I have to run BF4 on mid-low settings to play and record at an acceptable frame rate (1080p@60) with my HD6950. I'd like to be able to play at high/ultra settings @ 75-120 FPS with a higher refresh monitor, which is why I am looking at upgrading soon.
No, it should be modded exactly what it is. The whole post is a rant about how competitive the whole Desktop Linux OS has to be with OS X and Windows 8.1, but fails to address anything about how the Linux Kernel development relates to Desktop Linux that makes it more competitive with OS X or Windows 8.1 or how fixing bugs in the kernel makes it less competitive to OS X or Windows 8.1
If there was -1 Upvote Bait, I'm sure that's what it would get rated as, seeing as it is a mostly thoughtless desenting opinion type rant that seems to draw lots of +Voters and attention.
I'm not quite sure sales tax is simple and fair to begin with. The Fed and State already get their cut of my income when I make my money, then they take another cut when I spend it, and another cut from the company that got the sale on those same dollars. Seems to me that a flat cut on income and corporate earnings would be enough, without the hand in the middle as well.
The FBI really doesn't give a rats ass about corporate interest. They certainly aren't running campaigns or being lobbied, so the best you could claim is weak and indirect influence.
However, they are very interested in hitmen and those that hire them.
Let's point to the Tea Party and Occupy movements as an example. What started as a grassroots LIBERTARIAN movement that was protesting how screwed up the financial system was, incredible wealth disparity, a cultural and institutionalized student debt system that was getting worse, upper class favoritism (see bank bailouts vs housing debt bailouts and 'too big to fail'), once it started going and it seemed like Washington and Wall Street were finally under pressure to consider change in favor of the public, the whole movement was hijacked by conservative extremists practicing wealth protectionalism and brinksmanship, the opposite values of what the movement started with.
Slick judo-diversion of momentum got us into a worse mess than when the protesting started. In effect, what we did and fought for was used against us, and by the time we realized it, it was too late.
That means organized protesting and normal modes of civil disobedience are no longer an option, and that is if we ever get enough people stirred up about it after such a crushing and disheartening defeat of values.
The bastions of civilization are threatening my rights to privacy and it seems to be a systemic problem across many nations and interests.
The question I have is, if 'everyone' (almost) is doing it, when do us sheeple get to say 'no' and have it count for something?
I ask this question, and nothing seems to change. I vote for people I see as less persecuting, and the problems get worse. My fellow compatriots get angry, protest and demonstrate, try to keep the issue in the light, and we are largely ignored. Fellows that whistleblow are retaliated against, persecuted, and no positive action taken.
When do we get to remind politicians that they are servants of the people and that the government should act in our interest, not its own?
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"To be honest I expect that the users of such apps are those who would otherwise go into the backcountry with no device at all, are the apps better than nothing at all?"
I had thought this too, thinking 'blah blah article presents false dichotomy... blah blah implying users would otherwise buy very expensive avalanche beacons etc'. Then I looked up the price of a real avalanche transceiver.
They are cheap. Much cheaper than most of the skiing gear (even most of the clothing) that back country skiers wear. In my mind, that means no excuse to choose an app over a real device. Maybe as a redundant system and backup, but not as a substitute, and neither should there be any suggestion at all that the app is in any way an appropriate substitute.
That is, not suggest they are better than nothing at all, but instead, at best, an enhancement to having something.
...the U.K. has found another moral panic. Everybody pop some popcorn, asinine laws are about to get passed and massive propaganda campaigns will be starting. Fun for the whole family, as long as you don't live there and as long as it doesn't spread here.
Last time I remember one of these "weapons" related knives, it was during the post-handgun knifing sprees, and the gov't managed to spin up its citizens so much with their knife amnesty programs that people were turning in unsharpened movie prop fantasy knives, kitchen utensils, and yard tools afraid they were going to get prosecuted for owning lethal weaponry.
We'll see what they come up with for 3D printers. Maybe plastic/printer amnesty days
What amazes me is that we have a raging younger generation upset about loss of freedom, but it is the oldest generations that are actually standing up to the system.
I guess you could count Snowden and Wikileaks as contributions from the tech generations.
Sign of the times and our culture. I'd certainly support more civil disobedience, as long as it wasn't me... and I feel that is why big brother is still doing what they are.
This. What the article doesn't explain is what cyber security usually entails at a defense contractor. I did that kind of work for about a year, and wanted to pull me own fingers off.
It was where they took bright engineers, gave them tedious and excruciatingly boring tasks, burned them out, and replaced them. You'd think cyber security would be somewhat cool, but in reality, it was taking several multi-thousand line spreadsheet checklists, run some scripts, and manually put passes or fails for the things the scripts didn't cover. Do that all day every day for every type of server and every project, repeatedly, till all or almost all checks were passed. And then, do documentation.
I would say that where I worked, the youngest crowd were the only suckers willing to take that work. Everyone else knew better.
Al Queda (boogeymen) could do this with normal botulism and still be effective if what you were stating was practical or if they had any idea how.
Major cities don't keep botulism antidote stockpiles large enough for their entire city nearby, and it stands to reason that if an attack was so trivial, they'd hit many targets at once like they did with airplanes.
That is, withholding or not, we'd be screwed. And there are far more effective ways to cause harm than this if they started being bioterrorists (like reengineering the Spanish Flu from selectively breeding one of several strainst of zoonotic flu floating around).
No, this information was withheld to give the originating scientists lots of time to make more discoveries and papers without competition from peers.
2142 was "fun", but not as much as BF2, so I ended up switching back. Different play styles I suppose.
BF3 was fun with the expansions that finally made it feel like a BF2 successor (big, open vehicle maps), but the gunplay was never quite on par with BC2.
BF4 brings back more powerful guns (though, they still screwed up giving the class with the most powerful guns the me pack and defrib), vehicles that are useful even without mods, 3D arena (a la 2142), and all the tactical stuff of BF2.
Still doesn't have the charm of BC2, but snipers are much less powerful now, so I suppose it balances out.
That is absurd. There is absolutely no reason to have the various sorts memorized, no matter what you do for a living.
Library sorts are always faster than what you would implement on your own, which makes knowledge about sorts relevant to 90s era code, but completely obsolete now.
I've been writing code as a profession for the past decade from everything ranging from uControllers, cellphones, and SBCs to large (60+ server, each with unique functions, meshing multiple languages) ship control/interfacing systems.
Not once have I ever needed to write a sorting function or try to remember the differences in implementation of the different sort algorithms. It just isn't important.
Yea, I thought manufacturing was supposed to scale with demand, which is why almost no other companies make announcements every time a batch is consumed.
Yea, this article is light on details and a bit inaccurate. I didn't find any reference to layoffs beyond what was already planned about a month ago, but depending on the contract people were working on, many workers at LMC were furloughed since the start of the shutdown.
Other defense contractors, like Mitre, who are more intimately involved with government programs outside of Defense spending have had almost half their workforce furloughed since the start of the shutdown.
All of that translates to the economy slamming on its brakes and hundreds of thousands of dollars people's income being used for protection rather than growth. Idiotic indeed.
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I have to run BF4 on mid-low settings to play and record at an acceptable frame rate (1080p@60) with my HD6950. I'd like to be able to play at high/ultra settings @ 75-120 FPS with a higher refresh monitor, which is why I am looking at upgrading soon.
No, it should be modded exactly what it is. The whole post is a rant about how competitive the whole Desktop Linux OS has to be with OS X and Windows 8.1, but fails to address anything about how the Linux Kernel development relates to Desktop Linux that makes it more competitive with OS X or Windows 8.1 or how fixing bugs in the kernel makes it less competitive to OS X or Windows 8.1
If there was -1 Upvote Bait, I'm sure that's what it would get rated as, seeing as it is a mostly thoughtless desenting opinion type rant that seems to draw lots of +Voters and attention.
As opposed to Romney and McCain? Calling the kettle black
I fail to see the difference between waiting 6 months and waiting 2 years. A harddeadline is now or never. Your example is not that either.
Double? Try 20% more nominal, and 19% less (PPP).
I'm not quite sure sales tax is simple and fair to begin with. The Fed and State already get their cut of my income when I make my money, then they take another cut when I spend it, and another cut from the company that got the sale on those same dollars. Seems to me that a flat cut on income and corporate earnings would be enough, without the hand in the middle as well.
I threw a Halloween party last weekend. Tonight? Battlefield 4
The FBI really doesn't give a rats ass about corporate interest. They certainly aren't running campaigns or being lobbied, so the best you could claim is weak and indirect influence.
However, they are very interested in hitmen and those that hire them.
Let's point to the Tea Party and Occupy movements as an example. What started as a grassroots LIBERTARIAN movement that was protesting how screwed up the financial system was, incredible wealth disparity, a cultural and institutionalized student debt system that was getting worse, upper class favoritism (see bank bailouts vs housing debt bailouts and 'too big to fail'), once it started going and it seemed like Washington and Wall Street were finally under pressure to consider change in favor of the public, the whole movement was hijacked by conservative extremists practicing wealth protectionalism and brinksmanship, the opposite values of what the movement started with.
Slick judo-diversion of momentum got us into a worse mess than when the protesting started. In effect, what we did and fought for was used against us, and by the time we realized it, it was too late.
That means organized protesting and normal modes of civil disobedience are no longer an option, and that is if we ever get enough people stirred up about it after such a crushing and disheartening defeat of values.
The bastions of civilization are threatening my rights to privacy and it seems to be a systemic problem across many nations and interests.
The question I have is, if 'everyone' (almost) is doing it, when do us sheeple get to say 'no' and have it count for something?
I ask this question, and nothing seems to change. I vote for people I see as less persecuting, and the problems get worse. My fellow compatriots get angry, protest and demonstrate, try to keep the issue in the light, and we are largely ignored. Fellows that whistleblow are retaliated against, persecuted, and no positive action taken.
When do we get to remind politicians that they are servants of the people and that the government should act in our interest, not its own?
<metadata>Dear NSA, I'm not having subversive thoughts, so please don't interpret my post that way.</metadata>
"To be honest I expect that the users of such apps are those who would otherwise go into the backcountry with no device at all, are the apps better than nothing at all?"
I had thought this too, thinking 'blah blah article presents false dichotomy... blah blah implying users would otherwise buy very expensive avalanche beacons etc'. Then I looked up the price of a real avalanche transceiver.
They are cheap. Much cheaper than most of the skiing gear (even most of the clothing) that back country skiers wear. In my mind, that means no excuse to choose an app over a real device. Maybe as a redundant system and backup, but not as a substitute, and neither should there be any suggestion at all that the app is in any way an appropriate substitute.
That is, not suggest they are better than nothing at all, but instead, at best, an enhancement to having something.
"Weapons" related campaigns*, not knives
...the U.K. has found another moral panic. Everybody pop some popcorn, asinine laws are about to get passed and massive propaganda campaigns will be starting. Fun for the whole family, as long as you don't live there and as long as it doesn't spread here.
Last time I remember one of these "weapons" related knives, it was during the post-handgun knifing sprees, and the gov't managed to spin up its citizens so much with their knife amnesty programs that people were turning in unsharpened movie prop fantasy knives, kitchen utensils, and yard tools afraid they were going to get prosecuted for owning lethal weaponry.
We'll see what they come up with for 3D printers. Maybe plastic/printer amnesty days
What amazes me is that we have a raging younger generation upset about loss of freedom, but it is the oldest generations that are actually standing up to the system.
I guess you could count Snowden and Wikileaks as contributions from the tech generations.
Sign of the times and our culture. I'd certainly support more civil disobedience, as long as it wasn't me... and I feel that is why big brother is still doing what they are.
This. What the article doesn't explain is what cyber security usually entails at a defense contractor. I did that kind of work for about a year, and wanted to pull me own fingers off.
It was where they took bright engineers, gave them tedious and excruciatingly boring tasks, burned them out, and replaced them. You'd think cyber security would be somewhat cool, but in reality, it was taking several multi-thousand line spreadsheet checklists, run some scripts, and manually put passes or fails for the things the scripts didn't cover. Do that all day every day for every type of server and every project, repeatedly, till all or almost all checks were passed. And then, do documentation.
I would say that where I worked, the youngest crowd were the only suckers willing to take that work. Everyone else knew better.
There is no Whoosh interface. It is called Metro. Duh.
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Al Queda (boogeymen) could do this with normal botulism and still be effective if what you were stating was practical or if they had any idea how.
Major cities don't keep botulism antidote stockpiles large enough for their entire city nearby, and it stands to reason that if an attack was so trivial, they'd hit many targets at once like they did with airplanes.
That is, withholding or not, we'd be screwed. And there are far more effective ways to cause harm than this if they started being bioterrorists (like reengineering the Spanish Flu from selectively breeding one of several strainst of zoonotic flu floating around).
No, this information was withheld to give the originating scientists lots of time to make more discoveries and papers without competition from peers.
They had easy access to horses instead. Or whatever other livestock.
A child can be morally corrupted without parental supervision, absence of the internet or not.
I thought it peaked with BC2.
2142 was "fun", but not as much as BF2, so I ended up switching back. Different play styles I suppose.
BF3 was fun with the expansions that finally made it feel like a BF2 successor (big, open vehicle maps), but the gunplay was never quite on par with BC2.
BF4 brings back more powerful guns (though, they still screwed up giving the class with the most powerful guns the me pack and defrib), vehicles that are useful even without mods, 3D arena (a la 2142), and all the tactical stuff of BF2.
Still doesn't have the charm of BC2, but snipers are much less powerful now, so I suppose it balances out.
That is absurd. There is absolutely no reason to have the various sorts memorized, no matter what you do for a living.
Library sorts are always faster than what you would implement on your own, which makes knowledge about sorts relevant to 90s era code, but completely obsolete now.
I've been writing code as a profession for the past decade from everything ranging from uControllers, cellphones, and SBCs to large (60+ server, each with unique functions, meshing multiple languages) ship control/interfacing systems.
Not once have I ever needed to write a sorting function or try to remember the differences in implementation of the different sort algorithms. It just isn't important.
So were large battery packs. Technology just hasn't realized it yet.
Yea, I thought manufacturing was supposed to scale with demand, which is why almost no other companies make announcements every time a batch is consumed.
Yea, this article is light on details and a bit inaccurate. I didn't find any reference to layoffs beyond what was already planned about a month ago, but depending on the contract people were working on, many workers at LMC were furloughed since the start of the shutdown.
Other defense contractors, like Mitre, who are more intimately involved with government programs outside of Defense spending have had almost half their workforce furloughed since the start of the shutdown.
All of that translates to the economy slamming on its brakes and hundreds of thousands of dollars people's income being used for protection rather than growth. Idiotic indeed.
But not the i3. The 8350 fits between the i5 and i7 in both single and multi threaded games.
Where it loses is in power usage.
But not per transaction or per bitcoin spent.