don't worry, he/she is just a troll, probably just a kid trying to be funny. (or a republican/dittohead;-)
i have 7 friends that are teachers, and you did an excellent job of enumerating everything i hear from all of them....and i still want to be a teacher in the next 5-7 years.
teachers spend 8-12 hours a day in the classroom, then go home and try to relax. free time? hah. like any adult, it's just the weekends.
students spend 6 hours in the classroom, and if they don't have extracurricular activities or a job, they get to surf until the wee hours of the morning.
well, i wouldn't call it 'sad', even though i haven't seen it. i mean, it's nonviolent, right? and it's creative, ja? and like 50-70% of kids are fat and underexercised, correct?
just think about today -- how many guys are terrified to dance? 40 years ago all guys danced, it was cool (and i'm not referring to the billy joel song, i'm thinking more west-side story).
the more i think about it, this kind of physical activity and nonviolent competition sounds like a good thing...
I've seen lots of posts that start with "sigh -- data is data and if i can read it, i can copy it".
These people assume that the busses will always be interceptable, which is not true. MS and other hardware vendores are hard at work at their secure OS which would effectively halt any attempts to read anything but encrypted bits. From what I've read, I feel the secure platform is a reality and will very easily stop cracking/hacking dead in it's tracks.
However, maybe when pirating is 100% eliminated, microsoft windows XP will cost $30 and not $300.
you're assuming we will always have the freedom to "knock them down". i bet enough laws and international "free trade agreements" could eventually stifle the progress of the cracker.
However, if that smae 3DSMax today was running in a Palladium-enabled machine, you couldn't edit the source code otherwise the key wouldn't match and the OS would reject the application.
i would like to see a 2, 5 and 10 year study verifying if any of these people actually do commit a crime. if they do, would it be enough evidence to actually act on these lists? could statistics be used in law, to trump facts and evidence? interesting, but scary also.
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If the P3 and the P4 are run at the same clock speed the P3 performs much better than its anemic younger sibling.
Well fucking DUH!
Sure, my Saab 900T gets great gas mileage out of a 4-cylinder, better than a Testarossa with it's 12-cylinder engine, but my Saab tops out at 115 mph, and the Ferrari tops out at 210 mph.
The PIII architecture was specifically designed to run at ridiculously high clock speeds, which means it does less per clock, but this tradeoff was specifically targeted.
You'll see when you take your Computer System Architecture classes -- pipelines vs. frequency.
Is Intel forcing anyone to use BapCo benchmarks? Aren't there dozens of websites out there with their own? Just look at any chip review on Tom's Hardware or Anandtech, Sysmark is only one of many benchmarks used.
Is this a surprise? Are people actually "outraged"? Please. Are you trying to tell me AMD has never hand-picked their own benchmarks?
Any CPU manufacturer will pick the benchmark that makes them look best but try to play it down, and then use that score extensively as propaganda.
Just look at when Apple used Bytemark to claim a 400% performance boost over intel chips -- of course, they used the 486-compiled version on a P6 core, but they didn't let that little nugget of disniformation get in their way.
So does anyone have a schematic for a portable cell-phone jamming device? Something that runs off two AA batteries that will neutralize all cell phones within earshot? I'd love to carry one around on the bus/subway/theater/cinema.
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1. I thought gyroscopes had to have some mass in relation the forces applied to them in order to stay oriented. It seems like a light 'scope could easily be knocked out of whack easily in a handheld device.
2. These 'scopes would require lots of power to keep spinning. My cordless optical uses two AA batteries a month.
3. How do you orient this thing to begin with?
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And yet, Apple has 4% market share. If Apple is a corporation, than it has a duty to expand this share and make bigger profits for shareholders. Otherwise they are just philanthropists and not capitalists. Judging by Jobs' smarmy marketing tricks over the past 5-7 years, they're trying to be a big playa and failing because of ideological inertia.
If Apple is smart, they will try to dominate the handheld market b/c they are the champs at logical interfaces. Or rather, I wish they would, becuase that is where the most cpus will eventually go, and i really don't want all gadgets to suck as bad as Windows.
After reading this article, I think we all need to pause for a minute, and consider the insight of this simple observation.
Add his definition of things human minds are geared to list: static relationships. It's perfectly in line with Dawkins statement that human minds are designed to comprehend things roughly human-sized moving at roughly human-speeds.
I keep forgetting how long people have been programming. Think about how many people using GOTO there were back in 1968. Probably only a few thousand. Crazy.
1. inductive switch -- the "touch" pads at home depot, or like in lamps where you touch the base (sorry, don't know the circuit, but i'm sure a few google searches would turn something up).
2. air operated switch -- blow into a small rubber tube; i've seen this used by teams who launch devices into stormclouds to force lightening strikes. it provides complete decoupling from the circutry (that's why they like it) and only requires a breath to flip the switch.
Well duh, since they make more money by selling more food, it's all part of the food industry's nefarious plot to make us all fat!
Look at McDonalds -- they now offer a Mighty Kids meal, which is a happy meal with, you guessed it, more food and cooler toys! So now kids will feel grown up b/c they eat a "mighty" meal, instead of the younger-ish "happy" meal, thus getting wider in the gut.
So let's say you want to see the unedited version of "Requiem for a Dream". If you live in one of those beige cube suburban sprawl trackhomes, then you only have one choice: Blockbuster, the monopoly. However, they only carry the edited version.
So who is getting fucked?
The corporation (Blockbuster) has decided to impose it's own moral code of ethics, but since they are the only game in town (unless you want to drive an hour to the nearest city), you don't have a choice but live under their ethical standards.
Do you get fucked because you have less choice?
Or does the corporation get fucked because they are being told they can't alter a movie?
So it's a lose-lose for the consumer: either Blockbuster wins or the MPAA wins.
What a fun time to be alive! 1/3 of the planet's population is starving and we're worried about our rights to see softcore porn. Not that I think we should have to do something about those billions of starving people -- I just think it is fascinating.
Ok, so I've been surfing since Mosaic 1.0 in 1994, and ftp'ing pr0n for zurich.ai.mit.edu since 1990, and the first time I heard of a 'blog' was a few months ago. The odd thing is, this discussion of blogs came out of the news websites and not the nerd websites.
when the hell did blogs become so famous? and are they just the modern equivalent of.plan? i get the impression they are the creation of low-tech people in the high-tech world. not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, but it took me by surprise that it became such a phenomenonemon.
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don't worry, he/she is just a troll, probably just a kid trying to be funny. (or a republican/dittohead ;-)
...and i still want to be a teacher in the next 5-7 years.
i have 7 friends that are teachers, and you did an excellent job of enumerating everything i hear from all of them.
teachers spend 8-12 hours a day in the classroom, then go home and try to relax. free time? hah. like any adult, it's just the weekends.
students spend 6 hours in the classroom, and if they don't have extracurricular activities or a job, they get to surf until the wee hours of the morning.
not a big surprise.
Perhaps you should brush up on your comprehension skills? ...and perhaps you should suck my dick.
/., no offense.)
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"sad really..."
well, i wouldn't call it 'sad', even though i haven't seen it. i mean, it's nonviolent, right? and it's creative, ja? and like 50-70% of kids are fat and underexercised, correct?
just think about today -- how many guys are terrified to dance? 40 years ago all guys danced, it was cool (and i'm not referring to the billy joel song, i'm thinking more west-side story).
the more i think about it, this kind of physical activity and nonviolent competition sounds like a good thing...
"It'll happen if it's legal or not--we'll either be criminals, or not."
Too true.
I had no idea what this was until I read several of the articles. People actually dance at arcades now? Man, I _AM_ old, I never heard of this.
*sigh*
I've seen lots of posts that start with "sigh -- data is data and if i can read it, i can copy it".
These people assume that the busses will always be interceptable, which is not true. MS and other hardware vendores are hard at work at their secure OS which would effectively halt any attempts to read anything but encrypted bits. From what I've read, I feel the secure platform is a reality and will very easily stop cracking/hacking dead in it's tracks.
However, maybe when pirating is 100% eliminated, microsoft windows XP will cost $30 and not $300.
you're assuming we will always have the freedom to "knock them down". i bet enough laws and international "free trade agreements" could eventually stifle the progress of the cracker.
However, if that smae 3DSMax today was running in a Palladium-enabled machine, you couldn't edit the source code otherwise the key wouldn't match and the OS would reject the application.
be afraid.
Ahhh locksmith... back when the VTOC filled a single 40x25 text screen...
i would like to see a 2, 5 and 10 year study verifying if any of these people actually do commit a crime. if they do, would it be enough evidence to actually act on these lists? could statistics be used in law, to trump facts and evidence? interesting, but scary also.
If the P3 and the P4 are run at the same clock speed the P3 performs much better than its anemic younger sibling.
Well fucking DUH!
Sure, my Saab 900T gets great gas mileage out of a 4-cylinder, better than a Testarossa with it's 12-cylinder engine, but my Saab tops out at 115 mph, and the Ferrari tops out at 210 mph.
The PIII architecture was specifically designed to run at ridiculously high clock speeds, which means it does less per clock, but this tradeoff was specifically targeted.
You'll see when you take your Computer System Architecture classes -- pipelines vs. frequency.
Is Intel forcing anyone to use BapCo benchmarks? Aren't there dozens of websites out there with their own? Just look at any chip review on Tom's Hardware or Anandtech, Sysmark is only one of many benchmarks used.
Is this a surprise? Are people actually "outraged"? Please. Are you trying to tell me AMD has never hand-picked their own benchmarks?
Any CPU manufacturer will pick the benchmark that makes them look best but try to play it down, and then use that score extensively as propaganda.
Just look at when Apple used Bytemark to claim a 400% performance boost over intel chips -- of course, they used the 486-compiled version on a P6 core, but they didn't let that little nugget of disniformation get in their way.
Intel, AMD, Apple -- all whores.
So does anyone have a schematic for a portable cell-phone jamming device? Something that runs off two AA batteries that will neutralize all cell phones within earshot? I'd love to carry one around on the bus/subway/theater/cinema.
1. I thought gyroscopes had to have some mass in relation the forces applied to them in order to stay oriented. It seems like a light 'scope could easily be knocked out of whack easily in a handheld device.
2. These 'scopes would require lots of power to keep spinning. My cordless optical uses two AA batteries a month.
3. How do you orient this thing to begin with?
And yet, Apple has 4% market share. If Apple is a corporation, than it has a duty to expand this share and make bigger profits for shareholders. Otherwise they are just philanthropists and not capitalists. Judging by Jobs' smarmy marketing tricks over the past 5-7 years, they're trying to be a big playa and failing because of ideological inertia.
If Apple is smart, they will try to dominate the handheld market b/c they are the champs at logical interfaces. Or rather, I wish they would, becuase that is where the most cpus will eventually go, and i really don't want all gadgets to suck as bad as Windows.
1. Water plants.
2. Start GOTO flame war.
#1. Done
#2. Done and Done!
How the fuck am I moderated as "offtopic", I was moderated, that's on topic!
LOL!
How the fuck am I moderated as "redundant", I was the fourth post!!!
LOL!
After reading this article, I think we all need to pause for a minute, and consider the insight of this simple observation.
Add his definition of things human minds are geared to list: static relationships. It's perfectly in line with Dawkins statement that human minds are designed to comprehend things roughly human-sized moving at roughly human-speeds.
I keep forgetting how long people have been programming. Think about how many people using GOTO there were back in 1968. Probably only a few thousand. Crazy.
1. inductive switch -- the "touch" pads at home depot, or like in lamps where you touch the base (sorry, don't know the circuit, but i'm sure a few google searches would turn something up).
2. air operated switch -- blow into a small rubber tube; i've seen this used by teams who launch devices into stormclouds to force lightening strikes. it provides complete decoupling from the circutry (that's why they like it) and only requires a breath to flip the switch.
Well duh, since they make more money by selling more food, it's all part of the food industry's nefarious plot to make us all fat!
Look at McDonalds -- they now offer a Mighty Kids meal, which is a happy meal with, you guessed it, more food and cooler toys! So now kids will feel grown up b/c they eat a "mighty" meal, instead of the younger-ish "happy" meal, thus getting wider in the gut.
I plan to stop eating altogether.
So let's say you want to see the unedited version of "Requiem for a Dream". If you live in one of those beige cube suburban sprawl trackhomes, then you only have one choice: Blockbuster, the monopoly. However, they only carry the edited version.
So who is getting fucked?
The corporation (Blockbuster) has decided to impose it's own moral code of ethics, but since they are the only game in town (unless you want to drive an hour to the nearest city), you don't have a choice but live under their ethical standards.
Do you get fucked because you have less choice?
Or does the corporation get fucked because they are being told they can't alter a movie?
So it's a lose-lose for the consumer: either Blockbuster wins or the MPAA wins.
What a fun time to be alive! 1/3 of the planet's population is starving and we're worried about our rights to see softcore porn. Not that I think we should have to do something about those billions of starving people -- I just think it is fascinating.
I kept looking for the "Reply" button so I could tell them how it turned out.
I guess it wouldn't work in that direction, though.
I don't know why, but that is a very depressing thought.
Ok, so I've been surfing since Mosaic 1.0 in 1994, and ftp'ing pr0n for zurich.ai.mit.edu since 1990, and the first time I heard of a 'blog' was a few months ago. The odd thing is, this discussion of blogs came out of the news websites and not the nerd websites.
when the hell did blogs become so famous? and are they just the modern equivalent of
?