Sorry, couldn't help it, I'm a programmer. What they need to do to encourage kids to not find ways around this is design the filter so when it senses under 18 related form data leaving the computer, it re-routes the kid to another page with a flash file of Michael Jackson saying "You're an idiot!" and kissing the screen. Now that would send em a message.
Well that proves my theory quantum physics. If everyone ignores something, it changes before you pay attention again. Take that you tree fell in a forest and nobody's around so now it's a magical non existant item in quantum flux people.
But seriously, the games on the ipod are unplayeable with those retarded controls. I tried to play a simple game of solitaire and I wanted to blow the thing up because of that stupid wheel scroll thing. With the whole totalitarian iTunes that everyone hates thing, I think they're at least tied if not Microsoft winning. I mean same res screen and more storage than anyone has use for even my dad who's a DJ and then we've got games vs no games and no iTunes necessary. Come on, people.
then again I want a Creative MP3 player because they're the "openest." I think you can even drop MP3s onto some of their players in using explorer/My Computer.
Oh would they stop with the "if a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's around to hear it, is it in a state of quantum flux" crap. It's no more than a stupid scientific joke because there's absolutely no way to test it. I could say that until we observe certain things, they're tiny dancing banana creatures with sombraros and you couldn't prove me wrong either. If a quantum event happened and nothing "witnessed it" one of the two possibilities that could happen DID HAPPEN! There's no reason to think it didn't.
you know, what's really going on is probably that scratch a "halo" pardon my pun into the disc while it's operating on its side or whatever that major problem was. That causes the game to read bad data and it isn't handled properly so it crashes instead of giving you a read error and safe quit. So both the game system and the game are defective.
Then you have to wait for them to type it again and make it appear unhacked in the meantime. If you can hack in and immediately get their password, that would be awesome. But I don't think that's actually what this bug does. Doesn't it only affect anything new generated off the random number generator?
Can you say ROAMING?! lol. But seriously, whenever you're "roaming" with a cell it's because your carrier doesn't own the tower you connected to. And a lot of the time that's because it's a privately owned tower. Like some company or person built it and now they sit around doing nothing while the money pours in from all the carriers paying for their customers to use the tower. And they can charge whatever they want so that's why roaming is so expensive. So if a plane wants to connect to a private tower, they can't do it for free because no carrier owns it. That'd be like connecting to my wireless router for free. Who knows how they're gonna handle it.
that's not what will happen. People can only download so much data. I mean really, there's only so much that I can possibly download before I run out of things I want to download. Plus there's the whole hard drive capacity thing. Yes I know internet cache is wiped out repeatedly but besides youtube and stuff, that's all insignificant compared to 2 GB video files. Speaking of that, the high res youtube is gonna crash the entire internet for a while lol.
I dunno why you're surprised. As a professional programmer (and a good one) I can say that these people are possibly the worst programmers on Earth. Ignoring the whole print out the code and read it on paper thing, if they can't figure out something so basic as if the computer gradually slows down, the memory is running out, they shouldn't be programming. I guess it never occured to them to ohhhhh you know, maybe check and see how much open memory there was when they were having the problem. I hope their car goes crazy and runs them over so they can stop disgracing Princeton.
I bought a 450MHz AMD K6-2 a while ago on ebay to upgrade our worst church computer from a 150 MHz model. I think I paid like $10. So yeah if you think it won't sell or is too old, nah ah!
Btw I should also mention the worst way to recycle old tech, as reported by slashdot: glue it to your shirt and walk into an airport:D
what do you mean irrelevant? Yes we invented it. We should be suing every other country for copyright infringement except that we sold them the technology to make a profit. So that means it's still our technology and we can do whatever we want with it. If other countries are so mad about that, why don't they make their own private DNS network?
what if you can get it with the penguin laser etched onto the top heatsink plate? And don't say "then the thermal grease wouldn't work very well" cuz that's the boring answer lol.
If you have to wait for an energy making device to compress or rotate with every motion, it makes it really difficult. If you use a super low resistance system so it doesn't feel like you're doing anything but hopping on a normal mat type thing, then it doesn't generate much electricity. Btw I don't want my office smelling like sweaty, fat people. And if they'd solve that problem with ventillation, I'd just pull out the DDR mats. Woo!
or maybe they'll just disconnect him and block slashdot lol. Come on, you know they won't do what people want! What kind of crazy business model is that?
Btw anyone know what the sic was for? I didn't see any spelling for grammar mistakes
screw that! A gun that disables microprocessors?! I'm worried about more than stupid cop cars. In midflight, there goes planes, spaceships, satellites, and missiles...I'm too lazy to think of any more but how many guidance and propulsion technologies in transportation devices use microprocessors? A LOT!
nah ah! You must be using teh mineral hackz if you have that many units already! cheater! *uses disconnect hack*
Btw this article is idiotic. Cancer cells use principles of chemistry to move. Swarms used intelligent neural networks aka millions of neuron cells, not one cell. There's absolutely no corrolation in how each works beyond pure coincidence. They just added that BS to cover the fact that their research has no purpose at the moment. I hate people who study something with no purpose other than they think it's cool and then hope they stumble upon something useable to technology. Btw this dumb study is brought to you by the same school that closed down the PEAR institute. If you're going to study something ridiculous and seemingly pointless, at least make it about human psychic abilities!
why didn't you just put the swap file on another drive completely? That's what I did. That can seriously speed up read/write time for virtual memory because I think one drive can read while the other one writes a lot faster than one can do by itself without hitting the max of the sata channel. Plus, if the swap file fills in all the little gaps left by deleted files, doesn't that prevent more important files from getting fragmented?
Oh and in response to the story, here's an idea! Instead of adding flashy new features to try and attract the Starbucks customer type people, how about they don't add one single new feature and just fix all the crap that people hate/is wrong with Vista and XP and make a new OS out of it. I'd buy it.
Yeah, I'm a programmer so I agree that you put the most accurate system up front and the less accurate one as a backup. And reading someone's license allows you to, I assume, extensively test if it's fake. Plus then you read an exact date of birth and tada. Reading someone's face and matching it to a photo of their face is ridiculously hard let alone trying to guess their age from it. I know some 7th graders that look older than I currently do and I'm 20. Full beard and 6' height and everything. It's just ridiculously inaccurate.
And since us programmers keep it real: in response to the other person up there who said why not match their picture to the live pic of their face...because if they used the most obvious, quick and easy comparison points like (FINE I'LL SAY IT) hair and skin color and eye color and height, those kinda tend to always result in a positive no matter who the machine sees in asian countries.
you're actually wondering? Because the Chinese culture, especially gov, is all about pride and arrogance and showing off. First of all let me mention that obviously the naval exercise wasn't purposely looking for submarines. If looking for subs was part of the exercise, we would have detected them. That's like sneaking into a costume party that you weren't invited to. Nobody's looking under the masks so you're not sneaky, you're just an idiot. But anyway, now they blew the secrecy that they have what they think is an advanced submarine so we'll obviously focus on even better detection and destruction methods now. Pretty stupid waste of money on their military's part. Oh and I have to add...all we have to do is get a system that detects lead submarine paint and we'll find their subs hehehehe.
If it can be used as a lightsaber I'll take it on my cell phone otherwise I'd prefer not to burn my hair lol. Isn't that the real story here. If they can focus plasma into a limited beam, how could they not saber-ize it?
Isn't the real reason we haven't been trying to rover there because it's just not a very interesting place? Wouldn't the rover just beam back "It's hot and everything's melted" over and over lol. If I remember correctly, there's no significant features to even study. You can't have mountains and ancient, dried up rivers and caves when everything's that hot. Mars is far more interesting.
Come on, people. It's a fairly strange, unique idea that they came up with that I don't think anyone had done before and they were actually using the patent by leasing it out to someone or whatever you want to call it. That's not really patent trolling. Trolling is coming up with some ridiculous idea and sitting on it so you can sue someone when they try to do it
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Sorry, couldn't help it, I'm a programmer. What they need to do to encourage kids to not find ways around this is design the filter so when it senses under 18 related form data leaving the computer, it re-routes the kid to another page with a flash file of Michael Jackson saying "You're an idiot!" and kissing the screen. Now that would send em a message.
Well that proves my theory quantum physics. If everyone ignores something, it changes before you pay attention again. Take that you tree fell in a forest and nobody's around so now it's a magical non existant item in quantum flux people.
But seriously, the games on the ipod are unplayeable with those retarded controls. I tried to play a simple game of solitaire and I wanted to blow the thing up because of that stupid wheel scroll thing. With the whole totalitarian iTunes that everyone hates thing, I think they're at least tied if not Microsoft winning. I mean same res screen and more storage than anyone has use for even my dad who's a DJ and then we've got games vs no games and no iTunes necessary. Come on, people.
then again I want a Creative MP3 player because they're the "openest." I think you can even drop MP3s onto some of their players in using explorer/My Computer.
Oh would they stop with the "if a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's around to hear it, is it in a state of quantum flux" crap. It's no more than a stupid scientific joke because there's absolutely no way to test it. I could say that until we observe certain things, they're tiny dancing banana creatures with sombraros and you couldn't prove me wrong either. If a quantum event happened and nothing "witnessed it" one of the two possibilities that could happen DID HAPPEN! There's no reason to think it didn't.
you know, what's really going on is probably that scratch a "halo" pardon my pun into the disc while it's operating on its side or whatever that major problem was. That causes the game to read bad data and it isn't handled properly so it crashes instead of giving you a read error and safe quit. So both the game system and the game are defective.
Then you have to wait for them to type it again and make it appear unhacked in the meantime. If you can hack in and immediately get their password, that would be awesome. But I don't think that's actually what this bug does. Doesn't it only affect anything new generated off the random number generator?
Can you say ROAMING?! lol. But seriously, whenever you're "roaming" with a cell it's because your carrier doesn't own the tower you connected to. And a lot of the time that's because it's a privately owned tower. Like some company or person built it and now they sit around doing nothing while the money pours in from all the carriers paying for their customers to use the tower. And they can charge whatever they want so that's why roaming is so expensive. So if a plane wants to connect to a private tower, they can't do it for free because no carrier owns it. That'd be like connecting to my wireless router for free. Who knows how they're gonna handle it.
So why not look for Nessy aka the Loch Ness Monster with them as a test? Now THAT would be scientifically productive to me at least :D
that's not what will happen. People can only download so much data. I mean really, there's only so much that I can possibly download before I run out of things I want to download. Plus there's the whole hard drive capacity thing. Yes I know internet cache is wiped out repeatedly but besides youtube and stuff, that's all insignificant compared to 2 GB video files. Speaking of that, the high res youtube is gonna crash the entire internet for a while lol.
I dunno why you're surprised. As a professional programmer (and a good one) I can say that these people are possibly the worst programmers on Earth. Ignoring the whole print out the code and read it on paper thing, if they can't figure out something so basic as if the computer gradually slows down, the memory is running out, they shouldn't be programming. I guess it never occured to them to ohhhhh you know, maybe check and see how much open memory there was when they were having the problem. I hope their car goes crazy and runs them over so they can stop disgracing Princeton.
I bought a 450MHz AMD K6-2 a while ago on ebay to upgrade our worst church computer from a 150 MHz model. I think I paid like $10. So yeah if you think it won't sell or is too old, nah ah! :D
Btw I should also mention the worst way to recycle old tech, as reported by slashdot: glue it to your shirt and walk into an airport
what do you mean irrelevant? Yes we invented it. We should be suing every other country for copyright infringement except that we sold them the technology to make a profit. So that means it's still our technology and we can do whatever we want with it. If other countries are so mad about that, why don't they make their own private DNS network?
what if you can get it with the penguin laser etched onto the top heatsink plate? And don't say "then the thermal grease wouldn't work very well" cuz that's the boring answer lol.
If you have to wait for an energy making device to compress or rotate with every motion, it makes it really difficult. If you use a super low resistance system so it doesn't feel like you're doing anything but hopping on a normal mat type thing, then it doesn't generate much electricity. Btw I don't want my office smelling like sweaty, fat people. And if they'd solve that problem with ventillation, I'd just pull out the DDR mats. Woo!
or maybe they'll just disconnect him and block slashdot lol. Come on, you know they won't do what people want! What kind of crazy business model is that?
Btw anyone know what the sic was for? I didn't see any spelling for grammar mistakes
she's so fugly, she shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. What are you talking about? lol
They still haven't solved the #1 problem with cloning though: why would I want another one of me? My exact genes aren't that great as is.
screw that! A gun that disables microprocessors?! I'm worried about more than stupid cop cars. In midflight, there goes planes, spaceships, satellites, and missiles...I'm too lazy to think of any more but how many guidance and propulsion technologies in transportation devices use microprocessors? A LOT!
nah ah! You must be using teh mineral hackz if you have that many units already! cheater! *uses disconnect hack*
Btw this article is idiotic. Cancer cells use principles of chemistry to move. Swarms used intelligent neural networks aka millions of neuron cells, not one cell. There's absolutely no corrolation in how each works beyond pure coincidence. They just added that BS to cover the fact that their research has no purpose at the moment. I hate people who study something with no purpose other than they think it's cool and then hope they stumble upon something useable to technology. Btw this dumb study is brought to you by the same school that closed down the PEAR institute. If you're going to study something ridiculous and seemingly pointless, at least make it about human psychic abilities!
why didn't you just put the swap file on another drive completely? That's what I did. That can seriously speed up read/write time for virtual memory because I think one drive can read while the other one writes a lot faster than one can do by itself without hitting the max of the sata channel. Plus, if the swap file fills in all the little gaps left by deleted files, doesn't that prevent more important files from getting fragmented?
Oh and in response to the story, here's an idea! Instead of adding flashy new features to try and attract the Starbucks customer type people, how about they don't add one single new feature and just fix all the crap that people hate/is wrong with Vista and XP and make a new OS out of it. I'd buy it.
Yeah, I'm a programmer so I agree that you put the most accurate system up front and the less accurate one as a backup. And reading someone's license allows you to, I assume, extensively test if it's fake. Plus then you read an exact date of birth and tada. Reading someone's face and matching it to a photo of their face is ridiculously hard let alone trying to guess their age from it. I know some 7th graders that look older than I currently do and I'm 20. Full beard and 6' height and everything. It's just ridiculously inaccurate.
And since us programmers keep it real: in response to the other person up there who said why not match their picture to the live pic of their face...because if they used the most obvious, quick and easy comparison points like (FINE I'LL SAY IT) hair and skin color and eye color and height, those kinda tend to always result in a positive no matter who the machine sees in asian countries.
you're actually wondering? Because the Chinese culture, especially gov, is all about pride and arrogance and showing off. First of all let me mention that obviously the naval exercise wasn't purposely looking for submarines. If looking for subs was part of the exercise, we would have detected them. That's like sneaking into a costume party that you weren't invited to. Nobody's looking under the masks so you're not sneaky, you're just an idiot. But anyway, now they blew the secrecy that they have what they think is an advanced submarine so we'll obviously focus on even better detection and destruction methods now. Pretty stupid waste of money on their military's part. Oh and I have to add...all we have to do is get a system that detects lead submarine paint and we'll find their subs hehehehe.
If it can be used as a lightsaber I'll take it on my cell phone otherwise I'd prefer not to burn my hair lol. Isn't that the real story here. If they can focus plasma into a limited beam, how could they not saber-ize it?
Isn't the real reason we haven't been trying to rover there because it's just not a very interesting place? Wouldn't the rover just beam back "It's hot and everything's melted" over and over lol. If I remember correctly, there's no significant features to even study. You can't have mountains and ancient, dried up rivers and caves when everything's that hot. Mars is far more interesting.
Come on, people. It's a fairly strange, unique idea that they came up with that I don't think anyone had done before and they were actually using the patent by leasing it out to someone or whatever you want to call it. That's not really patent trolling. Trolling is coming up with some ridiculous idea and sitting on it so you can sue someone when they try to do it