The point is, why make such a surprising (and, IMO that is quite surprising) claim if you're not going to back it up? Why not wait to make that comment for the full review?
If you're running the most recent CPU/GPU with a $hitload of RAM.. you're going to have a good gaming experience
WELL NO SHIT! What did you expect? The game to only run acceptably on hardware that doesn't exist yet? Geez..
As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience
Why no benchmarks of this? IMO much more useful than a benchmark of a P4 3.6GHz system with 4GB of RAM and a 6800 Ultra..
All I've got to say is WTF? Parse error: reader too dumb.
The Euclidean path integral OK.. I'm with you here, Hawking.. don't see what an integral has to do with black holes, but OK..
over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing Slow down.. not sure what's going on here
and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian Gah? Wait.. I think I heard something about this Lorentz guy.. ooh, my brain is starting to hurt!
On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state Well, isn't that just stating the obvious (OK.. now I'm just trying to sound smart).
Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes. OK.. he goes from a math equation to black holes? I don't see the jump.
The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon. Good enough of an explanation for me! Forget all the rest of the stuff..
Bah.. Need to wait for A Slightly Longer History of Time to be released before I understand this stuff!
As so.. just need to make it look official looking:
from: genhammond@dod.gov to: spammer
Dear Mr. Spammer, You have made a death threat against a citizen of the United States of America. In accordance with the Patriot Act, and the Defense Act of the United States, I am authorized and obligated to conduct an operation to deploy force against you.
However, in this time of war, missiles are a rare commodity best spent fighting terrorists instead of pathetic lowlifes like yourself. As such, I am willing to spare your life, if you deposit $250000 in US funds into account #453234576 of the Bank of America.
You have 48 hours to comply, or you will be destroyed. There will be no negotiations.
Hammond.
from: rumsfield@pentagon.gov to: genhammond@dod.gov
General, You are authorized to deploy two (2) cruise missiles in the state of Nigeria under Patriot Act sect 3202. I expect the operation will be complete within 72 hours, as discussed.
from: prez@whitehouse.gov to: rumsfield@pentagon.gov
Monkeyman sez: Very well. But I want something good. Explosions and all. We will discuss this at meeting today.
from: rumsfield@pentagon.gov to: prez@whitehouse.gov
I think that's a little extreme right now.. Iran and Syria plans may be compromised if we proceed. Recommend scaling back.
from: tenet@cia.gov to: ashcroft@pentagon.gov
Please make the necessary arrangements.
from: prez@whitehouse.gov to: tenet@cia.gov
Monkeyman sez: Nuke the bastards.
from: tenet@cia.gov to: prez@whitehouse.gov
Mr. President, Recommend operatives work with Nigerian police to apprehend this suspect.
from: director@fbi.gov to: tenet@cia.gov
See below. Possible threat to national security.
from: agent75091@fbi.gov to: director@fbi.gov
This is a CIA matter.. please forward to the appropriate people.
That means less taxes No, that means they find a new way to waste.. err.. spend the public's money. Governments are real good at wasting.. err.. spending.. money..
more money in the hands of consumers to spend Not for the software developers who lose their jobs.
In their upcoming election: Support those candidates who aren't in bed with the RIAA (are there such people?)
By continuing to vote for the same people who take bribes from the RIAA, you're supporting the DMCA, the INDUCE act, and any/all of the other lamebrain pieces of legislation the RIAA wants to push through.
Anyone who votes for those who support these poor pieces of legislation deserve what they get.
LOL.. I didn't even realize this.. here's Thompson's bio from Redhat.com:
Kevin Thompson brings a unique blend of operational and financial knowledge from his experience with high-growth and multinational companies. He formerly served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he directed stock offerings and oversaw mergers and acquisitions at public and private technology companies.
Prior to his position at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thompson served as a senior manager for Arthur Andersen LLP for 10 years, overseeing public offerings and directing projects for companies in North America, Latin American and Southeast Asia. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma.
I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area
Still have a LONG way to go for that to happen! This is the one area that Apple/Microsoft/etc really kill OSS apps, in general.
Even their newer products demonstrate that MS views security as something to be tacked on later rather than something to be designed in from the start
.. works for Microsoft, it kind of diminishes your argument, doesn't it? (See: "Writing Secure Code 2nd ed" by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc)
Of course, that's not to say that every MS project (not limited to MS Project.. lol) follows the guidelines, but I suspect most do, to varying degrees.
What is it?
3 inches in a foot
3 feet in a yard
*1760* yards in a mile.. Geez! Where the f* did that come from?
Metric is easy:
10 mm in a centimetre
100 cm in a metre
1000 m in a kilometre .. And there are other, lesser used, units in between (ie. decimetre, decametre, hectometre)
And these units should be familiar to anyone who has used technology:
Where do you thing MEGAbytes, TERAbits, etc. come from? (Of course, in computer terms, everything should be on base 2, which complicates things a little, but..)
An invite would be very, very welcome!!
schwREMOVE-THISeit
@NOSPAMutoronto.ca
Please remove the appropriate text as appropriate to compose my e-mail address (ie. REMOVE-THIS, NOSPAM)
When did Microsoft ever say their software is totally secure? I don't remember hearing that..
Hmm.. there was a company that claimed their software was "unbreakable".. oh, wait! But that was Oracle.. and wasn't there an exploit found shortly after that ill-advised slogan?
Slashdot Mirror
The point is, why make such a surprising (and, IMO that is quite surprising) claim if you're not going to back it up? Why not wait to make that comment for the full review?
If you're running the most recent CPU/GPU with a $hitload of RAM.. you're going to have a good gaming experience
WELL NO SHIT! What did you expect? The game to only run acceptably on hardware that doesn't exist yet? Geez..
As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience
Why no benchmarks of this? IMO much more useful than a benchmark of a P4 3.6GHz system with 4GB of RAM and a 6800 Ultra..
All I've got to say is WTF?
Parse error: reader too dumb.
The Euclidean path integral
OK.. I'm with you here, Hawking.. don't see what an integral has to do with black holes, but OK..
over all topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing
Slow down.. not sure what's going on here
and so is unitary when analytically continued to the Lorentzian
Gah? Wait.. I think I heard something about this Lorentz guy.. ooh, my brain is starting to hurt!
On the other hand, the path integral over all topologically non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state
Well, isn't that just stating the obvious (OK.. now I'm just trying to sound smart).
Thus the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation and evaporation of black holes.
OK.. he goes from a math equation to black holes? I don't see the jump.
The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon.
Good enough of an explanation for me! Forget all the rest of the stuff..
Bah.. Need to wait for A Slightly Longer History of Time to be released before I understand this stuff!
Wow. Very nice! This is the adblocking feature I'd hoped for!!
Really, I think this is the best reason to switch from IE!
You said:
I block pop-ups and flash ads with Firefox.
How do you do the latter? I can't seem to block flash ads without disabling flash entirely?
As so.. just need to make it look official looking:
from: genhammond@dod.gov
to: spammer
Dear Mr. Spammer,
You have made a death threat against a citizen of the United States of America.
In accordance with the Patriot Act, and the Defense Act of the United States, I am authorized and obligated
to conduct an operation to deploy force against you.
However, in this time of war, missiles are a rare commodity best spent fighting terrorists instead of
pathetic lowlifes like yourself. As such, I am willing to spare your life, if you deposit $250000 in US funds
into account #453234576 of the Bank of America.
You have 48 hours to comply, or you will be destroyed. There will be no negotiations.
Hammond.
from: rumsfield@pentagon.gov
to: genhammond@dod.gov
General,
You are authorized to deploy two (2) cruise missiles in the state of Nigeria under Patriot Act sect 3202.
I expect the operation will be complete within 72 hours, as discussed.
from: prez@whitehouse.gov
to: rumsfield@pentagon.gov
Monkeyman sez:
Very well. But I want something good. Explosions and all. We will discuss this at meeting today.
from: rumsfield@pentagon.gov
to: prez@whitehouse.gov
I think that's a little extreme right now..
Iran and Syria plans may be compromised if we proceed. Recommend scaling back.
from: tenet@cia.gov
to: ashcroft@pentagon.gov
Please make the necessary arrangements.
from: prez@whitehouse.gov
to: tenet@cia.gov
Monkeyman sez:
Nuke the bastards.
from: tenet@cia.gov
to: prez@whitehouse.gov
Mr. President,
Recommend operatives work with Nigerian police to apprehend this suspect.
from: director@fbi.gov
to: tenet@cia.gov
See below. Possible threat to national security.
from: agent75091@fbi.gov
to: director@fbi.gov
This is a CIA matter.. please forward to the appropriate people.
from: myemail
to: SNITCH@fbi.gov
Homer: How does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't. It's just a stupid rock!
Homer: I see. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
(I like pointing out the obvious)
In this article I'll focus on PHP, the technology Oracle has chosen to incorporate into its products, and ASP.NET.
Yup, I expected a completely unbiased article after reading this in the second paragraph..
That means less taxes
No, that means they find a new way to waste.. err.. spend the public's money. Governments are real good at wasting.. err.. spending.. money..
more money in the hands of consumers to spend
Not for the software developers who lose their jobs.
We Canadian programmers are all moving south to get paid 40% more!
All we have to do is put up with the Patriot Act, DMCA, George Bush, and..
Wait? Why did I want to take that programming job in the States, again?
the 10 blade razors..
(For those clueless people: Gillette has a 3-blade razor called the Mach 3)
In their upcoming election:
Support those candidates who aren't in bed with the RIAA (are there such people?)
By continuing to vote for the same people who take bribes from the RIAA, you're supporting the DMCA, the INDUCE act, and any/all of the other lamebrain pieces of legislation the RIAA wants to push through.
Anyone who votes for those who support these poor pieces of legislation deserve what they get.
Kevin Thompson brings a unique blend of operational and financial knowledge from his experience with high-growth and multinational companies. He formerly served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he directed stock offerings and oversaw mergers and acquisitions at public and private technology companies.
Prior to his position at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thompson served as a senior manager for Arthur Andersen LLP for 10 years, overseeing public offerings and directing projects for companies in North America, Latin American and Southeast Asia. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma.
I tried to tell Kevin Thompson (CFO of Redhat) that hiring all those Arthur Andersen Enron accountants "for cheap" was NOT a good idea!!
Certainly!! I'm sure they made Redhat's accountants cook their books!! They are a devious bunch..
Still have a LONG way to go for that to happen!
This is the one area that Apple/Microsoft/etc really kill OSS apps, in general.
Of course, that's not to say that every MS project (not limited to MS Project.. lol) follows the guidelines, but I suspect most do, to varying degrees.
We've already seen that privacy policies are void because most people don't read them (don't have the link..)..
and now e-mail can be read by service providers?
Why does it seem like the USA is the most un-free country in the free world?
3 inches in a foot
3 feet in a yard
*1760* yards in a mile.. Geez! Where the f* did that come from?
Metric is easy:
10 mm in a centimetre
100 cm in a metre
1000 m in a kilometre
.. And there are other, lesser used, units in between (ie. decimetre, decametre, hectometre)
And these units should be familiar to anyone who has used technology:
Where do you thing MEGAbytes, TERAbits, etc. come from? (Of course, in computer terms, everything should be on base 2, which complicates things a little, but..)
An invite would be very, very welcome!! schwREMOVE-THISeit @NOSPAMutoronto.ca Please remove the appropriate text as appropriate to compose my e-mail address (ie. REMOVE-THIS, NOSPAM)
Those terrorists are barbaric savages.. the lowest form of life on Earth.
No f*cking way I'd go over there. Ever.
No, they said that about the GPL
When did Microsoft ever say their software is totally secure? I don't remember hearing that.. Hmm.. there was a company that claimed their software was "unbreakable".. oh, wait! But that was Oracle.. and wasn't there an exploit found shortly after that ill-advised slogan?
I frankly don't see what Sun has to gain by making Java open source..
I'd say a laser-guided 1000-pound bomb would do the trick.. Now, we just need to convince Ashcroft SPAM helps the terrorists..