I'm no med student. I'm just curious. I had heard that blood clotting relies on the blood remaining still for a period of time. Normally your pulse still allows for clotting because of the brief period of time that the blood doesn't flow. If you get a cut, you will bleed. In this case if the blood never stops moving will the individual bleed to death from something as simple as a papercut?
But at the same time, if that were the case how did the patient survive the surgery?
The point I was making is that they shouldn't have released it if it needed changes. You don't rewrite the game because your first iteration sucked. You should have made absolutely sure that what you had was what you wanted before you released it. This is where they apparently failed, or they didn't actually ask anyone how much it sucked. Regardless, they didn't plan accordingly and now they're paying the price.
You don't release a game and then change everything about it. Add content and features, sure. But you never drastically change the game. People start to feel like they don't "know" the game and leave. You aren't going to attract new customers by touting something like "new improved attack system". They don't know about the old one so they can't judge how much better it is. And the people that don't like the changes will spread their opinions that it sucks.
Get it right before you release it or deal with the consequences.
Why not a complete duplicate of all of the hardware? If the studio combusts you have an exact copy of everything.. hardware and all. If you use any kind of disk imaging software, you can simply recover to the server with the latest image and lose very little data.
As an owner of about 25 LED lights, I find they are acceptable for the house. They are directional, so you do have to shop for light fixtures that will allow you to adequately direct the light as you want it. Some rooms you may want to buy a fixture with 4 bulbs instead of 3. There are 2 colors(generally). Cool white and warm white. Cool white is more like the sun(and a more pure white imo) while warm white is equal to an incandescent light. I've spent about $600 on light bulbs, and I find it awesome that I can turn on every light on my ground level and use about 150 watts.
LED light bulbs vary in quality, design, etc. quite a great deal. I had to buy quite a few models before I found ones I really liked. The ebay LED lights from China are horrible. I've bought 2 and they weren't worth the price of shipping and lasted less than 3 months. The others I've had for about 4 months and I'd never go back. I sent some to my mom in Phoenix and she finds that she doesn't see a difference in color or any "directional" problems with the lights.
They are a rather large investment to start, but since I have no central A/C in the house, being able to turn lights on in a room and not cook is very useful.
I typically buy bulbs from www.eternaleds.com or www.earthled.com.
I highly recommend them, but you must do alot of shopping. Don't feel bad if you have to buy a few 1 packs just to figure out what you like and such.
I could be mistaken, but isn't the cost of this power plant versus a nuclear power plant (which many people argue is the cheapest form of electricity to produce) over 3 times more? Additionally, due to problems with this technology being in its infancy there will undoubtedly be additional costs that were not taken into consideration.
I'm sure everyone will talk about this new "green" for of energy and expect it to be cheap, but they would shit a brick if they found out the actual costs they will be paying for electricity generated in this fashion.
One of the first presidents of the United States believed firmly on no anonymity when voting. This was to make it completely clear to everyone where everyone stood when they voted. Maybe someone in this forum can expand on this as I cannot remember all of the details...
Definition of "Due Process" per wikipedia is: the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law of the land.
Notice that this is only regarding the government.
If I own my own business and you walk in I can choose not to business with you at all. I can justify my reason with something as simple as "you look like a jerk". I do not have to have you as a customer. Additionally, I can decide to charge you and only you $50000 for a stick of gum in my store. You can say no and walk out the door.
For some reason, people see the banks differently. They have a product they sell called money. You have to buy that money at a price. My price may be different than your price based on volume discounts, VIP status, prior history, etc. The difference is that all the banks share each other's info with one another and they tell each other how good of a customer you have been. If you are a bad customer do they really want to sell you more product? If you really want it badly, you have to be ready to pay whatever price the bank wants to sell it to you at. If you don't like that walk out the door.
Additionally, as far as I know there is no committment for the banks to report to the credit bureaus if you are a late on payments, etc. But I would assume if they don't report it they lose certain legal protections.
Housing, transportation, healthcare and education are the frivolous luxuries that you would have two-full-time-income families live without.
So, if they are in a position where they don't have 1 or all of those "luxuries", what are they doing to fix the problem?
The answer.. use credit to get an education, move somewhere where your skillset is needed and will provide you with a viable income, etc. I'll agree that today the economy is in bad shape and needs to be fixed. Why do I know so many people that complain that they can't have all the luxuries that others have but they have no intention of working for it either?
The whole idea of people living within their means is simple. It is one of the basis for the US Economy. If you don't like what you have, you can fix it by doing 1 of 2 things:
1. Change your standard of living. 2. Find a way to change your "means". Need an education, go get one. Need to move, then move.
Too many people expect everything to stay the way it is because its "worked" for them in the past. The economy isn't working for anyone right now, so find a way to put yourself on a competitive advantage to others. We must all be flexible and do what is necessary to adapt ourselves to the world's demands.
I personally believe that everyone should be able to own a home, have transportation as necessary, good healthcare and an education that they can use. BUT, I definitely do not expect everyone to have it. Why? Pure and simple. Laziness. It should be earned.
It is DESIGNED to punish the poor or those that lose their job. It's being set up to "encourage" you to take all the crap they dish out at work so you dont lose that job and get blackballed.
No, it's designed to punish the people that don't know how to live within their means. I should not be putting a $2000 TV on a credit card if I have a job making $1000 a month. PERIOD. When I purchase something on my credit card, my personal approval system is like this...
1. Do I REALLY want/need this? 2. How soon will I pay this off and how much will I REALLY pay for it at my interest rate. 3. Is it really worth as much as #2 to me? 4. Why am I buying it now instead of later when I can pay cash?
I'd say the problem is that the poor want more from life (can you blame them?) so they buy things they can't afford and then they end up in what others here have called credit slavery forever. Everyone needs credit at some time or another, but there's a time when you need to accept that you can't afford that $2000 TV even though the next episode of Survivor is on tomorrow night.
Against the Constitution? I don't remember anywhere it states that you must have access to credit. I could just save up money and buy a car, house, TV, etc. Why would I go to Best Buy and buy a $2000 TV on sale for $1000, then put it on my credit card at some interest rate and pay it off over the next few years. If you are at a higher interest rate, you might end up spending more for the TV overall than if you had just paid full price when you had the cash.
Why do people feel they have a right to a credit card with high limit and low interest?
I have a few family members that live paycheck to paycheck, and they're paying off very little of their principle because they can't afford it. So why did they buy a TV 5 years ago and still not have it paid off, but they tell themselves they saved money at Best Buy. In the big picture, they paid more for their 32" tube TV than I did for my 55" flat screen. People just don't know how to look at where their money is going and see they're really ripping themselves off.
I love these motherboard manufacturers. I used to buy ASUS for their new "power saving" feature called EPU. You guessed it, requires Windows. I even went so far as to install Windows just to enable the feature, then reboot into Linux. Didn't work. It doesn't even work with some versions of Windows (Server 2003 x64 I believe).
So, I switched to Gigabyte motherboards. They have the same feature, but they call it DES. Of course, again, it only works in Windows. And again, rebooting into Linux after booting into Windows doesn't fix it.
This might be a nuisance, but I actually BOUGHT both of those motherboards with the intention of using those power saving features... in Linux! I couldn't take them back for a refund, the manufacturer told me too bad, so I'm stuck with them. Nowhere in any documentation from the manufacturers does it state it requires a particular OS. They should be completely honest with their consumer and tell us what features will require a particular OS. Otherwise, I'm going to expect it to work based on hardware/BIOS options.
I feel your pain, but I regret to inform you that if you consider yourself "had", you were "had" when you took it home.
I understand the argument with drivers not being available for Linux. But geez, this is out of control.
You mean the consumer is about to be sold equipment that has features we can't use yet!? Say it ain't so! I see stuff like this regularly.
Remember the "64-bit' revolution of the CPU back 5 years ago? Friends went out and bought the same CPU they had in the 64-bit version and drooled over how awesome it would be to have 64-bit OS & apps. I told them all the same thing... it's a waste of money. By the time 64-bit becomes a viable option their CPUs will be long obsolete. Sure enough, only 1 of them still has their CPU, and it's not fast enough for Vista. WinXP64 sucked for driver support etc.
Why not just set up appliances with a clock and run it at 11pm or something. You prepare the appliance, hit start, and at like 4am your washer does your laundry. You wake up at 6am and you throw them in the dryer.
Me, I did my part to save electricity. I can turn on ALL of the lights in my living room, both bedrooms, and kitchen and use a whopping 120watts of electricity. Why? I bought LED lighting. They're an expensive initial investment, but (hopefully) they'll pay off in the long run. Some are quite expensive, so you replace the lights that you use the most and ignore the others.
Who needs to add all this extra smart infrastructure when anyone can start cutting back on their electricity usage now.
On another note... When I lived in AZ, you were billed based on usage during peak and off peak hours. The peak hours were a bit more expensive. Here in IL, a kWh is a kWh. You pay 1 flat rate. Why spend all that money to create a smart infrastructure when spending money on something as benign as changing a few light bulbs can save you quite a bit of electricity. Not to mention I don't have glowing balls of fire heating up my house in the summer months which means less A/C used.
Me personally, I don't know if I'd want to do business with a carrier with that small of a user base. They could fold suddenly, my "out of area" charges could be rather high, there's no advantage I see to small business in the cell phone industry.
Now, assuming that people start signing up with some small carrier, I'm thinking Verizon chose that number because Verizon knows they'd buy them out if things started to swing the wrong way. Suddenly you're a Verizon customer again, like it or not.
So how was this a compromise? There's NOTHING in that "compromise" that seems to be beneficial to the consumer, let alone even the turf in the cell phone wars.
I don't care how fast it loads webpages. What I want to see is a browser that isn't riddled with bugs and easy ways for badware to end up infecting my machine. I'll gladly surf on the slowest browser in the world if it really is proven to be the most secure. So what if I save a few seconds surfing web pages. That is nothing compared to the hours spent trying to get rid of a virus/trojan/keylogger/etc.
You don't expect 3rd party USB3 cards to come with drivers for XP? Seriously, are you kidding me? I believe last week something like 37% of all PCs worldwide are running XP. Would YOU market a product that 37% of all computers in the world instantly can't use?
Since Intel was one of the lead companies handling the USB3 specifications I expect Intel will have USB3 drivers for XP. Conversely, I expect all of the other companies to make XP drivers so they can compete with Intel AND because of that 37% that runs XP.
What scares me about this idea is in the article itself. 'Tracking cattle now, tracking you soon.' seems so much more likely than I thought at first.
FTA: "The FDA wants to track cow movements in case a breakout of bovine tuberculosis."
Why does this sound very similar to an arguement in 20 years saying...
"The US Government wants to track human movements in case a breakout of."
I could totally see the Government setting up 'checkpoints' at airports, highways, etc that you walk/drive by and it just watches where you go. Scary thought, but I believe the technology to make this a reality is here already. Anyone disagree?
Create a small set of PAR2 files. At the destination compare it. If it needs repair, then get the associated repair blocks. This solves 2 problems...
1. Don't have to retransmit a corrupted file. What's the good in knowing it's bad if you'll have to redownload it again. 2. Fixes the errors for minimal bandwidth. Due to the fact you mentioned the bandwidth limitation, I assume this is a major obstacle to just resending the file again when it's corrupt.
Isn't the news of Microsofts ideas. It's that the article already makes the assumption that you have bandwidth caps and Microsoft is having to work around them. On Microsoft's front, this is great. However, this just reeks of society accepting that bandwidth caps are here, acceptable, and we should just succumb to our limitations.
If the article had instead mentioned the "new unacceptable limitations being imposed by broadband ISPs" I would see it differently. Instead it states "...which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer's broadband data cap.".
To me, the article writer is already stating that bandwidth caps are here to stay, we lost the war on bandwidth caps, and we should rejoice that Microsoft has plans to overcome these obstacles.
This is always how major obstacles are overcome when the public cries.
1. Proudly display your new 'grand plan' and how it's 'needed' or 'helpful'. 2. Public outcry comes and you dash for cover to avoid being attacked. 3. Bring the program back a little at a time and convince the press (or buy them) into stating your plan as if it is already here and in use. 4. Bring your 'grand plan' to market. The public is sick of hearing about the negatives of the 'grand plan' and have decided that it WILL happen, there's nothing they can do about it, and should just accept that it is here to stay.
This happens with MANY things in life...Obama's 'grand' plan for health care, Bush's bailout plans, ISP bandwidth caps... I could make a very long list of things that you can read about that are worded as if they are here already.
I admit, the article is written with a.uk domain, so maybe the UK already has imposed limits. But I've seen wording here in the USA making statements implying everyone in the USA has bandwidth caps and we should all run and check them regularly.
Most major motion pictures are shot on film. Film is a very high resolving medium, with resolution measured by testing its ability to resolve pairs of black and white lines, the unit of measurement is cycles/mm - one "cycle" consists of a pair of lines and is equivalent to two pixels, one black and one white. Film by itself can commonly resolve from 50 c/mm to 400 c/mm (100 pixels/mm to 800 pixels/mm) depending on emulsion stock. However, since the image on film is formed by exposing it through a lens and this lens also has its own resolution limits, the final resolution on the photographed negative is always less than each component's individual resolution.
Depending on the year and format a movie was filmed in, the exposed image can vary greatly in size. Sizes range from as big as 24 mm × 36 mm for VistaVision/Technirama 8 perforation cameras (same as 35 mm still photo film) going down through 18 mm × 24 mm for Silent Films or Full Frame 4 perforations cameras to as small as 9 mm × 21 mm in Academy Sound Aperture cameras modified for the Techniscope 2 perforation format. Movies are also produced using other film gauges, including 70 mm films (22 mm × 48 mm) or the rarely used 55 mm and CINERAMA.
The four major film formats provide pixel resolutions (calculated from pixels per millimeter) roughly as follows:
Academy Sound (Sound movies before 1955): 15 mm × 21 mm (1.375) = 2160 × 2970 Academy camera US Widescreen: 11 mm × 21 mm (1.85) = 1605 × 2970 Current Anamorphic Panavision ("Scope"): 17.5 mm × 21 mm (2.39) = 2485 × 2970 Super-35 for Anamorphic prints: 10 mm × 24 mm (2.39) = 1420 × 3390
In the process of making prints for exhibition, this negative is copied onto other film (negative interpositive internegative print) causing the resolution to be reduced with each emulsion copying step and when the image passes through a lens (for example, on a projector). In many cases, the resolution can be reduced down to 1/6th of the original negative's resolution (or worse). Note that resolution values for 70 mm film are higher than those listed above.
Typical high-definition home video uses the following resolutions:
1280 × 720 1920 × 1080 Usually when studios master movies for home video release they use assets in high resolution and then master them to 1920 × 1080 and/or 1280 × 720. For standard definition applications (e.g., DVD or SDTV), they are also anamorphically compressed and mastered to 720 × 576 (PAL) and 720 × 480 (NTSC).
So yeah. Even those really old movies will look much better in HD since the original films from even 1955 exceed 1920x1080 resolution. Quite a few old movies I see that weren't recorded in digital film are 'grainy'. That is, you can see the grains from the film.
I live near a tiger direct store myself, and I've had pretty good service from them both online as well as in-store. What's so shocking about selling something new that is no longer sold? How often does Newegg go fix their 8 month old inventory comments that say 'blistering performance for today's market' and it's for a Pentium 4? People sell the stuff and add all sorts of good fluff to make the consumer think it's a good purchase. The consumer should know if it really is however.
Go look at TigerDirect and Newegg's video cards. Every single card sold by EVGA uses DDR2 or DDR3. This can be confirmed by EVGA's website. You go look at Newegg or TigerDirect and they all say gddr2 or gddr3. Not one card mislabeled, all are wrong. There are distinct difference that make that "G" very important. I've called them both on it and they just tell me they'll look into it and get back to me. Still not fixed today, more than 6 month later. This exact issue is for most brands, I just chose to mention EVGA since I was stiffed into buying a card with 'gddr2' memory, only to find on the box when it arrived 'ddr2'. Now I don't trust what any e-tailer says about the product, I'm forced to go to the manufacturer's website to get the correct answer.
As far as I'm concerned, selling a video card that says gddr2/gddr3 is blatant false advertising. By telling them that I know they're wrong and they should fix it makes it deliberate blatant false advertising. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has caught this, but why aren't we (as comsumers) able to hold these companies responsible for deliberate, blantant, false advertising?
The way I see it, if I tell them they made a mistake maybe TigerDirect should send me a $100 gift card or something. If EVGA sends them a cease and desist letter, how much would it cost TigerDirect to pay a lawyer to figure out how to fix the mess? I'm sure my gift card was cheaper in the long run. And we wonder why the American economy is in the toilet, common sense doesn't apply.
There is always a demand for currency, both in the real world and the games.
I have a respectable 60kg total over 3 servers in WoW. I can buy almost any item I want, but I can't buy the levels or the raid experience.
Think of it like this. If tomorrow Blizzard said that all mobs in the game will now suddenly drop 100x the amount of gold they have before guess what the prices of merchandise on the AH will do? I'd say about 100x increase. Anyone could suddenly go kill a mob and get 50g to buy a stack of potions or whatever at the old AH price.
People take the path of least resistance. In the world of MMORPGs, they buy Gold. In the real world, there's 2 choices.
1. For those that need instant gratification, they work at WalMart making $9/hour forever at a job. 2. For those that plan ahead they go to college, get a degree, and then make $30+/hour in a career.
MMORPGs are built almost entirely on instant gratification. You don't start a quest on level 2 and are still working on it at lvl 80. Instant gratification falls into the 'buy gold online' persona.
Why are people surprised/disgusted that MMORPGs attract the 'instant gratification' personalities, and then deliberately scold them for having those traits?
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I've always heard of 'nub' being an acronym for Non Useful Body.
I'm no med student. I'm just curious. I had heard that blood clotting relies on the blood remaining still for a period of time. Normally your pulse still allows for clotting because of the brief period of time that the blood doesn't flow. If you get a cut, you will bleed. In this case if the blood never stops moving will the individual bleed to death from something as simple as a papercut?
But at the same time, if that were the case how did the patient survive the surgery?
The point I was making is that they shouldn't have released it if it needed changes. You don't rewrite the game because your first iteration sucked. You should have made absolutely sure that what you had was what you wanted before you released it. This is where they apparently failed, or they didn't actually ask anyone how much it sucked. Regardless, they didn't plan accordingly and now they're paying the price.
You don't release a game and then change everything about it. Add content and features, sure. But you never drastically change the game. People start to feel like they don't "know" the game and leave. You aren't going to attract new customers by touting something like "new improved attack system". They don't know about the old one so they can't judge how much better it is. And the people that don't like the changes will spread their opinions that it sucks.
Get it right before you release it or deal with the consequences.
Why not a complete duplicate of all of the hardware? If the studio combusts you have an exact copy of everything.. hardware and all. If you use any kind of disk imaging software, you can simply recover to the server with the latest image and lose very little data.
As an owner of about 25 LED lights, I find they are acceptable for the house. They are directional, so you do have to shop for light fixtures that will allow you to adequately direct the light as you want it. Some rooms you may want to buy a fixture with 4 bulbs instead of 3. There are 2 colors(generally). Cool white and warm white. Cool white is more like the sun(and a more pure white imo) while warm white is equal to an incandescent light. I've spent about $600 on light bulbs, and I find it awesome that I can turn on every light on my ground level and use about 150 watts.
LED light bulbs vary in quality, design, etc. quite a great deal. I had to buy quite a few models before I found ones I really liked. The ebay LED lights from China are horrible. I've bought 2 and they weren't worth the price of shipping and lasted less than 3 months. The others I've had for about 4 months and I'd never go back. I sent some to my mom in Phoenix and she finds that she doesn't see a difference in color or any "directional" problems with the lights.
They are a rather large investment to start, but since I have no central A/C in the house, being able to turn lights on in a room and not cook is very useful.
I typically buy bulbs from www.eternaleds.com or www.earthled.com.
I highly recommend them, but you must do alot of shopping. Don't feel bad if you have to buy a few 1 packs just to figure out what you like and such.
I could be mistaken, but isn't the cost of this power plant versus a nuclear power plant (which many people argue is the cheapest form of electricity to produce) over 3 times more? Additionally, due to problems with this technology being in its infancy there will undoubtedly be additional costs that were not taken into consideration.
I'm sure everyone will talk about this new "green" for of energy and expect it to be cheap, but they would shit a brick if they found out the actual costs they will be paying for electricity generated in this fashion.
One of the first presidents of the United States believed firmly on no anonymity when voting. This was to make it completely clear to everyone where everyone stood when they voted. Maybe someone in this forum can expand on this as I cannot remember all of the details...
Definition of "Due Process" per wikipedia is: the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law of the land.
Notice that this is only regarding the government.
If I own my own business and you walk in I can choose not to business with you at all. I can justify my reason with something as simple as "you look like a jerk". I do not have to have you as a customer. Additionally, I can decide to charge you and only you $50000 for a stick of gum in my store. You can say no and walk out the door.
For some reason, people see the banks differently. They have a product they sell called money. You have to buy that money at a price. My price may be different than your price based on volume discounts, VIP status, prior history, etc. The difference is that all the banks share each other's info with one another and they tell each other how good of a customer you have been. If you are a bad customer do they really want to sell you more product? If you really want it badly, you have to be ready to pay whatever price the bank wants to sell it to you at. If you don't like that walk out the door.
Additionally, as far as I know there is no committment for the banks to report to the credit bureaus if you are a late on payments, etc. But I would assume if they don't report it they lose certain legal protections.
Housing, transportation, healthcare and education are the frivolous luxuries that you would have two-full-time-income families live without.
So, if they are in a position where they don't have 1 or all of those "luxuries", what are they doing to fix the problem?
The answer.. use credit to get an education, move somewhere where your skillset is needed and will provide you with a viable income, etc. I'll agree that today the economy is in bad shape and needs to be fixed. Why do I know so many people that complain that they can't have all the luxuries that others have but they have no intention of working for it either?
The whole idea of people living within their means is simple. It is one of the basis for the US Economy. If you don't like what you have, you can fix it by doing 1 of 2 things:
1. Change your standard of living.
2. Find a way to change your "means". Need an education, go get one. Need to move, then move.
Too many people expect everything to stay the way it is because its "worked" for them in the past. The economy isn't working for anyone right now, so find a way to put yourself on a competitive advantage to others. We must all be flexible and do what is necessary to adapt ourselves to the world's demands.
I personally believe that everyone should be able to own a home, have transportation as necessary, good healthcare and an education that they can use. BUT, I definitely do not expect everyone to have it. Why? Pure and simple. Laziness. It should be earned.
It is DESIGNED to punish the poor or those that lose their job. It's being set up to "encourage" you to take all the crap they dish out at work so you dont lose that job and get blackballed.
No, it's designed to punish the people that don't know how to live within their means. I should not be putting a $2000 TV on a credit card if I have a job making $1000 a month. PERIOD. When I purchase something on my credit card, my personal approval system is like this...
1. Do I REALLY want/need this?
2. How soon will I pay this off and how much will I REALLY pay for it at my interest rate.
3. Is it really worth as much as #2 to me?
4. Why am I buying it now instead of later when I can pay cash?
I'd say the problem is that the poor want more from life (can you blame them?) so they buy things they can't afford and then they end up in what others here have called credit slavery forever. Everyone needs credit at some time or another, but there's a time when you need to accept that you can't afford that $2000 TV even though the next episode of Survivor is on tomorrow night.
Against the Constitution? I don't remember anywhere it states that you must have access to credit. I could just save up money and buy a car, house, TV, etc. Why would I go to Best Buy and buy a $2000 TV on sale for $1000, then put it on my credit card at some interest rate and pay it off over the next few years. If you are at a higher interest rate, you might end up spending more for the TV overall than if you had just paid full price when you had the cash.
Why do people feel they have a right to a credit card with high limit and low interest?
I have a few family members that live paycheck to paycheck, and they're paying off very little of their principle because they can't afford it. So why did they buy a TV 5 years ago and still not have it paid off, but they tell themselves they saved money at Best Buy. In the big picture, they paid more for their 32" tube TV than I did for my 55" flat screen. People just don't know how to look at where their money is going and see they're really ripping themselves off.
I love these motherboard manufacturers. I used to buy ASUS for their new "power saving" feature called EPU. You guessed it, requires Windows. I even went so far as to install Windows just to enable the feature, then reboot into Linux. Didn't work. It doesn't even work with some versions of Windows (Server 2003 x64 I believe).
So, I switched to Gigabyte motherboards. They have the same feature, but they call it DES. Of course, again, it only works in Windows. And again, rebooting into Linux after booting into Windows doesn't fix it.
This might be a nuisance, but I actually BOUGHT both of those motherboards with the intention of using those power saving features... in Linux! I couldn't take them back for a refund, the manufacturer told me too bad, so I'm stuck with them. Nowhere in any documentation from the manufacturers does it state it requires a particular OS. They should be completely honest with their consumer and tell us what features will require a particular OS. Otherwise, I'm going to expect it to work based on hardware/BIOS options.
I feel your pain, but I regret to inform you that if you consider yourself "had", you were "had" when you took it home.
I understand the argument with drivers not being available for Linux. But geez, this is out of control.
You mean the consumer is about to be sold equipment that has features we can't use yet!? Say it ain't so! I see stuff like this regularly.
Remember the "64-bit' revolution of the CPU back 5 years ago? Friends went out and bought the same CPU they had in the 64-bit version and drooled over how awesome it would be to have 64-bit OS & apps. I told them all the same thing... it's a waste of money. By the time 64-bit becomes a viable option their CPUs will be long obsolete. Sure enough, only 1 of them still has their CPU, and it's not fast enough for Vista. WinXP64 sucked for driver support etc.
Why not just set up appliances with a clock and run it at 11pm or something. You prepare the appliance, hit start, and at like 4am your washer does your laundry. You wake up at 6am and you throw them in the dryer.
Me, I did my part to save electricity. I can turn on ALL of the lights in my living room, both bedrooms, and kitchen and use a whopping 120watts of electricity. Why? I bought LED lighting. They're an expensive initial investment, but (hopefully) they'll pay off in the long run. Some are quite expensive, so you replace the lights that you use the most and ignore the others.
Who needs to add all this extra smart infrastructure when anyone can start cutting back on their electricity usage now.
On another note... When I lived in AZ, you were billed based on usage during peak and off peak hours. The peak hours were a bit more expensive. Here in IL, a kWh is a kWh. You pay 1 flat rate. Why spend all that money to create a smart infrastructure when spending money on something as benign as changing a few light bulbs can save you quite a bit of electricity. Not to mention I don't have glowing balls of fire heating up my house in the summer months which means less A/C used.
Me personally, I don't know if I'd want to do business with a carrier with that small of a user base. They could fold suddenly, my "out of area" charges could be rather high, there's no advantage I see to small business in the cell phone industry.
Now, assuming that people start signing up with some small carrier, I'm thinking Verizon chose that number because Verizon knows they'd buy them out if things started to swing the wrong way. Suddenly you're a Verizon customer again, like it or not.
So how was this a compromise? There's NOTHING in that "compromise" that seems to be beneficial to the consumer, let alone even the turf in the cell phone wars.
WOW. Never seen this before. I'll check it out! Thanks!
I don't care how fast it loads webpages. What I want to see is a browser that isn't riddled with bugs and easy ways for badware to end up infecting my machine. I'll gladly surf on the slowest browser in the world if it really is proven to be the most secure. So what if I save a few seconds surfing web pages. That is nothing compared to the hours spent trying to get rid of a virus/trojan/keylogger/etc.
You don't expect 3rd party USB3 cards to come with drivers for XP? Seriously, are you kidding me? I believe last week something like 37% of all PCs worldwide are running XP. Would YOU market a product that 37% of all computers in the world instantly can't use?
Since Intel was one of the lead companies handling the USB3 specifications I expect Intel will have USB3 drivers for XP. Conversely, I expect all of the other companies to make XP drivers so they can compete with Intel AND because of that 37% that runs XP.
What scares me about this idea is in the article itself. 'Tracking cattle now, tracking you soon.' seems so much more likely than I thought at first.
FTA: "The FDA wants to track cow movements in case a breakout of bovine tuberculosis."
Why does this sound very similar to an arguement in 20 years saying...
"The US Government wants to track human movements in case a breakout of ."
I could totally see the Government setting up 'checkpoints' at airports, highways, etc that you walk/drive by and it just watches where you go. Scary thought, but I believe the technology to make this a reality is here already. Anyone disagree?
Create a small set of PAR2 files. At the destination compare it. If it needs repair, then get the associated repair blocks. This solves 2 problems...
1. Don't have to retransmit a corrupted file. What's the good in knowing it's bad if you'll have to redownload it again.
2. Fixes the errors for minimal bandwidth. Due to the fact you mentioned the bandwidth limitation, I assume this is a major obstacle to just resending the file again when it's corrupt.
So is TPB going the way of the Napster? Buy them out and try to turn them into some legitimate website?
Isn't the news of Microsofts ideas. It's that the article already makes the assumption that you have bandwidth caps and Microsoft is having to work around them. On Microsoft's front, this is great. However, this just reeks of society accepting that bandwidth caps are here, acceptable, and we should just succumb to our limitations.
If the article had instead mentioned the "new unacceptable limitations being imposed by broadband ISPs" I would see it differently. Instead it states "...which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer's broadband data cap.".
To me, the article writer is already stating that bandwidth caps are here to stay, we lost the war on bandwidth caps, and we should rejoice that Microsoft has plans to overcome these obstacles.
This is always how major obstacles are overcome when the public cries.
1. Proudly display your new 'grand plan' and how it's 'needed' or 'helpful'.
2. Public outcry comes and you dash for cover to avoid being attacked.
3. Bring the program back a little at a time and convince the press (or buy them) into stating your plan as if it is already here and in use.
4. Bring your 'grand plan' to market. The public is sick of hearing about the negatives of the 'grand plan' and have decided that it WILL happen, there's nothing they can do about it, and should just accept that it is here to stay.
This happens with MANY things in life...Obama's 'grand' plan for health care, Bush's bailout plans, ISP bandwidth caps... I could make a very long list of things that you can read about that are worded as if they are here already.
I admit, the article is written with a .uk domain, so maybe the UK already has imposed limits. But I've seen wording here in the USA making statements implying everyone in the USA has bandwidth caps and we should all run and check them regularly.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_video
Most major motion pictures are shot on film. Film is a very high resolving medium, with resolution measured by testing its ability to resolve pairs of black and white lines, the unit of measurement is cycles/mm - one "cycle" consists of a pair of lines and is equivalent to two pixels, one black and one white. Film by itself can commonly resolve from 50 c/mm to 400 c/mm (100 pixels/mm to 800 pixels/mm) depending on emulsion stock. However, since the image on film is formed by exposing it through a lens and this lens also has its own resolution limits, the final resolution on the photographed negative is always less than each component's individual resolution.
Depending on the year and format a movie was filmed in, the exposed image can vary greatly in size. Sizes range from as big as 24 mm × 36 mm for VistaVision/Technirama 8 perforation cameras (same as 35 mm still photo film) going down through 18 mm × 24 mm for Silent Films or Full Frame 4 perforations cameras to as small as 9 mm × 21 mm in Academy Sound Aperture cameras modified for the Techniscope 2 perforation format. Movies are also produced using other film gauges, including 70 mm films (22 mm × 48 mm) or the rarely used 55 mm and CINERAMA.
The four major film formats provide pixel resolutions (calculated from pixels per millimeter) roughly as follows:
Academy Sound (Sound movies before 1955): 15 mm × 21 mm (1.375) = 2160 × 2970
Academy camera US Widescreen: 11 mm × 21 mm (1.85) = 1605 × 2970
Current Anamorphic Panavision ("Scope"): 17.5 mm × 21 mm (2.39) = 2485 × 2970
Super-35 for Anamorphic prints: 10 mm × 24 mm (2.39) = 1420 × 3390
In the process of making prints for exhibition, this negative is copied onto other film (negative interpositive internegative print) causing the resolution to be reduced with each emulsion copying step and when the image passes through a lens (for example, on a projector). In many cases, the resolution can be reduced down to 1/6th of the original negative's resolution (or worse). Note that resolution values for 70 mm film are higher than those listed above.
Typical high-definition home video uses the following resolutions:
1280 × 720
1920 × 1080
Usually when studios master movies for home video release they use assets in high resolution and then master them to 1920 × 1080 and/or 1280 × 720. For standard definition applications (e.g., DVD or SDTV), they are also anamorphically compressed and mastered to 720 × 576 (PAL) and 720 × 480 (NTSC).
So yeah. Even those really old movies will look much better in HD since the original films from even 1955 exceed 1920x1080 resolution. Quite a few old movies I see that weren't recorded in digital film are 'grainy'. That is, you can see the grains from the film.
I live near a tiger direct store myself, and I've had pretty good service from them both online as well as in-store. What's so shocking about selling something new that is no longer sold? How often does Newegg go fix their 8 month old inventory comments that say 'blistering performance for today's market' and it's for a Pentium 4? People sell the stuff and add all sorts of good fluff to make the consumer think it's a good purchase. The consumer should know if it really is however.
Go look at TigerDirect and Newegg's video cards. Every single card sold by EVGA uses DDR2 or DDR3. This can be confirmed by EVGA's website. You go look at Newegg or TigerDirect and they all say gddr2 or gddr3. Not one card mislabeled, all are wrong. There are distinct difference that make that "G" very important. I've called them both on it and they just tell me they'll look into it and get back to me. Still not fixed today, more than 6 month later. This exact issue is for most brands, I just chose to mention EVGA since I was stiffed into buying a card with 'gddr2' memory, only to find on the box when it arrived 'ddr2'. Now I don't trust what any e-tailer says about the product, I'm forced to go to the manufacturer's website to get the correct answer.
As far as I'm concerned, selling a video card that says gddr2/gddr3 is blatant false advertising. By telling them that I know they're wrong and they should fix it makes it deliberate blatant false advertising. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has caught this, but why aren't we (as comsumers) able to hold these companies responsible for deliberate, blantant, false advertising?
The way I see it, if I tell them they made a mistake maybe TigerDirect should send me a $100 gift card or something. If EVGA sends them a cease and desist letter, how much would it cost TigerDirect to pay a lawyer to figure out how to fix the mess? I'm sure my gift card was cheaper in the long run. And we wonder why the American economy is in the toilet, common sense doesn't apply.
There is always a demand for currency, both in the real world and the games.
I have a respectable 60kg total over 3 servers in WoW. I can buy almost any item I want, but I can't buy the levels or the raid experience.
Think of it like this. If tomorrow Blizzard said that all mobs in the game will now suddenly drop 100x the amount of gold they have before guess what the prices of merchandise on the AH will do? I'd say about 100x increase. Anyone could suddenly go kill a mob and get 50g to buy a stack of potions or whatever at the old AH price.
People take the path of least resistance. In the world of MMORPGs, they buy Gold. In the real world, there's 2 choices.
1. For those that need instant gratification, they work at WalMart making $9/hour forever at a job.
2. For those that plan ahead they go to college, get a degree, and then make $30+/hour in a career.
MMORPGs are built almost entirely on instant gratification. You don't start a quest on level 2 and are still working on it at lvl 80. Instant gratification falls into the 'buy gold online' persona.
Why are people surprised/disgusted that MMORPGs attract the 'instant gratification' personalities, and then deliberately scold them for having those traits?