...that guy in Clear And Present Danger, of course.
Guy: Well, it would be a lot easier if you could tell me whose system you want to hack into.
Ryan: [looks around] [mouths] Ritter.
Guy: [goofy look] [mouths] Ritter?
Ryan [nods] [walks away]
Guy:...wow. Well, we're way beyond birthdays now. I'm going to have to write a... very... special... program for this. [starts typing a mix of COBOL, BASIC, and other nonsense]
Yes, be glad you have a job... then in 15 years after y'all are continually 'glad just to have a job' and being paid less and less, working longer hours, with less benefits and worse conditions... it gets closer and closer to not having a worthwhile job at all
Huh? Over the past 15 years, my salary has consistently and comfortably outpaced inflation, my working hours have asymptotically approached 40/week, and my benefits have continued to improve. (Conditions are not the best, but only because we've expanded beyond our available space, which will be rectified soon.) I "only" get three weeks' vacation, but hell, I never use it all anyway. I consider my job to be highly worthwhile; I help to ensure the safety of the world's railway systems, and I get paid good money to do it. So let's be careful with those generalizations about how terrible it is to work in the US, 'kay?
Most of the people I know that stayed in it for the long haul are ear deep in debt for 5 years after they are out of school. They have a fancy degree with a B in front of it and they live like the impoverished.
You may be too young to realize it now, but believe it or not, there's life beyond (end-of-school + 5 years). Do you want to spend the second half of your life living well, or just getting by? Do you want to be able to send your kids to a good school, or will they have to go to State? (Of course, in some states, this isn't necessarily so bad, but...)
And a Bachelor's degree is not "the long haul"; just ask any PhD student.
Except for the inconvenient little fact that it was humans who wiped out the wooly mammoth. If we hadn't hunted the things into extinction, they would probably survive quite well in areas like Siberia.
So what? We're a part of nature, too. The mammoths ran up against nature's fair-haired boys (who may or may not have actually been fair-haired), and got their asses handed to them. How's that any different than if some species were driven to extinction by any other means, or by some other species? I'm so tired of this "nature good, humans evil" crap!
Yes, we have a mean streak a mile wide. Better hope we still have it when the Bugs come for our planet...
Waddaya mean, "be a grad student my hole life"? He's an undergraduate freshman. And if you want to skip school and jump into the job market as a tester, that's all fine and good, but if you did it for the money (as your post indicates) it wasn't such a good move. Ten years from now, this guy's probably going to be making at least twice your salary.
No problems with the paint either, my friend accidently scratched my drivers door panel with his car door a couple of years back. The trick to get the scratch out is to take some "polishing compound" from back in the day water it down really well and spend an hour rubbing it out.
Had a similar problem on my 2000 LS2 - tree branch hit the side of the car in a windstorm, left white scratches down the side of both (plastic) doors. Buffed right out - afterward, you couldn't tell anything had happened. (Too bad the car was just so-so; turned it in on a Passat a couple months ago.)
Has science finally managed to synthesize (sp?) Chris Rock?
"You went to film school, dint'ya? I'll bet this really burns you up. Does your father know that you get a [n-word] his coffee?" Yup, that's Super-Black, all right.
If you think coffee is at a sorry state (or was) in North America you never had a good tea.
I'll bet most North Americans haven't. You don't get good tea by pouring "boiled" water (which is no longer anywhere near boiling once you take the pot off the stove and get it over to the table) into a cup with a bag in it to sit tepid for a few minutes. Good tea is brewed, or steeped - you must put the tea into water that is actually boiling. Personally, I'm too impatient and lazy to do it ye Old-Fashioned Bwiddish Way, so what I do is put the tea (yes, bags) into a cup filled three-quarters with water, and stick it all in the microwave (generally two bags and three minutes for the 16-ounce mug I favor - you need to get it hot enough to boil but not so hot that it boils over), then top up the cup with hot water (or cold if you're looking for a quick caffeine hit, as I usually am).
The kicker is that if you don't have receipts, they estimate your out-of-state purchases at 1% of your gross income.
Sounds good to me! I spend way more than that on mail-order computer stuff, Amazon, online holiday shopping, etc. (I actually can't remember the last time I was in a store to buy something besides food and smokes.)
That's just the name "Trinitron". So instead, there'll be Sharptron, Philipstron, Zenithtron, etc. (Hell, there's alredy "Diamondtron" from Mitsubishi.)
> If my video card tells the LCD to turn this pixel teal, then it stays teal until the video card tells it otherwise.
That's exactly right. That's what the "active" in "active-matrix" means. Every pixel has its own driving transistors, which are always powered. It's not like a phosphor that lights and then fades out.
> I disagree. I think that every pixel is refreshed every 25ms. Very similar to the way a CRT scans. This would counter your "infinite FPS" theory.
Well, then, I guess we'd better call up all the LCD manufacturers and tell them that they have no idea what they're doing, eh? After all, you disagree.
Part [and] parcel with common interpretation of the fourth amendment is the right to anonymity. Here in America, "show me your papers, please" is considered unreasonable search and ceisure. Face scanning is merely a digital extension of this.
No it's not. Face scanning doesn't break anonymity. They're not interested in determining who you are, they just want to know if you are one of the people on their list. You think they're actually going to expend the computing horsepower needed to uniquely identify each person at the Super Bowl?
Where does the Fourth Amendment come into play? What is being "seized" or "searched"? The pattern of photons reflecting off your face into the camera lens? Oh, please. If you don't want to be seen in public, wear a burkah - y'know, like they do over there...
Of course there are other solutions, and there is defenently a need for a solution to this problem. I would suggest having touch sensitive sides of the actual PDA. To scroll, simply stroke the side of the PDA (not a wheel, but the side).
Why not a wheel? Actually two thumbwheels, on the face of the PDA, down in the bottom-right corner of the display, one vertical and one horizontal. This is where anyone used to WIMP GUIs expects to find the confluence of the two scrollbars, so it should be relatively intuitive, and in that location both wheels could be manipulated by the right thumb.
explain to us why New Yorkers need to dial a 1 when they have overlay codes, and those of us elsewhere (Boston, DC) don't.
Well, I don't know the actual reason, but it would seem to be easier to just always dial the one, without having to remember whether or not you need it (i.e. to dial a long-distance call out of the NY area vs. a "local" call to another area code within the NY area).
Just to throw another monkey wrench out there, back when I was in school on Long Island, you could leave off the area code for local calls, and for long distance calls, didn't have to dial 1 first. For instance, if I wanted to call the number 867-5309 in Boston, I just dialed 617-867-5309 (no 1). Go figure.
You mean that's all that's on the air that you care about. There's *much* more on the dial in the NYC area than that. Where's WBAI? or WLIR? or WNEW? Or any of a dozen or more other stations you left out?
Some years ago, I tested this theory with a couple of old 686 chips - one 200, one 233. I benchmarked the 200 and 233 both at 75MHz bus - virtually identical results. Then I ran them at the same CPU speed, but 83MHz bus, and the benchmark results improved by exactly 83/75. What does this tell you?:-)
It tells me that your benchmark was heavily biased toward memory bandwidth (i.e. to tell you what you wanted to hear.) Of course, memory bandwidth is an important factor in real-world performance, but not the only one.
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Guy: Well, it would be a lot easier if you could tell me whose system you want to hack into.
Ryan: [looks around] [mouths] Ritter.
Guy: [goofy look] [mouths] Ritter?
Ryan [nods] [walks away]
Guy: ...wow. Well, we're way beyond birthdays now. I'm going to have to write a... very... special... program for this. [starts typing a mix of COBOL, BASIC, and other nonsense]
Don't you hate when there's several people with the same name as yours?
Well, I'd better not be, otherwise I'd be... well, a lot angrier than I am now.
--
Michael Smith (Several? Try several *thousand*, maybe tens of thousands.)
"Centrino", by the way, wouldn't that mean "One hundred rhinos"? Nice.
No, it would mean one-hundredth of a rhino. Question is, which hundredth?
Yes, be glad you have a job... then in 15 years after y'all are continually 'glad just to have a job' and being paid less and less, working longer hours, with less benefits and worse conditions... it gets closer and closer to not having a worthwhile job at all
Huh? Over the past 15 years, my salary has consistently and comfortably outpaced inflation, my working hours have asymptotically approached 40/week, and my benefits have continued to improve. (Conditions are not the best, but only because we've expanded beyond our available space, which will be rectified soon.) I "only" get three weeks' vacation, but hell, I never use it all anyway. I consider my job to be highly worthwhile; I help to ensure the safety of the world's railway systems, and I get paid good money to do it. So let's be careful with those generalizations about how terrible it is to work in the US, 'kay?
When I can stick an iBook in my pocket, you let me know, mmm-kay?
Most of the people I know that stayed in it for the long haul are ear deep in debt for 5 years after they are out of school. They have a fancy degree with a B in front of it and they live like the impoverished.
You may be too young to realize it now, but believe it or not, there's life beyond (end-of-school + 5 years). Do you want to spend the second half of your life living well, or just getting by? Do you want to be able to send your kids to a good school, or will they have to go to State? (Of course, in some states, this isn't necessarily so bad, but...)
And a Bachelor's degree is not "the long haul"; just ask any PhD student.
Except for the inconvenient little fact that it was humans who wiped out the wooly mammoth. If we hadn't hunted the things into extinction, they would probably survive quite well in areas like Siberia.
So what? We're a part of nature, too. The mammoths ran up against nature's fair-haired boys (who may or may not have actually been fair-haired), and got their asses handed to them. How's that any different than if some species were driven to extinction by any other means, or by some other species? I'm so tired of this "nature good, humans evil" crap!
Yes, we have a mean streak a mile wide. Better hope we still have it when the Bugs come for our planet...
Yay, a processor code-named after our first Prime Minister... I'm never buying a 'Keating' or 'Howard' though...
Gee, is this an Aussie joke or an Ayn Rand joke?
Waddaya mean, "be a grad student my hole life"? He's an undergraduate freshman. And if you want to skip school and jump into the job market as a tester, that's all fine and good, but if you did it for the money (as your post indicates) it wasn't such a good move. Ten years from now, this guy's probably going to be making at least twice your salary.
No problems with the paint either, my friend accidently scratched my drivers door panel with his car door a couple of years back. The trick to get the scratch out is to take some "polishing compound" from back in the day water it down really well and spend an hour rubbing it out.
Had a similar problem on my 2000 LS2 - tree branch hit the side of the car in a windstorm, left white scratches down the side of both (plastic) doors. Buffed right out - afterward, you couldn't tell anything had happened. (Too bad the car was just so-so; turned it in on a Passat a couple months ago.)
<holds mouse up to face> Computer! Com-puter!!
Has science finally managed to synthesize (sp?) Chris Rock?
"You went to film school, dint'ya? I'll bet this really burns you up. Does your father know that you get a [n-word] his coffee?" Yup, that's Super-Black, all right.
I would imagine that you could make the system safer by enclosing the bowel and lines and perhaps passing the lines in through an empty PCI slot bay..
You mean like these guys did?
If you think coffee is at a sorry state (or was) in North America you never had a good tea.
I'll bet most North Americans haven't. You don't get good tea by pouring "boiled" water (which is no longer anywhere near boiling once you take the pot off the stove and get it over to the table) into a cup with a bag in it to sit tepid for a few minutes. Good tea is brewed, or steeped - you must put the tea into water that is actually boiling. Personally, I'm too impatient and lazy to do it ye Old-Fashioned Bwiddish Way, so what I do is put the tea (yes, bags) into a cup filled three-quarters with water, and stick it all in the microwave (generally two bags and three minutes for the 16-ounce mug I favor - you need to get it hot enough to boil but not so hot that it boils over), then top up the cup with hot water (or cold if you're looking for a quick caffeine hit, as I usually am).
The kicker is that if you don't have receipts, they estimate your out-of-state purchases at 1% of your gross income.
Sounds good to me! I spend way more than that on mail-order computer stuff, Amazon, online holiday shopping, etc. (I actually can't remember the last time I was in a store to buy something besides food and smokes.)
no pavement?!? Where will the pedestrians walk?
Given that the road trains will be going something like 5 mph, I think the pedestrians would have plenty of time to get out of the way.
Highway building is incredibly destructive.
Destructive to what? All they're doing is clearing off some snow and making the ice flat!
That's just the name "Trinitron". So instead, there'll be Sharptron, Philipstron, Zenithtron, etc. (Hell, there's alredy "Diamondtron" from Mitsubishi.)
> If my video card tells the LCD to turn this pixel teal, then it stays teal until the video card tells it otherwise.
That's exactly right. That's what the "active" in "active-matrix" means. Every pixel has its own driving transistors, which are always powered. It's not like a phosphor that lights and then fades out.
> I disagree. I think that every pixel is refreshed every 25ms. Very similar to the way a CRT scans. This would counter your "infinite FPS" theory.
Well, then, I guess we'd better call up all the LCD manufacturers and tell them that they have no idea what they're doing, eh? After all, you disagree.
Part [and] parcel with common interpretation of the fourth amendment is the right to anonymity. Here in America, "show me your papers, please" is considered unreasonable search and ceisure. Face scanning is merely a digital extension of this.
No it's not. Face scanning doesn't break anonymity. They're not interested in determining who you are, they just want to know if you are one of the people on their list. You think they're actually going to expend the computing horsepower needed to uniquely identify each person at the Super Bowl?
So we do have a fourth amendment.
Where does the Fourth Amendment come into play? What is being "seized" or "searched"? The pattern of photons reflecting off your face into the camera lens? Oh, please. If you don't want to be seen in public, wear a burkah - y'know, like they do over there...
Of course there are other solutions, and there is defenently a need for a solution to this problem. I would suggest having touch sensitive sides of the actual PDA. To scroll, simply stroke the side of the PDA (not a wheel, but the side).
Why not a wheel? Actually two thumbwheels, on the face of the PDA, down in the bottom-right corner of the display, one vertical and one horizontal. This is where anyone used to WIMP GUIs expects to find the confluence of the two scrollbars, so it should be relatively intuitive, and in that location both wheels could be manipulated by the right thumb.
explain to us why New Yorkers need to dial a 1 when they have overlay codes, and those of us elsewhere (Boston, DC) don't.
Well, I don't know the actual reason, but it would seem to be easier to just always dial the one, without having to remember whether or not you need it (i.e. to dial a long-distance call out of the NY area vs. a "local" call to another area code within the NY area).
Just to throw another monkey wrench out there, back when I was in school on Long Island, you could leave off the area code for local calls, and for long distance calls, didn't have to dial 1 first. For instance, if I wanted to call the number 867-5309 in Boston, I just dialed 617-867-5309 (no 1). Go figure.
You mean that's all that's on the air that you care about. There's *much* more on the dial in the NYC area than that. Where's WBAI? or WLIR? or WNEW? Or any of a dozen or more other stations you left out?
Some years ago, I tested this theory with a couple of old 686 chips - one 200, one 233. I benchmarked the 200 and 233 both at 75MHz bus - virtually identical results. Then I ran them at the same CPU speed, but 83MHz bus, and the benchmark results improved by exactly 83/75. What does this tell you?
It tells me that your benchmark was heavily biased toward memory bandwidth (i.e. to tell you what you wanted to hear.) Of course, memory bandwidth is an important factor in real-world performance, but not the only one.