I know you have a quota, Timothy, but if it's obviously just an advertising focused slideshow, be the bigger man here, and don't buy in to it, and [i]just don't post that shit[/i]. I know your job is to drive more traffic to Slashdot, but don't take the shortcut of posting slideshows (Even if you acknowledge them in the post) - you're only killing slashdot's long term credibility by doing this. You've never been a good "editor" (ok, maybe on occasion you use spell check) but don't become the John Katz of bad news aggregator habits (i.e. linking to slideshows).
I wonder what those numbers would look like if you clipped off the first three weeks worth of numbers. From my personal experience, BC2 experienced a huge surge in popularity on the PC when it dropped in price to $30 back in September 2010 or so. I would imagine most console players have sold their copy of BC2 to gamestop by now (or within 2 months of buying the game). Also, I'm pretty sure the console version was released in fall 2009, giving it a huge lead time on the PC version (released March 2010?)
What's the solution for customers who need low latency (> 120ms) hosting? Our (US-centric) retail website is slow enough; I hesitate to think what the customer's experience would be like with a 250ms round trip ping(!) Living in Dallas, I routinely connect to London and Paris dedicated servers and ping 160 and 180ms, respectively. I'm on a fast connection near InfoMart; I hesitate to wonder what people more than a few miles/hops from a backbone connection pings to those same servers.
It's particularly annoying, because samzenpus seems to be the only person who posts any stories at all for 24 hour stretches, as if it's some sort of half-broken story editor robot (insert bad slashdot editor jokes here). I'm pretty sure samzenpus is just a story releasing script that CmdrTaco enables from his iPhone when all the editors go on a saturday night bender and know they'll be too hung over to do their jobs on Sundays. Good job on automating your jobs, but fix the hidden story bug please(!)
I have no idea, but it's not working for me either. I have to log out, copy the URL, and then log in and paste it in manually because samzenpus stories don't show up for me manually. Just like you, this started happening 3 weeks ago.
I'd argue that a decent card 2 years ago was the long winded 8800gtx. These cards are head and shoulders above a $150 card from two years ago. Jumping from a wheezy 8600gt to a GTX 460 1gb is like night and day -- even when jumping from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080 (about a quarter-megapixel more to render). I went from barely 25fps in BFBC2 to a solid 40fps using the GTX 460 -- and that's about half the speed/"power" of the new 570. I'd wager the difference is closer to an order of magnitude than a mere 5% difference. But I do agree that $200 is the price ceiling for the sane consumer.
"Electronic displays in each taqueria light up in real time with orders placed on the East Coast, and within minutes a fresh burrito has been assembled, rolled in foil, marked and dropped down one of the small vertical tubes that rise like organ pipes in restaurant kitchens throughout the city."
The Wii's GFX output looks pretty dreadful on any decent display
If you own the games but want better graphics than your Wii can provide, you should try running them under emulation on your computer, they look fantastic at 1920x1080@60hz true HD and runs just fine on a midrange i5 computer.
Hm yes, when I read the article saying "this completely changes tactics forever", all I thought was that "baddies are going to hole up in occupied residences with children". They're already doing that, and it turns out we're quite good at killing civilians that way.
The F1 teams are using the Racer.nl codebase to train their drivers in the off season. I would hold that to be the highest standard. I'm not sure what this online racing sim uses as their codebase. It wouldn't suprise me if they both use the same codebase.
Ironically, of course, grabbing 75 domain names as part of a taxpayer funded handjob for the MPAA's bottom line
I wonder if, perhaps they seized all of these domain names with the purpose of minimizing the spread of the wikileaks dump that's supposed to be happening Sunday?
You don't need to know the font size. A program that handles data on that level should be able to calculate the average amount of data stored on a sheet of paper, and extrapolate from there.
How is this going to help me find Natalie Portman get all these hot grits out of my pants? Natural language is all good, and this is a huge step forward, but in 2010, I won't be truly impressed with a tech demo until it can grasp antiquated slashdot memes from almost a decade ago. I know you guys at Wolfram are reading this, so I fully expect something unexpected when I calculate the number of surface area of football fields it takes to hold the library of congress printed out on 8.5x11" paper with 1" margins. Natural language is one thing for mathematicians, it's another for the average 4chan user. Now that's bleeding edge.
One thing I've noticed (here in Texas anyways) is that bilingualism is rapidly becomming a requirement for retail/food management. Also, retail management is an ultra-high turnover job; after spending $20,000 to train a manager according to 150 exacting corporate guidelines, you want to recoup some of your investment. Paying them to keep from quitting their shitty job that you paid to train them for means paying them more than accepting a job at a better job with a better work environment. You at least get two months off each year.
A friend of a friend makes 48K a year with full (including eye AND dental) benefits as an assistant manager with a HS diploma at a gas station, and this is in Dallas, with some of the lowest living costs in the nation.
It's probably smart to be marketing the OS rather than pimping a particular phone. Every time phones come up its not "which model is best", it's "iphone os is too slow except on the newest model" vs "android is neat but i want it to synch with itunes" vs "i really like the keyboard on my blackberry". It's like listening to motorheads talking "displacement > all" vs eurocar nerds talking "german engineering and handling" vs ricers talking "turbo + rpm > all".
Pick your camp and make your argument. As quickly as phones are released and then fall into relative obscelecence, there's not much value in promoting a particular phone and alienating the rest of your vendors that paid just as much to buy in to your platform, especially when at the end of the day people are just going to say "yeah I got one of those windows phones" at happy hour when the phone conversation invariably comes up.
Shoot, our art department resource server has 3TB and we're constantly bumping up against that limit. Our art department is one guy and I help sometimes. And we're a tiny catalog shop that puts out two catalogs a year. We just never delete anything. I can imagine a serious publishing company chews through that in a day and orders 2TB drives by the case.
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Google "china wind turbine", then come back and see if you want to revise your statement
No kidding; you can buy 3TB of space for what 100GB cost six years ago. Probably less if you factor in 1.5TB drives on sale.
I know you have a quota, Timothy, but if it's obviously just an advertising focused slideshow, be the bigger man here, and don't buy in to it, and [i]just don't post that shit[/i]. I know your job is to drive more traffic to Slashdot, but don't take the shortcut of posting slideshows (Even if you acknowledge them in the post) - you're only killing slashdot's long term credibility by doing this. You've never been a good "editor" (ok, maybe on occasion you use spell check) but don't become the John Katz of bad news aggregator habits (i.e. linking to slideshows).
Just don't do it, Timothy. Please.
I wonder what those numbers would look like if you clipped off the first three weeks worth of numbers. From my personal experience, BC2 experienced a huge surge in popularity on the PC when it dropped in price to $30 back in September 2010 or so. I would imagine most console players have sold their copy of BC2 to gamestop by now (or within 2 months of buying the game). Also, I'm pretty sure the console version was released in fall 2009, giving it a huge lead time on the PC version (released March 2010?)
What's the solution for customers who need low latency (> 120ms) hosting? Our (US-centric) retail website is slow enough; I hesitate to think what the customer's experience would be like with a 250ms round trip ping(!) Living in Dallas, I routinely connect to London and Paris dedicated servers and ping 160 and 180ms, respectively. I'm on a fast connection near InfoMart; I hesitate to wonder what people more than a few miles/hops from a backbone connection pings to those same servers.
It's particularly annoying, because samzenpus seems to be the only person who posts any stories at all for 24 hour stretches, as if it's some sort of half-broken story editor robot (insert bad slashdot editor jokes here). I'm pretty sure samzenpus is just a story releasing script that CmdrTaco enables from his iPhone when all the editors go on a saturday night bender and know they'll be too hung over to do their jobs on Sundays. Good job on automating your jobs, but fix the hidden story bug please(!)
I have no idea, but it's not working for me either. I have to log out, copy the URL, and then log in and paste it in manually because samzenpus stories don't show up for me manually. Just like you, this started happening 3 weeks ago.
I'd argue that a decent card 2 years ago was the long winded 8800gtx. These cards are head and shoulders above a $150 card from two years ago. Jumping from a wheezy 8600gt to a GTX 460 1gb is like night and day -- even when jumping from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080 (about a quarter-megapixel more to render). I went from barely 25fps in BFBC2 to a solid 40fps using the GTX 460 -- and that's about half the speed/"power" of the new 570. I'd wager the difference is closer to an order of magnitude than a mere 5% difference. But I do agree that $200 is the price ceiling for the sane consumer.
http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm
"Electronic displays in each taqueria light up in real time with orders placed on the East Coast, and within minutes a fresh burrito has been assembled, rolled in foil, marked and dropped down one of the small vertical tubes that rise like organ pipes in restaurant kitchens throughout the city."
Are you talking about OS9? OSX has had v6 support since inception, IIRC
but note that there are "dark archives" (e.g. at the Library of Congress in the USA) where items are held until such time as copyright expires.
Can you expand on this concept, please? I googled "dark archives" and nothing of use came up.
Not sure. The videos on youtube (720 and 1080p) are pretty impressive to watch though.
The Wii's GFX output looks pretty dreadful on any decent display
If you own the games but want better graphics than your Wii can provide, you should try running them under emulation on your computer, they look fantastic at 1920x1080@60hz true HD and runs just fine on a midrange i5 computer.
You are so smart. I'm glad you showed him who's boss.
Hm yes, when I read the article saying "this completely changes tactics forever", all I thought was that "baddies are going to hole up in occupied residences with children". They're already doing that, and it turns out we're quite good at killing civilians that way.
The F1 teams are using the Racer.nl codebase to train their drivers in the off season. I would hold that to be the highest standard. I'm not sure what this online racing sim uses as their codebase. It wouldn't suprise me if they both use the same codebase.
Ironically, of course, grabbing 75 domain names as part of a taxpayer funded handjob for the MPAA's bottom line
I wonder if, perhaps they seized all of these domain names with the purpose of minimizing the spread of the wikileaks dump that's supposed to be happening Sunday?
You don't need to know the font size. A program that handles data on that level should be able to calculate the average amount of data stored on a sheet of paper, and extrapolate from there.
How is this going to help me find Natalie Portman get all these hot grits out of my pants? Natural language is all good, and this is a huge step forward, but in 2010, I won't be truly impressed with a tech demo until it can grasp antiquated slashdot memes from almost a decade ago. I know you guys at Wolfram are reading this, so I fully expect something unexpected when I calculate the number of surface area of football fields it takes to hold the library of congress printed out on 8.5x11" paper with 1" margins. Natural language is one thing for mathematicians, it's another for the average 4chan user. Now that's bleeding edge.
One thing I've noticed (here in Texas anyways) is that bilingualism is rapidly becomming a requirement for retail/food management. Also, retail management is an ultra-high turnover job; after spending $20,000 to train a manager according to 150 exacting corporate guidelines, you want to recoup some of your investment. Paying them to keep from quitting their shitty job that you paid to train them for means paying them more than accepting a job at a better job with a better work environment. You at least get two months off each year.
A friend of a friend makes 48K a year with full (including eye AND dental) benefits as an assistant manager with a HS diploma at a gas station, and this is in Dallas, with some of the lowest living costs in the nation.
Then, not than.
It's probably smart to be marketing the OS rather than pimping a particular phone. Every time phones come up its not "which model is best", it's "iphone os is too slow except on the newest model" vs "android is neat but i want it to synch with itunes" vs "i really like the keyboard on my blackberry". It's like listening to motorheads talking "displacement > all" vs eurocar nerds talking "german engineering and handling" vs ricers talking "turbo + rpm > all".
Pick your camp and make your argument. As quickly as phones are released and then fall into relative obscelecence, there's not much value in promoting a particular phone and alienating the rest of your vendors that paid just as much to buy in to your platform, especially when at the end of the day people are just going to say "yeah I got one of those windows phones" at happy hour when the phone conversation invariably comes up.
This post took a nosedive with the first sentence, but then made up for it with content not usually seen in a /. post.
-1, Snarky
+5, oh snap
Shoot, our art department resource server has 3TB and we're constantly bumping up against that limit. Our art department is one guy and I help sometimes. And we're a tiny catalog shop that puts out two catalogs a year. We just never delete anything. I can imagine a serious publishing company chews through that in a day and orders 2TB drives by the case.
Every Intel brand motherboard since 2007 has had EFI. From what I can tell, this motherboard is an Intel brand, too.