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i stopped playing cs because one day my 5 year old sister was behind me, without me knowing it, then i heard her say something to the effect of 'shoot him! kill him!' or something equally as disturbing.
I played a couple of years of lacrosse (at age 12 & 13), a brutal game if ever there was one. The first year I truly stunk, but the second year I stayed in the same age group and became a good player.
Anyway, while down at the lacrosse box practicing against the outside walls, I heard a parent watching the game. They (I don't even recall gender, sorry) were saying "HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!!" non-stop. I walked over to where they were and started mimicking the parent's words. The parent's response was to get *really* mad at me.
I never forgot that moment and changed myself a little as a result of it. I wonder how many reading this thread will wake up a little today.
Realistically you do idle a lot. Red lights, idiot drivers, and traffic, and you're spending a lot of time idling.
This is the part of driving I hate the most. One idiot who doesn't know how to inch out into the intersection to turn left, and everybody behind suffers. Too many people use the road, and everyone suffers. User pay system indeed.
So this is yet another good point for a hybrid. When you are stopped, your transportation costs are zero, you have tunes, you are secure, life is good. We (those of us with families anyway) have precious few moments in our day when we can truly relax and hybrids give us more "us" time, without a downside. I'm all for that.
First of all, when you bike somewhere you also exercise. Is this not worth something to you, or do you plan to die before your time?
As to length of time, this is not a linear thing. If your distance is say 2 blocks or less then the fastest way is probably to walk. 3 to 10 blocks, then a bike ties with a car. Beyond a mile, the car wins. So a simple bit of analysis leads to the logical need for all 3 forms of transportation.
For me the ideal cycling distance is.LE. 5 miles. If I work closer than that I am a happy biker. If not, I probably drive (I've got the knees of a 70-year-old). Those 5 miles, at my glacial cycling pace, take under half an hour -- one hour total for the day. If I drove it would probably take 10 minutes each way, heading toward 15 -- so let's say 25 minutes driving per day. Total time difference is 35 minutes. Call that half an hour. So you are whining about losing time, when (in my example) only a half hour is "lost"...to exercise no less.
I'm just curious, do you drive to the gym for an hour long workout? I just don't get the attitude. Of course, I grew up in a cycling family -- my dad rode to work (and to Saturday shopping, and across the country in his 60s) for as long as I can remember.
I see one big reason why we won't have commercial supported internet television. Bandwidth. Broadcast television works because it scales well. Once a provider has secured the rights and paid for the infrastructure to broadcast a signal, the costs for additional customers are often not significant. On the other hand, for internet television each new customer required a fixed amount of bandwidth...
...which is also not significant. Look, bandwidth costs tend toward zero over time. My cable access today costs what my modem access did a few years back. And soon my fiber access will cost what my cable access does now.
The internet beats broadcast for selectability. When the local basketball team's game pre-empts my favorite NBC show, the broadcast sucks in my books. Also, the country is not homogenous -- people in rural America like to watch different things than those in NYC & LA. etc. This all works against broadcast working in the long term -- it is not selective enough. And note that not only do viewers want the right content, advertisers do as well.
The 3-letter TV channels broadcasting shows is a win in my books. I don't want quality, I just want to catch the show I missed. And FWIW the quality is high, bordering on amazingly high. The only problem I have had (with ABC streams of late) is disruption of stream -- I assume this is from everyone jumping on the 'net when they get home. So we have just made a note to watch our missed shows when the 'net pipe is empty.
Doesn't anyone on/. watch sports? This is something not suited to buying on DVD, or downloading. Yes, the lower (free) channels cover some of the sports, but ESPN 1 & 2 have to be bought. Am I not only the last 49-year-old slashdot virgin, but also the only one with a sports habit? Ok, strike that first question.
Intellectual "property"...is intended to enforce capture of...good things that happen to other people because of your work.
In other words, if other people improve because of your work, they had better pay for it (thus lowering themselves right back down due to financial outlay). Talk about being against the common good, this belongs in Webster's as the example of how to use the phrase.
It clearly states that Microsoft's actions are unsound and likely to result in harm to the software industry on page 3.
When I clicked "Print" to get the 3 pages on one, sans ads, I got a printable version of page 1 only resulting in a more pro-MS version that many (like myself) might have read, then stopped reading...
"PhysOrg" means Physics, right? Well then, show me the numbers. And probably a graph or two. FFS, since when does "highly contradictory" pass for information?
Were the differences well within the error bars? I'm going with the latter until someone pastes a link with meat on its bones.
My feebal attempt to come up with a better way is...
Offer the first 10 minutes of a movie for download at a reduced price, say $1. Note that this is the first 10 minutes, not the only good 30 seconds.
User downloads and hates it (i.e..GE. 90% of the time) and moves on. The other 10% or less of the time they may go on to buy/rent/borrow it.
Would beat watching trailers as a way to pre-judge a movie. Of course, then the studios would make the first 10 minutes of a movie into a ginormous trailer. [BTW, why do Columbo DVDs ship with the spoiler preview thingies in front of the shows that had them? That was so 80s, or 70s...]
(1) Install Vista from someone else's DVD
(2) Make a VM image from this
(3) Forget about ever having to activate it
(4) Profit from a free Vista installation
(2) if they want to sell adwords, they can disappear sites who don't buy adwords. My site, for example, is the largest repository of baby names on the 'net, but when you type in "baby names" you won't find it. I put it down to my not buying adwords, where plenty of other baby name sites do (they typically have 300 to 500 times less names, yet rank higher).
No wonder the GH process is shrouded in secrecy...
I believe the current relative popularity of "boxen" is related to Brian Regan's routine. All of his stuff (just 1 CD and 1 DVD as far as I can tell) is highly recommended.
We've got 3 kids [boys from 9 to 13] and none have coming running home saying, "Billy says we just hafta hafta hafta go see Meet The Robinsons!" And if the kids aren't doing it, the adults sure as heck aren't going to.
Disney is so off-mark these days, it is pathetic. Good luck, guys, but I'm betting on your competition.
Sounds to me like Google is fishing the global talent pool for the one-in-a-millions who can help them with their algorithms. This makes sense from Google's point of view in that search/storage algorithms are all that separate them from MSN. Or Altavista.
Personally, I don't care for their spammish approach and would not try very hard in any such interviews. Putting a lot of energy into one of them would be like staring really really intently at the lotto numbers you just picked.
Why do tech companies suck so badly at interviewing?
Businesses could have a charging machine. Pop in a quarter and get 15minutes of juice. I love the idea of saving the weight of a battery, the cost of a battery, the replacement cost of a memory-effect shortened lifespan battery and dispensing with the battery brick to boot. It would also reduce the volume needed to house a laptop, making it smaller. And it would run cooler.
Other than laptop vendors not liking the increased reliability, are there any real obstacles to this?
Windows ME shipped with indexing turned on. This one useless change produced a dog slow machine, right around the time Windows 2000 was what they wanted you to move to.
It happened before. It could happen again. The reason is simple: it will cause people to want a faster computer. No, not/.ers. Average every day people. MS is more than happy with this share of the market.
I am going to go out on a limb and theorize that this "bug" is a deliberate act. It reminds me of IBM in the mainframe/terminal days, where they added delays to ensure that response time was always 2 seconds. And for average users it is good to have average response times -- if you give them a fast one for some things and a slow one for others, they will notice and whine.
In this case I think something much more potentially sinister is at work. Vista has introduced a "copy lag" that can later on (once we have all accepted the lag) be used to scan files for 1) malware, 2) DRM reasons, 3) do other things we don't want Vista to do.
Saying that I wouldn't put it past them is an understatement.
Nope. DOS 5 was the Win2000 of DOSes -- the biggest gain was DOS putting part of itself in the high memory area, by default, and other memory mgmt skills. DOS 6 added Central Point's anti-virus (thus making both MSAV and CPAV useless as everyone now targeted both) -- most didn't want/use this and stuck with DOS 5. DOS 6.21 added some microscopic changes that I can not recall at the moment...wiki says they were bug fixes.
the parallelisability (if that's a word) of each compression algorithm?
And perhaps just as important, the non-parallelisability of each program. On Intel HT cpus it is nice when a program runs in just one core. Then, even if at 100% of that core, my machine runs cooler and quieter. Yes, it might be slightly (but probably not 100%) faster if it used two cores -- but it will definitely be twice as hot and use twice as much electricity.
WinME was a refresh that didn't sell the birthright of Win2000/XP/the future. Microsoft never intended it to be more than that, and they achieved their goal. If we had Win98SE, we didn't need ME. If someone got ME on a new machine, it was no big deal. Trashing the snot out of ME is like picking on a 98 pound weakling because they don't have the muscles of The Terminator. ME was not and never could be as robust as W2K/XP/*ugh*Vista*ugh*. I never expected it to be...did you?
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I recall something similar when I got a C64. I created a BitBLT and watched it move across the screen. Tooks hours to do it. Man that machine sucked.
Chase the cave woman around the cave.
i stopped playing cs because one day my 5 year old sister was behind me, without me knowing it, then i heard her say something to the effect of 'shoot him! kill him!' or something equally as disturbing.
I played a couple of years of lacrosse (at age 12 & 13), a brutal game if ever there was one. The first year I truly stunk, but the second year I stayed in the same age group and became a good player.
Anyway, while down at the lacrosse box practicing against the outside walls, I heard a parent watching the game. They (I don't even recall gender, sorry) were saying "HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!!" non-stop. I walked over to where they were and started mimicking the parent's words. The parent's response was to get *really* mad at me.
I never forgot that moment and changed myself a little as a result of it. I wonder how many reading this thread will wake up a little today.
Think of the children.
Gardening is definitely exercise. My wife and I moved compost onto the garden, etc. this weekend and it wiped us out.
Take care.
Realistically you do idle a lot. Red lights, idiot drivers, and traffic, and you're spending a lot of time idling.
This is the part of driving I hate the most. One idiot who doesn't know how to inch out into the intersection to turn left, and everybody behind suffers. Too many people use the road, and everyone suffers. User pay system indeed.
So this is yet another good point for a hybrid. When you are stopped, your transportation costs are zero, you have tunes, you are secure, life is good. We (those of us with families anyway) have precious few moments in our day when we can truly relax and hybrids give us more "us" time, without a downside. I'm all for that.
First of all, when you bike somewhere you also exercise. Is this not worth something to you, or do you plan to die before your time?
.LE. 5 miles. If I work closer than that I am a happy biker. If not, I probably drive (I've got the knees of a 70-year-old). Those 5 miles, at my glacial cycling pace, take under half an hour -- one hour total for the day. If I drove it would probably take 10 minutes each way, heading toward 15 -- so let's say 25 minutes driving per day. Total time difference is 35 minutes. Call that half an hour. So you are whining about losing time, when (in my example) only a half hour is "lost"...to exercise no less.
As to length of time, this is not a linear thing. If your distance is say 2 blocks or less then the fastest way is probably to walk. 3 to 10 blocks, then a bike ties with a car. Beyond a mile, the car wins. So a simple bit of analysis leads to the logical need for all 3 forms of transportation.
For me the ideal cycling distance is
I'm just curious, do you drive to the gym for an hour long workout? I just don't get the attitude. Of course, I grew up in a cycling family -- my dad rode to work (and to Saturday shopping, and across the country in his 60s) for as long as I can remember.
I see one big reason why we won't have commercial supported internet television. Bandwidth. Broadcast television works because it scales well. Once a provider has secured the rights and paid for the infrastructure to broadcast a signal, the costs for additional customers are often not significant. On the other hand, for internet television each new customer required a fixed amount of bandwidth...
...which is also not significant. Look, bandwidth costs tend toward zero over time. My cable access today costs what my modem access did a few years back. And soon my fiber access will cost what my cable access does now.
The internet beats broadcast for selectability. When the local basketball team's game pre-empts my favorite NBC show, the broadcast sucks in my books. Also, the country is not homogenous -- people in rural America like to watch different things than those in NYC & LA. etc. This all works against broadcast working in the long term -- it is not selective enough. And note that not only do viewers want the right content, advertisers do as well.
The 3-letter TV channels broadcasting shows is a win in my books. I don't want quality, I just want to catch the show I missed. And FWIW the quality is high, bordering on amazingly high. The only problem I have had (with ABC streams of late) is disruption of stream -- I assume this is from everyone jumping on the 'net when they get home. So we have just made a note to watch our missed shows when the 'net pipe is empty.
Doesn't anyone on /. watch sports? This is something not suited to buying on DVD, or downloading. Yes, the lower (free) channels cover some of the sports, but ESPN 1 & 2 have to be bought. Am I not only the last 49-year-old slashdot virgin, but also the only one with a sports habit? Ok, strike that first question.
Intellectual "property" ...is intended to enforce capture of...good things that happen to other people because of your work.
In other words, if other people improve because of your work, they had better pay for it (thus lowering themselves right back down due to financial outlay). Talk about being against the common good, this belongs in Webster's as the example of how to use the phrase.
It clearly states that Microsoft's actions are unsound and likely to result in harm to the software industry on page 3.
When I clicked "Print" to get the 3 pages on one, sans ads, I got a printable version of page 1 only resulting in a more pro-MS version that many (like myself) might have read, then stopped reading...
"PhysOrg" means Physics, right? Well then, show me the numbers. And probably a graph or two. FFS, since when does "highly contradictory" pass for information?
Were the differences well within the error bars? I'm going with the latter until someone pastes a link with meat on its bones.
My feebal attempt to come up with a better way is...
.GE. 90% of the time) and moves on. The other 10% or less of the time they may go on to buy/rent/borrow it.
Offer the first 10 minutes of a movie for download at a reduced price, say $1. Note that this is the first 10 minutes, not the only good 30 seconds.
User downloads and hates it (i.e.
Would beat watching trailers as a way to pre-judge a movie. Of course, then the studios would make the first 10 minutes of a movie into a ginormous trailer. [BTW, why do Columbo DVDs ship with the spoiler preview thingies in front of the shows that had them? That was so 80s, or 70s...]
Jeff Gordon, is that you?
(1) Install Vista from someone else's DVD
(2) Make a VM image from this
(3) Forget about ever having to activate it
(4) Profit from a free Vista installation
(1) it shrinks their spider's workload
(2) if they want to sell adwords, they can disappear sites who don't buy adwords. My site, for example, is the largest repository of baby names on the 'net, but when you type in "baby names" you won't find it. I put it down to my not buying adwords, where plenty of other baby name sites do (they typically have 300 to 500 times less names, yet rank higher).
No wonder the GH process is shrouded in secrecy...
I believe the current relative popularity of "boxen" is related to Brian Regan's routine. All of his stuff (just 1 CD and 1 DVD as far as I can tell) is highly recommended.
We've got 3 kids [boys from 9 to 13] and none have coming running home saying, "Billy says we just hafta hafta hafta go see Meet The Robinsons!" And if the kids aren't doing it, the adults sure as heck aren't going to.
Disney is so off-mark these days, it is pathetic. Good luck, guys, but I'm betting on your competition.
Sounds to me like Google is fishing the global talent pool for the one-in-a-millions who can help them with their algorithms. This makes sense from Google's point of view in that search/storage algorithms are all that separate them from MSN. Or Altavista.
Personally, I don't care for their spammish approach and would not try very hard in any such interviews. Putting a lot of energy into one of them would be like staring really really intently at the lotto numbers you just picked.
Why do tech companies suck so badly at interviewing?
Businesses could have a charging machine. Pop in a quarter and get 15minutes of juice. I love the idea of saving the weight of a battery, the cost of a battery, the replacement cost of a memory-effect shortened lifespan battery and dispensing with the battery brick to boot. It would also reduce the volume needed to house a laptop, making it smaller. And it would run cooler.
Other than laptop vendors not liking the increased reliability, are there any real obstacles to this?
(1) Create a crap OS.
(2) Force people to buy it (3) People can't stand it and buy a second OS (4) Crow about sales being up
Windows ME shipped with indexing turned on. This one useless change produced a dog slow machine, right around the time Windows 2000 was what they wanted you to move to.
/.ers. Average every day people. MS is more than happy with this share of the market.
It happened before. It could happen again. The reason is simple: it will cause people to want a faster computer. No, not
the stupidly slow file copy problem
I am going to go out on a limb and theorize that this "bug" is a deliberate act. It reminds me of IBM in the mainframe/terminal days, where they added delays to ensure that response time was always 2 seconds. And for average users it is good to have average response times -- if you give them a fast one for some things and a slow one for others, they will notice and whine.
In this case I think something much more potentially sinister is at work. Vista has introduced a "copy lag" that can later on (once we have all accepted the lag) be used to scan files for 1) malware, 2) DRM reasons, 3) do other things we don't want Vista to do.
Saying that I wouldn't put it past them is an understatement.
Nope. DOS 5 was the Win2000 of DOSes -- the biggest gain was DOS putting part of itself in the high memory area, by default, and other memory mgmt skills. DOS 6 added Central Point's anti-virus (thus making both MSAV and CPAV useless as everyone now targeted both) -- most didn't want/use this and stuck with DOS 5. DOS 6.21 added some microscopic changes that I can not recall at the moment...wiki says they were bug fixes.
the parallelisability (if that's a word) of each compression algorithm?
And perhaps just as important, the non-parallelisability of each program. On Intel HT cpus it is nice when a program runs in just one core. Then, even if at 100% of that core, my machine runs cooler and quieter. Yes, it might be slightly (but probably not 100%) faster if it used two cores -- but it will definitely be twice as hot and use twice as much electricity.
WinME was a refresh that didn't sell the birthright of Win2000/XP/the future. Microsoft never intended it to be more than that, and they achieved their goal. If we had Win98SE, we didn't need ME. If someone got ME on a new machine, it was no big deal. Trashing the snot out of ME is like picking on a 98 pound weakling because they don't have the muscles of The Terminator. ME was not and never could be as robust as W2K/XP/*ugh*Vista*ugh*. I never expected it to be...did you?