isn't just that there's a variance in umps, there's a variance in what will get called a strike or a ball when thrown by different pitchers. A number of pitchers have come out against the system-- it seems that with the system in place, if they want something called a strike, they actually have to throw it in the strike zone!
The intention of the system, however, isn't to remove the human from being the umpire-- there will always be judgement calls (did the catcher tag the runner before the runner touched home plate, did that ball hit the runner while he was on the baseline, etc...) and if he's going to be there for that, he may as well call balls and strikes, too. What the system is there for is to make sure umpires stick to a standard. Those who do will be rewarded by being able to call playoff games, or maybe even the World Series. Those that don't will be replaced by ones that will.
We realized PCI wasn't going to be fast enough years ago-- that's why pretty much every motherboard you can buy today has an AGP socket.
And even that wasn't fast enough, now we have AGP 8x.
But seriously, is PCI really not fast enough for the general consumer, once he's got an AGP socket? PCI that runs on a 66MHz bus that's 64 bits wide has existed and even been available in high-end PC class hardware for years, but few of even Slashdotters have anything other than 32 bit 33MHz PCI in our home machines. The only time I ever deal with the 64 bit PCI cards is for Sun Microsystems hardware at the office.
I don't think this is "forcing another upgrade cycle" at all-- upgrades already exist, and most of us don't have 'em.
Oddly, given that the elected rulers turned on their electors and usurped power, it sounds more to me like they were Decepticons....
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My PDA is my PDA, and my watch is my watch.
Of course, since my PDA is also my portable mp3 player, digital camera storage brick, and a few other things, my watch * is also my thermometer, compass, altimeter, and barometer...
* This is actually the newer version of my older model Casio Pathfinder.
After all, this is much of the draw of an online community such as an MMORPG-- it doesn't matter if you're from Podunk, where there's not even a stoplight and you know all hundred people in town, or if you live in the great metropolis where you don't even know the name of the looney across the hall. You can step out of the world you live in and into one of your own choosing.
Should we be surprised if this is a little addictive? Should we be surprised if people want to spend more time in the world they want to instead of the world they're forced to?
What does 3G have to do with Wi-Fi? 3G is a phone standard. You get 3G stuff anywhere you can use your phone. Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN standard. You need a pringles can to use it from two doors down the street. They're completely different technologies, designed for two completely different things, how can one make the other irrelevant?
Look at the Space Shuttle. The space shuttle has never had a catastrophic computer failure-- but every line of code on that truck has survived review by a group of programmers. They've examined it, line by line, multiple times, in order to ensure that it's exactly right, because the cost of failure is 7 astronauts and a multimillion dollar orbiter.
The new Mars programs, however, are part of the streamlined "do it on the cheap" NASA. NASA put the Mars Rover down using mostly off-the-shelf and open-source software and a small amount of home-brew stuff. No matter how good open source software gets, it still hasn't undergone the level of review that the Space Shuttle code has seen. No matter how popular an off-the-shelf package is, it's not cost-effective for the manufacturer to give it that sort of treatment. NASA can't afford to do that level of code review because that costs them the ability to do some other program.
NASA is simply trying to do more with less in the unmanned launches, and the cost of that is we need to expect some failures. These failures are unfortunately very visible...
>the plasma reaches a temperature of 15,000 degrees >Kelvin (about 50 times greater than room temperature)
I'd hate to see the "Room Temperature" the guy who wrote that lives in.
That'd be 300 degrees kelvin.
That's 300 - 273.15 = 26.85 degrees centigrade.
For those of you who can't do the conversion in your head, that's 80.33 degrees fahrenheit. Just means his roommates won't let him turn on the air conditioner 'cause of the power bill... -JDF
There used to be a saying during WWII: "When the German flew overhead, the Allied took cover. When the British flew overhead, the German took cover. When the Americans flew overhead, everybody took cover".
Well, that explains field-ops guys in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, if nothing else...
and the radio to have even less diversity (a situation that some people think is responsible for falling CD sales)
First you try to tell us that the economy is sluggish, so record sales will be slower, and now you're trying to tell me that less diverse advertising means they sell fewer albums. I wish you'd quit trying to use disinformation tactics.
Everybody knows the reason record companies sell fewer records is because of rampant evil music pirates and mp3!
It's not very often that someone downloads the latest greatest software package and finds it ships as interpreted source, in a previous era this would reek of "unprofessional" but with languages like Perl and Python, it's more common and respectable, and this package helps to that end. Why did you choose Python? Is there something Bit Torrent does that Python handles in a saner fashion than other languages or was it a simple case of, "I know Python"?
the hard part of this setup is the whiners that can't live without a 1600X1200 at 32 bit color resolutions. (800X600 is best for a 10 baseT network, which 802.11b is equilivant to) they also need to be publically killed as an example to the others. (A good sysadmin keeps his users cowering in fear)
Hm. I can't live without 1600x1200 at 32 bit resolution, but I am the sysadmin. How do I keep myself cowering in fear? It'd certainly be much cheaper...
I think the big question is why would consumers choose to buy DRM-crippled Windows versus non DRM-crippled Windows?
Well, there's the folks who don't know better, who just buy a PC and use whatever ships on it. XP home's kinda crippled compared to XP pro, after all, but how many people go out and buy XP Pro (or even pirate it?) for their home machines?
And now you're going to tell me WINS and Exchange ARE?!
Perhaps the problem is not that "open source software doesn't conform to standards." Perhaps the problem is that "modern software considers itself too good for standards," which is entirely a different problem and isn't open-source specific.
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isn't just that there's a variance in umps, there's a variance in what will get called a strike or a ball when thrown by different pitchers. A number of pitchers have come out against the system-- it seems that with the system in place, if they want something called a strike, they actually have to throw it in the strike zone!
The intention of the system, however, isn't to remove the human from being the umpire-- there will always be judgement calls (did the catcher tag the runner before the runner touched home plate, did that ball hit the runner while he was on the baseline, etc...) and if he's going to be there for that, he may as well call balls and strikes, too. What the system is there for is to make sure umpires stick to a standard. Those who do will be rewarded by being able to call playoff games, or maybe even the World Series. Those that don't will be replaced by ones that will.
-JDF
We realized PCI wasn't going to be fast enough years ago-- that's why pretty much every motherboard you can buy today has an AGP socket.
And even that wasn't fast enough, now we have AGP 8x.
But seriously, is PCI really not fast enough for the general consumer, once he's got an AGP socket? PCI that runs on a 66MHz bus that's 64 bits wide has existed and even been available in high-end PC class hardware for years, but few of even Slashdotters have anything other than 32 bit 33MHz PCI in our home machines. The only time I ever deal with the 64 bit PCI cards is for Sun Microsystems hardware at the office.
I don't think this is "forcing another upgrade cycle" at all-- upgrades already exist, and most of us don't have 'em.
Is that when the Autobots rule your board?
Oddly, given that the elected rulers turned on their electors and usurped power, it sounds more to me like they were Decepticons....
My PDA is my PDA, and my watch is my watch.
Of course, since my PDA is also my portable mp3 player, digital camera storage brick, and a few other things, my watch * is also my thermometer, compass, altimeter, and barometer...
* This is actually the newer version of my older model Casio Pathfinder.
After all, this is much of the draw of an online community such as an MMORPG-- it doesn't matter if you're from Podunk, where there's not even a stoplight and you know all hundred people in town, or if you live in the great metropolis where you don't even know the name of the looney across the hall. You can step out of the world you live in and into one of your own choosing.
Should we be surprised if this is a little addictive? Should we be surprised if people want to spend more time in the world they want to instead of the world they're forced to?
-JDF
What does 3G have to do with Wi-Fi? 3G is a phone standard. You get 3G stuff anywhere you can use your phone. Wi-Fi is a wireless LAN standard. You need a pringles can to use it from two doors down the street. They're completely different technologies, designed for two completely different things, how can one make the other irrelevant?
-JDF
I have a Dreamcast.
I have a Broadband adapter.
The Broadband adapter's plugged into the Dreamcast-- and there's no place to plug in another one.
Seems to me that a router with only one ethernet port is kinda limited in functionality...
-JDF
in two weeks third-party programs like Powerarchiver or Ultimatezip will have figured out how to deal with either, making this mostly moot.
-JDF
That is one hell of a beowulf cluster!
Space Exploration isn't easy.
Look at the Space Shuttle. The space shuttle has never had a catastrophic computer failure-- but every line of code on that truck has survived review by a group of programmers. They've examined it, line by line, multiple times, in order to ensure that it's exactly right, because the cost of failure is 7 astronauts and a multimillion dollar orbiter.
The new Mars programs, however, are part of the streamlined "do it on the cheap" NASA. NASA put the Mars Rover down using mostly off-the-shelf and open-source software and a small amount of home-brew stuff. No matter how good open source software gets, it still hasn't undergone the level of review that the Space Shuttle code has seen. No matter how popular an off-the-shelf package is, it's not cost-effective for the manufacturer to give it that sort of treatment. NASA can't afford to do that level of code review because that costs them the ability to do some other program.
NASA is simply trying to do more with less in the unmanned launches, and the cost of that is we need to expect some failures. These failures are unfortunately very visible...
-JDF
>the plasma reaches a temperature of 15,000 degrees
>Kelvin (about 50 times greater than room temperature)
I'd hate to see the "Room Temperature" the guy who wrote that lives in.
That'd be 300 degrees kelvin.
That's 300 - 273.15 = 26.85 degrees centigrade.
For those of you who can't do the conversion in your head, that's 80.33 degrees fahrenheit. Just means his roommates won't let him turn on the air conditioner 'cause of the power bill...
-JDF
I asked the guy how he did it, but he won't tell me.
Hasn't anyone explained to him the wonders of open force?
-JDF
There used to be a saying during WWII:
"When the German flew overhead, the Allied took cover. When the British flew overhead, the German took cover. When the Americans flew overhead, everybody took cover".
Well, that explains field-ops guys in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, if nothing else...
-JDF
and the radio to have even less diversity (a situation that some people think is responsible for falling CD sales)
First you try to tell us that the economy is sluggish, so record sales will be slower, and now you're trying to tell me that less diverse advertising means they sell fewer albums. I wish you'd quit trying to use disinformation tactics.
Everybody knows the reason record companies sell fewer records is because of rampant evil music pirates and mp3!
Sincerely,
Joe Newspaper-Reader
May I suggest as alternatives, "the short statured", "dwarfs"
While I understand your concern, please note that we're talking about Lord of the Rings here. We can't go casting "dwarfs" as hobbits.
It's not very often that someone downloads the latest greatest software package and finds it ships as interpreted source, in a previous era this would reek of "unprofessional" but with languages like Perl and Python, it's more common and respectable, and this package helps to that end. Why did you choose Python? Is there something Bit Torrent does that Python handles in a saner fashion than other languages or was it a simple case of, "I know Python"?
The story has three icons next to it.
Technology. OK. I get that.
Toys. OK. Maybe.
Entertainment. That's twisted...
the hard part of this setup is the whiners that can't live without a 1600X1200 at 32 bit color resolutions. (800X600 is best for a 10 baseT network, which 802.11b is equilivant to) they also need to be publically killed as an example to the others. (A good sysadmin keeps his users cowering in fear)
Hm. I can't live without 1600x1200 at 32 bit resolution, but I am the sysadmin. How do I keep myself cowering in fear? It'd certainly be much cheaper...
-JDF
...to build a Tivo for books!
-JDF
you insensitive clod!
I thought the "geek answer" to the problem of making change was an anonymized debit card system.
-JDF
The monkeys did prove they're smarter than most of us IT professionals:
The first thing they did was to bring a large stone and try to smash up the computer
I feel like such an idiot now.
-JDF
in 30 years there will be a new generation of geeks telling us about all the advantages of this new "SquareScreen"(tm) movie format.
We already have that. Ever seen an IMAX screen?
4x3, just like your television...
-JDF
I think the big question is why would consumers choose to buy DRM-crippled Windows versus non DRM-crippled Windows?
Well, there's the folks who don't know better, who just buy a PC and use whatever ships on it. XP home's kinda crippled compared to XP pro, after all, but how many people go out and buy XP Pro (or even pirate it?) for their home machines?
Open Source doesn't conform to standards?
DNS?
Sendmail?
These aren't standards compliant?
And now you're going to tell me WINS and Exchange ARE?!
Perhaps the problem is not that "open source software doesn't conform to standards." Perhaps the problem is that "modern software considers itself too good for standards," which is entirely a different problem and isn't open-source specific.
-JDF