The world would be worse without homosexuals. Now I'm prepared to agree that the world would not be better, but it is not obvious that it would be somehow lacking.
It is possible to screen for genetic homosexuality. Most evidence suggests that homosexuality is caused by such a complex set of genes that it would be much harder to identify than a mere genetically inherited disease.
Apple is simply not prepared to provide the customisation needed for anything more than desktops and simple servers. For that matter, I can't even customise things enough to suit my geeky requirements. Either Apple needs to start selling components seperately or give up on markets like clustering.
It may interefere with already allocated bandwidth, but that doesn't mean it won't be used. Whether the FCC likes UWB or not, there's no way to detect it because as you yourself say: it looks just like noise. They can prevent companies from using UWB, but it could be the free wireless networking that cyberpunk fans and anti-corporate protestors have been waiting for.
So when using one of these programs or doing it the old-fashioned way, how do you figure out which work is the original? Or does it all come down to exam marks?
It's weird: as a university student who goes to school a long way from home, New Years is just about the only weekend I don't binge drink. Instead I get to hang out with my parents and younger siblings!:)
>As a PC Gamer, I see the XBox and PS2 for people
>who don't have near top of the line PC hardware.
Frankly, I am someone who is tired of buying top-of-the-line PC hardware. I'd love to be able to buy a CDN$500 console every 5 or 6 years instead of a CDN$300 video card every year. For that matter, I want to be able to run Linux, just Linux, on my primary desktop. No more dual-booting or relegating Linux to an older machine. And I'm tired of games getting bloated to feed Intel (eg: Tribes is more fun than Tribes 2, but the graphics are PS1-era).
So what I need from a console is:
Built-in NIC (single-player games are for people with no friends)
Standard USB controllers and VGA-out (so I can use what I want)
DVD movie capability (there's no good reason to store games on anything else, so why not have it?)
A reasonable selection of multiplayer FPS and RTS games -- if I can play with people on PCs or other consoles, all the better!
Can be carried under one arm (for LAN parties)
Are these requirements really so complex that a console can't satisfy them?
One of the classic arguments in favour of software piracy: students pirate software when they can't afford it, then tell their companies to buy it once they graduate. This should be an even stronger effect in terms of platform bias -- if it isn't, then why does Sun Canada keep giving my university hardware?
I am a poor, starving university student who also enjoys assembling my own computers. When Macs come with reasonable price and flexibility*, I will be first inline to buy the parts. But until then, I will be using PCs until I graduate, and recommending them to my employers afterwards.
* The only distinct hardware in a G4 is:
Chasis
Motherboard
CPU
(Many AGP cards can be flashed to work in Macs, everything else is plug&play.
Look around at personal webpages of the people who run this site (and their friends). Of those who have Bachelors degrees in Computer Science, only nate did well. In fact, it looks like nate was destined for graduate school but threw it all away to play with Everything2. (His resume isn't up anymore, but that's the impression I got back when it was).
These people are Perl hackers first-and-foremost. They have weak C skills to start with and are so into Perl that writing in anything else is uncomfortable. They certainly have no interest in enterprise-level development, or journalism for that matter. Mind you, most of them have a half-hearted side interest in art, but it doesn't go too far.
It's generally agreed that the problem is that attachments are too easy to run. And people who know only run attachments they were expecting. So why not force users to specify when they expect an attachment? Here's how it should work:
If the message has an attachment, the server grabs it and appends a notice to the message.
The user sees this notice, and loads some app, webpage, or e-mail to retrieve their attachment.
The server sends them their attachment with a warning.
The attachment retrieval service will already be account-based, so it will be easy to make it act differently for each account. Then you can put users into categories based on their history: if a user opens a bad attachment they go on probation and have a waiting period for future attachments. If they do it consistently, they're not allowed to get their attachments until an administrator has examined it (at eir leisure).
gIFT is Gnutella plus self-organisation. This idea has been mentioned a few times as a fix for Gnutella's scaling problem, and Consumer Empowerment decided to implement it.
Say I was only interested in this aspect of the book, is it worth getting? The idea sounds facinating, but there's no details in this review! Can anyone tell me more?
You've got to keep in mind what those tax dollars buy you. Education, health, recreation, etc. The list goes on and on. Sure, you don't get to sleep on a big pile of cash, but then you'd need that money just to buy a house in The Valley.
People making $100k/y live pretty good up here, just as they'd live good everywhere outside of Tokyo.:)
Tired of the laws your brain-dead politicians keep creating? Consider Canada! Sure the weather is a little colder than California, but the taxes aren't as high as you've heard. I think you'll find that business is better up here.
Ask yourself: What more does the US government have to do before you'll leave? Guess what? They'll do it!
The problem (as Hideo Kojima says in this interview), is that each of those pores will have to be designed. So as detail increases, so does game development cost.
Games won't be able to keep up with graphics cards until designs scale above the latest hardware. Some kind of fractal / organic method seems the only way to go.
How is one supposed to figure out what things you need on a multitool? I am overwhelmed by the choices! At least Swiss Army just tells me that since I'm a geek I should buy the Cybertool and doesn't make me think too hard.
I completely agree. I'm a long-time Linux user who dabbled in Solaris before getting a job admining a Solaris network.
Now I hate Solaris.
It's weak and stupid compared to Linux. I wouldn't trust any company that isn't planning to switch eventually. But until Linux has every feature Solaris does, you'll be stuck admining the shit.
I'm going into CS graduate school next year and my proposed research area is something close to P2P optimisation. Does anyone know of professors already doing research in P2P?
You think you're kidding, but all the guides to programming for the Game Boy Advance that I've seen use gcc in Cygwin. So here I am, stuck in Linux, unable to cross-compile for the GBA...
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Why is a single-floppy Linux-based router impressive? There are a number of projects producing such a distribution. Unfortunately, very few of them support PPPoE out-of-the-box and so those of us with mean DSL providers have to fiddle. I'd also love to see a single-floppy OpenBSD-based router that should be even more secure...
There have been quite a few kernel releases in the past week or two as well as some high-profile bugs. Is the kernel just going through a natural rough-spot or is something different going on?
They'll all be disappointed unless they made some major plot changes. I hear they were actually trying to make a 2 hour movie with all those useless characters running around. I pray that Jackson went through with his plan to merge Merry and Pipin as well as those two bad guys whose names start with 'S'. And it'd be nice to see some skin on Liv Tyler -- which is at least a remote possibility now that she's the star.
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A lot of us would like to know. But I've asked around, it isn't really a viable option.
You make two assumptions:
Apple is simply not prepared to provide the customisation needed for anything more than desktops and simple servers. For that matter, I can't even customise things enough to suit my geeky requirements. Either Apple needs to start selling components seperately or give up on markets like clustering.
It may interefere with already allocated bandwidth, but that doesn't mean it won't be used. Whether the FCC likes UWB or not, there's no way to detect it because as you yourself say: it looks just like noise. They can prevent companies from using UWB, but it could be the free wireless networking that cyberpunk fans and anti-corporate protestors have been waiting for.
"We own the public airwaves." ~ Ralph Nader
So when using one of these programs or doing it the old-fashioned way, how do you figure out which work is the original? Or does it all come down to exam marks?
It's weird: as a university student who goes to school a long way from home, New Years is just about the only weekend I don't binge drink. Instead I get to hang out with my parents and younger siblings! :)
Frankly, I am someone who is tired of buying top-of-the-line PC hardware. I'd love to be able to buy a CDN$500 console every 5 or 6 years instead of a CDN$300 video card every year. For that matter, I want to be able to run Linux, just Linux, on my primary desktop. No more dual-booting or relegating Linux to an older machine. And I'm tired of games getting bloated to feed Intel (eg: Tribes is more fun than Tribes 2, but the graphics are PS1-era).
So what I need from a console is:
Are these requirements really so complex that a console can't satisfy them?
Keep in mind that Mathematicians use less Windows than even other scientists. I believe there are two reasons for this:
The Math Dept. at my university uses Macs exclusively while almost everyone else uses Wintel machines.
One of the classic arguments in favour of software piracy: students pirate software when they can't afford it, then tell their companies to buy it once they graduate. This should be an even stronger effect in terms of platform bias -- if it isn't, then why does Sun Canada keep giving my university hardware?
I am a poor, starving university student who also enjoys assembling my own computers. When Macs come with reasonable price and flexibility*, I will be first inline to buy the parts. But until then, I will be using PCs until I graduate, and recommending them to my employers afterwards.
* The only distinct hardware in a G4 is:
(Many AGP cards can be flashed to work in Macs, everything else is plug&play.
Look around at personal webpages of the people who run this site (and their friends). Of those who have Bachelors degrees in Computer Science, only nate did well. In fact, it looks like nate was destined for graduate school but threw it all away to play with Everything2. (His resume isn't up anymore, but that's the impression I got back when it was).
These people are Perl hackers first-and-foremost. They have weak C skills to start with and are so into Perl that writing in anything else is uncomfortable. They certainly have no interest in enterprise-level development, or journalism for that matter. Mind you, most of them have a half-hearted side interest in art, but it doesn't go too far.
It's generally agreed that the problem is that attachments are too easy to run. And people who know only run attachments they were expecting. So why not force users to specify when they expect an attachment? Here's how it should work:
The attachment retrieval service will already be account-based, so it will be easy to make it act differently for each account. Then you can put users into categories based on their history: if a user opens a bad attachment they go on probation and have a waiting period for future attachments. If they do it consistently, they're not allowed to get their attachments until an administrator has examined it (at eir leisure).
gIFT is Gnutella plus self-organisation. This idea has been mentioned a few times as a fix for Gnutella's scaling problem, and Consumer Empowerment decided to implement it.
Say I was only interested in this aspect of the book, is it worth getting? The idea sounds facinating, but there's no details in this review! Can anyone tell me more?
You've got to keep in mind what those tax dollars buy you. Education, health, recreation, etc. The list goes on and on. Sure, you don't get to sleep on a big pile of cash, but then you'd need that money just to buy a house in The Valley.
People making $100k/y live pretty good up here, just as they'd live good everywhere outside of Tokyo. :)
Tired of the laws your brain-dead politicians keep creating? Consider Canada! Sure the weather is a little colder than California, but the taxes aren't as high as you've heard. I think you'll find that business is better up here.
Ask yourself: What more does the US government have to do before you'll leave? Guess what? They'll do it!
The problem (as Hideo Kojima says in this interview), is that each of those pores will have to be designed. So as detail increases, so does game development cost.
Games won't be able to keep up with graphics cards until designs scale above the latest hardware. Some kind of fractal / organic method seems the only way to go.
How is one supposed to figure out what things you need on a multitool? I am overwhelmed by the choices! At least Swiss Army just tells me that since I'm a geek I should buy the Cybertool and doesn't make me think too hard.
I completely agree. I'm a long-time Linux user who dabbled in Solaris before getting a job admining a Solaris network.
Now I hate Solaris.
It's weak and stupid compared to Linux. I wouldn't trust any company that isn't planning to switch eventually. But until Linux has every feature Solaris does, you'll be stuck admining the shit.
I'm going into CS graduate school next year and my proposed research area is something close to P2P optimisation. Does anyone know of professors already doing research in P2P?
Which rescue floppies support ReiserFS? This is the primary reason I am avoiding JFSs at this time:
My desktop has lots of beta software and no UPS, therefore Tom's RootBoot is not an unheardof occurance.
You think you're kidding, but all the guides to programming for the Game Boy Advance that I've seen use gcc in Cygwin. So here I am, stuck in Linux, unable to cross-compile for the GBA...
It's both Funny and very, very true!
Why is a single-floppy Linux-based router impressive? There are a number of projects producing such a distribution. Unfortunately, very few of them support PPPoE out-of-the-box and so those of us with mean DSL providers have to fiddle. I'd also love to see a single-floppy OpenBSD-based router that should be even more secure...
There have been quite a few kernel releases in the past week or two as well as some high-profile bugs. Is the kernel just going through a natural rough-spot or is something different going on?
They'll all be disappointed unless they made some major plot changes. I hear they were actually trying to make a 2 hour movie with all those useless characters running around. I pray that Jackson went through with his plan to merge Merry and Pipin as well as those two bad guys whose names start with 'S'. And it'd be nice to see some skin on Liv Tyler -- which is at least a remote possibility now that she's the star.