i have a Dell 20-something inch flatscreen monitor. I can tell a BIG difference watching DVDs and watching HD trailers / rips. It's not even close. Do you have any facts beyond your opinion to back up your statement?
Did you ever game in DOS? In Windows 3.1? I guess you don't remember fiddling with your config.sys, messing around with the amounts and types of memory--EMS, XMS, conventional, etc? Do you not remember having to manually change screen resolution and color in windows 3.1 depending on the program? Fiddling with soundcard settings and environmental variables to get the IRQ/DMA/etc all nice and working with said game?
Not to mention, you had to install games for ANY of those operating systems--more so since DOS games usually were on floppies that had compressed files spread across multiple disks.
I was going to reply, but then I saw who you are; I got some great usage out of your website a number of years ago. As a fledgling programmer way back, it was very helpful and a great resource--just wanted to say thanks!!
European Union as greedy interfering tendril of the organs? I think that you really don't understand what European Union does and what it has achieved.
i think you actually missed the parent's point! You go on to describe exactly what parent meant! All governments act the same way, and as time goes on they grow, the areas where they interfere grow, and you have greedy interfering tendrils all over the place! I would describe the US government in the exact same way.
I'm not an EUian, so I won't claim firsthand knowledge of the impressions you relay, but from what I've read online--on BBC and other sites, EU-satisfaction is not horribly high, and Euro satisfaction even less so.
I read a very humorous BBC article the other day on this very topic (specifically how many Brits feel the EU is, well, greedy and interfering)--I can't find the link now, but I'll try to dig it up, it was amusing at the very least.
southern cal only gets one team, and North Carolina gets two? (Duke+UNC) (also fwiw, I went to Duke, and i do not by any means think it is a good CS school)
That's kind of weird--just how do these regional rules work?
60 euros? What is that right now, about 80 bucks? So you're saying that a maybe 30-40 buck difference for a (data-wise at least) superior service in the US is horrible? doesn't seem that bad to me.
The CDMA networks in America--notably Sprint+Verizon--that are currently both rolling out next gen EVDO give you SUBSTANTIALLY better speed that your 384 Kb/s. I believe the RevA evdo can give a max of around 3mbps down, 2mbps up.
My parents have gotten rid of their cable modem connection at home, and gone with Verizon data plan. It's not cheap--I think the unlimited data adds $60 a month, but the speeds are about the same as they were getting on cable modem (and more than they need for vnc, rdp, www and email!) and available many places in the US.
It's nice to see some good things come out of the american wireless systems, though there are still areas needing improvement!
ok fine.. how about we ban driving children around in cars then, and car stereos, gps, etc.
Actually, my GPS when you turn it on has an explicit warning that you must agree to that says "DO NOT OPERATE THIS DEVICE WHILE THE VEHICLE IS MOVING."
So it seems the GPS makers are willing to admit that there might be so potential liability there.
oh wait they wont do any of that, theyre just attacking what young people do as usual.. they are hyppocrites, as is anyone who uses a car stereo and turns around to rip on me.
You claim to be like 24 but keep using "my mom says..." statements and "it's old people against the young!"
none of your points can be responded to.. they have no substance behind them.. their logical structure is thus:
you claim to be a good driver you claim to do this activity without a problem you had an accident in your early years like circa 80% of the population (everything else thrown out the window) you dislike the slashdot groupthink opinion of "cellphone + car always = BAD" therefore i declare you a bad driver and an idiot. that is not a substantive point.
Ok, wow, I'm back to my assumption that you didn't ACTUALLY read my post.
you had an accident in your early years like circa 80% of the population (everything else thrown out the window)
I didn't say ANYTHING about your accident--in fact, I said that using "anecdata"/anecdotes doesn't prove a thing. I didn't say ANYTHING about your driving ability. Being distracted or not has nothing to do with ABILITY.
What I ACTUALLY said, and I would love for you to respond to is...
1) ALL things being the same between two drivers, one eating and yapping on cellphone is less able to react to unexepected events than the other. 2) while driving, there is simply no way to predict everything that can (and at times, WILL) go wrong. 3) ergo, distracted drivers are going to cause more problems--completely irrespective of ability--than drivers that focus
Simple point. Response?
You keep using that term "groupthink"... I don't think it means what you think it does...
I replied to one of your later posts that I live in DC--one of the "special" areas--but I don't know why it's special.
I also fail to see how my post lacked any substantive point--possibly you didn't read it? I can only assume that you have no response to the points I presented?
you make the primary focus the road, and keep the phone peripherally focused.. you warn the person who called that youre on the road and may need things repeated... if you see people preparing to act idiotic, or see the beginnings of erratic behavior (there are ALWAYS signs before it happens) then you tell them youll call back.
Woopie for you, and what happens if a tire blows, or a kid runs out in traffic, or a deer comes out of nowhere, or any NUMBER of unforeseeable things. You are going to be less able to deal with that than someone that is properly focused on driving, and doesn't have to deal with putting down a phone, or waiting a second or more to put their hands on the wheel.
its not my fault other people cant do this, and i should not be victimized because they suck at attention management.
yes, the only problem is that your kind of driving can get people killed, and those people are the ultimate victims. You can babble about how much better and smarter you are, and that it's other STUPID people's faults, but EVERYBODY on the road needs to be careful not only of their own actions, but of everyone else's.
Wow, simply...www. "My mom is really important and SHE says I'm right, so waaaaaaaah!!"
That's so ludicrous I am literally laughing right now.
You want to make some other specious arguments? Well, here's some ANECDATA from my life: me: 25, no atfaults. Fiance, no at faults. 17 year old sister, no at faults. Both parents, no at faults. Grandparents: 3/4 no at faults, grandfather had an at fault at age 88 (and no, he should not have been driving). What did we just prove? nothing.
The simple fact of the matter is that no matter how good you think you are, you can't plan for everything. If you take two identical drivers, identical focus, identical reflexes, identical everything, and then give one of them a cellphone and a nice greasy burger, that driver is going to be far less prepared and able to deal with road situations. It's not even a question of skill or anything at this point. You say you can plan ahead--GREAT. So what if a deer runs in front of you, there's a sudden pileup, a kid steps into the road, somebody's tireblows out, a truck doesn't see you, etc etc--there's NO question the one yapping to friends and eating is going to be far less able to deal with anything like that! The mere fact that you don't understand this is very scary, and strikes me as quite common as to how many, many people on the roads are oblivious!
Look, put down the phone and save your burger till you get home. I quite frankly couldn't care less if you got yourself hurt because of your own stupidity, but the problem with drivers that are distracted is that, like alcoholics, they don't just kill themselves, they manage to get other people hurt and killed to, and that is unforgiveable.
Well, radicall idea here, maybe we should make lessions that aren't stupid, taught by smart teachers, that are challenging and worth the time to do. Maybe then students like me wouldn't get a bad attitude about it and do so poorly when we reach college.
I don't think the point of my message really got through, but I really do believe it's one that takes time and age to learn.. I know it was like that for me.
I had some horrible classes with horrible teachers and some amazing classes with amazing teachers that really changed the way I viewed many things. It's one of those things where you get back out what you put into it. If you go into every situation thinking you're smarter and better than everyone and that you're doing everyone a favor by deigning to grace them wth your presence--well, that doesn't really work out so well in later life. Well, EVER, really..
You say there's no point to homework? Well, even if you personally don't find the assignments themselves useful and believe that they are solely for wasting time (which I would sometimes agree with you, but far more often I would i disagree with your statement..) then you miss the point that homework leads to the grade, leads to whatever else. Besides which, there's that thing called discpline, what far too many people lack. Some people get it through having to work from a young age, some get it from sports, and some get it from school. Not a bad thing.
Like I said previously though--I don't know enough to judge if any of this really applies at all to you and your situation.. I'm only going off what I've learned over the years.
Well, you're rather preaching to the choir here on slashdot, i expect... however, i would just say, without knowing ANYTHING about you and your situation in school that you're not as smart as you think you are. Without taking a guess at your age, you're not as wise as you think you are. Finally, you're not as important as you think you are. I don't mean any of those things as an attack rather, they're pretty much true for everyone!
If you can really solve every calculus question in 5 seconds just by looking at it, what are you doing in that class? Back in highschool, a large number of people took math classes beyond calculus at a local college. Something to consider.
Yes, a lot of school is rote drudgery. a lot of LIFE is rote drudgery--you don't always get to do only the things you want to do. You think most people like paying bills, doing taxes, working out finances, etc? If you're lucky, you'll love your work and you'll be happy. Even then, no job is 100% what you want it to be. As a student, school is your job. Trite maybe, but true, imho.. I can't say that analyzing a cartoon song is going to change your life, but i don't think it's quite as useless as you do.
I knew a lot of people in highschool who were extremely intelligent but never applied themselves for reasons similar to what you say--it's stupid, the teachers are dumb, too easy, not worth your time, etc. Guess what, almost everybody thinks that--whether middle of the pack, absolute top of the class, or below average. Now, I'm not saying you are like them, but by and by the ones who couldn't apply themselves in school couldn't apply themselves in college, couldn't apply themselves in jobs, couldn't apply themselves in relationships, etc, and now wonder why they are working a waffle house when they scored whatever highscore on the SAT and have a whatever IQ.
One of the thing that never ceases to amaze me is how--stupid? maybe insular is better--the things I wrote a few years ago seem to me now. I'll just leave that as a final thought:)
Absolutely. I guess "symbolic link" is the more common term, but soft link is hardly rare, and differentiates a link from a hard link. (think ln -s here)
Yes, yes, of course you're technically correct. Look up the word anti-semite though, you would be hard pressed to find a usage EVER that refers to any non-Jewish semites.
Let's see... I'm not looking up these numbers at all, so I could be off.. but..
Jews worldwide: 6 million roughly in Israel 8-10 million ? in the US maybe 1-2 million across europe possibly ? a couple million more spread across former soviet union, south america, middle east, etc
so let's be generous and say 20--max 25--million jews worldwide?
number of anti-semites? well, let's take the populations of egypt, iran, and palestinian territories. that's maybe...160 million? and let's say 20% of people in those countries by our standards are anti-semitic. now take some anti-semites from US, Russia, Europe, etc.... throw in others from across Muslim world. (* note, I'm not claiming Arabs, Muslims, etc are natural anti-semites--but for MANY in middle eastern societies, hating Jews and hating Israel is one and the same)
You know it's interesting, you make it sound as if this is a new problem, and you've discovered a new solution. In reality, this problem is ages old, and your solution has in the past been the problem!
One immediate example I can give is from early colonial US. North Carolina (various permutations of the territory) in the 1600s / early 1700s was an exceptionally poorly run state. The governors made average money. The long and short of it was that raising the governor's salary to something much higher attracted better people to the job, people who wouldn't try to supplement their salaries with bribes etc.
So long and short of it is, lowering salaries isn't necessarily a solution!
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Actually yes, I use my TV (small, standard-def) for watching TV only. DVDs, etc are watched on the computer. I'd guess about 8-10 feet away.
That sounds like horrific BS to me.
i have a Dell 20-something inch flatscreen monitor. I can tell a BIG difference watching DVDs and watching HD trailers / rips. It's not even close. Do you have any facts beyond your opinion to back up your statement?
omfg are you kidding??
Did you ever game in DOS? In Windows 3.1? I guess you don't remember fiddling with your config.sys, messing around with the amounts and types of memory--EMS, XMS, conventional, etc? Do you not remember having to manually change screen resolution and color in windows 3.1 depending on the program? Fiddling with soundcard settings and environmental variables to get the IRQ/DMA/etc all nice and working with said game?
Not to mention, you had to install games for ANY of those operating systems--more so since DOS games usually were on floppies that had compressed files spread across multiple disks.
Geez, talk about rose tinted forgetting glasses!
It must be nice to live in such a black and white world where it's so easy to see what is "evil" and what is not.
But hey, you're either with us or against us, good or evil, right?
I was going to reply, but then I saw who you are; I got some great usage out of your website a number of years ago. As a fledgling programmer way back, it was very helpful and a great resource--just wanted to say thanks!!
European Union as greedy interfering tendril of the organs? I think that you really don't understand what European Union does and what it has achieved.
i think you actually missed the parent's point! You go on to describe exactly what parent meant! All governments act the same way, and as time goes on they grow, the areas where they interfere grow, and you have greedy interfering tendrils all over the place! I would describe the US government in the exact same way.
I'm not an EUian, so I won't claim firsthand knowledge of the impressions you relay, but from what I've read online--on BBC and other sites, EU-satisfaction is not horribly high, and Euro satisfaction even less so.
I read a very humorous BBC article the other day on this very topic (specifically how many Brits feel the EU is, well, greedy and interfering)--I can't find the link now, but I'll try to dig it up, it was amusing at the very least.
southern cal only gets one team, and North Carolina gets two? (Duke+UNC) (also fwiw, I went to Duke, and i do not by any means think it is a good CS school)
That's kind of weird--just how do these regional rules work?
60 euros? What is that right now, about 80 bucks? So you're saying that a maybe 30-40 buck difference for a (data-wise at least) superior service in the US is horrible? doesn't seem that bad to me.
The CDMA networks in America--notably Sprint+Verizon--that are currently both rolling out next gen EVDO give you SUBSTANTIALLY better speed that your 384 Kb/s. I believe the RevA evdo can give a max of around 3mbps down, 2mbps up.
My parents have gotten rid of their cable modem connection at home, and gone with Verizon data plan. It's not cheap--I think the unlimited data adds $60 a month, but the speeds are about the same as they were getting on cable modem (and more than they need for vnc, rdp, www and email!) and available many places in the US.
It's nice to see some good things come out of the american wireless systems, though there are still areas needing improvement!
ok fine.. how about we ban driving children around in cars then, and car stereos, gps, etc.
Actually, my GPS when you turn it on has an explicit warning that you must agree to that says "DO NOT OPERATE THIS DEVICE WHILE THE VEHICLE IS MOVING."
So it seems the GPS makers are willing to admit that there might be so potential liability there.
oh wait they wont do any of that, theyre just attacking what young people do as usual.. they are hyppocrites, as is anyone who uses a car stereo and turns around to rip on me.
You claim to be like 24 but keep using "my mom says..." statements and "it's old people against the young!"
I call shenanigans.
none of your points can be responded to.. they have no substance behind them.. their logical structure is thus:
... I don't think it means what you think it does...
you claim to be a good driver
you claim to do this activity without a problem
you had an accident in your early years like circa 80% of the population (everything else thrown out the window)
you dislike the slashdot groupthink opinion of "cellphone + car always = BAD"
therefore i declare you a bad driver and an idiot.
that is not a substantive point.
Ok, wow, I'm back to my assumption that you didn't ACTUALLY read my post.
you had an accident in your early years like circa 80% of the population (everything else thrown out the window)
I didn't say ANYTHING about your accident--in fact, I said that using "anecdata"/anecdotes doesn't prove a thing.
I didn't say ANYTHING about your driving ability. Being distracted or not has nothing to do with ABILITY.
What I ACTUALLY said, and I would love for you to respond to is...
1) ALL things being the same between two drivers, one eating and yapping on cellphone is less able to react to unexepected events than the other.
2) while driving, there is simply no way to predict everything that can (and at times, WILL) go wrong.
3) ergo, distracted drivers are going to cause more problems--completely irrespective of ability--than drivers that focus
Simple point. Response?
You keep using that term "groupthink"
Dude, it's gotten so bad I need a cigarette. Y'all have fun with this one.
I think we've got a hopeless case here...
On the other hand, it goes a long way to explaining the way a lot of people drive!
I replied to one of your later posts that I live in DC--one of the "special" areas--but I don't know why it's special.
I also fail to see how my post lacked any substantive point--possibly you didn't read it? I can only assume that you have no response to the points I presented?
"Special" in terms of what? I live in DC (well, just outside..but same thing)
Google it. Cellphones are worse than talking to people in the car with you. Even with handsfree.
you make the primary focus the road, and keep the phone peripherally focused.. you warn the person who called that youre on the road and may need things repeated... if you see people preparing to act idiotic, or see the beginnings of erratic behavior (there are ALWAYS signs before it happens) then you tell them youll call back.
Woopie for you, and what happens if a tire blows, or a kid runs out in traffic, or a deer comes out of nowhere, or any NUMBER of unforeseeable things. You are going to be less able to deal with that than someone that is properly focused on driving, and doesn't have to deal with putting down a phone, or waiting a second or more to put their hands on the wheel.
its not my fault other people cant do this, and i should not be victimized because they suck at attention management.
yes, the only problem is that your kind of driving can get people killed, and those people are the ultimate victims. You can babble about how much better and smarter you are, and that it's other STUPID people's faults, but EVERYBODY on the road needs to be careful not only of their own actions, but of everyone else's.
Wow, simply...www. "My mom is really important and SHE says I'm right, so waaaaaaaah!!"
That's so ludicrous I am literally laughing right now.
You want to make some other specious arguments? Well, here's some ANECDATA from my life: me: 25, no atfaults. Fiance, no at faults. 17 year old sister, no at faults. Both parents, no at faults. Grandparents: 3/4 no at faults, grandfather had an at fault at age 88 (and no, he should not have been driving). What did we just prove? nothing.
The simple fact of the matter is that no matter how good you think you are, you can't plan for everything. If you take two identical drivers, identical focus, identical reflexes, identical everything, and then give one of them a cellphone and a nice greasy burger, that driver is going to be far less prepared and able to deal with road situations. It's not even a question of skill or anything at this point. You say you can plan ahead--GREAT. So what if a deer runs in front of you, there's a sudden pileup, a kid steps into the road, somebody's tireblows out, a truck doesn't see you, etc etc--there's NO question the one yapping to friends and eating is going to be far less able to deal with anything like that! The mere fact that you don't understand this is very scary, and strikes me as quite common as to how many, many people on the roads are oblivious!
Look, put down the phone and save your burger till you get home. I quite frankly couldn't care less if you got yourself hurt because of your own stupidity, but the problem with drivers that are distracted is that, like alcoholics, they don't just kill themselves, they manage to get other people hurt and killed to, and that is unforgiveable.
Well, radicall idea here, maybe we should make lessions that aren't stupid, taught by smart teachers, that are challenging and worth the time to do. Maybe then students like me wouldn't get a bad attitude about it and do so poorly when we reach college.
I don't think the point of my message really got through, but I really do believe it's one that takes time and age to learn.. I know it was like that for me.
I had some horrible classes with horrible teachers and some amazing classes with amazing teachers that really changed the way I viewed many things. It's one of those things where you get back out what you put into it. If you go into every situation thinking you're smarter and better than everyone and that you're doing everyone a favor by deigning to grace them wth your presence--well, that doesn't really work out so well in later life. Well, EVER, really..
You say there's no point to homework? Well, even if you personally don't find the assignments themselves useful and believe that they are solely for wasting time (which I would sometimes agree with you, but far more often I would i disagree with your statement..) then you miss the point that homework leads to the grade, leads to whatever else. Besides which, there's that thing called discpline, what far too many people lack. Some people get it through having to work from a young age, some get it from sports, and some get it from school. Not a bad thing.
Like I said previously though--I don't know enough to judge if any of this really applies at all to you and your situation.. I'm only going off what I've learned over the years.
Well, you're rather preaching to the choir here on slashdot, i expect... however, i would just say, without knowing ANYTHING about you and your situation in school that you're not as smart as you think you are. Without taking a guess at your age, you're not as wise as you think you are. Finally, you're not as important as you think you are. I don't mean any of those things as an attack rather, they're pretty much true for everyone!
:)
If you can really solve every calculus question in 5 seconds just by looking at it, what are you doing in that class? Back in highschool, a large number of people took math classes beyond calculus at a local college. Something to consider.
Yes, a lot of school is rote drudgery. a lot of LIFE is rote drudgery--you don't always get to do only the things you want to do. You think most people like paying bills, doing taxes, working out finances, etc? If you're lucky, you'll love your work and you'll be happy. Even then, no job is 100% what you want it to be. As a student, school is your job. Trite maybe, but true, imho.. I can't say that analyzing a cartoon song is going to change your life, but i don't think it's quite as useless as you do.
I knew a lot of people in highschool who were extremely intelligent but never applied themselves for reasons similar to what you say--it's stupid, the teachers are dumb, too easy, not worth your time, etc. Guess what, almost everybody thinks that--whether middle of the pack, absolute top of the class, or below average. Now, I'm not saying you are like them, but by and by the ones who couldn't apply themselves in school couldn't apply themselves in college, couldn't apply themselves in jobs, couldn't apply themselves in relationships, etc, and now wonder why they are working a waffle house when they scored whatever highscore on the SAT and have a whatever IQ.
One of the thing that never ceases to amaze me is how--stupid? maybe insular is better--the things I wrote a few years ago seem to me now. I'll just leave that as a final thought
Absolutely. I guess "symbolic link" is the more common term, but soft link is hardly rare, and differentiates a link from a hard link. (think ln -s here)
From wiki:
Soft Link and Hard Link
Yes, yes, of course you're technically correct. Look up the word anti-semite though, you would be hard pressed to find a usage EVER that refers to any non-Jewish semites.
Let's see... I'm not looking up these numbers at all, so I could be off.. but..
Jews worldwide:
6 million roughly in Israel
8-10 million ? in the US
maybe 1-2 million across europe
possibly ? a couple million more spread across former soviet union, south america, middle east, etc
so let's be generous and say 20--max 25--million jews worldwide?
number of anti-semites? well, let's take the populations of egypt, iran, and palestinian territories. that's maybe...160 million? and let's say 20% of people in those countries by our standards are anti-semitic. now take some anti-semites from US, Russia, Europe, etc.... throw in others from across Muslim world. (* note, I'm not claiming Arabs, Muslims, etc are natural anti-semites--but for MANY in middle eastern societies, hating Jews and hating Israel is one and the same)
Not looking good...
Can anyone explain non-invasive EEG versus (I guess) invasive EEG?
just wanted to say I really enjoyed your comments (and the slapdown) on this thread
You know it's interesting, you make it sound as if this is a new problem, and you've discovered a new solution. In reality, this problem is ages old, and your solution has in the past been the problem!
One immediate example I can give is from early colonial US. North Carolina (various permutations of the territory) in the 1600s / early 1700s was an exceptionally poorly run state. The governors made average money. The long and short of it was that raising the governor's salary to something much higher attracted better people to the job, people who wouldn't try to supplement their salaries with bribes etc.
So long and short of it is, lowering salaries isn't necessarily a solution!
Beyond most _companies_?
..."
Maybe it's just me, but so often people I talk to have trouble dealing with sites that don't start with "www".
As one example, I setup a number of years ago an intranet for a small company, that had a "home.theirdomain.com" internal site.
me: "ok, the server address is home.theirdomain.com"
them *typing*: "ok, www dot home dot
me: "you don't need the www"
them: "????"
I don't get it!