Now, imagine : It not sucking. I've set up screamernet networks before. Frankly, I wouldn't mind a bit if I could just add a simple batch job to a thingy that does auto-discovery of all the nodes, and then I go get a burger.
>Oh, yes. I love the Far Side strip about Ginger. Remember, though, that saying "awk", "sed", or >"grep", which sound quite reasonable to people on Slashdot, sounds absolutely bizarre to most folks.
If those zarking users would just say that they don't grok me, we'd be fine!
5 GOTO 10 7 THEY LACK PUNCTUATION 9 GOTO 30 10 THE OP IS 20 A BASIC PROGRAMMER 25 GOTO 7 30 AND FUNCTIONS
Re:I'd like to run ray tracing real time on this
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Basically, a normal renderer will render the scene from the top down. A Stochastic raytracer like F-Prime renders by shooting random rays all over wherever-the-fuck. As you leave the algorithm running, the image starts to look better and better. The more CPU time is spent on the image, the more rays are traced, and the better everything is. But, if you only have a small amount of CPU time, you still get a rough idea of what the scene look like, rather than an exact idea of what the top thirs looks like. That's really rough. To understand the point about motion blur, it really would be best to understand multidimensional integrals.
>This is exactly my experience. I've been >developing in Java for about 8 years and I think I >met just 10 other people who really know their >Java. And of those 10 people just about 2 or 3 are >able to design an enterprise class application.
Huzzah. I'm one of those 60+% of guys who will put Java on their resume because we've coded some stuff in it. If anybody asks me, I'll gladly explain that I've worked in it a bit, a few years ago. You know the old adage about how you can write Spaghetti C in any language? That's how I write Java. It all looks like C. I'm not especially ashamed of it, but I recognise that there are very few guys who really are able to fit the program with Java like a glove. It looks like C, so it's easy to get frustrated when it doesn't work exactly like C. The good Java guys are the ones who really grok object orientation and stuff.
If it is a swiper, rather than a "feed card in so it can be eaten" type... Just make a really long magstrip. I mean, sure, it wouldn't be according to spec... But, isn't that the point of an attempted buffer overflow exploit?
Hrm? What is Dell's R&D? R&D does not equal engineering. What has Dell ever created? What were Dell's innovative moves?
Apple was first with the Newton. Apple was near the start of MP3 players, and made a genuinely distinctive product. A unique OS. (Several of them over the history of the company.) Apple was part of AIM, which developed the first PPC processors. Apple had some of the first really viable, useful laptops.
When has Dell invented a CPU architecture? Proprietary motherboards does not mean the same thing as being innovative.
I'm gonna agree. While Teotihuacan is also a Toltec site, and a Mexican site, and a Spansih Conquistadores site, IMHO, it counts as an Aztech site. Virginia counts as a George Washington place, but he didn't build the place, or even name it. He just lived there, and shot at some people and stuff. But, in the story of George Washinton, Virginia is important enough to be associated with him.
As a board certified thin-foil chapeautinist, and a practicing AluFoil Haberdasherer, I have to say that most people overestimate the utility of Aluminum Foil Hats! In order to properly shield yourself from mind control rays, you need to enclose your skull (preferably, the complete central nervous system) in a faraday cage. It's not that hard, but the standard "fashion hat" such as an AluFedora, or, as in the parent post, a beanie, will *not* be built as a Faraday cage!!!
discusses faraday cages, consult google for more information. Now, remember : to achieve maximum benefit from Faraday Hats, you need to know the exact frequency that the government is using to stimulate your brain waves. I reccomend that everybody get themselves a brain scan, to look for the harmonic carrier. Then, have a custom cage hat built for you specifically to attenuate that carrier signal. Not only will the government mind control beams be blocked, but you will also find it easier to think, as much of the stray radiation will be unable to stimulate that carrier frequency in your neurons.
Proper custom faraday cage hats are not that expensive, and can still be made quite fashionable. We do brisk business with Fedoras, Beanies, Fez's, Abstracts, Pointy Wizard Hats, and more!
I'll be setting up a new website at Michael's Computer's old server shortly.
Re:Remember we joked with Apple, Amiga people?
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Well, it'd still be running at really low resolution, with the OS still mostly written in 68k assembly, and somebody would be figuring out how to hack a nice truecolor image editor to work with Hold And Modify graphics modes...:)
I say this is a big fan of the Amiga, too. One of the few important types of systems I don't own at the moment.:(
DataTypes: See Mac OS X. Has similar functionality. Not 100% sure if I can count QuickTime, as it's a "3rd party lib" but it is integrated into the OS, and very standard.
GUI Toolkit: Cocoa is pretty fucked up, but it works quite well once you get over the shouting and mental instability.
Assigns: Mac OS Classic has shortcuts, OS X supports Sym Links, etc.
AREXX: AppleScript. Well supported by many apps, etc.
Workspaces are a weak point on Mac OS X. Just add more monitors, and you will be fine...:)
Menus at top of screen... Check.
Decent CLI... Pretty standard Linux style terminal emulator. Doesn't support multiple tabs, a la kTerm, but It's quite decent, and supports multiple terminal windows which can be easily dealt with, almost so much so as if they were tabbed. (rt-click on dock icon, and tell to minimise, for example, would accomplish the same thing as minimising a single multitabbed window)
So, 1 in 100,000 people die in asteroid attacks. For the sake of argument, lets round up, and say that there are ten billion people on Earth. Thus 100,000 people will die in asteroid attacks. Assume that it takes about 100 years for those 100,000 people to die off. Thus, we are going to be averaging 1,000 people dead from asteroids every year.
Side note : When a large killer asteroid strikes the Earth, killing someone... It may tend to effect additional people in the area, especially in the case of Texas-sized asteroids.
Side Side note : What's this? Asteroids don't attack people? Maybe my numbers are off, then...
Indeed - a teacher that understands the student is the best thing going. I've met many people who suck at learning from books. They weren't stupid people. Nothing wrong with them. They just sucked at learning from books. But, if you have a teacher say the same stuff that was in the book, and goes at a pace that responds to the student, and has a little motion... Suddenly that person who would have been reduced to tears trying to learn basic algebra from a book is doing fourier transforms in their head.
One question... What does the P4 get on the SSE2 benchmark if the baseline is a PIII?
Frankly, the only useful way to say it is to specify the CPU, and state the freqeuncy. An 800 MHz Itanium II. a 600 MHz R12000. Whatever. It's up to the user to figure out what that actually means. Or, failing that, look up spec numbers. spec is pretty close to the benchmark you want.
There is simply no way around the fact that different CPU's will respond differently to various benchmarks. No amount of efforts to simplify this will result in a single number that can turn an uneducated consumer into the equivalent of an educated one.
For my own use, the prime benchmark is performance in Lightwave 3D, with shader intensive scenes. So, I look at Lightwave benchmarks. The 3DS Max benchmarks are interesting to me, but sometimes come out startlingly different than similar benchmarks done with LW. How do you propose to have a single benchmark that both me and somebody who uses 3DS max find useful?
www.spec.org is a great place to research the best known existing benchmark, and probably the most fair. IMHO, computer manufacturers should just start quoting SPEC numbers when selling computers. It'd probably improve sales of the Pentium-M if people saw the SPEC marks on the glossy ads.
As a guy who has a 5 button optical mouse on my PowerMac, I have to say I agree with you in principle... But, How the fuck do you expect me to whip out a PowerBook G5 while I'm on a train, plug in the mouse, use it in cramped quarters, not piss of the guy sitting next to me... I think you get the drift.
If Apple made a two-button PowerBook with a scroll wheel, I'd own it. Plain, and simple.
Dood! Don't take the fun out of it! P.S. Anybody know where to get SCSI drivers and the ability to do a teeeny tiny web server under Mac OS System 6.0.8 - I have an original Macintosh I'd like to get running as a web server. 1 MB RAM (It was seriously modded after market!)
Alright, as a counterpoint, assume you are in a GUI. (twisty little passages, all alike...) You want to check your email. Without knowing that "Outlook" is the email package, you would assume it's the fortune teller. You keep looking. You find some sort of monster game called "Mozilla" or whatever. You want to just get on ICQ, but you can't find an IM client to ask any of your friends how to check email. You see something called "Gaim." What the fuck is that? Somebody made a game so laim that they could even give it a proper title, or spell it right? Probably an asteroids clone.
Certainly, I can click every program and option avilable to me in the GUI, but that isn't any more useable than "ls" and then trying every single program to see if I can figure out what it does.
Ganted, sitting down at a completely foreign CLI does mean that you want to know a few basics, like ls before you get going, but all you really need will be less than an index card with of cheat sheet.
Another show that deserves mention is America's Test Kitchen on PBS. They try a few combinations to see what works best. It's like nutritive hacking.
On one show, they made brownies, and showed the results of several variations. (Extra egg makes it taste bad -- add this much flour to give a nice shiny top -- and more of this to make it cakey instead of dense...)
On another, they did pasta dishes, and explained the etymology of the Italian word Putresca in Pasta Putresca. They also explained the chemistry behind cooking good pasta (At least two quarts water, so that the starch molecules are sufficiently diluted that they don't stick together while in solution)
Anybody who loves Joey Pants should visit my Joe Pantoliano website:
http://128.211.153.106/god/joey.php
It is designed in the style of godawful mid-ninties "web shrines," so it is not especially easy on the eyes, but it's a very thoroughly researched page.
You realise that option 2 allows you to burn your music to a CD, right? And, as far as 128 K AAC... No, it's not perfect, but people have been listening to the radio, and MP3's for years, so it certainly isn't a step backwards...
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Now, imagine : It not sucking. I've set up screamernet networks before. Frankly, I wouldn't mind a bit if I could just add a simple batch job to a thingy that does auto-discovery of all the nodes, and then I go get a burger.
>Oh, yes. I love the Far Side strip about Ginger. Remember, though, that saying "awk", "sed", or
>"grep", which sound quite reasonable to people on Slashdot, sounds absolutely bizarre to most folks.
If those zarking users would just say that they don't grok me, we'd be fine!
5 GOTO 10
7 THEY LACK PUNCTUATION
9 GOTO 30
10 THE OP IS
20 A BASIC PROGRAMMER
25 GOTO 7
30 AND FUNCTIONS
Basically, a normal renderer will render the scene from the top down. A Stochastic raytracer like F-Prime renders by shooting random rays all over wherever-the-fuck. As you leave the algorithm running, the image starts to look better and better. The more CPU time is spent on the image, the more rays are traced, and the better everything is. But, if you only have a small amount of CPU time, you still get a rough idea of what the scene look like, rather than an exact idea of what the top thirs looks like. That's really rough. To understand the point about motion blur, it really would be best to understand multidimensional integrals.
>This is exactly my experience. I've been >developing in Java for about 8 years and I think I >met just 10 other people who really know their >Java. And of those 10 people just about 2 or 3 are >able to design an enterprise class application.
Huzzah. I'm one of those 60+% of guys who will put Java on their resume because we've coded some stuff in it. If anybody asks me, I'll gladly explain that I've worked in it a bit, a few years ago. You know the old adage about how you can write Spaghetti C in any language? That's how I write Java. It all looks like C. I'm not especially ashamed of it, but I recognise that there are very few guys who really are able to fit the program with Java like a glove. It looks like C, so it's easy to get frustrated when it doesn't work exactly like C. The good Java guys are the ones who really grok object orientation and stuff.
If it is a swiper, rather than a "feed card in so it can be eaten" type... Just make a really long magstrip. I mean, sure, it wouldn't be according to spec... But, isn't that the point of an attempted buffer overflow exploit?
Hrm? What is Dell's R&D? R&D does not equal engineering. What has Dell ever created? What were Dell's innovative moves?
Apple was first with the Newton. Apple was near the start of MP3 players, and made a genuinely distinctive product. A unique OS. (Several of them over the history of the company.) Apple was part of AIM, which developed the first PPC processors. Apple had some of the first really viable, useful laptops.
When has Dell invented a CPU architecture? Proprietary motherboards does not mean the same thing as being innovative.
Actually, half of them have started their own tour supporting Lojban.
http://www.lojban.org/
One other guy decided to promote Euro English.
Of course not -- he was talking about this:
:)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268126/
or maybe it was:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173615/
Anyhow, it was certainly one of those adaptations!
I'm gonna agree. While Teotihuacan is also a Toltec site, and a Mexican site, and a Spansih Conquistadores site, IMHO, it counts as an Aztech site. Virginia counts as a George Washington place, but he didn't build the place, or even name it. He just lived there, and shot at some people and stuff. But, in the story of George Washinton, Virginia is important enough to be associated with him.
As a board certified thin-foil chapeautinist, and a practicing AluFoil Haberdasherer, I have to say that most people overestimate the utility of Aluminum Foil Hats! In order to properly shield yourself from mind control rays, you need to enclose your skull (preferably, the complete central nervous system) in a faraday cage. It's not that hard, but the standard "fashion hat" such as an AluFedora, or, as in the parent post, a beanie, will *not* be built as a Faraday cage!!!
l _F araday_Cage.htm
http://www.boltlightningprotection.com/Elementa
discusses faraday cages, consult google for more information. Now, remember : to achieve maximum benefit from Faraday Hats, you need to know the exact frequency that the government is using to stimulate your brain waves. I reccomend that everybody get themselves a brain scan, to look for the harmonic carrier. Then, have a custom cage hat built for you specifically to attenuate that carrier signal. Not only will the government mind control beams be blocked, but you will also find it easier to think, as much of the stray radiation will be unable to stimulate that carrier frequency in your neurons.
Proper custom faraday cage hats are not that expensive, and can still be made quite fashionable. We do brisk business with Fedoras, Beanies, Fez's, Abstracts, Pointy Wizard Hats, and more!
I'll be setting up a new website at Michael's Computer's old server shortly.
Well, it'd still be running at really low resolution, with the OS still mostly written in 68k assembly, and somebody would be figuring out how to hack a nice truecolor image editor to work with Hold And Modify graphics modes... :)
:(
I say this is a big fan of the Amiga, too. One of the few important types of systems I don't own at the moment.
Chomp... :)
:)
DataTypes: See Mac OS X. Has similar functionality. Not 100% sure if I can count QuickTime, as it's a "3rd party lib" but it is integrated into the OS, and very standard.
GUI Toolkit: Cocoa is pretty fucked up, but it works quite well once you get over the shouting and mental instability.
Assigns: Mac OS Classic has shortcuts, OS X supports Sym Links, etc.
AREXX: AppleScript. Well supported by many apps, etc.
Workspaces are a weak point on Mac OS X. Just add more monitors, and you will be fine...
Menus at top of screen... Check.
Decent CLI... Pretty standard Linux style terminal emulator. Doesn't support multiple tabs, a la kTerm, but It's quite decent, and supports multiple terminal windows which can be easily dealt with, almost so much so as if they were tabbed. (rt-click on dock icon, and tell to minimise, for example, would accomplish the same thing as minimising a single multitabbed window)
Naturally, we'll have to press Inidlo-Start-Mode to reboot it.
So, 1 in 100,000 people die in asteroid attacks. For the sake of argument, lets round up, and say that there are ten billion people on Earth. Thus 100,000 people will die in asteroid attacks. Assume that it takes about 100 years for those 100,000 people to die off. Thus, we are going to be averaging 1,000 people dead from asteroids every year.
Side note : When a large killer asteroid strikes the Earth, killing someone... It may tend to effect additional people in the area, especially in the case of Texas-sized asteroids.
Side Side note : What's this? Asteroids don't attack people? Maybe my numbers are off, then...
Indeed - a teacher that understands the student is the best thing going. I've met many people who suck at learning from books. They weren't stupid people. Nothing wrong with them. They just sucked at learning from books. But, if you have a teacher say the same stuff that was in the book, and goes at a pace that responds to the student, and has a little motion... Suddenly that person who would have been reduced to tears trying to learn basic algebra from a book is doing fourier transforms in their head.
http://www.euroshop.cz/store/info/ecs/k=5839
He he... Intel 7401
Yes, I'm a terrible waste of a person, but it's still sort of funny.
One question... What does the P4 get on the SSE2 benchmark if the baseline is a PIII?
Frankly, the only useful way to say it is to specify the CPU, and state the freqeuncy. An 800 MHz Itanium II. a 600 MHz R12000. Whatever. It's up to the user to figure out what that actually means. Or, failing that, look up spec numbers. spec is pretty close to the benchmark you want.
There is simply no way around the fact that different CPU's will respond differently to various benchmarks. No amount of efforts to simplify this will result in a single number that can turn an uneducated consumer into the equivalent of an educated one.
For my own use, the prime benchmark is performance in Lightwave 3D, with shader intensive scenes. So, I look at Lightwave benchmarks. The 3DS Max benchmarks are interesting to me, but sometimes come out startlingly different than similar benchmarks done with LW. How do you propose to have a single benchmark that both me and somebody who uses 3DS max find useful?
www.spec.org is a great place to research the best known existing benchmark, and probably the most fair. IMHO, computer manufacturers should just start quoting SPEC numbers when selling computers. It'd probably improve sales of the Pentium-M if people saw the SPEC marks on the glossy ads.
As a guy who has a 5 button optical mouse on my PowerMac, I have to say I agree with you in principle... But, How the fuck do you expect me to whip out a PowerBook G5 while I'm on a train, plug in the mouse, use it in cramped quarters, not piss of the guy sitting next to me... I think you get the drift.
If Apple made a two-button PowerBook with a scroll wheel, I'd own it. Plain, and simple.
Dood! Don't take the fun out of it! P.S. Anybody know where to get SCSI drivers and the ability to do a teeeny tiny web server under Mac OS System 6.0.8 - I have an original Macintosh I'd like to get running as a web server. 1 MB RAM (It was seriously modded after market!)
see kids, this is why we should use the perview button :)
Alright, as a counterpoint, assume you are in a GUI. (twisty little passages, all alike...) You want to check your email. Without knowing that "Outlook" is the email package, you would assume it's the fortune teller. You keep looking. You find some sort of monster game called "Mozilla" or whatever. You want to just get on ICQ, but you can't find an IM client to ask any of your friends how to check email. You see something called "Gaim." What the fuck is that? Somebody made a game so laim that they could even give it a proper title, or spell it right? Probably an asteroids clone.
Certainly, I can click every program and option avilable to me in the GUI, but that isn't any more useable than "ls" and then trying every single program to see if I can figure out what it does.
Ganted, sitting down at a completely foreign CLI does mean that you want to know a few basics, like ls before you get going, but all you really need will be less than an index card with of cheat sheet.
Another show that deserves mention is America's Test Kitchen on PBS. They try a few combinations to see what works best. It's like nutritive hacking.
On one show, they made brownies, and showed the results of several variations. (Extra egg makes it taste bad -- add this much flour to give a nice shiny top -- and more of this to make it cakey instead of dense...)
On another, they did pasta dishes, and explained the etymology of the Italian word Putresca in Pasta Putresca. They also explained the chemistry behind cooking good pasta (At least two quarts water, so that the starch molecules are sufficiently diluted that they don't stick together while in solution)
Also, the chicks are hot.
Anybody who loves Joey Pants should visit my Joe Pantoliano website:
http://128.211.153.106/god/joey.php
It is designed in the style of godawful mid-ninties "web shrines," so it is not especially easy on the eyes, but it's a very thoroughly researched page.
You realise that option 2 allows you to burn your music to a CD, right? And, as far as 128 K AAC... No, it's not perfect, but people have been listening to the radio, and MP3's for years, so it certainly isn't a step backwards...