You provide no proof that logical and correct comprehension of events or an environment provides an evolutionary benefit. In a similar vein, irrationality in some members of our species may provide an evolutionary advantage - aggressive risk-taking or assertion of dominance despite the laws of fairness may have had some role to play in competition for resources or mates.
(hmm, please dont interpret this as a sexist comment, I wasn't going there, I swear! Women, though...although I guess for a lot of/., interaction with women already parted ways with reality...ok ok i'm done)
Try Why the Lucky Stiff's guide
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Hmm...I'm not so sure about this book for my Ruby tastes. No cartoon foxes? No thanks!
Considering this is a democratic society, what if they feel that this simply is a fruitless approach to bettering education? I certainly would feel that way, but I wouldn't mind if taxes went up 3-5% for (what I deem as) *valid* educational efforts.
Google may see it as an investment in basic search technology - voice recognition might serve to "listen" to YouTube videos for time-sensitive ad-placement (see Google, i'm full of ideas, so hire me! =D ) If thousands of people try it and don't like it, they try to learn why, potentially improve it, or they have one of arguably several ideas that never went anywhere, and may or may not see the light of day again. Few bucks lost, price of research, etc. If it takes off, they stick local ads in it. I doubt this is really very harmful.
Also, this is a great way of getting press...lots of computer-phobic people who have "heard" of this "googale" finally get to try it for free...
I think this is part of the reason I'd bring a monitor from home to work (were I not in school full-time). Whether it's an old 15-inch LCD that hasn't been turned on in years (I always planned to make a projector with it...) or my 1600x1200 main monitor to switch out with the presumably crappy starter monitor waiting on my desk at the new job, I could work *productively* on one and use the other one for either
a) "inspiration" - rss feeds of/. or whatever, sort of like family photos but nerdier
b) actual useful tasks such as reference material
What's the boss going to say? I can't use my own equipment? I just hope it doesn't serve as justification for all businesses to stop buying their employees monitors when they hear that many tech geeks have spare ones at home...
Re:Meant to complement H&P, not replace it
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I've been using H&P for the past year, and though I see it as my bible, I wish the style it was presented in was a little (or rather, even) more clear - for instance, how latching works in basic pipelining or a step-by-step iterative diagram of Tomasulo (especially before adding in multiple-issue stuff)...I get confused having to look back to the beginning to "remember" how everything fits together...although maybe my brain capacity is just getting smaller...:)
so eventually can I drop a 45nm shrink into my c2d macbook?
Only reason this is personally a bummer...
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IsoHunt was great because advertising on the site wasn't obnoxious enough to "get in the way" of searches as much as it often does on other sites....of course, all my torrent use takes place on domains registered under Ubuntu, so I have no idea what I'm talking about...
Ughhhh...that movie was so sad, it actually hurt to watch it as a five year old boy. Which is unique as far as my memory of movies go. I must have not been desensitized yet - it was probably my introduction to non-cartoon violence, save for the live-action TMNT. Heck, It's probably just that I valued technology more than human lives back then too!
what's the ACTUAL worth of doing this?
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So what works under fedora? Ethernet? Wifi cards (usb ones at least)? How about more than 640x480 resolution? Output to an actual monitor? Video and sound? It would be nice to have some basic questions answered.
dumb kid? browsing/. at 10 (even if it's just for ps3 info - there's still some exposure to the rest of the tech world) probably means this kid is tech-savvy enough to trounce a lot of the adults I know (and, i'm afraid, with better spelling too).
ps dude, i go to sucky old harvard (pleeeease don't consider this showing off, that would be like gloating about being incarcerated) and i don't even meet folks here that would correct us "young adults" with the callousness you seem to be coming off with (which i'll give you the benefit of the doubt over, as sometimes it's hard to infer tone from the interweb), but even if you're annoyed by a kid, wouldn't you feel worse if you made his or her day bad by acting upon that emotion?
cmon, nobody wants to ruin a kid's day.
He's not responsible for which lights get put in what devices. Don't buy the gadgets if you don't like them, and if there aren't alternatives then complain to motorola or dell or whoever. Personally I don't find it a problem (although on my Antec Sonata case I just disconnected the headlight LEDs from the mobo when it was in my dormroom.)
I find LED tech of ANY color to be awesome; my full praise goes to Nakamura's ultra-hard-rocking ingenuity.
Any such effort is a step in the right direction; I don't think suggesting it may be 'sexist' really serves to add anything other than fodder for stimulating discussion. That's just my opinion, though. In any case, it's an uphill battle unless schools start to foster better science programs for kids in elementary and junior high school - gnome as an organization isn't responsible for providing the money to do this, but their userbase (us) has the power to do so. Call your senators!
Getting even more OT, there are a lot of women entering into science and tech fields, but too often it only happens when there's a dad who is in science too (or for the current generation, a granddad)...
Upscaling to 1080p is about as good of a feature as hitting 'Fullscreen' on a 480p DVD playing on your widescreen 1900x1080 LCD monitor. Artificially simulating higher quality or sharper images is detrimental to the whole idea of experiencing what the filmmakers originally intended for you to see. Similarly if a film's supposed to be dark, don't crank the brightness up to 5000%. (The situation is of course different if you can't even see what's going on onscreen, but oftentimes that's a problem with the authoring and mastering). In any case, upscaling is a stupid feature to tout, especially juxtaposed to such a high price for a presumably intelligent bleeding-edge prosumer market.
It's about time! Intel has been gouging prices for too long. AMD's chips have repeatedly performed better than Intel's chips at a lower cost. It's good to see Intel learning from their mistakes, and the new Conroe and Merom architechtures have a lot of promise in them. (Lower prices are only going to make the R&D budget tighter, though, which will continue to hurt Intel even more in the long run.)
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You provide no proof that logical and correct comprehension of events or an environment provides an evolutionary benefit. In a similar vein, irrationality in some members of our species may provide an evolutionary advantage - aggressive risk-taking or assertion of dominance despite the laws of fairness may have had some role to play in competition for resources or mates. (hmm, please dont interpret this as a sexist comment, I wasn't going there, I swear! Women, though...although I guess for a lot of /., interaction with women already parted ways with reality...ok ok i'm done)
Hmm...I'm not so sure about this book for my Ruby tastes. No cartoon foxes? No thanks!
me too, on osx (firefox). hope its something easy to fix on /.'s side
so could you reconstruct downtown Tokyo with a beowulf cluster of these buildings?
...if Balmer or Gates was behind me in line... If ever there was a day to have had a big Taco Bell lunch...Considering this is a democratic society, what if they feel that this simply is a fruitless approach to bettering education? I certainly would feel that way, but I wouldn't mind if taxes went up 3-5% for (what I deem as) *valid* educational efforts.
Google may see it as an investment in basic search technology - voice recognition might serve to "listen" to YouTube videos for time-sensitive ad-placement (see Google, i'm full of ideas, so hire me! =D ) If thousands of people try it and don't like it, they try to learn why, potentially improve it, or they have one of arguably several ideas that never went anywhere, and may or may not see the light of day again. Few bucks lost, price of research, etc. If it takes off, they stick local ads in it. I doubt this is really very harmful. Also, this is a great way of getting press...lots of computer-phobic people who have "heard" of this "googale" finally get to try it for free...
I think this is part of the reason I'd bring a monitor from home to work (were I not in school full-time). Whether it's an old 15-inch LCD that hasn't been turned on in years (I always planned to make a projector with it...) or my 1600x1200 main monitor to switch out with the presumably crappy starter monitor waiting on my desk at the new job, I could work *productively* on one and use the other one for either a) "inspiration" - rss feeds of /. or whatever, sort of like family photos but nerdier
b) actual useful tasks such as reference material
What's the boss going to say? I can't use my own equipment? I just hope it doesn't serve as justification for all businesses to stop buying their employees monitors when they hear that many tech geeks have spare ones at home...
I've been using H&P for the past year, and though I see it as my bible, I wish the style it was presented in was a little (or rather, even) more clear - for instance, how latching works in basic pipelining or a step-by-step iterative diagram of Tomasulo (especially before adding in multiple-issue stuff)...I get confused having to look back to the beginning to "remember" how everything fits together ...although maybe my brain capacity is just getting smaller... :)
so eventually can I drop a 45nm shrink into my c2d macbook?
IsoHunt was great because advertising on the site wasn't obnoxious enough to "get in the way" of searches as much as it often does on other sites....of course, all my torrent use takes place on domains registered under Ubuntu, so I have no idea what I'm talking about...
Wait a minute! I thought you were talking about Short Circuit! http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJoPpda5Ik
Ughhhh...that movie was so sad, it actually hurt to watch it as a five year old boy. Which is unique as far as my memory of movies go. I must have not been desensitized yet - it was probably my introduction to non-cartoon violence, save for the live-action TMNT. Heck, It's probably just that I valued technology more than human lives back then too!
So what works under fedora? Ethernet? Wifi cards (usb ones at least)? How about more than 640x480 resolution? Output to an actual monitor? Video and sound? It would be nice to have some basic questions answered.
dumb kid? browsing /. at 10 (even if it's just for ps3 info - there's still some exposure to the rest of the tech world) probably means this kid is tech-savvy enough to trounce a lot of the adults I know (and, i'm afraid, with better spelling too).
ps dude, i go to sucky old harvard (pleeeease don't consider this showing off, that would be like gloating about being incarcerated) and i don't even meet folks here that would correct us "young adults" with the callousness you seem to be coming off with (which i'll give you the benefit of the doubt over, as sometimes it's hard to infer tone from the interweb), but even if you're annoyed by a kid, wouldn't you feel worse if you made his or her day bad by acting upon that emotion?
cmon, nobody wants to ruin a kid's day.
Yeah it's fairly fast...but imagine a Beowulf cluster of those guys!
It's just a cellphone pic of somebody's junk.
Smock smock smock smock smock!
You're absolutely right, there's no refuting it.
LEDs also don't emit toxic gas when smashed (although their disposal probably isn't super friendly to the environment).
He's not responsible for which lights get put in what devices. Don't buy the gadgets if you don't like them, and if there aren't alternatives then complain to motorola or dell or whoever. Personally I don't find it a problem (although on my Antec Sonata case I just disconnected the headlight LEDs from the mobo when it was in my dormroom.) I find LED tech of ANY color to be awesome; my full praise goes to Nakamura's ultra-hard-rocking ingenuity.
Any such effort is a step in the right direction; I don't think suggesting it may be 'sexist' really serves to add anything other than fodder for stimulating discussion. That's just my opinion, though. In any case, it's an uphill battle unless schools start to foster better science programs for kids in elementary and junior high school - gnome as an organization isn't responsible for providing the money to do this, but their userbase (us) has the power to do so. Call your senators! Getting even more OT, there are a lot of women entering into science and tech fields, but too often it only happens when there's a dad who is in science too (or for the current generation, a granddad)...
Upscaling to 1080p is about as good of a feature as hitting 'Fullscreen' on a 480p DVD playing on your widescreen 1900x1080 LCD monitor. Artificially simulating higher quality or sharper images is detrimental to the whole idea of experiencing what the filmmakers originally intended for you to see. Similarly if a film's supposed to be dark, don't crank the brightness up to 5000%. (The situation is of course different if you can't even see what's going on onscreen, but oftentimes that's a problem with the authoring and mastering). In any case, upscaling is a stupid feature to tout, especially juxtaposed to such a high price for a presumably intelligent bleeding-edge prosumer market.
It's about time! Intel has been gouging prices for too long. AMD's chips have repeatedly performed better than Intel's chips at a lower cost. It's good to see Intel learning from their mistakes, and the new Conroe and Merom architechtures have a lot of promise in them. (Lower prices are only going to make the R&D budget tighter, though, which will continue to hurt Intel even more in the long run.)