The latest C3 processor features an integrated AES encryption engine and two random number generators that work with the PadLock ACE software to perform user authentication, DRM, or other security operations in the background
I mean, they do everything for you! I want to start a new line of viri that make you configure them through dialog boxes. You know, a "time between infections" slider, maybe a "target folder" dialog, "actions to take" list of checkboxes (format drives? delete random files? change random bytes?) with scheduling, a place to type in email addresses of other people to try to infect (probably by sending them a link to an FTP site they have to download the virus from, then run it).
Maybe a nice splash screen too -- "WELCOME to Atario Virus 1.0 beta. If you like this virus, please consider sending a donation of $10 to..."
In an earlier era of computers, I got some familiarity with US geography through Agent U.S.A., in which you had to take trains from town to town, fighting the FuzzBox and curing FuzzBodies.
No, I'm serious. The branch near my work was consistenly undermanning the front desk. Three windows, one open, line a mile long. So I finally called and complained. Next time I went in, lo and behold, all three windows open.
"That money would be better spent on _______." Where the blank is filled with anything besides what's being proposed -- space exploration, technological R&D, or, in this case, cheap, plentiful, ecologically sound, domestically produced energy. There's no frickin' miracle proposed that doesn't inspire someone to bray that something else is more important and we should quit thinking pie-in-the-sky. There's one in every crowd.
Do you realize what something like this would mean for our economy? For the economies of every blasted country in the world? Can you imagine what far-reaching effects it would have to remove one of the major drains on every economy in the world? Maybe making everything easier for everyone, including the fields of "education, health care and disease control, political stability, and a little bit of hedonism"? ("Political stability"...oy. If you don't think this would be a GIANT boost for that, I don't know what planet you live on.)
But, no, there are other problems in the world, so forget it. Let's just leave this one for last.
SO dull! Like, there was only one car chase, and it wasn't even that long! Plus the guy has car trouble in the middle of it -- totally lame! No space shootouts, no karate, no hot sex scenes, nothin'!
Copy unreasoning rant against the U.S. into an Anonymous Coward first post: (Score: 5, Insightful).
"You'll probably be modded down, but I agree.": (Score: 5, Insightful).
Insulting and spitting on Americans on an American computer forum over American internet connections in order to piss off Americans and getting applauded for it (probably by Americans): Priceless. Er, I mean: (Score: 5, Troll).
Never bother calling ATI for help on their video cards. (The website may provide some help.) Every time you will get a whole slew of instructions which boil down to "disable every possible feature in your BIOS and OS and see if that works". I think they think you'll just despair of ever being able to get your system back to the way you like it if you follow the instructions, and just give up. It's very effective.
Your only hope is to wait for the next version of the drivers, as it turns out.
You're assuming all life must have DNA (or RNA) to be alive and reproduce. Surely there are other ways a living thing could exist than that specific set of atoms arranged that specific way.
Observations have to be planned carefully since the Earth gets in the way for most of the sky every 90 or minutes.
Or, to put it another way: Every 90 minutes they have to refocus to a much shorter distance and re-aim so they can get some incredible spy photos. ("Lookit the stubble on that guy! Shave already, buddy!")
A googolhedron is a three-dimensional object with a googol faces. (The same way an octahedron is an eight-faced object.) I think you're thinking of the googolplex, which is 10 to the googol power. Which is a truly stunningly huge number.
Anyway, exactly what kind of "subjucator" sets a deadline for itself to hand control back to the "subjugated"? What kind of "subjugator" gets embarrased by its prison guards messing with the prisoners? What kind of "subjugator" rebuilds destroyed infrastructure and builds infrastructure that never existed before that it doesn't even expect to use itself? I don't recall any of these descriptions applying to Germany when occupying France. I see each one of them happening with us.
Why? Because we are not there to possess Iraq. We are there to bring them back to the community of nations.
This is not a multi-monitor technology, either. The current implementation splits the screen in half, assigning rendering for each half to one of two cards using a software load balancer to try and ensure proper synchronization. (You may recall that 3dfx's SLI technology split the workload by alternating lines. This is a slightly different approach.)
Not multiple monitors. One monitor, two video cards.
Now, I can see how this would speed things up mightily, but...they keep mentioning that the two cards don't even have to be from the same manufacturer. Won't this cause an obvious quality difference between the two halves of the screen? Or is something going to force the better card to render like the worse one so they match?
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- Given: There are infinitely many primes.
- Given: A certain positive percentage of primes differ by two.
- Given: Infinity times any positive number is infinity.
- Therefore: There are infinitely many primes that differ by two.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.(Spot the logical error and you win a cookie!)
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There can be only one...and four zeroes.
Well, it plays the sound component of a BMP. Which, of course, is silence. Easy to implement, that. I'm thinking of adding it to all my programs.
...does the first reply in an article get modded "redundant".
I mean, they do everything for you! I want to start a new line of viri that make you configure them through dialog boxes. You know, a "time between infections" slider, maybe a "target folder" dialog, "actions to take" list of checkboxes (format drives? delete random files? change random bytes?) with scheduling, a place to type in email addresses of other people to try to infect (probably by sending them a link to an FTP site they have to download the virus from, then run it).
Maybe a nice splash screen too -- "WELCOME to Atario Virus 1.0 beta. If you like this virus, please consider sending a donation of $10 to..."
In an earlier era of computers, I got some familiarity with US geography through Agent U.S.A., in which you had to take trains from town to town, fighting the FuzzBox and curing FuzzBodies.
Why not a 10-deck shoe? Or a 100-deck shoe? Then they'd have to reshuffle far less often.
Call them (1-800-ASK-USPS) and complain.
No, I'm serious. The branch near my work was consistenly undermanning the front desk. Three windows, one open, line a mile long. So I finally called and complained. Next time I went in, lo and behold, all three windows open.
So remember, kids, squeaky wheel and all that.
"That money would be better spent on _______." Where the blank is filled with anything besides what's being proposed -- space exploration, technological R&D, or, in this case, cheap, plentiful, ecologically sound, domestically produced energy. There's no frickin' miracle proposed that doesn't inspire someone to bray that something else is more important and we should quit thinking pie-in-the-sky. There's one in every crowd.
Do you realize what something like this would mean for our economy? For the economies of every blasted country in the world? Can you imagine what far-reaching effects it would have to remove one of the major drains on every economy in the world? Maybe making everything easier for everyone, including the fields of "education, health care and disease control, political stability, and a little bit of hedonism"? ("Political stability"...oy. If you don't think this would be a GIANT boost for that, I don't know what planet you live on.)
But, no, there are other problems in the world, so forget it. Let's just leave this one for last.
Dork.
...RIAA in talks to acquire Black Flag Insect Control Systems.
$300,000/year is alerady pretty amazing, but all the more impressive when you realize that the average yearly income in South Korea is about $10,000.
Impenetrable is more like it.
Impenetrable movie = good for repeated viewings.
Impenetrable web site = unfit for a single use.
NTK has a word for it -- "usecrime".
SO dull! Like, there was only one car chase, and it wasn't even that long! Plus the guy has car trouble in the middle of it -- totally lame! No space shootouts, no karate, no hot sex scenes, nothin'!
Signed,
Phil I. Stine
Copy unreasoning rant against the U.S. into an Anonymous Coward first post: (Score: 5, Insightful).
"You'll probably be modded down, but I agree.": (Score: 5, Insightful).
Insulting and spitting on Americans on an American computer forum over American internet connections in order to piss off Americans and getting applauded for it (probably by Americans): Priceless. Er, I mean: (Score: 5, Troll).
YHABT. YHAL. HAND.
(Or else typoed a hyphen before "nude".)
Never bother calling ATI for help on their video cards. (The website may provide some help.) Every time you will get a whole slew of instructions which boil down to "disable every possible feature in your BIOS and OS and see if that works". I think they think you'll just despair of ever being able to get your system back to the way you like it if you follow the instructions, and just give up. It's very effective.
Your only hope is to wait for the next version of the drivers, as it turns out.
...to a new Google service: the Google Seal Of Approval(tm).
To earn it, your software must be submitted to Google and be found to comply with all the principles.
Then you get to put the logo on your box (or site).
Think of the goodwill someone would automatically have for your product by seeing a (meaningful) blessed-by-the-almighty-Google icon.
You're assuming all life must have DNA (or RNA) to be alive and reproduce. Surely there are other ways a living thing could exist than that specific set of atoms arranged that specific way.
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...seems to be Tongue Boy.
I swear I am not going to make a Catholic joke here.
A googolhedron is a three-dimensional object with a googol faces. (The same way an octahedron is an eight-faced object.) I think you're thinking of the googolplex, which is 10 to the googol power. Which is a truly stunningly huge number.
(Thank you, Carl Sagan! You're missed!)
Anyway, exactly what kind of "subjucator" sets a deadline for itself to hand control back to the "subjugated"? What kind of "subjugator" gets embarrased by its prison guards messing with the prisoners? What kind of "subjugator" rebuilds destroyed infrastructure and builds infrastructure that never existed before that it doesn't even expect to use itself? I don't recall any of these descriptions applying to Germany when occupying France. I see each one of them happening with us.
Why? Because we are not there to possess Iraq. We are there to bring them back to the community of nations.
Now, I can see how this would speed things up mightily, but...they keep mentioning that the two cards don't even have to be from the same manufacturer. Won't this cause an obvious quality difference between the two halves of the screen? Or is something going to force the better card to render like the worse one so they match?