No one put a gun to their heads and forced them into a building with an al-Qaeda leader.
I'm amazed at how cheaply some of you value human life, and assume the Moon to justify your beliefs.
"Dad, are you an Al Quaida leader?"
"What?!? Who've you been talking to?"
I seldom knew what my dad was doing most of the time when I was his age. He could have been robbing banks for all I knew. The Mafia make a point of keeping family separate from "business." Teenage civillians snuffed as collateral damage, and you just blow it off as simply another raghead who should have known better.
actually, Wikileaks committed espionage. Or, if it's a U.S. citizen, treason.
Yeah, like Daniel Ellsberg and the New York Times? Or perhaps the military were being idiots when they gave the keys to the kingdom to a kid in uniform?
For what I need, I'm probably going to install Unix (FreeBSD or Linux) on it and be paying an extra $1000 or so primarily for a better trackpad and an easier to connect/disconnect power supply chord - and that is worth it to me.
I've just got to say, holy fuck!
I've an idea. I could smash each of your fingers and toes with a hammer (I'll supply the latter, for a small service fee) for $100 per digit. What do you say? That's twenty digits for the price of only two iBaubles!
Your anecdote throws out all the stuff that doesn't work properly with ATI, and you claim that what is left is representative of the whole and just as good as Nvidia.
Not just as good; better. I've supported people blessed with nvidia who felt the same way as me about 3D, et al. They just wanted working X Window. Nvidia makes that needlessly complex and problem prone.
If you want to do 3D and gaming, use Windows or buy a game console. Don't try to foist nvidia on people who just want a working video setup. "Don't try to teach a pig to sing. They're not good at it, and it annoys the pig."
Meanwhile, I've been using ATI for more than a decade with zero problems past their initial teething stage. However, I don't care about 3D, gaming, Wine, or MS Windows. I have no trouble playing DVDs, youtube, or flash
I hope you're not actually actively buying graphics cards at all, then, since they're only useful at all for 3D and gaming. You can play DVDs, Youtube, and Flash just fine with integrated graphics. Intel has decent free/open-source drivers built into Linux, for example.
I am actively avoiding nvidia graphics based laptops (and Intel CPUs; but that's another story). I've had no trouble with Intel's integrated graphics, ever. I believe my machine no. 3, a Compaq Evo (PIV-2.4 GHz) running OpenBSD, has one. Runs X fine (but it needs a WiFi interface, which I'm still deciding on).
Now I get the feeling that linguistic prescriptivists are even more wrong than biblical literalists and climate denialists put together.
FTFY.
Would you tell a compiler:
there's irrelevant crap at the beginning of this statement but this's the important part: if( x > y ) {...
No? Then why do it to human beings? If you feel the need to use "And" at the beginning of a sentence, perhaps you haven't actually finished the sentence prior to it. That's what it says to me.
Do you wish to communicate, or just make your writing look "pretty" in your eyes?
So if Some Bloke is messing around with my wife, all I need to do is send a postcard...
Ah, screw your wife. No really, screw your wife.
Dear Al Qaeda HQ, The bomb is in the mail, it is sure to make a bang. Some Bloke
There's bigger fish to fry. How about:
Dear ${EachBritishMPAndMembersOfHouseOfLords...} The bomb is in place and is sure to make our mutual friends and sponsors very happy. The ensuing destruction will cement your career for years.
I don't know about the NVIDIA/Android problems but on the desktop NVIDIA has always been waaaaaay better than ATI. That may have changed in recent years, I don't know because I stopped buying ATI stuff a long time ago.
So, you've no idea what you're talking about. Good to know.
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work, and thousands more on how to make their X Window survive upgrades. Nvidia is the reason they came up with the mantra, "Don't use a GUI package manager!", because if it upgrades X, it'll kill the pkg. mgr. doing it.
Meanwhile, I've been using ATI for more than a decade with zero problems past their initial teething stage. However, I don't care about 3D, gaming, Wine, or MS Windows. I have no trouble playing DVDs, youtube, or flash. IF I think there's anything wonky going on with video support, I run "X -configure" as root and the wonkiness disappears.
I will never buy a box with nvidia in it if they continue this way.
Two words for anyone: Think Break. "I need a few minutes to study these drawings and specs uninterrupted. I'll be back in thirty." Then head for Starbucks, taking your personal laptop (or whatever). With all the noise and kafuffle and goofing off and bosses or cow-orkers sticking their noses in all the time in a cubicle farm, this is a necessary part of getting anything done.
Don't you dare tell me "that's not working." Better yet, write it on a yellow sticky, then just leave. And stretch it out to forty-five, at least.
Of course, this assumes you can turn in results, and not just goof off.
I love the idea of leaving these illegal prosecutions on the books.
The prosecution wasn't illegal; his actions were. That's the point.
About the only time it's tangibly relevant is when someone has a conviction on their records that blocks opportunities like employment.
As in Turing's case, or Oppenheimer's, or Socrates?
"The nail that stands up will be hammered down." -- Japanese proverb.
We're all just fuel in other people's machines, and those machines appear to run best on prejudice. Humans are generally incapable of minding their own business. We all seem to think we know better what any other one ought to be doing. Queue Rodney King.
Ah FORTRAN.. the cockroach of computer languages...
We've been allowed to call it "Fortran" for quite a few years now, and cockroaches are a very successful species.
Besides, with all the time and effort invested in Fortran development, there's a vast installed codebase of tested code out there, possibly even rivalling or bettering things like CPAN for perl.
When she goes out of town for a conference, she leaves me to occasionally look in on her simulations which are running for weeks and weeks on these HP workstations back in her "sewing room".
In a former life, I was running simulations that ran for months at a time. Then, the first Athlon based machines showed up. Those things blew through those jobs in days. After a bit, I just stopped queuing jobs on the site's "big iron" clustered machines, because I could get the job done on the Athlons before they really even got started on the cluster.
That might be the way to get her to retire that old box you complain about, and those HP workstations. With a more powerful box in her hands, she could run those simulations on her own portable. Think of what you'd save on your power bill if those HPs could be shutdown.
If she won't go for it, maybe those HPs should be network accessible so she can ssh into them to check her own jobs.
A discussion (a real discussion, not fanboy screaming) about the merits of the two cards is useful if someone is looking at which they might want to buy. However responding to a problem in AMD drivers with "But, but one time nVidia produced a bad driver that caused overheating!" is not productive. Trying to act like AMD should [just] get a pass because The Other Guy(tm) isn't perfect is dumb.
I'm an admitted AMD "fanboi." I'm having a difficult time understanding wtf everyone's complaining about. Is this about Win* gaming performance, or basic video chip performance? Proprietary drivers? Perhaps this whole discussion is irrelevant for me, because I don't do that crap.
I eschew Intel and Nvidia, mostly for political reasons. I like AMD because (overall through the years) they IMO appeared to be trying to "do the right thing" when the others decidedly were not.
I don't do Win* gaming; I do Linux/FLOSS. On my secondary box, I'm running Debian stable. It plays DVDs in xine, surfs with Firefox 3.5.16 (Iceweasel), Fluxbox wm, emacs, mrxvt, xscreensaver (Flame), GKrellm, nm-applet, xconsole, and xman. When I'm not using it, it's crunching Distributed.net's dnetc (100% CPU usage). This's a Gateway laptop with an AMD Sempron 32 bit CPU and Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955.
Uptime 24 days, CPU temp currently 50C. It reboots when I reboot it. It's never crashed.
My primary box is an HP dv4 64 bit Turion, and though it's quite a bit snappier than the Sempron and the fan comes on quite a bit easier, I don't see a great deal of difference between the two boxes if they're doing the same things (though one's 32 and the other's 64 bit).
WTF is this about AMD sucking? It sure the fuck doesn't for me.
Considering part of my job is to plan terrorist scenarios for anti-terrorism training, I would prefer we not use this to find/surveil/arrest people.
Thankyou.
And if you're the one who's training the FBI to entrap dipshits with an attitude into FBI manufactured terror plots, would you please re-think that one?
The interesting question is, who wrote that letter?
I doubt that really matters (but from a cursory read of the redacted FBI notes, I'd guess it was a woman). Everyone was encouraged to be suspicious of everybody else. I'd be surprised if no-one had bothered to point a finger at him.
Feynman was an oddball iconoclast and would have stood out as fairly strange at anytime. His wife divorced him because he was constantly solving calculus problems even while driving, and flew into violent rages (including choking her) when she interrupted him during it or while he was playing the drums. He made a habit of tweaking the noses of censors and the security people, for fun.
Back then, if you weren't a frothing at the mouth Commie hater like Curtis LeMay or Edward Teller, you looked suspicious, and the US' security apparatus at the time was encouraged to be nutbar paranoid. Look at what happened to Oppenheimer. This was the McCarthy era. Read Vasilli Mitrokhin's history of the KGB, and you'll see the Soviets were practically level-headed sensible in comparison. Besides, there was a large contingent of scientists who thought the whole thing should end once the Nazis were beaten. Feynman was just the village oddball (and a terrific physicist).
... it is still pretty significant since it effects not only economic issues but often cuts strait to the issue of government being used as a tool to settle dogmatic differences between denominations.. and of course the non-christians caught in the crossfire.
Studying evolution in high school is about as significant as reading Chaucer. It might be a good idea but it really doesn't matter.
Gregor Mendel would disagree. The Korean Xtians who just excised the teaching of evolution would disagree.
As it turns out, most 12 year olds want to have sex due to biology; they don't need to see porn to get those urges.
I think I was about seven when I experienced my first "hardon"/erection. I had no idea what was going on at the time, I was alone in a swimming pool change room, and sex was utterly unknown to me at the time.
I just stood there naked feeling proud of myself for no reason, and the one guy who came into the room during it was kind enough to ignore the moment.
"Sex, what's that?!?" I had no idea that was supposed to be stuck, sorry inserted, into a female's vagina. At that age, I didn't even know females had vaginas.
Biology has its own rules. It doesn't need your brain to be involved in the process necessarily.
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No one put a gun to their heads and forced them into a building with an al-Qaeda leader.
I'm amazed at how cheaply some of you value human life, and assume the Moon to justify your beliefs.
"Dad, are you an Al Quaida leader?"
"What?!? Who've you been talking to?"
I seldom knew what my dad was doing most of the time when I was his age. He could have been robbing banks for all I knew. The Mafia make a point of keeping family separate from "business." Teenage civillians snuffed as collateral damage, and you just blow it off as simply another raghead who should have known better.
No wonder they hate you.
actually, Wikileaks committed espionage. Or, if it's a U.S. citizen, treason.
Yeah, like Daniel Ellsberg and the New York Times? Or perhaps the military were being idiots when they gave the keys to the kingdom to a kid in uniform?
For what I need, I'm probably going to install Unix (FreeBSD or Linux) on it and be paying an extra $1000 or so primarily for a better trackpad and an easier to connect/disconnect power supply chord - and that is worth it to me.
I've just got to say, holy fuck!
I've an idea. I could smash each of your fingers and toes with a hammer (I'll supply the latter, for a small service fee) for $100 per digit. What do you say? That's twenty digits for the price of only two iBaubles!
Your anecdote throws out all the stuff that doesn't work properly with ATI, and you claim that what is left is representative of the whole and just as good as Nvidia.
Not just as good; better. I've supported people blessed with nvidia who felt the same way as me about 3D, et al. They just wanted working X Window. Nvidia makes that needlessly complex and problem prone.
If you want to do 3D and gaming, use Windows or buy a game console. Don't try to foist nvidia on people who just want a working video setup. "Don't try to teach a pig to sing. They're not good at it, and it annoys the pig."
Meanwhile, I've been using ATI for more than a decade with zero problems past their initial teething stage. However, I don't care about 3D, gaming, Wine, or MS Windows. I have no trouble playing DVDs, youtube, or flash
I hope you're not actually actively buying graphics cards at all, then, since they're only useful at all for 3D and gaming. You can play DVDs, Youtube, and Flash just fine with integrated graphics. Intel has decent free/open-source drivers built into Linux, for example.
I am actively avoiding nvidia graphics based laptops (and Intel CPUs; but that's another story). I've had no trouble with Intel's integrated graphics, ever. I believe my machine no. 3, a Compaq Evo (PIV-2.4 GHz) running OpenBSD, has one. Runs X fine (but it needs a WiFi interface, which I'm still deciding on).
Now I get the feeling that linguistic prescriptivists are even more wrong than biblical literalists and climate denialists put together.
FTFY.
Would you tell a compiler:
there's irrelevant crap at the beginning of this statement but this's the important part: if( x > y ) { ...
No? Then why do it to human beings? If you feel the need to use "And" at the beginning of a sentence, perhaps you haven't actually finished the sentence prior to it. That's what it says to me.
Do you wish to communicate, or just make your writing look "pretty" in your eyes?
So if Some Bloke is messing around with my wife, all I need to do is send a postcard ...
Ah, screw your wife. No really, screw your wife.
Dear Al Qaeda HQ,
The bomb is in the mail, it is sure to make a bang.
Some Bloke
There's bigger fish to fry. How about:
Dear ${EachBritishMPAndMembersOfHouseOfLords ...}
The bomb is in place and is sure to make our mutual friends and sponsors very happy. The ensuing destruction will cement your career for years.
Yours truly,
BlahBlahBlah
I don't know about the NVIDIA/Android problems but on the desktop NVIDIA has always been waaaaaay better than ATI. That may have changed in recent years, I don't know because I stopped buying ATI stuff a long time ago.
So, you've no idea what you're talking about. Good to know.
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work, and thousands more on how to make their X Window survive upgrades. Nvidia is the reason they came up with the mantra, "Don't use a GUI package manager!", because if it upgrades X, it'll kill the pkg. mgr. doing it.
Meanwhile, I've been using ATI for more than a decade with zero problems past their initial teething stage. However, I don't care about 3D, gaming, Wine, or MS Windows. I have no trouble playing DVDs, youtube, or flash. IF I think there's anything wonky going on with video support, I run "X -configure" as root and the wonkiness disappears.
I will never buy a box with nvidia in it if they continue this way.
And yet they can.
Yet they can.
FTFY. Just because they can, doesn't mean they should. What does that spurious "And" add to the meaning of that sentence? Nothing.
i highly doubt any terrorist is going to be reviewing his plan in the airport, even in a hushed voice...
Or, he's hoping to lure more LE closer into the blast radius of the bomb he's about to detonate.
Two words for the non-smoker: Cigarette Break
Two words for anyone: Think Break. "I need a few minutes to study these drawings and specs uninterrupted. I'll be back in thirty." Then head for Starbucks, taking your personal laptop (or whatever). With all the noise and kafuffle and goofing off and bosses or cow-orkers sticking their noses in all the time in a cubicle farm, this is a necessary part of getting anything done.
Don't you dare tell me "that's not working." Better yet, write it on a yellow sticky, then just leave. And stretch it out to forty-five, at least.
Of course, this assumes you can turn in results, and not just goof off.
Queue Rodney King.
Line to the left or to the right?
Queue, cue, kew, whatever. Clue? No.
Odd things happen when Scotch is involved. Can't we all just get along?
I've met Vint Cerf, who unlike Turing is alive.
Whoopee for you. I've met RMS and he signed my Emacs book, and he's alive too.
On the bright side, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy are dead. USA!
I love the idea of leaving these illegal prosecutions on the books.
The prosecution wasn't illegal; his actions were. That's the point.
About the only time it's tangibly relevant is when someone has a conviction on their records that blocks opportunities like employment.
As in Turing's case, or Oppenheimer's, or Socrates?
"The nail that stands up will be hammered down." -- Japanese proverb.
We're all just fuel in other people's machines, and those machines appear to run best on prejudice. Humans are generally incapable of minding their own business. We all seem to think we know better what any other one ought to be doing. Queue Rodney King.
So it seems that's been addressed by the British government recently.
The English language can be astonishing in its power, yes? To say so much, yet say so little.
Ah FORTRAN.. the cockroach of computer languages...
We've been allowed to call it "Fortran" for quite a few years now, and cockroaches are a very successful species.
Besides, with all the time and effort invested in Fortran development, there's a vast installed codebase of tested code out there, possibly even rivalling or bettering things like CPAN for perl.
When she goes out of town for a conference, she leaves me to occasionally look in on her simulations which are running for weeks and weeks on these HP workstations back in her "sewing room".
In a former life, I was running simulations that ran for months at a time. Then, the first Athlon based machines showed up. Those things blew through those jobs in days. After a bit, I just stopped queuing jobs on the site's "big iron" clustered machines, because I could get the job done on the Athlons before they really even got started on the cluster.
That might be the way to get her to retire that old box you complain about, and those HP workstations. With a more powerful box in her hands, she could run those simulations on her own portable. Think of what you'd save on your power bill if those HPs could be shutdown.
If she won't go for it, maybe those HPs should be network accessible so she can ssh into them to check her own jobs.
A discussion (a real discussion, not fanboy screaming) about the merits of the two cards is useful if someone is looking at which they might want to buy. However responding to a problem in AMD drivers with "But, but one time nVidia produced a bad driver that caused overheating!" is not productive. Trying to act like AMD should [just] get a pass because The Other Guy(tm) isn't perfect is dumb.
I'm an admitted AMD "fanboi." I'm having a difficult time understanding wtf everyone's complaining about. Is this about Win* gaming performance, or basic video chip performance? Proprietary drivers? Perhaps this whole discussion is irrelevant for me, because I don't do that crap.
I eschew Intel and Nvidia, mostly for political reasons. I like AMD because (overall through the years) they IMO appeared to be trying to "do the right thing" when the others decidedly were not.
I don't do Win* gaming; I do Linux/FLOSS. On my secondary box, I'm running Debian stable. It plays DVDs in xine, surfs with Firefox 3.5.16 (Iceweasel), Fluxbox wm, emacs, mrxvt, xscreensaver (Flame), GKrellm, nm-applet, xconsole, and xman. When I'm not using it, it's crunching Distributed.net's dnetc (100% CPU usage). This's a Gateway laptop with an AMD Sempron 32 bit CPU and Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955.
Uptime 24 days, CPU temp currently 50C. It reboots when I reboot it. It's never crashed.
My primary box is an HP dv4 64 bit Turion, and though it's quite a bit snappier than the Sempron and the fan comes on quite a bit easier, I don't see a great deal of difference between the two boxes if they're doing the same things (though one's 32 and the other's 64 bit).
WTF is this about AMD sucking? It sure the fuck doesn't for me.
Considering part of my job is to plan terrorist scenarios for anti-terrorism training, I would prefer we not use this to find/surveil/arrest people.
Thankyou.
And if you're the one who's training the FBI to entrap dipshits with an attitude into FBI manufactured terror plots, would you please re-think that one?
But really, thinking of Stallman as some hacker sleeper agent locksmith god of the USSR is strangely kickass.
I'm reminded of the Dennis Rodman joke at the end of MiB: "Not much of a disguise."
The interesting question is, who wrote that letter?
I doubt that really matters (but from a cursory read of the redacted FBI notes, I'd guess it was a woman). Everyone was encouraged to be suspicious of everybody else. I'd be surprised if no-one had bothered to point a finger at him.
Feynman was an oddball iconoclast and would have stood out as fairly strange at anytime. His wife divorced him because he was constantly solving calculus problems even while driving, and flew into violent rages (including choking her) when she interrupted him during it or while he was playing the drums. He made a habit of tweaking the noses of censors and the security people, for fun.
Back then, if you weren't a frothing at the mouth Commie hater like Curtis LeMay or Edward Teller, you looked suspicious, and the US' security apparatus at the time was encouraged to be nutbar paranoid. Look at what happened to Oppenheimer. This was the McCarthy era. Read Vasilli Mitrokhin's history of the KGB, and you'll see the Soviets were practically level-headed sensible in comparison. Besides, there was a large contingent of scientists who thought the whole thing should end once the Nazis were beaten. Feynman was just the village oddball (and a terrific physicist).
Tuva, or bust!
... it is still pretty significant since it effects not only economic issues but often cuts strait to the issue of government being used as a tool to settle dogmatic differences between denominations.. and of course the non-christians caught in the crossfire.
Studying evolution in high school is about as significant as reading Chaucer. It might be a good idea but it really doesn't matter.
Gregor Mendel would disagree. The Korean Xtians who just excised the teaching of evolution would disagree.
silly slashdot front end seems to eat LESS-THAN signs. even when escaped with a backslash \
Silly /. user with a < 10k UID doesn't yet know to use & l t ; (sans spaces) to get <. Similarly, & g t ; for >.
When a person looks at a problem with a predetermined solution, evidences can simply be twisted to fit that solution.
Once you believe that there is an omnipotent being who creates everything ...
Interesting, yes? How does one become convinced of the existence of omnipotent beings? Why would anyone want to be?
Female /.ers, please enjoy. :-)
As it turns out, most 12 year olds want to have sex due to biology; they don't need to see porn to get those urges.
I think I was about seven when I experienced my first "hardon"/erection. I had no idea what was going on at the time, I was alone in a swimming pool change room, and sex was utterly unknown to me at the time.
I just stood there naked feeling proud of myself for no reason, and the one guy who came into the room during it was kind enough to ignore the moment.
"Sex, what's that?!?" I had no idea that was supposed to be stuck, sorry inserted, into a female's vagina. At that age, I didn't even know females had vaginas.
Biology has its own rules. It doesn't need your brain to be involved in the process necessarily.