Depends...;) If you ran 32-bit windows on a 64-bit machine you would notice little difference. If you run it on (presumably Linux) apps compiled for 64 bit then you would notice a big difference.
Hmm upon recalculating, I was a bit off but I can say that $10/hour is in my view definitely underpaid (but I retract my statement that there are few people earning less than that).
At $10/hour, they're making MORE MONEY than a good majority of the citizens in this country
While your point is valid I'm a bit puzzled by your choice of cut-off point. I'm not sure that there are many people in the UK over 18 who make less than $10/hour and if they were they probably would not be paying rent/be the main earner (which is a major potential difference in people's circumstances). Does the US differ by a lot on its pay scales? Maybe my view of the UK is off...
LOTS of car commercials. And the arguments were not about fuel economy, environment, or safety, but how fast and impressive they were.
In the UK, car adverts are banned from using their speed (even indirectly, in the case of one ad) as a selling-point for a car, which seems fairly sensible to me:) Instead advertising either focuses on safety, the high-tech gismos, or the image of the car.
For example, the spelling system is just silly. For example, why are there five ways to write "k" (click, kick, suck, schedule, iraq)?
And while we are at it, why not use "f.e." instead of "e.g."?
And why such an irrelevant six-billionth of the whole deserves to be honored by the capital leter ("I")?
I imagine almost every language has redundancy in it's alphabet. In French for example, ce and se would be pronounced the same. Over time this will probably be reduced, as I said, iterative refinement is the process used inherently in languages over the generations.
I think a little bit of history is not out of place in lanuages. English was strongly affected by Latin (the alphabet for a start!) so why not keep a couple of Latin abbreviations in. i.e. and e.g. are not hard to remember once you learn them and given their (incredibly) common use.
Finally, I (Je/Ich/whatever) is pretty much the most important concept in a lanuage as it is one of the most frequently used words. So I don't see having it capitalised as being that odd...
English will be regarded in the future as a curious artifact
One man's informative is another man's troll... Esperanto was interesting and look where it got. Nowhere. People will speak in what's easiest. English is becoming a de facto standard that will continue to be the most spoken language in the world. People won't use odd designed languages because it will be harder than current languages, which got where they are today though iterative refinement to be the best suited language for us to communicate in.
This technology... thankfully still in its infancy.
So one day instead of complaining against michael and co., everyone will be moaning about someone else's code - seems more appropriate for a nerd site somehow;)
That would be handy, I don't quite understand why O(1) is so hard, unless it is all related to priority scheduling checks. Anyone have links/explanation?
Judaeism more liberal? Not if you read the testaments... Also I would have said stereotypical geeks are more likely to be right-wing because of a lack of empathy. Not meaning to pick holes or anything!
Maybe I'm having a dumb day but does this part make any sense to anyone: "It is not known if the new product line will be available immediately after introduction" ?
Well, apart from the occasional spinning zebra box in a corner. Not sure why I'm getting those.
In England at least what you describe as the spinning zebra box (black and white diagonal lines scrolling left in the top right corner) are used to signify that an ad break is coming up soon. Not sure why they are used, I always presumed it was so you could put the kettle on ready, but I can only presume that they must be present on the "original" for certain TV shows.
No way would I play that; where's the sex and wargaming in polit - oh wait, maybe it could work...
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Don't you think if they logged your IP as you say and were as facist as you say that they would have already banned your ass for trolling this same post on every bloody news item!
On Wednesday morning, Microsoft discovered that a glitch in the patching process resulted in a November fix not being applied to some Windows XP computers. The same patch was sent out again via the Windows update service on Tuesday night.
The patch was due out in November, but it got missed so they re-issued. It's sort of going against what they said but it's understandable and I doubt it will make the world stop spinning. Why is this front page slashdot? If it had been any other company than Microsoft it never would have been news.
Ah come on, you know that no-one calls themselves British. You're either Scottish, Welsh, English or from Northern Ireland (do they have a short version?).
Short answer: yes. But maybe in a different way to Americans.. to people from the UK I'd say it summons up the image of an arrogant (quite possibly stock-broker) American.
"A central commander role supports the team aspect... and received positive feedback. However, an unskilled commander might destroy the team experience"
That last bit makes me think of the PHB in Dilbert, which suggests teamwork in online games is just a mirror of teamwork in everything else - makes sense really.
Championship Manager 3 and 4 and possibly other versions as well set new records in the UK for being the fastest selling PC games on their release (Diablo 2 set the record at one point but has now been toppled).
Given that statistic and the tendency of these lists to produce mainly recent successes, I'm surprised that CM and is so low down the list! I guess it's because a lot of people who don't typically play computer games that much play CM, and don't get included in the poll..
Sonic is no surprise at the top, though Tomb Raider seems higher than I would have expected
The game developers are the ones who really want new performance features (sure it will make the hardware manufacturers money but the developers are the ones who are really driving it).
The game developers don't ever work directly with the graphics card, only the API. So to them extensions to performance are basically extensions to the API (and just demand that users get a card that supports the API).
The API for DirectX is of course designed by Microsoft who want people to use it because it locks them into Microsoft more than OpenGL. So Microsoft want to advance the API to please the developers. Therefore Microsoft extend the API for new future features.
Graphics card performance is not based on processing power, its based on how fast they can go while implementing the API (either DirectX or OpenGL). To get sales they need their DirectX performance to be good so they follow the API (with one eye, the other on OpenGL) and try and make the best card for implementing it.
So there's no real point having a feature on your graphics card that isn't used by the API. While OpenGL does have extensiosn to allow you to get at manufacturer-specific stuff to an extent, as I recall DirectX doesn't so much (it just provides a generalised architecture for manufacturers to implement, as core OpenGL does).
Which is why DirectX comes before the manufacturers to an extent. There's a bit of poetic licence there but that's my general view.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise?
My 2 penneth-worth: Yes, because the tree can't tell whether anyone's listening:)
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They sell IP phones here in the UK? Mind telling me which supplier?
Depends... ;) If you ran 32-bit windows on a 64-bit machine you would notice little difference. If you run it on (presumably Linux) apps compiled for 64 bit then you would notice a big difference.
Hmm upon recalculating, I was a bit off but I can say that $10/hour is in my view definitely underpaid (but I retract my statement that there are few people earning less than that).
While your point is valid I'm a bit puzzled by your choice of cut-off point. I'm not sure that there are many people in the UK over 18 who make less than $10/hour and if they were they probably would not be paying rent/be the main earner (which is a major potential difference in people's circumstances). Does the US differ by a lot on its pay scales? Maybe my view of the UK is off...
In the UK, car adverts are banned from using their speed (even indirectly, in the case of one ad) as a selling-point for a car, which seems fairly sensible to me :) Instead advertising either focuses on safety, the high-tech gismos, or the image of the car.
And while we are at it, why not use "f.e." instead of "e.g."?
And why such an irrelevant six-billionth of the whole deserves to be honored by the capital leter ("I")?
I imagine almost every language has redundancy in it's alphabet. In French for example, ce and se would be pronounced the same. Over time this will probably be reduced, as I said, iterative refinement is the process used inherently in languages over the generations.
I think a little bit of history is not out of place in lanuages. English was strongly affected by Latin (the alphabet for a start!) so why not keep a couple of Latin abbreviations in. i.e. and e.g. are not hard to remember once you learn them and given their (incredibly) common use.
Finally, I (Je/Ich/whatever) is pretty much the most important concept in a lanuage as it is one of the most frequently used words. So I don't see having it capitalised as being that odd...
One man's informative is another man's troll... Esperanto was interesting and look where it got. Nowhere. People will speak in what's easiest. English is becoming a de facto standard that will continue to be the most spoken language in the world. People won't use odd designed languages because it will be harder than current languages, which got where they are today though iterative refinement to be the best suited language for us to communicate in.
So one day instead of complaining against michael and co., everyone will be moaning about someone else's code - seems more appropriate for a nerd site somehow ;)
That would be handy, I don't quite understand why O(1) is so hard, unless it is all related to priority scheduling checks. Anyone have links/explanation?
Yes they are, they just don't realise yet that there aren't any ;-)
Judaeism more liberal? Not if you read the testaments... Also I would have said stereotypical geeks are more likely to be right-wing because of a lack of empathy. Not meaning to pick holes or anything!
Maybe I'm having a dumb day but does this part make any sense to anyone: "It is not known if the new product line will be available immediately after introduction" ?
the people of Newcastle (working link) will. Long has the North been associated with cheap ;-)
In England at least what you describe as the spinning zebra box (black and white diagonal lines scrolling left in the top right corner) are used to signify that an ad break is coming up soon. Not sure why they are used, I always presumed it was so you could put the kettle on ready, but I can only presume that they must be present on the "original" for certain TV shows.
No way would I play that; where's the sex and wargaming in polit - oh wait, maybe it could work...
Don't you think if they logged your IP as you say and were as facist as you say that they would have already banned your ass for trolling this same post on every bloody news item!
I presume he must mean the background
Incidentally what factors are making the UN look at taking over from ICANN?
The patch was due out in November, but it got missed so they re-issued. It's sort of going against what they said but it's understandable and I doubt it will make the world stop spinning. Why is this front page slashdot? If it had been any other company than Microsoft it never would have been news.
Ah come on, you know that no-one calls themselves British. You're either Scottish, Welsh, English or from Northern Ireland (do they have a short version?).
Short answer: yes. But maybe in a different way to Americans.. to people from the UK I'd say it summons up the image of an arrogant (quite possibly stock-broker) American.
"A central commander role supports the team aspect... and received positive feedback. However, an unskilled commander might destroy the team experience" That last bit makes me think of the PHB in Dilbert, which suggests teamwork in online games is just a mirror of teamwork in everything else - makes sense really.
Given that statistic and the tendency of these lists to produce mainly recent successes, I'm surprised that CM and is so low down the list! I guess it's because a lot of people who don't typically play computer games that much play CM, and don't get included in the poll..
Sonic is no surprise at the top, though Tomb Raider seems higher than I would have expected
The game developers are the ones who really want new performance features (sure it will make the hardware manufacturers money but the developers are the ones who are really driving it).
The game developers don't ever work directly with the graphics card, only the API. So to them extensions to performance are basically extensions to the API (and just demand that users get a card that supports the API).
The API for DirectX is of course designed by Microsoft who want people to use it because it locks them into Microsoft more than OpenGL. So Microsoft want to advance the API to please the developers. Therefore Microsoft extend the API for new future features.
Graphics card performance is not based on processing power, its based on how fast they can go while implementing the API (either DirectX or OpenGL). To get sales they need their DirectX performance to be good so they follow the API (with one eye, the other on OpenGL) and try and make the best card for implementing it.
So there's no real point having a feature on your graphics card that isn't used by the API. While OpenGL does have extensiosn to allow you to get at manufacturer-specific stuff to an extent, as I recall DirectX doesn't so much (it just provides a generalised architecture for manufacturers to implement, as core OpenGL does).
Which is why DirectX comes before the manufacturers to an extent. There's a bit of poetic licence there but that's my general view.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a noise? My 2 penneth-worth: Yes, because the tree can't tell whether anyone's listening :)