People's machines slow down because a. they never defrag their hard drives and b. they get infected.
You also need to take into account that they may install new service packs and other software to tread water, not to mention adding new bloatware. For example, probably hundreds of thousands of PC desktops and laptops were sold with Windows XP Home and 256MB of RAM, that were not slow at the time. But try running them today with Service Pack 3 and adding antivirus (like AVG) and firewall (like ZoneAlarm) programs, without adding any RAM, and they're terrible. Now consider that many of those same systems also shipped with Microsoft Office 200x, and what the latest service packs for that adds to the load.
Makes you wonder in 50 more years or 100 years if some future race of humans dig us up and find all these works what they will think.
We had space travel, wars with other worlds, technology that rivaled anything future man will invent.
Keep that mindset and the Sandskrit writings of India, the Greek tales of Atlantis, and pretty much all of the stuff we think may have been real; ancient Egypt all becomes flight of fantasy. Or does it.
Man's imagination is vast and uncharted.
Um, no. In 50 or 100 years, assuming we haven't entered a new Dark Age from some catastrophe, we'll still have the records we have today. That near term, we'll also have oral accounts from eye witnesses who are still alive. And if we do have a catastrophe large enough to destroy enough records to make it unclear this is all pretend, it will take centuries before any descendants will be able to put together the pieces enough to read our DVDs and other data again. They'll probably also have to forget what "science fiction" on dust jackets means, too. And your suggestion that all of what we think about previous epochs may be similarly in doubt categorically ignores supporting evidence from archaeology and other sciences.
The Christian Church is the oldest for-profit company in existence, they also managed to keep their believers' brains frozen for a couple thousands of years.
They did do a couple awesome proof of concept demos of their resurrection process, I've heard... though I've yet to see it scale.
I guess but I don't think of people on Slashdot as my peers. Maybe I need to take a look at the effort I spend posting on Slashdot. Maybe I am just as silly thinking that my posts are worth the effort.
The point is, it's not what you think they are, it's what trolls... oh. Clever.
Stripping HDMI cables out of the package has nothing to do with the console maker's desire to push HD vs SD. MS and Sony dropped the price of their consoles by $50-100, and to help do that, trimming down on the included cables helps.
More importantly, retailers like Best Buy are much happier when they can sell an overpriced $30 HDMI cable to more people - and MS and Sony need their retailers to be happy. It's possible that retailers will make more profit by selling a $30 HDMI cable than selling a $300 console. It's been this way with printers and USB cables for years.
Of course, more and more people are learning that cables can be much cheaper online...
This is precisely why, whenever new consoles are introduced, for the first couple of weeks Gamestop and the others try to force people to buy bundles.
When Jay Leno shoves a microphone in your face, you know that the only way you're going to get on the air with an outrageous answer. Is it an wonder there are so many outrageous answers?
Has Jay ever shown a segment where everyone shown got the right answer?
So, are you saying that instead of him interviewing people who either aren't bright or are uninformed, he's interviewing people who will lie and make up stuff in order to be seen for a few seconds on TV? Seems worse:)
" I can forgive drunk driving because drinking makes the brain not work properly - but there's NO excuse for a sane, rational being to be texting while driving."
I'm not that easy on drinkers: if you're planning on drinking a lot, give your keys to someone else with instructions to hide them til you are safe again, or make sure you have NO plans to be anywhere or do anything until well after you can recover from whatever level of drinking you will be doing. And don't buy more alcohol than you plan up front to consume, so that your reduced inhibitions can't lead you to drinking more than you originally planned.
If you can't be responsible, I will still hold you responsible.
Seriously, has any of this turned up in the literature? I want to see what for what they are looking.
Forget prediction for children, there's a number of different companies out there that do personal genome screening, and plenty of adults who don't know what they want to be when they "grow up" or want to change careers, etc.
Uh... bede bede bede was what Twiki used to say to Buck Rogers... of course, that was another Glen A. Larson production.
I'm definitely a fan of the original BSG series. I was the same age as Boxey (who was also a boy, in the original series) when it first aired, and I wanted to be him. Or at least have his daggit:) I'll get around to watching the recent "re-imagining" sometime, but it's going to exist in a separate box in my brain, I think, much like how I think of the book and movie versions of Stephen King's story "The Shining." Very interested to see how Larson will return to the material.
If someone is breaking into my home at 2am, they better hope they can run faster than buckshot. The call is for the cops or coroner to come clean up the mess.
And then the cop will arrest you for manslaughter. You do realize that self defense requires the application of only that amount of force necessary?
As a guy with 4090 achievement points after 9 months of game play, I'm impressed, but I think he's been doing it a long time, too.*(My point total already puts me in the top 400 on my server, which makes me feel good, but there are many thousands in the US and Europe that rate higher, when all the battlegroups are taken together.)
I'm somewhat more impressed with the fact that he has 32 Feats of Strength. I have... 3. But then again, FoS are special achievements that don't count towards the normal point totals, and are rewarded for things like logging in during WoW's anniversary day, doing a class-specific epic mount quest (which most people skip these days), etc. They're difficult if not impossible for most people to get later.
*can't tell, slashdot effect killed the server while I was trying to check him out:)
The whole branch nonprofit is over to free software (minus xp/2003 on the dell computers they have and office 2003/outlook 2007 VLKs bought from techsoup).
This, oddly enough, is the most surprising thing to me that you've said. A nonprofit my mom supports bought a bunch of keys/software from Techsoup about a year ago, and so far they have run into continued delays in trying to get actual delivery. Gives me hope, though, that their experience is ususual, and will get sorted out eventually.
Do they then become more responsible for what it is they are allowing through?
Compare it to cable companies, where some individual cable channel broadcasters get paid by the cable companies for their content, and the cable companies then have some responsibility over what gets presented.
Scripsit was an early word processing program, and it made the TRS-80 Model II Level II (and a Daisy Wheel Printer II) a cost-competitive alternative to paying for a typing service for the dissertations both my parents were publishing at the end of the 70s, as well as a boon for the scientific calculations each were previously making on the shared-time mainframe at the university. At least, that was their justification for buying one:)
So, as a little kid I'd be awakened by late-night printing on that huge 132-column tractor-feed daisy wheel printer, and stumble in to the study to find one or the other parent typing away. I naturally got interested in what they were doing, and the method of formatting with that software was so limited and simple that I learned it quickly. From there I played a few rudimentary games (no bitmaps on that hardware), started learning BASIC, etc. Even sitting around watching my parents and waiting my turn to do something, I picked up a taste for science fiction from the paperbacks my parents kept in easy reach of the armchair in the study. So Scripsit was my parents' killer app, and my gateway drug. And as a bonus, the gold and green mylar punch tape they'd previously been working with found new life, cut up into chains to hang on the Christmas tree for the next few years...
The question is, why do we consider what we get in exchange, rewards?
In the case of WoW achievements, do we accept little achievement titles because we are trying to see how far we can get for ourselves, or are we doing it out of a sense of competition with friends or other people, or both? It's interesting to try to figure out how they've made the environment to encourage strangers to treat each other more as friends, (pug parties and raids) and how they've encouraged the sense of personal accomplishment through the gradual lore reveal of quests, and at what point that all breaks down and becomes endless grind. But then how do we explain the people who just get on to beat the crap out of each other in battlegrounds?
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Guarantee she'd detect a missing period earlier.
People's machines slow down because a. they never defrag their hard drives and b. they get infected.
You also need to take into account that they may install new service packs and other software to tread water, not to mention adding new bloatware. For example, probably hundreds of thousands of PC desktops and laptops were sold with Windows XP Home and 256MB of RAM, that were not slow at the time. But try running them today with Service Pack 3 and adding antivirus (like AVG) and firewall (like ZoneAlarm) programs, without adding any RAM, and they're terrible. Now consider that many of those same systems also shipped with Microsoft Office 200x, and what the latest service packs for that adds to the load.
Makes you wonder in 50 more years or 100 years if some future race of humans dig us up and find all these works what they will think.
We had space travel, wars with other worlds, technology that rivaled anything future man will invent.
Keep that mindset and the Sandskrit writings of India, the Greek tales of Atlantis, and pretty much all of the stuff we think may have been real; ancient Egypt all becomes flight of fantasy. Or does it.
Man's imagination is vast and uncharted.
Um, no. In 50 or 100 years, assuming we haven't entered a new Dark Age from some catastrophe, we'll still have the records we have today. That near term, we'll also have oral accounts from eye witnesses who are still alive. And if we do have a catastrophe large enough to destroy enough records to make it unclear this is all pretend, it will take centuries before any descendants will be able to put together the pieces enough to read our DVDs and other data again. They'll probably also have to forget what "science fiction" on dust jackets means, too. And your suggestion that all of what we think about previous epochs may be similarly in doubt categorically ignores supporting evidence from archaeology and other sciences.
The Christian Church is the oldest for-profit company in existence, they also managed to keep their believers' brains frozen for a couple thousands of years.
They did do a couple awesome proof of concept demos of their resurrection process, I've heard... though I've yet to see it scale.
Since you said you're using 3d software to make animations, etc., give them those files. Not just the output. They can always re-render later.
I guess but I don't think of people on Slashdot as my peers. Maybe I need to take a look at the effort I spend posting on Slashdot. Maybe I am just as silly thinking that my posts are worth the effort.
The point is, it's not what you think they are, it's what trolls... oh. Clever.
Well the idea that one would make an effort to get attention on slashdot makes my head hurt.
But you may be right so I will add that to the list.
validation from peers is more than just CRCs at the MAEs.
Then blaming Iran. Part of the ramp up to get the US to do their dirty work.
Expect Americans to die by the gross, in Afghanistan, thereafter.
Citation, please, showing where Israel is directly upstream of them.
Stripping HDMI cables out of the package has nothing to do with the console maker's desire to push HD vs SD. MS and Sony dropped the price of their consoles by $50-100, and to help do that, trimming down on the included cables helps.
More importantly, retailers like Best Buy are much happier when they can sell an overpriced $30 HDMI cable to more people - and MS and Sony need their retailers to be happy. It's possible that retailers will make more profit by selling a $30 HDMI cable than selling a $300 console. It's been this way with printers and USB cables for years.
Of course, more and more people are learning that cables can be much cheaper online...
This is precisely why, whenever new consoles are introduced, for the first couple of weeks Gamestop and the others try to force people to buy bundles.
When Jay Leno shoves a microphone in your face, you know that the only way you're going to get on the air with an outrageous answer. Is it an wonder there are so many outrageous answers?
Has Jay ever shown a segment where everyone shown got the right answer?
So, are you saying that instead of him interviewing people who either aren't bright or are uninformed, he's interviewing people who will lie and make up stuff in order to be seen for a few seconds on TV? Seems worse :)
Infamous
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"He's so famous, he's in famous!" -- Three Amigos
" I can forgive drunk driving because drinking makes the brain not work properly - but there's NO excuse for a sane, rational being to be texting while driving."
I'm not that easy on drinkers: if you're planning on drinking a lot, give your keys to someone else with instructions to hide them til you are safe again, or make sure you have NO plans to be anywhere or do anything until well after you can recover from whatever level of drinking you will be doing. And don't buy more alcohol than you plan up front to consume, so that your reduced inhibitions can't lead you to drinking more than you originally planned.
If you can't be responsible, I will still hold you responsible.
Seriously, has any of this turned up in the literature? I want to see what for what they are looking.
Forget prediction for children, there's a number of different companies out there that do personal genome screening, and plenty of adults who don't know what they want to be when they "grow up" or want to change careers, etc.
Uh... bede bede bede was what Twiki used to say to Buck Rogers... of course, that was another Glen A. Larson production.
I'm definitely a fan of the original BSG series. I was the same age as Boxey (who was also a boy, in the original series) when it first aired, and I wanted to be him. Or at least have his daggit :) I'll get around to watching the recent "re-imagining" sometime, but it's going to exist in a separate box in my brain, I think, much like how I think of the book and movie versions of Stephen King's story "The Shining." Very interested to see how Larson will return to the material.
Contact the ratings board and complain that the content of the game has changed.
Not if the ads only appear during online play. All games that go online have a disclaimer that ratings/content may change during online play.
If someone is breaking into my home at 2am, they better hope they can run faster than buckshot. The call is for the cops or coroner to come clean up the mess.
And then the cop will arrest you for manslaughter. You do realize that self defense requires the application of only that amount of force necessary?
I live in Texas. If I fear for my life or am afraid for my property, pretty much I can use whatever force is necessary to make the bad man go away.
(Yes, some terrible abuses of castle laws have happened. Doesn't mean they don't exist)
Food eaten most: Conjured Mana Strudel (5447)
So is this the WoW's secret doping formula?
He's a pally. Surely it's... bubble tea.
As a guy with 4090 achievement points after 9 months of game play, I'm impressed, but I think he's been doing it a long time, too.*(My point total already puts me in the top 400 on my server, which makes me feel good, but there are many thousands in the US and Europe that rate higher, when all the battlegroups are taken together.)
I'm somewhat more impressed with the fact that he has 32 Feats of Strength. I have... 3. But then again, FoS are special achievements that don't count towards the normal point totals, and are rewarded for things like logging in during WoW's anniversary day, doing a class-specific epic mount quest (which most people skip these days), etc. They're difficult if not impossible for most people to get later.
*can't tell, slashdot effect killed the server while I was trying to check him out :)
This, oddly enough, is the most surprising thing to me that you've said. A nonprofit my mom supports bought a bunch of keys/software from Techsoup about a year ago, and so far they have run into continued delays in trying to get actual delivery. Gives me hope, though, that their experience is ususual, and will get sorted out eventually.
Are you making this up? If not, your company should take criminal action against the prior employee.
Do they then become more responsible for what it is they are allowing through?
Compare it to cable companies, where some individual cable channel broadcasters get paid by the cable companies for their content, and the cable companies then have some responsibility over what gets presented.
I'd like to make a safe bet that this research lab is going to be used exclusively to butter up Congress with tours for more bailout money.
I suspect that, myself. GM already had at least one battery research facility; Charlie Rose was taken on a tour of it, LAST YEAR.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9226 (Part 1, or maybe it was in Part 2)
Scripsit was an early word processing program, and it made the TRS-80 Model II Level II (and a Daisy Wheel Printer II) a cost-competitive alternative to paying for a typing service for the dissertations both my parents were publishing at the end of the 70s, as well as a boon for the scientific calculations each were previously making on the shared-time mainframe at the university. At least, that was their justification for buying one :)
So, as a little kid I'd be awakened by late-night printing on that huge 132-column tractor-feed daisy wheel printer, and stumble in to the study to find one or the other parent typing away. I naturally got interested in what they were doing, and the method of formatting with that software was so limited and simple that I learned it quickly. From there I played a few rudimentary games (no bitmaps on that hardware), started learning BASIC, etc. Even sitting around watching my parents and waiting my turn to do something, I picked up a taste for science fiction from the paperbacks my parents kept in easy reach of the armchair in the study. So Scripsit was my parents' killer app, and my gateway drug. And as a bonus, the gold and green mylar punch tape they'd previously been working with found new life, cut up into chains to hang on the Christmas tree for the next few years...
The question is, why do we consider what we get in exchange, rewards?
In the case of WoW achievements, do we accept little achievement titles because we are trying to see how far we can get for ourselves, or are we doing it out of a sense of competition with friends or other people, or both? It's interesting to try to figure out how they've made the environment to encourage strangers to treat each other more as friends, (pug parties and raids) and how they've encouraged the sense of personal accomplishment through the gradual lore reveal of quests, and at what point that all breaks down and becomes endless grind. But then how do we explain the people who just get on to beat the crap out of each other in battlegrounds?
Computer wasn't originally IT specific, either. :P
I wonder if we could say the reverse, though? :)