Especially since it's the programming languagues which garbled the original, mathematical meaning of the operator '=': The equals-sign evaluates equality, the assignment operator is ':='.
Some programming languages such as Pascal (and its derivatives) implement this, others, like C, don't, probably because it's not as comfortable. Some languages, like (Visual) Basic, don't even have seperate operators - the compiler decides whether '=' tests for equality or does an assignment based on context. Fugly.
DSL? The most common form seems to be ADSL (A for asynchronous) which has the exact same design - it moves more data down than up. Here in Germany the vast majority (I don't have any factual data, but I'd guess more than 95%) are 768/128 kbit ADSL links.
You're absolutely correct, which just happens to illustrate the fact that in contrast to common belief, The Simpsons is not always correct. It's just that there isn't really a better translation for the "D'oh!"... "argh", perhabs.
What difference does that make? How does that decrease/.'s utility?
Neither me nor the original poster said it did. Your definition of news is only one of several, by the way, I wouldn't say the stuff I learn in tomorrows lecture on hardware design is news, although it'll probably be news to me. On the other hand, this story about Doom 3 wasn't new to me, but it's still a news story even to me.
Anyway, I do like to know about stuff as early as possible, which is one of the reasons why I visit Slashdot. The other being I enjoy (sometimes) the discussion of news stories on Slashdot. At the same time I realise Slashdot makes a poor single source of news, among lots of other things because it's not always very fast to report stuff. If speed isn't of any importance to you, that's your prerogative, of course, but I doubt it really isn't.
Note that I don't see the whole issue with the kind of... fervor... you apparently do.
Me? I didn't share anything with anyone, I'm a different person than the original poster.:)
But anyway, the point is probably that Slashdot is supposed to be fast about posting news, and that in this case it was quite slow. That doesn't hurt anybody per se, it does "hurt" people who rely on Slashdot as their only source of "News for Nerds", or at least if would if this was some kind of highly relevant story.
I don't really see why you're making such a big thing out of it, nobody ever said the fact that Slashdot isn't always the first site ro report things was some kind of earth shattering insight. *shrug*
No, it just means that Slashdot took a really long time reporting this. Even some German news site I visit to get up-to-date information about ISPs listed the story earlier. Oh well.
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Huh? What the fuck is wrong with downloading the alpha? You might be disillusioned or something if you don't remember it's an early built, but hell, nobody is losing any money. I have no idea why you think playing the alpha is disrespectful, of all things. (For the record, I haven't... yet.)
Maybe you are, but I certainly enjoy STR myself. I thought hibernation was cool, but 2 seconds to wake-up are better than 30. I just hope the power consumption is really as low as it is supposed to be.
It's true that cheap and old LCDs have huge issues with low pixel refresh rates, but more recent dislplays are way better at showing games and movies. I doubt this'll be much of an issue in a year or so.
I am not an electrical engineering senior? Something like that, probably. Not particularily funny or original. Rest of the post is okay, though. *shrug*
AFAIK Miranda does ICQ, AIM, MSN. I don't really care, though, I only need a slim ICQ client. Most clients I tried were either too slim - they couldn't do things like file transfers - or too ICQish fat - Trillian takes just as long to load as ICQ did. Also, no IM I tried was able to recover my ICQ history along with the contact list.[1] Well, Miranda could do that, and it also starts in, oh, a split second as opposed to a split minute, which is quite comfortable. FWIW, Miranda is also free as in speech, not as in beer. The fact that other clients support more protocols certainly doesn't necessarily mean they're better. As discussed above, many people seem to think Gaim, while supporting even more protocols than Trillian, isn't exactly the most comfortable IM around. Well, I'm as comfortable with Miranda as I've never been with any IM before.
[1] I'm pretty sure other alternative IMs can do that by now, too - but none did when I tried them. My IM history is quite important to me.
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, first published 1950 - so yeah, they had some sort of concept of robots in the 50's, and it is that very concept the original concept is referring to.
The GPL is an EULA, but the GPL is only made necessary because there is such a thing as an EULA. In a world without copyright, there could not be a GPL, but there wouldn't be a need for it, either. At least, that's the theory - I'm not saying all EULA's are evil (mainly because I haven't thought about it enough to make such a universal statement).
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Multi-monitoring is already routinely used in a whole slew of applications - publishing, image processing, CAD/CAM to name a few... Most of these don't require the added bandwidth of the AGP, though, but then again, few things do - CAD/CAM might, and games, of course. Which leads to another possible use for multiple AGPs. However, even though multi-device gaming has been possible for a long time and has even been pimped by the graphics chipset industry recently, it never really took off.
If two chess players play perfectly, then the game will always result in a tie.
Not true, or rather, not proven yet. If both players started out equally, it'd be true, but since one player moves first, it isn't necessarily true. Once the computational power is there to solve chess we will know whether a perfectly played game will always result in a tie, a white win or a black win.
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Especially since it's the programming languagues which garbled the original, mathematical meaning of the operator '=': The equals-sign evaluates equality, the assignment operator is ':='. Some programming languages such as Pascal (and its derivatives) implement this, others, like C, don't, probably because it's not as comfortable. Some languages, like (Visual) Basic, don't even have seperate operators - the compiler decides whether '=' tests for equality or does an assignment based on context. Fugly.
DSL? The most common form seems to be ADSL (A for asynchronous) which has the exact same design - it moves more data down than up. Here in Germany the vast majority (I don't have any factual data, but I'd guess more than 95%) are 768/128 kbit ADSL links.
Wow, that'd actually be pretty cool.
You're absolutely correct, which just happens to illustrate the fact that in contrast to common belief, The Simpsons is not always correct. It's just that there isn't really a better translation for the "D'oh!" ... "argh", perhabs.
"Nein!", according to The Simpsons (German).
Anyway, I do like to know about stuff as early as possible, which is one of the reasons why I visit Slashdot. The other being I enjoy (sometimes) the discussion of news stories on Slashdot. At the same time I realise Slashdot makes a poor single source of news, among lots of other things because it's not always very fast to report stuff. If speed isn't of any importance to you, that's your prerogative, of course, but I doubt it really isn't.
Note that I don't see the whole issue with the kind of
Me? I didn't share anything with anyone, I'm a different person than the original poster. :)
But anyway, the point is probably that Slashdot is supposed to be fast about posting news, and that in this case it was quite slow. That doesn't hurt anybody per se, it does "hurt" people who rely on Slashdot as their only source of "News for Nerds", or at least if would if this was some kind of highly relevant story.
I don't really see why you're making such a big thing out of it, nobody ever said the fact that Slashdot isn't always the first site ro report things was some kind of earth shattering insight. *shrug*
No, it just means that Slashdot took a really long time reporting this. Even some German news site I visit to get up-to-date information about ISPs listed the story earlier. Oh well.
Huh? What the fuck is wrong with downloading the alpha? You might be disillusioned or something if you don't remember it's an early built, but hell, nobody is losing any money. I have no idea why you think playing the alpha is disrespectful, of all things. (For the record, I haven't ... yet.)
No, it's not. At least not from a scientific point of view. I'm sure it is, from a populistic one.
It is, if you've already got 20 video cards and monitors ... and that will be true for most schools.
Maybe you are, but I certainly enjoy STR myself. I thought hibernation was cool, but 2 seconds to wake-up are better than 30. I just hope the power consumption is really as low as it is supposed to be.
It's true that cheap and old LCDs have huge issues with low pixel refresh rates, but more recent dislplays are way better at showing games and movies. I doubt this'll be much of an issue in a year or so.
I am not an electrical engineering senior? Something like that, probably. Not particularily funny or original. Rest of the post is okay, though. *shrug*
AFAIK Miranda does ICQ, AIM, MSN. I don't really care, though, I only need a slim ICQ client. Most clients I tried were either too slim - they couldn't do things like file transfers - or too ICQish fat - Trillian takes just as long to load as ICQ did. Also, no IM I tried was able to recover my ICQ history along with the contact list.[1]
Well, Miranda could do that, and it also starts in, oh, a split second as opposed to a split minute, which is quite comfortable. FWIW, Miranda is also free as in speech, not as in beer.
The fact that other clients support more protocols certainly doesn't necessarily mean they're better. As discussed above, many people seem to think Gaim, while supporting even more protocols than Trillian, isn't exactly the most comfortable IM around. Well, I'm as comfortable with Miranda as I've never been with any IM before.
[1] I'm pretty sure other alternative IMs can do that by now, too - but none did when I tried them. My IM history is quite important to me.
Right. Because this kind of humorous "wasting" is totally equivalent to the negligent wasting typically evident in the western world.
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov, first published 1950 - so yeah, they had some sort of concept of robots in the 50's, and it is that very concept the original concept is referring to.
Yes. Thanks. Sorry for being ignorant. :)
The GPL is an EULA, but the GPL is only made necessary because there is such a thing as an EULA. In a world without copyright, there could not be a GPL, but there wouldn't be a need for it, either. At least, that's the theory - I'm not saying all EULA's are evil (mainly because I haven't thought about it enough to make such a universal statement).
Multi-monitoring is already routinely used in a whole slew of applications - publishing, image processing, CAD/CAM to name a few ...
Most of these don't require the added bandwidth of the AGP, though, but then again, few things do - CAD/CAM might, and games, of course. Which leads to another possible use for multiple AGPs.
However, even though multi-device gaming has been possible for a long time and has even been pimped by the graphics chipset industry recently, it never really took off.
In fact I did re-read it only just a week ago, and yeah, it also sprang to my mind immediatly.
Wow, you even saved a byte by mis-spelling "Possible" - awesome!
Wrong, sorry.
Can't you use the 12 hours average of bright day light to read books instead of using those awful light bulbs? I bet it's bad for the skin, too!