Ars Technica is great, but the news comments aren't even close to Slashdot. I've never been to the forums, I assume they're quite good, though, but I'm not particularly interested in a forum. Anyway, Ars for the news editorial, Slashdot at +5 for the discussion is my system right now. Seems to work.
Shrug. Not sure what your problem is, all the things you want already exist. All modern operating systems already throttle the CPU, and for power users there are tools to manually control the multiplier. For fine tuning you can even control the voltage and make your CPU run even cooler, but it's not like anybody is forcing you to do it, in fact the program specifically warns its users and enforces a stability check when changing a voltage.
On a side note I think you'd have a very hard time damaging anything with the program. The CPU probably just doesn't accept far too high voltages, and all modern CPUs shut themselves down on overheating, lastly setting the voltage to low results in instability and shutting down, but no damage, either.
I think one of the Windows control settings will actually force the multipliers to its lowest settings. Regardless, the Windows controls suck hard. Get Notebook hardware control to have total control over the multipliers and, as a bonus, over the voltage the CPU is supplied with at any given voltage. My Dothan is running at ULV voltages now... nice!
You can easily run essentially all laptops without their batteries plugged in, provided you connected the power supply. You don't get any significant space savings, but the laptop will be a tad lighter.
If any teacher feels that it's being taken advantage of by the current system, it's free to choose another line of work.
Yes. And many do. There is a shortage of teachers. The GP said so, and it's been mentioned a dozen times in other comments. Here, I'll say it again: There is a shortage of teachers. There is an even greater shortage of good teachers, I assume. There is also a dire shortage of good parents. That is not a good combination.
That's true. Hard to find a way around that. I suppose that a video that really is hot and new will have a different download character - exponential growth, maybe - than an old hot video, which assumedly would have a constant, semi-high number of downloads. Maybe they work it out that way, maybe they don't.
That's not hard. That's also not what they do, apparently. They actually try to detect popular videos before they are popular. That way a current video gets a higher rank than an old fad that got 2 billion downloads over the years. Think measuring acceleration instead of speed. That's probably not very hard, either. But the resulting page is still pretty cool.
While I certainly am not arguing that there will be a meltdown - I doubt the increased demand will be felt on sites not involved in the world cup, and I'm pretty sure the overall traffic will pale in comparison to the traffic caused by P2P networks - the fact that US citizens aren't interested in it doesn't help much. Free bandwidth within and towards the US isn't a whole lot of help to people, e.g., in Europe whose network is hosed/overloaded. But like I said, it ain't happening.
No. There is close to no radioactive material in brown coal. But if you burn a vast amount of brown coal, close to no becomes a non-trivial amount. Or, as a manner of speaking, we're already surrounded by a lot of radioactive material. From what I know, there have been no indications that the radioactive trace are more dangerous in the athmosphere as put there by the power plant. This is openly admitted in the one or two articles that often make the rounds on Slashdot. I'd wager most other emissions are a more imminent threat. That said, brown coal is pretty horrible stuff.
First you seem to complain how developers are only interested in graphics and celebrity voice overs. Then you say how Tron 2.0 sucked and that it lacked - celebrity voice overs. Maybe you were kidding. FWIW, Tron 2.0 is considered to be a fairly good game, to quote the Eurogamer review: "It certainly isn't going to win any awards for pushing the envelope, but it's a damn sight better than most of the generic FPS tripe we've seen pass through the office over the last year or so."
We don't. Here in Germany you can now get unlimited calls and messages within the provider's network and to land lines for 25 Euros, ie a bit over 30 bucks. Another 25 buys you unlimited data. This is a moderately new offer by one provider, prices are going down currently. It's of no use to me because what good are free internal calls if no one is using the same provider. Still, I hope I'll have an affordable unlimited data plan later this year. Anyway, 20 USD doesn't buy you anything "special" here, yet.
That said, Europe is a fairly diverse market. Prices in the UK are bound to be really different, and don't get me started on Scandinavia. Of course it's all the same three or four companies everywhere, go figure. Which makes the roaming charges all the more annoying. Fortunately our "socialist" EU government has shown some signs of doing something about that, unless it gets lobbied by the telcos. And what chance is there of that...? Haha.
So you can't discuss intellectual property issues on Slashdot because you're automatically just providing moral cover to yourself and others and that makes your contribution worthless? No, sorry, that won't work. While it'd be nice to have people make the argument for you who don't have any vested interest, it's not likely this will happen. Disqualifying - and that is what you are doing, even if you're saying you're just making an observation - arguments based on the (lack of) merits of the author is poor style.
Besides, you're wrong. Slashdot is actually pretty good about giving differing views "air time". Of course you'll find lots of anti-IP commentary at +5 in the respective stories (and sometimes, in totally unrelated stories...), but you'll often find pro-IP comments at the same threshold. And meta-comments like yours aren't exactly rare, either.
nearly everybody in Europe at least uses MSN Messenger
I don't know where this is coming from. Everybody I know uses ICQ or, increasingly, Skype. Nobody uses MSN. I'd love to see detailed IM platform statistics based on region of origin...
I couldn't disagree more. Searching through directories is time you wasted, not time you spent learning a language. You learn a language by using it and by reading about it - both of these tasks are made easier by a good IDE. Javadoc integration makes APIs discoverable, just like well designed user interfaces are discoverable. You don't ever need to leave the IDE to read the documentation, because it's right there. Of course auto-complete helps when you're in doubt, but there's nothing wrong with that. There isn't much merit to knowing a billion function prototypes by heart, those are details you shouldn't worry about, bigger things are much more important. And stuff like for example the highlighting of other instances of a selected variable is just crucial when you need to understand a large piece of code written by somebody else.
IDEs make programming easier to learn and more efficient. I still don't think he should spend a lot of time integrating it into his class. Tell them about the existance of IDEs and let them figure it out themselves.
Sure, let's talk about the weight. That Dell is much bigger, like you say, and it does weigh more: 2.8 kg versus the MacBook's 2.3 kg. The MacBook still is freakishly heavy. I could live with a mobile laptop having a 13.3" display instead of a 12", but more than 2 kg won't work out. Ideally, a portable laptop will have less than 1.5 kg, anything more than that is only cool if it's due to a huge battery. Here's hoping for a decent 12" or 13.3" MBP. But of course that will come with a prohibitive price, so I might as well give Apple up until their next generation and start looking at standard Windows laptops for christmas. Too bad.
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Ars Technica is great, but the news comments aren't even close to Slashdot. I've never been to the forums, I assume they're quite good, though, but I'm not particularly interested in a forum. Anyway, Ars for the news editorial, Slashdot at +5 for the discussion is my system right now. Seems to work.
So just limit the bandwidth available to a single user. It's not exactly hard.
Shrug. Not sure what your problem is, all the things you want already exist. All modern operating systems already throttle the CPU, and for power users there are tools to manually control the multiplier. For fine tuning you can even control the voltage and make your CPU run even cooler, but it's not like anybody is forcing you to do it, in fact the program specifically warns its users and enforces a stability check when changing a voltage.
On a side note I think you'd have a very hard time damaging anything with the program. The CPU probably just doesn't accept far too high voltages, and all modern CPUs shut themselves down on overheating, lastly setting the voltage to low results in instability and shutting down, but no damage, either.
I think one of the Windows control settings will actually force the multipliers to its lowest settings. Regardless, the Windows controls suck hard. Get Notebook hardware control to have total control over the multipliers and, as a bonus, over the voltage the CPU is supplied with at any given voltage. My Dothan is running at ULV voltages now... nice!
You can easily run essentially all laptops without their batteries plugged in, provided you connected the power supply. You don't get any significant space savings, but the laptop will be a tad lighter.
If any teacher feels that it's being taken advantage of by the current system, it's free to choose another line of work.
Yes. And many do. There is a shortage of teachers. The GP said so, and it's been mentioned a dozen times in other comments. Here, I'll say it again: There is a shortage of teachers. There is an even greater shortage of good teachers, I assume. There is also a dire shortage of good parents. That is not a good combination.
Germany and Japan are the two least exemplary nations on the planet.
It's been 50+ years since our governments illegally holed up people and treated them badly enough to make them kill themselves.
That's true. Hard to find a way around that. I suppose that a video that really is hot and new will have a different download character - exponential growth, maybe - than an old hot video, which assumedly would have a constant, semi-high number of downloads. Maybe they work it out that way, maybe they don't.
That's not hard. That's also not what they do, apparently. They actually try to detect popular videos before they are popular. That way a current video gets a higher rank than an old fad that got 2 billion downloads over the years. Think measuring acceleration instead of speed. That's probably not very hard, either. But the resulting page is still pretty cool.
I'll give you 500,000 USD if you finish today!
Why go through all that trouble? Just return them a copy of their song!
While I certainly am not arguing that there will be a meltdown - I doubt the increased demand will be felt on sites not involved in the world cup, and I'm pretty sure the overall traffic will pale in comparison to the traffic caused by P2P networks - the fact that US citizens aren't interested in it doesn't help much. Free bandwidth within and towards the US isn't a whole lot of help to people, e.g., in Europe whose network is hosed/overloaded. But like I said, it ain't happening.
Remember, the best ride is on the face of the wave.
I'm sorry, you'll have to come up with a car analogy.
Except that he did mention the simple way, in the very same post. The only downside being the rebooting part, which is of course obligatory for OS X.
No. There is close to no radioactive material in brown coal. But if you burn a vast amount of brown coal, close to no becomes a non-trivial amount. Or, as a manner of speaking, we're already surrounded by a lot of radioactive material. From what I know, there have been no indications that the radioactive trace are more dangerous in the athmosphere as put there by the power plant. This is openly admitted in the one or two articles that often make the rounds on Slashdot. I'd wager most other emissions are a more imminent threat. That said, brown coal is pretty horrible stuff.
First you seem to complain how developers are only interested in graphics and celebrity voice overs. Then you say how Tron 2.0 sucked and that it lacked - celebrity voice overs. Maybe you were kidding. FWIW, Tron 2.0 is considered to be a fairly good game, to quote the Eurogamer review: "It certainly isn't going to win any awards for pushing the envelope, but it's a damn sight better than most of the generic FPS tripe we've seen pass through the office over the last year or so."
We don't. Here in Germany you can now get unlimited calls and messages within the provider's network and to land lines for 25 Euros, ie a bit over 30 bucks. Another 25 buys you unlimited data. This is a moderately new offer by one provider, prices are going down currently. It's of no use to me because what good are free internal calls if no one is using the same provider. Still, I hope I'll have an affordable unlimited data plan later this year. Anyway, 20 USD doesn't buy you anything "special" here, yet.
That said, Europe is a fairly diverse market. Prices in the UK are bound to be really different, and don't get me started on Scandinavia. Of course it's all the same three or four companies everywhere, go figure. Which makes the roaming charges all the more annoying. Fortunately our "socialist" EU government has shown some signs of doing something about that, unless it gets lobbied by the telcos. And what chance is there of that...? Haha.
So you can't discuss intellectual property issues on Slashdot because you're automatically just providing moral cover to yourself and others and that makes your contribution worthless? No, sorry, that won't work. While it'd be nice to have people make the argument for you who don't have any vested interest, it's not likely this will happen. Disqualifying - and that is what you are doing, even if you're saying you're just making an observation - arguments based on the (lack of) merits of the author is poor style.
Besides, you're wrong. Slashdot is actually pretty good about giving differing views "air time". Of course you'll find lots of anti-IP commentary at +5 in the respective stories (and sometimes, in totally unrelated stories...), but you'll often find pro-IP comments at the same threshold. And meta-comments like yours aren't exactly rare, either.
You must live in the same area as I do! What a small world!
nearly everybody in Europe at least uses MSN Messenger
I don't know where this is coming from. Everybody I know uses ICQ or, increasingly, Skype. Nobody uses MSN. I'd love to see detailed IM platform statistics based on region of origin...
Okay, maybe you're not quite as big an idiot as I though at first glance. My apologies. ;)
Good. I hope there are more guys out there like you who hamstring their own efficiency. Makes competing that much easier.
I couldn't disagree more. Searching through directories is time you wasted, not time you spent learning a language. You learn a language by using it and by reading about it - both of these tasks are made easier by a good IDE. Javadoc integration makes APIs discoverable, just like well designed user interfaces are discoverable. You don't ever need to leave the IDE to read the documentation, because it's right there. Of course auto-complete helps when you're in doubt, but there's nothing wrong with that. There isn't much merit to knowing a billion function prototypes by heart, those are details you shouldn't worry about, bigger things are much more important. And stuff like for example the highlighting of other instances of a selected variable is just crucial when you need to understand a large piece of code written by somebody else.
IDEs make programming easier to learn and more efficient. I still don't think he should spend a lot of time integrating it into his class. Tell them about the existance of IDEs and let them figure it out themselves.
Sure, let's talk about the weight. That Dell is much bigger, like you say, and it does weigh more: 2.8 kg versus the MacBook's 2.3 kg. The MacBook still is freakishly heavy. I could live with a mobile laptop having a 13.3" display instead of a 12", but more than 2 kg won't work out. Ideally, a portable laptop will have less than 1.5 kg, anything more than that is only cool if it's due to a huge battery. Here's hoping for a decent 12" or 13.3" MBP. But of course that will come with a prohibitive price, so I might as well give Apple up until their next generation and start looking at standard Windows laptops for christmas. Too bad.
Really? Well, in my country, putting a space character in front of a question mark will be a capital offence.