This sucks! Fine, I'll say something more worthwhile. Notebook makers should really drop both AMD and Intel processors and pick up Via's stuff. They put out miniscule amounts of heat(~20 watts, I think) and while not as fast can still run at 1.8Ghz.
This is what notebooks really need.
Actually, I get ~250 spams a day, none of which originated from an opt-in offer but because my email account has been around for ~6 years it has proliferated across almost all the spammers' lists.
I definitely agree. DMs like to be rules lawyers, and players do the same. I've gotten some people frustrated when I run campaigns without much reference to the official rules while making ad hoc decisions that contradict each other. Those players really hated that, but I made decisions so each situation played out in a dramatically appropriate way without being unfair to the players. The players who could get past rules lawyering really enjoyed the campaign.
I've run games of Vampire and that game made heavy emphasis that the rules given were not set in stone and could be bent and broken as needed or thrown away entirely. That's something a lot of people who play D&D need to realize.
I don't think this will replace men. In order for this type of ARTIFICIAL reproduction to work in humans, or any mammal species, we would need to start genetically engineering women with eggs-that-think-like-sperm. Then those eggs would need collecting while they're still immature and stored away safely. Plus the article stated it took about 460 tries to get the process to work.
Start imagining the expenses of running groups of scientists working hard enough to equal or exceed the current death rate while creating new humans in laboratories using those eggs-that-think-like-sperm and eggs from the prospective mother (in this case the mother refers to the woman bearing the child). So to make one baby we need 460 eggs-that-think-like-sperm and 460 eggs from the mother in order to make 1 new human baby. And now we need to do that enough to equal the death rate or exceed it.
Plus if the offspring from this turn out genetically normal, that means these new women won't have eggs-that-think-like-sperm so we still need factories producing new baby girls with those eggs-that-think-like-sperm.
Now compare that with the cost of a good heterosexual f***. I don't think men are going anywhere for a very long time.
I've worked on systems where we've put complete operating systems into 288 bytes or less and still jam packed it with features. 288 bytes is the space we have on the nice one, 32 bytes is what we have on the small one. Of course, these OS's aren't desktop OS's, they're pump station controllers and such, but we've fit homemade wireless protocols, robust error handling and reporting, as well as the system itself with settings that can be customized right from the 4 button keypad and LCD on the device. All nice and compact and not even exceeding 1kb. THAT is art.
Using 64 megs of RAM and Linux on a parking meter is an INCREDIBLE waste of resources.
Here's why American IT workers are better and are worth paying more money.
I WORK DOWN THE F***ING HALL!!!
You need a problem fixed? Knock on my door, take me to your office, I look at problem, sit down at computer, and fix it. There is no trying to explain a program to a computer illiterate user, guiding that user through the menus or explaining text commands. And all without confusing accents!
If you want a feature added to one of my scripts or programs? Talk to me directly, draw up diagrams and use other visual aids right there or maybe even see me implement the feature right in front of you and know right away whether it could work!
Communication is EASY when you work down the F***ING HALL!!! I am a big fan of working with people in person and the difficulties in working over the phone, especially in tech support, are what I hate most in my job. Now I do like my job, but communication in person is simply better.
Broadband is only better in situations where it solves a problem. If a dial-up user sits at home each night thinking, "Damn, I wish I could download fan subs like my friend George," then broadband would be better than dial-up.
However, if that dial-up user is like my grandparents and wants to be able to send and read email, and maybe look up recipes online then where is broadband solving a problem?
Most email I see is still in plain ASCII text format. Those messages require a tiny amount of bandwidth (9.6kbps is sufficient). The difference in speed broadband might give when accessing email might be 1 second.
And accessing those websites with recipes? I used dial-up for quite a while and I did everything I wanted to. I didn't feel like I was wasting my time waiting for a page to load. Even though with heavy graphics could come down in 10-15 seconds. For me, that was fast enough. For my grandparents, that's fast enough.
So if I didn't complain about dial-up's speed and my grandparents don't, where has broadband solved a problem? NOWHERE!!! Remember technology is only better if it solves a problem for you!! Otherwise why pay for it?
And yes, I do have broadband right now, and I wouldn't feel disadvantaged if it were taken away. To say that my life has improved because of broadband is silly. I still don't download fan subs because I don't have enough interest in it to search around for the eps, negotiate a connection with someone, etc. I let my friends do all the work of finding new stuff or I go find a good graphic novel. The latter can be done with dial-up and Lynx.
Do I need broadband? No. Has it improved my life? Not really.
This is definitely a good thing. As companies learn that they can't use GPL'ed code in violation of it terms, hopefully they will start to gravitate away from GPL'ed code in favor of code under Berkeley-style licenses.
Obviously, being required to release source code weakens a business's market position since people could obtain their software for free or an adept programmer could come along, snatch the code, and create a better product. All of this could be bad for a software company.
Of course, this may also bring a possible backlash against using open-sourced software and companies may start holing up again, developing their own code.
Either way, though, companies would be abandoning GPL'ed software which in my book is a big plus.
That said, I fully support the enforcement of copyright licenses, even when it's the GPL. I respect the time and effort programmers put into their software and those who write from scratch should have the right to publish or not publish their source code. Those who use licensed code should be respectful of that license, and thus, the work of previous coders.
And note, that while I know my comments will bring much resentment from the/. community, I'm not commenting here for the sake of pissing people off. I disapprove of the FSF's goals and hope more people will join me. The FSF may "free" the software but at the expense of it's authors.
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This sucks! Fine, I'll say something more worthwhile. Notebook makers should really drop both AMD and Intel processors and pick up Via's stuff. They put out miniscule amounts of heat(~20 watts, I think) and while not as fast can still run at 1.8Ghz. This is what notebooks really need.
Yay! I've always been a fan of AMD's architecture. I definitely to see AMD take more of the laptop market.
Actually, I get ~250 spams a day, none of which originated from an opt-in offer but because my email account has been around for ~6 years it has proliferated across almost all the spammers' lists.
I definitely agree. DMs like to be rules lawyers, and players do the same. I've gotten some people frustrated when I run campaigns without much reference to the official rules while making ad hoc decisions that contradict each other. Those players really hated that, but I made decisions so each situation played out in a dramatically appropriate way without being unfair to the players. The players who could get past rules lawyering really enjoyed the campaign.
I've run games of Vampire and that game made heavy emphasis that the rules given were not set in stone and could be bent and broken as needed or thrown away entirely. That's something a lot of people who play D&D need to realize.
I don't think this will replace men. In order for this type of ARTIFICIAL reproduction to work in humans, or any mammal species, we would need to start genetically engineering women with eggs-that-think-like-sperm. Then those eggs would need collecting while they're still immature and stored away safely. Plus the article stated it took about 460 tries to get the process to work.
Start imagining the expenses of running groups of scientists working hard enough to equal or exceed the current death rate while creating new humans in laboratories using those eggs-that-think-like-sperm and eggs from the prospective mother (in this case the mother refers to the woman bearing the child). So to make one baby we need 460 eggs-that-think-like-sperm and 460 eggs from the mother in order to make 1 new human baby. And now we need to do that enough to equal the death rate or exceed it.
Plus if the offspring from this turn out genetically normal, that means these new women won't have eggs-that-think-like-sperm so we still need factories producing new baby girls with those eggs-that-think-like-sperm.
Now compare that with the cost of a good heterosexual f***. I don't think men are going anywhere for a very long time.
I've worked on systems where we've put complete operating systems into 288 bytes or less and still jam packed it with features. 288 bytes is the space we have on the nice one, 32 bytes is what we have on the small one. Of course, these OS's aren't desktop OS's, they're pump station controllers and such, but we've fit homemade wireless protocols, robust error handling and reporting, as well as the system itself with settings that can be customized right from the 4 button keypad and LCD on the device. All nice and compact and not even exceeding 1kb. THAT is art.
Using 64 megs of RAM and Linux on a parking meter is an INCREDIBLE waste of resources.
Here's why American IT workers are better and are worth paying more money.
I WORK DOWN THE F***ING HALL!!!
You need a problem fixed? Knock on my door, take me to your office, I look at problem, sit down at computer, and fix it. There is no trying to explain a program to a computer illiterate user, guiding that user through the menus or explaining text commands. And all without confusing accents!
If you want a feature added to one of my scripts or programs? Talk to me directly, draw up diagrams and use other visual aids right there or maybe even see me implement the feature right in front of you and know right away whether it could work!
Communication is EASY when you work down the F***ING HALL!!! I am a big fan of working with people in person and the difficulties in working over the phone, especially in tech support, are what I hate most in my job. Now I do like my job, but communication in person is simply better.
Broadband is only better in situations where it solves a problem. If a dial-up user sits at home each night thinking, "Damn, I wish I could download fan subs like my friend George," then broadband would be better than dial-up.
However, if that dial-up user is like my grandparents and wants to be able to send and read email, and maybe look up recipes online then where is broadband solving a problem?
Most email I see is still in plain ASCII text format. Those messages require a tiny amount of bandwidth (9.6kbps is sufficient). The difference in speed broadband might give when accessing email might be 1 second.
And accessing those websites with recipes? I used dial-up for quite a while and I did everything I wanted to. I didn't feel like I was wasting my time waiting for a page to load. Even though with heavy graphics could come down in 10-15 seconds. For me, that was fast enough. For my grandparents, that's fast enough.
So if I didn't complain about dial-up's speed and my grandparents don't, where has broadband solved a problem? NOWHERE!!! Remember technology is only better if it solves a problem for you!! Otherwise why pay for it?
And yes, I do have broadband right now, and I wouldn't feel disadvantaged if it were taken away. To say that my life has improved because of broadband is silly. I still don't download fan subs because I don't have enough interest in it to search around for the eps, negotiate a connection with someone, etc. I let my friends do all the work of finding new stuff or I go find a good graphic novel. The latter can be done with dial-up and Lynx.
Do I need broadband? No. Has it improved my life? Not really.
This is definitely a good thing. As companies learn that they can't use GPL'ed code in violation of it terms, hopefully they will start to gravitate away from GPL'ed code in favor of code under Berkeley-style licenses.
/. community, I'm not commenting here for the sake of pissing people off. I disapprove of the FSF's goals and hope more people will join me. The FSF may "free" the software but at the expense of it's authors.
Obviously, being required to release source code weakens a business's market position since people could obtain their software for free or an adept programmer could come along, snatch the code, and create a better product. All of this could be bad for a software company.
Of course, this may also bring a possible backlash against using open-sourced software and companies may start holing up again, developing their own code.
Either way, though, companies would be abandoning GPL'ed software which in my book is a big plus.
That said, I fully support the enforcement of copyright licenses, even when it's the GPL. I respect the time and effort programmers put into their software and those who write from scratch should have the right to publish or not publish their source code. Those who use licensed code should be respectful of that license, and thus, the work of previous coders.
And note, that while I know my comments will bring much resentment from the