1. Core 2 Duo > Atom. For reference see: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-core-atom-330,2141.html That review only covers the 1.6GHz version, but without architecture changes a 1.8GHz atom processor won't be making up much ground. So the Macbook Air offers a (substantially) faster processor with comparable battery life to many netbooks (though not a replaceable battery, I miss those).
2. This one has me stumped, you really think a plastic case beats a metal case in sturdiness? Have you ever seen an aluminum case Macbook Pro or Air from the past few years other than photos online? It's not thin like a beer can, it's more comparable to an aluminum desktop case (and thicker in some places). I have had no issues with mine, and I've not heard any complaints of the case falling apart under normal conditions.
The price is what makes this not a netbook in my opinion. Whenever anyone has asked me in the past what a netbook was (compared to any other laptop) I used the definition that seemed to be the industry standard: small, cheap.
This one isn't quite small enough to compare to netbooks (with screen sizes between 7-10"), and it certainly isn't cheap enough.
BTW one of my chief annoyances with the Mac OS is the inability to quickly and easily switch between windows. You have to juggle windows around on the screen.
What do you mean by this? Command-Tab lets you switch between applications and Command-` lets you switch between windows within an application. Personally, since switching to Macs a few years ago I've found this to be a much nicer way of managing windows and applications than the every-window-for-itself approach of Windows.
Not to be an MS apologist, but IronScheme runs on the.NET (or more specifically CLR) platform. Also F#--which will be included in VS 2010-- supports continuations (found during a quick Google search of f# and continuations). Not that this effects me too much since I'm primarily using Linux/FreeBSD these days, but should I ever end up on an MS system based on these ideas there may still be hope.
But OpenCL is a specification, not an implementation. The only 3 implementations I'm currently aware of is Apple's (with Snow Leopard), AMD demoed implementation back in March, and Nvidia's beta implementation. So far none of those are open source. If you're aware of an open source implementation, please let me know I'm actually very interested in it, but have yet to locate one.
OpenCL is not open source, OpenCL is a specification for a CUDA-equivalent language and API. Drivers are still necessary, and will likely be produced by the makers of the graphics hardware (ATI, Nvidia, Intel). Open source drivers and compilers are certainly possible, but I wouldn't expect them to be equivalent to the closed source stuff for sometime yet.
* In real life, to my knowledge, all US fighter pilots are required to have college degrees. Assuming this holds true for the Galactica world then it makes sense that, when faced with a lack of trained lawyers in a ~40,000 person population of mostly military personnel, he may be one of the most educated people available to fill the role. Also, most people couldn't have been trusted to give Baltar an honest defense or, more likely, would never have been willing to be his lawyer in the first place.
This and the episode with the fuel production crew going on strike pretty much killed any positive opinion I had of the show. Let's examine the situation: 40k people, mostly civilian. A handful of highly trained military including fighter pilots, a necessary component of warfare as conducted in the series. Training new pilots is an expensive and time consuming proposition, you have to spend a substantial amount of time at each location to train, I'm not saying days, but at least a day to plan and then execute training sorties. You have to have the resources to fuel them, which given how they spent a whole episode hunting down a source for fuel seems to make it rather rare. Now, take the second best pilot (as I recall he's the best technical pilot, and Starbuck is the best pilot) in the fleet, and tell him, "Yeah, it's ok to quit now, we don't really need you." Then you have to waste weeks to train someone else to fill his slot, of course they won't even be close to his skill level so it won't really be a replacement. The only thing keeping the remaining human population (at this time in the series) from extinction was the military and the fuel. Why would you throw it all away because you have daddy issues?
I think that you're misunderstanding the example provided, and literate programming as a result. Literate programming is a language agnostic technique of writing a program essentially as a paper or book, where the book provides a fairly complete description of the behavior of the code, algorithms used, expected input formats, etc. For instance, if you were to use this technique when writing a compiler you could detail the language you'll be compiling alongside the code that will handle that portion of the parsing/interpreting/translating. On his website (Knuth's programs page) he presents a number of programs written using CWEB, C combined with TeX to generate both compilable C code and a fully documented program. He's also written books using this technique, specifically "TeX: The Program" and "METAFONT: The Program", both make use of Literate programming, and both programs are written in Pascal.
Ah, so SCOTUS decisions are written in stone, are they? If that were true, we would still be counting African-Americans as 3/5 of a person. Courts change, attitudes change, decisions that seemed immutable get overturned or reversed or gutted. Don't think it can't happen. If a liberal or centrist justice dies, and Bush gets one more appointment, we may have a Court that will one day declare the Constitution itself "unconstitutional..."
I suggest you read up on the US Constitution before making comments regarding it. Slaves were counted as three fifths of a person under Article I Section 2 of the US Constitution. All free persons, and those bound to serve others for some limited time (indentured servants) are counted as whole persons for purposes of distributing the members of the House of Representatives and Electoral College. This means even freed slaves counted as 1 person rather than 3/5.
Second, please use the correct terms. Again, freed slaves and anyone else of African descent who had come to the US in some other capacity than as a slave were counted as whole persons, although they were generally excluded from participating in elections until the 14th amendment (and for women the 19th).
Third, this was not overturned by the courts. The 14th amendment changed things so that ALL citizens (excluding Indians not taxed) were counted as whole persons.
I'm mostly going to have to call bullshit on this one. A top secret aircraft with random civilians without proper passes wandering nearby? That won't happen. More likely: the aircraft contained top secret components (electronic warfare equipment and the like) which wouldn't be seen from the outside (or not in any way that would allow it to be identified or analyzed, i.e. "what's that camera looking thing on the front?").
Computer security: again, you've just presented a lot of bullshit. Computers in the AF get different levels of classification. Truly secure information would not be on their desktops, and technically they shouldn't have allowed you onto the computer. And if these guys have the same job as your brother, they don't get access to highly secure data (loaders? that's a manual labor job, like the CE guys I used to work with their access is very limited, because they don't need to know (beyond their own part) the plans for what personnel and equipment will be deployed where in the event of war with some nation, and even then they'll only be informed when the time approaches and they're about to board a plane).
Ironically? That's not ironic, that's moronic. It's just an excuse to justify their own action or some BS that they were told by some guys while they were stationed overseas. Also that's irrelevant to the discussion of computer security in the AF as these guys aren't installing this software on AF machines (hopefully, again they could just be morons). And if they do install it on government machines, and it's discovered by a 3rd responsible party, then they will get into trouble, and the system will be cleaned. But again, those machines don't have access to the secure networks, they don't contain information that is highly confidential, so it's not an actual security threat unless they ignore all other rules of information security.
Of course it is -- their mission is to protect us. If peace is the better way (say, compared to the shit going on for the past seven years in Iraq), they should just salute and look for the assignments board.
The military's job is to protect us by defending us from attacks and attacking our enemies (you know, war). The President and Congress's job is to decide how to protect us. They get to do that by either entering into peace talks with other governments, or declaring war on them. The military only goes to war when the rest of the government tells them to. They are not a separate branch of the government capable of acting independently and unilaterally on the world stage (that's the President).
Why do you think the troops spend a lot of time in Iraq building schools, water purification plants, etc.? When he's president, Obama should just tell them, "Get your asses back stateside and build schools and water purification plants for our own people.
Why do you think they spend so much time doing those things? Because the President and Congress (through funding) has directed them to do those things. Look back in time, when my great grandfather joined the army (WWI) he ended up farming (the war was nearing its end) stateside. The military doing civil work like farming and construction projects is nothing new and has been done in the past when a President and Congress directed them to do so. I'm not disagreeing with you here, just not seeing how this contributes in any way.
So far, to take revenge for some 3K deaths in NY, we've sacrificed nearly 4K of our own troops. Never to mention a good 60K to 100K Iraquis. There's a hell of a start -- do you think there's a single family in Iraq which hasn't had multiple members killed by Bushfuck? That bastard has set us up for a thousand generations of hatred and revenge.
If you think the terrorists haven't won, consider that we're about a trillion into the war, with at least another trillion in future payments for medical and psychological care for our surviving troops and their families. And that's not to count the value our nation will never get back by having these people in productive jobs.
There never has been and will never again be a project with a better ROI for the perpetrates than 9/11.
The terrorists will not have long to hate our freedom -- our own government will take it all away on behalf of the terrorists. They won't have to lift another finger, except for the medial digit.
And the rest is a rant against Bush and the War on Terror. I'm not disagreeing with you here, but, again, how does this contribute to the argument that the military's job is not war?
FTA: future generations of robots and unmanned ground vehicles and pave the way for autonomous vehicles
This seems to make a clear distinction between "unmanned" and "autonomous". Back to reading comprehension for you. It does make a distinction, but not the one you seem to believe it's making. The distinction is that unmanned ground vehicles as used by the military today are by and large not autonomous. In reading more about this technology in various reports, the desire is to use it in applications similar to those the DARPA Challenges presented. The vehicles will remain unmanned, but will no longer require the same level of influence exerted by external (human) controllers.
Correctly DESIGNED Sudoku puzzles have only one solution. It's possible to make a puzzle that is ambiguous by removing too many numbers, or just the wrong number, from a puzzle.
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century.
German and Anglo-Saxon are both West Germanic languages, Anglo-Saxon is not the predecessor of German. In fact it developed from a different branch, High German Frisian, also a West Germanic language, developed from Anglo-Frisian. Anglo-Frisian is also the predecessor of Anglo-Saxon. Dutch, yawgl, descended from a different branch, Low Fanconian. Relevant page on Wikipedia: West Germanic Languages. As to the comparison to Latin as Old (French/Spanish/Italian), that's a flawed comparison, as no language historian (to my knowledge) has ever made such a claim, while Anglo-Saxon is in fact known as Old English. Another Wikipedia page, Romance Languages. Going by that you can see that the relationship between Latin and Spanish, French, Italian, etc. is actually much more distant than that between Old English and Modern English.
If it's like mine it's based off a signal that many PBS stations broadcast. They broadcast the current time, and your VCR can periodically check the time on that channel (in my case it actually scans through all channels again just in case it's changed) to update it (how you get correct daylight savings time).
Actually he's responding to the claim in the grandparent that the Macbook Pro is cheaper than an equivalent Dell. He just doesn't know how to quote: and the new MacBook Pros are also less than the equivalent Dells.
Well to your $40 dollar game broken up into 4 pieces comment: The new Sam & Max games, not much complaints about those yet (except for the Gametap complaints). That's $9 a piece or $35 for all, or the Gametap subscription to get each one as they come out just not to own.
Also look at Oblivion, if you bought it earlier this year for say $50 in the store. Now they're rereleasing it, probably for $50 again, with the additional content so the folks who bought it early are getting ripped off because they *have* to purchase the new content individually if they want it.
The subscription is something like most MMO's out there (at least the ones I've played) where you can buy 1 month at a time and cancel anytime (presumably you'd keep access until the end of the month you cancel in). The rate is $9.95/month and goes down to $6.95/month if you buy for a whole year (+/- $1.00), you can buy it in smaller increments as well. Also another nice thing, and my sister's birthday present, is that you can create additionaly logins for family and friends, which can be logged in at the same time as you and play multiplayer games with you (haven't tried that part, been told it works). These don't cost anything extra, so one way to reduce the cost if a movie ticket + popcorn is too much to pay for access to 700+ games a month is to get a friend to give you a couple bucks to add an account for them.
I should also note that as one article pointed out there is a buy one get one free deal right now, 2 months for $9.95.
Not to be too nitpicky, but his estimate was low (yeah, off by.45 MB/sec) which means his estimated time is actually longer than necessary (assuming perfect conditions). So to redo his math: 10mb ethernet = 1.25 MB/sec 2500MB/ 1.25MB/s = 2800 seconds 2800 s in hours = 7/9 of an hour, a little more than 45 minutes
Ok folks, this is pathetic. You've modded the parent to -1? Because his statement is, what?, correct?
How can a system become popular in the mainstream if everytime a user applies the recommended updates (which will be the habit for Windows users), their graphics drivers are broken and they have to reinstall them? They'll just become frustrated with the tedium of going through the motions every week or two and return to Windows. I know, and you know, how to get around these things and how to reinstall the drivers quickly, but the first time it happens will scare the shit out of most desktop users. X will crash on them spitting out a few error messages, and until eventually they're dropped down to the command line. I'm not going to say that Windows is better, for most things I very much prefer Linux, but atleast their hardware drivers aren't broken on minor kernel revisions.
So I suppose I should go back to my original rant: wtf is wrong you mods? If a post is factually accurate, not offtopic (at least to the thread) then there's no good reason to mod it down. Mod down trolls, flamebait and other such crud that shows up here. If you happen to dislike the message of a post then ignore it, most people will completely miss the post.
"I would expect that any quality computer science degree wouldn't teach you about RE"
Do Georgia Tech, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford (just to name a few small programs) have low quality CS programs?
"A good computer science degree teaches you one language"
I certainly hope not. A good computer science degree should teach you several languages, perhaps not as formally as the first one in CS 1 and 2. Suppose that language is Java (as it is in many programs these days), when you later take a graphics course should it still be using Java? No, you should be using C/C++, at least if you want to be able to use that knowledge when you leave college. Operating systems and systems programming? Should compilers be taught in that same language? Well, maybe, but SML, C with Lex/Yacc (or Flex/Bison), make equally effective tools. Exposure to additional languages in a CS program is a wonderful thing. It provides the students with an environment to learn how to learn. Only being taught one language through the introductoy courses, how can students be expected to know how to teach themselves new languages later?
"then it teaches you the concepts behind programming"
These are the concepts behind programming. It's usually studied in a CS theory or automata class. RE, context free grammars and Turing machines are all studied in these courses (typically all are studied in CS theory, some programs diverge a bit, or include more such as algorithm analysis, NP completeness and the like). Understanding these things enable you to be a better programmer, and hopefully even a better employee as you'll be more capable of producing or extending tools as it is needed.
I just feel that it should be mentioned that part of the reason for that naming is that it attempts to stay inline with the OpenGL API conventions, making the user experience of the OpenRT API seem more familiar. And just like OpenRT, OpenGL is not open source.
NASA was warned, but the first indications of the problem actually occuring were from video. Knowing that a problem may occur doesn't help you when it does happen. Knowing it's happening/happened allows you to do something to correct it.
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Doh, didn't log in. Not sure how I didn't catch that earlier...
1. Core 2 Duo > Atom. For reference see: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-core-atom-330,2141.html
That review only covers the 1.6GHz version, but without architecture changes a 1.8GHz atom processor won't be making up much ground. So the Macbook Air offers a (substantially) faster processor with comparable battery life to many netbooks (though not a replaceable battery, I miss those).
2. This one has me stumped, you really think a plastic case beats a metal case in sturdiness? Have you ever seen an aluminum case Macbook Pro or Air from the past few years other than photos online? It's not thin like a beer can, it's more comparable to an aluminum desktop case (and thicker in some places). I have had no issues with mine, and I've not heard any complaints of the case falling apart under normal conditions.
3. http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html, or, you know, google it or read any of the previews.
The price is what makes this not a netbook in my opinion. Whenever anyone has asked me in the past what a netbook was (compared to any other laptop) I used the definition that seemed to be the industry standard: small, cheap.
This one isn't quite small enough to compare to netbooks (with screen sizes between 7-10"), and it certainly isn't cheap enough.
BTW one of my chief annoyances with the Mac OS is the inability to quickly and easily switch between windows. You have to juggle windows around on the screen.
What do you mean by this? Command-Tab lets you switch between applications and Command-` lets you switch between windows within an application. Personally, since switching to Macs a few years ago I've found this to be a much nicer way of managing windows and applications than the every-window-for-itself approach of Windows.
Not to be an MS apologist, but IronScheme runs on the .NET (or more specifically CLR) platform. Also F#--which will be included in VS 2010-- supports continuations (found during a quick Google search of f# and continuations). Not that this effects me too much since I'm primarily using Linux/FreeBSD these days, but should I ever end up on an MS system based on these ideas there may still be hope.
But OpenCL is a specification, not an implementation. The only 3 implementations I'm currently aware of is Apple's (with Snow Leopard), AMD demoed implementation back in March, and Nvidia's beta implementation. So far none of those are open source. If you're aware of an open source implementation, please let me know I'm actually very interested in it, but have yet to locate one.
OpenCL is not open source, OpenCL is a specification for a CUDA-equivalent language and API. Drivers are still necessary, and will likely be produced by the makers of the graphics hardware (ATI, Nvidia, Intel). Open source drivers and compilers are certainly possible, but I wouldn't expect them to be equivalent to the closed source stuff for sometime yet.
* In real life, to my knowledge, all US fighter pilots are required to have college degrees. Assuming this holds true for the Galactica world then it makes sense that, when faced with a lack of trained lawyers in a ~40,000 person population of mostly military personnel, he may be one of the most educated people available to fill the role. Also, most people couldn't have been trusted to give Baltar an honest defense or, more likely, would never have been willing to be his lawyer in the first place.
This and the episode with the fuel production crew going on strike pretty much killed any positive opinion I had of the show. Let's examine the situation: 40k people, mostly civilian. A handful of highly trained military including fighter pilots, a necessary component of warfare as conducted in the series. Training new pilots is an expensive and time consuming proposition, you have to spend a substantial amount of time at each location to train, I'm not saying days, but at least a day to plan and then execute training sorties. You have to have the resources to fuel them, which given how they spent a whole episode hunting down a source for fuel seems to make it rather rare. Now, take the second best pilot (as I recall he's the best technical pilot, and Starbuck is the best pilot) in the fleet, and tell him, "Yeah, it's ok to quit now, we don't really need you." Then you have to waste weeks to train someone else to fill his slot, of course they won't even be close to his skill level so it won't really be a replacement. The only thing keeping the remaining human population (at this time in the series) from extinction was the military and the fuel. Why would you throw it all away because you have daddy issues?
I think that you're misunderstanding the example provided, and literate programming as a result. Literate programming is a language agnostic technique of writing a program essentially as a paper or book, where the book provides a fairly complete description of the behavior of the code, algorithms used, expected input formats, etc. For instance, if you were to use this technique when writing a compiler you could detail the language you'll be compiling alongside the code that will handle that portion of the parsing/interpreting/translating. On his website (Knuth's programs page) he presents a number of programs written using CWEB, C combined with TeX to generate both compilable C code and a fully documented program. He's also written books using this technique, specifically "TeX: The Program" and "METAFONT: The Program", both make use of Literate programming, and both programs are written in Pascal.
Ah, so SCOTUS decisions are written in stone, are they? If that were true, we would still be counting African-Americans as 3/5 of a person. Courts change, attitudes change, decisions that seemed immutable get overturned or reversed or gutted. Don't think it can't happen. If a liberal or centrist justice dies, and Bush gets one more appointment, we may have a Court that will one day declare the Constitution itself "unconstitutional..."
I suggest you read up on the US Constitution before making comments regarding it. Slaves were counted as three fifths of a person under Article I Section 2 of the US Constitution. All free persons, and those bound to serve others for some limited time (indentured servants) are counted as whole persons for purposes of distributing the members of the House of Representatives and Electoral College. This means even freed slaves counted as 1 person rather than 3/5.Second, please use the correct terms. Again, freed slaves and anyone else of African descent who had come to the US in some other capacity than as a slave were counted as whole persons, although they were generally excluded from participating in elections until the 14th amendment (and for women the 19th).
Third, this was not overturned by the courts. The 14th amendment changed things so that ALL citizens (excluding Indians not taxed) were counted as whole persons.
I'm mostly going to have to call bullshit on this one. A top secret aircraft with random civilians without proper passes wandering nearby? That won't happen. More likely: the aircraft contained top secret components (electronic warfare equipment and the like) which wouldn't be seen from the outside (or not in any way that would allow it to be identified or analyzed, i.e. "what's that camera looking thing on the front?").
Computer security: again, you've just presented a lot of bullshit. Computers in the AF get different levels of classification. Truly secure information would not be on their desktops, and technically they shouldn't have allowed you onto the computer. And if these guys have the same job as your brother, they don't get access to highly secure data (loaders? that's a manual labor job, like the CE guys I used to work with their access is very limited, because they don't need to know (beyond their own part) the plans for what personnel and equipment will be deployed where in the event of war with some nation, and even then they'll only be informed when the time approaches and they're about to board a plane).
Ironically? That's not ironic, that's moronic. It's just an excuse to justify their own action or some BS that they were told by some guys while they were stationed overseas. Also that's irrelevant to the discussion of computer security in the AF as these guys aren't installing this software on AF machines (hopefully, again they could just be morons). And if they do install it on government machines, and it's discovered by a 3rd responsible party, then they will get into trouble, and the system will be cleaned. But again, those machines don't have access to the secure networks, they don't contain information that is highly confidential, so it's not an actual security threat unless they ignore all other rules of information security.
Of course it is -- their mission is to protect us. If peace is the better way (say, compared to the shit going on for the past seven years in Iraq), they should just salute and look for the assignments board.
The military's job is to protect us by defending us from attacks and attacking our enemies (you know, war). The President and Congress's job is to decide how to protect us. They get to do that by either entering into peace talks with other governments, or declaring war on them. The military only goes to war when the rest of the government tells them to. They are not a separate branch of the government capable of acting independently and unilaterally on the world stage (that's the President).Why do you think the troops spend a lot of time in Iraq building schools, water purification plants, etc.? When he's president, Obama should just tell them, "Get your asses back stateside and build schools and water purification plants for our own people.
Why do you think they spend so much time doing those things? Because the President and Congress (through funding) has directed them to do those things. Look back in time, when my great grandfather joined the army (WWI) he ended up farming (the war was nearing its end) stateside. The military doing civil work like farming and construction projects is nothing new and has been done in the past when a President and Congress directed them to do so. I'm not disagreeing with you here, just not seeing how this contributes in any way.So far, to take revenge for some 3K deaths in NY, we've sacrificed nearly 4K of our own troops. Never to mention a good 60K to 100K Iraquis. There's a hell of a start -- do you think there's a single family in Iraq which hasn't had multiple members killed by Bushfuck? That bastard has set us up for a thousand generations of hatred and revenge.
If you think the terrorists haven't won, consider that we're about a trillion into the war, with at least another trillion in future payments for medical and psychological care for our surviving troops and their families. And that's not to count the value our nation will never get back by having these people in productive jobs.
There never has been and will never again be a project with a better ROI for the perpetrates than 9/11.
The terrorists will not have long to hate our freedom -- our own government will take it all away on behalf of the terrorists. They won't have to lift another finger, except for the medial digit.
And the rest is a rant against Bush and the War on Terror. I'm not disagreeing with you here, but, again, how does this contribute to the argument that the military's job is not war?This seems to make a clear distinction between "unmanned" and "autonomous". Back to reading comprehension for you. It does make a distinction, but not the one you seem to believe it's making. The distinction is that unmanned ground vehicles as used by the military today are by and large not autonomous. In reading more about this technology in various reports, the desire is to use it in applications similar to those the DARPA Challenges presented. The vehicles will remain unmanned, but will no longer require the same level of influence exerted by external (human) controllers.
Correctly DESIGNED Sudoku puzzles have only one solution. It's possible to make a puzzle that is ambiguous by removing too many numbers, or just the wrong number, from a puzzle.
German and Anglo-Saxon are both West Germanic languages, Anglo-Saxon is not the predecessor of German. In fact it developed from a different branch, High German
Frisian, also a West Germanic language, developed from Anglo-Frisian. Anglo-Frisian is also the predecessor of Anglo-Saxon.
Dutch, yawgl, descended from a different branch, Low Fanconian.
Relevant page on Wikipedia: West Germanic Languages.
As to the comparison to Latin as Old (French/Spanish/Italian), that's a flawed comparison, as no language historian (to my knowledge) has ever made such a claim, while Anglo-Saxon is in fact known as Old English.
Another Wikipedia page, Romance Languages.
Going by that you can see that the relationship between Latin and Spanish, French, Italian, etc. is actually much more distant than that between Old English and Modern English.
If it's like mine it's based off a signal that many PBS stations broadcast. They broadcast the current time, and your VCR can periodically check the time on that channel (in my case it actually scans through all channels again just in case it's changed) to update it (how you get correct daylight savings time).
Actually he's responding to the claim in the grandparent that the Macbook Pro is cheaper than an equivalent Dell. He just doesn't know how to quote:
and the new MacBook Pros are also less than the equivalent Dells.
Well to your $40 dollar game broken up into 4 pieces comment: The new Sam & Max games, not much complaints about those yet (except for the Gametap complaints). That's $9 a piece or $35 for all, or the Gametap subscription to get each one as they come out just not to own.
Also look at Oblivion, if you bought it earlier this year for say $50 in the store. Now they're rereleasing it, probably for $50 again, with the additional content so the folks who bought it early are getting ripped off because they *have* to purchase the new content individually if they want it.
The subscription is something like most MMO's out there (at least the ones I've played) where you can buy 1 month at a time and cancel anytime (presumably you'd keep access until the end of the month you cancel in). The rate is $9.95/month and goes down to $6.95/month if you buy for a whole year (+/- $1.00), you can buy it in smaller increments as well. Also another nice thing, and my sister's birthday present, is that you can create additionaly logins for family and friends, which can be logged in at the same time as you and play multiplayer games with you (haven't tried that part, been told it works). These don't cost anything extra, so one way to reduce the cost if a movie ticket + popcorn is too much to pay for access to 700+ games a month is to get a friend to give you a couple bucks to add an account for them.
I should also note that as one article pointed out there is a buy one get one free deal right now, 2 months for $9.95.
Not to be too nitpicky, but his estimate was low (yeah, off by .45 MB/sec) which means his estimated time is actually longer than necessary (assuming perfect conditions).
So to redo his math:
10mb ethernet = 1.25 MB/sec
2500MB/ 1.25MB/s = 2800 seconds
2800 s in hours = 7/9 of an hour, a little more than 45 minutes
Ok folks, this is pathetic. You've modded the parent to -1? Because his statement is, what?, correct?
How can a system become popular in the mainstream if everytime a user applies the recommended updates (which will be the habit for Windows users), their graphics drivers are broken and they have to reinstall them? They'll just become frustrated with the tedium of going through the motions every week or two and return to Windows. I know, and you know, how to get around these things and how to reinstall the drivers quickly, but the first time it happens will scare the shit out of most desktop users. X will crash on them spitting out a few error messages, and until eventually they're dropped down to the command line. I'm not going to say that Windows is better, for most things I very much prefer Linux, but atleast their hardware drivers aren't broken on minor kernel revisions.
So I suppose I should go back to my original rant: wtf is wrong you mods? If a post is factually accurate, not offtopic (at least to the thread) then there's no good reason to mod it down. Mod down trolls, flamebait and other such crud that shows up here. If you happen to dislike the message of a post then ignore it, most people will completely miss the post.
"I would expect that any quality computer science degree wouldn't teach you about RE"
Do Georgia Tech, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford (just to name a few small programs) have low quality CS programs?
"A good computer science degree teaches you one language"
I certainly hope not. A good computer science degree should teach you several languages, perhaps not as formally as the first one in CS 1 and 2. Suppose that language is Java (as it is in many programs these days), when you later take a graphics course should it still be using Java? No, you should be using C/C++, at least if you want to be able to use that knowledge when you leave college. Operating systems and systems programming? Should compilers be taught in that same language? Well, maybe, but SML, C with Lex/Yacc (or Flex/Bison), make equally effective tools. Exposure to additional languages in a CS program is a wonderful thing. It provides the students with an environment to learn how to learn. Only being taught one language through the introductoy courses, how can students be expected to know how to teach themselves new languages later?
"then it teaches you the concepts behind programming"
These are the concepts behind programming. It's usually studied in a CS theory or automata class. RE, context free grammars and Turing machines are all studied in these courses (typically all are studied in CS theory, some programs diverge a bit, or include more such as algorithm analysis, NP completeness and the like). Understanding these things enable you to be a better programmer, and hopefully even a better employee as you'll be more capable of producing or extending tools as it is needed.
They start with the AMD 64 3800+ not 3000+.
I just feel that it should be mentioned that part of the reason for that naming is that it attempts to stay inline with the OpenGL API conventions, making the user experience of the OpenRT API seem more familiar. And just like OpenRT, OpenGL is not open source.
So what's it say then?
NASA was warned, but the first indications of the problem actually occuring were from video. Knowing that a problem may occur doesn't help you when it does happen. Knowing it's happening/happened allows you to do something to correct it.