A graphics whore is someone who pays $600 to get a new card every year. In that case, the cost of the card outweighs the cost of the monitor.
Like you, I also own a bargain-bin card. I also own at least six monitors of varying shapes and sizes that I've collected over the years. In my case, the cost of six monitors far outweighs the cost of a card that would make a useful array out of them. In fact, a card that could put six monitors into an array could cost as much as a used automobile and still be worthwhile.
MIT has done some great things. Inventions like X windows and Kerberos are still (sadly) decades ahead of their time. Lisp has its uses - Emacs does a lot. And MIT was the home of Multics, the forefather of "cloud computing."
X and Kerberos are mature projects, done by mature engineers, in an idealized, ivory-tower environment. What MIT undergraduates do, is more along the lines of, "Let's spend $150 like we're the first people in history to get our hands on that much money. Also, I want a soda." It's small, and it's sad, and it's nothing like the big projects the university staff is known for.
Point being, this is very typical of MIT undergraduate work. Napster was not invented here.
"Higher education" is really a medieval style guild system, and it has no place in modern society.
I don't see what is wrong with it. College is nice. They have computers, and you can go into people's offices and talk to them.
The only problem with higher education is the worship it receives from the semi-literate Boomer generation. People over 50 think that getting into Duke or Cornell is 'hard', and will pay $BB_LIFE_SAVINGS to send their kids to what is essentially a day camp full of vomiting, loveless intercourse, and FPS shooters.
The Boomers are essentially a spoiled generation that grew up with $0.75/gal gas, but never threw more than one concert. They had so much free land, money, and resources that it made them soft in the head. Like insects, they are experts at consuming. Thus, the average Boomer, doomed to making a measly $175/hr installing electrical boxes, thinks to himself, 'Man, these kids today are so lucky. If only I had access to Quake Team Fortress on a college lan, I could be making $25/hr sitting at a desk right now. It's a good thing I make $175/hr, because that's the only goddamn way anyone can save up $600,000 to send three kids to college.'
Then the Boomer drives his Hummer to Sports Authority, where he buys an UnderArmor shirt that says, 'Tort Reform' on it, and considers that in his entire life, he has never spent a dime on anything different than what his neighbors already have.
Mixed ability classes require a different, arguably better style of teaching. I think that point is missed a lot of times this discussion comes up.
I think you nailed it.
We blew through material 2-3 times as fast in those segregated classes. There's no way the 'regular' kids could have been in with us. It would have been like...well, putting a 75lb weakling on the varsity football team.
And that's exactly the problem. You have group A becoming math nerds, group B playing varsity football, group C dirtbagging it up... The whole point of challenging students is to let them find their muse. But instead, the muse ends up putting them in a box.
I might have been OK at football. There really wasn't time to find out, because we were all too fucking busy.
My bad, I am referring to Operation Crossroads, 1946. Two blasts, one atmospheric, one underwater. Neither one sunk more than a few ships, although the underwater blast created a hell of a lot of radiation, which could not be removed from the ships.
Turns out being broadside to the blast makes a big difference, as well as distance - the first blast did not sink any ships further than 760m.
There was a nuclear test in the 50's or 60's aimed at surface vessels of varying distances. Turns out they physically sunk only the closest ones. Nuke vs. ocean not as good as you would hope.
"Liberal" and "conservative" are terrible misnomers. Each one requires a frame of reference to mean anything.
For example, increasing the size of the police force is normally viewed as "conservative," because of law and order. However, putting more blue-collar folks on the public dole is clearly liberal. So which is it?
The biggest (and perhaps only) predictor of voting habits in America is monetary wealth. Rich people vote Republican, period. And yet we have another kind of cultural, or intellectual wealth that accounts for "rich" people like Jefferson raising taxes on himself.
Call this "progressive" versus "fundamentalist." It is a different take on rich vs. poor, and all four of these terms are more meaningful, than liberal and conservative.
I've never seen a more tepid call for action with so few concrete ideas. Spend less? Maybe? Kinda? I thought libertarianism was clear-cut for smaller government.
The Jews keep remembrance alive because their religion is based on victimization. No other group says things like, "Oh, if not for WWII, there would be twice as many Americans/Soviets/Poles/etc walking the earth."
The Holocaust was not the first extermination, and it was not the last. The Jews should feel lucky they faced an incompetent Hitler, and not somebody truly menacing, like Stalin.
The real tragedy - for everyone - is why an incompetent person rose to such power.
This guy Wright slaved over SimCity for 16 years, and still the firefighters may, or may not, put out a warehouse fire. I have yet to see a useful bus system, or a working highway.
Did Maxis ever make a good game? Or am I not devoted enough?
Good to know. I had a feeling it was a crime for local cops to download my email. I didn't know it was a felony.
After they started monitoring my internet connection (or rather, the internet connection I happen to use), my reaction was to stop checking my email. Obviously, email is pretty important, so not checking your email can have serious personal consequences. You might miss friends trying to get in touch or business opportunities.
Well, the cops didn't want that, so their reaction was to start checking my email for me. You know, so I wouldn't miss anything important.
The stupidity speaks for itself. I bet the cops that beat Rodney King took him to the hospital afterward and bought him flowers. They're so desperate to be liked by anyone who will take them.
>So the point is that the contamination has increased.
I'm here to attest that I heard the 90% figure several years ago. Snopes uses an 80% figure as the basis of its article, and mentions one study where 131 of 135 samples were contaminated (97%).
I see too many different numbers to chart a trend.
Yeah, but when you have more managers, more managers make more money.
It's a pyramid scheme, essentially. You move up the corporate ladder, and then hire a bunch of peons. As long as there are people below you, you don't have to work hard. The dollar difference between what a peon creates for the market, and his meager salary, is what pays yours.
You think I'm kidding, but it's true. Some people just want theirs. You're thinking about efficiency. That makes you an engineer, and that's how you end up being on the bottom ~:/
I know for a fact that there are vulnerabilities in the CDMA network, and I don't know as much about GSM, but I have no reason to believe there wouldn't be vulnerabilities in those networks.
Vulnerabilities? You make it sound like there is some level of security. There is none.
First of all, you have no idea what software is on your phone. Somebody from the phone company could remotely access your phone and you would have no idea. A third party could potentially access your phone as well.
Second, it's wireless, so a snooper can pick up your packets in the air.
Third, it's digital, so anywhere along the network, somebody from the phone company can collect your packets and listen to your phone calls.
Fourth, if anyone is spying on the person you're talking to, then they're also spying on you.
Fifth, cellphones are required to broadcast your physical location (E911). You can't turn it off, you can't access the data, and you actually pay for it on your bill.
>is it proper for TSG to turn around and break an informal norm of journalism?
Absolutely Yes. If you are seriously asking this question, then you haven't dealt with trolls. TSG's article is ruthless in its knowledge and understanding of internet culture, which is exactly what Pranknet considers its greatest strength. Fire has met fire and won.
Oh, and giving away the kid's phone number? This guy Dex goes through phone numbers like Kleenex. Come on.
Your stupid. This is straight from an algorithms textbook.
> 'Over time, talent is a fixed cost,' says Marty Moe, Senior Vice-President of AOL Media.
No shit. The question is, can you grow fast enough to profit from your fixed cost?
I can eat mad food, that's a fixed cost, I will still lose money if I don't have a job. But here's what's cool: Businessmen are showing signs of understanding the relationship between first- and second-order differentials (and how one can overwhelm the other...if you're lucky!)
You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.
Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?
I think you just taught me what a 144 key keyboard is. I'm guessing this is what they use to build a cash register.
Imagine all the ways this can be programmed, and you have an idea why it's entrenched. Its potential hasn't been exhausted.
Watch Futurama, they are still using QWERTY. New input devices will come when they are needed. Until then, nothing is stopping you from playing around. In theory, input devices should be among the easiest to both build and program, and the most fun to experiment with.
In short, the reason I came to this thread, is because I am flabbergasted that it took M$ to make an analog keyboard. Wtf is that about anyway. But then again, it took M$ to make a 386-based windowing system. I guess some things just take persistence.
>So if we were really serious about making a dent in oil consumption and CO2, we would be pushing for more fuel-efficient pickup trucks, cargo vans and SUVs
Did you know there are only 2 models of cargo vans in the U.S.? Ford makes the E150/250/350, and Chevy+GMC make the 1500/2500/3500. They get about 12 MPG, and you can't get diesel on anything less than a 350/3500. Thing is, all the car magazines rave about how "modern" these vehicles are.
Then there is the Dodge, aka Mercedes Benz "Sprinter" which is diesel and gets 29 MPG. It also costs $40,000.
>replacing a 12 mpg vehicle with a 15 mpg vehicle saves you as much as replacing a 30 MPG vehicle with a 60 MPG vehicle.
OK let's check this:
12mpg over 60 mi = 5 gallons
15mpg over 60 mi = 4 gallons
30 mpg over 60 mi = 2 gallons
60 mpg over 60 mi = 1 gallon
WOW you are right. In both cases, the savings is 1gallon.
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>Such is the life of graphics whores.
A graphics whore is someone who pays $600 to get a new card every year. In that case, the cost of the card outweighs the cost of the monitor.
Like you, I also own a bargain-bin card. I also own at least six monitors of varying shapes and sizes that I've collected over the years. In my case, the cost of six monitors far outweighs the cost of a card that would make a useful array out of them. In fact, a card that could put six monitors into an array could cost as much as a used automobile and still be worthwhile.
>It is mostly a matter of going to a school Microsoft recruits from.
Isn't this exactly what the OP said about "pedigree"?
You know what pedigree means, right? It means origin or ancestry.
>Non-Research interns got the red carpet, while Research's got the shaft.
That's funny. Just taking a quick look at MSR, this looks like the "university" side of Microsoft. I don't think M$ is very into this.
>Hm. Can't tell which one is the actual troll.
MIT has done some great things. Inventions like X windows and Kerberos are still (sadly) decades ahead of their time. Lisp has its uses - Emacs does a lot. And MIT was the home of Multics, the forefather of "cloud computing."
X and Kerberos are mature projects, done by mature engineers, in an idealized, ivory-tower environment. What MIT undergraduates do, is more along the lines of, "Let's spend $150 like we're the first people in history to get our hands on that much money. Also, I want a soda." It's small, and it's sad, and it's nothing like the big projects the university staff is known for.
Point being, this is very typical of MIT undergraduate work. Napster was not invented here.
"Higher education" is really a medieval style guild system, and it has no place in modern society.
I don't see what is wrong with it. College is nice. They have computers, and you can go into people's offices and talk to them.
The only problem with higher education is the worship it receives from the semi-literate Boomer generation. People over 50 think that getting into Duke or Cornell is 'hard', and will pay $BB_LIFE_SAVINGS to send their kids to what is essentially a day camp full of vomiting, loveless intercourse, and FPS shooters.
The Boomers are essentially a spoiled generation that grew up with $0.75/gal gas, but never threw more than one concert. They had so much free land, money, and resources that it made them soft in the head. Like insects, they are experts at consuming. Thus, the average Boomer, doomed to making a measly $175/hr installing electrical boxes, thinks to himself, 'Man, these kids today are so lucky. If only I had access to Quake Team Fortress on a college lan, I could be making $25/hr sitting at a desk right now. It's a good thing I make $175/hr, because that's the only goddamn way anyone can save up $600,000 to send three kids to college.'
Then the Boomer drives his Hummer to Sports Authority, where he buys an UnderArmor shirt that says, 'Tort Reform' on it, and considers that in his entire life, he has never spent a dime on anything different than what his neighbors already have.
The first step in helping the gifted is to rescue them from the herd.
Gifted students who never met the herd may feel prematurely rescued.
After all, there is a fine line between 'promotion' and 'exile.'
Mixed ability classes require a different, arguably better style of teaching. I think that point is missed a lot of times this discussion comes up.
I think you nailed it.
We blew through material 2-3 times as fast in those segregated classes. There's no way the 'regular' kids could have been in with us. It would have been like...well, putting a 75lb weakling on the varsity football team.
And that's exactly the problem. You have group A becoming math nerds, group B playing varsity football, group C dirtbagging it up... The whole point of challenging students is to let them find their muse. But instead, the muse ends up putting them in a box.
I might have been OK at football. There really wasn't time to find out, because we were all too fucking busy.
My bad, I am referring to Operation Crossroads, 1946. Two blasts, one atmospheric, one underwater. Neither one sunk more than a few ships, although the underwater blast created a hell of a lot of radiation, which could not be removed from the ships. Turns out being broadside to the blast makes a big difference, as well as distance - the first blast did not sink any ships further than 760m.
There was a nuclear test in the 50's or 60's aimed at surface vessels of varying distances. Turns out they physically sunk only the closest ones. Nuke vs. ocean not as good as you would hope.
"Liberal" and "conservative" are terrible misnomers. Each one requires a frame of reference to mean anything.
For example, increasing the size of the police force is normally viewed as "conservative," because of law and order. However, putting more blue-collar folks on the public dole is clearly liberal. So which is it?
The biggest (and perhaps only) predictor of voting habits in America is monetary wealth. Rich people vote Republican, period. And yet we have another kind of cultural, or intellectual wealth that accounts for "rich" people like Jefferson raising taxes on himself.
Call this "progressive" versus "fundamentalist." It is a different take on rich vs. poor, and all four of these terms are more meaningful, than liberal and conservative.
>Cato is a *libertarian* think tank.
Oh really? Read A Path to Fiscal Sanity by Jagadeesh Gokhale.
I've never seen a more tepid call for action with so few concrete ideas. Spend less? Maybe? Kinda? I thought libertarianism was clear-cut for smaller government.
The Jews keep remembrance alive because their religion is based on victimization. No other group says things like, "Oh, if not for WWII, there would be twice as many Americans/Soviets/Poles/etc walking the earth."
The Holocaust was not the first extermination, and it was not the last. The Jews should feel lucky they faced an incompetent Hitler, and not somebody truly menacing, like Stalin.
The real tragedy - for everyone - is why an incompetent person rose to such power.
This guy Wright slaved over SimCity for 16 years, and still the firefighters may, or may not, put out a warehouse fire. I have yet to see a useful bus system, or a working highway. Did Maxis ever make a good game? Or am I not devoted enough?
Good to know. I had a feeling it was a crime for local cops to download my email. I didn't know it was a felony.
After they started monitoring my internet connection (or rather, the internet connection I happen to use), my reaction was to stop checking my email. Obviously, email is pretty important, so not checking your email can have serious personal consequences. You might miss friends trying to get in touch or business opportunities.
Well, the cops didn't want that, so their reaction was to start checking my email for me. You know, so I wouldn't miss anything important.
The stupidity speaks for itself. I bet the cops that beat Rodney King took him to the hospital afterward and bought him flowers. They're so desperate to be liked by anyone who will take them.
>So the point is that the contamination has increased.
I'm here to attest that I heard the 90% figure several years ago. Snopes uses an 80% figure as the basis of its article, and mentions one study where 131 of 135 samples were contaminated (97%).
I see too many different numbers to chart a trend.
Yeah, but when you have more managers, more managers make more money.
It's a pyramid scheme, essentially. You move up the corporate ladder, and then hire a bunch of peons. As long as there are people below you, you don't have to work hard. The dollar difference between what a peon creates for the market, and his meager salary, is what pays yours.
You think I'm kidding, but it's true. Some people just want theirs. You're thinking about efficiency. That makes you an engineer, and that's how you end up being on the bottom ~:/
I know for a fact that there are vulnerabilities in the CDMA network, and I don't know as much about GSM, but I have no reason to believe there wouldn't be vulnerabilities in those networks.
Vulnerabilities? You make it sound like there is some level of security. There is none.
First of all, you have no idea what software is on your phone. Somebody from the phone company could remotely access your phone and you would have no idea. A third party could potentially access your phone as well.
Second, it's wireless, so a snooper can pick up your packets in the air.
Third, it's digital, so anywhere along the network, somebody from the phone company can collect your packets and listen to your phone calls.
Fourth, if anyone is spying on the person you're talking to, then they're also spying on you.
Fifth, cellphones are required to broadcast your physical location (E911). You can't turn it off, you can't access the data, and you actually pay for it on your bill.
>is it proper for TSG to turn around and break an informal norm of journalism?
Absolutely Yes. If you are seriously asking this question, then you haven't dealt with trolls. TSG's article is ruthless in its knowledge and understanding of internet culture, which is exactly what Pranknet considers its greatest strength. Fire has met fire and won.
Oh, and giving away the kid's phone number? This guy Dex goes through phone numbers like Kleenex. Come on.
AUTOBLOGS Wage Their Battle To Destroy the Evil Forces of the Decepti .coms.
Your stupid. This is straight from an algorithms textbook.
> 'Over time, talent is a fixed cost,' says Marty Moe, Senior Vice-President of AOL Media.
No shit. The question is, can you grow fast enough to profit from your fixed cost?
I can eat mad food, that's a fixed cost, I will still lose money if I don't have a job. But here's what's cool: Businessmen are showing signs of understanding the relationship between first- and second-order differentials (and how one can overwhelm the other...if you're lucky!)
You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.
We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.
Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.
Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?
He had difficulty liking it.
I think you just taught me what a 144 key keyboard is. I'm guessing this is what they use to build a cash register.
Imagine all the ways this can be programmed, and you have an idea why it's entrenched. Its potential hasn't been exhausted.
Watch Futurama, they are still using QWERTY. New input devices will come when they are needed. Until then, nothing is stopping you from playing around. In theory, input devices should be among the easiest to both build and program, and the most fun to experiment with.
In short, the reason I came to this thread, is because I am flabbergasted that it took M$ to make an analog keyboard. Wtf is that about anyway. But then again, it took M$ to make a 386-based windowing system. I guess some things just take persistence.
>And other persons will be trading a dirty 17mpg SUV for another dirty 19mpg SUV.
Yep.
For those of us who have real clunkers, just consider this program a "stimulus" for new car sales. It's less painful that way.
After all, a 2007 Hummer H3 would be a "clunker" under this bill, even though it is only 2 years old!
20:1 ratio? You can look it up, but from what I recall, the percentage of "trucks" on the road went from something like 25% to 40% in recent years.
>So if we were really serious about making a dent in oil consumption and CO2, we would be pushing for more fuel-efficient pickup trucks, cargo vans and SUVs
Did you know there are only 2 models of cargo vans in the U.S.? Ford makes the E150/250/350, and Chevy+GMC make the 1500/2500/3500. They get about 12 MPG, and you can't get diesel on anything less than a 350/3500. Thing is, all the car magazines rave about how "modern" these vehicles are.
Then there is the Dodge, aka Mercedes Benz "Sprinter" which is diesel and gets 29 MPG. It also costs $40,000.
>replacing a 12 mpg vehicle with a 15 mpg vehicle saves you as much as replacing a 30 MPG vehicle with a 60 MPG vehicle.
OK let's check this:
12mpg over 60 mi = 5 gallons
15mpg over 60 mi = 4 gallons
30 mpg over 60 mi = 2 gallons
60 mpg over 60 mi = 1 gallon
WOW you are right. In both cases, the savings is 1gallon.