... but what about making processors more effective instead of relying on us consumers to buy a ridiculously HUGE cooling array to go with the latest (n+1)ghz Pentium or AMD XP (N*1000)? I mean, I've got some old p2 333mhz laptop and when I do some pretty intensive stuff on it, I could prolly make breakfast on the bottom side of it. It'd be a tad raw though, not because of the lack of heat, but the battery would die before my eggs would be done:\
So where the hell is my 25, 2ghz processor which can run with a passive cooler without violating the law of physics?
All those wallhacks are a bitch on your server resources, believe me. By the time the Opteron will become commercially viable, you will NEED that 4+GB of RAM just to run the latest aimbot and it wouldn't hurt if those AMD lads figure out how to copy HyperThreading as well...:D
What about putting this kind of things in a satellite instead of a plane. For a laser (that could depend on the kind of laser, I suppose) this normally don't have to be a big problem, and most of the problems of availability in the place that should be and maintenance cost must be solved.
Not an option, because the US signed the Outer Space Treaty on January 27, 1967, indicating that space should only be used for peaceful purposes.
However, imagine being a playtester for The Sims for 24/7. Or worse, the latest Windows version. What, Windows isn't a game? DAMN! I always thought these "Service Packs" were levelups... Crikey!
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seth@Discordia:~$ echo -e "\e]2;;echo This is to see how queer putty is\a\e[21t\e]2;xterm\aPress Enter>\e[8m;"
Press Enter>;
seth@Discordia:~$ l;echo This is to see how queer putty is
I dare to say that putty IS vulnerable. This is what happens when I run a similiar command. Sure, it still expects an enter and anyone who takes his time to read stuff on his/her screen before blatantly hitting enter will notice the command. This was done with the latest build which I just downloaded from the site.
You know, there is this really nifty thing called a pen which you can use to record written information on another nifty thing called a piece of paper. It's really high tech because it doesn't require any power, nor cables. It's secure as hell (no one ever hacked my pen!) and platform-independant as well...
Gee, a feminist that tries her best to be popular by posting porn. I thought people here were above thinking with their dicks? Either that, or you're Eric Krout II... He has been horribly silent lately...
I'd like to see a Grand Theft Auto game set in 1930's Chicago.
You sure? Cars that go 80km/h max, nearly no automatic weapons except for street sweepers (That's what they are called iirc) which are about as inacurate as it gets, there would be FAR fewer cars because they were largely still considered a luxury back then, no rocket based weapons, no good sniper weapons and tanks that would make a Sherman tank cry...
.nl domains are usually taken by dutch people, handled by the dutch domain name authority which is governed by the dutch goverment who take it up the read from the US goverment.
In other words, that site will be down too after some political lobbying/Bush feeding our prime minister another pretzel.
My XP machine has never been hacked, so it must have been a success!
XP isn't THAT bad untill you do stupid stuff like:
Using administrator acount for day to day use
Use various dodgy programs
Use various blatantly insecure programs
Open every executable file you get
Never make sure critical stuff is up to date*
* = Involves installing service packs. Don't think of this as a problem, think of it as a challanger instead! Okay, so it's still crap to do but it will give you a more positive view on life:) Besides, I think you're just cheating! Have you ever booted it? Does it dual boot something else that you normally use? Is it even connected to the internet to start with?:P
Your comment "weblogging is a form of vanity publishing" is very cynical, and also pretty representative of the/. view. Blogging is much more than that. For instance, one of the things blogging allows you to do is distributed cognition, in contrast to "group think" that happens here. For this to work, however, the activity must take place within the attention span of an individual. So the latencies typically involved in having to be near a computer in order to blog are unacceptable. Get the point?
Oh please, you can't be serious with that. Distributed cognition? Yes, of course, and wanking is a form of arm as well. Seriously, blogging has a hype around it that simply doesn't fit the ammount of people who actually give a damn. It's filled with annoying "hip" talk and random rants absolutely no one cares about.
Compare it to Slashdot for a second; when some editor posts a story about Apple coughing up Mac OS XI*. This is absolutely irrelevant to me, because I don't own a Mac and most likely never will own one either because they are waaay to expensive. (only thing holding me back is the price tbh, would love to try one!) But I don't mind it at all on a news site, because it isn't filled with the latest "trendy" works, it is written properly** without using annoying words like "u", "r", "2morow", etc. No one except a few trolls and people who use Slashdot as their cheap "blog"*** really cares if I read it or not and especially wont curl up and cry if I'd dare to disagree with what's posted, though I can expect some hefty flames from Mac people if I dont choose my wording properly. This is the difference between most "blogs"**** and the various news sites which accept user comments. The news sites are about whatever articles are current at the moment while "blogs"**** are purely about one person ranting like mad about something you don't care about or about someone begging to have their ego lifted into outer space.
* = I wanted to use Duke Nukem Forever as an example but no one would take me serious after that...
Nope - they max out at 4GB. I'm not gonna say no one will ever need more than that, but it's not gonna happen in the near future, at least on the desktop.
I remember 1991 and thinking about buying 4mb extra RAM for my 486DX100. Never did it because my current 8mb (or 4, dont remember anymore) was enough to play Quest For Glory 4 & Duke Nukem 3D (if that was on my 486 back then...). Right now I've got 1GB of mem... Back then I didn't even know what a GB even was!
Ironically, QFG4 won't run on this PC. Must be that (n*4)mb extra ram, without a doubt. Shame, was a lovely (though buggy) game:(
Who ever came up with the word 'blog' should be taken out and fed to the dolphins.
AMEN!
Most "blogs" *twitch* are seriously overrated crap. Surf the internet a while and you're bound to run into a whole bunch of sites made by random, insecure 14 to 20 year olds who need the anonymity of the internet and the power of the masses to propel their own online ego into orbit driven on a stream of hormones and various neurotoxins in order to compensate for their lack of self-esteem, pretty much like some slashdotposters around here. No thanks, if I'm interested in any log or journal at all, it better concern something I'm interested in and that excludes any type of person I mentioned above.
As a suggestion, I would like to propose a seperate "blogging" section for Slashdot, purely so people can FINALLY ignore all the crap about it. Really, I couldn't care less about a bunch of desperate people proliferating some dot-com spinoff.
Just for a moment, ignore Jacques Chirac's temper tantrums, Dennis Kucinich's ridiculous presidential bid, antiwar protesters who can't locate Iraq on a map, Turkey's economic blackmail of the White House and anything Sen. Ted Kennedy, the moral arbiter of the Democratic Party, has to say in Congress.
In the name of Hades, what kind of editorial catastrophe happened that allowed this kind of immature nationalistic name-calling to be put on the internet? Who is guilty of giving this... this... creature called Russ Smith the power to enforce his opinion upon the masses? This man should be fired and never ever have the power to publish in any form of media again. Sure, I'm all for free speech and all, but that pretty much excludes the right to enforce your own biased opinion upon the masses through the use of mass media, especially when it involves flames/insults.
The whole point about Linux is the ability to choose. Which is better, being able to decide between XP and Linux or being forced to use XP because all competition is gone?
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... but what about making processors more effective instead of relying on us consumers to buy a ridiculously HUGE cooling array to go with the latest (n+1)ghz Pentium or AMD XP (N*1000)? I mean, I've got some old p2 333mhz laptop and when I do some pretty intensive stuff on it, I could prolly make breakfast on the bottom side of it. It'd be a tad raw though, not because of the lack of heat, but the battery would die before my eggs would be done :\
So where the hell is my 25, 2ghz processor which can run with a passive cooler without violating the law of physics?
That robot thing rules btw :) Had fun driving around and talking to the owner a bit ;)
Cool, so my AMD XP is a brown dwarf? Blimey! Would it be against the law to have a double minority (both dwarven as well as coloured) in my computer?
All those wallhacks are a bitch on your server resources, believe me. By the time the Opteron will become commercially viable, you will NEED that 4+GB of RAM just to run the latest aimbot and it wouldn't hurt if those AMD lads figure out how to copy HyperThreading as well... :D
Bullshit! It doesn't work like that in Simcity 4 so it doesn't work like that in real life either!
Not an option, because the US signed the Outer Space Treaty on January 27, 1967, indicating that space should only be used for peaceful purposes.
However, imagine being a playtester for The Sims for 24/7. Or worse, the latest Windows version. What, Windows isn't a game? DAMN! I always thought these "Service Packs" were levelups... Crikey!
I'd like one of those monitors! I'll find myself some dremel and a steel girder to create the first monitor/grill combo ever! Steak anyone?
No, that's mainly because of nVidia, ATI, AMD & Intel "sponsoring" new games probably...
It's called "attention whoring", used to compensate for the lack of stuff in real life.
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I dare to say that putty IS vulnerable. This is what happens when I run a similiar command. Sure, it still expects an enter and anyone who takes his time to read stuff on his/her screen before blatantly hitting enter will notice the command. This was done with the latest build which I just downloaded from the site.
You know, there is this really nifty thing called a pen which you can use to record written information on another nifty thing called a piece of paper. It's really high tech because it doesn't require any power, nor cables. It's secure as hell (no one ever hacked my pen!) and platform-independant as well...
Gee, a feminist that tries her best to be popular by posting porn. I thought people here were above thinking with their dicks? Either that, or you're Eric Krout II... He has been horribly silent lately...
Yes yes, mod me down, see if I care.
You sure? Cars that go 80km/h max, nearly no automatic weapons except for street sweepers (That's what they are called iirc) which are about as inacurate as it gets, there would be FAR fewer cars because they were largely still considered a luxury back then, no rocket based weapons, no good sniper weapons and tanks that would make a Sherman tank cry...
I ask again, are you sure?
.nl domains are usually taken by dutch people, handled by the dutch domain name authority which is governed by the dutch goverment who take it up the read from the US goverment.
In other words, that site will be down too after some political lobbying/Bush feeding our prime minister another pretzel.
XP isn't THAT bad untill you do stupid stuff like:
* = Involves installing service packs. Don't think of this as a problem, think of it as a challanger instead! Okay, so it's still crap to do but it will give you a more positive view on life :) Besides, I think you're just cheating! Have you ever booted it? Does it dual boot something else that you normally use? Is it even connected to the internet to start with? :P
You know, you can ALMOST feel an admin over there just itching to type in "Fuck you Taco! And your site!" instead of the connection stuff...
I really should be stoned for this one...
Oh please, you can't be serious with that. Distributed cognition? Yes, of course, and wanking is a form of arm as well. Seriously, blogging has a hype around it that simply doesn't fit the ammount of people who actually give a damn. It's filled with annoying "hip" talk and random rants absolutely no one cares about.
Compare it to Slashdot for a second; when some editor posts a story about Apple coughing up Mac OS XI*. This is absolutely irrelevant to me, because I don't own a Mac and most likely never will own one either because they are waaay to expensive. (only thing holding me back is the price tbh, would love to try one!) But I don't mind it at all on a news site, because it isn't filled with the latest "trendy" works, it is written properly** without using annoying words like "u", "r", "2morow", etc. No one except a few trolls and people who use Slashdot as their cheap "blog"*** really cares if I read it or not and especially wont curl up and cry if I'd dare to disagree with what's posted, though I can expect some hefty flames from Mac people if I dont choose my wording properly. This is the difference between most "blogs"**** and the various news sites which accept user comments. The news sites are about whatever articles are current at the moment while "blogs"**** are purely about one person ranting like mad about something you don't care about or about someone begging to have their ego lifted into outer space.
* = I wanted to use Duke Nukem Forever as an example but no one would take me serious after that...
** = Slashdot stories excluded.
*** = Thank heavens for -6 modifiers...
**** = Disrespect intended. Go cry me a river.
I remember 1991 and thinking about buying 4mb extra RAM for my 486DX100. Never did it because my current 8mb (or 4, dont remember anymore) was enough to play Quest For Glory 4 & Duke Nukem 3D (if that was on my 486 back then...). Right now I've got 1GB of mem... Back then I didn't even know what a GB even was!
Ironically, QFG4 won't run on this PC. Must be that (n*4)mb extra ram, without a doubt. Shame, was a lovely (though buggy) game :(
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Copyright violation! Pay up Taco or I'll set your servers on fire, run over your dog and then sacrifice CowboyNeal to Lucifer!
AMEN!
Most "blogs" *twitch* are seriously overrated crap. Surf the internet a while and you're bound to run into a whole bunch of sites made by random, insecure 14 to 20 year olds who need the anonymity of the internet and the power of the masses to propel their own online ego into orbit driven on a stream of hormones and various neurotoxins in order to compensate for their lack of self-esteem, pretty much like some slashdot posters around here. No thanks, if I'm interested in any log or journal at all, it better concern something I'm interested in and that excludes any type of person I mentioned above.
As a suggestion, I would like to propose a seperate "blogging" section for Slashdot, purely so people can FINALLY ignore all the crap about it. Really, I couldn't care less about a bunch of desperate people proliferating some dot-com spinoff.
In the name of Hades, what kind of editorial catastrophe happened that allowed this kind of immature nationalistic name-calling to be put on the internet? Who is guilty of giving this ... this ... creature called Russ Smith the power to enforce his opinion upon the masses? This man should be fired and never ever have the power to publish in any form of media again. Sure, I'm all for free speech and all, but that pretty much excludes the right to enforce your own biased opinion upon the masses through the use of mass media, especially when it involves flames/insults.
The whole point about Linux is the ability to choose. Which is better, being able to decide between XP and Linux or being forced to use XP because all competition is gone?