I did some stuff back in the early 90s with ADA. I didn't have any problems with performance since I took the time to optimize my code and ADA was really just doing a lot of checks I already would have done otherwise, as a control freak, I would regularly read the generated assembler to learn what checks were occurring and would add more if needed. ADA was nice in the sense that I didn't have to write all those checks myself but was bad because it meant there were occasions I would forget to check the generated code and then assume that the compiler was checking something it wasn't.
The main problems with ADA often were that the tool chains were absolutely shitty. There was also the issue that even with practice, there were times where you would find yourself wondering why your code wouldn't compile... and when you were working mostly from make files and vi as your development environment and you were logged into a shell account to do it... from a DOS terminal like telix or telemate, it was just hopeless. If there were modern tools like Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc... there would be no real problems.
That said, ADA was just another functional programming language and while it did have much prettier support for things like structures, most ADA code was just plain ugly. Again, this was because of tools. I've always programmed heavily in an object oriented style. So, where today I would make a class and the class would be the only thing within a file, back then, if I were programming C, I would make a structure in a header file and then write the code to operate on the structure in a C file. I almost never wrote functions which didn't require "the object" as the first parameter. ADA was not a good language for this style of coding. The few times I tried this method of programming, I would sometimes end up making object stores and passing object indices instead of structures to functions because the cost of passing a structure was insane.
So that being said, ADA wasn't usable for anything other than a few hundred lines of quick and dirty stuff. I couldn't imagine being forced to implement a full system in ADA. And I did learn the language well enough to use it. I could honestly see writing better code in COBOL than in ADA. The "safety" came at too much of a cost in functionality.
I just peeked at every project on code.gov... there was nothing there. Just junk that was like "who gives a crap... dump that crap there to get them to shut up."
Their pricing is a starting point. Generally, no one actually pays those prices. You just call someone and just saying hello gets you 50% off and playing hard to get for a few seconds will get you 70% off and if you claim "I think at that price we can fit it next quarter, but HP said they can meet our financial needs today" and Cisco will come in at 80% off... and they'll still have their 20% margin.
The high list prices have a lot of purposes... though I'm not an accountant, but it makes sense for insurance, earnings reports, etc... to be able to claim the equity based on the high list values of the products.
Chances are, you can easily afford Cisco... 99.999% of the time, they're cheaper than everyone else if you just ask. The issue is, whether you can justify the cost of owning Cisco stuff. I spent 7 hours last week troubleshooting an MPLS label switched path in a carrier supporting carrier environment. Apparently, a process on a router had crashed and I had to reboot the router.
The problem is,
- I can't fix the problem, it probably won't come back.
- I can't write a meaningful bug report for the problem. Even if I provide the 5 pages of documentation I generated while troubleshooting, there's not nearly enough detail to say much more than "ping didn't work... had to reboot"
- I know I have a buggy IOS version, but if I upgrade to a newer version, I'm probably getting rid of one bug I know for 10 I don't.
So what's the problem.... this time it was one me to fix this, so I worked 7 hours on what basically was a Cisco bug... that I won't fix... but rebooted. If this was billable, I'd have invoiced $1400 to effectively reboot the device without actually fixing the problem and for the $1400, I'd provide beautiful documentation with diagrams and automated verification scripts and I'd make up excuses for why Cisco shouldn't be tossed out on their asses for this or held responsible for this.
Now the real issue is that the router I had to reboot which was causing these problems (list price $5000) only cost us $900... but to find out it needed to be reboot cost $1400... this time. Altogether, the TCO of that $900 router is probably $9000 over 3 years.
Now the bitch of it is... while Cisco is what I feed my family with (most often), I would LOVE to find something better. I have tried many different products from different vendors. There are always, cost, deliverability, availability, technological, support and otherwise issues. Every single vendor in the entire networking world are a bunch of assholes.
Cisco ends up being the lesser of all assholes, but there's no comfort found when you're tossed into a pit of venomous snakes knowing you can at least choose which one will bite you.
It also could pass for little more than a rounding error. It could also be related to geography relative to the quality of hospitals. Older doctors are probably more willing to settle somewhere quieter near a hospital with older equipment.
Every day? After 20 years of marriage, I'm lucky if there's a BJ in it for me on Christmas or my birthday.
I disagree, it wasn't the worst thing that could be painted about Trump. I'm sure there are many much worse things he could come up with. It was the least appropriate thing he could come up with for describing what Trump's mouth is good for. There's a clear difference here.
He's saying that the only thing Trumps mouth is good for is performing sexual acts. This could be considered highly complimentary.
I have never given a blow job, but I have received a few from different women over the years... though only one in the last 20 (in case my wife is reading) and I must say that the best blow jobs I've experienced were from women with exceptional endurance and exceptional lung capacity.
In fact, with how much pride Trump takes in his incredible physique and personal fitness,
I'd say it's an incredible compliment that Colbert has paid him by saying that Trump almost certainly would be a person in such amazing condition that Trump would be a suitable match for performing this act on such a powerful man as Putin.
I would certainly imagine that while Trump and his supporters might be offended by the fact that Colbert doesn't place a high value on Trumps words, speech or thoughts, but he does highly respect the president for his self proclaimed excellent health and physical prowess.
So, I don't really see what the issue is here. In fact, even as a straight man, I'm damn near tempted to play the other side of the fence to try and get myself one of these amazing Trump (registered trademark) Blow Jobs. I bet they're the biggest and I mean the best and most amazing blow jobs anyone could ever receive. And I mean huge, you'll just have to wait and see. It's cumming soon... did I spell that wrong?
And now that Trump is in office, the gun industry will be laying people off left and right.
Obama made the gun industry RICH!!! He single handed drove gun and ammunition prices through the roofs and produced massive demand for weapons. His regular talks about gun control and possible restrictions on guns had people who had one gun in the house rushing out to build arsenals.
Now Trump is like "Yippie!!! guns are fun!!! let's all get guns!!!" and people now know that not only don't they need to rush to get them, but the 7 day waiting period will almost certainly be removed eventually meaning that if they really need more guns, they'll be able to go to the grocery store and buy them off the shelves on sale, BOGO AR-15s.
Trump might be the worst thing ever to happen to the gun industry. There's going to be at least 4 years of minimal sales as demand is now gone.
It costs far less to buy a 16 core Xeon system from eBay with 32-64GB of RAM then to buy a Ryzen or Core i7. If you're concerned about performance per buck, eBay a real system. And... oh, the bars I got on consumer benchmark software was double or triple when I was using my 20 core Xeon server as a gaming PC for a few days.
On the other hand, I find that a good notebook does everything I need most of the time. Who really cares about the high end of consumer processors? They cost too much and the motherboards are made like shit.
To be fair, NVidia sells quite a few more discrete cards than AMD does. AMD's core graphics business is discrete=marketing, integrated = profits. They both make excellent products, but hardware failure rates are generally consistent. The chips themselves don't generally blow out, but more often than not, it's support circuitry. Also, there's a weird thing I've noticed, people who consciously attempt to differentiate between the two vendors tend to have entirely different patterns to how they treat their hardware and use it as well. To this day, ATI (I know they're not called that anymore) users are very much more like Apple users where nVidia users are generally much more oriented towards disposable computing.
Also consider that people who are willing to spend more than $150 on graphics cards are generally not the types of people making a 10 year investment. Those cards are supposed to be replaced every other year. So why bother making them good enough to last more. But either way, neither nVidia or AMD actually make cards, they make chip sets and the other companies make the cards. And no... they all pretty much suck. Zotac, MSI, eVGA, etc... they are NOT designing for durability. They design for performance and bling.
I know there are counter-websites picking on AMD the same way. It's like Norwegian and Swedish joke books. They are the exact same book, they just switch the roles.
If you're hoping to make a business out of "aging graphics cards", I have a few S3's in a box somewhere if you want them. They still run flawlessly.
Oh... and here's the thing, if your performance needs stay constant and you can still play all the games which interest you on the older cards, you should upgrade for the sake of lower power silicon if nothing else. My daughter and I play Overwatch... at the same resolution on almost identical computers. She has a GTX 1050 and I have a GTX 970. Her computer uses about 25% less power than mine. That may not sound like much, but it easily pays for the cost of the card each year.
Windows 8 was the best user interface I've ever seen. I absolutely loved it and it went downhill quickly as people like you complained they couldn't figure out how to use it and Microsoft responded. Then in Windows 10, they more or less killed all the best parts of Windows 8 and brought us back the start menu which frankly... just isn't as usable.
Microsoft Office is bloody brilliant, their UI works absolutely fabulously and this is coming from someone who has been using Microsoft Word since the DOS days. The original ribbon wasn't great, but it got better.
Can't speak about Firefox, I only ever use it as a javascript debugger and DRM stripper.
Gnome never had a good user experience. Even the absolutely latest version doesn't address core issues that have existed since the beginning. Font rendering is absolutely horrible. You'd imagine that after 20 years of Freetype and other projects, they would have finally implemented something resembling a decent anti-aliaser... but nope. Then there's the damn near random design of UI controls that in the very few cases they are consistent contain checkboxes the size of 3 pixels squared or buttons with borders twice as wide as they should be. Of course you can customize that stuff, but if you do, the apps won't scale worth a shit because GTK+ is written by a bunch of drunken coders. Don't worry, most other desktops aren't really much better. With the billions going into Linux development, it would be really nice if just one company other than Google would actually attempt to focus on usability on Linux and Android doesn't really count as a Linux thing anymore.
Android... well, Android is just a copy of iOS in the latest versions. Let's be honest, over the past 10 years, it's almost silly how many efforts have been made by vendors to skin Android as iOS and then Google did it themselves. I have an Android phone I use when I travel and it's amazing how little I care for that phone. The entire experience feels slapped together and while search works better and the web browser is clearly better than on iOS, the overall user experience is poor. I love Apple's rule that programs known to crash get removed from the store. Google could try that, but more often than not, the program which crashes the most on my Samsung is the Play Store app itself. Oh, then there's the crap tons of crap ware from T-Mobile who I'm sure don't care about anything other than getting more icons onto the screen of their own... I don't even know what they do because who wants to open them?
When Windows and Mac first came out, a lot of people in their 40's complained about how if a bunch of generation X babies keep forcing us this way, we'll end up surrounded by graphics and programs that don't work anymore. They complained "I hate Windows 95 because there are too many ways to get to the same place". Surprisingly enough, they sounded a lot like you.
haha!!! That's what got me to stop going to the movies!
In Norway, it used to be English or Norwegian Dub
Now, it's Norwegian 3d Dub, Norwegian 2d Dub, English 3d.... there's no frigging English 2d most of the time...
Of course this is just animated films.... but I didn't go to the movies without the kids. So, I've been to an average of one movie a year since 3d came out.
Here's the thing, Interpupillary distance... it makes 3D REALLY REALLY suck. Add to that the distance from the screen and 3d there are maybe 4 seats in the entire theater that doesn't make 3d so bad it's completely unwatchable.
If you want 3d, play a video game on Oculus, at least there, they can rerender the entire scene for your eyes.
The answer is yes and there's no need for a second GPU
Install Windows in VirtualBox or VMware, Configure the virtual machine for 3D and let it rip.
As for Wine, Wine is always win-some-lose-some. If the application will run under Wine, then it should have access to most of the Windows APIs of interest.
Finally, for CUDA, you would either need a second card or you would need an NVidia Grid solution which installs NVidia on the hypervisor and then again on the VM. It's insanely expensive.
What I'd really like to see is Continuum with x86/x64 support (as is announced). The technology has been in the windows code base for a long time. It dates back to DEC Alpha and the hard part of this type of emulation really is library support. The ABI between x86/64 and ARM is extremely similar, but just enough different in all the right places to cause problems. Microsoft has full control over their own code and libraries which makes calling ARM libraries written by Microsoft pretty easy as Microsoft can easily compile their ARM code with either an x64 compatible ABI or they can provide a thin "thunk like" layer to handle byte alignment in structures they know about.
The problem is using non-Microsoft libraries... of course, if Microsoft opens the ARM platform properly this time, it should be possible for developers to pretty much recompile their code for the platform with little or no changes as ARM and x64 are ridiculously similar except when handling inline assembler. The only real problem is some fairly nasty byte/word alignment issues where ARM is very "RISC-like" and where Intel has always allowed arbitrary byte alignment (except in SIMD), ARM has always been assholes on this. So Microsoft would have to add a crap load of really horrible code to account for structures packed in an ARM unfriendly manor.
Well once this code is golden, I doubt I'll use Windows Phone as a phone, but I will use it as a portable computer... if the performance is reasonable.
The last thing is, Microsoft absolutely has to make it possible to run the entire Visual Studio Enterprise directly on Continuum with reasonable performance.... and they absolutely have to release a phone with enough storage to run it as well.
I used to go to the movies, but I refuse to watch movies unless they're in their original language and also in 2D. The problem is, I used to have a choice "English or Norwegian" at the theater. Then it became "Norwegian 3D, Norwegian 2D, English 3D". So, I stopped going.
Now, I simply watch on a 120" projector screen 720p, with somewhat budget surround sound at home. I even bought a little movie theater popcorn machine.
You know what... I don't mind paying $50 for a new release film if they ever get that going. It's cheaper, cleaner, nicer than going to the movie theater. I would probably watch 8 new releases for every one I see now. I think I went to the movie theater last year... was Suicide Squad last year?
Why not search within page there for the word vengeance and see what turns up. You don't get to selectively choose on
I have read quite a few bibles actually. The topic of vengeance and revenge hidden under the title of retribution is what originally made me adverse to being a member of religion.
I think the beauty of religion is that we all have our own interpretations of it. I spent 13 years of my life praying to a god that he will come down and take vengeance on my oppressors and enemies. I read those prayers over and over and over year after year. It taught me to hate anyone who was an enemy of my religion... which by further definition meant anyone who was not of my religion because if they were not an enemy of my religion, they would be a member of it.
I was also taught that everyone everywhere wants to kill me because I was unfortunate enough to have been born a member of my religion. I was taught that in 3800 years we were always the victims of the hateful infidels. And one day, the lord would send us a messiah who would allow us to have our vengeance and seek retribution.
Visit a Jewish temple sometime on a Saturday and listen to the little children sing the pretty songs in Hebrew... and then read the translations as they sing them. They have no idea what the words mean, but they all love those songs and how special they are that they can sing them. I think you'd be absolutely shocked and horrified by their meanings.
But I guess you're all knowledgeable about all religions and your interpretation is right. Religion gives us the word retribution as a means of making revenge sound so much sweeter and nicer. It's not revenge if "we're only getting retribution".
Let me tell you something, retribution is nonsense. We go to war and kill people for retribution. Need proof? Most of the western world hauled ass to Afghanistan to find retribution against people who killed themselves by crashing airplanes into buildings. Do you know how many good and innocent people died in our hunt for retribution? Do you know how many good and innocent people died as the western world went out there with massive weapons and leveled villages and cities? And while we did it, the world leaders stood and declared "God is with us!".
So, before you make embarrassing statements about how well you understand the bible..
First rule... there is a lot more than just one bible
Second rule... the King James Bibles is a highly selective lovey dovey version of the old testament. To be fair, the Torah is a deep, dark and damn near hateful book which makes the darkest parts of Quoran look warm and fuzzy in comparison. Read a proper translation and reference that instead.
Third... openbible.info is a REALLY REALLY politically correct interpretation. It's practically "fake news". It leaves out most of the really good stuff... especially the stuff about violence and systematic hate.
That said, I have absolutely nothing against religion. Only against zealots. Both my kids are baptized and my son is being confirmed in September because we want to show respect to our religious family members and their faith and it just doesn't hurt to eat a cookie and have a drink. My son is even attending training for his cookie eating ceremony every week for 6 months.
In the future, when you jump to the conclusion that someone may in fact have an interpretation of religion other than your own simply because they are uneducated, you might be wrong. It could be that they simply see things differently than you.
Well, in case you actually are reading the response... it's not a threat as much as a joke. She makes jokes in return about socks left on the floor. It's called humor. You should buy a book on the topic.
Before you buy the book, consider also learning about how punctuation works. It will make the book far easier to understand when you do sit down to read it. Sasha Cohen did a great skit in the movie Borat about how punctuation effects jokes.
The question is why she should have to use a PVR since there's absolutely no value in recording something which can be centrally recorded and then watched from a central location. She shouldn't have to record it to watch it whenever she wants without commercials.
If you go back and read my previous post with this new insight, it will have an entirely new meaning.
Let me ask something, on your planet (I'm assuming it's somewhere in or like Texas based on your behavior) are there people who would actually interpret "I have told my wife that if I didn't love her so much, I would divorce her because I have to pay for her cable TV thing." as a threat? Do the people there also believe strongly in their second amendment rights and exercise them? Do you see how this could be scary to some people?
I wonder, how do people there deal with sarcasm? I can only imagine that people there start using terms like "libtard" because anyone who says something confusing must in fact be a liberal.
Now, if you want a really good laugh, where I live there's no such thing as alimony. That's something that only exists in places where women are inferior to men and are incapable of taking care of themselves. Where I live, the women are much smarter than that. Hell, they even tend to pay for themselves on dates.
P.S. She actually pays the cable bill. But, if I say told you that to begin with, it would add a second dimension to the required thought process to appreciate the joke. I can tell by the confusion the second part of my previous post caused you that this would just be cruel to inflict upon you.
P.P.S. I put a great deal of effort into use small words with minimal syllable counts for you. I also made every effort to avoid excessive use of punctuation you may find confusing in this post. See, there are people who care about you.
P.P.P.S. - P.S. means Post - Script. After you finish your punctuation lessons and humor education, I recommend looking up this term. It is very interesting and useful. It may however be too advanced at your current level.
"the dipoles can be rapidly aligned at 100°C by an ac applied electric field and frozen into alignment at 25°C < Tg. "
Has consideration been given (experimentation as well) within the laboratory environment to the behavior of the glass substrate within extreme naturally occurring temperatures. While, my personal property values increase proportionately with the effectiveness of global warming and hope at some point to own luxury resort beach front property here in Oslo, Norway, it's not uncommon to operate an EV within sub -20C temperatures and with -50C temperatures further north.
Current Li based cells suffer badly within these climates. In addition, in the past working together with Lee (Elias) Stefanakos Ph.D. from USF, we experienced in Florida certain behaviors in higher unregulated temperatures (with regards to lead-acid cells.. circa 1993) behavioral degradation of chemical electrolytes at +37C (if I recall correctly).
How does your and Maria's solid-state substrate behave within extreme temperatures. While I certainly am no material's scientist, I am curious whether there are behavioral symptoms displayed when performing under such naturally occurring extremes.
In addition, fluid electrolytes can often "self-repair" under these circumstances as a result of "reflowing". If these negative behaviors are apparent in within the solid electrolyte, are the damages sustained (structural fractures for example) or does the substrate display typical expansion and contraction under naturally occurring conditions?
For a bonus:) If the substrate reaches 100C again, what appears to be the behavior? Does it depend on a rapid decrease or "flash freeze" to 25C to stabilize the structure? Will it render the cell absolutely useless? Will it simply continue "business as usual"?
I watch about 10 hours of video a month... I might watch 20 if I find a TV show I want to binge on. Video sucks because you can't watch it and work at the same time... I prefer :
audio books
You can listen while doing pretty much every other type of work... and driving... and pretty much everywhere. On the rare occasions I have to go to Church for a wedding or confirmation or any of the other silly things church people invite me to participate in, audio books are my hero.
braille books
You can read while testing code, reading documents, sitting in meetings, etc... I've been working on making a phone sized braille display that doesn't make noise and also has touch input... for 10 years now... I'll get it done someday.
Hey kid... I have told my wife that if I didn't love her so much, I would divorce her because I have to pay for her cable TV thing. And what's worse is that she never ever watches anything live, she always uses the PVR.
What I don't understand is, why does she have to use the PVR? If the cable TV provider allows her to actually record TV shows on equipment she pays rent for... and probably most everything that they stream is being recorded by someone somewhere... shouldn't they just record the streams and let their viewers open up the catalog of TV shows and click which ones they want to watch?
Oh... and we're not using actual cable, we're on fiber... and it's not GPON, it's IPTV. So, the fact is, it wouldn't cost them that much in bandwidth. I know their network design (been involved) and it would cost them nothing.
So... why are we paying for streaming... or box rentals, etc...
Do they still do that? They started that just about the time when I stopped watching TV and moved to DVDs and alter streaming.
It's pretty cool, I haven't seen a commercial... except maybe on TVs in restaurants in 16 years.
Of course, I have no idea who AMC is and other than the occasional t-shirt, I have no clue about "The Walking Dead" which I imagine can exclude me from certain pop cultural references, But somehow I don't think this has been a problem for me.
I think it's quite humorous that my kids have been raised since the age of 4 or 5 without TV and it doesn't seem to impact their standing in society at all. Once they moved to iPads and YouTube, they simply never looked back.
My son recently said that he doesn't have much interest in TV shows or movies because they don't align with his viewing methods now. I can only imagine that this is more common that we'd think.
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I did some stuff back in the early 90s with ADA. I didn't have any problems with performance since I took the time to optimize my code and ADA was really just doing a lot of checks I already would have done otherwise, as a control freak, I would regularly read the generated assembler to learn what checks were occurring and would add more if needed. ADA was nice in the sense that I didn't have to write all those checks myself but was bad because it meant there were occasions I would forget to check the generated code and then assume that the compiler was checking something it wasn't.
The main problems with ADA often were that the tool chains were absolutely shitty. There was also the issue that even with practice, there were times where you would find yourself wondering why your code wouldn't compile... and when you were working mostly from make files and vi as your development environment and you were logged into a shell account to do it... from a DOS terminal like telix or telemate, it was just hopeless. If there were modern tools like Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc... there would be no real problems.
That said, ADA was just another functional programming language and while it did have much prettier support for things like structures, most ADA code was just plain ugly. Again, this was because of tools. I've always programmed heavily in an object oriented style. So, where today I would make a class and the class would be the only thing within a file, back then, if I were programming C, I would make a structure in a header file and then write the code to operate on the structure in a C file. I almost never wrote functions which didn't require "the object" as the first parameter. ADA was not a good language for this style of coding. The few times I tried this method of programming, I would sometimes end up making object stores and passing object indices instead of structures to functions because the cost of passing a structure was insane.
So that being said, ADA wasn't usable for anything other than a few hundred lines of quick and dirty stuff. I couldn't imagine being forced to implement a full system in ADA. And I did learn the language well enough to use it. I could honestly see writing better code in COBOL than in ADA. The "safety" came at too much of a cost in functionality.
There is nothing to nix.
I just peeked at every project on code.gov... there was nothing there. Just junk that was like "who gives a crap... dump that crap there to get them to shut up."
Code.gov is a total fail.
Their pricing is a starting point. Generally, no one actually pays those prices. You just call someone and just saying hello gets you 50% off and playing hard to get for a few seconds will get you 70% off and if you claim "I think at that price we can fit it next quarter, but HP said they can meet our financial needs today" and Cisco will come in at 80% off... and they'll still have their 20% margin.
The high list prices have a lot of purposes... though I'm not an accountant, but it makes sense for insurance, earnings reports, etc... to be able to claim the equity based on the high list values of the products.
Chances are, you can easily afford Cisco... 99.999% of the time, they're cheaper than everyone else if you just ask. The issue is, whether you can justify the cost of owning Cisco stuff. I spent 7 hours last week troubleshooting an MPLS label switched path in a carrier supporting carrier environment. Apparently, a process on a router had crashed and I had to reboot the router.
The problem is,
- I can't fix the problem, it probably won't come back.
- I can't write a meaningful bug report for the problem. Even if I provide the 5 pages of documentation I generated while troubleshooting, there's not nearly enough detail to say much more than "ping didn't work... had to reboot"
- I know I have a buggy IOS version, but if I upgrade to a newer version, I'm probably getting rid of one bug I know for 10 I don't.
So what's the problem.... this time it was one me to fix this, so I worked 7 hours on what basically was a Cisco bug... that I won't fix... but rebooted. If this was billable, I'd have invoiced $1400 to effectively reboot the device without actually fixing the problem and for the $1400, I'd provide beautiful documentation with diagrams and automated verification scripts and I'd make up excuses for why Cisco shouldn't be tossed out on their asses for this or held responsible for this.
Now the real issue is that the router I had to reboot which was causing these problems (list price $5000) only cost us $900... but to find out it needed to be reboot cost $1400... this time. Altogether, the TCO of that $900 router is probably $9000 over 3 years.
Now the bitch of it is... while Cisco is what I feed my family with (most often), I would LOVE to find something better. I have tried many different products from different vendors. There are always, cost, deliverability, availability, technological, support and otherwise issues. Every single vendor in the entire networking world are a bunch of assholes.
Cisco ends up being the lesser of all assholes, but there's no comfort found when you're tossed into a pit of venomous snakes knowing you can at least choose which one will bite you.
It also could pass for little more than a rounding error. It could also be related to geography relative to the quality of hospitals. Older doctors are probably more willing to settle somewhere quieter near a hospital with older equipment.
Every day? After 20 years of marriage, I'm lucky if there's a BJ in it for me on Christmas or my birthday.
I disagree, it wasn't the worst thing that could be painted about Trump. I'm sure there are many much worse things he could come up with. It was the least appropriate thing he could come up with for describing what Trump's mouth is good for. There's a clear difference here.
He's saying that the only thing Trumps mouth is good for is performing sexual acts. This could be considered highly complimentary.
I have never given a blow job, but I have received a few from different women over the years... though only one in the last 20 (in case my wife is reading) and I must say that the best blow jobs I've experienced were from women with exceptional endurance and exceptional lung capacity.
In fact, with how much pride Trump takes in his incredible physique and personal fitness,
I'd say it's an incredible compliment that Colbert has paid him by saying that Trump almost certainly would be a person in such amazing condition that Trump would be a suitable match for performing this act on such a powerful man as Putin.
I would certainly imagine that while Trump and his supporters might be offended by the fact that Colbert doesn't place a high value on Trumps words, speech or thoughts, but he does highly respect the president for his self proclaimed excellent health and physical prowess.
So, I don't really see what the issue is here. In fact, even as a straight man, I'm damn near tempted to play the other side of the fence to try and get myself one of these amazing Trump (registered trademark) Blow Jobs. I bet they're the biggest and I mean the best and most amazing blow jobs anyone could ever receive. And I mean huge, you'll just have to wait and see. It's cumming soon... did I spell that wrong?
And now that Trump is in office, the gun industry will be laying people off left and right.
Obama made the gun industry RICH!!! He single handed drove gun and ammunition prices through the roofs and produced massive demand for weapons. His regular talks about gun control and possible restrictions on guns had people who had one gun in the house rushing out to build arsenals.
Now Trump is like "Yippie!!! guns are fun!!! let's all get guns!!!" and people now know that not only don't they need to rush to get them, but the 7 day waiting period will almost certainly be removed eventually meaning that if they really need more guns, they'll be able to go to the grocery store and buy them off the shelves on sale, BOGO AR-15s.
Trump might be the worst thing ever to happen to the gun industry. There's going to be at least 4 years of minimal sales as demand is now gone.
Have you ever lived in Texas or Florida?
I wonder how many dozens of American manufacturing workers are required to operate a $1 billion automated factory.
It costs far less to buy a 16 core Xeon system from eBay with 32-64GB of RAM then to buy a Ryzen or Core i7. If you're concerned about performance per buck, eBay a real system. And... oh, the bars I got on consumer benchmark software was double or triple when I was using my 20 core Xeon server as a gaming PC for a few days.
On the other hand, I find that a good notebook does everything I need most of the time. Who really cares about the high end of consumer processors? They cost too much and the motherboards are made like shit.
To be fair, NVidia sells quite a few more discrete cards than AMD does. AMD's core graphics business is discrete=marketing, integrated = profits. They both make excellent products, but hardware failure rates are generally consistent. The chips themselves don't generally blow out, but more often than not, it's support circuitry. Also, there's a weird thing I've noticed, people who consciously attempt to differentiate between the two vendors tend to have entirely different patterns to how they treat their hardware and use it as well. To this day, ATI (I know they're not called that anymore) users are very much more like Apple users where nVidia users are generally much more oriented towards disposable computing.
Also consider that people who are willing to spend more than $150 on graphics cards are generally not the types of people making a 10 year investment. Those cards are supposed to be replaced every other year. So why bother making them good enough to last more. But either way, neither nVidia or AMD actually make cards, they make chip sets and the other companies make the cards. And no... they all pretty much suck. Zotac, MSI, eVGA, etc... they are NOT designing for durability. They design for performance and bling.
I know there are counter-websites picking on AMD the same way. It's like Norwegian and Swedish joke books. They are the exact same book, they just switch the roles.
If you're hoping to make a business out of "aging graphics cards", I have a few S3's in a box somewhere if you want them. They still run flawlessly.
Oh... and here's the thing, if your performance needs stay constant and you can still play all the games which interest you on the older cards, you should upgrade for the sake of lower power silicon if nothing else. My daughter and I play Overwatch... at the same resolution on almost identical computers. She has a GTX 1050 and I have a GTX 970. Her computer uses about 25% less power than mine. That may not sound like much, but it easily pays for the cost of the card each year.
hmm... I'm not sure I agree with you.
Windows 8 was the best user interface I've ever seen. I absolutely loved it and it went downhill quickly as people like you complained they couldn't figure out how to use it and Microsoft responded. Then in Windows 10, they more or less killed all the best parts of Windows 8 and brought us back the start menu which frankly... just isn't as usable.
Microsoft Office is bloody brilliant, their UI works absolutely fabulously and this is coming from someone who has been using Microsoft Word since the DOS days. The original ribbon wasn't great, but it got better.
Can't speak about Firefox, I only ever use it as a javascript debugger and DRM stripper.
Gnome never had a good user experience. Even the absolutely latest version doesn't address core issues that have existed since the beginning. Font rendering is absolutely horrible. You'd imagine that after 20 years of Freetype and other projects, they would have finally implemented something resembling a decent anti-aliaser... but nope. Then there's the damn near random design of UI controls that in the very few cases they are consistent contain checkboxes the size of 3 pixels squared or buttons with borders twice as wide as they should be. Of course you can customize that stuff, but if you do, the apps won't scale worth a shit because GTK+ is written by a bunch of drunken coders. Don't worry, most other desktops aren't really much better. With the billions going into Linux development, it would be really nice if just one company other than Google would actually attempt to focus on usability on Linux and Android doesn't really count as a Linux thing anymore.
Android... well, Android is just a copy of iOS in the latest versions. Let's be honest, over the past 10 years, it's almost silly how many efforts have been made by vendors to skin Android as iOS and then Google did it themselves. I have an Android phone I use when I travel and it's amazing how little I care for that phone. The entire experience feels slapped together and while search works better and the web browser is clearly better than on iOS, the overall user experience is poor. I love Apple's rule that programs known to crash get removed from the store. Google could try that, but more often than not, the program which crashes the most on my Samsung is the Play Store app itself. Oh, then there's the crap tons of crap ware from T-Mobile who I'm sure don't care about anything other than getting more icons onto the screen of their own... I don't even know what they do because who wants to open them?
When Windows and Mac first came out, a lot of people in their 40's complained about how if a bunch of generation X babies keep forcing us this way, we'll end up surrounded by graphics and programs that don't work anymore. They complained "I hate Windows 95 because there are too many ways to get to the same place". Surprisingly enough, they sounded a lot like you.
They were wrong too.
need I say more about BB?
$50!!!! Are you frigging kidding me, tickets and snack store costs at least $110 here for 2 adults and 2 munchkins
I am typing this on a 5 year old 720p laser/led projector running at 1920x1080 and I can tell you there's no reason to go to the theater.
haha!!! That's what got me to stop going to the movies!
In Norway, it used to be English or Norwegian Dub
Now, it's Norwegian 3d Dub, Norwegian 2d Dub, English 3d.... there's no frigging English 2d most of the time...
Of course this is just animated films.... but I didn't go to the movies without the kids. So, I've been to an average of one movie a year since 3d came out.
Here's the thing, Interpupillary distance... it makes 3D REALLY REALLY suck. Add to that the distance from the screen and 3d there are maybe 4 seats in the entire theater that doesn't make 3d so bad it's completely unwatchable.
If you want 3d, play a video game on Oculus, at least there, they can rerender the entire scene for your eyes.
The answer is yes and there's no need for a second GPU
Install Windows in VirtualBox or VMware, Configure the virtual machine for 3D and let it rip.
As for Wine, Wine is always win-some-lose-some. If the application will run under Wine, then it should have access to most of the Windows APIs of interest.
Finally, for CUDA, you would either need a second card or you would need an NVidia Grid solution which installs NVidia on the hypervisor and then again on the VM. It's insanely expensive.
What I'd really like to see is Continuum with x86/x64 support (as is announced). The technology has been in the windows code base for a long time. It dates back to DEC Alpha and the hard part of this type of emulation really is library support. The ABI between x86/64 and ARM is extremely similar, but just enough different in all the right places to cause problems. Microsoft has full control over their own code and libraries which makes calling ARM libraries written by Microsoft pretty easy as Microsoft can easily compile their ARM code with either an x64 compatible ABI or they can provide a thin "thunk like" layer to handle byte alignment in structures they know about.
The problem is using non-Microsoft libraries... of course, if Microsoft opens the ARM platform properly this time, it should be possible for developers to pretty much recompile their code for the platform with little or no changes as ARM and x64 are ridiculously similar except when handling inline assembler. The only real problem is some fairly nasty byte/word alignment issues where ARM is very "RISC-like" and where Intel has always allowed arbitrary byte alignment (except in SIMD), ARM has always been assholes on this. So Microsoft would have to add a crap load of really horrible code to account for structures packed in an ARM unfriendly manor.
Well once this code is golden, I doubt I'll use Windows Phone as a phone, but I will use it as a portable computer... if the performance is reasonable.
The last thing is, Microsoft absolutely has to make it possible to run the entire Visual Studio Enterprise directly on Continuum with reasonable performance.... and they absolutely have to release a phone with enough storage to run it as well.
Please please please tell me you work as either an English teacher or an editor for a news paper or magazine.
I used to go to the movies, but I refuse to watch movies unless they're in their original language and also in 2D. The problem is, I used to have a choice "English or Norwegian" at the theater. Then it became "Norwegian 3D, Norwegian 2D, English 3D". So, I stopped going.
Now, I simply watch on a 120" projector screen 720p, with somewhat budget surround sound at home. I even bought a little movie theater popcorn machine.
You know what... I don't mind paying $50 for a new release film if they ever get that going. It's cheaper, cleaner, nicer than going to the movie theater. I would probably watch 8 new releases for every one I see now. I think I went to the movie theater last year... was Suicide Squad last year?
https://www.openbible.info/topics/retribution
Why not search within page there for the word vengeance and see what turns up. You don't get to selectively choose on
I have read quite a few bibles actually. The topic of vengeance and revenge hidden under the title of retribution is what originally made me adverse to being a member of religion.
I think the beauty of religion is that we all have our own interpretations of it. I spent 13 years of my life praying to a god that he will come down and take vengeance on my oppressors and enemies. I read those prayers over and over and over year after year. It taught me to hate anyone who was an enemy of my religion... which by further definition meant anyone who was not of my religion because if they were not an enemy of my religion, they would be a member of it.
I was also taught that everyone everywhere wants to kill me because I was unfortunate enough to have been born a member of my religion. I was taught that in 3800 years we were always the victims of the hateful infidels. And one day, the lord would send us a messiah who would allow us to have our vengeance and seek retribution.
Visit a Jewish temple sometime on a Saturday and listen to the little children sing the pretty songs in Hebrew... and then read the translations as they sing them. They have no idea what the words mean, but they all love those songs and how special they are that they can sing them. I think you'd be absolutely shocked and horrified by their meanings.
But I guess you're all knowledgeable about all religions and your interpretation is right. Religion gives us the word retribution as a means of making revenge sound so much sweeter and nicer. It's not revenge if "we're only getting retribution".
Let me tell you something, retribution is nonsense. We go to war and kill people for retribution. Need proof? Most of the western world hauled ass to Afghanistan to find retribution against people who killed themselves by crashing airplanes into buildings. Do you know how many good and innocent people died in our hunt for retribution? Do you know how many good and innocent people died as the western world went out there with massive weapons and leveled villages and cities? And while we did it, the world leaders stood and declared "God is with us!".
So, before you make embarrassing statements about how well you understand the bible..
First rule... there is a lot more than just one bible
Second rule... the King James Bibles is a highly selective lovey dovey version of the old testament. To be fair, the Torah is a deep, dark and damn near hateful book which makes the darkest parts of Quoran look warm and fuzzy in comparison. Read a proper translation and reference that instead.
Third... openbible.info is a REALLY REALLY politically correct interpretation. It's practically "fake news". It leaves out most of the really good stuff... especially the stuff about violence and systematic hate.
That said, I have absolutely nothing against religion. Only against zealots. Both my kids are baptized and my son is being confirmed in September because we want to show respect to our religious family members and their faith and it just doesn't hurt to eat a cookie and have a drink. My son is even attending training for his cookie eating ceremony every week for 6 months.
In the future, when you jump to the conclusion that someone may in fact have an interpretation of religion other than your own simply because they are uneducated, you might be wrong. It could be that they simply see things differently than you.
Well, in case you actually are reading the response... it's not a threat as much as a joke. She makes jokes in return about socks left on the floor. It's called humor. You should buy a book on the topic.
Before you buy the book, consider also learning about how punctuation works. It will make the book far easier to understand when you do sit down to read it. Sasha Cohen did a great skit in the movie Borat about how punctuation effects jokes.
The question is why she should have to use a PVR since there's absolutely no value in recording something which can be centrally recorded and then watched from a central location. She shouldn't have to record it to watch it whenever she wants without commercials.
If you go back and read my previous post with this new insight, it will have an entirely new meaning.
Let me ask something, on your planet (I'm assuming it's somewhere in or like Texas based on your behavior) are there people who would actually interpret "I have told my wife that if I didn't love her so much, I would divorce her because I have to pay for her cable TV thing." as a threat? Do the people there also believe strongly in their second amendment rights and exercise them? Do you see how this could be scary to some people?
I wonder, how do people there deal with sarcasm? I can only imagine that people there start using terms like "libtard" because anyone who says something confusing must in fact be a liberal.
Now, if you want a really good laugh, where I live there's no such thing as alimony. That's something that only exists in places where women are inferior to men and are incapable of taking care of themselves. Where I live, the women are much smarter than that. Hell, they even tend to pay for themselves on dates.
P.S. She actually pays the cable bill. But, if I say told you that to begin with, it would add a second dimension to the required thought process to appreciate the joke. I can tell by the confusion the second part of my previous post caused you that this would just be cruel to inflict upon you.
P.P.S. I put a great deal of effort into use small words with minimal syllable counts for you. I also made every effort to avoid excessive use of punctuation you may find confusing in this post. See, there are people who care about you.
P.P.P.S. - P.S. means Post - Script. After you finish your punctuation lessons and humor education, I recommend looking up this term. It is very interesting and useful. It may however be too advanced at your current level.
To quote the paper :
:) If the substrate reaches 100C again, what appears to be the behavior? Does it depend on a rapid decrease or "flash freeze" to 25C to stabilize the structure? Will it render the cell absolutely useless? Will it simply continue "business as usual"?
"the dipoles can be rapidly aligned at 100°C by an ac applied electric field and frozen into alignment at 25°C < Tg. "
Has consideration been given (experimentation as well) within the laboratory environment to the behavior of the glass substrate within extreme naturally occurring temperatures. While, my personal property values increase proportionately with the effectiveness of global warming and hope at some point to own luxury resort beach front property here in Oslo, Norway, it's not uncommon to operate an EV within sub -20C temperatures and with -50C temperatures further north.
Current Li based cells suffer badly within these climates. In addition, in the past working together with Lee (Elias) Stefanakos Ph.D. from USF, we experienced in Florida certain behaviors in higher unregulated temperatures (with regards to lead-acid cells.. circa 1993) behavioral degradation of chemical electrolytes at +37C (if I recall correctly).
How does your and Maria's solid-state substrate behave within extreme temperatures. While I certainly am no material's scientist, I am curious whether there are behavioral symptoms displayed when performing under such naturally occurring extremes.
In addition, fluid electrolytes can often "self-repair" under these circumstances as a result of "reflowing". If these negative behaviors are apparent in within the solid electrolyte, are the damages sustained (structural fractures for example) or does the substrate display typical expansion and contraction under naturally occurring conditions?
For a bonus
I watch about 10 hours of video a month... I might watch 20 if I find a TV show I want to binge on. Video sucks because you can't watch it and work at the same time... I prefer :
audio books
You can listen while doing pretty much every other type of work... and driving... and pretty much everywhere. On the rare occasions I have to go to Church for a wedding or confirmation or any of the other silly things church people invite me to participate in, audio books are my hero.
braille books
You can read while testing code, reading documents, sitting in meetings, etc... I've been working on making a phone sized braille display that doesn't make noise and also has touch input... for 10 years now... I'll get it done someday.
Hey kid... I have told my wife that if I didn't love her so much, I would divorce her because I have to pay for her cable TV thing. And what's worse is that she never ever watches anything live, she always uses the PVR.
What I don't understand is, why does she have to use the PVR? If the cable TV provider allows her to actually record TV shows on equipment she pays rent for... and probably most everything that they stream is being recorded by someone somewhere... shouldn't they just record the streams and let their viewers open up the catalog of TV shows and click which ones they want to watch?
Oh... and we're not using actual cable, we're on fiber... and it's not GPON, it's IPTV. So, the fact is, it wouldn't cost them that much in bandwidth. I know their network design (been involved) and it would cost them nothing.
So... why are we paying for streaming... or box rentals, etc...
Do they still do that? They started that just about the time when I stopped watching TV and moved to DVDs and alter streaming.
It's pretty cool, I haven't seen a commercial... except maybe on TVs in restaurants in 16 years.
Of course, I have no idea who AMC is and other than the occasional t-shirt, I have no clue about "The Walking Dead" which I imagine can exclude me from certain pop cultural references, But somehow I don't think this has been a problem for me.
I think it's quite humorous that my kids have been raised since the age of 4 or 5 without TV and it doesn't seem to impact their standing in society at all. Once they moved to iPads and YouTube, they simply never looked back.
My son recently said that he doesn't have much interest in TV shows or movies because they don't align with his viewing methods now. I can only imagine that this is more common that we'd think.