Seriously, spend some time on 4chan's/b/ board for a while and you'll realise who silly what you just said is.
And, at the same time, you'll realize how much more important it is to the internet than this site will ever be./b/ fucks around and it gets noticed. Slashdot pontificates daily and it (rightfully) gets completely ignored.
Well shit. Armchair psychologists like you are what give the science a bad name. You have no bloody idea what you are talking about. Your logic is so flawed that what you're saying isn't even wrong. It doesn't make enough sense nor is it sufficiently coherent to even have a truth value applied to it whatsoever.
This comment isn't really much worse than the typical slashdot faire. At least I got a chuckle out of it, and seeing you in a huff about it is also relatively amusing.
Just because a guy taught himself to program doesn't make him a good programmer. In fact, I would be so bold as to say that a programmer who is completely self-taught will likely be worse than a programmer who has had some sort of formal education. A code monkey doesn't necessarily know how good programming practices. Those are what are very hard to learn. Moreover, learning good programming practices doesn't come "naturally" to almost anybody. Those processes and methodologies are less than trivial and non-obvious in the best case.
I taught myself to program a long time ago. When I went in to my computer science and software engineering classes, I learned nothing new in terms of language syntax or small little programming tricks. However, coming out of the classes has certainly made me a better programmer because I manged to let go of most of my bad habits that I had built up over the years.
To boil it down to a potentially flawed analogy: teaching yourself how to play a musical instrument rarely (in fact, maybe never is a better word to use in this context) makes you a good musician. Why would you assume this concept to work in other fields of study?
If you have HD equipment that is properly set up and you STILL can't see the difference, then your vision really just sucks. This isn't a subjective thing. Blu-ray and HD-DVD have nearly SIX TIMES the resolution of regular DVD. Plus, better video codecs are used to compress the video.
If you can't see the difference, well it sucks to be you. But don't assume your experience is the same as everybody else's.
Reality TV isn't intrinsically "anti-geek." It's worth remembering that shows like Mythbusters, which seem to be lauded by geeks, are classified as reality TV. There is a lot of good reality tv out there, especially on channels like the food network, etc. Not all of it is "watch paris hilton walk around barely clothed."
In the Western World its unacceptable for religion to impose its restrictions on free speech.
I sincerely hope you don't believe this. If you do, your perceptions of reality are completely out of touch with how the "real" world works. This is not a defense of islam, but please, that last statement was preposterous.
In terms of raw context, your comment is easily one of the top 5 stupidest ever posted on slashdot. Congratulations, this dubious honor must have been extremely hard to pull off.
Except you aren't able to transmit any of the HD audio codecs (DD+, TrueHD, DTS-MA) through the optical cable since it doesn't have the bandwidth to do it. The audio you are getting is downsampled to standard DD.
Are you seriously this stupid? Comparing the bandwidth of optical cable to copper is similar to comparing the size of a cell on the tip of your penis to the size of the burj dubai. The S/PDIF protocol may only specify a certain maximum bandwidth, but the cable is capable of so much more, you fucking monkey.
If you buy that then either you're a Sony marketing droid, or you've overdosed on the Koolaid.
See, statements like this really piss me off. However, they are advantageous in that they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no fucking idea what you are talking about and that your "insights" are therefore worthless. DVD9 is not enough for modern games. Many developers are already fed up with the limitations of the media. See, unlike a computer where you have hundreds of gigabytes of cheap and ready storage, consoles need to play games differently. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 have some built in storage, and already you are seeing games install some compressed game data on the hard drives. There is a reason for this.
Think of it this way. Seek times on optical drives are bad. Worse than bad. Horrible. Now, keep in mind that the consoles have a limited amount of memory. That means that a lot of content has to be left uncached. That being said, game developers frequently replicate the same god damn content across both layers of the DVD because it reduces seek time considerably since it will suffer no delay from switching layers in addition to the already bad seek times.
Add to that the fact that modern consoles are capable of outputting high-definition graphics and the general shittyness of DVD makes itself more apparent. I mean, you want high-defintion textures right? Or do you want them compressed to shit?
Suddenly, DVD9 doesn't seem so hot does it? So please, respectfully shut the flying fuck up you ignorant failure.
$2000 is not a lot of money to many people. If $2000 is a lot of money to you please do yourself a favour and go do your christmas shopping at walmart instead of complaing about the price of things on the internet.
Are you seriously this stupid? The point of a statement like "Killing somebody in self-defense is completely justified" is to outline the need to properly define terms. At no point did I attach qualifiers to the statement such as "if you are in fear for your life" or anything like that.
Here's a situation. A child throws a rock at me to amuse himself. Am I justified in "defending myself" by ripping his head off, splitting his ribcage in two, tearing out and filleting his heart, and finally defecating in the gory remains? Probably not.
Words aren't cocks that you can that you can assume to stuff in other people's mouths. Might not be what you are used to.
You know what, people like you are the reason that Slashdot has such a bad reputation for providing dubious legal advice. You are one of the people that must firmly believe "If I read it on a blog, it must be the law."
Since you are such a damn good lawyer, I'm sure you'll have reasonable sources to back up the claim that you're making. As another poster has already asked, please provide us some sort of peer-reviewed documentation to support your claim. Claiming that something is fair-use just because you don't like the alternative does not make it so.
More statements along those lines:
Killing somebody in self-defense is completely justified. Making 14,567 copies of a song is fair-use. Ripping an encrypted broadcast and distributing it to my group of friends is fair-use.
Note, I'm not defending copyright law, as I personally think it's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous. Basically, the purpose of this post is to call you a fucking retard. Thanks.
Surely they can put enough memory in to keep two copies of the display (old and new) then use XOR to figure out which bits need to be updated, speeding things up some. It's absolutely impossible that the engineers designing the product could have come up with that idea. Maybe they should all waste their time on slashdot reading posts by MBCook in case you come up with more algorithmic gold that is completely non-obvious. The engineers are, as you know, incredibly stupid...
Once I went to the local fast food joint to get myself some tacos. The tacos normally sucked but when they are 3 for 99 cents people tend to be willing to put up with worse. Anyways, these tacos made me sick. They made me sick in a way that gave me a new appreciation for my asshole. During a particularly violent burst of shitting, I realized that sitting on the toilet shitting my guts while moaning in pain was oddly musical. Upon thinking about it further, the shitting cacophony had an odd sense of rhythm and the little droplets of shit hitting the surface of the water could be thought of as a sort of beat.
Long story short, that day I took my musical shit made me as relevant as John Lennon. So please shut the fuck up about things which you really have no idea about. None at all. Go back to misspelling the names of classical composers and pretending that you know if or why they are important.
Go ahead and use you cell phone in the theater and you'll find out how unhealthy it is to you. Oh no! Somebody is acting tough on the internet! I can't wait to find out how unhealthy your stern look and annoyed quip to your fat wife is to me.
Veropedia will make arbitrary decisions as to what is "right" and what is not. It is not and will not be a valid source inside circles of academia, ever.
Well, consider the following situation. I will admit that if you're copying extremely large files from disk, a multi-threaded file copy probably won't help much. However, if you are copying many hundreds of files of varying sizes, it makes a large difference. There will be more IO requests being processed by the OS. Now, modern OSes optimize IO requests by various criteria, so essentially, it can order the hard drive to seek in a more intelligent manner and therefore improve throughput.
Additionally, you could have many threads copying the same file, just in different chunks. Since a large file is extremely unlikely to be stored on the HDD in a completely non-fragmented and sequential fashion, the above argument applies.
You are still limited by the IO speed of the HDD, but you can substantially cut down on seek times with multithreaded file copying and intelligent IO requests. And considering that in many cases it takes longer for an HDD to seek than to read a block of data, the time savings add up in a very large way.
So you're saying you are too god damn stupid to consider multi-threading file copies? You may have been coding for 25 years but that doesn't imply that you are any good at it.
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And, at the same time, you'll realize how much more important it is to the internet than this site will ever be. /b/ fucks around and it gets noticed. Slashdot pontificates daily and it (rightfully) gets completely ignored.
Well shit. Armchair psychologists like you are what give the science a bad name. You have no bloody idea what you are talking about. Your logic is so flawed that what you're saying isn't even wrong. It doesn't make enough sense nor is it sufficiently coherent to even have a truth value applied to it whatsoever.
PLEASE stop posting this line of trash.
Why bother?
This comment isn't really much worse than the typical slashdot faire. At least I got a chuckle out of it, and seeing you in a huff about it is also relatively amusing.
Just because a guy taught himself to program doesn't make him a good programmer. In fact, I would be so bold as to say that a programmer who is completely self-taught will likely be worse than a programmer who has had some sort of formal education. A code monkey doesn't necessarily know how good programming practices. Those are what are very hard to learn. Moreover, learning good programming practices doesn't come "naturally" to almost anybody. Those processes and methodologies are less than trivial and non-obvious in the best case.
I taught myself to program a long time ago. When I went in to my computer science and software engineering classes, I learned nothing new in terms of language syntax or small little programming tricks. However, coming out of the classes has certainly made me a better programmer because I manged to let go of most of my bad habits that I had built up over the years.
To boil it down to a potentially flawed analogy: teaching yourself how to play a musical instrument rarely (in fact, maybe never is a better word to use in this context) makes you a good musician. Why would you assume this concept to work in other fields of study?
If you have HD equipment that is properly set up and you STILL can't see the difference, then your vision really just sucks. This isn't a subjective thing. Blu-ray and HD-DVD have nearly SIX TIMES the resolution of regular DVD. Plus, better video codecs are used to compress the video.
If you can't see the difference, well it sucks to be you. But don't assume your experience is the same as everybody else's.
Reality TV isn't intrinsically "anti-geek." It's worth remembering that shows like Mythbusters, which seem to be lauded by geeks, are classified as reality TV. There is a lot of good reality tv out there, especially on channels like the food network, etc. Not all of it is "watch paris hilton walk around barely clothed."
I sincerely hope you don't believe this. If you do, your perceptions of reality are completely out of touch with how the "real" world works. This is not a defense of islam, but please, that last statement was preposterous.
In terms of raw context, your comment is easily one of the top 5 stupidest ever posted on slashdot. Congratulations, this dubious honor must have been extremely hard to pull off.
Are you seriously this stupid? Comparing the bandwidth of optical cable to copper is similar to comparing the size of a cell on the tip of your penis to the size of the burj dubai. The S/PDIF protocol may only specify a certain maximum bandwidth, but the cable is capable of so much more, you fucking monkey.
He won't show you those numbers because he can't. He's just a fucking assclown making wide-reaching generalizations about shit he knows nothing about.
Now you know why 4chan is simultaneously humanity's greatest achievement and its most epic failure.
See, statements like this really piss me off. However, they are advantageous in that they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no fucking idea what you are talking about and that your "insights" are therefore worthless. DVD9 is not enough for modern games. Many developers are already fed up with the limitations of the media. See, unlike a computer where you have hundreds of gigabytes of cheap and ready storage, consoles need to play games differently. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 have some built in storage, and already you are seeing games install some compressed game data on the hard drives. There is a reason for this.
Think of it this way. Seek times on optical drives are bad. Worse than bad. Horrible. Now, keep in mind that the consoles have a limited amount of memory. That means that a lot of content has to be left uncached. That being said, game developers frequently replicate the same god damn content across both layers of the DVD because it reduces seek time considerably since it will suffer no delay from switching layers in addition to the already bad seek times.
Add to that the fact that modern consoles are capable of outputting high-definition graphics and the general shittyness of DVD makes itself more apparent. I mean, you want high-defintion textures right? Or do you want them compressed to shit?
Suddenly, DVD9 doesn't seem so hot does it? So please, respectfully shut the flying fuck up you ignorant failure.
You know, for being a regular poster on a geek website, you sure are a fucking idiot.
Learn about optical tech. It might amaze you.
$2000 is not a lot of money to many people. If $2000 is a lot of money to you please do yourself a favour and go do your christmas shopping at walmart instead of complaing about the price of things on the internet.
Are you seriously this stupid?
The point of a statement like "Killing somebody in self-defense is completely justified" is to outline the need to properly define terms. At no point did I attach qualifiers to the statement such as "if you are in fear for your life" or anything like that.
Here's a situation. A child throws a rock at me to amuse himself. Am I justified in "defending myself" by ripping his head off, splitting his ribcage in two, tearing out and filleting his heart, and finally defecating in the gory remains? Probably not.
Words aren't cocks that you can that you can assume to stuff in other people's mouths. Might not be what you are used to.
You know what, people like you are the reason that Slashdot has such a bad reputation for providing dubious legal advice. You are one of the people that must firmly believe "If I read it on a blog, it must be the law."
Since you are such a damn good lawyer, I'm sure you'll have reasonable sources to back up the claim that you're making. As another poster has already asked, please provide us some sort of peer-reviewed documentation to support your claim. Claiming that something is fair-use just because you don't like the alternative does not make it so.
More statements along those lines:
Killing somebody in self-defense is completely justified.
Making 14,567 copies of a song is fair-use.
Ripping an encrypted broadcast and distributing it to my group of friends is fair-use.
Note, I'm not defending copyright law, as I personally think it's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous. Basically, the purpose of this post is to call you a fucking retard. Thanks.
You must be a real hit at parties.
I have a story...
Once I went to the local fast food joint to get myself some tacos. The tacos normally sucked but when they are 3 for 99 cents people tend to be willing to put up with worse. Anyways, these tacos made me sick. They made me sick in a way that gave me a new appreciation for my asshole. During a particularly violent burst of shitting, I realized that sitting on the toilet shitting my guts while moaning in pain was oddly musical. Upon thinking about it further, the shitting cacophony had an odd sense of rhythm and the little droplets of shit hitting the surface of the water could be thought of as a sort of beat.
Long story short, that day I took my musical shit made me as relevant as John Lennon. So please shut the fuck up about things which you really have no idea about. None at all. Go back to misspelling the names of classical composers and pretending that you know if or why they are important.
Wanker.
Ya know, condoms aren't flawed just because you have no reason to use them...
Likewise, the iphone isn't flawed because you have no reason to use it.
Idiot.
Could you please shut the fuck up?
As other people have pointed out in this thread, you are the one being selfish.
You notion of what friendship is is like an asshole - it's full of shit and it stinks.
Retard.
Retard.
No, they won't.
Veropedia will make arbitrary decisions as to what is "right" and what is not. It is not and will not be a valid source inside circles of academia, ever.
Well, consider the following situation.
I will admit that if you're copying extremely large files from disk, a multi-threaded file copy probably won't help much. However, if you are copying many hundreds of files of varying sizes, it makes a large difference. There will be more IO requests being processed by the OS. Now, modern OSes optimize IO requests by various criteria, so essentially, it can order the hard drive to seek in a more intelligent manner and therefore improve throughput.
Additionally, you could have many threads copying the same file, just in different chunks. Since a large file is extremely unlikely to be stored on the HDD in a completely non-fragmented and sequential fashion, the above argument applies.
You are still limited by the IO speed of the HDD, but you can substantially cut down on seek times with multithreaded file copying and intelligent IO requests. And considering that in many cases it takes longer for an HDD to seek than to read a block of data, the time savings add up in a very large way.
So you're saying you are too god damn stupid to consider multi-threading file copies?
You may have been coding for 25 years but that doesn't imply that you are any good at it.