This word has been hijacked by american Commiecrats, a totally despicable party of corrupt populists who tout their version of socialism. I would dare to say they're more despicable than that lying group of power-mongering christian fascists, which is a huge accomplishment.
More likely that 'liberal' became equated to 'commiecrat' because that is how the Conservatives painted them, just like the Liberals paint all 'conservatives' as 'right-wing nut-jobs'.
As for the Corrupt Populist Socialists vs. the Power-mongering Christian Fascists... that was just a stroke of pure genius. Sad that our political realm can be summed up so succinctly. Sad, but true...
Every time a story comes up on/. about SSD, this is invariably the first question in the comments. Seriously, I've seen like seven of these now. Yes, the writes are limited... but with efficient algorithms to spread the writes correctly, and operating systems that are aware of the media, we are talking 10-20 years before it becomes an issue.
No company would want the nightmare of releasing a product that is going to fall apart in 2 years. It would tarnish their reputation forever. Think of the notorious IBM Deathstars (now Hitachi). Those were even on warranty and many will never buy them again because of the hassle of returning so many.
Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground. It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusing by having both come out at the same time.
I really meant:
Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground? It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusion by having both come out at the same time.
(I hate it when I accidentally mash submit instead of preview...)
Why the heck would Intel willingly sit on a better product if they were really ready to release it? Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground. It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusing by having both come out at the same time.
If I were Intel, I'd want my stuff out there so when AMD finally did release I could say: "Hey, we have had faster stuff than this for months, why would you even consider their offering?"
If it's not been released yet, there is another reason. It's not because Intel wants to steal the punch line like a teenager.
all you would have to do is pass a law making the financial institutions responsible for all of the costs and hassles involved with identity theft, and it would never happen again.
The reason it would never happen again is because banks would take away all online banking and access to their customer information. Yep, back to the days of going into the branch to check a balance and sending money orders to buy things on ebay. What a great idea!
It's all about risk management for them. They don't care about about whether an individual gets taken for all he is worth, as long as it's a small percentage of the individuals they manage. To keep their good names they will even compensate the individual (most of the time). But if they were slapped with punitive damages related to each security breach, they'd just as soon make it 100% secure by taking it away.
More likely an indicator that Alienware no longer caters to it's original knowledgeable geek crowd.
I don't personally know anyone technically savvy that actually buys Alienware stuff. It's top of the line for sure, but if you are technically savvy you can build your own equivalent system for much cheaper. Alienware caters to the hardcore gamers that aren't necessarily able to correctly install a cpu/heatsink.
Before someone mods this flamebait, let me make clear that I'm not saying every Alienware customer doesn't know how to do this stuff, I'm just saying that due to the price premium it's more likely that most do not (or they would be building it themselves), and if the CableCard involves opening the machine, it would be a tech support nightmare for them to support these non-knowledgeable users.
Sadly, you assume AT&T will be better. This is the company that lied to me repeatedly about not offering dry-loop DSL, even though I had it FROM THEM before. I finally found a number I had written down for the dry-loop department, and sure enough, it's still there.
It takes a seriously messed up company to actively lie about it's own service availability. They did it to all my friends, and they probably do it to millions of other people. When I asked the guy why they 'no longer offered dry-loop' he told me there was no demand for it. Fancy that, since they don't advertise it, lie about it's availability, then price it ridiculously high ($50/mo for 6mbps) if you manage to get it at all.
15mbps of fiber for $40 in Utah is sounding great right now.
I swear stories like this must come straight from a template... just pop it open, slap the coming year in the date field, and *poof!*... a Linux-About-To-Dominate-The-Desktop story.
the necessary qualifications for becoming a parent (functioning gonads and a partner) Man, this is the 21st century... all you need is an empty warm space in which to implant the embryo. Bonus points if said warm space is in a female.
We have cognates from at least half a dozen languages, making guessing the English word from knowledge of another language or guessing a word from another language from knowledge of English not very productive.
English does pull words from many other languages (legacy of our long history of international relations... both British and American), but a huge proportion of those words are rooted in Latin, Greek, and German/Flemish languages. Especially in the case of science/technology, Latin and Greek roots are pronounced. Studying Spanish for instance, I find it easy to make at least a few educated guesses about words because Spanish is largely Latin based (with Greek as well because the Romans used many Greek scientific words). Generally it is easy to look at an English word and at least guess at it's origin once you have a language or two to compare it with.
Also, many relatively new words, especially in the area of technology, are the same or very similar in other languages. In Spain, computer is 'ordenador' (literally, 'orderer'), but in Latin America it is 'computadora'... which is obviously taken from English. Likewise, in Spain, a car is 'coche' (which probably comes from the older English word 'coach'... not the coach of a team but coach as in stagecoach... or at least that is how I remembered it at first), and in Latin America it is 'carro'... which again, is obviously in line with the English 'car'.
Anyway, what I am saying is that yeah, English is irregular and steals words from all over the place, but this promiscuity often makes it easier to learn (or easier to learn a language from which we have taken words), because there are a lot of cognates and relatively few truly original words once you get past the boilerplate.
Grammar likewise isn't too convoluted. Gerunds (-ing words) exist in Spanish as well (-ando, -iendo words). Same with participles (-ed words in English, -ado and -ido words in Spanish), some other endings (-er words in English, -or and -dor words in Spanish), and even some basic structures like 'I am going to' ("I am going to swim") which is 'Voy a' in Spanish ("Voy a nadar").
I know where you are coming from, and I have had non-native speakers say that the hard part about English is the vocabulary, not because the meanings of the words themselves are that hard to figure out, but because we have no hard and fast rules of pronunciation (since the words we took from other languages were either taken verbatim or converted to be more 'English-Sounding').
Since I only speak two languages, I can't generalize to all non-native speakers, but these are my observations with Spanish at least (which is the second of my measly two).
Seriously, the Dreamgirls soundtrack was #1? What does that tell you?
Sadly, that tells us more about the intelligence of the average American than anything. What I don't understand is why people buy that shit.
Not disagreeing, most of the stuff is crap. But it doesn't matter that it's crap because people buy it. No one is going to actively rebel against the RIAA. It's just going to happen slowly. The cartel is going to bleed to death, and it's going to make life miserable for everyone as it does.
Of all the technologies listed, this is definitely the King of Crackpot... people have been heralding the possibilities of AI for decades now, and when you get right down to it, all we have is tree searching, finite state machines, and genetic algorithms, none of which are very intelligent. The first is brute force, the second is an elaborate robot, and the third depends on randomness to appear as intuition. The only reason I can fathom that AI even made it on the list is that '11 Crackpot Ideas That Could Transform Tech' just wasn't as catchy of a headline.
If this bill somehow passes, I'm totally getting a job with the FTC to 'rate games'... Can you imagine getting paid to play through entire games just to give the same rating they already get? It'll be an awesome job!
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More likely that 'liberal' became equated to 'commiecrat' because that is how the Conservatives painted them, just like the Liberals paint all 'conservatives' as 'right-wing nut-jobs'.
As for the Corrupt Populist Socialists vs. the Power-mongering Christian Fascists... that was just a stroke of pure genius. Sad that our political realm can be summed up so succinctly. Sad, but true...
*sigh*
Every time a story comes up on /. about SSD, this is invariably the first question in the comments. Seriously, I've seen like seven of these now. Yes, the writes are limited... but with efficient algorithms to spread the writes correctly, and operating systems that are aware of the media, we are talking 10-20 years before it becomes an issue.
No company would want the nightmare of releasing a product that is going to fall apart in 2 years. It would tarnish their reputation forever. Think of the notorious IBM Deathstars (now Hitachi). Those were even on warranty and many will never buy them again because of the hassle of returning so many.
And by:
Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground. It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusing by having both come out at the same time.I really meant:
Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground? It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusion by having both come out at the same time.(I hate it when I accidentally mash submit instead of preview...)
Why the heck would Intel willingly sit on a better product if they were really ready to release it? Wouldn't it make more sense to release it now and just utterly pound AMD into the ground. It seems way better to take the wind out of AMD's sails before they release their next generation product then create mass confusing by having both come out at the same time.
If I were Intel, I'd want my stuff out there so when AMD finally did release I could say: "Hey, we have had faster stuff than this for months, why would you even consider their offering?"
If it's not been released yet, there is another reason. It's not because Intel wants to steal the punch line like a teenager.
The reason it would never happen again is because banks would take away all online banking and access to their customer information. Yep, back to the days of going into the branch to check a balance and sending money orders to buy things on ebay. What a great idea!
It's all about risk management for them. They don't care about about whether an individual gets taken for all he is worth, as long as it's a small percentage of the individuals they manage. To keep their good names they will even compensate the individual (most of the time). But if they were slapped with punitive damages related to each security breach, they'd just as soon make it 100% secure by taking it away.
More likely an indicator that Alienware no longer caters to it's original knowledgeable geek crowd.
I don't personally know anyone technically savvy that actually buys Alienware stuff. It's top of the line for sure, but if you are technically savvy you can build your own equivalent system for much cheaper. Alienware caters to the hardcore gamers that aren't necessarily able to correctly install a cpu/heatsink.
Before someone mods this flamebait, let me make clear that I'm not saying every Alienware customer doesn't know how to do this stuff, I'm just saying that due to the price premium it's more likely that most do not (or they would be building it themselves), and if the CableCard involves opening the machine, it would be a tech support nightmare for them to support these non-knowledgeable users.
So it's ok if your pizza turns into unintelligent life?
(Sorry, I really couldn't resist...)
Sadly, you assume AT&T will be better. This is the company that lied to me repeatedly about not offering dry-loop DSL, even though I had it FROM THEM before. I finally found a number I had written down for the dry-loop department, and sure enough, it's still there.
It takes a seriously messed up company to actively lie about it's own service availability. They did it to all my friends, and they probably do it to millions of other people. When I asked the guy why they 'no longer offered dry-loop' he told me there was no demand for it. Fancy that, since they don't advertise it, lie about it's availability, then price it ridiculously high ($50/mo for 6mbps) if you manage to get it at all.
15mbps of fiber for $40 in Utah is sounding great right now.
I swear stories like this must come straight from a template... just pop it open, slap the coming year in the date field, and *poof!* ... a Linux-About-To-Dominate-The-Desktop story.
Haven't they been saying this since 2003?
Good job...
(I just wanted to say 'good job' too!)
This is one of those rare cases where I wish we could mod higher than +5... thanks for that, a +6 Funny in my book.
This entire thread is getting pretty sad.
You know, there really needs to be a +1 Ninja mod.
If there was, you sir would receive it, as I have mod points...
Don't see why this is funny... my 64 arrived today... using them to build a Gentoo Beowulf cluster so I can play UT2004!
What you lack for this are two things. First, an educated and well informed populace. Second, a populace that desires to educate and inform itself.
English does pull words from many other languages (legacy of our long history of international relations... both British and American), but a huge proportion of those words are rooted in Latin, Greek, and German/Flemish languages. Especially in the case of science/technology, Latin and Greek roots are pronounced. Studying Spanish for instance, I find it easy to make at least a few educated guesses about words because Spanish is largely Latin based (with Greek as well because the Romans used many Greek scientific words). Generally it is easy to look at an English word and at least guess at it's origin once you have a language or two to compare it with.
Also, many relatively new words, especially in the area of technology, are the same or very similar in other languages. In Spain, computer is 'ordenador' (literally, 'orderer'), but in Latin America it is 'computadora' ... which is obviously taken from English. Likewise, in Spain, a car is 'coche' (which probably comes from the older English word 'coach'... not the coach of a team but coach as in stagecoach... or at least that is how I remembered it at first), and in Latin America it is 'carro'... which again, is obviously in line with the English 'car'.
Anyway, what I am saying is that yeah, English is irregular and steals words from all over the place, but this promiscuity often makes it easier to learn (or easier to learn a language from which we have taken words), because there are a lot of cognates and relatively few truly original words once you get past the boilerplate.
Grammar likewise isn't too convoluted. Gerunds (-ing words) exist in Spanish as well (-ando, -iendo words). Same with participles (-ed words in English, -ado and -ido words in Spanish), some other endings (-er words in English, -or and -dor words in Spanish), and even some basic structures like 'I am going to' ("I am going to swim") which is 'Voy a' in Spanish ("Voy a nadar").
I know where you are coming from, and I have had non-native speakers say that the hard part about English is the vocabulary, not because the meanings of the words themselves are that hard to figure out, but because we have no hard and fast rules of pronunciation (since the words we took from other languages were either taken verbatim or converted to be more 'English-Sounding').
Since I only speak two languages, I can't generalize to all non-native speakers, but these are my observations with Spanish at least (which is the second of my measly two).
If I had mod points, I'd use them all to mark this +5 hilarious.
Sadly, that tells us more about the intelligence of the average American than anything. What I don't understand is why people buy that shit.
Not disagreeing, most of the stuff is crap. But it doesn't matter that it's crap because people buy it. No one is going to actively rebel against the RIAA. It's just going to happen slowly. The cartel is going to bleed to death, and it's going to make life miserable for everyone as it does.
I dunno... Gentoo has been around for a long time... just welcoming them now?
(I run Gentoo)
Regarding Artificial Intelligence...
Of all the technologies listed, this is definitely the King of Crackpot... people have been heralding the possibilities of AI for decades now, and when you get right down to it, all we have is tree searching, finite state machines, and genetic algorithms, none of which are very intelligent. The first is brute force, the second is an elaborate robot, and the third depends on randomness to appear as intuition. The only reason I can fathom that AI even made it on the list is that '11 Crackpot Ideas That Could Transform Tech' just wasn't as catchy of a headline.
IIRC, DDR2 can actually be slower in some configurations than DDR, because of increased latency.
That is what my army of chinese gamers that I pay $2/day are for!
If this bill somehow passes, I'm totally getting a job with the FTC to 'rate games' ... Can you imagine getting paid to play through entire games just to give the same rating they already get? It'll be an awesome job!