I've found that less accurate benchmarking that's more realistic is the best bet. Get a stopwatch and clock the boot up and log in time, the time to navigate between internet pages, and the time to open the browser etc. if you say one will take and extra 2 seconds to load CNN.com and the average person goes to 5000 webpages in a day and you say it will save a significant amount of time for employees, that makes complete sense. Even percentages relative to each other for ram benchmarks and hard drive IO don't really mean anything. People like real world stats that pertain directly to the workplace.
Remember the slashdot story a few years ago about MIT using electronics attached directly to a rat's brain to steer it around using a remote control in order to run network cabling through tough spaces? So yeah, we have officially invented the basis for a rat matrix:D
If you follow this sort of thing, you'll remember that this isn't the first huge event caused by automatic trading triggers. Pretty much everyone uses them and if too many of them think alike, it's bad news. The real mystery is why nobody blamed this first when it's a lot more obvious than some idiot with a fat finger typing a B instead of an M or something. I think we would have heard from that guy or had a way to trace a billion dollar deal somewhere in the system in about 1 second and have their face on the news.
Since we know almost nothing about antimatter, I don't think it's proper to automatically decide that less antimatter is being produced. All it means is they're measuring equipment says there is less antimatter. For all they know, a couple percent of the antimatter is turning into a different kind of particle or slipping into another dimension or doing something else that's undetectable. The antimatter particle are likely still being created, something just happens to them before we can measure them.
There seems to be a disagreement about whether or not organic materials just were here, formed here, or were brought here by an outside source. This article seems to be leaning towards the organic meteor theory but here's a fun question: where did the material on the meteor come from then? The answer is usually "another planet" but then why couldn't the materials have formed here just as easily?
but the simple fact is that the publishers have to develop completely separate games for the Wii because its CPU is not powerful.'"
That is completely wrong. Why don't people put RTS games on consoles? Because the control interface is completely incomatible. That's the same thing I'd say about trying to play a racing game or Halo with a Wiimote. THAT is the real reason they have to design completely different games.
After learning that metal, plastic, and ceramics weren't safe to drink out of, I thought I was smart getting a mould of a mug and freezing up an ice mug in the freezer. Now that you can use water to hold water without it melting, I just feel silly lol.
hey, we went through hell trying to get it to run on Parallels on my friend's mac. Turns out version 3 doesn't support 3D anything at all. His Windows machine's old socket athlon XP single core and 1 GB of ram seemed maybe doable but apparently the AGP Radeon 9600SE doesn't support pixel shader 2.0 or at least the beta thinks it doesn't. So that sucked. We ended up just today putting another 1GB of ram in his mom's laptop to run it on a centrino duo and it wasn't too bad actually. And then I come and read this grrrr. The download for the Mac beta was grayed out for absolutely no reason with no explanation stated on the page and we were trying different browsers and re-running the system info scanner they made and all this crap and got nowhere with it. Also, they're fixing stupid things according to the patch logs when the basic party, game, invite, and chat system has severe and obvious problems for EVERYONE. When you can't even make a party and start a game approximately half the time, it's time to fix that and not randomly release an overdue mac version instead. They better get their crap together before the early June release date! They probably have to burn a permanent master version of this in a week or two! This is such a typical do nothing, patch nothing, PR-only marketing beta, NOT an actual beta test.
Hmm...yeah, God forbid they spend all that "remote control thermostat for millions of homes" money on another turbine or upgrades or a whole new power plant. THAT would make too much sense.
More companies really need to do this to older games! Starcraft sort of did it by including a no CD "crack" in one of their updates a few years back. Dungeons and Dragons Online went free to play after several years of falling $15/month subscriptions. Now I think they have more players than they did at the peak of their subscriptions! Newegg included a free copy of Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 in one of my orders just labeled "free gift" and I totally love it! It made me seriously consider playing other versions (until the reviews said they sucked). There's no better way to get someone involved in a series of games than giving them an older version of it for free. It reeeeeally makes them wonder how awesome newer versions of the game are.
They assume white hats are smarter and faster because they have jobs and are being paid. What they don't realize is that black hats also have "jobs" and are being paid.
But just remember, that doesn't stack with anything else such as geeky feats like Dance Dance Revolution mad skills AC boost lol.
Btw one huge thing that sounded totally off that I want to mention is that they said just "boron." It's boron carbide. Boron isn't very hard. That's like saying tungsten is really hard when it's tungsten carbide that's in armor piercing bullets.
Anyone notice that the stories "console gaming is about to die" and "PC gaming is about to die" alternate on slashdot. It's so regular and odd that it could perhaps be made into some sort of game that could be played on a console or PC perhaps. It could be like virtual whack-a-mole but with only two moles; the opposite news stories. People are always going to play with both, get over it. Every time one drops 5% or something, people don't have to write about how it's about to die.
Lol okay, that title was a little much but seriously, all I read was "they're moron, go liberals, wooo!" Pull your head out of your ass and stop reading from the black and white, conservative vs liberal playbook and think of this issue in reality. I'm an independent, can you tell? I use logical to solve disputes and political or governmental problems. So in this case, what do we get if we don't teach them how to use contraceptives? They learn learn it elsewhere (or already know cuz it's pretty common knowledge) from friends or the internet and is on the packages for any of these products not to mention their websites or forums or basically anywhere else. If someone wants to know, they can look it up online or ask someone if they're not too shy and then the information is available to them AS NEEDED and WHEN NEEDED FOR THEM PERSONALLY. That seems perfectly logical and reasonable but does in fact leave some random kids without important knowledge if they're somehow unable to acquire it when they need it.
Here's what we get when you do teach them this information about contraceptives. They know about it for future reference like perhaps if they were married, which most conservatives will agree with minus the catholics, but only if they remember for that long into the future. They'd probably have to re-look up the info anyway. I'm 22 and I hardly remember some of the more advanced details about the stranger contraceptives. But still, then everyone knows and if something's important, they remember it better and longer. What everyone doesn't seem to understand is that high school-taught knowledge is for future use and sex ed is no different. The curriculum does not include telling kids to go have sex right now. It's just information that is being stated in a nuetral way...IN THEORY! There are two slightly different but at the same time extremely different ways of teaching it and phrasing the material. One is it is stated as information and facts only with no bias or suggestions or opinions. Then there's young kids, perhaps even 13 or 14, who have decided they aren't ready to or don't want to have sex yet and now they have to sit through someone telling them exactly how to put a condom on themself as if it's implied they need to know it now because they're supposed to be doing something with the knowledge. These (approx 50%+ of) kids obviously have their hormones telling them one thing and their brains telling them no sex yet and then here comes this info making them feel like they're doing something wrong in waiting or having no need for that information yet. That's why I lean slightly towards putting massive restrictions on how this information can be taught but still teaching it. This is NOT as black and white as you idiots on either side of it saying "YOU'RE EVIL! YOU SUCK! YOU'RE RUINING KIDS LIVES!" It's really quite complicated if you take 2 seconds to use your damn brain about it.
Yes, they can digest it but they apparently haven't yet developed the ability to not get and spread deadly pandemic diseases by eating uncooked meat. Seriously, most sushi shouldn't be edible and digestion isn't the only reason. Those lovely seaweed or other generally unprepared food bacteria could have just as easily been dangerous and spreadable and more recently, most of them have been.
This is just dumb compared to any of the multitude of jokes they could have made about physics-based future sabotage idea. It could have easily been about a photoshopped picture "taken" by the security cameras there of the creatures from on the plane wing in that one Twilight Zone episode. They could have little wrenches and be lurking in the shadows, breaking things. Also, the sensors in the LHC would detect their chronoton radiation, proving they're saboteurs from the future:P
You know, it's not that hard to send all data in triplicate a few milliseconds apart and then error correct it using the odd man out gets ignored style. They're just too lazy to do it or too cheap to put in a processor 3x faster. It's not going to flip the same exact bit in two different streams of data at different times and if it did, it's probably enough radiation to melt you and your car.
from the article: "However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn't emit or reflect any light)"
For like the billionth time, they don't know that! Why do they keep making that assumption?! It's 1000000000x more likely that it's just normal matter that doesn't happen to have measurable light (or other EM radiation) bouncing off of it at the moment. Just because we can't "see" it doesn't mean it's some magical, law of physics-breaking mystery material. That's like turning off all the lights in your room and then saying "well, logically all the matter in my room just disappeared into a different dimension or state of matter because that makes the most sense to me." Ugh, scientists can be such idiots sometimes. If you don't believe me, look up a history of idiotic assumptions about astronomy that were believed for absolutely no reason and then proven wrong.
I used tablets in a job at a hospital where all the doctors got flipping screen lenovo laptops and I have one thing to say about tablets after that experience. It comes down to the simple fact that they're only for flashy show off sprees and have no real use. They don't provide anything at all that's better than a laptop. I don't buy the portability thing because the slight weight difference and way you carry it are insignificant. Also, NOTHING can even come close to touching the speed of me with a wired, optical mouse in my hand. After this many years, I don't care what you put in my hand, I'm going to be at most half the speed with it. And the handwriting recognition is a cute trick but too slow and inaccurate and stupid to be used in any real environment where you need to actually do real things. Picking up and holding a computer in your arm like a clipboard to use it is a stupid idea and that's all it really boils down to.
I have an idea of what to do during the 15 minutes. You can go into the "gas station" and get some snacks and sit around and be a fat ass OR you can save money by hopping on a bike attached to an alternator to help charge it. That'd be money-saving cheaper energy, green energy, something to do, and cardio/weight loss. That would go absolutely insane in popularity here in the US.
There's something else C programmers should know...use a real language! Yes, programming fundamentals are extremely important. Yes, people should learn C or C++ first. Yes, old people are going to bitch as usual in response to this thread. But seriously, anyone "still using C" like you said needs to get with it and realize that modern software needs something a little quicker and more flexible. I heard they invented this thing called strings since C came out. Or maybe I should just mail them a modern system spec sheet. I hear they're shipping with 4+ GB of ram and multicore processors these days. I don't care if the.NET control for a timer takes up like 500kb of memory instead of 10, it takes me 1 minute to write a block of code using it instead of ten days of digging through documentation and API notes and crap. The fact that people would even still use C at all for anything anywhere ever shocks me.
Closer to what? Something smarter than a rocket? lol. Why use tons of fuel to accelerate really quickly and clear the atmosphere that fast? That's about as fuel efficient as flooring it at a red light. And I don't know who pulled the escape velocity numbers out of their ass but you don't "need" to be going whatever ridiculous speed they said. You "need" to be going any positive number. Like if you're going 1 MPH upward, you'll eventually be a hundred miles away from Earth. So anyway, rockets suck and they need to make more space planes. If it can take off like a normal plane using a normal amount of fuel and use air to lift it really high then use boosters or whatever to get it the rest of the way into space, that sounds 100x less expensive and less complicated.
I made my forum/website invisible to search engines because I only want members coming from one single place which I have a link on. Then only certain members join and it's actually quite nice and peaceful. That's really all there is to it. No terrorists or anything.
Who the hell said anything about mercury? When I was like 1 or 2 or something, I got a vaccine shot, had an allergic reaction to it, and now I have mild aspergers (and mad programming skills! woohoo). Every other article I've read about this said it was bad reactions to t he vaccines, not some stealthy ingredient that could affect anyway without you knowing it. Plus, I just saw a documentary proving that mercury only makes Johnny Depp crazy. Kudos to anyone who actually gets that joke.
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I've found that less accurate benchmarking that's more realistic is the best bet. Get a stopwatch and clock the boot up and log in time, the time to navigate between internet pages, and the time to open the browser etc. if you say one will take and extra 2 seconds to load CNN.com and the average person goes to 5000 webpages in a day and you say it will save a significant amount of time for employees, that makes complete sense. Even percentages relative to each other for ram benchmarks and hard drive IO don't really mean anything. People like real world stats that pertain directly to the workplace.
Remember the slashdot story a few years ago about MIT using electronics attached directly to a rat's brain to steer it around using a remote control in order to run network cabling through tough spaces? So yeah, we have officially invented the basis for a rat matrix :D
If you follow this sort of thing, you'll remember that this isn't the first huge event caused by automatic trading triggers. Pretty much everyone uses them and if too many of them think alike, it's bad news. The real mystery is why nobody blamed this first when it's a lot more obvious than some idiot with a fat finger typing a B instead of an M or something. I think we would have heard from that guy or had a way to trace a billion dollar deal somewhere in the system in about 1 second and have their face on the news.
Since we know almost nothing about antimatter, I don't think it's proper to automatically decide that less antimatter is being produced. All it means is they're measuring equipment says there is less antimatter. For all they know, a couple percent of the antimatter is turning into a different kind of particle or slipping into another dimension or doing something else that's undetectable. The antimatter particle are likely still being created, something just happens to them before we can measure them.
There seems to be a disagreement about whether or not organic materials just were here, formed here, or were brought here by an outside source. This article seems to be leaning towards the organic meteor theory but here's a fun question: where did the material on the meteor come from then? The answer is usually "another planet" but then why couldn't the materials have formed here just as easily?
That is completely wrong. Why don't people put RTS games on consoles? Because the control interface is completely incomatible. That's the same thing I'd say about trying to play a racing game or Halo with a Wiimote. THAT is the real reason they have to design completely different games.
After learning that metal, plastic, and ceramics weren't safe to drink out of, I thought I was smart getting a mould of a mug and freezing up an ice mug in the freezer. Now that you can use water to hold water without it melting, I just feel silly lol.
hey, we went through hell trying to get it to run on Parallels on my friend's mac. Turns out version 3 doesn't support 3D anything at all. His Windows machine's old socket athlon XP single core and 1 GB of ram seemed maybe doable but apparently the AGP Radeon 9600SE doesn't support pixel shader 2.0 or at least the beta thinks it doesn't. So that sucked. We ended up just today putting another 1GB of ram in his mom's laptop to run it on a centrino duo and it wasn't too bad actually. And then I come and read this grrrr. The download for the Mac beta was grayed out for absolutely no reason with no explanation stated on the page and we were trying different browsers and re-running the system info scanner they made and all this crap and got nowhere with it. Also, they're fixing stupid things according to the patch logs when the basic party, game, invite, and chat system has severe and obvious problems for EVERYONE. When you can't even make a party and start a game approximately half the time, it's time to fix that and not randomly release an overdue mac version instead. They better get their crap together before the early June release date! They probably have to burn a permanent master version of this in a week or two! This is such a typical do nothing, patch nothing, PR-only marketing beta, NOT an actual beta test.
Hmm...yeah, God forbid they spend all that "remote control thermostat for millions of homes" money on another turbine or upgrades or a whole new power plant. THAT would make too much sense.
More companies really need to do this to older games! Starcraft sort of did it by including a no CD "crack" in one of their updates a few years back. Dungeons and Dragons Online went free to play after several years of falling $15/month subscriptions. Now I think they have more players than they did at the peak of their subscriptions! Newegg included a free copy of Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 in one of my orders just labeled "free gift" and I totally love it! It made me seriously consider playing other versions (until the reviews said they sucked). There's no better way to get someone involved in a series of games than giving them an older version of it for free. It reeeeeally makes them wonder how awesome newer versions of the game are.
In case you think this is stupid, I just want to say that I'm from Wisconsin and I also think this is stupid.
They assume white hats are smarter and faster because they have jobs and are being paid. What they don't realize is that black hats also have "jobs" and are being paid.
But just remember, that doesn't stack with anything else such as geeky feats like Dance Dance Revolution mad skills AC boost lol.
Btw one huge thing that sounded totally off that I want to mention is that they said just "boron." It's boron carbide. Boron isn't very hard. That's like saying tungsten is really hard when it's tungsten carbide that's in armor piercing bullets.
Anyone notice that the stories "console gaming is about to die" and "PC gaming is about to die" alternate on slashdot. It's so regular and odd that it could perhaps be made into some sort of game that could be played on a console or PC perhaps. It could be like virtual whack-a-mole but with only two moles; the opposite news stories. People are always going to play with both, get over it. Every time one drops 5% or something, people don't have to write about how it's about to die.
Lol okay, that title was a little much but seriously, all I read was "they're moron, go liberals, wooo!" Pull your head out of your ass and stop reading from the black and white, conservative vs liberal playbook and think of this issue in reality. I'm an independent, can you tell? I use logical to solve disputes and political or governmental problems. So in this case, what do we get if we don't teach them how to use contraceptives? They learn learn it elsewhere (or already know cuz it's pretty common knowledge) from friends or the internet and is on the packages for any of these products not to mention their websites or forums or basically anywhere else. If someone wants to know, they can look it up online or ask someone if they're not too shy and then the information is available to them AS NEEDED and WHEN NEEDED FOR THEM PERSONALLY. That seems perfectly logical and reasonable but does in fact leave some random kids without important knowledge if they're somehow unable to acquire it when they need it.
Here's what we get when you do teach them this information about contraceptives. They know about it for future reference like perhaps if they were married, which most conservatives will agree with minus the catholics, but only if they remember for that long into the future. They'd probably have to re-look up the info anyway. I'm 22 and I hardly remember some of the more advanced details about the stranger contraceptives. But still, then everyone knows and if something's important, they remember it better and longer. What everyone doesn't seem to understand is that high school-taught knowledge is for future use and sex ed is no different. The curriculum does not include telling kids to go have sex right now. It's just information that is being stated in a nuetral way...IN THEORY! There are two slightly different but at the same time extremely different ways of teaching it and phrasing the material. One is it is stated as information and facts only with no bias or suggestions or opinions. Then there's young kids, perhaps even 13 or 14, who have decided they aren't ready to or don't want to have sex yet and now they have to sit through someone telling them exactly how to put a condom on themself as if it's implied they need to know it now because they're supposed to be doing something with the knowledge. These (approx 50%+ of) kids obviously have their hormones telling them one thing and their brains telling them no sex yet and then here comes this info making them feel like they're doing something wrong in waiting or having no need for that information yet. That's why I lean slightly towards putting massive restrictions on how this information can be taught but still teaching it. This is NOT as black and white as you idiots on either side of it saying "YOU'RE EVIL! YOU SUCK! YOU'RE RUINING KIDS LIVES!" It's really quite complicated if you take 2 seconds to use your damn brain about it.
Yes, they can digest it but they apparently haven't yet developed the ability to not get and spread deadly pandemic diseases by eating uncooked meat. Seriously, most sushi shouldn't be edible and digestion isn't the only reason. Those lovely seaweed or other generally unprepared food bacteria could have just as easily been dangerous and spreadable and more recently, most of them have been.
This is just dumb compared to any of the multitude of jokes they could have made about physics-based future sabotage idea. It could have easily been about a photoshopped picture "taken" by the security cameras there of the creatures from on the plane wing in that one Twilight Zone episode. They could have little wrenches and be lurking in the shadows, breaking things. Also, the sensors in the LHC would detect their chronoton radiation, proving they're saboteurs from the future :P
You know, it's not that hard to send all data in triplicate a few milliseconds apart and then error correct it using the odd man out gets ignored style. They're just too lazy to do it or too cheap to put in a processor 3x faster. It's not going to flip the same exact bit in two different streams of data at different times and if it did, it's probably enough radiation to melt you and your car.
from the article: "However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn't emit or reflect any light)"
For like the billionth time, they don't know that! Why do they keep making that assumption?! It's 1000000000x more likely that it's just normal matter that doesn't happen to have measurable light (or other EM radiation) bouncing off of it at the moment. Just because we can't "see" it doesn't mean it's some magical, law of physics-breaking mystery material. That's like turning off all the lights in your room and then saying "well, logically all the matter in my room just disappeared into a different dimension or state of matter because that makes the most sense to me." Ugh, scientists can be such idiots sometimes. If you don't believe me, look up a history of idiotic assumptions about astronomy that were believed for absolutely no reason and then proven wrong.
I used tablets in a job at a hospital where all the doctors got flipping screen lenovo laptops and I have one thing to say about tablets after that experience. It comes down to the simple fact that they're only for flashy show off sprees and have no real use. They don't provide anything at all that's better than a laptop. I don't buy the portability thing because the slight weight difference and way you carry it are insignificant. Also, NOTHING can even come close to touching the speed of me with a wired, optical mouse in my hand. After this many years, I don't care what you put in my hand, I'm going to be at most half the speed with it. And the handwriting recognition is a cute trick but too slow and inaccurate and stupid to be used in any real environment where you need to actually do real things. Picking up and holding a computer in your arm like a clipboard to use it is a stupid idea and that's all it really boils down to.
I have an idea of what to do during the 15 minutes. You can go into the "gas station" and get some snacks and sit around and be a fat ass OR you can save money by hopping on a bike attached to an alternator to help charge it. That'd be money-saving cheaper energy, green energy, something to do, and cardio/weight loss. That would go absolutely insane in popularity here in the US.
There's something else C programmers should know...use a real language! Yes, programming fundamentals are extremely important. Yes, people should learn C or C++ first. Yes, old people are going to bitch as usual in response to this thread. But seriously, anyone "still using C" like you said needs to get with it and realize that modern software needs something a little quicker and more flexible. I heard they invented this thing called strings since C came out. Or maybe I should just mail them a modern system spec sheet. I hear they're shipping with 4+ GB of ram and multicore processors these days. I don't care if the .NET control for a timer takes up like 500kb of memory instead of 10, it takes me 1 minute to write a block of code using it instead of ten days of digging through documentation and API notes and crap. The fact that people would even still use C at all for anything anywhere ever shocks me.
Closer to what? Something smarter than a rocket? lol. Why use tons of fuel to accelerate really quickly and clear the atmosphere that fast? That's about as fuel efficient as flooring it at a red light. And I don't know who pulled the escape velocity numbers out of their ass but you don't "need" to be going whatever ridiculous speed they said. You "need" to be going any positive number. Like if you're going 1 MPH upward, you'll eventually be a hundred miles away from Earth. So anyway, rockets suck and they need to make more space planes. If it can take off like a normal plane using a normal amount of fuel and use air to lift it really high then use boosters or whatever to get it the rest of the way into space, that sounds 100x less expensive and less complicated.
I made my forum/website invisible to search engines because I only want members coming from one single place which I have a link on. Then only certain members join and it's actually quite nice and peaceful. That's really all there is to it. No terrorists or anything.
Who the hell said anything about mercury? When I was like 1 or 2 or something, I got a vaccine shot, had an allergic reaction to it, and now I have mild aspergers (and mad programming skills! woohoo). Every other article I've read about this said it was bad reactions to t he vaccines, not some stealthy ingredient that could affect anyway without you knowing it. Plus, I just saw a documentary proving that mercury only makes Johnny Depp crazy. Kudos to anyone who actually gets that joke.