As an IT director, I buy Dell and Gateway because of component compatability testing. I know, out of the box, that everything will work together properly.
HA!!!.... <obligatory stewie> imbicile....</obligatory stewie> 2 words: Lattitude D600. The USB ports on that thing are a fucking abomination, we're having a massively hard time trying to get the fucking laptops to work with smartcard readers, the usb ports get confused (let's not even get into the abortion that is the port replicator on the cradle) and the system ends up dropping the drivers.
Sorry about the imbicile thing, but you really ought to check your facts before you try and shoot someone down... I'd bet that the grandparents home built pcs get tested better than Dells..... mind you we bought a few thousand of those fscking things and I doubt he could keep with that kind of volume... so we're stuck anyway, but the validity of his claim is unchanged. Your standpoint is valid for businesses (but ONLY because of volume... not because of better QA/testing), but home users should give Dell/Gateway a miss.
yes... but it's kind of a short form; e is a constant and x can be assumed to be a variable, unless you're a fan of writing math that doesn't follow convention (just to try and confuse people) so you can assume that you're integrating over x... the dx is implied. Go to citeseer and find a math paper... any math paper... odds are you'll see a whole whack of "shorthand" like this. The most common seems to be sigmas with no range.
Actually, the excess Pu is already very useful in Candu reactors. These reactors can burn weapons grade Pu into lighter isotopes useless for weapons production, while at the same time providing electricity for a whole region
umm... no... There's a reason why it's called a breeder reactor; read here just to the right of the bottom right hand corner of the picture of the neutron hitting the U235 Nucleus about how "difficult" it is to change a burner reactor into a breeder reactor... basically all you do is add "common" U238
remember over 75% of computer users DO NOT WANT to learn
Then fuck em....
most conversations I have with people who are sick of windows go something like this:
Them: fuck, I got another virus, how come your pc never gets nailed with this shit? Me: I don't run windows, I run linux Them: I've heard about that, can I swing by and see it in action sometime? Me: Sure
... they see it working
Them: That looks nice, can you install it for me? Me: Here's a copy of <insert favorite linux distro book here> and a copy of the distribution. Knock yourself out, if you've got any problems after reading this, then let me know Them: But... I don't want to read all this just to get my computer working!! Me: Then stick with windows, HAND.
Honestly, there's enough variations on the Linux for dummies that walk you through every fucking step you could ever need to take in setting up and running any distro of linux. For those people who take the few days to at least skim through the book, I'll bend over backwards to help them get the damned distro working (slowly so that they know what's going on and can do it themselves.) For those that can't be arsed to pick up and read a damned manual, they shouldn't be switching over yet anyway. Linux is great, and once configured properly, is better than any version of Windows I've ever played with, but autoconfiguration just isn't there yet.
In short, back to the old argument, linux is ready for the desktop... but only if the people using it can take a few minutes out of their busy days to read a few pages about how the fucking thing works... I never thought that this was asking too much, but apparently it is.
For those who haven't read it (and you should anyway) - Basically his theory is that there was an advanced civilization that predated the Egyptians and taught them (as well as some of the other ancient races) much of what they know. Now, if you take, say, the last 4000 years of "western" civilization, we went from basically being barbarians, to being advanced enough to turn ourselves back to barbarians with naught more than an accidental push of a button (read: nuke), is there anywhere in the pre-Egyptian time period where we, as a species, could have been more advanced? is there a 4000 yr gap anywhere in ancient history where such a theory could fit?
We know about as much as we are going to about the ancient Egyptian Culture.
Read this and tell me if you change your mind. You may not like his answers, but that's not the point. The questions he asks are the real brain-teasers.
They aren't talking about sequels. They're talking about building a (hopefully) robust game engine, which, will allow them to build a game on top of. The game engine has little to do with the content of the game. If it's a flexible engine, which most are, the "sequel" that you talk of would only be related to the original in that they'd be of the same genre, ie. FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc...
Things have changed a bit since we were kids, you know, the whole Intarweb thing? Watch the movie thirteen, and go talk to some junior high kids. Kids are finding out about sex from their peers, and media, at earlier and earlier ages. Where once a girl was a slut for even kissing more than one guy in the space of a few weeks, now she's a tease if she doesn't suck a dick on the second date....times change, try to keep up.
And no, I wasn't implying a correlation between those two books and teen pregnancy, simply the underlying fear of talking about sex with your kids that leads to trying to shelter them from ever learning about it until they're "old enough."
By all means keep sheltering them, it's your right to raise your children however you see fit. Simply put though, for those that shelter their kids as much as possible, don't be surprised if that over-sheltering comes back to haunt.
I don't think it's appropriate for a little kid to have to read a book focusing on anyone's sexuality. PERIOD. Christ, at least wait until they're in double digits
Yes!!! Exactly what I was thinking!! We should wait until they're 12 at least before even talking about sex!
You do of course realize that this vein of thought is what will land you as the proud parent of a 12 year old single mom eh?
I've always thought that the main problem with this sort of thing would be the immense electrical charge difference in the various levels of the atmosphere
Hrm... yes... very large potential difference across a conductor, sounds like a possible method of power(assist)ing this thing? IANAP though, I'm sure one can point out why this wouldn't work.
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spoken like someone who has actually watched it.... Thankfully I told my girlfriend I had work to do and she saw it alone... or with her secret lover... either way I considered myself to have dodged the bullet.
course that was all before the post somewhere in here (sorry... can't find it... too drunk) about the Defcon presentation from (I guess?) one of their ex-employees stating that they're basically falling apart. So I maintain what I said but, yeah, you're right, I wouldn't store so much as a photo album with them... let alone a "special" photo album:)
Theres no protection at all, everything you do is public, and the best part:
If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.
Actually there's a lot of protection. You read part of the site, but not all of it, and you failed to understand exactly what they're saying. Their AUP amounts to the following: "You can't store child porn on our servers, and you can't use our servers and network to send spam." .....And that's it. In other words, if I use my super deductive powers and grade sub-par grasp of the english language I can reduce their policy to: We give your data to no one... we even encrypt it all so we can't see it. But we monitor your usage, and if you're serving child porn or sending spam, we'll fuck you as hard as we're able.
... the most beautiful logic trap I have EVER seen in my life. SCO can only win the counterclaim by validating the GPL... which destroys their rights to even file their original suit.
If they lose the counterclaim, however, they are in violation of IBM copyrights and are basically fucked... heheheh... it's absolutely delicious;-)
At best, the grandparent is Interesting (as it is a valid alternate view.) At worst it's a troll or flamebait. Either way the post (were it not modded below most ppls thresholds) would spark conversation... something moderators are supposed to PROMOTE!!... had I any mod points I would mod him up....
Van Allen comments that 'the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure.'
Good enough for me.
Same here. He also attributed this belief to the incredible price (financial as opposed to the lives lost in space accidents).
Of course, last I checked, that's where this comes into play.... which pretty much invalidates his entire argument... As well, achieving something like this would put a few more nails in the coffin housing this guys argument.
In short, he's right... for now, but if these things come to pass he'll be as full of shit as this guy was when he said this (beware pop-ups if you aren't using Firefox)
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As an IT director, I buy Dell and Gateway because of component compatability testing. I know, out of the box, that everything will work together properly.
HA!!!.... <obligatory stewie> imbicile....</obligatory stewie> 2 words: Lattitude D600. The USB ports on that thing are a fucking abomination, we're having a massively hard time trying to get the fucking laptops to work with smartcard readers, the usb ports get confused (let's not even get into the abortion that is the port replicator on the cradle) and the system ends up dropping the drivers.
Sorry about the imbicile thing, but you really ought to check your facts before you try and shoot someone down... I'd bet that the grandparents home built pcs get tested better than Dells..... mind you we bought a few thousand of those fscking things and I doubt he could keep with that kind of volume... so we're stuck anyway, but the validity of his claim is unchanged. Your standpoint is valid for businesses (but ONLY because of volume... not because of better QA/testing), but home users should give Dell/Gateway a miss.
just my Cdn$0.02
ermm... actually it's DeMarse.... which kind of sounds like dumb-arse if you say it quickly... so maybe it's an apt title ;)
try this out.
yes... but it's kind of a short form; e is a constant and x can be assumed to be a variable, unless you're a fan of writing math that doesn't follow convention (just to try and confuse people) so you can assume that you're integrating over x... the dx is implied. Go to citeseer and find a math paper... any math paper... odds are you'll see a whole whack of "shorthand" like this. The most common seems to be sigmas with no range.
Actually, the excess Pu is already very useful in Candu reactors. These reactors can burn weapons grade Pu into lighter isotopes useless for weapons production, while at the same time providing electricity for a whole region
umm... no... There's a reason why it's called a breeder reactor; read here just to the right of the bottom right hand corner of the picture of the neutron hitting the U235 Nucleus about how "difficult" it is to change a burner reactor into a breeder reactor... basically all you do is add "common" U238
remember over 75% of computer users DO NOT WANT to learn
Then fuck em....
most conversations I have with people who are sick of windows go something like this:
Them: fuck, I got another virus, how come your pc never gets nailed with this shit?
Me: I don't run windows, I run linux
Them: I've heard about that, can I swing by and see it in action sometime?
Me: Sure
... they see it working
Them: That looks nice, can you install it for me?
Me: Here's a copy of <insert favorite linux distro book here> and a copy of the distribution. Knock yourself out, if you've got any problems after reading this, then let me know
Them: But... I don't want to read all this just to get my computer working!!
Me: Then stick with windows, HAND.
Honestly, there's enough variations on the Linux for dummies that walk you through every fucking step you could ever need to take in setting up and running any distro of linux. For those people who take the few days to at least skim through the book, I'll bend over backwards to help them get the damned distro working (slowly so that they know what's going on and can do it themselves.) For those that can't be arsed to pick up and read a damned manual, they shouldn't be switching over yet anyway. Linux is great, and once configured properly, is better than any version of Windows I've ever played with, but autoconfiguration just isn't there yet.
In short, back to the old argument, linux is ready for the desktop... but only if the people using it can take a few minutes out of their busy days to read a few pages about how the fucking thing works... I never thought that this was asking too much, but apparently it is.
For those who haven't read it (and you should anyway) - Basically his theory is that there was an advanced civilization that predated the Egyptians and taught them (as well as some of the other ancient races) much of what they know. Now, if you take, say, the last 4000 years of "western" civilization, we went from basically being barbarians, to being advanced enough to turn ourselves back to barbarians with naught more than an accidental push of a button (read: nuke), is there anywhere in the pre-Egyptian time period where we, as a species, could have been more advanced? is there a 4000 yr gap anywhere in ancient history where such a theory could fit?
We know about as much as we are going to about the ancient Egyptian Culture.
Read this and tell me if you change your mind. You may not like his answers, but that's not the point. The questions he asks are the real brain-teasers.
They aren't talking about sequels. They're talking about building a (hopefully) robust game engine, which, will allow them to build a game on top of. The game engine has little to do with the content of the game. If it's a flexible engine, which most are, the "sequel" that you talk of would only be related to the original in that they'd be of the same genre, ie. FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc...
Things have changed a bit since we were kids, you know, the whole Intarweb thing? Watch the movie thirteen, and go talk to some junior high kids. Kids are finding out about sex from their peers, and media, at earlier and earlier ages. Where once a girl was a slut for even kissing more than one guy in the space of a few weeks, now she's a tease if she doesn't suck a dick on the second date....times change, try to keep up.
And no, I wasn't implying a correlation between those two books and teen pregnancy, simply the underlying fear of talking about sex with your kids that leads to trying to shelter them from ever learning about it until they're "old enough."
By all means keep sheltering them, it's your right to raise your children however you see fit. Simply put though, for those that shelter their kids as much as possible, don't be surprised if that over-sheltering comes back to haunt.
I don't think it's appropriate for a little kid to have to read a book focusing on anyone's sexuality. PERIOD. Christ, at least wait until they're in double digits
Yes!!! Exactly what I was thinking!! We should wait until they're 12 at least before even talking about sex!
You do of course realize that this vein of thought is what will land you as the proud parent of a 12 year old single mom eh?
I've always thought that the main problem with this sort of thing would be the immense electrical charge difference in the various levels of the atmosphere
Hrm... yes... very large potential difference across a conductor, sounds like a possible method of power(assist)ing this thing? IANAP though, I'm sure one can point out why this wouldn't work.
spoken like someone who has actually watched it.... Thankfully I told my girlfriend I had work to do and she saw it alone... or with her secret lover... either way I considered myself to have dodged the bullet.
try feeling the top of your monitor..... you can warm poptarts pretty well with most CRTs... trust me, I did it on a course once ;)
course that was all before the post somewhere in here (sorry... can't find it... too drunk) about the Defcon presentation from (I guess?) one of their ex-employees stating that they're basically falling apart. So I maintain what I said but, yeah, you're right, I wouldn't store so much as a photo album with them... let alone a "special" photo album :)
*sigh* like I was saying... sub-par:
Make that sub-par grasp, and not grade sub-par grasp...
Theres no protection at all, everything you do is public, and the best part:
If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.
Actually there's a lot of protection. You read part of the site, but not all of it, and you failed to understand exactly what they're saying. Their AUP amounts to the following: "You can't store child porn on our servers, and you can't use our servers and network to send spam." .. ...And that's it. In other words, if I use my super deductive powers and grade sub-par grasp of the english language I can reduce their policy to: We give your data to no one... we even encrypt it all so we can't see it. But we monitor your usage, and if you're serving child porn or sending spam, we'll fuck you as hard as we're able.
... the most beautiful logic trap I have EVER seen in my life. SCO can only win the counterclaim by validating the GPL... which destroys their rights to even file their original suit.
If they lose the counterclaim, however, they are in violation of IBM copyrights and are basically fucked... heheheh... it's absolutely delicious ;-)
Bravo IBM law team ... heh
At best, the grandparent is Interesting (as it is a valid alternate view.) At worst it's a troll or flamebait. Either way the post (were it not modded below most ppls thresholds) would spark conversation... something moderators are supposed to PROMOTE!!... had I any mod points I would mod him up....
My Camaro will out accelerate you, out corner you, and has a higher top speed than your hybrid.
not fucking likely... though to be fair, they never actually turned this into a production vehicle.... pity... I'd sell my soul
It's called conquering the on-slot of boredom
Sewry, I dunt knormelly dew this, butt I beleeve u mehnt too teype onslut and knot on-slot... trie hewked on fonix eh? freggin looser ;-)
Van Allen comments that 'the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure.'
Good enough for me.
Same here. He also attributed this belief to the incredible price (financial as opposed to the lives lost in space accidents).Of course, last I checked, that's where this comes into play.... which pretty much invalidates his entire argument... As well, achieving something like this would put a few more nails in the coffin housing this guys argument.
In short, he's right... for now, but if these things come to pass he'll be as full of shit as this guy was when he said this (beware pop-ups if you aren't using Firefox)
If you don't know about it, you're not fit to read /. grin..
207082 vs. 719706
... I'm not new to /. but I was doing infantry officer training, and kinda missed some points of /. evolution.... so I ask again, wtf are they?
erm.... what exactly are Slashdot personals?
...I wonder if they'll be able to keep it that high... what with all the 503s they're returning.