I haven't had the chance to try it yesterday. I could live with the occasional trip to the command line, all I need is a proper GUI for the everyday tasks like mounting and unmounting multiple images easily...hoping this will do the trick.
A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President hail this as a significant advance in the war against terror. It's more like: A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President were quoted to have said "we're all all now wearing our winter jackets".
> damage calculations for [...] the "Police Academy" movies. That had to be a harsh number... I can't remember anyone who saw this who didn't go out brain-damaged from those stupid movies...
My favorite part must be from the "device driver" section:
Just read kernel hacker's guide, implement a device driver (it could even be user space I think). Please compile it as a module, so that we won't need a kernel compile in every update. Then write:
echo cappuccino >/dev/coffee And you will have a hot cup of coffee in minutes! Remember to give the right permission to/dev/coffee, depending on whether you want only root making coffee or not. Have fun setting that one up.:)
I've been waiting for this release. I know that real men use the command line for each and everything including brewing their morning coffee, but I was really looking forward to the graphical user interface.:) Of course, thanks to Slashdot now the site (which has been dead slow all day) has now been blasted out of orbit...
Ah well, maybe the storm will be over till I'm home.
The gameboy might very well be one of the toughest gadgets to date. And while it may be too soon to compare an almost 20 year old device to one just release a little over a year ago...well...I must say the Wii-mote is one tough bugger.
There are lots of pictures online with wiimotes sticking out of TVs, having penetrated a window or otherwise inducing carnage on ones home. In all cases the Wii-mote was fully intact despite just having bulleted its' way through solid glass or worse.
Personal experiences include: 1) Friend of mine bumped the thing with full force head first into the ceiling playing Bowling. 2) Another incident had a friend smashing a light bulb doing an overhead strike in Wii Tennis.
After both incidents (and I swear to god) I could not detect even the tiniest microscratch to the surface of the controller. I have no idea what type of plastic the Wiimote is made of, but it will probably last ages.
from TFA:
It could ensure women with genetic defects do not pass the diseases on to their children. Probably should have read it properly first:P Nothing to see here, move along.:)
IANAB (biologist) but couldn't there be another application for this: Say a couple want to have a child but they know they will pass on a serious genetic defect. The article suggests that the baby will have DNA from all three parties and says appearance and "other characteristics" will be like the 'real' mother. But maybe it could also receive the "healthy" DNA strings from the donor egg thereby not passing on the genetic malfunction?
I don't know if this is even scientifically possible, so correct me if I'm wrong.
The patent in question has already been asserted against a number of small companies who know that licensing it is cheaper than litigating. I always find this an obvious sign that a company knows their patent is bunk. If they were sure their patent was valid they would go after the big players like Epic, id Software or EA, not the small ones that are intimidated easily but really just are statistical background noise when it comes to online games. If someone violates your patent then you go after the guy who does it big style...else you really just care about the quick money and not about holding up your claimed rights themselves.
Actually it will probably take a while of searching to find pay-per-GB plans these days. Also it's not a problem because here you really have a choice. There's plenty of (good and reliable) DSL providers to choose from, plus local cable services are on the uptake. It's easily possible to get a 10Mbit/1Mbit cable connection with an unlimited data limit for about 30 Euros (less than $50)...this includes a telephone line with nation-wide free calls as well.
So what I'm trying to say is: yes, you can choose a data-limited plan here in Germany if you wish so. But it's your decision and if you do then you'll actually pay a lot less...some people really do fare better with such a model.
Yes, you are completely right of course, I was thinking about conspiracy-style malice. I agree that giving "cop-anybody" rights to huge amounts of personal information is probably a bad idea.
However I still am more in fear of incompetence and negligence. Take for example all the recent data leaks that were uncovered within the British government. In addition our minister of justice here in Germany had two Laptops stolen from her apartment recently...of course none of which contained any classified or otherwise important data (riiiiiiight...). The level of incompetence she's continuously displaying regarding technical questions you can bet your ass and property that everything on those machines was unencrypted and she'd do hell to admit it.
Once incompetence has reached such a high level it's hard not to be afraid of all this excessive data mining.
Yeah, also make sure you do not touch your tinfoil hat without wearing leather gloves, else they'll be reading your fingerprints off it using their invisible mind rays.
If you've done nothing wrong,you have nothing to fear. Just so long as they don't redifine what's wrong, with retro-active effect. And as long as there is no mixup in any of their databases making you a suspect for something you never did. I'm more in fear of incompetence at the government level than I am about malice.
...to realistic simulation of bouncing female anatomy in computer games.
boobies! (. )(.)
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I disagree. Physics processing needs a lot of vector math, which your run-of-the-mill floating-point-based CPU is not very good at (even with SSE optimizations). So what you are saying is you prefer to let your 4th CPU core do some very specialized work that a card with about a quarter of the transistors of your CPU can do very efficiently at probably the same speed.
People were mocking 3D add-on cards in the beginning, today 3D acceleration is standard on all graphics cards sold including the lowest-end models. Now imagine nVidia adding the 120-something transistors to their ~700M transistors chips (or alternatively adding a dedicated physics chip on their reference PCBs), making physics processors more widespread. This could mean offloading work of a full CPU core (or second GPU in a SLI-system) to a efficient design dedicated for the task.
The only problem (as with 3D add-on cards back in the days) is that PPUs are not widespread at the moment, so you can't rely on users having one installed. However as back then, games that support dedicated PPUs can go all out in the physics department, same as GPU-supporting games could with astonishing graphics.
Yeah, does anyone really find his surprising with social networks like myspace, facebook and co on the rise? At that age I suppose they're looking for company, most likely company of the opposite sex. Perfectly normal behavior in my book.
Also not everyone you meet online classifies automatically as a "stranger". People you meet in a club or at a bar are actually far more of a stranger than someone you have talked to online for a while (and decided to meet) could ever be.
As long as you're doing the first meeting in public (like a bar) and not at a private place there's nothing really dangerous about it.
It's hard to provide evidence for something that's entirely subjective. You either believe the Windows architecture works alright or you think something else will take the cake. For a user it is easily possible to like more than one system. Not so for Microsoft though.
Now imagine Microsoft trashing their own architecture and embracing (and admitting defeat to) a *nix based system as their main platform. Even totally aside the fact that all apps would cease working (unless they program their own absolutely perfect "wine") I just can't see that coming. Microsoft believes in what they do. And even if they don't they would never admit otherwise...rather buy up the rest and destroy.
Contrary to what you're assuming I have actually used MS-DOS. What I was trying to say however was that back in the pre-Windows days Microsoft didn't nearly have the crushing power they have today. It's all been scaled up a lot since the 80s...plus it has become a lot more religious than back then.
Ever heard of Xenix? Nope, I had not till now. However this was a long time ago and they did not really have the market dominance they have today. So this time, with reasonably mass-compatible alternative operating systems, it might actually lead to them losing their market once and for all. It's all wishful thinking though since the day MS will start shipping a *nix Kernel as their next "Windows" will be the day either hell freezes over or Ballmer will stop acting like a 12 year old spoiled brat.
The day they're buying Ubuntu (and make a *nix based system part of their supported portfolio) would be the day that marks their end. Microsoft would be losing their most prized possession: their locked-in market.
The New York Times, in the meantime, has accused Google of a Microsoft fixation. It's more like Ballmer has a Google fixation. Microsoft really can't stand being second to anybody in any field...
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I haven't had the chance to try it yesterday. I could live with the occasional trip to the command line, all I need is a proper GUI for the everyday tasks like mounting and unmounting multiple images easily...hoping this will do the trick.
A press release from the White House recently stated that Hell hath frozen over. Spokesmen close to the President were quoted to have said "we're all all now wearing our winter jackets".
> damage calculations for [...] the "Police Academy" movies.
That had to be a harsh number...
I can't remember anyone who saw this who didn't go out brain-damaged from those stupid movies...
My favorite part must be from the "device driver" section: Just read kernel hacker's guide, implement a device driver (it could even be user space I think). Please compile it as a module, so that we won't need a kernel compile in every update. Then write:
echo cappuccino >
And you will have a hot cup of coffee in minutes! Remember to give the right permission to
This particular news item was probably submitted by a puppet of the *IAA...
I've been waiting for this release. I know that real men use the command line for each and everything including brewing their morning coffee, but I was really looking forward to the graphical user interface. :) Of course, thanks to Slashdot now the site (which has been dead slow all day) has now been blasted out of orbit...
Ah well, maybe the storm will be over till I'm home.
The gameboy might very well be one of the toughest gadgets to date. And while it may be too soon to compare an almost 20 year old device to one just release a little over a year ago...well...I must say the Wii-mote is one tough bugger.
There are lots of pictures online with wiimotes sticking out of TVs, having penetrated a window or otherwise inducing carnage on ones home. In all cases the Wii-mote was fully intact despite just having bulleted its' way through solid glass or worse.
Personal experiences include:
1) Friend of mine bumped the thing with full force head first into the ceiling playing Bowling.
2) Another incident had a friend smashing a light bulb doing an overhead strike in Wii Tennis.
After both incidents (and I swear to god) I could not detect even the tiniest microscratch to the surface of the controller.
I have no idea what type of plastic the Wiimote is made of, but it will probably last ages.
Nothing to see here, move along.
IANAB (biologist) but couldn't there be another application for this:
Say a couple want to have a child but they know they will pass on a serious genetic defect.
The article suggests that the baby will have DNA from all three parties and says appearance and "other characteristics" will be like the 'real' mother. But maybe it could also receive the "healthy" DNA strings from the donor egg thereby not passing on the genetic malfunction?
I don't know if this is even scientifically possible, so correct me if I'm wrong.
If they were sure their patent was valid they would go after the big players like Epic, id Software or EA, not the small ones that are intimidated easily but really just are statistical background noise when it comes to online games. If someone violates your patent then you go after the guy who does it big style...else you really just care about the quick money and not about holding up your claimed rights themselves.
Actually it will probably take a while of searching to find pay-per-GB plans these days. Also it's not a problem because here you really have a choice. There's plenty of (good and reliable) DSL providers to choose from, plus local cable services are on the uptake. It's easily possible to get a 10Mbit/1Mbit cable connection with an unlimited data limit for about 30 Euros (less than $50)...this includes a telephone line with nation-wide free calls as well.
So what I'm trying to say is: yes, you can choose a data-limited plan here in Germany if you wish so. But it's your decision and if you do then you'll actually pay a lot less...some people really do fare better with such a model.
(tee hee I said but plug) You also said "fucking" and "kid"...do not move, the police is on their way!
Yes, you are completely right of course, I was thinking about conspiracy-style malice.
I agree that giving "cop-anybody" rights to huge amounts of personal information is probably a bad idea.
However I still am more in fear of incompetence and negligence. Take for example all the recent data leaks that were uncovered within the British government.
In addition our minister of justice here in Germany had two Laptops stolen from her apartment recently...of course none of which contained any classified or otherwise important data (riiiiiiight...). The level of incompetence she's continuously displaying regarding technical questions you can bet your ass and property that everything on those machines was unencrypted and she'd do hell to admit it.
Once incompetence has reached such a high level it's hard not to be afraid of all this excessive data mining.
Yeah, also make sure you do not touch your tinfoil hat without wearing leather gloves, else they'll be reading your fingerprints off it using their invisible mind rays.
Yes, but with omnipresent video cameras you'd have a deal...
...to realistic simulation of bouncing female anatomy in computer games.
.)
boobies! (. )(
I disagree. Physics processing needs a lot of vector math, which your run-of-the-mill floating-point-based CPU is not very good at (even with SSE optimizations). So what you are saying is you prefer to let your 4th CPU core do some very specialized work that a card with about a quarter of the transistors of your CPU can do very efficiently at probably the same speed.
People were mocking 3D add-on cards in the beginning, today 3D acceleration is standard on all graphics cards sold including the lowest-end models.
Now imagine nVidia adding the 120-something transistors to their ~700M transistors chips (or alternatively adding a dedicated physics chip on their reference PCBs), making physics processors more widespread. This could mean offloading work of a full CPU core (or second GPU in a SLI-system) to a efficient design dedicated for the task.
The only problem (as with 3D add-on cards back in the days) is that PPUs are not widespread at the moment, so you can't rely on users having one installed. However as back then, games that support dedicated PPUs can go all out in the physics department, same as GPU-supporting games could with astonishing graphics.
Yeah, does anyone really find his surprising with social networks like myspace, facebook and co on the rise? At that age I suppose they're looking for company, most likely company of the opposite sex. Perfectly normal behavior in my book.
Also not everyone you meet online classifies automatically as a "stranger". People you meet in a club or at a bar are actually far more of a stranger than someone you have talked to online for a while (and decided to meet) could ever be.
As long as you're doing the first meeting in public (like a bar) and not at a private place there's nothing really dangerous about it.
Yes, that was what I was trying to say. :)
I suppose it really wasn't clear enough in my first post, but I thought I had brought it over in my second.
It's hard to provide evidence for something that's entirely subjective. You either believe the Windows architecture works alright or you think something else will take the cake. For a user it is easily possible to like more than one system. Not so for Microsoft though.
Now imagine Microsoft trashing their own architecture and embracing (and admitting defeat to) a *nix based system as their main platform. Even totally aside the fact that all apps would cease working (unless they program their own absolutely perfect "wine") I just can't see that coming. Microsoft believes in what they do. And even if they don't they would never admit otherwise...rather buy up the rest and destroy.
Contrary to what you're assuming I have actually used MS-DOS. What I was trying to say however was that back in the pre-Windows days Microsoft didn't nearly have the crushing power they have today. It's all been scaled up a lot since the 80s...plus it has become a lot more religious than back then.
So this time, with reasonably mass-compatible alternative operating systems, it might actually lead to them losing their market once and for all.
It's all wishful thinking though since the day MS will start shipping a *nix Kernel as their next "Windows" will be the day either hell freezes over or Ballmer will stop acting like a 12 year old spoiled brat.
The day they're buying Ubuntu (and make a *nix based system part of their supported portfolio) would be the day that marks their end. Microsoft would be losing their most prized possession: their locked-in market.