I didn't get any of the MetaGame from the article, so the best I can figure is that suppose you were indeed a deadly hotshot at Lagoon, the champion might know 5 machimes, and stick the results on Knight Rider or something.
Ramdom Guess here, but certain people can be am expert at any one machine, so if the Champ plays the MetaGame right, his 3rd best machine might leave you ruined.
There was a nervous article recently that Intel wasn't sure they could keep the nice pretty line of Moore's Law this time. Maybe if we spent a cycle Super-Optimizing Windows code and maybe better onboard chip communication (I am not a hardware guy) we'd see an effective Moore's Law datapoint and give Intel the 3 years they need.
For the longest time everyone was boasting that we didn't need to optimize 'cuz programmer time was too expensive. Then 2006 happened to Microsoft. To be fair, Win7 is absolutely in that direction, but what about one more aggressive optimization cycle?
Alamazadarnit, your quote illustrates the whole problem. Been there, solved that.
I have Attention problems. I spent about five years semi-scientifically describing its effects down to the activity parsing level.
If someone has ADD, (*Note the missing H - there are multiple variants!), they get called "moron". Getting called "moron" is what makes you depressed. So an SSRI is a total disaster! What's the chief side effect of SSRI's? Lethargic fatigue! So it makes you more of a "moron".
If the guy has ADD, FIX the ADD. Ritalin, Strattera, custom natural cocktails, whatever. But get the guy thinking straight so he isn't called "moron", and watch him magically stop being depressed.
I just giggled at these comments, where everyone's saying "Ubuntu just works"... except in upgrades. It's like a fancy haircut from a stylist that just works, except you can't duplicate it the following evening for your date.
Just updating things like Open Office and Firefox caused dependency clashes - sorry, that's totally unacceptable. I met my share of the version upgrade bugs too.
The "boring" search box stopped being useful to me... in 1998. I have had a link to Yahoo Advanced search close by on my home jump-pages. Then you just type your phrase in the second line which is "this exact phrase". If you want "Independent Film"... you got "Independent Film" plus some weirdly wildcard SEO'ed pages.
Lately I have found a use for Yahoo as an Anti-Google in the Privacy Wars. I am still just fine with my Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Advanced Search, and a couple of other Yahoo items.
Only this year have I begun to check some Google Search pages, but only if the Yahoo Search sinks.
Abstract: That there is a coalesced short list of Goatse troll links.
Goatse is one of those Pictures Worth a Thousand Nightmares. Christmas Island was the original host of the site, but they since took steps to remove their copy, and then the domain bounced around for a while. Currently someone is trying to establish a Goatse email.
The successor "True Goatse" for trolling appears to be the French copy. Other copies exist, but they are generally not used on Slashdot.
One option might be something ultra-obscure, not prone to dictionary attacks, but "locatable" on emergency. I had a password set to fhqwhgads for a while.
I put "Just-Works" in quotes trying to add some of that auxilliary connotation that's been floating around the news stories. Everything kinda works on MS's Windows, selected items work very cleanly on Apple's OS X. That's why those companies are selling stuff.
Linux *can* work very well indeed. I plan on teaching myself some basics in the medium-future at my usual leisurely pace.
But Linux has to get around some learning curve issues. I would put it almost on a dead heat with learning a second language... which most Americans don't do. (I speak a tiny bit of French, now horribly faded with disuse.)
As a moderately bright user, I can avoid most of the help-desk howlers... on Windows. But I was dismayed that simple application updates landed me very quickly in hot water I couldn't get out of.
I'm happy to trade questions with you on email if you felt you had time to watch the process in action.
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I didn't get any of the MetaGame from the article, so the best I can figure is that suppose you were indeed a deadly hotshot at Lagoon, the champion might know 5 machimes, and stick the results on Knight Rider or something.
Ramdom Guess here, but certain people can be am expert at any one machine, so if the Champ plays the MetaGame right, his 3rd best machine might leave you ruined.
Sure there is plenty of room - it's called the other side of the page!
The replacement cost of the twelve Billy Idol songs on license from the RIAA lawsuit is $100,000.
Someone misposted the Obligatory XKCD in the other story when it belongs in this one!
http://xkcd.com/350/
"Vista on Netbooks!"
There was a nervous article recently that Intel wasn't sure they could keep the nice pretty line of Moore's Law this time. Maybe if we spent a cycle Super-Optimizing Windows code and maybe better onboard chip communication (I am not a hardware guy) we'd see an effective Moore's Law datapoint and give Intel the 3 years they need.
For the longest time everyone was boasting that we didn't need to optimize 'cuz programmer time was too expensive. Then 2006 happened to Microsoft. To be fair, Win7 is absolutely in that direction, but what about one more aggressive optimization cycle?
However, I am faced with a total cell hole disaster on AT&T's network, so anything at all would be a quality improvement!
Hiya.
Added to my processing list. I'll drop you a reply note sometime.
Zero Wing II!
+1 Minority Report!
With our without counting "kkleiner writes"?
Alamazadarnit, your quote illustrates the whole problem. Been there, solved that.
I have Attention problems. I spent about five years semi-scientifically describing its effects down to the activity parsing level.
If someone has ADD, (*Note the missing H - there are multiple variants!), they get called "moron". Getting called "moron" is what makes you depressed. So an SSRI is a total disaster! What's the chief side effect of SSRI's? Lethargic fatigue! So it makes you more of a "moron".
If the guy has ADD, FIX the ADD. Ritalin, Strattera, custom natural cocktails, whatever. But get the guy thinking straight so he isn't called "moron", and watch him magically stop being depressed.
P.S. SSRI side effects are in fact nasty.
Steve Jaeeearbs wants HomestarRunner to be ported off Flash, to remove this reason.
You can patent an ass?
"An apparatus for expelling unneeded effluent in a biological organism?"
Aren't SSD's supposed to be way more stable in laptops that get bumped?
This.
I just giggled at these comments, where everyone's saying "Ubuntu just works" ... except in upgrades. It's like a fancy haircut from a stylist that just works, except you can't duplicate it the following evening for your date.
Just updating things like Open Office and Firefox caused dependency clashes - sorry, that's totally unacceptable. I met my share of the version upgrade bugs too.
Offtopic,
I'm getting a Not Found for your sig link.
Western Religion seems to have a problem with this.
That's why the eastern ones are so much more fluid.
So that explains the MS Office Ribbon?
Advanced Search.
The "boring" search box stopped being useful to me ... in 1998. ... you got "Independent Film" plus some weirdly wildcard SEO'ed pages.
I have had a link to Yahoo Advanced search close by on my home jump-pages. Then you just type your phrase in the second line which is "this exact phrase". If you want "Independent Film"
Lately I have found a use for Yahoo as an Anti-Google in the Privacy Wars. I am still just fine with my Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Advanced Search, and a couple of other Yahoo items.
Only this year have I begun to check some Google Search pages, but only if the Yahoo Search sinks.
Abstract: That there is a coalesced short list of Goatse troll links.
Goatse is one of those Pictures Worth a Thousand Nightmares. Christmas Island was the original host of the site, but they since took steps to remove their copy, and then the domain bounced around for a while. Currently someone is trying to establish a Goatse email.
The successor "True Goatse" for trolling appears to be the French copy. Other copies exist, but they are generally not used on Slashdot.
One option might be something ultra-obscure, not prone to dictionary attacks, but "locatable" on emergency. I had a password set to fhqwhgads for a while.
There's something unnerving there too.
Hi Data Point #141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820494459!
Hiya.
I put "Just-Works" in quotes trying to add some of that auxilliary connotation that's been floating around the news stories. Everything kinda works on MS's Windows, selected items work very cleanly on Apple's OS X. That's why those companies are selling stuff.
Linux *can* work very well indeed. I plan on teaching myself some basics in the medium-future at my usual leisurely pace.
But Linux has to get around some learning curve issues. I would put it almost on a dead heat with learning a second language ... which most Americans don't do. (I speak a tiny bit of French, now horribly faded with disuse.)
As a moderately bright user, I can avoid most of the help-desk howlers ... on Windows. But I was dismayed that simple application updates landed me very quickly in hot water I couldn't get out of.
I'm happy to trade questions with you on email if you felt you had time to watch the process in action.
I know!
Through a security flaw, MS discovers the Canonical DB, thus earning a unit count of "enemies"!
The entire point of Linux is the philosophy. There's other choices for the "Just-Works" proprietary synergies.
Is Canonical getting to that "power corrupts" stage?
You set someone up there with a perfect Pink Floyd joke, but I can't find the best algorithm...