Re:Why can't we think for ourselves?
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Ready, Steady, Evolve
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I realise that this is going to get modded down, but it frustrates me that so many people who pull this "I'm a Christian therefore I believe in God not evolution" crap are actually simple drones of the right. Think for yourself, will ya?
Does this mean you could get away with playing Medal of Honour: Allied Assault or Return to Castle Wolfenstein and claiming it is for a History assignment? Or The Sims for Social Studies?
That, is why ASM is better then any HLL. I think the best quote I got from one of my Computer Engineering book was (paraphrasing) "Modern compilers with their optimizations are on the road to becoming almost as good as hand writen assembler."
And if you want the ultimate in hand-written optimisation, check out The Story of Mel.
I'd even pay for it like a utility (like water treatment or gas). God knows it'd get rid of silly little disputes over 'stealing' or redistributing bandwidth and cable companies penalizing users for doing what they signed on to do...use lots of bandwidth.
Why do people think because they have an unmetered, always-on broadband connection they must use it flat-out all the time? I have a cable modem here and don't feel the need to be constantly utilising it to the max.
If I can draw an analogy to the broadband ISPs being similar to the water companies. In the UK, most domestic homes pay a flat rate for their water supplies, for this they have the ability to turn on a tap at any time and not worry about the cost. Fetching your e-mail, light web browsing etc would be the equivalent of washing your hands, flushing the toilet or filling the kettle in terms of demand. A large file download, e.g. the latest distro ISOs would be akin to running a bath, washing your car or watering the garden. A spike in demand, but the water companies ensure that the water pressure is sufficient such that other users in the area are not affected. Same as for the ISPs, they can cope with occassional high demands on the system. Now, imagine the situation if everyone decided to wash their car at the same time or all shared the same bath time, or decided to just leave their taps running because they can.
Heavy users of the water supply (domestic and commercial) are metered and charged appropiately for what they use so why should a resource like bandwidth be any different?
I can recall watching a documentary about the newer versions of the original trilogy and the special effects they cleaned up. In the original footage they smeared Vaseline on the lens to blur the undercarriage of the Landspeeder to hide the wheels. They made the hover look more convincing when they did the clean-up a few years ago.
Go to www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html, select a mirror close to you, download the ISO images, burn them to CD-Rs and install to your heart's content.
Why has this been modded up as Interesting? $deity-dammit, my mod points ran out yesterday.
As a UK citizen, I can say that we do not enjoy a significantly lower standard of living than the US. Nor are we taxed to the hilt. A large percentage of UK homes now own at least one PC system. You'd be hard pushed to find an office in the UK still running on Commodores, Sinclairs or Acorns.
...would be a good idea IMHO if this kept Linus away from working on the stable branch.
Look at what happened with 2.4, we had the change to VM, 2.4.11 which needed immediate patching and is tagged as dontuse, 2.4.13 similar problems, 2.4.15-greased-turkey released by Linus for Thanksgiving and a nice syncing problem.
When it comes to deciding what is and is not allowed into the kernels the buck stops with Linus. This is why I think Linus should stick with the development kernels where a major change can have all its kinks worked out in relative safety. The stable branches should be maintained by someone who only has authority to accept and apply bug fixes.
So there's this blind guy in the computer store swinging his guide dog on his harness in circles over the top of his head. A sales clerk approaches him. "Excuse me sir, but could I help you?" "No, it's alright," replies the blind man, "I'm just taking a look around for Quake for the Blind."
And a couple of megabyte sized flash chip won't be *that* much larger then a comparable chip that holds 100K of memory.
But where do you stop? As the Urban Legend goes, "640K ought to be enough for anybody." If you don't give the programmers a size to work to, they'll keep pushing the limits. Rather than fitting into a 100KB flash chip, you now have to budget your manufacturing for using 2MB flash chips. Oh, and you now have to redesign the PCBs to use the different capacity chips.
Re:OT:Why are you typing like that?
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Version Fatigue
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The most crowd pleasing scene in a movie so far this year was Kirsten Dunst giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to Spiderman in the rain with her nipples hard from the cold.
You didn't notice that Natalie Portman had a twin nipple-on in the cockpit scene on Tatoonie. Who'd have thought it was that cold in the desert?:)
(No, I wasn't deliberately looking out for it, but it was one of those things that once you'd noticed it, you couldn't stop noticing it.)
Isn't this a brute force method of playing chess? Just keep throwing more processor cycles at the problem. Wouldn't it be cooler to develop this into a global neural net and have it learn from its mistakes?
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Life on Venus? Could a Mekon-led Treen invasion of Earth be imminent?
... would say, "Stop that, it's silly."
... and was there a last minute bidding frenzy?
I realise that this is going to get modded down, but it frustrates me that so many people who pull this "I'm a Christian therefore I believe in God not evolution" crap are actually simple drones of the right. Think for yourself, will ya?
Life on Venus? Could a Mekon-led Treen invasion of Earth be imminent?
Does this mean you could get away with playing Medal of Honour: Allied Assault or Return to Castle Wolfenstein and claiming it is for a History assignment? Or The Sims for Social Studies?
That, is why ASM is better then any HLL. I think the best quote I got from one of my Computer Engineering book was (paraphrasing) "Modern compilers with their optimizations are on the road to becoming almost as good as hand writen assembler."
And if you want the ultimate in hand-written optimisation, check out The Story of Mel.
Always makes me feel humble every time I read it
Nah, I think it was checked and edited by CmdrTaco :)
I'd even pay for it like a utility (like water treatment or gas). God knows it'd get rid of silly little disputes over 'stealing' or redistributing bandwidth and cable companies penalizing users for doing what they signed on to do...use lots of bandwidth.
Why do people think because they have an unmetered, always-on broadband connection they must use it flat-out all the time? I have a cable modem here and don't feel the need to be constantly utilising it to the max.
If I can draw an analogy to the broadband ISPs being similar to the water companies. In the UK, most domestic homes pay a flat rate for their water supplies, for this they have the ability to turn on a tap at any time and not worry about the cost. Fetching your e-mail, light web browsing etc would be the equivalent of washing your hands, flushing the toilet or filling the kettle in terms of demand. A large file download, e.g. the latest distro ISOs would be akin to running a bath, washing your car or watering the garden. A spike in demand, but the water companies ensure that the water pressure is sufficient such that other users in the area are not affected. Same as for the ISPs, they can cope with occassional high demands on the system. Now, imagine the situation if everyone decided to wash their car at the same time or all shared the same bath time, or decided to just leave their taps running because they can.
Heavy users of the water supply (domestic and commercial) are metered and charged appropiately for what they use so why should a resource like bandwidth be any different?
What are you talking about? I've had just about enough of you! Go that way! You'll be malfunctioning within a day, you near-sighted scrap pile!
I can recall watching a documentary about the newer versions of the original trilogy and the special effects they cleaned up. In the original footage they smeared Vaseline on the lens to blur the undercarriage of the Landspeeder to hide the wheels. They made the hover look more convincing when they did the clean-up a few years ago.
Go to www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html, select a mirror close to you, download the ISO images, burn them to CD-Rs and install to your heart's content.
Why has this been modded up as Interesting? $deity-dammit, my mod points ran out yesterday.
As a UK citizen, I can say that we do not enjoy a significantly lower standard of living than the US. Nor are we taxed to the hilt. A large percentage of UK homes now own at least one PC system. You'd be hard pushed to find an office in the UK still running on Commodores, Sinclairs or Acorns.
Parent post is (-1, Troll)
Surely CowboyNeal is big enough to be classed as a planet in his own right. :-)
Don't believe anything a politician is saying when his lips are moving.
Except maybe when he calls a fellow-politician a liar.
So, if politicians always lie, and one calls a fellow politician a liar...
Argh! It's a new form of the Kirk logic used to defeat computers.
What's so funny about dnirglaV?
Oh please. When I worked in the hi-fi shop, we only ever sold SL-1200s in pairs to wannabe DJs.
Decent turntable for not much outlay, go for a Rega. If you want to get serious, go Linn.
...would be a good idea IMHO if this kept Linus away from working on the stable branch.
Look at what happened with 2.4, we had the change to VM, 2.4.11 which needed immediate patching and is tagged as dontuse, 2.4.13 similar problems, 2.4.15-greased-turkey released by Linus for Thanksgiving and a nice syncing problem.
When it comes to deciding what is and is not allowed into the kernels the buck stops with Linus. This is why I think Linus should stick with the development kernels where a major change can have all its kinks worked out in relative safety. The stable branches should be maintained by someone who only has authority to accept and apply bug fixes.
So there's this blind guy in the computer store swinging his guide dog on his harness in circles over the top of his head. A sales clerk approaches him.
"Excuse me sir, but could I help you?"
"No, it's alright," replies the blind man, "I'm just taking a look around for Quake for the Blind."
No, go out and buy the album.
But where do you stop? As the Urban Legend goes, "640K ought to be enough for anybody." If you don't give the programmers a size to work to, they'll keep pushing the limits. Rather than fitting into a 100KB flash chip, you now have to budget your manufacturing for using 2MB flash chips. Oh, and you now have to redesign the PCBs to use the different capacity chips.
Maybe he's a fFuckwit? :)
I know of people who have switched to *BSD because they didn't like the fact that Linux was becoming more mainstream.
One of my friends actively searches out the most obscure/minority OSes he can just to be different.
You didn't notice that Natalie Portman had a twin nipple-on in the cockpit scene on Tatoonie. Who'd have thought it was that cold in the desert? :)
(No, I wasn't deliberately looking out for it, but it was one of those things that once you'd noticed it, you couldn't stop noticing it.)
Isn't this a brute force method of playing chess? Just keep throwing more processor cycles at the problem. Wouldn't it be cooler to develop this into a global neural net and have it learn from its mistakes?