What governmental agency has ever delcared, "the rules we proposed didn't work, and never will work."
Boy, wouldn't it be nice to get some honesty like that? I'd vote for someone who screwed up and admitted to it gracefully, over someone who "hadn't" screwed up in a heartbeat. It'd be nice to see some honesty in the government. But, like many things, politicians have to market themselves, and there are too many idiots out there to not resort to making yourself look like an infallable wonder-god.
Hahaha, got some stifled chuckles out of me (stifled because at work, don't want to have to both explain that I'm laughing at slashdot, because of something from bash)
Oh, by all means I did not mean to imply that the differences were only societal-based. I believe that there are definite and obvious differences between men and women, at both the physical and psysiological levels. I was just replying to the (grand)parents about that specific thing.
There isn't specifically a sign somewhere saying "Women shouldn't do CS" but there are a lot of social pointers towards "women shouldn't do technology". Boys are (often, typically, not always of course) encouraged to play with things like Legos, GI-Joe, Toy Trucks, etc; while girls are encouraged to play with barbies, dolls, and the like. I don't think that's a bad thing, it's just how our society is these days. I think that because of those things, people's interests are pushed more towards that general area, art vs. science if you will. If you grew up on a farm, you'd be more inclined to be a farmer when you were older. It's just a matter of circumstance.
Trouble is, we workers and consumers will have to suffer a great deal of hardship in the mean time unless the corruption is stopped very soon indeed.
Unfortunately, I think the majority of the US public is so apathetic to things that these legislations will be able to steamroller right over everybody's rights fairly unstopped. The public is so used to the corruption in the Government/big business that it's almost expected, and looked on as strange if they aren't "evil". Look at how people are accepting of crappy software. Everybody knows that their computer will become infected with spyware/crapware eventually, and many people will just buy an entirely new computer, because they're too apathetic to do something about it otherwise.
Out of curiosity, do you (or does anybody) know how well hot-plug hardware is supported in either Windows, or Linux? I don't have any experience with either myself, which is why I ask.
Sarcasm aside, yes they should be responsible for what they wrote, even though it's a lot of code, and there are going to be bugs (human nature). It is shoddy software.
It's like that, because it's written in assembly using engrish by one of essentially two companies that have a lock on the market, and thus don't have to put any effort into it, because it's not like you have a choice anyway. Most BIOS also have to fit in 256k (512 is also becoming more common, but it used to be 128k) so there isn't much room for any sort of help system on-chip. There are alternatives, but they are not widespread, and you can't just install the alternatives willy-nilly on any motherboard you want. A BIOS typically will only work on one revision of one model of one manufacturer's motherboard, and not any other.
There's always strategies around stuff like that though... like hang back until near the end, then go at first with the uber-weapons you get when hanging back. I don't think it's ever "unfair" or "cheating"... it's just different strategies that come about because of the different gameplay.
not-quite-so-gratuitously goofing off. At least it kinda-sorta looks like I might possibly be doing something constructive. I'm at my PC typing things, instead of obviously playing a video game:)
Jeez, not to sound insulting or anything (I don't mean to be) but lighten up. You aren't cheating your way to the front of the race with the weapons, it's an integral part of the game, requiring its own stragegy. It is different than a strict racing game, yes, but I don't see that it creates any more tension than the "catch-up" feature in any of the Gran-Turismo games (it gives a handicap to the people out front). You might also complain that there's no such thing as mean-spirited sentient turtles... But that's just part of the game. If you're trying to teach someone about driving, a simulation style game would be better of course... If you're trying to teach someone about driving by giving them Mario-Kart, then that's just dumb...
One of my favorite DS games is actually a minigame within the Mario64DS game. It's the bomb-omb one where you drag the colored bombs into the appropriate square to diffuse them. I believe my top score is 272 or 273. I don't have my DS with me at the moment to check (I can't gratuitously goof off at work).
Has anybody tried a type-manager style file manager, and preferred the old, usual way of doing things? I certainly do. Maybe it's just because that's the way I've always done things, and I'm used to it, and have gotten good at it, but I like my files where I put them as files, not as metadata or anything else like that.
That's a really cool idea. I've had ideas that were along that line, but never quite made it through the thought process to what you are suggesting. It's like having an external floating-point processor, but extremely general-purpose and reconfigurable. That'd be a great component to have on one of the new PCI-Express boards, those have tons of available bandwidth that you could use up if what you were processing required lots of I/O, even on the 1x slots.
They say price/performance higher-is-better... Higher would mean more price for less performance... I don't understand how they're coming up with that metric, maybe they're actually saying performance/price, but they don't know how ratios work, or am I just missing something important?
Manufacturers have their own windows-based flashers also, but the original BIOS needs to have special switches built into it to enable flashing from Windows, even with the Award Winflash utility (which is a terrible program by the way) (it's dumb, I know, but that's how it is). So if your BIOS is older than the date they started including the switches, or your manufacturer chose not to (or didn't know to) include them, you can't ever use the windows flashers.
It seems he probably originally did mean it to be satire... He was thinking "Do this outrageous thing that you won't do, and I'll donate $10,000". It turns out it's not that outrageous, and it was easily done. He thinks it's outrageous, because the theme is killing people that are supposed to be "on our side", but he doesn't realize that it's just a game, and games can go beyond the realm of what is acceptable in "real life" and still they themselves be acceptable.
The fact that the guy thinks he needs to explain that his request was satire just means he didn't understand that what he got back was infact satirical. You might say he's being sassed, and doesn't even realize it.
Holy crap, I want to play it already! Seriously! Not on my cellphone though, on a device that sounds nicer, but I don't have to watch all the time, so I can read and play the game at the same time.
There are a lot of magazines that keep the adds relevant, and often at the end of the magazine, not every 2nd page. The ones I can think of that do this are RC-Car Action, and Sky & Telescope. They do have adds, yes, but they're limited, usually relegated to their own section, and if I'm reading a telescope magazine, I actually enjoy reading adds about telescopes, because the adds in technically-oriented magazines such as that are often informative.
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What governmental agency has ever delcared, "the rules we proposed didn't work, and never will work."
Boy, wouldn't it be nice to get some honesty like that? I'd vote for someone who screwed up and admitted to it gracefully, over someone who "hadn't" screwed up in a heartbeat. It'd be nice to see some honesty in the government. But, like many things, politicians have to market themselves, and there are too many idiots out there to not resort to making yourself look like an infallable wonder-god.
-Jesse
You might also say that spyware, popups, adware, etc. are just annoying too.
Hahaha, got some stifled chuckles out of me (stifled because at work, don't want to have to both explain that I'm laughing at slashdot, because of something from bash)
Oh, by all means I did not mean to imply that the differences were only societal-based. I believe that there are definite and obvious differences between men and women, at both the physical and psysiological levels. I was just replying to the (grand)parents about that specific thing.
-Jesse
There isn't specifically a sign somewhere saying "Women shouldn't do CS" but there are a lot of social pointers towards "women shouldn't do technology". Boys are (often, typically, not always of course) encouraged to play with things like Legos, GI-Joe, Toy Trucks, etc; while girls are encouraged to play with barbies, dolls, and the like. I don't think that's a bad thing, it's just how our society is these days. I think that because of those things, people's interests are pushed more towards that general area, art vs. science if you will. If you grew up on a farm, you'd be more inclined to be a farmer when you were older. It's just a matter of circumstance.
-Jesse
Trouble is, we workers and consumers will have to suffer a great deal of hardship in the mean time unless the corruption is stopped very soon indeed.
Unfortunately, I think the majority of the US public is so apathetic to things that these legislations will be able to steamroller right over everybody's rights fairly unstopped. The public is so used to the corruption in the Government/big business that it's almost expected, and looked on as strange if they aren't "evil". Look at how people are accepting of crappy software. Everybody knows that their computer will become infected with spyware/crapware eventually, and many people will just buy an entirely new computer, because they're too apathetic to do something about it otherwise.
-Jesse
I don't know, do they do any good in Australia? They certainly do a lot of good in the US...
-Jesse
Out of curiosity, do you (or does anybody) know how well hot-plug hardware is supported in either Windows, or Linux? I don't have any experience with either myself, which is why I ask.
-Jesse
Sarcasm aside, yes they should be responsible for what they wrote, even though it's a lot of code, and there are going to be bugs (human nature). It is shoddy software.
-Jesse
It's like that, because it's written in assembly using engrish by one of essentially two companies that have a lock on the market, and thus don't have to put any effort into it, because it's not like you have a choice anyway. Most BIOS also have to fit in 256k (512 is also becoming more common, but it used to be 128k) so there isn't much room for any sort of help system on-chip. There are alternatives, but they are not widespread, and you can't just install the alternatives willy-nilly on any motherboard you want. A BIOS typically will only work on one revision of one model of one manufacturer's motherboard, and not any other.
-Jesse
There's always strategies around stuff like that though... like hang back until near the end, then go at first with the uber-weapons you get when hanging back. I don't think it's ever "unfair" or "cheating"... it's just different strategies that come about because of the different gameplay.
not-quite-so-gratuitously goofing off. At least it kinda-sorta looks like I might possibly be doing something constructive. I'm at my PC typing things, instead of obviously playing a video game :)
-Jesse
Jeez, not to sound insulting or anything (I don't mean to be) but lighten up. You aren't cheating your way to the front of the race with the weapons, it's an integral part of the game, requiring its own stragegy. It is different than a strict racing game, yes, but I don't see that it creates any more tension than the "catch-up" feature in any of the Gran-Turismo games (it gives a handicap to the people out front). You might also complain that there's no such thing as mean-spirited sentient turtles... But that's just part of the game. If you're trying to teach someone about driving, a simulation style game would be better of course... If you're trying to teach someone about driving by giving them Mario-Kart, then that's just dumb...
-Jesse
One of my favorite DS games is actually a minigame within the Mario64DS game. It's the bomb-omb one where you drag the colored bombs into the appropriate square to diffuse them. I believe my top score is 272 or 273. I don't have my DS with me at the moment to check (I can't gratuitously goof off at work).
-Jesse
Since when was AOL any sort of "cool"? Why break the trend now?
Has anybody tried a type-manager style file manager, and preferred the old, usual way of doing things? I certainly do. Maybe it's just because that's the way I've always done things, and I'm used to it, and have gotten good at it, but I like my files where I put them as files, not as metadata or anything else like that.
-Jesse
That's a really cool idea. I've had ideas that were along that line, but never quite made it through the thought process to what you are suggesting. It's like having an external floating-point processor, but extremely general-purpose and reconfigurable. That'd be a great component to have on one of the new PCI-Express boards, those have tons of available bandwidth that you could use up if what you were processing required lots of I/O, even on the 1x slots.
-Jesse
They say price/performance higher-is-better... Higher would mean more price for less performance... I don't understand how they're coming up with that metric, maybe they're actually saying performance/price, but they don't know how ratios work, or am I just missing something important?
-Jesse
Manufacturers have their own windows-based flashers also, but the original BIOS needs to have special switches built into it to enable flashing from Windows, even with the Award Winflash utility (which is a terrible program by the way) (it's dumb, I know, but that's how it is). So if your BIOS is older than the date they started including the switches, or your manufacturer chose not to (or didn't know to) include them, you can't ever use the windows flashers.
Try upgrading the BIOS on your PC without it.
I wonder what local-arab irreverant humor is like? Any local-arabs have any insight?
-Jesse
It seems he probably originally did mean it to be satire... He was thinking "Do this outrageous thing that you won't do, and I'll donate $10,000". It turns out it's not that outrageous, and it was easily done. He thinks it's outrageous, because the theme is killing people that are supposed to be "on our side", but he doesn't realize that it's just a game, and games can go beyond the realm of what is acceptable in "real life" and still they themselves be acceptable.
The fact that the guy thinks he needs to explain that his request was satire just means he didn't understand that what he got back was infact satirical. You might say he's being sassed, and doesn't even realize it.
-Jesse
Holy crap, I want to play it already! Seriously! Not on my cellphone though, on a device that sounds nicer, but I don't have to watch all the time, so I can read and play the game at the same time.
There are a lot of magazines that keep the adds relevant, and often at the end of the magazine, not every 2nd page. The ones I can think of that do this are RC-Car Action, and Sky & Telescope. They do have adds, yes, but they're limited, usually relegated to their own section, and if I'm reading a telescope magazine, I actually enjoy reading adds about telescopes, because the adds in technically-oriented magazines such as that are often informative.
-Jesse