Yeah, it's canada. You have to order in anything useful. My entire PC is made from ordered parts. It's just something you have to live with. If you have a good source, you can have overnight delivery anyway, so it doesn't usually bother me.
Keep in mind that the Opteron does beat a Xeron in some tasks -- especially in 64-bit mode. I'm waiting anxiously for the Athlon 64. I'm hoping it's performance is comperable, (and hopefully, that their clock rates are comperable to the P4, which would make the Athlon 64 so ultimately powerful I'd have to break out in evil laughter when I open the package.;) )
Sorry, I don't. It's 73.0 cents per litre where I live(Yeah, a bit much, but we just finished a 2 year long gas war, so we deserve it.:P). How does that equate to.99?
Genetics aren't the only thing that makes people stupid, buddy. You can easily be raised to worship stupidity and ignorance. I've seen the greatest minds of our generation succumb to it's wraith. Hell, I've seen an entire nation fall under it's spell because their president, or their senator, or their congressman told them to; time and time again.
And if you disagree with me, maybe I'm just another nerd who thinks too much?
(Don't knock duke nukem. It's just as much a parody of hollywood blockbusters as it is a seven year old example people keep on giving about how corrupt our little industry is(By the way, stop that.))
Geez, that was a bit harsh. -1, troll, eh? News to me. Sure, I used a bit of a non-standard format from the regular slashdot editorial (because I was getting bored of those), but all in all, I'd say I'm right in this matter, in spite of the way I said it, and neither side is innocent, but the completely ignorant way that AC said that deserved to be curb stomped. Blaming the whole of Europe for things like the holocaust is a bit like blaming canada for the war in Iraq.
Watch thy tongue, oh simpleminded troglodyte, lest the sins of your countrymen be recounted in all their glory. Your fathers are the masterminds of the atomic bomb, and the only ones who have brought the full might of this dread weapon of pure destruction against a heavily populated area. Your decietful leaders have regaled the world with your lies in recent months, and to this day the vestiges of that deciet remain.
Watch thy tongue, for you are only innocent in your own mind.
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Jokes just like that just aren't funny. They're just boring. Like Windows. Microsoft people would probably like that joke, I like to call them MicroSofties. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Windows needs some TLC. That channel is boring. #boring on efnet is another boring channel, but I guess that wouldn't be for the same reasons. It sucks that so many IRC networks are down these days. I guess they just can't handle the load as much these days. That makes no sense though. There aren't really that many new people on IRC networks compared to ICQ or MSN ones...Microsoft should have made MSN messenger removable in Windows XP professional. I had to hack the registry to get it to stop coming up back when I was working as a full time computer tech, and that sucked. Kind of like this joke.
And that's why I think Ike Eisenhower should be president.
I wouldn't take the threats of an entity which has thrown around enough money to get so many people to believe legislation like THIS is nessessary so lightly. Don't you think that after all the effort to become legal vigilantees, they'll make good on their threats? Toss out some dough to get some good hackers backed by engineers and testers?
Ignore the drugs. Enhance your concentration with coffee and meditation. Find ways to turn ADHD into an advantage, a way your way of thinking and doing things can be augmented and supplimented to make you into a more efficient person. Learn to channel your extra energy towards your work.
If you can pull this off, as I have, you can manage to be more productive with less effort, and you won't have to bother yourself with taking the wonderkind ritalin(which I am certain has become something of a parental placebo these days).
That's a dangerous mindset, and the same kind of thinking that gets people like Hatch here to say things like this.
Now, the truth of the matter is, acting upon his thoughts would cause massive economic damage to the entire world. Tens of millions of machines could be affected, including corporate and educational machines, government and research machines. It would affect computers worldwide. Furthermore, we have no idea how much damage would be done. Perhaps the virus would merely wipe out the hard drive. Perhaps it would increase the FSB on the motherboard and the memory clock on common video cards to wipe out the video memory, motherboard, memory, and CPU in one shot, possibly also taking out the other peripheral cards in the process.
Overall, it looks very much like destroying the world to save a bunch of ungrateful, whiney, untalented pieces of garbage who have never created a thought of their own, let alone music.
Some people just need to be bitchslapped for their outrageous ideas. The economic fallout of such a psychotic idea being implemented could make 9/11 or the war on Iraq look like a drop of water aside a waterfall in comparison.
To be frank, I know more than one sysadmin out there who would have a bullet with his name on it.
If this happened,a lot of corporate and educational machines would be destroyed, and in terms of damage to the WORLD economy would be immeasurable(but in RIAA dollars, it would probably be in the range of a quadrillion dollars). Considering the pitifully minor nature of the crime he's suggesting he wants fought, I'd ppull the trigger myself for such an act of economic terrorism as well as cyber terrorism.
I think someone should "liberate" his home state from his tyrannical reign.
So at what point will someone point out the obvious, that people like this deserve life in prison and a hefty fine? If some kid poking around sendmail exploits is liable for that, a criminal senator who wants to destroy millions of PCs should be liable for at least as much. By my calcuations, the costs of this to the American people could be far greater than the entire profit of the Music industry this year. Worldwide, it could rival the costs of the music industry this decade.
To be frank, this terrorist piece of shit should be put away for a long time, and any music industry cronies who decide to follow his words should be given the exact same sentence.
That would generally go hand in hand with the characteristics of the moon -- aparantly it was very hard to get the flag to stand up in the first place, because moon dust, while easy to displace laterally, is extremely difficult to displace vertically. Some of the stuff they learned is quite interesting. I hope someone establishes a base up there someday in my lifetime.
Keep in mind that the moon videos were too flawless to have been crafted by people. Things like the fact that none of that jumping around picked up any dust, because dust being thrown around is a product of an atmosphere(chaotic air patterns caused by the interaction between your foot, the ground, and the atmosphere). The sharply contrasting black and white shown in the photograph of the first footstep on the moon.
Furthermore, there were political and economic indicators that man went to the moon. Political being that the Americans are far too proud to fake something like that, especially if they were caught(whilst the Russians continued their race towards the moon? The US had to be there first. Period. It was the way they did things back then. These days, they'd issue a text press release and I'd bet most people would believe them, but I'm cynical after the Iraqi war), and economic being the huge amount of resources poured into the program. The massive amounts of paperwork and documentation, along with the massive facilities created(and that part is demonstratable without going to the mooon) for the project also factor in favour of a legitimate moon landing.
Attention to detail is what many conspiracy theorists lack, which is why they are relegated to the fringe. The truth is out there. They just don't really want to believe it.
Extremely unlikely. Considering the odds of all those being wrong are so slim, and the conditions and situations so narrow for the theories to work, the burden of proof falls soley on the shoulders of the conspiracy theorists to provide something other than idle speculation based on a mishmash of distorted facts.
To put things in perspective, I could be a hot swedish girl named Helga(perhaps not a swedish name, I couldn't tell you) being held against my will in The Matrix while scientists experiment on my lifeless body, but the odds aren't in that conclusions favour. There are the same number of "not nessessarily"s there as in the improbable alien arguement, and just as wild a story based loosely on a set of unprovable facts which conveniently hide one another.
Almost every real conspiracy theory has a paper trail and someone in the loop who was important and influential who talked. Take Microsoft "softmoney contributing" millions to both parties after years of political indifference in the same year they got their "slap on the wrist with a healing stick" punishment. Or the RIAAs plans to implant viruses into MP3 downloaders computers. Or Watergate. What we have here are two instances where anyone with the slightest knowlege of science, technology, physics, and statistsics could disprove the conspiracy theories with the tools at hand.
Aliens? Well, statistically speaking, considering the number of astronomers out there, if there were aliens out there, their ships would be detected by the thousands of astronomers, and likely photographed in high quality detail, and not a grainy photograph. Also, there is no paper trail whatsoever leading to the government -- ANY government, concerning aliens. There are quite a few of them, and rest assured, if aliens existed, they would have contacted more than just the state of New Mexico.
Moon Landing:The physics and little details completely support the idea that the footage was shot on the moon, from various aspects of airless physics(dust based moon in a vacuum + no dust being thrown up by footsteps = proof, because dust being thrown up like that is usually a result of the resultant turbulence caused by chaotic air movements as air tries to fill the newfound gap between the ground and your foot), to the way the light was shown (space physics in a vacuum describe the harsh looking shadows such as those seen in the moon footstep photograph, to the fact that for the greater part of a decade, a vast portion of the US GDP was allocated towards the goal of reaching the moon, to the relative technology level of the era. For the cost it would take to recreate such a mission in such detail, while keeping it a complete secret for ten years(add a couple decades to that if you include the illusion carried out to the present day), without some sort of paper trail or influential people on the inside leaking information to the media, as well as the cost in man-hours of recreating the moonscape, including the scientists whose time would be required to think up such a level of detail, would be enough to go to the moon anyway, which is a good indicator of which they did.
How many people do you see using the word 'aint' on slashdot? There is a certain level of formality required to sound intelligent, and for the most part, that is maintained on technology sites like this one. You'll also notice that few, if any of the people on this site use casual internet-style, such as "Wow! U R Soooooooo Kewl!!!!111" on slashdot. Thank god.
The protocol of a fairly formal writing style on this site also helps root out local slang, which would be inappropriate to use.
Therefore, 'irregardless' shall remain incorrect, or it will mean 'with regard', since it is a self-contained double negative.
Why not? Why the hell would the government cover up the existance of extra terrestrial life forms? Did the ancient world cover up the existance of japan?(OK, the japanese did, but I don't think there were any conspiracies to keep the knowlege of "aliens from outer China" from being known. Furthermore, do you think that, considering the track record our government has with keeping big secrets, there could remain absolutely no conclusive evidence that aliens exist? Especially considering that there would be undoubtedly be more than one country with such knowlege, and therefore, more than one government whose mouth would need to be kept shut? How about the thousands of astronomers probing the night sky? If there was such a high occurance of UFO activity out there, wouldn't many of the huge number of completely independant astronomers have captured very high resolution photographs of the supposed spacecraft?
That phrase used earlier -- I want to believe...It is the most dangerous phrase in the world. It is the same idea that creates suicide cults and religious terrorists. It is the idea that allows the placebo effect to work so effectively. It can implant false memories in a person or cripple him physically. I don't want to believe. I want to know. You should too. One way or another.
QBasic has every looping command that C has, IIRC. The only problem is that many people programming using it came from the older MS basics such as those for the commodore and other 8 bit systems, which used line numbers and GOTO extensively. Qbasic was functionally a lot more like C than older iterations of BASIC, and while it had line numbers and GOTO for backwards compatibility with GWBasic and BASICA, I doubt there's a single program for QB on the internet that uses them that way.
Personally, I've seen programs in QB that are thousands of lines long that never use an honest to god GOTO statement once. And you know that C has a goto statement as well?
I wish people would stop assuming that because some incompotent bugger decided to teach them QB in a way that no sane programmer would use it, that's the only way it can be used. You know what? I was taught to use C without functions, and on some piece of crap proprietary graphics/keyboard lib that was slower than QB and wasn't compatible with more than 5 systems not owned by the school. If I took the same route as many of you, I should conclude that C is a piece of linear crap which teaches you to write 100k main functions and doesn't support any of the advanced features of QB or other modern languages.
It's just a programming language, and from the first version on, it's not really much different from others. Sure, some people got a bit of a stigma from it by learning to code like it's 1974, but that's the fault of their teachers, not the language. Just because we provide the chainsaw, doesn't mean you have to chop off your own legs.
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Yeah, it's canada. You have to order in anything useful. My entire PC is made from ordered parts. It's just something you have to live with. If you have a good source, you can have overnight delivery anyway, so it doesn't usually bother me.
Keep in mind that the Opteron does beat a Xeron in some tasks -- especially in 64-bit mode. I'm waiting anxiously for the Athlon 64. I'm hoping it's performance is comperable, (and hopefully, that their clock rates are comperable to the P4, which would make the Athlon 64 so ultimately powerful I'd have to break out in evil laughter when I open the package. ;) )
Sorry, I don't. It's 73.0 cents per litre where I live(Yeah, a bit much, but we just finished a 2 year long gas war, so we deserve it. :P). How does that equate to .99?
AMD released the Opteron in March.
SuSe and Mandrake have, or will have 64 bit versions of their distribution.
So...
Genetics aren't the only thing that makes people stupid, buddy. You can easily be raised to worship stupidity and ignorance. I've seen the greatest minds of our generation succumb to it's wraith. Hell, I've seen an entire nation fall under it's spell because their president, or their senator, or their congressman told them to; time and time again.
And if you disagree with me, maybe I'm just another nerd who thinks too much?
HEY! NOBODY STEALS OUR CHICKS...AND LIVES!
(Don't knock duke nukem. It's just as much a parody of hollywood blockbusters as it is a seven year old example people keep on giving about how corrupt our little industry is(By the way, stop that.))
Geez, that was a bit harsh. -1, troll, eh? News to me. Sure, I used a bit of a non-standard format from the regular slashdot editorial (because I was getting bored of those), but all in all, I'd say I'm right in this matter, in spite of the way I said it, and neither side is innocent, but the completely ignorant way that AC said that deserved to be curb stomped. Blaming the whole of Europe for things like the holocaust is a bit like blaming canada for the war in Iraq.
Watch thy tongue, oh simpleminded troglodyte, lest the sins of your countrymen be recounted in all their glory. Your fathers are the masterminds of the atomic bomb, and the only ones who have brought the full might of this dread weapon of pure destruction against a heavily populated area. Your decietful leaders have regaled the world with your lies in recent months, and to this day the vestiges of that deciet remain.
Watch thy tongue, for you are only innocent in your own mind.
Jokes just like that just aren't funny. They're just boring. Like Windows. Microsoft people would probably like that joke, I like to call them MicroSofties. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Windows needs some TLC. That channel is boring. #boring on efnet is another boring channel, but I guess that wouldn't be for the same reasons. It sucks that so many IRC networks are down these days. I guess they just can't handle the load as much these days. That makes no sense though. There aren't really that many new people on IRC networks compared to ICQ or MSN ones...Microsoft should have made MSN messenger removable in Windows XP professional. I had to hack the registry to get it to stop coming up back when I was working as a full time computer tech, and that sucked. Kind of like this joke.
And that's why I think Ike Eisenhower should be president.
I wouldn't take the threats of an entity which has thrown around enough money to get so many people to believe legislation like THIS is nessessary so lightly. Don't you think that after all the effort to become legal vigilantees, they'll make good on their threats? Toss out some dough to get some good hackers backed by engineers and testers?
Ignore the drugs. Enhance your concentration with coffee and meditation. Find ways to turn ADHD into an advantage, a way your way of thinking and doing things can be augmented and supplimented to make you into a more efficient person. Learn to channel your extra energy towards your work.
If you can pull this off, as I have, you can manage to be more productive with less effort, and you won't have to bother yourself with taking the wonderkind ritalin(which I am certain has become something of a parental placebo these days).
That's a dangerous mindset, and the same kind of thinking that gets people like Hatch here to say things like this.
Now, the truth of the matter is, acting upon his thoughts would cause massive economic damage to the entire world. Tens of millions of machines could be affected, including corporate and educational machines, government and research machines. It would affect computers worldwide. Furthermore, we have no idea how much damage would be done. Perhaps the virus would merely wipe out the hard drive. Perhaps it would increase the FSB on the motherboard and the memory clock on common video cards to wipe out the video memory, motherboard, memory, and CPU in one shot, possibly also taking out the other peripheral cards in the process.
Overall, it looks very much like destroying the world to save a bunch of ungrateful, whiney, untalented pieces of garbage who have never created a thought of their own, let alone music.
Might I remind you what Hatch is proposing?
Some people just need to be bitchslapped for their outrageous ideas. The economic fallout of such a psychotic idea being implemented could make 9/11 or the war on Iraq look like a drop of water aside a waterfall in comparison.
To be frank, I know more than one sysadmin out there who would have a bullet with his name on it.
If this happened,a lot of corporate and educational machines would be destroyed, and in terms of damage to the WORLD economy would be immeasurable(but in RIAA dollars, it would probably be in the range of a quadrillion dollars). Considering the pitifully minor nature of the crime he's suggesting he wants fought, I'd ppull the trigger myself for such an act of economic terrorism as well as cyber terrorism.
I think someone should "liberate" his home state from his tyrannical reign.
So at what point will someone point out the obvious, that people like this deserve life in prison and a hefty fine? If some kid poking around sendmail exploits is liable for that, a criminal senator who wants to destroy millions of PCs should be liable for at least as much. By my calcuations, the costs of this to the American people could be far greater than the entire profit of the Music industry this year. Worldwide, it could rival the costs of the music industry this decade.
To be frank, this terrorist piece of shit should be put away for a long time, and any music industry cronies who decide to follow his words should be given the exact same sentence.
That would generally go hand in hand with the characteristics of the moon -- aparantly it was very hard to get the flag to stand up in the first place, because moon dust, while easy to displace laterally, is extremely difficult to displace vertically. Some of the stuff they learned is quite interesting. I hope someone establishes a base up there someday in my lifetime.
Keep in mind that the moon videos were too flawless to have been crafted by people. Things like the fact that none of that jumping around picked up any dust, because dust being thrown around is a product of an atmosphere(chaotic air patterns caused by the interaction between your foot, the ground, and the atmosphere). The sharply contrasting black and white shown in the photograph of the first footstep on the moon.
Furthermore, there were political and economic indicators that man went to the moon. Political being that the Americans are far too proud to fake something like that, especially if they were caught(whilst the Russians continued their race towards the moon? The US had to be there first. Period. It was the way they did things back then. These days, they'd issue a text press release and I'd bet most people would believe them, but I'm cynical after the Iraqi war), and economic being the huge amount of resources poured into the program. The massive amounts of paperwork and documentation, along with the massive facilities created(and that part is demonstratable without going to the mooon) for the project also factor in favour of a legitimate moon landing.
Attention to detail is what many conspiracy theorists lack, which is why they are relegated to the fringe. The truth is out there. They just don't really want to believe it.
Extremely unlikely. Considering the odds of all those being wrong are so slim, and the conditions and situations so narrow for the theories to work, the burden of proof falls soley on the shoulders of the conspiracy theorists to provide something other than idle speculation based on a mishmash of distorted facts.
To put things in perspective, I could be a hot swedish girl named Helga(perhaps not a swedish name, I couldn't tell you) being held against my will in The Matrix while scientists experiment on my lifeless body, but the odds aren't in that conclusions favour. There are the same number of "not nessessarily"s there as in the improbable alien arguement, and just as wild a story based loosely on a set of unprovable facts which conveniently hide one another.
Almost every real conspiracy theory has a paper trail and someone in the loop who was important and influential who talked. Take Microsoft "softmoney contributing" millions to both parties after years of political indifference in the same year they got their "slap on the wrist with a healing stick" punishment. Or the RIAAs plans to implant viruses into MP3 downloaders computers. Or Watergate. What we have here are two instances where anyone with the slightest knowlege of science, technology, physics, and statistsics could disprove the conspiracy theories with the tools at hand.
Aliens? Well, statistically speaking, considering the number of astronomers out there, if there were aliens out there, their ships would be detected by the thousands of astronomers, and likely photographed in high quality detail, and not a grainy photograph. Also, there is no paper trail whatsoever leading to the government -- ANY government, concerning aliens. There are quite a few of them, and rest assured, if aliens existed, they would have contacted more than just the state of New Mexico.
Moon Landing:The physics and little details completely support the idea that the footage was shot on the moon, from various aspects of airless physics(dust based moon in a vacuum + no dust being thrown up by footsteps = proof, because dust being thrown up like that is usually a result of the resultant turbulence caused by chaotic air movements as air tries to fill the newfound gap between the ground and your foot), to the way the light was shown (space physics in a vacuum describe the harsh looking shadows such as those seen in the moon footstep photograph, to the fact that for the greater part of a decade, a vast portion of the US GDP was allocated towards the goal of reaching the moon, to the relative technology level of the era. For the cost it would take to recreate such a mission in such detail, while keeping it a complete secret for ten years(add a couple decades to that if you include the illusion carried out to the present day), without some sort of paper trail or influential people on the inside leaking information to the media, as well as the cost in man-hours of recreating the moonscape, including the scientists whose time would be required to think up such a level of detail, would be enough to go to the moon anyway, which is a good indicator of which they did.
In an article indirectly about alien conspiracies, I think this might get a little confusing for the pious among us. :P
How many people do you see using the word 'aint' on slashdot? There is a certain level of formality required to sound intelligent, and for the most part, that is maintained on technology sites like this one. You'll also notice that few, if any of the people on this site use casual internet-style, such as "Wow! U R Soooooooo Kewl!!!!111" on slashdot. Thank god.
The protocol of a fairly formal writing style on this site also helps root out local slang, which would be inappropriate to use.
Therefore, 'irregardless' shall remain incorrect, or it will mean 'with regard', since it is a self-contained double negative.
Why not? Why the hell would the government cover up the existance of extra terrestrial life forms? Did the ancient world cover up the existance of japan?(OK, the japanese did, but I don't think there were any conspiracies to keep the knowlege of "aliens from outer China" from being known. Furthermore, do you think that, considering the track record our government has with keeping big secrets, there could remain absolutely no conclusive evidence that aliens exist? Especially considering that there would be undoubtedly be more than one country with such knowlege, and therefore, more than one government whose mouth would need to be kept shut? How about the thousands of astronomers probing the night sky? If there was such a high occurance of UFO activity out there, wouldn't many of the huge number of completely independant astronomers have captured very high resolution photographs of the supposed spacecraft?
That phrase used earlier -- I want to believe...It is the most dangerous phrase in the world. It is the same idea that creates suicide cults and religious terrorists. It is the idea that allows the placebo effect to work so effectively. It can implant false memories in a person or cripple him physically. I don't want to believe. I want to know. You should too. One way or another.
QBasic has every looping command that C has, IIRC. The only problem is that many people programming using it came from the older MS basics such as those for the commodore and other 8 bit systems, which used line numbers and GOTO extensively. Qbasic was functionally a lot more like C than older iterations of BASIC, and while it had line numbers and GOTO for backwards compatibility with GWBasic and BASICA, I doubt there's a single program for QB on the internet that uses them that way.
...or just don't use gotos and all that crap.
Personally, I've seen programs in QB that are thousands of lines long that never use an honest to god GOTO statement once. And you know that C has a goto statement as well?
I wish people would stop assuming that because some incompotent bugger decided to teach them QB in a way that no sane programmer would use it, that's the only way it can be used. You know what? I was taught to use C without functions, and on some piece of crap proprietary graphics/keyboard lib that was slower than QB and wasn't compatible with more than 5 systems not owned by the school. If I took the same route as many of you, I should conclude that C is a piece of linear crap which teaches you to write 100k main functions and doesn't support any of the advanced features of QB or other modern languages.
It's just a programming language, and from the first version on, it's not really much different from others. Sure, some people got a bit of a stigma from it by learning to code like it's 1974, but that's the fault of their teachers, not the language. Just because we provide the chainsaw, doesn't mean you have to chop off your own legs.
I PITY DA FOO' WHO CODES WITH LINE NUMBERS!!!
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