I second checking how well the heat sink is attached. The heat sink should be moderately warm to the touch during operation and shortly after shutdown. Definitely shouldn't be *hot*, but it should be noticeably above room temperature. Of course, if you have some insane fan or water cooling system attached to the heat sink, you might manage to achieve "cold", but thats far outside a normal system.
As for the warmest air being that exiting the power supply, thats normal. In addition to the power supplies own heat, it generally sucks warm air out of the case, resulting in considerably more heat exiting it than that it produces on its own.
It isn't. Sure, certain engineering and design principles can help security a great deal, but when it comes down to it, security is about the human brain. If you don't run the system intelligently, it doesn't matter how well designed it is, or how well the design is implemented. You will get p0wned.
I'd trust an all Windows 98 network without a firewall, run by someone who knows what they are doing, over an OpenBSD network locked down against everything run by my mom.
But it doesn't mean that Intelligent Design is more, or even equally, credible. There is solid evidence for evolution. While very little of it has been directly observed, there is a great deal of fossil remnants of various life forms that shows development over time, giving a strong, and direct suggestion that they evolved.
There is, well, no evedentiary support for Intelligent Design apart from the fact that things exist in the first place. People who say things are too complex- I can see their point. You aren't going to get a few chemicals to mix and out pops Homo Sapiens. But they forget- this took place over billions of years. Things that are far too complex to happen in an observable time frame can be very likely to occur over a longer time frame. I've heard this said of New York City, its a similar(though not identical) concept "Million to one chances happen 11 times a day in a city of 11 million". Basically, if you have a large enough sample size, incredibly unlikely things will inevitably occur. Of course, if you go with a purely literal interpretation of the Bible, there wouldn't be time for this. While I'll grant that as a legitimate belief to hold, cloaking it as a science is just total bullshit.
Note that this does not rule out God having a role, if you accept large parts of the Bible as allegorical. Which you really should anyways. The parables of Jesus were allegorical after all, that much is crystal clear even from a literal reading of the Bible. Considering that, where the Son of God used allegory to explain spiritual truths, why is it so out of line to think that the previous Prophets, and God the Father would not have used allegory? Presumably the people in Jesus time would be even *more* likely to understand a more direct way of stating things, so
Furthermore, look over the Genesis story again. Note how each step incrementally brought the world to the current stage where humans were dominant. Hmmmm... That sounds somewhat like evolution to me. More allegory? I think so. Also keep in mind that the Sun wasn't created until the second "day"- how could these days be meant literally, when the thing that defines a day didn't even exist when they were first counted as such?
Intelligent Design as it is pushed in the media is only supportable by a literal reading of Genesis, and the precedent in other sections(supposedly more important sections such as the Gospels), and simple common sense, suggest that it was meant as allegory. Allegory does *not* diminish the spiritual truths behind it. How many times have you found great wisdom in a science fiction story, or even a bit of wisdom humorously expressed in The Far Side? Does the truth of what you found change because the source was not literally factual? NO.
I actually prefer Rebirths sound(though I'll grant that Bassline is a more accurate emulation of the original)... what puts Bassline on top for me is the ease of sequencing. ReBirth is a *bitch* to program and sequence, especially if there is any possibility of changing the instrumentation. If I were to do a bassline in ReBirth, and changed my mind and wanted to throw it on my Electribe, that would be a serious pain in the ass. With Bassline, all I have to do is redirect the MIDI messages for that part. Much easier.
Thats an interesting idea. How much would hormone activity affect what grows back? Hormones are critical when the organs initiall develop after all, it is plausible that they could affect the regeneration of humans who have that ability, of course depending on exactly how the regeneration works.
As far as the Consitution is concerned, they were brought into the Union as a state. What they call themselves and how they organize themselves internally is irrelevant.
Sure, its old. But it works very well. They can keep pace with P4's upwards of twice as fast, and not consume anywhere NEAR as much power in the process.
Honestly, they should get an award for that. The basic design is, as you say, 10 years old. But it is *still* holding up next to far newer designs. Thats a huge accomplishment. It's hard enough to build a superior CPU architecture for *right now*. Building one that will still be relevant A DECADE INTO THE FUTURE is absolutely staggering. And not simply relevant, but actually near top of the line. Hell, the P6 architecture is on schedule to replace its own "replacement" in the next couple of years. How often does that happen?
Most algorithms have multiple possible implementations in any given language. The best one will depend on the task at hand, and a good programmer will determine the best one much sooner than an average programmer.
Especially if the existing standard implementations don't meet the requirements. An average programmer might shave a couple seconds off the closest implementation using various amateur tricks. A good one will be able to shave off even more, or might know of an obscure algorithm for the given task that the average programmer has never heard of. And when it all hits the fan and there are *no* suitable algorithms out there whatsoever, the good programmer is the one you want to have on hand to create the new algorithm, or to get an algorithm designed for C to work in Visual Basic.
Good programmers are also less likely to accidentally forget things like semicolons and periods and such, or to accidentally divide by zero... normally easy errors to fix, but when you have one popping up every 100 lines of a 100,000 line program, its going to take a while- especially if some of them slip through the compiler and hit you at runtime. And lets not even discuss more subtle errors that lead to buffer overflows...
I wish he had won too. There are a lot of things I don't agree with him on, but he's got integrity, one of the rarest qualities in politics. The Nightline broadcast of the names and faces of the fallen, most war supporters protested it to anyone that would listen, and the pressure even got it preempted on a few stations. But McCain came out in support of it. He really believes the war is worth the cost in money and lives, and if its really worth the cost- why hide from it? I might not agree, but I can respect that he has the courage to stand up for his convictions like that.
Well written, logical, covers the bases from avoiding getting stopped, how to handle being stopped, all the way through traffic court. Also, at the end, he links to actual cops responses to it and success stories of people who have applied the suggestions.
In that case, what about the opinions of Senator John McCain, who was shot down, captured, and abused as a POW for several years, and is currently a strong supporter of the Iraq war?
You seem to assume those who were fucked in a previous war would be against this one, but that isn't always the case.
Advertisers don't care if their ads are good. They just want their products name in your head when you need something of that class of item. All else being equal, you'll probably buy the brand thats in your head when you go out to buy that class of item.
Honestly, it was getting tiring. If you've watched the whole series like I have(I've missed maybe five episodes), you would see that RDA is getting really fucking bored with it. His heart isn't in it, this was showing way back in Season 7.
It's about time to replace him. He was good, but his time had passed. Trying to get him as a significant part of the show for another season just wouldn't have worked.
Now, Intel engineers know their own products best. They know what optimizations are safe on Intel hardware and what optimizations are not. They will not always know this for AMD products. So, AMD processors get fed a less optimized code path, that while it might not work the best, the Intel engineers can feel certain will at least work.
I don't know about you, but I don't think morals should change simply because you don't like someone.
Certainly, if there is probably cause that he commited a crime, he should be investigated, and then prosecuted if the investigation bears out the initial suspicions, but that isn't what happened here. His home was searched and his property siezed, and *not* returned, based on him doing his damn job. It would be like your boss having you arrested for tresspassing, using your timecard that is punched for that day as evidence you tresspassed.
Not sure about the Master, but I expect it to be a Time Lord.
Think, Bad Wolf. What is the Bad Wolf that people are most frightened of? The "wolf in sheeps clothing". My theory goes like this- The Time Lords had the upper hand in the Time War. The Daleks were about to lose, and decisevely so. Until a Time Lord switched sides and lead the Daleks to victory, until the Doctor "destroyed" them, but the Time Lord leading them, who the Doctor was unaware of, managed to get them to travel through time to a point they could regroup and take over.
The long, subtle plan isn't the work of a Dalek after all. Not immediately aggressive like a good Dalek, something that would be done by someone who thinks in the VERY long term- a nearly immortal master of time and space, thats the sort of person to play such a long game. Not that Daleks are stupid, but this doesn't seem like anything a dalek would come up with, not their style. But a traitorous Time Lord... Definitely.
So the Bad Wolf is a Time Lord that appeared to be a good guy, then turned on Gallifrey at the critical moment. Who knows, maybe the Doctor knows of this Time Lords existence, but due to the betrayal has refused to accept him as a fellow Time Lord, sort of how true Star Wars fans refuse to accept the Holidy SPecial.
He wasn't saying its right for a court to declare a smartass guilty, just that it happens.
Also, even when they are being above board and considering the evidence, many cases come down to credibility of the witnesses. Someone being a smartass isn't going to appear as credible as someone taking the proceedings seriously. Think about it, you have two witnesses, each telling you contradictory stories, which would you believe? The composed, polite, well behaved individual, or the one making smartass remarks about the evidence? Assume that both stories have equally strong objective evidence, and that deciding the truth comes down strictly to credibility of the witnesses.
Do not directly challenge the testimony of the cop.
For good or bad, the testimony of a police officer in good standing might as well come from God himself as far as the courts are concerned. Unless you've got a lawyer and solid evidence, directly challenging a police officers testimony, you might as well plead guilty.
Can this differentiate between someone piss drunk and someone that just spilled a bottle of rubbing alcohol? What about overspray from acohol based cleaning products, or NyQuil spills? How about hand wipes with alcohol in them, or aftershave, or any of the other completely innocent reasons for alcohol to get on your hands?
This article is *very* light on details. It doesn't say if it detects physiological changes such as heat rate, or if it detects alcohol in sweat, or anything about how it detects alcohol consumption. Any obvious way this could check, could plausibly have false positives from things many of us do every day. I'd be seriously concerned with how this device filters out false positives.
That wasn't the Death Star, but a smaller scale prototype device to test out some of the technologies and construction techniques.
It was the Death Star, but due to the newness of the technology involved, it took a great deal of time to construct, much more time than Death Star II, which was simply a somewhat bigger example of the same technology. Real world parralel here- the first time you built a computer, it probably took a lot longer than it would take you now right?
Possible parralel with the Babylon project in Babylon 5- it took them quite some time to get a working station. Perhaps the Death Star was beset by engineering failures and sabotage along the way before they finally got one operational? As mentioned above, new things take longer to build than new examples of old things, simply because it is new. Compound this by running into unexpected engineering or construction failures, or sabotage, and things can take very long indeed.
Palpatine didn't disband the Senate until A New Hope. Presumably, the Senate did have some power over the budget and policy until then- not as much as it used to, but some. To divert funds for such a large secret project would raise lots of questions among fairly powerful individuals. They simply couldn't divert funds to get it done any faster than 15-20 years without tipping off the Senate, which may have still had the authority and/or influence to take down Palpatine, or at least make his rule more difficult. The second Death Star, however, would not be created under those restrictions. Palpatine had unlimited authority by that point, and if he wanted to divert fifty billion credits for a battle station, he could do so and just kill anyone that asked why.
It was the Death Star, but not right after the previous scene- a flash forward scene to the construction project a few years prior to the Battle of Yavin.
Pair a light gun with foot pedals and it might work.
Have the primary set be four pedals. Front, back, turn left, turn right. This is the basic movement that you need to be able to do even during other maneuvers, and wouldn't be terribly complicated. Throw in pressure sensitivity, the harder you press the faster you move. That takes care of walking vs running in a very intuitive manner.
The second foot would control another 4 pedals. This is where it would start causing problems. The easy pedals would be strafe left, strafe right, and jump. Those are rarely used in conjunction with each other, but often are used with the other foots pedals.
Crouching is the difficult part. It would be best added to the second foot controller, but sometimes you need to strafe when crouched. That would be easiest to do if the crouch was a switch, but then you might get stuck crouched for a moment longer than ideal. It could also be designed so you can press the crouch and strafe pedals at the same time, but that would be difficult to control. You could put a crouch button on the the gun, but then you mix controllers together, and as convenient as that may be, it locks you into one controller model.
Except for crouching, light guns could work really well in conjunction with a decently designed foot pedal system. Throw in some position adjustment for the pedals, to take care of different sized feet, and it could work. Crouching might be less than ideal, but I'm sure someone could make it functional.
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I second checking how well the heat sink is attached. The heat sink should be moderately warm to the touch during operation and shortly after shutdown. Definitely shouldn't be *hot*, but it should be noticeably above room temperature. Of course, if you have some insane fan or water cooling system attached to the heat sink, you might manage to achieve "cold", but thats far outside a normal system.
As for the warmest air being that exiting the power supply, thats normal. In addition to the power supplies own heat, it generally sucks warm air out of the case, resulting in considerably more heat exiting it than that it produces on its own.
The idea that security is about technology.
It isn't. Sure, certain engineering and design principles can help security a great deal, but when it comes down to it, security is about the human brain. If you don't run the system intelligently, it doesn't matter how well designed it is, or how well the design is implemented. You will get p0wned.
I'd trust an all Windows 98 network without a firewall, run by someone who knows what they are doing, over an OpenBSD network locked down against everything run by my mom.
Evolution nothing but a theory?
Well, thats an accurate statement.
But it doesn't mean that Intelligent Design is more, or even equally, credible. There is solid evidence for evolution. While very little of it has been directly observed, there is a great deal of fossil remnants of various life forms that shows development over time, giving a strong, and direct suggestion that they evolved.
There is, well, no evedentiary support for Intelligent Design apart from the fact that things exist in the first place. People who say things are too complex- I can see their point. You aren't going to get a few chemicals to mix and out pops Homo Sapiens. But they forget- this took place over billions of years. Things that are far too complex to happen in an observable time frame can be very likely to occur over a longer time frame. I've heard this said of New York City, its a similar(though not identical) concept "Million to one chances happen 11 times a day in a city of 11 million". Basically, if you have a large enough sample size, incredibly unlikely things will inevitably occur. Of course, if you go with a purely literal interpretation of the Bible, there wouldn't be time for this. While I'll grant that as a legitimate belief to hold, cloaking it as a science is just total bullshit.
Note that this does not rule out God having a role, if you accept large parts of the Bible as allegorical. Which you really should anyways. The parables of Jesus were allegorical after all, that much is crystal clear even from a literal reading of the Bible. Considering that, where the Son of God used allegory to explain spiritual truths, why is it so out of line to think that the previous Prophets, and God the Father would not have used allegory? Presumably the people in Jesus time would be even *more* likely to understand a more direct way of stating things, so
Furthermore, look over the Genesis story again. Note how each step incrementally brought the world to the current stage where humans were dominant. Hmmmm... That sounds somewhat like evolution to me. More allegory? I think so. Also keep in mind that the Sun wasn't created until the second "day"- how could these days be meant literally, when the thing that defines a day didn't even exist when they were first counted as such?
Intelligent Design as it is pushed in the media is only supportable by a literal reading of Genesis, and the precedent in other sections(supposedly more important sections such as the Gospels), and simple common sense, suggest that it was meant as allegory. Allegory does *not* diminish the spiritual truths behind it. How many times have you found great wisdom in a science fiction story, or even a bit of wisdom humorously expressed in The Far Side? Does the truth of what you found change because the source was not literally factual? NO.
I actually prefer Rebirths sound(though I'll grant that Bassline is a more accurate emulation of the original)... what puts Bassline on top for me is the ease of sequencing. ReBirth is a *bitch* to program and sequence, especially if there is any possibility of changing the instrumentation. If I were to do a bassline in ReBirth, and changed my mind and wanted to throw it on my Electribe, that would be a serious pain in the ass. With Bassline, all I have to do is redirect the MIDI messages for that part. Much easier.
Thats an interesting idea. How much would hormone activity affect what grows back? Hormones are critical when the organs initiall develop after all, it is plausible that they could affect the regeneration of humans who have that ability, of course depending on exactly how the regeneration works.
As far as the Consitution is concerned, they were brought into the Union as a state. What they call themselves and how they organize themselves internally is irrelevant.
Sure, its old. But it works very well. They can keep pace with P4's upwards of twice as fast, and not consume anywhere NEAR as much power in the process.
Honestly, they should get an award for that. The basic design is, as you say, 10 years old. But it is *still* holding up next to far newer designs. Thats a huge accomplishment. It's hard enough to build a superior CPU architecture for *right now*. Building one that will still be relevant A DECADE INTO THE FUTURE is absolutely staggering. And not simply relevant, but actually near top of the line. Hell, the P6 architecture is on schedule to replace its own "replacement" in the next couple of years. How often does that happen?
Most algorithms have multiple possible implementations in any given language. The best one will depend on the task at hand, and a good programmer will determine the best one much sooner than an average programmer.
Especially if the existing standard implementations don't meet the requirements. An average programmer might shave a couple seconds off the closest implementation using various amateur tricks. A good one will be able to shave off even more, or might know of an obscure algorithm for the given task that the average programmer has never heard of. And when it all hits the fan and there are *no* suitable algorithms out there whatsoever, the good programmer is the one you want to have on hand to create the new algorithm, or to get an algorithm designed for C to work in Visual Basic.
Good programmers are also less likely to accidentally forget things like semicolons and periods and such, or to accidentally divide by zero... normally easy errors to fix, but when you have one popping up every 100 lines of a 100,000 line program, its going to take a while- especially if some of them slip through the compiler and hit you at runtime. And lets not even discuss more subtle errors that lead to buffer overflows...
I wish he had won too. There are a lot of things I don't agree with him on, but he's got integrity, one of the rarest qualities in politics. The Nightline broadcast of the names and faces of the fallen, most war supporters protested it to anyone that would listen, and the pressure even got it preempted on a few stations. But McCain came out in support of it. He really believes the war is worth the cost in money and lives, and if its really worth the cost- why hide from it? I might not agree, but I can respect that he has the courage to stand up for his convictions like that.
http://ehowa.com/mythoughts/nospeeding.shtml
Well written, logical, covers the bases from avoiding getting stopped, how to handle being stopped, all the way through traffic court. Also, at the end, he links to actual cops responses to it and success stories of people who have applied the suggestions.
In that case, what about the opinions of Senator John McCain, who was shot down, captured, and abused as a POW for several years, and is currently a strong supporter of the Iraq war?
You seem to assume those who were fucked in a previous war would be against this one, but that isn't always the case.
You miss the point.
Advertisers don't care if their ads are good. They just want their products name in your head when you need something of that class of item. All else being equal, you'll probably buy the brand thats in your head when you go out to buy that class of item.
Honestly, it was getting tiring. If you've watched the whole series like I have(I've missed maybe five episodes), you would see that RDA is getting really fucking bored with it. His heart isn't in it, this was showing way back in Season 7.
It's about time to replace him. He was good, but his time had passed. Trying to get him as a significant part of the show for another season just wouldn't have worked.
The compiler.
Now, Intel engineers know their own products best. They know what optimizations are safe on Intel hardware and what optimizations are not. They will not always know this for AMD products. So, AMD processors get fed a less optimized code path, that while it might not work the best, the Intel engineers can feel certain will at least work.
Well, Perl tends to be invulnerable to PHP flaws in the vast majority of situations.
Spammer or not, how he is being treated is wrong.
I don't know about you, but I don't think morals should change simply because you don't like someone.
Certainly, if there is probably cause that he commited a crime, he should be investigated, and then prosecuted if the investigation bears out the initial suspicions, but that isn't what happened here. His home was searched and his property siezed, and *not* returned, based on him doing his damn job. It would be like your boss having you arrested for tresspassing, using your timecard that is punched for that day as evidence you tresspassed.
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No, the Pentagon would buy a 10 dollar ethernet card and put 490 dollars towards Area 51.
Not sure about the Master, but I expect it to be a Time Lord.
Think, Bad Wolf. What is the Bad Wolf that people are most frightened of? The "wolf in sheeps clothing". My theory goes like this- The Time Lords had the upper hand in the Time War. The Daleks were about to lose, and decisevely so. Until a Time Lord switched sides and lead the Daleks to victory, until the Doctor "destroyed" them, but the Time Lord leading them, who the Doctor was unaware of, managed to get them to travel through time to a point they could regroup and take over.
The long, subtle plan isn't the work of a Dalek after all. Not immediately aggressive like a good Dalek, something that would be done by someone who thinks in the VERY long term- a nearly immortal master of time and space, thats the sort of person to play such a long game. Not that Daleks are stupid, but this doesn't seem like anything a dalek would come up with, not their style. But a traitorous Time Lord... Definitely.
So the Bad Wolf is a Time Lord that appeared to be a good guy, then turned on Gallifrey at the critical moment. Who knows, maybe the Doctor knows of this Time Lords existence, but due to the betrayal has refused to accept him as a fellow Time Lord, sort of how true Star Wars fans refuse to accept the Holidy SPecial.
He wasn't saying its right for a court to declare a smartass guilty, just that it happens.
Also, even when they are being above board and considering the evidence, many cases come down to credibility of the witnesses. Someone being a smartass isn't going to appear as credible as someone taking the proceedings seriously. Think about it, you have two witnesses, each telling you contradictory stories, which would you believe? The composed, polite, well behaved individual, or the one making smartass remarks about the evidence? Assume that both stories have equally strong objective evidence, and that deciding the truth comes down strictly to credibility of the witnesses.
You do have a right to trial by jury, but you may have to explicitly request it in some situations.
Do not directly challenge the testimony of the cop.
For good or bad, the testimony of a police officer in good standing might as well come from God himself as far as the courts are concerned. Unless you've got a lawyer and solid evidence, directly challenging a police officers testimony, you might as well plead guilty.
Can this differentiate between someone piss drunk and someone that just spilled a bottle of rubbing alcohol? What about overspray from acohol based cleaning products, or NyQuil spills? How about hand wipes with alcohol in them, or aftershave, or any of the other completely innocent reasons for alcohol to get on your hands?
This article is *very* light on details. It doesn't say if it detects physiological changes such as heat rate, or if it detects alcohol in sweat, or anything about how it detects alcohol consumption. Any obvious way this could check, could plausibly have false positives from things many of us do every day. I'd be seriously concerned with how this device filters out false positives.
Possibilities:
That wasn't the Death Star, but a smaller scale prototype device to test out some of the technologies and construction techniques.
It was the Death Star, but due to the newness of the technology involved, it took a great deal of time to construct, much more time than Death Star II, which was simply a somewhat bigger example of the same technology. Real world parralel here- the first time you built a computer, it probably took a lot longer than it would take you now right?
Possible parralel with the Babylon project in Babylon 5- it took them quite some time to get a working station. Perhaps the Death Star was beset by engineering failures and sabotage along the way before they finally got one operational? As mentioned above, new things take longer to build than new examples of old things, simply because it is new. Compound this by running into unexpected engineering or construction failures, or sabotage, and things can take very long indeed.
Palpatine didn't disband the Senate until A New Hope. Presumably, the Senate did have some power over the budget and policy until then- not as much as it used to, but some. To divert funds for such a large secret project would raise lots of questions among fairly powerful individuals. They simply couldn't divert funds to get it done any faster than 15-20 years without tipping off the Senate, which may have still had the authority and/or influence to take down Palpatine, or at least make his rule more difficult. The second Death Star, however, would not be created under those restrictions. Palpatine had unlimited authority by that point, and if he wanted to divert fifty billion credits for a battle station, he could do so and just kill anyone that asked why.
It was the Death Star, but not right after the previous scene- a flash forward scene to the construction project a few years prior to the Battle of Yavin.
Pair a light gun with foot pedals and it might work.
Have the primary set be four pedals. Front, back, turn left, turn right. This is the basic movement that you need to be able to do even during other maneuvers, and wouldn't be terribly complicated. Throw in pressure sensitivity, the harder you press the faster you move. That takes care of walking vs running in a very intuitive manner.
The second foot would control another 4 pedals. This is where it would start causing problems. The easy pedals would be strafe left, strafe right, and jump. Those are rarely used in conjunction with each other, but often are used with the other foots pedals.
Crouching is the difficult part. It would be best added to the second foot controller, but sometimes you need to strafe when crouched. That would be easiest to do if the crouch was a switch, but then you might get stuck crouched for a moment longer than ideal. It could also be designed so you can press the crouch and strafe pedals at the same time, but that would be difficult to control. You could put a crouch button on the the gun, but then you mix controllers together, and as convenient as that may be, it locks you into one controller model.
Except for crouching, light guns could work really well in conjunction with a decently designed foot pedal system. Throw in some position adjustment for the pedals, to take care of different sized feet, and it could work. Crouching might be less than ideal, but I'm sure someone could make it functional.