I live in wisconsin, the third highest tax state in the country. You'd think that everyone complains about their state taxes, but for the most part we don't. Why? Because the state has excellent roads, great schools and a kick ass (and cheap) university system... things that we all see and every citizen benefits from. We see the state government try to lower taxes on a regular basis, and they actually succeed at it... Clinton stole his federal welfare reform plan from WI, where we've had it for about four years. Welfare rolls are down 50% and statewide unemployment is 4%. Oh, and the state has no debt. The point is: we see the state government put our money to good use, and not waste it!
The problem with federal taxes is not only that they're so high, but they seem to go down a dark hole. $2 billion a year for a 'strategic natural gas reserve'? $3000 toilet seats? $500 hammers? Twice as many $1 billion B2s than we need? None of which are properly taken care of? Give me a break!! Of course everyone hates federal taxes: we don't see any of it go to good use! (with exception to the occasional treat like watching mars rover)
First of all, the middle class makes up the bulk of the population and therefore it's perfectly fair that that group pays the bulk of the taxes. In realitly, that't not how it is. The upper 5% actually pays about 80% of all personal income taxes. And what about corporations?
Crusoe is capable of running other instruction sets then x86... Transmeta only has to write the code morphing software for it! If they could license it, they could write the code impliment the 68xxx set. Or Alpha. Or intel's new instruction set (what't called again?). Or AMD's 64 bit x86. Or whatever.
The chip is a RISC chip, and the entire point of it is low power consumption! There's a software layer between it and the executables, so it can (in theory) run anything.
Actually it's not that silly... dual 500's at max combined wattage of 2?? Or quads for 4 watts? That's pretty frickin fast even for a desktop, yet takes up a lot less power than any current notebook.... including Intel's new PowerStep chip. (remember, the powerstep chip takes a MINIMUM of 2 watts, max (normal) use is about 17)
How often must we be reminded what makes capitalism work!
It's about incentive... I work in order to get paid. I work more to get paid more. I work really hard to get paid a lot. I get smart and think something up, make a business plan to sell this idea and get paid a _ton_.
Yes, people are greedy! They use this greed to create something, become more productive, less wasteful, etc. Overall it contributes to our economy and we all benifit. The existance of billionaires who have $20 million to spend on a space adventure is the carrot that makes the rest of us work toward that goal. (Notable exceptions: those who either beg to the government for money or sit and complain because everyone else is rich but them.)
Why did communism fail? Because people got lazy and didn't work. Why? Because there was not chance in hell that they'd ever become a billionaire and have $20 mil to spend to go on a space vacation. There was no incentive. No carrot.
Now go find something productive and get to work, you jealous commie.
And remember... it's a carrot- and a necessary one.
get a 1ghz crusoe in your palm MLC and you could play DivXs or listen to MP3's all day long off two AA batteries. sweet. all we need now are REAL options for solid state memory. (I rather not pay $20k for an 8gig solid state hard drive...)
Actually that's not the problem, it's that air between two other things creates insulation. It keeps the heat in the processor. Bad. (same with vasoline, I think). Use the silicone cream because it transports heat to the heat sink _really_ fast. Thus cooling the chip.
Just because it's an MP3 doesn't mean that it's illegal. That's like saying that sharing cassette tapes is illegal. It isn't, mp3 is only a medium. Content CAN make it illegal, and I will agree that often it is used for illegal purposes, but the format and sharing files of that format are not inherently illegal.
That said, I'm now going to listen to an mp3 of Liquido - Narcotic which I acquired through Napster. I otherwise wouldn't be able to listen to the song because I forgot the CD (which I do own) at a friend's in Germany. This is fair use, mind you.
Interested enough to spend millions in a military operation to 'recover' a cement pillar? I doubt it. Besides, the business wouldn't be worth anything after they were finished.
It's not the splash screen that's he's talking about, it's the overall impression that Gnome is inviting. And yes, that is partially the reason for Big Software Companies' successes. Joe Consumer doesn't care how technical something is, as long as it works, and most importantly: works in a way they can understand.
My grandmother doesn't want to edit configuration files in order to get X to work, she wants to buy a computer and have it work without trouble on her part. Gnome's splash screen gives that impression.
You made an excellent case for the demise of your average PC tech, but you mostly forgot that we're talking about the death of the PC in general. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Sure, PCs will become more user friendly, PnP will work, flawlessly, and consumers will enjoy driving their new 2003 Explorer. But that's the thing: it will still be an Explorer (or some SUV, unless gas goes up to $8 a gallon, but that's a seperate issue). You can drive it at 3mph or 80mph. On the interstate, or offroad. You can drive yourself to work, or your entire family pulling the boat 300 miles to the lake. My point? It's flexable. Sure, consumers can buy a TH!NK, but they don't: you can't do much with it. People buy Explorers for a reason.
My point? A web pad is exactly that: a web pad. You can't play MP3s on it, you can't use paint shop on it, you can't play games. Same for a console: you can't design web pages on one, you can't write your paper for school on one, you can't use that new audio codec on it, etc. etc.
First of all, the athlon core was designed to take 1ghz easily. AMD could have released a 1ghz chip a year ago if they so choose, but they decided to just stay one step ahead of Intel in order to keep with production. A chip 40% faster than Intel's is worthless if there's too much demand and no one can get their hands on one.
Secondly, even with Intel's on-board cache, the Athlon's FPU still blows intel out of the water. Completely. Oh, that brings me to another thing: the core used in the p3 is basically the same as the p2 and the celeron. The only difference is where the L2 cache is, and the p3 got a couple new instructions shoved in. That core was not designed to go above 500mhz. Remember the stability problems of the 600? The P2/3/celeron core is sloppily designed compared to the athlon.
The point is: AMD has some kick ass chips right now and Intel, as much as they try to make it look otherwise, is really having trouble keeping up.
First of all, the software is under the GPL. That means that once it's out in public, they can't pull the plug on it. Sure they can sign over the rights of the origional version, but that doesn't stop anyone from changing a couple menu options and the version number and redistributing it. Boom, new version. Still under the GPL. Can't stop it.
That being said, it's obvious why the guys settled. They probably got money out of it, and the software will live on. There's also the added bonus that people will leave these two guys alone.
Another thing... exactly how much jurisdiction does a settlement in a civil case in america have over a canadian and a sweed? None. Zip. Zero.
what compaq is doing is allowing developers to have shell access to a bunch of 'test' systems, so people can play with them. you telnet to them and play around. that's it.
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I live in wisconsin, the third highest tax state in the country. You'd think that everyone complains about their state taxes, but for the most part we don't. Why? Because the state has excellent roads, great schools and a kick ass (and cheap) university system... things that we all see and every citizen benefits from. We see the state government try to lower taxes on a regular basis, and they actually succeed at it... Clinton stole his federal welfare reform plan from WI, where we've had it for about four years. Welfare rolls are down 50% and statewide unemployment is 4%. Oh, and the state has no debt. The point is: we see the state government put our money to good use, and not waste it!
The problem with federal taxes is not only that they're so high, but they seem to go down a dark hole. $2 billion a year for a 'strategic natural gas reserve'? $3000 toilet seats? $500 hammers? Twice as many $1 billion B2s than we need? None of which are properly taken care of? Give me a break!! Of course everyone hates federal taxes: we don't see any of it go to good use! (with exception to the occasional treat like watching mars rover)
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First of all, the middle class makes up the bulk of the population and therefore it's perfectly fair that that group pays the bulk of the taxes. In realitly, that't not how it is. The upper 5% actually pays about 80% of all personal income taxes. And what about corporations?
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perl -e "print \"Hello, World!\n\""
or:
perl -e "print 'Hello, World'"
if you don't care about carriage returns...
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Crusoe is capable of running other instruction sets then x86... Transmeta only has to write the code morphing software for it! If they could license it, they could write the code impliment the 68xxx set. Or Alpha. Or intel's new instruction set (what't called again?). Or AMD's 64 bit x86. Or whatever.
The chip is a RISC chip, and the entire point of it is low power consumption! There's a software layer between it and the executables, so it can (in theory) run anything.
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Actually it's not that silly... dual 500's at max combined wattage of 2?? Or quads for 4 watts? That's pretty frickin fast even for a desktop, yet takes up a lot less power than any current notebook.... including Intel's new PowerStep chip. (remember, the powerstep chip takes a MINIMUM of 2 watts, max (normal) use is about 17)
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I wonder... could one sandpaper that god-awful case to make the plastic rougher, and then paint it black?
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How often must we be reminded what makes capitalism work!
It's about incentive... I work in order to get paid. I work more to get paid more. I work really hard to get paid a lot. I get smart and think something up, make a business plan to sell this idea and get paid a _ton_.
Yes, people are greedy! They use this greed to create something, become more productive, less wasteful, etc. Overall it contributes to our economy and we all benifit. The existance of billionaires who have $20 million to spend on a space adventure is the carrot that makes the rest of us work toward that goal. (Notable exceptions: those who either beg to the government for money or sit and complain because everyone else is rich but them.)
Why did communism fail? Because people got lazy and didn't work. Why? Because there was not chance in hell that they'd ever become a billionaire and have $20 mil to spend to go on a space vacation. There was no incentive. No carrot.
Now go find something productive and get to work, you jealous commie.
And remember... it's a carrot- and a necessary one.
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cool...
get a 1ghz crusoe in your palm MLC and you could play DivXs or listen to MP3's all day long off two AA batteries. sweet. all we need now are REAL options for solid state memory. (I rather not pay $20k for an 8gig solid state hard drive...)
I'm tired.
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Air is a terrible conductor of heat.
Actually that's not the problem, it's that air between two other things creates insulation. It keeps the heat in the processor. Bad. (same with vasoline, I think). Use the silicone cream because it transports heat to the heat sink _really_ fast. Thus cooling the chip.
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please don't kill me?
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ha. haha. hahahaha lol damn. ROFLMAO!
hehe. ya know, if you shock an animal enough it'll eventually stop running away and just sit there and endure the pain. Maybe linus is an animal?
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Just because it's an MP3 doesn't mean that it's illegal. That's like saying that sharing cassette tapes is illegal. It isn't, mp3 is only a medium. Content CAN make it illegal, and I will agree that often it is used for illegal purposes, but the format and sharing files of that format are not inherently illegal.
That said, I'm now going to listen to an mp3 of Liquido - Narcotic which I acquired through Napster. I otherwise wouldn't be able to listen to the song because I forgot the CD (which I do own) at a friend's in Germany. This is fair use, mind you.
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You've gotta have all ATA100 drives... that way you can transfer your 5gig Natilie Portman porn DVD rips from one drive to another in 20 seconds flat!
*provided that both drives are on the same controller...
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as unpopular a view it may be... I'd have to second that motion.
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Interested enough to spend millions in a military operation to 'recover' a cement pillar? I doubt it. Besides, the business wouldn't be worth anything after they were finished.
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it's a lot easier to miss by one on a menu than to click 15 pixels too far to the right in an apps' title bar.
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It's not the splash screen that's he's talking about, it's the overall impression that Gnome is inviting. And yes, that is partially the reason for Big Software Companies' successes. Joe Consumer doesn't care how technical something is, as long as it works, and most importantly: works in a way they can understand.
My grandmother doesn't want to edit configuration files in order to get X to work, she wants to buy a computer and have it work without trouble on her part. Gnome's splash screen gives that impression.
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You made an excellent case for the demise of your average PC tech, but you mostly forgot that we're talking about the death of the PC in general. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Sure, PCs will become more user friendly, PnP will work, flawlessly, and consumers will enjoy driving their new 2003 Explorer. But that's the thing: it will still be an Explorer (or some SUV, unless gas goes up to $8 a gallon, but that's a seperate issue). You can drive it at 3mph or 80mph. On the interstate, or offroad. You can drive yourself to work, or your entire family pulling the boat 300 miles to the lake. My point? It's flexable. Sure, consumers can buy a TH!NK, but they don't: you can't do much with it. People buy Explorers for a reason.
My point? A web pad is exactly that: a web pad. You can't play MP3s on it, you can't use paint shop on it, you can't play games. Same for a console: you can't design web pages on one, you can't write your paper for school on one, you can't use that new audio codec on it, etc. etc.
PCs are flexable, dedicated boxes are not.
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For those CmdrTaco's of the world who don't know where UW is, it's in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hehe... Napster bandwidth > http.
cool.
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ummm, not quite.
First of all, the athlon core was designed to take 1ghz easily. AMD could have released a 1ghz chip a year ago if they so choose, but they decided to just stay one step ahead of Intel in order to keep with production. A chip 40% faster than Intel's is worthless if there's too much demand and no one can get their hands on one.
Secondly, even with Intel's on-board cache, the Athlon's FPU still blows intel out of the water. Completely. Oh, that brings me to another thing: the core used in the p3 is basically the same as the p2 and the celeron. The only difference is where the L2 cache is, and the p3 got a couple new instructions shoved in. That core was not designed to go above 500mhz. Remember the stability problems of the 600? The P2/3/celeron core is sloppily designed compared to the athlon.
The point is: AMD has some kick ass chips right now and Intel, as much as they try to make it look otherwise, is really having trouble keeping up.
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They settled. So what?
First of all, the software is under the GPL. That means that once it's out in public, they can't pull the plug on it. Sure they can sign over the rights of the origional version, but that doesn't stop anyone from changing a couple menu options and the version number and redistributing it. Boom, new version. Still under the GPL. Can't stop it.
That being said, it's obvious why the guys settled. They probably got money out of it, and the software will live on. There's also the added bonus that people will leave these two guys alone.
Another thing... exactly how much jurisdiction does a settlement in a civil case in america have over a canadian and a sweed? None. Zip. Zero.
I would settle, wouldn't you?
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but this was published on wired yesterday... I submitted it about 15 minutes later (which got turned down).
So it's a repeat of that earlier article, and a late one at that!
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what's really cool is the sheer bandwidth the www took up at the time... a whopping 51 gigs in aug. '93!!
I think that I probably downloaded that much stuff today on my own...
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what are you talking about?
what compaq is doing is allowing developers to have shell access to a bunch of 'test' systems, so people can play with them. you telnet to them and play around. that's it.
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