Are you using AMD or Intel CPU's? I had always used AMD's which came with pretty beefy heatsinks, until my latest PC. I went with an Intel i5 of some flavor or another and it came with the most pathetic little heatsink I've ever seen for a CPU. And of course when I installed some temperature monitoring software for fun I discovered that it wasn't all that unusual for it to get into the 70's when gaming. So I bought a $20 aftermarket heatsink and now it rarely gets up into the 60's. It's normally in the 40's or low 50's when gaming now.
I'm thinking about setting up a water cooler for my GFX card now. It isn't getting unreasonably hot or anything but the fan on it makes a lot of noise that I could do without.
I can't remember model numbers but my Cooler Master is the giant one that sticks out like 9 inches from the CPU and takes a 120mm fan on each side. It's pretty damn quiet so far as I can tell. It is way quieter than the stock intel heatsink it replaced, and my 550 gtx card is the real noise maker in my case. I guess I should do some kind of CPU load testing and see if I can hear the fans spin up.
Not that they are the paragon of real scientific inquiry but the Myth Busters did a show on lie detectors including an MRI and found that they could actually beat the MRI more reliably.
It is also worth nothing that when they handed out the first drafts of his speech they had to go back and ask for them back so they could add a copy right stamp to them or some such. So it was definitely something that MLK and his staffers were aware of and so the speech probably was actually properly registered as the law would have later required once the speech had been given. MLK also engaged in at least one lawsuit to prevent record companies from capitalizing on his speech by pressing recordings of it.
I don't know how much of an issue it's been along the coasts. But I know that it has always been an issue with farmers and rivers/streams that border their property. I remember a farmer who sued the county to have some giant cages filled with rocks and lowered into a creek to re-inforce the the bank that was eroding and eating up his farm land. The sudden erosion was caused by the demolition of an old bridge and the construction of a new one. The footings for the new bridge were different enough that they altered the flow of the creek so that it started to move it's bed further down stream. The farmer had a case because the County had liability for it's action.
I had a Great Uncle who bought lake front property on Lake Erie. When he bought the property he knew that it would eventually be lost to the lake. I remember visiting and being shown a length of conduit pipe that extended out of the dirt bank a few feet before making a right angle up and terminating in an outlet box. I was told that the outlet used to be part of a small patio.
And it's not even that small of an issue. Any government computer that has accessed classified information in the wild has to be wiped, whether or not it is used by someone with a clearance of any type. And it's not actually about containing the spread of the information that has already been leaked. It is about ensuring that the people using those computers haven't created a spillage of their own. Every bit of classified information in government systems is supposed to be tracked and traceable. That is easiest to do when contamination from one system on another is cleared up rapidly.
"You do know that extremely religious people in the USA are as likely to be cut-throat capitalists as much as any agnostic or atheist, right?"
I'm always amused when I get in disagreements with other Mormons over whether or not Socialism is "Evil". Let alone that they usually mean Communism not Socialism. The belief that they are evil is usually backed up with a Mormon leaders quote from the cold war period. I find it funny because one of the principles that is taught that we will all live after Christs second coming is called "The Law of Consecration" which basically amounts to a form of Theocratic Socialism.
There are always distractions when you are driving. It is up to each driver to focus on the task of driving their vehicle. If the driver decides to prioritize something else like answering a phone, texting, reading a book, watching a movie, adjusting the stereo, or any one of another million possibilities it is up to them to do so in a safe manner.
Part of why I like to test drive any car I am purchasing is because the ergonomics of the seating, pedal positioning, arm rests and lines of sight are important to me. I suppose you could just sit in the car to determine most of that but you can also fool yourself into thinking something is fine until you are actually trying to use it.
It sounds to me like there could be money in developing an independant MLS type system.
Personally I have nothing against realtors, having only had pleasant experiences with them. I realize that they don't do anything that I can't, but that is true for a huge number of other occupations. I could change my own oil, cook all my own food, hell I could grow my own food much of the time. I don't do those things though because I already have one job and it pays well enough that I value my free time more than saving a few bucks here and there.
While I can believe that there might be genetic basis for differing IQ values in various ethnic groups it is doubtful that it would be a significant factor compared to things like education, nutrition, and a stable home and family environment.
It's not just Veterans that might be relying on Social Welfare money to survive. I know a number of currently enlisted folks and some of them are definitely getting welfare assistance.
I worked as a contractor for a couple years and I can personally attest to the outlandish spending there. My employer was being paid $154K a year when I started for the position I filled. My pay was $60K. Typically an employee might cost an employer 200% of the employee's paycheck. Those costs usually come from equipment, work space, utilities, pay roll taxes and such. In my case I am pretty confident that their cost was significantly less than that. They did the payroll taxes, half of the health insurance, and maybe a grand of training a year. The goverment supplied everything else.
Oh I'm not arguing that it's a good alternative but it does none the less exist. Personally I get just over 20 days of vacation a year, and a 7 day transit won't actually use up seven days of vacation, provided that I live near to the departing port.
Another more palatable option is to drive out of the country to Canada or Mexico and fly from there. Again not a great option but if you have to get across an ocean and don't want to endorse the TSA thuggery you could do it.
Again he did not test positive for explosives, merely chemicals that are used in a million products including explosives. You might as well say that he tested positive for cleaning supplies. He should have had a friendly questioning that lasted 30 minutes or less and been sent on his way. The TSA's job is to make sure the aircraft and passengers are safe, whatever is happening outisde of the terminal is not their business unless there is a clear threat.
Parallel parking, drivers test??? I never had to do that for my license. Seriously we drove around the block and navigated both forwards and backwards through some cones and that was it.
I did however take a much more advanced driving course a few months later as part of a law enforcement course. In that course I learned and practiced enough that I can parallel park almost as quickly as I can back into a spot. The lack of driving skills all around is pretty scary when you consider the amount of damage that can be done in very short order with a vehicle. I mean look at the training requirements they frequently put on firearms, I had to take 20 hours of instruction before I could carry for a job.
I drove a naturally aspirated (non-turbo) Porsche 944 for years and loved the manual. It had a very long throw by modern standards but I loved driving it. The only times that I really wished it was an automatic was the first few weeks when I was learning to drive it and then a month or so later when I got stuck in an hour long traffic jam. Frankly the traffic jam would have pissed me off anyways but I was worried I was gonna wear out my clutch or something and be stuck on the interstate hours from home.
My Father recently retired and he was coding for mainframes as his second job out of college. I work with lots of older people who have been doing IT stuff their whole lives. Some started at banks, others at major local manufactures, and a lot were in the Military as computer operators and such. Shit, my Maternal Grandmother, who died in her 70's nearly a decade ago, changed vacum tubes in her universities computer or some such. IT work has been around for a lot longer than some people seem to think.
Meh, I've seen exactly one game in the last decade that looked interesting but was only available on consoles. Consoles can keep their crap games so far as I'm concerned. Phone and tablet games are even worse.
The real big reason that we might actually see PC gaming diminish significantly is that with the proliferation of tablets and smart phones fewer people feel the need to own a personal computer, regardless of operating system. PC sales have been dropping because we hit a technological point that for most users there is no driving reason to upgrade fequently. Hell I spend a ridiculous amount of time playing computer games and even I don't upgrade until something breaks or new games won't run properly even on lower settings.
Bullshit, he tested positive for chemicals which are also used in explosives. That doesn't warrant holding someone for longer than it takes to determine they don't have explosives on them or in their luggage. On top of that they then apparently went and searched his appartment, because he had chemical residues on his person.
I've worked in close proximity to military working dogs that did bomb sniffing. Their training is such that when in doubt they sit and indicate a chemical. I can't tell you how many times I saw the base I was at go into a temporary lockdown which they searched a truck more thoroughly because a dog sat down. It doesn't mean that it isn't a valid form of detection but that false positives are far more likely than you might think and should be handled in a professional manner.
I am sorry if I came accross as offering excuses, I was just pointing out how my community seems to be doing it wrong.
I can see the benefit of putting the big containers in places that everyone goes already. That isn't what my community has done though. They are in relatively out of the way places such that you have to look them up or you wouldn't know they were there. They are emptied infrequently enough that I often find them completely full, at least the paper/cardboard one. They don't collect aluminum cans, only paper, cardboard, some plastics and some glass.
I gave it a go lastnight. I didn't have time to try Act two but Act one did seem to be a good bit less sadistic. I perused the gold AH and there is a lot of stuff available for much cheaper than before but I don't know if it'll be cheap enough to gear me up for finishing Inferno, but I can't really know until I try. So this evening I'll be seeing about actually progressing again.
Incidentally I stopped playing just before they introduced the Paragon leveling system.
I would add though that even with the itemization they did have the drop rates for items that were useable was so poor that progress became incredibly slow. Once you had made all the economical gear upgrades possible you still wouldn't be able to move to Act two on Inferno. And that meant you were stuck with something like a 1 in 10000 chance of finding an upgrade or goood sellable item when you actually found an iLevel 63 piece of gear. In an Act one run maximizing champs and such, hitting maybe a dozen such packs you might find half a dozen iLevel 63 rares to identify if you were lucky.
I played a little bit lastnight and it seems like they lowered the difficulty a bit in Act one at least. I'll try Act two tonight. If they have evened out the progression of difficulty enough then it might now be possible to actually get to a place where you can actually find upgrades. And if the expansion introduces items with more interesting and unique abilities the game might just start to be as fun as D2 was.
Ultimately though I kind of wish they had just remade D2 with this new engine.
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Are you using AMD or Intel CPU's? I had always used AMD's which came with pretty beefy heatsinks, until my latest PC. I went with an Intel i5 of some flavor or another and it came with the most pathetic little heatsink I've ever seen for a CPU. And of course when I installed some temperature monitoring software for fun I discovered that it wasn't all that unusual for it to get into the 70's when gaming. So I bought a $20 aftermarket heatsink and now it rarely gets up into the 60's. It's normally in the 40's or low 50's when gaming now.
I'm thinking about setting up a water cooler for my GFX card now. It isn't getting unreasonably hot or anything but the fan on it makes a lot of noise that I could do without.
I can't remember model numbers but my Cooler Master is the giant one that sticks out like 9 inches from the CPU and takes a 120mm fan on each side. It's pretty damn quiet so far as I can tell. It is way quieter than the stock intel heatsink it replaced, and my 550 gtx card is the real noise maker in my case. I guess I should do some kind of CPU load testing and see if I can hear the fans spin up.
Not that they are the paragon of real scientific inquiry but the Myth Busters did a show on lie detectors including an MRI and found that they could actually beat the MRI more reliably.
It is also worth nothing that when they handed out the first drafts of his speech they had to go back and ask for them back so they could add a copy right stamp to them or some such. So it was definitely something that MLK and his staffers were aware of and so the speech probably was actually properly registered as the law would have later required once the speech had been given. MLK also engaged in at least one lawsuit to prevent record companies from capitalizing on his speech by pressing recordings of it.
I don't know how much of an issue it's been along the coasts. But I know that it has always been an issue with farmers and rivers/streams that border their property. I remember a farmer who sued the county to have some giant cages filled with rocks and lowered into a creek to re-inforce the the bank that was eroding and eating up his farm land. The sudden erosion was caused by the demolition of an old bridge and the construction of a new one. The footings for the new bridge were different enough that they altered the flow of the creek so that it started to move it's bed further down stream. The farmer had a case because the County had liability for it's action.
I had a Great Uncle who bought lake front property on Lake Erie. When he bought the property he knew that it would eventually be lost to the lake. I remember visiting and being shown a length of conduit pipe that extended out of the dirt bank a few feet before making a right angle up and terminating in an outlet box. I was told that the outlet used to be part of a small patio.
And it's not even that small of an issue. Any government computer that has accessed classified information in the wild has to be wiped, whether or not it is used by someone with a clearance of any type. And it's not actually about containing the spread of the information that has already been leaked. It is about ensuring that the people using those computers haven't created a spillage of their own. Every bit of classified information in government systems is supposed to be tracked and traceable. That is easiest to do when contamination from one system on another is cleared up rapidly.
"You do know that extremely religious people in the USA are as likely to be cut-throat capitalists as much as any agnostic or atheist, right?"
I'm always amused when I get in disagreements with other Mormons over whether or not Socialism is "Evil". Let alone that they usually mean Communism not Socialism. The belief that they are evil is usually backed up with a Mormon leaders quote from the cold war period. I find it funny because one of the principles that is taught that we will all live after Christs second coming is called "The Law of Consecration" which basically amounts to a form of Theocratic Socialism.
I love it! I want to do this. How about having a jackpot that you can claim if your shark eats someone?
This is exactly what I was thinking of.
There are always distractions when you are driving. It is up to each driver to focus on the task of driving their vehicle. If the driver decides to prioritize something else like answering a phone, texting, reading a book, watching a movie, adjusting the stereo, or any one of another million possibilities it is up to them to do so in a safe manner.
Part of why I like to test drive any car I am purchasing is because the ergonomics of the seating, pedal positioning, arm rests and lines of sight are important to me. I suppose you could just sit in the car to determine most of that but you can also fool yourself into thinking something is fine until you are actually trying to use it.
It sounds to me like there could be money in developing an independant MLS type system.
Personally I have nothing against realtors, having only had pleasant experiences with them. I realize that they don't do anything that I can't, but that is true for a huge number of other occupations. I could change my own oil, cook all my own food, hell I could grow my own food much of the time. I don't do those things though because I already have one job and it pays well enough that I value my free time more than saving a few bucks here and there.
While I can believe that there might be genetic basis for differing IQ values in various ethnic groups it is doubtful that it would be a significant factor compared to things like education, nutrition, and a stable home and family environment.
It's not just Veterans that might be relying on Social Welfare money to survive. I know a number of currently enlisted folks and some of them are definitely getting welfare assistance.
I worked as a contractor for a couple years and I can personally attest to the outlandish spending there. My employer was being paid $154K a year when I started for the position I filled. My pay was $60K. Typically an employee might cost an employer 200% of the employee's paycheck. Those costs usually come from equipment, work space, utilities, pay roll taxes and such. In my case I am pretty confident that their cost was significantly less than that. They did the payroll taxes, half of the health insurance, and maybe a grand of training a year. The goverment supplied everything else.
Oh I'm not arguing that it's a good alternative but it does none the less exist. Personally I get just over 20 days of vacation a year, and a 7 day transit won't actually use up seven days of vacation, provided that I live near to the departing port.
Another more palatable option is to drive out of the country to Canada or Mexico and fly from there. Again not a great option but if you have to get across an ocean and don't want to endorse the TSA thuggery you could do it.
Again he did not test positive for explosives, merely chemicals that are used in a million products including explosives. You might as well say that he tested positive for cleaning supplies. He should have had a friendly questioning that lasted 30 minutes or less and been sent on his way. The TSA's job is to make sure the aircraft and passengers are safe, whatever is happening outisde of the terminal is not their business unless there is a clear threat.
Parallel parking, drivers test??? I never had to do that for my license. Seriously we drove around the block and navigated both forwards and backwards through some cones and that was it.
I did however take a much more advanced driving course a few months later as part of a law enforcement course. In that course I learned and practiced enough that I can parallel park almost as quickly as I can back into a spot. The lack of driving skills all around is pretty scary when you consider the amount of damage that can be done in very short order with a vehicle. I mean look at the training requirements they frequently put on firearms, I had to take 20 hours of instruction before I could carry for a job.
I drove a naturally aspirated (non-turbo) Porsche 944 for years and loved the manual. It had a very long throw by modern standards but I loved driving it. The only times that I really wished it was an automatic was the first few weeks when I was learning to drive it and then a month or so later when I got stuck in an hour long traffic jam. Frankly the traffic jam would have pissed me off anyways but I was worried I was gonna wear out my clutch or something and be stuck on the interstate hours from home.
My Father recently retired and he was coding for mainframes as his second job out of college. I work with lots of older people who have been doing IT stuff their whole lives. Some started at banks, others at major local manufactures, and a lot were in the Military as computer operators and such. Shit, my Maternal Grandmother, who died in her 70's nearly a decade ago, changed vacum tubes in her universities computer or some such. IT work has been around for a lot longer than some people seem to think.
Meh, I've seen exactly one game in the last decade that looked interesting but was only available on consoles. Consoles can keep their crap games so far as I'm concerned. Phone and tablet games are even worse.
The real big reason that we might actually see PC gaming diminish significantly is that with the proliferation of tablets and smart phones fewer people feel the need to own a personal computer, regardless of operating system. PC sales have been dropping because we hit a technological point that for most users there is no driving reason to upgrade fequently. Hell I spend a ridiculous amount of time playing computer games and even I don't upgrade until something breaks or new games won't run properly even on lower settings.
Nonsense, most traders on Wallstreet are only interested in the next five minutes.
Bullshit, he tested positive for chemicals which are also used in explosives. That doesn't warrant holding someone for longer than it takes to determine they don't have explosives on them or in their luggage. On top of that they then apparently went and searched his appartment, because he had chemical residues on his person.
I've worked in close proximity to military working dogs that did bomb sniffing. Their training is such that when in doubt they sit and indicate a chemical. I can't tell you how many times I saw the base I was at go into a temporary lockdown which they searched a truck more thoroughly because a dog sat down. It doesn't mean that it isn't a valid form of detection but that false positives are far more likely than you might think and should be handled in a professional manner.
Even in the case of traveling abroad, so long as it isn't an emergency you can always take a boat or something instead.
I am sorry if I came accross as offering excuses, I was just pointing out how my community seems to be doing it wrong.
I can see the benefit of putting the big containers in places that everyone goes already. That isn't what my community has done though. They are in relatively out of the way places such that you have to look them up or you wouldn't know they were there. They are emptied infrequently enough that I often find them completely full, at least the paper/cardboard one. They don't collect aluminum cans, only paper, cardboard, some plastics and some glass.
I gave it a go lastnight. I didn't have time to try Act two but Act one did seem to be a good bit less sadistic. I perused the gold AH and there is a lot of stuff available for much cheaper than before but I don't know if it'll be cheap enough to gear me up for finishing Inferno, but I can't really know until I try. So this evening I'll be seeing about actually progressing again.
Incidentally I stopped playing just before they introduced the Paragon leveling system.
I'm not sure that I could agree anymore!
I would add though that even with the itemization they did have the drop rates for items that were useable was so poor that progress became incredibly slow. Once you had made all the economical gear upgrades possible you still wouldn't be able to move to Act two on Inferno. And that meant you were stuck with something like a 1 in 10000 chance of finding an upgrade or goood sellable item when you actually found an iLevel 63 piece of gear. In an Act one run maximizing champs and such, hitting maybe a dozen such packs you might find half a dozen iLevel 63 rares to identify if you were lucky.
I played a little bit lastnight and it seems like they lowered the difficulty a bit in Act one at least. I'll try Act two tonight. If they have evened out the progression of difficulty enough then it might now be possible to actually get to a place where you can actually find upgrades. And if the expansion introduces items with more interesting and unique abilities the game might just start to be as fun as D2 was.
Ultimately though I kind of wish they had just remade D2 with this new engine.