Not at all. It's a joke, and I understand that. I enjoy a good joke as much as the next person.
It's not even that this joke was necessarily all that offensive, but that slashdot has shown a long-term intolerance to those who have political/religious belifs other than the typical Liberal/Agnostic seen here.
I can tolerate others who have a different faith than I as well as those who have no faith at all (though I certainly feel sorry for them).
Atheism is just as much a beleif as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, or any of the other major religious beleifs in the world, and yet they often consider themselves somehow higher than everybody else, that since they believe in no god, they are free to jab at ANY religion and that their intellect is somehow more valuable than faith.
Of course, what I said above is a complete stereotype. One of my best friend is jewish and an atheist (I know -- a contradiction, but that's what he calls himself). We realize that our beleifs are different than the other's, and therefore we don't let it come between us. Sure, we will occasionally have a breif intelligent discussion on the topic, but we don't force our beleifs on each other -- or any other person for that matter. It works out better that way in the end.
Ah. The one forum where you can openly insult creationists and get modded +5 insightful without providing any evidence whatsoever.
A comment promoting cretationism would most likely be moderated as a troll.
We may calim to be fair and objective, but slashdot is by far the worst offender for pro-liberal, anti-religious journalism i've ever seen. (Slashdot is just as guilty as fox news for 'selective journalism')
As a practicing Catholic, I'm beginning to find the comments here downright offensive. I could care less about a pro-liberal stance or politics as long as an attempt is made to have an intelligent debate.
Seriously. Look at the pictures, does anyone else get the idea that this thing is WAY more powerful than any nuclear power plant..... (sans radiation of course..)
note that many schools scale this based upon the difficulty of the course. Eg, an A+ in an honors course will often equate to a 5.0, or will simply be weighted more heavily than an easier course.
However, my school grades on a 4.3 scale where 4.3 is an a+, 4.0 is an a, etc...
A 3.5 would be about the top quarter in my school.
it looks like stem cell research will continue to be a necessary evil.
this treatment is no good for patients who are already injured. it does not repair or rebuild nerve cells. it simply prevents them from being killed after injury.
granted, it is an important step, but we need to develop further treatments for the 25% of cases it doesn't work in. while 75% success is astoundingly good in this field, it isn't enough
The worst thing to do with stress/emotion is to hide it and keep it away. Sure, there are definitely occasions when you need to keep your cool, but if you fid yourself having to do it constantly every day, get out fast. You will find yourself doing something rash and stupid which you will most definitely regret later on if you let it all build up.
In other words, he doesn't follow the traditional OSS development at all.
If all open source stuff was developed this way, Windows/MacOS would have died a long time ago.
I also admire the guy for not releasing a final release at all 'til all the major bugs are polished out. Calling it 0.17 is gutsy as well. Most people would call something like this a whole version number bump.
Pity that more people aren't working on this project and in this fashion.
Look at Mozilla. Remember the old Milestone builds? Talk about unnecessary bloat/misguidance. While firefox is a lean machine compared to its older cousin, it's still got MILLIONS of lines of gratuitious code in it for unnecessary 'features'. As much as XUL sounds like a good idea, imagine how much faster the browser would be if it either used native widgets or XUL was stripped clean of unnecessary features which are now permanent.
Get real. Look at the number of Reactors commisioned in the past 20 years.
The number is in the single digits and several of them are RBMKs (the same type of reactor used at Chernobyl -- yep, they're still making them). This page shows russia having 15 still in service, one yet to be opened (can anyone confirm??), and the last of the others being shut down by 2023.
Things don't look good for nuclear power in the future no matter how safe it may be...
From the FAQ It means that DR17 will combine features of a window manager and a file manager. It will provide nicely integrated GUI elements for managing your desktop elements, both files and windows. It does *not* mean that DR17 will be another application framework like Gnome and KDE.
I'm not very familiar with E, so feel to correct me, but this sounds a heck of a lot like the function of the Finder in MacOS (both X and classic) and explorer.exe in Win9x.
I'm not saying that this is a BAD thing, but it's hardly original. Needless to say, I think this will be a good thing overall for Linux if we're to actually get a good desktop. It's been established that the KDE/Gnome metaphor doesn't work at all and that the file manager and window manager need to be intergrated (as shown by the OS X Dock-like thing in the E17 screenshots)
Now, of course, you do have the problem of an application framework. It REALLY should be intergrated into the WM / File Manager (FM). As said already, monolithic models like KDE and Gnome just don't work. They're bloated, ugly, and force developers to commit to one platform.
E17 seems to be a step in the right direction but not quite enough. First off, this stuff is pretty basic and should probably be intergrated right into X11. Secondly, we need some sort of UI toolkit which could theoretically have more than one implementation (in the same way that there are several implementations of the X protocol).
XUL could be the answer to all this. It's a cross-platform UI language. If someone wanted to make their own XUL implementation, they'd be free to do so and the K/Gnome folks could finally get along.
So in short -- keep the current 'layering' model that we've got going on with the unix desktop metaphor, but make it so that different implementations of these layers don't break compatibility.
Wow. If the design of their website doesn't give you a 'Big-brother' impression, nothing will.
Seriously... are they GLOATING at the fact that they're an agency which literally nobody knows what they're doing.
Heck, I remember reading somewhere that during WWII, the mere existance of the British equivilant to the NSA was known of by somewhere along the liens of two or three people outside of the agency itself -- Churchill was one of them.
This article scares the hell out of me. Not because some dudes broke into a building and stole some stuff -- that's to be expected. It's because removing a few isolated pieces of equipment managed to paralyze the county's 911 system. Seriously -- do they actually run tests to see what happens if they pull the plug?
The rule for redundancy is that you've gotta have the equipment in more than one place. The redundant equipment shouldn't have been in the same building, let alone the same town.
A few years ago, an underground steam explosion knocked out the main phone and power stations for my area (both of which were stupidly placed smack next to each other). Because of the way the network was designed, phone service was not interrupted at all and the power went out for about 10 minutes. This was from an explosion which completely severed the connections to both buildings. THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD WORK.
Be warned, you'll need to map Ctrl-Alt-Meta-Play to your remote in order to do anything useful with the show.
Vi pundits have also announced their own show. This one will automatically re-map all of the keys on your remote so that each key will have an unidentified cryptic function whose purpose is not revealed even after pressing the button.
Once the show starts, the viewer is greeted by a blank screen. This blank screen will remain indefinitely until the user figures out the remote-key combination to quit the program. Don't mess up, because then you might not be able to quit at all!
In order to actually watch the show, you will have to press an unidentified button on the remote which will allow you to watch the show.
To summarize, since there should be no more than 32,000 people in a precinct, the machines were not configured to handle more votes than that. As a result, they counted BACKWARDS once the 32,000 person limit was reached.
Methinks this is a buffer overflow issue (32,768 votes as opposed to the 32,000 quoted in the article). How thick can you be to design a polling system storing votes in an int...
I'll take my basic freedoms and liberty any day over technology.
Seriously. Don't you think there's a cost to all this? Do you really think a republic like the US could do something like this?
The fact is -- it would be easier for us to modernize Iraq than it would be to modernize the US. Authoritarian control makes everything a ton easier for the government at the expense of the people.
You're right. 60hz is pretty bad for a CRT. It hurts the eyes.
However, you've got to consider a few facts: The time it takes each pixel to begin to change is near-instantaneous with DVI. It just take 20ish ms to fully and completely change. Since it's also rare for every single pixel to be dramatically changing each and every frame -- while a higher latency will cause ghosting, motion on an lcd today looks quite fluid and natural.
Also, the reason why 60hz is awful for a crt. The screen redraws itself 60 times. In between the times the screen is redrawn, it is blank (though you would never notice it with your own eyes). This is because of flicker which is the main reason why 60hz just sucks so much on a CRT. I've read that in double-blind tests, most humans couldn't distinguish framerates once they went over 30fps, and virtually nobody could distinguish over 45
The only departments which LCDs can't match a CRT for is Brightness and Contrast. Right now, most LCDs can perform equally to a decent CRT, but nowhere nearly as good as a professional-level one. This is a fundamental problem with LCDs which is never likely to be solved completely. Still, I find it adequate.
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so does this mean we can stop paying $50 per game?
I appreciate the sentiment and all, but $50 is just a tad outrageous.....
Not at all. It's a joke, and I understand that. I enjoy a good joke as much as the next person.
It's not even that this joke was necessarily all that offensive, but that slashdot has shown a long-term intolerance to those who have political/religious belifs other than the typical Liberal/Agnostic seen here.
I can tolerate others who have a different faith than I as well as those who have no faith at all (though I certainly feel sorry for them).
Atheism is just as much a beleif as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, or any of the other major religious beleifs in the world, and yet they often consider themselves somehow higher than everybody else, that since they believe in no god, they are free to jab at ANY religion and that their intellect is somehow more valuable than faith.
Of course, what I said above is a complete stereotype. One of my best friend is jewish and an atheist (I know -- a contradiction, but that's what he calls himself). We realize that our beleifs are different than the other's, and therefore we don't let it come between us. Sure, we will occasionally have a breif intelligent discussion on the topic, but we don't force our beleifs on each other -- or any other person for that matter. It works out better that way in the end.
Ah. The one forum where you can openly insult creationists and get modded +5 insightful without providing any evidence whatsoever.
A comment promoting cretationism would most likely be moderated as a troll.
We may calim to be fair and objective, but slashdot is by far the worst offender for pro-liberal, anti-religious journalism i've ever seen. (Slashdot is just as guilty as fox news for 'selective journalism')
As a practicing Catholic, I'm beginning to find the comments here downright offensive. I could care less about a pro-liberal stance or politics as long as an attempt is made to have an intelligent debate.
does this mean we can pull the plug on this monstrosity.
Seriously. Look at the pictures, does anyone else get the idea that this thing is WAY more powerful than any nuclear power plant..... (sans radiation of course..)
note that many schools scale this based upon the difficulty of the course. Eg, an A+ in an honors course will often equate to a 5.0, or will simply be weighted more heavily than an easier course.
However, my school grades on a 4.3 scale where 4.3 is an a+, 4.0 is an a, etc...
A 3.5 would be about the top quarter in my school.
it looks like stem cell research will continue to be a necessary evil.
this treatment is no good for patients who are already injured. it does not repair or rebuild nerve cells. it simply prevents them from being killed after injury.
granted, it is an important step, but we need to develop further treatments for the 25% of cases it doesn't work in. while 75% success is astoundingly good in this field, it isn't enough
Why hasn't anyone predicted the downfall of preemptive journalism? We've pretty much predicted the end of everything else
I smell a rat.....
From a friend who lived in china for a year (last year to be precise)
"China isn't oppressive. It's just really organized."
A mindset like that scares the hell out of me and makes me glad I'm not an ultra-liberal who actually supports this type of behavior.
Thank God for America. A lot of us seem to be taking the First Amendment for granted.
The worst thing to do with stress/emotion is to hide it and keep it away. Sure, there are definitely occasions when you need to keep your cool, but if you fid yourself having to do it constantly every day, get out fast. You will find yourself doing something rash and stupid which you will most definitely regret later on if you let it all build up.
Hmm... Intel should REALLY invest in time-travel.
After all, the sheer force of this article alone has brought us back 3 years!
In other words, he doesn't follow the traditional OSS development at all.
If all open source stuff was developed this way, Windows/MacOS would have died a long time ago.
I also admire the guy for not releasing a final release at all 'til all the major bugs are polished out. Calling it 0.17 is gutsy as well. Most people would call something like this a whole version number bump.
Pity that more people aren't working on this project and in this fashion.
Look at Mozilla. Remember the old Milestone builds? Talk about unnecessary bloat/misguidance. While firefox is a lean machine compared to its older cousin, it's still got MILLIONS of lines of gratuitious code in it for unnecessary 'features'. As much as XUL sounds like a good idea, imagine how much faster the browser would be if it either used native widgets or XUL was stripped clean of unnecessary features which are now permanent.
Get real. Look at the number of Reactors commisioned in the past 20 years.
The number is in the single digits and several of them are RBMKs (the same type of reactor used at Chernobyl -- yep, they're still making them). This page shows russia having 15 still in service, one yet to be opened (can anyone confirm??), and the last of the others being shut down by 2023.
Things don't look good for nuclear power in the future no matter how safe it may be...
From the FAQ
It means that DR17 will combine features of a window manager and a file manager. It will provide nicely integrated GUI elements for managing your desktop elements, both files and windows. It does *not* mean that DR17 will be another application framework like Gnome and KDE.
I'm not very familiar with E, so feel to correct me, but this sounds a heck of a lot like the function of the Finder in MacOS (both X and classic) and explorer.exe in Win9x.
I'm not saying that this is a BAD thing, but it's hardly original. Needless to say, I think this will be a good thing overall for Linux if we're to actually get a good desktop. It's been established that the KDE/Gnome metaphor doesn't work at all and that the file manager and window manager need to be intergrated (as shown by the OS X Dock-like thing in the E17 screenshots)
Now, of course, you do have the problem of an application framework. It REALLY should be intergrated into the WM / File Manager (FM). As said already, monolithic models like KDE and Gnome just don't work. They're bloated, ugly, and force developers to commit to one platform.
E17 seems to be a step in the right direction but not quite enough. First off, this stuff is pretty basic and should probably be intergrated right into X11. Secondly, we need some sort of UI toolkit which could theoretically have more than one implementation (in the same way that there are several implementations of the X protocol).
XUL could be the answer to all this. It's a cross-platform UI language. If someone wanted to make their own XUL implementation, they'd be free to do so and the K/Gnome folks could finally get along.
So in short -- keep the current 'layering' model that we've got going on with the unix desktop metaphor, but make it so that different implementations of these layers don't break compatibility.
Yes, but the point of redundancy is not to put the equipment in THE SAME FREAKING ROOM, let alone the same building or town.
If something happened to that building such as a fire/flood/terrorism (God forbid), the entire county would be screwed.
(Score: 5, Anti-conservative)
So much for objectivity.
Wow. If the design of their website doesn't give you a 'Big-brother' impression, nothing will.
Seriously... are they GLOATING at the fact that they're an agency which literally nobody knows what they're doing.
Heck, I remember reading somewhere that during WWII, the mere existance of the British equivilant to the NSA was known of by somewhere along the liens of two or three people outside of the agency itself -- Churchill was one of them.
Thanks for playing.
Sorry. You seem to have mispelled that. Here. Let me correct it.
Thanks for paying.
This article scares the hell out of me. Not because some dudes broke into a building and stole some stuff -- that's to be expected. It's because removing a few isolated pieces of equipment managed to paralyze the county's 911 system. Seriously -- do they actually run tests to see what happens if they pull the plug?
The rule for redundancy is that you've gotta have the equipment in more than one place. The redundant equipment shouldn't have been in the same building, let alone the same town.
A few years ago, an underground steam explosion knocked out the main phone and power stations for my area (both of which were stupidly placed smack next to each other). Because of the way the network was designed, phone service was not interrupted at all and the power went out for about 10 minutes. This was from an explosion which completely severed the connections to both buildings. THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD WORK.
Also coming soon, EMACS the show.
Be warned, you'll need to map Ctrl-Alt-Meta-Play to your remote in order to do anything useful with the show.
Vi pundits have also announced their own show. This one will automatically re-map all of the keys on your remote so that each key will have an unidentified cryptic function whose purpose is not revealed even after pressing the button.
Once the show starts, the viewer is greeted by a blank screen. This blank screen will remain indefinitely until the user figures out the remote-key combination to quit the program. Don't mess up, because then you might not be able to quit at all!
In order to actually watch the show, you will have to press an unidentified button on the remote which will allow you to watch the show.
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New York City HAS an urban planner?
Jeez, and I thought my job had a tradition of mediocrity.......
I think it's cause for concern when the release is 7 months away and all they have so far is CONCEPT ART!!!
Or is it possible to produce a film of this proportion in that span of time???
Don't look now, but something even dumber happened in florida as well.
To summarize, since there should be no more than 32,000 people in a precinct, the machines were not configured to handle more votes than that. As a result, they counted BACKWARDS once the 32,000 person limit was reached.
Methinks this is a buffer overflow issue (32,768 votes as opposed to the 32,000 quoted in the article). How thick can you be to design a polling system storing votes in an int...
I'll take my basic freedoms and liberty any day over technology.
Seriously. Don't you think there's a cost to all this? Do you really think a republic like the US could do something like this?
The fact is -- it would be easier for us to modernize Iraq than it would be to modernize the US. Authoritarian control makes everything a ton easier for the government at the expense of the people.
Pick your poison.
You're right. 60hz is pretty bad for a CRT. It hurts the eyes.
However, you've got to consider a few facts: The time it takes each pixel to begin to change is near-instantaneous with DVI. It just take 20ish ms to fully and completely change. Since it's also rare for every single pixel to be dramatically changing each and every frame -- while a higher latency will cause ghosting, motion on an lcd today looks quite fluid and natural.
Also, the reason why 60hz is awful for a crt. The screen redraws itself 60 times. In between the times the screen is redrawn, it is blank (though you would never notice it with your own eyes). This is because of flicker which is the main reason why 60hz just sucks so much on a CRT. I've read that in double-blind tests, most humans couldn't distinguish framerates once they went over 30fps, and virtually nobody could distinguish over 45
The only departments which LCDs can't match a CRT for is Brightness and Contrast. Right now, most LCDs can perform equally to a decent CRT, but nowhere nearly as good as a professional-level one. This is a fundamental problem with LCDs which is never likely to be solved completely. Still, I find it adequate.
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