The frame rate dropped into the mid-40s during some parts of the Quake 3 timedemo. What you consider a relevant benchmark would be a useless slideshow. Old benchmarks are quite suitable for demonstrating what you can expect from low-powered hardware.
What's going on is fairly obvious if you read the article linked in the sentence "Webmasters have expressed concerns about a decrease in traffic and an increase in bandwidth usage since this change was rolled out."
The article says nothing about an increase in bandwidth usage. The anonymous reader who submitted the article obviously just made that part up, as anonymous people on/. do, without regard for whether it made sense or accurately reflected the link being given.
You're confusing quality with success/failure. Good products can and do fail. Bad products can and do succeed. The Zune failed to sell, which means it was a failure.
And brown really was a shitty color choice for the introduction of a new product. Brown isn't a color that's been popular in electronics since faux wood grain stereo cabinets went out of style in the 70s.
Ethics aren't "something that can't be resolved or defined." We may not agree to use the same set of ethics, but all have a set that was defined by what what we've learned and experienced in life.
With the rapid advances in technology that the human race keeps making, I'm fairly sure it won't be 30,000 years before someone manages to assemble the equipment needed to make a clone at home. You can already buy a $600 DNA sequencer kit, so we're already on our way.
Once the equipment is available at prices that an individual can afford, the ethics of society won't matter. All it will take is one person who has some money, access to Neanderthal DNA and and the belief that creating a Neanderthal baby is okay.
People who commit a crime think they'll get away with it. They aren't agreeing to get caught, much less give up their rights.
If you can't hold it and step behind some bushes to pee and get spotted by a ten year old kid, you can be convicted of indecent exposure in most states. That can get you placed on a sex offender list for life in many states (some, like Colorado, came to their senses and created a second crime for non-sexual exposure which is neither a sex crime nor a felony). Once you're on the sex offender list, your name, address and photo would be made available to anyone who cares to look for registered sex offenders in the area you live in. In some places, you'd no longer be able to live within 1000 feet of a school or day care center. You'd have to tell anyone you were trying to rent from that you were a convicted sex offender, too, so most places wouldn't take you as a tenant. It's also a felony, so you'd no longer be able to own a gun or vote. You'd be required to admit that you were convicted sex offender on job applications, which would severely limit your employment opportunities. The list of long-term affects on your life goes on and on, but basically you're screwed for life.
Cruel and unusual is a fitting description.
Do you really think that you would have been agreeing to all that when you decided to step behind a bush and take a leak? Of course not. You'd have thought you wouldn't be seen and it would be okay.
It's almost like the company is catering to people who have a preference for tablets, capsules, chewables, quick acting, time release and so forth. How dare they do that. The bastards!
Oh look at that. It has every essential amino acid. Have some white bread. It's absolutely, unquestionably not nutritionally identical to sugar.
The only reason they have to fortify it is because they threw all the good stuff away.
And? The fact that they fortify the bread to add vitamins that it wouldn't normally have doesn't matter. Your point was that there is no nutritional difference between white bread and sugar and my response simply shows the difference.
You're making statements that are demonstrably false. If you said "oops, my bad", that would be fine. Instead, you're presenting more incorrect statements and unrelated information that has no bearing on the falsehood of your original statements. Are you a politician?
What do you classify a potato as, if not a vegetable? It's a starchy vegetable, but still a vegetable... and a reasonably healthy one at that, when it's not deep fried or otherwise loaded with fat.
A slice of white bread contains approximately 1.9g of protein along with Calcium (7% DV), Thiamin (14% DV), Riboflavin (9% DV), Folate (12% DV), Iron (9% DV), Manganese (11% DV), and Selenium (11% DV).
A similarly sized serving of sugar contains 0% of all those things.
It's pretty boring when it gets down to 1-2 parts per trillion^10 or even more dilute.
If every one of those chemicals is so dilute that it only makes up 1-2 parts per trillion, they would not have the effects that are listed beside them.
Even someone with virtually no knowledge of chemistry whatsoever probably has a clue how much propylene glycol it takes to have an anti-freeze effect since they put it in their car. 1-2 parts per trillion? You either don't know what you're talking about or you're intentionally lying.
I also didn't say anything about the sky falling or what the actual effects of fracking fluid might be. I simply showed that your claims that all those chemicals are harmless was a lie. Your response to my post demonstrates why you get modded as a troll.
You might have been modded as a troll last time due to your completely ignoring all of the health effects that the chemicals on that list have just as the website you linked to does.
From the page you linked, "Although there are dozens to hundreds of chemicals which could be used as additives, there are a limited number which are routinely used in hydraulic fracturing." It's not a comprehensive list of what goes into frakking fluid. It's a list of the most common chemicals and it admits that there are many others which are not listed.
Elsewhere on the site, you'll find that it admits that "EPA has not included oil and gas extraction as an industry that must report under TRI." Some states have put rules in place to require disclosure of the chemicals used, but most have not and the government doesn't require it, so no... the regulatory agencies generally do not know what is being released into the environment.
And that page doesn't actually list any of the harmful effects those chemicals can have, does it. In fact, the only problem it mentions is possible confusion due to chemicals being referred to with multiple names.
Let's do a few minutes of research, shall we?
Glutaraldehyde - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Long term exposure can cause sensitivity and more severe reactions. Implicated as a possible cause of occupational asthma
Quaternary Ammonium Chloride - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Ingestion can be fatal.
Tetrakis Hydroxymethyl-Phosphonium Sulfate - Mild skin and respiratory irritation. Long term exposure can cause sensitivity and more severe reactions.
Ammonium Persulfate - Irritant. Ingestion can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Magnesium Peroxide - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Ingestion can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Long term exposure may lead to lung damage.
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride - Produces chemical burns to the eye. Skin and lung irritant. Extremely toxic to aquatic life. Long term exposure can cause permanent lung damage.
Isopropyl Alcohol - CNS depressant. Can cause nausea, vomiting, anesthesia, coma and death.
Methanol - Highly toxic to humans, CNS depressant. Causes metabolic acidosis. Can cause blindness, death. Metabolized into formic acid (see below) and formaldehyde which can be lethal, is a known carcinogen, eye irritant, asthma trigger, permanent lung damage, reproductive problems, miscarriages, allergic reactions... there's lots more but let's just say this one is arguably the nastiest one on the list and leave it at that.
Formic acid - Much of the same as methanol since methanol is metabolized into formic acid. No need to repeat the entire paragraph.
Acetaldehyde - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Probable carcinogen. Prolong exposure can cause permanent damage to lungs, kidney, liver. Can trigger Alzheimer's disease in people with a genetic deficiency in ALDH2 gene.
And that's just the first quarter or so of the list.
Much of that list is quite toxic to humans and other animals. Much of it can cause permanent damage to the liver, kidneys and/or lungs with long term exposure, some even at very low doses (the sort of exposure you'd get if you, oh I don't know, contaminated the groundwater).
Your definition of "pretty boring" is... interesting, to say the least.
Most of what "they" talk about are assault weapons, which are semi-automatics much like the ones used in a number of the mass shootings. Sometimes someone will mistakenly use the term "assault rifle" when they mean "assault weapon", but that doesn't mean they're talking about automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons are fairly well regulated, require background checks, ATF approval and are expensive. It's not a big surprise that they don't get used for mass shootings (and it's also hi-fucking-larious to bring this up when people are arguing that gun control laws don't work, btw).
That's not a very good example. The shooter's gun jammed before the armed citizen even pulled out his gun, the armed citizen stayed hidden and didn't fire back and the shooter eventually ran off and stopped himself by committing suicide.
A three year old could have pulled out a spork and stayed in hiding and gotten the same result.
You assume the purpose of shooting somebody is to kill them. That is not true. The purpose of shooting somebody is to stop them from doing what they are doing.
So nobody has ever been shot during a mugging, break-in, carjacking or other crime? The Beltway sniper attacks in DC were to stop people from driving, buying gas and all the other things they were doing when they were shot? The Sandy Hook shootings were to stop the children from coloring or reciting ABCs?
Making a blanket statement like the one you just made is ridiculous. Every person who shoots another person has a motive, but there are many motives other than "I had to stop him."
The same reason why you don't discover all the flaws with your software and hardware rather than hearing about security researchers finding them; neither they nor you have the time or budget to hire full time security people to thoroughly go through every piece of hardware, firmware and software in use.
Go buy a McChicken at the big yellow M. There's nothing recognizably chicken-ish about that product at all. The taste and texture is completely different from the chicken I tasted as a kid, when my grandfather would routinely kill and prepare his own chickens for dinner.
That's because your grandfather didn't grind the chickens up, make patties, batter and deep fry them. The fact that a McChicken doesn't resemble unground chicken isn't any different than the fact that a hamburger doesn't resemble a steak.
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By the definition I learned when I got my degree in CS, if it is capable of solving Turing complete problems, it is a computer
So, a guy lost in the desert is a computer?
The frame rate dropped into the mid-40s during some parts of the Quake 3 timedemo. What you consider a relevant benchmark would be a useless slideshow. Old benchmarks are quite suitable for demonstrating what you can expect from low-powered hardware.
What's going on is fairly obvious if you read the article linked in the sentence "Webmasters have expressed concerns about a decrease in traffic and an increase in bandwidth usage since this change was rolled out."
The article says nothing about an increase in bandwidth usage. The anonymous reader who submitted the article obviously just made that part up, as anonymous people on /. do, without regard for whether it made sense or accurately reflected the link being given.
The stake is already in place. This is just the thrashing around before the body finally turns to dust and blows away.
You're confusing quality with success/failure. Good products can and do fail. Bad products can and do succeed. The Zune failed to sell, which means it was a failure.
And brown really was a shitty color choice for the introduction of a new product. Brown isn't a color that's been popular in electronics since faux wood grain stereo cabinets went out of style in the 70s.
Ethics aren't "something that can't be resolved or defined." We may not agree to use the same set of ethics, but all have a set that was defined by what what we've learned and experienced in life.
With the rapid advances in technology that the human race keeps making, I'm fairly sure it won't be 30,000 years before someone manages to assemble the equipment needed to make a clone at home. You can already buy a $600 DNA sequencer kit, so we're already on our way.
Once the equipment is available at prices that an individual can afford, the ethics of society won't matter. All it will take is one person who has some money, access to Neanderthal DNA and and the belief that creating a Neanderthal baby is okay.
People who commit a crime think they'll get away with it. They aren't agreeing to get caught, much less give up their rights.
If you can't hold it and step behind some bushes to pee and get spotted by a ten year old kid, you can be convicted of indecent exposure in most states. That can get you placed on a sex offender list for life in many states (some, like Colorado, came to their senses and created a second crime for non-sexual exposure which is neither a sex crime nor a felony). Once you're on the sex offender list, your name, address and photo would be made available to anyone who cares to look for registered sex offenders in the area you live in. In some places, you'd no longer be able to live within 1000 feet of a school or day care center. You'd have to tell anyone you were trying to rent from that you were a convicted sex offender, too, so most places wouldn't take you as a tenant. It's also a felony, so you'd no longer be able to own a gun or vote. You'd be required to admit that you were convicted sex offender on job applications, which would severely limit your employment opportunities. The list of long-term affects on your life goes on and on, but basically you're screwed for life.
Cruel and unusual is a fitting description.
Do you really think that you would have been agreeing to all that when you decided to step behind a bush and take a leak? Of course not. You'd have thought you wouldn't be seen and it would be okay.
Automobiles. Auto accidents kill more people than guns, though that may change around 2015 if trends continue the way they have been.
Personally, I think stupidity probably kills far more than anything else, but we don't have statistics for that.
They spend 19x more on advertising than they do on R&D, so 95% of what those high prices are amortizing is advertisng, not R&D.
It's almost like the company is catering to people who have a preference for tablets, capsules, chewables, quick acting, time release and so forth. How dare they do that. The bastards!
Wouldn't it have made more sense to post this tomorrow, which is actually the 30th anniversary of the press release, rather than the day before?
I like a few essential amino acids with my protein.
White bread, per slice:
Histidine - 41.3 mg
Isoleucine - 74.5 mg
Leucine - 133 mg
Lysine 50.8 mg
Methionine - 33.8 mg
Phenylalanine - 93.3 mg
Threonine - 56.2 mg
Tryptophan - 22.2 mg
Valine - 83.7 mg
Oh look at that. It has every essential amino acid. Have some white bread. It's absolutely, unquestionably not nutritionally identical to sugar.
The only reason they have to fortify it is because they threw all the good stuff away.
And? The fact that they fortify the bread to add vitamins that it wouldn't normally have doesn't matter. Your point was that there is no nutritional difference between white bread and sugar and my response simply shows the difference.
You're making statements that are demonstrably false. If you said "oops, my bad", that would be fine. Instead, you're presenting more incorrect statements and unrelated information that has no bearing on the falsehood of your original statements. Are you a politician?
What do you classify a potato as, if not a vegetable? It's a starchy vegetable, but still a vegetable... and a reasonably healthy one at that, when it's not deep fried or otherwise loaded with fat.
I'm sure his cooking advice is fine and he's just using the term "grind" in the sexual sense.
A slice of white bread contains approximately 1.9g of protein along with Calcium (7% DV), Thiamin (14% DV), Riboflavin (9% DV), Folate (12% DV), Iron (9% DV), Manganese (11% DV), and Selenium (11% DV).
A similarly sized serving of sugar contains 0% of all those things.
That's not "nutritionally indistinguishable."
It's pretty boring when it gets down to 1-2 parts per trillion^10 or even more dilute.
If every one of those chemicals is so dilute that it only makes up 1-2 parts per trillion, they would not have the effects that are listed beside them.
Even someone with virtually no knowledge of chemistry whatsoever probably has a clue how much propylene glycol it takes to have an anti-freeze effect since they put it in their car. 1-2 parts per trillion? You either don't know what you're talking about or you're intentionally lying.
I also didn't say anything about the sky falling or what the actual effects of fracking fluid might be. I simply showed that your claims that all those chemicals are harmless was a lie. Your response to my post demonstrates why you get modded as a troll.
You might have been modded as a troll last time due to your completely ignoring all of the health effects that the chemicals on that list have just as the website you linked to does.
From the page you linked, "Although there are dozens to hundreds of chemicals which could be used as additives, there are a limited number which are routinely used in hydraulic fracturing." It's not a comprehensive list of what goes into frakking fluid. It's a list of the most common chemicals and it admits that there are many others which are not listed.
Elsewhere on the site, you'll find that it admits that "EPA has not included oil and gas extraction as an industry that must report under TRI." Some states have put rules in place to require disclosure of the chemicals used, but most have not and the government doesn't require it, so no... the regulatory agencies generally do not know what is being released into the environment.
And that page doesn't actually list any of the harmful effects those chemicals can have, does it. In fact, the only problem it mentions is possible confusion due to chemicals being referred to with multiple names.
Let's do a few minutes of research, shall we?
Glutaraldehyde - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Long term exposure can cause sensitivity and more severe reactions. Implicated as a possible cause of occupational asthma
Quaternary Ammonium Chloride - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Ingestion can be fatal.
Tetrakis Hydroxymethyl-Phosphonium Sulfate - Mild skin and respiratory irritation. Long term exposure can cause sensitivity and more severe reactions.
Ammonium Persulfate - Irritant. Ingestion can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Magnesium Peroxide - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Ingestion can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Long term exposure may lead to lung damage.
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride - Produces chemical burns to the eye. Skin and lung irritant. Extremely toxic to aquatic life. Long term exposure can cause permanent lung damage.
Isopropyl Alcohol - CNS depressant. Can cause nausea, vomiting, anesthesia, coma and death.
Methanol - Highly toxic to humans, CNS depressant. Causes metabolic acidosis. Can cause blindness, death. Metabolized into formic acid (see below) and formaldehyde which can be lethal, is a known carcinogen, eye irritant, asthma trigger, permanent lung damage, reproductive problems, miscarriages, allergic reactions... there's lots more but let's just say this one is arguably the nastiest one on the list and leave it at that.
Formic acid - Much of the same as methanol since methanol is metabolized into formic acid. No need to repeat the entire paragraph.
Acetaldehyde - Eye, skin and lung irritant. Probable carcinogen. Prolong exposure can cause permanent damage to lungs, kidney, liver. Can trigger Alzheimer's disease in people with a genetic deficiency in ALDH2 gene.
And that's just the first quarter or so of the list.
Much of that list is quite toxic to humans and other animals. Much of it can cause permanent damage to the liver, kidneys and/or lungs with long term exposure, some even at very low doses (the sort of exposure you'd get if you, oh I don't know, contaminated the groundwater).
Your definition of "pretty boring" is ... interesting, to say the least.
Most of what "they" talk about are assault weapons, which are semi-automatics much like the ones used in a number of the mass shootings. Sometimes someone will mistakenly use the term "assault rifle" when they mean "assault weapon", but that doesn't mean they're talking about automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons are fairly well regulated, require background checks, ATF approval and are expensive. It's not a big surprise that they don't get used for mass shootings (and it's also hi-fucking-larious to bring this up when people are arguing that gun control laws don't work, btw).
That's not a very good example. The shooter's gun jammed before the armed citizen even pulled out his gun, the armed citizen stayed hidden and didn't fire back and the shooter eventually ran off and stopped himself by committing suicide.
A three year old could have pulled out a spork and stayed in hiding and gotten the same result.
You assume the purpose of shooting somebody is to kill them. That is not true. The purpose of shooting somebody is to stop them from doing what they are doing.
So nobody has ever been shot during a mugging, break-in, carjacking or other crime? The Beltway sniper attacks in DC were to stop people from driving, buying gas and all the other things they were doing when they were shot? The Sandy Hook shootings were to stop the children from coloring or reciting ABCs?
Making a blanket statement like the one you just made is ridiculous. Every person who shoots another person has a motive, but there are many motives other than "I had to stop him."
No. It's like asking if we can have a /. discussion without first post trolls. It might happen once in a while, but don't expect it to go away.
Not true. To make a pizza from scratch, you only have to invent scratch (an amazing substance, really, since almost anything can be made from it).
The same reason why you don't discover all the flaws with your software and hardware rather than hearing about security researchers finding them; neither they nor you have the time or budget to hire full time security people to thoroughly go through every piece of hardware, firmware and software in use.
vibrating bags are almost never reported anyway, because everyone knows its not going to be a bomb
Except the idiots at the AirTran terminal who shut the airport down, apparently.
Go buy a McChicken at the big yellow M. There's nothing recognizably chicken-ish about that product at all. The taste and texture is completely different from the chicken I tasted as a kid, when my grandfather would routinely kill and prepare his own chickens for dinner.
That's because your grandfather didn't grind the chickens up, make patties, batter and deep fry them. The fact that a McChicken doesn't resemble unground chicken isn't any different than the fact that a hamburger doesn't resemble a steak.