They certainly use it to update their own maps. The line for my street rain through my back yard before we got streetview (probably 200 yards south of where it was supposed to be), now its right on top of the asphalt where it belongs.
I would bet their updating their one-ways and lane assignments (turn only/HOV/ect) as well.
Yea, cause OSM is better than... well no other data source actually.
OSM data fucking sucks, sorry to burst your bubble. The fact that it was based on data from the fed makes you think it should be somewhat accurate, but the data it uses is old and ridiculously inaccurate and its simply not popular enough to be updated by enough people to have all the bad imported data corrected.
Give it 10 more years, and get some tools for OSM that bring it to the mainstream, OR get Google to switch to it so they devote their mapping data to it and it'll matter.
I'm ALL for it as I've been wanting to use the OSM data for mapping in my own software but its just far too inaccurate and incomplete to be useful.
Tele-atlas and the others use the same data, but pay more people than OSM has contributors to fix their maps and add missing data like one ways, lane counts, speeds and all the other stuffs.
OSM will be a toy until someone like Google or Apple jumps to it after someone like Tele-atlas or navteq tries to rip them off.
I do encourage everyone to contribute corrections to OSM though! The more the marrier!.
Good for the citizens of the community ( DC ? too lazy to remember where 495 is up there). Thats actually probably better for traffic all around as it distributes the load, though they could have just screwed themselves worse by causing more congestion elsewhere.
Thats freaking awesome though, its like Human OSPF for the superhighway.
They just represent a unique class of device production, to which there may even be revisions.
These model numbers DO map to an architecture type, core count, speed and all the other tech bits that havent' even been recorded yet.
Its just a table lookup, rather than having the data encoded in the model number. CPUZ for instance has a pretty complete lookup table of all the mappings.
Its not like the data isn't known, probably a website (www.intel.com) that would let you look up the models pretty easy, maybe even some tools to do it for you (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=intel+processor+identification).
Look, I realize it shouldn't be this way, but it is... People reading websites like slashdot expect the 'editors' to know a little bit about what they are 'editing'. I realize that on the Internet, thats a really dangerous assumption to make, but never the less, people, myself included, expect that when we see something on websites devoted to 'news' that someone will have put at least a marginal amount of effort into weeding out the rubbish, the snake oil, the milkmaids asking questions about being a car mechanic, and the sensationalism.
Timothy does exactly the opposite of what is expected. Every story he promotes to the front page FAILS the most basic of journalistic tests.
You guys like him, I got that, I'm, sure he's a good guy, but maybe someone could teach him a little bit about how to determine what to promote to the front page and maybe encourage him to do a little (doesn't take MUCH with google around) background research before promoting things to the front page.
Slashdot is becoming a lot more mainstream thanks to Google News so its only natural that more silly stories are going to be submitted, but for the love of god can you please put a little effort into keeping it relevent to the Geeks who have been here for ages and like the old school 'news for nerds' slashdot.
Its doubtful AMD will ever regain the performance lead again, Intel was lazy, lost one round and learned they had to bust their ass cause AMD was going to push them.
From here on out, barring complacency by AMD, the best you can expect is that AMD will be close to Intel in performance for most things, better at a select few, and almost invariably cheaper resulting in more performance for a given cost, but not being capable of producing the fastest raw speed or the lowest power draw. Intel will win around the board at the raw numbers and will continue to only occasionally have AMD do some things better.
I hope the two of them continue doing exactly what they are doing for at least 10 more years. They are a duo-oply(? spellcheck failure!@$!@$!$), but one that competes and so far appears to be providing benefits to consumers rather than price fixing with AMD and ripping us off while they sit on their laurels.
Your first bit of confusion is that you still think Hyperthreading gives you a performance increase worth talking about.
And for the record, those apps will ALWAYS peg the CPU when working, trying to produce as many frames as fast as possible when rendering or raytracing.
It doesn't matter how fast you make the CPU, it will always peg them out, the question is 'how long', not that it does it.
You get 4 core, on the ceramic 'chip' you can mount in your PC you get a part number that says 4 cores.
How many cores get turned off because they were bad or just not needed (which happens as well when its easier to sell 6 core chips to fill the gap in 4 core demand than to make new 4 core chips) doesn't matter. You'll get sold a chip labeled as having 4 type XXX cores and thats what you'll get. If you change the number of course or they type of core then the model number printed on the ceramic will change. That number matches up with what the CPU claims itself to be to the BIOS and everything else.
When you buy a 4 core chip, you get a 4 core model number.
I use an OS that doesn't suck, I can in fact, have an app trying to use 100% of the CPU and STILL manage to get work done because it won't let it! Its called a 'pre-emptive multitasking OS'. Maybe you should try one. Not sure what OS you're using that doesn't do this but its gotta be pretty useless now days.
One core is more than enough for almost everyone. Office apps don't really use a lot of CPU, even Office 2010. What web pages do you use that you run so much JS that you notice it running? Contrary to what Mozilla and Google are ranting about, JS speed hasn't been an issue for years, even if its the only change they've made to their browsers recently worth mentioning.
Contrary to popular belief, most people aren't trying to run quake in javascript. Your argument is dumb as it stands.
You should have referenced flash. You're argument would still be dumb, but at least you'd come up with a reason to need more CPU.
Funny that in Europe many people think its the redneck militaristic Americans who are the douchebags.
So you're telling me that Europe is full of a bunch of idiotic ignorant morons?
There haven't been any successful terrorist attacks on Finland, Slovakia or Portugal
Lets consider why... oh yea... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THEM. There are LOTS of countries that don't get bombed that aren't in Europe. You're confusing location or affiliation with the cause of the problem. You simply don;'t understand the people you think you're telling us about.
Now take your retarded, ignorant European ass back to the pub before put full gear into coming after Europe and America has to spend another couple of years with Britain digging your pansy french ass out from under your house.
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which newspapers will be the good boys who get the subsidy and a pat on the head by the government and which ones don't?
You know, I hear/see this statement often, and it has never made sense. To work the government has to be evil from the start, which you assume..
We have plenty of programs where the government pays someone else for services in an entirely unprejudice way, why is it so hard for people like yourself to see that it is POSSIBLE to do it. It happens right now, every day.
Your license is in no way unique, since its clearly a boilerplate GPLv3 license, its certainly not the only GPL'd game. Anyone can do the same thing with any GPL game as they can with yours.
Edit in place isn't particularly impressive, especially in this case.
Really you aren't doing one single thing (other than the new slashvertising appoarch) that is new, unique or even a new and/or unique combination of something.
There is nothing noteworthy about what you're doing.
BNC is not a networking protocol, its a connector type. Generally attached to coaxial cable.
Ethernet works over many different cable types and connectors, but it is a set of signalling protocols not a connector or cable type.
Ethernet can use BNC connectors (connected to coaxial cable), as well as RJ45 connectors (connected to CAT3, 5, or 6 cable) and several other interfaces via AUI and the like. You can even signal ethernet over fibre.
What you probably meant to say was 'at least its CAT3, not coaxial' as otherwise your statement makes absolutely no sense. It may not be CAT3 cabling actually, but if their still using token ring, then its either CAT3 or a fat bundle, not likely to be CAT5 and still using TokenRing.
You aren't accepting incoming arguments, if you were running on bare metal I'd accept that there are no incoming arguments, but you're returning 0, so you're obviously not running on bare metal or there would be nothing to return to. One of those things is a bug, take your pick.
You also forgot to terminate the printf statement with a newline\carriage return or whatever fits the OS its for, which on some OSes will result in the line not appearing even though it does get printed.
It may not crash, but yes, its broken and buggy by my standards. You should probably not act like such a cocky fuck if you plan on doing any job interviews.
a well designed and well matched internal antenna is not any worse than an external one
Bullshit.
Internal antenna's are encased, thats an immediate signal quality drop. Second, they have (in an iPhone) a semimetalic screen on one side and on the other side, while in use, my hand. Both of these things are great at killing a cellphone signal when not PART of the antenna.
Anyone who says internal antenna's are as good as external hasn't taken the device out of the test lab.
So I'd have to wager that neither you, nor the people who modded you up have never touched anything Apple has ever sold.
Generally, its advisable to not say that something is 'too complicated' while at the same time saying 'it has no options'. Yes its possible, but it certainly tells me you've never used Apple products.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were saying it to lower the number of idiots returning their phones for issues they are having that they area only having because they read online that the phone is having problems.
For reference, my sister-in-law got a replacement just a few days ago without a hassle, those she wasn't doing so because of 'antenna' issues so that probably had a lot to do with it.
RIM's market are business people and others who really use their phone for calling, email, and other communications. They bought it to do a function.
Really? Someone should tell RIM that cause their phones suck ass for all 3. Email on a BlackBerry is a fucking joke, they'd have done better had they included PINE. Call quality? REALLY?
Judging by your post, I'd say you've never used a real smartphone if you think RIM makes good devices for any purpose. The only thing they have is being IT approved due to device management options. From a user perspective you couldn't get any worse without taking the phone away completely.
You're just trying to come up with retarded ways to make the numbers look worse than they really are. 1 more call per 100 is still 1 out of 100 extra, or 1 percent. It may be up to double the previous rate, but thats where it ends and making the comparison in that context just shows your going way out of your way to make it look worse than it is.
If it went from 0 to 1 call per 100 or it went from 98 to 99 per 100, its a change you aren't going to notice without tracking every call you make anyway on a spreadsheet or something.
You are just trying to be deceptive to further your point, which is a lame one.
The antenna IS better than the previous one, there is plenty of tests from Apple, and unrelated 3rd parties showing that.
Antennagate is only 'real' because people like yourselves are idiots. Just get over your jealous and go buy one instead of spending your days trying to figure out how to pick things to knock it on.
No one who owns an iPhone gives a fuck about your whining about the Antenna problems they don't have. No one that owns one gives a shit about what others are writing about a non-existent problem.
In short, if it were REALLY a problem they'd have higher returns, especially since its been sensationalized by idiots such as yourself.
Is the Antenna lacking in several ways. That is indeed a fact. It is better than most other internal antenna only phones however, so ranting over it is just retarded.
If you want to talk about FUD perhaps you should look in the mirror and stop distorting numbers well beyond any reasonable interpretation just to further your nearly non-existent point.
100s of legitimate reasons to knock the iPhone and the best you can come up with is this? You guys have to be some of the most pathetic trolls ever.
Being overly complex doesn't prevent something from working and scaling, neither does being less complex.
Being overly complex does not preclude functioning properly, it just means that its possible that it would still function properly if it were less complex.
DNS and DNSSEC ARE overly complicated for 99.99999% of what it gets used for on a regular basis, the fact that you don't recognize that tells me you really don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Also like to meantion namebench, which will recommend the best DNS servers to use for you, as well as tell you all the sites that are pulling tricks like www hijacking or google.com hijacking (al la opendns).
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Yea, couldn't possibly be that you over reacted or that politicians aren't nearly as evil as you think.
Only the first half of that statement is meant to be taken seriously.
They certainly use it to update their own maps. The line for my street rain through my back yard before we got streetview (probably 200 yards south of where it was supposed to be), now its right on top of the asphalt where it belongs.
I would bet their updating their one-ways and lane assignments (turn only/HOV/ect) as well.
hahahah
Yea, cause OSM is better than ... well no other data source actually.
OSM data fucking sucks, sorry to burst your bubble. The fact that it was based on data from the fed makes you think it should be somewhat accurate, but the data it uses is old and ridiculously inaccurate and its simply not popular enough to be updated by enough people to have all the bad imported data corrected.
Give it 10 more years, and get some tools for OSM that bring it to the mainstream, OR get Google to switch to it so they devote their mapping data to it and it'll matter.
I'm ALL for it as I've been wanting to use the OSM data for mapping in my own software but its just far too inaccurate and incomplete to be useful.
Tele-atlas and the others use the same data, but pay more people than OSM has contributors to fix their maps and add missing data like one ways, lane counts, speeds and all the other stuffs.
OSM will be a toy until someone like Google or Apple jumps to it after someone like Tele-atlas or navteq tries to rip them off.
I do encourage everyone to contribute corrections to OSM though! The more the marrier!.
That is freaking awesome and I'm all for it.
Good for the citizens of the community ( DC ? too lazy to remember where 495 is up there). Thats actually probably better for traffic all around as it distributes the load, though they could have just screwed themselves worse by causing more congestion elsewhere.
Thats freaking awesome though, its like Human OSPF for the superhighway.
They just represent a unique class of device production, to which there may even be revisions.
These model numbers DO map to an architecture type, core count, speed and all the other tech bits that havent' even been recorded yet.
Its just a table lookup, rather than having the data encoded in the model number. CPUZ for instance has a pretty complete lookup table of all the mappings.
Its not like the data isn't known, probably a website (www.intel.com) that would let you look up the models pretty easy, maybe even some tools to do it for you (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=intel+processor+identification).
Look, I realize it shouldn't be this way, but it is ... People reading websites like slashdot expect the 'editors' to know a little bit about what they are 'editing'. I realize that on the Internet, thats a really dangerous assumption to make, but never the less, people, myself included, expect that when we see something on websites devoted to 'news' that someone will have put at least a marginal amount of effort into weeding out the rubbish, the snake oil, the milkmaids asking questions about being a car mechanic, and the sensationalism.
Timothy does exactly the opposite of what is expected. Every story he promotes to the front page FAILS the most basic of journalistic tests.
You guys like him, I got that, I'm, sure he's a good guy, but maybe someone could teach him a little bit about how to determine what to promote to the front page and maybe encourage him to do a little (doesn't take MUCH with google around) background research before promoting things to the front page.
Slashdot is becoming a lot more mainstream thanks to Google News so its only natural that more silly stories are going to be submitted, but for the love of god can you please put a little effort into keeping it relevent to the Geeks who have been here for ages and like the old school 'news for nerds' slashdot.
Please.
Its doubtful AMD will ever regain the performance lead again, Intel was lazy, lost one round and learned they had to bust their ass cause AMD was going to push them.
From here on out, barring complacency by AMD, the best you can expect is that AMD will be close to Intel in performance for most things, better at a select few, and almost invariably cheaper resulting in more performance for a given cost, but not being capable of producing the fastest raw speed or the lowest power draw. Intel will win around the board at the raw numbers and will continue to only occasionally have AMD do some things better.
I hope the two of them continue doing exactly what they are doing for at least 10 more years. They are a duo-oply(? spellcheck failure!@$!@$!$), but one that competes and so far appears to be providing benefits to consumers rather than price fixing with AMD and ripping us off while they sit on their laurels.
Your first bit of confusion is that you still think Hyperthreading gives you a performance increase worth talking about.
And for the record, those apps will ALWAYS peg the CPU when working, trying to produce as many frames as fast as possible when rendering or raytracing.
It doesn't matter how fast you make the CPU, it will always peg them out, the question is 'how long', not that it does it.
You get 4 core, on the ceramic 'chip' you can mount in your PC you get a part number that says 4 cores.
How many cores get turned off because they were bad or just not needed (which happens as well when its easier to sell 6 core chips to fill the gap in 4 core demand than to make new 4 core chips) doesn't matter. You'll get sold a chip labeled as having 4 type XXX cores and thats what you'll get. If you change the number of course or they type of core then the model number printed on the ceramic will change. That number matches up with what the CPU claims itself to be to the BIOS and everything else.
When you buy a 4 core chip, you get a 4 core model number.
Is that you matthugh?
There isn't a reason to upgrade, thats the problem Intel has, they've hit the wall.
I use an OS that doesn't suck, I can in fact, have an app trying to use 100% of the CPU and STILL manage to get work done because it won't let it! Its called a 'pre-emptive multitasking OS'. Maybe you should try one. Not sure what OS you're using that doesn't do this but its gotta be pretty useless now days.
One core is more than enough for almost everyone. Office apps don't really use a lot of CPU, even Office 2010. What web pages do you use that you run so much JS that you notice it running? Contrary to what Mozilla and Google are ranting about, JS speed hasn't been an issue for years, even if its the only change they've made to their browsers recently worth mentioning.
Contrary to popular belief, most people aren't trying to run quake in javascript. Your argument is dumb as it stands.
You should have referenced flash. You're argument would still be dumb, but at least you'd come up with a reason to need more CPU.
So you're telling me that Europe is full of a bunch of idiotic ignorant morons?
Lets consider why ... oh yea ... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THEM. There are LOTS of countries that don't get bombed that aren't in Europe. You're confusing location or affiliation with the cause of the problem. You simply don;'t understand the people you think you're telling us about.
Now take your retarded, ignorant European ass back to the pub before put full gear into coming after Europe and America has to spend another couple of years with Britain digging your pansy french ass out from under your house.
You know, I hear/see this statement often, and it has never made sense. To work the government has to be evil from the start, which you assume..
We have plenty of programs where the government pays someone else for services in an entirely unprejudice way, why is it so hard for people like yourself to see that it is POSSIBLE to do it. It happens right now, every day.
The government isn't evil. People are.
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Your license is in no way unique, since its clearly a boilerplate GPLv3 license, its certainly not the only GPL'd game. Anyone can do the same thing with any GPL game as they can with yours.
Edit in place isn't particularly impressive, especially in this case.
Really you aren't doing one single thing (other than the new slashvertising appoarch) that is new, unique or even a new and/or unique combination of something.
There is nothing noteworthy about what you're doing.
BNC is not a networking protocol, its a connector type. Generally attached to coaxial cable.
Ethernet works over many different cable types and connectors, but it is a set of signalling protocols not a connector or cable type.
Ethernet can use BNC connectors (connected to coaxial cable), as well as RJ45 connectors (connected to CAT3, 5, or 6 cable) and several other interfaces via AUI and the like. You can even signal ethernet over fibre.
What you probably meant to say was 'at least its CAT3, not coaxial' as otherwise your statement makes absolutely no sense. It may not be CAT3 cabling actually, but if their still using token ring, then its either CAT3 or a fat bundle, not likely to be CAT5 and still using TokenRing.
On my desktop, no I don't check stdio.h
On our company buildfarm, yes, stdio.h is checked by the IDS before production builds run and after to confirm they are the originals.
You aren't accepting incoming arguments, if you were running on bare metal I'd accept that there are no incoming arguments, but you're returning 0, so you're obviously not running on bare metal or there would be nothing to return to. One of those things is a bug, take your pick.
You also forgot to terminate the printf statement with a newline\carriage return or whatever fits the OS its for, which on some OSes will result in the line not appearing even though it does get printed.
It may not crash, but yes, its broken and buggy by my standards. You should probably not act like such a cocky fuck if you plan on doing any job interviews.
No, they made internal antenna's work in Europe.
Where you have a cell tower within 200 feet of you 99.99999999999% of the time.
America is an entirely different beast and dropping external antenna's here was a fucking retarded move.
Bullshit.
Internal antenna's are encased, thats an immediate signal quality drop. Second, they have (in an iPhone) a semimetalic screen on one side and on the other side, while in use, my hand. Both of these things are great at killing a cellphone signal when not PART of the antenna.
Anyone who says internal antenna's are as good as external hasn't taken the device out of the test lab.
So I'd have to wager that neither you, nor the people who modded you up have never touched anything Apple has ever sold.
Generally, its advisable to not say that something is 'too complicated' while at the same time saying 'it has no options'. Yes its possible, but it certainly tells me you've never used Apple products.
Wouldn't surprise me if they were saying it to lower the number of idiots returning their phones for issues they are having that they area only having because they read online that the phone is having problems.
For reference, my sister-in-law got a replacement just a few days ago without a hassle, those she wasn't doing so because of 'antenna' issues so that probably had a lot to do with it.
Really? Someone should tell RIM that cause their phones suck ass for all 3. Email on a BlackBerry is a fucking joke, they'd have done better had they included PINE. Call quality? REALLY?
Judging by your post, I'd say you've never used a real smartphone if you think RIM makes good devices for any purpose. The only thing they have is being IT approved due to device management options. From a user perspective you couldn't get any worse without taking the phone away completely.
You're just trying to come up with retarded ways to make the numbers look worse than they really are. 1 more call per 100 is still 1 out of 100 extra, or 1 percent. It may be up to double the previous rate, but thats where it ends and making the comparison in that context just shows your going way out of your way to make it look worse than it is.
If it went from 0 to 1 call per 100 or it went from 98 to 99 per 100, its a change you aren't going to notice without tracking every call you make anyway on a spreadsheet or something.
You are just trying to be deceptive to further your point, which is a lame one.
The antenna IS better than the previous one, there is plenty of tests from Apple, and unrelated 3rd parties showing that.
Antennagate is only 'real' because people like yourselves are idiots. Just get over your jealous and go buy one instead of spending your days trying to figure out how to pick things to knock it on.
No one who owns an iPhone gives a fuck about your whining about the Antenna problems they don't have. No one that owns one gives a shit about what others are writing about a non-existent problem.
In short, if it were REALLY a problem they'd have higher returns, especially since its been sensationalized by idiots such as yourself.
Is the Antenna lacking in several ways. That is indeed a fact. It is better than most other internal antenna only phones however, so ranting over it is just retarded.
If you want to talk about FUD perhaps you should look in the mirror and stop distorting numbers well beyond any reasonable interpretation just to further your nearly non-existent point.
100s of legitimate reasons to knock the iPhone and the best you can come up with is this? You guys have to be some of the most pathetic trolls ever.
Being overly complex doesn't prevent something from working and scaling, neither does being less complex.
Being overly complex does not preclude functioning properly, it just means that its possible that it would still function properly if it were less complex.
DNS and DNSSEC ARE overly complicated for 99.99999% of what it gets used for on a regular basis, the fact that you don't recognize that tells me you really don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Yea, opendns is awesome if you like the fact that they hijack www.google.com and direct it to their own servers.
Come to think of it, no, OpenDNS has never really been awesome, its just been better than absolute shit.
Also like to meantion namebench, which will recommend the best DNS servers to use for you, as well as tell you all the sites that are pulling tricks like www hijacking or google.com hijacking (al la opendns).
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/