Gaming is for fun, not work. I am a StarCraft fan, yes, in fact after this comment I'll be playing it (whiteraven710 if anyone cares for a game or two).
says the guy with 19 wins, 3094 losses, and "LOOKING 4 CLAN SEND MSG PLZ" on his stats page.
using a mouse requires movement of the entire upper extremity.
using a trackball requires movement of yr thumb.
it's much more efficient, and now i have MUSCLES, something i never could've gotten, using a mouse. of course, only my thumb is awesomely rippled, but hey, it's a start.
i've got an idea re: how we can screw the RIAA. well, maybe not totally screw them, but just kinda mess with their heads. i hope someone reads this amidst the 600+ posts here and will comment on it. here it is:
i'm a bad singer. i'm a poor guitarist. i make really bad songs. years ago, i decided that i will only use my god-given powers for good. and thusly, i hereby declare a RIGHTEOUS WAR upon the RIAA. here is my battle plan: 1. create several anti-RIAA songs. these can have catchy titles like "A RIAAL PAIN IN MY ASS," or "Fuck Tha RIAA," or even "The RIAA Took My Crack Money - All $2000 of It!" 2. offer them on p2p networks as "Metallica - King Nothing Style Song By Herr Doktor," or something similar. the songs will have some identifying tag in their names, or artist field. 3. make tons and tons of copies of these songs, naming them as different songs of various RIAA-affiliated artists. 4. ask you, the public, to always search for and download one of these crap songs every time you p2p.
perhaps some will be daring enough to host huge caches of these crap songs with fake titles. and maybe the RIAA will try to persecute us! and then we can win in court or something. something big. i think it's a money-making scam waiting to happen!
seriously, though. we're all waiting for the RIAA to bust the wrong guy, so why not make up a bunch of us as wrong guys for them to bust? trade in legitimate mp3s, but try to sucker the RIAA into prosecuting legal traffickers?
we should be taking the battle to THEM. ya, you know: the one being fought in the STREETS. of the INTARRNET. peezout, yo.
since the filters do better after being trained with lots of spam, anyone think of gathering up a huge collection of spam to give to other people? i mean exporting a corpus of spam from outlook, sticking it up for download somewhere, and letting other people import it into a spam folder. then other people could run their filter of choice and train it!
you could even make it all official-like, and somehow guarantee that the spam that's up for downloading is "official" and "virus-free" and "safe for your computer." you know, do geek stuff like check hashes or whatever it takes to verify that the spam collection is legit. whatever it takes to ensure that someone else hasn't filled it with a ton of virus/trojan/etc. attachments. or whatever. i dunno. you know, somehow guarantee it's safe.
imagine it! download spambayes, get spambayes to connect to the official spambayes spamcorpus server, and download the latest 2000 spams! instant training.
anyway. just an idea. mod me down as -1, herrd0kt0r. 8P
i'm gonna plunk my karma bonus down to get this seen by the +2 doods. yeah.
but just as it's easy to see things all happyshiny by focusing on the revenue, it's easy to see things as superpizacrap by focusing on the losses.
despite the losses, transmeta _is_ pulling in more revenue. this is good. so if you look at the _whole_ picture, you'll see that transmeta _has_ been strengthening its position from very, very shitty to very, very shitty with little flecks of gold.
yeah, i guess any way you slice it, transmeta ain't doing so hot.
the thing reads like a press release, for crying out loud! not only are relatively minor points blown out of proportion in terms of significance (wow, transmeta gets approval. big deal.), but old information and disinformation are used alongside statements that really don't make much sense.
case in point: A smart display requires a PC running Windows XP to operate and monopolizes the PC while it runs. A Tablet PC serves as a stand-alone computer.
If Transmeta can push the Crusoe into both smart displays and the Tablet PC, the feat will be proof that the market sees the Crusoe both as an embedded and as a general-purpose CPU. Over time, Intel Corp.'s Pentium series and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s K6 processors have been forced out of general-purpose PCs and notebooks and into the engines driving embedded devices. But the Crusoe still powers several Japanese ultralight notebooks.
a. thanks for dumbing down the definition of "smart display." thanks also for restricting its relevance to the article and parties involved. 8P
b. if transmeta gets its pizacrap crusoe into smart displays and tablet PCs, it gets its chip into smart displays and tablet PCs. that's all. if it works _well_ in both, and sells _well_, _then_ the market will be saying something.
c. sorry man, this is really bothering me: pentiums and the k6 line were "forced out" of the general PC segment because NEW, TASTIER and BETTER processors were introduced by their makers. for crying out loud, it's not like they were dumped from the PC market because of transmeta (ABANDON SHIT!).
d. BUT THE CRUSOE STILL POWERS SEVERAL JAPANENIAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA! wtf? the statement following the previous one makes it seem like the crusoe is the little mac of the mike tyson's punch out of the processor world. it outlasted everyone else! including intel and amd! it powers JAPANESE NOTEBOOKS!
that's because transmeta hasn't put out anything else that can best the line it's been offering. yeah, they're small in terms of size n power draw, and yeah, i'd like them to succeed cause you know, they were all ooohh-oooohhh! mysterious before they launched (remember their website?). but anyone with a modicum of literary aptitude should be able to read this article for what it is: big. donkey. dong.
see, whatchoo gotta do is, like, just baffle them. and tie up as much of their time as possible.
for example, several months ago, while a friend and i were in the middle of a drunken jam, this telemarketer kept calling. i refused to answer, until finally i had had enough.
we had a minidisc recorder going at the time, to capture the drunken jam session LIVE! you know, to offer bootlegs to all 2 of our fans. and i had a small little intercom/speakerphone button on my cordless phone. spiffy, no?
if you listen closely, you can hear the telemarketer try to do her job without laughing. you can hear me, toyotally blitzed, trying to answer her questions but getting them wrong ("NO!" she says! POW!) anyway, i have no idea why i said shoney's, as i've never eaten in a shoney's.
anyway, i think we defeated her by the end. i hope you enjoy.
when i first got dsl, it was under the old bellatlantic name. set up was a pain in the ass-- weeks and weeks of waiting to get things turned on, delays, more delays, and even more delays.
then bam! they turned into verizon dsl. i have to say that this was the best thing to happen to me and my intarrnet habits. why?
their customer service. i kid you not.
it's so bad, that it took them weeks to troubleshoot my connection, having me do all sorts of nutty and zany things like unplugging everything plugged into my computer. like, 20 times. they shuffled me back and forth to higher- and lower-tier technicians. i documented everything-- every phone call, the dates and time-- everything. in notepad, the log file grew to somewhere around 60k. SIXTY K! (in word, it'd be like 4 megs, but that's another issue.)
armed with logged experiences of poor technical support, i asked to speak with customer service. they apologized profusely and offered to pro-rate the billing. they offered two weeks. i laughed. the problems i had lasted nearly a month. i laughed more. they asked me what would be acceptable, and i said at LEAST a couple of months.
so, bam! i got a couple of months free. but here's where the kicker is. here's where things get good, and here's why i _LOVE_ verizon dsl:
they're so inept, that somehow they lost my account information or something. i ended up getting 1.5 YEARS of dsl for _free_.
recently i had flooky connection problems, where i'd just get disconnected. turned out some settings for my account on their end were screwy and never updated. they should've been when bellatlantic turned into verizon. they fixed everything, but unfortunately, they also fixed the billing problems. now i have to pay. 8/
"Solaris (Original 1970's version) How can that be when Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 [sun.com]?"
jebus. RTF... ANYTHING, man. i mean... jeez.
you even went through the trouble of using the italics tags and hrefing a link. i bet you thought you were, like, +500 badass when really you're +1000 hilarious at best, and +10^100 dumb at worst.
still, one of the funniest things i've read here today.
more proof that one mod's "troll" is another's "insightful."
i also thought it was interesting. and he should get a bonus +2 and +5 modifiers for quoting the relevent text and using italics. i'd do it, but i lack the power. everyone should mod like i do.
And what is your point exactly ? Take an Itanium2 at 1Ghz [*] and it will beat that 1.6 GHz processor to the ground. So are you going to sing the praise of the Itanium2 now ? No ? Ah sure it doesn't come from AMD but from Intel (and HP), so surely it must be a marketing trick. You are a moron.
yes, i will sing the holiest of holy praises for the i2 . it's nifty that it can perform so well at a lower clock speed . yes . and no.
and finally,
You are presumptious. [*]
[*] your space bar seems to be malfunctioning , too . either that , or you ' re apoplectic .
true enough. i agree with you wholedheartedly. if it performs as well as a p4 running at 2.5-2.8gHz, then it should totally demolish the competition when its clock speed is bumped up.
but my concern is that there are a lot of factors that go into dictating the clock speed limitations of the chip. i mean-- the latest 32-bit athlons run pretty darn well compared to P4s, considering their clock speeds. but one gets the feeling that they're reaching the upper strata of how high they can be ramped up.
i think so, anyway. i would otherwise expect AMD to be matching or beating intel's latest and greatest with faster and faster iterations of the athlon. but it's not happening-- the performance crown remains with intel, while AMD gets the "sucker" price/performance crown. sorta.
anyway, i agree with you. i dig the fact that the chip does well on its own merits, and that it does so at comparatively lower clock speeds. maybe AMD will win more engineering/design accolades for their new processors.
Also note that the CPU features a built-in thermal diode. Hopefully, Athlon 64 is a hard nut to cook. Also AMD has finally listened to users' complaints and hid the fragile CPU die under a copper lid with nickel-plated surface.
also, their writing is pretty bad. also, it's terrible. i have no facking clue how one cooks hard nuts. also, i am thinking that cooked hard nuts are much worse.
lemme sum up the article: - WAHOO! CHECK dis shit OUT! we got an athlon 64 chipz0rz! - it's beefcake, dood. memory controller insIIIIDE! - we're just gonna test it with 32 bit shizzle. - it's like, good at some things, not so good at others.
anyway, here's something to consider: the sample they tested is 2800+ per AMD's performance rating spec, and it runs at 1.6gHz. yeah. most of the tests and graphs n stuff show it running around the level of a P4@2.53gHz. alright, so it doesn't exactly match the P4@2.8gHz. but think about this:
it's running at 1.6gHz!
nevermind the fact that it doesn't squash the fastest P4 they tested it against into the ground. it's just amusing to see how good the architecture is of the A64. i dunno. i think it's pretty cool, anyway.
anyway, seriously speaking: what use is testing a processor touted as being a 32-bit compatible 64-bit chip, when _NO_ 64 bit apps were used in testing?!
"uh. well. it ran the 32 bit stuff fine. and uh. it didn't fry."
anyone wanna bet that some space scientist really just wants to use these space gas telescopes to try to catch a glimpse at a space alien chix0r through her space alien apartment window?
maybe x10 will release a portable 10-ton spyspacegastelescope cam.
here's the headline on another article linked to the one posted above:
David Morrison figures his long effort to keep the world safe from asteroids has been very successful. "In 11 years of protecting the planet, not a single human has been killed," he pointed out to me recently.
heaoeahoahaohea oh, these wacky astrophysicists and their humor. and to think, i was beginning to believe that they were, you know, all brain, no penis.
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Premiere Scientist John Whorfin of the 8th Dimension has known about this for decades: Here is a photo of him using such technology in the mid 80s. Find out what she knows! Use more honey!
Gaming is for fun, not work. I am a StarCraft fan, yes, in fact after this comment I'll be playing it (whiteraven710 if anyone cares for a game or two).
;)
says the guy with 19 wins, 3094 losses, and "LOOKING 4 CLAN SEND MSG PLZ" on his stats page.
just kidding. i wasn't on b.net.
using a mouse requires movement of the entire upper extremity.
using a trackball requires movement of yr thumb.
it's much more efficient, and now i have MUSCLES, something i never could've gotten, using a mouse. of course, only my thumb is awesomely rippled, but hey, it's a start.
holy COW!
this was the end-all be-all of bbs games, next to galactic empire. frenzied macro-firing!
ZAP A_Commie
ZAP A_Commie
YEEEHAAA!
anyone here use micro*LINE's majorBBS?
way to go, anonymous coward! excellent info.
"...its matter is transformed into a spherical void surrounded by 'an extremely durable form of matter never before experienced on Earth...'"
one pound of which weighs over TEN THOUSAND pounds!
i've got an idea re: how we can screw the RIAA. well, maybe not totally screw them, but just kinda mess with their heads. i hope someone reads this amidst the 600+ posts here and will comment on it. here it is:
i'm a bad singer.
i'm a poor guitarist.
i make really bad songs.
years ago, i decided that i will only use my god-given powers for good. and thusly, i hereby declare a RIGHTEOUS WAR upon the RIAA. here is my battle plan:
1. create several anti-RIAA songs. these can have catchy titles like "A RIAAL PAIN IN MY ASS," or "Fuck Tha RIAA," or even "The RIAA Took My Crack Money - All $2000 of It!"
2. offer them on p2p networks as "Metallica - King Nothing Style Song By Herr Doktor," or something similar. the songs will have some identifying tag in their names, or artist field.
3. make tons and tons of copies of these songs, naming them as different songs of various RIAA-affiliated artists.
4. ask you, the public, to always search for and download one of these crap songs every time you p2p.
perhaps some will be daring enough to host huge caches of these crap songs with fake titles. and maybe the RIAA will try to persecute us! and then we can win in court or something. something big. i think it's a money-making scam waiting to happen!
seriously, though. we're all waiting for the RIAA to bust the wrong guy, so why not make up a bunch of us as wrong guys for them to bust? trade in legitimate mp3s, but try to sucker the RIAA into prosecuting legal traffickers?
we should be taking the battle to THEM. ya, you know: the one being fought in the STREETS. of the INTARRNET. peezout, yo.
since the filters do better after being trained with lots of spam, anyone think of gathering up a huge collection of spam to give to other people? i mean exporting a corpus of spam from outlook, sticking it up for download somewhere, and letting other people import it into a spam folder. then other people could run their filter of choice and train it!
you could even make it all official-like, and somehow guarantee that the spam that's up for downloading is "official" and "virus-free" and "safe for your computer." you know, do geek stuff like check hashes or whatever it takes to verify that the spam collection is legit. whatever it takes to ensure that someone else hasn't filled it with a ton of virus/trojan/etc. attachments. or whatever. i dunno. you know, somehow guarantee it's safe.
imagine it! download spambayes, get spambayes to connect to the official spambayes spamcorpus server, and download the latest 2000 spams! instant training.
anyway. just an idea. mod me down as -1, herrd0kt0r. 8P
OBEY THE PHOENIX!
i'm gonna plunk my karma bonus down to get this seen by the +2 doods. yeah.
but just as it's easy to see things all happyshiny by focusing on the revenue, it's easy to see things as superpizacrap by focusing on the losses.
despite the losses, transmeta _is_ pulling in more revenue. this is good. so if you look at the _whole_ picture, you'll see that transmeta _has_ been strengthening its position from very, very shitty to very, very shitty with little flecks of gold.
yeah, i guess any way you slice it, transmeta ain't doing so hot.
dang. i got pwned.
sniff.
the thing reads like a press release, for crying out loud! not only are relatively minor points blown out of proportion in terms of significance (wow, transmeta gets approval. big deal.), but old information and disinformation are used alongside statements that really don't make much sense.
case in point:
A smart display requires a PC running Windows XP to operate and monopolizes the PC while it runs. A Tablet PC serves as a stand-alone computer.
If Transmeta can push the Crusoe into both smart displays and the Tablet PC, the feat will be proof that the market sees the Crusoe both as an embedded and as a general-purpose CPU. Over time, Intel Corp.'s Pentium series and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s K6 processors have been forced out of general-purpose PCs and notebooks and into the engines driving embedded devices. But the Crusoe still powers several Japanese ultralight notebooks.
a. thanks for dumbing down the definition of "smart display." thanks also for restricting its relevance to the article and parties involved. 8P
b. if transmeta gets its pizacrap crusoe into smart displays and tablet PCs, it gets its chip into smart displays and tablet PCs. that's all. if it works _well_ in both, and sells _well_, _then_ the market will be saying something.
c. sorry man, this is really bothering me: pentiums and the k6 line were "forced out" of the general PC segment because NEW, TASTIER and BETTER processors were introduced by their makers. for crying out loud, it's not like they were dumped from the PC market because of transmeta (ABANDON SHIT!).
d. BUT THE CRUSOE STILL POWERS SEVERAL JAPANENIAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA! wtf? the statement following the previous one makes it seem like the crusoe is the little mac of the mike tyson's punch out of the processor world. it outlasted everyone else! including intel and amd! it powers JAPANESE NOTEBOOKS!
that's because transmeta hasn't put out anything else that can best the line it's been offering. yeah, they're small in terms of size n power draw, and yeah, i'd like them to succeed cause you know, they were all ooohh-oooohhh! mysterious before they launched (remember their website?). but anyone with a modicum of literary aptitude should be able to read this article for what it is: big. donkey. dong.
odd. i tried it in preview, tried it just now, and it works fine. dunno.
see, whatchoo gotta do is, like, just baffle them. and tie up as much of their time as possible.
for example, several months ago, while a friend and i were in the middle of a drunken jam, this telemarketer kept calling. i refused to answer, until finally i had had enough.
we had a minidisc recorder going at the time, to capture the drunken jam session LIVE! you know, to offer bootlegs to all 2 of our fans. and i had a small little intercom/speakerphone button on my cordless phone. spiffy, no?
so click here if you wanna hear what happens when a telemarketer calls a couple of drunks trying to make crappy music.
if you listen closely, you can hear the telemarketer try to do her job without laughing. you can hear me, toyotally blitzed, trying to answer her questions but getting them wrong ("NO!" she says! POW!) anyway, i have no idea why i said shoney's, as i've never eaten in a shoney's.
anyway, i think we defeated her by the end. i hope you enjoy.
no, really.
when i first got dsl, it was under the old bellatlantic name. set up was a pain in the ass-- weeks and weeks of waiting to get things turned on, delays, more delays, and even more delays.
then bam! they turned into verizon dsl. i have to say that this was the best thing to happen to me and my intarrnet habits. why?
their customer service.
i kid you not.
it's so bad, that it took them weeks to troubleshoot my connection, having me do all sorts of nutty and zany things like unplugging everything plugged into my computer. like, 20 times. they shuffled me back and forth to higher- and lower-tier technicians. i documented everything-- every phone call, the dates and time-- everything. in notepad, the log file grew to somewhere around 60k. SIXTY K! (in word, it'd be like 4 megs, but that's another issue.)
armed with logged experiences of poor technical support, i asked to speak with customer service. they apologized profusely and offered to pro-rate the billing. they offered two weeks. i laughed. the problems i had lasted nearly a month. i laughed more. they asked me what would be acceptable, and i said at LEAST a couple of months.
so, bam! i got a couple of months free. but here's where the kicker is. here's where things get good, and here's why i _LOVE_ verizon dsl:
they're so inept, that somehow they lost my account information or something. i ended up getting 1.5 YEARS of dsl for _free_.
recently i had flooky connection problems, where i'd just get disconnected. turned out some settings for my account on their end were screwy and never updated. they should've been when bellatlantic turned into verizon. they fixed everything, but unfortunately, they also fixed the billing problems. now i have to pay. 8/
"Solaris (Original 1970's version)
How can that be when Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 [sun.com]?"
jebus. RTF... ANYTHING, man. i mean... jeez.
you even went through the trouble of using the italics tags and hrefing a link. i bet you thought you were, like, +500 badass when really you're +1000 hilarious at best, and +10^100 dumb at worst.
still, one of the funniest things i've read here today.
more proof that one mod's "troll" is another's "insightful."
i also thought it was interesting.
and he should get a bonus +2 and +5 modifiers for quoting the relevent text and using italics. i'd do it, but i lack the power. everyone should mod like i do.
yay to herrd0kt0r.
herrd0kt0r for prez.
And what is your point exactly ?
.
Take an Itanium2 at 1Ghz [*] and it will beat that 1.6 GHz processor to the ground. So are you going to sing the praise of the Itanium2 now ? No ? Ah sure it doesn't come from AMD but from Intel (and HP), so surely it must be a marketing trick.
You are a moron.
yes, i will sing the holiest of holy praises for the i2 . it's nifty that it can perform so well at a lower clock speed . yes . and no
and finally,
You are presumptious. [*]
[*] your space bar seems to be malfunctioning , too . either that , or you ' re apoplectic .
true enough. i agree with you wholedheartedly. if it performs as well as a p4 running at 2.5-2.8gHz, then it should totally demolish the competition when its clock speed is bumped up.
but my concern is that there are a lot of factors that go into dictating the clock speed limitations of the chip. i mean-- the latest 32-bit athlons run pretty darn well compared to P4s, considering their clock speeds. but one gets the feeling that they're reaching the upper strata of how high they can be ramped up.
i think so, anyway. i would otherwise expect AMD to be matching or beating intel's latest and greatest with faster and faster iterations of the athlon. but it's not happening-- the performance crown remains with intel, while AMD gets the "sucker" price/performance crown. sorta.
anyway, i agree with you. i dig the fact that the chip does well on its own merits, and that it does so at comparatively lower clock speeds. maybe AMD will win more engineering/design accolades for their new processors.
or, for the more intuitive of you: simply click the "11" at the top. it takes you to the 11th page without you having to click through all the pages.
here's a graphic:
Pages:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
click here^^
AMAZING! MODERATORS: MOD ME UP AS +10000, INFORMATIVE! 8P
Also note that the CPU features a built-in thermal diode. Hopefully, Athlon 64 is a hard nut to cook. Also AMD has finally listened to users' complaints and hid the fragile CPU die under a copper lid with nickel-plated surface.
also, their writing is pretty bad. also, it's terrible. i have no facking clue how one cooks hard nuts. also, i am thinking that cooked hard nuts are much worse.
crapfully yours,
herrdoktor.
lemme sum up the article:
- WAHOO! CHECK dis shit OUT! we got an athlon 64 chipz0rz!
- it's beefcake, dood. memory controller insIIIIDE!
- we're just gonna test it with 32 bit shizzle.
- it's like, good at some things, not so good at others.
anyway, here's something to consider: the sample they tested is 2800+ per AMD's performance rating spec, and it runs at 1.6gHz. yeah. most of the tests and graphs n stuff show it running around the level of a P4@2.53gHz. alright, so it doesn't exactly match the P4@2.8gHz. but think about this:
it's running at 1.6gHz!
nevermind the fact that it doesn't squash the fastest P4 they tested it against into the ground. it's just amusing to see how good the architecture is of the A64. i dunno. i think it's pretty cool, anyway.
anyway, seriously speaking: what use is testing a processor touted as being a 32-bit compatible 64-bit chip, when _NO_ 64 bit apps were used in testing?!
"uh. well. it ran the 32 bit stuff fine. and uh. it didn't fry."
anyone wanna bet that some space scientist really just wants to use these space gas telescopes to try to catch a glimpse at a space alien chix0r through her space alien apartment window?
maybe x10 will release a portable 10-ton spyspacegastelescope cam.
the review site with an introduction spread out several pages, laden with adverts!
where else can on go to derive such pleasure in clicking "introduction, continued..." over and over again?
here's the headline on another article linked to the one posted above:
David Morrison figures his long effort to keep the world safe from asteroids has been very successful. "In 11 years of protecting the planet, not a single human has been killed," he pointed out to me recently.
heaoeahoahaohea
oh, these wacky astrophysicists and their humor. and to think, i was beginning to believe that they were, you know, all brain, no penis.