I have a machine dedicated to gaming for this. It runs Win7, has fancy whiz-bang hardware, and any time that I try to use it for anything other than that I end up rage-quitting the browser and going to get my Linux laptop.
Windows is great for games, I don't understand how people can stand using the interface for actual work.
Forget "other aspects of the user experience", Nintendo's selling point is games. I will buy a Wii U for no other reason than that the next Zelda game will run on it. $400 for Zelda is perfectly reasonable.
It is a test car. It collects more data while in operation than you could imagine. It'd be trivial to verify the logs against what they claim.
I can imagine quite a lot, but that's beside the point. It would be trivial for Google to verify the logs, sure, but I doubt very much that the Mountain View Police Department would have an easy time with it.
According to a Google spokesperson. If I were in that car, and it crashed while the software was driving, I would claim that I had been driving it too. Any public crash that could be blamed on the software would put the project in serious jeopardy.
You know how I remove the battery on my Thinkpad? I slide the clasp into the unlocked position then slide the battery out. Same for the DVD drive (although I don't know who swaps theirs out, there doesn't appear to be an option to put a second battery there).
I can also use one screwdriver, a phillips, to replace the hard drive, memory, wireless card, keyboard, CPU, video card, etc.
Just a quick note to let you guys know that I've recently read news articles describing your actions against individuals using single-player mode cheats in SC3, specifically locking them out of their accounts and forbidding even local play. Having been already annoyed by your decision to forbid LAN play in SC3 and require Battle.Net I have decided that your recent actions tip you over onto the "companies who are too evil to give money to" side of the consumer equation.
I had been looking forward to purchasing and playing Diablo 3, however I no longer feel that providing financial support to the tyrannical measures you feel it is necessary to impose upon your customers is morally justifiable.
I have a gaming machine which runs Win7, it's the first non-Linux machine I've owned in the last 10 years. The new (to me) UI in MS applications is crazy. It literally took me two minutes to figure out how to save a screenshot I'd pasted into Paint.
Here's a shot of the application. I actually never saw the save icon in the title bar until just now, I've been using the blue drop-down to the left of the "Home" tab to select "Save". Who the heck decided to put application icons in the title bar?
Pfft. Carmack doesn't use WASD, arrow keys, *or* the mouse. He has the console permanently open and controls his character's movement entirely with console commands. None of it is scripted, he's just that fast of a typist. In fact, half the time he's used timers to issue the next 90 seconds of gameplay so that he can just sit back and laugh at how predictable the rest of our movements are.
I thought the same thing at first, but that would only be true if they'd looked at four samples and picked winners and losers from there. What they actually did was look at a number of items (the value of N here isn't clear to me) and picked four which they thought were bubbling. 50% of those predictions were correct.
I want a service that provides me with live streaming access to all media ever created. I would be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee for this service, probably up to the $100 USD/mo range. This is *almost* what we have with the vibrant torrent community already.
We're past the point of petitions, actually, those have all been signed and ratified. The proposition will be on the ballot going out to California voters in November.
It works fine for a single digit thousands of hosts and three sysadmins, which is what I use it for. Concurrent write access isn't really an issue since updates are fairly infrequent and it's obvious who should have the write lock on the spreadsheet, that being the guy in the datacenter who's installing or removing equipment.
An app would be nice, but it wouldn't provide any real benefit over the spreadsheet model until it was extended to touch on other areas of datacenter operations. Something like RedHat's Satellite (or the Open Source Spacewalk) would be an example of an application which provides extra functionality such as server provisioning, configuration management, and centralized updates.
Rows for hosts, columns for PDU, switch and console ports. Additional rows for asset tag information, unit manufacturer, model number, serial number. Last row for notes on the system, e.g. any historical hardware issues that may be relevant.
Actually they are speculating that they may release on schedule, without the bug or the enhanced features that the patch which contains the bug provides, and then later issuing an update which includes the extra functionality once the bug has been fixed then properly tested and verified.
I think he's probably right in terms of what a government research program should have as its goals. IMO, the purpose of government research on this scale is to drive forward technological development and give the private sector a kick in the pants.
We've already been to the Moon, that technology was developed during the 1960s. We could probably do it better now, but the advancements wouldn't be nearly as significant as what is required for a manned mission to Mars. Leave the moon to the private sector, we should expect to see a private company touching down there within a decade or maybe two. Mars is still a pie-in-the-sky target, let's point NASA at that.
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If we can film them in public places then they can do the same: liberty is a two way street. Let the information flow and justice prevail.
I have a machine dedicated to gaming for this. It runs Win7, has fancy whiz-bang hardware, and any time that I try to use it for anything other than that I end up rage-quitting the browser and going to get my Linux laptop.
Windows is great for games, I don't understand how people can stand using the interface for actual work.
Well, good news! Now you can get a Revue for cheap!
I guess Ellison changed his mind about cloud computing... here's him a year or two back ranting about how stupid the idea is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0
Forget "other aspects of the user experience", Nintendo's selling point is games. I will buy a Wii U for no other reason than that the next Zelda game will run on it. $400 for Zelda is perfectly reasonable.
It is a test car. It collects more data while in operation than you could imagine. It'd be trivial to verify the logs against what they claim.
I can imagine quite a lot, but that's beside the point. It would be trivial for Google to verify the logs, sure, but I doubt very much that the Mountain View Police Department would have an easy time with it.
The car crashed while being driven by a person.
According to a Google spokesperson. If I were in that car, and it crashed while the software was driving, I would claim that I had been driving it too. Any public crash that could be blamed on the software would put the project in serious jeopardy.
Not terribly hard compared to what?
You know how I remove the battery on my Thinkpad? I slide the clasp into the unlocked position then slide the battery out. Same for the DVD drive (although I don't know who swaps theirs out, there doesn't appear to be an option to put a second battery there).
I can also use one screwdriver, a phillips, to replace the hard drive, memory, wireless card, keyboard, CPU, video card, etc.
I find that sentences describing my thoughts about the service in question and mapped to leet-speak are easy to remember for a large number of sites.
Some hypothetical examples:
1. Slashdot: d0tc0m1.0d1n0s4ur
2. Twitter: 0hg0dwh0c4r3z4b0utth1zsh1t
3. Flickr: 3y3y4mh3r3f0rth3b00b13z--3y3m34n4rt
Of course, if you want to actually be taken seriously you should refer to it as SC2, and not SC3...
The message I just sent to billing@blizzard.com:
The audio vulnerability is unrelated, and more effective than the algorithm presented in TFA.
I have a gaming machine which runs Win7, it's the first non-Linux machine I've owned in the last 10 years. The new (to me) UI in MS applications is crazy. It literally took me two minutes to figure out how to save a screenshot I'd pasted into Paint.
Here's a shot of the application. I actually never saw the save icon in the title bar until just now, I've been using the blue drop-down to the left of the "Home" tab to select "Save". Who the heck decided to put application icons in the title bar?
I'm planning on going to see the last shuttle launch. I've never seen one before.
Pfft. Carmack doesn't use WASD, arrow keys, *or* the mouse. He has the console permanently open and controls his character's movement entirely with console commands. None of it is scripted, he's just that fast of a typist. In fact, half the time he's used timers to issue the next 90 seconds of gameplay so that he can just sit back and laugh at how predictable the rest of our movements are.
I thought the same thing at first, but that would only be true if they'd looked at four samples and picked winners and losers from there. What they actually did was look at a number of items (the value of N here isn't clear to me) and picked four which they thought were bubbling. 50% of those predictions were correct.
How many bubbles did they miss?
Also don't forget the bandwidth required to push and pull all those HD videos.
I want a service that provides me with live streaming access to all media ever created. I would be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee for this service, probably up to the $100 USD/mo range. This is *almost* what we have with the vibrant torrent community already.
We're past the point of petitions, actually, those have all been signed and ratified. The proposition will be on the ballot going out to California voters in November.
It works fine for a single digit thousands of hosts and three sysadmins, which is what I use it for. Concurrent write access isn't really an issue since updates are fairly infrequent and it's obvious who should have the write lock on the spreadsheet, that being the guy in the datacenter who's installing or removing equipment.
An app would be nice, but it wouldn't provide any real benefit over the spreadsheet model until it was extended to touch on other areas of datacenter operations. Something like RedHat's Satellite (or the Open Source Spacewalk) would be an example of an application which provides extra functionality such as server provisioning, configuration management, and centralized updates.
Rows for hosts, columns for PDU, switch and console ports. Additional rows for asset tag information, unit manufacturer, model number, serial number. Last row for notes on the system, e.g. any historical hardware issues that may be relevant.
Actually they are speculating that they may release on schedule, without the bug or the enhanced features that the patch which contains the bug provides, and then later issuing an update which includes the extra functionality once the bug has been fixed then properly tested and verified.
Yes. Why not?
I think he's probably right in terms of what a government research program should have as its goals. IMO, the purpose of government research on this scale is to drive forward technological development and give the private sector a kick in the pants.
We've already been to the Moon, that technology was developed during the 1960s. We could probably do it better now, but the advancements wouldn't be nearly as significant as what is required for a manned mission to Mars. Leave the moon to the private sector, we should expect to see a private company touching down there within a decade or maybe two. Mars is still a pie-in-the-sky target, let's point NASA at that.