Oh really! I mean it wasn't even subtle or well-concealed sarcasm at that. Is flamebait saying anything which is at all controversial because in that case the original post should not be allowed. The parent post is merely balancing the OP's implicit view that its obvious that blind people should not be allowed to shoot guns. Whilst this is funny and I can't help agreeing, the post which has been marked as flamebait is actually the moderate and politically-correct point of view whereas, the original post is discriminatory and flamebait in that it is reinforcing people's prejudices.
OMG now who has had a sense of humour failure:)
Yes I know but its so much more fun to stereotype.
On a more serious note, I do visit the US fairly frequently and it is really upsetting to see that a country seemingly entirely populated by people who are just falling over themselves to help perfect strangers like myself (in the north east where I visit at least) has been hijacked by a completely alien political and business elite. I feel for you but I have no idea what anyone can do to help and I don't see anyone changing anything from inside the US when your society is so fractured with everyone being scared of everyone else. I am not trolling now (nicely spotted before). Really, living in Canada and coming from the UK, it is striking how afraid average americans are of well pretty much everything but then again thats what you're told to be by your media which is controlled by the same poeople as everything else. What can I say, I feel for you (and for everyone else in the wolrd who is at the mercy of your deranged leaders).
You boys need to build a really big wall to stop all those nasty foreigners getting in or you getting out. Gag yourselves and police each other. Only then will you be free:)
On the upside though, the rest of the world would actually feel a whole lot more free without the US intervening in order to "protect its interests"
and they take a lot of memory. does anyone know if the nvidia cards will be able to access main system memory or does that defeat the purpose? (e.g. I am currently running 268 climate states which each take a couple of hours to run and about 1GB of physical memory - so on my cluster of 4 X2 5000s they should be done in a couple of days) 40 times the processing power (these GPUS are probably ATIs with 24-48 pipelines hence the 20-40 times performance) would be awesome (or 128 in the case of the GTX) but where is all the memory gona come from? will we see video cards with 64GB or DDR?
if it means recoding eveything from scratch then this benefit wont trickle down to people like me:(
*wipes tears from eyes and sniffs* so anyone know if this will run on my 6800GT:)
The debate about the existence of global warming due to anthropogenic effects (burning fossil fuels) ended in the mid to late 90s. To think that this debate continues or to attempt to participate is merely to flaunt one's ignorance on the subject. The IPCC cleared this up for us some time ago folks.
The debate now is what can/should we do about it. All ideas welcome.
Articles like the one refered to are merely political gambits which prey upon the voting public's ignorance. I'm sure there is a quote about no-one ever losing money by underestimating the general public (why don't YOU google it;) )
Thinking you or anyone else is qualified to reopen the global warming debate is like me challenging the theory of relativity simply because I do not understand it and haven't taken the time to learn about reimanian (?) manifolds
Oh and by the way I'm not convinced that light is a wave either - it looks to travel in straight lines to me...and while we're at it, I have some pretty interesting ideas I'd like to share with you all about the non-local / holographic universe as a rational basis for magic / astrology. I know what the physicists say but shouldn't we all get a say in cutting edge physics? Is this a democracy or not?
this is one of those great subjects which will likely spiral downwards into "the US hijacked by evil corporate interests and only talks about freedom of speech etc so it doesnt have to practice it" vs. "we invented the fucking internet anyway so fuck the rest of the world - fuck yeah!" (no prizes for guessing which side I'm on). However, what it really comes down to in the end seems to me to be: does the fact that the whole world uses one communication infrastructure benefit the US in the same way as everyone else? If so then the US needs to cooperate or the rest of the world needs to threaten cut them off by setting up their own DNSs etc.
p.s. I have a new acronym - IANAEOTI (i am not an expert on the internet) but....
I agree, I just bought a dual zeon 5160 for my office to do number crunching.
Thing is though the article didn't appear to me to address the issue that the current generation of intel core 2 duos piss all over anything that AMD can offer in terms of gaming, home entertainment or the kind of number crunching I do at work (straight-forward mathematical modelling). I am a loyal fan of AMD since socket 7. Its completely alien to me to buy intel components but right now, the only way I could spend money on AMD is as a charity case and am not sure that they qualify simply because they are not quite the worlds biggest CPU brand. Yes the AMD architecture is sexy but only so long as you dont look at the actual performance of their FX62 versus the X6800, E6700 or E6600. Maybe opteron-based machines are still the best for serving web pages and databases but how many of us use our PCs to do that?
I sympathise with all the other AMD fans on here but there is a whopping;) great elephant sitting grinning in the corner of the/. room
Hmmm, am looking at buying a wall projector and wondering whether I should get one that supports HDCP. Clearly I am not in favour of such schemes but it seems like, things being what they are, it is desirable to buy viewers which support HDCP and players which circumvent it.
Is that correct or have I missed something? Do I need to jump on or steer clear or can I play both sides?
Personally I like the idea of digging up spammers' gardens and hassling them in any other way that can be imagined no matter how petty. In fact the pettier (more petty?) the better! Bravo AOL! (OMG what am I saying?!?) I need to go lie down...
.... I am running a dell XPS 170m just now with no hyperthreading admittedly and the thing constantly locks up and when I look at task manager there is always some "important" little program from HP or Dell or Logitech eating up cpu cycles and thats in addition to my antivirus working away...
I reckon I need at least two cores for me but we all need an extra core for all those annoyingly "helpful" little programs that come with the shit we buy and that appear to be compulsory (HP is the most anoying) if we wanna use our hardware. The attitude of software providers appears to be that your entire PC is there for the benefit of their program so as soon as we see multicore go mainstream then they will attempt to gobble up the extra cycles so lets give them an extra core.
So far I'm up to 4 cores just so my PC wont hang when I wanna check mail as well as play music.
Now lets bring Microsoft into the picture - the same people whose goal in life it appears to be to make each successive generation of computers seem slower than the last. They will clearly see multicore as an opportunity to move their bloatware into overdrive so I figure we probably need to double the number of cores again so my mp3 wont skip....
So there you are: I'm up to eight cores and I'm not even ripping a dvd yet... 16 cores anyone?:)
so now they are saying they feel obliged to make an even more bloated OS just to make sure there are none of those CPU cycles that might be loitering around capable of getting into mischief....
I'm running the latest DD-WRT firmware on my WRT54GS and it needs rebooting on a regular basis. Traffic just gets slower and slower until I have to reboot it. I like the idea and the listed functionality but for me this firmware is disappointing so far.
[In case anyone is interested or knows what this is, when I reboot the number of active connections on my status page starts again at zero and climbs steadily to just below 500 at which point I need to reboot again:( I've tried disconnecting machines but the router appears to generate the connections all on its own.]
...for Ericcson to make a break for freedom and being able to make phones they way their engineers want to rather than the way the Sony marketing dumbasses think they should?
why do I care/what is my problem with SE?: my $500 bluetooth-enabled mp3-playing k750i should be able to play music on my stereo bluetooth headset
and requires only a will.
Microgeneration coupled with renewable energy sources including hydro, wind and wave power could go a long way to limiting our dependence on fossil fuels.
It doesn't matter how good nuclear power is in theory. Its always been good in theory. In practice, governments can't afford to do nuclear themselves and the private sector has shown time and time again that they are not responsible enough. Thats why they've been so quiet for the past few years. They've been waiting for everyone to forget and look what has happened, its working. Otherwise intelligent people are now seriously considering giving them another shot.
If anywhere near the same amount of money had been spent on renewable energy sources as has been spent on nuclear research, we would be living in a pristine environment without the constant threat of war and without having already damned our children to a fucked up world climate.
If the geeks here want to jerk off about nuclear fusion then can they please do it in their own bedrooms with the doors locked. Don't pretend you're making serious suggestions for our future energy policy.
So this is flamebait but the parent isn't? Oh boy you guys need to get your heads out of your arses. Yes I was stupid to reply to flamebait but that doesn't make this flamebait unless the person moderating is as ignorant and insular as the original poster. If the parent or the following post had been moderated as "funny" that would be one thing but "interesting"? All I'm asking is that people from the US try just try a little bit not to live up to the stereotypes that the rest of the world holds about you. I was under the misconception that/. was a good place to find non-stereotypical americans. I'm not angry, just disappointed:)
OMG the world is just overflowing with people who can't wait to flaunt their ignorance. Are the first two posts part of some new social movement I'm yet to here about - ignorant and proud? equal rights for occidental-centric fuckwits?
what part of my post was flamebait? I read other people's posts and it seems that the majority of comments were in the vein of being anti-greenpeace and taking shots at France because in that country they manage to strike a work-life balance unlike on this continent (NA).
On the subject of French labour practices: I can see why shareholders and CEOs would fiercely defend and by rightly proud of the fact that the average US citizen loves to work all the hours they can but that is not the profile of your average/. reader surely
Is this flamebait from the POV of a US citizen then? Just another example of how americans find it impossible to tolerate alternative points of view or cultures?
Ok I admit that this is verging on flamebait now but I'm just lashing out bceause I'm hurt and confused:( I thought I was gonna get modded up for introducing a different perspective
1) why are you Americans so incredibly proud of your 40 hour week and miserable holiday entitlement?
2) I used to go out with a woman whose father had worked for the French atomic industry all his life (physics PHD) and he was emphatic that any proposed fusion reactor would produce just as much nuclear waste as a fission reactor if not more. I don't understand the details but just because the process in principle doesn't produce nuclear waste don't mean the practical application wont - or at least that appeared to be the thrust of his argument and he seemed to know what he was talking about. Remember the nuclear industry has lied to us and threatened our health consistently for 50 years.
3) I work in wind power and while I don't think they should be everywhere and blighting everyone's view, renewables combined with pump storage or compressed air storage or hydrogen storage, are more than capable of supplying the world's energy needs.
4) All us geeks like elegant solutions and fusion has always held out that promise but I think we all need to try to not mix up your personal fetishes with practical public policy issues.
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Oh really! I mean it wasn't even subtle or well-concealed sarcasm at that. Is flamebait saying anything which is at all controversial because in that case the original post should not be allowed. The parent post is merely balancing the OP's implicit view that its obvious that blind people should not be allowed to shoot guns. Whilst this is funny and I can't help agreeing, the post which has been marked as flamebait is actually the moderate and politically-correct point of view whereas, the original post is discriminatory and flamebait in that it is reinforcing people's prejudices. OMG now who has had a sense of humour failure :)
when I can go buy a 60" widescreen plasma tv and sit 2 feet away from it?
"slot" - interesting pet name
Yes I know but its so much more fun to stereotype. On a more serious note, I do visit the US fairly frequently and it is really upsetting to see that a country seemingly entirely populated by people who are just falling over themselves to help perfect strangers like myself (in the north east where I visit at least) has been hijacked by a completely alien political and business elite. I feel for you but I have no idea what anyone can do to help and I don't see anyone changing anything from inside the US when your society is so fractured with everyone being scared of everyone else. I am not trolling now (nicely spotted before). Really, living in Canada and coming from the UK, it is striking how afraid average americans are of well pretty much everything but then again thats what you're told to be by your media which is controlled by the same poeople as everything else. What can I say, I feel for you (and for everyone else in the wolrd who is at the mercy of your deranged leaders).
You boys need to build a really big wall to stop all those nasty foreigners getting in or you getting out. Gag yourselves and police each other. Only then will you be free :)
On the upside though, the rest of the world would actually feel a whole lot more free without the US intervening in order to "protect its interests"
and they take a lot of memory. does anyone know if the nvidia cards will be able to access main system memory or does that defeat the purpose? (e.g. I am currently running 268 climate states which each take a couple of hours to run and about 1GB of physical memory - so on my cluster of 4 X2 5000s they should be done in a couple of days) 40 times the processing power (these GPUS are probably ATIs with 24-48 pipelines hence the 20-40 times performance) would be awesome (or 128 in the case of the GTX) but where is all the memory gona come from? will we see video cards with 64GB or DDR? if it means recoding eveything from scratch then this benefit wont trickle down to people like me :(
*wipes tears from eyes and sniffs* so anyone know if this will run on my 6800GT :)
The debate about the existence of global warming due to anthropogenic effects (burning fossil fuels) ended in the mid to late 90s. To think that this debate continues or to attempt to participate is merely to flaunt one's ignorance on the subject. The IPCC cleared this up for us some time ago folks. The debate now is what can/should we do about it. All ideas welcome. Articles like the one refered to are merely political gambits which prey upon the voting public's ignorance. I'm sure there is a quote about no-one ever losing money by underestimating the general public (why don't YOU google it ;) )
Thinking you or anyone else is qualified to reopen the global warming debate is like me challenging the theory of relativity simply because I do not understand it and haven't taken the time to learn about reimanian (?) manifolds
Oh and by the way I'm not convinced that light is a wave either - it looks to travel in straight lines to me ...and while we're at it, I have some pretty interesting ideas I'd like to share with you all about the non-local / holographic universe as a rational basis for magic / astrology. I know what the physicists say but shouldn't we all get a say in cutting edge physics? Is this a democracy or not?
this is one of those great subjects which will likely spiral downwards into "the US hijacked by evil corporate interests and only talks about freedom of speech etc so it doesnt have to practice it" vs. "we invented the fucking internet anyway so fuck the rest of the world - fuck yeah!" (no prizes for guessing which side I'm on). However, what it really comes down to in the end seems to me to be: does the fact that the whole world uses one communication infrastructure benefit the US in the same way as everyone else? If so then the US needs to cooperate or the rest of the world needs to threaten cut them off by setting up their own DNSs etc.
p.s. I have a new acronym - IANAEOTI (i am not an expert on the internet) but....
I agree, I just bought a dual zeon 5160 for my office to do number crunching. Thing is though the article didn't appear to me to address the issue that the current generation of intel core 2 duos piss all over anything that AMD can offer in terms of gaming, home entertainment or the kind of number crunching I do at work (straight-forward mathematical modelling). I am a loyal fan of AMD since socket 7. Its completely alien to me to buy intel components but right now, the only way I could spend money on AMD is as a charity case and am not sure that they qualify simply because they are not quite the worlds biggest CPU brand. Yes the AMD architecture is sexy but only so long as you dont look at the actual performance of their FX62 versus the X6800, E6700 or E6600. Maybe opteron-based machines are still the best for serving web pages and databases but how many of us use our PCs to do that? I sympathise with all the other AMD fans on here but there is a whopping ;) great elephant sitting grinning in the corner of the /. room
Hmmm, am looking at buying a wall projector and wondering whether I should get one that supports HDCP. Clearly I am not in favour of such schemes but it seems like, things being what they are, it is desirable to buy viewers which support HDCP and players which circumvent it. Is that correct or have I missed something? Do I need to jump on or steer clear or can I play both sides?
... find it elsewhere so I'll say it: Its not the entire season of Firefly. There's five episodes missing. Does anybody know why this is?
Personally I like the idea of digging up spammers' gardens and hassling them in any other way that can be imagined no matter how petty. In fact the pettier (more petty?) the better! Bravo AOL! (OMG what am I saying?!?) I need to go lie down...
.... I am running a dell XPS 170m just now with no hyperthreading admittedly and the thing constantly locks up and when I look at task manager there is always some "important" little program from HP or Dell or Logitech eating up cpu cycles and thats in addition to my antivirus working away... I reckon I need at least two cores for me but we all need an extra core for all those annoyingly "helpful" little programs that come with the shit we buy and that appear to be compulsory (HP is the most anoying) if we wanna use our hardware. The attitude of software providers appears to be that your entire PC is there for the benefit of their program so as soon as we see multicore go mainstream then they will attempt to gobble up the extra cycles so lets give them an extra core. So far I'm up to 4 cores just so my PC wont hang when I wanna check mail as well as play music. Now lets bring Microsoft into the picture - the same people whose goal in life it appears to be to make each successive generation of computers seem slower than the last. They will clearly see multicore as an opportunity to move their bloatware into overdrive so I figure we probably need to double the number of cores again so my mp3 wont skip.... So there you are: I'm up to eight cores and I'm not even ripping a dvd yet... 16 cores anyone? :)
so now they are saying they feel obliged to make an even more bloated OS just to make sure there are none of those CPU cycles that might be loitering around capable of getting into mischief....
I'm running the latest DD-WRT firmware on my WRT54GS and it needs rebooting on a regular basis. Traffic just gets slower and slower until I have to reboot it. I like the idea and the listed functionality but for me this firmware is disappointing so far. [In case anyone is interested or knows what this is, when I reboot the number of active connections on my status page starts again at zero and climbs steadily to just below 500 at which point I need to reboot again :( I've tried disconnecting machines but the router appears to generate the connections all on its own.]
although it is monthly bandwidth capped which is a pain :(
:)
also, Look reliably provided to us twice the peak speed we paid for which was 4x the speed they said we would actually get.
everything's better here in canadia where the market is not quite so "free" to screw you over
...for Ericcson to make a break for freedom and being able to make phones they way their engineers want to rather than the way the Sony marketing dumbasses think they should? why do I care/what is my problem with SE?: my $500 bluetooth-enabled mp3-playing k750i should be able to play music on my stereo bluetooth headset
SSHRC: Can't this Alter guy take a joke? Did anyone see the date on the rejection letter?
and requires only a will. Microgeneration coupled with renewable energy sources including hydro, wind and wave power could go a long way to limiting our dependence on fossil fuels. It doesn't matter how good nuclear power is in theory. Its always been good in theory. In practice, governments can't afford to do nuclear themselves and the private sector has shown time and time again that they are not responsible enough. Thats why they've been so quiet for the past few years. They've been waiting for everyone to forget and look what has happened, its working. Otherwise intelligent people are now seriously considering giving them another shot. If anywhere near the same amount of money had been spent on renewable energy sources as has been spent on nuclear research, we would be living in a pristine environment without the constant threat of war and without having already damned our children to a fucked up world climate. If the geeks here want to jerk off about nuclear fusion then can they please do it in their own bedrooms with the doors locked. Don't pretend you're making serious suggestions for our future energy policy.
So this is flamebait but the parent isn't? Oh boy you guys need to get your heads out of your arses. Yes I was stupid to reply to flamebait but that doesn't make this flamebait unless the person moderating is as ignorant and insular as the original poster. If the parent or the following post had been moderated as "funny" that would be one thing but "interesting"? All I'm asking is that people from the US try just try a little bit not to live up to the stereotypes that the rest of the world holds about you. I was under the misconception that /. was a good place to find non-stereotypical americans. I'm not angry, just disappointed :)
OMG the world is just overflowing with people who can't wait to flaunt their ignorance. Are the first two posts part of some new social movement I'm yet to here about - ignorant and proud? equal rights for occidental-centric fuckwits?
does that mean my boss needs to pay Nintendo?
what part of my post was flamebait? I read other people's posts and it seems that the majority of comments were in the vein of being anti-greenpeace and taking shots at France because in that country they manage to strike a work-life balance unlike on this continent (NA). On the subject of French labour practices: I can see why shareholders and CEOs would fiercely defend and by rightly proud of the fact that the average US citizen loves to work all the hours they can but that is not the profile of your average /. reader surely
Is this flamebait from the POV of a US citizen then? Just another example of how americans find it impossible to tolerate alternative points of view or cultures?
Ok I admit that this is verging on flamebait now but I'm just lashing out bceause I'm hurt and confused :( I thought I was gonna get modded up for introducing a different perspective
1) why are you Americans so incredibly proud of your 40 hour week and miserable holiday entitlement?
2) I used to go out with a woman whose father had worked for the French atomic industry all his life (physics PHD) and he was emphatic that any proposed fusion reactor would produce just as much nuclear waste as a fission reactor if not more. I don't understand the details but just because the process in principle doesn't produce nuclear waste don't mean the practical application wont - or at least that appeared to be the thrust of his argument and he seemed to know what he was talking about. Remember the nuclear industry has lied to us and threatened our health consistently for 50 years.
3) I work in wind power and while I don't think they should be everywhere and blighting everyone's view, renewables combined with pump storage or compressed air storage or hydrogen storage, are more than capable of supplying the world's energy needs.
4) All us geeks like elegant solutions and fusion has always held out that promise but I think we all need to try to not mix up your personal fetishes with practical public policy issues.