Firstly, the xahlee.org link results in a 403 if accessed directly from Slashdot. Copying the URL into a blank tab will allow access, though.
Secondly, the second picture is somewhat indicative - the spread thighs are reminiscent of the nadu [NSFW], a position found in the atrociously bad Gor books by John Norman*. Some doms really like having their subs assume the nadu or similar positions as a sign of submission. (Disclaimer: I'm just an unusually well-informed vanilla, but publishing intimate details onf a dom/sub relationship goes quite well with some aspects of BDSM, so it's not hard to find info on what people like to do.)
* Essentially bad SciFi with equally bad femsub mixed in. To get a glimpse of Norman's way with words, especially dialogue, read the parody Houseplants of Gor. Technically SFW, but of course parodying well-known BDSM texts.
Yeah, but I think that only applies if you are a hyperactive black bartender. Don't know which games allow you to play that particular archetype; I'm not really into the online FPS scene.
If the game isn't fair (i.e. the player has almost no chance of succeeding or the difficulty is far far too high), then no amount of playing will make it fun.
Also if the game requires you to play in a very specific way that is incompatible with what you normally do. That's why I absolutely hate Civilization - the game is unbeatable unless you spend the first fifty years doing nothing but building cities. I don't want to micromanage twenty cities, though. That's not the part of the game that appeals to me. I want to build up my stuff step by step - however, if you do that you end up having to "fight" stealth bombers with musketeers.
I know, I could focus exclusively on tesselation (ie. trying to cover the world map with city influence areas as efficiently as possible), but that feels more like work than play. In the end, I just avoid the game and instead play Colonization, which is much more relaxed.
Interestingly, my ISP (Deutsche Telekom AG, AS3320) apparently didn't pick up the bad route. I don't know whether that's good, bad or pure coincidence...
Now if we integrate that with an IM-like notification system we make real life one step closer to strategy games. I can already imagine how it looks like when you come back from a holiday and you forgot to check the "repeat assignment" box when you told your son to water the pants if neccessary:
"2008-08-12 17:49:50 [PLANT WATERED] The Coleus needed water and has been watered by Zachary."
"2008-08-12 17:49:50 [CHILD HAS COMPLETED ALL ASSIGNMENTS] Zachary has completed his assignments. His assignment queue is currently empty."
"2008-08-14 06:21:32 [PLANT NEEDS WATER] The Coleus's soil humidity is low. Watering is neccessary."
"2008-08-14 22:35:27 [PLANT NEEDS WATER] The Coleus's soil humidity is critical. Without immediate watering the plant will wither."
"2008-08-15 04:33:08 [PLANT HAS WITHERED] The Coleus has withered from lack of water."
Actually, they're going quint-core.
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Here's an excerpt from a recent internal memo that was leaked to a popular news website. Interestingly, it seems to indicate that AMD actually had the tri-core Phenom ready before the quad-core one:
'[...]Well, fuck it. We're going to five cores.
Sure, we could go to four cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, two worked out pretty well, and four is the next power of two after two. So let's play it safe. Let's make a bigger L2 cache and call it the Phenom SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
[...]Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent -- I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so small they're invisible. Put some on the pins. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth core in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
[...]People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at VIA, working on fucking embedded chips. SOC, my white ass!
[...]Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another cache on that fucker, too. That's right. Five cores, two caches, and make the second one prefetch. You heard me -- the second cache prefetches. It's a whole new way to think about computing. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge -- the razor's edge -- and I feel like dancing.'
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If headlines are allowed in slashdot articles with this tone, I fear for the future: Can we expect such gems in the coming months: Torvalds leaves mangled corpse in Linux debate Minor power outage in Guam, world doomed! Copyright violators: You're screwed! Microsoft says, 'Fark off' Lets get a little sense of perspective in here please?
Not to forget: "Are We Already Past Peak Linebreak?"
Re:Just ordered an AMD 4800+ yesterday
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Actually, he did. Those new nForce mainboards really are the best if you need 2000000 to 4000000 cores.
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The very Wikipedia article you linked to mentions that AMD has already licensed the technology for on-chip use and has a reference to back it up. I say that AMD knows very well what they've got with SOI.
That's Intel, always has been really, even though they don't own the entire market.
When Intel fielded the Pentium 4 people didn't just buy AMD to spite them. The Pentium 4 was expensive, hot and not very fast. The Athlon was cheaper and faster and most of them didn't get too hot either. Buying AMD was an easy choice to make.
What's the difference in philosophy between freshmeat and sourceforge.net?
SourceForge is more like Apple: Both sites categorize their projects by various means (category, development status, operating systems, license...), but some time ago SourceForge decided you may only browse by category. You can still filter by everything, but you can't say "give me all projects under the WTFPL", probably because being able to see all projects with a given license would only confuse users.
Also, SourceForge has alpha-transparent mirror effects.
Why do I suddenly have to think of a Steampunk sequel to Star Fox where you fly around London in a steam-powered biplane trying to defeat the evil monkey monarch Jamesdross who wants to overturn all of London (and perhaps Berkshire and Surrey while he's at it)? Instead of smart bombs you get Kegs O' Powder. Hours of fun shooting down waves of steam-jetpack-wielding bobbies!
Adaption happens at the level of individuals. When groups develop that protect their less adapted members, the group as a whole becomes less well adapted.
There is, of course, the question as to what we're supposed to adapt to. I don't offhand know any genetic traits that are beneficial in artificially-lighted A/Ced environments fond in today's offices. RSI resistance? Perhaps a slower metabolism and less pronounced muscles because we don't need to spend much energy in short time anymore? WOuld Asthma count as being unadapted? Ater all, today's environments are pretty likely to have at least small amounts of dust.
And what do we do with the unadapted (e.g. those who have dark skin in temperate zones or those who have light skin in the tropics)? Should we actively remove them from the gene pool or is it enough if we deny them healthcare? Where do we draw the line between undesirable and life-worthy?
We really need to sort this out. Previous attempts at actively improving the gene pool have been rather haphazard.
To use a real life example, does it make sense that the people in Nebraska should have to carry the insurance burden for the people who choose to live in hurricane alley? That's what Florida thinks should be the case.
One part of the country doesn't have to help the rest. There's always secession. It worked for Kosovo.
A country is a community. Being a member of a community means doing some work for the community. If you don't want to do the work you can either convince the community that the work is not worth doing or you can leave. In both cases, however, you can't expect the community to come help you when you are in trouble.
Of course, if one follows your arguments through, being part of a community is highly overrated - if I have money what good does it do me to associate with those who have less of it? Why pay taxes? For better roads? Anyone with money can buy a helicopter. Police? Armed guards. Healthcare? Private doctor.
And if I don't have enough money to pay for those amenities I either work to get that money or die in a ditch. My fault for not achieving.
Or I just move to Europe, the communist dystopia where they treat people even when it's unprofitable.
Quite seriuosly, this is one reason why I wouldn't want to live in the USA: From what I hear about that country, pretty much every single decision is made based on whether someone can sue one over it - because sooner or later someone will.
It's probably not that extreme, but I do think it reflects on US American society that it has an image of being rabidly litigious. No troll intended, but if I lived there the constant fear of someone suing me over trivial nonsense would severely impact my quality of life.
Who fricking watches the keys while typing or gaming?
I do. Never learned to touch-type. Being a geek and being a professional typist are not equivalent.
Of course, I don't watch the keys while gaming, but then again I don't play games that require much more than WASD (or WASDPLÖÄ in StepMania). Function displays might be useful in flight sims, RTSes or MMOs. Besides, you can configure unused keys to display additional information - have them black when everything is okay, but when $condition[x] occurs, $key[x] starts blinking. Of course that' require some sort of hook into the game, but with some games it might be doable.
For some reason I don't think that "wait a couple decades" is a big selling argument for people who want a typing interface with nonstatic keycaps now.
Think about the keycaps automatically changing when you press Shift, AltGr or a combination thereof... If the thing was more ergonomical and about 1/5 as expensive, I might think about getting one.
Then Europe will switch over to IPv6 and use the newly-gained addresses to seize control of the world oil market. We don't really know what to do with all that oil, but we'll probably come up with something. Probbly oil-based ink for new legislation drafts; the world's entire supply of oil should be enough for up to one year's worth of European legal texts.
Tedious or not, this is quite interesting to people who don't do regularly deal with this kind of stuff. While I did think of avoiding this attack by removing the keys from memory as soon as they're not needed any longer (plus some obfuscation maybe), I didn't think of paging and the like.I did learn a bit from this subthread, which means that it's not entriely without merit.
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Two comments on that:
Firstly, the xahlee.org link results in a 403 if accessed directly from Slashdot. Copying the URL into a blank tab will allow access, though.
Secondly, the second picture is somewhat indicative - the spread thighs are reminiscent of the nadu [NSFW], a position found in the atrociously bad Gor books by John Norman*. Some doms really like having their subs assume the nadu or similar positions as a sign of submission. (Disclaimer: I'm just an unusually well-informed vanilla, but publishing intimate details onf a dom/sub relationship goes quite well with some aspects of BDSM, so it's not hard to find info on what people like to do.)
* Essentially bad SciFi with equally bad femsub mixed in. To get a glimpse of Norman's way with words, especially dialogue, read the parody Houseplants of Gor. Technically SFW, but of course parodying well-known BDSM texts.
Yeah, but I think that only applies if you are a hyperactive black bartender. Don't know which games allow you to play that particular archetype; I'm not really into the online FPS scene.
I know, I could focus exclusively on tesselation (ie. trying to cover the world map with city influence areas as efficiently as possible), but that feels more like work than play. In the end, I just avoid the game and instead play Colonization, which is much more relaxed.
Interestingly, my ISP (Deutsche Telekom AG, AS3320) apparently didn't pick up the bad route. I don't know whether that's good, bad or pure coincidence...
Now if we integrate that with an IM-like notification system we make real life one step closer to strategy games. I can already imagine how it looks like when you come back from a holiday and you forgot to check the "repeat assignment" box when you told your son to water the pants if neccessary:
"2008-08-12 17:49:50 [PLANT WATERED] The Coleus needed water and has been watered by Zachary."
"2008-08-12 17:49:50 [CHILD HAS COMPLETED ALL ASSIGNMENTS] Zachary has completed his assignments. His assignment queue is currently empty."
"2008-08-14 06:21:32 [PLANT NEEDS WATER] The Coleus's soil humidity is low. Watering is neccessary."
"2008-08-14 22:35:27 [PLANT NEEDS WATER] The Coleus's soil humidity is critical. Without immediate watering the plant will wither."
"2008-08-15 04:33:08 [PLANT HAS WITHERED] The Coleus has withered from lack of water."
Here's an excerpt from a recent internal memo that was leaked to a popular news website. Interestingly, it seems to indicate that AMD actually had the tri-core Phenom ready before the quad-core one:
'[...]Well, fuck it. We're going to five cores.
Sure, we could go to four cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, two worked out pretty well, and four is the next power of two after two. So let's play it safe. Let's make a bigger L2 cache and call it the Phenom SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
[...]Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent -- I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so small they're invisible. Put some on the pins. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth core in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
[...]People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at VIA, working on fucking embedded chips. SOC, my white ass!
[...]Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another cache on that fucker, too. That's right. Five cores, two caches, and make the second one prefetch. You heard me -- the second cache prefetches. It's a whole new way to think about computing. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge -- the razor's edge -- and I feel like dancing.'
Actually, he did. Those new nForce mainboards really are the best if you need 2000000 to 4000000 cores.
The very Wikipedia article you linked to mentions that AMD has already licensed the technology for on-chip use and has a reference to back it up. I say that AMD knows very well what they've got with SOI.
Also, SourceForge has alpha-transparent mirror effects.
Why do I suddenly have to think of a Steampunk sequel to Star Fox where you fly around London in a steam-powered biplane trying to defeat the evil monkey monarch Jamesdross who wants to overturn all of London (and perhaps Berkshire and Surrey while he's at it)? Instead of smart bombs you get Kegs O' Powder. Hours of fun shooting down waves of steam-jetpack-wielding bobbies!
And what do we do with the unadapted (e.g. those who have dark skin in temperate zones or those who have light skin in the tropics)? Should we actively remove them from the gene pool or is it enough if we deny them healthcare? Where do we draw the line between undesirable and life-worthy?
We really need to sort this out. Previous attempts at actively improving the gene pool have been rather haphazard.
A country is a community. Being a member of a community means doing some work for the community. If you don't want to do the work you can either convince the community that the work is not worth doing or you can leave. In both cases, however, you can't expect the community to come help you when you are in trouble.
Of course, if one follows your arguments through, being part of a community is highly overrated - if I have money what good does it do me to associate with those who have less of it? Why pay taxes? For better roads? Anyone with money can buy a helicopter. Police? Armed guards. Healthcare? Private doctor.
And if I don't have enough money to pay for those amenities I either work to get that money or die in a ditch. My fault for not achieving.
Or I just move to Europe, the communist dystopia where they treat people even when it's unprofitable.
Quite seriuosly, this is one reason why I wouldn't want to live in the USA: From what I hear about that country, pretty much every single decision is made based on whether someone can sue one over it - because sooner or later someone will.
It's probably not that extreme, but I do think it reflects on US American society that it has an image of being rabidly litigious. No troll intended, but if I lived there the constant fear of someone suing me over trivial nonsense would severely impact my quality of life.
Well, you can tape the cables together. Not an optimal solution but it does work.
Of course, I don't watch the keys while gaming, but then again I don't play games that require much more than WASD (or WASDPLÖÄ in StepMania). Function displays might be useful in flight sims, RTSes or MMOs. Besides, you can configure unused keys to display additional information - have them black when everything is okay, but when $condition[x] occurs, $key[x] starts blinking. Of course that' require some sort of hook into the game, but with some games it might be doable.
For some reason I don't think that "wait a couple decades" is a big selling argument for people who want a typing interface with nonstatic keycaps now.
Think about the keycaps automatically changing when you press Shift, AltGr or a combination thereof... If the thing was more ergonomical and about 1/5 as expensive, I might think about getting one.
They just use smaller light, duh!
Then Europe will switch over to IPv6 and use the newly-gained addresses to seize control of the world oil market. We don't really know what to do with all that oil, but we'll probably come up with something. Probbly oil-based ink for new legislation drafts; the world's entire supply of oil should be enough for up to one year's worth of European legal texts.
Tedious or not, this is quite interesting to people who don't do regularly deal with this kind of stuff. While I did think of avoiding this attack by removing the keys from memory as soon as they're not needed any longer (plus some obfuscation maybe), I didn't think of paging and the like.I did learn a bit from this subthread, which means that it's not entriely without merit.
Yeah. They might not seem dangerous as of yet, but they are a very good argument against standardizing on an 0.016 RPM firing rate in the future.
Very true. I thank you for a well-written and insightful reply.