Why aren't computer clocks as accurate as cheap quartz watches?

What about % of income above the level to comfortably sustain an individual/family? Someone earning $50k a year giving 6% is digging deeper than someone earning $500k giving 6%, at least potentially.

Tom

if this had anything to do with Science hardware or electronics it would be interesting. Suffice it to say that anyone who gives anything without expecting something in return would be a great thing. However, charity, is the furthest thing from most peoples minds, that give huge amounts of money to anyone. Its all bout the business end of things.

Without question, someone giving away 6% of personal wealth that they could not spend in 10 lifetimes is meaningless.

If I may inject some considerations. Money itself doesn't matter except for a feeling of security. Richness doesn't necessarily mean greedy. Possessions are a good indicator IMO. Also, time spent doing something matters. Spending 6% of your time helping other people is meaningful. Whether giving 6% of your income is charitable just depends.

If I had as much money, I might never stop shopping and get very little done.

How many people _have_ $1,666,666.67 to give away 6% _OF_? (which, BTW, is probably a serious underestimate of Uncle Billy's "total lifetime worth".)

If I have ten bucks in my pocket, and I give a street bum a buck, am I more generous than Bill Gates, since that's 10% of my entire wealth?

And another thing - there's a serious misunderstanding going around that says that "size of pile of money" can in any way be related to "worth".

Just ask Nicklaus:

Cheers! Rich

Somewhere in the Far East there is a big factory making shitloads of crystals. These crystals have a nominal spec, but are subject to tolerances.

Somewhere in that factory these crystals are measured. Those closest to the designated frequency are shipped to Seiko, the farthest to Dell.

Watches tend to spend a lot of time strapped to a temperature-regulated heat source (a human). PCs usually are not.

As mentioned in previous (non-technical) replies, PCs are not often used as timepieces, so lower tolerance (cheaper) components will be used.

You are right. They get tax breaks for the big donations, but someone who gives money or other gifts that can barely scrape by is giving a lot more. When was the last time a billionaire given away every cent they owned?

Its east to give away $100,000 when its just pocket change. I have given away my last $5 to a friend who needed money to eat when I had no job, and not enough food to feed myself the next day.

If you play with figures long enough, you can make Bill Gates look stingy no matter how much money he gives away. But he is still giving away billions of dollars, and he only has $50 billion to play with.

How noble of you. I'm sure nobody else ever does that.

How much money does he have to give away before it meets your personal definition of meaningful?

On whether you are hated as much as Bill Gates or not, apparently.

It depends on many things.

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I'll add that frequency of opperation will depend on supply voltage. So the difference between running on battery 2.5V and running on AC 5.0 to 3.3V (depending on chipset) will cause the clock to gain or loose time.

Parasitic capacitance also affects opperational frequency. These are tightly controled in a watch, but are of little concern in a PC.

Solution: Get a program called Dimension 4. It runs on startup, syncs your PC clock to an internet time server, then exits. It can work in other modes too.

I don't claim to be "noble", and I know that others have done it, but not enough have done it. I just did what I thought was right, at that time. I've been homeless twice in my life and I know what its like to go days at a time without food.

Note that XP already has provisions for automatic synchronization over the Net.

I've been "homeless" too, and if you go "days without food" you're not begging properly.

Did you know that it's possible to make $10.00-$20.00/hour begging in the streets? It's true, it takes a little bit of experience to get past that false pride, but hey, it's cash! And expecially[SIC] if you're demonstrably a crip, you could probably make better money than I am, who is only an ordinary ugly hairy guy.

And sometimes people give me stuff like a whole baked chicken in a deli box, or 5/8 of a pizza, and more than once, someone has donated some pot. Guess I'm glad I'm not some kind of arrogant republican who's all stuck on keeping up appearances. One time, some guy asked, "What's the money for?" I said, "Drugs and alcohol." He gave me a $20.00 bill.

Life is an adventure. I'm a mad metascientist, and my life is my laboratory. Why the f*ck would I want to try to do the same thing billions and billions of people have done before me, and wind up dead anyway?

Guess I lucked out on the medical side - I'm a Veteran, so I can just trundle on down to Long Beach if I need medical attention. Which I don't need very often, probably because I love myself the way I am. :-)

Good Luck! Rich

your begging the old fashioned way and you have internet access? Get with it man, I'm a Technobum. I don't need to deal with the elements. I sit in blogs and virtual street corners, I make twice that.

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big s*it in government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

will

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whishing it was you don't you? Don't lie. You wish he was your best friend, nieghbor, your clone.....

I'll call it envy, thinly disguised.

No, no no it's not true. :-)