucks can be eliminated quite effectively by rail transport. The warehouses and distribution depots can be located along the rail lines, and trucks can be restricted to driving no more than 100 miles from the depots. Or a formula like "trucks can only drive to the halfway point between depots".
The tax is to pay for maintenance because of road wear. Spewing 5x more pollution is bad, but it isn't the point of the tax to 'punish' anybody for anything. It's to tax everybody who uses the road equally for the wear they cause on the road.
And a heavy hybrid with the big battery might be causing more wear than, say, a VW Beetle that is in such bad shape it only gets 9 miles per gallon. So if anything the hybrid should pay more.