I realize this is/. so many may actually be doing workloads that require that sort of multi-threading. But the whole "more cores!" thing is completely lost on gaming and general computing. Games still primarily do their workload on 1-2 cores.
Yeah, don't even get me started on some of that stuff. I did delivery work, and this one lady had like 3 kids under the age of 5, youngest a baby with a tracheotomy and in-home care, and living in Section8 housing, etc. And she must have spent $100 a week on delivery food from us.
Of course, one has to consider then that the alternative is a large increase in crime instead, as they try to steal to get by. But for sure the welfare system could use an overhaul so that the honest people still benefit from it, while the loafers either get ejected or actually contribute.
I have little faith based upon a long history of individuals with little compassion taking advantage of the general populace. Just look at working conditions and employee rights in the 19th and early 20th centuries for what happens when the market is left to itself to "self-regulate" as it were. I shouldn't have to say it, but no I'm not saying the government should also just manage everything for us. But there are very real reasons much of our current legislation was enacted in the first place. The matter of the correct balance is of course, always up for debate.
Companies have a long history of offloading negative externalities onto the public and/or environment in order to increase profits. Hence why government stepped in to prevent them from just discharging toxic waste or sewage into waterways and into the air. Look at China's air quality issues atm for what happens when there are no controls.
As for healthcare itself: You're already paying for the people without healthcare. Billions of dollars are written off every year from ER visits by people without insurance or the money to pay for it. That money is then recovered by raising YOUR insurance rates. IMHO I would rather have everyone paying their fair share, than footing the bill for someone else.
Raising and educating people costs a lot of money. It's a loss to the economy and country as a whole if someone drops dead at age 50 from a preventable illness. That's at least 15 years of lost tax revenue and use of the education, not to mention possible passing on of that expertise to future generations.
IMHO Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a lot harder without healthcare. The well-being of citizens should be one of the primary goals of governance, and as such shouldn't be profited upon by corporations.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen something like this IRL yet, but I really like the idea. So much so, that if I ever get a tablet in about that profile size, I plan to have a friend make one for me with her industrial sewing machine.
That's a screenshot from an animation set in the near-future. I don't have time to hunt down a more closeup shot, but essentially its sewn from leather, and holds the tablet in the small of your back. Secured by one of those hardened plastic speed-screws with a metal threading inset.
The Management Computer Systems degree at my Uni used to require Calc3 and 2 semesters of stats. Over the last 10 years they've basically gone down to requiring 1 semester of stats, and I believe 1 semester of Calculus. Possibly just Trig. I took AP Calc in HS so I haven't looked at that part of my AR closely. And my degree is known to be excellent and with 100% placement out of college, so I assume they know what employers are looking for.
I'm content with business applications development, or possibly coding in a game design capacity. If it ever came to the point that I felt I needed more advanced math to advance in my career, I would just go back and take more advanced math courses. Because short of having a CS degree with a full math minor, having taken dynamics or whatnot will only appear on a transcript.
I assume the weight issue makes using water or similar liquids impractical for a radiation suit? If 7cm of water cuts radiation by half, it seems to me, you could make a pretty effective radiation suit that way? Sure, it would be harder to move around, but better than taking a higher dose? Or I suppose they would rather people just work fast and get in and out quickly?
I can't say I'm surprised at this announcement. Really, what has LucasArts done in at least 10+ years that has been good?
They used to be known for not only their movie-related games, but also creative original ones like Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, etc. But they stopped doing all of that when Episode 1-3 came out. At that point it was just a string of shovelware Starwars games. Even their once successful space-sim games like Xwing and TIE Fighter were abandoned.
Can you imagine how awesome a modern Starwars space-sim game would be that featured massively multiplayer battles? MAG showed that you can successfully do 256 players in an FPS environment, so the same should be feasible for Xwing as well. Even some of the Commander-type things MAG did might be possible to actually have someone command the ISD or MonCal Cruisers, etc.
The dumbest thing about all of this, is that the debt ceiling fight is getting authorization to pay for debts we've already incurred. It has absolutely nothing to do with actually spending more money. So the Republicans sign off on the budget, then keep playing Russian Roulette with the economy for political gains when the time comes to actually pay the bill.
Yes, but do you notice how the Chinese companies didn't start producing their own bladeless fans until AFTER Dyson had popularized it and sold a physical product? Yes, it's not a cut and dry case with companies as concerns lookalike products. But clearly Chinese firms are amongst the most unapologetic and blatant copycats on the world market. They wait for other companies to do the R&D, then leech off the public demand for said products while hiding behind the shield of poor/non-existent IP laws in China.
There's a big reason they're suing them in Germany and not China: They know it would be useless to attempt it in Chinese courts. It's the same reason the RIAA/MPAA don't bother prosecuting all the blatant infringement that goes on in China.
Anyone else find it ironic that Huawei is going after another firm for infringement after the number of articles about Huawei stealing and/or reverse-engineering competitors equipment in order to compete with them?
Simcity isn't going multiplayer because it's "better for gameplay and the consumer" -- it's FORCING online play to attempt to pad EA's wallet with microtransactions. And on another front -- most likely putting some of the game logic on the server side only, much the same way that Diablo3 only has art assets and the engine on your PC, and the rest is all done on the server side.
If they really felt multiplayer was best, they would give you the OPTION to go online, or the OPTION to use the global commodity market online, and let the features and word of mouth speak for themselves in getting people to use them. This kind of heavyhanded design work can only be explained by greed.
Are you kidding me? If you even have a DVD burner present in your system the game won't run? Most PCs and a lot of laptops these days come with a DVD burner, if not a Bluray burner possibly even...
Can you upload higher bitrates already? I would be pissed at them converting my audio if I had taken the time to upload FLAC copies, for example. Or even 320kbit MP3 that one usually does if they are ripping CDs.
You forget that the average teacher puts in more than 40hours a week during the school year. They're at the school for 7-9 hours, then they have to grade papers, work up lesson plans, etc. And there are a number of in-service days during the summer they still have to work.
If teachers were really living it up, the teacher's parking lot would not have the kinds of cars in it that they do... they don't exactly drive around a bunch of Lexus'
Win2K Pro was a godsend after using Win98 for a few years. To go from something that would randomly bluescreen and couldn't be trusted to run longer than 2-3 days tops, to something that I almost couldn't crash it if I TRIED... was a great feeling. I would hear people claim it "wasn't good for games" but I honestly never had any trouble running anything. In the remote cases where something was unresponsive, the ability to just force-quit and relaunch the Explorer shell without rebooting was great.
Around 2006 I was forced into using XP as the video card driver support for 2K became unreliable, but at least by then the power of PCs was such that you could just beast through the bloat of the OS, so it wasn't as much of a liability as it was when it first came out in 2001.
IMHO Win7 is actually a very respectable OS. It's the first one I bought on my own since building my first Windows box in 1998 (which I got at OEM pricing). I can't see any viable reason to upgrade from Win7 in a desktop environment for the forseeable future. And even if/when I do buy a tablet, it still sounds very immature and worth waiting 1-2 years for them to get the kinks out. Especially with how nice I hear Jelly Bean is for Android tablets.
Any home user with a modern system still clinging to XP is a Luddite IMHO.
Does this smack anyone else as really immature? It reminds me of siblings threatening to tell your parents about something. Or telling the teacher if someone is picking on you in school. Do they honestly think this is a worthy use of their police resources by having a thin skin and crying to the police about every random person that says something about them on the internet?
Am I the only one who has to ask why these critical SCADA systems are set up in such a way that they would be vulnerable to networked viruses? Shouldn't they be isolated and theoretically only updated by USB or something where you could insure the source media was clean before use? (And yes I know even that is a rather naive belief)
If I had to physically escape with my data, it would take less than a minute. Pull off the side-panel to my case. Unplug my HDDs and pull the cage they're attached to. Toss that into a bag, or if time wasn't critical, look into safer solutions like anti-static bags or at least a freezer ziplock or something.
Anything else in the system is easily replaceable in a disaster.
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I realize this is /. so many may actually be doing workloads that require that sort of multi-threading. But the whole "more cores!" thing is completely lost on gaming and general computing. Games still primarily do their workload on 1-2 cores.
Yeah, don't even get me started on some of that stuff. I did delivery work, and this one lady had like 3 kids under the age of 5, youngest a baby with a tracheotomy and in-home care, and living in Section8 housing, etc. And she must have spent $100 a week on delivery food from us.
Of course, one has to consider then that the alternative is a large increase in crime instead, as they try to steal to get by. But for sure the welfare system could use an overhaul so that the honest people still benefit from it, while the loafers either get ejected or actually contribute.
I have little faith based upon a long history of individuals with little compassion taking advantage of the general populace. Just look at working conditions and employee rights in the 19th and early 20th centuries for what happens when the market is left to itself to "self-regulate" as it were. I shouldn't have to say it, but no I'm not saying the government should also just manage everything for us. But there are very real reasons much of our current legislation was enacted in the first place. The matter of the correct balance is of course, always up for debate.
Companies have a long history of offloading negative externalities onto the public and/or environment in order to increase profits. Hence why government stepped in to prevent them from just discharging toxic waste or sewage into waterways and into the air. Look at China's air quality issues atm for what happens when there are no controls.
As for healthcare itself: You're already paying for the people without healthcare. Billions of dollars are written off every year from ER visits by people without insurance or the money to pay for it. That money is then recovered by raising YOUR insurance rates. IMHO I would rather have everyone paying their fair share, than footing the bill for someone else.
Raising and educating people costs a lot of money. It's a loss to the economy and country as a whole if someone drops dead at age 50 from a preventable illness. That's at least 15 years of lost tax revenue and use of the education, not to mention possible passing on of that expertise to future generations.
IMHO Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a lot harder without healthcare. The well-being of citizens should be one of the primary goals of governance, and as such shouldn't be profited upon by corporations.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen something like this IRL yet, but I really like the idea. So much so, that if I ever get a tablet in about that profile size, I plan to have a friend make one for me with her industrial sewing machine.
http://i.imgur.com/XESYOdY.jpg (Robotics;Notes)
That's a screenshot from an animation set in the near-future. I don't have time to hunt down a more closeup shot, but essentially its sewn from leather, and holds the tablet in the small of your back. Secured by one of those hardened plastic speed-screws with a metal threading inset.
The Management Computer Systems degree at my Uni used to require Calc3 and 2 semesters of stats. Over the last 10 years they've basically gone down to requiring 1 semester of stats, and I believe 1 semester of Calculus. Possibly just Trig. I took AP Calc in HS so I haven't looked at that part of my AR closely. And my degree is known to be excellent and with 100% placement out of college, so I assume they know what employers are looking for.
I'm content with business applications development, or possibly coding in a game design capacity. If it ever came to the point that I felt I needed more advanced math to advance in my career, I would just go back and take more advanced math courses. Because short of having a CS degree with a full math minor, having taken dynamics or whatnot will only appear on a transcript.
I think very few artists would be proficient enough at programming to contribute to software as complex as photo manipulation software.
We use a lot of things that we have no idea how it works, or how to build it.
I assume the weight issue makes using water or similar liquids impractical for a radiation suit? If 7cm of water cuts radiation by half, it seems to me, you could make a pretty effective radiation suit that way? Sure, it would be harder to move around, but better than taking a higher dose? Or I suppose they would rather people just work fast and get in and out quickly?
I can't say I'm surprised at this announcement. Really, what has LucasArts done in at least 10+ years that has been good?
They used to be known for not only their movie-related games, but also creative original ones like Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, etc. But they stopped doing all of that when Episode 1-3 came out. At that point it was just a string of shovelware Starwars games. Even their once successful space-sim games like Xwing and TIE Fighter were abandoned.
Can you imagine how awesome a modern Starwars space-sim game would be that featured massively multiplayer battles? MAG showed that you can successfully do 256 players in an FPS environment, so the same should be feasible for Xwing as well. Even some of the Commander-type things MAG did might be possible to actually have someone command the ISD or MonCal Cruisers, etc.
Such a wasted opportunity.
And another one:
http://i.imgur.com/xXhcWOy.png
This is apparently what (part of?) the battle looked like... talk about a clusterfuck...
http://puu.sh/1TcVz
The dumbest thing about all of this, is that the debt ceiling fight is getting authorization to pay for debts we've already incurred. It has absolutely nothing to do with actually spending more money. So the Republicans sign off on the budget, then keep playing Russian Roulette with the economy for political gains when the time comes to actually pay the bill.
Yes, but do you notice how the Chinese companies didn't start producing their own bladeless fans until AFTER Dyson had popularized it and sold a physical product? Yes, it's not a cut and dry case with companies as concerns lookalike products. But clearly Chinese firms are amongst the most unapologetic and blatant copycats on the world market. They wait for other companies to do the R&D, then leech off the public demand for said products while hiding behind the shield of poor/non-existent IP laws in China.
There's a big reason they're suing them in Germany and not China: They know it would be useless to attempt it in Chinese courts. It's the same reason the RIAA/MPAA don't bother prosecuting all the blatant infringement that goes on in China.
Anyone else find it ironic that Huawei is going after another firm for infringement after the number of articles about Huawei stealing and/or reverse-engineering competitors equipment in order to compete with them?
Simcity isn't going multiplayer because it's "better for gameplay and the consumer" -- it's FORCING online play to attempt to pad EA's wallet with microtransactions. And on another front -- most likely putting some of the game logic on the server side only, much the same way that Diablo3 only has art assets and the engine on your PC, and the rest is all done on the server side.
If they really felt multiplayer was best, they would give you the OPTION to go online, or the OPTION to use the global commodity market online, and let the features and word of mouth speak for themselves in getting people to use them. This kind of heavyhanded design work can only be explained by greed.
Are you kidding me? If you even have a DVD burner present in your system the game won't run? Most PCs and a lot of laptops these days come with a DVD burner, if not a Bluray burner possibly even...
There's another nice explosion at the 6:24 mark followed by a few more pops right afterwards of the rest of the fuel tanks going off in succession.
Can you upload higher bitrates already? I would be pissed at them converting my audio if I had taken the time to upload FLAC copies, for example. Or even 320kbit MP3 that one usually does if they are ripping CDs.
You forget that the average teacher puts in more than 40hours a week during the school year. They're at the school for 7-9 hours, then they have to grade papers, work up lesson plans, etc. And there are a number of in-service days during the summer they still have to work.
If teachers were really living it up, the teacher's parking lot would not have the kinds of cars in it that they do ... they don't exactly drive around a bunch of Lexus'
Win2K Pro was a godsend after using Win98 for a few years. To go from something that would randomly bluescreen and couldn't be trusted to run longer than 2-3 days tops, to something that I almost couldn't crash it if I TRIED... was a great feeling. I would hear people claim it "wasn't good for games" but I honestly never had any trouble running anything. In the remote cases where something was unresponsive, the ability to just force-quit and relaunch the Explorer shell without rebooting was great.
Around 2006 I was forced into using XP as the video card driver support for 2K became unreliable, but at least by then the power of PCs was such that you could just beast through the bloat of the OS, so it wasn't as much of a liability as it was when it first came out in 2001.
IMHO Win7 is actually a very respectable OS. It's the first one I bought on my own since building my first Windows box in 1998 (which I got at OEM pricing). I can't see any viable reason to upgrade from Win7 in a desktop environment for the forseeable future. And even if/when I do buy a tablet, it still sounds very immature and worth waiting 1-2 years for them to get the kinks out. Especially with how nice I hear Jelly Bean is for Android tablets.
Any home user with a modern system still clinging to XP is a Luddite IMHO.
Does this smack anyone else as really immature? It reminds me of siblings threatening to tell your parents about something. Or telling the teacher if someone is picking on you in school. Do they honestly think this is a worthy use of their police resources by having a thin skin and crying to the police about every random person that says something about them on the internet?
Not necessarily...
http://moetron.com/newimages/20091013_nyaruko.jpg
Am I the only one who has to ask why these critical SCADA systems are set up in such a way that they would be vulnerable to networked viruses? Shouldn't they be isolated and theoretically only updated by USB or something where you could insure the source media was clean before use? (And yes I know even that is a rather naive belief)
If I had to physically escape with my data, it would take less than a minute. Pull off the side-panel to my case. Unplug my HDDs and pull the cage they're attached to. Toss that into a bag, or if time wasn't critical, look into safer solutions like anti-static bags or at least a freezer ziplock or something.
Anything else in the system is easily replaceable in a disaster.
VLC 2.0? That's nice. I'll keep using my even lighter weight video player that plays even more "darn near everything" than VLC.
Even the built-in filters for MPC-HC are very good, but extending it with Haali's Splitter and ffdshow or CoreAVC results in even better performance.