According to your analysis, the US civil war could never have happened, as the army would of crushed any rebellion. The fact is that the military is made up of citizens too, and is thus just as prone to rebellion, if not more so.
Also, while an armed populace that's sufficiently pissed off to rebel may indeed be the final option in the case of governmental tyranny, it's not a solution anyone should hope for. Civil wars are ugly, ugly things, and we should try every possible legal solution before resorting to blood in the streets Yes, but our legal options will only carry real weight as long as we've got the firepower available to back them up, if necessary.
A good analogy would be two people negotiating, both of whom are armed with baseball bats, both will probably decide to talk out their issue, as its in their best interest to do so, but if either didn't have a bat, the other would always have the final say.
Depending on where you live, that could work the other way as well, ie, offsetting your heating bill.
My tower doesn't produce much heat, but when I'm gaming with my 360, I swear its like having a space heater on, if you've never felt the air coming out of the exhaust fans, its something like putting your hand at the mouth of a hair dryer.
Where I live we pay $.08 per kilowatt hour, so running my computer 24/7 costs me (assuming 190 watts at idle) $11 a month, which is not nothing, but is certainly worth the convenience.
Also, I doubt the leds on any of the devices mentioned account for nearly any of the measured current draw, 20ma at 5v is.1w, so you'd have to have to have a hell of alot of leds to make a noticeable difference in power usage. most of that current is probably being burned up in the wall wart, linear regulators or transmitters, if I had to guess.
Thats the thing, even if these "anecdotal" tests are only accurate within 20% (relatively speaking), at least we'll know our typical memory usage withing 20%. With benchmarks, we'll know something within a couple of %, but whether that data represents 1% or 90% of real world performance, we wont know.
I don't care how few servers they have, whats more interesting to me is that they run an ultra-high traffic site, which they aren't having trouble paying for, and do it without adds.
Interesting to know, but I wish the article was more substantial than a list of tangential statistics. Also, although Wikipedia receives a hell of alot of traffic, I bet its at least an order of magnitude smaller than googles.
If someone knows where we can find a good comparison between Wikipedia and others, as far as cost to traffic ratio, please speak up.
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You'd think that would always be the case, yet my 8800GTS consistently idles at 57 degrees C with the fan at 100%, while my overclocked q6600 idles at 37, god knows what the 8800 is drawing to do that...
Thats why they call it terrorism, it doesn't have to be effective, it just needs to instill (usually irrational) fear in the general public.
Consider what happened after 9/11, out of the tens of thousands of flights that day, 4 were hijacked, but the hijackings brought air travel all but to a halt for weeks or months.
Quite frankly, even if a terrorist built nuke had a lower yield than an equivalent weight of TNT, and only managed to destroy a bus or something, the more ignorant US citizens would probably still be scared shitless.
You and Von Helmet make good arguments, and I tend to agree with you, but my personal belief has always been that hardcore gamers aren't defined by how good they are, or specifically by what games they play, or how much they play, but how seriously they take their games.
i think Smash bros is an example of a game that can be casual, or hardcore, depending on how you play it, in general a good acid test is whether or not you consider practicing your moves, and working to become a more proficient gamer to be worth your time, if you do, your probably what most people would consider hardcore, if you just play for kicks then your probably casual, or somewhere in between.
Referring to the wii specifically, id say the only games that are "Casual" are those that don't promote or reward skill, such as racing games with rubber band AI, or FPS's that automatically handicap players in the lead
Also, I'd differentiate between casual gamers and n00bs, since it seams like the people we think of as n00bs are usually only the hardcore gamers without the skills. I don't think casual gamers really care enough about their abilities to classify each other.
Technically speaking, if it were always about price vs performance, we'd all be running last generation AMD's, using CD-R's and the like. In reality, you don't pay proportionally more for extra performance, you pay EXPONENTIALLY more.
For the average consumer, SSD's aren't yet the way to go, but for what I'd bet is a good proportion of the/. readership, a 20% boost in performance is worth a 200% increase in price, especially considering how cheap computing equipment is these days, compared to the utility it offers.
If this were any genre but RTS, they could potentially do such a thing, (I'm not saying they would, but I wouldn't call it impossible).
But RTS? RTS's are a perfect example of a genre that is best fit for the PC. For games like FPS's the console does have one advantage (though im not saying it makes up for other disadvantages), namely, that it has 2 good 2D pointing devices, whereas the PC has one excellent one(mouse), and one terrible one(D keys). Unless his new RTS is 3d (control wise) the consoles only advantage is nullified, since 2d RTS's only require 2axes of control.
To me, this seams like attempting to redesign the steering system of a car so that it can be controlled with a singe push button, even if you do an excellent job, and its much more usable than expected, I can almost guarantee that it still won't be as good as a steering wheel.
I wouldn't say all of those labels are meaningless, as another replier mentioned, some of them (like USDA Organic) require adherence to certain standards. However, there are definitely cases of abuse, for example, if any of you have ever seen those green, white and red price chopper brand "natural vegetable chips" that look oddly like hot fries, take a look at the label. the only "vegetable" in them to speak of is potatoes, they do contain tomato and spinach as well, but theres less of each by volume than there is salt.
Also, I hope your joking about the penis enlargement, as I'm sure theres a special place in hell for those who feed the spammers.
Its funny that you brought that up. Forget PC's, over which most technically savvy users demand complete control. The 360 is a perfect counter example to the Articles point, proprietary hardware, proprietary operating system designed from the ground up with extensive DRM features. Low and behold, the system was cracked within months, with a vulnerability that was discovered months prior to release no-less.
Granted, the process isn't as easy as copying a cracked exe to the install directory. But the whole process, including disassembly of the #!$@*$% screwless case took me about an hour and worked flawlessly on the first attempt. Not to mention, all i had to buy were DL DVD's to burn the games to.
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I wish I had mod points today, most people don't understand this, and wonder why even throttled BT kills their connections.
wow, even .44 USD/KWH sounds pretty steep, considering here in the states, I could run my house on a gasoline generator or ~1.30 USD/KWH.
Also my towns power comes from a small hydro dam, so its not like my energy's coming from a coal or oil plant.
According to your analysis, the US civil war could never have happened, as the army would of crushed any rebellion. The fact is that the military is made up of citizens too, and is thus just as prone to rebellion, if not more so.
A good analogy would be two people negotiating, both of whom are armed with baseball bats, both will probably decide to talk out their issue, as its in their best interest to do so, but if either didn't have a bat, the other would always have the final say.
Depending on where you live, that could work the other way as well, ie, offsetting your heating bill.
My tower doesn't produce much heat, but when I'm gaming with my 360, I swear its like having a space heater on, if you've never felt the air coming out of the exhaust fans, its something like putting your hand at the mouth of a hair dryer.
Where I live we pay $.08 per kilowatt hour, so running my computer 24/7 costs me (assuming 190 watts at idle) $11 a month, which is not nothing, but is certainly worth the convenience.
.1w, so you'd have to have to have a hell of alot of leds to make a noticeable difference in power usage. most of that current is probably being burned up in the wall wart, linear regulators or transmitters, if I had to guess.
Also, I doubt the leds on any of the devices mentioned account for nearly any of the measured current draw, 20ma at 5v is
Thats the thing, even if these "anecdotal" tests are only accurate within 20% (relatively speaking), at least we'll know our typical memory usage withing 20%. With benchmarks, we'll know something within a couple of %, but whether that data represents 1% or 90% of real world performance, we wont know.
I don't care how few servers they have, whats more interesting to me is that they run an ultra-high traffic site, which they aren't having trouble paying for, and do it without adds.
Interesting to know, but I wish the article was more substantial than a list of tangential statistics. Also, although Wikipedia receives a hell of alot of traffic, I bet its at least an order of magnitude smaller than googles.
If someone knows where we can find a good comparison between Wikipedia and others, as far as cost to traffic ratio, please speak up.
Make that two worlds and one moon.
That may be, but just because his court ruling makes authoritative sense, doesn't make it any more or less unjust.
You'd think that would always be the case, yet my 8800GTS consistently idles at 57 degrees C with the fan at 100%, while my overclocked q6600 idles at 37, god knows what the 8800 is drawing to do that...
Thats why they call it terrorism, it doesn't have to be effective, it just needs to instill (usually irrational) fear in the general public.
Consider what happened after 9/11, out of the tens of thousands of flights that day, 4 were hijacked, but the hijackings brought air travel all but to a halt for weeks or months.
Quite frankly, even if a terrorist built nuke had a lower yield than an equivalent weight of TNT, and only managed to destroy a bus or something, the more ignorant US citizens would probably still be scared shitless.
You and Von Helmet make good arguments, and I tend to agree with you, but my personal belief has always been that hardcore gamers aren't defined by how good they are, or specifically by what games they play, or how much they play, but how seriously they take their games.
i think Smash bros is an example of a game that can be casual, or hardcore, depending on how you play it, in general a good acid test is whether or not you consider practicing your moves, and working to become a more proficient gamer to be worth your time, if you do, your probably what most people would consider hardcore, if you just play for kicks then your probably casual, or somewhere in between.
Referring to the wii specifically, id say the only games that are "Casual" are those that don't promote or reward skill, such as racing games with rubber band AI, or FPS's that automatically handicap players in the lead
Also, I'd differentiate between casual gamers and n00bs, since it seams like the people we think of as n00bs are usually only the hardcore gamers without the skills. I don't think casual gamers really care enough about their abilities to classify each other.
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Technically speaking, if it were always about price vs performance, we'd all be running last generation AMD's, using CD-R's and the like. In reality, you don't pay proportionally more for extra performance, you pay EXPONENTIALLY more.
/. readership, a 20% boost in performance is worth a 200% increase in price, especially considering how cheap computing equipment is these days, compared to the utility it offers.
For the average consumer, SSD's aren't yet the way to go, but for what I'd bet is a good proportion of the
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240522+1309421175&name=4GB
Dam, even a 15 second foray to Newegg turns up no fewer than 4 drives that are small, have a capacity of 4 gigs, and are well rated.
Whats next, "This man in a lab coat says ____'s "Male Enhancement" product really works"
If this were any genre but RTS, they could potentially do such a thing, (I'm not saying they would, but I wouldn't call it impossible).
But RTS? RTS's are a perfect example of a genre that is best fit for the PC. For games like FPS's the console does have one advantage (though im not saying it makes up for other disadvantages), namely, that it has 2 good 2D pointing devices, whereas the PC has one excellent one(mouse), and one terrible one(D keys). Unless his new RTS is 3d (control wise) the consoles only advantage is nullified, since 2d RTS's only require 2axes of control.
To me, this seams like attempting to redesign the steering system of a car so that it can be controlled with a singe push button, even if you do an excellent job, and its much more usable than expected, I can almost guarantee that it still won't be as good as a steering wheel.
My god, it appears Adware has finally made the jump to humans.
I wouldn't say all of those labels are meaningless, as another replier mentioned, some of them (like USDA Organic) require adherence to certain standards. However, there are definitely cases of abuse, for example, if any of you have ever seen those green, white and red price chopper brand "natural vegetable chips" that look oddly like hot fries, take a look at the label. the only "vegetable" in them to speak of is potatoes, they do contain tomato and spinach as well, but theres less of each by volume than there is salt.
Also, I hope your joking about the penis enlargement, as I'm sure theres a special place in hell for those who feed the spammers.
God, I wish I had mod points for this. I agree completely.
It appears you've answered your own question.
Its funny that you brought that up. Forget PC's, over which most technically savvy users demand complete control. The 360 is a perfect counter example to the Articles point, proprietary hardware, proprietary operating system designed from the ground up with extensive DRM features. Low and behold, the system was cracked within months, with a vulnerability that was discovered months prior to release no-less.
Granted, the process isn't as easy as copying a cracked exe to the install directory. But the whole process, including disassembly of the #!$@*$% screwless case took me about an hour and worked flawlessly on the first attempt. Not to mention, all i had to buy were DL DVD's to burn the games to.