I'm logged in and followed your steps. No white on white. I've been reading Slashdot for years with every major browser, both logged in and not, coming in from the main page and from RSS.. no permutation of the above has ever caused (for me) a white-on-white effect like you describe.
I'm a currently working full time while finishing my grad degree in CS, and I'll confirm everything you said. At the end of my undergrad coursework (last year) I spent months job searching and going to interviews in my pretty new suit.
None of the offers I landed really satisfied me, so I spent the bulk of this year taking grad classes full time. Now, a year later in a worse economy than when I was last looking for jobs, I've been getting much better offers, even though I haven't completed my grad course work. I even found the job that I'm working at now which will pay me to take one night course every semester. They're paying for me to finish my degree, and they are then going to give me an automatic salary increase when it's done.
Do your master's degree, but be prepared to work your ass off. Undergraduate degrees are a joke, and have basically turned into a slightly advanced "are you SURE you're not an idiot?" test. Everyone can get an undergraduate degree these days -- Graduate degrees show that you're actually intelligent.
Then buy the one with Windows installed on it, remove Windows and install Ubuntu. Then send Asus a refund request for the Windows Home license that you didn't use.
Really? I wasn't aware you could do this. Will Asus honor your request? Will you get ~$100 back for your unused Windows license?
$200 for a pc with those specs sounds pretty awesome. Where are you buying parts from that are that cheap? Or are you actually able to buy a pre-built tower with those specs?
(This is an honest question, I'm honestly curious. This isn't a snarky "Oh yeah? PROVE IT!" thing. Damn the internet for not conveying tone.)
For instance, to keep the yeast cells healthy, their waste products will need to be removed without allowing any harmful substances to leach out into the blood stream. "I think people will figure this out. This is a first step," he says.
I'm a bit concerned about this problem. Would this necessitate the installation of a shunt or some other extraction point for the waste? Seems like a fairly significant barrier to me. If you have to perform regular extractions (or worse, operations) is it really better than the current alternatives?
Isn't the waste product of yeast alcohol? As long as the waste is a low amount, it sounds like this would have the same effect as drinking alcohol (which the body is quite capable of disposing of). If it's not a low amount... well, at least the patient dies happy!
This is like the grandmaster OF DRAG RACING having to race on a road he's never seen before, but his opponents all grew up on that road. Then, after the grandmaster wins the race anyway, he has to race those same people on another road he's never seen before, and this time the road has spikes on it just where the grandmaster likes to drive! Totally unfair race.
In the AI research community, Deep Blue isn't even seen as interesting. It was all about "beat Kasparov", and contributed little (if anything) to the field of AI.
It just showed that if you had deep enough pockets you could buy hardware to do enough conventional AI calculations to compete on a search problem.
Agreed. In fact, Deep Blue had plenty of reasons to be uninteresting. The biggest one is that Deep Blue wasn't even that clever, it was just really, really powerful (11.38 gigaflops) at the time. All it did was brute force its way through a lot of moves (up to 40 plies!) and pick the best one. It wasn't exceptionally clever about the way it calculated the moves.
Why did Kasparov agree to compete under those circumstances? Did IBM pull something nasty on him at the last second or did he just want to play Deep Blue badly enough that he agreed anyway?
Well, I don't know Kasparov and I'm not a history expert, but I'm willing to bet that because he beat Deep Blue in 1996, he just figured he could do it again with no problem. He probably underestimated how much Deep Blue had improved, but that's just my speculation.
I don't know Kasparov's motivations for playing Deep Blue at all, honestly. Beating Deep Blue wouldn't have won him any fame ("Oh look, he beat a computer. Computers suck at chess anyway."), but losing would look bad for him. He had nothing to gain and plenty to lose. I know after he lost the match, he demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and put Deep Blue out of commission. IBM had nothing to gain by beating Kasparov again, and their stocks had already started going up when the news got out that they had beaten the grandmaster (to their great pleasure, history did indeed forget the shady details I mentioned before, just as they hoped).
This has been mentioned before, but I think it's worth bringing up that Kasparov wasn't facing Deep Blue under fair conditions. Even ignoring accusations of cheating and whatnot, there's two very important facts to consider:
Normally when a grandmaster plays in a chess tournament, they are givens months of advance warning. The grandmaster will study hundreds of game transcripts, studying their opponent's style and looking for weaknesses. (The opponent will also be given the grandmaster's game transcripts). Deep blue was given Kasparov's transcripts, but Kasparov was given nothing.
IBM modified Deep Blue after Kasparov won his first match. This meant that, after finally learning how Deep Blue played (on the fly!), Kasparov basically had to play a brand new opponent.
If this were a karate match, this would be the equivalent of the master having to fight someone he's never met before, but that person has studied the master's every move. Then, after the master wins the fight, he has to fight someone else who has studied his every move and acts differently. Not a fair fight.
Yes! Why research anything, ever, if you can't see an immediate benefit to doing so? Let's stop funding NASA; after all, I don't see an immediate benefit to flying around in space.
How would that be any different from someone with a locally popular opinion doing the same thing?
It's not any different. I wasn't trying to imply that it was, though I understand how it could have come off that way. My apologies for not being clear.
For that matter, how is it any different than the situation we have now with people using "Flamebait" for "I disagree?"
While it certainly does happen, I think people are less prone to use "Flamebait" as a substitute for "I disagree" than they would be if they had a "You're Wrong" option. Obviously I have no way to prove myself on that one, I just assume that at least some people are smart enough to know that "Flamebait" has a specific meaning, but would be less concerned with throwing around "You're Wrong" mods thoughtlessly.
I used to get 5 mod points per "round". I typically 15 mod points at a time these days. I'm guessing my positive karma and semi-long (~5 years I think?) history on Slashdot is the reason for that. In any case, they definitely give out more than 3 mod points at a time to many people.
While I agree with you in theory, I really think it would flounder in the long run. Imagine an ultra-conservative user with 15 mod points who stumbles upon an "existence of god" debate. Guess who is suddenly "wrong" about everything? (Hint: anyone who disagrees with the moderator)
I think the OP asked for an example because, in his experience, every game he has ever tried has worked correctly (with maybe minor problems).
I have the same experience; that is, I've played literally hundreds of SNES games with the emulator ZSNES (both on Windows and on Linux systems) and I've never had a game not play.
Consequently, we're asking for an example of one game that doesn't work, mostly out of curiosity. I certainly don't believe your broad, sweeping claim that "lots of games won't load at all". Getting defensive and acting like a prick isn't a good response to an innocent question.
Thank god for the Hays code, or Hollywood would have produced filth like Brokeback Mountain (homosexuality),Jungle Fever (miscegenation), or Angels in America (reference to STD) back in the good old days.
Or... they wouldn't have been made, and, in the grand scheme of things, the world would not have noticed.
Right. And if no one ever made The Sound of Music, in the grand scheme of things, the world would not have noticed. Your argument holds true for every piece of literature ever created. That makes your argument worthless.
So... the bug report will be marked "Cannot reproduce". Then a couple other suckers that were so annoyed by it that they took the time to create an account in the bug system will post "Still reproducible on 4.4", but it'll never get fixed.
That sounds like EXACTLY what would happen if I reported a Windows bug to Microsoft. Actually, no, that's not true; instead, I'd spend three hours on the phone being bumped from incompetent tech support staff in India to incompetent tech support managers in India to incompetent tech support staff in the U.S.... before finally giving up. Microsoft most certainly would not release a patch that fixed my problem if it only occurred on my particular machine. At least KDE developers wouldn't dick me around about it.
And even if it does get fixed, the bug report will never be changed from "Cannot reproduce" to "Fixed" since it's lost in the morass.
Not only is rude to assume that the developers are so incompetent that they will by default just leave the bug in purgatory forever, it's also not what I have experienced with most open source projects. Every bug report I have ever submitted to a substantial open source project (including GNOME, Ubuntu, GIMP) has been addressed in a relatively timely manner. I have never submitted a bug to KDE, but I know that they are not somehow dumber than the rest of the open source community.
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I'm logged in and followed your steps. No white on white. I've been reading Slashdot for years with every major browser, both logged in and not, coming in from the main page and from RSS.. no permutation of the above has ever caused (for me) a white-on-white effect like you describe.
And I know what I'm talking about because I'm an IT manager at a Fortune 500 company.
You wield that sentence like you think it's a sudo command. Unfortunately, this doesn't work in real life.
I'm a currently working full time while finishing my grad degree in CS, and I'll confirm everything you said. At the end of my undergrad coursework (last year) I spent months job searching and going to interviews in my pretty new suit.
None of the offers I landed really satisfied me, so I spent the bulk of this year taking grad classes full time. Now, a year later in a worse economy than when I was last looking for jobs, I've been getting much better offers, even though I haven't completed my grad course work. I even found the job that I'm working at now which will pay me to take one night course every semester. They're paying for me to finish my degree, and they are then going to give me an automatic salary increase when it's done.
Do your master's degree, but be prepared to work your ass off. Undergraduate degrees are a joke, and have basically turned into a slightly advanced "are you SURE you're not an idiot?" test. Everyone can get an undergraduate degree these days -- Graduate degrees show that you're actually intelligent.
God i got a golden slashdot.org wtf is going on? is this normal behavior?
<offtopic>Yes.</offtopic>
Is this some new feature?
<offtopic>Yes.</offtopic>
Lightly sweetened breakfast tea, rainy weather outside, window cracked with a brisk morning breeze...
...John Travolta singing to me, wearing nothing but a thong and a bottle of baby oil...
What? Oh, sorry, I got lost in your poetry and thought we were describing a romantic evening in San Francisco.
Then buy the one with Windows installed on it, remove Windows and install Ubuntu. Then send Asus a refund request for the Windows Home license that you didn't use.
Really? I wasn't aware you could do this. Will Asus honor your request? Will you get ~$100 back for your unused Windows license?
$200 for a pc with those specs sounds pretty awesome. Where are you buying parts from that are that cheap? Or are you actually able to buy a pre-built tower with those specs?
(This is an honest question, I'm honestly curious. This isn't a snarky "Oh yeah? PROVE IT!" thing. Damn the internet for not conveying tone.)
I'm a bit concerned about this problem. Would this necessitate the installation of a shunt or some other extraction point for the waste? Seems like a fairly significant barrier to me. If you have to perform regular extractions (or worse, operations) is it really better than the current alternatives?
Isn't the waste product of yeast alcohol? As long as the waste is a low amount, it sounds like this would have the same effect as drinking alcohol (which the body is quite capable of disposing of). If it's not a low amount... well, at least the patient dies happy!
It's characterized by surrounding yourself by people who exclusively think like you already think, and not being challenged.
Like going to a church or something?
TFA says that the Core i7-920 is $284; the chip below it (The Core 2 Quad Q9550) is $266. It's still up there on the performance/price scale, though.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is usually the best way to make progress.
Sure, if the only direction you want to go is the direction that the giant is already moving. Doesn't help you get anywhere else, though.
+1 incorrect car analogy attempt.
My bad. I'll try again:
This is like the grandmaster OF DRAG RACING having to race on a road he's never seen before, but his opponents all grew up on that road. Then, after the grandmaster wins the race anyway, he has to race those same people on another road he's never seen before, and this time the road has spikes on it just where the grandmaster likes to drive! Totally unfair race.
In the AI research community, Deep Blue isn't even seen as interesting. It was all about "beat Kasparov", and contributed little (if anything) to the field of AI.
It just showed that if you had deep enough pockets you could buy hardware to do enough conventional AI calculations to compete on a search problem.
Agreed. In fact, Deep Blue had plenty of reasons to be uninteresting. The biggest one is that Deep Blue wasn't even that clever, it was just really, really powerful (11.38 gigaflops) at the time. All it did was brute force its way through a lot of moves (up to 40 plies!) and pick the best one. It wasn't exceptionally clever about the way it calculated the moves.
Well, I don't know Kasparov and I'm not a history expert, but I'm willing to bet that because he beat Deep Blue in 1996, he just figured he could do it again with no problem. He probably underestimated how much Deep Blue had improved, but that's just my speculation.
I don't know Kasparov's motivations for playing Deep Blue at all, honestly. Beating Deep Blue wouldn't have won him any fame ("Oh look, he beat a computer. Computers suck at chess anyway."), but losing would look bad for him. He had nothing to gain and plenty to lose. I know after he lost the match, he demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and put Deep Blue out of commission. IBM had nothing to gain by beating Kasparov again, and their stocks had already started going up when the news got out that they had beaten the grandmaster (to their great pleasure, history did indeed forget the shady details I mentioned before, just as they hoped).
If this were a karate match, this would be the equivalent of the master having to fight someone he's never met before, but that person has studied the master's every move. Then, after the master wins the fight, he has to fight someone else who has studied his every move and acts differently. Not a fair fight.
Sounds like someone got a little upset when they had their patch rejected by the Firefox dev team. :-(
Yes! Why research anything, ever, if you can't see an immediate benefit to doing so? Let's stop funding NASA; after all, I don't see an immediate benefit to flying around in space.
How would that be any different from someone with a locally popular opinion doing the same thing?
It's not any different. I wasn't trying to imply that it was, though I understand how it could have come off that way. My apologies for not being clear.
For that matter, how is it any different than the situation we have now with people using "Flamebait" for "I disagree?"
While it certainly does happen, I think people are less prone to use "Flamebait" as a substitute for "I disagree" than they would be if they had a "You're Wrong" option. Obviously I have no way to prove myself on that one, I just assume that at least some people are smart enough to know that "Flamebait" has a specific meaning, but would be less concerned with throwing around "You're Wrong" mods thoughtlessly.
I used to get 5 mod points per "round". I typically 15 mod points at a time these days. I'm guessing my positive karma and semi-long (~5 years I think?) history on Slashdot is the reason for that. In any case, they definitely give out more than 3 mod points at a time to many people.
While I agree with you in theory, I really think it would flounder in the long run. Imagine an ultra-conservative user with 15 mod points who stumbles upon an "existence of god" debate. Guess who is suddenly "wrong" about everything? (Hint: anyone who disagrees with the moderator)
I think the OP asked for an example because, in his experience, every game he has ever tried has worked correctly (with maybe minor problems).
I have the same experience; that is, I've played literally hundreds of SNES games with the emulator ZSNES (both on Windows and on Linux systems) and I've never had a game not play.
Consequently, we're asking for an example of one game that doesn't work, mostly out of curiosity. I certainly don't believe your broad, sweeping claim that "lots of games won't load at all". Getting defensive and acting like a prick isn't a good response to an innocent question.
Thank god for the Hays code, or Hollywood would have produced filth like Brokeback Mountain (homosexuality) ,Jungle Fever (miscegenation), or Angels in America (reference to STD) back in the good old days.
Or... they wouldn't have been made, and, in the grand scheme of things, the world would not have noticed.
Right. And if no one ever made The Sound of Music, in the grand scheme of things, the world would not have noticed. Your argument holds true for every piece of literature ever created. That makes your argument worthless.
Yes. And it was addressed by very enthusiastic developers.
That sounds like EXACTLY what would happen if I reported a Windows bug to Microsoft. Actually, no, that's not true; instead, I'd spend three hours on the phone being bumped from incompetent tech support staff in India to incompetent tech support managers in India to incompetent tech support staff in the U.S.... before finally giving up. Microsoft most certainly would not release a patch that fixed my problem if it only occurred on my particular machine. At least KDE developers wouldn't dick me around about it.
Not only is rude to assume that the developers are so incompetent that they will by default just leave the bug in purgatory forever, it's also not what I have experienced with most open source projects. Every bug report I have ever submitted to a substantial open source project (including GNOME, Ubuntu, GIMP) has been addressed in a relatively timely manner. I have never submitted a bug to KDE, but I know that they are not somehow dumber than the rest of the open source community.