What's sad is that it's really hard to even give nice stuff away on Craigslist. We've tried to get rid of a pretty decent entertainment center that we just don't need any more, and we can't even get someone competent enough with a truck to come over and pick it up.
...so nothing ties the application to the hardware? You need to have SOMETHING there. That's basically the whole point of an OS... to tie itself to the hardware so the applications don't have to. If you want to try new hardware ideas, you need to write a new OS. There's no way around it. How in the hell did this get modded up?
The people buying supercomputers aren't your typical PHB's. If you need a supercomputer, you know it, and you know enough to look at the whole architecture.
There's a difference between emulating and cross-compiling. If you have access to only the finished binary, you have to emulate, which really kicks up the required resources. But if you have access to the source code, you can compile it to whatever architecture you want, assuming you programmed it sanely. Hence, DirectX, being the same API for multiple architectures, you should be able to take the same code and with minimal changes compile it to run well on another architecture
And you probably live alone, don't you? Those of us with families really like the Wii because it doesn't force one person to monopolize the TV if they want to play a game. I still have games on the PS2 I want to play through, but I don't because my wife wants to use the TV, too. We can agree on playing things like Mario Kart or Raving Rabbids together, though.
It'll only cost you $5/mo for me to not come and break your knees. Surely that's cheaper than paying all those medical bills and being out of work, right?
Just because it's cheaper than the alternative doesn't make the alternative right, or a legal bargaining chip.
And the people MAKING the big money are the ones selling the games for the Wii.
Initially the Wii wasn't expected to be a hit, so all the big houses geared up for the PS3/360. Of course their flagship games won't come out for the Wii... they weren't planning on it. But the PS3 and the 360 are made for hardcore gamers, and there are a lot more casual gamers out there. Companies are realizing that, and a number of them have announced games for the Wii that they weren't originally planning on ever having.
Nintendo makes a profit on each console, and has a huge fan-base. Why would they consider losing money on consoles like Sony and Microsoft do?
Sony and Microsoft are like Ferrari and Lamborghini. Fast, flashy, expensive, and only for die-hards. The Wii is a nice little 4-door sedan that anyone can get in and drive, and it's even got a nice little plastic spoiler on the back to make it a bit sporty. No, there aren't a lot of heavy-horsepower games on the Wii... but there are a lot of accessible, fun games on it. Which is what is making Nintendo a metric fuckton of money.
And if they make a higher-horsepower version of the Wii that's backwards compatible? I'll buy it in a heartbeat. But the Wii's games are just more fun for family and friends than on other systems.
Don't forget laptops. I get better battery performance and system performance with a lower swappiness, it doesn't start the drive up as often. I use 20 to good effect (especially with 4GB of RAM)
Or you could pay for a data plan and just have all that stuff native and even secure. I SSH from my phone all the time, and even use it as a bluetooth modem when I need a real computer.
No, it doesn't. Not if it's my house. There aren't any gorillas in the wild in the US. It's pretty much certain that someone was hallucinating or saw someone in a gorilla suit than it actually being a gorilla.
Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Someone seeing something, especially when we understand what a hallucination is, is not in any way proof of something. It's evidence, and if you can reasonably believe the person who saw it wasn't hallucinating, then it might warrant investigation. But nothing in this article or your argument leads to that end, it's just idle wishing on your part that supernatural things exist, and grasping at straws. Please, don't ever teach someone science, or claim you know what science is.
Jumping immediately to a supernatural explanation when a natural explanation is much simpler is silly.
The ball could have fallen off the shelf when I slammed the door, OR a gorilla could have put it up there, let it go, and then disappeared into the attic!
There's no guarantee that there isn't a gorilla, but it's pretty fucking stupid to jump to that as a reasonable explanation.
Junction points have been around since at least Win2K, possibly NT4. I know I used them on 2K personally, can't speak to NT4 though. And Volume Shadow Copy requires application cooperation, so it's not really that much of an improvement over standard mirroring unless you use copy-on-write, which is still not filesystem level. You need to have the apps aware of it.
There was that very short word "a" before the word "minority" that meant that it was a small group, not that it was a racial minority. No Child Left Behind does NOT help minorities. It simply keeps people in school who otherwise would fail out, which is what's known elsewhere as "state sponsored babysitting". I'm all for funding vocational education, and providing for everyone, but we need to stop letting the stupid kids hold back the smart ones.
I had my chem teacher pull that once, actually. I think I was the only one who knew the material well enough to actually be confident in the answers being mostly C.
But we regularly had multiple-guess tests. I think it was easier for him to pawn the grading off on someone who didn't understand chemistry that way, or at least his teachers aides who could then have very defined guidelines of how to grade.
I'll pay for education. I don't want to pay for the No Child Gets Ahead program bullshit, where half the money is pissed away on a minority of kids who'd be better served in vocational or other alternative education, instead of dragging everyone else down.
People don't trust the educational system because teachers have been hamstrung by lawsuits, the administration is a political bullshit quagmire (seriously... talk to any teacher you know about the administration of their school), and you can't get intelligent, capable people to teach because males are suspected of being closet child molesters simply for being men, and anyone who is on the fence about teaching goes into private enterprise because the personal risk is much lower, and the pay is the same if not better.
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What's sad is that it's really hard to even give nice stuff away on Craigslist. We've tried to get rid of a pretty decent entertainment center that we just don't need any more, and we can't even get someone competent enough with a truck to come over and pick it up.
...so nothing ties the application to the hardware? You need to have SOMETHING there. That's basically the whole point of an OS... to tie itself to the hardware so the applications don't have to. If you want to try new hardware ideas, you need to write a new OS. There's no way around it. How in the hell did this get modded up?
The people buying supercomputers aren't your typical PHB's. If you need a supercomputer, you know it, and you know enough to look at the whole architecture.
There's a difference between emulating and cross-compiling. If you have access to only the finished binary, you have to emulate, which really kicks up the required resources. But if you have access to the source code, you can compile it to whatever architecture you want, assuming you programmed it sanely. Hence, DirectX, being the same API for multiple architectures, you should be able to take the same code and with minimal changes compile it to run well on another architecture
And you probably live alone, don't you? Those of us with families really like the Wii because it doesn't force one person to monopolize the TV if they want to play a game. I still have games on the PS2 I want to play through, but I don't because my wife wants to use the TV, too. We can agree on playing things like Mario Kart or Raving Rabbids together, though.
It'll only cost you $5/mo for me to not come and break your knees. Surely that's cheaper than paying all those medical bills and being out of work, right?
Just because it's cheaper than the alternative doesn't make the alternative right, or a legal bargaining chip.
We sure have some posh stadiums and administrative offices to show for it, though
You mean something like this?
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/16/nintendo-motionplus.html
And the people MAKING the big money are the ones selling the games for the Wii.
Initially the Wii wasn't expected to be a hit, so all the big houses geared up for the PS3/360. Of course their flagship games won't come out for the Wii... they weren't planning on it. But the PS3 and the 360 are made for hardcore gamers, and there are a lot more casual gamers out there. Companies are realizing that, and a number of them have announced games for the Wii that they weren't originally planning on ever having.
Nintendo makes a profit on each console, and has a huge fan-base. Why would they consider losing money on consoles like Sony and Microsoft do?
Sony and Microsoft are like Ferrari and Lamborghini. Fast, flashy, expensive, and only for die-hards. The Wii is a nice little 4-door sedan that anyone can get in and drive, and it's even got a nice little plastic spoiler on the back to make it a bit sporty. No, there aren't a lot of heavy-horsepower games on the Wii... but there are a lot of accessible, fun games on it. Which is what is making Nintendo a metric fuckton of money.
And if they make a higher-horsepower version of the Wii that's backwards compatible? I'll buy it in a heartbeat. But the Wii's games are just more fun for family and friends than on other systems.
Don't forget laptops. I get better battery performance and system performance with a lower swappiness, it doesn't start the drive up as often. I use 20 to good effect (especially with 4GB of RAM)
Where's the "echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness"?
Google finds it pretty quickly
Or you could pay for a data plan and just have all that stuff native and even secure. I SSH from my phone all the time, and even use it as a bluetooth modem when I need a real computer.
No, it doesn't. Not if it's my house. There aren't any gorillas in the wild in the US. It's pretty much certain that someone was hallucinating or saw someone in a gorilla suit than it actually being a gorilla.
Remember, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Someone seeing something, especially when we understand what a hallucination is, is not in any way proof of something. It's evidence, and if you can reasonably believe the person who saw it wasn't hallucinating, then it might warrant investigation. But nothing in this article or your argument leads to that end, it's just idle wishing on your part that supernatural things exist, and grasping at straws. Please, don't ever teach someone science, or claim you know what science is.
It's actually kinda tipped in their favor to being idiots. Lack of education and general life experience is pretty common among poor kids.
And if the pipes are under cabinet but next to an outside wall, leave the cabinet doors open so heat can get to them.
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Ooohh! Oohh! I know this one!
Batman! It's Batman, right? It's gotta be.
Jumping immediately to a supernatural explanation when a natural explanation is much simpler is silly.
The ball could have fallen off the shelf when I slammed the door, OR a gorilla could have put it up there, let it go, and then disappeared into the attic!
There's no guarantee that there isn't a gorilla, but it's pretty fucking stupid to jump to that as a reasonable explanation.
And the hallucinations mentioned in this article help other people through their losses. We all have coping mechanisms.
Junction points have been around since at least Win2K, possibly NT4. I know I used them on 2K personally, can't speak to NT4 though. And Volume Shadow Copy requires application cooperation, so it's not really that much of an improvement over standard mirroring unless you use copy-on-write, which is still not filesystem level. You need to have the apps aware of it.
There was that very short word "a" before the word "minority" that meant that it was a small group, not that it was a racial minority. No Child Left Behind does NOT help minorities. It simply keeps people in school who otherwise would fail out, which is what's known elsewhere as "state sponsored babysitting". I'm all for funding vocational education, and providing for everyone, but we need to stop letting the stupid kids hold back the smart ones.
I had my chem teacher pull that once, actually. I think I was the only one who knew the material well enough to actually be confident in the answers being mostly C.
But we regularly had multiple-guess tests. I think it was easier for him to pawn the grading off on someone who didn't understand chemistry that way, or at least his teachers aides who could then have very defined guidelines of how to grade.
I'll pay for education. I don't want to pay for the No Child Gets Ahead program bullshit, where half the money is pissed away on a minority of kids who'd be better served in vocational or other alternative education, instead of dragging everyone else down.
People don't trust the educational system because teachers have been hamstrung by lawsuits, the administration is a political bullshit quagmire (seriously... talk to any teacher you know about the administration of their school), and you can't get intelligent, capable people to teach because males are suspected of being closet child molesters simply for being men, and anyone who is on the fence about teaching goes into private enterprise because the personal risk is much lower, and the pay is the same if not better.
Oh, and further news in that case: http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/003741.html