Actually, with the way moderation has been going lately, -1 redundant seems to be the answer, no matter what the situation. Except, of course, -1 offtopic, which is only used for on-topic posts.
Way to throw out a completely misleading headline there, Roland. "Pentagon Rules" makes it sound like some sort of government security issue. Add that to the barely intelligible article summary and we've got another bang-up article by the Pipsqueak blogger. At least he's back to linking his own shitty blog articles again, so we're further justified calling him out for his blatant slashvertisments. Zonk, either stop approving this shit, or give us a separate category for articles from Roland so we can remove them from our fucking front pages. Forget the stupid ajaxified comment system, I want to be able to filter articles based on submittor.
Ok, since your "bogometer" seems to go off at one of the most highly respected scientific publications, on the planet... let me do a little physics-to-layman translation for ya.
quanta: packets of things that are quantized, like, you know, everything that happens at the atomic scale magnetic excitations: increase in magnetic energy, for example by periodically flipping the moment like an oscillator magnetically ordered: lined up ensemble: group of stuff magnetic moments: little tiny magnets formed by the electron spin.
A photon is a quanta of light energy, an energy level in a hydrogen atom is a quantized electron orbit, and a magnon is a quanta of magnetic energy. It's described using perfectly normal terminology that most undergrad physics students should be comfortable with.
Did I say I was fighting against LOTR? I simply said hollywood sucks so they will probably try to milk the series by doing a remake sooner rather than later. Way to put words into my mouth.
You mis-read my post... I was saying that LL takes a cut every time SL money is exchanged for real cash.
Yes, SL is full of hypocrites and prima donnas... that's why I played it for a week to see what it was like and the account remains lifeless now. It's an interesting character study though, to see a bunch of copyright infringers clamoring for DRM.
second life has a huge economy. sharing goes against the very fabric of their business model - you can exchange real life dollars for second life money. people can and do form entire businesses in second life to make real life money. every time one of these echanges is made, the game's publisher takes a share. that's why people are pissed about their designs being copied - it's actually costing them profits.
second life is about creating an artificial that somewhat models real life - paying for shit with your money is a big part of the real world.
For whatever reason, a whole bunch of fucktard mods have been abusing the "redundant" moderation lately. Slashdot is really going downhill fast, and they desperately need to do something to limit the douchebagitude that's running rampant in the moderation system.
Right, such an asshat, for you know, wanting someone to actually use terminology correctly. Damn that scientific accuracy, it's just for big jerks.
What a shocker, I've been modded down for bullshit reasons exactly 5 times this week. Shame the number 5 isn't somehow a natural number for moderation or anything.
Wow your one (extremely well built, since it's a mac *G*) computer establishes the behavior of all? It's not just a question of processor life, it's a question of all those little components in there. A well ventilated G4 tower might be able to run bulletproof for years, but a laptop or cheap PC might not. The point is, the heat is enough to bother the guy, and if they gave him an option to limit processor usage, he'd be more likely to help out.
In my case, it has nothing to do with worry about electronics wearing out - BUT I have a G5 powermac that's liquid cooled, and if that liquid cooling fails it's gonna be expensive to fix. I don't NEED all that processor power most of the time, so I expect to get a long life out of it - if it were kicking 24/7 I might be a bit more worried. Plus, when the processors are really firing, it sounds like a jet is taking off. I'd rather not have that sound droning in the background 24/7.
I know what the AC was attempting to say, but that's not what he ACTUALLY said. Force only correlates with energy if it's applied over a distance or there's a varying potential field. When you say X cannot exceed Y, X and Y need to have the same units, or you're just talking gibberish.
Yet again, I was one of the first people to say this, and i was modded redundant. Whichever mod is following me and modding me redundant for no reason, suck my fucking cock.
Did you even READ the post you replied to? He specifically states why "nice" isn't a solution. Nice doesn't stop a program from using all the CPU, it just stops it from using CPU when another program wants it. His complaint is constantly having a system peaked near 100% CPU usage, which produces shitloads of heat, shortening processor life.
Youtube videos look like shit at their normal resolution - I never run them fullscreen because they are so blocky. I can only imagine a 42" SoaP fan video at threegrainy x toosucky resolution. At least google video supports varying resolutions, some of which don't utterly suck.
I can't get to the article (naturally), but the summary looks like a bunch of marketspeak buzzwords. The summary seems to be a whole lot of "whats" and not a shred of "hows". Has anyone actually been able to RTFA and see if there is any actual content, or just a bunch of empty promises?
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
If you're gonna insist on using the stupid car analogy, here's a better one:
Locking itunes to the ipod is like manufacturing a car that can only use Shell gasoline, even though there's no technical reason why it can't use all brands.
Why do DRM shills always bring out this same tired-ass argument? It's bad enough that I'm already buying a highly compressed AAC file, now I'm supposed to jump thru hoops to burn and re-encode it, to get an even lower quality version? I guess only ipod owners are "allowed" to have the best quality ITMS content, the rest of us should settle for second-best.
I paid for the fucking file, I should be able to play it on any damn device I want, with a few hassles as technologically feasible.
Slashdot Mirror
How about a (-1, whoosh) option, for the sound of the joke flying over the GP's head?
No, they send the information down a different tube
laptop batteries have acid in them now? who knew...
Actually, with the way moderation has been going lately, -1 redundant seems to be the answer, no matter what the situation. Except, of course, -1 offtopic, which is only used for on-topic posts.
Way to throw out a completely misleading headline there, Roland. "Pentagon Rules" makes it sound like some sort of government security issue. Add that to the barely intelligible article summary and we've got another bang-up article by the Pipsqueak blogger. At least he's back to linking his own shitty blog articles again, so we're further justified calling him out for his blatant slashvertisments. Zonk, either stop approving this shit, or give us a separate category for articles from Roland so we can remove them from our fucking front pages. Forget the stupid ajaxified comment system, I want to be able to filter articles based on submittor.
Ok, since your "bogometer" seems to go off at one of the most highly respected scientific publications, on the planet... let me do a little physics-to-layman translation for ya.
quanta: packets of things that are quantized, like, you know, everything that happens at the atomic scale
magnetic excitations: increase in magnetic energy, for example by periodically flipping the moment like an oscillator
magnetically ordered: lined up
ensemble: group of stuff
magnetic moments: little tiny magnets formed by the electron spin.
A photon is a quanta of light energy, an energy level in a hydrogen atom is a quantized electron orbit, and a magnon is a quanta of magnetic energy. It's described using perfectly normal terminology that most undergrad physics students should be comfortable with.
Did I say I was fighting against LOTR? I simply said hollywood sucks so they will probably try to milk the series by doing a remake sooner rather than later. Way to put words into my mouth.
Oh don't worry, with the lack of originality in hollywood, I'd expect a complete remake of the LOTR trilogy within ten years.
You mis-read my post... I was saying that LL takes a cut every time SL money is exchanged for real cash.
Yes, SL is full of hypocrites and prima donnas... that's why I played it for a week to see what it was like and the account remains lifeless now. It's an interesting character study though, to see a bunch of copyright infringers clamoring for DRM.
second life has a huge economy. sharing goes against the very fabric of their business model - you can exchange real life dollars for second life money. people can and do form entire businesses in second life to make real life money. every time one of these echanges is made, the game's publisher takes a share. that's why people are pissed about their designs being copied - it's actually costing them profits.
second life is about creating an artificial that somewhat models real life - paying for shit with your money is a big part of the real world.
For whatever reason, a whole bunch of fucktard mods have been abusing the "redundant" moderation lately. Slashdot is really going downhill fast, and they desperately need to do something to limit the douchebagitude that's running rampant in the moderation system.
Right, such an asshat, for you know, wanting someone to actually use terminology correctly. Damn that scientific accuracy, it's just for big jerks.
What a shocker, I've been modded down for bullshit reasons exactly 5 times this week. Shame the number 5 isn't somehow a natural number for moderation or anything.
I must have pissed off some pussy moderator - ive been getting a lot of bullshit bogus moderation this week.
Wow your one (extremely well built, since it's a mac *G*) computer establishes the behavior of all? It's not just a question of processor life, it's a question of all those little components in there. A well ventilated G4 tower might be able to run bulletproof for years, but a laptop or cheap PC might not. The point is, the heat is enough to bother the guy, and if they gave him an option to limit processor usage, he'd be more likely to help out.
In my case, it has nothing to do with worry about electronics wearing out - BUT I have a G5 powermac that's liquid cooled, and if that liquid cooling fails it's gonna be expensive to fix. I don't NEED all that processor power most of the time, so I expect to get a long life out of it - if it were kicking 24/7 I might be a bit more worried. Plus, when the processors are really firing, it sounds like a jet is taking off. I'd rather not have that sound droning in the background 24/7.
I know what the AC was attempting to say, but that's not what he ACTUALLY said. Force only correlates with energy if it's applied over a distance or there's a varying potential field. When you say X cannot exceed Y, X and Y need to have the same units, or you're just talking gibberish.
the total force cannot exceed the energy output
I think you need to check your units there, boyo.
Yet again, I was one of the first people to say this, and i was modded redundant. Whichever mod is following me and modding me redundant for no reason, suck my fucking cock.
Redundant? I was the first one to post anything even remotely like this. God damn do you mods fucking suck.
Did you even READ the post you replied to? He specifically states why "nice" isn't a solution. Nice doesn't stop a program from using all the CPU, it just stops it from using CPU when another program wants it. His complaint is constantly having a system peaked near 100% CPU usage, which produces shitloads of heat, shortening processor life.
Youtube videos look like shit at their normal resolution - I never run them fullscreen because they are so blocky. I can only imagine a 42" SoaP fan video at threegrainy x toosucky resolution. At least google video supports varying resolutions, some of which don't utterly suck.
I can't get to the article (naturally), but the summary looks like a bunch of marketspeak buzzwords. The summary seems to be a whole lot of "whats" and not a shred of "hows". Has anyone actually been able to RTFA and see if there is any actual content, or just a bunch of empty promises?
I can't take credit for it, sadly - it's an old computer room sign that started at stanford, i think, and spread all over the place.
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
If you're gonna insist on using the stupid car analogy, here's a better one:
Locking itunes to the ipod is like manufacturing a car that can only use Shell gasoline, even though there's no technical reason why it can't use all brands.
Why do DRM shills always bring out this same tired-ass argument? It's bad enough that I'm already buying a highly compressed AAC file, now I'm supposed to jump thru hoops to burn and re-encode it, to get an even lower quality version? I guess only ipod owners are "allowed" to have the best quality ITMS content, the rest of us should settle for second-best.
I paid for the fucking file, I should be able to play it on any damn device I want, with a few hassles as technologically feasible.