I compared a set of Shure E3c's to a pair of Sony MDR-EX71's, which are the poor man's isolating earphones. The Shure set was definitely more responsible, and much more even in reproduction. The Sony set was much cheaper, had much more bass, and a slight bit of a tinny midrange. However, at ten times less cost, i'd recommend anyone wanting to try isolating buds to try those first.
Hey, what about ASP and Fortran.NET backend? Don't forget about it. Fujitsu worked really hard to bring Fortran to the.NET CLR and it shouldn't go to waste.
This is unlikely. In the article itself, they note that graphical artifacts appear when you turn on this mod. This is likely because they didn't QA that section of the chip, and it's probably defective-ish. Now, that doesn't mean you'll definitely get a buggy chip, but NVidia won't unlock this because the part isn't tested, and assumed broken.
In fact, it may be reject parts from the Ultra series that makes it 6800 standard. From what it looks like, they deactivate the broken pipelines and then sell it as a lower model, much like CPUs do with clockrates.
Ehm? I don't exactly see your point. What we've learned on mars is from instruments that are attached to the rover. A human alone doesn't accomplish very much science, and still requires the application of instruments. I can't see what kind of science you're looking for that would require the use of a human that may require that much mobility. We want to know the chemical composition? The rover is more than enough. All other things are mostly chemical makeup, and no matter how many humans you send at it, it isn't done any better.
Next, do you realize your efficiency point? Effeciency denotes a ratio of resources to effectiveness. You need to send an extremely large amount of food along with the astronaut, and even if you propose farming on mars, that's still a gigantic amount of hydroponic equipment. If you sent an equivelant mass of scientific equipment on rovers, you'd accomplish much more meaningful science. All in all, NASA's mission has long been over with the rovers, they've measured all the things they're looking for.
Although sending people to mars is "cool", it offers no real scientific advantage whatsoever. As per your example, digging a hole with a shovel is inefficient versus drilling straight down, when you have to feed the astronaut the weight of the rover each day.
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It would have also been rather big and unholdable, ala the DS. I personally don't think it's the 2d gaming appreciation so as much as the ridiculous price point. If it was $100, i'd already have one. But at this price... hell, save the cash for the PS3's opening price. (By opening, I mean 2 weeks later, AFTER the scalpers are done.)
On the other hand, the satire of Wikipedia (Uncyclopedia) is only at 2700 articles. Guess information is easier to write than satire. (Ooor, it could be the few year starting period, the popularity, the sanity...)
It's long known that security through obscurity doesn't work. This is proven in cryptography. Hiding away an error doesn't make it go away. To mitigate the problem of making it too well known though, a patch warning period would be good to inform, but it should still be independently released for all to see afterward.
No, if you actually read documentation instead of trolling, you would find that the iPod has two processors, one of which decodes mp3, aac, etc, in hardware, which linux currently cannot access. What they're doing right now is running an mp3 software decoder on the non dedicated cpu.
Saying that the iPod is too weak then, is sort of like not having a video driver for a geforce 9 in linux and claiming it's too weak to run doom 3.
Despite the reliability concerns of Verizon, they do offer a pretty hot deal on DSL. Here in New York, we get 3mbps down and 768k up, which is far better for bittorrent, for $30 a month. No kidding. That's alot better than 40GBP. We also have no cap. They have a 500GB per month cap, and on just 3mbps you can download 972GB per month. Seems like we've got the better deal here in NY.
Now, if they'd ever deploy fiber instead of just claiming it's deployed...
> Thats exactly why EA is able to pump out 17 Sims expansions a year...
You mean 18. While posting that, you just missed "The Sims: Living with a new style of Brown Hair". Excuse me while I find my credit card and order it now feverishly. For the girlie, you know. Not as if I like micromanaging their bathroom habits. Not at all.
Well, suppose you're in Starfleet, and the holodeck is acting up. Now, there's a series of commands that just can't be activated using the LCARS interface, and instead has to be inputted using voice authentication through the ship's AI engine. Basically, you put in the knoppix cd, reboot your starship, and then...
"Computer, vee eye slash etc slash lye low" "escape down down down colon a...."
Yes, this is true, but it certainly doesn't help the linux image. In an age where people can't program their VCRs because they don't want to read the manual, we certainly can't expect them to read the man pages to edit a conf file. Much less, find the man pages...
> Now if only I had money, room and an understanding girlfriend I would try this.
What was that noise? I think I just heard thousands of slashdotters cry out all at once. Now look what you've done. They thought they only needed the Legos.
Yeah yeah, that's the responsible thing to say. But responsible stuff is sooooooooo boring. I mean, if we were all responsible people that wanted stability, we'd all be running kernel 2.2, Apache 1.1, many year old revisions of programs patched to all heck, never install any packages that aren't yet at least of legal age, and still tout ISA support as a bleeding edge feature.
Hmm. Wait, I think I just described Debian Stable.
*is hit by a gigantic potato from the debian crowd*
(Yes, I am aware that stable is called Woody, and the last version was called Potato. But if I said "is hit by a gigantic woody..." i'd probably get murdered. Oops.)
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Which any programmer is capable of doing. Following instructions is beyond the capability of most users, because well, they don't read the directions. When was the last time you read the manual that came with any product?
Right now, most consumers expect to be able to install the software without reading any of the dialog boxes and just hitting 'next' like mad. Making this more difficult isn't a matter of them not being able to do this, but rather that they lack the drive to actually do it. Changing 3 lines of a text file is pretty archaic and reminds me of CONFIG.SYS and the DOS days.
This isn't necessarily true, or there wouldn't be MUSHes and MOOs across the internet, where the whole point is just to build, explore, and socialize. However, you're right in that it's not a mainstream activity, in that the majority of people just want to stab things. I pray for the day however, when we'll finally get a real graphicsl MUSH.
Better yet, wait about a year, and you'll have a massively sized hard drive in the palm of your hand for iPorn. Hmm. On second thought, scratch that thought, it sounded alot worse than it was supposed to.
The thing is, because society requires proof of effort, or at least knowledge to get a job, the brighter students still need to suffer through just to get a degree. They aren't more qualified for learning. The less bright ones see that they aren't learning in school, and try to follow that.
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Congradulations, you've just melted down wikicities. Thanks guys, you've just proved that slashdot > a whole bunch of squids and a few rackmounts.
I compared a set of Shure E3c's to a pair of Sony MDR-EX71's, which are the poor man's isolating earphones. The Shure set was definitely more responsible, and much more even in reproduction. The Sony set was much cheaper, had much more bass, and a slight bit of a tinny midrange. However, at ten times less cost, i'd recommend anyone wanting to try isolating buds to try those first.
Hey, what about ASP and Fortran.NET backend? Don't forget about it. Fujitsu worked really hard to bring Fortran to the .NET CLR and it shouldn't go to waste.
Maybe he misread it as LSD?
This is unlikely. In the article itself, they note that graphical artifacts appear when you turn on this mod. This is likely because they didn't QA that section of the chip, and it's probably defective-ish. Now, that doesn't mean you'll definitely get a buggy chip, but NVidia won't unlock this because the part isn't tested, and assumed broken.
In fact, it may be reject parts from the Ultra series that makes it 6800 standard. From what it looks like, they deactivate the broken pipelines and then sell it as a lower model, much like CPUs do with clockrates.
Ehm? I don't exactly see your point. What we've learned on mars is from instruments that are attached to the rover. A human alone doesn't accomplish very much science, and still requires the application of instruments. I can't see what kind of science you're looking for that would require the use of a human that may require that much mobility. We want to know the chemical composition? The rover is more than enough. All other things are mostly chemical makeup, and no matter how many humans you send at it, it isn't done any better.
Next, do you realize your efficiency point? Effeciency denotes a ratio of resources to effectiveness. You need to send an extremely large amount of food along with the astronaut, and even if you propose farming on mars, that's still a gigantic amount of hydroponic equipment. If you sent an equivelant mass of scientific equipment on rovers, you'd accomplish much more meaningful science. All in all, NASA's mission has long been over with the rovers, they've measured all the things they're looking for.
Although sending people to mars is "cool", it offers no real scientific advantage whatsoever. As per your example, digging a hole with a shovel is inefficient versus drilling straight down, when you have to feed the astronaut the weight of the rover each day.
It would have also been rather big and unholdable, ala the DS. I personally don't think it's the 2d gaming appreciation so as much as the ridiculous price point. If it was $100, i'd already have one. But at this price... hell, save the cash for the PS3's opening price. (By opening, I mean 2 weeks later, AFTER the scalpers are done.)
I tried to type out the punch card into my computer, but there were too many dark spots in the scan and my card fell apart.
On the other hand, the satire of Wikipedia (Uncyclopedia) is only at 2700 articles. Guess information is easier to write than satire. (Ooor, it could be the few year starting period, the popularity, the sanity...)
It's long known that security through obscurity doesn't work. This is proven in cryptography. Hiding away an error doesn't make it go away. To mitigate the problem of making it too well known though, a patch warning period would be good to inform, but it should still be independently released for all to see afterward.
No, if you actually read documentation instead of trolling, you would find that the iPod has two processors, one of which decodes mp3, aac, etc, in hardware, which linux currently cannot access. What they're doing right now is running an mp3 software decoder on the non dedicated cpu.
Saying that the iPod is too weak then, is sort of like not having a video driver for a geforce 9 in linux and claiming it's too weak to run doom 3.
Despite the reliability concerns of Verizon, they do offer a pretty hot deal on DSL. Here in New York, we get 3mbps down and 768k up, which is far better for bittorrent, for $30 a month. No kidding. That's alot better than 40GBP. We also have no cap. They have a 500GB per month cap, and on just 3mbps you can download 972GB per month. Seems like we've got the better deal here in NY.
Now, if they'd ever deploy fiber instead of just claiming it's deployed...
Yes, apparently the slashdot crowd couldn't wait for issue #63 to bring phrack to an end.
> Thats exactly why EA is able to pump out 17 Sims expansions a year...
You mean 18. While posting that, you just missed "The Sims: Living with a new style of Brown Hair". Excuse me while I find my credit card and order it now feverishly. For the girlie, you know. Not as if I like micromanaging their bathroom habits. Not at all.
Well yeah, but not how you'd think. The apple store site says "Do not eat iPod shuffle" and I was looking forward to chewing on it.
Well, suppose you're in Starfleet, and the holodeck is acting up. Now, there's a series of commands that just can't be activated using the LCARS interface, and instead has to be inputted using voice authentication through the ship's AI engine. Basically, you put in the knoppix cd, reboot your starship, and then...
...."
"Computer, vee eye slash etc slash lye low"
"escape down down down colon a
Yes, this is true, but it certainly doesn't help the linux image. In an age where people can't program their VCRs because they don't want to read the manual, we certainly can't expect them to read the man pages to edit a conf file. Much less, find the man pages...
If you mean flames per second, yeah. Perhaps nVidia's dual 6800s could compete with ATI's FireGL series? More bacon grilling fun for all of us.
Shh, this is our chance to karma up and reuse the jokes from the old thread! Dammit, now you've gone and spoiled it.
> Now if only I had money, room and an understanding girlfriend I would try this.
What was that noise? I think I just heard thousands of slashdotters cry out all at once. Now look what you've done. They thought they only needed the Legos.
Yeah yeah, that's the responsible thing to say. But responsible stuff is sooooooooo boring. I mean, if we were all responsible people that wanted stability, we'd all be running kernel 2.2, Apache 1.1, many year old revisions of programs patched to all heck, never install any packages that aren't yet at least of legal age, and still tout ISA support as a bleeding edge feature.
Hmm. Wait, I think I just described Debian Stable.
*is hit by a gigantic potato from the debian crowd*
(Yes, I am aware that stable is called Woody, and the last version was called Potato. But if I said "is hit by a gigantic woody..." i'd probably get murdered. Oops.)
Which any programmer is capable of doing. Following instructions is beyond the capability of most users, because well, they don't read the directions. When was the last time you read the manual that came with any product?
Right now, most consumers expect to be able to install the software without reading any of the dialog boxes and just hitting 'next' like mad. Making this more difficult isn't a matter of them not being able to do this, but rather that they lack the drive to actually do it. Changing 3 lines of a text file is pretty archaic and reminds me of CONFIG.SYS and the DOS days.
Comon, we can do better than that.
This isn't necessarily true, or there wouldn't be MUSHes and MOOs across the internet, where the whole point is just to build, explore, and socialize. However, you're right in that it's not a mainstream activity, in that the majority of people just want to stab things. I pray for the day however, when we'll finally get a real graphicsl MUSH.
Better yet, wait about a year, and you'll have a massively sized hard drive in the palm of your hand for iPorn. Hmm. On second thought, scratch that thought, it sounded alot worse than it was supposed to.
The thing is, because society requires proof of effort, or at least knowledge to get a job, the brighter students still need to suffer through just to get a degree. They aren't more qualified for learning. The less bright ones see that they aren't learning in school, and try to follow that.
Or so it seems at times.