How is it easier to look inside the side of your case at the RAM, than to open the task manager in Windows or run top/free or look at Gkrellm in Linux?
Not only do AMD match Intel feature for feature, but - according to a man from Sun who gave one of my lectures in uni last week - the Opteron meets Sun's SPARC standards, which is pretty nifty.
This isn't real life, where men have more muscle than women do
This is soon not going to matter, being as men are soon to be allowed to enter women's events. Something to do with gender rights or some crap. I don't buy it.
As far as this goes... I'm all for it. There's no reason women shouldn't have the brainpower and reactions to best men at Quake 3 or UT or whatever.
Why doesn't someone just register a generic Slashdot account? Like username: slashdot and password: slashdot. Over at bluesnews someone registered a generic bluesnews account in that kind of way so that everyone could just log in using that to read the articles.
My cousin has a stupidly powerful, huge laptop which I wouldn't say no to playing games on. It's got a 17" screen and it weighs a ton, because it has a full on Pentium 4 in it. Not a Centrino or whatever they called the mobile processors... I'm talking a proper Pentium 4. You should hear the noise it makes with a proper fan in there. Mental. Not sure about the graphics, but some mobile graphics chips are fairly respectable.
The laptop was bought for him by the company he works for - it's for sound/light engineering for gigs. The lighting stuff it can do looks pretty impressive, so I wouldn't be surprised if it could transfer that power to game rendering.
The only thing I'd be concerned about would be hooking a mouse up - after that it'd rock. Not all laptops suck for these things!
I'm sure a half decent pickpocket could make a mint thieving all those expensive iPod2's out of the concert-goers pockets too... I wouldn't take a ten year old Walkman to a gig, for fear of losing it in the throes of the pit, or having it nicked, leave along half a grand's worth of iPod.
Nah, Rowan Atkinson isn't right. He's either too smart (a la Blackadder) or too idiotic (Mr Bean). You need someone more utterly in between. Someone who's clearly clever and has been round the block, but is also capable of acting utterly lost.
I saw Lost In Translation a few weeks back, and thought Bill Murray was awesome in that. He knew his stuff, but he was totally lost when he was out of his own territory. That's the kind of the thing you need. Not exactly Bill Murray, but something close to that.
I assume you're basing this on TV that's actually made it over to the US, right? In which case yeah, it probably sucks. There's good British TV and films, but hardly any of it is popular, so I doubt much of it makes it over the pond.
Enough with the period pieces and Hugh Grant already. And there's nothing funnier than a British "gangster" film.
Period pieces? You mean Pride And Prejudice or Shakespeare or something? It's great literature. Get over it. Just because it wasn't made in the last 20 minutes doesn't mean it's worthless. As for Hugh Grant, believe me, we're all as sick of him as you are. Gangster films? I assume you mean Guy Ritchie's films - Lock, Stock... and Snatch, right? You'll be referring to them as they're about the only British gangster films going, and certainly the only ones that will have made it as far as the states. I guess they're a bit of an acquired taste, but the truth is if you know anything about London, Cockney's, Pikey's etc they're fucking hilarious films.
We already know you guys have brown teeth, so that doesn't shock us. Trying to look tough and talking in a gay British accent is just too funny.
Brown teeth? Whatever. Go tell Vinnie Jones he's got a "gay" accent... see how far that gets you.
Like that nerd Dizzy Rascal. WTF is up with that loser ?
That's Dizzee Rascal. And yes, loser. Won the Mercury Music Prize, though goodness knows how.
Anyway. Please refrain from sweeping generalisations about our country. Believe me, we could all come up with some pretty brutal generalisations about yours given what we see of it on TV.
And the technical side of the article is a pile of shit as well. Virii don't "reprogram parts of your computer". Script kiddies generally don't download virii, but trojan clients.
Generally speaking, you're right. But a sophisticated virus could patch or alter existing software on your computer if it wanted. A lot of virus' (virii, whatever) do just tack themselves onto the end of existing files, which could be considered reprogramming. By and large I agree with you - it's not remotely as clever as reprogramming. It's just a little script or something that relies on someone running it.
In as much as it is an "art", it's been rather simplified these days. Outlook Express makes it far too easy for someone to create a tiny worm that replicates millions of times. It's not like it used to be when it really required some skill, or you had to rely on the damn things getting moved around on floppy disks and stuff.
Man, what an incoherent post. You're right about the Deftones too.
Sounds like hotwayd which does much the same thing for Hotmail. I think hotwayd also works for Lycos and a few other webmail providers.
I've got it set up and it works fine, though it only picks up mail from your inbox, not your junk mail or anything. If you want it picking up from multiple folders you just have to set up multiple copies of the daemon to look in each folder.
Do you mean so that you could just include the text in one language, then somehow translate it into all other languages from that set of strings of text?
If that's what you mean then... Well, that'd be a fairly hardcore programming effort. Translation is obviously more than just switching one word for it's dictionary equivalent (as Babelfish routinely proves), and things like word orders and grammar rapidly complicate the issue. Then consider the issues of cultural context, and that one phrase translated into another language could have a very different meaning - it could even be offensive.
You'd basically need the computer to be able to speak the languages involved. Natural language parsing is hardcore work, and not to be sniffed at. It's hard enough trying to translate from one language into one other... imagine trying it for hundreds of languages.
So it's easier to translate it bit by bit than try programming a computer to do it. Doing it manually takes a looong time and is kinda tedious. I'd imagine they do hire in non-programmers to help with this - hell, I'd imagine a translator would be the best man for the job:)
Well, if you want to be really particular about it then even lending stuff is "piracy" and is certainly copyright infringement. Certainly in England all the copyright notices on DVDs say it's illegal to lend them.
Similarly, this would make lending books illegal, except for authorised establishments i.e. libraries.
Now, I know that this isn't the same as burning CDs. People buy (download, burn, whatever) CDs and listen to them a lot - like once a month, once a week, once a day. People don't tend to read the same book in it's entirety that often.
However, it is closer to the DVD/video piracy thing, as people watch films less often than they listen to CDs. If you see a film one day you're very unlikely to watch it the following day, same as how if you finish reading a book one day you're very unlikely to start reading it again the next day.
So... getting to the point... it's difficult to compare film piracy to book "piracy" because the copyright of books gets infringed any time you lend a book to someone. This has the same sort of impact in terms of loss of earnings for the author, as most times someone who borrows a book won't buy it themselves as well.
The interesting thing is that absolutely no one cares about people borrowing books and infringing copyright that way. It is a universally accepted practise and no one does a thing about it.
I can see it with some lights, and I've heard other people complain about it too.
I remember seeing a TV show about a family with 4 kids with autism, and one of the kids had huge issues with seeing the flourescent lights flashing, and couldn't concentrate in school as a result of it. I don't recall what they did about it though.
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This isn't exactly a new problem. People have books full of diseases and stuff that can convince them they're about to die.
Loads of people in England have books like these which are ideal for the budding hypochondriac! A lot of them are full of flow charts that let you start out with a symptom and answer questions to find out what disease you've got. You can start out with a slight headache and be dying of diphtheria before you know it!
So basically, the problem isn't really limited to the internet, but maybe it's easier to surf the net than to crack open a book when you feel ill.
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On the subject of doctors and drugs, you can't really fully trust them there.
I don't know about in America, but in the UK there's endless articles about "Superbugs" like MRSA (I forget what it stands for, but the M is an antibiotic, the R is resistant and the S is stapholococcus or something) which are killing people left right and centre in hospitals. The reason? The bugs have grown immune to all known antibiotics and we can't kill them. People have got used to taking antibiotics for absolutely everything - including things that the body can either handle on it's own, or stuff that won't respond to antibiotics like (duh) viruses.
My doctor routinely turns people away and tells them to sweat it out, and that their body can handle it on it's own, which is a lot more sensible than just pumping everyone full of antibiotics.
I knew a girl doing a microbiology degree who went to the doctor with some kind of infection or something, and he prescribed her some antibiotics. Being the curious student that she was, she looked up the antibiotic and the bacteria causing the infection, and found that the antibiotic in question would have absolutely no effect on the bacteria. Not because of any of the resistance crap from earlier, but just because that antibiotic wouldn't work on that bacteria. She went back to the doctor and challenged him on it, and he said there was nothing he could do about it because that was the drug being pushed at the moment.
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How is it easier to look inside the side of your case at the RAM, than to open the task manager in Windows or run top/free or look at Gkrellm in Linux?
Sure, that's why Wintel boxes still have 5 1/4" drives fitted as standard.
Scalable Processor ARChitecture.
Not only do AMD match Intel feature for feature, but - according to a man from Sun who gave one of my lectures in uni last week - the Opteron meets Sun's SPARC standards, which is pretty nifty.
How long till they get shut down by Microsoft then, huh?
This isn't real life, where men have more muscle than women do
This is soon not going to matter, being as men are soon to be allowed to enter women's events. Something to do with gender rights or some crap. I don't buy it.
As far as this goes... I'm all for it. There's no reason women shouldn't have the brainpower and reactions to best men at Quake 3 or UT or whatever.
Why doesn't someone just register a generic Slashdot account? Like username: slashdot and password: slashdot. Over at bluesnews someone registered a generic bluesnews account in that kind of way so that everyone could just log in using that to read the articles.
My cousin has a stupidly powerful, huge laptop which I wouldn't say no to playing games on. It's got a 17" screen and it weighs a ton, because it has a full on Pentium 4 in it. Not a Centrino or whatever they called the mobile processors... I'm talking a proper Pentium 4. You should hear the noise it makes with a proper fan in there. Mental. Not sure about the graphics, but some mobile graphics chips are fairly respectable.
The laptop was bought for him by the company he works for - it's for sound/light engineering for gigs. The lighting stuff it can do looks pretty impressive, so I wouldn't be surprised if it could transfer that power to game rendering.
The only thing I'd be concerned about would be hooking a mouse up - after that it'd rock. Not all laptops suck for these things!
I'm sure a half decent pickpocket could make a mint thieving all those expensive iPod2's out of the concert-goers pockets too... I wouldn't take a ten year old Walkman to a gig, for fear of losing it in the throes of the pit, or having it nicked, leave along half a grand's worth of iPod.
Nah, Rowan Atkinson isn't right. He's either too smart (a la Blackadder) or too idiotic (Mr Bean). You need someone more utterly in between. Someone who's clearly clever and has been round the block, but is also capable of acting utterly lost.
I saw Lost In Translation a few weeks back, and thought Bill Murray was awesome in that. He knew his stuff, but he was totally lost when he was out of his own territory. That's the kind of the thing you need. Not exactly Bill Murray, but something close to that.
Yeah, and they're still stilted.
I assume you're basing this on TV that's actually made it over to the US, right? In which case yeah, it probably sucks. There's good British TV and films, but hardly any of it is popular, so I doubt much of it makes it over the pond.
Enough with the period pieces and Hugh Grant already. And there's nothing funnier than a British "gangster" film.
Period pieces? You mean Pride And Prejudice or Shakespeare or something? It's great literature. Get over it. Just because it wasn't made in the last 20 minutes doesn't mean it's worthless.
As for Hugh Grant, believe me, we're all as sick of him as you are.
Gangster films? I assume you mean Guy Ritchie's films - Lock, Stock... and Snatch, right? You'll be referring to them as they're about the only British gangster films going, and certainly the only ones that will have made it as far as the states. I guess they're a bit of an acquired taste, but the truth is if you know anything about London, Cockney's, Pikey's etc they're fucking hilarious films.
We already know you guys have brown teeth, so that doesn't shock us. Trying to look tough and talking in a gay British accent is just too funny.
Brown teeth? Whatever. Go tell Vinnie Jones he's got a "gay" accent... see how far that gets you.
Like that nerd Dizzy Rascal. WTF is up with that loser ?
That's Dizzee Rascal. And yes, loser. Won the Mercury Music Prize, though goodness knows how.
Anyway. Please refrain from sweeping generalisations about our country. Believe me, we could all come up with some pretty brutal generalisations about yours given what we see of it on TV.
Try 6 * 9 in base 13 and see what you come up with.
And the technical side of the article is a pile of shit as well. Virii don't "reprogram parts of your computer". Script kiddies generally don't download virii, but trojan clients.
Generally speaking, you're right. But a sophisticated virus could patch or alter existing software on your computer if it wanted. A lot of virus' (virii, whatever) do just tack themselves onto the end of existing files, which could be considered reprogramming. By and large I agree with you - it's not remotely as clever as reprogramming. It's just a little script or something that relies on someone running it.
In as much as it is an "art", it's been rather simplified these days. Outlook Express makes it far too easy for someone to create a tiny worm that replicates millions of times. It's not like it used to be when it really required some skill, or you had to rely on the damn things getting moved around on floppy disks and stuff.
Man, what an incoherent post. You're right about the Deftones too.
... so long as you don't mind extensive advertising.
Sounds like hotwayd which does much the same thing for Hotmail. I think hotwayd also works for Lycos and a few other webmail providers.
I've got it set up and it works fine, though it only picks up mail from your inbox, not your junk mail or anything. If you want it picking up from multiple folders you just have to set up multiple copies of the daemon to look in each folder.
OpenOffice.org will be sued next month, and forced to change their name to OpenOash.org, which not only makes no sense but is also unpronounceable.
KDE were unavailable for comment on the issue of renaming KPaint Kash.
Fows gows?
Do you mean so that you could just include the text in one language, then somehow translate it into all other languages from that set of strings of text?
If that's what you mean then... Well, that'd be a fairly hardcore programming effort. Translation is obviously more than just switching one word for it's dictionary equivalent (as Babelfish routinely proves), and things like word orders and grammar rapidly complicate the issue. Then consider the issues of cultural context, and that one phrase translated into another language could have a very different meaning - it could even be offensive.
You'd basically need the computer to be able to speak the languages involved. Natural language parsing is hardcore work, and not to be sniffed at. It's hard enough trying to translate from one language into one other... imagine trying it for hundreds of languages.
So it's easier to translate it bit by bit than try programming a computer to do it. Doing it manually takes a looong time and is kinda tedious. I'd imagine they do hire in non-programmers to help with this - hell, I'd imagine a translator would be the best man for the job :)
Basically, there's not an easy way around it.
Since when has Microsoft support been excellent?
Also, considering how warezed Microsoft products already are, this would get warezed back into the stone age.
I can't see MS touching OSS in a looong time... it's so far removed from their ethos.
As for my niche, I'll use emacs, thanks.
And text will never be bold/underlined/in a different font ever again!
(yes, I do know that's what LaTeX is for)
Well, if you want to be really particular about it then even lending stuff is "piracy" and is certainly copyright infringement. Certainly in England all the copyright notices on DVDs say it's illegal to lend them.
Similarly, this would make lending books illegal, except for authorised establishments i.e. libraries.
Now, I know that this isn't the same as burning CDs. People buy (download, burn, whatever) CDs and listen to them a lot - like once a month, once a week, once a day. People don't tend to read the same book in it's entirety that often.
However, it is closer to the DVD/video piracy thing, as people watch films less often than they listen to CDs. If you see a film one day you're very unlikely to watch it the following day, same as how if you finish reading a book one day you're very unlikely to start reading it again the next day.
So... getting to the point... it's difficult to compare film piracy to book "piracy" because the copyright of books gets infringed any time you lend a book to someone. This has the same sort of impact in terms of loss of earnings for the author, as most times someone who borrows a book won't buy it themselves as well.
The interesting thing is that absolutely no one cares about people borrowing books and infringing copyright that way. It is a universally accepted practise and no one does a thing about it.
I can see it with some lights, and I've heard other people complain about it too.
I remember seeing a TV show about a family with 4 kids with autism, and one of the kids had huge issues with seeing the flourescent lights flashing, and couldn't concentrate in school as a result of it. I don't recall what they did about it though.
This isn't exactly a new problem. People have books full of diseases and stuff that can convince them they're about to die.
Loads of people in England have books like these which are ideal for the budding hypochondriac! A lot of them are full of flow charts that let you start out with a symptom and answer questions to find out what disease you've got. You can start out with a slight headache and be dying of diphtheria before you know it!
So basically, the problem isn't really limited to the internet, but maybe it's easier to surf the net than to crack open a book when you feel ill.
On the subject of doctors and drugs, you can't really fully trust them there.
I don't know about in America, but in the UK there's endless articles about "Superbugs" like MRSA (I forget what it stands for, but the M is an antibiotic, the R is resistant and the S is stapholococcus or something) which are killing people left right and centre in hospitals. The reason? The bugs have grown immune to all known antibiotics and we can't kill them. People have got used to taking antibiotics for absolutely everything - including things that the body can either handle on it's own, or stuff that won't respond to antibiotics like (duh) viruses.
My doctor routinely turns people away and tells them to sweat it out, and that their body can handle it on it's own, which is a lot more sensible than just pumping everyone full of antibiotics.
I knew a girl doing a microbiology degree who went to the doctor with some kind of infection or something, and he prescribed her some antibiotics. Being the curious student that she was, she looked up the antibiotic and the bacteria causing the infection, and found that the antibiotic in question would have absolutely no effect on the bacteria. Not because of any of the resistance crap from earlier, but just because that antibiotic wouldn't work on that bacteria. She went back to the doctor and challenged him on it, and he said there was nothing he could do about it because that was the drug being pushed at the moment.
Doctor's aren't infallible either.