You can beat prostitutes in all 3 games. Actually, in Vice City and San Andreas, there is actual moaning and chatter from inside the car while "utilizing the prostitutes services" that isn't present in the original game.
I suppose that guy who bought the 13mpg SUV who lives less than a mile away from work never goes anywhere on the weekends? Never takes trips? If you need to haul kids, station wagons are just as good as SUV's, and are safer (SUV's are just big station wagons on a truck chassis, they are even classified as station wagons at the DMV). Therefore, hauling kids/wares isn't really an excuse unless you work some sort of construction.
What you gave was a contrived example at best, and not very realistic in the real world.
I'm sorry, but how is this fair? Thats like saying non-smokers should pay have to pay a tax on cigarettes even if they don't smoke, because its not fair to the smokers who have to pay the tax.
Gas-guzzlers contribute to the following problems:
1) over-consumption of a limited resource, which causes the price to skyrocket 2) they produce more pollution than efficient vehicles
Since the gas-guzzlers contribute more to resource and environmental problems, they should pay proportionately more.
Huge-ass cars are nothing more than pissing contest to see who can afford the largest vehicles. Whenever I see a hummer on the road I vomit a little in my mouth. They HAVE NO PRACTICAL USE FOR MOST PEOPLE! Who needs to haul so much shit that often to justify their vehicle??? If you want to show off, you should pay for it.
Apparently the mod who modded you troll drives a big, chunky SUV. I totally agree with this. It is your decision to buy a fuel-efficient car, or one that is a gas guzzler. Part of the reason gas prices are so high is because of the US's ENORMOUS consumption of fuel. Who contributes to this problem more: The guy who gets 30+mpg, or the guy who gets 13 mpg?
Just as myspace can provide pedophiles easy access to children, so can playing outside. The first thing you learn as a kid is "don't talk to strangers" and you always hear about adults stalking kids on the way home from school (come over here and get some candy little boy). The fact is that it doesn't matter what the government does, pedophiles will find a way to get to children. Some of them became priests in order to get at the choir boys. Why didn't government ban kids from church, becuase there is obviously a potential for child abuse there.
Parents are the key, they need to have a much more active role in their children's lives, pay attention to where they are going, and what they are doing. The government needs to stop being every child's de facto parent. I can't wait until the term "nanny-state" become popular...
When you code for more than 1 processor, you have to specify which parts of your program can run in parallel and which must run in serial. This is called the critical section problem (or producer/consumer problem), and I'm sure you'll hear about it by the end of your junior year.
Basically, it has to do with the sharing of memory in a system. Lets say one thread is reading information from a shared portion of memory, while another thread is putting information on the same buffer. The reading thread should not read if there is nothing on the buffer, and the writing thread should not put anything on the buffer if it is full. Also, the threads should not read and write to the same area of memory at the same time. There needs to be synchonization between the threads, and this must be done by the programmer.
There are certain libraries, such as OpenMP, which makes multithreading much easier, but eitehr way it can still pose a challenge in order to get your threads to play nice with each other. A compiler simply cannot solve these problems.
Barbie could very well be the name of some pr0n star or stripper, and who knows maybe some male pr0n star wants to call himself barney. The actual legislature is probably going to be so ambiguous in its wording that the gov could probably shut your site down for pretty much any meta keyword you include.
All the original poster is saying is that this is a slippery slope we're going down, the government is using "save the children" as an excuse to censor websites.
I'm not saying pr0n on the web is necessarily a good thing, and I'm not saying that children should be viewing it, but this is new legislature is not a good solution to the problem.
I almost busted the glass on my tv throwing my controller at it because of that game!!
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Or even easier, make it an actual challenge and once a team mate dies, they are gone until the next stage. That would make it all the more important for the players to work as a team instead of running for powerups all the time.
If unlimited respawns were introduced, the game would be way to easy.
I have to admit, I am an nVidia fanboy, and have used their chipsets and graphics cards for a long time now. I went with the AMD athlon xp/nforce2 chipset because of the stability it provided, and it has been so rock solid that I haven't felt to need upgrade the processor/motherboard for nearly 4 years now (need some speed, up that clock a little bit!)
I wonder if this means that the combo made in heaven, amd processors with nforce chipsets, is going to be going bye bye thanks to this buyout?
and to have random 15 year olds tell me I'm "sooo hawt" so I can wish I was dead).
Liar!!! You post on slashdot, no 15 year olds can possibly think you're hot!!! You are a computer nerd, admit it!! Bask in the glory of your monitor light!!!
Exactly. I can't handle anything moving on my screen when I am trying to read text. I have yet to open a book or a magazine where crappy flashy animations cycled infintely (I'm sure the day will come however).
Print magazines present different kinds of annoyances. Firstly, I'll use wired as an example since I have been a subscriber for a while. I open up a new issue and immediately 5-6 subscription cards fall into my lap. Why the hell do they stuff these in the mag when i already have a subscription??
Next up are the 10 pages of ads before any real content in the magazine. And now we have ads that are thicker than the magazine pages so they stand out more. And lets not forget the ads that expand to poster-sized monstrosities because apparently and 8.5 x 11 page isn't enough space.
It gets old and really annoying after a while. I pay for a subscription, why must I also get bombarded with crappy ads in print magazines as well as online?
Write the number down, have 2 nurses do a count and keep counting until the numbers match, there are a million ways to prevent this sort of human error. RFID: the solution to EVERYTHING!!!
How would this kiss NP Complete goodbye? All I can see now is being able to brute force a larger problem set faster, but the problem would still be in the exponential running time category.
Solving the P vs NP problem relies on a breakthrough in mathematical thinking, not computing power/speed.
The only way I can see quantum computing solving the P vs. NP problem is if it presents a radically different model of computation than what we currently use today. IANAQCS, so if this is the case, please correct me!
Yes, perhaps saying Cobol is not a legacy language wasn't quite the right phrase to use. When I hear legacy, I think "hardware/software that is still supported, but is in the process of being replaced by something newer." I am probably wrong in my definition, its just what comes to my mind;)
Not quite sure what you're getting at, but I'm pretty sure memory management was an important issue "back in the day" when C was created (memory was expensive back then, ya know).
Java is hardly going the way of a legacy language. It is heavily used in the business world for web applications, which are becoming much more popular, not less.
And although you call Cobol legacy, it really isn't. Many financial institutions still run applications written in cobol since it is too costly and risky to migrate the old code to a new language. Cobol was meant for the financial industry, and its probably there to stay. Colleges and universities are even starting to teach it again since it is in high demand in the job market right now (older cobol programmers are retiring).
C is not a low level language. If you're not directly manipulating the registers on the processor, you are not in a low level language (and forget about the "register" keyword, modern compilers just treat register variables in C/C++ as memory that needs to be optimized for speed).
If anything, C is a so-called mid level language. If it wasn't, you'd be using an assembler instead of a compiler.
I totally agree on the second-hand smoke issue. The only reason that smoking in public places is allowed is because of the lobbys from big tobacco.
It doesn't matter where you go: bowling alley, pool hall, restaurant, park, people are smoking, and everyone is forced to breathe it. I am consistently rebutted by people who smoke around me with "its my right to smoke wherever I want" when I ask them to please smoke elsewhere. It is not their right, becuase it is infringing on my rights. Its like saying you have the right to let your dog shit on anyone's property. It makes no sense.
Like the parent said, drinking a diet coke doesn't infringe on anyone's rights. If there was no second hand smoke hazard, I wouldn't care in the least. But the fact is that there is, and I have the right to go to whatever establishment I choose with the expectation of breathing non-poisoned air.
It just goes to show you that on slashdot, if your post is very long, with intelligent sounding sentences with big words, you get an automatic +5 even if the content is a bunch of unsupported crap.
I am all for different points of view, but dada at least give some good facts to back up your claims at how some anarchist society is better for the people instead of state-run government.
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You can beat prostitutes in all 3 games. Actually, in Vice City and San Andreas, there is actual moaning and chatter from inside the car while "utilizing the prostitutes services" that isn't present in the original game.
I suppose that guy who bought the 13mpg SUV who lives less than a mile away from work never goes anywhere on the weekends? Never takes trips? If you need to haul kids, station wagons are just as good as SUV's, and are safer (SUV's are just big station wagons on a truck chassis, they are even classified as station wagons at the DMV). Therefore, hauling kids/wares isn't really an excuse unless you work some sort of construction.
What you gave was a contrived example at best, and not very realistic in the real world.
I'm sorry, but how is this fair? Thats like saying non-smokers should pay have to pay a tax on cigarettes even if they don't smoke, because its not fair to the smokers who have to pay the tax.
Gas-guzzlers contribute to the following problems:
1) over-consumption of a limited resource, which causes the price to skyrocket
2) they produce more pollution than efficient vehicles
Since the gas-guzzlers contribute more to resource and environmental problems, they should pay proportionately more.
Huge-ass cars are nothing more than pissing contest to see who can afford the largest vehicles. Whenever I see a hummer on the road I vomit a little in my mouth. They HAVE NO PRACTICAL USE FOR MOST PEOPLE! Who needs to haul so much shit that often to justify their vehicle??? If you want to show off, you should pay for it.
Apparently the mod who modded you troll drives a big, chunky SUV. I totally agree with this. It is your decision to buy a fuel-efficient car, or one that is a gas guzzler. Part of the reason gas prices are so high is because of the US's ENORMOUS consumption of fuel. Who contributes to this problem more: The guy who gets 30+mpg, or the guy who gets 13 mpg?
Just as myspace can provide pedophiles easy access to children, so can playing outside. The first thing you learn as a kid is "don't talk to strangers" and you always hear about adults stalking kids on the way home from school (come over here and get some candy little boy). The fact is that it doesn't matter what the government does, pedophiles will find a way to get to children. Some of them became priests in order to get at the choir boys. Why didn't government ban kids from church, becuase there is obviously a potential for child abuse there.
Parents are the key, they need to have a much more active role in their children's lives, pay attention to where they are going, and what they are doing. The government needs to stop being every child's de facto parent. I can't wait until the term "nanny-state" become popular...
When you code for more than 1 processor, you have to specify which parts of your program can run in parallel and which must run in serial. This is called the critical section problem (or producer/consumer problem), and I'm sure you'll hear about it by the end of your junior year.
Basically, it has to do with the sharing of memory in a system. Lets say one thread is reading information from a shared portion of memory, while another thread is putting information on the same buffer. The reading thread should not read if there is nothing on the buffer, and the writing thread should not put anything on the buffer if it is full. Also, the threads should not read and write to the same area of memory at the same time. There needs to be synchonization between the threads, and this must be done by the programmer.
There are certain libraries, such as OpenMP, which makes multithreading much easier, but eitehr way it can still pose a challenge in order to get your threads to play nice with each other. A compiler simply cannot solve these problems.
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Barbie could very well be the name of some pr0n star or stripper, and who knows maybe some male pr0n star wants to call himself barney. The actual legislature is probably going to be so ambiguous in its wording that the gov could probably shut your site down for pretty much any meta keyword you include.
All the original poster is saying is that this is a slippery slope we're going down, the government is using "save the children" as an excuse to censor websites.
I'm not saying pr0n on the web is necessarily a good thing, and I'm not saying that children should be viewing it, but this is new legislature is not a good solution to the problem.
Macho Man Randy Savage is the slim jim dude, not Hulk Hogan.
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And by the way you said "Hogan Smash" I think you're thinking of the Incredible Hulk there, in which case you really need more caffeine in your diet
Then go out and find a job instead of posting on slashdot, you lazy clod!
the PaIN!!!! Its comInG bacK!!!! Make it stop!!!
I almost busted the glass on my tv throwing my controller at it because of that game!!
Or even easier, make it an actual challenge and once a team mate dies, they are gone until the next stage. That would make it all the more important for the players to work as a team instead of running for powerups all the time.
If unlimited respawns were introduced, the game would be way to easy.
I have to admit, I am an nVidia fanboy, and have used their chipsets and graphics cards for a long time now. I went with the AMD athlon xp/nforce2 chipset because of the stability it provided, and it has been so rock solid that I haven't felt to need upgrade the processor/motherboard for nearly 4 years now (need some speed, up that clock a little bit!)
I wonder if this means that the combo made in heaven, amd processors with nforce chipsets, is going to be going bye bye thanks to this buyout?
and to have random 15 year olds tell me I'm "sooo hawt" so I can wish I was dead).
Liar!!! You post on slashdot, no 15 year olds can possibly think you're hot!!! You are a computer nerd, admit it!! Bask in the glory of your monitor light!!!
Exactly. I can't handle anything moving on my screen when I am trying to read text. I have yet to open a book or a magazine where crappy flashy animations cycled infintely (I'm sure the day will come however).
Print magazines present different kinds of annoyances. Firstly, I'll use wired as an example since I have been a subscriber for a while. I open up a new issue and immediately 5-6 subscription cards fall into my lap. Why the hell do they stuff these in the mag when i already have a subscription??
Next up are the 10 pages of ads before any real content in the magazine. And now we have ads that are thicker than the magazine pages so they stand out more. And lets not forget the ads that expand to poster-sized monstrosities because apparently and 8.5 x 11 page isn't enough space.
It gets old and really annoying after a while. I pay for a subscription, why must I also get bombarded with crappy ads in print magazines as well as online?
Write the number down, have 2 nurses do a count and keep counting until the numbers match, there are a million ways to prevent this sort of human error. RFID: the solution to EVERYTHING!!!
How would this kiss NP Complete goodbye? All I can see now is being able to brute force a larger problem set faster, but the problem would still be in the exponential running time category.
Solving the P vs NP problem relies on a breakthrough in mathematical thinking, not computing power/speed.
The only way I can see quantum computing solving the P vs. NP problem is if it presents a radically different model of computation than what we currently use today. IANAQCS, so if this is the case, please correct me!
Yes, perhaps saying Cobol is not a legacy language wasn't quite the right phrase to use. When I hear legacy, I think "hardware/software that is still supported, but is in the process of being replaced by something newer." I am probably wrong in my definition, its just what comes to my mind ;)
Not quite sure what you're getting at, but I'm pretty sure memory management was an important issue "back in the day" when C was created (memory was expensive back then, ya know).
Java is hardly going the way of a legacy language. It is heavily used in the business world for web applications, which are becoming much more popular, not less.
And although you call Cobol legacy, it really isn't. Many financial institutions still run applications written in cobol since it is too costly and risky to migrate the old code to a new language. Cobol was meant for the financial industry, and its probably there to stay. Colleges and universities are even starting to teach it again since it is in high demand in the job market right now (older cobol programmers are retiring).
Key word is "relatively." C is low level compared to languages such as Java and C#, which do a lot of things such as memory management for you.
C is not a low level language. If you're not directly manipulating the registers on the processor, you are not in a low level language (and forget about the "register" keyword, modern compilers just treat register variables in C/C++ as memory that needs to be optimized for speed).
If anything, C is a so-called mid level language. If it wasn't, you'd be using an assembler instead of a compiler.
No, the correct comment would be: "But does it run BSD?"
I totally agree on the second-hand smoke issue. The only reason that smoking in public places is allowed is because of the lobbys from big tobacco.
It doesn't matter where you go: bowling alley, pool hall, restaurant, park, people are smoking, and everyone is forced to breathe it. I am consistently rebutted by people who smoke around me with "its my right to smoke wherever I want" when I ask them to please smoke elsewhere. It is not their right, becuase it is infringing on my rights. Its like saying you have the right to let your dog shit on anyone's property. It makes no sense.
Like the parent said, drinking a diet coke doesn't infringe on anyone's rights. If there was no second hand smoke hazard, I wouldn't care in the least. But the fact is that there is, and I have the right to go to whatever establishment I choose with the expectation of breathing non-poisoned air.
It just goes to show you that on slashdot, if your post is very long, with intelligent sounding sentences with big words, you get an automatic +5 even if the content is a bunch of unsupported crap.
I am all for different points of view, but dada at least give some good facts to back up your claims at how some anarchist society is better for the people instead of state-run government.