First tell me why you need a 4k dual hard drive. At that screen size can you even tell the difference between 1080p and 4K? Why do you need 2 hard drives?
So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.
Oh, did I mention Linux compatibility? Ubuntu is officially supported. (My fave distro, Fedora runs without issue - literally load and forget)
Like pretty much every other piece of hardware on the planet?
Some of use still play games. You can say bye to all the low spec crap you like, but some of us like performance, and you don't get that from laptops or SBC. Not everyone wants to play flappy-birds. Some of us want to push Rome to the limits.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Wikipedia has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Let me help you over the bridge. Science fiction is often just fantasy, but with lasers and pod racers instead of swords and horses. Star Wars itself would lose little if it happened in a medieval setting (storywise, special effects would have suffered, and sadly that was 80% of the cool factor for me). I mean they already have a princess who keeps getting captured and needs rescuing by a knight...uh, I mean jedi knight. Lucky the old master is there to train the young apprentice in the way of the sword...er...force! He struggles to become strong enough to take on the black knight...um, Lord Vader. But only once the old master is defeated can the new apprentice rise above his master and defeat the black knight...fuck it, I mean Vader.
There's an old saying, if it's fantasy the women are dressed in fur bikinis. If it's science fiction, they are wearing metallic bikinis.
So, just take any science fiction story, and if the storyline itself could play out just as well in medieval Europe, Middle Earth or some spell casting land (swap guns and gadgets for wands, staves and magic items) then it's really just fantasy.
[quote] I think they misunderstand the word "troll." "Trolling" meant "fishing."[/quote]
This must be the part of the post where you start to introduce factual errors. I think the word you're thinking of is "trawling" which though similar isn't even a homophone.
We used Trumpet WinSock back then. It worked a treat. We ran Netware Lite as our network, again, it worked great - though I think we switched to the built in stuff at some point and never had any problems. That was just a 4 man shop however.
Our uni had 4-6 computer labs. Most were 8086 with one lab having VT100 terminals for the VAX. Two labs were open 24/365. It seems strange that a uni wouldn't have that now, even though I guess most students would have their own laptops these days. So many happy nights spent in those labs with the other strange denizens of the night. I played Ultima III from start to finish in one intensely long marathon session on one of those machines. Good times.
The smart students will take the option to not pair up; they won't let some idiot drag their grade down. There is no penalty for doing so as long as you hand your work in on time.
If it's longer than it is wide, it's a phallus; that's why our office is switching to square monitors and paper and no longer provide pens for employee use.
They're quite right not to allow some shimmy shammy clone to register on the merits of it's DNA, just look at what happened with the Storm Trooper fiasco. They took one incredible bounty hunter, with mad skills and fantastic aim - and churned out millions of copies that couldn't hit the side of the huge desert crawling robot factory. They also had no appreciable hand to hand skills or the same muscle tone.
Android - it's just Linux with a shiny front end slapped on it. Most of the work was done by volunteers outside of Google. I doubt even 3% of the code found on any given Android device was made at Google, and that's being very generous. If you count the apps downloaded to it, it would be under 1%.
Chrome - wasn't this a fork of webkit or some other browser written by other people? They did a lot of work on it, but it's by no means a Google product.
Maps - I know they acquired some companies for this, not sure the extent of it though. Streetview might well be their own baby. I don't really see it as a killer app though, it's kinda fun.
I actually switched a little while ago to DuckDuckGo, after using Google for the last...um, when did Altavista start to suck? You're pretty much spot on about the first two result pages, they are filled with paid for placements. I can't seem to search on something without some retailer site(s) coming up willing to sell me the product, and I mean like 30 of them. Search for the manual for your television and you'll have to scroll right down past all the people wanting to sell that model of TV to you.
The reason is because Aero can take up 600MB of very precious video card RAM, depending on screen resolution and other factors. That's a *lot* of RAM to be losing access to just for a desktop you can't see while playing a game. That's 600MB out of the 1-2GB a typical card might have.
It doesn't matter whether the icons have a flat look or a sculpted 3D light sourced look or whatever, they are still just bitmaps that are blasted to the screen using a bitblit operation which is stupidly fast on any card made since the late 80s. Aero sucks for many other reasons, but flat icons in not even remotely one of them.
I'd rather stab myself repeatedly in the thigh with a fork than write web site software or boring old business apps. Web software is a particular kind of super dull hell, and business apps tend to be the same old thing every time, but without the added crap of having to triple handle all the data to get it from the database onto the screen.
These days I work with the CRYENGINE game engine and are working on making my own RPG game with it. There's a *lot* more challenge, and always something new and interesting to learn. I feel like I stagnated while writing all that business software, and am finally getting to grow as a programmer again.
Google, with all their rockrstar 10x programmers and engineers fail yet again. What's the point of hiring "only the best" through a series of day long gruelling interview processes and obscure ego inflating (for the interviewers) exams - when all the software they write ends up in the trash. Their only good products are the search engine, gmail (getting marginal), and youtube (bought from someone else). Two hit products for such a massive company of the world's best software engineers seems like a pretty big let down.
Nothing good ever seems to come out of these massive, lumbering, over managed companies. Their two decent products came at a time when they were much smaller. All the innovation is coming from small, lean and agile companies who take risks. Google is just the next Microsoft, ready to crest the wave any time now.
The behaviour is deterministic, it always provides you with a memory location which contains whatever random garbage was previously there. This is actually a useful feature, since c++ doesn't require you to initialise every single variable prior to use.
Most times I try and declare and initialise a variable at the same time, but there are still cases where you might need to declare it outside an if-else statement and don't want to waste cycles pushing a null value into the memory before you then overwrite it with the actual value you need.
As for marking every variable declaration with "uninitialized" - do we really need more typing in programming? No thanks!
It's pretty hard to say if anyone has tried, since I'm not running any decent intrusion detection, just my router's firewall. They'd have a pretty hard time of it in any case, since it's Linux, it runs on a user space account who's only access is to that home drive and the torrent DL folder, and it's a Power PC CPU, so there's going to be pretty much no hack that will work on it unless someone goes out and makes one for that every small use case.
Singing racist lyrics as a group in a public place might actually be covered under this caveat, though IANAL, it does seem to apply:
Some limits on expression were contemplated by the framers and have been read into the Constitution by the Supreme Court. In 1942, Justice Frank Murphy summarized the case law: "There are certain well-defined and limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise a Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous and the insulting or “fighting” words – those which by their very utterances inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
That said, I haven't viewed the video yet, and likely won't, so I can't comment on exactly how injury inflicting their words were.
One way to test it of course, is for a lone person from that group to head to a gospel church and try singing the song there.
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First tell me why you need a 4k dual hard drive. At that screen size can you even tell the difference between 1080p and 4K? Why do you need 2 hard drives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apparently you are completely wrong.
So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.
Oh, did I mention Linux compatibility? Ubuntu is officially supported. (My fave distro, Fedora runs without issue - literally load and forget)
Like pretty much every other piece of hardware on the planet?
Some of use still play games. You can say bye to all the low spec crap you like, but some of us like performance, and you don't get that from laptops or SBC. Not everyone wants to play flappy-birds. Some of us want to push Rome to the limits.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Wikipedia has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Let me help you over the bridge. Science fiction is often just fantasy, but with lasers and pod racers instead of swords and horses. Star Wars itself would lose little if it happened in a medieval setting (storywise, special effects would have suffered, and sadly that was 80% of the cool factor for me). I mean they already have a princess who keeps getting captured and needs rescuing by a knight...uh, I mean jedi knight. Lucky the old master is there to train the young apprentice in the way of the sword...er...force! He struggles to become strong enough to take on the black knight...um, Lord Vader. But only once the old master is defeated can the new apprentice rise above his master and defeat the black knight...fuck it, I mean Vader.
There's an old saying, if it's fantasy the women are dressed in fur bikinis. If it's science fiction, they are wearing metallic bikinis.
So, just take any science fiction story, and if the storyline itself could play out just as well in medieval Europe, Middle Earth or some spell casting land (swap guns and gadgets for wands, staves and magic items) then it's really just fantasy.
Spoiler alert: Bambi was from house Stark!
"We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia."
If only that book wasn't so popular, I could read it...but alas.
[quote] I think they misunderstand the word "troll." "Trolling" meant "fishing."[/quote]
This must be the part of the post where you start to introduce factual errors. I think the word you're thinking of is "trawling" which though similar isn't even a homophone.
Curse you rectangle, you win again! That's it, just put square fucking sensors on all the cameras from now on.
We used Trumpet WinSock back then. It worked a treat. We ran Netware Lite as our network, again, it worked great - though I think we switched to the built in stuff at some point and never had any problems. That was just a 4 man shop however.
Our uni had 4-6 computer labs. Most were 8086 with one lab having VT100 terminals for the VAX. Two labs were open 24 /365. It seems strange that a uni wouldn't have that now, even though I guess most students would have their own laptops these days. So many happy nights spent in those labs with the other strange denizens of the night. I played Ultima III from start to finish in one intensely long marathon session on one of those machines. Good times.
The smart students will take the option to not pair up; they won't let some idiot drag their grade down. There is no penalty for doing so as long as you hand your work in on time.
If it's longer than it is wide, it's a phallus; that's why our office is switching to square monitors and paper and no longer provide pens for employee use.
Apotheosis is here, at last!
They're quite right not to allow some shimmy shammy clone to register on the merits of it's DNA, just look at what happened with the Storm Trooper fiasco. They took one incredible bounty hunter, with mad skills and fantastic aim - and churned out millions of copies that couldn't hit the side of the huge desert crawling robot factory. They also had no appreciable hand to hand skills or the same muscle tone.
Android - it's just Linux with a shiny front end slapped on it. Most of the work was done by volunteers outside of Google. I doubt even 3% of the code found on any given Android device was made at Google, and that's being very generous. If you count the apps downloaded to it, it would be under 1%.
Chrome - wasn't this a fork of webkit or some other browser written by other people? They did a lot of work on it, but it's by no means a Google product.
Maps - I know they acquired some companies for this, not sure the extent of it though. Streetview might well be their own baby. I don't really see it as a killer app though, it's kinda fun.
I actually switched a little while ago to DuckDuckGo, after using Google for the last...um, when did Altavista start to suck? You're pretty much spot on about the first two result pages, they are filled with paid for placements. I can't seem to search on something without some retailer site(s) coming up willing to sell me the product, and I mean like 30 of them. Search for the manual for your television and you'll have to scroll right down past all the people wanting to sell that model of TV to you.
The reason is because Aero can take up 600MB of very precious video card RAM, depending on screen resolution and other factors. That's a *lot* of RAM to be losing access to just for a desktop you can't see while playing a game. That's 600MB out of the 1-2GB a typical card might have.
It doesn't matter whether the icons have a flat look or a sculpted 3D light sourced look or whatever, they are still just bitmaps that are blasted to the screen using a bitblit operation which is stupidly fast on any card made since the late 80s. Aero sucks for many other reasons, but flat icons in not even remotely one of them.
I'd rather stab myself repeatedly in the thigh with a fork than write web site software or boring old business apps. Web software is a particular kind of super dull hell, and business apps tend to be the same old thing every time, but without the added crap of having to triple handle all the data to get it from the database onto the screen.
These days I work with the CRYENGINE game engine and are working on making my own RPG game with it. There's a *lot* more challenge, and always something new and interesting to learn. I feel like I stagnated while writing all that business software, and am finally getting to grow as a programmer again.
Google, with all their rockrstar 10x programmers and engineers fail yet again. What's the point of hiring "only the best" through a series of day long gruelling interview processes and obscure ego inflating (for the interviewers) exams - when all the software they write ends up in the trash. Their only good products are the search engine, gmail (getting marginal), and youtube (bought from someone else). Two hit products for such a massive company of the world's best software engineers seems like a pretty big let down.
Nothing good ever seems to come out of these massive, lumbering, over managed companies. Their two decent products came at a time when they were much smaller. All the innovation is coming from small, lean and agile companies who take risks. Google is just the next Microsoft, ready to crest the wave any time now.
The behaviour is deterministic, it always provides you with a memory location which contains whatever random garbage was previously there. This is actually a useful feature, since c++ doesn't require you to initialise every single variable prior to use.
Most times I try and declare and initialise a variable at the same time, but there are still cases where you might need to declare it outside an if-else statement and don't want to waste cycles pushing a null value into the memory before you then overwrite it with the actual value you need.
As for marking every variable declaration with "uninitialized" - do we really need more typing in programming? No thanks!
It's pretty hard to say if anyone has tried, since I'm not running any decent intrusion detection, just my router's firewall. They'd have a pretty hard time of it in any case, since it's Linux, it runs on a user space account who's only access is to that home drive and the torrent DL folder, and it's a Power PC CPU, so there's going to be pretty much no hack that will work on it unless someone goes out and makes one for that every small use case.
Looks like I should have qualified that statement saying that if you live outside the US.
Here's the local perspective...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And a global perspective...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Singing racist lyrics as a group in a public place might actually be covered under this caveat, though IANAL, it does seem to apply:
Some limits on expression were contemplated by the framers and have been read into the Constitution by the Supreme Court. In 1942, Justice Frank Murphy summarized the case law: "There are certain well-defined and limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise a Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous and the insulting or “fighting” words – those which by their very utterances inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
That said, I haven't viewed the video yet, and likely won't, so I can't comment on exactly how injury inflicting their words were.
One way to test it of course, is for a lone person from that group to head to a gospel church and try singing the song there.
Free speech does not extend to hate speech. No rights are being denied here, since you do not have the right to hate speech.