...would someone explain me why one wants a laptop with a highest performance 3D accelerated card that makes sense only in newest games
Because people are stupid. Personally, for my laptop, I want Intel to use their latest & greatest mobile technology, and then UNDERCLOCK that processor down to 700MHz, buying me more compute time on the road.
The shockwaves that it would send through religion would be huge
Only for religions that believe humans (and Earth) are "chosen ones" to represent the "one true god". There are other religions that are much more open towards other forms of intelligent life (eg Buddhism).
Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
What about for the parent and child who would rather IM while around the house. Doesn't prolonged exposure to this make the child more unwilling to talk to his/her parent face-to-face about sex/drugs/abuse??
I know I tried my damnedest to remain an reclusive troll around my house, but thankfully my parents were active in my life and always asked questions. Hindsight being what it is, I'm glad we came to a good balance between privacy and parenting! That sort of thing requires you to LOOK at your parents and FACE your problems/fears.. not hitting "Block" or "Exit".
Well Said.
What's more sad is that this is the same group of people that complain about insufficient parental supervision for children that go postal and shoot others at school or play games inappropriate for their age.
maybe 'buy american' could be our new battle cry;)
Wasn't that Walmart's battle cry for years... until it became convenient for them to forget it in favor of another battle cry that generated yet more money?
I think it's a calculating move by politicians. With the SPAM bill they reduce the noise surrounding their own spam. I know that my grandparents didn't mind SPAM when they first got on the internet, when it was only ~1-5 per day. They stopped reading SPAM when it exploded to 100's per day.
If the SPAM bill helps cut that down to, say, 20 per day, politicians' own included, I think elderly people like my grandparents will start reading SPAM again. With the growing importance of the elderly voting population, I think SPAM can be quite important for these politicians.
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Hm... I'm slightly confused. If the latest vaccine used was cowpox-based, are they trying to study the similarities between now-cowpox and then-smallpox? I can see them wanting to understand how a virus has evolved, but I don't see what exactly comparing it to cowpox would do. Perhaps they want to study how the two have diverged. Any thoughts?
Well, I think that most likely they'd compare these smallpox samples with the frozen ones. You know, the "last" of the smallpox virus, controlled by the government, in some highly guarded freezer somewhere. Identifying how those samples differ could lead to insights into current cowpox-based vaccines.
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If the virus is nothing but the DNA and a protein coating around it, why are the people wanting it to be live ?
Am I missing something ? What am I missing ?
They are probably referring to whether or not the DNA information is sufficiently in-tact. If the DNA is too far destroyed, the virus probably won't be able to reproduce itself even after infecting a live cell.
Why the hell is the parent modded troll? I've never seen Firefly, and all the fandom on slashdot has me intrigued. But the parent poster has a point... what's so special about it? Instead of modding it down, mod it up and get someone to post a good rebuttal.
With the push on modern hardware, I'm surprised there aren't more stereoscopic LCD shutter glasses in use. You'd need to do a consistent 150fps to give each eye 75fps.
But, as someone else has already mentioned, sometimes it's the pure scope 1600x1200x(full features) and not just the framerate.
ummm... or we can recycle our plastic and reduce the amount of oil we burn, thus reducing the amount of oil we dig up. Saving our natural resources for future generations, reducing landfill, and reducing air pollution all at the same time.
I hope you were joking with your "crazy logic", because it's about as "logical" as the marketing spin the oil or tobacco companies would come up with.
I remember several people on their hands and knees, trying to overcome their fear of heights and crawl out the middle of the glass. Some others slowly walked over it.
I waltzed right to the middle of that section, and started jumping up and down. Everyone scrambled off like a bunch of roaches.
hehehehe
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Just once I'd like to hear "results so far lead us to believe that these brain-machine interfaces hold enormous promise for increased programmer productivity."
.. as an addendum (not meant as a troll)...
And besides, even with a two or three fold increase in productivity, it's still cheaper for companies to outsource most of their programming tasks anyways.
Just once I'd like to hear "results so far lead us to believe that these brain-machine interfaces hold enormous promise for increased programmer productivity."
Because stating it this way will make you lose your research funding.
The people who decide where to give research funding are pathetic beaurocrats that want to think their job is important. They want to believe that they play a critical role in saving the world. Stroking that ego is how you continue to get research funding for stuff like this.
Saying that you're developing technology to blur the human/computer line will cause these people to immediately panick and stop your research, pending an ethical debate.
Depending on the school's policy, it might not even be your place to do anything about it.
Some slashdotters have gone to extremes and mentioned giving both parties big fat 0's. But is this really the right thing to do? What if they happened to reach a spectacularly similar solution by coincidence? Do you wish to defend and testify in a review committee session?
The reason that it may appear as if your prof isn't doing anything could be that it's not his place to decide anything about it either!
Surprisingly enough, schools now usually have committees that deal with this. Your best bet is to continue to give them marks as if they haven't been cheating, but continue to make thorough notes regarding those people that you suspect are cheating. You should then review these findings with your professor, and encourage him to contact the proper academic conduct review board of the school.
This is called proper proceedure. You should read your school's guidelines and your TA contract. Vigilante behavior is not what we want to teach, both to the students and to you, the TA.
back to K-Mart, presented my receipt and the game, in it's packaging, but obviously opened. They asked my reason for returning it and I simply told them I was unsatisfied with my purchase, they gave me my money back and that was that
I think you (and K-Mart) had it right on. I think that a reasonable window for full refund is perfectly fine. After a window for returns, say seven days, then it can slip back into something like exchanges only.
I think that the few times where customers will take advantage of the return policy in bad faith (playing it for 6 days and then returning it) will only be a small burden compared to the extra customers and sales you will gain because they feel more comfortable purchasing with confidence.
I know that there are many times I've held onto my money simply because I wasn't sure if I'd still like the game after two days, and the return policy sucked. And there are plenty of times where I purchased a game on a hunch, and the game turned out to be quite fun and worth the money. I'm sure I'm not alone, and I'm sure many more games would get sold with a better return policy.
It all comes back to treating customers right... Many games stores need to learn from the RIAA's mistakes.... but I'm starting to digress now so I'll stop.
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Of course I still think schools should not be allowed to grade their own students or issue them degrees. I'd rather see a sepperation between teaching and certification. Such that when you'd finished school you'd have to take a battery of tests from a third party to verify you'd learned everything required to get your degree. In such a case it really wouldn't matter if the student copied on their papers or not as long as they had learned everything required.
Isn't that why big tests like the SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, etc exist? And we all know how truly effective those tests are in guaging the actual intelligence and proficiency of individuals.
For professional degrees there already exists standards tests like the Bar, engineer license exams, etc. No need to create yet another way for institutions to further "tax" people with fees.
Besides, it is in a school's self-interest to preserve their grading standards for prestige and credability.
dammit I accidentally hit submit instead of preview.
Anyways, to clarify, I meant that rolling the stones up the ramp might be easier than dragging them up, or even moving them up over log rollers.
And being a 'bookworm' myself, I didn't mean it in a derogatory way. Just that sometimes there really are simple solutions that elude even the most knowledgeable thinkers.
It's also possible that they used the ramps to roll the stones up the sides of the pyramid, using stoppers and wedges as they go to prevent a catastrophic backwards roll.
I also think that many people (and judging by many of the responses on this forum so far) are too quick to dismiss the ideas that come from people not in academia. We all need to keep an open mind to ideas; after all, Einstein was once just a lowly patent clerk. And sometimes it takes a "hick" with a lifetime of rock moving experience to come up with a clever solution that a bunch of bookworms might otherwise never think of.
But there is a difference between running a company on a day to day, and having a say in the direction, business practices, and general policies of a company.
Most individuals don't know squat about how to manage highway projects, plan transportation systems, or zone properties to ensure the growth, health, and prosperity of a city. But that doesn't mean citizens shouldn't have a chance to read what the city's commissions find and have a say in the direction they want their cities to go.
And yes, I know that cities aren't perfect and voting isn't perfect. But I think you'd have to agree that it's easier to define and guide the goals of a company than make everyone in a city happy.
In the same way, of course the IT department knows nothing about marketing. I'm not arguing that. But IT (if they were a collective group of shareholders) can certainly make a strong statement regarding the practices of the company as a whole entity.
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I have to agree that it depends on country.
I'm at UToronto, and it seems that most money comes from healthcare.
Because people are stupid. Personally, for my laptop, I want Intel to use their latest & greatest mobile technology, and then UNDERCLOCK that processor down to 700MHz, buying me more compute time on the road.
The shockwaves that it would send through religion would be huge
Only for religions that believe humans (and Earth) are "chosen ones" to represent the "one true god". There are other religions that are much more open towards other forms of intelligent life (eg Buddhism).
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.
Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken
mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen.
Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das
pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
couldn't help myself
What about for the parent and child who would rather IM while around the house. Doesn't prolonged exposure to this make the child more unwilling to talk to his/her parent face-to-face about sex/drugs/abuse??
I know I tried my damnedest to remain an reclusive troll around my house, but thankfully my parents were active in my life and always asked questions. Hindsight being what it is, I'm glad we came to a good balance between privacy and parenting! That sort of thing requires you to LOOK at your parents and FACE your problems/fears.. not hitting "Block" or "Exit".
Well Said.
What's more sad is that this is the same group of people that complain about insufficient parental supervision for children that go postal and shoot others at school or play games inappropriate for their age.
maybe 'buy american' could be our new battle cry ;)
Wasn't that Walmart's battle cry for years... until it became convenient for them to forget it in favor of another battle cry that generated yet more money?
I think it's a calculating move by politicians. With the SPAM bill they reduce the noise surrounding their own spam. I know that my grandparents didn't mind SPAM when they first got on the internet, when it was only ~1-5 per day. They stopped reading SPAM when it exploded to 100's per day.
If the SPAM bill helps cut that down to, say, 20 per day, politicians' own included, I think elderly people like my grandparents will start reading SPAM again. With the growing importance of the elderly voting population, I think SPAM can be quite important for these politicians.
Hm
Well, I think that most likely they'd compare these smallpox samples with the frozen ones. You know, the "last" of the smallpox virus, controlled by the government, in some highly guarded freezer somewhere. Identifying how those samples differ could lead to insights into current cowpox-based vaccines.
If the virus is nothing but the DNA and a protein coating around it, why are the people wanting it to be live ?
Am I missing something ? What am I missing ?
They are probably referring to whether or not the DNA information is sufficiently in-tact. If the DNA is too far destroyed, the virus probably won't be able to reproduce itself even after infecting a live cell.
Well don't leave us hanging... what was his response?
Mod parent back up.
Why the hell is the parent modded troll? I've never seen Firefly, and all the fandom on slashdot has me intrigued. But the parent poster has a point... what's so special about it? Instead of modding it down, mod it up and get someone to post a good rebuttal.
Wouldn't that be the better way to win fans?
here is a recent SOSP paper that discusses using a P2P system to preserve the integrity of publications.
With the push on modern hardware, I'm surprised there aren't more stereoscopic LCD shutter glasses in use. You'd need to do a consistent 150fps to give each eye 75fps.
But, as someone else has already mentioned, sometimes it's the pure scope 1600x1200x(full features) and not just the framerate.
Someone just needs to write a program that users can run, to check and make sure that the target program runs correctly!
(yes, I'm joking)
ummm... or we can recycle our plastic and reduce the amount of oil we burn, thus reducing the amount of oil we dig up. Saving our natural resources for future generations, reducing landfill, and reducing air pollution all at the same time.
I hope you were joking with your "crazy logic", because it's about as "logical" as the marketing spin the oil or tobacco companies would come up with.
I remember several people on their hands and knees, trying to overcome their fear of heights and crawl out the middle of the glass. Some others slowly walked over it.
I waltzed right to the middle of that section, and started jumping up and down. Everyone scrambled off like a bunch of roaches.
hehehehe
The prayer itself is not the point.
Remember this slash article about the pain of rejection?
What scientists should be looking at is the power of positive thought and feeling of social acceptance in improving quality of life for recovery.
And besides, even with a two or three fold increase in productivity, it's still cheaper for companies to outsource most of their programming tasks anyways.
Because stating it this way will make you lose your research funding.
The people who decide where to give research funding are pathetic beaurocrats that want to think their job is important. They want to believe that they play a critical role in saving the world. Stroking that ego is how you continue to get research funding for stuff like this.
Saying that you're developing technology to blur the human/computer line will cause these people to immediately panick and stop your research, pending an ethical debate.
Depending on the school's policy, it might not even be your place to do anything about it.
Some slashdotters have gone to extremes and mentioned giving both parties big fat 0's. But is this really the right thing to do? What if they happened to reach a spectacularly similar solution by coincidence? Do you wish to defend and testify in a review committee session?
The reason that it may appear as if your prof isn't doing anything could be that it's not his place to decide anything about it either!
Surprisingly enough, schools now usually have committees that deal with this. Your best bet is to continue to give them marks as if they haven't been cheating, but continue to make thorough notes regarding those people that you suspect are cheating. You should then review these findings with your professor, and encourage him to contact the proper academic conduct review board of the school.
This is called proper proceedure. You should read your school's guidelines and your TA contract. Vigilante behavior is not what we want to teach, both to the students and to you, the TA.
Just my two cents.
I think you (and K-Mart) had it right on. I think that a reasonable window for full refund is perfectly fine. After a window for returns, say seven days, then it can slip back into something like exchanges only.
I think that the few times where customers will take advantage of the return policy in bad faith (playing it for 6 days and then returning it) will only be a small burden compared to the extra customers and sales you will gain because they feel more comfortable purchasing with confidence.
I know that there are many times I've held onto my money simply because I wasn't sure if I'd still like the game after two days, and the return policy sucked. And there are plenty of times where I purchased a game on a hunch, and the game turned out to be quite fun and worth the money. I'm sure I'm not alone, and I'm sure many more games would get sold with a better return policy.
It all comes back to treating customers right... Many games stores need to learn from the RIAA's mistakes.
Isn't that why big tests like the SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, etc exist? And we all know how truly effective those tests are in guaging the actual intelligence and proficiency of individuals.
For professional degrees there already exists standards tests like the Bar, engineer license exams, etc. No need to create yet another way for institutions to further "tax" people with fees.
Besides, it is in a school's self-interest to preserve their grading standards for prestige and credability.
dammit I accidentally hit submit instead of preview.
Anyways, to clarify, I meant that rolling the stones up the ramp might be easier than dragging them up, or even moving them up over log rollers.
And being a 'bookworm' myself, I didn't mean it in a derogatory way. Just that sometimes there really are simple solutions that elude even the most knowledgeable thinkers.
It's also possible that they used the ramps to roll the stones up the sides of the pyramid, using stoppers and wedges as they go to prevent a catastrophic backwards roll.
I also think that many people (and judging by many of the responses on this forum so far) are too quick to dismiss the ideas that come from people not in academia. We all need to keep an open mind to ideas; after all, Einstein was once just a lowly patent clerk. And sometimes it takes a "hick" with a lifetime of rock moving experience to come up with a clever solution that a bunch of bookworms might otherwise never think of.
No argument on that.
But there is a difference between running a company on a day to day, and having a say in the direction, business practices, and general policies of a company.
Most individuals don't know squat about how to manage highway projects, plan transportation systems, or zone properties to ensure the growth, health, and prosperity of a city. But that doesn't mean citizens shouldn't have a chance to read what the city's commissions find and have a say in the direction they want their cities to go.
And yes, I know that cities aren't perfect and voting isn't perfect. But I think you'd have to agree that it's easier to define and guide the goals of a company than make everyone in a city happy.
In the same way, of course the IT department knows nothing about marketing. I'm not arguing that. But IT (if they were a collective group of shareholders) can certainly make a strong statement regarding the practices of the company as a whole entity.