Skynet is a distributed software client running on every computer on the planet. So when John Connor gets sent to Crystal Point to destroy Skynet and prevent the nuclear launch, the real reason he's sent there is to protect him when the attack happens, since it can't be prevented at that point. He can't do anything except watch, and then start the resistance.
Congratulations, you just read the end of the Terminator 3 movie!
HardOCP's coverage of all this is disgraceful. When Extremetech originally broke the story, HardOCP practically accused them of making it up, and said they had "motives of their own" for writing the article outlining the problem. Instead of investigating on their own, apparently the procedure at HardOCP is to question the findings of the other, more competent, tech sites.
Then, when the fix is posted, they write "This is in response to the news item we posted last week."
... As if _they_ broke the story. As if _they_ are responsible for causing a patch to be posted. No apology to Extremetech, either (in fact, no mention of them at all)
And now, they're making unfounded accusations that 3DMark is taking bribes to skew the benchmark results? WTF? Why doesn't HardOCP just hire Jayson Blair to write their "articles"? At least then, they'd have less spelling errors.
The need for a constant human space presence is simple:
So that we have a constant human space presence. The idea is similar for the logic behind keeping Los Alamos labs functioning. We don't need more nuclear weapons, but the fear is that should we decommission the lab, we may lose the talent and knowledge (most of which is intangible/experiential knowledge) of the staff.
If he's concerned about reliability and is having problems convincing his vendor that he's getting hardware errors, he should get ECC memory.
While he's got him on the phone, he should ask the vendor where he can get one of these "equivalent" Pentium III's. I didn't know PIII's came in 3Ghz these days.
The whole point of the differing Pentium 4 architecture is that it scales well with clockspeed; and with the introduction of Hyperthreading on the newer chips, The P4 has really come into its own as far as performance.
Comparing nonexistent chips with existing chips is kind of a pointless exercise.
Figures that you losers would be discussing the asthetic appearence of the case rather than the hardware that it's running. I bet you all drive PT Cruisers.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Everyone knows that all the hipsters are driving Mini Coopers these days.
As lore would have it, the original USL suit against BSD and Berkely University broke up on the rocks for a similar reason.
As lore would have it, the proper spelling of Berkeley is B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y, and the proper usage is "University of California, Berkeley," being that Berkeley is the University of California; the other UC schools (UCLA, UCSC, et al) are merely extensions of UC Berkeley, which was founded in 1868.
So no, it's not spelled "Berkly," Berkely," Berkley," or any combination of the three, and it most certainly has no connection to the Berklee College of Music.
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek can misspell "Berkeley", given the advances made there. Where the hell do you think Berkelium and Californium were discovered? If it weren't for Berkeley, which runs LANL and LBNL, the DOD would be up shit creek, and GWB wouldn't have any of those "nuke-u-ler" weapons he likes to talk so much about. For the love of god, the guy who won a Nobel prize for inventing the frickin LASER is a professor there.
Without Berkeley, there'd be no BSD; it's the Berkeley Software Distribution. It's in the name of the operating system. If you can't even properly spell the name of the operating system to which you're referring, why even bother to make any comment at all?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to see scenes from 'Spaceballs'...
Is it just me being paranoid, or does the "soldier of the future" in this picture look like an Imperial stormtrooper?
What's next, Dick Cheney on a respirator with a black helmet?
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I will humbly submit that if you think she's "pretty damn svelt" (sic), your sexual tastes would be better fulfilled if you visit a farm and pick up on some heifers. And I want to be clear I'm not saying that to be insulting or anything - it's no skin off my butt if you're turned on by fat chicks, it's your choice. But if you want a woman that won't lose the TV remote in her flabby folds, you're going to be damn disappointed. Even the very few that look "svelt" (sic) to you at 18 will fill out a few years later.
For a female, she's actually pretty damn chunky. Those women you prefer deliberately eat 4, 5, sometimes 6 meals a day. Not one woman in 10,000 looks like that naturally, even at 18. It takes a lot of fried chicken and Doritos to keep up a figure like that.
It never ceases to amaze me how nit-picky geek guys are about women.
Uhh, ok. I forgot that Aimee is equal to all of womankind. My bad for "nit-picking" the giant picture of Aimee, that Aimee placed on her own website, of Aimee in a bikini top and thong panties.
If she's going to market herself as a sex-symbol, then she should *be* a sex symbol, not a paunchy chick in a thong that looks like she ate the chick that's _supposed_ to be in the picture.
If I market myself as a java programmer, and I put a huge screenshot of my code on my website, and it completely sucks ass, I wouldn't fault people for "nitpicking" it. It's a valid criticism, because I've placed that aspect of myself in the public space.
But, since you've equated Aimee with "women", where's your website, with your picture of yourself in a bikini top?
Did innovative, rather than mainstream, games send the Dreamcast to an early grave rather than the PS2's more bland, yet conforming, lineup of titles?"
Explain to me how Grand Theft Auto is "bland" and "conforming".
Dreamcast had poor selection of games, and equally poor marketing. Sega's prior console went to an early grave too, don't forget.
Don't know who to trust (tomshardware sucks), but if it was true it would certainly explain HardOCP's recent behavior....
I'd trust Tomshardware over Tard|OCP any day of the week. Tom may make mistakes, but at least he doesn't act like a thirteen-year-old with a self-esteem problem.
remebers reading about some ancient l33wt hacker tricks. His hacker buddies stand back in awe as he... Changes the password without typing anything 20 times.
Yeah, I remember that trick. It's called a boot disk.
I'm not sure if boot disks are "l33wt", but I know that if anyone has physical access to your machine, they can access your machine. This keystroke monitoring program is silly.
Well, if you read Hard|OCP last week, you might have gotten the impression that Extremetech was making the whole thing up. They said "I have a feeling that Et has some motives of their own that might make a good story"
Right, like maybe getting a fix posted? Oh, wait, looks like Hard|OCP is taking credit for that:
Futuremark has released a patch for 3DMark 2003 that eliminates "artificially high scores" for people using NVIDIA Detonator FX drivers. This is in response to the news item we posted last week. According to the PDF on Futuremark's site, the patch causes a 24.1% drop in score for NVIDIA..."
I'm amazed at the OCP's coverage of this whole deal. They didn't break the story, so they cast doubt on ExtremeTech's findings, and allude to suspicious "motives" that were never proven.
Then, when the fix is released, they claim the fix is released "in response to a news item we posted last week", as if they're directly responsible. A week ago they're bashing ExtremeTech for even insinuating driver cheating, and this week they're taking credit for getting the fix released (as if they broke the story themselves).
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Skynet is a distributed software client running on every computer on the planet. So when John Connor gets sent to Crystal Point to destroy Skynet and prevent the nuclear launch, the real reason he's sent there is to protect him when the attack happens, since it can't be prevented at that point. He can't do anything except watch, and then start the resistance.
Congratulations, you just read the end of the Terminator 3 movie!
That's kind of like when I cracked the "stilted English" code used in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.
HardOCP's coverage of all this is disgraceful. When Extremetech originally broke the story, HardOCP practically accused them of making it up, and said they had "motives of their own" for writing the article outlining the problem. Instead of investigating on their own, apparently the procedure at HardOCP is to question the findings of the other, more competent, tech sites.
... As if _they_ broke the story. As if _they_ are responsible for causing a patch to be posted. No apology to Extremetech, either (in fact, no mention of them at all)
Then, when the fix is posted, they write "This is in response to the news item we posted last week."
And now, they're making unfounded accusations that 3DMark is taking bribes to skew the benchmark results? WTF? Why doesn't HardOCP just hire Jayson Blair to write their "articles"? At least then, they'd have less spelling errors.
The need for a constant human space presence is simple:
So that we have a constant human space presence. The idea is similar for the logic behind keeping Los Alamos labs functioning. We don't need more nuclear weapons, but the fear is that should we decommission the lab, we may lose the talent and knowledge (most of which is intangible/experiential knowledge) of the staff.
If anyone uses the word "elegant" when describing Apple products again, I swear I'm going to get a gun and shoot someone.
You'd think, as a journalist, the man would have access to a Thesaurus.
"Public Domain Enhancement Act"?
Isn't that what they called the establishment of Communism in the Soviet Union?
It looks like it can be ported to a lot of other platforms as well, if this is any indication.
I see your confusion. They also seem to be building their machines outside, on the roof:
they have other Mini-ITX based systems, which they claim is built "on same factory that builds the cases for many high-end audio products".
This monitor apparently doesn't have sections. It doesn't fold in the middle.
Iraqi information minister? What are you doing up this late, posting on Slashdot?
Shouldn't you be out, fleeing for your life in the middle of the desert, somewhere?
If he's concerned about reliability and is having problems convincing his vendor that he's getting hardware errors, he should get ECC memory.
While he's got him on the phone, he should ask the vendor where he can get one of these "equivalent" Pentium III's. I didn't know PIII's came in 3Ghz these days.
The whole point of the differing Pentium 4 architecture is that it scales well with clockspeed; and with the introduction of Hyperthreading on the newer chips, The P4 has really come into its own as far as performance.
Comparing nonexistent chips with existing chips is kind of a pointless exercise.
Now that's what I call quality programming.
Figures that you losers would be discussing the asthetic appearence of the case rather than the hardware that it's running. I bet you all drive PT Cruisers.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Everyone knows that all the hipsters are driving Mini Coopers these days.
duh.
They would have my support if they supported tools to add sex or violence though.
Or, given that the technology exists to cut out the sex and violence, why not make a drive that skips everything _except_ the sex and violence?
It would certainly make Van Damme's movies watchable.
As lore would have it, the original USL suit against BSD and Berkely University broke up on the rocks for a similar reason.
As lore would have it, the proper spelling of Berkeley is B-E-R-K-E-L-E-Y, and the proper usage is "University of California, Berkeley," being that Berkeley is the University of California; the other UC schools (UCLA, UCSC, et al) are merely extensions of UC Berkeley, which was founded in 1868.
So no, it's not spelled "Berkly," Berkely," Berkley," or any combination of the three, and it most certainly has no connection to the Berklee College of Music.
I'm amazed that any self-respecting geek can misspell "Berkeley", given the advances made there. Where the hell do you think Berkelium and Californium were discovered? If it weren't for Berkeley, which runs LANL and LBNL, the DOD would be up shit creek, and GWB wouldn't have any of those "nuke-u-ler" weapons he likes to talk so much about. For the love of god, the guy who won a Nobel prize for inventing the frickin LASER is a professor there.
Without Berkeley, there'd be no BSD; it's the Berkeley Software Distribution. It's in the name of the operating system. If you can't even properly spell the name of the operating system to which you're referring, why even bother to make any comment at all?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to see scenes from 'Spaceballs'...
Is it just me being paranoid, or does the "soldier of the future" in this picture look like an Imperial stormtrooper?
What's next, Dick Cheney on a respirator with a black helmet?
I will humbly submit that if you think she's "pretty damn svelt" (sic), your sexual tastes would be better fulfilled if you visit a farm and pick up on some heifers. And I want to be clear I'm not saying that to be insulting or anything - it's no skin off my butt if you're turned on by fat chicks, it's your choice. But if you want a woman that won't lose the TV remote in her flabby folds, you're going to be damn disappointed. Even the very few that look "svelt" (sic) to you at 18 will fill out a few years later.
For a female, she's actually pretty damn chunky. Those women you prefer deliberately eat 4, 5, sometimes 6 meals a day. Not one woman in 10,000 looks like that naturally, even at 18. It takes a lot of fried chicken and Doritos to keep up a figure like that.
It never ceases to amaze me how nit-picky geek guys are about women.
Uhh, ok. I forgot that Aimee is equal to all of womankind. My bad for "nit-picking" the giant picture of Aimee, that Aimee placed on her own website, of Aimee in a bikini top and thong panties.
If she's going to market herself as a sex-symbol, then she should *be* a sex symbol, not a paunchy chick in a thong that looks like she ate the chick that's _supposed_ to be in the picture.
If I market myself as a java programmer, and I put a huge screenshot of my code on my website, and it completely sucks ass, I wouldn't fault people for "nitpicking" it. It's a valid criticism, because I've placed that aspect of myself in the public space.
But, since you've equated Aimee with "women", where's your website, with your picture of yourself in a bikini top?
Does her father know she dresses like that?
My question is, does her father know she dresses like that after obviously having hit the all-you-can-eat buffet for a month straight?
I'm serious. That gut of hers makes Jabba the Hutt look like Calista Flockhart.
Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP
Why, was property in the real world too expensive?
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Thanks, I'll be here all the week.
It didn't "go to an early grave" either - it came out long before the PS2 or X-box, and had a very good life cycle.
It was released in 1999, and discontinued in 2001. If that's not an early grave, I don't know what is.
(For comparison, the Playstation 2 was also released in 1999. Just in case you were wondering, you can still buy them.)
Did innovative, rather than mainstream, games send the Dreamcast to an early grave rather than the PS2's more bland, yet conforming, lineup of titles?"
Explain to me how Grand Theft Auto is "bland" and "conforming".
Dreamcast had poor selection of games, and equally poor marketing. Sega's prior console went to an early grave too, don't forget.
Hmmm, time to upgrade from an Xpert@Play98
Hmmm.. I don't know if a GeforceFX is actually an *upgrade* from the Xpert@play98. What benchmark are you using?
Don't know who to trust (tomshardware sucks), but if it was true it would certainly explain HardOCP's recent behavior....
I'd trust Tomshardware over Tard|OCP any day of the week. Tom may make mistakes, but at least he doesn't act like a thirteen-year-old with a self-esteem problem.
remebers reading about some ancient l33wt hacker tricks. His hacker buddies stand back in awe as he... Changes the password without typing anything 20 times.
Yeah, I remember that trick. It's called a boot disk.
I'm not sure if boot disks are "l33wt", but I know that if anyone has physical access to your machine, they can access your machine. This keystroke monitoring program is silly.
Well, if you read Hard|OCP last week, you might have gotten the impression that Extremetech was making the whole thing up. They said "I have a feeling that Et has some motives of their own that might make a good story"
Right, like maybe getting a fix posted? Oh, wait, looks like Hard|OCP is taking credit for that:
Futuremark has released a patch for 3DMark 2003 that eliminates "artificially high scores" for people using NVIDIA Detonator FX drivers. This is in response to the news item we posted last week. According to the PDF on Futuremark's site, the patch causes a 24.1% drop in score for NVIDIA..."
I'm amazed at the OCP's coverage of this whole deal. They didn't break the story, so they cast doubt on ExtremeTech's findings, and allude to suspicious "motives" that were never proven.
Then, when the fix is released, they claim the fix is released "in response to a news item we posted last week", as if they're directly responsible. A week ago they're bashing ExtremeTech for even insinuating driver cheating, and this week they're taking credit for getting the fix released (as if they broke the story themselves).