>>Is it as quick as running XP? Well, no, but don't forget that XP is a seven-year-old operating system that required a Pentium II at release.
>You see I don't get this comment. Since the operating system 7 years ago had to run on much slower hardware, well, don't expect that now?
>WHY F***G NOT! What on earth does an operating system have to do so that it sucks up ever bit of my quad core machine?
Hear Hear. Yeah, early computing tech was slow, but at least the programmers were on average more careful with resource use. Today's increase in tech level has allowed people to make bloated stuff where the bloat isn't really necessary. There are improvements in general, but so much of it is just stupid waste.
I shouldn't _need_ 42 bazillion megs of RAM for my computer to work properly
How available is diesel here in the US, though? I see a lot of places that carry it with an eye towards the 18-wheeler-truck market, but that's certainly not every filling station.
The bus system in Rochester, NY has a similar problem: it's too frakking *cold* to want to wait very long for the bus to show up.
I hear you, though, on 'catching a second bus'; a lot of scheduling problems are caused by not making the first bus in time to catch the second bus.
Transporting several dozen people in a pollution-spewing petroleum-fueled bus is still going to be better than those several dozen people driving their pollution-spewing petroleum-fueled cars.
Plus, a lot of these people don't *have* cars, and need to get somewhere. (think of the lost productive capacity if they had to stay at home, take crappy jobs within walkign distance, etc.)_
I have had my interest piqued by demos of good games. Bad games, or games that aren't "large enough" to be worth the purchase price - I learn that, but I probably would not have bought them anyway.
And this is Slashdot...how many times has a demo piqued your interest enough to bother BitTorrenting it?:P
(I play older PC games, not newer PC games or consoles)
Yeah, my university offers Ruckus, and I turned it down. I didn't want to use a player separate from where I have all my other music stored (I have used iTunes, Winamp, MediaMonkey and Amarok at various times.)
Plus, they're missing some old stuff that came out on the major labels.
I have plenty of stuff from rips of legitimately acquired CDs, anyway. (relatives with large music collections - I borrow a lot of good stuff.)
(illegal downloads/legal downloads) = illegal download rate. Looks like you have a divide-by-zero error. Do you want to toss the user an error message, or set to the mathematically technically incorrect 0% or 100%
When I open up a.torrent, my client (MicroTorrent) tells you what files are in the torrent, and you can check/uncheck which ones you want to download.
Granted, working with 2000 checkboxes can be a pain, and, especially if your connection is fast, you may want to DL them, and delete the unneeded ones via your OS's file explorer
I, too, like having a physical copy of a disk sometimes. (burned CDs labeled with a Sharpie only sometimes "cut it") Hey, what do you use to rip 'em? What format do you output to?
The general categories those numbers refer to come out as: 801-805 # 801 Philosophy & theory # 802 Miscellany # 803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias # 804 Not assigned or no longer used # 805 Serial publications
+3 Funny? Glad to take first post chance away from the GNAA troll.:)
Anyway, to clarify the intent the humor: the US was unable to find Iraqi WMDs because *they weren't there anymore*, just like the federal IT guys who probably won't be able find incriminating emails * because they won't be there anymore*. Sorry if it came of juxtaposed.
I'd like to see what comes out of this, but count me as cynical.
IMHO, if you haven't sold out already, ride out the storm...[i.e. hold] I don't have the real thing, but I do play stock-simulation games for fun and some practice at the market.
LOL, my econ professor referred to the stock market as "gambling for rich people" (paraphrased) a couple classes ago.
A put option is a guarantee for the holder of the put option to be able to sell something at a specified price.
So, even if the price goes down, he still gets to cash in on the sell price offered by the put option. He could even buy new stock at the now-lowered price, and sell it at the option price.
Call options are similarly advantageous when the stock is going up.
Long means he owns a positive amount of them. (as opposed to owing someone else AAPL put options)
It's clear how advantageous small class sizes are..."the research" indicates it, my personal experience also does. I go to a large university (~16000 students) - a year and a half through, and I haven't gotten stuck with any class larger than 40 or 50; I've even had a bunch of classes with a class size around 10.
A large class (40-50) would be hard to manage at the high school level or lower (all the noise and commotion form the underachievers)...it works well with college students though. [I'm *not* at a "party school" or "big sports" school, however]
Also, all of my classes are taught by the actual professor, with either no accent or a moderate & understandable accent. (There are occasional "dud" professors though - sh*t happens.)
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>>Is it as quick as running XP? Well, no, but don't forget that XP is a seven-year-old operating system that required a Pentium II at release.
>You see I don't get this comment. Since the operating system 7 years ago had to run on much slower hardware, well, don't expect that now?
>WHY F***G NOT! What on earth does an operating system have to do so that it sucks up ever bit of my quad core machine?
Hear Hear.
Yeah, early computing tech was slow, but at least the programmers were on average more careful with resource use.
Today's increase in tech level has allowed people to make bloated stuff where the bloat isn't really necessary. There are improvements in general, but so much of it is just stupid waste.
I shouldn't _need_ 42 bazillion megs of RAM for my computer to work properly
How available is diesel here in the US, though?
I see a lot of places that carry it with an eye towards the 18-wheeler-truck market, but that's certainly not every filling station.
The bus system in Rochester, NY has a similar problem: it's too frakking *cold* to want to wait very long for the bus to show up.
I hear you, though, on 'catching a second bus'; a lot of scheduling problems are caused by not making the first bus in time to catch the second bus.
Transporting several dozen people in a pollution-spewing petroleum-fueled bus is still going to be better than those several dozen people driving their pollution-spewing petroleum-fueled cars.
Plus, a lot of these people don't *have* cars, and need to get somewhere. (think of the lost productive capacity if they had to stay at home, take crappy jobs within walkign distance, etc.)_
I have had my interest piqued by demos of good games. Bad games, or games that aren't "large enough" to be worth the purchase price - I learn that, but I probably would not have bought them anyway.
And this is Slashdot...how many times has a demo piqued your interest enough to bother BitTorrenting it? :P
(I play older PC games, not newer PC games or consoles)
The latest flavor of the month is only played once per hour?...
oops, (illegal downloads/total downloads)
Yeah, my university offers Ruckus, and I turned it down. I didn't want to use a player separate from where I have all my other music stored (I have used iTunes, Winamp, MediaMonkey and Amarok at various times.)
Plus, they're missing some old stuff that came out on the major labels.
I have plenty of stuff from rips of legitimately acquired CDs, anyway. (relatives with large music collections - I borrow a lot of good stuff.)
(illegal downloads/legal downloads) = illegal download rate.
Looks like you have a divide-by-zero error.
Do you want to toss the user an error message, or set to the mathematically technically incorrect 0% or 100%
When I open up a .torrent, my client (MicroTorrent) tells you what files are in the torrent, and you can check/uncheck which ones you want to download.
Granted, working with 2000 checkboxes can be a pain, and, especially if your connection is fast, you may want to DL them, and delete the unneeded ones via your OS's file explorer
FOSS software is under copyright; the owners of said copies have given you very generous license terms.
I, too, like having a physical copy of a disk sometimes. (burned CDs labeled with a Sharpie only sometimes "cut it")
Hey, what do you use to rip 'em?
What format do you output to?
Sheesh, if food could be BitTorrented, and you can live for free somewhere, then you don't have to pay for anything. :P
and we /.-ers think goatse and co is bad...
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Okay, are you referring to any specific books?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
The general categories those numbers refer to come out as:
801-805
# 801 Philosophy & theory
# 802 Miscellany
# 803 Dictionaries & encyclopedias
# 804 Not assigned or no longer used
# 805 Serial publications
623 - Military & nautical engineering
234 - Salvation (Soteriology) & grace
"_I hate war criminals because I am Jewish_
Oh, what the heck does that mean? I mean, come on dude. Just because you are a jew doesn't entitle you to some special prize."
I think what GP meant is that thanks to Nazi war crimes (Holocaust), he as a member of the Jewish community is acutely aware of the danger.
Yeah, tjstork, it's a bit of a stretch, but I understand what he was getting at.
+3 Funny? Glad to take first post chance away from the GNAA troll. :)
Anyway, to clarify the intent the humor: the US was unable to find Iraqi WMDs because *they weren't there anymore*, just like the federal IT guys who probably won't be able find incriminating emails * because they won't be there anymore*. Sorry if it came of juxtaposed.
I'd like to see what comes out of this, but count me as cynical.
This falls into the category of "sarcasm that would be funny if it wasn't so on-target".
They are unable to find Iraqi WMDs either - maybe the emails have also long since been destroyed.
IMHO, if you haven't sold out already, ride out the storm...[i.e. hold]
I don't have the real thing, but I do play stock-simulation games for fun and some practice at the market.
LOL, my econ professor referred to the stock market as "gambling for rich people" (paraphrased) a couple classes ago.
IANASB...
For those unaware...
A put option is a guarantee for the holder of the put option to be able to sell something at a specified price.
So, even if the price goes down, he still gets to cash in on the sell price offered by the put option.
He could even buy new stock at the now-lowered price, and sell it at the option price.
Call options are similarly advantageous when the stock is going up.
Long means he owns a positive amount of them. (as opposed to owing someone else AAPL put options)
...tools can be used really well, or really poorly. Applet uploaded to the newspaper's website at 11.
funny video.
Frank Zappa's "Trouble Every Day" seems to have something to say about shoddy TV news, too...
http://www.metrolyrics.com/trouble-every-day-lyrics-frank-zappa.html
http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Zappa/_/Trouble+Every+Day
ah yes. that had practical use outside of Excel macros? Never knew.
It's clear how advantageous small class sizes are..."the research" indicates it, my personal experience also does.
I go to a large university (~16000 students) - a year and a half through, and I haven't gotten stuck with any class larger than 40 or 50; I've even had a bunch of classes with a class size around 10.
A large class (40-50) would be hard to manage at the high school level or lower (all the noise and commotion form the underachievers)...it works well with college students though. [I'm *not* at a "party school" or "big sports" school, however]
Also, all of my classes are taught by the actual professor, with either no accent or a moderate & understandable accent. (There are occasional "dud" professors though - sh*t happens.)