I've been on G+ since it was incepted when the damn Meme about a real name started. Guess what. Google has never required a Real Name for it as long as you have a valid Log-In for their services. Those who only used GDocs/Gmail were fine. Even iGoogle (start page), Picasa or Google Groups worked if you had a log-in. The only service that has ever required a Real Name was Orkut due Brazil and the South American Problems. For EU/US/Asia, Orkut has been a non-starter as it's never been pushed for us to use it due to Picasa.
Well there's the science angle of those engines seeing as how they were actually launched raising the questions of how the heat affected them, plus what affect did splash down have on them along with the affect of salt water on the hot/cold components. What kind of corrosion has the metal suffered over time? All sorts of questions like that are then able to be asked.
To me, the inability to even think of questions to be asked/ivestigated proves just how well the educational system in the United States is reaching the goal of no-one being able to think for themselves as both the government and corps simply want consumers that are as dumb as rocks. No wonder Science has pretty much died in the States though we still have a few that are innovating but they're getting locked out by Patents and such as quickly as possible.
The only problem is that Steam is the same type of DRM as what we're talking about. you have to have an internet connection to play anything downloaded from them. It's because of the DRM crap that I've opted out instead. To me, this entire game industry has become an issue of overcontrol (just like our government) pushing people to consume just for the sake of profits instead of producing something I actually want to buy that'll bring me back to play it again.
It was 02/03 when I purchased a copy of SimCity 4 - Rush Hour because how much time I was spending at the universisty while she was in class - 90 miles one way, 3 nights a week and class on saturday. It wasn't worth driving back home as I would simply have to turn around and head back to pick her up and no, there wasn't anyone she could have car pooled with.
Wanted to make a backup copy as the optical drives in laptops have never impressed me with their robustness but due to their DRM scheme breaking the damn CD/DVD functionality (even attempted to use linux and make a mirror copy (bit for bit) and it failed. Gave up and decided it simply wasn't worth having spent the money (own both SImCity 2k/3k before) and decided that because of the DRM system selected, that I would never buy another EA product again. What actually happened is that I haven't bought any games since then because of a bad experience with DRM to begin with and then we heard about the Sony Root Kit issue. Put me off buying anything other then absolutely needed software for a long time. Because of that bad experience I started using OSS and became an advocate while refusing to purchase anything except absolutely critical software. Time change though and although still an OSS advocate, I've found myself buying stuff like Office and Nero as I've needed their functionality and running Windows instead of Linux. My main concern now is to keep food on the table, which means using what everyone else uses due to interoperability (Damn you M$). Of course on the OSS front, I'm finding myself using a GPL PDF creator based on Ghostscript and functioning as a Printer in Office. Saves me lots of agravation because it's something I know almost everyone has installed in the business world, so I can begin weaning myself from the M$ Office Teat though I love the functionality of OneNote.
how can they collect anymore data on me. They've already got eveything possible. Now if they could just emulate me on/. then it'd be possible for them to bring to my attention the good ones and answer the damn idiots with RTFA/RTFM and such. Hell it could problably troll better them me
A Bandwidth cap is not a network neutrality issue. It's just a cap on how much bandwidth you can use. In this case, they've properly stated that internal bandwidth usage does not count against your cap, which is for external bandwidth
only problem is, you'd be in violation of the TOS against servers with FTP, Telnet, Rsync or any other file transfer protocol because one system must act as a server
Did you RTFA? I happened to do so having caught it a couple of days ago. The interesting element to this design is the early/late (dawn/dusk) power generation as the current method doesn't get enough solar incidence to generate anything until 3 hours after sunrise/3 hours before sunset. That's 6 hours of production that's being missed, which is why this design reaches 15-20x the generated power of conventional flat panels.
15 percent humidity!? I'd consider that to be high as my normal humidity ranges between 7 - 12 percent. Anything over 20 percent makes me sweath like a leaky faucet. Of course, I live in the desert and have adjusted quite nicely to the dry air.
and the Korean war hasn't ended. It's just in a state of "Cease Fire", thus can be restarted with a very simple declaration by the United States w/o congressional approval as the declaration of war was issued by Congress and has never been revoked.
Arthur C. Clarke's Third law states "Any Technology Sufficiently Advanced is Indistinguishable from Magic". The Corally to that law is "Any Magic Sufficiently Exposed is indistinguishable from Technology" and as Albert Einstein supposedly Said "Quantumn Physics is that Spooky Stuff" as he didn't like it. In reality, both Clarke and Einsteind are correct about Quantumn Physics and Events. It's magic under the hood and by another name.
Once we harness magic, we'll be doing Warp Speed and dealing with Vulcan's before you know it so "hang onto your bustles girls, the wicked witch of the west is dead and her sister is madder then a wet cat on a hot tin roof"
tell me how the common bobby quickshot is going to be able to identify botnet traffic from his connection when he's barely literate enough to play farmville on FB? IMO it's become a real crime that MS still can't follow the simple "Deny All" policy and ask the user if they want to allow before allowing anything to happen. Yes it'll teach another bunch of Joe Sixpacks and Bobby Quickshots to simply click O'kay and at that point, the ISP does need to get involved and start isolating these idiots from the general net as some are doing. The big question there is "Will this help?" IDK & IDC so long as it keeps them from spamming me.
Let Facebook deal with the problem in the only way these idiots are going to learn, through a Lawsuit from Facebook for interfering with their business since that's esentially what they are doing. Facebook also has the right to remove all listings/postings by that company and employees for the TOS violation. Combine that with a nice juicy lawsuit, even if FB doesn't win and the CEO's/Boards will get the message quick time.
and you bitch because the OP has stated that the cloud is not an option. Why they stated that was not explained but if a Sales person told me that their cloud solution was the only offering they had, I'd be showing them the door with the caveat "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" just as I'm telling you that your rant is just that. If you aint got advice within the restrictions they stated, then don't bother coming to the party as what you have to say is simply wasted hot air.
In my case, I find that DVDR's are still a viable option for backup reasons. Of course I don't purchase them in 1-5 packs but 100 pack spindles. You did correctly state that most large data sets don't change once created, it's just the initial creation that takes time/bandwidth. For the OP, I'd actually look into using DVDR for medium term storage Don't buy the cheapest disks - they fail quite often Verbatim is what I use even though a bit more expensive - quality pays for itself. You'll need to make at least 3 copies when you backup. 1 for local and 2 for off-site and label the damn things with a 3year expireation date. Saves you from discovering bit-rot has destroyed the backup. It can be a PITA but it does buy enough time to begin deciding what you actually need to keep and what can be allowed to disapear.
I've never seen that behaviour and have been using the 2.2 version for over a year. If you saw that, then I suspect you had it misconfigured to contribute instead of mirror or echo. Personally, I find that Echo works the best for backups as any changes I make to the main get duplicated to the backup while changes on the backup, do not get copied to the main as mirror does.
The really nice thing is that once configured, you can simply run it and get on with the backup. As I'm using Win7, I'm able to backup my user data file (hidden by default) and have excluded the damn temp files and garbage locations such as Flash and various other program settings I don't care about. Part of my use allows me to backup my Mozilla Folder along with copying my email files. I also happen to use it to ensure that changes I make to My Documents actually get backed up properly.
The first area I'd love to see improvements are the transportation fields. Think about converting all those commercial trucks/ships to hybrids with better electric motors powered by turbines. Instead of that damn semi getting a meager 6mpg, it could now see 30+ for the same weights and the companies could afford to pay their drivers better. How about practical EV's with usable range in the 1800Km/300 Mile range. Pull into a fuel/recharge station that uses Super Caps in the pump and recharge/fuel in the same time. Makes them usable for me. Could we improve PV efficiency enough to make them worthwhile for the car roof? Get them to 50+ efficiency and I could see driving to work in the morning and regaining 2/3-3/4 of what you used getting there. Almost free fuel then.
There are so many area's where these could improve our lives. As someone else pointed out, a Space Elevator but instead of 1 we'd need 4 of them placed on the eqautor with a Ring Connecting them. Move heavy industry up there where the power is available and get started mining the asteroid belt. Space here we come.
O'kay, so I was wrong about when China was granted MFN status and yes it was one of the last acts by President Clinton. Of course, we've got legislation pending to Already Revoke China's Most Favored Nation http://www.indianexpress.com/news/congressional-legislation-to-revoke-mfn-status-of-china/656365/0 (One Page). Somebody in congress already thought and proposed this change in status for China.
This is the Opening Salvo by the U.S. against China in their Rare Earths Suit involving the WTO. China has restricted exports of rare earths to the U.S. Japan and Europe that is impacting the ability of our industry to produce, EV's, Wind Generators and many other products that depend upon them. There is also the issue of the strategic metals part of those rare earths and explains part of the reasoning behind the reopening of the Mesa California Rare Earth mine.
Others have pointed out that this is also due to China Dumping cheap solar panels on the market with the express purpose of killing our own industry. The only way I can see to level the playing field against China is to revoke their most favored trading partner status that Bush Jr. Gave them. This will simulateously send the Chinese government a signal that America is no longer going to be their bitch and increase the cost of Chinese goods in the States while encouraging those American Businesses that still exist to increase their marketing. Of course, without nailing some CEO's to the wall and hitting their wallets for the destruction of companies (violating their fiduciary responsibilities) the cost of goods from China wont materialy increase. A side note here
Walmart accounts for 10+ percent of all goods imported from China in the United States - That's All Chinese Goods
Recently, ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer ran a series on Made In America that showed many U.S. Companies selling products for the same price as Chinese manufactered junk with higher quality. So why in hell do you want to buy Chinese crap and send our work to them?
Sure a cheap 720 HD tv only costs $200 but if you want anything with 1080, you'll need to spend $250 for a shit 23 inch model that doesn't handle highspeed scenes worth a damn (try watching Dukes of Hazzard or Smokey and the Bandit with the high speed scense on a cheap LCD and you'll see lots of tearing). Then there's the lack of color space since most LCD's are using a 6 bit with 8 bit color being considerd high end - that's not better theny my CRT TV that handles 32bits - it's a meager 256 colors (no better then web safe) and I've been running 32bit color since I got my first dedicated video card (TNT2-m64 w/32mb) back with Win95. Then you need to buy the damn BD player and disks, most of which aren't recorded in BD to begin with so they don't look any better then what my SD TV does and if you have HD Cable, most of the crap, when in HD is 720 and so badly compressed that it looks like crap even on my 27inch SD TV plus you have the privelage of being raped by the cable company for $100+ a month to watch HD content (need to rent the box or CableCard for $10-20 per month) boosting the cost even further and that's just to get 75 channels of the same crap, different time slot. Welcome to Paradise!
No I don't see what benefit there is to Me to even consider BD content. There's little on the local cable that I care for and god forbid the damn local news breaks away from their report on the brush fire that threatens my area for another god damn 30 minutes of highspeed car chase half the damn state away. Damn it, they're supposed to concentrate on the local news, not what's happening 5 counties away and will take even at pursuit speeds at least 2 hours to get anywhere's near us. Shit the damn fools probably run out of gas or crash before getting within 100 miles of the damn tv station let alone my neighborhood. Yes I don't give a rats ass about TV/Movies and such because there's no inteligent life down here - beam me up. If only it would happen.
and if there's even the hint of CP being involved, you will be convicted by the newspaper and your neighbors with yours and your families lives possibly threatened. Sorry but it's a witch hunt out there and "We wont stop until sombody gets burned" (Petra - Witchhunt) and that's why you need to secure you wifi. If everyone had open wifi throughout the country, we'd all have a plausible defense but they've already won that battle because people are running scared and now that the ISP's will become Copyright cops in June of 2012, it's reached the point that what I'm paying for bandwidth is no longer worth while. In that case, I am already planning on dropping down to the absolute basic service level of 256/128. It's good enough for what I'll be able to do w/o pissing off the ISP and loosing my connection or having it throttled anyhow.
and buy a router with the a guest network capability. One device that offers dual AP - protected full speed for the home - un/protected guest ap that's restricted to 1/10 network bandwidth and isolated from the lan. Cost was $45 at Walmart
As I'm using the latest catalyst drivers, I can categorically state that Hydra Vision is for Multiple monitors, not desktops. If you don't have more then one, you don't have more then one with hydravision.
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RTFM idiot - Os means to optimize for size. The generally accepted standard flag for GCC is -O2 as it's the best compromise between Size and speed up. The only thing is, Sped Up is dependent upon various elements within the source code such as loops and CPU specific options as we Gentoo users tested. Some apps actually do well with O3 flag, most work fine with O2 and from my experience, Os offered the best performance with smallest size possible from the binaries. Most of the speed increases come from fewer cache misses as the binaries are sometimes small enough to actually fit within the L2-L3 cache when the cpu has sufficient space.
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I've been on G+ since it was incepted when the damn Meme about a real name started. Guess what. Google has never required a Real Name for it as long as you have a valid Log-In for their services. Those who only used GDocs/Gmail were fine. Even iGoogle (start page), Picasa or Google Groups worked if you had a log-in. The only service that has ever required a Real Name was Orkut due Brazil and the South American Problems. For EU/US/Asia, Orkut has been a non-starter as it's never been pushed for us to use it due to Picasa.
Well there's the science angle of those engines seeing as how they were actually launched raising the questions of how the heat affected them, plus what affect did splash down have on them along with the affect of salt water on the hot/cold components. What kind of corrosion has the metal suffered over time? All sorts of questions like that are then able to be asked.
To me, the inability to even think of questions to be asked/ivestigated proves just how well the educational system in the United States is reaching the goal of no-one being able to think for themselves as both the government and corps simply want consumers that are as dumb as rocks. No wonder Science has pretty much died in the States though we still have a few that are innovating but they're getting locked out by Patents and such as quickly as possible.
BTW: Nope, no chance of getting antimatter for the Power Source. It's supposed to use Cold Fusion
The only problem is that Steam is the same type of DRM as what we're talking about. you have to have an internet connection to play anything downloaded from them. It's because of the DRM crap that I've opted out instead. To me, this entire game industry has become an issue of overcontrol (just like our government) pushing people to consume just for the sake of profits instead of producing something I actually want to buy that'll bring me back to play it again.
It was 02/03 when I purchased a copy of SimCity 4 - Rush Hour because how much time I was spending at the universisty while she was in class - 90 miles one way, 3 nights a week and class on saturday. It wasn't worth driving back home as I would simply have to turn around and head back to pick her up and no, there wasn't anyone she could have car pooled with.
Wanted to make a backup copy as the optical drives in laptops have never impressed me with their robustness but due to their DRM scheme breaking the damn CD/DVD functionality (even attempted to use linux and make a mirror copy (bit for bit) and it failed. Gave up and decided it simply wasn't worth having spent the money (own both SImCity 2k/3k before) and decided that because of the DRM system selected, that I would never buy another EA product again. What actually happened is that I haven't bought any games since then because of a bad experience with DRM to begin with and then we heard about the Sony Root Kit issue. Put me off buying anything other then absolutely needed software for a long time. Because of that bad experience I started using OSS and became an advocate while refusing to purchase anything except absolutely critical software. Time change though and although still an OSS advocate, I've found myself buying stuff like Office and Nero as I've needed their functionality and running Windows instead of Linux. My main concern now is to keep food on the table, which means using what everyone else uses due to interoperability (Damn you M$). Of course on the OSS front, I'm finding myself using a GPL PDF creator based on Ghostscript and functioning as a Printer in Office. Saves me lots of agravation because it's something I know almost everyone has installed in the business world, so I can begin weaning myself from the M$ Office Teat though I love the functionality of OneNote.
how can they collect anymore data on me. They've already got eveything possible. Now if they could just emulate me on /. then it'd be possible for them to bring to my attention the good ones and answer the damn idiots with RTFA/RTFM and such. Hell it could problably troll better them me
A Bandwidth cap is not a network neutrality issue. It's just a cap on how much bandwidth you can use. In this case, they've properly stated that internal bandwidth usage does not count against your cap, which is for external bandwidth
only problem is, you'd be in violation of the TOS against servers with FTP, Telnet, Rsync or any other file transfer protocol because one system must act as a server
Did you RTFA? I happened to do so having caught it a couple of days ago. The interesting element to this design is the early/late (dawn/dusk) power generation as the current method doesn't get enough solar incidence to generate anything until 3 hours after sunrise/3 hours before sunset. That's 6 hours of production that's being missed, which is why this design reaches 15-20x the generated power of conventional flat panels.
15 percent humidity!? I'd consider that to be high as my normal humidity ranges between 7 - 12 percent. Anything over 20 percent makes me sweath like a leaky faucet. Of course, I live in the desert and have adjusted quite nicely to the dry air.
and the Korean war hasn't ended. It's just in a state of "Cease Fire", thus can be restarted with a very simple declaration by the United States w/o congressional approval as the declaration of war was issued by Congress and has never been revoked.
Arthur C. Clarke's Third law states "Any Technology Sufficiently Advanced is Indistinguishable from Magic". The Corally to that law is "Any Magic Sufficiently Exposed is indistinguishable from Technology" and as Albert Einstein supposedly Said "Quantumn Physics is that Spooky Stuff" as he didn't like it. In reality, both Clarke and Einsteind are correct about Quantumn Physics and Events. It's magic under the hood and by another name.
Once we harness magic, we'll be doing Warp Speed and dealing with Vulcan's before you know it so "hang onto your bustles girls, the wicked witch of the west is dead and her sister is madder then a wet cat on a hot tin roof"
tell me how the common bobby quickshot is going to be able to identify botnet traffic from his connection when he's barely literate enough to play farmville on FB? IMO it's become a real crime that MS still can't follow the simple "Deny All" policy and ask the user if they want to allow before allowing anything to happen. Yes it'll teach another bunch of Joe Sixpacks and Bobby Quickshots to simply click O'kay and at that point, the ISP does need to get involved and start isolating these idiots from the general net as some are doing. The big question there is "Will this help?" IDK & IDC so long as it keeps them from spamming me.
Did you not RTFS? Microsoft and it's co-plaintifs escorted by U.S. Marshals
Let Facebook deal with the problem in the only way these idiots are going to learn, through a Lawsuit from Facebook for interfering with their business since that's esentially what they are doing. Facebook also has the right to remove all listings/postings by that company and employees for the TOS violation. Combine that with a nice juicy lawsuit, even if FB doesn't win and the CEO's/Boards will get the message quick time.
and you bitch because the OP has stated that the cloud is not an option. Why they stated that was not explained but if a Sales person told me that their cloud solution was the only offering they had, I'd be showing them the door with the caveat "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" just as I'm telling you that your rant is just that. If you aint got advice within the restrictions they stated, then don't bother coming to the party as what you have to say is simply wasted hot air.
In my case, I find that DVDR's are still a viable option for backup reasons. Of course I don't purchase them in 1-5 packs but 100 pack spindles. You did correctly state that most large data sets don't change once created, it's just the initial creation that takes time/bandwidth. For the OP, I'd actually look into using DVDR for medium term storage Don't buy the cheapest disks - they fail quite often Verbatim is what I use even though a bit more expensive - quality pays for itself. You'll need to make at least 3 copies when you backup. 1 for local and 2 for off-site and label the damn things with a 3year expireation date. Saves you from discovering bit-rot has destroyed the backup. It can be a PITA but it does buy enough time to begin deciding what you actually need to keep and what can be allowed to disapear.
I've never seen that behaviour and have been using the 2.2 version for over a year. If you saw that, then I suspect you had it misconfigured to contribute instead of mirror or echo. Personally, I find that Echo works the best for backups as any changes I make to the main get duplicated to the backup while changes on the backup, do not get copied to the main as mirror does.
The really nice thing is that once configured, you can simply run it and get on with the backup. As I'm using Win7, I'm able to backup my user data file (hidden by default) and have excluded the damn temp files and garbage locations such as Flash and various other program settings I don't care about. Part of my use allows me to backup my Mozilla Folder along with copying my email files. I also happen to use it to ensure that changes I make to My Documents actually get backed up properly.
The first area I'd love to see improvements are the transportation fields. Think about converting all those commercial trucks/ships to hybrids with better electric motors powered by turbines. Instead of that damn semi getting a meager 6mpg, it could now see 30+ for the same weights and the companies could afford to pay their drivers better. How about practical EV's with usable range in the 1800Km/300 Mile range. Pull into a fuel/recharge station that uses Super Caps in the pump and recharge/fuel in the same time. Makes them usable for me. Could we improve PV efficiency enough to make them worthwhile for the car roof? Get them to 50+ efficiency and I could see driving to work in the morning and regaining 2/3-3/4 of what you used getting there. Almost free fuel then.
There are so many area's where these could improve our lives. As someone else pointed out, a Space Elevator but instead of 1 we'd need 4 of them placed on the eqautor with a Ring Connecting them. Move heavy industry up there where the power is available and get started mining the asteroid belt. Space here we come.
O'kay, so I was wrong about when China was granted MFN status and yes it was one of the last acts by President Clinton. Of course, we've got legislation pending to Already Revoke China's Most Favored Nation http://www.indianexpress.com/news/congressional-legislation-to-revoke-mfn-status-of-china/656365/0 (One Page). Somebody in congress already thought and proposed this change in status for China.
This is the Opening Salvo by the U.S. against China in their Rare Earths Suit involving the WTO. China has restricted exports of rare earths to the U.S. Japan and Europe that is impacting the ability of our industry to produce, EV's, Wind Generators and many other products that depend upon them. There is also the issue of the strategic metals part of those rare earths and explains part of the reasoning behind the reopening of the Mesa California Rare Earth mine.
Others have pointed out that this is also due to China Dumping cheap solar panels on the market with the express purpose of killing our own industry. The only way I can see to level the playing field against China is to revoke their most favored trading partner status that Bush Jr. Gave them. This will simulateously send the Chinese government a signal that America is no longer going to be their bitch and increase the cost of Chinese goods in the States while encouraging those American Businesses that still exist to increase their marketing. Of course, without nailing some CEO's to the wall and hitting their wallets for the destruction of companies (violating their fiduciary responsibilities) the cost of goods from China wont materialy increase. A side note here
Recently, ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer ran a series on Made In America that showed many U.S. Companies selling products for the same price as Chinese manufactered junk with higher quality. So why in hell do you want to buy Chinese crap and send our work to them?
Sure a cheap 720 HD tv only costs $200 but if you want anything with 1080, you'll need to spend $250 for a shit 23 inch model that doesn't handle highspeed scenes worth a damn (try watching Dukes of Hazzard or Smokey and the Bandit with the high speed scense on a cheap LCD and you'll see lots of tearing). Then there's the lack of color space since most LCD's are using a 6 bit with 8 bit color being considerd high end - that's not better theny my CRT TV that handles 32bits - it's a meager 256 colors (no better then web safe) and I've been running 32bit color since I got my first dedicated video card (TNT2-m64 w/32mb) back with Win95. Then you need to buy the damn BD player and disks, most of which aren't recorded in BD to begin with so they don't look any better then what my SD TV does and if you have HD Cable, most of the crap, when in HD is 720 and so badly compressed that it looks like crap even on my 27inch SD TV plus you have the privelage of being raped by the cable company for $100+ a month to watch HD content (need to rent the box or CableCard for $10-20 per month) boosting the cost even further and that's just to get 75 channels of the same crap, different time slot. Welcome to Paradise!
No I don't see what benefit there is to Me to even consider BD content. There's little on the local cable that I care for and god forbid the damn local news breaks away from their report on the brush fire that threatens my area for another god damn 30 minutes of highspeed car chase half the damn state away. Damn it, they're supposed to concentrate on the local news, not what's happening 5 counties away and will take even at pursuit speeds at least 2 hours to get anywhere's near us. Shit the damn fools probably run out of gas or crash before getting within 100 miles of the damn tv station let alone my neighborhood. Yes I don't give a rats ass about TV/Movies and such because there's no inteligent life down here - beam me up. If only it would happen.
and if there's even the hint of CP being involved, you will be convicted by the newspaper and your neighbors with yours and your families lives possibly threatened. Sorry but it's a witch hunt out there and "We wont stop until sombody gets burned" (Petra - Witchhunt) and that's why you need to secure you wifi. If everyone had open wifi throughout the country, we'd all have a plausible defense but they've already won that battle because people are running scared and now that the ISP's will become Copyright cops in June of 2012, it's reached the point that what I'm paying for bandwidth is no longer worth while. In that case, I am already planning on dropping down to the absolute basic service level of 256/128. It's good enough for what I'll be able to do w/o pissing off the ISP and loosing my connection or having it throttled anyhow.
and buy a router with the a guest network capability. One device that offers dual AP - protected full speed for the home - un/protected guest ap that's restricted to 1/10 network bandwidth and isolated from the lan. Cost was $45 at Walmart
As I'm using the latest catalyst drivers, I can categorically state that Hydra Vision is for Multiple monitors, not desktops. If you don't have more then one, you don't have more then one with hydravision.
RTFM idiot - Os means to optimize for size. The generally accepted standard flag for GCC is -O2 as it's the best compromise between Size and speed up. The only thing is, Sped Up is dependent upon various elements within the source code such as loops and CPU specific options as we Gentoo users tested. Some apps actually do well with O3 flag, most work fine with O2 and from my experience, Os offered the best performance with smallest size possible from the binaries. Most of the speed increases come from fewer cache misses as the binaries are sometimes small enough to actually fit within the L2-L3 cache when the cpu has sufficient space.