That reminds me, Iain M. Banks did something similar in Against A Dark Background. One of the most powerful persons on a far distant world left the location of a secret vault embedded in a servant. When in contact with one of his descendant's DNA, the former servant revealed the knowledge he was unaware of. How that went down was pretty neat.
It used "fluidics" IIRC, and was prone to misplace some data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in Gordon Dickson's Tactics of Mistake there was an aide to a major character who served by being able to recall data he'd memorized. Arguably no big deal but it is a SF novel that dealt with people with exceptional abilities. If we're going to mention mentats (who were more about interpreting data) then I guess we can mention this guy.
I just ordered a new watch that sets DST automatically, and I hope I remember correctly that that feature can be disabled. Yeah, now that I think about it, it was mentioned that some locales don't use DST, so the option is there.
Or we need to have an intervention for all those museum curators who accept donated collections only to store them away in their sub-basement for decades at a time.
Oh wait, that's more about being a disproportionate tax deduction for the donor, rather than hoarding. Never mind!
And how is going to a Cineplex to watch a movie on a giant TV, instead of film projected onto a screen, often with only a small audience in attendance, intrinsically different that going to a friend's house, and watching a movie on their giant TV, among a small audience of friends?
On the other hand, I do favor keeping movie theaters alive, and Netflix does release their movies in them first when they want Oscar consideration. So this is just about Netflix bringing them to their service too soon after?
P.S. When studio hotshots like Spielberg go into a studio's private screening room to watch an upcoming release on a large 4K TV, how is that different than a person watching a Netflix movie in his home private screening room, on his large 4K TV? Better bit-rate? Some of the people at the avs forum have mini-theaters in their homes. Popcorn machines and luxury seating included.
P.P.S. Has the practice of mailing out copies of films up for Academy consideration to those voting on them, so they can watch them at home changed? I'd like too learn if any Spielberg films were distributed that way.
Yes, Amazon was starting to think that a consensus was forming that once they committed to building, they'd not want to abandon that, and so they'd be ripe for endless groups who'd be wanting to wet their beak. Sure, that's paranoid thinking, but was it paranoid enough?
And was getting invited back to the table, with assurances from the politicians and the unions that beak wetting would be under control, what they were going for when they walked away from the table?
Amazon's shareholders don't seem to be in an uproar over this, but a lot of the people that can make the lives of politicians and union leaders miserable are in one.
So Amazon is making that clear, and maybe now negotiations can be finalized. Or maybe not, because Amazon has something to gain by not coming back to the table. It would serve to let other locales now that they aren't to be trifled with.
I'm a retired union construction worker living not too far from where this headquarters would be built, and the salaries of the blue collar jobs that go with it, and they'd not just come from the construction, would be offering a better salary than what many workers are currently getting.
We have work on Long Island, but more, better paying, jobs is like a tide that helps raise, or at least maintain, the salaries of everybody who works nearby in blue collar jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In connection to how some porn aficionados might react. Nor, I suppose, has he consulted with Rick Santorum before proposing this.
On the other hand, if his supporters are as upright as him, none of that will matter, as neither he nor they are at any risk of ever seeing how those in the porn universe react, within the porn universe.
Theanine is generally recognized to work as advertised, and to be reasonably safe at the recommended doses. It's in tea.
Same deal with Kava Kava, it was the extraction from the wrong part of the wrong plants that affected a very few people.
CBD oil is now legal, thus a supplement, and its grateful users would be livid if anyone tried to deny them its benefits.
It's amazing how many herbal supplements are out there that have been taken for thousands of years for specific purposes that modern analysis now can confirm as being due to specific chemical components.
Safe use has always been a consideration, and that along with the BS claims of some is where the FDA should focus.
That was from the linked NYT article and scared me! Fortunately it seems that that's in referral to the seizures from a couple of years ago.
There were so many complaints from satisfied customers that the FDA relented.
P.S. I'm not affiliated with any companies selling Kratom, nor do I have any financial interest in it.
I'm a bit over 60 years old, fwiw. Yes, used book stores ftw. I scored a used first edition of Babel-17 at one. It's in good shape, and it brings back memories of the first time I read it.
I still like physical copies of books, though I buy the e-books of authors I like to support. My local library has a thrift shelf where they offer their retired paperbacks, hardcovers, and even DVDs and Blu rays, for a quarter or less (a buck for the disks though), and they also have book sales in the basement once in a while.
Btw, most of Galaxy Magazine has been scanned and uploaded to archive.org. Amazing stuff! Just look for the zoom feature on the page, otherwise the text is too small to rad, imo.
Many classic SF novels have been scanned at archive.org as well, and can be checked out. All totally legally of course!
https://archive.org/details/ga...
And I think I started with that one as well. Only later did I read the prequel novels of the IPC, and Smith's other famous series with the characters of The Skylark of Space.
Just kidding, though his spaceships (like the Skylark) made out of special steel were the first thing to come to mind on reading this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A lot of today's Science Fiction writers stand on the shoulders of JMS, who created Babylon 5, just as he stood on the shoulders of Doc Smith. 25 years just went by since the first airing of B5's first episode by the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm talking in regards people shopping for a home. They can buy an existing one, or foot the bill of solar for a new one. If existing home owners come out of this with a slight win, then that might help explain the lack of enough resistance to the law compelling solar.
Sure, some home owners will buy new, in California down the road, but but then the cost of solar will have come down, and it likely will blend in better to the home's look. Other home owners will sell, and then move out of state.
Though if they move to a state on the southern extreme, or near to it, solar would be a good idea there. Building costs in general, and solar in particular, might be less expensive though. Most of California has pretty high costs, relative to sun belt states, afaik.
I remember when Intel released its "Core 2" lineup some gamers eschewed getting the quad core ones because the dual core CPUs clocked higher, were less expensive, and most games only used one or two threads.
Given how popular the slighter older i7s (4 cores, eight threads) and i5s (4 cores) have been, and how prominent they are in populating gaming PCs, it seems doubtful to me that any PC game will be incapable of running blisteringly fast on 8 physical cores. Games running on an i5 6600k/i7 7600k, with just four cores, generally go fast enough even for gamers running monitors at high refresh rates.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel...https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-...
These new CPUs will more than double their performance, and given the enormous number of customers for games with older i5s and i7s it's hard to imagine any game developer with an eye to sales who'll think that "Too bad, it's 16 threads or bust!".
Non-gaming applications have been impressive in their improving on the ability to make use of more threads, but even there there are often diminishing returns, and it will be the pro's, and serious semi-pro's, who notice the savings in time by going to 16 threads (or more).
But my point here goes to gamers/power users of the PC. For many of them, myself included, eight physical cores represents the opportunity for a solid upgrade. Though personally, I'd be a lot more excited if this was on 10 nanometer, it ran cooler when getting stressed, and it used less juice under all circumstances. At 10 nm it would be gold. As is, I think a lot of people will wait and see for what's on the horizon.
Go into Device Manager in Windows and if you disable write caching for the USB drive (set it for Quick removal) Windows indicates you no longer need to use the Safely Remove Hardware Notification icon.
Well, that's the theory anyway, the drive's controller may in fact be doing something that shouldn't be interrupted.
Or just when the drive had just gone done being busy with lots of reads and writes.
I was reading just a while back that even some spinning drives are over provisioned, and the drive might use that as a cache. I guess it could get iffy if the drive got yanked while it was finalizing the process.
One other thing. IIRC a drive with a good controller will do some housekeeping by way of checking its integrity from time to time. It might "resent" being interrupted while marking a sector bad and transferring its data to a good one.
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What kind of hardware would I need to get a buttery smooth 60 fps?
That reminds me, Iain M. Banks did something similar in Against A Dark Background. One of the most powerful persons on a far distant world left the location of a secret vault embedded in a servant. When in contact with one of his descendant's DNA, the former servant revealed the knowledge he was unaware of. How that went down was pretty neat.
It used "fluidics" IIRC, and was prone to misplace some data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And in Gordon Dickson's Tactics of Mistake there was an aide to a major character who served by being able to recall data he'd memorized. Arguably no big deal but it is a SF novel that dealt with people with exceptional abilities. If we're going to mention mentats (who were more about interpreting data) then I guess we can mention this guy.
I just ordered a new watch that sets DST automatically, and I hope I remember correctly that that feature can be disabled. Yeah, now that I think about it, it was mentioned that some locales don't use DST, so the option is there.
Or we need to have an intervention for all those museum curators who accept donated collections only to store them away in their sub-basement for decades at a time. Oh wait, that's more about being a disproportionate tax deduction for the donor, rather than hoarding. Never mind!
And how is going to a Cineplex to watch a movie on a giant TV, instead of film projected onto a screen, often with only a small audience in attendance, intrinsically different that going to a friend's house, and watching a movie on their giant TV, among a small audience of friends? On the other hand, I do favor keeping movie theaters alive, and Netflix does release their movies in them first when they want Oscar consideration. So this is just about Netflix bringing them to their service too soon after? P.S. When studio hotshots like Spielberg go into a studio's private screening room to watch an upcoming release on a large 4K TV, how is that different than a person watching a Netflix movie in his home private screening room, on his large 4K TV? Better bit-rate? Some of the people at the avs forum have mini-theaters in their homes. Popcorn machines and luxury seating included. P.P.S. Has the practice of mailing out copies of films up for Academy consideration to those voting on them, so they can watch them at home changed? I'd like too learn if any Spielberg films were distributed that way.
Yes, Amazon was starting to think that a consensus was forming that once they committed to building, they'd not want to abandon that, and so they'd be ripe for endless groups who'd be wanting to wet their beak. Sure, that's paranoid thinking, but was it paranoid enough? And was getting invited back to the table, with assurances from the politicians and the unions that beak wetting would be under control, what they were going for when they walked away from the table? Amazon's shareholders don't seem to be in an uproar over this, but a lot of the people that can make the lives of politicians and union leaders miserable are in one. So Amazon is making that clear, and maybe now negotiations can be finalized. Or maybe not, because Amazon has something to gain by not coming back to the table. It would serve to let other locales now that they aren't to be trifled with. I'm a retired union construction worker living not too far from where this headquarters would be built, and the salaries of the blue collar jobs that go with it, and they'd not just come from the construction, would be offering a better salary than what many workers are currently getting. We have work on Long Island, but more, better paying, jobs is like a tide that helps raise, or at least maintain, the salaries of everybody who works nearby in blue collar jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bow Wow Wow approves! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hey, and that works just as well for the same situation!
In connection to how some porn aficionados might react. Nor, I suppose, has he consulted with Rick Santorum before proposing this. On the other hand, if his supporters are as upright as him, none of that will matter, as neither he nor they are at any risk of ever seeing how those in the porn universe react, within the porn universe.
that a volunteer, identified only as "Charlie", has been recruited to be the first human trial subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Theanine is generally recognized to work as advertised, and to be reasonably safe at the recommended doses. It's in tea. Same deal with Kava Kava, it was the extraction from the wrong part of the wrong plants that affected a very few people. CBD oil is now legal, thus a supplement, and its grateful users would be livid if anyone tried to deny them its benefits. It's amazing how many herbal supplements are out there that have been taken for thousands of years for specific purposes that modern analysis now can confirm as being due to specific chemical components. Safe use has always been a consideration, and that along with the BS claims of some is where the FDA should focus.
That was from the linked NYT article and scared me! Fortunately it seems that that's in referral to the seizures from a couple of years ago. There were so many complaints from satisfied customers that the FDA relented. P.S. I'm not affiliated with any companies selling Kratom, nor do I have any financial interest in it.
I'm a bit over 60 years old, fwiw. Yes, used book stores ftw. I scored a used first edition of Babel-17 at one. It's in good shape, and it brings back memories of the first time I read it. I still like physical copies of books, though I buy the e-books of authors I like to support. My local library has a thrift shelf where they offer their retired paperbacks, hardcovers, and even DVDs and Blu rays, for a quarter or less (a buck for the disks though), and they also have book sales in the basement once in a while. Btw, most of Galaxy Magazine has been scanned and uploaded to archive.org. Amazing stuff! Just look for the zoom feature on the page, otherwise the text is too small to rad, imo. Many classic SF novels have been scanned at archive.org as well, and can be checked out. All totally legally of course! https://archive.org/details/ga...
And I think I started with that one as well. Only later did I read the prequel novels of the IPC, and Smith's other famous series with the characters of The Skylark of Space.
Just kidding, though his spaceships (like the Skylark) made out of special steel were the first thing to come to mind on reading this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A lot of today's Science Fiction writers stand on the shoulders of JMS, who created Babylon 5, just as he stood on the shoulders of Doc Smith. 25 years just went by since the first airing of B5's first episode by the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://genius.com/Isaac-asimo... An example of why you shouldn't skimp on thinking out your programming.
And speaking of cosmetically enhanced corpses, our political class will flock to this.
"Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"
I'm talking in regards people shopping for a home. They can buy an existing one, or foot the bill of solar for a new one. If existing home owners come out of this with a slight win, then that might help explain the lack of enough resistance to the law compelling solar. Sure, some home owners will buy new, in California down the road, but but then the cost of solar will have come down, and it likely will blend in better to the home's look. Other home owners will sell, and then move out of state. Though if they move to a state on the southern extreme, or near to it, solar would be a good idea there. Building costs in general, and solar in particular, might be less expensive though. Most of California has pretty high costs, relative to sun belt states, afaik.
Lol, true! Alternatively: Nerd jobs, so it's "Competition is a three edged sword". :)
https://memegenerator.net/img/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or there's "On one hand competition is good, on the other hand it can be bad, but on the gripping hand ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But not by Russia!. https://www.motherjones.com/po... https://www.npr.org/2016/04/19... https://nypost.com/2016/04/21/...
I remember when Intel released its "Core 2" lineup some gamers eschewed getting the quad core ones because the dual core CPUs clocked higher, were less expensive, and most games only used one or two threads. Given how popular the slighter older i7s (4 cores, eight threads) and i5s (4 cores) have been, and how prominent they are in populating gaming PCs, it seems doubtful to me that any PC game will be incapable of running blisteringly fast on 8 physical cores. Games running on an i5 6600k/i7 7600k, with just four cores, generally go fast enough even for gamers running monitors at high refresh rates. https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel... https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-... These new CPUs will more than double their performance, and given the enormous number of customers for games with older i5s and i7s it's hard to imagine any game developer with an eye to sales who'll think that "Too bad, it's 16 threads or bust!". Non-gaming applications have been impressive in their improving on the ability to make use of more threads, but even there there are often diminishing returns, and it will be the pro's, and serious semi-pro's, who notice the savings in time by going to 16 threads (or more). But my point here goes to gamers/power users of the PC. For many of them, myself included, eight physical cores represents the opportunity for a solid upgrade. Though personally, I'd be a lot more excited if this was on 10 nanometer, it ran cooler when getting stressed, and it used less juice under all circumstances. At 10 nm it would be gold. As is, I think a lot of people will wait and see for what's on the horizon.
Go into Device Manager in Windows and if you disable write caching for the USB drive (set it for Quick removal) Windows indicates you no longer need to use the Safely Remove Hardware Notification icon. Well, that's the theory anyway, the drive's controller may in fact be doing something that shouldn't be interrupted.
Or just when the drive had just gone done being busy with lots of reads and writes. I was reading just a while back that even some spinning drives are over provisioned, and the drive might use that as a cache. I guess it could get iffy if the drive got yanked while it was finalizing the process. One other thing. IIRC a drive with a good controller will do some housekeeping by way of checking its integrity from time to time. It might "resent" being interrupted while marking a sector bad and transferring its data to a good one.