I'm sorry, working off bits and pieces of stories that I've remembered across the years, but isn't it in Indian culture that people supposebly follow the same "position" throughout the ages? I can't recall if it's even them because it's a belief a bit intertwined with rebirth.
And it's not a myth. Even in Canada. Anybody who says otherwise has no aspirations and is better off living in a welfare state like Sweden.
The US's debts compared to their GDP is incredibly small.
Oh, the PRC has a long way to go. They've still got to beat Germany. And Germany is at half the GDP of the US. The PRC does not have the capacity to outdo the US. Neither do India or Brazil. The only thing they have going for them is large populations where you can make cheap shit for next to nothing.
And the funny thing is in 50 years the face of Japan changed radically, and so did South Korea, from making our socks to bringing the biggest names in the entertainement industry. Sure, the Japanese never invented that much in recent history, but they perfected plenty of things we in the West failed to perfect (cars and consoles, something the americans nearly killed, twice). Of course it's 50 years later and the chinese are still starving and making our socks. And I don't see India as having changed much, either, in a society where you start low-class and end low-class.
This is no different than slave labour in africa way back when.
OpenGL3 needs to be accepted, you're 100% correct.
It's got a tough path up ahead, but you know what?
We don't even need GPUs anymore like we need them today. I hope in the forseable future ray tracing and other CPU-for-graphics tech overtakes today's designs. And all the better! Today's designs are not any good to begin with. Especially since, what exactly is my GPU going to be doing when it's not playing a game? Sit there, create dust and noise, and consume 20W? Instead of a CPU that I could use to do something; my entire system idling 20W less is better than nothing. And you could always help find the cure for diseases, or help find ET.
It's too bad we can't break backwards compatibility. But I thought OpenGL3 was all about streaming it down? It's too bad we can't have two profiles, one for the CAD-type applications, running only on workstation cards, the other more for gaming, for gaming cards...
Except, you know, forget about all the crap we toss into the oceans. Or the fact that large bodies of water dump into the oceans, with nothing left to replace them. And through all this sea levels still dwindle if not fall in some places.
Cleaner air =! Global warming.
One is something we all need. The other really is a lie propagated by people wanting to take down capitalism. (Now, don't get me wrong, tinfoil does not go on head, but if you can't spot green socialist economics I don't think you're playing on the right table.)
AMD chipset/CPU and Intel chipset/CPU and VIA chipset/CPU with whatever GPU
or
Intel chipset/CPU/GPU.
Because you can bet your ass AMD would be toast now if not for the ATI acquisition. ATI has climbed leaps and bounds in quality (HD2 and HD4 are totally different compared to the competition) and this will ensure AMD will be able to release a working Fusion to defeat Nehalem.
Drove off linux users? No, complete opposite. AMD has been release documentation, supporting MIT-licensed drivers, brought Catalyst, improved its drivers A LOT, and even put its linux drivers next to its windows drivers on the CDs with their cards for the HD4 series. No, if anything, AMD's purchase was a gift for Linux users. There's still some problems, but barely any. Just a lack of XvMC (and really, who the fuck cares anymore about MPEG2 playback? I'd rather have a closed-down implementation of AVIVO/UVD. Plus VIA is better for HTPC all around and does MPEG2/4 decoding), problems with Wine (but can be easily solved and don't seem to hurt performance at all), and some xv problems (again, unimportant for most people).
I can't wait till the 45nm AMD CPUs and the RV710 come out. Hoping they're the same prices, more or less, of the CPUs and chipsets they replace...
I don't think nVidia could pull an AMD. Their chipsets haven't been that great in recent years. They'd only be able to make ARM CPUs.
I see Tegra being brilliant, for what it is. Maybe subnotebooks too. I see VIA and nVidia attempting to bring cheap HTPCs to the masses, that can actual play video games. I can't really see nVidia gaining any GPU advantages in the mainstream market; too pricey and too hot for not much of an advantage.
Sure, you can see it as half empty, but I see it as half-full. (But windows? Horrible choice...)
It's a single point of defense. No need to scatter your troops across a massive border, you pile them up all in one place. And so what if it's all or nothing? If somebody poisons even a single part of a massive decentralised system, it's only a matter of time before they either replicate it somewhere else, or snag details. Multiple layers is smart thinking, but that's like stacking baskets.:)
(However, parent deserves +5 Insightful and/or +5 Informative, because it does give good insight into networking encryption)
No, oil is not bad. It is a versatile, high-energy-density fuel, incredibly easy to find, and organic. What are fossil fuels? Dead animals. If that's not organic I don't know what is.
Now, what's bad about burning fuels like these? Well, if at the same time the BRIC nations everybody says are growing greatly keep tossing out CO2 AND cut down their trees, well, then you've got a problem. Had they planned smartly we wouldn't be having this problem.
And so what if the oceans are acidic? There's a reason Australia has massive lime reserves, they need to be dumped back into the ocean to finish the equation, to neutralise the water's pH level.
If we were to stop "polluting" (they still use leaded gas in plenty of places, just to let you know. and smoking kills more people than weather related accidents that have gone down in recent years, just like the temperatures) it would have the reverse intended effect. The only thing stopping the PRC and India from polluting more is the fact that we're buying up gasoline, too. It doesn't help that Beijing stocked up on gasoline to shut down its coal plants, either.
We have gotten ourselves down such a massive hole the only two options are to fight fire with fire or fight warheads with warheads.
Oil is yesterday. McCain is so old school he can only imagine increasing the supply of oil. What he and the GOP don't like is the obvious need to encourage commuting by bicycle and public transit--as we have here in NYC--so that people like me can gleefully sell their cars and live without one. This style of low-impact life, where you're not always dragging around a big metal car with you, does not offer as many profit opportunities. Corporations don't like a low-stuff life because they can't take as much of our money away, then.
Take your Ingsoc fantasies somewhere else please. We're not going to drop our standards of living to "help the situation" when the situation doesn't need helping.
We have any oil to continue fueling the world for a while to come. You want to point the finger at someone? Point the finger at the PRC and India, who simply bought out, stole, or copied whatever ressources we have (be they designs, actual crude, or whatever) and refused to do any real advancements.
If we dropped ALL of our coal and oil usage today it'd be a drop in the bucket if the chinese and indians didn't. It's already getting to the point where they outproduce and outconsume the rest of the world when it comes to fossil fuels. Why should we foot the bill for them?
No, I meant EU would occupy Canada... I mean think about it, they raped this country for centuries past.
Right, because nothing has changed in the almost two hundred years since then. We've still got the backing of the world's largest empire and the US is still an insular little country in the process of organizing itself. The only reason the US hasn't invaded is because it doesn't have to.
No, it's because they know it'd be impossible. And if the US invaded Canada, everyone would come to our aid, even the terrorists. How's that for beating the world's finest army?
I mean, the americans invade, we repell them off our borders, march down, and sail up to Washington and torch it.
If we ever get a spine and stand up for ourselves and demand more money for our resources, they will - though chances are it will be little more than walking into Ottawa, inducing a bit of regime change, and saying "What now, Canada?"
Haha, good one. Now, how exactly are you going to reach Ottawa? And destroy parliament and its members? And convince it to surrender and not relocated to Grise Fiord? It's not exactly an island undefended. There's a reason Ottawa was chosen as a capital. Even though it's still dangerously close to the US in terms of looking at it on a map, topographically it was the most intelligent choice ever for a capital, and if not at least looking at Canada's choices.
The biggest ships that could even consider getting into Ottawa are those two-seat styled recreational ones, and maybe small house boats. The Rideau lock system can be shut down and outright destroyed if necessary. Invasion by air would miss targets left and right, not to mention we do have an air force, and we do have anti-air craft systems. And nobody would use tactical nuclear weapons in this case (we're not Syria or Iran, or 1940s Japan); there's too much to lose.
And if you think an invasion by land will do it, good luck. Sure, there's some pretty speedy tanks now. But I'd love to see you drive around the quagmire that is eastern Ontario. Not to mention if you even dare trying to camp you'll be eaten alive by mosquitos and driven out by fucking farmers. It worked for Soviet Union, I'm sure it can work for us.
(Oh, and it's refreshing to know those of you in the west hate the pig too. Can't we impeach him ourselves already?)
Even then, last I checked, it was almost always "on demand", like you have to make it available for those who want it.
So just have nightly builds of your SVN/CVS/git/etc progress, have it packaged and sit on the server somewhere. And have the source of whatever "stable" release you gave last.
The sad thing is we are at one of our weakest points. Our army is lost somewhere way too far. A large nation has been warming up to us the wrong way, and our leader is a moron elected by the western provinces who are so self-centred all they seem to want is to stick their collective penis in Ontario's eye. Not to mention the other provinces have lost whatever "moral values" they once had and fought for. Liberalism in Quebec? No thanks, we're ultra-conservative now! Vive l'Eglise!
Sure, it'd be hard as hell to get to the real ressources, but they don't need guns. They'll just buy their way in.
But I don't see that as likely happening. Rather I see Harper likely to keep his 4-year term, because Dion is too much of a coward to overturn government and face the west. And that means we'll be the US's sock puppet for the interim. Why invade us when they can simply suck our ressources? We're already culturally surounded, economically surrounded, etc.
They don't want a war. They know they'll lose. The US is an economic power.
Because who won back in 1812? Yeah, I thought so.
And Russia would not invade either. Invasion would give clearance for the EU to occupy. What, you thought I was going to say the US? No, not today. There is something unsettling about the EU. With the US we know invasion is unlikely. Why risk the negative PR? Instead you boost your economy, you always have someone to trade with, and you're a mutual first pick. I really don't think it's likely for the US to invade at this point. It's a waste of soldiers. They already have a sock puppet, approved by the west, as our PM. They already have that sock puppet passing duplicates of US laws and gestures. They already have him trying to remove "liberal nazi judges" from the Supreme Court, and of course, failing miserably.
And just this morning I read Canadian scientists, along with Danish scientists, were supposed to publish findings either today or or tomorrow or sometime soon in a conference in Oslo, stating that the Lomonosov ridge is without a doubt an extension of the (North) American continent...
But the sad thing is I can't even find a good CRT TV anywhere anymore. Unless I plan to get it shipped from a factory from Buckshit, Nowhere.
My first TV just went caput on me, 1980s-2008. And if I wanted to I could repair it. But imho, it's not worth the trouble. It had a single RF/coax input, and that was it. I was going to buy a Trinitron, but I couldn't even find one. How sad is that? =/
So I'm stuck with an LCD TV. It's not too bad. It's not as nice as could be, watching 480i. But you know what? Between that and a made-in-kolea-cheap-crap CRT, I'm glad I spent the ~700$ on that TV. I hope it'll last me another 20 years too. I'm not in a hurry to replace my other CRT TV. Not a chance. It's doing its job, it's staying until it dies. And even then it's bound to be a fair 10 years old now, still going strong.
When people say "Oh buying an HDTV is a waste of money..." I keep wondering if they mean replacing your current TV for an HD one or buying it new (like if your old one broke too). And sadly I do have a naggy feeling that it was a bit of a waste... But TVs everywhere and not a CRT to spare...
Alberta has more oil than the next biggest reserve (all the Saudi oil) and even maybe a few after. That's not counting arctic reserves, and from the other praries, or the maritimes.
They have more than that. And CNR is a lot more useful than Synaptic for a budding user.
Don't forget Freespire bundles WMP codecs, DVD playback tools, and a whole bunch of other stuff, legally and for free. For those in the US who fear to break idiot laws, it's there for you.
The HP 2133 is really the only good choice, imho. But that's because I really don't like the Atom, and the stance intel took developping it. Not to mention, I'd rather have a 5W non-ULV 1GHz Nano (I wonder how much the ULV models use?) with a VX800 (again, VX800u?) then an Atom with whatever crap Intel lumps together for a chipset.
But this is all riding on if HP has the balls to be one of the few to use a Nano.
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I'm sorry, working off bits and pieces of stories that I've remembered across the years, but isn't it in Indian culture that people supposebly follow the same "position" throughout the ages? I can't recall if it's even them because it's a belief a bit intertwined with rebirth.
And it's not a myth. Even in Canada. Anybody who says otherwise has no aspirations and is better off living in a welfare state like Sweden.
if national budgets are anything to go by
They aren't.
The US's debts compared to their GDP is incredibly small.
Oh, the PRC has a long way to go. They've still got to beat Germany. And Germany is at half the GDP of the US. The PRC does not have the capacity to outdo the US. Neither do India or Brazil. The only thing they have going for them is large populations where you can make cheap shit for next to nothing.
And the funny thing is in 50 years the face of Japan changed radically, and so did South Korea, from making our socks to bringing the biggest names in the entertainement industry. Sure, the Japanese never invented that much in recent history, but they perfected plenty of things we in the West failed to perfect (cars and consoles, something the americans nearly killed, twice). Of course it's 50 years later and the chinese are still starving and making our socks. And I don't see India as having changed much, either, in a society where you start low-class and end low-class.
This is no different than slave labour in africa way back when.
As opposed to having your data served all up across the internet?
"[...]Keep all your eggs in one basket, BUT GUARD THAT BASKET!"
OpenGL3 needs to be accepted, you're 100% correct.
It's got a tough path up ahead, but you know what?
We don't even need GPUs anymore like we need them today. I hope in the forseable future ray tracing and other CPU-for-graphics tech overtakes today's designs. And all the better! Today's designs are not any good to begin with. Especially since, what exactly is my GPU going to be doing when it's not playing a game? Sit there, create dust and noise, and consume 20W? Instead of a CPU that I could use to do something; my entire system idling 20W less is better than nothing. And you could always help find the cure for diseases, or help find ET.
It's too bad we can't break backwards compatibility. But I thought OpenGL3 was all about streaming it down? It's too bad we can't have two profiles, one for the CAD-type applications, running only on workstation cards, the other more for gaming, for gaming cards...
No thanks, I'd rather use it to produce meat.
Except, you know, forget about all the crap we toss into the oceans. Or the fact that large bodies of water dump into the oceans, with nothing left to replace them. And through all this sea levels still dwindle if not fall in some places.
Cleaner air =! Global warming.
One is something we all need. The other really is a lie propagated by people wanting to take down capitalism. (Now, don't get me wrong, tinfoil does not go on head, but if you can't spot green socialist economics I don't think you're playing on the right table.)
The years after WW2 had the most CO2 in the air, ever. (at least, in times we can observe. I don't think there was more CO2 in prehistoric ages?)
Mind linking to those benchmarks?
Can't find them anywhere...
What would you rather have?
AMD chipset/CPU and Intel chipset/CPU and VIA chipset/CPU with whatever GPU
or
Intel chipset/CPU/GPU.
Because you can bet your ass AMD would be toast now if not for the ATI acquisition. ATI has climbed leaps and bounds in quality (HD2 and HD4 are totally different compared to the competition) and this will ensure AMD will be able to release a working Fusion to defeat Nehalem.
Drove off linux users? No, complete opposite. AMD has been release documentation, supporting MIT-licensed drivers, brought Catalyst, improved its drivers A LOT, and even put its linux drivers next to its windows drivers on the CDs with their cards for the HD4 series. No, if anything, AMD's purchase was a gift for Linux users. There's still some problems, but barely any. Just a lack of XvMC (and really, who the fuck cares anymore about MPEG2 playback? I'd rather have a closed-down implementation of AVIVO/UVD. Plus VIA is better for HTPC all around and does MPEG2/4 decoding), problems with Wine (but can be easily solved and don't seem to hurt performance at all), and some xv problems (again, unimportant for most people).
I can't wait till the 45nm AMD CPUs and the RV710 come out. Hoping they're the same prices, more or less, of the CPUs and chipsets they replace...
I don't think nVidia could pull an AMD. Their chipsets haven't been that great in recent years. They'd only be able to make ARM CPUs.
I see Tegra being brilliant, for what it is. Maybe subnotebooks too. I see VIA and nVidia attempting to bring cheap HTPCs to the masses, that can actual play video games. I can't really see nVidia gaining any GPU advantages in the mainstream market; too pricey and too hot for not much of an advantage.
This creates a single point of failure
Sure, you can see it as half empty, but I see it as half-full. (But windows? Horrible choice...)
It's a single point of defense. No need to scatter your troops across a massive border, you pile them up all in one place. And so what if it's all or nothing? If somebody poisons even a single part of a massive decentralised system, it's only a matter of time before they either replicate it somewhere else, or snag details. Multiple layers is smart thinking, but that's like stacking baskets. :)
(However, parent deserves +5 Insightful and/or +5 Informative, because it does give good insight into networking encryption)
Good luck then. Because you're going to need every drop of it.
You know oil is bad
No, oil is not bad. It is a versatile, high-energy-density fuel, incredibly easy to find, and organic. What are fossil fuels? Dead animals. If that's not organic I don't know what is.
Now, what's bad about burning fuels like these? Well, if at the same time the BRIC nations everybody says are growing greatly keep tossing out CO2 AND cut down their trees, well, then you've got a problem. Had they planned smartly we wouldn't be having this problem.
And so what if the oceans are acidic? There's a reason Australia has massive lime reserves, they need to be dumped back into the ocean to finish the equation, to neutralise the water's pH level.
If we were to stop "polluting" (they still use leaded gas in plenty of places, just to let you know. and smoking kills more people than weather related accidents that have gone down in recent years, just like the temperatures) it would have the reverse intended effect. The only thing stopping the PRC and India from polluting more is the fact that we're buying up gasoline, too. It doesn't help that Beijing stocked up on gasoline to shut down its coal plants, either.
We have gotten ourselves down such a massive hole the only two options are to fight fire with fire or fight warheads with warheads.
Your choice.
Oil is yesterday. McCain is so old school he can only imagine increasing the supply of oil. What he and the GOP don't like is the obvious need to encourage commuting by bicycle and public transit--as we have here in NYC--so that people like me can gleefully sell their cars and live without one. This style of low-impact life, where you're not always dragging around a big metal car with you, does not offer as many profit opportunities. Corporations don't like a low-stuff life because they can't take as much of our money away, then.
Take your Ingsoc fantasies somewhere else please. We're not going to drop our standards of living to "help the situation" when the situation doesn't need helping.
We have any oil to continue fueling the world for a while to come. You want to point the finger at someone? Point the finger at the PRC and India, who simply bought out, stole, or copied whatever ressources we have (be they designs, actual crude, or whatever) and refused to do any real advancements.
If we dropped ALL of our coal and oil usage today it'd be a drop in the bucket if the chinese and indians didn't. It's already getting to the point where they outproduce and outconsume the rest of the world when it comes to fossil fuels. Why should we foot the bill for them?
Driving to 711 for slurpees of course.
It's not Christmas yet. :)
No, I meant EU would occupy Canada... I mean think about it, they raped this country for centuries past.
Right, because nothing has changed in the almost two hundred years since then. We've still got the backing of the world's largest empire and the US is still an insular little country in the process of organizing itself. The only reason the US hasn't invaded is because it doesn't have to.
No, it's because they know it'd be impossible. And if the US invaded Canada, everyone would come to our aid, even the terrorists. How's that for beating the world's finest army?
I mean, the americans invade, we repell them off our borders, march down, and sail up to Washington and torch it.
If we ever get a spine and stand up for ourselves and demand more money for our resources, they will - though chances are it will be little more than walking into Ottawa, inducing a bit of regime change, and saying "What now, Canada?"
Haha, good one. Now, how exactly are you going to reach Ottawa? And destroy parliament and its members? And convince it to surrender and not relocated to Grise Fiord? It's not exactly an island undefended. There's a reason Ottawa was chosen as a capital. Even though it's still dangerously close to the US in terms of looking at it on a map, topographically it was the most intelligent choice ever for a capital, and if not at least looking at Canada's choices.
The biggest ships that could even consider getting into Ottawa are those two-seat styled recreational ones, and maybe small house boats. The Rideau lock system can be shut down and outright destroyed if necessary. Invasion by air would miss targets left and right, not to mention we do have an air force, and we do have anti-air craft systems. And nobody would use tactical nuclear weapons in this case (we're not Syria or Iran, or 1940s Japan); there's too much to lose.
And if you think an invasion by land will do it, good luck. Sure, there's some pretty speedy tanks now. But I'd love to see you drive around the quagmire that is eastern Ontario. Not to mention if you even dare trying to camp you'll be eaten alive by mosquitos and driven out by fucking farmers. It worked for Soviet Union, I'm sure it can work for us.
(Oh, and it's refreshing to know those of you in the west hate the pig too. Can't we impeach him ourselves already?)
Even then, last I checked, it was almost always "on demand", like you have to make it available for those who want it.
So just have nightly builds of your SVN/CVS/git/etc progress, have it packaged and sit on the server somewhere. And have the source of whatever
"stable" release you gave last.
The sad thing is we are at one of our weakest points. Our army is lost somewhere way too far. A large nation has been warming up to us the wrong way, and our leader is a moron elected by the western provinces who are so self-centred all they seem to want is to stick their collective penis in Ontario's eye. Not to mention the other provinces have lost whatever "moral values" they once had and fought for. Liberalism in Quebec? No thanks, we're ultra-conservative now! Vive l'Eglise!
Sure, it'd be hard as hell to get to the real ressources, but they don't need guns. They'll just buy their way in.
But I don't see that as likely happening. Rather I see Harper likely to keep his 4-year term, because Dion is too much of a coward to overturn government and face the west. And that means we'll be the US's sock puppet for the interim. Why invade us when they can simply suck our ressources? We're already culturally surounded, economically surrounded, etc.
They don't want a war. They know they'll lose. The US is an economic power.
Because who won back in 1812? Yeah, I thought so.
And Russia would not invade either. Invasion would give clearance for the EU to occupy. What, you thought I was going to say the US? No, not today. There is something unsettling about the EU. With the US we know invasion is unlikely. Why risk the negative PR? Instead you boost your economy, you always have someone to trade with, and you're a mutual first pick. I really don't think it's likely for the US to invade at this point. It's a waste of soldiers. They already have a sock puppet, approved by the west, as our PM. They already have that sock puppet passing duplicates of US laws and gestures. They already have him trying to remove "liberal nazi judges" from the Supreme Court, and of course, failing miserably.
And just this morning I read Canadian scientists, along with Danish scientists, were supposed to publish findings either today or or tomorrow or sometime soon in a conference in Oslo, stating that the Lomonosov ridge is without a doubt an extension of the (North) American continent...
Those Russians and Danes. Funny people.
Welcome to John Titor land, ladies and gentlemen.
But the sad thing is I can't even find a good CRT TV anywhere anymore. Unless I plan to get it shipped from a factory from Buckshit, Nowhere.
My first TV just went caput on me, 1980s-2008. And if I wanted to I could repair it. But imho, it's not worth the trouble. It had a single RF/coax input, and that was it. I was going to buy a Trinitron, but I couldn't even find one. How sad is that? =/
So I'm stuck with an LCD TV. It's not too bad. It's not as nice as could be, watching 480i. But you know what? Between that and a made-in-kolea-cheap-crap CRT, I'm glad I spent the ~700$ on that TV. I hope it'll last me another 20 years too. I'm not in a hurry to replace my other CRT TV. Not a chance. It's doing its job, it's staying until it dies. And even then it's bound to be a fair 10 years old now, still going strong.
When people say "Oh buying an HDTV is a waste of money..." I keep wondering if they mean replacing your current TV for an HD one or buying it new (like if your old one broke too). And sadly I do have a naggy feeling that it was a bit of a waste... But TVs everywhere and not a CRT to spare...
No, that's an exageration in the wrong direction.
Alberta has more oil than the next biggest reserve (all the Saudi oil) and even maybe a few after. That's not counting arctic reserves, and from the other praries, or the maritimes.
They have more than that. And CNR is a lot more useful than Synaptic for a budding user.
Don't forget Freespire bundles WMP codecs, DVD playback tools, and a whole bunch of other stuff, legally and for free. For those in the US who fear to break idiot laws, it's there for you.
You want a good keyboard on a netbook?
The HP 2133 is really the only good choice, imho. But that's because I really don't like the Atom, and the stance intel took developping it. Not to mention, I'd rather have a 5W non-ULV 1GHz Nano (I wonder how much the ULV models use?) with a VX800 (again, VX800u?) then an Atom with whatever crap Intel lumps together for a chipset.
But this is all riding on if HP has the balls to be one of the few to use a Nano.