And they can show that they moved beyond the executive pigheadedness that lead to netburst...
I mean I thought about buying a CPU at the end of 2007 and I was like why would I get a core 2 when I could get a P4 (It's 2 better!) at 3.06 Ghz (Wow!) of course it did support that 3Dnow BS that AMD made (Never sell out, never compromise!).
You're talking about a tiny minority who: read CPU spec sheets, know what hypertransport is, and don't know that needing a flexible serial solution to interconnects is one of the main bottlenecks of multicore processors.
While Intel does amazing cpu design if they liscenced or incorperated some alternate technologies their processors would be even better: on die memory controllers, serial interconnects, 64 bit instruction sets etc... in the marketplace those = expensive motherboards with lower memory access, more cpu overhead and reduced performance in high stress apps which take advantage of n cores, and incompatibility wars.
Intel has the best processors, and their $200+ motherboards don't scare me away... but they could be doing better with a little flexibility.
While yelling, "Oh noes teh chinese teh sencors!" is excellent mod material on/., a more thought provoking discussion might involve the themes that horror movies embody.
It probably isn't nightmares that the Chinese government is against but some element of society that horror critiques.
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein critiques the notion of the outsider, conformity, beauty and justice for example. Distopian film has been a powerful tool in contextualizing societies problems since Metropolis (1927).
Can anyone with a study of horror themes beyond the obvious ( catharsis towards human frailty and the proximity of sexuality to violence) give us an indication of the social consciousness being repressed here?
Bet they're all locked down... if linux firmware for routers started having sane sharing rules (5 k up 25 down shared) and people banded together to buy big bandwidth the telecos would be happy and everything would be nice... But scheduling is still expensive, and routers are generally garbage because people don't demand better (Though apparently enough people clued to the WRT54G that you can't find those anymore).
Sharing works when people share, sharing doesn't work when people don't.
You could mustard gas a city and sell clean air... but it'd be nice if people didn't. Limits on the free market and all that.
I know you're slashdot so I'm sure you've done your research. But you're gaming, so windows. Windows wireless does this, without help from Comcast. Try getting rid of the Windows Wireless drivers and replacing them... there are numerous guides and explanations of the problem available online...
If you're not using wireless then this isn't helpful but if you are it could fix it...
I want the creation of better products and ideas, branding isn't important to me other than it makes it impossible for me to make coca-cola with 10,000 times the arsenic and 20mg of cocaine (really classic:P).
What seems to bother slashdotters is that innovation can be locked down so it never gets released that companies can own ideas you picked up from other sources.
Some slashdotters recognize technological innovation as a product of its time and society and thinks that we should share such innovation, or at least try and pursue a motivational approach that can allow the community to benefit more directly.
There are very few slashdotters who disagree with paying for a cd and some few who disagree with paying to be locked out of a set of ideas that they are buying some tertiary rights to... which is what happens when you purchase commercial software.
Um, racists and sexists should not impact voting in any way. Fear of those elements shouldn't impact decision making.
Allowing prejudice to establish the agenda, pose the questions, and shape the debates is illogical.
I think Obama has managed to retain more distance from special interests, his policies seem sounder as does his deliberate method of forming conclusions and discussing factors, and motivations. These two are important in accepting his future policy decisions, Hillary has broader foreign policy experience but that policy will be impacted by special interests who feel that they have an in because of contributions to Bill in the past as well as her current fundraising.
But from a pragmatic point of view I don't think that the OSS community can ignore.swx. Also a lost format that didn't open in any programs outside of OpenOffice (and one other document application that I can't remember right now).
Now Microsoft could have supported it, there could be a plugin for support (as there can be with.docx though with imperfect results). From a pragmatists perspective sometimes formats fail, it looks like.docx will be one of them...
Now I like open source, but that perspective has always been a product of its superior interoperability and user moddability. Both of these are lacking only slightly (think.pdf not ntfs). In this case its really a question of ideology, so let's not go insane about technical problems that were present in an OSS product as well, we're bigger than that.
Ah but you don't need to download the entire season to begin watching. Assuming that you're talking about a 24 episode season with some extras that's 10GB an episode (Which is pretty damn high)... compared to current encoding on piracy where HD is encoded at 350 MB per episode or 175 for a half hour.
I guess you're a linux user with outdated bittorrent software (sad but true) so you haven't realized that you can prioritize files and further prioritize peices within a file.
Most encoding is done using XVID which isn't ideal and bittorrent hasn't integrated support for a video player (which would be able to prioritize chunks for streaming)...
That's still about 20-30 minutes to begin watching the first episode but no wait for the second.
Caching will be difficult at first but as technologies like SSD take off it will become more common.
MythTV with integrated RSS bittorrent functionality and sensible sharing policies is the future. For me the biggest thing is that if a movie or video sucks I don't have a 10 minute latency on getting a new one. A good example would be BSG season 3, it sucked no one expected it to suck but it did. 2 seconds later I was watching something else... no way I can go back to thinking "time to go to the store again."
It's good to have an in house Operating system handy.
If, far fetched example but tech surprises, quantum computing takes off and encryption fails, or if a new market sector opens up that makes it a race. Some online protocol where it becomes necessary that people do their computing through specialized terminals.
If OS/2 has technical merits that 11,000 tech savvy open sourcers can't replicate (and therefore want IBM to open source) it's fair to assume they are non-trivial and the product of some really brilliant people, this might make them exceedingly valuable.
And the weirdness in the legal world of IP makes this a dangerous time to flaunt licences too.
Of course then the trick is to pretned you know what she's doing until you do then pretend you don't.
Of course the range of possible female behaviours approximates infinity and thanks to feminism the range of acceptable female behaviours is perhaps a superset of the possible...
I'm just happy when they stay away from the subset that involves hitting you...
Or you could manually swap out the battery (not an impossible problem because it can be stored anywhere in the car).
Or move to a more European exchange style system.
When did American's become such luddite conservatives.
Next thing they'll have hedge lobbying groups ala Britain.
Another point worth noting is that eastern economies are ramping up while energy use is becoming more efficient. Rural parts of India will be installing led lighting, getting hybrid or electric vehicles etc. America has been on the high horse of modernism because they started from scratch without the baggage of history, it seems the eastern economies are taking that spot now... For the Beijing olympics the Chinese government is tearing down thousands of buildings that are more than 500 years old (in the area south of Tienamen square).
I don't think they'll care about taking Chevrolet's and Fords off the road to help the planet.
The big one...
Inventors If we agree that IP is baaaddd [/Mr. Garrison] then the next thing to go are patents.
This will be the big one, and the first country to do away with patents will be the intellectual hotspot for the next hundred years or so (just on momentum). Obviously the international patent system will collapse as soon as one country repudiates them...
Now who can do it and face the brutal international sanctions... my bets Venuzuela and good oid Hugo Chavez, the man's a dynamo!
Other options, Vietnam, China, or somewhere in Africa (althrough it would be trying something new, and in Africa that usually translates into "a new way of letting westerners fuck everything up, really REALLY bad.").
I mean free music and movies are nice (and I say this as a comp sci English double major). But patents, wow then you're going to see the real sparks fly, that one will have bombings... and probably 50 years of companies shooting employees after research is completed... but Star Trek is coming friends and Picard's name is Hugo Chavez.
After I modded my original Xbox I put as many party games on it as I could, I played only on my PC but I tried to cater to guests.
It had an RTS and it was horrible, not horrible like FPS on a console but pretty bad...
Now I'm a long time FPSer, I played back before you needed a mouse (Wolf3D etc) and the mouse is the best controller for a first person perspective yet, others may pshaw fps games as simplistic but they are the closest thing to a human perspective, that being said their simplicity has been caused by complex controller systems fragmenting the market (see Deus Ex, Rainbow Six, Hitman, Descent for examples of this complexity).
Now I'm not sure that the DS will be able to bring the RTS to consoles, but I know it will improve on the Xbox RTS experience. My first time playing Metroid DS I thought it might have as good a controller set up as a PC, later I found some flaws but the DS is a remarkably flexible platform.
Hopefully this mod will bring RTS and Baldurs gate style RPG to consoles.
Part of the problem is librarians, librarians used to accept that they were students of how people got the information they needed. Now they're experts in Library Science with degrees and airs and a democratic mindset that means they have to recommend 10 books on learning HTML instead of inquiring about which one is best.
When librarians shelved books from customers who wrote on cards they knew who got what book, why, and how happy they were with it... now they don't. The same problem affects retail where they stock what sells instead of what's good.
I'm all for choice when it means differentiation but not choice on quality, give me the best thing for what I want every time.
Libraries have always had books as their buzzword and knowledge as their core service, they need to get over the internet and focus on their core competency.
Well crap too bad we can't elect a ROCKET SCIENTIST AGAIN!
I'm outside the U.S. I don't get to vote, but I think the best ticket for the U.S. in 2008 is Obama vice president Paul. Obama seems to be a traditional liberal (which scares me because Washington seems to pervert them recently) while Paul suggests that he'll listen to the people about minimalism, the states about new programs, and advisors on things where he disagrees with the nation.
If paul wants to lie to Americans that he has a fuzzy stance on evolution to win an election more power to him, there are worse lies than exploiting ignorance. The Republicans have been lying to the poor telling them that lower taxes make their life better for decades, even if Paul doesn't believe in Evolution that's his right, and he promises not to use that flawed belief to influence American ideology.
Paul is fantastic not because of his specific stances on issues but his commitment to actually look for issues that will make a diffrence to something other than his popularity and bottom line.
I hope the democrats win, but if Hilary or the Consaclones win it will be another case of everyone pleading with the U.S. to show some sanity and them listening to ABC, Fox, CNN and media figures rather than thinking critically.
Slashdot Mirror
Because it's demonstratably better?
.
And they can show that they moved beyond the executive pigheadedness that lead to netburst...
I mean I thought about buying a CPU at the end of 2007 and I was like why would I get a core 2 when I could get a P4 (It's 2 better!) at 3.06 Ghz (Wow!) of course it did support that 3Dnow BS that AMD made (Never sell out, never compromise!)
You're talking about a tiny minority who: read CPU spec sheets, know what hypertransport is, and don't know that needing a flexible serial solution to interconnects is one of the main bottlenecks of multicore processors.
While Intel does amazing cpu design if they liscenced or incorperated some alternate technologies their processors would be even better: on die memory controllers, serial interconnects, 64 bit instruction sets etc... in the marketplace those = expensive motherboards with lower memory access, more cpu overhead and reduced performance in high stress apps which take advantage of n cores, and incompatibility wars.
Intel has the best processors, and their $200+ motherboards don't scare me away... but they could be doing better with a little flexibility.
I like to think of it like this...
1 + 1 = 2
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as is existence.
Everything is math...
It's all just an equation...
While yelling, "Oh noes teh chinese teh sencors!" is excellent mod material on /., a more thought provoking discussion might involve the themes that horror movies embody.
It probably isn't nightmares that the Chinese government is against but some element of society that horror critiques.
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein critiques the notion of the outsider, conformity, beauty and justice for example. Distopian film has been a powerful tool in contextualizing societies problems since Metropolis (1927).
Can anyone with a study of horror themes beyond the obvious ( catharsis towards human frailty and the proximity of sexuality to violence) give us an indication of the social consciousness being repressed here?
You'd only need 3 or 4 if you shared.
Bet they're all locked down... if linux firmware for routers started having sane sharing rules (5 k up 25 down shared) and people banded together to buy big bandwidth the telecos would be happy and everything would be nice... But scheduling is still expensive, and routers are generally garbage because people don't demand better (Though apparently enough people clued to the WRT54G that you can't find those anymore).
Sharing works when people share, sharing doesn't work when people don't.
You could mustard gas a city and sell clean air... but it'd be nice if people didn't. Limits on the free market and all that.
I know you're slashdot so I'm sure you've done your research. But you're gaming, so windows. Windows wireless does this, without help from Comcast. Try getting rid of the Windows Wireless drivers and replacing them... there are numerous guides and explanations of the problem available online...
If you're not using wireless then this isn't helpful but if you are it could fix it...
Cheers
I want the creation of better products and ideas, branding isn't important to me other than it makes it impossible for me to make coca-cola with 10,000 times the arsenic and 20mg of cocaine (really classic :P).
What seems to bother slashdotters is that innovation can be locked down so it never gets released that companies can own ideas you picked up from other sources.
Some slashdotters recognize technological innovation as a product of its time and society and thinks that we should share such innovation, or at least try and pursue a motivational approach that can allow the community to benefit more directly.
There are very few slashdotters who disagree with paying for a cd and some few who disagree with paying to be locked out of a set of ideas that they are buying some tertiary rights to... which is what happens when you purchase commercial software.
Um, racists and sexists should not impact voting in any way. Fear of those elements shouldn't impact decision making.
Allowing prejudice to establish the agenda, pose the questions, and shape the debates is illogical.
I think Obama has managed to retain more distance from special interests, his policies seem sounder as does his deliberate method of forming conclusions and discussing factors, and motivations. These two are important in accepting his future policy decisions, Hillary has broader foreign policy experience but that policy will be impacted by special interests who feel that they have an in because of contributions to Bill in the past as well as her current fundraising.
Just my 2c Cnd.
She could get identical allels and have all the recessive defects increase in frequency.
They can replace us but not sharing DNA in reproduction.
I know microsoft is teh devil.
.swx. Also a lost format that didn't open in any programs outside of OpenOffice (and one other document application that I can't remember right now).
.docx though with imperfect results). From a pragmatists perspective sometimes formats fail, it looks like .docx will be one of them...
.pdf not ntfs). In this case its really a question of ideology, so let's not go insane about technical problems that were present in an OSS product as well, we're bigger than that.
But from a pragmatic point of view I don't think that the OSS community can ignore
Now Microsoft could have supported it, there could be a plugin for support (as there can be with
Now I like open source, but that perspective has always been a product of its superior interoperability and user moddability. Both of these are lacking only slightly (think
Ah but you don't need to download the entire season to begin watching. Assuming that you're talking about a 24 episode season with some extras that's 10GB an episode (Which is pretty damn high)... compared to current encoding on piracy where HD is encoded at 350 MB per episode or 175 for a half hour.
I guess you're a linux user with outdated bittorrent software (sad but true) so you haven't realized that you can prioritize files and further prioritize peices within a file.
Most encoding is done using XVID which isn't ideal and bittorrent hasn't integrated support for a video player (which would be able to prioritize chunks for streaming)...
That's still about 20-30 minutes to begin watching the first episode but no wait for the second.
Caching will be difficult at first but as technologies like SSD take off it will become more common.
MythTV with integrated RSS bittorrent functionality and sensible sharing policies is the future. For me the biggest thing is that if a movie or video sucks I don't have a 10 minute latency on getting a new one. A good example would be BSG season 3, it sucked no one expected it to suck but it did. 2 seconds later I was watching something else... no way I can go back to thinking "time to go to the store again."
finish grade 11-12 science did they...
(though how they intend to do that with half that number is unclear)
Here's how... Alleles.
It's good to have an in house Operating system handy.
If, far fetched example but tech surprises, quantum computing takes off and encryption fails, or if a new market sector opens up that makes it a race. Some online protocol where it becomes necessary that people do their computing through specialized terminals.
If OS/2 has technical merits that 11,000 tech savvy open sourcers can't replicate (and therefore want IBM to open source) it's fair to assume they are non-trivial and the product of some really brilliant people, this might make them exceedingly valuable.
And the weirdness in the legal world of IP makes this a dangerous time to flaunt licences too.
Of course then the trick is to pretned you know what she's doing until you do then pretend you don't.
Of course the range of possible female behaviours approximates infinity and thanks to feminism the range of acceptable female behaviours is perhaps a superset of the possible...
I'm just happy when they stay away from the subset that involves hitting you...
Or you could manually swap out the battery (not an impossible problem because it can be stored anywhere in the car).
Or move to a more European exchange style system.
When did American's become such luddite conservatives.
Next thing they'll have hedge lobbying groups ala Britain.
Another point worth noting is that eastern economies are ramping up while energy use is becoming more efficient. Rural parts of India will be installing led lighting, getting hybrid or electric vehicles etc. America has been on the high horse of modernism because they started from scratch without the baggage of history, it seems the eastern economies are taking that spot now... For the Beijing olympics the Chinese government is tearing down thousands of buildings that are more than 500 years old (in the area south of Tienamen square).
I don't think they'll care about taking Chevrolet's and Fords off the road to help the planet.
The big one...
Inventors
If we agree that IP is baaaddd [/Mr. Garrison] then the next thing to go are patents.
This will be the big one, and the first country to do away with patents will be the intellectual hotspot for the next hundred years or so (just on momentum). Obviously the international patent system will collapse as soon as one country repudiates them...
Now who can do it and face the brutal international sanctions... my bets Venuzuela and good oid Hugo Chavez, the man's a dynamo!
Other options, Vietnam, China, or somewhere in Africa (althrough it would be trying something new, and in Africa that usually translates into "a new way of letting westerners fuck everything up, really REALLY bad.").
I mean free music and movies are nice (and I say this as a comp sci English double major). But patents, wow then you're going to see the real sparks fly, that one will have bombings... and probably 50 years of companies shooting employees after research is completed... but Star Trek is coming friends and Picard's name is Hugo Chavez.
In 2012, the government will be saying they'll create jobs.
This is your last chance, America is going down the rabbit hole, it's just a matter of who you want to lead you down there.
After I modded my original Xbox I put as many party games on it as I could, I played only on my PC but I tried to cater to guests.
It had an RTS and it was horrible, not horrible like FPS on a console but pretty bad...
Now I'm a long time FPSer, I played back before you needed a mouse (Wolf3D etc) and the mouse is the best controller for a first person perspective yet, others may pshaw fps games as simplistic but they are the closest thing to a human perspective, that being said their simplicity has been caused by complex controller systems fragmenting the market (see Deus Ex, Rainbow Six, Hitman, Descent for examples of this complexity).
Now I'm not sure that the DS will be able to bring the RTS to consoles, but I know it will improve on the Xbox RTS experience. My first time playing Metroid DS I thought it might have as good a controller set up as a PC, later I found some flaws but the DS is a remarkably flexible platform.
Hopefully this mod will bring RTS and Baldurs gate style RPG to consoles.
I think everyone has forgotten this, slashdot needs to let mods go to 6.
For niccotine FK yes, for cocaine... no probably not.
As a smoker trying to quit, it's really hard.
Back in my day we had a few, some and lots.
And by golly that's few words it's almost some words!
Canada be #1?
D-Wave.
Part of the problem is librarians, librarians used to accept that they were students of how people got the information they needed. Now they're experts in Library Science with degrees and airs and a democratic mindset that means they have to recommend 10 books on learning HTML instead of inquiring about which one is best.
When librarians shelved books from customers who wrote on cards they knew who got what book, why, and how happy they were with it... now they don't. The same problem affects retail where they stock what sells instead of what's good.
I'm all for choice when it means differentiation but not choice on quality, give me the best thing for what I want every time.
Libraries have always had books as their buzzword and knowledge as their core service, they need to get over the internet and focus on their core competency.
datamining
Since he doesn't want to buy high end commercial gear I think we can assume this one is the case.
For this increasingly common problem you want a LOT of commodity ram, are there any solutions that provide for this?
As far as performance storage goes isn't the ideal for price/performance a raid 0 of usb hubs and flash disks?
Well crap too bad we can't elect a ROCKET SCIENTIST AGAIN!
I'm outside the U.S. I don't get to vote, but I think the best ticket for the U.S. in 2008 is Obama vice president Paul. Obama seems to be a traditional liberal (which scares me because Washington seems to pervert them recently) while Paul suggests that he'll listen to the people about minimalism, the states about new programs, and advisors on things where he disagrees with the nation.
If paul wants to lie to Americans that he has a fuzzy stance on evolution to win an election more power to him, there are worse lies than exploiting ignorance. The Republicans have been lying to the poor telling them that lower taxes make their life better for decades, even if Paul doesn't believe in Evolution that's his right, and he promises not to use that flawed belief to influence American ideology.
Paul is fantastic not because of his specific stances on issues but his commitment to actually look for issues that will make a diffrence to something other than his popularity and bottom line.
I hope the democrats win, but if Hilary or the Consaclones win it will be another case of everyone pleading with the U.S. to show some sanity and them listening to ABC, Fox, CNN and media figures rather than thinking critically.
Agreed, windows is drastically underepresented in such studies, they don't take uptime into account.
Windows is getting short shrift! It should get a 3% bump!