I'm not worried about copying a CD, but i do like being able to move them from PC to PC. After I finished portal, I'd like to *give* it to my brother. But unlike a normal game, that's not possible.
"Unlike a normal game", you paid less, or at least should have.
I have a silo of old games (10+ years old), but only a handful of new games with physical media.
I play those old games exactly never.. hell, most wont even run on any of the rigs I have set up now, and even if I set up the rigs to run them, I would be immediately displeased with them. My expectations are higher now.
So it's OK for the school to use the kids as pawns in a political battle? I don't think so. Any adult using kids that way should be ashamed of themselves.
They have authority over the children, but not the parents.
Disproving the notion that the parents should 'set an example' and 'respect authority'
If the parents abuse that fact, step in on behalf of their children every time this authority is inconvenient or uncomfortable for the child, the child learns that this authority is not important,
Nobody said anything about stepping in 'whenever'.. the discussion is about stepping in 'now'.. don't be a holier-than-thou shitbag all your life. You are (A) preaching something that nobody is arguing against, or (B) trying to translate one situation onto another so that you can preach.
In the end, we dont want to hear you preaching about something that has absolutely nothing to do with reality.
Confronting those in authority while respecting that authority (yeah yeah, insert South Park joke, if you must) is fine. That means you approach the issue with civility, and if you don't get your way, the lesson is that you lost that battle, and this is a rule the kid needs to follow. Respecting authority is important. Respect in general is important. But if the parent doesn't respect authority, there's no reason the child will, either.
The school faculty is not an authority over the parents.
They are servants of the people. They have as much authority over the parents as the local garbage man. Actually, I take that back. The garbage man has some authority. Teachers and Principles do not.
Oh, well I was pointing out that by 1991, the NOAA had purged 75% of the dataset it offers.
The killer is the bias involved. The number of Canadian sites used went from 496 to only 44, a 91% reduction. Things like this are important because most of the sites in Canada are pretty much ideal with regards to urbanization: there hasn't been much. In America, many also nearly ideal sites with regard to urbanization are also no longer used (sites in mountains, and so forth.)
The stations that are left are questionable not only because they may have obvious problems, but also because they have been cherry picked.
Do you want to just throw up your hands and say we don't know anything or should we do the best we can with what we've got imperfect as it is?
I want those responsible for the bad state of the data as it is today to be removed from positions of any authority over the data. Only then can we discuss what to do about the data that is there, how to prevent things getting worse, and most importantly how the existing data can be used given its condition.
Until then, there is no reason to believe that such a compilation has any integrity at all. Mixing adjusted with unadjusted data doesnt get you anything, and not even knowing what those adjustments are.. well..
CRU's Jones stated in those hacked emails that the GISS data is inferior, yet here we are talking about using the GISS data instead of CRU's.
The kicker of it all is that there is data that both GISS and CRU claim to be raw data, for the same station and time, yet they disagree. How can this be? Is one right and the other wrong? Maybe both are wrong? Thats the situation we are in and throwing your hands up is just about the only reasonable choice until the people who put us here are no longer the governors of the data.
Limited accounts only helps when the user CANT give permissions, but thats certainly not reality on home desktops where that user is God even if the account he is using doesn't say so.
User downloads XYZ_INSTALLER
User runs XYZ_INSTALLER
User discovers that XYZ_INSTALLER needs better permissions to install.
Users wants XYZ (thats why the user downloaded it) so user hands XYZ_INSTALLER the keys to the kingdom.
Part of the windows problem is that nearly all installers require escalation, therefore there is nothing out of the ordinary when XYZ_INSTALLER requests it. The rest of the problem is that nearly all windows users don't even care about security.
Sure, GISS offers data, but we dont know the veracity of its compilation. This is in fact the story of a programmer tasked with producing such a compilation, and he is throwing his hands up and saying its damn near impossible to do it with any confidence due to the situation with the REAL backing dataset.
The downplay of the MWP and LIA began with Jones and his hockey stick, and was then ratified into the IPCC group-think when that hockey stick came under attack. His original graph showed almost no MWP or LIA, and as such put the IPCC in a catch-22. They had been publishing graphs with pronounced MWP and LIA for years.. and how could it possibly be that this one graph without was better than the dozens with?
So downplay they did. "Just regional" became the response to anyone who questioned the usefulness of hockey sticks that didnt show the periods.
That eSata drive also has wireless capabilities that can download new media off wifi while its sitting there not being used/played.
This eSata drive is part of a subscription model that delivers an endless series of games to you. When you are tired of the game thats on there, simply press a button and it starts downloading a new game.
This eSata drive also has dongle-like capabilities which prevent you from operating the game without it, which keeps the honest people honest, just like other forms of DRM.
Welcome to the future. Sorry I had to break it to ya.
I'm using a browser that progressively renders the page as it is downloaded, interactive all the way through to the best of my abilities to check (scrolled way down while it was loading)
..under 2 seconds.. all download time.. none of this 'busy' shit you are getting with Chrome or Firefox.
"Fastest browser on earth", or so claims it developers. Opera. Give it a chance.
My guess is that he had a game that was using RDTSC for timing on windows XP with Cool 'n' Quiet enabled. The XP scheduler loves to swap a process between cores (even when only one process/thread is using any CPU time), and the effect this has is that CnQ is constantly toying with the cpu frequencies of each processor, putting the RDTSC values out of sync with each other.
Prior to dual core CPU's, RDTSC was the accepted way to do timing (low latency, high resolution) Now its just foolish with all the stepping that CPU's do to save power and reduce heat. Intel's CPU's didnt have an issue here only because Intel cores couldn't be individually throttled. Now they can be with Intels turbo-whatever feature, so he would again experience the same issue with those same games if running XP.
Vista and 7 dont schedule the same way, instead trying to keep a process on the same core as much as possible to maximize cache efficiency.
Phenom II x4 940 "Black", score = 3645, price = $156, value = 23.37
Phenom II x4 945 "Black", score = 3500, price = $150, value = 23.33
Phenom II x4 955 "Black", score = 3876, price = $160, value = 24.23
Phenom II x4 965 "Black", score = 4253, price = $180, value = 23.63
The 'score' is from cpubenchmark.net, the price was the lowest on newegg at the time, and the derived value is how many benchmark points you get per dollar.
The best of the bunch were the Q8300, the i5-750, and the Phenom II 955. Factoring in motherboard price and the Phenom II 955 is distinctly ahead, but both the i5 and the Q8300 are very nice looking as well. The i5-750 is of course the performance leader of the group, especially considering overclocking, but the Phenom is a "Black" so it is also highly overclockable.
But I think more interesting for many people would be a NOISE/PRICE ratio study. Whats the best performing CPU that can run with only a heatsink, with underclocking allowed. I am not equipped to do such a study, but I'm sure someone has the info necessary.
None of my accounts have an ATM/DEBIT card attached to them.
"But don't you want a debit card?" asks the bank manager when opening the account.
"Nope. I use a credit card."
Yes, my bank account can be raided electronically, but I have very plausible deniability. Can't say that I used my ATM card to withdraw the funds, or my debit card to buy all that junk.
The iPhone API's arent static linked. Thats not how these devices are designed. Otherwise a firmware update would break every single application the user has.
Didn't fucking know that? did ya, moron?
That can't change the interfaces.. you fucking idiot.
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I'm not worried about copying a CD, but i do like being able to move them from PC to PC. After I finished portal, I'd like to *give* it to my brother. But unlike a normal game, that's not possible.
"Unlike a normal game", you paid less, or at least should have.
Take the blinders off.
Steam Achievements?
Agreed.
I have a silo of old games (10+ years old), but only a handful of new games with physical media.
I play those old games exactly never.. hell, most wont even run on any of the rigs I have set up now, and even if I set up the rigs to run them, I would be immediately displeased with them. My expectations are higher now.
So it's OK for the school to use the kids as pawns in a political battle? I don't think so. Any adult using kids that way should be ashamed of themselves.
Ashamed? I think its called Child Abuse.
They have authority over the children, but not the parents.
Disproving the notion that the parents should 'set an example' and 'respect authority'
If the parents abuse that fact, step in on behalf of their children every time this authority is inconvenient or uncomfortable for the child, the child learns that this authority is not important,
Nobody said anything about stepping in 'whenever' .. the discussion is about stepping in 'now' .. don't be a holier-than-thou shitbag all your life. You are (A) preaching something that nobody is arguing against, or (B) trying to translate one situation onto another so that you can preach.
In the end, we dont want to hear you preaching about something that has absolutely nothing to do with reality.
He didnt say anything about believing ot works or anything of the sort.
..it only makes you look like a dipshit.
Its called an observation and a prediction.
Don't be so holier-than-thou that you can't even read what people say properly.
Confronting those in authority while respecting that authority (yeah yeah, insert South Park joke, if you must) is fine. That means you approach the issue with civility, and if you don't get your way, the lesson is that you lost that battle, and this is a rule the kid needs to follow. Respecting authority is important. Respect in general is important. But if the parent doesn't respect authority, there's no reason the child will, either.
The school faculty is not an authority over the parents.
They are servants of the people. They have as much authority over the parents as the local garbage man. Actually, I take that back. The garbage man has some authority. Teachers and Principles do not.
If you want to attend FREE school
There is no such thing as a free school. You began your wall of next with horseshit, so I'm not going to read any more of it.
The last decent presidential speech writer was Peggy Noonan
While her WSJ editorials are often riddled with religious crap, she was a hell of a speech writer for Reagan.
Oh, well I was pointing out that by 1991, the NOAA had purged 75% of the dataset it offers.
The killer is the bias involved. The number of Canadian sites used went from 496 to only 44, a 91% reduction. Things like this are important because most of the sites in Canada are pretty much ideal with regards to urbanization: there hasn't been much. In America, many also nearly ideal sites with regard to urbanization are also no longer used (sites in mountains, and so forth.)
The stations that are left are questionable not only because they may have obvious problems, but also because they have been cherry picked.
Do you want to just throw up your hands and say we don't know anything or should we do the best we can with what we've got imperfect as it is?
I want those responsible for the bad state of the data as it is today to be removed from positions of any authority over the data. Only then can we discuss what to do about the data that is there, how to prevent things getting worse, and most importantly how the existing data can be used given its condition.
Until then, there is no reason to believe that such a compilation has any integrity at all. Mixing adjusted with unadjusted data doesnt get you anything, and not even knowing what those adjustments are.. well..
CRU's Jones stated in those hacked emails that the GISS data is inferior, yet here we are talking about using the GISS data instead of CRU's.
The kicker of it all is that there is data that both GISS and CRU claim to be raw data, for the same station and time, yet they disagree. How can this be? Is one right and the other wrong? Maybe both are wrong? Thats the situation we are in and throwing your hands up is just about the only reasonable choice until the people who put us here are no longer the governors of the data.
Limited accounts only helps when the user CANT give permissions, but thats certainly not reality on home desktops where that user is God even if the account he is using doesn't say so.
User downloads XYZ_INSTALLER
User runs XYZ_INSTALLER
User discovers that XYZ_INSTALLER needs better permissions to install.
Users wants XYZ (thats why the user downloaded it) so user hands XYZ_INSTALLER the keys to the kingdom.
Part of the windows problem is that nearly all installers require escalation, therefore there is nothing out of the ordinary when XYZ_INSTALLER requests it. The rest of the problem is that nearly all windows users don't even care about security.
Sure, GISS offers data, but we dont know the veracity of its compilation. This is in fact the story of a programmer tasked with producing such a compilation, and he is throwing his hands up and saying its damn near impossible to do it with any confidence due to the situation with the REAL backing dataset.
Hah, yeah... when you eliminate mostly northern ones.
..but most of the ones that are decided to be "bad" by the graph makers are the ones with cooler than average records.
You would THINK that badly situated instruments would be location agnostic.. normal distribution and all that...
Pity that selectively eliminating the northernmost readings for later years tends to increase the warming trend.
Indeed.
The downplay of the MWP and LIA began with Jones and his hockey stick, and was then ratified into the IPCC group-think when that hockey stick came under attack. His original graph showed almost no MWP or LIA, and as such put the IPCC in a catch-22. They had been publishing graphs with pronounced MWP and LIA for years.. and how could it possibly be that this one graph without was better than the dozens with?
So downplay they did. "Just regional" became the response to anyone who questioned the usefulness of hockey sticks that didnt show the periods.
Consider the following:
That eSata drive also has wireless capabilities that can download new media off wifi while its sitting there not being used/played.
This eSata drive is part of a subscription model that delivers an endless series of games to you. When you are tired of the game thats on there, simply press a button and it starts downloading a new game.
This eSata drive also has dongle-like capabilities which prevent you from operating the game without it, which keeps the honest people honest, just like other forms of DRM.
Welcome to the future. Sorry I had to break it to ya.
I'm using a browser that progressively renders the page as it is downloaded, interactive all the way through to the best of my abilities to check (scrolled way down while it was loading)
..under 2 seconds.. all download time.. none of this 'busy' shit you are getting with Chrome or Firefox.
"Fastest browser on earth", or so claims it developers. Opera. Give it a chance.
I made a live ubuntu CD for my dad.
It needs its wireless card configured every single time its booted, with obscure console voodoo and then some config editing. Almost worthless.
It works until you tire of the game and want to sell it
Nobody ever tires of Civilization.
Just.. one.. more.. turn..
My guess is that he had a game that was using RDTSC for timing on windows XP with Cool 'n' Quiet enabled. The XP scheduler loves to swap a process between cores (even when only one process/thread is using any CPU time), and the effect this has is that CnQ is constantly toying with the cpu frequencies of each processor, putting the RDTSC values out of sync with each other.
Prior to dual core CPU's, RDTSC was the accepted way to do timing (low latency, high resolution) Now its just foolish with all the stepping that CPU's do to save power and reduce heat. Intel's CPU's didnt have an issue here only because Intel cores couldn't be individually throttled. Now they can be with Intels turbo-whatever feature, so he would again experience the same issue with those same games if running XP.
Vista and 7 dont schedule the same way, instead trying to keep a process on the same core as much as possible to maximize cache efficiency.
This.
A few months back I did some research into performance/price ratio and did up a little list:
Core2 Quad Q8200, score = 3255, price = $184, value = 17.69
Core2 Quad Q8300, score = 3570, price = $150, value = 23.80
Core2 Quad Q8400, score = 3668, price = $170, value = 21.58
Core2 Quad Q9400, score = 3756, price = $190, value = 19.77
Core2 Quad Q9505, score = 4016, price = $240, value = 16.73
Core2 Quad Q9550, score = 4291, price = $260, value = 16.50
Core2 Quad Q9650, score = 4559, price = $330, value = 13.82
Core i5-750, score = 4219, price = $195, value = 21.64
Core i7-860, score = 5570, price = $280, value = 19.89
Core i7-870, score = 5871, price = $540, value = 10.87
Core i7-920, score = 5590, price = $289, value = 19.34
Core i7-950, score = 6309, price = $570, value = 11.07
Core i7-960, score = 6727, price = $590, value = 11.40
Core i7-975, score = 7101, price = $970, value = 7.32
Phenom II x4 940 "Black", score = 3645, price = $156, value = 23.37
Phenom II x4 945 "Black", score = 3500, price = $150, value = 23.33
Phenom II x4 955 "Black", score = 3876, price = $160, value = 24.23
Phenom II x4 965 "Black", score = 4253, price = $180, value = 23.63
The 'score' is from cpubenchmark.net, the price was the lowest on newegg at the time, and the derived value is how many benchmark points you get per dollar.
The best of the bunch were the Q8300, the i5-750, and the Phenom II 955. Factoring in motherboard price and the Phenom II 955 is distinctly ahead, but both the i5 and the Q8300 are very nice looking as well. The i5-750 is of course the performance leader of the group, especially considering overclocking, but the Phenom is a "Black" so it is also highly overclockable.
But I think more interesting for many people would be a NOISE/PRICE ratio study. Whats the best performing CPU that can run with only a heatsink, with underclocking allowed. I am not equipped to do such a study, but I'm sure someone has the info necessary.
The worst game port in the history of computing (in terms of efficiency) doesnt make for a good example.
Its almost like they are software emulating the Xenon chip.
None of my accounts have an ATM/DEBIT card attached to them.
"But don't you want a debit card?" asks the bank manager when opening the account.
"Nope. I use a credit card."
Yes, my bank account can be raided electronically, but I have very plausible deniability. Can't say that I used my ATM card to withdraw the funds, or my debit card to buy all that junk.
Maybe for them, the game of chess is the most important thing in the universe.
The iPhone API's arent static linked. Thats not how these devices are designed. Otherwise a firmware update would break every single application the user has.
Didn't fucking know that? did ya, moron?
That can't change the interfaces.. you fucking idiot.