Damn. I was about to say, I'm in the wrong business. Sounds like I could make more as a "Spyware remover" then a "Computer Scientist" at that much money..... And without the years of expensive soul-sucking college....
And a rather nearly-identical dupe at that.... I thought it might have been the same posting at first, but that would have required no slashdot updates for over 8 hours, and that doesn't happen.... I wonder how often dupes are submitted by the same person?
I had a friend that was a poor college student living in an apartment, and the only way she kept in contact was by leeching a Wifi Connection. And I won't even get started with college campuses. I go to a pretty technological one, and just in my dorm, I detected I think 7 AP's, Almost half of which were open access (CS floor, Pretty sure no Wifi was provided by the college itself in the dorms, so the open access ones were prolly above or below, since most CS majors know enough to secure their networks). The sad part is probably like 80% of Joe Shmoe families that just bought a Router and somehow managed to get it working (which I guess is a difficult task to them) w/o any geek helping them are probably open access.
*SPOILER!!!!*
Old enough thread, so I'll tell the name. Star Ocean 3. Although a warning, knowing this ruins a good part of the game, because you def. don't see it coming.
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I would assume it will have an option to turn them off within the OS (much like you can turn off a lot of graphical "improvements" in WinXP to make it more like Win98 on the surface).
I would agree partially. But due to the lack of licensing restrictions, I think Linux has a lot of potential with both drivers and software (mostly software, since driver copyrights has never prevented Windows from including them on Windows installation discs, and driver support does suck for the most part). With refinement and perhaps better organization, Linux could eventually outdo Windows software installation ease by far.
People that stand next to a fire hydrant on a daily basis are less likely to develop various forms of cancer. Come on. I am not a statistician, but so many "studies" can be done linking things to other things. A bulk of them that actually follow a trend that doesn't make sense probably aren't even directly related, and have something else in the people's lives that links them together.
It shall rename nameless for now so those that do not want to play it will not get spoilers. But in it, the world of the game was later revealed to be a virtual world/"other dimension" in which the level of complexity had created billions of virtual characters, that technical details aside, were the same in existence as those that created the game. It brought up an intersting moral question. If they ever did create a game in which we just watched the lives of "virtual people" play out while we threw situations at them, and their minds and actions had grew to rival our own in complexity and nature (Like the Sims I guess, but if they were like us), would they count as a sentient being? Would people really feel it would be allright to pull the plug on them? Kinda like the "living robot" situation, but a lot more likely.
but Dell. When you get a bunch of their coupons together, you can get stuff even cheaper then you can most places. I got Creative Gigaworks S750 (7.1) cheaper then their S700 (5.1) was being sold from newegg.
It's just inspired by the previous generations most sleek operating systems (such as Avalon in Longhorn most likely having similar characteristics to OSX.) And no, I don't mean to troll. Companies always take good ideas from other companies, be it simple technology, interfaces, or other things. I'm sure some things exist in OS X that were probably Windows inspired too.
Now we can't forget about Newton's roll in Escaflowne. He was the heart of evil and hatred. Gave me yet another reason to hate him in addition of blaming piles of Calculus homework on him.
I was hoping he would have stumbled upon something that would have turned the science world upside down like his laws of motion (no pun intended) or Calculus.... Like putting a little twist on Alchemy/Chemistry we never knew about...... Hey, it's possible. He wasn't extremely vocal about his other discoveries at first from what I have heard.
I work at a bank as a sorter operator (deal w/ documents encoded by encoders with the amount and other necessary information, run them though a machine, key in rejects, make note of encoding errors, get them out for federal processing, various other paperwork), and there's a lot of possiblity for errors. I've never seen any as bad as $270M, but it is pretty easy for the unskilled to type in an extra "00" when doing high-speed unchecked keying of data (which does lead to termination if errors aren't within quota). I would think they would have a safeguard system in place to prevent it, because if we had anything that abnormally large, it would be noticed....
In this case, that should have been done, but that isn't always possible. Some jobs (like bank encoders) don't give the time for double checking work when there are many thousands of transactions to get done (and some are for substantially large amounts). You'd be surprised how much people can suck with keying on a numberpad when they can't double check every thing they do (and get fired).
Now that's a rather disturbing idea. Maybe it'll cause dozens of "fansub" groups to sprout up that know no Japanese, and just put in words that make it amusing...... Although that would be rather interesting if they were good....
The router is handy, as is Blu-Ray playability (if that format ends up being standard). But unless it can also replace a PVR, it's still pretty steep for most people (Routers are cheap, and we'll see how the Blu-ray situation turns out cost wise and availability wise). Gigabit and Blu-ray will probably be a bit ahead of it's time until a little while into the console's life anyways.
Even if Sony is losing money on it, I'm not about to pay $400 for just a game console. I wouldn't estimate it to slide into the reasonable (to the upper middle class maybe) ~$250 range until it's been out for at least a couple years, and even that's too steep for a lot (Let's see... $250 for system, $100 for a couple games, $50 for tax and other accessories... $400 for Xmas just there). I'd pay $400 if it had decent PVR ability, maybe a few other bells and whistles.... But not just for a game console....
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I saw inside the Engineering building.... Although budget limitations were probably the reason for something that simple.....
Damn. I was about to say, I'm in the wrong business. Sounds like I could make more as a "Spyware remover" then a "Computer Scientist" at that much money..... And without the years of expensive soul-sucking college....
And a rather nearly-identical dupe at that.... I thought it might have been the same posting at first, but that would have required no slashdot updates for over 8 hours, and that doesn't happen.... I wonder how often dupes are submitted by the same person?
We'd have a lot of stories....
I had a friend that was a poor college student living in an apartment, and the only way she kept in contact was by leeching a Wifi Connection. And I won't even get started with college campuses. I go to a pretty technological one, and just in my dorm, I detected I think 7 AP's, Almost half of which were open access (CS floor, Pretty sure no Wifi was provided by the college itself in the dorms, so the open access ones were prolly above or below, since most CS majors know enough to secure their networks). The sad part is probably like 80% of Joe Shmoe families that just bought a Router and somehow managed to get it working (which I guess is a difficult task to them) w/o any geek helping them are probably open access.
*SPOILER!!!!* Old enough thread, so I'll tell the name. Star Ocean 3. Although a warning, knowing this ruins a good part of the game, because you def. don't see it coming.
I would assume it will have an option to turn them off within the OS (much like you can turn off a lot of graphical "improvements" in WinXP to make it more like Win98 on the surface).
I would agree partially. But due to the lack of licensing restrictions, I think Linux has a lot of potential with both drivers and software (mostly software, since driver copyrights has never prevented Windows from including them on Windows installation discs, and driver support does suck for the most part). With refinement and perhaps better organization, Linux could eventually outdo Windows software installation ease by far.
If she was in America and it was for a reasonable sum. But I don't think Russia is so supportive of such idiotic things.
People that stand next to a fire hydrant on a daily basis are less likely to develop various forms of cancer. Come on. I am not a statistician, but so many "studies" can be done linking things to other things. A bulk of them that actually follow a trend that doesn't make sense probably aren't even directly related, and have something else in the people's lives that links them together.
I would if I knew how to PM (I feel noobish, which I am not....) Never even knew that was a feature, since slashdot isn't the typical BBS system.
I did, I plan on giving it a shot.
It shall rename nameless for now so those that do not want to play it will not get spoilers. But in it, the world of the game was later revealed to be a virtual world/"other dimension" in which the level of complexity had created billions of virtual characters, that technical details aside, were the same in existence as those that created the game. It brought up an intersting moral question. If they ever did create a game in which we just watched the lives of "virtual people" play out while we threw situations at them, and their minds and actions had grew to rival our own in complexity and nature (Like the Sims I guess, but if they were like us), would they count as a sentient being? Would people really feel it would be allright to pull the plug on them? Kinda like the "living robot" situation, but a lot more likely.
I never thought I'd see so many visited hyperlinks on a new slashdot headline.... Is this a bad sign?
but Dell. When you get a bunch of their coupons together, you can get stuff even cheaper then you can most places. I got Creative Gigaworks S750 (7.1) cheaper then their S700 (5.1) was being sold from newegg.
I beg to differ. a little bit of Steam from a leaky VALVe is part of what makes the fluid in the pipes so dynamic and constantly changing.
It's just inspired by the previous generations most sleek operating systems (such as Avalon in Longhorn most likely having similar characteristics to OSX.) And no, I don't mean to troll. Companies always take good ideas from other companies, be it simple technology, interfaces, or other things. I'm sure some things exist in OS X that were probably Windows inspired too.
Why do I have the feeling your talking about the kind that comes from VALVe?
Now we can't forget about Newton's roll in Escaflowne. He was the heart of evil and hatred. Gave me yet another reason to hate him in addition of blaming piles of Calculus homework on him.
I was hoping he would have stumbled upon something that would have turned the science world upside down like his laws of motion (no pun intended) or Calculus.... Like putting a little twist on Alchemy/Chemistry we never knew about...... Hey, it's possible. He wasn't extremely vocal about his other discoveries at first from what I have heard.
I work at a bank as a sorter operator (deal w/ documents encoded by encoders with the amount and other necessary information, run them though a machine, key in rejects, make note of encoding errors, get them out for federal processing, various other paperwork), and there's a lot of possiblity for errors. I've never seen any as bad as $270M, but it is pretty easy for the unskilled to type in an extra "00" when doing high-speed unchecked keying of data (which does lead to termination if errors aren't within quota). I would think they would have a safeguard system in place to prevent it, because if we had anything that abnormally large, it would be noticed....
In this case, that should have been done, but that isn't always possible. Some jobs (like bank encoders) don't give the time for double checking work when there are many thousands of transactions to get done (and some are for substantially large amounts). You'd be surprised how much people can suck with keying on a numberpad when they can't double check every thing they do (and get fired).
Now that's a rather disturbing idea. Maybe it'll cause dozens of "fansub" groups to sprout up that know no Japanese, and just put in words that make it amusing...... Although that would be rather interesting if they were good....
The router is handy, as is Blu-Ray playability (if that format ends up being standard). But unless it can also replace a PVR, it's still pretty steep for most people (Routers are cheap, and we'll see how the Blu-ray situation turns out cost wise and availability wise). Gigabit and Blu-ray will probably be a bit ahead of it's time until a little while into the console's life anyways.
Even if Sony is losing money on it, I'm not about to pay $400 for just a game console. I wouldn't estimate it to slide into the reasonable (to the upper middle class maybe) ~$250 range until it's been out for at least a couple years, and even that's too steep for a lot (Let's see... $250 for system, $100 for a couple games, $50 for tax and other accessories... $400 for Xmas just there). I'd pay $400 if it had decent PVR ability, maybe a few other bells and whistles.... But not just for a game console....