I agree - a lot of posts such as klerck's offerings give trolls a bad name. Not that I have anything against klerck et al, but I think it is wrong to label him a troll. He and his ilk are crapflooders and proud of it. I think that perhaps what is needed is a new moderation type for -1:Crapflood.
To be honest, trolls are the main reason I read slashdot, but as you say they are getting rather sparse.
Not to say that I don't appreciate the occasional crapflood also.
What would make you think RAM prices would come back up again? RAM prices have been falling continuously since the beginnings of Moore's Law decades ago
As a general trend, true. And also note that it wasn't me who suggested buying lots of ram this time, it was the parent post.
However, what made me suggest buying ram before the price rose (the first time around) was that in the not too distant past the price of ram had suddenly *doubled* and this lasted for several months before the price dropped to its previous low (and then continued dropping, of course) The cycle was acknowledged to be caused by a whole bunch of companies getting in on ram manufacturing, saturating the market (causing the low price) and then going bust because it is no longer a viable product, causing a demand, and thus pushing prices high. Repeat ad nauseum.
Although I agree that in the long term the price of ram will continue to drop, in the shortish term it is possible to wait too long to purchase an upgrade, and then the price shoots up when you actually need to buy it.
Always a dangerous option. I offered exactly the same advice to friends when the price of ram had dropped to an all time low. Traditionally, it rockets very shortly afterwards.
Unfortunately, it just *continued* falling to the price it is now. The trick is, as with the stock market, knowing just how low it'll go before it rockets.
I almost fell into the same trap after observing Nasdaq:TMTA stock - for a few weeks it kept alternating between $25 and $35 or so (I can't be bothered to check the charts) and I was so close to buying when it hit a low. Good job I didn't, as it continued to plummet to its present level.
It reminds me of something I tried many years ago, before digital photography was feasible:
While raytracing on my 386 25MHz(!) using POV and its (then) text interface, I tried doing exactly the same thing, and the results were fantastic - take your favorite scene, and re-render it with the camera moved to the right. I got some spectacular results - I don't have them still, but I somehow doubt they'd look so spectacular anymore.
On a side note, your pictures are great, just a shame my monitor is large enough to make viewing them properly virtually impossible (going cross-eyed is a poor substitute) Guess I'll have to hike up the res...
This is in fact the vulnerability I was talking about. I concede that the time between discovery and fix was greater than 2 days, however your claim that it was 3 months is contradicted by the/. article, which claims "Microsoft has known about it since November 19;"
Now it has been known for/. to once or twice get facts wrong, but...
Anyhow, I digress. What I meant was that the article is amusing when read with the knowlege that 2 days after the article was published, the hole was fixed.
As long as there is also a colder region (e.g. the case) it is theoretically possible; bimetallic rods connecting the two sources can induce a current for example.
Unfortunately, the current generated would be very small (no, I have no figures/equations to back this up) It may seem as though the heat difference would be large, as we've all seen the THG video, however bear in mind the purpose would be to keep the chip at ~30C. So that's only a ~10C difference in temperature - not really going to be enough energy there to power a fan, and the efficiency of the process would be so low that it's hardly a super-efficient heat-sink either.
...than to link to a story about an html rendering vulnerability that has been fixed?
Actually, that link does serve some purpose - the entire tone of the article is very amusing given that the vulnerability was fixed 2 days later, and is worth re-reading with that in mind to see the sort of crap and guesswork people will write.
I have received several complements What, people invert you after reading your CV?
take their resume as serious. Nuff said.
not some job off of www.monster.com Pet hate of mine.
professionally laid out resume, on high quality paper.....My resume is ALWAYS handed to the employer in a nice folder..... When we take on people, we accept paper or electronic CVs. Doesn't matter to us as long as the person is qualified (although CVs over 2-3 pages are likely to get thrown. It's your job to highlight your achievements, not write an autobiography and let us sift through it.)
Sure, make your CV presentable, as messy hard to read ones make the reader's life more difficult and get thrown. Equally, don't send in a coffee stained paper copy (or virus infected email copy;-) as they make you look unprofessional.
But when it comes down to it, it should be 95% experience/qualifications that get you an interview, and *then* we decide who's got the edge.
<flame>
But that is for people applying for skilled, techical jobs. Judging by what you wrote, you seem to be going for very low grade jobs. I for one would not be happy to take on somebody with such a low command over the English language.
There certainly are *some* types of job out there when a nicely printed CV in a colored folder with a picture on the front may be an advantage, but it sure ain't in my industry.
</flame>
Oh, I'd better make an exception for applications to the typesetting industry...
I understand exactly what a Turing machine is. I also understand exactly why a modern computer is more limited than a Turing machine.
I have written code to run on Turing machines. I am more than capable of writing a Turing machine emulator.
But enough of my ranting. You missed my point - I said that computers were not based on Turing machines, and I stick to that. Although they have equivalent (give or take) power to a Turing machine, that doesn't make them based on Turing machines.
I seem to remember a bit of a fad a year or so ago, whereby overclockers would buy motherboards made to take 2 Celerons. Crank up the clock, stick in a couple of Celerons, and you have your own SMP budget system.
Never did see any reviews comparing real-world performance between these machines and an equivalently priced P3 machine though.
It's all marketing, though. Everyone knows that although AMD deny it, the XP nomenclature is a direct cash-in on Windows. And you're right, all processor manufacturers know that MHz are not a good way to compare chips with different architectures, but despite being told this over and over, Joe Public seems to be swayed by the big numbers. That is why Intel put so much effort into making high MHz over all else, and AMD are (effectively) lying about their MHz.
This is also why IIRC AMD will not approve any bios that lists the true speed of an AMD XP chip.
Not really - Turing proved a good few things that set modern computation in sound mathematical roots, but you can't really say that modern computers are based on a Turing machine - it's more like a push-down automaton but with addressable memory (to give a very inaccurate, loose, drunken description)
Oh, and surely you could have thought of a better nick? I mean DeMorgan's law is all very well, and enables conversation between AND and OR gates and all, but you should have chosen a more fun law like De Moivre's theorem, the consequential (and especially cool) Euler's equation (you know which Euler's equation I mean) or hell, even good old Bayes' theorem.
I'm European, and don't find it offensive. I make similar jokes about the Americans all the time on/. Yes, I would make the same jokes about women/blacks/Muslims/gays. I would and do make similar jokes about my race/country/culture.
Why is this not offensive? Because not only is it lighthearted and obviously(hah!) a joke, but it is self deprecating. He is not poking fun at the French, but at his own people.
IMHO, if I'm willing to make jokes about my own culture, but think jokes about other cultures are wrong, then I am being racist/sexist/xenophobic/homophobic, albeit in an unusual way. Unfortunately, you were implying that all of the above were wrong, so although I disagree with you, you were being consistent (damn;-)
In short, I don't think any group should be treated with kid gloves, and the original post was far from offensive. I in no way approve of directed, vicious racist(sexist, blah...blah) humour, though.
I realise they don't come out of the jargon file. The point is that the jargon file has made a lot of people use the expression for no reason other than that they saw it in the jargon file.
Also, your blinkenlightenflooden was unlikely to irritate me, it was the other poster who hated that word - I'm more annoyed by 'FUD'.
Finally, if you are going to reply to this (e.g. to write the word 'FUD' a lot) then for God's sake, log in! If it's important enough to reply to, then it's worth burning karma on. Karma really isn't that big a deal.
Unless you were posting as AC so as not to clog up the thread with a +1 post, of course.
Ah, go on then. I'll stick up for you. He's right, it's not redundant (maybe offtopic...)
I am a big fan of (most of) the jargon file, but people seem to wave it around as validation of anything they say. I can't help but feel that if it weren't for the jargon file, we wouldn't have as many tossers writing, for example, FUD in every post:
A: I like pine because it's smaller than Mutt B: Stop spreading FUD
Not very appropriate, but hey! It's in the jargon file.
The jargon file is very interesting, informative and amusing on the whole, but that doesn't mean that to be a true hacker you have to religiously use each entry (in fact, IIRC, I believe the editor suggests that such use is a way of discovering a newbie) And blinkenlights is simply a lame ass joke, the sort of thing I get sent by email all of the time, and delete after a brief glance.
There we go, nomadic, I'll take some of the heat for you. I've never cared too much for karma.
I think that people are always going to inherently see karma as a reward, just because of the nature of how it is handed out (good comments == +ve karma, lots of karma == post at 2)
It also doesn't help that the posting section in the faq takes the stanve of karma being a reward - why else all of the 'post early, post often' etc. If you don't care about karma, why would you be so concerned about posting early, and if you only posted because you had a good point to make, why would you post more often?
Same comments as previous poster about moderation of this comment - except I'm happy for it to slip to 0.
PS. I should make clear that I agree with you - karma shouldn't be viewed as a reward. I was just giving some reasons why people see to think it is.
My solution was to stick in a £10 AGP card - I had one lying around, but it'd hardly break the bank to buy a new one, and you'd probably get better performance anyway (I'm using mine as an Internet gateway, so I'm not too concerned about graphics performance anyhow)
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who had this problem - it seems so obvious now doesn't it? Wouldn't it have been nicer if it had been mentioned in any of the installation guides?
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I agree - a lot of posts such as klerck's offerings give trolls a bad name. Not that I have anything against klerck et al, but I think it is wrong to label him a troll. He and his ilk are crapflooders and proud of it. I think that perhaps what is needed is a new moderation type for -1:Crapflood.
To be honest, trolls are the main reason I read slashdot, but as you say they are getting rather sparse.
Not to say that I don't appreciate the occasional crapflood also.
However, what made me suggest buying ram before the price rose (the first time around) was that in the not too distant past the price of ram had suddenly *doubled* and this lasted for several months before the price dropped to its previous low (and then continued dropping, of course) The cycle was acknowledged to be caused by a whole bunch of companies getting in on ram manufacturing, saturating the market (causing the low price) and then going bust because it is no longer a viable product, causing a demand, and thus pushing prices high. Repeat ad nauseum.
Although I agree that in the long term the price of ram will continue to drop, in the shortish term it is possible to wait too long to purchase an upgrade, and then the price shoots up when you actually need to buy it.
Always a dangerous option. I offered exactly the same advice to friends when the price of ram had dropped to an all time low. Traditionally, it rockets very shortly afterwards.
Unfortunately, it just *continued* falling to the price it is now. The trick is, as with the stock market, knowing just how low it'll go before it rockets.
I almost fell into the same trap after observing Nasdaq:TMTA stock - for a few weeks it kept alternating between $25 and $35 or so (I can't be bothered to check the charts) and I was so close to buying when it hit a low. Good job I didn't, as it continued to plummet to its present level.
Ooh! Put me down for a:
I hilariously misspelt Windoze, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
£9.99 to the usual address?
It reminds me of something I tried many years ago, before digital photography was feasible:
While raytracing on my 386 25MHz(!) using POV and its (then) text interface, I tried doing exactly the same thing, and the results were fantastic - take your favorite scene, and re-render it with the camera moved to the right. I got some spectacular results - I don't have them still, but I somehow doubt they'd look so spectacular anymore.
On a side note, your pictures are great, just a shame my monitor is large enough to make viewing them properly virtually impossible (going cross-eyed is a poor substitute) Guess I'll have to hike up the res...
...It appears that Intel is no longer releasing Open Source 3D imaging software
At least, not on the front page.
JonKatz wouldn't be interested - he's seen it all before.
His friend Junis in Afghanistan has had this system running for years on his C64.
Now it has been known for
Anyhow, I digress. What I meant was that the article is amusing when read with the knowlege that 2 days after the article was published, the hole was fixed.
Moderators!
Come on:
+1 Public Humiliation
That is one of the options, right?
As long as there is also a colder region (e.g. the case) it is theoretically possible; bimetallic rods connecting the two sources can induce a current for example.
Unfortunately, the current generated would be very small (no, I have no figures/equations to back this up) It may seem as though the heat difference would be large, as we've all seen the THG video, however bear in mind the purpose would be to keep the chip at ~30C. So that's only a ~10C difference in temperature - not really going to be enough energy there to power a fan, and the efficiency of the process would be so low that it's hardly a super-efficient heat-sink either.
the < symbol can be written as <
Use your favorite html book to find some more goodies.
Actually, that link does serve some purpose - the entire tone of the article is very amusing given that the vulnerability was fixed 2 days later, and is worth re-reading with that in mind to see the sort of crap and guesswork people will write.
I have received several complements
;-) as they make you look unprofessional.
What, people invert you after reading your CV?
take their resume as serious.
Nuff said.
not some job off of www.monster.com
Pet hate of mine.
professionally laid out resume, on high quality paper.....My resume is ALWAYS handed to the employer in a nice folder.....
When we take on people, we accept paper or electronic CVs. Doesn't matter to us as long as the person is qualified (although CVs over 2-3 pages are likely to get thrown. It's your job to highlight your achievements, not write an autobiography and let us sift through it.)
Sure, make your CV presentable, as messy hard to read ones make the reader's life more difficult and get thrown. Equally, don't send in a coffee stained paper copy (or virus infected email copy
But when it comes down to it, it should be 95% experience/qualifications that get you an interview, and *then* we decide who's got the edge.
<flame>
But that is for people applying for skilled, techical jobs. Judging by what you wrote, you seem to be going for very low grade jobs. I for one would not be happy to take on somebody with such a low command over the English language.
There certainly are *some* types of job out there when a nicely printed CV in a colored folder with a picture on the front may be an advantage, but it sure ain't in my industry.
</flame>
Oh, I'd better make an exception for applications to the typesetting industry...
Have you seen how many bites egg troll gets?
I understand exactly what a Turing machine is. I also understand exactly why a modern computer is more limited than a Turing machine.
I have written code to run on Turing machines. I am more than capable of writing a Turing machine emulator.
But enough of my ranting. You missed my point - I said that computers were not based on Turing machines, and I stick to that. Although they have equivalent (give or take) power to a Turing machine, that doesn't make them based on Turing machines.
PS. Fucking prick.
I seem to remember a bit of a fad a year or so ago, whereby overclockers would buy motherboards made to take 2 Celerons. Crank up the clock, stick in a couple of Celerons, and you have your own SMP budget system.
Never did see any reviews comparing real-world performance between these machines and an equivalently priced P3 machine though.
It's all marketing, though. Everyone knows that although AMD deny it, the XP nomenclature is a direct cash-in on Windows. And you're right, all processor manufacturers know that MHz are not a good way to compare chips with different architectures, but despite being told this over and over, Joe Public seems to be swayed by the big numbers. That is why Intel put so much effort into making high MHz over all else, and AMD are (effectively) lying about their MHz.
This is also why IIRC AMD will not approve any bios that lists the true speed of an AMD XP chip.
Not really - Turing proved a good few things that set modern computation in sound mathematical roots, but you can't really say that modern computers are based on a Turing machine - it's more like a push-down automaton but with addressable memory (to give a very inaccurate, loose, drunken description)
Oh, and surely you could have thought of a better nick? I mean DeMorgan's law is all very well, and enables conversation between AND and OR gates and all, but you should have chosen a more fun law like De Moivre's theorem, the consequential (and especially cool) Euler's equation (you know which Euler's equation I mean) or hell, even good old Bayes' theorem.
I'm European, and don't find it offensive. I make similar jokes about the Americans all the time on /. Yes, I would make the same jokes about women/blacks/Muslims/gays. I would and do make similar jokes about my race/country/culture.
;-)
Why is this not offensive? Because not only is it lighthearted and obviously(hah!) a joke, but it is self deprecating. He is not poking fun at the French, but at his own people.
IMHO, if I'm willing to make jokes about my own culture, but think jokes about other cultures are wrong, then I am being racist/sexist/xenophobic/homophobic, albeit in an unusual way. Unfortunately, you were implying that all of the above were wrong, so although I disagree with you, you were being consistent (damn
In short, I don't think any group should be treated with kid gloves, and the original post was far from offensive. I in no way approve of directed, vicious racist(sexist, blah...blah) humour, though.
I realise they don't come out of the jargon file. The point is that the jargon file has made a lot of people use the expression for no reason other than that they saw it in the jargon file.
Also, your blinkenlightenflooden was unlikely to irritate me, it was the other poster who hated that word - I'm more annoyed by 'FUD'.
Finally, if you are going to reply to this (e.g. to write the word 'FUD' a lot) then for God's sake, log in! If it's important enough to reply to, then it's worth burning karma on. Karma really isn't that big a deal.
Unless you were posting as AC so as not to clog up the thread with a +1 post, of course.
Apology accepted.
I can't claim I've never done such things and regretted it as soon as I've reread the article...
Ah, go on then. I'll stick up for you. He's right, it's not redundant (maybe offtopic...)
I am a big fan of (most of) the jargon file, but people seem to wave it around as validation of anything they say. I can't help but feel that if it weren't for the jargon file, we wouldn't have as many tossers writing, for example, FUD in every post:
A: I like pine because it's smaller than Mutt
B: Stop spreading FUD
Not very appropriate, but hey! It's in the jargon file.
The jargon file is very interesting, informative and amusing on the whole, but that doesn't mean that to be a true hacker you have to religiously use each entry (in fact, IIRC, I believe the editor suggests that such use is a way of discovering a newbie) And blinkenlights is simply a lame ass joke, the sort of thing I get sent by email all of the time, and delete after a brief glance.
There we go, nomadic, I'll take some of the heat for you. I've never cared too much for karma.
Yeah, mod this up. It's not like its in the post or anything.
I think that people are always going to inherently see karma as a reward, just because of the nature of how it is handed out (good comments == +ve karma, lots of karma == post at 2)
It also doesn't help that the posting section in the faq takes the stanve of karma being a reward - why else all of the 'post early, post often' etc. If you don't care about karma, why would you be so concerned about posting early, and if you only posted because you had a good point to make, why would you post more often?
Same comments as previous poster about moderation of this comment - except I'm happy for it to slip to 0.
PS. I should make clear that I agree with you - karma shouldn't be viewed as a reward. I was just giving some reasons why people see to think it is.
My solution was to stick in a £10 AGP card - I had one lying around, but it'd hardly break the bank to buy a new one, and you'd probably get better performance anyway (I'm using mine as an Internet gateway, so I'm not too concerned about graphics performance anyhow)
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who had this problem - it seems so obvious now doesn't it? Wouldn't it have been nicer if it had been mentioned in any of the installation guides?