Yeah.. what none of the graphics card manufacturers seem to want to tell you is that these things put out INCREDIBLE amounts of heat - moreso than your CPU. *muttering* This is why the damn things crash your system so much... I had to put a heatsink designed for a socket7 CPU on mine to cool it sufficiently....
and indicated that the questioner didn't like the fact that we were trying something different (that's gotta be bad, nobody else is doin' it).
And this makes the question illegitmate? Stick to the issues, please, and stop stuffing words into other people's mouths - nobody ever said different was bad.
The bottom line is that ample opportunities exist for socialization outside of the classroom or lecture hall.
Well, I guess that's that then - nobody ever makes friends at school... because they're too busy going to school! I guess talking to the professor after class, or asking a cute guy/girl out, never happens. People never meet other people with similar ambitions and become friends. Nope, none of that happens in college.. that's not the real world! Instead, people go out and get a job.. and then don't work and socialize instead?!
What's your thoughts on how to encourage socializing in a completely online forum? Many people perceive going to college to be, in part, to find friends and people of similar interest as well as to find professional contacts. Any plans in the works to remove some of the isolation inherent in a completely online forum?
_____________ used the following buzzwords (check all that apply): [ ] paradigm shift [x] digital (used in a non-technical context) [ ] "think outside the box" [ ] e-commerce [ ] geek/nerd/hacker (by a non-technical person) [ ] Other (specify) __________________
Shame on you. To rectify this situation you will: [ ] Take a 1 day sabbatical from your job [ ] Take a 1 week sabbatical from your job [x] Watch a barney and friends telemarathon [ ] Be locked in a closet with Market Droids. [ ] Guest star on MTV
And don't do it again. Lastly, [ ] Good luck [x] Get help [ ] Get bent
There's also one multiplayer-only mode called, aptly enough, Multiplayer Melee, where up to eight teams and eight AI ships can duke it out in any number of environments. You can choose Deathmatch, where players can fly all around the solar system to try t o blow each other away; Cage Match, where players battle it out in a confined area; or Zero-G Hockey. Zero-G Hockey sounds like the most fun - there are two goals, and each team is equipped with tractor beams and repulsor weapons with the goal of sending the puck through a hoop in space. The trick is, with a realistic Newtonian engine, if you let the puck go it'll keep right on going until someone or something stops it.
It's a 3D version of netrek! Any of the old unix gurus out there know what I'm talking about - I wonder ogging people will become popular in this game..
and technical manuals use E as the symbol for voltage applied
Ohms law is also generally expressed using the symbol "E". Why? I have no clue.. That's Just The Way It is.
It's also worth mentioning that inductance won't happen in a pure DC environment - like the inside of your system... you need AC to get inductance - inductors in a DC circuit are transparent... just like capacitors are transparent in an AC circuit (minus the capacitive reactance, of course).
Well, most web serving is still towards content serving.. usually a database, some formatting, and maybe some templating to drop into place. Even if you make it as unoptimized and cruddy as possible, it still takes negligible processor power.
Unless you're doing something really wicked, I doubt optimization will get you much. Just document what your functions do in some kind of header file and try to make it readable (don't use perl *cough*). Your code may be brilliant, but you want to know what you wrote after you sober up, right?:)
I have a K7M and a athlon 700 as well. My GeForce 256 requires alot more wattage than the PCI bus wants to give it so I had to up the voltage on that, but other than that it is rock stable under both operating systems.
Don't blame the processor/mobo.. it's probably some faulty device driver causing your problems.
With CPU speeds getting to be what they are, I think two components are being forgotten, and how much they can impact performance.. harddrives and memory.
PC100 or PC133? While it's really nice to have more bandwidth available, most people will never even tax a PC100 bus - it's 800MB/s! The determining factor for me is latency. The lower the latency, the less time the processor has to spend waiting. Latency is the reason why we have explicit parallelism and a half-dozen other methods to speed up the processor - predictive branching, etc. Lowering the latency has a direct benefit on system performance.
The next one is the HDD. How long must I wait to load a program? Having lots of memory helps, but the data has to come from somewhere - that somewhere is either the network or your harddrive. Fast harddrives mean less time spent waiting for files to load. Most people don't know that loading, say, IE5, under windows can load upwards of 50 files! If your track-to-track is 0.8 instead of 0.6.. you're gonna spend a few extra/seconds/ loading those files.
In short, the processor means nothing if you don't have the I/O up to snuff to keep it from idling.
You know, I think we need to launch a campaign.. www.feedthempaa.com, maybe. Put all the artists who *didn't* get a contract and/or have been screwed over by the MPAA. They want to persuade the public that they're all peachy and all the great music will just vanish if it wasn't for them. Let's make it a point to prove to the public that the MPAA has been making music vanish for DECADES.
I never posted to the original hellmouth, namely because slashdot already had 1000 comments and I had nothing new to contribute - I've had similar experiences as those who posted, however I can't take any action over other's postings. That's my disclaimer, now on with the show..
I think it's hypocritical to post articles about how company X is violating the GPL, or how such-and-such company is advertising "open source" when it's not, while simultaniously holding the line that software patents are bad and violating the copyright of the people who posted to slashdot. For slashdot to have any credibility in such matters, it needs to address these issues.
I would have serious objections if people quoted me without even asking/telling me until after the fact. Maybe it is better to ask forgiveness than permission, but I'd still be pissed. You either need to make it/explicitly/ clear that when people post to slashdot that their comments can be quoted and/or are "public domain".
It's fair use to quote.. but turning around and selling a book off other's ideas, feelings and thoughts is illegal whether you make a profit or not. You guys have been around long enough - you should have known better. If you guys disagree with copyrights and patents then say so - and do the equivalent of GPL'ing the site and it's content - make it available to all and/say//it/. Fight to overturn those laws. Otherwise, stop speaking with a forked tongue and respect those people's copyright, instead of just your own.
-- Signal 11 -o- BOFH, malign.net "I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet." "Now why didn't I think of that?" -- Post Bros. Comics
Bah, they'd better have licensed the method whereby suing with a cloth-covered object carrying a briefcase to remove competition thereby improving throughput on the money bus.
Well.. if not.. this whole thing is illegal and I'm gonna sue 'em. If you'd like to sue, please deposit $1,000,000 in my bank account. Thanks.
Bah, I say somebody blows this legislation out of the water. It's a great political gesture, but it's practically unenforcable and puts a burden on websites.
Not that it applies to many sites - most can brush this off. But the problem is that legislation like this gets it's foot in the door and then more regulation starts pouring through. They tried it first by saying that it was all these perverts who were online. Then they attacked crypto as being tools for "infocriminals". Now they're saying "It's for the children!", a cry that should sound an alarm for any activist who fears government regulation. Christ, don't these people just give up? I rather wish congress wasn't based on districts but was held at the national level - it would put an end to this sillyness.. but that's an entirely different discussion..
Regulation like this needs to be shot down - it will only open the door to more legislation, litigation, and regulation. I want as little of any of those as possible online.
Will SCO be contributing / open-sourcing any technology and/or patents that it holds as part of it's linux adoption effort? Also, did your market research pan out - is linux really being used in large businesses or is it still primarily used by small startup companies strapped for cash?
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Yeah.. what none of the graphics card manufacturers seem to want to tell you is that these things put out INCREDIBLE amounts of heat - moreso than your CPU. *muttering* This is why the damn things crash your system so much... I had to put a heatsink designed for a socket7 CPU on mine to cool it sufficiently....
And this makes the question illegitmate? Stick to the issues, please, and stop stuffing words into other people's mouths - nobody ever said different was bad.
The bottom line is that ample opportunities exist for socialization outside of the classroom or lecture hall.
Well, I guess that's that then - nobody ever makes friends at school... because they're too busy going to school! I guess talking to the professor after class, or asking a cute guy/girl out, never happens. People never meet other people with similar ambitions and become friends. Nope, none of that happens in college.. that's not the real world! Instead, people go out and get a job.. and then don't work and socialize instead?!
Gimme a break.
What's your thoughts on how to encourage socializing in a completely online forum? Many people perceive going to college to be, in part, to find friends and people of similar interest as well as to find professional contacts. Any plans in the works to remove some of the isolation inherent in a completely online forum?
_____________ used the following buzzwords (check all that apply):
[ ] paradigm shift
[x] digital (used in a non-technical context)
[ ] "think outside the box"
[ ] e-commerce
[ ] geek/nerd/hacker (by a non-technical person)
[ ] Other (specify) __________________
Shame on you. To rectify this situation you will:
[ ] Take a 1 day sabbatical from your job
[ ] Take a 1 week sabbatical from your job
[x] Watch a barney and friends telemarathon
[ ] Be locked in a closet with Market Droids.
[ ] Guest star on MTV
And don't do it again. Lastly,
[ ] Good luck
[x] Get help
[ ] Get bent
Sincerely,
Signal 11
It's a 3D version of netrek! Any of the old unix gurus out there know what I'm talking about - I wonder ogging people will become popular in this game..
'nuff said. :)
Uhh, they were planning on it, but then you asked, so they delayed it 24 hours...
I heard Rob was going to release SlashLinux after reading this site, but then somebody asked him about it so he delayed its release 24 hours.
I heard Rob was going to release SlashLinux after reading this site, but then somebody asked him about it so he delayed it's release 24 hours.
You have to understand, the moderators aren't intelligent - they just read slashdot...... =)
Ohms law is also generally expressed using the symbol "E". Why? I have no clue.. That's Just The Way It is.
It's also worth mentioning that inductance won't happen in a pure DC environment - like the inside of your system... you need AC to get inductance - inductors in a DC circuit are transparent... just like capacitors are transparent in an AC circuit (minus the capacitive reactance, of course).
Unless you're doing something really wicked, I doubt optimization will get you much. Just document what your functions do in some kind of header file and try to make it readable (don't use perl *cough*). Your code may be brilliant, but you want to know what you wrote after you sober up, right? :)
Don't blame the processor/mobo.. it's probably some faulty device driver causing your problems.
PC100 or PC133? While it's really nice to have more bandwidth available, most people will never even tax a PC100 bus - it's 800MB/s! The determining factor for me is latency. The lower the latency, the less time the processor has to spend waiting. Latency is the reason why we have explicit parallelism and a half-dozen other methods to speed up the processor - predictive branching, etc. Lowering the latency has a direct benefit on system performance.
The next one is the HDD. How long must I wait to load a program? Having lots of memory helps, but the data has to come from somewhere - that somewhere is either the network or your harddrive. Fast harddrives mean less time spent waiting for files to load. Most people don't know that loading, say, IE5, under windows can load upwards of 50 files! If your track-to-track is 0.8 instead of 0.6.. you're gonna spend a few extra /seconds/ loading those files.
In short, the processor means nothing if you don't have the I/O up to snuff to keep it from idling.
Sigh. You got me. I often confuse the two..
You know, I think we need to launch a campaign .. www.feedthempaa.com, maybe. Put all the artists who *didn't* get a contract and/or have been screwed over by the MPAA. They want to persuade the public that they're all peachy and all the great music will just vanish if it wasn't for them. Let's make it a point to prove to the public that the MPAA has been making music vanish for DECADES.
I never posted to the original hellmouth, namely because slashdot already had 1000
/explicitly/ clear that when
/say/ /it/. Fight to overturn those
comments and I had nothing new to contribute - I've had similar experiences as those
who posted, however I can't take any action over other's postings. That's my
disclaimer, now on with the show..
I think it's hypocritical to post articles about how company X is violating
the GPL, or how such-and-such company is advertising "open source" when it's not,
while simultaniously holding the line that software patents are bad and violating
the copyright of the people who posted to slashdot. For slashdot to have any
credibility in such matters, it needs to address these issues.
Why was there no mention of the book until now? You noted in previous postings
that it would have been "too difficult" to contact everyone. If contacting people
was a problem, why did you not post an article - they were slashdot readers then,
many probably still are. The most effective and lowest-cost method of reaching
those people for approval would have been to post an article asking them. If
I took a hundred slashdot articles, compiled a list of "Best of Slashdot" and
sold it (even if I donated all my profits to, say, the FSF), wouldn't you be
upset? Yes, and you'd sue. That "The Rest © 1997-2000 Andover.Net." means
something for you guys, "Comments are owned by the Poster" ought to mean
something too.
I would have serious objections if people quoted me without even asking/telling
me until after the fact. Maybe it is better to ask forgiveness than permission,
but I'd still be pissed. You either need to make it
people post to slashdot that their comments can be quoted and/or are "public domain".
It's fair use to quote.. but turning around and selling a book off other's ideas,
feelings and thoughts is illegal whether you make a profit or not. You guys have
been around long enough - you should have known better. If you guys disagree with
copyrights and patents then say so - and do the equivalent of GPL'ing the site and
it's content - make it available to all and
laws. Otherwise, stop speaking with a forked tongue and respect those people's
copyright, instead of just your own.
--
Signal 11 -o- BOFH, malign.net
"I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet."
"Now why didn't I think of that?" -- Post Bros. Comics
Sounds like your typical sysadmin. Perhaps the Navy will start recruiting in the valley soon?
Well.. if not.. this whole thing is illegal and I'm gonna sue 'em. If you'd like to sue, please deposit $1,000,000 in my bank account. Thanks.
Not that it applies to many sites - most can brush this off. But the problem is that legislation like this gets it's foot in the door and then more regulation starts pouring through. They tried it first by saying that it was all these perverts who were online. Then they attacked crypto as being tools for "infocriminals". Now they're saying "It's for the children!", a cry that should sound an alarm for any activist who fears government regulation. Christ, don't these people just give up? I rather wish congress wasn't based on districts but was held at the national level - it would put an end to this sillyness.. but that's an entirely different discussion..
Regulation like this needs to be shot down - it will only open the door to more legislation, litigation, and regulation. I want as little of any of those as possible online.
Will SCO be contributing / open-sourcing any technology and/or patents that it holds as part of it's linux adoption effort? Also, did your market research pan out - is linux really being used in large businesses or is it still primarily used by small startup companies strapped for cash?
It's called GENETIC computing, not DNA. Foo.
You could also use it as a convenient space-heater/hand-warmer given the CPU they're using. Should sell well in Minnesota this winter.