'There is no Bill,' said Bill. I added, 'Do not try to bill Bill. Instead, try to realize the truth. There is no Bill.' 'You're noble,' I said. 'No,' said Bill. 'But I'm Bill.'
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I'm guessing that your lifestyle doesn't consider isolation to be a plus however, and you want to live someplace that is more "desirable". I agree, by the way. I'd go absolutely bananas if I had to deal with a rural lifestyle right now.
Actually, I would disagree... since with broadband internet (much broadband, of course, say so that hi-res videoconferencing could be possible) you can increasingly communicate with others from home, I have long dreamed now of, once (and if) I have sufficient money, buying (or better yet, building) a house somewhere on the seashore a few hundred miles to the north of Cisco... then drive there once a week or so. I would probably enjoy that lifestyle:)
The only problem may be that a house like that would now cost close to a million dollars:)
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only a "faustian bargain" is inappropriate here, since in Goethe's creation it is questionable if Faust's deed was bad for him:)
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I couldn't agree more. Fortunately, unlike most of the people in the world, I'm not pressured (and never have been) to conform to any religion or faith, and I find perfect satisfaction in not believing in anything but freedom and truth. (okay, this sounds corny but I don't care: if you don't understand what I mean I pity you.) Alternatively, I resent the idea of joining - and being bound by - organizations known for centuries to kill people, violate people's freedoms and invade their privacy. I know this sounds too strong and that most people's relationship with their religion does not involve such abuse, but it's true. As for anyone who tries to accuse others of being immoral or otherwise "evil" on the basis that they are atheist - think again, you ARE a hypocrite.
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Well, basically you're right in that overpopulation and competition for resources causes wars and violence in general (obviously). However, this is not an indicator that primitive societies - nomadic, tribal, isolated - constitute more stable and protected societies, nor less violent in general.
When you get to the point in civilization's advance to large cities, the society becomes increasingly centralized around an authority. Dependent on circumstances, that authority might lead the nation to war, or even destroy that society altogether by irresponsible actions. But it is also true that individuals or segments in hardship will normally get much more help from others in a more centralized society (ex., help in famine, unemployment benefits, and so on). Overall, today's societies definitely have more means to protect their members than decentralized primitive ones.
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Speaking of cases, I'm assembling a new computer this summer and I want a cool case for it - any suggestions? So far I'm looking at colorcase.com, are there any other places?
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By the way, their tech support made me really really unhappy. I got a PII-350 from them two years ago, with a Philips CD-RW. The CD-RW drive (1) never actually wrote on CD-RWs, only on CD-Rs, (2) at some point started to spoil every single blank given to it. So I called them... they sent me 2 replacements, both also broken, and then refused to take further action - I'm dealing with them right now. That taught me to never, ever buy anything from Gateway again:))
Any other experiences with Gateway tech support?
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_YOU_ are the hypocrite here. First, the above post was supposed to be moderated to -1, flamebait. Second, correct spelling and grammar is essential for people to understand you right and to be able to read you - for example reading the original post makes me sick because of the number of spelling errors in it, and it's not just skipping letters here and there, the person misspells words the same way, like napaster. So if someone has to SHUT UP, it's you.
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This is sooooo wrong. A 128kbps mp3, encoded on even the best encoder available (lame or blade)(which I doubt most people use to rip), will trash all of the top frequenies, "sand" the mid-to-top range, and even distort the low freq. To lose minimal amount of information, you have to encode either in 224 (I think that's the #) kbps fixed rate with high-quality passes or in 64-256 kbps VBR at top quality. And it still won't sound as good as the CD ECC'd by a good DAC. Blah.
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Why would you want two copies of the same page, anyway? Opening links in a new window performs this function better.
1) branch navigation with that page in history 2) go up a level on that site without leaving the old location 3) open a new window without having it spend precious time to contact my home portal and trying to download it before I stop it (funny, but Explorer will lose 1 to 2 seconds on this, and that matters for me).
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What if one needs to do heavy calculations on an FPU in their work? What if the owner is a scientist who may not care about UT frame rates, but needs to be able to quickly run a batch on his data with a newly written analysis program? What if I want to encode mp3s on my computer, etc., etc?
An FPU is a handy thing that many people need. Now, the majority of business users may not need it badly, and that's fine with me, but I still need a laptop with a strong FPU. What's important is that if the mass-produced laptops all become non-FPU, the FPU ones will rise in price...
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One extreme example is the idea of "painting" an entire level with unique textures rather than using a few small repeating textures, which John described as "crappy texture compression". Artists would also be able to go in and edit the lightmaps by hand, as they can on computer animated movies.
hmm... doesn't Unreal already have all of this?
He also said that it isn't likely to be relevant to competitive gaming, and that id are taking a "somewhat different direction" with the game. What that direction is exactly though, they aren't saying, but a return to single player story-based action and more interactive scenery is likely on the cards.
now that's much more interesting... honestly, I have been only playing UT to check out new levels and their visual beauty, not for real deathmatch.
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The same thing is in place in my HS, and I bet in many others.
I don't think our administration calls parents up using this list (I actually hold our district administration in high regard. Our school administrators are reasonable, PC, reachable, and friendly as far as I know), but the teachers are instructed not to let those people take bathroom breaks from class, etc.:)
Your level of paranoia may vary, but I don't think this particular practice is dangerous as implemented in my school. Then of course 99% of the people don't know who's on the list, they don't abuse those kids or tell their parents with no evidence...
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Interesting. Is my PC very poorly configured for FP performance or something?..read on..
My PC is a P2-350 with an IDE hdd/128mb ram. I use the latest LAME version, manually from command prompt. When encoding 160 with no additional options, it encodes at maybe 1.5x, maybe 1.8X realtime. When encoding at 192 with better shaping (-h) and other quality improvements it goes at about 3x realtime. When encoding at high-quality VBR with 32-256 thresholds and better shaping (that's how I encode the bulk of my songs) it goes at about 3.5x realtime. Now is that too slow?..
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Well, technically a CD player eats up a LOT of energy, is just a little bit too bulky (because of a form-factor of a CD), and has an inherent problem of skipping. It also contains a lot of moving parts that have a higher potential to break.
On the contrary, an mp3 player contains no moving parts (servos or gears), and therefore consumes a lot less energy. It can also be extremely small. Soo... what I would like to see is a small (Rio-size) player with at least, let's say, 512 megs of flash and an IR/radio link, that would work from a single AA battery and also had a 9V jack for external power. Heh:)
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FAA certifying the shuttle? That'd be hilarious:) Anyway, regarding the previous discussion about Soyuz vs. Shuttle and cost-effectiveness. Do you think that understaffed (and that's an easy term to use), rapidly declining facilities with most men NOT being paid anything or being paid with months' worth of delays, can produce a truly reliable vehicle? Just look at the Proton failures which are responsible for setting the ISS back a year and a half already. The investigation found out there had been debris in the combustion compartment of the booster and parts of the booster were not mated correctly! I know, the manned flight standards are higher, and space shuttle is not that much better, but still. I think what they're doing is very dangerous, and Mir should have been abandoned. They should focus on launching Zarya and building the rest of the ISS, not on turning Mir into a hotel.
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I agree with the author on (practically) all counts... if what the article describes is the reason so few books are in the Gutenberg project or elsewhere online (and I'm sure it's true), that kinda sucks. How many of these authors would like to see their works locked up with little access to them and scarcely published?
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What if, instead of being tested on how much the brain can retain, we are tested on how fast the brain can use all of it's available resources to find the information it needs to complete a given problem. That tests creativity, adaptability and resourcefulness rather than just memorization. These traits are much more important in my eyes for life than memorization is.
Yeah, that's great, but would require a complete different cirriculum optimized for such tasks. Right now if you are in a course called differential equations, you study differential equations (if you're in a good school), not the best ways to find information on them, and in good classes you are not allowed to use laptops nor even calculators. I think that this is the best way to test knowledge. Let's test how fast our brain can find a solution to a problem while confined to itself, not retrieve it from a TI-89 text file, a laptop, or any other source that will probably be replaced by even better ways to retrieve that info (computers wired directly into your brain, ears and eyes...)
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Etoys' only purpose was to shut the site down for the Chrismtas season when they were generating huge earnings. After December 26 or round about they didn't give a damn about Etoy. Of course, now they are dropping the suit "in the spirit of good will and open-mindedness" or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
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Actually, I would disagree... since with broadband internet (much broadband, of course, say so that hi-res videoconferencing could be possible) you can increasingly communicate with others from home, I have long dreamed now of, once (and if) I have sufficient money, buying (or better yet, building) a house somewhere on the seashore a few hundred miles to the north of Cisco... then drive there once a week or so. I would probably enjoy that lifestyle :)
The only problem may be that a house like that would now cost close to a million dollars :)
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Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
When you get to the point in civilization's advance to large cities, the society becomes increasingly centralized around an authority. Dependent on circumstances, that authority might lead the nation to war, or even destroy that society altogether by irresponsible actions. But it is also true that individuals or segments in hardship will normally get much more help from others in a more centralized society (ex., help in famine, unemployment benefits, and so on). Overall, today's societies definitely have more means to protect their members than decentralized primitive ones.
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Any other experiences with Gateway tech support?
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1) branch navigation with that page in history
2) go up a level on that site without leaving the old location
3) open a new window without having it spend precious time to contact my home portal and trying to download it before I stop it (funny, but Explorer will lose 1 to 2 seconds on this, and that matters for me).
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An FPU is a handy thing that many people need. Now, the majority of business users may not need it badly, and that's fine with me, but I still need a laptop with a strong FPU. What's important is that if the mass-produced laptops all become non-FPU, the FPU ones will rise in price...
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hmm... doesn't Unreal already have all of this?
now that's much more interesting... honestly, I have been only playing UT to check out new levels and their visual beauty, not for real deathmatch.
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I don't think our administration calls parents up using this list (I actually hold our district administration in high regard. Our school administrators are reasonable, PC, reachable, and friendly as far as I know), but the teachers are instructed not to let those people take bathroom breaks from class, etc. :)
Your level of paranoia may vary, but I don't think this particular practice is dangerous as implemented in my school. Then of course 99% of the people don't know who's on the list, they don't abuse those kids or tell their parents with no evidence...
Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
My PC is a P2-350 with an IDE hdd/128mb ram. I use the latest LAME version, manually from command prompt. When encoding 160 with no additional options, it encodes at maybe 1.5x, maybe 1.8X realtime. When encoding at 192 with better shaping (-h) and other quality improvements it goes at about 3x realtime. When encoding at high-quality VBR with 32-256 thresholds and better shaping (that's how I encode the bulk of my songs) it goes at about 3.5x realtime. Now is that too slow?..
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
On the contrary, an mp3 player contains no moving parts (servos or gears), and therefore consumes a lot less energy. It can also be extremely small. Soo... what I would like to see is a small (Rio-size) player with at least, let's say, 512 megs of flash and an IR/radio link, that would work from a single AA battery and also had a 9V jack for external power. Heh :)
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Yeah, that's great, but would require a complete different cirriculum optimized for such tasks. Right now if you are in a course called differential equations, you study differential equations (if you're in a good school), not the best ways to find information on them, and in good classes you are not allowed to use laptops nor even calculators. I think that this is the best way to test knowledge. Let's test how fast our brain can find a solution to a problem while confined to itself, not retrieve it from a TI-89 text file, a laptop, or any other source that will probably be replaced by even better ways to retrieve that info (computers wired directly into your brain, ears and eyes...)
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He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Etoys' only purpose was to shut the site down for the Chrismtas season when they were generating huge earnings. After December 26 or round about they didn't give a damn about Etoy. Of course, now they are dropping the suit "in the spirit of good will and open-mindedness" or whatever.