That is the gist of what he is saying. The ISPs should be self regulating essentially. This is the beginning of a very slippery slope. What if Comcast decides to ban all torrent traffic? Even with encryption, high usage certainly sends red flags. (perhaps more so) With less oversight this could certainly happen. The service agreement you sign certainly may be subject to change at any moment. The internet is starting to slide into the path of provider approved content. I think a free network is something worth protecting, perhaps even with our very lives. How much is freedom worth to you?
I didn't RTFA, but I did read another FA about it and it seems that it does simply just pick up electrical impulses directed to the muscles. For instance looking away with your eyes will cause a reaction on the game, in this case turning or whatever. You also have to use your jaw muscles. No talking. No eating. No drinking. One article was from someone that used the device for a while and their conclusion was that the limitations outweighed its effectiveness. This is not simply about moving a character onscreen by thinking about it moving. You have to actually train yourself to use this thing. We are still quite some distance from the reality of controlling computers simply by thinking about them.
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That was exactly my problem with the previous new gen batman. It was an attempt to make things more realistic and to me that just destroys the whole feeling. I didn't feel like batman as much anymore. There really needs to be some element of disbelief. The first one lacked that and I suspect that the new one will as well. When you reduce batman (and the joker) to the limitations of a human the are suddenly not superheros or super villains. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that the first Burton batman was so magickal because it was sort of over the top and unreal. Batman does a lot of impossible things in the comics and even in the Burton movie there are quite a few impossibilities. Someone said it best earlier in this discussion that they had to remind themselves that the earlier batman movies where "just movies" to be watchable because they were so unrealistic. I thought that is why we watched movies, to enter fantasy worlds and escape reality. Are people losing their sense of imagination? Have the sleeping masses quit dreaming?
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Did frank miller actually write anything with the joker in it? I thought he only did year one and the dark knight returns and the dark knight strikes back (my favorite of all).
Just curious. I love Moore though.
Yeah. What about racially profiled traffic stops with automatic searches and seizures regardless of probable cause? Think a public defender is going to get a black man off of that one? I live in Pennsylvania. The black population here is roughly 14% and yet the prison population is roughly 60% black. Now tell me, how is that not disproportionate? I think you need to really reexamine the cause and effects of this relationship. Otherwise what you are saying is that the average black man is 6 times more likely to commit a crime and be caught and convicted and that is somehow fair? Does that mean the average black man is 6 times more likely than a white man to be a criminal? Somehow I really doubt reality has anything to do with incarceration rates.
not true. there were plenty of arcade perfect ports to the SNES. even Mortal Kombat 2 was a pretty great port even if they axed a few frames of animation. everything else was arcade perfect. even a good deal of neo geo ports weren't really all toned down graphically. king of monsters and samauri showdown both come to mind. also, for what it is worth, the NES had a few arcade perfect ports as well. granted they were of older games, but still. this argument really hasn't had much clout, since the arcades are continually advancing whereas the console remains the same for 5 years. look at the tekken 3 port, for instance. instead of 3d backgrounds the psx version got a panoramic box with a graphic of the arcade's background for each side. I could go on, but my point is that while the psx was definately graphically superior (for a short period of time I might add) to both the arcade and the PC, this really didn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. Consider that in 1995 the arcade was already being laid out in the funeral parlor. After the mortal kombat and street fighter craze, things kind of started to die over the long haul. when killer instinct *cough* was the next greatest thing, it was the beginning of the end. now when I go to an arcade there are a bunch of driving games and gun games and of course, DDR or something like it. not much really new there.
First of all, you set me to a foe. Fair enough. Secondly I must apologize for my over emotional response. I don't think I need to explain that it has been an emotional time for Americans, what with all the stories of rape and death in the wake. I don't really honestly know if the response would have been any better or different if it were to be a bunch of white folks down there, so please forgive my use of race as an issue. Regardless of their race, what happened to those people is a tragedy of the highest degree. A LOT of things could have been handled better indeed, from the Mayor, the the Governor, to FEMA, to the President. The fact remains that 5 days after the worst national disaster in US history, people were still not being evacuated. They finally started evacuating the convention center this morning. The stories that are coming from those people now are absolutely horrific and it makes me feel awfully sad that we would let people go on in conditions for that long. I also regret my statement against you as you indeed seem like a reasonable human being, which is something that cannot be said of a lot of people aparantly, and I do appreciate the fact that you at least responded on valid points about my emotional behavior. I may disagree with what you have to say (and there is truth to what you say as well, mind you), but your reply should get some respect.
Again, please at least accept an apology for me, as you are right that bickering and bringing a great deal of negative emotions to the table can and will solve nothing. That's pretty much all I can say. Take it or leave it.
First of all, regardless of the response by New Orleans, which I might add was the ONLY response for DAYS after the event, the President as you have so put it, could have ordered a state of emergency for the affected areas and ordered at least military aid. The mayor of New Orleans tried his best with limited resources in the wake of the worst natural disaster in our history. Even if the mayor sat back and did nothing, which you are almost alleging, the President could have utilized his executive powers to send in troops and supplies and ordered the DHS to cooperate. The federal response is to take all of the blame for this catastrophe because they were in at least a situation to do something and yet they did very little at first. I mean come on. Pull your freakin head out of your ass. We all watched the news reports from people in trenches for days stating the horrible conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, and yet the director of FEMA declares on THURSDAY that he finally has learned of the convention center crisis even though the media had been reporting on it for at least a day or two before. All they had to do was watch the news to learn what was going on, and yet they claim they didn't know?!?
Secondly, the police force was massively overwhelmed. To declare that the police force is corrupt is disengenuous at best. There are officers down there that worked for DAYS STRAIGHT to try and keep law and order, all the while under constant gunfire from all over. They looted because they needed supplies and guns. They didn't even have anything other than their issued.40 glocks. They had to loot to find weapons and supplies to keep themselves ALIVE.
Trolls like you need to go fucking watch the news and read the reports of the terrible conditions both the police and the people have been living through in the last week. To put the blame on the mayor and the police when they were so overwhelmed with the scale of the disaster is a disgrace to the men who have spent many sleepless days trying miserably to keep things under control in a place that quickly became literally hell on earth.
The media will not be kind to the President or to FEMA for their total lack of response when it was needed most. Its too little, too late. The President himself has more or less admitted to how terrible the "results" were. The real tragedy is how little FEMA and the US military actually did in the wake of Katrina. Don't tell me about the lack of fucking roads too. The military could have easily done air drops. Its not like they didn't see this coming, what, fucking days before the event. Fuck even berlin got airdrops of food and supplies.
Jesus Christ. Tsunami victims had airdrops of food, water, and supplies a mere 2 days after the event. At the convention center and the superdome those people saw virtually nothing from the federal government for 4 days or so, while children were dying (and being raped). Get a fucking clue. The director of emergency management in New Orleans didn't even have the courtesy of a call from FEMA for at least 3 days after the event. But its all his fault that he didn't have the MASSIVE resources needed to save these people right?
"Its all the mayors fault" my fucking godammned ass. This is a national disgrace of the worst caliber. My guess is that the response would have been a lot swifter if they weren't all mostly poor black americans, but that is just speculation, though a growing number of black politicians are all crying foul now. The went as far as to compare the conditions to a slave ship, and what is sad is that they aren't too far from the truth. Those people lived in conditions like a slave ship for the last week. Don't forget that many governments, such as Canada's, have pledged their full support and yet (at least as of the other day) we never even bothered to ask.
The victims of a tsunami in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY had better aid relief than the victims of a MAJOR CITY in THE RICHEST NATION IN THE WORLD. Shows you how much we care for our (black) people.
Yeah, I think Sony learned a lot of lessons from the PS2 hardware debacle. Having a GPU with, what, 1 meg of VRAM or so, and with little to no support in hardware for basic functions like anti-aliasing (don't know the actualy figure) was ludicrous at best. Having 2 seperate co-processors (more like vector units) to make up the emotion engine became an assembly programmer's nightmare as well. It will be interesting if Sony can deliver on their promise of a compiler taking care of the complexities that the PS3 Cell's 7 vector units will bring into the mix. Parallel processing is a complex problem indeed.
What would be the point? The only audience that would be interested would lambast the use of 3d on their sacred ASCII game. There have been some 2d updates, but I really don't see the point. I never liked an RPG without a story.
The developer's comments on the PSP hardware were great. Not much has been reported (at least from what I've seen) about the actual power of the hardware and the differences between a PSP and a PS2. Interesting how the CPU is roughly 1/3 of the power of a PS2 along with the memory bus being about half as fast. While the DS is nowhere near as powerful, it is interesting to see that the PSP is not quite the PS2 in your hands that sony wants you to believe. An interesting read for sure.
Note to Zonk: Keep more news like this coming. It is a whole lot more interesting than the typical PSP vs. DS vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 crap we've been hearing about for months, and quit linking to 1up every single day for chrissakes! If someone wants to read 1up they can easily browse over to their site.
Yeah I know. I made a mistake in posting the comments originally. Please accept my apologies. I am shocked and yesterday, I was clearly upset. Foot meet mouth.
I at least get a right to defend and apologize for my actions, so here it is. I'm sorry I posted a misleading comment about an article on Monday, a day on which, as you said, the hurricane wasn't looking all that bad yet.
No I agree. You are correct, and please accept my apologies. I was extremely upset by the comments Mr. Brown gave yesterday. Its times like this when it would be great to be able to do edits. I'm just saying that was what I saw yesterday and I added it. Bad journalism? Yes indeed! Am I only a human who is in total shock at the misery these people are going through? Oh yes indeed!:)
I'm not a paid journalist though, so I am allowed to at least mistakes right? In my sleepiness I did indeed forget to notice that the article I was originally referring to was posted on Monday. A tragedy of errors, no?
So please, accept my apologies for my misleading comments and potentially "ourageously" unfair comments, and someone please mod this up so I don't have to keep apologizing to all you slashdotters.:)
This is from a story I found the other day. When the bloggers started complaining and calling for boycotts of amazon, they must have feared the bad PR and put a link up. There was at least truth to what I said. Another blogger mentioned that google had no link on the front page except to the their news section. I am rather glad to hear that amazon has at least changed their minds. Check out their press release:
"But mainstream Web sites that had jumped to pull in money for the tsunami victims showed no evidence of repeating it here in the U.S. for Katrina's. Amazon.com, which raised more than $14 million for the American Red Cross in January via a donation link on its home page, didn't have one as of mid-day Monday. Nor did Google, Yahoo, MSN, or eBay, all of which hustled earlier in the year to put up donation links on their portals. (Google slapped up an "Information about Hurricane Katrina" link on its Spartan home page, but that led to news sources and stories.)
An Amazon spokesperson said that the online retailer had no plans to post a donation link on its site. "Each case is different," she said. "The Red Cross has essentially given over its entire site to donations. The tsunami came out of the blue, so it was an 'all hands on deck' situation, but the Red Cross has been getting ready for this and getting its message out there for several days."
The link to the news article is further down in the comments. An anonymous coward was the one who pointed out my original mistake. If I could edit user comments, I would have fixed it.
In my defense the article did NOT require registration yesterday when I submitted the article. Had I known that they would have required registration I would have never have used their summary. Someone passed me the link yesterday and I thought it would be great to share with the slashdot community. Thank you very much for posting the full article text, Mother Fuckingshit (great nick btw! seriously!)
They must have added them after some people complained. I can't find the link right now, but originally Amazon had made a public statement stating that they didn't need to solicit donations because the American Red Cross was already.
I could be wrong. Oh wait I wasn't. -- But mainstream Web sites that had jumped to pull in money for the tsunami victims showed no evidence of repeating it here in the U.S. for Katrina's. Amazon.com, which raised more than $14 million for the American Red Cross in January via a donation link on its home page, didn't have one as of mid-day Monday. Nor did Google, Yahoo, MSN, or eBay, all of which hustled earlier in the year to put up donation links on their portals. (Google slapped up an "Information about Hurricane Katrina" link on its Spartan home page, but that led to news sources and stories.)
An Amazon spokesperson said that the online retailer had no plans to post a donation link on its site. "Each case is different," she said. "The Red Cross has essentially given over its entire site to donations. The tsunami came out of the blue, so it was an 'all hands on deck' situation, but the Red Cross has been getting ready for this and getting its message out there for several days." -- Looks like that has changed. Link here.
Guess they decided the bad PR wasn't worth it and added a link.:)
The president take time off of vacation to play guitar in a jovial mood while the nation faces the worst natural disaster in history? Congress talks about ending their recess early? Glad that the feds are looking out for the thousands dead and dying in the big easy!
Check out some sad reports I've read today.
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FROM CNN:
FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility Brown pleased with effort: 'Things are going relatively well'
Friday, September 2, 2005 Posted: 0341 GMT (1141 HKT)
(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.
Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.
"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.
"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.
"And to find people still there is just heart-wrenching to me because, you know, the mayor did everything he could to get them out of there.
"So, we've got to figure out some way to convince people that whenever warnings go out it's for their own good," Brown said. "Now, I don't want to second guess why they did that. My job now is to get relief to them."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have both predicted the death toll could be in the thousands.
Nagin issued a "desperate SOS" Thursday as violence disrupted efforts to rescue people still trapped in the flooded city and evacuate thousands of displaced residents living amid corpses and human waste. (Full story)
Residents expressed growing frustration with the disorder evident on the streets, raising questions about the coordination and timeliness of relief efforts. (See video on the desperate conditions -- 4:36 )
Sniper fire prevented Charity Hospital from evacuating its patients Thursday. The hospital has no electricity or water, food consists of a few cans of vegetables, and the patients had to be moved to upper floors because of looters. (Full story) (See video of a city sinking in chaos -- 2:54)
Brown was upbeat in his assessment of the relief effort so far, ticking off a list of accomplishments: more than 30,000 National Guard troops will be in the city within three days, the hospitals are being evacuated and search and rescue missions are continuing. (See video of National Guard efforts to rein in violence -- 3:14)
"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans -- virtually a city that has been destroyed -- that things are going relatively well," Brown said.
Nevertheless, he said he could "empathize with those in miserable conditions."
Asked later on CNN how he could blame the victims, many of whom could not flee the storm because they had no transportation or were too frail to evacuate on their own, Brown said he was not blaming anyone.
"Now is not the time to be blaming," Brown said. "Now is the time to recognize that whether they chose to evacuate or chose not to evacuate, we have to help them."
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was a longtime New Orleans mayor, said there was "plenty of blame to go around," citing underinvestement by federal authorities over many years "despite pleas and warnings by officials."
Earlier on CNN, Brown was asked why authorities had not prepared for just such a catastrophe -- given that the levees were designed to withstand only a Category 3 hurricane and Katrina was stronger than that.
"Government officials and engineers will debate that and figure that out," he replied. "Right now, I'm trying to focus on saving lives. I think we should have that debate
Are these actual retail sales or simply product that Sony has sold to retailers. The number seems awfully high and it makes me wonder what percentage of the UMDs are sitting on store shelves right now versus how many have actually sold.
The whole things smells of how to lie with statistics.
What about the nearly 900lbs or so of verifiable moon rocks they brought back? What of all the moon dust on the spacesuits? That stuff surely didn't come from earth.
Read the wikipedia article on the moon rocks. It is a pretty interesting read.
About the van allen belts. The astronauts did indeed pass through and their experiences were interesting. One astronaut talks about closing his eyes and seeing the particles flash across his vision. It was determined that for the short period of time they would pass through, they would get minimal radiation. I suggest you actually read some of the facts about the belts and the amount of time that the astronauts spent in them.
For what its worth, I did watch the "documentary" on the moon being a fraud. It was called "We never went to the moon." It was a really good way to short circuit my reality for a day. The moon rocks themselves are pretty damning evidence along with the laser mirrors.
What's next? Will you be telling us that a navy ship disappeared from one port to reappear in another in a bizarre teleportation experiment?
You should just try it. Maybe it will run better. Maybe it won't. You won't know until you try. Different people will have vastly different experiences with the same things in life. I mean sheesh, just look at sex for chrissakes! People generally build a test server first and work it under various loads to see if it will perform as well. If you think you can squeeze a good 10-20% decrease in server load by going to a newer kernel you should likely be looking at buying new hardware anyways if your little box is heavily loaded.
You won't get any good answers from us other than just try it out. Without even saying much about your serve, information on the processor, RAM size, what you are running on it, how many users, etc, an answer to your question is probably not going to materialize.
That car analogy is terrible btw. Anybodoy that knows anything about how combustion engines works knows that you use the fuel that your car is tuned for. The average economy minded car is likely going to be tuned for 87 octane. Why spend $1.00 more a gallon for something your car will not even take advantage of? Cadillacs and generally performance oriented cars are rated for higher octanes. Read your manual. You will not see any performance benefit from using a higher octane gas without added air, for instance, though I guess the O2 sensor should compensate for that a bit.
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That is the gist of what he is saying. The ISPs should be self regulating essentially. This is the beginning of a very slippery slope. What if Comcast decides to ban all torrent traffic? Even with encryption, high usage certainly sends red flags. (perhaps more so) With less oversight this could certainly happen. The service agreement you sign certainly may be subject to change at any moment. The internet is starting to slide into the path of provider approved content. I think a free network is something worth protecting, perhaps even with our very lives. How much is freedom worth to you?
I agree. How is a single click suddenly patentable? Amazon has been patenting everything under the sun they can think of.
It would be interesting to see if slashdot actually has a real world stock effect. I doubt that many money managers would be interested in this site.
I didn't RTFA, but I did read another FA about it and it seems that it does simply just pick up electrical impulses directed to the muscles. For instance looking away with your eyes will cause a reaction on the game, in this case turning or whatever. You also have to use your jaw muscles. No talking. No eating. No drinking. One article was from someone that used the device for a while and their conclusion was that the limitations outweighed its effectiveness. This is not simply about moving a character onscreen by thinking about it moving. You have to actually train yourself to use this thing. We are still quite some distance from the reality of controlling computers simply by thinking about them.
That was exactly my problem with the previous new gen batman. It was an attempt to make things more realistic and to me that just destroys the whole feeling. I didn't feel like batman as much anymore. There really needs to be some element of disbelief. The first one lacked that and I suspect that the new one will as well. When you reduce batman (and the joker) to the limitations of a human the are suddenly not superheros or super villains. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that the first Burton batman was so magickal because it was sort of over the top and unreal. Batman does a lot of impossible things in the comics and even in the Burton movie there are quite a few impossibilities. Someone said it best earlier in this discussion that they had to remind themselves that the earlier batman movies where "just movies" to be watchable because they were so unrealistic. I thought that is why we watched movies, to enter fantasy worlds and escape reality. Are people losing their sense of imagination? Have the sleeping masses quit dreaming?
Did frank miller actually write anything with the joker in it? I thought he only did year one and the dark knight returns and the dark knight strikes back (my favorite of all). Just curious. I love Moore though.
Well. that is true. very much so. there are also more poor white people than blacks are there not?
Yeah. What about racially profiled traffic stops with automatic searches and seizures regardless of probable cause? Think a public defender is going to get a black man off of that one? I live in Pennsylvania. The black population here is roughly 14% and yet the prison population is roughly 60% black. Now tell me, how is that not disproportionate? I think you need to really reexamine the cause and effects of this relationship. Otherwise what you are saying is that the average black man is 6 times more likely to commit a crime and be caught and convicted and that is somehow fair? Does that mean the average black man is 6 times more likely than a white man to be a criminal? Somehow I really doubt reality has anything to do with incarceration rates.
Uh. That's half a lifetime and then some. Life is short. Enjoy it.
not true. there were plenty of arcade perfect ports to the SNES. even Mortal Kombat 2 was a pretty great port even if they axed a few frames of animation. everything else was arcade perfect. even a good deal of neo geo ports weren't really all toned down graphically. king of monsters and samauri showdown both come to mind. also, for what it is worth, the NES had a few arcade perfect ports as well. granted they were of older games, but still. this argument really hasn't had much clout, since the arcades are continually advancing whereas the console remains the same for 5 years. look at the tekken 3 port, for instance. instead of 3d backgrounds the psx version got a panoramic box with a graphic of the arcade's background for each side. I could go on, but my point is that while the psx was definately graphically superior (for a short period of time I might add) to both the arcade and the PC, this really didn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. Consider that in 1995 the arcade was already being laid out in the funeral parlor. After the mortal kombat and street fighter craze, things kind of started to die over the long haul. when killer instinct *cough* was the next greatest thing, it was the beginning of the end. now when I go to an arcade there are a bunch of driving games and gun games and of course, DDR or something like it. not much really new there.
Don't believe the hype!
If only more people would subscribe to that, the media would put a whole lot less spin on the "news".
First of all, you set me to a foe. Fair enough. Secondly I must apologize for my over emotional response. I don't think I need to explain that it has been an emotional time for Americans, what with all the stories of rape and death in the wake. I don't really honestly know if the response would have been any better or different if it were to be a bunch of white folks down there, so please forgive my use of race as an issue. Regardless of their race, what happened to those people is a tragedy of the highest degree. A LOT of things could have been handled better indeed, from the Mayor, the the Governor, to FEMA, to the President. The fact remains that 5 days after the worst national disaster in US history, people were still not being evacuated. They finally started evacuating the convention center this morning. The stories that are coming from those people now are absolutely horrific and it makes me feel awfully sad that we would let people go on in conditions for that long. I also regret my statement against you as you indeed seem like a reasonable human being, which is something that cannot be said of a lot of people aparantly, and I do appreciate the fact that you at least responded on valid points about my emotional behavior. I may disagree with what you have to say (and there is truth to what you say as well, mind you), but your reply should get some respect.
Again, please at least accept an apology for me, as you are right that bickering and bringing a great deal of negative emotions to the table can and will solve nothing. That's pretty much all I can say. Take it or leave it.
First of all, regardless of the response by New Orleans, which I might add was the ONLY response for DAYS after the event, the President as you have so put it, could have ordered a state of emergency for the affected areas and ordered at least military aid. The mayor of New Orleans tried his best with limited resources in the wake of the worst natural disaster in our history. Even if the mayor sat back and did nothing, which you are almost alleging, the President could have utilized his executive powers to send in troops and supplies and ordered the DHS to cooperate. The federal response is to take all of the blame for this catastrophe because they were in at least a situation to do something and yet they did very little at first. I mean come on. Pull your freakin head out of your ass. We all watched the news reports from people in trenches for days stating the horrible conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, and yet the director of FEMA declares on THURSDAY that he finally has learned of the convention center crisis even though the media had been reporting on it for at least a day or two before. All they had to do was watch the news to learn what was going on, and yet they claim they didn't know?!?
.40 glocks. They had to loot to find weapons and supplies to keep themselves ALIVE.
Secondly, the police force was massively overwhelmed. To declare that the police force is corrupt is disengenuous at best. There are officers down there that worked for DAYS STRAIGHT to try and keep law and order, all the while under constant gunfire from all over. They looted because they needed supplies and guns. They didn't even have anything other than their issued
Trolls like you need to go fucking watch the news and read the reports of the terrible conditions both the police and the people have been living through in the last week. To put the blame on the mayor and the police when they were so overwhelmed with the scale of the disaster is a disgrace to the men who have spent many sleepless days trying miserably to keep things under control in a place that quickly became literally hell on earth.
The media will not be kind to the President or to FEMA for their total lack of response when it was needed most. Its too little, too late. The President himself has more or less admitted to how terrible the "results" were. The real tragedy is how little FEMA and the US military actually did in the wake of Katrina. Don't tell me about the lack of fucking roads too. The military could have easily done air drops. Its not like they didn't see this coming, what, fucking days before the event. Fuck even berlin got airdrops of food and supplies.
Jesus Christ. Tsunami victims had airdrops of food, water, and supplies a mere 2 days after the event. At the convention center and the superdome those people saw virtually nothing from the federal government for 4 days or so, while children were dying (and being raped). Get a fucking clue. The director of emergency management in New Orleans didn't even have the courtesy of a call from FEMA for at least 3 days after the event. But its all his fault that he didn't have the MASSIVE resources needed to save these people right?
"Its all the mayors fault" my fucking godammned ass. This is a national disgrace of the worst caliber. My guess is that the response would have been a lot swifter if they weren't all mostly poor black americans, but that is just speculation, though a growing number of black politicians are all crying foul now. The went as far as to compare the conditions to a slave ship, and what is sad is that they aren't too far from the truth. Those people lived in conditions like a slave ship for the last week. Don't forget that many governments, such as Canada's, have pledged their full support and yet (at least as of the other day) we never even bothered to ask.
The victims of a tsunami in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY had better aid relief than the victims of a MAJOR CITY in THE RICHEST NATION IN THE WORLD. Shows you how much we care for our (black) people.
People like you make me fucking sick.
Yeah, I think Sony learned a lot of lessons from the PS2 hardware debacle. Having a GPU with, what, 1 meg of VRAM or so, and with little to no support in hardware for basic functions like anti-aliasing (don't know the actualy figure) was ludicrous at best. Having 2 seperate co-processors (more like vector units) to make up the emotion engine became an assembly programmer's nightmare as well. It will be interesting if Sony can deliver on their promise of a compiler taking care of the complexities that the PS3 Cell's 7 vector units will bring into the mix. Parallel processing is a complex problem indeed.
What would be the point? The only audience that would be interested would lambast the use of 3d on their sacred ASCII game. There have been some 2d updates, but I really don't see the point. I never liked an RPG without a story.
Now this is truly news for nerds.
The developer's comments on the PSP hardware were great. Not much has been reported (at least from what I've seen) about the actual power of the hardware and the differences between a PSP and a PS2. Interesting how the CPU is roughly 1/3 of the power of a PS2 along with the memory bus being about half as fast. While the DS is nowhere near as powerful, it is interesting to see that the PSP is not quite the PS2 in your hands that sony wants you to believe. An interesting read for sure.
Note to Zonk: Keep more news like this coming. It is a whole lot more interesting than the typical PSP vs. DS vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 crap we've been hearing about for months, and quit linking to 1up every single day for chrissakes! If someone wants to read 1up they can easily browse over to their site.
Yeah I know. I made a mistake in posting the comments originally. Please accept my apologies. I am shocked and yesterday, I was clearly upset. Foot meet mouth.
I at least get a right to defend and apologize for my actions, so here it is. I'm sorry I posted a misleading comment about an article on Monday, a day on which, as you said, the hurricane wasn't looking all that bad yet.
No I agree. You are correct, and please accept my apologies. I was extremely upset by the comments Mr. Brown gave yesterday. Its times like this when it would be great to be able to do edits. I'm just saying that was what I saw yesterday and I added it. Bad journalism? Yes indeed! Am I only a human who is in total shock at the misery these people are going through? Oh yes indeed! :)
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I'm not a paid journalist though, so I am allowed to at least mistakes right? In my sleepiness I did indeed forget to notice that the article I was originally referring to was posted on Monday. A tragedy of errors, no?
So please, accept my apologies for my misleading comments and potentially "ourageously" unfair comments, and someone please mod this up so I don't have to keep apologizing to all you slashdotters.
This is from a story I found the other day. When the bloggers started complaining and calling for boycotts of amazon, they must have feared the bad PR and put a link up. There was at least truth to what I said. Another blogger mentioned that google had no link on the front page except to the their news section. I am rather glad to hear that amazon has at least changed their minds. Check out their press release:
"But mainstream Web sites that had jumped to pull in money for the tsunami victims showed no evidence of repeating it here in the U.S. for Katrina's. Amazon.com, which raised more than $14 million for the American Red Cross in January via a donation link on its home page, didn't have one as of mid-day Monday. Nor did Google, Yahoo, MSN, or eBay, all of which hustled earlier in the year to put up donation links on their portals. (Google slapped up an "Information about Hurricane Katrina" link on its Spartan home page, but that led to news sources and stories.)
An Amazon spokesperson said that the online retailer had no plans to post a donation link on its site. "Each case is different," she said. "The Red Cross has essentially given over its entire site to donations. The tsunami came out of the blue, so it was an 'all hands on deck' situation, but the Red Cross has been getting ready for this and getting its message out there for several days."
The link to the news article is further down in the comments. An anonymous coward was the one who pointed out my original mistake. If I could edit user comments, I would have fixed it.
Dear Slashdot readers,
In my defense the article did NOT require registration yesterday when I submitted the article. Had I known that they would have required registration I would have never have used their summary. Someone passed me the link yesterday and I thought it would be great to share with the slashdot community. Thank you very much for posting the full article text, Mother Fuckingshit (great nick btw! seriously!)
Please accept my humblest of apologies.
They must have added them after some people complained. I can't find the link right now, but originally Amazon had made a public statement stating that they didn't need to solicit donations because the American Red Cross was already.
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I could be wrong. Oh wait I wasn't.
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But mainstream Web sites that had jumped to pull in money for the tsunami victims showed no evidence of repeating it here in the U.S. for Katrina's. Amazon.com, which raised more than $14 million for the American Red Cross in January via a donation link on its home page, didn't have one as of mid-day Monday. Nor did Google, Yahoo, MSN, or eBay, all of which hustled earlier in the year to put up donation links on their portals. (Google slapped up an "Information about Hurricane Katrina" link on its Spartan home page, but that led to news sources and stories.)
An Amazon spokesperson said that the online retailer had no plans to post a donation link on its site. "Each case is different," she said. "The Red Cross has essentially given over its entire site to donations. The tsunami came out of the blue, so it was an 'all hands on deck' situation, but the Red Cross has been getting ready for this and getting its message out there for several days."
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Looks like that has changed. Link here.
Guess they decided the bad PR wasn't worth it and added a link.
The president take time off of vacation to play guitar in a jovial mood while the nation faces the worst natural disaster in history? Congress talks about ending their recess early? Glad that the feds are looking out for the thousands dead and dying in the big easy!
Check out some sad reports I've read today.
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FROM CNN:
FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility
Brown pleased with effort: 'Things are going relatively well'
Friday, September 2, 2005 Posted: 0341 GMT (1141 HKT)
(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.
Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.
"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.
"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.
"And to find people still there is just heart-wrenching to me because, you know, the mayor did everything he could to get them out of there.
"So, we've got to figure out some way to convince people that whenever warnings go out it's for their own good," Brown said. "Now, I don't want to second guess why they did that. My job now is to get relief to them."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have both predicted the death toll could be in the thousands.
Nagin issued a "desperate SOS" Thursday as violence disrupted efforts to rescue people still trapped in the flooded city and evacuate thousands of displaced residents living amid corpses and human waste. (Full story)
Residents expressed growing frustration with the disorder evident on the streets, raising questions about the coordination and timeliness of relief efforts. (See video on the desperate conditions -- 4:36 )
Sniper fire prevented Charity Hospital from evacuating its patients Thursday. The hospital has no electricity or water, food consists of a few cans of vegetables, and the patients had to be moved to upper floors because of looters. (Full story) (See video of a city sinking in chaos -- 2:54)
Brown was upbeat in his assessment of the relief effort so far, ticking off a list of accomplishments: more than 30,000 National Guard troops will be in the city within three days, the hospitals are being evacuated and search and rescue missions are continuing. (See video of National Guard efforts to rein in violence -- 3:14)
"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans -- virtually a city that has been destroyed -- that things are going relatively well," Brown said.
Nevertheless, he said he could "empathize with those in miserable conditions."
Asked later on CNN how he could blame the victims, many of whom could not flee the storm because they had no transportation or were too frail to evacuate on their own, Brown said he was not blaming anyone.
"Now is not the time to be blaming," Brown said. "Now is the time to recognize that whether they chose to evacuate or chose not to evacuate, we have to help them."
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was a longtime New Orleans mayor, said there was "plenty of blame to go around," citing underinvestement by federal authorities over many years "despite pleas and warnings by officials."
Earlier on CNN, Brown was asked why authorities had not prepared for just such a catastrophe -- given that the levees were designed to withstand only a Category 3 hurricane and Katrina was stronger than that.
"Government officials and engineers will debate that and figure that out," he replied. "Right now, I'm trying to focus on saving lives. I think we should have that debate
Are these actual retail sales or simply product that Sony has sold to retailers. The number seems awfully high and it makes me wonder what percentage of the UMDs are sitting on store shelves right now versus how many have actually sold.
The whole things smells of how to lie with statistics.
What about the nearly 900lbs or so of verifiable moon rocks they brought back? What of all the moon dust on the spacesuits? That stuff surely didn't come from earth.
Read the wikipedia article on the moon rocks. It is a pretty interesting read.
About the van allen belts. The astronauts did indeed pass through and their experiences were interesting. One astronaut talks about closing his eyes and seeing the particles flash across his vision. It was determined that for the short period of time they would pass through, they would get minimal radiation. I suggest you actually read some of the facts about the belts and the amount of time that the astronauts spent in them.
For what its worth, I did watch the "documentary" on the moon being a fraud. It was called "We never went to the moon." It was a really good way to short circuit my reality for a day. The moon rocks themselves are pretty damning evidence along with the laser mirrors.
What's next? Will you be telling us that a navy ship disappeared from one port to reappear in another in a bizarre teleportation experiment?
You should just try it. Maybe it will run better. Maybe it won't. You won't know until you try. Different people will have vastly different experiences with the same things in life. I mean sheesh, just look at sex for chrissakes! People generally build a test server first and work it under various loads to see if it will perform as well. If you think you can squeeze a good 10-20% decrease in server load by going to a newer kernel you should likely be looking at buying new hardware anyways if your little box is heavily loaded.
You won't get any good answers from us other than just try it out. Without even saying much about your serve, information on the processor, RAM size, what you are running on it, how many users, etc, an answer to your question is probably not going to materialize.
That car analogy is terrible btw. Anybodoy that knows anything about how combustion engines works knows that you use the fuel that your car is tuned for. The average economy minded car is likely going to be tuned for 87 octane. Why spend $1.00 more a gallon for something your car will not even take advantage of? Cadillacs and generally performance oriented cars are rated for higher octanes. Read your manual. You will not see any performance benefit from using a higher octane gas without added air, for instance, though I guess the O2 sensor should compensate for that a bit.