I'm sorry but if it "pisses you off" that it requires money to run a huge public website project (that some treat as there personal playground I might add) then maybe you can make up for the money.
Ads in themselves don't piss off the users, but it is the fact that many of them have already donated money in order to keep Wikipedia alive without commercial sponsorship.
Imagine the outcry if NPR or PBS started having 5 minute commercial breaks even after they had all those annoying fund raisers they do.
Is it me or maybe I just don't play online console games enough, but why do most of the console companies have aversion to lobby game rooms or allowing dedicated servers on 3rd party hardware?
For example, all DS games have no lobby and if you want to meet someone in specific you have to use the friend codes. Otherwise... You use the match making program and find some random person who you can't communicate with.
How can you build a software model of a process you don't understand?
Same way the Wright Brothers built their first aircraft.
1. Make observations of things that do fly. 2. Make an approximation of what it takes to fly based off those observations. 3. Build a model based off that. 4. See if it works in a trial run. 5. If it doesn't, back to step one.
Obviously, the Wright Brothers understood basic aerodynamics, but only at a certain level from observations of test gliders and the semi-wind tunnel setup they had built.
But the majority of their work was trial and error. They were bicycle engineers after all and didn't really have a professional schooling in their field of heavier than air flight.
Trial and error is simply one of the better ways humans have at understanding things they don't understand. It is part of the scientific process to rule out things that can or cannot be done.
In short, just keep in mind that your particular circumstance (i.e. being able to walk to the store and carry your groceries home) isn't necessarily everyone else's (like the mother of 4 with the SUV...imagine her carrying those groceries when the nearest store is 7 miles away)
1. Buy a Sedan, Station Wagon, Toyota van or something less like an SUV. 2. Have less kids. I know this is a lot to ask of society, but people don't need more than two kids. Anything more is most likely the most unfriendly thing you can do to the earth and limited resources due to the fact it exponentially increases the amount of resources being used when your kids have kids in 20-30 years.
Although, no one has the right to tell you to not have kids and in the short term the effects of having 3 or 4 kids isn't apparent, it is just the responsible thing to do for the long term.
Of course technology like the article says might work out and we won't have to worry in 50 years, but otherwise your 20 or so odd grandchildren who now all have cars of their own have exponentially complicated the global warming problem.
Does this permit the practical use of any truly breakthrough apps?
From my understanding perhaps with that many cores, the OS could simply allocate one application per core.
But the OS has to support that feature or have applications that know how to call unused cores.
From my understanding Parallels for OS X only uses one core and picks the second core to run on for the best performance.
Of course then there are applications that could be programmed to use all the cores at once if they needed to do scientific calculations or something like Ray Tracing.
no way do I want to see any of these "actors" in HD, either format.
I take it you've never had sex with a real woman with the lights on... Or maybe a woman at all.
If it bothers you that much why don't you watch Hentai or Real Doll films.
Seriously if imperfections gross out most of the fellows on Slashdot, I don't think any of you people really go on dates that much or maybe that most of you only have sex when completely drunk. God forbid you ever look at a real women. Much less one that isn't on a fuzzy VHS video.
Never been to Manhattan, eh? If drivers gave all right of way to pedestrians at all times the city would literally come to a standstill. It may work in Connecticut, but never in NYC.
Actually in your neighbor to the south, Philadelphia (and state laws) has strict pedestrian right of way laws. Basically, if a ped is crossing the road you have to yield even if you have a green light.
Most of the center city stop signs mention this fact.
Of course this leads to many people doing the "Philly stop" hand sign as a car almost plows them over.
The fed says jack and shit about the value of my money. Price Chopper, McDonald's, and Wal-Mart are where I discover the value of my dollars.
Oh really? What if tomorrow the people at the Fed went crazy and dropped interest rates to 0% and the dollar dropped against both the Yen and the Yuan.
Which indirectly means higher oil prices so your McDonald's food would be more expensive due to higher gas prices and items from Price Chopper and Wal-Mart were more expensive because imported products from China and Taiwan now were 10x more expensive because the weak dollar vs the Yuan.
But it turns out that it only applies to people on the Sex Offenders Register, which isn't quite as bad. There's some precedent for "you break the law once, you sacrifice some of your rights".
Are you aware that in US that you can be labeled by the sex offender by urinating in public (aka peeing in back alley) or an 18 year having sex with a 17 year old. Note the term sex offender does not expire and that 18 year old will be consider a sex offender at age 40 even if he married his 17 year old sweet heart and had a healthy marriage of 20 odd some years.
So yeah... Rapists should have this tag on them, but the term sex offender is so vague and so inclusive that I'd bet the majority of citizens in the state actually have committed some crime which could label them as so. Mostly the urinating in public or in the woods or side of the road for guys.
Except that the tax money is coming back to Americans -- in the form of wages, stock dividends, purchases from other US companies, local property taxes -- and even some obscure stuff like corporate university research grants.
Unfortunately, given the behavior of US companies and US citizens, most of that money from wages, stock dividends, and purchases is being sent over seas directly through outsourcing or indirectly through purchases of imported products.
Of course the libertarian in me says that increased wages in India and the trade deficient with China will benefit the global economy as a whole.
Germany has stricter privacy laws, more passionately enforced, than the UK/US, but this decision is completely compatible with UK/US law that says the scope of a search has to be explicitly defined and minimal. Spyware on a computer fits neither criterion.
For as much shit we give the Germans with the "Zee papers please!" skits they are really on the ball when it comes to personal freedoms over there. From my understanding they recently struck down a law that bans smoking in restaurants and clubs as unconstitutional whereas states in the US and the UK government are banning such practices.
I guess a nation has to go through something really big so that they really respect individual's rights over the collectives.
I guess our freedoms were fundamentally restricted by CDs back when they were a pain to copy, or by books because I can't just "derive an experiment" whenever I feel like it.
No, our freedoms weren't restricted with CDs because we owned a physical copy of them and could make cassette tape mixes for fair use fairly easy. (Remember them?)
Books could be easily xeroxed and you still owned a physical copy.
With DRM'd media you don't own the media nor can you fair use copy it without breaking the law.
Just don't expect the guys who make bits for a living to reminisce along with you.
Too bad they aren't able to release their own IP material because they don't have the proper authorization from the media cartels. Oh not to mention most artists don't make any real money of CDs sales as it is.
Seriously, DRM hurts the artists as much as it hurts the consumer because it hands the power of the distribution to the media cartels who want to extract as much money out of the consumers while trying to keep as much as they can of that from the artists.
What failures (colossal or otherwise) have you been involved in that could be attributed to Programmers' Hubris?
Certainly not Daikatana. Romero wasn't a programmer.
But seriously, I have yet to see any national failure of any product or company because the developers were too egotistic in its design. In fact egotistical developers led us to many grand products and software packages. Mostly open source and free.
Whereas executive hubris usually leads to failed products and failed companies.
Actually, security is a man named Steve at the front desk. Bruce has been getting him in a head lock and pile driving him in a wrestling move during the company get together.
Whatever your feelings re PS3, you know it's going to sell 10 million units plus in a short time.
That might in 10 years after the price is below $200, but in the meantime PS3 sales are looking rather poor compared to Xbox360 and Wii. I believe we might even see a Dreamcast/Saturn-esque situation if situation does not improve.
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I'm sorry but if it "pisses you off" that it requires money to run a huge public website project (that some treat as there personal playground I might add) then maybe you can make up for the money.
Ads in themselves don't piss off the users, but it is the fact that many of them have already donated money in order to keep Wikipedia alive without commercial sponsorship.
Imagine the outcry if NPR or PBS started having 5 minute commercial breaks even after they had all those annoying fund raisers they do.
Is it me or maybe I just don't play online console games enough, but why do most of the console companies have aversion to lobby game rooms or allowing dedicated servers on 3rd party hardware?
For example, all DS games have no lobby and if you want to meet someone in specific you have to use the friend codes. Otherwise... You use the match making program and find some random person who you can't communicate with.
How can you build a software model of a process you don't understand?
Same way the Wright Brothers built their first aircraft.
1. Make observations of things that do fly.
2. Make an approximation of what it takes to fly based off those observations.
3. Build a model based off that.
4. See if it works in a trial run.
5. If it doesn't, back to step one.
Obviously, the Wright Brothers understood basic aerodynamics, but only at a certain level from observations of test gliders and the semi-wind tunnel setup they had built.
But the majority of their work was trial and error. They were bicycle engineers after all and didn't really have a professional schooling in their field of heavier than air flight.
Trial and error is simply one of the better ways humans have at understanding things they don't understand. It is part of the scientific process to rule out things that can or cannot be done.
1812
France to market Napoleon as winner of battle of Waterloo!
1862
Southern states to market General Lee as winner of Battle of Gettysburg!
1944
Germany to market themselves as winner of World War 2!
2003
Fox news to market US as winner of Iraq war! Oh wait...
In short, just keep in mind that your particular circumstance (i.e. being able to walk to the store and carry your groceries home) isn't necessarily everyone else's (like the mother of 4 with the SUV...imagine her carrying those groceries when the nearest store is 7 miles away)
1. Buy a Sedan, Station Wagon, Toyota van or something less like an SUV.
2. Have less kids. I know this is a lot to ask of society, but people don't need more than two kids. Anything more is most likely the most unfriendly thing you can do to the earth and limited resources due to the fact it exponentially increases the amount of resources being used when your kids have kids in 20-30 years.
Although, no one has the right to tell you to not have kids and in the short term the effects of having 3 or 4 kids isn't apparent, it is just the responsible thing to do for the long term.
Of course technology like the article says might work out and we won't have to worry in 50 years, but otherwise your 20 or so odd grandchildren who now all have cars of their own have exponentially complicated the global warming problem.
Does this permit the practical use of any truly breakthrough apps?
From my understanding perhaps with that many cores, the OS could simply allocate one application per core.
But the OS has to support that feature or have applications that know how to call unused cores.
From my understanding Parallels for OS X only uses one core and picks the second core to run on for the best performance.
Of course then there are applications that could be programmed to use all the cores at once if they needed to do scientific calculations or something like Ray Tracing.
Forgive a probably emarrasingly naive man, but there are Real Doll films? As in people doing it with Real Dolls?
Ron Jeremey did a film with real doll. *coughs*
no way do I want to see any of these "actors" in HD, either format.
I take it you've never had sex with a real woman with the lights on... Or maybe a woman at all.
If it bothers you that much why don't you watch Hentai or Real Doll films.
Seriously if imperfections gross out most of the fellows on Slashdot, I don't think any of you people really go on dates that much or maybe that most of you only have sex when completely drunk. God forbid you ever look at a real women. Much less one that isn't on a fuzzy VHS video.
Attack? What the hell?
He gave her back her old nose.
Never been to Manhattan, eh? If drivers gave all right of way to pedestrians at all times the city would literally come to a standstill. It may work in Connecticut, but never in NYC.
Actually in your neighbor to the south, Philadelphia (and state laws) has strict pedestrian right of way laws. Basically, if a ped is crossing the road you have to yield even if you have a green light.
Most of the center city stop signs mention this fact.
Of course this leads to many people doing the "Philly stop" hand sign as a car almost plows them over.
The fed says jack and shit about the value of my money. Price Chopper, McDonald's, and Wal-Mart are where I discover the value of my dollars.
Oh really? What if tomorrow the people at the Fed went crazy and dropped interest rates to 0% and the dollar dropped against both the Yen and the Yuan.
Which indirectly means higher oil prices so your McDonald's food would be more expensive due to higher gas prices and items from Price Chopper and Wal-Mart were more expensive because imported products from China and Taiwan now were 10x more expensive because the weak dollar vs the Yuan.
But it turns out that it only applies to people on the Sex Offenders Register, which isn't quite as bad. There's some precedent for "you break the law once, you sacrifice some of your rights".
Are you aware that in US that you can be labeled by the sex offender by urinating in public (aka peeing in back alley) or an 18 year having sex with a 17 year old. Note the term sex offender does not expire and that 18 year old will be consider a sex offender at age 40 even if he married his 17 year old sweet heart and had a healthy marriage of 20 odd some years.
So yeah... Rapists should have this tag on them, but the term sex offender is so vague and so inclusive that I'd bet the majority of citizens in the state actually have committed some crime which could label them as so. Mostly the urinating in public or in the woods or side of the road for guys.
Good for the Brits for trying to make the web safe for everyone.
So how is that working out in China? Or Saudi Arabia?
Might I point out the definition of a sex crime is quite different depending on the jurisdiction and that everyone is not "everyone".
Except that the tax money is coming back to Americans -- in the form of wages, stock dividends, purchases from other US companies, local property taxes -- and even some obscure stuff like corporate university research grants.
Unfortunately, given the behavior of US companies and US citizens, most of that money from wages, stock dividends, and purchases is being sent over seas directly through outsourcing or indirectly through purchases of imported products.
Of course the libertarian in me says that increased wages in India and the trade deficient with China will benefit the global economy as a whole.
If you have to drive slower, leave earlier.
Driving slower doesn't make a difference with black ice.
Or 3 feet of snow in sub zero temperatures...
It is still dangerous no matter how slow you drive.
What can bill gates do about it?
Pay the customary $50 bribe to the police and the $100 bribe to the judge.
Germany has stricter privacy laws, more passionately enforced, than the UK/US, but this decision is completely compatible with UK/US law that says the scope of a search has to be explicitly defined and minimal. Spyware on a computer fits neither criterion.
For as much shit we give the Germans with the "Zee papers please!" skits they are really on the ball when it comes to personal freedoms over there. From my understanding they recently struck down a law that bans smoking in restaurants and clubs as unconstitutional whereas states in the US and the UK government are banning such practices.
I guess a nation has to go through something really big so that they really respect individual's rights over the collectives.
I guess our freedoms were fundamentally restricted by CDs back when they were a pain to copy, or by books because I can't just "derive an experiment" whenever I feel like it.
No, our freedoms weren't restricted with CDs because we owned a physical copy of them and could make cassette tape mixes for fair use fairly easy. (Remember them?)
Books could be easily xeroxed and you still owned a physical copy.
With DRM'd media you don't own the media nor can you fair use copy it without breaking the law.
Just don't expect the guys who make bits for a living to reminisce along with you.
Too bad they aren't able to release their own IP material because they don't have the proper authorization from the media cartels. Oh not to mention most artists don't make any real money of CDs sales as it is.
Seriously, DRM hurts the artists as much as it hurts the consumer because it hands the power of the distribution to the media cartels who want to extract as much money out of the consumers while trying to keep as much as they can of that from the artists.
I'm going to buy an iPhone when it comes out, just so I can smash it to a million bits.
Which one?
What failures (colossal or otherwise) have you been involved in that could be attributed to Programmers' Hubris?
Certainly not Daikatana. Romero wasn't a programmer.
But seriously, I have yet to see any national failure of any product or company because the developers were too egotistic in its design. In fact egotistical developers led us to many grand products and software packages. Mostly open source and free.
Whereas executive hubris usually leads to failed products and failed companies.
Actually, security is a man named Steve at the front desk. Bruce has been getting him in a head lock and pile driving him in a wrestling move during the company get together.
Booth babes!
Strangely enough you were modded redundant and the only other topic discussed so far was strippers and whores.... Oh wait.
Actually the tea trade was built with opium after the Brits forced the Chinese to trade with it instead of silver.
And then back slavery when they got it to grow in India.
Whatever your feelings re PS3, you know it's going to sell 10 million units plus in a short time.
That might in 10 years after the price is below $200, but in the meantime PS3 sales are looking rather poor compared to Xbox360 and Wii. I believe we might even see a Dreamcast/Saturn-esque situation if situation does not improve.