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#1
It's funny how the little things can remind you of who you were, how far you've come, how much you've achieved, how much you've failed.

All it took was the little addition of a "The Number 23" to Netflix to remind me of how much this site, what it stands for, and what stands behind it, meant to me for so long.

It makes me happy, looking over this place, seeing that all the old faces are still here, still responding to the same "But is this serious?" questions with the same mix of seriousness and tomfoolery.

To think, with everything that has changed in the world, even just in my own sphere, that a site about chaos has maintained perhaps the most consistency. Sounds like some high weirdness to me.

Thanks for helping an edgy teen in a time where he needed to be told he wasn't the smartest person in the world, that maybe he should think for his own damn self, and that he shouldn't take everything so damn seriously. It really did help a lot. Life has been very hard since I was here, and maybe I was at least a little bit less of a jackass in how I dealt with things than I would have been.

One can hope.

Or kill me.  :lulz:
#2
Finally a damn update!


The nook has a new version, and adds things like games, faster page turning, A FUCKING WEB BROWSER, free shit while in a store, etc.


Now I have renewed hope that B&N won't leave us with a never updated and slow piece of crap!
#3
Literate Chaotic / Re: reading stuff on your screens
April 11, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on April 10, 2010, 03:04:05 AM
Quote from: Harper on April 10, 2010, 02:44:03 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on April 09, 2010, 03:24:22 PM
when will we get our fabled 'general electronic mobile device'?!

IPAAAD


so, i'm woefully ignorant on the ipad hype....
this thing has phone?  is it locked to one carrier like the iphone was/is?

also,  it needs e ink for teh book reading!
and it needs to fit in my pocket and have  a 12" screen at a minimum....

It was most likely sarcasm.
#4
Literate Chaotic / Re: reading stuff on your screens
April 10, 2010, 12:32:26 AM
I read articles on a computer all the time, but for anything lengthy like a book I pull out my nook.

Graphics novels such as Transmetropolitan always stay on the computer, of course.
#5
Now you just gotta hope to fuck it doesn't get pregnant and lay thousands of babies =D
#6
Techmology and Scientism / Re: The Girl who never Grew
February 09, 2010, 10:59:13 PM
Has this affected her mind in any way? I mean, it said she cannot talk, but can she write? I also wonder if she can understand baby-speech.
#7
Quote from: Requia ☣ on February 07, 2010, 12:23:25 AM
its hard to cram graphics power into a low power poorly cooled device like a laptop.

that is what I was responding to. I probably should have indicated that lol...
#8
Quote from: Requia ☣ on February 07, 2010, 12:23:25 AM
I meant that the IBM chip could game.

graphics power normally has little to do with processors because well...

high end intel i7 ~60 GFlops

50$ low end ATI card ~90 Gflops.

A good processor will give a system that little extra something, but its the graphics power that really does it, and its hard to cram graphics power into a low power poorly cooled device like a laptop.

Actually the new Nvidia ION processor can play most games on medium. Hell, it can even play Crysis on low.

So I would suggest getting that if you want awesome graphics in a small laptop.
#9
Quote from: Requia ☣ on February 06, 2010, 07:01:49 PM
I should explain that these won't necessarily make anything faster, I'm not sure about what Kai mentions, but for general day to day computing   The only things a normal person might do that would be made faster by one of these is video encoding and gaming (the stuff will be very rapidly adapted to graphics cards no doubt).

Bottlenecks on the RAM, Hard drive, and network still remain.  Though Parkinson's law has never been wrong yet, so expect to need to buy one of these in order to run Windows 9.

From what Kai said I assume that it is an algorithm, in which case an increase in CPU speed would vastly decrease the time it takes for the algorithm to be completed.
#10
Solution to Google-books:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

I am SO happy I remembered this site.
#11
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2010, 04:34:02 PM
Quote from: GA on January 31, 2010, 03:54:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2010, 02:37:03 PM
You say "runs windows" like that is a feature, and not a bug.

If it can run windows, that would seem to imply that there is a way to install a different version of windows on it, which would seem to imply that there was a way to install an arbitrary operating system on it, which would mean that the thing has been "unlocked."

Put like that, it sounds better.  Still, "has windows" is not exactly a selling point, and I say that as a Windows user.

Eh, as opposed to this Iphone Os shit, it is a major step up.

But you can always have this for $200 bucks less, and it runs linux: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
#13
By the way...

Go look up the archos 9

$500 cooler looking, better named ipad that CAN multitask and runs windows.

#14
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on January 29, 2010, 07:59:40 PM
OK, I am generally speaking a pretty big fan of the three apple products I own right now. However, I completely fail to see why anyone would buy this totally ridiculous monstrosity and not a $300 Netbook.

As for comparing it to a Kindle or other e-reader, that's ludicrous simply because the whole point of e-readers is the special no-eyestrain screens, right? And no multitasking? What the shit?


Hell, with the nook you can even be downloading a book and reading a different one at the same time.

A friggin book reader has more multi-tasking than the ipad.
#15
Techmology and Scientism / Re: dwarf fortress.
January 23, 2010, 05:00:13 AM
Quote from: GA on January 21, 2010, 08:48:27 PM
The next version of DF is likely to come out before March is through.  I'd recommend waiting till then if you want to try it - a lot of stuff is getting streamlined, and a lot of stuff is getting more Fun.  (in DF terminology, "Losing is Fun.", aka, more ways lose an entire fortress of dwarves.)

Right now the major problem is that the size of your fortress is basically limited by your processor.  As in, the game drops to 9-10 fps if you mine out a significant fraction of your mountain, or attempt to do any kind of hydro-engineering.  Apparently the game tries to keep every single object on the map in memory, so if you have 100 000 chunks of rock laying around, it keeps all of those loaded, and checks through the entire list when a dwarf needs something.  And if designate a large area to be deforested, or mined out, or what-have-you, it keeps every job in memory (which can easily be several thousand jobs, as it considers mining out a 50x50 area to be 2500 separate "mine this 1x1 tile" jobs) and apparently the computational complexity of "which tile should the dwarf mine next" is worse than O(n) or something.

But on the other hand, it has a thermodynamics engine.  As in, one day I was tired of all the random granite boulders laying around my fort (as it was choking up CPU time), so I opened up the clear-text data files, changed the boiling point of granite to 0K, and reloaded the game.  Every chunk of granite turned into "Vaporized Granite" or something, as I expected.  What I didn't expect was that every dwarf who was underground at the time would freeze solid, as the granite presumably lowered the ambient temperature into the lower Kelvins.  

Things like this make me happy that I have 4 gigs of ram.