When I park in a restricted area and I'm 5 minutes late and get a ticket, I'm suffering because of the few perpetrators who would abuse the parking spot and stay there all day.
And yet I don't think parking tickets are a bad thing. Just as I don't think having my internet access slowed a bit to try to stop illegal content is a bad thing.
This analogy does not work. It would assume that your everyday life is affected by these perpetrators similar to how a car blocking your entrance is affecting your life.
Ultimately, this law would have little effect anyway.
After reading the article, it seems like the entire point of this law is to prohibit users from accessing child pornography.
Here's what I don't understand: why should the overwhelming majority suffer because of a few perpetrators? And ultimately, blocking child pornography accessibility doesn't help the root of the problem. The offenders will still be there. It's like blocking conventional pornography to fight the sex addicts, but people won't stop being horny just because of that.
I remember this. I had this problem too. It wasn't necessarily the GPU, because my GPU is running great, hitting great benchmarks (8400 GS).
The nVidia PCB problem has not had anything to do with performance hits either. It's a matter of quality and how long it is expected to last before the hardware gets knocked out.
This may not have been the case here, but still, performance hasn't had anything to do with it.
As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway.
Why must it have anything to do with the kernel version anyway? 7 has as much to do with 6.1 as Vista has with 6.0. Fact is, 7 sounds nice and fresh. They probably used this name internally for a long time and ended up settling with it because they liked it.
And to be fair, Microsoft has not used the kernel version in its branding ever since Windows NT 4.0. They have no reason to start doing so anytime soon either.
Humans also defy darwinism. It is no longer a survival of the fittest, since the benefits of our sociological and technological society provides comfort to unintelligent beings, disabled people, ill people and so forth. Maybe they won't be living the American dream, but it doesn't stop them from reproducing.
And at the same time, we are less than 200 years away from being able to genetically customize our own children. I exaggerated the time frame, because I think it is bound to happen within 50-70 years.
Why is a poorly sourced, unconfirmed story from the Reg posted on the front page? VERY slow news day?
Because it can still be interesting and open to great discussions. As with everything else, it is up to the user to decide if he/she believes the story is accurate or not. And at least it is clearly stated that this article is poorly sourced.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material.
After all, the article on the Tron game was posted just 24 hours ago, which is standard reporting.
Having said that, Slashdot's slogan is hardly something one must follow as anally as you do. After all, we have Ask Slashdot and other pieces that don't count as news.
But they have a drawback: Only about half the energy density compared to normal Lithium Ions.
Not to mention that in order to really charge them that fast, you will need a much higher rated, and thus bigger/heavier PSU brick for the notebook...
On the other hand, this is only (to become) the first commercial version of this battery. Give it a few years and we might be seeing promising things.
Having said that, I don't think this product is directly targeting the laptop industry. For starters, as you mentioned, it requires more space. Secondly, when and if it gets commercially available for laptops, we'll be seeing fuel cell batteries as well. They offer more performance and that instant recharge factor as well.
I think this is an excellent product for items like lawnmowers, bikes and cars. But there is also another incredibly useful product segment. Think of things like electric toothbrushes and other small peripherals which don't require huge batteries and dozens of hours of usage. On one hand you get less power than Li-on batteries, but it makes up for the fast recharge.
From what I understand, and from personal experience, the way Vista looks is not the problem. It wouldn't make sense for them to invest so much money in a new look and then dump it. After all, if we take a look at previous Windows versions, this doesn't happen very often. Additionally, you can customize Vista in a million ways with the plethora of skins out there.
Windows 7 will be a hit if they focus on what people have been complaining about, which is largely the sluggish performance - and this is what we should devote our attention to.
The article doesn't mention when such chips would be ready for production and I doubt that IBM's original press release sheds any light on that subject. So all this COULD mean is that IBM only announced their breakthrough ahead of Intel, not that they are ahead or behind Intel.
It's still good to see that Moore's law is hanging in there.
But I learned long ago that EA will milk its customers until they can barely stand it. Spore DRM, yearly rehashes and abusive ads make me concerned.
I'm not a big fan of EA myself, but blaming EA for wanting to make money - or milk its customers like you call it - is kind of silly since every company wants to maximize their winnings per customer.
Complaining about Spore DRM is one thing, but refusing to buy the game is far more effective if you want to make your point. If we stop buying DRM bloated games, they will have to adapt. If a lot of people buy Spore anyway, they will just release bogus statements about how much they care about us and keep doing it in future titles.
In the TV show House, M.D., a premise that protagonist Dr. Greg House holds dear is that people are liars and stupid. Real life is often not far from House's observation.
I would say that only a person smarter than average could make such observation. The rest would simply not care or be capable of thinking to such depth. In House's case, this is exactly it, because he seems to have an outstandingly high IQ. Amusingly, House says that we all lie, but he is the only exception. And he certainly doesn't think he's stupid.
Having said that, I've been working in the "med biz" for five years and I share House's philosophy. People always distort facts for one reason or another, and ultimately, that makes them look dumb.
[..] it would be valuable to AMD if they could determine, for example, how fast Intel's next gen chip is going to be in order to make a product that would be able to compete better, even if it meant sacrificing margins.
Help me explain your theory here. What you are suggesting is that AMD is working at less than full capacity because they don't know what Intel is prepping in the future? These two companies are bittersweet rivals and knowing that your opponent's product will be 200% faster than the previous one is not going to make AMD's scientists think harder.
[..] but I wonder how they plan to get a bandwidth pipe large enough and still be reliable.
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
And while we're at it, have they thought of the possibility of terrorist attacks? If they're outside any jurisdiction, they also have no military power to protect them from planes, boats, subs and whatnot.
"People have the right to say what they want. If you are going to run a website thats free you have to let me talk about fucking animals if I want. I don't really fuck them but if I did it's none of your business if I want to talk about it. I know I will be marked as a troll I don't care about that. I care about not being able to post more. I don't care if I've been modded down or that my karma is low. I have inner karma not some stupid number you made up. If my inner karma is ok with talking about something bad that I don't do you should be to. Let me post more."
What does Slashdot being free have to do with moderation? Same thing goes for free forums; if the topic is set on hardware, you discuss hardware and not sodomized goats. You're free to express whatever view you have, but since certain rules apply to the commentary system, you must also respect it. Furthermore, they don't forbid you to post unrelated comments. But they do have authority to delete it if you're not playing by the rules.
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When I park in a restricted area and I'm 5 minutes late and get a ticket, I'm suffering because of the few perpetrators who would abuse the parking spot and stay there all day.
And yet I don't think parking tickets are a bad thing. Just as I don't think having my internet access slowed a bit to try to stop illegal content is a bad thing.
This analogy does not work. It would assume that your everyday life is affected by these perpetrators similar to how a car blocking your entrance is affecting your life.
Ultimately, this law would have little effect anyway.
After reading the article, it seems like the entire point of this law is to prohibit users from accessing child pornography.
Here's what I don't understand: why should the overwhelming majority suffer because of a few perpetrators? And ultimately, blocking child pornography accessibility doesn't help the root of the problem. The offenders will still be there. It's like blocking conventional pornography to fight the sex addicts, but people won't stop being horny just because of that.
I'm still waiting for the first GSM triangulation mouse, which will eventually be succeeded by the first GPS mouse.
Windows Vista XP 2009 Me SE Professional sounds catchier.
I remember this. I had this problem too. It wasn't necessarily the GPU, because my GPU is running great, hitting great benchmarks (8400 GS).
The nVidia PCB problem has not had anything to do with performance hits either. It's a matter of quality and how long it is expected to last before the hardware gets knocked out.
This may not have been the case here, but still, performance hasn't had anything to do with it.
As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway.
Why must it have anything to do with the kernel version anyway? 7 has as much to do with 6.1 as Vista has with 6.0. Fact is, 7 sounds nice and fresh. They probably used this name internally for a long time and ended up settling with it because they liked it.
And to be fair, Microsoft has not used the kernel version in its branding ever since Windows NT 4.0. They have no reason to start doing so anytime soon either.
This tropical paradise looks as calm as one trillion nuclear bombs. Honey, we're going on vacation.
Humans also defy darwinism. It is no longer a survival of the fittest, since the benefits of our sociological and technological society provides comfort to unintelligent beings, disabled people, ill people and so forth. Maybe they won't be living the American dream, but it doesn't stop them from reproducing.
And at the same time, we are less than 200 years away from being able to genetically customize our own children. I exaggerated the time frame, because I think it is bound to happen within 50-70 years.
Why is a poorly sourced, unconfirmed story from the Reg posted on the front page? VERY slow news day?
Because it can still be interesting and open to great discussions. As with everything else, it is up to the user to decide if he/she believes the story is accurate or not. And at least it is clearly stated that this article is poorly sourced.
I know that editing a news site is a difficult job, but you might have wanted to start by looking up "news" in a dictionary.
I just did and it looks like this is valid.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material.
After all, the article on the Tron game was posted just 24 hours ago, which is standard reporting.
Having said that, Slashdot's slogan is hardly something one must follow as anally as you do. After all, we have Ask Slashdot and other pieces that don't count as news.
But they have a drawback: Only about half the energy density compared to normal Lithium Ions. Not to mention that in order to really charge them that fast, you will need a much higher rated, and thus bigger/heavier PSU brick for the notebook...
On the other hand, this is only (to become) the first commercial version of this battery. Give it a few years and we might be seeing promising things.
Having said that, I don't think this product is directly targeting the laptop industry. For starters, as you mentioned, it requires more space. Secondly, when and if it gets commercially available for laptops, we'll be seeing fuel cell batteries as well. They offer more performance and that instant recharge factor as well.
I think this is an excellent product for items like lawnmowers, bikes and cars. But there is also another incredibly useful product segment. Think of things like electric toothbrushes and other small peripherals which don't require huge batteries and dozens of hours of usage. On one hand you get less power than Li-on batteries, but it makes up for the fast recharge.
I've always relied on it to keep me informed of technology and interesting news before anywhere else...
Well, the continuum transfunctioner isn't working properly. Sadly, Slashdot's submitted articles are posted after the source.
From what I understand, and from personal experience, the way Vista looks is not the problem. It wouldn't make sense for them to invest so much money in a new look and then dump it. After all, if we take a look at previous Windows versions, this doesn't happen very often. Additionally, you can customize Vista in a million ways with the plethora of skins out there.
Windows 7 will be a hit if they focus on what people have been complaining about, which is largely the sluggish performance - and this is what we should devote our attention to.
Time Magazine reports on a $4 million US Army contract to begin developing 'thought helmets [..]
We already have technology for picking up silent brain waves, but it still sounds like $4 million is slightly too cheap for this project.
Also, what happens if a soldier panics and goes beyond reason? Wouldn't that create radio interference?
The article doesn't mention when such chips would be ready for production and I doubt that IBM's original press release sheds any light on that subject. So all this COULD mean is that IBM only announced their breakthrough ahead of Intel, not that they are ahead or behind Intel.
It's still good to see that Moore's law is hanging in there.
But I learned long ago that EA will milk its customers until they can barely stand it. Spore DRM, yearly rehashes and abusive ads make me concerned.
I'm not a big fan of EA myself, but blaming EA for wanting to make money - or milk its customers like you call it - is kind of silly since every company wants to maximize their winnings per customer.
Complaining about Spore DRM is one thing, but refusing to buy the game is far more effective if you want to make your point. If we stop buying DRM bloated games, they will have to adapt. If a lot of people buy Spore anyway, they will just release bogus statements about how much they care about us and keep doing it in future titles.
In related news, a Norwegian study shows that World of WarCraft players at level 60 are only half as depressed as those with level 30 characters.
In the TV show House, M.D., a premise that protagonist Dr. Greg House holds dear is that people are liars and stupid. Real life is often not far from House's observation.
I would say that only a person smarter than average could make such observation. The rest would simply not care or be capable of thinking to such depth. In House's case, this is exactly it, because he seems to have an outstandingly high IQ. Amusingly, House says that we all lie, but he is the only exception. And he certainly doesn't think he's stupid.
Having said that, I've been working in the "med biz" for five years and I share House's philosophy. People always distort facts for one reason or another, and ultimately, that makes them look dumb.
It would be like the head of OPEC declaring that oil comes from cows.
Well, theoretically, it does. Only it would take a long time before organic material becomes oil.
Hate to break it to you, but your analogy sucked.
[..] it would be valuable to AMD if they could determine, for example, how fast Intel's next gen chip is going to be in order to make a product that would be able to compete better, even if it meant sacrificing margins.
Help me explain your theory here. What you are suggesting is that AMD is working at less than full capacity because they don't know what Intel is prepping in the future? These two companies are bittersweet rivals and knowing that your opponent's product will be 200% faster than the previous one is not going to make AMD's scientists think harder.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
*Bursts out in sporadic laughter*
It's clear to me... I just know... I just know what it is!
*Sporadic laughter again*
This is direct evidence of Xenu's lost civilization.
Best regards,
Dr. T. Cruise
[..] but I wonder how they plan to get a bandwidth pipe large enough and still be reliable.
I don't think a pipe on the bottom of the ocean is your biggest concern when you put hundreds of thousands of computers on a man made island, exposed to possible tsunamis and hurricanes.
And while we're at it, have they thought of the possibility of terrorist attacks? If they're outside any jurisdiction, they also have no military power to protect them from planes, boats, subs and whatnot.
As opposed to "with idiocy comes no madness"? It's there regardless of how clever you are.
"People have the right to say what they want. If you are going to run a website thats free you have to let me talk about fucking animals if I want. I don't really fuck them but if I did it's none of your business if I want to talk about it. I know I will be marked as a troll I don't care about that. I care about not being able to post more. I don't care if I've been modded down or that my karma is low. I have inner karma not some stupid number you made up. If my inner karma is ok with talking about something bad that I don't do you should be to. Let me post more."
What does Slashdot being free have to do with moderation? Same thing goes for free forums; if the topic is set on hardware, you discuss hardware and not sodomized goats. You're free to express whatever view you have, but since certain rules apply to the commentary system, you must also respect it. Furthermore, they don't forbid you to post unrelated comments. But they do have authority to delete it if you're not playing by the rules.
Look at it this way: if they fail to find the God particle, at least they can make a really affordable subway system.