And these are the same people who are ironically demanding freedom of speech and the right to be skeptical about AGW... in the very same breath they demonise anyone who provides credible evidence for AGW. Hypocrites.
I've never understood the Republicans' fear of "frightening expansion of government" while in the same breath they're happy to have the government track and monitor their every move in the interests of national security and tell them what they can and can not watch or read in the interests of morality.
It doesn't make sense. How can you not trust them to give basic services and necessities to the poor, but you can seemingly trust them to listen in on your every move and tell you exactly what you can and can not do?
Isn't the whole point of government to provide services to the community, as opposed to being a nanny?
As stated on Q&A, the vast majority (at least 80%) of legislation is passed through the House of Reps unanimously. Only the contentious legislation is held up for debate.
The ignorant masses need to watch quality current affairs and quality interviews once in a while rather than Today Tonight "OMG the Murdoch media empire said something bad about Labor so it must be true we're all going to die thanks to Labor now lets see how Masterchef is doing".
Actually it has NOT been overturned yet. The South Australian Attorney-General declared that he would scrap the laws AFTER the upcoming election. Now this is assuming that he and his party will still be in power after the election (a big assumption indeed).
If he isn't then I'll bet my chops that the Conservatives who are then in power will do everything they can to retain the draconian law.
The guy who was running it at the time had been bitten and taken to hospital something like 6-7 times (as of that time - I'm sure the counter would have gone up by now) - Steve Irwin eat your heart out. That photo looks like it may still be the same bloke.
Have to agree with other replies to your post - I was similar to you when I was a kid, (I'm only 31 so they were well before my time) but if you haven't already, please try starting at the end (Abbey Road) and working your way backwards chronologically with Let It Be and the White Album. You may be surprised. I dislike and still dislike their early works, which was next to canned pop.
The middle years (from Rubber Soul onwards) certainly improved dramatically but not until I picked up Sergeant Pepper's did I discover that I loved their music.
Now I am one of the last people to defend Telstra, but this smacks of Conroy's handiwork.
1) Telstra refuses to participate in "live" trials of Conroy's much-maligned internet filter. 2) Telstra denied chance to bid for national broadband network based on a technicality.
I'm with you on this one - I have voted and defended Labour my entire life. This is the one big straw that has broken this Camel's back. I still despise Libs, but now also despise Labour.
In the future my vote and support is going to wherever it will damage Labour the most - I may even have to vote for the despised Libs.
Whereas if it was ex-PM John Howard in charge, the kid would have been used as an example of the evils of technology, so that police need to be given unrestricted powers to access school and home computers to monitor children's surfing activities (they may turn out to be terrorists one day).
He would have also ridiculously blamed the previous two Labor governments for inventing computers and for making porn available on the internet.
Finally he would use it as a way of getting reelected by claiming that under a Labor government porn would be rampant, and that only under a Coalition government could it be safely reduced.
(I could also throw in analogies about the Tampa scandal, President Bush ass-kissing, climate-change denial and Iraq but lets leave that for another day)
Sorry for the recurring self-reply, but this is the devil's response to the detail. Sounds like they just had a combined thread/socket concurrency issue.
As the dev primarily responsible I should probably write a technical blog about it. Meanwhile IÂll offer that StacklessIO is a framework that allows us to make things such as asynchronous IO and work that is spawned off to worker threads appear as regular, blocking operations for tasklets in Stackless Python. We then use this to perform asynchronous Winsock operations using IO completion ports. The semantics are not new, but the scheduling framework and the lightweight winsock layer we use are.
the game logic was still handled in the correct order but client network request were sometimes handled very out-of-order by the server.
Found a partial answer to my own question in their forums:
This is a performance boost to all solar systems in that requests you make will reach the server more quickly. The effect is mostly noticeable where the node is heavily loaded and thus Jita has been used as an example.
This will not allow the node to process your requests more quickly though once it reaches the application layer, but you shouldn't have to wait 5 minutes for a module to activate.
I am not an O/S dev, I/O expert or sysadmin so can only guess. Would this mean a new request can jump the I/O queue to give them a faster initial response? Just trying to picture their bottleneck.
Is the technology applicable in the business/database market? If so, without going into the proprietary tech, what bottleneck is it improving on?
As the article is extremely light on actual tech, as a business software dev I'm trying to figure out if these improvements would be applicable in an environment such as ours.
All rumours aside, even just marketing-wise it was probably a mistake on Apple's part to give such similar names to the products. A colloquial name for "Macbook Pro" could very easily be "Mac Pro". Consumers are stupid, don't risk confusing them so easily.
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And these are the same people who are ironically demanding freedom of speech and the right to be skeptical about AGW... in the very same breath they demonise anyone who provides credible evidence for AGW. Hypocrites.
I've never understood the Republicans' fear of "frightening expansion of government" while in the same breath they're happy to have the government track and monitor their every move in the interests of national security and tell them what they can and can not watch or read in the interests of morality.
It doesn't make sense. How can you not trust them to give basic services and necessities to the poor, but you can seemingly trust them to listen in on your every move and tell you exactly what you can and can not do?
Isn't the whole point of government to provide services to the community, as opposed to being a nanny?
As stated on Q&A, the vast majority (at least 80%) of legislation is passed through the House of Reps unanimously. Only the contentious legislation is held up for debate.
The ignorant masses need to watch quality current affairs and quality interviews once in a while rather than Today Tonight "OMG the Murdoch media empire said something bad about Labor so it must be true we're all going to die thanks to Labor now lets see how Masterchef is doing".
My apologies, factors have changed overnight. He will indeed attempt to repeal the laws immediately.
I guess I was just having a hard time believing that common sense could prevail twice in one day....
Actually it has NOT been overturned yet. The South Australian Attorney-General declared that he would scrap the laws AFTER the upcoming election. Now this is assuming that he and his party will still be in power after the election (a big assumption indeed).
If he isn't then I'll bet my chops that the Conservatives who are then in power will do everything they can to retain the draconian law.
Your post brought up memories of this guy, I grew up in the next suburb to this place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Man_of_La_Perouse
The guy who was running it at the time had been bitten and taken to hospital something like 6-7 times (as of that time - I'm sure the counter would have gone up by now) - Steve Irwin eat your heart out. That photo looks like it may still be the same bloke.
The magic of Google.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/3707/mac-os-x-install-silverlight-2-on-non-intel-systems-ie-powerpc-or-osx86-installs/
Have to agree with other replies to your post - I was similar to you when I was a kid, (I'm only 31 so they were well before my time) but if you haven't already, please try starting at the end (Abbey Road) and working your way backwards chronologically with Let It Be and the White Album. You may be surprised. I dislike and still dislike their early works, which was next to canned pop.
The middle years (from Rubber Soul onwards) certainly improved dramatically but not until I picked up Sergeant Pepper's did I discover that I loved their music.
There's some fancy schmancy new technologies called "email" and "pdf".
Why can't the companies use these amazing new technologies?
Now I am one of the last people to defend Telstra, but this smacks of Conroy's handiwork.
1) Telstra refuses to participate in "live" trials of Conroy's much-maligned internet filter.
2) Telstra denied chance to bid for national broadband network based on a technicality.
Coincidence? I hardly think so.
Or more likely, Yoko won't allow it.
I'm with you on this one - I have voted and defended Labour my entire life. This is the one big straw that has broken this Camel's back. I still despise Libs, but now also despise Labour.
In the future my vote and support is going to wherever it will damage Labour the most - I may even have to vote for the despised Libs.
With NVidia's recent performance, perhaps the second chip is merely a backup that will kick in if the first one fails... :P
Whereas if it was ex-PM John Howard in charge, the kid would have been used as an example of the evils of technology, so that police need to be given unrestricted powers to access school and home computers to monitor children's surfing activities (they may turn out to be terrorists one day).
He would have also ridiculously blamed the previous two Labor governments for inventing computers and for making porn available on the internet.
Finally he would use it as a way of getting reelected by claiming that under a Labor government porn would be rampant, and that only under a Coalition government could it be safely reduced.
(I could also throw in analogies about the Tampa scandal, President Bush ass-kissing, climate-change denial and Iraq but lets leave that for another day)
FYI (in case you miss my reply to a different reply)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Or more accurately, his ideas have been studied/proposed since the early 1900s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Gotcha. Possibly only useful for financials (stock markets etc) or anything else massively and instantly interactive. Thanks for the info.
Sorry for the recurring self-reply, but this is the devil's response to the detail. Sounds like they just had a combined thread/socket concurrency issue.
As the dev primarily responsible I should probably write a technical blog about it. Meanwhile IÂll offer that StacklessIO is a framework that allows us to make things such as asynchronous IO and work that is spawned off to worker threads appear as regular, blocking operations for tasklets in Stackless Python. We then use this to perform asynchronous Winsock operations using IO completion ports. The semantics are not new, but the scheduling framework and the lightweight winsock layer we use are.
the game logic was still handled in the correct order but client network request were sometimes handled very out-of-order by the server.
Found a partial answer to my own question in their forums:
This is a performance boost to all solar systems in that requests you make will reach the server more quickly. The effect is mostly noticeable where the node is heavily loaded and thus Jita has been used as an example.
This will not allow the node to process your requests more quickly though once it reaches the application layer, but you shouldn't have to wait 5 minutes for a module to activate.
I am not an O/S dev, I/O expert or sysadmin so can only guess. Would this mean a new request can jump the I/O queue to give them a faster initial response? Just trying to picture their bottleneck.
Is the technology applicable in the business/database market? If so, without going into the proprietary tech, what bottleneck is it improving on?
As the article is extremely light on actual tech, as a business software dev I'm trying to figure out if these improvements would be applicable in an environment such as ours.
Would love to know more.
All rumours aside, even just marketing-wise it was probably a mistake on Apple's part to give such similar names to the products. A colloquial name for "Macbook Pro" could very easily be "Mac Pro". Consumers are stupid, don't risk confusing them so easily.
I don't know why, but this makes me wonder whether anybody bothered writing up an article titled "Black Hole formed at LHC". ;)
deserves nodding up
Agreed, I nodded up whilst reading it, too.
Please respect the will of the many.
By many, you mean yourself of course.
FTFA:
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...] camera can show Martian landscape features as small as a kitchen table
Exactly how big is a kitchen table? Is it an official unit of measurement? While we're at it, how long is a piece of string?
No wonder the original Polar Lander crashed...
X3 Reunion initially had DRM but it was removed in patch 2.0.
I guess the complaints piled up and they gave in - a rare occurrence.