Then why call it Tron again, why not come up with a new name? Reboot? Recycle? It's re-something.
They didn't call it 'Tron' again. They called it 'Tron: Legacy' which clearly indicates, as does all the trailers, that it is a sequal. Comprehension fail on your part, or maybe just a horribly failed attempt at trolling.
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Hmmm I hit reply to the GP post yet it posted it as a reply to yours. I wasn't criticizing you, I was going after the GP:)
I hate the new/. interface. It's utter crap.
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If your computer is under such heavy load that a USB mouse/keyboard is being dropped, I think it's time to upgrade from that 286!
That is about the lamest and most artificial response to a question I've seen in a long time. As another poster put it, if your computer is under that much load you have far bigger problems than what type of interface you are using for your keyboard. There is absolutely no technical reason to prefer USB keyboards over PS2 unless you have a machine that lacks a PS2 port. Personally I don't care either way. I use what I have on the given machine. Some of my boxen have PS2 keyboards and mice, some have USB. It makes zero difference in the real world.
Being an autodidact is not something that can be taught for many people. The majority need to have some sort of guidance. A true autodidact can learn on their own without any special setting, web site, etc.
On the other side of the coin, some people can't learn successfully in a classroom type environment. A lot of it has to do with how one is wired and that can't be changed for the most part.
It's perfectly relevant to point out that more times than not they are just pulling that number out of their ass but of course you're free to disagree.
Ever notice that anytime some cool sounding new development is announced the people behind it say 'we see this having applications in/within/in about five years?
Call me when you actually have something to show us.
Ah, Slashdot, where the pedants come out and reply to someone's opinion as if it were a personal affront to them. 'So?' So I was just presenting the fact that not everybody stops enjoying gaming as they age.
Sure I don't play them as often as I did. I have a life and plenty of other things to occupy my time. As I said to the other person who replied to me I was just responding to the troll above with my opinion based on my personal experience in the matter. If your feelings on that are 'whoa, fascinating. So?' then why bother reading, let along replying.
The last time I checked this was a discussion site. Sorry if you missed the memo;)
I'm in my mid 40's as of about a week ago. I still play games, single and multiplayer, and I still own the kiddies who think they are hot stuff. Getting older doesn't mean you can't have fun.
Logic failure on your part. I wasn't claiming to have done a study. I was merely expressing an opinion based on my own life experiences.
I would also submit that you're just plain wrong anyways. Having first hand experiences with both species at different points in my life is certainly not a source of 'useless' observations.
One of our cats plays fetch with Q-tips and has learned to jump through this tube like thing we got for them to play in when I hold it up in the air. He taught himself these tricks, no training required. All three of them recognize quite a few words of English even when said in a monotone and with no body language involved.
Trainability also != intelligence.
Having grown up with both dogs and cats I'm pretty sure they are both fairly smart species, but I really do think cats are the smarter of the two. You can train a dog, but cats train their humans.
You do realize that Bush was probably the most notable proponent of spontaneous wealth generation that the country has ever known, right? The lock box was Gore's thing, and I don't recall the specifics, but it was kind of moot as he wasn't allowed to take office.
Bush OTOH ran this country into the ground by cutting taxes on the wealthiest on the basis that they would do more investing, even as he blew up the DoD budget to gigantic proportions and ran the debt up to somewhere around $10tn.
At least with Gore and the lockbox we don't really know precisely what he meant. And with good reason, the conservatives get away with that crap all the time, and the Democrats haven't been doing themselves any favors allowing the conservatives to do it. Not sure stooping to that level is wise, but the voters seem dumb enough to fall for it.
Congress cut taxes, not Bush, though it was his initiative. They also cut them for every tax bracket, not just the wealthy. The highest tax bracket still pays a higher percentage than the lower brackets under our 'progressive' tax system.
As for spending, yes he spent money like a drunken sailor on leave, but the increase in defense spending was a drop in the bucket compared to the increases in Medicare spending for his prescription drug plan.
I'm not fan of Bush, I just don't like revisionist history.
I realize its not about innovation; that was my point.
And nobody claimed it was, so I fail to see your point. It just is an evolution of the ARM architecture that could open up some more potential applications for said architecture.
Also, the idea of persistent programs has been thought before. Heck, I once came up with it myself when I was studying (>12 years ago), and talked about it with a professor (Janina Mincer). She immediately pointed a number of flaws: * you'll lose all your data the moment your program crashes. Trying to continue from a badly inconsistent state just ensures further corruption. COWing it from a snapshot is not a solution since you don't know if the original snapshot didn't already have some hidden corruption. * there is no way to make an upgrade -- even for a trivial bugfix * config files are human-editable in sane systems for a reason, having the setup only in internal variables would destroy that
Your professor wasn't very smart then. All of those problems are easily addressed, as other posters have pointed out.
You know what they say. Those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach.
You were modded funny but you should have been modded pedantic. If you really want to be pedantic you should have pointed out that in an atmosphere or other non-vacuum medium it is slower than theoretical C. Second, one foot is a very good approximation of the speed of light and perfectly suitable to use in a non-journal science article. Seriously, if you're going to nitpick like that you really need to get a life and move out of your mother's basement.
No, he is simply deciding that these particular principles are more important to him than a slightly better job prospect.
Oh I have no problem with that, I was just musing that it can bite you in the ass. In this economy if you're worried about your prospects it's probably best to keep one's options open. I can respect someone who stands on principle, but principle doesn't pay the mortgage. It's not like every time you code in C# God kills a kitten.
Yep, I still see lots of posting for people skilled in those languages. Also, if the submitter were serious about wanting to stay relevant and employable he wouldn't just automatically discount the.NET languages. There are more and more jobs available for skilled.NET coders. Tying one's career to ideology isn't always a smart thing to do.
Wrong. The only difference between a nerd and a geek is the former is socially awkward.
I agree with the poster who commented that this isn't 'news for nerds' though, but anyone who hasn't see the quality of/. stories decline rapidly over the last five years or so must be new here.
You, moron, need to read the national fairtax bill. It reduces the taxes on the poor to absolute 0. If you make below the poverty limit, you get a 100% refund of the taxes, with an increase for each dependent. If you did not work at all this year, you would get a refund of taxes up to the poverty limit, as if you had worked (the same refund, for doing nothing). So your argument is null. Under that tax system, the poor would pay absolutely nothing, and would even get paid, if they didn't work.
Now if you are rich on the other hand, the tax would apply to all kinds of luxury expenses. Buying a ferrari? Well then you are paying 23% of the purchase price in a tax. Buying a plane? The same.
By all means, keep supporting the progressive tax system. I will be more than happy to make millions I can keep shifting through tax loopholes because you are unwilling to close them. The reason a consumption tax is better, is because you can determine your tax overhead at the beginning of the year. No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
It's a shame that you started an otherwise cogent retort with 'You, moron', because that typically makes people tune the rest out. Try civil debate sometime; you may find that you get better results.
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I know you're being facetious but that isn't allowed under US FCC regulations. Cell jamming of any kind is forbidden.
Then why call it Tron again, why not come up with a new name? Reboot? Recycle? It's re-something.
They didn't call it 'Tron' again. They called it 'Tron: Legacy' which clearly indicates, as does all the trailers, that it is a sequal. Comprehension fail on your part, or maybe just a horribly failed attempt at trolling.
But does it run Linux?
Hmmm I hit reply to the GP post yet it posted it as a reply to yours. I wasn't criticizing you, I was going after the GP :)
I hate the new /. interface. It's utter crap.
If your computer is under such heavy load that a USB mouse/keyboard is being dropped, I think it's time to upgrade from that 286!
That is about the lamest and most artificial response to a question I've seen in a long time. As another poster put it, if your computer is under that much load you have far bigger problems than what type of interface you are using for your keyboard. There is absolutely no technical reason to prefer USB keyboards over PS2 unless you have a machine that lacks a PS2 port. Personally I don't care either way. I use what I have on the given machine. Some of my boxen have PS2 keyboards and mice, some have USB. It makes zero difference in the real world.
Being an autodidact is not something that can be taught for many people. The majority need to have some sort of guidance. A true autodidact can learn on their own without any special setting, web site, etc.
On the other side of the coin, some people can't learn successfully in a classroom type environment. A lot of it has to do with how one is wired and that can't be changed for the most part.
It's perfectly relevant to point out that more times than not they are just pulling that number out of their ass but of course you're free to disagree.
Ever notice that anytime some cool sounding new development is announced the people behind it say 'we see this having applications in/within/in about five years?
Call me when you actually have something to show us.
Ah, Slashdot, where the pedants come out and reply to someone's opinion as if it were a personal affront to them. 'So?' So I was just presenting the fact that not everybody stops enjoying gaming as they age.
Sure I don't play them as often as I did. I have a life and plenty of other things to occupy my time. As I said to the other person who replied to me I was just responding to the troll above with my opinion based on my personal experience in the matter. If your feelings on that are 'whoa, fascinating. So?' then why bother reading, let along replying.
The last time I checked this was a discussion site. Sorry if you missed the memo ;)
I never said gaming was the only way to have fun. We go out, we socialize, we engage in various hobbies. I was replying to the troll.
You should be modded troll for that one.
I'm in my mid 40's as of about a week ago. I still play games, single and multiplayer, and I still own the kiddies who think they are hot stuff. Getting older doesn't mean you can't have fun.
Logic failure on your part. I wasn't claiming to have done a study. I was merely expressing an opinion based on my own life experiences.
I would also submit that you're just plain wrong anyways. Having first hand experiences with both species at different points in my life is certainly not a source of 'useless' observations.
One of our cats plays fetch with Q-tips and has learned to jump through this tube like thing we got for them to play in when I hold it up in the air. He taught himself these tricks, no training required. All three of them recognize quite a few words of English even when said in a monotone and with no body language involved.
Trainability also != intelligence.
Having grown up with both dogs and cats I'm pretty sure they are both fairly smart species, but I really do think cats are the smarter of the two. You can train a dog, but cats train their humans.
Pics or it didn't happen. I mean, seriously, an article about a new imaging technique without even a low resolution sample?
Yes I actually read TFA.
You do realize that Bush was probably the most notable proponent of spontaneous wealth generation that the country has ever known, right? The lock box was Gore's thing, and I don't recall the specifics, but it was kind of moot as he wasn't allowed to take office.
Bush OTOH ran this country into the ground by cutting taxes on the wealthiest on the basis that they would do more investing, even as he blew up the DoD budget to gigantic proportions and ran the debt up to somewhere around $10tn.
At least with Gore and the lockbox we don't really know precisely what he meant. And with good reason, the conservatives get away with that crap all the time, and the Democrats haven't been doing themselves any favors allowing the conservatives to do it. Not sure stooping to that level is wise, but the voters seem dumb enough to fall for it.
Congress cut taxes, not Bush, though it was his initiative. They also cut them for every tax bracket, not just the wealthy. The highest tax bracket still pays a higher percentage than the lower brackets under our 'progressive' tax system.
As for spending, yes he spent money like a drunken sailor on leave, but the increase in defense spending was a drop in the bucket compared to the increases in Medicare spending for his prescription drug plan.
I'm not fan of Bush, I just don't like revisionist history.
Yep, because to most of the sheeple on /. anything Apple does is magically delicious.
Tablets as they exist currently are more or less useless for business purposes. They target a different market. Must be a slow news day.
I realize its not about innovation; that was my point.
And nobody claimed it was, so I fail to see your point. It just is an evolution of the ARM architecture that could open up some more potential applications for said architecture.
Also, the idea of persistent programs has been thought before. Heck, I once came up with it myself when I was studying (>12 years ago), and talked about it with a professor (Janina Mincer). She immediately pointed a number of flaws:
* you'll lose all your data the moment your program crashes. Trying to continue from a badly inconsistent state just ensures further corruption. COWing it from a snapshot is not a solution since you don't know if the original snapshot didn't already have some hidden corruption.
* there is no way to make an upgrade -- even for a trivial bugfix
* config files are human-editable in sane systems for a reason, having the setup only in internal variables would destroy that
Your professor wasn't very smart then. All of those problems are easily addressed, as other posters have pointed out.
You know what they say. Those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach.
This one is close:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGEgw-_Ym6s
You were modded funny but you should have been modded pedantic. If you really want to be pedantic you should have pointed out that in an atmosphere or other non-vacuum medium it is slower than theoretical C. Second, one foot is a very good approximation of the speed of light and perfectly suitable to use in a non-journal science article. Seriously, if you're going to nitpick like that you really need to get a life and move out of your mother's basement.
No, he is simply deciding that these particular principles are more important to him than a slightly better job prospect.
Oh I have no problem with that, I was just musing that it can bite you in the ass. In this economy if you're worried about your prospects it's probably best to keep one's options open. I can respect someone who stands on principle, but principle doesn't pay the mortgage. It's not like every time you code in C# God kills a kitten.
Or...does he! *eeeek!*
Yep, I still see lots of posting for people skilled in those languages. Also, if the submitter were serious about wanting to stay relevant and employable he wouldn't just automatically discount the .NET languages. There are more and more jobs available for skilled .NET coders. Tying one's career to ideology isn't always a smart thing to do.
Wrong. The only difference between a nerd and a geek is the former is socially awkward.
I agree with the poster who commented that this isn't 'news for nerds' though, but anyone who hasn't see the quality of /. stories decline rapidly over the last five years or so must be new here.
You, moron, need to read the national fairtax bill. It reduces the taxes on the poor to absolute 0. If you make below the poverty limit, you get a 100% refund of the taxes, with an increase for each dependent. If you did not work at all this year, you would get a refund of taxes up to the poverty limit, as if you had worked (the same refund, for doing nothing). So your argument is null. Under that tax system, the poor would pay absolutely nothing, and would even get paid, if they didn't work.
Now if you are rich on the other hand, the tax would apply to all kinds of luxury expenses. Buying a ferrari? Well then you are paying 23% of the purchase price in a tax. Buying a plane? The same.
By all means, keep supporting the progressive tax system. I will be more than happy to make millions I can keep shifting through tax loopholes because you are unwilling to close them. The reason a consumption tax is better, is because you can determine your tax overhead at the beginning of the year. No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
It's a shame that you started an otherwise cogent retort with 'You, moron', because that typically makes people tune the rest out. Try civil debate sometime; you may find that you get better results.