No it isn't reasonable because you don't create a civilized society by acting uncivilized.
Sure, if you know for a fact that some dude is a terrorist, or deals with people you know for a fact is a terrorist. All go. But if you just think they are... where does it end? Oh, muslim, must be one of them A-rab terrorist.
More so, how do you want to be treated when you visit other countries? "do unto others as..." sound familiar?
Anyways, tourists in the states HAVE RIGHTs despite what the local population might think.
First, non-citizens are afforded, or supposed to be afforded, most of the same rights as citizens. For example, you have the right to protection from unlawful search and seizure, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself, etc. Actually, it was only until fairly recently that non-citizens also had the right of habeas corpus. This is required to prevent retaliation from other nations.
Most people confuse being asked to do something with being told to do something. For example, they CANNOT compel you to give fingerprints [as a tourist] to the USA. They just can't. By that same token, entry is NOT A RIGHT for non-citizens/residents, and they can send you packing. But people confuse that with "oh look see, we don't have the 4th amendment here!" Which is just not true.
Second, the unibomber was a citizen. Most neo-nazi, skinhead, kkk, and other violent organizations are also made up of citizens.
Third, stop watching FOX news. Their garbage is spewing out of your brain.
What a bargain! Why didn't they just wait till 65nm? The same chip would probably fit in the 90W or less envelope at that size.
Personally, I'm happy with my E6600, which bangs along just fine at 2.4GHz and can easily outperform any Athlon at a similar speed [or at least match it].
Just a question, not trying to flame really, but why does anyone care what Linus thinks? I like using OSS, I wrote OSS libaries myself. But honestly, why should I care what Linus thinks? It's a community effort. Not like he wrote the entire kernel, let alone 100s of libraries I use each day.
Anyone that worried about routing should just buy a Garmin GPS and be done with. Sure they're expensive, but over the long run it'll probably pay for itself. Especially at $1.20 per route:-)
Well in all fairness, most websites couldn't afford to run based solely on ads anyways. So that's hardly a big deal. If they're really worth it, they should be pay/subscribe to start with. Otherwise, it's "yet another run of the mill website" and is a waste anyways.
to prevent piracy from being a problem. This has been said before, but since it's a decent idea it's worth repeating.
Instead of the current market where any whore can get on stage, prance around singing other peoples songs (if they are in fact signing at all), then market a CD and demand millions of sales, why not allow the market to decide.
1. Seed the market with your wares. Apply for a business loan from a studio, get a CD or two out there, do live performances, etc. 2. Promote new album under the premise that it'll be re-distributable (but still copyrighted) once $X dollars have been collected through whatever channels. 3. Release album on the web, and don't look back.
Not only does this cut out the CD producing middle man, but it also only floods the market with music that people apparently want.
The studios keep [incorrectly] assuming that sales that don't grow as much as they want (and let's not forget the problem isn't that sales aren't high, it's that they're not *growing* as fast as the want) is because people can pirate the media, as oppose to lower demand. Demand problems due to quality and price aren't unheard of. Why pay $30 for a movie when in a couple of years it'll be in the $6 bin [as new] at your local walmart/zellers/target/whatever. That's what I do. For the price of one new movie, I can usually pick up 4 older ones, usually ones that I actually like, and build my library. Like recently I got forest gump, constatine, the devils own, and another I can't quite remember, each were around $6 or so. Not B-rated movies, got some quality actors in them, etc.
Anyways, point is, the current "mass produce a million CDs and pray they sell" method of marketing audio is out dated and it's about time they realize that.
Ok, I should expand that, it's all good to hang out with your buddies, and talk shop. If you're just going to chat about sport stats, doing drugs, banging that hot chick, or whatever the kids find cool these days... then it's a waste.
I never said that having a good time is a bad idea. It's when it's ALL you want to do that it becomes in the way.
You realize that digital cable is nothing more than a cable modem and MPEG decoder right? Basically you say "show me channel 3" and the provider starts sending you the MPEG stream for that channel instead. It isn't like they send all of the channels all the time to every box.
I think your case just kinda shows lack of determination. Sure there are things I'd rather do at times other than be a software developer at a crypto firm. That's why I study music in my spare time. It doesn't mean that I just give up on being a cryptographer though.
And to be honest I didn't know exactly where I wanted to work and doing what until I was 24 and a bit. I've always wanted to work in comp.sci though. That was my major in college no less. So it wasn't like I went through my education aimlessly. I took the maths and comp.sci in high school, along with english, biology and other "round" courses. When I hit college I dove straight into my major, etc, etc...
I wouldn't expect all 13 year olds to know what they want to do as a major, but by time you hit 15-16 you should have a good idea based on your aptitude and interests. The problem I see, at least where I live, is most kids don't like to specialize themselves, at least not openly. Being a "nerd" is like totally like the hugest sin and stuff, like for sure. That isn't to say there weren't kids with talent when I was in school, just they were the minority. Most people wanted to be on one of the sports teams, or hang out with their buddies at all hours. Well that's all good and stuff when you're 10, not so much when you're 16, and really doesn't work well when you're 25.
So by time they hit 16-17 most teens don't really have anything that is special to them, be it lit, math, science, medicine, music, art, acting, etc. They're just sheep who are so afraid of being different that they don't really develop as people. Why should we expect them to have a clue about what's going on in their lives when they hit college?
not saying it's super easy for everyone, but I think most people who have problems figuring out their majors probably didn't start thinking about it until it was way too late. Plus there is more to Biology than being a vet at a zoo or whatever. You could work in a lab for instance. You could branch into related fields like chemistry, etc...
Having some 17 year old kid whine about picking a major just smacks of immaturity.
If by college you don't know what field [if not specialty] you want to be in, you really need to put the bong down, stop partying, and do some thinking for a change. Sure kids don't know what they want to major in College, that's because they spent high school being "cool" and never really had to have a responsible adult thought yet.
When I hit college I knew I wanted to be in comp.sci. Was fairly certain in cryptography. And whoa, I'm a cryptographer. Amazing that.
Also the parties are cooler once you can afford to drop a few C notes on drinks:-)
You should have finished watching it. They explained the view as coming from a wormhole that peers into the past.
And it's a fucking movie. If you take your education from movies you're gonna be one hell of a stupid person. Yeah it's a bit annoying when they "hack" anything just by randomly hitting keys, but honestly, if they had to sit there and run longterm attacks or phish for things the movie would be really boring.
It'd be like a movie about your desk job. Oh no, he's collating again!!!
That said, nobody said you have to watch every movie/show that comes out. For instance, as a cryptographer I knew the show "numb3rs" would piss me off, so I just don't watch it. There are other things to do in life besides watch tv and movies.
Yeah, but the thing is nobody invokes "gcc" at the prompt unless testing something, you use make scripts to organize your builds properly. And most properly written make scripts can be run with multiple jobs.
And even disregarding compilers, not all tasks warrant powers of twos. I don't know where he got that from. For instance, when you run Apache you can control the number of threads you want, doesn't have to be a power of two. The kernel will distribute them across available cores, just as easily with 3 as with 4.
Hey may have been thinking of problems which are solved using some sort of divide and conquer approach (e.g. binary search). But even then, you can still use an odd number of cores, it'd just be slightly different to code up (actually, it wouldn't matter, you could just spawn a power of two threads and the kernel will just load all cores anyways).
In short, I have no idea what the OP was talking about, but 3 [or 6 if dual core] cores would be just fine and better than 2 [4 if dc] when the load demands it.
This is so bullshit I don't know where to begin. GCC is a single threaded application, you can invoke parallel builds with ANY NUMBER of jobs, be it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,..., whatever.
So with a 3-way box you'd just use something like -j3 or -j4 to distribute load. unless they're dual cores than -j6 or -j7 would do.
Most servers are also overpowered for the workload they perform. Just getting people to stop running 3GHz processors when a 1Ghz Sempron would do, would be a nice start.
Hehehe, you're welcome. It startled me a bit, but fortunately I wasn't going to fast and I found the brake pedal quickly:-) I think the driver was pleased that I stopped. Probably startled him as well since from his perspective I popped out of nowhere as well.
I think part of the problem in that situation is people pull out too fast, even when they can't see too far down the road. In my case, I was aware of the hedge and realized that I might have to stop in a hurry. So easy does it, and I pulled onto the road slowly.
Of course, it would also be nice if they owners of the property maintained the roadside hedges/trees so that people can actually see at least 2-3 seconds down the road... Ottawa has all sorts of corners like that. There is one in Kanata (behind the dairy queen on Hazeldean for the curious) where you basically can't see shit all until you're already in the way. In that case I look for headlights, but during the day, I just take my best look and ease out anyways, hoping they will stop. It's fucked up. Of course it's been like that for a decade and nobody has cleared the bushes yet. Stupid local government...
The museum of tech in Ottawa has such a game [or had when I was there last]. It wasn't uncommon to respond in the 40ms range. Of course in that game you are expecting it, and your finger is over the button...
Right idea, but wrong measure. 400ms is way too slow to drive safely. Just yesterday I was pulling onto a road to go left, when a motorbike [who had the right of way] came along. I couldn't see him because of a hedge so I was slowly easing onto the road. The instant I saw the bike I slammed on the brakes to give him right of way. I'm sure my reaction time was well under 400ms, granted it took probably 500-600ms to actually stop though (was only going like 15km/h or so).
If you can't hit a button within 100ms [1/10th of a second] of an LED flashing, chances are you're not alert enough to drive. Keep in mind under the best of circumstances human eye-hand timing is like 20-40ms. So really, if you're driving you should at least be able to react in 100ms to something on the road.
There is always going to be a minority of people who will pirate movies for the sake of pirating them [usually with the rationalization "they're sticking it to the man"].
But given by the fact that theatres still get packed, movies still get rented and bought, etc, that the majority are still willing to pay their share.
The problem is when a studio sets out and decrees "we are entitled to $X profit this year," then just blames piracy when it doesn't happen. When/where did they get it into their head that they're not part of a larger market I'll probably never know. But when they release shit like Gigli, Daredevil, Chuck and Larry, Garfield [1 and 2], etc, etc, etc, it's no big wonder why sales can slump.
People want to see movies and listen to tunes [maybe not in CD format though], just give them material they will actually enjoy.
I don't get why people look to the "stars" for advice and shit. Personally, I only like a few Elton John tracks and think the rest are blatantly "faggy." We get it, you munch on cock, doesn't mean you're an artist, nor does it mean we should listen to ya.
As for the net killing socializing, I suggest he go to comic con, defcon, HOPE, toorcon, etc, etc, etc... Tons of people there who meet more or less only via the net, get together in common interests. Wow...
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No it isn't reasonable because you don't create a civilized society by acting uncivilized.
... where does it end? Oh, muslim, must be one of them A-rab terrorist.
..." sound familiar?
Sure, if you know for a fact that some dude is a terrorist, or deals with people you know for a fact is a terrorist. All go. But if you just think they are
More so, how do you want to be treated when you visit other countries? "do unto others as
Anyways, tourists in the states HAVE RIGHTs despite what the local population might think.
First, non-citizens are afforded, or supposed to be afforded, most of the same rights as citizens. For example, you have the right to protection from unlawful search and seizure, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself, etc. Actually, it was only until fairly recently that non-citizens also had the right of habeas corpus. This is required to prevent retaliation from other nations.
Most people confuse being asked to do something with being told to do something. For example, they CANNOT compel you to give fingerprints [as a tourist] to the USA. They just can't. By that same token, entry is NOT A RIGHT for non-citizens/residents, and they can send you packing. But people confuse that with "oh look see, we don't have the 4th amendment here!" Which is just not true.
Second, the unibomber was a citizen. Most neo-nazi, skinhead, kkk, and other violent organizations are also made up of citizens.
Third, stop watching FOX news. Their garbage is spewing out of your brain.
What a bargain! Why didn't they just wait till 65nm? The same chip would probably fit in the 90W or less envelope at that size.
Personally, I'm happy with my E6600, which bangs along just fine at 2.4GHz and can easily outperform any Athlon at a similar speed [or at least match it].
Tom
Just a question, not trying to flame really, but why does anyone care what Linus thinks? I like using OSS, I wrote OSS libaries myself. But honestly, why should I care what Linus thinks? It's a community effort. Not like he wrote the entire kernel, let alone 100s of libraries I use each day.
Anyone that worried about routing should just buy a Garmin GPS and be done with. Sure they're expensive, but over the long run it'll probably pay for itself. Especially at $1.20 per route :-)
Tom
Well in all fairness, most websites couldn't afford to run based solely on ads anyways. So that's hardly a big deal. If they're really worth it, they should be pay/subscribe to start with. Otherwise, it's "yet another run of the mill website" and is a waste anyways.
to prevent piracy from being a problem. This has been said before, but since it's a decent idea it's worth repeating.
Instead of the current market where any whore can get on stage, prance around singing other peoples songs (if they are in fact signing at all), then market a CD and demand millions of sales, why not allow the market to decide.
1. Seed the market with your wares. Apply for a business loan from a studio, get a CD or two out there, do live performances, etc.
2. Promote new album under the premise that it'll be re-distributable (but still copyrighted) once $X dollars have been collected through whatever channels.
3. Release album on the web, and don't look back.
Not only does this cut out the CD producing middle man, but it also only floods the market with music that people apparently want.
The studios keep [incorrectly] assuming that sales that don't grow as much as they want (and let's not forget the problem isn't that sales aren't high, it's that they're not *growing* as fast as the want) is because people can pirate the media, as oppose to lower demand. Demand problems due to quality and price aren't unheard of. Why pay $30 for a movie when in a couple of years it'll be in the $6 bin [as new] at your local walmart/zellers/target/whatever. That's what I do. For the price of one new movie, I can usually pick up 4 older ones, usually ones that I actually like, and build my library. Like recently I got forest gump, constatine, the devils own, and another I can't quite remember, each were around $6 or so. Not B-rated movies, got some quality actors in them, etc.
Anyways, point is, the current "mass produce a million CDs and pray they sell" method of marketing audio is out dated and it's about time they realize that.
Ok, I should expand that, it's all good to hang out with your buddies, and talk shop. If you're just going to chat about sport stats, doing drugs, banging that hot chick, or whatever the kids find cool these days ... then it's a waste.
I never said that having a good time is a bad idea. It's when it's ALL you want to do that it becomes in the way.
You realize that digital cable is nothing more than a cable modem and MPEG decoder right? Basically you say "show me channel 3" and the provider starts sending you the MPEG stream for that channel instead. It isn't like they send all of the channels all the time to every box.
Tom
I think your case just kinda shows lack of determination. Sure there are things I'd rather do at times other than be a software developer at a crypto firm. That's why I study music in my spare time. It doesn't mean that I just give up on being a cryptographer though.
And to be honest I didn't know exactly where I wanted to work and doing what until I was 24 and a bit. I've always wanted to work in comp.sci though. That was my major in college no less. So it wasn't like I went through my education aimlessly. I took the maths and comp.sci in high school, along with english, biology and other "round" courses. When I hit college I dove straight into my major, etc, etc...
I wouldn't expect all 13 year olds to know what they want to do as a major, but by time you hit 15-16 you should have a good idea based on your aptitude and interests. The problem I see, at least where I live, is most kids don't like to specialize themselves, at least not openly. Being a "nerd" is like totally like the hugest sin and stuff, like for sure. That isn't to say there weren't kids with talent when I was in school, just they were the minority. Most people wanted to be on one of the sports teams, or hang out with their buddies at all hours. Well that's all good and stuff when you're 10, not so much when you're 16, and really doesn't work well when you're 25.
So by time they hit 16-17 most teens don't really have anything that is special to them, be it lit, math, science, medicine, music, art, acting, etc. They're just sheep who are so afraid of being different that they don't really develop as people. Why should we expect them to have a clue about what's going on in their lives when they hit college?
Tom
not saying it's super easy for everyone, but I think most people who have problems figuring out their majors probably didn't start thinking about it until it was way too late. Plus there is more to Biology than being a vet at a zoo or whatever. You could work in a lab for instance. You could branch into related fields like chemistry, etc...
Having some 17 year old kid whine about picking a major just smacks of immaturity.
Tom
If by college you don't know what field [if not specialty] you want to be in, you really need to put the bong down, stop partying, and do some thinking for a change. Sure kids don't know what they want to major in College, that's because they spent high school being "cool" and never really had to have a responsible adult thought yet.
:-)
When I hit college I knew I wanted to be in comp.sci. Was fairly certain in cryptography. And whoa, I'm a cryptographer. Amazing that.
Also the parties are cooler once you can afford to drop a few C notes on drinks
Tom
You should have finished watching it. They explained the view as coming from a wormhole that peers into the past.
And it's a fucking movie. If you take your education from movies you're gonna be one hell of a stupid person. Yeah it's a bit annoying when they "hack" anything just by randomly hitting keys, but honestly, if they had to sit there and run longterm attacks or phish for things the movie would be really boring.
It'd be like a movie about your desk job. Oh no, he's collating again!!!
That said, nobody said you have to watch every movie/show that comes out. For instance, as a cryptographer I knew the show "numb3rs" would piss me off, so I just don't watch it. There are other things to do in life besides watch tv and movies.
Tom
This is what happens when laymen report tech news...
Tom
Yeah, but the thing is nobody invokes "gcc" at the prompt unless testing something, you use make scripts to organize your builds properly. And most properly written make scripts can be run with multiple jobs.
And even disregarding compilers, not all tasks warrant powers of twos. I don't know where he got that from. For instance, when you run Apache you can control the number of threads you want, doesn't have to be a power of two. The kernel will distribute them across available cores, just as easily with 3 as with 4.
Hey may have been thinking of problems which are solved using some sort of divide and conquer approach (e.g. binary search). But even then, you can still use an odd number of cores, it'd just be slightly different to code up (actually, it wouldn't matter, you could just spawn a power of two threads and the kernel will just load all cores anyways).
In short, I have no idea what the OP was talking about, but 3 [or 6 if dual core] cores would be just fine and better than 2 [4 if dc] when the load demands it.
Tom
This is so bullshit I don't know where to begin. GCC is a single threaded application, you can invoke parallel builds with ANY NUMBER of jobs, be it 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., whatever.
So with a 3-way box you'd just use something like -j3 or -j4 to distribute load. unless they're dual cores than -j6 or -j7 would do.
Tom
N*N is called a quadratic and it's polynomial, N^N (or more so) c^N where c is constant is called exponential when c > 1.
Most servers are also overpowered for the workload they perform. Just getting people to stop running 3GHz processors when a 1Ghz Sempron would do, would be a nice start.
Hehehe, you're welcome. It startled me a bit, but fortunately I wasn't going to fast and I found the brake pedal quickly :-) I think the driver was pleased that I stopped. Probably startled him as well since from his perspective I popped out of nowhere as well.
I think part of the problem in that situation is people pull out too fast, even when they can't see too far down the road. In my case, I was aware of the hedge and realized that I might have to stop in a hurry. So easy does it, and I pulled onto the road slowly.
Of course, it would also be nice if they owners of the property maintained the roadside hedges/trees so that people can actually see at least 2-3 seconds down the road... Ottawa has all sorts of corners like that. There is one in Kanata (behind the dairy queen on Hazeldean for the curious) where you basically can't see shit all until you're already in the way. In that case I look for headlights, but during the day, I just take my best look and ease out anyways, hoping they will stop. It's fucked up. Of course it's been like that for a decade and nobody has cleared the bushes yet. Stupid local government...
The museum of tech in Ottawa has such a game [or had when I was there last]. It wasn't uncommon to respond in the 40ms range. Of course in that game you are expecting it, and your finger is over the button ...
Right idea, but wrong measure. 400ms is way too slow to drive safely. Just yesterday I was pulling onto a road to go left, when a motorbike [who had the right of way] came along. I couldn't see him because of a hedge so I was slowly easing onto the road. The instant I saw the bike I slammed on the brakes to give him right of way. I'm sure my reaction time was well under 400ms, granted it took probably 500-600ms to actually stop though (was only going like 15km/h or so).
If you can't hit a button within 100ms [1/10th of a second] of an LED flashing, chances are you're not alert enough to drive. Keep in mind under the best of circumstances human eye-hand timing is like 20-40ms. So really, if you're driving you should at least be able to react in 100ms to something on the road.
No, because NASA will come up with a plan to swap our planets' orbit with with Mars, and we'll be saved.
Tom
Where does wiretapping fall under this? Are you so sure you can record third party conversations on private property without permission?
Tom
There is always going to be a minority of people who will pirate movies for the sake of pirating them [usually with the rationalization "they're sticking it to the man"].
But given by the fact that theatres still get packed, movies still get rented and bought, etc, that the majority are still willing to pay their share.
The problem is when a studio sets out and decrees "we are entitled to $X profit this year," then just blames piracy when it doesn't happen. When/where did they get it into their head that they're not part of a larger market I'll probably never know. But when they release shit like Gigli, Daredevil, Chuck and Larry, Garfield [1 and 2], etc, etc, etc, it's no big wonder why sales can slump.
People want to see movies and listen to tunes [maybe not in CD format though], just give them material they will actually enjoy.
Tom
Win.
I don't get why people look to the "stars" for advice and shit. Personally, I only like a few Elton John tracks and think the rest are blatantly "faggy." We get it, you munch on cock, doesn't mean you're an artist, nor does it mean we should listen to ya.
As for the net killing socializing, I suggest he go to comic con, defcon, HOPE, toorcon, etc, etc, etc... Tons of people there who meet more or less only via the net, get together in common interests. Wow...