I can see a bit of a problem with the numbering system that nVidia and ATI use. nVidia had a range of mobile graphics processors that used the name 8x00m. Queue lawsuit and consumer confusion in 5...4...3...
I was thinking of something infinitely better myself - when Fred kicks the bucket (however it happens, how old is he?) get a million or two angry Americans to surround the entire perimeter of the graveyard and every inch of the street the procession goes down. No placards, no chants, no insults, nothing but the accusing stares of a million people who won't sink to their level - wearing masks of Fred's face.
Freedom of speech only works when everyone is rational about it, admits when they've been proven wrong and then shuts up. Otherwise you end up with an endless cacophony of stale misinformation and repeated counterposition that drowns out anything worth hearing.
I'm betting those people who died for that freedom are whirling dervishly in their graves right now at the abuse that sacrifice is suffering at the hands of these arseholes. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be a massive prick and get away with it, so if someone wants to give these people the ass-whupping their parents would've given them if they tried to pull this shit when they were children, they can hide out at my place until the heat's off.
You can hear 50hz. It won't be stripped out, although it's such a low volume noise you'll need some funky recovery algorithms to pick it out - oh look, those have been around for a while now. I'd be interested to hear exactly how accurately they can pinpoint the time and date. Are we talking to within a few hours, or are there sufficiently frequent irregular fluctuations you can do pattern matching to pin it down precisely to the second?
I do have my doubts over how resiliant this technique would be to forgery. If the police can record the hum, so can human beings. Say you wanted to have a conversation with someone verified by police as taking place after it really did. You record the conversation, use live hum data to cancel it out without damaging the audio, then a week later you record and mix in some fresh live hum noise. Can't see any decent sound engineer with the right equipment having any trouble with that, I know a guy who'd have a whale of time with it, and there goes any hope of this evidence ever standing up in court.
The raw CO2 figures look pretty big on paper, but are meaningless without comparing the CO2 emissions of the various modes of transport in terms of something like tonne/kilometer. Check out the second table here:
(NB: seems to be an error in the second table header. Given the actual data units, I think it should say "KG CO2 per KM")
The results here are fairly varied in the final units they come out with, mainly because the different forms of transport considered are so different, but the eye-browing raising figure is that short haul passenger flights emit the same amount of carbon per person per kilometer as moving 18 tonnes of cargo by ship the same distance!
From my limited knowledge of physics, it sounds like a custom-built cantenna waveguide would be perfect for you, although I can't help you with the design - the length and diameter of the can and the positioning and protrusion depth of the tranceiver element need to be calculated depending on the frequency of the signal you're trying to pick up. I imagine there are formulae or even online calculators for this stuff online, so if you can find those you may only need to find out the frequency band you're trying to select to get the design calculated. Then it's a matter of making it precisely enough.
There would be an outcry from the manufacturers if Microsoft required clean OS only products. Those rubbish GUI "enhancement" quick loaders and wifi managers and power meters and what-have-you that manufacturers like to load on to their systems are a major part of the product branding that differentiates the PC market into so many sectors. All the trialware and 3rd party stuff that gets added is to actually give some functionality that the manufacturer just doesn't want to write themselves - hence the obligatory McAfee removal on virtually every computer these days despite the sheer volume of very capable free antivirus packages out there.
Thought - it all systems were clean-OS only, would you trust average Joe/Jane user to download and install a decent anti-virus package on their own?
They aren't part of the OS. Apple have never integrated apps in the OS like MS have, and I've used a number of Macs which have had both of those pieces of crap removed. Of course, I've used Safari to download Firefox first, but after that, it's gone. That's pretty much impossible with IE, not sure about MS Media Player.
In that case, you might want to check again. While Quicktime was historically a bit of a rude resource hog, that hasn't been true since Snow Leopard. iTunes has, in some ways, taken over that role and insists on being the default for most sound files. That's no bad thing exactly, the majority of Mac users are probably perfectly happy with that.
I setup a lot of Macs and maintain a list of useful and unobtrusive software as the default install list. In some ways, you could say that I load up those nice clean Macs with crapware before I kick them out the door, except for one word that the majority of PC manufacturers don't seem to have cottoned on to - unobtrusive. It amazes me that so many computers are shipped with their performance so hamstrung by the sheer weight of crap that gets loaded at boot time. Custom written user interface extensions are the worst offenders in my eyes. They never offer anything that can't be done natively in Windows. They are the very definition of pointless.
1 - You were both correct in your original assertions. The two concepts mentioned exemplify religious/political issues that rely on denial.
2 - You were both wrong in your following assertions. The link between anti-intellectualism and creationism/climate change denial is pretty cut and dry, so as a comment on the article it can't really be faulted. Creationism and climate change denial are indeed religious/political issues, regardless of their origins.
3 - Why is this troll eating my pizza? STFU THE PAIR OF YOU!
When a non-fanboi wants to choose a games console these days, there are a number of things to consider - hardware, online services, multimedia capabilities, etc. One of the most important things is exclusive game franchises. Each platform has it's own collection of games you can't play anywhere else. Nintendo has a healthy selection of these that have been going for decades and, for the most part, they still keep them feeling fresh - that's Nintendo's unacknowledged talent.
I saw some a comment from someone, either Nintendo or a dev, I can't remember, that said you would absolutely be able to have multiple tablets running graphics simultaneously from a single console, but the wireless tech behind the low-latency graphics is hard-limited to 60fps, pooled amongst all connected devices. This means 60fps for a single display, down to 15fps for four displays.
This is from my own personal experience and the effects are a little difficult to put into words if you're not neurobiologically trained, so please excuse the flowery explanation.
Pot has an effect akin to the randomization of the branching of your train of thought. When you consider which subject to move to next, a variety of options presents itself and a selection made on a number of situational factors. By adding a large random element to each consideration, recurring cyclic thoughts are disrupted and previously ignored connections are more likely to be followed up. The practical upshot is that you can simultaneously switch off and have flashes of left-field counter-intuitive inspiration at the same time.
One of my recent pot-induced ideas concerns upgrading and virtualizing my gaming computer using ESXi and IOMMU. It'll let me run my Plex server in a background Linux VM, freeing up the Mac Mini currently doing that duty so I can give it to my Dad on a long-term while. The CPU upgrade will greatly increase my video transcoding and F@H throughputs, accelerating my DVD library project and increasing my PPD while that's idle to make up a little for the recent closedown of the PS3 F@H client programme.
Find a friend with a Mac, get a copy of Lion/Mountain Lion install media and use Lion Diskmaker to build yourself a bootable USB key - exactly what you need in this situation. You can make a DVD as well, but it boots much more slowly as the data layout isn't optimized for smooth consecutive reading by an optical head. If Apple complain... screw them - you weren't stealing the software, you were protecting your investment. Fair use.
There is something you've failed to consider regarding consoles and hardware. PC hardware is extremely flexible, but that comes at a cost for developers - it is practically impossible to optimize games for a broad range of hardware anywhere near as well as can be achieved on the static hardware of a games console. Example: The PC version of Battlefield 3 is naturally the best looking, but requires a fairly beefy computer to really shine. On the other hand, the PS3 with it's nVidia 7800(ish) runs the same game orders of magnitude better than a 7800GTX in a PC.
As such, this arguments boils down to economics and personal preferences - do you like control pads; can you live without cutting edge graphics; do you have other things to spend your money on than hardware upgrades? If you answered no to any of those, buy a PC. Otherwise, buy a console.
You completely missed the point and obviously didn't RTFA. The empirical evidence shows that datacentres can be run warmer than they typically are now with an acceptable increase in hardware failure - ie. bugger all. Increasing the temp in a massive datacentre by 5 degrees C will save a bundle of money/carbon emissions that far more than offsets the cost of replacing an extra component or two a month.
As impressive as your assertions are, they are just that - assertions. Reality disagrees with you.
Regional differences in pricing stem from pre-globalisation economics. With no overlap between regional markets, prices would be set on a per-market basis and never the twain did meet. In a post-globalisation Internet-levelled playing field, regional price differences make no little sense for purely-digital products, except where national sales-related taxes differ. The only reason to maintain these regional price variations to artificially inflate profit margins at the expense of the consumer.
In theory, the libertarian free-marker doctrine should cause this price difference to level out fairly quickly once the market starts to take advantage of (and offense to) these cross-border variations. Let's see if that theory works in practice...
Anyone want to bet on legislation increasing to prevent cross-region sales instead?
Of course I remember that time. We're still in it. They have the freedom to be asshats and the power to change the law. We have the freedom, and indeed a duty, to disagree with and resist their conceited laws. Nothing's changed on that front, it's all business as abnormal.
"When there is peace, the warlike man attacks himself" - that's Nietzsche, and his point is that there really is no peace. There's always some war, somewhere, with someone. And there are no winners or losers either... just those who are still around to fight another day.
- Ray Elwood, Buffalo Soliders
That's an idea - Firefox with HTTPS everywhere, and an automatic failover to Tor for everything else using FoxyProxy. Time to upgrade my net connection and start an exit node...
Slashdot Mirror
I can see a bit of a problem with the numbering system that nVidia and ATI use. nVidia had a range of mobile graphics processors that used the name 8x00m. Queue lawsuit and consumer confusion in 5...4...3...
I was thinking of something infinitely better myself - when Fred kicks the bucket (however it happens, how old is he?) get a million or two angry Americans to surround the entire perimeter of the graveyard and every inch of the street the procession goes down. No placards, no chants, no insults, nothing but the accusing stares of a million people who won't sink to their level - wearing masks of Fred's face.
Freedom of speech only works when everyone is rational about it, admits when they've been proven wrong and then shuts up. Otherwise you end up with an endless cacophony of stale misinformation and repeated counterposition that drowns out anything worth hearing.
I'm betting those people who died for that freedom are whirling dervishly in their graves right now at the abuse that sacrifice is suffering at the hands of these arseholes. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be a massive prick and get away with it, so if someone wants to give these people the ass-whupping their parents would've given them if they tried to pull this shit when they were children, they can hide out at my place until the heat's off.
You can hear 50hz. It won't be stripped out, although it's such a low volume noise you'll need some funky recovery algorithms to pick it out - oh look, those have been around for a while now. I'd be interested to hear exactly how accurately they can pinpoint the time and date. Are we talking to within a few hours, or are there sufficiently frequent irregular fluctuations you can do pattern matching to pin it down precisely to the second?
I do have my doubts over how resiliant this technique would be to forgery. If the police can record the hum, so can human beings. Say you wanted to have a conversation with someone verified by police as taking place after it really did. You record the conversation, use live hum data to cancel it out without damaging the audio, then a week later you record and mix in some fresh live hum noise. Can't see any decent sound engineer with the right equipment having any trouble with that, I know a guy who'd have a whale of time with it, and there goes any hope of this evidence ever standing up in court.
The raw CO2 figures look pretty big on paper, but are meaningless without comparing the CO2 emissions of the various modes of transport in terms of something like tonne/kilometer. Check out the second table here:
https://people.exeter.ac.uk/TWDavies/energy_conversion/Calculation%20of%20CO2%20emissions%20from%20fuels.htm
(NB: seems to be an error in the second table header. Given the actual data units, I think it should say "KG CO2 per KM")
The results here are fairly varied in the final units they come out with, mainly because the different forms of transport considered are so different, but the eye-browing raising figure is that short haul passenger flights emit the same amount of carbon per person per kilometer as moving 18 tonnes of cargo by ship the same distance!
From my limited knowledge of physics, it sounds like a custom-built cantenna waveguide would be perfect for you, although I can't help you with the design - the length and diameter of the can and the positioning and protrusion depth of the tranceiver element need to be calculated depending on the frequency of the signal you're trying to pick up. I imagine there are formulae or even online calculators for this stuff online, so if you can find those you may only need to find out the frequency band you're trying to select to get the design calculated. Then it's a matter of making it precisely enough.
There would be an outcry from the manufacturers if Microsoft required clean OS only products. Those rubbish GUI "enhancement" quick loaders and wifi managers and power meters and what-have-you that manufacturers like to load on to their systems are a major part of the product branding that differentiates the PC market into so many sectors. All the trialware and 3rd party stuff that gets added is to actually give some functionality that the manufacturer just doesn't want to write themselves - hence the obligatory McAfee removal on virtually every computer these days despite the sheer volume of very capable free antivirus packages out there.
Thought - it all systems were clean-OS only, would you trust average Joe/Jane user to download and install a decent anti-virus package on their own?
They aren't part of the OS. Apple have never integrated apps in the OS like MS have, and I've used a number of Macs which have had both of those pieces of crap removed. Of course, I've used Safari to download Firefox first, but after that, it's gone. That's pretty much impossible with IE, not sure about MS Media Player.
In that case, you might want to check again. While Quicktime was historically a bit of a rude resource hog, that hasn't been true since Snow Leopard. iTunes has, in some ways, taken over that role and insists on being the default for most sound files. That's no bad thing exactly, the majority of Mac users are probably perfectly happy with that.
I setup a lot of Macs and maintain a list of useful and unobtrusive software as the default install list. In some ways, you could say that I load up those nice clean Macs with crapware before I kick them out the door, except for one word that the majority of PC manufacturers don't seem to have cottoned on to - unobtrusive. It amazes me that so many computers are shipped with their performance so hamstrung by the sheer weight of crap that gets loaded at boot time. Custom written user interface extensions are the worst offenders in my eyes. They never offer anything that can't be done natively in Windows. They are the very definition of pointless.
Posting with a head cold = rambling.
1 - You were both correct in your original assertions. The two concepts mentioned exemplify religious/political issues that rely on denial.
2 - You were both wrong in your following assertions. The link between anti-intellectualism and creationism/climate change denial is pretty cut and dry, so as a comment on the article it can't really be faulted. Creationism and climate change denial are indeed religious/political issues, regardless of their origins.
3 - Why is this troll eating my pizza? STFU THE PAIR OF YOU!
When a non-fanboi wants to choose a games console these days, there are a number of things to consider - hardware, online services, multimedia capabilities, etc. One of the most important things is exclusive game franchises. Each platform has it's own collection of games you can't play anywhere else. Nintendo has a healthy selection of these that have been going for decades and, for the most part, they still keep them feeling fresh - that's Nintendo's unacknowledged talent.
I saw some a comment from someone, either Nintendo or a dev, I can't remember, that said you would absolutely be able to have multiple tablets running graphics simultaneously from a single console, but the wireless tech behind the low-latency graphics is hard-limited to 60fps, pooled amongst all connected devices. This means 60fps for a single display, down to 15fps for four displays.
This is from my own personal experience and the effects are a little difficult to put into words if you're not neurobiologically trained, so please excuse the flowery explanation.
Pot has an effect akin to the randomization of the branching of your train of thought. When you consider which subject to move to next, a variety of options presents itself and a selection made on a number of situational factors. By adding a large random element to each consideration, recurring cyclic thoughts are disrupted and previously ignored connections are more likely to be followed up. The practical upshot is that you can simultaneously switch off and have flashes of left-field counter-intuitive inspiration at the same time.
One of my recent pot-induced ideas concerns upgrading and virtualizing my gaming computer using ESXi and IOMMU. It'll let me run my Plex server in a background Linux VM, freeing up the Mac Mini currently doing that duty so I can give it to my Dad on a long-term while. The CPU upgrade will greatly increase my video transcoding and F@H throughputs, accelerating my DVD library project and increasing my PPD while that's idle to make up a little for the recent closedown of the PS3 F@H client programme.
Unmotivated potheads? Not in my house!
Find a friend with a Mac, get a copy of Lion/Mountain Lion install media and use Lion Diskmaker to build yourself a bootable USB key - exactly what you need in this situation. You can make a DVD as well, but it boots much more slowly as the data layout isn't optimized for smooth consecutive reading by an optical head. If Apple complain... screw them - you weren't stealing the software, you were protecting your investment. Fair use.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39701/lion-diskmaker
Whenever we're not using it, the Kinect will be turned around to face some porn!
1 million cars? I never heard of any manufacturer making 1 million models of ca - oh, wait, never mind, it's 13 really.... ffs....
There is something you've failed to consider regarding consoles and hardware. PC hardware is extremely flexible, but that comes at a cost for developers - it is practically impossible to optimize games for a broad range of hardware anywhere near as well as can be achieved on the static hardware of a games console. Example: The PC version of Battlefield 3 is naturally the best looking, but requires a fairly beefy computer to really shine. On the other hand, the PS3 with it's nVidia 7800(ish) runs the same game orders of magnitude better than a 7800GTX in a PC.
Quick not-exactly-scientific BF3 comparison:
1) Youtube vid of a 7800GTX in a PC managing 30-50fps at 1024x768 and low details: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7PKpGyjqBw
2) Comparison of PS3 and X360 pulling 25-30fps at 1080p and rather better details: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-battlefield-3?page=2
As such, this arguments boils down to economics and personal preferences - do you like control pads; can you live without cutting edge graphics; do you have other things to spend your money on than hardware upgrades? If you answered no to any of those, buy a PC. Otherwise, buy a console.
You completely missed the point and obviously didn't RTFA. The empirical evidence shows that datacentres can be run warmer than they typically are now with an acceptable increase in hardware failure - ie. bugger all. Increasing the temp in a massive datacentre by 5 degrees C will save a bundle of money/carbon emissions that far more than offsets the cost of replacing an extra component or two a month.
As impressive as your assertions are, they are just that - assertions. Reality disagrees with you.
Regional differences in pricing stem from pre-globalisation economics. With no overlap between regional markets, prices would be set on a per-market basis and never the twain did meet. In a post-globalisation Internet-levelled playing field, regional price differences make no little sense for purely-digital products, except where national sales-related taxes differ. The only reason to maintain these regional price variations to artificially inflate profit margins at the expense of the consumer.
In theory, the libertarian free-marker doctrine should cause this price difference to level out fairly quickly once the market starts to take advantage of (and offense to) these cross-border variations. Let's see if that theory works in practice...
Anyone want to bet on legislation increasing to prevent cross-region sales instead?
Not quite sure, perhaps http://openrightsgroup.org/
Of course I remember that time. We're still in it. They have the freedom to be asshats and the power to change the law. We have the freedom, and indeed a duty, to disagree with and resist their conceited laws. Nothing's changed on that front, it's all business as abnormal.
"When there is peace, the warlike man attacks himself" - that's Nietzsche, and his point is that there really is no peace. There's always some war, somewhere, with someone. And there are no winners or losers either... just those who are still around to fight another day.
- Ray Elwood, Buffalo Soliders
That's an idea - Firefox with HTTPS everywhere, and an automatic failover to Tor for everything else using FoxyProxy. Time to upgrade my net connection and start an exit node...
If it's the thin edge of the wedge, it must be a wedge of Swiss cheese.
Some of us don't even need to use a mirror - we use Fastnet for our ISP at work here in London and they haven't blocked it.