The high clock rates of these new graphics cards, combined with full 128-bit precision and extremely high levels of parallel processing, result in floating point processing power that exceeds a 3GHz Pentium processor by a staggering seven times
Yeah, but with integrated graphics, you take a real performance hit.
I think it would be way more powerful if an ISP offered a service to block porn, drugs, sex, etc, for different services. That would allow people to opt in, rather than requiring to opt out of censorship.
If you think it's wrong for a company to act a certain way, write them a letter, and cancel your service. And 'offensive' is so subjective, I think I was just offended. Which means you, Slashdot, the major US backbones, and tampabay.rr.com are big fat weenies.
I agree that kids should be protected from porn. I also think that kids should be protected from TV, but the laws governing what marketers can shove into the minds of children are ineffective. There is no law governing how long kids can watch TV.
The internet is a dangerous place, and I realize it's not as easy as just not ordering the Playboy channel, but as a simple rule, don't put your new set if Ginsu knives in the playpen.
I knew a DJ would step up and word the hell out of what I was trying to say. Thanks!:-)
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2. Creates smooth transitions from one song to the next, so the partiers don't have to have their energy messed up by a gaping pit of silence.
3. A GOOD DJ takes you on a journey energetically, providing you with different levels of emotion through the music, all while reacting to the mood of the crowd.
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I would go find a DJ I like locally and ask him that same question. Talk to EVERY DJ you can, and ask him what you have to ask. Having somebody real in front of you is way more valuable than all of Slashdot. No offense, dear reader.
You can get practical software solutions, practical hardware solutions, and really get a lot of comprehensive feedback where a Google search will fail you. And if you're lucky/friendly and find a DJ who's interested in YOU, you could get actual feedback on your performance. Sometimes, a Pro will let you touch their gear, and that's thrilling, too.
The Samsung Spinpoints are really great drives. I've installed at least 10 Spinpoints over the past 2 years, and there have been no failures, to my knowledge. And they certainly ARE silent.
On the optical drives, I always bought Lite-On CD burners, and all was well. Bought a DVD burner and it died. Bought a BenQ burner and it died. Everywhere I see, there are great reviews for these drives, but I just bad ones. I would specifically wonder if you didn't get two drives from the same run. I know that doesn't make it any less appalling that two consecutive drives crap out, but still.
I've owned several other Samsung products, from CRT monitors to RAM, and none of them have lasted more than 2 years.
I'll let you know about the drives...;-)
Linux hardware support continues to improve, and except in the fringes (eg. capture cards and video cards), it has nothing to do with the manufacturer.
Ack, not quite. The choice of chipsets is very important. Not all chipsets are well supported under Linux, and you could be stuck running X with the vesa driver rather than an actual driver. There are plenty of laptops with corrupt VGA BIOS that the Windows drivers bypass, but since there are no released specs for the card, the Linux driver can't get around the error. I think it's the i845, which is in SO many laptops.
Actions by Jimbo Wales may not be overturned except by appeal to Jimbo.
I mean, is that not the very epitomy of dictatorship?
Yes, except:
-Not a government, Wikipedia is an online user-editable encyclopedia -Somebody needs super admin ability to stop people from continually adding stuff about the N-words and the F-words and the J-words and so on, ad nauseum -Someone said at the link provided that they hope he realizes he makes mistakes; at worst, this is one of them...I just read a little further, and I realize that what I said has no anchoring in reality. Jimbo is, in fact, an N-word loving F-word J-word! Off to edit his Wikipedia entry!
I have no degree. When I moved to the US, I looked into getting my A+ cert, met some people who had it, and decided that generally it was kind of pointless, based on these observations:
1. Everyone I met with an A+ cert was not using it, and none could actually FIX a computer unless it was something really standard.
2. I really don't want to learn quite so much legacy stuff, and it seemed to permeate the curriculum.
3. The curriculum seemed permeated with non-reapplicable information about the specific quirks of Windows, which I already know.
4. I can look up IRQs on the internet. I can look up stop codes on the internet. In fact, I've looked up so many stop codes, I generally can just look it up in my brain and have a good solid guess for what's wrong.
None of this is to say that A+ cert is useless. I see it as a this-person-will-not-confuse-silicon-grease-with-s ilicon-seal certification mostly, with a few rudimentary things thrown in there.
I guess I'm just surprised at hw many people who work on computers aren't born hackers. As soon as I could walk,I could turn on just about any electronic device (push the BIGGEST BUTTON, then turn the giant knob for chrissakes) and pretty much spent my childhood breaking things and trying to fix things. It took about 20 years to get to the point where I could fix things as successfully as I could break them, but things are looking up.:-)
I just watched a documentary on Ecuadorian ayahuasca shamanism. The interesting thing is how honestly connected these people are with their surroundings, and how much they love the planet.
The crazy thing is that in my reckoning, the land belongs to the indians who have lived there for generations and generations. At some point, a government came in, declared ayahuasca illegal, and is allowing big oil companies to come in and destroy the land.
The head of one village was knifed by military forces because he nonviolently opposed the supposed right of these people to destroy his home.
The sad thing is that we as Americans are not only on the side of evil on this one, but the biggest force on the side of evil. And I really don't see how to get people to care. I mean, tell people about an illegal plant, and they think you're a drug addict.
Sell them Budweiser (now and always with formaldehyde!) or Marlboros (look up the list of chemicals) and they'll kiss your feet. You can't patent a plant, why can you make them illegal?
"Your computer is connected to the Net. We recommend ripping your modem, network card, and wireless networking devices to ensure your PCs safety."
There are two other effecting patching mechanisms:
1)With a turkey baster, apply a decoction of Starbucks's latest Windows XP patch, Christmas Blend, released this last December.
2)This is a more complex process, but well worth the effort. a)unplug your AC b)make a diagram of the weird slanty plug shape (the slants keep out hackers!) c)with a pair of craftsman hacker pliers, ply the PC plug into an anti-hacker configuration matrix d)plug into the anti-hacker power plug, making sure the switch on the power supply says 110 (the lower bandwidth also keeps hackers out)
You can, if you believe in God, believe that there is some level of divine communication with the human. I think scientific types would call it personal truth, or something like that.
Really, I just take into account that the Bible a)was written for a different culture, b)was translated and transcribed for hundreds of years, oftentimes by unqualified people, c)was edited hundreds of years ago by the ruling class into what you read today, and d)also has lots of good stuff in it if you ignore the parts that make you want to hate, murder, and destroy.
You admit in 3) that there could be problems arising from mistranslation, but say that calling the Bible non-literal makes it false. I'm 100% bilingual in English and Spanish, and words DO NOT translate perfectly, EVER. There is always a mapping performed, always an imperfect fit. I imagine Aramaic is a pretty different language from English.
You know how everybody laughs when they translate all the African tribes' descriptions of guns and cars? Ha! "FIRE stick!" How cute...
You can CELEBRATE a person's birthday, and not WORSHIP them. Do you think that having a reunion for a priest's birthday is idolatry? Why or why not? Your argument is relatively logical, but it's certainly not sound, considering the fact that you base it on the assumption that celebrating = worshiping. It DOES NOT.
I like how the article ends: There was no effect on the internet.
The exercise was the latest in a series of simulated attacks, including a gas attack on the New York subway.
------------ New York Subway, Interior A loud booming noise, followed by the sound of escaping gas is heard. People fall on ground, writhing in agony. Two gas-masked figures enter.
OFFICER ONE: Remain calm, people! I am with the ATF, and this subway gassing was just a test of our nation's emergency contingency plans! Please resume what you were doing before!
OFFICER TWO: Errr....
OFFICER ONE: No effect on the Internet whatsoever! AMAZING! You there! I'll have a foot-long Italian sub. I can get that toasted, right?
Toxoplasm should totally set up an endorsement deal, it would make lots of money. I mean, it already makes me eat Ben & Jerry's and surf for free pr0n for 7 hours straight. It couldn't possibly be a personality defect making me do that.
As an example, cows are fed steroids and antibiotics and these are then found in the milk.
Plus, the application of rBGH causes distention of the udder, and illness. It causes there to be massive amounts of pus and mucus in the milk you drink. Yum. Buy some organic milk alongside non-organic, and do a taste test. That mucus residue in your mouth after you drink commercial milk is COW MUCUS. Not even cow snot. It's sick-cow-disgusting-leaking-from-its-titties mucus.
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The high clock rates of these new graphics cards, combined with full 128-bit precision and extremely high levels of parallel processing, result in floating point processing power that exceeds a 3GHz Pentium processor by a staggering seven times
Yeah, but with integrated graphics, you take a real performance hit.
This sounds much like how any country would judge another country: based on who that country allows to stay in power.
Hey, I was just about to piggyback on that one and get out of accountability for George Bush, but you f*#^ing RUINED IT!!!!
and as long as my eyes work better scanning large surfaces than a 1.5 inch square, they will continue serving different purposes.
You, my friend, need smaller eyes.
Considering how little experience it seems that these people have with tech, may they send all their personal money to Nigerian scammers.
I think it would be way more powerful if an ISP offered a service to block porn, drugs, sex, etc, for different services. That would allow people to opt in, rather than requiring to opt out of censorship.
If you think it's wrong for a company to act a certain way, write them a letter, and cancel your service. And 'offensive' is so subjective, I think I was just offended. Which means you, Slashdot, the major US backbones, and tampabay.rr.com are big fat weenies.
I agree that kids should be protected from porn. I also think that kids should be protected from TV, but the laws governing what marketers can shove into the minds of children are ineffective. There is no law governing how long kids can watch TV.
The internet is a dangerous place, and I realize it's not as easy as just not ordering the Playboy channel, but as a simple rule, don't put your new set if Ginsu knives in the playpen.
I knew a DJ would step up and word the hell out of what I was trying to say. Thanks! :-)
1. Blends different tracks together, and creates a new track.
2. Creates smooth transitions from one song to the next, so the partiers don't have to have their energy messed up by a gaping pit of silence.
3. A GOOD DJ takes you on a journey energetically, providing you with different levels of emotion through the music, all while reacting to the mood of the crowd.
I would go find a DJ I like locally and ask him that same question. Talk to EVERY DJ you can, and ask him what you have to ask. Having somebody real in front of you is way more valuable than all of Slashdot. No offense, dear reader.
You can get practical software solutions, practical hardware solutions, and really get a lot of comprehensive feedback where a Google search will fail you. And if you're lucky/friendly and find a DJ who's interested in YOU, you could get actual feedback on your performance. Sometimes, a Pro will let you touch their gear, and that's thrilling, too.
Good luck!
it's like freakin' Warcraft! I love it! (actually I don't)
On the optical drives, I always bought Lite-On CD burners, and all was well. Bought a DVD burner and it died. Bought a BenQ burner and it died. Everywhere I see, there are great reviews for these drives, but I just bad ones. I would specifically wonder if you didn't get two drives from the same run. I know that doesn't make it any less appalling that two consecutive drives crap out, but still.
I'll let you know about the drives...
Ack, not quite. The choice of chipsets is very important. Not all chipsets are well supported under Linux, and you could be stuck running X with the vesa driver rather than an actual driver. There are plenty of laptops with corrupt VGA BIOS that the Windows drivers bypass, but since there are no released specs for the card, the Linux driver can't get around the error. I think it's the i845, which is in SO many laptops.
We are damn lucky not to have to do this with CD's.
SHHHHH!! Don't give them any ideas! I am NEVER taking you to a party.
Actions by Jimbo Wales may not be overturned except by appeal to Jimbo.
...I just read a little further, and I realize that what I said has no anchoring in reality. Jimbo is, in fact, an N-word loving F-word J-word! Off to edit his Wikipedia entry!
I mean, is that not the very epitomy of dictatorship?
Yes, except:
-Not a government, Wikipedia is an online user-editable encyclopedia
-Somebody needs super admin ability to stop people from continually adding stuff about the N-words and the F-words and the J-words and so on, ad nauseum
-Someone said at the link provided that they hope he realizes he makes mistakes; at worst, this is one of them
~Love~
I have no degree. When I moved to the US, I looked into getting my A+ cert, met some people who had it, and decided that generally it was kind of pointless, based on these observations:
s ilicon-seal certification mostly, with a few rudimentary things thrown in there.
:-)
1. Everyone I met with an A+ cert was not using it, and none could actually FIX a computer unless it was something really standard.
2. I really don't want to learn quite so much legacy stuff, and it seemed to permeate the curriculum.
3. The curriculum seemed permeated with non-reapplicable information about the specific quirks of Windows, which I already know.
4. I can look up IRQs on the internet. I can look up stop codes on the internet. In fact, I've looked up so many stop codes, I generally can just look it up in my brain and have a good solid guess for what's wrong.
None of this is to say that A+ cert is useless. I see it as a this-person-will-not-confuse-silicon-grease-with-
I guess I'm just surprised at hw many people who work on computers aren't born hackers. As soon as I could walk,I could turn on just about any electronic device (push the BIGGEST BUTTON, then turn the giant knob for chrissakes) and pretty much spent my childhood breaking things and trying to fix things. It took about 20 years to get to the point where I could fix things as successfully as I could break them, but things are looking up.
I live about 5 miles south of Largo. This is cool. I must go see it for myself. Like Mecca, only more boring and technical. And less spiritual.
"LET ME SEE YOUR COMPUTERS!!!"
I just watched a documentary on Ecuadorian ayahuasca shamanism. The interesting thing is how honestly connected these people are with their surroundings, and how much they love the planet.
The crazy thing is that in my reckoning, the land belongs to the indians who have lived there for generations and generations. At some point, a government came in, declared ayahuasca illegal, and is allowing big oil companies to come in and destroy the land.
The head of one village was knifed by military forces because he nonviolently opposed the supposed right of these people to destroy his home.
The sad thing is that we as Americans are not only on the side of evil on this one, but the biggest force on the side of evil. And I really don't see how to get people to care. I mean, tell people about an illegal plant, and they think you're a drug addict.
Sell them Budweiser (now and always with formaldehyde!) or Marlboros (look up the list of chemicals) and they'll kiss your feet. You can't patent a plant, why can you make them illegal?
"Your computer is connected to the Net. We recommend ripping your modem, network card, and wireless networking devices to ensure your PCs safety."
There are two other effecting patching mechanisms:
1)With a turkey baster, apply a decoction of Starbucks's latest Windows XP patch, Christmas Blend, released this last December.
2)This is a more complex process, but well worth the effort.
a)unplug your AC
b)make a diagram of the weird slanty plug shape (the slants keep out hackers!)
c)with a pair of craftsman hacker pliers, ply the PC plug into an anti-hacker configuration matrix
d)plug into the anti-hacker power plug, making sure the switch on the power supply says 110 (the lower bandwidth also keeps hackers out)
I think you can still take it to your friend's dad's house and turn it into a cassette, if that's any help. :-)
You can, if you believe in God, believe that there is some level of divine communication with the human. I think scientific types would call it personal truth, or something like that.
Really, I just take into account that the Bible a)was written for a different culture, b)was translated and transcribed for hundreds of years, oftentimes by unqualified people, c)was edited hundreds of years ago by the ruling class into what you read today, and d)also has lots of good stuff in it if you ignore the parts that make you want to hate, murder, and destroy.
You admit in 3) that there could be problems arising from mistranslation, but say that calling the Bible non-literal makes it false. I'm 100% bilingual in English and Spanish, and words DO NOT translate perfectly, EVER. There is always a mapping performed, always an imperfect fit. I imagine Aramaic is a pretty different language from English.
You know how everybody laughs when they translate all the African tribes' descriptions of guns and cars? Ha! "FIRE stick!" How cute...
You can CELEBRATE a person's birthday, and not WORSHIP them. Do you think that having a reunion for a priest's birthday is idolatry? Why or why not? Your argument is relatively logical, but it's certainly not sound, considering the fact that you base it on the assumption that celebrating = worshiping. It DOES NOT.
The rest of your post is nice and sweet, though.
I like how the article ends:
There was no effect on the internet.
The exercise was the latest in a series of simulated attacks, including a gas attack on the New York subway.
------------
New York Subway, Interior
A loud booming noise, followed by the sound of escaping gas is heard. People fall on ground, writhing in agony. Two gas-masked figures enter.
OFFICER ONE: Remain calm, people! I am with the ATF, and this subway gassing was just a test of our nation's emergency contingency plans! Please resume what you were doing before!
OFFICER TWO: Errr....
OFFICER ONE: No effect on the Internet whatsoever! AMAZING! You there! I'll have a foot-long Italian sub. I can get that toasted, right?
Toxoplasm should totally set up an endorsement deal, it would make lots of money. I mean, it already makes me eat Ben & Jerry's and surf for free pr0n for 7 hours straight. It couldn't possibly be a personality defect making me do that.
Nooooo....
It's called "Linux." It works really really well.
If you're not into that, then spywareblaster, spybot -search & destroy, iespyads, firefox, sun java 1.5
But really, try "Linux."
As an example, cows are fed steroids and antibiotics and these are then found in the milk.
Plus, the application of rBGH causes distention of the udder, and illness. It causes there to be massive amounts of pus and mucus in the milk you drink. Yum. Buy some organic milk alongside non-organic, and do a taste test. That mucus residue in your mouth after you drink commercial milk is COW MUCUS. Not even cow snot. It's sick-cow-disgusting-leaking-from-its-titties mucus.
IN YOUR MOUTH.
I doubt the RIAA will exist in their present form come 2016.
;-)
Since the world is ending in 2012, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.