You have to admit that tagging does lead to a life of gang membership and unruly behavior. It's good that they nipped this problem in the bud! Say NO to tagging!
Oh wait... you mean like FREEZE TAG?? I supposed PE classes will be canceled now too. After all kicking projectiles at one another or attempting to prevent one from hitting your head while dozens of kids are running around you is certainly a lot more dangerous than simply running around without the flying objects. Guess all they've got left is jumping jacks and running laps... heh, I bet teaching them a few songs to sing while doing laps might improve morale.
Kind of like Intel was slow until Apple was using it.
Get your facts straight bud, don't confuse the G4 with the G5. The G5 still rocked Intel chips til just about the moment the Duos finally came out. The G4's in the laptops absolutely sucked compared to the current Intel mobile chips, THOSE computers all the sudden became 4x or 5x faster when upgraded to an Intel chip. However the desktop G5's which were replaced with the same Core Duo's only got up to a 1.5x speedup. (And that's in the best case) Remember that those G5's sat stagnant for almost a year before they finally got the switchover on them, and yet even with that time gap the Intels STILL barely beat them by much.
One of the main reasons for the Intel switch was that laptops now sell more than desktops and Apple couldn't allow themselves to get pummeled in that part of the computer market for much longer. The G5's were NEVER going to go mobile, since the Core Duos were basically equivalent to the G5's in speed the laptops all the sudden got a huge increase. For desktops it was kind of "meh". There are other advantages to the Intel platform such as greater compatibility, efficiencies of scale in manufacturing = cheaper chips, etc... but that's another story.
Speaking of MENSA... I doubt they have many spanish speaking members. The name of the org right there tells me I'm NEVER gonna join it. They're online IQ test is kind of fun, but dammit I'm from Los Angeles and there's no way in hell I'm telling all my buddies I joined some club called MENSA!
Guys, if there's ONE thing you take away from his whole discussion, please remember that MENSA = STUPID!
Background info: The company ProtectDisc is being run by Volkmar Breitfeld, also managing director of ACE (FluxDVD copy protection). Remarkably enough, Volkmar Breitfeld was previously known for creating copy protection circumventing products like InstantCopy or InstantCD/DVD, before he changed fronts to selling copy protection mechanisms.
That sort of law reminds me of the California pizza thief who got life in prison because he scared a kid as he took his slice of pizza and ate it. Why'd he get life? The "three strikes" law gives you automatic life for a third felony... somehow scaring the kid turned stealing a pizza into a felony I guess. Off to the slammer ya go!
Coders have a VERY GOOD reason for updated hardware. The same goes for graphic designers and video editors, they all need all the speed they can get. As another poster already replied, speeding them up a bit pays off the hardware after a few months (or days depending on the speedup). I do video and moving to a dual-core setup literally doubled how much I can get done in a given time. However if you want to get thrifty on the coders and still make them happy, turn on distributed compiling and buy a few dual-core boxes that get shared instead of one for each coder. New boxes will get more use in a compile farm that keeps busy than sitting around waiting for keystrokes while he thinks about the next line. This way you can get 2 top of the line boxes instead of one per programmer and everybody's work speeds up MORE than if you would have given them a new machine. A compile farm can basically scale linearly with each machine added. Heck if you can get them to switch to Macs and use XCode the compiling is done WHILE they type and the program is often ready to go as soon as they press run. Can't speed it up much more than that.
Now let's take the secretary at the front desk. She DOES get a certain amount of speedup on task switching and program startup, but those are a very small proportion of her time... usually she's typing in Word or on the phone. Making her computer twice as fast will only make 2% of her work take 1% of her time. Just give her the old coder boxes and she'll be happy.
It seems like they're waiting for lots of proof before we assume there are many other planets out there. Why not start with the assumption that our solar system is nothing special and that most stars have planets around them? I mean if you have to start with one assumption or the other why not assume this is common instead of assuming it's rare? Any scientific reason behind this sort of thinking? I can see the difference between PROVING there are many planets and predicting, but from what I've read before on this it seems many didn't expect to find planets everywhere.
Every time someone mentions the soul issue I quote some scriptures on it and get modded bigtime offtopic or flamebait. It's late but here's a few from memory.
Numbers 6:6 literally states "do not touch a dead soul"... some bible translations will use the phrase "dead body" or "corpse" to make it clear to our modern ears.
Genesis 2:7 "the man became a living soul"
Also Ge. 2:19 explains that as each animal or "living soul" would come to Adam he would name them. Ge. 1:20 the waters swarmed forth full of "living souls".
Etc, etc...
Doesn't take too much research to find out that the Hebrew word for "soul" is related to breathing... basically any animal that breathes is a "soul". A living being. Ezekiel 18:4 explains that the "soul" who sins shall die. It means person. You ARE a soul, you don't have one.
Huge crisis the first few months, then replacement units rolled out... the manufacturing process was adjusted and now all the units work just fine? Early adopters beware.
Seriously this is a decent idea, I know many Slashdotters would call this censorship or something but bare with me.
Release multi-rating DVD's. Mom and the kids can watch the movie at PG-13 if they want... Pastor Bob can get it PG rated and grandpa can opt for the R or unrated version. Hey parents can set the kids TV to block R rated stuff (V-Chip) and then get little Timmy a copy of Pitch Black (To go along with his standard PG-13 Chronicles of Riddick) which he can watch at PG-13 until he's older.
Why not? Starship Troopers was PG-13 until they decided to raise the rating since people were calling it a kids flick. They'll sell twice as many DVD's to those who want to avoid certain language or graphic scenes. Sounds like great business sense to me.
I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. It's similar to what Apple's Expose does. In Mac OS X, all of the open windows are arranged in a two-dimensional way that makes it easy to see what's in each one. But it's not as visually appealing.
Both do pretty much the same thing; Vista's method wins on aesthetics.
It may win on aesthetics, but that's ALL it wins on. Okay quick example here... this is early in the morning and I've barely begun to work at ALL, but I've already got Mail open, one email being written, 1 finder window, iTunes and 8 movies open in QT. (Gotta check last night's compressions in the morning) So that's 12 windows open here... not really that much but, let's say I want to go right back to the email. I can either Apple-Tab (4 times in this case) or I can hit F9 for all window Expose and them simply click it.
Now compare that to Flip 3D. I'm gonna flip through my ROLODEX? From all the videos I saw it appeared each window shows up separately(Thanks you spell check) so I would actually have to hit the flip key 12 times here? How is that better? It's not. Expose is O(1), Flip 3D is O(N). They definitely do NOT do the same thing, one shows you all your windows, the other buries them.
Here's how I think it went down. Rumors have been around for years about Apple's "Piles" and how they were going to be the next generation file system interface. Microsoft thinks they know what Apple's next big secret is, so they try to get a jump on them and release it first. Whoops... fooled you, "Piles" are actually part of "Stacks" and the light table mode in Aperture... now THAT is useful! (Check out Compare and Select videos 2 and 4 here.) Good thing they got rid of that stupid code name "Piles":-)
... not for the high price Gasse wanted for it, but for what 3COM got it for. They need that pervasive multi-threading now more than ever. NEXT was good and all, but are they really going to be able to backwardly refine the whole bit? Oh well, at least they've got plenty of old BeOS employees. The pervasive beach-balls however make me wonder what they're doing all day, new kernel?
Was I the only one to make several accounts on each BBS and then sorta team up my guys to beat the crap out of others? Find some super fortified guy sleeping out in the middle of space, attack him over and over with all the fighters I had with different accounts until finally I come in with the basic ship and steal his with some loser account that's only been running for a few days. What a jerk eh?:-) Those were the days.
My usual "dead man's switch" is a live grenade... however it probably wouldn't fit your situation very well. Nevermind. Good for hostage situations and job interviews though.
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You have to admit that tagging does lead to a life of gang membership and unruly behavior. It's good that they nipped this problem in the bud! Say NO to tagging!
Oh wait... you mean like FREEZE TAG?? I supposed PE classes will be canceled now too. After all kicking projectiles at one another or attempting to prevent one from hitting your head while dozens of kids are running around you is certainly a lot more dangerous than simply running around without the flying objects. Guess all they've got left is jumping jacks and running laps... heh, I bet teaching them a few songs to sing while doing laps might improve morale.
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Kind of like Intel was slow until Apple was using it.
Get your facts straight bud, don't confuse the G4 with the G5. The G5 still rocked Intel chips til just about the moment the Duos finally came out. The G4's in the laptops absolutely sucked compared to the current Intel mobile chips, THOSE computers all the sudden became 4x or 5x faster when upgraded to an Intel chip. However the desktop G5's which were replaced with the same Core Duo's only got up to a 1.5x speedup. (And that's in the best case) Remember that those G5's sat stagnant for almost a year before they finally got the switchover on them, and yet even with that time gap the Intels STILL barely beat them by much.
One of the main reasons for the Intel switch was that laptops now sell more than desktops and Apple couldn't allow themselves to get pummeled in that part of the computer market for much longer. The G5's were NEVER going to go mobile, since the Core Duos were basically equivalent to the G5's in speed the laptops all the sudden got a huge increase. For desktops it was kind of "meh". There are other advantages to the Intel platform such as greater compatibility, efficiencies of scale in manufacturing = cheaper chips, etc... but that's another story.
Speaking of MENSA... I doubt they have many spanish speaking members. The name of the org right there tells me I'm NEVER gonna join it. They're online IQ test is kind of fun, but dammit I'm from Los Angeles and there's no way in hell I'm telling all my buddies I joined some club called MENSA!
Guys, if there's ONE thing you take away from his whole discussion, please remember that MENSA = STUPID!
Mac mini?? If you want a REAL laptop nothing beats my 24" iMac! That's what the "chin" is for, to hold the keyboard.
Actually that's what he HAS been doing. Multi-threaded OpenGL in Tiger. Rumored 2x speedup in WoW, more as we get more cores. NICE.
Sounds like DVD Jon.
Everybody seems pretty upset about the "banana boat" comment... I don't get what the big deal here is. Doesn't everybody love Polish quartets?
That sort of law reminds me of the California pizza thief who got life in prison because he scared a kid as he took his slice of pizza and ate it. Why'd he get life? The "three strikes" law gives you automatic life for a third felony... somehow scaring the kid turned stealing a pizza into a felony I guess. Off to the slammer ya go!
Coders have a VERY GOOD reason for updated hardware. The same goes for graphic designers and video editors, they all need all the speed they can get. As another poster already replied, speeding them up a bit pays off the hardware after a few months (or days depending on the speedup). I do video and moving to a dual-core setup literally doubled how much I can get done in a given time. However if you want to get thrifty on the coders and still make them happy, turn on distributed compiling and buy a few dual-core boxes that get shared instead of one for each coder. New boxes will get more use in a compile farm that keeps busy than sitting around waiting for keystrokes while he thinks about the next line. This way you can get 2 top of the line boxes instead of one per programmer and everybody's work speeds up MORE than if you would have given them a new machine. A compile farm can basically scale linearly with each machine added. Heck if you can get them to switch to Macs and use XCode the compiling is done WHILE they type and the program is often ready to go as soon as they press run. Can't speed it up much more than that.
... usually she's typing in Word or on the phone. Making her computer twice as fast will only make 2% of her work take 1% of her time. Just give her the old coder boxes and she'll be happy.
Now let's take the secretary at the front desk. She DOES get a certain amount of speedup on task switching and program startup, but those are a very small proportion of her time
It seems like they're waiting for lots of proof before we assume there are many other planets out there. Why not start with the assumption that our solar system is nothing special and that most stars have planets around them? I mean if you have to start with one assumption or the other why not assume this is common instead of assuming it's rare? Any scientific reason behind this sort of thinking? I can see the difference between PROVING there are many planets and predicting, but from what I've read before on this it seems many didn't expect to find planets everywhere.
LOST, on Dagobah.
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Yoda : "Statue inside what this is?"
Yoda : "On cliff stuck Jedi plane Hmmmmm..."
Apologies Jedi Masters... Native language mine Yoda speak not is.
I sense another Star Wars series coming soon... imagine Episode Two meets Dawson Creek.
Every time someone mentions the soul issue I quote some scriptures on it and get modded bigtime offtopic or flamebait. It's late but here's a few from memory.
... some bible translations will use the phrase "dead body" or "corpse" to make it clear to our modern ears.
Numbers 6:6 literally states "do not touch a dead soul"
Genesis 2:7 "the man became a living soul"
Also Ge. 2:19 explains that as each animal or "living soul" would come to Adam he would name them. Ge. 1:20 the waters swarmed forth full of "living souls".
Etc, etc...
Doesn't take too much research to find out that the Hebrew word for "soul" is related to breathing... basically any animal that breathes is a "soul". A living being. Ezekiel 18:4 explains that the "soul" who sins shall die. It means person. You ARE a soul, you don't have one.
Huge crisis the first few months, then replacement units rolled out... the manufacturing process was adjusted and now all the units work just fine? Early adopters beware.
Dude it's no problem, you just fly over here to Portland where it's only 3pm! See, plenty of time to go visit the local Apple store today.
Seriously this is a decent idea, I know many Slashdotters would call this censorship or something but bare with me.
Release multi-rating DVD's. Mom and the kids can watch the movie at PG-13 if they want... Pastor Bob can get it PG rated and grandpa can opt for the R or unrated version. Hey parents can set the kids TV to block R rated stuff (V-Chip) and then get little Timmy a copy of Pitch Black (To go along with his standard PG-13 Chronicles of Riddick) which he can watch at PG-13 until he's older.
Why not? Starship Troopers was PG-13 until they decided to raise the rating since people were calling it a kids flick. They'll sell twice as many DVD's to those who want to avoid certain language or graphic scenes. Sounds like great business sense to me.
Both do pretty much the same thing; Vista's method wins on aesthetics.
It may win on aesthetics, but that's ALL it wins on. Okay quick example here... this is early in the morning and I've barely begun to work at ALL, but I've already got Mail open, one email being written, 1 finder window, iTunes and 8 movies open in QT. (Gotta check last night's compressions in the morning) So that's 12 windows open here... not really that much but, let's say I want to go right back to the email. I can either Apple-Tab (4 times in this case) or I can hit F9 for all window Expose and them simply click it.
Now compare that to Flip 3D. I'm gonna flip through my ROLODEX? From all the videos I saw it appeared each window shows up separately(Thanks you spell check) so I would actually have to hit the flip key 12 times here? How is that better? It's not. Expose is O(1), Flip 3D is O(N). They definitely do NOT do the same thing, one shows you all your windows, the other buries them.
Here's how I think it went down. Rumors have been around for years about Apple's "Piles" and how they were going to be the next generation file system interface. Microsoft thinks they know what Apple's next big secret is, so they try to get a jump on them and release it first. Whoops... fooled you, "Piles" are actually part of "Stacks" and the light table mode in Aperture... now THAT is useful! (Check out Compare and Select videos 2 and 4 here.) Good thing they got rid of that stupid code name "Piles" :-)
... not for the high price Gasse wanted for it, but for what 3COM got it for. They need that pervasive multi-threading now more than ever. NEXT was good and all, but are they really going to be able to backwardly refine the whole bit? Oh well, at least they've got plenty of old BeOS employees. The pervasive beach-balls however make me wonder what they're doing all day, new kernel?
Was I the only one to make several accounts on each BBS and then sorta team up my guys to beat the crap out of others? Find some super fortified guy sleeping out in the middle of space, attack him over and over with all the fighters I had with different accounts until finally I come in with the basic ship and steal his with some loser account that's only been running for a few days. What a jerk eh? :-) Those were the days.
I'm gonna pop that lid top and steam me some rice in that baby. Yeaaaahhhhh... at last Linux has gone BEYOND TOASTERS.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, forget about the dating stuff.
I forgot to mention blind dates... good for those too.
My usual "dead man's switch" is a live grenade... however it probably wouldn't fit your situation very well. Nevermind. Good for hostage situations and job interviews though.