I know what I said. Filling your child's mind with fiction designed specifically to reduce their ability to think critically is a form of abuse. Atheism is not religion (skepticism even less so), and done right it isn't actually taught to kids -- instead they're simply taught how to think for themselves.
Imagine the ridicule your child would recieve if you taught them that fairies were real and made up some complicated history that you presented to them as fact, as some sort of agents that guided your child's life and made the world work. You'd be crippling their future and child services might rightly step in and remove your child from you.
I can't wait for the Yahweh/Jehovah religions to go the way of the old Norse gods -- great as a source of fiction, but not a legitimate alternative to science.
How any public money can go into something so farcical is beyond me. Well, not quite beyond me, but seriously depressing -- even though it isn't actually my public money.
Any article that actually considers a laptop from Twinhead as a viable option loses all credibility, even if it does come last. They're junk. My most recent experience with a single Twinhead laptop involved two new hard drives, new RAM, a flakey power socket, a hinge that barely works and a battery pack with a failed cell (it splutters if you have the battery connected.) Prior experience involves machines that didn't come with the right bits and didn't recognise their own floppy drives.
Nearly a year and a half after some spiffy 3D rendered pics, they've almost got a product out that vaguely resembles the original idea. In the meantime, the product has become so infamous that the little 3-button teaser product needed a note specifically saying it wasn't vapourware when ThinkGeek opened up pre-orders. I think they peaked too soon.
Meanwhile, the Ideazon Zboard (a range of key sets that include highly customised key shapes) and the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (LCD display built into keyboard) have been in the market for ages. And they're affordable.
Now for the keyboard they've dropped OLED, dropped the extra function keys and moved back to LCD meaning that you'll need an external power brick to power it.
Every single Windows PC I've had, ever, did not, or does not, wake up from sleep mode properly. The network is the biggest loser, with the PC simply failing to come back being the second most common problem. By Windows 98SE, Microsoft knew sleep mode was such a problem that they built in a system to check if it keeps failing to come out of sleep mode and asks you if you want to disable it, something like; "The last few times your PC entered sleep mode it failed to return to regular operation. Would you like to disable sleep mode?" Absolutely the best bit of code they ever wrote -- needs a "Hell Yes!" button.
Everything I actually care about is backed up to DVD. Most of the cruft filling my hard drives is either easily delete-able, re-rip-able or re-install-able. Heck, I run RAID 0 on one PC, so it's fairly obvious that all the data on that is lose-able.
I barely get any spam either, but my ISP's mail servers are so choked with the stuff that real emails are being delayed by as much as two and a half days. So all of you who say "What spam?" need to be aware that, unless you only send messages to yourself, it's a real problem for everyone.
Not this election (though possibly), the last two or three.
Amongst the things the Dems have to address is the utter lack of trust in electronic voting machines, particularly from Die("committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.")bold.
A huge collection of games support that resolution (with some bugs in some cases), and I very much enjoyed playing WoW with a wrap-around image until I quit (for an unrelated reason). Triplehead is not dualhead -- you're not staring at a join, you're typically focused on the centre screen and you use the side screen for extra warning, or space for secondary information.
Though by "testing", I simply mean benchmarking cards however the reviews currently benchmark cards, with the benefit of actually taxing the video card enough that the CPU isn't the bottleneck.
Or a Matrox Triplehead2Go. A 24" panel is only a little over 2 million pixels. Three 1280x1024 panels are almost 4 million pixels. And you can get a TH2G plus three 17" or 19" panels for significantly less than a 24" panel.
Is anyone testing these video cards in 3840x1024 yet?
No, it doesn't, and neither did anyone else. You're correcting a mistake which nobody made.
Really? Then tell me what:
I would argue that it's common knowledge that Firefox doesn't have anything like 50% of the browser market with most estimates coming in at less than 25%.
is supposed to mean. To me, that statement is debunking a claim that Firefox has 50% of the browser market. A claim nobody made.
I've never had to worry about Australia, though -- do they play with clocks down there or do they have better things to do?
As it happens we do, well most states do. Moreover, Western Australia is currently going insane. A bill is currently being debated as to whether or not a "trial" daylight savings thing is started on the 3rd of December this year. A month to go and we don't even know if it's going to happen yet. It's going to be a freaking nightmare.
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I'm an IT Manager and I have a Parhelia triple-head system (3840x1024). Seven of the windows are for a database app that spawns new windows, rather than having some sort of parent window where everything loads. I have quite a number of Windows Explorer windows open that I'd probably close more often if I didn't have as much screen realestate. During peak times I typically add another five windows, on average.
by Pete Davies. It covers both the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed up to 40 million people as well as more recent outbreaks and current projects in the field.
It's a bit late, but I enjoy compression talk so I'm going to have a go at this.
"Boiling water is hot"
Let's take those four words. Rather than looking for standard repeating patterns or common letters, a compressor that understands language might go something like;
Boil -- I predict that "Boil" will be followed by "ing". The chance is higher than for "boil" because the "B" means its at the beginning of a sentence.
Cool, there's an "ing", so I don't actually have to store anything because the algorithm predicts Boiling.
Now, there's typically a space after "ing", even more so after "Boiling".
Space it is, nothing to store here.
Okay, so we have "Boiling " -- The next word will probably be "oil" or "water".
It's "water", so I'll just store a single bit to mark which one of the top two predicted outcomes it is.
And there's the space I was expecting.
(Here my English gets a little sketchy.) We have an adjective and a noun, so we're expecting a predicate. This needs a verb and the most common one at this point is "is".
Well, what do you know, an "is", with a space.
Now that we have "Boiling water is ", what is boiling water. With enough understanding of the world around us, we can guess the next word is "hot". In fact, it's probably such a safe bet that there's a test somewhere in the world where you have to fill in the blank of "Boiling water is ___". So, again, nothing much to store since the algorithm predicted the entire phrase from just the "Boil".
Now, if you'd said "Boiling water is cold", the algorithm would have needed to store "cold" in some way, because it was unexpected. Similarly, "Boilfish notlob Frank ARRRRRGH!" would need a lot more storage because it's not as predictable.
Of course, I'm not a qualified expert in this field, so I may well be talking out of my notlob.
I think your opinion of Dell and my opinion of Dell are, well, opposite. I would expect anything purchased by Dell to get worse. Except possibly Sony, Gateway and Acer.
Anyone know if the 'bad reviews = no new products' policy was also in place before Dell? Or have Dell likely parachuted in some clueless marketing drone?
At this point, they've lost at least two customers. (which DELL will be picking up shortly...)
Sorry to break this to you, dude, but Alienware is Dell. In fact, I'm about to post another comment asking if the practice in the main article was happening pre-Dell, or if it's Dell that's had this effect.
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Imagine the ridicule your child would recieve if you taught them that fairies were real and made up some complicated history that you presented to them as fact, as some sort of agents that guided your child's life and made the world work. You'd be crippling their future and child services might rightly step in and remove your child from you.
I can't wait for the Yahweh/Jehovah religions to go the way of the old Norse gods -- great as a source of fiction, but not a legitimate alternative to science.
I long for the day when teaching religion to children is classified as child abuse.
I'm just glad I live in Australia, where education is valued.
Any article that actually considers a laptop from Twinhead as a viable option loses all credibility, even if it does come last. They're junk. My most recent experience with a single Twinhead laptop involved two new hard drives, new RAM, a flakey power socket, a hinge that barely works and a battery pack with a failed cell (it splutters if you have the battery connected.) Prior experience involves machines that didn't come with the right bits and didn't recognise their own floppy drives.
Meanwhile, the Ideazon Zboard (a range of key sets that include highly customised key shapes) and the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (LCD display built into keyboard) have been in the market for ages. And they're affordable.
Now for the keyboard they've dropped OLED, dropped the extra function keys and moved back to LCD meaning that you'll need an external power brick to power it.
Every single Windows PC I've had, ever, did not, or does not, wake up from sleep mode properly. The network is the biggest loser, with the PC simply failing to come back being the second most common problem. By Windows 98SE, Microsoft knew sleep mode was such a problem that they built in a system to check if it keeps failing to come out of sleep mode and asks you if you want to disable it, something like; "The last few times your PC entered sleep mode it failed to return to regular operation. Would you like to disable sleep mode?" Absolutely the best bit of code they ever wrote -- needs a "Hell Yes!" button.
Everything I actually care about is backed up to DVD. Most of the cruft filling my hard drives is either easily delete-able, re-rip-able or re-install-able. Heck, I run RAID 0 on one PC, so it's fairly obvious that all the data on that is lose-able.
Not only do companies do such things, there's even a company specialising in crop circles.
I barely get any spam either, but my ISP's mail servers are so choked with the stuff that real emails are being delayed by as much as two and a half days. So all of you who say "What spam?" need to be aware that, unless you only send messages to yourself, it's a real problem for everyone.
Amongst the things the Dems have to address is the utter lack of trust in electronic voting machines, particularly from Die("committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.")bold.
Though by "testing", I simply mean benchmarking cards however the reviews currently benchmark cards, with the benefit of actually taxing the video card enough that the CPU isn't the bottleneck.
Now that the Democrats control both houses, I think Diebold is looking down the barrel of some serious election tampering charges.
Is anyone testing these video cards in 3840x1024 yet?
(Not really.)
It doesn't say that Firefox has 50% of the browser market, it says that 50% of Firefox users have already upgraded to version 2.
I'm an IT Manager and I have a Parhelia triple-head system (3840x1024). Seven of the windows are for a database app that spawns new windows, rather than having some sort of parent window where everything loads. I have quite a number of Windows Explorer windows open that I'd probably close more often if I didn't have as much screen realestate. During peak times I typically add another five windows, on average.
by Pete Davies. It covers both the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed up to 40 million people as well as more recent outbreaks and current projects in the field.
- Boil -- I predict that "Boil" will be followed by "ing". The chance is higher than for "boil" because the "B" means its at the beginning of a sentence.
- Cool, there's an "ing", so I don't actually have to store anything because the algorithm predicts Boiling.
- Now, there's typically a space after "ing", even more so after "Boiling".
- Space it is, nothing to store here.
- Okay, so we have "Boiling " -- The next word will probably be "oil" or "water".
- It's "water", so I'll just store a single bit to mark which one of the top two predicted outcomes it is.
- And there's the space I was expecting.
- (Here my English gets a little sketchy.) We have an adjective and a noun, so we're expecting a predicate. This needs a verb and the most common one at this point is "is".
- Well, what do you know, an "is", with a space.
- Now that we have "Boiling water is ", what is boiling water. With enough understanding of the world around us, we can guess the next word is "hot". In fact, it's probably such a safe bet that there's a test somewhere in the world where you have to fill in the blank of "Boiling water is ___". So, again, nothing much to store since the algorithm predicted the entire phrase from just the "Boil".
Now, if you'd said "Boiling water is cold", the algorithm would have needed to store "cold" in some way, because it was unexpected. Similarly, "Boilfish notlob Frank ARRRRRGH!" would need a lot more storage because it's not as predictable.Of course, I'm not a qualified expert in this field, so I may well be talking out of my notlob.