Wasn't the point of the article meant to be practical?
I mean, if I were to go looking for a computer today and want to do video work.
I can see your point on the dual processor issue, but than again if I had hypothetically, I don't know, $2000 for the system, I could get a dual processor PC but not a dual Mac -- practically speaking.
Also, practically speaking if Adobe After Effects is what is normally used for video work (I don't know, I don't) than optimization on one platform vs another is something to look for in my choice.
If this were a benchmark of raw processor speed than I would agree with everything you just said. However, I think the point of the article is which system given the money would serve as a better video editing system.
Here in Phoenix AZ at least this is in full effect at the local Costcos and Price Clubs (mass warehouse food, and various products companies).
I can go inside. Insert my membership card into a display case and remove a portable electronic scanner to scan my own items. It gives me the last item's price and a total including tax. I can add and remove items easily. Once I'm done I return the scanner to the case and it prints a ticket with the total and a barcode. I go through an express checkout where my cart is weighed and ticket scanned. If the cart's weight is off they take the time to check the items. Otherwise I pay and go.
Not to mention the local markets also have lanes where I can walk up to a scan station and scan everything myself. This allows one employee to monitor 4 scanning stations(that sit in the same space as 2) and allows me to not have my bread sitting under my milk.
The only harm one could possibly see is that it reduces jobs.
What the hell is up with this quote at the end of the article?
The launch of the GeForce FX reminds us a lot of the GeForce3; the GPU is impressive and it can enable a good deal of developers to make some great looking games, but it won't be out for a while and neither will those great looking games.
The perfect example we like to use is Doom3; Doom3 was designed around DX8 technology, it will be Doom3's successor that can truly take advantage of the features of GeForce FX.
Someone want to explain the DX8 comparsion to Doom3, which makes it sound like Doom3 is catching up to DX8?
Step 1) Install Redhat 8.0 (If you can, f*cking.0 releases)
Step 2) Install MS core font package from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy.
No really Redhat 8.0 has terrific looking fonts with the exception of Mozilla, but I'll wait a little longer for a 1.2 build with Xft support.
Anyhow KDE has had AA for a while and I'll admit I've been envy and now that Gnome has too, and Mozilla will have it soon, I don't suspect I'll even have to think about it again. Expect all distros to have this setup by default.
I'm aware of modern societies slowing down their birth rate, but I should have made it clear that I was talking about Africa and most of the Middle East -- the places with a lot of growth now. By and large these societies are not modern and I think the idea of them becoming so by 2050 is optimistic -- maybe 2100 -- but who knows.
Anyhow the numbers aren't incouraging to think of the swelling until that point.
No I don't think they will stop having sex because they choose to, but because they can't eat. If we feed them, it only prolongs the problem. It happens with everyother breed of animal that over populates an area and will with us. Moving the population doesn't help either -- once again prolonging the problem. The solutions are either people die or people plan -- either way a balance is reached.
By the way many Indian tribes practiced some form of agriculture to some degree or another and where able to keep their populations steady, so it can be done.
The population growth of human is completely out of hand. We only had 3 billion in what the 60's? We are well on our way to 7 now. You say "but this planet could support hundreds of billions of people" -- my ass. We aren't supporting the approx. 7 billion we have now. Or maybe you haven't heard of the worlds woes.
Technology won't solve this problem if everytime someone makes an advance, the population sees another oppurtunity to blow up again.
People don't seem to understand that if people are starving in a given area, that it isn't time to have kids. Sure some technology will come along that allows us to grow a mass amount of grain in a cubic something or other and we will see Sally squeezing her cheeks together asking to send food. But where are the commercials to send condoms?
Hopfully economics will kick in at a sane rate to slow down the population explosion. But with 49 cent cheeseburgers and every religious zealot being told to "be fruitful and multiply" I'm guessing it will get bad so quickly, when science can't do the impossible, that there will be mass starvation.
Maybe not in mine or your lifetime, but with current trends it is certain.
You are telling me that Deut., Exodus, and Levit only contain 10 commandments? Try 316 when arbituarily counted by Rabbis. Where Christains get 10, I don't know. But they sure are selective.
The New Testament has a lot to do with salvation. The Hebrew Bible does not. The idea of salvation would have been wierd because they didn't have much of a concept of sin in the christain sense of the word. They had periods of being unclean, at which point they would have to become clean in order to re-enter the group. Jews didn't need to be saved because they were god's choosen people and you can't get much more saved than that.
Maybe you don't believe that because of your Christain translation. But there is plenty of evidence to prove my point. First being the things that are never mentioned in the story of Adam and Eve. Sin is simply never mentioned. Falling from grace is never mentioned. The word for spirit probably means wind at that point in history. They were not banished from the garden. They "went out" (in hebrew holek) from the garden. Banishment is an interruptive move. As are so many of the words in your english translation.
In short the stories take drastically different views in the original language. And if you study the actual history of what is going on around 960BCE between the early Jews and the Canaanites(which make up 95% of the population) then the questions of "Why a snake in a tree?", and "Why is Eve called the 'Mother of All Life' as they leave the garden?", etc. Become extremely clear. The story has nothing to do with original sin or man's falling, etc. It has everything to do with a story lifted out of history and put into a narritive.
First off, firmament is a bullshit word. The hebrew is ra-key-ya(not sure I transliterated that right, no text in front of me) which is the word for bowl. Specifically a pounded out bowl, usually of a metal.
And the earth doesn't sit upon it in the story. The rakeya seperates the waters from above from the waters below. Remember the earth is flat, with four corners, and sitting upon 4 pillars. When people viewed the horizon of the seas, they thought it was the edge literally. The sun and moon are on tracks in the sky as well.
The world was preceived as being under a great dome. Kinda like the movie "The Truman Show". And the stars are pinholes in the rakeya. When it rains, it is because the windows in the rakeya are opened and the waters it was seperating fall down. BTW, this makes the idea of heaven being up, also possibly mean heaven is underwater. However, it is likely that early on (around 960BCE) they didn't have a real concept like heaven or hell. After all much of the Pentanuch are stories taken from the Canaanite Goddess(referred to in other religions as Isis, Ishtar, Anat) religion. The first five books repeatly deal with it.
Unless you count Sheol, which isn't hell but actually just like underworld of greek mythology. The idea of hell developes extremely late in the game.
All of this may seem incrediably silly in the space age, but think of the times. If you lived back then what would you think if you looked up into the night sky? What would you think if you stood North, East, South, and West, seeing nothing but edges meeting the sky? You think they knew anything about how we get rain? Heck if the earth is flat, and I have no reason to doubt it, why would I not think the sun and moon are on tracks?
Anyhow I agreed with most of post. Christianity changes and that isn't a bad thing. Religion has never been about logic or truth(truth is a plural anyhow). It has always been a practical tool for people. And when the tool no longer is found useful to people, they either change it or it quitely goes away. At one point many, many cultures believed in a great sky god who was associated with the wind -- where is he? He had influence on the creation of further gods, but slowly went away himself because he was too remote. Or so is the theory.
Anyhow, don't get too upset about religion, if only because life is too short. Also religion carries a lot of beauty to it in its culture and philosophy. The story telling is also second to none.
Jerry Farwell and Pat Robertson? I'm going to ignore that in general.
Hmm, Slashdot is posting another duplicate story, everyone set your watches. Well, at least this one is from about two weeks ago and not a couple of hours.
What the hell is wrong with the editors today? I'm counting literally over a dozen really crappy stories on the front page. The/. community is screaming at Cmdr Taco and friends to do something. So, are you listening Taco?
He claims that when he 'adds the gravitomagnetic field to the standard quantum equations for superconductivity, he confirms not only the gravitational Meissner-like effect but also a coupling between the two breeds of magnetic field. An ordinary magnetic field sets electrons in motion near the surface of a superconductor. Those electrons carry mass, and so their motion generates a gravitomagnetic field.'
Ugh?, Yeah sure. That does that mean I can have my hoverboard now?
So the alternative is? A CE device? Those do all the tasks mentioned perfectly fine as well. This guy doesn't need anything more technically advanced than a post-it pad and pen.
He doesn't need to pull up patient information, watch DVDs, control his house appliances, answer email from anywhere(how many people actually are important enough to warrent this) or anything else.
So really he doesn't need Palm to be around 3-5 years from now to use one.
I'm not the one who is upset. I'm glad I could ruin your day. But Cliff is a fuck-up. People having been saying it since he took over Ask Slashdot. He is just one of the worthless jerks that drove Slash into the craphole of a site it is now. CmdrTaco and Hemos use to be great. The only reason many long time Slashheads like myself stick around anymore is that half the time there is a nugget of great insight in a post. Probably posted by some other old Slashhead that is holding out hope that VA will tank and Taco and Hemos will be the only ones left.
Anyhow the community(which is really what Slashdot is) has been bitching to Taco and Hemos for a couple years now. Taco and Hemos just don't have the balls to fire someone once they bring them on -- example, Jon Katz.
P.S. - That is right, I don't pay for Slash. Nobody does.
You clearly stated that your needs where to keep track of appointments and write notes. You could probably also use the contacts information. The Visor and Palm do all of these tasks exceptionally.
Why don't you just say what you really want? A GameBoy Advance combined with a Palm, combined with a cell phone with unlimited wireless service for $5/month.
This is another BS Ask Slashdot, asked simply to get the poster's name on the front page. Cliff you are a screw-up.
P.S. If you are really forgetting appointments 24 hours after the fact, a PDA will only weaken your memory by making you even more lazy.
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't the point of the article meant to be practical?
I mean, if I were to go looking for a computer today and want to do video work.
I can see your point on the dual processor issue, but than again if I had hypothetically, I don't know, $2000 for the system, I could get a dual processor PC but not a dual Mac -- practically speaking.
Also, practically speaking if Adobe After Effects is what is normally used for video work (I don't know, I don't) than optimization on one platform vs another is something to look for in my choice.
If this were a benchmark of raw processor speed than I would agree with everything you just said. However, I think the point of the article is which system given the money would serve as a better video editing system.
Just my thoughts.
If my computer wasn't working, I couldn't get it up either. ;)
Here in Phoenix AZ at least this is in full effect at the local Costcos and Price Clubs (mass warehouse food, and various products companies).
I can go inside. Insert my membership card into a display case and remove a portable electronic scanner to scan my own items. It gives me the last item's price and a total including tax. I can add and remove items easily. Once I'm done I return the scanner to the case and it prints a ticket with the total and a barcode. I go through an express checkout where my cart is weighed and ticket scanned. If the cart's weight is off they take the time to check the items. Otherwise I pay and go.
Not to mention the local markets also have lanes where I can walk up to a scan station and scan everything myself. This allows one employee to monitor 4 scanning stations(that sit in the same space as 2) and allows me to not have my bread sitting under my milk.
The only harm one could possibly see is that it reduces jobs.
What the hell is up with this quote at the end of the article?
The launch of the GeForce FX reminds us a lot of the GeForce3; the GPU is impressive and it can enable a good deal of developers to make some great looking games, but it won't be out for a while and neither will those great looking games.
The perfect example we like to use is Doom3; Doom3 was designed around DX8 technology, it will be Doom3's successor that can truly take advantage of the features of GeForce FX.
Someone want to explain the DX8 comparsion to Doom3, which makes it sound like Doom3 is catching up to DX8?
Better than finding a worm in your Apple.
Or half a worm for that matter.
Ba bum bump
NAMBLA Says "No Thanks" To Microsoft ....
National
Assoication of
Man
Boy
Love, of
America
Damn Southpark, I manage to learn something everytime.
http://www.nambla1.de/
I'm in as soon as they tell us what the frill the first one is doing of importance.
Thank you Quikah. Now if I could only find a build of Galeon2. ;)
Step 1) Install Redhat 8.0 (If you can, f*cking .0 releases)
Step 2) Install MS core font package from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy.
No really Redhat 8.0 has terrific looking fonts with the exception of Mozilla, but I'll wait a little longer for a 1.2 build with Xft support.
Anyhow KDE has had AA for a while and I'll admit I've been envy and now that Gnome has too, and Mozilla will have it soon, I don't suspect I'll even have to think about it again. Expect all distros to have this setup by default.
I'm aware of modern societies slowing down their birth rate, but I should have made it clear that I was talking about Africa and most of the Middle East -- the places with a lot of growth now. By and large these societies are not modern and I think the idea of them becoming so by 2050 is optimistic -- maybe 2100 -- but who knows.
Anyhow the numbers aren't incouraging to think of the swelling until that point.
No I don't think they will stop having sex because they choose to, but because they can't eat. If we feed them, it only prolongs the problem. It happens with everyother breed of animal that over populates an area and will with us. Moving the population doesn't help either -- once again prolonging the problem. The solutions are either people die or people plan -- either way a balance is reached.
By the way many Indian tribes practiced some form of agriculture to some degree or another and where able to keep their populations steady, so it can be done.
You seem to be spewing some bull yourself.
The population growth of human is completely out of hand. We only had 3 billion in what the 60's? We are well on our way to 7 now. You say "but this planet could support hundreds of billions of people" -- my ass. We aren't supporting the approx. 7 billion we have now. Or maybe you haven't heard of the worlds woes.
Technology won't solve this problem if everytime someone makes an advance, the population sees another oppurtunity to blow up again.
People don't seem to understand that if people are starving in a given area, that it isn't time to have kids. Sure some technology will come along that allows us to grow a mass amount of grain in a cubic something or other and we will see Sally squeezing her cheeks together asking to send food. But where are the commercials to send condoms?
Hopfully economics will kick in at a sane rate to slow down the population explosion. But with 49 cent cheeseburgers and every religious zealot being told to "be fruitful and multiply" I'm guessing it will get bad so quickly, when science can't do the impossible, that there will be mass starvation.
Maybe not in mine or your lifetime, but with current trends it is certain.
Ah yes, that is it. Thanks.
You are telling me that Deut., Exodus, and Levit only contain 10 commandments? Try 316 when arbituarily counted by Rabbis. Where Christains get 10, I don't know. But they sure are selective.
The New Testament has a lot to do with salvation. The Hebrew Bible does not. The idea of salvation would have been wierd because they didn't have much of a concept of sin in the christain sense of the word. They had periods of being unclean, at which point they would have to become clean in order to re-enter the group. Jews didn't need to be saved because they were god's choosen people and you can't get much more saved than that.
Maybe you don't believe that because of your Christain translation. But there is plenty of evidence to prove my point. First being the things that are never mentioned in the story of Adam and Eve. Sin is simply never mentioned. Falling from grace is never mentioned. The word for spirit probably means wind at that point in history. They were not banished from the garden. They "went out" (in hebrew holek) from the garden. Banishment is an interruptive move. As are so many of the words in your english translation.
In short the stories take drastically different views in the original language. And if you study the actual history of what is going on around 960BCE between the early Jews and the Canaanites(which make up 95% of the population) then the questions of "Why a snake in a tree?", and "Why is Eve called the 'Mother of All Life' as they leave the garden?", etc. Become extremely clear. The story has nothing to do with original sin or man's falling, etc. It has everything to do with a story lifted out of history and put into a narritive.
First off, firmament is a bullshit word. The hebrew is ra-key-ya(not sure I transliterated that right, no text in front of me) which is the word for bowl. Specifically a pounded out bowl, usually of a metal.
And the earth doesn't sit upon it in the story. The rakeya seperates the waters from above from the waters below. Remember the earth is flat, with four corners, and sitting upon 4 pillars. When people viewed the horizon of the seas, they thought it was the edge literally. The sun and moon are on tracks in the sky as well.
The world was preceived as being under a great dome. Kinda like the movie "The Truman Show". And the stars are pinholes in the rakeya. When it rains, it is because the windows in the rakeya are opened and the waters it was seperating fall down. BTW, this makes the idea of heaven being up, also possibly mean heaven is underwater. However, it is likely that early on (around 960BCE) they didn't have a real concept like heaven or hell. After all much of the Pentanuch are stories taken from the Canaanite Goddess(referred to in other religions as Isis, Ishtar, Anat) religion. The first five books repeatly deal with it.
Unless you count Sheol, which isn't hell but actually just like underworld of greek mythology. The idea of hell developes extremely late in the game.
All of this may seem incrediably silly in the space age, but think of the times. If you lived back then what would you think if you looked up into the night sky? What would you think if you stood North, East, South, and West, seeing nothing but edges meeting the sky? You think they knew anything about how we get rain? Heck if the earth is flat, and I have no reason to doubt it, why would I not think the sun and moon are on tracks?
Anyhow I agreed with most of post. Christianity changes and that isn't a bad thing. Religion has never been about logic or truth(truth is a plural anyhow). It has always been a practical tool for people. And when the tool no longer is found useful to people, they either change it or it quitely goes away. At one point many, many cultures believed in a great sky god who was associated with the wind -- where is he? He had influence on the creation of further gods, but slowly went away himself because he was too remote. Or so is the theory.
Anyhow, don't get too upset about religion, if only because life is too short. Also religion carries a lot of beauty to it in its culture and philosophy. The story telling is also second to none.
Jerry Farwell and Pat Robertson? I'm going to ignore that in general.
Shalom
Most definitely the RIAA. The porn industry is mostly run by the maffia, so if you lose all your money, consider yourself lucky.
Hmm, Slashdot is posting another duplicate story, everyone set your watches. Well, at least this one is from about two weeks ago and not a couple of hours.
5 5&mode=thread&tid=112
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/24/19452
With the editors not reading their own site, is it a wonder Slashdot has sunk this low in quality?
Sheesh the name of the webpage is even in the story title.
What the hell is wrong with the editors today? I'm counting literally over a dozen really crappy stories on the front page. The /. community is screaming at Cmdr Taco and friends to do something. So, are you listening Taco?
It was a joke. ;p
That 100% of email outgoing from Hotmail is SPAM.
He claims that when he 'adds the gravitomagnetic field to the standard quantum equations for superconductivity, he confirms not only the gravitational Meissner-like effect but also a coupling between the two breeds of magnetic field. An ordinary magnetic field sets electrons in motion near the surface of a superconductor. Those electrons carry mass, and so their motion generates a gravitomagnetic field.'
Ugh?, Yeah sure. That does that mean I can have my hoverboard now?
Mc Fly
So the alternative is? A CE device? Those do all the tasks mentioned perfectly fine as well. This guy doesn't need anything more technically advanced than a post-it pad and pen.
He doesn't need to pull up patient information, watch DVDs, control his house appliances, answer email from anywhere(how many people actually are important enough to warrent this) or anything else.
So really he doesn't need Palm to be around 3-5 years from now to use one.
Ha ha
I'm not the one who is upset. I'm glad I could ruin your day. But Cliff is a fuck-up. People having been saying it since he took over Ask Slashdot. He is just one of the worthless jerks that drove Slash into the craphole of a site it is now. CmdrTaco and Hemos use to be great. The only reason many long time Slashheads like myself stick around anymore is that half the time there is a nugget of great insight in a post. Probably posted by some other old Slashhead that is holding out hope that VA will tank and Taco and Hemos will be the only ones left.
Anyhow the community(which is really what Slashdot is) has been bitching to Taco and Hemos for a couple years now. Taco and Hemos just don't have the balls to fire someone once they bring them on -- example, Jon Katz.
P.S. - That is right, I don't pay for Slash. Nobody does.
You clearly stated that your needs where to keep track of appointments and write notes. You could probably also use the contacts information. The Visor and Palm do all of these tasks exceptionally.
Why don't you just say what you really want? A GameBoy Advance combined with a Palm, combined with a cell phone with unlimited wireless service for $5/month.
This is another BS Ask Slashdot, asked simply to get the poster's name on the front page. Cliff you are a screw-up.
P.S. If you are really forgetting appointments 24 hours after the fact, a PDA will only weaken your memory by making you even more lazy.