Now where can I bitch and moan about Chrome loading all tabs at once on startup? Such a pain to launch it and wait for a.couple dozen js- and flash-ridden pages to load..
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Want to see some deeply flawed studies and legislation processes? Look up Ancel Keys, how his research into fat/cholesterol as a cause of heart disease formed the basis of the McGovern committee's reccomendations to cut saturated fats and eat more "healthy whole grains". Or something along those lines.
"we Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in." ~ Senator McGovern.
The link between saturated fats/cholesterol and heart disease have yet to be proven, despite billions of dollars spent on studies for the last four decades.
No monkeys were harmed during the making of this code.
How can you be sure? Consider the following chain of events:
Someone spends a gazillion billion cpu cycles having virtual monkeys write shakespeare -> EC2 boss says "They did what now? Report on my desk ASAP!" -> 1200 page report gets written -> another chunk of rainforest gets eaten by steel monsters -> amazonian monkeys get their habitat destroyed - and DIE!
Anyway, cool project. Or, rather, cool way to solve a not particularly important problem? I hope you learned a lot, considering all the poor animals in the amazonian rainforest.:)
A digg reader posted a link that seems to be a beta version of the map. Haven't checked it out yet myself.. No time for CS, and since I have no will-power, I can't install it.
Doesn't ANYONE know a) what game it was for, and b) where to find the map?
Oh well.
Personally I've been playing fps games since wolfenstein 3D or something, and I haven't gone postal yet. How many millions are there playing (violent) games? How many of those actually goes on to shoot up their school/workplace/whatever?
Wasn't it win98se (anything pre win2k) that had problems utilizing more than 256mb of ram? A while back I sat down at a machine running win9something, and I have to say.. games or no games, use linux. It's just better in every way. If you need win98 for something, and you probably do, a dual boot works fine. Being a win98se user, you're probably no stranger to rebooting anyway.
That's a bit too high for me at least.. here(warning: norwegian) is my beast of a cpu cooler, I turn it down to 50% or so, and I don't hear a thing. 120mm fans rewls. The temperature is around 40-50 degrees, wether i run the fan on full blast or not. With a little more airflow in the case I could probably skip the cpu fan entirely, but it's so quiet anyway.. heh. I wish I had a better case though. Airflow around the harddisks is terrible, I've had to drill holes in it to get air in there. 50 degrees is too much for a HD, isn't it? I like it better around 35-40. I'm a student, so there's a lot of things that get priority before a new case.. like staying alive and stuff.
A guy I know used to tease his dog with a little laser thingie. Now the dog constantly looks around to see where that little dot might have hidden.. I don't think that shit is good for them. Maybe some dogs deal with it better than other though.. YMMV or something.
I'm using PCM all the time, and I have never noticed any weird bits. I believe any 75ohm cable will do the trick, as long as the distance is no more than a few feet. This page has a lot of technical details about S/PDIF.
Some time ago, before I bought a new motherboard with S/PDIF coax (and toslink) output, I used an old SBlive card for digital audio. I didn't quite have the right plug though, I think there was supposed to be some 4-pin minijack of some sort, but a little fiddling revealed that a 3-pin minijack also would do the trick. the cable was long as heck, at least 5 meters, and was coiled up behind the PC. Whenever I turned on the TV, or the 17" CRT monitor I had back then, the signal would drop out for half a second. I wonder if that cable was 75ohm.:) Other than that, the sound was just fine as far as i could tell.
Then again, someone wants to sell you gold component video cables for your PS2...
I actually spent $25 (bloddy ripoff!) on a S-video connector for my PS2.. got rid of that annoying red interlace-noise-something that has ALWAYS bugged me with most if not all PS2's i've seen connected to CRT TV's..
I guess it was just a matter of time before something like this appeared.. The hi-fi industry has cables and magic boxes all over the place, now we get magic hardware.. I'm VERY curious to how they plan to eliminate lag introduced by routers that they have no control over. Not to completely blow them off, but I'm not holding my breath. Seeing is believing.
I have a semi-decent 5.1 surround setup, and have avoided expensive cables because I simply don't believe in it. Audio cables might benefit from better shielding and low capacitance wiring, but digital signals.. come on man. A bit across the wire that's "worn in the edges" is still a bit, unlike a sound wave.
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Now where can I bitch and moan about Chrome loading all tabs at once on startup? Such a pain to launch it and wait for a.couple dozen js- and flash-ridden pages to load..
Want to see some deeply flawed studies and legislation processes? Look up Ancel Keys, how his research into fat/cholesterol as a cause of heart disease formed the basis of the McGovern committee's reccomendations to cut saturated fats and eat more "healthy whole grains". Or something along those lines.
"we Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in." ~ Senator McGovern.
The link between saturated fats/cholesterol and heart disease have yet to be proven, despite billions of dollars spent on studies for the last four decades.
No monkeys were harmed during the making of this code.
How can you be sure? Consider the following chain of events:
Someone spends a gazillion billion cpu cycles having virtual monkeys write shakespeare -> EC2 boss says "They did what now? Report on my desk ASAP!" -> 1200 page report gets written -> another chunk of rainforest gets eaten by steel monsters -> amazonian monkeys get their habitat destroyed - and DIE!
Anyway, cool project. Or, rather, cool way to solve a not particularly important problem? I hope you learned a lot, considering all the poor animals in the amazonian rainforest. :)
..just a different way of doing it. Sounds like kids still needs to be taught about the consequences of their actions.
A digg reader posted a link that seems to be a beta version of the map. Haven't checked it out yet myself.. No time for CS, and since I have no will-power, I can't install it.
Doesn't ANYONE know a) what game it was for, and b) where to find the map?
Oh well.
Personally I've been playing fps games since wolfenstein 3D or something, and I haven't gone postal yet. How many millions are there playing (violent) games? How many of those actually goes on to shoot up their school/workplace/whatever?
doh. I hate man pages, I'll go sit in a corner now. :P
that sed command will only replace the first line in your sources.list file (if it works at all?). Try this instead: sed -i "s/dapper/edgy/g"
Wasn't it win98se (anything pre win2k) that had problems utilizing more than 256mb of ram? A while back I sat down at a machine running win9something, and I have to say.. games or no games, use linux. It's just better in every way. If you need win98 for something, and you probably do, a dual boot works fine. Being a win98se user, you're probably no stranger to rebooting anyway.
But hey, it's your rig.
That's a bit too high for me at least.. here(warning: norwegian) is my beast of a cpu cooler, I turn it down to 50% or so, and I don't hear a thing. 120mm fans rewls. The temperature is around 40-50 degrees, wether i run the fan on full blast or not. With a little more airflow in the case I could probably skip the cpu fan entirely, but it's so quiet anyway.. heh.
I wish I had a better case though. Airflow around the harddisks is terrible, I've had to drill holes in it to get air in there. 50 degrees is too much for a HD, isn't it? I like it better around 35-40.
I'm a student, so there's a lot of things that get priority before a new case.. like staying alive and stuff.
A guy I know used to tease his dog with a little laser thingie. Now the dog constantly looks around to see where that little dot might have hidden.. I don't think that shit is good for them. Maybe some dogs deal with it better than other though.. YMMV or something.
I'm using PCM all the time, and I have never noticed any weird bits. I believe any 75ohm cable will do the trick, as long as the distance is no more than a few feet. This page has a lot of technical details about S/PDIF.
:) Other than that, the sound was just fine as far as i could tell.
Some time ago, before I bought a new motherboard with S/PDIF coax (and toslink) output, I used an old SBlive card for digital audio. I didn't quite have the right plug though, I think there was supposed to be some 4-pin minijack of some sort, but a little fiddling revealed that a 3-pin minijack also would do the trick. the cable was long as heck, at least 5 meters, and was coiled up behind the PC. Whenever I turned on the TV, or the 17" CRT monitor I had back then, the signal would drop out for half a second. I wonder if that cable was 75ohm.
I actually spent $25 (bloddy ripoff!) on a S-video connector for my PS2.. got rid of that annoying red interlace-noise-something that has ALWAYS bugged me with most if not all PS2's i've seen connected to CRT TV's..
I guess it was just a matter of time before something like this appeared.. The hi-fi industry has cables and magic boxes all over the place, now we get magic hardware.. I'm VERY curious to how they plan to eliminate lag introduced by routers that they have no control over. Not to completely blow them off, but I'm not holding my breath. Seeing is believing.
I have a semi-decent 5.1 surround setup, and have avoided expensive cables because I simply don't believe in it. Audio cables might benefit from better shielding and low capacitance wiring, but digital signals.. come on man. A bit across the wire that's "worn in the edges" is still a bit, unlike a sound wave.
That perl line doesn't quite work.. heh. Tried it on a vmware install.
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