There is a number of things that would be much better if the CPU supported some special instruction. Every OS class student has been tought this.
I was taught that special instructions were a waste of time as 95% percent of the chips time was spent on the simplist operations such as load/store, logic and simple arithmetic. Hence the RISC chipset.
Perhaps the situation has changed now that compilers are a little more sophisticated. I say a little. SIMD is nice for intensive applications like encoders and number crunchers, but frankly, I'm willing to be that most programs that mosts users run are still mostly just loading, storing, checking and adding. Unless you can guarantee that the compilers will actually make use of the advanced functions, there's not really much point in going all out to implement them.
I'm sure her friends know this. For me, there is nothing in the universe that would make me leave my kid. Nothing. I believe she's dead.
You sir, are an optimist. Few people enjoy the company of their children so much that nothing would make them leave. Offer a new life with a big house, a pretty spouse, security and comfort well over and above what you have now, throw in assurred finacial security for the offspring you leave behind, and you'd be surprised at the fraction of the population that soberly kisses their darlings farewell only to play Abba in the SUV as they drive away.
"Mama, Mia! Here I go again! My my, how can I resist you!?"
Is this for real? I don't get it. Here in Finland there are ballot boxes in prisons on election days... do convicted criminals lose their vote for life automatically in the US, or does it only apply in some states?
After the 15th Ammendment was passed, which made it illegal to deny anyone voting rights based on race, millions of black Americans were enfranchised. Southern whites, being quite racist, took exception to this and sought ways to legally re-disenfranchise black voters. Alongside a determined effort to convict more and more black people, criminal disenfranchisement laws were passed which ensured that once convicted for a crime, no matter how petty, a black voter would be forever disenfranchised. As noted above, this extends itself outside of the original state in some cases.
Here's a link with more info. Personally, I doubt the committment of many American states, especially southern ones, to the principles of democracy. And my own personal opinion on voting rights for criminals, is that they are one of the groups in society for whom the right to vote is most important.
That it/is/ going to damage reiserfs is beyond any doubt, no matter whether he's proven innocent, not proven guilty, or proven guilty. The name is tainted, and a business executive will not likely touch anything related to that person, no matter whether it gets taken over and run by other people or not.
And that is why you should never name your project after yourself. I mean, imagine if Linus Torvalds was caught abed with a penguin rent boy within the arctic circle. You could kiss your linux support goodbye, and the Tux logo would just become plain creepy.
The OLPC projects goal is to put a laptop into every childs hands, not to create a political statement about free software.
Yes, but when some private company and it's lawyer goon squad come looking for their protection money from those children, the matter will probably cease being a mere political issue.
There's little reason for anyone to still be running SP1; SP2 contained a range of improvements to XP's security.'"
How's about the fact that you paid upwards of $200 dollars for your copy, along with that the implicit support from Microsoft. How's that for a good reason?
My father (older generation) is pretty much incapable of learning FPS controls, or manipulating a space ship in 3d (ala Descent). I was able to get a grip on the controls, but it was hard for me. My younger brother (11 years younger) was literally flying spaceships through 3d space about as well as I could when he was 3 years old.
Being able to play first person shooter and space/flight sims is neither a neccessary nor sufficient condition for being "comfortable" or "good" with computers....
The creepy thing is that no matter how adept he is at playing video games and taking them for granted he still (at 14) can't really tell the difference between a computer and a monitor.
It seems that/. is getting submissions with less and less substance.
That's because Slashdot submissions are selected on the basis of quantity, not quality.
It's like this. Currently the Slashdot selection process is random or quasi-random. It's safe to assume that selection is based less on individual submission quality as it is based on the likelihood of that submission being randomly, or quasi-randomly selected for consideration by the editor. The key to getting a submission on the front page is to spam as many submissions as is possible.
Now, it's probable that to combat this, the editors long since had a very basic anti-spam system set up. Nothing too fancy, just a prevention against competely or nearly identical submissions. Because of this, each successive spam submission will require slight modification. Therefore to keep up a high quantity of submissions, quality will have to suffer. Witness the proof that this kind of spamming is indeed occuring.
Meanwhile, submitters of quality summaries become successively demoralised by lack of recognition, and simply don't bother to submit any more. I know I did. This feeds back on itself as the editors, desperate for some meager level of quality, troll through more and more stories. Hence to prevent a quality submission being selected over their own poor ones, the submission spammers must flood the system with ever increasing quantities of low grade material. The end result is that your carefully laid out and checked submissions will be rejected within minutes.
There are a number of possible solution to this situation, none of which have been attempted by the Slashdot editorial team. This situation has arisen from what a Software Quality treastie would call; "A Failure of Process". It's not so much individuals actions that are broken so much as the whole system needing makeover.
If you're a democracy and liberty loving citizen, then yes, the Chinese regieme represents oppression and injustice and stands against you and your way of life.
However, if you're a corporate shareholder, or one of their shills in public office, then the Chinese regieme represents untold potential to shaft billions and make billions in the process. Ergo, you'll want to keep them sweet.
Hate speech goes against the very idea of freedom and equality, why should it be tolerated?
No it doesn't. Hate speech is a bunch of angry people being very, very offensive and trying to provoke a reaction out of their audience. That's all it is. If the crowd chooses to become violent because of it then the individuals who became violent are the ones really at fault.
Placing all the blame on the rhetoric is just a cop out. People are responsible for their own actions and being drunk, angry or "under the spell" of some speaker is just nonsense. It's just another way of saying they were possessed by demons or some other supernatural influences. They weren't.
A talented and devious speaker says words meant to stir people into a frenzy. Big whup. Why should the rest of us lose our rights? Who gets to decide what's hate speech? What if someone protests vehemently against animal experimenters or corporate power or homosexuality or infant circumcision? Are they going to get locked up for being anti-science, anti-capitalist, anti-homosexual or anti-semetic? It's peoples actions that are illegal, not their opinions, expressed or not. I'll tolerate any opinion if the alternative means having ThoughtCrime on the books.
Theft is against our principles and isn't tolerated, calling for hate and murder shouldn't be either.
Soliciting murder is against the law. Calling for people to hate someone or something isn't. You might not like it, but people do have a right not to like, and even hate things. It's like that old Tom Lehrer joke: "I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that."
People are free to hate. Happiness and love for your fellow man are not mandatory. Do we need to have "Good Citizen" inspectors that scrutinise people for any "anti-social" charaterstics? What you're proposing is mandatory political correctness. I'm sorry, but I would rather have my right to be offensive over your "right" not to be offended.
Ask yourself; Why should actions that the student takes in their private out of school time have such a great effect on their performance in the school? What exactly is going on here that so affects their ability to learn?
The answer of course, is homework. Playing video games, or indeed, doing anything entertaining in your private time, takes away precious hours that could be "better" spent doing work that by all rights and reason, should only be done in the school, during school hours. Some people seem to think that learning the disipline of taking your work home to finish it off in your own free time, make you a "better" person. In my book it make you a dumbass at best, and an employer's shill at worst.
If schools actually did their jobs they were assigned, in the hours they are paid for, instead of getting your children to finish them during your family time, it wouldn't matter what your kids did in the evenings as long as they; a) spent quality time with you away from their peers and b) got a good nights sleep.
So the next time you find that the only appreciable time you spent with your child that day was when you were helping them with their homework, ask yourself this. Why am I; unqualified, unpaid and unsolicited, doing the work that someone else is already being paid to do, when I'd rather do something else with my child? If the answer is; "Because they have to get their homework done!", then you are a fool unfit to raise your child.
Basically BE INVOLVED IN YOUR CHILD'S LIFE. You brought them into the world, whether by choice or not, so act like the adult you chose to be and be responsible for you and your childrens' actions.
Pffffft! Most people don't choose to have children, and the majority most likely view the precipitation of their offspring with resentment and despair. Most people didn't want their kids to begin with, and don't really feel like looking after them now that they're able to walk, talk and use the head.
Asking people to be involved in their child's life is like asking workers to do double overtime with no extra pay. Children have become a chore in the modern age, a force in direct opposition to the new Purpose for Life; Salaried Employment. The only reason people keep having them is a failure to foresee consequences.
Will it now. Just a quick exercise for you - try to calculate how much of the US economy depends on the Chinese economy. Then do the same calculation backwards.
In 1914, England and Germany were each the other's largest trading partner.
What if the conspiracy nutjobs are right, and 9/11 was, in some way, a deliberate action by the Bush administration in exactly the same way that Hitler was behind the burning of the Reichstag?
That assumes that the Bush administration had the competance to pull off such a delicate scheme. That flies in the face of everything we know about them.
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Man. Those Libyians are going to be really pissed when they find out that their plutonium wasn't used to power the laptops.
Perhaps the situation has changed now that compilers are a little more sophisticated. I say a little. SIMD is nice for intensive applications like encoders and number crunchers, but frankly, I'm willing to be that most programs that mosts users run are still mostly just loading, storing, checking and adding. Unless you can guarantee that the compilers will actually make use of the advanced functions, there's not really much point in going all out to implement them.
Oh wait....
"Mama, Mia! Here I go again!
My my, how can I resist you!?"
Here's a link with more info. Personally, I doubt the committment of many American states, especially southern ones, to the principles of democracy. And my own personal opinion on voting rights for criminals, is that they are one of the groups in society for whom the right to vote is most important.
...as you make clear in your post.
It's like this. Currently the Slashdot selection process is random or quasi-random. It's safe to assume that selection is based less on individual submission quality as it is based on the likelihood of that submission being randomly, or quasi-randomly selected for consideration by the editor. The key to getting a submission on the front page is to spam as many submissions as is possible.
Now, it's probable that to combat this, the editors long since had a very basic anti-spam system set up. Nothing too fancy, just a prevention against competely or nearly identical submissions. Because of this, each successive spam submission will require slight modification. Therefore to keep up a high quantity of submissions, quality will have to suffer. Witness the proof that this kind of spamming is indeed occuring.
Meanwhile, submitters of quality summaries become successively demoralised by lack of recognition, and simply don't bother to submit any more. I know I did. This feeds back on itself as the editors, desperate for some meager level of quality, troll through more and more stories. Hence to prevent a quality submission being selected over their own poor ones, the submission spammers must flood the system with ever increasing quantities of low grade material. The end result is that your carefully laid out and checked submissions will be rejected within minutes.
There are a number of possible solution to this situation, none of which have been attempted by the Slashdot editorial team. This situation has arisen from what a Software Quality treastie would call; "A Failure of Process". It's not so much individuals actions that are broken so much as the whole system needing makeover.
If you're a democracy and liberty loving citizen, then yes, the Chinese regieme represents oppression and injustice and stands against you and your way of life.
However, if you're a corporate shareholder, or one of their shills in public office, then the Chinese regieme represents untold potential to shaft billions and make billions in the process. Ergo, you'll want to keep them sweet.
On Slashdot, only old people quote memes.
1. Final Fantasy VII
2. The Ocarina of Time
3. Star Ocean 2
4. Vagrant Story
3. Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
You need to play these games.
Placing all the blame on the rhetoric is just a cop out. People are responsible for their own actions and being drunk, angry or "under the spell" of some speaker is just nonsense. It's just another way of saying they were possessed by demons or some other supernatural influences. They weren't.
A talented and devious speaker says words meant to stir people into a frenzy. Big whup. Why should the rest of us lose our rights? Who gets to decide what's hate speech? What if someone protests vehemently against animal experimenters or corporate power or homosexuality or infant circumcision? Are they going to get locked up for being anti-science, anti-capitalist, anti-homosexual or anti-semetic? It's peoples actions that are illegal, not their opinions, expressed or not. I'll tolerate any opinion if the alternative means having ThoughtCrime on the books.
Soliciting murder is against the law. Calling for people to hate someone or something isn't. You might not like it, but people do have a right not to like, and even hate things. It's like that old Tom Lehrer joke: "I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that."
People are free to hate. Happiness and love for your fellow man are not mandatory. Do we need to have "Good Citizen" inspectors that scrutinise people for any "anti-social" charaterstics? What you're proposing is mandatory political correctness. I'm sorry, but I would rather have my right to be offensive over your "right" not to be offended.
17 Wikipedia links! Guaranteed +5, in any discussion.
Ask yourself; Why should actions that the student takes in their private out of school time have such a great effect on their performance in the school? What exactly is going on here that so affects their ability to learn?
The answer of course, is homework. Playing video games, or indeed, doing anything entertaining in your private time, takes away precious hours that could be "better" spent doing work that by all rights and reason, should only be done in the school, during school hours. Some people seem to think that learning the disipline of taking your work home to finish it off in your own free time, make you a "better" person. In my book it make you a dumbass at best, and an employer's shill at worst.
If schools actually did their jobs they were assigned, in the hours they are paid for, instead of getting your children to finish them during your family time, it wouldn't matter what your kids did in the evenings as long as they; a) spent quality time with you away from their peers and b) got a good nights sleep.
So the next time you find that the only appreciable time you spent with your child that day was when you were helping them with their homework, ask yourself this. Why am I; unqualified, unpaid and unsolicited, doing the work that someone else is already being paid to do, when I'd rather do something else with my child? If the answer is; "Because they have to get their homework done!", then you are a fool unfit to raise your child.
....it's written by people.
Asking people to be involved in their child's life is like asking workers to do double overtime with no extra pay. Children have become a chore in the modern age, a force in direct opposition to the new Purpose for Life; Salaried Employment. The only reason people keep having them is a failure to foresee consequences.