If you stretch it a bit (@18W) you could put in an AMD Zacate. And you know what? The Zacate GPU is rated @ 80 GFLOPS, when the PS3's RSX, while probably faster in many aspects, seems to be rated @ 44 GFLOPS (I am seeing listed 10 FLOPS * 8 pipelines * 550 MHz).
So, there you go, while your post is correct, you can't put something that is actually faster than the PS3 on a portable device, the above is an example where you could *claim* to have something faster.
Since the Zacate is a bit too consuming for a portable device, they will have something else, but it too could be better in a single metric (e.g. 600MHz graphics core) which is all what the marketing dept needs.
I detect sarcasm in your post. However the solution must be education. I suggest they take a single family that is very well educated about guns, I mean really know their stuff, and then breed that single family (inter-breeding is crucial, we can't have external non gun-educated genes interfere) until we can populate some states with these people. Oh, wait, they already tried that with a few Southern US states... Never mind...
I am a software engineer and my favorite working environment is Linux/KDE (I prefer SuSE for a few years now). A little over a year ago my job also put me on an iOS project so they provided a Mac. Apart from the fact that it is unix-based which is great, it has been a big disappointment for me, both hardware and software-wise. I will spare you the lengthy details, but it is enough to say that it is definitely a step up from Linux for simple/media usage, at my home the Mac Mini and the Linux workstation sit idly when I want to watch a movie etc, since that is when I fire up a Windows 7 based HTPC (which does not have to wait for Steve's approval to play my HD-DVD/Bluray collection etc).
the science and technology is present only to provide a setting for the story
No, science is definitely not present in Star Wars. And if we have to replace lightsabers with magic wands to call it Fantasy, we are talking about some pretty limited Fantasy.
Perhaps the "space opera" term is not bad, but it usually carries a bad connotation so perhaps some people might not like using it for Star Wars (well, except Ep 1, nobody cares about that, and perhaps even Eps 2,3).
The list was about judging the "sci" part of Sci-Fi movies. You are listing here a bunch of Fantasy movies, and as such are ineligible for either the "Good" or the "Bad" list. No, a space setting does not make them Sci-Fi.
-What's your name? -Zalewski -Zalewski? Is that Polish? -Yes. -Are you trying to do some Polish humor? -That's.. -SHUT UP! -That's just my name.. -SHUT UP! I don't appreciate racial slurs! I think them dumb Pollacks have been ridiculed enough!
Actually, the idea that the customer is always right does hold true in Greece (and is a very common saying). The problem is that the store owners strongly disagree with it and tend to express their disagreement as often as possible. It is then up to the individual customer to make a stand... And the root of this problem is that business owners in Greece have almost always no business sense. Given the option of making $10 today or $5 every week, they will almost always choose the former.
Hehe, I get to use that quote about once a month or so to my Apple-fanatic boss. The funny thing is that he doesn't make excuses about the things that don't work as they should, and even now if you ask him he will admit he had a lot of problems with his Apple products, but he persists buying them... For example the last incident was last month when his 24" Samsung (that I had chosen some years ago) went bad and without asking me got a 27" Apple Cinema display. Well, his attempt to connect the macbook to the apple monitor was a golden "it just works" moment. The macbook not only lacks the only connection option of the Apple Cinema display (displayport), but even if you bought a (very expensive) converter, it still does not work as the 27" has a native resolution that the macbook does not support. So of course then my boss gets a new Mac Mini to hook up to his new monitor. I first learned about the whole thing when he emailed me after trying to do the transfer of his user account from the macbook to his mac mini - the keychain was not transferred, another "classic" (since the transfer process has burnt me too the one time I tried it) "just works" moment..
No, that does not cover it. Prostitution is legal in most Western countries and some times even organized so that the sex workers and their clients are safer from pimps and diseases. So my post was exactly about the US (NV excluded) trying to ban the oldest profession, which, IMHO, is worse than China trying to ban pornography as it is dangerous in addition to being futile.
Well, given the fact that pornography requires at least the technology of (rock?) painting, I would guess it is more recent than the human race. But I can fix your statement for you:
Prostitution has been around as long as humans has been around. US is wasting it's time trying to stamp it out.
(Not to mention additionally endangering the professional women as they require more "protection" with their vocation being illegal)
The G-Wiz, apparently, cannot be even remotely compared to a Yaris or a Smart. Watch the video that a poster above shared (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGp8Sha_mA) where top gear pits the G-Wiz against a table... The table crash test is quite surprising and amusing.
During that era I had an IBM PS/2 386SX, and I could not figure out why I was hearing the stories about the hole in 720KB floppies, when I could simply take said floppies, put them in my drive and format them using the appropriate switch (was it something like/F:1.44?) at the 1.44MB capacity. They would then work (unreliably) as high density diskettes. So why the hole? Was it a different OS version that did not let you format at will? The PS/2 came with IBM DOS 4 originally IIRC but I had upgraded later (eventually to 6.22).
Why did he transfer $468k? The $809k-15% is $687. Was he trying to stiff the Malaysian, or did only part of the check sum posted on his account (which should have alerted him)?
PS. I want a point for using checksum in non computer post;)
We were talking about RMS, why bring up the shell that Jason Bourne developed to run his counter-intelligence scripts? For those that don't remember, Bourne later switched to Perl scripting because, you know, there was a slight chance his system might be compromised and his data decrypted, but Perl code would still be unreadable;)
While most are not significant enough for someone to choose the new 6000 series over the 5000, especially if the latter is at a discount, like new AA modes etc it has to be reminded that only the 6000 series has HDMI 1.4a which is a requirement for 3D Bluray. So if you think that might be useful to you in the lifetime of the card and you are buying now, be aware that the HD 5000 series does not have it, while the HD 6000 (as well as nVidia 4xx/5xx) does.
If you want to read "between the lines" there is a difference between "You think you are smart eh" = "I think you are dumb" and "You think that is smart eh? Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise!" = "Nice theory, doesn't work when the everything is rigged to go against consumers". So if you don't get the difference, read just the lines and not between them.
Please tell me how's a Visa debit card is worse than a Visa credit card? And how is it better losing your own money vs losing someone elses money that you have to pay back?
No, that's a false dichotomy since you are not responsible for fraud. In one case it is losing your money which the bank has to pay back to you. In the other case it is losing the bank money which you don't have to pay back to anyone. In which case is the bank more likely to sort it out? Also, I don't know if it is still true, but for VISA/MC debit cards you had a $50 liability on fraudulent charges, which was always waived on CC's.
You are not bad on the insulting department. Not great on the how things work department though, but with that attitude you can't possibly be helped.
Just so we are clear, originally I did not think you were dumb. My tone was aiming to make it clear to you and to other people that debit cards are a bad idea regardless how well you think you have thought things through. In my second favorite forum (FW Finance) I have read so many stories about how people have gotten screwed, it is not even funny. For example, do you know that debit card transactions are processed by the end of the day in an order the Bank decides? What do you think will happen with a fraudulent charge the same day as a legit purchase? Also, did you know that normally a merchant asks for authorization before putting a charge through (and gets declined in your case if you don't have funds), but at least the VISA network also allows charges WITHOUT authorization (and think whether a fraudster will ask for authorization)? That was probably how I got a negative charge on an account that had no overdrawing and if you think a negative balance on your bank account does not mean that is your money missing, you are sadly mistaken.
Anyway, I at least hope you don't use a really bad (customer-friendly-wise) bank (like, say, BofA). And to re-iterate, no, I did not think you were dumb, but you did come out as a douche with your second post.
You think that is smart eh? Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise! Using debit cards to be "safer" is the worst idea possible. All credit cards have fraud protection. If someone uses it fraudulently, as long as you catch it within a couple of months, you are not responsible for paying it. When you give your credit card number to someone you are giving access to your credit line, provided by your bank, not your money directly, and when they charge your card they won't draw money from you, they will post a charge for which they will get paid later by the bank and you will be asked to pay for it. Now, if you give your debit card, you are giving your bank account. A transaction draws money from your account immediately, good luck trying to reverse that later, I mean it is YOUR money gone, not the bank's money. Then, the fact that you don't have overdraft protection does not mean much. First of all you will have the bounce fee. Secondly, there have been many instances where banks go ahead and honor the overdrawing (it has happened to me once, they charged both the fee AND overdrew the account, it was either Wacovia or Chase...) and when you ask them about it they say "because you are a good customer our system allowed it". There are of course many other reasons for using a credit card. For example you get extended warranty (AMEX doubles 1-year warranties), cashback etc. If you want to be secure there are virtual account numbers that many CC provide. Some of them can be set with a pre-set limit. But be careful, similar to a bank account there are times where the bank will still honor going over the limit. The difference is, you will NOT have paid it with your money. You will receive a bill showing the fraud and you will file for it to be cleared. It has happened to me a couple of times and I shudder at the thought of that being my debit card...
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If you stretch it a bit (@18W) you could put in an AMD Zacate. And you know what? The Zacate GPU is rated @ 80 GFLOPS, when the PS3's RSX, while probably faster in many aspects, seems to be rated @ 44 GFLOPS (I am seeing listed 10 FLOPS * 8 pipelines * 550 MHz).
So, there you go, while your post is correct, you can't put something that is actually faster than the PS3 on a portable device, the above is an example where you could *claim* to have something faster.
Since the Zacate is a bit too consuming for a portable device, they will have something else, but it too could be better in a single metric (e.g. 600MHz graphics core) which is all what the marketing dept needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dr_EjKV5CM
No, we'll take an AC comment over it, or a /. summary that "presumes"...
What happened to innocent until proven otherwise?
I detect sarcasm in your post. However the solution must be education. I suggest they take a single family that is very well educated about guns, I mean really know their stuff, and then breed that single family (inter-breeding is crucial, we can't have external non gun-educated genes interfere) until we can populate some states with these people.
Oh, wait, they already tried that with a few Southern US states... Never mind...
I am a software engineer and my favorite working environment is Linux/KDE (I prefer SuSE for a few years now). A little over a year ago my job also put me on an iOS project so they provided a Mac. Apart from the fact that it is unix-based which is great, it has been a big disappointment for me, both hardware and software-wise. I will spare you the lengthy details, but it is enough to say that it is definitely a step up from Linux for simple/media usage, at my home the Mac Mini and the Linux workstation sit idly when I want to watch a movie etc, since that is when I fire up a Windows 7 based HTPC (which does not have to wait for Steve's approval to play my HD-DVD/Bluray collection etc).
the science and technology is present only to provide a setting for the story
No, science is definitely not present in Star Wars. And if we have to replace lightsabers with magic wands to call it Fantasy, we are talking about some pretty limited Fantasy.
Perhaps the "space opera" term is not bad, but it usually carries a bad connotation so perhaps some people might not like using it for Star Wars (well, except Ep 1, nobody cares about that, and perhaps even Eps 2,3).
The list was about judging the "sci" part of Sci-Fi movies.
You are listing here a bunch of Fantasy movies, and as such are ineligible for either the "Good" or the "Bad" list. No, a space setting does not make them Sci-Fi.
Polish Google security white hat Michal Zalewski
-What's your name?
-Zalewski
-Zalewski? Is that Polish?
-Yes.
-Are you trying to do some Polish humor?
-That's..
-SHUT UP!
-That's just my name..
-SHUT UP! I don't appreciate racial slurs! I think them dumb Pollacks have been ridiculed enough!
Actually, the idea that the customer is always right does hold true in Greece (and is a very common saying). The problem is that the store owners strongly disagree with it and tend to express their disagreement as often as possible. It is then up to the individual customer to make a stand...
And the root of this problem is that business owners in Greece have almost always no business sense. Given the option of making $10 today or $5 every week, they will almost always choose the former.
Hehe, I get to use that quote about once a month or so to my Apple-fanatic boss. The funny thing is that he doesn't make excuses about the things that don't work as they should, and even now if you ask him he will admit he had a lot of problems with his Apple products, but he persists buying them...
For example the last incident was last month when his 24" Samsung (that I had chosen some years ago) went bad and without asking me got a 27" Apple Cinema display. Well, his attempt to connect the macbook to the apple monitor was a golden "it just works" moment. The macbook not only lacks the only connection option of the Apple Cinema display (displayport), but even if you bought a (very expensive) converter, it still does not work as the 27" has a native resolution that the macbook does not support. So of course then my boss gets a new Mac Mini to hook up to his new monitor. I first learned about the whole thing when he emailed me after trying to do the transfer of his user account from the macbook to his mac mini - the keychain was not transferred, another "classic" (since the transfer process has burnt me too the one time I tried it) "just works" moment..
No, that does not cover it. Prostitution is legal in most Western countries and some times even organized so that the sex workers and their clients are safer from pimps and diseases. So my post was exactly about the US (NV excluded) trying to ban the oldest profession, which, IMHO, is worse than China trying to ban pornography as it is dangerous in addition to being futile.
Well, given the fact that pornography requires at least the technology of (rock?) painting, I would guess it is more recent than the human race. But I can fix your statement for you:
Prostitution has been around as long as humans has been around. US is wasting it's time trying to stamp it out.
(Not to mention additionally endangering the professional women as they require more "protection" with their vocation being illegal)
The G-Wiz, apparently, cannot be even remotely compared to a Yaris or a Smart. Watch the video that a poster above shared (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGp8Sha_mA) where top gear pits the G-Wiz against a table... The table crash test is quite surprising and amusing.
During that era I had an IBM PS/2 386SX, and I could not figure out why I was hearing the stories about the hole in 720KB floppies, when I could simply take said floppies, put them in my drive and format them using the appropriate switch (was it something like /F:1.44?) at the 1.44MB capacity. They would then work (unreliably) as high density diskettes. So why the hole? Was it a different OS version that did not let you format at will? The PS/2 came with IBM DOS 4 originally IIRC but I had upgraded later (eventually to 6.22).
Why did he transfer $468k? The $809k-15% is $687. Was he trying to stiff the Malaysian, or did only part of the check sum posted on his account (which should have alerted him)?
PS. I want a point for using checksum in non computer post ;)
Nope, Nigerians are worse. Unless we are talking about Nigerian royalty of course!
BASH is the standard UNIX shell.
We were talking about RMS, why bring up the shell that Jason Bourne developed to run his counter-intelligence scripts? ;)
For those that don't remember, Bourne later switched to Perl scripting because, you know, there was a slight chance his system might be compromised and his data decrypted, but Perl code would still be unreadable
My biggest gripe on the other hand is that my browsers don't understand the html that Slashdot's Perl code produces...
While most are not significant enough for someone to choose the new 6000 series over the 5000, especially if the latter is at a discount, like new AA modes etc it has to be reminded that only the 6000 series has HDMI 1.4a which is a requirement for 3D Bluray. So if you think that might be useful to you in the lifetime of the card and you are buying now, be aware that the HD 5000 series does not have it, while the HD 6000 (as well as nVidia 4xx/5xx) does.
You can't have history books covering say Europe during Renaissance without some extensive Royal incest...
We humans are really really really small.
Pfff. Our ego makes up for our size.
If you want to read "between the lines" there is a difference between "You think you are smart eh" = "I think you are dumb" and "You think that is smart eh? Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise!" = "Nice theory, doesn't work when the everything is rigged to go against consumers".
So if you don't get the difference, read just the lines and not between them.
Please tell me how's a Visa debit card is worse than a Visa credit card? And how is it better losing your own money vs losing someone elses money that you have to pay back?
No, that's a false dichotomy since you are not responsible for fraud.
In one case it is losing your money which the bank has to pay back to you. In the other case it is losing the bank money which you don't have to pay back to anyone.
In which case is the bank more likely to sort it out?
Also, I don't know if it is still true, but for VISA/MC debit cards you had a $50 liability on fraudulent charges, which was always waived on CC's.
You are not bad on the insulting department. Not great on the how things work department though, but with that attitude you can't possibly be helped.
Just so we are clear, originally I did not think you were dumb. My tone was aiming to make it clear to you and to other people that debit cards are a bad idea regardless how well you think you have thought things through. In my second favorite forum (FW Finance) I have read so many stories about how people have gotten screwed, it is not even funny. For example, do you know that debit card transactions are processed by the end of the day in an order the Bank decides? What do you think will happen with a fraudulent charge the same day as a legit purchase? Also, did you know that normally a merchant asks for authorization before putting a charge through (and gets declined in your case if you don't have funds), but at least the VISA network also allows charges WITHOUT authorization (and think whether a fraudster will ask for authorization)? That was probably how I got a negative charge on an account that had no overdrawing and if you think a negative balance on your bank account does not mean that is your money missing, you are sadly mistaken.
Anyway, I at least hope you don't use a really bad (customer-friendly-wise) bank (like, say, BofA).
And to re-iterate, no, I did not think you were dumb, but you did come out as a douche with your second post.
You think that is smart eh? Oh, boy, are you in for a suprise!
Using debit cards to be "safer" is the worst idea possible. All credit cards have fraud protection. If someone uses it fraudulently, as long as you catch it within a couple of months, you are not responsible for paying it. When you give your credit card number to someone you are giving access to your credit line, provided by your bank, not your money directly, and when they charge your card they won't draw money from you, they will post a charge for which they will get paid later by the bank and you will be asked to pay for it.
Now, if you give your debit card, you are giving your bank account. A transaction draws money from your account immediately, good luck trying to reverse that later, I mean it is YOUR money gone, not the bank's money. Then, the fact that you don't have overdraft protection does not mean much. First of all you will have the bounce fee. Secondly, there have been many instances where banks go ahead and honor the overdrawing (it has happened to me once, they charged both the fee AND overdrew the account, it was either Wacovia or Chase...) and when you ask them about it they say "because you are a good customer our system allowed it".
There are of course many other reasons for using a credit card. For example you get extended warranty (AMEX doubles 1-year warranties), cashback etc.
If you want to be secure there are virtual account numbers that many CC provide. Some of them can be set with a pre-set limit. But be careful, similar to a bank account there are times where the bank will still honor going over the limit. The difference is, you will NOT have paid it with your money. You will receive a bill showing the fraud and you will file for it to be cleared. It has happened to me a couple of times and I shudder at the thought of that being my debit card...