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Based on all the posts here claiming this is old news, it looks like this reseach is benefiting the news directors of television magazine shows more than anyone else....

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Like a Condit on the Run

Yuk. I sure hope that name doesn't stick.

Condit on the run.

It requires the fresh blood of a freshly killed virgin every four hours to keep the thing cool.

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These supertowers. I don't understand why builders and architects have to keep building such monsters when there is clearly rarely a need. Yes, I'm aware of the structual and asthetic signifigance, but if you can't make a building ecnomicially self-sustaining, it just becomes a big vacant eyesore.

Buildings like the Sears tower are nearly always on the verge of bankruptcy because they can't fill their floors. (yes, the power of generalization is strong on slashdot)

Granted, Bejing might be a special case since it has such high population density, (and govt regulated industry) I know the petronas (sp?) towers have overcome the "lack of lease" somewhat, but the last time I checked many of the towers' floors were still technically under construction. It may be too soon to tell.

I'm sure someone more well-informed than myself will put me in my place.

I do love the observation deck on the sears tower though. especially at sunset.
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Punishments fitting for Micro$oft

To the pentium 4.

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This is a very valid argument, but I think there's one flaw in the logic.

If you want people working on the same platform as yourself, to enable easier cross-compatabilty--or you simply want your platform to be recognized as a standard, then your interface needs to be user-friendly before it will win acceptance.

If the goal of the linux community is simpoly to build thousands of individualized and specialized systems, then great. forget the user interface. However, for your technoligical improvements to have any effect on tech outside that world, the user friendlyness has got to be upped...

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And this brings me to the "Yes" answer. Yes, we need higher standards, but if we are to get there without coercion and official designations (read: governmental regulation), it has to come through pressure exerted by the audience themselves.

Here's a solution to the bad journalism on the web: Universities, High schools and even elemenntary schools should devote major parts of thier curicculum to teaching students to filter information.

Since the web is now full of so much Raw unfiltered data, that's a key skill for any person who wants to glean information.

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See inside the Pentium 4!
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And this brings me to the "Yes" answer. Yes, we need higher standards, but if we are to get there without coercion and official designations (read: governmental regulation), it has to come through pressure exerted by the audience themselves.

Here's a solution to the bad journalism on the web: Universities, High schools and even elemenntary schools should devote major parts of thier curicculum to teaching students to filter information.

Since the web is now full of so much Raw unfiltered data, that's a key skill for any person who wants to glean information.

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See inside the Pentium 4!
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I wonder if he got to try out the company gym. I hear they've got a nice gym.

"Due to company turnover rates, our 401K doesn't go into effect untill you've been with us for 12 hours."
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Try contacting the DM register as a sponsor for your cam. They always send out a small army of photographers to cover the event, and I'm sure they'd love to get some exposure through your website, (or put your updates on thier own website, if you're willing)

As a former Register employee, and knowing the way they're crazy about drumming up RAGBRAI press, I'm sure you might get some interest.

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The Pentium 4 Revealed!
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Try contacting the DM register as a sponsor for your cam. They always send out a small army of photographers to cover the event, and I'm sure they'd love to get some exposure through your website, (or put your updates on thier own website, if you're willing)

As a former Register employee, and knowing the way they're crazy about drumming up RAGBRAI press, I'm sure you might get some interest.

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The Pentium 4 Revealed!
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Yeah, in two weeks Disney/ABC will be knocking on their front door.

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What makes the Pentium 4 Hum?
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Yeah, in two weeks Disney/ABC will be knocking on their front door.

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What makes the Pentium 4 Hum?
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Can you imagine how delicate a processor of this nature would be. I would expect that the tiniest magnetic field could potentially disrupt the entire process. If we're talking quantum computing, then the spin state can represent a near-infinite number of positions, correct? If this is the case, the slightest fluxuation in the spin state would cause data-corruption.

However, this is purely based on assumptions. I could be completely wrong. I still do math using my 10 fingers.
tcd004 The heart of the Pentium 4!
The Microsoft Split, revisited!
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Can you imagine how delicate a processor of this nature would be. I would expect that the tiniest magnetic field could potentially disrupt the entire process. If we're talking quantum computing, then the spin state can represent a near-infinite number of positions, correct? If this is the case, the slightest fluxuation in the spin state would cause data-corruption.

However, this is purely based on assumptions. I could be completely wrong. I still do math using my 10 fingers.
tcd004 The heart of the Pentium 4!
The Microsoft Split, revisited!
The Stockphotos

Can you imagine how delicate a processor of this nature would be. I would expect that the tiniest magnetic field could potentially disrupt the entire process. If we're talking quantum computing, then the spin state can represent a near-infinite number of positions, correct? If this is the case, the slightest fluxuation in the spin state would cause data-corruption.

However, this is purely based on assumptions. I could be completely wrong. I still do math using my 10 fingers.
tcd004 The heart of the Pentium 4!
The Microsoft Split, revisited!
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for a sizzling pentium 4.

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for a sizzling pentium 4.

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I'm getting married in october. I'm glad I don't have to go topless.-----Sorry Bad Joke

(here goes my karma)

But really, I wonder if the cart is coming before the horse in this scenario. Is linux really a reasonable portable operating system. Sure, I boot ppc on my powerbook, and it looks really cool and stuff, but it's not useful to me on a day to day basis. I would hope any company marketing portables is putting alot of effort into building applications that make them viable. Perhaps I'm just being too closed minded.

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The guts of the Penitum 4!
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I'm getting married in october. I'm glad I don't have to go topless.-----Sorry Bad Joke

(here goes my karma)

But really, I wonder if the cart is coming before the horse in this scenario. Is linux really a reasonable portable operating system. Sure, I boot ppc on my powerbook, and it looks really cool and stuff, but it's not useful to me on a day to day basis. I would hope any company marketing portables is putting alot of effort into building applications that make them viable. Perhaps I'm just being too closed minded.

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The guts of the Penitum 4!
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"The water released when these planets form may collect into oceans and lakes," Bergin said. "Those bodies not incorporated into planets may become what we call comets."

I love it when scientists speak to reporters as if the reporters were 7th graders in an earth sciences lab.

"That's what we in the scientific community like to call, 'a beaker' Johnny. Now please put it down before you break something."

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The Guts of the Pentium 4!
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"The water released when these planets form may collect into oceans and lakes," Bergin said. "Those bodies not incorporated into planets may become what we call comets."

I love it when scientists speak to reporters as if the reporters were 7th graders in an earth sciences lab.

"That's what we in the scientific community like to call, 'a beaker' Johnny. Now please put it down before you break something."

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The Guts of the Pentium 4!
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Evey great game has come from both tech innovation+gameplay/story innovation. It's easy to look backwards and say, "man, those simpler games, with good plots sure were more fun than they are today."

There are two things going on here:
1. What I like to call the "SNL sure was better in the 70's!" effect. When people collectively remember the past, they always remember the good stuff and sort of mass it all together into some sort of fantastic memory of what gaming used to be. For as long as I can remember, there have been more games that suck, than one that don't and More SNL skits that suck in one episode, than ones that dont. (sorry for the runon)

2. Second. If you take the perspective of going back in time, and looking forward, I'd bet you'd see that 90% of the great games developed over time came along with great tech developments. Think: birth of widespread home consoles: pacman, 8bit: Super Mario, 16 bit:Sonic, and on and on. It was the development of new technologes which drove developers to create better software. Of course I'm leaving out about 2000 great games.

In any case, I look forward to seeing what this project develops. Maybe they can build some backward compatable console games so we can pullout our old ataris and such.

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The guts of the Pentium 4 REVEALED!
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Evey great game has come from both tech innovation+gameplay/story innovation. It's easy to look backwards and say, "man, those simpler games, with good plots sure were more fun than they are today."

There are two things going on here:
1. What I like to call the "SNL sure was better in the 70's!" effect. When people collectively remember the past, they always remember the good stuff and sort of mass it all together into some sort of fantastic memory of what gaming used to be. For as long as I can remember, there have been more games that suck, than one that don't and More SNL skits that suck in one episode, than ones that dont. (sorry for the runon)

2. Second. If you take the perspective of going back in time, and looking forward, I'd bet you'd see that 90% of the great games developed over time came along with great tech developments. Think: birth of widespread home consoles: pacman, 8bit: Super Mario, 16 bit:Sonic, and on and on. It was the development of new technologes which drove developers to create better software. Of course I'm leaving out about 2000 great games.

In any case, I look forward to seeing what this project develops. Maybe they can build some backward compatable console games so we can pullout our old ataris and such.

tcd004
The guts of the Pentium 4 REVEALED!
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Real geeks install their software by hand!

Clench a magnetized needle, (which you must magnetize yourself) between your thumb and forefinger, and carefull magna-etch the data of your program onto the surface of your hard drive platter. Don't leave any fingerprints on the platter, and for god's sake, leave your static electricy elsewhere! Use of microscopes is generally frowned upon. Come on! Like you can't feel your way through those sectors!

Bunch a crybabies.

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The guts of the PENTIUM 4!
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Real geeks install their software by hand!

Clench a magnetized needle, (which you must magnetize yourself) between your thumb and forefinger, and carefull magna-etch the data of your program onto the surface of your hard drive platter. Don't leave any fingerprints on the platter, and for god's sake, leave your static electricy elsewhere! Use of microscopes is generally frowned upon. Come on! Like you can't feel your way through those sectors!

Bunch a crybabies.

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The guts of the PENTIUM 4!
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Consider a service mark. Perhaps you can classify your company a providing a servcie, rather than a trademark...

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Guts of the Pentium 4!
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Consider a service mark. Perhaps you can classify your company a providing a servcie, rather than a trademark...

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Guts of the Pentium 4!
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marketing gurus decide to tell us that they've got a better replacement for a 1,900 year old technology, (paper) which is still going strong.

fully replacing paper, or even just physical printed books, will be feat equal to reinventing the wheel.

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Check out the guts of the PENTIUM 4
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marketing gurus decide to tell us that they've got a better replacement for a 1,900 year old technology, (paper) which is still going strong.

fully replacing paper, or even just physical printed books, will be feat equal to reinventing the wheel.

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Check out the guts of the PENTIUM 4
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I'm 25, and I have a staggering amount of responsibilty in my job--as many 25 year old's do these days. However, I'm rarely taken seriously, and often downright ignored. It's insanely frustrating, but I also know that when I'm 40, I'll probably treat 25 year-olds the same way. Experience is the best teacher.

Anyone who has gone from collge onto a job knows that in your first year at a good job you learn 10x what you did in college. We have interns in our office who range from age 16 through 23. It's amazing to see the differnt levels in professional maturity, as well as know-how that come with age. Age discrimination sucks. I absolutely hate to be ignored, especially when I know I'm right, but it comes with the territory.

If you want to escape it, find a company where the average age is as close to your own as possible.

tcd004 The Pentium 4 Revealed!

the drives don't work inside Steve Jobs' reality distortion field!

The Pentium 4, Revealed!

why is everyone developing for it?

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True Enlightenment

of the radio stations having to pay a fee everytime they subject a backstreet boys song on the public.

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Tired of election coverage?
How about some UNCOVERAGE!

is The National Archives and Records Administration page

Their search engine for the nail database is awesome too.

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Janet RenoMargolis

1.Write down every feature you can't live without in your GUI.

2. Scratch out 97.5% of them.

3. Build your gui and base it on the remaining 4 items.

People working on handheld gui's need to step out of the freaking desktop paradigm. Icons and flashy menus are not the way to create a good handheld interface. Who needs enlightenment in your freaking handheld? Apart from wankers, I can't think of anyone.

tcd004 Tired of election coverage? How about some UNCOVERAGE?

Is antiailiased text really worth the extra processor/graphic cycles in most unix applications?

sure, it's great for page layout, but that's why I have a mac.

tcd004 Tired of Election Coverage? How about some UNCOVERAGE?

these dots can be very powerful indeed.

tcd004 Tired of Election Coverage? How about some Uncoverage?

these sound like the perfect sizes for the first near-zero-G paintball complexes!

Of course I'm not sure what a paintball does on impact at -350 degrees farenheit.

tcd004 Janet RenoMargolis, the least downloaded woman on the planet

Dont the giants know that giving out free music over phone lines shakes our fragile society to it's core?

Cellphones fry your brain, but pagers tickle your groinal region.
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But Pagers from Verzon wireless dont.

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I think cases like these are beginning to bog down SO much in federal courts, that we need to increase their capacity. Seriously, this stuff is happening everywhere with every major industry right now. Anyone who has merged enough times now has the money to fight to protect their monopolies, and it's not the final decision that matters. It's the god-damn court time. Because during that decision-making process they are able to continue practicing their unfair business practices and we, the consumers pay the freaking price.

I would almost be willing to give up the internet if it meant I could put just one cable/telephone/etc. company out of business in the process.

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who had just released some new hardware, I would live in constant fear. You all do realize that our electroics prices are going to go sky high cause we'll al be paying for therapy for these poor souls?

Though as a consumer, I think this TiVo hack is more exicting than accidentally voting for Monca Moorehead.

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LostBrain, Where our ballots are free to flap in the wind

20 minutes of glory followed by burning plunge through the uppermost layers of the stratosphere.

I vote we strap that old navy wench to the next russian rocket headed for the ISS. And after that, the taco bell dog.

Good thing for pizza hut it went off without a hitch. If the rocket whent kablowie, they could have ended up with pie on their face.

tcd004 Janet Renomargolis , nuff said.

There's something to be said for seeing a really good movie in a theater filled with 150 people that you can never recreate at home. I remember seeing Jurassic park the day it came out, and watching the theater scream and writhe was worth the price of admission.

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Check out Janet RenoMargolis, the least downloaded woman on the internet!

Pakistan announces Moon Mission For December 31, 2004...

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Here's my Microsoft Parody,where's yours?

The future of the web pretty much hangs on the freedom to link,...

Yesterday they said the future of the web depends on stopping those mp3 file jamming companies. Man, the web is having a tough week!

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It takes the industry far too long to adopt these innovations. My guess is that research being done right now, after it's stalled by the automakers themselves, etc... will take 10 years to find it's way under the hood. This is one reason the computer industry moves so much more quickly than the automotive, there are fewer huge coorporations (like GM or Microsoft) and zero industries (like oil and steel) who have a say in what happens next. Innovations are awarded instead of stifled.

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It takes the industry far too long to adopt these innovations. My guess is that research being done right now, after it's stalled by the automakers themselves, etc... will take 10 years to find it's way under the hood. This is one reason the computer industry moves so much more quickly than the automotive, there are fewer huge coorporations (like GM or Microsoft) and zero industries (like oil and steel) who have a say in what happens next. Innovations are awarded instead of stifled.

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Send a PostCard of Janet RenoMargolis!

People! Good citizens of slashdot! It's time that we stopped allowing the wretched Music Industry to sue the good people of Napster. There's only one solution: Let's get rid of democracy and replace it with literature from a Burger King calorie chart. It's time to own up to the fact that it simply has not worked. Napster should be suing the Music Industry for having to trade such bad Britney Spears songs.

Sincerely,
The Red Menace (aka Ralph Nader)
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Here's my wife, where's yours?