So the games one can only play on a 800MHz machine are that much better to make it worth upgrading?
I've been out of the "big penis" games for quite some time, although when I was in I really wasn't in it for bragging rights, it just cost me too much money.
I just don't see any value in buying more hardware when I can very comfortably do with what I have. I've somewhat changed my hobbies to Home Theater and movies, and I don't have to deal with crap hardware with either easy to use crap software or good software that takes me an evening to figure out.
All the extra horsepower means is that Microsoft can bloat their way into it with "worthless" features that, if programmed properly, could have been done on a P100, but require PIII to operate with acceptable speed.
Hmmm.... I'm surprised Simon & Schuster let their name anywhere near that.
The secret to surviving in any industry is that if you can't make money selling crappy products the legit way, sell crappy porno or pseudo-porno products instead.
I do give them credit for wearing this like a badge of pride:
This site has been blocked by CyberSitter and NetNanny.
Wow, a quick two minute post reveals everything I have to say about a subject and tells you exactly how I am. I am impressed.
My question to you is, aren't you big on talk as well? What have you done to stop someone from contemplating suicide? Have you supported that person as long as it takes to show them that life is worth living? If you can't say you have actually done something about it, then what is the point in trying to insult me (assumption here) by saying that I haven't done anything worthwhile about it.
By hiding behind the freedom of speech banner you can avoid having to deal with the fact that sometimes you have to fight to protect people, even from themselves.
Wow. I checked my post. I don't mention the words freedom or rights once.
Life and death issue? Yes. Protect people from them selves.... I don't know. How is banning talk about it going to help anyone?
Frankly, if someone has made the decision, I am curious what one can do to convince them otherwise? You can keep someone alive indefinitely, but you can't make them want to live. It just might be torture to them. How do you make someone want to live? What do you say to a person who feels that religion, science, friends, family, work, leisure have all abandoned them and don't find a single thing worth living for?
Your assumptions:
suicide is wrong
suicide is serious
any discussion of wrong things should be banned
Therefore:
it's not OK to talk about serious subjects.
[I don't have time to fix up the logic so it actually works, feel free to do so.]
Lets talk about Barney instead!
Sorry, ducking the issue helps no one.
I don't advocate suicide or even helping someone. I don't even like euthanasia. I must, however, say that such a site discussing any of these should exist from a freedom perspective, otherwise it'd be too easy to shut things down from any politically correct standpoint. If Netscape/AOL doesn't want it, get a real ISP that gives you net space.
Word Perfect does it as well. I've even taken the time to have auto-replace replace 1/4 and 3/4 to the one-character equivalent and I've even entered the whole font of smiles as well. For math purposes the auto-replace came in handy for all the math symbols that I've found.
I believe Word is/was as flexible in this regard, but it was fun changing WP.
Chinese and some Asian languages have many words that are pronounced the same but use different symbols, one has about 400 meanings for the same pronounciation (actually a different word), another was noted for about 100.
There is supposedly a writing that almost exclusively uses one of these "words". You have to read it to understand which one it means. If you have someone read it to you they would all be pronounced the same.
If a dot-com is suffering, it is either because they couldn't plan themselves out of a paper bag, have poor service, a horrible web site or are simply way ahead of their time.
There were those that charged up big debts so that they can get "growth" and become Wall Street or Venture Capitalist darlings. Since the end if 1999, investors have started to avoid these and saw many of them for the pyramid schemes that they are. Hollywood Video pulled the plug on Reel.com because the e-tailer was stupid with their coupons and couldn't compete, they were a money looser compared to the high-profit video rental chain. All the video sellers were selling at or below operating & unit cost to get market share and sales volumes.
In short, companies suffer during shake-outs. Hopefully the better ones survive.
In terms of non-portability concerns, knowing the cache of the device you are using is good. If the software has some way of probing/proc/ or the kernel to learn how big the caches are, would it be too difficult to make the algorithms scale to what you have?
It sounds painful to discover what it is, unless you have some tuning software to find what size of data blocks is more efficient, that way you are considering other possible bottlenecks as well.
no you are not supposed to think before shooting. If this was true, you might decide not to shoot, for various reasons. The people in command dont want members of the Army to think, just follow their commands.
And maybe they'd want the Aegis ships to start shooting down airliners as well? There HAS to be a discriminating factor involved at every level of weapon use. I think there were US soldiers in the Korean war that got ratted on for killing a bear in a fire fight.
The military would get EXTREMELY bad press if there is evidence of soldiers shooting just because there is a target. Wanton massacres are discovered in due time. The Vietnam war proved that. There will always be a loose crank, but they breach protocol. In the US, the military is under civilian control. If the civilians don't like how things go, they get the lawmakers to change things.
No fighting force is perfect, and there is evidence of wrongdoing that happens in just about any major war, but it just isn't widespread.
While it is silly to spend $5000 on an audio system, if you can't tell the difference between a $30 sound system and a $100 sound system of the same brand, I'd have to ask you to go to an audiologist. If you still stand on that and you are not trolling, I will tell you right now that there are musicians and audiophiles that do hear better than you do. Those people are more likely to pay more for what they like, and their market is not yours.
For one thing, a $30 system is unlikely to have good or deep bass. I'd have concerns about the reliability and how long it lasts... I try to avoid buying landfill fodder.
The problem with ultra high end stuff is that we don't know how many people would be able to pass a "double blind" test and identify which is more accurate.
I imagine the general populace would probly like the cheaper stuff not totally because of price but because it sounds like what they are used to - less expensive stuff with less attention to accuracy paid to it.
I didn't know that, but where do cassettes fit in? The tapes seem to be made with compactness in mind. Auto LP players? Yeah right.
If you think the US distribution model is overpriced, check out Japan. Yikes! That's why the bootlegs are soo popular.
I have my own suspicions concerning legit on-line music. Frankly, I don't have a permanent copy unless I am extremely diligent with backups on media that won't self destruct over the years more than the typical pressed aluminum CD. I also don't want to be buying time-limited encryptions and rights. Although I might not like the track a few years down the road, the bit of nostalgia is worth having it permanantly.
I like having CDs as they are a sturdy format that's not going to die for a while in terms of backward compatibility. Although I might not use the CD form, if my computer copy gets garbled or corrupted I can re-encode it. There are still no inexpensive car MP3 players or anything like that, so you might as well have a CD available.
There is no real "secure" format or codec yet, and it seems better codecs and encoders arise every few months. If I buy a legit bits-and-bytes track, it just doesn't guarantee me permanance or a player that is backward compatible to enough formats to apply to what I bought.
Oh, to get the facts out, I encode from CD to MiniDisc. The CDs stay safely on my shelf while I have my portable MD player and MDs just about anywhere else, even harsh environments.
"Grandparent" Post:
This trains people to pull the trigger without thinking. This is the same psychologically as playing Quake or Halflife.
Parent Post:
Well, I've had quite a bit of training in the Canadian Army myself. Even with training, we still expect that more than half of all combatants will not shoot at another human being, but will miss. This is pretty much a constant.
Well, any military worth it's rounds would train to think before shooting. If you shoot without thinking, you might as well start shooting innocent people. You don't shoot at anything that moves because it moves. Proper aiming should be automatically. Pulling the trigger should never, ever happen until you are sure your target needs it. They even teach this philosophy to the Navy Seals. From my impression, in general they aren't trigger happy or killer robots.
Seriously, Canada does have some ammount of limited military power. They do contribute to UN and NATO exercises. They even buy American and British built warplanes. I know they have a navy.
The extent of their forces is unknown to me, but really, they need it for limited self-defense. They haven't been attacked in how long?
Sorry you had so much trouble with their computers.
If I ever get some money, I was hoping to consider a VIAO of some type, I never buy without proper research though, so I should be able to uncover any issues in whatever model I pick. I've gotten into the habit of checking the user experiences of any particular model before I buy, even if I thought the brand was good or had good experiences with similar models.
I used to be skeptical about the quality of Sony's consumer electronics, but they've won me over a few times. I have dropped one of their MiniDisc players four feet onto concrete and it played just fine, although it did get a cosmetic scratch on the case.
The service mode adjustments on their WEGA (and some other) Sony TVs are a hacker's dream come true. You can fix nearly any dang distortion and bring the TV to just about perfect alignment, unlike.... well, maybe anyone else in the price or size range. A lot more adjustability than 99% of the computer monitors out there, that's for sure. It costs more but it's like a few cents a day cost of operation over the entire expected life, might as well spend a little extra. The flat-flat-flat tube is just gorgeous too.
I wish I knew what designs were copyrighted. I mean, does anyone care about the fine points of a zig-zag pattern or straight stitch? There are probably some fine embroidery patterns out there though.
Come on, a person likened the complexity to those of CNC machines, which have a _basic_ standard to comply with so that they'll import programs. Sewing is apparently a very different market, but it seems vastly different from any other market of complex computer controlled mechanical objects. I mean, where would we be if dot matrix printers used encryption? Ink jets and lasers would to if the market accepted that. I used to write my own software to print stuff, writing my own "driver" into it. It was fun and impressed a few people.
I imagine that some sewing machines are sophisticated enough to take a raster image file and embroider it, which I wouldn't trust to a Game Boy unless there was a floppy disc attachment somewhere to enter the files.
I know what you mean. I think people driving cars while using one of these phones (if they exist) will go from looking rude to extremely dumb.
The next thing they'll do is find a way to try to make picking your nose or having your thumb up your butt a valid and efficient means of communicating to your computer.
Not as simple as that, there are extra details...
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Right now, it's not an issue for single-chip Athlon systems, but the Alpha market seems to compare performance based on the number of "D" chips in the system. The more "D" chips on a board, the better the routing and bandwidth possibilities. Athlons and single proc Alphas have 2, dual Alphas have 4 or 8.
It does reduce the contention some, make the board easier to design, but to make best use of this on a dual processor board, you should have two independent PCI busses and two independent memory banks.
I thought the article looked like Deja 'vu or something like that!
Maybe Slashdot should give him a 1 week vacation to think about what he's done.
I guess the article begs the point: Why "benchmark" fixed point only? IIRC, the only major uses for super large systems is for FP operations. Decryption? I guess those are integer ops.
The other matter is that 32 processor systems are probably best off left to 64 bit systems because of the 4GB limitation.
A quick check of the other thread didn't seem to turn up these issues.
Maybe we could bring back the understanding that not everyone has broadband, those that have it will still be in the minority (25% or so) for a while yet.
The main problem is that some web pages seem to be designed such that the page can't be rendered until the entire file and all pictures are downloaded, for those with modems, that can be a while.
This site used to take forever but I think it has been improved some lately:
For GM stuff, I understand the concerns, but there is no way to know "what might happen" unless we try it, eh? From what I understand, most GM is simply an extention of hybridization, cutting down the time involved I believe. Hybridization has been studied for what? 150 years?
Concerning the parent post, I didn't know as much about Alexandria as I thought I did.
Basically, the point is that we mustn't destroy information simply because we don't agree with it. Everyone changes their mind over time in just about everything. One may regret their own actions after any period of time, from minutes to decades.
Death and taxes are certain. Stupidity seems even more certain.
Like the Spaniards tearing down Pre-colombine buildings in order to build churches.
Come to think of it, I think even the ancient Greeks kind of did that with their own buildings. I hear the area is kind of active seismically, so they didn't all last for millennia like what is still standing, so if a structure came down, it went up redesigned with the stones of the old buildings. Not as bad, but still. There are some temple ruins in which some stones can be traced to use in like three different structures over the ages.
These are mostly natural sites that had nothing to do with much of recent human history except Berlin.
Another problem is I believe the moon was designated as belonging to no one by treaty, similar to Antartica.
The biggest problem with designating a Historic site is how the heck anyone expects to put a historic marker there?
It's cool that people are thinking about the long term preservation of landmarks in our history, there's not much one can do to keep someone else from stealing the flag provided they can get there.
I'm sure in due time if the Moon gets colonized someone will build a protective dome over at least Apollo 11's landing site. It's not as if Muslims are going to be the next ones there and then decide that since that history was made by a non-muslim and therefore contradicts Allah or something and decide to burn it like the library of Alexandria.
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I agree.... 700MHz == low end?
So the games one can only play on a 800MHz machine are that much better to make it worth upgrading?
I've been out of the "big penis" games for quite some time, although when I was in I really wasn't in it for bragging rights, it just cost me too much money.
I just don't see any value in buying more hardware when I can very comfortably do with what I have. I've somewhat changed my hobbies to Home Theater and movies, and I don't have to deal with crap hardware with either easy to use crap software or good software that takes me an evening to figure out.
All the extra horsepower means is that Microsoft can bloat their way into it with "worthless" features that, if programmed properly, could have been done on a P100, but require PIII to operate with acceptable speed.
Hmmm.... I'm surprised Simon & Schuster let their name anywhere near that.
The secret to surviving in any industry is that if you can't make money selling crappy products the legit way, sell crappy porno or pseudo-porno products instead.
I do give them credit for wearing this like a badge of pride:
This site has been blocked by CyberSitter and NetNanny.
I don't mention the words freedom or rights once.
I re-checked. I mentioned freedom exactly once.
People like you are big on the talk
Wow, a quick two minute post reveals everything I have to say about a subject and tells you exactly how I am. I am impressed.
My question to you is, aren't you big on talk as well? What have you done to stop someone from contemplating suicide? Have you supported that person as long as it takes to show them that life is worth living? If you can't say you have actually done something about it, then what is the point in trying to insult me (assumption here) by saying that I haven't done anything worthwhile about it.
By hiding behind the freedom of speech banner you can avoid having to deal with the fact that sometimes you have to fight to protect people, even from themselves.
Wow. I checked my post. I don't mention the words freedom or rights once.
Life and death issue? Yes. Protect people from them selves.... I don't know. How is banning talk about it going to help anyone?
Frankly, if someone has made the decision, I am curious what one can do to convince them otherwise? You can keep someone alive indefinitely, but you can't make them want to live. It just might be torture to them. How do you make someone want to live? What do you say to a person who feels that religion, science, friends, family, work, leisure have all abandoned them and don't find a single thing worth living for?
I guess the situation is:
Your assumptions:
suicide is wrong
suicide is serious
any discussion of wrong things should be banned
Therefore:
it's not OK to talk about serious subjects.
[I don't have time to fix up the logic so it actually works, feel free to do so.]
Lets talk about Barney instead!
Sorry, ducking the issue helps no one.
I don't advocate suicide or even helping someone. I don't even like euthanasia. I must, however, say that such a site discussing any of these should exist from a freedom perspective, otherwise it'd be too easy to shut things down from any politically correct standpoint. If Netscape/AOL doesn't want it, get a real ISP that gives you net space.
Word Perfect does it as well. I've even taken the time to have auto-replace replace 1/4 and 3/4 to the one-character equivalent and I've even entered the whole font of smiles as well. For math purposes the auto-replace came in handy for all the math symbols that I've found.
I believe Word is/was as flexible in this regard, but it was fun changing WP.
If it's a Windows shop, you probably have a leg up just because of installing Linux.
Yeah, Windows can be made secure *snicker*.
Chinese and some Asian languages have many words that are pronounced the same but use different symbols, one has about 400 meanings for the same pronounciation (actually a different word), another was noted for about 100.
There is supposedly a writing that almost exclusively uses one of these "words". You have to read it to understand which one it means. If you have someone read it to you they would all be pronounced the same.
If a dot-com is suffering, it is either because they couldn't plan themselves out of a paper bag, have poor service, a horrible web site or are simply way ahead of their time.
There were those that charged up big debts so that they can get "growth" and become Wall Street or Venture Capitalist darlings. Since the end if 1999, investors have started to avoid these and saw many of them for the pyramid schemes that they are. Hollywood Video pulled the plug on Reel.com because the e-tailer was stupid with their coupons and couldn't compete, they were a money looser compared to the high-profit video rental chain. All the video sellers were selling at or below operating & unit cost to get market share and sales volumes.
In short, companies suffer during shake-outs. Hopefully the better ones survive.
In terms of non-portability concerns, knowing the cache of the device you are using is good. If the software has some way of probing /proc/ or the kernel to learn how big the caches are, would it be too difficult to make the algorithms scale to what you have?
It sounds painful to discover what it is, unless you have some tuning software to find what size of data blocks is more efficient, that way you are considering other possible bottlenecks as well.
no you are not supposed to think before shooting. If this was true, you might decide not to shoot, for various reasons. The people in command dont want members of the Army to think, just follow their commands.
And maybe they'd want the Aegis ships to start shooting down airliners as well? There HAS to be a discriminating factor involved at every level of weapon use. I think there were US soldiers in the Korean war that got ratted on for killing a bear in a fire fight.
The military would get EXTREMELY bad press if there is evidence of soldiers shooting just because there is a target. Wanton massacres are discovered in due time. The Vietnam war proved that. There will always be a loose crank, but they breach protocol. In the US, the military is under civilian control. If the civilians don't like how things go, they get the lawmakers to change things.
No fighting force is perfect, and there is evidence of wrongdoing that happens in just about any major war, but it just isn't widespread.
Walmart doesn't have its own house label does it?
While it is silly to spend $5000 on an audio system, if you can't tell the difference between a $30 sound system and a $100 sound system of the same brand, I'd have to ask you to go to an audiologist. If you still stand on that and you are not trolling, I will tell you right now that there are musicians and audiophiles that do hear better than you do. Those people are more likely to pay more for what they like, and their market is not yours.
For one thing, a $30 system is unlikely to have good or deep bass. I'd have concerns about the reliability and how long it lasts... I try to avoid buying landfill fodder.
The problem with ultra high end stuff is that we don't know how many people would be able to pass a "double blind" test and identify which is more accurate.
I imagine the general populace would probly like the cheaper stuff not totally because of price but because it sounds like what they are used to - less expensive stuff with less attention to accuracy paid to it.
I didn't know that, but where do cassettes fit in? The tapes seem to be made with compactness in mind. Auto LP players? Yeah right.
If you think the US distribution model is overpriced, check out Japan. Yikes! That's why the bootlegs are soo popular.
I have my own suspicions concerning legit on-line music. Frankly, I don't have a permanent copy unless I am extremely diligent with backups on media that won't self destruct over the years more than the typical pressed aluminum CD. I also don't want to be buying time-limited encryptions and rights. Although I might not like the track a few years down the road, the bit of nostalgia is worth having it permanantly.
I like having CDs as they are a sturdy format that's not going to die for a while in terms of backward compatibility. Although I might not use the CD form, if my computer copy gets garbled or corrupted I can re-encode it. There are still no inexpensive car MP3 players or anything like that, so you might as well have a CD available.
There is no real "secure" format or codec yet, and it seems better codecs and encoders arise every few months. If I buy a legit bits-and-bytes track, it just doesn't guarantee me permanance or a player that is backward compatible to enough formats to apply to what I bought.
Oh, to get the facts out, I encode from CD to MiniDisc. The CDs stay safely on my shelf while I have my portable MD player and MDs just about anywhere else, even harsh environments.
"Grandparent" Post:
This trains people to pull the trigger without thinking. This is the same psychologically as playing Quake or Halflife.
Parent Post:
Well, I've had quite a bit of training in the Canadian Army myself. Even with training, we still expect that more than half of all combatants will not shoot at another human being, but will miss. This is pretty much a constant.
Well, any military worth it's rounds would train to think before shooting. If you shoot without thinking, you might as well start shooting innocent people. You don't shoot at anything that moves because it moves. Proper aiming should be automatically. Pulling the trigger should never, ever happen until you are sure your target needs it. They even teach this philosophy to the Navy Seals. From my impression, in general they aren't trigger happy or killer robots.
That's pretty funny.
Seriously, Canada does have some ammount of limited military power. They do contribute to UN and NATO exercises. They even buy American and British built warplanes. I know they have a navy.
The extent of their forces is unknown to me, but really, they need it for limited self-defense. They haven't been attacked in how long?
Sorry you had so much trouble with their computers.
If I ever get some money, I was hoping to consider a VIAO of some type, I never buy without proper research though, so I should be able to uncover any issues in whatever model I pick. I've gotten into the habit of checking the user experiences of any particular model before I buy, even if I thought the brand was good or had good experiences with similar models.
I used to be skeptical about the quality of Sony's consumer electronics, but they've won me over a few times. I have dropped one of their MiniDisc players four feet onto concrete and it played just fine, although it did get a cosmetic scratch on the case.
The service mode adjustments on their WEGA (and some other) Sony TVs are a hacker's dream come true. You can fix nearly any dang distortion and bring the TV to just about perfect alignment, unlike.... well, maybe anyone else in the price or size range. A lot more adjustability than 99% of the computer monitors out there, that's for sure. It costs more but it's like a few cents a day cost of operation over the entire expected life, might as well spend a little extra. The flat-flat-flat tube is just gorgeous too.
I wish I knew what designs were copyrighted. I mean, does anyone care about the fine points of a zig-zag pattern or straight stitch? There are probably some fine embroidery patterns out there though.
Come on, a person likened the complexity to those of CNC machines, which have a _basic_ standard to comply with so that they'll import programs. Sewing is apparently a very different market, but it seems vastly different from any other market of complex computer controlled mechanical objects. I mean, where would we be if dot matrix printers used encryption? Ink jets and lasers would to if the market accepted that. I used to write my own software to print stuff, writing my own "driver" into it. It was fun and impressed a few people.
I imagine that some sewing machines are sophisticated enough to take a raster image file and embroider it, which I wouldn't trust to a Game Boy unless there was a floppy disc attachment somewhere to enter the files.
I know what you mean. I think people driving cars while using one of these phones (if they exist) will go from looking rude to extremely dumb.
The next thing they'll do is find a way to try to make picking your nose or having your thumb up your butt a valid and efficient means of communicating to your computer.
Right now, it's not an issue for single-chip Athlon systems, but the Alpha market seems to compare performance based on the number of "D" chips in the system. The more "D" chips on a board, the better the routing and bandwidth possibilities. Athlons and single proc Alphas have 2, dual Alphas have 4 or 8.
It does reduce the contention some, make the board easier to design, but to make best use of this on a dual processor board, you should have two independent PCI busses and two independent memory banks.
I thought the article looked like Deja 'vu or something like that!
Maybe Slashdot should give him a 1 week vacation to think about what he's done.
I guess the article begs the point: Why "benchmark" fixed point only? IIRC, the only major uses for super large systems is for FP operations. Decryption? I guess those are integer ops.
The other matter is that 32 processor systems are probably best off left to 64 bit systems because of the 4GB limitation.
A quick check of the other thread didn't seem to turn up these issues.
Might you be on a cable modem or the like?
Maybe we could bring back the understanding that not everyone has broadband, those that have it will still be in the minority (25% or so) for a while yet.
The main problem is that some web pages seem to be designed such that the page can't be rendered until the entire file and all pictures are downloaded, for those with modems, that can be a while.
This site used to take forever but I think it has been improved some lately:
Wildcoast DVD Animania
Great, now I'll ruin some karma... How about
"European regulators"?
Or
Socialists?
But that's redundant.
For GM stuff, I understand the concerns, but there is no way to know "what might happen" unless we try it, eh? From what I understand, most GM is simply an extention of hybridization, cutting down the time involved I believe. Hybridization has been studied for what? 150 years?
Concerning the parent post, I didn't know as much about Alexandria as I thought I did.
Basically, the point is that we mustn't destroy information simply because we don't agree with it. Everyone changes their mind over time in just about everything. One may regret their own actions after any period of time, from minutes to decades.
Death and taxes are certain. Stupidity seems even more certain.
Like the Spaniards tearing down Pre-colombine buildings in order to build churches.
Come to think of it, I think even the ancient Greeks kind of did that with their own buildings. I hear the area is kind of active seismically, so they didn't all last for millennia like what is still standing, so if a structure came down, it went up redesigned with the stones of the old buildings. Not as bad, but still. There are some temple ruins in which some stones can be traced to use in like three different structures over the ages.
These are mostly natural sites that had nothing to do with much of recent human history except Berlin.
Another problem is I believe the moon was designated as belonging to no one by treaty, similar to Antartica.
The biggest problem with designating a Historic site is how the heck anyone expects to put a historic marker there?
It's cool that people are thinking about the long term preservation of landmarks in our history, there's not much one can do to keep someone else from stealing the flag provided they can get there.
I'm sure in due time if the Moon gets colonized someone will build a protective dome over at least Apollo 11's landing site. It's not as if Muslims are going to be the next ones there and then decide that since that history was made by a non-muslim and therefore contradicts Allah or something and decide to burn it like the library of Alexandria.