You're probably breaking the law every time you watch fight club due to the Patriot Act. Isn't there something about watching subversive movies and exporting all those of jewish nationality to special camps?
Allegedly, the European Scientists were using a new large telescope (technological means) to circumvent NASA encryption (Apparently they own that thing that if something's really freakin far away, you can't see it). Too bad the public will never know what really happened on that big orb in the night sky, so very, very far away.
Had astronauts ever landed on the moon, the cheese surely would have melted when they tried to blast off. Cripes, I can't even cook cheddar in my oven, a mere 400 degrees F, without it melting and getting all smelly. How could it have stood up to rocket blasts? Riddle me that!
Time for the obligitory "Reference some obscure MS page, discuss a random chart" link already? The most bittersweet indication that it's Sunday and my weekend is rapidly drawing toa close. Ah well, at least my pain will be qualmed by 1000 geeks poking fun.
DRM is only effective at keeping good, computer-confused citizens from using their computers to their full potentials.
Good IP thiefs will remain good IP thiefs indefinately.
Want to copy a DRM'd song? Wire the speaker-out to the line-in on another computer and record it as a Wav, then MP3 it. Want to copy a DRM'd video? Use a camcorder. Or better yet. Use one of those video cards that sends it to a VCR, DVD-R, or HI-8, and record the video output from the screen. Seriously, DRM will not work against pirates, and only serves to prevent legitimate users from using to their full potential.
And I spend months of my life prostituting myself working on this bunk..........
Ok, this is a rather odd question. If I were you, I wouldn't let my kids use GUIs.
Heres why:
When I was growing up, we had a whole bunch of computers with no games and no GUIs. (I'm 21 for comparison). I liked computers, but if I wanted to play a game, I had to make it. Consequently, I've been programming in various forms ( Basic -> Pascal -> C -> C++ -> ASM) since I was 6. Now I'm in college for electrical engineering, and I can outprogram all of my Computer Science and Computer Engineering friends. Basically, that type of logic is much easier to teach to kids while they're younger. I'd say if you want your kids to become more computer savvy, take away the training wheels, the games, et cetera, and start showing them the most basic programming you can find. Start with basic. Obviously it's a retarded language.....but it just might give your youngins a taste for logic.......
Anyways, I'd say go with the Linux with the youngsters. Just give them a cheap computer without X installed, some quick lessons on programming, and see what they can come up with. You'll be surprised.
Amdahl's law is used to predict speed increases for multi-processor systems. In this case, you can see a gain of more than 10 if you have enough processors in use, and the majority of the work is in parallel.
I think it assumes the original was written with some sort of intelligence behind it. I bet I could write some really atrocious code that would be so incredibly inefficient that almost anyone else could get a huge performance gain from it.
It doesn't really assume anything. The equation pertains to gains simply by increasing the number of parallel processors, not the strength of the code.
Anyways, this is probably redundant, but the big gains from the new kernel is that the amount of parallel processes are increased and the serial processes decreased. In a single processor system, performance decreases as there is more overhead in swapping processes in and out. In multi-processor systems, the gains would be enormous.
Yeah, but it's funny because french people surrender so they can go home to their hot wives, whereas other rascist jokes are just mean. If I had a hot wife and it was between fighting some silly war or going home to her, I'd surrender too.
It involves sandwiching a three-atom-thick layer of the precious metal ruthenium between two magnetic layers. That seemingly simple step allowed researchers to increase the areal storage density.
I'm pretty sure that making a 3 atom sandwich doesn't seem simple to me.
I was actually at a presentation today where a RF Engineer from Nextel, I think, was talking about the same thing happening.
Apparently, when there is a layer of hot air above a layer of cold air (it's normally the opposite), the Snell's law can be satisfied for total internal reflection conditions. In other words, Nextel found that on certain days in the middle of the summer, they dropped like 60% of their calls on certain cells, as opposed to say 2% as is typical. Turned out that nearly all of the dropped calls were originating on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan, bouncing off these "inversion layer" ducts, and the phones were camped to Wisconsin base stations over 70 miles away.
Anyways, Nextel angled their antenna's down and decreased the power output somewhat, effectively minimizing the footprint, and the problem has been reduced (but not completely eliminated). Also interesting was that this thing seems to be much more likely to happen over a large body of water. They seemed to think in summer, the water cooled the air and then warm air blew across the cool layer. Apparently cool air has a higher refractive coefficient than warm air.....
Yes, and RISC processors will outperform comparable speeds of Intel and AMD chips.....But anyways, Intel's are pipelined as well, goofball. AMD just seems to do it slightly better.
However why Intel outperms AMD is because they are able to jack the clock speed up better than AMD seems to be able to. I'd bet they're purposefully decreasing the effectiveness of their pipeline to boost the clock speed.
Anyways, the point of the article is that Intel is making Lower Power chips. So their main counterpart would be Transmeta, or say Motorola for PPCs, or SUN, et cetera, anyone of those are players in this particular arena.
Somehow I think these would be difficult to sell in Russia...
Yeah, but on the plus side they already have vodka on tap at their homes....There wouldn't need to be any changes to the nations delivery infrastructure.
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You're probably breaking the law every time you watch fight club due to the Patriot Act. Isn't there something about watching subversive movies and exporting all those of jewish nationality to special camps?
Whoops. Should have previewed.
Here it is
Kids,
1.) Read this.
2.) Change the name from me to you, my senator to yours.
3.) Mail it in
4.) ??? 5.) Profit.
False. Cheese crusts over due to a reaction with molecules in the air. No atmosphere = no crust. In fact, the moon is perfectly preserved cheese.
....over DMCA violation.
Allegedly, the European Scientists were using a new large telescope (technological means) to circumvent NASA encryption (Apparently they own that thing that if something's really freakin far away, you can't see it). Too bad the public will never know what really happened on that big orb in the night sky, so very, very far away.
Had astronauts ever landed on the moon, the cheese surely would have melted when they tried to blast off. Cripes, I can't even cook cheddar in my oven, a mere 400 degrees F, without it melting and getting all smelly. How could it have stood up to rocket blasts? Riddle me that!
Time for the obligitory "Reference some obscure MS page, discuss a random chart" link already? The most bittersweet indication that it's Sunday and my weekend is rapidly drawing toa close. Ah well, at least my pain will be qualmed by 1000 geeks poking fun.
To be needink a picture of that chip to retain position of uber-geek.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Especially that last part.
DRM is only effective at keeping good, computer-confused citizens from using their computers to their full potentials.
Good IP thiefs will remain good IP thiefs indefinately.
Want to copy a DRM'd song? Wire the speaker-out to the line-in on another computer and record it as a Wav, then MP3 it. Want to copy a DRM'd video? Use a camcorder. Or better yet. Use one of those video cards that sends it to a VCR, DVD-R, or HI-8, and record the video output from the screen. Seriously, DRM will not work against pirates, and only serves to prevent legitimate users from using to their full potential.
And I spend months of my life prostituting myself working on this bunk..........
Ok, this is a rather odd question. If I were you, I wouldn't let my kids use GUIs.
Heres why:
When I was growing up, we had a whole bunch of computers with no games and no GUIs. (I'm 21 for comparison). I liked computers, but if I wanted to play a game, I had to make it. Consequently, I've been programming in various forms ( Basic -> Pascal -> C -> C++ -> ASM) since I was 6. Now I'm in college for electrical engineering, and I can outprogram all of my Computer Science and Computer Engineering friends. Basically, that type of logic is much easier to teach to kids while they're younger. I'd say if you want your kids to become more computer savvy, take away the training wheels, the games, et cetera, and start showing them the most basic programming you can find. Start with basic. Obviously it's a retarded language.....but it just might give your youngins a taste for logic.......
Anyways, I'd say go with the Linux with the youngsters. Just give them a cheap computer without X installed, some quick lessons on programming, and see what they can come up with. You'll be surprised.
Amdahl's law is used to predict speed increases for multi-processor systems. In this case, you can see a gain of more than 10 if you have enough processors in use, and the majority of the work is in parallel.
I think it assumes the original was written with some sort of intelligence behind it. I bet I could write some really atrocious code that would be so incredibly inefficient that almost anyone else could get a huge performance gain from it.
It doesn't really assume anything. The equation pertains to gains simply by increasing the number of parallel processors, not the strength of the code.
Anyways, this is probably redundant, but the big gains from the new kernel is that the amount of parallel processes are increased and the serial processes decreased. In a single processor system, performance decreases as there is more overhead in swapping processes in and out. In multi-processor systems, the gains would be enormous.
Yeah, but it's funny because french people surrender so they can go home to their hot wives, whereas other rascist jokes are just mean. If I had a hot wife and it was between fighting some silly war or going home to her, I'd surrender too.
I'm pretty sure you meant
1. Get Website
2. Get Popups
3. Post Linux Story
4. ???
5. Profit!$
It involves sandwiching a three-atom-thick layer of the precious metal ruthenium between two magnetic layers. That seemingly simple step allowed researchers to increase the areal storage density.
I'm pretty sure that making a 3 atom sandwich doesn't seem simple to me.
I was actually at a presentation today where a RF Engineer from Nextel, I think, was talking about the same thing happening.
Apparently, when there is a layer of hot air above a layer of cold air (it's normally the opposite), the Snell's law can be satisfied for total internal reflection conditions. In other words, Nextel found that on certain days in the middle of the summer, they dropped like 60% of their calls on certain cells, as opposed to say 2% as is typical. Turned out that nearly all of the dropped calls were originating on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan, bouncing off these "inversion layer" ducts, and the phones were camped to Wisconsin base stations over 70 miles away.
Anyways, Nextel angled their antenna's down and decreased the power output somewhat, effectively minimizing the footprint, and the problem has been reduced (but not completely eliminated). Also interesting was that this thing seems to be much more likely to happen over a large body of water. They seemed to think in summer, the water cooled the air and then warm air blew across the cool layer. Apparently cool air has a higher refractive coefficient than warm air.....
Yeah, next you're gonna want us to stop calling the old MS OS's "Windows 9x", and refer to it as DOS with food coloring.
Ogg takes too much processor horsepower for a 200 MHz to handle, I'd guess. Its significantly more than mp3.
Yes, and RISC processors will outperform comparable speeds of Intel and AMD chips.....But anyways, Intel's are pipelined as well, goofball. AMD just seems to do it slightly better. However why Intel outperms AMD is because they are able to jack the clock speed up better than AMD seems to be able to. I'd bet they're purposefully decreasing the effectiveness of their pipeline to boost the clock speed. Anyways, the point of the article is that Intel is making Lower Power chips. So their main counterpart would be Transmeta, or say Motorola for PPCs, or SUN, et cetera, anyone of those are players in this particular arena.
I used to like DOS, I think. It's been awhile. Upgrade to Windows 95 and all my games run at half speed. What the heck?
Pardon the typo's....My fingers are influenced half by neurons, and half by beer right now.
And in other news, Microsoft becomes the first fortune 500 company to trogan horse an operating system.
They'll fly you all over the world, and you'll probably get setup with a geek job.
Somehow I think these would be difficult to sell in Russia...
Yeah, but on the plus side they already have vodka on tap at their homes....There wouldn't need to be any changes to the nations delivery infrastructure.
It looks like he says these are good trends:
"Filmmakers love it because it more closely resembles the film made," he says.
All he really states is that the Box Office gross doesn't mean what it used to and more directors are "relying on DVD sales".
This would be redundant, but it doesn't look like the previous posters actually read it.....