I always treat everyone with more respect than I'd like in return, no matter their education, ethnicity, religious beliefs, taste in music or whatever. This lets me seperate the people I don't want to associate with and the people that actively want to spend time with me. Everyone knows I'm the most level-headed person around and I am definitely a yardstick of emotional development for those around me. I'm the guy that if two people have a story and come to different terms, they tell me the story and through questions, force me to say who was right and wrong. I generally say just enough to address the question but I dodge the answer because that would only hurt the situation. I know I'm respected because I'm not just another student, I help my classmates with problems and I'll sit at a bar and have a pint with you.
Anyone else but me immediately think of the phrase "guilty until proven innocent"?
It's nice your school is trying to perform steps to prevent cheaters but that's just way too much. A university should be a place where you can live the life you want and the free exchange of ideas with many different types of people from all around the world, not worried if you've sufficiently proven you aren't a cheater to the satisfaction of one of the 70 select individuals.
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How long is a piece of string?
This one is easy...
It's twice the length from the middle to the end.
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What aspect of handheld gaming has been "redefined" because of this?
Sounds just like someone that hasn't seem the PSP in action. I got to try out the PSP a couple days ago playing Dynasty Warriors and I was blown away. The graphics are so crisp and beautiful. I also played the DS a little in Target once. The DS doesn't stand a chance when put up against the PSP. A review featured here on Slashdot earlier before the PSP release, we should wait for Nintendo's response to the PSP because the DS wasn't designed to go head-to-head to the PSP.
Try actually experiencing something like this first hand before posting asinine knee-jerk comments like this. Like someone else mentioned, the PSP is similar to the iPod in the fact that isn't the newest handheld game device, but the designers created something much better than another iteration of a handheld game device.
My school has switched from using Social Security Numbers to our unique numbering system. I can use this number in everywhere where I used to use my SSN when logging into secure sites, signing up for university classes, etc... Even my state of Virginia changed over from SSN's on the license to "Customer Numbers" which mean nothing to anyone who doesn't need to know my ID.
I got the SecurePassword Generator plugin installed. You can specify all sorts of options as far as restricting password generation to punctuation, numerics, case sensitivity, even only generating passwords on either side of the keyboard so you can type it with one hand (if the other one is handy). Plus, you can specify how similar the passwords are to regular words making remembering them easier for those people that aren't interested in remembering truly random characters.
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Checking out this article, it says the South Korean government instituted an aggressive policy to bring broadband to more areas. The United States doesn't have this, the United States broadband speed runs at the telecom companies willingness to increase speed. If they can extract X dollars for Y Mbps speed and make a nice profit, why spend a ton of money to extract 2X dollars for 5Y Mbps speed (meanwhile your profit margin shrinks) for customers without your government giving you money and saying "do it now". Just get the US Federal Government to pull money from defense spending and pour it into public works like broadband. If the government helps to pay for the cost to do the massive overhaul, that will lower the average customers bill because the money would come out of your taxes and not your monthly bill. I personally don't care, my 4Mbps is just fine for my uses. There's more problems in the world today than if my broadband speed is 4Mbps or 25Mbps.
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Only on Slashdot can you make some wild accusation like the US is the leader in technology (who says we are?) and then correct your own made up shit and be moderated as funny all the way up to 5.
As far as this population density stuff goes, few people mention the cost of living differences between South Korea and the United States. Sure, $20USD (15.4EUR)sounds miniscule to us (any first-world country really), but that could be a big percentage of a South Koreans households' take-home pay. The telecom companies that serve broadband connections have to charge the amount of money they think their customers will pay while maximizing their profits (basic economics). You simply can't charge a South Korean family the same you'd charge an American family.
How many times do we have to hear from Mac fanbois about MS copying Apple?
Apple copied from Xerox, but you don't mention that. Let's all move on, it's not the 80's anymore, MS writes their own code and Apple builds onto BSD. It's been old for years now and it's getting really annoying to hear the same repetitive crap day-in, day-out.
Intel isn't bad, but AMD's is just misleading. If I'm building a 64-bit AMD system and I look and say "Hey, it's an AMD 64 4000+! That must mean it's 4000MHz which is 4GHz" Oh no! It's only 2.4GHz. At least Intel has the sense to put the processor speed right in the name of the chip. I know someone is going to chime in and bring up some obscure reason why the 2.4GHz is called the "4000+" and declare it's there for more than a marketing ploy, but Joe Consumer isn't going to think that. An AMD-64 4000+" sounds wayyyy cooler than an "Intel-64 2.8GHz", right?
Now, proceed to mod me down because I speak ill of the underdog, right? Go on, I know you want to inject your bias into moderation, it's okay.
If you are unwilling to spend $16, you either need to get a job or you are not very serious about learning.
This is true, but I don't really find a website subscription as fulfilling as say a college course. Ideally, I would like a course because of it's increased live interaction. There I'd be expected to have a live conversation and whatnot and websites just aren't up to that level I want.
I'm trying to learn German. I decided to learn right after my schools add/drop date. Can anyone point me to a good web resource to learn? I found German for Travellers as a good resource, I learned how to pronounce the letters now but that's only the first step. To get to the advanced part of learning on the site, I'd need to subscribe for $16/year.
What customers exactly? If you were Adaptec, would you write drivers for your hardware in Windows, a platform you're programmers are very experienced with and caters to the 90% marketshare, or write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?
I like Linux and I think it's very useful but there's just too much self-righteousness in here. Everyone on here expects companies to spend millions in development and bend over backwards for their own purposes. We have to be realistic here and realize that we have to make it worth it for companies like Adaptec to support Linux or in this case, OpenBSD. Adaptec isn't interested in OpenBSD because it's not in their best financial interest, despite their best intentions.
Seeing as how the point escaped you, I'll try to restate it for you.
The market is responding now, but in the future, if the market proves to be favorable by good reviews from reputable news agencies and public opinion, then it's a good indicator the product will be profitable, plus it's a good way to generate buzz. Afterall, if you were a car company and came out with a new radical design for a car, would you listen to a 12-year editor column on your car in the new issue of Reputable Car Magazine A or some rant left by Anonymous Coward on a message board on Car Enthusiast Website B?
Microsoft isn't going to listen to Slashdot no matter how much the Slashdot crowd thinks they should be listened to. The regular patrons of Slashdot that post do not provide an accurate cross-section of the consumers Microsoft is aiming for. The article indicates the demographic this product is aimed to sell to are families with kids, presumably with a strong income, nice house and of course kids that are old/young enough to be entertained by teddy bears. When I think of families of this type, they have a father that goes out one day and gets a Sony because it looks nice and smooth. The desktop is preinstalled with Microsoft's Windows XP OS without flinching because he uses it at work and trusts it. Slashdot caters to a much different segment of the buying public and to Microsoft if they read all of this, is totally moot to them.
The article just says Microsoft is showing a prototype, not that your own house will be filled with Microsoft robots this evening, so calm down.
Prototype != Product on Shelves
Look at car companies, they've been making prototypes for a long time, usually to see how the market responds to a design to test the waters so the vehicle doesn't dive when it's released. Plus, back in the '80's, remember when robots were supposed to be the "new thing", they had robots on display doing household chores, living up to the Jetsons ideal house. As far as I can see the only persistent robot presence is the prohibitively expensive Roomba vacuum cleaner which itself can't be too complex of a robot.
I guess people just want to regurgitate more BSOD jokes at Microsoft's undefensible expensive. Good job on the originality, guys...
Your link is messed up, but do you know if the paradox is with replacement?
To explain:
For example, say you had a black bag with X red balls and Y blue balls. If you reached into the bag and picked out a ball, recorded the result and put it back into the bag, that's "with replacement". If you repeated the experiment and you put the ball to the side, that's "without replacement". That way you can be sure there aren't any repeats until each ball is picked once before the bag is refilled with the balls and repeats are picked.
I don't own an iPod, but it sounds like they do use replacement which is good in some instances and bad in others.
Determining which style to use can be used in playing cards. If you have one deck of cards (no repeats), if you shuffle after each hand, that's with replacement to a degree from hand to hand. I say to a degree because if you rewind back to before cards are dealt and one card is given to the first player, the player doesn't get the value of the card and then the card is randomly put back in the deck for the next player to possibly be picked again in the same hand, the player keeps it for the rest of the hand, thus it's without replacement.
This is sometimes called with/without removal, depending on how you want to look at it.
Well, I'm waiting for the mods to pull their heads out of their asses and realize it's supposed to funny. It's not redundant, no one else has mentioned it, and it's not offtopic, being that it's about the internet. I couldn't really care what a bunch of random jerks think of my comments, if I did, I would have posted it anonymously.
When I was on Mindspring before Earthlink swallowed them, I had my linux server dialed into Mindspring 24/7, when the call was dropped, pppd would autorespawn and redial out. After a while, I would receive emails saying that it's against TOS to run an FTP server etc... which I wasn't doing, I just wanted the always-on type of connection. Mindspring's setup forced the modem to redial every 24 hours, but I was never denied service or charged for fully using the connection. They'd always quote me as using 43,200 minutes or more for that month, basically the numbers said that I split my time between being connected and dialing the modem.
However, the minutes aren't exactly accurate because if I was disconnected and redialed, their servers wouldn't update themselves that I disconnected, so for a short time, it would look like I was logged in twice simultaneously. This wasn't a problem until Earthlink screwed everything up, causing busy signals, and crap. After Earthlink came along, I got charged for simultaneous logins. I called the people and asked "wtf?" and they parroted the problem and TOS. I asked them what phone numbers were used on my account to call in and they said "they are all phone number whatever". I blew their mind and asked "How could my modem be connected to two other modems at the same time?". Either the person on the telephone understood and credited me the charge on the next bill or silence fell over the phone.
So one disaster should cause a national halt on space travel indefinitely? It is a horrible disaster and some very special people didn't have to die, but we have to move on and the astronauts knew that something like that could happen. I think 2 years is a good time to rest, reflect on what happened and try again and show the world we can get back up on our feet and try again. We all get knocked down, but the important thing is that we get back up and try again.
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I always treat everyone with more respect than I'd like in return, no matter their education, ethnicity, religious beliefs, taste in music or whatever. This lets me seperate the people I don't want to associate with and the people that actively want to spend time with me. Everyone knows I'm the most level-headed person around and I am definitely a yardstick of emotional development for those around me. I'm the guy that if two people have a story and come to different terms, they tell me the story and through questions, force me to say who was right and wrong. I generally say just enough to address the question but I dodge the answer because that would only hurt the situation. I know I'm respected because I'm not just another student, I help my classmates with problems and I'll sit at a bar and have a pint with you.
Anyone else but me immediately think of the phrase "guilty until proven innocent"?
It's nice your school is trying to perform steps to prevent cheaters but that's just way too much. A university should be a place where you can live the life you want and the free exchange of ideas with many different types of people from all around the world, not worried if you've sufficiently proven you aren't a cheater to the satisfaction of one of the 70 select individuals.
How long is a piece of string?
This one is easy...
It's twice the length from the middle to the end.
What aspect of handheld gaming has been "redefined" because of this?
Sounds just like someone that hasn't seem the PSP in action. I got to try out the PSP a couple days ago playing Dynasty Warriors and I was blown away. The graphics are so crisp and beautiful. I also played the DS a little in Target once. The DS doesn't stand a chance when put up against the PSP. A review featured here on Slashdot earlier before the PSP release, we should wait for Nintendo's response to the PSP because the DS wasn't designed to go head-to-head to the PSP.
Try actually experiencing something like this first hand before posting asinine knee-jerk comments like this. Like someone else mentioned, the PSP is similar to the iPod in the fact that isn't the newest handheld game device, but the designers created something much better than another iteration of a handheld game device.
My school has switched from using Social Security Numbers to our unique numbering system. I can use this number in everywhere where I used to use my SSN when logging into secure sites, signing up for university classes, etc... Even my state of Virginia changed over from SSN's on the license to "Customer Numbers" which mean nothing to anyone who doesn't need to know my ID.
I got the SecurePassword Generator plugin installed. You can specify all sorts of options as far as restricting password generation to punctuation, numerics, case sensitivity, even only generating passwords on either side of the keyboard so you can type it with one hand (if the other one is handy). Plus, you can specify how similar the passwords are to regular words making remembering them easier for those people that aren't interested in remembering truly random characters.
Checking out this article, it says the South Korean government instituted an aggressive policy to bring broadband to more areas. The United States doesn't have this, the United States broadband speed runs at the telecom companies willingness to increase speed. If they can extract X dollars for Y Mbps speed and make a nice profit, why spend a ton of money to extract 2X dollars for 5Y Mbps speed (meanwhile your profit margin shrinks) for customers without your government giving you money and saying "do it now". Just get the US Federal Government to pull money from defense spending and pour it into public works like broadband. If the government helps to pay for the cost to do the massive overhaul, that will lower the average customers bill because the money would come out of your taxes and not your monthly bill. I personally don't care, my 4Mbps is just fine for my uses. There's more problems in the world today than if my broadband speed is 4Mbps or 25Mbps.
Only on Slashdot can you make some wild accusation like the US is the leader in technology (who says we are?) and then correct your own made up shit and be moderated as funny all the way up to 5.
As far as this population density stuff goes, few people mention the cost of living differences between South Korea and the United States. Sure, $20USD (15.4EUR)sounds miniscule to us (any first-world country really), but that could be a big percentage of a South Koreans households' take-home pay. The telecom companies that serve broadband connections have to charge the amount of money they think their customers will pay while maximizing their profits (basic economics). You simply can't charge a South Korean family the same you'd charge an American family.
How many times do we have to hear from Mac fanbois about MS copying Apple?
Apple copied from Xerox, but you don't mention that. Let's all move on, it's not the 80's anymore, MS writes their own code and Apple builds onto BSD. It's been old for years now and it's getting really annoying to hear the same repetitive crap day-in, day-out.
Intel isn't bad, but AMD's is just misleading. If I'm building a 64-bit AMD system and I look and say "Hey, it's an AMD 64 4000+! That must mean it's 4000MHz which is 4GHz" Oh no! It's only 2.4GHz. At least Intel has the sense to put the processor speed right in the name of the chip. I know someone is going to chime in and bring up some obscure reason why the 2.4GHz is called the "4000+" and declare it's there for more than a marketing ploy, but Joe Consumer isn't going to think that. An AMD-64 4000+" sounds wayyyy cooler than an "Intel-64 2.8GHz", right?
Now, proceed to mod me down because I speak ill of the underdog, right? Go on, I know you want to inject your bias into moderation, it's okay.
thanks for your site and to the next comment by nightgrave, I'll definitely look into both sites, much appreciated.
If you are unwilling to spend $16, you either need to get a job or you are not very serious about learning.
This is true, but I don't really find a website subscription as fulfilling as say a college course. Ideally, I would like a course because of it's increased live interaction. There I'd be expected to have a live conversation and whatnot and websites just aren't up to that level I want.
I'm trying to learn German. I decided to learn right after my schools add/drop date. Can anyone point me to a good web resource to learn? I found German for Travellers as a good resource, I learned how to pronounce the letters now but that's only the first step. To get to the advanced part of learning on the site, I'd need to subscribe for $16/year.
What customers exactly? If you were Adaptec, would you write drivers for your hardware in Windows, a platform you're programmers are very experienced with and caters to the 90% marketshare, or write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?
I like Linux and I think it's very useful but there's just too much self-righteousness in here. Everyone on here expects companies to spend millions in development and bend over backwards for their own purposes. We have to be realistic here and realize that we have to make it worth it for companies like Adaptec to support Linux or in this case, OpenBSD. Adaptec isn't interested in OpenBSD because it's not in their best financial interest, despite their best intentions.
If you're already at the point where you refer to your wife in version numbers, prepare for Wife 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 For Workgroups.
that's what I was thinking when I was standing at the toilet taking a leak after a long night of drinking.
Seeing as how the point escaped you, I'll try to restate it for you.
The market is responding now, but in the future, if the market proves to be favorable by good reviews from reputable news agencies and public opinion, then it's a good indicator the product will be profitable, plus it's a good way to generate buzz. Afterall, if you were a car company and came out with a new radical design for a car, would you listen to a 12-year editor column on your car in the new issue of Reputable Car Magazine A or some rant left by Anonymous Coward on a message board on Car Enthusiast Website B?
Microsoft isn't going to listen to Slashdot no matter how much the Slashdot crowd thinks they should be listened to. The regular patrons of Slashdot that post do not provide an accurate cross-section of the consumers Microsoft is aiming for. The article indicates the demographic this product is aimed to sell to are families with kids, presumably with a strong income, nice house and of course kids that are old/young enough to be entertained by teddy bears. When I think of families of this type, they have a father that goes out one day and gets a Sony because it looks nice and smooth. The desktop is preinstalled with Microsoft's Windows XP OS without flinching because he uses it at work and trusts it. Slashdot caters to a much different segment of the buying public and to Microsoft if they read all of this, is totally moot to them.
The article just says Microsoft is showing a prototype, not that your own house will be filled with Microsoft robots this evening, so calm down.
Prototype != Product on Shelves
Look at car companies, they've been making prototypes for a long time, usually to see how the market responds to a design to test the waters so the vehicle doesn't dive when it's released. Plus, back in the '80's, remember when robots were supposed to be the "new thing", they had robots on display doing household chores, living up to the Jetsons ideal house. As far as I can see the only persistent robot presence is the prohibitively expensive Roomba vacuum cleaner which itself can't be too complex of a robot.
I guess people just want to regurgitate more BSOD jokes at Microsoft's undefensible expensive. Good job on the originality, guys...
If not this particular story, another similar story praising Apple and their vision, having no real newsworthyness of course.
Your link is messed up, but do you know if the paradox is with replacement?
To explain:
For example, say you had a black bag with X red balls and Y blue balls. If you reached into the bag and picked out a ball, recorded the result and put it back into the bag, that's "with replacement". If you repeated the experiment and you put the ball to the side, that's "without replacement". That way you can be sure there aren't any repeats until each ball is picked once before the bag is refilled with the balls and repeats are picked.
I don't own an iPod, but it sounds like they do use replacement which is good in some instances and bad in others.
Determining which style to use can be used in playing cards. If you have one deck of cards (no repeats), if you shuffle after each hand, that's with replacement to a degree from hand to hand. I say to a degree because if you rewind back to before cards are dealt and one card is given to the first player, the player doesn't get the value of the card and then the card is randomly put back in the deck for the next player to possibly be picked again in the same hand, the player keeps it for the rest of the hand, thus it's without replacement.
This is sometimes called with/without removal, depending on how you want to look at it.
Well, I'm waiting for the mods to pull their heads out of their asses and realize it's supposed to funny. It's not redundant, no one else has mentioned it, and it's not offtopic, being that it's about the internet. I couldn't really care what a bunch of random jerks think of my comments, if I did, I would have posted it anonymously.
Call Al Gore and find out what he thinks, afterall he invented the thing.
Someone register for the Ultracade logo and then petition eBay to remove all Ultracade auctions on the bases they are infringing on the trademark.
A 3-step Profit?!? comment would also do well at the moment in time too. If the above isn't funny or clever, pretend I regurgitated the meme here.
When I was on Mindspring before Earthlink swallowed them, I had my linux server dialed into Mindspring 24/7, when the call was dropped, pppd would autorespawn and redial out. After a while, I would receive emails saying that it's against TOS to run an FTP server etc... which I wasn't doing, I just wanted the always-on type of connection. Mindspring's setup forced the modem to redial every 24 hours, but I was never denied service or charged for fully using the connection. They'd always quote me as using 43,200 minutes or more for that month, basically the numbers said that I split my time between being connected and dialing the modem.
However, the minutes aren't exactly accurate because if I was disconnected and redialed, their servers wouldn't update themselves that I disconnected, so for a short time, it would look like I was logged in twice simultaneously. This wasn't a problem until Earthlink screwed everything up, causing busy signals, and crap. After Earthlink came along, I got charged for simultaneous logins. I called the people and asked "wtf?" and they parroted the problem and TOS. I asked them what phone numbers were used on my account to call in and they said "they are all phone number whatever". I blew their mind and asked "How could my modem be connected to two other modems at the same time?". Either the person on the telephone understood and credited me the charge on the next bill or silence fell over the phone.
So one disaster should cause a national halt on space travel indefinitely? It is a horrible disaster and some very special people didn't have to die, but we have to move on and the astronauts knew that something like that could happen. I think 2 years is a good time to rest, reflect on what happened and try again and show the world we can get back up on our feet and try again. We all get knocked down, but the important thing is that we get back up and try again.