Re:PG-13 is a root cause of bad films.
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I would agree with you. I lived both in this country and abroad and Americans are definetly obsessed with violence. Oh the horror if there is any nudity on the screen or any show of affection, the movie gets an R or NC-17 rating easily. But there can be limbs cut off and people blasting each other away and that is accepted. I am not saying that nudity should be shown to kids, its just that at least the same restrictive standards should apply for violence as there are for nudity and sex - something that is far more common and normal.
"Diversity and Accuracy" ? Have you been there during the Chernobyl disaster? When they did a 1 minute news flash , during the evening news, saying a minor malfunction occured at the reactor and showed some smoke in the distance. Or don't you know how all the independent journalists are being harassed by the state even today. I hope you were sarcastic
No it doesn't. Right now I am running this non-existent OS that is very stable, configurable and tailored to exactly meet my needs.
SCO should also drop all the legal claims against IBM and other who use this non-existent software. They wouldn't want to looking foolish claiming that this inexistent software product contains code licenced by SCO.
I am not surprised at all. I grew up in Soviet Union and if you think U.S. media is unfair and biased you can only imagine what it would be like in a post-communist state ruled by mafia and corruption. They are fond of inducing panic over non-issues and sweeping under the rug important stuff that government doesn't want them to say. Or maybe it was just Kaspersky who decided to get some publicity. They are playing the "Russian uber smart hacker genious" card and claim they figured out something that your "simple-minded" American av companies like Norton never saw comming. Perhaps now your average joe when he goes to buy Wal-Mart will ask for "Kazesrcky... Kaverkovik... Kaz something" software because he heard about them from their computer savy brother-in-law how they predicted the appocalipse, so they must be really good.
That was my friend, and FBI didn't just interrogate him at work (that is how they traced the post), hey came to his house, searched it and iterrogated his children and wife. Then they lectured them about the "free speech" ammendment for an hour (oh, the irony). I wish they would have acted that quickly and went and interrogated B1n-Lad1n before the 9/11.
I think that most people [except the ones on/. of course;-] don't decide on their political affiliation using their reason, analyzing the agenda of each political party with thier pros and cons, they make a moral or emotial judgement anyway. In other words it is more moral issues like abortion, stem cell research that poeple will pay attention too rather than budget planning or tax cuts.
I'll never shop there, the worst customer service
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Best Buy Sued By Ohio
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My brother bought an amplifier that turned out to be a dud and they wouldn't replace it. After repeated visits there, talks with the management he called the central office and I don't remember exactly what he said but at some point he asked them "So what you are telling me is that you don't care about your customers" and the reply was "Yap". I wish he had recored that. Well, now nobody form our family and friends shop there. I imagine in the last 9 years since the incident they lost a good ammount of money just from hour circle of acquintances.
Another incident was when I went to school with this guy who worked at BestBuy. He managed to find a way steal laptops and pretty much any other equipment by somehow simulating a return or a replacement. I know that the guy is responsible for it but if a store cannot figure out what happens to $2000 laptops when they just keep dissapearing then the company has a problem and I cannot trust them to shop there.
Best Buy's motto is "We don't care" and they cannot stay in business too long with that attitude.
I wasn't referring to the 64 bit AMD processors just to ones designed to compete with I32. It doesn't matter how the Intel x86 instruction set is implemented or what microinstructions are used in the core, the point is that an x86 instructino set is exposed to be compatible with Intel's x86 architecture. Whatever executable runs directly on Pentium IV will run directly on an Athlon (except for ones taking advantage of some SIMD instructions). On the other hand Alpha has a different instruction set. You would need a different executable compiled specifically for Alpha architecture.
I see your point. AMD is RISCy inside and Intel-ish (x86-ish) outside. It doesn't matter how the x86 is implemented in the core, the fact remains that an x86 instruction set is exposed and AMD processors are designed to be compatible with a patched, broken and outdated instruction set. That is what I meant by Intel Architecture, I should have made that more clear. Otherwise you could argue that even Intel processors are not "Intel Architecture" anymore since they too emulate x86 with microinstructions. Heck Intel is the one who wanted to run away from x86 with its Itanium line, that hasn't gone well so far.
Alpha on the other side was a "beautiful" architecture, well thought, scalable, good design. Well, maybe that is just my oppinion.
Becuase the terrorists would set up rocket clubs. These regulations are insane. If they (terrorist) wanted to blast rockets or do whatever they do with them, they'll just do it, wether there are regulations for background check of rocket club members or not. What is next, do background checks on LUGs because of cyberterrorism, or perhaps read people's email... (oh, wait, they already do that...doh!)
By "instantaneously" it is meant really instantaneously, not just speed of light fast. A bad example might be if someone puts two colored tokens, a white and a black one, in a bucket and shufles them, then you and your friend both take one without knowing which color you took. Then you fly to Chile, while you friend stays in Kathmandu. When you arrive, you look at your token, if it is white, you instantly know your friend has a black one. EXCEPT that in the quantum world if you happened to find you carry a white one , your friend's token, wherever he is, will actually CHANGE at that instance when you looked at yours. That is why the example is not perfect, just give you some idea.
And the most importantly, the color of your particular token was not determined when you took it from the bucket but when you looked at it.
Now to translate to the physics terminology:
tokens = particles
white/black = bit values (1 or 0)
shuffling = entanglement (through some interaction for example)
looking at the token = measurement
Chile = Chile
Kathmandu = Kathmandu
I couldn't tell from the article. To have an algorithm is nice, to have an efficient one is nicer. I will get excited when I see some benchmarks or at least a time analysis of it.
Microsoft in such a long time never integrated an anti-virus capability into Windows. The virus problem has been existing for such a long time, yet everyone had to go and buy a third party product. I mean, they included a browser, a movie maker, a multi-media, games, all kinds of crap that wasn't that vital for an OS to have. My guess is that they were either too ignorant and stupid or they figured its bad marketing to include anti-viral software - it might imply the main product (Windows) is not secure enough and prone to easy explotation by virus writters (cough..).
That would be difficult. The best search using a quantum algorithms right now is Grover wich provides only O(sqrt(n)) speedup over the list of unsorted n items. That is a theoretical limit (as of now!), so O(1) searches are not possible. I took a couple of quantum computing courses at my university as comp. sci electives, thinking we'll learn about the magical, ultra fast algorithms. Now I am fairly pessimistic about the future of quantum computing. So far (appart from quantum cryptography) they've only got a couple of qubits, and all the work is just theoretical. And even there, there are basically 2 algorithms to learn so far, the factoring and Grover's search. What if it turns out that it is exponentially hard to build them, in other words 1000 qubits will factor huge numbers but it might be almost impossible to have a 1000 qubits not interract with the environment even if Shor's quantum correction codes are used.
Well, maybe some local LUGs can follow the Microsoft Windows Carnival. Whenever Microsoft stops to tell the public how secure and cheap Windows is, the Linux people can instead give everyone LiveCDs and fliers claiming that Linux is infinitely more cheaper than Windows (which technically is true). Anyway, I hope I am not making this into another linux is better than windows or vice-versa thread, but then again this is/....
I will have to disagree with you. It is not always true that in even in the major cities you can find computer related jobs. Sure you can clean the street or even work as a waiter, but I was talking about computer jobs, anything hardware or software. There are some very good software firms in Russia and ex-Soviet republics but computers are still not as pervasive as they are in US or Western Europe. That is another reason why so many of them leave and I am one of them. And as far as nothing preventing people from moving, you forgot, we are talking about Eastern Europe here, you can't just pack your bags and move to America or Europe, you gotta go through a lot to get a visa and be allowed to come in those other countries.
That is the other (electronic) Russian Mafia. Unlike the dumb Italian teamstears who beat people with baseball bats, some of these guys are very skilled and intelligent. The counterparts of many American geeks in Russia couldn't find a well paying job, have plenty of time, and nowadays on the Internet, they have access to all the technical information they need on any subject. They will use the best asset they have, their brain, to make money or build recognition for themselves. And the way the laws are shady there they think they can get away with anything as long as its online. If spam will make a couple of hundred rubles - they'll get into spam, if they can extort money from banks by compromising their webservers, they will do that. How do I know all this? I grew up in those part and still visit friends and family once in a while...
Among the obvious reasons such as security and stability I also like the usability aspect of linux. I know, I know, Bash me all you want. For me, Linux is more user friendly than Windows. I like the command line, the config files in plain text that I can edit, and the choice of window managers (I use BlackBox, I like its simplicity). As someone said, "the only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learned" most people consider Windows user friendly because they were trained to use only windows.
Obviously, there should be a better design that doesn't rely on human flesh to get rid of excess heat. If someone sues, the manufacturers will be forced to have labels on it warning people not to put their laptop on their lap or serious injury might occur, including roasted nuts and inability to reproduce.
Indeed, I just went to the xfree86.org page and they have a list of distros that still support xfree86.org. Nothing major there, all the major ones have switched. Here is the list from:
http://www.xfree86.org/distro-support.html
# Conectiva
# Arch Linux
# Ark Linux
# Buffalo Linux
# JoLinux
# Lycoris Linux
# Magic Linux
# OneBase Linux
# OpenNa Linux
# Peanut Linux
# Plamo Linux
# Rubyx Linux
# Slax Live Linux
# Source Mage
# Sorcerer Linux
# Yoper Linux
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I would agree with you. I lived both in this country and abroad and Americans are definetly obsessed with violence. Oh the horror if there is any nudity on the screen or any show of affection, the movie gets an R or NC-17 rating easily. But there can be limbs cut off and people blasting each other away and that is accepted. I am not saying that nudity should be shown to kids, its just that at least the same restrictive standards should apply for violence as there are for nudity and sex - something that is far more common and normal.
"Diversity and Accuracy" ? Have you been there during the Chernobyl disaster? When they did a 1 minute news flash , during the evening news, saying a minor malfunction occured at the reactor and showed some smoke in the distance. Or don't you know how all the independent journalists are being harassed by the state even today. I hope you were sarcastic
SCO should also drop all the legal claims against IBM and other who use this non-existent software. They wouldn't want to looking foolish claiming that this inexistent software product contains code licenced by SCO.
That was my friend, and FBI didn't just interrogate him at work (that is how they traced the post), hey came to his house, searched it and iterrogated his children and wife. Then they lectured them about the "free speech" ammendment for an hour (oh, the irony). I wish they would have acted that quickly and went and interrogated B1n-Lad1n before the 9/11.
I think that most people [except the ones on /. of course ;-] don't decide on their political affiliation using their reason, analyzing the agenda of each political party with thier pros and cons, they make a moral or emotial judgement anyway. In other words it is more moral issues like abortion, stem cell research that poeple will pay attention too rather than budget planning or tax cuts.
Another incident was when I went to school with this guy who worked at BestBuy. He managed to find a way steal laptops and pretty much any other equipment by somehow simulating a return or a replacement. I know that the guy is responsible for it but if a store cannot figure out what happens to $2000 laptops when they just keep dissapearing then the company has a problem and I cannot trust them to shop there.
Best Buy's motto is "We don't care" and they cannot stay in business too long with that attitude.
I wasn't referring to the 64 bit AMD processors just to ones designed to compete with I32. It doesn't matter how the Intel x86 instruction set is implemented or what microinstructions are used in the core, the point is that an x86 instructino set is exposed to be compatible with Intel's x86 architecture. Whatever executable runs directly on Pentium IV will run directly on an Athlon (except for ones taking advantage of some SIMD instructions). On the other hand Alpha has a different instruction set. You would need a different executable compiled specifically for Alpha architecture.
I see your point. AMD is RISCy inside and Intel-ish (x86-ish) outside. It doesn't matter how the x86 is implemented in the core, the fact remains that an x86 instruction set is exposed and AMD processors are designed to be compatible with a patched, broken and outdated instruction set. That is what I meant by Intel Architecture, I should have made that more clear. Otherwise you could argue that even Intel processors are not "Intel Architecture" anymore since they too emulate x86 with microinstructions. Heck Intel is the one who wanted to run away from x86 with its Itanium line, that hasn't gone well so far. Alpha on the other side was a "beautiful" architecture, well thought, scalable, good design. Well, maybe that is just my oppinion.
AMD is still an Intel architecture.
Becuase the terrorists would set up rocket clubs. These regulations are insane. If they (terrorist) wanted to blast rockets or do whatever they do with them, they'll just do it, wether there are regulations for background check of rocket club members or not. What is next, do background checks on LUGs because of cyberterrorism, or perhaps read people's email ... (oh, wait, they already do that...doh!)
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The front lines are everywhere! [Rage Against The Machine] /sorry, had to be said...
By "instantaneously" it is meant really instantaneously, not just speed of light fast. A bad example might be if someone puts two colored tokens, a white and a black one, in a bucket and shufles them, then you and your friend both take one without knowing which color you took. Then you fly to Chile, while you friend stays in Kathmandu. When you arrive, you look at your token, if it is white, you instantly know your friend has a black one. EXCEPT that in the quantum world if you happened to find you carry a white one , your friend's token, wherever he is, will actually CHANGE at that instance when you looked at yours. That is why the example is not perfect, just give you some idea.
And the most importantly, the color of your particular token was not determined when you took it from the bucket but when you looked at it. Now to translate to the physics terminology:
tokens = particles
white/black = bit values (1 or 0)
shuffling = entanglement (through some interaction for example)
looking at the token = measurement
Chile = Chile
Kathmandu = Kathmandu
I couldn't tell from the article. To have an algorithm is nice, to have an efficient one is nicer. I will get excited when I see some benchmarks or at least a time analysis of it.
Microsoft in such a long time never integrated an anti-virus capability into Windows. The virus problem has been existing for such a long time, yet everyone had to go and buy a third party product. I mean, they included a browser, a movie maker, a multi-media, games, all kinds of crap that wasn't that vital for an OS to have. My guess is that they were either too ignorant and stupid or they figured its bad marketing to include anti-viral software - it might imply the main product (Windows) is not secure enough and prone to easy explotation by virus writters (cough..).
That would be difficult. The best search using a quantum algorithms right now is Grover wich provides only O(sqrt(n)) speedup over the list of unsorted n items. That is a theoretical limit (as of now!), so O(1) searches are not possible.
I took a couple of quantum computing courses at my university as comp. sci electives, thinking we'll learn about the magical, ultra fast algorithms. Now I am fairly pessimistic about the future of quantum computing. So far (appart from quantum cryptography) they've only got a couple of qubits, and all the work is just theoretical. And even there, there are basically 2 algorithms to learn so far, the factoring and Grover's search. What if it turns out that it is exponentially hard to build them, in other words 1000 qubits will factor huge numbers but it might be almost impossible to have a 1000 qubits not interract with the environment even if Shor's quantum correction codes are used.
harnessing the power of quantum computing to defend their webserver against hords of curious Slashdot geeks.
"Buy Encarta for $29.99 and get Windows XP, .NET Studio, and Office 2003 free"
Well, maybe some local LUGs can follow the Microsoft Windows Carnival. Whenever Microsoft stops to tell the public how secure and cheap Windows is, the Linux people can instead give everyone LiveCDs and fliers claiming that Linux is infinitely more cheaper than Windows (which technically is true). Anyway, I hope I am not making this into another linux is better than windows or vice-versa thread, but then again this is /. ...
I will have to disagree with you. It is not always true that in even in the major cities you can find computer related jobs. Sure you can clean the street or even work as a waiter, but I was talking about computer jobs, anything hardware or software. There are some very good software firms in Russia and ex-Soviet republics but computers are still not as pervasive as they are in US or Western Europe. That is another reason why so many of them leave and I am one of them. And as far as nothing preventing people from moving, you forgot, we are talking about Eastern Europe here, you can't just pack your bags and move to America or Europe, you gotta go through a lot to get a visa and be allowed to come in those other countries.
That is the other (electronic) Russian Mafia. Unlike the dumb Italian teamstears who beat people with baseball bats, some of these guys are very skilled and intelligent. The counterparts of many American geeks in Russia couldn't find a well paying job, have plenty of time, and nowadays on the Internet, they have access to all the technical information they need on any subject. They will use the best asset they have, their brain, to make money or build recognition for themselves. And the way the laws are shady there they think they can get away with anything as long as its online. If spam will make a couple of hundred rubles - they'll get into spam, if they can extort money from banks by compromising their webservers, they will do that. How do I know all this? I grew up in those part and still visit friends and family once in a while...
Among the obvious reasons such as security and stability I also like the usability aspect of linux. I know, I know, Bash me all you want. For me, Linux is more user friendly than Windows. I like the command line, the config files in plain text that I can edit, and the choice of window managers (I use BlackBox, I like its simplicity). As someone said, "the only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learned" most people consider Windows user friendly because they were trained to use only windows.
Obviously, there should be a better design that doesn't rely on human flesh to get rid of excess heat. If someone sues, the manufacturers will be forced to have labels on it warning people not to put their laptop on their lap or serious injury might occur, including roasted nuts and inability to reproduce.
Indeed, I just went to the xfree86.org page and they have a list of distros that still support xfree86.org. Nothing major there, all the major ones have switched. Here is the list from: http://www.xfree86.org/distro-support.html # Conectiva # Arch Linux # Ark Linux # Buffalo Linux # JoLinux # Lycoris Linux # Magic Linux # OneBase Linux # OpenNa Linux # Peanut Linux # Plamo Linux # Rubyx Linux # Slax Live Linux # Source Mage # Sorcerer Linux # Yoper Linux