I also wonder how long it would take them to make DX10 work in Windows XP, which I'm sure would have had a much greater impact.
I dualboot Vista and XP on my desktop and I use Vista solely for gaming with DirectX 10. I would loveeee to use XP for everything and not have both OS's at the same time.
I guess that's probably too much to ask. Oh wait. Apparently Microsoft has an Alpha for DX10 on XP...... Maybe I stand corrected?
What's next? If my PC crashes because your software is atrocious is that going to cost me too?
I'm an hourly employee and this pisses me off. If I'm in the building and can't be elsewhere then you WILL be paying me. It's ridiculous. There's plenty of stuff to be done while waiting for a machine to boot anyways. Talk to coworkers, get a feel for whats going to happen that day, etc.
What about all the people who go off and go for a smoke? Half the time they don't clock out for their smoke break. I don't smoke, and therein get more done, but we're being treated the same?
I don't know how you can even attempt to draw a parallel to that.
Comparing Google functionality to water. That's ridiculous. Water is fundamentally necessary to life. Google is not.
Did we manage before Google came around? You bet.
Would we cope if Google closed their doors tomorrow morning? You bet.
[offtopic]
Microsoft, like any other company, does not REALLY have an obligation to customers, they can close whenever they want. They shouldn't be able to disable software that you have PAID for without notice. What DRM'd music store attempted to close their doors and disable their DRM servers? Yahoo I think it was.
Corporations have an obligation to stockholders, and that's it. To think otherwise is completely naive.
[/offtopic]
I think I prefer the current setup of having seperate less-than-lethal and full-on lethal weapons. Current standards and practices require less-than-lethal rounds (beanbags, etc) to be used only in specifically designated (usually painted green or some other stand-out color) weapons. This allows people to easily identify lethal or less-than-lethal weapons. Do we really want a weapon that does the job of both, with a risk of failing (not firing at all, under-firing when using lethal force, over-firing when using less-than-lethal force)?
"While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows."
The last person to use our lab equipment for P2P had his associated UNIX account probshelled for 6 months. 6 months of no e-mail, no internet, no lab access.
And for the record, our DeepFreeze'd machines along with hard-disk images results in one machine out of 50 going bad in about a 6 month period.
I don't know where you work, but those symptoms sound more indicative of user (or administrative) stupidity.
And in my experience managers tend to go with the solution that the largest percentage of the population and staff use. Granted the trend towards Microsoft software is on the downside but they are still king of the hill. For now.
You can't expect people to just up and leave software that they're familiar with. I reference college students where I work. We have two rooms, similarly laid out. One room has HP DC7600s, the other Intel iMacs. People chose the room with the HPs showing the typical Windows screensaver over the Macs (which dual boot!) - why? Because it's friggin familiar. And you can't change that by saying the software is crap, because there isn't a usable alternative that appeals to the masses.
I can and have tried, with the result being the inability to even watch a DVD on my laptop due to software framebuffer being veryyyyyyy slow. </OffTopic Response>
Consider the average government worker. They probably care very little about Free Software/Open Source/whatever. If the government didn't buy Microsoft products [or Apple products, or Adobe products] they would have to spend much money training people in the use of software that they have probably never seen in their lives.
And the "it's similar to the paid software" line doesn't hold here. Typical Americans [NOT the Slashdot crowd] look at something, see it's something not familiar and then walk away slowly until someone holds their hand and shows them how to do everything.
Microsoft has done plenty fine [incoming negative mods, I spoke positively of Microsoft!], and while I don't use their software on my Desktop, I do use it on my laptop specifically because getting open sourced software to work on the laptop is heinously difficult [I'm blaming SIS at this point for non-existant video support for my chipset].
My point: the government would find other ways to blow the money they'd save on software [training, bonus pay for the person who suggested open source, etc].
The Democrats will not be winning this election for a very simple set of reasons.
1) The party is completely split between Obama and Clinton.
2) Neither Clinton nor Obama quit. In fact now I bet Clinton will be looking for a 3rd-party nomination. This leads to 3.
3) The people who voted Obama in primaries will vote Obama in the presidency. The people who voted Clinton will still vote Clinton. Clinton may get a few votes from Republicans, Obama will probably see little to no outside support.
The end result is that the Democratic ticket is still split. Whichever republican gets the ticket (McCain is most likely at this point, iirc) will have little trouble winning. The Democrats frakked themselves from the start by deciding on letting two hotheaded, never-give-up attitudes try to duke it out for supremacy.
But GTA IV IS a game. If your children do not understand the difference between a video game and real life then your children have serious issues to be dealt with.
Furthermore: a more effective article title would have been: "Whiny Special Interest Group Complains About Latest Video Game Because No One Pays Attention To Them."
At least it would be more realistic then. We all know that they're just doing it as a public stunt.
So instead of making the lectures more appetizing to the students the solution is to deny them from distractions... Why don't we lock them in a white-washed room (can't have a color which might possible result in open thought) with no windows (there might be something half interesting out there afterall!), white concrete floors (rugs can be interesting!), no desks (have you seen what people write on those things?) with only the professor standing up front.
If the material isn't interesting people will NOT pay attention, no matter what you do. Needing the class to graduate is NOT enough reason for your average college student to pay attention. Deny them laptops, internet, etc and you know what? People will stop coming to the class. They will find SOMETHING to do rather than be bored by your disinterested teaching.
I've said it before. If you aren't interested in the material you are teaching, we will notice, and we won't care either. Learn to teach right, or don't teach at all.
As a complete aside, if someone typing away on the quiet laptop keyboard or using a mouse is THAT distracting, I feel sorry for you - when you reach the office world prepare to be completely distracted.
Single walled carbon nanotubes may be considered to be graphene cylinders; some have a hemispherical graphene cap (that includes 6 pentagons) at each end.
From the same Wikipedia article you linked. 10x1 I guess would be considered a graphene cylinder. Such is the only explanation for the errata you mention.
"they were illegally requested to do things in a way that may have appeared valid to their legal council"
If their legal council couldn't bother to verify what was going on before bending over and accepting this, then there's a whole other issue that needs to be dealt with. But that's besides the point. They (the telcos) did something heinously wrong, and now they deserve to be punished.
Does this affect Desktop machines from HP-Compaq as well? We just received a metric buttload of these machines and I'm curious if they can all be suceptible.
Speaking strictly as a mathematician, yes a proof is an argument, but an argument based on facts and proven logic. A proof would be something along the lines of if A then B, if B then C, if C then not D, and thus if we have A we cannot have D. However, not A does not imply D. etc etc.
Some proofs are elegant in their simplicity, and others are elegant in their complexity. Anyone who has looked at Russell's Paradox knows what I'm talking about.
Yes, Wikipedia should include proofs for the things that take at most 2 pages - any longer and it gets too difficult to follow.
To reiterate: Mathematical proofs are FACTS - they are the basis for many things we do today. They are arguments too - but only in the sense that you logically argue following a set of known truths and quantitative and qualitative logic.
From us people on/., we know that a moved circuit board and a different bracket has little chance to make a real difference with the operation of a machine.
However! To the average person, they look at item A, then look at item B, and see that something is not in the same place and say "These must not operate in the same function - which isn't all that unreasonable the more you think about it. The issue remains clear: They have two different machines (at least structurally) - and they must be certified before sale. They were not certified, and thus got smacked down. That's the way it works.
This is really cool. For years all map locations have been incorrectly reporting my parents house as being the turn onto the street leading to our house. Now it's actually moved to the correct spot.
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I wonder how long it took them to do this...
... Maybe I stand corrected?
I also wonder how long it would take them to make DX10 work in Windows XP, which I'm sure would have had a much greater impact.
I dualboot Vista and XP on my desktop and I use Vista solely for gaming with DirectX 10. I would loveeee to use XP for everything and not have both OS's at the same time.
I guess that's probably too much to ask. Oh wait. Apparently Microsoft has an Alpha for DX10 on XP...
OK I understand that the grease gun went off in the bag and covered the tools with goo and what not.
... Wait... You say they only have those two sets? No backups? ... ... -_-
But... why not go inside before attempting to clean the stupid things off? I mean, the tools are still usable, if a little gunked up...
Kudos to NASA for having two sets of tools, one for each astronaut.
Seriously?
What's next? If my PC crashes because your software is atrocious is that going to cost me too?
I'm an hourly employee and this pisses me off. If I'm in the building and can't be elsewhere then you WILL be paying me. It's ridiculous. There's plenty of stuff to be done while waiting for a machine to boot anyways. Talk to coworkers, get a feel for whats going to happen that day, etc.
What about all the people who go off and go for a smoke? Half the time they don't clock out for their smoke break. I don't smoke, and therein get more done, but we're being treated the same?
Gimme a break. Seriously.
Take a week off. Both of you.
:P
Come back the next week, see how much the production figures dropped, then say "That's how much we're worth."
In terms of units or moneys, can't be those results.
I don't know how you can even attempt to draw a parallel to that.
Comparing Google functionality to water. That's ridiculous. Water is fundamentally necessary to life. Google is not.
Did we manage before Google came around? You bet.
Would we cope if Google closed their doors tomorrow morning? You bet.
[offtopic]
Microsoft, like any other company, does not REALLY have an obligation to customers, they can close whenever they want. They shouldn't be able to disable software that you have PAID for without notice. What DRM'd music store attempted to close their doors and disable their DRM servers? Yahoo I think it was.
Corporations have an obligation to stockholders, and that's it. To think otherwise is completely naive.
[/offtopic]
I think I prefer the current setup of having seperate less-than-lethal and full-on lethal weapons. Current standards and practices require less-than-lethal rounds (beanbags, etc) to be used only in specifically designated (usually painted green or some other stand-out color) weapons. This allows people to easily identify lethal or less-than-lethal weapons. Do we really want a weapon that does the job of both, with a risk of failing (not firing at all, under-firing when using lethal force, over-firing when using less-than-lethal force)?
Personally, not a fan of this idea.
"While that sounds good it doesn't wash. It depends what you are setting up to do. If you want a permissive, bug ridden system where most of your company's bandwidth is used for P2P and every three months your clients call you to tell you their computer has slowed to a crawl, go ahead and use Windows."
The last person to use our lab equipment for P2P had his associated UNIX account probshelled for 6 months. 6 months of no e-mail, no internet, no lab access.
And for the record, our DeepFreeze'd machines along with hard-disk images results in one machine out of 50 going bad in about a 6 month period.
I don't know where you work, but those symptoms sound more indicative of user (or administrative) stupidity.
And in my experience managers tend to go with the solution that the largest percentage of the population and staff use. Granted the trend towards Microsoft software is on the downside but they are still king of the hill. For now.
You can't expect people to just up and leave software that they're familiar with. I reference college students where I work. We have two rooms, similarly laid out. One room has HP DC7600s, the other Intel iMacs. People chose the room with the HPs showing the typical Windows screensaver over the Macs (which dual boot!) - why? Because it's friggin familiar. And you can't change that by saying the software is crap, because there isn't a usable alternative that appeals to the masses.
I can and have tried, with the result being the inability to even watch a DVD on my laptop due to software framebuffer being veryyyyyyy slow.
</OffTopic Response>
Consider the average government worker. They probably care very little about Free Software/Open Source/whatever. If the government didn't buy Microsoft products [or Apple products, or Adobe products] they would have to spend much money training people in the use of software that they have probably never seen in their lives.
And the "it's similar to the paid software" line doesn't hold here. Typical Americans [NOT the Slashdot crowd] look at something, see it's something not familiar and then walk away slowly until someone holds their hand and shows them how to do everything.
Microsoft has done plenty fine [incoming negative mods, I spoke positively of Microsoft!], and while I don't use their software on my Desktop, I do use it on my laptop specifically because getting open sourced software to work on the laptop is heinously difficult [I'm blaming SIS at this point for non-existant video support for my chipset].
My point: the government would find other ways to blow the money they'd save on software [training, bonus pay for the person who suggested open source, etc].
We can only hope for some gaming goodness that is KOTOR3.
... Damnit LucasArts, don't leave us PC users now!
Failing that, I'd settle for a Windows version of Force Unleashed
The Democrats will not be winning this election for a very simple set of reasons.
1) The party is completely split between Obama and Clinton.
2) Neither Clinton nor Obama quit. In fact now I bet Clinton will be looking for a 3rd-party nomination. This leads to 3.
3) The people who voted Obama in primaries will vote Obama in the presidency. The people who voted Clinton will still vote Clinton. Clinton may get a few votes from Republicans, Obama will probably see little to no outside support.
The end result is that the Democratic ticket is still split. Whichever republican gets the ticket (McCain is most likely at this point, iirc) will have little trouble winning. The Democrats frakked themselves from the start by deciding on letting two hotheaded, never-give-up attitudes try to duke it out for supremacy.
Personally, I'm voting for Bob Barr. >_>
But GTA IV IS a game. If your children do not understand the difference between a video game and real life then your children have serious issues to be dealt with.
Furthermore: a more effective article title would have been: "Whiny Special Interest Group Complains About Latest Video Game Because No One Pays Attention To Them."
At least it would be more realistic then. We all know that they're just doing it as a public stunt.
So instead of making the lectures more appetizing to the students the solution is to deny them from distractions... Why don't we lock them in a white-washed room (can't have a color which might possible result in open thought) with no windows (there might be something half interesting out there afterall!), white concrete floors (rugs can be interesting!), no desks (have you seen what people write on those things?) with only the professor standing up front.
If the material isn't interesting people will NOT pay attention, no matter what you do. Needing the class to graduate is NOT enough reason for your average college student to pay attention. Deny them laptops, internet, etc and you know what? People will stop coming to the class. They will find SOMETHING to do rather than be bored by your disinterested teaching.
I've said it before. If you aren't interested in the material you are teaching, we will notice, and we won't care either. Learn to teach right, or don't teach at all.
As a complete aside, if someone typing away on the quiet laptop keyboard or using a mouse is THAT distracting, I feel sorry for you - when you reach the office world prepare to be completely distracted.
Single walled carbon nanotubes may be considered to be graphene cylinders; some have a hemispherical graphene cap (that includes 6 pentagons) at each end.
From the same Wikipedia article you linked. 10x1 I guess would be considered a graphene cylinder. Such is the only explanation for the errata you mention.
Does ANYONE really know math?
Aside: I'm a math major and I think I'm confident in saying that no one does.
Developers developers developers?
"they were illegally requested to do things in a way that may have appeared valid to their legal council"
If their legal council couldn't bother to verify what was going on before bending over and accepting this, then there's a whole other issue that needs to be dealt with. But that's besides the point. They (the telcos) did something heinously wrong, and now they deserve to be punished.
"A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion."
- We all know who.
When they already understand basic things such as language, grammar, etc.
How many people do you know can't function as human beings but can tell you how to beat the latest boss in [LatestGame]?
Disclaimer: Did not read the article.
Does this affect Desktop machines from HP-Compaq as well? We just received a metric buttload of these machines and I'm curious if they can all be suceptible.
Speaking strictly as a mathematician, yes a proof is an argument, but an argument based on facts and proven logic. A proof would be something along the lines of if A then B, if B then C, if C then not D, and thus if we have A we cannot have D. However, not A does not imply D. etc etc.
Some proofs are elegant in their simplicity, and others are elegant in their complexity. Anyone who has looked at Russell's Paradox knows what I'm talking about.
Yes, Wikipedia should include proofs for the things that take at most 2 pages - any longer and it gets too difficult to follow.
To reiterate: Mathematical proofs are FACTS - they are the basis for many things we do today. They are arguments too - but only in the sense that you logically argue following a set of known truths and quantitative and qualitative logic.
From us people on /., we know that a moved circuit board and a different bracket has little chance to make a real difference with the operation of a machine.
However! To the average person, they look at item A, then look at item B, and see that something is not in the same place and say "These must not operate in the same function - which isn't all that unreasonable the more you think about it. The issue remains clear: They have two different machines (at least structurally) - and they must be certified before sale. They were not certified, and thus got smacked down. That's the way it works.
Good for california.
This is really cool. For years all map locations have been incorrectly reporting my parents house as being the turn onto the street leading to our house. Now it's actually moved to the correct spot.
:)
Thanks Google!
College Students Blame Gene Simmons For Crappy Music (which causes Music Industry Woes).
News at 11.
*breaks out the notepad* Gene Simmons - RIAA Shill.