We specifically don't have $500 bills anymore. The Treasury stopped circulating them in 1969. They were not all destroyed and are still legal tender, but at this point they're worth more than face value to collectors.
They are so rare and would come under such scrutiny, that counterfeiting $500 bills would be silly.
What I'M waiting for is the Athlon XP 2800+, which will probably be the first AMD chip to run at 2200 MHz.
Re:No pay requirement for Media Player
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What Free Cable?
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Yeah, and people who rent don't pay any property taxes, either.
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The White Stripes (yeah, they've got a video, but they rock harder than anything since Zepplin)
<sarcasm>Which is *really* surprising, because the rule is if a group has a video, they suck.</sarcasm>
The fact that you're apologizing for a group having a video is a pretty clear indication that you might not like mainstream music precisely because it is mainstream. Yes, quite a lot of mainstream music sucks. But quite a lot of indie music sucks, too. There's also good music both on and off major labels. We should judge music by what it sounds like, not where it comes from.
It's the same phenomenon that makes some long-time fans of a band get pissed off when the band makes it big. I've never understood it. If White Stripes makes it big, next year we'll be reading a post on Slashdot from another user complaining that the radio only plays mainstream crap like White Stripes and never plays any of his favorite bands.
That's a possibility I hadn't considered. I feel like defending myself, though: the advice on bottom-inlet fans comes straight from AMD's Builder's Guide:
With the vertical case, a power supply with ATX-style bottom air intake vents maintains a better thermal environment than a power supply with only a front air intake vent.
Another note on power supplies
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One thing this article seems not to mention (unless I missed it) is that you want a power supply with an intake fan on the bottom, not the front. This does a lot to draw heat away from the processor. I actually had an Athlon-based system that was locking up regularly until I switched to a new case and power supply.
The Antek KS388 is cheap, easy to work with, and comes with the "right kind" of power supply. It's the best case I've ever worked with (though to be fair, I've never bought a top-of-the-line case.)
Remember all the hell when the world moved from 16 bit to 32 bit? All sorts of lazy code was broken. And here we go again. This isn't a Linux thing or a Windows thing; it's just the basic nature of human beings.
The good news is, once we move to a 64-bit processor, that's it. We'll correct the code one more time and that's the end of it, since 64 bit ints are sufficient for any imaginable program.
Proclaiming that HAL will never exist? This guy Ben Shneiderman is asking for it.
One day, he's going to be taking an elevator somewhere, and it'll get stuck. He'll go for the alarm button, but all he'll hear is a voice saying "I'm sorry, Ben, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
And that will be the end of his crazy visual scheme.
The/. trolls will have a field day. We've actually hit a point in technology where you could make a Beowulf cluster in the shape of a full-sized replica of Natalie Portman.
Not according to the Premium servie FAQ on their site:
WILL THE MONEY I PAY FOR THIS GO TO THE CARTOONISTS? I WANT TO SUPPORT THEM!
OF COURSE! Just like the ad banners that run on each Keenspot page, profits from the Keenspot PREMIUM service will be split with the Keenspot cartoonists. By being a member of the PREMIUM service, you'll be putting much more money into a cartoonist's pocket than the ad banners are doing in the currently weak ad market (even if you click on them constantly!). For pennies a day, not only can you read great comics with no ads and get lots of cool extras, but you can help to support the cartoonists who's work you enjoy so much.
What I look for in my games nowdays is the element of outside interference - items not in the control of either player (or any player, in the case of MP games). That's where the real creativity and brilliance comes in - the capability and flexibility to cope with situations which could not be reasonably forseen (though adept planning will make coping much easier).
Hey! Isn't that how we pick our elected officials?
Too bad the (presumably mostly young male) Slashdot crowd is too busy doing helpful things like preaching to the converted about the cluelessness of these representatives or counterstuffing completely meaningless online polls. Otherwise, maybe you'd actually see young folks voting.
Wait a second. You're pointing to the fact that this guy was not allowed to run a fileserver on his ISP. That doesn't bother me, but it is a reasonable thing to complain about. So no argument from me there.
But how does this make always-on broadband any worse than dialup? You say yourself that you're not allowed to run keep-alive scripts. Sounds to me like you wouldn't be allowed to run the fileserver that he was running, either.
Absolutely! I have to pop in here, because I did exactly the same thing myself after I graduated.
I was in a hurry to graduate, so I was taking 18, 19, 20 hour semesters and ended up out of school a semester early and entirely burnt out on CS altogether.
I spent six months crashing at some brand new friend's house and generally bumming around the punk scene. That might not be what's fun for you, but you know what is. The "take a break" suggestion worked well for me.
The PS2's biggest weakness was its simply terrible slate of release titles. I mean, come on, SSX? Give me a break.
But the good news is that some great games are either out or on the horizon, including Gran Turismo 3, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Final Fantasy X. Not to mention Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, which will sell millions.
Slashdot Mirror
We specifically don't have $500 bills anymore. The Treasury stopped circulating them in 1969. They were not all destroyed and are still legal tender, but at this point they're worth more than face value to collectors.
They are so rare and would come under such scrutiny, that counterfeiting $500 bills would be silly.
But then, wouldn't they just relabel their music section so that "CD" doesn't appear anywhere?
Doesn't seem like it would accomplish much.
What I'M waiting for is the Athlon XP 2800+, which will probably be the first AMD chip to run at 2200 MHz.
Yeah, and people who rent don't pay any property taxes, either.
The White Stripes (yeah, they've got a video, but they rock harder than anything since Zepplin)
<sarcasm>Which is *really* surprising, because the rule is if a group has a video, they suck.</sarcasm>
The fact that you're apologizing for a group having a video is a pretty clear indication that you might not like mainstream music precisely because it is mainstream. Yes, quite a lot of mainstream music sucks. But quite a lot of indie music sucks, too. There's also good music both on and off major labels. We should judge music by what it sounds like, not where it comes from.
It's the same phenomenon that makes some long-time fans of a band get pissed off when the band makes it big. I've never understood it. If White Stripes makes it big, next year we'll be reading a post on Slashdot from another user complaining that the radio only plays mainstream crap like White Stripes and never plays any of his favorite bands.
How in the world did an obvious Beowulf cluster joke get modded to +5? ;-)
That's a possibility I hadn't considered. I feel like defending myself, though: the advice on bottom-inlet fans comes straight from AMD's Builder's Guide:
With the vertical case, a power supply with ATX-style bottom air intake vents maintains
a better thermal environment than a power supply with only a front air intake vent.
One thing this article seems not to mention (unless I missed it) is that you want a power supply with an intake fan on the bottom, not the front. This does a lot to draw heat away from the processor. I actually had an Athlon-based system that was locking up regularly until I switched to a new case and power supply.
The Antek KS388 is cheap, easy to work with, and comes with the "right kind" of power supply. It's the best case I've ever worked with (though to be fair, I've never bought a top-of-the-line case.)
Remember all the hell when the world moved from 16 bit to 32 bit? All sorts of lazy code was broken. And here we go again. This isn't a Linux thing or a Windows thing; it's just the basic nature of human beings.
The good news is, once we move to a 64-bit processor, that's it. We'll correct the code one more time and that's the end of it, since 64 bit ints are sufficient for any imaginable program.
Proclaiming that HAL will never exist? This guy Ben Shneiderman is asking for it.
One day, he's going to be taking an elevator somewhere, and it'll get stuck. He'll go for the alarm button, but all he'll hear is a voice saying "I'm sorry, Ben, I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
And that will be the end of his crazy visual scheme.
Regardless, to the best of my knowledge there are no working quantum computers.
How quickly we forget.
If I had one of these new high speed cable modems, I would have made it.
"1st person Cockroach" sounds quite a bit like Dance Dance Revolution.
The /. trolls will have a field day. We've actually hit a point in technology where you could make a Beowulf cluster in the shape of a full-sized replica of Natalie Portman.
What I look for in my games nowdays is the element of outside interference - items not in the control of either player (or any player, in the case of MP games). That's where the real creativity and brilliance comes in - the capability and flexibility to cope with situations which could not be reasonably forseen (though adept planning will make coping much easier).
Backgammon.
Hey! Isn't that how we pick our elected officials?
Too bad the (presumably mostly young male) Slashdot crowd is too busy doing helpful things like preaching to the converted about the cluelessness of these representatives or counterstuffing completely meaningless online polls. Otherwise, maybe you'd actually see young folks voting.
That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!
It's got to be constant.
I type
286000 -> c
in my TI-85, and it balks.
I was going to make the comment (like everyone else) that they shouldn't publish this. Except I can't -- I'm going to be one of the first to read it!
Future conversation about your new system:
"So does 'slashdot.newdomain' point to the same place as 'slashdot.org', or the same place as 'goatse.cx'?"
"That depends on the context."
Wait a second. You're pointing to the fact that this guy was not allowed to run a fileserver on his ISP. That doesn't bother me, but it is a reasonable thing to complain about. So no argument from me there.
But how does this make always-on broadband any worse than dialup? You say yourself that you're not allowed to run keep-alive scripts. Sounds to me like you wouldn't be allowed to run the fileserver that he was running, either.
Absolutely! I have to pop in here, because I did exactly the same thing myself after I graduated.
I was in a hurry to graduate, so I was taking 18, 19, 20 hour semesters and ended up out of school a semester early and entirely burnt out on CS altogether.
I spent six months crashing at some brand new friend's house and generally bumming around the punk scene. That might not be what's fun for you, but you know what is. The "take a break" suggestion worked well for me.
Heh, put that in your sound player on a loop. You'll instantly be reminded of the Simpsons episode.
The PS2's biggest weakness was its simply terrible slate of release titles. I mean, come on, SSX? Give me a break.
But the good news is that some great games are either out or on the horizon, including Gran Turismo 3, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Final Fantasy X. Not to mention Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, which will sell millions.