It displays an ad from whatever search engine returned the page that's selected in the upper part of the window. If the image hasn't loaded from that engine, or there's no selection, it displays an ad from Apple.
Ramble on! mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Evolution has been observed. If you meant to imply it *might* not happen, you might as well be hammering your foot into your mouth anyway.
As people below have stated, scientists are willing to throw out hypotheses reasonably proven to be false. You won't throw out anything in the Bible. It's a human fault to obstinately have beliefs; you can't claim that being devoted to an organized religion doesn't close your mind somewhat by saying "everyone has beliefs that they won't let go of".
Religion has purposes other than explaining what science can't. It defines standards of behavior towards others, for example. I consider myself a religious atheist - I behave (relatively:v) ) strictly according to the principles I define for myself, but do not believe they are enforced by a God. I don't expect any ultimate & universal reward for my good behavior. Isn't that more sincere than only "doing it for the money"? But I digress...
Making arguments that you know won't be accepted or seriously taken, for the purpose of producing responses, is also known as trolling. Jes' a warning to ya.
Ramble on! mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
The second amendment says you can protect yourself against evil political forces, not robbers. He's saying that the second amendement, if it's to be respected, means that we must have the right to have enough weapons to overthrow the government.
I think the constitution has stood the test of time well over the last 220 years, except for one little bit. They didn't forsee organized/civil crime or advances in weaponry. Back then, if you were wealthy enough to own anything worth stealing you lived in a palace and had personal armed guards.
Ramble on! mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
PowerPC instructions are all of a constant size, each has only one mode (the processor can predict exactly what will be needed to execute an add instruction), and there's no microcode involved in PowerPC instruction processing. This is what makes PowerPC RISC. "Reduced Instruction Set Complexity." If you took all the possible different types of instructions possible with the x86 set (add is really "load memory, load memory, store memory; load mem, load reg, store mem; load reg, load reg, store reg...), you would get a higher instruction count than PowerPC indeed.
The AltiVec extensions are intended to speed specific operations that otherwise go slowly; RISC would be a bad philosophy to take in a vector processing unit. In terms of mode switching and cleanliness, AltiVec is simpler (more "reduced" than MMX or 3DNow!).
So, however you take it, PowerPC is really RISC. No marketing involved. (Besides, this is from Motorola, not exactly marketing masters...)
No, I'm not a mac bigot - I'm a PPC bigot. And yes, that's AltiVec assembler in my sig.
Ramble on! mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Opening up a huge box to a piece of software and finding nothing inside but a CD and perhaps a company catalog sucks. It gives the impression of a cheap product. If your software is of the type that requires documentation for proper use, you can't expect anyone to sit down and read your online manual.
If your software is cheap and very uncomplicated, I guess you can omit the manual. But the decline of the printed manual follows the decline in software quality.
A'course, no printed manual is better than a really bad one.
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Simply using nonvolatile memory won't make your computer boot faster. After a crash, you'll still have to wait for it to load & initialize everything. Wouldn't the solution *Be* to use an OS that doesn't crash and boots quickly?
And there's absolutely nothing in this article about the speed of this memory. WTF, Rob?
If we're nerds, we should understand something a *little* more technical than this. Why don't they post a link to IBM's website or something?
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I see a lot of people saying how this is an impractical way to create distribution-quality drivers...
Appears to me that this software is for lab work. People make simple recording devices, and then they want a way to get data from the card (which may be an easy-to-use kit) into their own programs. In this case, cross-platform capability is only so that the user can choose their platform, not so that they can "write once, distribute to everyone".
Not to say there aren't shameless companies who would use this type of tool and distribute the results.
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
This isn't the first movie version of the Lord of the Rings. There was an animated film made a long time ago (not The Hobbit). And tho they didn't cut much out of the story for that film, it was terribly unclear from a lack of background. Everyone who reads LotR was introduced to the Tolkien universe in The Hobbit, but a movie isn't gonna include both stories. On the other hand, this is a movie _trilogy_, so it will do more justice... unless it comes out like Star Wars. There's more to Tolkien than scary monsters.
Anyway, we won't know till the Christmas after next. (Just great to watch a pagan movie on the 2000th aniversary of Christ's birth!)
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I can't beleive that Katz did this interview, and all he has to write was that he tried to discourage them from doing this. No quotes? No specifics on how they would be changing their policies? Something tells me that Katz didn't take too many journalism classes before he became an "online journalist". This could have been a *very* interesting article, but it's destroyed by vagueness.
Or is he just trying to "hook" us for the report he might write in a few days? In that case, he's just sleazy and hyprocritical...
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I read something on the BeOS site, that Windows drivers sometimes are left hanging when the computer shuts down... this might be the source of some problems.
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Now how many bugs are there in the slashcode? Extrans posting mode hasn't worked for months, following links to archived stories gives a 404 not found, instead of referring the user to the proper archive, glitches happen in karma (I was recently given about 5 points for absolutely no reason), etc.
And yet CmdrTaco finds time to filter through article suggestions and bring us the true cream of the crop. Truly, this Sony VAIO PalmPilot will revolutionize our world. Just love his commentary on it, too.
I'm not normally one to bitch, but I like reading Slashdot, and it really gets me when them people on the other end don't seem to care. They say they're the next Usenet; they're gonna have to try harder to see that dream.
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I'm designing a new language (for a school/Intel Science Competition project, but I hope it'll be good...), and I'm wondering how well people would accept an extensible language that allows vector support... but would be a departure from C. There's no way to extend C enough to elegantly support vectors; is it time to move on?
(Yes, that's AltiVec assembler in my sig, it's a quine):
Where is my mind? mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Slashdot Mirror
It displays an ad from whatever search engine returned the page that's selected in the upper part of the window. If the image hasn't loaded from that engine, or there's no selection, it displays an ad from Apple.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
sorry to be so anal, but I've seen your .sig a few times, and shouldn't that be Linux.SwitchTo(); ?
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
This version of IE was written for the revised MacOS API (Carbon) and graphical interface (Aqua). A port to BSD is still a long way off.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
actually, I did the math, and my pencil blew up.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
BABELFISH!>
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Evolution has been observed. If you meant to imply it *might* not happen, you might as well be hammering your foot into your mouth anyway.
:v) ) strictly according to the principles I define for myself, but do not believe they are enforced by a God. I don't expect any ultimate & universal reward for my good behavior. Isn't that more sincere than only "doing it for the money"? But I digress...
As people below have stated, scientists are willing to throw out hypotheses reasonably proven to be false. You won't throw out anything in the Bible. It's a human fault to obstinately have beliefs; you can't claim that being devoted to an organized religion doesn't close your mind somewhat by saying "everyone has beliefs that they won't let go of".
Religion has purposes other than explaining what science can't. It defines standards of behavior towards others, for example. I consider myself a religious atheist - I behave (relatively
Making arguments that you know won't be accepted or seriously taken, for the purpose of producing responses, is also known as trolling. Jes' a warning to ya.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
FYI, I can win against the computer (on "hurt me plenty mode") on my laptop w/ a trackpad on some levels.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
A few Jews had some guns... a lot of good it really did them.
Imagine how many Nazi citizens used the guns in *their* homes to commit atrocities.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
If you've ever been to Washington, DC, you'd know it's not a safe town. Hardly good for tourism.
There was a even big shooting at the national zoo not too long ago. Some crazed teenager...
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
The second amendment says you can protect yourself against evil political forces, not robbers. He's saying that the second amendement, if it's to be respected, means that we must have the right to have enough weapons to overthrow the government.
I think the constitution has stood the test of time well over the last 220 years, except for one little bit. They didn't forsee organized/civil crime or advances in weaponry. Back then, if you were wealthy enough to own anything worth stealing you lived in a palace and had personal armed guards.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
PowerPC instructions are all of a constant size, each has only one mode (the processor can predict exactly what will be needed to execute an add instruction), and there's no microcode involved in PowerPC instruction processing. This is what makes PowerPC RISC. "Reduced Instruction Set Complexity."
If you took all the possible different types of instructions possible with the x86 set (add is really "load memory, load memory, store memory; load mem, load reg, store mem; load reg, load reg, store reg...), you would get a higher instruction count than PowerPC indeed.
The AltiVec extensions are intended to speed specific operations that otherwise go slowly; RISC would be a bad philosophy to take in a vector processing unit. In terms of mode switching and cleanliness, AltiVec is simpler (more "reduced" than MMX or 3DNow!).
So, however you take it, PowerPC is really RISC. No marketing involved. (Besides, this is from Motorola, not exactly marketing masters...)
No, I'm not a mac bigot - I'm a PPC bigot. And yes, that's AltiVec assembler in my sig.
Ramble on!
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Just 'cuz it sounds complicated doesn't mean it's true.
/. will be carrying stories questioning Elvis' mortal state.
Next thing ya know
"Is Echelon making use of poltergeists to filter Internet traffic?"
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Opening up a huge box to a piece of software and finding nothing inside but a CD and perhaps a company catalog sucks. It gives the impression of a cheap product.
If your software is of the type that requires documentation for proper use, you can't expect anyone to sit down and read your online manual.
If your software is cheap and very uncomplicated, I guess you can omit the manual. But the decline of the printed manual follows the decline in software quality.
A'course, no printed manual is better than a really bad one.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Simply using nonvolatile memory won't make your computer boot faster. After a crash, you'll still have to wait for it to load & initialize everything.
Wouldn't the solution *Be* to use an OS that doesn't crash and boots quickly?
And there's absolutely nothing in this article about the speed of this memory. WTF, Rob?
If we're nerds, we should understand something a *little* more technical than this. Why don't they post a link to IBM's website or something?
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I see a lot of people saying how this is an impractical way to create distribution-quality drivers...
Appears to me that this software is for lab work. People make simple recording devices, and then they want a way to get data from the card (which may be an easy-to-use kit) into their own programs.
In this case, cross-platform capability is only so that the user can choose their platform, not so that they can "write once, distribute to everyone".
Not to say there aren't shameless companies who would use this type of tool and distribute the results.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Sorry, they've just done this so many times. All /. article posters, in the metric system, don't capitalize the damn unit.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
It's true. I'm browsing at -1 today. Mebbe it's cuz it's the weekend...
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
This isn't the first movie version of the Lord of the Rings. There was an animated film made a long time ago (not The Hobbit).
And tho they didn't cut much out of the story for that film, it was terribly unclear from a lack of background. Everyone who reads LotR was introduced to the Tolkien universe in The Hobbit, but a movie isn't gonna include both stories.
On the other hand, this is a movie _trilogy_, so it will do more justice... unless it comes out like Star Wars. There's more to Tolkien than scary monsters.
Anyway, we won't know till the Christmas after next. (Just great to watch a pagan movie on the 2000th aniversary of Christ's birth!)
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Maybe the Enigma was serving the website.
I wish I'd though of that before!
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I can't beleive that Katz did this interview, and all he has to write was that he tried to discourage them from doing this. No quotes? No specifics on how they would be changing their policies? Something tells me that Katz didn't take too many journalism classes before he became an "online journalist". This could have been a *very* interesting article, but it's destroyed by vagueness.
Or is he just trying to "hook" us for the report he might write in a few days? In that case, he's just sleazy and hyprocritical...
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Netscape could not locate the server "www.nsa.gov"
Nobody knows where they're hiding...
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I read something on the BeOS site, that Windows drivers sometimes are left hanging when the computer shuts down... this might be the source of some problems.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Now how many bugs are there in the slashcode? Extrans posting mode hasn't worked for months, following links to archived stories gives a 404 not found, instead of referring the user to the proper archive, glitches happen in karma (I was recently given about 5 points for absolutely no reason), etc.
And yet CmdrTaco finds time to filter through article suggestions and bring us the true cream of the crop. Truly, this Sony VAIO PalmPilot will revolutionize our world. Just love his commentary on it, too.
I'm not normally one to bitch, but I like reading Slashdot, and it really gets me when them people on the other end don't seem to care.
They say they're the next Usenet; they're gonna have to try harder to see that dream.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
Ey!
I've still gotta go explain that pseudocode I left off on, in the middle of the message...
I'll go do that.
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0
I'm designing a new language (for a school/Intel Science Competition project, but I hope it'll be good...), and I'm wondering how well people would accept an extensible language that allows vector support... but would be a departure from C. There's no way to extend C enough to elegantly support vectors; is it time to move on?
(Yes, that's AltiVec assembler in my sig, it's a quine):
Where is my mind?
mfspr r3, pc / lvxl v0, 0, r3 / li r0, 16 / stvxl v0, r3, r0