Back when Hollerith cards were used, computers had little memory, and you had to write the tightest code possible. Fewer legos is like fewer commands. Back then, if you could write the same program I could write with a hundred bytes but use only fifty, you were twice as good as me (or more, because compuers were slower and sparce code runs faster).
looks like these magnets are letting nature put a little chlorine in the gene pool by having stupid kids remove themselves from it
Is that a flamebait, or are you trying to be funny? Let me educate you, son.
ALL young childern put things in their mouths. It comes from millions of years of evolution, not the kid's stupidity. I see you have never had children.
Most mental retardation is not hereditary
My oldest daughter had a hard childbirtth and is learning disabled, you insensitive clod (my youngest is gifted). So go take yourself out of the fucking gene pool, asshole, we need to get rid of heartless bastards like you.
Mod me redundant, but this dimwit just doen't get it. Trojans aren't viruses. They are a completely different kind of malware.
To get a trojan, you need an ignorant user (in this case, the ignorance was justified, since the user had no reason to suspect Apple's walled garden). To get a virus, you only need to visit the wrong web page or read the wrong email. Windows is the only OS with that history.
A trojan is not a virus is not a worm. All are malware, but they are different kinds of malware. You might as well call ghonnorea "aids". They're both illnesses, but one is a virus and one is a bacteria.
You don't need to have kids in public school to benefit from public education. Without public schools, where are you going to find workers for your business? If you have no business and your boss need workers and can't find them, he'll go out of business and so does your job.
Jees,/.'s collective IQ has seriously dropped in the last 5 or 10 years. This stuff is brain-dead simple, kids. A five year old should be able to figure it out.
If there were a half dozen people in my house, all plugged in, it might be worth it. But I'm paying 1/3 as much and even with all three computers streaming radio and TV and torrents, it's still plenty fast for me.
The "god particle" came from the researchers, who, having a hard time finding it, called it the "God damned particle" and the MSM censors shortened it to "God Particle".
But I do agree with you, its name is Higg's Boson. That's what it should be called.
It is the government that should be kicked out of nuclear, not the other way around. Capitalism in a free market (without gov't intervention) will deliver the highest possible quality products and services at best possible prices.
Then tell me why city-owned and operated CWLP has the lowest rates and the best uptime and customer service in the state, while delivering a profit to the city? And why it only took a week to get power back up after two F-2 (almost F3) tornados hit here, while later that spring a weak F1 hit Cahokia 100 miles south, and they were still without corporate Amerin power two months later?
If the rates go up, or uptime or customers service goes down, the Mayor loses his job. If Amerin's rates go up, and uptime and customer service go down, the CEO gets another multimillion dollar bonus because he's returned a higher dividend to the stockholders.
The problem is the government meddling with the free market,
Springfield's CWLP "meddling with the free market (by competing with it) saves me money.
setting up moral hazards,
WTF are you balthering about, son? MOral hazards? Huh?
...creating monopolies,
In Illinois, they got rid of the electrical monopolies, but you still have a monopoly on whose pole delivers your power. You would want ten utility poles for every one there is now?
causing prices to rise via money printing (inflation)
I don't guess you've noticed, but inflation has been pretty low the last few years, but you can expect it to hit again next year, thanls to the drought and yes, the FREE MARKET.
and all the regulations and laws that destroy productivity.
You mean like Glass-Steagall, which led directly to the banks crashing after it was repealed? Or the California energy regulations that caused rolling blackoouts when they were repealed? Or the mine safety regulations that killed two dozen miners last year when they were ignored? Or the EPA regulations that make air breathable and keep rivers and streams from catching fire like they did before the EPA?
As someone else noted in their sig, the invisible hand of the free market is a pickpocket. Those regs you hate keep the 1%ers from ripping you off. But go ahead and drink the tea party Kool-Aid, fool.
He doesn't have a geek card, he's a special-ed student trolling the smart kids. Ignore him and maybe he'll go back to playing basketball and leave us alone.
Good comment, except "computer" (which was a human, and later an operator of a computing machine).
No, that one was fine. A computer was a human computing firing tables, scientific calculations, etc, and when electronic computers came along and did those jobs, the machine was the computer and the person operating the machine was the computer operator.
Just like a ditch digger. A ditch digger used to be a man with a spade, now a ditch digger is a machine with a human operator running it.
No, alt is for captioning for the blind, title is what you're looking for. As in <a title="e.coli"><img="ecoli.jpg" alt="photograph of a microscope slide depicting an e.coli"></a>
Well, I'm not on facebook and have never visited reddit, so I'm afraid I don't feel your pain. At least, in this respect. From TFS: Because the original intent of the Internet was that links were gold, that searchability was key, that this ability to find anything and use resources from wherever was magic.
And now search has been trashed. My car's AC went out, a mechanic buddy told me it was the temperature control module and one from an auto parts store was $500, $75 from a junkyard. So I figured, nerd that I am, I'd find schematics for it and could probably build one for ten bucks.
Google failed me. I googled for "2002 concorde temperatre control schematics" and not a single result ha dthe word "schematics" in it. I was horrified that advanced search is GONE now, and "+schematics" still didn't return anything with that word.
So I tried Bing (I googled "Bing" just so Google would know they failed me) and the results were even shittier, every other result wanting to sell me something and half having nothing to do with climate control, goving me results for cruise controls.
I think there's an opening for someone to best Google in teh search area, they have REALLY gone downhill in the past couple of years.
BTW, anybody know where I can find a copy of that schematic? There is surley no more than $20 worth of off the shelf parts in that $500 ripoff!
I'll be glad when this facetwit fad blows over (like MySpace before them and Geocities before THEM).
Getting the Steam catalog to 'Just Work' on linux isn't going to be a picnic
It should be a lot easier to make it "just work" on an OS you have the source to than an OS you only have hooks, many of them undocumented.
Nobody else seems to have any trouble making their software "just work" on Linux. Hell, I bought a bluetooth dongle that supposedly had no Linux support at all, I plugged it in and it just worked. On the Windows box I had to install software and drivers and reboot a couple of times, and it kinda sorta worked.
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. Windows needs far more maintenence than previously, and more than Linux, and is far less useable than Linux. This is the opposite of the situation 10 years ago. Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
TFS says "If you want a platform to be commercially viable for third-party software developers, you have to lock it down".
I'm calling bullshit. Windows was never locked down, yet game companies (indeed, all sorts of software companies) are making money hand over fist.
This is a buch of whiners (I realize you're being sarcastic, not targeting you) who are writing shitty games and blaming piracy for their lack of sales.
If the game is good, piracy will help you sell MORE games, because the word will get out. As Doctorow (who puts all his books on boingboing for free and credits that fact for his status as a NYT best seller), "nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity."
A book publisher commissioned a study a couple of years ago to determine how much in sales piracy was costing him. As it takes a couple of weeks after publication before a book hits the internet, the researchers looked to see how much of a drop in sales occurred at that point. The publisher and researchers were astounded (and the publisher was pleased) when they found that rather than a drop in sales, there was a sales spike.
Piracy sells content. It's been shown by study after study.
we have ancient electrical grid which needs to be upgraded
The electrical grid is upgraded constantly -- my dad was a lineman for 40 years, you think he just sat around playing cards waiting for a branch to break a power line? He spent ten years of his career building new high tension 30kv power lines!
Right now, Amerin is building a "smart grid" in Illinois. Sorry, but you're uninformed about the situation. The grid is constantly upgraded, and has been for a hundred years.
From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around
Evolution proves you wrong. The elderly are a store of knowledge and wisdom that the young can't possibly have, except when imparted by the elderly.
For example, they'll tell you things that the history books neglect. Example: the RoaringTwenties. The history books say it was a prosperous decade. My grandmother, who was born in 1903, disagreed. It was indeed a boom time -- for the rich. Everyone else was struggling.
When you get older you see the tides change and the pendulum swing. Those in their twenties would think that we're on the edge of doom, but things always change. The tides go up, the tides go down.
It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings
Yet it's ok for a young rich couple to live in a mansion? Sounds hypocritical to me.
The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age
I'm 60 and haven't been to a doctor in five years. My dad's 80, and he's been only a few times in the last decade. Health care doesn't keep one alive until age 100, good genes do. Note the Frederick Pohl is still writing, in his nineties. What about the young man who gets a bullet in the spine in Afghanistan? Just kill him, too? Sorry, son, but you sound like a heartless bastard, and not very bright, either, and completely lacking in wisdom.
When you approach my age, be assured that your opinion will change. Maybe... there are old fools, after all. But most fools die young.
Paul's own website is clear that he is in favor of laws that protect against pollution.
He's for state regulations. Pollution doesn't honor state boundariies. If it weren't for his stand on the environment, I'd be all for him. But that's a real deal breaker; I know what America was like before the EPA.
I use it because I like playing (have an addiction) to games
Well, at least for the time being, gamers are stuck with either Windows or a console.
This is also partially because I'm lazy and don't have as much free time as I'd like these days
Without the games, Linux would save you time. What takes five clicks and a reboot in Windows takes a single click in Linux. These days Linux needs far less maintenence than Windows. That said, I still have Windows 7 on my notebook, mostly because of (ahem) laziness. I'm running XP on an ancient box for pretty much the same reason as your game rig -- EAC is far better than Audacity, and it won't run on the CD-less notebook or in Linux.
If some larger developers/publishers like Steam or Blizzard would lead the charge and start sponsoring more Linux ports and development of games, more of us could start migrating away from Windows.
Pollution doesn't honor state lines. What Illinois and Missouri dump into the Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas suffer from. What Illinois dumps into the air, Indiana and Ohio suffer from. Living in Illinois, I would suffer from Iowa and Missouri pollution, and with Missouri's politics, it would be a certainty that Illinois air would be bad. Pollution is a national problem, not a statewide one.
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Back when Hollerith cards were used, computers had little memory, and you had to write the tightest code possible. Fewer legos is like fewer commands. Back then, if you could write the same program I could write with a hundred bytes but use only fifty, you were twice as good as me (or more, because compuers were slower and sparce code runs faster).
looks like these magnets are letting nature put a little chlorine in the gene pool by having stupid kids remove themselves from it
Is that a flamebait, or are you trying to be funny? Let me educate you, son.
I hope I've made my point, fuckweed.
Mod me redundant, but this dimwit just doen't get it. Trojans aren't viruses. They are a completely different kind of malware.
To get a trojan, you need an ignorant user (in this case, the ignorance was justified, since the user had no reason to suspect Apple's walled garden). To get a virus, you only need to visit the wrong web page or read the wrong email. Windows is the only OS with that history.
A trojan is not a virus is not a worm. All are malware, but they are different kinds of malware. You might as well call ghonnorea "aids". They're both illnesses, but one is a virus and one is a bacteria.
You don't need to have kids in public school to benefit from public education. Without public schools, where are you going to find workers for your business? If you have no business and your boss need workers and can't find them, he'll go out of business and so does your job.
Jees, /.'s collective IQ has seriously dropped in the last 5 or 10 years. This stuff is brain-dead simple, kids. A five year old should be able to figure it out.
If you think public education is a waste of public money, you're a fool.
If there were a half dozen people in my house, all plugged in, it might be worth it. But I'm paying 1/3 as much and even with all three computers streaming radio and TV and torrents, it's still plenty fast for me.
Not enough to get me to move to KC.
Several HD quality multi-season TV shows would do it. Assuming you can find that many worth actually watching, that's the hard part.
No it isn't. STOS, STNG, STV, Bablyon 5, Big Bang Theory, My Name Is Earl. Those alone in HD are probably a tb.
Thomas Jefferson. "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security will have neither."
Mark Twain said "an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate".
Alfred E. Neumann said "What? ME worry?"
The "god particle" came from the researchers, who, having a hard time finding it, called it the "God damned particle" and the MSM censors shortened it to "God Particle".
But I do agree with you, its name is Higg's Boson. That's what it should be called.
It is the government that should be kicked out of nuclear, not the other way around. Capitalism in a free market (without gov't intervention) will deliver the highest possible quality products and services at best possible prices.
Then tell me why city-owned and operated CWLP has the lowest rates and the best uptime and customer service in the state, while delivering a profit to the city? And why it only took a week to get power back up after two F-2 (almost F3) tornados hit here, while later that spring a weak F1 hit Cahokia 100 miles south, and they were still without corporate Amerin power two months later?
If the rates go up, or uptime or customers service goes down, the Mayor loses his job. If Amerin's rates go up, and uptime and customer service go down, the CEO gets another multimillion dollar bonus because he's returned a higher dividend to the stockholders.
The problem is the government meddling with the free market,
Springfield's CWLP "meddling with the free market (by competing with it) saves me money.
setting up moral hazards,
WTF are you balthering about, son? MOral hazards? Huh?
In Illinois, they got rid of the electrical monopolies, but you still have a monopoly on whose pole delivers your power. You would want ten utility poles for every one there is now?
causing prices to rise via money printing (inflation)
I don't guess you've noticed, but inflation has been pretty low the last few years, but you can expect it to hit again next year, thanls to the drought and yes, the FREE MARKET.
and all the regulations and laws that destroy productivity.
You mean like Glass-Steagall, which led directly to the banks crashing after it was repealed? Or the California energy regulations that caused rolling blackoouts when they were repealed? Or the mine safety regulations that killed two dozen miners last year when they were ignored? Or the EPA regulations that make air breathable and keep rivers and streams from catching fire like they did before the EPA?
As someone else noted in their sig, the invisible hand of the free market is a pickpocket. Those regs you hate keep the 1%ers from ripping you off. But go ahead and drink the tea party Kool-Aid, fool.
He doesn't have a geek card, he's a special-ed student trolling the smart kids. Ignore him and maybe he'll go back to playing basketball and leave us alone.
Good comment, except "computer" (which was a human, and later an operator of a computing machine).
No, that one was fine. A computer was a human computing firing tables, scientific calculations, etc, and when electronic computers came along and did those jobs, the machine was the computer and the person operating the machine was the computer operator.
Just like a ditch digger. A ditch digger used to be a man with a spade, now a ditch digger is a machine with a human operator running it.
No, alt is for captioning for the blind, title is what you're looking for. As in
<a title="e.coli"><img="ecoli.jpg" alt="photograph of a microscope slide depicting an e.coli"></a>
Well, I'm not on facebook and have never visited reddit, so I'm afraid I don't feel your pain. At least, in this respect. From TFS: Because the original intent of the Internet was that links were gold, that searchability was key, that this ability to find anything and use resources from wherever was magic.
And now search has been trashed. My car's AC went out, a mechanic buddy told me it was the temperature control module and one from an auto parts store was $500, $75 from a junkyard. So I figured, nerd that I am, I'd find schematics for it and could probably build one for ten bucks.
Google failed me. I googled for "2002 concorde temperatre control schematics" and not a single result ha dthe word "schematics" in it. I was horrified that advanced search is GONE now, and "+schematics" still didn't return anything with that word.
So I tried Bing (I googled "Bing" just so Google would know they failed me) and the results were even shittier, every other result wanting to sell me something and half having nothing to do with climate control, goving me results for cruise controls.
I think there's an opening for someone to best Google in teh search area, they have REALLY gone downhill in the past couple of years.
BTW, anybody know where I can find a copy of that schematic? There is surley no more than $20 worth of off the shelf parts in that $500 ripoff!
I'll be glad when this facetwit fad blows over (like MySpace before them and Geocities before THEM).
Getting the Steam catalog to 'Just Work' on linux isn't going to be a picnic
It should be a lot easier to make it "just work" on an OS you have the source to than an OS you only have hooks, many of them undocumented.
Nobody else seems to have any trouble making their software "just work" on Linux. Hell, I bought a bluetooth dongle that supposedly had no Linux support at all, I plugged it in and it just worked. On the Windows box I had to install software and drivers and reboot a couple of times, and it kinda sorta worked.
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. Windows needs far more maintenence than previously, and more than Linux, and is far less useable than Linux. This is the opposite of the situation 10 years ago. Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
TFS says "If you want a platform to be commercially viable for third-party software developers, you have to lock it down".
I'm calling bullshit. Windows was never locked down, yet game companies (indeed, all sorts of software companies) are making money hand over fist.
This is a buch of whiners (I realize you're being sarcastic, not targeting you) who are writing shitty games and blaming piracy for their lack of sales.
If the game is good, piracy will help you sell MORE games, because the word will get out. As Doctorow (who puts all his books on boingboing for free and credits that fact for his status as a NYT best seller), "nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity."
A book publisher commissioned a study a couple of years ago to determine how much in sales piracy was costing him. As it takes a couple of weeks after publication before a book hits the internet, the researchers looked to see how much of a drop in sales occurred at that point. The publisher and researchers were astounded (and the publisher was pleased) when they found that rather than a drop in sales, there was a sales spike.
Piracy sells content. It's been shown by study after study.
we have ancient electrical grid which needs to be upgraded
The electrical grid is upgraded constantly -- my dad was a lineman for 40 years, you think he just sat around playing cards waiting for a branch to break a power line? He spent ten years of his career building new high tension 30kv power lines!
Right now, Amerin is building a "smart grid" in Illinois. Sorry, but you're uninformed about the situation. The grid is constantly upgraded, and has been for a hundred years.
From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around
Evolution proves you wrong. The elderly are a store of knowledge and wisdom that the young can't possibly have, except when imparted by the elderly.
For example, they'll tell you things that the history books neglect. Example: the RoaringTwenties. The history books say it was a prosperous decade. My grandmother, who was born in 1903, disagreed. It was indeed a boom time -- for the rich. Everyone else was struggling.
When you get older you see the tides change and the pendulum swing. Those in their twenties would think that we're on the edge of doom, but things always change. The tides go up, the tides go down.
It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings
Yet it's ok for a young rich couple to live in a mansion? Sounds hypocritical to me.
The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age
I'm 60 and haven't been to a doctor in five years. My dad's 80, and he's been only a few times in the last decade. Health care doesn't keep one alive until age 100, good genes do. Note the Frederick Pohl is still writing, in his nineties. What about the young man who gets a bullet in the spine in Afghanistan? Just kill him, too? Sorry, son, but you sound like a heartless bastard, and not very bright, either, and completely lacking in wisdom.
When you approach my age, be assured that your opinion will change. Maybe... there are old fools, after all. But most fools die young.
My dad's 81, you insensitive clod!
As for the others, you're over thinking it
It's a fault of mine. My mom used to tell me "Steve, you think too much."
Paul's own website is clear that he is in favor of laws that protect against pollution.
He's for state regulations. Pollution doesn't honor state boundariies. If it weren't for his stand on the environment, I'd be all for him. But that's a real deal breaker; I know what America was like before the EPA.
It's worthless until someone is willing to exchange something for it. Once someone has a need for it, it's wealth.
I use it because I like playing (have an addiction) to games
Well, at least for the time being, gamers are stuck with either Windows or a console.
This is also partially because I'm lazy and don't have as much free time as I'd like these days
Without the games, Linux would save you time. What takes five clicks and a reboot in Windows takes a single click in Linux. These days Linux needs far less maintenence than Windows. That said, I still have Windows 7 on my notebook, mostly because of (ahem) laziness. I'm running XP on an ancient box for pretty much the same reason as your game rig -- EAC is far better than Audacity, and it won't run on the CD-less notebook or in Linux.
If some larger developers/publishers like Steam or Blizzard would lead the charge and start sponsoring more Linux ports and development of games, more of us could start migrating away from Windows.
Very true.
My car is pretty beat up, too but I'm still driving it.
Pollution doesn't honor state lines. What Illinois and Missouri dump into the Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas suffer from. What Illinois dumps into the air, Indiana and Ohio suffer from. Living in Illinois, I would suffer from Iowa and Missouri pollution, and with Missouri's politics, it would be a certainty that Illinois air would be bad. Pollution is a national problem, not a statewide one.