If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other...
You wouldn't make a very good webserver. Anyhow just do what any good BOFH would do, have a neet stack of post-its with "HTTP/1.0 400" written on them, and without looking up from your terminal hand one to each.
Um, since when do you need reasoning on slashdot? There are a lot of baseless assertions (and that's an understatement).
Personally I would have modded it funny as there has been a running joke of, "FSM, intelligent design etc". Or even interesting as it does make one think (what are the arguements for an against this statement?).
Sometimes a naked assertion is the best way to start a discussion (you need a hypothesis before you go about proving or disproving anything).
Did you even read the thread? The point is the Submission says "wireless usb devices" when the article talks about usb wirless network cards, two different things, and the submitter should know the difference as it isn't an unfamiliar topic (ie to be utterly clear to you, the summary is wrong, and claiming that they might not know about wusb as an excuse for their overlook is a poor arguement).
I think at this point, "wireless usb", as the "thing that sort of works just like bluetooth" is enough of a niche that most people, including the submitter might not have even heard of it, so its not really fair to accuse them of not understanding the difference between A and B, when they probably never heard of B.
Have you forgotten where you are? This is slashdot. If you are geeky enough to submit a story you should know what wireless USB is.
Hmmm. The only possible overlap is in the fabrication.
I do agree that cutting down managers would be near impossible but you could cut down on other departments. You wouldn't need two full acounting departments, the people that take care of distribution could be cut down, with two big marketing departments they could cut some deadweight from both and keep them both more productive
There is precisely no reason whatsoever for AMD to want to merge with ATi or to buy them up.
What about (I hate that I am going to type this word) synergies. Maybe AMD thinks that they have enough in common with ATI that they could reduce redunancies after the merge (ie fire people and possibly sell off a fab plant) and make both companies more profitable. Just a thought.
This is because they have a culture of cohesive groupthink.
Groupthink is a dangerous thing. It is good to have people within an organization that think differently so you have a balance. The challenger disaster was at least partially due to groupthink. When people believe it is better to conform than pose an alternative point of view then you often end up with poorly made decisions.
Maybe you should look up the meanings of THEN and THAN. I thought the meanings were common knowledge, and there are lots of articles on the subject.
All in jest, but "AV forums buzzing" does not make something "common knowledge". Simple grammar rules such as when to use than or then SHOULD be common knowledge, however that is much too optimistic for slashdot:D.
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Similar, but different: At ISMIR 2005 there was a presentation on Query-by-Beatboxing. The publication is available in mistic's list of publications. Mistic is the "Music intelligence technology" group at the University of Victoria.
Of course with most people's beatboxing skills it would be more amusing for the onlooker.
I think he should keep on trading up. I'm sure someone somewhere would be willing to trade this house for something better
Either that or he should have taken the movie role. Even if the role is minimal (the article said it was paying) he could probably buy two farm houses in Sask, plus he'd be in a movie. Think of that, he could be a "famous" actor in that city, and with two houses he'd own a large percentage of the realestate!! The farm chicks would be all-up-ons!
"Your argument also ignores the fact that its generally easier to implement and upgrade pollution controls on a few dozen power plants versus several million automobiles."
Aside from that and the efficiency argument it also ignores the fact that not all electricity is generated from fossil fuels. Where I live the electricity that would go into charging an electric car would be hydro generated, which does bring up other environmental issues but it isn't the same as burning fossil fuels.
Seriously I'd be embarassed to have this computer. Chipset fan mounted with twist ties and a heatsink held in place with a piece of 2x4? That is ridiculous. I stopped reading the article as I was afraid I'd find out they mounted the harddrive with some chicken wire:P. DIY at it's worst. Next article, how to install a mp3 deck in your car only using chewing gum, spare change and a couple paper clips.
I'd have to agry with you, it does seem "gimmicky". I am curious about studies in human computer interaction a 3d interfaces. 3d allows for more realistic interface metaphors, but can significantly complicate an interface, plus we don't have any 3d hardware. A mouse moves in 2 dimimensions (x and y coordinates only, no z or orientation information). Something like the polehemus fastrak would give six degrees of freedom and would allow you to interact with a 3d environment. I first saw the fastrak in a paper about a virtual bodhran. The paper on the "vodhran" is avail here.
I wish they could shut down every means to get "stolen" files, that way they could prove themselves wrong. As has been said over and over, they need to change their business model.. however large bodies move slowly and it doesn't seem like it will happen any time soon. There is so much money to be had on selling online at low prices (ie make up in quantity), but instead of implementing highspeed media delivery at low cost (w/o drm) they try to convince everyone that the way they do business is the right way and we should just stick to getting media the way they tell us. The people have already spoken and the movie and music industry wasn't and still isn't listening.
Excellent point but the question was hypothetical. Although if the US gov't put all its weight behing stoping torrent sites I have no doubt that they could take down the majority. All it takes is money, political power and "friends" in power (friends can be had via money btw). No, I don't think it will ever happen but don't discount it as impossible (no matter how implausible you think it is).
But torrent sites exist for legit material as well not just copyright infringing. Maybe they are leaned more towards illegit material than a search engine as a percentage, but I bet google has a lot more links to "illegal" material than all the torrent sites combined. Funny thing is with google I can look for an exact filetype (ie just.torrent), so I can use it exclusively to find torrent files, most of which presumeably are "illegal" (copyright laws in your area may vary from mine, as could "fair use" regulations).
So why then would the US go after a company in sweden that does not have those law, while they leave local companies that go beyond "contributory" (ala google with their caching)?
OK the answer is obvious, but what happens when all the torrent sites are shut down? Does the MPAA go after the search engines next?
Count me in as well. I've been running it on my gateway laptop for 3-4 months and haven't had a problem, in fact with the inclusion of the broadcom wireless driver in the kernel I've had less problems as I don't have to use NDIS wrapper. All the software packages I use work fine (better than the last release even). The only problem with install I had was the sound "not working", which involved me opening up alsamixer (open terminal type alsamixer) then muting (I think it was mute not unmute) the external amp channel ('m' key does muting), and then it worked. That was the only thing that took me time to figure out (and I've had to do that since previous releases). I have been super happy with this release and haven't missed windows one bit on my laptop.
Excellent point and I agree wholeheartedly. I think assembly should be taught earlier then students would not have such a huge problem understanding pointers in C. Also when one moves onto learning OS's understanding registers, stack allocation and interupts is very helpful and makes concepts much clearer. Plus if you can write clean organized code in assembly then doing the same in high level languages should be trivial.
The kids says, "I've been bullied by you." Then goes on to say the kids at Columbine did what they did because they were bullied by the school.
Most likely just projection. We all do it: I hate working here, therefor pretty much everyone else must hate working here. The kid see's something similar to himself in the Columbine kids and then projects his own situation on them, it's how most of us perceive the world around us. It is not surprising he finds that his problems are external either (whether they are or not we rarely blame a bad situation on ourselves). It is interesting that he projects that (external causes) onto the Columbine kids (as most other people in the world would attribute the bad actions of someone else they do not know to interal causes not external).
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If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other...
You wouldn't make a very good webserver. Anyhow just do what any good BOFH would do, have a neet stack of post-its with "HTTP/1.0 400" written on them, and without looking up from your terminal hand one to each.
namely, the commenter's reasoning.
Um, since when do you need reasoning on slashdot? There are a lot of baseless assertions (and that's an understatement).
Personally I would have modded it funny as there has been a running joke of, "FSM, intelligent design etc". Or even interesting as it does make one think (what are the arguements for an against this statement?).
Sometimes a naked assertion is the best way to start a discussion (you need a hypothesis before you go about proving or disproving anything).
Wow, Mexicans use physics terms for sexual slang? In the US they just use names of politicians.
Did you even read the thread? The point is the Submission says "wireless usb devices" when the article talks about usb wirless network cards, two different things, and the submitter should know the difference as it isn't an unfamiliar topic (ie to be utterly clear to you, the summary is wrong, and claiming that they might not know about wusb as an excuse for their overlook is a poor arguement).
I think at this point, "wireless usb", as the "thing that sort of works just like bluetooth" is enough of a niche that most people, including the submitter might not have even heard of it, so its not really fair to accuse them of not understanding the difference between A and B, when they probably never heard of B.
Have you forgotten where you are? This is slashdot. If you are geeky enough to submit a story you should know what wireless USB is.
Plus you should have read about it, twice.
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Hmmm. The only possible overlap is in the fabrication.
I do agree that cutting down managers would be near impossible but you could cut down on other departments. You wouldn't need two full acounting departments, the people that take care of distribution could be cut down, with two big marketing departments they could cut some deadweight from both and keep them both more productive
There is precisely no reason whatsoever for AMD to want to merge with ATi or to buy them up.
What about (I hate that I am going to type this word) synergies. Maybe AMD thinks that they have enough in common with ATI that they could reduce redunancies after the merge (ie fire people and possibly sell off a fab plant) and make both companies more profitable. Just a thought.
Groupthink is a dangerous thing. It is good to have people within an organization that think differently so you have a balance. The challenger disaster was at least partially due to groupthink. When people believe it is better to conform than pose an alternative point of view then you often end up with poorly made decisions.
A quick google gave me an article that touches on how groupthink affected the challenger.
Maybe you should look up the meanings of THEN and THAN. I thought the meanings were common knowledge, and there are lots of articles on the subject.
:D.
All in jest, but "AV forums buzzing" does not make something "common knowledge". Simple grammar rules such as when to use than or then SHOULD be common knowledge, however that is much too optimistic for slashdot
Similar, but different: At ISMIR 2005 there was a presentation on Query-by-Beatboxing. The publication is available in mistic's list of publications. Mistic is the "Music intelligence technology" group at the University of Victoria.
Of course with most people's beatboxing skills it would be more amusing for the onlooker.
I think he should keep on trading up. I'm sure someone somewhere would be willing to trade this house for something better
Either that or he should have taken the movie role. Even if the role is minimal (the article said it was paying) he could probably buy two farm houses in Sask, plus he'd be in a movie. Think of that, he could be a "famous" actor in that city, and with two houses he'd own a large percentage of the realestate!! The farm chicks would be all-up-ons!
I suspect there were no hills if 'saskboy' means he's from Saskatchewan. Think eastern Montana, only colder and flatter.
"Your argument also ignores the fact that its generally easier to implement and upgrade pollution controls on a few dozen power plants versus several million automobiles."
Aside from that and the efficiency argument it also ignores the fact that not all electricity is generated from fossil fuels. Where I live the electricity that would go into charging an electric car would be hydro generated, which does bring up other environmental issues but it isn't the same as burning fossil fuels.
You missed one:
:P. DIY at it's worst. Next article, how to install a mp3 deck in your car only using chewing gum, spare change and a couple paper clips.
Heatsink: Mounted with piece of 2x4. Super Crap.
Seriously I'd be embarassed to have this computer. Chipset fan mounted with twist ties and a heatsink held in place with a piece of 2x4? That is ridiculous. I stopped reading the article as I was afraid I'd find out they mounted the harddrive with some chicken wire
I'd have to agry with you, it does seem "gimmicky". I am curious about studies in human computer interaction a 3d interfaces. 3d allows for more realistic interface metaphors, but can significantly complicate an interface, plus we don't have any 3d hardware. A mouse moves in 2 dimimensions (x and y coordinates only, no z or orientation information). Something like the polehemus fastrak would give six degrees of freedom and would allow you to interact with a 3d environment. I first saw the fastrak in a paper about a virtual bodhran. The paper on the "vodhran" is avail here.
I think this is the same one on youtube (two guys in lab coats with lots of bottles doing an impressive display?).
I wish they could shut down every means to get "stolen" files, that way they could prove themselves wrong. As has been said over and over, they need to change their business model.. however large bodies move slowly and it doesn't seem like it will happen any time soon. There is so much money to be had on selling online at low prices (ie make up in quantity), but instead of implementing highspeed media delivery at low cost (w/o drm) they try to convince everyone that the way they do business is the right way and we should just stick to getting media the way they tell us. The people have already spoken and the movie and music industry wasn't and still isn't listening.
Excellent point but the question was hypothetical. Although if the US gov't put all its weight behing stoping torrent sites I have no doubt that they could take down the majority. All it takes is money, political power and "friends" in power (friends can be had via money btw). No, I don't think it will ever happen but don't discount it as impossible (no matter how implausible you think it is).
But torrent sites exist for legit material as well not just copyright infringing. Maybe they are leaned more towards illegit material than a search engine as a percentage, but I bet google has a lot more links to "illegal" material than all the torrent sites combined. Funny thing is with google I can look for an exact filetype (ie just .torrent), so I can use it exclusively to find torrent files, most of which presumeably are "illegal" (copyright laws in your area may vary from mine, as could "fair use" regulations).
So why then would the US go after a company in sweden that does not have those law, while they leave local companies that go beyond "contributory" (ala google with their caching)?
OK the answer is obvious, but what happens when all the torrent sites are shut down? Does the MPAA go after the search engines next?
Count me in as well. I've been running it on my gateway laptop for 3-4 months and haven't had a problem, in fact with the inclusion of the broadcom wireless driver in the kernel I've had less problems as I don't have to use NDIS wrapper. All the software packages I use work fine (better than the last release even). The only problem with install I had was the sound "not working", which involved me opening up alsamixer (open terminal type alsamixer) then muting (I think it was mute not unmute) the external amp channel ('m' key does muting), and then it worked. That was the only thing that took me time to figure out (and I've had to do that since previous releases). I have been super happy with this release and haven't missed windows one bit on my laptop.
Excellent point and I agree wholeheartedly. I think assembly should be taught earlier then students would not have such a huge problem understanding pointers in C. Also when one moves onto learning OS's understanding registers, stack allocation and interupts is very helpful and makes concepts much clearer. Plus if you can write clean organized code in assembly then doing the same in high level languages should be trivial.
The kids says, "I've been bullied by you." Then goes on to say the kids at Columbine did what they did because they were bullied by the school.
Most likely just projection. We all do it: I hate working here, therefor pretty much everyone else must hate working here. The kid see's something similar to himself in the Columbine kids and then projects his own situation on them, it's how most of us perceive the world around us. It is not surprising he finds that his problems are external either (whether they are or not we rarely blame a bad situation on ourselves). It is interesting that he projects that (external causes) onto the Columbine kids (as most other people in the world would attribute the bad actions of someone else they do not know to interal causes not external).
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