I was heavily considering writing a book on Erlang.
It's a good thing I didn't. God only knows what the market for Erlang publications would be like if there were THREE books to choose from!
Hint: When you see a $400 hammer in a government catalog, it's not a hammer. It's a classified device, but they are still required to put it in the catalog. Therefore, they list it as something ridiculous like the infamous NASA "toilet seat".
Yes. Fire and EMS services are legally required to respond to calls of life in distress.
As the mayor of the town noted, the fire department responds to any and all directly life-threatening calls.
And I know there is legislation requiring that EMS responders treat and transport life-threatening calls regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
However, in this case no *human* lives were at stake. Therefore the fire department is not obligated to respond to a call that is not within their coverage boundary. Additionally, stepping outside of their boundaries would have voided any occupational hazard insurance they may carry, because providing fire response outside of their duty radius is considered action outside of the line of duty.
Sharing an article on Slashdot or Facebook only shares an abstract and a *link* to the article. You're still viewing the article in full from the original source.
Saying that the "Share" button is a license to copy the entire article is like saying that musicians and record labels give you a license to copy by letting you hear a 30-second preview.
If HP allows people to print e-books on REGULAR PAPER, how will they control who gets to read them, and make them expire and self-destruct after some incredibly short amount of time?
I just recently got full and official Flash support on my Motorola Droid with Android 2.2. It seems oddly coincidental to me that as soon as Android has solid Flash support, Apple decides it's time to open the floodgates and be best buddies with Adobe.
What the fuck? Sure, it's natural that Apple would do that because they want to stay competitive with the Android segment of the market, but Apple was supposed to be the leader and "innovator", not the follower.
You asked me to provide evidence supporting my claim of 2x performance gains and 8x the pricetag. I did exactly that. AMD and Intel may be in a tight race at the midrange ($140-$200) but the interoperability between AMD's three socket specs (AM2,AM2+,AM3) and the DDR2/DDR3 backwards compatability are what send AMD leaps and bounds ahead of Intel. From a holistic standpoint AMD's offering is alot more stable in the long-term, and this is how they steamroll over the competition.
P.S. I got fed up with Intel when I found out I'd have to throw out my motherboard, CPU and RAM to move from a Core2 Quad to *any* of the i3/5/7 offerings. My motherboard, CPU and RAM were no more than two years old and yet somehow there was no financially sane upgrade path for ANY of the components. If I were to get an i3 or i5, that meant I most likely couldn't upgrade to an i7 later without chucking the entire motherboard. This is what ticks me off about Intel's business model.
Legal disclaimer: My comments on performance are based on the assumption that the reviewers were utilizing all cores in the benchmark, and not running single-threaded benchmarks or locking out unused cores. The reviewers did not adequately explain the benchmarking procedures, so there's definitely some wiggle room for disagreement.
Notice the performance of the 980X over the other two. There's no more than a 3x performance increase in media encoding. Compare the price tag differences, ranging from a six-fold increase over the i5 and an eight-fold increase over the i3.
The kind of premium Intel charges for the "Extreme Edition" brand is ridiculous. Based on those specs alone and knowing the price of the two lower models, I wouldn't expect to be charged anything more than $600 for the i7.
I bought all my parts from Newegg in the US, hence I noticed a much larger price difference between the Phenom II and Intel's i5/i7 lineup.
I'm also not advocating buying CPUs on budget alone - if you need the performance, then by all means pay a little extra for it. But what I fail to see in looking at the processors side-by-side is the price/performance. I don't see any sense in paying 8x more for a CPU that only runs at about 2x the speed.
The latest revision of my Phenom II X4 disagrees with you. The Phenom II series is absolutely steamrolling over every other Intel product in its price range.
Hint: Notice I said "in its price range." Because not everyone prefers spending $1300 on a CPU that's marginally better than one at $600. It seems like Intel has stepped away from the "chip speed" game and stepped right into "ludicrously expensive".
Why does Intel need to push the envelope that hard and that fast just to create a product that will, in the end, have extremely low yield and extremely high cost?
Just so they can adhere to some ancient "law" proposed by one of their founders? It's time to let go of Moore's Law. It's outdated and doesn't scale well... just like the x86 architecture! *ba-dum, chhh*
Fixing this alone means nothing. If you search for someone on Facebook it will show you a name and a profile picture. Sure, it requires a facebook account, but that's not too hard to create for somebody with 4,000,000 email addresses.
If your comment is an autobiography of your sex life, I feel bad for you and your spouse. Whatever you do to ignite each other's passions obviously isn't enough.
If all your woman is concerned about is "landing" you and not actually making you happy or having a passionate relationship, you went wrong somewhere.
Some of us prefer quality over quantity - just like how the more refined and matured drinkers enjoy a single bottle of some obscure microbrew over a 24-pack of Pissweiser (Or Pissweiser Light for the vain, calorie-conscious drunkard).
Sex isn't passionate or anywhere near as enjoyable when you've got a veritable police lineup of cheap whores at your every beck and call. Sure, you may have more sexual partners but there are definite drawbacks and it cheapens the experience. Not to mention that stinging, burning feeling shortly afterward.
Nice try at trying to argue your overgeneralized talking points. Unfortunately for you, many of us aren't political vegetarians. We want meaty substance, not just cold, empty filler.
So, yes, those talking points might work for a political rally where you already know everyone's on your side, but WHAT the hell do those mean to somebody who doesn't follow Ron Paul religiously?
Correction, your car gets 80MPG regardless of how many passengers are in it (Even less than 80 if it's more than two).
However, your PERSON-Miles per gallon (pm/g) increases with every passenger because you're transporting 2 passengers at 80mpg efficiency, therefore your car is getting 160 person-miles per gallon.
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I was heavily considering writing a book on Erlang. It's a good thing I didn't. God only knows what the market for Erlang publications would be like if there were THREE books to choose from!
Breaking news! Trendy social teenagers more likely to engage in sexual intercourse! Film at 11.
Breaking news! Trendy social teenagers more likely to engage in sexual intercourse with peers! Film at 11.
Okay, the TFA says "Axel Braun" "wrote" the porno.
Seriously? People "write" pornos? They already have no fucking plot to begin with, so what the hell does a "porn writer" actually "write"?
Hell, I think a more fitting term would be "choreographer" considering the kinds of physical activities that go into these productions.
You actually believe that $400 hammer bullshit?
Hint: When you see a $400 hammer in a government catalog, it's not a hammer. It's a classified device, but they are still required to put it in the catalog. Therefore, they list it as something ridiculous like the infamous NASA "toilet seat".
The $400 hammer joke died 10 years ago.
Yes. Fire and EMS services are legally required to respond to calls of life in distress.
As the mayor of the town noted, the fire department responds to any and all directly life-threatening calls.
And I know there is legislation requiring that EMS responders treat and transport life-threatening calls regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
However, in this case no *human* lives were at stake. Therefore the fire department is not obligated to respond to a call that is not within their coverage boundary. Additionally, stepping outside of their boundaries would have voided any occupational hazard insurance they may carry, because providing fire response outside of their duty radius is considered action outside of the line of duty.
Nokia really needs to rebrand their mobile OS line. Every time I hear "Symbian" I think of some odd mechanical sex device.
Sharing an article on Slashdot or Facebook only shares an abstract and a *link* to the article. You're still viewing the article in full from the original source.
Saying that the "Share" button is a license to copy the entire article is like saying that musicians and record labels give you a license to copy by letting you hear a 30-second preview.
If HP allows people to print e-books on REGULAR PAPER, how will they control who gets to read them, and make them expire and self-destruct after some incredibly short amount of time?
Think of the publishers!
Right, and having a dictionary and thesaurus on my desk in easy reach is stopping me from learning new words.
Die in a fire.
I just recently got full and official Flash support on my Motorola Droid with Android 2.2. It seems oddly coincidental to me that as soon as Android has solid Flash support, Apple decides it's time to open the floodgates and be best buddies with Adobe.
What the fuck? Sure, it's natural that Apple would do that because they want to stay competitive with the Android segment of the market, but Apple was supposed to be the leader and "innovator", not the follower.
...hampered by an interface that only a CS grad student could decipher.
Score:5, Truth
You asked me to provide evidence supporting my claim of 2x performance gains and 8x the pricetag. I did exactly that. AMD and Intel may be in a tight race at the midrange ($140-$200) but the interoperability between AMD's three socket specs (AM2,AM2+,AM3) and the DDR2/DDR3 backwards compatability are what send AMD leaps and bounds ahead of Intel. From a holistic standpoint AMD's offering is alot more stable in the long-term, and this is how they steamroll over the competition.
P.S. I got fed up with Intel when I found out I'd have to throw out my motherboard, CPU and RAM to move from a Core2 Quad to *any* of the i3/5/7 offerings. My motherboard, CPU and RAM were no more than two years old and yet somehow there was no financially sane upgrade path for ANY of the components. If I were to get an i3 or i5, that meant I most likely couldn't upgrade to an i7 later without chucking the entire motherboard. This is what ticks me off about Intel's business model.
Legal disclaimer: My comments on performance are based on the assumption that the reviewers were utilizing all cores in the benchmark, and not running single-threaded benchmarks or locking out unused cores. The reviewers did not adequately explain the benchmarking procedures, so there's definitely some wiggle room for disagreement.
This review:
http://it-review.net/article/hardware/cpu/Intel_Core_i7_980X,_Core_i5_650_and_Core_i3_530_review&3
These processors:
Core i7-980X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115223
Core i5-650
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115220
Core i3-530
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115222
Notice the performance of the 980X over the other two. There's no more than a 3x performance increase in media encoding. Compare the price tag differences, ranging from a six-fold increase over the i5 and an eight-fold increase over the i3.
The kind of premium Intel charges for the "Extreme Edition" brand is ridiculous. Based on those specs alone and knowing the price of the two lower models, I wouldn't expect to be charged anything more than $600 for the i7.
I bought all my parts from Newegg in the US, hence I noticed a much larger price difference between the Phenom II and Intel's i5/i7 lineup.
I'm also not advocating buying CPUs on budget alone - if you need the performance, then by all means pay a little extra for it. But what I fail to see in looking at the processors side-by-side is the price/performance. I don't see any sense in paying 8x more for a CPU that only runs at about 2x the speed.
The latest revision of my Phenom II X4 disagrees with you. The Phenom II series is absolutely steamrolling over every other Intel product in its price range.
Hint: Notice I said "in its price range." Because not everyone prefers spending $1300 on a CPU that's marginally better than one at $600. It seems like Intel has stepped away from the "chip speed" game and stepped right into "ludicrously expensive".
Why does Intel need to push the envelope that hard and that fast just to create a product that will, in the end, have extremely low yield and extremely high cost?
Just so they can adhere to some ancient "law" proposed by one of their founders? It's time to let go of Moore's Law. It's outdated and doesn't scale well... just like the x86 architecture! *ba-dum, chhh*
Fixing this alone means nothing. If you search for someone on Facebook it will show you a name and a profile picture. Sure, it requires a facebook account, but that's not too hard to create for somebody with 4,000,000 email addresses.
Uh, yeah, transparency was an issue in our last election. And we all know how well those promises were kept.
If your comment is an autobiography of your sex life, I feel bad for you and your spouse. Whatever you do to ignite each other's passions obviously isn't enough.
If all your woman is concerned about is "landing" you and not actually making you happy or having a passionate relationship, you went wrong somewhere.
Some of us prefer quality over quantity - just like how the more refined and matured drinkers enjoy a single bottle of some obscure microbrew over a 24-pack of Pissweiser (Or Pissweiser Light for the vain, calorie-conscious drunkard).
Sex isn't passionate or anywhere near as enjoyable when you've got a veritable police lineup of cheap whores at your every beck and call. Sure, you may have more sexual partners but there are definite drawbacks and it cheapens the experience. Not to mention that stinging, burning feeling shortly afterward.
Nice try at trying to argue your overgeneralized talking points. Unfortunately for you, many of us aren't political vegetarians. We want meaty substance, not just cold, empty filler.
So, yes, those talking points might work for a political rally where you already know everyone's on your side, but WHAT the hell do those mean to somebody who doesn't follow Ron Paul religiously?
I must be missing something or having a whoosh moment, because you're totally wrong.
PDF in this sense means Portable Document Format.
Correction, your car gets 80MPG regardless of how many passengers are in it (Even less than 80 if it's more than two).
However, your PERSON-Miles per gallon (pm/g) increases with every passenger because you're transporting 2 passengers at 80mpg efficiency, therefore your car is getting 160 person-miles per gallon.
Units are fun!