I have a Dual P2-450 machine...unfortunately the motherboard has something wrong with it...so...its only a p2 450 machine...and i have had no problems with just a single p2 450. I don't get this need to power. There isn's nearly one program that most people use that would actually make getting a dual PIII Ghz machine worth it. i can see i high high end server but that wouldnt just have two..it would have aroung 4-8 processors. the cost would be astronomical and though its fun to drool about i dont see the point. One would be far better off buying quality componenets for a computer rather than massive amounts of processing power...unless you are in some mad dash with teh Seti@home project or something...HEY...thats a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um...guy...get with the times man. Yes you are right...back then the republicans did do that sort of thing. That was back then though. Since when did past political actions have an effect on how a party changes with the time? Right now the republicans aren't exactly the most liberal of the bunch of em. anyways..this was a waste of time...i hope you see what im saying
I sit in a room with 1....2....3....4....monitors. They are arranged in ascending order from 15" to 19" to 19" to 21". In adition to this there is a blazing 32" television behind me. I dot care about the itty bitty radiation. With the way im going my kids are going to have 3 eyes an 6 fingers on each hand. Hey!! That would be great for posting on/.!!!
Unfortunately, not enough money is pumped into problems at hand. Yet, 1.5 million, in the cogs of things, is a rather miniscule amount of cash. The fact that the Government is givng that money says alot. Firstly, it shows intrest by the gov. which is a blessing in and of itself. Secondly, its symptomatic of the now common day "lets increase our computing power" disease (this is a good thing for i would be scraed if we were to stop progression and developement). Thirdly and Lastly, there is only so much that we can really do. I seem to have a decent grasp of the need for aide across the nation(let alone the world) but we cant give through the nose. Eventually we will be able to do so...but in good time. I dont expect things to change overnight.
Everyone is so worried about hitting the proverbial wall. As much as it would be a horrible thing. It would force us to re-examine how and what we use the already abundant power of our computers for. Understandably, we cant have all electronics running at 99.999999% usage, it would jsut be too difficult to get everyone hooked on one cause. But, you never know. In addition to all this, if we were to hit a barrier, engineers would be forced to perfect the technology. Programmers would be less concerned with rushing out a product, the computers wouldn't be going anywhere fast and only market pressure would remain. In essence hitting the wall would, i hope, force us to do what we do better. That's just my opinion, don't take is as dogma.
Whoa now! I agree with what your saying to a point. Unfortuantely, the way business has been structured for the last some odd 100 years has been to push the product out as fast as possible. The computing industry is relatively new remember and as new-age fancy fangled as we are, we cant expect business to change its ENTIRE structure to fit the computer industry.
What do we do about this? The best case scenario would be to meet at some middle ground. Have the stock holders let up on some of the pressure AND the coders/programmers/whoever do a little bit more careful of a job...seems like a fair comprimise to me...
Lipids eh? nice to know that fatty acids werent a problem back then (looks at ponch). This just goes to show. Despite governmental ignorance and religious paranoia science moves on. Im glad these findings were published so soon afterwards that entire Kansas headache was. Sort of throws it in their face. Truth be told, i leanred about evolution despite my schooling so im not worried. Kids will leran about it one way or antoher. Charles Darwin comes up more than once in studying science in addition to poping up in many diffrent concentrations. Im worride about stuff like this not getting to children. Findings like these stimulate minds and even if they arent too keenly interested, they at least know what is going on.
Listen, i cant say i agree or disagree with your ideas. i cant say that for anything i read here...everyone has their own little plot of stake...and its a bitch to find who is/isn't objective. But, what i can say is this...Constitutions...BAH...the constitution was written as a framework for the foudning of our country. As we all know...things are not static...times..ideas...and technology are bound to change (if they didnt i would get really really sacred). So, i do agree that the founding fathers wiould be rolling over in their grave...but they would also be astounded at the great leaps and advances we've made. I think that you arent giving the foudning fathers enough credit...they werent pessemists...which...by what im reading is the majority of the posters on this topic. They were people with a dream and they made their dream reality. Wether or not this dream turns into a nightmare is up to you and me. Be peaceful but resistant...you dont need guns to be strong...the human spirit is the greatest strength of all (as corny as it sounds). nuff outta me...
My good sir or madame, while what you say makes perfect logical sense its simply a pipe dream. I live in the United States but i was born in Canada. I have had the luxury to see two entirely different societies that live right next to one-another. What i can tell you is that the idea of "if its illegal only the criminals will have/continue the behavior" is false. In Canada, the ight to bear firearms exists in a VERY LIMITED form. The right to own a gun and keep it in your house does not exist. You cant own a hangun/shotgun in canada uless you live rather far from civilization. No one in canada minds very much that they can't own a gun. The murder rates also reflect a different way of living though, beit from the lack of firearms or beit that they are actualy less violent people. In Canada, one years murders total up to less than the murders commited in America each day. While i do agree that this newly proposed law sounds like a tool for the governmetn to smudge out people at will under the guise of the law. I cannot agree with the argument that if its illegal the criminals will have an edge. Attitudes like that only propogate the behavior because people in their paranoid state race to get an "edge" against the criminal. What insues is an arms war among the citizens of America. nuff outta me...
The thought has occured to me that perhaps addiciton is the wrong word. Recently I was building my friends computer for him (sweet system mind you..now if he could only decide on an OS). Antoher buddy of mine made the comment that computers are like the cars of yester-year. By that i mean, remember the days when guys used to get together and work on a car and suck down beers all day? Well...now we build a computer all day and suck down massive quantaties of caffine. Yet, this is just a symptom of the greater shift. Were a new generation of america. America is even a bad word...a new generation of the industrialized world. Insted of getting together to watch a movie with a group of people...we go and play Quake2 with a bunch of people. its a new social forum. Frankly im happy that i can talk to some person from the south pacific when im from the midwest of america. its not that were addicted to the internet...were just different. We all know what kind of verbal abuse the avid computer enthusiast gets these days. persoanly, i smell an whole world load of FUD. Even governments are afraid to tackle the internet. I say...give it time...let the shift happen...and let the people of times past make their statements. I for one use the internet extensively... sometimes way more than 4 hours a day...but i also go out with real flesh and blood people. Does this make me addicted? no. It makes me a user of the times and the world. If im away from the internet...i dont got into shock...i dont break out in massive grand mal siezures either...i can live without it. sobeit...this is the way i see things...so...maybe im wrong...maybe i am addicted...Inet anonymous...here i come...otherwise...im happy...nuff out of me...
Packet monkies? warez0rz? with the advent of Asdl/boradband/and numerous other internet connections evolving from the blindingly fast 900 baud modem i remember using in my childhood...im not too worried about packet monkies...personaly...the point is moot. Ill tell ya what they need...not ppl...but simple AI's...small protocol programs that monitor the exchange of warez and the like. ill stop my oblivious and irrelevant rant now..but I think it sounds like the matrix...
To cap this little trhed off...i would need to explain my experience. I went to a catholic grade school. I remeber my science teacher like it was yesterday, i really loved him (get your mind out of the gutter and into the sewer where it belongs!). Yet, i also can remeber bringing up evolution one day in class and he got real quite and said he couldn't talk about it, he had to proceed with class. This was even though it had to do with the subject matter. This really got my spirits down. Now what some ppl have spoken of is the seperation of church and state. Some are in favor of theching creationism on schools to give a well rounded education. As good as it sounds...its wrong. We already get a healthy dose of what religions have done in hisotry classes, lord knows i have. I can tell you...until i grew up...to phathom what those wars were really like was alien to me. Fact being children often times aren't ready to visualize or absorb such atrocities. In addition to the fact that many children arent able to handle these things, it is against our consitituion. Anyone remember seperation of church and state? Well, to tell the truth...that seperation has been blown away. When mayors and govenors are best buds with cardinals for votes...and they are influenced by those cardinals or religious figures...i dont see that seperation. When i see Jerry Falwell commenting on what the president has done and the media letting such biased and closed off individuals have such a voice...that seperatiion is dead. All i can say is lets at least keep that seperation clean and clear where our children are concerned. Kids are very impressionable. They soak in everything you tell them, wether you know it or not. Keep crationism in the chruch..synagogue...mosque..whatever. please?
I dont care what anyone says. I bought Redhat stock and made a 50% profit in one day. If it makes me money i am not complaing much about anything. Let it become a bloated microsoftish evil empire. ill just go with Debian...or if i get tired of Linux...FreeBsd!
It is Scientific! Considering that through verifiable scentific statistical fomulas...it takes roughly 3000 people to represent the entirity of the american population ( over 250 million), 750 people are ample for the gaming populous across america. I highly doubt that the Gaming populous exceeds more than 3 million across america. Take for example THECLQ, (www.theclq.com) which tracks players of Shogo, Quake2, Quake3, Half Life, and tribes. The entirity of the people tracked totalys just over 1.5 million more often than not. This 1.5 million can be taken as a sample of of the entirity of a not much larger population. 750 people is more than enough to get results that can be trusted. Also due to the Central Limit Theorem and normal distributions...the representative numbers for each age group will not be evenly distributed. Odds are a graphical distribution of the people in the poll woul be skewed right (giving a higher population for the younger ages). So...this survey IS valid...surveys that have press realeases like this are so scrutinized..its lunacy to call it invalid!
that is a definite problem...but not the exact problem. Autoimmune diseases that attack healthy cells and such would be disaterous to a computer. imagine it! "Look...this file...io.sys...looks sick to me...wipe it out!!" "ummm...its not booting up...ummmm" The prospect of losing control of what and how my computer deals with virii scares me. Isnt the entire idea of a computer to have an scintila of control over what it does?
Thank you for making that statement so eloquent. Lord knows I couldn't have done it. Blaming such things as movies (among others) for immorality in children is simply symptomatic of the curent social epedemic. I know far too many people who have come from broken/unbroken homes where physical and sexual abuse occured. Children are supposed to be,"normal", and moral coming from situations like this? Its simply easier to blame social groups, in essence, outside forces for a reason why shootings such as the one at columbine occur. Morality in and of itself can't be for everyone. Morality is for each person to discover themselves. Institutions are not able teach this to each individual student. There is far more wieght to what a parent says (im speaking from experience) than what an often distant teacher or counselor says. Thank you for pointing that out Penrif...
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I MISSSED IT!!!!! WHY? the horror! the humanity! OH GOD...and i live in chicago...that is so not fair...i swear...that is mean of the doemon gods!
I have a Dual P2-450 machine...unfortunately the motherboard has something wrong with it...so...its only a p2 450 machine...and i have had no problems with just a single p2 450. I don't get this need to power. There isn's nearly one program that most people use that would actually make getting a dual PIII Ghz machine worth it. i can see i high high end server but that wouldnt just have two..it would have aroung 4-8 processors. the cost would be astronomical and though its fun to drool about i dont see the point. One would be far better off buying quality componenets for a computer rather than massive amounts of processing power...unless you are in some mad dash with teh Seti@home project or something...HEY...thats a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um...guy...get with the times man. Yes you are right...back then the republicans did do that sort of thing. That was back then though. Since when did past political actions have an effect on how a party changes with the time? Right now the republicans aren't exactly the most liberal of the bunch of em. anyways..this was a waste of time...i hope you see what im saying
I sit in a room with 1....2....3....4....monitors. They are arranged in ascending order from 15" to 19" to 19" to 21". In adition to this there is a blazing 32" television behind me. I dot care about the itty bitty radiation. With the way im going my kids are going to have 3 eyes an 6 fingers on each hand. Hey!! That would be great for posting on /.!!!
Unfortunately, not enough money is pumped into problems at hand. Yet, 1.5 million, in the cogs of things, is a rather miniscule amount of cash. The fact that the Government is givng that money says alot. Firstly, it shows intrest by the gov. which is a blessing in and of itself. Secondly, its symptomatic of the now common day "lets increase our computing power" disease (this is a good thing for i would be scraed if we were to stop progression and developement). Thirdly and Lastly, there is only so much that we can really do. I seem to have a decent grasp of the need for aide across the nation(let alone the world) but we cant give through the nose. Eventually we will be able to do so...but in good time. I dont expect things to change overnight.
SLASHDOT IS A PRESENT FOOL!!!! Commander Taco and Hemos are the SMP santaclauses!!!!!!!!! Now Go Elsewhere And Leave Us Be?
Pretty fast...i seem to recall a past slashdot article about the 512bit european bank encryption being fried by a quantum computer. Here it is.
Everyone is so worried about hitting the proverbial wall. As much as it would be a horrible thing. It would force us to re-examine how and what we use the already abundant power of our computers for. Understandably, we cant have all electronics running at 99.999999% usage, it would jsut be too difficult to get everyone hooked on one cause. But, you never know. In addition to all this, if we were to hit a barrier, engineers would be forced to perfect the technology. Programmers would be less concerned with rushing out a product, the computers wouldn't be going anywhere fast and only market pressure would remain. In essence hitting the wall would, i hope, force us to do what we do better.
That's just my opinion, don't take is as dogma.
Whoa now! I agree with what your saying to a point. Unfortuantely, the way business has been structured for the last some odd 100 years has been to push the product out as fast as possible. The computing industry is relatively new remember and as new-age fancy fangled as we are, we cant expect business to change its ENTIRE structure to fit the computer industry.
What do we do about this? The best case scenario would be to meet at some middle ground. Have the stock holders let up on some of the pressure AND the coders/programmers/whoever do a little bit more careful of a job...seems like a fair comprimise to me...
Lipids eh? nice to know that fatty acids werent a problem back then (looks at ponch). This just goes to show. Despite governmental ignorance and religious paranoia science moves on. Im glad these findings were published so soon afterwards that entire Kansas headache was. Sort of throws it in their face. Truth be told, i leanred about evolution despite my schooling so im not worried. Kids will leran about it one way or antoher. Charles Darwin comes up more than once in studying science in addition to poping up in many diffrent concentrations. Im worride about stuff like this not getting to children. Findings like these stimulate minds and even if they arent too keenly interested, they at least know what is going on.
Listen, i cant say i agree or disagree with your ideas. i cant say that for anything i read here...everyone has their own little plot of stake...and its a bitch to find who is/isn't objective. But, what i can say is this...Constitutions...BAH...the constitution was written as a framework for the foudning of our country. As we all know...things are not static...times..ideas...and technology are bound to change (if they didnt i would get really really sacred). So, i do agree that the founding fathers wiould be rolling over in their grave...but they would also be astounded at the great leaps and advances we've made. I think that you arent giving the foudning fathers enough credit...they werent pessemists...which...by what im reading is the majority of the posters on this topic. They were people with a dream and they made their dream reality. Wether or not this dream turns into a nightmare is up to you and me. Be peaceful but resistant...you dont need guns to be strong...the human spirit is the greatest strength of all (as corny as it sounds). nuff outta me...
My good sir or madame, while what you say makes perfect logical sense its simply a pipe dream. I live in the United States but i was born in Canada. I have had the luxury to see two entirely different societies that live right next to one-another. What i can tell you is that the idea of "if its illegal only the criminals will have/continue the behavior" is false. In Canada, the ight to bear firearms exists in a VERY LIMITED form. The right to own a gun and keep it in your house does not exist. You cant own a hangun/shotgun in canada uless you live rather far from civilization. No one in canada minds very much that they can't own a gun. The murder rates also reflect a different way of living though, beit from the lack of firearms or beit that they are actualy less violent people. In Canada, one years murders total up to less than the murders commited in America each day. While i do agree that this newly proposed law sounds like a tool for the governmetn to smudge out people at will under the guise of the law. I cannot agree with the argument that if its illegal the criminals will have an edge. Attitudes like that only propogate the behavior because people in their paranoid state race to get an "edge" against the criminal. What insues is an arms war among the citizens of America. nuff outta me...
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The thought has occured to me that perhaps addiciton is the wrong word. Recently I was building my friends computer for him (sweet system mind you..now if he could only decide on an OS). Antoher buddy of mine made the comment that computers are like the cars of yester-year. By that i mean, remember the days when guys used to get together and work on a car and suck down beers all day? Well...now we build a computer all day and suck down massive quantaties of caffine. Yet, this is just a symptom of the greater shift. Were a new generation of america. America is even a bad word...a new generation of the industrialized world. Insted of getting together to watch a movie with a group of people...we go and play Quake2 with a bunch of people. its a new social forum. Frankly im happy that i can talk to some person from the south pacific when im from the midwest of america. its not that were addicted to the internet...were just different. We all know what kind of verbal abuse the avid computer enthusiast gets these days. persoanly, i smell an whole world load of FUD. Even governments are afraid to tackle the internet. I say...give it time...let the shift happen...and let the people of times past make their statements. I for one use the internet extensively... sometimes way more than 4 hours a day...but i also go out with real flesh and blood people. Does this make me addicted? no. It makes me a user of the times and the world. If im away from the internet...i dont got into shock...i dont break out in massive grand mal siezures either...i can live without it. sobeit...this is the way i see things...so...maybe im wrong...maybe i am addicted...Inet anonymous...here i come...otherwise...im happy...nuff out of me...
Packet monkies? warez0rz? with the advent of Asdl/boradband/and numerous other internet connections evolving from the blindingly fast 900 baud modem i remember using in my childhood...im not too worried about packet monkies...personaly...the point is moot. Ill tell ya what they need...not ppl...but simple AI's...small protocol programs that monitor the exchange of warez and the like. ill stop my oblivious and irrelevant rant now..but I think it sounds like the matrix...
To cap this little trhed off...i would need to explain my experience. I went to a catholic grade school. I remeber my science teacher like it was yesterday, i really loved him (get your mind out of the gutter and into the sewer where it belongs!). Yet, i also can remeber bringing up evolution one day in class and he got real quite and said he couldn't talk about it, he had to proceed with class. This was even though it had to do with the subject matter. This really got my spirits down. Now what some ppl have spoken of is the seperation of church and state. Some are in favor of theching creationism on schools to give a well rounded education. As good as it sounds...its wrong. We already get a healthy dose of what religions have done in hisotry classes, lord knows i have. I can tell you...until i grew up...to phathom what those wars were really like was alien to me. Fact being children often times aren't ready to visualize or absorb such atrocities. In addition to the fact that many children arent able to handle these things, it is against our consitituion. Anyone remember seperation of church and state? Well, to tell the truth...that seperation has been blown away. When mayors and govenors are best buds with cardinals for votes...and they are influenced by those cardinals or religious figures...i dont see that seperation. When i see Jerry Falwell commenting on what the president has done and the media letting such biased and closed off individuals have such a voice...that seperatiion is dead. All i can say is lets at least keep that seperation clean and clear where our children are concerned. Kids are very impressionable. They soak in everything you tell them, wether you know it or not. Keep crationism in the chruch..synagogue...mosque..whatever. please?
I dont care what anyone says. I bought Redhat stock and made a 50% profit in one day. If it makes me money i am not complaing much about anything. Let it become a bloated microsoftish evil empire. ill just go with Debian...or if i get tired of Linux...FreeBsd!
It is Scientific! Considering that through verifiable scentific statistical fomulas...it takes roughly 3000 people to represent the entirity of the american population ( over 250 million), 750 people are ample for the gaming populous across america. I highly doubt that the Gaming populous exceeds more than 3 million across america. Take for example THECLQ, (www.theclq.com) which tracks players of Shogo, Quake2, Quake3, Half Life, and tribes. The entirity of the people tracked totalys just over 1.5 million more often than not. This 1.5 million can be taken as a sample of of the entirity of a not much larger population. 750 people is more than enough to get results that can be trusted. Also due to the Central Limit Theorem and normal distributions...the representative numbers for each age group will not be evenly distributed. Odds are a graphical distribution of the people in the poll woul be skewed right (giving a higher population for the younger ages). So...this survey IS valid...surveys that have press realeases like this are so scrutinized..its lunacy to call it invalid!
that is a definite problem...but not the exact problem. Autoimmune diseases that attack healthy cells and such would be disaterous to a computer. imagine it! "Look...this file...io.sys...looks sick to me...wipe it out!!" "ummm...its not booting up...ummmm" The prospect of losing control of what and how my computer deals with virii scares me. Isnt the entire idea of a computer to have an scintila of control over what it does?
Thank you for making that statement so eloquent. Lord knows I couldn't have done it. Blaming such things as movies (among others) for immorality in children is simply symptomatic of the curent social epedemic. I know far too many people who have come from broken/unbroken homes where physical and sexual abuse occured. Children are supposed to be,"normal", and moral coming from situations like this? Its simply easier to blame social groups, in essence, outside forces for a reason why shootings such as the one at columbine occur. Morality in and of itself can't be for everyone. Morality is for each person to discover themselves. Institutions are not able teach this to each individual student. There is far more wieght to what a parent says (im speaking from experience) than what an often distant teacher or counselor says. Thank you for pointing that out Penrif...