It is people like you that cause the tagging system to not work properly.
The purpose of the tagging system is so that you can tag an article with words that you would use in order to search for such an article.
Proper tags for this article may include "Diebold" "voting machines" "Maryland"
Then when someone searches for "voting machines" this article shows up, even though the the article summary may not include the words "voting" or "machine". This is sort of a wikipedia approach to tagging articles to make them more easily searchable.
No one is ever going to search for "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" and so your tag is not only dumb but also useless.
I hope you appreciate that I am sacrificing modding you down in order to give you a proper rundown of the tagging system
Lets say my can of Pepsi has 150 calories in it and does nothing good for me other than taste good and gimme sugar. If some new Pepsi can has 150 calories in it, and has enough random crap in it to make me burn the 150 calories I just consumed, and it tastes the same or better, then I'm all for it.
I don't need a Pepsi that will make me burn more calories than I consumed, I don't even need a pepsi that makes me burn half the calories in the pepsi.. But if I can drink a pepsi that has 150 calories in it, and have it only net out to 100 calories since the stuff in it helped me burn 50 calories.. then that is good science.
It is quite obvious, the movie companies OWN the usenet host companies.. Their plan is to make every file sharing app and platform illegal except for usenet, they are just pushing out the competition. Sue the mpaa for monopolization? ya, I'd say so..
There is already such a huge range of licensable spectrum, especially compared to that of which is open and free to use, that the FCC doesn't need to sell the frequencies that current TV broadcast is on.
The teacher is sueing the students, and their parents (because they are still legally responsible for their underaged children) not myspace. Please RTFA.
I don't even know where to begin replying to your ignorance, so you get a sub-standard analogy.
I know that most information in tabloids is either completely false or twisted around to make a situation into something it is not. Celebrities sue tabloids all the time for libel. Are these Celebrities, by their action of sueing, implying that the information in tabloids is credible? Of course not, and infact they are doing the opposite. They are sueing because the information is innacurate and depicts them in a bad way.
Perhaps you should look up the word libel before posting about it.
I think too many people are downplaying the consiquences of having a fake myspace page in your name.
Myspace has become a common tool used by employers to seek out more information about their potential hires. If someone makes a fake page about you, portraying you as a satanist or druggy, or some other socially undesirable label then that could effect whether you get a job or not.
Aside from this it could put your existing job in jeopardy. What if the kids had made this page out to look like the teacher was a sexual predator, preying on her underaged students, and even go so far as to make fake blogs depicting sexual encounters with her students.
If the student's intent was malicious and not just to be funny, they could easily put the teacher's job in a situation for review. A student shows his parents the myspace page, the parent notifies otehr parents, brings it up to the pta, to the school board. All of a sudden this teacher is on a suspension until an investigation is complete as to whether or not this teacher is actually a sexual predator. This is the good-case scenario, worst case of course is that the teacher cannot prove her innocence and all this fake evidence is enough to get the teacher fired and even listed as a sex offender, being pubicly humiliated.
I can only imagine how difficult and lengthy the process is to get a fraudulent page removed from myspace unless it specifically violated several myspace rules.
I would agree that a larger monitor allows most tasks to be sped up, thus increasing productiviy. On another front though, if I had a 24" or 30" monitor at work, I would be a happier worker, and happier workers work better..
On a personal note, my home productivity of web development increased greatly after going from a 20" LCD to a 24" widescreen LCD. In reality the difference in resolution (1920x1200 vs 1600x1200) seems marginal, but whether when working with code, images in photoshop or any side by side document, the 320 extra pixels have a huge effect.
Data won't reside perminantly on any computers, they will all be interfaced with the 14TB superweb, and all data will be travling all over the place so fast that it will remain perminantly in limbo ON TEH INTARWEB.
This will make harddrives completely obsolete, as the data capacity for the fiber can be easily determined by complex algorythms, the basis of which is the speed of light multiplied by the total distance of fiber, and Pi is thrown in there somewhere for good measure (fiber is round right?..)
Everything will be floating in the public domain and all you need to do is reach out and grab it.
Windows XP wasn't a perfect gem when it came out either. Infact, I remember installing XP on my machine in the first month it came out, and it didn't work very well with my hardware. There were no drivers for my Voodoo3 graphics card, and it took a few months before some users hacked up some working Xp drivers for it(there never was any official support for it from 3dfx)
I kept using Windows98 until maybe 5 or 6 months down the road when XP became usable for the masses.. by this time all the major software companies had versions that worked in XP and all the major hardware companies had drivers that worked in XP..
So how is Vista going to be? I can tell you now.. It will suck completely for anyone who relies on a specific piece of software for work for at least 5 months, and it will suck 85% for everyone who does not buy a new PC with Vista pre-installed (read: a PC with 100% hardware compatability in mind and tested)
Willy: It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! (holds fingers up) I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977.
Wiggum: Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game.
The kids who were playing videogames or watching TV on school nights were kids who would have done poorly in school anyway, and if they were not playing videogames or watching TV they would have filled that time with some other non-learning activity.
This study is such horse shit, according to TFA "Researchers asked the students to rate their own performance in school on a scale ranging from "below average" to "excellent," instead of looking directly at their grades or other metrics of academic performance"
It is likely that in the end they were comparing kids who spent 4 hours playing videogames vs kids who spent 4 hours studying. Gee, I wonder which one did better in school the next day. Judging by how in depth this study was, I wouldn't be suprised if they just mashed every single kid into the same catagory, without taking into account other activities or other factors that may effect school performance.
Someone in that other room is looking at it though.
I agree that computers shouldn't need to look extraordinary, and if anything, should try to be unseen.
That is exactly what some of these wooden cases do, they mask the PC behind a nice wooden cover, designed to look like a table, or decorative piece, or other piece of furniture.
One of the best home mod wooden pc cases I have seen was for a media center, and it was actually built into some sort of nice looking wooden table (perhaps an old sewing table where the sewing machine drops down into the table) which also became the tv stand for which the media pc was being used.
It seems pretty obvious to me, the "fuckyou" password people KNEW about the phishing attempt, and thats why they typed in "fuckyou"
If I ever encounter anything like that, that looks a little phishy, you always test the waters by sending a fake "fuckyou" password through and seeing what happens..
Why don't they keep making commercials as they have been and then slap a bar at the bottom with the crucial key points that stays the same for the 30 seconds.
That way you keep key information such as brand, product, price, whatever on the screen the whole time so someone fast forwarding through it will still see it for 5 seconds, and then the other 80% of the screen is still allocated to the regular commercial so that regular people can still "enjoy" a normal commercial.
"It made me think back about 15 years to when 1GB hard disks were new"
They were actually out quite a bit earlier than that Wikipedia's article on Hard drives has some interesting timeline information
1982 - Hitachi 1.2 GB H-8598 consisted of 10 14-inch platters and two read-write heads
Whichever one will work in windows xp and linux and allow you to view the content at the full resolution without any encumbering DRM will be the market winner
This touts the ability to speed up AI 'thinking' or 'reaction' times. Is this something that really needs to be sped up?
I believe the current situation of AI is a result of lack of breakthroughs or lazy programming, not that the AI simply reacts too slowly as a result of your CPU not being able to process it fast enough.
If this is truely the way the market is heading though, and not just a hardware bubble, then I think we will see things like this integrated onto high performance motherboards rather than as a seperate device.
This is false, the SSSS stands for "secondary screening something something"
You will either see all 4 S's or no S's at all, it is not a point system where you get 1 S per flag.
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Jack Thompson must have had some severely traumatizing experience with video games as a child.
Maybe he had a brother that played too much pacman, chowed down on some pills and then ate his mother.
All the koreans that play Starcraft on Battlenet still are from South Korea then?
It is people like you that cause the tagging system to not work properly.
The purpose of the tagging system is so that you can tag an article with words that you would use in order to search for such an article.
Proper tags for this article may include "Diebold" "voting machines" "Maryland"
Then when someone searches for "voting machines" this article shows up, even though the the article summary may not include the words "voting" or "machine". This is sort of a wikipedia approach to tagging articles to make them more easily searchable.
No one is ever going to search for "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" and so your tag is not only dumb but also useless.
I hope you appreciate that I am sacrificing modding you down in order to give you a proper rundown of the tagging system
Lets say my can of Pepsi has 150 calories in it and does nothing good for me other than taste good and gimme sugar.
If some new Pepsi can has 150 calories in it, and has enough random crap in it to make me burn the 150 calories I just consumed, and it tastes the same or better, then I'm all for it.
I don't need a Pepsi that will make me burn more calories than I consumed, I don't even need a pepsi that makes me burn half the calories in the pepsi.. But if I can drink a pepsi that has 150 calories in it, and have it only net out to 100 calories since the stuff in it helped me burn 50 calories.. then that is good science.
It is quite obvious, the movie companies OWN the usenet host companies.. Their plan is to make every file sharing app and platform illegal except for usenet, they are just pushing out the competition. Sue the mpaa for monopolization? ya, I'd say so..
who in their right mind would use a beta server as a production OS anyway
There is already such a huge range of licensable spectrum, especially compared to that of which is open and free to use, that the FCC doesn't need to sell the frequencies that current TV broadcast is on.
The teacher is sueing the students, and their parents (because they are still legally responsible for their underaged children) not myspace. Please RTFA.
I don't even know where to begin replying to your ignorance, so you get a sub-standard analogy.
I know that most information in tabloids is either completely false or twisted around to make a situation into something it is not. Celebrities sue tabloids all the time for libel. Are these Celebrities, by their action of sueing, implying that the information in tabloids is credible? Of course not, and infact they are doing the opposite. They are sueing because the information is innacurate and depicts them in a bad way.
Perhaps you should look up the word libel before posting about it.
I think too many people are downplaying the consiquences of having a fake myspace page in your name.
Myspace has become a common tool used by employers to seek out more information about their potential hires. If someone makes a fake page about you, portraying you as a satanist or druggy, or some other socially undesirable label then that could effect whether you get a job or not.
Aside from this it could put your existing job in jeopardy. What if the kids had made this page out to look like the teacher was a sexual predator, preying on her underaged students, and even go so far as to make fake blogs depicting sexual encounters with her students.
If the student's intent was malicious and not just to be funny, they could easily put the teacher's job in a situation for review. A student shows his parents the myspace page, the parent notifies otehr parents, brings it up to the pta, to the school board. All of a sudden this teacher is on a suspension until an investigation is complete as to whether or not this teacher is actually a sexual predator. This is the good-case scenario, worst case of course is that the teacher cannot prove her innocence and all this fake evidence is enough to get the teacher fired and even listed as a sex offender, being pubicly humiliated.
I can only imagine how difficult and lengthy the process is to get a fraudulent page removed from myspace unless it specifically violated several myspace rules.
I would agree that a larger monitor allows most tasks to be sped up, thus increasing productiviy.
On another front though, if I had a 24" or 30" monitor at work, I would be a happier worker, and happier workers work better..
On a personal note, my home productivity of web development increased greatly after going from a 20" LCD to a 24" widescreen LCD. In reality the difference in resolution (1920x1200 vs 1600x1200) seems marginal, but whether when working with code, images in photoshop or any side by side document, the 320 extra pixels have a huge effect.
Data won't reside perminantly on any computers, they will all be interfaced with the 14TB superweb, and all data will be travling all over the place so fast that it will remain perminantly in limbo ON TEH INTARWEB. This will make harddrives completely obsolete, as the data capacity for the fiber can be easily determined by complex algorythms, the basis of which is the speed of light multiplied by the total distance of fiber, and Pi is thrown in there somewhere for good measure (fiber is round right?..) Everything will be floating in the public domain and all you need to do is reach out and grab it.
Windows XP wasn't a perfect gem when it came out either. Infact, I remember installing XP on my machine in the first month it came out, and it didn't work very well with my hardware. There were no drivers for my Voodoo3 graphics card, and it took a few months before some users hacked up some working Xp drivers for it(there never was any official support for it from 3dfx)
I kept using Windows98 until maybe 5 or 6 months down the road when XP became usable for the masses.. by this time all the major software companies had versions that worked in XP and all the major hardware companies had drivers that worked in XP..
So how is Vista going to be? I can tell you now.. It will suck completely for anyone who relies on a specific piece of software for work for at least 5 months, and it will suck 85% for everyone who does not buy a new PC with Vista pre-installed (read: a PC with 100% hardware compatability in mind and tested)
6 Months after the release, I'll give it a shot.
Willy: It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! (holds fingers up) I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977.
Wiggum: Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game.
Willy: (surprised) Video game?
I fail to see how still being in school is supposed to be some magic proof that only playing videogames on vacation time made you a better student.
The kids who were playing videogames or watching TV on school nights were kids who would have done poorly in school anyway, and if they were not playing videogames or watching TV they would have filled that time with some other non-learning activity.
This study is such horse shit, according to TFA "Researchers asked the students to rate their own performance in school on a scale ranging from "below average" to "excellent," instead of looking directly at their grades or other metrics of academic performance"
It is likely that in the end they were comparing kids who spent 4 hours playing videogames vs kids who spent 4 hours studying. Gee, I wonder which one did better in school the next day. Judging by how in depth this study was, I wouldn't be suprised if they just mashed every single kid into the same catagory, without taking into account other activities or other factors that may effect school performance.
I think we're about to get a new sun!
Someone in that other room is looking at it though.
I agree that computers shouldn't need to look extraordinary, and if anything, should try to be unseen.
That is exactly what some of these wooden cases do, they mask the PC behind a nice wooden cover, designed to look like a table, or decorative piece, or other piece of furniture.
One of the best home mod wooden pc cases I have seen was for a media center, and it was actually built into some sort of nice looking wooden table (perhaps an old sewing table where the sewing machine drops down into the table) which also became the tv stand for which the media pc was being used.
It seems pretty obvious to me, the "fuckyou" password people KNEW about the phishing attempt, and thats why they typed in "fuckyou"
If I ever encounter anything like that, that looks a little phishy, you always test the waters by sending a fake "fuckyou" password through and seeing what happens..
Why don't they keep making commercials as they have been and then slap a bar at the bottom with the crucial key points that stays the same for the 30 seconds.
That way you keep key information such as brand, product, price, whatever on the screen the whole time so someone fast forwarding through it will still see it for 5 seconds, and then the other 80% of the screen is still allocated to the regular commercial so that regular people can still "enjoy" a normal commercial.
"It made me think back about 15 years to when 1GB hard disks were new"
They were actually out quite a bit earlier than that
Wikipedia's article on Hard drives has some interesting timeline information
1982 - Hitachi 1.2 GB H-8598 consisted of 10 14-inch platters and two read-write heads
Not exactly a laptop sized hard drive though..
Whichever one will work in windows xp and linux and allow you to view the content at the full resolution without any encumbering DRM will be the market winner
This touts the ability to speed up AI 'thinking' or 'reaction' times. Is this something that really needs to be sped up?
I believe the current situation of AI is a result of lack of breakthroughs or lazy programming, not that the AI simply reacts too slowly as a result of your CPU not being able to process it fast enough.
If this is truely the way the market is heading though, and not just a hardware bubble, then I think we will see things like this integrated onto high performance motherboards rather than as a seperate device.
This is false, the SSSS stands for "secondary screening something something"
You will either see all 4 S's or no S's at all, it is not a point system where you get 1 S per flag.
Encrypted networks ARE the target when it comes to wireless "hacking"