"Perhaps we form political affiliations by semiconsciously detecting commonalities with other people, commonalities that ultimately reflect a shared pattern of brain function."
This just in! People relate with people who are similar to themselves! What shocking news, I never would have guessed that similar ideas and ways of thought would pull people together...
I'll pull another shocker out of the air too, while we're going for blatantly obvious descriptions of human behavior--people tend to congregate with other people of similar intelligence levels.
Yes, I have. Two weeks ago I flew out of a NC airport to Chicago. At the NC airport it took maybe 15 minutes to get through the security gate...maybe 50 people in line in front of me, and it took about 10-15 minutes.
At Midway in Chicago, when I left, I timed it, and I got from the bus terminal at Midway to my gate in 9 minutes--in cluding security check etc.
I'm not saying there aren't problems with security at US airports, but I think the biggest problem is people who get completely upset and throw a fuss and mess up the entire system. If people could read signs, have their stuff ready to be checked, etc, it would go much better.
I was in India for a month in 2001, before 9/11. The security at every airport I was at was much greater than at any post-9/11 American airport I have been too. Luggage went through bomb detection macchines as well as being scanned normally. EVERYONE was patted down prior to boarding the airport, men by men, women by women, and in curtained off areas. Batteries were removed from electronics, and carry on baggage was searched.
It was very quick, very efficient, and I had no complaints. Everyone had the same treatment. I don't see why people get so bent out of shape over security at US airports.
GPUs and CPUs are very different beasts. That's why they're called GPUs and not "smaller CPUs on video cards." The process to design a CPU, especially one that can execute x86 instruction set, is signifigantly more complex than creating a video card math processor.
In fact, if the general trend of computing is followed, integrated video solutions may eventually go on chip. Remember the days of having addon FPU slots on motherboards? Every chip just about has an FPU builtin (maybe not some embedded chips, but certaintly every desktop / server processor). AMD recently has even integrated memory controllers onto CPUs. It's a clear trend to pile more and more into the CPU.
couldnt agree more..got a powerbook as a longtime linux/freebsd/windows user and love it. I still hate mac people more often than not, but i love the pb.
I agree with this. I have a 15" powerbook g4, and can get around 3 hours battery with normal use (including movies, sound, wireless, etc). My PC notebook would be lucky to get 1.5 hours of the same kind of activity (and it weighs more). Only thing I miss about PC over mac is snappiness and speed factor.
Wow, nice attitude. You should try to accept constructive criticism instead of lashing out.
Hey, I'd love some constructive criticism.. What I love less is blanket statements like "Sorry, but that's just poor design." without knowing details of the project, etc.
If you're interested, one such app is an internal order app used to take phone orders. you can use most of it without using the mouse. When a customer calls the order taker clicks "lookup customer".. a popup.. pops up, with 5 search fields--zip code, customer number, name, previous order dates, purchase order numbers. after searching for something here the possible customers are displayed in a list, where the proper one can be clicked, and all available customer info is displayed. At this screen is a "this is the customer" button, which fills in a fraction of all the info to the main order form page (also closes the popup).
There is also a product lookup that works basically the same way . There there is a shipping cost calculator.
Now like I said, if you've got any constructive criticism other than "Sorry, but that's just poor design." I'd love to hear it:-p
I'm not sure I agree with tihs...it obviously varies a lot from job to job, but the way I see it, once you're clocked in, you should be working. Now obviously nobody can work 100% of every second, but if somebody is playing solitaire 50% of the time and still getting work done, he's still WASTING 50% of the time.
I certaintly agree with your comment wrt this case, that the bosses time may not be spent on the computer, and isnt a good measure.
Hah, that you would even make that suggestion shows how little real-world design you have done.
Try making a select box, however you want, that displays results from searching up to 9 different fields, and 80k records. The popup is simply a better method.
I've used javascript to open windows without toolbar, status bar, etc. in an app where I think it is a quite useful feature.
Situation is web interface to a database. Popup windows are used to search database and fill in parts of the main form (product search, customer search, etc).
It saves a lot of screen real estate turning off those unnecessary things--and it's helpful for the user to have both the main form as well as any search windows open at the same time.
Remember the dire population growth warnings from the 60's and 70's? No neither do I because they were just wrong. Population growth has already slowed considerably. Once countries like India develope more, their birthrates will fall as well.
If you had actually read the article (too much to ask, I know..) you would have seen that the author wrote:
All I did with the GameCube is unscrew the case and remove the top housing. The rest of it is fairly well screwed together except for that front plate which is held on by a cable and two little plastic clips. I also removed the back plastic panel, though it's not really necessary. The usual lid has a small arm that comes down and presses against two switches when the lid is closed, if the switches are not pressed down the GameCube will not operate. That was easy to bypass (just tied them down) but this means that the system can run even with the lid open, which is potentially dangerous with a Class II laser inside. Just beware that eye damage can be sustained if operated with the lid open.
110, 104, 220...those were my favorite Comp Sci classes at duke:)
I hope I'm safely anonymous here, but...DAMN YOU WAAAAAAGNER!!!!!!
Possibly worst prof I had at Duke...I skipped all but about 6-7 classes of 110 (I liked the MATERIAL and projects best I guess I should say--the class sucked ass)
NC is the state that sends the most students to Duke (i think it was about 250 my year--about 1/7 of the class). Followed by California, Virginia, Florida, Georgria, Maryland, and Texas.
THEN Pennsylvania. Duke's really quite southern, as it is mandated to be.
vanity name (though I foolishly bought a domain name too:p) and apache, or just sftp/scp files to my acpub webspace, then print from whever--worked for me. ResNet was REALLY bad ~2 years ago (4 years ago it was godly--I transferred some files to friends at UNC and was able to get 8-9 MB/s) but it has improved once some of the upload caps went into effect.
Though I would have rather played around with FreeBSD.
At the end of the course I actually ported a number of the simpler shell programs from FreeBSD (simple things, cat, echo, etc) to our nachos, and wrote a small replacement standard library that implemented a decent number of function, including a decent printf.
I had fun with that, and it earned me all of +3 extra credit points. Great.
Yeah, the windows AFS client is great and all, but it's only been around for a year or two IIRC. Certaintly wasn't an option when I first showed up at duke. And as anyone who still uses SSH compulsively (pine!) will tell you--the AFS system does go down with somewhat alarming frequency (similar to ePrint--btw, have fun paying for that next year! bwaahah).
as for cvs, i used it for a personal project ok, but have heard of others having issues with library versioning issues. Actually I once got a bummed CVS co, and it created some files that couldn't be deleted (yeah, I messed around with the ACLs). Had to get the guys at OIT to dump the whole repository directory and restore from a backup.
The install from the floppies is easy, and probably faster than downloading a CD, burning it, and installing off the CD.
Why do you care so much about a floppy? Make your own CD if you need it so badly but won't pay for it. But honestly I can't think of a situation where the floppy netinstall wouldn't be good enough?
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"Perhaps we form political affiliations by semiconsciously detecting commonalities with other people, commonalities that ultimately reflect a shared pattern of brain function."
This just in! People relate with people who are similar to themselves! What shocking news, I never would have guessed that similar ideas and ways of thought would pull people together...
I'll pull another shocker out of the air too, while we're going for blatantly obvious descriptions of human behavior--people tend to congregate with other people of similar intelligence levels.
Yes, I have. Two weeks ago I flew out of a NC airport to Chicago. At the NC airport it took maybe 15 minutes to get through the security gate...maybe 50 people in line in front of me, and it took about 10-15 minutes.
At Midway in Chicago, when I left, I timed it, and I got from the bus terminal at Midway to my gate in 9 minutes--in cluding security check etc.
I'm not saying there aren't problems with security at US airports, but I think the biggest problem is people who get completely upset and throw a fuss and mess up the entire system. If people could read signs, have their stuff ready to be checked, etc, it would go much better.
I was in India for a month in 2001, before 9/11. The security at every airport I was at was much greater than at any post-9/11 American airport I have been too. Luggage went through bomb detection macchines as well as being scanned normally. EVERYONE was patted down prior to boarding the airport, men by men, women by women, and in curtained off areas. Batteries were removed from electronics, and carry on baggage was searched.
It was very quick, very efficient, and I had no complaints. Everyone had the same treatment. I don't see why people get so bent out of shape over security at US airports.
GPUs and CPUs are very different beasts. That's why they're called GPUs and not "smaller CPUs on video cards." The process to design a CPU, especially one that can execute x86 instruction set, is signifigantly more complex than creating a video card math processor.
In fact, if the general trend of computing is followed, integrated video solutions may eventually go on chip. Remember the days of having addon FPU slots on motherboards? Every chip just about has an FPU builtin (maybe not some embedded chips, but certaintly every desktop / server processor). AMD recently has even integrated memory controllers onto CPUs. It's a clear trend to pile more and more into the CPU.
couldnt agree more..got a powerbook as a longtime linux/freebsd/windows user and love it. I still hate mac people more often than not, but i love the pb.
it does get pretty toasty sometimes!
Wow, an internet explorer joke, how bold.
DEMOCRAT: Dastardly Emotional Midgets, Omitting Clear Reason And Thought.
I agree with this. I have a 15" powerbook g4, and can get around 3 hours battery with normal use (including movies, sound, wireless, etc). My PC notebook would be lucky to get 1.5 hours of the same kind of activity (and it weighs more). Only thing I miss about PC over mac is snappiness and speed factor.
Wow, nice attitude. You should try to accept constructive criticism instead of lashing out.
Hey, I'd love some constructive criticism.. What I love less is blanket statements like "Sorry, but that's just poor design." without knowing details of the project, etc.
If you're interested, one such app is an internal order app used to take phone orders. you can use most of it without using the mouse. When a customer calls the order taker clicks "lookup customer" .. a popup .. pops up, with 5 search fields--zip code, customer number, name, previous order dates, purchase order numbers. after searching for something here the possible customers are displayed in a list, where the proper one can be clicked, and all available customer info is displayed. At this screen is a "this is the customer" button, which fills in a fraction of all the info to the main order form page (also closes the popup).
There is also a product lookup that works basically the same way . There there is a shipping cost calculator.
Now like I said, if you've got any constructive criticism other than "Sorry, but that's just poor design." I'd love to hear it :-p
I'm not sure I agree with tihs...it obviously varies a lot from job to job, but the way I see it, once you're clocked in, you should be working. Now obviously nobody can work 100% of every second, but if somebody is playing solitaire 50% of the time and still getting work done, he's still WASTING 50% of the time.
I certaintly agree with your comment wrt this case, that the bosses time may not be spent on the computer, and isnt a good measure.
Hah, that you would even make that suggestion shows how little real-world design you have done.
Try making a select box, however you want, that displays results from searching up to 9 different fields, and 80k records. The popup is simply a better method.
I've used javascript to open windows without toolbar, status bar, etc. in an app where I think it is a quite useful feature.
Situation is web interface to a database. Popup windows are used to search database and fill in parts of the main form (product search, customer search, etc).
It saves a lot of screen real estate turning off those unnecessary things--and it's helpful for the user to have both the main form as well as any search windows open at the same time.
That's hogwash.
Remember the dire population growth warnings from the 60's and 70's? No neither do I because they were just wrong. Population growth has already slowed considerably. Once countries like India develope more, their birthrates will fall as well.
If you had actually read the article (too much to ask, I know..) you would have seen that the author wrote:
All I did with the GameCube is unscrew the case and remove the top housing. The rest of it is fairly well screwed together except for that front plate which is held on by a cable and two little plastic clips. I also removed the back plastic panel, though it's not really necessary. The usual lid has a small arm that comes down and presses against two switches when the lid is closed, if the switches are not pressed down the GameCube will not operate. That was easy to bypass (just tied them down) but this means that the system can run even with the lid open, which is potentially dangerous with a Class II laser inside. Just beware that eye damage can be sustained if operated with the lid open.
Class II.
No, I mean the new firewall is nice. It adds stuff that you had tp have ZoneAlarm or a similar product to do, previously.
Installed a beta of SP2 maybe 2-3 months ago. Worked like a charm, and the new firewall is nice.
What's the AFS client for OSX? OpenAFS?
I've only used Arla to get my freebsd box on acpub (and even then i didn't really care enough to ever use it)
110, 104, 220...those were my favorite Comp Sci classes at duke :)
I hope I'm safely anonymous here, but...DAMN YOU WAAAAAAGNER!!!!!!
Possibly worst prof I had at Duke...I skipped all but about 6-7 classes of 110 (I liked the MATERIAL and projects best I guess I should say--the class sucked ass)
Hah, funny.
NC is the state that sends the most students to Duke (i think it was about 250 my year--about 1/7 of the class). Followed by California, Virginia, Florida, Georgria, Maryland, and Texas.
THEN Pennsylvania. Duke's really quite southern, as it is mandated to be.
ditto
:p) and apache, or just sftp/scp files to my acpub webspace, then print from whever--worked for me. ResNet was REALLY bad ~2 years ago (4 years ago it was godly--I transferred some files to friends at UNC and was able to get 8-9 MB/s) but it has improved once some of the upload caps went into effect.
vanity name (though I foolishly bought a domain name too
I kinda liked NACHOS :)
Though I would have rather played around with FreeBSD.
At the end of the course I actually ported a number of the simpler shell programs from FreeBSD (simple things, cat, echo, etc) to our nachos, and wrote a small replacement standard library that implemented a decent number of function, including a decent printf.
I had fun with that, and it earned me all of +3 extra credit points. Great.
Tisk, jealous much? :-p
Yeah, the windows AFS client is great and all, but it's only been around for a year or two IIRC. Certaintly wasn't an option when I first showed up at duke. And as anyone who still uses SSH compulsively (pine!) will tell you--the AFS system does go down with somewhat alarming frequency (similar to ePrint--btw, have fun paying for that next year! bwaahah).
as for cvs, i used it for a personal project ok, but have heard of others having issues with library versioning issues. Actually I once got a bummed CVS co, and it created some files that couldn't be deleted (yeah, I messed around with the ACLs). Had to get the guys at OIT to dump the whole repository directory and restore from a backup.
all I know is my ipod is .0023 inches too think, dammit! I won't be styling on campus next year! (because I graduated, but hey!)
Honestly, ipods are pretty common on campus already. And there's not really a frat row either :-p
What the other poster said.
The install from the floppies is easy, and probably faster than downloading a CD, burning it, and installing off the CD.
Why do you care so much about a floppy? Make your own CD if you need it so badly but won't pay for it. But honestly I can't think of a situation where the floppy netinstall wouldn't be good enough?