Depends on the christians you talk to. The ones who take the bible literally are pretty batshit insane I would say. Others, who take most of the bible as figurative aren't so bad. I went to a Catholic high school, so I had a lot of friends who were Catholic. They probably wouldn't have any problem with anti-aging stuff I don't think.
When you think about it... it's really obvious! I hear the Jews had a hand in this too. If you're having trouble realizing it, it's probably because of the mind control rays. Try wearing a hat made of tin foil.
also wtc was an inside job. xD
If I can afford better health care than a guy living in a trailer, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to have it. Federal health care for everyone limits people who want really good health care. You'll end up with much longer waits for treatment, much crappier treatment, etc. National health care invites a whole slew of new problems. Granted, health care in the US is a piece of shit the way it is now and definitely needs to be reformed. I just don't think national public health care is the correct response to that. There must be some other way to set up a safety net for hobos who can't afford the care they need without also limiting others to hobo-level care.
Actually that's not entirely true. I worked at a grocery store as a teenager and one thing I noticed and found rather interesting was that overweight or otherwise unhealthy looking people usually bought the more expensive pre-made food while healthier people purchased instead a whole lot more of the items required to make their own food like flour and produce. Granted, most of the extra healthy food such as RBST-free meat, omega 3 eggs, whole grain breads, etc. tend to be somewhat more expensive, you can usually save on these too by attending your local farmer's market.
Well, since people can't use PGP with their regular email addresses anymore to correspond with wikileaks, what's stopping them from making a dummy gmail account or something? It takes all of a couple seconds and that way you don't even have your regular email address associated with them at all.
I didn't say I believed it, I said I thought it was a long shot implying I don't believe it. I just thought I'd throw it out there since people were talking about it on IRC earlier today.
Well supposedly vista sp2 will include support for directx 11 which they claim will support raytracing. I don't know how powerful graphics cards will be by then, but to be honest that seems like kind of a long shot to me.
I agree, if you know C, assembly shouldn't be particularly hard to pick up. It looks daunting at first glance, but it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. After you learn it, all your code will look a hell of a lot better since you understand what the CPU is actually doing better.
Actually I thought it would be more for a workstation than "vista+games." A gaming PC only needs one graphics card, at most two, but SLI is just a rich person trap that doesn't give much more performance but I could see how it could be useful with workstation cards. I wouldn't call it a "supercomputer" either, since it doesn't seem to have any better specs than your usual top-end server box except for the whole liquid nitrogen bit. Anyways, the aesthetics of this thing are disgusting.:P
Actually he has a point, it's not exactly secret if it's being posted on/., so there's no reason for that post to be modded troll. It was posted in the past too such as in this article. Articles about China and the US beefing up their network security are all over the place too. Just put "china hacking" in the search bar.:P As far as I know, this has been public for a long time.
People who rant about this are obviously kind of paranoid. There's not much chance you'll be caught on google street view's camera in the first place, and if anyone was specifically looking for a picture of you, I'm sure there are much much easier places to find it than driving around in street view all around your neighborhood hoping that you might have been outside at the time the google car drove by...
7.6 billion years is way enough time to save up money to build my spaceship. I've started a spaceship fund, I will put $1 in it every year for 7.6 billion years!:D
I agree. I can either pay $2-3000 for an expensive thinkpad or macbook air and use it for portable internet browsing, word processing, etc. OR I can spend $300 and get an Asus eeepc that's even smaller and do the same thing. I guess they could be useful if you needed a bit more power than the eeepc can provide, but I use a desktop computer for that. $1000 desktop + $300 eeepc gets you more portability and more power for half the price!
Many other organizations take similar actions. At my university a kid got b& because he was able to find a hole in the CCCA program and was stupid enough to email other people about it over the school's email server. It's a terrible piece of software that most CS and CE majors have been able to easily circumvent anyways. It seems that many people have a strange phobia of technology and those who know how to use it.
Just because COD4 outsold more "artistic" games like Bioshock or Portal that doesn't go to say that these games sold poorly either. They are also among the most-bought games of this year after all, even if they didn't quite reach #1. You can say the same thing about books too, since pop-culture paperbacks often sell more than a masterpiece. I think this goes for any form of media. Also, it completely depends on the demographic you ask whether or not it's easier to play videogames or read a book. Obviously these people have never met my mother...
I have a sidewinder precision pro, the first one without force feedback. I've had it for quite a long time now and it still works great. I use it occasionally in FPS like battlefield 2 when I have to fly a helicopter or airplane and all the time in flight simulators and space simulators. Sadly, the space sim genre seems to be dying out.:(
Pretty cool. I wouldn't worry about people hacking it too much though since it isn't exactly a common thing just yet.:) I should point out though, that the link goes to the 2nd page of the article rather than the first.:o
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Depends on the christians you talk to. The ones who take the bible literally are pretty batshit insane I would say. Others, who take most of the bible as figurative aren't so bad. I went to a Catholic high school, so I had a lot of friends who were Catholic. They probably wouldn't have any problem with anti-aging stuff I don't think.
When you think about it... it's really obvious! I hear the Jews had a hand in this too. If you're having trouble realizing it, it's probably because of the mind control rays. Try wearing a hat made of tin foil. also wtc was an inside job. xD
If I can afford better health care than a guy living in a trailer, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to have it. Federal health care for everyone limits people who want really good health care. You'll end up with much longer waits for treatment, much crappier treatment, etc. National health care invites a whole slew of new problems. Granted, health care in the US is a piece of shit the way it is now and definitely needs to be reformed. I just don't think national public health care is the correct response to that. There must be some other way to set up a safety net for hobos who can't afford the care they need without also limiting others to hobo-level care.
Actually that's not entirely true. I worked at a grocery store as a teenager and one thing I noticed and found rather interesting was that overweight or otherwise unhealthy looking people usually bought the more expensive pre-made food while healthier people purchased instead a whole lot more of the items required to make their own food like flour and produce. Granted, most of the extra healthy food such as RBST-free meat, omega 3 eggs, whole grain breads, etc. tend to be somewhat more expensive, you can usually save on these too by attending your local farmer's market.
Well, since people can't use PGP with their regular email addresses anymore to correspond with wikileaks, what's stopping them from making a dummy gmail account or something? It takes all of a couple seconds and that way you don't even have your regular email address associated with them at all.
We believe ya, right guys? :P
I didn't say I believed it, I said I thought it was a long shot implying I don't believe it. I just thought I'd throw it out there since people were talking about it on IRC earlier today.
Forgot my source: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=526&pgno=1 also #winsupport on efnet. Not sure how reliable it is, but haven't heard any info to the contrary, which is why I said "supposedly." :)
Well supposedly vista sp2 will include support for directx 11 which they claim will support raytracing. I don't know how powerful graphics cards will be by then, but to be honest that seems like kind of a long shot to me.
Google cache works too.
I agree, if you know C, assembly shouldn't be particularly hard to pick up. It looks daunting at first glance, but it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. After you learn it, all your code will look a hell of a lot better since you understand what the CPU is actually doing better.
Actually I thought it would be more for a workstation than "vista+games." A gaming PC only needs one graphics card, at most two, but SLI is just a rich person trap that doesn't give much more performance but I could see how it could be useful with workstation cards. I wouldn't call it a "supercomputer" either, since it doesn't seem to have any better specs than your usual top-end server box except for the whole liquid nitrogen bit. Anyways, the aesthetics of this thing are disgusting. :P
Actually he has a point, it's not exactly secret if it's being posted on /., so there's no reason for that post to be modded troll. It was posted in the past too such as in this article. Articles about China and the US beefing up their network security are all over the place too. Just put "china hacking" in the search bar. :P As far as I know, this has been public for a long time.
Psh, sex is overrated. We're nerds right? So long as he doesn't mind internet pages taking 10 minutes to load he's set, am I right? ;)
That's more convincing than an article on people spying with google's street view at any rate. :)
People who rant about this are obviously kind of paranoid. There's not much chance you'll be caught on google street view's camera in the first place, and if anyone was specifically looking for a picture of you, I'm sure there are much much easier places to find it than driving around in street view all around your neighborhood hoping that you might have been outside at the time the google car drove by...
7.6 billion years is way enough time to save up money to build my spaceship. I've started a spaceship fund, I will put $1 in it every year for 7.6 billion years! :D
I agree. I can either pay $2-3000 for an expensive thinkpad or macbook air and use it for portable internet browsing, word processing, etc. OR I can spend $300 and get an Asus eeepc that's even smaller and do the same thing. I guess they could be useful if you needed a bit more power than the eeepc can provide, but I use a desktop computer for that. $1000 desktop + $300 eeepc gets you more portability and more power for half the price!
Many other organizations take similar actions. At my university a kid got b& because he was able to find a hole in the CCCA program and was stupid enough to email other people about it over the school's email server. It's a terrible piece of software that most CS and CE majors have been able to easily circumvent anyways. It seems that many people have a strange phobia of technology and those who know how to use it.
Our legal system reminds me of when you write a huge undocumented, uncommented program in C and have other people do additions and debugging.
Just because COD4 outsold more "artistic" games like Bioshock or Portal that doesn't go to say that these games sold poorly either. They are also among the most-bought games of this year after all, even if they didn't quite reach #1. You can say the same thing about books too, since pop-culture paperbacks often sell more than a masterpiece. I think this goes for any form of media. Also, it completely depends on the demographic you ask whether or not it's easier to play videogames or read a book. Obviously these people have never met my mother...
I have a sidewinder precision pro, the first one without force feedback. I've had it for quite a long time now and it still works great. I use it occasionally in FPS like battlefield 2 when I have to fly a helicopter or airplane and all the time in flight simulators and space simulators. Sadly, the space sim genre seems to be dying out. :(
Pretty cool. I wouldn't worry about people hacking it too much though since it isn't exactly a common thing just yet. :) I should point out though, that the link goes to the 2nd page of the article rather than the first. :o
Does this mean they are just now starting to do this or just now admitting to doing this? ;)
I can deal with that! You suck, the constitution sucks, everyone sucks except me because I'm awesome. :D