Why is it that in our society it is normal to watch TV for hours a day but as soon as you put that same individual in front of a computer playing a game for hours a day many vocal sources claim they are abnormal and run the risk of becoming psychotic and ill-developed?
I bet kids get more social interaction, problem solving skills, mental stimulation and hand-eye coordination playing an online game with other people than they will ever get watching TV. I know which one I'd rather have *my* kids doing more of.
I believe you are confusing theft with invasion of privacy. The email was not "stolen", it was read and maybe copied.
A (potentially) more applicable scenario would be if someone left a letter laying around and someone came by and read it, or maybe took pictures of it that would allow it to be read later.
I believe better questions to ask yourself are:
Was the letter on private property of the reciepient of the letter?
Should the ISP be held to the same level of privacy as the companies that carry our voice and postal services? (Even though voice communications are not encrypted and could be listened in on anyone that lines that carried a particular conversation, a judge must issue permission for a wiretap before it could be used as evidence (Well.. pre PATRIOT act that is)) It's a slightly different case with our postal mail because that is in a sealed container that must be violated before the letter could be read.
I believe the wiretap law is exactly what we're talking about here. The main difference is the internet is much more diverse than our telephone service providers and a much larger number of companies and individuals have the potential to read email passing over their connection, but why shouldn't they be expected to heed the same privacy rights of the end users that telephone companies do?
Too much OO? What kind of drugs are you on? There is no such thing.
Check out Squeak if you think OO or lack of it counts for geek points in a programming language.
OO isn't about what you need or not, it's just a different way of thinking.
Most clean procedural code I've seen looked incredibly similar to OO code.
But, then again, the things I don't like about Java (strong, statically bound types, statics, primitive types...) are probably things that procedural developers like about the language
"Upon completion of 3,920 instructional and project hours..." A college credit hour is 16 hours of class (Though lab time is normally 32 hours of lab for 1 credit hour), do the math and you get 245 credit hours if the institution even comes close to a regular university. Now, 3920 hours in class spent over 28 months (Which is their expected duration) when you get 1 month off out of every 4 means you'd be attending class for 21 of those 28 months. 21 months is about 91 weeks. 3920 hours over 91 weeks means 43 hours a week. Their curriculum supports that by getting about 24 credit hours per *quarter* (Not semester... quarter!)
They do seem to skimp a lot on electives, but they offer the basics.. Language Arts, Logic, Set theory, Calculus, World Cultures, Probability & statistics, Psychology, social history, physics, philosophy, life science & some business courses.. They're probably not producing the same well rounded individual you'd hope to get from a 4 year university, but it doesn't look like they totally ignore the need for expansion of the core curriculum that high school teaches.
Looks pretty similar to what you might get out of DeVry, with a bit more theory.
Yes, the thing the article says Microsoft is going after *currently* is devices that are formatted to FAT by the manufacturer, and consumer electronic devices that format FAT (Digital cameras...)
I say screw 'em. Everyone should just format their media to be redbook compliant and make a little driver that can read iso9660 on their media of choice. Pretty much everything can read a CD-ROM so it shouldn't be that big of a leap. I wonder what the licensing fee for being able to read/write ISO9660 is though.
My main gripe is this:
If Microsoft can charge a fee for devices that format FAT and media that is formatted FAT... How much of a stretch is it for them to charge for pre-formatted floppies? (Or is that already happening??)
I do believe they're hurting themselves in the long run, but with the monopoly they've got built up with the average user already, it might end up working out for them... If no one invalidates their patent.
I'm not normally very tough on people for spelling/grammar errors, but I've got to ask for a correction on this one:
"...I could be sue for libel."
My brain first interpreted that as:
"...I could be sued for libel."
Which led me down a path of wondering how you could be sued for libel just because you failed to do what the paper said you did.. It sounded like some kind of future prediction craziness. My next thought was that you were going to change your name to "Sue" and start dating someone named "Libel" but I quickly discarded that stray thought.
Only after reading it carefully did I realize you really meant:
"...I could sue for libel."
This has been discussed before. Other companies have tried to modify their drivers to produce better results for certain benchmarks. They've always been thrown out as invalid before. I wonder why Futuremark seems to be considering allowing NVidia's enhancement to stand.
There's a line from the story:
"...However, recent developments in the graphics industry and game development suggest that a different approach for game performance benchmarking might be needed, where manufacturer-specific code path optimization is directly in the code source. Futuremark will consider whether this approach is needed in its future benchmarks."
I'm concerned because I feel that allowing video card manufacturers to put code specifically about certain benchmarks in to their product (making their product look better in that benchmark) may not be reflective of real world performance.
However, the benchmark is useless if it doesn't measure real world performance, so I do believe that NVidia could put stuff in their product to make the benchmark run faster that would be beneficial to real applications, so I'm torn.
Some game manufacturers make optimized versions of their code to work with certain video cards, but the normal use is an operating system driver (DirectX...) and I believe using the generic driver is more representative of what you'll get when you use the video card.
It seems that NVidia is arguing that they should be allowed to put optimizations in to their code specifically for the benchmark because they do the same thing with some other populate applications.
Anyone remember Sprint's attempt at merged services, called ION? They installed a router in your house and all of your communication needs ran out of that box. The router connected to Sprint's network and ran voice and data over ATM. It was a very neat idea and might have worked if there were more early adopters (and if they could have resolved all of the installation issues... I worked on part of the software that brought together the connection allocation, tracking and billing systems, and it was extremely complex)
I didn't subscribe to the service because the cost was prohibitive for personal use, but it seemed pretty cost effective for business use (4 phone lines and a T1 downstream, 256kbit upstream for $200 a month [I think] and that included several hundred minutes of free long distance per month).
I don't believe the subscribers had to change their phones to allow that to work, they just had to have Sprint's router in their house that all of their phones tied in to.
The kilogram is shedding weight, which means the number of kilograms you weigh is increasing.
For example:
If the kilogram of today weighed.9 of yesterday's kilograms, and you weighed 75 kilograms yesterday, you would weigh 75 * 1.1 of today's kilograms.
The first 2 dimensions of an image create the plane that is being viewed (height & width). The 3rd dimension provides depth (the ability to percieve multiple planes that are parallel to the plane being viewed).
The reason humans view the world in 3 dimensions is our eyes are placed far enough apart on our head to provide 2 different images for 1 percieved object. Over time, we get used to this and learn to take the 2 images and compare them; taking that in to consideration with our preconceived notions of how large the object being viewed is (If it's smaller than we think it should be, we tend to believe it is far away), we're able to approximate the distance between ourselves and the object being viewed.
Since most of the shows we watch are shown to a national audience, the local advertisers would not be able to buy airtime for their local market except for the airtime between shows. Of course, since most of the local advertisers are grocery stores and car dealerships, I don't suppose that matters too much.
I don't know about everyone else, but I never agreed to watch the commercials of my favorite programs. I read my cable contract and it only mentions that I agree to pay for the services rendered and there are stipulations about late fees and such.
My favorite things to do during commercials:
  Fast Foward on the VCR
  Get snacks from the kitchen
  Web browse
  Work on configuring my Linux box
  Answer the phone
  Sex (Better make it quick hon, show'll be back on in 2 minutes)
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Why is it that in our society it is normal to watch TV for hours a day but as soon as you put that same individual in front of a computer playing a game for hours a day many vocal sources claim they are abnormal and run the risk of becoming psychotic and ill-developed?
I bet kids get more social interaction, problem solving skills, mental stimulation and hand-eye coordination playing an online game with other people than they will ever get watching TV. I know which one I'd rather have *my* kids doing more of.
I believe you are confusing theft with invasion of privacy. The email was not "stolen", it was read and maybe copied.
A (potentially) more applicable scenario would be if someone left a letter laying around and someone came by and read it, or maybe took pictures of it that would allow it to be read later.
I believe better questions to ask yourself are:
Was the letter on private property of the reciepient of the letter?
Should the ISP be held to the same level of privacy as the companies that carry our voice and postal services? (Even though voice communications are not encrypted and could be listened in on anyone that lines that carried a particular conversation, a judge must issue permission for a wiretap before it could be used as evidence (Well.. pre PATRIOT act that is)) It's a slightly different case with our postal mail because that is in a sealed container that must be violated before the letter could be read.
I believe the wiretap law is exactly what we're talking about here. The main difference is the internet is much more diverse than our telephone service providers and a much larger number of companies and individuals have the potential to read email passing over their connection, but why shouldn't they be expected to heed the same privacy rights of the end users that telephone companies do?
Too much OO? What kind of drugs are you on? There is no such thing.
Check out Squeak if you think OO or lack of it counts for geek points in a programming language.
OO isn't about what you need or not, it's just a different way of thinking.
Most clean procedural code I've seen looked incredibly similar to OO code.
But, then again, the things I don't like about Java (strong, statically bound types, statics, primitive types...) are probably things that procedural developers like about the language
Did you even *look* at their site?
"Upon completion of 3,920 instructional and project hours..." A college credit hour is 16 hours of class (Though lab time is normally 32 hours of lab for 1 credit hour), do the math and you get 245 credit hours if the institution even comes close to a regular university. Now, 3920 hours in class spent over 28 months (Which is their expected duration) when you get 1 month off out of every 4 means you'd be attending class for 21 of those 28 months. 21 months is about 91 weeks. 3920 hours over 91 weeks means 43 hours a week. Their curriculum supports that by getting about 24 credit hours per *quarter* (Not semester... quarter!)
They do seem to skimp a lot on electives, but they offer the basics.. Language Arts, Logic, Set theory, Calculus, World Cultures, Probability & statistics, Psychology, social history, physics, philosophy, life science & some business courses.. They're probably not producing the same well rounded individual you'd hope to get from a 4 year university, but it doesn't look like they totally ignore the need for expansion of the core curriculum that high school teaches.
Looks pretty similar to what you might get out of DeVry, with a bit more theory.
Yes, the thing the article says Microsoft is going after *currently* is devices that are formatted to FAT by the manufacturer, and consumer electronic devices that format FAT (Digital cameras...)
I say screw 'em. Everyone should just format their media to be redbook compliant and make a little driver that can read iso9660 on their media of choice. Pretty much everything can read a CD-ROM so it shouldn't be that big of a leap. I wonder what the licensing fee for being able to read/write ISO9660 is though.
My main gripe is this:
If Microsoft can charge a fee for devices that format FAT and media that is formatted FAT... How much of a stretch is it for them to charge for pre-formatted floppies? (Or is that already happening??)
I do believe they're hurting themselves in the long run, but with the monopoly they've got built up with the average user already, it might end up working out for them... If no one invalidates their patent.
Look at lord of the rings. One movie a year for 3 years and the first two have been (in my eyes) very good representations of the story.
Making movies in rapid succession doesn't always mean they suck.
I'm not normally very tough on people for spelling/grammar errors, but I've got to ask for a correction on this one:
"...I could be sue for libel."
My brain first interpreted that as:
"...I could be sued for libel."
Which led me down a path of wondering how you could be sued for libel just because you failed to do what the paper said you did.. It sounded like some kind of future prediction craziness. My next thought was that you were going to change your name to "Sue" and start dating someone named "Libel" but I quickly discarded that stray thought.
Only after reading it carefully did I realize you really meant:
"...I could sue for libel."
This has been discussed before. Other companies have tried to modify their drivers to produce better results for certain benchmarks. They've always been thrown out as invalid before. I wonder why Futuremark seems to be considering allowing NVidia's enhancement to stand.
There's a line from the story:
"...However, recent developments in the graphics industry and game development suggest that a different approach for game performance benchmarking might be needed, where manufacturer-specific code path optimization is directly in the code source. Futuremark will consider whether this approach is needed in its future benchmarks."
I'm concerned because I feel that allowing video card manufacturers to put code specifically about certain benchmarks in to their product (making their product look better in that benchmark) may not be reflective of real world performance.
However, the benchmark is useless if it doesn't measure real world performance, so I do believe that NVidia could put stuff in their product to make the benchmark run faster that would be beneficial to real applications, so I'm torn.
Some game manufacturers make optimized versions of their code to work with certain video cards, but the normal use is an operating system driver (DirectX...) and I believe using the generic driver is more representative of what you'll get when you use the video card.
It seems that NVidia is arguing that they should be allowed to put optimizations in to their code specifically for the benchmark because they do the same thing with some other populate applications.
I wonder how much it cost NVidia to get Futuremark to release that statement.
Anyone remember Sprint's attempt at merged services, called ION? They installed a router in your house and all of your communication needs ran out of that box. The router connected to Sprint's network and ran voice and data over ATM. It was a very neat idea and might have worked if there were more early adopters (and if they could have resolved all of the installation issues... I worked on part of the software that brought together the connection allocation, tracking and billing systems, and it was extremely complex)
I didn't subscribe to the service because the cost was prohibitive for personal use, but it seemed pretty cost effective for business use (4 phone lines and a T1 downstream, 256kbit upstream for $200 a month [I think] and that included several hundred minutes of free long distance per month).
I don't believe the subscribers had to change their phones to allow that to work, they just had to have Sprint's router in their house that all of their phones tied in to.
The kilogram is shedding weight, which means the number of kilograms you weigh is increasing. For example: If the kilogram of today weighed .9 of yesterday's kilograms, and you weighed 75 kilograms yesterday, you would weigh 75 * 1.1 of today's kilograms.
How many times are we going to see the evil bits story posted on the front page of /. today??
I'm putting my money on 5. Any takers?
Think of all the prior art for silence sitting on the shelves of your local music store in the form of blank audio casettes!
The first 2 dimensions of an image create the plane that is being viewed (height & width). The 3rd dimension provides depth (the ability to percieve multiple planes that are parallel to the plane being viewed).
The reason humans view the world in 3 dimensions is our eyes are placed far enough apart on our head to provide 2 different images for 1 percieved object. Over time, we get used to this and learn to take the 2 images and compare them; taking that in to consideration with our preconceived notions of how large the object being viewed is (If it's smaller than we think it should be, we tend to believe it is far away), we're able to approximate the distance between ourselves and the object being viewed.
Since most of the shows we watch are shown to a national audience, the local advertisers would not be able to buy airtime for their local market except for the airtime between shows. Of course, since most of the local advertisers are grocery stores and car dealerships, I don't suppose that matters too much.
I loved the bathroom line in that article.
I don't know about everyone else, but I never agreed to watch the commercials of my favorite programs. I read my cable contract and it only mentions that I agree to pay for the services rendered and there are stipulations about late fees and such.
My favorite things to do during commercials:
  Fast Foward on the VCR
  Get snacks from the kitchen
  Web browse
  Work on configuring my Linux box
  Answer the phone
  Sex (Better make it quick hon, show'll be back on in 2 minutes)