"But hey! What do I know after years of VB, VBA programming"
apparently nothing, they compile fine with supposedly the best compilers in.net and C++. If it took out everything it deemed useless, you'd be missing a lot of code and your app wouldn't work. It would waste so much resources determining if that loop variable was "used usefully" anywhere because that's a human term.
lmao! okay okay, I think I've stopped laughing enough to type now. Thanks for proving my point about people with advanced degrees though. You think you're so superior because you know more about stupid useless crap. Oh yeah, you'd meet the needs of your customer by explaining the history of Unix or whatever OS/development system you're using but I agree, do leave the actual program planning and writing to people that know what they're doing. And btw I was the lead, it was an individial project. I finished first partly because I corrected the errors in the database design that the teacher accidentally left in it and only one other person caught it. My strongest point in programming is hearing the problem and coming up with the entire program's design in about a minute in my head. Then unlike others who fumble around and realize the design has flaws while they're coding, I have it all pre-tested in my head and the only thing I can screw up is syntax or if I decide to add unplanned extra features. If I can throw together a perfect program faster than anyone else and have it ready for deployment, what other experience or training could I possibly need? Btw we did learn employment and team skills in 3 different classes for my degree too because they're actually important.
I'm 19, been in college since I was 17 cuz they made me go early since I was so smart. And forget that CS theory bullshit, the department is called IT and that's what's written on the degree. People that go to 4 year colleges for programming are beyond stupid and I've heard many stories of how all that theory and little experience forced them to go to my college for a year before anyone would hire them. But gee, at least they know when C++ was invented and how they decided to name memory addresses. And thank God they got to learn a language that's not used 4 years later when they graduate. Or maybe they got lucky and wasted thousands of dollars on learning about Shakespear, atoms, Africa, grammar, and how to turn on a computer instead and finally got to programming in year 3. I on the other time don't mess around. By the time I have my degree in PC programming/Web Development with a certificate in Web Design, I'll be better at doing my job than any 4 year idiot with a CS degree. Anyway, you sort of missed the entire point of my post which was to show how easy it was to max out the cores. I could have pasted in pages of "usefull" code but then people wouldn't have gotten it as fast. P.S. My sig says that because the teacher, a 15 year programming veteran, and some other crazy expert with natural skills like me all couldn't design the project we were working on as fast as I could and only one other person's was virtually crash proof. If I knew every command there was, I'd be the best at programming in the world but just give me a few years hehehe
lol a stuck up idiot posting on slashdot.
You are new around here aren't you?;)
seriously, what the hell is your problem? Just because you can't program in vb, if at all, doesn't mean it's not a great language. I wrote a complicated, skinned overlay utility for a directx9 game in one day, try doing that in C++. Hell, try doing that at all in C++! I picked vb code to make that example because it was the shortest and easiest to understand so go troll somewhere else.
"they were unable to max out the CPUs" that is ridiculous! On PC's in VB it's pretty simple: dim Processor1Thread as new thread(addressof sub1)
dim Processor2Thread as new thread(addressof sub2)
Processor1Thread.start()
Processor2Thread.start()
dim x as integer
sub sub1()
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
sub sub2()
dim x as integer
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
and repeat for 6 other threads and subs. So they either proved it doesn't really work well at all or programming on a mac is impossibly hard...or they're lying to make it sound more dramatic. So whether they're lying about not maxing it out or they're lying and you just plain can't use all 8 cores at once, it's not as good as it sounds.
computer game lovers say tabletop is ancient and tabletop people say that computer games just don't feel right. I think the best solution in the future would actually prove them both wrong. Someone's eventually going to make a tabletop game with a holographic or VR overlay that hooks into a computer with a system to track real world piece movements and actions and add in explosions and overlays and HUD's and other cool special effects:) That would be the coolest ever!!!! For now I guess I'll just have to stick with a switchboard, electric matches, and tin foil balls of KNO3 and powdered sugar (which has a tendency to light the board on fire)
Last presidential election time a bunch of democrats slashed the tires on vans that a republican group were going to use to transport people who wanted to vote that didn't have transportation. I wouldn't be surprised if they rigged the machines to not work in certain republicany areas.
How about they release a European version with no seucrity and we all sit back with some popcorn and watch as they all get hacked. Not that Microsoft security works or anything but least it makes hacking more challenging and slows em down a bit. I wish I lived in Europe because about a third of my computer repair jobs are caused by Norton.
First of all, if it would lead to inventing a time machine, someone would come from the future and tell us not to worry because it all works out. The fact that nobody did means it's going to suck up the entire world. Oh wait, I forgot, backwards time travel doesn't exist because time is a human created concept and is just an effect on matter like temperature and you can't travel back in temperature either. Other than that ridiculous assertion, there's NO SPECIFIC POINT to this experiment. It's not going to pop out a cure for aids, it just might lead to something kinda cool but maybe not. That's not worth risking the entire planet and everyone on it for. In fact, nothing is. I saw we let Iran finish a nuke then we steal it and drop it on the control center so we can kill two birds with one stone.
"Congress Asks HP for Information"...but, we can't forget the lesser part of the story. They also asked: "Our printer lights are flashing and the motor is whirring and it won't take in any paper, what do we do?"
why doesn't the UN step in and make China stop this 1984 (the book) mass controlling bullshit? Oh and as for "challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing" ummmm money = good and companies = no morals so that kinda explains it right there. If I ran any kind of business I wouldn't just not deal in China, I'd put a label on my product (software or physical) that encourages people to take any potshot they can at China, their computer network, or their government.
I learned this in middle school biology so how is this possibly news? Maybe the blue light part, I dunno. Anyway, you know that movie the Core where all the birds fly into a building cuz the Earth's magnetic field is going whacko? Yeah, they knew it then too.
I think people that say stupid things about people that play MMOG's like they have no social life or they're losers or they shouldn't play so much and need to hang out with "real" people are just plain bigots. It's a stupid stereotype! How hard is it for someone to realize that compared to talking face to face with local friends, talking to someone with a keyboard is no less appropriate and normal than talking to your friends on the phone. In fact, some games have in game chat so I really don't see what could possibly be bad about hanging out with people in an online game or in "real life" (except for the whole exercise thing)
I still think there's going to be enough energy for some certain rare types of high energy particles to fly in and cause nuetrons that are vibrating super fast to split and cause a massive explosion larger than a standard nuke but that's sort of theoretical. Hopefully they'll coat the whole thing in lead anyway because I think plasma gives off gamma radiation too. Of course, you need a lightyear of lead to stop even just 50% of other tiny radiation particles.
Yay! now you can all see me playing Dance Dance Revolution on TV!!! I'll be representing Wisconsin and you all better recognize, biches!:-P hehehe. Then again, I haven't played in a while and yesterday I started coughing up a bit of blood after playing Dead End on maniac:( Those millions of trained expert kids from Connecticut or whatever got nothin on me!
I can definitely comfirm that constant heat in a laptop fries the hard drive. Keeping it at around 140 for a couple weeks damages the hard drive severely! Mine was a compaq though but they're all the same. The main problem with Vista is running the graphics card and processor more when not really running any programs other than the operating system. With no cool down period between games and video encoding and stuff, it's a time bomb without an extra cooling system that basically makes it a desktop.
I just checked eBay and if you bought almost all the repeaters, batteries, wires, and ethernet cables, you could reach it. And then they could sign up for SBC so when they call about it constantly disconnecting, their stupid vans will have to blast off to check the line...but at least they won't be blocking off a busy city intersection to stare and point at the ground every other week.
Solar panels are good and all but if I were them, I'd install the bathrooms, internet connection, and Dance Dance Revolution cuz that would be awesome in space. I just hope someone doesn't appear inside the part they're working on saying that the new part will destroy his universe with exotic particles that don't obey the laws of physics (what? that joke was worth another whirl)
hmm, they're planning on using plasma for fusion. Cold fusion doesn't work yet but hot fusion works just fine. With some of practically every element except francium and irridium (people don't throw away meteorites, they sell them) AND statistically some tritium, I'll be watching the mushroom cloud on CNN. Well okay, they say that you have to...umm...fizz plutonium in order to fuse hydrogen but I still think something not so pretty is going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if an alternate reality president Bush shows up in the containment chamber and warns us that we're creating exotic particles that don't obey the laws of physics in a parallel universe and we have to stop. Then he could technically run for president in 08 because he never held 2 terms in this reality (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you missed the last Stargate Atlantis episode)
the REAL science of eBay is buying 1 pound of potassium nitrate for like $7 and mixing it with a pound of powdered sugar and burning a hole in your friend's road on the 4th of July...not that I'd know or anything.
Wrap 200 feet of wire around them one at a time and connect it to a car battery for a couple seconds. Or just buy some super powered, non-electric magnets like those natural earth magnet thingies from mythbusters. Eh, a stack of walmart ones would probably do it if you stuck them all over drive. I bet if you just plain touched two live wires to the drives, they'd never spin again. Speaking of that, just open them and take the read/write head out. You can also bring them all to the local doctor and blast them with an X-ray machine, I heard that works. If you dipped them in warm lemon juice and they weren't air tight (don't think they are) they'd oxidize all the metals on the inside and make it unreadable but I think they might suspect that's what broke them. Oh and also, MRI scans will probably work too if the X-ray machine is busy. Your local custruction company or junk yard should have one of those magnetic lifter cranes that lifts scrap metal and they might let you stick the drives on there. Hehehe they're using one on a show on TV right now...anyway, one of them should work, have fun.
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"But hey! What do I know after years of VB, VBA programming" .net and C++. If it took out everything it deemed useless, you'd be missing a lot of code and your app wouldn't work. It would waste so much resources determining if that loop variable was "used usefully" anywhere because that's a human term.
apparently nothing, they compile fine with supposedly the best compilers in
lmao! okay okay, I think I've stopped laughing enough to type now. Thanks for proving my point about people with advanced degrees though. You think you're so superior because you know more about stupid useless crap. Oh yeah, you'd meet the needs of your customer by explaining the history of Unix or whatever OS/development system you're using but I agree, do leave the actual program planning and writing to people that know what they're doing. And btw I was the lead, it was an individial project. I finished first partly because I corrected the errors in the database design that the teacher accidentally left in it and only one other person caught it. My strongest point in programming is hearing the problem and coming up with the entire program's design in about a minute in my head. Then unlike others who fumble around and realize the design has flaws while they're coding, I have it all pre-tested in my head and the only thing I can screw up is syntax or if I decide to add unplanned extra features. If I can throw together a perfect program faster than anyone else and have it ready for deployment, what other experience or training could I possibly need? Btw we did learn employment and team skills in 3 different classes for my degree too because they're actually important.
I'm 19, been in college since I was 17 cuz they made me go early since I was so smart. And forget that CS theory bullshit, the department is called IT and that's what's written on the degree. People that go to 4 year colleges for programming are beyond stupid and I've heard many stories of how all that theory and little experience forced them to go to my college for a year before anyone would hire them. But gee, at least they know when C++ was invented and how they decided to name memory addresses. And thank God they got to learn a language that's not used 4 years later when they graduate. Or maybe they got lucky and wasted thousands of dollars on learning about Shakespear, atoms, Africa, grammar, and how to turn on a computer instead and finally got to programming in year 3. I on the other time don't mess around. By the time I have my degree in PC programming/Web Development with a certificate in Web Design, I'll be better at doing my job than any 4 year idiot with a CS degree. Anyway, you sort of missed the entire point of my post which was to show how easy it was to max out the cores. I could have pasted in pages of "usefull" code but then people wouldn't have gotten it as fast.
P.S. My sig says that because the teacher, a 15 year programming veteran, and some other crazy expert with natural skills like me all couldn't design the project we were working on as fast as I could and only one other person's was virtually crash proof. If I knew every command there was, I'd be the best at programming in the world but just give me a few years hehehe
lol a stuck up idiot posting on slashdot. ;)
You are new around here aren't you?
seriously, what the hell is your problem? Just because you can't program in vb, if at all, doesn't mean it's not a great language. I wrote a complicated, skinned overlay utility for a directx9 game in one day, try doing that in C++. Hell, try doing that at all in C++! I picked vb code to make that example because it was the shortest and easiest to understand so go troll somewhere else.
it would have to be something like 1000x faster than my computer to finish that in under an hour so no, it wouldn't
hehehe that may actually be more resource intensive than my suggestion a couple posts up :)
wow, must be night time, I forgot the "next" in each for loop. Other than that, still ridiculous!
"they were unable to max out the CPUs" that is ridiculous! On PC's in VB it's pretty simple:
dim Processor1Thread as new thread(addressof sub1)
dim Processor2Thread as new thread(addressof sub2)
Processor1Thread.start()
Processor2Thread.start()
dim x as integer
sub sub1()
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
sub sub2()
dim x as integer
for x = 0 to 1000000000000000
end sub
and repeat for 6 other threads and subs. So they either proved it doesn't really work well at all or programming on a mac is impossibly hard...or they're lying to make it sound more dramatic. So whether they're lying about not maxing it out or they're lying and you just plain can't use all 8 cores at once, it's not as good as it sounds.
computer game lovers say tabletop is ancient and tabletop people say that computer games just don't feel right. I think the best solution in the future would actually prove them both wrong. Someone's eventually going to make a tabletop game with a holographic or VR overlay that hooks into a computer with a system to track real world piece movements and actions and add in explosions and overlays and HUD's and other cool special effects :) That would be the coolest ever!!!! For now I guess I'll just have to stick with a switchboard, electric matches, and tin foil balls of KNO3 and powdered sugar (which has a tendency to light the board on fire)
Last presidential election time a bunch of democrats slashed the tires on vans that a republican group were going to use to transport people who wanted to vote that didn't have transportation. I wouldn't be surprised if they rigged the machines to not work in certain republicany areas.
What ever happened to the Crazy Taxi movie that was supposedly in the works a couple years ago?
How about they release a European version with no seucrity and we all sit back with some popcorn and watch as they all get hacked. Not that Microsoft security works or anything but least it makes hacking more challenging and slows em down a bit. I wish I lived in Europe because about a third of my computer repair jobs are caused by Norton.
First of all, if it would lead to inventing a time machine, someone would come from the future and tell us not to worry because it all works out. The fact that nobody did means it's going to suck up the entire world. Oh wait, I forgot, backwards time travel doesn't exist because time is a human created concept and is just an effect on matter like temperature and you can't travel back in temperature either. Other than that ridiculous assertion, there's NO SPECIFIC POINT to this experiment. It's not going to pop out a cure for aids, it just might lead to something kinda cool but maybe not. That's not worth risking the entire planet and everyone on it for. In fact, nothing is. I saw we let Iran finish a nuke then we steal it and drop it on the control center so we can kill two birds with one stone.
"Congress Asks HP for Information"...but, we can't forget the lesser part of the story. They also asked: "Our printer lights are flashing and the motor is whirring and it won't take in any paper, what do we do?"
why doesn't the UN step in and make China stop this 1984 (the book) mass controlling bullshit? Oh and as for "challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing" ummmm money = good and companies = no morals so that kinda explains it right there. If I ran any kind of business I wouldn't just not deal in China, I'd put a label on my product (software or physical) that encourages people to take any potshot they can at China, their computer network, or their government.
I learned this in middle school biology so how is this possibly news? Maybe the blue light part, I dunno. Anyway, you know that movie the Core where all the birds fly into a building cuz the Earth's magnetic field is going whacko? Yeah, they knew it then too.
I think people that say stupid things about people that play MMOG's like they have no social life or they're losers or they shouldn't play so much and need to hang out with "real" people are just plain bigots. It's a stupid stereotype! How hard is it for someone to realize that compared to talking face to face with local friends, talking to someone with a keyboard is no less appropriate and normal than talking to your friends on the phone. In fact, some games have in game chat so I really don't see what could possibly be bad about hanging out with people in an online game or in "real life" (except for the whole exercise thing)
I still think there's going to be enough energy for some certain rare types of high energy particles to fly in and cause nuetrons that are vibrating super fast to split and cause a massive explosion larger than a standard nuke but that's sort of theoretical. Hopefully they'll coat the whole thing in lead anyway because I think plasma gives off gamma radiation too. Of course, you need a lightyear of lead to stop even just 50% of other tiny radiation particles.
Yay! now you can all see me playing Dance Dance Revolution on TV!!! I'll be representing Wisconsin and you all better recognize, biches! :-P hehehe. Then again, I haven't played in a while and yesterday I started coughing up a bit of blood after playing Dead End on maniac :( Those millions of trained expert kids from Connecticut or whatever got nothin on me!
I can definitely comfirm that constant heat in a laptop fries the hard drive. Keeping it at around 140 for a couple weeks damages the hard drive severely! Mine was a compaq though but they're all the same. The main problem with Vista is running the graphics card and processor more when not really running any programs other than the operating system. With no cool down period between games and video encoding and stuff, it's a time bomb without an extra cooling system that basically makes it a desktop.
I just checked eBay and if you bought almost all the repeaters, batteries, wires, and ethernet cables, you could reach it. And then they could sign up for SBC so when they call about it constantly disconnecting, their stupid vans will have to blast off to check the line...but at least they won't be blocking off a busy city intersection to stare and point at the ground every other week.
Solar panels are good and all but if I were them, I'd install the bathrooms, internet connection, and Dance Dance Revolution cuz that would be awesome in space. I just hope someone doesn't appear inside the part they're working on saying that the new part will destroy his universe with exotic particles that don't obey the laws of physics (what? that joke was worth another whirl)
hmm, they're planning on using plasma for fusion. Cold fusion doesn't work yet but hot fusion works just fine. With some of practically every element except francium and irridium (people don't throw away meteorites, they sell them) AND statistically some tritium, I'll be watching the mushroom cloud on CNN. Well okay, they say that you have to...umm...fizz plutonium in order to fuse hydrogen but I still think something not so pretty is going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if an alternate reality president Bush shows up in the containment chamber and warns us that we're creating exotic particles that don't obey the laws of physics in a parallel universe and we have to stop. Then he could technically run for president in 08 because he never held 2 terms in this reality (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you missed the last Stargate Atlantis episode)
the REAL science of eBay is buying 1 pound of potassium nitrate for like $7 and mixing it with a pound of powdered sugar and burning a hole in your friend's road on the 4th of July...not that I'd know or anything.
Wrap 200 feet of wire around them one at a time and connect it to a car battery for a couple seconds. Or just buy some super powered, non-electric magnets like those natural earth magnet thingies from mythbusters. Eh, a stack of walmart ones would probably do it if you stuck them all over drive. I bet if you just plain touched two live wires to the drives, they'd never spin again. Speaking of that, just open them and take the read/write head out. You can also bring them all to the local doctor and blast them with an X-ray machine, I heard that works. If you dipped them in warm lemon juice and they weren't air tight (don't think they are) they'd oxidize all the metals on the inside and make it unreadable but I think they might suspect that's what broke them. Oh and also, MRI scans will probably work too if the X-ray machine is busy. Your local custruction company or junk yard should have one of those magnetic lifter cranes that lifts scrap metal and they might let you stick the drives on there. Hehehe they're using one on a show on TV right now...anyway, one of them should work, have fun.