Computers have taught me I can find and highlight data quickly and easily anywhere I have it stored on my machine or the internet. I can scour a 500 page article for a single word to find information on what I'm after. The human brain is starting to bug me, I can't control F books, I can't copy and paste a phone number from my computer screen to my hand / phone quickly and easily. I can't recall events in the past with a perfect still (or moving) picture of the moment (at least not all of them) and I can't recall everything that's every hapenned. I'm 31 but grew up a geek with PC's - I think each generation will likely get worse, becoming more and more attached to their 'digital selves'
I know there's other posts of this type but really does anyone care about the simpsons anymore? The original few seasons, even 6 or 7 are quite good but it slowly devolved into an absoloute shambles of a television show. The clever writing is gone, the episodes about morals have covered every topic imaginable - there's little left for the show to do with a batch of good writers, let alone whoever they have now.
I have caught the occassional episode in the past 10 years and the vast majority have been terrible to downright embarassing. Let the show die, please.
of course Futurama got canned didn't it? but that didn't appeal to the lowest common denominator and sadly the 4 movies following up Futurama had lost most of the spark.
I'm now 31 and I've been employed since I was 18. In that time I've had about 7 jobs and have worked at least 85 to 90% of those years, however there are several 2, 4, 6 month periods where I have been without work. All you need to do is say you were at X job for a couple months longer than you actually were and started Y job earlier than you did, you can also leave a gap too. Example left company A in October, started at B in November - they will assume you took a week or two off to chill out or go on holiday etc.
I won't deny your agency were stupid and perhaps you've got much larger holes to fill in than I do but you can bend the rules a little and not feel too guilty (well, I sure don't)
While I think the idea of onlive is a complete and utter hype wank like the phantom console, you either didn't read the article or the article doesn't cover what Onlive is about.
Onlive is a product designed to let you play any games, be it multiplayer or single player on very very low end hardware, all the computations are done remotely, you just need a client installed on your PC, laptop or possibly even console or set top box. They have a mammoth render farm of machines and a custom build of the games, say Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike, whatever you like and you can play the latest and greatest game without upgrading your PC - you just need a huge, low latency internet connection to play it.
Now as any experienced internet user would know, especially on slashdot, this is going to be a huge bucket of failure, it simply won't work due to latency, let alone for people in other countrties like Australia, with not only higher latency but lower download limits per month.
The entire thing is rubbish and lies, it simply is not going to work as advertised - that being said, you didn't 'get' the article, the product is about streaming games to you (or anything!) you no longer need to own the computational equipment, just the display eqiupment.
I don't know if it's the same in the states but here in Australia they get 4 holidays a year, 2 for 2 weeks and I think one for 3 weeks, the other for 4 weeks! (longer in private schools!)
This is a logistical nightmare for parents and I'm not even a parent - the combined annual leave in this country is 8 weeks for 2 parents, not enough to cover the school holidays and that's assuming they can manage to take all 4 weeks - I know in your country you guys get TWO weeks a year (ugh)
Furthermore it doesn't prepare them for the real world, I was crushed when I found out I get 4 weeks holiday a year when I started working, toughen them up a little and compromise, give them 6 weeks a year or something, maybe 7? but the current amount they get is absoloutely ridiculous.
Leave this guy at +4, he's mostly right but actually in extensive testing, I've never seen USB 2.0 beat 30mb/s for more than a second and it pretty much is a guarunteed, consistent 25mb/s - sad As for Wifi, a full 54mbit link is 2.5mbytes a second, very very sad and frustrating when trying to stream HD movies.
I've always noted the point mentioned towards the end, discussing how a 'social hub' kind of person can leave their element (place of living, workplace) go somewhere and within a few short weeks become a social hub again, these people fascinate me (and probably most of us) often interesting, social, active and often fun. I'm by far not one of them sadly - infact I'm the loner in the article likely to die fat and speaking to no one however doesn't change that I mostly agree with what the article says, despite being difficult to proove it of course.
Disagree with you, I type very quickly but I am not a touch typist. I wish I'd paid more attention at school and learnt how to be a proper touch typist. I can do about 90 wpm and I only use about 6 to 8 of my digits.
Not much more to say really, things are slowing down, improvements to products are minimal. Actual, genuine newfangled technology what is there? Everything is an iteration upon an iteration.
We still use the microwave, we still use the freezer, the cooktop, the oven, we mostly use the combustion engine, we still mostly use steam for power plants, computers have gotten faster and we have LCD's now but nothing huge has hapenned, we don't have anti-gravity, we don't have teleportation, we can't change one thing in to another (easily), medically we still aren't growing replacement bodies.
Yes things have gotten better but I haven't seen a huge revoloutionary change to be honest in my lifetime, maybe the mobile phone I guess.
Ooh interesting moderation on slashdot indeed, we either have an Xbox fanboy here or someone who doesn't like my writing style. You can mod overrated all you like but you will still be in the wrong, the PS3 is vastly quieter and it's common knowledge. My condolences for your waste of a mod point, meta moderating should sort you out.
Well then you're reading the wrong articles, I've owned a 360 and a PS3 and the noise difference is night and day, so much so I'd suggest you're trolling or ignorant. The PS3 is VASTLY quieter than a 360, it's effectively silent unless it's a hot day where it's mildly noisy (and still less than a 360)
Congratulations, you sound like the kind of asshole who makes it awkward for everyone else to park, cars need a minimum distance to get in and out of a spot, you choosing your own spaces fucks that up, well done.
Congratulations on being the minority on slashdot, if you don't ever re-install the OS on your machine or learn to switch out the one on there for a newer (or older, Vista -> XP) one then you most certainly aren't the norm here, I might even go as far as to say, you simply don't belong here.
Every few months someone shows a new machine churning up hard disks by the hundreds because some idiot beauracrat (sp?) or 'security manager' has deemed them unsafe to ever be used for anything else. It's nothing short of fucking disgusting.
We do not have the resources on this planet to be damned well putting things like this through a mulcher because of idiot paranoia.
I hope I don't need to tell anyone here that secure erase is not that difficult to do, this is wasting minerals and resources, money, time and it's costing the used disk market as well. Furthermore it's normally government, rather than impliment the drive in another installation it has to be ground up.
LOS ANGELES--A surprising new study released Monday by UCLA's Institute For Child Development revealed that human babies, long thought by psychologists to be highly inquisitive and adaptable, are actually extraordinarily stupid.
The study, an 18-month battery of intelligence tests administered to over 3,500 babies, concluded categorically that babies are "so stupid, it's not even funny."
According to Institute president Molly Bentley, in an effort to determine infant survival instincts when attacked, the babies were prodded in an aggressive manner with a broken broom handle. Over 90 percent of them, when poked, failed to make even rudimentary attempts to defend themselves. The remaining 10 percent responded by vacating their bowels.
"It is unlikely that the presence of the babies' fecal matter, however foul-smelling, would have a measurable defensive effect against an attacker in a real-world situation," Bentley said.
Another test, in which the infants were placed on a mound of dirt outdoors during a torrential downpour, produced similarly bleak results.
"The chicken, dog and even worm babies that we submitted to the test as a control group all had enough sense to come in from the rain or, at least, seek shelter under a leafy clump of vegetation or outcropping of rock," test supervisor Thomas Howell said. "The human babies, on the other hand, could not grasp even this incredibly basic concept, instead merely lying on the ground and making gurgling noises."
According to Howell, almost 60 percent of the infants tested in this manner eventually drowned.
Some of the babies tested were actually so stupid that they choked to death on pieces of Micronaut space toys. Others, unable to use such primitive instruments as can openers and spoons due to insufficient motor skills, simply starved to death, despite being surrounded by cabinets full of nutritious, life-giving Gerber-brand baby-food products.
Babies, the study concluded, are also too stupid to do the following: avoid getting their heads trapped in automatic car windows; use ice to alleviate the pain of burn injuries resulting from touching an open flame; master the skills required for scuba diving; and use a safety ladder to reach a window to escape from a room filled with cyanide gas.
"As a mother of four, I find these results very disheartening," Bentley told reporters. "I can honestly say that the effort I have expended trying to raise my children into intelligent beings may have been entirely wasted--a fool's dream, if you will."
Study results also prompted a strong reaction from President Clinton. "All of us, on some primitive, mammalian level, feel a great sense of pride in our offspring," Clinton said. "It is now clear, however, that these feelings are unfounded. Given the overwhelming evidence of their profound stupidity, we have no choice but to replace our existing infant population with artificially incubated simu-drones, with the eventual goal of phasing out the shamefully stupid human baby forever."
I want less stupid plugins locking up my browser and I want to be snappier. As a basically internet addicted geek, I can run up to 50 tabs at a time, memory footprint doesn't concern me, overall sluggishness on a quad core machine does. Needs to be snappier, I want faster browsing, I want faster back buttons, faster tabbing between tabs and less tabs locking the whole damn thing up. FF is amazing now but it could be better.
I'm not going to format this so it's easy to read, I'm tired - so I'm getting straight to the point, I pray there's a billion to once chance a mouse manufacturer is listening.
All the modern laser or optical mice for gamers are absoloutely and utterly ridiculously huge for fingertip grip gamers, they are far too large or oddly shaped, they are great for browsing, bad for gaming. I have just purchased this mouse for Warcraft 3 gaming and while it's good - it could do with a thumb button http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&ei=F_17SqSJE4vq6APotOVf&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=razer+salmosa&spell=1&start=0 There always seems to be a fear of putting a lot of buttons on a small mouse, it's unfortunate - we don't all have giant hands.
This news is days and days old, very old. Anyone who cares knows about this, we've long since known! What we want to know now is when is the patch coming out, for existing owners and when will the god damned disks be going back on shelves? There is going to be even more demand for the things, as soon as they are re-listed, prices are going to skyrocket at the retailers.
Also, on this note, it's August 4'th where I am right now, Windows 7 is available within about 72 hours internationally for certain MSDN subscribers, so Intel, where the hell is the TRIM firmware support? Why even bother releasing this new drive about 2 weeks ago, then recall it, patch the firmware for a BIOS password bug, only to re-patch the firmware to add TRIM support.
Surely it should be done, fixed, tested by now, Windows 7 is RTM and the beta has been available for near 7 months for end users, let alone you guys - get with it and get the TRIM firmware out NOW! this idiocy is hampering SSD adoption.
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Welcome to 10 years ago, nowadays it works quite well almost every time.
Computers have taught me I can find and highlight data quickly and easily anywhere I have it stored on my machine or the internet.
I can scour a 500 page article for a single word to find information on what I'm after.
The human brain is starting to bug me, I can't control F books, I can't copy and paste a phone number from my computer screen to my hand / phone quickly and easily.
I can't recall events in the past with a perfect still (or moving) picture of the moment (at least not all of them) and I can't recall everything that's every hapenned.
I'm 31 but grew up a geek with PC's - I think each generation will likely get worse, becoming more and more attached to their 'digital selves'
perhaps, perhaps! :(
I know there's other posts of this type but really does anyone care about the simpsons anymore?
The original few seasons, even 6 or 7 are quite good but it slowly devolved into an absoloute shambles of a television show.
The clever writing is gone, the episodes about morals have covered every topic imaginable - there's little left for the show to do with a batch of good writers, let alone whoever they have now.
I have caught the occassional episode in the past 10 years and the vast majority have been terrible to downright embarassing.
Let the show die, please.
of course Futurama got canned didn't it? but that didn't appeal to the lowest common denominator and sadly the 4 movies following up Futurama had lost most of the spark.
I'm now 31 and I've been employed since I was 18.
In that time I've had about 7 jobs and have worked at least 85 to 90% of those years, however there are several 2, 4, 6 month periods where I have been without work.
All you need to do is say you were at X job for a couple months longer than you actually were and started Y job earlier than you did, you can also leave a gap too.
Example left company A in October, started at B in November - they will assume you took a week or two off to chill out or go on holiday etc.
I won't deny your agency were stupid and perhaps you've got much larger holes to fill in than I do but you can bend the rules a little and not feel too guilty (well, I sure don't)
While I think the idea of onlive is a complete and utter hype wank like the phantom console, you either didn't read the article or the article doesn't cover what Onlive is about.
Onlive is a product designed to let you play any games, be it multiplayer or single player on very very low end hardware, all the computations are done remotely, you just need a client installed on your PC, laptop or possibly even console or set top box.
They have a mammoth render farm of machines and a custom build of the games, say Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike, whatever you like and you can play the latest and greatest game without upgrading your PC - you just need a huge, low latency internet connection to play it.
Now as any experienced internet user would know, especially on slashdot, this is going to be a huge bucket of failure, it simply won't work due to latency, let alone for people in other countrties like Australia, with not only higher latency but lower download limits per month.
The entire thing is rubbish and lies, it simply is not going to work as advertised - that being said, you didn't 'get' the article, the product is about streaming games to you (or anything!) you no longer need to own the computational equipment, just the display eqiupment.
I don't know if it's the same in the states but here in Australia they get 4 holidays a year, 2 for 2 weeks and I think one for 3 weeks, the other for 4 weeks! (longer in private schools!)
This is a logistical nightmare for parents and I'm not even a parent - the combined annual leave in this country is 8 weeks for 2 parents, not enough to cover the school holidays and that's assuming they can manage to take all 4 weeks - I know in your country you guys get TWO weeks a year (ugh)
Furthermore it doesn't prepare them for the real world, I was crushed when I found out I get 4 weeks holiday a year when I started working, toughen them up a little and compromise, give them 6 weeks a year or something, maybe 7? but the current amount they get is absoloutely ridiculous.
Leave this guy at +4, he's mostly right but actually in extensive testing, I've never seen USB 2.0 beat 30mb/s for more than a second and it pretty much is a guarunteed, consistent 25mb/s - sad
As for Wifi, a full 54mbit link is 2.5mbytes a second, very very sad and frustrating when trying to stream HD movies.
That last 1% is very, very nasty.
Ever seen this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/
We certainly are, I can't wait for his generation (and religion) to die out.
I've always noted the point mentioned towards the end, discussing how a 'social hub' kind of person can leave their element (place of living, workplace) go somewhere and within a few short weeks become a social hub again, these people fascinate me (and probably most of us) often interesting, social, active and often fun.
I'm by far not one of them sadly - infact I'm the loner in the article likely to die fat and speaking to no one however doesn't change that I mostly agree with what the article says, despite being difficult to proove it of course.
I wish I could moderate you to +6, sometimes this country really disapoints me.
Disagree with you, I type very quickly but I am not a touch typist. I wish I'd paid more attention at school and learnt how to be a proper touch typist.
I can do about 90 wpm and I only use about 6 to 8 of my digits.
Not much more to say really, things are slowing down, improvements to products are minimal.
Actual, genuine newfangled technology what is there? Everything is an iteration upon an iteration.
We still use the microwave, we still use the freezer, the cooktop, the oven, we mostly use the combustion engine, we still mostly use steam for power plants, computers have gotten faster and we have LCD's now but nothing huge has hapenned, we don't have anti-gravity, we don't have teleportation, we can't change one thing in to another (easily), medically we still aren't growing replacement bodies.
Yes things have gotten better but I haven't seen a huge revoloutionary change to be honest in my lifetime, maybe the mobile phone I guess.
Ooh interesting moderation on slashdot indeed, we either have an Xbox fanboy here or someone who doesn't like my writing style.
You can mod overrated all you like but you will still be in the wrong, the PS3 is vastly quieter and it's common knowledge.
My condolences for your waste of a mod point, meta moderating should sort you out.
Well then you're reading the wrong articles, I've owned a 360 and a PS3 and the noise difference is night and day, so much so I'd suggest you're trolling or ignorant.
The PS3 is VASTLY quieter than a 360, it's effectively silent unless it's a hot day where it's mildly noisy (and still less than a 360)
Congratulations, you sound like the kind of asshole who makes it awkward for everyone else to park, cars need a minimum distance to get in and out of a spot, you choosing your own spaces fucks that up, well done.
Wait till you hear where all your pennies have been :(
Congratulations on being the minority on slashdot, if you don't ever re-install the OS on your machine or learn to switch out the one on there for a newer (or older, Vista -> XP) one then you most certainly aren't the norm here, I might even go as far as to say, you simply don't belong here.
Every few months someone shows a new machine churning up hard disks by the hundreds because some idiot beauracrat (sp?) or 'security manager' has deemed them unsafe to ever be used for anything else.
It's nothing short of fucking disgusting.
We do not have the resources on this planet to be damned well putting things like this through a mulcher because of idiot paranoia.
I hope I don't need to tell anyone here that secure erase is not that difficult to do, this is wasting minerals and resources, money, time and it's costing the used disk market as well.
Furthermore it's normally government, rather than impliment the drive in another installation it has to be ground up.
It damn well sickens me.
LOS ANGELES--A surprising new study released Monday by UCLA's Institute For Child Development revealed that human babies, long thought by psychologists to be highly inquisitive and adaptable, are actually extraordinarily stupid.
The study, an 18-month battery of intelligence tests administered to over 3,500 babies, concluded categorically that babies are "so stupid, it's not even funny."
According to Institute president Molly Bentley, in an effort to determine infant survival instincts when attacked, the babies were prodded in an aggressive manner with a broken broom handle. Over 90 percent of them, when poked, failed to make even rudimentary attempts to defend themselves. The remaining 10 percent responded by vacating their bowels.
"It is unlikely that the presence of the babies' fecal matter, however foul-smelling, would have a measurable defensive effect against an attacker in a real-world situation," Bentley said.
Another test, in which the infants were placed on a mound of dirt outdoors during a torrential downpour, produced similarly bleak results.
"The chicken, dog and even worm babies that we submitted to the test as a control group all had enough sense to come in from the rain or, at least, seek shelter under a leafy clump of vegetation or outcropping of rock," test supervisor Thomas Howell said. "The human babies, on the other hand, could not grasp even this incredibly basic concept, instead merely lying on the ground and making gurgling noises."
According to Howell, almost 60 percent of the infants tested in this manner eventually drowned.
Some of the babies tested were actually so stupid that they choked to death on pieces of Micronaut space toys. Others, unable to use such primitive instruments as can openers and spoons due to insufficient motor skills, simply starved to death, despite being surrounded by cabinets full of nutritious, life-giving Gerber-brand baby-food products.
Babies, the study concluded, are also too stupid to do the following: avoid getting their heads trapped in automatic car windows; use ice to alleviate the pain of burn injuries resulting from touching an open flame; master the skills required for scuba diving; and use a safety ladder to reach a window to escape from a room filled with cyanide gas.
"As a mother of four, I find these results very disheartening," Bentley told reporters. "I can honestly say that the effort I have expended trying to raise my children into intelligent beings may have been entirely wasted--a fool's dream, if you will."
Study results also prompted a strong reaction from President Clinton. "All of us, on some primitive, mammalian level, feel a great sense of pride in our offspring," Clinton said. "It is now clear, however, that these feelings are unfounded. Given the overwhelming evidence of their profound stupidity, we have no choice but to replace our existing infant population with artificially incubated simu-drones, with the eventual goal of phasing out the shamefully stupid human baby forever."
I want less stupid plugins locking up my browser and I want to be snappier.
As a basically internet addicted geek, I can run up to 50 tabs at a time, memory footprint doesn't concern me, overall sluggishness on a quad core machine does.
Needs to be snappier, I want faster browsing, I want faster back buttons, faster tabbing between tabs and less tabs locking the whole damn thing up.
FF is amazing now but it could be better.
Yeah but realistically, ball mice are dead - and no mousewheel or thumb button is absoloutely killer.
Such a shame because it's such a slick mouse.
I'm not going to format this so it's easy to read, I'm tired - so I'm getting straight to the point, I pray there's a billion to once chance a mouse manufacturer is listening.
For high end fingertip gamers (google it) this is the best shaped mouse ever made.
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~yav/comp/pc/mouse/ltmm3u.jpg
Sadly, no wheel, not optical, old as hell (PS/2!)
All the modern laser or optical mice for gamers are absoloutely and utterly ridiculously huge for fingertip grip gamers, they are far too large or oddly shaped, they are great for browsing, bad for gaming.
I have just purchased this mouse for Warcraft 3 gaming and while it's good - it could do with a thumb button
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&ei=F_17SqSJE4vq6APotOVf&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=razer+salmosa&spell=1&start=0
There always seems to be a fear of putting a lot of buttons on a small mouse, it's unfortunate - we don't all have giant hands.
This news is days and days old, very old.
Anyone who cares knows about this, we've long since known! What we want to know now is when is the patch coming out, for existing owners and when will the god damned disks be going back on shelves?
There is going to be even more demand for the things, as soon as they are re-listed, prices are going to skyrocket at the retailers.
Also, on this note, it's August 4'th where I am right now, Windows 7 is available within about 72 hours internationally for certain MSDN subscribers, so Intel, where the hell is the TRIM firmware support? Why even bother releasing this new drive about 2 weeks ago, then recall it, patch the firmware for a BIOS password bug, only to re-patch the firmware to add TRIM support.
Surely it should be done, fixed, tested by now, Windows 7 is RTM and the beta has been available for near 7 months for end users, let alone you guys - get with it and get the TRIM firmware out NOW! this idiocy is hampering SSD adoption.