For all us virtualization types more cheaper cores = more better. The future is in virtualization and I think AMD gets this.
Don't doubt for one minute that Intel gets that too. They're just pressing their current advantage over AMD. When AMD catches up again, Intel will start spinning off 8x or 16x core CPUs.
I don't buy it. Sometimes car chase scenes are needed to drive the story. No one has a car that can drive up walls(Daywatch notwithstanding). No one EVER drives a Cobalt across a lake to get away from the police. Wouldn't it be great if some obscure doctor came up with a cure for AIDS just in time to cure Jenny in Forrest Gump... But they didn't do that either. Why? Because it's clearly moronic to do such a thing in a film. There's the whole willful suspension of disbelief thing, but there are limits to what we can be expected to let slide.
If the authentic method doesn't fit into the story, you truncate it. It's nonsensical to throw a bunch of technical jargon together and hope that something useful results. "Hey, did you download the Wifi yet? Why not? I told you that I needed to myspace.com the RAMs on the hard drive before I CD-ROM that new optical mouse."
Don't they have script consultants who can check this kind of thing and tell them it's complete nonsense? Surely someone on the production team has actually used a computer, and can tell them quite how ludicrous this sounds.
I'm sure they do, but they know that their audience is stupid enough for this kind of thing to whiz right on by. You'd have never seen this kind of nonsense on a show that actual geeks watch, like big bang theory. The Lone Gunmen didn't even try to sneak by anything this horrible.
Finally, conventional car's brakes are completely independent, but hybrids that use regenerative braking involve the computer.
They still have computer controlled automatic transmissions. It's not exactly easy to stop a car with it, but you can downshift and slow a car considerably.
In Terminator 3, the Terminator T-X is able to take over complete control of automobiles simply by sending a virus to their onboard computers.
You are mistaken. She has nanotechnological tranjectors. In other words, she's installing tiny remote control drones in those electronics. Not a virus, thousands of little remote control robots.
That's already started to go south with online sales tax. Simply doing business with a resident of the state is enough of an opening to allow the state to preserve the rights of their citizens.
The Supreme Court held that for a state to tax a company participating in interstate commerce within its borders, the company must have a substantial nexus with that state.
Wow, No Child Left Behind is showing how it made its mark on a daily basis!
Hardly. These are adults, they're clearly the product of Outcome Based Education. No Child Left Behind actually requires that they be able to pass a math test.
This is maybe third or fourth grade level math here people, and it's kinda sad that there is even any confusion about it..66 is not 2/3, it's a little less than 2/3 and it does not count if the law says 2/3.
You know good and well these assholes were the kids who used to ask "Why will I ever need to know this stuff in real life?" when they were kids.
Yes. It's only a matter of time until some green-nazi tries to characterize throwing a cigarette butt out the window as eco-genocide and they try to lock you up for it.
The exploitation of grieving survivors is how funeral homes stay in business. $9k coffin? $2k floral arrangements? It's ridiculous. They know that people want to express their love and affection for the dead and convince them that they only way they can do that is to spend money on a bunch of expensive bullshit.
But I will never condone this behaviour and will never buy another apple product until this rule stands. This is a personal attack on my free time and is detrimental for developers, competitors and customers - in the evil-est of ways the only beneficiary is Apple.
I was an Apple enthusiast until it became clear to me that this was the direction that Apple was headed in. When I decide to get a "smart" phone, I'm getting an android. I will not reward Apple for this behavior either.
The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang.
The data show that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to believe that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang.
It's an important distinction, at some point you accept that Santa Claus was your parents. You believe or you don't that Christmas morning was the happiest part of your childhood.
While I agree that evolution is the only scenario that stands up to scrutiny, that's not the point. If I were to be asked such a leading question, I'd intentionally give the answer that goes against the grain.
Practically, no one believes that the government should just be obeyed and never questioned, at least in the US.
That all depends on if their political group is in charge of the government. Conservatives were nice and quiet while the Bush administration was running an enormous deficit. Liberals who usually scream "Keep the government out of my medical decisions!" and cheering along with the new law that will get the government involved in our medical decisions.
Nowadays, about the only reason we need nuclear weapons is if someone says "Bin Laden is in those mountains" and we decide to level the mountains.
No. The reason why we still need nuclear weapons is because you can't stuff that genie back in the bottle. MAD kept both the US and USSR from using nuclear weapons for the past 65 years. The knowledge that they wouldn't hesitate to use it is precisely why the UN/US imposed weak economic sanctions on North Korea. Once you've proven that you can construct an operational nuclear weapon, you will no longer be the target of preemptive air strikes.
We need them because it's the only way to impress upon those who develop them that we are serious. If Iran wants to nuke Tel Aviv, it'll only be a matter of minutes until Tehran is a glass parking lot.
We can't assume that. Big breasts in my face make me happy, if you don't like women, they will not make you happy.
Adam Mapa has talked about how he likes being on the receiving end of anal copulation. While I can't say definitively, I do not believe that I would be happy if I were to find myself in that position.
If the artificial economic entity has rights, it should pay taxes too.
They do. At precisely the level dictated by tax law. I don't know about you, but I take advantage of every method by which I can legally lower my tax burden. Why would you expect them not to? More to the point, they have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to maximize profits using all legal methods.
If you have a problem with that, write to your Senators and Congresspersons.
Furthermore, any adult stem cell breakthrough is hailed as a stem-cell research breakthrough typically with no comment on the fact that it is, in fact, an adult stem cell treatment, and then followed by scores of people claiming that it (the adult stem cell breakthrough) is proof that embryonic research is viable and should be performed more.
I too have had that exact same argument. I pointed out the amount of success they've been having with adult stem cell treatments and the retort was that "experts" say that embryonic stem cells will be even more successful but the lack of funding is preventing the breakthroughs. If that's the case, why aren't rich liberals like Ted Turner, George Soros and Warren Buffet investing in it?
Ask those same people, without preamble, if they oppose stem cell work on religious or ethical grounds.
Almost none of them will qualify their answer with a distinction of embryonic vs. non-embryonic.
That's an asinine position. The only reason why one would have ethical objections is because of the death of human embryos. Your question presupposes that you're talking about the type that is objectionable.
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For all us virtualization types more cheaper cores = more better. The future is in virtualization and I think AMD gets this.
Don't doubt for one minute that Intel gets that too. They're just pressing their current advantage over AMD. When AMD catches up again, Intel will start spinning off 8x or 16x core CPUs.
LK
I don't buy it. Sometimes car chase scenes are needed to drive the story. No one has a car that can drive up walls(Daywatch notwithstanding). No one EVER drives a Cobalt across a lake to get away from the police. Wouldn't it be great if some obscure doctor came up with a cure for AIDS just in time to cure Jenny in Forrest Gump... But they didn't do that either. Why? Because it's clearly moronic to do such a thing in a film. There's the whole willful suspension of disbelief thing, but there are limits to what we can be expected to let slide.
If the authentic method doesn't fit into the story, you truncate it. It's nonsensical to throw a bunch of technical jargon together and hope that something useful results. "Hey, did you download the Wifi yet? Why not? I told you that I needed to myspace.com the RAMs on the hard drive before I CD-ROM that new optical mouse."
LK
Don't they have script consultants who can check this kind of thing and tell them it's complete nonsense? Surely someone on the production team has actually used a computer, and can tell them quite how ludicrous this sounds.
I'm sure they do, but they know that their audience is stupid enough for this kind of thing to whiz right on by. You'd have never seen this kind of nonsense on a show that actual geeks watch, like big bang theory. The Lone Gunmen didn't even try to sneak by anything this horrible.
LK
Finally, conventional car's brakes are completely independent, but hybrids that use regenerative braking involve the computer.
They still have computer controlled automatic transmissions. It's not exactly easy to stop a car with it, but you can downshift and slow a car considerably.
LK
In Terminator 3, the Terminator T-X is able to take over complete control of automobiles simply by sending a virus to their onboard computers.
You are mistaken. She has nanotechnological tranjectors. In other words, she's installing tiny remote control drones in those electronics. Not a virus, thousands of little remote control robots.
LK
They all truncate internal consonants.
I say British, they say Bri'ish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb2leixHIpU&feature=related
On the subject of British English...
"Heavens, you don't so much speak the language as chew on it and spit it out." -Stewie Griffin
LK
That's already started to go south with online sales tax. Simply doing business with a resident of the state is enough of an opening to allow the state to preserve the rights of their citizens.
You sir, are mistaken.
The Supreme Court held that for a state to tax a company participating in interstate commerce within its borders, the company must have a substantial nexus with that state.
This law is a paper tiger with no teeth.
LK
In both cases you're saying murder is acceptable because your religion says so. That's pretty much textbook religious extremist.
You don't need religion to tell you that it's wrong to kill babies (viable late-term fetuses). For that, all you need is ethics.
LK
Wow, No Child Left Behind is showing how it made its mark on a daily basis!
Hardly. These are adults, they're clearly the product of Outcome Based Education. No Child Left Behind actually requires that they be able to pass a math test.
LK
This is maybe third or fourth grade level math here people, and it's kinda sad that there is even any confusion about it. .66 is not 2/3, it's a little less than 2/3 and it does not count if the law says 2/3.
You know good and well these assholes were the kids who used to ask "Why will I ever need to know this stuff in real life?" when they were kids.
Well, you stupid asses, this is why.
LK
Way to spectacularly miss the point.
LK
What's next, going to jail for littering?
Yes. It's only a matter of time until some green-nazi tries to characterize throwing a cigarette butt out the window as eco-genocide and they try to lock you up for it.
LK
The exploitation of grieving survivors is how funeral homes stay in business. $9k coffin? $2k floral arrangements? It's ridiculous. They know that people want to express their love and affection for the dead and convince them that they only way they can do that is to spend money on a bunch of expensive bullshit.
LK
But I will never condone this behaviour and will never buy another apple product until this rule stands. This is a personal attack on my free time and is detrimental for developers, competitors and customers - in the evil-est of ways the only beneficiary is Apple.
I was an Apple enthusiast until it became clear to me that this was the direction that Apple was headed in. When I decide to get a "smart" phone, I'm getting an android. I will not reward Apple for this behavior either.
LK
The data shows that Americans are far less likely than the rest of the world to accept that humans evolved from earlier species and that the universe began with a big bang.
It's an important distinction, at some point you accept that Santa Claus was your parents. You believe or you don't that Christmas morning was the happiest part of your childhood.
While I agree that evolution is the only scenario that stands up to scrutiny, that's not the point. If I were to be asked such a leading question, I'd intentionally give the answer that goes against the grain.
LK
Practically, no one believes that the government should just be obeyed and never questioned, at least in the US.
That all depends on if their political group is in charge of the government. Conservatives were nice and quiet while the Bush administration was running an enormous deficit. Liberals who usually scream "Keep the government out of my medical decisions!" and cheering along with the new law that will get the government involved in our medical decisions.
LK
Nowadays, about the only reason we need nuclear weapons is if someone says "Bin Laden is in those mountains" and we decide to level the mountains.
No. The reason why we still need nuclear weapons is because you can't stuff that genie back in the bottle. MAD kept both the US and USSR from using nuclear weapons for the past 65 years. The knowledge that they wouldn't hesitate to use it is precisely why the UN/US imposed weak economic sanctions on North Korea. Once you've proven that you can construct an operational nuclear weapon, you will no longer be the target of preemptive air strikes.
We need them because it's the only way to impress upon those who develop them that we are serious. If Iran wants to nuke Tel Aviv, it'll only be a matter of minutes until Tehran is a glass parking lot.
LK
I'm sorry, I meant Alec Mapa, not Adam...
What makes us and others around us happy?
We can't assume that. Big breasts in my face make me happy, if you don't like women, they will not make you happy.
Adam Mapa has talked about how he likes being on the receiving end of anal copulation. While I can't say definitively, I do not believe that I would be happy if I were to find myself in that position.
LK
Or how people who were in surgery heard the conversations that their relatives had on the other side of the hospital while they were clinically dead?
LK
If the artificial economic entity has rights, it should pay taxes too.
They do. At precisely the level dictated by tax law. I don't know about you, but I take advantage of every method by which I can legally lower my tax burden. Why would you expect them not to? More to the point, they have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to maximize profits using all legal methods.
If you have a problem with that, write to your Senators and Congresspersons.
LK
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. " - William Pitt
LK
Furthermore, any adult stem cell breakthrough is hailed as a stem-cell research breakthrough typically with no comment on the fact that it is, in fact, an adult stem cell treatment, and then followed by scores of people claiming that it (the adult stem cell breakthrough) is proof that embryonic research is viable and should be performed more.
I too have had that exact same argument. I pointed out the amount of success they've been having with adult stem cell treatments and the retort was that "experts" say that embryonic stem cells will be even more successful but the lack of funding is preventing the breakthroughs. If that's the case, why aren't rich liberals like Ted Turner, George Soros and Warren Buffet investing in it?
LK
Ask those same people, without preamble, if they oppose stem cell work on religious or ethical grounds.
Almost none of them will qualify their answer with a distinction of embryonic vs. non-embryonic.
That's an asinine position. The only reason why one would have ethical objections is because of the death of human embryos. Your question presupposes that you're talking about the type that is objectionable.
LK