I find it hard to believe that people will actually go out and drop $200 on new video card just to play this on par with the recommended requirements (Radeon 9800).
I just bought a card in November 2003 (Radeon 9600), it's top f'n notch, yet it won't run on par w/ the recommendations? Haha, nice.
People are gonna be very disappointed when they realize they'll need to drop another $150-200 just to play it on TOP of the $50 it costs to buy it.
Christmas list for most people: Doom 3 WITH Radeon 9800 card. Otherwise.. forget it, the game will run like ass, might as well not even buy it.
Maybe people HERE won't be disappointed due to the geek factor, but I know tons of gamers who were really lookin forward to playing this that are just bummed that they either gotta miss out completely or drop the cash for a new card.
Getting around the fingerprint biometrics is easy.
There are clear strips you can buy with an adhesive back end that you stick your thumb (or finger) on and then stick onto the surface of something that someone else has touched. The oils stick to the other side of the material, so when you press it on a thumbprint reader (a lot of hosting providers use them) it'll grant you access.
The retina scan would be a better method.
The way I see it, companies who have.NET solutions now have the option of switching to windows.
We have solutions in.NET. Sure, the debate rages on as to whether.NET is better than Java, but personally, it's easier for me to develop in.NET using C#. If I wanted to ditch windows, my only option used to be to completely redo our apps in Java, but time simply doesn't allow for that.
With mono, all we have to do is slap the code on a linux box and we're good to go.
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete, capable of being reprogrammed by rewiring to solve a full range of computing problems. It was preceded in 1941 by the fully tape-programmable but still mechanical Z3 designed by Konrad Zuse and by the all-electronic rewire to reprogram but not fully general purpose British Colossus computer. Both ENIAC and Colossus used thermionic valves, that is, vacuum tubes, while Z3 used mechanical relays. The requirement to rewire to reprogram ENIAC was removed in 1948.
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. Unlike the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was the first stored program computer ever designed. This design became the standard architecture for most modern computers. The design for the EDVAC is therefore considered a major milestone in the history of computer evolution. While the EDVAC was the first stored program computer to be designed three other stored program computers were built before the EDVAC finally became operational. (the British Small-Scale Experimental Machine at Manchester University, the EDSAC at Cambridge University, and the Australian CSIR Mk I).
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How is Linux going to stablize their government?
How is Linux going to erase the terror cells trying to dismantle said government?
How is Linux going to help the fact that the entire region is unstable?
It's nice to have high hopes and all, but come on, at least be realistic with them.
Re:Here's the article. Registering for news is gay
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i wasn't posting it for karma. cry about it.
Here's the article. Registering for news is gay.
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A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 24, 2004
The moment the little boy was born, the hospital staff knew there was something unusual about him. His muscles looked nothing like the soft baby muscles of the other infants in the nursery. They were bulging and well defined, especially in his thighs and upper arms.
"Everybody noticed," said Dr. Markus Schuelke, a pediatric neurologist at Charité University Medical Center in Berlin.
The baby, it turned out in the first such documented case in a human, had a double dose of a genetic mutation that causes immense strength in mice and cattle. Drugs are under development that, investigators hope, will use the same principle to help people whose muscles are wasting from muscular dystrophy or other illnesses. Experts say the little boy, now 4½ and still very strong, offers human evidence for the theory behind such drugs.
The boy's story, written by Dr. Schuelke and colleagues, appears today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
At the baby's birth, Dr. Schuelke said, his doctors were worried. The infant was jittery, jerking his limbs, much the way people sometimes involuntarily jerk their legs when they are falling asleep.
"At first we thought it might be epilepsy," Dr. Schuelke said.
After two months, the jerking movements had subsided, but the puzzle of the baby's muscles remained. Then Dr. Schuelke had an idea. He knew that Dr. Se-Jin Lee at Johns Hopkins University, working with mice, had found that when both copies of a gene for a protein called myostatin were inactivated, the animals grew up lean and so muscular that Dr. Lee called them "mighty mice."
It turned out that cattle breeders, decades ago, had stumbled upon the same genetic trick, developing a strain known as Belgian Blue, or double muscle cattle. The cattle are hefty, very meaty and lean, and they, too, researchers later found, had inactive myostatin genes.
"We had a big discussion about what to do," Dr. Schuelke said. "We remembered the mighty mice and the Belgian Blue cattle. This child looked like that."
The child's mother was strong - she had been a professional sprinter in the 100-meter dash - and she came from a strong family. Her grandfather, a construction worker, had unloaded curbstones by hand, hefting stones weighing at least 330 pounds. (There was no information on the baby's father.)
So Dr. Schuelke and his colleagues decided to test the baby and his mother for mutations in the myostatin gene. The mother had one nonfunctioning copy of the gene. In the boy, both copies of the gene were inactive; he was making no myostatin at all. No other family members agreed to genetic testing.
The findings, researchers say, may help scientists pin down why some people find it easy to get strong while others can lift weights day after day to little effect. At least some of this natural variation, they suspect, may be a result of individual differences in myostatin levels.
"If you've looked at pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a teenager, he just looked naturally muscular,'' said Dr. Robert Ferrell, a professor of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh who in a small study found no major genetic differences between professional bodybuilders and ordinary people. "Everyone has run into people like that who have great muscle definition and size. That's what I'm interested in."
Certainly the baby's mutation was unusual, Dr. Schuelke said. He and his colleagues tested 200 people not related to the child and did not find it. But there are many ways to disable a gene, and it is possible, researchers said, that some naturally strong people have myostatin genes that function poorly, or not at all.
Eventually, experts say, it may be possible to use drugs to deplete myostatin. One way to do that could be with antibodies that block it, a path that Wyeth is pursuing. The company has begun safety tests in humans with the goal of t
>>2) If the malware/spyware does tell you, and you do not pay attention to the agreement, then it is the users fault.
I wouldn't say it's the user's fault. Hiding it in the agreement doesn't really count. You can't just toss any old thing in there and expect it to hold water.
If I slip into the agreement, "I agree that if I use this program, I will have to send the author $20 or I will face legal action", it doesn't automatically make it so.
Cellphone Games Take a Big Leap Forward Into 3-D By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: June 17, 2004
As game devices, cellphones leave something to be desired. Most of the games found on them are rudimentary, with flat, cartoonish graphics and simple scenes.
But that is going to change. Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles.
Companies are working to introduce more sophisticated games to mobile handsets, which will have powerful graphics chips to make the realistic images possible.
The switch from stubby cartoon figures to graceful golfers and lifelike superheroes is likely to be swift, said Neil Trevett, the president of the Khronos Group, an industry association that works on 3-D standards for cellphones. "The same thing that happened in the mid-90's to bring 3-D graphics to PC's is happening now with cellphones," he said, "only it's all happening about three or four times faster. We call it cellphone time."
The rapid move to 3-D graphics will also get a boost from increased screen quality and faster computing capabilities, he said.
The new graphics processing units on the handsets do all the computations necessary to render the highly realistic drawings, adjusting for constant changes in shading and shape. The chips also can handle video.
Many of the units have been engineered by the Nvidia Corporation of Santa Clara, Calif., which already provides graphics processing for many 3-D games in notebooks, PC's, arcade units and game consoles.
"The graphics processing unit does all the computations to create a three-dimensional model you can put up on a screen," said Philip J. Carmack, vice president and general manager for hand-held products at Nvidia. That removes the burden of calculation from the central processing unit.
Taking the graphics core from the PC and adapting it to the smaller package of a cellphone was a challenge, Mr. Carmack said. To preserve battery life, all of the complicated graphics operations needed to create smooth, realistic motion had to be accomplished using as little power as possible.
"We wanted to use less than a tenth of a watt for the power," he said. A game console might use 10 to 20 watts for the same computationally intensive game, he said.
Power demands were reduced in part by new technology developed by Nvidia that enables circuits to operate more efficiently, he said. The small size of phone screens helped, too. "The screen has a lot fewer pixels than a laptop or PC monitor, so you don't have to drive as many pixels," he said.
Most games available on phones in the United States use simple 2-D graphics, although Nokia, for example, has included some software-based three-dimensional graphics in games for its N-Gage model, a combination phone and game device. Steven Knuff, a spokesman for Nokia, said a game based on the recent "Spider-Man'' sequel, to be introduced on June 29 for the N-Gage, would have some 3-D aspects. "Spider-Man swings from building to building in full 3-D," Mr. Knuff said. "You can fight thugs and enemies at the two-dimensional level."
Estimates vary on when the 3-D hardware-driven games will arrive on phones in the United States. They are already used on phones in Korea and Japan, said John Metcalfe of Imagination Technologies, a chip-designing company based in London. The company has licensed its designs for 3-D-capable chips to a number of semiconductor companies, including Intel and Samsung.
"Starting this summer, you'll see higher-end phones in Japan leading the way," he said. "European markets will be next, and the U.S. a little way behind, probably by the beginning of next year."
At first the phones will have a separate graphics chip, Mr. Carmack of Nvidia said, and manufacturers will gradually incorporate that capability into their main chip.
Allen Leibovitch, manager of wireless semiconductor research at IDC, a researc
Yeah but... if you check the results, you'll notice that on quite a few occasions that Java was MORE than twice as fast as C++.
Now, I know nothing about the g++ compiler and benchmarks against a more suitable compiler for x86, but it's hard to believe that g++ would be twice as slow as the rest.
Even if speed was doubled in the C++ compiler, Java still shows some pretty impressive results.
Again, I'm not aware of how g++ compiles vs others, so it could very well be twice as slow (or more).
Everyone gets offended at something. If you don't like my comment, then fuck off. I don't care. If someone gets offended by my comment title, then they have some problems of their own to work out.
In no way did I state that gay people are any less of a person than anyone else. I used it as an adjective, and if you can't understand that, you're an idiot.
You're like those fucking retards who got offended because Lord of the Rings had a title called "The Two Towers" to which they associated with 9/11.
Two obvious requirements for a fair election are that voters should have complete confidence about their ballots' being counted accurately and that everyone, including the disabled, should have access to the polls. It is hard to imagine advocates for those two goals fighting, but lately that seems to be what's happening.
The issue is whether electronic voting machines should provide a "paper trail" -- receipts that could be checked by voters and used in recounts. There has been a rising demand around the country for this critical safeguard, but the move to provide paper trails is being fought by a handful of influential advocates for the disabled, who complain that requiring verifiable paper records will slow the adoption of accessible electronic voting machines.
The National Federation of the Blind, for instance, has been championing controversial voting machines that do not provide a paper trail. It has attested not only to the machines' accessibility, but also to their security and accuracy -- neither of which is within the federation's areas of expertise. What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site. The federation stands by its "complete confidence" in Diebold even though several recent studies have raised serious doubts about the company, and California has banned more than 14,000 Diebold machines from being used this November because of doubts about their reliability.
Disability-rights groups have had an outsized influence on the debate despite their general lack of background on security issues. The League of Women Voters has been a leading opponent of voter-verifiable paper trails, in part because it has accepted the disability groups' arguments.
Last year, the American Association of People With Disabilities gave its Justice for All award to Senator Christopher Dodd, an author of the Help America Vote Act, a post-2000 election reform law. Mr. Dodd, who has actively opposed paper trails, then appointed Jim Dickson, an association official, to the Board of Advisors of the Election Assistance Commission, where he will be in a good position to oppose paper trails at the federal level. In California, a group of disabled voters recently sued to undo the secretary of state's order decertifying the electronic voting machines that his office had found to be unreliable.
Some supporters of voter-verifiable paper trails question whether disability-rights groups have gotten too close to voting machine manufacturers. Besides the donation by Diebold to the National Federation of the Blind, there have been other gifts. According to Mr. Dickson, the American Association of People with Disabilities has received $26,000 from voting machine companies this year.
The real issue, though, is that disability-rights groups have been clouding the voting machine debate by suggesting that the nation must choose between accessible voting and verifiable voting.
It is well within the realm of technology to produce machines that meet both needs. Meanwhile, it would be a grave mistake for election officials to rush to spend millions of dollars on paperless electronic voting machines that may quickly become obsolete.
Disabled people have historically faced great obstacles at the polls, and disability-rights groups are right to work zealously for accessible voting. But they should not overlook the fact that the disabled, like all Americans, also have an interest in ensuring that their elections are not stolen.
Use the console and you can run any modern distro on a 486 if you wanted.
It's kinda obvious that memory will be used up (and quite a bit of it) if you use a flashy GDE like Gnome/KDE.
I run Gnome all the time and quite honestly I'm surprised that it uses the same memory as WinXP to run. It's not an easy task to get graphic intensive applications to run on very little memory.
I don't think you're aware how Freenet works. If you did, you'd realize that it's nearly impossible to block.
1. Random ports. Since there's no standard port, there's nothing to block unless the ISP just blocked everything, but... they'd lose the majority of their customer base.
2. Encrypted data. No one will be able to see what you're transmitting, so there's no pattern to filter.
3. Decentralized. Like Gnutella, there's no central server that houses Freenet node information and locations.
Even if they DID make laws to ban freenet itself, short of installing a camera in front of your monitor or software to monitor what's running, it's impossible to detect who's using it.
This is actually a mass murder/genocide plot by the RIAA. Kill/poison "the problem" and it goes away, right?
In this case, destroy all the evil music downloaders (or as the RIAA calls them, "freeloaders") with greasy fast food. How dare they ruin their overpriced music dreams!
This whole "online musical revolution" thing has been a thorn in their side for too long and they are ready to DO something!
Makes very good points as to why one should leave their wireless completely open so that anyone could get on it... (yes, you read that properly). Well, it's good provided you use P2P on a regular basis. A very nice way to cover your tracks.
If you eat properly, you could boost that up to 2 lbs per week.
Believe it or not, the key is not to eat less, but more. If you're working out 4-5 days a week doing DDR for 45+ minutes, you're at a moderate activty rating for your body's BMR (base metabolic rate), which is about 1.5 * (10*your body weight).
If you eat 10* your body weight in calories (maybe a few hundred calories less), you could establish a 1000 calorie deficit per day. 3500 calories in a pound of fat, so within a week you should lose 2 lbs of fat.
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I find it hard to believe that people will actually go out and drop $200 on new video card just to play this on par with the recommended requirements (Radeon 9800).
I just bought a card in November 2003 (Radeon 9600), it's top f'n notch, yet it won't run on par w/ the recommendations? Haha, nice.
People are gonna be very disappointed when they realize they'll need to drop another $150-200 just to play it on TOP of the $50 it costs to buy it.
Christmas list for most people: Doom 3 WITH Radeon 9800 card. Otherwise.. forget it, the game will run like ass, might as well not even buy it.
Maybe people HERE won't be disappointed due to the geek factor, but I know tons of gamers who were really lookin forward to playing this that are just bummed that they either gotta miss out completely or drop the cash for a new card.
Getting around the fingerprint biometrics is easy. There are clear strips you can buy with an adhesive back end that you stick your thumb (or finger) on and then stick onto the surface of something that someone else has touched. The oils stick to the other side of the material, so when you press it on a thumbprint reader (a lot of hosting providers use them) it'll grant you access. The retina scan would be a better method.
The way I see it, companies who have .NET solutions now have the option of switching to windows.
.NET. Sure, the debate rages on as to whether .NET is better than Java, but personally, it's easier for me to develop in .NET using C#. If I wanted to ditch windows, my only option used to be to completely redo our apps in Java, but time simply doesn't allow for that.
We have solutions in
With mono, all we have to do is slap the code on a linux box and we're good to go.
What BS. Anytime I post an NYTimes story so others don't need to register, it's modded Redundant/Flamebait.
Mods are idiots.
Anyway, bravo! Registration for news is lame.
EDVAC and ENIAC
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete, capable of being reprogrammed by rewiring to solve a full range of computing problems. It was preceded in 1941 by the fully tape-programmable but still mechanical Z3 designed by Konrad Zuse and by the all-electronic rewire to reprogram but not fully general purpose British Colossus computer. Both ENIAC and Colossus used thermionic valves, that is, vacuum tubes, while Z3 used mechanical relays. The requirement to rewire to reprogram ENIAC was removed in 1948.
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. Unlike the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was the first stored program computer ever designed. This design became the standard architecture for most modern computers. The design for the EDVAC is therefore considered a major milestone in the history of computer evolution. While the EDVAC was the first stored program computer to be designed three other stored program computers were built before the EDVAC finally became operational. (the British Small-Scale Experimental Machine at Manchester University, the EDSAC at Cambridge University, and the Australian CSIR Mk I).
How is Linux going to stablize their government?
How is Linux going to erase the terror cells trying to dismantle said government?
How is Linux going to help the fact that the entire region is unstable?
It's nice to have high hopes and all, but come on, at least be realistic with them.
i wasn't posting it for karma. cry about it.
A Very Muscular Baby Offers Hope Against Diseases
By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 24, 2004
The moment the little boy was born, the hospital staff knew there was something unusual about him. His muscles looked nothing like the soft baby muscles of the other infants in the nursery. They were bulging and well defined, especially in his thighs and upper arms.
"Everybody noticed," said Dr. Markus Schuelke, a pediatric neurologist at Charité University Medical Center in Berlin.
The baby, it turned out in the first such documented case in a human, had a double dose of a genetic mutation that causes immense strength in mice and cattle. Drugs are under development that, investigators hope, will use the same principle to help people whose muscles are wasting from muscular dystrophy or other illnesses. Experts say the little boy, now 4½ and still very strong, offers human evidence for the theory behind such drugs.
The boy's story, written by Dr. Schuelke and colleagues, appears today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
At the baby's birth, Dr. Schuelke said, his doctors were worried. The infant was jittery, jerking his limbs, much the way people sometimes involuntarily jerk their legs when they are falling asleep.
"At first we thought it might be epilepsy," Dr. Schuelke said.
After two months, the jerking movements had subsided, but the puzzle of the baby's muscles remained. Then Dr. Schuelke had an idea. He knew that Dr. Se-Jin Lee at Johns Hopkins University, working with mice, had found that when both copies of a gene for a protein called myostatin were inactivated, the animals grew up lean and so muscular that Dr. Lee called them "mighty mice."
It turned out that cattle breeders, decades ago, had stumbled upon the same genetic trick, developing a strain known as Belgian Blue, or double muscle cattle. The cattle are hefty, very meaty and lean, and they, too, researchers later found, had inactive myostatin genes.
"We had a big discussion about what to do," Dr. Schuelke said. "We remembered the mighty mice and the Belgian Blue cattle. This child looked like that."
The child's mother was strong - she had been a professional sprinter in the 100-meter dash - and she came from a strong family. Her grandfather, a construction worker, had unloaded curbstones by hand, hefting stones weighing at least 330 pounds. (There was no information on the baby's father.)
So Dr. Schuelke and his colleagues decided to test the baby and his mother for mutations in the myostatin gene. The mother had one nonfunctioning copy of the gene. In the boy, both copies of the gene were inactive; he was making no myostatin at all. No other family members agreed to genetic testing.
The findings, researchers say, may help scientists pin down why some people find it easy to get strong while others can lift weights day after day to little effect. At least some of this natural variation, they suspect, may be a result of individual differences in myostatin levels.
"If you've looked at pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a teenager, he just looked naturally muscular,'' said Dr. Robert Ferrell, a professor of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh who in a small study found no major genetic differences between professional bodybuilders and ordinary people. "Everyone has run into people like that who have great muscle definition and size. That's what I'm interested in."
Certainly the baby's mutation was unusual, Dr. Schuelke said. He and his colleagues tested 200 people not related to the child and did not find it. But there are many ways to disable a gene, and it is possible, researchers said, that some naturally strong people have myostatin genes that function poorly, or not at all.
Eventually, experts say, it may be possible to use drugs to deplete myostatin. One way to do that could be with antibodies that block it, a path that Wyeth is pursuing. The company has begun safety tests in humans with the goal of t
>>2) If the malware/spyware does tell you, and you do not pay attention to the agreement, then it is the users fault.
I wouldn't say it's the user's fault. Hiding it in the agreement doesn't really count. You can't just toss any old thing in there and expect it to hold water.
If I slip into the agreement, "I agree that if I use this program, I will have to send the author $20 or I will face legal action", it doesn't automatically make it so.
Ch-ch-ch-check it out: New album on usenet
You'll notice that there's been only 5 full album uploads in the past week to usenet as opposed to the usual 10. DRM clearly reduces piracy by 50%.
Hooray @ RIAA!
From NYTimes:
Cellphone Games Take a Big Leap Forward Into 3-D
By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: June 17, 2004
As game devices, cellphones leave something to be desired. Most of the games found on them are rudimentary, with flat, cartoonish graphics and simple scenes.
But that is going to change. Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles.
Companies are working to introduce more sophisticated games to mobile handsets, which will have powerful graphics chips to make the realistic images possible.
The switch from stubby cartoon figures to graceful golfers and lifelike superheroes is likely to be swift, said Neil Trevett, the president of the Khronos Group, an industry association that works on 3-D standards for cellphones. "The same thing that happened in the mid-90's to bring 3-D graphics to PC's is happening now with cellphones," he said, "only it's all happening about three or four times faster. We call it cellphone time."
The rapid move to 3-D graphics will also get a boost from increased screen quality and faster computing capabilities, he said.
The new graphics processing units on the handsets do all the computations necessary to render the highly realistic drawings, adjusting for constant changes in shading and shape. The chips also can handle video.
Many of the units have been engineered by the Nvidia Corporation of Santa Clara, Calif., which already provides graphics processing for many 3-D games in notebooks, PC's, arcade units and game consoles.
"The graphics processing unit does all the computations to create a three-dimensional model you can put up on a screen," said Philip J. Carmack, vice president and general manager for hand-held products at Nvidia. That removes the burden of calculation from the central processing unit.
Taking the graphics core from the PC and adapting it to the smaller package of a cellphone was a challenge, Mr. Carmack said. To preserve battery life, all of the complicated graphics operations needed to create smooth, realistic motion had to be accomplished using as little power as possible.
"We wanted to use less than a tenth of a watt for the power," he said. A game console might use 10 to 20 watts for the same computationally intensive game, he said.
Power demands were reduced in part by new technology developed by Nvidia that enables circuits to operate more efficiently, he said. The small size of phone screens helped, too. "The screen has a lot fewer pixels than a laptop or PC monitor, so you don't have to drive as many pixels," he said.
Most games available on phones in the United States use simple 2-D graphics, although Nokia, for example, has included some software-based three-dimensional graphics in games for its N-Gage model, a combination phone and game device. Steven Knuff, a spokesman for Nokia, said a game based on the recent "Spider-Man'' sequel, to be introduced on June 29 for the N-Gage, would have some 3-D aspects. "Spider-Man swings from building to building in full 3-D," Mr. Knuff said. "You can fight thugs and enemies at the two-dimensional level."
Estimates vary on when the 3-D hardware-driven games will arrive on phones in the United States. They are already used on phones in Korea and Japan, said John Metcalfe of Imagination Technologies, a chip-designing company based in London. The company has licensed its designs for 3-D-capable chips to a number of semiconductor companies, including Intel and Samsung.
"Starting this summer, you'll see higher-end phones in Japan leading the way," he said. "European markets will be next, and the U.S. a little way behind, probably by the beginning of next year."
At first the phones will have a separate graphics chip, Mr. Carmack of Nvidia said, and manufacturers will gradually incorporate that capability into their main chip.
Allen Leibovitch, manager of wireless semiconductor research at IDC, a researc
They have the option to block images from a specific URL, why not the ability to block Flash in the same manner?
Flash Ads are teh suck.
Yeah but... if you check the results, you'll notice that on quite a few occasions that Java was MORE than twice as fast as C++.
Now, I know nothing about the g++ compiler and benchmarks against a more suitable compiler for x86, but it's hard to believe that g++ would be twice as slow as the rest.
Even if speed was doubled in the C++ compiler, Java still shows some pretty impressive results.
Again, I'm not aware of how g++ compiles vs others, so it could very well be twice as slow (or more).
I like how others who post the NYTimes stories get modded up.
Idiot mods.
Everyone gets offended at something. If you don't like my comment, then fuck off. I don't care. If someone gets offended by my comment title, then they have some problems of their own to work out.
In no way did I state that gay people are any less of a person than anyone else. I used it as an adjective, and if you can't understand that, you're an idiot.
You're like those fucking retards who got offended because Lord of the Rings had a title called "The Two Towers" to which they associated with 9/11.
Move on, get over it.
The Disability Lobby and Voting
Published: June 11, 2004
Two obvious requirements for a fair election are that voters should have complete confidence about their ballots' being counted accurately and that everyone, including the disabled, should have access to the polls. It is hard to imagine advocates for those two goals fighting, but lately that seems to be what's happening.
The issue is whether electronic voting machines should provide a "paper trail" -- receipts that could be checked by voters and used in recounts. There has been a rising demand around the country for this critical safeguard, but the move to provide paper trails is being fought by a handful of influential advocates for the disabled, who complain that requiring verifiable paper records will slow the adoption of accessible electronic voting machines.
The National Federation of the Blind, for instance, has been championing controversial voting machines that do not provide a paper trail. It has attested not only to the machines' accessibility, but also to their security and accuracy -- neither of which is within the federation's areas of expertise. What's even more troubling is that the group has accepted a $1 million gift for a new training institute from Diebold, the machines' manufacturer, which put the testimonial on its Web site. The federation stands by its "complete confidence" in Diebold even though several recent studies have raised serious doubts about the company, and California has banned more than 14,000 Diebold machines from being used this November because of doubts about their reliability.
Disability-rights groups have had an outsized influence on the debate despite their general lack of background on security issues. The League of Women Voters has been a leading opponent of voter-verifiable paper trails, in part because it has accepted the disability groups' arguments.
Last year, the American Association of People With Disabilities gave its Justice for All award to Senator Christopher Dodd, an author of the Help America Vote Act, a post-2000 election reform law. Mr. Dodd, who has actively opposed paper trails, then appointed Jim Dickson, an association official, to the Board of Advisors of the Election Assistance Commission, where he will be in a good position to oppose paper trails at the federal level. In California, a group of disabled voters recently sued to undo the secretary of state's order decertifying the electronic voting machines that his office had found to be unreliable.
Some supporters of voter-verifiable paper trails question whether disability-rights groups have gotten too close to voting machine manufacturers. Besides the donation by Diebold to the National Federation of the Blind, there have been other gifts. According to Mr. Dickson, the American Association of People with Disabilities has received $26,000 from voting machine companies this year.
The real issue, though, is that disability-rights groups have been clouding the voting machine debate by suggesting that the nation must choose between accessible voting and verifiable voting.
It is well within the realm of technology to produce machines that meet both needs. Meanwhile, it would be a grave mistake for election officials to rush to spend millions of dollars on paperless electronic voting machines that may quickly become obsolete.
Disabled people have historically faced great obstacles at the polls, and disability-rights groups are right to work zealously for accessible voting. But they should not overlook the fact that the disabled, like all Americans, also have an interest in ensuring that their elections are not stolen.
Use the console and you can run any modern distro on a 486 if you wanted.
It's kinda obvious that memory will be used up (and quite a bit of it) if you use a flashy GDE like Gnome/KDE.
I run Gnome all the time and quite honestly I'm surprised that it uses the same memory as WinXP to run. It's not an easy task to get graphic intensive applications to run on very little memory.
Never?
I don't think you're aware how Freenet works. If you did, you'd realize that it's nearly impossible to block.
1. Random ports. Since there's no standard port, there's nothing to block unless the ISP just blocked everything, but... they'd lose the majority of their customer base.
2. Encrypted data. No one will be able to see what you're transmitting, so there's no pattern to filter.
3. Decentralized. Like Gnutella, there's no central server that houses Freenet node information and locations.
Even if they DID make laws to ban freenet itself, short of installing a camera in front of your monitor or software to monitor what's running, it's impossible to detect who's using it.
This is actually a mass murder/genocide plot by the RIAA. Kill/poison "the problem" and it goes away, right?
In this case, destroy all the evil music downloaders (or as the RIAA calls them, "freeloaders") with greasy fast food. How dare they ruin their overpriced music dreams!
This whole "online musical revolution" thing has been a thorn in their side for too long and they are ready to DO something!
Think ABOUT IT, man!
"We haven't worked out how to open-source Java..."
...and these people get paid HOW much? ;)
Well, see those collection of files that you edit when you want to update Java? Yeah, those.
Slap a GPL on it and let us have 'em. Simple!
...and it made like $76 billion in box office sales. It was called "The Greatest Movie Ever Made" and it won like 40 oscars.
...but it does exist.
You probably can't find it anywhere, though. It was so good, they decided not to make it anymore.
Just like 640k of memory should be enough for anybody ;)
Remember that these are external HDs too and are an excellent way to backup/transfer data between 2 computers.
Check out this article
;)
Makes very good points as to why one should leave their wireless completely open so that anyone could get on it... (yes, you read that properly). Well, it's good provided you use P2P on a regular basis. A very nice way to cover your tracks.
Being unsecure isn't always bad
You better watch out!
;)
You wield things called logic, truth, and common sense. The Slashdot folk don't take kindly to such things!
If you eat properly, you could boost that up to 2 lbs per week.
Believe it or not, the key is not to eat less, but more. If you're working out 4-5 days a week doing DDR for 45+ minutes, you're at a moderate activty rating for your body's BMR (base metabolic rate), which is about 1.5 * (10*your body weight).
If you eat 10* your body weight in calories (maybe a few hundred calories less), you could establish a 1000 calorie deficit per day. 3500 calories in a pound of fat, so within a week you should lose 2 lbs of fat.