People might accept that behavior for a $30 piece of software, but they will *not* accept it for a $18,000 car. I almost wish some car company would try it, but then they'd crash in flames and we'd have to bail them out again.
...so the MS astroturf team has decided to call it a "botnet".
I'm curious--how can I tell when an idea is being promoted by the "MS astroturf team" and not by regular not-so-clueful reporters that might mistakenly use the wrong term?
"Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert" implies that the bacteria are making radioactive metals non-radioactive. A better title might be "Bacteria Used to make Poisonous Heavy Metals Inert," or "Bacteria Turn Radioactive Heavy Metals Into Chemically Inert Radioactive Stuff That Is Easier To Clean Up."
Windows's built-in filesharing is fine; depends how you use it to make it a lousy or good tool.
Seriously, something as simple as copying files from computer A to computer B (or from folder A to folder B) is slow as fuck because "you're doing it wrong?" I've experienced ridiculously slow local file copies and ZIP file extractions on my up-to-date, always-install-the-latest patch Windows Vista Home installation. The same machine running a current Ubuntu doesn't exhibit any such problems, but I'm not some Linux guru that knows how to tweak out my system.
Maybe I'm just unlucky, but during the time I've used Vista it's exhibited a lot of behavior that makes me wonder, "what the fuck are you doing behind the scenes that requires all that hard drive thrashing and gaps of 15+ seconds where you can't respond to anything?"
But if you wanted more you could get it and make it happen.... It's probably easier to get a degree with minimal effort now than it used to be, but a student that wants it can sure as hell get it, and not expensively.
That's great if you're willing to learn, but it means that the degree itself is not worth what it once was. There's no way to differentiate your piece of paper from that held by the slacker who skipped class and let other people do his group work.
Of course, once you're competing with the slacker in the workplace, the difference will probably be obvious (unless it's a workplace that values connections and charisma over ability and knowledge). I hope in the long run that the greater availability of resources to the people that want to learn will more than offset the devaluing of the degree, but right now I'm not that optimistic.
Pop psychology, how quaint. Not that you'll believe me (or even really care anyway), but I'm partial to constitutionally limited government that stays out of my way and doesn't play favorites.
Which brings me to the point at hand: I'm talking about the kind of tax breaks that aren't available to the local small businesses. The kind that are handed out to get Something Big And Important to come to Our Town/Country/State so the local Builders Of Monuments To Themselves will be remembered as somebody that could bring home the pork.
Tax breaks are fine with me. Tax breaks that use the power of the state to take money from me and *not* take it from someone else are not.
You know what I learned from "team" projects in college?
Just do the whole damned thing yourself if you want any shot at passing.
Dear gods, yes. The only time I didn't have to do that was when I was in a class with a co-worker that was as interested as I was in learning something and passing the class. The rest of the time it was amusing to watch other people try to walk the "how little can I do" line.
More education gives people a more broad experience of the world...
Maybe you're thinking of an education that was offered in the past, or at a really nice school now. I think the average college education nowadays has much less of this quality than it used to, since a lot of them are morphing into degree mills at varying rates.
It actually makes sense to have companies be taxfree.
Whether it does or not, I think it's a little silly for a former CEO of a company like Intel to wag his finger at other industries and lecture them about getting benefits from the government.
I'm too lazy to do it, but I think if I looked hard enough, I'm pretty sure I'd find a giant heap of government subsidization in Intel's past. It might be disguised as tax breaks, favorable legislation, or some sweet no-bid contract deal, but I doubt many companies get to Intel's size without getting some help along the way from their friends in state and federal governments. They were just smart enough to get it done in a way that's a lot less visible than the "ZOMG I CAN HAZ BAILOUT" approach taken recently.
Yeah, the lyrics are so full of misogyny that it's hard to identify all the ways it's putting down women. I was going to make a general comment on the misogynistic tone, but decided to just pick an example and make fun of it--the way you put it is much more accurate and damning.
Now that we have established the phenomenon (doot dooo do-do-doot) as data, perhaps we can look into the actual physiological mechanisms which control it.
I would think that above all else, the type of people who read a "news for nerds" site would appreciate research for research sake.:-/
I wouldn't be surprised if the researchers for this study already had some concrete ideas about this and either suggested them as future work, or maybe even performed some of them as part of this study. After all, we're lucky if details from the abstract of the paper make it into these articles, let alone any of the actually "sciency" stuff in the body of the paper.
Nowdays I hear nuclear carriers have an extremely high rate water flow across the deck they can start up that can minimise the damage by radiation of anything short of a direct hit by a large yield weapon, at least to the point where the carrier can remain operational to some extent.
I think that's a reference to the washdown system used to limit the amount of radioactive or chemical agents that sticks to the skin of the ship, and I think all Navy ships have it, not just carriers. To block radiation from a nuke you'd need significant thicknesses of water and/or steel, and spraying water doesn't cut it, so I call bullshit.
Spraying water doesn't do jack shit to mitigate the overpressure shock from the weapon, of course.
All things in moderation (we limit ourselves to 4 WoW nights a week)
FWIW... I'm not sure that fits the definition of in moderation.
I suppose it depends on how long you're playing each night. Not everybody is in the "omg I must spend 6 hours raiding each night or it's not worth it" club. Log in, do a daily or two, hit a battleground, etc.; you can do that four times a week and easily have less than 2 hours of play time per week.
I guess it depends on your definition of "processing." Personally, I always found it impossible to play the piano and talk at the same time. I just can't do it...it's like there's an interlock between my speech center and the part that's keeping track of whatever I'm playing.
However, I've known people that could do this with no problem. They could play, sing, pay attention to the performance of the rest of the band, and give direction to the band and sound guy as needed, seamlessly. Granted, they'd been doing this for a long time, but they had trained themselves to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
Slashdot Mirror
Make yourself damn good at solving the difficult customer problems no one else can solve.
Just look out for the "ZOMG what if you get hit by a bus?" fretting if you're too good.
"Quit touching my junk, pervert!"
"Quit touching my junk, pervert!"
"Quit touching my junk, pervert!"
People might accept that behavior for a $30 piece of software, but they will *not* accept it for a $18,000 car. I almost wish some car company would try it, but then they'd crash in flames and we'd have to bail them out again.
Yep, I've got two 9800 GT's in my machine and use them for CUDA. It looks like you can get them now for less than $100.
...so the MS astroturf team has decided to call it a "botnet".
I'm curious--how can I tell when an idea is being promoted by the "MS astroturf team" and not by regular not-so-clueful reporters that might mistakenly use the wrong term?
<science-nitpickery>
"Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert" implies that the bacteria are making radioactive metals non-radioactive. A better title might be "Bacteria Used to make Poisonous Heavy Metals Inert," or "Bacteria Turn Radioactive Heavy Metals Into Chemically Inert Radioactive Stuff That Is Easier To Clean Up."
</science-nitpickery>
Windows's built-in filesharing is fine; depends how you use it to make it a lousy or good tool.
Seriously, something as simple as copying files from computer A to computer B (or from folder A to folder B) is slow as fuck because "you're doing it wrong?" I've experienced ridiculously slow local file copies and ZIP file extractions on my up-to-date, always-install-the-latest patch Windows Vista Home installation. The same machine running a current Ubuntu doesn't exhibit any such problems, but I'm not some Linux guru that knows how to tweak out my system.
Maybe I'm just unlucky, but during the time I've used Vista it's exhibited a lot of behavior that makes me wonder, "what the fuck are you doing behind the scenes that requires all that hard drive thrashing and gaps of 15+ seconds where you can't respond to anything?"
Oooh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. "I'm my own grandpa!"
Whether it should or not, it looks like we're definitely on track to make sure we never get into space on our own again.
Oh wait, that wasn't the goal, was it?
But if you wanted more you could get it and make it happen. ... It's probably easier to get a degree with minimal effort now than it used to be, but a student that wants it can sure as hell get it, and not expensively.
That's great if you're willing to learn, but it means that the degree itself is not worth what it once was. There's no way to differentiate your piece of paper from that held by the slacker who skipped class and let other people do his group work.
Of course, once you're competing with the slacker in the workplace, the difference will probably be obvious (unless it's a workplace that values connections and charisma over ability and knowledge). I hope in the long run that the greater availability of resources to the people that want to learn will more than offset the devaluing of the degree, but right now I'm not that optimistic.
Pop psychology, how quaint. Not that you'll believe me (or even really care anyway), but I'm partial to constitutionally limited government that stays out of my way and doesn't play favorites.
Which brings me to the point at hand: I'm talking about the kind of tax breaks that aren't available to the local small businesses. The kind that are handed out to get Something Big And Important to come to Our Town/Country/State so the local Builders Of Monuments To Themselves will be remembered as somebody that could bring home the pork.
Tax breaks are fine with me. Tax breaks that use the power of the state to take money from me and *not* take it from someone else are not.
You know what I learned from "team" projects in college?
Just do the whole damned thing yourself if you want any shot at passing.
Dear gods, yes. The only time I didn't have to do that was when I was in a class with a co-worker that was as interested as I was in learning something and passing the class. The rest of the time it was amusing to watch other people try to walk the "how little can I do" line.
More education gives people a more broad experience of the world...
Maybe you're thinking of an education that was offered in the past, or at a really nice school now. I think the average college education nowadays has much less of this quality than it used to, since a lot of them are morphing into degree mills at varying rates.
It actually makes sense to have companies be taxfree.
Whether it does or not, I think it's a little silly for a former CEO of a company like Intel to wag his finger at other industries and lecture them about getting benefits from the government.
I'm too lazy to do it, but I think if I looked hard enough, I'm pretty sure I'd find a giant heap of government subsidization in Intel's past. It might be disguised as tax breaks, favorable legislation, or some sweet no-bid contract deal, but I doubt many companies get to Intel's size without getting some help along the way from their friends in state and federal governments. They were just smart enough to get it done in a way that's a lot less visible than the "ZOMG I CAN HAZ BAILOUT" approach taken recently.
Yeah, the lyrics are so full of misogyny that it's hard to identify all the ways it's putting down women. I was going to make a general comment on the misogynistic tone, but decided to just pick an example and make fun of it--the way you put it is much more accurate and damning.
Ozzy's Acronym Flurry crits you for 173201 (161454 overkill).
You die.
Why ruin a god thing?
Oh come on now, just because Jesus is starring in it doesn't mean we need to bring God into it too.
What, the scientific basis that women can be pretty or can cook, and that these characteristics are mutually exclusive?
Humor Nazi Disclaimer: Yes, I know it's supposed to be funny, but I don't care.
Now that we have established the phenomenon (doot dooo do-do-doot) as data, perhaps we can look into the actual physiological mechanisms which control it.
I would think that above all else, the type of people who read a "news for nerds" site would appreciate research for research sake. :-/
I wouldn't be surprised if the researchers for this study already had some concrete ideas about this and either suggested them as future work, or maybe even performed some of them as part of this study. After all, we're lucky if details from the abstract of the paper make it into these articles, let alone any of the actually "sciency" stuff in the body of the paper.
Mmmmm....delicious cave mold!
Nowdays I hear nuclear carriers have an extremely high rate water flow across the deck they can start up that can minimise the damage by radiation of anything short of a direct hit by a large yield weapon, at least to the point where the carrier can remain operational to some extent.
I think that's a reference to the washdown system used to limit the amount of radioactive or chemical agents that sticks to the skin of the ship, and I think all Navy ships have it, not just carriers. To block radiation from a nuke you'd need significant thicknesses of water and/or steel, and spraying water doesn't cut it, so I call bullshit.
Spraying water doesn't do jack shit to mitigate the overpressure shock from the weapon, of course.
FWIW... I'm not sure that fits the definition of in moderation.
I suppose it depends on how long you're playing each night. Not everybody is in the "omg I must spend 6 hours raiding each night or it's not worth it" club. Log in, do a daily or two, hit a battleground, etc.; you can do that four times a week and easily have less than 2 hours of play time per week.
You should see the real original picture before MS photoshopped in those two non-Busey guys.
(Yes, stolen from reddit.)
I guess it depends on your definition of "processing." Personally, I always found it impossible to play the piano and talk at the same time. I just can't do it...it's like there's an interlock between my speech center and the part that's keeping track of whatever I'm playing.
However, I've known people that could do this with no problem. They could play, sing, pay attention to the performance of the rest of the band, and give direction to the band and sound guy as needed, seamlessly. Granted, they'd been doing this for a long time, but they had trained themselves to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.