1: Resort to idiotic 3DFX-like measures to get high performance
Note: A 77% increase in gaming performance isn't "high performance". Considering that the 6800 is ALREADY a massive leap forward over it's predecessor, it's INSANE PERFORMANCE!
How would something like 1600x1200 with maxed FSAA and maxed AF, while never dropping below 60fps, grab you by the short and curlies?
2: Watch company slowly die.
Nobody's suggesting that everyone and their brother run out and get SLI'd GeForces on a Xeon platform. (Those already spending 4-5000 dollars on such a platform aren't necessarily going to shrink from an additional $4-500, especially if it nearly doubles video performance.)
This is going to probably be limited to those who'd normally use Quadro cards (productivity) and the elite few with more money than sense.
"You've got it wrong. It is an advantage, and it has no downside in a society where you can get regular access to a lot of food."
Again, yes it IS.
Okay, re-read the article.
The kid pretty much has NO constraint on how much he can build his muscles.
To paraphrase what the previous poster said:
The skeletal and ligature structure has to be able to support the muscle mass and strength.
Imagine being able to break arms and ribs simply by flexing. Imagine being able to pop tendons and ligaments at will, simply by exerting oneself.
Also, the circulatory and respiratory system have to be able to supply enough blood and oxygen to the musculature as well. Granted that the child comes from a family of very physically capable people, so there's not such a likelyhood of this happening, but imagine it in someone else without these hereditary benefits.
The again, the heart itself is a muscle. If there's nothing to contstrain it's growth (pretty much the only muscle in the body that works out all the time), he could have severe cardiac problems as a teen or adult.
Sure, he might not get picked on in grade school (since he'd whup the kid's butt and then go rip the doors off their parent's cars). But is that really a good tradeoff for possibly dying young?
"It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue"
I remember reading, somewhere, that if McDonalds wasn't THE largest installed base of SCO Unix out there, it's one of the largest.
McBride and company have already shown stupidity of cataclysmic proportions. However, I don't think they're quite dumb enough to alienate one of the largest segments of their customers over something that could be construed as a "test migration".
McDonalds dropping their contract as a punitive measure to a lawsuit would probably be more than enough to tank SCO on the spot.
Besides, it's advertisment. What kind of a fucking numbskull suddenly expects advertisment to actually contain anything resembling the truth?
Well, considering advertising is highly effective I would say that there are a lot of "fucking numbskulls" out there. That's the problem, advertising works. Why else would companies spend millions a year on advertising if they were just throwing their money away?
Note: I didn't say "responds to/affected by advertising". There are myriad responses. I said "Expects advertising to contain anything resembling the truth".
Advertising can be attention-grabbing. It can make an impact. But anyone who actually takes the advertisment at face value should be doing their utmost to win a Darwin Award. For the sake of all humanity....or should, at least, be sterilized before they breed.
Given the state of loathing for the ad-driven market today, how truly serious is this?
Do, or do not most people simply, mentally, tune ads out of their perceptions?
Besides, it's advertisment. What kind of a fucking numbskull suddenly expects advertisment to actually contain anything resembling the truth? That goes counter to the entire history of advertisment AS A WHOLE!
Hell, watch a bunch of guys doing a speed-metal rendition of FOTB and wonder why the hell you're not being pelted by thinly sliced chunks of finger afted their shred their picks in the first 10 seconds....
The B-man is so damn desperate to actually look like he's accomplishing something in office.
He's trying to:
Raid the coffers of private institutions and governing bodies. When they deny him access to funds that he has NO right to touch, he tries to undermine them and replace them with structures that WILL allow him to steal those funds. Trying to put a tax on everything in sight (the fucker's probably going to try to institue a BREATHING tax next).
He seems hell-bent on making Illinois completely and utterly unfriendly to any sort of business imaginable.
Then he'll cry about how his opponents are predecessors have driven those businesses out.
Rod Blagojevich....Front-Running Candidate for Retroactive Abortion.
Part of the beauty of the GPL is that the software in question can be used for ANY PURPOSE, by ANYONE.
Whining because:
He doesn't like the current government foreign policy and therefore
Doesn't like the current government
These are NOT reasons to remove their ability to use Linux. Just like it's not the government's right to deny HIM use of Linux just because he doesn't agree with them.
I can't stand people who are moralists only as long as it benefits THEM and doesn't infringe on THEIR beliefs.
If he wants to make a spectacle of himself and give up a position that could allow him to effect changes on a SOCIAL level (rather than a physical, judicial, or commercial level as he seems to believe would be appropriate), FINE!
Straight out of the pages of Leo Frankowski's "Copernick's Rebellion" (about a worldwide movement from an industrial society to one backed by bio-engineering (tree houses that grow how you want them and produce all the food you need, bio-engineered critters to save labor for us, and indeed, plants designed to filter/trap certain elements (Gold, Silver, Platinum, Mercury, etc).
My mom has done medical transcription on WP5.1 for the better part of two decades now.
She's taken courses on Word and all that. However she's still far, FAR more productive on the copy of WP5.1 for DOS that I bought way the hell back when, and she actually started on WP back in the 3.* days.....
And even now, not having actually used it in several years, I can STILL twitch out most of the shortcuts.
One of the little nasties I found out using Mozilla.
Javascript with timers. The way things are right now, using even one, unless it's VERY tightly coded, will drive CPU utilization up to 100% and just keep it there.... Even when tightly coded, it still eats a massive amount of CPU time.
With Opera, and other non-IE browsers, there's a small hit on system resources, but nothing CLOSE to what Mozilla/Firebird(/fox) have.
With IE, there's barely a bump in CPU utilization.
Sweet Christ! Just when I think that stupid people can't get any worse...yet again, I'm proven wrong.
Okay. It's already considered a Bad Thing <TM> for people to be driving around, yakking on cell phones.
NOW they want people distracted by driving around with a brethalyzer tube in their mouths? Or reaching all over the car to get it? Hello? Accidents R' Us?
Come ON people!
And, on that note, look at it from a hygienic aspect!
If most people had any inkling about the nasty stuff that's crawling around on their steering wheels alone, they'd never want to touch it again, let alone eat drive-thru in the car!
This is to say nothing of the other things in the car. Seriously people, take a moment and THINK about the stuff you've dropped, spilled, spewed, sneezed, etc into your car!
But you're going to put some sort of device that someone has to put IN THEIR MOUTH, in an environment this nasty? Not to mention the stuff that'd eventually build up (possibly screwing up the accuracy of the brethalyzer). Why do you think that they use a new mouthpiece for each and every brethalyzer test!
This would also KILL the rental agencies. Do you REALLY want to forced to use a device in the car that someone ELSE has already had in their mouth?
And people with respiratory ailments. Two words.
LUNG BUTTER (If you don't understand, think about your last really nasty chest cold.)
Okay, two more (less disgusting) words.
Asthma
Bronchitis
All these morons see is a single, highly subjective end. They don't, as usual, deign to see all the problems with the means used to acquire those ends.
Sometimes I wish that rampant stupidity had a death penalty.....
But then again, 99.9999~% of us probably wouldn't make it past puberty then.
Most of these governments can't keep THEIR OWN shit straight ON STUFF THEY CURRENTLY HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
But they're going to run the Internet better than ICANN?
(Sorry about the bad pun there, not intentional....)
As for letting a consortium of governments run it? Hello? Has anybody seen that toothless old nag known as the UN? These governments' inability to act in a coherent, rational, beneficial fashion INTERNALLY is only exceeded by their inability to agree on a coherent, rational, beneficial policy in a cooperative fashion!
Sure. ICANN sucks at what it's doing right now. But compared to this alternative, it sucks MUCH LESS.
As it is right now, as a pseudo-private operation whose only stake is to make the thing work, we have plenty of freedoms.
Turn it over to the government(s), and all of the sudden I'm getting harrassed and attacked because somebody in Outer Buttfuckistan disagrees with me or with my views. Or just happens to take a not-liking to me or my activities. Even if what I'm doing IN NO WAY infringes upon his rights and privileges.
Slashdot Mirror
Look close and you'll see a lot of Lower Wacker Drive and parts of Waukegan.
Hiring Han and Habib to go clicky-clicky is "advanced"?
O-kaaaay!
Dude! Licking herpes? EWW!
1: Resort to idiotic 3DFX-like measures to get high performance
Note: A 77% increase in gaming performance isn't "high performance". Considering that the 6800 is ALREADY a massive leap forward over it's predecessor, it's INSANE PERFORMANCE!
How would something like 1600x1200 with maxed FSAA and maxed AF, while never dropping below 60fps, grab you by the short and curlies?
2: Watch company slowly die.
Nobody's suggesting that everyone and their brother run out and get SLI'd GeForces on a Xeon platform. (Those already spending 4-5000 dollars on such a platform aren't necessarily going to shrink from an additional $4-500, especially if it nearly doubles video performance.)
This is going to probably be limited to those who'd normally use Quadro cards (productivity) and the elite few with more money than sense.
Not that everyone won't WANT one...
"You've got it wrong. It is an advantage, and it has no downside in a society where you can get regular access to a lot of food."
Again, yes it IS.
Okay, re-read the article.
The kid pretty much has NO constraint on how much he can build his muscles.
To paraphrase what the previous poster said:
The skeletal and ligature structure has to be able to support the muscle mass and strength.
Imagine being able to break arms and ribs simply by flexing. Imagine being able to pop tendons and ligaments at will, simply by exerting oneself.
Also, the circulatory and respiratory system have to be able to supply enough blood and oxygen to the musculature as well. Granted that the child comes from a family of very physically capable people, so there's not such a likelyhood of this happening, but imagine it in someone else without these hereditary benefits.
The again, the heart itself is a muscle. If there's nothing to contstrain it's growth (pretty much the only muscle in the body that works out all the time), he could have severe cardiac problems as a teen or adult.
Sure, he might not get picked on in grade school (since he'd whup the kid's butt and then go rip the doors off their parent's cars). But is that really a good tradeoff for possibly dying young?
No? No fries?
del fries
"It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue"
I remember reading, somewhere, that if McDonalds wasn't THE largest installed base of SCO Unix out there, it's one of the largest.
McBride and company have already shown stupidity of cataclysmic proportions. However, I don't think they're quite dumb enough to alienate one of the largest segments of their customers over something that could be construed as a "test migration".
McDonalds dropping their contract as a punitive measure to a lawsuit would probably be more than enough to tank SCO on the spot.
Are they blocking those too?
If not, that's legality discrimination! CONTACT THE ACLU!
Except...they're in Great Britain......
DOH!
Well, considering advertising is highly effective I would say that there are a lot of "fucking numbskulls" out there. That's the problem, advertising works. Why else would companies spend millions a year on advertising if they were just throwing their money away?
Note: I didn't say "responds to/affected by advertising". There are myriad responses. I said "Expects advertising to contain anything resembling the truth". Advertising can be attention-grabbing. It can make an impact. But anyone who actually takes the advertisment at face value should be doing their utmost to win a Darwin Award. For the sake of all humanity....or should, at least, be sterilized before they breed.
Given the state of loathing for the ad-driven market today, how truly serious is this?
Do, or do not most people simply, mentally, tune ads out of their perceptions?
Besides, it's advertisment. What kind of a fucking numbskull suddenly expects advertisment to actually contain anything resembling the truth? That goes counter to the entire history of advertisment AS A WHOLE!
Hell, watch a bunch of guys doing a speed-metal rendition of FOTB and wonder why the hell you're not being pelted by thinly sliced chunks of finger afted their shred their picks in the first 10 seconds....
That's Manowar's rendition.
The B-man is so damn desperate to actually look like he's accomplishing something in office.
He's trying to:
Raid the coffers of private institutions and governing bodies.
When they deny him access to funds that he has NO right to touch, he tries to undermine them and replace them with structures that WILL allow him to steal those funds.
Trying to put a tax on everything in sight (the fucker's probably going to try to institue a BREATHING tax next).
He seems hell-bent on making Illinois completely and utterly unfriendly to any sort of business imaginable.
Then he'll cry about how his opponents are predecessors have driven those businesses out.
Rod Blagojevich....Front-Running Candidate for Retroactive Abortion.
How DARE they choose a free alternative!
How DARE they refuse to allow themselves to be held hostage by RAMBUS' platform!
Sorry, but that's what this guy is.
Part of the beauty of the GPL is that the software in question can be used for ANY PURPOSE, by ANYONE.
Whining because:
These are NOT reasons to remove their ability to use Linux. Just like it's not the government's right to deny HIM use of Linux just because he doesn't agree with them.
I can't stand people who are moralists only as long as it benefits THEM and doesn't infringe on THEIR beliefs.
If he wants to make a spectacle of himself and give up a position that could allow him to effect changes on a SOCIAL level (rather than a physical, judicial, or commercial level as he seems to believe would be appropriate), FINE!
Personally, I have no use for such hypocrites.
Here's a Spamazon link to the book.
Hurry up! Somebody dig up Gordie and have him spew off something memorable for a demanding posterity!
C'mon! Hop to it!
This is almost as stupid as asking for a "a new "All Your Base" meme virus".
The bobbies with the bigsticks
Bashed the spammer like a hammer
Whilst the geek with a grin
Laughed his ass off as they did
Sorry, just woke up so this is a bit rough.
My mom has done medical transcription on WP5.1 for the better part of two decades now.
She's taken courses on Word and all that. However she's still far, FAR more productive on the copy of WP5.1 for DOS that I bought way the hell back when, and she actually started on WP back in the 3.* days.....
And even now, not having actually used it in several years, I can STILL twitch out most of the shortcuts.
Man! And here I thought that Taco Bell was being weird with a talking, undersized, somewhat twitchy rat!
One of the little nasties I found out using Mozilla.
Javascript with timers. The way things are right now, using even one, unless it's VERY tightly coded, will drive CPU utilization up to 100% and just keep it there.... Even when tightly coded, it still eats a massive amount of CPU time.
With Opera, and other non-IE browsers, there's a small hit on system resources, but nothing CLOSE to what Mozilla/Firebird(/fox) have.
With IE, there's barely a bump in CPU utilization.
This technology was demonstrated nearly two decades ago.
One of the instances I've seen was a "Home of the Future" known as "Xanadu" up in the Wisconsin Dells (the structure is now gone).
Sweet Christ! Just when I think that stupid people can't get any worse...yet again, I'm proven wrong.
Okay. It's already considered a Bad Thing <TM> for people to be driving around, yakking on cell phones.
NOW they want people distracted by driving around with a brethalyzer tube in their mouths? Or reaching all over the car to get it? Hello? Accidents R' Us?
Come ON people!
And, on that note, look at it from a hygienic aspect!
If most people had any inkling about the nasty stuff that's crawling around on their steering wheels alone, they'd never want to touch it again, let alone eat drive-thru in the car!
This is to say nothing of the other things in the car. Seriously people, take a moment and THINK about the stuff you've dropped, spilled, spewed, sneezed, etc into your car!
But you're going to put some sort of device that someone has to put IN THEIR MOUTH, in an environment this nasty? Not to mention the stuff that'd eventually build up (possibly screwing up the accuracy of the brethalyzer). Why do you think that they use a new mouthpiece for each and every brethalyzer test!
This would also KILL the rental agencies. Do you REALLY want to forced to use a device in the car that someone ELSE has already had in their mouth?
And people with respiratory ailments. Two words.
LUNG BUTTER (If you don't understand, think about your last really nasty chest cold.)
Okay, two more (less disgusting) words.
Asthma
Bronchitis
All these morons see is a single, highly subjective end. They don't, as usual, deign to see all the problems with the means used to acquire those ends.
Sometimes I wish that rampant stupidity had a death penalty.....
But then again, 99.9999~% of us probably wouldn't make it past puberty then.
Most of these governments can't keep THEIR OWN shit straight ON STUFF THEY CURRENTLY HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
But they're going to run the Internet better than ICANN?
(Sorry about the bad pun there, not intentional....)
As for letting a consortium of governments run it? Hello? Has anybody seen that toothless old nag known as the UN? These governments' inability to act in a coherent, rational, beneficial fashion INTERNALLY is only exceeded by their inability to agree on a coherent, rational, beneficial policy in a cooperative fashion!
Sure. ICANN sucks at what it's doing right now. But compared to this alternative, it sucks MUCH LESS.
As it is right now, as a pseudo-private operation whose only stake is to make the thing work, we have plenty of freedoms.
Turn it over to the government(s), and all of the sudden I'm getting harrassed and attacked because somebody in Outer Buttfuckistan disagrees with me or with my views. Or just happens to take a not-liking to me or my activities. Even if what I'm doing IN NO WAY infringes upon his rights and privileges.
In short, no, HELL NO, and FUCKING HELL NO!
Damnit, Texas Instruments better get their ass together and release a Ti-86 compatible USB cable.
Doesn't the current USB transfer cable work for you?
If you're sick of seeing it, turn off your computer and chuck it out a window.
Do us all a favor.