"Fantastic! Now even when Weather.com is down I can still see what the weather is like without having to expose by pasty white skin to the elements."
Oh geez, don't you guys study history? There are several ancient civilizations that had very simple devices for determining the weather without actually having to go outside. All you need is a piece of glass, a rock, a hole in a wall (preferably leading to the exterior of your house), and a piece of glass to fill that hole and prevent everything but light from getting in.
Hang the rock outside of this piece of glass using a string so that it's visible by peering through the hole. Installation's complete!
That rock provides all kinds of scientific data you can use:
- If the rock is bright, it's day. - If the rock is dark, it's night. - If the rock is wet, it's raining. - If the rock is white, it's snowing. - If the rock is shaking, there's an earthquake. - If the rock is swinging, it's windy outside. - If the rock is swinging and wet, it's a hurricane. - If the rock is gone, don't open the door.
"Most of the houses around me now have been here at least a hundred years. They just built them and they stayed up. Victorians were good at that."
It's a pity that most homes of that era don't conform to the standards of today's era. If you're not removing lead paint, you're trying to figure out how to wire it for ethernet.
"If you can download it for free, that would undercut the piracy market which is funding terrorist. "
Heh funny as that comment is, there's a good point to be made here. The MPAA should not call online trading piracy if they're going to associate it with terrorism that way.
Or should we just sling it right back at them?
"The MPAA funds terrorism by making movies available."
... about the potential for one of these things to be hidden on your network and collecting/trasmitting data? Am I being paranoid or is that a potential privacy problem?
I remember reading that they did want to do that, but there was still the little problem of cost. The mobo gets more complex, etc etc.
Then there's the little matter of OS and App support. Windows 2000 handles dual processors pretty well, but it doesn't appear (I'm talking about image here, not substance) to work twice as fast. You need multithreaded apps etc etc etc to make good use of it.
Remember when I mentioned the rendering bit earlier? I could use a machine that's 16x faster than what I have now, but a 16 processor machine would be virtually worthless because of all the management that'd need to be done. I wouldn't get 16x performance out of it. I have 2 processors now and I'm barely getting 1.5x. The only real noticable benefit I'm getting from the extra processor is that my multithreaded apps are a bit faster and Windows (explorer etc) is much more responsive.
Yeah, I'd like dual to be the rule too. But the market doesn't want that. I agree that it's not impossible to do. I agree that it could be done. But there's a lot more to it than just releasing the hardware. The software end of it too can be problematic.
" Is it so much to ask that CPU makers put decent cache on chips, and that multi-processor be standard?"
Yes. I don't think you'd be willing to part with the money it'd cost for you to have that built. Niether would the people who buy those Celerons and Durons that you're so upset at Intel and Apple for building.
Besides, what are you going to with 16 processors? Hell, I do 3D rendering and still don't think I could make effective use of it. (Maybe 8 duals...)
Got a graphics chip in there? If not, a good chunk of that 133mhz is going to be dedicated to pushing pixels around the screen.
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"Does anyone else here read this as 'expanding the software to fill the available space (CPU-cycles & memory bandwidth)'?"
No, I read it as them wanting to offload the UI stuff to that neat little 3D GPU that's not doing anything. Why make your CPU do stuff the GPU can do better? More useful cycles freed up that way.
"Or maybe we could spend the time figuring out how to make computers more secure, so people wouldn't be afraid to put private info on it. Thus making it so that people are more likely to use them for everyday purposes."
That's pretty lame reasoning. We're not playing Master of Orion here. You can't turn up a slider on "Security Research" and have everybody focus on this.
"A major reason for your GDP is because your country was founded on slave labour; helping it become the richest country in the world in no time at all."
When slavery was at it's peak, the US wasn't so 'rich'. That didn't happen until well after slavery was completely abolished.
... is our perception of the universe warped along with the toroid shape? If so, couldn't we eventually look so far that we see ourselves?
I'm curious how we'd test that, given that the distances involved would mean that we'd see events so long ago that we wouldn't recognize them. It would explain how the universe would seem infinite, though...
"People could lend their cpu cycles helping something worthwhile out Folding @ home [stanford.edu] instead of looking for something that isn't there."
If we knew that nothing was out there, Seti wouldn't be looking for it. Seti doesn't know, none of us knows, and you certainly don't know.
It's one thing to say "medical research is more important", it's another to say that something doesn't exist when there's no proof that it does or doesn't. Space is awfully large.
"I think a wireless experience at a McDonalds is very different from a Starbucks or a Borders. At McDonalds, my goal is to eat and get out, where at a Starbucks or Borders they encourage you to stay and socialize much more than McD's does"
I think it's meant more for travellers. McDonald's is always easier to find than Starbucks. I can think of a couple of business trips I went on where I couldn't find an SB anywhere.
"Because this is slashdot. The fact that your aunt has breast cancer is Microsoft's fault."
I hear ya man. I wonder when the Slashdot Community's going to realize that they cry wolf way too often when it comes to Microsoft. I wonder how many people read Slashdot headlines and say "Dammit, I have to read the article to see whether or not their accusation's really true."
It'd be interesting to see a stastic on how many times the term "RTFA" is used in topics containing the word "Microsoft" in them and how it compares to non-related articles.
I think I'm going to write myself a little VB app that deletes everything (except itself) in the startup folder once in a while. I'd like to make my own list of things that are permitted in there so I'm not 'surprised' by bs like that.
Note to Microsoft: How about providing the user with a "Are you sure you want this here?" dialog every time something's copied in there?
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Did anybody else misread that headline and think it was about IPV6?
"Fantastic! Now even when Weather.com is down I can still see what the weather is like without having to expose by pasty white skin to the elements."
Oh geez, don't you guys study history? There are several ancient civilizations that had very simple devices for determining the weather without actually having to go outside. All you need is a piece of glass, a rock, a hole in a wall (preferably leading to the exterior of your house), and a piece of glass to fill that hole and prevent everything but light from getting in.
Hang the rock outside of this piece of glass using a string so that it's visible by peering through the hole. Installation's complete!
That rock provides all kinds of scientific data you can use:
- If the rock is bright, it's day.
- If the rock is dark, it's night.
- If the rock is wet, it's raining.
- If the rock is white, it's snowing.
- If the rock is shaking, there's an earthquake.
- If the rock is swinging, it's windy outside.
- If the rock is swinging and wet, it's a hurricane.
- If the rock is gone, don't open the door.
Pff who needs fancy schmancy satellites?
"Most of the houses around me now have been here at least a hundred years. They just built them and they stayed up. Victorians were good at that."
It's a pity that most homes of that era don't conform to the standards of today's era. If you're not removing lead paint, you're trying to figure out how to wire it for ethernet.
"Ya know it was kinda odd to see an 'apple' story with with bill gates borg head icon on it. i was confused for a moment:)"
Man I wish TNG made a reference to 'detonating the core'. That'd be such a great quote here.
"If you can download it for free, that would undercut the piracy market which is funding terrorist. "
Heh funny as that comment is, there's a good point to be made here. The MPAA should not call online trading piracy if they're going to associate it with terrorism that way.
Or should we just sling it right back at them?
"The MPAA funds terrorism by making movies available."
... about the potential for one of these things to be hidden on your network and collecting/trasmitting data? Am I being paranoid or is that a potential privacy problem?
I remember reading that they did want to do that, but there was still the little problem of cost. The mobo gets more complex, etc etc.
Then there's the little matter of OS and App support. Windows 2000 handles dual processors pretty well, but it doesn't appear (I'm talking about image here, not substance) to work twice as fast. You need multithreaded apps etc etc etc to make good use of it.
Remember when I mentioned the rendering bit earlier? I could use a machine that's 16x faster than what I have now, but a 16 processor machine would be virtually worthless because of all the management that'd need to be done. I wouldn't get 16x performance out of it. I have 2 processors now and I'm barely getting 1.5x. The only real noticable benefit I'm getting from the extra processor is that my multithreaded apps are a bit faster and Windows (explorer etc) is much more responsive.
Yeah, I'd like dual to be the rule too. But the market doesn't want that. I agree that it's not impossible to do. I agree that it could be done. But there's a lot more to it than just releasing the hardware. The software end of it too can be problematic.
"eh, its not our fault you're a bastard."
It's cool.
" Is it so much to ask that CPU makers put decent cache on chips, and that multi-processor be standard?"
Yes. I don't think you'd be willing to part with the money it'd cost for you to have that built. Niether would the people who buy those Celerons and Durons that you're so upset at Intel and Apple for building.
Besides, what are you going to with 16 processors? Hell, I do 3D rendering and still don't think I could make effective use of it. (Maybe 8 duals...)
"I want 16cpu MB with 8MB cache per chip damnit!"
I want a cruise ship, a space shuttle, a space station, and a cell phone so tiny that I risk accidentally swallowing it, damnit!
"I thought they weren't going to concentrate on PC processors [slashdot.org] anymore?"
I'm not surprised you thought that, you didn't RTFA.
"Crappy games cost around $50 bucks."
Crappy games don't cost anything if you download the demo first.
"How can you go wrong?"
Got a graphics chip in there? If not, a good chunk of that 133mhz is going to be dedicated to pushing pixels around the screen.
"Does anyone else here read this as 'expanding the software to fill the available space (CPU-cycles & memory bandwidth)'?"
No, I read it as them wanting to offload the UI stuff to that neat little 3D GPU that's not doing anything. Why make your CPU do stuff the GPU can do better? More useful cycles freed up that way.
"Or maybe we could spend the time figuring out how to make computers more secure, so people wouldn't be afraid to put private info on it. Thus making it so that people are more likely to use them for everyday purposes."
That's pretty lame reasoning. We're not playing Master of Orion here. You can't turn up a slider on "Security Research" and have everybody focus on this.
"Actually, it is our greatest fear, that of becoming American or Americanised. We prefer not to live in a perpetual state of fear."
Liar.
"A major reason for your GDP is because your country was founded on slave labour; helping it become the richest country in the world in no time at all."
When slavery was at it's peak, the US wasn't so 'rich'. That didn't happen until well after slavery was completely abolished.
... is our perception of the universe warped along with the toroid shape? If so, couldn't we eventually look so far that we see ourselves?
I'm curious how we'd test that, given that the distances involved would mean that we'd see events so long ago that we wouldn't recognize them. It would explain how the universe would seem infinite, though...
"The Dinos died coz they ran out of beer. Stop lying to us !"
Actually they died because they were overly reliant on fossil fuels.
"Better yet, let it hit France. Their white flags would be useless against it."
Knowing Chirac, he'd veto any plans to evacuate.
"You can't prove something doesn't exist, only that it does, bitch."
And how does that do anything but reinforce my point?
"People could lend their cpu cycles helping something worthwhile out Folding @ home [stanford.edu] instead of looking for something that isn't there."
If we knew that nothing was out there, Seti wouldn't be looking for it. Seti doesn't know, none of us knows, and you certainly don't know.
It's one thing to say "medical research is more important", it's another to say that something doesn't exist when there's no proof that it does or doesn't. Space is awfully large.
"I think a wireless experience at a McDonalds is very different from a Starbucks or a Borders. At McDonalds, my goal is to eat and get out, where at a Starbucks or Borders they encourage you to stay and socialize much more than McD's does"
I think it's meant more for travellers. McDonald's is always easier to find than Starbucks. I can think of a couple of business trips I went on where I couldn't find an SB anywhere.
"...any tool can be a weapon, if you just hold it right." ...or fling it properly...
"Because this is slashdot. The fact that your aunt has breast cancer is Microsoft's fault."
I hear ya man. I wonder when the Slashdot Community's going to realize that they cry wolf way too often when it comes to Microsoft. I wonder how many people read Slashdot headlines and say "Dammit, I have to read the article to see whether or not their accusation's really true."
It'd be interesting to see a stastic on how many times the term "RTFA" is used in topics containing the word "Microsoft" in them and how it compares to non-related articles.
I think I'm going to write myself a little VB app that deletes everything (except itself) in the startup folder once in a while. I'd like to make my own list of things that are permitted in there so I'm not 'surprised' by bs like that.
Note to Microsoft: How about providing the user with a "Are you sure you want this here?" dialog every time something's copied in there?