screw them, with their "ooooh we may have a surprise for you" and all that nonsense.
No, screw you and your simple minded conspiracy theories. Screw your distain for the success that is Intel.
Intel rules because Intel makes computing real for the largest available market. Not just the ivory tower academics and industry pundits, but everyone that needs to compute.
Exotic playthings like MIPS, Next and Alpha play the role of the Duesenbergs and Bugattis of another era. Intel is our Ford. You might not like having to spend your life surrounded by computing's moral equivalent of Fords, but that's how it is; get over it or go elsewhere for air rare enough to suit your "taste."
Intel isn't going to let AMD cannibalize the low end of the 64 bit market. No way in hell. They're too smart for that and they'll do what they must to retain their market. When the grown-ups at Intel figure out that x86 needs 64 bits of address space the long-hairs will swallow their egos, shuffle back to their desks and make it so.
Oh, and you? You might just find yourself parked in front of one for the next 15 years, whether you like it or not.
1) Lengthy refuelling time 2) Limited cruising range 3) Cost is not competitive
4) Isolated repair resources 5) Environment still damaged
It's going to be a couple years before Midas can do a $99 break job on a machine with regenerative breaking. Physics dictates that the materials will wear and stuff will fail. Bubba the wrecker driver is NOT going to know what to do with a bugged electric drivetrain or a composite chassis. If you wish to go here, you had better be resourceful enough to cope with this.
This is no environmental panacea either. Still need roads, tires, auto parts stores, junk yards, etcetera. Still have to manufacture the things. Large volumes of fun chemicals are involved with battery and composite manufacturing. Never mind the resources used to make the electrical power...
This is cool, but keep in mind that it's only an alternative power supply. The rest of the story is a bit bigger.
The Gnumeric folks need to make an effort to get a proper Windows binary done. If I could rely on Gnumeric being available on Windows, I could put it in front of people that would appreciate it. Last I checked there was some rambling about getting it to compile on Windows, but no real results. No, I have no interest in dealing with an emulator or some compatibility environment. I want Gnumeric on native Windows GNOME libraries. I hate to say it but I bet if Gnumeric was based on QT this would have been done long ago.
Son, this is nothing new. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington State was once called "The Senator from Boeing," during a controversy over the TFX program (to become the F-111 fighter/bomber) in the 60s. McNamara handed the contract to McDonald Douglas and old "Scoop Jackson" blew a (figurative, but not by much) gasket, leading to investigations and other nonsense.
So, you'll start to see a dialog box every time a flash/pdf/java applet wants to display itself.
How is this different from images? There was a time before so called "in-line" images. It was an innovation to support images in browsers. Since they first appeared they have always been "seamless". Exactly how is a gif or jpeg different from an mpeg with regard to how a browser seamlessly renders them?
"Most of the power grid problem stems from the fact that very little maintainence is being done."
"Greedy utilities have brought this on themselves.Cutting jobs for the maintainence personell,doing nothing about aging lines, and then asking "WHY is this happening?"
There is nothing wrong with the "old" lines. The distribution grid carries some rated voltage and does it without much complaint. The problem is that there simply isn't enough of it, so most of the system is running at design capacity, and a small failure can cascade into a widespread failure.
There isn't enough distribution capacity primarily because of NIMBY. Power companies around the country want to build more capacity. Most of the time they must spend years battling the locals for right of way. Environuts are often blamed unfairly when locals couch their resistance in bogus environmental claims, but the truth is that it's just NIMBY.
If you, as a consumer, get taxed on something, can you pass along that cost to your employer? Hardly.
Where do you live? Where I live, I am allowed to consider the wages offered by an employer when I decide whether I'll work for them. Naturally, I consider my income requirements, of which taxes are a factor. So do all the other consumers where I live. Taxes are, therefore, a factor in the cost of labor which is a cost that employers must bare. This is why wages in large metropolitan areas with high costs of living are considerably higher than less densely populated areas having lower living costs.
The original assertion that taxes on business are simply passed on to consumers is wildly over generalized drivel. It appears on the right the whole idea of taxes on business is being questioned, and it appears on the left when someone want's to claim some injury to... someone. The fact that both side appear to find it useful does not improve it's credibility. It only demonstrates that it's generalized beyond reality, much like fortune teller claiming that you'll have a bad day at some point in the future, and claiming supernatural abilities. I simply juxtaposed that statement with nearly opposite non-sense. While you seem quite capable of recognizing the failings of my assertion, you still appear to be bamboozled by the first.
We produce things. We means everything involved in the process, and produce means create value. If we're good at it we create more new value than we consume in the process. Taxes are a means of siphoning off some of that value. Eventually, the value siphoned off by taxes just represents more consumption in the process of creating value. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter where in the process the value gets taken. What matters is how much and, more importantly, why.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Timothy McViegh is the subject here. I'm hoping the Slashdot audience isn't kooky enough to have a problem with Bush allowing that guy to die. I hope to god we never elect someone that would have intervened to prevent it.
SCO's business appears to be simply based on litigation and stock manipulation...
We are here because Intellectual Property has become a legal plaything, occasionally yielding enormous profits through litigation. This is so on purpose. Who's purpose?
The first change concerns the role of state regulators will have in deciding which elements of incumbent telcos' networks will be available to competitors on an unbundled basis at regulated wholesale rates. Originally, switching equipment wasn't going to be part of the menu of unbundled network elements (UNEs). However, yesterday's released order gives state officials authority to decide whether switching equipment should remain on the list of UNEs.
Reading this, I conclude that Baby Bell local exchange switches may become available for leasing by competitors based on the whim of state regulators. This is an improvement for competitors, who before had no access to these switches, because they weren't "part of the menu". The last sentence throws a wrench in my interpretation by using the word "remain", which indicates that these local exchange switches are already available for leasing. Which is it?
The second change involves the broadband market. In February, the FCC freed the ILECs from a requirement that they lease at regulated discounted rates the portion of their networks that competitors use to provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) (i.e., broadband) service. The released version of the FCC's order retains a provision that allows competitors to lease complete ILEC lines for the provision of voice and DSL service, or to partner with other carriers that are the lines.
My read of this is; back in February the FCC allowed the Baby Bells to stop leasing the equipment needed by competitors to provide DSL. Now, however, the FCC says the Baby Bells must allow competitors to lease these lines. That looks like a good thing. Is my interpretation correct?
Your barking up the wrong tree here, 2 reasons being: 1: Consumerism blah-blah 2: Commercialism/Capitalism blah-blah
Some hardware manufactures are beginning to make something other than air a viable means of cooling their commodity electronics. This is not evidence of some larger failing of western culture. For crying out loud...
Since when has there ever been any shortage of criticism of Intel on Slashsnot? For Christ sakes, every mention of the state of contemporary CPUs has been rife with incessant quibbling about how bad Intel designs are and how much better some other design is.
you never ever hear anyone complain about the inefficiency of Intels chip design
Did you just get here? Were you born last Tuesday? Have you not witnessed YEARS worth of mindless flames of people complaining about Intel? Jesus H. Christ! You fucking Intel-haters. I get so sick of you. Go suck on your damn G5. I'll be damned if I ever have anything to do with the lot of you. Grow the fuck up!
Why are these manufactures focusing on water? Or, perhaps they intend to standardize on a platform that allows "liquid" cooling, and all this mention of water is just watered-down conversation? There are many liquids that have better cooling properties than water (better thermal conductivity, cause less corrosion, etc.) that can and are being used in high-end electronics. Alcohol and glycol solutions are the first things that come to mind. I suppose anything involving sodium might be applicable also. I'm no expert here, I'm just asking questions.
This is geting silly. Quite frankly we have a problem with your government - the one that has been hijacked by the neocon junta - not with you. Vote out the bastards and we can let the good times roll again.
What a Cop-out. As if there was ever a time when you had respect for the US. Give me a break!
We elected that government. If there was any doubt about the intent of the American voter, we erased it by voting in the first simultaneous Republican majority House and Senate in I don't know how many decades two years later. Next year we'll reaffirm all of the above with landslide re-elections.
I was working remotely on a machine we have in Paris. Found a file that looked interesting; USAFuckTheWorld.wmv.
What is it? A parody of the song "We Are the World" being sung by most of our leaders. Goes like this;
We Fuck the world, We Fuck the children... etc. etc.
Now, I could be a dick and get someone burned with that. This companies headquarters in the US, after all. But I feel no particular need. We know you're jealous. We know how you feel about us. I can deal with it.
Just do me a favor; don't even try to pretend you aren't just as ignorant, opinionated and arrogant as us. The hyper-nationality of your just-barely first world selves slaughtered more people last century than you can even begin to fathom. You have all sort of names for us cowboys and you don't hesitate to use 'em.
I'm an engineer. An European engineer. We never-ever have that magnitude grid failure.
What about this (search for blackout)? A couple days of snow and winds and France loses power to 10 million citizens and 22,000 pylons fall over. Great engineering. The NE US faces weather like that every year.
The US and Canada is a huge geographic area populated by nearly 300 million people, supplied by the largest integrated power transmission systems on Earth. Arguably the transmission system in the Northeast of North America is the largest single machine on the planet. Once every 30 years or so we have a massive regional blackout. Big deal. The very next thing that happens is that we get our shit together, build what needs building, and then forget about it for another 30 years.
Our power transmission grid is old. NIMBY and, to a lessor extent, environmental activism have caused this. Isn't it nice to know we have such concern for the quality of life and environment? Perhaps this latest event in the Northeast will lead to less tolerance for the activists and allow the grid to be upgraded.
Lets see... If we invade Canada, oust the current regime and divvy the place up into between 1-3 states, we'll have only ourselves to blame for regional blackouts. That would certainly be much simpler!
Unfortunately, we'd end up with a bunch of French-Canadian citizens like that...
only to have arisen/regenerated with the influence of competitive international politics. Are we really so hardly advanced that our respective national egos are still the driving force behind enthusiasm, financial or otherwise, in certain areas of science?
Certain areas of science? Our egos, national or otherwise, are the driving force behind pretty much everything. Make a baby, jump on a grenade, write a kernel patch... Ego, pal. Get over it.
Besides, there is nothing a noble as ego driving this. Sandia knows how to keep the budget bucks flowing. The supercomputer-gap is no different than the many preceding variants of the missle-gap. The real competition here is between all of the various potential beneficiaries of public largess attempting to get their collective mouths around the giant, swollen teat that is the Federal budget.
A highly tailored Japanese machine was able to post better numbers on a specific application than a general purpose machine. Big deal. Russian engineers made effective radar systems for military aircraft using vacuum tubes. News at 11: Custom hardware can do amazing things!
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screw them, with their "ooooh we may have a surprise for you" and all that nonsense.
No, screw you and your simple minded conspiracy theories. Screw your distain for the success that is Intel.
Intel rules because Intel makes computing real for the largest available market. Not just the ivory tower academics and industry pundits, but everyone that needs to compute.
Exotic playthings like MIPS, Next and Alpha play the role of the Duesenbergs and Bugattis of another era. Intel is our Ford. You might not like having to spend your life surrounded by computing's moral equivalent of Fords, but that's how it is; get over it or go elsewhere for air rare enough to suit your "taste."
Intel isn't going to let AMD cannibalize the low end of the 64 bit market. No way in hell. They're too smart for that and they'll do what they must to retain their market. When the grown-ups at Intel figure out that x86 needs 64 bits of address space the long-hairs will swallow their egos, shuffle back to their desks and make it so.
Oh, and you? You might just find yourself parked in front of one for the next 15 years, whether you like it or not.
1) Lengthy refuelling time
2) Limited cruising range
3) Cost is not competitive
4) Isolated repair resources
5) Environment still damaged
It's going to be a couple years before Midas can do a $99 break job on a machine with regenerative breaking. Physics dictates that the materials will wear and stuff will fail. Bubba the wrecker driver is NOT going to know what to do with a bugged electric drivetrain or a composite chassis. If you wish to go here, you had better be resourceful enough to cope with this.
This is no environmental panacea either. Still need roads, tires, auto parts stores, junk yards, etcetera. Still have to manufacture the things. Large volumes of fun chemicals are involved with battery and composite manufacturing. Never mind the resources used to make the electrical power...
This is cool, but keep in mind that it's only an alternative power supply. The rest of the story is a bit bigger.
The Gnumeric folks need to make an effort to get a proper Windows binary done. If I could rely on Gnumeric being available on Windows, I could put it in front of people that would appreciate it. Last I checked there was some rambling about getting it to compile on Windows, but no real results. No, I have no interest in dealing with an emulator or some compatibility environment. I want Gnumeric on native Windows GNOME libraries. I hate to say it but I bet if Gnumeric was based on QT this would have been done long ago.
Damnit, sorry, the contract really went to General Dynamics, not McDonald Douglas.
"But now they are..."
Son, this is nothing new. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington State was once called "The Senator from Boeing," during a controversy over the TFX program (to become the F-111 fighter/bomber) in the 60s. McNamara handed the contract to McDonald Douglas and old "Scoop Jackson" blew a (figurative, but not by much) gasket, leading to investigations and other nonsense.
What, if you hit a telephone pole and power lines fall on you?
You die. That stuff is really heavy.
So, you'll start to see a dialog box every time a flash/pdf/java applet wants to display itself.
How is this different from images? There was a time before so called "in-line" images. It was an innovation to support images in browsers. Since they first appeared they have always been "seamless". Exactly how is a gif or jpeg different from an mpeg with regard to how a browser seamlessly renders them?
what is it that you define as a modern society, and why is it that you think india doesnt have one?
Well, one large clue is the caste system.
"Most of the power grid problem stems from the fact that very little maintainence is being done."
"Greedy utilities have brought this on themselves.Cutting jobs for the maintainence personell,doing nothing about aging lines, and then asking "WHY is this happening?"
There is nothing wrong with the "old" lines. The distribution grid carries some rated voltage and does it without much complaint. The problem is that there simply isn't enough of it, so most of the system is running at design capacity, and a small failure can cascade into a widespread failure.
There isn't enough distribution capacity primarily because of NIMBY. Power companies around the country want to build more capacity. Most of the time they must spend years battling the locals for right of way. Environuts are often blamed unfairly when locals couch their resistance in bogus environmental claims, but the truth is that it's just NIMBY.
And it's maintenance.
If you, as a consumer, get taxed on something, can you pass along that cost to your employer? Hardly.
Where do you live? Where I live, I am allowed to consider the wages offered by an employer when I decide whether I'll work for them. Naturally, I consider my income requirements, of which taxes are a factor. So do all the other consumers where I live. Taxes are, therefore, a factor in the cost of labor which is a cost that employers must bare. This is why wages in large metropolitan areas with high costs of living are considerably higher than less densely populated areas having lower living costs.
The original assertion that taxes on business are simply passed on to consumers is wildly over generalized drivel. It appears on the right the whole idea of taxes on business is being questioned, and it appears on the left when someone want's to claim some injury to... someone. The fact that both side appear to find it useful does not improve it's credibility. It only demonstrates that it's generalized beyond reality, much like fortune teller claiming that you'll have a bad day at some point in the future, and claiming supernatural abilities. I simply juxtaposed that statement with nearly opposite non-sense. While you seem quite capable of recognizing the failings of my assertion, you still appear to be bamboozled by the first.
We produce things. We means everything involved in the process, and produce means create value. If we're good at it we create more new value than we consume in the process. Taxes are a means of siphoning off some of that value. Eventually, the value siphoned off by taxes just represents more consumption in the process of creating value. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter where in the process the value gets taken. What matters is how much and, more importantly, why.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Timothy McViegh is the subject here. I'm hoping the Slashdot audience isn't kooky enough to have a problem with Bush allowing that guy to die. I hope to god we never elect someone that would have intervened to prevent it.
The taxes on consumers just get passed to the employers anyways.
SCO's business appears to be simply based on litigation and stock manipulation...
We are here because Intellectual Property has become a legal plaything, occasionally yielding enormous profits through litigation. This is so on purpose. Who's purpose?
Look here.
Note to whom the contributions tend to go. How does this square with your notions?
Consider this:
The first change concerns the role of state regulators will have in deciding which elements of incumbent telcos' networks will be available to competitors on an unbundled basis at regulated wholesale rates. Originally, switching equipment wasn't going to be part of the menu of unbundled network elements (UNEs). However, yesterday's released order gives state officials authority to decide whether switching equipment should remain on the list of UNEs.
Reading this, I conclude that Baby Bell local exchange switches may become available for leasing by competitors based on the whim of state regulators. This is an improvement for competitors, who before had no access to these switches, because they weren't "part of the menu". The last sentence throws a wrench in my interpretation by using the word "remain", which indicates that these local exchange switches are already available for leasing. Which is it?
The second change involves the broadband market. In February, the FCC freed the ILECs from a requirement that they lease at regulated discounted rates the portion of their networks that competitors use to provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) (i.e., broadband) service. The released version of the FCC's order retains a provision that allows competitors to lease complete ILEC lines for the provision of voice and DSL service, or to partner with other carriers that are the lines.
My read of this is; back in February the FCC allowed the Baby Bells to stop leasing the equipment needed by competitors to provide DSL. Now, however, the FCC says the Baby Bells must allow competitors to lease these lines. That looks like a good thing. Is my interpretation correct?
Your barking up the wrong tree here, 2 reasons being: 1: Consumerism blah-blah 2: Commercialism/Capitalism blah-blah
Some hardware manufactures are beginning to make something other than air a viable means of cooling their commodity electronics. This is not evidence of some larger failing of western culture. For crying out loud...
but NO! that cant be.
Since when has there ever been any shortage of criticism of Intel on Slashsnot? For Christ sakes, every mention of the state of contemporary CPUs has been rife with incessant quibbling about how bad Intel designs are and how much better some other design is.
you never ever hear anyone complain about the inefficiency of Intels chip design
Did you just get here? Were you born last Tuesday? Have you not witnessed YEARS worth of mindless flames of people complaining about Intel? Jesus H. Christ! You fucking Intel-haters. I get so sick of you. Go suck on your damn G5. I'll be damned if I ever have anything to do with the lot of you. Grow the fuck up!
Why are these manufactures focusing on water? Or, perhaps they intend to standardize on a platform that allows "liquid" cooling, and all this mention of water is just watered-down conversation? There are many liquids that have better cooling properties than water (better thermal conductivity, cause less corrosion, etc.) that can and are being used in high-end electronics. Alcohol and glycol solutions are the first things that come to mind. I suppose anything involving sodium might be applicable also. I'm no expert here, I'm just asking questions.
This is geting silly. Quite frankly we have a problem with your government - the one that has been hijacked by the neocon junta - not with you. Vote out the bastards and we can let the good times roll again.
What a Cop-out. As if there was ever a time when you had respect for the US. Give me a break!
We elected that government. If there was any doubt about the intent of the American voter, we erased it by voting in the first simultaneous Republican majority House and Senate in I don't know how many decades two years later. Next year we'll reaffirm all of the above with landslide re-elections.
Plant a big wet one on my over-paid American ass!
LOL.
I was working remotely on a machine we have in Paris. Found a file that looked interesting; USAFuckTheWorld.wmv.
What is it? A parody of the song "We Are the World" being sung by most of our leaders. Goes like this;
We Fuck the world,
We Fuck the children...
etc. etc.
Now, I could be a dick and get someone burned with that. This companies headquarters in the US, after all. But I feel no particular need. We know you're jealous. We know how you feel about us. I can deal with it.
Just do me a favor; don't even try to pretend you aren't just as ignorant, opinionated and arrogant as us. The hyper-nationality of your just-barely first world selves slaughtered more people last century than you can even begin to fathom. You have all sort of names for us cowboys and you don't hesitate to use 'em.
Thanks!
I'm an engineer. An European engineer. We never-ever have that magnitude grid failure.
What about this (search for blackout)? A couple days of snow and winds and France loses power to 10 million citizens and 22,000 pylons fall over. Great engineering. The NE US faces weather like that every year.
The US and Canada is a huge geographic area populated by nearly 300 million people, supplied by the largest integrated power transmission systems on Earth. Arguably the transmission system in the Northeast of North America is the largest single machine on the planet. Once every 30 years or so we have a massive regional blackout. Big deal. The very next thing that happens is that we get our shit together, build what needs building, and then forget about it for another 30 years.
Our power transmission grid is old. NIMBY and, to a lessor extent, environmental activism have caused this. Isn't it nice to know we have such concern for the quality of life and environment? Perhaps this latest event in the Northeast will lead to less tolerance for the activists and allow the grid to be upgraded.
Lets see... If we invade Canada, oust the current regime and divvy the place up into between 1-3 states, we'll have only ourselves to blame for regional blackouts. That would certainly be much simpler!
Unfortunately, we'd end up with a bunch of French-Canadian citizens like that...
Bad idea. Never mind.
The day after they deregulated the system in 1965 the same exact thing happened. God damn greedy corporations!
This isn't the first time folks: The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965
only to have arisen/regenerated with the influence of competitive international politics. Are we really so hardly advanced that our respective national egos are still the driving force behind enthusiasm, financial or otherwise, in certain areas of science?
Certain areas of science? Our egos, national or otherwise, are the driving force behind pretty much everything. Make a baby, jump on a grenade, write a kernel patch... Ego, pal. Get over it.
Besides, there is nothing a noble as ego driving this. Sandia knows how to keep the budget bucks flowing. The supercomputer-gap is no different than the many preceding variants of the missle-gap. The real competition here is between all of the various potential beneficiaries of public largess attempting to get their collective mouths around the giant, swollen teat that is the Federal budget.
A highly tailored Japanese machine was able to post better numbers on a specific application than a general purpose machine. Big deal. Russian engineers made effective radar systems for military aircraft using vacuum tubes. News at 11: Custom hardware can do amazing things!
However, the termination of the lives of real human beings is something that ought to disturb any right thinking person
It does.