This h is the one point I've seen discussed twice already.
Morons!!! Can't you understand it's THE FACT IT'S MORE HARMFUL to minors and not THE PRECISE QUANTITY that makes all the difference. It's even THE POINT of that stupid useless law.
Yeah, right. If you don't see how religion forbids thinking, then go give back your brain to God, he's got more use for it than you ever will. Rebutting religion? Easy as hell : "THERE IS NO BEARDED GUY WITH A SIN LIST ABOVE"
Well, if the Mechanical Turk service fails to follow a step-by-step reasoning, then the standardized nationwide test can be said to have been failed by pretty much everyone already.
What? Quality of reasoning and religion? Those don't mix. Even "reasoning" and "religion" don't mix. The only ones in any religion who are permitted to think are the ones who are Allowed By God to explain the book in a way that will confuse sheeple anough so that they don't ask questions.
Maybe if there was ONE useful class in High School, no one would even consider a paying service to people who actually can think all by themselves of different ways to look at things.
The best hardware for the price is always, always 'top-of-the-line minus ONE'.
As in, only desperately lobotomized morons would buy an Intel Extreme for $1000, when there are Intel Quads with as much cache and the same FSB for one fourth that, and frequency means zilch when the price difference allows you to buy liquid cooling. Now how's that 4x 4,8 GHz with 2x 4Mbyte cache sound?
As for GPUs, well, just buy the last-gen Ultra. An ATI X1950Pro 256M is now $200, anything really more powerful is at least $500. And it will run any recent game at decent speed.
It's not a story since such utter-crap games have been sold cheap in all crap "electronics shops" for ages. 1 Some scammer buys a container from China stuffed with electronic devices of which 50% work and 50% will fail in under a week. 2 Sells the stuff cheaper than shit to cheap crap stores, that will close in under a year 3 Idiots go spend $ on defective widgets Profit!!
What's new is that it looks like a Wii. Yeah, right. In ye olden times (5 to 20 yrs ago?), crap electronics only loosely copied consoles, like, two sizes smaller. It was impossible to confuse them. Now Wal-Mart tries to make a quick buck with a practice that should be illegal (induce brand confusion). Can Nintendo attack them, ostensibly to protect their trademark? I'd love to see Wal-Mart on the ground bleeding money to death and beyond.
There isn't, because I plop in just to say that, in my opinion, the guy who writes the most secure OS in the world does know what he's talking about.
I agree with him on one point, though: it is possible to write 100% bug-free programs. Maybe you can't prove they are correct, but I know for a fact that you can write code that simply can't crash without changing the running code from outside. Fault handling at every block, can't beat that. Check every input, verify each operation, check data between disk and memory, verify every write, write code that checks the data sanity, code that checks that code, and so forth. Ah, yes, that's heavy bloat. But it is bug-free. (Don't come saying it becomes too complex, please. It's so self-evident! Check, check, check. If there are design errors, they appear at checking eventually:-)
Just think what Microsoft will do! They'll put MSN as The Only Search On The Web, heavily integrate it into Windows, make users jump through flaming hoops just to change the search engine, and so on.
So if search was integrated in the browser and meant to replace DNS, Linux would come with thousands of links, Yahoo will sort of half-work, Google will work great until they slightly change their API and results are, at first, mangled, and within six months, unusable, the other search engines are either terribly limited or doomed to disappearance in a year, and so on.
Apple will provide a seamless experience, as usual. But you have to buy a Mac and a subscription to Apple.
That, and, the darknets are so GOOD at offering music in a convenient way... (More convenient than re-encode all DRM'd audio through a jack, at least.)
Of course the album was pirated more than purchased, even at name-your-price! There are more people without a credit card than with, on the 'Net, especially in the age range that downloads the most.
(Not saying anything about what I think of the price Radiohead's music is worth. No, Nothing. Nope. Must... resist...)
I, for one, am going to buy Leopard, the day it's out. Then I'll put it on in a drawer. Then I'll download the ISO of the version I'll install on my PC.
And I'll be a happy Apple customer:)
(I'm NOT going to buy a Mac unless I win the lottery or something. But I can spend $139 on the company that's produced the best OS for my use.)
Go, friend! Please don't kill anyone while driving, it would make you look bad, and you'd lose precious time.
Frankly, that old "speed kills" line has to disappear into oblivion, fast. Here in Belgium everybody drives like a maniac, nobody cares, and we don't have more accidents per capita than in the US.
Slowing down cars helps no one, it only creates bottlenecks, frustration, and a slowed country with a slow economy. Responsible people know how fast they can drive in what area so as not to damage anything or injure anyone, simply take into account every possibility at every crossroads and you'll never crash.
Have you read the technical explanation of what the Cell processor was supposed to be at first? Their processing power has been cut in half several times so as not to gobble up IUBM's supercomputer market.
There was an article here some day that reported, some researcher(s?) had connected a number of PS3s (or wsa it just Cells, can't remember) together to compare them with supercomputers, the Cells beat them by an order of magnitude on computing power per $.
Now if they'd just activate the eighth core and make them hold ints of eight bytes, we could happily throw away every computer that doesn't have a Cell in it...
Yes, exactly that. I've been banging my head on walls when I was still trying to make it work. The feature was invented to save power, then was used as an excuse to make CPUs that are NOT supposed to run at their top speed all the time. It does make sense, but only when it works. It has been broken in so many ways for so many years...
Btw : thank you, Microsoft, for fucking up that, and APM and ACPI, on purpose, so as to make every "green" computer need Windows-only drivers, or else : never resume from sleep, create conflicts between the idle timers in the bios and in windows settings, making the computer crash and never wake-up, and so on. And kudos to Intel and AMD for giving us decrementally immature tech when it's obvious to anyone what the right solution to the problem IS. Like when their CPUs went to lower clock and never would go back to their nominal speed (Celeron). Or when they take seconds to go back to full speed, making the GUI a batch environment that forget actions sometimes (some old p4). Or when they explode if they run at their nominal speed all the time, the feature is an excuse for cheap MHz "it won't burn if it runs at that speed five minutes" but when the feature does not work, like, after a clean install (of whatever OS) because you need to install a driver, well, the CPU burns. (Athlon64)
Back to the point. Ah, yes, speedstep. Seems that Linux distros think that SpeedStep should be used only in laptops, because desktop processors can happily be allowed to run full speed all time. But I don't want to hear a loud hiss all the time. So I want my p4d using its speedstep feature. Linux won't let me. So I installed MacOsX, where it does not work either. But at least I get to use an Unix that's very ready for the desktop in every way Linux is not yet.
The only news I'll ever find worth publishing about Linux and power saving is, WHEN WILL SPEEDSTEP WORK? I mean, work as in "it works". Install, reboot, find the CPU fan off and your p4D or c2d running at 200MHz.
Same thing for hardware sensors.
Linux will be on MY desktop the very day THOSE work.
Getting that to work is the last painful Linux experience. (Well, that, and wireless. But WiFi just plain sucks on every platform as of now. Nothing works, except when the windows drivers contain all the logic and the firmware AND are programmed well enough to JUST WORK.)
That book explains everything you need to know about the education system, why it is so fucked and yes, why it is boring, what it really is supposed to do and how it is doing Just That Real Well.
Well, Enlightenment DR16 is very stable and mature now (as it better be), and.17 should be out of pre-alpha by the time Duke Nukem Forever runs on Linux.
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This h is the one point I've seen discussed twice already.
Morons!!! Can't you understand it's THE FACT IT'S MORE HARMFUL to minors and not THE PRECISE QUANTITY that makes all the difference. It's even THE POINT of that stupid useless law.
The download link is broken.
Yeah, right. If you don't see how religion forbids thinking, then go give back your brain to God, he's got more use for it than you ever will. Rebutting religion? Easy as hell : "THERE IS NO BEARDED GUY WITH A SIN LIST ABOVE"
Well, if the Mechanical Turk service fails to follow a step-by-step reasoning, then the standardized nationwide test can be said to have been failed by pretty much everyone already.
What? Quality of reasoning and religion? Those don't mix. Even "reasoning" and "religion" don't mix. The only ones in any religion who are permitted to think are the ones who are Allowed By God to explain the book in a way that will confuse sheeple anough so that they don't ask questions.
Maybe if there was ONE useful class in High School, no one would even consider a paying service to people who actually can think all by themselves of different ways to look at things.
The best hardware for the price is always, always 'top-of-the-line minus ONE'.
As in, only desperately lobotomized morons would buy an Intel Extreme for $1000, when there are Intel Quads with as much cache and the same FSB for one fourth that, and frequency means zilch when the price difference allows you to buy liquid cooling. Now how's that 4x 4,8 GHz with 2x 4Mbyte cache sound?
As for GPUs, well, just buy the last-gen Ultra. An ATI X1950Pro 256M is now $200, anything really more powerful is at least $500. And it will run any recent game at decent speed.
It's not a story since such utter-crap games have been sold cheap in all crap "electronics shops" for ages.
1 Some scammer buys a container from China stuffed with electronic devices of which 50% work and 50% will fail in under a week.
2 Sells the stuff cheaper than shit to cheap crap stores, that will close in under a year
3 Idiots go spend $ on defective widgets
Profit!!
What's new is that it looks like a Wii. Yeah, right. In ye olden times (5 to 20 yrs ago?), crap electronics only loosely copied consoles, like, two sizes smaller. It was impossible to confuse them. Now Wal-Mart tries to make a quick buck with a practice that should be illegal (induce brand confusion). Can Nintendo attack them, ostensibly to protect their trademark? I'd love to see Wal-Mart on the ground bleeding money to death and beyond.
Oh, no, it's Roland!
The Snake-Oil X-Man!
WARNING : FLAMEBAIT
Isn't this bug due to that nasty Intel architecture?
There isn't, because I plop in just to say that, in my opinion, the guy who writes the most secure OS in the world does know what he's talking about.
:-)
I agree with him on one point, though: it is possible to write 100% bug-free programs. Maybe you can't prove they are correct, but I know for a fact that you can write code that simply can't crash without changing the running code from outside. Fault handling at every block, can't beat that. Check every input, verify each operation, check data between disk and memory, verify every write, write code that checks the data sanity, code that checks that code, and so forth. Ah, yes, that's heavy bloat. But it is bug-free. (Don't come saying it becomes too complex, please. It's so self-evident! Check, check, check. If there are design errors, they appear at checking eventually
OK. This time I've got it. And string theory means nothing. Math tools misapplied over holes in incomplete theories.
:)
Thank you SO very much!
Why not use the wave functions as they are? It's not as if light was actually made of particles.
Just think what Microsoft will do! They'll put MSN as The Only Search On The Web, heavily integrate it into Windows, make users jump through flaming hoops just to change the search engine, and so on.
So if search was integrated in the browser and meant to replace DNS, Linux would come with thousands of links, Yahoo will sort of half-work, Google will work great until they slightly change their API and results are, at first, mangled, and within six months, unusable, the other search engines are either terribly limited or doomed to disappearance in a year, and so on.
Apple will provide a seamless experience, as usual. But you have to buy a Mac and a subscription to Apple.
Just install MacOSX on your Dell... not like that's hard, I've been using this hackintosh for, like, six months.
That, and, the darknets are so GOOD at offering music in a convenient way...
(More convenient than re-encode all DRM'd audio through a jack, at least.)
It's more like that I'm way too poor to consider buying a Mac, while I can build a computer that will run MacOSX just as well for half the price.
Of course the album was pirated more than purchased, even at name-your-price! There are more people without a credit card than with, on the 'Net, especially in the age range that downloads the most.
(Not saying anything about what I think of the price Radiohead's music is worth. No, Nothing. Nope. Must... resist...)
I, for one, am going to buy Leopard, the day it's out.
:)
Then I'll put it on in a drawer.
Then I'll download the ISO of the version I'll install on my PC.
And I'll be a happy Apple customer
(I'm NOT going to buy a Mac unless I win the lottery or something. But I can spend $139 on the company that's produced the best OS for my use.)
Go, friend! Please don't kill anyone while driving, it would make you look bad, and you'd lose precious time.
Frankly, that old "speed kills" line has to disappear into oblivion, fast. Here in Belgium everybody drives like a maniac, nobody cares, and we don't have more accidents per capita than in the US.
Slowing down cars helps no one, it only creates bottlenecks, frustration, and a slowed country with a slow economy. Responsible people know how fast they can drive in what area so as not to damage anything or injure anyone, simply take into account every possibility at every crossroads and you'll never crash.
Learn how to drive safe, you'll drive faster.
Have you read the technical explanation of what the Cell processor was supposed to be at first? Their processing power has been cut in half several times so as not to gobble up IUBM's supercomputer market.
There was an article here some day that reported, some researcher(s?) had connected a number of PS3s (or wsa it just Cells, can't remember) together to compare them with supercomputers, the Cells beat them by an order of magnitude on computing power per $.
Now if they'd just activate the eighth core and make them hold ints of eight bytes, we could happily throw away every computer that doesn't have a Cell in it...
Yes, exactly that. I've been banging my head on walls when I was still trying to make it work. The feature was invented to save power, then was used as an excuse to make CPUs that are NOT supposed to run at their top speed all the time. It does make sense, but only when it works. It has been broken in so many ways for so many years...
Btw : thank you, Microsoft, for fucking up that, and APM and ACPI, on purpose, so as to make every "green" computer need Windows-only drivers, or else : never resume from sleep, create conflicts between the idle timers in the bios and in windows settings, making the computer crash and never wake-up, and so on.
And kudos to Intel and AMD for giving us decrementally immature tech when it's obvious to anyone what the right solution to the problem IS. Like when their CPUs went to lower clock and never would go back to their nominal speed (Celeron). Or when they take seconds to go back to full speed, making the GUI a batch environment that forget actions sometimes (some old p4). Or when they explode if they run at their nominal speed all the time, the feature is an excuse for cheap MHz "it won't burn if it runs at that speed five minutes" but when the feature does not work, like, after a clean install (of whatever OS) because you need to install a driver, well, the CPU burns. (Athlon64)
Back to the point. Ah, yes, speedstep. Seems that Linux distros think that SpeedStep should be used only in laptops, because desktop processors can happily be allowed to run full speed all time. But I don't want to hear a loud hiss all the time. So I want my p4d using its speedstep feature. Linux won't let me. So I installed MacOsX, where it does not work either. But at least I get to use an Unix that's very ready for the desktop in every way Linux is not yet.
So, Microsoft is not trusted anymore? Boo hoo. What exactly have they done to deserve any sort of trust at all?
The only news I'll ever find worth publishing about Linux and power saving is, WHEN WILL SPEEDSTEP WORK? I mean, work as in "it works". Install, reboot, find the CPU fan off and your p4D or c2d running at 200MHz.
Same thing for hardware sensors.
Linux will be on MY desktop the very day THOSE work.
Getting that to work is the last painful Linux experience. (Well, that, and wireless. But WiFi just plain sucks on every platform as of now. Nothing works, except when the windows drivers contain all the logic and the firmware AND are programmed well enough to JUST WORK.)
Go read the historical reasons why school really sucks
That book explains everything you need to know about the education system, why it is so fucked and yes, why it is boring, what it really is supposed to do and how it is doing Just That Real Well.
Well, Enlightenment DR16 is very stable and mature now (as it better be), and .17 should be out of pre-alpha by the time Duke Nukem Forever runs on Linux.