I only read this far because I enjoy a certain schadenfreude reading the average slashdotter (if such a creature exists) trying to interact with a girl, even in an online setting.
hehehe... that's probably the funniest joke I've read on here in a while.
IAU head Owen Gingerich is quoted as saying that he was only peripherally aware of the definition, and because it didn't show up on MS Word's spell check, he didn't think it was that important.
In other news, the US Congress voted not to move to Linux, after Senator Binghaman discovered that MS Word's spell checker doesn't recognize it.
The VC fools, not wanting to admit to themselves that they have been swindled with one of the oldest cons in the book, will happily throw more money at them.
The magnets have no clothes! They're naked!!! *averts her eyes out of embarassment*
It would appear that Herione, Methadone, and this new opiate are considerations for giving a non-addictive pain-killer, while "bupe" is typically useful for treatement of existing addiction.
This is because "bupe" is not a full-agonist of the mu-receptor which is targetted in painkillers, it's just a partial-agonist, and at the same time very strongly binding.
I would say in a medical situation of pain management, one would want to treat the pain with a full-agonist, which will treat the pain well, and hope that likely the patient isn't predisposed towards the addiction, rather than risk a strongly binding partial-agonist, since the strongly binding means that it's very difficult to treat an overdose.
As doctor which would you rather treat someone with? Something that may cause them to be addicted to it, but if they do, you can treat that, and if they overdose (on their own, or in your care) you can respond effectively against it, or something that will likely not cause any addiction, but if they overdose (on their own, or in your care) you can't do much of anything about it at all.
I'd certainly be reluctant to use something with a very low correctability.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
I have to agree with you here. To me it just sounds like electromagnetic induction. Move a wire through a magnetic field, and boom! It makes electricity.
Normally women do have XX chromosomes, and males have XY chromosomes, but it is true that there are women out there that have XY chromosomes, and are resistant to testosterone, this is called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, of which Reifenstein syndrome is a part of, specifically where the Androgen Insensitivity has caused only a partial development of masculine traits, and thus you end up with obviously ambiguous genitalia.
It's true that the human body will develop as female should it lack important hormones, and this includes feminization of the brain. Although, there are two key hormone groups. Not just testosterone (or Androgens in general) are required, but rather AMH, or Anti-Müllerian Hormones. AMH blocks the development of the upper vagina, uterus and cervix, and oviducts, while Testosterone causes the development of vas deferens, seminal ducts, and elargement of the clitoris to a penis, and causes the labial folds to come together and fuse creating the scrotal area into which the testes will be able to descend.
Thus, a failure of the body to produce either of these hormones, or the failure of response to these hormones will result in an intersexed condition, either a female (because her external genitalia are female, and her brain is feminized) with testicles, or a male (because his external genitalia are masculine, and his brain has been masculinized) with a uterus.
Honestly, I think that the only measurement of a humans sex that matters is the virilization of their brain. Unfortunately, this yields the problem of many people with gender-identity disorder, in that there is no reason to assume that they have any gender other than that indicated by their sex, until they become old enough to be able to actually express such feelings, by which point, the world has already classified you, and placed you in a bucket for your sex, and begun socializing you to that role.
Oh, Fundamentalist Christians will go to even bigger stupid arguments against reality than this.
My favorite one is that there are men and women only, because in Genesis 1, it says God made "man and woman". As if that statement were inclusive of all permutations of gender (personal identification) and/or sex (biological identification). Because first of all, anyone who wants to tell me that there are only men and women, and nothing else out there, is neglecting scientific fact, which can be demonstrated with live appearances in some cases, of people with incredibly ambiguous genitalia: Reifenstein Syndrome. This is most apparent as the child is born with something that the doctors struggle to answer: "Is it a penis or an enlarged clitoris?" If one wants to declare it a penis, then they're conflicted with the fact that they have labial folds, and a urethra in the folds, and not through the penis, if one wants to declare it a clitoris, then they have to deal with the fact that the thing is huge, and hangs out of the labia, and well, kind of looks like a penis.
Now, when you take the whole spectrum of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, from that person with XY chromosomes came out as a female (with testicles!), to such a slight insensitivity that there's no telling that it had any impact at all, then you just have to wonder, what makes our gender/sex? It's certainly not our genes, so it must be something else, most apparently hormones: female in the absense of lots of testosterone, and male in the presense thereof.
But then that raises the question, what if hormone levels varied during different stages of development? Could it not be easily possible that the hormone levels when developing the hands varied from when it was developing the genitalia? Proof of that already exists, in the ratio of the index finger to the ring finger. So, if not so between the hand and genitalia, why not the brain and the genitalia? Cows already provide evidence of this. If a cow and a bull are born as twins, the cow will have a virilized (masculine) brain, and attempt to mount other cows once it reaches sexual maturity, otherwise, it appears the same as any other cow.
So, considering that you can demonstrate to them true and actual inarguable fact, they still insists that their interpretation and understanding of the Bible is infallable, it's natural to assume that anything that requires any amount of fill-in-the-blanks to accept would be dismissed just as readily.
Because maybe this is CmdrTaco's personal blog that just happens to be visited by everyone and their techie mother?
Seriously, if you don't like what's posted on Slashdot, don't complain about it, because the site isn't here to serve your personal desires. It's here to serve the personal desires of the editors.:P
(Or is it hip to diss it 'cause it's got too much marketing on top - as if most gamers actually understand the technologies they use?)
I wouldn't call it "hip" to "diss" it just because it has so much marketing. Rather, I prefer to specifically diss the marketing itself. Who knows, you might see an increase in performance with this thing, everyone said the web accelerator of "up to 5x faster" was a bunch of snakeoil, and well... well, actually that was kind of icky, just using a Python script to gzip things as they pass over the phoneline using a proxy server (yes, that is exactly how all of the ISPs do it, someone would have to have a patent on it, so only their implemention is legal).
So, yes, it's possible there might be a performance gain, but as people said before, modern CPUs aren't really spending that much time on TCP/IP anyways, and they said they weren't even targetting TCP, but rather UDP in TFA.
So, could it be real? Maybe, but then snakeoil remedies did help some people with at least depression... well, at least until they got addicted to the cocaine in it. Just as it's wrong to assume a conclusion is wrong just because there's a fallacy in the argument, it's wrong to assume that a product won't work because it's covered so high in market-speak, that you can't see even an inkling of what the product is supposed to actually do.
I will personally remain suspect of this though; although you my certainly go ahead--if you want--and spend the $250+ to get one; just let me know how well it works... preferably with emperically testable data, not personal testamony.
1) Make/adopt an industry standard CPU emulation for booting CPU-independant BIOSes, p.e. using some kind of Java-like CPU emulation (like the way the PPC comunity uses PCI boards with x86 BIOSes). 2) Make/adopt an industry standard BIOS boot protocol.
It exists, it's called OpenFirmware by Apple, and both Apple and Sun used it. Of course, since PCs didn't use it, the industry standard died and was replaced by a de facto standard, which is arch dependent.
Also, a) ROM code implies adopting some sort of code execution (ISA dependant, p.e. x86/PPC/MIPS/etc), CPU related.
Devices already have a ROM code in them, which contains execution stuff to get the card into a working order. All cards have this. On an x86 PC, this code is in x86 machine code, while for PowerPC CHRP and Sun Solaris systems it was in FCode (a Forth bytecode, which is extremely simple to write a virtual machine for).
But again, as always, the existing legacy support of the PC destroys yet another better idea.
However, doing something like that is very unfriendly because it wastes resources. The primary reason packets get lost en route is because of bandwidth saturation. So, if you double or triple your traffic you are just making the problem worse. If you are the only one out of thousands who "breaks the rules" you will probably get away with it and probably even benefit from it since packet loss will be a somewhat even distribution among all traffic, so chances are if one of your packets gets dropped the copy won't get dropped - instead someone else's packet gets dropped.
Redundant Transmission of All Packets? RTAP(tm), it's mine, they can't use it!
It's obvious that they're all about the business here.
"Powered by Lag and Latency Reduction (LLR) Technology" "Future-Proof: Field Upgradeable" "UltimatePing(tm)" "MaxFPS(tm)" "FNA(tm)" "GameFirst(tm)" "PingThrottle(tm)"
Seriously, who else but a marketting department would think that it's a good idea to trademark a name describing everything "new" that your product does? And the page is so full of TLAs (three letter acronyms) that you need a glossary to read it.
So, yes, I'd have to weigh in with everyone else, it's snakeoil. Basically, any product designed entirely by a marketting group is going to be snakeoil, and this definitely was.
The entire concept of these FNApps also strikes me as a route to evil; I heard a subtext of "Now, even the most clueless Windows gamer with too much money can run packet scanning cheating tools with no chance of detection!".
Ooo... something even bigger of an issue also. Now black hats don't even have to own your real computer to use you as a zombie, they can just own your NIC.
person who actually fell for buying one of these: "Why is my network so laggy? I thought this $250 NIC was supposed to help with that?" person running packet sniffer: "Oh, here's your problem, you're part of a DDoS on killernic.com
The only kind of bad DRM hardware is the kind that stops users playing, modifying or distributing their _own_ stuff cheaply and easily*. That's the real issue.
Right, except that an effective DRM would enforce copyright indefinitely. That's the big problem with it, is that it stomps on fair-use, and it effectively extends copyrights longer than they should be allowed. If "Gone With The Wind" had been protected by an effective DRM in Australia, then Project Gutenburg Australia would never be able to distribute it, even after it becomes Public Domain.
Seriously, copyrights aren't meant to last forever, and it's not OK to tell me that I can only listen to my song on the CD that you sold it to me on. No, I bought a license to listen to the song, not to only listen to the song when where and how you want me to listen to the song.
Slashdot Mirror
*watches the joke fly completely over your head... with snakes on it*
I only read this far because I enjoy a certain schadenfreude reading the average slashdotter (if such a creature exists) trying to interact with a girl, even in an online setting.
hehehe... that's probably the funniest joke I've read on here in a while.
In fact, I don't- *is cut off by the hundreds of ravenous geeks slobbering for a girlfriend*
IAU head Owen Gingerich is quoted as saying that he was only peripherally aware of the definition, and because it didn't show up on MS Word's spell check, he didn't think it was that important.
In other news, the US Congress voted not to move to Linux, after Senator Binghaman discovered that MS Word's spell checker doesn't recognize it.
And you boys on slashdot wonder why you don't have a girlfriend...
How do I know you don't have a girlfriend? Well, we're on Slashdot, right?
Which begs the question...
The VC fools, not wanting to admit to themselves that they have been swindled with one of the oldest cons in the book, will happily throw more money at them.
The magnets have no clothes! They're naked!!! *averts her eyes out of embarassment*
Vacuum energy comes close enough to being. Now if only we could figure out how to harness it.
I actually make very effective use of vacuum energy while I'm vacuuming my carpet...
OH, you mean that other vacuum...
It would appear that Herione, Methadone, and this new opiate are considerations for giving a non-addictive pain-killer, while "bupe" is typically useful for treatement of existing addiction.
This is because "bupe" is not a full-agonist of the mu-receptor which is targetted in painkillers, it's just a partial-agonist, and at the same time very strongly binding.
I would say in a medical situation of pain management, one would want to treat the pain with a full-agonist, which will treat the pain well, and hope that likely the patient isn't predisposed towards the addiction, rather than risk a strongly binding partial-agonist, since the strongly binding means that it's very difficult to treat an overdose.
As doctor which would you rather treat someone with? Something that may cause them to be addicted to it, but if they do, you can treat that, and if they overdose (on their own, or in your care) you can respond effectively against it, or something that will likely not cause any addiction, but if they overdose (on their own, or in your care) you can't do much of anything about it at all.
I'd certainly be reluctant to use something with a very low correctability.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
I have to agree with you here. To me it just sounds like electromagnetic induction. Move a wire through a magnetic field, and boom! It makes electricity.
No, he WAS thinking of Herion.
;)
Since this is Slashdot, and you all are used to assuming that there are no girls on the internet, I'll forgive your slip here.
If I recall correctly, Heroin was originally designed the same way, or at least to help people get off of a morphine addiction.
Oops! It turned out to be even more addictive, oh well, let's try again. hehe
Normally women do have XX chromosomes, and males have XY chromosomes, but it is true that there are women out there that have XY chromosomes, and are resistant to testosterone, this is called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, of which Reifenstein syndrome is a part of, specifically where the Androgen Insensitivity has caused only a partial development of masculine traits, and thus you end up with obviously ambiguous genitalia.
It's true that the human body will develop as female should it lack important hormones, and this includes feminization of the brain. Although, there are two key hormone groups. Not just testosterone (or Androgens in general) are required, but rather AMH, or Anti-Müllerian Hormones. AMH blocks the development of the upper vagina, uterus and cervix, and oviducts, while Testosterone causes the development of vas deferens, seminal ducts, and elargement of the clitoris to a penis, and causes the labial folds to come together and fuse creating the scrotal area into which the testes will be able to descend.
Thus, a failure of the body to produce either of these hormones, or the failure of response to these hormones will result in an intersexed condition, either a female (because her external genitalia are female, and her brain is feminized) with testicles, or a male (because his external genitalia are masculine, and his brain has been masculinized) with a uterus.
Honestly, I think that the only measurement of a humans sex that matters is the virilization of their brain. Unfortunately, this yields the problem of many people with gender-identity disorder, in that there is no reason to assume that they have any gender other than that indicated by their sex, until they become old enough to be able to actually express such feelings, by which point, the world has already classified you, and placed you in a bucket for your sex, and begun socializing you to that role.
Oh, Fundamentalist Christians will go to even bigger stupid arguments against reality than this.
My favorite one is that there are men and women only, because in Genesis 1, it says God made "man and woman". As if that statement were inclusive of all permutations of gender (personal identification) and/or sex (biological identification). Because first of all, anyone who wants to tell me that there are only men and women, and nothing else out there, is neglecting scientific fact, which can be demonstrated with live appearances in some cases, of people with incredibly ambiguous genitalia: Reifenstein Syndrome. This is most apparent as the child is born with something that the doctors struggle to answer: "Is it a penis or an enlarged clitoris?" If one wants to declare it a penis, then they're conflicted with the fact that they have labial folds, and a urethra in the folds, and not through the penis, if one wants to declare it a clitoris, then they have to deal with the fact that the thing is huge, and hangs out of the labia, and well, kind of looks like a penis.
Now, when you take the whole spectrum of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, from that person with XY chromosomes came out as a female (with testicles!), to such a slight insensitivity that there's no telling that it had any impact at all, then you just have to wonder, what makes our gender/sex? It's certainly not our genes, so it must be something else, most apparently hormones: female in the absense of lots of testosterone, and male in the presense thereof.
But then that raises the question, what if hormone levels varied during different stages of development? Could it not be easily possible that the hormone levels when developing the hands varied from when it was developing the genitalia? Proof of that already exists, in the ratio of the index finger to the ring finger. So, if not so between the hand and genitalia, why not the brain and the genitalia? Cows already provide evidence of this. If a cow and a bull are born as twins, the cow will have a virilized (masculine) brain, and attempt to mount other cows once it reaches sexual maturity, otherwise, it appears the same as any other cow.
So, considering that you can demonstrate to them true and actual inarguable fact, they still insists that their interpretation and understanding of the Bible is infallable, it's natural to assume that anything that requires any amount of fill-in-the-blanks to accept would be dismissed just as readily.
Because maybe this is CmdrTaco's personal blog that just happens to be visited by everyone and their techie mother?
:P
Seriously, if you don't like what's posted on Slashdot, don't complain about it, because the site isn't here to serve your personal desires. It's here to serve the personal desires of the editors.
I found it on my map right next to Canadia.
Silly boy...
(Or is it hip to diss it 'cause it's got too much marketing on top - as if most gamers actually understand the technologies they use?)
I wouldn't call it "hip" to "diss" it just because it has so much marketing. Rather, I prefer to specifically diss the marketing itself. Who knows, you might see an increase in performance with this thing, everyone said the web accelerator of "up to 5x faster" was a bunch of snakeoil, and well... well, actually that was kind of icky, just using a Python script to gzip things as they pass over the phoneline using a proxy server (yes, that is exactly how all of the ISPs do it, someone would have to have a patent on it, so only their implemention is legal).
So, yes, it's possible there might be a performance gain, but as people said before, modern CPUs aren't really spending that much time on TCP/IP anyways, and they said they weren't even targetting TCP, but rather UDP in TFA.
So, could it be real? Maybe, but then snakeoil remedies did help some people with at least depression... well, at least until they got addicted to the cocaine in it. Just as it's wrong to assume a conclusion is wrong just because there's a fallacy in the argument, it's wrong to assume that a product won't work because it's covered so high in market-speak, that you can't see even an inkling of what the product is supposed to actually do.
I will personally remain suspect of this though; although you my certainly go ahead--if you want--and spend the $250+ to get one; just let me know how well it works... preferably with emperically testable data, not personal testamony.
Not to mention the difficulties in actually placing the emacs back into the Stallman...
;)
I don't know... I suppose there are many a VI(M) user that would like like to at least try
:( oh, and here I thought my Mac was safe from all those evil software programs.
I curse you emacs! Begone and go to the torturous hell from whence you had spawned!
Hm, it didn't work, emacs is still installed.
1) Make/adopt an industry standard CPU emulation for booting CPU-independant BIOSes, p.e. using some kind of Java-like CPU emulation (like the way the PPC comunity uses PCI boards with x86 BIOSes).
2) Make/adopt an industry standard BIOS boot protocol.
It exists, it's called OpenFirmware by Apple, and both Apple and Sun used it. Of course, since PCs didn't use it, the industry standard died and was replaced by a de facto standard, which is arch dependent.
Also, a) ROM code implies adopting some sort of code execution (ISA dependant, p.e. x86/PPC/MIPS/etc), CPU related.
Devices already have a ROM code in them, which contains execution stuff to get the card into a working order. All cards have this. On an x86 PC, this code is in x86 machine code, while for PowerPC CHRP and Sun Solaris systems it was in FCode (a Forth bytecode, which is extremely simple to write a virtual machine for).
But again, as always, the existing legacy support of the PC destroys yet another better idea.
However, doing something like that is very unfriendly because it wastes resources. The primary reason packets get lost en route is because of bandwidth saturation. So, if you double or triple your traffic you are just making the problem worse. If you are the only one out of thousands who "breaks the rules" you will probably get away with it and probably even benefit from it since packet loss will be a somewhat even distribution among all traffic, so chances are if one of your packets gets dropped the copy won't get dropped - instead someone else's packet gets dropped.
Redundant Transmission of All Packets? RTAP(tm), it's mine, they can't use it!
It's obvious that they're all about the business here.
"Powered by Lag and Latency Reduction (LLR) Technology"
"Future-Proof: Field Upgradeable"
"UltimatePing(tm)"
"MaxFPS(tm)"
"FNA(tm)"
"GameFirst(tm)"
"PingThrottle(tm)"
Seriously, who else but a marketting department would think that it's a good idea to trademark a name describing everything "new" that your product does? And the page is so full of TLAs (three letter acronyms) that you need a glossary to read it.
So, yes, I'd have to weigh in with everyone else, it's snakeoil. Basically, any product designed entirely by a marketting group is going to be snakeoil, and this definitely was.
The entire concept of these FNApps also strikes me as a route to evil; I heard a subtext of "Now, even the most clueless Windows gamer with too much money can run packet scanning cheating tools with no chance of detection!".
Ooo... something even bigger of an issue also. Now black hats don't even have to own your real computer to use you as a zombie, they can just own your NIC.
person who actually fell for buying one of these: "Why is my network so laggy? I thought this $250 NIC was supposed to help with that?"
person running packet sniffer: "Oh, here's your problem, you're part of a DDoS on killernic.com
OMG, they named it the "KillerNIC"? Like, does this kind of advertising actually work?
"This NIC is so hardcore it KILLED SOMEONE!"
I can just imagine their second version coming with a muzzle a la Silence of the Lambs.
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrGgggggggggggggggg gggg!!!!
Wouldn't have just said it, rather than write it down?
Perhaps he was dictating...
The only kind of bad DRM hardware is the kind that stops users playing, modifying or distributing their _own_ stuff cheaply and easily*. That's the real issue.
:P
Right, except that an effective DRM would enforce copyright indefinitely. That's the big problem with it, is that it stomps on fair-use, and it effectively extends copyrights longer than they should be allowed. If "Gone With The Wind" had been protected by an effective DRM in Australia, then Project Gutenburg Australia would never be able to distribute it, even after it becomes Public Domain.
Seriously, copyrights aren't meant to last forever, and it's not OK to tell me that I can only listen to my song on the CD that you sold it to me on. No, I bought a license to listen to the song, not to only listen to the song when where and how you want me to listen to the song.
_That_ is the real issue.