Maybe they do have jobs. It's possible this is some publicity stunt by Sony to generate some more interest and try to convince people the PS3 is actually worth $600. They probably expect people to think something like, "woah, if these guys will wait for 2 weeks for a PS3 it must be good, maybe I should get one."
You whole semaphore analogy is wrong for this situation. If PS3's were available and these guys were standing in line blocking access but for whatever reason not buying the units then you would have been right on. That is obviously not the case, even if they got out of line no one else could buy a PS3 any faster.
I see you have some skill at making important words bold. Too bad you don't have any at RTFA. Let me quote the part you should have read and make bold the important word which makes your whole post worthless dribble in regards to the actually point.
"still said that the only way to determine the "authenticity and source" of the e-mails Joel was suing over, was to get a mirror copy of Joel's hard drive.?
That is not what the cleck at Gamestop told me today when I purchased my pre-order. I was pre-order number 10 for that store and he said that when they get the shipment they will fill the pre-orders in number order so as long as they got 10 I would get mine but by no means was that a guarantee they would get 10.
Maybe you could point us to this wonderful OS that is totally secure? Keep in mind I don't want to hear about some OS that holds 1% of the market and has never been affected by a virus. That just means no one cares enough to write one for it. You need to show in some way that you have proof no virus could ever compromise this OS you wish us all to use (there is no way IMO to show something is perfectly secure). Oh, on top of that please be sure to demonstrate that this uber-OS functions on a level equal to that of the current mainstream OS (windows, linux, OSX, etc).
Moore's law says nothing about speed, that is a common error. IIRC he made a general statement about the number of transistors that could be in a defined area doubling every 2 years and that was later changed to 18 months. It also had to do with cost of transistors I believe.
And now that I have read the article there still doesn't seem to be any clarification. If I had to bet it would be on the data transfer speed and not the ops/sec.
Exchanging data (data transfer) is not the same thing as operations per second. The post seems to either be confusing the two or stating that the chip does both. I guess I need to go read the article now and find out...
If you RTFA or even the summary instead of just the headline you would see he was not really spamming in the sense you are talking about. He email bombed someone for revenge. Seems more akin to a DoS attack on the email server than spamming.
Actually, they are toning it down for the article. By happy depression resistant mice researchers generally mean it takes them longer time to give up and decide to let themselves drown in a forced swim experiment. There are some other measures of depression but this is the one I am most familar with and have seen used most often for depression studies.
Ok, I understand your point but you are missing something. They know a lot about the virus including what it needs to have inorder to infect someone. They can take out machinery that makes it deadly but still judge whether or not the real virus would still beable to infect someone who had the vaccination based on what happens to the non-deadly version.
For slashdot terms lets use an example that everyone should understand.
Lets say I have a computer virus that I want to test against my new patch. Now this virus is nasty and after it infects the computer it deletes your files. I don't want that to happen if my patch doesn't work during the test so I remove that delete command and replace it with a "Hello world!" output. Now, I run the program on a computer with no protection and "Hello world!" pops up, I install my patch and nothing happens. Now I have changed the end result but the machinery for the inital exploit into the computer is still there and I can say that I have stopped it.
That's the best way I can think to relate what they are doing. It's not perfect but biology and computers don't always match up perfectly.
What I was pointing out was that while some people might see the parent thread as a joke it is all too likely in this day and age that the president would use his "powers" to force MS to incorporate a secret backdoor for the NSA (or whoever) into Windows. We would find out about it in a while but then he would affirm his right to spy on the "terrorists" that are using Windows just as he spies on the "terroists" using our domesting phone lines. All requests for information and lawsuits would be denied for national security concerns and I would certainly fear for the individual who released a patch for that particular hole. I can see them being charged for any number of crimes the current regime could come up with. So while you would like to make my point seem unreleated and crack some lame joke about terror level colors I think you are not looking around at what is happening lately.
Seriously, people are laughing at the parent post but they would have laughed at a sacastic post about the NSA getting warrentless taps to listen to our phone calls in the recent past as well.
I'm thinking it would be "one script per kiddie" unless by "one script kiddie per child" you mean that we will be sending a bunch of 14 year old antisocial kids over with the computers.
A lot of WoW players do care about the game and farming just as much. Unfortunately the game is not setup the same way EVE is and there isn't a mechanism to allow anyone to go out and kill/impede the farmers. Some PVP servers may allow for a small amount of policing but the majority of servers don't even have that.
Yah, but in this kind of situation if you don't have the "few million" to call the MPAA's bet then they just walk away with your $2500 and stay very rich.
Well, if you bothered to RTFA it seems that the MPAA is doing exactly the opposite. The head of their antipiracy division is openly saying they're looking forward to a trial and verdict next summer.
I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be serious. If it was then you must not be someone who works with EEG recordings.
Take it from me, I record a lot of EEG, they are not easy to record or work with. The artifact that you get from even an eye blink is enough to skew the data. Let alone someone moving other parts of the body. Granted, I don't work on using EEG as a method of identifying individuals but I have my doubts that you could get unique signature from every individual or ask people to hold still long enough when they need to be "verified". No matter what kind of method you are using, I imagine something like a fast fourier transform, a change in someones state of mind will inevitable change the pattern of power frequency and possibly deny them access to their computer/work/whatever.
Last but not least the conductive gel that is generally used for the scalp electodes should be a concern, no one wants to have that on their head all the time.
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Did you totally miss the part of the story about PS straining bank accounts with it's steep price. GIMP is free and therefore a lot of people may use it, not because it "suites [their] techno ideology," but because it won't keep them from paying bills or eating. Maybe you did read it but realized you couldn't post your weak little flame unless you ignored it. Either way, your point is poorly made since GIMP could easily be "the best tool for the job" in many cases.
I picture something like a starship troopers style script when I think what would make for a good halo movie. Good action, some interesting charachters, but nothing too deep. Keep it simple and fun.
I see why you posted as AC, if you bothered to read my post you would know that I was talking about MAOI's which are not SSRIs. MAOI's are POWERFUL anti-depressants. They inhibit MAO which allows for increased Dopamine, epi, serotonin, etc.
It's always the people who know next to nothing about the subject or anti-depressant pharm. who resort to ranting on the ineffectiveness of SSRIs.
Wonderful, you found a completely irrelevant example to bust me. The molecule we are talking about is most likely silicon dioxide, but I don't recall that he ever gets more specific than "glass" in the book. SiO2 will definatly be bigger than a single metallic atom so my point is correct and relevant.
I think that the street could easily react irrationally to a miss on earnings. You're looking at the situation very logically but there have been plenty of times that stocks have tanked on a miss when logically the next quarter should be just fine.
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Maybe they do have jobs. It's possible this is some publicity stunt by Sony to generate some more interest and try to convince people the PS3 is actually worth $600. They probably expect people to think something like, "woah, if these guys will wait for 2 weeks for a PS3 it must be good, maybe I should get one."
You whole semaphore analogy is wrong for this situation. If PS3's were available and these guys were standing in line blocking access but for whatever reason not buying the units then you would have been right on. That is obviously not the case, even if they got out of line no one else could buy a PS3 any faster.
I see you have some skill at making important words bold. Too bad you don't have any at RTFA. Let me quote the part you should have read and make bold the important word which makes your whole post worthless dribble in regards to the actually point.
"still said that the only way to determine the "authenticity and source" of the e-mails Joel was suing over, was to get a mirror copy of Joel's hard drive.?
That is not what the cleck at Gamestop told me today when I purchased my pre-order. I was pre-order number 10 for that store and he said that when they get the shipment they will fill the pre-orders in number order so as long as they got 10 I would get mine but by no means was that a guarantee they would get 10.
Maybe you could point us to this wonderful OS that is totally secure? Keep in mind I don't want to hear about some OS that holds 1% of the market and has never been affected by a virus. That just means no one cares enough to write one for it. You need to show in some way that you have proof no virus could ever compromise this OS you wish us all to use (there is no way IMO to show something is perfectly secure). Oh, on top of that please be sure to demonstrate that this uber-OS functions on a level equal to that of the current mainstream OS (windows, linux, OSX, etc).
I won't be holding my breath for your response.
Moore's law says nothing about speed, that is a common error. IIRC he made a general statement about the number of transistors that could be in a defined area doubling every 2 years and that was later changed to 18 months. It also had to do with cost of transistors I believe.
And now that I have read the article there still doesn't seem to be any clarification. If I had to bet it would be on the data transfer speed and not the ops/sec.
Exchanging data (data transfer) is not the same thing as operations per second. The post seems to either be confusing the two or stating that the chip does both. I guess I need to go read the article now and find out...
You sir, sound like one of the axe murderers, terrorists and paedophiles that the article mentions the streets are awash with.
If you RTFA or even the summary instead of just the headline you would see he was not really spamming in the sense you are talking about. He email bombed someone for revenge. Seems more akin to a DoS attack on the email server than spamming.
Actually, they are toning it down for the article. By happy depression resistant mice researchers generally mean it takes them longer time to give up and decide to let themselves drown in a forced swim experiment. There are some other measures of depression but this is the one I am most familar with and have seen used most often for depression studies.
Ok, I understand your point but you are missing something. They know a lot about the virus including what it needs to have inorder to infect someone. They can take out machinery that makes it deadly but still judge whether or not the real virus would still beable to infect someone who had the vaccination based on what happens to the non-deadly version.
For slashdot terms lets use an example that everyone should understand.
Lets say I have a computer virus that I want to test against my new patch. Now this virus is nasty and after it infects the computer it deletes your files. I don't want that to happen if my patch doesn't work during the test so I remove that delete command and replace it with a "Hello world!" output. Now, I run the program on a computer with no protection and "Hello world!" pops up, I install my patch and nothing happens. Now I have changed the end result but the machinery for the inital exploit into the computer is still there and I can say that I have stopped it.
That's the best way I can think to relate what they are doing. It's not perfect but biology and computers don't always match up perfectly.
What I was pointing out was that while some people might see the parent thread as a joke it is all too likely in this day and age that the president would use his "powers" to force MS to incorporate a secret backdoor for the NSA (or whoever) into Windows. We would find out about it in a while but then he would affirm his right to spy on the "terrorists" that are using Windows just as he spies on the "terroists" using our domesting phone lines. All requests for information and lawsuits would be denied for national security concerns and I would certainly fear for the individual who released a patch for that particular hole. I can see them being charged for any number of crimes the current regime could come up with. So while you would like to make my point seem unreleated and crack some lame joke about terror level colors I think you are not looking around at what is happening lately.
Seriously, people are laughing at the parent post but they would have laughed at a sacastic post about the NSA getting warrentless taps to listen to our phone calls in the recent past as well.
I'm thinking it would be "one script per kiddie" unless by "one script kiddie per child" you mean that we will be sending a bunch of 14 year old antisocial kids over with the computers.
A lot of WoW players do care about the game and farming just as much. Unfortunately the game is not setup the same way EVE is and there isn't a mechanism to allow anyone to go out and kill/impede the farmers. Some PVP servers may allow for a small amount of policing but the majority of servers don't even have that.
Yah, but in this kind of situation if you don't have the "few million" to call the MPAA's bet then they just walk away with your $2500 and stay very rich.
I thought this was funny and does not deserve the 0 it currently has. Someone with mod points please fix that.
Well, if you bothered to RTFA it seems that the MPAA is doing exactly the opposite. The head of their antipiracy division is openly saying they're looking forward to a trial and verdict next summer.
I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be serious. If it was then you must not be someone who works with EEG recordings.
Take it from me, I record a lot of EEG, they are not easy to record or work with. The artifact that you get from even an eye blink is enough to skew the data. Let alone someone moving other parts of the body. Granted, I don't work on using EEG as a method of identifying individuals but I have my doubts that you could get unique signature from every individual or ask people to hold still long enough when they need to be "verified". No matter what kind of method you are using, I imagine something like a fast fourier transform, a change in someones state of mind will inevitable change the pattern of power frequency and possibly deny them access to their computer/work/whatever.
Last but not least the conductive gel that is generally used for the scalp electodes should be a concern, no one wants to have that on their head all the time.
Did you totally miss the part of the story about PS straining bank accounts with it's steep price. GIMP is free and therefore a lot of people may use it, not because it "suites [their] techno ideology," but because it won't keep them from paying bills or eating. Maybe you did read it but realized you couldn't post your weak little flame unless you ignored it. Either way, your point is poorly made since GIMP could easily be "the best tool for the job" in many cases.
I picture something like a starship troopers style script when I think what would make for a good halo movie. Good action, some interesting charachters, but nothing too deep. Keep it simple and fun.
I see why you posted as AC, if you bothered to read my post you would know that I was talking about MAOI's which are not SSRIs. MAOI's are POWERFUL anti-depressants. They inhibit MAO which allows for increased Dopamine, epi, serotonin, etc.
It's always the people who know next to nothing about the subject or anti-depressant pharm. who resort to ranting on the ineffectiveness of SSRIs.
Wonderful, you found a completely irrelevant example to bust me. The molecule we are talking about is most likely silicon dioxide, but I don't recall that he ever gets more specific than "glass" in the book. SiO2 will definatly be bigger than a single metallic atom so my point is correct and relevant.
I think that the street could easily react irrationally to a miss on earnings. You're looking at the situation very logically but there have been plenty of times that stocks have tanked on a miss when logically the next quarter should be just fine.