I cannot believe this got moderated to +5, just goes to show you there exists sick bastards that actually believe this shit. I'm not a bleeding heart by any means, but how can such a statement stand to even the most cursory of inspection.
I think the processor is a LV or ULV pentium M (1.4 GHz), but the whole premise of the machine is battery life, which comes at the cost of some functionality, such as no cd drive, well worth it though. I rarely need to worry about finding a wall for juice, only If I forget to dock the bloody thing for like 3 days straight. Not to mention it weighs ~ 3 lbs, which doesn't really matter when you're packing around 35-40lbs worth of books.
Well to be fair most benchmarking isn't exactly a rigorous procedure, so 'error' computations are largely meaningless. It is meant to be more of a relative than absolute metric.
I believe engadget or joystiq reported that in fact it will not be a 104 key board but instead a 3 key board that is released on febuary first for 'less than a good mobile phone'. 200 USD just sounded too good to be true, and it probably is.
They aren't very durable, their design means if anything is spilled on them they are gone, and you can guess what happened to mine. Honestly, I never used the alternate keysets, as many others have pointed out, most are far too used to the wasd key layout for it to make a difference. However, another problem is that the keys stop feeling very firm after you use the thing for awhile, which makes typing feel all mushy, not very exciting. Somebody also had the brilliant idea of making a good number of the keys on the 'gaming' sets DOMED. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why this is a bad idea. Not only are they ridiculously small, your finger manages to slip off them all the time even if you do manage to remember the completely arbitrary key layout. I replaced it with a microsoft 4000 zero inclination ergonomic keyboard. A fancy title but the thing is comfortable as hell and it is no different to use than a standard 104 key with the caveat that you can't easily access the right hand side of the keyboard while gaming, though it is fairly rare to need to move over there anyway. The whole thing looks absurd until you try it.
You're right, they've purposely sabotaged the display settings on the dvd player to make it look like the hd format has superior colour, which is not the difference at all!
Last time I checked colour is still 32 bit hence the fact 32 bit displays are capable of playing back hd material. While I won't disagree that the resolution make the picture better better, especially if you have the screen real estate to 'enjoy' it, the margin by which it is superior for video material shrinks rapidly as you step down to progressively smaller displays. Most people I know don't even have their displays configured properly to begin with, which tells me they don't really care about 'picture.' Which makes sense, a good movie is a good movie so long as the visual quality isn't so bad as to detract from the viewing. Then you have people who pay hundreds of dollars to have their televisions calibrated by a technician to an accuracy that is beyond the limits of human vision. Clearly, they enjoy masturbating over the fact their picture is 'optimal' more than they enjoy watching movies. reference quality monitors have their place but it isn't for the home viewer:) The mass market will be ready for hdtv when it doesn't cost them anything more to experience it.
You're wrong on not being able to tell the difference. Anyone can tell the difference at many points in a given track, you just don't notice unless you're given two versions to compare in a blind test. As to whether or not the artifacts create an unenjoyable listening experience, I think it depends on the type and severity of the artifacting. Personally, 192 vbr lame tracks are enough to make compression transparent to cursory inspection, which is how I enjoy music. I think it is more or less the thought of the track being compressed that drives these 'audiophiles' crazy rather than the actual compression.
I love how well the "...like an American" meme has propogated throughout the "non-american" population. Here on slashdot it is quickly approaching legendary status, and will be placed alongside such greats as goatse.cx and in soviet russia jokes. Perhaps I should go to a predominantly German news aggregator and start spouting "Spoken like a national socialist" at every opinion I don't like.
I notice they compain about how much stuff is running in this system tray. To me, this isn't a legitimate complaint, unless its useless software. I build my own machines but I like to run a lot of usability stuff when I'm not gaming (i'm usually not) and this slightly hinders the performance of the machine when I'm playing games. So I create two user profiles. Now, for some reason a lot of processes just don't like being moved from the LOCAL_MACHINE to CURRENT_USER , and whats more is there is a delay on loading software that is in the CURRENT_USER tre. Also, if you have multiple other profiles, it may be to your disadvantage to have to put it in every one of the CURRENT_USER trees. My solution to this is a quick'n'dirty batch script, the main problem with this being that windows has no prepackaged shell command to sleep. You can get the Windows 2003 Server Resource Toolkit (free) for a sleep command and a bunch of other nifty things that help out the pathetic windows shell, but sleep is all you need for this. sleep N, taskkill/img process_name.exe,...,cls.
I concur, a bit of the PITA to apply though. Their lifetime guarantee is no bullshit either. My nano's screen cracked so I had to send it in to apple to get it replaced and they sent me a new shield. Just make sure you register it.
I think the point of the thought experiment was to ascertain whether or not wikipedia was comparable to a dead tree encyclopedia, not to establish that it was superior. I'm a believer.
I've never had a problem with my nForce 4 based motherboard and I use both the SATA and IDE channels. I think the chipset is pretty solid as long as you don't use the software raid, but nobody should need to be told that:) I don't use any of the bundled software so I can't speak of its quality, although I did use the integrated audio just to see how it worked and it sounded just as good from cursory inspection. I haven't had the chance to use any other chipsets for socket 939 chips so I can't speak as to ULi.
There is a huge distinction between a corporation and a human being. Raping and murdering is normal for a corporation, for an individual, it isn't. I'm not going to argue that there aren't any differences in corporate behavior, but they are all in it for the same thing, to make themselves more wealth.
How they go about applying that principle is simply a matter of how much torque they need to have in reserve if they fall upon the need to shear your arm off.
I thought the carnot heat engine was a perpetual motion machine. Input = output. A perfectly reversible thermodynamic system. Perpetual motion by my book... The theorem doesn't claim to correspond to reality but it certainly has a limited use in understanding it <BR><BR>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_heat_engine
I guess it was just a misunderstanding, I completely agree with you on that.
I say that of humanities as that has been my experience in a non trivial number of such courses. When you could literally skip the entire course and then come in and take the final and pass (if that was the only score), it speaks poorly of the courses content in many ways, though I suppose we could argue that the value of the course isn't in what was tested. Why bother testing at all then? It was a bit of a brash assumption, my apologies.
By your reckoning, java should be much better than C# since it is, well, older, and more mature. It is easier to play catch up (C#) than it is to lead the way. In many aspects the latest release of Java was playing catch up with C#, which has surpassed java in many ways in terms of featureset (java finally gets generics etc.). I don't think there is a better comparison, because it's between the same companies but the situation is pretty much reversed, except microsoft actually had to pay all the developers of office & C# where open office has people hacking away on it for free (and is free to use). Now I'm not saying that OO isn't good enough for most purposes, but microsofts office suite clearly has a leg up on it and I believe the next iteration will only widen that gap. I also feel MS has rather underhanded business tactics but I recognize that is just the nature of the corporation. Don't think Redhat or Sun would do anything more honourable if they were in the same position. You can bet your beans they'd try to lock in their market if they were in the position to.
I disagree, I attend a public university as well and I've taken a section where just a small group of people who are interested meet up with the professor and talk. We rarely discussed anything relevant to the course, and it was never 'professional'.
I found it to be most interesting, and always enjoyable. I kind of wish more of the interesting professors (you know, the ones who are actually interested in what they instruct) would do sections like that. It frees them of their 'obligation' to teach course material while in lecture and I figure most good professors have something interesting to say on other subjects as well.
It was a CS&E professor teaching CS&E in case you get the impression it was some content devoid humanities course.
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I cannot believe this got moderated to +5, just goes to show you there exists sick bastards that actually believe this shit. I'm not a bleeding heart by any means, but how can such a statement stand to even the most cursory of inspection.
I think the processor is a LV or ULV pentium M (1.4 GHz), but the whole premise of the machine is battery life, which comes at the cost of some functionality, such as no cd drive, well worth it though. I rarely need to worry about finding a wall for juice, only If I forget to dock the bloody thing for like 3 days straight. Not to mention it weighs ~ 3 lbs, which doesn't really matter when you're packing around 35-40lbs worth of books.
Well to be fair most benchmarking isn't exactly a rigorous procedure, so 'error' computations are largely meaningless. It is meant to be more of a relative than absolute metric.
I believe engadget or joystiq reported that in fact it will not be a 104 key board but instead a 3 key board that is released on febuary first for 'less than a good mobile phone'. 200 USD just sounded too good to be true, and it probably is.
They aren't very durable, their design means if anything is spilled on them they are gone, and you can guess what happened to mine. Honestly, I never used the alternate keysets, as many others have pointed out, most are far too used to the wasd key layout for it to make a difference. However, another problem is that the keys stop feeling very firm after you use the thing for awhile, which makes typing feel all mushy, not very exciting. Somebody also had the brilliant idea of making a good number of the keys on the 'gaming' sets DOMED. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why this is a bad idea. Not only are they ridiculously small, your finger manages to slip off them all the time even if you do manage to remember the completely arbitrary key layout. I replaced it with a microsoft 4000 zero inclination ergonomic keyboard. A fancy title but the thing is comfortable as hell and it is no different to use than a standard 104 key with the caveat that you can't easily access the right hand side of the keyboard while gaming, though it is fairly rare to need to move over there anyway. The whole thing looks absurd until you try it.
Or people that purchase physical disks who are still lumped into the thieve category.
You're right, they've purposely sabotaged the display settings on the dvd player to make it look like the hd format has superior colour, which is not the difference at all!
Last time I checked colour is still 32 bit hence the fact 32 bit displays are capable of playing back hd material. While I won't disagree that the resolution make the picture better better, especially if you have the screen real estate to 'enjoy' it, the margin by which it is superior for video material shrinks rapidly as you step down to progressively smaller displays. Most people I know don't even have their displays configured properly to begin with, which tells me they don't really care about 'picture.' Which makes sense, a good movie is a good movie so long as the visual quality isn't so bad as to detract from the viewing. Then you have people who pay hundreds of dollars to have their televisions calibrated by a technician to an accuracy that is beyond the limits of human vision. Clearly, they enjoy masturbating over the fact their picture is 'optimal' more than they enjoy watching movies. reference quality monitors have their place but it isn't for the home viewer :) The mass market will be ready for hdtv when it doesn't cost them anything more to experience it.
You're wrong on not being able to tell the difference. Anyone can tell the difference at many points in a given track, you just don't notice unless you're given two versions to compare in a blind test. As to whether or not the artifacts create an unenjoyable listening experience, I think it depends on the type and severity of the artifacting. Personally, 192 vbr lame tracks are enough to make compression transparent to cursory inspection, which is how I enjoy music. I think it is more or less the thought of the track being compressed that drives these 'audiophiles' crazy rather than the actual compression.
I love how well the "...like an American" meme has propogated throughout the "non-american" population. Here on slashdot it is quickly approaching legendary status, and will be placed alongside such greats as goatse.cx and in soviet russia jokes. Perhaps I should go to a predominantly German news aggregator and start spouting "Spoken like a national socialist" at every opinion I don't like.
I notice they compain about how much stuff is running in this system tray. To me, this isn't a legitimate complaint, unless its useless software. I build my own machines but I like to run a lot of usability stuff when I'm not gaming (i'm usually not) and this slightly hinders the performance of the machine when I'm playing games. So I create two user profiles. Now, for some reason a lot of processes just don't like being moved from the LOCAL_MACHINE to CURRENT_USER , and whats more is there is a delay on loading software that is in the CURRENT_USER tre. Also, if you have multiple other profiles, it may be to your disadvantage to have to put it in every one of the CURRENT_USER trees. My solution to this is a quick'n'dirty batch script, the main problem with this being that windows has no prepackaged shell command to sleep. You can get the Windows 2003 Server Resource Toolkit (free) for a sleep command and a bunch of other nifty things that help out the pathetic windows shell, but sleep is all you need for this. sleep N, taskkill /img process_name.exe,...,cls.
I concur, a bit of the PITA to apply though. Their lifetime guarantee is no bullshit either. My nano's screen cracked so I had to send it in to apple to get it replaced and they sent me a new shield. Just make sure you register it.
I think the point of the thought experiment was to ascertain whether or not wikipedia was comparable to a dead tree encyclopedia, not to establish that it was superior. I'm a believer.
I've never had a problem with my nForce 4 based motherboard and I use both the SATA and IDE channels. I think the chipset is pretty solid as long as you don't use the software raid, but nobody should need to be told that :) I don't use any of the bundled software so I can't speak of its quality, although I did use the integrated audio just to see how it worked and it sounded just as good from cursory inspection. I haven't had the chance to use any other chipsets for socket 939 chips so I can't speak as to ULi.
Ice skating has a rough analog though.
There is a huge distinction between a corporation and a human being. Raping and murdering is normal for a corporation, for an individual, it isn't. I'm not going to argue that there aren't any differences in corporate behavior, but they are all in it for the same thing, to make themselves more wealth.
How they go about applying that principle is simply a matter of how much torque they need to have in reserve if they fall upon the need to shear your arm off.
I understand that such a device can't exist, perhaps I should have made it more explicit.
I thought the carnot heat engine was a perpetual motion machine. Input = output. A perfectly reversible thermodynamic system. Perpetual motion by my book... The theorem doesn't claim to correspond to reality but it certainly has a limited use in understanding it
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_heat_engine
I guess it was just a misunderstanding, I completely agree with you on that.
I say that of humanities as that has been my experience in a non trivial number of such courses. When you could literally skip the entire course and then come in and take the final and pass (if that was the only score), it speaks poorly of the courses content in many ways, though I suppose we could argue that the value of the course isn't in what was tested. Why bother testing at all then? It was a bit of a brash assumption, my apologies.
By your reckoning, java should be much better than C# since it is, well, older, and more mature. It is easier to play catch up (C#) than it is to lead the way. In many aspects the latest release of Java was playing catch up with C#, which has surpassed java in many ways in terms of featureset (java finally gets generics etc.). I don't think there is a better comparison, because it's between the same companies but the situation is pretty much reversed, except microsoft actually had to pay all the developers of office & C# where open office has people hacking away on it for free (and is free to use). Now I'm not saying that OO isn't good enough for most purposes, but microsofts office suite clearly has a leg up on it and I believe the next iteration will only widen that gap. I also feel MS has rather underhanded business tactics but I recognize that is just the nature of the corporation. Don't think Redhat or Sun would do anything more honourable if they were in the same position. You can bet your beans they'd try to lock in their market if they were in the position to.
I disagree, I attend a public university as well and I've taken a section where just a small group of people who are interested meet up with the professor and talk. We rarely discussed anything relevant to the course, and it was never 'professional'.
I found it to be most interesting, and always enjoyable. I kind of wish more of the interesting professors (you know, the ones who are actually interested in what they instruct) would do sections like that. It frees them of their 'obligation' to teach course material while in lecture and I figure most good professors have something interesting to say on other subjects as well.
It was a CS&E professor teaching CS&E in case you get the impression it was some content devoid humanities course.
gps *is* triangulation.
Semiconductor manufacturing waste isn't exactly something the squirrels are going to want to make a home with either.
Real men do computations with fortnights, gradians, slugs & Astronomical Units in base 60 with an abacus. AU / fortnight... mmmm