Personally, I'd consider "food and drink" to be pretty essential, but strangely that's not on the list. Of course that could be provided by the airline, but note that the "cheap" airlines (e.g., RyanAir) do not provide this as part of ticket, and charge highly. I would hope they'd make an exception here, rather than taking the opportunity to profit from such an event.
Even the most expensive flights rarely serve anything that qualifies as edible on flights. Bringing your own food and drink on flights is necessary for anyone who does not want to start the holiday with a food infection.
Youtube.com stays in business because you are wrong. If you pay $7000 dollars you are not paying for bandwidth you are paying for redundancy and service, and if you really do pay that much for bandwidth, you are getting royally screwed.
Geforce 6600 isn't native AGP, and the PCI-E to AGP converter doesn't work with some AGPx4 motherboard, in particular mine. I know this because I've tried.
Actually I would like to subscribe to HW requirements part. Hardware requirements have gone 10years retro during the last year. For the most part of the last 10 years all games could run on all PCs and the only thing differing was the speed and sometimes graphical details for 3D games. But in the last year games have started to use DirectX 9 exclusively demanding graphic cards with atleast shader level 2 and often 3. This mean any machine more than a year old can no longer play new PC games!
Last but not least even when they "support" the older cards, they don't test against it and it leads to thousands of crashes.
Of the three games I've tried recently none worked out of the box in a Geforce4 4200Ti Civilization 4: Should have worked according to requirements, but didn't until a patch 3 months after release Galatic Civilization: Should work, but still crashes now half a year after release Oblivion: Shouldn't work as the card is way below minimum requirement, but with the oldblivion patch, this game is the only of the 3 working perfectly!!
Amarok has a multimedia abstraction engine, and are going to write a DirectSound/Music backend for it. The new KDE4 Phonon framework is also a multimedia abstraction framework and is also going to use native sound on Winodws (if we can find someone to write it).
Where the did the grand parent paint the oil companies as "pure evil". He asked them to argue their point instead of making ad-homin attacks. The best defense here of course is that the oil sector in general sponsors "research", and that it is only oil-company fan-boys who makes stupid videos like this and South Park's manbearpig episode.
Unfortunately this news story if correct disproves that defense.
I used to teach CS. The girls were often just as good to code, but less confident and in mixed sex groups the girls tended to by typecasted to writing the report and the boys typecasted to do the coding. The pure girls groups however usually also had excellent code.
One good thing about CS girls however is that the exposure to a 90% male environment makes them very promiscuous;-)
Actually explosives in generel is really ineffective method of the deflection. The most usefull deflection of an asteroid would be rockets, lots of chemical rockets, since nuclear rockets have not provided sufficient thrust yet.
I think DocRuby is suggesting Microsoft designed it this way, so it would only just be usefull in helping them win against the then dominating Netscape, and then fall over and die from bureaucratic bloat.
The CSS 3 spec is taking how long? And will get implemented in most browsers when?
Well, they need to finish CSS 2 first. CSS 2.1 has fully replaced CSS 2 which was buggy and CSS 2.1 have recently been pulled back from Candidate Recommendation to Working Draft. At this rate it will be non exiting in a year!
Actually you yourself is slightly wrong. The AMD cores do have unique caches as you state, but HyperTransport allows any core to read from another another cores cache. So the separate caches works almost as a combined cache.
It is however not as fast a specifically designed combined cache, so the bonus is only that it's glueless and scales with no redesign to more cores, where Intel has to design a new combined cache for each new number of cores.
Crash would be the ultimate reaction. To begin with most applications would just act weird, since every other event would put the pointer a completely different place. Stuff like tooltip, mouseover effects, window focus and even web-based JS would cease to work. Most likely many of the codepath would when experiencing these odd events enter broken code-paths and crash.
He is talking about collateral damage. If someone with enough wealth decides to corner the market of some medicins, they can, and if the government doesn't intervene this will indirectly lead to millions of deaths. This is why the government should not give up the option to limited the freedom of individuals. You might not steal or kill someone directly, but with enough wealth you can do much more damage indirectly, and indirect consequences are not handled by the courts.
What does TAB sizes have to do with anything, and especially modern programming?
You might be thinking of indentation, and while there was a time where tabs was used to indent because text-editors couldn't redefine the tab key to indentation width; this time has passed, and there is no reason left to use TABs in programming at all.
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Personally, I'd consider "food and drink" to be pretty essential, but strangely that's not on the list. Of course that could be provided by the airline, but note that the "cheap" airlines (e.g., RyanAir) do not provide this as part of ticket, and charge highly. I would hope they'd make an exception here, rather than taking the opportunity to profit from such an event.
Even the most expensive flights rarely serve anything that qualifies as edible on flights. Bringing your own food and drink on flights is necessary for anyone who does not want to start the holiday with a food infection.
All done by independent terrorist organizations with completely different goals.. Now come on.
Youtube.com stays in business because you are wrong. If you pay $7000 dollars you are not paying for bandwidth you are paying for redundancy and service, and if you really do pay that much for bandwidth, you are getting royally screwed.
Geforce 6600 isn't native AGP, and the PCI-E to AGP converter doesn't work with some AGPx4 motherboard, in particular mine.
I know this because I've tried.
Actually I would like to subscribe to HW requirements part. Hardware requirements have gone 10years retro during the last year. For the most part of the last 10 years all games could run on all PCs and the only thing differing was the speed and sometimes graphical details for 3D games. But in the last year games have started to use DirectX 9 exclusively demanding graphic cards with atleast shader level 2 and often 3. This mean any machine more than a year old can no longer play new PC games!
Last but not least even when they "support" the older cards, they don't test against it and it leads to thousands of crashes.
Of the three games I've tried recently none worked out of the box in a Geforce4 4200Ti
Civilization 4: Should have worked according to requirements, but didn't until a patch 3 months after release
Galatic Civilization: Should work, but still crashes now half a year after release
Oblivion: Shouldn't work as the card is way below minimum requirement, but with the oldblivion patch, this game is the only of the 3 working perfectly!!
Amarok has a multimedia abstraction engine, and are going to write a DirectSound/Music backend for it. The new KDE4 Phonon framework is also a multimedia abstraction framework and is also going to use native sound on Winodws (if we can find someone to write it).
Where the did the grand parent paint the oil companies as "pure evil". He asked them to argue their point instead of making ad-homin attacks. The best defense here of course is that the oil sector in general sponsors "research", and that it is only oil-company fan-boys who makes stupid videos like this and South Park's manbearpig episode.
Unfortunately this news story if correct disproves that defense.
No, the users of the digg are just more stupid. That does not mean they are republican, they just sound the same!
Konqueror has way better CSS support than Firefox, but lack XSLT and Rich Text editing.
Opera have supported replaced content for a few years. Btw, supporting it leads to stupid bugs: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130689
What's with 8?
I used to teach CS. The girls were often just as good to code, but less confident and in mixed sex groups the girls tended to by typecasted to writing the report and the boys typecasted to do the coding. The pure girls groups however usually also had excellent code.
;-)
One good thing about CS girls however is that the exposure to a 90% male environment makes them very promiscuous
Actually explosives in generel is really ineffective method of the deflection. The most usefull deflection of an asteroid would be rockets, lots of chemical rockets, since nuclear rockets have not provided sufficient thrust yet.
Yes. Just as much as if you watch 10 seconds of American Idols and think "What a piece of shit".
You know things are fucked up, when you can't tell if someone is being sarcastic or serious.
This text really really ought to be satire, but I'm just not that confident in americans anymore.
Because most slashdot posts are written by Napolion Dynamite wannabees.
;)
(Yes, I know the irony of using a movie reference myself
I know. I was trying teach the fact in humorous way.
So far everytime I've started that CSS 2 is not a standard yet, people keep pointing at CSS 2 - Recommendation or CSS 2.1 - Candidate Recommendation.
Except Microsoft helped design W3C this way.
I think DocRuby is suggesting Microsoft designed it this way, so it would only just be usefull in helping them win against the then dominating Netscape, and then fall over and die from bureaucratic bloat.
The CSS 3 spec is taking how long? And will get implemented in most browsers when?
Well, they need to finish CSS 2 first. CSS 2.1 has fully replaced CSS 2 which was buggy and CSS 2.1 have recently been pulled back from Candidate Recommendation to Working Draft. At this rate it will be non exiting in a year!
Actually you yourself is slightly wrong. The AMD cores do have unique caches as you state, but HyperTransport allows any core to read from another another cores cache. So the separate caches works almost as a combined cache.
It is however not as fast a specifically designed combined cache, so the bonus is only that it's glueless and scales with no redesign to more cores, where Intel has to design a new combined cache for each new number of cores.
Crash would be the ultimate reaction. To begin with most applications would just act weird, since every other event would put the pointer a completely different place. Stuff like tooltip, mouseover effects, window focus and even web-based JS would cease to work. Most likely many of the codepath would when experiencing these odd events enter broken code-paths and crash.
If it has anti-copy protection on they are required to. I know people who has gotten replacements from Sony
What an excellent way to make every toolkit vulnerable to thousands of race conditions ;)
You can probably crash 99% of all X11 applications using two pointers
He is talking about collateral damage. If someone with enough wealth decides to corner the market of some medicins, they can, and if the government doesn't intervene this will indirectly lead to millions of deaths. This is why the government should not give up the option to limited the freedom of individuals. You might not steal or kill someone directly, but with enough wealth you can do much more damage indirectly, and indirect consequences are not handled by the courts.
pip??
What does TAB sizes have to do with anything, and especially modern programming?
You might be thinking of indentation, and while there was a time where tabs was used to indent because text-editors couldn't redefine the tab key to indentation width; this time has passed, and there is no reason left to use TABs in programming at all.
The fact that he has promised to release the source "the next couple of weeks" for the last 2 years?