You are talking about things that have little effect on the game mechanics, but more on what you see so I would call it graphics. Or fluff. Or Photo realism.
Everything you state is in the realm of graphics, you had to solve things to be able to get quake graphics on a 90MHz PC in the same way you have to solve things to get dust to settle in an artificial environment.
It's just effects, but it has come a long way in the last 30 years since Zork was released.
I find that most parents I've worked with are highly motivated and do their job as well as anyone else, even if they have to go early. They have to, if you don't allow that you might as well have a "no children policy" in the work place, and we all know why that doesn't work.
But as you said later on/earlier your workplace is ok with people leaving to take care of their children, but if my employees were starting to say things like "he doesn't contribute, he just goes home to his child" I would be very worried.
And now a question for you; what do you think about the legions of women that have decided that, well, yes they'd prefer to give up their careers because they consider raising their children job Numero Uno? Since we've been 3 decades into the sexual revolution now, many women have decided that they can't have it all, at least not in any meaningful sense. Is there something wrong with them?
Nothing wrong with them, it's a problem with the workplaces, it's pretty easy to let someone take a child leave for a year or two. But as long as everyone thinks it's impossible to have both a child and a work it's never going to happen where you live.
It works if you care about it, as some countries do..
FWIW my mom stayed home with us (I've got a twin) for two years, so I sympathize with STHM's, but she also said any longer and she'd probably have killed us.
Let the mother have 7 months max, and then make the men take another 7 months. Then take them to day care.
The problem is that it's not slacking off, it's "I'll go home and take care of my child". Sure you do get less pay if you actualy care for your children, but the question is should companies really strive for dysfunctional families?
Well you proved your point about dickheads on slashdot...
It's a known fact that getting a child can be very bad for your career, one of the reasons women gets paid less. That is an important sacrifice that men should take responsibility for as well. If you ever get children I dearly hope you care more for the children than the "group dynamics", both maybe important but I choose the individual before the group in this case.
So take responsibility and stay home with your children.
My thought exactly, it's a good book describing more or less what happen in Estonia. Using fools to attack (basically telling lots of people on blogs to do things that are not that effective on its own, but in the large picture it does something..
Don't over use bricking. It has recently been down graded to not being able to bo without doing some "invasive" surgery on your motherboard. (Ranging from JTAG to soldering).
I guess the going from that to having a screwed up boot block isn't that far.
Drivers are also a problem if you use anything other than the latest Windows. Which makes the the Vista screw up very interesting, I wonder if they are going to get everyone migrating to Vista fast enough?
As much as I love ubuntu, I have to agree with you. The 8.04 just wasn't "done" when it was released.
Funny when I first saw this on Slashdot, back when Ubuntu 8.04 was released I was as outraged. But when I installed it I found none of these problems, so putting up theoretical problems isn't that smart and just wastes your brain cycles on something irrelevant... Some call it FUD...
It's impossible to be compatible, and the netbook segment and Apple doesn't need that as much. You have a neat thingy that just works, that's what is cool about it.
You can shout compatibilty all you want, but as long as MS has 90% of the market you will never see that. Even if it was a split market between Linux, Apple and MS you would still have troubles with compatibility.
Uhhh... wouldn't that defeat the purpose of using wear leveling algorithms?
No not if you activate only those chips that you need to execute that read-write-write operation. But then again I'm sure if it really was as simple as switching some thing on and off then we would have good results by now..
btw, look at the IO ops per second graph, it's interesting to note that not all SSDs are better than the disk. Though the best SSD beats disks with three orders of magnitude in webserver load..
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Actually I looked at the Video and it said RAM: 64M/128M
And 128MB ram is the new 2GB.. Actually it seems like it has either 128MB or 64MB, so guess what the cheap model will have...
You are talking about things that have little effect on the game mechanics, but more on what you see so I would call it graphics. Or fluff. Or Photo realism.
I see graphics more as effects..
Everything you state is in the realm of graphics, you had to solve things to be able to get quake graphics on a 90MHz PC in the same way you have to solve things to get dust to settle in an artificial environment.
It's just effects, but it has come a long way in the last 30 years since Zork was released.
At least they aren't shooting them
US Citizens have rights [...] foreign invaders [...] deployed in foreign countries don't.
So US troops are free for all, are you sure you want that?
I find that most parents I've worked with are highly motivated and do their job as well as anyone else, even if they have to go early. They have to, if you don't allow that you might as well have a "no children policy" in the work place, and we all know why that doesn't work.
But as you said later on/earlier your workplace is ok with people leaving to take care of their children, but if my employees were starting to say things like "he doesn't contribute, he just goes home to his child" I would be very worried.
What you are talking about is discrimination.
And I only weigh 190, same as when I started work there. :-)
If you eat good food at regular hours you usually don't gain weight. Because you tend to eat less candy.
And now a question for you; what do you think about the legions of women that have decided that, well, yes they'd prefer to give up their careers because they consider raising their children job Numero Uno? Since we've been 3 decades into the sexual revolution now, many women have decided that they can't have it all, at least not in any meaningful sense. Is there something wrong with them?
Nothing wrong with them, it's a problem with the workplaces, it's pretty easy to let someone take a child leave for a year or two. But as long as everyone thinks it's impossible to have both a child and a work it's never going to happen where you live.
It works if you care about it, as some countries do..
FWIW my mom stayed home with us (I've got a twin) for two years, so I sympathize with STHM's, but she also said any longer and she'd probably have killed us.
Let the mother have 7 months max, and then make the men take another 7 months. Then take them to day care.
The problem is that it's not slacking off, it's "I'll go home and take care of my child". Sure you do get less pay if you actualy care for your children, but the question is should companies really strive for dysfunctional families?
Well you proved your point about dickheads on slashdot...
It's a known fact that getting a child can be very bad for your career, one of the reasons women gets paid less. That is an important sacrifice that men should take responsibility for as well. If you ever get children I dearly hope you care more for the children than the "group dynamics", both maybe important but I choose the individual before the group in this case.
So take responsibility and stay home with your children.
--- :-)
group dymaics is communism!
Maybe they can compete in game mechanics, but the art and experience of Portal is hard to beat,.
My thought exactly, it's a good book describing more or less what happen in Estonia. Using fools to attack (basically telling lots of people on blogs to do things that are not that effective on its own, but in the large picture it does something..
Sound just like a good SciFi book read, where you use lots of useful fools to take political action.
Halting State by Charles Stross
Not that anyone read stuff this long down on slashdot...
with say Spain the most conservative and the Scandinavians the most progressive.
Spain does some pretty cool things, e.g. read the very good interview with a dev of the Extremadura Linux dist. and a Debian announce about Linux in Extremadura. Not sure about Scandinavia, Norway does good things but Denmark and Sweden seems very backward in my personal opinion.
Don't over use bricking. It has recently been down graded to not being able to bo without doing some "invasive" surgery on your motherboard. (Ranging from JTAG to soldering).
I guess the going from that to having a screwed up boot block isn't that far.
Drivers are also a problem if you use anything other than the latest Windows. Which makes the the Vista screw up very interesting, I wonder if they are going to get everyone migrating to Vista fast enough?
The lack of tactile feedback
Can they just us the vibrate funtion in some ingenious way then?
As much as I love ubuntu, I have to agree with you. The 8.04 just wasn't "done" when it was released.
Funny when I first saw this on Slashdot, back when Ubuntu 8.04 was released I was as outraged. But when I installed it I found none of these problems, so putting up theoretical problems isn't that smart and just wastes your brain cycles on something irrelevant... Some call it FUD...
Shiny, and fast, and cheap, and useful.
And compatible.
It's impossible to be compatible, and the netbook segment and Apple doesn't need that as much. You have a neat thingy that just works, that's what is cool about it.
You can shout compatibilty all you want, but as long as MS has 90% of the market you will never see that. Even if it was a split market between Linux, Apple and MS you would still have troubles with compatibility.
~0.3 Watt according to the Thinkpad X60 battery optimization guide
Uhhh... wouldn't that defeat the purpose of using wear leveling algorithms?
No not if you activate only those chips that you need to execute that read-write-write operation. But then again I'm sure if it really was as simple as switching some thing on and off then we would have good results by now..
btw, look at the IO ops per second graph, it's interesting to note that not all SSDs are better than the disk. Though the best SSD beats disks with three orders of magnitude in webserver load..
OCR doesn't work that well, you will still need the images. So you won't gain anything from doing TIFF+text.
Yes this is a very good tool, I tried it when upgrading a couple of servers, and was amazed how much heat output memory modules has.