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From: jmfbahciv on 12 Nov 2006 08:03 In article <4554962F.14F2347(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >To be fair, Dell's 22 years old. >> >> >> >> >> >> I have other examples in another post. From Keith's and my POV, >> >> >> 22 years in the computing biz is young, very young. >> >> > >> >> >And I could say it's very old. >> >> > >> >> >How many dedicated DSP processors existed 22 yrs ago for example ? >> >> >> >> Your definition of DSP, please. >> > >> >Digital Signal Processor. >> > >> >Think especially of devices with hardwired fast very wide multiply accumulate >> >function. >> >> [emoticon's eye go Xeyed] I don't know hardware terms. >> Are you talking about fast ACs? > >ACs? Yup. I'm an auld fart. > >One of the key items in a DSP chip is the MAC, a hard wired >fast multipler that >typically performs very wide word multiplication and >addition in a single machine cycle. Isn't this what the feature called a floating point addon does in the PC biz? /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 12 Nov 2006 08:07 In article <1163169217.140957.29000(a)k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, |||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk wrote: > >Ben Newsam wrote: > >> On Thu, 09 Nov 06 13:23:18 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >In article <4550A28F.B40C659F(a)hotmail.com>, >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> >>> In addition, people burn the wood that is laced with arsenic. > >BTW I rather like the smell of woodsmoke from burning good dry forest >logs. They take a couple of years stacked out of the rain to dry out >properly in our neck of the woods. > >And hitech compressed pellet waste wood burners are making a come-back >in the green energy fraternity. Apart from high initial hardware costs >the fuel seems cheap (cf oil or coal). Yea. I took a ride through urban streets around here. It looks like people are prepared for no oil deliveries. > >> >>What kind of wood is laced with arsenic ? >> > >> >Any wood you want to prevent termintes from eating. >> >> That would explain it. We don't get termites here. > >Actually we do have termites in the UK. Although only in a very >restricted zone (~2 houses) in N Devon and every possible attempt is >being made to annihilate them. Good luck. Did the person who used imported lumber get chopped up? > Including nasty pesticides not normally >licenced for use in the UK. AFAIK So far without success. As the >winters get milder they will be potentially more of a problem if they >ever manage to spread. > >http://www.pwbelg.clara.net/termites/index.html > >CCA was used to make wood rot proof in the past here although it is now >withdrawn. There is plenty of CCA pressure treated scrap wood about. >Few people in the UK have open fires any more so it is much less likely >to be used as firewood. If the primary fuel source disappears physically and/or economically, they will use it. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 12 Nov 2006 08:09 In article <17l5h.2385$6t.261(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ej4fio$8ss_007(a)s977.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <Wf15h.3585$IR4.3293(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>news:ej234l$8qk_015(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>> >>>> The same thing happened to medical pots of money contributed >>>> by employees and their employers. The pool of monies got transformed >>>> to insurance companies. >>> >>> >>>Now you're catching on. Private insurance companies have profit motive. >>>Government bodies that provide for health care don't. >> >> Right. There is no competition and no check on 100% corruption. >> Most monies will go to patronage, outright stealing and administration >> costs. None will end up buying the real service. > >Gee, that doesn't seem to have happened in Canada and the UK. Perhaps >you're implying that Americans are less ethical and honest than Brits or >Canadians? People are the same. How do you know similar things are not happening in the British systems? /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 12 Nov 2006 08:15 In article <4555FE3D.947FFDE5(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >> >Lots of insurance on electrical goods is madness, and you tend to expect >> >that. Cat insurance is also insane - some policies ask for in the region of >> >?10 pcm per cat and wont pay for the first ?50. If you take the money and >> >put it in a savings account you get the best of both worlds, as long as you >> >have the emergency fund for when it needs a ?500 operation... >> > >> > >> You would spend $500 on a cat operation? ($ is merely used to indicate >> money and not type of currency). > >Some ppl might well do. I've started hearing some stories but had been dismissing them as oddities. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 12 Nov 2006 08:39
In article <t2l5h.2382$6t.2270(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ej4f3c$8ss_004(a)s977.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <t915h.3582$IR4.2252(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>news:ej22jn$8qk_012(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>> >>>> Since my experiences were with systems that didn't work, >>> >>>Yes, that would be with the current US system. Why do you assume that a >>>nationalized health care would be the same, and have the same problems? >>>We >>>have heard testimony from at least 3 people in this discussion alone, to >>>the >>>contrary. >> >> I'm a software developer. Code that has a bug on my development >> machine will never get fixed if I distribute the same code on >> all my customers' machines. All I've done is make the mess so >> big, it can't be solved. > >Why do you assume that nationalized health care would simply be analogous to >"distribut[ing] the same code on all customers' machines"? It appears my analogy was too complicated to be understood. > It's an >opportunity to fix what's broken, It could. However, the people are are assigned to fix what's broken are the same ones who caused the first mess. The campaign promises keep saying they intend to do the same thing again. >and to refuse to take it because of some >misguided fear is just simply idiotic. Your lack of understanding of how >things get done is sometimes staggering. As is your ignoring how thing have been done and demand for the same wrong things to be done again. /BAH |