I have a feeling that we are gonna be seeing PC purchases put off for longer and longer simply because most folks can't tell the difference between their dual core with 2Gb and an octacore with 8Gb simply because most of their time is spent in Youtube, [...]
Correct. But there's one area where I'd like to see benchmarks and speed improvements: the speed of applications when running inside a virtual machine. Factors are: CPU intensive, I/O intensive on the locally exported drives (adds a network layer), how much does clicking 'multi-processing' in the virtual machine settings speed things up, speed difference between VirtualBox/VMware/..., difference between processors, difference between allowing virtual machine assembler instructions in the processor, etc...
The only things I still need to run in Windows (virtual machine) under Linux are some CPU and I/O intensive image processing tools and they are SLOW as molasses. Anything to improve that would be welcome.
The way I see it, animated porn depicting underage people has been ruled illegal in the US, though it is perfectly legal in Japan. So Amazon is responding to that as a corporation. It isn't censorship of ideas on their part, it is trying to stay in line with law.
Great, let's hit the minimal common denominator. So pics of women are illegal in many backwards arabic countries: let's black out 9 pages out of 10 in magazines. Homosexuality is still illegal in many countries: there goes Hedwig and the Angry Inch and gay cowboys movies that get the oscar. Showing graphic violence is severely limited in some european countries: there goes the backbone of Hollywood. No need to defend porn, demeaning to women, there it goes down the drain. Etc, etc, until all you have left is sappy feel good Disney stories without animals (you never know if someone might interpret them as zoophilia). I'm sure they'd LOVE that.
If a pharmacy sells prescription meds without a prescription, they should have their license revoked and it doesn't matter where they are. If a non-pharmacy sells meds... then the laboratory that sells it to them should have its license revoked !
When asked about his favorite book Romeny stated "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
By the way the above post isn't a joke. He actually said his favorite book was "Battlefield Earth."
That book is not deep but actually quite entertaining; read it if you can borrow a copy. No, I'm not a scientologist. Just make sure to absolutely stay away from the Mission Earth series: that's the worse SF book I've ever read.
I don't think people would be willing to fly on an airplane without a pilot
Maybe not yet, but after there's a record of a couple of years and thousands of flight hours where you can show that the autopilots have a lower rate of failure than human pilots, I would expect that to change.
I had the exact same discussion yesterday about the automated Google cars. He said that if they became commercial, after the 1st crash lawyers would sue them into oblivion, which isn't false. But if after a couple billion miles there are 100 times more driver incidents than non-driver, then expect manual driving to be banned for good.
"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him." — Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame).
Seeing measurements over several years (you follow a single star continuously and record its turbulence). Both places have advantages: Atacama is warmer and can be reached all year long by truck. Dome C has less humidity (good for IR and millimetric), better seeing and windows of observation >24 hours.
"Penetration tester [...] you will play an exciting and fundamental role [...] Live penetrations of locked down hosts..." — From a job posting on securityfocus.com.
I never understood people who are conformists. If you want to be like the others, then why should you be chosen for... anything ? Isn't the other conformist just the same as you and just as likely to be chosen ? Conformity seems so stupid to me. All I want to do is things that nobody or hardly anybody else has done or has the guts to do. Fuck sheeples, they are useless waste of meat.
It's been a while, but isn't 7-zip limited to decompressing rar files only ?
And also, isn't there optional redundancy in split rar files ? i.e. if you compress a (set of) file(s) into several split rars and you loose one or two of them you can still decompress the original file(s). Very convenient when archiving on CDs or, cough, cough, Usenet.
In my opinion tablets are a cross between ebook readers and netbooks, they seems like a good idea but they're not good for either.
The final step will be an ebook reader that can browse the internet.
...and read cbr/cbz comic book files (in color obviously).
...What happened to Slashdot? The comments look... tiny!
Funny how one gets used to eating shit sandwiches. I spent a lot of time trying to reduce the blank spaces wasted by the recent Slashdot changes, to no avail. And now that things get more compact I feel... oppressed. Too much text on one page! Hopefully I'll get used to it in a few days.
Yes, usenet is still around and has calmed down a lot. Nowadays it only works for technical forums. All the other more 'cultural' discussions have died due to spam and excess trolling. Back to bascis I guess.
Everyone has a right to speak, even idiots. If you don't like what they have to say, then just add them to your ignore list.
Yeah and that turned out well for Usenet where every troll would change ID at every message.
- no point system or post tally. People don't deserve to get points just because they post a lot. People don't deserve to get points at all, for the mere act of expressing an opinion.
So people who consistently post quality shouldn't be rewarded somehow ?
- threading is essential, so the replies are tied to the original post
But threading is also easily abused so that in order to get your reply seen you only have to reply to the first well-modded message. Unthreaded discussions have more variety which you seem to crave.
This being said, feel free to read at -1. I do when I have mod points, but I'm not missing much.
Well, see this image ? It was taken with an El-Cheapo compact camera, handeld, in the place with the clearest sky on earth. To answer your question: it's so bright that it appears like it's painted on the ceiling in fluorescent paint..
Yes, that's what I was thinking too. I recently wrote my own bootloader for a project. It honestly took me less time to do it from scratch (copy kernel from flash to mem, jump to it, done) than to read, understand and customize Coreboot or U-Boot or one of the many everything but the kitchen sink boot projects.
As opposed to the competition which never managed to produce anything with less than 7 buttons.
I WANT to be able to use my music player without fishing it out of my pocket: changing volume and skipping songs at the very least. For this you need physical buttons, none of this touch crap.
I've noticed the spell checkers in Ubuntu have been going downhill for a while. Over a year ago I had multi-language on-the-fly spellchecking in all kde apps. It's now gone from kmail and most others (still works in manual, but who uses that for quick checks?)
I gave up trying to get voice software to work over a decade ago. The reason is that I'm trilingual and use all 3 daily. So the software needs to be able to:
- understand a lousy accent: there are some words I cannot and will never be able to pronounce 'right'
- recognize what language is being spoken (having those 3 and only those 3 preset in the options)
Now I haven't tried Google Voice, but none of the software I've tried or heard about could even remotely do those two basic things.
...one thing comes to mind: eat together. Everyday. Every meal. If you aren't doing that basic action, then there's not way you can have 'family values', the rest is just bullshit (living under one roof with the fridge as the lone meeting point ?)
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I'm fed up with tribes who circumcise infant girls.
Funny, isn't the US one of the main countries the practice penis mutilation on infant boys ?!?
I have a feeling that we are gonna be seeing PC purchases put off for longer and longer simply because most folks can't tell the difference between their dual core with 2Gb and an octacore with 8Gb simply because most of their time is spent in Youtube, [...]
Correct. But there's one area where I'd like to see benchmarks and speed improvements: the speed of applications when running inside a virtual machine. Factors are: CPU intensive, I/O intensive on the locally exported drives (adds a network layer), how much does clicking 'multi-processing' in the virtual machine settings speed things up, speed difference between VirtualBox/VMware/..., difference between processors, difference between allowing virtual machine assembler instructions in the processor, etc...
The only things I still need to run in Windows (virtual machine) under Linux are some CPU and I/O intensive image processing tools and they are SLOW as molasses. Anything to improve that would be welcome.
The way I see it, animated porn depicting underage people has been ruled illegal in the US, though it is perfectly legal in Japan. So Amazon is responding to that as a corporation. It isn't censorship of ideas on their part, it is trying to stay in line with law.
Great, let's hit the minimal common denominator. So pics of women are illegal in many backwards arabic countries: let's black out 9 pages out of 10 in magazines. Homosexuality is still illegal in many countries: there goes Hedwig and the Angry Inch and gay cowboys movies that get the oscar. Showing graphic violence is severely limited in some european countries: there goes the backbone of Hollywood. No need to defend porn, demeaning to women, there it goes down the drain. Etc, etc, until all you have left is sappy feel good Disney stories without animals (you never know if someone might interpret them as zoophilia). I'm sure they'd LOVE that.
If a pharmacy sells prescription meds without a prescription, they should have their license revoked and it doesn't matter where they are. If a non-pharmacy sells meds... then the laboratory that sells it to them should have its license revoked !
Since today all the abbreviated comments have their lower half blanked out. I'm on FF4 on Ubuntu, and that's certainly original....
When asked about his favorite book Romeny stated "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
By the way the above post isn't a joke. He actually said his favorite book was "Battlefield Earth."
That book is not deep but actually quite entertaining; read it if you can borrow a copy. No, I'm not a scientologist. Just make sure to absolutely stay away from the Mission Earth series: that's the worse SF book I've ever read.
I don't think people would be willing to fly on an airplane without a pilot
Maybe not yet, but after there's a record of a couple of years and thousands of flight hours where you can show that the autopilots have a lower rate of failure than human pilots, I would expect that to change.
I had the exact same discussion yesterday about the automated Google cars. He said that if they became commercial, after the 1st crash lawyers would sue them into oblivion, which isn't false. But if after a couple billion miles there are 100 times more driver incidents than non-driver, then expect manual driving to be banned for good.
"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him." — Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame).
Seeing measurements over several years (you follow a single star continuously and record its turbulence). Both places have advantages: Atacama is warmer and can be reached all year long by truck. Dome C has less humidity (good for IR and millimetric), better seeing and windows of observation >24 hours.
"Penetration tester [...] you will play an exciting and fundamental role [...] Live penetrations of locked down hosts..." — From a job posting on securityfocus.com.
I never understood people who are conformists. If you want to be like the others, then why should you be chosen for... anything ? Isn't the other conformist just the same as you and just as likely to be chosen ? Conformity seems so stupid to me. All I want to do is things that nobody or hardly anybody else has done or has the guts to do. Fuck sheeples, they are useless waste of meat.
It's been a while, but isn't 7-zip limited to decompressing rar files only ?
And also, isn't there optional redundancy in split rar files ? i.e. if you compress a (set of) file(s) into several split rars and you loose one or two of them you can still decompress the original file(s). Very convenient when archiving on CDs or, cough, cough, Usenet.
In my opinion tablets are a cross between ebook readers and netbooks, they seems like a good idea but they're not good for either. The final step will be an ebook reader that can browse the internet.
...and read cbr/cbz comic book files (in color obviously).
...What happened to Slashdot? The comments look... tiny!
Funny how one gets used to eating shit sandwiches. I spent a lot of time trying to reduce the blank spaces wasted by the recent Slashdot changes, to no avail. And now that things get more compact I feel... oppressed. Too much text on one page! Hopefully I'll get used to it in a few days.
Yes, usenet is still around and has calmed down a lot. Nowadays it only works for technical forums. All the other more 'cultural' discussions have died due to spam and excess trolling. Back to bascis I guess.
Everyone has a right to speak, even idiots. If you don't like what they have to say, then just add them to your ignore list.
Yeah and that turned out well for Usenet where every troll would change ID at every message.
- no point system or post tally. People don't deserve to get points just because they post a lot. People don't deserve to get points at all, for the mere act of expressing an opinion.
So people who consistently post quality shouldn't be rewarded somehow ?
- threading is essential, so the replies are tied to the original post
But threading is also easily abused so that in order to get your reply seen you only have to reply to the first well-modded message. Unthreaded discussions have more variety which you seem to crave.
This being said, feel free to read at -1. I do when I have mod points, but I'm not missing much.
Well, see this image ? It was taken with an El-Cheapo compact camera, handeld, in the place with the clearest sky on earth. To answer your question: it's so bright that it appears like it's painted on the ceiling in fluorescent paint..
aint gonna be drinking that koolaid.
gonna look for an alternative.
Kubuntu 11 is fine. Out of 4 computers I only have 2 problems: one laptop with wifi problems it didn't have before and FF4 behaving strangely on another one. Never go with the mainstream.
Yes, that's what I was thinking too. I recently wrote my own bootloader for a project. It honestly took me less time to do it from scratch (copy kernel from flash to mem, jump to it, done) than to read, understand and customize Coreboot or U-Boot or one of the many everything but the kitchen sink boot projects.
I have no idea if this is true, but I've always liked this story that's been going around the 'net for years...
As opposed to the competition which never managed to produce anything with less than 7 buttons.
I WANT to be able to use my music player without fishing it out of my pocket: changing volume and skipping songs at the very least. For this you need physical buttons, none of this touch crap.
The in-browser spell checker sucks, though...
I've noticed the spell checkers in Ubuntu have been going downhill for a while. Over a year ago I had multi-language on-the-fly spellchecking in all kde apps. It's now gone from kmail and most others (still works in manual, but who uses that for quick checks?)
Before I type "sudo do-release-upgrade", any word on how well kubuntu works ?
I gave up trying to get voice software to work over a decade ago. The reason is that I'm trilingual and use all 3 daily. So the software needs to be able to:
- understand a lousy accent: there are some words I cannot and will never be able to pronounce 'right'
- recognize what language is being spoken (having those 3 and only those 3 preset in the options)
Now I haven't tried Google Voice, but none of the software I've tried or heard about could even remotely do those two basic things.
...one thing comes to mind: eat together. Everyday. Every meal. If you aren't doing that basic action, then there's not way you can have 'family values', the rest is just bullshit (living under one roof with the fridge as the lone meeting point ?)