You do know that shooting towards the middle doesn't automatically make something balanced, right?
If one side is right and the other side is complete spin, then the middle is just less spin than complete spin. Given this, under your definition of "balanced" the spinners can arbitrarily control where the "balanced" point is by ramping up or ramping down the amount of spin as necessary.
The fact is that many people are required by law to use this thing within the next 71 days, but it continues to not work.
The government has demonstrated that it can make you buy specific stuff through writ of law.
..and its not just our government. In fact some governments have already made "supporting" broadcasting content virtually mandatory (United Kingdom, the BBC "tax"..)
The fact is that the bandwidth between video card and monitor must be enough to handle the worst case scenario or else its not fit for purpose, and the hardware cost difference between fully utilizing this link and greatly under utilizing this link is very very small. There are power savings if you can under-utilize the link without sacrifice, but...
Meanwhile there are large up-front costs associated with performing real-time video compression techniques, and the needed computation itself also uses a lot of power. So there would be large power costs in actually successfully under-utilizing the link using video compression techniques.
So no, not really a smart idea. The reason nVidia (who I am currently not a fan of) is proposing this g-sync idea is because currently the full technical capabilities of lcd hardware arent being exploited because of old the paradigms of a frame buffers being sent at constant fixed intervals. It would be very low cost to add logic to lcd displaces to sit and wait for new frames rather than what they currently do.
Its win-win-win because....
o) the video card would only have to transmit new frames, rather than constantly transmit frames even when they havent changed.
o) The lcd can spring into action updating pixels as soon as the video card has a new frame ready, rather than at fixed intervals.
o) In low frame-rate situations, there are power savings on the link, in the video card, and in the monitor (although the monitors power savings would be very minor as the back-light uses 99% of the power already)
I imagine this sort of thing would be adopted in laptops long before desktops.
Its rare for a library not to have functions with side-effects.
For instance, the C standard library does not in any way present a system equivalent to black boxes. Some of the functions certainly qualify, but many do not.
Pretty much the only languages where you will find black-box equivalent libraries are the pure functional languages which there arent that many (most are hybrids that trade off purism for side-effects on purpose.) In the object oriented world, all objects must be immutable or you cannot enforce black boxes.
Granted you can achieve the same properties by procedural programming (i.e. require the use of special functions to access the data) but that is just usinf the proverbial hammer to hit the screw
I am often amazed at this reasoning. So using an OO language where you require the use of special functions in a special place to access the data is OK, but using a bog-standard procedural language and having the same requirements is somehow the old "hammer vs screw" idiom.
I got news for you: Invoking some well known and often accurate idiom while making your argument doesnt make your argument accurate.
There is value in making such things formal but there is also value in not enforcing rules just for the sake of having rules. The argument as you present it is a snake chowing down on its own tail.
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Nothing you have said addresses his point.
You either know this to be the case making you a dishonest prick, or don't know this to be the case making you an ignorant fuck.
What he is talking about is settled science. Water vapor is not only the #1 greenhouse contributor, its effects are greater than all the other contributors combined.
if you want to get into the science of why his arguments aren't as solid as they appear, rather than just pretending to be an ignorant fuck like you just did, then you need to look at forcings vs feedback. But actually knowing and understanding the science, or at least presenting it honestly, is too much to ask from you while you so willingly try to contribute to the conversation with complete crap.
You are either dishonest or ignorant. Don't bother telling us which.
In the liberal mind it seems to... quality of life gets sacrificed at every turn in the name of "we know whats best for you" or "it helps the unfortunate" or some combination of the two. Each sacrifice creates the need for another, at an ever-increasing rate.
Simply spreading comfort and pain equally is neither equality nor represents freedom. They used to understand this concept, but they lost their comprehension somewhere around the time of F.D.R.
When its worth doing, its worth doing right. If you don't know how to do it right, then how can you possibly know that its worth doing? Therein lies the problem: Guessing because of Feeling because of Ignorance. "Something needs to be done!" leads to "Shit this turned into a big mess, something needs to be done!"
Plight can sometimes be the best outcome. This is reality, not Star Trek.
It won’t take long for people to figure out how to fix that problem by trying to ensure they have only enough withheld to meet their tax obligation.
Well thats been me for over a decade now. I declare 3 exemptions on the federal when I actually "deserve" none, and at the end of the year I owe a few hundred bucks because of it. For a few years I tweaked in an addition flat withholding of $5, but then I realized something...
If I declared the 0 exemptions that I deserve I would be making thousands of dollars in over-payments, yet when I declare 3 exemptions that I don't deserve its only a few hundred in under-payments. Clearly there is something seriously wrong if most of the country is giving the government a large interest-free short-term loan every year.
...I decided that fuck them, they can wait until April 15th for their god damned money, and when I am successful not a single day fucking sooner.
Its trivial to show that typical PRNG's are frequently not good enough for the monte-carlo simulations and testing that they are thrown at. An N-bit PRNG can only produce at most half of all N+1 bit sequences, a quarter of all N+2 bit sequences, an eighth of all N+3 bit sequences, and so on....
Given this, obviously the larger N is, the better. Of course most standard libraries use a 32-bit (or less) generator and most programmers are lazy or uneducated in the matter... so only half of all 8-billion to one shots are even possible with that 32-bit generator and then each can only be sampled if the generator just happens to be in the perfect 4-billion to one shot state....
As the saying goes...Random numbers are too important to be left to chance.
2. Unreliable. Zener diodes are easy to affect with temperature, and you need to make sure that hardware flaws don't make them produce 1 more often than 0 (or the other way around).
A good implementation assumes that there is an unknown bias and produces an unbiased (to within 50% +/- whatever margin you want) output anyways.
The problem is never the spending itself: Its the doing it inefficiently part that has always been the problem.
Computer science analogy: The problem is that sort() calls bubble(). Replace sort() with NASA spending, and bubble() with crony capitalism.
The government doesnt normally do things efficiently. It sometimes does a few things efficiently for short periods of time, but the lack of actual accountability always degrades the situation into inefficiency. So the question we must ask ourselves is not if NASA's "mission" is worthy of resource allocation, but instead if its worthy of a SPECIFIC AMOUNT of resource allocation. Its pretty clear than $8 billion dollar telescopes are an obscene waste of resources.
The US economy has never been stronger or more productive. The government debt issues are mostly due to the unwillingness to raise taxes.
Taxes naturally go up when the economy improves.. you seem to be ignoring that entirely, that in spite of growing revenue the deficit grows even faster.
The wealth of a nation is the goods and services that its people enjoy, so its no surprise that with the sheer volume of inefficient resource allocation that the government is instigating that we are all poorer for it. Its not the taxes that cost us, its the inefficient spending that costs us.
If the government took in the same quantity of money that it does now but just burned it in a fire pit, we would all be better off than the government instead buying man-hours off the market (both directly and indirectly through contracting) and allocating it in such a poor manner. Those man hours could have been used to provide efficient goods and services (and WOULD be used for that if we let inefficient businesses fail) which would mean more goods and services to go around for everyone than the alternative where the man hours are used inefficiently by writ of law.
I would have no problem with the government taking 99% of my income if that didnt mean that at least 99% of the people were working (or paid for not working) directly or indirectly for a government-protected inefficiency. The problem is that that is in fact what it would mean.
Suppose in 1990 that the government froze spending, locked it to inflation. Well, 1990 wasn't so bad, right? Has there been great strides in the quality of life since then that we can attribute to government spending? Not at all, but the government would not only be debt free, it would have a completely monstrous surplus of revenue and a huge pile of money right now, and the GDP (and thus the goods and services that define our wealth as a nation) would be much greater than it is now,
The rate of growth of government spending as been significantly greater than GDP growth since the 1980s. Thats how we got into this mess, and you did not propose a solution: You just proposed to enable the government to make it even worse.
based almost entirely on a bill that Mitt Romney and his Republican friends
You mean Mitt Romney and his Democrat friends, don't you? Massachusetts is one of the most blue States in the country. The State legislature is composed of 127 Democrats and 30 Republicans.
The problem here is that your knowledge and consideration is shallow, mindless, ignorant, stupidfuck. There is no polite way to put that.
The serving Democrats got what they wanted in Massachusetts, and then the serving Democrats got exactly what they wanted on the Federal level. I realize that its hard for you to swallow that your beloved Democrats are so firmly sucking corporate cock, but they have always been the actual pro-corporate party in spite of the lies they continue to tell you. They used to just transfer tax money to their corporate friends.. now they are forcing you to directly transfer money to their corporate friends.. These facts are in evidence and are undeniable, but you continue to deny them. There is no polite way to describe the kind of dumb fuck you are. .
Most users won't be installing oses, though they might choose to use a device that happens to be based on linux.
Not just that, but there needs to be one distro to rule them all or the user-installed os option will never work. The largest impediment to the year of linux on the desktop has always been that the main competitor to linux isn't windows.. its another linux.
Linux wins on mobile because there is in fact one distro to rule them all.. its called android.
It has to do with the transition of the 50's, 60's, and 70's when the two parties re-oriented to split the public along the social axis instead of the fiscal axis. Remember that the Democrats were brought kicking and screaming into implementing things like desegregation, and realizing their growing horrible public image began pushing out social conservatives from their party.
With the help of the media things like the abortion debate were re-framed as a "pro-choice" movement, dehumanizing the fetus much the same as the Democrats once dehumanized people with different colored skin.
Its the same tactics as always from the Democrat camp, just with a better paint job. They say one thing, but do the other and through public relations spin look good because the average American is shallow and not at all thoughtful about what their position really is, and what the actions of government really are.
Its the party of popular opinion, which would be OK if not for their influence and control over which opinions are popular to begin with. This is due in a large part to the transition from investigative journalism to he-said-she-said journalism, and to make sure that it stays that way the press itself is now a target of an administration willing to pass laws that give it the power to determine by themselves who is and who is not a journalist, and willing to use the justice department to intimidate the media.
These old classic episodes that they are talking about are quite dated by todays high-paced entertainment standards. There is almost zero chance that your woman will enjoy watching them even if she is a modern scifi nerd.
I watched many many episodes of doctor who in the early 1980's and loved them at the time, but recently I tried watching some of these classics and found that they are just too unbearably slow. However the new doctor who episodes from the past decade are completely awesome, top notch, grade-a+++ entertainment that your woman, scifi nerd or not, will most likely enjoy. You can find the new who on netflix streaming, as well as some of the old classics.
The advantage of early API's like glide was that it was much lower level than opengl/d3d, allowing for very efficient hardware-assisted software rendering.
As a simple for-instance, the transition between those lower level API's and software rendering into those higher level API's and fully-hardware rendering was that things like landscapes suddenly used polygons and their datasets ballooned enormously. There was nearly an entire decade of fixed-function-pipeline where the quite-negative artifacts of that transition such as LOD popping and disconnected seams on landscapes were common place, and even to this day its difficult to get a landscape renderer correct at LOD transitions (most engines have just pushed the LOD transitions further away and covered the ground with instanced-foliage to hide the problem.)
The advantage of the software rendering ray-surfing methods were that there werent any LOD transitions with regards to landscapes if you didn't want there to be. Hell, they were rendering seamless and popless landscapes on 80386's in the demo scene but these days its the norm for there to be pops and seams.
If you're running a system that is vulnerable to infected USB devices or media files, that's pretty much on you.
Sigh.. there is no technical reason why a untrusted USB device couldnt present itself as a Human Interface Device (HID - keyboard, mouse, both,..) and then open up a shell on your *nix box and run arbitrary shell commands.
There is in fact concern that future USB drives will be manufactured to "phone home" using such techniques.
When he started using executive orders to enact legislation that wasn't passed by congress. Thats when.
Were you unaware of this? That 1-year delay that corporations get that congress now wants ordinary people to also get.. that was an executive order created by the executive branch and signed by Obama. Congress did not agree to or sign anything on that.
Other executive orders on the subject include exemptions for particular unions, as well as exemptions for many government workers.
But lets not let awareness of whats really fucking going on confuse the agenda of bashing Republicans for trying to get every american the same rights that Obama has given all his buddies.
Notice how you so quickly end a sentence and then immediately start talking about a different group of people as if they were the previous group of people that you were talking about.
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You do know that shooting towards the middle doesn't automatically make something balanced, right?
If one side is right and the other side is complete spin, then the middle is just less spin than complete spin. Given this, under your definition of "balanced" the spinners can arbitrarily control where the "balanced" point is by ramping up or ramping down the amount of spin as necessary.
The fact is that many people are required by law to use this thing within the next 71 days, but it continues to not work.
Poverty kills more people than all health problems combined.
The manufacturers that produce their own flash chips (Intel, Sumsung, Sandisk) are doing very well, with seemingly solid products.
The government has demonstrated that it can make you buy specific stuff through writ of law.
..and its not just our government. In fact some governments have already made "supporting" broadcasting content virtually mandatory (United Kingdom, the BBC "tax" ..)
Well there goes the power savings...
So why are you considering doing this again?
The fact is that the bandwidth between video card and monitor must be enough to handle the worst case scenario or else its not fit for purpose, and the hardware cost difference between fully utilizing this link and greatly under utilizing this link is very very small. There are power savings if you can under-utilize the link without sacrifice, but...
Meanwhile there are large up-front costs associated with performing real-time video compression techniques, and the needed computation itself also uses a lot of power. So there would be large power costs in actually successfully under-utilizing the link using video compression techniques.
So no, not really a smart idea. The reason nVidia (who I am currently not a fan of) is proposing this g-sync idea is because currently the full technical capabilities of lcd hardware arent being exploited because of old the paradigms of a frame buffers being sent at constant fixed intervals. It would be very low cost to add logic to lcd displaces to sit and wait for new frames rather than what they currently do.
Its win-win-win because....
o) the video card would only have to transmit new frames, rather than constantly transmit frames even when they havent changed.
o) The lcd can spring into action updating pixels as soon as the video card has a new frame ready, rather than at fixed intervals.
o) In low frame-rate situations, there are power savings on the link, in the video card, and in the monitor (although the monitors power savings would be very minor as the back-light uses 99% of the power already)
I imagine this sort of thing would be adopted in laptops long before desktops.
Its rare for a library not to have functions with side-effects.
For instance, the C standard library does not in any way present a system equivalent to black boxes. Some of the functions certainly qualify, but many do not.
Pretty much the only languages where you will find black-box equivalent libraries are the pure functional languages which there arent that many (most are hybrids that trade off purism for side-effects on purpose.) In the object oriented world, all objects must be immutable or you cannot enforce black boxes.
Granted you can achieve the same properties by procedural programming (i.e. require the use of special functions to access the data) but that is just usinf the proverbial hammer to hit the screw
I am often amazed at this reasoning. So using an OO language where you require the use of special functions in a special place to access the data is OK, but using a bog-standard procedural language and having the same requirements is somehow the old "hammer vs screw" idiom.
I got news for you: Invoking some well known and often accurate idiom while making your argument doesnt make your argument accurate.
There is value in making such things formal but there is also value in not enforcing rules just for the sake of having rules. The argument as you present it is a snake chowing down on its own tail.
Nothing you have said addresses his point.
You either know this to be the case making you a dishonest prick, or don't know this to be the case making you an ignorant fuck.
What he is talking about is settled science. Water vapor is not only the #1 greenhouse contributor, its effects are greater than all the other contributors combined.
if you want to get into the science of why his arguments aren't as solid as they appear, rather than just pretending to be an ignorant fuck like you just did, then you need to look at forcings vs feedback. But actually knowing and understanding the science, or at least presenting it honestly, is too much to ask from you while you so willingly try to contribute to the conversation with complete crap.
You are either dishonest or ignorant. Don't bother telling us which.
In the liberal mind it seems to... quality of life gets sacrificed at every turn in the name of "we know whats best for you" or "it helps the unfortunate" or some combination of the two. Each sacrifice creates the need for another, at an ever-increasing rate.
Simply spreading comfort and pain equally is neither equality nor represents freedom. They used to understand this concept, but they lost their comprehension somewhere around the time of F.D.R.
When its worth doing, its worth doing right. If you don't know how to do it right, then how can you possibly know that its worth doing? Therein lies the problem: Guessing because of Feeling because of Ignorance. "Something needs to be done!" leads to "Shit this turned into a big mess, something needs to be done!"
Plight can sometimes be the best outcome. This is reality, not Star Trek.
It won’t take long for people to figure out how to fix that problem by trying to ensure they have only enough withheld to meet their tax obligation.
Well thats been me for over a decade now. I declare 3 exemptions on the federal when I actually "deserve" none, and at the end of the year I owe a few hundred bucks because of it. For a few years I tweaked in an addition flat withholding of $5, but then I realized something...
...I decided that fuck them, they can wait until April 15th for their god damned money, and when I am successful not a single day fucking sooner.
If I declared the 0 exemptions that I deserve I would be making thousands of dollars in over-payments, yet when I declare 3 exemptions that I don't deserve its only a few hundred in under-payments. Clearly there is something seriously wrong if most of the country is giving the government a large interest-free short-term loan every year.
Its trivial to show that typical PRNG's are frequently not good enough for the monte-carlo simulations and testing that they are thrown at. An N-bit PRNG can only produce at most half of all N+1 bit sequences, a quarter of all N+2 bit sequences, an eighth of all N+3 bit sequences, and so on....
Given this, obviously the larger N is, the better. Of course most standard libraries use a 32-bit (or less) generator and most programmers are lazy or uneducated in the matter... so only half of all 8-billion to one shots are even possible with that 32-bit generator and then each can only be sampled if the generator just happens to be in the perfect 4-billion to one shot state....
As the saying goes...Random numbers are too important to be left to chance.
2. Unreliable. Zener diodes are easy to affect with temperature, and you need to make sure that hardware flaws don't make them produce 1 more often than 0 (or the other way around).
A good implementation assumes that there is an unknown bias and produces an unbiased (to within 50% +/- whatever margin you want) output anyways.
The problem is never the spending itself: Its the doing it inefficiently part that has always been the problem.
Computer science analogy: The problem is that sort() calls bubble(). Replace sort() with NASA spending, and bubble() with crony capitalism.
The government doesnt normally do things efficiently. It sometimes does a few things efficiently for short periods of time, but the lack of actual accountability always degrades the situation into inefficiency. So the question we must ask ourselves is not if NASA's "mission" is worthy of resource allocation, but instead if its worthy of a SPECIFIC AMOUNT of resource allocation. Its pretty clear than $8 billion dollar telescopes are an obscene waste of resources.
The US economy has never been stronger or more productive. The government debt issues are mostly due to the unwillingness to raise taxes.
Taxes naturally go up when the economy improves.. you seem to be ignoring that entirely, that in spite of growing revenue the deficit grows even faster.
The wealth of a nation is the goods and services that its people enjoy, so its no surprise that with the sheer volume of inefficient resource allocation that the government is instigating that we are all poorer for it. Its not the taxes that cost us, its the inefficient spending that costs us.
If the government took in the same quantity of money that it does now but just burned it in a fire pit, we would all be better off than the government instead buying man-hours off the market (both directly and indirectly through contracting) and allocating it in such a poor manner. Those man hours could have been used to provide efficient goods and services (and WOULD be used for that if we let inefficient businesses fail) which would mean more goods and services to go around for everyone than the alternative where the man hours are used inefficiently by writ of law.
I would have no problem with the government taking 99% of my income if that didnt mean that at least 99% of the people were working (or paid for not working) directly or indirectly for a government-protected inefficiency. The problem is that that is in fact what it would mean.
Suppose in 1990 that the government froze spending, locked it to inflation. Well, 1990 wasn't so bad, right? Has there been great strides in the quality of life since then that we can attribute to government spending? Not at all, but the government would not only be debt free, it would have a completely monstrous surplus of revenue and a huge pile of money right now, and the GDP (and thus the goods and services that define our wealth as a nation) would be much greater than it is now,
The rate of growth of government spending as been significantly greater than GDP growth since the 1980s. Thats how we got into this mess, and you did not propose a solution: You just proposed to enable the government to make it even worse.
based almost entirely on a bill that Mitt Romney and his Republican friends
You mean Mitt Romney and his Democrat friends, don't you? Massachusetts is one of the most blue States in the country. The State legislature is composed of 127 Democrats and 30 Republicans.
The problem here is that your knowledge and consideration is shallow, mindless, ignorant, stupidfuck. There is no polite way to put that.
The serving Democrats got what they wanted in Massachusetts, and then the serving Democrats got exactly what they wanted on the Federal level. I realize that its hard for you to swallow that your beloved Democrats are so firmly sucking corporate cock, but they have always been the actual pro-corporate party in spite of the lies they continue to tell you. They used to just transfer tax money to their corporate friends.. now they are forcing you to directly transfer money to their corporate friends.. These facts are in evidence and are undeniable, but you continue to deny them. There is no polite way to describe the kind of dumb fuck you are. .
Most users won't be installing oses, though they might choose to use a device that happens to be based on linux.
Not just that, but there needs to be one distro to rule them all or the user-installed os option will never work. The largest impediment to the year of linux on the desktop has always been that the main competitor to linux isn't windows.. its another linux.
Linux wins on mobile because there is in fact one distro to rule them all.. its called android.
sigh... not this misconception again.
The constitution enumerates what the government is allowed to do. It does not enumerate what the government is forbidden to do.
But thanks to over a century of people (like you) not knowing that.. the government does whatever it wants.
...any game with a low quality graphics setting at a low resolution
It has to do with the transition of the 50's, 60's, and 70's when the two parties re-oriented to split the public along the social axis instead of the fiscal axis. Remember that the Democrats were brought kicking and screaming into implementing things like desegregation, and realizing their growing horrible public image began pushing out social conservatives from their party.
With the help of the media things like the abortion debate were re-framed as a "pro-choice" movement, dehumanizing the fetus much the same as the Democrats once dehumanized people with different colored skin.
Its the same tactics as always from the Democrat camp, just with a better paint job. They say one thing, but do the other and through public relations spin look good because the average American is shallow and not at all thoughtful about what their position really is, and what the actions of government really are.
Its the party of popular opinion, which would be OK if not for their influence and control over which opinions are popular to begin with. This is due in a large part to the transition from investigative journalism to he-said-she-said journalism, and to make sure that it stays that way the press itself is now a target of an administration willing to pass laws that give it the power to determine by themselves who is and who is not a journalist, and willing to use the justice department to intimidate the media.
These old classic episodes that they are talking about are quite dated by todays high-paced entertainment standards. There is almost zero chance that your woman will enjoy watching them even if she is a modern scifi nerd.
I watched many many episodes of doctor who in the early 1980's and loved them at the time, but recently I tried watching some of these classics and found that they are just too unbearably slow. However the new doctor who episodes from the past decade are completely awesome, top notch, grade-a+++ entertainment that your woman, scifi nerd or not, will most likely enjoy. You can find the new who on netflix streaming, as well as some of the old classics.
it was first post, stoopid.
Or is there something I'm missing?
Yeah, the whole API and software rendering thing.
The advantage of early API's like glide was that it was much lower level than opengl/d3d, allowing for very efficient hardware-assisted software rendering.
As a simple for-instance, the transition between those lower level API's and software rendering into those higher level API's and fully-hardware rendering was that things like landscapes suddenly used polygons and their datasets ballooned enormously. There was nearly an entire decade of fixed-function-pipeline where the quite-negative artifacts of that transition such as LOD popping and disconnected seams on landscapes were common place, and even to this day its difficult to get a landscape renderer correct at LOD transitions (most engines have just pushed the LOD transitions further away and covered the ground with instanced-foliage to hide the problem.)
The advantage of the software rendering ray-surfing methods were that there werent any LOD transitions with regards to landscapes if you didn't want there to be. Hell, they were rendering seamless and popless landscapes on 80386's in the demo scene but these days its the norm for there to be pops and seams.
If you're running a system that is vulnerable to infected USB devices or media files, that's pretty much on you.
Sigh.. there is no technical reason why a untrusted USB device couldnt present itself as a Human Interface Device (HID - keyboard, mouse, both, ..) and then open up a shell on your *nix box and run arbitrary shell commands.
There is in fact concern that future USB drives will be manufactured to "phone home" using such techniques.
When did Obama become part of the legislature?
When he started using executive orders to enact legislation that wasn't passed by congress. Thats when.
Were you unaware of this? That 1-year delay that corporations get that congress now wants ordinary people to also get.. that was an executive order created by the executive branch and signed by Obama. Congress did not agree to or sign anything on that.
Other executive orders on the subject include exemptions for particular unions, as well as exemptions for many government workers.
But lets not let awareness of whats really fucking going on confuse the agenda of bashing Republicans for trying to get every american the same rights that Obama has given all his buddies.
But is *IS* the Tea Party's fault!
OK, but then how come:
The Republicans *lost* the debate
Notice how you so quickly end a sentence and then immediately start talking about a different group of people as if they were the previous group of people that you were talking about.