Yes, but only on a Beowolf cluster serving e-mail to old people in Korea, while in Soviet Russia it is playing you while it is being confirmed by Netcraft, and....I can't go on, someone else needs to either take over or shot me between the eyes!
Me:"Why yes ociffer, I HAVE been drinking while posting, but I had a good reason!"
Officer:"Sir, you are obviously drunk. Did you not have someone you could call to come get you?"
Me:"Well it's like this: i couldn't walk this drunk, so I tried driving- but my house key broke off in the ignition switch. I tried hotwiring it, but caught the trunk on fire-must have been my stereo wiring I did last year-but anyway, I pissed on the fire, and after another liter of beer, I finally got it out. What? Yes, my penis...Yes, I finally got it out. What? Oh, yes it did take another sixpack to put the fire out once I did get it out of my pants- that helped a lot, I can tell you! Oh yes, so I was too drunk to walk OR drive by then you see, so I grab this keyboard in the bar....What? Well damn right I went back into the bar! Haven't you been listening? 1. Too drunk to walk, so I have to drive. 2. Can't drive. 3. What else to do but go back into the bar?...I ain't stoopid!"
Officer:"Where was the computer (that you grabbed the keyboard for) located? Was it a public accessible computer?"
Me:"Wha??? Uhmm, remember, I was too drunk to walk....."*gets cuffed and tossed into the trunk of the POlice van-have you ever really thought about how 'small' that donut/spare-tire actually is up CLOSE!- I thought not!*[apply sarcasm and Monty Python-type filters here @heavily +3]
With your UID, when you make this type of reply, you might want to get creative. But then again, it could just be my Blood Alcohol Content posting!
"Should minimal and Vista be used in the same sentance?"[sic]-(you are looking for 'sentence' here I believe, but we SHOULD all get it!)
NO! This would cause the universe to implode, your head to explode, teeth to fall out, and you also start wetting the bed-ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!! (and don't EVEN think about coughing and farting at the same time if you value your undershorts!)
Please back off of this line of thought while we are all still alive!
I don't currently have mod points for you, but...CLAP!CLAP!APPLAUSE!APPLESAUCE!
Very well done sir!!! You have certainly made my day, and you have my profound thanks! (no sarcasm implied nor intended-really!)
All joking aside, it has been my experience that there can be a spring-steel backbone and a set of cannonballs behind that very proper, polite, and acceptable face that accompanies that stereotypical Brit you 'Monty Python'd' with your reply.
*offtopic-sort of* I used to love to go tavern/pub diving with both the Brit's SAS and the Aussie SpecWar crowd wherever I was stationed-always entertaining, action-packed, and NEVER boring! Hell, if you couldn't find any 'game' locals to brawl with, you could always break into nationalities and have a 'good-natured', drunken, silly toughman contest...it was great fun, loved by all! Our own SEALs were also of the same 'game' mentality, but we did not run into them often, but the above applies to them the same. Most of the rest of the US military crowd takes itself too seriously to even come close to the same mindset. *sigh* Good Times, back when!
So, you've actually seen Vista's source code! *bows down to superior geekness*
I look out across the Vista, and see a light!
Oh shit- it's a train!!! Run away! (typed very happily from my Kubuntu Gutsy upgrade from Fiesty, from Dapper 6.10 LTS, from 5.10-can't remember the silly name!)
I like your style, sir. I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Egads!.....You FOOL!! What a can of worms you you have burst open here.! The world may implode! We are DOOMED!
*obligatory*
'I was just upgrading to KDE 4.0, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia/N.Korea/USA,a Beowulf Cluster of e-mails will run your Vista on *nix', even on a dead badger http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml, and of course...CowboyNeal said:
"....'Daddy!' Daddy? DADDY! Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters!."http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/
(very bad paraphrase from the movie : 'Big Jake'-John Wayne, and the Dog...in case this gets fsck'ed somehow)'
Ahh! I'm shocked at what has transpired here!
"does it run on Vista?" Uhmmmm....not sure, but I'll give you a running start of 20 seconds, and if you can reach your Vista before my 50 cal. 'reaches out and touches someone', then by all means run it on towards the Vista.
You need to put down that glass of the current Koolaide you're on and pull your head out of your ass and look around you at reality.
He has spoken no FUD, but you sure are.
Have you not been paying attention these past few years to world events?
Drop your crack pipe and step away from your computer or crawl up out of your mom's basement for that last bag of Cheetos in the cupboard-whatever, you are not contributing here- you are just annoying noise.
This was not adequately addressed until WinXp. You will still get a pop-up balloon with XpSP2 if it is a modern USB drive that has USB 2.0 when the USB port is only 1.x. (in my experience at least- I THINK good USB drive support might of happened with Win XP or XP SP1, but I went from 98SE to Win XP Pro SP1, and within a week, SP2 was available and installed)
I agree with you on the Ubuntu deal- I use Kubuntu 7.04, and USB 'just works' for me.
From the summary: "What would you like to see in the next generation of laptop computers?"
Ask and ye shall receive!
Personally, my tastes (and needs for a laptop) are really different from yours, as I still am in love with my Sharp MMC20- think the size of a Playboy magazine, and quite light to boot.
But if I had the budget, Oh Yeah! Gaming laptop here I come! So I see where you are coming from, and think your post was ONTOPIC, my own needs drive me the opposite direction....but so what?
Your needs/wants in a laptop are are valid as anyone else's, and you answered the submitter's question. WTF?
Moderators take note: At least RTFS or RTFA before blasting out offtopic mods!
I think it's already happened from what I'm picking up in the news lately. (past couple of years or so)
Frankly, I'm scared of the NEXT Inexplicable Universe Replacement (patent pending) after this last Beta we've had to use/test.
Darn it! I still can't figure out if the cat is dead or alive! Every time I open the box to look, it changes on me. Curse you, your cat, and your box, Schroedinger!
"The article doesn't explain how 1940s hardware competing with modern hardware is a remotely interesting contest."
Without it being spelled out to me, I am thoroughly taken with this idea. (only true computer geeks need apply, basically)
I think it would be cool to participate in this, but I would especially like to be on the Collosus team just to get to play with this icon of computer geekdom. I suspect that the modern pc's could smoke Collosus (with the right setup), but this gives a chance to gauge our progress, compare apples and oranges like only a comp. geek can, and otherwise rejoice in our geekiness.
So admittedly, this isn't interesting for just anyone-even here on/. , but to some of us, this is just too much fun/interest to pass up.
We see quite a few stories about comparisons between PS3 'super computers' pitted against older supercomputers, we see ad hoc distributed systems compared to older super computers, so why not modern PC's compared to The Super Computer that started it all. (okay, that last bit may have been over the top, and not real accurate...but come on man!)
On the Spock Scale, I rate this one as: *raised eyebrow*'Fascinating, Captain.'
I'm glad to see that the current mod's seem to be awake and gave you some/. love!
Something that I've not seen mentioned yet though is all of the gov't. employee laptop (thus data on who knows what!) thefts that have occurred. Even given trustworthy deeds by the gov't. itself(note: could not type that with a straight face!), we are still at risk from this, and other deeds from hackers and such.
This current administration scares me more and more every day. I HOPE we can actually make it to the next election without some type of fscked up monarchy sidetracking it somehow, and can benefit from said election to correct this crap that has been happening.
Yeah, you are right there about being screwed...the only way to be screwed worse than your friends and family can do to you is by the gov't.
Again, I'm glad you got the 'Fistful of Insightful' (+5) from the current mod's!
"The first rational thing he'd do is to jump off of a bridge."
Uhmm...so what? Hell, I will sell him a bridge to jump from for this type of offense-AND take an IOU from him just to see justice served.
IMO, asshats like this deserve no sympathy. He violated a trusted position to fuck up other people's lives, credit,computers, and finances.
We don't really grasp or hear of the 'collateral damage' inflicted on all of his victims in these stories, usually some blurb about 'some had their lives ruined, etc.' Have any of his victims committed suicide as a result of financial ruin?...who knows, as it's not followed up here.(Yes, this is an extreme knee-jerk reaction here, but plausible...with 'lesser damage' also more plausible.)
The whole 'every human life is precious' mentality that has become mainstream now days is 180 degrees from the way the world/mother nature/etc. actually work. It's a human mental construct that goes against the grain of the real world, like which is imposed on society by so called civilizations.
We (humans) can do this because we have decided we know best, we think the most, and are above the rest of the fellow animals we share this planet with. It may be true, it may not...I'm not smart enough to even think about answering that one! But, I do seem to share the experience of the general consensus that humans are at least at the top of the food chain in general. (worded that way to discourage the pedants-think average[hell! even above average like Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, etc.-insert your own here] human [no, I did not say/.er!] against say a tiger, or a grizzly bear,a cape buffalo, an elephant defending it's herd/young, or a rabid penguin defending *nix on/.!) Us humans seem to be able to think ourselves out of dire situations to at least a level that has allowed us to progress past caves and stone tools.
"Why then did you, a taxpayer, housed and fed him for most of his life?" See above. He should be heinously taken out of society and the gene pool after a reasonable period after conviction to allow for appeals in case he is is not guilty.*heh!heh! He admitted to it.* (say 5 years tops)
But wait a minute...he claimed guilty, so screw the appeals and the 5 years- if found guilty, have the bailiff shoot him in the center of the forehead when the jury and judge decide he is guilty. A.45 ACP round only costs 25-30 cents (USA), or as a reload only about 15 cents. Cleanup crew costs would also be inexpensive. Hell, for that matter, let him dig his own grave and execute him right there in the cometary, roll him in the ole pine box and bury his worthless ass...no fuss, no muss.
Yeah, I'm old school, and getting old as dirt. But this I can guarantee you...steal my PC (zombie on a botnet), steal my 'identity' and use it for profit at my expense, invade my domain(virtual or my home), and laws be damned- I will 'break medieval on your ass'(love that line in Pulp Fiction re:Vingh Rhames!), do anatomically improbable things to you(like tie your scrotum in a square knot behinds your ears, then jerk your anal sphincter up around you Adam's Apple, and then step on your head to shove you up your own ass-then I will get mean and vindictive to ending your life).
My point is this: if you are a detriment to society, civilization, and mankind- why is your life valuable? Just because you're a human being?!?! WTF? Off his ass, there are others just as talented but with a more beneficent minset. Ya gotta cull the herd!
I used to raise Quarter Horses. My wife and I had 38 broodmares and 3 stallions. A lot of stallions have a reputation as being 'hard to handle' or 'vicious 1200 pound killing/breeding' animals managed by a 200 pound man or 125 pound woman. Here's the newsflash: you don't have to put up with this shit! There are too many excellent bloodlines in the QH world to put up with this type of behavior. When it is too easy to acquire semen/stud service from calm, easy to work with stallions, why even think about introducing this crap into your stable?!?!
This is all Darwin's List stuff- real basic.(Have you ever heard the phrase "Kill it before it breeds!"? (think about it.)
Firethorn, Genarat, Bluesman, MBCook, and you all raise valid points here. I think the big change has been the whole 'guarded proprietary/closed source gaurd so called 'Intellectual Property' mentality that started becoming prevalent in the so called Computer Age in the late 1980's.
IMHO, IP is a vacuous and shady concept, but that's just me. As far as I'm concerned it is just another GenX marketdroid concept trying to be passed off as real goods. (yeah, I know...flame wars have been started for less, but that's how I feel)
Your examples of washers and dryers are good ones- other than some proprietary boards and chipsets for the newer controllers, a washer is still a washer.
Hell's Fire! Prior to the mid to later 1980's, quite a few automobiles came with a fairly detailed owner's manual and a basic toolkit.
Up until the 1990's, I could readily get the parts (and references/schematics) for a product and repair it myself. Ranging from replacing drive belts on cheaper turntables and CD players to changing the ignition points in my distributor and setting the correct point-gap/dwell angle was trivial. (okay...the point-gap reference gives my age away somewhat, and is only good until the early 1970's, but HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!)
With the Artificial Property (IP for you suckers out there) concept of 'virtual (as done on a computer) reality' being considered as a real, physical thing...the sky's the limit. No ground rules, no reality, nothing physical, nothing but ideas...and this is what we seem to be trying to establish as the new reality.
It all reminds me of my Grandfather's definition of a mess: 'Trying to put ten gallons of shit in a five gallon bucket'....and we're bragging about trying it!....WTF?
Yeah, call me a luddite, but in some ways (IP, current copyright laws[I'm looking at you Mickey Mouse and Sony Bono!], the current patent system, what society has been accustomed to, etc.) I'm glad to be 50, and will probably not live to see all of the CRAP that my children and especially my grandchildren will have to deal with.
Yes, I'm sure that by kicking the bucket I will miss out on some cool stuff in the tech field, I don't regret missing out on the social aspects I see coming. It almost makes me think that the whole cyberpunk world of a corporate-run world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Society_and_government
And yes, I was amazed by the IBM Selectric (sp?) that only had one arm and a BALL! With all of the typable characters...on the BALL!...not separate mechanical levers attached to the individual keys on the machine! (Yes, I was that excited by this at that time! We were also playing blackjack and baseball(don't know if the baseball game was written in house, or was common at the time?!?!?!) on the NASA mainframes at Goddard Space Flight Center (NTTF Facilty) in Greenbelt, MD in the 1970's)
I'm not a complete luddite however, I currently have a box here with a (okay-laugh dammit!) P4 Prescott/ Socket 478, 1GB PC2700 RAM, Audigy SC (PCI), ATI Radeon 9550-256MB AGP vid card[YAY ATI's newest fglrx drivers for Fiesty!!!], LiteOn 8x Dual Layer DVD R/RW, LiteOn 32x 12x 48x CD R/RW, 200GB Pri IDE drive (yes-it's a long story..I'm running this as my realworld primary drive!), 80GB and 100GB SATA1 drives as storage/backup drives. I am running Kubuntu 7.04(have been soley Kubuntu on this box since 6.04 Dapper LTS) with Compiz (could not do this until latest ATI/AMD fglrx drivers), 1280x1024@74 Hz and all 'eye candy' on, and (laugh again- but dammit, I REALLY liked TuxRacer when I was running Mandrake 7.? with a P3 800MGHz/ nVidia TNT2 64 vid card back in 1999-2001!)
I sometimes miss my old WinXP era games like Battlefield 1942 and BF Vietnam, but I still have a box set up where we LAN, but at home....it's all Kubuntu for me- I can still play my Win95 and Win98 games with VirtualBox or DosBox(Xcom anyone?), so it's hard for me to personally get with the program of 'disposable goods' as mainstream.
I do however have a few non-functionabl motherboards here I'd like to put back into sevice.....
But he would not be offended unless he had his Emotion Chip installed. And Lars, well he would just do something diabolical and painful to you for suggesting this...just because he could.
This has been on/. and the nerd-news sites a good bit lately, so you can safely discount the occasional clueless troll.
Hell, they don't even have to leave/. to search for this, but yes, Google would give them more than they could digest in time to post a relevant reply instead of just spouting nonsense.
Again, congratulations! This was a noteworthy story for/., and a noteworthy win for y'all and the other finishing teams...cool, useful stuff that can be developed for the rest of us in some form, someday.:-)
Try getting out of your own area then. It will broaden your horizons.
Y'all is prominent in Oklahoma,Missouri,California,Maryland, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana(all states that I have lived in). In my travels, most of the south and southwest in the USA will let you experience the whole y'all extravaganza.
It's to the point that when I here something other than y'all, I take notice. South central Pennsylvania was the worst with you'uns instead of y'all for me.(as I type this I notice that Firefox's spell-checker does not flag y'all, but with you'uns I get the RED UNDERLINE!!! Oh No!..the dreaded Red Underline!)
So like it or not, y'all need to get over the fact that the USA is a big country with diverse cultures and dialects...just like any other big country.
Take a trip up north from Virginia...oh, say about 4-5 states right along the same Atlantic coast and be amazed. Y'all will see a bunch of stuff, you'uns will get to try a lot of different cuisine, youse guys will experience different cultures, and you all will maybe learn something...maybe even some tolerance for those not just like you guys.
"Corn is a horrible source for ethanol..." Regarding fuel, YES. But, damn, I do like my corn likker[sic]!
Okay, my natural smartass need has been satisfied...sorry!
I like your style. I would have went with '+1 informative', but that doesn't seem enough here. You make some valid points (with reference links) that are relevant to the discussion. Bonus Points! (sadly, this seems the exception lately-
The two things that caused me to reply are:
There was also a political/cultural aspect to the 1934 law aimed against immigrants from our southern border. The movie (various titles, but I saw it labeled as 'Reefer Madness') http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/ "Tell Your Children' helped get this law passed to a small degree. The whole "Oh NO!-We're gonna be exposed to sin and corruption and fall into Hell" mindset of the masses keeps us from utilizing hemp as a resource. Back then, and still today. Okay, here's a better link:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236(it's now in the public domain-Yay!) Pay particular attention to th scrolling text that 'announces the movie'. They admit to 'blowing it out of proportion' to get the public's attention to this new menace being brought across the border by Mexicans, and the cool aspects of the use of this new terror was being espoused by the popular jazz musicians of the day! The Horror! The Shame! The Idiocy!
Maybe I played too much CyberPunk back when, but it seems to be turning to a corporate-run world more and more. Hhmmmmm....Solo or Runner?....
The general public doesn't realise that hemp (as grown for rope-making, fiber, etc.) has no significant THC content. It may be related to marijuana(so are hops), but it it not the same thing. The US gov't. has managed/subsidised many hemp fields just for rope(IIRC it started during WW2), and as a teenager I found one and sampled the crop. UGHH!...not worth the effort- I doubt a human could smoke enough of this stuff to feel even a mild buzz, much less get high!
Hell, it's said that George Washington grew hemp! I would not be surprised if he did. Back in his day easy to work fiber for rope-making was surely marketable. I imagine his smoking habits were more into tobacco than his hemp.
Bach to the point, hemp would be a good addition to the biofuel solution. Easy to grow, prolific, and high yield if cultivated.
I live near Oklahoma State University's campus, near the sorority houses, and all of those college coeds! (Egads! This sounds like a porno I saw^Wheard about)
*starts setting up retired p3 733MGZ PC as server-Linux, of course- and starts duct taping 3.2 megapixel camera to telescope*
And no, I would not think that a few smelly dead kids were worth as much as my Bag O Glass. The dead kids weren't much fun to play with anyhow...and had pesky flies on them.
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Yes, but only on a Beowolf cluster serving e-mail to old people in Korea, while in Soviet Russia it is playing you while it is being confirmed by Netcraft, and....I can't go on, someone else needs to either take over or shot me between the eyes!
Me:"Why yes ociffer, I HAVE been drinking while posting, but I had a good reason!"
Officer:"Sir, you are obviously drunk. Did you not have someone you could call to come get you?"
Me:"Well it's like this: i couldn't walk this drunk, so I tried driving- but my house key broke off in the ignition switch. I tried hotwiring it, but caught the trunk on fire-must have been my stereo wiring I did last year-but anyway, I pissed on the fire, and after another liter of beer, I finally got it out. What? Yes, my penis...Yes, I finally got it out. What? Oh, yes it did take another sixpack to put the fire out once I did get it out of my pants- that helped a lot, I can tell you!
Oh yes, so I was too drunk to walk OR drive by then you see, so I grab this keyboard in the bar....What?
Well damn right I went back into the bar! Haven't you been listening?
1. Too drunk to walk, so I have to drive.
2. Can't drive.
3. What else to do but go back into the bar?...I ain't stoopid!"
Officer:"Where was the computer (that you grabbed the keyboard for) located? Was it a public accessible computer?"
Me:"Wha??? Uhmm, remember, I was too drunk to walk....."*gets cuffed and tossed into the trunk of the POlice van-have you ever really thought about how 'small' that donut/spare-tire actually is up CLOSE!- I thought not!*[apply sarcasm and Monty Python-type filters here @heavily +3]
With your UID, when you make this type of reply, you might want to get creative.
But then again, it could just be my Blood Alcohol Content posting!
"Should minimal and Vista be used in the same sentance?"[sic]-(you are looking for 'sentence' here I believe, but we SHOULD all get it!)
NO! This would cause the universe to implode, your head to explode, teeth to fall out, and you also start wetting the bed-ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!! (and don't EVEN think about coughing and farting at the same time if you value your undershorts!)
Please back off of this line of thought while we are all still alive!
Obligatory:"My god, Jim, I'm just a doctor...not a/an *insert favorite trade here*!"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_McCoy#.22I.27m_a_doctor.2C_not_a.28n.29....22
Er, uhmm, uh, think of the children?!?!?
You prefer shaved cats? Man, that's kinky.
How do you get the cat to hold still?
I don't currently have mod points for you, but...CLAP!CLAP!APPLAUSE!APPLESAUCE!
Very well done sir!!! You have certainly made my day, and you have my profound thanks! (no sarcasm implied nor intended-really!)
All joking aside, it has been my experience that there can be a spring-steel backbone and a set of cannonballs behind that very proper, polite, and acceptable face that accompanies that stereotypical Brit you 'Monty Python'd' with your reply.
*offtopic-sort of*
I used to love to go tavern/pub diving with both the Brit's SAS and the Aussie SpecWar crowd wherever I was stationed-always entertaining, action-packed, and NEVER boring! Hell, if you couldn't find any 'game' locals to brawl with, you could always break into nationalities and have a 'good-natured', drunken, silly toughman contest...it was great fun, loved by all! Our own SEALs were also of the same 'game' mentality, but we did not run into them often, but the above applies to them the same. Most of the rest of the US military crowd takes itself too seriously to even come close to the same mindset. *sigh* Good Times, back when!
So, you've actually seen Vista's source code! *bows down to superior geekness*
I look out across the Vista, and see a light!
Oh shit- it's a train!!! Run away!
(typed very happily from my Kubuntu Gutsy upgrade from Fiesty, from Dapper 6.10 LTS, from 5.10-can't remember the silly name!)
I like your style, sir. I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Egads!.....You FOOL!!
What a can of worms you you have burst open here.!
The world may implode! We are DOOMED!
*obligatory*
'I was just upgrading to KDE 4.0, you insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia/N.Korea/USA,a Beowulf Cluster of e-mails will run your Vista on *nix', even on a dead badger http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml, and of course...CowboyNeal said:
"....'Daddy!'
Daddy?
DADDY!
Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters!."http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/
(very bad paraphrase from the movie : 'Big Jake'-John Wayne, and the Dog...in case this gets fsck'ed somehow)'
Ahh! I'm shocked at what has transpired here!
"does it run on Vista?" Uhmmmm....not sure, but I'll give you a running start of 20 seconds, and if you can reach your Vista before my 50 cal. 'reaches out and touches someone', then by all means run it on towards the Vista.
*have penguins, will travel...with RPG's*
You need to put down that glass of the current Koolaide you're on and pull your head out of your ass and look around you at reality.
He has spoken no FUD, but you sure are.
Have you not been paying attention these past few years to world events?
Drop your crack pipe and step away from your computer or crawl up out of your mom's basement for that last bag of Cheetos in the cupboard-whatever, you are not contributing here- you are just annoying noise.
"Who knows."
This was not adequately addressed until WinXp. You will still get a pop-up balloon with XpSP2 if it is a modern USB drive that has USB 2.0 when the USB port is only 1.x. (in my experience at least- I THINK good USB drive support might of happened with Win XP or XP SP1, but I went from 98SE to Win XP Pro SP1, and within a week, SP2 was available and installed)
I agree with you on the Ubuntu deal- I use Kubuntu 7.04, and USB 'just works' for me.
Or my favorite metric:
http://www.nakedworldrecords.com/phone.htm, but I'm having trouble concentrating on calculating the bandwidth involved.
Why were you modded offtopic?
From the summary:
"What would you like to see in the next generation of laptop computers?"
Ask and ye shall receive!
Personally, my tastes (and needs for a laptop) are really different from yours, as I still am in love with my Sharp MMC20- think the size of a Playboy magazine, and quite light to boot.
But if I had the budget, Oh Yeah! Gaming laptop here I come!
So I see where you are coming from, and think your post was ONTOPIC, my own needs drive me the opposite direction....but so what?
Your needs/wants in a laptop are are valid as anyone else's, and you answered the submitter's question. WTF?
Moderators take note: At least RTFS or RTFA before blasting out offtopic mods!
I think it's already happened from what I'm picking up in the news lately. (past couple of years or so)
Frankly, I'm scared of the NEXT Inexplicable Universe Replacement (patent pending) after this last Beta we've had to use/test.
Darn it! I still can't figure out if the cat is dead or alive! Every time I open the box to look, it changes on me. Curse you, your cat, and your box, Schroedinger!
Damn, with my luck, the universe is set up with Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/) rules!
It will be interesting to see how this holds up.
"The article doesn't explain how 1940s hardware competing with modern hardware is a remotely interesting contest."
/. , but to some of us, this is just too much fun/interest to pass up.
Without it being spelled out to me, I am thoroughly taken with this idea. (only true computer geeks need apply, basically)
I think it would be cool to participate in this, but I would especially like to be on the Collosus team just to get to play with this icon of computer geekdom. I suspect that the modern pc's could smoke Collosus (with the right setup), but this gives a chance to gauge our progress, compare apples and oranges like only a comp. geek can, and otherwise rejoice in our geekiness.
So admittedly, this isn't interesting for just anyone-even here on
We see quite a few stories about comparisons between PS3 'super computers' pitted against older supercomputers, we see ad hoc distributed systems compared to older super computers, so why not modern PC's compared to The Super Computer that started it all. (okay, that last bit may have been over the top, and not real accurate...but come on man!)
On the Spock Scale, I rate this one as:
*raised eyebrow*'Fascinating, Captain.'
That would be a little like a Mazda RX7 having a warning that this is not a Dump Truck.
There, fixed that for you.
I'm glad to see that the current mod's seem to be awake and gave you some
Something that I've not seen mentioned yet though is all of the gov't. employee laptop (thus data on who knows what!) thefts that have occurred.
Even given trustworthy deeds by the gov't. itself(note: could not type that with a straight face!), we are still at risk from this, and other deeds from hackers and such.
This current administration scares me more and more every day. I HOPE we can actually make it to the next election without some type of fscked up monarchy sidetracking it somehow, and can benefit from said election to correct this crap that has been happening.
Yeah, you are right there about being screwed...the only way to be screwed worse than your friends and family can do to you is by the gov't.
Again, I'm glad you got the 'Fistful of Insightful' (+5) from the current mod's!
"The first rational thing he'd do is to jump off of a bridge."
/.er!] against say a tiger, or a grizzly bear,a cape buffalo, an elephant defending it's herd/young, or a rabid penguin defending *nix on /.!) Us humans seem to be able to think ourselves out of dire situations to at least a level that has allowed us to progress past caves and stone tools.
.45 ACP round only costs 25-30 cents (USA), or as a reload only about 15 cents. Cleanup crew costs would also be inexpensive.
Uhmm...so what? Hell, I will sell him a bridge to jump from for this type of offense-AND take an IOU from him just to see justice served.
IMO, asshats like this deserve no sympathy. He violated a trusted position to fuck up other people's lives, credit,computers, and finances.
We don't really grasp or hear of the 'collateral damage' inflicted on all of his victims in these stories, usually some blurb about 'some had their lives ruined, etc.' Have any of his victims committed suicide as a result of financial ruin?...who knows, as it's not followed up here.(Yes, this is an extreme knee-jerk reaction here, but plausible...with 'lesser damage' also more plausible.)
The whole 'every human life is precious' mentality that has become mainstream now days is 180 degrees from the way the world/mother nature/etc. actually work. It's a human mental construct that goes against the grain of the real world, like which is imposed on society by so called civilizations.
We (humans) can do this because we have decided we know best, we think the most, and are above the rest of the fellow animals we share this planet with. It may be true, it may not...I'm not smart enough to even think about answering that one!
But, I do seem to share the experience of the general consensus that humans are at least at the top of the food chain in general. (worded that way to discourage the pedants-think average[hell! even above average like Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, etc.-insert your own here] human [no, I did not say
"Why then did you, a taxpayer, housed and fed him for most of his life?" See above. He should be heinously taken out of society and the gene pool after a reasonable period after conviction to allow for appeals in case he is is not guilty.*heh!heh! He admitted to it.* (say 5 years tops)
But wait a minute...he claimed guilty, so screw the appeals and the 5 years- if found guilty, have the bailiff shoot him in the center of the forehead when the jury and judge decide he is guilty. A
Hell, for that matter, let him dig his own grave and execute him right there in the cometary, roll him in the ole pine box and bury his worthless ass...no fuss, no muss.
Yeah, I'm old school, and getting old as dirt. But this I can guarantee you...steal my PC (zombie on a botnet), steal my 'identity' and use it for profit at my expense, invade my domain(virtual or my home), and laws be damned- I will 'break medieval on your ass'(love that line in Pulp Fiction re:Vingh Rhames!), do anatomically improbable things to you(like tie your scrotum in a square knot behinds your ears, then jerk your anal sphincter up around you Adam's Apple, and then step on your head to shove you up your own ass-then I will get mean and vindictive to ending your life).
My point is this: if you are a detriment to society, civilization, and mankind- why is your life valuable? Just because you're a human being?!?! WTF? Off his ass, there are others just as talented but with a more beneficent minset. Ya gotta cull the herd!
I used to raise Quarter Horses.
My wife and I had 38 broodmares and 3 stallions. A lot of stallions have a reputation as being 'hard to handle' or 'vicious 1200 pound killing/breeding' animals managed by a 200 pound man or 125 pound woman.
Here's the newsflash: you don't have to put up with this shit! There are too many excellent bloodlines in the QH world to put up with this type of behavior.
When it is too easy to acquire semen/stud service from calm, easy to work with stallions, why even think about introducing this crap into your stable?!?!
This is all Darwin's List stuff- real basic.(Have you ever heard the phrase "Kill it before it breeds!"? (think about it.)
Firethorn, Genarat, Bluesman, MBCook, and you all raise valid points here.
I think the big change has been the whole 'guarded proprietary/closed source gaurd so called 'Intellectual Property' mentality that started becoming prevalent in the so called Computer Age in the late 1980's.
IMHO, IP is a vacuous and shady concept, but that's just me. As far as I'm concerned it is just another GenX marketdroid concept trying to be passed off as real goods. (yeah, I know...flame wars have been started for less, but that's how I feel)
Your examples of washers and dryers are good ones- other than some proprietary boards and chipsets for the newer controllers, a washer is still a washer.
Hell's Fire! Prior to the mid to later 1980's, quite a few automobiles came with a fairly detailed owner's manual and a basic toolkit.
Up until the 1990's, I could readily get the parts (and references/schematics) for a product and repair it myself.
Ranging from replacing drive belts on cheaper turntables and CD players to changing the ignition points in my distributor and setting the correct point-gap/dwell angle was trivial. (okay...the point-gap reference gives my age away somewhat, and is only good until the early 1970's, but HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF OF MY LAWN!)
With the Artificial Property (IP for you suckers out there) concept of 'virtual (as done on a computer) reality' being considered as a real, physical thing...the sky's the limit. No ground rules, no reality, nothing physical, nothing but ideas...and this is what we seem to be trying to establish as the new reality.
It all reminds me of my Grandfather's definition of a mess: 'Trying to put ten gallons of shit in a five gallon bucket'....and we're bragging about trying it!....WTF?
Yeah, call me a luddite, but in some ways (IP, current copyright laws[I'm looking at you Mickey Mouse and Sony Bono!], the current patent system, what society has been accustomed to, etc.) I'm glad to be 50, and will probably not live to see all of the CRAP that my children and especially my grandchildren will have to deal with.
Yes, I'm sure that by kicking the bucket I will miss out on some cool stuff in the tech field, I don't regret missing out on the social aspects I see coming. It almost makes me think that the whole cyberpunk world of a corporate-run world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Society_and_government
And yes, I was amazed by the IBM Selectric (sp?) that only had one arm and a BALL! With all of the typable characters...on the BALL!...not separate mechanical levers attached to the individual keys on the machine!
(Yes, I was that excited by this at that time! We were also playing blackjack and baseball(don't know if the baseball game was written in house, or was common at the time?!?!?!) on the NASA mainframes at Goddard Space Flight Center (NTTF Facilty) in Greenbelt, MD in the 1970's)
I'm not a complete luddite however, I currently have a box here with a (okay-laugh dammit!) P4 Prescott/ Socket 478, 1GB PC2700 RAM, Audigy SC (PCI), ATI Radeon 9550-256MB AGP vid card[YAY ATI's newest fglrx drivers for Fiesty!!!], LiteOn 8x Dual Layer DVD R/RW, LiteOn 32x 12x 48x CD R/RW, 200GB Pri IDE drive (yes-it's a long story..I'm running this as my realworld primary drive!), 80GB and 100GB SATA1 drives as storage/backup drives.
I am running Kubuntu 7.04(have been soley Kubuntu on this box since 6.04 Dapper LTS) with Compiz (could not do this until latest ATI/AMD fglrx drivers), 1280x1024@74 Hz and all 'eye candy' on, and (laugh again- but dammit, I REALLY liked TuxRacer when I was running Mandrake 7.? with a P3 800MGHz/ nVidia TNT2 64 vid card back in 1999-2001!)
I sometimes miss my old WinXP era games like Battlefield 1942 and BF Vietnam, but I still have a box set up where we LAN, but at home....it's all Kubuntu for me- I can still play my Win95 and Win98 games with VirtualBox or DosBox(Xcom anyone?), so it's hard for me to personally get with the program of 'disposable goods' as mainstream.
I do however have a few non-functionabl motherboards here I'd like to put back into sevice.....
But he would not be offended unless he had his Emotion Chip installed.
And Lars, well he would just do something diabolical and painful to you for suggesting this...just because he could.
She is cute! AND a nerdy type geek to boot!
Maybe not quite in Kari Byron's class(of Mythbusters fame), http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/05/mythbuster-kari.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mythbusters/&h=253&w=250&sz=20&tbnid=r8mZbMBJ-dwMMM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkari%252Bmythbusters%26um%3D1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1
but still cute and geeky in her own right.
I would have given you a +1 informative for bringing her to our attention, not offtopic!
Note to the modders...get out of yer mom's basement!
Offtopic...sheesh!
Hell, I'd pay to see this chick and Kari wrestling nude...in hot grits!
No need to apologize.
/. and the nerd-news sites a good bit lately, so you can safely discount the occasional clueless troll.
/. to search for this, but yes, Google would give them more than they could digest in time to post a relevant reply instead of just spouting nonsense.
/., and a noteworthy win for y'all and the other finishing teams...cool, useful stuff that can be developed for the rest of us in some form, someday. :-)
And CONGRAT'S!!!
This has been on
Hell, they don't even have to leave
Again, congratulations! This was a noteworthy story for
Try getting out of your own area then. It will broaden your horizons.
Y'all is prominent in Oklahoma,Missouri,California,Maryland, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana(all states that I have lived in). In my travels, most of the south and southwest in the USA will let you experience the whole y'all extravaganza.
It's to the point that when I here something other than y'all, I take notice. South central Pennsylvania was the worst with you'uns instead of y'all for me.(as I type this I notice that Firefox's spell-checker does not flag y'all, but with you'uns I get the RED UNDERLINE!!! Oh No!..the dreaded Red Underline!)
Your use of the quote marks on the word 'word' suggests that you do not think that it is a word.
Try again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'all Obligatory wiki link
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=A&key=yall*1+0 Cambridge's onlin dictionary
http://www.yourdictionary.com/y-all Random link from Google search for online dictionaries
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/y'all And last but not least, Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.
So like it or not, y'all need to get over the fact that the USA is a big country with diverse cultures and dialects...just like any other big country.
Take a trip up north from Virginia...oh, say about 4-5 states right along the same Atlantic coast and be amazed.
Y'all will see a bunch of stuff, you'uns will get to try a lot of different cuisine, youse guys will experience different cultures, and you all will maybe learn something...maybe even some tolerance for those not just like you guys.
"Corn is a horrible source for ethanol..."
Regarding fuel, YES. But, damn, I do like my corn likker[sic]!
Okay, my natural smartass need has been satisfied...sorry!
I like your style. I would have went with '+1 informative', but that doesn't seem enough here.
You make some valid points (with reference links) that are relevant to the discussion. Bonus Points! (sadly, this seems the exception lately-
The two things that caused me to reply are:
There was also a political/cultural aspect to the 1934 law aimed against immigrants from our southern border. The movie (various titles, but I saw it labeled as 'Reefer Madness') http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/ "Tell Your Children' helped get this law passed to a small degree.
The whole "Oh NO!-We're gonna be exposed to sin and corruption and fall into Hell" mindset of the masses keeps us from utilizing hemp as a resource. Back then, and still today.
Okay, here's a better link:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236(it's now in the public domain-Yay!) Pay particular attention to th scrolling text that 'announces the movie'. They admit to 'blowing it out of proportion' to get the public's attention to this new menace being brought across the border by Mexicans, and the cool aspects of the use of this new terror was being espoused by the popular jazz musicians of the day! The Horror! The Shame! The Idiocy!
Maybe I played too much CyberPunk back when, but it seems to be turning to a corporate-run world more and more. Hhmmmmm....Solo or Runner?....
The general public doesn't realise that hemp (as grown for rope-making, fiber, etc.) has no significant THC content. It may be related to marijuana(so are hops), but it it not the same thing. The US gov't. has managed/subsidised many hemp fields just for rope(IIRC it started during WW2), and as a teenager I found one and sampled the crop. UGHH!...not worth the effort- I doubt a human could smoke enough of this stuff to feel even a mild buzz, much less get high!
Hell, it's said that George Washington grew hemp! I would not be surprised if he did. Back in his day easy to work fiber for rope-making was surely marketable. I imagine his smoking habits were more into tobacco than his hemp.
Bach to the point, hemp would be a good addition to the biofuel solution. Easy to grow, prolific, and high yield if cultivated.
Hear! Hear!
I live near Oklahoma State University's campus, near the sorority houses, and all of those college coeds! (Egads! This sounds like a porno I saw^Wheard about)
*starts setting up retired p3 733MGZ PC as server-Linux, of course- and starts duct taping 3.2 megapixel camera to telescope*
Most of us survived- even thrived!
And no, I would not think that a few smelly dead kids were worth as much as my Bag O Glass. The dead kids weren't much fun to play with anyhow...and had pesky flies on them.
Or, it could be hacked, cracked, and pWned by the pirates. (yes, I understand that we are FINALLY talking about real pirates!)
While we're at it, we should back these bots up with some kind of amphibious mines based on Rhoombas-with frikkin' lasers.
Just from this post I ca see where your username 'icaris' cme about. Glad to see the + Funny going on here!
Well done.