Oh its a far greater problem than you or I could have imagined. NASA is also afraid of Fridays that are the 13th day in the month, and is afraid of Dec 24th. You never know when the Grinch might steal Christmas.
Fortunately I think the people Nintendo is catering to buy their systems at Walmart. Gamestop is more or less for the "more hardcore" of players, at least thats what I've seen. People that bought the DS that kept the sales going were people who like to garden (among many other not-what-you-expect-to-become-gaming-material type folks). People that garden for fun are more likely to be at a Walmart than a Gamestop.
If I have a hardware firewall and don't open stupid attachments/other shady.exe files, do I even need better "security"? Unless there is a Firefox exploit, nothing gets executing on my machine that I don't want. Isn't this security enough?
Funny I guess, but technically its correct. Your compass aligns itself with a magnetic field. So if you payed attention in your electromagnetics/physics 2 class, you would know that the geographic north is the magnetic south pole. The Chinese were right all along.
What's the use of reducing the average travel time if some days it takes you 9 minutes, and other days takes you 33? Doesn't matter if my average commute is only 16 minutes, I have to leave 33 minutes before work every day to make sure I'm not late. Some days I get there 24 minutes early. I'd appreciate anything that can reduce the standard travel time deviation.
They've been saying this for years and all we have to show for it are some nifty AJA[X]pplications that are dependent on network latency and bandwidth for responsiveness (google maps for example, fails to load all the squares at least once each time I use it).
As long as broadband is sold as content and not a service, we won't get very far.
That's what it all boils down to. There're plenty of user friendly ways of installing things. You don't even have to double click anything. You open up this nifty program called "Synaptic Packet Manager", search for whatever sort of program you want ("audio player" or "internet") and anything remotely related to your search pops up. Put a checkmark by the programs you want to install, hit apply, and it takes care of the rest. Tell me that's not easy.
If people had your attitude they'd never learn anything new, ever. Oh wait, they do, which is why they keep making the same stupid mistakes, like mistaking "ease of use" with familiarity.
If such a thing does happen to a company, it's their own fault. If the software was written right the first time, they shouldn't have to mess with it again. Unlike an engine, software doesn't "wear out". You write it once, you write it well, and it works, and keeps working.
There are far more serious issues than our voting problems today when people consider wanting to learn about somthing akin to "messing with" it. As if my understanding of the source code behind how my vote is cast at all interferes with our country electing the next president. Unless, that is, there are flaws in the code that say all the votes will be converted to votes for [insert favorite politician here] if I press the upper right hand corner of the screen five times in under ten seconds; and my understanding of such a flaw [even though I wouldn't take advantage of it] stalls the election process. Nows whose fault would that be? Is it somehow my fault, for finding out that the Diebold did a bad job?
I've heard the likes of your attitude before. It can pretty much be summed up as "Don't ask why, that's just how it is." Imagine if you told your kids that.
Try appending that statement to the end of different statements:
-"We can't cure cancer. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so nobody bothers researching a cure. -"Your computer's Windows installation is broken. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so you needlessly spend $$$ on a new computer when all you needed was a fresh installation and anti-vir." -"2 + 2 = 5. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so the plane crashes. -"You're wrong. Don't ask why, that's just how it is."
I think it's time we stopped looking at the direct inconveniences of Vista. We should be looking at the underlying effects of some of these restrictions on the Home OEM Vista:
1). Automatically copy protects music copied from your own CDs 2). Two hardware upgrades and you have to buy a new version of Vista 3). Businesses forced to pay more for features XP already has
How much longer will people willingly take it in the ass? As long as they're not *too* bothered by all this.
All MS has to do is irritate us to about 95% of what it would take for us to switch to something else. Thanks to laziness, most people will put up with it. Isn't it time we start looking at the environmental implications of the continued existence of MS? Consider:
1). If you can only back up your compressed music FROM YORU OWN CDs two times, what will you do after that? You'll probably rip it again. And again and so on as long as you need. Which means you're wasting and paying for electricity that you shouldn't need several times over. Perhaps in the end it only costs each user $5 of electricity to re-rip their entire CD collection. But considering all the MS users, that's a lot of wasted electricity, and a lot of extra pollution. 2). Two Hardware upgrades: Most people will say "fuck that" and go buy a new computer. What will they do with the old one? Toss it away into their dumpster. The computer will end up in some dump seeping nasty chemicals into the ground. They'll buy a new computer (more environementally harmful chemicals used to make the plastic, RAM, and especially CPU) and be happy for another two upgrades, after which they'll go buy another computer etc etc. 3). If businesses pay more, that'll be less money they can pay their workers, which means there's less income distribution. More and more $$$ goes to MS [needlessly] and sits in the hands a few elite managers.
The point I'm trying to make in all this is that MS is a lot worse for us than we think. The more money we end up spending on MS or on MS related issues, the more and more our GDP goes to MS. This means our pollution/GDP ratio goes up. Will MS be fined for this? Probably not. But you could make a very real case that they should be.
And lead the way towards producing movies with substance. Last I checked, his most recent blockbusters were anything but character driven. Special effects look cool once or twice, but good scripts and acting make us feel over and over again. That never gets old. _That _ is why I watch movies, and if the movie business wants to stay alive, that's what they're going to have to give us.
George dug his own grave here, now he's lamenting he has to lie in it. I just hope he realizes it's not too late. There's always room for movies like "Walk the Line" and "Signs". Neither had awesome special effects, but they were still a joy to watch.
You're saying that like its a bad thing. IMO, given a libertarian view, this is how it should have worked from the start. Get the government out of the picture, let the people do the work. Gov't only needs to be there if the people can't/won't do it. In this case, the people are doing what is needed.
Load. Because one cell phone has to be in communication with probably at least 25 cell towers all at once. Down on the ground it's easy for the phone to switch towers. It has a choice of ~3, maybe more if it needs them. In the air it's getting back information it requested from all 25 line-of-sight towers (or however many get the ping, which when flying over a city would be hundreds)...and since you're flying at 500MPH, you're leaving one zone and entering the next practically every 5 seconds.
Now not to say that's a legitimate excuse, and boo-hoo for Cingular et al, but do we really want more cell towers (which, I might add, only complicates the problem) in the sky to deal with the load?
I'm in support of it too. Amazingly, its enough to keep the RIAA happy. But its not enough to keep me from getting my music in a format I want. Go pick up a CD-R and you can convert it however you like.
Of course I don't buy iTunes music, I use allofMP3, so this doesn't apply to me. Yes, it would be better if the music were not hindered at all, but is that really going to happen? Not in my lifetime. If they're happy with it, and I can still get what I want, it is acceptable.
People at/. tend to mistake the prospect of being in power with being corrupted. The correlation% between the two is very high, but just because you have power or money does not mean you are evil.
I still think Google will be using their powers (or monies in congress) for good. It's ok to look to gain more power if it benefits others. Regardless of what the depressing "LOOK OUT!" books tell us, no one in history has managed to obtain that level of power, and keep it [if they had, we wouldn't be talking about this now]. I think Google may be the first company that sees not just the next several financial quarters, but the next several hundred. They're too smart to fall for the lock-your-customers-in-and-rape-them business method that is so popular now days. If you want to be a dictator, the people have to like you. If you want to remain dictator, people have to still like you and your policies. Regardless of what evil wants, it seems that it cannot have what it desires without some good. In this case, that good will be keeping us happy. I know this flies in the face of Huxley and BNW, but if we die happy, what gives?
Does anyone know how these numbers get parsed out? I wonder if we are using the right formulas? As in I wonder if thinking in a different base number (2?) could help us find a much more precise formula for finding this? This prime was pretty simple-- a couple million 1's in a row. Maybe there's one for a couple million 10's in a row?
Slashdot Mirror
No, really, it's not funny. Stop modding it funny.
If I said "the sun is bright" would that be modded as funny?
Oh its a far greater problem than you or I could have imagined. NASA is also afraid of Fridays that are the 13th day in the month, and is afraid of Dec 24th. You never know when the Grinch might steal Christmas.
Fortunately I think the people Nintendo is catering to buy their systems at Walmart. Gamestop is more or less for the "more hardcore" of players, at least thats what I've seen. People that bought the DS that kept the sales going were people who like to garden (among many other not-what-you-expect-to-become-gaming-material type folks). People that garden for fun are more likely to be at a Walmart than a Gamestop.
If I have a hardware firewall and don't open stupid attachments/other shady .exe files, do I even need better "security"? Unless there is a Firefox exploit, nothing gets executing on my machine that I don't want. Isn't this security enough?
Funny I guess, but technically its correct. Your compass aligns itself with a magnetic field. So if you payed attention in your electromagnetics/physics 2 class, you would know that the geographic north is the magnetic south pole. The Chinese were right all along.
I would consider buying a Dell laptop if I can get my $$$ back for Windows
Looks like Matlab is screwed.
If you make the voting machines idiot proof, somebody will make a better idiot.
What's the use of reducing the average travel time if some days it takes you 9 minutes, and other days takes you 33? Doesn't matter if my average commute is only 16 minutes, I have to leave 33 minutes before work every day to make sure I'm not late. Some days I get there 24 minutes early. I'd appreciate anything that can reduce the standard travel time deviation.
'Stop assuming that everyone using Linux (or who wants to use Linux) is a Linux expert.'
That statement alone should be enough to prove that the world IS ready to adopt Linux.
They've been saying this for years and all we have to show for it are some nifty AJA[X]pplications that are dependent on network latency and bandwidth for responsiveness (google maps for example, fails to load all the squares at least once each time I use it).
As long as broadband is sold as content and not a service, we won't get very far.
Blah blah blah whine blah I'm lazy....
That's what it all boils down to. There're plenty of user friendly ways of installing things. You don't even have to double click anything. You open up this nifty program called "Synaptic Packet Manager", search for whatever sort of program you want ("audio player" or "internet") and anything remotely related to your search pops up. Put a checkmark by the programs you want to install, hit apply, and it takes care of the rest. Tell me that's not easy.
If people had your attitude they'd never learn anything new, ever. Oh wait, they do, which is why they keep making the same stupid mistakes, like mistaking "ease of use" with familiarity.
Problem is they cost more to make. If you have 80% effectiveness paying $xxxx, then it's not worth 2*$xxxx to capture the other 20% of viewers.
If such a thing does happen to a company, it's their own fault. If the software was written right the first time, they shouldn't have to mess with it again. Unlike an engine, software doesn't "wear out". You write it once, you write it well, and it works, and keeps working.
There are far more serious issues than our voting problems today when people consider wanting to learn about somthing akin to "messing with" it. As if my understanding of the source code behind how my vote is cast at all interferes with our country electing the next president. Unless, that is, there are flaws in the code that say all the votes will be converted to votes for [insert favorite politician here] if I press the upper right hand corner of the screen five times in under ten seconds; and my understanding of such a flaw [even though I wouldn't take advantage of it] stalls the election process. Nows whose fault would that be? Is it somehow my fault, for finding out that the Diebold did a bad job?
I've heard the likes of your attitude before. It can pretty much be summed up as "Don't ask why, that's just how it is." Imagine if you told your kids that.
Try appending that statement to the end of different statements:
-"We can't cure cancer. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so nobody bothers researching a cure.
-"Your computer's Windows installation is broken. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so you needlessly spend $$$ on a new computer when all you needed was a fresh installation and anti-vir."
-"2 + 2 = 5. Don't ask why, that's just how it is." And so the plane crashes.
-"You're wrong. Don't ask why, that's just how it is."
I hope you get the point.
Firefox _is_ the security patch for IE.
Free crap is still crap. Would you want it anyways?
Of course.
I think it's time we stopped looking at the direct inconveniences of Vista. We should be looking at the underlying effects of some of these restrictions on the Home OEM Vista:
1). Automatically copy protects music copied from your own CDs
2). Two hardware upgrades and you have to buy a new version of Vista
3). Businesses forced to pay more for features XP already has
How much longer will people willingly take it in the ass? As long as they're not *too* bothered by all this.
All MS has to do is irritate us to about 95% of what it would take for us to switch to something else. Thanks to laziness, most people will put up with it. Isn't it time we start looking at the environmental implications of the continued existence of MS? Consider:
1). If you can only back up your compressed music FROM YORU OWN CDs two times, what will you do after that? You'll probably rip it again. And again and so on as long as you need. Which means you're wasting and paying for electricity that you shouldn't need several times over. Perhaps in the end it only costs each user $5 of electricity to re-rip their entire CD collection. But considering all the MS users, that's a lot of wasted electricity, and a lot of extra pollution.
2). Two Hardware upgrades: Most people will say "fuck that" and go buy a new computer. What will they do with the old one? Toss it away into their dumpster. The computer will end up in some dump seeping nasty chemicals into the ground. They'll buy a new computer (more environementally harmful chemicals used to make the plastic, RAM, and especially CPU) and be happy for another two upgrades, after which they'll go buy another computer etc etc.
3). If businesses pay more, that'll be less money they can pay their workers, which means there's less income distribution. More and more $$$ goes to MS [needlessly] and sits in the hands a few elite managers.
The point I'm trying to make in all this is that MS is a lot worse for us than we think. The more money we end up spending on MS or on MS related issues, the more and more our GDP goes to MS. This means our pollution/GDP ratio goes up. Will MS be fined for this? Probably not. But you could make a very real case that they should be.
And lead the way towards producing movies with substance. Last I checked, his most recent blockbusters were anything but character driven. Special effects look cool once or twice, but good scripts and acting make us feel over and over again. That never gets old. _That _ is why I watch movies, and if the movie business wants to stay alive, that's what they're going to have to give us.
George dug his own grave here, now he's lamenting he has to lie in it. I just hope he realizes it's not too late. There's always room for movies like "Walk the Line" and "Signs". Neither had awesome special effects, but they were still a joy to watch.
You're saying that like its a bad thing. IMO, given a libertarian view, this is how it should have worked from the start. Get the government out of the picture, let the people do the work. Gov't only needs to be there if the people can't/won't do it. In this case, the people are doing what is needed.
Load. Because one cell phone has to be in communication with probably at least 25 cell towers all at once. Down on the ground it's easy for the phone to switch towers. It has a choice of ~3, maybe more if it needs them. In the air it's getting back information it requested from all 25 line-of-sight towers (or however many get the ping, which when flying over a city would be hundreds)...and since you're flying at 500MPH, you're leaving one zone and entering the next practically every 5 seconds.
Now not to say that's a legitimate excuse, and boo-hoo for Cingular et al, but do we really want more cell towers (which, I might add, only complicates the problem) in the sky to deal with the load?
I'm in support of it too. Amazingly, its enough to keep the RIAA happy. But its not enough to keep me from getting my music in a format I want. Go pick up a CD-R and you can convert it however you like.
Of course I don't buy iTunes music, I use allofMP3, so this doesn't apply to me. Yes, it would be better if the music were not hindered at all, but is that really going to happen? Not in my lifetime. If they're happy with it, and I can still get what I want, it is acceptable.
People at /. tend to mistake the prospect of being in power with being corrupted. The correlation% between the two is very high, but just because you have power or money does not mean you are evil.
I still think Google will be using their powers (or monies in congress) for good. It's ok to look to gain more power if it benefits others. Regardless of what the depressing "LOOK OUT!" books tell us, no one in history has managed to obtain that level of power, and keep it [if they had, we wouldn't be talking about this now]. I think Google may be the first company that sees not just the next several financial quarters, but the next several hundred. They're too smart to fall for the lock-your-customers-in-and-rape-them business method that is so popular now days. If you want to be a dictator, the people have to like you. If you want to remain dictator, people have to still like you and your policies. Regardless of what evil wants, it seems that it cannot have what it desires without some good. In this case, that good will be keeping us happy. I know this flies in the face of Huxley and BNW, but if we die happy, what gives?
Does anyone know how these numbers get parsed out? I wonder if we are using the right formulas? As in I wonder if thinking in a different base number (2?) could help us find a much more precise formula for finding this? This prime was pretty simple-- a couple million 1's in a row. Maybe there's one for a couple million 10's in a row?