there are a lot of people who love to sing, but they don't get very far on American Idol
Are you seriously holding up the winners of American Idol -- who have voices so bland they overcompensate by embellishing every fucking note so they're not even singing in tune -- as good singers? On the female side of things, go listen to...Sarah Bettens, Anouk Teeuwe, Sarah McLachlan, early 1960s Joni Mitchell, Jolie Holland, Loreena McKennitt, Natalie Merchant (esp. with 10,000 Maniacs), Ella Fitzgerald...anyone who isn't just warbling along with their little McDonalds voices to McDonalds pop tunes. Someone whose voice has character.
Your post is crap anyway. "Capability" is a small fraction of getting a job; networking and a good resume will get you much farther than any innate ability. And if you bother to look at the GP's website, he's been working as a software engineer since 1997.
Neither is Visual Studio 2005. You get a warning and everything when installing it. Nero and TortoiseSVN cause service crashes. Oh, and doing anything slightly unusual (say, using CrossCrypt to mount an image) is completely fucked up because the admin-class users...aren't really administrators. We now have this shiny new UAC "technology", which needs to be explicitly invoked to get privileges that were normal in XP, so any older apps that aren't specifically written for Vista will just fail with "access denied" or a similar error. You'd think that the API would be smart enough to put up the UAC prompt in a situation like that, but nah, they really wanted to screw developers and users as much as possible.
And how does that work exactly? If there were no copyright, everything would essentially be public domain, and you could not require others to release their changes. They wouldn't need to obey your fancy GPL to redistribute, so it wouldn't do a damn thing. Anyone could take your code, do whatever they like, release only the binaries, and that would be that.
Ah, another Republican so bumfuzzled by the English language that they don't understand the difference between an adjective and a noun. Can't you at least get the proper name of a website right?
Yes! This came up on/. a couple years ago, and I remember someone suggested a long string of keywords to NOT (-buy -price -sale, etc.) so you might actually find pages with information about a product.
Unfortunately, this is a nontrivial problem to solve. If something like it happens, expect a whole new wave of "astroturf" where disguising product/store ads as serious reviews and criticism becomes very common. I don't know...the best you're going to get is Google Book Search and Google Scholar, both of which are amazingly cool for what they do.
As for Internet resources, Wikipedia is probably as good as it gets. They usually manage to link to the best external resources too. But it's not yet a collection of all human knowledge; I've actually done some research on the same topic (Catholic saints) and I remember having to use Britannica Online because Wikipedia didn't have all the bios. It's looking vastly better now, though, and there's a WikiProject Saints. Very nice. Despite its flaws when dealing with controversial topics, Wikipedia will probably remain the best resource for casual research on nearly any topic. What alternative is there?
I've always supported the death penalty for littering, and only in a half-joking manner. It would be nice to have a society where people actually respect each other and realize that their actions have consequences.
COULD is the key word. The exquisitely gerrymandered districts that will never switch until they are redrawn can't be reasonably included in such an evaluation. But at 229-196 with some races still undecided, the House win was massive. The only Senate seat that was competitive and the Dems lost would be Tennessee.
Amen, sir. Last time I checked, the ACS doesn't accept papers written in text-speak, and anyone handing in a lab report or exam written in such language would be treated like the morons they clearly are.
I had this discussion a couple years ago, when there was a story about some paranoid woman who thought a group of Middle Eastern musicians who were visiting the airplane bathroom and carrying a McDonalds bag were terrorists. As I wrote then, if you can get past security with bomb materials, there's no reason you would have to make it on the plane. You have access to the terminal bathrooms, and there are no security checks after that. TATP remains a poor candidate because it is extremely unstable, but it's very easy to make. I've seen a laboratory refrigerator door blown off after someone accidentally combined acetone and H2O2 and left it overnight.
KPDF has the same functionality as Adobe Reader? Surely you jest. It doesn't even have a search function. I love KDE and all, but I still have to use acroread to do my work.
But it should push down the prices for the 7000 line, which is nice since I don't pay more than $100 for a video card (7600GS is the best at the moment).
Intelligent game developers, save for the ones who are obsessed with pushing the envelope of graphical masturbation, should already be using OGRE and other cross-platform libraries. Sadly, it seems like 90% of the industry has cutting-edge graphics as its first priority. Why? As far as I'm concerned, Quake 3 and the games based on the engine still look great seven years later. At some point, they'll have to stop focusing on video candy designed so "hardcore gamers" can justify their hardware expenses.
Yes. And most serious CPU-bound applications already support parallel processing. Anyone who has four processes active at the same time benefits too; this isn't exactly a rare situation for those in the market for high-end CPUs. Are we really going to whine because games, which generally depend more on the GPU, don't use multiple threads? Or do they also get upset whenever CPU usage drops below 100%? You're not always using your hardware to its "fullest ability".
In Windows and MacOS, the desktop is part of the OS. It seems perfectly valid to compare those to Linux distros, which would include KDE or GNOME as part of the package, especially when a shiny new interface is one of the only notable features for Vista users.
Are you serious? Because I've heard of a number of people who have had their accounts (with money in them) locked by PayPal, with no recourse. So your pathetic self-righteous ranting is hilariously clueless.
Let me set you straight here - if you do the kinds of things you get away with in high school in the real world, then you're commiting crimes, as in the kind that carry jail time as a penalty.
Exactly. People who whine that bullying is some kind of sick "rite of passage" are ignoring the fact that these kids are committing assault in many cases, or harassment at the very least. Fuck the school administrators who allow antisocial, criminal behavior as some kind of normal childhood thing. Why should school be a bizarre environment where your free speech rights are restricted, yet harmful, criminal behavior is tolerated?
The GP is clearly a moron with a political agenda to push first, human being second.
The problem is, nobody is going to use DirectX 10 because it's tied to Vista. It's going to be years before a majority of the semi-casual gamers bother to make the expensive-yet-worthless upgrade to Vista, so the market for any DX10 game is going to be about the same size as for the newest wang-enhancing video card. Netcraft confirms: DirectX is dying.
And wouldn't it cost them more to pay the support guys than to just ignore casual copying? If you have a copy of Windows that's been installed on five different computers in a short period of time, that's suspicious. If you see that same copy being installed every six months on different computers, that's not very unusual. So why not just reset every non-blacklisted key every month or two? Assume good faith, and stop annoying your users. The people with a clue will just use cracks anyway.
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there are a lot of people who love to sing, but they don't get very far on American Idol
Are you seriously holding up the winners of American Idol -- who have voices so bland they overcompensate by embellishing every fucking note so they're not even singing in tune -- as good singers? On the female side of things, go listen to...Sarah Bettens, Anouk Teeuwe, Sarah McLachlan, early 1960s Joni Mitchell, Jolie Holland, Loreena McKennitt, Natalie Merchant (esp. with 10,000 Maniacs), Ella Fitzgerald...anyone who isn't just warbling along with their little McDonalds voices to McDonalds pop tunes. Someone whose voice has character.
Your post is crap anyway. "Capability" is a small fraction of getting a job; networking and a good resume will get you much farther than any innate ability. And if you bother to look at the GP's website, he's been working as a software engineer since 1997.
Neither is Visual Studio 2005. You get a warning and everything when installing it. Nero and TortoiseSVN cause service crashes. Oh, and doing anything slightly unusual (say, using CrossCrypt to mount an image) is completely fucked up because the admin-class users...aren't really administrators. We now have this shiny new UAC "technology", which needs to be explicitly invoked to get privileges that were normal in XP, so any older apps that aren't specifically written for Vista will just fail with "access denied" or a similar error. You'd think that the API would be smart enough to put up the UAC prompt in a situation like that, but nah, they really wanted to screw developers and users as much as possible.
And how does that work exactly? If there were no copyright, everything would essentially be public domain, and you could not require others to release their changes. They wouldn't need to obey your fancy GPL to redistribute, so it wouldn't do a damn thing. Anyone could take your code, do whatever they like, release only the binaries, and that would be that.
One word: Battle.net
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Ah, another Republican so bumfuzzled by the English language that they don't understand the difference between an adjective and a noun. Can't you at least get the proper name of a website right?
Yes! This came up on /. a couple years ago, and I remember someone suggested a long string of keywords to NOT (-buy -price -sale, etc.) so you might actually find pages with information about a product.
Unfortunately, this is a nontrivial problem to solve. If something like it happens, expect a whole new wave of "astroturf" where disguising product/store ads as serious reviews and criticism becomes very common. I don't know...the best you're going to get is Google Book Search and Google Scholar, both of which are amazingly cool for what they do.
As for Internet resources, Wikipedia is probably as good as it gets. They usually manage to link to the best external resources too. But it's not yet a collection of all human knowledge; I've actually done some research on the same topic (Catholic saints) and I remember having to use Britannica Online because Wikipedia didn't have all the bios. It's looking vastly better now, though, and there's a WikiProject Saints. Very nice. Despite its flaws when dealing with controversial topics, Wikipedia will probably remain the best resource for casual research on nearly any topic. What alternative is there?
Dude, you're reading Slashdot. I don't think you can condescendingly call other people nerds ;-)
I've always supported the death penalty for littering, and only in a half-joking manner. It would be nice to have a society where people actually respect each other and realize that their actions have consequences.
"Localhost for IT pros"? "Loopback for IT pros?" Huh? I would guess they were going for "Home for IT pros", but that's just not what 127.0.0.1 means.
Have you ever used MySpace, Facebook, etc? The Planets are just blog aggregators; they're nothing at all like social networking sites.
COULD is the key word. The exquisitely gerrymandered districts that will never switch until they are redrawn can't be reasonably included in such an evaluation. But at 229-196 with some races still undecided, the House win was massive. The only Senate seat that was competitive and the Dems lost would be Tennessee.
Amen, sir. Last time I checked, the ACS doesn't accept papers written in text-speak, and anyone handing in a lab report or exam written in such language would be treated like the morons they clearly are.
I had this discussion a couple years ago, when there was a story about some paranoid woman who thought a group of Middle Eastern musicians who were visiting the airplane bathroom and carrying a McDonalds bag were terrorists. As I wrote then, if you can get past security with bomb materials, there's no reason you would have to make it on the plane. You have access to the terminal bathrooms, and there are no security checks after that. TATP remains a poor candidate because it is extremely unstable, but it's very easy to make. I've seen a laboratory refrigerator door blown off after someone accidentally combined acetone and H2O2 and left it overnight.
Obviously I'm stuck on KDE 3.3, because apparently 3.4 and 3.5 have versions of KPDF that can find text. I stand corrected.
KPDF has the same functionality as Adobe Reader? Surely you jest. It doesn't even have a search function. I love KDE and all, but I still have to use acroread to do my work.
But it should push down the prices for the 7000 line, which is nice since I don't pay more than $100 for a video card (7600GS is the best at the moment).
Intelligent game developers, save for the ones who are obsessed with pushing the envelope of graphical masturbation, should already be using OGRE and other cross-platform libraries. Sadly, it seems like 90% of the industry has cutting-edge graphics as its first priority. Why? As far as I'm concerned, Quake 3 and the games based on the engine still look great seven years later. At some point, they'll have to stop focusing on video candy designed so "hardcore gamers" can justify their hardware expenses.
Have you seen Alan Wake? It's not too difficult to separate rendering, physics, and resource loading into different threads.
Yes. And most serious CPU-bound applications already support parallel processing. Anyone who has four processes active at the same time benefits too; this isn't exactly a rare situation for those in the market for high-end CPUs. Are we really going to whine because games, which generally depend more on the GPU, don't use multiple threads? Or do they also get upset whenever CPU usage drops below 100%? You're not always using your hardware to its "fullest ability".
In Windows and MacOS, the desktop is part of the OS. It seems perfectly valid to compare those to Linux distros, which would include KDE or GNOME as part of the package, especially when a shiny new interface is one of the only notable features for Vista users.
Are you serious? Because I've heard of a number of people who have had their accounts (with money in them) locked by PayPal, with no recourse. So your pathetic self-righteous ranting is hilariously clueless.
Let me set you straight here - if you do the kinds of things you get away with in high school in the real world, then you're commiting crimes, as in the kind that carry jail time as a penalty.
Exactly. People who whine that bullying is some kind of sick "rite of passage" are ignoring the fact that these kids are committing assault in many cases, or harassment at the very least. Fuck the school administrators who allow antisocial, criminal behavior as some kind of normal childhood thing. Why should school be a bizarre environment where your free speech rights are restricted, yet harmful, criminal behavior is tolerated?
The GP is clearly a moron with a political agenda to push first, human being second.
It's called OGRE. There are few legitimate reasons for using DirectX or OpenGL directly.
The problem is, nobody is going to use DirectX 10 because it's tied to Vista. It's going to be years before a majority of the semi-casual gamers bother to make the expensive-yet-worthless upgrade to Vista, so the market for any DX10 game is going to be about the same size as for the newest wang-enhancing video card. Netcraft confirms: DirectX is dying.
And wouldn't it cost them more to pay the support guys than to just ignore casual copying? If you have a copy of Windows that's been installed on five different computers in a short period of time, that's suspicious. If you see that same copy being installed every six months on different computers, that's not very unusual. So why not just reset every non-blacklisted key every month or two? Assume good faith, and stop annoying your users. The people with a clue will just use cracks anyway.