Let's just start polluting the moon! Let's litter its surface with tons of our crap for a nominal fee! Maybe someday our grandchildren will enjoy a nice, multi-color moon to lighten the night sky...
Those interested in impressing others with their intelligence play chess. Those who would settle for being chic play backgammon. Those who wish to become individuals of quality, take up Go.
- Microcomputer Executive and an expert player, when asked to compare Go with other games
Don't want to flame, but the article does seem like a bunch of "pseudo-intellectual" (forgive me for using that phrase) 14 year olds sitting around, playing chess and thinking their minds are advanced. Half way through the article I thought they would break out matrix-like statements saying "there is no pawn."
Seriously, it just sounds like a half-assed book on Hume or such that somehow had pages of "Chess for Dummies" inserted randomly.
"...and the rivers will turn to blood, the sky shall become black as night, and your PDA's will burst into flames during conference meetings in Sicily..."
...you don't make a law and suddenly the world is governed by it. The "law" is simply an observation.
Saying we need a second moore's law is like saying "We need scientists to come up with a law that says I can shoot lazers out of my eyes!"
You have the whole process backwards... it's a wonder you can wipe your own ass.
//more correct statement...
"Computers need to be designed to run more efficiently such that they consume less power, or energy sources need to be able to store larger amounts of power."
Although it probably won't work for all manufacturing processes, technology like this is a nice step forward in getting ultra-pure processed materials. Sure, it may be a while, but obviously optics can gain an advantage with this.
Now maybe they can finally make it so my bottled water doesn't taste like plastic.
3 homing pigeons carried 4 GB (gigabytes) for 100 km distance, achieving, what apparently looks as pigeons' world record in data transfer to a given distance. Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27 Mbps...
Wow... how fucking useless.
Not to be a flame, but seriously... what good does that do? Besides the new slew of jokes that can circulate around: "My connection is slower than homing pigeons!!"...or such...
"Wired News has a story about how American companies are outsourcing not because of cheap labor but because of the American school system not being up to snuff. In a report by the AeA, they contend that American schools don't teach enough math and science anymore."
No kidding. If you only knew how stupid some of the people are that are going through the motions, getting their degree. The sad part is some of my professors slack off so they can pass... Only one held everybody to a high standard.
Going through college, I often wonder how some of the people that are graduating can actually find jobs and be productive. If I were to interview them for a engineering or IT job, I'd just laugh at them (especially the people coming from ITT Tech... no flaming intended).
you have to start worrying about bus latency, page faults, and the speed of everything else in your computer.
Hell yea you have to worry about the page faults! One little spurt of those and its BSOD all the way to... uhh... wherever the uhh... BSOD... leads..... you...
Of all the posts here, will anyone have anything insightful to say other than "Blah blah [Apple, AMD, Sun, Cyrix???] will always be better blah blah blah because blah blah does more work per cycle"?
Anyway, I'll bite.
What people miss here is that it doesn't matter if you do less work more quickly or more work slowly... as long as you rate of work is the same.
Sure there are situations where each one will show signs of being better, but on the average it still doesn't matter. What really matters is 1) Power consumption (...heat) and 2) running the rest of your motherboard at a high clock speed (since the smaller, less complicated chipsets don't fall victim to this efficiency twist... especially RAM).
Frankly, I don't give a damn about the core speed... to me its the FSB that counts (dual, quad pumped, whatever you want to pull together to make the bandwidth bigger... just do it).
Now, as for actually commenting on the article...
I don't like this idea at all. This throws away a common ground for comparison. Since AMD was basing their model numbers to compare to the Pentium speeds, you have a good comparison in performance. But, now that Intel is throwing that away, we'll have XT500's vs. 2430+'s (or whatever they come up with) and you will have no idea how to compare them without digging through pages of benchmarks.
The common measurment will be lost... and consumers will be more in the dark then they ever were..
This article only gives another explanation to what has been going on in Yellowstone. Most of the answers given by the scientist being interviewed are inconclusive. Most of the time he just says that certian changes have not been "oberved". This, coupled by the fact that they have stopped monitoring many elements of Yellowstone, only gives way to more speculation.
Frankly, this could get those tin-foil wearing geeks stirring even more.
I haven't used Ghost, but I think I know what's going on...
It's probably some little trick the program is doing like SUBST (look it up for DOS). All you need to do it make an empty folder, go to your command line and type in "SUBST [NEW DRIVE LETTER] [FOLDER PATH]"
And WHAM! You doubled the capacity of your hard drive! Go ahead and look at the size of the new "partition"!
On a more serious note, I believe the article is bull hucky. How could you think otherwise if the article is coming from the Inquirer?
I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence.
Who do you hang around with that give out compliments so easily? If you associated with people of the same intelligence, you wouldn't have that "problem."
I always feel like I should know so much more, though. Do you, the Slashdot readers, know of any ways to improve ones brain power?
Yes - Look up the definition of "knowledge" and "intelligence." Compare... then contrast.
Perhaps books, Web sites, etc., that provide questions that involve ways to increase memory, creativity, mental agility, logic reasoning, intelligence, etc.
Increased memory comes from understanding, creativity is neither learned nor taught, mental agility stems from your creativity, logical reasoning comes from meditation, and intelligence encapsulates all above.
Neither books nor websites can increase any of the above qualities... they increase from self improvement.
Are there any diets/exercises that really help?
Normal physical exercise as well as art stimulates the brain. Be active, be creative, and just put your body to use. But seriously, stop hanging out with the dullards who praise your "brain power."
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Not only would it be cheaper (and safer to humans) to run an incenerator on a huge rock with no atmosphere...
but it would be even CHEAPER to just throw it in the huge incinerator at the center of our solar system!
where you suppose the litter is better off, here on earth where people LIVE or there on moon where nobody lives
Yes... those are the only two options in the entire universe... either we put our crap on the moon, or bury it under ground.
Hey, we got a huge giant furnace at the center of our solar system... think that could incinerate some trash for us?
You missed the point of my argument, anyway...
Let's just start polluting the moon! Let's litter its surface with tons of our crap for a nominal fee! Maybe someday our grandchildren will enjoy a nice, multi-color moon to lighten the night sky...
Does anyone else here thing this is horrible?
Don't want to flame, but the article does seem like a bunch of "pseudo-intellectual" (forgive me for using that phrase) 14 year olds sitting around, playing chess and thinking their minds are advanced. Half way through the article I thought they would break out matrix-like statements saying "there is no pawn."
Seriously, it just sounds like a half-assed book on Hume or such that somehow had pages of "Chess for Dummies" inserted randomly.
"...and the rivers will turn to blood, the sky shall become black as night, and your PDA's will burst into flames during conference meetings in Sicily..."
Oh yea... believe it...
Self-moderation: -1 Flaimbait, Offtopic, True.
...you don't make a law and suddenly the world is governed by it. The "law" is simply an observation.
//more correct statement...
Saying we need a second moore's law is like saying "We need scientists to come up with a law that says I can shoot lazers out of my eyes!"
You have the whole process backwards... it's a wonder you can wipe your own ass.
"Computers need to be designed to run more efficiently such that they consume less power, or energy sources need to be able to store larger amounts of power."
We don't need a bloody law... we need a solution.
Every added hour of watching TV increased a child's odds of having attention problems by about 10%.
I feel sorry for the kids who watch 13 hours worth... they're definately screwed.
Behold! 700 million dollars an 40+ years worth of precise engineering is ripped apart on slashdot!
I seriously don't think an arm-chair physicist can take this project down. Whatever you think of, they've already thought of it.
Although it probably won't work for all manufacturing processes, technology like this is a nice step forward in getting ultra-pure processed materials. Sure, it may be a while, but obviously optics can gain an advantage with this.
Now maybe they can finally make it so my bottled water doesn't taste like plastic.
...oh those should be fun with this on... Just try not to look down that much.
... there's no way he'll get is ass kicked in school.
Seriously, are you retarded?
3 homing pigeons carried 4 GB (gigabytes) for 100 km distance, achieving, what apparently looks as pigeons' world record in data transfer to a given distance. Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27 Mbps...
...or such...
Wow... how fucking useless.
Not to be a flame, but seriously... what good does that do? Besides the new slew of jokes that can circulate around: "My connection is slower than homing pigeons!!"
"halitosis"
"Wired News has a story about how American companies are outsourcing not because of cheap labor but because of the American school system not being up to snuff. In a report by the AeA, they contend that American schools don't teach enough math and science anymore."
No kidding. If you only knew how stupid some of the people are that are going through the motions, getting their degree. The sad part is some of my professors slack off so they can pass... Only one held everybody to a high standard.
Going through college, I often wonder how some of the people that are graduating can actually find jobs and be productive. If I were to interview them for a engineering or IT job, I'd just laugh at them (especially the people coming from ITT Tech... no flaming intended).
...glad to be an EE.
This is going heads on with Yahoo, as it put its SmartView content on its maps.
Yahoo uses Google for it's searches... so I would imagine this is no different.
Isn't it comforting to finally get a taste of the brain power at work in our government?
And these are the people who are making the decisions for us...
you have to start worrying about bus latency, page faults, and the speed of everything else in your computer.
Hell yea you have to worry about the page faults! One little spurt of those and its BSOD all the way to... uhh... wherever the uhh... BSOD... leads..... you...
Of all the posts here, will anyone have anything insightful to say other than "Blah blah [Apple, AMD, Sun, Cyrix???] will always be better blah blah blah because blah blah does more work per cycle"?
Anyway, I'll bite.
What people miss here is that it doesn't matter if you do less work more quickly or more work slowly... as long as you rate of work is the same.
Sure there are situations where each one will show signs of being better, but on the average it still doesn't matter. What really matters is 1) Power consumption (...heat) and 2) running the rest of your motherboard at a high clock speed (since the smaller, less complicated chipsets don't fall victim to this efficiency twist... especially RAM).
Frankly, I don't give a damn about the core speed... to me its the FSB that counts (dual, quad pumped, whatever you want to pull together to make the bandwidth bigger... just do it).
Now, as for actually commenting on the article...
I don't like this idea at all. This throws away a common ground for comparison. Since AMD was basing their model numbers to compare to the Pentium speeds, you have a good comparison in performance. But, now that Intel is throwing that away, we'll have XT500's vs. 2430+'s (or whatever they come up with) and you will have no idea how to compare them without digging through pages of benchmarks.
The common measurment will be lost... and consumers will be more in the dark then they ever were..
This article only gives another explanation to what has been going on in Yellowstone. Most of the answers given by the scientist being interviewed are inconclusive. Most of the time he just says that certian changes have not been "oberved". This, coupled by the fact that they have stopped monitoring many elements of Yellowstone, only gives way to more speculation.
Frankly, this could get those tin-foil wearing geeks stirring even more.
I haven't used Ghost, but I think I know what's going on...
It's probably some little trick the program is doing like SUBST (look it up for DOS). All you need to do it make an empty folder, go to your command line and type in "SUBST [NEW DRIVE LETTER] [FOLDER PATH]"
And WHAM! You doubled the capacity of your hard drive! Go ahead and look at the size of the new "partition"!
On a more serious note, I believe the article is bull hucky. How could you think otherwise if the article is coming from the Inquirer?
I always feel like I should know so much more, though. Do you, the Slashdot readers, know of any ways to improve ones brain power?
Perhaps books, Web sites, etc., that provide questions that involve ways to increase memory, creativity, mental agility, logic reasoning, intelligence, etc.
Are there any diets/exercises that really help?
Philosophy.
For to examine one's own thoughts is to tap into the essence of the mind.
...is it even legal to do that when the court hasn't even made a decision yet?
It provides insight into a culture that not many people fully understand, or get to see.
Or respect.