I ignored this story first time around because I assumed it must be an April fool's joke which I think is not unreasonable: Intel leading innovation in the GPU sector....
I see what you're saying but I am actually looking forward to series 4 to find out if there is a consistent explanation to all that has gone on in series 1 2 and 3. I actually can't imagine one consistent perspective (apart from the "universe as simulation" cop-out which means it will be wizard of oz all over again!) that could explain everything they have written but I will watch in the vain but glorious hope that they surprise me. If so then its got to be the best sci-fi to date. If not then its contemptible quasi-intellectual nonsense and the writers need shot. I'm on the edge of my seat!
Don't worry, it doesn't work in any case. Last time OpenID was on slashdot I went straight to the openid website and got myself an OpenID from one of its recommended partners. I then went to another OpenID website partner and tried my open ID and guess what - thats right it had never heard of me. Now I know I can be very stupid at times but I read the OpenID homepage and I did what I was told and I thought I understood that you register once and you get to play in lots of different places without registering again and but I still appear to have to sign up for every individual OpenID website so can anyone please explain to me what the point of OpenID is?
I really want to know. Now before I get modded offtopic, let me just say that I don't see the point in a hardware version of something for which I can't fathom a use in software or hardware and so obviously, that being the case, there wasn't much point in me reading TFA:)
I watched the whole video and I didn't see anything of note. I didn't see the "small mountain of sodium" and I didn't see anyone die. What is it? can anyone explain what I was meant to see please?
Its interesting to me that they can't just go take a shower after masturbating, like normal people. Why do they have to "examine" their "dinosaur skin"?
Fair point. In the UK though, and I think across Europe too, academics from one university come and checkup on the final exams and grading of students at another in an attempt to make sure that fly-by-night universities do not get to hand out degrees willy-nilly. So far as I know there is no such quality-control mechanism in North America. That is not to say that North American tertiary education is rubbish and European is great - that would be nonsense.
However, the quality of North American education and the value of a degree gained in North America appears to rely entirely on the standards in place at the institution granting the degree and even in that particular department whereas, in the UK and so far as I know throughout a large part of Europe, we have a system of academic institutions keeping each other in line. My wife teaches at a Canadian University and, due to the business model embraced by most academic institutions worldwide these days, there is a ridiculous pressure to please the students.
She comes from Eastern Europe and I come from the UK and in both places we can safely say that the teachers did not give a flying fuck whether we passed or failed so long as standards were maintained.
In short then, in North America, at present at least, University IS about people (or perhaps one should say "clients") whereas in Europe, whilst standards may be slipping, there is still a mechanism in place to attempt to maintain them.
What's the big deal with writing grammar as grammer. He is just being a good American and helping to further differentiate and dumb-down the US version of the English language. After all when: tyre is spelt tire; gaol is spelt jail; realise is spelt realize (my gods - how do you play scrabble?), it can only be a matter of time before grammar is spelt grammer.
My point being that if you're gonna act like you have a stick up your arse (ass being a beast of burden), you need to get a nice British passport like mine. If you're happy being American then accept that its your job to make the English language more phonetic.
Oh and for the record, university should not be about people. It should be about standards but that argument was lost in the US and Canada a long time ago it seems.
I'm not sure I would want that. I want to be able to control how my app multithreads. Also, I don't understand what the fuss is about: for most apps, a single core is fine; for intensive calculations, its trivially easy to split the calculation into 4 threads say then sit and spin till they all comes back (I get about 3.95 x the performance of a single core when I do this). Thing is though when a process uses up all four cores my PC gets sluggish and unresponsive and I start to want more cores. For me the whole point of multi-threading on multi-cores on a desktop is so that no single app will tend to monopolise my PC and make it unresponsive. If what is talked about above comes to pass then we'll be back to square one. Let the apps whose programmers can be bothered to multi-thread use more than one core and let the rest stick to the old way. Don't spoil a good thing (my supplication to Microsoft et al.)
I think, in general, we understand the need of persecuted minorities (not by you though I'm sure) to try to fight against widely held misconceptions and prejudices. However, the government's job (as naively reckoned by most citizens including me) is to represent the interests of its electorate and there is a commonly held notion that lying or misrepresenting reality to that same electorate is at best a strange way to go about accomplishing that goal.
Actually, the Alanis Morisette song is chock full of irony but just perhaps not in the way she intended. The original (and still somewhat current) meaning of irony was that the butt of the joke would not realise that the joke was on them and would continue the conversation in earnest so it is very very ironic that Alanis wrote a song about irony in which she herself clearly has no clue as to the meaning of the word and which allows us all to laugh at her ignorance.
Of course, she could have been honestly enquiring after an example of irony although the song would then have needed the removal of the negatives and a slightly different emphasis such as "is _that_ ironic? Do _you_ think?"
I like to give the girl a break and assume the latter:)
Nick
If the parent is a troll then so are several other "insightful" posts on this topic. I mean I'm not saying the parent was saying anything particularly constructive. I just chose it pretty much at random to reply to and say this that either Slashdot is currently being bombarded by a particularly well choreographed PR attack from right-wing anti-UN, isolationist, jingoist, xenophobic, extremists or the posts I am reading accurately reflect the majority of readers on slashdot and I should get the fuck out and leave the flag-wavers to it.
Just because the Taser can sometimes be useful (say in the case of a very dangerous, drug soaked psycho threatening the physical wellbeing of police officers and/or the public as cited above) does not mean that it is automatically a good idea to always use the Taser whenever making any sort of arrest or as a default mode of interaction with the public (e.g. upset sane people in libraries, confused people in airports etc).
Just as an to attempt (futile I'm sure) to reassure those slashdot readers who are paranoid enough to think that absolutely everything is an attack on your blessed country and beloved values, my own current disgust at the Taser is due to the behaviour of the Canadian RCMP in Vancouver recently where, even before they saw their victim, one was heard to ask in the manner of an eager child "can I tase him?".
Now, on the other hand, if you think that taking issue with an American corporation is the same as taking issue with you and your country, then well yes I guess it probably is.
although its kind of a non-claim anyway - as games take over from movies, its like asking "are today's movie watchers tomorrow's leaders?" 20 years ago, well of course they will be but that doesn't mean that gaming or movie-watching bears any relation to becoming or being a leader. if everyone plays games then some of them will become leaders. i play counter-strike but i must say it has had little bearing on why i was recruited into the SAS (super army soldiers) and have to leave my pc once in a while to go do some black ops....
...parodying themselves. This place is, and particularly the comments on here are, not insightful. Just try to talk like normal fucking people please. Apple makes $831 per phone and thats it. We don't give a shit about what percent is profit or what the dictionary definition or etymology of "make" is. The reason for anybody (apart from sad wanks) being interested in this story is that we were wondering why Apple is agreeing to limit the market for such an incredible product to exclusively AT&T customers. So now we know the answer is allegedly $432 over 2 years on a phone with a retail price (am guessing - I don't care enough to google) of $399. That is to say then that Apple appear to "make" more money out of their deal with AT&T than they do from selling the phone.
Mark me troll, mark me flamebait but for fucksake mark me other than the rest of you fucking cartoon guys.
Nick
I'm reading lots of this on Slashdot and I have to say, I think we have no choice. I am already pissed off by copyright notices that sit on my screen for 30 seconds at a time but the adverts about piracy that lecture us like children are pretty much convincing me to start downloading.
So far I have never downloaded a single movie or illegal MP3 but there is no way that I am going to invest in a DRM technology like Blu-Ray as they clearly don't know what they are doing and I don't need someone to enforce upon me what fair use means. I am one of those people who like to buy boxed sets of DVDs but I have lots of screens that are compatible with various forms of HD so, I think the only logical solution for people like me is to start downloading HD just as soon as the stuff starts appearing on torrents and obviously once I've got my head around this whole bittorrent thingy.
If anyone from the MPAA is reading, good-job! you just made a criminal out of me.
Nick
=> to be able to write cross-platform code without having to worry about it
=> to be able to compile using mingw or MSC
=> to have an IDE like VS
=> to be able to see and modify the source code of the components you are using
Do yourself a favour and take a look at Ultimate++ on source forge. I discovered it a few months ago and haven't looked back.
(I looked at developing a plugin for Udigg under eclipse but found that in spite of what everyone says about java being fast, udigg was incredible slow. My GIS app in U++ is way slicker and is still cross-platform.)
This is a shameless plug but I feel justified cos those guys are doing incredible work for no money and it is truly open source unlike other offerings such as Qt.
I know what I'm saying is ignorant speculation (at best) but I also know you wouldn't want me to let that stop me:)
My point above is that the payment of damages turns the prior loss (the speculative, intangible "can not accurately be calculated in dollars" loss) into a tangible amount. My reasoning to the taxman would go "no one would pay more in damages than the damage they had caused" otherwise why settle out of court (rhetorical question - please don't answer). Hence my prior loss was AT LEAST equal to the amount that I received in damages". Hey, why am I trying to argue this with you lot. I should be quitting my job, packing my things and heading for the big smoke and the most disreputable company I can find so that I can start using this devious little chunk of fat to rake in the big bucks 8)
-seeya!
Yes I understand that which is why I talked about the loss part. In most countries you pay taxes on your net income. Now if you are receiving damages then you presumably have suffered an equal or greater loss which would mean that as the aggregate of those two transactions, your net income would be zero or negative and so not subject to tax.
Nick
.. and this is slightly off-topic but wouldn't this kind of silly lawsuit where it is settled out of court would be a wonderful way to transfer money from one company to another without paying any taxes (surely if you're receiving damages then they would not be taxed as you would have (arguably) already suffered a (n albeit intangible) loss of similar or greater value which should more than offset the tax burden of the settlement. I am not an accountant but....:)
If you're referring to recent events in Romania then your attempt to seem worldly and profound fails. I know lots of people who are from Romania and are much better informed than you could possibly be on this matter and whilst they know that the president is not perfect, they also know that he is a lot better than the people who are trying to impeach him as their only motive is to save their own corrupt skins.
If you're not then I need to shut up and go away:)
Nick
p.s. I agree with your other points - I just thought you over-reached yourself with the Romanian reference.
Will it be available to more than business class passengers? If not its kind of irrelevant to the vast majority of people.
If its available to economy class, does this mean we will get power points in economy class too?
Calling people dicks unnecessarily in polite discussion is uncalled for but what if they are dicks? you can't call a dick a dick? certainly that was my first impression - what a dick? and with more than the faintest hint of racism thrown in for good measure - a racist dick:)
now, where did those three billy-goats get to.......
...does that mean when the free phonecallers go away at the end of this year and I get some of my bandwidth back, the movies on demand will kick in and I wont be able to do anything without killing all copies of skype?
I notice that Skype is busy busy busy even when I am not and I've put this down to the free phone calls in north america. If they get to use the Skype network for the movie service then everyone will definitely have to find another chat client.
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and here's me thinking that I have to put up with it because of sheep like you
I ignored this story first time around because I assumed it must be an April fool's joke which I think is not unreasonable: Intel leading innovation in the GPU sector ....
I see what you're saying but I am actually looking forward to series 4 to find out if there is a consistent explanation to all that has gone on in series 1 2 and 3. I actually can't imagine one consistent perspective (apart from the "universe as simulation" cop-out which means it will be wizard of oz all over again!) that could explain everything they have written but I will watch in the vain but glorious hope that they surprise me. If so then its got to be the best sci-fi to date. If not then its contemptible quasi-intellectual nonsense and the writers need shot. I'm on the edge of my seat!
Don't worry, it doesn't work in any case. Last time OpenID was on slashdot I went straight to the openid website and got myself an OpenID from one of its recommended partners. I then went to another OpenID website partner and tried my open ID and guess what - thats right it had never heard of me. Now I know I can be very stupid at times but I read the OpenID homepage and I did what I was told and I thought I understood that you register once and you get to play in lots of different places without registering again and but I still appear to have to sign up for every individual OpenID website so can anyone please explain to me what the point of OpenID is?
:)
I really want to know. Now before I get modded offtopic, let me just say that I don't see the point in a hardware version of something for which I can't fathom a use in software or hardware and so obviously, that being the case, there wasn't much point in me reading TFA
I watched the whole video and I didn't see anything of note. I didn't see the "small mountain of sodium" and I didn't see anyone die. What is it? can anyone explain what I was meant to see please?
Its interesting to me that they can't just go take a shower after masturbating, like normal people. Why do they have to "examine" their "dinosaur skin"?
Fair point. In the UK though, and I think across Europe too, academics from one university come and checkup on the final exams and grading of students at another in an attempt to make sure that fly-by-night universities do not get to hand out degrees willy-nilly. So far as I know there is no such quality-control mechanism in North America. That is not to say that North American tertiary education is rubbish and European is great - that would be nonsense.
However, the quality of North American education and the value of a degree gained in North America appears to rely entirely on the standards in place at the institution granting the degree and even in that particular department whereas, in the UK and so far as I know throughout a large part of Europe, we have a system of academic institutions keeping each other in line. My wife teaches at a Canadian University and, due to the business model embraced by most academic institutions worldwide these days, there is a ridiculous pressure to please the students.
She comes from Eastern Europe and I come from the UK and in both places we can safely say that the teachers did not give a flying fuck whether we passed or failed so long as standards were maintained.
In short then, in North America, at present at least, University IS about people (or perhaps one should say "clients") whereas in Europe, whilst standards may be slipping, there is still a mechanism in place to attempt to maintain them.
What's the big deal with writing grammar as grammer. He is just being a good American and helping to further differentiate and dumb-down the US version of the English language. After all when: tyre is spelt tire; gaol is spelt jail; realise is spelt realize (my gods - how do you play scrabble?), it can only be a matter of time before grammar is spelt grammer.
My point being that if you're gonna act like you have a stick up your arse (ass being a beast of burden), you need to get a nice British passport like mine. If you're happy being American then accept that its your job to make the English language more phonetic.
Oh and for the record, university should not be about people. It should be about standards but that argument was lost in the US and Canada a long time ago it seems.
I'm not sure I would want that. I want to be able to control how my app multithreads. Also, I don't understand what the fuss is about: for most apps, a single core is fine; for intensive calculations, its trivially easy to split the calculation into 4 threads say then sit and spin till they all comes back (I get about 3.95 x the performance of a single core when I do this). Thing is though when a process uses up all four cores my PC gets sluggish and unresponsive and I start to want more cores. For me the whole point of multi-threading on multi-cores on a desktop is so that no single app will tend to monopolise my PC and make it unresponsive. If what is talked about above comes to pass then we'll be back to square one. Let the apps whose programmers can be bothered to multi-thread use more than one core and let the rest stick to the old way. Don't spoil a good thing (my supplication to Microsoft et al.)
I think, in general, we understand the need of persecuted minorities (not by you though I'm sure) to try to fight against widely held misconceptions and prejudices. However, the government's job (as naively reckoned by most citizens including me) is to represent the interests of its electorate and there is a commonly held notion that lying or misrepresenting reality to that same electorate is at best a strange way to go about accomplishing that goal.
Actually, the Alanis Morisette song is chock full of irony but just perhaps not in the way she intended. The original (and still somewhat current) meaning of irony was that the butt of the joke would not realise that the joke was on them and would continue the conversation in earnest so it is very very ironic that Alanis wrote a song about irony in which she herself clearly has no clue as to the meaning of the word and which allows us all to laugh at her ignorance. Of course, she could have been honestly enquiring after an example of irony although the song would then have needed the removal of the negatives and a slightly different emphasis such as "is _that_ ironic? Do _you_ think?" I like to give the girl a break and assume the latter :)
Nick
If the parent is a troll then so are several other "insightful" posts on this topic. I mean I'm not saying the parent was saying anything particularly constructive. I just chose it pretty much at random to reply to and say this that either Slashdot is currently being bombarded by a particularly well choreographed PR attack from right-wing anti-UN, isolationist, jingoist, xenophobic, extremists or the posts I am reading accurately reflect the majority of readers on slashdot and I should get the fuck out and leave the flag-wavers to it. Just because the Taser can sometimes be useful (say in the case of a very dangerous, drug soaked psycho threatening the physical wellbeing of police officers and/or the public as cited above) does not mean that it is automatically a good idea to always use the Taser whenever making any sort of arrest or as a default mode of interaction with the public (e.g. upset sane people in libraries, confused people in airports etc). Just as an to attempt (futile I'm sure) to reassure those slashdot readers who are paranoid enough to think that absolutely everything is an attack on your blessed country and beloved values, my own current disgust at the Taser is due to the behaviour of the Canadian RCMP in Vancouver recently where, even before they saw their victim, one was heard to ask in the manner of an eager child "can I tase him?". Now, on the other hand, if you think that taking issue with an American corporation is the same as taking issue with you and your country, then well yes I guess it probably is.
do you insists on being such a bunch of pigshit-eating donkey wanking bastards? oh look - ponies!
although its kind of a non-claim anyway - as games take over from movies, its like asking "are today's movie watchers tomorrow's leaders?" 20 years ago, well of course they will be but that doesn't mean that gaming or movie-watching bears any relation to becoming or being a leader. if everyone plays games then some of them will become leaders. i play counter-strike but i must say it has had little bearing on why i was recruited into the SAS (super army soldiers) and have to leave my pc once in a while to go do some black ops....
I envy you the pair of you
...parodying themselves. This place is, and particularly the comments on here are, not insightful. Just try to talk like normal fucking people please. Apple makes $831 per phone and thats it. We don't give a shit about what percent is profit or what the dictionary definition or etymology of "make" is. The reason for anybody (apart from sad wanks) being interested in this story is that we were wondering why Apple is agreeing to limit the market for such an incredible product to exclusively AT&T customers. So now we know the answer is allegedly $432 over 2 years on a phone with a retail price (am guessing - I don't care enough to google) of $399. That is to say then that Apple appear to "make" more money out of their deal with AT&T than they do from selling the phone. Mark me troll, mark me flamebait but for fucksake mark me other than the rest of you fucking cartoon guys. Nick
I'm reading lots of this on Slashdot and I have to say, I think we have no choice. I am already pissed off by copyright notices that sit on my screen for 30 seconds at a time but the adverts about piracy that lecture us like children are pretty much convincing me to start downloading. So far I have never downloaded a single movie or illegal MP3 but there is no way that I am going to invest in a DRM technology like Blu-Ray as they clearly don't know what they are doing and I don't need someone to enforce upon me what fair use means. I am one of those people who like to buy boxed sets of DVDs but I have lots of screens that are compatible with various forms of HD so, I think the only logical solution for people like me is to start downloading HD just as soon as the stuff starts appearing on torrents and obviously once I've got my head around this whole bittorrent thingy. If anyone from the MPAA is reading, good-job! you just made a criminal out of me. Nick
If you do want:
=> to make applications quickly in C++
=> not to be Bill's bitch
=> to be able to write cross-platform code without having to worry about it
=> to be able to compile using mingw or MSC
=> to have an IDE like VS
=> to be able to see and modify the source code of the components you are using
Do yourself a favour and take a look at Ultimate++ on source forge. I discovered it a few months ago and haven't looked back.
(I looked at developing a plugin for Udigg under eclipse but found that in spite of what everyone says about java being fast, udigg was incredible slow. My GIS app in U++ is way slicker and is still cross-platform.)
This is a shameless plug but I feel justified cos those guys are doing incredible work for no money and it is truly open source unlike other offerings such as Qt.
NickI know what I'm saying is ignorant speculation (at best) but I also know you wouldn't want me to let that stop me :)
My point above is that the payment of damages turns the prior loss (the speculative, intangible "can not accurately be calculated in dollars" loss) into a tangible amount. My reasoning to the taxman would go "no one would pay more in damages than the damage they had caused" otherwise why settle out of court (rhetorical question - please don't answer). Hence my prior loss was AT LEAST equal to the amount that I received in damages". Hey, why am I trying to argue this with you lot. I should be quitting my job, packing my things and heading for the big smoke and the most disreputable company I can find so that I can start using this devious little chunk of fat to rake in the big bucks 8)
-seeya!
Yes I understand that which is why I talked about the loss part. In most countries you pay taxes on your net income. Now if you are receiving damages then you presumably have suffered an equal or greater loss which would mean that as the aggregate of those two transactions, your net income would be zero or negative and so not subject to tax. Nick
.. and this is slightly off-topic but wouldn't this kind of silly lawsuit where it is settled out of court would be a wonderful way to transfer money from one company to another without paying any taxes (surely if you're receiving damages then they would not be taxed as you would have (arguably) already suffered a (n albeit intangible) loss of similar or greater value which should more than offset the tax burden of the settlement. I am not an accountant but.... :)
If you're referring to recent events in Romania then your attempt to seem worldly and profound fails. I know lots of people who are from Romania and are much better informed than you could possibly be on this matter and whilst they know that the president is not perfect, they also know that he is a lot better than the people who are trying to impeach him as their only motive is to save their own corrupt skins.
:)
If you're not then I need to shut up and go away
Nick
p.s. I agree with your other points - I just thought you over-reached yourself with the Romanian reference.
Will it be available to more than business class passengers? If not its kind of irrelevant to the vast majority of people. If its available to economy class, does this mean we will get power points in economy class too?
now, where did those three billy-goats get to.......
...does that mean when the free phonecallers go away at the end of this year and I get some of my bandwidth back, the movies on demand will kick in and I wont be able to do anything without killing all copies of skype? I notice that Skype is busy busy busy even when I am not and I've put this down to the free phone calls in north america. If they get to use the Skype network for the movie service then everyone will definitely have to find another chat client.