Those of us that are borderline obsessive-compulsive are certainly backing HD-DVD. I'm backing it simply because of what the article says... because it seems like the logical successor to DVD. I really don't care too much about the actual specifications of either medium (actually it appears that Blu-Ray is technologically superior). I just see the "DVD" at the end of "HD-DVD" and that does enough for me.
He's not listening to you. He doesn't even care about your opinion.
He does have a feeling you're starting to tune him out though. FTA:
The joke of it is that Microsoft is still working on this dead albatross and is apparently ready to roll out a new version, since most of the smart money has been fleeing to Firefox or Opera. This means new rounds of patches and lost money. Continue reading...
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Please, for the love of God, continue reading or else I'll have to get a real job instead of being the best troll this side of the GNAA!
In a design class I took, our professor talked about something called "processor-in-RAM". The idea is that you'd have a few processors all with their dedicated RAM. The program you are running would be copied in each processors's RAM. When a branch was ready to be taken, half the processors would go one way and the other half the other. The processors that guessed right would let the other processors know they were wrong and update them with the new information. This way there is no penalty hit as all branches are correctly predicted.
I'm guessing that a whopping 64-128 meg cache aught to be enough for sometime.
Yeah, it'd provide some huge performance gain, but the shear cost of that much cache would easily be on the order of tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cache requires a few gates for each bit stored, while RAM uses gates to control capacitors (one capacitor for each bit).
I mean the kind of values that make a person pick an extra $100 instead of a day off. Once you've paid your rent and bills and fed yourself wouldn't you rather have your time to do what you love.
The problem is that many people have to work for that extra $100 to pay the rent, bills, and for the food.
In the US, we ration health care by ability to pay. In the rest of the civilized world, they ration by need.
If you don't have insurance, you get sub-standard care in order to keep costs down. My girlfriend once went to the hospital for very severe flu-like symptoms. She was diagnosed with a viral illness, was given antibiotics and promptly kicked out the door. Later she received a bill for ~$1,000. That was in 2001. She's still paying it off. Many people have similar stories (hospital bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy).
I am consistently horrified by the miserly 2/3-week holiday allowance that my US cow-orkers seem to consider "normal". The raw minimum in EU states is 4 weeks and most companies offer nearer 5 weeks for established employees.
I get 2 months off in the summer. Of course, its called "layoff" so...
Welcome to the wonderful world of newspeak where words no longer mean the same things they did a few years ago.
The US is largely considered to be a capitalist country. If you go by the defintion of capitalism it is readily apparent that we aren't. The best I can describe it is either state capitalist or possibly corporate socialist.
Another example is the PRC. They're offically "socialist with chinese characteristics". Really, they are state capitalist.
The key here is to notice that capitalism has a generally positive connotation while communism or socialism have negative connotations. The idea is to use a positive word to describe something that the public doesn't really like. That way they'll just accept whatever the government is doing as prima facie "good" and get on with their lives.
I'm reminded of a quote that parallels this phenomenon quite well:
the point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything [...] that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is gonna be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
Well I wasn't really advocating that they do that. I was just pointing out how politicians always say "but the law will never be used in that manner" but won't agree to actually write exactly that into the law.
I think we can't trust politicians to safeguard our freedoms anymore. We need to assume they're going to try every last trick in the book to get as much information about our lives as possible. In that case, we're going to have to encrypt everything that goes over any unsecured network. It might not be tedious and time consuming, but we're going to have to push back against the Feds or else our right to privacy is going to go out with our right of habeas corpus.
If its *truely* about child porn and nothing else, insert a provision into the law that any and all data requested as part of a child porn investigation cannot be used in any other investigation.
If Gonzales et al. agree, then we have a deal. If they don't, they've tipped their hand.
I agree that the fact that I have a Live Journal does not grant me journalistic privledge, but at some point a blogger does have such privledge. Otherwise, you simply make an arbitrary distinction as to rights based on the medium on which the story is presented. If I print out the story, does the author have privledge?
By your definition Kos (of Daily Kos fame) is not a journalist because he never was a "real journalist", assuming that means someone who publishes in a printed medium. Is that what you wish us to believe?
Yes, and if the execs at Yahoo! cared more about morality than cash, they'd tell the PRC to stick it up their ass and close down their business there. If the US government summarily executed "dissidents" as they do in the PRC, I'd expect still the same from Yahoo!.
First, the good people at live journal have made another account option, Sponsored+, where members agree to place ads on their journal in order to have more features that paid users usually get. The member gets to decide if they want ads on their journal.
Second, the TOS change means that members cannot sign up for a Sponsored+ account and then attempt to jack with the layout so that the ads don't appear.
Debian and Ubuntu server different user bases. I'm making the switch from Fedora Core 5 to Ubuntu 6.06 when its released. Even then, I might want to keep Debian around for a very old 486 I have. As I understand it, the base Debian system (similar to an Ubuntu server install) is very light. DSL is basically Debian, so I might just use that as well.
This is rather off-topic so I'll expect the usual down-mod.
Perhaps/. should get a new icon for Ubuntu instead of using the Debian one. Yes, I know that Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid, but seeing that Ubuntu is arguably more popular than Debian (based on Distrowatch stats), perhaps an Ubuntu section/icon would be in order?
... for the Liberal Party of Canada (slightly to the right of center party...
You forgot to convert to American political units. On our political spectrum, the Conservatives are about as far left as mainstream Democrats, so that'd make the Liberals among the likes of the "radical left" of Dennis Kucinich, John Conyers, Barbara Boxer, etc.
I don't even want to think about where the NDP would fit.
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Those of us that are borderline obsessive-compulsive are certainly backing HD-DVD. I'm backing it simply because of what the article says ... because it seems like the logical successor to DVD. I really don't care too much about the actual specifications of either medium (actually it appears that Blu-Ray is technologically superior). I just see the "DVD" at the end of "HD-DVD" and that does enough for me.
He does have a feeling you're starting to tune him out though. FTA:
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Please, for the love of God, continue reading or else I'll have to get a real job instead of being the best troll this side of the GNAA!
Who will the /. faithful back? The uber-troll Dvorak, or the uber-monopolist, Microsoft?
It was awhile ago when he explained it. Perhaps I didn't do his lecture justice for reasons of memory or he didn't do a good job of explaining it.
In a design class I took, our professor talked about something called "processor-in-RAM". The idea is that you'd have a few processors all with their dedicated RAM. The program you are running would be copied in each processors's RAM. When a branch was ready to be taken, half the processors would go one way and the other half the other. The processors that guessed right would let the other processors know they were wrong and update them with the new information. This way there is no penalty hit as all branches are correctly predicted.
I'm guessing that a whopping 64-128 meg cache aught to be enough for sometime.
Yeah, it'd provide some huge performance gain, but the shear cost of that much cache would easily be on the order of tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cache requires a few gates for each bit stored, while RAM uses gates to control capacitors (one capacitor for each bit).
As the quote goes:
Under capitalism, man screws his fellow man. Under communism its just the other way around.
I mean the kind of values that make a person pick an extra $100 instead of a day off. Once you've paid your rent and bills and fed yourself wouldn't you rather have your time to do what you love.
The problem is that many people have to work for that extra $100 to pay the rent, bills, and for the food.
We do have the best health care system
For certain values of best.
In the US, we ration health care by ability to pay. In the rest of the civilized world, they ration by need.
If you don't have insurance, you get sub-standard care in order to keep costs down. My girlfriend once went to the hospital for very severe flu-like symptoms. She was diagnosed with a viral illness, was given antibiotics and promptly kicked out the door. Later she received a bill for ~$1,000. That was in 2001. She's still paying it off. Many people have similar stories (hospital bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy).
Yes, we have the best system in the world.
Not sure about the general population, but every well off Canadian *I* have met comes to the U.S. for routine health care.
Yes, because here your ability to pay buys you better care. In Canada, it doesn't.
I am consistently horrified by the miserly 2/3-week holiday allowance that my US cow-orkers seem to consider "normal". The raw minimum in EU states is 4 weeks and most companies offer nearer 5 weeks for established employees.
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I get 2 months off in the summer. Of course, its called "layoff" so
a member of the House of Representatives is more likely to be indicted or die in office than to lose an election
Do you have a source? Its not that I don't believe you, but it'd be nice to bring that out when speaking on the topic of gerrymandering.
The main difference between the two is that the Democrats want to make sure my take home pay is less than half my gross salary
Depends on your gross salary. Even then, IIRC, those in the highest tax bracket under Clinton weren't paying 50% of their wages in taxes.
The US is largely considered to be a capitalist country. If you go by the defintion of capitalism it is readily apparent that we aren't. The best I can describe it is either state capitalist or possibly corporate socialist.
Another example is the PRC. They're offically "socialist with chinese characteristics". Really, they are state capitalist.
The key here is to notice that capitalism has a generally positive connotation while communism or socialism have negative connotations. The idea is to use a positive word to describe something that the public doesn't really like. That way they'll just accept whatever the government is doing as prima facie "good" and get on with their lives.
I'm reminded of a quote that parallels this phenomenon quite well:
Well I wasn't really advocating that they do that. I was just pointing out how politicians always say "but the law will never be used in that manner" but won't agree to actually write exactly that into the law.
I think we can't trust politicians to safeguard our freedoms anymore. We need to assume they're going to try every last trick in the book to get as much information about our lives as possible. In that case, we're going to have to encrypt everything that goes over any unsecured network. It might not be tedious and time consuming, but we're going to have to push back against the Feds or else our right to privacy is going to go out with our right of habeas corpus.
If its *truely* about child porn and nothing else, insert a provision into the law that any and all data requested as part of a child porn investigation cannot be used in any other investigation.
If Gonzales et al. agree, then we have a deal. If they don't, they've tipped their hand.
Does this sound like a (bad) joke taken out of context to anybody else?
Not a problem. The "Al Gore invented the Internet" quote was also badly taken out of context.
Not another meme!
Last summer, I saw the semi-popular band Cake along with about 4 or 5 local/lesser acts.
It was $5.
I agree that the fact that I have a Live Journal does not grant me journalistic privledge, but at some point a blogger does have such privledge. Otherwise, you simply make an arbitrary distinction as to rights based on the medium on which the story is presented. If I print out the story, does the author have privledge?
By your definition Kos (of Daily Kos fame) is not a journalist because he never was a "real journalist", assuming that means someone who publishes in a printed medium. Is that what you wish us to believe?
s/music/movies
There will always be some sort of media that will fill hard drives to their capacity.
Yes, and if the execs at Yahoo! cared more about morality than cash, they'd tell the PRC to stick it up their ass and close down their business there. If the US government summarily executed "dissidents" as they do in the PRC, I'd expect still the same from Yahoo!.
First, the good people at live journal have made another account option, Sponsored+, where members agree to place ads on their journal in order to have more features that paid users usually get. The member gets to decide if they want ads on their journal.
Second, the TOS change means that members cannot sign up for a Sponsored+ account and then attempt to jack with the layout so that the ads don't appear.
Wow.
Debian and Ubuntu server different user bases. I'm making the switch from Fedora Core 5 to Ubuntu 6.06 when its released. Even then, I might want to keep Debian around for a very old 486 I have. As I understand it, the base Debian system (similar to an Ubuntu server install) is very light. DSL is basically Debian, so I might just use that as well.
This is rather off-topic so I'll expect the usual down-mod.
/. should get a new icon for Ubuntu instead of using the Debian one. Yes, I know that Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid, but seeing that Ubuntu is arguably more popular than Debian (based on Distrowatch stats), perhaps an Ubuntu section/icon would be in order?
Perhaps
You forgot to convert to American political units. On our political spectrum, the Conservatives are about as far left as mainstream Democrats, so that'd make the Liberals among the likes of the "radical left" of Dennis Kucinich, John Conyers, Barbara Boxer, etc.
I don't even want to think about where the NDP would fit.