Just for the sake of something new?
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CSS for the LDP?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The site looks fine to me, it's very usable and I see no real problem with it. Sounds to me that some people may be bored and want to make it look different just for the sake of changing it.
Unless they can make even easier to use, it seems like a waste of time to me. I could change the look of things on my end if I really needed to.
I know the idea of having the internet being a government regulated utility has been around. Should it be like water and power? I think it would be a very bad idea myself.
The same thing came up on the last discussion on this, and it seems that the radiation levels on roads is much less than other areas since all of the radioactive junk gets washed off due to rain etc.
Now going inside houses and all that is another story. Really amazing pictures, I wish someone could build a drone to go inside some of those areas.
I'm really focusing more on things like college level text books for classes. I can easily spend $100 for one book. If this thing costs 365, and they sold the books at a reasonable price (maybe 25), you would come out ahead after a couple semesters. (not to mention nice features). But I doubt the book publishers would go for this, all they're about is putting out a new edition for more cash.
I'd love to be able to condence a lot of my books into something like that, but it's still just too small. It should fold out to two sides for one thing since many books are written in a format with that in mind. (at least text books for classes).
If they can do that, make notes using handwriting easy (no recognition required), I'd love that...
But I bet the main opponents to this would be book publishers who charge exhorbiant amounts for "new editions" where hardly anything was changed. oh well.
Certainly sounds like this is something to look into, support sounds rather good and expanding at a nice pace. If it works very well with things like overclocking too, it could really hit mainstream hardware enthusiasts and more rapid growth.
Fifty supported motherboards are in the source tree, but we have found that many motherboards are so similar that a LinuxBIOS for one motherboard can work on another. Companies build code for one motherboard, run it on another motherboard and do not always get around to telling us.
If you narrow the odds down to just people who share a large amount of files (I'm thinking maybe 3000+ songs) you're odds should get better at being sued. And that is the reasoning behind all of it, try to knock off the biggest shares. I don't agree with how they're doing it, but it seems to be the reasoning.
If they'd actually put all of these lawyer's fees into a better way of selling music they'd be making far more money.
I was forced to take a lot of comp sci theory classes that have never and will never be useful on the job.
Somewhat true, and somewhat false. First off, computer science != computer programming, it's much more than that. Second, if you had good professors and course material, you would have at least been taught how to code things much more efficiantly and using better methodologies.
The parent post has a good point. The benefits of such endeavors far outweigh the initial cost (investment really). The only way we will be able to develop better ways of doing things is to continually push ourselves to innovate.
The benefits from things like a mars mission or base on the moon won't be instant, but it's a wise investment.
Sure maybe they can code on the cheap, but are they developers that really care about making a good game? Or are they simply following orders without thinking?
Whether it's foreign or domestic programmers, this is a big problem. And I don't think it will be any easier to handle like this.
With recent developments in brain-computer interfaces (such as the monkeys controlling a mouse cursor with only their mind), It wouldn't be a stretch to simply think about talking instead of hitting your shirt all the time.
And in the farther future the next step is not even bothering to vocalize but merely think about saying those words. That would be moving from the enterprise, to the borg I guess.
It simply amazes me how those ideas are no longer restricted to science fiction anymore.
The whole article is very alarmist. Maybe he does smoke a little too much...
I mean, we need this research to better understand the diseases, and it needs to be conducted somewhere. Would it be right to move this to another country? I don't think so at all.
The better we understand these diseases the easier it will be to defeat them.
Wow can you imagine what would happen if a large number of companies used this?
An attack on company A, spoofed as comming from company B who are all using this would be catastrophic! They'd just bounce attacks back and forth until it escalates enough to take everyone out.
It's like starting off with a handgun, and continually escalating up until you nuke each other.
Of course, I find it absolutely ludicrious that they are offering to sell the stolen goods back to the rightful owner! They know it's not legal to sell stolen goods, and they're just making themselves look like THE most greedy bastards on the planet!
I think I will go elsewhere for my future game purchases.
Correlation between memory and intelligence?
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The Memory Masters
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The article gives the impression that memory = intelligence. But I would beg to differ. So what if you can memorize a long binary string. You may not even know it is binary, nor what the string translates to.
I guess the thinking is, "well they do very well on tests". Sure, that's because they memorized everything. But do they Understand? There's a difference between knowing something, and really understanding what it means. I really think schools should focus more in testing how well a student really understands a subject, perhaps demonstrate the ability to teach it to someone else.
map shows level of radiation on asphalt, usually on the middle of road, because on edge of road it is twice as higher and if you step 1 meter off the road it 4 or 5 times higher. Radiation sit on earth, on the grass, in apples and mushrooms. It is not on asphalt, which make rides through this area safe.
I don't quite understand this. Why is the level of radiation so dramatically different on roads? Or is this simply not even true? Regardless, I wouldn't be driving through there like that...If your bike breaks down in the middle of it you're sooo screwed.
I wouldn't rule out MS putting in a re-writeable dvd drive. They retail under 100 bucks these days, so if they struck a deal with some company it could be rather cost effective.
Games didn't really use the HD much anyways. And I bet one dvd-rw would be enough to hold all the extra game content you download for a very long time.
I got the collector's edition for 40 bucks, comes on DVD with a nice logitech headset and bonus dvd. It also has some kind of emblem that adds either 50HP to your car or 2ghz to your pc (whichever you apply it to)
The mechwarrior concept for a giant heavily armed vehicle isn't what we need. What we Do need is a better way to infiltrate small areas, ie: urban combat. With an exoskeleton system we can heavily armor soldiers to be immune to all small arms fire, and small explosives.
Just do what you want to do. Have fun, because the money's not worth it if you hate your life. Far too many people get into an industry such as IT just because it may have an appearance of being easy and paying well. Same thing with any other profession.
It's better to be the best at what you love, than to be merely average at something you hate.
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Unless they can make even easier to use, it seems like a waste of time to me. I could change the look of things on my end if I really needed to.
I know the idea of having the internet being a government regulated utility has been around. Should it be like water and power? I think it would be a very bad idea myself.
Now going inside houses and all that is another story. Really amazing pictures, I wish someone could build a drone to go inside some of those areas.
I'm really focusing more on things like college level text books for classes. I can easily spend $100 for one book. If this thing costs 365, and they sold the books at a reasonable price (maybe 25), you would come out ahead after a couple semesters. (not to mention nice features). But I doubt the book publishers would go for this, all they're about is putting out a new edition for more cash.
If they can do that, make notes using handwriting easy (no recognition required), I'd love that...
But I bet the main opponents to this would be book publishers who charge exhorbiant amounts for "new editions" where hardly anything was changed. oh well.
Even if they integrate this with Longhorn or xp SP2, people won't use "add based searching" when they can go to google.
Fifty supported motherboards are in the source tree, but we have found that many motherboards are so similar that a LinuxBIOS for one motherboard can work on another. Companies build code for one motherboard, run it on another motherboard and do not always get around to telling us.
If they'd actually put all of these lawyer's fees into a better way of selling music they'd be making far more money.
Ramzi:"Hello again my hacker beotches, Ramzi in hizz house. As leet hackers...."
Ok I know it's supposed to be funny, but it just makes me cringe.
Somewhat true, and somewhat false. First off, computer science != computer programming, it's much more than that. Second, if you had good professors and course material, you would have at least been taught how to code things much more efficiantly and using better methodologies.
The benefits from things like a mars mission or base on the moon won't be instant, but it's a wise investment.
Whether it's foreign or domestic programmers, this is a big problem. And I don't think it will be any easier to handle like this.
And in the farther future the next step is not even bothering to vocalize but merely think about saying those words. That would be moving from the enterprise, to the borg I guess.
It simply amazes me how those ideas are no longer restricted to science fiction anymore.
I mean, we need this research to better understand the diseases, and it needs to be conducted somewhere. Would it be right to move this to another country? I don't think so at all.
The better we understand these diseases the easier it will be to defeat them.
An attack on company A, spoofed as comming from company B who are all using this would be catastrophic! They'd just bounce attacks back and forth until it escalates enough to take everyone out.
It's like starting off with a handgun, and continually escalating up until you nuke each other.
Actually if you did have this thing outside in a very warm summer climate, you could have some problems there.
I think I will go elsewhere for my future game purchases.
I guess the thinking is, "well they do very well on tests". Sure, that's because they memorized everything. But do they Understand? There's a difference between knowing something, and really understanding what it means. I really think schools should focus more in testing how well a student really understands a subject, perhaps demonstrate the ability to teach it to someone else.
You really need to watch out for those who speak Elvish in a deep Klingon accent.
I don't quite understand this. Why is the level of radiation so dramatically different on roads? Or is this simply not even true? Regardless, I wouldn't be driving through there like that...If your bike breaks down in the middle of it you're sooo screwed.
Games didn't really use the HD much anyways. And I bet one dvd-rw would be enough to hold all the extra game content you download for a very long time.
I got the collector's edition for 40 bucks, comes on DVD with a nice logitech headset and bonus dvd. It also has some kind of emblem that adds either 50HP to your car or 2ghz to your pc (whichever you apply it to)
The mechwarrior concept for a giant heavily armed vehicle isn't what we need. What we Do need is a better way to infiltrate small areas, ie: urban combat. With an exoskeleton system we can heavily armor soldiers to be immune to all small arms fire, and small explosives.
Oh that's right, I guess all women don't drive more than ten miles away from one, and don't mind paying high prices either.
It's better to be the best at what you love, than to be merely average at something you hate.