First of all when is the last time you saw 100 thousand people watching a game of ultimate fristbee? Secondly, I never said it didn't tire you out. Pushing a car up a hill would tire you out, but that doesn't make it a sport.
``What, human-growth hormones so we can bang the clock harder?'' said Jim Leade, a U.S. representative to FIDE who thinks the organization is being too strict. ``It absolutely registers as ridiculous.''
No, what's ridiculous is that chess is being considered as an olympic sport. Come on people, can we stick to the core events and stop all this junk? I heard that frisbee was being considered as an event... really, come on, that's something you play in the park with your dog, not something you do as a world class athlete. They need to go back to basics, running, jumping, lifting heavy stuff, swimming, etc. Really, what's next? Are they going to have posting slashdot articles as an event? How about sitting in an office chair, or maybe coffee preparing? All of these things have their places, and those places are not in the Olympics.
Why don't they break the trend and release it in March or something? I pretty much ignore movies during the summer because they all have these amazing trailers then turn out sucking the big one (can you say Jurassic Park III?) I say March or April, there's no football, there's no going to the beach, perfect time to release a great movie.
Well it sucks that they block certain things but there's no law that says they have to offer subscribers a completely open connection to the internet. Maybe we need a law like that, but until then we can only look to competitors who will offer (at a slightly higher charge) a restriction-free connection. I hate it too, but what can you do?
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I have to agree with what you're saying about the legalities, but I have to say that I don't think MP3 should be classified as an illegal copy of something. It doesn't have CD quality, it's just a file on your computer. The record industry is punishing people who make CD's from mp3's by just punishing everyone who uses mp3's at all, and that sucks.
OK, this is a good protocol but let's not exaggerate (sp?). I mean come on, 200 bytes of useful information compressed to 2 bytes? I doubt that compression like that could occur unless you had a string of all 1's followed by all 0's, which doesn't seem very useful.
There are 15 year olds all over the damn internet these days (just look at some of the recent moderators) and they really do get annoying. Just log on to AIM or MSN messenger some time, and your little window will pop up with "a/s/l?" about 100 times, unless you check the option to only receive messages from people on your list. They all seem to be from Duluth or Lawrenceville GA too, which sucks because I just moved there, I never see any young people out, no 14-30 year olds, they must all be computer geeks or something.
This author really doesn't know what he's talking about. The G4 processor is very powerful and the Mac architecture is well designed. As far as speeds go, Macs use a different instruction set technology, so an operation on a PC might take it 3 instructions, while on a Mac it only takes one. In that case, if the PC does 2 instructions per second and the Mac only does 1 (so the PC would be 2 times as "fast") The PC would take 1.5 seconds to complete the same task the Mac completed in 1 second. This is why you can compare an 833 G4 with a 1500 P4.
I was speaking of going from P3 to P4. Actually, we don't know exactly how Pentium puts their chips together. There could be a huge difference between a P3 1.13 ghz and a P3 1ghz. Things like pipeline algorithms, stall prediction, exception handling/prediction... the way these issues are tackled continues to evolve and when the new methods are implemented, they usually are better. Hardware is actually good about that, it usually improves, as opposed to software, which does get more "buggy" with each upgrade.
It is not fair to compare a number, like clock speed and then say "oh well only 70 mhz more costs 25% more money." These processors have extremely complicated designs and the newer ones are much more efficient in every way. You might see a 70 mhz gain in speed on a piece of paper, but the reliability, speed, and robustness of the new processors far outweigh the price increase.
Troll? So if you don't like my opinion you just call me names and rank me down? Very mature. Look, I was giving my opinion on an editorial (opinion.) I didn't put in anything offensive, and I don't appreciate your ranking. Once again, you moderators who misuse the system, you all can kiss my ass.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Think about hell, once you know what it's like, you never want to go there, but the Devil sure makes things tempting...
Well XP sure does look nice, but once you get it installed and you get assimilated, you sure wish you weren't there...
Reading this article (pretty good by the way) I couldn't help but chuckle on how the writer compares some of the new features of windows to those of the Linux Mandrake package. It reminds me of a few years back when I purchased a bumper sticker reading Windows 95 = Macintosh 89. I guess it's just the same thing happening again, the only innovations coming from Microsoft are those pertaining to new ways of pushing the limits of the law and leveraging their Monopoly. All of you Linux people out there, do something so that you aren't always stuck in the same boat I'm in, promoting the superior system, yet outnumbered 10 to 1 by the evil empire.
Well, depends on what you're talking about. First of all, if 'multitasking' is your code word for someone working on 10 projects and also having to answer questions about other projects all day, well then yes, it's going to be extremely difficult for them to complete anything. On the other hand, as with computers, there are "stalls" in projects where someone simply cannot proceed with their work, in which case it is more productive for them to work on something else for a little while. Also, in general, it is good for people to work on a few different things. When someone becomes too focused on one task, they lose their "vision" of the big picture, which can cause conflict within an organization. It is my personal opinion that multitasking is very productive but only if a reasonable, intelligent scheme is used to determine the tasks to be accomplished.
I agree with the review, I went to this movie to laugh a lot and go "oooooh" at Jackie Chan's stunts, and that's exactly what happened. If you're the type of person that can't shut up about how fake wrestling is when you're at "WWF smackdown" party, then don't go see this movie. Everyone knows the plot is crazy, everyone knows the stunts are ridiculous, but it's really fun, and if you can relax and have a good time, you'll laugh your ass off.
This article is scary. The author actually says the internet is a dumb network with smart terminals. It's true, the internet itself isn't the most complex thing, but you know what, there's brilliance in that. I think that's why it's so successfull. People like a simple, efficient system that they can use and have some control over.
The best analogy to this is the highway system, especially in cities. The internet today is like the open road, whereas a tightly controlled network would be like the subway system. Most people prefer the open road, I know I do, unless there's just so much traffic that driving makes no sense at all. Roads are simple, they are pavement with a few signs and lights (routers.) You can put just about any traffic on them, some more annoying than others (like 30-something females standing about 5'2" driving Ford Excursions...) People like to drive because they can control what's going on, or at least they get that feeling. People like to have the internet be simple so that they can enhance it as they prefer, not as some company dictates. The subway on the other hand, it has restricted traffic, subway cars. They only go certain places, but they go there quickly and usually on time. It's very convenient, but only when you need to specifically use the subway, IE go to one of it's specific stops. The range, or scope of the subway is therefore very limited, similarly to the way a coroporate restricted network is.
Anyway all this babbling is really just me trying to say: please don't change the internet, I like it just fine the way it is, I want to be able to drive, thanks.
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A cluster fuck of these?
First of all when is the last time you saw 100 thousand people watching a game of ultimate fristbee? Secondly, I never said it didn't tire you out. Pushing a car up a hill would tire you out, but that doesn't make it a sport.
``What, human-growth hormones so we can bang the clock harder?'' said Jim Leade, a U.S. representative to FIDE who thinks the organization is being too strict. ``It absolutely registers as ridiculous.''
No, what's ridiculous is that chess is being considered as an olympic sport. Come on people, can we stick to the core events and stop all this junk? I heard that frisbee was being considered as an event... really, come on, that's something you play in the park with your dog, not something you do as a world class athlete. They need to go back to basics, running, jumping, lifting heavy stuff, swimming, etc. Really, what's next? Are they going to have posting slashdot articles as an event? How about sitting in an office chair, or maybe coffee preparing? All of these things have their places, and those places are not in the Olympics.
Why don't they break the trend and release it in March or something? I pretty much ignore movies during the summer because they all have these amazing trailers then turn out sucking the big one (can you say Jurassic Park III?) I say March or April, there's no football, there's no going to the beach, perfect time to release a great movie.
Then maybe the government would discover some intelligent life, because they obviously don't have any.
Imagine, playboy-esque models posing to the time of day, ticking along on your desktop...
It'd be almost like the Naked News
Flaccid sales aside, publishers face even bigger challenges.
I'm trying to think of a funny comment to go along with this quote from the article, but I just can't stop laughing...
Well it sucks that they block certain things but there's no law that says they have to offer subscribers a completely open connection to the internet. Maybe we need a law like that, but until then we can only look to competitors who will offer (at a slightly higher charge) a restriction-free connection. I hate it too, but what can you do?
I have to agree with what you're saying about the legalities, but I have to say that I don't think MP3 should be classified as an illegal copy of something. It doesn't have CD quality, it's just a file on your computer. The record industry is punishing people who make CD's from mp3's by just punishing everyone who uses mp3's at all, and that sucks.
1) What about the americans with disabilities act? Those with dislexia or some other reading disability would have a case against such timed reading.
2) If you really wanted to have the book longer, couldn't you just do a print screen on each page and paste into a word document?
OK, this is a good protocol but let's not exaggerate (sp?). I mean come on, 200 bytes of useful information compressed to 2 bytes? I doubt that compression like that could occur unless you had a string of all 1's followed by all 0's, which doesn't seem very useful.
There are 15 year olds all over the damn internet these days (just look at some of the recent moderators) and they really do get annoying. Just log on to AIM or MSN messenger some time, and your little window will pop up with "a/s/l?" about 100 times, unless you check the option to only receive messages from people on your list. They all seem to be from Duluth or Lawrenceville GA too, which sucks because I just moved there, I never see any young people out, no 14-30 year olds, they must all be computer geeks or something.
This author really doesn't know what he's talking about. The G4 processor is very powerful and the Mac architecture is well designed. As far as speeds go, Macs use a different instruction set technology, so an operation on a PC might take it 3 instructions, while on a Mac it only takes one. In that case, if the PC does 2 instructions per second and the Mac only does 1 (so the PC would be 2 times as "fast") The PC would take 1.5 seconds to complete the same task the Mac completed in 1 second. This is why you can compare an 833 G4 with a 1500 P4.
I'm not a salesman, just a computer engineer who recently had a class on processor design. There is a lot more to these chips than the speed metric.
I was speaking of going from P3 to P4. Actually, we don't know exactly how Pentium puts their chips together. There could be a huge difference between a P3 1.13 ghz and a P3 1ghz. Things like pipeline algorithms, stall prediction, exception handling/prediction... the way these issues are tackled continues to evolve and when the new methods are implemented, they usually are better. Hardware is actually good about that, it usually improves, as opposed to software, which does get more "buggy" with each upgrade.
It is not fair to compare a number, like clock speed and then say "oh well only 70 mhz more costs 25% more money." These processors have extremely complicated designs and the newer ones are much more efficient in every way. You might see a 70 mhz gain in speed on a piece of paper, but the reliability, speed, and robustness of the new processors far outweigh the price increase.
Troll? So if you don't like my opinion you just call me names and rank me down? Very mature. Look, I was giving my opinion on an editorial (opinion.) I didn't put in anything offensive, and I don't appreciate your ranking. Once again, you moderators who misuse the system, you all can kiss my ass.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Think about hell, once you know what it's like, you never want to go there, but the Devil sure makes things tempting...
Well XP sure does look nice, but once you get it installed and you get assimilated, you sure wish you weren't there...
Reading this article (pretty good by the way) I couldn't help but chuckle on how the writer compares some of the new features of windows to those of the Linux Mandrake package. It reminds me of a few years back when I purchased a bumper sticker reading Windows 95 = Macintosh 89. I guess it's just the same thing happening again, the only innovations coming from Microsoft are those pertaining to new ways of pushing the limits of the law and leveraging their Monopoly. All of you Linux people out there, do something so that you aren't always stuck in the same boat I'm in, promoting the superior system, yet outnumbered 10 to 1 by the evil empire.
Multitasking is harmful to productivity...
Well, depends on what you're talking about. First of all, if 'multitasking' is your code word for someone working on 10 projects and also having to answer questions about other projects all day, well then yes, it's going to be extremely difficult for them to complete anything. On the other hand, as with computers, there are "stalls" in projects where someone simply cannot proceed with their work, in which case it is more productive for them to work on something else for a little while. Also, in general, it is good for people to work on a few different things. When someone becomes too focused on one task, they lose their "vision" of the big picture, which can cause conflict within an organization. It is my personal opinion that multitasking is very productive but only if a reasonable, intelligent scheme is used to determine the tasks to be accomplished.
Doom #1? Come on...
My picks:
#10 - Sim City
# 9 - Marathon
# 8 - Quake II
# 7 - GoldenEye
# 6 - Mario Kart
# 5 - Asteroids
# 4 - Madden Football
# 3 - Starcraft
# 2 - Metroid
# 1 - Perfect Dark
So many pockets, not enough toys!
I agree with the review, I went to this movie to laugh a lot and go "oooooh" at Jackie Chan's stunts, and that's exactly what happened. If you're the type of person that can't shut up about how fake wrestling is when you're at "WWF smackdown" party, then don't go see this movie. Everyone knows the plot is crazy, everyone knows the stunts are ridiculous, but it's really fun, and if you can relax and have a good time, you'll laugh your ass off.
Well that's the north, and it sucks anyway. I live in GA, and so I guess I wouldn't know about all that crap.
This article is scary. The author actually says the internet is a dumb network with smart terminals. It's true, the internet itself isn't the most complex thing, but you know what, there's brilliance in that. I think that's why it's so successfull. People like a simple, efficient system that they can use and have some control over.
The best analogy to this is the highway system, especially in cities. The internet today is like the open road, whereas a tightly controlled network would be like the subway system. Most people prefer the open road, I know I do, unless there's just so much traffic that driving makes no sense at all. Roads are simple, they are pavement with a few signs and lights (routers.) You can put just about any traffic on them, some more annoying than others (like 30-something females standing about 5'2" driving Ford Excursions...) People like to drive because they can control what's going on, or at least they get that feeling. People like to have the internet be simple so that they can enhance it as they prefer, not as some company dictates. The subway on the other hand, it has restricted traffic, subway cars. They only go certain places, but they go there quickly and usually on time. It's very convenient, but only when you need to specifically use the subway, IE go to one of it's specific stops. The range, or scope of the subway is therefore very limited, similarly to the way a coroporate restricted network is.
Anyway all this babbling is really just me trying to say: please don't change the internet, I like it just fine the way it is, I want to be able to drive, thanks.