Wouldn't it be hare to figure out what state the downloaded files were comming from? I was under the impression that states could only tax items purchased which originated in their state, is this true?
You do have a valid point. H20 is a known greenhouse "gas". Although, I think most of the H2O emmisions would just condense and collect in the oceans. I can't imagine our H2O production from burning hydrogen would even come close to the amount of water in the oceans and lakes of the world.
I always though that since the university is partially funded by my tax dollars that it is, in a way, public property. Is this idea totally wrong? Doesn't this mean that it is perfetcly leagal to take a picture of the library? Someone please help me out here.
..the first semprons provided are just athlon xp's rebranded..
That is close to being correct, but not quite. The Semprons do support the NX-bit and other features that are not in a regular XP. The Sempron is not just a rebranding.
I have two Opteron 242s on a Tyan K8W (S2885). Linux has great support for this sytem, and I am verey happy with it. The SATA controller works well, and linux supports the on-board gigabit ethernet controller. I have an AGP nVidia graphics card which is also supported in 64-bit mode. The on-board sound works and sounds great, and the FDD and IDE controllers are supported as well.
I run gentoo, and I would recommend that anyone useing linux on an AMD64 platform do so. I used SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 for a few months, and I was dissapointed with it. Gentoo seems to be much faster and more stable. If you're going ot run linux, also be sure you use a 2.6 series kernel because it has great K8 NUMA support.
This is the fastest system I've ever used, and I would recommend it to anyone!
I would rather be killed by a bomb than have to live in a country where I have no rights. Granted that's not the way the US is now, but it's not an impossibility for the future. I would rather live in fear of being blown up by terrorists than live in fear of the government that is supposed to protect me. How many people in the USA die from terrorist attacks a year? 10,000? 20,000? I bet it's actually a HELL of a lot less than that. How many people will be affected by legislation that kills off our right to privacy? All of us. I don't think it's a fair trade...
Mod parent up! I haven't done any hard research, but everyone I know have 2-3 tracking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscount cards on them. My parents have 4. They don't even think about it. Am I the only one who refuses to shop at stores that won't give me a resonable price unless they can track my purchases?
I helped set up a pirate radio station once. Well, I painted it camo so the FCC wouldn't find it... They found it anyways. That's why we moved it into a van. After that, they left us alone:)
And now that technically the intel 64bit processors are a copy of AMD's Athlon64 perhaps AMD will lead and intel will walk behind.
I don't think that's true at all. The ISA was coppied by Intel, but the microarchitecture of AMD and Intel CPUs are very different. Intel didn't just rip off AMD's CPU.
I don't see any major difference between media. Paper, Stone, WWW, IRC, CD, DVD, VHS... These can all be used to store and distribute information. I don't understand why any of them should have laws governing their use in a way that is inconsistent with the others.
I recently helped a professor grade the final exams for his operating system class. I was seeing graduate students turn in code that is totally worthless. These were people who would be graduating soon and didn't understand that this does nothing usefull:
void foo(char *s) { s = strdup("Pony!\n"); }
On the other hand, the same student who wrote code similar to the above could come up with some wonderfully simple and elegent solutions for thread synchronization. While most of the class turned in pages of bloated code, he turned in a single page that was many times faster. CS is not a lesson on how to write C, C++, or Java. If you want to learn how to do that, download a free tutorial online. It is just as good, and you'll save a fortune. CS is about making computers do what you want them to do in the fastest or most compact way possible.
Also, CS people know how the computer actually works. While the average coder might write:
A CS person would be much more likely to write somthing like:
void toggle(bool *b) { *b ^= 1; }
This is not because the average coder doesn't know much math (well...), but because the average coder doesn't understand the significant impact that a single conditional branch has on code. And no, compilers do not optimize well enough to make up for this lack of understanding...
I'm sick and tired of people who don't want to learn filling up my classes. You should have heard the moans when the students in my class had to write their own thread library! It's too hard! I don't understand! BAH! Read the fucking man page for setjmp() and longjmp(), read a couple of header files so you know how to modify a jmp_buf to refer to a new stack, and shut the hell up!:mumbles: Rant over..
When I took the C++ AP comp-sci AB exam, I was the last one done. In fact, I looked up from my test after about an hour and saw all the other test takers throwing shit around and goofing off! I was so worried! Why the hell was it taking me longer, when they were all done?
You know what? They weren't done at all. They gave up! I was the only one out of my class to get a 5, though there were a couple of fours.
If you plan on taking the test, be sure you can read code. I don't know if things are still the same, but when I took it, a good portion of the test was about extending/understanding a case study. We had the code for the case study to read in advance, but I was more focused on trees and such. What saved my ass was the fact that I managed to read the code that was included in the back of the test for reference... so... yeah..
While I know no one will end up seeing this, I'll go a head and post a few comments for the fun of it.
Illegal piracy isn't popular because of "ridiculous prices." It's popular because it's convenient and everywhere, and it lets you rip off albums for free.
I think you got the point right at least. When buying music from the RIAA is not convenient, people won't do it. Is it wrong to download free copies? Hell yeah it is! But I don't care, and it appears as though millions of other people don't care either. The whole RIAA discussion is not a discussion about morals for me. It's really a matter of common sense. The RIAA has two and only two options:
The first is to make it either impossible, very dangerous, or very difficult for consumers to rip off their music. The RIAA can try to get some new laws passed, or prehaps they can develop some magic copy protection. In this way, they ensure healthy music sales.
The second option the RIAA has is to make consumers actually want to purchase their music instead of using other methods to aquire it. They could sell high quality audio in an unprotected format that consumers could download from the internet for a resonable fee (0.50$ - 1.50$). In this way, they ensure healthy music sales.
As far as I can tell these are their only options. If one who isn't a complete moron looks at them, one will see the easier and cheaper option in mere seconds. Are you a moron too?
While some social skills are required to work and live, try not to over teach these skills. While I realize that being able to sit down and BS with the boss at work may be helpful to yourself, I think it actually hurts the rest of us. Think about it. If no one had the "social skills" to suck up to management, they would have nothing else to base their impressions on except for work ethic, etc. Teaching a child that making fun of ones hair makes sense just supports the behavior. I don't know exactly how to explain what I'm getting at, but social skills are what create PHBs, politicians, etc. Please spare them this fate. It may be a misrable future, but at least it's one with morals, values, and right on one's side!
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Why do people mention forking as a problem? If a new version forks off and you don't like it, just don't use it! Why is this a bad thing?
Wouldn't it be hare to figure out what state the downloaded files were comming from? I was under the impression that states could only tax items purchased which originated in their state, is this true?
You do have a valid point. H20 is a known greenhouse "gas". Although, I think most of the H2O emmisions would just condense and collect in the oceans. I can't imagine our H2O production from burning hydrogen would even come close to the amount of water in the oceans and lakes of the world.
WTF, stylish? It looks like a metal project box from radio shack.
How is that not stylish?
D00m III and Half-Life 2 are already out! Half-Life 2 is great btw. The physics are the best I've seen in any game to date.
You can buy Fluorinert it in 250cc or 1L bottles here:
http://www.parallax-tech.com/fluorine.htm
It has several USB ports. Just plug in a USB nic and 20$ later you have 100Base-T.
I always though that since the university is partially funded by my tax dollars that it is, in a way, public property. Is this idea totally wrong? Doesn't this mean that it is perfetcly leagal to take a picture of the library? Someone please help me out here.
..the first semprons provided are just athlon xp's rebranded..
That is close to being correct, but not quite. The Semprons do support the NX-bit and other features that are not in a regular XP. The Sempron is not just a rebranding.
Home to 3 trillion people
The world population is estimated to be between 6 and 7 billion.
I have two Opteron 242s on a Tyan K8W (S2885). Linux has great support for this sytem, and I am verey happy with it. The SATA controller works well, and linux supports the on-board gigabit ethernet controller. I have an AGP nVidia graphics card which is also supported in 64-bit mode. The on-board sound works and sounds great, and the FDD and IDE controllers are supported as well.
I run gentoo, and I would recommend that anyone useing linux on an AMD64 platform do so. I used SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 for a few months, and I was dissapointed with it. Gentoo seems to be much faster and more stable. If you're going ot run linux, also be sure you use a 2.6 series kernel because it has great K8 NUMA support.
This is the fastest system I've ever used, and I would recommend it to anyone!
It's not ECC that allows more high-speed RAM on server class systems, it's the use of registered or buffered memory. See this.
I would rather be killed by a bomb than have to live in a country where I have no rights. Granted that's not the way the US is now, but it's not an impossibility for the future. I would rather live in fear of being blown up by terrorists than live in fear of the government that is supposed to protect me. How many people in the USA die from terrorist attacks a year? 10,000? 20,000? I bet it's actually a HELL of a lot less than that. How many people will be affected by legislation that kills off our right to privacy? All of us. I don't think it's a fair trade...
Mod parent up! I haven't done any hard research, but everyone I know have 2-3 tracking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscount cards on them. My parents have 4. They don't even think about it. Am I the only one who refuses to shop at stores that won't give me a resonable price unless they can track my purchases?
These earthquakes, also known as slow-slip earthqakes, can release as much energy as a magnitude 6.8
Does this not imply stress is being released?
I helped set up a pirate radio station once. Well, I painted it camo so the FCC wouldn't find it... They found it anyways. That's why we moved it into a van. After that, they left us alone :)
And now that technically the intel 64bit processors are a copy of AMD's Athlon64 perhaps AMD will lead and intel will walk behind.
...Go AMD!
I don't think that's true at all. The ISA was coppied by Intel, but the microarchitecture of AMD and Intel CPUs are very different. Intel didn't just rip off AMD's CPU.
I don't see any major difference between media. Paper, Stone, WWW, IRC, CD, DVD, VHS... These can all be used to store and distribute information. I don't understand why any of them should have laws governing their use in a way that is inconsistent with the others.
On the other hand, the same student who wrote code similar to the above could come up with some wonderfully simple and elegent solutions for thread synchronization. While most of the class turned in pages of bloated code, he turned in a single page that was many times faster. CS is not a lesson on how to write C, C++, or Java. If you want to learn how to do that, download a free tutorial online. It is just as good, and you'll save a fortune. CS is about making computers do what you want them to do in the fastest or most compact way possible.
Also, CS people know how the computer actually works. While the average coder might write:
A CS person would be much more likely to write somthing like:This is not because the average coder doesn't know much math (well...), but because the average coder doesn't understand the significant impact that a single conditional branch has on code. And no, compilers do not optimize well enough to make up for this lack of understanding...
I'm sick and tired of people who don't want to learn filling up my classes. You should have heard the moans when the students in my class had to write their own thread library! It's too hard! I don't understand! BAH! Read the fucking man page for setjmp() and longjmp(), read a couple of header files so you know how to modify a jmp_buf to refer to a new stack, and shut the hell up!
When I took the C++ AP comp-sci AB exam, I was the last one done. In fact, I looked up from my test after about an hour and saw all the other test takers throwing shit around and goofing off! I was so worried! Why the hell was it taking me longer, when they were all done?
You know what? They weren't done at all. They gave up! I was the only one out of my class to get a 5, though there were a couple of fours.
If you plan on taking the test, be sure you can read code. I don't know if things are still the same, but when I took it, a good portion of the test was about extending/understanding a case study. We had the code for the case study to read in advance, but I was more focused on trees and such. What saved my ass was the fact that I managed to read the code that was included in the back of the test for reference... so... yeah..
While I know no one will end up seeing this, I'll go a head and post a few comments for the fun of it.
Illegal piracy isn't popular because of "ridiculous prices." It's popular because it's convenient and everywhere, and it lets you rip off albums for free.
I think you got the point right at least. When buying music from the RIAA is not convenient, people won't do it. Is it wrong to download free copies? Hell yeah it is! But I don't care, and it appears as though millions of other people don't care either. The whole RIAA discussion is not a discussion about morals for me. It's really a matter of common sense. The RIAA has two and only two options:
The first is to make it either impossible, very dangerous, or very difficult for consumers to rip off their music. The RIAA can try to get some new laws passed, or prehaps they can develop some magic copy protection. In this way, they ensure healthy music sales.
The second option the RIAA has is to make consumers actually want to purchase their music instead of using other methods to aquire it. They could sell high quality audio in an unprotected format that consumers could download from the internet for a resonable fee (0.50$ - 1.50$). In this way, they ensure healthy music sales.
As far as I can tell these are their only options. If one who isn't a complete moron looks at them, one will see the easier and cheaper option in mere seconds. Are you a moron too?
You have a real doll from http://www.realdoll.com/ ? Damn! I want one! Those are hella expensive..
While some social skills are required to work and live, try not to over teach these skills. While I realize that being able to sit down and BS with the boss at work may be helpful to yourself, I think it actually hurts the rest of us. Think about it. If no one had the "social skills" to suck up to management, they would have nothing else to base their impressions on except for work ethic, etc. Teaching a child that making fun of ones hair makes sense just supports the behavior. I don't know exactly how to explain what I'm getting at, but social skills are what create PHBs, politicians, etc. Please spare them this fate. It may be a misrable future, but at least it's one with morals, values, and right on one's side!