Yeah, that's why I didn't claim the idea as my own, and mentioned how impossible it would be to actually make this system work. It's just an interesting idea I've heard.
One proposal that's been thrown about is a sort of micro-tax on emails, something like.1 cents per email sent or something. For most people it wouldn't matter, but spammers would get charged massively. The problem is how to actually charge for email. The thing is, we still have junk mail and that actually has a postage fee, so I'm not sure how much a tax on email would help. Of course, users would probably react violently to being charged for email so they could have a CAPTCHA type thing whereby at the end of a month you could prove you were still human (as opposed to a legitimate account that had been 0wned) and have the tax negated, which would theoretically allow for only spammers to be charged. But really, this method has too many loose ends so it's probably not likely to occur any time soon.
Not really, it does more FLOPS but it generates less usable scientific data which is reflected in the PPD it gets, the SMP client (multiprocessor) is the client that gives them the most research value and thus is worth the most currently. Also, the GPU clients blow the PS3 out of the water in terms of FLOPS, and that was just when the x1900xtx was the top ATI folding compatible card. The R600 series GPUs have 320 stream processors and a ridiculous amount of floating point horsepower. So, you either haven't seen many PCs or you're just talking out of your ass, or a PS3 fanboy. Either way, you don't know what you're talking about. But then, you're an anonymous coward so that's to be expected.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. But regardless, 2.5 is the unstable branch (same versioning system as Linux kernels) so it's unreasonable to expect the first one to be great.
Well, 2.50 is the first development release, there's going to be a ton more (2.3 had over 20 iirc) so we'll see it take shape in the coming months or years. 2.4 was in development for quite a while, so I'd say 2.6 (the final stable version of 2.5) won't be here for quite a while, and it that time it could well be a very important release to end users. This version will probably feature some GUI reworking, which is definitely welcome considering how a lot of people seem to complain about the UI. Personally, the change in this development version seems to be for the worse (according to the description from the picture), but then it will probably be unrecognizable from these pictures by the time the final version comes around.
Err, is this supposed to be a poor attempt at subliminal messaging to get moderators to mod you the way you want, thus proving that there is no free will? WTF is the hot sex for then?
Meh, I tend to be too trusting of people in general, I suppose. I kind of just assume that since they're a generally likable company and no one's heard of them doing anything bad yet, they won't do anything later. I do avoid facebook apps like the plague though.
Yeah, Facebook actually asks for your gmail password, so do other sites. A bit shady, but I trust those sites not to store it because there'd be hell to pay if anyone found out otherwise.
We got our coupons and got the Insignia (Zenith?) box from Best Buy, picture has been either better or unwatchable depending on the signal. I think we need a better antenna or something. On the upside, we don't have to use these boxes until next year, around when the signals will hopefully be better. Also, there are a lot more digital channels than analog. Many channels have multiple subchannels, which is quite cool. Having a program guide, even if all it shows is the current and next program, is also nice for someone who's never had one. Overall, it's a nice box for $60 and supposedly it's got some nice LG chip inside it, so I'd recommend it. It also has a universal power button for turning on/off your TV, which is a nice plus and worked with our less ancient (1996) TV.
Well, I don't know much about college actually but if I use AP classes for stuff outside my core classes for my major it shouldn't matter too much, right? Also, how much English do you have to take as an EECS major? I kind of like writing, but I'm starting to get sick of literary analysis.
Hmm, that's odd. My teacher went beyond the regular BC material, but I'm in a little bit of a bad position since I took it last year and I need to review badly, since I forgot some of the stuff that's beyond the basics.
Wow, that's just idiotic. Although I suppose they have to pay for graders, they only need those in proportion to the number of people who take the exams.
Well, then that's kind of weird, but you probably should have taken BC if it was available. I suppose it depends on how good your teacher is at actually teaching the content and not just teaching to the test, though.
I'm saying some of the impact is lost when you know there's a perfectly good built-in solution right over there. Huh. As long as your teacher doesn't let you use the built-in classes until you've written your own, I think it doesn't really matter. And if you never find out about their existence until you've already written your own LinkedLists, Stacks, Trees, HashMaps, etc, you now have a perfectly working class to use for other things and know how the class works behind the scenes.
I suppose it depends on the major, but I've been looking at the course requirements for EECS at Berkeley (my major in the fall) and I will be getting credit for most of the stuff I took, eg. APCS AB will count for CS61b. They do have a limit on the number of AP classes you can use to satisfy the humanities requirement, which is annoying for me since part of the reason I took all those humanities AP classes was to never have to do humanities courses again. However, for the most part, it seems like they'll take most AP exam scores for credit.
This page has the list of AP equivalencies to Berkeley courses, seems pretty reasonable. Also, I suppose part of the reason I took a ton of AP classes was for grade inflation, because I had to in order to keep my class rank high. Most people wouldn't care, my friend got into EECS at Berkeley as well (supposedly their hardest major) and he got a bunch of Bs and doesn't do much homework, but I just have the personal motivation to try to outdo everyone else academics-wise.
...I wrote Math AB (and got a 5).... what a joke. It was no where near equivalent to a first year calculus course. No where near. Perhaps that's because the AB test is only a first semester level test? BC is the one that covers a whole year of curriculum.
Seriously, the A test is pretty much something you could learn in a week. Hopefully they merge in AB concepts into the A test. Luckily for me, I took it in 2006 so I'll be getting some credit for a basic CS course, but at least at Berkeley the A test has no course equivalent, and you only get 1.3 units for a 4 or a 5 on it.
Also, I'm kind of confused as to why they need to cut back on tests, considering they charge $84 just to take the tests. The College Board is really a harmful monopoly, the way it has control over both the SAT and AP testing. Their auditing process is similarly idiotic. My AP World History teacher, who is probably one of the best teachers I've ever had and had a 100% passage rate the year I took the test (2006), failed their audit the first several times.
Haha, no car analogies? Intersetingly, my AP CS teacher was also the assistant coach for the Varsity Football team, which might explain why it's so bad...
Oops, meant to mod you insightful but I missed. Sorry about that. Posting to remove the moderation, and here we go filling the lameness filter blah blah....
This is a bit off topic, and feel free to mod it as such, but has anyone else noticed a new layout for slashdot comments on some stories? I see it on this one, and I guess anything on http://idle.slashdot.org/ is cooler looking. Is this going to be rolled out to all the other parts? At least at first glance, I think I like it.
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Yeah, that's why I didn't claim the idea as my own, and mentioned how impossible it would be to actually make this system work. It's just an interesting idea I've heard.
That's a bit harsh, don't you think?
One proposal that's been thrown about is a sort of micro-tax on emails, something like .1 cents per email sent or something. For most people it wouldn't matter, but spammers would get charged massively. The problem is how to actually charge for email. The thing is, we still have junk mail and that actually has a postage fee, so I'm not sure how much a tax on email would help. Of course, users would probably react violently to being charged for email so they could have a CAPTCHA type thing whereby at the end of a month you could prove you were still human (as opposed to a legitimate account that had been 0wned) and have the tax negated, which would theoretically allow for only spammers to be charged. But really, this method has too many loose ends so it's probably not likely to occur any time soon.
I love how youtube thinks most of the comments on that video are spam.
Not really, it does more FLOPS but it generates less usable scientific data which is reflected in the PPD it gets, the SMP client (multiprocessor) is the client that gives them the most research value and thus is worth the most currently. Also, the GPU clients blow the PS3 out of the water in terms of FLOPS, and that was just when the x1900xtx was the top ATI folding compatible card. The R600 series GPUs have 320 stream processors and a ridiculous amount of floating point horsepower. So, you either haven't seen many PCs or you're just talking out of your ass, or a PS3 fanboy. Either way, you don't know what you're talking about. But then, you're an anonymous coward so that's to be expected.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know that. But regardless, 2.5 is the unstable branch (same versioning system as Linux kernels) so it's unreasonable to expect the first one to be great.
Well, 2.50 is the first development release, there's going to be a ton more (2.3 had over 20 iirc) so we'll see it take shape in the coming months or years. 2.4 was in development for quite a while, so I'd say 2.6 (the final stable version of 2.5) won't be here for quite a while, and it that time it could well be a very important release to end users. This version will probably feature some GUI reworking, which is definitely welcome considering how a lot of people seem to complain about the UI. Personally, the change in this development version seems to be for the worse (according to the description from the picture), but then it will probably be unrecognizable from these pictures by the time the final version comes around.
Err, is this supposed to be a poor attempt at subliminal messaging to get moderators to mod you the way you want, thus proving that there is no free will? WTF is the hot sex for then?
Meh, I tend to be too trusting of people in general, I suppose. I kind of just assume that since they're a generally likable company and no one's heard of them doing anything bad yet, they won't do anything later. I do avoid facebook apps like the plague though.
Yeah, Facebook actually asks for your gmail password, so do other sites. A bit shady, but I trust those sites not to store it because there'd be hell to pay if anyone found out otherwise.
We got our coupons and got the Insignia (Zenith?) box from Best Buy, picture has been either better or unwatchable depending on the signal. I think we need a better antenna or something. On the upside, we don't have to use these boxes until next year, around when the signals will hopefully be better. Also, there are a lot more digital channels than analog. Many channels have multiple subchannels, which is quite cool. Having a program guide, even if all it shows is the current and next program, is also nice for someone who's never had one. Overall, it's a nice box for $60 and supposedly it's got some nice LG chip inside it, so I'd recommend it. It also has a universal power button for turning on/off your TV, which is a nice plus and worked with our less ancient (1996) TV.
Well, I don't know much about college actually but if I use AP classes for stuff outside my core classes for my major it shouldn't matter too much, right? Also, how much English do you have to take as an EECS major? I kind of like writing, but I'm starting to get sick of literary analysis.
Hmm, that's odd. My teacher went beyond the regular BC material, but I'm in a little bit of a bad position since I took it last year and I need to review badly, since I forgot some of the stuff that's beyond the basics.
Wow, that's just idiotic. Although I suppose they have to pay for graders, they only need those in proportion to the number of people who take the exams.
Well, then that's kind of weird, but you probably should have taken BC if it was available. I suppose it depends on how good your teacher is at actually teaching the content and not just teaching to the test, though.
I suppose it depends on the major, but I've been looking at the course requirements for EECS at Berkeley (my major in the fall) and I will be getting credit for most of the stuff I took, eg. APCS AB will count for CS61b. They do have a limit on the number of AP classes you can use to satisfy the humanities requirement, which is annoying for me since part of the reason I took all those humanities AP classes was to never have to do humanities courses again. However, for the most part, it seems like they'll take most AP exam scores for credit.
This page has the list of AP equivalencies to Berkeley courses, seems pretty reasonable. Also, I suppose part of the reason I took a ton of AP classes was for grade inflation, because I had to in order to keep my class rank high. Most people wouldn't care, my friend got into EECS at Berkeley as well (supposedly their hardest major) and he got a bunch of Bs and doesn't do much homework, but I just have the personal motivation to try to outdo everyone else academics-wise.
...I wrote Math AB (and got a 5).... what a joke. It was no where near equivalent to a first year calculus course. No where near. Perhaps that's because the AB test is only a first semester level test? BC is the one that covers a whole year of curriculum.Also, nowhere is one word.
Seriously, the A test is pretty much something you could learn in a week. Hopefully they merge in AB concepts into the A test. Luckily for me, I took it in 2006 so I'll be getting some credit for a basic CS course, but at least at Berkeley the A test has no course equivalent, and you only get 1.3 units for a 4 or a 5 on it.
Also, I'm kind of confused as to why they need to cut back on tests, considering they charge $84 just to take the tests. The College Board is really a harmful monopoly, the way it has control over both the SAT and AP testing. Their auditing process is similarly idiotic. My AP World History teacher, who is probably one of the best teachers I've ever had and had a 100% passage rate the year I took the test (2006), failed their audit the first several times.
Haha, no car analogies? Intersetingly, my AP CS teacher was also the assistant coach for the Varsity Football team, which might explain why it's so bad...
Oops, meant to mod you insightful but I missed. Sorry about that. Posting to remove the moderation, and here we go filling the lameness filter blah blah....
He could have made it earlier than just now... argh, stupid lameness filter. http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
!omgponies would be the preferred syntax, I believe.
This is a bit off topic, and feel free to mod it as such, but has anyone else noticed a new layout for slashdot comments on some stories? I see it on this one, and I guess anything on http://idle.slashdot.org/ is cooler looking. Is this going to be rolled out to all the other parts? At least at first glance, I think I like it.