Because he's a scientist, it makes this 'Michael Ruse' fellow correct? Just because it's very popular doesn't mean it's right, or even worthy of a second glance. Believing in witches was very popular in Salem once upon a time. I'm not going to go "study" or "engage with the ideas" of someone with that mindset. It's a losing battle. How's the saying go... "Never argue with an idiot, they'll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"? Or perhaps it's more like "Never argue with an idiot. Some people might not be able to tell the difference."
Christianity is a good thing for it's social works and it's ability to placate the masses. But it should NEVER be allowed to dictate scientific research, or political or legal action, because it's based on faith, and nothing more.
The 2GB limit is the same as within Linux, where 2GB is allocated to an application, and 2GB is allocated to the kernel. This can change with different switches and compile options, but there is pretty much a 2GB limit for any application on a 32 bit computer. Go ahead, try to allocate more than 2GB, see what happens.
But you're only going after the majority. Your assumption that with an infinitely replicable item like software that ONLY people who buy it will use it is what's wrong. You're going to drive off many of the people who would buy otherwise in your quest to catch those other 5% or so of people. It's still illegal to do it. No one's arguing that. But if you make your measures too draconian, even "legitimate" users will get upset. And if people don't think it's worth what you charge for it, well... they'll have less of a problem "stealing" it. If someone thinks you're trying to abuse them or overcharge them (whether you are or not), they won't have any sympathy for you. If you make them think you're doing this for their benefit, and trying to give them a fair deal, they'll be your biggest fan.
The point is that maybe it shouldn't even exist. Give people a fair product at a fair price, and they'll buy it. Windows is not being sold what the market obviously thinks it's worth.
You don't know much about fuzzy logic, do you? You just said yourself a 20-30% increase in volume happens when a thunderstorm hits. But that's not always something that's predicted, even by the smartest manager. Or even the weatherman. It's just something that you'll have to deal with when the time comes. But if the system has data from the past 5 or 6 years of staffing and sales volumes, I'd bet that it'll be able to tell that, say, the 2nd week of April needs a few more people per shift than the first week of December (or whatever). I've had managers that scheduled things so we were overstaffed or understaffed. Or completely forgot that I wasn't able to make it in on Monday afternoons and scheduled me anyway. All that the system really needs to do is be able to take manual changes EASILY, handle them GRACEFULLY, and LEARN from those changes. After you get that done... well, the sky's the limit. Scheduling is very hard. Very few managers can do it reliably. I'd take a machine that's well designed over about 90% of the people that I have had write my schedules before.
I take it you've never taken statistics, or heard of the term "representative sample". She doesn't tell you that you're stretching your ass out wrong (going from your nick) because she has no experience with it, why are you questioning her abilities, when it's obvious that you have no training in the field?
What about playing on a LAN with other people, though? You'll be moving from 0.3ms to 0.1ms. Or something. I don't actually know, but I'd guarantee you that's where this card is targeted. Not at the people playing online games, but those playing networked, LAN games.
Really? I just stuck a Kubuntu 6.06 Live DVD in my drive, booted up, and was surfing as soon as it booted. It connected automagically to an open access point, and everything that I wanted was right there. Don't even need to install it.
Hell, use PHP for static content. Just figure out how to run it correctly. You don't need insane loops or anything for relatively static content, or to do any massive processing in common headers and such.
It's also one of the most powerfully descriptive languages there is. There is no way to show the nuances in most other languages that is possible in english (when the speaker has an adequate command of the language).
I'll give you that. Like I said, there is racism. But when it's perfectly politically acceptable for a black person to call a white person a "cracker", yet a sin to end all sins for a white person to call a black person "nigger", that's a racist double-standard.
Primarily I was objecting to the fact that when it happens to "minority" people (by 2010 "white alone" will only be 65% of the US population.) that it's something to be railed against, but when it happens to white people it's all fine and dandy, we're just getting what we deserve from our years of oppressive behavior. Realize that a lot of it is cultural. If you don't emphasize education, if you don't work to make your situation better, you'll just sit in the ghetto. That's true for anyone, not just minorities. I guarantee you that if a cop sees me wandering through a trailer park or poor neighboorhood at 2am, he'd possibly question me or at least pay very close attention to me, whereas he'd just drive by if I were downtown at the same time, whether I was black or white.
And it took me a few seconds of thinking to decode that you meant "Having said that, when I am on IM I'm concerned about...". That certainly doesn't do anything but impede the flow of "conversation", rather than expedite it. Just use a full word. It doesn't take that long to type.
Except middle-class white America hasn't had to live with bars on their windows because their neighbors will steal from or kill them if given the chance. If there's a reason to believe someone will commit a crime, or has, that's one thing. And there are abuses on both sides. But don't even try to play it off as if poor and/or minority people never deserve to be arrested, or that crime rates really are higher in poorer sections of towns, and that current black "culture" is towards self-destructive, violent behavior, completely eschewing education in light of acquiring "hos" and "ice". Don't believe me? Watch 10 minutes of BET, see what's supposedly popular.
But racism doesn't count when it's against white people, right?
No other country has a machine capable of what the shuttle can do, though. Nothing has the sheer payload capacity of the shuttle, not to mention the manipulation capabilities once it's in orbit.
Because that changes things? Who'd use.gov and.mil then? They aren't going away. The Internet started in the US. Americans should get priority in choosing TLD's as such. Feel free to redirect.mil.us and.gov.us to.mil and.gov, but I figure someone has to get the roots, and there's no reason the US shouldn't, and plenty of reasons it should.
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Because he's a scientist, it makes this 'Michael Ruse' fellow correct? Just because it's very popular doesn't mean it's right, or even worthy of a second glance. Believing in witches was very popular in Salem once upon a time. I'm not going to go "study" or "engage with the ideas" of someone with that mindset. It's a losing battle. How's the saying go... "Never argue with an idiot, they'll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"? Or perhaps it's more like "Never argue with an idiot. Some people might not be able to tell the difference." Christianity is a good thing for it's social works and it's ability to placate the masses. But it should NEVER be allowed to dictate scientific research, or political or legal action, because it's based on faith, and nothing more.
Most fun you've ever had? Try sex sometime ;) With someone else, that is...
The 2GB limit is the same as within Linux, where 2GB is allocated to an application, and 2GB is allocated to the kernel. This can change with different switches and compile options, but there is pretty much a 2GB limit for any application on a 32 bit computer. Go ahead, try to allocate more than 2GB, see what happens.
But you're only going after the majority. Your assumption that with an infinitely replicable item like software that ONLY people who buy it will use it is what's wrong. You're going to drive off many of the people who would buy otherwise in your quest to catch those other 5% or so of people. It's still illegal to do it. No one's arguing that. But if you make your measures too draconian, even "legitimate" users will get upset. And if people don't think it's worth what you charge for it, well... they'll have less of a problem "stealing" it. If someone thinks you're trying to abuse them or overcharge them (whether you are or not), they won't have any sympathy for you. If you make them think you're doing this for their benefit, and trying to give them a fair deal, they'll be your biggest fan.
The point is that maybe it shouldn't even exist. Give people a fair product at a fair price, and they'll buy it. Windows is not being sold what the market obviously thinks it's worth.
You don't know much about fuzzy logic, do you? You just said yourself a 20-30% increase in volume happens when a thunderstorm hits. But that's not always something that's predicted, even by the smartest manager. Or even the weatherman. It's just something that you'll have to deal with when the time comes. But if the system has data from the past 5 or 6 years of staffing and sales volumes, I'd bet that it'll be able to tell that, say, the 2nd week of April needs a few more people per shift than the first week of December (or whatever). I've had managers that scheduled things so we were overstaffed or understaffed. Or completely forgot that I wasn't able to make it in on Monday afternoons and scheduled me anyway. All that the system really needs to do is be able to take manual changes EASILY, handle them GRACEFULLY, and LEARN from those changes. After you get that done... well, the sky's the limit. Scheduling is very hard. Very few managers can do it reliably. I'd take a machine that's well designed over about 90% of the people that I have had write my schedules before.
Ahhh, true. Well, this is /. Why would I read the article before replying? :)
But if you're building a new datacenter, or just going to do a phased migration as things are upgraded, would it make sense?
I take it you've never taken statistics, or heard of the term "representative sample". She doesn't tell you that you're stretching your ass out wrong (going from your nick) because she has no experience with it, why are you questioning her abilities, when it's obvious that you have no training in the field?
What about playing on a LAN with other people, though? You'll be moving from 0.3ms to 0.1ms. Or something. I don't actually know, but I'd guarantee you that's where this card is targeted. Not at the people playing online games, but those playing networked, LAN games.
Really? I just stuck a Kubuntu 6.06 Live DVD in my drive, booted up, and was surfing as soon as it booted. It connected automagically to an open access point, and everything that I wanted was right there. Don't even need to install it.
True. I've heard of people still using Win98 up until recently because it performed better than 2000 or XP for gaming.
Hell, use PHP for static content. Just figure out how to run it correctly. You don't need insane loops or anything for relatively static content, or to do any massive processing in common headers and such.
Do you really think that it'd be that hard for them to get NVidia and ATI to 'bless' a version of their drivers to ship with the distro? I doubt it.
If nothing's visible but your eyes, then you're still 99.99% invisible. Hell of a lot better than 100% visible.
Remember to use protection!
Put a plastic bag over your keyboard.
It's also one of the most powerfully descriptive languages there is. There is no way to show the nuances in most other languages that is possible in english (when the speaker has an adequate command of the language).
It's a spherical cow, you plebian!
Or would it just turn into the pain in the ass that is DVD+R/DVD-R?
I'll give you that. Like I said, there is racism. But when it's perfectly politically acceptable for a black person to call a white person a "cracker", yet a sin to end all sins for a white person to call a black person "nigger", that's a racist double-standard.
Primarily I was objecting to the fact that when it happens to "minority" people (by 2010 "white alone" will only be 65% of the US population.) that it's something to be railed against, but when it happens to white people it's all fine and dandy, we're just getting what we deserve from our years of oppressive behavior. Realize that a lot of it is cultural. If you don't emphasize education, if you don't work to make your situation better, you'll just sit in the ghetto. That's true for anyone, not just minorities. I guarantee you that if a cop sees me wandering through a trailer park or poor neighboorhood at 2am, he'd possibly question me or at least pay very close attention to me, whereas he'd just drive by if I were downtown at the same time, whether I was black or white.
And it took me a few seconds of thinking to decode that you meant "Having said that, when I am on IM I'm concerned about...". That certainly doesn't do anything but impede the flow of "conversation", rather than expedite it. Just use a full word. It doesn't take that long to type.
At least Chaucer had a larger vocabulary than "r u hawt u want 2 cybr?" and knew that "LOL" was not a punctuation mark, much less a full stop.
Except middle-class white America hasn't had to live with bars on their windows because their neighbors will steal from or kill them if given the chance. If there's a reason to believe someone will commit a crime, or has, that's one thing. And there are abuses on both sides. But don't even try to play it off as if poor and/or minority people never deserve to be arrested, or that crime rates really are higher in poorer sections of towns, and that current black "culture" is towards self-destructive, violent behavior, completely eschewing education in light of acquiring "hos" and "ice". Don't believe me? Watch 10 minutes of BET, see what's supposedly popular.
But racism doesn't count when it's against white people, right?
No other country has a machine capable of what the shuttle can do, though. Nothing has the sheer payload capacity of the shuttle, not to mention the manipulation capabilities once it's in orbit.
Because that changes things? Who'd use .gov and .mil then? They aren't going away. The Internet started in the US. Americans should get priority in choosing TLD's as such. Feel free to redirect .mil.us and .gov.us to .mil and .gov, but I figure someone has to get the roots, and there's no reason the US shouldn't, and plenty of reasons it should.