Lenovo shunning Linux? Good -- there's no way they can match the IBM ThinkPad team for design anyway, so it's not like I was ever going to buy their junky imitations. A black MacBook will run my Linux just fine, though.
I have a very strange selection of poses that I'm likely to pull while hacking away. I've been known to tuck one or both legs under myself, sitting on my heels, lean up against whatever happens to be near by, sit cross-legged on the chair, or pull one leg up and lean on the knee -- all very ergonomically correct positions, I'm sure. Then again, my 1984 Model M keyboard is pretty darn ergonomic as well, so I don't think I have anything to worry about.
This is getting on my nerves: The RIAA and MPAA are not part the US Government. They hold no particular codified legislative, executive, or judiciary power, nor are they agencies a kin to the 3-letters (FBI, EPA, FDA, FCC, CIA, NSA, and so on).
The fact is that they are lobbyist groups; simply petitioners to the US Government. Sadly, they are wealthy, numerous, and well connected petitioners, so they get preferential treatment, but neither of them is a government body any more than any group of citizens. They way they "win" their cases is by having enough money and fear tactics at their disposal to dodge court time and exploit holes in the American judiciary.
Well, interesting story. There once was this website called ThePirateBay.org, that had a whole lot of things readily accessable to the general public, but uh... not so popular with los federales. In fact, they claim that many people accessed their stored communications without authorization!
Seriously though, this seems so vaguely worded that I think it's almost useless as a precedent. "Readily accessible" is pretty subjective to a given individuals knowledge (I happen to find whois queries readily accessible, but I don't think everyone wouuld), and what people feel like using at that time, in that place.
They lied, they cheated, they broke and entered in the digital sphere. Let's just hope Mr. Snow doesn't get counter-sued if they happened to fall through a skylight and break their leg on the trip through.
It's really a shame - I never would have thought to hear about Apple, of all the new-aged right thinking companies, having a problem with a glass ceiling.
This is probably making a lot of developers, myself included, very very happy people. FFT's are where the proverbial magic happens for a lot of signals and systems analysis, as well as for the multiplication of very large integers. So anyone involved in gaming that includes digital signal processing (voice chat in UT, karaoke-karaoke-revolution type games, analog user input, etc.) is going to be happy, and anyone who's involved in multiplying huge integers (crypto anyone?) may very well have wet themselves.
If this is true, to be able to make the same computations in a fourth of the time is a pretty nice thing, and using a little more of a GPU is likely to be acceptable in a decent number of applications.
The answer to your "who give a flying" is pretty much "a lot more people that you'd expect". If you're in any discipline that involves physics or engineering, you really care. More to the point, you learn to really hate English units (fun story: England, cleverly enough the country that thought them up, has since abandoned them.). It makes calculating anything exponentially easier if you just have to worry about powers of ten of things, rather than how many hogsheads go in to a cubic furlong, or what the speed of light is in cubits per fortnight (7.93 x 10 ^ 7).
I'll grant you that this is a relatively small portion of the population at large, but I'd bet it's a majority of slashdot readers. It's actually pretty frustrating to those of us still being schooled in such things, as our professors gripe about the US units as much as we do, yet at the same time steadfastly demand we know then, as "it's done in industry" -- a place they seem to think we'll never have any impact on or connection to.
Also, I didn't mean that the population of foriegn nations was a reason to discount American education any -- it isn't, we have some excellent institutions here. More than that, it's damn good reason to discount American people for being too stupid to handle the eduction they're capiable of getting here.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. In some respects, our cultural trend towards political correctness has really come back to bit us. There's a trend towards mediocrity, as we leave the door open for the unmotivated or unable as long as possible. The result of this is that the students that really could be doing interesting things (weither that happens to be linear algebra, or Chaucer) in their early years are kept in pretty repetative classes, or meaningless requirements, and end up joining the unmotivated masses.
That's not to say that public schooling need not be regulated -- the recent debacle over intelligent design should be suffiicent evidence of that. It's a difficult problem to administer such a large system as the public schooling of a state -- let alone 50 -- with out administering the very life out of it. The only hope is that most schools end up with a small crew of truely gifted educators, the sort of folks who know when to ignore the rules and when not to, and are actually passionate about their topics, and that makes the experiance slightly bearable.
Despite the fact that our universities are filled with foreign nationals, as there simply aren't enough smart Americans to fill them, and as the rest of the world laughs at us for stupid things we do academically (like not adapting to the metric system, or teaching people interesting math or science), we can all take comfort in the fact that No Child Is Left Behind.
Except for all those poor kids, I guess, but who's counting?
So only 6 million Revolutions by next march? That doesn't sound too good to me. A quick look at the factbook page for Japan says that Nintendo has 67%, or roughly 80 million, people in the 15-60 range to sell to, just in Japan. I'd say that they're going to need at least 10 million units to launch there alone, and considering that basically everyone in the rest of the world wants one too, 6 million by March just isn't going to cut it.
With the current trend of things for this console, I hope Nintendo isn't going to intentionally under produce. They've been intentionally playing the carrot-on-the-stick game with us in terms of details about the system for a good while now, but it has to end eventually, and production would be a nice time to.
You know, you read a title like "Python Programming Guide", and you expect a lenghty document detailing a programming languge. Maybe a page or two (or even several hundred for some really wacky edge cases), possibly the product of LaTeX2HTML, or at the very least with a table of contents. And you become excited, thinking you might perhaps learn something about Python! And then you make the mistake of clicking on the link you just read, and become drastically disappointed.
In all honesty, this guys witty banter, if it can even be called that, is longer than his expose of the language. The Wikipedia article is roughly 10 times as long, and doesn't actually expose any of the underpinnings of the languge; hell, the Wikipeida disambiguation page is almost longer than this man's opus.
"Henry The Woefully Inadequate" at best, "Henry The Lame" at worst. Get this article back on Digg where it belongs.
For about 80% of the windows users out there, this sounds pretty fatal. It'd have to delete their entire OS as well as any apps above notepad, so that hurts pretty bad. I guess there's now an economic argument as to why open source OSes are safer.
The problem with this is that the "evil" closed sourced drivers, in this case, are hands-down better. The folks at nVidia actually seem to care about the Linux community, and therefore bother to keep up with our development and produce drivers that perform top-notch for us. It's more than a little odd that the thanks they recieve for their efforts, other than my video card dollars, is GPL violetions, but that's the case.
Since when have top line slashdot articles been links to 3 line blog posts? Perhaps in the future, we'd like to see someone who, you know, has something to say about the issue, rather than just announcing the thing.
So apparently an in-depth and slashdot worthy review is one that's two pages long now? I wasn't aware that the only important quality of graphics cards was their fps on 4 games. I wish I had known this when I bought my most reecent card, would have saved me so much effort on my research.
I should have been more explicit. The machine I've got with that problem is far from the mean, it's an AMD X2 running Gentoo, with an XGL over lay on KDE, and heavens knows what other alpha level software I've forgotten about. In any case, I know that I'm not alone in finding that error, and that's not good. Period.
One would think that before they scale up, they'd make what they actually have work. From my experiance, the Azerus will go through about 3 gigs of memory in 2 hours via a nice huge memory leak under Java 1.5, and just fail abjectly under anything less. I'm not sure that I want a group that can't even implement something cleanly in Java, of all languages, to start breaking ground on anything else quite yet.
I really wish I could stop reading headlines like this one. Given that the US government is the most backwards and currently terrifying political body that comes to mind, I think I'd like them to keep using the gimped worthless software they've got. Powerful software, in this case open sourced software, in the hands of zealots just makes for more powerful zealots.
Keeping in mind the bug and hole reduction effects of having N possible developers, where N is everybody, it's probably better for us as a society if they keep to their proprietary garbage. More frightenigly, if they didn't, think about what they might try to do with all that money they'd save?
Scramjets have been around at least in concept for a good long time. All this particular one's predecessors have had the same problem that this one has had as well, namely that the materials they're manufactured from cannot withstand both the stresses of absurdly high speed motion and the heat produced by igniting the air. They all tend to cost quite a bit and blow up in under 10 seconds. So I'd hardly call it a new revolutionary technology, but rather a rather interesting one that the MSEs haven't caught up to yet.
I have the odd e-book or pdf of a textbook laying around, and they're nice enough for refference materials. They're certainly nice enough when they let me not carry my 2k page calc and physics books around, but when it comes to reading something for enjoyment, or technical manuals, I just can't do it. There's something about the feel of a book that is unique. Kind of a squishy reason, but there you have it.
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Lenovo shunning Linux? Good -- there's no way they can match the IBM ThinkPad team for design anyway, so it's not like I was ever going to buy their junky imitations. A black MacBook will run my Linux just fine, though.
I have a very strange selection of poses that I'm likely to pull while hacking away. I've been known to tuck one or both legs under myself, sitting on my heels, lean up against whatever happens to be near by, sit cross-legged on the chair, or pull one leg up and lean on the knee -- all very ergonomically correct positions, I'm sure. Then again, my 1984 Model M keyboard is pretty darn ergonomic as well, so I don't think I have anything to worry about.
This is getting on my nerves: The RIAA and MPAA are not part the US Government. They hold no particular codified legislative, executive, or judiciary power, nor are they agencies a kin to the 3-letters (FBI, EPA, FDA, FCC, CIA, NSA, and so on).
The fact is that they are lobbyist groups; simply petitioners to the US Government. Sadly, they are wealthy, numerous, and well connected petitioners, so they get preferential treatment, but neither of them is a government body any more than any group of citizens. They way they "win" their cases is by having enough money and fear tactics at their disposal to dodge court time and exploit holes in the American judiciary.
Well, interesting story. There once was this website called ThePirateBay.org, that had a whole lot of things readily accessable to the general public, but uh ... not so popular with los federales. In fact, they claim that many people accessed their stored communications without authorization!
Seriously though, this seems so vaguely worded that I think it's almost useless as a precedent. "Readily accessible" is pretty subjective to a given individuals knowledge (I happen to find whois queries readily accessible, but I don't think everyone wouuld), and what people feel like using at that time, in that place.
They lied, they cheated, they broke and entered in the digital sphere. Let's just hope Mr. Snow doesn't get counter-sued if they happened to fall through a skylight and break their leg on the trip through.
Scale of 1-10 . . how incriminating is it if that sequence just happens to actually be my luggage lock combination?
It's really a shame - I never would have thought to hear about Apple, of all the new-aged right thinking companies, having a problem with a glass ceiling.
This is probably making a lot of developers, myself included, very very happy people. FFT's are where the proverbial magic happens for a lot of signals and systems analysis, as well as for the multiplication of very large integers. So anyone involved in gaming that includes digital signal processing (voice chat in UT, karaoke-karaoke-revolution type games, analog user input, etc.) is going to be happy, and anyone who's involved in multiplying huge integers (crypto anyone?) may very well have wet themselves.
If this is true, to be able to make the same computations in a fourth of the time is a pretty nice thing, and using a little more of a GPU is likely to be acceptable in a decent number of applications.
The answer to your "who give a flying" is pretty much "a lot more people that you'd expect". If you're in any discipline that involves physics or engineering, you really care. More to the point, you learn to really hate English units (fun story: England, cleverly enough the country that thought them up, has since abandoned them.). It makes calculating anything exponentially easier if you just have to worry about powers of ten of things, rather than how many hogsheads go in to a cubic furlong, or what the speed of light is in cubits per fortnight (7.93 x 10 ^ 7).
I'll grant you that this is a relatively small portion of the population at large, but I'd bet it's a majority of slashdot readers. It's actually pretty frustrating to those of us still being schooled in such things, as our professors gripe about the US units as much as we do, yet at the same time steadfastly demand we know then, as "it's done in industry" -- a place they seem to think we'll never have any impact on or connection to.
Also, I didn't mean that the population of foriegn nations was a reason to discount American education any -- it isn't, we have some excellent institutions here. More than that, it's damn good reason to discount American people for being too stupid to handle the eduction they're capiable of getting here.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. In some respects, our cultural trend towards political correctness has really come back to bit us. There's a trend towards mediocrity, as we leave the door open for the unmotivated or unable as long as possible. The result of this is that the students that really could be doing interesting things (weither that happens to be linear algebra, or Chaucer) in their early years are kept in pretty repetative classes, or meaningless requirements, and end up joining the unmotivated masses.
That's not to say that public schooling need not be regulated -- the recent debacle over intelligent design should be suffiicent evidence of that. It's a difficult problem to administer such a large system as the public schooling of a state -- let alone 50 -- with out administering the very life out of it. The only hope is that most schools end up with a small crew of truely gifted educators, the sort of folks who know when to ignore the rules and when not to, and are actually passionate about their topics, and that makes the experiance slightly bearable.
Despite the fact that our universities are filled with foreign nationals, as there simply aren't enough smart Americans to fill them, and as the rest of the world laughs at us for stupid things we do academically (like not adapting to the metric system, or teaching people interesting math or science), we can all take comfort in the fact that No Child Is Left Behind.
Except for all those poor kids, I guess, but who's counting?
So only 6 million Revolutions by next march? That doesn't sound too good to me. A quick look at the factbook page for Japan says that Nintendo has 67%, or roughly 80 million, people in the 15-60 range to sell to, just in Japan. I'd say that they're going to need at least 10 million units to launch there alone, and considering that basically everyone in the rest of the world wants one too, 6 million by March just isn't going to cut it.
With the current trend of things for this console, I hope Nintendo isn't going to intentionally under produce. They've been intentionally playing the carrot-on-the-stick game with us in terms of details about the system for a good while now, but it has to end eventually, and production would be a nice time to.
You know, you read a title like "Python Programming Guide", and you expect a lenghty document detailing a programming languge. Maybe a page or two (or even several hundred for some really wacky edge cases), possibly the product of LaTeX2HTML, or at the very least with a table of contents. And you become excited, thinking you might perhaps learn something about Python! And then you make the mistake of clicking on the link you just read, and become drastically disappointed.
In all honesty, this guys witty banter, if it can even be called that, is longer than his expose of the language. The Wikipedia article is roughly 10 times as long, and doesn't actually expose any of the underpinnings of the languge; hell, the Wikipeida disambiguation page is almost longer than this man's opus.
"Henry The Woefully Inadequate" at best, "Henry The Lame" at worst. Get this article back on Digg where it belongs.
For about 80% of the windows users out there, this sounds pretty fatal. It'd have to delete their entire OS as well as any apps above notepad, so that hurts pretty bad. I guess there's now an economic argument as to why open source OSes are safer.
The problem with this is that the "evil" closed sourced drivers, in this case, are hands-down better. The folks at nVidia actually seem to care about the Linux community, and therefore bother to keep up with our development and produce drivers that perform top-notch for us. It's more than a little odd that the thanks they recieve for their efforts, other than my video card dollars, is GPL violetions, but that's the case.
In the words of Questionable Content: Bomb The Blogosphere!
Since when have top line slashdot articles been links to 3 line blog posts? Perhaps in the future, we'd like to see someone who, you know, has something to say about the issue, rather than just announcing the thing.
Ugliest. Ponies. Ever.
So apparently an in-depth and slashdot worthy review is one that's two pages long now? I wasn't aware that the only important quality of graphics cards was their fps on 4 games. I wish I had known this when I bought my most reecent card, would have saved me so much effort on my research.
I should have been more explicit. The machine I've got with that problem is far from the mean, it's an AMD X2 running Gentoo, with an XGL over lay on KDE, and heavens knows what other alpha level software I've forgotten about. In any case, I know that I'm not alone in finding that error, and that's not good. Period.
One would think that before they scale up, they'd make what they actually have work. From my experiance, the Azerus will go through about 3 gigs of memory in 2 hours via a nice huge memory leak under Java 1.5, and just fail abjectly under anything less. I'm not sure that I want a group that can't even implement something cleanly in Java, of all languages, to start breaking ground on anything else quite yet.
I really wish I could stop reading headlines like this one. Given that the US government is the most backwards and currently terrifying political body that comes to mind, I think I'd like them to keep using the gimped worthless software they've got. Powerful software, in this case open sourced software, in the hands of zealots just makes for more powerful zealots.
Keeping in mind the bug and hole reduction effects of having N possible developers, where N is everybody, it's probably better for us as a society if they keep to their proprietary garbage. More frightenigly, if they didn't, think about what they might try to do with all that money they'd save?
you faker. real men use ed! how do you sleep at night?
Scramjets have been around at least in concept for a good long time. All this particular one's predecessors have had the same problem that this one has had as well, namely that the materials they're manufactured from cannot withstand both the stresses of absurdly high speed motion and the heat produced by igniting the air. They all tend to cost quite a bit and blow up in under 10 seconds. So I'd hardly call it a new revolutionary technology, but rather a rather interesting one that the MSEs haven't caught up to yet.
What is this Office stuff everyone's always on about, anyway? Is that like some pre-school version of LaTeX and Emacs?
I have the odd e-book or pdf of a textbook laying around, and they're nice enough for refference materials. They're certainly nice enough when they let me not carry my 2k page calc and physics books around, but when it comes to reading something for enjoyment, or technical manuals, I just can't do it. There's something about the feel of a book that is unique. Kind of a squishy reason, but there you have it.