Indeed. I complained a few months ago about how the quality was going down. The author just got angry and claimed he had superior GRE scores. Wow, I'm impressed.
A lot of the articles are "translated" so that may be one source of mistakes. I've lost any zeal I've had for TH now, and only go to different sources to get roundups/prices when my favorite (Anand) doesn't have a recent one up.
As further evidence of how bad TH is, look at the Cornerstone 19" Monitor review. What a crock. 19" monitors are nothing new, flat monitors are nothing new, it's just that Cornerstones *suck* and wanted an advertising piece. I have a friend who thought it was cool to get one of their 22" or so monitors... it looks like a fisheye lens... egads.
On a sad note, even Anandtech seems to be falling... they've started posting "news" articles as filler in between real articles. Most of them are ripped straight from here, a week late, or other well known places. I go to anandtech to hear about hardware and benchmarks, not to find out how the MS procedings are going.
Alright, if I hadn't just noticed that this guy's from Uchicago, I probably would be saying that this guy's post is a sham. As it stands, I'm still too lazy to look all this stuff up to confirm it.
UChicago is a good university for astrophysics, but I applied (this year) wanting to major in physics. They've got a second to Caltech teacher:student ratio, and a fairly good acceptance rate.
The problem is exacerbated by "rent" MUD's that charge a rent based on your current EQ (Equipment). For certain weapons, armor, or items, the rent is much higher than otherwise, and for quest type items the rent is astronomical. Since money is a huge part of these games, where the rent is primarily instituted to punish hoarders, those who don't play every day to make up for lost rent can't pay for better EQ later.
I lost my 7th and half of my 8th grade year to MUD's before my parents yanked me back to reality. The pivotal point was when they told me I was addicted. I said that I could stop anytime I wanted to (it was true, I thought I could), and they told me that's what addicts said. So, I quit, and haven't played a game since. I still think MUD's are awesome games, but I just don't have the time for them anymore.
This is classic. I expected just such a comment from the guy before you, but he surprised me. PhD's and smart people don't have egos, and they're not all helpless. Just admit that there's a class of people much smarter--or at least much more motivated--than you.
PhD's are the *most* likely to want to figure it out on their own, I've found. That's how they make a living, and that's how they got to be PhD's! Someone who can't stand being given loose rules and no instant direction to go in will never make it in the research world--that's just not how it works. I know plenty of graduate students that act nerdy but are lost when it comes to computers, and vice versa, but it's just not in their nature to "not want" to figure it out. A lack of curiosity for a grad student/professor is a death sentence.
Whare *are* the physics concerning black holes? Would it be profitable/possible to tie a large weight or something on a huge line, and link it to a super-heavy flywheel or something?
Maybe even better would be a virtual desktop type feature for windows, where if you switched, the applications became embedded in the desktop--lightly colored/translucent, not able to be activated, but still there to tell you what you had running and where.
I always have to laugh whenever someone brags of being a witch, or something. Either you're going to burn in hell, or you're getting nothing for just doing something the whole world considers evil in the first place.
The "floor pad" is really the Nintendo Power Pad. I had it as a kid, I guess my parents got in on one of the few lots that them. Our Mario Brothers 1 disk had that, Duck Hunt, and World Track Meet on it. It was interesting for awhile, but more fun to get your friends together to try to cheat your way to the top.
We also had some other track-like game, but it was really annoying... it was more like a party game; one cool thing was that there was a skateboard sim where you had to sidestep bottles, etc.
They probably made a karate game for it, but I bet most of them were track and field games.
No, no, no! Anyone who thinks the world wouldn't benefit from faster computers has his head in the sand. I thought this was a college site? Ask any professor (errr... *real* professor: math/sci/cs) and I bet every one, unless they're a total dimwit will tell you how important it is.
True, scientific computing as well as other things have been riding on the coattails of gaming, appreciating the miniturization and personalization of computers. Get a life, do some research, and then whine about the uselessness of chip power
I don't have time to read the article, but wow, this is a story I've been waiting for. So many times I see other/.'ers talking about how they were individually involved with some type of research, and now it's my turn:
One up and coming way of dating fossils uses a technique called Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). You bombard a substance (in this case flint) with ions, which penetrate the sample and react with fluoride when they're at a certain depth/energy. The theory is, fluoride has only been in water since a certain time in our past, so based on how deep the fluorine is inside the sample, you know how old it is.
So I'm guessing they don't have to worry at all about fire drills. If there's a fire, they all die anyways. No, Mrs. Peterson, we don't have fire exits because we don't want to give the children a false sense of safety.
Solution: install Norton Antivirus Autoprotect (free). It scans both incoming and outgoing messages for viruses, and Outlook 6 goes into a panic attack whenever you get a possible virus anyways.
Win2k was decent, now get off your high horse. XP rocks, now stop beating it.
The skinning *is* a new form of windowblinds, it's quite easy to remove windows messenger, and the firewall is just that--a firewall.
In addition Fast User Switching rocks, the desktop backgrounds are really cool, and it includes *built-in* support for burning CD's and watching DVD's. I didn't even have to install EasyCD. This means WMPlayer is very bloated, though, and has actually crashed numerous times on me. Weird enough, the OS never admits it is "Not Responding" and always makes me end other tasks first.
You can install NetBeui if you want, and there is a QoS protocol (which I don't understand...) that lags you should you play Starcraft and/or Counterstrike. I disabled it. Network browsing seems to be really slow--it takes forever to find computers just in your workgroup, and longer to access their files.
Remote Control is a good thing so you can fix your parents' computer in half to a quarter of the time it normally takes. The windows log in screen is tight, it has little squares for each user, which you click before logging in. It also tells you how much new email, and how many programs each user has. Every program is *not* run as root--there is a quite extensive set of permissions and groups settings that disallows stuff like that. I have my computer configured where guests (dorm mates) can long on with no password, and only store stuff in certain places and run certain programs.
Furthermore, worms are less of a problem on the new Outlook as a) you can get software to scan email out and in (Norton), and b) Outlook is very *very* cautious now about attachments. My friend sent a stupid forward to me, with a.eml attached, and Outlook wouldn't even let me open it at first.
Counterstrike is actually faster for me than it used to be (well, before 1.3 upgrade) This was the major part of my decision to delete my dual boot and keep the spare harddrive soley as backup. I have only found one program (suite) to be incompatible--the Lotus Smartsuite 97, which is very ugly and probably uses alot of hacks--finally broke. It won't run even in compatibility mode. I broke down and borrowed Word from my brother. Word 97 won't use my scroll mouse, but at least it can read the files.
Hibernate stores a file (semi-permanently) on your HDD of the size of your RAM. It's very fast, and very cool, but does not constitute a reboot, so you won't get any medicinal uses out of it. The task manager is cooler than 2k, it has a few improvements to the graphs, and processes are listed by owner (Fast user switching is probably the reason why) Also, the computer does not freeze when you pull up the Task manager--something which at times I am grateful for and at times I hate with a passion.
Search is disgracefully slow, partly because it includes all the cabs in the search, and there is a stupid animated dog that runs you through search the first time you run it (very stupid). Search via IE no longer has to use MSN, you can choose google, etc, though I still prefer the google toolbar.
I probably won't buy Pro (unless I end up building a dual system) but I will *definitely* get the home.
This is a major step forward for Linux/*Nix systems. I personally have known several top Fortune 500 companies who have been hesitant to enter into the *nix world because of legacy systems and software.
Imagine my enthusiasm when I read this news story. Corporate America will no longer have to languish in the restricted playpen Windows offers, and is free to explore the thrifty, speedy, and, dare I say it, eFective software base that *nix platforms offer.
I've been waiting for this day ever since I installed Slackware using 3 floppy disks, but found that it had no built in features that support the Anna Kournakova suite. Now, we can live in peace, knowing that WINE can grok Kournikova.
Rejoice my friends, the golden years for Linux are close at hand.
If it can track all the butterflies in tokyo and predict the tornadoes in Texas at the same time, it's got my tax dollars. http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.h tml
Mod this down! Get a clue, moderators, this guy stole the comment from an AC who posted in this same thread 146 messages ago, still rated at 0 (go ahead, change your threshold)! Don't moderate if you don't want to browse at -1.
I agree. I never understood the Katz-haters. This last story just incensed me. If there's anything I can't stand, it's people taking advantage of a situation like this. If I had to guess from that one article, I'd think Katz was a megalomaniac junior Journalism major. Seriously, if he's on your payroll, he doesn't deserve to be. As they say on Usenet,
What are you talking about?? Bush isn't forcing anyone to do anything. He's just making sure that until we better understand the ethical implications of using these cells, the users are not eligible for government subsidies. I think that's a rational decision.
It's like saying "We're not sure if supercomputers really do help preschoolers in the learning process, so if you want to use them for their benefit, you'll have to pay for them."
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Indeed. I complained a few months ago about how the quality was going down. The author just got angry and claimed he had superior GRE scores. Wow, I'm impressed.
A lot of the articles are "translated" so that may be one source of mistakes. I've lost any zeal I've had for TH now, and only go to different sources to get roundups/prices when my favorite (Anand) doesn't have a recent one up.
As further evidence of how bad TH is, look at the Cornerstone 19" Monitor review. What a crock. 19" monitors are nothing new, flat monitors are nothing new, it's just that Cornerstones *suck* and wanted an advertising piece. I have a friend who thought it was cool to get one of their 22" or so monitors... it looks like a fisheye lens... egads.
On a sad note, even Anandtech seems to be falling... they've started posting "news" articles as filler in between real articles. Most of them are ripped straight from here, a week late, or other well known places. I go to anandtech to hear about hardware and benchmarks, not to find out how the MS procedings are going.
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Alright, if I hadn't just noticed that this guy's from Uchicago, I probably would be saying that this guy's post is a sham. As it stands, I'm still too lazy to look all this stuff up to confirm it.
UChicago is a good university for astrophysics, but I applied (this year) wanting to major in physics. They've got a second to Caltech teacher:student ratio, and a fairly good acceptance rate.
A friend of mine and I were talking about this, after we saw a "life insurance" commercial.
Hah.
A Nobel Prize winner for a lab instructor? Where are you going? I get the bottom of the barrel for my TA's...
The problem is exacerbated by "rent" MUD's that charge a rent based on your current EQ (Equipment). For certain weapons, armor, or items, the rent is much higher than otherwise, and for quest type items the rent is astronomical. Since money is a huge part of these games, where the rent is primarily instituted to punish hoarders, those who don't play every day to make up for lost rent can't pay for better EQ later.
I lost my 7th and half of my 8th grade year to MUD's before my parents yanked me back to reality. The pivotal point was when they told me I was addicted. I said that I could stop anytime I wanted to (it was true, I thought I could), and they told me that's what addicts said. So, I quit, and haven't played a game since. I still think MUD's are awesome games, but I just don't have the time for them anymore.
This is classic. I expected just such a comment from the guy before you, but he surprised me. PhD's and smart people don't have egos, and they're not all helpless. Just admit that there's a class of people much smarter--or at least much more motivated--than you.
PhD's are the *most* likely to want to figure it out on their own, I've found. That's how they make a living, and that's how they got to be PhD's! Someone who can't stand being given loose rules and no instant direction to go in will never make it in the research world--that's just not how it works. I know plenty of graduate students that act nerdy but are lost when it comes to computers, and vice versa, but it's just not in their nature to "not want" to figure it out. A lack of curiosity for a grad student/professor is a death sentence.
Whare *are* the physics concerning black holes? Would it be profitable/possible to tie a large weight or something on a huge line, and link it to a super-heavy flywheel or something?
Maybe even better would be a virtual desktop type feature for windows, where if you switched, the applications became embedded in the desktop--lightly colored/translucent, not able to be activated, but still there to tell you what you had running and where.
There are error correcting algorithms for Quantum Computers, to make up for the inherrent inaccuracy. Perhaps some will develop for DNA computers.
I always have to laugh whenever someone brags of being a witch, or something. Either you're going to burn in hell, or you're getting nothing for just doing something the whole world considers evil in the first place.
Hah.
What's the book where even the manual laborers were geniuses?
The "floor pad" is really the Nintendo Power Pad. I had it as a kid, I guess my parents got in on one of the few lots that them. Our Mario Brothers 1 disk had that, Duck Hunt, and World Track Meet on it. It was interesting for awhile, but more fun to get your friends together to try to cheat your way to the top.
We also had some other track-like game, but it was really annoying... it was more like a party game; one cool thing was that there was a skateboard sim where you had to sidestep bottles, etc.
They probably made a karate game for it, but I bet most of them were track and field games.
No, no, no! Anyone who thinks the world wouldn't benefit from faster computers has his head in the sand. I thought this was a college site? Ask any professor (errr... *real* professor: math/sci/cs) and I bet every one, unless they're a total dimwit will tell you how important it is.
True, scientific computing as well as other things have been riding on the coattails of gaming, appreciating the miniturization and personalization of computers. Get a life, do some research, and then whine about the uselessness of chip power
I don't have time to read the article, but wow, this is a story I've been waiting for. So many times I see other /.'ers talking about how they were individually involved with some type of research, and now it's my turn:
One up and coming way of dating fossils uses a technique called Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). You bombard a substance (in this case flint) with ions, which penetrate the sample and react with fluoride when they're at a certain depth/energy. The theory is, fluoride has only been in water since a certain time in our past, so based on how deep the fluorine is inside the sample, you know how old it is.
Check out here
Response from tech RIAA advisers:
"That's not really that many files. You're making a mountain out of a mole, Hill"
Define higher persuits. If I had all the requirements for life, free, I'd still want to learn, work with math/computing/the sciences.
Your "utopia" would be hell to me.
So I'm guessing they don't have to worry at all about fire drills. If there's a fire, they all die anyways. No, Mrs. Peterson, we don't have fire exits because we don't want to give the children a false sense of safety.
Solution: install Norton Antivirus Autoprotect (free). It scans both incoming and outgoing messages for viruses, and Outlook 6 goes into a panic attack whenever you get a possible virus anyways.
Win2k was decent, now get off your high horse. XP rocks, now stop beating it.
The skinning *is* a new form of windowblinds, it's quite easy to remove windows messenger, and the firewall is just that--a firewall.
.eml attached, and Outlook wouldn't even let me open it at first.
In addition Fast User Switching rocks, the desktop backgrounds are really cool, and it includes *built-in* support for burning CD's and watching DVD's. I didn't even have to install EasyCD. This means WMPlayer is very bloated, though, and has actually crashed numerous times on me. Weird enough, the OS never admits it is "Not Responding" and always makes me end other tasks first.
You can install NetBeui if you want, and there is a QoS protocol (which I don't understand...) that lags you should you play Starcraft and/or Counterstrike. I disabled it. Network browsing seems to be really slow--it takes forever to find computers just in your workgroup, and longer to access their files.
Remote Control is a good thing so you can fix your parents' computer in half to a quarter of the time it normally takes. The windows log in screen is tight, it has little squares for each user, which you click before logging in. It also tells you how much new email, and how many programs each user has. Every program is *not* run as root--there is a quite extensive set of permissions and groups settings that disallows stuff like that. I have my computer configured where guests (dorm mates) can long on with no password, and only store stuff in certain places and run certain programs.
Furthermore, worms are less of a problem on the new Outlook as a) you can get software to scan email out and in (Norton), and b) Outlook is very *very* cautious now about attachments. My friend sent a stupid forward to me, with a
Counterstrike is actually faster for me than it used to be (well, before 1.3 upgrade) This was the major part of my decision to delete my dual boot and keep the spare harddrive soley as backup. I have only found one program (suite) to be incompatible--the Lotus Smartsuite 97, which is very ugly and probably uses alot of hacks--finally broke. It won't run even in compatibility mode. I broke down and borrowed Word from my brother. Word 97 won't use my scroll mouse, but at least it can read the files.
Hibernate stores a file (semi-permanently) on your HDD of the size of your RAM. It's very fast, and very cool, but does not constitute a reboot, so you won't get any medicinal uses out of it. The task manager is cooler than 2k, it has a few improvements to the graphs, and processes are listed by owner (Fast user switching is probably the reason why) Also, the computer does not freeze when you pull up the Task manager--something which at times I am grateful for and at times I hate with a passion.
Search is disgracefully slow, partly because it includes all the cabs in the search, and there is a stupid animated dog that runs you through search the first time you run it (very stupid). Search via IE no longer has to use MSN, you can choose google, etc, though I still prefer the google toolbar.
I probably won't buy Pro (unless I end up building a dual system) but I will *definitely* get the home.
This is a major step forward for Linux/*Nix systems. I personally have known several top Fortune 500 companies who have been hesitant to enter into the *nix world because of legacy systems and software.
Imagine my enthusiasm when I read this news story. Corporate America will no longer have to languish in the restricted playpen Windows offers, and is free to explore the thrifty, speedy, and, dare I say it, eFective software base that *nix platforms offer.
I've been waiting for this day ever since I installed Slackware using 3 floppy disks, but found that it had no built in features that support the Anna Kournakova suite. Now, we can live in peace, knowing that WINE can grok Kournikova.
Rejoice my friends, the golden years for Linux are close at hand.
If it can track all the butterflies in tokyo and predict the tornadoes in Texas at the same time, it's got my tax dollars. http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.h tml
Mod this down! Get a clue, moderators, this guy stole the comment from an AC who posted in this same thread 146 messages ago, still rated at 0 (go ahead, change your threshold)! Don't moderate if you don't want to browse at -1.
Go ahead, I've got karma to burn.
I agree. I never understood the Katz-haters. This last story just incensed me. If there's anything I can't stand, it's people taking advantage of a situation like this. If I had to guess from that one article, I'd think Katz was a megalomaniac junior Journalism major. Seriously, if he's on your payroll, he doesn't deserve to be. As they say on Usenet,
*PLONK*
Many linux geeks,
Windows needs security,
Mass converts needed?
What are you talking about?? Bush isn't forcing anyone to do anything. He's just making sure that until we better understand the ethical implications of using these cells, the users are not eligible for government subsidies. I think that's a rational decision.
It's like saying "We're not sure if supercomputers really do help preschoolers in the learning process, so if you want to use them for their benefit, you'll have to pay for them."