It's worse than that. They are already charging the students for the bandwidth. But they are hiding it in the tuition payment so that they are under no obligation to provide any specified level of service for the money that is being paid.
The lump sum tuition that goes for all sorts of things that belong more at club med than at an educational instituition is one of the things that makes what should be a rather cheap service (education) unaffordable for many.
Applications do not have hyperthreading. That is a marketing term.
Applications can be multi-threaded however. The operating system will take care sending the threads where they need to go. Hyperthreading merely makes a single CPU look like two CPUs to the OS. And since two different programs run in two different threads (your OS is multi-threaded!) you can even see speed advantages when you are using more than one single-threaded program at once.
And your percentages are bull. It all varies widely from application to application. You will therefore have to see application specific benchmarks for whatever you plan to run.
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Wrong. They extracted DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton years ago--do a Google search. The conclusion was that we are different species.
Other ask slashdot questions for your consideration:
Is it true that Windows is buggy and insecure?
DMCA--Not as good a law as we all thought?
Copyright, is it just me or does it last way too long?
Should I try out this new thing I found called "Linux"? They say it's free, but there's some catch, right?
I just met this cute girl named Natalie Portman. She is really coming on to me. I think that she is after my body. Do I let her have her way with me?
Governments all around the world have been using the horrible events of September 11th to take away the rights guaranteed their citizens. It is not true, though, that giving up our rights actually makes us more secure.
Every time someone looks at the United States and wrongly believes that we live under a despotic and evil government, the world becomes a bit more dangerous for Americans. The sort of person who thinks that the United States is a horrible place is far more likely to be supportive to the insanity of radical-Islamist terrorism.
On the other hand, every time someone looks to the United States and envies our elections, our freedoms, our optimism, that is a victory in the war on terrorism. And with enough victories like that, I think that the world can truly become a safer place.
If you actually go back and read the message, I suggested that slashdot advocate voting for or against certain candidates. No, there weren't very many people who didn't know that today was election day. But how many people didn't know the posisition of their home state's senator with regard to the DMCA? How many people who would have voted if some media outlet that they cared about (as opposed to CNN or what not) asked them to, didn't go out and vote?
I don't think that you understand the mechanics of elections. Volunteer for a campaign sometime. It takes effort to get people to vote.
So you also need to compare it to the expected values of turnout and R-D percentages...that would still be hard to screw up. And you would still have the raw data, even if you did screw up the calculations. However, it does not appear that they will be releasing results late--instead they won't be releasing results at all. I really don't see how this could be a statistical number-crunching problem. As an aside, if there are that many problems with bad data from precincts, their sample size cannot be near large enough.
Now the real-time stuff could be the problem. I'd imagine that the hardest thing is getting data from the PDA's (a new system), not sending it out to the news organizations. But if they screwed up with that system, and neglected to prepare for the back-up pen and paper method, I can see where it breaks down.
Still, I think this is a terrible goof. Their excuses will have to be very good to carry much weight with me.
It doesn't take a website to get ME to vote, troll.
It takes a website to get large numbers of people to vote. And that is what matters.
Sorry for replying to this obvious troll, everyone, but it is important that this sort of thinking doesn't go unchallenged. I know a lot of slashdotters belong to the vast horde of the young and politically apathetic--but it's important not to let that viewpoint win.
What is up with all this, anyway? I mean, is this really a lot more complicated than a simple database?
All you really need to know is what percentage of people answered the exit poll, and the different percentages of their answers. Given that, you can call races.
Is there some reason that this had to take more than 30 minutes to program?
Goddamn but /. is late
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Speaking of elections--Today was the election, but slashdot didn't even run a story asking geeks to vote. You'd think that a site that cares so much about "Your Rights Online" would at least point out a couple of candidates who have either very bad records on such things or very good records. You know, if all we do is whine about the DMCA, congress-critters will continue to screw us over. Voting, and getting other people to vote will make them sit up and take notice. Well, maybe 2004.
Those people, it can be assumed, will download the full version whether or not the alpha is released. Which means that the alpha release is irrelevant to piracy for those folks.
So again, my statement that Id doesn't lose out on this still stands.
Doug, if you have your navigation and engine systems connected to a network and to the internet you are in for some trouble. Especially now that everyone knows about your boat. If you are going to brag about your secure computing solution to the world--well, at least get a set-up that has security as a major focus.
A Mac isn't that hard to crack--all it takes is one hax0R getting offended, and then sailing your boat to Antartica.
Yeah, I hear a lot of complaining, but riddle me this: Is Id actually gonna lose money because this was leaked? Is there anyone who would go to all the trouble of downloading an ALPHA VERSION, and then not get the full version later?
Isn't it possible that all of the publicity might even help Id with free advertising?
I mean hell, they've even gotten a free slashdot story out of it. A million geeks seeing your upcoming game--that's advertising.
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If this is the type of people having the majority of our kids, it actually explains quite a lot.
It's worse than that. They are already charging the students for the bandwidth. But they are hiding it in the tuition payment so that they are under no obligation to provide any specified level of service for the money that is being paid.
The lump sum tuition that goes for all sorts of things that belong more at club med than at an educational instituition is one of the things that makes what should be a rather cheap service (education) unaffordable for many.
Applications do not have hyperthreading. That is a marketing term.
Applications can be multi-threaded however. The operating system will take care sending the threads where they need to go. Hyperthreading merely makes a single CPU look like two CPUs to the OS. And since two different programs run in two different threads (your OS is multi-threaded!) you can even see speed advantages when you are using more than one single-threaded program at once.
And your percentages are bull. It all varies widely from application to application. You will therefore have to see application specific benchmarks for whatever you plan to run.
Wrong. They extracted DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton years ago--do a Google search. The conclusion was that we are different species.
Other ask slashdot questions for your consideration:
Is it true that Windows is buggy and insecure?
DMCA--Not as good a law as we all thought?
Copyright, is it just me or does it last way too long?
Should I try out this new thing I found called "Linux"? They say it's free, but there's some catch, right?
I just met this cute girl named Natalie Portman. She is really coming on to me. I think that she is after my body. Do I let her have her way with me?
This have anything to do with the computer co-op?
Preview, goddamn it. Here is the link.
I believe that this might be what you are looking for.
The technology is quite mature.
I'm +2ing it today.
Yerricde, you are an ass that couldn't get a joke in a million years. Stop commenting to slashdot, please.
Change the names and give us the shit, dude. This stuff is important for people to know about.
How about this for a name: "Boycott Phoenix Technologies because they are such fucking bastards Internet Browser."
Couldn't some type of priority system be set up? That seems like a better tatic than banning a P2P networks.
Governments all around the world have been using the horrible events of September 11th to take away the rights guaranteed their citizens. It is not true, though, that giving up our rights actually makes us more secure.
Every time someone looks at the United States and wrongly believes that we live under a despotic and evil government, the world becomes a bit more dangerous for Americans. The sort of person who thinks that the United States is a horrible place is far more likely to be supportive to the insanity of radical-Islamist terrorism.
On the other hand, every time someone looks to the United States and envies our elections, our freedoms, our optimism, that is a victory in the war on terrorism. And with enough victories like that, I think that the world can truly become a safer place.
If you actually go back and read the message, I suggested that slashdot advocate voting for or against certain candidates. No, there weren't very many people who didn't know that today was election day. But how many people didn't know the posisition of their home state's senator with regard to the DMCA? How many people who would have voted if some media outlet that they cared about (as opposed to CNN or what not) asked them to, didn't go out and vote?
I don't think that you understand the mechanics of elections. Volunteer for a campaign sometime. It takes effort to get people to vote.
So you also need to compare it to the expected values of turnout and R-D percentages...that would still be hard to screw up. And you would still have the raw data, even if you did screw up the calculations. However, it does not appear that they will be releasing results late--instead they won't be releasing results at all. I really don't see how this could be a statistical number-crunching problem. As an aside, if there are that many problems with bad data from precincts, their sample size cannot be near large enough.
Now the real-time stuff could be the problem. I'd imagine that the hardest thing is getting data from the PDA's (a new system), not sending it out to the news organizations. But if they screwed up with that system, and neglected to prepare for the back-up pen and paper method, I can see where it breaks down.
Still, I think this is a terrible goof. Their excuses will have to be very good to carry much weight with me.
It doesn't take a website to get ME to vote, troll.
It takes a website to get large numbers of people to vote. And that is what matters.
Sorry for replying to this obvious troll, everyone, but it is important that this sort of thinking doesn't go unchallenged. I know a lot of slashdotters belong to the vast horde of the young and politically apathetic--but it's important not to let that viewpoint win.
What is up with all this, anyway? I mean, is this really a lot more complicated than a simple database?
All you really need to know is what percentage of people answered the exit poll, and the different percentages of their answers. Given that, you can call races.
Is there some reason that this had to take more than 30 minutes to program?
Speaking of elections--Today was the election, but slashdot didn't even run a story asking geeks to vote. You'd think that a site that cares so much about "Your Rights Online" would at least point out a couple of candidates who have either very bad records on such things or very good records. You know, if all we do is whine about the DMCA, congress-critters will continue to screw us over. Voting, and getting other people to vote will make them sit up and take notice. Well, maybe 2004.
Hello, I am from France, and I real slashdot. Where do I go to surrender?
Those people, it can be assumed, will download the full version whether or not the alpha is released. Which means that the alpha release is irrelevant to piracy for those folks.
So again, my statement that Id doesn't lose out on this still stands.
Doug, if you have your navigation and engine systems connected to a network and to the internet you are in for some trouble. Especially now that everyone knows about your boat. If you are going to brag about your secure computing solution to the world--well, at least get a set-up that has security as a major focus.
A Mac isn't that hard to crack--all it takes is one hax0R getting offended, and then sailing your boat to Antartica.
Yeah, I hear a lot of complaining, but riddle me this: Is Id actually gonna lose money because this was leaked? Is there anyone who would go to all the trouble of downloading an ALPHA VERSION, and then not get the full version later?
Isn't it possible that all of the publicity might even help Id with free advertising?
I mean hell, they've even gotten a free slashdot story out of it. A million geeks seeing your upcoming game--that's advertising.
Not having posted this would have been a great first step in the technical ignorance defense.
Maybe you won't believe me, but will you believe an actual website claiming to be authoritive?
LOL--It really is true. The slug is the British unit of mass--pound is the unit of force.
I do not assert that. Hell, I don't even imply it. In fact, the U.S. didn't respect foreign copyright for years.