Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (OS and installed apps that do not allow default install location to anywhere but the C:\ drive) Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card x 2 (CrossFire enabled) Antec HCG M 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply Philips 227E4LSB 60Hz 21.5" Monitor x 2 Corsair Vengeance K60 Wired Gaming Keyboard Logitech G9x Wired Laser Mouse NZXT Phantom 630 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case Total cost (thank you Christmas, Boxing Day, and Black Friday sales events): $1200 approx.
I've noticed so far that there's a lot of border spacing around posts and the comments system. Overall I don't mind the more open, less 'condensed' approach, but think that the beta page's spacing may need to decrease about 25% overall. Now that I think of it, it reminds me bit of viewing a 'mobile-version' of the site, but on a desktop display (21.5" wide screen LED backlit LCD monitor).
I'm kicking myself in the head for this. Another excellent core series to read is the Dune franchise, by Frank Herbert (and the subsequent complementary work by his son, Brian Herbert, and his collaborator, Kevin J. Anderson). Space Fantasy not being locked down by rigid technological detailing, if I ever saw one. Concepts focused are on apex human evolution, parallels in historical patterns/fallbacks to feudalism and matters of ecological and resource-based monopolies. Religious tones interestingly used to push an exotic, spiritual experience without being stuck up its own proverbial rear.
Person recommendations (with short-form reason[s]):
The Quantum Thief (and I'd assume, the sequel "The Fractal Prince"), by Hannu Rajaniemi - the story dives into topics of personal security, public access memory, intra-stellar colonization,and hitting one or more Singularity events in technology and social splintering. Pacing is quick, detailing incredibly potent, yet giving you time to see parallels in where we are and where we could be, in the not-so-distant future. A wake-up call started decades ago by previous and existing speculative fiction authors and thinkers.
Sprawl Trilogy novels (Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)), by William Gibson - cyberpunk literature that looks at the embedding and transformation-strong elements of technology alongside its own and society's deterministic properties. Puts to task the idea of isolation of the self and the integration of society into a ubiquitous whole through cyberspace, and its physio-socio-psychological backbones. Admittedly, Gibson's writing style can be very sparse/minimalist at times (especially with the more recent literature in the Bigend Trilogy) but the ideas are there and strong, nonetheless.
Heck, anything from William Gibson (including the Bigend Trilogy, in the last decade or so) is a good read.
Last, but not least, is More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon. This focuses on the idea of a potential future evolutionary adaptation, where a consummate human being, a gestalt, comes into being through a variety of children - should one be lost or removed permanently, another will be compatible elsewhere in the world. Individually, the children have limited abilities. In tandem as the gestalt (still physically separate), their abilities amplify.
There are more, but their names escape me, which tells me that they're not as crucial or best suited for this post.
I think someone mentioned this earlier, but the overall initial costs/building requirements will be the most expensive point in these turbines lifetime. Just like any major capital investment, the cost is static/ one time. After it's paid off in generating enough electricity at a given price, the long term results are more beneficial - yes this means less waste compared to nuclear reactors in service, also mitigating down potential hazards from previous known incidents and close calls. You can't ignore these measurable and discernible results and effects - they are part and parcel of the energy source.
People need to remember that the long term and general picture of alternative energy sources is what needs to be considered - cost is irrelevant in that any new capital is expensive initially and that it gets paid off eventually through the function it serves (or functions).
From the article:
"The researchers then cooled europium down to about 1.8 kelvins (â"271.35Â Celsius), a frigid temperature near absolute zero.
At pressures around 80 gigapascals, or about 800,000 times the pressure exerted by the atmosphere at sea level, europium lost its magnetism. Electrons could flow freely through the metal without resistance."
The closest thing the average person could conceive (or at least myself) in
a) Pressure and
b) freeze capability / something involving lasers?
would be compactors and liquid nitrogen. I'm still having problems seeing this be generally applied for use.
This isn't the first time yet another rare earth element/metal has had to be cooled down (and/or pressurized) to unnatural levels to unlock superconductivity. I thought the goals of such experiments was to figure out how to conventionally utilize superconductivity on a mass scale without the need for highly specific environmental conditions.
Since this article also mentions most rare earth metals share this superconductive capability (at near-zero kelvin temperatures and/or massive unnatural Earth pressures), this isn't something new, still.
From what I've read, soy-based printer toner/ink isn't that much different. The quality is likely to be less rich (especially for high end prints of brochures on regular paper) but otherwise there shouldn't be too much of a difference.
Funnily enough, on the topic of wifi between Windows and Ubuntu, Windows Vista and XP Pro 32 bit fail to pick up any decent signal from neighboring access points while Ubuntu 8.04 (32 and 64 bit; all OSes on the same system, just a different harddrive) picks up and successfully connects to a neighboring open AP. This continued to happen on 64 Bit Vista Business and XP Pro 64 bit.
So, who defines what content is considered "unwanted": based on network volume consumption/transmission activity, or actual content, or both? Will it be a panel of various ISP customers in Australia defining what the filters should be? If so, how do you define said demographic of panel participants.
In the end, it's still arbitrary and easily defaulted to subjective censorship that best fits the moral or financial wallets of those implementing the technology and/or its service, not entirely, if at all, for the benefit of the units and their well-being.
If you're going to filter "unwanted" content, define the reasons why and how and see whether or not that actually is the best way to go, not the expectedly cheapest and best way.
If it's because of network load, then upgrade your lines and invest in scalable technology geared towards increased usage and content on the interet and web as a whole.
If it's because of "questionable" or "unwanted" content, then leave that to the general consensus of the users of that ISP or ISPs to define it, otherwise you're hypocritical and using one reason to cover up the other.
In Canada, the federal government (or was it the CRTC...) has forced all providers to not say it's a government-forced or government-related fee of any kind, since it isn't. All literature and correspondence has been changed to indicate "(A non governmental fee)". Systems Access fee = "profit" recovery tactic to make up for the seemingly inexpensive plans they offer.
+1 to this. My concern is the same: by introducing this mutation that suppresses/removes expression of what the AIDS virus uses to penetrate the cell, what other biological components in the body are affected at all?
Simcity Societies. It takes a new spin on the game series and is more "organic" than the current stream of SimCity games. Granted it's not produced by Maxis this time but still turns out pretty good. for Consoles:
Wii: Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
PS2: FF12
DS: Geometry Wars: Galaxies
Everything else I don't care for since I don't own them heh.
Given the historical trends to avoid such laws up here, it will (hopefully) not get passed and enacted.
Why? Several reasons:
1) Local providers for various media and services will not tolerate losing clients (to an extent) in an already limited market in Canada. With about 30-35 million people, there isn't much to keep on top of as it is.
2) The nature of Canadian laws and somewhat common sense. Seeing as this law would appear to leave no greater benefit for Canadian people (unless certain politicians were paid off) especially if several reports or inquiries were/are being made to validate the cries of murder that US-based groups have been making over copyright issues.
3) Obvious attempt to vent on another country than their own. They hate the fact our copyright laws are more "loose", or as I put it, realistic. We may be economically tied to the US, but there's no need to follow political and overbearing social suit in this case. While officially if/when this proposal is shot down, more politically correct rhetoric will be used to indicate their disapproval in getting this flustered over something that isn't as bad as it is made out to be.
4) Lack of financial benefit in precedence. If #2 holds, then data will more than likely be found in that such attempts to sue or garnish apparent "violators" of copyright will yield in next to nothing. Either the charge was bogus or exaggerated, the person won't be able to pay and/or it'll be thrown out of court locally. Precedence has shown this.
So, it won't fly here, most likely. It's possible I'll grant that, but it'll likely get quashed.
It's not so much a matter of that for the preliminaries. You need to also look at the people who are critiquing the games. MTV and Newsweek. Companies who have no real grasp of solid console and/or computer gaming beyond anything that doesn't require much intellecet.
MTV has a demographic of indecisive, low attention, fickle viewers. The value of any critic on their staff for video games can't and shouldn't be taken seriously versus any other critic from a gaming site or group that does what they do for a living (yes they're even biased but at least they're not from a former music station or newspaper company, either of which never really started into gaming in the first place).
In short, there's no point arguing which is better based on the sources that argue for or against either one.
Both are awesome games in their own respect. I'd rather hear or read from other groups than MTV or newsweek, groups out of their league in terms of gaming and esp. of critiquing them.
I've been playing this again over the last week and have finished Persephone-only missions, going in turn with each god. Definitely an awesome game all two iterations I've played it and it's definitely sad not to see anything else out there that really takes better, clearer cues from this game.
I would've thought they activate this a month or two after launch, if not sooner.
I guess they wanted to give a false sense of security that it wouldn't happen soon if at all, and/or to have people get comfortable and then get zapped, enforcing/encouraging them to get a legit copy for anything stuck in there or something.
I remember working for a software and hardware reseller two years ago and had to do a cusat. survey over the phone. One of the sets of questions was type of server(s) they were running and one guy I managed to get the survey done was pretty cool and was a linux and windows user. He was the only one I interviewed running solely on linux boxes. I asked (as part of the survey as well as personal interest and intrigue) as to why he wasn't using Windows boxes for server activity across the board.
"Simple. Why the hell would I want to spend 90% more on Windows servers and its licensing when I can do the same for 1/10th the cost and all the more control over operations and efficiency?"
In short: if/when you learn to manage linux for your rig, you save money in the long run as well as the sense of accoplishment.
In short again: kudos to the comp. for switching to linux. the investment now in it will definitely pay off.
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Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (OS and installed apps that do not allow default install location to anywhere but the C:\ drive)
Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card x 2 (CrossFire enabled)
Antec HCG M 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Philips 227E4LSB 60Hz 21.5" Monitor x 2
Corsair Vengeance K60 Wired Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G9x Wired Laser Mouse
NZXT Phantom 630 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case
Total cost (thank you Christmas, Boxing Day, and Black Friday sales events): $1200 approx.
I've noticed so far that there's a lot of border spacing around posts and the comments system. Overall I don't mind the more open, less 'condensed' approach, but think that the beta page's spacing may need to decrease about 25% overall. Now that I think of it, it reminds me bit of viewing a 'mobile-version' of the site, but on a desktop display (21.5" wide screen LED backlit LCD monitor).
I'm kicking myself in the head for this. Another excellent core series to read is the Dune franchise, by Frank Herbert (and the subsequent complementary work by his son, Brian Herbert, and his collaborator, Kevin J. Anderson). Space Fantasy not being locked down by rigid technological detailing, if I ever saw one. Concepts focused are on apex human evolution, parallels in historical patterns/fallbacks to feudalism and matters of ecological and resource-based monopolies. Religious tones interestingly used to push an exotic, spiritual experience without being stuck up its own proverbial rear.
Person recommendations (with short-form reason[s]):
The Quantum Thief (and I'd assume, the sequel "The Fractal Prince"), by Hannu Rajaniemi - the story dives into topics of personal security, public access memory, intra-stellar colonization,and hitting one or more Singularity events in technology and social splintering. Pacing is quick, detailing incredibly potent, yet giving you time to see parallels in where we are and where we could be, in the not-so-distant future. A wake-up call started decades ago by previous and existing speculative fiction authors and thinkers.
Sprawl Trilogy novels (Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)), by William Gibson - cyberpunk literature that looks at the embedding and transformation-strong elements of technology alongside its own and society's deterministic properties. Puts to task the idea of isolation of the self and the integration of society into a ubiquitous whole through cyberspace, and its physio-socio-psychological backbones. Admittedly, Gibson's writing style can be very sparse/minimalist at times (especially with the more recent literature in the Bigend Trilogy) but the ideas are there and strong, nonetheless.
Heck, anything from William Gibson (including the Bigend Trilogy, in the last decade or so) is a good read.
Last, but not least, is More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon. This focuses on the idea of a potential future evolutionary adaptation, where a consummate human being, a gestalt, comes into being through a variety of children - should one be lost or removed permanently, another will be compatible elsewhere in the world. Individually, the children have limited abilities. In tandem as the gestalt (still physically separate), their abilities amplify.
There are more, but their names escape me, which tells me that they're not as crucial or best suited for this post.
I think someone mentioned this earlier, but the overall initial costs/building requirements will be the most expensive point in these turbines lifetime. Just like any major capital investment, the cost is static/ one time. After it's paid off in generating enough electricity at a given price, the long term results are more beneficial - yes this means less waste compared to nuclear reactors in service, also mitigating down potential hazards from previous known incidents and close calls. You can't ignore these measurable and discernible results and effects - they are part and parcel of the energy source. People need to remember that the long term and general picture of alternative energy sources is what needs to be considered - cost is irrelevant in that any new capital is expensive initially and that it gets paid off eventually through the function it serves (or functions).
From the article: "The researchers then cooled europium down to about 1.8 kelvins (â"271.35Â Celsius), a frigid temperature near absolute zero. At pressures around 80 gigapascals, or about 800,000 times the pressure exerted by the atmosphere at sea level, europium lost its magnetism. Electrons could flow freely through the metal without resistance." The closest thing the average person could conceive (or at least myself) in a) Pressure and b) freeze capability / something involving lasers? would be compactors and liquid nitrogen. I'm still having problems seeing this be generally applied for use. This isn't the first time yet another rare earth element/metal has had to be cooled down (and/or pressurized) to unnatural levels to unlock superconductivity. I thought the goals of such experiments was to figure out how to conventionally utilize superconductivity on a mass scale without the need for highly specific environmental conditions. Since this article also mentions most rare earth metals share this superconductive capability (at near-zero kelvin temperatures and/or massive unnatural Earth pressures), this isn't something new, still.
From what I've read, soy-based printer toner/ink isn't that much different. The quality is likely to be less rich (especially for high end prints of brochures on regular paper) but otherwise there shouldn't be too much of a difference.
Does this bug also affect solid state drives, or just traditional drives with more moving parts?
Funnily enough, on the topic of wifi between Windows and Ubuntu, Windows Vista and XP Pro 32 bit fail to pick up any decent signal from neighboring access points while Ubuntu 8.04 (32 and 64 bit; all OSes on the same system, just a different harddrive) picks up and successfully connects to a neighboring open AP. This continued to happen on 64 Bit Vista Business and XP Pro 64 bit.
So, who defines what content is considered "unwanted": based on network volume consumption/transmission activity, or actual content, or both? Will it be a panel of various ISP customers in Australia defining what the filters should be? If so, how do you define said demographic of panel participants. In the end, it's still arbitrary and easily defaulted to subjective censorship that best fits the moral or financial wallets of those implementing the technology and/or its service, not entirely, if at all, for the benefit of the units and their well-being. If you're going to filter "unwanted" content, define the reasons why and how and see whether or not that actually is the best way to go, not the expectedly cheapest and best way. If it's because of network load, then upgrade your lines and invest in scalable technology geared towards increased usage and content on the interet and web as a whole. If it's because of "questionable" or "unwanted" content, then leave that to the general consensus of the users of that ISP or ISPs to define it, otherwise you're hypocritical and using one reason to cover up the other.
In Canada, the federal government (or was it the CRTC...) has forced all providers to not say it's a government-forced or government-related fee of any kind, since it isn't. All literature and correspondence has been changed to indicate "(A non governmental fee)". Systems Access fee = "profit" recovery tactic to make up for the seemingly inexpensive plans they offer.
+1 to this. My concern is the same: by introducing this mutation that suppresses/removes expression of what the AIDS virus uses to penetrate the cell, what other biological components in the body are affected at all?
Simcity Societies. It takes a new spin on the game series and is more "organic" than the current stream of SimCity games. Granted it's not produced by Maxis this time but still turns out pretty good. for Consoles: Wii: Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition PS2: FF12 DS: Geometry Wars: Galaxies Everything else I don't care for since I don't own them heh.
Given the historical trends to avoid such laws up here, it will (hopefully) not get passed and enacted. Why? Several reasons: 1) Local providers for various media and services will not tolerate losing clients (to an extent) in an already limited market in Canada. With about 30-35 million people, there isn't much to keep on top of as it is. 2) The nature of Canadian laws and somewhat common sense. Seeing as this law would appear to leave no greater benefit for Canadian people (unless certain politicians were paid off) especially if several reports or inquiries were/are being made to validate the cries of murder that US-based groups have been making over copyright issues. 3) Obvious attempt to vent on another country than their own. They hate the fact our copyright laws are more "loose", or as I put it, realistic. We may be economically tied to the US, but there's no need to follow political and overbearing social suit in this case. While officially if/when this proposal is shot down, more politically correct rhetoric will be used to indicate their disapproval in getting this flustered over something that isn't as bad as it is made out to be. 4) Lack of financial benefit in precedence. If #2 holds, then data will more than likely be found in that such attempts to sue or garnish apparent "violators" of copyright will yield in next to nothing. Either the charge was bogus or exaggerated, the person won't be able to pay and/or it'll be thrown out of court locally. Precedence has shown this. So, it won't fly here, most likely. It's possible I'll grant that, but it'll likely get quashed.
It's not so much a matter of that for the preliminaries. You need to also look at the people who are critiquing the games. MTV and Newsweek. Companies who have no real grasp of solid console and/or computer gaming beyond anything that doesn't require much intellecet. MTV has a demographic of indecisive, low attention, fickle viewers. The value of any critic on their staff for video games can't and shouldn't be taken seriously versus any other critic from a gaming site or group that does what they do for a living (yes they're even biased but at least they're not from a former music station or newspaper company, either of which never really started into gaming in the first place). In short, there's no point arguing which is better based on the sources that argue for or against either one. Both are awesome games in their own respect. I'd rather hear or read from other groups than MTV or newsweek, groups out of their league in terms of gaming and esp. of critiquing them.
I've been playing this again over the last week and have finished Persephone-only missions, going in turn with each god. Definitely an awesome game all two iterations I've played it and it's definitely sad not to see anything else out there that really takes better, clearer cues from this game.
I would've thought they activate this a month or two after launch, if not sooner. I guess they wanted to give a false sense of security that it wouldn't happen soon if at all, and/or to have people get comfortable and then get zapped, enforcing/encouraging them to get a legit copy for anything stuck in there or something.
I remember working for a software and hardware reseller two years ago and had to do a cusat. survey over the phone. One of the sets of questions was type of server(s) they were running and one guy I managed to get the survey done was pretty cool and was a linux and windows user. He was the only one I interviewed running solely on linux boxes. I asked (as part of the survey as well as personal interest and intrigue) as to why he wasn't using Windows boxes for server activity across the board. "Simple. Why the hell would I want to spend 90% more on Windows servers and its licensing when I can do the same for 1/10th the cost and all the more control over operations and efficiency?" In short: if/when you learn to manage linux for your rig, you save money in the long run as well as the sense of accoplishment. In short again: kudos to the comp. for switching to linux. the investment now in it will definitely pay off.