You can use clean energy to produce the ethanol...
You've got a great point - one of the fundamental problems we face is in battery technology, of storing and transporting energy with a decoupling between generation and consumption. Ethanol could be a fantastic battery of sorts, in the same way that hydrogen is, but compatible with current vehicles.
Of course practically most farmers are using copious amounts of oil-products to generate ethanol, but perhaps with a modernization and greening of farms, this storage technology could become more sustainable.
A blog about how bloggers can get rich, gets him get rich from blogging.
I see two possibilities here, both of them pretty pathetic:
He lied. Obviously, given that his "business" is pimping professional blogging, he wants to make it seem like the thing to do. We should all be pro-blogging, and we can all be millionaires!
He actually is making that much money, which just shows how screwed up society is - the guy talking about making money blogging is the one making the money. It's like those people who do the conventions and infomercials about how to make big bucks, making big bucks off idiots who have no hope in hell of making big bucks.
On a whim I put adsense on a site, one which receives probably 200 quality visitors a day, and let's just say that a year later I haven't hit the minimum to receive a cheque. This is the more realistic world among many who have experimented with Adsense, but just like the stock boom of the.COM days every idiot is going to go quit their job and try to become a pro-blogger.
but it has DVI-HDCP which has some incompatibilities with HDMI-HDCP
Where'd you read that? It is my understanding the DVI-D and HDMI are "transports" (really wire standards, with HDMI making it a single connector instead of an additional audio connector), and HDCP is the protocol. It is my understanding that the protocol works the same regardless of transport (e.g. at either end the data looks exactly the same).
This isn't like one of those setup Pepsi challenges where they would shake up a bottle of Coke...
Good bit of conspiracy theory there, however Pepsi wins taste tests quite soundly - for many people the sweet flatness of Pepsi is more enjoyable than Coke for a single taste. These same people might find Pepsi vile and disgusting after drinking a whole can, or on a hot day multiple cans, but in the taste test they'd often flag Pepsi as being the superior product under unrealistic conditions.
People have been floating around these sorts of schemes for decades. Seriously. Do you really think this was the first genius to think of something like this?
In any case, there are plenty of American developers in middle America making less than $22K, just like there was during the.COM boom.
I never said it wasn't fun for other people....I'm sure there's people who like...That doesn't mean it's not crap.
I understand entirely what you're saying, and the egotism and selfishness in the statement is extraordinary. The point, which you so amazingly missed, is that the gameplay is great for other people. Your definition of "good gameplay" doesn't mean shit to the guy who likes a different kind of game.
Have to agree here. So much of PC gaming seems to be a wankfest between the 3D engine designers to see who can make the coolest effects, and gameplay is treated like afterbirth.
Have you ever thought that perhaps that just isn't your genre? There are a lot of people who get tremendous entertainment out of the latest 3D shootfest (Battlefield 2 is tremendous, Half-Life 2 was superlative, and Doom 3 was pretty good overall). Just because you don't find it fun doesn't mean it isn't fun for other people.
When is the last time any/.er actually built a system with a floppy drive?
I had to pull the floppy drive out of retirement and install it a couple of weeks ago to install a flash upgrade on the BIOS. Not sure if it supports reading the BIOS from CD.
For example, my Athlon 64 3000+ is not quite powerful enough to decode 1080p HD content in real time.
Decoding video is a largely integer task. In fact, outside of a couple of iterative floating point benchmarks, there are very few tasks that aren't seriously impacted by a subpar integer unit.
If general purpose CPUs had better floating point performance, we wouldn't need special purpose GPUs for 3D rendering.
If GPUs had better and more general purpose, integer units, we wouldn't need a general purpose CPU for running Office! Pretty vague and empty statement.
What, seriously, is so wrong with 'dupes'? Not everybody reads/. 24 hrs/day
Often I only get a chance to visit Slashdot once or twice a day, yet lately I've identified virtually every dupe. It's not like there are thousands of stories a day and the editors just can't keep on top it - there are only a dozen or so stories, and in this case the title instantly and obviously revealed that it was a dupe.
Of people with skin cancer, those with lots of sun exposer had better outcomes than those with less sun exposure
When I was a kid sunscreen wasn't the norm for kids, and I played outside, in the blaring sun, for probably 12 hours a day with no burns and likely no tan. Later in life, after I learned the wonders of the home computer, I found that an eventual excursion into the late spring sun after a long period of Atari ST "empire" playing led to a terrible burn, and most every of my teen years had a highlight tan when I got my first sun exposure.
The point is that I lost my "immunity" because my exposure was much more sporatic. I'm certainly not speaking from a medical point of view, but it does seem odd that man lived outside throughout our evolution, yet we supposedly haven't adapted to the sun? It sounds more likely that our changed behaviour, namely hiding ourselves from the sun, led to a sort of hyper-sensitivity to the sun (probably as our skin adapts and tries to eak every bit of benefit out of minimal sun, and then it's massively shocked when we go to the park for a couple of hours).
It would be better to.....do every power conservation technique you can reasonably achieve with a marginal impact on quality of life. All of my bulbs not on dimmers are compact flourescent, and nonethless we turn them off when we're elsewhere. I don't run SETI@Home because I don't see those cycles as free, and secondly because I hibernate my PC when I'm not using it.
I'm especially sensitive to these things in the summer because it's 31C outside, and my AC is fighting to keep the temperature down, so every electric device is exascerbating the heat problem and making it that much more of a battle.
As others have stated aboive running your system at 100% will increase heat etc... computers are like anthing else, run it hard enough and you will shorten the life span.
I overclocked my Celeron 300a several years back to 450Mhz, requiring me to boost the voltage/power consumption, and thus heat. The common understanding was that the increased running heat increased silicon decay, but it does so at a rate that is irrelevant - e.g. that chip has long been sitting in my garage in a "gotta get rid of this" pile, so whether it would die in 5 more years rather than 10 is somewhat irrelevant.
"wasted compute cycles" aren't free. I would assert they're not even "wasted".
No doubt in the era of idle loops and HLT instructions unused processor capacity does yield benefits. However from the perspective of a large organization (such as a large corporation, or a large university), it is waste if they have thousands of very powerful CPUs distributed throughout their organization, yet they have to spend millions on mainframes to perform computational work.
All you'll do is spoil your memory of these games. The reality is that there was nothing extraordinary about these games, however you played them during a particularly period of your life where they solidified as "the best ever" in your memories (just like you probably remember how great everything else was - music, society, culture, whatever). Very typical.
The poor should not be watching television anyways.
Many of the poor (who should be called "working class" rather than "lower class") work very hard, and the reality is that our system guarantees uneven distribution of wealth (in some ways it's a 0-sum game -- if you are quality-of-life wealthy, there needs to be minimum wage paid factory workers and burger flippers to support your lifestyle).
the state of delusion that he has somehow earned the entertainment without the slightest reason
If you're living in an affluent area, and enjoying a comfortable life, be very happy that many of the poor are distracted by cheap entertainment. If they weren't a lot more of them wouldn't be accepting their lot in life.
ASP.NET (in.net 1.1) already doesn't work without javascript more or less.
ASP.NET can downgrade to both scriptless and cookieless operations, which was one of the major selling points of it. In fact out of the box it presumes too little out of most clients, though thankfully you can update the browsercaps quite easily.
If these were needed by anybody they would have been implemented in mysql, which as everybody knows is a much better database than sql server.
Sure, everybody that is a dumbass.
In any case, you do have a pertinent point: Spatial storage is an edge requirement for a very small subset of users. That fact that it's not in SQL Server means nothing for the overwhelming majority of RDBMS users.
Err, the Mac is a different platform, so if it works on IE on both a Windows PC and a Mac, then it's cross platform. He didn't say cross-browser.
Or for something to be cross-platform, must it work on every platform? If that's the case then the word has no value as there's nothing that works on every platform.
Has anyone actually tried parsing XML using javascript??
With msxml in IE it is remarkably quick (of course it is given that msxml is a binary component). Or are you talking about trying to build your own Javascript XML interpreter?
They've had the ability to "innovate" and make their browser into a "rich client" for years. Now that folks like google and amazon have figured how to make DHTML work, Microsoft is playing catch up
Funny.
About 5 years ago I was writing extremely rich web applications, using XMLHttpRequest to make client side side-band requests back to the web app, using XML data islands and client side XML document manipulations. Examples include a web timesheet, where the user could manipulate entries (adding new ones, changing them, and deleting them), upon which it would sideband the changes back via XMLHttpRequest, on success changing the client XML document by manipulating it via the DOM, retransforming it with the XML. I created power generation control systems that were entirely atomically updating values (no whole page refresh bullshit).
Of course all of this required Internet Explorer. None of the competitors had anything marginally similar.
AJAX, that extroardinarily lame acronym, isn't "new" kids, except that it only relatively recently became a feature that could be used more generally across many browsers. They finally caught up to Microsoft to some degree.
Oh, and before anyone accuses me of being a Microsoft astroturfer because they're delusional and like revising history, VS.NET 2005 will most likely turn into VS.NET 2006, given Microsoft's extraordinary, embarrassing inability to deliver in recent history.
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You can use clean energy to produce the ethanol...
You've got a great point - one of the fundamental problems we face is in battery technology, of storing and transporting energy with a decoupling between generation and consumption. Ethanol could be a fantastic battery of sorts, in the same way that hydrogen is, but compatible with current vehicles.
Of course practically most farmers are using copious amounts of oil-products to generate ethanol, but perhaps with a modernization and greening of farms, this storage technology could become more sustainable.
- He lied. Obviously, given that his "business" is pimping professional blogging, he wants to make it seem like the thing to do. We should all be pro-blogging, and we can all be millionaires!
- He actually is making that much money, which just shows how screwed up society is - the guy talking about making money blogging is the one making the money. It's like those people who do the conventions and infomercials about how to make big bucks, making big bucks off idiots who have no hope in hell of making big bucks.
On a whim I put adsense on a site, one which receives probably 200 quality visitors a day, and let's just say that a year later I haven't hit the minimum to receive a cheque. This is the more realistic world among many who have experimented with Adsense, but just like the stock boom of thebut it has DVI-HDCP which has some incompatibilities with HDMI-HDCP
Where'd you read that? It is my understanding the DVI-D and HDMI are "transports" (really wire standards, with HDMI making it a single connector instead of an additional audio connector), and HDCP is the protocol. It is my understanding that the protocol works the same regardless of transport (e.g. at either end the data looks exactly the same).
This isn't like one of those setup Pepsi challenges where they would shake up a bottle of Coke...
Good bit of conspiracy theory there, however Pepsi wins taste tests quite soundly - for many people the sweet flatness of Pepsi is more enjoyable than Coke for a single taste. These same people might find Pepsi vile and disgusting after drinking a whole can, or on a hot day multiple cans, but in the taste test they'd often flag Pepsi as being the superior product under unrealistic conditions.
People have been floating around these sorts of schemes for decades. Seriously. Do you really think this was the first genius to think of something like this?
.COM boom.
In any case, there are plenty of American developers in middle America making less than $22K, just like there was during the
Since all of our jobs are being outsourced to other countries...
Dude, outsourcing jokes are so 2003. Seriously.
I never said it wasn't fun for other people....I'm sure there's people who like...That doesn't mean it's not crap.
I understand entirely what you're saying, and the egotism and selfishness in the statement is extraordinary. The point, which you so amazingly missed, is that the gameplay is great for other people. Your definition of "good gameplay" doesn't mean shit to the guy who likes a different kind of game.
Have to agree here. So much of PC gaming seems to be a wankfest between the 3D engine designers to see who can make the coolest effects, and gameplay is treated like afterbirth.
Have you ever thought that perhaps that just isn't your genre? There are a lot of people who get tremendous entertainment out of the latest 3D shootfest (Battlefield 2 is tremendous, Half-Life 2 was superlative, and Doom 3 was pretty good overall). Just because you don't find it fun doesn't mean it isn't fun for other people.
This is what passes for a story on slashdot these days?
What they really needed was a groovy acronym, and then they could pretend they invented it.
SUDS - Stylistic User Design Standards
Does your website use SUDS? SUDS is all the rage these days.
When is the last time any /.er actually built a system with a floppy drive?
I had to pull the floppy drive out of retirement and install it a couple of weeks ago to install a flash upgrade on the BIOS. Not sure if it supports reading the BIOS from CD.
For example, my Athlon 64 3000+ is not quite powerful enough to decode 1080p HD content in real time.
Decoding video is a largely integer task. In fact, outside of a couple of iterative floating point benchmarks, there are very few tasks that aren't seriously impacted by a subpar integer unit.
If general purpose CPUs had better floating point performance, we wouldn't need special purpose GPUs for 3D rendering.
If GPUs had better and more general purpose, integer units, we wouldn't need a general purpose CPU for running Office! Pretty vague and empty statement.
Once or twice a day? My Friend, you need to get out more often!
Well I am in the computer industry, and I do like to keep up on trends and developments. Scanning Slashdot headlines is usually fairly valuable.
What, seriously, is so wrong with 'dupes'? Not everybody reads /. 24 hrs/day
Often I only get a chance to visit Slashdot once or twice a day, yet lately I've identified virtually every dupe. It's not like there are thousands of stories a day and the editors just can't keep on top it - there are only a dozen or so stories, and in this case the title instantly and obviously revealed that it was a dupe.
Of people with skin cancer, those with lots of sun exposer had better outcomes than those with less sun exposure
When I was a kid sunscreen wasn't the norm for kids, and I played outside, in the blaring sun, for probably 12 hours a day with no burns and likely no tan. Later in life, after I learned the wonders of the home computer, I found that an eventual excursion into the late spring sun after a long period of Atari ST "empire" playing led to a terrible burn, and most every of my teen years had a highlight tan when I got my first sun exposure.
The point is that I lost my "immunity" because my exposure was much more sporatic. I'm certainly not speaking from a medical point of view, but it does seem odd that man lived outside throughout our evolution, yet we supposedly haven't adapted to the sun? It sounds more likely that our changed behaviour, namely hiding ourselves from the sun, led to a sort of hyper-sensitivity to the sun (probably as our skin adapts and tries to eak every bit of benefit out of minimal sun, and then it's massively shocked when we go to the park for a couple of hours).
It would be better to... ..do every power conservation technique you can reasonably achieve with a marginal impact on quality of life. All of my bulbs not on dimmers are compact flourescent, and nonethless we turn them off when we're elsewhere. I don't run SETI@Home because I don't see those cycles as free, and secondly because I hibernate my PC when I'm not using it.
I'm especially sensitive to these things in the summer because it's 31C outside, and my AC is fighting to keep the temperature down, so every electric device is exascerbating the heat problem and making it that much more of a battle.
As others have stated aboive running your system at 100% will increase heat etc... computers are like anthing else, run it hard enough and you will shorten the life span.
I overclocked my Celeron 300a several years back to 450Mhz, requiring me to boost the voltage/power consumption, and thus heat. The common understanding was that the increased running heat increased silicon decay, but it does so at a rate that is irrelevant - e.g. that chip has long been sitting in my garage in a "gotta get rid of this" pile, so whether it would die in 5 more years rather than 10 is somewhat irrelevant.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_core _athlon-19.html
60-100W difference between idle and full power consumption. That is not an insignificant amount of power.
"wasted compute cycles" aren't free. I would assert they're not even "wasted".
No doubt in the era of idle loops and HLT instructions unused processor capacity does yield benefits. However from the perspective of a large organization (such as a large corporation, or a large university), it is waste if they have thousands of very powerful CPUs distributed throughout their organization, yet they have to spend millions on mainframes to perform computational work.
I'd like to go back and play the old...
All you'll do is spoil your memory of these games. The reality is that there was nothing extraordinary about these games, however you played them during a particularly period of your life where they solidified as "the best ever" in your memories (just like you probably remember how great everything else was - music, society, culture, whatever). Very typical.
The poor should not be watching television anyways.
Many of the poor (who should be called "working class" rather than "lower class") work very hard, and the reality is that our system guarantees uneven distribution of wealth (in some ways it's a 0-sum game -- if you are quality-of-life wealthy, there needs to be minimum wage paid factory workers and burger flippers to support your lifestyle).
the state of delusion that he has somehow earned the entertainment without the slightest reason
If you're living in an affluent area, and enjoying a comfortable life, be very happy that many of the poor are distracted by cheap entertainment. If they weren't a lot more of them wouldn't be accepting their lot in life.
ASP.NET (in .net 1.1) already doesn't work without javascript more or less.
ASP.NET can downgrade to both scriptless and cookieless operations, which was one of the major selling points of it. In fact out of the box it presumes too little out of most clients, though thankfully you can update the browsercaps quite easily.
If these were needed by anybody they would have been implemented in mysql, which as everybody knows is a much better database than sql server.
Sure, everybody that is a dumbass.
In any case, you do have a pertinent point: Spatial storage is an edge requirement for a very small subset of users. That fact that it's not in SQL Server means nothing for the overwhelming majority of RDBMS users.
Err, the Mac is a different platform, so if it works on IE on both a Windows PC and a Mac, then it's cross platform. He didn't say cross-browser.
Or for something to be cross-platform, must it work on every platform? If that's the case then the word has no value as there's nothing that works on every platform.
Has anyone actually tried parsing XML using javascript??
With msxml in IE it is remarkably quick (of course it is given that msxml is a binary component). Or are you talking about trying to build your own Javascript XML interpreter?
They've had the ability to "innovate" and make their browser into a "rich client" for years. Now that folks like google and amazon have figured how to make DHTML work, Microsoft is playing catch up
Funny.
About 5 years ago I was writing extremely rich web applications, using XMLHttpRequest to make client side side-band requests back to the web app, using XML data islands and client side XML document manipulations. Examples include a web timesheet, where the user could manipulate entries (adding new ones, changing them, and deleting them), upon which it would sideband the changes back via XMLHttpRequest, on success changing the client XML document by manipulating it via the DOM, retransforming it with the XML. I created power generation control systems that were entirely atomically updating values (no whole page refresh bullshit).
Of course all of this required Internet Explorer. None of the competitors had anything marginally similar.
AJAX, that extroardinarily lame acronym, isn't "new" kids, except that it only relatively recently became a feature that could be used more generally across many browsers. They finally caught up to Microsoft to some degree.
Oh, and before anyone accuses me of being a Microsoft astroturfer because they're delusional and like revising history, VS.NET 2005 will most likely turn into VS.NET 2006, given Microsoft's extraordinary, embarrassing inability to deliver in recent history.