I fear a Sino-American war, and hope it doesn't happen.
It's not going to happen. The US and China are BFF's. They're practically twins. They're the two "most capitalist" countries in the world. Both are authoritarian regimes run by close parings between business and closed political parties. All the other political shit (communism/democracy) is purely for show. China is America's Eastasia. America is China's Eastasia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
One of the college bookstores I managed was close to a chain bookstore that did what I just talked about. It was all evening classes, so one day I made an appointment to see the manager of the chain bookstore. I took a long lunch and explained the pricing situation to them, when they realized how much they were losing on every one of those sales they stopped doing it that way and I stopped getting complaints about how much cheaper they were.
You might want to stop voluntarily telling people you did that because it makes you sounds like a absolutely gigantic asshole.
It is very likely that the people who are pirating the games are the same people that wouldn't be able to buy the game in the first place, or who are unaware of how well/poorly the game will play and forgot that demos exist.
What world do you live on? Here on Earth playable demos have largely gone the way of the dodo. What percentage of games have them? 5-10%?
2. SeaMicro's offerings are well received so Atom must be fast enough for server use.
3. The faster ARM chips are neck in neck with Atom on integer performance. Their floating point performance sucks but we're talking about regular servers not HPC.
Conclusion: ARMS are fast enough for server workloads.
The problem from all the cheapskates that don't want to pay for government is that they're not typically willing to take cuts to the services they enjoy first, they want to make all those cuts to things that other people enjoy and pocket the savings.
The overwhelming majority of cheapskates in my neck of the woods believe that "the blacks," "the druggies," "the welfare mothers," and Foreign Aid are the cause of high taxes. In their minds, if we completely cut spending on them the USA could have paper thin tax rates and still be rolling in budget surpluses without any other changes. To be fair, one cheapskate I know is smart enough to realize that the tax rates he advocates would decimate government on all levels and change the USA in very big ways, which of course is exactly what he dreams of. I think he actually wants the changes more than the lower tax rates.
VAT is nowhere near 40%. Currency exchange margins never exceed 5%. And the american version isn't tax-free either.
In the USA advertised prices never include taxes. When I buy a $59.99 game I actually pay $59.99 * 1.08 = $64.78. That final price includes state and local taxes. There is no federal sales tax / VAT in the USA.
When you compare the "before tax" price in the USA to the Euro price minus VAT and then adjust for exchange rates the difference in cost isn't that large.
I'll bet there are a lot of people in the US who don't even believe it. Just think about how many times they changed the story in the first 3 days after they got him. Then they don't even keep the body around long enough for anyone else to verify it. They just go dump it in the sea? Seriously? They are all pathological liars in my book.
I don't buy it either. I think he was taken alive and is now in an ultra secret interrogation facility. If you were president what would you want, a dead man or a detainee? People say he wouldn't talk. I think the spooks know how to make people talk.
If the world knew he was alive you'd have to put him in a place like Gitmo. You would have to treat him well so non-incriminating video could be taken for the press. Also, his subordinates would change EVERYTHING fearing that he might spill a few beans.
He is likely heavily drugged and undergoing the most "enhanced" interrogation imaginable.
Yeah, and just yesterday I saw an ad for the "Paint like Van Gogh" online course.
Mixing and production skills are not something you just pick up in a week or two.
Actually...if you hire someone to teach you they can be. You need to learn the best practices and some tricks and that's about it. It is more like learning to be a good cook than another Van Gogh.
I know a guy who has been doing electronic music since the early 90's. He's a member of two internationally successful bands and he's the recording engineer / mixer / producer for both bands. He's been recording, mixing, and producing industrial and electronic music for about 15 years.
This guy does consulting. He will come to your home / studio and teach you all the tricks of the trade for $20 an hour. For electronic/industrial/dance music all you need to know are a few tricks / trade secrets and you're good to go. If you're reasonably competent he can have you cranking top notch production in a couple weeks.
I live an an area where drillers have recently bought (and continue to buy) drilling leases. The parent is right! That is EXACTLY what happens.
All of the drilling in my area is of the horizontal variety. The gas company buys a drilling lease on one small plot of land (a couple acres). They drill straight down for a little then they turn their drill so that it runs horizontally. They then drill horizontally for UP TO SIX MILES so it doesn't really matter who leases the land they park their drilling rig on. All it takes is one greedy asshole every few miles and your community is fucked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_drilling
The nature of the gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale Formation requires that every well has a massive horizontal component and that is fracked to hell and back. It's completely uneconomical to drill regular vertical unfracked wells in Marcellus shale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Formation#Fossil_fuel
What you made is a second-stage bootloader. All those really need to do is load some other program into memory and then transfer control to it. Coreboot is a primary bootloader - it handles starting up the computer, setting up the memory and CPU modes, testing harware, providing services such as the hard-drive access that your loader would need, and finally loading your secondary loader for you. Your job was easy because there wasn't much left to do.
You don't have anywhere near enough information to make that claim. What if the parent poster made his own arm board from scratch? There is no "primary bootloader" as you call it when you buy a bare chip from Digikey and solder it to a board of your own design. The same is true for dozens of other processors. Sure, you can buy chips with bootloaders programmed into them but lot's of guys roll their own.
The current reliance on cars gives many areas the perfect excuse not to implement decent public transportation, which is pretty much why the US has terrible public transportation.
Cars may only be an excuse. I've lived in two different cities where opposition to public transit improvements came from people who wanted to keep their white upper middle class suburbs free of "others." In both cases the improvements would have allowed people living in poor (and mostly nonwhite) areas easy access to upper middle class enclaves. There's a reason people pay a lot of money to live in upscale areas. Aside from the nice landscaping and large homes the main motivation seems to be to get away from "those people."
The greybeards were right for that period in time. Since that time two things have changed. Compiler technology got better and machines got faster. It's no longer worthwhile to agonize over every machine instruction in most cases. However, people still do write hand optimized assembly for performance critical routines. You only have to look at projects like x264 to see.
With the release of the budget 1155 chipsets there are plenty of cheapo Sandy Bridge motherboard options.
I recently bought an H61 (Sandy Bridge) motherboard for $40 from Newegg. It came as part of a combo with an i3. If you're near a Microcenter you can get a decent Sandy Bridge motherboard for free with cpu purchase.
I have to agree. I bought an MS mouse because I was sick and tired of $50 Logitech mice that died 2-3 months out of warranty. I went through 5 or 6 of them. I ran across this Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3500 on special for $20 at one of the big box office stores. It's the best mouse I've ever owned. The range is the best I've seen from a 2.4Ghz mouse. It has blue LED tracking that works on anything...fabric, glass, my face, anything! To top it off the battery life is better than any of the Logitech mice I've owned. I like it so much I went back and picked up another at full price, $35 or so.
To all the people who go on and on about there being no difference between the Republicans and Democrats... SUCK ON THIS. (As if the Iraq War wasn't enough to point this put already.)
Very bad idea. We need to encourage risky behavior. Where do you think all the young, fresh donor organs come from? There's a reason ER docs refer to bikers as "doners." Give'em free motorcycles and a free gallon every time they show up at a gas station without a helmet.
You were eating the wrong kind of rice. Basmati rice has a medium glycemic index (between 56 and 69). I lost 60 lbs eating as much Basmati and veggies per day as I wanted. I exercised too of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati_rice#Glycemic_index
Humans are dead simple to understand if you take the time. The hard part is identifying all of the lies that society tells itself so that it can sleep at night. Once you've uncovered those reading people is like reading a book. Unfortunately, you need to pay a lot of attention to people and their petty bullshit for a number of years. I can't say it's worth it. If you "don't like people" before you understand them don't think you'll like them any better afterward. Quite the opposite in most cases.
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To all the naysayers over the years..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3jIgOjUvs [SUCK IT DOWN!!!!]
Why don't they just shove a tracker up everyone's ass and call it a day?
If they thought they could get away with it they would.
I fear a Sino-American war, and hope it doesn't happen.
It's not going to happen. The US and China are BFF's. They're practically twins. They're the two "most capitalist" countries in the world. Both are authoritarian regimes run by close parings between business and closed political parties. All the other political shit (communism/democracy) is purely for show. China is America's Eastasia. America is China's Eastasia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Watch your kids die with rationed health care?
Nothing says "crackpot" like a paranoid fear of healthcare reform.
One of the college bookstores I managed was close to a chain bookstore that did what I just talked about. It was all evening classes, so one day I made an appointment to see the manager of the chain bookstore. I took a long lunch and explained the pricing situation to them, when they realized how much they were losing on every one of those sales they stopped doing it that way and I stopped getting complaints about how much cheaper they were.
You might want to stop voluntarily telling people you did that because it makes you sounds like a absolutely gigantic asshole.
It is very likely that the people who are pirating the games are the same people that wouldn't be able to buy the game in the first place, or who are unaware of how well/poorly the game will play and forgot that demos exist.
What world do you live on? Here on Earth playable demos have largely gone the way of the dodo. What percentage of games have them? 5-10%?
1. SeaMicro makes ultra high density servers out of Atom chips. Here's one with 512 Atom cpus: http://www.seamicro.com/node/102
2. SeaMicro's offerings are well received so Atom must be fast enough for server use.
3. The faster ARM chips are neck in neck with Atom on integer performance. Their floating point performance sucks but we're talking about regular servers not HPC.
Conclusion: ARMS are fast enough for server workloads.
The problem from all the cheapskates that don't want to pay for government is that they're not typically willing to take cuts to the services they enjoy first, they want to make all those cuts to things that other people enjoy and pocket the savings.
The overwhelming majority of cheapskates in my neck of the woods believe that "the blacks," "the druggies," "the welfare mothers," and Foreign Aid are the cause of high taxes. In their minds, if we completely cut spending on them the USA could have paper thin tax rates and still be rolling in budget surpluses without any other changes. To be fair, one cheapskate I know is smart enough to realize that the tax rates he advocates would decimate government on all levels and change the USA in very big ways, which of course is exactly what he dreams of. I think he actually wants the changes more than the lower tax rates.
VAT is nowhere near 40%. Currency exchange margins never exceed 5%. And the american version isn't tax-free either.
In the USA advertised prices never include taxes. When I buy a $59.99 game I actually pay $59.99 * 1.08 = $64.78. That final price includes state and local taxes. There is no federal sales tax / VAT in the USA.
When you compare the "before tax" price in the USA to the Euro price minus VAT and then adjust for exchange rates the difference in cost isn't that large.
I'll bet there are a lot of people in the US who don't even believe it. Just think about how many times they changed the story in the first 3 days after they got him. Then they don't even keep the body around long enough for anyone else to verify it. They just go dump it in the sea? Seriously? They are all pathological liars in my book.
I don't buy it either. I think he was taken alive and is now in an ultra secret interrogation facility. If you were president what would you want, a dead man or a detainee? People say he wouldn't talk. I think the spooks know how to make people talk.
If the world knew he was alive you'd have to put him in a place like Gitmo. You would have to treat him well so non-incriminating video could be taken for the press. Also, his subordinates would change EVERYTHING fearing that he might spill a few beans.
He is likely heavily drugged and undergoing the most "enhanced" interrogation imaginable.
Yeah, and just yesterday I saw an ad for the "Paint like Van Gogh" online course.
Mixing and production skills are not something you just pick up in a week or two.
Actually...if you hire someone to teach you they can be. You need to learn the best practices and some tricks and that's about it. It is more like learning to be a good cook than another Van Gogh.
I know a guy who has been doing electronic music since the early 90's. He's a member of two internationally successful bands and he's the recording engineer / mixer / producer for both bands. He's been recording, mixing, and producing industrial and electronic music for about 15 years.
This guy does consulting. He will come to your home / studio and teach you all the tricks of the trade for $20 an hour. For electronic/industrial/dance music all you need to know are a few tricks / trade secrets and you're good to go. If you're reasonably competent he can have you cranking top notch production in a couple weeks.
Arduino is the Visual Basic of the embedded world.
Anecdotally = Pulled it out of your ass.
Well, he *is* talking about methane...
I live an an area where drillers have recently bought (and continue to buy) drilling leases. The parent is right! That is EXACTLY what happens.
All of the drilling in my area is of the horizontal variety. The gas company buys a drilling lease on one small plot of land (a couple acres). They drill straight down for a little then they turn their drill so that it runs horizontally. They then drill horizontally for UP TO SIX MILES so it doesn't really matter who leases the land they park their drilling rig on. All it takes is one greedy asshole every few miles and your community is fucked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_drilling
The nature of the gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale Formation requires that every well has a massive horizontal component and that is fracked to hell and back. It's completely uneconomical to drill regular vertical unfracked wells in Marcellus shale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Formation#Fossil_fuel
I had one Foxconn - never again. MSI I might be persuaded to use again, but not likely. I'll stick with better name brands, such as ASUS, or Gigabyte.
I'll counter your meaningless anecdotal experience with one of my own. I've owned a number of Foxconn boards and they have all been flawless.
What you made is a second-stage bootloader. All those really need to do is load some other program into memory and then transfer control to it. Coreboot is a primary bootloader - it handles starting up the computer, setting up the memory and CPU modes, testing harware, providing services such as the hard-drive access that your loader would need, and finally loading your secondary loader for you. Your job was easy because there wasn't much left to do.
You don't have anywhere near enough information to make that claim. What if the parent poster made his own arm board from scratch? There is no "primary bootloader" as you call it when you buy a bare chip from Digikey and solder it to a board of your own design. The same is true for dozens of other processors. Sure, you can buy chips with bootloaders programmed into them but lot's of guys roll their own.
The current reliance on cars gives many areas the perfect excuse not to implement decent public transportation, which is pretty much why the US has terrible public transportation.
Cars may only be an excuse. I've lived in two different cities where opposition to public transit improvements came from people who wanted to keep their white upper middle class suburbs free of "others." In both cases the improvements would have allowed people living in poor (and mostly nonwhite) areas easy access to upper middle class enclaves. There's a reason people pay a lot of money to live in upscale areas. Aside from the nice landscaping and large homes the main motivation seems to be to get away from "those people."
The greybeards were right for that period in time. Since that time two things have changed. Compiler technology got better and machines got faster. It's no longer worthwhile to agonize over every machine instruction in most cases. However, people still do write hand optimized assembly for performance critical routines. You only have to look at projects like x264 to see.
With the release of the budget 1155 chipsets there are plenty of cheapo Sandy Bridge motherboard options. I recently bought an H61 (Sandy Bridge) motherboard for $40 from Newegg. It came as part of a combo with an i3. If you're near a Microcenter you can get a decent Sandy Bridge motherboard for free with cpu purchase.
I have to agree. I bought an MS mouse because I was sick and tired of $50 Logitech mice that died 2-3 months out of warranty. I went through 5 or 6 of them. I ran across this Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3500 on special for $20 at one of the big box office stores. It's the best mouse I've ever owned. The range is the best I've seen from a 2.4Ghz mouse. It has blue LED tracking that works on anything...fabric, glass, my face, anything! To top it off the battery life is better than any of the Logitech mice I've owned. I like it so much I went back and picked up another at full price, $35 or so.
Yes, you need them. But it's just a higher level need. Just like you need social interaction.
I think you're on the wrong website.
To all the people who go on and on about there being no difference between the Republicans and Democrats... SUCK ON THIS. (As if the Iraq War wasn't enough to point this put already.)
But only if I NEVER had to show up for meetings or travel. Even one in-person meeting blows the deal.
Very bad idea. We need to encourage risky behavior. Where do you think all the young, fresh donor organs come from? There's a reason ER docs refer to bikers as "doners." Give'em free motorcycles and a free gallon every time they show up at a gas station without a helmet.
You were eating the wrong kind of rice. Basmati rice has a medium glycemic index (between 56 and 69). I lost 60 lbs eating as much Basmati and veggies per day as I wanted. I exercised too of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati_rice#Glycemic_index
Humans are dead simple to understand if you take the time. The hard part is identifying all of the lies that society tells itself so that it can sleep at night. Once you've uncovered those reading people is like reading a book. Unfortunately, you need to pay a lot of attention to people and their petty bullshit for a number of years. I can't say it's worth it. If you "don't like people" before you understand them don't think you'll like them any better afterward. Quite the opposite in most cases.