I find your use of the word engineer rather jarring.
I am a professional engineer, and obtaining that title is a long process, and at no point is Windows installation, spyware removal, or other pc-geek-bitch work taught or tested.
I'm not sure why you care. This is just another example of technological ambivalence -- where the technology that solves a problem causes another problem. This happens all the time with technological solutions to problems. For instance, if you have a child and you want that child to be able to watch TV but you don't want the child to watch bad things, there are two solutions; One is technological, the other is cultural. The technological problem suffers from ambivalence. A v-chip or whatever will stop your child from watching bad things. But, it has it's own set of problems and risks. What if you forget the password and can't watch your porn when the child is asleep?
The cultural solution, on the other hand, is problem free. You teach your child to avoid things you don't want them to watch. Of course they still can, but assuming you're a halfway decent parent, the child will learn. You'll have solved the problem and instilled moral values.
If you're so against this technology, simply don't buy into it. You don't need to get up on a soap box, declare it evil, and try to stop the technology from even getting to the market. Voice your opinion with your dollars.
VOIP does use TCP sockets for the initial data setup but UDP for actual voice streaming. This problem could be solved with some overlap of the wireless access point ranges and two network interfaces. One could get a DHCP lease on the upcoming network while the other still streams, and then once the first network is out of range instantly switch over to the other interface. Just a thought.
I think that the solution to the heat problem will not come with better and more powerful cooling solutions, but rather radically changing how chips are designed and manufactured. The article doesn't contradict this, but I just want to emphasize that. Having some liquid nitrogen cooling unit is not the optimal, or even a good solution.
I'm interested to see if Google, using it's great clout and size, would try to get justice for those who are unjustly in bad positions (poor people in countries with corrupt governments, etc), or if they will simply toss money at the problems. I'm not saying that throwing billions at a problem isn't a good thing, but usually more good comes from people looking to enforce justice for those less fortunate than us.
Why would the extreme cold be stressful for computing parts? While it would sort of suck if condensation got everywhere and shorted out stuff, that's not a possibility at arctic-cold temperatures because water couldn't get hot enough to form a liquid, I wouldn't think. Unless some components get hard enough to cause the cold air around them to condense, I don't see extreme cold as being a problem.
I wonder how accurate this would be. Would it even be really useful for first person shooters that require pinpoint precision? I would say no, but then again, I'm somehow fairly accurate with a mouse, so my hands can be accurate with training. I'm not sure about the whole arm bit though.
That's great logic. If there's some, then they can count it, and then it's a mess and is a concern. You are smart. How's that working out for you? FUCK WATCH OUT THERES 83 ATOMS OF bleach on your FACE.
Went well?
"Amounts of vaccine remaining on skin surface were quantified."
In other words, it leaves a bit of a mess.
Idiot. Quantified means counted. Moron.
This is quite possibly the stupidest shit I've ever read. The reason powerful power supplies are required is not because "of the quality" (you never specify why, you just claim this). A fast video card and CPU are hardly things that warrant lots of power use. Fast hard drives and optical drives are.
Idiot.
While I see the point you are making, and it is valid, this is something big not only because of the fact that it's 1 gig, and not only because of the fact that it's google, but apparently the UI is a great twist on the overdone e-mail thing, sporting a new "conversation" style in-box.
Remember the good old days when you could list your optical drive specs with only 3 numbers? For example, "I just got a new CD Burner! It's 32x16x8"
Now, it's what? 48x12x8x8x8x32x32x48. Just freaking perfect. This is what multiple standards do to us.
I've got to say, since Episode 1 and 2's massive failure in the eyes of many geeks, and most of the press (despite my love of both movies), the press surrounding the Clone Wars and the opinions I've heard have been tremendous, to say the least. IMO, the quality of animation is superb, Samurai Jack style, and it's just real Star Wars fun to watch. Also, one simply MUST love the new dark Jedi in the fight against all those monsters.
I'd have to disagree. For the average person, this is quite the hacking video. It's got windows password cracking, some hardware fun, and do you even KNOW who Kevin Mitnick is?
For the ATI radeon overclock, no. For raw CPU power, probably, but a video card (generally speaking) needs to be fast on its own. I don't think you CAN piggyback a whole bunch of video cards to gain such speed improvements. Hell, I bet with a 660mhz core, that card could run Doom3 at 3 fps! That's INSANE.
After having this distro reccomended to me, I tried it out on a new laptop, and to be honest, I'd say it was not a great experience. Being a linux nub, I guess it was a bad distro to choose as my first install, what with no automated installer, and freaking 4603453 years to compile anything. emerge kde took a few years, as did anything else. While I acknowledge the benefits of compiling everything with optizations for the exact platform it's on, and also realize that installing is a one time thing and using is a many time thing, I still would say there's not a good enough mix between precompiled and source distributed in stage1 and stage2 releases, and stage3 jumps right to all compiled for you. Where's the median?
While agree much of his latest work is hogwash, in particular I really enoyedc the Battle Circle series. The characterization was weak, but the narration was quite good, IMO. Just saying, if you've never read any Piers Anthony, don't get the wrong impression from this. Some is good stuff.
Well, actually it's right, and it implies that the average house internet connection is 1.0mbps.
Do the math...
1000000 bits / 8 = 125000 bytes/s 125000 bytes / 1024 = 122.0703125 kb/s 122.0703125 / 1024 = 0.1192092mb/s That means it's a 0.1192092mb/s line to mars, and probably with brutal latency. Let's just hope that they're not serving up warez from it...or that slashdot doesn't link to a webserver hosted on it...
Well, actually it's right, and it implies that the average house internet connection is 1.0mbps.
Do the math...
1000000 bits / 8 = 125000 bytes/s
125000 bytes / 1024 = 122.0703125 kb/s
122.0703125 / 1024 = 0.1192092mb/s
That means it's a 0.1192092mb/s line to mars, and probably with brutal latency. Let's just hope that they're not serving up warez from it...or that slashdot doesn't link to a webserver hosted on it...
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I find your use of the word engineer rather jarring.
I am a professional engineer, and obtaining that title is a long process, and at no point is Windows installation, spyware removal, or other pc-geek-bitch work taught or tested.
I'm not sure why you care. This is just another example of technological ambivalence -- where the technology that solves a problem causes another problem. This happens all the time with technological solutions to problems. For instance, if you have a child and you want that child to be able to watch TV but you don't want the child to watch bad things, there are two solutions; One is technological, the other is cultural. The technological problem suffers from ambivalence. A v-chip or whatever will stop your child from watching bad things. But, it has it's own set of problems and risks. What if you forget the password and can't watch your porn when the child is asleep?
The cultural solution, on the other hand, is problem free. You teach your child to avoid things you don't want them to watch. Of course they still can, but assuming you're a halfway decent parent, the child will learn. You'll have solved the problem and instilled moral values.
If you're so against this technology, simply don't buy into it. You don't need to get up on a soap box, declare it evil, and try to stop the technology from even getting to the market. Voice your opinion with your dollars.
VOIP does use TCP sockets for the initial data setup but UDP for actual voice streaming. This problem could be solved with some overlap of the wireless access point ranges and two network interfaces. One could get a DHCP lease on the upcoming network while the other still streams, and then once the first network is out of range instantly switch over to the other interface. Just a thought.
I think that the solution to the heat problem will not come with better and more powerful cooling solutions, but rather radically changing how chips are designed and manufactured. The article doesn't contradict this, but I just want to emphasize that. Having some liquid nitrogen cooling unit is not the optimal, or even a good solution.
I'm interested to see if Google, using it's great clout and size, would try to get justice for those who are unjustly in bad positions (poor people in countries with corrupt governments, etc), or if they will simply toss money at the problems. I'm not saying that throwing billions at a problem isn't a good thing, but usually more good comes from people looking to enforce justice for those less fortunate than us.
Why would the extreme cold be stressful for computing parts? While it would sort of suck if condensation got everywhere and shorted out stuff, that's not a possibility at arctic-cold temperatures because water couldn't get hot enough to form a liquid, I wouldn't think. Unless some components get hard enough to cause the cold air around them to condense, I don't see extreme cold as being a problem.
I wonder how accurate this would be. Would it even be really useful for first person shooters that require pinpoint precision? I would say no, but then again, I'm somehow fairly accurate with a mouse, so my hands can be accurate with training. I'm not sure about the whole arm bit though.
I hope a lot of this goes into some statistics that show how overtaxed we are. We being us here Canadians.
That's great logic. If there's some, then they can count it, and then it's a mess and is a concern. You are smart. How's that working out for you? FUCK WATCH OUT THERES 83 ATOMS OF bleach on your FACE.
Went well? "Amounts of vaccine remaining on skin surface were quantified." In other words, it leaves a bit of a mess. Idiot. Quantified means counted. Moron.
Yes, throw more developers at it and it will be better. You are smart. SMRT. Idiot.
This is quite possibly the stupidest shit I've ever read. The reason powerful power supplies are required is not because "of the quality" (you never specify why, you just claim this). A fast video card and CPU are hardly things that warrant lots of power use. Fast hard drives and optical drives are. Idiot.
I'll take it
While I see the point you are making, and it is valid, this is something big not only because of the fact that it's 1 gig, and not only because of the fact that it's google, but apparently the UI is a great twist on the overdone e-mail thing, sporting a new "conversation" style in-box.
Remember the good old days when you could list your optical drive specs with only 3 numbers? For example, "I just got a new CD Burner! It's 32x16x8" Now, it's what? 48x12x8x8x8x32x32x48. Just freaking perfect. This is what multiple standards do to us.
Just kidding. ;)
I've got to say, since Episode 1 and 2's massive failure in the eyes of many geeks, and most of the press (despite my love of both movies), the press surrounding the Clone Wars and the opinions I've heard have been tremendous, to say the least. IMO, the quality of animation is superb, Samurai Jack style, and it's just real Star Wars fun to watch. Also, one simply MUST love the new dark Jedi in the fight against all those monsters.
I'd have to disagree. For the average person, this is quite the hacking video. It's got windows password cracking, some hardware fun, and do you even KNOW who Kevin Mitnick is?
For the ATI radeon overclock, no. For raw CPU power, probably, but a video card (generally speaking) needs to be fast on its own. I don't think you CAN piggyback a whole bunch of video cards to gain such speed improvements. Hell, I bet with a 660mhz core, that card could run Doom3 at 3 fps! That's INSANE.
No, there are probably others who ask your wife that too.
After having this distro reccomended to me, I tried it out on a new laptop, and to be honest, I'd say it was not a great experience. Being a linux nub, I guess it was a bad distro to choose as my first install, what with no automated installer, and freaking 4603453 years to compile anything. emerge kde took a few years, as did anything else. While I acknowledge the benefits of compiling everything with optizations for the exact platform it's on, and also realize that installing is a one time thing and using is a many time thing, I still would say there's not a good enough mix between precompiled and source distributed in stage1 and stage2 releases, and stage3 jumps right to all compiled for you. Where's the median?
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Slashdot PWNED
It's good to see the maturity of the average slashdotter showing up in the wiki.
While agree much of his latest work is hogwash, in particular I really enoyedc the Battle Circle series. The characterization was weak, but the narration was quite good, IMO. Just saying, if you've never read any Piers Anthony, don't get the wrong impression from this. Some is good stuff.
Well, actually it's right, and it implies that the average house internet connection is 1.0mbps. Do the math... 1000000 bits / 8 = 125000 bytes/s 125000 bytes / 1024 = 122.0703125 kb/s 122.0703125 / 1024 = 0.1192092mb/s That means it's a 0.1192092mb/s line to mars, and probably with brutal latency. Let's just hope that they're not serving up warez from it...or that slashdot doesn't link to a webserver hosted on it...
Well, actually it's right, and it implies that the average house internet connection is 1.0mbps.
Do the math...
1000000 bits / 8 = 125000 bytes/s 125000 bytes / 1024 = 122.0703125 kb/s 122.0703125 / 1024 = 0.1192092mb/s That means it's a 0.1192092mb/s line to mars, and probably with brutal latency. Let's just hope that they're not serving up warez from it...or that slashdot doesn't link to a webserver hosted on it...