I haven't bought a new CD in years. There's a bunch of used book and CD stores and near me that sell the kind of stuff I like. Yeah, these sales don't go to support the artists, which is a bummer, but they also don't support tyrannical record companies, either -- yet.
I forsee the recording industry getting its way with used CD sales -- enacting a kind of "RIAA tax" on each used CD sold -- if the demand for DRM-free CD's out-strips the demand for new CD's. Governmentally mandated profits! I mean, why would anyone listen to the consumer anymore? Ignoring supply and demand worked for Communist Russia, it can work for RIAA.
*sigh* No, the DRM CD's will probably sell as well as, if not better than, the DRM-free jobbers. Most people won't notice, and won't care about, the difference in functionality if the CD's sound the same. Not because they're "lusers" or "sheep" but because there won't be any change in how they listen to music.
A member of the opposite sex, particularly an attractive one, is certainly incentive to learn a language.
However, ploping down in a place where you'd need to learn the lanugage just to get along in daily life would probably give a bit more of a boost in your desire to learn a language.
In learning a language there's no substitute for experience.
Um, yeah. I'm sure that the company would really approve of them getting paid for sitting there drooling on themselves. Which is what they'd be doing most of the time, otherwise. Nine of one, three quarters dozen of the other.
Note: I encourage the moderators to mod the parent comment up.
Hell, you could go find the fixins for gunpowder and make a gun out of parts from the hardware store. This is likely even less safe for the user than a "real" gun. And no less deadly to the target.
Fear of power is not a good reason to distroy the potential for power. And, love of power is not a good reason for the support of the potential for power.
I'd suspect that a heat spreader has a greater surface area than a few RAM chips. Greater surface area + decent heat conduction = better cooling. Albeit, most memory probably doesn't run hot enough for this to matter, but it is the rough equvalent of running your CPU without a heatsink. You wouldn't do that with a modern CPU, would you?
"News for Nerds", friend. Since there's too many of these sites to sift through, having Slashdot pull a couple from the herd is nice every once in a while, and gives those of us who think this stuff is neat, but can't spend much time on it, an idea of what's going on.
Someone else mentioned creating an "Overclocking" or "Hardware Modding" topic so people could block if they want to. Maybe the editors would be interested in creating a referenced sub-topic structure for the stories. E.g. [computers>hardware>overclocking] and [computers>hardware>cooling] would be topic types for this story. But then Slashdot starts to turn into Everything2...
By the way, saying "IMHO" doesn't make arrogant statements humble. It doesn't even make them sound humble. It makes one who uses it sound like a jerk who can't courteously present a thoughtful opinion. And it's redundant: anything that's not referenced as fact should be taken as opinion.
I expect there is a whole mod community competing to get the smallest possible overclock.
Um... I wouldn't count on it. A lot of these guys seem to be engineering types. You know, "see how far it can be pushed before it breaks" kind of people. Doing "just a little" goes completely against the game plan. And is of no value whatsoever. It's like changing to high-performance spark plug wires on your Honda. Bragging rights of a sort, I guess, but doesn't really do anything useful on its own, and tends to be more hassle than it's worth.
I don't care much for overclocking and the associated case modding, but it's great to see that there are people out there who love this kind of stuff. I'm more than happy just to marvel at the occasional inventivness and artistry.
I wouldn't count too heavily on him getting a PhD for this. It's a modified predator-prey model. It's not too dissimilar to what you might go over in an undergraduate class in dynamical systems. This is more along the lines of what a math geek might do for kicks.
I hate to say it but none of the questions required deep thought or long answers. Seems slashdotters treated the request for questions as a joke. Maybe we need to find a better way of selecting questions since right now people seem to mod the Q's up based on how funny/interesting/whatever they think the answers are going to be. We're not lawyers; we don't need to know the answers before the questions are asked. Imagine the kinds of answers you'd give if you were asked the questions in an Ask Slashdot that Shatner was asked in this interview.
Perhaps we should try to send up questions that would be hard to answer. We're asking things on the level of: "What's your favorite color?" when we should be asking things more like: "Why is your favorite color what it is?"
But then again, Slashdot is fairly democratic about how the questions are selected. At least we didn't ask Shatner: "Would you fight Edward Norton?"
I know this is lame but...
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In addendum to my previous comment, I should note that in contradiction to your unsupported statment "there are no shortcuts or 'valulable pointers'", that there are all kinds of shortcuts and pointers available. They're called teaching methods. In fact, you probably didn't learn everything you know on your own, and are the benificiary of the accumulation of many years of tricks and shortcuts.
What you probably meant was that there's no magic potion that can make you a critical thinker, you're going to have to do the work yourself.
Damn, I'm whiny today. All it would have taken is for them to give me one mod point to mod your comment -1 Flamebait and I would have been happy. But, no, I haven't gotten mod points in more than four months...
No. If you want to improve your critical reasoning skills, start by picking up then picking apart poorly thought out political statements, business proposals, op-ed essays, etc. Makes me sad Katz no longer posts his essays here...;-)
To deal with mathematics and most of the "hard" sciences it takes substantial skill in abstract thought, not merely critical thinking. Reading history and philosophy would be better for people who are smart, but don't have the knack for abstract thought.
Note that if all you can do is whine about poor spelling and are oblivious to the substance behind less-than-perfectly-gramatical statements, you're not "thinking critically" you're just being critical.
I have to admit that I'm confused about your reply. Do you belong to the group of people who thing that seriousness is the only way to deal with serious issues?
What are your options when confronted with "the glint of a sharp blade in a deserted alley"? Run, fight, try to defuse the situation if you can't run or fight. Break the tension and people tend to think a little more clearly.
Anyway, I'd have figured the racist slur in the first line would have been the most offensive thing in my post.
Not that it's relevant to this post but I like your music, by the way.
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$5867?
Did you get the "Pentagon Toilet Seat" "Discount"?
How 'bout dab of Arctic Silver Epoxy? I'd hazard a guess to say that it's electrically conductive.
I haven't bought a new CD in years. There's a bunch of used book and CD stores and near me that sell the kind of stuff I like. Yeah, these sales don't go to support the artists, which is a bummer, but they also don't support tyrannical record companies, either -- yet.
I forsee the recording industry getting its way with used CD sales -- enacting a kind of "RIAA tax" on each used CD sold -- if the demand for DRM-free CD's out-strips the demand for new CD's. Governmentally mandated profits! I mean, why would anyone listen to the consumer anymore? Ignoring supply and demand worked for Communist Russia, it can work for RIAA.
*sigh* No, the DRM CD's will probably sell as well as, if not better than, the DRM-free jobbers. Most people won't notice, and won't care about, the difference in functionality if the CD's sound the same. Not because they're "lusers" or "sheep" but because there won't be any change in how they listen to music.
When generalizing, we usually speak of the majority. No, it doesn't cover all the cases. That's why it's called generalization.
In any case, you're better off talking to as many people as you can who speak the language you're trying to learn rather than just one person.
A member of the opposite sex, particularly an attractive one, is certainly incentive to learn a language.
However, ploping down in a place where you'd need to learn the lanugage just to get along in daily life would probably give a bit more of a boost in your desire to learn a language.
In learning a language there's no substitute for experience.
"If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Um, yeah. I'm sure that the company would really approve of them getting paid for sitting there drooling on themselves. Which is what they'd be doing most of the time, otherwise. Nine of one, three quarters dozen of the other.
Idiots aren't average. That's why they're idiots.
Remember: it's only irony if you get laid off this year.
You work for a pawn shop. In Arkansas. Am I right? Are my prejudices showing?
Where do you find a color between white and grey?
I figure some extra $$$ is the LEAST they can do to say thanks
How 'bout not firing your ass? Keeping you in the steady paychecks is precisely what they're doing to say "thanks".
Note: I encourage the moderators to mod the parent comment up.
Hell, you could go find the fixins for gunpowder and make a gun out of parts from the hardware store. This is likely even less safe for the user than a "real" gun. And no less deadly to the target.
Fear of power is not a good reason to distroy the potential for power. And, love of power is not a good reason for the support of the potential for power.
I'd suspect that a heat spreader has a greater surface area than a few RAM chips. Greater surface area + decent heat conduction = better cooling. Albeit, most memory probably doesn't run hot enough for this to matter, but it is the rough equvalent of running your CPU without a heatsink. You wouldn't do that with a modern CPU, would you?
"News for Nerds", friend. Since there's too many of these sites to sift through, having Slashdot pull a couple from the herd is nice every once in a while, and gives those of us who think this stuff is neat, but can't spend much time on it, an idea of what's going on.
Someone else mentioned creating an "Overclocking" or "Hardware Modding" topic so people could block if they want to. Maybe the editors would be interested in creating a referenced sub-topic structure for the stories. E.g. [computers>hardware>overclocking] and [computers>hardware>cooling] would be topic types for this story. But then Slashdot starts to turn into Everything2...
By the way, saying "IMHO" doesn't make arrogant statements humble. It doesn't even make them sound humble. It makes one who uses it sound like a jerk who can't courteously present a thoughtful opinion. And it's redundant: anything that's not referenced as fact should be taken as opinion.
I expect there is a whole mod community competing to get the smallest possible overclock.
Um... I wouldn't count on it. A lot of these guys seem to be engineering types. You know, "see how far it can be pushed before it breaks" kind of people. Doing "just a little" goes completely against the game plan. And is of no value whatsoever. It's like changing to high-performance spark plug wires on your Honda. Bragging rights of a sort, I guess, but doesn't really do anything useful on its own, and tends to be more hassle than it's worth.
I don't care much for overclocking and the associated case modding, but it's great to see that there are people out there who love this kind of stuff. I'm more than happy just to marvel at the occasional inventivness and artistry.
I wouldn't count too heavily on him getting a PhD for this. It's a modified predator-prey model. It's not too dissimilar to what you might go over in an undergraduate class in dynamical systems. This is more along the lines of what a math geek might do for kicks.
I hate to say it but none of the questions required deep thought or long answers. Seems slashdotters treated the request for questions as a joke. Maybe we need to find a better way of selecting questions since right now people seem to mod the Q's up based on how funny/interesting/whatever they think the answers are going to be. We're not lawyers; we don't need to know the answers before the questions are asked. Imagine the kinds of answers you'd give if you were asked the questions in an Ask Slashdot that Shatner was asked in this interview.
Perhaps we should try to send up questions that would be hard to answer. We're asking things on the level of: "What's your favorite color?" when we should be asking things more like: "Why is your favorite color what it is?"
But then again, Slashdot is fairly democratic about how the questions are selected. At least we didn't ask Shatner: "Would you fight Edward Norton?"
here was my submission:
2002-05-06 01:42:36 285mpg Volkswagen (articles,tech) (rejected)
Just one time I'd like someone to listen to me. Is that really too much to ask?
Hello?
Hello?
Anyone?
Somebody hooked up a plotter to a PalmPilot and used a tatooing needle for a pen. Just what the world needs.
In addendum to my previous comment, I should note that in contradiction to your unsupported statment "there are no shortcuts or 'valulable pointers'", that there are all kinds of shortcuts and pointers available. They're called teaching methods. In fact, you probably didn't learn everything you know on your own, and are the benificiary of the accumulation of many years of tricks and shortcuts.
What you probably meant was that there's no magic potion that can make you a critical thinker, you're going to have to do the work yourself.
Damn, I'm whiny today. All it would have taken is for them to give me one mod point to mod your comment -1 Flamebait and I would have been happy. But, no, I haven't gotten mod points in more than four months...
No. If you want to improve your critical reasoning skills, start by picking up then picking apart poorly thought out political statements, business proposals, op-ed essays, etc. Makes me sad Katz no longer posts his essays here... ;-)
To deal with mathematics and most of the "hard" sciences it takes substantial skill in abstract thought, not merely critical thinking. Reading history and philosophy would be better for people who are smart, but don't have the knack for abstract thought.
Note that if all you can do is whine about poor spelling and are oblivious to the substance behind less-than-perfectly-gramatical statements, you're not "thinking critically" you're just being critical.
have the right to bear arms...
I have to admit that I'm confused about your reply. Do you belong to the group of people who thing that seriousness is the only way to deal with serious issues?
What are your options when confronted with "the glint of a sharp blade in a deserted alley"? Run, fight, try to defuse the situation if you can't run or fight. Break the tension and people tend to think a little more clearly.
Anyway, I'd have figured the racist slur in the first line would have been the most offensive thing in my post.
Not that it's relevant to this post but I like your music, by the way.
Tom's Hardware Guide has their list up, too. Nothing spectacular, but looks like some neat ideas if you're stuck.