I subscribed to TG back in december and recently got an email telling me my subscription expired. I won't be renewing it...the least they could've done in 3 months is released some beta rpms of 1.4, 1.5 or whatever mark they were up to each month.
Add to that the annoyance of their CVS being broken half the time (throwing in an update -dPA nets you the rest of what you need) is even worse. I like what TG started but why call something a 2.0 if there was no 1.9? They won't be getting any more of my cash.
One more thing to ponder. How many Chinese got blasted in WWII by the Japanese? Population numbers don't mean much if your military presence sucks. From what I've read China has plenty of presence now so I doubt Japan will ever try to pull a fast one again.
True. Like I said earlier, they had to build a new plant and design new processes/manufacturing techniques just to produce their chip. They (sony and hitachi) were trailblazers at the time. The complexity cost them quality with early development because even though they had the tech, they didn't have many good or easy to use tools to take advantage of it. The ps1 was no different in this respect.
In contrast the Xbox developers have it easy. Mature development tools, a well-known platform, etc. Despite this the Xbox just doesn't have any must-buy games and the controller sucks. There's just no compelling, console-specific software on Xbox yet.
I would've scored you insightful, obviously the moderaters got their crack shipment today from Big Daddy on the corner.
Canadian money is nearing the peso level compared to US dollars. Unless you're making about $20 an hour in Canada (canadian money) you're probably pretty poor. Am I right in this assumption? Or is it just consumer goods from the US that are expensive?
Considering that Sony spent around 1.5 billion just to build the shop that manufactures the ps2 chips (I think they went in with Hitachi on it), anything to recoup a huge loss like that is a Good Thing. The reason the initial yield of PS2's was low was due to little bugs they had to work out in their new shop to get the yields up to par. That only lasted about 5 months after the initial launch and I'm sure they've got production down to a science now. Throwing everything on one chip can do nothing but cut costs and speed up production.
We would say go back to the drawing board and refine your drug until you get it right!
And how do you suppose medical refinements come about? Educated guesses? Computer simulations? Nope. Testing on animals and humans is the only valid research methodology for some things, cloning included. So you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet...that's how it goes. I'd be really excited about human cloning if they removed the genes for the head and brains. What's the debate there? A body to be harvested for organs, etc. with no identity, no conciousness. Whether or not this 'thing' has a soul is a mystery.
True. Nature has always supported killing to sustain life. Vegetarians spouting dogma like 'meat is murder' don't realize that they kill vegetables to eat. Broccoli is murder. It's just a fact of life and it always will be, until the time that we eat lab-grown food comes around. Even then you're cutting off the life of the lab-grown meat slab and sticking a fork in it. Death begets life, get over it.
During WWII the Nazis did a grand experiment of sorts. After measuring, probing, researching and prodding hundreds (if not thousands) of "Aryan" soldiers, they were sent to breeding houses. There they'd get it on with hand-picked Fraulines that met the criteria. AFAIK this continued for a few years and the results should be documented somewhere.
What I wonder is, has there been any studies done that correlates post-WWII germany to this 'ubermensch' they were working towards? Was there any broad stroke of improvement, or any measurable good from this experiment? It'd be very interesting to find anything on this subject.
Why did this get modded as funny? Johnso1 fits perfectly into the 8.3 scheme that microsoft is bound to uphold for all eternity. Now if his name was Fujikawa1, you'd get a Fujika~1 right?
Nature used to do a pretty good job of 'cleansing the human race' with diseases, aging, etc. In recent times, people are living longer because our society has changed so much. Science and medicine is inadvertantly creating longer lives for most and helping those who wouldn't have made it past age 6 a hundred years ago to live until they're much, much older.
Personally I don't have a problem with any of this, so don't take offense, just look at this from a purely logical standpoint.
Who will feed this giant new geriatric population? How will they be supported? Is the quality of life overall better for everyone or for the geriatrics now?
The main question you have to ask yourself is this: is living longer better? I don't know if it's a good idea to have everyone living well into their 90's. I don't know if it's good to help chronically ill people survive. Given the tendency of nature to kill the weak and support the strong, some science and medicine is circumventing the bonuses to genetic propagation. If the weak and strong both survive, if the terminally ill pass their genes on to their children, what's the outcome in a hundred years? I'm all for gene therapy but extending lifespan of an entire continent is not really a good idea.
This is a fascinating topic and I'd love to go into more detail but I already feel a flame, a troll and whatever other bad mods coming down on me.
Everquest user commits suicide after playing way too long and listening to the new Celine Dion cd. Sources say the CD inserted into his computer during his EQ game subsequently crashed the user's computer, causing him to lose all will to live. Film at 11.
Re:Screenshots anyone?
on
KDE 3.0 is Out
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Not Found The requested URL/screenshot.png was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.24 Server at vibers.ca Port 80
That's a pretty unusual screenshot, kde3 looks alot like your average 404 apache message.
Posting the news is up to the responsibility of the editors. They page through stories all the time, probably thousands of submissions per day, and if they posted this prematurely, it's not the fault of the submitter. They should be fair enough to allow a day or so to pass...it's not like www.pclinuxonline.com is gonna scoop them or anything.
From a microsoft rep regarding the Xbox success being attributed to Nvidia:
"A lot of us had been hoping to get out of the whole Windows thing and start making really, really cool 3D games about chicks in bikinis fighting Ninjas. Now, all we have left is a big fat anti-trust lawsuit."
This is true, the 2d on the Matrox cards is second to none. However, avoid these cards like the plague if you ever play 3d games, they're horrible for that.
Scary movies? All you gotta watch is the news. Hate to say it, but from what I've seen, if your kid is gone for more than a day and you don't know where he or she is, they're probably dead.
Their weaponry wasn't too broken down. They blew a few helicopters out of the sky, took a few men out. Unless we get a truly unbiased media source for news regarding the whole conflict we may never know. Don't expect CNN or press conferences to give you accurate numbers for casualties, enemy losses, etc. Vietnam was famous for inflated enemy kill numbers and diminished US casualties. Most of the time nobody really knew how many VC's they killed that day or how many of their squad got taken out.
Inaccuracies aside, I might have come off somewhat cynical, but this is going to be a long, drawn out conflict that spans the globe. Afghanistan is only the beginning if our country is really dedicated.
Slashdot Mirror
I subscribed to TG back in december and recently got an email telling me my subscription expired. I won't be renewing it...the least they could've done in 3 months is released some beta rpms of 1.4, 1.5 or whatever mark they were up to each month.
Add to that the annoyance of their CVS being broken half the time (throwing in an update -dPA nets you the rest of what you need) is even worse. I like what TG started but why call something a 2.0 if there was no 1.9? They won't be getting any more of my cash.
One more thing to ponder. How many Chinese got blasted in WWII by the Japanese? Population numbers don't mean much if your military presence sucks. From what I've read China has plenty of presence now so I doubt Japan will ever try to pull a fast one again.
Ack, thanks for the correction.
True. Like I said earlier, they had to build a new plant and design new processes/manufacturing techniques just to produce their chip. They (sony and hitachi) were trailblazers at the time. The complexity cost them quality with early development because even though they had the tech, they didn't have many good or easy to use tools to take advantage of it. The ps1 was no different in this respect.
In contrast the Xbox developers have it easy. Mature development tools, a well-known platform, etc. Despite this the Xbox just doesn't have any must-buy games and the controller sucks. There's just no compelling, console-specific software on Xbox yet.
I would've scored you insightful, obviously the moderaters got their crack shipment today from Big Daddy on the corner.
Canadian money is nearing the peso level compared to US dollars. Unless you're making about $20 an hour in Canada (canadian money) you're probably pretty poor. Am I right in this assumption? Or is it just consumer goods from the US that are expensive?
Considering that Sony spent around 1.5 billion just to build the shop that manufactures the ps2 chips (I think they went in with Hitachi on it), anything to recoup a huge loss like that is a Good Thing. The reason the initial yield of PS2's was low was due to little bugs they had to work out in their new shop to get the yields up to par. That only lasted about 5 months after the initial launch and I'm sure they've got production down to a science now. Throwing everything on one chip can do nothing but cut costs and speed up production.
Almost a valid point...but medicine isn't evolutionary or genetic.
What the hell is a lorry?
Of course, man! Haven't you seen any sci-fi movies? Aliens? HELLooo?
We would say go back to the drawing board and refine your drug until you get it right!
And how do you suppose medical refinements come about? Educated guesses? Computer simulations? Nope. Testing on animals and humans is the only valid research methodology for some things, cloning included. So you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet...that's how it goes. I'd be really excited about human cloning if they removed the genes for the head and brains. What's the debate there? A body to be harvested for organs, etc. with no identity, no conciousness. Whether or not this 'thing' has a soul is a mystery.
True. Nature has always supported killing to sustain life. Vegetarians spouting dogma like 'meat is murder' don't realize that they kill vegetables to eat. Broccoli is murder. It's just a fact of life and it always will be, until the time that we eat lab-grown food comes around. Even then you're cutting off the life of the lab-grown meat slab and sticking a fork in it. Death begets life, get over it.
During WWII the Nazis did a grand experiment of sorts. After measuring, probing, researching and prodding hundreds (if not thousands) of "Aryan" soldiers, they were sent to breeding houses. There they'd get it on with hand-picked Fraulines that met the criteria. AFAIK this continued for a few years and the results should be documented somewhere.
What I wonder is, has there been any studies done that correlates post-WWII germany to this 'ubermensch' they were working towards? Was there any broad stroke of improvement, or any measurable good from this experiment? It'd be very interesting to find anything on this subject.
If the clone has a problem with me cloning him, he's welcome to kill me and steal my identity.
Why did this get modded as funny? Johnso1 fits perfectly into the 8.3 scheme that microsoft is bound to uphold for all eternity. Now if his name was Fujikawa1, you'd get a Fujika~1 right?
Nature used to do a pretty good job of 'cleansing the human race' with diseases, aging, etc. In recent times, people are living longer because our society has changed so much. Science and medicine is inadvertantly creating longer lives for most and helping those who wouldn't have made it past age 6 a hundred years ago to live until they're much, much older.
Personally I don't have a problem with any of this, so don't take offense, just look at this from a purely logical standpoint.
Who will feed this giant new geriatric population? How will they be supported? Is the quality of life overall better for everyone or for the geriatrics now?
The main question you have to ask yourself is this: is living longer better? I don't know if it's a good idea to have everyone living well into their 90's. I don't know if it's good to help chronically ill people survive. Given the tendency of nature to kill the weak and support the strong, some science and medicine is circumventing the bonuses to genetic propagation. If the weak and strong both survive, if the terminally ill pass their genes on to their children, what's the outcome in a hundred years? I'm all for gene therapy but extending lifespan of an entire continent is not really a good idea.
This is a fascinating topic and I'd love to go into more detail but I already feel a flame, a troll and whatever other bad mods coming down on me.
I can see it now:
Everquest user commits suicide after playing way too long and listening to the new Celine Dion cd. Sources say the CD inserted into his computer during his EQ game subsequently crashed the user's computer, causing him to lose all will to live. Film at 11.
Not Found /screenshot.png was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Apache/1.3.24 Server at vibers.ca Port 80
That's a pretty unusual screenshot, kde3 looks alot like your average 404 apache message.
Posting the news is up to the responsibility of the editors. They page through stories all the time, probably thousands of submissions per day, and if they posted this prematurely, it's not the fault of the submitter. They should be fair enough to allow a day or so to pass...it's not like www.pclinuxonline.com is gonna scoop them or anything.
From a microsoft rep regarding the Xbox success being attributed to Nvidia:
"A lot of us had been hoping to get out of the whole Windows thing and start making really, really cool 3D games about chicks in bikinis fighting Ninjas. Now, all we have left is a big fat anti-trust lawsuit."
Yeah, right. Try that with my wife. She's Thai, and halfway through the technical explanation she'll be flipping channels or talking on the phone.
Some geek victories gotta remain yours. Nobody else gives a rat's ass.
Nice spelling there champ. If you're a master of python, by proxy does that mean you're the master of your own snake?
This is true, the 2d on the Matrox cards is second to none. However, avoid these cards like the plague if you ever play 3d games, they're horrible for that.
Sorry, that's an old sig, maybe I should change it. I'm being serious and the statistics bear it out.
Scary movies? All you gotta watch is the news. Hate to say it, but from what I've seen, if your kid is gone for more than a day and you don't know where he or she is, they're probably dead.
Their weaponry wasn't too broken down. They blew a few helicopters out of the sky, took a few men out. Unless we get a truly unbiased media source for news regarding the whole conflict we may never know. Don't expect CNN or press conferences to give you accurate numbers for casualties, enemy losses, etc. Vietnam was famous for inflated enemy kill numbers and diminished US casualties. Most of the time nobody really knew how many VC's they killed that day or how many of their squad got taken out.
Inaccuracies aside, I might have come off somewhat cynical, but this is going to be a long, drawn out conflict that spans the globe. Afghanistan is only the beginning if our country is really dedicated.