Playstation, XBoxes, Mobile Phones, DVDplayers type of operating system are the future.
And all of these devices can and do run embedded versions of Linux (though against the manufacturers' wishes in the case of the game consoles).
One of the nicest things about UNIX-style operating systems is how well the design can scale up and down. If you want to run a UNIX in single-user mode on a 10-year-old IBM PC/AT, you can. If you want to run a UNIX on a cutting-edge minicomputer with thousands of users at thousands of terminals located throughout the world, you can.
> Given that government-operated schools are the > norm and not the exception among industrialized > nations
I'm sure from when you studied rhetoric or logic in college you recognize that as a logical fallacy.
Yes, appealing to popularity can be a logical fallacy. Just because everyone else jumped off a bridge doesn't mean you should, too.
But quality of education is not a logic problem. It cannot be logically proven that one teaching methodology is "right" while another is "wrong". The best we can do is study what kind of methodologies have been attempted and the perceived quality of their results. And part of that process is to review the results of others who have been through the process already, and attempt to determine consensus.
This is the internet where you can google calculus tutorial and if you have the aptitude learn the basics in a weekend
We must be on different Internets. On the one I'm on, for every piece of information there's three pieces of misinformation.
If you think a teacher is required to learn anything than you don't understand the value of educating yourself
Where did you learn how to educate yourself? Surely you didn't spring fully-formed from your father's head with that knowledge innate already. More likely, there was someone who TAUGHT you how to teach yourself.
I may not be an expert but I've taken enough educational classes in my current University that they blackballed me from progressing any further stating that an essay I wrote on generation ships requiring the research and development of autonomous teaching enitities being installed as a backup in case of social degradation may have to be put in a position to cull ineffective members of that society to save resources as evil and warranting that I not be allowed to do student teaching in High Schools.
That is the longest, most difficult to parse sentence I have ever read, and that includes James Joyce!
It also exhibits some of the classic warning signs of kookdom, e.g. The Establishment is trying to suppress your ideas because they know you're right and they're wrong, etc.
I will agree with you that most children would benefit from being able to learn at their own pace, and that the current educational system often falls short of enabling them to do so. But that doesn't make the education system evil, nor does the failing grade you received in your own post-secondary educational pursuits.
The article wasn't clear, but I believe what intended to say is that "alt" is no longer a valid attribute for the "a" element in newer HTML standards. It may still be (and of course, IS) a valid attribute for other HTML elements like "img".
I'm wondering why I should atrribute any validity to your criticism of the current educational climate in the United States, when you yourself apparently can't be bothered to post using correct punctuation, capitalization, or spelling.
It's apparently not just Science that we're failing to instill the importance of in children.
This is what we get for handing our children's education over to the government.
Given that government-operated schools are the norm and not the exception among industrialized nations, I am curious as to what kind of alternative system you believe would be preferable.
Now obviously public schools don't have a 100% success rate, and there are significant pedagogical and bureaucratic problems with the current system that we should address. But the baby needs to stay even if the bathwater goes.
"Adequate yearly progress" is clearly better than "inadequate yearly progress", no?
Power consumption goes up when it is removed from the PCI slot, says the article.
I wouldn't be surprised if current arcing across the contacts as you pull a PCI card out of a powered-on computer DID cause a spike in power consumption. My question is why anyone would do such a thing.
If you use this to hold your swap and your main partition, I think the speed improvement would be well worth it!
If I had a couple extra gigs of extra RAM sitting around, I'd just add it to main system memory and swap from there, rather than impose the additional overheard of an ATAPI interface and disk volume emulation layer.
Do you really think they'll take linux into consideration?
They (being hardware manufacturers) should, if they have any sense. I'm no Linux zealot, but it's clear that that the Wintel era is in decline. Apple's decision to migrate to x86 only cements the idea that consumer PC hardware platforms are going to need to stay OS-agnostic if they want to maximize market share.
Really, ultimately DRM is unavoidable as it benefits big business.
Depends on which branch of big business. To content distributors and software developers, it's perceived as a benefit (but then, so was every other intrusive copy protection scheme at some point).
To hardware manufacturers, DRM support is unnecessary complexity and a pain in the ass.
For a company, a jail sentence make sense. Who should be incarcerated? The executives?
The concept of corporate personhood came about specifically so executives WOULDN'T go to jail or be personally responsible for debts owed by the company. And this has been problematic, because there's no real way to sentence a corporation to "jail" or even to "death".
I suggest removing all copyrights on songs/artists that benefited from the payola crime.
Whee, let's make sure the artists get ripped off twice as badly!
My non-business-law-knowing proposal is that if a corporation is found guilty of malfeasance involving copyrighted works for hire (as almost all major-label recordings are), the copyright for those works reverts back to the creators, and any contracts between the parties are otherwise nullified.
That way if I'm a musician and BMG screws me out of royalties, I can take my masters to another label and re-release them under more favorable terms.
This is one less person that can have his day in court, so there will be no legal precidents formed by judgements on any of his actions.
On the other hand, if I were considering a career in spamming, "I might get my head bashed in" would probably be a more effective deterrent than "I might have to go to court"...
It's already in the game logic. How would you propose a game could work if it DIDN'T know what the player was doing at all times?
"If player within 10 feet of ad pane, begin ad video. If 'ad video complete' signal received and player still within 10 feet of ad, increment 'ad views' counter."
Graphics card manufacturers really need to get on the silent PC bandwagon, instead of focusing on how many trillion polys per milli-second they can render.
Well, you could always consider buying a card that's on the technological trailing edge...
My home computer has an nVidia 5200 in it. It's a light and quiee card, yet it has enough power to drive two displays at 1600x1200x32b. I'm sure the newer, higher-wattage cards would blow it out of the water in polygon rendering, but since I rarely play FPSes it really doesn't matter to me.
"Processing power" and "power consumed" scale pretty linearly. If you want to reduce one, the easiest way is to accept a reduction in the other.
This seems like a bad move for Microsoft. They already seem to have a hard time finding people willing to work for them.
Are you kidding? Top CompSci programs across the country have kids clamoring for summer internships with Microsoft, hoping it will get their foot in the door for a permanent engineering position once they graduate.
But then, these are entry-level hires. If your argument is that Microsoft's staffing policies undervalue "guru" employees with significant industry knowledge experience, because it's cheaper to get bright kids right out of college and pay for their 70-hour work weeks mostly with free sodas, I would tend to agree with that.
Did Steve Jobs give you a wedgie or something? I don't understand where this outburst of anti-Apple invective came from, especially since this thread is about AMD processors.
Why not solder the CPU to motherboard, like in the old times of some 386 boards?
Good question. The kneejerk answer would be something about modularity and allowing people to upgrade their CPU while keeping their mobo, or vice versa, but is that really worth all the costs of socket design and engineering?
I mean, we have $100 motherboards and $300 CPU's these days. It's not a financial hardship to upgrade both at the same time. And the point of interchangeable CPU's is negated anyway when each new model that comes out uses a different socket design. I don't think I've had two successive CPUs that used the same pinout since upgrading my 486SX to a DX in 1993.
There is no good option for making text zoom permanent if you have bad eyes.
Have you tried specifying a CSS user stylesheet? According to the CSS specification, user styles are supposed to supercede any styles delivered by the content provider (excepting those flagged !important, which almost no one does)...
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Does this mean they'll fix launch.yahoo.com bug?
Why would it be Firefox's job to provide a workaround for Yahoo's bad browser-detection routine?
IBM just retired OS/2; an example of Microsoft's FUD working to great effect.
How so?
Microsoft's strategy regarding OS/2 for at least the past ten years has been to ignore it completely, to act is if it didn't exist.
Perhaps back in the shaky post-divorce days of IBM and Microsoft, when the fight for the power desktop was between NT 3.1 and OS/2 2.0, there was some FUD. But that's ancient history by now.
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They achieved a form of write once run anywhere. In 1985.
Then how come the programs on my DOS floppies wouldn't run when I stuck them into a Macintosh drive? Or an Atari 800? Or an Amiga?
Seriously. What are you talking about? QBASIC?
Playstation, XBoxes, Mobile Phones, DVDplayers type of operating system are the future.
And all of these devices can and do run embedded versions of Linux (though against the manufacturers' wishes in the case of the game consoles).
One of the nicest things about UNIX-style operating systems is how well the design can scale up and down. If you want to run a UNIX in single-user mode on a 10-year-old IBM PC/AT, you can. If you want to run a UNIX on a cutting-edge minicomputer with thousands of users at thousands of terminals located throughout the world, you can.
Apparently the best way to develop a "visually intuitive" user interface is glass and more animation!
It really takes the desktop metaphor to the next level of realism -- if all your documents are printed onto panes of glass and your office is haunted!
Unless, of course, the leaker makes his or her own subtle changes to the wording of the document before making it public...
> Given that government-operated schools are the
> norm and not the exception among industrialized
> nations
I'm sure from when you studied rhetoric or logic in college you recognize that as a logical fallacy.
Yes, appealing to popularity can be a logical fallacy. Just because everyone else jumped off a bridge doesn't mean you should, too.
But quality of education is not a logic problem. It cannot be logically proven that one teaching methodology is "right" while another is "wrong". The best we can do is study what kind of methodologies have been attempted and the perceived quality of their results. And part of that process is to review the results of others who have been through the process already, and attempt to determine consensus.
This is the internet where you can google calculus tutorial and if you have the aptitude learn the basics in a weekend
We must be on different Internets. On the one I'm on, for every piece of information there's three pieces of misinformation.
If you think a teacher is required to learn anything than you don't understand the value of educating yourself
Where did you learn how to educate yourself? Surely you didn't spring fully-formed from your father's head with that knowledge innate already.
More likely, there was someone who TAUGHT you how to teach yourself.
I may not be an expert but I've taken enough educational classes in my current University that they blackballed me from progressing any further stating that an essay I wrote on generation ships requiring the research and development of autonomous teaching enitities being installed as a backup in case of social degradation may have to be put in a position to cull ineffective members of that society to save resources as evil and warranting that I not be allowed to do student teaching in High Schools.
That is the longest, most difficult to parse sentence I have ever read, and that includes James Joyce!
It also exhibits some of the classic warning signs of kookdom, e.g. The Establishment is trying to suppress your ideas because they know you're right and they're wrong, etc.
I will agree with you that most children would benefit from being able to learn at their own pace, and that the current educational system often falls short of enabling them to do so. But that doesn't make the education system evil, nor does the failing grade you received in your own post-secondary educational pursuits.
Firstly, the alt attribute is not deprecated.
The article wasn't clear, but I believe what intended to say is that "alt" is no longer a valid attribute for the "a" element in newer HTML standards. It may still be (and of course, IS) a valid attribute for other HTML elements like "img".
I'm wondering why I should atrribute any validity to your criticism of the current educational climate in the United States, when you yourself apparently can't be bothered to post using correct punctuation, capitalization, or spelling.
It's apparently not just Science that we're failing to instill the importance of in children.
This is what we get for handing our children's education over to the government.
Given that government-operated schools are the norm and not the exception among industrialized nations, I am curious as to what kind of alternative system you believe would be preferable.
Now obviously public schools don't have a 100% success rate, and there are significant pedagogical and bureaucratic problems with the current system that we should address. But the baby needs to stay even if the bathwater goes.
"Adequate yearly progress" is clearly better than "inadequate yearly progress", no?
Power consumption goes up when it is removed from the PCI slot, says the article.
I wouldn't be surprised if current arcing across the contacts as you pull a PCI card out of a powered-on computer DID cause a spike in power consumption. My question is why anyone would do such a thing.
If you use this to hold your swap and your main partition, I think the speed improvement would be well worth it!
If I had a couple extra gigs of extra RAM sitting around, I'd just add it to main system memory and swap from there, rather than impose the additional overheard of an ATAPI interface and disk volume emulation layer.
Do you really think they'll take linux into consideration?
They (being hardware manufacturers) should, if they have any sense. I'm no Linux zealot, but it's clear that that the Wintel era is in decline. Apple's decision to migrate to x86 only cements the idea that consumer PC hardware platforms are going to need to stay OS-agnostic if they want to maximize market share.
Really, ultimately DRM is unavoidable as it benefits big business.
Depends on which branch of big business. To content distributors and software developers, it's perceived as a benefit (but then, so was every other intrusive copy protection scheme at some point).
To hardware manufacturers, DRM support is unnecessary complexity and a pain in the ass.
For a company, a jail sentence make sense. Who should be incarcerated? The executives?
The concept of corporate personhood came about specifically so executives WOULDN'T go to jail or be personally responsible for debts owed by the company. And this has been problematic, because there's no real way to sentence a corporation to "jail" or even to "death".
I suggest removing all copyrights on songs/artists that benefited from the payola crime.
Whee, let's make sure the artists get ripped off twice as badly!
My non-business-law-knowing proposal is that if a corporation is found guilty of malfeasance involving copyrighted works for hire (as almost all major-label recordings are), the copyright for those works reverts back to the creators, and any contracts between the parties are otherwise nullified.
That way if I'm a musician and BMG screws me out of royalties, I can take my masters to another label and re-release them under more favorable terms.
10 Petaflops? Why, that's barely half what Sony has claimed the PS3 will be capable of...
This is one less person that can have his day in court, so there will be no legal precidents formed by judgements on any of his actions.
On the other hand, if I were considering a career in spamming, "I might get my head bashed in" would probably be a more effective deterrent than "I might have to go to court"...
And how do they intend to track this?
It's already in the game logic. How would you propose a game could work if it DIDN'T know what the player was doing at all times?
"If player within 10 feet of ad pane, begin ad video. If 'ad video complete' signal received and player still within 10 feet of ad, increment 'ad views' counter."
Graphics card manufacturers really need to get on the silent PC bandwagon, instead of focusing on how many trillion polys per milli-second they can render.
Well, you could always consider buying a card that's on the technological trailing edge...
My home computer has an nVidia 5200 in it. It's a light and quiee card, yet it has enough power to drive two displays at 1600x1200x32b. I'm sure the newer, higher-wattage cards would blow it out of the water in polygon rendering, but since I rarely play FPSes it really doesn't matter to me.
"Processing power" and "power consumed" scale pretty linearly. If you want to reduce one, the easiest way is to accept a reduction in the other.
As a Heineken representative, I'd just like to remind you all that THERE ARE NO ADVANTAGES to open source beer.
As a beer "power user", I'd just like to remind you that Heineken tastes like an ass.
This seems like a bad move for Microsoft. They already seem to have a hard time finding people willing to work for them.
Are you kidding? Top CompSci programs across the country have kids clamoring for summer internships with Microsoft, hoping it will get their foot in the door for a permanent engineering position once they graduate.
But then, these are entry-level hires. If your argument is that Microsoft's staffing policies undervalue "guru" employees with significant industry knowledge experience, because it's cheaper to get bright kids right out of college and pay for their 70-hour work weeks mostly with free sodas, I would tend to agree with that.
Oh, they rebranded it. Now it's called Honda Jazz.
Are they aware that the term "jazz" has its origins in hipster slang for the act of fucking?
Apple products and Apple users arguments [snip]
Did Steve Jobs give you a wedgie or something? I don't understand where this outburst of anti-Apple invective came from, especially since this thread is about AMD processors.
Why not solder the CPU to motherboard, like in the old times of some 386 boards?
Good question. The kneejerk answer would be something about modularity and allowing people to upgrade their CPU while keeping their mobo, or vice versa, but is that really worth all the costs of socket design and engineering?
I mean, we have $100 motherboards and $300 CPU's these days. It's not a financial hardship to upgrade both at the same time. And the point of interchangeable CPU's is negated anyway when each new model that comes out uses a different socket design. I don't think I've had two successive CPUs that used the same pinout since upgrading my 486SX to a DX in 1993.
There is no good option for making text zoom permanent if you have bad eyes.
Have you tried specifying a CSS user stylesheet? According to the CSS specification, user styles are supposed to supercede any styles delivered by the content provider (excepting those flagged !important, which almost no one does)...
Does this mean they'll fix launch.yahoo.com bug?
Why would it be Firefox's job to provide a workaround for Yahoo's bad browser-detection routine?
IBM just retired OS/2; an example of Microsoft's FUD working to great effect.
How so?
Microsoft's strategy regarding OS/2 for at least the past ten years has been to ignore it completely, to act is if it didn't exist.
Perhaps back in the shaky post-divorce days of IBM and Microsoft, when the fight for the power desktop was between NT 3.1 and OS/2 2.0, there was some FUD. But that's ancient history by now.