Hey I speculate that blah deh blahde blibbety bloo. I'm also one of the dudes you might remember from cnet or tech tv or something like that crap.
This guy is the John Madden of technology sportscasting. When he speaks truth he is stating the obvious. When he attempts to forcast he just pulls crap out of his ass. He should learn to use a Mac and find peace away from the real geeks.
Madden-esque: The PC will continue to be the most common personal computing appliance for a long time to come....What I think the software vendor is trying to do here is maximize profits and ship a lot of copies....I think the mistake they made here is to alienate their profit base and also shit where they eat....Boom tough actin' tinactin!
I also hate anyone who greenlights stuff with Dvorak anywhere in the article.
Oh noes. I bet Lucas can't even buy that small nation he's had his eye on because of this. I really have to fiegn playing the smallest violin in the world when crap like this gets put out...again. I know people that rent-to-own so to speak via blockbuster or whoever then remaster the DVD and burn it.
The companies still show their rental profits, same as always, who really rents some crap movie twice...within 5 years? For $.50 extra you can own the movie forever.
While this isn't true piracy in it's purest pirate bay torrent cam 0 day chinese subs glory, it really is a happy middle I think. They should gear themselves toward this reality.
MP3 players will get thrown away by their owners with the battery still inside, it's not like they're going to pay the trash man to open every bag, open the device, and then write up a report to start an investigation on who dumped it. Unless they serialize the batteries and have expensive procedures to track manufacturers that have a low occurance of recycling...hope I don't give them ideas. I'm sure an expensive public information campaign is also in the works with television shots of dead babies covered in batteries.
Future models will likely have a cell-phone like removable battery with a slide/screw off case. Several people will comply to save the babies.
My question: What are they going to do about computer CMOS batteries, and other really embedded batteries. Why stop there, we need to put an end to the electrolyte seepage from large capacitors.
Who uses NiCad anymore anyway? NiMH is all I've seen for some time. Though I'm not a battery expert, I assume NiCad is still used in cheaper devices. The "memory" on those batteries was always horrible, charge it once before it was almost completely dead and that's the new lifetime unless you work to rebuild its capacity.
Chalk this one up to expensive and ineffective legislation to make a news story and do little else.
Right on! I'm sure someone will chime in "oh you didn't know SATA is a SCSI device for linux, lmao." But really most people don't know this and other crap until they've put several days of googling under their belt. If I had $1 for everytime I've had to jerk around with xorg.conf I could buy windows XP Pro. I've tried every flavor of Linux, all with moderate success. Ubuntu is so far the easiest to use. You can actually set out to perform something and complete it in most cases without needing to scour forums for that string you have to change on line 321 of the config file of a related application.
The biggest gripes I have are with closed source applications either not existing or existing in some either half-breed or reverse engineered way. Want to play flash? sorry not available in 64 bit. You can either do this complicated chroot hack or similarly use 32bit libraries to run firefox32 and the associated flash plugin. So I can view flash now, in a hobbled browser that I have to close the 64 bit version to load. Embedded windows media file? get ready for some dead-end googlin' but you might be lucky, I wasn't.
It gets tedious when after several months of this "learning process" you're now an intermediate user with understanding of the guts of the system...just to play a freaking animated piece of crap on a webpage, watch a movie trailer, or any of 100 other common user tasks in Windows that a preschooler can do.
This is the barrier to desktop adoption, the elephant in the room when discussions are about standardization of UI. The reason nobody uses linux is because it doesn't do what they want to do, click the icon, get the info/chat/send email/view porn/steal music right out of the box.
That is where one company can shine, create a great UI that answers all of those problems and figure out a way to take down the proprietary web standards that don't port a linux solution with an alternative that is free and interoperable. The company that does that will be a dictator of the standards by default given their install base.
I for one take turns in increments other than 90 degrees. 2 lefts could, for instance, result in a net 30 degree right turn. In which case 2 lefts make a right and using previous submitters argument that the two are directly related, two wrongs can also make a right as long as modulus(sum(angle of wrong[1,2]),360) > 180. Assuming that wrongs are non-negative angles. It really depends on what wrongs you're talking about.
fudge it, that was funnier before I wrote it down. Submitting anyway.
Really though, I think TV is going to suck a lot more before it gets any better. The next steps are already coming in more inventive forms than this fast forward blocking "feature." Product placement and even diaglog about products is getting annoying. CSI:Miami features more Hummer glamour shots than you'll see in a dealership. Ever notice that those SOBs always have like 3/4" of wax on their flawless exteriors. IMHO 2-3 minute advertising windows are going away in a hurry, local advertisers are probably screwed. The big boys will pay to mix their wares into the script.
"Hey I noticed this dead body while I was passing by in my recently polished H2, which I might add has very luxurious seating and stow-and-go third row bleaaahh."
So these things have a hallucinogenic effect unless you get too much and paralyze your heart, the trip kind-of stops there I'd imagine. Why not just tell Bush it's part of the war on drugs. America would spend millions hand over fist to get rid of these nefarious drug dealing animals.
I'm sure people smarter than me have shot this idea down before...but I won't let that discourage me. Why not have 1 long "belt-like ribbon" and just put a pulley in space. Have the motor on the ground move the cable along (earth motor)o========o(space pulley and weight). I'm too lazy to research why this is a terrible and physically impossible idea and I'm sure it has something to do with torque and gravity/friction/cable isn't uniform width all the way etc... Just curious as to why it is too ludacris for discussion here.
What self respecting IT person left sol.exe on the machine in the first place? That's what IT does, we protect idiots from themselves and other idiots.
That is sadly the definition of IT: Use off the shelf components to build a business critical system that is efficient and trustworthy, build in-house widgets if you're innovating, keep the users from drooling on the keyboards, save money and speed things up at any earliest convenience for little thanks....upgrade to the next major version of * and start over. It's that simple (laff).
But seriously, the guy that's playing solitare "occasionally" and only according to some fairy tale regulations that secretarys made up years ago is completely full of shit. Especially if his dumbass happens to be playing it the day he meets the damn mayor. I know a bit about mayors, though elected, they still are the boss of something external to the city and have experience with dumbass lazy fuckers. This guy earned his pink slip.
What kind of train of thought was involved here?...Oh I abuse company resources...but only on my breaks and other odd time intervals that Suzy in finance said would probably ok...because my job is stressful and I have to totally think like constantly...durr. No quarter.
Bring on the system that learns language in simlar way that a human does...of course it would come out of the box with a reasonable starting point. Then the ultimate backend would be a HAL-like system (2010 not 2001), hopefully not a skynet-like, borg, VGER, or the trapper keeper from southpark. VGER wouldn't be too bad once it knew about carbon based infestations.
Anyone know of a project to simulate human life starting at a fertilized egg? That would be sweet once we understood all of the chemical processes that govern cell growth etc, couldn't that be simulated? In a crude way, just create a detailed physics simulation and put the right virtual ingredients in the right places. Grow it, teach it, then lock that sucker up in a space ship and point it toward the closest known rock/ice planet in hybernation mode with a decent stock of terraforming DNA and a robot body to do the manual labor on arrival and teach the babies. Bam! instant SCI-FI novel. Probably already written though.
At least google is keeping strong where it matters. They've refused a broad-assed patriot act -related at least- request from the feds. I don't give half a crap what they do to not fully improve a shithole country which embraces a dictatorship and pays it's economic backbone with bowls of rice.
When I can't use them in the US to search because I'm one Freedom of Information Act away from being in the papers, that's when I'll worry. I could give half a shit about some asshole with shitty luck enough to be born in China. I was born here, I'll likely die here, and I'll be goddamned if my ancsetors fought and bled to create a dying freedom in the form of constant monitoring by the GD Bush administration.
If George W. had half a clue about the fundamental values he professes, he would realize that his own country was founded to avoid bullshit monarchy repression of dissidents. He spit out some garbage about not respecting Hammas because it is dedicated to the destruction of a country...aren't we about to complete such an act in Iraq? Aren't the big-whigs about to blow apart hammas AKA the majority vote of Palestine the instant they have a reason? isn't that their platform?
I've known Jewish people and I'm pretty sure that I have quite a bit of Jewish heritage though not enough to be relgiosly affliliated. I've been told by several people that I look Jewish and I'm sure as hell circumsized. I'll be damned if I go down because of a religion that THE FUCKING ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T EVEN BUY INTO. Not to mention that, though I'm a minority I don't beLIEve in fairy tales period. I'm a fucking capitalist, I believe in darwinism and such.
Fuck it, it's like talking to a fencepost. For every post I make about religion having no place in the modern world I'm slapped on all sides by religious assholes who belive that their Keebler elves have the correct prophecy. I'm so tired of this shit I wish that the US had instituionalized Atheism...if that weren't such a damnable invasion of privacy...execpt they chose xtianity to enforce upon us. And by they I mean 90+ % of America. You're free...to be christian. You can say whatever you want...brother in Christ. Fuck them, you and me, we're all boned.
" revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature."
Sounds like a well thought out revisionist history of "HOLY SHIT REVERSE MAN REVERSE!!!eleven!"
To me at least after viewing the video, he did what anyone would in a FPS. Run backward dropping 'nades to escape short range melee weapons in the hopes that his ass would survive long enough to get a new strategy. Good thing they had a rocky seabed or we would've seen the death of an ROV.
Too bad they didn't build this thing with a strafe-jump and gibber, he could've misdirected then lead the octopus into a lunge in which he pushed the gibber against its head by using it's off-balance timing and commitment to the lunge.
New headline: ROV driven by newb almost gets pwned by octopus.
I don't know why I even post in processor argument pages. Ooooh OOoh! it runs slightly faster and they totally said the most recent buzzword. I'll gain.2 seconds per MPEG encoding and over 10ms on application launch time!! versus this old POS chip I bought last month.
Not that you said those things, just that I've come to the realization that the MFLOP wars are expensive and retarded on the battlefront. Give me a stable 1.7GHz celeron with plenty of RAM and a big load of storage running 3 server VMs and I'll show you efficiency. Assuming you don't want to run a terminal server to replace 50 PCs running photoshop, what are these baddest ass chips worth in the short term. Not saying you should invest heavily in old tech, but if you're buying something new, why not buy something 3 months old. It's 98% as fast as the stuff that costs 2x as much due to the new tech bell curve.
Oh yeah, I forgot 1 point. The decision by major manufacturers to back AMD was definately related to performance + support costs/$. Even in the blindest rage of Intel zealotry you have to realize that AMD overclockers choose it because a chip that is rated at X GHz by AMD is far more likely to work at X+.1GHz than an Intel chip without requiring a trip to the local dry ice supplier. I can't make an informed decision on whether that is due to different quality standards i.e. it runs with.05% error rate at the marketed speed or it runs at.0001% at the marketed speed, but I would like to think that is a factor given the evidence I've seen. Take that with a grain of salt.
The biggest problem I've had with an AMD chip is the crappy fan on the northbridge of a particular manufacturer. They chose to forego a speed sensor on that fan and, of course, it stopped spinning entirely. What should've been an APM shutdown with a POST error on reboot was a silent killer until the case was opened. BTW: FUCK YOU Abit.
What of this comparison indicates a clear Intel advantage in processing power?
I don't get it. I see all these posts about Intel roxorz with a vengance. AMD is slooow and consumes more power and produces more heat...etc. While all of those claims seem counter to the truth. AMD is waay behind they're using engraved cobblestone for processors for no apparent reason then they use 332 tera-amps and require about 2 nuclear fission reactors while producing more heat than the sun...which is ludacris, not the rapper, the state of plausability. All this and that processor can't even recalcualte a 4 cell excel sheet in 3.5 years.
I call shenanigans, get your brooms.
WTF? are there intel shills in the slashdot crowd or am I not looking at the facts correctly.
From the stuff I've read that wasn't published by Intel, AMD wins in Wattage per processing score and in the thermodynamics category as well. From some of the crap I see here, AMD is akin to using a 10 megawatt light that puts out about 3 candle power but dips into the infra red range then straight to heat energy at an astonishing rate. I just don't see that being true with independant studies.
emphsize the importance of backup through normal or artificial means and outlaw "extraneous storage." Once they lose a file in "my documents" that hasn't been remapped to their H: drive. Kaboom, they are an unfit employee. If they use flash drives / other removable storage, woe be it unto them if you have reasoanble auditing in place.
what happens? Some dumb bastard stores 1.2 GB of christain rock (no shit) mp3s on his personal H: drive. When those disappear you cannot imagine the silence at the helpdesk end of the phone.
I've got a intel 536EP chipset "hardware modem" which I found out means it's really pretty much a softmodem. That isn't an error in packaging, that's an outright lie. Class 1 fax support only? That's a softmodem. I hate marketing bastards. Not to mention after jacking with the VOCP setup and finally figuring out that I had a Net? 256 compatible modem for voice operations that I had to resample everything at 16000 sample rate to avoid the chipmunk effect. OK got that working, lets record an inbound voicemail..ooo sorry you haven't been on google for 2 hours in the recent past, rejected. The recording codec is out of your reach cast +20 searchdrone to learn about the recompile you can't perform on amd64 architecture without a chroot environment. Or you can listen to the "man inside a waterfall voicemail" option we have provided free of charge.
I'm just glad I tried the voicemail before endeavoring to hack up vocp.pl to handoff fax calls from vgetty to hylafax's faxgetty. vocp's fax detection just bails with a return code to signal vgetty to call mgetty which despite proof otherwise(hylafax) professes that class 1 fax is "unpossible" with a unix based kernel. Realtime? fuck that!
IMHO, the companies that don't provide real support in their "hardware" modems should feel the brunt of our cash refund returns. It's almost as if you have to burn an exterior serial port to even use a real hardmodem because of industry lies. Even then you better have a nearly legacy US-Robotics or Lucent setup.
That being said, this same modem in a Wintel XP machine running *random share/freeware of 30+ offered* voicemail/fax solution would work like a wet dream. The separation of church/state on windows APIs at the very high level is, dare I say it, competent. Any retard with a captialism streak can fire up a.net IDE and spit out a $20 piece of software that can almost effortlessly send a.wav file right into the gristmill of "modemland" to playback a prompt. Use some lame.dll to handle tones and detect FAX, then pop that shit through something that converts to a.tiff(LZW) file. In those cases, resistance is futile.
So, in short, only buy digium cards, ever. To hell with the cost. They actively support FOSS and that is the way to punch wintel shit in the wallet. Please please please prove to me that I am wrong and provide a detailed method to setup a voicemail/fax server using the aforementioned chipset so I don't have to make my locally owned computer hardware store eat $40.
I would say that the people I support get stressed by their lack of understanding of typical software flow. Want to change a default behavior 90% of the time thats in Tools->Options. Though recent trends are leaning into Edit->Preferences. Hell just mouseover all the things at the top and look for something that says Options or Preferences under it. Just as long as (true story) they dont set both the font and background colors to white and masterfully save this as normal.dot How they figured out this feat of ingorance is beyond me. First, that is STUPID. Second, how the hell with that level of brain seepage did they manage to replace their normal.dot? Its almost like they knew what they were doing and just wanted some attention from someone...anyone...IT will do.
There's something to be said about MS lock-in due to vendor lock-in and the vendors are writing their apps...or I should say bought the company that wrote their apps.. and adding features that break 10 others. I shit you not, the latest version of one application we must use and pay gobs of cash / year for runs on a 16 bit subsystem and is a VB App as far as I can tell. It meshes a combination of Access 97 databases and a homebrew TCP widget that's about 5% reliable with a butt ugly UI. If the access databases haven't soiled themselves due to a lockup of the VB...likely related to an indefinate wait on the TCP widget...then the GD license file LIKE ANYONE WOULD STEAL THIS SHIT is corrupted and their data goes to who knows where without the slightest notice to users or admins. Atomicity for these guys has something to do with Hiroshima as far as they know. Something else thats cute? That server has reissued over 50 times the number of seats we have, not because we're thieves, because it doesn't even keep track and every crash and burn requires a reinstall. THAT CAUSES STRESS.
So don't shove this off on Windows, sure it's not the best OS, but without all of the applications and hack drivers it's really a good OS. I bet the above poster's wife forgot to mention the sudden boot of the system roughly coincided with her trying to print it on that brand new laser printer she plugged into the UPS.
Slightly off subject, but what about BlueSocket? It passes your authentication info to a RADIUS/IAS server then sets up AES encryption. I'm fuzzy on details but this is primarily a wireless solution. With VLANS and using their "Clientless" client loaded on the machine you could authenticate and encrypt non-wireless traffic. They get away with calling it clientless because their client piece simply configures a windows xp VPN setup with no fuss. You could in theory accomplish it with a registry hack and only xp tools.
They charge a pretty penny and this is mostly for wireless applications.
From the site "Also, we are seriously considering changing some fundamental OS features. The idea would be that function calls and features suggesting evil and otherwise pagan ideas would be changed.
If the energy used to make these fuel cells is low enough, and somebody comes up with a methanol producing bacteria that eats some fungus in a bio-battery of some sort. You have the basis for our robotic replacement's diet. Man will they stink, especially if sulphur is a byproduct.
Luckily our hunter-gatherer ape-like descendants will get along well smelling them from miles away.
A working system based on something easier than ATP as a fuel source and more ruthless. Imagine that thing in robocop or the things in the Matrix, terminator, other pessimistic robotic futures needing only moisture.
Personally I like Pandora's Star and Peter F Hamilton's creation of a thinking purely logical if not seemingly egotistical andvanced plant thinking network. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those! Morning Sunrise Mountain says FU! Though it's arguably a farce about micromanaging.
Not to be confused with his effeminate, confidence deprived brother: Stuart Smalley. Because he's good enough, smart enough, and doggonit people liked him.
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Hey I speculate that blah deh blahde blibbety bloo. I'm also one of the dudes you might remember from cnet or tech tv or something like that crap.
This guy is the John Madden of technology sportscasting. When he speaks truth he is stating the obvious. When he attempts to forcast he just pulls crap out of his ass. He should learn to use a Mac and find peace away from the real geeks.
Madden-esque: The PC will continue to be the most common personal computing appliance for a long time to come....What I think the software vendor is trying to do here is maximize profits and ship a lot of copies....I think the mistake they made here is to alienate their profit base and also shit where they eat....Boom tough actin' tinactin!
I also hate anyone who greenlights stuff with Dvorak anywhere in the article.
Oh noes. I bet Lucas can't even buy that small nation he's had his eye on because of this. I really have to fiegn playing the smallest violin in the world when crap like this gets put out...again. I know people that rent-to-own so to speak via blockbuster or whoever then remaster the DVD and burn it.
The companies still show their rental profits, same as always, who really rents some crap movie twice...within 5 years? For $.50 extra you can own the movie forever.
While this isn't true piracy in it's purest pirate bay torrent cam 0 day chinese subs glory, it really is a happy middle I think. They should gear themselves toward this reality.
MP3 players will get thrown away by their owners with the battery still inside, it's not like they're going to pay the trash man to open every bag, open the device, and then write up a report to start an investigation on who dumped it. Unless they serialize the batteries and have expensive procedures to track manufacturers that have a low occurance of recycling...hope I don't give them ideas. I'm sure an expensive public information campaign is also in the works with television shots of dead babies covered in batteries.
Future models will likely have a cell-phone like removable battery with a slide/screw off case. Several people will comply to save the babies.
My question: What are they going to do about computer CMOS batteries, and other really embedded batteries. Why stop there, we need to put an end to the electrolyte seepage from large capacitors.
Who uses NiCad anymore anyway? NiMH is all I've seen for some time. Though I'm not a battery expert, I assume NiCad is still used in cheaper devices. The "memory" on those batteries was always horrible, charge it once before it was almost completely dead and that's the new lifetime unless you work to rebuild its capacity.
Chalk this one up to expensive and ineffective legislation to make a news story and do little else.
Right on! I'm sure someone will chime in "oh you didn't know SATA is a SCSI device for linux, lmao." But really most people don't know this and other crap until they've put several days of googling under their belt. If I had $1 for everytime I've had to jerk around with xorg.conf I could buy windows XP Pro. I've tried every flavor of Linux, all with moderate success. Ubuntu is so far the easiest to use. You can actually set out to perform something and complete it in most cases without needing to scour forums for that string you have to change on line 321 of the config file of a related application.
The biggest gripes I have are with closed source applications either not existing or existing in some either half-breed or reverse engineered way. Want to play flash? sorry not available in 64 bit. You can either do this complicated chroot hack or similarly use 32bit libraries to run firefox32 and the associated flash plugin. So I can view flash now, in a hobbled browser that I have to close the 64 bit version to load. Embedded windows media file? get ready for some dead-end googlin' but you might be lucky, I wasn't.
It gets tedious when after several months of this "learning process" you're now an intermediate user with understanding of the guts of the system...just to play a freaking animated piece of crap on a webpage, watch a movie trailer, or any of 100 other common user tasks in Windows that a preschooler can do.
This is the barrier to desktop adoption, the elephant in the room when discussions are about standardization of UI. The reason nobody uses linux is because it doesn't do what they want to do, click the icon, get the info/chat/send email/view porn/steal music right out of the box.
That is where one company can shine, create a great UI that answers all of those problems and figure out a way to take down the proprietary web standards that don't port a linux solution with an alternative that is free and interoperable. The company that does that will be a dictator of the standards by default given their install base.
I for one take turns in increments other than 90 degrees. 2 lefts could, for instance, result in a net 30 degree right turn. In which case 2 lefts make a right and using previous submitters argument that the two are directly related, two wrongs can also make a right as long as modulus(sum(angle of wrong[1,2]),360) > 180. Assuming that wrongs are non-negative angles. It really depends on what wrongs you're talking about.
fudge it, that was funnier before I wrote it down. Submitting anyway.
Really though, I think TV is going to suck a lot more before it gets any better. The next steps are already coming in more inventive forms than this fast forward blocking "feature." Product placement and even diaglog about products is getting annoying. CSI:Miami features more Hummer glamour shots than you'll see in a dealership. Ever notice that those SOBs always have like 3/4" of wax on their flawless exteriors. IMHO 2-3 minute advertising windows are going away in a hurry, local advertisers are probably screwed. The big boys will pay to mix their wares into the script.
"Hey I noticed this dead body while I was passing by in my recently polished H2, which I might add has very luxurious seating and stow-and-go third row bleaaahh."
So these things have a hallucinogenic effect unless you get too much and paralyze your heart, the trip kind-of stops there I'd imagine. Why not just tell Bush it's part of the war on drugs. America would spend millions hand over fist to get rid of these nefarious drug dealing animals.
I'm sure people smarter than me have shot this idea down before...but I won't let that discourage me. Why not have 1 long "belt-like ribbon" and just put a pulley in space. Have the motor on the ground move the cable along (earth motor)o========o(space pulley and weight). I'm too lazy to research why this is a terrible and physically impossible idea and I'm sure it has something to do with torque and gravity/friction/cable isn't uniform width all the way etc... Just curious as to why it is too ludacris for discussion here.
So maybe this wasn't a misunderstanding?
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What self respecting IT person left sol.exe on the machine in the first place? That's what IT does, we protect idiots from themselves and other idiots.
That is sadly the definition of IT: Use off the shelf components to build a business critical system that is efficient and trustworthy, build in-house widgets if you're innovating, keep the users from drooling on the keyboards, save money and speed things up at any earliest convenience for little thanks....upgrade to the next major version of * and start over. It's that simple (laff).
But seriously, the guy that's playing solitare "occasionally" and only according to some fairy tale regulations that secretarys made up years ago is completely full of shit. Especially if his dumbass happens to be playing it the day he meets the damn mayor. I know a bit about mayors, though elected, they still are the boss of something external to the city and have experience with dumbass lazy fuckers. This guy earned his pink slip.
What kind of train of thought was involved here?...Oh I abuse company resources...but only on my breaks and other odd time intervals that Suzy in finance said would probably ok...because my job is stressful and I have to totally think like constantly...durr. No quarter.
Bring on the system that learns language in simlar way that a human does...of course it would come out of the box with a reasonable starting point. Then the ultimate backend would be a HAL-like system (2010 not 2001), hopefully not a skynet-like, borg, VGER, or the trapper keeper from southpark. VGER wouldn't be too bad once it knew about carbon based infestations.
Anyone know of a project to simulate human life starting at a fertilized egg? That would be sweet once we understood all of the chemical processes that govern cell growth etc, couldn't that be simulated? In a crude way, just create a detailed physics simulation and put the right virtual ingredients in the right places. Grow it, teach it, then lock that sucker up in a space ship and point it toward the closest known rock/ice planet in hybernation mode with a decent stock of terraforming DNA and a robot body to do the manual labor on arrival and teach the babies. Bam! instant SCI-FI novel. Probably already written though.
At least google is keeping strong where it matters. They've refused a broad-assed patriot act -related at least- request from the feds. I don't give half a crap what they do to not fully improve a shithole country which embraces a dictatorship and pays it's economic backbone with bowls of rice.
When I can't use them in the US to search because I'm one Freedom of Information Act away from being in the papers, that's when I'll worry. I could give half a shit about some asshole with shitty luck enough to be born in China. I was born here, I'll likely die here, and I'll be goddamned if my ancsetors fought and bled to create a dying freedom in the form of constant monitoring by the GD Bush administration.
If George W. had half a clue about the fundamental values he professes, he would realize that his own country was founded to avoid bullshit monarchy repression of dissidents. He spit out some garbage about not respecting Hammas because it is dedicated to the destruction of a country...aren't we about to complete such an act in Iraq? Aren't the big-whigs about to blow apart hammas AKA the majority vote of Palestine the instant they have a reason? isn't that their platform?
I've known Jewish people and I'm pretty sure that I have quite a bit of Jewish heritage though not enough to be relgiosly affliliated. I've been told by several people that I look Jewish and I'm sure as hell circumsized. I'll be damned if I go down because of a religion that THE FUCKING ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T EVEN BUY INTO. Not to mention that, though I'm a minority I don't beLIEve in fairy tales period. I'm a fucking capitalist, I believe in darwinism and such.
Fuck it, it's like talking to a fencepost. For every post I make about religion having no place in the modern world I'm slapped on all sides by religious assholes who belive that their Keebler elves have the correct prophecy. I'm so tired of this shit I wish that the US had instituionalized Atheism...if that weren't such a damnable invasion of privacy...execpt they chose xtianity to enforce upon us. And by they I mean 90+ % of America. You're free...to be christian. You can say whatever you want...brother in Christ. Fuck them, you and me, we're all boned.
" revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature."
Sounds like a well thought out revisionist history of "HOLY SHIT REVERSE MAN REVERSE!!!eleven!"
To me at least after viewing the video, he did what anyone would in a FPS. Run backward dropping 'nades to escape short range melee weapons in the hopes that his ass would survive long enough to get a new strategy. Good thing they had a rocky seabed or we would've seen the death of an ROV.
Too bad they didn't build this thing with a strafe-jump and gibber, he could've misdirected then lead the octopus into a lunge in which he pushed the gibber against its head by using it's off-balance timing and commitment to the lunge.
New headline: ROV driven by newb almost gets pwned by octopus.
I don't know why I even post in processor argument pages. Ooooh OOoh! it runs slightly faster and they totally said the most recent buzzword. I'll gain .2 seconds per MPEG encoding and over 10ms on application launch time!! versus this old POS chip I bought last month.
Not that you said those things, just that I've come to the realization that the MFLOP wars are expensive and retarded on the battlefront. Give me a stable 1.7GHz celeron with plenty of RAM and a big load of storage running 3 server VMs and I'll show you efficiency. Assuming you don't want to run a terminal server to replace 50 PCs running photoshop, what are these baddest ass chips worth in the short term. Not saying you should invest heavily in old tech, but if you're buying something new, why not buy something 3 months old. It's 98% as fast as the stuff that costs 2x as much due to the new tech bell curve.
Yours Truly,
Tommorrows Luddite.
Heh, your name is RightSaidFred. It's like arguing on teh interwebs...
Oh yeah, I forgot 1 point. The decision by major manufacturers to back AMD was definately related to performance + support costs/$. Even in the blindest rage of Intel zealotry you have to realize that AMD overclockers choose it because a chip that is rated at X GHz by AMD is far more likely to work at X+.1GHz than an Intel chip without requiring a trip to the local dry ice supplier. I can't make an informed decision on whether that is due to different quality standards i.e. it runs with .05% error rate at the marketed speed or it runs at .0001% at the marketed speed, but I would like to think that is a factor given the evidence I've seen. Take that with a grain of salt.
The biggest problem I've had with an AMD chip is the crappy fan on the northbridge of a particular manufacturer. They chose to forego a speed sensor on that fan and, of course, it stopped spinning entirely. What should've been an APM shutdown with a POST error on reboot was a silent killer until the case was opened. BTW: FUCK YOU Abit.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html
What of this comparison indicates a clear Intel advantage in processing power?
I don't get it. I see all these posts about Intel roxorz with a vengance. AMD is slooow and consumes more power and produces more heat...etc. While all of those claims seem counter to the truth. AMD is waay behind they're using engraved cobblestone for processors for no apparent reason then they use 332 tera-amps and require about 2 nuclear fission reactors while producing more heat than the sun...which is ludacris, not the rapper, the state of plausability. All this and that processor can't even recalcualte a 4 cell excel sheet in 3.5 years.
I call shenanigans, get your brooms.
WTF? are there intel shills in the slashdot crowd or am I not looking at the facts correctly.
From the stuff I've read that wasn't published by Intel, AMD wins in Wattage per processing score and in the thermodynamics category as well. From some of the crap I see here, AMD is akin to using a 10 megawatt light that puts out about 3 candle power but dips into the infra red range then straight to heat energy at an astonishing rate. I just don't see that being true with independant studies.
Hilarious. I think that covers the user viewpoint precisely. Good 1
emphsize the importance of backup through normal or artificial means and outlaw "extraneous storage." Once they lose a file in "my documents" that hasn't been remapped to their H: drive. Kaboom, they are an unfit employee. If they use flash drives / other removable storage, woe be it unto them if you have reasoanble auditing in place.
what happens? Some dumb bastard stores 1.2 GB of christain rock (no shit) mp3s on his personal H: drive. When those disappear you cannot imagine the silence at the helpdesk end of the phone.
I've got a intel 536EP chipset "hardware modem" which I found out means it's really pretty much a softmodem. That isn't an error in packaging, that's an outright lie. Class 1 fax support only? That's a softmodem. I hate marketing bastards. Not to mention after jacking with the VOCP setup and finally figuring out that I had a Net? 256 compatible modem for voice operations that I had to resample everything at 16000 sample rate to avoid the chipmunk effect. OK got that working, lets record an inbound voicemail..ooo sorry you haven't been on google for 2 hours in the recent past, rejected. The recording codec is out of your reach cast +20 searchdrone to learn about the recompile you can't perform on amd64 architecture without a chroot environment. Or you can listen to the "man inside a waterfall voicemail" option we have provided free of charge.
.net IDE and spit out a $20 piece of software that can almost effortlessly send a .wav file right into the gristmill of "modemland" to playback a prompt. Use some lame .dll to handle tones and detect FAX, then pop that shit through something that converts to a .tiff(LZW) file. In those cases, resistance is futile.
I'm just glad I tried the voicemail before endeavoring to hack up vocp.pl to handoff fax calls from vgetty to hylafax's faxgetty. vocp's fax detection just bails with a return code to signal vgetty to call mgetty which despite proof otherwise(hylafax) professes that class 1 fax is "unpossible" with a unix based kernel. Realtime? fuck that!
IMHO, the companies that don't provide real support in their "hardware" modems should feel the brunt of our cash refund returns. It's almost as if you have to burn an exterior serial port to even use a real hardmodem because of industry lies. Even then you better have a nearly legacy US-Robotics or Lucent setup.
That being said, this same modem in a Wintel XP machine running *random share/freeware of 30+ offered* voicemail/fax solution would work like a wet dream. The separation of church/state on windows APIs at the very high level is, dare I say it, competent. Any retard with a captialism streak can fire up a
So, in short, only buy digium cards, ever. To hell with the cost. They actively support FOSS and that is the way to punch wintel shit in the wallet. Please please please prove to me that I am wrong and provide a detailed method to setup a voicemail/fax server using the aforementioned chipset so I don't have to make my locally owned computer hardware store eat $40.
I would say that the people I support get stressed by their lack of understanding of typical software flow. Want to change a default behavior 90% of the time thats in Tools->Options. Though recent trends are leaning into Edit->Preferences. Hell just mouseover all the things at the top and look for something that says Options or Preferences under it. Just as long as (true story) they dont set both the font and background colors to white and masterfully save this as normal.dot How they figured out this feat of ingorance is beyond me. First, that is STUPID. Second, how the hell with that level of brain seepage did they manage to replace their normal.dot? Its almost like they knew what they were doing and just wanted some attention from someone...anyone...IT will do.
There's something to be said about MS lock-in due to vendor lock-in and the vendors are writing their apps...or I should say bought the company that wrote their apps.. and adding features that break 10 others. I shit you not, the latest version of one application we must use and pay gobs of cash / year for runs on a 16 bit subsystem and is a VB App as far as I can tell. It meshes a combination of Access 97 databases and a homebrew TCP widget that's about 5% reliable with a butt ugly UI. If the access databases haven't soiled themselves due to a lockup of the VB...likely related to an indefinate wait on the TCP widget...then the GD license file LIKE ANYONE WOULD STEAL THIS SHIT is corrupted and their data goes to who knows where without the slightest notice to users or admins. Atomicity for these guys has something to do with Hiroshima as far as they know. Something else thats cute? That server has reissued over 50 times the number of seats we have, not because we're thieves, because it doesn't even keep track and every crash and burn requires a reinstall. THAT CAUSES STRESS.
So don't shove this off on Windows, sure it's not the best OS, but without all of the applications and hack drivers it's really a good OS. I bet the above poster's wife forgot to mention the sudden boot of the system roughly coincided with her trying to print it on that brand new laser printer she plugged into the UPS.
Slightly off subject, but what about BlueSocket? It passes your authentication info to a RADIUS/IAS server then sets up AES encryption. I'm fuzzy on details but this is primarily a wireless solution. With VLANS and using their "Clientless" client loaded on the machine you could authenticate and encrypt non-wireless traffic. They get away with calling it clientless because their client piece simply configures a windows xp VPN setup with no fuss. You could in theory accomplish it with a registry hack and only xp tools.
They charge a pretty penny and this is mostly for wireless applications.
I think the elephant in the room is that they own a majority share in US debt. Don't forget that one.
I thought Jesux was pretty funny: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/408 1/
From the site
"Also, we are seriously considering changing some fundamental OS features. The idea would be that function calls and features suggesting evil and otherwise pagan ideas would be changed.
* abort(3)
* kill(1)
* references to "daemon"
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If the energy used to make these fuel cells is low enough, and somebody comes up with a methanol producing bacteria that eats some fungus in a bio-battery of some sort. You have the basis for our robotic replacement's diet. Man will they stink, especially if sulphur is a byproduct.
Luckily our hunter-gatherer ape-like descendants will get along well smelling them from miles away.
A working system based on something easier than ATP as a fuel source and more ruthless. Imagine that thing in robocop or the things in the Matrix, terminator, other pessimistic robotic futures needing only moisture.
Personally I like Pandora's Star and Peter F Hamilton's creation of a thinking purely logical if not seemingly egotistical andvanced plant thinking network. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those! Morning Sunrise Mountain says FU! Though it's arguably a farce about micromanaging.
Not to be confused with his effeminate, confidence deprived brother: Stuart Smalley. Because he's good enough, smart enough, and doggonit people liked him.