The potential for evil in the Google has only been questioned for a year or so, far too soon for you to utilize the term "usual" which assumes a long-term pattern.
One might say, "With my growing mistrust of Google..." Yes. That would be fine. Carry on.
You can sue and let a judge decide. That's why they're there: to interpret the law and shove the loopholes up people's rears. There's the letter of the law, then there's what it's meant for -- you can't legislate out all human error, but when someone tries to exploit that error, you have courts to help you out.
Dark Knight The Reader Slumdog Millionaire No Country for Old Men Serenity Pan's Labyrinth Love Actually
Granted, not all of those are Hollywood films but most are. There are plenty of indie films that are likely way better than anything in that list. There was a vampire movie from Sweden, translation: Let the Right One In that had a bunch of hype as the greatest vampire film ever made. I saw it, but I guess my expectations were too high. I still think Fright Night is the best.:-)
Each suit is an individual case and stands on its own merits and evidence. They probably don't have the time or money, or expect enough retribution, to sue 60,000 people, or even more than a handful.
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Dude. Just get the nVidia board.
Kidding. Your point is valid -- use the best tool for the job. If you've got an ATI card that works well with Windows but not with Linux, and both OSes provide most of the features you want, then use Windows (assuming the cost of Windows is below the cost of that nVidia card).
Linux remains a server OS. It's coming around very slowly to the desktop and I've no doubt it will get there -- it's doing quite well on the netbooks where people don't want to install everything in their closet: they just want a functional, email-checking, web-surfing laptop and for that almost any OS will do.
Except MacOS X. That only runs on the shiniest of hardware.
Entangled photons, imposible to jam or eavesdrop upon, and as nearly instantaneous as we can measure.
Oh, snap! Someone go told!
Kidding, but it's a good idea. But we probably don't need anything more than what WiMax can deliver -- we're not transferring GB of information, just a continuous stream of data. Not too much different from an MMO, and the graphics need not be as good. You'll want technical feedback of your robot's status (health bar?) as well as eye-in-the-sky recon, but since you'll probably be VRing the thing...
Come to think of it, VRing probably isn't the most efficient way -- you're limiting yourself to one point of view. You'll probably want multiple displays from different angles (including, of course, rear)...it would take a while to get used to of course.
Well, even though I stated we have people here who do their modeling on Excel, what you really want is a true modeling program run on a cluster. Of course, you'd need to pay grad students to write the model to your specs, but then you're helping America!
No no. You still have men-sized (roughly) robots who are controlled mentally by men in La-Z-Boy armchairs. You don't need to put the person in the middle of the field, just the robot, since all its motions mimic the person's will.
I feel ya. We've got researchers here with gigantic models that consider traffic patterns, greenhouse gas emissions, and the cradle-to-grave cycle of cars...all on an excel spreadsheet.
The book Starship Troopers by Henlein had people wearing huge armored suits equipped with nukes, lasers, etc. Perhaps we can just have robot armies controlled by humans mentally.
Or maybe robot miners. And robot deep sea divers. And robot firemen. It doesn't all have to be destruction and chaos to be cool.:-)
Because...well, I didn't read the article, but are we benchmarking Word Processing applications now? How fast a spreadsheet can calculate the sum of a column? Whether there's a pause between fade-in transitions in a presentation?
I'm trying to think of a good car analogy here...maybe how fast your passenger side door closes?
Dyson spoke at our university recently. When one of our physics professors was asked if he was going to attend the lecture, he replied, "Meh. Dyson just reads the slides."
Matt Mahoney to Hutter show details 9:33 AM (7 hours ago) [google.com]
I have uploaded a mirror of Alexander Ratushnyak's new submission to the Hutter prize [hutter1.net] to http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html#1323 [fit.edu] It is in the paq8hp12 section. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of versions just above the table. The submission is decomp8.zip which contains 2 files, decomp8.exe and archive8.bin, the decompressor and compressed file. There is no compressor. To decompress:
decomp8 archive8.bin enwik8
The direct link is http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/decomp8.zip [fit.edu] Decompression took about 2 hours on my computer and used a little over 924 MB memory. The total size of the 2 files is 15,986,677 which passes the 3% threshold improvement from his previous submission of 16,481,655 bytes on May 14, 2007.
The submission was Mar. 23. The 30 day comment period before awarding the prize ends Apr. 22, 2009.
No, no. I feel that I'm not being ridiculously gouged when I buy most software and/or music. I feel that a song is worth 99 cents most of the time. I never feel a 1 liter bottle of water is worth $4.50. Nothing to do with whether I support them or not (obviously...I buy 40 bags worth of microwave popcorn in the form of a small paper bag of lukewarm soggy popcorn). If that's not support I don't know what is.
I download all my software from BitTorrent. Why pay for something you can get for free? It doesn't hurt anyone...it's not like the programmers are making the bulk of the money off the software sales...Microsoft is a billion dollar company but do you think they pay their programmers even millions of dollars a year? Pssht.
The day programmers start making even 50% of the profit from their labors is the day I start buying software.
Software? Oh, I meant music.:-)
Disclaimer: Outside of the Slashdot Virtual Reaility, I do purchase CDs, AACs, MP3s. I use licensed MS software at work and home and even buy video games now and then. I do NOT, however, pay for bottled water at the movie theater. Preposterous!
Well a streaming video is generally buffered on your system before it starts playing? How do you buffer something that requires your input first and not present you with any lag?
I'm currently sporting an Athlon 3700+ (single core) with an overclocked-out-of-the-box 6800GS (a great card for its time, but doesn't register on most benchmark graphs anymore). It does indeed play Half-Life 2, Left4Dead, the original FEAR...all very well if not at the top graphics level (4x AA, etc). I've never put it up against Far Cry or anything terribly new...but FEAR was pretty hefty when it first came out and this card was great. But I did notice that the processor does make a difference -- in some cases more than the video card, depending on what's going on on screen.
I don't want all my gaming delivered down the pipe as a metered "service". I like owning hardware, and having the ability to play games without being hooked up to a subscriber model.
The other shoe you're all waiting to hear drop sounds a lot like, "Get off my lawn!"
I might suggest people get on their city planning boards and discuss what it would take to make new development more people-friendly and less car-friendly. It isn't necessarily the choice of the people to drive everywhere, but so many American towns and cities are developed assuming that people will drive.
Change that assumption -- assume they'll walk, and design your city around that. Build up, have more neighborhood markets rather than centralized supermarkets, more lighted walking paths rather than 4 lane roads. Spend some money on parks and pools rather than on parking lots.
I've lived in NYC which you can do essentially carless. I currently work in one of the most-bikeable cities in the U.S, but I live in one of the least bikeable cities. I bike to lunch, bike 20 minutes to appointments, mostly on bike paths and small streets. When I go home, I'm afraid to cross the street without getting in my car.
Well, I think his point is, does a personal computer need to be built like a tank? It just sits on your floor or desk for three years. Sure, Mac's are well constructed but they aren't laid out internally any better than many cases you can pull off of NewEgg, and alot of Dell's stuff is very modular and easy to upgrade/replace parts.
A Mac is kind of like a Bentley -- it's nice, if you want a Bentley. But functionally it's not any different than, say, an Accord.
If you want to be a coder, follow other's advice and start on open source projects, etc. If you want to be an admin, you'll probably need to start in desktop support and learn from there. Your mindset needs to be in the right place though: if you want to learn a lot about computers in a little time, you need to sacrifice a good chunk of your day beyond your 8 hours of paid time.
Think about a University -- low entry bar, but they usually have desktop support doing everything: web programming, server stuff, light networking, desktop support, etc.
I tried the new Chrome 2 Beta which might not be what you're talking about. Definitely not ready for primetime by any means. Slow, clunky feeling, didn't load pages properly, etc. The old Chrome seems okay, except it has a problem rendering popular social networking sites.
Firefox's memory usage, test shows, is 1/2 that of Chrome or IE 8 with the same 10 tabs open. It has plugins, cooler themes, is very fast, configurable. So if by "better" you mean "faster"...Chrome 1 is pretty quick as long as you don't mind rendering issues. IE 7 I guess I need to disable completely the Phishing feature instead of just Turn it Off because the browser still waits to load pages as if it's considering whether it meets the MS standard of acceptable surfing.
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With my usual mistrust of Google...
The potential for evil in the Google has only been questioned for a year or so, far too soon for you to utilize the term "usual" which assumes a long-term pattern.
One might say, "With my growing mistrust of Google..." Yes. That would be fine. Carry on.
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You can sue and let a judge decide. That's why they're there: to interpret the law and shove the loopholes up people's rears. There's the letter of the law, then there's what it's meant for -- you can't legislate out all human error, but when someone tries to exploit that error, you have courts to help you out.
IIRC, one of the first things the Joker's recording says is, "If anyone jumps off the boat, I'll blow it up."
You need to watch better movies. :-)
Highlights of the past few years (for me):
Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men
Serenity
Pan's Labyrinth
Love Actually
Granted, not all of those are Hollywood films but most are. There are plenty of indie films that are likely way better than anything in that list. There was a vampire movie from Sweden, translation: Let the Right One In that had a bunch of hype as the greatest vampire film ever made. I saw it, but I guess my expectations were too high. I still think Fright Night is the best. :-)
Each suit is an individual case and stands on its own merits and evidence. They probably don't have the time or money, or expect enough retribution, to sue 60,000 people, or even more than a handful.
Dude. Just get the nVidia board.
Kidding. Your point is valid -- use the best tool for the job. If you've got an ATI card that works well with Windows but not with Linux, and both OSes provide most of the features you want, then use Windows (assuming the cost of Windows is below the cost of that nVidia card).
Linux remains a server OS. It's coming around very slowly to the desktop and I've no doubt it will get there -- it's doing quite well on the netbooks where people don't want to install everything in their closet: they just want a functional, email-checking, web-surfing laptop and for that almost any OS will do.
Except MacOS X. That only runs on the shiniest of hardware.
Entangled photons, imposible to jam or eavesdrop upon, and as nearly instantaneous as we can measure.
Oh, snap! Someone go told!
Kidding, but it's a good idea. But we probably don't need anything more than what WiMax can deliver -- we're not transferring GB of information, just a continuous stream of data. Not too much different from an MMO, and the graphics need not be as good. You'll want technical feedback of your robot's status (health bar?) as well as eye-in-the-sky recon, but since you'll probably be VRing the thing...
Come to think of it, VRing probably isn't the most efficient way -- you're limiting yourself to one point of view. You'll probably want multiple displays from different angles (including, of course, rear)...it would take a while to get used to of course.
Well, even though I stated we have people here who do their modeling on Excel, what you really want is a true modeling program run on a cluster. Of course, you'd need to pay grad students to write the model to your specs, but then you're helping America!
No no. You still have men-sized (roughly) robots who are controlled mentally by men in La-Z-Boy armchairs. You don't need to put the person in the middle of the field, just the robot, since all its motions mimic the person's will.
I feel ya. We've got researchers here with gigantic models that consider traffic patterns, greenhouse gas emissions, and the cradle-to-grave cycle of cars...all on an excel spreadsheet.
The book Starship Troopers by Henlein had people wearing huge armored suits equipped with nukes, lasers, etc. Perhaps we can just have robot armies controlled by humans mentally.
Or maybe robot miners. And robot deep sea divers. And robot firemen. It doesn't all have to be destruction and chaos to be cool. :-)
Because...well, I didn't read the article, but are we benchmarking Word Processing applications now? How fast a spreadsheet can calculate the sum of a column? Whether there's a pause between fade-in transitions in a presentation?
I'm trying to think of a good car analogy here...maybe how fast your passenger side door closes?
Dyson spoke at our university recently. When one of our physics professors was asked if he was going to attend the lecture, he replied, "Meh. Dyson just reads the slides."
Matt Mahoney to Hutter show details 9:33 AM (7 hours ago) [google.com]
I have uploaded a mirror of Alexander Ratushnyak's new submission to the Hutter prize [hutter1.net] to http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html#1323 [fit.edu] It is in the paq8hp12 section. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of versions just above the table. The submission is decomp8.zip which contains 2 files, decomp8.exe and archive8.bin, the decompressor and compressed file. There is no compressor. To decompress:
decomp8 archive8.bin enwik8
The direct link is http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/decomp8.zip [fit.edu] Decompression took about 2 hours on my computer and used a little over 924 MB memory. The total size of the 2 files is 15,986,677 which passes the 3% threshold improvement from his previous submission of 16,481,655 bytes on May 14, 2007.
The submission was Mar. 23. The 30 day comment period before awarding the prize ends Apr. 22, 2009.
That's exactly what a bot would say.
No, no. I feel that I'm not being ridiculously gouged when I buy most software and/or music. I feel that a song is worth 99 cents most of the time. I never feel a 1 liter bottle of water is worth $4.50. Nothing to do with whether I support them or not (obviously...I buy 40 bags worth of microwave popcorn in the form of a small paper bag of lukewarm soggy popcorn). If that's not support I don't know what is.
Huh. That's two Dune references I've been privy to today. Guess I should walk gently on those dirt paths...
I download all my software from BitTorrent. Why pay for something you can get for free? It doesn't hurt anyone...it's not like the programmers are making the bulk of the money off the software sales...Microsoft is a billion dollar company but do you think they pay their programmers even millions of dollars a year? Pssht.
The day programmers start making even 50% of the profit from their labors is the day I start buying software.
Software? Oh, I meant music. :-)
Disclaimer: Outside of the Slashdot Virtual Reaility, I do purchase CDs, AACs, MP3s. I use licensed MS software at work and home and even buy video games now and then. I do NOT, however, pay for bottled water at the movie theater. Preposterous!
Well a streaming video is generally buffered on your system before it starts playing? How do you buffer something that requires your input first and not present you with any lag?
I'm currently sporting an Athlon 3700+ (single core) with an overclocked-out-of-the-box 6800GS (a great card for its time, but doesn't register on most benchmark graphs anymore). It does indeed play Half-Life 2, Left4Dead, the original FEAR...all very well if not at the top graphics level (4x AA, etc). I've never put it up against Far Cry or anything terribly new...but FEAR was pretty hefty when it first came out and this card was great. But I did notice that the processor does make a difference -- in some cases more than the video card, depending on what's going on on screen.
I don't want all my gaming delivered down the pipe as a metered "service". I like owning hardware, and having the ability to play games without being hooked up to a subscriber model.
The other shoe you're all waiting to hear drop sounds a lot like, "Get off my lawn!"
No, it's not. So please hand over your car keys.
I might suggest people get on their city planning boards and discuss what it would take to make new development more people-friendly and less car-friendly. It isn't necessarily the choice of the people to drive everywhere, but so many American towns and cities are developed assuming that people will drive.
Change that assumption -- assume they'll walk, and design your city around that. Build up, have more neighborhood markets rather than centralized supermarkets, more lighted walking paths rather than 4 lane roads. Spend some money on parks and pools rather than on parking lots.
I've lived in NYC which you can do essentially carless. I currently work in one of the most-bikeable cities in the U.S, but I live in one of the least bikeable cities. I bike to lunch, bike 20 minutes to appointments, mostly on bike paths and small streets. When I go home, I'm afraid to cross the street without getting in my car.
Well, I think his point is, does a personal computer need to be built like a tank? It just sits on your floor or desk for three years. Sure, Mac's are well constructed but they aren't laid out internally any better than many cases you can pull off of NewEgg, and alot of Dell's stuff is very modular and easy to upgrade/replace parts.
A Mac is kind of like a Bentley -- it's nice, if you want a Bentley. But functionally it's not any different than, say, an Accord.
If you want to be a coder, follow other's advice and start on open source projects, etc. If you want to be an admin, you'll probably need to start in desktop support and learn from there. Your mindset needs to be in the right place though: if you want to learn a lot about computers in a little time, you need to sacrifice a good chunk of your day beyond your 8 hours of paid time.
Think about a University -- low entry bar, but they usually have desktop support doing everything: web programming, server stuff, light networking, desktop support, etc.
I tried the new Chrome 2 Beta which might not be what you're talking about. Definitely not ready for primetime by any means. Slow, clunky feeling, didn't load pages properly, etc. The old Chrome seems okay, except it has a problem rendering popular social networking sites.
Firefox's memory usage, test shows, is 1/2 that of Chrome or IE 8 with the same 10 tabs open. It has plugins, cooler themes, is very fast, configurable. So if by "better" you mean "faster"...Chrome 1 is pretty quick as long as you don't mind rendering issues. IE 7 I guess I need to disable completely the Phishing feature instead of just Turn it Off because the browser still waits to load pages as if it's considering whether it meets the MS standard of acceptable surfing.
Firefox works. Works well.
How do you blame technology for some jackass failing to take his civic responsibility seriously?
With technology, he's a more efficient jackass.