BMW dealer mechanics charge 3x more for service calls, and they do a better job. I can choose to go with a generic mechanic for less money and get crappy service.
Summer of 1981(80)? I took a week long LOGO class on an Apple ][+.
Next year in 5th grade they had a bunch of Commodore PETs that no one knew how to use. So I'd hang out during recess and load every educational casette program to evaluate them for the teachers. Casettes took FOREVER to load.
Then came the Ti99a the same year, with a few lame plug-in games. I spent 4 hours punching in some program to play with the SFX chip in the ti99, and wasn't very impressed. Learned BASIC on it.
6th grade we had a C64 lab and I got an Apple//e as a gift. I liked the color monitors on the C64s (and playing Ghostbusters, Olympics, and Montezuma's Revenge), but I enjoyed programming BASIC and 6502 on the A//e. The response time of the display seemed so much cleaner and faster than the fat, blurry text of the C64.
That summer I went to National Computer Camps at Westminster Prep School in Connecticut and learned how to use an assembler and simulator to write 6502 code. Dave Saltzberg was my awesome teacher. He now runs a 1TeV supercollider.
Didn't touch a PC until 1987 when I started dating some gal who's stepdad used to fly to China every year for his job, and would bring back spare parts. Mind you, this is when RAM came in DIP and cost $15 for a 64kbit chip! I built a 286, 10GB RLL hard drive and VGA card. Then upgraded to 386sx, then 486dx2 when I got a real job, then a free powermac 9500, then I didn't have a computer for 5 years, then a Pentium 2 300 MHz, P3 800 MHz, P4 2.8GHz... That brings us up to the Ibm T43a that I have today.
Wow... I still have the A//e, 286, 386, powermac, and mac SE.
One approach my company uses is multiple standard languages.
Core tools by design teams use C/C++, and define their own strategies (for example, banning inheritance).
Flow design teams that use scripting languages allow Perl 5.61/5.8 and Tcsh. No Bash, Ruby, Python or Java: there are too many people working on this code to achieve working competence in so many langauges, so focus on two. Programmers are not allowed to write official flows in anything but Perl or TCSH.
There are two simulators written in LISP, but these are third-party tools, and the people who own deployment of them go to the ISV site for an intense training program (in LISP and the tool).
So basically, we standardized to 3 major languages, and 1 due to ISV constraints.
And it still has problems. People that have more breadth in Perl do things that confuse the hell out of noobs (and noobs are a part of life, folks!). In general, I like it, because it means I don't have to master 12 languages, just three.
But if everyone thought the way you did, and say, you had a limited pool of generic compute servers that hundreds of you had to share, and everyone wanted to load their pet tools and eat up all the RAM rather than using the IT standard-build suite, I bet you'd have a completely different attitude.
I bet this is the _last_ major virus exploit in Russia. Once a few nerds are sent to a Gulag, they'll go back to attacking the US miliatry. I tend to believe the Russian penal system, especially crimes against the economy, will be dealt with a bit harder than what happened to say, oh, Mr. Mitnik.
Your missing the point, I'm not talking about a position on abortion, I'm talking about a position on laws regarding choice.
There is a HUGE difference.
And there is no gray area.
There's no position, secular or religious, that can argue a woman's rights to her body are less important than a microscopic drop of unconscious, totipotent DNA. No way around it. You can only win this argument by invoking God.
You can hate abortion all day long, I don't care, but as soon as you pass a law forcing me to have a baby or go to jail, fvck you.
Of course, you can pick ANY argument and say I'm being fundamentalist. Let me show you:
"I believe gravity does not exist. Claiming it does means you're discounting centuries of Yogi who have mastered mind over body Yogic Flying. To assert Gravity definitely exists and not accept any other positions makes you the same as a radical fundamentalist!"
Democracy sucks and would be a complete failure without a Congress to temper it, aka, Republic. (Just look at California and the idiots who voted for Prop 13 in the 70s. Yes, property taxes were kept way, way low, promoting sprawl, but the schools are the worst in the country, and revenues are trying up everywhere as corporations move away due to rising taxes to fix the huge one-time upset.)
If you think democracy is so great, consider what the landscape of the US would look like if there were no federal laws and every locality was ruled by what the people of that community consider decent and proper.
I think RvW is a good metric for fundamentalist influence. The only people that vehemently oppose it are the staunch Christian bloc. Everyone else could pretty much care less. Yeah, when you stuff a picture of a baby in front of a soccermom's face, she may change her mind for the pollster, but in general, most people are OK with it being legal. When the nutjob thumpers start changing policy, that's what they will go after first, or maybe mandatory prayer in school or Creationism in science class. If you see either one of those warnings signs making their way to congress (state or federal), be afraid.
Too many Republicans oppose is extremist views on science. And those that don't will someday get a disease that has a potential cure in hybrid/cloning studies, and will then oppose the agenda.
Not panicked, yet.
This won't be the first warning sign. Once RvW starts to bend, THEN it is time to panic.
This gonna sound kinda sappy, but reading this RFC, or an EFF suit, or a book by Lessig, or even the GPL, really makes me feel like I'm observing a "Founding Fathers Moment," like when the Constitution was drafted. I'm glad there are large, DIVERSE, collectives of rational people trying to define fair rules.
BTW -- good job losing that much weight and changing your habits. The hard part is the discipline, and dropping nearly %50 of your mass is no trivial feat.
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Crash dieting prevents you from getting the nutrients you need. Even a perfectly balanced 1-meal a day cannot, repeat CAN NOT, deliver the proper nutrients because they absorbed at different rates, requiring 3~5 small meals a day to keep them in your system w/o passing. That's why there's no supervitamin that has everything you need for a day: you'd really need a drip IV to do this.
Second, you can eat 3,000 kcal a day and still lose weight: exercising uses calories.
Third, whether or not you experience ill effects from your personal dieting strategy depends on genetic history, such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, etc.
He said something to the effect of, "Pixar will make sure Disney won't water-down the Toy Story franchise, which Includes such movies as:
Toy Story Toy Story 2 Toy Story with Insects (A Bugs Life) Toy Story with Fuzzy Monsters (Monsters, Inc.) Toy Story Underwater (Nemo) and of course, Toy Story with Superheroes (The Incredibles)"
His writers were dead on: all of these films are the same franchised rehashed crap, ready for toy and videogame tie-ins from day 1. (To inject my opinion: Just look at the lengthy chase high-speed chase scene with the son in The Incredibles: it was shot from the vidoegame camera angle, I felt like I was watching someone play the game rather than a movie.)
People love to fawn over Pixar's writing, and yes, it is better than Disneys, but the films are remarkable bland plots, that numb us with eye candy.
I'd love to jump into WoW or similar, but I'm an old fogey and don't keep up with the fansites and discussion groups. This means I literally am starting from ground zero, open the box, read the instructions kind of place.
Would this book help? And when answering, don't forget the Old Fogey part. I have 25+ years in the software/hardware industry, 20+ years with interactive fiction, 20+ years with RPGs (Bards Tale on the A2e was my first), but _0_ years with MMORPGs, and I suck ass at online strategy games, like Warcraft3.
Finally, when Christ wanted to give an example to his disciples of great giving, he pointed out the poor widow giving two mites. It was not the amount that mattered, but the attitude and the self-sacrafice. And from this distance who can judge those factors about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?
It's too bad the most prominent US Christians aren't at all like Christ.
These are only peer-to-peer because the areas have no infrastructure like phone lines or power (hence the crank), so how exactly to they get to the web?
Oh, that must be why Cray, SGI, and Itanium are so ridiculously profitable.
This comment (a) makes no sense, even with the bad sarcasm, and (b) doesn't comprehend my statement.
I'm comparing the tiny hard-core gamer market to the global supercomputer market. My observation is: there are more supercomputer CPUs out there than hard-core gamer CPUs. Now consider that 1 Itanic yields ~5-10x the profit of one P4EE ($2000 vs $200), and that supercomputer folks buy them buy the thousands. Heck, the US gov't has more supercomputers than Cray and SGI put together (does SGI even MAKE a supercomputer?).
Why am I even explaining this to you??? Oh, I'm bored...
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So?
BMW dealer mechanics charge 3x more for service calls, and they do a better job. I can choose to go with a generic mechanic for less money and get crappy service.
Pay more, get more.
Summer of 1981(80)? I took a week long LOGO class on an Apple ][+.
//e as a gift. I liked the color monitors on the C64s (and playing Ghostbusters, Olympics, and Montezuma's Revenge), but I enjoyed programming BASIC and 6502 on the A//e. The response time of the display seemed so much cleaner and faster than the fat, blurry text of the C64.
Next year in 5th grade they had a bunch of Commodore PETs that no one knew how to use. So I'd hang out during recess and load every educational casette program to evaluate them for the teachers. Casettes took FOREVER to load.
Then came the Ti99a the same year, with a few lame plug-in games. I spent 4 hours punching in some program to play with the SFX chip in the ti99, and wasn't very impressed. Learned BASIC on it.
6th grade we had a C64 lab and I got an Apple
That summer I went to National Computer Camps at Westminster Prep School in Connecticut and learned how to use an assembler and simulator to write 6502 code. Dave Saltzberg was my awesome teacher. He now runs a 1TeV supercollider.
Didn't touch a PC until 1987 when I started dating some gal who's stepdad used to fly to China every year for his job, and would bring back spare parts. Mind you, this is when RAM came in DIP and cost $15 for a 64kbit chip! I built a 286, 10GB RLL hard drive and VGA card. Then upgraded to 386sx, then 486dx2 when I got a real job, then a free powermac 9500, then I didn't have a computer for 5 years, then a Pentium 2 300 MHz, P3 800 MHz, P4 2.8GHz... That brings us up to the Ibm T43a that I have today.
Wow... I still have the A//e, 286, 386, powermac, and mac SE.
One approach my company uses is multiple standard languages.
Core tools by design teams use C/C++, and define their own strategies (for example, banning inheritance).
Flow design teams that use scripting languages allow Perl 5.61/5.8 and Tcsh. No Bash, Ruby, Python or Java: there are too many people working on this code to achieve working competence in so many langauges, so focus on two. Programmers are not allowed to write official flows in anything but Perl or TCSH.
There are two simulators written in LISP, but these are third-party tools, and the people who own deployment of them go to the ISV site for an intense training program (in LISP and the tool).
So basically, we standardized to 3 major languages, and 1 due to ISV constraints.
And it still has problems. People that have more breadth in Perl do things that confuse the hell out of noobs (and noobs are a part of life, folks!). In general, I like it, because it means I don't have to master 12 languages, just three.
Apple switched because IBM couldn't meet the demand. Who cares if IBM has a 50GHz RISC core that uses 5 uW if they can't meet demand?
I think McZealots are still upset that they can no longer bash Intel.
Maybe you don't care on your 1-user system.
But if everyone thought the way you did, and say, you had a limited pool of generic compute servers that hundreds of you had to share, and everyone wanted to load their pet tools and eat up all the RAM rather than using the IT standard-build suite, I bet you'd have a completely different attitude.
I bet this is the _last_ major virus exploit in Russia. Once a few nerds are sent to a Gulag, they'll go back to attacking the US miliatry. I tend to believe the Russian penal system, especially crimes against the economy, will be dealt with a bit harder than what happened to say, oh, Mr. Mitnik.
No, no.
Your missing the point, I'm not talking about a position on abortion, I'm talking about a position on laws regarding choice.
There is a HUGE difference.
And there is no gray area.
There's no position, secular or religious, that can argue a woman's rights to her body are less important than a microscopic drop of unconscious, totipotent DNA. No way around it. You can only win this argument by invoking God.
You can hate abortion all day long, I don't care, but as soon as you pass a law forcing me to have a baby or go to jail, fvck you.
Of course, you can pick ANY argument and say I'm being fundamentalist. Let me show you:
"I believe gravity does not exist. Claiming it does means you're discounting centuries of Yogi who have mastered mind over body Yogic Flying. To assert Gravity definitely exists and not accept any other positions makes you the same as a radical fundamentalist!"
See how easy it is to be a dick?
Ahhh youth.
Democracy sucks and would be a complete failure without a Congress to temper it, aka, Republic. (Just look at California and the idiots who voted for Prop 13 in the 70s. Yes, property taxes were kept way, way low, promoting sprawl, but the schools are the worst in the country, and revenues are trying up everywhere as corporations move away due to rising taxes to fix the huge one-time upset.)
If you think democracy is so great, consider what the landscape of the US would look like if there were no federal laws and every locality was ruled by what the people of that community consider decent and proper.
I think RvW is a good metric for fundamentalist influence. The only people that vehemently oppose it are the staunch Christian bloc. Everyone else could pretty much care less. Yeah, when you stuff a picture of a baby in front of a soccermom's face, she may change her mind for the pollster, but in general, most people are OK with it being legal. When the nutjob thumpers start changing policy, that's what they will go after first, or maybe mandatory prayer in school or Creationism in science class. If you see either one of those warnings signs making their way to congress (state or federal), be afraid.
Yeah, and Bush also wants to go to Mars.
Just cause he says it, doesn't mean it'll happen.
Too many Republicans oppose is extremist views on science. And those that don't will someday get a disease that has a potential cure in hybrid/cloning studies, and will then oppose the agenda.
Not panicked, yet.
This won't be the first warning sign. Once RvW starts to bend, THEN it is time to panic.
This gonna sound kinda sappy, but reading this RFC, or an EFF suit, or a book by Lessig, or even the GPL, really makes me feel like I'm observing a "Founding Fathers Moment," like when the Constitution was drafted. I'm glad there are large, DIVERSE, collectives of rational people trying to define fair rules.
BTW -- good job losing that much weight and changing your habits. The hard part is the discipline, and dropping nearly %50 of your mass is no trivial feat.
Crash dieting prevents you from getting the nutrients you need. Even a perfectly balanced 1-meal a day cannot, repeat CAN NOT, deliver the proper nutrients because they absorbed at different rates, requiring 3~5 small meals a day to keep them in your system w/o passing. That's why there's no supervitamin that has everything you need for a day: you'd really need a drip IV to do this.
Second, you can eat 3,000 kcal a day and still lose weight: exercising uses calories.
Third, whether or not you experience ill effects from your personal dieting strategy depends on genetic history, such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, etc.
Relax dude.
I wasn't insulting your love of movies, I just think some of the things you like are crap.
people shouldn't then go and think that it had any merit whatsoever.
Sir yes sir. Thank you for telling me what to think.
The "druid grace" scene in this one is hillarious, so is the JV/cloak quote.
I would have worn a cloak to highschool if it weren't for the fear of being pummelled. Damn, I always wanted a cloak.... *sniff*
Anyone see Jon Stewart address this?
He said something to the effect of, "Pixar will make sure Disney won't water-down the Toy Story franchise, which Includes such movies as:
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story with Insects (A Bugs Life)
Toy Story with Fuzzy Monsters (Monsters, Inc.)
Toy Story Underwater (Nemo)
and of course,
Toy Story with Superheroes (The Incredibles)"
His writers were dead on: all of these films are the same franchised rehashed crap, ready for toy and videogame tie-ins from day 1. (To inject my opinion: Just look at the lengthy chase high-speed chase scene with the son in The Incredibles: it was shot from the vidoegame camera angle, I felt like I was watching someone play the game rather than a movie.)
People love to fawn over Pixar's writing, and yes, it is better than Disneys, but the films are remarkable bland plots, that numb us with eye candy.
Not that I'm against good eye candy...
I'd love to jump into WoW or similar, but I'm an old fogey and don't keep up with the fansites and discussion groups. This means I literally am starting from ground zero, open the box, read the instructions kind of place.
Would this book help? And when answering, don't forget the Old Fogey part. I have 25+ years in the software/hardware industry, 20+ years with interactive fiction, 20+ years with RPGs (Bards Tale on the A2e was my first), but _0_ years with MMORPGs, and I suck ass at online strategy games, like Warcraft3.
Flame away...
Finally, when Christ wanted to give an example to his disciples of great giving, he pointed out the poor widow giving two mites. It was not the amount that mattered, but the attitude and the self-sacrafice. And from this distance who can judge those factors about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?
It's too bad the most prominent US Christians aren't at all like Christ.
What is a "mite" anyway?
These are only peer-to-peer because the areas have no infrastructure like phone lines or power (hence the crank), so how exactly to they get to the web?
Since you posted AC, you probably don't care what i have to say, just playing Dad.
/. seven years ago! ;-)
But the answer is, of course I learned nothing! Otherwise I'd have stopped posting on
I thought google had like 10 billion pages archived?
That would be 10%, which is still pretty large, I guess.
IANAStatitician, and I never understood how a confidence interval isn't tied to the population size...
Too weird.
Oh crap, should have googled first.
Looks like AMD started publishing errata a few years ago.
Ok, mod me flamebait...
But still, Taco, this is old old news rehashed in a sensationalistic way, like the Entertainment channel, or The Fox News Channel.
Intel has had errata since Appendix H was published in 1993 during FDIV.
So everyone wants to "swift-boat" Intel.
Here's a dirty little secret:
AMD DOES NOT POST ERRATA.
I would expect more from you Taco, you've been doing this so long.
Oh, that must be why Cray, SGI, and Itanium are so ridiculously profitable.
This comment (a) makes no sense, even with the bad sarcasm, and (b) doesn't comprehend my statement.
I'm comparing the tiny hard-core gamer market to the global supercomputer market. My observation is: there are more supercomputer CPUs out there than hard-core gamer CPUs. Now consider that 1 Itanic yields ~5-10x the profit of one P4EE ($2000 vs $200), and that supercomputer folks buy them buy the thousands. Heck, the US gov't has more supercomputers than Cray and SGI put together (does SGI even MAKE a supercomputer?).
Why am I even explaining this to you??? Oh, I'm bored...
Go one step further, Compare Turion to Yonah, forget pentium M.
You're right: this IS going to be an exciting year.