intuition (n) 1. "The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. "
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Well, it makes sense that business would be interested in avoiding rational processes if at all possible -- but, um, wtf? I mean, enhanced intuition? Editors, if you're gonna leave that in the article blurb, at least MOCK it or something.;)
But didn't the article explicitly state that that was the way things WERE, and that things are DIFFERENT under the new licenses? That they USED to limit their liability to the cost of software, and now it's been changed?
In any event -- this is really a return to the Microsoft of lore. It reminds me of why I admire Bill Gates, even though I hate Microsoft and it's shitty software. The guy really has a killer instinct. Microsoft had been stagnating -- it's a monopoly, but it was slowly losing share in certain sectors, growth was down, and most importantly, it had no security against Linux. Linux wasn't widely adopted in all markets, but they knew damn well that it should be, that it was a superior product for a great variety of applications. They knew all of that damn well, and they knew that the TCO of Linux and the efficiency of Linux and the open-source nature of Linux and the massive support sommunity (and IBM's support of Linux in a big way) was a definite danger, one that businesses all across the country were flocking to.
What steps have they taken? Look at the lawsuits against MS, the adoption of Linux, nations that want to use Linux exclusively, massive government contracts going to Linux -- and what has Microsoft done to stride forward? Weak little improvements like including the browser in the OS -- that's nice, but not going to cut it..NET is slow in gaining any kind of acceptance, and a number of other initiatives have fallen flatter than Kansas.
This -- this is a return to the Big Moves that made Microsoft so powerful in the first place. This is BUSINESS, not software, and Microsoft is really leveraging this in an intelligent way.
Actually, what I found interesting is that, with the exception of "free", all of the words are both verbs and nouns. (policing something/the police, targetting something/a target, email something/a peice of email).
I always hate that, because in my head I always add an exclamation point after each of those. "Police! Target! Free Email!"
Perhaps NASA should start looking at new designs with potentially fatal flaws. Have they not been using this design for something like 15-20 years now?
"Well, if they find potentially fatal flaws in a design, I would think that would be about when they would *stop* looking at the-"*SMACK*
Is there a way that could be modded +5 Ironic? After all, it was a post about prevention.
I will beat you all to the punch by mocking myself:
I think prevention is the way to go here. A good start might be to answer the question "Is there some way that we could clear the post of incorrect html before posting, instead of trying to fix it afterwards?"
so that the next time they observe a piece of foam coming off during the launch, they will take the time to repair the wing before they reenter the atmosphere. </blockquote>
They will take the time to repair the wing . . . with . . . carbon duct tape maybe? Oy vey.
I don't think the solution to a problem like this is to say "Well, we can spot it earlier now. That will give you plenty of time to bail out and let the Shuttle break up on reentry." Or even to say "ok, we can spot it earlier, so you can fix it when you're 300 miles up . . . with whatever method of patching it up we can devise".
I think prevention is the way to go here. A good start might be to ask and answer the question "Is there some way we could clear the tanks of ice and foam immediately before or after takeoff?"
The geek/gamer revolution is really incredible, and an insane (probably not isolated) case of what happens when teen gamers grow up can be found in the evolution of the (recently troubled! hosting issues) tribalwar.com forum community.
This largely teen/early twenties group of gamers started off like any other gaming community, but they just blasted off from there. The LAN's these guys have organized have had 200-300 attendees, and they ALL KNOW EACH OTHER! Some of these kids are growing up, getting good jobs, and they're all helping each other out, staying in touch. They go out for a night of clubbing in New York -- and they bring their digital cameras to document it, and they post their pictures on the forums for others to live vicarously through them. "Pics or it didn't happen" has become a mantra there.
They help each other find apartments, sometimes even jobs, they room together, and they have LAN's whenever the urge arises.
An interesting example: one member of the TW community grew up and joined the Navy. With all of the money he's been saving, he was able to buy a beachfront house and property in the Florida Keys, all while being a 'internet geek'. He grew up, got responsible, and has more girls than he can handle (pics or it didn't happen) -- and he's a gamer geek. He's on the forums, he's playing the games. And he opened his house to ANYONE in the game community that could make it down to Florida, for a massive "Beach Party Extravaganza".
From the 35-year-old dude who wielded a claymore as UVALAN's "Security guard" (CF I think), to the people that proudly post pictures of their brand new BMW's, houses, chic 4-star restaurants, and children -- this is a community with a great proportion of thriving, economically stable, responsible people, who also happen to be part of a massive gaming subculture.
At what point do these people stop being "geeks"? At what point does the gaming "subculture" stop being "sub"?
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I can just see I-90 covered with official-looking signs proclaiming "IS YOUR WANG TOO SMALL? TRY OUR NEW MIRACLE DRUG!"
The place I work got busted into last night. We could have used such an array of cameras . ..
The thieves took only one laptop, and a few defective USB cables. The laptop was old. There were 2 $5000+ cisco routers in the same room, sitting unplugged . . . but they took the laptop. Hardly seems worth the risk of a 5-year ass-pounding.
And, (to tie this into the topic), if they would have had a microdrive they could have easily downloaded the code for our web apps, which would (not that our competition is unscrupulous, but let's be honest) in all probability fetch an excellent price.
You have all these (admittedly talented) programmers spending all this time on worthless projects
In a way, of course, he's right. By it's very nature, the Linux community is somewhat fractuous, and not nearly as efficient as it could be. Old news, even if the problem isn't solved. (what, everyone doesn't use KDE? oh)
But it doesn't apply here.
This is a case of brilliantly applied science, and if you don't think that it is useful, consider a few of the implications. This is EXACTLY the type of technology that is going to be highly useful in the coming years, because they are coming up with ways to bridge the visual gap, and in developing the best ways to represent data visually in a form that a computer can read, and that will handle error-correction gracefully.
That is the kind of applied research that needs to be done before all of the cool, non-'worthless' stuff can happen. Before you get your car that can navigate on its own, you need a Xerox chess set -- that's how this stuff works.
It's not about Fox News serving up conservative political views. It's the fact that they so clearly *have* political views.
It's about Fox News being an un-funny clown show pretending to be a legitimate news organization, painting Sad Clown Faces on their anchors during Sad Events and Happy Clown Faces during Happy Events.
It's about Fox News dishing up tons of programming that can't be considered remotely journalistic, about Fox News being the laughingstock of the journalistic world.
And most of all, it's about Fox News taking sides -- regardless of which side -- simply to boost ratings. Hey, news is a business, but it's also JOURNALISM, and should be at least relatively unbiased.
The really scary thing is, I found myself nodding and grinning wolfishly (wolvishly? spell check is for sucks).
I honestly found myself getting the same emotions that the Amiga evokes (and has in people older than myself; I only know it secondhand) -- sure, the graphics are outdated, but they're smooth and dependable, with a unique gritty feel to them. Sure, it runs like a tin can when you try to get fancy, but there is gameplay to be found that remains unmatched.
I think it's incredibly ironic that mass-market consumer machines are evoking those kinds of emotions. I think this probably reflects on some sort of really deep point about the fundamental difference between products with programmable computers and products without them, and how this is some vague sort of new era in end-user freedom, and how it frees customers from any constraints as to the purpose, intended usage, and intended (maybe crippled?) level of usefulness.
It probably reflects on the aforementioned Really Deep Point. I could think about that in more detail. But I'd rather run over a few hookers, set a few cops on fire, and go on an hour-long 'Dodo Rampage' -- a device of my own invention, where you try to swoop down and splatter pedestrians from the Dodo, briefly touch your wheels down, and continue flying. It's pretty damn hard on the tight streets!
No, I didn't know that. Hah, it was a little before my time.;) Old man.
That is a nice example -- but really, what nVidia did with these drivers is much more blatant. They can blame it on 'beta drivers', because no one but reviewers will use them, and the consumers get left.
But this is not just a case of giving the reviewer a supercharged version. I mean, max fill rate information is often tested in the same way that the horsepower information is tested -- no other, ordinary strains on the card. Ie, not 'real world' performance.
I am just flabbergasted.
It's like building a version of a car that runs a particular course very well, but rolls end-over-end if you try to do anything else with it. Unlike auto manufacturers, however, who have a much more level relationship with magazines, web sites that review cards often need to sign NDA's and other things -- or, as was the case with the early ATI reviews, only show tests where a card BEATS a competitor's card, and only express that beating in percentage form.
Of course, in the ATI case, it was still real performance -- and the card kicked ass.
nVidia . . . what has happened to you?
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Oh, and I'm not prejudiced against nVidia because my GeForce4 F*CKING CAUGHT FIRE a few nights ago. Not at all.
Targetting performance for benchmarks is one thing.
These drivers were written with specific limits built in that make the drivers COMPLETELY irrelevant to ordinary gaming, as ET demonstrates by moving the camera just a bit from the designated path.
This would be like chopping the top off of a car to make it lighter, to reduce the distance it takes for it decellerate in a brake test. Or compensating for a crappy time off the starting line by removing the back half of the car and bolting a couple of RATO rockets where the back seats used to be. Or loading the car up with nitro, or something. You think Car and Driver Magazine wouldn't say something?
These drivers make the card completely unsuitable for ordinary gaming. They aren't 'more powerful' -- they are a completely altered version of the drivers that are ONLY good at improving one particular set of benchmarks.
I like what they did with the 'feel' in this one, the first one was a little too smooth as well as being too dark. I like the bright color scheme and the crisp, cleaner animation a la Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon etc. Also, Vader is Frodo's FATHER OMG./Spoilers
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After 100 or so years of reckless optimism, we're finally starting to realize that the future can suck, even when great technology comes along. Compare the view that science fiction has of our future NOW to the view expressed in 1930, 1940, 1950.
One of the things I love most about Tolkien's work are the recurring themes of loss, of how the best has passed us by already, how everything degrades. I don't think one should fashion their worldview around that kind of pessimism, but the point is that after a century of reckless optimism that has spawned all manner of recklessly misused technology, maybe a little negativity will make us think twice about the consequences of our actions.
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intuition
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(n)
1. "The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. "
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Well, it makes sense that business would be interested in avoiding rational processes if at all possible -- but, um, wtf? I mean, enhanced intuition? Editors, if you're gonna leave that in the article blurb, at least MOCK it or something.
Probably my reading comprehension is poor.
.NET is slow in gaining any kind of acceptance, and a number of other initiatives have fallen flatter than Kansas.
But didn't the article explicitly state that that was the way things WERE, and that things are DIFFERENT under the new licenses? That they USED to limit their liability to the cost of software, and now it's been changed?
In any event -- this is really a return to the Microsoft of lore. It reminds me of why I admire Bill Gates, even though I hate Microsoft and it's shitty software. The guy really has a killer instinct. Microsoft had been stagnating -- it's a monopoly, but it was slowly losing share in certain sectors, growth was down, and most importantly, it had no security against Linux. Linux wasn't widely adopted in all markets, but they knew damn well that it should be, that it was a superior product for a great variety of applications. They knew all of that damn well, and they knew that the TCO of Linux and the efficiency of Linux and the open-source nature of Linux and the massive support sommunity (and IBM's support of Linux in a big way) was a definite danger, one that businesses all across the country were flocking to.
What steps have they taken? Look at the lawsuits against MS, the adoption of Linux, nations that want to use Linux exclusively, massive government contracts going to Linux -- and what has Microsoft done to stride forward? Weak little improvements like including the browser in the OS -- that's nice, but not going to cut it.
This -- this is a return to the Big Moves that made Microsoft so powerful in the first place. This is BUSINESS, not software, and Microsoft is really leveraging this in an intelligent way.
Actually, what I found interesting is that, with the exception of "free", all of the words are both verbs and nouns. (policing something/the police, targetting something/a target, email something/a peice of email).
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I always hate that, because in my head I always add an exclamation point after each of those. "Police! Target! Free Email!"
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What the fuck m I ON, anyways?
Perhaps NASA should start looking at new designs with potentially fatal flaws. Have they not been using this design for something like 15-20 years now?
"Well, if they find potentially fatal flaws in a design, I would think that would be about when they would *stop* looking at the-"*SMACK*
I know. I know. Preview.
Is there a way that could be modded +5 Ironic? After all, it was a post about prevention.
I will beat you all to the punch by mocking myself:
I think prevention is the way to go here. A good start might be to answer the question "Is there some way that we could clear the post of incorrect html before posting, instead of trying to fix it afterwards?"
The geek/gamer revolution is really incredible, and an insane (probably not isolated) case of what happens when teen gamers grow up can be found in the evolution of the (recently troubled! hosting issues) tribalwar.com forum community.
This largely teen/early twenties group of gamers started off like any other gaming community, but they just blasted off from there. The LAN's these guys have organized have had 200-300 attendees, and they ALL KNOW EACH OTHER! Some of these kids are growing up, getting good jobs, and they're all helping each other out, staying in touch. They go out for a night of clubbing in New York -- and they bring their digital cameras to document it, and they post their pictures on the forums for others to live vicarously through them. "Pics or it didn't happen" has become a mantra there.
They help each other find apartments, sometimes even jobs, they room together, and they have LAN's whenever the urge arises.
An interesting example: one member of the TW community grew up and joined the Navy. With all of the money he's been saving, he was able to buy a beachfront house and property in the Florida Keys, all while being a 'internet geek'. He grew up, got responsible, and has more girls than he can handle (pics or it didn't happen) -- and he's a gamer geek. He's on the forums, he's playing the games. And he opened his house to ANYONE in the game community that could make it down to Florida, for a massive "Beach Party Extravaganza".
From the 35-year-old dude who wielded a claymore as UVALAN's "Security guard" (CF I think), to the people that proudly post pictures of their brand new BMW's, houses, chic 4-star restaurants, and children -- this is a community with a great proportion of thriving, economically stable, responsible people, who also happen to be part of a massive gaming subculture.
At what point do these people stop being "geeks"? At what point does the gaming "subculture" stop being "sub"?
I can just see I-90 covered with official-looking signs proclaiming "IS YOUR WANG TOO SMALL? TRY OUR NEW MIRACLE DRUG!"
Ok, after rereading your post several times and the article twice, I think you're right.
I just like how you threw in the word "Duh". It lends surprising weight to your rebuttal.
The place I work got busted into last night. We could have used such an array of cameras . . .
The thieves took only one laptop, and a few defective USB cables. The laptop was old. There were 2 $5000+ cisco routers in the same room, sitting unplugged . . . but they took the laptop. Hardly seems worth the risk of a 5-year ass-pounding.
And, (to tie this into the topic), if they would have had a microdrive they could have easily downloaded the code for our web apps, which would (not that our competition is unscrupulous, but let's be honest) in all probability fetch an excellent price.
Silly criminals -- smash-and-grab is for kids!
You have all these (admittedly talented) programmers spending all this time on worthless projects
In a way, of course, he's right. By it's very nature, the Linux community is somewhat fractuous, and not nearly as efficient as it could be. Old news, even if the problem isn't solved. (what, everyone doesn't use KDE? oh)
But it doesn't apply here.
This is a case of brilliantly applied science, and if you don't think that it is useful, consider a few of the implications. This is EXACTLY the type of technology that is going to be highly useful in the coming years, because they are coming up with ways to bridge the visual gap, and in developing the best ways to represent data visually in a form that a computer can read, and that will handle error-correction gracefully.
That is the kind of applied research that needs to be done before all of the cool, non-'worthless' stuff can happen. Before you get your car that can navigate on its own, you need a Xerox chess set -- that's how this stuff works.
Agreed. That was a work of trolling ART. Is it original?
Very, very funny. Let's mod this to -5, Troll, in honor of the creativity behind the post.
It's not about Fox News serving up conservative political views. It's the fact that they so clearly *have* political views.
It's about Fox News being an un-funny clown show pretending to be a legitimate news organization, painting Sad Clown Faces on their anchors during Sad Events and Happy Clown Faces during Happy Events.
It's about Fox News dishing up tons of programming that can't be considered remotely journalistic, about Fox News being the laughingstock of the journalistic world.
And most of all, it's about Fox News taking sides -- regardless of which side -- simply to boost ratings. Hey, news is a business, but it's also JOURNALISM, and should be at least relatively unbiased.
Fox news tells it like it is, you just don't want to hear it.
This is either a troll or the funniest post on Slashdot yet. If it's not a troll -- you got me, man. You got me.
The really scary thing is, I found myself nodding and grinning wolfishly (wolvishly? spell check is for sucks).
I honestly found myself getting the same emotions that the Amiga evokes (and has in people older than myself; I only know it secondhand) -- sure, the graphics are outdated, but they're smooth and dependable, with a unique gritty feel to them. Sure, it runs like a tin can when you try to get fancy, but there is gameplay to be found that remains unmatched.
I think it's incredibly ironic that mass-market consumer machines are evoking those kinds of emotions. I think this probably reflects on some sort of really deep point about the fundamental difference between products with programmable computers and products without them, and how this is some vague sort of new era in end-user freedom, and how it frees customers from any constraints as to the purpose, intended usage, and intended (maybe crippled?) level of usefulness.
It probably reflects on the aforementioned Really Deep Point. I could think about that in more detail. But I'd rather run over a few hookers, set a few cops on fire, and go on an hour-long 'Dodo Rampage' -- a device of my own invention, where you try to swoop down and splatter pedestrians from the Dodo, briefly touch your wheels down, and continue flying. It's pretty damn hard on the tight streets!
If you live in Japan, it will also come with a BS tuner;
It gets Fox News?
No, I didn't know that. Hah, it was a little before my time. ;) Old man.
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That is a nice example -- but really, what nVidia did with these drivers is much more blatant. They can blame it on 'beta drivers', because no one but reviewers will use them, and the consumers get left.
But this is not just a case of giving the reviewer a supercharged version. I mean, max fill rate information is often tested in the same way that the horsepower information is tested -- no other, ordinary strains on the card. Ie, not 'real world' performance.
I am just flabbergasted.
It's like building a version of a car that runs a particular course very well, but rolls end-over-end if you try to do anything else with it. Unlike auto manufacturers, however, who have a much more level relationship with magazines, web sites that review cards often need to sign NDA's and other things -- or, as was the case with the early ATI reviews, only show tests where a card BEATS a competitor's card, and only express that beating in percentage form.
Of course, in the ATI case, it was still real performance -- and the card kicked ass.
nVidia . . . what has happened to you?
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Oh, and I'm not prejudiced against nVidia because my GeForce4 F*CKING CAUGHT FIRE a few nights ago. Not at all.
Targetting performance for benchmarks is one thing.
These drivers were written with specific limits built in that make the drivers COMPLETELY irrelevant to ordinary gaming, as ET demonstrates by moving the camera just a bit from the designated path.
This would be like chopping the top off of a car to make it lighter, to reduce the distance it takes for it decellerate in a brake test. Or compensating for a crappy time off the starting line by removing the back half of the car and bolting a couple of RATO rockets where the back seats used to be. Or loading the car up with nitro, or something. You think Car and Driver Magazine wouldn't say something?
These drivers make the card completely unsuitable for ordinary gaming. They aren't 'more powerful' -- they are a completely altered version of the drivers that are ONLY good at improving one particular set of benchmarks.
Spoilers!!!!!
/Spoilers
I like what they did with the 'feel' in this one, the first one was a little too smooth as well as being too dark. I like the bright color scheme and the crisp, cleaner animation a la Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon etc. Also, Vader is Frodo's FATHER OMG.
After 100 or so years of reckless optimism, we're finally starting to realize that the future can suck, even when great technology comes along. Compare the view that science fiction has of our future NOW to the view expressed in 1930, 1940, 1950.
One of the things I love most about Tolkien's work are the recurring themes of loss, of how the best has passed us by already, how everything degrades. I don't think one should fashion their worldview around that kind of pessimism, but the point is that after a century of reckless optimism that has spawned all manner of recklessly misused technology, maybe a little negativity will make us think twice about the consequences of our actions.
The future isn't the silver bullet it once was.