Aw, now you've done it. Your highly intelligent and witty comeback really hurt my feelings.
You want to talk about a lack of creativity, let's look at your last missive.
"I know a lot about about Colorado - I lived there for many years. I think we need a new moderation category, -1 Ignorant, for posters like you."
Wow. That's just amazing. I'm speechless. "-1, Ignorant, for posters like you." I just hope you didn't spend any time coming up with that drivel. You need someone to write jokes for you like Letterman has.
Is it a problem to have such a limited vocabulary and imagination, or are you even aware of it?
Is that your expert opinion Dr. Wechsler? For what it's worth, you always know you've won a batle of wits when someone insults your intelligence. Thanks for conceding defeat.
I know a lot about about Colorado - I lived there for many years. I think we need a new moderation category, -1 Ignorant, for posters like you.
Obviously you never met any of its residents while you were there. Probably too busy fucking moose. We need a new moderation for you too. -1, Stupid cumsucking piece of shit. Hell, while we're at it, let's make it a -2 right off.
Yes, stun guns are illegal because there is no distinction in their use; they can be used just as effectively as an offensive weapon as they can as a defensive weapon. Ditto with handguns.
Yeah, but there are two potential problems with the safety of any given device: the potential to intentionally cause intentional harm in the hands of a sufficiently skilled user (which you address) and the potential to accidentally cause harm in the hands of an unskilled user (which you don't). So, in the case of the jacket, I'm not greatly worried about the "charge 'er up and run at me" potential (as you say, a gun, knife, or most anything would be easier).
What I'm worried about is the potential for some paranoid or twitchy chick to get worried that someone's following her...in a crowd. Or she reflexively charges it when some asshole starts shit with her...on a bus. Or whatever. Admittedly, it would be tons worse if the thing were always charged, but I'm still not very comforted.
Basically, I'd imagine that the potential for collateral damage is high. Not to mention the chance of accidental self-shocking.
It's not my home state, you moron, although I've lived there. And at least I'm not stupid enough to cite a slashdot poster with an axe to grind as an authority. Twit.
I really don't give a fuck where you live, so I think you have disinterest confused with stupidity. And what kind of paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing dildo thinks the rest of slashdot is out grinding axes on them? Face it, you know nothing about a state in which you lived. That's pathetic. Twat.
Which proves you never lived there. The whole place is full of tree-hugging greens, relocated hippies, singers, and movie stars that vehemently oppose guns for anyone and oppose the death penalty for everyone except NRA
It's a joke, you turd. J-O-K-E. Kind of like how, though I'm from Kentucky, I don't actually fuck my sister. See, it doesn't have to be true to be funny! Now your sister, on the other hand...let's just say I'm glad she doesn't look anything like you or I'd have to employ a well-placed paper bag.
And you seem to know less about your home state than I do! As quoted from someone else who responded to your stupidity,
About the only liberal tree hugging area of the state is Boulder, the rest of CO is staunchly conservative which would be obvoius to anywone willing to look at the voting records in CO for the last 10 years. So I am going to have to assume that either you haven't been to the state in years or that you are just trolling.
Yeah, that's what makes slashdot the great place it is today. A bunch of morons spouting off before engaging their brains. Assuming brains were standard equipment on their model to begin with.
...this is like a gun that immediately shoots the nearest person upon loading it. There is no way this should be legal. I'm all for protecting people, but this seems a bit excessive. I would only feel comfortable with the existence of this thing if all wearers were fully trained and competent with the use of the device, and good luck with that.
Though parent might not have R'dTFA, his analogy is still sound - there's a reason stun guns aren't legal. Now if we can only get real guns out of the hands of morons...
Wrong - as they point out in the article, these "optimizations" are usually reductions in quality. They don't just improve performance.
According to the article, that's only half the story. I could almost accept it if they were "optimizing" in the sense that, in certain situations, they slightly reduced image quality for a significant gain. That's kind of sketchy, as the card isn't then doing what it's claiming, but you could argue, perhaps, that the tradeoff is worth it. And if this activity were optional, it might be a benefit.
What they're doing here is different, and much worse. They're actually detecting what program is running - whether it is 3D Mark or not. Effectively, what it does is disobey 3DMark, and only 3DMark, when it issues certain commands that would reduce throughput. That has no purpose but to deceive.
So, not only are these not optimizations in that they don't really improve performance, they're not optimizations in that they don't even take effect when you run a program not called 3DMark.
Quite frankly, I think this could be considered false advertising and nVidia should get in deep shit for this. This is the worst kind of cheating, and quite frankly, this could be what puts nVidia down the Voodoo path. I don't know whether I'll ever buy another of their cards.
It almost seems that the new standard will more accurately reflect the real throughput for these devices, especially in mixed 802.11b/g environments. It's better to lower the expectations now before people purchase and are disappointed. I've read plenty of comments at amazon.com from purchasers of 802.11g access points where they were surprised that "backwards compatable" meant that mixing the b/g would make everything run slower.
Dunno about that, but at the end of the article from Computerworld, it mentioned that new 802.11g chipsets will be shipping in July. To me, that seems like more than a "truth-in-advertising" change to the standard. It would be nice to actually know what the differences between this and the old 802.11g are over a range of operating conditions (homogeneous/heterogeneous networks, etc).
This Mb/s math doesn't make sense
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I don't understand the math going on - this "broadcast message" that says "hey, I'm here!" causes the 802.11b signals to drop from 11Mb/s down to about 6Mb/s, but it causes 802.11g to drop from 54Mb/s to 15-20Mb/s. Now, first order logic tells me that if the two standards broadcast the same message at the same rate, we should see the same deterioration - let's say 5 Mb/s - degrading the 802.11g to about 50mB/s.
Why does this message kill its bandwidth by up to 80%??? Does it require that much error correction when it operates in a hybrid environment? Because that's some serious error correction if so.
Hmmm... I think Africa needs more subsistence farming not less. If the WTO didn't come in and modernize economies, replacing food with cash crops so that those countries can be part of the "world economy" they'd be a lot better off.
Unfortunately, subsistence agriculture is nearly an oxymoron. Africa was starving a long time before there was a WTO. The problem is that farming is an economy of scale - it's profitable if you have 10,000 acreas, not if you have 10. Subsistence agriculture leaves farmers without a buffer, so one bad harvest equals famine and starvation. That's not good.
The article doesn't say, who ordered the shredding?
Yes it did. Shredding was requested of the judge in the Caldera/M$ case by SCO in October. Judge agreed. SCO contracted the schredding by some shredding company. Sun got an injunction to stop the shredding, got 40 boxes of documents, scanned them, returned them, and the rest is now being shredded.
You got anything else you need read, you just let me know.
This was done before KDE 3.1.x so who knows Linux might work after all.
Kind of. I recently switched to KDE 3.whatever from 2.whatever (finally!) and it seems more stable in most respects. I occasionally have disconnects still between KDE and the X server, and sometimes the K panel or kicker or whatever they call it loses the ability to function.
Still, worst-case scenario is I have to 3-finger salute to log out of KDE and get to a command line, restart X, yadda yadda. Actually, I think one time KDE lost the keyboard too, and I had to walk over to the damned windows machine, telnet in, and kill X. But that was with KDE 2.
Ultimately, the beauty is that with linux, the operating environment has a layer between it and the OS, so the environment can't kill the OS. THat's how it was with windows 3.1, and it was great! No longer though, I suppose that was too stable. So no matter how many bugs that KDE dev team throws in, it can't hurt me!;)
The humanitarian organizations[1] have started to fly people in who prepare hot meals and serve them directly to needy people. This should make it a lot harder for a warlord to intercept the food, no?
Damned good idea, but it's extremely labor-intensive and can likely only solve a small part of the problem. I mean, how many westerners would it take? A million?
Not to mention which the whole "feed africa first" thing, while well-intentioned, doesn't solve the root problem that these people don't have the governmental structure or technical ability to feed themselves. Subsistence agriculture is soooo...200 years ago.
But if it is placed in a GPL product, then GPL implementations cannot be charged. Ever.
I'm guessing most patent holders aren't that braindead. Unless some patent holder did it just to ensure that no one that later took over their company turned into a bunch of dicks, like Caldera. Kind of "suicide by GPL."
Yeah, but if they don't learn to read, they're going to be stuck with the same subsistence agriculture that hasn't worked too fucking well form them recently. That or UN or NGO handouts that only serve to strengthen the oppressive regimes that are torturing these people, because little of the aid that reaches the docks reaches the people thanks to rampant corruption.
Here's the current process:
1. Africa has crappy food production
2. West sends food
3. Food is intercepted by dictator's thugs.
4. Dictator sells food or uses it to extort loyalty
5. Dictator becomes rich and powerful
6. People become dependent upon the west and their dictator for food.
7. People get worse at farming, continue to starve, and dictator becomes yet stronger.
8. Goto 1.
Seems to me that education and empowerment might be part of the way to break that shitty cycle. Keeping people poor and incapable of supporting themselves isn't.
Re:As an attorney...
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I'm done some pretty extensive legal research on this case, and SCO has a damn strong case.
I'll assume two things here: 1) You're not a troll, and 2) you've read the OSI paper that was the article. Both are probably wrong, but hey.
So if you have some serious research, I'm sure we'd love to see it. Particularly if some of it invalidates claims in the OSI paper, which are pretty strong.
Hell, gaming isn't near as distracting as wanking, and my coworkers don't get nearly as grossed out. That and none of those pesky sexual harassment suits. Or messy stains under the desk.
Personally, I don't understand why they leave it at DOS. DOS can run a C64 emulator which emulates the Vic20 which emulates CP/M (I've done it). Considering the speed of CP/M systems back in 1980, this setup should yield at least twice the performance of those old 1MHz clunkers.
You keep going until you're running the fucking ENIAC. And don't forget the custom punched-tape reader either there, Nancy
In the article linked to this story, it said that Mac-On-Linux ran like crap. Could have been their hardware (they were running MacOSX in debian on a G3 600), but I don't know. Personally, doesn't sound like a great option yet.
That could throw a wrench in things...
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The success of the AMS might drive the majors to be more willing. But it just as easily might make them angry, bitter and greedy.
That's a good point - one could argue both sides. It could make Roxio's job easier - the labels could be eager to get a "music store" in the hands of more than 5% of the population. Or, like you say, they could decide they want a bigger piece of the pie already. Indeed, I wonder if Apple's impending PC "store" doesn't give the labels huge leverage. Ie, either give us better terms or Apple will put you guys out of business.
Should be interesting to watch this one. Because if Apple wins, it would give them one big "switch" ad. Imagine all the banner ads seen by windoze users.
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You want to talk about a lack of creativity, let's look at your last missive. "I know a lot about about Colorado - I lived there for many years. I think we need a new moderation category, -1 Ignorant, for posters like you."
Wow. That's just amazing. I'm speechless. "-1, Ignorant, for posters like you." I just hope you didn't spend any time coming up with that drivel. You need someone to write jokes for you like Letterman has.
Is it a problem to have such a limited vocabulary and imagination, or are you even aware of it?
Is that your expert opinion Dr. Wechsler? For what it's worth, you always know you've won a batle of wits when someone insults your intelligence. Thanks for conceding defeat.
Obviously you never met any of its residents while you were there. Probably too busy fucking moose. We need a new moderation for you too. -1, Stupid cumsucking piece of shit. Hell, while we're at it, let's make it a -2 right off.
Yeah, but there are two potential problems with the safety of any given device: the potential to intentionally cause intentional harm in the hands of a sufficiently skilled user (which you address) and the potential to accidentally cause harm in the hands of an unskilled user (which you don't). So, in the case of the jacket, I'm not greatly worried about the "charge 'er up and run at me" potential (as you say, a gun, knife, or most anything would be easier).
What I'm worried about is the potential for some paranoid or twitchy chick to get worried that someone's following her...in a crowd. Or she reflexively charges it when some asshole starts shit with her...on a bus. Or whatever. Admittedly, it would be tons worse if the thing were always charged, but I'm still not very comforted.
Basically, I'd imagine that the potential for collateral damage is high. Not to mention the chance of accidental self-shocking.
I really don't give a fuck where you live, so I think you have disinterest confused with stupidity. And what kind of paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing dildo thinks the rest of slashdot is out grinding axes on them? Face it, you know nothing about a state in which you lived. That's pathetic. Twat.
There's always some annoying Karma-whore who'll post fulltext. With no CR's.
It's a joke, you turd. J-O-K-E. Kind of like how, though I'm from Kentucky, I don't actually fuck my sister. See, it doesn't have to be true to be funny! Now your sister, on the other hand...let's just say I'm glad she doesn't look anything like you or I'd have to employ a well-placed paper bag.
And you seem to know less about your home state than I do! As quoted from someone else who responded to your stupidity,
About the only liberal tree hugging area of the state is Boulder, the rest of CO is staunchly conservative which would be obvoius to anywone willing to look at the voting records in CO for the last 10 years. So I am going to have to assume that either you haven't been to the state in years or that you are just trolling.
Dumbass.
Yeah, that's what makes slashdot the great place it is today. A bunch of morons spouting off before engaging their brains. Assuming brains were standard equipment on their model to begin with.
Fuck that, they won't let you in without them.
Though parent might not have R'dTFA, his analogy is still sound - there's a reason stun guns aren't legal. Now if we can only get real guns out of the hands of morons...
According to the article, that's only half the story. I could almost accept it if they were "optimizing" in the sense that, in certain situations, they slightly reduced image quality for a significant gain. That's kind of sketchy, as the card isn't then doing what it's claiming, but you could argue, perhaps, that the tradeoff is worth it. And if this activity were optional, it might be a benefit.
What they're doing here is different, and much worse. They're actually detecting what program is running - whether it is 3D Mark or not. Effectively, what it does is disobey 3DMark, and only 3DMark, when it issues certain commands that would reduce throughput. That has no purpose but to deceive.
So, not only are these not optimizations in that they don't really improve performance, they're not optimizations in that they don't even take effect when you run a program not called 3DMark.
Quite frankly, I think this could be considered false advertising and nVidia should get in deep shit for this. This is the worst kind of cheating, and quite frankly, this could be what puts nVidia down the Voodoo path. I don't know whether I'll ever buy another of their cards.
Dunno about that, but at the end of the article from Computerworld, it mentioned that new 802.11g chipsets will be shipping in July. To me, that seems like more than a "truth-in-advertising" change to the standard. It would be nice to actually know what the differences between this and the old 802.11g are over a range of operating conditions (homogeneous/heterogeneous networks, etc).
I don't understand the math going on - this "broadcast message" that says "hey, I'm here!" causes the 802.11b signals to drop from 11Mb/s down to about 6Mb/s, but it causes 802.11g to drop from 54Mb/s to 15-20Mb/s. Now, first order logic tells me that if the two standards broadcast the same message at the same rate, we should see the same deterioration - let's say 5 Mb/s - degrading the 802.11g to about 50mB/s.
Why does this message kill its bandwidth by up to 80%??? Does it require that much error correction when it operates in a hybrid environment? Because that's some serious error correction if so.
Unfortunately, subsistence agriculture is nearly an oxymoron. Africa was starving a long time before there was a WTO. The problem is that farming is an economy of scale - it's profitable if you have 10,000 acreas, not if you have 10. Subsistence agriculture leaves farmers without a buffer, so one bad harvest equals famine and starvation. That's not good.
Yes it did. Shredding was requested of the judge in the Caldera/M$ case by SCO in October. Judge agreed. SCO contracted the schredding by some shredding company. Sun got an injunction to stop the shredding, got 40 boxes of documents, scanned them, returned them, and the rest is now being shredded.
You got anything else you need read, you just let me know.
But come on! We all know that bandwidth scales with clock speed! And clock speed is a true and unfailing measure of a computer's performance.
You haven't been listening to your marketing department, have you? ;)
Kind of. I recently switched to KDE 3.whatever from 2.whatever (finally!) and it seems more stable in most respects. I occasionally have disconnects still between KDE and the X server, and sometimes the K panel or kicker or whatever they call it loses the ability to function.
Still, worst-case scenario is I have to 3-finger salute to log out of KDE and get to a command line, restart X, yadda yadda. Actually, I think one time KDE lost the keyboard too, and I had to walk over to the damned windows machine, telnet in, and kill X. But that was with KDE 2.
Ultimately, the beauty is that with linux, the operating environment has a layer between it and the OS, so the environment can't kill the OS. THat's how it was with windows 3.1, and it was great! No longer though, I suppose that was too stable. So no matter how many bugs that KDE dev team throws in, it can't hurt me! ;)
Damned good idea, but it's extremely labor-intensive and can likely only solve a small part of the problem. I mean, how many westerners would it take? A million?
Not to mention which the whole "feed africa first" thing, while well-intentioned, doesn't solve the root problem that these people don't have the governmental structure or technical ability to feed themselves. Subsistence agriculture is soooo...200 years ago.
I'm guessing most patent holders aren't that braindead. Unless some patent holder did it just to ensure that no one that later took over their company turned into a bunch of dicks, like Caldera. Kind of "suicide by GPL."
Yeah, but if they don't learn to read, they're going to be stuck with the same subsistence agriculture that hasn't worked too fucking well form them recently. That or UN or NGO handouts that only serve to strengthen the oppressive regimes that are torturing these people, because little of the aid that reaches the docks reaches the people thanks to rampant corruption.
Here's the current process:
1. Africa has crappy food production
2. West sends food
3. Food is intercepted by dictator's thugs.
4. Dictator sells food or uses it to extort loyalty
5. Dictator becomes rich and powerful
6. People become dependent upon the west and their dictator for food.
7. People get worse at farming, continue to starve, and dictator becomes yet stronger.
8. Goto 1.
Seems to me that education and empowerment might be part of the way to break that shitty cycle. Keeping people poor and incapable of supporting themselves isn't.
I'll assume two things here: 1) You're not a troll, and 2) you've read the OSI paper that was the article. Both are probably wrong, but hey.
So if you have some serious research, I'm sure we'd love to see it. Particularly if some of it invalidates claims in the OSI paper, which are pretty strong.
Weightlifting always provides me with a good break from work. You should try it sometime.
Hell, gaming isn't near as distracting as wanking, and my coworkers don't get nearly as grossed out. That and none of those pesky sexual harassment suits. Or messy stains under the desk.
You keep going until you're running the fucking ENIAC. And don't forget the custom punched-tape reader either there, Nancy
In the article linked to this story, it said that Mac-On-Linux ran like crap. Could have been their hardware (they were running MacOSX in debian on a G3 600), but I don't know. Personally, doesn't sound like a great option yet.
That's a good point - one could argue both sides. It could make Roxio's job easier - the labels could be eager to get a "music store" in the hands of more than 5% of the population. Or, like you say, they could decide they want a bigger piece of the pie already. Indeed, I wonder if Apple's impending PC "store" doesn't give the labels huge leverage. Ie, either give us better terms or Apple will put you guys out of business.
Should be interesting to watch this one. Because if Apple wins, it would give them one big "switch" ad. Imagine all the banner ads seen by windoze users.