Re:An international tragedy
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As far as Israeli's go... one who was buried in the rubble was able to call _Israel_ and alert rescuers... at least, according to a release from the Israel Foreign Ministry.
Many folks on the 'net have cited a television broadcast of Palestinians cheering, but that means nothing. Some have expressed shock at this, but really, how many of these same people sat patriotically by and watched remote-control
warfare on CNN when we attacked Iraq or Serbia? I'm not saying it's good that people are cheering, but I am saying it's not
surprising.
Are you on crack? Yes, we watched CNN as the US bombed Iraqi _military_ buildings after they invaded a soverign nation. Yes, we applauded and cheered when the US struck at those "men" in uniform who were gassing their own countrymen. But to compare that to (some) Arabs who cheered that thousands of US civilians died for going to work... go back to your bridge, troll.
That's correct. I saw it as well... in the so-called "East Jerusalem", many of the same people who yell "Death to the Jews" also yell "Death to America". That's right, they don't just hate Israelis, they hate us, too... wonderful.
sigh* This is what I tried to tell my uncle last weekend when he shelled out way too much money for a 1.4 GHz P4 with a Geforce2 and 128 megs of RAM to run Microsoft Windows/Office Having 128 meg of ram won't prevent him from having to buy a new machine tomorrow if he wants to run office well;). But you're right... 500, 600 Mhz with 256 meg of ram and an 8 meg (16 if you want to be fancy) video card will run almost all non-game, non-DVD home applications quite nicely.
I admit I don't know if that's true or not... but I just can't shake the thought that this is not really true...
(-1 Insulting)
(+2 But it's to a big company)
(-3 They have an awesome employee server)
(+4 But they shut it down (reality.sgi.com)
Does anyone remember the 80's Mario cartoon?
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I barely do:)
I do remember that Fridays were Zelda... so this isn't such a new idea after all! If anyone actually does remember this... I don't... and I'd love for you to help me out here;)
Because if you lived in New York, and registered to vote (and "opting-out" of voting is not cool), I could get your home address. That might not be something you'd want published. Maybe you don't care... but maybe you do. You should have a right not to have that released so easily, without having to refrain from doing your civic duty of voting. What's next... having to "opt-out" of a drivers license? Social security registration? Having a bank account?
There's an assumption being made:
"Only you, your family, and your closest friends know your birthday" I _wish_ I could remember my family members' birthdays (and anniverseries, etc. etc. etc.)!
But seriously... that's there idea of "security"? That's not security through obscurity, that's security through stupidity!
Yeah, you! Just because this troll "informed" you doesn't mean it was really informative. That's a fake story. This ain't segfault. Surrender your moderation points, and die. Oh... and moderate me down, too, please... I've got karma to burn.
...do they really work? If so, why doesn't AMD develop similar software for Athlons? Are they just too small... or is the intel stuff a bunch of marketing phooey for PHB's to swallow? Are there any more questions?
Ok, ok... I don't mean to accuse him of anything. I don't know the guy, and in response to the poster who was a TA with him, my apologies to him and you for suggesting he was a one tracked robot. I know those of you who are cultured are proud of it... I speak (fluently) three languages, can understand another three, and consider myself an armchair philosopher (I'll graduate, however, with my degree in C.E. and Economics). Obviously, we like to think we're the best group of people out there... and there may be some truth to that, but overall, I was just asking everyone to look honestly at themselves and see what they know of other fields.
One correction: "What did he take in the liberal arts field?" was supposed to read "What did we take"... I didn't mean to attack him... mea culpa.
Seriously... although I am (of course) a science type geek, I have to wonder... why does this guy assume that everyone should know insane amounts of physics? A "cool" physics class (say, a combination of practical mechanics (to understand bridges + stuff), and interesting factoids might help his idea of "understanding physics", but no non-science major will care about T=R x F or Vf^2 - Vi^2 = 2ad. Come on. What did he take in the liberal arts field? "Survey of world literature"? "History of the 20th Century"? Come on.
I've got to wonder... usually the way the news media protect themselves is by saying that "so-and-so alleges that..." "it's been claimed that..." and "reports indicate that...". Here, we have a slashdot posting that clearly claims that Microsoft broke a law which, not only have they not been found guilty of, but of which they have not even accused! No one said they faked letters... merely that they "helped" citizens write letters. That's not a crime. In fact, all groups do that ("Please sign and mail the following petition..."). But about the libel issue... normally, to prove libel, you need to prove a gross disregard for the facts... since slashdot added a link to another story, that would suggest they read the other story... so to say that MS faked signatures is clearly unfounded.
It's a good thing life may have been seeded... because otherwise we might have to account for the near-infinite improbability (engine) of the current version of evolution with (cover your ears) the dreaded "creationism"
*shudder*
Oh, wait... I believe in that. How irrational.
Re:Yep... he's a gamer.
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LOL. I wish I could mod that up... you're right... it made very little sense upon rereading it;). Classic brain fart. Oh well... sorry.
Yep... he's a gamer.
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In re: the "panel" (which was not) between gamers and scientists... I work with visualization (*yawn*) and other "scientific" apps... though I was the first to bring 7 megapixel (150" diagonal) quake3 to our lab;). The truth is, the annoying thing from a research perspective is that there _have_ been huge strides made in the last 5 years or so, thanks to the gaming market (which in terms of people is probably 4 or 5 orders of magnitiude larger, while monetarily "only" 3-4). The agravating part is that despite these leaps, they're not completely focused on the things that "matter" in research. E.g... your average quake3 map requires rendering less than 100 polygons (for the background, at least... throw in another 1000 max for characters) with huge textures... aka... fill rate. Your average scientific display requires 100,000 polygons (minimum... most of the data I see is between 300,000 - 5,000,000 (that's million, not thousand), but with no texturing at all. The difference in a consumer card (Geforce 2, say) and a so-called "professional" card (Quadro 2) is now only a few hundred (ok, maybe 500) dollars... nowhere near the few thousand it used to be. But it's still there, and it doesn't look like it's getting any closer. Still, that's a huge improvement over even a year or two ago. My boss has a FireGL card in one of his machines... it can do 10 - 20 times the number of polygons per second of a Geforce 2 GTS... but in UT, at 1024x768... it only gets about 30 fps. But that card was 1500 dollars just a year ago... and three years ago, it would've required an SGI for 10K+ to beat a consumer card like that in polygons.
I think it was probably more of a "look back on this some day and laugh" sort of issue. At the time, I think the prospect of being unable to land would have been strict brown trousers time.
Whaddya mean? When I was your age, airplanes didn't _have_ landing gear...
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At least it's not running windows... makes you wonder about those crashes, and blue (red?) screens of death...
Hackers aren't criminals. Crackers are. Seriously-- why _shouldn't_ computer crime be crime?
As far as Israeli's go... one who was buried in the rubble was able to call _Israel_ and alert rescuers... at least, according to a release from the Israel Foreign Ministry.
Are you on crack? Yes, we watched CNN as the US bombed Iraqi _military_ buildings after they invaded a soverign nation. Yes, we applauded and cheered when the US struck at those "men" in uniform who were gassing their own countrymen. But to compare that to (some) Arabs who cheered that thousands of US civilians died for going to work... go back to your bridge, troll.
I don't like most of what we do either, but attacking the World Trade Center, and the pentagon, is plain and simply unacceptable.
That's correct. I saw it as well... in the so-called "East Jerusalem", many of the same people who yell "Death to the Jews" also yell "Death to America". That's right, they don't just hate Israelis, they hate us, too... wonderful.
If we find the funniest joke in the world... will we lose all sense of humor?
I think the British _are_ the joke...
working on World Domination! Duh. Next story, please...
sigh* This is what I tried to tell my uncle last weekend when he shelled out way too much money for a 1.4 GHz P4 with a Geforce2 and 128 megs of RAM to run Microsoft Windows/Office ;). But you're right... 500, 600 Mhz with 256 meg of ram and an 8 meg (16 if you want to be fancy) video card will run almost all non-game, non-DVD home applications quite nicely.
Having 128 meg of ram won't prevent him from having to buy a new machine tomorrow if he wants to run office well
it's for charity. The money goes to 4H.. although the reserve is probably a little out of my budget.
I admit I don't know if that's true or not... but I just can't shake the thought that this is not really true...
(-1 Insulting)
(+2 But it's to a big company)
(-3 They have an awesome employee server)
(+4 But they shut it down (reality.sgi.com)
I barely do :)
;)
I do remember that Fridays were Zelda... so this isn't such a new idea after all! If anyone actually does remember this... I don't... and I'd love for you to help me out here
Because if you lived in New York, and registered to vote (and "opting-out" of voting is not cool), I could get your home address. That might not be something you'd want published. Maybe you don't care... but maybe you do. You should have a right not to have that released so easily, without having to refrain from doing your civic duty of voting. What's next... having to "opt-out" of a drivers license? Social security registration? Having a bank account?
There's an assumption being made:
"Only you, your family, and your closest friends know your birthday"
I _wish_ I could remember my family members' birthdays (and anniverseries, etc. etc. etc.)!
But seriously... that's there idea of "security"? That's not security through obscurity, that's security through stupidity!
Yeah, you! Just because this troll "informed" you doesn't mean it was really informative. That's a fake story. This ain't segfault. Surrender your moderation points, and die. Oh... and moderate me down, too, please... I've got karma to burn.
...do they really work? If so, why doesn't AMD develop similar software for Athlons? Are they just too small... or is the intel stuff a bunch of marketing phooey for PHB's to swallow? Are there any more questions?
Ok, ok... I don't mean to accuse him of anything. I don't know the guy, and in response to the poster who was a TA with him, my apologies to him and you for suggesting he was a one tracked robot. I know those of you who are cultured are proud of it... I speak (fluently) three languages, can understand another three, and consider myself an armchair philosopher (I'll graduate, however, with my degree in C.E. and Economics). Obviously, we like to think we're the best group of people out there... and there may be some truth to that, but overall, I was just asking everyone to look honestly at themselves and see what they know of other fields.
One correction: "What did he take in the liberal arts field?" was supposed to read "What did we take"... I didn't mean to attack him... mea culpa.
Seriously... although I am (of course) a science type geek, I have to wonder... why does this guy assume that everyone should know insane amounts of physics? A "cool" physics class (say, a combination of practical mechanics (to understand bridges + stuff), and interesting factoids might help his idea of "understanding physics", but no non-science major will care about T=R x F or Vf^2 - Vi^2 = 2ad. Come on. What did he take in the liberal arts field? "Survey of world literature"? "History of the 20th Century"? Come on.
Umm... hello? Slashdot is US hosted, US run, US owned, etc.
I've got to wonder... usually the way the news media protect themselves is by saying that "so-and-so alleges that..." "it's been claimed that..." and "reports indicate that...". Here, we have a slashdot posting that clearly claims that Microsoft broke a law which, not only have they not been found guilty of, but of which they have not even accused! No one said they faked letters... merely that they "helped" citizens write letters. That's not a crime. In fact, all groups do that ("Please sign and mail the following petition..."). But about the libel issue... normally, to prove libel, you need to prove a gross disregard for the facts... since slashdot added a link to another story, that would suggest they read the other story... so to say that MS faked signatures is clearly unfounded.
It's a good thing life may have been seeded... because otherwise we might have to account for the near-infinite improbability (engine) of the current version of evolution with (cover your ears) the dreaded "creationism"
*shudder*
Oh, wait... I believe in that. How irrational.
LOL. I wish I could mod that up... you're right... it made very little sense upon rereading it ;). Classic brain fart. Oh well... sorry.
In re: the "panel" (which was not) between gamers and scientists... I work with visualization (*yawn*) and other "scientific" apps... though I was the first to bring 7 megapixel (150" diagonal) quake3 to our lab ;). The truth is, the annoying thing from a research perspective is that there _have_ been huge strides made in the last 5 years or so, thanks to the gaming market (which in terms of people is probably 4 or 5 orders of magnitiude larger, while monetarily "only" 3-4). The agravating part is that despite these leaps, they're not completely focused on the things that "matter" in research. E.g... your average quake3 map requires rendering less than 100 polygons (for the background, at least... throw in another 1000 max for characters) with huge textures... aka... fill rate. Your average scientific display requires 100,000 polygons (minimum... most of the data I see is between 300,000 - 5,000,000 (that's million, not thousand), but with no texturing at all. The difference in a consumer card (Geforce 2, say) and a so-called "professional" card (Quadro 2) is now only a few hundred (ok, maybe 500) dollars... nowhere near the few thousand it used to be. But it's still there, and it doesn't look like it's getting any closer. Still, that's a huge improvement over even a year or two ago. My boss has a FireGL card in one of his machines... it can do 10 - 20 times the number of polygons per second of a Geforce 2 GTS... but in UT, at 1024x768... it only gets about 30 fps. But that card was 1500 dollars just a year ago... and three years ago, it would've required an SGI for 10K+ to beat a consumer card like that in polygons.
I think it was probably more of a "look back on this some day and laugh" sort of issue. At the time, I think the prospect of being unable to land would have been strict brown trousers time.
Whaddya mean? When I was your age, airplanes didn't _have_ landing gear...