Thank you so much. This guy sounds like he is looking for CVS but doesn't know what it is called. When people say "just google it" that only works if you know a concise way to describe what you're looking for. He doesn't.
Good for him for trying to better himself. Its hard enough without having people jump on him. It is very easy to call someone stupid because they don't know the correct terminology, it is much harder to find a diamond in the rough who is bright but just hasn't been exposed to the right influences.
The download feature on firefox is just broken for me. When I download something, it spikes to 100% for about 30secs in which time firefox is unresponsive, then it opens up download dialog. This is on an Atholon 750
K-Meleon works great for downloading stuff, very fast, the UI isn't quite as polished as I would like though.
- effectively using Registers for argument passing
When AMD made the x86-64 they only gave 16 registers, this is pretty annoying. They had the chance to rewrite everything, why not give 64 or 128 registers, you aren't bound by legacy?
Another thing, everyone says that x86 is now risc micro-ops under the hood. Why doesn't intel or AMD let people program straight to those micro ops, if they wanted the speed advantadge?
I just figured out an incentive. Make the government pay for the defense of patents of individuals. It wouldn't matter that the defense would suck, it would cost the government an S-load of money to hire all of their own lawyers to fight the corporate lawyers. This would quickly lead to a change in patent law.
I was thinking a possible fix to the abundance of ridiculous patents would be to provide examiners disincentives for frivolous patents. It would work something like this, when an examiner issues a patent that is later overturned (I know that is a big if), that examiner suffers moneterily.
The immediate result of this would be significantly less frivolous patents filed.
This might not be the right way to go about fixing the patent system, but I like the theory. We have to make it expensive for the patent office to continue doing a poor job. Once it starts hurting someone in the government in the wallet, they will change their ways.
Why doesn't slashdot post announcements on D-SLRs. The D200, D50, and Canon 5D have come out in the past year and not a single annoncement. I want to hear what slashdot users have to say about these cameras, not cutesy point and shoot cameras.
Once you use a digital SLR you will never want to use a point and shoot again. There is no delay between pressing the button and the shutter firing. The manual control is nice as is changing lenses, but the zero delay is the best part of these cameras.
You just cost some advertiser a shitload of money. I hope this is quickly noticed by google as clickfraud. Not that you were malicious with your intent, but thats what will happen.
I think the scene your refering to went something like this. Jay was talking to a hooker.
Hooker:I can be as nasty as you want me to be
Jay: Ok well i'm ramming you in the ass while you go down on a midget. My friend bob is jerking off into a cup and you...
Hooker: That's to nasty for me I quit.
This reminds me of the AMD DX4 vs Pentium ads in the mid 90's. AMD ran an ad in PC MAG listing 100 reasons the DX4 was better than the pentium, most of them revolved around the fact that the pentium couldn't divide properly.
Why do I need anyone to "approve" a drug for me. The FDA has no business telling me what I can and cannot put into my body. If I thought the guy had a point, why should the government tell me I can't take his medicine. Oh, thats right, I need a perscription, so someone else (a doctor) can tell me what I can and cannot put into my body.
You people are quick to blame the big bad drug companies, but look at the FDA too. Big drug companies are the only ones that have the money to wade through the approval process, it is impossible for a small guy to get a drug approved and marketed on his own.
I'm no fan of ethanol, but there are many other possible reasons for your decreased fuel economy in the winter. If you are driving through snowpack instead of pavement, that takes more energy.
More likely though, your engine takes longer to warm up in the winter than it does in the summer. An engine is most efficient when it is running at the thermostat temp, not dead cold. That could be the reason you are seeing less fuel economy.
Why do I have to be deprived of this service because I happen to live in a less populated area which caused some some corporate beancounter to conclude that putting in the requiered infrastructure would not be profitable enough to bother with it?
If you have such a big problem with corporate beancounters, why not form your own corporation and serve your market. Maybe you are right, and you will make a lot of money. You are probably wrong though. If people like you truly value a fast connection to the internet, you would move to an area where it is available. As it stands, you don't value an internet connection that much (compared to other benefits you recieve from living where you do) because you haven't moved. If a corporation can't turn a profit providing service to your area, what makes you think that the governmnet can provide it at a reasonable cost?
Why don't we provide interstates to everyones doorstep?
Why don't we provide municipal water and sewer to everyone's house?
There is a large list of services that aren't provided by corporations or governments in some areas because they are cost prohibitive. If they weren't, people would already be buying them at a price they found reasonable.
What you are asking is for everyone to buy a service that they may or may not wan't.
Isn't the point of price fixing to hold the price of a good above the equilibrium price (think OPEC, DeBeers)?
How dare someone give something away for free. How dare someone provide value for the community. How dare someone put buggywhip manufacturers out of business.
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One way they could do this would be to compare the number of times a link is clicked on their page ranking to the average. A lot of people can tell a spam site just from reading the google description, those sites won't be clicked on as much, even if they show up early in the rankings.
say the first listing is clicked 70% of the time, the second is clicked 20% of the time, third 10% of the time.
If you have a set of search results that has click rates of 30%, 50%, and 5%. Then you could say that the first result is over ranked, the second is under ranked, and the third is over ranked.
I'm sure they could set something up so that you digitally sign it with your private key. Other people might know that it was signed, but not by who. You could to choose to compare your signature by giving out another temporary key that will jive properly with the digital signature. This key will be related to your public key.
Maybe I'm talking out of my ass. But I think that it would be possible to do something similar to this with public key cryptography.
Hell have a drug cruise. People can do what ever drugs they want to. Its international waters, go crazy. The deuling room. Prostitution. Its like a trip to the ghetto without all the cops.
OK what about a pay for porn site? What about someone paying to have a star named after them. These things have value because people are willing to pay for them.
That means eventually the vast majority of people playing will be those who have been economically filtered to the top;
Wake up. People who play these games have fast computers, and the luxury of not starving while they spend lots of time on their computers. These people aren't your huddled masses.
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Thank you so much. This guy sounds like he is looking for CVS but doesn't know what it is called. When people say "just google it" that only works if you know a concise way to describe what you're looking for. He doesn't.
Good for him for trying to better himself. Its hard enough without having people jump on him. It is very easy to call someone stupid because they don't know the correct terminology, it is much harder to find a diamond in the rough who is bright but just hasn't been exposed to the right influences.
The download feature on firefox is just broken for me. When I download something, it spikes to 100% for about 30secs in which time firefox is unresponsive, then it opens up download dialog. This is on an Atholon 750
K-Meleon works great for downloading stuff, very fast, the UI isn't quite as polished as I would like though.
I was going to say it myself, but you beat me to it.
My guess would be a salt flat or dry lake bed. Probably a salt flat, like Bonneville.
I just figured out an incentive. Make the government pay for the defense of patents of individuals. It wouldn't matter that the defense would suck, it would cost the government an S-load of money to hire all of their own lawyers to fight the corporate lawyers. This would quickly lead to a change in patent law.
I was thinking a possible fix to the abundance of ridiculous patents would be to provide examiners disincentives for frivolous patents. It would work something like this, when an examiner issues a patent that is later overturned (I know that is a big if), that examiner suffers moneterily. The immediate result of this would be significantly less frivolous patents filed. This might not be the right way to go about fixing the patent system, but I like the theory. We have to make it expensive for the patent office to continue doing a poor job. Once it starts hurting someone in the government in the wallet, they will change their ways.
Why doesn't slashdot post announcements on D-SLRs. The D200, D50, and Canon 5D have come out in the past year and not a single annoncement. I want to hear what slashdot users have to say about these cameras, not cutesy point and shoot cameras. Once you use a digital SLR you will never want to use a point and shoot again. There is no delay between pressing the button and the shutter firing. The manual control is nice as is changing lenses, but the zero delay is the best part of these cameras.
You just cost some advertiser a shitload of money. I hope this is quickly noticed by google as clickfraud. Not that you were malicious with your intent, but thats what will happen.
I think the scene your refering to went something like this. Jay was talking to a hooker. Hooker:I can be as nasty as you want me to be Jay: Ok well i'm ramming you in the ass while you go down on a midget. My friend bob is jerking off into a cup and you... Hooker: That's to nasty for me I quit.
This reminds me of the AMD DX4 vs Pentium ads in the mid 90's. AMD ran an ad in PC MAG listing 100 reasons the DX4 was better than the pentium, most of them revolved around the fact that the pentium couldn't divide properly.
have you ever heard Steve Martin's skit "The Cruel Shoes"?
Why do I need anyone to "approve" a drug for me. The FDA has no business telling me what I can and cannot put into my body. If I thought the guy had a point, why should the government tell me I can't take his medicine. Oh, thats right, I need a perscription, so someone else (a doctor) can tell me what I can and cannot put into my body. You people are quick to blame the big bad drug companies, but look at the FDA too. Big drug companies are the only ones that have the money to wade through the approval process, it is impossible for a small guy to get a drug approved and marketed on his own.
I'm no fan of ethanol, but there are many other possible reasons for your decreased fuel economy in the winter. If you are driving through snowpack instead of pavement, that takes more energy. More likely though, your engine takes longer to warm up in the winter than it does in the summer. An engine is most efficient when it is running at the thermostat temp, not dead cold. That could be the reason you are seeing less fuel economy.
The pollution produced by one monitor compared to the good it produces in a medical application is insignificant.
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Isn't the point of price fixing to hold the price of a good above the equilibrium price (think OPEC, DeBeers)? How dare someone give something away for free. How dare someone provide value for the community. How dare someone put buggywhip manufacturers out of business.
One way they could do this would be to compare the number of times a link is clicked on their page ranking to the average. A lot of people can tell a spam site just from reading the google description, those sites won't be clicked on as much, even if they show up early in the rankings.
say the first listing is clicked 70% of the time, the second is clicked 20% of the time, third 10% of the time. If you have a set of search results that has click rates of 30%, 50%, and 5%. Then you could say that the first result is over ranked, the second is under ranked, and the third is over ranked.
I'm sure they could set something up so that you digitally sign it with your private key. Other people might know that it was signed, but not by who. You could to choose to compare your signature by giving out another temporary key that will jive properly with the digital signature. This key will be related to your public key. Maybe I'm talking out of my ass. But I think that it would be possible to do something similar to this with public key cryptography.
Hell have a drug cruise. People can do what ever drugs they want to. Its international waters, go crazy. The deuling room. Prostitution. Its like a trip to the ghetto without all the cops.
OK what about a pay for porn site? What about someone paying to have a star named after them. These things have value because people are willing to pay for them.
Only 12% of our oil comes from the middle east. Most of it comes from Canada.