Yeah I was thinking the same thing. But in all actuality y2k began on January 1, 19A0. Thats what it read in an old program that I had to rapidly code a replacement for down here.
There can be no difference. I thought the real reason to get a *professional level* card is to get a guarantee of reliability (regardless of whether it is software in origin or hardware, since it all boils down to the same thing in the end).
No, its needed for gaming if textures or vertex data are not in the video cards RAM. That was kind of the whole point of AGP. So you can keep vertex and texture data in system RAM, in lieu of sufficient video RAM. But it is slow, but then again access to RAM is slow (but its getting a lot better).
Yes, anything computationally intensive that works over a range of data can usually find a parrallel solution. Such as image/video manipulation/encoding/decoding, encryption, and cracking (and hopefully this will give us a platform for better software RF). I've always wondered why this stuff didn't just become worked into a coprocessor. Because very little new stuff actually happened that was directly related with the video card (as in taking output from the machine and displaying it on a screen). I think the card manufacturers saw this, so they jumped on the 3d acceleration bandwagon toting it as a new video card feature, when it should've just been in the domain of a new math coprocessor.
Woudn't it be funny if this was just a way to catch more hackers (used to reduce Mitnick's sentence), and not really something where people get prize money. Hilarious.
New form of warfare meaning precision bombings, using a citizen neutral attitude, and attributing the actions of the country to the heads of the country, and not as much to the hordes of underlings. In other words we fought a war were one of our goals was to keep uninvolved casualties to a bare minimum.
Capturing Saddam really had nothing to with the warfare (that was just good investigative work), but it was a marker for the end of the major portion of fighting. Thereby, it now permits generalized claims to the effectiveness of the war to be stated.
This is true. The only advantage of this new crop of digicrap "cameras" is that WalMart doesn't have to replenish film, thereby saving their ass some money, while riding on the common retardation of man thinking all digital = good. Eventually, the scam that this is will be shown on 20/20, and then the common idiot will understand that their blind faith in the word digital is in general a bad thing.
Jeez, I've never seen so many mod points carelessly tossed out to ACs. Anyways, the sanctions obviously weren't aimed at killing the people of Iraq. America is too PC to do that in the first place. The intentions of America were in the right place. The method chosen was wrong. If a bad consequence is realized only in retrospect, than obviously this bad consequence was not intentional.
Saddam purposefully killed brutally, ruthlessly, and without pity. That is what was wrong with this corner of the world, not America trying to right one of its old wrongs. A brutal dictator has been taken down as the result of a relatively mild war. This is obviously a major victory. And not just for America and the Iraqi people, but for the promotion of this new form of modern warfare.
OK, one example of how a fire pit can be better than a microwave, then my whole argument is BS? I was more trying to emphasize convenience anyways, not trying to prove the total superiority of microwave cooking. That would be a bit off topic.
Anyways, have fun sticking to your film camera. I will gladly take my convenience and freedom to do what I will with my images, over the shoot/develop/pray for a good image model. And do you really use an infrared back all that often? And color correction is trivial in digital, and can effectively be considered an afterthought (see ICC color profiles).
And as far your quality issue goes, let me give you a little of my background. I work for a large photo services lab which develops pictures for over a hundred professional studios all over the US. Evidently, these studios have no problem with the quality of digital as most of them are starting to migrate to shooting entirely digital. Evidently, it seems the quality of digital is quite a bit good enough (and believe me, these guys are veerrry picky about image quality). Why don't you go check out some pro cameras if this is one of your main concerns (lookup a DCS Pro 14n or something).
Also, digital lasts forever, I don't even know where you got the idea that optical would be longer lasting than a digital photo. Its all developed on the same paper using the same coatings. Digital will last just as long as optical in print form, and longer than its film cousin when its in file form which will never degrade in quality.
Anyways, I just got back from a company Christmas party, and I'm tired and drunk. But I'm still sober enough to see the idiocy in your overgeneralizations. Have a nice day.
Sure if the minimum wage worker works 24 hours a day:-P. But I agree with you, digital's real redeeming value comes with its independance of film, its ability to preview on demand, and free space on demand. Not to mention the fact that it can be instantly spread to whoever you want to see it.
People who argue that there is no reason to switch to digital because an optical can do what a digital can do, can go throw away their vacuum because a broom does what a vacuum does, and they can cook everything over an outdoor fire (hey it heats the meat, its the same thing) instead of using their microwave. Ideal technology ecapsulates complexity in a simple and convenient packaging. That is all.
Oh, the ignorance. I can't stands it no longer. Most people do refer to a Database while meaning a DBMS, but flat files do not usually denote text files. A flat file usually denotes a database file which is accessed by a client through a library that uses file access mechanisms (as opposed to an SQL querying interface).
And flat files can do anything you can do with a DBMS, except access control and all querying/updating is only enforced/executed on the client end (whether through the library or file locks). Meaning the language being spoken is usually something along the lines of SMB or NFS and not a binary transliteration of an SQL Request/Reply.
This all depends on what they are trying to teach the students. If they are trying to teach the students relational database basics, then access is definetely the way to go. If they are trying to teach the students SQL, start with Access for the ability to create Queries and view the SQL, but then force a move to an environment where SQL and commands specific to the specific sql backend are required. But I would not suggest MySQL by any means. Postgres or Firebird is the only way to go if you actually want to teach the students a decent subset of SQL.
Wow, even when people mod me as a troll I still get at least 2 for my score. But honestly, that wasn't a troll. I was merely bringing to everyone's attention that the guy's name is ObviousGuy and is probably just trolling for somebody to go on a much more extensive rant than I have above.
I think this more shows that reliance on a password being hashed is a futile means of obscuring the source. If a password file is compromised, than it can easily be a short matter of time before it is cracked. The moral of the story, don't let your system be compromised, or at least not the security subsystem.
I can't wait to go wardriving for people's personal account info. Fun! Also, I can't wait for the future where when I get robbed, instead of just losing petty cash, I lose my entire account and I get my hand chopped off too. Even more fun.
But seriously though, why don't we all just have credit card size cards that require a pin to use, and instead of giving out an account number to sellers. It gives out a RSA signed transaction using the card's private key, and public x509 cert (issued by visa of course). And it does this through a connector on the edge that has a male on left female on right jack so you can just hook two cards together, or jack your card into your bank to get more cash. Doesn't this make a bit more sense. You can have cards that only carry a certain amount for petty cash.
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Yesterday, I read slashdot at work. Big mistake.
They should just make a processor that can run dynamic languages like Python more efficiently.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. But in all actuality y2k began on January 1, 19A0. Thats what it read in an old program that I had to rapidly code a replacement for down here.
There can be no difference. I thought the real reason to get a *professional level* card is to get a guarantee of reliability (regardless of whether it is software in origin or hardware, since it all boils down to the same thing in the end).
No, its needed for gaming if textures or vertex data are not in the video cards RAM. That was kind of the whole point of AGP. So you can keep vertex and texture data in system RAM, in lieu of sufficient video RAM. But it is slow, but then again access to RAM is slow (but its getting a lot better).
Yes, anything computationally intensive that works over a range of data can usually find a parrallel solution. Such as image/video manipulation/encoding/decoding, encryption, and cracking (and hopefully this will give us a platform for better software RF). I've always wondered why this stuff didn't just become worked into a coprocessor. Because very little new stuff actually happened that was directly related with the video card (as in taking output from the machine and displaying it on a screen). I think the card manufacturers saw this, so they jumped on the 3d acceleration bandwagon toting it as a new video card feature, when it should've just been in the domain of a new math coprocessor.
Woudn't it be funny if this was just a way to catch more hackers (used to reduce Mitnick's sentence), and not really something where people get prize money. Hilarious.
Yeah, I see positions for lead mathematician all the time. Good choice.
New form of warfare meaning precision bombings, using a citizen neutral attitude, and attributing the actions of the country to the heads of the country, and not as much to the hordes of underlings. In other words we fought a war were one of our goals was to keep uninvolved casualties to a bare minimum.
Capturing Saddam really had nothing to with the warfare (that was just good investigative work), but it was a marker for the end of the major portion of fighting. Thereby, it now permits generalized claims to the effectiveness of the war to be stated.
This is true. The only advantage of this new crop of digicrap "cameras" is that WalMart doesn't have to replenish film, thereby saving their ass some money, while riding on the common retardation of man thinking all digital = good. Eventually, the scam that this is will be shown on 20/20, and then the common idiot will understand that their blind faith in the word digital is in general a bad thing.
Jeez, I've never seen so many mod points carelessly tossed out to ACs. Anyways, the sanctions obviously weren't aimed at killing the people of Iraq. America is too PC to do that in the first place. The intentions of America were in the right place. The method chosen was wrong. If a bad consequence is realized only in retrospect, than obviously this bad consequence was not intentional.
Saddam purposefully killed brutally, ruthlessly, and without pity. That is what was wrong with this corner of the world, not America trying to right one of its old wrongs. A brutal dictator has been taken down as the result of a relatively mild war. This is obviously a major victory. And not just for America and the Iraqi people, but for the promotion of this new form of modern warfare.
Did they purposefully put the word 'stupider' in that New York Times article? Or has the author been reading too much powerpoint.
OK, one example of how a fire pit can be better than a microwave, then my whole argument is BS? I was more trying to emphasize convenience anyways, not trying to prove the total superiority of microwave cooking. That would be a bit off topic.
Anyways, have fun sticking to your film camera. I will gladly take my convenience and freedom to do what I will with my images, over the shoot/develop/pray for a good image model. And do you really use an infrared back all that often? And color correction is trivial in digital, and can effectively be considered an afterthought (see ICC color profiles).
And as far your quality issue goes, let me give you a little of my background. I work for a large photo services lab which develops pictures for over a hundred professional studios all over the US. Evidently, these studios have no problem with the quality of digital as most of them are starting to migrate to shooting entirely digital. Evidently, it seems the quality of digital is quite a bit good enough (and believe me, these guys are veerrry picky about image quality). Why don't you go check out some pro cameras if this is one of your main concerns (lookup a DCS Pro 14n or something).
Also, digital lasts forever, I don't even know where you got the idea that optical would be longer lasting than a digital photo. Its all developed on the same paper using the same coatings. Digital will last just as long as optical in print form, and longer than its film cousin when its in file form which will never degrade in quality.
Anyways, I just got back from a company Christmas party, and I'm tired and drunk. But I'm still sober enough to see the idiocy in your overgeneralizations. Have a nice day.
Sure if the minimum wage worker works 24 hours a day :-P. But I agree with you, digital's real redeeming value comes with its independance of film, its ability to preview on demand, and free space on demand. Not to mention the fact that it can be instantly spread to whoever you want to see it.
People who argue that there is no reason to switch to digital because an optical can do what a digital can do, can go throw away their vacuum because a broom does what a vacuum does, and they can cook everything over an outdoor fire (hey it heats the meat, its the same thing) instead of using their microwave. Ideal technology ecapsulates complexity in a simple and convenient packaging. That is all.
Oh, the ignorance. I can't stands it no longer. Most people do refer to a Database while meaning a DBMS, but flat files do not usually denote text files. A flat file usually denotes a database file which is accessed by a client through a library that uses file access mechanisms (as opposed to an SQL querying interface).
And flat files can do anything you can do with a DBMS, except access control and all querying/updating is only enforced/executed on the client end (whether through the library or file locks). Meaning the language being spoken is usually something along the lines of SMB or NFS and not a binary transliteration of an SQL Request/Reply.
This all depends on what they are trying to teach the students. If they are trying to teach the students relational database basics, then access is definetely the way to go. If they are trying to teach the students SQL, start with Access for the ability to create Queries and view the SQL, but then force a move to an environment where SQL and commands specific to the specific sql backend are required. But I would not suggest MySQL by any means. Postgres or Firebird is the only way to go if you actually want to teach the students a decent subset of SQL.
Whatever, it will reveal that the only thing that differentiates us from monkeys is a certain gene called the soul gene :-P.
Wow, even when people mod me as a troll I still get at least 2 for my score. But honestly, that wasn't a troll. I was merely bringing to everyone's attention that the guy's name is ObviousGuy and is probably just trolling for somebody to go on a much more extensive rant than I have above.
I think your statement is redundant, guy.
I think this more shows that reliance on a password being hashed is a futile means of obscuring the source. If a password file is compromised, than it can easily be a short matter of time before it is cracked. The moral of the story, don't let your system be compromised, or at least not the security subsystem.
Your name is ObviousGuy for a reason then, huh?
I'll second that. SMW was the best Mario game ever. I also thought Zelda 3 was my favorite Zelda game, but Occarina of Time is pretty close.
I think he just meant that most of the highly distributed copies are just ripped from Screeners DVDs
OK, does anybody know if framebuffer support is fixed yet?
I can't wait to go wardriving for people's personal account info. Fun! Also, I can't wait for the future where when I get robbed, instead of just losing petty cash, I lose my entire account and I get my hand chopped off too. Even more fun.
But seriously though, why don't we all just have credit card size cards that require a pin to use, and instead of giving out an account number to sellers. It gives out a RSA signed transaction using the card's private key, and public x509 cert (issued by visa of course). And it does this through a connector on the edge that has a male on left female on right jack so you can just hook two cards together, or jack your card into your bank to get more cash. Doesn't this make a bit more sense. You can have cards that only carry a certain amount for petty cash.