You're setting yourself up for a world of pain. Pumping on the bike with your head perpetually twisted to the left is a sure-fire way to get your spine all out of alignment:). Get a wall mount for that monitor. Get a trackball while you're at it too - preferably the flat, no-nonsense air-traffic-controller kind which can be clicked.
Yay for the corporate drone! How will you feel three-five years from now, when someone as mindlessly driven as you were in your younger days manages to pull the rug from under you? Get out of the rat race, friend - there's no such thing as a secure career.
In an earlier post, you say you're working on control algoryhims for UAV's. While I have all admiration fro tecnical advancements, I must ask where your ethics are. More to the point, where is your sense of self-preservation? Do you trust your leaders enough to provide them with advanced technology you *know* can be used for evil?
Hear, hear. You, sir, are the first man in about six months I've seen make the obvious point, and I'd mod you up, if/. groupthink hadn't already labeled me a "troll". Unions are the may to go, because nothing else is capable of moderating the many excesses of corporations, in the current societal setup. Unionize!
Oh, and have no fear of The Man. At the end of the day, all the police and the military and the rent-a-cops in the world are nothing more than low-wage, overworked poor stiffs just like you. However, it will come to that, make no mistake.
"Isn't this just making senders pay postage costs? We don't object to that in the real world -- why the outrage now?"
Well, young padawan, it's because in the "real world" moving treeware (mail, books, whatever) costs money, which comes out of the post office's pocket (for vans, logistics, personel etc.).
On the other hand, with e-mail, the cost of transportation is already paid, by the end users, in the form of bandwidth bills. The costs of actually storing e-mail and maintaining adresses exist, but are vanishingly small per capita (hence free webmail and personal mailservers) and don't come into question here anyway, since AOL is not proposing a storage tax.
What all this means is that AOL are, essentially, trollish fscktards trying to build a toll bridge in place of what used to be a ford. How would you like it if you had to pay to send your 20 coleagues e-mailed Hannukah greetings or a copy of your business plan?
I hear you. However, I must say that your concern is misplaced. The language used by./ troll fscktards and AOL-bred single-parent script-kiddies will continue to degrade, true. Does this spell the end of the English language as *you* know and love it? Well, no, unless people who need more sophistication than is available in pidgin to express their thoughts disappear also. That is not likely, as the existence of the great unwashed creates niches for technical and societal elites needed to deal with the complexities of our existence as a species. The world isn't getting any simpler soon, I hope, so neither will your language (which, incidentally, doesn't deal too well with complexity, but that's another issue).
Realistically, you, sir, are a communist and a troll to boot. People are paying for something and not receiving it. That is illegal and I'm surprised so few have pointed this facet of the question out. Oh, and I'm calling you a communist because you would reduce everyone to a lowest common denominator, without regard for idividuals' needs, and also because I am feeling agressive today.
Offtopic, yes, but I have to ask. How did that Jesuit motto come into a discussion about jobs, sir? I fail to see how one's choice of job would affect that...
The thing of which you speak is called dual-head single framebuffer and is supported by all ati R200 cards which are dual-monitor capable. It's called the "extended desktop" mode in their "friendly" Winblows ati config utility. Whether games can or cannot use this is another matter altogether, since 3d accel is usually limited to one display. You may get best results with "software-acceleration" in games, as that uses the video card in 2D (framebuffer) mode and is not subject, therefore, to the same limitations. Anything you play on the Matrox Parhelia will be software-accelerated anyway, but you may see speed gains with a slightly newer card.
Afaik, the joystick is used for pitch/roll, afaik, which is the only thing joysticks are good for Power up/down is on a separate (left-hand) axis, while yaw is controlled with *both* feet; moreover, the airbrake(s), if any exist, are linked to yet another separate controller, usually also on the left-hand side. Both the power and the brake controllers have *buttons* on them, which do nothing but let you confirm that you actually want to do what you want to do. All other controls (including simple switches) are *damn stiff* and the flight controls actually give feedback.
Also, pilots don't fly when sick, so no sneezes, bail out as a rule when injured (*large, brightly coloured cord loops or handles* situated right between one's legs, within reach), and die if they get shocked and don't recover soon enough.
No. It makes much more "business sense" to map out features for 3-4 iterations of a product, then "trickle" useful features into the product as hype cycles roll by. Cell phone makers do it all the time, using the *exact same* hardware for your next-gen product makes for great cost cuts.
I gather from your comment that you've never met an ethologist, a post-Chomskyan linguist or any sort of researcher into the functioning of the brains of higher mammals. Science in 1979 wasn't. Period. There were so many implicit "truths" from which reasoning proceeded (most, ironically, due to the behaviourist "revolution") that most of animal ethology or psychology or "behavioral science" of the period is pure bunk.
The article you mention describes the enlightening experiences of a collective who trained an ape to use basic signs *and no more* and then proceeded to show that the ape is, in fact, unaware of the existence of syntax, in the restricted sense of "proper AmeSLan word-order". This was then handily proven, since the ape was never presented with opportunities to learn syntax. The fact alone that the ape in question nevertheless managed to produce meaningful sign-clusters (albeit lacking proper word-order) should have been enough to prove the exact opposite of the conclusion ms. Petitto's collective arrived at.
That is because... guess what? Sign clusters do imply the existence of discourse-level syntax (like beginnings and endings to sentences, aso.).
Stop reading old science. Get a parrot, see for yourself.
I've never given money to charity, since I don't feel that this would alleviate the problem of poverty worldwide, or even just in my country, ethnic group or even neighborhood. so I will not use charity as an "excuse" for my conscience, so that I can continue to do nothing about the problem itself. So no, I am not a karma bitch, by my own definition.
Nope. They are the ancient gods of the Peg. They were noted for requiring strange forms of worship, like incessant chocolate chip munching, joblesness as a form of art, and the wearing of very tight lycra pants.
You just admitted to my point. Moreover, you have taken the tag I created and posted it on another one of my fave karma bitch types: the bigot.
Therefore, by the rules of intelligent discourse, I WIN! Nyuck nyuck nyuck!
I do not believe in jeebus myself but you should know that there *are* people who go to church and live pious lives for reasons other than fear of hell.
Oh, and I think I'll upgrade my "karma bitch" rating to "plain old bitch" for this band, since I now understand that their action is actually a sales pitch: "Buy our CD's, they're easy to rip off!"
They did give up all their principles, if they ever had any, when signing for Sony. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
If you put money in Sony's pocket, either as an artist working for them, or as a buyer of music, well, you're part of the problem.
If you feel the need for a role model, as your age would indicate, look at the Grateful Dead for guidance.
Also, comparing a bunch of entertainers to mother Theresa and Gandhi is downright laughable, and only serves to reinforce my perception that these guys are some sort of PR hoes.
Oh, and good_press != heaven so there goes the rest of your argument.
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You're setting yourself up for a world of pain. Pumping on the bike with your head perpetually twisted to the left is a sure-fire way to get your spine all out of alignment :). Get a wall mount for that monitor. Get a trackball while you're at it too - preferably the flat, no-nonsense air-traffic-controller kind which can be clicked.
Yay for the corporate drone! How will you feel three-five years from now, when someone as mindlessly driven as you were in your younger days manages to pull the rug from under you? Get out of the rat race, friend - there's no such thing as a secure career.
In an earlier post, you say you're working on control algoryhims for UAV's. While I have all admiration fro tecnical advancements, I must ask where your ethics are. More to the point, where is your sense of self-preservation? Do you trust your leaders enough to provide them with advanced technology you *know* can be used for evil?
Hear, hear. You, sir, are the first man in about six months I've seen make the obvious point, and I'd mod you up, if /. groupthink hadn't already labeled me a "troll". Unions are the may to go, because nothing else is capable of moderating the many excesses of corporations, in the current societal setup. Unionize!
Oh, and have no fear of The Man. At the end of the day, all the police and the military and the rent-a-cops in the world are nothing more than low-wage, overworked poor stiffs just like you. However, it will come to that, make no mistake.
Yes. I think your post incites to an offtopic discussion and should be modded "troll". I have no points at the moment, or I would.
"Isn't this just making senders pay postage costs? We don't object to that in the real world -- why the outrage now?"
Well, young padawan, it's because in the "real world" moving treeware (mail, books, whatever) costs money, which comes out of the post office's pocket (for vans, logistics, personel etc.).
On the other hand, with e-mail, the cost of transportation is already paid, by the end users, in the form of bandwidth bills. The costs of actually storing e-mail and maintaining adresses exist, but are vanishingly small per capita (hence free webmail and personal mailservers) and don't come into question here anyway, since AOL is not proposing a storage tax.
What all this means is that AOL are, essentially, trollish fscktards trying to build a toll bridge in place of what used to be a ford. How would you like it if you had to pay to send your 20 coleagues e-mailed Hannukah greetings or a copy of your business plan?
You skipped "pandering to religious fanatics" and "agression in lieu of external policy".
I hear you. However, I must say that your concern is misplaced. The language used by ./ troll fscktards and AOL-bred single-parent script-kiddies will continue to degrade, true. Does this spell the end of the English language as *you* know and love it? Well, no, unless people who need more sophistication than is available in pidgin to express their thoughts disappear also. That is not likely, as the existence of the great unwashed creates niches for technical and societal elites needed to deal with the complexities of our existence as a species. The world isn't getting any simpler soon, I hope, so neither will your language (which, incidentally, doesn't deal too well with complexity, but that's another issue).
Realistically, you, sir, are a communist and a troll to boot. People are paying for something and not receiving it. That is illegal and I'm surprised so few have pointed this facet of the question out. Oh, and I'm calling you a communist because you would reduce everyone to a lowest common denominator, without regard for idividuals' needs, and also because I am feeling agressive today.
Offtopic, yes, but I have to ask. How did that Jesuit motto come into a discussion about jobs, sir? I fail to see how one's choice of job would affect that...
The thing of which you speak is called dual-head single framebuffer and is supported by all ati R200 cards which are dual-monitor capable. It's called the "extended desktop" mode in their "friendly" Winblows ati config utility. Whether games can or cannot use this is another matter altogether, since 3d accel is usually limited to one display. You may get best results with "software-acceleration" in games, as that uses the video card in 2D (framebuffer) mode and is not subject, therefore, to the same limitations. Anything you play on the Matrox Parhelia will be software-accelerated anyway, but you may see speed gains with a slightly newer card.
I wonder... Could the RIAA be deemed to be such a litigant?
Afaik, the joystick is used for pitch/roll, afaik, which is the only thing joysticks are good for
Power up/down is on a separate (left-hand) axis, while yaw is controlled with *both* feet; moreover, the airbrake(s), if any exist, are linked to yet another separate controller, usually also on the left-hand side. Both the power and the brake controllers have *buttons* on them, which do nothing but let you confirm that you actually want to do what you want to do. All other controls (including simple switches) are *damn stiff* and the flight controls actually give feedback.
Also, pilots don't fly when sick, so no sneezes, bail out as a rule when injured (*large, brightly coloured cord loops or handles* situated right between one's legs, within reach), and die if they get shocked and don't recover soon enough.
Simple, really.
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The FA is a shameless plug for Electrolux.
No.
It makes much more "business sense" to map out features for 3-4 iterations of a product, then "trickle" useful features into the product as hype cycles roll by. Cell phone makers do it all the time, using the *exact same* hardware for your next-gen product makes for great cost cuts.
I gather from your comment that you've never met an ethologist, a post-Chomskyan linguist or any sort of researcher into the functioning of the brains of higher mammals. Science in 1979 wasn't. Period. There were so many implicit "truths" from which reasoning proceeded (most, ironically, due to the behaviourist "revolution") that most of animal ethology or psychology or "behavioral science" of the period is pure bunk.
The article you mention describes the enlightening experiences of a collective who trained an ape to use basic signs *and no more* and then proceeded to show that the ape is, in fact, unaware of the existence of syntax, in the restricted sense of "proper AmeSLan word-order". This was then handily proven, since the ape was never presented with opportunities to learn syntax. The fact alone that the ape in question nevertheless managed to produce meaningful sign-clusters (albeit lacking proper word-order) should have been enough to prove the exact opposite of the conclusion ms. Petitto's collective arrived at.
That is because... guess what? Sign clusters do imply the existence of discourse-level syntax (like beginnings and endings to sentences, aso.).
Stop reading old science. Get a parrot, see for yourself.
And now for your regularly scheduled Gentoo plug: ever heard of glsa and glsa-check?
My understanding of TFA is that someone has, in fact predicted this. The experimenters in question proved that the prediction is true.
Michael, I think this is a different kind of software. Less to do with databases, more to do with ordinary files and network implements.
They did, since by turning off autorun, you are effectively circumventing the protection mechanism that Sony put in place on that CD. Lock'em up!
I've never given money to charity, since I don't feel that this would alleviate the problem of poverty worldwide, or even just in my country, ethnic group or even neighborhood. so I will not use charity as an "excuse" for my conscience, so that I can continue to do nothing about the problem itself. So no, I am not a karma bitch, by my own definition.
Nope. They are the ancient gods of the Peg. They were noted for requiring strange forms of worship, like incessant chocolate chip munching, joblesness as a form of art, and the wearing of very tight lycra pants.
Their statements. Btw, they should be sued for providing means (information) for the circumvention of a copy-protection mechanism, under the DMCA.
You just admitted to my point. Moreover, you have taken the tag I created and posted it on another one of my fave karma bitch types: the bigot.
Therefore, by the rules of intelligent discourse, I WIN! Nyuck nyuck nyuck!
I do not believe in jeebus myself but you should know that there *are* people who go to church and live pious lives for reasons other than fear of hell.
Oh, and I think I'll upgrade my "karma bitch" rating to "plain old bitch" for this band, since I now understand that their action is actually a sales pitch: "Buy our CD's, they're easy to rip off!"
They did give up all their principles, if they ever had any, when signing for Sony. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
If you put money in Sony's pocket, either as an artist working for them, or as a buyer of music, well, you're part of the problem.
If you feel the need for a role model, as your age would indicate, look at the Grateful Dead for guidance.
Also, comparing a bunch of entertainers to mother Theresa and Gandhi is downright laughable, and only serves to reinforce my perception that these guys are some sort of PR hoes.
Oh, and good_press != heaven so there goes the rest of your argument.
Go get some sleep, fanboy.