so he makes a deal with the dod to sign away his own technology for 6 thousand dollars, the same dod that allegedly pays 26k bucks for a hammer, he sold himself very short indeed.
then he breaks the contract that he willingly agreed to and ends up in jail, presumably because he is very stupid.
the first time i recall seeing a product that claimed to make books obsolete was in the 1995 issue of popular science "best of whats new" yet here it is over 10 years later and its still a few years away. the thing was the size of a paperback and allegedly had good battery life. whatever.
what would be cheaper, designing and launching 10 probes, or just saving cash and designing and launching a single manned mission?
obviously they would need enough fuel to return home also, and thats that much less payload they can bring. and all the life support equipment, food, and some sort of recreational area. it would have to be pretty large.
it would likely have to be built in orbit, and each launch of the shuttle costs almost twice as much as the entire phoenix mission, so it is prohibitively expensive.
reading this though FMA:
"Like Polar Lander and Climate Orbiter, Phoenix is a relatively low-cost mission. Rather than building "faster, better, cheaper" spacecraft, as had been NASA's aim in the 1990s, Phoenix achieves its savings by narrowly focusing its science agenda to determine one goal: if Mars had organic compounds - the ingredients for life."
isnt most of the cost the fuel, the actual craft it gets there in and materials. would it cost significantly more to tack a few other sensors on?
it would probably break 4k with ease with a good heatsink, the thermalright ultra 120 extreme in particular is the best there is for air, or a nice watercooling setup.
the guy who recieved the cd as a gift did not turn them in, it was some asshole lawyer who read a story about the girls giving the recipient a mix cd that wrote a letter to the riaa. the summary was pretty convoluted though so i can see the misunderstanding. its just funny that he dropped the charges, if it was some average joe, of course the charges wouldnt be brought up in the first place, but the point is that laws dont apply to the wealthy and powerful. if that average joe was charged with the same crime they would spend alot of time and money in court over this bs.
according to anandtech, the thermalright 120 extreme is the best air cooler ever made. that thermaltake thing barely outperforms the tuniq, which is pretty good, but 120 extreme shits on the tuniq all day long. so yea it makes no sense.
well of course not, next time ill be more specific so you wont have to copy a tiny excerpt from my post, and make an irrelevant reply that is out of context to the original idea.
so with that out of the way, what do you think about government grants being used to fund big business? that was after all the actual point of the whole thing, in case you missed it.
"Even defining a specific target for a drug, the drug still has to be developed and put through the approval process. There's a lot of work between this sort of basic research and an actual product."
the thing is though, that if theyre working on something that isnt going to be profitable it gets scrapped, and they move on to something that can be marketed to millions, like nexium or viagra.
the point is that they are getting government grants to do the work, and then they can turn around and sell the product. if theyre getting a free grant, then everything done with the money should be property of the government.
and i understand all about how these things push medical tech forward, but only those that are going to be profitable. thats the problem, if the end result wasnt going to make them money anyway then there would probably be more helpful drugs out there.
well clock for clock the core 2 duo does more work in almost any practical application. for instance, amd's new 3.0ghz 6000+ performs at around the same level as the 2.4ghz e6600 does. amd is pretty much in the same position intel was with the p4 vs the athlon xp, the 1.53ghz athlon xp 1700+ for instance, ran at about the same performance level as a 1.7ghz p4, a little faster actually if i recall correctly. these days those performance numbers have gotten a little crazy, but what are you gonna do. the point is that, the core 2 duo does more work per clock cycle, and overclocks well, which means intel has plenty of headroom for higher clocked chips. amd doesnt have that luxury at the moment, as its 65nm chips dont clock significantly higher than its 90nm versions. intel had plenty of practice with high clocks during the whole netburst fiasco. all this may have more to do with the cache implementation than the actual core though, which barcelona is supposed to address. so well see how it all plays out.
"its not overclocking, its turbocharging, extra power!"
ok, so basically he said, u dump more power into a single core it will run harder, because as everyone knows a modern cpu is pretty much just a miniature coal furnace right?
ughh.
it seems like theyre just worried that they would have to start shipping better heatsinks, or that the advertised power usage would be too high or something, and now its a friggin feature.
how about more bandwidth to memory, not repackaged speed step, with a shiny new slogan.
it would be incredibly hard to put a large amount of memory onboard, look at how many transistors the e6600 has compared to the e6300, other than the cache theyre identical, but the e6600 with twice the cache has almost twice as many transistors. so unless your talking about an enourmous die, that also doubles as a space heater then its not going to be very easy to integrate large amounts of memory on die, forgetting the fact that yields would be so bad as to make it completely unprofitable.
Mr. James: "The original title of this book was 'Jimmy James, Capitalist Lion Tamer' but I see now that it's... 'Jimmy James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler'... you know what it is... I had the book translated in to Japanese then back in again into English. Macho Business Donkey Wrestler... well there you go... it's got kind of a ring to it don't it? Anyway, I wanted to read from chapter three... which is the story of my first rise to financial prominence...
I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street... many days no business come to my hut... my hut... but Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no. I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo... dung....Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat the donkey."
if its actually like steam then it sounds like a great idea, unless your still using dialup. for what its worth though steam is a good service, and it makes piracy less likely. however if funcom is building this from the ground up hopefully theyll make it harder for pirates to manufacture key codes, as i like many people have found that the code belonging to a game i purchased was being used in someones steam account. it was a minor pain in the ass, but it was resolved pretty quickly.
noise is pretty subjective from person to person, my computer hums along but it doesnt really bother me, and ill tell you what, over the din of the fan i cannot hear my hard drive at all. to me the constant noise of the fans is much more bearable than the noise of the hard drives.
its not nearly as bad as it used to be tho, i remember back in the day when my hardrive sounded like a box full of bees. and it was always swapping, swapping swapping...
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so he makes a deal with the dod to sign away his own technology for 6 thousand dollars, the same dod that allegedly pays 26k bucks for a hammer, he sold himself very short indeed.
then he breaks the contract that he willingly agreed to and ends up in jail, presumably because he is very stupid.
cant say i feel bad for him.
how many times have i heard this?
the first time i recall seeing a product that claimed to make books obsolete was in the 1995 issue of popular science "best of whats new" yet here it is over 10 years later and its still a few years away. the thing was the size of a paperback and allegedly had good battery life. whatever.
dont be so callous.
my ex wife, god rest her soul died tragically when she saw a caterpillar in the bathtub.
this kind of fear is very real, and the only cure is knowledge.
programs like this are a good source of that.
thats alot of potatoes
ah ha whats that fuss, everybody move to the back of the bus..... rosa parks - outkast.
what would be cheaper, designing and launching 10 probes, or just saving cash and designing and launching a single manned mission?
obviously they would need enough fuel to return home also, and thats that much less payload they can bring. and all the life support equipment, food, and some sort of recreational area. it would have to be pretty large.
it would likely have to be built in orbit, and each launch of the shuttle costs almost twice as much as the entire phoenix mission, so it is prohibitively expensive.
reading this though FMA:
"Like Polar Lander and Climate Orbiter, Phoenix is a relatively low-cost mission. Rather than building "faster, better, cheaper" spacecraft, as had been NASA's aim in the 1990s, Phoenix achieves its savings by narrowly focusing its science agenda to determine one goal: if Mars had organic compounds - the ingredients for life."
isnt most of the cost the fuel, the actual craft it gets there in and materials. would it cost significantly more to tack a few other sensors on?
lol
it would probably break 4k with ease with a good heatsink, the thermalright ultra 120 extreme in particular is the best there is for air, or a nice watercooling setup.
the guy who recieved the cd as a gift did not turn them in, it was some asshole lawyer who read a story about the girls giving the recipient a mix cd that wrote a letter to the riaa. the summary was pretty convoluted though so i can see the misunderstanding. its just funny that he dropped the charges, if it was some average joe, of course the charges wouldnt be brought up in the first place, but the point is that laws dont apply to the wealthy and powerful. if that average joe was charged with the same crime they would spend alot of time and money in court over this bs.
according to anandtech, the thermalright 120 extreme is the best air cooler ever made. that thermaltake thing barely outperforms the tuniq, which is pretty good, but 120 extreme shits on the tuniq all day long. so yea it makes no sense.
"do you want your games to look like they're from two years ago?"
funny you mention that... so what about the wii?
ddgrommet posted a video of it at the same time u posted
"YouTube has a video demonstration of Sony's technology from Japan at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbQugXy1A [youtube.com]"
definitely the real deal!
well of course not, next time ill be more specific so you wont have to copy a tiny excerpt from my post, and make an irrelevant reply that is out of context to the original idea.
so with that out of the way, what do you think about government grants being used to fund big business? that was after all the actual point of the whole thing, in case you missed it.
"Even defining a specific target for a drug, the drug still has to be developed and put through the approval process. There's a lot of work between this sort of basic research and an actual product."
the thing is though, that if theyre working on something that isnt going to be profitable it gets scrapped, and they move on to something that can be marketed to millions, like nexium or viagra.
the point is that they are getting government grants to do the work, and then they can turn around and sell the product. if theyre getting a free grant, then everything done with the money should be property of the government.
and i understand all about how these things push medical tech forward, but only those that are going to be profitable. thats the problem, if the end result wasnt going to make them money anyway then there would probably be more helpful drugs out there.
well clock for clock the core 2 duo does more work in almost any practical application. for instance, amd's new 3.0ghz 6000+ performs at around the same level as the 2.4ghz e6600 does. amd is pretty much in the same position intel was with the p4 vs the athlon xp, the 1.53ghz athlon xp 1700+ for instance, ran at about the same performance level as a 1.7ghz p4, a little faster actually if i recall correctly. these days those performance numbers have gotten a little crazy, but what are you gonna do. the point is that, the core 2 duo does more work per clock cycle, and overclocks well, which means intel has plenty of headroom for higher clocked chips. amd doesnt have that luxury at the moment, as its 65nm chips dont clock significantly higher than its 90nm versions. intel had plenty of practice with high clocks during the whole netburst fiasco. all this may have more to do with the cache implementation than the actual core though, which barcelona is supposed to address. so well see how it all plays out.
lol ya, and the gravis controller was what 10 bucks, thats cheap, 20 dollars is reasonably cheap, 40 dollars for a gamepad is absolutely not cheap.
it also sounds like marketing nonsense.
"its not overclocking, its turbocharging, extra power!"
ok, so basically he said, u dump more power into a single core it will run harder, because as everyone knows a modern cpu is pretty much just a miniature coal furnace right?
ughh.
it seems like theyre just worried that they would have to start shipping better heatsinks, or that the advertised power usage would be too high or something, and now its a friggin feature.
how about more bandwidth to memory, not repackaged speed step, with a shiny new slogan.
lol i got modded troll! now my karma is terrible, super.
it would be incredibly hard to put a large amount of memory onboard, look at how many transistors the e6600 has compared to the e6300, other than the cache theyre identical, but the e6600 with twice the cache has almost twice as many transistors. so unless your talking about an enourmous die, that also doubles as a space heater then its not going to be very easy to integrate large amounts of memory on die, forgetting the fact that yields would be so bad as to make it completely unprofitable.
Mr. James: "The original title of this book was 'Jimmy James, Capitalist Lion Tamer' but I see now that it's... 'Jimmy James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler'... you know what it is... I had the book translated in to Japanese then back in again into English. Macho Business Donkey Wrestler... well there you go... it's got kind of a ring to it don't it? Anyway, I wanted to read from chapter three... which is the story of my first rise to financial prominence...
...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat the donkey."
I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street... many days no business come to my hut... my hut... but Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no. I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo... dung.
if its actually like steam then it sounds like a great idea, unless your still using dialup. for what its worth though steam is a good service, and it makes piracy less likely. however if funcom is building this from the ground up hopefully theyll make it harder for pirates to manufacture key codes, as i like many people have found that the code belonging to a game i purchased was being used in someones steam account. it was a minor pain in the ass, but it was resolved pretty quickly.
lol mod parent up please that was a good one
use redhat for quite a bit, the weather tracking software and other sensitive stuff runs on linux.
noise is pretty subjective from person to person, my computer hums along but it doesnt really bother me, and ill tell you what, over the din of the fan i cannot hear my hard drive at all. to me the constant noise of the fans is much more bearable than the noise of the hard drives.
its not nearly as bad as it used to be tho, i remember back in the day when my hardrive sounded like a box full of bees. and it was always swapping, swapping swapping...
those were the days.
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