Yeah heaven forbid that the US govt lied to the world about WMD so they could invade a foreign land, get cheap gas, pump up the military, look good for the cameras and get a re-elect.
It seems the "goals" have quickly changed and all news is turning into "right, that's what we wanted todo in the first place!".
Recall that Bush was the one whining at hour long press conferences about how the world is so unsafe with his WMDs at large....
Totally forgetting the whole "war crime" bit eh? Also while the US does do a lot of good in the world you guys seem to always "innocently" forget to think about the fact that many many other nations contribute lives [which you have a habit of taking, fucking american pilots], money, supplies, time. Canada for instance has been a supporter of *peace keeping* efforts all over the world. So has france, germany and russia [countries the US tends to downplay].
Just because we don't invade foreign nations to get votes doesn't mean we don't contribute [in a positive manner]
Well as long as you fucking yuppies don't think Paul Martin is hiding WMDs under parliment or something we're all good.
Also, maybe because WinXP is newer? Anyone think of that? I mean there are fewer 2004 cars on the road than 2004... does that mean people cling to 2004 cars? No. It means they're more of them available and people already have them.
We have hydro power here.... just poison in the lakes....
Point being though is to fund R&D you need a product people want. To me NiMH batteries are hella simple/cheap/effective. If I have to keep buying fuel for the fuel cell *and* the batteries have no more power than a NiMH... well you can imagine where my money is going.
Recall "not all product lines were meant to be" just like I keep say [w.r.t. satelite tv] "not all business models are meant to be".
So like I said, find a way to make a super capacity AA cell and I'll buy.
Then what? Do I buy more cells? Can I plug them into the wall and recharge them?
At least with my AA's and my Laptop I can just charge them when they die. I've used my AA's [GP1600s] since May 2001 quite a bit and they're still going strong [I'd say they count as environmentally friendly considering if you estimate I would have gone through 4AAs a week for two years that's 416AA batteries or roughly 27lbs of waste].
Anyways make a "fuel cell" I can top off with tap water or by plugging into my wall and then maybe I'll consider it [a 1.5v/3Ah AA battery would be nice:-)].
Who says it has to be free? You can just do a "login" where you use your MAC. Sure someone could change their MAC to match yours I guess but then you would notice the lack of net access [cuz I can't imagine it working out too well..]
Ok who really trusts the media anyways? They cover stuff that *sells* not that is *news*. Take the "tracey patterson case" [or whatever his name is]. Do I give a shit? No. Is it news at this point? No. Why are they covering it? Because americans are sick voyeuristic bastards who need to get out and dance or something once in a while...
So what? Is every single Linux user news? John Smith of 45 Roadway now uses Linux!!! stop the presses!
Also "using Linux" and just happening to have the kernel handy are two different things. Are the NWS guys likely to contribute back to the OSS scene? I doubt it. So who gives a shit if they use Linux?
This is basically a honeypot. Various other forms of this exist [like TCP keepalives for as long as possible]. The basic idea is you want to make sure the user thinks its working while wasting their time.
The trick is much like the polution on P2P. People often complain that the stuff they download off P2P is either renamed [e.g. no the thing they were looking for] or of very low quality. This dissuades people from using P2P.
Likewise if lots of people setup fake SMTP servers that don't do anything it will polute the "scene". Possibly make it less attractive for spammers.
Of course what would be nicer is just to snipe the spammers and auction off their property for Quiznos money;-) [this last comment is aimed at the jerk who is sending the same spam twice to me about all sorts of increased sex crap. It's bad enough you send it once but twice in under 5 mins? In the ban list you go!]
If you live in the US just slip and sue the mofo for like a million billion dollars. Then when you own the building you can... er... shovel the place lest you be sued!
I live about a five minute walk from a fairly large nature trail [for where I live it's amazing cuz ARTLI factory cut houses are being put down like a five year old with lego!]. Even if you're say one km into the woods [and they're fairly thick] you can hear the dull sound of car tires [the somewhat high pitch noise they make when driving].
Anyways yeah, trees are better for other uses though, e.g. shade, slow down the wind, give us that nice oh I dunno breathable air. Where I live people will cut down trees that look at them wrong. It's very sad [at least at my house we have two f'ing huge maples!:-)]
I looked in "info gcc" under optimization... surprise surprise it's the same text from the GCC man page...
Anyways, yeah -O4 is fairly stupid on two levels. 1. Bloat sucks. 2. It's not meaningful to GCC beyond -O3 anyways.
Tom
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Actually you'd be surprised. RSA-1024 will require [at least] 2^43 bits of ram and roughly 2^87 time to complete. There is enough room in my bedroom to put such a computer.
The problem is the 2^87 time [oh and the insane heat it would make...!] [for those out of a clue 2^43 bits is 1TB of memory]
I'm no 3d coder guy but as I understand it shaders are short programs you can enter into the GPU to control how a face is rendered [at a given vertex]. Before that you used to say "render me with [phong|gouraud|flat] shading" and the whole thing looked uniform.
Shaders programs let you do cool things like features [e.g. skin, roughness to things, etc...]
What I don't get is why didn't they just make the GPU a generic RISC with say 32/32 registers [ALU/FPU] and a set of instructions that fast graphics would require [say saturated X bpp operations, fast division, etc...]
That way you have a processor you can just upload code to. Also make it a standard so instead of having "every joe and their brothers graphic processor specs...." you have something truly conforming...
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Free them? That's why the US is controlling who may bid on the reconstruction?
Yeah, Iraqis are soooo free....
Coming from a nation of knee-jerk imprision the nerds country who is entirely xenophobic that sounds funny.
Yeah heaven forbid that the US govt lied to the world about WMD so they could invade a foreign land, get cheap gas, pump up the military, look good for the cameras and get a re-elect.
It seems the "goals" have quickly changed and all news is turning into "right, that's what we wanted todo in the first place!".
Recall that Bush was the one whining at hour long press conferences about how the world is so unsafe with his WMDs at large....
Tom
fuck I thought you mentioned a distro in your OP [to which the comment would apply].........
arrg..
Yeah I know gentoo is a linux distro...
fuck...
too early...
pfft... no. Gentoo. He's a real man...
kiddin....kiddin!
Totally forgetting the whole "war crime" bit eh? Also while the US does do a lot of good in the world you guys seem to always "innocently" forget to think about the fact that many many other nations contribute lives [which you have a habit of taking, fucking american pilots], money, supplies, time. Canada for instance has been a supporter of *peace keeping* efforts all over the world. So has france, germany and russia [countries the US tends to downplay].
Just because we don't invade foreign nations to get votes doesn't mean we don't contribute [in a positive manner]
Well as long as you fucking yuppies don't think Paul Martin is hiding WMDs under parliment or something we're all good.
Tom
I wanted a < but I forgot that slashdot is retarded and can't figure out that a lone < is probably not an HTML tag...
Loser website... you all [sob] suck! stop laughing [sob sob]
Tom
Editors suck sometimes...
Also, maybe because WinXP is newer? Anyone think of that? I mean there are fewer 2004 cars on the road than 2004... does that mean people cling to 2004 cars? No. It means they're more of them available and people already have them.
Also aren't we anti-Windows here?
Boo windows!
"As far as I know, there are laws in many states prohibiting the photographing of children without the parent's permission."
Survey to parents:
Cameras in school. You in?
[ ] Yes, I like my kids in school.
[ ] No, I like to home school my kids.
Tom
You could just use math to solve this
.02
:-)
1.05x = 1.03x + 0.3
subtract you get
0.02x = 0.3
divide by
x = 15.00
We have hydro power here.... just poison in the lakes....
Point being though is to fund R&D you need a product people want. To me NiMH batteries are hella simple/cheap/effective. If I have to keep buying fuel for the fuel cell *and* the batteries have no more power than a NiMH... well you can imagine where my money is going.
Recall "not all product lines were meant to be" just like I keep say [w.r.t. satelite tv] "not all business models are meant to be".
So like I said, find a way to make a super capacity AA cell and I'll buy.
Tom
"...last 6 to 8 hours...".
:-)].
Then what? Do I buy more cells? Can I plug them into the wall and recharge them?
At least with my AA's and my Laptop I can just charge them when they die. I've used my AA's [GP1600s] since May 2001 quite a bit and they're still going strong [I'd say they count as environmentally friendly considering if you estimate I would have gone through 4AAs a week for two years that's 416AA batteries or roughly 27lbs of waste].
Anyways make a "fuel cell" I can top off with tap water or by plugging into my wall and then maybe I'll consider it [a 1.5v/3Ah AA battery would be nice
Tom
/me summons massive power of college dropout brain...
Use a central server and only allow MACs on the system at one AP at a time?
Holy shit, I amaze myself!
Who says it has to be free? You can just do a "login" where you use your MAC. Sure someone could change their MAC to match yours I guess but then you would notice the lack of net access [cuz I can't imagine it working out too well..]
Tom
Ok who really trusts the media anyways? They cover stuff that *sells* not that is *news*. Take the "tracey patterson case" [or whatever his name is]. Do I give a shit? No. Is it news at this point? No. Why are they covering it? Because americans are sick voyeuristic bastards who need to get out and dance or something once in a while...
Tom
So what? Is every single Linux user news? John Smith of 45 Roadway now uses Linux!!! stop the presses!
Also "using Linux" and just happening to have the kernel handy are two different things. Are the NWS guys likely to contribute back to the OSS scene? I doubt it. So who gives a shit if they use Linux?
Last I checked ext3 has journaling too! [well it's actually ext2 with journaling].
So what's the big advantage of xfs over ext3?
Tom
This is basically a honeypot. Various other forms of this exist [like TCP keepalives for as long as possible]. The basic idea is you want to make sure the user thinks its working while wasting their time.
;-) [this last comment is aimed at the jerk who is sending the same spam twice to me about all sorts of increased sex crap. It's bad enough you send it once but twice in under 5 mins? In the ban list you go!]
The trick is much like the polution on P2P. People often complain that the stuff they download off P2P is either renamed [e.g. no the thing they were looking for] or of very low quality. This dissuades people from using P2P.
Likewise if lots of people setup fake SMTP servers that don't do anything it will polute the "scene". Possibly make it less attractive for spammers.
Of course what would be nicer is just to snipe the spammers and auction off their property for Quiznos money
No cuz
a) I really don't care
b) Someone else will do it [nice thing about OSS]
c) I love this show.
If you live in the US just slip and sue the mofo for like a million billion dollars. Then when you own the building you can... er... shovel the place lest you be sued!
Tom
I live about a five minute walk from a fairly large nature trail [for where I live it's amazing cuz ARTLI factory cut houses are being put down like a five year old with lego!]. Even if you're say one km into the woods [and they're fairly thick] you can hear the dull sound of car tires [the somewhat high pitch noise they make when driving].
:-)]
Anyways yeah, trees are better for other uses though, e.g. shade, slow down the wind, give us that nice oh I dunno breathable air. Where I live people will cut down trees that look at them wrong. It's very sad [at least at my house we have two f'ing huge maples!
Tom
I looked in "info gcc" under optimization... surprise surprise it's the same text from the GCC man page...
Anyways, yeah -O4 is fairly stupid on two levels. 1. Bloat sucks. 2. It's not meaningful to GCC beyond -O3 anyways.
Tom
Actually you'd be surprised. RSA-1024 will require [at least] 2^43 bits of ram and roughly 2^87 time to complete. There is enough room in my bedroom to put such a computer.
The problem is the 2^87 time [oh and the insane heat it would make...!] [for those out of a clue 2^43 bits is 1TB of memory]
Tom
As I recall -On will use the highest valid. So -O6 will equate to -O3 for most platforms. It isn't in the GCC man page... damn you GCC!
;) [30MB of ram is a bitch much to type hello world on a page...]
Though given the size of OpenOffice maybe -Os would have been better
Tom
Um, aren't most N64 games just a tad bigger than that?
Tom
I'm no 3d coder guy but as I understand it shaders are short programs you can enter into the GPU to control how a face is rendered [at a given vertex]. Before that you used to say "render me with [phong|gouraud|flat] shading" and the whole thing looked uniform.
Shaders programs let you do cool things like features [e.g. skin, roughness to things, etc...]
What I don't get is why didn't they just make the GPU a generic RISC with say 32/32 registers [ALU/FPU] and a set of instructions that fast graphics would require [say saturated X bpp operations, fast division, etc...]
That way you have a processor you can just upload code to. Also make it a standard so instead of having "every joe and their brothers graphic processor specs...." you have something truly conforming...
Tom