All he tested was a Duron at 1GHz. I would like to see the results from doing the same tests with the higher end models. The way he made it sound, you could get a much better PC for about $600 and most of the components would probably be PCI and not wired to the motherboard. When you get the lowest of low end, like a Duron, it frequently comes with one of those do-it-all motherboards that has substandard (in my opinion) components, such as the modem and ethernet interface.
It was a thorough review of the low end machine, I admit, but I'd really like to see how the higher end machines performed. $880, or whatever he said the max price was, isn't that much for a 2Ghz machine with 512MB ram, and I think that would still be a "price concious" buy for a linux user.
I don't know, but I can tell you I'm mod bombing this profane motherfucker as soon as I get the chance... only I'm doing it positively. I just love reading his rants and even with all that profanity he is on target lots of times. He can expect a +5 next time I get mod points.
Read what I said, jackass. I didn't support creationism or the claim that the discovery proves it. I wanted an explaination of how one could arrive at the logical conclusion that this discovery proves creationism.
I'm interested in how exactly finding a city a few hundred or even thousand years old is evidence of creationism?
I'm neither an evolutionist or a creationist, I beleive in God and think that not matter how we got here, the fact is he made it happen, or at least provided the environment for it to happen.
My beleifs aside, I don't see how this proves creationism.
Funny thing is, we're not talking Amway products, here, we're talking national name brands sold through amway's website, Quixtar... or are we?
Fact is, most of the products sold through Quixtar are Amway products.
What a crock of shit this whole thing is.
That's right, these goonies of herbalife/quixtar/amway are out in full force trying to sign up as many unwitting subjects as they can. Here's my personal story:
I started my own website, tigerslash.com, and in an effort to promote it I made my own bumpersticker and put it on my car. One day when I was getting gas, a "successful" looking "businessman" across from me asked about tigerslash.com. I told him what it was, briefly how I made it, and things like that. He then proceeded to ask me if I was willing to work on other internet projects, and I said "if I have the time, maybe."
Well, I thought I was going to make some extra bucks on the side for a little web design, and Mr. X made me think the same thing when he followed up with "I run a website and I need some extra help with some of it." Then he proceeded to give me his business card, and I gave him mine, and he said he'd call once he'd consulted his associates...
Well he did call, so I thought I was going to make some quick cash for a little web work. We set up a meeting for that thursday and when it came around, I was interested in seeing what needed to be done. Well, I show up at the office and he presents me with this flyer about Britt Worldwide and all this information about their web strategy and "e commerce infrastructure." This is when the bells started going off in my head.
Mr. X then proceeded to elaborate on the whole mission, online sale of products combined with multilevel marketing. It was called Quixtar, the next big thing, and it sounded like a great scheme... if you were an idiot. I didn't beleive one word of it. I sat through about 30 minutes of this and took the brochure politely and left.
When I got home, I went to the website and started shopping. Amazingly, everything was overpriced. I thought "how in the world would they get people to buy this?" The fact is, the only people who do are the ones coerced into joining, so that they earn "points" with their purchases. If you're at the top of the pyramid, this is great, but if you're the average Joe, all you're doing is paying their salaries and getting $5 a month in return (after spending hundreds on "great products.")
I did some more digging and low and behold Quixtar is nothing more than Amway with a new name. It's the same owners, same company, but they don't say a damn thing about it when you ask them face to face. What a scam.
Needless to say, I was pissed. This form of Spam had approached me with a technical need in my field of work, then proceeded to waste my personal time travelling to, meeting, and researching these people. All that effort to find out I had been recruited for Amway. That's the worst type of spam ever.
Seriously, it's still too early to tell. The plain truth is, GameCube is far superior in both game play and look and feel and will eventually "rule them all."
Funny, this completely wrong article is posted, yet I submitted an article about the incorrectness of the human clone researcher and how that's just a hoax, but it was axed in less than 3 minutes.
NO I really didn't mean to get that much into it. I just noticed that most of the mandrake users' posts were something like "I'm a Mandrake fanatic" and "you'll never tear me away from my Mandrake"
Typical macintosh attitude, beleive me, I'm an ex-Mac fanatic. If I had the money to go get a G4 running OS X I probably still would be.
OK, so we all want to have a smoot, quite ride, but do we really want to have noise reducers that artificially remove sound? I don't think so. Think about it, what if you need to hear the firetruck screaming down the street headed your way. What if your engine starts making funny noises but you can't hear it well enough to know something's wrong. What will it make your stereo sound like? These kind of issues are endless, I just don't think it's a good idea.
While I don't agree about the legality of Napster-like schemes, I do agree that the minute I buy a CD that is non functional, or heaven forbid they actually make one "pay per play," I will stop buying CD's for good. This latest trend of controlling what people can do with the music they buy is ridiculous, and it's going to piss more people off than the amount of revenue it will create. The thing that all of these idiots in the recording industry don't realize is that sharing music in mp3 format, or just being able to convert your purchased cd's to mp3, has only served as a catalyst for music purchases. These new policies and "encryption" (I would say hacking) schemes are only going to drive customers away.
The brain must have some sort of internal gravitation model.
It's not a model, it's just a reaction. You live all of your life under the earth's gravity, so your brain is used to how things react in that system. The brain doesn't come with, or even learn, some sort of function to calculate gravitational effects, the brain just gets used to the way things happen.
In other words, your brain doesn't see a ball coming at you and do this:
Ball approaching at 40 mph and presently 12 ft altitude.
Based on calculations of gravity and wind resistance, ball will arrive at 35 mph and 4 ft altitude Move hand to location
It's more like this:
Ball approaching. Based on the millions of times I've experienced this, the ball will arrive at about right here (hand goes into place)
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Video games are a far cry from reality my friend. Pressing some buttons does not equal duplicating the actual physical motion. I agree 15 days seems a lot, but don't compare it to using a joystick.
Did he ever say he was over 18? If Apple asked this person to disclose his age and he was dishonest, then he is getting what he deserves. Now, if they never asked him for his age, they are being absurd. There are plenty of ways they could force him and his parents to go in on an agreement that would be perfectly legally binding (in Apple's eyes at least) and so really the only justification here would be that he lied about his age, if he indeed did.
The idea is a nice one, but the way the article presents things is just silly. Here's a good example:
Looking further ahead, Okamoto saw even bigger changes for Sony's game business. "Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology," he said.
Yeah, and maybe it will still suck compared to Ninetendo. Listen, by the time they're at PS6 or 7, they better be marketing a damn Holodeck.
While I agree with most of what you said, my favorite two references of any kind are these:
Homer: "Larry Flint is Right!" - speaking of Stephen Hawking when he comes to Springfield to correct the innefective "smart" government
Lisa: "I will NOT be a Gamecock!" - when she thinks that the family being arrested will mean she has to go to one of those schools where they just let anybody in
I don't know what season those are from, but they seem pretty new. They refer less to one's knowledge of theorems and formulas and more to one's familiarity with academic research, but they're still damn funny.
Virtual keyboard, wow! This is really a cool invention. It's a great step forward for mini computing. Hell, it's a great step forward for all computing, I'm sure there will be many applications for just about every device that requires wide ranging input. The problem is, like a lot of folks have said here, that there's no tactile feedback, which will slow down the expert no-look typers. I myself don't look at the keyboard and type rather quickly, and I know for certain that without the feeling of the keys I would not be able to type at all. OK, so we're going to have to actually look at the virtual keyboard to do any typing... that's a hinderance, but it's still better than no keyboard.
We're still not to the point of "easy" data input for all computer devices. When you think about it, typing on a standard keyboard really isn't that easy. Even when you get used to it, you still make mistakes. The real "revolution" of computer input devices will be when some completely new idea comes along about how to send get input from a human and send the characters to the computer. It will take something like a glove that reads finger movement and types based on combinations of twitches, or maybe a perfect speech recognition system that can figure out the context of your words and spell everything magically. Those might not be the best solutions, or even possible for that matter, but it's going to take something like that before computing input devices get to the point where they're actually "easy" to use.
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All he tested was a Duron at 1GHz. I would like to see the results from doing the same tests with the higher end models. The way he made it sound, you could get a much better PC for about $600 and most of the components would probably be PCI and not wired to the motherboard. When you get the lowest of low end, like a Duron, it frequently comes with one of those do-it-all motherboards that has substandard (in my opinion) components, such as the modem and ethernet interface.
It was a thorough review of the low end machine, I admit, but I'd really like to see how the higher end machines performed. $880, or whatever he said the max price was, isn't that much for a 2Ghz machine with 512MB ram, and I think that would still be a "price concious" buy for a linux user.
Someone should let them know that .NET is a widely available domain type and not a Microsoft product.
Can you use this thing in conjunction with some other software to bypass the anti-taping measures used such as Macrovision?
I read the screenings page on the website and there was no mention of further east coast exposure, and I missed the Savannah GA screening.
Anyone know if we can see it here in Atlanta or if it will go to video some time?
I don't know, but I can tell you I'm mod bombing this profane motherfucker as soon as I get the chance... only I'm doing it positively. I just love reading his rants and even with all that profanity he is on target lots of times. He can expect a +5 next time I get mod points.
Read what I said, jackass. I didn't support creationism or the claim that the discovery proves it. I wanted an explaination of how one could arrive at the logical conclusion that this discovery proves creationism.
I'm interested in how exactly finding a city a few hundred or even thousand years old is evidence of creationism?
I'm neither an evolutionist or a creationist, I beleive in God and think that not matter how we got here, the fact is he made it happen, or at least provided the environment for it to happen.
My beleifs aside, I don't see how this proves creationism.
And when can I buy my flight-enabling crystal?
(intended as humor)
Funny thing is, we're not talking Amway products, here, we're talking national name brands sold through amway's website, Quixtar... or are we? Fact is, most of the products sold through Quixtar are Amway products. What a crock of shit this whole thing is.
That's right, these goonies of herbalife/quixtar/amway are out in full force trying to sign up as many unwitting subjects as they can. Here's my personal story:
I started my own website, tigerslash.com, and in an effort to promote it I made my own bumpersticker and put it on my car. One day when I was getting gas, a "successful" looking "businessman" across from me asked about tigerslash.com. I told him what it was, briefly how I made it, and things like that. He then proceeded to ask me if I was willing to work on other internet projects, and I said "if I have the time, maybe."
Well, I thought I was going to make some extra bucks on the side for a little web design, and Mr. X made me think the same thing when he followed up with "I run a website and I need some extra help with some of it." Then he proceeded to give me his business card, and I gave him mine, and he said he'd call once he'd consulted his associates...
Well he did call, so I thought I was going to make some quick cash for a little web work. We set up a meeting for that thursday and when it came around, I was interested in seeing what needed to be done. Well, I show up at the office and he presents me with this flyer about Britt Worldwide and all this information about their web strategy and "e commerce infrastructure." This is when the bells started going off in my head.
Mr. X then proceeded to elaborate on the whole mission, online sale of products combined with multilevel marketing. It was called Quixtar, the next big thing, and it sounded like a great scheme... if you were an idiot. I didn't beleive one word of it. I sat through about 30 minutes of this and took the brochure politely and left.
When I got home, I went to the website and started shopping. Amazingly, everything was overpriced. I thought "how in the world would they get people to buy this?" The fact is, the only people who do are the ones coerced into joining, so that they earn "points" with their purchases. If you're at the top of the pyramid, this is great, but if you're the average Joe, all you're doing is paying their salaries and getting $5 a month in return (after spending hundreds on "great products.")
I did some more digging and low and behold Quixtar is nothing more than Amway with a new name. It's the same owners, same company, but they don't say a damn thing about it when you ask them face to face. What a scam.
Needless to say, I was pissed. This form of Spam had approached me with a technical need in my field of work, then proceeded to waste my personal time travelling to, meeting, and researching these people. All that effort to find out I had been recruited for Amway. That's the worst type of spam ever.
Seriously, it's still too early to tell. The plain truth is, GameCube is far superior in both game play and look and feel and will eventually "rule them all."
Funny, this completely wrong article is posted, yet I submitted an article about the incorrectness of the human clone researcher and how that's just a hoax, but it was axed in less than 3 minutes.
NO I really didn't mean to get that much into it. I just noticed that most of the mandrake users' posts were something like "I'm a Mandrake fanatic" and "you'll never tear me away from my Mandrake"
Typical macintosh attitude, beleive me, I'm an ex-Mac fanatic. If I had the money to go get a G4 running OS X I probably still would be.
... that based on user attitudes/comments Mandrake seems to be the "macintosh" of the Linux world?
(intended as humor)
OK, so we all want to have a smoot, quite ride, but do we really want to have noise reducers that artificially remove sound? I don't think so. Think about it, what if you need to hear the firetruck screaming down the street headed your way. What if your engine starts making funny noises but you can't hear it well enough to know something's wrong. What will it make your stereo sound like? These kind of issues are endless, I just don't think it's a good idea.
While I don't agree about the legality of Napster-like schemes, I do agree that the minute I buy a CD that is non functional, or heaven forbid they actually make one "pay per play," I will stop buying CD's for good. This latest trend of controlling what people can do with the music they buy is ridiculous, and it's going to piss more people off than the amount of revenue it will create. The thing that all of these idiots in the recording industry don't realize is that sharing music in mp3 format, or just being able to convert your purchased cd's to mp3, has only served as a catalyst for music purchases. These new policies and "encryption" (I would say hacking) schemes are only going to drive customers away.
I did it! I said "oh, no Linux support? well make a note that you just lost a potential sale because of that position. Thanks!"
The brain must have some sort of internal gravitation model.
It's not a model, it's just a reaction. You live all of your life under the earth's gravity, so your brain is used to how things react in that system. The brain doesn't come with, or even learn, some sort of function to calculate gravitational effects, the brain just gets used to the way things happen.
In other words, your brain doesn't see a ball coming at you and do this:
Ball approaching at 40 mph and presently 12 ft altitude.
Based on calculations of gravity and wind resistance, ball will arrive at 35 mph and 4 ft altitude
Move hand to location
It's more like this: Ball approaching. Based on the millions of times I've experienced this, the ball will arrive at about right here (hand goes into place)
Video games are a far cry from reality my friend. Pressing some buttons does not equal duplicating the actual physical motion. I agree 15 days seems a lot, but don't compare it to using a joystick.
Did he ever say he was over 18? If Apple asked this person to disclose his age and he was dishonest, then he is getting what he deserves. Now, if they never asked him for his age, they are being absurd. There are plenty of ways they could force him and his parents to go in on an agreement that would be perfectly legally binding (in Apple's eyes at least) and so really the only justification here would be that he lied about his age, if he indeed did.
The idea is a nice one, but the way the article presents things is just silly. Here's a good example:
Looking further ahead, Okamoto saw even bigger changes for Sony's game business. "Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology," he said.
Yeah, and maybe it will still suck compared to Ninetendo. Listen, by the time they're at PS6 or 7, they better be marketing a damn Holodeck.
That would be really cool... if it worked... I think they lookup your IP address or something, but anyway it didn't work for me.
I really am left speechless, even soap-box-less. We need to shut this "religion" down.
While I agree with most of what you said, my favorite two references of any kind are these:
Homer: "Larry Flint is Right!" - speaking of Stephen Hawking when he comes to Springfield to correct the innefective "smart" government
Lisa: "I will NOT be a Gamecock!" - when she thinks that the family being arrested will mean she has to go to one of those schools where they just let anybody in
I don't know what season those are from, but they seem pretty new. They refer less to one's knowledge of theorems and formulas and more to one's familiarity with academic research, but they're still damn funny.
Virtual keyboard, wow! This is really a cool invention. It's a great step forward for mini computing. Hell, it's a great step forward for all computing, I'm sure there will be many applications for just about every device that requires wide ranging input. The problem is, like a lot of folks have said here, that there's no tactile feedback, which will slow down the expert no-look typers. I myself don't look at the keyboard and type rather quickly, and I know for certain that without the feeling of the keys I would not be able to type at all. OK, so we're going to have to actually look at the virtual keyboard to do any typing... that's a hinderance, but it's still better than no keyboard.
We're still not to the point of "easy" data input for all computer devices. When you think about it, typing on a standard keyboard really isn't that easy. Even when you get used to it, you still make mistakes. The real "revolution" of computer input devices will be when some completely new idea comes along about how to send get input from a human and send the characters to the computer. It will take something like a glove that reads finger movement and types based on combinations of twitches, or maybe a perfect speech recognition system that can figure out the context of your words and spell everything magically. Those might not be the best solutions, or even possible for that matter, but it's going to take something like that before computing input devices get to the point where they're actually "easy" to use.