The reason why no ISPs have already stepped in despite huge demand for one is the incredibly high startup cost to enter the market and the end of subsidies that other companies used to get around those costs.
I expect that if a couple of the major ISPs were to fail, nothing would take there place for a very long time.
We lost the ability to mod a lot of games because of stupid DRM controls and lock-down.
We had power when we could come up with something like Desert Combat mod, or there were tens of thousands of downloadable mods to turn the base game into really incredible things. There are some games like that still, like Minecraft, but for the most part, that is no longer true.
Amen. If they are going to end support, they should release the source to both game and servers, that way the community could continue to host servers and the ranking system of they want.
I agree that play has dwindled to almost nothings. Some hugely popular games like JKA have fewer than a dozen players on at any one time over dozens of servers sitting almost empty, but fun times are still had. One the other hand, there are still a lot of people playing Tribes and Tribes 2 mods, so community support for some games could be quite large. I would think it would be that way for Battlefield 2.
Shitty, overpriced headphone company that makes money only through hype and marketing, but still light years better of an investment than the billions Facebook paid for the Oculus Rift.
Citation needed. Unlike what you presume, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, BAE, et al are extremely competitive and profit margins are very low for business. The costs come from doing things right, per shifting and ill defined requirements, and pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible.
SpaceX made their own requirements using existing technologies to their own standards, which is where their low price comes from.
Don't make it out to be abuse and pork barrel, because it is not, as anyone 'in the know' (I.e., engineers, those working in the industry) will tell you.
Already, chickens are about 10x more efficient for production of meat calories than beef is. Most of the world does not consume milk like European descendants do. 40% of the world's arable land is already being used for agriculture. Red meat offers very little and is harmful to the human body in many ways.
I'd prefer we just leave beef alone, let the price increase as demand increases, and place artificial limits on production. Seems like everyone would be better off, and the environment would be as well.
Well, almost. Broward County's pay schedule ranges from $26.50/hour for new hires to $48/hour for the highest teaching experience, plus good benefits and a pension, but you are right that it is way more than what the title/summary suggest.
Depends on what you are comparing it to. Compared to just about any *nix flavor, XP is a dog. But compared to Vista and later OS's, XP is a Ferrari. I had to upgrade my graphics card by 2x generations to get the same DX9 performance between XP and 7 for the same games.
Not only is it just another unreliable restriction, but guns don't go off and fire ontheir own, any more than cars start up and drive off on their own. All modern guns are safe to drop, even when loaded, and have several mechanical protections to pprevent them from being discharged unless someone squeezes the trigger.
So: We gain no safety with this device, as it is only redundant to existing protections It is overly complicated and prone to failure compared to existing protections It defaults to a deadly state when it fails
Every rational human who has any knowledge of crime prevention statistics knows that this will put far more lives in danger than it plans to protect.
Also, I am bothered that the summer/article blasts gun owners in general because a few gun owners posted the inventor's personal information, but where was the outrage from the gun grabbers when gun owners' addresses and other personal information were posted by The Journal News? Instead, when the journalist/editors addresses were also posted, the NYT declared those editors were being "targeted", while those editors merely "pinpointed" owners.
This type of language helps drive the wedge issue.
Reality is, the U.S. doesn't have a gun problem. Guns prevent 2 million crimes per yearaccording to statistics compiled by the FBI. What the U.S. has is a violent gang problem fueled by drug money, which makes up the majority of gun-related crime (still orders of magnitude lower than what is prevented).
It depends on what he was working on, I guess. A lot of interface code is super verbose, super copyable, super fast to produce, and low in bugs. It is also super thoughtless, which is why developers like myself don't count that kind of code.
But certainly, working in an environment where the codebase is tens of millions of lines with 50+ developers that has been growing for approaching 20 years, the expectation is that, on average, a developer only produces a few SLOC/hour when testing/debugging/review/documentation are taken into account.
Skipping the review/documentation bumps that number up to, maybe, a dozen SLOC/hour, but only in some circumstances and some tasks that developers are churning out 1k+ lines/day. Just doesn't happen that way most of the time.
Except using a tablet for "serious work" is about as sensible to most people as using their smartphone for "serious work". Unless your "serious work" is dicking around, tablets make too many compromises over laptops, which already make a lot of compromises compared to desktops, for serious work.
The answer is obvious. The Brix Gaming is set up to be a GAMING PC, and because of that, is taking full advantage of AMD Fusion to get the most performance out of the smallest/low power components they can for GAMING. That means the most important factor of the rig is GPU performance, not CPU performance.
It is pretty well established by now that Arstechnica is nothing but an Intel shill, and I think this crappy review makes that very clear. 90% of the article is about testing and bashing the CPU performance, and in only one test do they actually try it for its intended purpose(GAMING), where it trounces the other competitors because of vastly superior GPU performance, but instead of continuing to test how well it performs at GAMING, they frame the results in terms of an underpowered CPU and continue more CPU tests.
Yea, somehow banks are using HFT to magically pull money out of thin air, definitely not at the expense of traders, because traders are being so well served.
That definitely makes sense and doesn't sound like complete bullshit at all.
In the short term(a couple of years like what the E.U. has been going through so far)? Probably not.
Over decades? Absolutely.
Gross and unsustainable overspending over the long term is a fantastic way to either default on debt, end up having to hyperinflate it away, or dramatically bleed the country's wealth out of said country. Those are not good things.
AtariAge forums did a calculation predicting the amount of gold on each cart, but their math was all jacked up.
It worked out to be: plating thickness is 4e-5 inches, area on each contact is.025 sq inches, or 1e-6 cubic inches. Gold is at $42/gram, there are 210 grams of gold in a cubic inch, and 12-two sided contacts per cart(already taken into account in area), which gives us $0.11/cart in gold if it were 24k.
$110k/1 million carts, but really, I would be amazed if labor, machinery costs, delivery, and refining costs would make that profitable.
Yea, besides the fact that these displays are notorious for breaking easily (in comparison to Gorilla Glass displays on Android phones), in gen 4, Apple had the brilliant idea of putting glass on the back of the phone as well, doubling your chance of breaking something if you dropped your phone.
I don't know anyone who didn't have their iPhone wrapped in a case, just for that reason. In comparison, my RAZR Maxx has never needed a case because the backing is rubberized composite and there is a durable bevel around the screen.
It is pretty undisputed that the environmental impacts of building the pipeline are minimal, but don't strawman that as the only issue.
The bigger issue is that the pipeline is being built by a private corporation (TransCanada) which will be using it to confiscate U.S. land (part of immenent domain) at the expense of the U.S. in economic development, and if something were to fail in the pipeline or be targeted, it would hurt the U.S. and the onus would be on us to repair the environmental damage.
If that wasn't bad, there is no indication that TransCanada plans to do anything but what their standard business model is, which is move oil from Canada and sell it to China, which means that even though it cuts all the way across the U.S. to get from Canada to ports on the Gulf Coast for shipping overseas, the U.S. gets none of it or sees any benefit.
So, that sounds like it sucks, right? Why would we even be considering that project? Well, the only reasons I can see are that the Koch brothers, being heavily invested in the project and standing to make a profit, more or less bought support for it on both the GOP and DNP sides through donations and funding lobbying groups with TransCanada. That, and to gain public support, also both parties funded grassroots 'hearts and minds' and television advertising campaigns (which you might recall seeing in the 2012 election with the Keystone XL pipeline was a major part of Rmoney's election platform).
Gold prices are driven by 1. Speculation and fearmongering about the state of the economy (I.e. preppers, pump and dump scammers, etc). 2. By how low interest rates are(if they can't gamble on the stock market or in loans, they gamble in gold). So, gold is a gamble against the economy (and therefore, the dollar), but that has nothing to do with inflation.
And that can be extended to the world economies as well.
If you want to see real inflation, you have to look at low profit margin commodities on a broad scale.
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The reason why no ISPs have already stepped in despite huge demand for one is the incredibly high startup cost to enter the market and the end of subsidies that other companies used to get around those costs.
I expect that if a couple of the major ISPs were to fail, nothing would take there place for a very long time.
We lost the ability to mod a lot of games because of stupid DRM controls and lock-down.
We had power when we could come up with something like Desert Combat mod, or there were tens of thousands of downloadable mods to turn the base game into really incredible things. There are some games like that still, like Minecraft, but for the most part, that is no longer true.
Good thing most of our food grows on ammonium nitrate and very little else.
Amen. If they are going to end support, they should release the source to both game and servers, that way the community could continue to host servers and the ranking system of they want.
I agree that play has dwindled to almost nothings. Some hugely popular games like JKA have fewer than a dozen players on at any one time over dozens of servers sitting almost empty, but fun times are still had. One the other hand, there are still a lot of people playing Tribes and Tribes 2 mods, so community support for some games could be quite large. I would think it would be that way for Battlefield 2.
Shitty, overpriced headphone company that makes money only through hype and marketing, but still light years better of an investment than the billions Facebook paid for the Oculus Rift.
Citation needed. Unlike what you presume, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, BAE, et al are extremely competitive and profit margins are very low for business. The costs come from doing things right, per shifting and ill defined requirements, and pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible.
SpaceX made their own requirements using existing technologies to their own standards, which is where their low price comes from.
Don't make it out to be abuse and pork barrel, because it is not, as anyone 'in the know' (I.e., engineers, those working in the industry) will tell you.
It isn't strange for Italy at all. Their whole justice/politician system is so corrupt and jacked up that it seems perfectly in line with Russia's.
Hate to spoil your assumptions, but fish/poultry are also good sources of iron and zinc.
Already, chickens are about 10x more efficient for production of meat calories than beef is. Most of the world does not consume milk like European descendants do. 40% of the world's arable land is already being used for agriculture. Red meat offers very little and is harmful to the human body in many ways.
I'd prefer we just leave beef alone, let the price increase as demand increases, and place artificial limits on production. Seems like everyone would be better off, and the environment would be as well.
Teacher's unions actually determine pay in most states/counties, including Broward. The county governments mostly just negotiate and approve.
Well, almost. Broward County's pay schedule ranges from $26.50/hour for new hires to $48/hour for the highest teaching experience, plus good benefits and a pension, but you are right that it is way more than what the title/summary suggest.
Depends on what you are comparing it to. Compared to just about any *nix flavor, XP is a dog. But compared to Vista and later OS's, XP is a Ferrari. I had to upgrade my graphics card by 2x generations to get the same DX9 performance between XP and 7 for the same games.
Not only is it just another unreliable restriction, but guns don't go off and fire ontheir own, any more than cars start up and drive off on their own. All modern guns are safe to drop, even when loaded, and have several mechanical protections to pprevent them from being discharged unless someone squeezes the trigger.
So:
We gain no safety with this device, as it is only redundant to existing protections
It is overly complicated and prone to failure compared to existing protections
It defaults to a deadly state when it fails
Every rational human who has any knowledge of crime prevention statistics knows that this will put far more lives in danger than it plans to protect.
Also, I am bothered that the summer/article blasts gun owners in general because a few gun owners posted the inventor's personal information, but where was the outrage from the gun grabbers when gun owners' addresses and other personal information were posted by The Journal News? Instead, when the journalist/editors addresses were also posted, the NYT declared those editors were being "targeted", while those editors merely "pinpointed" owners.
This type of language helps drive the wedge issue.
Reality is, the U.S. doesn't have a gun problem. Guns prevent 2 million crimes per yearaccording to statistics compiled by the FBI. What the U.S. has is a violent gang problem fueled by drug money, which makes up the majority of gun-related crime (still orders of magnitude lower than what is prevented).
It depends on what he was working on, I guess. A lot of interface code is super verbose, super copyable, super fast to produce, and low in bugs. It is also super thoughtless, which is why developers like myself don't count that kind of code.
But certainly, working in an environment where the codebase is tens of millions of lines with 50+ developers that has been growing for approaching 20 years, the expectation is that, on average, a developer only produces a few SLOC/hour when testing/debugging/review/documentation are taken into account.
Skipping the review/documentation bumps that number up to, maybe, a dozen SLOC/hour, but only in some circumstances and some tasks that developers are churning out 1k+ lines/day. Just doesn't happen that way most of the time.
Except using a tablet for "serious work" is about as sensible to most people as using their smartphone for "serious work". Unless your "serious work" is dicking around, tablets make too many compromises over laptops, which already make a lot of compromises compared to desktops, for serious work.
The answer is obvious. The Brix Gaming is set up to be a GAMING PC, and because of that, is taking full advantage of AMD Fusion to get the most performance out of the smallest/low power components they can for GAMING. That means the most important factor of the rig is GPU performance, not CPU performance.
It is pretty well established by now that Arstechnica is nothing but an Intel shill, and I think this crappy review makes that very clear. 90% of the article is about testing and bashing the CPU performance, and in only one test do they actually try it for its intended purpose(GAMING), where it trounces the other competitors because of vastly superior GPU performance, but instead of continuing to test how well it performs at GAMING, they frame the results in terms of an underpowered CPU and continue more CPU tests.
What a worthless rag of an article.
Yea, somehow banks are using HFT to magically pull money out of thin air, definitely not at the expense of traders, because traders are being so well served.
That definitely makes sense and doesn't sound like complete bullshit at all.
Where is Captain Planet when we need him?!
In the short term(a couple of years like what the E.U. has been going through so far)? Probably not.
Over decades? Absolutely.
Gross and unsustainable overspending over the long term is a fantastic way to either default on debt, end up having to hyperinflate it away, or dramatically bleed the country's wealth out of said country. Those are not good things.
AtariAge forums did a calculation predicting the amount of gold on each cart, but their math was all jacked up.
.025 sq inches, or 1e-6 cubic inches. Gold is at $42/gram, there are 210 grams of gold in a cubic inch, and 12-two sided contacts per cart(already taken into account in area), which gives us $0.11/cart in gold if it were 24k.
It worked out to be: plating thickness is 4e-5 inches, area on each contact is
$110k/1 million carts, but really, I would be amazed if labor, machinery costs, delivery, and refining costs would make that profitable.
Yea, besides the fact that these displays are notorious for breaking easily (in comparison to Gorilla Glass displays on Android phones), in gen 4, Apple had the brilliant idea of putting glass on the back of the phone as well, doubling your chance of breaking something if you dropped your phone.
I don't know anyone who didn't have their iPhone wrapped in a case, just for that reason. In comparison, my RAZR Maxx has never needed a case because the backing is rubberized composite and there is a durable bevel around the screen.
I couldn't distinguish her "doors problem" from any other mundane problem in a complex system that some of us deal with every day.
It is pretty undisputed that the environmental impacts of building the pipeline are minimal, but don't strawman that as the only issue.
The bigger issue is that the pipeline is being built by a private corporation (TransCanada) which will be using it to confiscate U.S. land (part of immenent domain) at the expense of the U.S. in economic development, and if something were to fail in the pipeline or be targeted, it would hurt the U.S. and the onus would be on us to repair the environmental damage.
If that wasn't bad, there is no indication that TransCanada plans to do anything but what their standard business model is, which is move oil from Canada and sell it to China, which means that even though it cuts all the way across the U.S. to get from Canada to ports on the Gulf Coast for shipping overseas, the U.S. gets none of it or sees any benefit.
So, that sounds like it sucks, right? Why would we even be considering that project? Well, the only reasons I can see are that the Koch brothers, being heavily invested in the project and standing to make a profit, more or less bought support for it on both the GOP and DNP sides through donations and funding lobbying groups with TransCanada. That, and to gain public support, also both parties funded grassroots 'hearts and minds' and television advertising campaigns (which you might recall seeing in the 2012 election with the Keystone XL pipeline was a major part of Rmoney's election platform).
I used to go through one about every six months. Their cords were shit, and would break over time.
I replaced my 8th and last MX510 with a RAZR Imperator about 3 years ago, and haven't looked back since.
Whoever mentioned that was an idiot.
Gold prices are driven by 1. Speculation and fearmongering about the state of the economy (I.e. preppers, pump and dump scammers, etc). 2. By how low interest rates are(if they can't gamble on the stock market or in loans, they gamble in gold). So, gold is a gamble against the economy (and therefore, the dollar), but that has nothing to do with inflation.
And that can be extended to the world economies as well.
If you want to see real inflation, you have to look at low profit margin commodities on a broad scale.