On the whole, I've been unimpressed with Coral's performance. It has never, in my experience, been faster (and is often slower) to go to a site---Slashdotted or not---using Coral. And even after waiting for the page to load through Coral, going back to it ten minutes later makes no improvement.
Someone let me know when Coral starts actually being useful.
On a side note, these captchas are getting pretty hard to read. I'm all for them for stopping automated trolling, but geez. I have 20/20 vison, and it took me three tries to post this.
Log in before you comment instead of using the comment form to log in. I stay logged on, and I have no damned idea what these captchas everyone's talking about are.
I'm just a little fuzzy on the advantage gained by compiling it yourself instead of just installing it. I mean, what advantage did you get by those 24 hours of compilation. Pulling down a debian install (or some other distribution) does the same damned thing, without actually compiling it yourself. And debian will install-on-demand with dependencies, as will (I'm sure) any other modern distribution. What's your point?
Gentoo just seems... silly to me, for most applications.
If you're going to correct someone, at least be right. You interpreted the statement as "half of all gamers are over eighteen, and a quarter of those are over fifty." This is not what was said.
Let's break this down, in a very slightly simplified format:
* Half of gamers are over eighteen. * A quarter of gamers are over fifty. * All gamers over fifty are also over eighteen.
So, you take a representative hundred gamers. Fifty are under eighteen. Twenty-five are over fifty. How many does that leave between eighteen and fifty---that is, under fifty but over eighteen?
I'm really curious about that. Didn't the first CD-based games have Space Invaders to play while they loaded or something? (Hell, I kinda wish Warcraft III did, and I play that off my hard drive.)
I would like to know who hold the patents on 'spherical camera controls' (I'd also like to learn what the hell that actually means) and decent force feedback.
'Cause I'd never heard of this stuff before, and I'm kind curious.
Hell, why can't Jedi fly? You say they can't manipulate flesh like they can manipulate plastic and metal? Well, why can't they make their goddamn shoes fly?
But yeah, the Yoda thing bugged me.
Yoda: Into exile, I must go. Senator Organa: Dude, he's right back there. You were way ahead. Yoda: No. Senator Organa: You could totally kick his ass. Yoda: To the starting line, we must get. Senator Organa: Then why'd you fight him, if you were just going to run like a little green bitch? Yoda: A flying muppet, the fans demand.
Unleashed was released as Danny the Dog in France a few months before it was released here. (If you go see it, notice that CANAL+ is involved.) Except the dialogue was done originally in English, with American actors. (Well, Bob Hoskins is British, but he works in a lot of American movies.)
gcc takes in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java and ObjC. (It has available frontends for CHILL, Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, Mercury, VHDL, PL/I and ObjC++.) It outputs code for a long list of processors, including Alpha, ARM, x86 and x86-64, IA-64, Motorola 68000, MIPS, PA-RISC, PDP-11, PowerPC, SuperH, SPARC, VAX and some processors I've never heard of like A29K, ARC, Atmel AVR, C4x, CRIS, D30V, DSP16xx, FR-30, FR-V, Intel i960, IP2000, M32R, 68HC11, MCORE, MMIX, MN10200, MN10300, NS32K, ROMP, Stormy16, V850, and Xtensa.
It may not output the fastest x86 code ever constructed, but I doubt anything can match it for breadth and interoperability---after all, interoperability is one of the big selling points of open software, since there's no benefit in the embrace/extend/extinguish tactics commercial software vendors engage in.
Insurance is also a pay-as-you-go system. Insurers rely on collecting their premiums in order to pay our their benefits. Any insurance company, of course, which looted its cash reserves like our feds have done, would be out of business in a hurry. Alas, I doubt anyone will be held accountable for this.
So, yeah, premiums need to increase, or benefits decrease, or the retirement age needs to be raised.
Yes, but they're certainly cheaper than human armies, or even clone armies, since there's apparently only one place to get clones.
And if impoverished moisture farmers can afford droids which are clearly way, way smarter than the ROGER-ROGER ones, then the opportunity cost of a droid just isn't that much.
My point stands. Droids are terribly, terribly cheap, and furthermore, form an oppressed underclass, ground under the bootheel of the Jedi Herrenvolk.
I've seen SS described as an insurance scheme, and that makes a lot of sense to me. Workers pay into the system, a sort of premium, so that if they become elderly or disabled or whatnot, it provides them with a minimum standard of living. Not particularly spectactular, but a damned sight better than having children simply to provide an inexpensive alternative to turkey at Christmastime.
The point of SS---and, really, of the straight-up welfare programs---is to provide a minimum standard of living for the poor, so they don't become an impoverished, revolutionary mass with nothing to lose and go starting revolutions. Social security and more traditional welfare programs share that same goal.
So the original poster should have thrown it all under 'social spending', and now you're just being pedantic. So there.
Droids build droids. We've seen them do it. Labor costs are zilch. You can drop a Von Neumann device on a planet with readily extractable energy and pick up your army a year later, without all that mucking-about with clones.
Where, exactly, is the 'cost' in any of this? The only real cost in building a droid army is the designs, and the energy. Given energy, it makes its own labor.
Stupid people... breeding! This can't be a real article. This must be a satire. No one actually says things like "She thought I would hit the roof and didn't tell me for seven months. I only found out when I took her to buy a new bra and as she was being measured I saw her huge bump" or "It was just one of those things really. I wasn't using contraception and I suppose I just thought it wouldn't happen to me." Stupid people!
I... I'm vein-poppingly infuriated.
I maintain that the greatest technological advance in the foreseeable future would be making conception an extra, voluntary, act instead of a side effect of sex.
I wonder how birth rates would change if things were like that.
I have a bit of a litmus test for anything like this. How would I explain this if I woke up in the hospital? "Well, Timmy and I thought it would be a lovely idea if we put napalm in glass tubes and swung them merrily about! Cheerio! Bollocks! Knickers!"
Ah, you left out that the entire Star Wars economy is based on an enslaved underclass, which, despite being clearly capable of initiative and sapience, are defined as property. I speak, of course, of droids, subject to discrimination ("we don't serve their kind here!") and a great big snub from Lucas's Herrenvolk, the Jedi, since droids don't show up on The Force, this being a rather arbitrary distinction that makes all the difference.
The droid army just... bothered me. Why would anyone use a non-droid army? Why would anyone use meat-based labor? Star Wars makes way, way more sense sans droids.
And I have a hard time understanding society's interest in hounding that kid for the rest of his days, especially if no kids even saw the ASCII goatse man.
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That would be '-1, Redundant' you're thinking of.
On the whole, I've been unimpressed with Coral's performance. It has never, in my experience, been faster (and is often slower) to go to a site---Slashdotted or not---using Coral. And even after waiting for the page to load through Coral, going back to it ten minutes later makes no improvement.
Someone let me know when Coral starts actually being useful.
--grendel drago
On a side note, these captchas are getting pretty hard to read. I'm all for them for stopping automated trolling, but geez. I have 20/20 vison, and it took me three tries to post this.
Log in before you comment instead of using the comment form to log in. I stay logged on, and I have no damned idea what these captchas everyone's talking about are.
--grendel drago
I'm just a little fuzzy on the advantage gained by compiling it yourself instead of just installing it. I mean, what advantage did you get by those 24 hours of compilation. Pulling down a debian install (or some other distribution) does the same damned thing, without actually compiling it yourself. And debian will install-on-demand with dependencies, as will (I'm sure) any other modern distribution. What's your point?
Gentoo just seems... silly to me, for most applications.
--grendel drago
... the answer I get here is better, more informative, and more condensed than what I can get from archive.org, Google's cache or whatever?
--grendel drago
I faintly remember something about them, in the days of blueboxing and greedily awaiting the newest cDc release.
But, uh, isn't it a little past their time? What has Phrack done, y'know, since people started using the internet instead of phone lines?
No, I'm really asking, because my workplace proxy blocks phrack.org.
--grendel drago
No, really. I want to know which company patented the loading-screen game.
--grendel drago
If you're going to correct someone, at least be right. You interpreted the statement as "half of all gamers are over eighteen, and a quarter of those are over fifty." This is not what was said.
Let's break this down, in a very slightly simplified format:
* Half of gamers are over eighteen.
* A quarter of gamers are over fifty.
* All gamers over fifty are also over eighteen.
So, you take a representative hundred gamers. Fifty are under eighteen. Twenty-five are over fifty. How many does that leave between eighteen and fifty---that is, under fifty but over eighteen?
--grendel drago
I tell you, Rez's Trance Vibrator was revolutionary! Revolutionary, I say!
--grendel drago
I'm really curious about that. Didn't the first CD-based games have Space Invaders to play while they loaded or something? (Hell, I kinda wish Warcraft III did, and I play that off my hard drive.)
I would like to know who hold the patents on 'spherical camera controls' (I'd also like to learn what the hell that actually means) and decent force feedback.
'Cause I'd never heard of this stuff before, and I'm kind curious.
--grendel drago
Hell, why can't Jedi fly? You say they can't manipulate flesh like they can manipulate plastic and metal? Well, why can't they make their goddamn shoes fly?
But yeah, the Yoda thing bugged me.
Yoda: Into exile, I must go.
Senator Organa: Dude, he's right back there. You were way ahead.
Yoda: No.
Senator Organa: You could totally kick his ass.
Yoda: To the starting line, we must get.
Senator Organa: Then why'd you fight him, if you were just going to run like a little green bitch?
Yoda: A flying muppet, the fans demand.
--grendel drago
Perhaps Ebert is paid to write his reviews, and you are not, because, for instance, he could get the movie's MPAA rating right.
Just sayin'.
--grendel drago
Unleashed was released as Danny the Dog in France a few months before it was released here. (If you go see it, notice that CANAL+ is involved.) Except the dialogue was done originally in English, with American actors. (Well, Bob Hoskins is British, but he works in a lot of American movies.)
--grendel drago
How... how did you even find that?
--grendel drago
gcc takes in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Java and ObjC. (It has available frontends for
CHILL, Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, Mercury, VHDL, PL/I and ObjC++.) It outputs code for a long list of processors, including Alpha, ARM, x86 and x86-64, IA-64, Motorola 68000, MIPS, PA-RISC, PDP-11, PowerPC, SuperH, SPARC, VAX and some processors I've never heard of like A29K, ARC, Atmel AVR, C4x, CRIS, D30V, DSP16xx, FR-30, FR-V, Intel i960, IP2000, M32R, 68HC11, MCORE, MMIX, MN10200, MN10300, NS32K, ROMP, Stormy16, V850, and Xtensa.
It may not output the fastest x86 code ever constructed, but I doubt anything can match it for breadth and interoperability---after all, interoperability is one of the big selling points of open software, since there's no benefit in the embrace/extend/extinguish tactics commercial software vendors engage in.
--grendel drago
Insurance is also a pay-as-you-go system. Insurers rely on collecting their premiums in order to pay our their benefits. Any insurance company, of course, which looted its cash reserves like our feds have done, would be out of business in a hurry. Alas, I doubt anyone will be held accountable for this.
So, yeah, premiums need to increase, or benefits decrease, or the retirement age needs to be raised.
--grendel drago
Yes, but they're certainly cheaper than human armies, or even clone armies, since there's apparently only one place to get clones.
And if impoverished moisture farmers can afford droids which are clearly way, way smarter than the ROGER-ROGER ones, then the opportunity cost of a droid just isn't that much.
My point stands. Droids are terribly, terribly cheap, and furthermore, form an oppressed underclass, ground under the bootheel of the Jedi Herrenvolk.
--grendel drago
I've seen SS described as an insurance scheme, and that makes a lot of sense to me. Workers pay into the system, a sort of premium, so that if they become elderly or disabled or whatnot, it provides them with a minimum standard of living. Not particularly spectactular, but a damned sight better than having children simply to provide an inexpensive alternative to turkey at Christmastime.
The point of SS---and, really, of the straight-up welfare programs---is to provide a minimum standard of living for the poor, so they don't become an impoverished, revolutionary mass with nothing to lose and go starting revolutions. Social security and more traditional welfare programs share that same goal.
So the original poster should have thrown it all under 'social spending', and now you're just being pedantic. So there.
--grendel drago
Droids build droids. We've seen them do it. Labor costs are zilch. You can drop a Von Neumann device on a planet with readily extractable energy and pick up your army a year later, without all that mucking-about with clones.
Where, exactly, is the 'cost' in any of this? The only real cost in building a droid army is the designs, and the energy. Given energy, it makes its own labor.
--grendel drago
Stupid people... breeding! This can't be a real article. This must be a satire. No one actually says things like "She thought I would hit the roof and didn't tell me for seven months. I only found out when I took her to buy a new bra and as she was being measured I saw her huge bump" or "It was just one of those things really. I wasn't using contraception and I suppose I just thought it wouldn't happen to me." Stupid people!
I... I'm vein-poppingly infuriated.
I maintain that the greatest technological advance in the foreseeable future would be making conception an extra, voluntary, act instead of a side effect of sex.
I wonder how birth rates would change if things were like that.
--grendel drago
I have a bit of a litmus test for anything like this. How would I explain this if I woke up in the hospital? "Well, Timmy and I thought it would be a lovely idea if we put napalm in glass tubes and swung them merrily about! Cheerio! Bollocks! Knickers!"
It's saved me from many a stupid act.
--grendel drago
Ah, you left out that the entire Star Wars economy is based on an enslaved underclass, which, despite being clearly capable of initiative and sapience, are defined as property. I speak, of course, of droids, subject to discrimination ("we don't serve their kind here!") and a great big snub from Lucas's Herrenvolk, the Jedi, since droids don't show up on The Force, this being a rather arbitrary distinction that makes all the difference.
The droid army just... bothered me. Why would anyone use a non-droid army? Why would anyone use meat-based labor? Star Wars makes way, way more sense sans droids.
--grendel drago
You mean this ol' thing?
--grendel drago
You would trust any email with a link to go log in to your account? Man, I'm amazed you have any money left to check on!
--grendel drago
I have an account with one of those banks. And they've been rather good; their phone service is excellent, their web system is better than average...
Bah. So what happens now? I wait for the junk mail to start pouring in? This is... infuriating. Is there someone I can throw tomatoes at?
--grendel drago
And I have a hard time understanding society's interest in hounding that kid for the rest of his days, especially if no kids even saw the ASCII goatse man.
--grendel drago