wooo look at me! I'm ignorant and deny all responsibility for my actions and i like to shout and dance about it!
Give me a break dumbass. The eight year old didnt buy the game, the parents did or the parents are otherwise aware that the kid has the game. The Parents are responsible! they are the damn parents dumbass!
Do you absolve yourself of all responsibility for bringing up your kids? Do you not monitor the games they play, how they use a computer, or do you let them wander the streets at 3AM?
You've backed yourself into a corner. Either you have ZERO parenting skills and deserve to have any kids taken away and be forcably sterilized, or else you must accept full responsibility for allowing your kids to do as they do. Either way you're screwed, 'criminal intent' is proven simply by you being aware and doing nothing.
You said it yourself.... except if it's explicitly in the EULA....
You are aware of the EULA. Whether or not you have read it, whether or not you agree with it, you are aware that it exists. Simply declaring that you didn't agree to it is not good enough. Your awareness of the EULA's existance while using the product in a violating manner proves criminal intent. Using the product in any manner is an implicit acceptance of the EULA. Dont like the EULA? DONT USE/BUY/MODIFY THE DAMN PRODUCT!
Ignorance is no excuse.
And a reminder... most software you buy has not really been bought. You know damn well that you have merely licensed it, and in fact have no right whatsoever to modify it. You are in fact forbidden despite your blind ignorance.
wrong wrong and wrong, you are simply in denile. All they have to prove is criminal intent. You know damn well what you are doing when you click the mouse, only a blind ignorant bastard... or someone knowing exactly what they are doing... would think otherwise.
nor have you ever signed a contract for any software, yet you are still fully bound by their copyrights, even though you can't see the EULA until you open the CD.
Are you buying the Xbox, or buying a license to use it a certain way? Your purchase does not necessarily make it absolutely your possesion, although it seems your denile makes you think so.
It's no different than software except that the box is more tangible than the 1's and 0's in the software.
And also no different than software, If you can't handle / understand the purchase agreement, then just don't buy it. if you do, and end up fined or in jail for your subsequent actions, its your own damn fault.
wave-particle duality and the classic interference experiments are all the proof needed that one bit quantum computers are possible.
If nature can keep a system in coherence for a brief time, then we can find a way to maintain coherence in more complicated systems.
We didn't go from the abacus to the microchip overnight... there was one or two steps in the middle.
It's a shame you've written off the future so quickly... and part of the past. It seems that it's been 7 years since the demonstration of the first successful 2 qubit computer, and 4 years since the first successful 7 qubit computer.
Quantum mechanics described the laser... decades later the laser was invented when many thought it was impossible, a few decades since and we all have a couple in our homes today. Powerful quantum computers will arise in a similar way.
WAAS is essentialy just a variation of differential GPS.
It may not require an extra reveiver IF you have the RIGHT GPS... but it does require wide open land or marine settings to obtain the high accuracies.
Not exactly what you find in a city. Just like differential GPS, you have to be away from structures like buildings due to the massive signal reflection and echo problem that buildings create and the WAAS satellites are in geostationary orbits, so you cant sit in one spot and hope the constellation geometry will improve, it aint going to move into a better spot.
Here's a happy link that claims 7m accuracy using WAAS. (not my 10m, but closer to my number than to yours)
There's a link within that page that studies accuracy of hand-held units using WAAS... note that to get 3m accuracy, readings were averaged for 30 minutes and done at night when atmospheric disturbances are much reduced. Recall me mentioning how you have to sit and average readings to get high accuracies?
Yes, I'm aware that there is a model of PDA that has a built in GPS.
The WPS system gives similar abilities to the 99.99% of PDA's that have wireless access but don't have built in GPS, saving the vast majority from having to carry around another gadget.
By the way... ANYWHERE does not really include the poles. GPS has poor accuracy over the poles as none of the satellite orbits are inclined more than 55degrees from the equator.
It's quite possible that WPS could have better accuracy in a big city than GPS... and it doesnt require adding a GPS receiver to your PDA.
Common GPS is 10m, not 3m... unless you stand in place and average your reading, preferably with an external antenna, you have differential correction, or you have a military GPS that can use the extra satellite signals that consumer GPS can't decode (not to be confused with the now defunct selective availability).
If you're in amongst tall buildings downtown somewhere, there's so much signal reflection, and such bad satellite geometries, there's no way you're getting 10m accuracy. Perhaps you're being fooled by your GPS mapping software snapping you to the nearest road.
Don't you recall GPS only a few years ago before the government turned off Selective Availability?... 100m for the common GPS if the satellites were in the right places.
The real benefit of the WPS system is that you dont need to add any extra hardware to your PDA to make it work. GPS receivers for PDAs are still close to the size of a PDA... another device to carry around.
Regardless, within a big city there's so much signal reflection and blocked views that there's no way you're getting 10m GPS accuracy.
who cares if You cant use it for navigation. Thats not the point. Now advertisers who can identify you by the PDA you carry will know when you are walking by their stores (within a block), and will be ready to target your PDA with localized spam based on your past buying patterns! The future is here!
Do you really want graphite dust floating all around in your spacecraft, getting into the electrical equipment every time someone writes something or sharpens the pencil?
it was all there, here's your opteron, but hold on for 939 if you want a longer upgrade path. I guess you just werent old enough to understand the warnings.
If you weren't a waste of time anonymous coward, i might see if i could dig up the stories on anandtech.
When the Opteron came out, the masses were warned over and over that the upgrade path would be limited, that socket 939 would be the mainstream and the future.
Again dumbass... its the attackers who should be blamed for the attacks succeeding. There would be nothing to succeed if the bastards would just keep out of other people's business.
no overhead on the new cpu cycles? BULLSHIT. IF theres ANY overhead on ANY cpu cycles, then there is also overhead on the new cpu cycles. Explain how your system somehow can tell the difference between stock and extra cpu cycles?
The author did not overclock the videocard.
Its an AMD processor... the memory interface is within the CPU, and runs at cpu clock speed. It received the same 7% increase that the CPU got. Do what you want to the FSB / hypertransport bus I dont care quadruple its speed! its still limited by what the chip will take you will not see a continuous direct improvment.
Come back when you've played with something newer than a 386.
-You go back in time and kill your mother. -You are never born -In the present, you never existed, and therefore can't go back and kill your mother.
The only way for you to exist, to have a 'chance' to go back and do the deed is for you to not succeed in doing the deed. One way or another you will either fail, or else never exist (and therefore never do the action).
'knowing' anything is irrelevant to the arguement, and in the quantum sense really has nothing to do with you literally knowing something or not.
Why do you still think the Patriot Act has anything at all to do with terrorism? Isn't it obvious why the library Statute exists? If the government knows how the masses are thinking, then they know how to keep themselves in power.
Do you also still think that Iraq, fully contained by your military for 10 years was any real threat, that there ever was WMDs or any tie to Al Qaeda?
dumbass.
The patriot act has been used thousands of times against perfectly innocent american citizens by all levels of law enforcement.
Ridden a bicycle in a New York rally in the last couple years? Obviously not, or perhaps your eyes would be open to the injustices, maybe you would be one of the hundreds of victims held for days without being allowed to contact family or a lawyer.
And get with the times! the Library Statute has already been used at hundreds of libraries across the USA, but I suppose you believe it when your government tells you they've only used it 50 times so far, instead of the library workers themselves who have reported the incidents to the public.
Any other free country would have struck down the patriot act for all the constitutionally gauranteed rights that it revokes, but no, you americans let yourselves get scared, just loving to live in constant fear over your president's lies, and happily hand back all your rights at the drop of a hat, desecrating the memory of the thousands of people who fought to give you those rights.
Your own pathetic fears are the greatest victory you ever could have given the terrorists, a victory your government happily gave them in exchange for more power over how you live your lives.
But dont listen to me, you keep on going, keep your eyes closed, Bush won't mind at all.
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You dont have a clue whether or not there are any 'conceptual mistakes', 'design flaws', or 'thousands of applications' that would be broken, that can't just be recompiled. No Idea At All. Your just repeating what all the other linux sheep keep saying, and the sheep reward you with 'informative' mod points.
Get out of your chair, go out into the world, and try to create an original thought.
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wooo look at me! I'm ignorant and deny all responsibility for my actions and i like to shout and dance about it!
Give me a break dumbass. The eight year old didnt buy the game, the parents did or the parents are otherwise aware that the kid has the game. The Parents are responsible! they are the damn parents dumbass!
Do you absolve yourself of all responsibility for bringing up your kids? Do you not monitor the games they play, how they use a computer, or do you let them wander the streets at 3AM?
You've backed yourself into a corner. Either you have ZERO parenting skills and deserve to have any kids taken away and be forcably sterilized, or else you must accept full responsibility for allowing your kids to do as they do.
Either way you're screwed, 'criminal intent' is proven simply by you being aware and doing nothing.
You said it yourself. ... except if it's explicitly in the EULA ....
... most software you buy has not really been bought. You know damn well that you have merely licensed it, and in fact have no right whatsoever to modify it. You are in fact forbidden despite your blind ignorance.
You are aware of the EULA. Whether or not you have read it, whether or not you agree with it, you are aware that it exists. Simply declaring that you didn't agree to it is not good enough. Your awareness of the EULA's existance while using the product in a violating manner proves criminal intent. Using the product in any manner is an implicit acceptance of the EULA. Dont like the EULA? DONT USE/BUY/MODIFY THE DAMN PRODUCT!
Ignorance is no excuse.
And a reminder
wrong wrong and wrong, you are simply in denile. All they have to prove is criminal intent. You know damn well what you are doing when you click the mouse, only a blind ignorant bastard ... or someone knowing exactly what they are doing ... would think otherwise.
nor have you ever signed a contract for any software, yet you are still fully bound by their copyrights, even though you can't see the EULA until you open the CD.
Are you buying the Xbox, or buying a license to use it a certain way? Your purchase does not necessarily make it absolutely your possesion, although it seems your denile makes you think so.
It's no different than software except that the box is more tangible than the 1's and 0's in the software.
And also no different than software, If you can't handle / understand the purchase agreement, then just don't buy it. if you do, and end up fined or in jail for your subsequent actions, its your own damn fault.
CRIMINAL INTENT.
why don't many slashdotter's understand that concept?
wave-particle duality and the classic interference experiments are all the proof needed that one bit quantum computers are possible.
... there was one or two steps in the middle.
... and part of the past. It seems that it's been 7 years since the demonstration of the first successful 2 qubit computer, and 4 years since the first successful 7 qubit computer.
... decades later the laser was invented when many thought it was impossible, a few decades since and we all have a couple in our homes today. Powerful quantum computers will arise in a similar way.
If nature can keep a system in coherence for a brief time, then we can find a way to maintain coherence in more complicated systems.
We didn't go from the abacus to the microchip overnight
It's a shame you've written off the future so quickly
Quantum mechanics described the laser
I did, and I'm still right.
... but it does require wide open land or marine settings to obtain the high accuracies.
... note that to get 3m accuracy, readings were averaged for 30 minutes and done at night when atmospheric disturbances are much reduced. Recall me mentioning how you have to sit and average readings to get high accuracies?
WAAS is essentialy just a variation of differential GPS.
It may not require an extra reveiver IF you have the RIGHT GPS
Not exactly what you find in a city. Just like differential GPS, you have to be away from structures like buildings due to the massive signal reflection and echo problem that buildings create and the WAAS satellites are in geostationary orbits, so you cant sit in one spot and hope the constellation geometry will improve, it aint going to move into a better spot.
Here's a happy link that claims 7m accuracy using WAAS. (not my 10m, but closer to my number than to yours)
http://gpsinformation.net/exe/waas.html
There's a link within that page that studies accuracy of hand-held units using WAAS
Yes, I'm aware that there is a model of PDA that has a built in GPS.
... ANYWHERE does not really include the poles. GPS has poor accuracy over the poles as none of the satellite orbits are inclined more than 55degrees from the equator.
The WPS system gives similar abilities to the 99.99% of PDA's that have wireless access but don't have built in GPS, saving the vast majority from having to carry around another gadget.
By the way
Signal has been received.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4724348
The point? Here it is.
... and it doesnt require adding a GPS receiver to your PDA.
... unless you stand in place and average your reading, preferably with an external antenna, you have differential correction, or you have a military GPS that can use the extra satellite signals that consumer GPS can't decode (not to be confused with the now defunct selective availability).
It's quite possible that WPS could have better accuracy in a big city than GPS
Common GPS is 10m, not 3m
If you're in amongst tall buildings downtown somewhere, there's so much signal reflection, and such bad satellite geometries, there's no way you're getting 10m accuracy. Perhaps you're being fooled by your GPS mapping software snapping you to the nearest road.
WPS could augment GPS very well.
20-40m isn't bad at all for a new technology.
... 100m for the common GPS if the satellites were in the right places.
... another device to carry around.
Don't you recall GPS only a few years ago before the government turned off Selective Availability?
The real benefit of the WPS system is that you dont need to add any extra hardware to your PDA to make it work. GPS receivers for PDAs are still close to the size of a PDA
Regardless, within a big city there's so much signal reflection and blocked views that there's no way you're getting 10m GPS accuracy.
who cares if You cant use it for navigation. Thats not the point. Now advertisers who can identify you by the PDA you carry will know when you are walking by their stores (within a block), and will be ready to target your PDA with localized spam based on your past buying patterns! The future is here!
It's not a joke.
It cost a lot, but it was not without reason.
Pencil graphite is a great electrical conductor.
Do you really want graphite dust floating all around in your spacecraft, getting into the electrical equipment every time someone writes something or sharpens the pencil?
absolutely wrong.
it was all there, here's your opteron, but hold on for 939 if you want a longer upgrade path. I guess you just werent old enough to understand the warnings.
If you weren't a waste of time anonymous coward, i might see if i could dig up the stories on anandtech.
What's the problem with looking?
Are you really so ignorant? Have you no clue where the material they want to 'look' at comes from?
There are thousands wanting to pay to look. If there's nothing wrong with the looking as you say, then i propose that you grab some of that money!
Setup your own kids! Make them victims of molestation so that you can profit and thousands can look. Its all good isn't it?
When the Opteron came out, the masses were warned over and over that the upgrade path would be limited, that socket 939 would be the mainstream and the future.
Where were you?
Again dumbass ... its the attackers who should be blamed for the attacks succeeding. There would be nothing to succeed if the bastards would just keep out of other people's business.
dumbass
... the memory interface is within the CPU, and runs at cpu clock speed. It received the same 7% increase that the CPU got. Do what you want to the FSB / hypertransport bus I dont care quadruple its speed! its still limited by what the chip will take you will not see a continuous direct improvment.
just pure dumbass.
thats all I can say about your response.
no overhead on the new cpu cycles? BULLSHIT. IF theres ANY overhead on ANY cpu cycles, then there is also overhead on the new cpu cycles. Explain how your system somehow can tell the difference between stock and extra cpu cycles?
The author did not overclock the videocard.
Its an AMD processor
Come back when you've played with something newer than a 386.
Why doesn't anyone ever blame the bastards who are behind the attacks?
Why is the damage they cause never their responsibility, but instead is the security industry's fault?
Did the security industry break into your system?
Have you ever actually looked at your task manager?
You don't think that the 'system idle' process is really sucking up all your power do you?
The point you make is meaningless here. The OS is not taking 90% of the resources of this system.
Worst Review Ever!
No way he got a 20% increase in performace with only a 7% boost in CPU speed when overclocking the chip to 3ghz.
If he did, why didnt he include the overclock in the benchmarks?
I bet the whole article is fabricated. Wait for Anandtech for a real review.
What's wrong with McDonalds? Life is what you make of it. Have a problem making anything of yours?
Working at McD's paid my way through university, kept gas in my car, taught me to work hard and as a member of a team.
It was never going to be a career for me, but without it, I doubt I'd be the successful geologist / GIS analyst I am today.
Sure it was hard work for little money, but looking back it was a great experience.
To be more consise ...
-You go back in time and kill your mother.
-You are never born
-In the present, you never existed, and therefore can't go back and kill your mother.
The only way for you to exist, to have a 'chance' to go back and do the deed is for you to not succeed in doing the deed. One way or another you will either fail, or else never exist (and therefore never do the action).
'knowing' anything is irrelevant to the arguement, and in the quantum sense really has nothing to do with you literally knowing something or not.
Why do you still think the Patriot Act has anything at all to do with terrorism? Isn't it obvious why the library Statute exists? If the government knows how the masses are thinking, then they know how to keep themselves in power.
Do you also still think that Iraq, fully contained by your military for 10 years was any real threat, that there ever was WMDs or any tie to Al Qaeda?
dumbass.
The patriot act has been used thousands of times against perfectly innocent american citizens by all levels of law enforcement.
Ridden a bicycle in a New York rally in the last couple years? Obviously not, or perhaps your eyes would be open to the injustices, maybe you would be one of the hundreds of victims held for days without being allowed to contact family or a lawyer.
And get with the times! the Library Statute has already been used at hundreds of libraries across the USA, but I suppose you believe it when your government tells you they've only used it 50 times so far, instead of the library workers themselves who have reported the incidents to the public.
Any other free country would have struck down the patriot act for all the constitutionally gauranteed rights that it revokes, but no, you americans let yourselves get scared, just loving to live in constant fear over your president's lies, and happily hand back all your rights at the drop of a hat, desecrating the memory of the thousands of people who fought to give you those rights.
Your own pathetic fears are the greatest victory you ever could have given the terrorists, a victory your government happily gave them in exchange for more power over how you live your lives.
But dont listen to me, you keep on going, keep your eyes closed, Bush won't mind at all.
You dont have a clue whether or not there are any 'conceptual mistakes', 'design flaws', or 'thousands of applications' that would be broken, that can't just be recompiled. No Idea At All. Your just repeating what all the other linux sheep keep saying, and the sheep reward you with 'informative' mod points.
Get out of your chair, go out into the world, and try to create an original thought.