And, of course, getting the 939 helps your computer be more future-proof. It's always nice to just be able to drop in a new processor rather than having to buy a new motherboard and transfer everything over.
I used to think that way, but not anymore.
Think back to 3 years ago, when I bought my previous motherboard and cpu. My motherboard doesn't have SATA, or USB 2.0, or firewire. It doesn't have gigabit ethernet. I just bought a motherboard last week that has all of that for $105.
Spending more than $100 extra to be "future proof" doesn't make sense to me because by the time I want to upgrade my cpu, a new motherboard with all the bells and whistles that weren't available 3 years ago can be had for a pittance.
If I bought a new CPU every year, then it might be worth it, but I wait 2-3 years between upgrades.
Same here, but I went low budget. I got a socket 754 Athlon64 2800. The CPU was $150, the motherboard (ASUS K8V SE Deluxe, with firewire, usb2.0, SATA RAID, and gigabit ethernet) was $105.
So I was able to upgrade my system to 64bit for $255, and was able to reuse my DDR333 ram.
True, the socket 754 is on the endangered species list, but I don't care. I have never upgraded my CPU without also upgrading my motherboard.
that's why their filesystem, hfs+, has a fully working read/write implementation in linux.
Woah, credit where credit is due. HFS+ has a read/write implementation in linux because people reverse engineered it, not because Apple published the file format.
In fact, HFS+ write support is (wait for it) Experimental! Just like NTFS write support.
Trotting out some prehistoric BIOS lawsuit proves nothing - those were formative years for the industry and hardly apply to today's situation.
Besides, hardware and software = apples and oranges.
Boy talk about ignoring history. Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS is very relevant today. It'd be no different than a company reverse engineering the iPod and making a perfect clone of it.
And, as you obviously are unaware, BIOS = software.. not hardware.
But they're still hiring programmers here, as well. So what's the problem?
The problem is they're actually cutting back on the number of openings. Look at the recent article about MS trying to save one billion dollars. They've cut employee benefits, and many positions. Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division (mainly xbox) has had fairly large cutbacks.
They said no. No means no, it does not mean do it anyway. Technically, there have been arguments that Real is doing nothing wrong, but it feels more.....how you say....just, bad faith, bad form to me.
Yeah, and boo on Compaq for reverse engineering IBM's bios instead of just licensing it, and boo on everyone who hacked TiVo and wrote books about it.
Sorry, but unless Apple is going to lease iPods they have no control over what you do to the hardware you bought from them. If I wanted to write software that turned iPod into a toaster I am within my rights to do so.
I really can't stand the double standard people have regarding Apple versus all other companies.
My definition (and I believe it's fairly close to what the article author meant) was that a hacker was someone who used a programming langauge to solve hard problems.
My definition is close to yours, but is a little more abstract. A hacker is someone who uses whatever is available to solve problems.
because I hadn't collected my wallet from the locker in the first sequence in the game (about 2 weeks playing time ago), I couldn't get any further in the game.
I had a similar experience about 5 years ago when I went to a bar and ordered a few drinks, but forgot my wallet at home.
I find that the only perspective that works well in a true 3D world is first person.
I disagree, strongly. I find 3rd person games work so much better, especially for platforms, not being able to see your feet really sucks for 1st person games.
The only gripe (and it is a very valid one) for 3rd person is the camera. The problem is that too many games treat the camera like a real object. Meaning if you back up against a wall, the camera swings out to face you, which is retarded, it should either go through the wall, or it should swing upward.
I hate when I'm rotating the camera and it hits something.. it's not a real object goddammit!
. Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices?
This would make sense if the user was given multiple rows of buttons to choose from. But the fact is the user is given 2 or 3 buttons to choose from, they're always aligned right at the bottom of the window. The first button you see is the one in the *very corner* of the window.. since that is where you look for buttons.
Look at Apple. They are interested in being the best, not in getting the biggest share of the market. Linux should be the same.
Who says we're not trying to be the best? Here's a perfect example relating to Gnome and Apple. Gnome autodetects your monitor and thus your DPI and adjusts the DPI settings to that. So you display a 12pt font in Gnome and you can break out the pica pole and verify that it is indeed 12pt.
Apple, even though they *should* know what monitor you've got hooked up, doesn't. And they assume 72dpi for everything. Even though monitors haven't been 72dpi since the crappy built-in monitor in the Mac Plus.
And I bet it would be horrendous if a decent percentage of the controllers were plugged in at once
Must..have..wireless..controllers.
Why anyone would use anything but wireless controllers these days is beyond me. The SNES, the N64 and the Gamecube all have excellent wireless controllers.
Who would have thought that your kidneys couldn't handle a feedback loop.
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Separating the CSS stylesheets from the XHTML source makes them even harder to understand, since you can't figure out which element has which id/class and what order the elements come in.
Get Firefox and install the Web Developer extension. It has a feature called View Style Information. Turn it on and your mouse becomes a crosshair. Click on an element and you can see exactly which CSS rules apply to that element.
HTML being forgiving is a bad thing. Sure, it's easier for the average person to crank out a homepage, but without strict standards, we ended up with a myriad of browser incompatibilities and mountains of sloppy coding that can't be parsed correctly.
Not only that but when you need to edit your pages you have to spend hours trying to figure out why your tables are breaking, and then find out it is because you didn't close a font tag earlier. You always run into code that worked fine before, but you make a few minor changes and it all falls apart.
Anyone who has ever worked on a complicated site (and slashdot is not considered complicated) would agree that xhtml is a godsend. It makes it easier to edit your pages later on when the bosses want to add another sidebar or a slashbox or something.
Is it my imagination or are XSLT transforms very slow. I know this will depend on what engine you use to transform, but during the course of designing a website for a friend I tried several Java based transforms to go from XML to an XHTML page.
It is your imagination. Well, more likely it is your Java. We use libxslt to convert from XML to XHTML on our site. Our site has handled several slashdottings no problem.
Our benchmarks show that we can apply a 30k XSLT to a 20k XML document around 300 times per second on an E210.
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I've got one word for you, HyperTransport.
The P4 isn't even in the same ballpark when it comes to bus bandwidth.
Just imagine "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" in 1600x1200 fullscreen
I imagine that at 1600x1200 it would likely look like this: "......"
I've never heard a sonic boom... so I'm not really sure how loud they are, but a co-worker described it as "pretty much sounds like thunder".
Is that really a big problem? It seems kind of dumb to me to ban supersonic flight over cities.
And, of course, getting the 939 helps your computer be more future-proof. It's always nice to just be able to drop in a new processor rather than having to buy a new motherboard and transfer everything over.
I used to think that way, but not anymore.
Think back to 3 years ago, when I bought my previous motherboard and cpu. My motherboard doesn't have SATA, or USB 2.0, or firewire. It doesn't have gigabit ethernet. I just bought a motherboard last week that has all of that for $105.
Spending more than $100 extra to be "future proof" doesn't make sense to me because by the time I want to upgrade my cpu, a new motherboard with all the bells and whistles that weren't available 3 years ago can be had for a pittance.
If I bought a new CPU every year, then it might be worth it, but I wait 2-3 years between upgrades.
Same here, but I went low budget. I got a socket 754 Athlon64 2800. The CPU was $150, the motherboard (ASUS K8V SE Deluxe, with firewire, usb2.0, SATA RAID, and gigabit ethernet) was $105.
So I was able to upgrade my system to 64bit for $255, and was able to reuse my DDR333 ram.
True, the socket 754 is on the endangered species list, but I don't care. I have never upgraded my CPU without also upgrading my motherboard.
that's why their filesystem, hfs+, has a fully working read/write implementation in linux.
Woah, credit where credit is due. HFS+ has a read/write implementation in linux because people reverse engineered it, not because Apple published the file format.
In fact, HFS+ write support is (wait for it) Experimental! Just like NTFS write support.
the fucktwit COO was single handedly decimating moral through out the ranks.
Well, decimation does have a tendency to reduce moral.
Trotting out some prehistoric BIOS lawsuit proves nothing - those were formative years for the industry and hardly apply to today's situation.
Besides, hardware and software = apples and oranges.
Boy talk about ignoring history. Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS is very relevant today. It'd be no different than a company reverse engineering the iPod and making a perfect clone of it.
And, as you obviously are unaware, BIOS = software.. not hardware.
Both Real and Apple can sod off for all I care.
As.... you... wishhh!
But they're still hiring programmers here, as well. So what's the problem?
The problem is they're actually cutting back on the number of openings. Look at the recent article about MS trying to save one billion dollars. They've cut employee benefits, and many positions. Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division (mainly xbox) has had fairly large cutbacks.
They aren't still growing, MS is making cutbacks.
They said no. No means no, it does not mean do it anyway. Technically, there have been arguments that Real is doing nothing wrong, but it feels more.....how you say....just, bad faith, bad form to me.
Yeah, and boo on Compaq for reverse engineering IBM's bios instead of just licensing it, and boo on everyone who hacked TiVo and wrote books about it.
Sorry, but unless Apple is going to lease iPods they have no control over what you do to the hardware you bought from them. If I wanted to write software that turned iPod into a toaster I am within my rights to do so.
I really can't stand the double standard people have regarding Apple versus all other companies.
My definition (and I believe it's fairly close to what the article author meant) was that a hacker was someone who used a programming langauge to solve hard problems.
My definition is close to yours, but is a little more abstract. A hacker is someone who uses whatever is available to solve problems.
MacGuyver is a hacker.
Why link to IGN, which requires you to log in to watch the damn trailer.
www.gametrailers.com has the same trailer and you don't need to log in.
because I hadn't collected my wallet from the locker in the first sequence in the game (about 2 weeks playing time ago), I couldn't get any further in the game.
I had a similar experience about 5 years ago when I went to a bar and ordered a few drinks, but forgot my wallet at home.
Luckily my friend was there to cover me.
why not disable in-dash DVD players or TV's when the vehicle is in motion?
In many states, it is illegal to have a TV monitor in the front seat.
I guess Alaska isn't one of them.
I find that the only perspective that works well in a true 3D world is first person.
I disagree, strongly. I find 3rd person games work so much better, especially for platforms, not being able to see your feet really sucks for 1st person games.
The only gripe (and it is a very valid one) for 3rd person is the camera. The problem is that too many games treat the camera like a real object. Meaning if you back up against a wall, the camera swings out to face you, which is retarded, it should either go through the wall, or it should swing upward.
I hate when I'm rotating the camera and it hits something.. it's not a real object goddammit!
Oh yea, the owner's name is Uzi Nissan, the owner of Nissan Computer Corp.
Well obviously the owner should be forced to change his name, as he neither sells cars nor automatic weapons.
. Who scans down the right edge of a page looking for their choices?
This would make sense if the user was given multiple rows of buttons to choose from. But the fact is the user is given 2 or 3 buttons to choose from, they're always aligned right at the bottom of the window. The first button you see is the one in the *very corner* of the window.. since that is where you look for buttons.
Look at Apple. They are interested in being the best, not in getting the biggest share of the market. Linux should be the same.
Who says we're not trying to be the best? Here's a perfect example relating to Gnome and Apple. Gnome autodetects your monitor and thus your DPI and adjusts the DPI settings to that. So you display a 12pt font in Gnome and you can break out the pica pole and verify that it is indeed 12pt.
Apple, even though they *should* know what monitor you've got hooked up, doesn't. And they assume 72dpi for everything. Even though monitors haven't been 72dpi since the crappy built-in monitor in the Mac Plus.
And I bet it would be horrendous if a decent percentage of the controllers were plugged in at once
Must..have..wireless..controllers.
Why anyone would use anything but wireless controllers these days is beyond me. The SNES, the N64 and the Gamecube all have excellent wireless controllers.
in the long term it would cause kidney damage.
Who would have thought that your kidneys couldn't handle a feedback loop.
Separating the CSS stylesheets from the XHTML source makes them even harder to understand, since you can't figure out which element has which id/class and what order the elements come in.
Get Firefox and install the Web Developer extension. It has a feature called View Style Information. Turn it on and your mouse becomes a crosshair. Click on an element and you can see exactly which CSS rules apply to that element.
HTML being forgiving is a bad thing. Sure, it's easier for the average person to crank out a homepage, but without strict standards, we ended up with a myriad of browser incompatibilities and mountains of sloppy coding that can't be parsed correctly.
Not only that but when you need to edit your pages you have to spend hours trying to figure out why your tables are breaking, and then find out it is because you didn't close a font tag earlier. You always run into code that worked fine before, but you make a few minor changes and it all falls apart.
Anyone who has ever worked on a complicated site (and slashdot is not considered complicated) would agree that xhtml is a godsend. It makes it easier to edit your pages later on when the bosses want to add another sidebar or a slashbox or something.
Is it my imagination or are XSLT transforms very slow. I know this will depend on what engine you use to transform, but during the course of designing a website for a friend I tried several Java based transforms to go from XML to an XHTML page.
It is your imagination. Well, more likely it is your Java. We use libxslt to convert from XML to XHTML on our site. Our site has handled several slashdottings no problem.
Our benchmarks show that we can apply a 30k XSLT to a 20k XML document around 300 times per second on an E210.
Look at Nintendo as trying to transition to the Apple business model, with the Gameboy Advance their bread and butter.
As long as they don't use Apple as a role model too much. Nintendo has a higher market price than Apple.