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I spent a couple of years in grad school studying theoretical physics, and this is an excellent learning book.

There's a dial-up modem/router called wiflyer... http://www.amazon.com/Always-O...

Back in 1981-1983 when I was local support team leader for Space Studies Institute in Miami, FL promoting the idea of space colonies among the locals, one of the slides we showed was of this artist's conception of a Single Stage to Orbit Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing system proposed by Boeing to loft solar power satellites into LEO. This vehicle also appeared in Gerard O'Neill's original edition of "The High Frontier" that Jeff Bezos probably read while he was becoming the valedictorian of his high school class.

Looking at Bezos's New Shepherd Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing vehicle you might think that somewhere along the line Jeff caught a glimpse of Boeing's old design.

But it shouldn't cost $100 for the difference between the two anyway. It's a $650 phone. It should have 64 GB by default, or have 32 GB and have the option of an SD Card. You only say that 16 GB is fine because it's $100 for the next level up. That's almost the same price as a 128 GB micro SD Card (currently 109.99). There's no reason why they should be charging you $100 for 16 GB upgrade in the first place.

It's Apple, so it won't have an SD card for the forseeable future.

They make the 16GB version to entice people to get the 64GB version. 16GB is fine if you mostly stream all your data, but if you have many games, utilities or productivity apps, then 16 is cutting it close. But if the entry level was 32GB, then nobody would get the 64GB.

The 128GB will sell regardless, since the people who buy those have a different set of priorities then a normal user. (Mostly for bragging rights, and the "I just NEED to have 40 hours of video available because I'm never sure about my mood")

But it shouldn't cost $100 for the difference between the two anyway. It's a $650 phone. It should have 64 GB by default, or have 32 GB and have the option of an SD Card. You only say that 16 GB is fine because it's $100 for the next level up. That's almost the same price as a 128 GB micro SD Card (currently 109.99). There's no reason why they should be charging you $100 for 16 GB upgrade in the first place.

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-...

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
SanDisk's liability is limited to replacement of product or refund.
*30 years warranty in regions not recognizing lifetime limited.

NOBODY has a warranty of data readability. even enterprise grade SDLT tapes have no warranty of the data being readable more than 30 milliseconds after being written. They will just replace the tape if "defective".

The first couple of chapters of this book explain the decision making behind the syntax which really helps. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-...

A blu-ray M-Disc is now available. Put them in a fire safe (e.g. this one.

Even with just a single copy, I think this has a better chance of surviving the next 25 years than assuming that you will never fail to copy the data to the next hard disks before the old ones die over that entire period. Or that the cloud storage provider you choose will not go out of business.

And you should be able to find readers for this. For some applications there is good reason to have some kind of storage medium that is completely passive and has no electronics as part of it. And unless something changes in the laws of physics it will probably be optical. While they may shrink is size over time, for archival use a 12cm disc seems like a convenient form factor, doesn't it? So I think these holographic nanodispersion dense wavelength multiplexing diffraction-limit beating wonders will still be be backward compatible with the ancient "blue ray" format.

To me, they're sounding more and more like the Ministry Of Truth.

The cameras like that already exist - all that's needed is adding an accelerometer to one to detect the shot being fired.

> The observable universe exists.

At last, something people of faith and without can agree on.

> Prove to me that happened without a creator.

Why? Is it not enough to accept that it exists? Events in time require a cause, but does existence itself require a cause? Is non-existence even possible? The Bible doesn't answer these questions.

> Where did the vacuum come from, and where did the quantum fluctuations come from?

Those are good questions, but we don't have good answers. Read Lawrence Krauss's book on the subject for a good exploration. Caveat: his definition of "nothing" is more like "potential for something." Not everyone accepts that definition.

> If your going to walk around and say that believing in a creator is incorrect, then prove that existence exists without being created.

First you prove that existence hasn't always existed. Good luck!

Science is agnostic. It makes no statements about God, gods or Non-gods. Science doesn't need to place value on anything.

All true, in some strict sense. But...

Science lacks something that gives religion a ridiculous amount of power: narrative. (shameless plug) I wrote a book exploring this subject: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-...

The gist of my argument is--in the terms of TFA--is that "Spockism" lacks narrative hooks, while "Kirkism" is full of them. "Science fiction" is an attempt to give science narrative power, and sometimes it really works, but it needs to be continually renewed because unlike religion science moves and changes and grows, so each generation needs its new Asimov or Heinlein or Clarke.

First thing I did when I got my S3 was get a double sized battery (2900mAh) from Amazon. Hell, for $40 you can get a 7000mAh for it. http://www.amazon.com/warranty...

This indeed. I have pfSense running on one of these with a 60 Gig SSD drive. If it wasn't for the cat trying to hide behind it I wouldn't even know it was there and running.

The above is a rather nice little box. At half this price I would buy two.

I was going to reply to the original poster that if he had to ask
he could not get there from here. The above system has the
critical two Gig-E network ports. He would have to install
and learn how to administer a linux system or install a pile of odd
things on top of an IMO fragile WindowZ OS. Full blown Win-Server
software that can get the job done costs more than the hardware.

The best bet is to run the router that the ISP gives you and
then use that as the basic firewall and allow one port
access inside to a machine that runs VPN software.
That machine could be the above or it could be anything
else.

The obvious other place to start is to Google for "gig-e router vpn".
When shopping VPN solutions make sure all three bits are
working.... Client, server, firewall...

VPNs are interesting... they punch a hole in a firewall that
once inside other security must be in place. Badly structured
VPN solutions increase the footprint and enable many
worms, viruses and other cruft to run free.

Well structured good things happen.

This indeed. I have pfSense running on one of these with a 60 Gig SSD drive. If it wasn't for the cat trying to hide behind it I wouldn't even know it was there and running.

Since your question was not clear as to whether you wanted to connect to a vpn for outgoing traffic encryption, or to provide secure access to your home network, I will assume that you want both. I've got a zyxel usg50 at home and a usg100 at my office and they have been able to handle everything I have thrown at them. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042.... I was also pleased that when the whole Heartbleed fiasco appeared, the zywall firmware was not vulnerable at all. Dual WAN connections are supported which lets me use both my AT&T Uverse and Charter Cable internet access with load balancing. The only negative that I can note are the several features on the zywall that require monthly subscriptions. But, since I don't use those, there is no loss to me.

In the past, I have built my own firewalls either on dedicated hardware, or as a vm on an esxi hypervisor, from Linux ipchains to netfilter to BSD pfSense. While I love to roll my own, having such a critical piece of infrastructure as dedicated hardware has made life much easier.

Get your friends to read a two time CMH recipient marine general

I just checked and you're right. Amazon got rid of that $99/yr developer program fee on August 20, 2013.

Furthermore you might consider linking to the source material you cite rather than an editorial in a random non-peer reviewed website that refers negatively to statin drugs as "mainstream medicine". That is not what I would consider an unbiased or credible source and it casts your argument in a worse light than it probably deserves.

I've done extensive research in this area for myself and family's health. There is a LOT more to it, but I recommend eliminating wheat to everyone, because candida overgrowth can cause so many issues, and it's fed by wheat and sugar. I'm advocate because of the huge health benefits WE have seen for ourselves. There is not room here to go posting the volumes of research I have, but a good place to start is William Davis' book Wheat Belly.

Let's not forget that the best estimates for the death of communist regimes killing their own people is right around 100 million people. Both The Black Book of Communism and R.J. Rummel's Death by Government come up with roughly the same number of people killed.

Communism is incompatible with both human rights and a healthy economy, and never has, never can, and never will meet the needs of its own people or offer better lives than those under capitalism.

Embargoes have nothing to do with it...

Let's not forget that the best estimates for the death of communist regimes killing their own people is right around 100 million people. Both The Black Book of Communism and R.J. Rummel's Death by Government come up with roughly the same number of people killed.

Communism is incompatible with both human rights and a healthy economy, and never has, never can, and never will meet the needs of its own people or offer better lives than those under capitalism.

Embargoes have nothing to do with it...

There's this "Sun" bombarding the planet with energy, constantly.

There is a second ever-present energy source to consider: gravity. The book "The Arrow of Time : A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery" made a lasting impression on me of the importance of gravity in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the development of life.

Almost had me there article! Until you said the most evil words known to man... "statistical technique". AKA "bullshit"

Bayesian statistics is far from bullshit.

I suggest you read up on it.

You can do some really cool stuff with it.
Testing if a coin flip is fair.
Correct images.
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> Have you priced those kinds of desks?

Have you priced what a mid-range office chair costs? $800-$1000.

Office furniture is super-expensive. Probably at least in part due to being able to take a tax write-off.

Sony sells a walkman branded mp3 player with a scroll wheel.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NWZ...

It's not quite as good as the Apple wheel because you just press on the side of the wheel instead of spinning it. That's the only bad thing otherwise it's basically the same.

If you start a dialogue with a sales rep at AWS, they have a log of diagrams and detailed technical material they will share.

You can also look around at http://aws.amazon.com/document..., as there is a lot of good technical material there.

"The use of Netflix on AWS is well documented. Start here: AWS Case Study: Netflix"

I was hoping for some diagrams and detailed textual analysis. I read somewhere that Netflix originality went with the 'Cloud' but quality-of-service was so poor, they had to go out and build their own content delivery backend.

The use of Netflix on AWS is well documented.

Start here: http://aws.amazon.com/solution...

A search of www.merriam-webster.com returns: the word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. So you are correct, this is not an official English word.

But its de facto use is seen at:
http://gapp.usc.edu/graduate-p...
http://aws.amazon.com/training...
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~al...

Lookif selfie can be a word, why can’t we let architecting in?

"There is also the question of how good a job they do with encrypting the data."

Most let you manage your own keys. So as long as you have a reasonable key management, it's up to YOU, not the provider.

"Are there regular security audits by an outside party who can affirm that the things the cloud company claims are in fact accurate?"

For the big players, yes. http://aws.amazon.com/complian.... Also "AWS has achieved ISO 27001 certification and has been validated as a Level 1 service provider under the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). We undergo annual SOC 1 audits and have been successfully evaluated at the Moderate level for Federal government systems as well as DIACAP Level 2 for DoD systems."

Every one of those compliances requires auditing.

"What happens when an employee leaves the company? How is access controlled to prevent continued access?"

You federate your enterprise IAM with your cloud provider. Most support some form of SAML or OAuth. ADFS (an MS product) supports such things easily. You terminate the employee in your normal system and their IAM account is terminated. Also, you don't give deep credentials to most people but rather wrap them in services. You then stash those credentials in a secret/key server.

"To me, cloud is all smoke and mirrors."

That is because you haven't done the required reading.

In The Golem, Collins and Pinch argue that science does indeed advance by consensus. I won't attempt to summarise the book here, but it's worth a read. They provide several high-profile examples to back up their points.

If we were, we wouldn't see so much "just asking questions" about things with well established answers.

Also worth mentioning, sometimes asking questions about established answers is one of the best ways to find new knowledge. I read a book about neuroscience recently, and the author said, "writing this book made me re-examine the basis of why we believe what we do, to figure out what the evidence is supporting these ideas." If you use their questioning as a motivation to understand more, then it will make you smarter. If you see it as merely an argument, then that's all it will be.

Incidentally, I have no idea what the summary is talking about. How is a dead fictional author even relevant here when we're talking about Von Neumann and Aristotle?

Fortunately, I still have a "backup" mercury thermometer that's close to 40 years old - but I've wondered where to buy a backup for the backup should it meet an untimely demise.

You should consider replacing it with a readily-available spirit thermometer, e.g. this one. Spirit thermometers have a smaller temperature range that they can measure than mercury thermometers, but are often more accurate over that range, and if you just want one for medical purposes, you're not interested in any temperatures outside a very narrow range anyway. Plus, when that untimely demise eventually happens, it won't create a health hazard that requires careful cleanup.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr... I have a couple of these for various reasons (where did i put it this time.....)

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg...

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun...
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipm...

http://disciplinedminds.tripod...

From the last:
"Who are you going to be? That is the question.
      In this riveting book about the world of professional work, Jeff Schmidt demonstrates that the workplace is a battleground for the very identity of the individual, as is graduate school, where professionals are trained. He shows that professional work is inherently political, and that professionals are hired to subordinate their own vision and maintain strict "ideological discipline."
      The hidden root of much career dissatisfaction, argues Schmidt, is the professional's lack of control over the political component of his or her creative work. Many professionals set out to make a contribution to society and add meaning to their lives. Yet our system of professional education and employment abusively inculcates an acceptance of politically subordinate roles in which professionals typically do not make a significant difference, undermining the creative potential of individuals, organizations and even democracy.
      Schmidt details the battle one must fight to be an independent thinker and to pursue one's own social vision in today's corporate society. He shows how an honest reassessment of what it really means to be a professional employee can be remarkably liberating. After reading this brutally frank book, no one who works for a living will ever think the same way about his or her job."

Yes, it's pricey -- $2500 gets a workable used car off the local Craigslist. However, it's crazy cheap, if you use the time machine in your brain to think about what the equivalent display would have cost (if it existed) one, five, or 20 years ago ...

In fact, $2500 is just about what Silicon Graphics' 1600SW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_1600SW) cost when it came out. And that was in 1998 dollars :) (According to this online calculator http://www.usinflationcalculat..., flawed as it is to compare tech items over time by clumsy measures of inflation, that would make it more than $3600 worth of monitor, then.) That is, $3654 *now* has about the purchasing power that $2500 did *then* ...

It is a good example of how that kind of "value of dollar" calculation is a poor measure for technology under rapid developement, though: the backwards calculation is nothing like equivalent. That is, a 17" LCD panel (ignoring things like that today you'd probably want HDMI or other modern input) with 1600x1200 resolution would *not* cost the "dollar equivalent of $2500," which works out to be about $1710 1998 dollars. More like ... what, $100-150? Seems fair; random Amazon hit does even better: http://www.amazon.com/Asus-VE2...

  Not to say that "anything in the now is cheap if the equivalent would have cost more at some point in the past when you were facing a different set of constraints" ... things are complicated. But calling this pricey is only true in relation to *other* things that have meanwhile hugely improved. For instance, it might not seem worth the price of 5 of these: http://www.amazon.com/PB278Q-2... ... unless 5K makes sense because it helps you resolve details on an X-ray or some other special purpose.

Yes, it's pricey -- $2500 gets a workable used car off the local Craigslist. However, it's crazy cheap, if you use the time machine in your brain to think about what the equivalent display would have cost (if it existed) one, five, or 20 years ago ...

In fact, $2500 is just about what Silicon Graphics' 1600SW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_1600SW) cost when it came out. And that was in 1998 dollars :) (According to this online calculator http://www.usinflationcalculat..., flawed as it is to compare tech items over time by clumsy measures of inflation, that would make it more than $3600 worth of monitor, then.) That is, $3654 *now* has about the purchasing power that $2500 did *then* ...

It is a good example of how that kind of "value of dollar" calculation is a poor measure for technology under rapid developement, though: the backwards calculation is nothing like equivalent. That is, a 17" LCD panel (ignoring things like that today you'd probably want HDMI or other modern input) with 1600x1200 resolution would *not* cost the "dollar equivalent of $2500," which works out to be about $1710 1998 dollars. More like ... what, $100-150? Seems fair; random Amazon hit does even better: http://www.amazon.com/Asus-VE2...

  Not to say that "anything in the now is cheap if the equivalent would have cost more at some point in the past when you were facing a different set of constraints" ... things are complicated. But calling this pricey is only true in relation to *other* things that have meanwhile hugely improved. For instance, it might not seem worth the price of 5 of these: http://www.amazon.com/PB278Q-2... ... unless 5K makes sense because it helps you resolve details on an X-ray or some other special purpose.

Modern cloth diapers, while expensive, are very easy to use, and contain waste as well as disposable diapers. They pay for themselves in a reasonably short time and prevent all of this landfill waste.

Our daughter was premature, and we used disposables until she was large enough to move into the "one size" BumGenius diapers we got from our registry. I think we have ~20 of them, which means about $340 spent and a 3ish day supply without laundry. When we're done with them, though, we can resell them - yes, they have resale value.

The alternative we would be using is $0.21 each, so we'll break even after 245 or so days. Larger disposable diapers are more expensive so the savings will grow with time, not shrink, and the cloth ones are very adjustable.

Modern cloth diapers, while expensive, are very easy to use, and contain waste as well as disposable diapers. They pay for themselves in a reasonably short time and prevent all of this landfill waste.

Our daughter was premature, and we used disposables until she was large enough to move into the "one size" BumGenius diapers we got from our registry. I think we have ~20 of them, which means about $340 spent and a 3ish day supply without laundry. When we're done with them, though, we can resell them - yes, they have resale value.

The alternative we would be using is $0.21 each, so we'll break even after 245 or so days. Larger disposable diapers are more expensive so the savings will grow with time, not shrink, and the cloth ones are very adjustable.

Lee Smolin is one of the tiny minority of physicists who are genuinely thinking about the major problems of the field. I would also recommend Three Roads To Quantum Gravity.

Another I quite respect is Frank Close. I found Nothing: A Very Short Introduction to be quite thought provoking. And that is the point, by the way. Good physics, and in general good science writing, should be above all thought provoking.

Take a look on Amazon for the HP50G for $87. It reviews well, and the top reviewer appreciates the feel of the keys. I bought an HP35S for the PE exam a few years ago, and keep it for a backup in case my 48GX dies, but I don't really like it. Unless it's directly on a desk surface*, it frequently misses the "enter" and the "+" keys. You can imagine, I'm sure, that missing any key can be a real pain in the ass. Also, the stack on the HP35S is frequently too small for my needs; doing simple statistical work on it sucks; it has very little unit conversion; and, memory available for programs is just too damn small.

I've been waiting, but you may have helped me make up my mind to buy the 50G, instead of trying to find a used 48GX

I also noticed that HP is making one that they call the "prime." It sells for $115, and I have no idea about the keys. The top reviewer on Amazon loves the thing to death, but mentions that "RPN Mode" needs more work. If "RPN Mode" needs more work, I'm not sure that it'll be all that useful for me.

*I tend to put my calculator on my engineering pad, or perhaps on a reference book while I'm doing calculations.

Ten years later, the base model still has 480 kilobytes of ROM and 24 kilobytes of RAM, its black-and-white screen remains 96x64 pixels, and the MSRP is still $150

I really hate it when people pass off misinformation.

As tempting as it is to call the black and white version the base model, it doesn't appear to be manufactured any longer.

Which means that the current base model is the version that has with 3.5 megabytes ROM and 21 kilobytes RAM, with a color screen that is 320x240 screen. The calculator also has a rechargeable battery (type unknown) and an MSRP of $140.

You can find this information (except the MSRP) on this chart.

Incidentally, Amazon US currently sells the color LCD model (black) for $104. Other colors seems to cost more.

Oops, that's 0.47 TB for $19.45, which is $41.38 per terabyte.

Here is 1.25 TB for $22.95, which is $18.36 per terabyte. You won't be able to fit 160 TB of that in a 4U enclosure, but maybe in a filing cabinet.

...I have 160TB in a 4U enclosure which cost something like 20k just for the hardware.

That's $125 per terabyte. Here is 4.7TB for $19.45, which is $4.14 per terabyte.

Provide a link to the damn phone. FAIL.

here it is.

Well if you were wanting just playback and not transcoding I'd suggest the Socket AM1 Athlon quads, at 25w I've been using it for HTPCs and it works great in that role but for what you are wanting to do? honestly I'd probably stay away from the APUs, the "bang for the buck" just isn't there yet. Now please remember that with these recommendations I'm having to work without a LOT of the data I require, for example i don't know how many streams you are wanting to process, budget, etc so I'm just gonna throw some things out there with pretty wide parameters because of this.

That out of the way lets talk parts. For an HTPC with transcoding I'd probably go for an AM3+, you can get a board for just $25 and use the money you save to get FX6300. if you need to go cheaper you can get an FX 4130 Black Edition for $72 or an Athlon X3 450 and if you spent a little more on the board to get one with AAC I've been seeing more than 80% unlocks on that chip, so for $51 for the used you could have an Athlon X4 at 3.2GHz, can't beat that, in fact my youngest has an unlocked 450 and it plays pretty much any game he desires so its got the strength required for transcoding.

Now for graphics I bet you are wondering "Why should I go discrete instead of APU?" and the answer is simple...bandwidth.Remember when you are multitasking, like say watching a video while doing a transcode lets say, that with an APU your RAM is gonna have to be doing double duty by being the buffer for the GPU as well as being the working memory for the CPU that is gonna end up bottlenecking on ya friend, not to mention 4K is seriously heavy on the bandwidth so having a discrete is just a better call. If you are not gaming I'd go with something like this HD6450 for $37 or if you want to go dirt cheap and silent this HD5450 for $20 after MIR. in both cases you get plenty of GPU memory for video buffering, the AMD drivers not only come with codecs that allow hardware acceleration of most formats but also allow drag and drop transcoding to H.264 or VC1, and most importantly you are leaving your options open. Need to process more streams? Well if you started with the X3 you could go to an X6 or even X8 when you spot one on sale. new video format becomes popular? Get a new GPU that has hardware acceleration of that format.

Again remember I'm doing this without a lot of the data I'd normally work with, also remember that the 95w rating when it comes to AMD is the MAX RATING, I've found IRL its a LOT lower. For example my X6 has a TDP of 95w but acording to asrock IES which measures what the board is feeding the CPU with 8 tabs open in Dragon along with several background programs like Steam my chip is pulling between 8.4w-18w and the reason why is simple, more cores means no waiting for jobs so the chip can idle more often. BTW if you want to save even more power? Spend a little more and get an Asrock board as not only do they come with IES which drops the number of phases when idle but they also come with excellent OCing/UCing ability and its trivially easy to underclock an AMD CPU which will naturally lower the power and heat. There are plenty of forums which will show you how to UC an AMD chip, some guys are running sub 1 volt on their AMD quads which can drop a 95w CPU into 45w territory.

Anyway I hope

Well if you were wanting just playback and not transcoding I'd suggest the Socket AM1 Athlon quads, at 25w I've been using it for HTPCs and it works great in that role but for what you are wanting to do? honestly I'd probably stay away from the APUs, the "bang for the buck" just isn't there yet. Now please remember that with these recommendations I'm having to work without a LOT of the data I require, for example i don't know how many streams you are wanting to process, budget, etc so I'm just gonna throw some things out there with pretty wide parameters because of this.

That out of the way lets talk parts. For an HTPC with transcoding I'd probably go for an AM3+, you can get a board for just $25 and use the money you save to get FX6300. if you need to go cheaper you can get an FX 4130 Black Edition for $72 or an Athlon X3 450 and if you spent a little more on the board to get one with AAC I've been seeing more than 80% unlocks on that chip, so for $51 for the used you could have an Athlon X4 at 3.2GHz, can't beat that, in fact my youngest has an unlocked 450 and it plays pretty much any game he desires so its got the strength required for transcoding.

Now for graphics I bet you are wondering "Why should I go discrete instead of APU?" and the answer is simple...bandwidth.Remember when you are multitasking, like say watching a video while doing a transcode lets say, that with an APU your RAM is gonna have to be doing double duty by being the buffer for the GPU as well as being the working memory for the CPU that is gonna end up bottlenecking on ya friend, not to mention 4K is seriously heavy on the bandwidth so having a discrete is just a better call. If you are not gaming I'd go with something like this HD6450 for $37 or if you want to go dirt cheap and silent this HD5450 for $20 after MIR. in both cases you get plenty of GPU memory for video buffering, the AMD drivers not only come with codecs that allow hardware acceleration of most formats but also allow drag and drop transcoding to H.264 or VC1, and most importantly you are leaving your options open. Need to process more streams? Well if you started with the X3 you could go to an X6 or even X8 when you spot one on sale. new video format becomes popular? Get a new GPU that has hardware acceleration of that format.

Again remember I'm doing this without a lot of the data I'd normally work with, also remember that the 95w rating when it comes to AMD is the MAX RATING, I've found IRL its a LOT lower. For example my X6 has a TDP of 95w but acording to asrock IES which measures what the board is feeding the CPU with 8 tabs open in Dragon along with several background programs like Steam my chip is pulling between 8.4w-18w and the reason why is simple, more cores means no waiting for jobs so the chip can idle more often. BTW if you want to save even more power? Spend a little more and get an Asrock board as not only do they come with IES which drops the number of phases when idle but they also come with excellent OCing/UCing ability and its trivially easy to underclock an AMD CPU which will naturally lower the power and heat. There are plenty of forums which will show you how to UC an AMD chip, some guys are running sub 1 volt on their AMD quads which can drop a 95w CPU into 45w territory.

Anyway I hope

War is an archetypal situation. Once the possibility of one starting develops, it has "suction": people react to the archetype, and that threatens to overwhem rational thought.

Understanding how this happens and effectively countering it is crucial to our future survival. My (highly speculative) contribution to the debate, in which I suggest that what you call an archetype can in fact be understood as a kind of living being pursuing its own evolutionary interests: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-...

Does that help?

Yes, that helps, since these sources contradict many of the "facts", and the main theme, of TFA:

- His book The Insurrectionist was published more than three years ago.
- School authorities have been aware of the book since it was first published.
- His book had little or no influence on the decision to place him on administrative leave.
- The main reason for his suspension was a "bizarre" four page letter that he wrote to county officials, that raised mental health concerns.
- He has not been arrested, and is not being charged with any offence (TFA does not say he was, buy many commenters here have assumed this).
- It does not appear that his mental health evaluation was mandatory or coerced in anyway other than as a condition of returning to work.

So it appears that there were some legitimate concerns about his mental health, and that authorities' response to those concerns was measured and reasonable.

These guys are all trained to need carbs, I wonder when they will catch on to the idea of eating fat instead of carbs, chances are their performance would increase tremendously and probably be easier on their metabolism. To go ketogenic (the goal), they would have to cut out virtually all carbs.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-...