I have no idea if it could survive such an encounter without being ripped to pieces by tidal forces - anyone?
Perhaps some of them were? If the parts of a moon got ripped apart, but stayed close enough apart the collective force of gravity from all the parts would pull them back together again. I'm reasonably certain it's possible.
I think it'd be neat to see a computer simulation of this particular scenario, if it's possible.
So they "Build a Better Battery" and suddenly that's the only thing the ENTIRE industry is focusing on? Welcome to modern times, let me introduce you. We live in a world with billions, that's right, I said BILLIONS of people. Granted not all of them do r&d, but a hefty amount do, and I promise you that not ALL of them are focusing on this fuel cell battery. In fact, if you look hard enough, I'm sure you can find tons and tons of juicy tid bits on new technologies to do the same amount with less power, and the crazy thing is that these aren't the same people who did the r&d for this fuel cell battery!
It's no wonder you blindly stick to intel CPU's... I mean, when you can't even tell Via made the 933Mhz Via C3 it's apparant you are not too knowledgeable on current happenings in the CPU industry, but hey.. if you want to take it safe go for it. I'm sure intel works fine for you, just don't try to comment on the quality of any sort of CPU ever again please.
OK Let me explain something to you about linux. Linux has a directory under the root directory called "/dev". In/dev there are a bunch of files called device files. These device files allow user space programs to read, and even sometimes write to these files. But that's not the best part.. see, these device files are "special" files that are letting the info saved into to them to pass into the kernel (waaay oversimplified), which then passes it on to the hardware. It's simply mind blowing.
But that's not all! That's just one of MANY methods available to let userspace programs use hardware.
Yo.. not all of us know everything. =/ I've never seen this before, so I found it interesting. I don't think this is suppose to be a "most current news" site and more of a "hey look at what I found, this is pretty cool" site.
Actually, once Apple computers had music players and sound cards they got in trouble. AFAIK Apple Computers is paying royalties for use of the name, and has been for quite some time.
No no you got it all wrong. Educating users is definately the way to go, but educating them not to give their cc numbers to the spammer would be much more useful. Spam wouldn't be so popular if people didn't actually open it and buy shit offered to them by spam.
I mean.. do you really like the idea of having to be THAT paranoid about your e-mail address? If you have to change your net use habits, then the spammers have already won. I'm not going to let something like spam force me to keep seperate e-mail accounts and juggle between them. It just isn't fair.
crud I screwed that post up badly... here's a second try:
Monitoring bank and credit reports will flag questionable purchases like, oh, let's say, 2 tons of fertilizer and a Ryder truck.
Ever had a bank account or credit card, or viewed a credit report? Banks and CC's don't keep records of what you buy, just where you bought things from, and most banks don't even keep track of that. As for credit reports, they simply state who you have credit accounts with, and how faithfull you've been to the repayment contract.. that's it. (Oh, and they show who's asked for a copy of the report.)
such as whether the individual is on government watch lists.
Ever had a bank account or credit card? They don't keep records of what you buy, just where you bought it from, and most banks don't even keep track of that.
... how a phrase such as "such as whether the individual is on government watch lists" doesn't scare the hell out of every single person in the US.
Perhaps there's a reason public education sucks so badly besides governmental stupidity... perhaps it's governmental genious to get all these fucking idiots to think crap like this is actually good. To me it's absolutely astonishing that a lot of people think protesting should be outright illegal.. do they not comprehend what that means?! This kind of crap almost makes me want to cry, and thanks to the US's ability to influence most every other country with either wads of money or military power there is no escape... "Brave New World" wasn't a fictional book, it was a god damn prophecy.
This is just so damn scary... I've had a gun put to my head by a nervous wreck of a thief, and I am still more scared about our current political climate than I was about that...
This is why we should have a central authorized mailer list. This list would specify all servers allowed to send e-mail of any type. Naturally this system would be maintained by the homeland security department and personally overseen by John Ashcroft. Also, naturally, all e-mails will have to pass through a gateway on the server that maintains this central database to allow for inspection. This way every terrorist who uses the word DeCSS or MP3 in an e-mail can be promptly arrested and thrown in a holding cell for an indefinate amount of time. Additionally, as I'm sure all of you guessed, any encryption used should have a backdoor for official government use. We all know this is a perfectly logical and reasonable requirement. In order to prevent spam and protect the country from terrorists (which includes people who play(ed) DooM, watched DVD's in Linux, burned the US flag, openly admited to being gay, and/or protested against the government in any shape, form or fashion) we must be able to monitor all communications.
In my dreamed up reality, adding those things would reduce the price by $300. NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY MY RIGHT TO DREAM!!!:)
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... or they think administrators are really stupid.
I've taken the pessimistic stance that most of them are... otherwise I wouldn't be regularly bombarded by worm attacks. That and this overwhelming feeling that my universities networking department is run by monkeys...
If it had usb2, firewire 800, and bluetooth support this thing would be damn near perfect. The ability to transmit music via FM radio is already hella neat. I like this thing.. although it is a wee bit expensive:(.
- Mandrake (afaik) was the first and so far only Linux distro to be sold as a standalone product in Walmart, and I bought several versions there (as the king of Swamp Castle says "... just to show 'em!"). Software specifics aside, this is another good reason to be grateful to Mandrake, whether you use their distro or not. Lindows was *not* the first Walmart-associated Linux:) [And I could be wrong -- perhaps they also had Red Hat, dunno.]
More power to you for defending Mandrake 'n all... but wtf. Wal-mart is Hell-On-Earth(tm). It's the kind of place you'd be sent there for an eternity as punishment for your sins. It's a clubhouse for the fat, ugly, and painfully stupid. If you escape the parking lot without being hit by someone you should be on your knees thanking whichever god you worship. Hell just the name alone screams redneck central:(. I would rather have hot pokers shoved up my ass than ever have to go to that place.
Yay for Mandrake 'n all... but Wal-mart is NOTHING to brag about.
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At a conference I ran a TOP under OSX and watched as I simply drug a window around; it ate 85-90% of the CPU!
K see that's ONLY when dragging a window, and if there are other apps wanting cpu time it won't take all that. Any sort of opaque window moving will use up as much cpu as is available to make the move as smooth as possible. That does not mean it REQUIRES that much.
This concept of % of cpu being used has been blown way out of proportion. It is hardly an accurate measurement. Linux's system load measurement is a much more accurate way of describing cpu usage (stfu you damn nitpickers, I know the system load measurement was not created by nor solely exists in linux). Any program that is the only one requesting cpu time on a system will use 100% of the cpu for the duration of tim eit takes it to do the job it's requesting the time for. If you see something only requiring 10% cpu that only means that it took less time for the app to finish the job than it took to take the measurement.
Anyways I'm going to stop. If you don't understand it then you don't understand it. Just at least acknolwedge that your little "test" was completely inaccurate.... and besides, if you ask me the OS can have all the time it wants to make my gui pretty. 'cause of the computer isn't a joy to look it, why on earth would I want to use it? Not wanting that is like saying you don't care if the girl is ass ugly, as long as the has a pussy... I like the things I use to look good.
Anyone with any sense and/or not a whole lot of trust in ambiguous PR claims knows that the "as powerful as the human brain" claim by IBM is rediculous... as we don't even really know how powerful the human brain really is.
You missed the original posters point. He was agreeing that virtual machines had good uses for certain applications (i.e. the ones you mentioned). He also said using a virtual machine to work around failures in the base system should NOT be common practice, and in that aspect he is right.
Next time when you write a counter argument, make sure it really is a COUNTER argument.
It can. DirecTV is just using a horribly low bitrate for their broadcasts. I've seen digital sattelite broadcasts never even go above the bitrate used in SVCD's (around 2.1Mbps). Most DVD's use 4-6Mbps MPEG2.
This isn't exactly something you are qualified to judge for yourself.
Anyways that's not my point. Lets think about two wildly differing yet usually accepted definition of nerd. One is the "smart, in band, likes to learn, blah" definition. The other is "the dork who always got picked on" definition. Obviously the later definition will ALWAYS fit the "got picked on" profile by its very nature. On the other hand, many of the posts you are refering to were actually speaking of the former definition.
Despite what you'd like to believe, social issues can't be so easily explained by a simple catagorization. The ability to be socially successful is a skill, and like most other skills, it comes more easily to some people than others.
In HS I was the guy who brought programming books to school to read in my spare time. I took the independant study computer classes. I was in the band. I played chess during down time in class. I participated in class. I did most of the things that anyone would claim makes (made) me a nerd. Yet despite all of that I was respected and left alone by those whom I didn't know well enough to be friends, and had many people who were friends. Hell the "cool" kids (those who had tons more friends than I did as in knew everyone) played chess with me during those downtimes in class. Can you guess why? Easy.. I asked if they wanted to play. Guess what? They were just as bored as I was! Hell I even taught a few of them how to play.
I actively engaged in social interaction. Would you like to know how easy it was to get someone to stop picking on you? There were a few days where a new guy to my school who shared my bus stop decided I was worthy of being picked on. Naturally he decided it'd be funny to throw rocks at me at the bus stop. After the first thrown rock on the third day I calmy walked up to him, looked him in the eye, and punched him square on the nose. From that day forth he not only stopped, we became decent friends.
That brings up another point. There ARE those who seem to have this need to belittle someone. They usually hone in on those unwilling to defend themselves. It wasn't even a matter of being unable to, just unwilling to. Smooth talkers and pretty people no doubt have the advantage, but those people usually do not have a problem getting along just fine with someone who acts like another human being. If I felt like I was talking to a machine when I talked with someone I wouldn't want to continue socializing with these people, and I have met some amazingly stereotypical nerds who were exactly like that. I'm not the type to pick on though, I just ignore.
I even had my stereotypical nerd unpopular got picked on bit up to 8th grade. Then I learned how to act human. If you don't know or misunderstand what that means then that is a fault of yours. I have a unique perspective from both side of the coin. I know MOST people are perfectly willing to accept new people and learn to like them as long as that person is enjoyable to be around.
Sorry is this reads like a big rant, I'm sure there's a poorly structured argument and a point hidden in there somewhere.
The main reason to buy a new cpu is to do something you COULDN'T do before.
I disagree. The main reason to buy a new cpu is to do things FASTER. Sure some things that require realtime processor may not be possible on an older cpu, but that's not the main reason for me. Try active kde development on a p233mmx. Sure it's possible, but it's damn slow. As are scientific simulations, massive multitasking, etc.
The point for a lot of us is to do more in a smaller amount of time.
I never personally understood those AGAINST the advancement of technology. Do you honestly think that once we got to the celeron 333 we should have just stopped?
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I have no idea if it could survive such an encounter without being ripped to pieces by tidal forces - anyone?
Perhaps some of them were? If the parts of a moon got ripped apart, but stayed close enough apart the collective force of gravity from all the parts would pull them back together again. I'm reasonably certain it's possible.
I think it'd be neat to see a computer simulation of this particular scenario, if it's possible.
So they "Build a Better Battery" and suddenly that's the only thing the ENTIRE industry is focusing on? Welcome to modern times, let me introduce you. We live in a world with billions, that's right, I said BILLIONS of people. Granted not all of them do r&d, but a hefty amount do, and I promise you that not ALL of them are focusing on this fuel cell battery. In fact, if you look hard enough, I'm sure you can find tons and tons of juicy tid bits on new technologies to do the same amount with less power, and the crazy thing is that these aren't the same people who did the r&d for this fuel cell battery!
It's no wonder you blindly stick to intel CPU's... I mean, when you can't even tell Via made the 933Mhz Via C3 it's apparant you are not too knowledgeable on current happenings in the CPU industry, but hey.. if you want to take it safe go for it. I'm sure intel works fine for you, just don't try to comment on the quality of any sort of CPU ever again please.
OK Let me explain something to you about linux. Linux has a directory under the root directory called "/dev". In /dev there are a bunch of files called device files. These device files allow user space programs to read, and even sometimes write to these files. But that's not the best part.. see, these device files are "special" files that are letting the info saved into to them to pass into the kernel (waaay oversimplified), which then passes it on to the hardware. It's simply mind blowing.
But that's not all! That's just one of MANY methods available to let userspace programs use hardware.
Yo.. not all of us know everything. =/ I've never seen this before, so I found it interesting. I don't think this is suppose to be a "most current news" site and more of a "hey look at what I found, this is pretty cool" site.
Actually, once Apple computers had music players and sound cards they got in trouble. AFAIK Apple Computers is paying royalties for use of the name, and has been for quite some time.
No no you got it all wrong. Educating users is definately the way to go, but educating them not to give their cc numbers to the spammer would be much more useful. Spam wouldn't be so popular if people didn't actually open it and buy shit offered to them by spam.
I mean.. do you really like the idea of having to be THAT paranoid about your e-mail address? If you have to change your net use habits, then the spammers have already won. I'm not going to let something like spam force me to keep seperate e-mail accounts and juggle between them. It just isn't fair.
crud I screwed that post up badly... here's a second try:
Monitoring bank and credit reports will flag questionable purchases like, oh, let's say, 2 tons of fertilizer and a Ryder truck.
Ever had a bank account or credit card, or viewed a credit report? Banks and CC's don't keep records of what you buy, just where you bought things from, and most banks don't even keep track of that. As for credit reports, they simply state who you have credit accounts with, and how faithfull you've been to the repayment contract.. that's it. (Oh, and they show who's asked for a copy of the report.)
such as whether the individual is on government watch lists.
Ever had a bank account or credit card? They don't keep records of what you buy, just where you bought it from, and most banks don't even keep track of that.
Holy shit are you someone I know irl?
... how a phrase such as "such as whether the individual is on government watch lists" doesn't scare the hell out of every single person in the US.
Perhaps there's a reason public education sucks so badly besides governmental stupidity... perhaps it's governmental genious to get all these fucking idiots to think crap like this is actually good. To me it's absolutely astonishing that a lot of people think protesting should be outright illegal.. do they not comprehend what that means?! This kind of crap almost makes me want to cry, and thanks to the US's ability to influence most every other country with either wads of money or military power there is no escape... "Brave New World" wasn't a fictional book, it was a god damn prophecy.
This is just so damn scary... I've had a gun put to my head by a nervous wreck of a thief, and I am still more scared about our current political climate than I was about that...
This is why we should have a central authorized mailer list. This list would specify all servers allowed to send e-mail of any type. Naturally this system would be maintained by the homeland security department and personally overseen by John Ashcroft. Also, naturally, all e-mails will have to pass through a gateway on the server that maintains this central database to allow for inspection. This way every terrorist who uses the word DeCSS or MP3 in an e-mail can be promptly arrested and thrown in a holding cell for an indefinate amount of time. Additionally, as I'm sure all of you guessed, any encryption used should have a backdoor for official government use. We all know this is a perfectly logical and reasonable requirement. In order to prevent spam and protect the country from terrorists (which includes people who play(ed) DooM, watched DVD's in Linux, burned the US flag, openly admited to being gay, and/or protested against the government in any shape, form or fashion) we must be able to monitor all communications.
In my dreamed up reality, adding those things would reduce the price by $300. NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY MY RIGHT TO DREAM!!! :)
I've taken the pessimistic stance that most of them are... otherwise I wouldn't be regularly bombarded by worm attacks. That and this overwhelming feeling that my universities networking department is run by monkeys...
If it had usb2, firewire 800, and bluetooth support this thing would be damn near perfect. The ability to transmit music via FM radio is already hella neat. I like this thing.. although it is a wee bit expensive :(.
- Mandrake (afaik) was the first and so far only Linux distro to be sold as a standalone product in Walmart, and I bought several versions there (as the king of Swamp Castle says "... just to show 'em!"). Software specifics aside, this is another good reason to be grateful to Mandrake, whether you use their distro or not. Lindows was *not* the first Walmart-associated Linux :) [And I could be wrong -- perhaps they also had Red Hat, dunno.]
:(. I would rather have hot pokers shoved up my ass than ever have to go to that place.
More power to you for defending Mandrake 'n all... but wtf. Wal-mart is Hell-On-Earth(tm). It's the kind of place you'd be sent there for an eternity as punishment for your sins. It's a clubhouse for the fat, ugly, and painfully stupid. If you escape the parking lot without being hit by someone you should be on your knees thanking whichever god you worship. Hell just the name alone screams redneck central
Yay for Mandrake 'n all... but Wal-mart is NOTHING to brag about.
Thank you captain obvious.
At a conference I ran a TOP under OSX and watched as I simply drug a window around; it ate 85-90% of the CPU!
K see that's ONLY when dragging a window, and if there are other apps wanting cpu time it won't take all that. Any sort of opaque window moving will use up as much cpu as is available to make the move as smooth as possible. That does not mean it REQUIRES that much.
This concept of % of cpu being used has been blown way out of proportion. It is hardly an accurate measurement. Linux's system load measurement is a much more accurate way of describing cpu usage (stfu you damn nitpickers, I know the system load measurement was not created by nor solely exists in linux). Any program that is the only one requesting cpu time on a system will use 100% of the cpu for the duration of tim eit takes it to do the job it's requesting the time for. If you see something only requiring 10% cpu that only means that it took less time for the app to finish the job than it took to take the measurement.
Anyways I'm going to stop. If you don't understand it then you don't understand it. Just at least acknolwedge that your little "test" was completely inaccurate.... and besides, if you ask me the OS can have all the time it wants to make my gui pretty. 'cause of the computer isn't a joy to look it, why on earth would I want to use it? Not wanting that is like saying you don't care if the girl is ass ugly, as long as the has a pussy... I like the things I use to look good.
Overchoice doesn't exist
Anyone with any sense and/or not a whole lot of trust in ambiguous PR claims knows that the "as powerful as the human brain" claim by IBM is rediculous... as we don't even really know how powerful the human brain really is.
Then there are those of us who DON'T like to settle for 5th best.
You missed the original posters point. He was agreeing that virtual machines had good uses for certain applications (i.e. the ones you mentioned). He also said using a virtual machine to work around failures in the base system should NOT be common practice, and in that aspect he is right.
Next time when you write a counter argument, make sure it really is a COUNTER argument.
It can. DirecTV is just using a horribly low bitrate for their broadcasts. I've seen digital sattelite broadcasts never even go above the bitrate used in SVCD's (around 2.1Mbps). Most DVD's use 4-6Mbps MPEG2.
I wasn't particularly socially unsmart
This isn't exactly something you are qualified to judge for yourself.
Anyways that's not my point. Lets think about two wildly differing yet usually accepted definition of nerd. One is the "smart, in band, likes to learn, blah" definition. The other is "the dork who always got picked on" definition. Obviously the later definition will ALWAYS fit the "got picked on" profile by its very nature. On the other hand, many of the posts you are refering to were actually speaking of the former definition.
Despite what you'd like to believe, social issues can't be so easily explained by a simple catagorization. The ability to be socially successful is a skill, and like most other skills, it comes more easily to some people than others.
In HS I was the guy who brought programming books to school to read in my spare time. I took the independant study computer classes. I was in the band. I played chess during down time in class. I participated in class. I did most of the things that anyone would claim makes (made) me a nerd. Yet despite all of that I was respected and left alone by those whom I didn't know well enough to be friends, and had many people who were friends. Hell the "cool" kids (those who had tons more friends than I did as in knew everyone) played chess with me during those downtimes in class. Can you guess why? Easy.. I asked if they wanted to play. Guess what? They were just as bored as I was! Hell I even taught a few of them how to play.
I actively engaged in social interaction. Would you like to know how easy it was to get someone to stop picking on you? There were a few days where a new guy to my school who shared my bus stop decided I was worthy of being picked on. Naturally he decided it'd be funny to throw rocks at me at the bus stop. After the first thrown rock on the third day I calmy walked up to him, looked him in the eye, and punched him square on the nose. From that day forth he not only stopped, we became decent friends.
That brings up another point. There ARE those who seem to have this need to belittle someone. They usually hone in on those unwilling to defend themselves. It wasn't even a matter of being unable to, just unwilling to. Smooth talkers and pretty people no doubt have the advantage, but those people usually do not have a problem getting along just fine with someone who acts like another human being. If I felt like I was talking to a machine when I talked with someone I wouldn't want to continue socializing with these people, and I have met some amazingly stereotypical nerds who were exactly like that. I'm not the type to pick on though, I just ignore.
I even had my stereotypical nerd unpopular got picked on bit up to 8th grade. Then I learned how to act human. If you don't know or misunderstand what that means then that is a fault of yours. I have a unique perspective from both side of the coin. I know MOST people are perfectly willing to accept new people and learn to like them as long as that person is enjoyable to be around.
Sorry is this reads like a big rant, I'm sure there's a poorly structured argument and a point hidden in there somewhere.
The main reason to buy a new cpu is to do something you COULDN'T do before.
I disagree. The main reason to buy a new cpu is to do things FASTER. Sure some things that require realtime processor may not be possible on an older cpu, but that's not the main reason for me. Try active kde development on a p233mmx. Sure it's possible, but it's damn slow. As are scientific simulations, massive multitasking, etc.
The point for a lot of us is to do more in a smaller amount of time.
I never personally understood those AGAINST the advancement of technology. Do you honestly think that once we got to the celeron 333 we should have just stopped?