I'm a gamer on occasion. And when I play an FPS, I don't like frame loss. I recently noticed I was losing frames on occasion. I brought up task manager to see what was doing it, and firefox is using significant CPU power even when it's doing absolutely nothing. (Thus, closing firefox caused a perfect framerate to occur again). Anyone else have this issue? Why does the web browser need CPU to idle?
Russia didn't accept because of good foreign policy. Maybe only partially. They accepted because they pollute less now than their target and they can sell the rest of their pollution quota and make money.
Well I would actually like to relocate there, I just always seem to have trouble finding companies who don't get flooded with resumes and throw half of them out. If anyone knows of a company who'd be interested in a recent grad who likes to code code/debug, is highly motivated, has good communication skills, and has some work experience doing all of the above, you can earn yourself some money by helping me.
I'm 23, have been using/messing around with Linux/Solaris since I was 18 and have a BS in CS from University of Delaware. I currently live in Delaware. Where are these jobs? I'd be very interested if you could help me. I am willing to compensate anyone for their efforts (that's my site/resume).
Maybe there exist people who don't buy a graphics card every year. Even the worst card gets ~54 FPS which is definitely playable. Past that, it's really academic or else you're looking to the future.
I have a Geforce2 GTS w/64 MB of memory and an Athlon XP 2200+ w/512 MB memory. I can play UT2004 fine with 32 players on any given map without frame loss (lowest detail settings, but the framerate's smooth, which is what's really important). Doom3 is a no-show. Would I have to fork over cash for a new GFX card for this game to play reasonably well or not?
NCIS is in my opinion, the best of the 3. They tend to concentrate as much on character and witty dialogue as the investigation itself (however, all the computer stuff they do is very deeply flawed at best. It always amazes me how much money they invest in making pretty graphics for those scenes but spend $0 researching them for plausibility).
If you recall Linus's opinion on patents, he encouraged people not to read them. Why? The reason for a patent's existence is to grant a limited monopoly in exchange for publicizing the secret. If you discover the methedology of a patent independently (and without knowledge of the patent), then the patent doesn't apply to you and you can't be sued.
Doesn't mean they won't try to take you to court. But that's why the EFF exists. Have you made your donation?
Compare it to games like Doom 3 or GTA. At least the game's not about killing cops to enable a drug heist (not that this is necessarily bad gameplay, but from a censor's POV). Doom or even UT2k4 had more violent death sequences (complete with bad anatomy lessons). How did these games fare for the Auzzie censors?
Condorcet is better than IRV but in the short-term (~3 major candidates) it's almost the same. Besides, Condorcet is a drop-in replacement for IRV and if we can implement IRV, condorcet would be extremely easy to put in place.
Since most people don't know about condorcet, try this link which compares Condorcet to IRV mathematically and by way of a simple example.
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China and India. People buying machines there are relatively affluent. So...should the prices be lower? Not really. Until government and situational factors reduce piracy...those affluent people cannot pay, so they don't pay," Ballmer said.
Everyone seems not to be reading what he said. Does this not seem perfectly rational/reasonable?
Even the lowest end card they tested was playable in most every resolution. What I want to know is whether I need a new GFX card for HL:Source at all.
What's the lowest level card you can play with and still get a decent gameplay experience for those of us without $300 to spend on a card that'll be obsolete in 2 years?
Corn was originally a grass, with each kernel being very small. Through very careful breeding, the Aztecs managed to increase kernel size to its present state.
Dog breeds have been around for a long time as well.
The only difference between what the Aztecs did and what scientists do is whether or not you access the genes directly or through the natural "API" (aka breeding, Java programmers no doubt hate GM food).
Of a simple six-question quiz on stances that the candidates hold on major issues, the average person got less than three questions right. 'Who wants to privatize Social Security?' Bush. That's a given.
'Which one doesn't like assault weapons?' Actually both. Kerry is well-known for supporting it, but Bush gives it lip service
'What is the cutoff income for Kerry's tax increases?' (50k, 100k, 200k, or 500k) I had heard for "the richest Americans". Politicians hate making specifics mostly because they never implement them as specified.
'Who is a former prosecutor?' My first inclination was John Edwards. We tend to hear about his legal background quite a bit whereas we only hear of Kerry's Senate/'Nam experience. If I answered "Edwards" would I get this wrong?
'Who favors making the recent tax cuts permanent?' For whom? They both favor making the middle/lower class tax cuts permanent.
'Who wants to make it easier for labor unions to organize?' Haven't heard Kerry talk about it, but I know he's supported by more unions than Bush and that the traditional democratic platform is pro-union.
So what's the score? Question 1 is fine, question 2 is really all of the above (thus wrong), question 3 is overly specific, question 4 is obscure, question 5 is misleading, and question 6 is OK. So all told, that's 1 decent questions, 4 bad questions, and one completely wrong question.
I am all-for quizes and such, but the answers to these questions are not as straighforward as you'd have us believe. (Speaking of misleading quizes, try my sig;))
The US is fast becoming a theocracy. When the president quotes the Bible on 9/11 and uses it for launching a holy "crusade" against terrorism, what more do you want? How bout an "axis of Evil"?
Instead of a war on terror, we have Christian religious fanatics fighting their crusade against an extremist muslim jihad. I hope the Ottoman empire wins.
It really depends on the friggin game or application. Does MS Access need a GeForce4? Nope (more memory is probably good).
Will Matlab run better with 1 GB of memory vs 256 MB? Probably not (a fast proc is good though).
If I have a 2 GHz CPU and want to run Doom 3, I can, but I'll need a new graphics card (my CPU would be fine).
It all boils down to what you're doing on your PC. Unless you're playing Doom3, you can probably go without the Radeon x800 turbo platiunum all-in-one-wonder pro extreme and save yourself some money or spend it on better parts you will use. If you're a gamer, you may be able to skip a proc upgrade occasionally (or go with a slightly worse processor) and go for a better video card.
Computers are general purpose machines. But what specs your computer should have depends on your specific applications.
Then why doesn't MS do it? You make it sound like a walk in a park. If it's really that fucking easy to write a virus, it ought to be that easy to fix the vulnerability exploiting it. Part of intelligence is standing on the shoulders of others and not reinventing the wheel.
I think you have trouble distinguishing between knowledge and wisdom. From a purely phenomenological view (just looking at the consequences of actions), someone who writes a widespread virus has a very good chance of becoming hired at a security firm right now. No one ever gave an convicted assualter a kindergarten job.
I believe this whenever I get hired for anything even close. I graduated last year and have been looking ever since. I've seen people who don't believe they're nearly as smart/good as I am (their words not mine) get hired and I continue to be under-employed.
If anyone would like to prove me wrong, you can get $500 for doing so (yep, it's legit, you can mess with my resume (no lying) and you do get paid).
Now, like many geeks, I'm not a huge sports fan unless it comes to CS tournaments.
But larger screens do allow for better sports viewing. Imagine trying to watch hockey on a 15 inch TV and trying to find the puck (if you even have remotely bad vision). There's a reason why sports bars invest in plasma TVs (but if, as you argue with movies, you drank 6 $2 beers every monday night (football) at a sports bar, it'd still take you ~10 years to afford a $6K TV).
And I can't say I'm that impressed yet. I'd like to see man pages or something actually implemented. man currently does stuff but man doesn't work for any command I've tried (thus there don't seem to be *any* options). There's a lot of aliases built-in to emulate Unix (e.g. ls, ps) but the lack of grep makes piping seem...well pointless. The actual versions of commands seem entirely too object oriented and thus too verbose. "get-directory" is not something I want to type (I can't remember off the top of my head, but some of them are really absurd). "ps" is ps for a reason. No frequently used command should be more than 4 letters, or require you to use aliases so you don't end up writing a novel.
Your milaage may vary. I don't care about a scripting language. I have Perl (for Win32). As far as an interactive shell, it still has a lot of rough edges. Personally, I'd rather just use Cygwin/Bash and get a real shell.
(Though I talked to one of the guys personally and he seems pretty cool.)
I had a job interview with IBM in the not-so-distant past, and I never got directions because Mozilla's spam filter thought it was junk. I finally realized this, but not after caling them back and saying I never got it. Missing this interview would've cost me well more than $20.
I'm going to be modded flamebait since I'm going to bash LotR on Slashdot=)
After seeing the trilogy, I couldn't help but feel the fighting scenes were unsatisfying. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, and then I watched Braveheart. Now THAT had good action sequences. I don't think it had to do with ammount, it had to do with how over-the-top ugly action sequences which merely came off as scripted and campy. If I wanted to see two CGI armies battle it out, I could buy Rome: Total War or Warcraft 3. Live actors bring something to the experience as anyone who's every been to a good Ren Faire can tell you.
CGI is the new thing like OOP or the internet and so people believe it's the be-all and end-all. Maybe some day, much like the internet bubble, the CGI bubble will pop. And I can again enjoy a good epic battle.
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Why not just buy Warcraft III/TFT for $50, and let the fans make up mods for free? Why not, gasp, play it online and not pay a monthly fee?
When some company makes a MMORPG without a monthly fee, I'll bite. Until then, there's weeks where I go without gaming and have a life.
I'm a gamer on occasion. And when I play an FPS, I don't like frame loss. I recently noticed I was losing frames on occasion. I brought up task manager to see what was doing it, and firefox is using significant CPU power even when it's doing absolutely nothing. (Thus, closing firefox caused a perfect framerate to occur again). Anyone else have this issue? Why does the web browser need CPU to idle?
Russia didn't accept because of good foreign policy. Maybe only partially. They accepted because they pollute less now than their target and they can sell the rest of their pollution quota and make money.
Well I would actually like to relocate there, I just always seem to have trouble finding companies who don't get flooded with resumes and throw half of them out. If anyone knows of a company who'd be interested in a recent grad who likes to code code/debug, is highly motivated, has good communication skills, and has some work experience doing all of the above, you can earn yourself some money by helping me.
I'm 23, have been using/messing around with Linux/Solaris since I was 18 and have a BS in CS from University of Delaware. I currently live in Delaware. Where are these jobs? I'd be very interested if you could help me. I am willing to compensate anyone for their efforts (that's my site/resume).
Maybe there exist people who don't buy a graphics card every year. Even the worst card gets ~54 FPS which is definitely playable. Past that, it's really academic or else you're looking to the future.
I have a Geforce2 GTS w/64 MB of memory and an Athlon XP 2200+ w/512 MB memory. I can play UT2004 fine with 32 players on any given map without frame loss (lowest detail settings, but the framerate's smooth, which is what's really important). Doom3 is a no-show. Would I have to fork over cash for a new GFX card for this game to play reasonably well or not?
NCIS is in my opinion, the best of the 3. They tend to concentrate as much on character and witty dialogue as the investigation itself (however, all the computer stuff they do is very deeply flawed at best. It always amazes me how much money they invest in making pretty graphics for those scenes but spend $0 researching them for plausibility).
IANAL..but
If you recall Linus's opinion on patents, he encouraged people not to read them. Why? The reason for a patent's existence is to grant a limited monopoly in exchange for publicizing the secret. If you discover the methedology of a patent independently (and without knowledge of the patent), then the patent doesn't apply to you and you can't be sued.
Doesn't mean they won't try to take you to court. But that's why the EFF exists. Have you made your donation?
Compare it to games like Doom 3 or GTA. At least the game's not about killing cops to enable a drug heist (not that this is necessarily bad gameplay, but from a censor's POV). Doom or even UT2k4 had more violent death sequences (complete with bad anatomy lessons). How did these games fare for the Auzzie censors?
Condorcet is better than IRV but in the short-term (~3 major candidates) it's almost the same. Besides, Condorcet is a drop-in replacement for IRV and if we can implement IRV, condorcet would be extremely easy to put in place.
Since most people don't know about condorcet, try this link which compares Condorcet to IRV mathematically and by way of a simple example.
For those not RTFAing:
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China and India. People buying machines there are relatively affluent. So...should the prices be lower? Not really. Until government and situational factors reduce piracy...those affluent people cannot pay, so they don't pay," Ballmer said.
Everyone seems not to be reading what he said. Does this not seem perfectly rational/reasonable?
Even the lowest end card they tested was playable in most every resolution. What I want to know is whether I need a new GFX card for HL:Source at all.
What's the lowest level card you can play with and still get a decent gameplay experience for those of us without $300 to spend on a card that'll be obsolete in 2 years?
Corn was originally a grass, with each kernel being very small. Through very careful breeding, the Aztecs managed to increase kernel size to its present state.
Dog breeds have been around for a long time as well.
The only difference between what the Aztecs did and what scientists do is whether or not you access the genes directly or through the natural "API" (aka breeding, Java programmers no doubt hate GM food).
(Waits for jokes about kernel size.)
Does anyone have any further information about the large explosion in N Korea last month? It seemed like the story dropped off the face of the planet.
The old story is reported here.
Does anyone else remember that show? I remember watching it in the mid 80's. (Sorry, I was little.)
The constitution doesn't give us any rights.
The bill of rights doesn't either.
We inherently have the rights. The only thing the Bill of Rights is restrict the abilties of the government.
Of a simple six-question quiz on stances that the candidates hold on major issues, the average person got less than three questions right.
'Who wants to privatize Social Security?'
Bush. That's a given.
'Which one doesn't like assault weapons?'
Actually both. Kerry is well-known for supporting it, but Bush gives it lip service
'What is the cutoff income for Kerry's tax increases?' (50k, 100k, 200k, or 500k)
I had heard for "the richest Americans". Politicians hate making specifics mostly because they never implement them as specified.
'Who is a former prosecutor?'
My first inclination was John Edwards. We tend to hear about his legal background quite a bit whereas we only hear of Kerry's Senate/'Nam experience. If I answered "Edwards" would I get this wrong?
'Who favors making the recent tax cuts permanent?'
For whom? They both favor making the middle/lower class tax cuts permanent.
'Who wants to make it easier for labor unions to organize?'
Haven't heard Kerry talk about it, but I know he's supported by more unions than Bush and that the traditional democratic platform is pro-union.
So what's the score? Question 1 is fine, question 2 is really all of the above (thus wrong), question 3 is overly specific, question 4 is obscure, question 5 is misleading, and question 6 is OK. So all told, that's 1 decent questions, 4 bad questions, and one completely wrong question.
I am all-for quizes and such, but the answers to these questions are not as straighforward as you'd have us believe. (Speaking of misleading quizes, try my sig;))
The US is fast becoming a theocracy. When the president quotes the Bible on 9/11 and uses it for launching a holy "crusade" against terrorism, what more do you want? How bout an "axis of Evil"?
Instead of a war on terror, we have Christian religious fanatics fighting their crusade against an extremist muslim jihad. I hope the Ottoman empire wins.
It really depends on the friggin game or application. Does MS Access need a GeForce4? Nope (more memory is probably good).
Will Matlab run better with 1 GB of memory vs 256 MB? Probably not (a fast proc is good though).
If I have a 2 GHz CPU and want to run Doom 3, I can, but I'll need a new graphics card (my CPU would be fine).
It all boils down to what you're doing on your PC. Unless you're playing Doom3, you can probably go without the Radeon x800 turbo platiunum all-in-one-wonder pro extreme and save yourself some money or spend it on better parts you will use. If you're a gamer, you may be able to skip a proc upgrade occasionally (or go with a slightly worse processor) and go for a better video card.
Computers are general purpose machines. But what specs your computer should have depends on your specific applications.
Then why doesn't MS do it? You make it sound like a walk in a park. If it's really that fucking easy to write a virus, it ought to be that easy to fix the vulnerability exploiting it. Part of intelligence is standing on the shoulders of others and not reinventing the wheel.
I think you have trouble distinguishing between knowledge and wisdom. From a purely phenomenological view (just looking at the consequences of actions), someone who writes a widespread virus has a very good chance of becoming hired at a security firm right now. No one ever gave an convicted assualter a kindergarten job.
I believe this whenever I get hired for anything even close. I graduated last year and have been looking ever since. I've seen people who don't believe they're nearly as smart/good as I am (their words not mine) get hired and I continue to be under-employed.
If anyone would like to prove me wrong, you can get $500 for doing so (yep, it's legit, you can mess with my resume (no lying) and you do get paid).
Now, like many geeks, I'm not a huge sports fan unless it comes to CS tournaments.
But larger screens do allow for better sports viewing. Imagine trying to watch hockey on a 15 inch TV and trying to find the puck (if you even have remotely bad vision). There's a reason why sports bars invest in plasma TVs (but if, as you argue with movies, you drank 6 $2 beers every monday night (football) at a sports bar, it'd still take you ~10 years to afford a $6K TV).
And I can't say I'm that impressed yet. I'd like to see man pages or something actually implemented. man currently does stuff but man doesn't work for any command I've tried (thus there don't seem to be *any* options). There's a lot of aliases built-in to emulate Unix (e.g. ls, ps) but the lack of grep makes piping seem...well pointless. The actual versions of commands seem entirely too object oriented and thus too verbose. "get-directory" is not something I want to type (I can't remember off the top of my head, but some of them are really absurd). "ps" is ps for a reason. No frequently used command should be more than 4 letters, or require you to use aliases so you don't end up writing a novel.
Your milaage may vary. I don't care about a scripting language. I have Perl (for Win32). As far as an interactive shell, it still has a lot of rough edges. Personally, I'd rather just use Cygwin/Bash and get a real shell.
(Though I talked to one of the guys personally and he seems pretty cool.)
I had a job interview with IBM in the not-so-distant past, and I never got directions because Mozilla's spam filter thought it was junk. I finally realized this, but not after caling them back and saying I never got it. Missing this interview would've cost me well more than $20.
I'm going to be modded flamebait since I'm going to bash LotR on Slashdot=)
After seeing the trilogy, I couldn't help but feel the fighting scenes were unsatisfying. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, and then I watched Braveheart. Now THAT had good action sequences. I don't think it had to do with ammount, it had to do with how over-the-top ugly action sequences which merely came off as scripted and campy. If I wanted to see two CGI armies battle it out, I could buy Rome: Total War or Warcraft 3. Live actors bring something to the experience as anyone who's every been to a good Ren Faire can tell you.
CGI is the new thing like OOP or the internet and so people believe it's the be-all and end-all. Maybe some day, much like the internet bubble, the CGI bubble will pop. And I can again enjoy a good epic battle.