All of these analogies are stupid because they presume that the BID and ASK are monetarily reversed.
The correct analogy is that you announce that you want to buy the can of beans for $2.98 while the two existing shopkeepers are offering them at $2.99 and $3.00 respectively.
Having worked as a machinist (CnC and manual), I can very well attest to this. However we used "thou" instead of "thousandths" as the term for the primary unit. Most of the carbide cutting tools that we produced for Pratt and Whitney had tolerances of +/- 1 tenths (1 tenth of a thou.)
I havent been in that business for almost 2 decades now, tho. The wiki article seems to indicate that "thou(sandths)" has become even more common in machinist vernacular.
..because with the latest top-end GPU's, "proper" cooling is very expensive... even the mid-range cards are using multiple fans these days...
From what I am reading, the original 7970 drew 40 amps / 210W TDP at reference clocks and upwards of 100 amps when OC'd, and because this new 7970 is basically OC'd...
The consumer lines are built by OEMs from a reference design with incentives to push clock speeds and component specs to the limit.
Indeed.. and with that in mind, its not at all silly to buy a card with lower clock rates but the same gpu reference.. you probably wouldnt notice the framerate difference, but you WILL notice the temperature difference as the highest clocked cards are always maxing out their fans... even on menu screens
In poker, it is very important to be able to ask of yourself and honestly answer the question "am I playing great today?" yet the downfall of the issue is the "honestly" requirement. The greatest players, when things arent going well on a particular day, well they go home. The cost of failed introspection is too great.
Humans are not rational beings, they are rationalizing beings. Just because a line of thinking is rationalized, that doesnt make that line of thought necessarily rational.
A good common scenario for discussing this amongst friends is the effects of marijuana (as most people have smoked it and understand its effects to some degree) on game players, particularly board games like chess. Marijuana allows a greater focus ("depth") of thought, at the expense of completeness ("breadth".) The pot smoker when playing chess is thinking quite a few moves farther head than they normally would, but will more easily miss the painfully obvious.
The effects of chemicals aside, it is quite clear that our brains make unconscious assumptions (often "learned" through simple repetition) that are not necessarily true. Given limited resources, it is evolutionarily advantageous to be design this way. We stop giving consideration to things that often, but not always, arent worth considering.
Nobody here is claiming that over-clocking cannot void the warranty, yet that can in fact be accomplished at the driver level in many cases and no your EE staff does not need to be fired if over-clocking can burn up the hardware.
Maybe the NIC respects what the driver tells it, while the uncertified Linux drivers are throwing out values that represent an unintended over-clock. In some circles the over-clocking ability would be called a "feature."
Yet here you are, hoping that this is NewEgg trying to conserve profit margin, instead of hoping that the hardware might be over-clockable.
What is really going to bother those of the social-style liberal mindset is the realization that corporate taxes are as regressive as sales/consumption taxes. Many will argue that this isnt true while they rally against evil corporations, but will not be able to refute the notion that all corporate taxes are passed on to the consumer and therefore are manifest as a direct cost per unit regardless of the financial situation of the purchaser.
If we could agree to just tax personal incomes (payroll, capital gains, etc), not only would our western governments become more competitive globally, but it would also make the act of taxation itself far more efficient.
That will not happen because one of the uses of our tax systems are both as a weapon to wield against those without influence, and as a corruption to reward those with influence.
Why does it matter whether it happens in 10 years or 100 years?
There is 600 million people living way below the international poverty line right now, today, in India. You want us to worry about imaginary future people?
Indeed. The Bush administration doubled the funding for the federal department of education, much to the chagrin of fiscal conservatives on both sides of the fence (yes, there are fiscally conservative Democrats.)
The biggest problem with our education system is almost certainly how top-heavy the funding is.
Back in the day...no one owed you anything, not even the government, and we got along just fine. Most people, took this as incentive to work their asses off to survive...and even to succeed.
Not only that.. people simply lived more optimally. When children grew up, they didnt automatically leave home. They stays and helped out until they got married, and even then they sometimes stayed to help out, enriching both themselves AND their parents in the process.
I understand if they dumped Microsoft Office for OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but its simply insane to migrate to Google Docs under a justification that "retraining is expensive"
At least with the former, you can continue running an old version if training costs to roll out a new version are too high. With Google Docs, you are quite literally *forced* to upgrade on Googles timetable.
The Windows SDK no longer ships with a complete command-line build environment. The Windows SDK now requires a compiler and build environment to be installed separately.
Yes, but that separate install is called.NET. The.NET framework *requires* a C# compiler, and I dont mean JIT. The C# (and VB.NET) compiler was always included with the.NET framework and must always be included unless they eliminate a large portion of the framework itself.
I believe its only VC++ that will be harder to get, but there are plenty of free alternatives for native C++ on Windows (GCC, CLANG,...)
So when we are talking about C# (as is the case with this thread of the discussion) and in the context of this article, we are really only talking about the new Express IDE no longer supporting WinForms/Console applications.
I do a lot of.NET development and do not own VS or an MSDN subscription (well, I have VS6 from like 1998) and even I am like "meh" because it really doesnt effect me, as even though the latest VS is arguably the greatest IDE ever made, I mainly use a text editor because I have found that once experienced with the framework all that code completion and whatnot gets in the way often enough to be more obstructive that useful. I do fire up VS Express for the form designer sometimes, but mainly I write console apps.
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Do you have any scientific basis for these claims or are you just making things up?
Do you mean besides the fact that we are all hives of single-celled organisms?
Now their entire world is threatened by the internet, and the FCC are attempting to apply a band-aid to help keep their business model going.
This is the same FCC that slashdot fucks want in charge of network neutrality. I told you guys.
History is replete with the FCC fucking the consumer and protecting entrenched monopolies, but because "network neutrality" is a religion to you people, you turn your brains off and bend right the fuck over for them.
Ah yes, the prosperous times when there was no government meddling and you were free to work your wage slaves to death.
Blah blah blah.
Actual example of what he is talking about: Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company.
That while a select few enjoyed ridiculously extravagant lifestyle, children were dying of hunger in the streets, homeless because their family could not sustain an existence on the meager droppings from the fat cats' tables?
The solution to the effects of poverty is wealth creation. Thats exactly what how the United States reduced those effects to minimums the world had never seen before, a model repeated again and again in other countries as they too industrialized. A model seen today in China as it industrializes.
I dont want to live in your world of subsistence farming, thank you very much.
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All of these analogies are stupid because they presume that the BID and ASK are monetarily reversed.
The correct analogy is that you announce that you want to buy the can of beans for $2.98 while the two existing shopkeepers are offering them at $2.99 and $3.00 respectively.
Amps? I think you might be wrong there Chief. Typical household wiring circuits are rated at 15 amps.
Thats 15 amps at 120 volts, sparky.
...which is 150 amps at 12 volts.
Having worked as a machinist (CnC and manual), I can very well attest to this. However we used "thou" instead of "thousandths" as the term for the primary unit. Most of the carbide cutting tools that we produced for Pratt and Whitney had tolerances of +/- 1 tenths (1 tenth of a thou.)
I havent been in that business for almost 2 decades now, tho. The wiki article seems to indicate that "thou(sandths)" has become even more common in machinist vernacular.
..because with the latest top-end GPU's, "proper" cooling is very expensive... even the mid-range cards are using multiple fans these days...
From what I am reading, the original 7970 drew 40 amps / 210W TDP at reference clocks and upwards of 100 amps when OC'd, and because this new 7970 is basically OC'd...
The consumer lines are built by OEMs from a reference design with incentives to push clock speeds and component specs to the limit.
Indeed.. and with that in mind, its not at all silly to buy a card with lower clock rates but the same gpu reference.. you probably wouldnt notice the framerate difference, but you WILL notice the temperature difference as the highest clocked cards are always maxing out their fans... even on menu screens
Every State with an international airport, or is within 100 miles of an international airport, is a border State.
In poker, it is very important to be able to ask of yourself and honestly answer the question "am I playing great today?" yet the downfall of the issue is the "honestly" requirement. The greatest players, when things arent going well on a particular day, well they go home. The cost of failed introspection is too great.
Humans are not rational beings, they are rationalizing beings. Just because a line of thinking is rationalized, that doesnt make that line of thought necessarily rational.
A good common scenario for discussing this amongst friends is the effects of marijuana (as most people have smoked it and understand its effects to some degree) on game players, particularly board games like chess. Marijuana allows a greater focus ("depth") of thought, at the expense of completeness ("breadth".) The pot smoker when playing chess is thinking quite a few moves farther head than they normally would, but will more easily miss the painfully obvious.
The effects of chemicals aside, it is quite clear that our brains make unconscious assumptions (often "learned" through simple repetition) that are not necessarily true. Given limited resources, it is evolutionarily advantageous to be design this way. We stop giving consideration to things that often, but not always, arent worth considering.
Nobody here is claiming that over-clocking cannot void the warranty, yet that can in fact be accomplished at the driver level in many cases and no your EE staff does not need to be fired if over-clocking can burn up the hardware.
Maybe the NIC respects what the driver tells it, while the uncertified Linux drivers are throwing out values that represent an unintended over-clock. In some circles the over-clocking ability would be called a "feature."
Yet here you are, hoping that this is NewEgg trying to conserve profit margin, instead of hoping that the hardware might be over-clockable.
Why tax corporate profits in the first place?
Indeed.
What is really going to bother those of the social-style liberal mindset is the realization that corporate taxes are as regressive as sales/consumption taxes. Many will argue that this isnt true while they rally against evil corporations, but will not be able to refute the notion that all corporate taxes are passed on to the consumer and therefore are manifest as a direct cost per unit regardless of the financial situation of the purchaser.
If we could agree to just tax personal incomes (payroll, capital gains, etc), not only would our western governments become more competitive globally, but it would also make the act of taxation itself far more efficient.
That will not happen because one of the uses of our tax systems are both as a weapon to wield against those without influence, and as a corruption to reward those with influence.
Bad news: There will never be a 4K television standard
Why does it matter whether it happens in 10 years or 100 years?
There is 600 million people living way below the international poverty line right now, today, in India. You want us to worry about imaginary future people?
Where they have to use cats instead of the much simpler counterfeit checking pens.
The useless pens that do nothing but test for starch? Yeah... cats really are just as effective.
Indeed. The Bush administration doubled the funding for the federal department of education, much to the chagrin of fiscal conservatives on both sides of the fence (yes, there are fiscally conservative Democrats.)
The biggest problem with our education system is almost certainly how top-heavy the funding is.
If the government is paying for your health care, that choice is no longer yours.
The government gets its money from the people...
...but to be quite specific, the debt is so large that they apparently get it from people that havent even been born yet.
Now you tell me.. who asked the unborn to make this decision, and what justification did the unborn use?
Back in the day...no one owed you anything, not even the government, and we got along just fine. Most people, took this as incentive to work their asses off to survive...and even to succeed.
Not only that.. people simply lived more optimally. When children grew up, they didnt automatically leave home. They stays and helped out until they got married, and even then they sometimes stayed to help out, enriching both themselves AND their parents in the process.
I understand if they dumped Microsoft Office for OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but its simply insane to migrate to Google Docs under a justification that "retraining is expensive"
At least with the former, you can continue running an old version if training costs to roll out a new version are too high. With Google Docs, you are quite literally *forced* to upgrade on Googles timetable.
The person that looks like the shill is you.
..because nobody gave a shit when Apple touted it.
You simple never hear an iPhone user say "yeah but mine has a better display"
The C# compiler was never in the platform SDK.
.NET framework itself... look under \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\*
Its part of the
The Windows SDK no longer ships with a complete command-line build environment. The Windows SDK now requires a compiler and build environment to be installed separately.
Yes, but that separate install is called .NET. The .NET framework *requires* a C# compiler, and I dont mean JIT. The C# (and VB.NET) compiler was always included with the .NET framework and must always be included unless they eliminate a large portion of the framework itself.
...)
.NET development and do not own VS or an MSDN subscription (well, I have VS6 from like 1998) and even I am like "meh" because it really doesnt effect me, as even though the latest VS is arguably the greatest IDE ever made, I mainly use a text editor because I have found that once experienced with the framework all that code completion and whatnot gets in the way often enough to be more obstructive that useful. I do fire up VS Express for the form designer sometimes, but mainly I write console apps.
I believe its only VC++ that will be harder to get, but there are plenty of free alternatives for native C++ on Windows (GCC, CLANG,
So when we are talking about C# (as is the case with this thread of the discussion) and in the context of this article, we are really only talking about the new Express IDE no longer supporting WinForms/Console applications.
I do a lot of
Do you have any scientific basis for these claims or are you just making things up?
Do you mean besides the fact that we are all hives of single-celled organisms?
What does it say about them?
Which part of $8/hour confuses you?
Work just enough not to get fired, paid just enough not to quit.
Now their entire world is threatened by the internet, and the FCC are attempting to apply a band-aid to help keep their business model going.
This is the same FCC that slashdot fucks want in charge of network neutrality. I told you guys.
History is replete with the FCC fucking the consumer and protecting entrenched monopolies, but because "network neutrality" is a religion to you people, you turn your brains off and bend right the fuck over for them.
on't you need to pay a monthly fee for NetFlix?
Don't drives need to be replaced?
Also, are you certain, that NetFlix (or a similar service) will be available 10, 20, 30 years later?
I have a VHS collection. I don't have a VCR. Even if I did, the quality of the media is not what it used to be.
When discussing your philosophy, you seem to be blind to its negatives. Are you just dishonest with us, or are you also dishonest with yourself?
Ah yes, the prosperous times when there was no government meddling and you were free to work your wage slaves to death.
Blah blah blah.
Actual example of what he is talking about: Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company.
That while a select few enjoyed ridiculously extravagant lifestyle, children were dying of hunger in the streets, homeless because their family could not sustain an existence on the meager droppings from the fat cats' tables?
The solution to the effects of poverty is wealth creation. Thats exactly what how the United States reduced those effects to minimums the world had never seen before, a model repeated again and again in other countries as they too industrialized. A model seen today in China as it industrializes.
I dont want to live in your world of subsistence farming, thank you very much.