Redbox rents movies at $1 / day. Limit is like 6. It probably looks suspcious that I rent the limit and then return them all the next day...
I really don't see how $4 for one day use any time over a month is fair. I'm not even getting anything physical out of the deal, plus I'm spending my bandwidth to get it. I DVD will play on my entertainment center, and as much as I like to sit at the computer all day, I have my memory foam recliner for a reason.
Now if the movies were say $0.50 (or lower.. come on, honestly), I'd actually look into this.
Get NoScript for Firefox. It's annoying the first few days as you build a white-list, but now I don't deal with any crap. Google-analytics is forbidden and that page is now ad-free.
Um.. you do know he gave almost all his money to charity, right?
I guess you haven't heard of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Or maybe it's just popular to rip on the guy. Oh don't get me wrong; I'm sure he still has a nice house.
since it can factor numbers in O(number size) time.
... what? I know you didn't mean O(n) where n is the number, because I can do it faster than that with a regular computer.
I'm thinking you maybe meant the number of digits? So a log(n)? What's the base? Or something else? If this is really something new and people don't know how it works, and you're going to pretend you do, at least be clear.
So you concluded one metaphor with another one? Most computers stop working when you blowtorch their insides. I still don't understand what makes quantum computers any different. Do you consider photons particles or waves here; can you actually look at them or not?
I researched this YEARS ago, and that tree-hugging nutjob Lady Deirdre Sky of those green freaks, the Gaiai's Stepdaughters, still steam rolled me! Can I at least expect this to push Singularity any sooner?
For me, Stargate has always been about explaining/spinning past religions. Sure, everybody loved the Goa'uld, and I always figured that was because few people worship or take seriously the ancient Greek/Roman gods, let alone the Egyptian ones. But now everybody hates the Ori? For me the Ori are the best, simply because SG-1 is tackling the ridiculousness of fundamentalist monotheistic religions of today!
It's absolutely crazy to me that since both the Muslim and Christian god are that of Abraham and Isaac, why the hell do we hate eachother so much? "My prophet/spin is right and yours is wrong" - ? That's nuts. And SG-1 is getting to the bottom of it. I love Daniel's monologues, and the clear paralellism between the Ori's fire believe-or-be-burned and God/Satan religious ridiculousness whereas the Ancients represent science and reason -- and whether people realize these symetries or not, NOBODY is rooting for the Ori and everybody is hoping the Ancients and the regular people get to live and be left alone -- which is at odds with what the majority of the US Christians believe and practice daily! For a show to accomplish something like this makes it great in my book.
Plus the character development was enough to hook two girls that I know. And they're separate, distinct, unique girls! I know that's pushing it for Slashdot to even know that many, but holy cow! Girls! Stargate! They actually like it! And it's sci-fi! Holy crap!
Uhm, no. The Big Bang is a theory, but people don't go around trying to create mini universes. Sure you could argue that they "test" it with observational data, but that's not really performing experiments either now is it?
And as a Mathematician, why are you limiting the concept of a "theory" to the land of science? You scientists are constantly being bound by the restrictions of the physical world around you!
Isn't it one of the basic rules of grammar that if you are asking a question, you use a question mark?
I've been told the US is a net _reducer_ of pollution. Ie has a LOT of land, and most of it is still covered in forest. Sure the coasts are crammed with people and everybody thinks it's one big rutin' tutin' pollutin' shitbag, but what about the whole middle part with all the trees and forestry?
I live in Missouri and the acid rain is pleasantly absent. Which I also hear is better than parts of Europe...
Somebody should pay an undergrad $5k over the summer to figure out why some of those words you were able to compress very well, and others you were completely unable.
They really need to change the name of 'computer science' here in the states. We CS majors don't know anything about software. If you want some good software gurus, talk to the math people.
Why not delete all the posts that have the words: insensitive clod, I for one welcome our [a-z]+ overlords, Soviet Russia, Libraries of Congress,...profit!, frist psot, why is this on slashdot, dupe, or have any mention of porn.
You'll free up 2^24 - 2^15 of the comment IDs at least...
What the hell? You linked to a _porn_ site that gives access to uncensored pics without age verification... I know this shit is all over the internet but clicking a little "I agree" is the only thing stopping kids? And you posted it here on a public forum? *sigh*
The problem with that idea is some jackass kid with a CD ripper would convert his whole PS3 to MP3 and post it on the internet. Then everybody would have one before it even officially launched!
Why? I think that implication makes sense... Africaans are black after all!!!
Besides, if you've ever looked at a recent US map (the only map that matters), Africa-land is savage country. Europeans, are a bunch of stinky pompous poo-flinging people, and that makes sense too if you consider the genes they've closely inherited.
Let's see what else I can do for my karma... oh... and women are all gay! And men are homoerectus!
My favorite computer shop NewEgg's website can take as long as it wants. The price is right, the shipping is fast, and they've handled my RMAs very well. It's just.. _the_ computer shop. Who cares if it's slow sometimes?
If I need to wait more than 4 seconds on a website, I'll get up and throw some poptarts in the microwave. That takes about 7 seconds. Way faster than a stupid toaster. Seven seconds is a long time, but if you've ever tried 15 seconds of silence, oh god..
Now they're going to talk about HDTV, maybe a little internet regulation. If we're lucky they'll start the ball rolling for some serious anti-spam measures, but come on, technological trends are getting harder and harder to predict since things are changing at a faster and faster rate. Look at the difference in technological insertion between 1985 to 1995 and from 1995 to 2005. It's frickin' "cool" now to have a cell phone! Nerds rejoice! Things are getting crazy cool. Meeting people online isn't "psycho stalker" anymore.
Maybe I've been watching too much Back to the Future, but if you ask me an iPod nano would seem like magic to a person from 1985.
Good luck predicting what it'll be like in the next 10 years. I'm crossing my fingers for flying cars and Jaws 19.
If you'd RTFA you'd find the running times ranged from 30 minutes to 5 hours. They have a whole table and everything.
The whole point of the challenge was to create a self-executing compression program that made a perfect copy of their 100MB file. Final file sizes were in the 16MB range. Geeze, seriously RTFA.
I was going to pick on your math for the 99.999% thing, but that's actually decently accurate (at least according to the article). I thought satellites were much much closer to earth (600ish miles) but after a little research I found out those are the asynchronous orbit ones. For true geosynchronous orbit you need an altitude of 22,223 miles. Roughly 1/10th the distance to the moon! Space is a wee bit bigger than I thoguht;-)
The one thing that does seem far-fetched is the several-thousand-mile-diameter-no-fly-zone-idea... isn't that a significant portion of the earth (neighborhood of 1% of the surface area)? Maybe I'm just tired, but these differences in scale are just insanely hard to get my head around.
I'm seeing two schools of thought, and the parent sums up the "silly one" nicely.
I am Joe User - I play on a Windows XP SP2 machine with 2 gigs physical ram. I will play World of Warcraft, EVE Online, I run Firefox with 30+ tabs, iTunes, Outlook Express.. sometimes all at the same time. I have _0_ swap file.
In fact, a year ago when WoW was new-er I was having a LOT of lag. Epic lag. Ironforge lag in particular. I ran a task manager and a few Adminitrative Tools to see what was actually causing the bottleneck. ALL OF IT WAS HARD DRIVE ACCESS! Boosting my memory from a "pathetic" 512 MB ram (in WoW's terms, it is) to 2gigs eliminated the problem.
All you people that are claiming "but if you ever accidently run Half Life 2 ontop of all that, you'll run out of real memory and your system will crash!" Well guess what? If the majority of your allocated memory for Half Life 2 is swap file you will wish it crashed. I bet your quad SLI dual-core rig will run really nice swapping away on good ol' HL2. I'm not sure on the exact numbers, but the transfer speed of memory vs harddrive swap file is on the order of several magnitudes greater.
Rules of thumb are dumb! The poster is a genius, mod him up! Now if you're a 3D-StudioMax9 artist that likes to run Maya and some ridiculously awesome video editing software all at once, get yourself some swapfile.
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What I don't get is: when he reappears to Luke why isn't he naked?
Redbox rents movies at $1 / day. Limit is like 6. It probably looks suspcious that I rent the limit and then return them all the next day...
I really don't see how $4 for one day use any time over a month is fair. I'm not even getting anything physical out of the deal, plus I'm spending my bandwidth to get it. I DVD will play on my entertainment center, and as much as I like to sit at the computer all day, I have my memory foam recliner for a reason.
Now if the movies were say $0.50 (or lower.. come on, honestly), I'd actually look into this.
I don't see any: Stargate (SG-1 or Atlantis), House M.D., the only Star Trek is movie 7,no American Idol episodes..
So when can I buy the crap I actually want?
Get NoScript for Firefox. It's annoying the first few days as you build a white-list, but now I don't deal with any crap. Google-analytics is forbidden and that page is now ad-free.
Um.. you do know he gave almost all his money to charity, right?
I guess you haven't heard of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Or maybe it's just popular to rip on the guy. Oh don't get me wrong; I'm sure he still has a nice house.
... what? I know you didn't mean O(n) where n is the number, because I can do it faster than that with a regular computer.
I'm thinking you maybe meant the number of digits? So a log(n)? What's the base? Or something else? If this is really something new and people don't know how it works, and you're going to pretend you do, at least be clear.
So you concluded one metaphor with another one? Most computers stop working when you blowtorch their insides. I still don't understand what makes quantum computers any different. Do you consider photons particles or waves here; can you actually look at them or not?
I researched this YEARS ago, and that tree-hugging nutjob Lady Deirdre Sky of those green freaks, the Gaiai's Stepdaughters, still steam rolled me! Can I at least expect this to push Singularity any sooner?
You don't need a quantum computer to crack MS products. Just fill the serial with 0's, it still passes the hash!
'Course I haven't bought an MS product in a while, so that may have gone the way of UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-LEFT-RIGHT-RIGHT-B-A-SELECT.. .
For me, Stargate has always been about explaining/spinning past religions. Sure, everybody loved the Goa'uld, and I always figured that was because few people worship or take seriously the ancient Greek/Roman gods, let alone the Egyptian ones. But now everybody hates the Ori? For me the Ori are the best, simply because SG-1 is tackling the ridiculousness of fundamentalist monotheistic religions of today!
It's absolutely crazy to me that since both the Muslim and Christian god are that of Abraham and Isaac, why the hell do we hate eachother so much? "My prophet/spin is right and yours is wrong" - ? That's nuts. And SG-1 is getting to the bottom of it. I love Daniel's monologues, and the clear paralellism between the Ori's fire believe-or-be-burned and God/Satan religious ridiculousness whereas the Ancients represent science and reason -- and whether people realize these symetries or not, NOBODY is rooting for the Ori and everybody is hoping the Ancients and the regular people get to live and be left alone -- which is at odds with what the majority of the US Christians believe and practice daily! For a show to accomplish something like this makes it great in my book.
Plus the character development was enough to hook two girls that I know. And they're separate, distinct, unique girls! I know that's pushing it for Slashdot to even know that many, but holy cow! Girls! Stargate! They actually like it! And it's sci-fi! Holy crap!
Uhm, no. The Big Bang is a theory, but people don't go around trying to create mini universes. Sure you could argue that they "test" it with observational data, but that's not really performing experiments either now is it?
And as a Mathematician, why are you limiting the concept of a "theory" to the land of science? You scientists are constantly being bound by the restrictions of the physical world around you!
Isn't it one of the basic rules of grammar that if you are asking a question, you use a question mark?
I've been told the US is a net _reducer_ of pollution. Ie has a LOT of land, and most of it is still covered in forest. Sure the coasts are crammed with people and everybody thinks it's one big rutin' tutin' pollutin' shitbag, but what about the whole middle part with all the trees and forestry?
I live in Missouri and the acid rain is pleasantly absent. Which I also hear is better than parts of Europe...
Somebody should pay an undergrad $5k over the summer to figure out why some of those words you were able to compress very well, and others you were completely unable.
They really need to change the name of 'computer science' here in the states. We CS majors don't know anything about software. If you want some good software gurus, talk to the math people.
Why not delete all the posts that have the words: insensitive clod, I for one welcome our [a-z]+ overlords, Soviet Russia, Libraries of Congress, ...profit!, frist psot, why is this on slashdot, dupe, or have any mention of porn.
You'll free up 2^24 - 2^15 of the comment IDs at least...
What the hell? You linked to a _porn_ site that gives access to uncensored pics without age verification... I know this shit is all over the internet but clicking a little "I agree" is the only thing stopping kids? And you posted it here on a public forum? *sigh*
The problem with that idea is some jackass kid with a CD ripper would convert his whole PS3 to MP3 and post it on the internet. Then everybody would have one before it even officially launched!
Why? I think that implication makes sense... Africaans are black after all!!!
Besides, if you've ever looked at a recent US map (the only map that matters), Africa-land is savage country. Europeans, are a bunch of stinky pompous poo-flinging people, and that makes sense too if you consider the genes they've closely inherited.
Let's see what else I can do for my karma... oh... and women are all gay! And men are homoerectus!
My favorite computer shop NewEgg's website can take as long as it wants. The price is right, the shipping is fast, and they've handled my RMAs very well. It's just.. _the_ computer shop. Who cares if it's slow sometimes?
If I need to wait more than 4 seconds on a website, I'll get up and throw some poptarts in the microwave. That takes about 7 seconds. Way faster than a stupid toaster. Seven seconds is a long time, but if you've ever tried 15 seconds of silence, oh god..
Ok, so a couple major things have happened in the past 10 years.
Cell phones. E-commerce. No-call lists. E-Marketing.
Now they're going to talk about HDTV, maybe a little internet regulation. If we're lucky they'll start the ball rolling for some serious anti-spam measures, but come on, technological trends are getting harder and harder to predict since things are changing at a faster and faster rate. Look at the difference in technological insertion between 1985 to 1995 and from 1995 to 2005. It's frickin' "cool" now to have a cell phone! Nerds rejoice! Things are getting crazy cool. Meeting people online isn't "psycho stalker" anymore.
Maybe I've been watching too much Back to the Future, but if you ask me an iPod nano would seem like magic to a person from 1985.
Good luck predicting what it'll be like in the next 10 years. I'm crossing my fingers for flying cars and Jaws 19.
What sucks is if you get wrongly accused of rape, and get labled a sex offender for the rest of your life...
If you'd RTFA you'd find the running times ranged from 30 minutes to 5 hours. They have a whole table and everything.
The whole point of the challenge was to create a self-executing compression program that made a perfect copy of their 100MB file. Final file sizes were in the 16MB range. Geeze, seriously RTFA.
I was going to pick on your math for the 99.999% thing, but that's actually decently accurate (at least according to the article). I thought satellites were much much closer to earth (600ish miles) but after a little research I found out those are the asynchronous orbit ones. For true geosynchronous orbit you need an altitude of 22,223 miles. Roughly 1/10th the distance to the moon! Space is a wee bit bigger than I thoguht ;-)
. isn't that a significant portion of the earth (neighborhood of 1% of the surface area)? Maybe I'm just tired, but these differences in scale are just insanely hard to get my head around.
The one thing that does seem far-fetched is the several-thousand-mile-diameter-no-fly-zone-idea..
I'm seeing two schools of thought, and the parent sums up the "silly one" nicely.
I am Joe User - I play on a Windows XP SP2 machine with 2 gigs physical ram. I will play World of Warcraft, EVE Online, I run Firefox with 30+ tabs, iTunes, Outlook Express.. sometimes all at the same time. I have _0_ swap file.
In fact, a year ago when WoW was new-er I was having a LOT of lag. Epic lag. Ironforge lag in particular. I ran a task manager and a few Adminitrative Tools to see what was actually causing the bottleneck. ALL OF IT WAS HARD DRIVE ACCESS! Boosting my memory from a "pathetic" 512 MB ram (in WoW's terms, it is) to 2gigs eliminated the problem.
All you people that are claiming "but if you ever accidently run Half Life 2 ontop of all that, you'll run out of real memory and your system will crash!" Well guess what? If the majority of your allocated memory for Half Life 2 is swap file you will wish it crashed. I bet your quad SLI dual-core rig will run really nice swapping away on good ol' HL2. I'm not sure on the exact numbers, but the transfer speed of memory vs harddrive swap file is on the order of several magnitudes greater.
Rules of thumb are dumb! The poster is a genius, mod him up! Now if you're a 3D-StudioMax9 artist that likes to run Maya and some ridiculously awesome video editing software all at once, get yourself some swapfile.