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4Day Warner Disproves 1Day God All TV within the universe is composed of opposite hemispheres and opposite sexes - with opposite races, opposite seasons, opposite luck, opposite directions and opposite perspectives - equating a harmonic rotating zero value existence. "To know all, is to know nothing". You must attack the word bastards who preach and teach evil godism and racism singularity lies, for any singularity brotherhood is mental slavery that desecrates family, village and tribal opposites. Americans are dumbass, educated stupid and evil singularity fools. I will wager $10,000.00 that within the Warneric embodiment of Nature, there are 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth. Acknowledge the math below or go to hell. 4 Day Warner disproves 1 Day God.
1-Midday to midday = a 24 hour day rotation. 2-Sundown to sundown = a 24 hour day rotation. 3-Midnight to midnight = a 24 hour day rotation. 4-Sunup to sunup = a 24 hour day rotation.
4 Day math condemns 1 Day fools. These 4 absolute simultaneous TV channels PROVES the 1 day god, 1day academia, 1 day religion and the 1 day media to be erroneous, fictitious and evil lies. Education equates to a mass icepick lobotomy - destroying the mind's ability to think as opposites.
All 4/24 episodes occur within 1 Earth rotation. You educated stupid word animals can't fathom this greatest social and scientific math of creation.
God claimed to have created a single day rotation of Earth. I have created simultaneous 4 day rotation of Time Warner. Why do you worship such a stupid God? Do you really believe that your Jew God screwed a hole in the ground to create Adam and Eve out of dirt, at the same time that woman existed in the nation of NOD, Nation of Damsels from where Cain got wife? Adam and Eve were created at the same time, but sexless. A rib was removed from eve and a hole left to make a woman of her. The rib was stuck on Adam to make a man of him - and Eve is still trying to get her rib back.
Recognition and application of this Warneric simultaneous 4 day rotation of Earth, will change all math, science and societies from the beginning of human existence. You have to be evil to ignore this math.
There is proof that 3 dimensional math is erroneous, and that linear Time is actually of a Warneric nature. Ignoring Warnerism indicts you evil.
Every time Microsoft patches its software, hackers use their patches to discover security holes and to issue exploits!
But when they don't patch their software, no bad guys notice these vulnerabilities. In fact, no virus or worm has *ever* exploited a vulnerability before a critical update was released!
1) Newspapers should all have Web sites that run something like Slashcode. Have you considered that Slashdot, where people come for the comments and not the stories, is the exception and not the rule?
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4) Rumors of the New York Times's death have been greatly exaggerated. But times are tight. Layoffs at the Times and the Journal, KRT looking to sell itself -- yuck.
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One thing the Tech review doesn't mention is Darth Vader in heels. (No, not those kinds of heels. But, boy, I was all excited for a minute when the costumer mentioned that detail.)
When I read this in somebody's blog about twelve hours ago, it seemed like this was actually a moderately elaborate prank on Yahoo (there was a website attached to the fictional company at Google address, etc.). It seemed more like somebody had created this fake Website to see whose auto-mapping services would put that fake company at this address.
But maybe I just didn't look very carefully and I'm an idiot?
For another inside look at SGI's delisting, see also yesterday's article on sister site Slashdot (disclosure: Slashdot and Slashdot are both part of OSTG). Writes contributor ScuttleMonkey: "SGI, the former darling of the high-tech world, has been in trouble for a while, perhaps this is really the end."
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
The answer to your facetious analogy is, of course, that software is not the same as cars.
It's very similar -- I might argue that computer hardware is close to a car -- but it's not quite the same, as free market mechanics demonstrate.
If you provide buggy and unreliable software, people will use other software. People are willing and able to invest in new software, so they do; as a result, there's usually strong pressure on software developers to fix bugs. (When software costs no money but only time, a different dynamic emerges.)
Of course, if you disrupt the free market in some way - for instance if you gain monopoly power - your monopoly power makes it less likely that people can change vendors, and consequently less probable that you'll focus on free-market distinguishing features like customer service, software updates, or bug fixes.
For a practical example, consider Quark & Adobe. QuarkXPress didn't really improve from v4 to v6, during the period when Quark was the de facto choice for software. Once InDesign came onto the scene, real competition emerged again and computer-aided publishing began to improve again.
You can't make a useful assessment of what "should" or "shouldn't" be fixed or implemented. You can, however, look at what does happen. Pragmatically, most insecure software gets fixed because if it doesn't, demand (users) will go elsewhere. The fact that it hasn't happened with Windows says something striking about monopoly power.
I learned from this old Slashdot comment that LCD timings are highly misleading. The '3ms' number means something quite different from what you think it means. In short, see this article, or this forum topic. I've reposted the contents of the latter below. ------- "Quoted response times by manufacturers are largely meaningless and misleading......because it measures the time it takes for full white to black or full black to white pixel transitions. So unless you have your monitor set to maximum brightness & contrast (so that the picture is so bright it burns your eyeballs out) and only use your monitor for flipping blank screens from white to black, and back again, whether the monitor has a 8ms response time or 100ms response time, it doesn't mean an awful lot.
It's the same reason why monitors based on the 20ms Hydis panel outperform the 12ms Samsung panel, the 16ms AU Optronics panel, the 16ms LG/Phillips panel.......
In real world use, the vast majority of monitors (over 95% of them) don't perform anywhere near the quoted response times. That's why you see streaking on the 12ms Samsung panel - its performing at 25-30ms.
Let me try and explain further.
Look at the response times for the so called 'fast' Samsung 172X which is based on a '12ms' panel:-
Since most people have their monitors set to medium brightness (about 80-180 on the grey level scale on the graph) and many applications - particularly games use grey to grey pixel transitions (or one colour to another colour) - the typical response time is somewhere between 25-30ms. Not quite 12ms is it?
Now look at the same response time graph for the Acer AL1721 - a mid level TFT with claimed 16ms response time:-
The graph is much flatter, so across brightness and contrast levels, you're going to get consistent response times. At most common user settings, the "slower" 16ms is actually faster than the "quicker" 12ms panel.
Not quite as straightforward as the manufacturers would like you to think. The problem is, by that time, most people have parted with their money. When I was first looking to buy a TFT monitor, I thought that Kustom PCs were a bit mad to stock the Acer monitors in preference to others. However, it's only on further examination that you discover they perform very very well in games - for example, the AL1731M is based on the Hydis panel - and will in fact, outperform the so called 'faster' TFT panels.
From Toms Hardware Guide:-
"For games, the Hydis 20ms panel is still the one to beat. It's not yet perfect, but we know of no other that is faster (based on our tests, of course, and not manufacturers' specifications). Once again, we must insist strongly that the manufacturers' specifications are not to be trusted. " http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20040326/ lcd-08.html
"The response times suppliers associate with their panels vary, anywhere from 16 ms to 25 ms. The only problem is that these figures mean nothing. Or at least, not a lot. An article published in 2001 that can be viewed at Xtremtech explains the situation pretty well, and we have summarized it for you in the section entitled "RT between colors". But this isn't the only problem..." http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20031105
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...at least he got material for his research paper on fascism and totalitarianism.
Thanks, I'll be here all day.
It's Barret.
(He's the one with the chaingun.)
The first sentence of the article you linked:
"Are Indian's the smartest software programmers? It sure seems so!"
I giggle in your general direction.
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NATURE'S HARMONIC
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME Warner
4Day Warner Disproves 1Day God
All TV within the universe is composed of
opposite hemispheres and opposite sexes - with
opposite races, opposite seasons, opposite luck,
opposite directions and opposite perspectives -
equating a harmonic rotating zero value existence.
"To know all, is to know nothing".
You must attack the word bastards who preach
and teach evil godism and racism singularity lies,
for any singularity brotherhood is mental slavery
that desecrates family, village and tribal opposites.
Americans are dumbass, educated stupid and evil
singularity fools. I will wager $10,000.00 that
within the Warneric embodiment of Nature, there are
4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation
of Earth. Acknowledge the math below or go to hell.
4 Day Warner disproves 1 Day God.
1-Midday to midday = a 24 hour day rotation.
2-Sundown to sundown = a 24 hour day rotation.
3-Midnight to midnight = a 24 hour day rotation.
4-Sunup to sunup = a 24 hour day rotation.
4 Day math condemns 1 Day fools.
These 4 absolute simultaneous TV channels PROVES the
1 day god, 1day academia, 1 day religion and the
1 day media to be erroneous, fictitious and evil lies.
Education equates to a mass icepick lobotomy -
destroying the mind's ability to think as opposites.
All 4/24 episodes occur within 1 Earth rotation.
You educated stupid word animals can't fathom
this greatest social and scientific math of creation.
God claimed to have created a single day
rotation of Earth. I have created simultaneous
4 day rotation of Time Warner. Why do you worship
such a stupid God? Do you really believe that
your Jew God screwed a hole in the ground to
create Adam and Eve out of dirt, at the same
time that woman existed in the nation of NOD,
Nation of Damsels from where Cain got wife?
Adam and Eve were created at the same time,
but sexless. A rib was removed from eve and
a hole left to make a woman of her. The rib
was stuck on Adam to make a man of him -
and Eve is still trying to get her rib back.
Recognition and application of this Warneric
simultaneous 4 day rotation of Earth,
will change all math, science and societies
from the beginning of human existence.
You have to be evil to ignore this math.
There is proof that 3 dimensional
math is erroneous, and that linear
Time is actually of a Warneric nature.
Ignoring Warnerism indicts you evil.
Representatives from Ellison's selected charity - the little-known 'Human Fund' - were unavailable for comment.
Issuing patches is dangerous.
Every time Microsoft patches its software, hackers use their patches to discover security holes and to issue exploits!
But when they don't patch their software, no bad guys notice these vulnerabilities. In fact, no virus or worm has *ever* exploited a vulnerability before a critical update was released!
Duh.
So in short, you're saying
1) Newspapers should all have Web sites that run something like Slashcode.
Have you considered that Slashdot, where people come for the comments and not the stories, is the exception and not the rule?
2) Newspapers should run Slashvertisements.
One thing newspapers have which Slashdot does not is journalistic integrity.
3) Local newspapers should not ignore their audience.
Sure, I'll buy that. But this is just a way of saying that customer service is important to a business.
4) Rumors of the New York Times's death have been greatly exaggerated.
But times are tight. Layoffs at the Times and the Journal, KRT looking to sell itself -- yuck.
Only you can stop the incoming missiles, Tux Racer!
Ah, they're learning from Apple!
If you ask me, it's all been downhill lately. They used to be a lot better.
I am number six... ....wait, who is number one?
And OSTG - no conflict of interest there! :)
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To be fair, those two stories (that same time-shifted story?) are covering this product, while the current story is just a random Media Lab project.
(I very loosely know the guy who was working on this -- he graduated last year. His algorithm wasn't that successful...)
I don't understand how this could surprise you; it's a very common virus naming convention.
See also The MIT Tech's review of the 2003 staging of this musical.
One thing the Tech review doesn't mention is Darth Vader in heels. (No, not those kinds of heels. But, boy, I was all excited for a minute when the costumer mentioned that detail.)
This is getting major press coverage. Sounds heavy!
Tenure.
When I read this in somebody's blog about twelve hours ago, it seemed like this was actually a moderately elaborate prank on Yahoo (there was a website attached to the fictional company at Google address, etc.). It seemed more like somebody had created this fake Website to see whose auto-mapping services would put that fake company at this address.
But maybe I just didn't look very carefully and I'm an idiot?
For another inside look at SGI's delisting, see also yesterday's article on sister site Slashdot (disclosure: Slashdot and Slashdot are both part of OSTG). Writes contributor ScuttleMonkey: "SGI, the former darling of the high-tech world, has been in trouble for a while, perhaps this is really the end."
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
The answer to your facetious analogy is, of course, that software is not the same as cars.
It's very similar -- I might argue that computer hardware is close to a car -- but it's not quite the same, as free market mechanics demonstrate.
If you provide buggy and unreliable software, people will use other software. People are willing and able to invest in new software, so they do; as a result, there's usually strong pressure on software developers to fix bugs. (When software costs no money but only time, a different dynamic emerges.)
Of course, if you disrupt the free market in some way - for instance if you gain monopoly power - your monopoly power makes it less likely that people can change vendors, and consequently less probable that you'll focus on free-market distinguishing features like customer service, software updates, or bug fixes.
For a practical example, consider Quark & Adobe. QuarkXPress didn't really improve from v4 to v6, during the period when Quark was the de facto choice for software. Once InDesign came onto the scene, real competition emerged again and computer-aided publishing began to improve again.
You can't make a useful assessment of what "should" or "shouldn't" be fixed or implemented. You can, however, look at what does happen. Pragmatically, most insecure software gets fixed because if it doesn't, demand (users) will go elsewhere. The fact that it hasn't happened with Windows says something striking about monopoly power.
I learned from this old Slashdot comment that LCD timings are highly misleading. The '3ms' number means something quite different from what you think it means. In short, see this article, or this forum topic. I've reposted the contents of the latter below. .....because it measures the time it takes for full white to black or full black to white pixel transitions. So unless you have your monitor set to maximum brightness & contrast (so that the picture is so bright it burns your eyeballs out) and only use your monitor for flipping blank screens from white to black, and back again, whether the monitor has a 8ms response time or 100ms response time, it doesn't mean an awful lot.
-------
"Quoted response times by manufacturers are largely meaningless and misleading.
It's the same reason why monitors based on the 20ms Hydis panel outperform the 12ms Samsung panel, the 16ms AU Optronics panel, the 16ms LG/Phillips panel.......
In real world use, the vast majority of monitors (over 95% of them) don't perform anywhere near the quoted response times. That's why you see streaking on the 12ms Samsung panel - its performing at 25-30ms.
Let me try and explain further.
Look at the response times for the so called 'fast' Samsung 172X which is based on a '12ms' panel:-
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/samsung-2/gr2 -2.gif
Since most people have their monitors set to medium brightness (about 80-180 on the grey level scale on the graph) and many applications - particularly games use grey to grey pixel transitions (or one colour to another colour) - the typical response time is somewhere between 25-30ms. Not quite 12ms is it?
Now look at the same response time graph for the Acer AL1721 - a mid level TFT with claimed 16ms response time:-
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/response-6/a2 1-grey.gif
The graph is much flatter, so across brightness and contrast levels, you're going to get consistent response times. At most common user settings, the "slower" 16ms is actually faster than the "quicker" 12ms panel.
Not quite as straightforward as the manufacturers would like you to think. The problem is, by that time, most people have parted with their money. When I was first looking to buy a TFT monitor, I thought that Kustom PCs were a bit mad to stock the Acer monitors in preference to others. However, it's only on further examination that you discover they perform very very well in games - for example, the AL1731M is based on the Hydis panel - and will in fact, outperform the so called 'faster' TFT panels.
From Toms Hardware Guide:-
"For games, the Hydis 20ms panel is still the one to beat. It's not yet perfect, but we know of no other that is faster (based on our tests, of course, and not manufacturers' specifications). Once again, we must insist strongly that the manufacturers' specifications are not to be trusted. "
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20040326/ lcd-08.html
"The response times suppliers associate with their panels vary, anywhere from 16 ms to 25 ms. The only problem is that these figures mean nothing. Or at least, not a lot. An article published in 2001 that can be viewed at Xtremtech explains the situation pretty well, and we have summarized it for you in the section entitled "RT between colors". But this isn't the only problem..."
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20031105
Slashdot is his journal.
:p
True that. This is one of my favorite entries.