I agree, but in the spirit of/. pedantry, I think you mean something like spartan (2b), not draconian. We usually reserve the use of draconian for talking about Microsoft's licensing or DRM proposals;)
Who modded this insightful? They didn't even read the post to which they reply...
The entire point he was making was that such narrow definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" don't represent people's ideological stances very well. Hence, the two-axis system he explains. Read it again.
That's not a bad idea, prima facie. It's not quite so simple, though. While threads in a single process share the same address space, there are no guarantees as to their memory access patterns. The programmer can't be completely sure of where code, especially from something like a shared library, will be placed. Dynamically allocated memory could be anywhere on the heap. Now, in a simple enough program, it could be trivial to make sure that the instructions for routines each thread calls are close together, and likewise for the data. However, a large, well-written (in terms of modularity) program might not be so amenable to cooperation between threads.
I have to think there is some merit to your idea, though. I just wanted to point out that it's not a simple matter.
That's not entirely true, HT is not some sort of panacea. Simply making a program multithreaded doesn't guarantee that it will be faster on HT, or even SMP. There is the very real issue of resource contention, in which case the HT system can starve itself and run slower than a non-HT system.
In general, I think that people learning to write multithreaded code is important. In a program where there are several disjoint tasks that can run in parallel, then multithreaded code can run faster. However, I disagree when people complain that it's a matter of lazy programmers, and that if they made everything multithreaded the world would be a better place. It's not so simple.
Heck, most people I know with a PS2 (including myself) don't use it for DVDs because it can't switch layers correctly/read the second layer right, and so only works to watch part of a movie.
I didn't know that. It's the only DVD player I have besides my iBook, though so I tend to use it and just bitch about it. This is getting off-topic, but I have my PS2 running S-video through good quality Sony receiver, to a good quality Sony TV (non-VVega, though), and often times when a movie fades to black, it will "drop signal" (I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy) and the TV will "mode switch". It's irritating as hell, and the only reason I point out the brand of all of my components is that they're all the same company and decent quality, but I still get this irritating behavior. It might work differently with composite video, but I've got a rat's nest of cables back there and it's not worth the trouble.
Yes, I recall that the Bouncer (gag... what a waste of $50...) on PS2 did use DTS in-game. Though, it might have been only in cutscenes, which were not not all pre-rendered.
Also, the Gamecube "supports" surround sound in several games, like Super Mario Sunshine, although it hasn't worked for me (I haven't really messed with it).
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Re:It may be the greatest, but I wouldn't know...
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Most software companies I know do their development in Windows (not necessarily using Microsoft tools, though).
Then you probably don't know enough software companies;)
By your logic, we should all get TV tuner cards and watch television on our PCs. It's not as though your standard NTSC TV is unable to produce realistic images. Ever watch a TV show before? Image quality can be highly subjective, and higher resolution isn't always the answer.
Anyway, there are many reasons to play console games besides image quality. First of all, only a small portion of the noteworthy console games even get made for PC (and certainly, the reverse is true). Many people much prefer to play games in their living rooms than in front of a PC. It's a lot of fun to have four people sitting together in front of a good sized TV talking smack while playing Madden, or Gauntlet Legends, etc. Also, not everyone wants to spend the requisite money for a gaming PC, but they probably have a TV. A good video card costs as much, if not more, than a console.
Finally, if, for whatever reason, you've already decided to play games on a console, why not try to get the best image possible?
And open source is jsut as bad as M$ - KDE spends hours compiling sound related stuff, even if you have no sound card, and then gripes that there are no drivers when you start it.
Thank you, someone else agrees with me! I use RedHat 7.3 on brand new server machines that don't have a sound card (why would they?), and get all sorts of spurious messages about not having sound. KDE bitches, the shutdown scripts bitch, all because I don't want sound.
I don't think the point is necessarily to bash Microsoft in this article, it's to bash a company with a clueless take on workspace design. That it happens to be MS makes plenty of/. readers extra happy, but any company that thinks surround sound for office dwellers is a good idea deserves all the ridicule they get.
Apple is using *BSD and Opensource like MS used BSD's tcp/ip... dont get fooled again.
Uh... no. Apple freely admits, up front, the BSD origins of several parts of OS X. Did Microsoft come out and say "Our new TCP/IP stack is based on BSD"? Hell no, they were perfectly happy to just use the code and go on their merry way (which, by the way, the BSD license allows). Be glad Apple's honest.
Accurate and appropriate are different beasts. Sure, reverence works (although he should have said "for" and not "to"). That was the first point I was making by linking the definition. "Deference" would also fit in the original poster's sentence. However, using a misspelling is better explained as a "reference" to the show than out of "reverence" for the show. Keeping a (shiny) shrine to Bender in your apartment--now that would be done out of reverence for the show.
Is referance also spelled this way in referance to something on the show?
Your spelling error notwithstanding, it's entirely possible that he did mean reverence, although, personally, I think reference would be more appropriate.
Oh, you mean "How Life Began (Answers to my Evolutionist Friends)" by Thomas F. Heinze? A quick description of the author, from the same website:
As an evangelical missionary in Italy for over thirty years, Thomas Heinze found that there are certain things that Roman Catholics would like to know about the faith of the Protestants and about the Bible.
Personally, I question his qualifications to describe complicated biological processes. While he was "debunking" Catholicism in Italy, those biologists whose work he "refutes" were actually learning about life science!
Am I making an ad hominem attack? Maybe, but it's not something Heinze is above, himself. Speak to your audience, after all...
This is a perfect job for even the simplest search-and-replace functionality.
Yeah, and the last guy that tried that does work here any int32er.
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Re:right of first sale? (or whatever)
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It's not a "right of first sale" issue, as Zettabyte in not a consumer but a reseller. From what I've seen, they're being sold as new, so what about your Apple warranty? Suddenly, it becomes Apple's problem, which is why they're stopping it.
In your example, you're not an "authorized Honda reseller", so there are fewer guarantees to the buyer. In fact, I believe you would be required to sell the Civic as "used" because you, as a consumer, did get the "right of first sale."
It's always amazed me that so many people shell out piles and piles of cash for high end speakers, _and they listen to curdled genital cheese_.
Yeah, I find it funny that their audio equipment, purchased specifically to "faithfully reproduce" the original sound, probably costs more than the equipment said original sound was recorded with.
At my alma mater, the University of Arizona, we actually had 'E' instead of 'F'. Why, I'll never know. Maybe they thought 'F' implies failure, and they don't want to bruise any delicate egos... -J
Funny you should say that, I've never not fallen asleep in an IMAX film. To the best of my recollections, that's 4 times. I don't know what it is, but IMAX puts me to sleep every time. One would hope it's not boredom...
Speaking of calling at inappropriate hours, last Saturday, I tried to sleep in. I received SEVEN telemarketing calls before I woke up around 11. I don't know what they were calling about, because I don't answer the phone when the Caller ID reads "Unavailable." If it's an unlisted residential number, it reads "Private", so I'm pretty damn certain they were all telemarketers. My experience has been that "Unavailable" numbers are invariably telemarketing calls.
There needs to be a clause in your law that doubles the fines when the recipient is hung over.
I think it's probably a close call between LA and Maricopa counties for land mass. The thing about the Phoenix metro area is that it's all contained in Maricopa county (when I say Phoenix metro area, that includes Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, and so on). Your reasoning was sound, but NYC splits into quite a few counties.
Speaking of LA county, that doesn't even include the whole greater LA area, right? For example, I think Anaheim is in Orange County, but I'm too lazy to do any actual investigation. There have to be some Californians around here that can fact-check my post...
As a historical note--and this is based on recollection, not cold, hard facts--counties were traditionally supposed to be of a size such that anyone within the county could make the trip to the county seat in a day. Which certainly explains why Texas has so goddamn many counties. I've heard it suggested that the counties are larger in Arizona because it entered the union so late (Valentine's day 1912 IIRC), and travelling greater distances was easier than in the 19th century. Well, that, and we're lazy.
well, it may be among the largest, but probably NOT among the most populated. I suspect one of NYC's 5 counties to be the most populated.
You're welcome to suspect that, but you'd be wrong. Maricopa is fourth, and grew at a pretty healthy rate of 4% from April 2000 to July 2001. New York's Kings county is seventh, by the way.
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The entire point he was making was that such narrow definitions of "liberal" and "conservative" don't represent people's ideological stances very well. Hence, the two-axis system he explains. Read it again.
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Did you hear about the new pirate movie? It's rated Arrrrrr...
I have to think there is some merit to your idea, though. I just wanted to point out that it's not a simple matter.
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I believe this is what IBM is doing with the Power4.
In general, I think that people learning to write multithreaded code is important. In a program where there are several disjoint tasks that can run in parallel, then multithreaded code can run faster. However, I disagree when people complain that it's a matter of lazy programmers, and that if they made everything multithreaded the world would be a better place. It's not so simple.
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Also, the Gamecube "supports" surround sound in several games, like Super Mario Sunshine, although it hasn't worked for me (I haven't really messed with it).
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Anyway, there are many reasons to play console games besides image quality. First of all, only a small portion of the noteworthy console games even get made for PC (and certainly, the reverse is true). Many people much prefer to play games in their living rooms than in front of a PC. It's a lot of fun to have four people sitting together in front of a good sized TV talking smack while playing Madden, or Gauntlet Legends, etc. Also, not everyone wants to spend the requisite money for a gaming PC, but they probably have a TV. A good video card costs as much, if not more, than a console.
Finally, if, for whatever reason, you've already decided to play games on a console, why not try to get the best image possible?
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Accurate and appropriate are different beasts. Sure, reverence works (although he should have said "for" and not "to"). That was the first point I was making by linking the definition. "Deference" would also fit in the original poster's sentence. However, using a misspelling is better explained as a "reference" to the show than out of "reverence" for the show. Keeping a (shiny) shrine to Bender in your apartment--now that would be done out of reverence for the show.
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Am I making an ad hominem attack? Maybe, but it's not something Heinze is above, himself. Speak to your audience, after all...
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In your example, you're not an "authorized Honda reseller", so there are fewer guarantees to the buyer. In fact, I believe you would be required to sell the Civic as "used" because you, as a consumer, did get the "right of first sale."
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At my alma mater, the University of Arizona, we actually had 'E' instead of 'F'. Why, I'll never know. Maybe they thought 'F' implies failure, and they don't want to bruise any delicate egos...
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Speaking of calling at inappropriate hours, last Saturday, I tried to sleep in. I received SEVEN telemarketing calls before I woke up around 11. I don't know what they were calling about, because I don't answer the phone when the Caller ID reads "Unavailable." If it's an unlisted residential number, it reads "Private", so I'm pretty damn certain they were all telemarketers. My experience has been that "Unavailable" numbers are invariably telemarketing calls.
There needs to be a clause in your law that doubles the fines when the recipient is hung over.
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Speaking of LA county, that doesn't even include the whole greater LA area, right? For example, I think Anaheim is in Orange County, but I'm too lazy to do any actual investigation. There have to be some Californians around here that can fact-check my post...
As a historical note--and this is based on recollection, not cold, hard facts--counties were traditionally supposed to be of a size such that anyone within the county could make the trip to the county seat in a day. Which certainly explains why Texas has so goddamn many counties. I've heard it suggested that the counties are larger in Arizona because it entered the union so late (Valentine's day 1912 IIRC), and travelling greater distances was easier than in the 19th century. Well, that, and we're lazy.
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