It supports only up to 16GB, but has like almost any other feature you could want - has an EATX footprint, and fits int an ATX case if you are a small business type or something, or if you want a rigged-out workstation (dual PCI-Express x 16, for SLI'd Quadro's!!!).
However, if you wanted something more powerful for a larger-scale machine, then this board is probably not it. This is probably it:
There is no way the i2hub will be shut down haha. The fact that it is high-profile is one of its strengths as well as its weaknesses - people do share many legal things on i2hub also. For example, unlicensed anime, linux isos, books (speed = much better than say Project Gutenberg's website), and many other things.
The RIAA is just trying to be a bully once more but it won't work...the i2hub is not the RIAA's-music-sharing-hub, it is much more. So fuck off RIAA.
Also, I am not quite sure whether the RIAA is allowed to snoop on i2hub anyways.
And furthermore, all of the music coming from the big labels suck ass - go find some real music - college is one of the easiest places to learn of music outside of the big labels.
First, yes this does show that something is wrong with the security of campuses...I am at UCB and I recall that sometime last year we got an email through an instructional (class) account saying that our Student ID Numbers might have been compromised and that they are looking into it. While there isn't much one can do with SID's, it still kinda got me worried - I mean what if they got our passwords or something, and what if it was the same password as say the registration system (where someone could actually unregister you from Berkeley...).
I understand that since universities are prominent institutions, they may be the target of many different attacks but on the flip side, since so many students and faculty members are part of the university community, there should be that much more done in terms of security. I sure as hell don't want anything about me compromised (boy am I glad only the grad students' ssn were stolen the other day).
And also, to those who talk about how easy it is to cheat, it isn't. Almost all CS classes (for example) have a hardcore system that checks your code against everyone else's. Yes, it does take care of changing variable names and whatnot, it checks logic - and if you get caught (which many do) you will get an email telling you who you stole from, how much you stole, how much is deducted, etc. So in short, cheating is not easy.
There are comparable systems for say papers in humanities' courses, although checking natural language is a lot harder of course - but I believe those systems DO check against a massive database of published papers to see if you plagiarized from outside sources (in addition to checks with other students). And as for exams, it is rare for people to cheat - usually TA's are walking all over - if it was so easy to cheat as some people here say it is, then I am sure many bright college students would figure it out (and the bright TA's and professors would probably respond to it quickly too).
This article was written to be a filler...he probably had nothing else to write about and so pulled this out his ass...
...most people who have computer trouble have at least one techie friend who is not an "amateur", and can fix the problem for them.
And the thing about something bound to go wrong in some time is stupid...there are machines that obviously go without even reboots for a few years. If computers had a degree of randomness or failure after some time, it would come pretty quick since there are billions of instructions being processed all the time - what excactly is this time-to-failure? Well, you could make an argument that a hard disk is rated for 100,000 hours or something but I think the author is speaking of software.
And furthermore, most people DO KNOW to go into google and search but are scared of the consequences of perhaps doing something wrong - just like most people who use Windows are probably scared to go edit some random-ass file in Linux to get something to work.
In short, this article is stupid and actually is not slashdot-worthy really...it's just something we tear to pieces anyways.
For those of you who want ease of install
on
Gentoo 2005.0 Released
·
· Score: 4, Informative
Apparently it's Gentoo, with a nice graphical installer that is no longer cruel and unusual punishment...although the install of Gentoo teaches you quite a bit.
Yes, you get the benefits of portage.
Just wait a little for a new version based on 2005
I have to say this is like a godsave for linux. Most layusers will want some easy installation like this instead of using something like Yum (even if it is a GUI front-end to yum like GYUM). This is one giant step towards a viable desktop linux - and I believe that it isn't a replacement for apt/yum/[INSERT YOUR FLAVOR HERE] but uses them under the hood.
Before everyone starts bashing it and says that apt or emerge or whatever they use is the way to go, seriously think about it - one click installation, from a FRIENDLY user-interface, and easy to manage system for installing and uninstalling programs. Now if this were part of the base install on many distributions and some sort of standard was established (seriously, we need standards) I can probably convince my scared-of-Linux-because-it-is-hardcore friends to actually try Linux out.
Well other than the business that AMD gained before this release, I doubt Intel lost much. Reasons:
1. Most people don't care about AMD versus Intel, and will just buy - and actually since Intel is more of a household name than AMD is, Intel still has an advantage here.
2. Though one could bring up compatibility issues (Linux anyone?) I'm sure they will be solved soon since it is a major release. Processor compatibility is not a lasting issue for most things, especially to common users.
3. Most people don't know that Intel's first attempt failed or that there was even an attempt.
This is just such a ridiculously written article. The few legitimate examples provided in the article are found in the section discussing OSX. Some points of contention:
Personally, I find the Start Menu to be completely useless. And for the record, I didn't like the Apple Menu, so beloved to OS 9 users either. What the fuck does that mean? I love the Start Menu. Especially the part where it has my most frequently used programs - that thing is a godsave. It seems like the author just isn't used to windows and so is bashing everything on sight.
The tree view causes more useless motion and mouse clicks than anything else in the whole interface. Actually, the tree view is something that is intuitive, since our filesystem is organized in a hierarchical form. What the hell else do you want? If you don't want the tree view and prefer double-clicking your way through every single folder in your path, you can do that too.
Seeing Desktop and My Documents at the top of the hierarchy, above My Computer, still sends my brain into tailspins. My Documents and My Computer at the same level...huh???? Actually, no it doesn't send my brain into a tailspin you retard. Having My Documents there is easy for non-computer folks so that they can have easy access. And for the record, the actual My Documents is found on C:/Documents and Settings/UserName/My Documents so it's not a random magical folder at the top of the chain - it makes complete sense to have a quick-access shortcut.
Why do I need this moronic , multi screen wizard just to find a file????? Why does it ask me what type of document I'm searching for? More unnecessary decisions to make. What the fuck does that mean? I want it to ask for what type of document in case I want to search only for movies or something. It is absolutely useful - if you want a general search, you can do that too!
On the Mac, the icons are so crisp and clear and realistic, that most actually convey meaning to me. The ones that don't immediately convey meaning are easy for me to remember due to their shear impressiveness. Wow what a scientific analysis you made. Crisp, clear, and realistic. Well I for one have no problem confusing the Recycle Bin with My Computer or My Documents. Only a retarded idiot who is trying desperately to say windows sucks no matter what would point this out. Remembering Windows icons is very easy, and I am completely accustomed to it. I wonder if the author of this article has ever used windows for prolonged periods of time.
ONTO THE BONUSES OF OS X. But before I begin showing more examples of why the author is a moron, let me tell you that I do absolutely admire the OS X interface, and think it is very slick and intuitive. I am not a MAC HATER or anything like that. I am only trying to reduce the blind hate of Windows that seems to be abundant in this article.
It is powered by pure drag and drop. When I drag stuff off of the Finder Sidebar, it goes away. On Windows, a useless link is left I my desktop that I've got to get rid of. Some people see the dragging off to create a new shortcut as a feature in windows. I would find it annoying on OS X if that deleted it, simply because I am not used to it. This doesn't mean either OS is bad, each has its own way of doing it - just because one is different doesn't make it bad.
I just enter my search string and away it goes..no questions, no wizards, no dialogs, no thinking. And back it comes with everything that qualifies, regardless of document type. I can't wait to see what Spotlight adds to what is already powerful and simple. Again, you can do blind searches in windows too, without regards to file type.
The absence of a Windows-style tree view bothers me not a bit. I don't even think about using it on my Mac. I know my directory structure and I've bookmarked all of the important places in the Finder sidebar. No need to ever waste time navigating up and down the tr
BioE is a common major among colleges today - at my college, Cal, we have had it for a while now.
And actually, the major has nothing to do with crossing humans with birds and horses to produce a flying centaur (at the UG level anyways haha).
It is more of a 'process' major, whereby they learn a little of everything - most of my BioE friends tell me they feel like they aren't learning too much actually (and we rank pretty high in it too!) because there are few opportunities for depth. In fact, many EECS classes are crosslisted as BioE classes so that BioE ppl can get some sort of priority in getting into those classes - mainly because otherwise they wouldn't know shit.
Anyways, the courses involved are actually rather random - there is one called topics in genomics, one called intro to bioastronautics, then a bunch of those EECS-crosslisted classes, and so on.
I imagine that graduate students in BioE will HAVE to have major experience in a different field or else they wouldn't be able to do that much.
I think that the University should not be slamming these sites, and I think it has to do with bashing of said administration. Regardless of public or private, it is just plain stupid and is akin to many of the other stupid shit we see everyday from corporations. You would think that they would first try and listen to what their students have to say about their administration.
OTOH, it is NOT really a *public* university as you say, because we (the students) pay for nearly all of it. Since the Gubernator (who pledged to never cut education during his campaign) cut $372 million dollars from the UC system's budget, our fees continually rise. We were told that the fee raises will continue for the next four semesters AT LEAST. And if you will recall, until Reagan, the UC system was a true public system where our tuition was free. So we haven't been 'public' for a while now, only half-assed public.
...I am one of the many people who have always dreamt of OSX on x86. Perhaps if a poll was taken, Apple might see just how much demand there is for it...
I'm sorry but these games are all basically utter crap to the masses. And the Torque engine that someone mentioned is nowhere near the level of the 'pro' engines.
Put Torque next to many modern engines and it doesn't hold a candle to any of them: 1. CryEngine (Far Cry) 2. UT2k4 Engine (UT2k4) 3. UT2k3 Engine (UT2k3, Lineage II) 4. Source (HL2, that one MMO coming up later) 5. Doom 3 Engine (Doom 3)
Now granted, I just dropped the list of absolute toppers or whatever, but isn't that the type of products that the masses want?
Let's not be ridiculous here. We shouldn't tout something as a great product just because it is open source or indie or whatever. The product quality is first, and the fact that it is open source/indie/anything else is second.
The problem with Indie Games is that unless a RELATIVELY LARGE group of programmers are willing to gather together and pour their time into a world-class product, it will simply remain on the back-burner.
Actually, it isn't even on the back-burner now, it's just getting marinated.
I don't want to start a war or something here, but it is the simple truth so you're gonna have to square with it some day if you want to move on to the next level.
You are obviously not very knowledgible. Transistor counts aren't everything. CPU costs come mainly from R&D. If you really want to go by transistor counts, RAM would obliterate all...
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, here is what I think is one of the awesomest Dual Opteron boards, from Tyan:
Tyan Thunder K8WE
Specifications
It supports only up to 16GB, but has like almost any other feature you could want - has an EATX footprint, and fits int an ATX case if you are a small business type or something, or if you want a rigged-out workstation (dual PCI-Express x 16, for SLI'd Quadro's!!!).
However, if you wanted something more powerful for a larger-scale machine, then this board is probably not it. This is probably it:
Tyan Transport TX46
Specifications
There is no way the i2hub will be shut down haha. The fact that it is high-profile is one of its strengths as well as its weaknesses - people do share many legal things on i2hub also. For example, unlicensed anime, linux isos, books (speed = much better than say Project Gutenberg's website), and many other things.
The RIAA is just trying to be a bully once more but it won't work...the i2hub is not the RIAA's-music-sharing-hub, it is much more. So fuck off RIAA.
Also, I am not quite sure whether the RIAA is allowed to snoop on i2hub anyways.
And furthermore, all of the music coming from the big labels suck ass - go find some real music - college is one of the easiest places to learn of music outside of the big labels.
First, yes this does show that something is wrong with the security of campuses...I am at UCB and I recall that sometime last year we got an email through an instructional (class) account saying that our Student ID Numbers might have been compromised and that they are looking into it. While there isn't much one can do with SID's, it still kinda got me worried - I mean what if they got our passwords or something, and what if it was the same password as say the registration system (where someone could actually unregister you from Berkeley...).
I understand that since universities are prominent institutions, they may be the target of many different attacks but on the flip side, since so many students and faculty members are part of the university community, there should be that much more done in terms of security. I sure as hell don't want anything about me compromised (boy am I glad only the grad students' ssn were stolen the other day).
And also, to those who talk about how easy it is to cheat, it isn't. Almost all CS classes (for example) have a hardcore system that checks your code against everyone else's. Yes, it does take care of changing variable names and whatnot, it checks logic - and if you get caught (which many do) you will get an email telling you who you stole from, how much you stole, how much is deducted, etc. So in short, cheating is not easy.
There are comparable systems for say papers in humanities' courses, although checking natural language is a lot harder of course - but I believe those systems DO check against a massive database of published papers to see if you plagiarized from outside sources (in addition to checks with other students). And as for exams, it is rare for people to cheat - usually TA's are walking all over - if it was so easy to cheat as some people here say it is, then I am sure many bright college students would figure it out (and the bright TA's and professors would probably respond to it quickly too).
This article was written to be a filler...he probably had nothing else to write about and so pulled this out his ass...
...most people who have computer trouble have at least one techie friend who is not an "amateur", and can fix the problem for them.
And the thing about something bound to go wrong in some time is stupid...there are machines that obviously go without even reboots for a few years. If computers had a degree of randomness or failure after some time, it would come pretty quick since there are billions of instructions being processed all the time - what excactly is this time-to-failure? Well, you could make an argument that a hard disk is rated for 100,000 hours or something but I think the author is speaking of software.
And furthermore, most people DO KNOW to go into google and search but are scared of the consequences of perhaps doing something wrong - just like most people who use Windows are probably scared to go edit some random-ass file in Linux to get something to work.
In short, this article is stupid and actually is not slashdot-worthy really...it's just something we tear to pieces anyways.
Try this out:
Vidalinux
Apparently it's Gentoo, with a nice graphical installer that is no longer cruel and unusual punishment...although the install of Gentoo teaches you quite a bit.
Yes, you get the benefits of portage.
Just wait a little for a new version based on 2005
Flash Demo Screenshots
I have to say this is like a godsave for linux. Most layusers will want some easy installation like this instead of using something like Yum (even if it is a GUI front-end to yum like GYUM). This is one giant step towards a viable desktop linux - and I believe that it isn't a replacement for apt/yum/[INSERT YOUR FLAVOR HERE] but uses them under the hood.
Before everyone starts bashing it and says that apt or emerge or whatever they use is the way to go, seriously think about it - one click installation, from a FRIENDLY user-interface, and easy to manage system for installing and uninstalling programs. Now if this were part of the base install on many distributions and some sort of standard was established (seriously, we need standards) I can probably convince my scared-of-Linux-because-it-is-hardcore friends to actually try Linux out.
Well other than the business that AMD gained before this release, I doubt Intel lost much. Reasons:
1. Most people don't care about AMD versus Intel, and will just buy - and actually since Intel is more of a household name than AMD is, Intel still has an advantage here.
2. Though one could bring up compatibility issues (Linux anyone?) I'm sure they will be solved soon since it is a major release. Processor compatibility is not a lasting issue for most things, especially to common users.
3. Most people don't know that Intel's first attempt failed or that there was even an attempt.
Anyone know how much heat these put out?
This is just such a ridiculously written article. The few legitimate examples provided in the article are found in the section discussing OSX. Some points of contention:
Personally, I find the Start Menu to be completely useless. And for the record, I didn't like the Apple Menu, so beloved to OS 9 users either.
What the fuck does that mean? I love the Start Menu. Especially the part where it has my most frequently used programs - that thing is a godsave. It seems like the author just isn't used to windows and so is bashing everything on sight.
The tree view causes more useless motion and mouse clicks than anything else in the whole interface.
Actually, the tree view is something that is intuitive, since our filesystem is organized in a hierarchical form. What the hell else do you want? If you don't want the tree view and prefer double-clicking your way through every single folder in your path, you can do that too.
Seeing Desktop and My Documents at the top of the hierarchy, above My Computer, still sends my brain into tailspins. My Documents and My Computer at the same level...huh????
Actually, no it doesn't send my brain into a tailspin you retard. Having My Documents there is easy for non-computer folks so that they can have easy access. And for the record, the actual My Documents is found on C:/Documents and Settings/UserName/My Documents so it's not a random magical folder at the top of the chain - it makes complete sense to have a quick-access shortcut.
Why do I need this moronic , multi screen wizard just to find a file????? Why does it ask me what type of document I'm searching for? More unnecessary decisions to make.
What the fuck does that mean? I want it to ask for what type of document in case I want to search only for movies or something. It is absolutely useful - if you want a general search, you can do that too!
On the Mac, the icons are so crisp and clear and realistic, that most actually convey meaning to me. The ones that don't immediately convey meaning are easy for me to remember due to their shear impressiveness.
Wow what a scientific analysis you made. Crisp, clear, and realistic. Well I for one have no problem confusing the Recycle Bin with My Computer or My Documents. Only a retarded idiot who is trying desperately to say windows sucks no matter what would point this out. Remembering Windows icons is very easy, and I am completely accustomed to it. I wonder if the author of this article has ever used windows for prolonged periods of time.
ONTO THE BONUSES OF OS X. But before I begin showing more examples of why the author is a moron, let me tell you that I do absolutely admire the OS X interface, and think it is very slick and intuitive. I am not a MAC HATER or anything like that. I am only trying to reduce the blind hate of Windows that seems to be abundant in this article.
It is powered by pure drag and drop. When I drag stuff off of the Finder Sidebar, it goes away. On Windows, a useless link is left I my desktop that I've got to get rid of.
Some people see the dragging off to create a new shortcut as a feature in windows. I would find it annoying on OS X if that deleted it, simply because I am not used to it. This doesn't mean either OS is bad, each has its own way of doing it - just because one is different doesn't make it bad.
I just enter my search string and away it goes..no questions, no wizards, no dialogs, no thinking. And back it comes with everything that qualifies, regardless of document type. I can't wait to see what Spotlight adds to what is already powerful and simple.
Again, you can do blind searches in windows too, without regards to file type.
The absence of a Windows-style tree view bothers me not a bit. I don't even think about using it on my Mac. I know my directory structure and I've bookmarked all of the important places in the Finder sidebar. No need to ever waste time navigating up and down the tr
BioE is a common major among colleges today - at my college, Cal, we have had it for a while now.
And actually, the major has nothing to do with crossing humans with birds and horses to produce a flying centaur (at the UG level anyways haha).
It is more of a 'process' major, whereby they learn a little of everything - most of my BioE friends tell me they feel like they aren't learning too much actually (and we rank pretty high in it too!) because there are few opportunities for depth. In fact, many EECS classes are crosslisted as BioE classes so that BioE ppl can get some sort of priority in getting into those classes - mainly because otherwise they wouldn't know shit.
Anyways, the courses involved are actually rather random - there is one called topics in genomics, one called intro to bioastronautics, then a bunch of those EECS-crosslisted classes, and so on.
I imagine that graduate students in BioE will HAVE to have major experience in a different field or else they wouldn't be able to do that much.
Click here for the good stuff
UC Regents try to shut down sites, so Slashdot returns fire (several times over) by shutting down theirs... Slashdot is the e-vigilante for rights...
I think that the University should not be slamming these sites, and I think it has to do with bashing of said administration. Regardless of public or private, it is just plain stupid and is akin to many of the other stupid shit we see everyday from corporations. You would think that they would first try and listen to what their students have to say about their administration.
OTOH, it is NOT really a *public* university as you say, because we (the students) pay for nearly all of it. Since the Gubernator (who pledged to never cut education during his campaign) cut $372 million dollars from the UC system's budget, our fees continually rise. We were told that the fee raises will continue for the next four semesters AT LEAST. And if you will recall, until Reagan, the UC system was a true public system where our tuition was free. So we haven't been 'public' for a while now, only half-assed public.
...I am one of the many people who have always dreamt of OSX on x86. Perhaps if a poll was taken, Apple might see just how much demand there is for it...
I'm sorry but these games are all basically utter crap to the masses. And the Torque engine that someone mentioned is nowhere near the level of the 'pro' engines.
Put Torque next to many modern engines and it doesn't hold a candle to any of them:
1. CryEngine (Far Cry)
2. UT2k4 Engine (UT2k4)
3. UT2k3 Engine (UT2k3, Lineage II)
4. Source (HL2, that one MMO coming up later)
5. Doom 3 Engine (Doom 3)
Now granted, I just dropped the list of absolute toppers or whatever, but isn't that the type of products that the masses want?
Let's not be ridiculous here. We shouldn't tout something as a great product just because it is open source or indie or whatever. The product quality is first, and the fact that it is open source/indie/anything else is second.
The problem with Indie Games is that unless a RELATIVELY LARGE group of programmers are willing to gather together and pour their time into a world-class product, it will simply remain on the back-burner.
Actually, it isn't even on the back-burner now, it's just getting marinated.
I don't want to start a war or something here, but it is the simple truth so you're gonna have to square with it some day if you want to move on to the next level.
You are obviously not very knowledgible. Transistor counts aren't everything. CPU costs come mainly from R&D. If you really want to go by transistor counts, RAM would obliterate all...
SPIM is for running MIPS programs. Not Spam Over Instant Message...find another acronym...
Can OpenGL ever match DX in popularity among developers?