"Of course, if newspapers decide to all lock away their content that just means the rest of us will have a bunch of great journalism talent to pick from soon thereafter."
Perhaps you haven't read a newspaper for the last several years. Nearly everyone with talent is already long gone.
"If anyone says Emacs or Vi they are insane and have never done 10k lines of code in a modern environment."
To claim no one who's worked with even a small amount of code (10k isn't that much tbh) would never use vim or emacs again is a bit ignorant. If you organize things properly it really isn't very hard even if it isn't ideal.
That being said, I'll completely agree that a good IDE can make a large project easier.
So a company that provides air cooling solutions to data-center design believes air cooling is the way to go? Who would have thought!
Data center cooling requirements vary wildly. In some cases water cooling may be the correct answer. In others air cooling may be the correct answer. You will almost certainly continue to see both solutions for quite a while.
We have to put up with it as long as kdawson is allowed to post stories.
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The numbers I've seen place recent Sun offerings behind IBM and HP in most of the performance-per-watt benchmarks.
Granted, every benchmark is different and it can be difficult to do a fair apples to oranges comparison between different systems. I'm sure there are some benchmarks were Sun does _very_ well but those do not seem to be in the majority.
This may not be a popular comment but it's just a laptop. It doesn't make you any more or less of a man; that part is entirely up to you. If someone mentioning that your laptop is "cute" makes you question your masculinity there are other issues at hand.
There are pros and cons of the temperature going either way and you could just as easily take the opposite view. A temperature increase would allow us to grow more food. So warming in this case is good because it could help stop global hunger.
As a side note, it would definitely cost quite a lot to move millions of people. Thankfully we would have several decades to do so if it was needed. We currently spend more than that in a weekend stimulus package.
I realize change is scary to most of you but how do you KNOW a little warming or cooling is a BAD thing. Who are you to say that the current temperature is the ideal one?
Something is needed to make it more difficult for bots/scripts/etc to register/submit/etc at various sites online but CAPTCHAs have gotten to the point where they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's gotten to the point where it usually takes multiple attempts to get it right and I'm personally sick of it. I'm tired of having to waste my time and it's now at the point where I would rather take my business elsewhere than deal with having to guess a random string of indecipherable letters and numbers.
Will audio solutions help? Not in my case - I refuse to play that gibberish. Not for people with a hearing disability - they can't hear it! Not for people without working PC audio - there are a lot more of them out there than you would think.
There's a better solution. Find it and stop driving people away from your sites with this crap.
Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy?
No. It isn't uncommon. It's quite often company (government in this case) policy.
When I was at Intel they had a document tracking system and we had to securely destroy various documents when we were finished with them. It's been a while but I think it was all "Intel Secret" and above and nearly everything is "Intel Secret". This is no different.
But, as usual, kdawson is posting his wacko conspiracy theories.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you vi fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my Linux Computer for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to load a 2 Meg file . 20 minutes. At home, using EMACS, which by all standards should be a lot slower than vi, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Synaptic will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Firefox is straining to keep up as I type this.
It sounds like your system is having some serious problems. You may want to resolve those before you start blaming a random text editor for bringing your system to its knees.
Chess is said to be "solvable". My understanding is that it can be proven mathematically that chess has a finite series of moves. If this is correct, then at some point computers will be powerful enough to be able win every game because they'll be able to analyze every possible opening all the way to the end and only pick the moves that will win. No human will ever be able to duplicate this feat. So it is inevitable that computers will eventually be unbeatable. I think just a few weeks ago Slashdot had an article that a computer program has been designed that is now at the point where it cannot lose at checkers - ever. Checkers is quite a bit less complex than chess and it has only now been solved. Whether it takes 10, 20, 50 or more years to solve chess, the day will come when computers simply cannot be beaten at chess under the current rules.
That's something a lot of people don't realize when they talk about how "smart" AI is when it can beat someone at chess. If you "solve" a game and have enough storage space you could precompute a decision tree that contains every winning branch. When you get around to playing the game you simply walk down the tree picking the branches with the highest winning percentage (though that's not exactly what was done against Kasparov)
In tic-tac-toe this is easy because the tree is rather small. Chess is much harder to do this with because the tree starts reaching unmanageable sizes.
I'm starting to feel the same way. If I want political news I go to a political site. If I want financial news I go to a financial site. If I want tech news I go to slash^H^H^H^H^H some tech site.
There's definitely times when political news should be reported here but sadly kdawson thinks that's every random story that supports his personal political views.
I also don't appreciate his intentionally misleading headlines and personal political statements. He can save those for dailykos.
The complaint the poster had is that the headline "Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment" is intentionally misleading and just another one of kdawson's political rants.
It isn't of interest to "Geeks & Nerds". At least, no more than any other political story.
The only thing I can think of is kdawson saw "corruption" and "Republican" in the same post and got all excited. Especially since he made a point of making his own comment about some other random Republican.
I'm all for bashing politicians but lets not start flooding the front page with even more unrelated trash;)
This is already done and has been going on for a while.
The company where I work encourages everyone to submit patents whenever possible to the local patent layer. If it's deemed that the idea isn't really worth the effort to pursue a patent you're asked to write an article about it to be posted at a site that's specifically designed for some of the purposes mentioned in this story.
After skimming through the whitepapers I have to agree with you.
It reminds me a little of the dataflow architectures of the 70's. A quick google search will probably give you several reasons why it wasn't very effective in the real world. This design will suffer from many of the same problems.
These are the types of white papers we used to tear apart for fun when I was in grad school. They boast all these breakthroughs that aren't very different from anything else that's done (not uncommon even when great work has been done) and they avoid any mention of (let alone solutions to) all the problems associated with their approach. The benchmarks they're using to gauge performance just make it even funnier.
Whatever the game requirements, it's clear that Radeon HD 2600 XT performance is, frankly, horrible. It's comfortably bested by a Radeon X1650 XT and wilfully thrashed by a Radeon X1950 Pro - a card that comes in at the same price.
And what makes you think this is entirely do to some perceived failure with PS3? There could be other factors at play including a personal desire on his part for change.
You also shouldn't be so quick to assume PS3 was that much of a failure; yes it's not selling as fast as many would like but it's playing a strong role in helping Blueray pull ahead in the format wars.
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"Of course, if newspapers decide to all lock away their content that just means the rest of us will have a bunch of great journalism talent to pick from soon thereafter."
Perhaps you haven't read a newspaper for the last several years. Nearly everyone with talent is already long gone.
"If anyone says Emacs or Vi they are insane and have never done 10k lines of code in a modern environment."
To claim no one who's worked with even a small amount of code (10k isn't that much tbh) would never use vim or emacs again is a bit ignorant. If you organize things properly it really isn't very hard even if it isn't ideal.
That being said, I'll completely agree that a good IDE can make a large project easier.
As others have already pointed out, this patent is not what the /. story claims.
That's to be expected though - I can't remember the last time /. corrected read and understood the contents of a patent app.
So a company that provides air cooling solutions to data-center design believes air cooling is the way to go? Who would have thought!
Data center cooling requirements vary wildly. In some cases water cooling may be the correct answer. In others air cooling may be the correct answer. You will almost certainly continue to see both solutions for quite a while.
We have to put up with it as long as kdawson is allowed to post stories.
The numbers I've seen place recent Sun offerings behind IBM and HP in most of the performance-per-watt benchmarks.
Granted, every benchmark is different and it can be difficult to do a fair apples to oranges comparison between different systems. I'm sure there are some benchmarks were Sun does _very_ well but those do not seem to be in the majority.
This may not be a popular comment but it's just a laptop. It doesn't make you any more or less of a man; that part is entirely up to you. If someone mentioning that your laptop is "cute" makes you question your masculinity there are other issues at hand.
^ I think this guy should be awarded a patent the for "common sense"
There are pros and cons of the temperature going either way and you could just as easily take the opposite view.
A temperature increase would allow us to grow more food. So warming in this case is good because it could help stop global hunger.
As a side note, it would definitely cost quite a lot to move millions of people. Thankfully we would have several decades to do so if it was needed. We currently spend more than that in a weekend stimulus package.
I realize change is scary to most of you but how do you KNOW a little warming or cooling is a BAD thing.
Who are you to say that the current temperature is the ideal one?
Something is needed to make it more difficult for bots/scripts/etc to register/submit/etc at various sites online but CAPTCHAs have gotten to the point where they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's gotten to the point where it usually takes multiple attempts to get it right and I'm personally sick of it. I'm tired of having to waste my time and it's now at the point where I would rather take my business elsewhere than deal with having to guess a random string of indecipherable letters and numbers.
Will audio solutions help? Not in my case - I refuse to play that gibberish. Not for people with a hearing disability - they can't hear it! Not for people without working PC audio - there are a lot more of them out there than you would think.
There's a better solution. Find it and stop driving people away from your sites with this crap.
Kdawson is a bit late on this one... The NV story came out a few days ago and was then proven incorrect.
When I was at Intel they had a document tracking system and we had to securely destroy various documents when we were finished with them. It's been a while but I think it was all "Intel Secret" and above and nearly everything is "Intel Secret". This is no different.
But, as usual, kdawson is posting his wacko conspiracy theories.
First thing I said when I read the story summary was "kdawson must have posted this"
It's scary when I'm right.
(You can mark this as off-topic all you'd like. I'll still say this site is no place for this kind of political BS.)
People are thinking too small when they say "put it on a bus!" or "Put it on a police car!"
If you really want to confuse someone, stash it somewhere in a commercial plane.
In tic-tac-toe this is easy because the tree is rather small. Chess is much harder to do this with because the tree starts reaching unmanageable sizes.
I'm starting to feel the same way. If I want political news I go to a political site. If I want financial news I go to a financial site. If I want tech news I go to slash^H^H^H^H^H some tech site.
There's definitely times when political news should be reported here but sadly kdawson thinks that's every random story that supports his personal political views.
I also don't appreciate his intentionally misleading headlines and personal political statements. He can save those for dailykos.
It's not partisan to protect the 5th amendment.
The complaint the poster had is that the headline "Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment" is intentionally misleading and just another one of kdawson's political rants.
It isn't of interest to "Geeks & Nerds". At least, no more than any other political story.
;)
The only thing I can think of is kdawson saw "corruption" and "Republican" in the same post and got all excited. Especially since he made a point of making his own comment about some other random Republican.
I'm all for bashing politicians but lets not start flooding the front page with even more unrelated trash
This is already done and has been going on for a while.
The company where I work encourages everyone to submit patents whenever possible to the local patent layer. If it's deemed that the idea isn't really worth the effort to pursue a patent you're asked to write an article about it to be posted at a site that's specifically designed for some of the purposes mentioned in this story.
Actually, the more I think about it they could have made a better whitepaper using this:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
After skimming through the whitepapers I have to agree with you.
It reminds me a little of the dataflow architectures of the 70's. A quick google search will probably give you several reasons why it wasn't very effective in the real world. This design will suffer from many of the same problems.
These are the types of white papers we used to tear apart for fun when I was in grad school. They boast all these breakthroughs that aren't very different from anything else that's done (not uncommon even when great work has been done) and they avoid any mention of (let alone solutions to) all the problems associated with their approach. The benchmarks they're using to gauge performance just make it even funnier.
And what makes you think this is entirely do to some perceived failure with PS3? There could be other factors at play including a personal desire on his part for change.
You also shouldn't be so quick to assume PS3 was that much of a failure; yes it's not selling as fast as many would like but it's playing a strong role in helping Blueray pull ahead in the format wars.