They were caught on CCTV but were all wearing balaclavas and could not be identified, the spokesman said.
So I guess they are concentrating on skiers, motocross riders and ninjas. It will be very tough to apprehend them though if they are ninjas...
On another note, who would design a safe with a hole??? Wouldn't that by definition disqualify it from being called a "safe"??? At least they could make the hole one-way (very simple mechanisms for that)...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité and all that bullshit are far behind them now.
You are overreacting, it's still there...
liberté - Copyright holders are free to get the IP's of everyone. égalité - Notice "everyone" from above. Soon the entire citizen base of France will be equally harassed by copyright holders. fraternité - Well, I am sure there will be more chance for the millions of harassed citizens to come together and share their woes in a brotherly fashion.
The cache difference would not explain the price (or the transistor difference, 1.1bil vs 0.9bil), since we are talking about 3x+ the price. It is just that Intel enjoys a speed advantage so AMD has to pit its hexa-cores against Intel's quad-cores. And because, as it has always been, Intel is the more "recognized" brand, AMD makes sure that it gives you more performance for the price. It has been the same deal since my first ever PC: I could get, for about the same price, either an intel 486@66 or an AMD 486@100. My next was an AMD-K6 @ 233 which cost as much as the Pentium MMX 200 (yeah, the K6 lagged behind a PII, but it was no match for the Pentium MMX). Then I went with some Athlons, you remember how those did vs P3 at first, and then, even easier against P4. I am not a fanboy, but on a budget so I did get a Core 2 E8400 at some point because that was the only time I was buying a PC and AMD did not have a performance advantage at my desired price point. Now I am mainly on a Phenom II X4. But I digress, the point is that the Intel CPU's have traditionally been priced based on how much they can go for, not how much they cost. So right now they can get away with things like $1000 CPU's. If it wasn't for AMD, it would be like the 90's where they had mainstream cpu's at $1000, not just high end ones.
What's wrong with simply using the Windows 7 firewall? Maybe ZoneAlarm did not support Win 7 because they know there is already a better firewall included...
When you try to unlock an extra core or to overclock a processor there is no guarantee it will work. The manufacturer tells you what the specs of the unit are , which is what you paid for, and from then on you are on your own. Here we are talking about a case where the cpu has features disabled on purpose but guaranteed to work as long as you provide a ransom fee. While I can find some logic in it, they are in fact telling the consumer that they make a good profit already with the price they charge for the "crippled" unit, since they are willing to sell it at that price. Then the extra $$ is the "idiot tax" they will get from some users. I really hope AMD returns to its early Athlon days so that Intel can be in check. Judging from the previews of their netbook APU (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3933/amds-zacate-apu-performance-update) they might have something to show next year...
Opensuse is another user friendly distro that will install almost on anything. I remember I had a particularly non-mainstream laptop at one time and all my attempts at installing a distro failed (I had started from debian and went on...) until a friend suggested Suse. Well, being a KDE person and also hearing about problems on Ubuntu installations that my friends had (flash, sound most common) which I had never encountered I just stuck with Suse. I understand that due to Novel having a sort of a relationship with MS, Opensuse is not that well regarded on/., but anyway.
I should also add that in the end there is such a thing as too many distros. If there were not so many I would not have spent days attempting installs on the aforementioned laptop until I came across the right one. Then again how do I know that if there were few distros I would get one that was working? Hmm, anyway, I always thought that they distros should not try to deviate a lot in structure and share much more in common than they are now so that things like hardware support etc would be common and work well on all, but apparently it is not something that is going to happen.
Scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.
"Just as speakers transform electric signals into sound, the opposite process -- of turning sound into a source of electrical power -- is possible,"
Wow, somebody has to tell these Korean scientists that they are 134 years late in discovering the microphone. Perhaps they should work on the next big problem Korea is facing : Fan deaths...
PS. I hope talking about measuring power & current with volts is the journalists fault.
Police as in law enforcement or the band? Let me give you another anecdote from my experience to see what I mean. I was at a job fair accepting applications for a graduate assistant position. I was supposed to screen the best applicants and give their resumes & contact info to my boss. He had told me he wanted to interview himself up to 10 applicants. So, I got over 10 almost identical resumes from Indian students. Not in layout, but in content. It seems that ALL of them had 98% or higher in their undergrad (mostly IIT), ALL of them had won a math Olympiad or two in some place I never heard (different each time of course) and ALL of them had great work experience in "leading" Indian companies doing amazing stuff there. How could I choose some of them over the others to suggest to my boss? Ok, if I sat and had a regular interview with them I could tell, but by talking to them a couple of minutes each about what they are doing etc and reading their resumes they seemed too similar. In the end, I told my assistant it was either all in or all out and since we could not fit them all, it was all out. She concurred and later my boss hired, quite interestingly a guy from Ecuador. It was the first Ecuadorian I ever met, as despite my username I have no relation to the country...
That reminds me my CS grad school. There was a large percentage of Indian students and I found that regardless if they were good or bad (obviously there were both kinds) their defining characteristic was that they stuck together. When they were TA's (quite common) there were some weird things going on that the Professors were oblivious of. For example, I had a homework that involved storing some flight data on a db2 database, then a gui front-end that allowed you to select from/to locations and gave you the flight sequence that would make your trip. The specification gave 2-3 queries that you should test your solution on. Well, I got 95% for an error that was sort of cosmetic, i.e. not part of the algorithm used. I did not like it and I wondered how the TA graded the rest of the class. As luck would have it, he was one of the students that did not know what "your home directory is world readable by default" means and I got the spreadsheet with the results. Most of the Indians had 100%. I found one girl of those 100% who both had her home dir readable, and had her homework in there. To my amazement her homework involved a gui with HARDCODED results for the 2-3 "test queries"! No sql queries, nothing! An even better story took place a year after I graduated. An Indian guy was trying to cheat during the midterm and the professor warned him. He tried to cheat at the final again and the professor told him "you are getting an F, I already warned you". So the guy responds "but what about all the guys that submitted the same project?". Haha, the professor looked at the projects which were graded by his Indian TA and half of them (belonging to the Indian students) were the same! It had never occurred to the Professors what was going on. Well, the students got away with just an F (well it could screw their funding though). Again, I am not saying that Indians are bad, they have more or less the same variety as Americans, Europeans etc, the problem is that by sticking together so much and considering that "natural", you really have a hard time weeding out the good from the bad.
Exactly, using a bunch of servers to run a game on a laptop is neither impressive not new. Plus, the game looks nothing like Wolfenstein, which by the way used to run fine on my 386SX - no raytracing there of course. Where are the narrow grey or blue stone-walled corridors? And what is all that furniture doing in Castle Wolfenstein?
Well they are not the *only* platform but they have some pretty good ideas and it is pretty lame for the competition to try and mock them (http://www.yaybuttons.com/) when all they themselves have to offer are a bunch of gay orb lights... Oh, wait... what were we talking about?
I don't understand, what exactly is false? You are linking to stories about complaints in Australia and Germany, and I don't see eBay being particularly "beaten down" especially judging from the article about Germany... Not to mention that GP has mentioned Google Checkout which is not available in Australia or Germany... So it is indeed true that Ebay never allowed Google Checkout and, yeah, it is illegal, there are anti-trust laws that don't allow you to use your monopoly in one area (online auctions) to gain another market (online payments). But nobody's doing anything about it...
The Youtube videos on flash play great on my N900. If I have a strong 3G signal playback starts almost instantly and with no problems (Nokia's firefox based browser). Pages with heavy flash content (usually ads) are a bit sluggish, but not too bad to annoy me...
The comments were about the fact that at 3GHz light travels 10cm per clock speed, which limits how far you can have 2 items on a bus if you want them to communicate within 1 clock cycle. There is no "light speed barrier" or anything of the sort, however at these frequencies you design knowing that it will take measurable time for an electric signal to propagate. For example, for this particular system whose core is at 5.2GHz, if you try to send a signal to an external memory that is say 11-12cm away, then it will take about two clock cycles just for the signal to travel the distance.
:) Are you referring to the nickname? It is just that... No relation at all to the South American country (or the American continent in general). Anyway, I was not trying to piss anyone off, I am just used to this state trying to change the value of Pi, the other state trying to tech creationism in science class etc. We don't usually get crazy stuff from Sweeden.
http://gawker.com/5624854/wikileaks-founders-molestation-police-report-leaked-his-top+secret-moves-revealed Wow! So, if you consent to have sex with your groupie in Sweden, the police can come after you for not wearing a condom??? First they call no-condom wearing perfectly consensual sex between adults "rape" then they take it back and finally return calling it "molestation". And of course this became a problem for the woman/women only after they found out he was not playing "exclusive". Is it just me or is it utterly retarded? Remember, this is not the ol' American South where most of the worlds idiocy emanates from.
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They were caught on CCTV but were all wearing balaclavas and could not be identified, the spokesman said.
So I guess they are concentrating on skiers, motocross riders and ninjas. It will be very tough to apprehend them though if they are ninjas...
On another note, who would design a safe with a hole??? Wouldn't that by definition disqualify it from being called a "safe"??? At least they could make the hole one-way (very simple mechanisms for that)...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité and all that bullshit are far behind them now.
You are overreacting, it's still there...
liberté - Copyright holders are free to get the IP's of everyone.
égalité - Notice "everyone" from above. Soon the entire citizen base of France will be equally harassed by copyright holders.
fraternité - Well, I am sure there will be more chance for the millions of harassed citizens to come together and share their woes in a brotherly fashion.
The cache difference would not explain the price (or the transistor difference, 1.1bil vs 0.9bil), since we are talking about 3x+ the price. It is just that Intel enjoys a speed advantage so AMD has to pit its hexa-cores against Intel's quad-cores. And because, as it has always been, Intel is the more "recognized" brand, AMD makes sure that it gives you more performance for the price.
It has been the same deal since my first ever PC: I could get, for about the same price, either an intel 486@66 or an AMD 486@100. My next was an AMD-K6 @ 233 which cost as much as the Pentium MMX 200 (yeah, the K6 lagged behind a PII, but it was no match for the Pentium MMX). Then I went with some Athlons, you remember how those did vs P3 at first, and then, even easier against P4. I am not a fanboy, but on a budget so I did get a Core 2 E8400 at some point because that was the only time I was buying a PC and AMD did not have a performance advantage at my desired price point. Now I am mainly on a Phenom II X4.
But I digress, the point is that the Intel CPU's have traditionally been priced based on how much they can go for, not how much they cost. So right now they can get away with things like $1000 CPU's. If it wasn't for AMD, it would be like the 90's where they had mainstream cpu's at $1000, not just high end ones.
The languages you mentioned don't really use much different sounds. If you want a real test try the clicking sounds in Zulu, Xhosa etc.
What's wrong with simply using the Windows 7 firewall? Maybe ZoneAlarm did not support Win 7 because they know there is already a better firewall included...
just like there isn't a need for QEMM-like packages for new equipment.
What do you mean? Is there another way for new equipment to make 610kb+ of base RAM available to play Sensible Soccer?
we can't just type "Dr. Ann De Wees Allen is a hoot", we have to type "Dr. Ann De Wees Allen(TM) is a hoot" ?
When you try to unlock an extra core or to overclock a processor there is no guarantee it will work. The manufacturer tells you what the specs of the unit are , which is what you paid for, and from then on you are on your own.
Here we are talking about a case where the cpu has features disabled on purpose but guaranteed to work as long as you provide a ransom fee. While I can find some logic in it, they are in fact telling the consumer that they make a good profit already with the price they charge for the "crippled" unit, since they are willing to sell it at that price. Then the extra $$ is the "idiot tax" they will get from some users.
I really hope AMD returns to its early Athlon days so that Intel can be in check. Judging from the previews of their netbook APU (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3933/amds-zacate-apu-performance-update) they might have something to show next year...
Opensuse is another user friendly distro that will install almost on anything. I remember I had a particularly non-mainstream laptop at one time and all my attempts at installing a distro failed (I had started from debian and went on...) until a friend suggested Suse. Well, being a KDE person and also hearing about problems on Ubuntu installations that my friends had (flash, sound most common) which I had never encountered I just stuck with Suse. I understand that due to Novel having a sort of a relationship with MS, Opensuse is not that well regarded on /., but anyway.
I should also add that in the end there is such a thing as too many distros. If there were not so many I would not have spent days attempting installs on the aforementioned laptop until I came across the right one. Then again how do I know that if there were few distros I would get one that was working?
Hmm, anyway, I always thought that they distros should not try to deviate a lot in structure and share much more in common than they are now so that things like hardware support etc would be common and work well on all, but apparently it is not something that is going to happen.
Is this a joke?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTlV0Y5yAww
What's next?
Swim like an Anvil(tm)?
Fly like a Potato Sack(tm)?
Only an idiot would buy luggage with HDCP...
The farmer was at 24% upload after 54mins when the first pigeon landed...
Now we can get back to our Monty Python / african swallow posts...
Scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.
"Just as speakers transform electric signals into sound, the opposite process -- of turning sound into a source of electrical power -- is possible,"
Wow, somebody has to tell these Korean scientists that they are 134 years late in discovering the microphone. Perhaps they should work on the next big problem Korea is facing : Fan deaths...
PS. I hope talking about measuring power & current with volts is the journalists fault.
30cm? That's silly, why didn't they go with transparent aluminum? Aquariums have been using it since '86...
Police as in law enforcement or the band?
Let me give you another anecdote from my experience to see what I mean. I was at a job fair accepting applications for a graduate assistant position. I was supposed to screen the best applicants and give their resumes & contact info to my boss. He had told me he wanted to interview himself up to 10 applicants.
So, I got over 10 almost identical resumes from Indian students. Not in layout, but in content. It seems that ALL of them had 98% or higher in their undergrad (mostly IIT), ALL of them had won a math Olympiad or two in some place I never heard (different each time of course) and ALL of them had great work experience in "leading" Indian companies doing amazing stuff there. How could I choose some of them over the others to suggest to my boss? Ok, if I sat and had a regular interview with them I could tell, but by talking to them a couple of minutes each about what they are doing etc and reading their resumes they seemed too similar.
In the end, I told my assistant it was either all in or all out and since we could not fit them all, it was all out. She concurred and later my boss hired, quite interestingly a guy from Ecuador. It was the first Ecuadorian I ever met, as despite my username I have no relation to the country...
That reminds me my CS grad school. There was a large percentage of Indian students and I found that regardless if they were good or bad (obviously there were both kinds) their defining characteristic was that they stuck together. When they were TA's (quite common) there were some weird things going on that the Professors were oblivious of. For example, I had a homework that involved storing some flight data on a db2 database, then a gui front-end that allowed you to select from/to locations and gave you the flight sequence that would make your trip. The specification gave 2-3 queries that you should test your solution on. Well, I got 95% for an error that was sort of cosmetic, i.e. not part of the algorithm used. I did not like it and I wondered how the TA graded the rest of the class. As luck would have it, he was one of the students that did not know what "your home directory is world readable by default" means and I got the spreadsheet with the results. Most of the Indians had 100%. I found one girl of those 100% who both had her home dir readable, and had her homework in there. To my amazement her homework involved a gui with HARDCODED results for the 2-3 "test queries"! No sql queries, nothing!
An even better story took place a year after I graduated. An Indian guy was trying to cheat during the midterm and the professor warned him. He tried to cheat at the final again and the professor told him "you are getting an F, I already warned you". So the guy responds "but what about all the guys that submitted the same project?". Haha, the professor looked at the projects which were graded by his Indian TA and half of them (belonging to the Indian students) were the same! It had never occurred to the Professors what was going on. Well, the students got away with just an F (well it could screw their funding though).
Again, I am not saying that Indians are bad, they have more or less the same variety as Americans, Europeans etc, the problem is that by sticking together so much and considering that "natural", you really have a hard time weeding out the good from the bad.
Breaking the ice is not required when breaking the wind will do...
That was supposed to be a joke...
Exactly, using a bunch of servers to run a game on a laptop is neither impressive not new.
Plus, the game looks nothing like Wolfenstein, which by the way used to run fine on my 386SX - no raytracing there of course. Where are the narrow grey or blue stone-walled corridors? And what is all that furniture doing in Castle Wolfenstein?
Well they are not the *only* platform but they have some pretty good ideas and it is pretty lame for the competition to try and mock them (http://www.yaybuttons.com/) when all they themselves have to offer are a bunch of gay orb lights...
Oh, wait... what were we talking about?
I don't understand, what exactly is false? You are linking to stories about complaints in Australia and Germany, and I don't see eBay being particularly "beaten down" especially judging from the article about Germany... Not to mention that GP has mentioned Google Checkout which is not available in Australia or Germany...
So it is indeed true that Ebay never allowed Google Checkout and, yeah, it is illegal, there are anti-trust laws that don't allow you to use your monopoly in one area (online auctions) to gain another market (online payments). But nobody's doing anything about it...
The Youtube videos on flash play great on my N900. If I have a strong 3G signal playback starts almost instantly and with no problems (Nokia's firefox based browser). Pages with heavy flash content (usually ads) are a bit sluggish, but not too bad to annoy me...
The comments were about the fact that at 3GHz light travels 10cm per clock speed, which limits how far you can have 2 items on a bus if you want them to communicate within 1 clock cycle. There is no "light speed barrier" or anything of the sort, however at these frequencies you design knowing that it will take measurable time for an electric signal to propagate. For example, for this particular system whose core is at 5.2GHz, if you try to send a signal to an external memory that is say 11-12cm away, then it will take about two clock cycles just for the signal to travel the distance.
:) Are you referring to the nickname? It is just that... No relation at all to the South American country (or the American continent in general).
Anyway, I was not trying to piss anyone off, I am just used to this state trying to change the value of Pi, the other state trying to tech creationism in science class etc. We don't usually get crazy stuff from Sweeden.
http://gawker.com/5624854/wikileaks-founders-molestation-police-report-leaked-his-top+secret-moves-revealed
Wow! So, if you consent to have sex with your groupie in Sweden, the police can come after you for not wearing a condom??? First they call no-condom wearing perfectly consensual sex between adults "rape" then they take it back and finally return calling it "molestation". And of course this became a problem for the woman/women only after they found out he was not playing "exclusive".
Is it just me or is it utterly retarded? Remember, this is not the ol' American South where most of the worlds idiocy emanates from.