and all the firemen who let a building burn down on there shifts! I'm sick of this lack of personal accountability let's fire all the fast food workers who can't produce food in under a minute from when i've had my order taken! Lets fire all the security professionals who've had a system compromized, and lets fire all the programmers who've written buggy code!
let's fire all the politicians who only server the interests of the people who contributed to there compaigns while were at it! and fire all the teachers who've had a student who fails.
great idea. So who hasn't been fired yet? anyone? Fire them too, they've done there job LESS THAN PERFECTLY...
you know there are things called punishments that fit the crime... this guy should have maybe a days pay docked for every person who manages to get access to porn if it's in his/her job description to prevent it... if the person shows repeated incompetence then you fire them... in the mean time perhaps having had time to look for a more qualified canidate..
quite frankly intel was supposed to be selling 6-7 ghz p4's around now... the fact that they can't but can be overclocked that fast is proof that the architecture was designed to run at those clock speeds, but that actually implementing that kind of clock speed would require insane cooling and power requirements that most sane people find unacceptable.
I don't think you understand the importance of output resolution. Have you Ever, used a TV output device (eg All-in-wonder) on a 480i (standard def) scanline tv? have you ever used a TV input device with a progessive scan display eg: PC Monitor, High def TV? You CANNOT scale between progressive and interlaced images period. the interface will either work on a progressive display device, and be completely unusable on an interlaced device, or it will work on an interlaced device, and look boxy and stupid on a progressive scan device. For movies, it's 'fine' to go progressive scan, and simply loose quality on interlaced modes, but for game engines, you run into usability problems unless you design two seperate game interfaces, one for progessive scan users, and one for interlaced users.
And as far as WM9 goes, it's an 'extension' of the mpeg-4 spec. I don't see a single reason for a licensed developer of x-box 360 to not use wmv9 unless they are planning to cross-port to ps3, and wanted to keep both systems using the same stock mpeg-4 footage.
keep in mind the xbox 360 is shipping with a standard DVD-rom, just because microsft is 'considering' using hd-dvd at some point doesn't mean they ever will.
Mpeg-4 compression will do wonders for that. Technically speaking, the 'current' xbox supports 'high definition' resolutions (480p, 720i) High definition is a pretty 'broad' term, so the 360 will likely support 1080p, that doesn't mean games will have to use it, they could opt for 720p, which would be a vast improvment over current '480i' standard definition signals. also, due to marketing reasons etc, most 'cheap' DTV sets lack a 1080p mode, while still supporting 720p. I'd rather watch a 720p signal than a 1080i, myself so most likely when they say xbox 360 will support HD, they mean many game developers will support 720p, at least for cinematics...
I'm heading to my basement right now, my tinfoil underwear & hat firmly affixed by duct tape. If my employer asks, tell him that Planet X is coming and money and work and living are now meaningless.
Damnit now you tell me, I was just going to come out of my basement and look for a job so i could have spending money. And BTW you want to use SILVER aluminium acts as an antenna to magnify the effects of the mind control. Steel is an okay metal, but not nearly as effective as silver, you need a much thicker heavier steel plate to get the same shielding properties as silver, because it reflects virtually all frequencies of light/em radiation. steel merly 'absorbs' like lead, you want the reflective qualities of silver, for something that has to be light weight like protective headgear. Plus silver can be turned translucent, which allows you to make a complete, full head sheilding device. For those of you on a budget, they conveniently sell 'silver' based optically translusent plastic in bulk they're called CD-R but the thickness of the silver is so thin you need to combine at least 2 CD-r to acheive much in the way of shielding. And then you'll need some 1000 watt lamps to see around you with, as the green dye will be problematic. Optionally you can 'delaminate' the silver foil with a blow dryer (haven't tested the effectiveness of this) or by 'boiling' the discs in water (also untested)... boiling wated seems to be like it would be the easier option, since you could easily get the water hot enough to melt the plastic away, leaving only the foil.
Does Joel have some insight into programming that everyone reading Slashdot does not?
Well, he wrote a 'duh, obvious' article, it was linked to and posted on slashdot, so well obviously he has more insight than you because you have to submit your 'duh, obvious' observations via comments, while joel can write them for a web page and get linked to.
Hire better programmers and you'll get better code? no, you're kidding me... next thing you know you'll be telling me that if you hire better lawyers, a black man can commit murder and be found not guilty by a mostly white jury.
all I see is a bunch of insightul discussion about the usefulness of the start.com page... then again I only have half a page of text to scroll through.
it's kinda like usenet that way, nothing taco does ever really 'silences' the idiots... but experienced users can quickly and easily filter out all the useless commentary and only read the useful stuff.
then again, someone has to bother reading through all the junk to bother to moderate it appropriately... oh well....
...as the mills drown out deliberate well thought through inventions.
Isn't that the point of a patent mill? To make sure that no-one else can out do your own inventions by simple patenting everything under the sun before they can?
They could always sell the early units with a 'coupon' for a 'free' upgrade to a HD-DVD when they become available.. that would cost a bunch of money, though.
Defence of a nation isn't just a gimmick dreamed up by politicians, you know.
I said If, I didn't say we 'could' have. I was postulating what that kind of investment into space and nuclear technologies could have been realistically expected to yeild. And someone sle pointed out that once we had enough nukes to destroy the world one time over we no longer needed to build any more... we could have 'won' the cold war spending 1/4 the money on it that we did... if people had decided that we needed superior nuclear power and space launch capabilities, instead of 'more nukes , more planes, and more subs' we would have been much further along, but then again hind sight is 20/20
Russia would have bankrupted itself trying to catch up to us on our nuclear and space technologies if we had focused on them instead of just better subs and making too many bombs. It was the trident subs that really won us the cold war, so we would have needed to do the sub technology, but satelite weapons without a deployment infrastructure, and making vastly more nukes than needed was down right wasteful.
Somewhere along the line all of that kind of talk just ended
If every penny we spent on the cold war had been spent on a combination of nuclear and space technology we'd be paying 2 cents/kwh for electricity, and we could have built any number of of the potential 'low cost' space sytems, (electro magnetic rail 1st stage booster ramps, or a 'true' space elevator, at the equator) and a full city on the moon, possibly more than one.
So you see what happened to the dream? we built big weapons to blow the world up a few thousand times over instead of building a space infrastructure. It looks like the space race is back on again, but america no longer has the talent or resource to lead the race. Especially with people so adamantly against the deployment of cheap, nuclear power. If china builds enough nuclear reactors to power to light up all of aisa they'll probably be the first to build on the moon.
Why wouldn't you buy the contracts? Pan am didn't specify a final price, only a 'reservation' price. Someone planning to start a company to 'fly you to the moon' would have a slightly beter credibility if they had a passenger list for the inital flight.
As a finnish american male... I can't speak for people born in the native country, but even growing up in a very loose nation (the states, highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrilized nations) I never could quite justify having sex with the kind of women i was around;) And yeah among other factors (feelings of inadequacy, etc) it lead to suidical tendancies...
I'm pretty sure that suicide is a genentic factor, remember the vikings? they were afraid of laplanders... anyone crazy enough to leap out of hiding at you and attack a sword weilding soldier with a sharpened antler unafraid of death tends to inspire fear;)
kinda like how the suicidal nature of the japanese samurai kept japan safe from invasion by china, even though they tried numerous times.
Since the U.S. doesn't actually manufacture anything tangible anymore,
In 2004, U.S. agricultural exports to China totaled a record $6.5 billion, an increase of five percent over the previous year. China is now the fourth largest market for U.S. agricultural exports, surpassed only by Canada, Mexico and Japan. cite:http://www.ncfb.com/mediaC/accent/accent_0516 05.html
We are still the number 1 exporter of tobacco products around the world. American cigarettes are highly reguarded as the best quality one can buy. And frankly we export at least $35 billion dollars a year worth of agracultural goods globally.
Since we export food to many countries, but food has a low margin, it is only because of our highly advanced agracultural technology (better, 'safer' pesticides/fungicides, better equipment, better educated farmers who have more advanced crop rotations, better irrigation techniques etc etc) and vast tracts of unpopulated land (ever been to the dakotas;) that make us able to produce food for 'less' money than many nations can produce there own..
no video, but a full writeup has already been on the net for a few days... in fact the Proof-of-concept seems to be up too. but you have to compile it yourself.
Just limit to say 4 or 5 users logged in, if you're a really small shop limit it to 2-3 users. If someone has been sitting in your store too long, have the employees ask them if you're going to make a purchase;) Most restraunts have a policy against loitering, it's just rarely enforced, because normally you don't need to unless they're causing a disturbance, or table space is really limited.
Way better than access codes, it's free, but only so many people can use it, plus when you limit it to 1-2 people you can get a really slow dsl line like 256k/256k and save a lot of money.
Wrong, Linux works best on 'certain' hardware that had the most complete kernel modules/drivers etc for it. People aren't 'afraid of linux' it simply dosen't work right on their hardware. My motherboard is 3 years old, was a popular motherboard at the time, and linux still does a pretty bad job at utilizing the capabilities of my harware. Sure it runs, it'll perform OK as a basic websurfing/document editing station but the hard drives io is much much lower, and DVD burning is extremely slow.
Luckily I dual boot to windows, so it's not that big a deal for me, but i still 'need' windows. Linux is great, has lots of strenghths, but unless you buy your system Specifically for running linux, it's not going to give you a 'great' experience. Windows runs on everything out there. I'm sure much of that is because windows is #1, so if you're selling hardware you have to make sure it works with windows. So you see, vendors can make the decision to sell linux systems, that's pretty much what it takes to get people to 'accept' it.
"I used to hate computers, then a Server went down on me"
10% market penetrations is good, looks like they're able to fill enough orders with the new dresden fab.
Still, I think Intel must have finally gotten the hands of the marketing department off the reigns of the chip designers. So they're sure to start making some better chips here soon. The damage has been done though, AMD's got more fabs in planning to be built, and assuming the talent they have keeps working on making better chips, even if intel 'catches up' enough people will be satisfied with AMD to keep buying them, especially since the new version of windows is designed around the amd64 instructions, and while intel supports them now, the amd 64's will run the 'new' 64 bit code better.
1 because you have core 0 and core 1. therefore you have 1 cpus.
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Nice troll, but hey get your Facts Straight 5 million DSes out there... DS is by no means a failure. In comprison, the PSP has failed so misserably that they took it off the market in the UK. better hand-held console? They've lost to nintendo before, and sony is no exception.
...Protect companies who are paying anywhere from the mid 6 to low 7 figures from signing on, then hopping over to another company 'because they felt like it'
Non-competes can be blown out of proportion, but they aren't a huge issue as long as the laws governing them stay sane. without reasonable limits your employer could fire you, and you'd be on ice for a decade... that's one hell of a whip to hold over the head of any would be employee..
Myself I'm aiming for a certifiction that comes with the burden of not leaving your employer for at least 3 years... Because I know I'm that talented and capable.. Sure it means that if I want to leave an employer I have to suffer through 3 years, or just not work. Still, you shouldn't 'need' to leave an employer in less than that time anyways. and the minimum salaries for that kind of work ensure that all I'd have to do is save up for a few months, and I'd be set to ride out any difficulties for quite a while.
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and all the firemen who let a building burn down on there shifts! I'm sick of this lack of personal accountability let's fire all the fast food workers who can't produce food in under a minute from when i've had my order taken! Lets fire all the security professionals who've had a system compromized, and lets fire all the programmers who've written buggy code!
let's fire all the politicians who only server the interests of the people who contributed to there compaigns while were at it! and fire all the teachers who've had a student who fails.
great idea. So who hasn't been fired yet? anyone? Fire them too, they've done there job LESS THAN PERFECTLY...
you know there are things called punishments that fit the crime... this guy should have maybe a days pay docked for every person who manages to get access to porn if it's in his/her job description to prevent it... if the person shows repeated incompetence then you fire them... in the mean time perhaps having had time to look for a more qualified canidate..
I believe he killed his momma, with a knife, because she wouldn't get him a beer.
or course it doesn't scale well.
quite frankly intel was supposed to be selling 6-7 ghz p4's around now... the fact that they can't but can be overclocked that fast is proof that the architecture was designed to run at those clock speeds, but that actually implementing that kind of clock speed would require insane cooling and power requirements that most sane people find unacceptable.
I don't think you understand the importance of output resolution. Have you Ever, used a TV output device (eg All-in-wonder) on a 480i (standard def) scanline tv? have you ever used a TV input device with a progessive scan display eg: PC Monitor, High def TV? You CANNOT scale between progressive and interlaced images period. the interface will either work on a progressive display device, and be completely unusable on an interlaced device, or it will work on an interlaced device, and look boxy and stupid on a progressive scan device. For movies, it's
'fine' to go progressive scan, and simply loose quality on interlaced modes, but for game engines, you run into usability problems unless you design two seperate game interfaces, one for progessive scan users, and one for interlaced users.
And as far as WM9 goes, it's an 'extension' of the mpeg-4 spec. I don't see a single reason for a licensed developer of x-box 360 to not use wmv9 unless they are planning to cross-port to ps3, and wanted to keep both systems using the same stock mpeg-4 footage.
keep in mind the xbox 360 is shipping with a standard DVD-rom, just because microsft is 'considering' using hd-dvd at some point doesn't mean they ever will.
Mpeg-4 compression will do wonders for that. Technically speaking, the 'current' xbox supports 'high definition' resolutions (480p, 720i) High definition is a pretty 'broad' term, so the 360 will likely support 1080p, that doesn't mean games will have to use it, they could opt for 720p, which would be a vast improvment over current '480i' standard definition signals. also, due to marketing reasons etc, most 'cheap' DTV sets lack a 1080p mode, while still supporting 720p. I'd rather watch a 720p signal than a 1080i, myself so most likely when they say xbox 360 will support HD, they mean many game developers will support 720p, at least for cinematics...
I'm heading to my basement right now, my tinfoil underwear & hat firmly affixed by duct tape. If my employer asks, tell him that Planet X is coming and money and work and living are now meaningless.
Damnit now you tell me, I was just going to come out of my basement and look for a job so i could have spending money. And BTW you want to use SILVER aluminium acts as an antenna to magnify the effects of the mind control. Steel is an okay metal, but not nearly as effective as silver, you need a much thicker heavier steel plate to get the same shielding properties as silver, because it reflects virtually all frequencies of light/em radiation. steel merly 'absorbs' like lead, you want the reflective qualities of silver, for something that has to be light weight like protective headgear. Plus silver can be turned translucent, which allows you to make a complete, full head sheilding device. For those of you on a budget, they conveniently sell 'silver' based optically translusent plastic in bulk they're called CD-R but the thickness of the silver is so thin you need to combine at least 2 CD-r to acheive much in the way of shielding. And then you'll need some 1000 watt lamps to see around you with, as the green dye will be problematic. Optionally you can 'delaminate' the silver foil with a blow dryer (haven't tested the effectiveness of this) or by 'boiling' the discs in water (also untested)... boiling wated seems to be like it would be the easier option, since you could easily get the water hot enough to melt the plastic away, leaving only the foil.
Does Joel have some insight into programming that everyone reading Slashdot does not?
Well, he wrote a 'duh, obvious' article, it was linked to and posted on slashdot, so well obviously he has more insight than you because you have to submit your 'duh, obvious' observations via comments, while joel can write them for a web page and get linked to.
Hire better programmers and you'll get better code? no, you're kidding me... next thing you know you'll be telling me that if you hire better lawyers, a black man can commit murder and be found not guilty by a mostly white jury.
you must not be browsing at the right threshold ;)
all I see is a bunch of insightul discussion about the usefulness of the start.com page... then again I only have half a page of text to scroll through.
it's kinda like usenet that way, nothing taco does ever really 'silences' the idiots... but experienced users can quickly and easily filter out all the useless commentary and only read the useful stuff.
then again, someone has to bother reading through all the junk to bother to moderate it appropriately... oh well....
...as the mills drown out deliberate well thought through inventions.
Isn't that the point of a patent mill? To make sure that no-one else can out do your own inventions by simple patenting everything under the sun before they can?
They could always sell the early units with a 'coupon' for a 'free' upgrade to a HD-DVD when they become available.. that would cost a bunch of money, though.
Defence of a nation isn't just a gimmick dreamed up by politicians, you know.
I said If, I didn't say we 'could' have. I was postulating what that kind of investment into space and nuclear technologies could have been realistically expected to yeild. And someone sle pointed out that once we had enough nukes to destroy the world one time over we no longer needed to build any more... we could have 'won' the cold war spending 1/4 the money on it that we did... if people had decided that we needed superior nuclear power and space launch capabilities, instead of 'more nukes , more planes, and more subs' we would have been much further along, but then again hind sight is 20/20
Russia would have bankrupted itself trying to catch up to us on our nuclear and space technologies if we had focused on them instead of just better subs and making too many bombs. It was the trident subs that really won us the cold war, so we would have needed to do the sub technology, but satelite weapons without a deployment infrastructure, and making vastly more nukes than needed was down right wasteful.
Somewhere along the line all of that kind of talk just ended
If every penny we spent on the cold war had been spent on a combination of nuclear and space technology we'd be paying 2 cents/kwh for electricity, and we could have built any number of of the potential 'low cost' space sytems, (electro magnetic rail 1st stage booster ramps, or a 'true' space elevator, at the equator) and a full city on the moon, possibly more than one.
So you see what happened to the dream? we built big weapons to blow the world up a few thousand times over instead of building a space infrastructure. It looks like the space race is back on again, but america no longer has the talent or resource to lead the race. Especially with people so adamantly against the deployment of cheap, nuclear power. If china builds enough nuclear reactors to power to light up all of aisa they'll probably be the first to build on the moon.
Why wouldn't you buy the contracts? Pan am didn't specify a final price, only a 'reservation' price.
Someone planning to start a company to 'fly you to the moon' would have a slightly beter credibility if they had a passenger list for the inital flight.
As a finnish american male... I can't speak for people born in the native country, but even growing up in a very loose nation (the states, highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrilized nations) I never could quite justify having sex with the kind of women i was around ;) And yeah among other factors (feelings of inadequacy, etc) it lead to suidical tendancies...
;)
I'm pretty sure that suicide is a genentic factor, remember the vikings? they were afraid of laplanders... anyone crazy enough to leap out of hiding at you and attack a sword weilding soldier with a sharpened antler unafraid of death tends to inspire fear
kinda like how the suicidal nature of the japanese samurai kept japan safe from invasion by china, even though they tried numerous times.
no, fed's are immune to fire magic, one needs to use a vorpal blade, or else a high level banishment/containment spell.
Since the U.S. doesn't actually manufacture anything tangible anymore,
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;) that make us able to produce food for 'less' money than many nations can produce there own..
In 2004, U.S. agricultural exports to China totaled a record $6.5 billion, an increase of five percent over the previous year. China is now the fourth largest market for U.S. agricultural exports, surpassed only by Canada, Mexico and Japan. cite:http://www.ncfb.com/mediaC/accent/accent_051
We are still the number 1 exporter of tobacco products around the world. American cigarettes are highly reguarded as the best quality one can buy. And frankly we export at least $35 billion dollars a year worth of agracultural goods globally.
Since we export food to many countries, but food has a low margin, it is only because of our highly advanced agracultural technology (better, 'safer' pesticides/fungicides, better equipment, better educated farmers who have more advanced crop rotations, better irrigation techniques etc etc) and vast tracts of unpopulated land (ever been to the dakotas
Go humanity! Let's fight and die over how we Crack the shell off a boiled egg! (with a knike, vs. with a spoon!)
Yes, that's a literature reference
no video, but a full writeup has already been on the net for a few days... in fact the Proof-of-concept seems to be up too. but you have to compile it yourself.
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http://www.antiserver.it.nyud.net:8090/Cisco-Expl
Just limit to say 4 or 5 users logged in, if you're a really small shop limit it to 2-3 users. If someone has been sitting in your store too long, have the employees ask them if you're going to make a purchase ;) Most restraunts have a policy against loitering, it's just rarely enforced, because normally you don't need to unless they're causing a disturbance, or table space is really limited.
Way better than access codes, it's free, but only so many people can use it, plus when you limit it to 1-2 people you can get a really slow dsl line like 256k/256k and save a lot of money.
Planet X is soooo Gen X.
Actually it's an old 50's sci-fi movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043778/
people are frightened of making the change
Wrong, Linux works best on 'certain' hardware that had the most complete kernel modules/drivers etc for it. People aren't 'afraid of linux' it simply dosen't work right on their hardware. My motherboard is 3 years old, was a popular motherboard at the time, and linux still does a pretty bad job at utilizing the capabilities of my harware. Sure it runs, it'll perform OK as a basic websurfing/document editing station but the hard drives io is much much lower, and DVD burning is extremely slow.
Luckily I dual boot to windows, so it's not that big a deal for me, but i still 'need' windows. Linux is great, has lots of strenghths, but unless you buy your system Specifically for running linux, it's not going to give you a 'great' experience. Windows runs on everything out there. I'm sure much of that is because windows is #1, so if you're selling hardware you have to make sure it works with windows. So you see, vendors can make the decision to sell linux systems, that's pretty much what it takes to get people to 'accept' it.
you reminded me of an old joke..
"I used to hate computers, then a Server went down on me"
10% market penetrations is good, looks like they're able to fill enough orders with the new dresden fab.
Still, I think Intel must have finally gotten the hands of the marketing department off the reigns of the chip designers. So they're sure to start making some better chips here soon. The damage has been done though, AMD's got more fabs in planning to be built, and assuming the talent they have keeps working on making better chips, even if intel 'catches up' enough people will be satisfied with AMD to keep buying them, especially since the new version of windows is designed around the amd64 instructions, and while intel supports them now, the amd 64's will run the 'new' 64 bit code better.
1 because you have core 0 and core 1. therefore you have 1 cpus.
Nice troll, but hey get your Facts Straight
5 million DSes out there... DS is by no means a failure. In comprison, the PSP has failed so misserably that they took it off the market in the UK. better hand-held console? They've lost to nintendo before, and sony is no exception.
...Protect companies who are paying anywhere from the mid 6 to low 7 figures from signing on, then hopping over to another company 'because they felt like it'
Non-competes can be blown out of proportion, but they aren't a huge issue as long as the laws governing them stay sane. without reasonable limits your employer could fire you, and you'd be on ice for a decade... that's one hell of a whip to hold over the head of any would be employee..
Myself I'm aiming for a certifiction that comes with the burden of not leaving your employer for at least 3 years... Because I know I'm that talented and capable.. Sure it means that if I want to leave an employer I have to suffer through 3 years, or just not work. Still, you shouldn't 'need' to leave an employer in less than that time anyways. and the minimum salaries for that kind of work ensure that all I'd have to do is save up for a few months, and I'd be set to ride out any difficulties for quite a while.