The display appears to promise lower costs for a full 40" HDTV screen bringing the price down to $400.
Sure it may be $400 but then go the store and look at that price tag: at least double. They know it would still sell so why would they lower the price? They're not dumb.
Then for ur next job when ur employer will ask for reference "what did he do before leaving" and your ex boss goes "left a condom on my door knob", ur current boss will laugh it up and you'll be da shit!
Those motherboards that come with big-named computers like Dell and Compaq, well just dare to take a look at the motherboards that they come with. Looks like something you'd find in a lost civilization on Mars.
This may be a bit off topic but isn't the RIAA a bit too greedy?
By looking at what the MPAA has done. They mostly went after the torrent trackers (lokitorrent) and listings (suprnova) and AFAIK, the ISP's like Comcast send emails to some of their customers saying that they should stop downloading illegal content and delete whatever they have or they'll have their account suspended (Don't remember too well what the email says but I've read it on many forums from members who got one).
Here, we got the greedy RIAA going after the bees instead of the hive. Just another way of showing their business plan that many slashdotters are aware of
Installation isn't made to be fast. It has to compile everything but I don't agree that it's notorious for its speed.
You can take any distro and compile whatever you want and turn it into something "notorious for its speed" by compiling things for your system.
People get attatched to binaries because it's quick and simple (not always clean though) so later what they do is compare apples to oranges where one installs something using rpm's and the other compiling from source when you can in fact compile from source on any distro... So really, notorious for its speed?
I'd say notorious for making the hard things easy for the newcommers.
What is worse than a lack of comments? useless/redundant comments!
final int iPENISSIZE;// store penis size
well no shit sherlock!
What I'm getting at is very basic and it's no secret to us. Our goal is to write code that will make a coder understand what the system has to do regardless of who looks at it(programmers obviously.., not martha stewart and when. If that can be achieved, than I think that the programmer who originally wrote the code did his job right.
My beef with this part of programming is the following. I'm in my 2nd year in computer science and what was common is when the teacher asks for commented code, students would put obvious comments (commenting things that are self-explanatory) because we're naturally lazy (I fucking am) but this is IMO a bad habit because you just read things that aren't helping you and what you want is help/clarification! Something like
final int iPENISSIZE;// store average martian penis size for later comparison with human penis size
We just recently started writing GUIs in Java. Because the GUI part makes our program bigger and the code longer, organization within the classes became more important than when we didn't do GUI's so I was thankful that I wrote comments before even started coding as the programs became bigger because it saved me a shitload of time.
I think the teachers should try to get the students on the right track and make them get "good" habits to later not get b0rked when things become more complex.
Some arguments that Maddox raises in this article about discipline do make sense. His site isn't to be taken seriously but that isn't to say that he never raises any good arguments. I agree with his last statement:
Remember: never take shit from your kids. You make payments on the house, utilities, their clothes, school, and their food. You own them. If they don't like it, they can move out. If you love your kids, love them enough to beat them so that they don't grow up to be idiots.
people don't know the difference between discipline and child abuse.
Kids today certainly aren't like what we used to be when I was 8-10 yrs old. For one thing, they seem more spoiled. Are parents getting too soft?
Robots building houses? That's swell but even better would be robots building houses who are actual robots!
Then Professor Frink's plan will be a reality:
Professor Frink: Well, as you can see, when the burglar trips the alarm, the house raises from it's foundations and runs down the street, round the corner to safety... *house burns*
The robots were tested with larger.50 caliber machine guns as well as rocket and grenade launchers.
Isn't this solution a _little_ extreme? I think the koreans had a few too many hollywood action movies. Seriously fuck this is real life, not a simulation. Sure lets build robots instead of trying to cooperate. Now I am aware of how hostile those two nations are but I mean comon, once both sides have robots, what next? It will get worse before it gets better and I'm sure thats no surprise to slashdotters.
Who ever said judging the performance of many different cpus just by looking at the "megahertz" was good enough?
You want to know which cpu is faster than what? read reviews. Easiest and best way. Forget mhz, hell, even forget technical data if you don't feel like understanding it. Simply check out a few reviews on one product, take note of the benchmark results that interest you (such as gaming or compiling) and then see if the results from the different reviewers make any sense. If they look similar, then you can trust them.
In my case, I'm a gamer so I'll do what? Look at reviews and take note of which cpu is faster than which. In the end with a few sites being checked, I can make a conclusion unless all the results are unique. Most sites out there show the same pattern for gaming, A64 > P4. Then somehow, that must be a reliable way to measure performance among different processors, right? Just make sure not to read from crappy reviewers (did I just hear an echo saying "toms hardware"?..)
Now it's AMD's turn to pull an Even Steven on Intel with cool running cpus that also O/C high. That SOI sure does wonders ever since they started using it on the first A64's.
Most people don't run around overclocking their cpus but it is a great market to target (oh I'm da rappa!) because Intel has had great cores to O/C ever since the first Northwoods until the first Prescott, the bacon-cooker.
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In our own unique way :)
You'll understand how depressed he is lately. Poor guy :/
Oh I remember that movie. Does he go at a certain point
"I am nothing but a cook who knows how to make bombs" o_O
can soon be rated with the number of available movies of Steven Seagal.
However this could be balanced out with some porn so.... Apple, be wise.
The display appears to promise lower costs for a full 40" HDTV screen bringing the price down to $400.
Sure it may be $400 but then go the store and look at that price tag: at least double. They know it would still sell so why would they lower the price? They're not dumb.
on ur boss' door knob.
Then for ur next job when ur employer will ask for reference "what did he do before leaving" and your ex boss goes "left a condom on my door knob", ur current boss will laugh it up and you'll be da shit!
where do you draw the line?
I can tell you where not to draw the line
*thinks of Simpsons*
Homer: I'm drawing a line down the center of the house ala. I Love Lucy. You stay on your side and I'll stay on my side.... D'oh!
That's right.
Those motherboards that come with big-named computers like Dell and Compaq, well just dare to take a look at the motherboards that they come with. Looks like something you'd find in a lost civilization on Mars.
and since we're at it, let's give an emmy award to Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal :^
This may be a bit off topic but isn't the RIAA a bit too greedy?
By looking at what the MPAA has done. They mostly went after the torrent trackers (lokitorrent) and listings (suprnova) and AFAIK, the ISP's like Comcast send emails to some of their customers saying that they should stop downloading illegal content and delete whatever they have or they'll have their account suspended (Don't remember too well what the email says but I've read it on many forums from members who got one).
Here, we got the greedy RIAA going after the bees instead of the hive. Just another way of showing their business plan that many slashdotters are aware of
[McBain Voice] Up and at them.
Installation isn't made to be fast. It has to compile everything but I don't agree that it's notorious for its speed.
You can take any distro and compile whatever you want and turn it into something "notorious for its speed" by compiling things for your system.
People get attatched to binaries because it's quick and simple (not always clean though) so later what they do is compare apples to oranges where one installs something using rpm's and the other compiling from source when you can in fact compile from source on any distro... So really, notorious for its speed?
I'd say notorious for making the hard things easy for the newcommers.
What is worse than a lack of comments? useless/redundant comments!
// store penis size
// store average martian penis size for later comparison with human penis size
final int iPENISSIZE;
well no shit sherlock!
What I'm getting at is very basic and it's no secret to us. Our goal is to write code that will make a coder understand what the system has to do regardless of who looks at it(programmers obviously.., not martha stewart and when. If that can be achieved, than I think that the programmer who originally wrote the code did his job right.
My beef with this part of programming is the following. I'm in my 2nd year in computer science and what was common is when the teacher asks for commented code, students would put obvious comments (commenting things that are self-explanatory) because we're naturally lazy (I fucking am) but this is IMO a bad habit because you just read things that aren't helping you and what you want is help/clarification! Something like
final int iPENISSIZE;
We just recently started writing GUIs in Java. Because the GUI part makes our program bigger and the code longer, organization within the classes became more important than when we didn't do GUI's so I was thankful that I wrote comments before even started coding as the programs became bigger because it saved me a shitload of time.
I think the teachers should try to get the students on the right track and make them get "good" habits to later not get b0rked when things become more complex.
SERENITY NNNNOOOOOOWWWWW
Do you Love your kid?
Some arguments that Maddox raises in this article about discipline do make sense. His site isn't to be taken seriously but that isn't to say that he never raises any good arguments. I agree with his last statement:
Remember: never take shit from your kids. You make payments on the house, utilities, their clothes, school, and their food. You own them. If they don't like it, they can move out. If you love your kids, love them enough to beat them so that they don't grow up to be idiots.
people don't know the difference between discipline and child abuse.
Kids today certainly aren't like what we used to be when I was 8-10 yrs old. For one thing, they seem more spoiled. Are parents getting too soft?
Quebec will never be a Country. Go dream about something more realistic like sleeping on a pack of flapjacks.
Correction: a tiny umbrella
Homer: It's times like this I wish I were a religious man.
Reverend Lovejoy: Run for your lives people We don't have a prayer!
Let's send Steven Seagal! He'll take care of anything in his path without changing his facial expression and in the end, victory shall be ours :|
Robots building houses? That's swell but even better would be robots building houses who are actual robots!
Then Professor Frink's plan will be a reality:
Professor Frink: Well, as you can see, when the burglar trips the alarm, the house raises from it's foundations and runs down the street, round the corner to safety... *house burns*
The robots were tested with larger .50 caliber machine guns as well as rocket and grenade launchers.
Isn't this solution a _little_ extreme? I think the koreans had a few too many hollywood action movies. Seriously fuck this is real life, not a simulation. Sure lets build robots instead of trying to cooperate. Now I am aware of how hostile those two nations are but I mean comon, once both sides have robots, what next? It will get worse before it gets better and I'm sure thats no surprise to slashdotters.
Who ever said judging the performance of many different cpus just by looking at the "megahertz" was good enough?
You want to know which cpu is faster than what? read reviews. Easiest and best way. Forget mhz, hell, even forget technical data if you don't feel like understanding it. Simply check out a few reviews on one product, take note of the benchmark results that interest you (such as gaming or compiling) and then see if the results from the different reviewers make any sense. If they look similar, then you can trust them.
In my case, I'm a gamer so I'll do what? Look at reviews and take note of which cpu is faster than which. In the end with a few sites being checked, I can make a conclusion unless all the results are unique. Most sites out there show the same pattern for gaming, A64 > P4. Then somehow, that must be a reliable way to measure performance among different processors, right? Just make sure not to read from crappy reviewers (did I just hear an echo saying "toms hardware"?..)
Forgot to mention a great on the new core and its new features and benchmarks from Xbit Labs
This is so dejavu.
Now it's AMD's turn to pull an Even Steven on Intel with cool running cpus that also O/C high. That SOI sure does wonders ever since they started using it on the first A64's.
Most people don't run around overclocking their cpus but it is a great market to target (oh I'm da rappa!) because Intel has had great cores to O/C ever since the first Northwoods until the first Prescott, the bacon-cooker.
I could tell you why we are still using 30 year old shuttles but that would involve me using the Chewbacca Defense.