My god, the moderators are fucking children. and by that i mean, they're pedophiles! yeah, i'm done caring about karma. i'll keep it up enough to be 'excellent' but that doesn't take much anyway. i now devote my karma to wasting the karma points moderators are given. muahahaha! join me! add me as 'friend' and we'll start a league of karma wasters!
Wow, thanks for all the comments. I guess i don't have official info on all this, but it's what i'm supposing is the general norm. Perhaps it isn't as old-school as i thought, but perhaps those old people don't post on/. too:P anyway, i think sewing is a great tool, in these modern throw-away products days.
My sister sews, i suppose (32y/o), and my mom (59) too. I also wonder, do little girls still sew clothes for their dolls?
The old article stated that the Internet is responsible for declining sales of patterns for doilies and other sewing patters. Here's two reasons i think this is BS.
1.) Given the median age of the people who still knit and sew, i'd say that few of them use a computer, much less the internet.
1.) The people who do sew, are so old they're probably just dying off anyway, thus leading to the declining sales.
As it is i see this as a short lived sport. Right now, it's at the fun stage, where people enjoy it, trust it, and relatively few people are doing it.
What happens though, when it's wildly popular? We'll have some incident where that lunchbox cache is booby trapped, and some kid gets hurt. Then, the news will jump all over it as some dangerous unregulated, unapproved event on public property. And of course, you'll have to think of the children. Blah.
I'd like to try it, if i had the $, and the caches in the area, but alas, i don't.
Perhaps if they try to move it to areas in the country, along rivers, or along regular hiking and biking trails? You could label each cache on the net as a drive, walking, or bike riding cache. These are just some of my own suggestions. I declare them open source and free, do what you will with them. Good luck to them, if this turns out to be a niche, even better.:P
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Copyright Defeats?
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Fsck, i don't care! i just wanted Goatse modded up!
From what i could glean, Nvidia changed their software in such away that visuals outside of walls, where you're not supposed to be anyway, were not rendered correctly. I don't see how this is a cheat, if it even marginally improves game rendering. Mind you, it may have made an even bigger impact on 3Dmark, or what have you, than the game. But, that only means that 3Dmark must adjust to the card, and that their software is not able to correctly give a good diagnostic. Thus, they've since talked to Nvidia, and will adjust for the driver changes.
What people aren't realizing is that the first games, 2D games with scrolling screens, did the same thing. The way they could make those games actually perform, is they only rendered a few blocks outside of what is actually shown on the screen. Rendering an entire map in Duke Nukem 1,2,3 (the 2-D version), would have been suicide on a 80386. My god people, it's Engineering, doing the bare minimum to get the job done faster, cheaper.
I agree. Physics 2 is where almost anyone non-EE or CPE(computer engineer) gets their circuits. However, that class is not even similar to what EE's do. E.g., we think of current flow in the opposite direction as physics. My irk with math is that i really don't want to learn all the little details about how to solve integrals. I have matlab. Which reminds me of a site about how EE's flip out and write matlab code all the time... but i digress. We use laplace, fourier, taylor polynomials/series, matrices, diffy q, a lot of stuff. But a more focused math program on engineering would do a lot of good.
Also, we never had to take physics lab. i took a chem lab, but that's it, besides all my circuits labs. labs take a lot of time and effort for the few credits their worth, so maybe they don't require as many for that reason?
We started a class to replace Linear Algebra for engineers this past year. Basically, an engineer told a VERY good math prof what we needed to learn and focus on. I'd already taken linear, so i didn't have to take this new classs. However, the idea of an engineer prof and math prof working together is just awesome.
I highly doubt this is anything like Enron/Worldcom/Adelphia. Companies, especially tech oriented companies got scrutinized pretty well after those big guns fell. I'm hedging my bet on there were some small discrepencies, but nothing larger than 100 million. Sure, that's a lot of money, but not as much as the Billion our buddies at SCO want.
On a personal note, i haven't heard of rampant, silly hiring by IBM. I was told by a Worldcom employee in the summer of '01 that they'd hire any EE they could get their hands on. Wow, i though, they must be booming to be hiring like that. Obviously not, but i haven't heard of any strange business happenings from IBM.
Too bad my co-op here hasn't used those accounting methods... they're kinda hurting right now. And a couple years of faked prosperity would be a good learning experience:P
Why don't you just keep on rubbing in how cool the classes that I'll never get to take are?
Sadly, i don't find this funny. I'm a current EE student, going into my 5th year (i co-oped). We're on semesters, btw. Math is way too focused upon. Sure, it's cool, but 3 semesters of Calculus that we NEVER use, only to get to Differential Equations that we ALWAYS use. Personally, i think math/physics (i had to take 3 physics classes) classes could be condensed into 4 semesters, and improved, in focusing on matrices, and DE. And, i've talked to EE students from other schools (purdue included), and the programs are quite similar.
What the problem is, is that during the Dot-Bust, everyone focused everything on computers. Sure, i like computers, they're great. But if i wanted to be a computer engineer, i'd go into Computer engineering. Alas, EE got so focused on computers that it really lost its overall focus on electricity, and its applications. And, when designing IC's, the work is almost all math. Blah.
Some things that are lacking in EE: Motors of any kind, a focus on Controls, Real life transmission lines, rather than all microstrip lines, and more early EE classes. We didn't start circuits until Sophomore year. True, my university is changing the program, but this is a widespread problem that needs addressed in order to keep the world supplied with competent Engineers.
MIS? sorry bout your luck, you're screwed. oh, and my personal opinion is laptops are only good for writing papers, IM, surfing while drinking a beer on my porch. anything else, i need specialized programs, and should use a desktop anyway (matlab, ect). Note-taking is hard to do when you have to draw FET after FET after Fet, and write down the equations for them.
Also anyone think its wrong for govs to sell off a asset of the state which affects future generations with out referendum etc
Not really. Deregulation doesn't require any kind of specific public approval, as far as i'm concerned. Heck, i bought a 200mhz pentium, with monitor, hdd, everything for $5 bucks the other week. They didn't have any need for referendum for that. I have NO problem with the gov't selling stuff, especially cheaply, and to me.
If the gov't never sold anything, simply because it's "for the children! Think of the children," then we'd be living in a complete socialistic society within a few year. You know, like the EU.
Really, this is a bare minimum of informing people. The few times this would apply is when something like this happens:
Sorry, but we accidentally sent every SanFran registered voter's complete personal information to some accounting companies, rather than their 2002 ballots to be checked. And that information got lost in the mail. So, ah, all of your lives are floating out there somewhere in a canvas bag with U.S. Mail written on it. Sorry!
is 100km. That's not bad at all really. But still, the major question remains: where are we getting hydrogen from?!
We don't have large hydrogen producing plants, and we don't have a major distribution center to support it. I'm assuming you'll have to fill up your tank at home, which means installing a LOT of equipment, at GREAT expense, at least until a good distribution system is in place. Yes there are some hydrogen refueling places, but not really that many yet.
I support many of Bush's plans, but he really has to drop oil, and focus on something even more proven: that technology advances, and new products replace the old.
Really, instead of some huge leap, i suggest switching away from QWERTY first. Qwerty was made to slow typing, by making you reach for keys. The reason for this being that the original typewriters would jam if you typed too fast. Obviously, this leads to carpal tunnel, and all that good stuff. DVORAK and some other keyboard formats are made to make it easier, faster, and easier to accurately type. I'm not switching yet, but i'm thinking about it. One of my friends did, and he loves it.
New keyboards are neat and all, but they're still first designs, first revisions. If i'm to try something new (new to me), i'll wait for a year, and see if it's really beneficial. If it is, then i'll look at the cost, and if it's worth it. At this time, this product seems to be more eye candy and "if i have more toys, i win" than actually worthwile. Point: if my g/f wants to use my computer, do i have to switch keyboards? Really, i don't see the $600 benefit in that. not yet at least.
These are only virtual realities. They are not, and shouldn't be protected in the same way as physical properties.
However, if you view the value of things as how many man-hours go into it, then yes, there is some kind of value, and right associated with these characters, and products. However, just because there is time involved, does not inherently imply value, or even many rights.
The company has a say in this more than the Gov't, or the gamer. The company runs the server, the company saves your profiles. If this company were to go under, they have no reason to hold onto those profiles, as they are simply another part of their business, which they own. You have no say, no matter what you think. However, a nice company may do something like transfer their servers, code, or other necessary info to open source, and thus preserving the environment. This does not mean individual properties are saved, which is what people would want to save, most of all.
Really, if your life is so consumed by the internet as to make it a pseudo-physical part of your life, then you need to think about something else for a while. Go into a rehab facillity, something. Please get some sunshine and a tan, we all need it (me especially...).
Because they're not trying to 'screw 3DMark' but rather ATI. They want higher scores, as does ATI. Thus, they make their drivers a little different, to take advantage of the program. It's not that hard to understand really, making people think your performance is better than it really is. In reality, would you even notice the few percentage points faster they claim extra? Yeah, me neither.
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"In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, widely considered the father of Linux"
From the reverence he gets, it seems some think of him as God.
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yeah, and i got modded down as a troll. wtf, ya know?
My god, the moderators are fucking children. and by that i mean, they're pedophiles! yeah, i'm done caring about karma. i'll keep it up enough to be 'excellent' but that doesn't take much anyway. i now devote my karma to wasting the karma points moderators are given. muahahaha! join me! add me as 'friend' and we'll start a league of karma wasters!
Great sig! cliche of a post though. l4m3r
Wow, thanks for all the comments. I guess i don't have official info on all this, but it's what i'm supposing is the general norm. Perhaps it isn't as old-school as i thought, but perhaps those old people don't post on /. too :P anyway, i think sewing is a great tool, in these modern throw-away products days.
My sister sews, i suppose (32y/o), and my mom (59) too. I also wonder, do little girls still sew clothes for their dolls?
The old article stated that the Internet is responsible for declining sales of patterns for doilies and other sewing patters. Here's two reasons i think this is BS.
1.) Given the median age of the people who still knit and sew, i'd say that few of them use a computer, much less the internet.
1.) The people who do sew, are so old they're probably just dying off anyway, thus leading to the declining sales.
As it is i see this as a short lived sport. Right now, it's at the fun stage, where people enjoy it, trust it, and relatively few people are doing it.
What happens though, when it's wildly popular? We'll have some incident where that lunchbox cache is booby trapped, and some kid gets hurt. Then, the news will jump all over it as some dangerous unregulated, unapproved event on public property. And of course, you'll have to think of the children. Blah.
I'd like to try it, if i had the $, and the caches in the area, but alas, i don't.
Perhaps if they try to move it to areas in the country, along rivers, or along regular hiking and biking trails? You could label each cache on the net as a drive, walking, or bike riding cache. These are just some of my own suggestions. I declare them open source and free, do what you will with them. Good luck to them, if this turns out to be a niche, even better. :P
Fsck, i don't care! i just wanted Goatse modded up!
Serious, this could be the ONLY time goatse is relevant!
The fact that sites like Goatse.cx are allowed to stay up. It's a minor victory, but it's something at least.
Thanks for the clarification! Most of these comments are just yelling 'cheater!' as if they were playing counterstrike!
From what i could glean, Nvidia changed their software in such away that visuals outside of walls, where you're not supposed to be anyway, were not rendered correctly. I don't see how this is a cheat, if it even marginally improves game rendering. Mind you, it may have made an even bigger impact on 3Dmark, or what have you, than the game. But, that only means that 3Dmark must adjust to the card, and that their software is not able to correctly give a good diagnostic. Thus, they've since talked to Nvidia, and will adjust for the driver changes.
What people aren't realizing is that the first games, 2D games with scrolling screens, did the same thing. The way they could make those games actually perform, is they only rendered a few blocks outside of what is actually shown on the screen. Rendering an entire map in Duke Nukem 1,2,3 (the 2-D version), would have been suicide on a 80386. My god people, it's Engineering, doing the bare minimum to get the job done faster, cheaper.
Also, we never had to take physics lab. i took a chem lab, but that's it, besides all my circuits labs. labs take a lot of time and effort for the few credits their worth, so maybe they don't require as many for that reason?
We started a class to replace Linear Algebra for engineers this past year. Basically, an engineer told a VERY good math prof what we needed to learn and focus on. I'd already taken linear, so i didn't have to take this new classs. However, the idea of an engineer prof and math prof working together is just awesome.
I highly doubt this is anything like Enron/Worldcom/Adelphia. Companies, especially tech oriented companies got scrutinized pretty well after those big guns fell. I'm hedging my bet on there were some small discrepencies, but nothing larger than 100 million. Sure, that's a lot of money, but not as much as the Billion our buddies at SCO want.
On a personal note, i haven't heard of rampant, silly hiring by IBM. I was told by a Worldcom employee in the summer of '01 that they'd hire any EE they could get their hands on. Wow, i though, they must be booming to be hiring like that. Obviously not, but i haven't heard of any strange business happenings from IBM.
Too bad my co-op here hasn't used those accounting methods... they're kinda hurting right now. And a couple years of faked prosperity would be a good learning experience :P
Why don't you just keep on rubbing in how cool the classes that I'll never get to take are?
Sadly, i don't find this funny. I'm a current EE student, going into my 5th year (i co-oped). We're on semesters, btw. Math is way too focused upon. Sure, it's cool, but 3 semesters of Calculus that we NEVER use, only to get to Differential Equations that we ALWAYS use. Personally, i think math/physics (i had to take 3 physics classes) classes could be condensed into 4 semesters, and improved, in focusing on matrices, and DE. And, i've talked to EE students from other schools (purdue included), and the programs are quite similar.
What the problem is, is that during the Dot-Bust, everyone focused everything on computers. Sure, i like computers, they're great. But if i wanted to be a computer engineer, i'd go into Computer engineering. Alas, EE got so focused on computers that it really lost its overall focus on electricity, and its applications. And, when designing IC's, the work is almost all math. Blah.
Some things that are lacking in EE: Motors of any kind, a focus on Controls, Real life transmission lines, rather than all microstrip lines, and more early EE classes. We didn't start circuits until Sophomore year. True, my university is changing the program, but this is a widespread problem that needs addressed in order to keep the world supplied with competent Engineers.
MIS? sorry bout your luck, you're screwed. oh, and my personal opinion is laptops are only good for writing papers, IM, surfing while drinking a beer on my porch. anything else, i need specialized programs, and should use a desktop anyway (matlab, ect). Note-taking is hard to do when you have to draw FET after FET after Fet, and write down the equations for them.
IT... bwahahahahahahahahahah!
I chose the iBook because I liked it's look
Nuff said! Go home business/art major!
Also anyone think its wrong for govs to sell off a asset of the state which affects future generations with out referendum etc
Not really. Deregulation doesn't require any kind of specific public approval, as far as i'm concerned. Heck, i bought a 200mhz pentium, with monitor, hdd, everything for $5 bucks the other week. They didn't have any need for referendum for that. I have NO problem with the gov't selling stuff, especially cheaply, and to me.
If the gov't never sold anything, simply because it's "for the children! Think of the children," then we'd be living in a complete socialistic society within a few year. You know, like the EU.
Really, this is a bare minimum of informing people. The few times this would apply is when something like this happens:
Sorry, but we accidentally sent every SanFran registered voter's complete personal information to some accounting companies, rather than their 2002 ballots to be checked. And that information got lost in the mail. So, ah, all of your lives are floating out there somewhere in a canvas bag with U.S. Mail written on it. Sorry!
is 100km. That's not bad at all really. But still, the major question remains: where are we getting hydrogen from?!
We don't have large hydrogen producing plants, and we don't have a major distribution center to support it. I'm assuming you'll have to fill up your tank at home, which means installing a LOT of equipment, at GREAT expense, at least until a good distribution system is in place. Yes there are some hydrogen refueling places, but not really that many yet.
I support many of Bush's plans, but he really has to drop oil, and focus on something even more proven: that technology advances, and new products replace the old.
The article says that people have an innate idea that they need twisted. This could be the reason right here, their subconcious likens them to brests!
At least they don't feel they have to lick whip cream off of them... I hate sticky keyboards :P
Really, instead of some huge leap, i suggest switching away from QWERTY first. Qwerty was made to slow typing, by making you reach for keys. The reason for this being that the original typewriters would jam if you typed too fast. Obviously, this leads to carpal tunnel, and all that good stuff. DVORAK and some other keyboard formats are made to make it easier, faster, and easier to accurately type. I'm not switching yet, but i'm thinking about it. One of my friends did, and he loves it.
New keyboards are neat and all, but they're still first designs, first revisions. If i'm to try something new (new to me), i'll wait for a year, and see if it's really beneficial. If it is, then i'll look at the cost, and if it's worth it. At this time, this product seems to be more eye candy and "if i have more toys, i win" than actually worthwile. Point: if my g/f wants to use my computer, do i have to switch keyboards? Really, i don't see the $600 benefit in that. not yet at least.
These are only virtual realities. They are not, and shouldn't be protected in the same way as physical properties.
However, if you view the value of things as how many man-hours go into it, then yes, there is some kind of value, and right associated with these characters, and products. However, just because there is time involved, does not inherently imply value, or even many rights.
The company has a say in this more than the Gov't, or the gamer. The company runs the server, the company saves your profiles. If this company were to go under, they have no reason to hold onto those profiles, as they are simply another part of their business, which they own. You have no say, no matter what you think. However, a nice company may do something like transfer their servers, code, or other necessary info to open source, and thus preserving the environment. This does not mean individual properties are saved, which is what people would want to save, most of all.
Really, if your life is so consumed by the internet as to make it a pseudo-physical part of your life, then you need to think about something else for a while. Go into a rehab facillity, something. Please get some sunshine and a tan, we all need it (me especially...).
Will the real Unix owner, please stand up, please stand up...
or, "Who owns the code code to the Unix source? SCO does.
who me?
yes you.
Couldn't be
Then who?
Novell owns the code to the Unix source
who me?
Yes you.
continue...
Ah, shit, why don't we just call it all open source and be happy.
Because they're not trying to 'screw 3DMark' but rather ATI. They want higher scores, as does ATI. Thus, they make their drivers a little different, to take advantage of the program. It's not that hard to understand really, making people think your performance is better than it really is. In reality, would you even notice the few percentage points faster they claim extra? Yeah, me neither.
"In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, widely considered the father of Linux"
From the reverence he gets, it seems some think of him as God.