I'm looking at the standard blue background on my PowerBook right now, and the swirls are definitely different. I'm no expert, but the background on that laptop reminds me of something I would see in a Dell ad.
Not to get all "me too" about this, but it's so true! How many times do people bring up stupid analogies when we could just be talking about the facts.
As far as the article goes, it seems like the guy could get in trouble for stalking or any illegal actives he may do while on the open wireless network. HOWEVER, I can't agree with him being in trouble for just accessing the network. He sent wireless packets. The WAP chose to send those packets on down the line. He also just listened in to a signal that was being broadcasted. Does he seem like an asshole? Yeah, but I don't see anything illegal about it. If you don't want people mooching on your wireless, tell your AP to not talk to them - ie use encryption.
(i have a friend who's 2 year old figured out how to open the cd drive, put in the disc, and play his favorite game; some Mac educational thing. If he knew that at 2, imagine what he could do at 10...)
Must... resist... temptation to brag about Mac ease of use... must... hold back
Anyhoo, a lot of the stuff the RIAA puts out bites, but there are some geeks, some of whom post on Slashdot, who like some of the music on an RIAA affiliated label.
I agree with you on this one. There is some stuff on RIAA labels that is good. My guess is some people don't even know just how many damn labels there are in the RIAA. There's also stuff on non-RIAA labels that I like. But in the end, I agree with the "Don't buy it" attitude. If you are really pissed at the RIAA for all their idiotic actions, boycott them. No, a boycott is not always going to be fun - sometimes it hurts to stick to your morals. For example, I really started getting into Bad Religion about a year and a half ago. I loved every album I could get my hands on, but since a lot of their stuff is from Atlantic, I won't buy it.
Go ahead and rip on the Slashbots who spew the "Everything indie is good, everything RIAA is crap" line over and over again. However, don't demean the message that a true boycott sends. I vote with my dollars because that's what I believe in.
I drove up to Seattle from LA last spring break, and I don't remember anything like that exiting or entering California from the Oregon border on I-5. Also, I know in Tahoe you can cross state lines rather easily. Where was it that you remember these roadblocks?
I'm sure this has been in multiple games, but I know that something similar was in Deus Ex when you went to China. (Although they did let you get that badass energy sword, so it made up for things.)
That's why you have *gasp* management! I know the word management generally only conjours up images of PHBs to most people here, but the only way you are ever going to get a group of 120 people to work towards a communal goal is to break them into units (and most likely sub-units) and have the managers handle the inter unit/sub-unit communication. That way the people on the bottom can go about working on their little section of the game while their manager makes sure their section fits in with the rest of the groups.
I fear the day anyone thinks this is a load of crap and sticks 120 engineers together on a project with no sort of leadership hierarchy.
While that does have its advantages, unfortunately very few people realize that SMTP is an unreliable protocol. Most people send an email and assume that it gets there instantaneously, so its usually too risky for a business to implement "greylisting" as you have.
Sorry, but what are you smoking? Office 2004 for Mac runs for $500 at the Apple store, and this is for the Pro edition that contains VPC. I also heavily doubt the figure for the Adobe products.
Actually, to be the MSDevil's advocate, although the OS X OS is superior in ease-of-use, Apple hardware still falls behind in many of the areas Anand depends upon -- most noticeably in the GPU department. Since the entire OS depends on the GPU, this becomes an issue on macs.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The only thing the OS really "depends" on the GPU for is Quartz Extreme. All new Macs come with a GPU capable of running Quartz Extreme, and it has been this way for a couple years now. Even with a GPU that just barely meets the QE minimum specs, the speedup in responsiveness is quite noticeable. I've yet to see any Windows machine that can match a OS X Mac running QE for general GUI responsiveness, all other things being equal.
I'm typing this on a 1.33 GHz 12" PowerBook ($1599 retail, I got it for $1399 on a student discount).
This Powerbook flies. The 1.33 GHz G4 is damn fast for a mobile chip, i.e. something that won't suck down batteries like an Irishman sucking down Guinness. Maybe more importantly, the FX Go5200 in here allows OS X to take advantage of Quartz Extreme. Let's face it, with a laptop people are generally going to be more concerned with responsiveness than absolute number crunching power. By offloading system graphics to the GPU via Quartz Extreme, OS X is incredibly responsive.
Through work, I've used some nice (for Dell at least) mid-range laptops. My Mac feels faster in comparison. although I've been a Mac user my whole life so part of it may just be that I'm more comfortable with the system. Either way, I could say for sure that the Mac will not be noticeably slower.
Also, speed aside, you would be hard pressed to find a Windows laptop that will compare with a Mac on the features to price ratio. I've yet to see a $1600 Windows laptop that comes with a comparable CPU, comparable battery life, dedicated GPU, built-in 802.11g, and built-in Bluetooth while still weighing in at 5 lbs.
I wouldn't exactly say they predicted these quakes. From what the article says, it seems like they just have a list of places where they say a >5 quake will occur between 2000 and 2010. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. Anything under a 6 is less annoying to a Californian than a fly buzzing around your house. For anything over a 6.5 or so, being this accurate about WHERE the quake will occur is next to useless if you can't be more accurate about WHEN it will occur.
This is not meant to diminish the accomplishments of these researchers. I'm sure this is a very important stepping stone to greater advances. However, this won't be useful to most people until they can predict with much greater accuracy the magnitude of the quake and the timeframe in which it will occur.
But the NRA and CRPA bumper stickers (and the "I'd rather be hunting" license plate frame) on the car in the driveway IS. B-)
I couldn't agree with this more. My friends and I are mild kleptos. Nothing too serious, we mainly have a penchant for nabbing street signs. (Honestly, who can pass up having a giant yellow "THREE WAY" sign?) One night we were bored driving around when I saw a big Smith and Wesson vinyl sign I wanted to steal. It took about two seconds before it hit me that I just thought about stealing something from a shop displaying a sign for SMITH AND FUCKING WESSON. Needless to say, we kept driving.
Are you shitting me? The very section you post in used to hold the title for "Worst Color Scheme" in the major website category. It only recently lost the title when they came out with something even uglier!
I've noticed the exact same thing with my 12" PowerBook. (The new 1.33 GHz model) I fractured my left wrist at the start of summer, so for the past few weeks I've been in a brace while it's finishing up healing. I was in a rush one day, so rather than make two trips to my car, I foolishly carried my PowerBook in my left hand while carrying the heavier parts of my load in my good right hand. I lost my grip with my left and narrowly missed grabbing the PowerBook with my right hand before it hit the ground. There was a pretty loud thud, and I thought it was a goner.
Much to my surprise and delight, it worked flawlessly when I opened it up. It was sleeping, and it was ready for use near instantaneously like you expect from an Apple laptop. It had landed on the corner by the power and Ethernet ports, and sure enough the case crumpled noticeably. However, I can still plug into both ports (not sure about the modem jack though), so I haven't bothered hammering out the dents yet since they are only cosmetic.
I must applaud Apple for excellent laptop design. After seeing what happened to my laptop, I suspected that they had designed the case to be a crumple zone. Your story confirms my theory. If I'm faced with the worst case scenario being paying $50-$100 for case repair to a dropped laptop, I'll take that any day of the week over having to get a new mobo at first drop.
The reason we have C, asm etc is because the concepts in programming are not easily expressed in English etc, but are far easier to express in a purpose-defined language. Likely the same applies to effective debugging
The problem isn't that the concepts in programming are hard to express in English. In fact, it's quite easy to express programming concepts in English. Why do you think pseudocode is so much easier to write and understand? The problem is that English does not have a context-free grammar. Without a context-free grammar, it infinite orders of magnitude more difficult to write a compiler for a given language.
If someone were able to write a compiler for a natural language like English, it would be the most amazing advance in the field of computer science in years, possibly ever. Natural language recognition is some heavy stuff. But just because natural languages are more difficult for a computer to process, don't let this make you think that using computer languages makes it easier to "describe" your programs.
As a Mac user who gets games months or years after they are released for Windows, yes, market share for your OS is something you can directly profit from. More market share means a bigger market for developers, so you will have more applications available for your OS.
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I'm looking at the standard blue background on my PowerBook right now, and the swirls are definitely different. I'm no expert, but the background on that laptop reminds me of something I would see in a Dell ad.
Not to get all "me too" about this, but it's so true! How many times do people bring up stupid analogies when we could just be talking about the facts.
As far as the article goes, it seems like the guy could get in trouble for stalking or any illegal actives he may do while on the open wireless network. HOWEVER, I can't agree with him being in trouble for just accessing the network. He sent wireless packets. The WAP chose to send those packets on down the line. He also just listened in to a signal that was being broadcasted. Does he seem like an asshole? Yeah, but I don't see anything illegal about it. If you don't want people mooching on your wireless, tell your AP to not talk to them - ie use encryption.
As an old saying goes, never attribute to malice what can more properly be explained by stupidity.
(i have a friend who's 2 year old figured out how to open the cd drive, put in the disc, and play his favorite game; some Mac educational thing. If he knew that at 2, imagine what he could do at 10...)
Must... resist... temptation to brag about Mac ease of use... must... hold back
Anyhoo, a lot of the stuff the RIAA puts out bites, but there are some geeks, some of whom post on Slashdot, who like some of the music on an RIAA affiliated label.
I agree with you on this one. There is some stuff on RIAA labels that is good. My guess is some people don't even know just how many damn labels there are in the RIAA. There's also stuff on non-RIAA labels that I like. But in the end, I agree with the "Don't buy it" attitude. If you are really pissed at the RIAA for all their idiotic actions, boycott them. No, a boycott is not always going to be fun - sometimes it hurts to stick to your morals. For example, I really started getting into Bad Religion about a year and a half ago. I loved every album I could get my hands on, but since a lot of their stuff is from Atlantic, I won't buy it.
Go ahead and rip on the Slashbots who spew the "Everything indie is good, everything RIAA is crap" line over and over again. However, don't demean the message that a true boycott sends. I vote with my dollars because that's what I believe in.
Technically, it's the Unintentional Comedy Rating (UCR) scale, and don't steal from Simmons without giving credit where credit is due.
Full list of commerce committee members
This lists the rest of the committee members, so if you want to write to someone in your own state as well, you may be in luck.
I drove up to Seattle from LA last spring break, and I don't remember anything like that exiting or entering California from the Oregon border on I-5. Also, I know in Tahoe you can cross state lines rather easily. Where was it that you remember these roadblocks?
As a fellow comp sci major at USC (CECS actually), I must ask... when was the last time you went to class or read your email?
So, lets get this straight ...
Its possible to do Doom 3 on a 7xxMHz PC with the equivalent of a Geforce 3 ?
Well, they do have Carmack and standardized hardware going for them, which are two huge assets in creating a badass engine.
Slash is even written in Perl.
I'm not going to point any fingers, but I'm pretty sure there is a reason why Larry Wall didn't make the list.
I'm sure this has been in multiple games, but I know that something similar was in Deus Ex when you went to China. (Although they did let you get that badass energy sword, so it made up for things.)
That's why you have *gasp* management! I know the word management generally only conjours up images of PHBs to most people here, but the only way you are ever going to get a group of 120 people to work towards a communal goal is to break them into units (and most likely sub-units) and have the managers handle the inter unit/sub-unit communication. That way the people on the bottom can go about working on their little section of the game while their manager makes sure their section fits in with the rest of the groups.
I fear the day anyone thinks this is a load of crap and sticks 120 engineers together on a project with no sort of leadership hierarchy.
While that does have its advantages, unfortunately very few people realize that SMTP is an unreliable protocol. Most people send an email and assume that it gets there instantaneously, so its usually too risky for a business to implement "greylisting" as you have.
$1k for Office
Sorry, but what are you smoking? Office 2004 for Mac runs for $500 at the Apple store, and this is for the Pro edition that contains VPC. I also heavily doubt the figure for the Adobe products.
Methinks you are exaggerating just a bit...
Actually, to be the MSDevil's advocate, although the OS X OS is superior in ease-of-use, Apple hardware still falls behind in many of the areas Anand depends upon -- most noticeably in the GPU department. Since the entire OS depends on the GPU, this becomes an issue on macs.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The only thing the OS really "depends" on the GPU for is Quartz Extreme. All new Macs come with a GPU capable of running Quartz Extreme, and it has been this way for a couple years now. Even with a GPU that just barely meets the QE minimum specs, the speedup in responsiveness is quite noticeable. I've yet to see any Windows machine that can match a OS X Mac running QE for general GUI responsiveness, all other things being equal.
I'm typing this on a 1.33 GHz 12" PowerBook ($1599 retail, I got it for $1399 on a student discount).
This Powerbook flies. The 1.33 GHz G4 is damn fast for a mobile chip, i.e. something that won't suck down batteries like an Irishman sucking down Guinness. Maybe more importantly, the FX Go5200 in here allows OS X to take advantage of Quartz Extreme. Let's face it, with a laptop people are generally going to be more concerned with responsiveness than absolute number crunching power. By offloading system graphics to the GPU via Quartz Extreme, OS X is incredibly responsive.
Through work, I've used some nice (for Dell at least) mid-range laptops. My Mac feels faster in comparison. although I've been a Mac user my whole life so part of it may just be that I'm more comfortable with the system. Either way, I could say for sure that the Mac will not be noticeably slower.
Also, speed aside, you would be hard pressed to find a Windows laptop that will compare with a Mac on the features to price ratio. I've yet to see a $1600 Windows laptop that comes with a comparable CPU, comparable battery life, dedicated GPU, built-in 802.11g, and built-in Bluetooth while still weighing in at 5 lbs.
I wouldn't exactly say they predicted these quakes. From what the article says, it seems like they just have a list of places where they say a >5 quake will occur between 2000 and 2010. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. Anything under a 6 is less annoying to a Californian than a fly buzzing around your house. For anything over a 6.5 or so, being this accurate about WHERE the quake will occur is next to useless if you can't be more accurate about WHEN it will occur.
This is not meant to diminish the accomplishments of these researchers. I'm sure this is a very important stepping stone to greater advances. However, this won't be useful to most people until they can predict with much greater accuracy the magnitude of the quake and the timeframe in which it will occur.
But the NRA and CRPA bumper stickers (and the "I'd rather be hunting" license plate frame) on the car in the driveway IS. B-)
I couldn't agree with this more. My friends and I are mild kleptos. Nothing too serious, we mainly have a penchant for nabbing street signs. (Honestly, who can pass up having a giant yellow "THREE WAY" sign?) One night we were bored driving around when I saw a big Smith and Wesson vinyl sign I wanted to steal. It took about two seconds before it hit me that I just thought about stealing something from a shop displaying a sign for SMITH AND FUCKING WESSON. Needless to say, we kept driving.
don't cast aspersions on the practice of putting on more and more duct tape over a hole.
Just a random guess, but do you work for Intel?
Are you shitting me? The very section you post in used to hold the title for "Worst Color Scheme" in the major website category. It only recently lost the title when they came out with something even uglier!
I've noticed the exact same thing with my 12" PowerBook. (The new 1.33 GHz model) I fractured my left wrist at the start of summer, so for the past few weeks I've been in a brace while it's finishing up healing. I was in a rush one day, so rather than make two trips to my car, I foolishly carried my PowerBook in my left hand while carrying the heavier parts of my load in my good right hand. I lost my grip with my left and narrowly missed grabbing the PowerBook with my right hand before it hit the ground. There was a pretty loud thud, and I thought it was a goner.
Much to my surprise and delight, it worked flawlessly when I opened it up. It was sleeping, and it was ready for use near instantaneously like you expect from an Apple laptop. It had landed on the corner by the power and Ethernet ports, and sure enough the case crumpled noticeably. However, I can still plug into both ports (not sure about the modem jack though), so I haven't bothered hammering out the dents yet since they are only cosmetic.
I must applaud Apple for excellent laptop design. After seeing what happened to my laptop, I suspected that they had designed the case to be a crumple zone. Your story confirms my theory. If I'm faced with the worst case scenario being paying $50-$100 for case repair to a dropped laptop, I'll take that any day of the week over having to get a new mobo at first drop.
The reason we have C, asm etc is because the concepts in programming are not easily expressed in English etc, but are far easier to express in a purpose-defined language. Likely the same applies to effective debugging
The problem isn't that the concepts in programming are hard to express in English. In fact, it's quite easy to express programming concepts in English. Why do you think pseudocode is so much easier to write and understand? The problem is that English does not have a context-free grammar. Without a context-free grammar, it infinite orders of magnitude more difficult to write a compiler for a given language.
If someone were able to write a compiler for a natural language like English, it would be the most amazing advance in the field of computer science in years, possibly ever. Natural language recognition is some heavy stuff. But just because natural languages are more difficult for a computer to process, don't let this make you think that using computer languages makes it easier to "describe" your programs.
As a Mac user who gets games months or years after they are released for Windows, yes, market share for your OS is something you can directly profit from. More market share means a bigger market for developers, so you will have more applications available for your OS.
Unfortunately, hating Orrin Hatch is still not cool outside of the geek community.