you're right. That thing would light up solid white like a christmas tree on the scanner and I think we all know with the IMMENSE training the operators receive, the first question will be: "Sir, were you aware that your underwear is glowing?" And I guarantee you'll end up with the underwear off in a few minutes.
The Win 7 hardware benchmark rating of 2.1 on the dual core version says no. If I had a pentium 3 machine at the moment, I'd totally benchmark it just to see who'd win. They can put an atom in my cell phone or something but keep them out of my real computers!
This definitely falls into the realm of why would anyone do this? It's the same as a regular hard drive but you can't control where it goes as much. Sounds like a heating nightmare. If it's the same performance, then that's the only difference. I suppose a lack of power cables running across the case is a tiny advantage but whatever, this is still pointless.
I disagree with that last statement. A turbo-strong mouse that's not afraid of anything and was pretty clever would get its ass kicked by humans. We're still a little bigger and smarter than them and fearing us is what kept them alive for thousands of years. If they don't fear us, there's already a shotgun shell on the way to its head;-)
You know what would make them stop spreading? I read up on Stuxnet and MAYBE they shouldn't have put their computers containing PLC software on the internet. Maybe all nuclear power plant computers and government computers that do anything important shouldn't be on the internet. Even USB drive infections of offline machines won't do much with no command and control and no ability for the virus to to report back anything.
This one particular string of viruses has been about 75% of all my computer repairs for my private computer repair business for the last 2 years. How is this finally a story now? How does the blaster worm get hours on CNN and they maybe mentioned this once in a filler segment? This is like the end of the world in computer terms and worse than any virus I've ever seen in history and finally just now it's getting one slashdot story? Amazing.
Just today I removed that from someone's computer because its process was stuck in some sort of loop due to a known conflict with one of an almost infinite list of incompatibilities and it was slowing the computer to a crawl and reading the hard drive nonstop. Definitely not good software!
There's another really common effect I've seen in every election. Whoever is losing tends to make up reasons why they're not going to lose because it makes them feel better. Why doesn't everyone wait a couple hours and just see who wins THEN draw conclusions about the different polls' accuracy. If you think about it, estimating how accurate polls' estimations are before you see the results is extremely stupid and against all logic and math. If this story came out tomorrow as an explanation for why the democrats won more than everyone thought, then we have a story.
They must no realize Facebook is on the verge of crashing. The last thing they need is a company coming in and doing things even more "their way" when it comes to features, user privacy, and apps. Just about every facebook story in the news lately has been negative and warning of danger (and I don't just mean the slashdot news.) I think if Apple bought it, it would be a disaster whether they actively use their usual company tactics to turn it into more of a disaster or not. If you think about it, it's likely they'd start censoring certain things like they do for all their other products and services and add features that their marketing department thinks are "cool" but the majority of people don't like. My prediction is if they bought it, they'd drive it into the ground similar to how Myspace crashed and then raise the price on iPods and iPhones to compensate for the massive loss.
How is a legal copy going to stop an "inquiry." Someone can have an inquiry that I've got a panda fighting ring in my basement and it being not true doesn't mean they can't investigate (or pretend to). I think maybe they just used the wrong word because it sounds like governments are using actual proof of piracy against them though.
This isn't even "reporting." I saw where this was going immediately. If a plane carrying a nuke goes off, it WILL NOT explode. They made sure of that because they thought maybe that might happen. When they said "had it been armed" that is complete fantasy. Strict rules say do not arm a nuke above airspace you aren't going to nuke. I'm fairy sure the military, even back then, had to remotely enable the nuke before dropping it so it couldn't be pilot error or a rogue pilot. So since there's 0% chance the weapon would have been armed when the plane crashed, this is a made up non-story.
so you're saying their method isn't anything like CUDA? Because I read the title as "Microsoft attempts to patent CUDA" because the biggest thing I heard about the technology is that it speeds up Photoshop filters and DVD video encoding in apps that support it and it's like 10x faster than a typical CPU at5 video encoding alone.
Saw this coming! It's amazing how they can assume the temperature and composition of something, how it spins, what its orbit is like just like we were there. By the way, barely know all that about our own planets in the solar system. Then suddenly oops, it's not even there and oh by the way, we don't have a way to really even detect planets for sure. Just like when they said, "hmmm, we made a measurement of all the mass in the universe, and by measurement we mean complete guess. It doesn't match up with what we can see, as we have counted and seen every object in the entire universe and also know its density. The remaining matter must be some sort of unknown, unexplainable material that breaks every law of physics called dark matter and certainly not merely a miscalculation or matter that literally has no radiation emitted from it or bouncing off ot and dark energy is clearly made of leprochaun magic."
For more classic space blunders, look up...ANYTHING related to space!
The obvious explanation is that they can look at the sky with limited tools and when they get done doing all they can possibly do, they're bored so they start making crap up and convincing people it's real to get more grants.
I always thought it was some kind of supernatural haunted cursed phenomenon type thing but I never thought it would actually be something even this freaky and weird. At least other people were seeing it too! lol
I think it has pirate gold buried there and the data center is just a cover. Or perhaps they're going to dig up the gold and use it to pay for the data center lol. North Carolina is known for its huge pirate population way back when:-P
This is my testing standard. If this version can finally install Java into Firefox without a linux noobie but windows pro like me having to taking a half hour reading instructions on the internet and doing commands manually because the root mode isn't triggering properly in the GUI for necessary file operations, then it's a good version. Anyone get a chance to test that? That was my big problem with 9 as well as not having any way by default to just log in as root and run some installers and other admin tasks.
That doesn't make an ounce of sense. If you can just walk into a store and buy an iPhone, you can't scalp it because anyone can do that (until they run out). If you need a reservation, that makes it harder to get the iPhones which means the scalpers would get reservations as early as possible and scalp them even higher. I guess it somewhat prevents scalpers from buying like a dozen of them but really doesn't help the problem.
I remember way back when, if your area ran out of water, you left! How silly our ancestors were hundreds of years ago! They just makes too much sense. But seriously, giving American water to the middle east? That's messed up! I say screw em! They should take some of that oil money and use it to drill for water or make plants to take the salt out of ocean water. But noooo, let's just buy it from the US.
I use Word to write all my stuff. The one thing that pisses me off is a scrolling graphics error where it fails to update the text and gets stuck and how it has a limit to how far the grammer and spelling check can go. It's like 400 pages but still, definitely annoying to split my longest stories into 2+ files. But for the find and replace and advanced features and word counts and page arrangement for page count based quartering, I can't imagine using anything more primitive. It would slow me down soooooo much! I think the only reason anyone would use something so ancient is because they aren't properly trained in more modern methods.
Really? Cuz I just sat here and said "That's about right" because they both make crappy, poorly conceived software that's heavily exploited by hackers. They even both put design before security. It's like the perfect match! Just like AMD buying ATI. They're 2nd best at processor making so why would they buy Nvidida? That wouldn't match at all lol.
I'll be the first to name the coming catastrophe...core cooling! It will destroy us all! We need to stop taking energy from the core or the Earth is DOOMED! What's that you say? One thermal tapping well is insignificant? Yeah, so is one can of hairspray and one car.
Oh and global wind stoppage! All those power generating windmills are stopping too much wind and ruining the climate!
Okay, that one's moderately stupid but if we went big with it and drilled like 10 million geothermal wells, I bet it would make a difference. Who doesn't want to hop in a time machine and slap Henry Ford or whatever in the face for deciding on gasoline? And whoever made coal big time too. Isn't this right around the correct time that we ought to be thinking of the impact of new technologies? Now solar is the one that obviously doesn't make a damn ounce of difference and never well no matter how high it scales up.
Approximately 100% of people don't use Microsoft's built in "Sound Recorder" program in XP and you don't see Microsoft crying over it. They barely make anything off either piece of free software. It's all intangible, sign up for Live or use Bing and maybe see some ads sometime eventually type stuff. I bet if they were realistic, they're losing money in IE. I say just keep redesigning it as needed and who cares if they're #1. Btw in a couple months, Firefox is going to crash and burn hard when all the viruses start targetting it. They don't seem to understand that their "secure" browser is so secure because nobody targets it for anything.
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you're right. That thing would light up solid white like a christmas tree on the scanner and I think we all know with the IMMENSE training the operators receive, the first question will be: "Sir, were you aware that your underwear is glowing?" And I guarantee you'll end up with the underwear off in a few minutes.
The Win 7 hardware benchmark rating of 2.1 on the dual core version says no. If I had a pentium 3 machine at the moment, I'd totally benchmark it just to see who'd win. They can put an atom in my cell phone or something but keep them out of my real computers!
This definitely falls into the realm of why would anyone do this? It's the same as a regular hard drive but you can't control where it goes as much. Sounds like a heating nightmare. If it's the same performance, then that's the only difference. I suppose a lack of power cables running across the case is a tiny advantage but whatever, this is still pointless.
Or you could use passwords longer than 6 letters
I disagree with that last statement. A turbo-strong mouse that's not afraid of anything and was pretty clever would get its ass kicked by humans. We're still a little bigger and smarter than them and fearing us is what kept them alive for thousands of years. If they don't fear us, there's already a shotgun shell on the way to its head ;-)
You know what would make them stop spreading? I read up on Stuxnet and MAYBE they shouldn't have put their computers containing PLC software on the internet. Maybe all nuclear power plant computers and government computers that do anything important shouldn't be on the internet. Even USB drive infections of offline machines won't do much with no command and control and no ability for the virus to to report back anything.
This one particular string of viruses has been about 75% of all my computer repairs for my private computer repair business for the last 2 years. How is this finally a story now? How does the blaster worm get hours on CNN and they maybe mentioned this once in a filler segment? This is like the end of the world in computer terms and worse than any virus I've ever seen in history and finally just now it's getting one slashdot story? Amazing.
Just today I removed that from someone's computer because its process was stuck in some sort of loop due to a known conflict with one of an almost infinite list of incompatibilities and it was slowing the computer to a crawl and reading the hard drive nonstop. Definitely not good software!
There's another really common effect I've seen in every election. Whoever is losing tends to make up reasons why they're not going to lose because it makes them feel better. Why doesn't everyone wait a couple hours and just see who wins THEN draw conclusions about the different polls' accuracy. If you think about it, estimating how accurate polls' estimations are before you see the results is extremely stupid and against all logic and math. If this story came out tomorrow as an explanation for why the democrats won more than everyone thought, then we have a story.
They must no realize Facebook is on the verge of crashing. The last thing they need is a company coming in and doing things even more "their way" when it comes to features, user privacy, and apps. Just about every facebook story in the news lately has been negative and warning of danger (and I don't just mean the slashdot news.) I think if Apple bought it, it would be a disaster whether they actively use their usual company tactics to turn it into more of a disaster or not. If you think about it, it's likely they'd start censoring certain things like they do for all their other products and services and add features that their marketing department thinks are "cool" but the majority of people don't like. My prediction is if they bought it, they'd drive it into the ground similar to how Myspace crashed and then raise the price on iPods and iPhones to compensate for the massive loss.
How is a legal copy going to stop an "inquiry." Someone can have an inquiry that I've got a panda fighting ring in my basement and it being not true doesn't mean they can't investigate (or pretend to). I think maybe they just used the wrong word because it sounds like governments are using actual proof of piracy against them though.
This isn't even "reporting." I saw where this was going immediately. If a plane carrying a nuke goes off, it WILL NOT explode. They made sure of that because they thought maybe that might happen. When they said "had it been armed" that is complete fantasy. Strict rules say do not arm a nuke above airspace you aren't going to nuke. I'm fairy sure the military, even back then, had to remotely enable the nuke before dropping it so it couldn't be pilot error or a rogue pilot. So since there's 0% chance the weapon would have been armed when the plane crashed, this is a made up non-story.
I always had a feeling that none of you slashdot community members were real. But now, PROOF! :-P
so you're saying their method isn't anything like CUDA? Because I read the title as "Microsoft attempts to patent CUDA" because the biggest thing I heard about the technology is that it speeds up Photoshop filters and DVD video encoding in apps that support it and it's like 10x faster than a typical CPU at5 video encoding alone.
Saw this coming! It's amazing how they can assume the temperature and composition of something, how it spins, what its orbit is like just like we were there. By the way, barely know all that about our own planets in the solar system. Then suddenly oops, it's not even there and oh by the way, we don't have a way to really even detect planets for sure. Just like when they said, "hmmm, we made a measurement of all the mass in the universe, and by measurement we mean complete guess. It doesn't match up with what we can see, as we have counted and seen every object in the entire universe and also know its density. The remaining matter must be some sort of unknown, unexplainable material that breaks every law of physics called dark matter and certainly not merely a miscalculation or matter that literally has no radiation emitted from it or bouncing off ot and dark energy is clearly made of leprochaun magic."
For more classic space blunders, look up...ANYTHING related to space!
The obvious explanation is that they can look at the sky with limited tools and when they get done doing all they can possibly do, they're bored so they start making crap up and convincing people it's real to get more grants.
I always thought it was some kind of supernatural haunted cursed phenomenon type thing but I never thought it would actually be something even this freaky and weird. At least other people were seeing it too! lol
I think it has pirate gold buried there and the data center is just a cover. Or perhaps they're going to dig up the gold and use it to pay for the data center lol. North Carolina is known for its huge pirate population way back when :-P
This is my testing standard. If this version can finally install Java into Firefox without a linux noobie but windows pro like me having to taking a half hour reading instructions on the internet and doing commands manually because the root mode isn't triggering properly in the GUI for necessary file operations, then it's a good version. Anyone get a chance to test that? That was my big problem with 9 as well as not having any way by default to just log in as root and run some installers and other admin tasks.
That doesn't make an ounce of sense. If you can just walk into a store and buy an iPhone, you can't scalp it because anyone can do that (until they run out). If you need a reservation, that makes it harder to get the iPhones which means the scalpers would get reservations as early as possible and scalp them even higher. I guess it somewhat prevents scalpers from buying like a dozen of them but really doesn't help the problem.
I remember way back when, if your area ran out of water, you left! How silly our ancestors were hundreds of years ago! They just makes too much sense. But seriously, giving American water to the middle east? That's messed up! I say screw em! They should take some of that oil money and use it to drill for water or make plants to take the salt out of ocean water. But noooo, let's just buy it from the US.
I use Word to write all my stuff. The one thing that pisses me off is a scrolling graphics error where it fails to update the text and gets stuck and how it has a limit to how far the grammer and spelling check can go. It's like 400 pages but still, definitely annoying to split my longest stories into 2+ files. But for the find and replace and advanced features and word counts and page arrangement for page count based quartering, I can't imagine using anything more primitive. It would slow me down soooooo much! I think the only reason anyone would use something so ancient is because they aren't properly trained in more modern methods.
Really? Cuz I just sat here and said "That's about right" because they both make crappy, poorly conceived software that's heavily exploited by hackers. They even both put design before security. It's like the perfect match! Just like AMD buying ATI. They're 2nd best at processor making so why would they buy Nvidida? That wouldn't match at all lol.
I'll be the first to name the coming catastrophe...core cooling! It will destroy us all! We need to stop taking energy from the core or the Earth is DOOMED! What's that you say? One thermal tapping well is insignificant? Yeah, so is one can of hairspray and one car.
Oh and global wind stoppage! All those power generating windmills are stopping too much wind and ruining the climate!
Okay, that one's moderately stupid but if we went big with it and drilled like 10 million geothermal wells, I bet it would make a difference. Who doesn't want to hop in a time machine and slap Henry Ford or whatever in the face for deciding on gasoline? And whoever made coal big time too. Isn't this right around the correct time that we ought to be thinking of the impact of new technologies? Now solar is the one that obviously doesn't make a damn ounce of difference and never well no matter how high it scales up.
Approximately 100% of people don't use Microsoft's built in "Sound Recorder" program in XP and you don't see Microsoft crying over it. They barely make anything off either piece of free software. It's all intangible, sign up for Live or use Bing and maybe see some ads sometime eventually type stuff. I bet if they were realistic, they're losing money in IE. I say just keep redesigning it as needed and who cares if they're #1. Btw in a couple months, Firefox is going to crash and burn hard when all the viruses start targetting it. They don't seem to understand that their "secure" browser is so secure because nobody targets it for anything.
That last line isn't quite correct. The people it affects are "real users" they're just assholes. Again, imaginary: no, jackass: yes.