"Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format removing two derogatory racial slurs: "injun" and "nigger." The latter appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word "slave."
Not to sound racist but... I am pretty sure there is a difference between the two regardless of how derogatory either are. Changing them both to "slave" doesn't seem very descriptive. Why not just use the commonly accepted terms instead... That said I think changing an original work like that other than through necessary translation is stupid. Part of reading a book like that is understanding the context in which it was written. Look at Jules Vern, you have to make allowances for how things are described, and think about what the meaning is.
I mean we all laughed and giggled when reading Romeo and Juliette. I distinctly remember everyone accenting the "Ho's" more than they really needed, or the whole "if thou prickest me, doth I not bleed" section... horrible I know that is all I really remember.
Just as absurd is a Canadian magazine about Canadian History called "The Beaver" had to change its name due to public pressure to "Canada's History" despite the role of the beaver in the fur trade and how that influenced the growth of early Canada. Just silly.
If "The Core" taught me anything, its that all we have to do is make a subway train to the core of the Earth, blow up some bombs, and we can restart the magnetic spin. How big a deal is magnetic north moving a few degrees? I bet that would only take a couple nukes at most!
Ya, well I'm the Joe Schmo that gets tasked to fix this sort of stuff.
The conversation usually goes like this:
Me: "To fix this properly you will need to do this, buy this software, redesign this system, it will take X amount of dollars and Y amount of time." Boss: "We don't have the money. You need to fix it as best as possible using the materials at hand with no budget, and a limited time."
Thus, slaps together whatever I have to get it working, cheaply and likely crudely. Forget documentation, you don't have time for that, besides that's like evidence that I was involved, which means the next time this stupid system breaks (and oh by god it will) you will be called in to help try and fix it, again with the restrictions like above.
Believe me, I know how to do it right, I will even offer up my opinion that proceeding like this is a "very bad idea", but when a manager makes the decision, you do it, and sadly hope it is some other "Joe Schmo" that gets stuck with it next time around...:)
A good example I liked using was about the Polygraph test. A friend was arguing that it is 90% accurate and why should you not do it unless you got something to hide. My response was, "Here take this revolver, it has 10 chambers, one of which as a bullet. Not spin the chambers, put the barrel to your temple and pull the trigger." When consequences go up (i.e. life altering) the acceptable accuracy also increases.
I remember about the whole breathalyser thing in Florida years ago. Bunch of people sued, and won I believe (though it very well could still be on going). Last I heard a judge ordered the company that made the device in question to release its source code or face a fine of several million a day. He had ruled that the right of the individual to face his accuser and burden of proof outweighed that of trade secrets. The fact that someone can get automatically convicted based on a black box device that is not open to inspection by all is ludicrous.
Or that they may have charged 23% interest, but then GS went and loaned the money back to the US government (because its not like they have any money) at 46% interest... It really doesn't get any more dirty and corrupt than that.
Also I may have made all of that up, then again maybe not.
So NASA is saying that human interaction with Aliens is more "realistic" than natural disasters, a large comet hitting earth (which has been speculated to have happened in the past), a natural volcano going off, a new energy source being created with huge ramifications, or the potential for human cloning? I will call the burrowing train into magma a wash.
I think either NASA is really rather optimistic and bullish on actually meeting ET, or perhaps they should all be fired and replaced with safety cones.
1) in many areas so far as I know the USA and in the UK, if a judge says "Gimme Password!" you have to do it or they can throw your ass in jail forever.
2) pipe wrenches
You can always try the much loved "Oh I forget!" or "I do not remember..." but likely you will not be showed much love in either case.
Kidding aside, do it. Do it now. Considering the actions of the US government on behalf of their RIAA and MPAA overlords, it is clear that they are not up to the task. Someone else should do it.
I guess I just need to go out and learn Fortran for the old school trifecta!
I know my first year CS they taught Pascal, and then changed standards to C the following year. Thanks for that. COBOL was, and probably still is taught for those students with high pain thresholds.
I don't actually program for a living (though I use scraps here and there), so I don't have all the new sexier languages. I know the few times I have applied for a new positions, having those languages and stuff like Assembly, etc... on my resume managers look at you like you have two heads or something. Then are somehow unimpressed you don't have any experience in whatever trendy new language they are smoking. Rarely are they looking for the guy that says programing is programing, I'll learn it. They want some cheap code jockey that has been currently using it in his job and can start hacking right away. Just as well really, probably wouldn't want to work for them anyway by the sounds of it.
Yes I remember when Nvidia did that. I thought it was a pretty unethically and despicable thing to do. At the time I remember the big thing was "Yeah but it supports DX10!"... and I remember thinking, "Yeah but no games actually USE DX10 yet, and when they do actually come out, your crappy little card won't be able to handle it even with DX10 support!".
Video card companies have always been the sleazebag portion of the industry. Remember all the controversy over faked benchmarks, driver tweaking, etc...
True, if that's important to you. Considering its hard to find a PSU with less than 500W these days and many are considerably more I don't see that as a big deal. Also the people that buy this sort of thing are not going to buy a cheapo 350-400W anyway.
In addition the only other consideration is heat/power in terms of overclocking ability. However from every review I have read they 6000 series can't overclock worth a damn anyway. So it can sit there and not use power and not get hot all it likes because it is not going to give you any OC headroom anyway.
I guess it is progress in the go hug a tree sort of way, though I seriously doubt that is a big deal to anyone buying these things.
There is plenty I would get on TV if I could pick and choose what I want. Instead they want me to buy some package and pay them 120-200$ a month for the privilege. So I get basic cable that I use basically to watch news and NHL games on every now and again, and use the internet for everything else. I have my TV hooked up to my computer anyway and a remote. As much as I would like my hockey in 1080p, I ain't spending what they want me to for all the stupid package BS.
Ya like they have been crystal clear for years now... sarcasm. These things stopped making sense a long time ago. CPU's gave up on meaningful names long ago also. I remember when AMD was still doing the +2200 thing trying to make literal comparisons to Intel.
Today I don't think it is so much companies trying to advertise to customers is it is companies trying to fool customers into buying into their next product line whatever that might be. You have to do a ton of research to simply figure out what you are looking at.
And to answer your question, no the 6000 series is NOT better than the 5000 series, depending what you are looking for. In every segment the 5000 (last years) cards are FASTER than the 6000 series (this years) card using the same naming conventions. In many cases even if you convert up, say comparing a 50 to a 70, the older are still faster. The 6000 have slightly newer technology and a few more bells and whistles than the 5000 series if that is what you are looking for. I have also heard that the 6000 series doesn't overclock as well either. Anyway this isn't the first time they have done this, nor will it be the last. It really is BS.
Rather the people at the top think they can control everything, and the thought that they cannot probably terrifies them. So it is no surprise they they simply bury their head in the sand, and act like they can control it simply to try and project the image that they are in control. It's sad really.
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"Over a hundred years after the death of its author, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be released in a censored format removing two derogatory racial slurs: "injun" and "nigger." The latter appears some 219 times in the original novel but both will be replaced by the word "slave."
Not to sound racist but... I am pretty sure there is a difference between the two regardless of how derogatory either are. Changing them both to "slave" doesn't seem very descriptive. Why not just use the commonly accepted terms instead... That said I think changing an original work like that other than through necessary translation is stupid. Part of reading a book like that is understanding the context in which it was written. Look at Jules Vern, you have to make allowances for how things are described, and think about what the meaning is.
I mean we all laughed and giggled when reading Romeo and Juliette. I distinctly remember everyone accenting the "Ho's" more than they really needed, or the whole "if thou prickest me, doth I not bleed" section... horrible I know that is all I really remember.
Just as absurd is a Canadian magazine about Canadian History called "The Beaver" had to change its name due to public pressure to "Canada's History" despite the role of the beaver in the fur trade and how that influenced the growth of early Canada. Just silly.
If "The Core" taught me anything, its that all we have to do is make a subway train to the core of the Earth, blow up some bombs, and we can restart the magnetic spin. How big a deal is magnetic north moving a few degrees? I bet that would only take a couple nukes at most!
Ya, well I'm the Joe Schmo that gets tasked to fix this sort of stuff.
The conversation usually goes like this:
Me: "To fix this properly you will need to do this, buy this software, redesign this system, it will take X amount of dollars and Y amount of time."
Boss: "We don't have the money. You need to fix it as best as possible using the materials at hand with no budget, and a limited time."
Thus, slaps together whatever I have to get it working, cheaply and likely crudely. Forget documentation, you don't have time for that, besides that's like evidence that I was involved, which means the next time this stupid system breaks (and oh by god it will) you will be called in to help try and fix it, again with the restrictions like above.
Believe me, I know how to do it right, I will even offer up my opinion that proceeding like this is a "very bad idea", but when a manager makes the decision, you do it, and sadly hope it is some other "Joe Schmo" that gets stuck with it next time around... :)
Toot Toot!
So what your saying is that China is going to make a more expensive version of the cheap US knockoff version?
Its a matter of accuracy.
A good example I liked using was about the Polygraph test. A friend was arguing that it is 90% accurate and why should you not do it unless you got something to hide. My response was, "Here take this revolver, it has 10 chambers, one of which as a bullet. Not spin the chambers, put the barrel to your temple and pull the trigger." When consequences go up (i.e. life altering) the acceptable accuracy also increases.
I remember about the whole breathalyser thing in Florida years ago. Bunch of people sued, and won I believe (though it very well could still be on going). Last I heard a judge ordered the company that made the device in question to release its source code or face a fine of several million a day. He had ruled that the right of the individual to face his accuser and burden of proof outweighed that of trade secrets. The fact that someone can get automatically convicted based on a black box device that is not open to inspection by all is ludicrous.
Just for that I am downloading Judge Dredd when I get home!
Or that they may have charged 23% interest, but then GS went and loaned the money back to the US government (because its not like they have any money) at 46% interest... It really doesn't get any more dirty and corrupt than that.
Also I may have made all of that up, then again maybe not.
Lets be innovative and do what everyone else is doing!
Emotion-Detecting Robot Developed eh? What could possibly go wrong?
10 Detect Emotion
20 Kill
30 GOTO 10
So NASA is saying that human interaction with Aliens is more "realistic" than natural disasters, a large comet hitting earth (which has been speculated to have happened in the past), a natural volcano going off, a new energy source being created with huge ramifications, or the potential for human cloning? I will call the burrowing train into magma a wash.
I think either NASA is really rather optimistic and bullish on actually meeting ET, or perhaps they should all be fired and replaced with safety cones.
You probably need a "Hydrospanner" to switch the polarity of a swimming pool... I'm just sayin'
Two things to that:
1) in many areas so far as I know the USA and in the UK, if a judge says "Gimme Password!" you have to do it or they can throw your ass in jail forever.
2) pipe wrenches
You can always try the much loved "Oh I forget!" or "I do not remember..." but likely you will not be showed much love in either case.
Kidding aside, do it. Do it now. Considering the actions of the US government on behalf of their RIAA and MPAA overlords, it is clear that they are not up to the task. Someone else should do it.
No I mean WTF was Delicious?
Yes that was a rhetorical question.
I guess I just need to go out and learn Fortran for the old school trifecta!
I know my first year CS they taught Pascal, and then changed standards to C the following year. Thanks for that. COBOL was, and probably still is taught for those students with high pain thresholds.
I don't actually program for a living (though I use scraps here and there), so I don't have all the new sexier languages. I know the few times I have applied for a new positions, having those languages and stuff like Assembly, etc... on my resume managers look at you like you have two heads or something. Then are somehow unimpressed you don't have any experience in whatever trendy new language they are smoking. Rarely are they looking for the guy that says programing is programing, I'll learn it. They want some cheap code jockey that has been currently using it in his job and can start hacking right away. Just as well really, probably wouldn't want to work for them anyway by the sounds of it.
...Hooray for Science!
Yes I remember when Nvidia did that. I thought it was a pretty unethically and despicable thing to do. At the time I remember the big thing was "Yeah but it supports DX10!"... and I remember thinking, "Yeah but no games actually USE DX10 yet, and when they do actually come out, your crappy little card won't be able to handle it even with DX10 support!".
Video card companies have always been the sleazebag portion of the industry. Remember all the controversy over faked benchmarks, driver tweaking, etc...
True, if that's important to you. Considering its hard to find a PSU with less than 500W these days and many are considerably more I don't see that as a big deal. Also the people that buy this sort of thing are not going to buy a cheapo 350-400W anyway.
In addition the only other consideration is heat/power in terms of overclocking ability. However from every review I have read they 6000 series can't overclock worth a damn anyway. So it can sit there and not use power and not get hot all it likes because it is not going to give you any OC headroom anyway.
I guess it is progress in the go hug a tree sort of way, though I seriously doubt that is a big deal to anyone buying these things.
Couldn't agree more.
There is plenty I would get on TV if I could pick and choose what I want. Instead they want me to buy some package and pay them 120-200$ a month for the privilege. So I get basic cable that I use basically to watch news and NHL games on every now and again, and use the internet for everything else. I have my TV hooked up to my computer anyway and a remote. As much as I would like my hockey in 1080p, I ain't spending what they want me to for all the stupid package BS.
Ya like they have been crystal clear for years now... sarcasm. These things stopped making sense a long time ago. CPU's gave up on meaningful names long ago also. I remember when AMD was still doing the +2200 thing trying to make literal comparisons to Intel.
Today I don't think it is so much companies trying to advertise to customers is it is companies trying to fool customers into buying into their next product line whatever that might be. You have to do a ton of research to simply figure out what you are looking at.
And to answer your question, no the 6000 series is NOT better than the 5000 series, depending what you are looking for. In every segment the 5000 (last years) cards are FASTER than the 6000 series (this years) card using the same naming conventions. In many cases even if you convert up, say comparing a 50 to a 70, the older are still faster. The 6000 have slightly newer technology and a few more bells and whistles than the 5000 series if that is what you are looking for. I have also heard that the 6000 series doesn't overclock as well either. Anyway this isn't the first time they have done this, nor will it be the last. It really is BS.
Management isn't about to fire themselves...
Think of parasites slowing killing its host.
OK maybe I am just having a bad day.
It's like a man that falls out of a plane and starts to flap his arms.
He is falling, there is nothing he can do about it, the result is inevitable, but maybe flapping his arms makes him feel better about the situation.
Rather the people at the top think they can control everything, and the thought that they cannot probably terrifies them. So it is no surprise they they simply bury their head in the sand, and act like they can control it simply to try and project the image that they are in control. It's sad really.
No way, that sort of makes a little bit of sense.
Now if they gave the soldier a banana with a smiley face drawn on it with a sharpy or a poodle wearing a tutu that would be more believable.