We got the first c++ compiler to handle the whole language just a little over a year ago. (article) I wonder how many decades it will be until we get a compliant compiler for c++r0x0rz.
While these chips sound very interesting at first, there are obvious privacy concerns. I'm not very comfortable knowing that someone with a portable transceiver could tell exactly how much cash I have in my wallet or what items I just purchased at the store. Criminals could also use this to determine what expensive items were hidden under the back seat of your car before they decide to break your window. The possibility of having RFIDs in my shoes is quite disturbing. I don't want to be tracked everywhere I go.
How susceptible are these tiny units to small EMP charges? If you drive by a high power radio tower, are the chips in your shoes going to start smoking? While this technology is interesting, I hope it goes no furthur than a replacement for barcodes.
Bayesian is more or less word based, so graphical only messages fly right by my Mozilla mail filters. I believe it does the check after the html has rendered. If they ran the filter before the html was rendered, they might have slighty better results. Eventually all spammers will learn the undetectable patterns that only a handfull seem to know now, and it will once again render mail filters useless. I hate HTML e-mail.
DOH! I didn't notice. I wish slashdot would let you edit posts.
At $15 compared to $30, I'm not going to cancel my order even if it is just 1st edition. The only parts I'll miss is the extra info on new Perl 5.8 features, and maybe the unicode stuff. Guess I'll be reading perldoc.com for that.
I just purchased an almost new copy on Half.com for under $15 including shipping. There are still a few left at prices far lower than amazon.com or bn.com. Here is the half/ebay link.
I prefer to read off of paper books than screens, but paper can be so wasteful. Recycled paper just isn't the same. This is why I mentioned the electric paper, because that might save quite a few trees.
It's a shame that Gemstar is going down in flames, but eventually ebooks will go mainstream. How much longer can we keep producing books out of paper? Some type of handheld, non-paper, book will eventually have to replace the paper book.
I heard something a while back about electric "paper" that could change it's own print. I think it would be really nifty to have a book where you could pop in a flash card and have all the pages change their text. Anyone else heard anything else about this technology? (Other than it's expensive, like all new tech.)
That's why I've pretty much given up gaming completely. I've become way more productive and constantly learn new, productive skills. At first I had decided to stop gaming for 3 month to get some work done, but at the end of 3 months I didn't want to go back to playing 2-3 hours of games a day. It really is a huge waste of time.
The only main point I see in that article is that taking breaks helps productivity. I agree with that completely. I think that taking a break and talking a walk would probably be much more beneficial than taking a video game break. Has everyone already forgotten this article?
A little popularity never hurts, but being stuffed, head first, into a toilet bowl, does. Being extremely popular has it's disadvantages, mainly the high maintainance, but surely this is better than cleaning crap out of your hair. To put it simply, popularity is power. The value in that is so obvious I need not state it.
There is no correspondence between intelligence and social ineptitude. I've known as many popular smart people as I've known unpopular smart people. Infact, most of the unpopular smart people I knew scored lower on their SAT than the popular. I realize that this is a rough estimate and that SAT scores do not directly relate to intelligence; perhaps it was just coincidence, but still an interesting statistic, none the less.
I just happen to own a 350 and a 500. Perfect, just perfect.
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Open source is slow--but eventually, it gets there, and it usually ends up doing a better job.
But is it worth the wait? Is it really worth the wait if you always end up a generation or 2 behind?
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I'm not a gamer. I don't even have an AGP video card. I use onboard because I don't need 3D hardware to render my 2D desktop. Without all these gamers (losers) companies like nvidia wouldn't be making $$$ and investing so much into the advancement of 3D technology. 3D games might be a sad and pathetic reason to invest billions into, but it is driving the market.
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Actually, I have 2 linux servers which I've been maintaining for years. Works great as a server, but the desktop environment is poor. So of course I'm on a windows machine; the linux desktop sucks.
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A good game generally needs a good budget to back it. Open source doesn't make much money, if any. Why spend the cash to port it to an OS with less users who are used to getting everything for free? Loki games being a good example. (Not to mention that everything was always 6 month late.)
The savings come more in the arena of stuff such as scientific visualisation where the licensing fees are huge for stuff like DirectX. This is where MESA may gain popularity. I'm glad to see that MESA is keeping up pretty well with the OpenGL spec. Nice piece of software. It's too bad most of us will not ever have a need to use it.
Sounds like a great system to me. Even if the vacuum seal broke it could still function. Things like this are going to have to become reality if we want to preserve our planet, and at the same time move into the future. But it will not happen, at least not for a long time. People fear change and greed puts the nail in the coffin.
Mass transit is a good example. Why don't American's use it? Because cars are more convinient. To hell with the environvent, people want to drive their gas guzzling SUV to the office where it will sit all day until they start it up again just in time to sit in traffic. It's not going to change until gas prices go up to high for most people to afford. Personally, I welcome it with open arms.
A more geeky example would be the slow adoption of Apache 2.0. It's flat out better and faster than the previous, but no one wants to upgrade. This caused the code freeze; technology being held back once again.
You know airlines, and car manufactuers will try to hold back anything that prevents them from making money. This will probably be the main thing that prevents something like this from making it out. Ever hear of the sweeteners Stevia or Sucrolose? Probably not, because sugar and artificial sweetener companies have been holding it back for years. Stevia has a sweetness like licorice, but without the licorice flavor; it has been used for thousands of years. Sucrolose is derived from sugar and tastes almost the same; it was invented over 10 years ago. Both are safe unlike some of the popular sweeteners, such as aspartame.
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We got the first c++ compiler to handle the whole language just a little over a year ago. (article) I wonder how many decades it will be until we get a compliant compiler for c++r0x0rz.
What about tabbed browsing and mouse gestures? Opera is still innovating with dozens of features. Now if only pages would render properly on it.
While these chips sound very interesting at first, there are obvious privacy concerns. I'm not very comfortable knowing that someone with a portable transceiver could tell exactly how much cash I have in my wallet or what items I just purchased at the store. Criminals could also use this to determine what expensive items were hidden under the back seat of your car before they decide to break your window. The possibility of having RFIDs in my shoes is quite disturbing. I don't want to be tracked everywhere I go.
How susceptible are these tiny units to small EMP charges? If you drive by a high power radio tower, are the chips in your shoes going to start smoking? While this technology is interesting, I hope it goes no furthur than a replacement for barcodes.
Bayesian filtering it's a miracle solution, but it does save about 45 seconds a day. That adds up to quite a bit over time.
Bayesian is more or less word based, so graphical only messages fly right by my Mozilla mail filters. I believe it does the check after the html has rendered. If they ran the filter before the html was rendered, they might have slighty better results. Eventually all spammers will learn the undetectable patterns that only a handfull seem to know now, and it will once again render mail filters useless. I hate HTML e-mail.
DOH! I didn't notice. I wish slashdot would let you edit posts.
At $15 compared to $30, I'm not going to cancel my order even if it is just 1st edition. The only parts I'll miss is the extra info on new Perl 5.8 features, and maybe the unicode stuff. Guess I'll be reading perldoc.com for that.
I just purchased an almost new copy on Half.com for under $15 including shipping. There are still a few left at prices far lower than amazon.com or bn.com. Here is the half/ebay link.
I prefer to read off of paper books than screens, but paper can be so wasteful. Recycled paper just isn't the same. This is why I mentioned the electric paper, because that might save quite a few trees.
It's a shame that Gemstar is going down in flames, but eventually ebooks will go mainstream. How much longer can we keep producing books out of paper? Some type of handheld, non-paper, book will eventually have to replace the paper book.
I heard something a while back about electric "paper" that could change it's own print. I think it would be really nifty to have a book where you could pop in a flash card and have all the pages change their text. Anyone else heard anything else about this technology? (Other than it's expensive, like all new tech.)
That's why I've pretty much given up gaming completely. I've become way more productive and constantly learn new, productive skills. At first I had decided to stop gaming for 3 month to get some work done, but at the end of 3 months I didn't want to go back to playing 2-3 hours of games a day. It really is a huge waste of time.
The only main point I see in that article is that taking breaks helps productivity. I agree with that completely. I think that taking a break and talking a walk would probably be much more beneficial than taking a video game break. Has everyone already forgotten this article?
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/993832.htm
If I have sex with my girlfriend from a parallel universe, is it really cheating?
No kidding. I've been using my same AIM name for years and I still have under 20 people on it. Maybe I'm just not as big a nerd as I thought I was.
"Your popularity score: 0."
Yet somehow the IM spammers find me...
256kbit isn't even close too enough bandwidth. I require 1.5mbit to pirate my music and movies.
This movie is so horrible, yet gets so much airtime at night on TNT or TBS.
WTF you talking about? Both those movies sucked.
A little popularity never hurts, but being stuffed, head first, into a toilet bowl, does. Being extremely popular has it's disadvantages, mainly the high maintainance, but surely this is better than cleaning crap out of your hair. To put it simply, popularity is power. The value in that is so obvious I need not state it.
There is no correspondence between intelligence and social ineptitude. I've known as many popular smart people as I've known unpopular smart people. Infact, most of the unpopular smart people I knew scored lower on their SAT than the popular. I realize that this is a rough estimate and that SAT scores do not directly relate to intelligence; perhaps it was just coincidence, but still an interesting statistic, none the less.
You're in denial my friend.
Yes, but a flaming bag doesn't last 70 years! I only wish I had come up with the idea.
I just happen to own a 350 and a 500. Perfect, just perfect.
Open source is slow--but eventually, it gets there, and it usually ends up doing a better job. But is it worth the wait? Is it really worth the wait if you always end up a generation or 2 behind?
I'm not a gamer. I don't even have an AGP video card. I use onboard because I don't need 3D hardware to render my 2D desktop. Without all these gamers (losers) companies like nvidia wouldn't be making $$$ and investing so much into the advancement of 3D technology. 3D games might be a sad and pathetic reason to invest billions into, but it is driving the market.
Actually, I have 2 linux servers which I've been maintaining for years. Works great as a server, but the desktop environment is poor. So of course I'm on a windows machine; the linux desktop sucks.
A good game generally needs a good budget to back it. Open source doesn't make much money, if any. Why spend the cash to port it to an OS with less users who are used to getting everything for free? Loki games being a good example. (Not to mention that everything was always 6 month late.)
The savings come more in the arena of stuff such as scientific visualisation where the licensing fees are huge for stuff like DirectX. This is where MESA may gain popularity. I'm glad to see that MESA is keeping up pretty well with the OpenGL spec. Nice piece of software. It's too bad most of us will not ever have a need to use it.
Does it run linux?
First post! Muha.
Sounds like a great system to me. Even if the vacuum seal broke it could still function. Things like this are going to have to become reality if we want to preserve our planet, and at the same time move into the future. But it will not happen, at least not for a long time. People fear change and greed puts the nail in the coffin.
Mass transit is a good example. Why don't American's use it? Because cars are more convinient. To hell with the environvent, people want to drive their gas guzzling SUV to the office where it will sit all day until they start it up again just in time to sit in traffic. It's not going to change until gas prices go up to high for most people to afford. Personally, I welcome it with open arms.
A more geeky example would be the slow adoption of Apache 2.0. It's flat out better and faster than the previous, but no one wants to upgrade. This caused the code freeze; technology being held back once again.
You know airlines, and car manufactuers will try to hold back anything that prevents them from making money. This will probably be the main thing that prevents something like this from making it out. Ever hear of the sweeteners Stevia or Sucrolose? Probably not, because sugar and artificial sweetener companies have been holding it back for years. Stevia has a sweetness like licorice, but without the licorice flavor; it has been used for thousands of years. Sucrolose is derived from sugar and tastes almost the same; it was invented over 10 years ago. Both are safe unlike some of the popular sweeteners, such as aspartame.