Something is amiss, I've also noticed many unnecessary "Troll" and "Redundant" mods in other articles. I'm thinking its either a database cock-up or a bunch of sockpuppets simultaneously received mod points.
I hope you were going for funny here, although I am curious as to how much RAM firefox would eat trying to display a page displaying a 12 million digit long string.
Hell, according to wikipedia, the city a friend of mine lives in has over 146,000 people spread out over 38 square miles. In the part where he lives(a few blocks from the mall, not in the outskirts or anything), there was no broadband internet available until very recently. And no, I do not count 3G or Satellite, as the latency and prices for those are ridiculous. I believe the definition of "broadband" as it relates to ISP service needs to include both latency and as well as bandwidth. A huge pipe with terrible latency is nearly worthless.
So it is just DNS filtering(effi link in GP post confirms this)? There are tons of DNS servers that you could configure your connection to use, such as OpenDNS. I'd like to know how much they spent on this filter to "save the children", when it does nothing to stop child pornographers, and can be easily worked around by the perverts who view cp sites. Also, even if many ISPs offer an opt-out, depending on Finnish laws, it could be used to persecute those who opt-out even if they are doing so with the intent to access legal content.
This is why any government censorship of content needs to be opt-in only. That way those that want to "protect" their children from seeing any naughty content, they can do so, while protecting freedoms of the rest of the country. Please note that this post is from a US perspective, and I do realize that many countries do not have protected freedom of speech. Then again, our government doesn't seem to even play lip-service to freedom of speech anymore, but that is another issue.
Not a vegetarian myself, but I agree that they should not call this spider vegetarian. When talking about animal diets, there are 3 main categories:
Hebivores: Consume mainly plants. Carnivores: Consume mainly other animals. Omnivores: Consume a mix of plants and animals.
Depending on how frequently this spider eats other animals, it would most likely be classified as an herbivore or an omnivore. I believe humans are classified as omnivores, but some make a choice to eat only plants(are there any meatatarians?). As a species, they are still omnivorous, but as a personal choice they are vegetarian.
Having done tech support for a manufacturer of Nvidia video cards, I have read through more than a few driver update release notes looking for specific fixes, and they are filled to the brim with game-specific tweaks and fixes.
On the other hand, they really should not have done this for any GPU benchmarking apps, as it is misleading at best. It is certainly possible that the driver looks for a string and 3dMark was used in testing the hack ( I consider CPU offloading of GPU processes a hack), and then they forgot or neglected to remove it in the future. So it could have been a mistake, but they should still be held accountable.
Erm, while it is usually the case that the artist(s) will sell the rights to the label to get a record deal, if you had read the summary even, you would have seen that Mr. Collins does in fact own the rights, and the label does not. Warner Music is illegitimately claiming copyright, and MySpace is taking their word over the actual owner's.
Stephen King already wrote a novella about obsessive compulsive disorder saving the world. According to the wiki entry they made an animation of it in 25 segments, each running a minute and a half long.
If your source video is 60 Hz, then it would probably look the same unless it does some interlacing in the extra frames to make the transition look a little cleaner. Instead of
1) Least common denominator (or whatever the correct term is for this) between 30 (interlaced), 60 (progressive), and 24 (cinema projectors). This way movies can be played without the flicker you may notice on a standard TV. This has some more info if you are interested.
2) Some people do notice a flicker on 60 Hz (I notice this with CRT monitors, but do not see this on LCD monitors running at 60 Hz or even CRT TVs running at 60 Hz interlaced, this is probably because of static images on monitors, but constantly changing images on TVs at a lower resolution, and LCD displays do not do a full refresh every cycle, they only change the pixels that need to change).
I see no need for 240 Hz, I've never heard of anyone noticing flicker on anything above 75 Hz. PAL is 25 fps, which does not divide evenly into 240 Hz or 120 Hz, so to get PAL, NTSC, and cinema to all divide evenly you would need 600 Hz? Honestly, I can't imagine the "flicker" going from PAL to 120 Hz would be noticeable.
Kurobox Pro is the only NAS out there I know of that officially supports running Debian, Gentoo, or their own distro (I think it is based on Montavista linux). It has an ARM9 proc, 128 MB of RAM, 256 meg of onboard flash for the firmware, SATA connection for HD, gigabit NIC, and a PCI-Express x1 slot. It is a lot more than you are looking for price-wise though, $169. It is very similar to the Buffalo Linkstation Pro, but with a slightly different design, larger onboard flash (the LS-PRO needs a hard drive to store most of the OS), and a PCI-express port. Personally owning a hacked one I can say it is far faster than an NSLU2.
It is a bit smaller than the MSI Wind nettop mentioned by someone else, and probably uses less power. However, I'm sure the MSI is much faster with its Atom proc and larger RAM capacity.
I've never heard of MIMO using both 2.4 GHZ and 5G Hz at the same time. Do you have any links with evidence of this? N can be used at either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz, and uses MIMO to boost signal speed and range. As others have stated, this is done with delay technology between the radio and the antenna, and most N devices only have 1 (2.4 GHz only), or 2 radios (one for 2.4 GHz and the other for 5 GHz). Granted, while the use of multiple bands at a higher output power can cause many N devices to overpower nearby G devices, you could use amplification on a regular G router to overpower an N router. For example, the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router includes an amplifier that is underpowered in the stock firmware (mainly to decrease heat output, pass FCC regulations, and improve device lifetime), but if you install DD-WRT or another open firmware, you can increase the amplification level to far above FCC regulations.
I am not a radio engineer, so please correct any mistakes in my post. I have however spent several years supporting wireless devices for a few companies. Also, any mention of N tech is obviously referring to draft-N, sorry pedants.
This is great, why did my mod points have to expire?
Back on topic, Microsoft admitted its licensing was ridiculous when it made an MCP certification just for licensing.
Also, MS SQL licensing for virtual servers pisses me off to no end, in that each logical processor is considered 1 CPU. On a normal install, each physical socket with a processor is considered 1 CPU, so multi-core processors can be used to your advantage. On a virtual machine, each core is normally considered 1 logical CPU, so you are stuck buying a license for each core of your processor that you want to give the VM.
Our rule was that children under 6 were not allowed in 'R' movies. No exceptions. Not sure what you mean by older PG13 movies now being considered R rated? I thought the rules had relaxed a little and PG13 movies could have more swearing and violence than previously. Then again, it seems they are more prudish about sexual content so that might be what you are referring to.
I'd recommend Antivir. If "AV Comparatives" is to be believed, it has the second highest detection rate of known viruses (just below "G DATA Antivirus", but G DATA does not seem to have a free edition for personal use). It also is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest in proactive detection. Having used both AVG and antivir, the scan speed and resources consumed is far better in Antivir. It also has a linux version.
One caveat, when using the proactive scanner, it does have a higher false positive rate. This isn't too bad if you know what you are doing, but for people that do not have a high level of computer skills it can make them distrust the antivirus and ignore warnings.
Hopefully someone in the know will reply to this, but I believe the difference between being disbarred and having your license removed are this:
Disbarring: Being a sysadmin, I'd liken the bar to a certification, such as one from Cisco or CompTIA, but with it being required to practice law. Being disbarred would mean that you would not be allowed to practice law in that state, and bar associations in other states may not allow you to take the test there.
License revocation: If your license to practice law is removed in a state, your bar standing may apply, and another state may accept your bar certification, even if you are not allowed to practice in the state where you passed the bar exam.
Again, I am not a lawyer, and this is just what I believe might be the difference. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
Those people were removed from the theater by me or one of the other staff. Although that still creates the problem of those customers not coming back.
Sorry, the thing about small kids was an angry rant brought upon by me remembering my days as an AM at the local theater.
This is why having a posted "keep cellphones off or vibrate only" rule is much better than active or even passive signal blocking. Granted, there will still be a few assholes that do not follow this, but thats where you exercise your right to kick them out.
IAAFLMTE (I am a former local movie theater employee).
Also, people who try to bring small children into a Rated R feature need to die in a fire. Its not because we care how about shitty of a parent you are, other patrons do not want a screaming kid while they enjoy a film. Save it for Spy Kids 15 </rant>
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How is this a troll?! Netcraft confirmed it!
Something is amiss, I've also noticed many unnecessary "Troll" and "Redundant" mods in other articles. I'm thinking its either a database cock-up or a bunch of sockpuppets simultaneously received mod points.
http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m42643801/prime-c.html
Before: 140 MB used
Several minutes and 1 maxed CPU core later: Jumping between 250 MB and 300 MB used before I gave up and closed the tab.
I hope you were going for funny here, although I am curious as to how much RAM firefox would eat trying to display a page displaying a 12 million digit long string.
Hell, according to wikipedia, the city a friend of mine lives in has over 146,000 people spread out over 38 square miles. In the part where he lives(a few blocks from the mall, not in the outskirts or anything), there was no broadband internet available until very recently. And no, I do not count 3G or Satellite, as the latency and prices for those are ridiculous. I believe the definition of "broadband" as it relates to ISP service needs to include both latency and as well as bandwidth. A huge pipe with terrible latency is nearly worthless.
So it is just DNS filtering(effi link in GP post confirms this)? There are tons of DNS servers that you could configure your connection to use, such as OpenDNS. I'd like to know how much they spent on this filter to "save the children", when it does nothing to stop child pornographers, and can be easily worked around by the perverts who view cp sites. Also, even if many ISPs offer an opt-out, depending on Finnish laws, it could be used to persecute those who opt-out even if they are doing so with the intent to access legal content.
This is why any government censorship of content needs to be opt-in only. That way those that want to "protect" their children from seeing any naughty content, they can do so, while protecting freedoms of the rest of the country. Please note that this post is from a US perspective, and I do realize that many countries do not have protected freedom of speech. Then again, our government doesn't seem to even play lip-service to freedom of speech anymore, but that is another issue.
Troll? Mods today either don't have a sense of humor, or couldn't be bothered to read the entire post.
Not a vegetarian myself, but I agree that they should not call this spider vegetarian. When talking about animal diets, there are 3 main categories:
Hebivores: Consume mainly plants.
Carnivores: Consume mainly other animals.
Omnivores: Consume a mix of plants and animals.
Depending on how frequently this spider eats other animals, it would most likely be classified as an herbivore or an omnivore. I believe humans are classified as omnivores, but some make a choice to eat only plants(are there any meatatarians?). As a species, they are still omnivorous, but as a personal choice they are vegetarian.
Having done tech support for a manufacturer of Nvidia video cards, I have read through more than a few driver update release notes looking for specific fixes, and they are filled to the brim with game-specific tweaks and fixes.
On the other hand, they really should not have done this for any GPU benchmarking apps, as it is misleading at best. It is certainly possible that the driver looks for a string and 3dMark was used in testing the hack ( I consider CPU offloading of GPU processes a hack), and then they forgot or neglected to remove it in the future. So it could have been a mistake, but they should still be held accountable.
Sounds like Citrix:
WinFrame->MetaFrame->Presentation Server->XenApp
Seriously though, this is a fantastic idea and may help to sell the idea of using nuclear to replace fossil fuels. I want clean, cheap power now.
Erm, while it is usually the case that the artist(s) will sell the rights to the label to get a record deal, if you had read the summary even, you would have seen that Mr. Collins does in fact own the rights, and the label does not. Warner Music is illegitimately claiming copyright, and MySpace is taking their word over the actual owner's.
Stephen King already wrote a novella about obsessive compulsive disorder saving the world. According to the wiki entry they made an animation of it in 25 segments, each running a minute and a half long.
If your source video is 60 Hz, then it would probably look the same unless it does some interlacing in the extra frames to make the transition look a little cleaner. Instead of
Frame 1p-> Frame 1p-> Frame 2p-> Frame 2p-> Frame 3p-> Frame 3p-> etc.
You would have
Frame 1p-> Frame 1i+2i-> Frame 2p-> Frame 2i+3i-> Frame 3p-> Frame 3i+4i-> etc.
As far as i know, 120 Hz is needed for 2 reasons:
1) Least common denominator (or whatever the correct term is for this) between 30 (interlaced), 60 (progressive), and 24 (cinema projectors). This way movies can be played without the flicker you may notice on a standard TV. This has some more info if you are interested.
2) Some people do notice a flicker on 60 Hz (I notice this with CRT monitors, but do not see this on LCD monitors running at 60 Hz or even CRT TVs running at 60 Hz interlaced, this is probably because of static images on monitors, but constantly changing images on TVs at a lower resolution, and LCD displays do not do a full refresh every cycle, they only change the pixels that need to change).
I see no need for 240 Hz, I've never heard of anyone noticing flicker on anything above 75 Hz. PAL is 25 fps, which does not divide evenly into 240 Hz or 120 Hz, so to get PAL, NTSC, and cinema to all divide evenly you would need 600 Hz? Honestly, I can't imagine the "flicker" going from PAL to 120 Hz would be noticeable.
Kurobox Pro is the only NAS out there I know of that officially supports running Debian, Gentoo, or their own distro (I think it is based on Montavista linux). It has an ARM9 proc, 128 MB of RAM, 256 meg of onboard flash for the firmware, SATA connection for HD, gigabit NIC, and a PCI-Express x1 slot. It is a lot more than you are looking for price-wise though, $169. It is very similar to the Buffalo Linkstation Pro, but with a slightly different design, larger onboard flash (the LS-PRO needs a hard drive to store most of the OS), and a PCI-express port. Personally owning a hacked one I can say it is far faster than an NSLU2.
It is a bit smaller than the MSI Wind nettop mentioned by someone else, and probably uses less power. However, I'm sure the MSI is much faster with its Atom proc and larger RAM capacity.
I've never heard of MIMO using both 2.4 GHZ and 5G Hz at the same time. Do you have any links with evidence of this? N can be used at either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz, and uses MIMO to boost signal speed and range. As others have stated, this is done with delay technology between the radio and the antenna, and most N devices only have 1 (2.4 GHz only), or 2 radios (one for 2.4 GHz and the other for 5 GHz). Granted, while the use of multiple bands at a higher output power can cause many N devices to overpower nearby G devices, you could use amplification on a regular G router to overpower an N router. For example, the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router includes an amplifier that is underpowered in the stock firmware (mainly to decrease heat output, pass FCC regulations, and improve device lifetime), but if you install DD-WRT or another open firmware, you can increase the amplification level to far above FCC regulations.
I am not a radio engineer, so please correct any mistakes in my post. I have however spent several years supporting wireless devices for a few companies. Also, any mention of N tech is obviously referring to draft-N, sorry pedants.
This is great, why did my mod points have to expire?
Back on topic, Microsoft admitted its licensing was ridiculous when it made an MCP certification just for licensing.
Also, MS SQL licensing for virtual servers pisses me off to no end, in that each logical processor is considered 1 CPU. On a normal install, each physical socket with a processor is considered 1 CPU, so multi-core processors can be used to your advantage. On a virtual machine, each core is normally considered 1 logical CPU, so you are stuck buying a license for each core of your processor that you want to give the VM.
"Colombian computer maker Haleron has designed a netback...
What the fuck is a "netback"? Just when I thought I was catching up to the buzzword machine, something always throws me for a loop.
Our rule was that children under 6 were not allowed in 'R' movies. No exceptions. Not sure what you mean by older PG13 movies now being considered R rated? I thought the rules had relaxed a little and PG13 movies could have more swearing and violence than previously. Then again, it seems they are more prudish about sexual content so that might be what you are referring to.
I have a pair of 404s, but I can never find them.
I'd recommend Antivir. If "AV Comparatives" is to be believed, it has the second highest detection rate of known viruses (just below "G DATA Antivirus", but G DATA does not seem to have a free edition for personal use). It also is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest in proactive detection. Having used both AVG and antivir, the scan speed and resources consumed is far better in Antivir. It also has a linux version.
One caveat, when using the proactive scanner, it does have a higher false positive rate. This isn't too bad if you know what you are doing, but for people that do not have a high level of computer skills it can make them distrust the antivirus and ignore warnings.
Hopefully someone in the know will reply to this, but I believe the difference between being disbarred and having your license removed are this:
Disbarring: Being a sysadmin, I'd liken the bar to a certification, such as one from Cisco or CompTIA, but with it being required to practice law. Being disbarred would mean that you would not be allowed to practice law in that state, and bar associations in other states may not allow you to take the test there.
License revocation: If your license to practice law is removed in a state, your bar standing may apply, and another state may accept your bar certification, even if you are not allowed to practice in the state where you passed the bar exam.
Again, I am not a lawyer, and this is just what I believe might be the difference. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
Those people were removed from the theater by me or one of the other staff. Although that still creates the problem of those customers not coming back.
Sorry, the thing about small kids was an angry rant brought upon by me remembering my days as an AM at the local theater.
This is why having a posted "keep cellphones off or vibrate only" rule is much better than active or even passive signal blocking. Granted, there will still be a few assholes that do not follow this, but thats where you exercise your right to kick them out.
IAAFLMTE (I am a former local movie theater employee).
Also, people who try to bring small children into a Rated R feature need to die in a fire. Its not because we care how about shitty of a parent you are, other patrons do not want a screaming kid while they enjoy a film. Save it for Spy Kids 15 </rant>
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