Stereotyping hurts us all equally. You my friend are the perfect example of what kind of ignorance it brings. Everyone would consider me a computer geek, or guru depending on whom you query, but I don't fit the stereotype whatsoever. I have a great girlfriend, an active social life, and I don't live and breathe computers. As a matter of fact, I know virtually no computer geeks who might fit that stereotype very well, and I live in the dorm hall of my uni that is known for its vast majority of computer geeks.
First you knock stereotypes, and then you apply another. Hypocrit.
Sure you rant about how people must protect themselves, but you fail to identify from what EXACTLY, and HOW one should go about doing just that. So in essence you ARE wasting your 'breath'.
I remember back in 1986 my Web-Enabled Elmo Daemon (WEED) was pretty lazy. But he sure could take hits. I think somewhere along the lines of 500 a day.
I ceed defeat. It was working just fine when I was first reading the article about 13 minutes ago, and was still going while everyone else was complaining, but it seems my golden connection has been lost within the past couple minutes. Slashdot wins again.
They may have kept this in mind before creating this new article. The first page should be the smallest if they took into account that slashdotters would be "reading" it.:P
But it appears to be working just fine for me. If it could handle the last slashdot posting, with ease none the less, what makes you think it won't be able to this time? I mean really you can only hit refresh so many times before it's just boring and time to move on...
The stats could be a bit skewed.. it appears that they can't do basic math...
our web application running in Java (including the HTTP server) was only consuming 20% of available CPU time, and all article requests were served in 4 milliseconds or less. Furthermore, our database was only at 7.5% CPU utilization. So, when the system was serving roughly 11 requests per second, the CPU was nearly 75% idle.
According to my calculations it would be closer to 72.5% idle. Of course for you stat heads you always gotta allow for 3% give or take, so it works out for you, but come on, if you're going to post some stats, why not be as accurate as possible?
I think I'd much rather have fozzy, or kermit storage.
That said, personally I don't like gonzo.. Never trust anyone with a large nose who says he's not jewish. We all know they have such large noses because air is free.
Honestly, what is the point of even mentioning a time so far ahead of us... obviously it has been proven that we aren't exactly realistic when describing the future... not to mention the only things that ever seem to get mentioned are the economic/technological aspects of the future... what about the arts, what about peoples' attitudes.. these things all change drastically in such a great amount of time.. which makes it nearly impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy what the future will be like.. so why not live for the moment instead?
"The university of alberta's undergraduate computing science student group modded the office shredder, with duct tape, 110volt case fans, and a athlon fan, to increase the speed of the paper shredder from 12 to 37 pages shredded before overheating. You can also read it in the google cache"
Umm... not reading the article you would be lead to believe that this shredder only shredded 12 pages before it overheated, and now it can do 37! Wow! Says nothing about the speed of the shredding though.... but of course we all read the articles now don't we?
Taco Bell announces that it will give away 2 free tacos to every person in the United States if the message is found to be "new life form detected". Strangely enough, the odds are strikingly better than those of previous contests.
er.. well by include I mean actually citing information from them... as a matter of fact I fail to see how anyone can cite information without having to read through an article to find it in the first place.. skimming isn't always a good thing I guess..
I suppose this is what I was really getting at in my original post ( here)
It would be awesome to be able to build a robot of my very own, and learn how all of the parts work, and be able to add on whatever my heart desires. Please post any informative sites or comments. It is much appreciated!
would be if there was a manual with the robot kit would teach you exactly what each part does when you hook it all together, thus allowing you to learn more about robotics and electronics at the same time. Then you'd hopefully have enough knowledge should you ever want to add on some crazy little things of your own, including that infrared sensor which would probably be cheaper to add on yourself; instead of buying a more expensive offical add-on kit.
I'm pretty sick of the whole linux battle that's been going on for years. Linux isn't that great I'm sorry. Just about every year I break down and install it for God knows what reason. And every year I wonder why did I just do that. There must be something great about it, or all these dork asses wouldn't be so in love with it. Don't tell me its the "open-source" bs... come on... great its free, but it's also crap. Unless of course you run servers. But that's a whole nother can of worms. I can do anything I want on windows. I really can. Needless to say I have to download whatever programs will allow me to do so, but there's always a crack/patch to apply to them. It's just as easy as compiling some stupid source code that probably won't work the first 3 times anyways. If you ask me, Linux doesn't have shit on any other operating systems until it can do everything that the others can do and do it better or do MORE. But right now its not even fuckin close so stop putting it on a damn pedestal and worshiping it, and shunning those who don't. It's pathetic.
Desktop themes are more like people putting different graphics/colors in place of other ones to make it more aesthetically pleasing to their eyes. It has nothing, sir, to do with cars and plastic.:)
Now there will be one less reason to go to school and become educated. We might as well make robots do all our complex tasks, that way we can all live in ignorant bliss.
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Even so I still think this is a step forward. Perhaps the next step will be to make the SECURE DIGITAL music cheap enough that you won't even want to bother pirating anymore. Perhaps allowing you to buy more than 1 license so you can put it on your computer AND your mp3 player.
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Stereotyping hurts us all equally. You my friend are the perfect example of what kind of ignorance it brings. Everyone would consider me a computer geek, or guru depending on whom you query, but I don't fit the stereotype whatsoever. I have a great girlfriend, an active social life, and I don't live and breathe computers. As a matter of fact, I know virtually no computer geeks who might fit that stereotype very well, and I live in the dorm hall of my uni that is known for its vast majority of computer geeks.
First you knock stereotypes, and then you apply another. Hypocrit.
2. We probably wasted thousands of tax dollars on this experiment.
Sure you rant about how people must protect themselves, but you fail to identify from what EXACTLY, and HOW one should go about doing just that. So in essence you ARE wasting your 'breath'.
No its more like here, your fonts suck my nuts, these should help. There you go, now you don't need special glasses just to read what you type.
I remember back in 1986 my Web-Enabled Elmo Daemon (WEED) was pretty lazy. But he sure could take hits. I think somewhere along the lines of 500 a day.
I ceed defeat. It was working just fine when I was first reading the article about 13 minutes ago, and was still going while everyone else was complaining, but it seems my golden connection has been lost within the past couple minutes. Slashdot wins again.
They may have kept this in mind before creating this new article. The first page should be the smallest if they took into account that slashdotters would be "reading" it. :P
I'll not take into account your spelling...
But it appears to be working just fine for me. If it could handle the last slashdot posting, with ease none the less, what makes you think it won't be able to this time? I mean really you can only hit refresh so many times before it's just boring and time to move on...
our web application running in Java (including the HTTP server) was only consuming 20% of available CPU time, and all article requests were served in 4 milliseconds or less. Furthermore, our database was only at 7.5% CPU utilization. So, when the system was serving roughly 11 requests per second, the CPU was nearly 75% idle.
According to my calculations it would be closer to 72.5% idle. Of course for you stat heads you always gotta allow for 3% give or take, so it works out for you, but come on, if you're going to post some stats, why not be as accurate as possible?
Maybe I'm just crabby today I don't know.
I think I'd much rather have fozzy, or kermit storage.
That said, personally I don't like gonzo.. Never trust anyone with a large nose who says he's not jewish. We all know they have such large noses because air is free.
Honestly, what is the point of even mentioning a time so far ahead of us... obviously it has been proven that we aren't exactly realistic when describing the future... not to mention the only things that ever seem to get mentioned are the economic/technological aspects of the future... what about the arts, what about peoples' attitudes.. these things all change drastically in such a great amount of time.. which makes it nearly impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy what the future will be like.. so why not live for the moment instead?
Umm... not reading the article you would be lead to believe that this shredder only shredded 12 pages before it overheated, and now it can do 37! Wow! Says nothing about the speed of the shredding though.... but of course we all read the articles now don't we?
Taco Bell announces that it will give away 2 free tacos to every person in the United States if the message is found to be "new life form detected".
Strangely enough, the odds are strikingly better than those of previous contests.
er.. well by include I mean actually citing information from them... as a matter of fact I fail to see how anyone can cite information without having to read through an article to find it in the first place.. skimming isn't always a good thing I guess..
Maybe more scientists should retake English 101.. I guarantee they won't forget to include sources in a research paper. ;)
Why not a FPS though, I mean those are the games the set the standard for graphics. From there you can build any game with superior graphics.
By the way, why the onslaught of offtopic posts?
It would be awesome to be able to build a robot of my very own, and learn how all of the parts work, and be able to add on whatever my heart desires. Please post any informative sites or comments. It is much appreciated!
would be if there was a manual with the robot kit would teach you exactly what each part does when you hook it all together, thus allowing you to learn more about robotics and electronics at the same time. Then you'd hopefully have enough knowledge should you ever want to add on some crazy little things of your own, including that infrared sensor which would probably be cheaper to add on yourself; instead of buying a more expensive offical add-on kit.
Just my $.02
I'm pretty sick of the whole linux battle that's been going on for years. Linux isn't that great I'm sorry. Just about every year I break down and install it for God knows what reason. And every year I wonder why did I just do that. There must be something great about it, or all these dork asses wouldn't be so in love with it. Don't tell me its the "open-source" bs... come on... great its free, but it's also crap. Unless of course you run servers. But that's a whole nother can of worms. I can do anything I want on windows. I really can. Needless to say I have to download whatever programs will allow me to do so, but there's always a crack/patch to apply to them. It's just as easy as compiling some stupid source code that probably won't work the first 3 times anyways. If you ask me, Linux doesn't have shit on any other operating systems until it can do everything that the others can do and do it better or do MORE. But right now its not even fuckin close so stop putting it on a damn pedestal and worshiping it, and shunning those who don't. It's pathetic.
Desktop themes are more like people putting different graphics/colors in place of other ones to make it more aesthetically pleasing to their eyes. It has nothing, sir, to do with cars and plastic. :)
Informative? If only I were allowed to metamoderate that... jesus people.. got so many karma points they don't know what to do..
to the old phrase your parents used to use... I created you, I can destroy you!! Or was that just mine...
Now there will be one less reason to go to school and become educated. We might as well make robots do all our complex tasks, that way we can all live in ignorant bliss.
Too bad I already read this on fark.com ....
Even so I still think this is a step forward. Perhaps the next step will be to make the SECURE DIGITAL music cheap enough that you won't even want to bother pirating anymore. Perhaps allowing you to buy more than 1 license so you can put it on your computer AND your mp3 player.