I knew that investing on-line in these new/recent-IPO stocks was risky. That's why I only put about $2000 in there, something I could afford to lose outright if worst came to worst.
Well as of today that $2000 is worth $300. I have now revised my strategy a bit:)
I am now holding this stock that I bought at 29 (now 4) as a long-term investment. Oh well, live and learn as they say.
Just as an FYI on how the state of Florida can wildly swing between candidates. When the population of votes is so close to 50/50 (or 49/49), it maximizes the standard deviation of that population. Assume there are only 2 choices. In this type of distribution (binary), stdev = N*(p*(1-p))^2. So what was happening is basically some Type I errors caused by either the size or confidence interval of the sample to be too small.
Just like Linux is having/has had a hard time overcoming the Windows mind-share, so will Transmeta have a similar fate with regard to Intel/AMD.
You can't really expect such a big splash right away with relatively unproven technology (market wise). Just be glad someone (Sony) has given Transmeta/Crusoe a chance and let the performance of their product dictate their success. Look how long AMD took to really get a foothold in the CPU market. After all their K6's, it wasn't really until the Thunderbird Athlon that they earned their place in the market with a fantastic product.
Please also recognize that there are some problems w/NVidia's drivers in SMP systems. On my system, some GL app's crash - some much harder than others. Still can't get quake2 to run for more than 30 seconds w/out crashing. Trying a single CPU kernel makes the problems go away, but that is not the solution I was looking for.
Process of taking several sheets of cushionny-soft sanitary paper and wiping the remnants of fecal matter from one's intra-gluteal area. Dependant on number of wipes, process shall be called "N-wipe cleaning."
Start asking them questions like:
"What are you wearing?", even if it's someone of the same sex. Ask them about their sexual preferences and what they enjoy. Try to really disturb them and get them to hang up on you. Act deviant. It's easy for me for some reason....
It's so amazing how you can toy with an inferior mind and eventally get them to do your bidding. Oh yeah, it's evil too, but so are they. Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make things even and that's all I care about:)
I would have to agree that communication between you and your kids is the real solution. Not technology/blocking filters.
One method that I could implement (thanks to the power of Linux and IPChains) is to have my kids tell me which sites they need to be looking at and add them explicity to a DENY policy. But this is somewhat Draconian and would not foster the relationship that I want w/my children
The best solution though is proper communication and trust between parent and child, quite a rarity in these days.
That's all well and good, but it is yet to be seen how well 3dfx can write a decent OpenGL ICD. Their mini-implementation seemed good enough for quake, etc.; but NVidia's inroads in this matter seem to be far ahead at this point. Such a task is not trivial, witness Matrox's and ATI's failings in the past.
"a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology..."
Not much to add here except that this post is excellent and should be modded up accordingly. Insightfully describes the use main memory has in a system in conjunction w/the roles various levels of cache play. Great job.
Strafe Jumping is a method to increase your movement speed by holding the strafe key (either left or right) and jumping repeatedly. It allows you to move at speeds faster than if you had the haste rune. It is not easy to master, but once done, you can literally run circles around the opposing players.
As I understand it (I haven't installed 1.25 yet), this update minimizes the effect of strafe-jumping among other physics. For me, strafe-jumping was why I preferred UT over Q3. The strafe-jumping phenomenon started in Q2, but to me, I think it exploited a bug in the movement code rather than a planned method of movement. id kept the code the same in Q3, but for some reason to me it doesn't seem the right thing to do.
I know I'll get many who disagree w/me, but when exploiting a "bug" becomes a major force in talent level in a game, I think the game itself loses something. Just my opinion though, I know there are rabid strafe-jumpers out there who don't want to lose their abilities to a patch udpate.
Having a Linux dedicated server port for your online multiplayer game is almost a necessity for success these days. It's what set Quake 1 and 2 apart from games like Unreal, Shogo, Sin, etc. (well at least that was part of it).
Also, having users freely provide their bandwidth in support of your game FOR FREE is a big bonus. Granted, most X-Box games will probably have tons of MSN proprietary servers to play on; but if I'm a developer, porting a linux server is really a win-win situation.
The thing is, it is the employers themselves that are causing this to happen. They determine what style of worker will work for them. I've seen examples where salaried, full-time employees make roughly half of their contracted counterparts. Granted there are no benefits, but double the salary is hard to ignore.
When I first joined the workforce in 1990, I went through about 5 layoff situations in about 2 years, luckily surviving them all. That process didn't make me want to dedicate my life to this company. Once you realize that a company simply sees you as a commodity you begin to put your own situation first and if there are better offers somewhere else, take them. Loyalty is a thing of the past between employer and employee. It is a fickle relationship determined by one's salary. If you can get more elsewhere, you go there. If you can't, you stay. Same with the employer. If they can get someone just as good for less, say goodbye. Don't feel bad about it, just realize it and plan your career accordingly. Of course I am generalizing, but this has been consistent with my experiences.
Just as an FYI, most gas generators at the power station run on methane fuel as well. New combustion technology (Dry Low NOx) allows for lowered NOx and CO levels without moisture injection. It's just the distribution of said power that lead to the inefficiency you describe.
Right now, there is little control the user (us) has over what is seen on TV. We are told when to laugh, cry, and watch commercials. Introducing the digital nature of broadcasting sets the stage for someone to take control away from the networks and put it into the users hands. Corporate America sees loss of control as loss of income. When you sit down and think about it, it's amazing what we're force fed collectively each day through the media. Those who are currently in the money don't want that to change. They are willing to let us watch that latest pepsi commercial in HDTV format though. How nice of them.:)
You're right. I do exactly the same thing. For me, I say "I can out-bench that guy." I can bench over 350lbs. so it is possible. Unless that guy is Jason Hall or another King of teh Monsters:)
Now don't get me wrong, I've been to LAN parties and used to consider myself a pretty good FPS player. I've won my share of internet games be it on dialup or cable.
However, after seeing the dedication and "mad skillz" some of these near full-time players, I'm simply amazed. I don't want to denigrate their abilities, but really, what's it all worth?
All that investment in playing and perfecting that 180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag doesn't amount to much anywhere else except in that virtual world. Isn't there anything more constructive to do? Again, don't get me wrong, I love to play, but I think I do so in moderation. I can't imagine that these skills are developed overnight, so investing all those hours and hours of playing just seems so wasteful.
Or maybe I'm just jealous....:)
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It'd be great to have some undergarments equiped as such so that it could control both my bladder and bowel movements. I suppose this would represent extreme operating conditions and would make for a good stress test of the equipment.
For those enterprising and lucky enough to find such things:
I found at a computer show a HP Vectra 486/66 desktop system w/8MB Ram, 400MB HD, embedded SVGA and sound for only $17.00. Add to that 2 ISA 10baseT network cards that I got for $1.25 bringing the total cost to $19.50.
I then did a network install of RH 6.1 - as mimimum as I could (about 125Mb) and poof - firewall, NAT server for a cable modem.
I plan on selling it to a cable modem using friend for a bit more than cost:)
I know that reviewers (web-sites especially) need to have hardware early so that a review is available simultaneously to product release.
However, I really don't think it's such a wise decision for a consumer to rush right out and by a product the day it's available. First off, the drivers (be they windows/linux/whatever) are generally not very mature, nor support the full features of the hardware.
It would seem that the smart buyer would wait for USER's reviews, be it friends, newsgroups, etc. Those are the true reviewers, your peers.
I never trust a website/magazine review anyway. The product they reviewed is not always what's seen on the shelf and I refuse to pay top dollar for what might really be a beta product.
I haven't seen anyone mention everybuddy yet (http://www.everybuddy.com/). It's an all-in-one package that lets me talk w/AIM users, ICQ users, Yahoo users, etc., Very nicely done with no ads.
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I knew that investing on-line in these new/recent-IPO stocks was risky. That's why I only put about $2000 in there, something I could afford to lose outright if worst came to worst.
:)
Well as of today that $2000 is worth $300. I have now revised my strategy a bit
I am now holding this stock that I bought at 29 (now 4) as a long-term investment. Oh well, live and learn as they say.
Just as an FYI on how the state of Florida can wildly swing between candidates. When the population of votes is so close to 50/50 (or 49/49), it maximizes the standard deviation of that population. Assume there are only 2 choices. In this type of distribution (binary), stdev = N*(p*(1-p))^2. So what was happening is basically some Type I errors caused by either the size or confidence interval of the sample to be too small.
Just like Linux is having/has had a hard time overcoming the Windows mind-share, so will Transmeta have a similar fate with regard to Intel/AMD.
You can't really expect such a big splash right away with relatively unproven technology (market wise). Just be glad someone (Sony) has given Transmeta/Crusoe a chance and let the performance of their product dictate their success. Look how long AMD took to really get a foothold in the CPU market. After all their K6's, it wasn't really until the Thunderbird Athlon that they earned their place in the market with a fantastic product.
Please also recognize that there are some problems w/NVidia's drivers in SMP systems. On my system, some GL app's crash - some much harder than others. Still can't get quake2 to run for more than 30 seconds w/out crashing. Trying a single CPU kernel makes the problems go away, but that is not the solution I was looking for.
Process of taking several sheets of cushionny-soft sanitary paper and wiping the remnants of fecal matter from one's intra-gluteal area. Dependant on number of wipes, process shall be called "N-wipe cleaning."
Start asking them questions like:
:)
"What are you wearing?", even if it's someone of the same sex. Ask them about their sexual preferences and what they enjoy. Try to really disturb them and get them to hang up on you. Act deviant. It's easy for me for some reason....
It's so amazing how you can toy with an inferior mind and eventally get them to do your bidding. Oh yeah, it's evil too, but so are they. Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make things even and that's all I care about
This should be mod'd as super-funny. I rarely laugh out loud at the printed word, but this did it for me today. Nice job :)
I would have to agree that communication between you and your kids is the real solution. Not technology/blocking filters.
One method that I could implement (thanks to the power of Linux and IPChains) is to have my kids tell me which sites they need to be looking at and add them explicity to a DENY policy. But this is somewhat Draconian and would not foster the relationship that I want w/my children
The best solution though is proper communication and trust between parent and child, quite a rarity in these days.
That's all well and good, but it is yet to be seen how well 3dfx can write a decent OpenGL ICD. Their mini-implementation seemed good enough for quake, etc.; but NVidia's inroads in this matter seem to be far ahead at this point. Such a task is not trivial, witness Matrox's and ATI's failings in the past.
"a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology..."
:)
Umm...next time in English please?
Not much to add here except that this post is excellent and should be modded up accordingly. Insightfully describes the use main memory has in a system in conjunction w/the roles various levels of cache play. Great job.
Strafe Jumping is a method to increase your movement speed by holding the strafe key (either left or right) and jumping repeatedly. It allows you to move at speeds faster than if you had the haste rune. It is not easy to master, but once done, you can literally run circles around the opposing players.
As I understand it (I haven't installed 1.25 yet), this update minimizes the effect of strafe-jumping among other physics. For me, strafe-jumping was why I preferred UT over Q3. The strafe-jumping phenomenon started in Q2, but to me, I think it exploited a bug in the movement code rather than a planned method of movement. id kept the code the same in Q3, but for some reason to me it doesn't seem the right thing to do.
I know I'll get many who disagree w/me, but when exploiting a "bug" becomes a major force in talent level in a game, I think the game itself loses something. Just my opinion though, I know there are rabid strafe-jumpers out there who don't want to lose their abilities to a patch udpate.
But remember, Unreal 1 had no linux server port. Unreal Tournament did; that's why I only said Unreal in my original post :)
Having a Linux dedicated server port for your online multiplayer game is almost a necessity for success these days. It's what set Quake 1 and 2 apart from games like Unreal, Shogo, Sin, etc. (well at least that was part of it).
Also, having users freely provide their bandwidth in support of your game FOR FREE is a big bonus. Granted, most X-Box games will probably have tons of MSN proprietary servers to play on; but if I'm a developer, porting a linux server is really a win-win situation.
The thing is, it is the employers themselves that are causing this to happen. They determine what style of worker will work for them. I've seen examples where salaried, full-time employees make roughly half of their contracted counterparts. Granted there are no benefits, but double the salary is hard to ignore.
When I first joined the workforce in 1990, I went through about 5 layoff situations in about 2 years, luckily surviving them all. That process didn't make me want to dedicate my life to this company. Once you realize that a company simply sees you as a commodity you begin to put your own situation first and if there are better offers somewhere else, take them. Loyalty is a thing of the past between employer and employee. It is a fickle relationship determined by one's salary. If you can get more elsewhere, you go there. If you can't, you stay. Same with the employer. If they can get someone just as good for less, say goodbye. Don't feel bad about it, just realize it and plan your career accordingly. Of course I am generalizing, but this has been consistent with my experiences.
Just as an FYI, most gas generators at the power station run on methane fuel as well. New combustion technology (Dry Low NOx) allows for lowered NOx and CO levels without moisture injection. It's just the distribution of said power that lead to the inefficiency you describe.
Right now, there is little control the user (us) has over what is seen on TV. We are told when to laugh, cry, and watch commercials. Introducing the digital nature of broadcasting sets the stage for someone to take control away from the networks and put it into the users hands. Corporate America sees loss of control as loss of income. When you sit down and think about it, it's amazing what we're force fed collectively each day through the media. Those who are currently in the money don't want that to change. They are willing to let us watch that latest pepsi commercial in HDTV format though. How nice of them. :)
You're right. I do exactly the same thing. For me, I say "I can out-bench that guy." I can bench over 350lbs. so it is possible. Unless that guy is Jason Hall or another King of teh Monsters :)
Now don't get me wrong, I've been to LAN parties and used to consider myself a pretty good FPS player. I've won my share of internet games be it on dialup or cable.
However, after seeing the dedication and "mad skillz" some of these near full-time players, I'm simply amazed. I don't want to denigrate their abilities, but really, what's it all worth?
All that investment in playing and perfecting that 180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag doesn't amount to much anywhere else except in that virtual world. Isn't there anything more constructive to do? Again, don't get me wrong, I love to play, but I think I do so in moderation. I can't imagine that these skills are developed overnight, so investing all those hours and hours of playing just seems so wasteful.
Or maybe I'm just jealous....:)
It'd be great to have some undergarments equiped as such so that it could control both my bladder and bowel movements. I suppose this would represent extreme operating conditions and would make for a good stress test of the equipment.
This is so obviously a prototype for the Star Trek tricorder.
For those enterprising and lucky enough to find such things:
:)
I found at a computer show a HP Vectra 486/66 desktop system w/8MB Ram, 400MB HD, embedded SVGA and sound for only $17.00. Add to that 2 ISA 10baseT network cards that I got for $1.25 bringing the total cost to $19.50.
I then did a network install of RH 6.1 - as mimimum as I could (about 125Mb) and poof - firewall, NAT server for a cable modem.
I plan on selling it to a cable modem using friend for a bit more than cost
I know that reviewers (web-sites especially) need to have hardware early so that a review is available simultaneously to product release.
However, I really don't think it's such a wise decision for a consumer to rush right out and by a product the day it's available. First off, the drivers (be they windows/linux/whatever) are generally not very mature, nor support the full features of the hardware.
It would seem that the smart buyer would wait for USER's reviews, be it friends, newsgroups, etc. Those are the true reviewers, your peers.
I never trust a website/magazine review anyway. The product they reviewed is not always what's seen on the shelf and I refuse to pay top dollar for what might really be a beta product.
I haven't seen anyone mention everybuddy yet (http://www.everybuddy.com/). It's an all-in-one package that lets me talk w/AIM users, ICQ users, Yahoo users, etc., Very nicely done with no ads.