Also, posting a reply annonymously saying your gp post was trollish, tends to get it modded as a troll. and saying that your entire post is offtopic willg et you modded offtopic... and if you ask for a funny mod, you'll usually get modded as such... and sadly, if it's a thread like that and you ask for insightful, some people will mod you that way, but others will mod you funny.. Don't you think it's interesting how the moderator system is such an easily influenced mass mind?
Oh, and google usage will eventually hit a point where it has cyclical ups and downs. perhaps the summer time is a time when normal people are out swimming and vacationing and not googling for whatever they needed to know;) Wasn't that insightful?
I am so funny sometimes.. I'm just glad this topic isn't offtopic, redunadant, or flamebait. It would be funny though if i got all 8 mods on this post just because i mentioned them all.
apparently some people don't understand what a 'tilde'(~) was used to represent... an infinitely repeating number of 9's it's more common to use... but still... it's not that hard to understand it if you read the paragaph i wrote before it...
whoo hoo you just said 100% uptime is the only 'acceptable' uptime for anyone. there is a 'bug' in the decimal system. any 'infinitely repeating' decimal string can through a valid algebra equasion be proven to be equal to 1 (or in this case 100).
EG: 99.99~ = X ; 10*99.99~ = 10x ; 999.99~ - X = 10X -X ; 900 = 9X ; 100 = X
keep in mind in order to offer 100% uptime the telcos have triple circuit redundancy... and even then '100%' means 'barring an act of god, or terrorism'
Slashdot will be more positive when they install the Happy modchip until then we'll just have to license all our frownies from despair inc. Sadly they took down the order form, and I'm almost running out of Frownies:-( dang used another one...
then you have products like nero which have x.x.x.x revision numbers, and they use the first for 'big' releases the second for major changes, the thrirds they rarely use, i think it's for security issues.. the fourth is minor compatability/bug fixes. and you can read the 'changelog' to decide on if those are worth it.
Luck. that or someone creaated a new account during an off hour like 4 am, or something, got uid 900131, and being a math geek knew the next id was 900132 and made a quick calulation on a geeky username and signed up for it before anyone woke up?
My uid was pure luck;) 321456 and it fits me perfectly.
It's a part of the alien overlords plot to gradually make us used to speaking thier language. 'blog' is a very common word so of course it's one of the first. i believe the meaning of the word blog is like aloha. I could be wrong, it could mean something like 'yes master, anything you please'
but it clearly is one of those alien words. they just want you to beleive it's a 'shortened version/typo' of 'web log'. we blog.
When used as a firewall you're sure to keep trouble an ARMs length away.
You should buy two, and set the hostname of one to Right and one to Left. then you always know where your right and left ARMs are, and what they're doing.
when you boot up, you're raising your ARM.
For 'your special' geek this raises the question.. Your ARM, or Mine?
Don't get all up in ARMs over that last joke... it's just meant to be funny.
It's more than just 'normal caller id' ever called a pizza place? if you've enver ordered from them, they ask you your address... they have caller id on the computers they use to take the orders..
911 operation centers have a customer address database, provided to them by the telcos, governed by FCC rules. and 911 center calls are treated differently than normal calls too, they get the highest routing priority (meaning if you've been chatting on a circuit for hours on end*, and the circuits are 'loaded' and someone tries to call 911, your call will get dropped) In addition, if you've opted to have your caller id blocked completely (not even a number shows up) your number will Still Show up for 911 operations.
This is all because of FCC regs. And yeah, DSL uses a circuit too, but telcos went whole hog increasing the number of circuits available because of dialup, and the fact that many people continue to use dialup.. and modern systems no longer require the dialup isp to maintin a seperate circuit for each and every dialup user, because they have a 'digitial' connection... Also DSL can optionally be a 'dedicated' circuit meaning every other non dedicated circuit would have to be occupied by a 911 call for it to be dropped. something that can happen, in a disaster.. but not normally.
*= this happened a lot when i used dialup, every 2-3 days or so, circuits would get loaded for whatever reason, and my call would get dropped because it became lowest priority, if circuits cleared i would reconnect, but sometimes it took 5 or more minutes for enough circuits to clear...
yea buddy... make fun of it. i am quite willing to wager that the grandparent poster makes a hell of a lot more money than you do while the it market is in a slump... and that s/he never has to worry about being laid off, because there is always someone who wants to be 40 degrees cooler than surface-level atmospheric temperature. i only wish that i had the smarts to have a fallback career like that, maybe then i would not be in a bankruptcy trial with my family being thrown into ruins!
The point (of the joke) is that A+ is so basic even the 'typical' best buy tech could pass it. And that MSCE certs are the MBA of the tech certification world. There are 'better' certificitaions but the point is he mentioned the most 'rice boy' of certs... Nothing wrong with embracing one's poser status, but real geek cred doesn't come as easy as a piece of paper. they are as you mentioned really good at getting you a 'job.' Certifications are just exactly about that, employment, nothing more..
It would be like being proud of being a CCNA When there are quite a few here who could breeze through the CCIE certification...
well, what would you rather have a country of obese programmers who die of heart disease at age 40? or some of our smarter more talented people going into teaching kids how to exercise and diet properly, so they can lead longer heathier lives.
I guess gates would rather have the former... and rely on computers to design the medical technology to replace a 'frail' human cardiovascular system ith a 'easily replacable' mechanical system..
I wonder why it is cheaper to buy a new $400 PC than paying top rate of, say $100 per machine, to get someone to insert the recovery CD and get everything back to factory defaults.
Because the recovery CD doesn't come with the computer, and also, the techs at best buy don't actually remove the spyware completely.
The only way to 100% ensure the spyware is removed is to froma 'clean' environment format the hard drive, flash the bios on the infected motherboard, and then perform said recovery steps. and then install 5 programs, to protect from spyware if IE use is allowed/enabled.
(if you 'break' IE and install firefox, then only firefox and a good firewall like black ice/zone alarm is needed)
it's much easier to just buy one of those mac's that use your existing keyboard/mouse/monitor to swap out.
Are people still interested in how nuclear reactors work?
Average people aren't intersted in anything geeky. they just want to move on with life. they don't care to know anythinng.
[note: this is a little rambling, but it's tangential]
That's why Bill Gates Is so scared. If linux can work better than windows, people will just want linux 'because it works.' Mac OSX has already seriously helped apple become acceptedby mainstream users. How long til a vendor like dell realizes that they could roll thier own OS distro based off some BSD or linux distro, and polish it to work with their models for less than buying windows licences? What if they realize the low virus incident rate would be a selling point on thier 'low end' non gaming system.. all it needs to do is internet, movies, and burning... it's already such a stripped down box that gaming on it is a joke. The reason why they can't is because microsoft has made a lot of illegal moves to prevent big vendors from doing exactly that.
yeah/'.s search is only useful for dupe articles from 2-3 days ago, which google may not yet have ranked properly yet. anything older, requires google.. but google then ranks the most popular stories higher, but the advanced search can narrow it down nicely if they're giving too many results..
is that growing plant, and deistrubting them uses too many fossil fuels, then just make windmills that produce hydrogen fuel, and build hydrogen fuel cell tractors etc..
But the real problem is that both sides are trying to prove a case. so, of course side A. uses the 'best case scenario' where the corn is grwon and refined into ethanol locally, and then added to the fuel supply locally, using all modern, energy efficient farm equipment... and side B. uses the worst case scenrio, where you have to ship the corn 2,000 miles across highways, then another 2,000 miles, and the farms growing the corn are using the worst gas guzzler tractors on the market...
And what's wrong with producing ozone*;) some people wouldn't mind having a little more of that stuff around.
*= I know, ozone clouds can trigger strong alergic reactions in people with resperiatory alergies.. I've lived close enough to detroit to know they have ozone alerts on the local weather from all the steel smelting etc that goes on there..
LCDs have advantages over CRTs... they also have disadvantages.. the 'advantages' are percieved tob e greater than the disadvantages. the only difference, is that dual cores only real 'disadvantage' compared to single core is that by having dual cores you can't have as many transistors in each core, as compared to an identical silicon die size single core design. but it's difficult to design a single core processor that effeciently uses all it's transistors. especially as transistors get smaller, and you can keep packing more on the core. so they've gone to 'dual core' designs, and leave part of the hard work in the hands of the programmers. but technically, modern operating systems have all become so complicated, that Everyone benfits from dual core designs. but probablly itr would be better if one core was a 'main' core, and there was a 'secondary' core, that was much smaller/slower, and was just there to increase the effieciency at executing code..
no-one is really trying to do that, because it's vastly easier to simply make two identical cores. and for most users identical speed cores is going to work great... even though most won't utilize both cores fully ever. asymetric dual core technology is probabbly the optimal solution, but no one wants to build it. why whould you want to put as small a say 500 mhz core as you can as a co-prosessor to a 4ghz core;) even if it's the most efficient use of silicon for optimal performance... it doesn't sell itself... it's not glitzy and people don't understand why the second core is only 500 mhz. it's because the second core only Needs to be that fast, to become fully utilized why allowing the 4ghz core to be fully utilized by single processor intensive applications;)
before you know it, the cursor will have zoomed off and crashed into the right hand edge of the window.
I hate when that happens, then i'll have to file a claim with the insurance adjustor, assuming the right margin or cursor recieved damage from the impact... hopefully there weren't any innocent punctuation in the way, because then we've got a wrongful deletion suit on our hands.
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Also, posting a reply annonymously saying your gp post was trollish, tends to get it modded as a troll. and saying that your entire post is offtopic willg et you modded offtopic... and if you ask for a funny mod, you'll usually get modded as such... and sadly, if it's a thread like that and you ask for insightful, some people will mod you that way, but others will mod you funny.. Don't you think it's interesting how the moderator system is such an easily influenced mass mind?
;) Wasn't that insightful?
Oh, and google usage will eventually hit a point where it has cyclical ups and downs. perhaps the summer time is a time when normal people are out swimming and vacationing and not googling for whatever they needed to know
I am so funny sometimes.. I'm just glad this topic isn't offtopic, redunadant, or flamebait.
It would be funny though if i got all 8 mods on this post just because i mentioned them all.
apparently some people don't understand what a 'tilde'(~) was used to represent... an infinitely repeating number of 9's it's more common to use ...
but still... it's not that hard to understand it if you read the paragaph i wrote before it...
hrm my uid is all primes too.. 2*2*2*2*3*37*181 and
'four two's' sexy.. 42.. I am the answer to life the universe and everything hah j/k
whoo hoo you just said 100% uptime is the only 'acceptable' uptime for anyone. there is a 'bug' in the decimal system. any 'infinitely repeating' decimal string can through a valid algebra equasion be proven to be equal to 1 (or in this case 100).
EG: 99.99~ = X ; 10*99.99~ = 10x ; 999.99~ - X = 10X -X ; 900 = 9X ; 100 = X
keep in mind in order to offer 100% uptime the telcos have triple circuit redundancy... and even then '100%' means 'barring an act of god, or terrorism'
Slashdot will be more positive when they install the Happy modchip until then we'll just have to license all our frownies from despair inc. Sadly they took down the order form, and I'm almost running out of Frownies :-( dang used another one...
then you have products like nero which have x.x.x.x revision numbers, and they use the first for 'big' releases the second for major changes, the thrirds they rarely use, i think it's for security issues.. the fourth is minor compatability/bug fixes. and you can read the 'changelog' to decide on if those are worth it.
Luck. that or someone creaated a new account during an off hour like 4 am, or something, got uid 900131, and being a math geek knew the next id was 900132 and made a quick calulation on a geeky username and signed up for it before anyone woke up?
;) 321456 and it fits me perfectly.
My uid was pure luck
It's a part of the alien overlords plot to gradually make us used to speaking thier language. 'blog' is a very common word so of course it's one of the first. i believe the meaning of the word blog is like aloha. I could be wrong, it could mean something like 'yes master, anything you please'
but it clearly is one of those alien words. they just want you to beleive it's a 'shortened version/typo' of 'web log'. we blog.
When used as a firewall you're sure to keep trouble an ARMs length away.
You should buy two, and set the hostname of one to Right and one to Left. then you always know where your right and left ARMs are, and what they're doing.
when you boot up, you're raising your ARM.
For 'your special' geek this raises the question.. Your ARM, or Mine?
Don't get all up in ARMs over that last joke... it's just meant to be funny.
Just don't cross your ARMs you'd hate to have them conflicted.
A black-hat hacker with one of these, can be considered ARMed and Dangerous.
Someone lend me a hand here, because boy is my ARM tired...
you can always beat a dead joke, with your ARM.
$define(funny,%pARM)
If your box ever gets lost or stolen don't forget to shout "I've lost my ARM"
If you don't keep debian patched, you're APT to say someone Root-ed around in your ARM.
It's more than just 'normal caller id' ever called a pizza place? if you've enver ordered from them, they ask you your address... they have caller id on the computers they use to take the orders..
911 operation centers have a customer address database, provided to them by the telcos, governed by FCC rules. and 911 center calls are treated differently than normal calls too, they get the highest routing priority (meaning if you've been chatting on a circuit for hours on end*, and the circuits are 'loaded' and someone tries to call 911, your call will get dropped) In addition, if you've opted to have your caller id blocked completely (not even a number shows up) your number will Still Show up for 911 operations.
This is all because of FCC regs. And yeah, DSL uses a circuit too, but telcos went whole hog increasing the number of circuits available because of dialup, and the fact that many people continue to use dialup.. and modern systems no longer require the dialup isp to maintin a seperate circuit for each and every dialup user, because they have a 'digitial' connection... Also DSL can optionally be a 'dedicated' circuit meaning every other non dedicated circuit would have to be occupied by a 911 call for it to be dropped. something that can happen, in a disaster.. but not normally.
*= this happened a lot when i used dialup, every 2-3 days or so, circuits would get loaded for whatever reason, and my call would get dropped because it became lowest priority, if circuits cleared i would reconnect, but sometimes it took 5 or more minutes for enough circuits to clear...
yea buddy... make fun of it. i am quite willing to wager that the grandparent poster makes a hell of a lot more money than you do while the it market is in a slump... and that s/he never has to worry about being laid off, because there is always someone who wants to be 40 degrees cooler than surface-level atmospheric temperature. i only wish that i had the smarts to have a fallback career like that, maybe then i would not be in a bankruptcy trial with my family being thrown into ruins!
The point (of the joke) is that A+ is so basic even the 'typical' best buy tech could pass it. And that MSCE certs are the MBA of the tech certification world. There are 'better' certificitaions but the point is he mentioned the most 'rice boy' of certs... Nothing wrong with embracing one's poser status, but real geek cred doesn't come as easy as a piece of paper. they are as you mentioned really good at getting you a 'job.' Certifications are just exactly about that, employment, nothing more..
It would be like being proud of being a CCNA When there are quite a few here who could breeze through the CCIE certification...
So maybe we'll be dethroned as having The most overweight teens because of the global obesity problem
well, what would you rather have a country of obese programmers who die of heart disease at age 40? or some of our smarter more talented people going into teaching kids how to exercise and diet properly, so they can lead longer heathier lives.
I guess gates would rather have the former... and rely on computers to design the medical technology to replace a 'frail' human cardiovascular system ith a 'easily replacable' mechanical system..
I wonder why it is cheaper to buy a new $400 PC than paying top rate of, say $100 per machine, to get someone to insert the recovery CD and get everything back to factory defaults.
Because the recovery CD doesn't come with the computer, and also, the techs at best buy don't actually remove the spyware completely.
The only way to 100% ensure the spyware is removed is to froma 'clean' environment format the hard drive, flash the bios on the infected motherboard, and then perform said recovery steps. and then install 5 programs, to protect from spyware if IE use is allowed/enabled.
(if you 'break' IE and install firefox, then only firefox and a good firewall like black ice/zone alarm is needed)
it's much easier to just buy one of those mac's that use your existing keyboard/mouse/monitor to swap out.
Are people still interested in how nuclear reactors work?
Average people aren't intersted in anything geeky. they just want to move on with life. they don't care to know anythinng.
[note: this is a little rambling, but it's tangential]
That's why Bill Gates Is so scared. If linux can work better than windows, people will just want linux 'because it works.' Mac OSX has already seriously helped apple become acceptedby mainstream users. How long til a vendor like dell realizes that they could roll thier own OS distro based off some BSD or linux distro, and polish it to work with their models for less than buying windows licences? What if they realize the low virus incident rate would be a selling point on thier 'low end' non gaming system.. all it needs to do is internet, movies, and burning... it's already such a stripped down box that gaming on it is a joke. The reason why they can't is because microsoft has made a lot of illegal moves to prevent big vendors from doing exactly that.
pshaw, i can't wait until universe's mass has been converted into a nano computer, capapble of running a (near) perfect simulation of the universe...
yeah /'.s search is only useful for dupe articles from 2-3 days ago, which google may not yet have ranked properly yet. anything older, requires google.. but google then ranks the most popular stories higher, but the advanced search can narrow it down nicely if they're giving too many results..
is that growing plant, and deistrubting them uses too many fossil fuels, then just make windmills that produce hydrogen fuel, and build hydrogen fuel cell tractors etc..
;) some people wouldn't mind having a little more of that stuff around.
But the real problem is that both sides are trying to prove a case. so, of course side A. uses the 'best case scenario' where the corn is grwon and refined into ethanol locally, and then added to the fuel supply locally, using all modern, energy efficient farm equipment... and side B. uses the worst case scenrio, where you have to ship the corn 2,000 miles across highways, then another 2,000 miles, and the farms growing the corn are using the worst gas guzzler tractors on the market...
And what's wrong with producing ozone*
*= I know, ozone clouds can trigger strong alergic reactions in people with resperiatory alergies.. I've lived close enough to detroit to know they have ozone alerts on the local weather from all the steel smelting etc that goes on there..
I am not even sure that the operating system that does take over will be called Linux.
GNU/HURD?
LCDs have advantages over CRTs... they also have disadvantages.. the 'advantages' are percieved tob e greater than the disadvantages. the only difference, is that dual cores only real 'disadvantage' compared to single core is that by having dual cores you can't have as many transistors in each core, as compared to an identical silicon die size single core design. but it's difficult to design a single core processor that effeciently uses all it's transistors. especially as transistors get smaller, and you can keep packing more on the core. so they've gone to 'dual core' designs, and leave part of the hard work in the hands of the programmers. but technically, modern operating systems have all become so complicated, that Everyone benfits from dual core designs. but probablly itr would be better if one core was a 'main' core, and there was a 'secondary' core, that was much smaller/slower, and was just there to increase the effieciency at executing code..
;) even if it's the most efficient use of silicon for optimal performance... it doesn't sell itself... it's not glitzy and people don't understand why the second core is only 500 mhz. it's because the second core only Needs to be that fast, to become fully utilized why allowing the 4ghz core to be fully utilized by single processor intensive applications ;)
no-one is really trying to do that, because it's vastly easier to simply make two identical cores. and for most users identical speed cores is going to work great... even though most won't utilize both cores fully ever. asymetric dual core technology is probabbly the optimal solution, but no one wants to build it. why whould you want to put as small a say 500 mhz core as you can as a co-prosessor to a 4ghz core
What keeps me up at night...
;)
Are the IM clients you can talk entirely with 'pictures' in that even an illiterate hick can use.
Forget computer literacy, you don't even need to be literate to use a computer anymore
cmon, plan9 OS sucked, but it wasn't the worst OS ever... *points to windows ME*
Why make one, http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4612267 there already is one ;)
sadly, it only has one seed and 2 leachers and frankly, it might not be the exact same as the version that was available freely...
Link please -- at least to some kind of source?5 081049/ref=pd_sxp_f/103-3158123-6214245?v=glance&s =books ;)
The year's best Science Fiction published it once, but i forget which volume of it had it... that's where i read it, also there is an anthology of stories http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038
so, yeah you can still get the short story, 'used' or at a library
before you know it, the cursor will have zoomed off and crashed into the right hand edge of the window.
I hate when that happens, then i'll have to file a claim with the insurance adjustor, assuming the right margin or cursor recieved damage from the impact... hopefully there weren't any innocent punctuation in the way, because then we've got a wrongful deletion suit on our hands.