It is insanely irresponsible of Sprint to blame their customer base, 90% of which don't even know the "modem" has a password. This is a huge, pitiful cop-out. No wonder ION died. These twits have no business in last-mile telecom.
You are mistaking indifference for insularity. We own the whole damn planet, and we get to pick what we care about. Canada doesn't make the list.
"Wow, did you know there is a WHOLE country just north of us?"
Proto-states. Not yet fully formed, yet clearly state material. We'll leave the French part be though. Frankly the whole matter just isn't important enough to be worth the hassle at the moment. Maybe if a whole lot of oil turns up...
Don't blame them for playing both sides of the fence. They have to keep their options open. PA-RISC is dead and everyone knows it. What eventually replaces it is HP's future in enterprise scale computing.
With these matters at stake who can blame them for not assuming Intel has the right answers. Intel, for all it's success, is a PeeCee and embedded CPU manufacturer. If Intel manages to crack the big iron market it will be a first for them.
IBM would be more than happy to assume complete market dominance once again if it's PeeCee manufacturer competition fails. MIPS isn't dead yet, and Sun isn't about to let Intel ruin SPARC.
How libertarian-minded conservatives can tolerate Ashcroft is beyond my limited ability to comprehend human irrationality.
I'll explain it too you, then.
It's profoundly clear to this libertarian-minded conservative that the people responsible for our nations security were asleep at the switch and drooling into the control panel. This is not surprising. Bureaucracies get this way over time. The way to fix this is to put someone in charge that kicks proverbial (and real) ass and takes names. Will this ultimately lead to abuse? Yes, it will. Will we again self correct and deal with the abuse? Of course. The people in my nation have been doing this for nigh on 300 years.
It is also profoundly clear that some day one of these half smart psycho zealot religious kooks will get a hold of a warhead. It doesn't matter whether it's some cobbled together circa 1950's tech coming from Pakistan, or a nice shiny slightly used Soviet suitcase device. What does matter is that the day this happens some western nation will lose a coastal city. That nation highest on the target list is mine This will be biblical catastrophe the scale of which I can claim to only vaguely comprehend in my darkest moments.
If, in the meantime, Ashcroft happens to have a few of the kooks in lockdown, screwing up money transfers or buying time for investigators to cull the evidence, more power to him. The fact is that when some high population density area is vaporized we're going to blame Ashcroft for being negligent, regardless of whether he's among those caught in the blast. The folks that replace him will make Ashcroft look like a harmless teddy bear.
What Shadowbane? Try Vaporbane. Ubi has basically squandered their chance in this market. By the time Vaporbane appears, AC2 will have a huge player base, DAOC will have another expansion, SWG will be huge, EQ2 will appear, etc., etc.
I have know about this company for years. Lumeloid Solutions [polar-solar.com] claims their technology is theoretically capable of efficiencies of up to 80%.
Lets see. They claim thier stuff is theoretically capable of efficiencies of up to mumble mumble.
Wow.
Now I know it's got to be an oil industry conspiricy repressing this stuff. With credibility like that...
"Sun's UltraSPARC III Cu tops out at 1.05Ghz last I checked. Does that mean that the P4 at 3Ghz stomps the hell out of it? If you said yes, you are a fucking idiot."
UltraSPARC III Cu 1.015GHz SPECint2000 576 SPECfp2000 775
INTEL P4 2.8 SPECint2000 1040 SPECfp2000 1048
Doh!
Apparently, you're convinced that a P4 3GHz would do worse than the P4 2.8GHz quoted here. I hope not, because that would make you a genuine blithering fucking idiot, as opposed to a desperate anti-x86 zealot.
Never mind that retailers are struggling to break even with sales results from the previous year. What ever "fever" exists is in the mind of Makarand and whatever anti-corporate bias he harbors. The little money being spent is coming from folks just happy to be employed.
It doesn't surprise me to learn that some of the so-called "junk DNA" actually has a purpose. I've always thought it highly naive to brush off sequences whose function is not immediately obvious as "junk".
Someone else points out:
Not all the junk DNA does this, just the introns near the centrosome.
Ah, yes. Presume that because not "all" of the "junk DNA" "does this", it must still be junk. Don't consider that perhaps the real effects of the "junk DNA" might simply be beyond your understanding. That might lead to discovery.
I get the feeling cell/protien/gene/DNA research is going to continue something like this; every now and then the people who leave the blinders at home next to the TV remote are going to question the presumption that some of the remaining mysterious "junk" has no value. Each time they discover the real meaning of the unknown sequences, our knowledge of how life really works will leap forward. In the end, we'll find that very little or none of DNA is actually junk. We'll look back on our predecessor's unimaginable ignorance and wonder how they could have every been so willfully naive. We'll apologize for them, and then proceed to commit exactly the same error in another field.
No, we may not keep 802.11b usable. We must overload the band with as much crap as possible. We must then amplify select instances of the crap, to compete with the other crap. Finally, when the band is hopelessly swamped by crap, we'll react badly with regulatory crap.
Because, you see, if I can't dribble out $200 for an el-cheepo access point, and then operate every cotton picking ethernet device on all three floors of my half acre property at maximum bandwidth, something's wrong, and I'll just have to "fix" it with an el-cheepo amp. Screw anyone else. Screw the standards and the morons that established them. I come first.
Just go scarf up some old alpha or sparc hardware on eBay. That'll scratch your "non-x86" itch. It sure did for me. I have a small collection of DEC AlphaStation boxes. 266MHz Alpha. Lots'o fun. You can learn a lot from this sort of hardware. The AlphaStations have a small boot computer that you can access via a serial port. Does all the same stuff as your typical x86 BIOS, but does not require a monitor, video card or keyboard.
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You own fault. You have a MSSQL box exposed. You deserve it.
http://drudgereport.com/
mickysoft, front and center.
"they insist on retaining control over it"
It is insanely irresponsible of Sprint to blame their customer base, 90% of which don't even know the "modem" has a password. This is a huge, pitiful cop-out. No wonder ION died. These twits have no business in last-mile telecom.
"The US is so insular, the media most"
You are mistaking indifference for insularity. We own the whole damn planet, and we get to pick what we care about. Canada doesn't make the list.
"Wow, did you know there is a WHOLE country just north of us?"
Proto-states. Not yet fully formed, yet clearly state material. We'll leave the French part be though. Frankly the whole matter just isn't important enough to be worth the hassle at the moment. Maybe if a whole lot of oil turns up...
Don't blame them for playing both sides of the fence. They have to keep their options open. PA-RISC is dead and everyone knows it. What eventually replaces it is HP's future in enterprise scale computing.
With these matters at stake who can blame them for not assuming Intel has the right answers. Intel, for all it's success, is a PeeCee and embedded CPU manufacturer. If Intel manages to crack the big iron market it will be a first for them.
IBM would be more than happy to assume complete market dominance once again if it's PeeCee manufacturer competition fails. MIPS isn't dead yet, and Sun isn't about to let Intel ruin SPARC.
MS doesn't realize is that in the short term, being a jerk is great, but in the long term, Apple's the one who's going to come out on top.
Microsoft has been kicking Apple's ass for going on 20 years. What sort of timeframe did you have in mind?
Now, please explain to me why would someone
with real SMP needs in mind (and NOT games)
consider the P4 with HT.
Because they can use it with motherboards that have chipsets that don't suck moist donkey balls?
How libertarian-minded conservatives can tolerate Ashcroft is beyond my limited ability to comprehend human irrationality.
I'll explain it too you, then.
It's profoundly clear to this libertarian-minded conservative that the people responsible for our nations security were asleep at the switch and drooling into the control panel. This is not surprising. Bureaucracies get this way over time. The way to fix this is to put someone in charge that kicks proverbial (and real) ass and takes names. Will this ultimately lead to abuse? Yes, it will. Will we again self correct and deal with the abuse? Of course. The people in my nation have been doing this for nigh on 300 years.
It is also profoundly clear that some day one of these half smart psycho zealot religious kooks will get a hold of a warhead. It doesn't matter whether it's some cobbled together circa 1950's tech coming from Pakistan, or a nice shiny slightly used Soviet suitcase device. What does matter is that the day this happens some western nation will lose a coastal city. That nation highest on the target list is mine This will be biblical catastrophe the scale of which I can claim to only vaguely comprehend in my darkest moments.
If, in the meantime, Ashcroft happens to have a few of the kooks in lockdown, screwing up money transfers or buying time for investigators to cull the evidence, more power to him. The fact is that when some high population density area is vaporized we're going to blame Ashcroft for being negligent, regardless of whether he's among those caught in the blast. The folks that replace him will make Ashcroft look like a harmless teddy bear.
There is a reason why cars are build the way they are.
Yeah. There's a reason when big honking trucks^H^H^H^H^H^H SUVs are popular too.
Thanks EPA. You made the passenger cars too small.
"And we get cool pivoting space-cars that cost $5000 and go for 2 decades."
Now this is naive.
$5000?
After we get done with the Bose, and the leather, and the integrated communications system, and the hopped-up high performance version, and the...
We're rich, remember?
Don't hold your breath for any $5000 cars that you will allow yourself to be seen driving.
What Shadowbane? Try Vaporbane. Ubi has basically squandered their chance in this market. By the time Vaporbane appears, AC2 will have a huge player base, DAOC will have another expansion, SWG will be huge, EQ2 will appear, etc., etc.
Forget vaporbane.
I have know about this company for years. Lumeloid Solutions [polar-solar.com] claims their technology is theoretically capable of efficiencies of up to 80%.
Lets see. They claim thier stuff is theoretically capable of efficiencies of up to mumble mumble.
Wow.
Now I know it's got to be an oil industry conspiricy repressing this stuff. With credibility like that...
This is not a consequence of removing payphones. This is a consequence of using mobile phones in cars.
I can't believe some moron actually modded this up to 3...
"Sun's UltraSPARC III Cu tops out at 1.05Ghz last I checked. Does that mean that the P4 at 3Ghz stomps the hell out of it? If you said yes, you are a fucking idiot."
UltraSPARC III Cu 1.015GHz
SPECint2000 576
SPECfp2000 775
INTEL P4 2.8
SPECint2000 1040
SPECfp2000 1048
Doh!
Apparently, you're convinced that a P4 3GHz would do worse than the P4 2.8GHz quoted here. I hope not, because that would make you a genuine blithering fucking idiot, as opposed to a desperate anti-x86 zealot.
...has about as fast a laptop as you will find. 3.0GHz. Only 512M RAM atm, but wait a week, they'll get it to a gig.
:)
Don't expect much battery life.
Yeah, well, this was about the new SGI workstation...
Gimp proprietary crap, just like the alphas, sparcs and hp9000 workstations.
Never mind that retailers are struggling to break even with sales results from the previous year. What ever "fever" exists is in the mind of Makarand and whatever anti-corporate bias he harbors. The little money being spent is coming from folks just happy to be employed.
Water Closet, I think. British (English, whatever) for bathroom.
It doesn't surprise me to learn that some of the so-called "junk DNA" actually has a purpose. I've always thought it highly naive to brush off sequences whose function is not immediately obvious as "junk".
Someone else points out:
Not all the junk DNA does this, just the introns near the centrosome.
Ah, yes. Presume that because not "all" of the "junk DNA" "does this", it must still be junk. Don't consider that perhaps the real effects of the "junk DNA" might simply be beyond your understanding. That might lead to discovery.
I get the feeling cell/protien/gene/DNA research is going to continue something like this; every now and then the people who leave the blinders at home next to the TV remote are going to question the presumption that some of the remaining mysterious "junk" has no value. Each time they discover the real meaning of the unknown sequences, our knowledge of how life really works will leap forward. In the end, we'll find that very little or none of DNA is actually junk. We'll look back on our predecessor's unimaginable ignorance and wonder how they could have every been so willfully naive. We'll apologize for them, and then proceed to commit exactly the same error in another field.
"Can we please keep this frequency useable?"
No, we may not keep 802.11b usable. We must overload the band with as much crap as possible. We must then amplify select instances of the crap, to compete with the other crap. Finally, when the band is hopelessly swamped by crap, we'll react badly with regulatory crap.
Because, you see, if I can't dribble out $200 for an el-cheepo access point, and then operate every cotton picking ethernet device on all three floors of my half acre property at maximum bandwidth, something's wrong, and I'll just have to "fix" it with an el-cheepo amp. Screw anyone else. Screw the standards and the morons that established them. I come first.
Mkay?
IR to operate a car remotely? Are you entirely braindead?
...like snow.
Suppose something truly bizarre happens to the vehicle that blocks optical signals. Something unexpected and unbelievably rare...
I guess I'll have to tough it out with my mere dual Athlon 2400+ workstation for now (heh heh heh)
That's a Pee Cee. Ya noob.
Just go scarf up some old alpha or sparc hardware on eBay. That'll scratch your "non-x86" itch. It sure did for me. I have a small collection of DEC AlphaStation boxes. 266MHz Alpha. Lots'o fun. You can learn a lot from this sort of hardware. The AlphaStations have a small boot computer that you can access via a serial port. Does all the same stuff as your typical x86 BIOS, but does not require a monitor, video card or keyboard.
Don't actually use them for anything, but...
Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give the money to charity than to just blow up DV camcorders.
No.