I don't find it that sad, try to see the good side of it. I think it's pretty cool to have *one* *free* social site where everybody goes, because well, everybody's there, am I the only one out here to realize what's so cool about it?
If you need something little than runs linux, look into a Zaurus PDA.
Funny that you mention a Zaurus PDA because the GP2X runs Qtopia. Anyways, people don't get a GP2X because they never heard about it and they don't have the knowledge to put games on it or anything, however I had some n00bish girl asking me to play my GP2X all the time because she just loved Super Mario World, and you don't need a 3D acceleration to play Super Mario World
Since I'm a gamer and don't want to risk my cycles being used during gameplay, I use the screen saver version
Dude, you really need to learn about process priorities. F@H is by default set with a process priority of Idle, which means that it will use only the cycles unused by other processes (since other processes ALL have higher priorities, except a few other apps than run at Idle priority such as some ripping osftwares or other distrubuted computing programs).
In other words, when you play, F@H won't take you a single slice that the game might use, period. It just doesn't affect gaming, and if you don't believe me, just try it out. You're losing time by setting only to screensaver, really.
As soon as the technological solution for implementing a "content filter" is there, RIAA and friends will _require_ ISPs to use it for that purpose as well.
Reminds me of an episode of South Park, Cartoon Wars.
In it, Cartman explains that if an episode of Family Guy can be pulled for displaying Muhammad by muslims, then other groups of people such as christians and the disabled will be able to get other episodes pulled, and in the end Family Guy will get difinitely off the air.
Using this as an analogy to our problem, if the ISP's start filtering content for child porn, then they could also filter content for pirated music, crack sites, porn passwords IRC channels, etc... until there's no interesting use left to internet.
Disclaimer : this is just a possible analogy, but by no means necessarily a valid analogy.
To be fair, fascist just mean some one who believes in a strong powerful government over everything else.
I think that in this phrase you miss the facist concept of the nation more important than the person, it's not quite just "believing in a strong governement" but rather not being a person anymore/being a small part of your nation instead. We "made it a dirty word" because it's a "dirty" and dangerous ideology.
They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm [...] "This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries,"
In other news, some dude has been hit by a lightning while having a boner. Education is necessary to highlight the fact that an erect penis will increase your odds of being struck by a lightning... </trolling>.
More seriously, "The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.", so, there is a correlation between the increase in the number of people being struck by a lightning while using a cellphone and the increase of the use of cellphones while outside, but,, if you multiply the ratio of people using a cell phone while outside by the number of people being struck by a lightning, you will obtain the number of people who should get struck by a lightning while using a cell phone. Does the actual number differs significantly from the calculated number?
Anyways, they're talking about it happening while using a cell phone, but doesn't their explanation also work for when your cell phone is in your pocket? When I saw the title of this article, I assumed it would talk about how emitting radio waves increases your odds of getting struck, but no, it's all about holding little piece of metal in your hand.
They experimented with piercings and lightnings on an episode of MythBusters. IIRC they only noticed a statistical difference once one head was fullfilled with piercings basically.
And why dont we just print more money to solve poverty?
Right, let's not build more universities in China. Actually, let's destroy most universities in other countries so we get to the same point as chinese students. Things are very fine this way in China, let's not change anything [/sarcasm]
Thanks alot! Now that I went through the two last links and some of your comments, I'm definitely disgusted of laser eye surgery (a flap? peeling off your eye? protective contacts? ewww wtf), and won't consider it again before they invent some stuff that does it without cutting or peeling off anything in your eye, damnit! Don't mean to sound like a cunt but that's disgusting, not even talking about the actual risks
Meanwhile I'll stick to glasses and contacts, even if it's annoying sometimes.
Is it only me that gets frustrated when my calls are piped over to India?
Don't worry, soon, both your calls and Indians' calls will be piped over to some english speaking african country. And if you can't stand african accents, don't worry, later on when outsourcing will be over due to the lack of interesting countries to outsource to, your calls will be pipped to good ole Alabama
There are places where 60 cents an hour is a decent wage, otherwise those jobs wouldn't be filled.
Indeed, people need to remember this, after all, even if it's nicer to work in a factory in France than in China, if you look for equivalences, it's quite the same thing, well, it's an equivalent thing. Nobody forces people to work in factories in China, nobody forces people to work in factories in France, and even if in both they don't like this job, they're glad they have it.
What is going to happen when we run out of poor economies to abuse and also what happens when we have to compete with these new and motivated economies directly?
Although things went fast lately for some countries, you can count decades before we run out of poor countries to abuse. Remember, there's 2 billion people out here who don't have access to electricity. As rich as we can be, it'll take some time before we fulfill these people's countries with money.
not all exploitation leads to better living conditions in the future
Yup, perfectly true, but the way we hear it here in our northern countries, exploitation is systematically bad, I felt glad that I found a pertinent POV showing just the opposite.
And to conclude on the rest of what you said, I guess we can say that although that kind of exploitation isn't necessarily the nicest way out of misery for these countries, it's certainely the fastest and most efficient.
See how it's been, within monthes, everybody started outsourcing to Poland, then Poland got too rich to be interesting anymore, then same now for India and China. The way things are going for these three countries, I'm surprised such countries as Mexico didn't yet get any richer. Oh well, maybe the rest of the poor countries of the world are on the list.
Am I the only one who sees this as utterly fascinating?
The fascinating part about this is how by exploiting these people (Indians and Chinese, but also Poles or even to take older examples the Irish) we make them rich and reduce the differences between them and us. Shockingly enough, all that bad, shameful economy (can you remember of some "concious" person telling you not to buy Nike shoes because they were made in Chinese sweatshops?) did great good to them, in the middle to long term.
In other words, let us exploit you, it's for your own good:-)
Too bad they don't have a US Gov Image Google search as well, would have loved to see what "porn" would have returned. However a text search on "porn" returns almost only stuff about "child porn".
Well, if you know anything about windows driver programming, why don't you click the link on my sig and help me and my project with what's left to do? Otherwise look at the sourceforge.net "jobs" thing (although it's unpaid).
But huh, as all the others said, you need to get a life, and if you really suck at hookin up with girls in a club or something, find yourself one on Myspace or something (whatever people say about Myspace out here it's still the best thing on internet to meet girls), unless you're married (which I hope your not)
No, a PC will never hold enough power, period. There always will be something that will need all of its power and more, therefore ASM will always be used for some tasks that need to be highly optimized.
I didn't even RTFA, but from the summary I have an idea on how to implement this idea, it's fairly simple, although it's probably not as computationally efficient as what they came up with, no need to be a great engineer, if you have studied digital signal processing for a few monthes it will be enough.
So you take that audio clip, and you simply cross-correlate (reverse in the time-domain and convolve) it with your audio data base. The highest peak in your results denote a correlation between the audio clip and a show. The only problem being if the audio clip recorded some blank part in the show. However with this technique even if there's quite some noise in the audio clip or even someone talking over it it's all good.
You know that all that information about bookmarks and favourites will be of use to marketers.
From TFFAQ "That means that without the PIN, no one, not even Google, will be able to read your data"
In other words, no Google won't use your "bookmarks *and* favourites" (that's the same thing IIRC) for marketing since they won't be able to read them.
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I don't find it that sad, try to see the good side of it. I think it's pretty cool to have *one* *free* social site where everybody goes, because well, everybody's there, am I the only one out here to realize what's so cool about it?
If you need something little than runs linux, look into a Zaurus PDA.
Funny that you mention a Zaurus PDA because the GP2X runs Qtopia. Anyways, people don't get a GP2X because they never heard about it and they don't have the knowledge to put games on it or anything, however I had some n00bish girl asking me to play my GP2X all the time because she just loved Super Mario World, and you don't need a 3D acceleration to play Super Mario World
FTFA : "Hey! You got your nuts in my milk! Hey! You got your milk on my nuts! Mmmmm."
Am I the only one surprised that they didn't come up with : "Hey! I got milk in my nuts!" instead?
Since I'm a gamer and don't want to risk my cycles being used during gameplay, I use the screen saver version
Dude, you really need to learn about process priorities. F@H is by default set with a process priority of Idle, which means that it will use only the cycles unused by other processes (since other processes ALL have higher priorities, except a few other apps than run at Idle priority such as some ripping osftwares or other distrubuted computing programs).
In other words, when you play, F@H won't take you a single slice that the game might use, period. It just doesn't affect gaming, and if you don't believe me, just try it out. You're losing time by setting only to screensaver, really.
These guys got it all! Now they just need to ban internet and computers, even if your use of it is fair, this way there will be no more piracy.
In other news, arresting 100 persons is still a good thing provided that one of them is guilty.
As soon as the technological solution for implementing a "content filter" is there, RIAA and friends will _require_ ISPs to use it for that purpose as well.
Reminds me of an episode of South Park, Cartoon Wars.
In it, Cartman explains that if an episode of Family Guy can be pulled for displaying Muhammad by muslims, then other groups of people such as christians and the disabled will be able to get other episodes pulled, and in the end Family Guy will get difinitely off the air.
Using this as an analogy to our problem, if the ISP's start filtering content for child porn, then they could also filter content for pirated music, crack sites, porn passwords IRC channels, etc... until there's no interesting use left to internet.
Disclaimer : this is just a possible analogy, but by no means necessarily a valid analogy.
To be fair, fascist just mean some one who believes in a strong powerful government over everything else.
I think that in this phrase you miss the facist concept of the nation more important than the person, it's not quite just "believing in a strong governement" but rather not being a person anymore/being a small part of your nation instead. We "made it a dirty word" because it's a "dirty" and dangerous ideology.
Time to celebrate it by playing it on my GP2X!
They reported the case of a 15-year-old girl who was using her phone in a park when she was hit during a storm [...] "This rare phenomenon is a public health issue, and education is necessary to highlight the risk of using mobile phones outdoors during stormy weather to prevent future fatal consequences from lighting strike injuries,"
In other news, some dude has been hit by a lightning while having a boner. Education is necessary to highlight the fact that an erect penis will increase your odds of being struck by a lightning... </trolling>.
More seriously, "The doctors added that three fatal cases of lightning striking people while using mobile phones have been reported in newspapers in China, South Korea and Malaysia.", so, there is a correlation between the increase in the number of people being struck by a lightning while using a cellphone and the increase of the use of cellphones while outside, but,, if you multiply the ratio of people using a cell phone while outside by the number of people being struck by a lightning, you will obtain the number of people who should get struck by a lightning while using a cell phone. Does the actual number differs significantly from the calculated number?
Anyways, they're talking about it happening while using a cell phone, but doesn't their explanation also work for when your cell phone is in your pocket? When I saw the title of this article, I assumed it would talk about how emitting radio waves increases your odds of getting struck, but no, it's all about holding little piece of metal in your hand.
Nothing to see here, move along
They experimented with piercings and lightnings on an episode of MythBusters. IIRC they only noticed a statistical difference once one head was fullfilled with piercings basically.
that's why it's been modded all the way to +5, Funny
And why dont we just print more money to solve poverty?
Right, let's not build more universities in China. Actually, let's destroy most universities in other countries so we get to the same point as chinese students. Things are very fine this way in China, let's not change anything [/sarcasm]
We are not even a fraction of a blink of an eye to the Earth.
What do you do with us causing the 6th massive extinction? A blink of an eye? More like a bullet to the head.
Thanks alot! Now that I went through the two last links and some of your comments, I'm definitely disgusted of laser eye surgery (a flap? peeling off your eye? protective contacts? ewww wtf), and won't consider it again before they invent some stuff that does it without cutting or peeling off anything in your eye, damnit! Don't mean to sound like a cunt but that's disgusting, not even talking about the actual risks
Meanwhile I'll stick to glasses and contacts, even if it's annoying sometimes.
Is it only me that gets frustrated when my calls are piped over to India?
Don't worry, soon, both your calls and Indians' calls will be piped over to some english speaking african country. And if you can't stand african accents, don't worry, later on when outsourcing will be over due to the lack of interesting countries to outsource to, your calls will be pipped to good ole Alabama
There are places where 60 cents an hour is a decent wage, otherwise those jobs wouldn't be filled.
Indeed, people need to remember this, after all, even if it's nicer to work in a factory in France than in China, if you look for equivalences, it's quite the same thing, well, it's an equivalent thing. Nobody forces people to work in factories in China, nobody forces people to work in factories in France, and even if in both they don't like this job, they're glad they have it.
What is going to happen when we run out of poor economies to abuse and also what happens when we have to compete with these new and motivated economies directly?
Although things went fast lately for some countries, you can count decades before we run out of poor countries to abuse. Remember, there's 2 billion people out here who don't have access to electricity. As rich as we can be, it'll take some time before we fulfill these people's countries with money.
not all exploitation leads to better living conditions in the future
Yup, perfectly true, but the way we hear it here in our northern countries, exploitation is systematically bad, I felt glad that I found a pertinent POV showing just the opposite.
And to conclude on the rest of what you said, I guess we can say that although that kind of exploitation isn't necessarily the nicest way out of misery for these countries, it's certainely the fastest and most efficient.
See how it's been, within monthes, everybody started outsourcing to Poland, then Poland got too rich to be interesting anymore, then same now for India and China. The way things are going for these three countries, I'm surprised such countries as Mexico didn't yet get any richer. Oh well, maybe the rest of the poor countries of the world are on the list.
Am I the only one who sees this as utterly fascinating?
The fascinating part about this is how by exploiting these people (Indians and Chinese, but also Poles or even to take older examples the Irish) we make them rich and reduce the differences between them and us. Shockingly enough, all that bad, shameful economy (can you remember of some "concious" person telling you not to buy Nike shoes because they were made in Chinese sweatshops?) did great good to them, in the middle to long term.
In other words, let us exploit you, it's for your own good :-)
Also, since Neptune's mass is less than Jupiter's and it is further from the main asteroid belt, it might not have as many to begin with.
Yeah, but it still has the Kuiper asteroid belt. That's maybe not as important as the one belt between Jupiter and Mars, but it's still something.
Too bad they don't have a US Gov Image Google search as well, would have loved to see what "porn" would have returned. However a text search on "porn" returns almost only stuff about "child porn".
It also teaches you about interesting things, such as Dial-a-Porn, that porn will damage you and your whole family, that PORN can be a bad disease, that Porn can be a last name, or even that P2P actually means Porn-to-Porn (notice the name of the poster btw)
Google taught me new things again today!
Well, if you know anything about windows driver programming, why don't you click the link on my sig and help me and my project with what's left to do? Otherwise look at the sourceforge.net "jobs" thing (although it's unpaid).
But huh, as all the others said, you need to get a life, and if you really suck at hookin up with girls in a club or something, find yourself one on Myspace or something (whatever people say about Myspace out here it's still the best thing on internet to meet girls), unless you're married (which I hope your not)
An average PC nowadays holds enough power
No, a PC will never hold enough power, period. There always will be something that will need all of its power and more, therefore ASM will always be used for some tasks that need to be highly optimized.
I didn't even RTFA, but from the summary I have an idea on how to implement this idea, it's fairly simple, although it's probably not as computationally efficient as what they came up with, no need to be a great engineer, if you have studied digital signal processing for a few monthes it will be enough.
So you take that audio clip, and you simply cross-correlate (reverse in the time-domain and convolve) it with your audio data base. The highest peak in your results denote a correlation between the audio clip and a show. The only problem being if the audio clip recorded some blank part in the show. However with this technique even if there's quite some noise in the audio clip or even someone talking over it it's all good.
You know that all that information about bookmarks and favourites will be of use to marketers.
From TFFAQ "That means that without the PIN, no one, not even Google, will be able to read your data"
In other words, no Google won't use your "bookmarks *and* favourites" (that's the same thing IIRC) for marketing since they won't be able to read them.