That said, anything that doesn't use vsync is stupid, period, always, (unless you're benchmarking or trying to warm a cold room).
Or vsync introduces input lag. (Worst case I've seen: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The game is unplayable with vsync on. (My video card is an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, if anyone cares.))
Why am I supposed to feel ad for those who had illegal free feeds and no longer do?
Because 99% of those watching for free can't or won't pay for it, and now they get nothing. Same reasons people pirate.
Bandwidth does cost money you know. I'll tell you what, I'll just start siphoning gas out of your car. Not so much that you can't afford it, but just a little. No harm done, right?
It's all right with me, as long as there's still gas for everyone else.
One person watching for free doesn't deprive everyone else of their feed.
I deem myself lucky that all software I have installed on my N900 is open source, which means I (or anyone else) can check the code, compile it and improve it anytime I feel the need to
And have you?
If you haven't, you're not that much better off. Assuming others have read the source and checked for security isn't a very good policy.
if the paranoid schizophrenic fantasies of certain right wing zealots ever come to fruition, those abuses will not happen at the hands of washington dc, they will happen at the hands of large corporate entities
Judging by our last Republican president, it looks like it'll happen at the hands of both.
Of course, what with Obama renewing (parts of) the Patriot Act, it seems the Democrats aren't doing any better...
Oh, god... Reminds me of pledge week on New Hampshire Public Radio.
One of the people they pull to yak and try and get you to pledge is the webmaster, and he says "eight" in the back of his throat. And their phone number has like five eights in it, so every half hour I'm subjected to him making that noise at me.
by the time Wikileaks even got around to publishing launch codes and missile locations, the information would be completely out of date and worthless
Even if you did somehow manage to get your hands on today's--or even tomorrow's!--codes... You still need to enter them. Good luck getting to that terminal, guy.
We evolved to make use of our environment. What makes you think life on other planets can't be, say, sulfur-based instead of carbon-based? (Yeah, something about carbon bonds with other elements, I know. It's an example.)
And why need an atmosphere at all? Burrow around in the crust, you'll do just fine. You just won't be respiring. Or swim in the ocean, and respire something other than oxygen. Say, hydrogen.
Sure, Earth is a paradise--but only if your concept of "life" is limited to what's on Earth.
They're right. Banks don't pay people who find ways to get into their vaults.
Uh, yes, they do.
Well, maybe not the banks themselves, especially not smaller banks, or really any, these days (too little money actually on hand to be worth it), but it's called "penetration testing". I'm sure the vault manufacturers (or whatever they're called, I suspect most vaults are custom-made) are continually thinking of ways that they could be broken into. (Or at least they should be. Wouldn't be a very good company to say "oh, we think it works, but we don't know, we've never actually tested it".)
You see (or you ought to see) penetration testing referred to a bit here on Slashdot--it's quite popular in computer security. Best way to improve your security is to identify its faults.
It's mostly the same... The number of cores just adds another dimension. Comparing CPUs with the same number of cores is same as ever.
But that leaves the comparison of the number of cores... Well, that's actually pretty easy.
Start with dual-core. This allows two single-threaded tasks to be run simultaneously. Useful for, say, doing a CPU-intensive bulk task (e.g. antivirus scan) and actually doing something useful at the same time, which is nigh impossible on single cores. If you want more cores for more threads, go ahead. Four is probably enough for most tasks, but if you want more power than you need, go for six or eight.
Yeah, tell me about it. In my city (also New England), we just built a new middle school a few years ago. It's got nice fields, nature trails, a small wetlands pond, an "outdoor classroom" (a boat on blocks).
In my four years there, you know how many times I used these facilities? The boat: once. The trails: once.
My little brother graduated from there just this year, and as we were leaving, we heard what sounded like a tree coming down in the woods. Naturally, we went to go investigate. We didn't find the tree (or at least couldn't agree on which one it was), but we did discover a trail going along the riverbank for quite a ways. I never knew that was there (and this is about twenty feet from the parking lot!).
Kids these days need more involvement in their environment.
Well, a gallon is ~3.79 liters (according to Google), so if there's "millions of gallons", I'd say it's pretty safe to assume there are "millions of liters" as well...
I'm sure you've all seen the Android commercials on TV... Ever read the fine print at the bottom? "Droid" is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. Verizon and Motorola have been licensing it from Lucasfilm in relation to the Android-based phones.
Sounds like Lucasfilm is getting a little grabby.
Sounds good! here's the how-to for setting up devkitPPC (the standard Wii homebrew toolchain).
I don't know what Aquaria uses for graphics, but if it's SDL, running it on the Wii should be trivial.
Oh god don't remind me.
I'm working my way through RE4 on the Gamecube (my first Resident Evil game, which I still haven't completed), just creepin' along a passageway, when OSHIT A BOULDER FUCKING RUN PUSH BUTTONS WHAT BUTTON A PUSH A PUSH OTHER BUTTONS WHAT WHICH BUTT--dead.
I got up to about the third button combination before I gave up. Either that's where I stopped or someone did it for me; I don't remember.
If you want to know which filesystem would perform the best, you might try just benchmarking them all with the Phoronix Test Suite. (I haven't tried it myself, but I read Phoronix' news, and there's all kind of pretty graphs.)
This.
I immediately thought of this when I read the summary.
What we REALLY need it some cable, kinda like USB, that holds itself in, is easy to disconnect, and is easy to insert correctly the first time, even when you're doing it blind on the back of a device.
As a Part 15 device, you have to put up with what other devices are doing.
"You" being the device, yes. The user does not have to put up with it.
In any case, the other half of the part 15 rule citation is "this device may not cause harmful interference". If the interfering device is subject to part 15, it is clearly not following that rule...
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Or vsync introduces input lag. (Worst case I've seen: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The game is unplayable with vsync on. (My video card is an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, if anyone cares.))
Because 99% of those watching for free can't or won't pay for it, and now they get nothing. Same reasons people pirate.
It's all right with me, as long as there's still gas for everyone else.
One person watching for free doesn't deprive everyone else of their feed.
And have you?
If you haven't, you're not that much better off. Assuming others have read the source and checked for security isn't a very good policy.
Ah, that's one of my favorite episodes. :D
"I've seen this movie. It hits Paris."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1/Season_5#Fail_Safe_.5B5.17.5D
Judging by our last Republican president, it looks like it'll happen at the hands of both.
Of course, what with Obama renewing (parts of) the Patriot Act, it seems the Democrats aren't doing any better...
Oh, god... Reminds me of pledge week on New Hampshire Public Radio.
One of the people they pull to yak and try and get you to pledge is the webmaster, and he says "eight" in the back of his throat. And their phone number has like five eights in it, so every half hour I'm subjected to him making that noise at me.
Even if you did somehow manage to get your hands on today's--or even tomorrow's!--codes... You still need to enter them. Good luck getting to that terminal, guy.
We evolved to make use of our environment. What makes you think life on other planets can't be, say, sulfur-based instead of carbon-based? (Yeah, something about carbon bonds with other elements, I know. It's an example.)
And why need an atmosphere at all? Burrow around in the crust, you'll do just fine. You just won't be respiring. Or swim in the ocean, and respire something other than oxygen. Say, hydrogen.
Sure, Earth is a paradise--but only if your concept of "life" is limited to what's on Earth.
Uh, yes, they do.
Well, maybe not the banks themselves, especially not smaller banks, or really any, these days (too little money actually on hand to be worth it), but it's called "penetration testing". I'm sure the vault manufacturers (or whatever they're called, I suspect most vaults are custom-made) are continually thinking of ways that they could be broken into. (Or at least they should be. Wouldn't be a very good company to say "oh, we think it works, but we don't know, we've never actually tested it".)
You see (or you ought to see) penetration testing referred to a bit here on Slashdot--it's quite popular in computer security. Best way to improve your security is to identify its faults.
I don't understand this analogy. I've never heard of these kinds of cars!
It's mostly the same... The number of cores just adds another dimension. Comparing CPUs with the same number of cores is same as ever.
But that leaves the comparison of the number of cores... Well, that's actually pretty easy.
Start with dual-core. This allows two single-threaded tasks to be run simultaneously. Useful for, say, doing a CPU-intensive bulk task (e.g. antivirus scan) and actually doing something useful at the same time, which is nigh impossible on single cores. If you want more cores for more threads, go ahead. Four is probably enough for most tasks, but if you want more power than you need, go for six or eight.
Or clothes that feed off sweat, dead skin cells, etc.?
YES! I'd never have to change clothes or shower again!!
Yeah, tell me about it. In my city (also New England), we just built a new middle school a few years ago. It's got nice fields, nature trails, a small wetlands pond, an "outdoor classroom" (a boat on blocks).
In my four years there, you know how many times I used these facilities? The boat: once. The trails: once.
My little brother graduated from there just this year, and as we were leaving, we heard what sounded like a tree coming down in the woods. Naturally, we went to go investigate. We didn't find the tree (or at least couldn't agree on which one it was), but we did discover a trail going along the riverbank for quite a ways. I never knew that was there (and this is about twenty feet from the parking lot!).
Kids these days need more involvement in their environment.
Pwnd? I don't doubt they have their own backdoor: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skype#Privacy
Well, a gallon is ~3.79 liters (according to Google), so if there's "millions of gallons", I'd say it's pretty safe to assume there are "millions of liters" as well...
It's not just "near enough", it's "near enough and unencumbered by patents". (Of course, MPEG LA will contest that...)
I'm sure you've all seen the Android commercials on TV... Ever read the fine print at the bottom? "Droid" is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. Verizon and Motorola have been licensing it from Lucasfilm in relation to the Android-based phones.
Sounds like Lucasfilm is getting a little grabby.
Well, at least you can track it down pretty fast. Just be glad it wasn't something embarrasing, like... oh, say, this.
Sounds good! here's the how-to for setting up devkitPPC (the standard Wii homebrew toolchain).
I don't know what Aquaria uses for graphics, but if it's SDL, running it on the Wii should be trivial.
Oh god don't remind me.
I'm working my way through RE4 on the Gamecube (my first Resident Evil game, which I still haven't completed), just creepin' along a passageway, when OSHIT A BOULDER FUCKING RUN PUSH BUTTONS WHAT BUTTON A PUSH A PUSH OTHER BUTTONS WHAT WHICH BUTT--dead.
I got up to about the third button combination before I gave up. Either that's where I stopped or someone did it for me; I don't remember.
Hey, it worked for Marina "hotforwords" Orlova...
If you want to know which filesystem would perform the best, you might try just benchmarking them all with the Phoronix Test Suite. (I haven't tried it myself, but I read Phoronix' news, and there's all kind of pretty graphs.)
This.
I immediately thought of this when I read the summary.
What we REALLY need it some cable, kinda like USB, that holds itself in, is easy to disconnect, and is easy to insert correctly the first time, even when you're doing it blind on the back of a device.
Malice, stupidity, etc. You know the quote. You really think Microsoft is that smart?
"You" being the device, yes. The user does not have to put up with it.
In any case, the other half of the part 15 rule citation is "this device may not cause harmful interference". If the interfering device is subject to part 15, it is clearly not following that rule...