I used it as a kid on a Commodore 64 a bit. But because it was sooooo different from the BASIC-based OS (if you can call it that) native to the Commodore 64 that I never actually did figure out how to do anything useful with it. At the time it just seemed like a really bizarre shell.
Of course, looking back on it now, the native Commodore 64 OS was the bizarre one. It's funny how things come around.
They feel that the role belongs to the legislature.
That's a twist on the majority's argument that is patently false. The majority ruled it unconstitutional to execute minors. If you really understand what the word constitutional means, you'd realize that the judiciary has not only the option to act as the arbiter of values and morals, but has an obligation to do so within the framework of the Constitution.
Following your reasoning, you would have to assume that if Congress were to pass a clearly immoral law, such as permitting the permanent enslavement of juvenile offenders that it would be proper for the Supreme Court to uphold such a law under the premise of "judicial self-restraint". Of course, that's pure foolishness.
It is an error to assume that the judiciary's sole responsibility is to interpret statute. If that were the case, then congress could simply codify what is and what is not "cruel and unusual" punishment; and if congress could do that then the Consitution would be pretty meaningless, now wouldn't it? The judiciary must in fact interpret constitutional rights within the framework of contemporary values and morals. Indeed, the Supreme Court does this all the time and this is the principle the majority applied in this case.
For example, if Internet Explorer is running on WINE, and a patch is issued for Internet Explorer, should the WINE developers be responsible for somehow integrating the patch?
Ummmm... yes. Well, actually no. Okay, maybe.
IIRC Windows Explorer (and probably most other MS applications that can be update via Windows Update) is not gratis. In order to run it you must have a valid Windows license. If you're running WINE, then maybe you do have a valid Windows license (and just choose not to actually run Windows), but you probably don't.
You're right, but what about when the same type of correlation happens over and over and over....
If I heat water just one time and it boils when it reaches exactly 100C, then that's just correlation. But when I repeat that same experiment over and over again and consistently I measure the same result, it becomes causality.
Go to the Princeton site and examine their results. They claim they are seeing these correlations with a frequency that defies the expected probability by a significant amount.
Of course, they might be doing something else wrong.
If GC existed according to how REGs worked, atomic clocks would randomly lose percision around major events.
Just out of curiosity, how would you suppose anyone would be able to measure random deviations in precision among atomic clocks if all the atomic clocks had the same anomalous deviation at the same time?
It certainly is a big assumption that consciousness is in part a function of quantum states. Not because it requires a particularly huge leap of cedulity, but because we have as of yet such a limited understanding of consciousness. As a result, we don't have much, if any, evidence to support such a theory.
However, when viewed in context of the gamut of contemporary human knowledge, I would venture to say that there is probably no know phenomenon that is a better candidate than quantum interaction for explaining consciousness. The ability to produce a result that is not the predictable product of any kind of external deterministic law or algorithm is one of the fundamental components of consciousness, by definition. Any form of "consciousness" that behaves entirely deterministically is not truly consciousness at all, it is merely puppetry.
It just so happens that non-determinism is also a hallmark of quantum interaction. Lack of evidence aside, I think it's a reasonable hypothesis to say that consciousness is in part a function of quantum states.
I run Battlefield 1942 on a P3-800 and it too runs pretty well.
Problem is that when I try to run Age of Mythology on that same P3-800, it doesn't fare so well. Works okay with one or two players, but with any more than that and it usually craps out before the game is over.
How long do you think it will be before even the fatest P4 today will be too slow? Probably not that long. I haven't played HalfLife 2 yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if my 3.06GHz machine struggled to keep up with it.
Based on all of the above, I'd say I think most users need more power than you think they do:)
That's my point exactly. Though the mini-sized computer is a neat concept, especially for people who like uncluttered workspaces or people who place a lot of value on aesthetics, you can't expect much from them. Take the Mac mini as an example: I don't expect Apple to be releasing a G5 version any time soon.
They're probably fine for those who are content with yesterday's performance. But for anyone who wants to be on the cutting edge of both style *and* performance, these mini-sized computers just don't fit the bill.
... is that they still need some work in the cooling arena. Unless it's an under-powered machine, of course (which the Mac mini appears to be).
I tried the mini PC thing for a while, and now I've gone back to a regular sized mid-tower, and am much happier. The reason? Cooling. From the moment I bought my first mini PC, I suspected that it would run a bit hot. And it did with a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 in it. The CPU temperature was always running near the limit and occasionally on warmer days the temperature alarm would go off. So I added an additional fan and, since it seemed stable, I just ran with it that way for a long time. Then one day I remembered that Pentium 4 processors had a thermal throttling feature that inserts idle cycles when the temperature gets too high. So I did some searching and quickly found a utility that could tell me if the Pentium 4 in my mini PC was throttling. Sure enough, it was. All this time I had basically been running a crippled machine because the tiny case simply couldn't adequately ventilate the high-performance hardware. I tried a second model of mini PC, but returned it because it too had this same problem.
I moved the CPU and all the other hardware (except the mobo of course, since they're always proprietary in these mini PCs) into a normal sized mid-tower case. Now that same processor with the same heatsink/cooler runs well below the Pentium 4's thermal limits. And it never throttles itself.
And if you're thinking, "Well Mr. Smarty Pants, I'll just buy a mini PC and soup it up with the sweetest CPU cooler I can find!", then think again. These cases are far too small for your typical enthusiast to install a fancier cooling system. Someone with a lot of skill and specialized tools might be able to engineer a proper solution, but you won't find anything off-the-shelf anywhere.
The moral of the story? Mini PCs are for the weak. If you want performance in a mini PC case, they're just not there yet. And the Mac mini does not appear to be an exception. It too comes fairly weakly equipped.
It doesn't matter which standard (CSS or XSL) an author uses for styling pages for print if there aren't many widely-used applications (e.g. web browsers) that have good support for printing. Even Firefox, which arguably has the best standards compliance, has a lot of bugs in its print layout subsystem.
Though I do have to agree with the article, in principle, that CSS is fully capable of doing the job when it comes to producing printable page layout, if we're going to be banging on a drum, let's bang on the "let's get these damn browsers to support printing better!" drum first. Because even if I create a CSS stylesheet that should produce beautiful printed pages, it doesn't do me a lot of good if I can't actually print them that way.
Thanks for the pointer! Now I know what to tune in to in lieu of CNN from now on.
Wolf Blitzer used to be respectable, but he's turned into something of a clown. His coverage of this year's Presidential Election was a career low for him, IMHO. Larry King has slowly become more and more dweebish over the last couple of decades. Watching the banter between Larry and Blitzer that November evening, discussing "but what if this?" and "but what if that?" just made me laugh. Aaron Brown is as dumb as my left nut. It's too bad because CNN used to be a great media outlet. What the hell happened? I guess it's true: the universe really does trend toward maximum entropy.
No. I'd like to see you tell someone, with a straight face, that you think the picture quality from VHS is better than DVD. DVD is digital and it's compressed, too. Probably just like that HDTV demo you saw.
Most likely the store you were at had it poorly or even improperly setup. Or they were playing it from a video disc that had been very heavily compressed. The overall quality of digital HDTV, even with normal HDTV compression, is far superior to old analog TV, simply because of the higher resolution. Any compression artifacts from properly compressed standard HDTV are dwarfed by the amazing increase in detail afforded by the much higher resolution.
I can almost assure you that what you saw would not be typical of a proper HDTV setup. Which brings me to one of my biggest complaints about these supposed "high-end" A/V stores. Their salespeople are typically completely ignorant of what's really behind the technology they are selling. So they're not capable of ensuring that their demo systems are properly setup and producing the best quality picture and sound. Usually they rely on some inexperienced minimum-wage schmuck from the back room to set things up and help them answer technical questions. So when talking to these guys, keep in mind that often they're getting their information from high school dropouts.
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It's sad that in this country no amount of good done by a person will make up for even a single mistake.
Our judicial system in general is far too biased toward punishment. In many cases, harsh punishment will do absolutely no good beyond what much lighter punishment would do. This case is a perfect example. A much lighter sentence would have served the exact same deterrent purpose that this severe punishment is meant to serve. Somehow in cases like this, the Judiciary has forgotten what such punishment is for. Punishment should not be about retribution, because as we all know, two wrongs don't make a right. Ruining Jathan's life over this only adds to the misery and loss that society has purportedly suffered over software piracy. It doesn't heal anything. It doesn't make anything "right".
A better way to heal any damage done would be to impose the minimum punishment required to teach Jathan and others like him that breaking the law in general (and software priracy in particular) does not pay. A couple thousand dollar fine, maybe a couple of days in jail, a few months of probation, and the guilty conscience that would go with all of the above would likely be more than enough deterrence. And then Jathan could quickly put his life back together and get on with being productive, instead of representing yet another tragedy that our society has to endure.
I truly feel sorrow for Jathan and his family. An unspeakable justice has been done.
Yippee! A new source of amusement!
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I got a real kick out of some of the suggestions.
my cat:... hates you... breath smells like cat food... hates me... is an alien
my girlfried:
(No suggestions, obviously Google is run by a pack of lonely nerds).
my boyfriend:... is gay... sucks... cheated on me... hates me... dumped me
(Okay, make that an apparently gay pack of lonely nerds).
darth vader is:... gay
(A delusional pack of gay nerds?)
Oh, the fun I'll have with this new toy when I'm bored at work.
Where's your resentment towards the thieves? Don't they figure into this whole equation?
Why would you expect him to resent the thieves? He may not have any direct relationship with any of them. He does have a direct relationship with the company whose product he has purchased. I think his resentment is directed in the right place.
What he said, was that the study failed to factor in the hurricane, which, indeed it did fail to do. There's an outside chance that the counties hardest hit by hurricanes were largely the only ones using the new voting machines, isn't there? Did the researchers ask this question? Apparently not.
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I used it as a kid on a Commodore 64 a bit. But because it was sooooo different from the BASIC-based OS (if you can call it that) native to the Commodore 64 that I never actually did figure out how to do anything useful with it. At the time it just seemed like a really bizarre shell.
Of course, looking back on it now, the native Commodore 64 OS was the bizarre one. It's funny how things come around.
Following your reasoning, you would have to assume that if Congress were to pass a clearly immoral law, such as permitting the permanent enslavement of juvenile offenders that it would be proper for the Supreme Court to uphold such a law under the premise of "judicial self-restraint". Of course, that's pure foolishness.
It is an error to assume that the judiciary's sole responsibility is to interpret statute. If that were the case, then congress could simply codify what is and what is not "cruel and unusual" punishment; and if congress could do that then the Consitution would be pretty meaningless, now wouldn't it? The judiciary must in fact interpret constitutional rights within the framework of contemporary values and morals. Indeed, the Supreme Court does this all the time and this is the principle the majority applied in this case.
IIRC Windows Explorer (and probably most other MS applications that can be update via Windows Update) is not gratis. In order to run it you must have a valid Windows license. If you're running WINE, then maybe you do have a valid Windows license (and just choose not to actually run Windows), but you probably don't.
You're right, but what about when the same type of correlation happens over and over and over....
If I heat water just one time and it boils when it reaches exactly 100C, then that's just correlation. But when I repeat that same experiment over and over again and consistently I measure the same result, it becomes causality.
Go to the Princeton site and examine their results. They claim they are seeing these correlations with a frequency that defies the expected probability by a significant amount.
Of course, they might be doing something else wrong.
It certainly is a big assumption that consciousness is in part a function of quantum states. Not because it requires a particularly huge leap of cedulity, but because we have as of yet such a limited understanding of consciousness. As a result, we don't have much, if any, evidence to support such a theory.
However, when viewed in context of the gamut of contemporary human knowledge, I would venture to say that there is probably no know phenomenon that is a better candidate than quantum interaction for explaining consciousness. The ability to produce a result that is not the predictable product of any kind of external deterministic law or algorithm is one of the fundamental components of consciousness, by definition. Any form of "consciousness" that behaves entirely deterministically is not truly consciousness at all, it is merely puppetry.
It just so happens that non-determinism is also a hallmark of quantum interaction. Lack of evidence aside, I think it's a reasonable hypothesis to say that consciousness is in part a function of quantum states.
Any questions?
The same could be said to summarize most of the Slashdot readers' comments.
I guess somebody just needs to say it: the article was crap, and Slashdot was the wrong forum for discussing it.
Well, no. For example, TCP cannot redirect a connection to an alternate, backup destination should the original destination crap-out mid-connection.
I run Battlefield 1942 on a P3-800 and it too runs pretty well.
:)
Problem is that when I try to run Age of Mythology on that same P3-800, it doesn't fare so well. Works okay with one or two players, but with any more than that and it usually craps out before the game is over.
How long do you think it will be before even the fatest P4 today will be too slow? Probably not that long. I haven't played HalfLife 2 yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if my 3.06GHz machine struggled to keep up with it.
Based on all of the above, I'd say I think most users need more power than you think they do
That's my point exactly. Though the mini-sized computer is a neat concept, especially for people who like uncluttered workspaces or people who place a lot of value on aesthetics, you can't expect much from them. Take the Mac mini as an example: I don't expect Apple to be releasing a G5 version any time soon.
They're probably fine for those who are content with yesterday's performance. But for anyone who wants to be on the cutting edge of both style *and* performance, these mini-sized computers just don't fit the bill.
... is that they still need some work in the cooling arena. Unless it's an under-powered machine, of course (which the Mac mini appears to be).
I tried the mini PC thing for a while, and now I've gone back to a regular sized mid-tower, and am much happier. The reason? Cooling. From the moment I bought my first mini PC, I suspected that it would run a bit hot. And it did with a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 in it. The CPU temperature was always running near the limit and occasionally on warmer days the temperature alarm would go off. So I added an additional fan and, since it seemed stable, I just ran with it that way for a long time. Then one day I remembered that Pentium 4 processors had a thermal throttling feature that inserts idle cycles when the temperature gets too high. So I did some searching and quickly found a utility that could tell me if the Pentium 4 in my mini PC was throttling. Sure enough, it was. All this time I had basically been running a crippled machine because the tiny case simply couldn't adequately ventilate the high-performance hardware. I tried a second model of mini PC, but returned it because it too had this same problem.
I moved the CPU and all the other hardware (except the mobo of course, since they're always proprietary in these mini PCs) into a normal sized mid-tower case. Now that same processor with the same heatsink/cooler runs well below the Pentium 4's thermal limits. And it never throttles itself.
And if you're thinking, "Well Mr. Smarty Pants, I'll just buy a mini PC and soup it up with the sweetest CPU cooler I can find!", then think again. These cases are far too small for your typical enthusiast to install a fancier cooling system. Someone with a lot of skill and specialized tools might be able to engineer a proper solution, but you won't find anything off-the-shelf anywhere.
The moral of the story? Mini PCs are for the weak. If you want performance in a mini PC case, they're just not there yet. And the Mac mini does not appear to be an exception. It too comes fairly weakly equipped.
God shmod, I want my monkey man!
It doesn't matter which standard (CSS or XSL) an author uses for styling pages for print if there aren't many widely-used applications (e.g. web browsers) that have good support for printing. Even Firefox, which arguably has the best standards compliance, has a lot of bugs in its print layout subsystem.
Though I do have to agree with the article, in principle, that CSS is fully capable of doing the job when it comes to producing printable page layout, if we're going to be banging on a drum, let's bang on the "let's get these damn browsers to support printing better!" drum first. Because even if I create a CSS stylesheet that should produce beautiful printed pages, it doesn't do me a lot of good if I can't actually print them that way.
This is Slashdot, for God's sake. Were you expecting something different?
Go post your complaint on GrammarDot or something...
Thanks for the pointer! Now I know what to tune in to in lieu of CNN from now on.
Wolf Blitzer used to be respectable, but he's turned into something of a clown. His coverage of this year's Presidential Election was a career low for him, IMHO. Larry King has slowly become more and more dweebish over the last couple of decades. Watching the banter between Larry and Blitzer that November evening, discussing "but what if this?" and "but what if that?" just made me laugh. Aaron Brown is as dumb as my left nut. It's too bad because CNN used to be a great media outlet. What the hell happened? I guess it's true: the universe really does trend toward maximum entropy.
Regardless of quality?
No. I'd like to see you tell someone, with a straight face, that you think the picture quality from VHS is better than DVD. DVD is digital and it's compressed, too. Probably just like that HDTV demo you saw.
Most likely the store you were at had it poorly or even improperly setup. Or they were playing it from a video disc that had been very heavily compressed. The overall quality of digital HDTV, even with normal HDTV compression, is far superior to old analog TV, simply because of the higher resolution. Any compression artifacts from properly compressed standard HDTV are dwarfed by the amazing increase in detail afforded by the much higher resolution.
I can almost assure you that what you saw would not be typical of a proper HDTV setup. Which brings me to one of my biggest complaints about these supposed "high-end" A/V stores. Their salespeople are typically completely ignorant of what's really behind the technology they are selling. So they're not capable of ensuring that their demo systems are properly setup and producing the best quality picture and sound. Usually they rely on some inexperienced minimum-wage schmuck from the back room to set things up and help them answer technical questions. So when talking to these guys, keep in mind that often they're getting their information from high school dropouts.
It's sad that in this country no amount of good done by a person will make up for even a single mistake.
Our judicial system in general is far too biased toward punishment. In many cases, harsh punishment will do absolutely no good beyond what much lighter punishment would do. This case is a perfect example. A much lighter sentence would have served the exact same deterrent purpose that this severe punishment is meant to serve. Somehow in cases like this, the Judiciary has forgotten what such punishment is for. Punishment should not be about retribution, because as we all know, two wrongs don't make a right. Ruining Jathan's life over this only adds to the misery and loss that society has purportedly suffered over software piracy. It doesn't heal anything. It doesn't make anything "right".
A better way to heal any damage done would be to impose the minimum punishment required to teach Jathan and others like him that breaking the law in general (and software priracy in particular) does not pay. A couple thousand dollar fine, maybe a couple of days in jail, a few months of probation, and the guilty conscience that would go with all of the above would likely be more than enough deterrence. And then Jathan could quickly put his life back together and get on with being productive, instead of representing yet another tragedy that our society has to endure.
I truly feel sorrow for Jathan and his family. An unspeakable justice has been done.
I got a real kick out of some of the suggestions.
... hates you ... breath smells like cat food ... hates me ... is an alien
... is gay ... sucks ... cheated on me ... hates me ... dumped me
... gay
my cat:
my girlfried:
(No suggestions, obviously Google is run by a pack of lonely nerds).
my boyfriend:
(Okay, make that an apparently gay pack of lonely nerds).
darth vader is:
(A delusional pack of gay nerds?)
Oh, the fun I'll have with this new toy when I'm bored at work.
Perhaps the parent did read the article.
What he said, was that the study failed to factor in the hurricane, which, indeed it did fail to do. There's an outside chance that the counties hardest hit by hurricanes were largely the only ones using the new voting machines, isn't there? Did the researchers ask this question? Apparently not.
The parent's hurricane argument stands valid.
I don't think the research paper is claiming that they know more accurately how many votes Bush really obtained.
I think what they're really saying is, "Look, there's this inexplicable trend that happens to follow counties that used electronic voting machines."
Not that I personally trust any politically-related research coming out of UC Berkeley.
Berkeley Researcher #1: So, we've proved that President Bush received a disproportionately high number of votes. Now what should we do?
Berkeley Researcher #2: Let's drop some acid!
Berkeley Researcher #1: Okay!
You're telling me that's not relevant?