Its the next logical solution... Those T5440 servers with 256 processing threads are MONSTERS in terms of handling simultaneous connections which make them very good web servers, database servers, and file servers, all of which means they are very good for a company who's product is a website.
I guess he had ever had to make a presentation in a conference room or lecture hall, and had to use an already in place computer which he had to log in, or had his laptop go into screen saver mode because it was on battery and you talked more than 30 seconds on a single slide. Because he would then immediately say, "Gee, I sure wish I didn't have to show the 200 people here my password." Especially since at least a large portion of those same people will likely have access to the internet and potentially the same computer network his account is and can log in even while the presentation is on-going...
You need to drive out of the city into the subburbs then. I'm 10 minutes from Philly and I goes to one of 3 different theaters, all of which have digital projectors that display movies in 4096Ã--2160 resolution.
Have you realized that in CA, the fact that CA had been refusing to build baseload power plants in the state for a number of years is the reason for the rolling brownouts? (Note: a baseload plant is one which produces continual energy need, and is a major component of what is needed for a stable power grid... wind and solar are NOT baseload plants because they are affected by the weather conditions and can not be relied upon to continuously output power 24/7)
CA just finally started building new plants again. But if you look at what came online during the last 20 years, you will see that they were not building as many plants as needed and instead were importing more and more energy from neighbouring states to meet their energy needs (at a HUGE cost to consumers due to the transmission line losses). It was basically the not in my backyard issue for plants in CA. Well, if you don't have one in your backyard, then you will either deal with no power or extremely expensive power... Which they have both of.
I have to agree with the parent on this one. You need to go learn something that isn't taught at pump and dump schools or tech institutions. There are a thousand people with window's certs for every one that actually knows something about Unix/Linux. There is almost never a shortage for the need of a good Unix/Linux admin in the job market. A lot of the first generation admins are retiring now and in the next 5-10 years which means there will be a lot of need for experienced admins. Another thing you can do is focus on something like High Performance Computing (HPC). Again, there is more and more demand for this, and guess what, ~87% of the top 500 supercomputers run linux, ~5% run Unix, and around 1% run Windows. Again, this just says, go learn a Unix/Linux distribution. Get you foot in the door at a company that uses it. Yeah, you might have to do helpdesk, but you can actually learn Unix/Linux from helpdesk due to the fact that most problems are not something that a scripted conversation will normally fix. While there are some issues that you will run into time and time again, those things will almost always present themselves in a different form. You are also dealing with managing systems which can easily have an uptime of years. The systems were designed and built to last and have an OS that had the same stability requirements as well. It is typical to see systems go a year or more between reboots.
Seriously, do not use the Cisco gear to handle the DHCP. There are several ways to handle this, either have a system with an interface on all the networks, or setup your Cisco gear to forward the HDCP requests to the one subnet that does have your system.
With using Unix/Linux you can setup failover servers so that if one does not respond, the other will take over the requests and that way you will not lose DHCP across your entire network due to hardware/software issues on a single system. Go read up on dhcpd, it is not too difficult to understand, and is really probably your best low cost solution.
And, on an unrelated note, could anyone tell me why the HTML "li" code now works erratically? Is there another code that just gives me a simple new paragraph?
"BR""BR" (replace "'s with angle brackets)
As for your statement about when data was added to the wireless networks. I can understand that happening in the beginning. In the beginning there were no data standards. There were just a bunch of different companies with different handsets which sent data all in different ways. But, now there are these things called standards. Like GSM, GPRS, HSDPA, CDMA, 2G, 3G, EDGE, 3.5G, 1xRTT, and EV-DO. And many phones support multiple standards or can be configured to support a specific standard. All that should matter now is what standard your cellular network supports and that is it. ANY phone that happens to support that standard should be allowed to be used. It doesn't matter if you are AT&T, Verizon, or Joe's Fancy Wireless... If they all happen to use 3G, then any phone that supports 3G should be allowed to be purchased and used on that carrier, because they are just that, a carrier. They are selling access to a network service. They are not and should not be the gatekeepers of what device is allowed on that network as long as it follows the communications standard (just like the internet providers, and cable TV networks, they can not say that only Comcast Cable users can purchase the 70" Sony XRB8 OLED LCD TV, and if you want to use that TV to watch DirectTV satellite, well FU).
The cellular companies are a carrier and service provider who provides a wireless access for phone and data. They should be held to the same requirements as other providers of services in which the hardware that connects to the service is freely usable by anyone on any provider that has a network which supports the same standards that the hardware supports.
I'm sure glad that he is a senator then. I would love to see how he would feel if he was convicted in a trial and it turned out that the Judge was a high ranking member of the puppeteers of the prosecutor. Talk about trying to stack the deck. I know lets make sure the Judge is on our side and already believes us, that will make it much easier to make sure the outcome is the one we want.
As may have been pointed out, organizing the files is really the best way. Develop a strict schema for naming conventions as well as a hierarchical directory structure for maintaining and organizing. Something like:
/projectname/projectpart/data (contains the final draft of any document)/projectname/projectpart/working (contains files that people are modifying so that they can be merged/checked in to the data dir)/projectname/projecttpart/misc (contains misc. notes or files that need to be filed with the project)
The "projectpart" dirs are really just logical groupings of data/files for the project. Say you are designing a plane, well, break it up into relevant systems, like electronics, power plant, structure, etc., and each of those are the "projectpart" directories. The "projectname" is simply the overall project itself, be it the name of the plane, maybe the name of the contract, etc.
Not sure where you have been buying your copies of XP or Vista, but my last 3 copies of XP cost $85, $110, and $110 respectively, and that was a couple years ago. My last copy of Vista Ultimate cost me $114 and the one before that cost $149. Did I find some deals, heck yes, but that doesn't mean that you can't do as well as I did. So, I stand by my ~$100 for the OS.
In fact, without doing more than a google products search, you can get a full version (not upgrade) of MS XP Pro w/SP2 for ~$70 right now. I am sure you can get Vista Home or Premium in the neighborhood of $120 without too much trouble. While I manged to score Vista Ultimate in that ballpark range, I got them from when Circuit City went out of business and when CompUSA went out of business respectively.
Well, aside from the fact that the software you pointed to requires a second video card, which for gaming, should be the most expensive part of the computer, you will also have the issue of game license issues due to only having one computer, running 2 instances of the same game at the same time will be very difficult if not impossible for many games. Most will check to see if multiple license keys are in use at the same time with online play, and to my knowledge, installing 2 copies of the same game on the same computer using different keys is not something that will work either since that is a use that was never designed into the games and they will usually check to se if it is already installed and basically say that it is already installed on the computer. And for most MMORPGs you are not allowed to connect two sessions/characters online at the same time, so that will be something you need to look at as well.
It is probably just better to build a cheap game rig. Simply do a budget gaming PC: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Wolfdale ~$70 Asus P5QL Motherboard ~$90 4GB DDR2 RAM ~$20 320GB hard drive ~$45 DVD+/-RW ~$25 SIGMA La Vie LBYWBP computer case with 500W power supply ~45 after rebate ATI HD4770 video card ~$100 Total: ~$395
If you need an extra copy of XP or Vista, well that will be another ~$100, and if you need a monitor, another $100-150.
As my title says, the pixel/inch (or cm) has not greatly improved in the last 10 years or so. Look at any small LCD or other video screen technology and there has not been much of a push for higher pixel count per inch. This is mainly due to the fact that the normal viewing distance of the devices that are driving display technologies are measured feet, not millimetres. The human eye's ability to resolve individual bits of light is limited to about 1 arc minute (1/60 of a degree) (or approximately 1/16 of an inch at 20 feet distance). Since distance from the eye is a major contributing factor as to how much detail the eye can resolve on the object, and given the fact that the display devices for the eye are driven by devices that are meant to be seen from several feet away, there is no reason to produce a higher density of resolution display device as the human eye can not discern the difference at several feet away.
As a result, all display devices have their pixel density limited to the about the same as what is used for the dominant devices (in our case, computer monitors and HD TV screens). The only devices that are pushing the pixel density are HD LCD projectors and digital camera LCD view-finders. However, they have only just started to really make strides in pushing the pixel density. For wearable displays, due to being millimetres away from the eye, 1 arc minute is a significantly small linear distance between points, with the display 1cm away from the eye, the distance between two points that the human eye can detect is 0.00291 millimetres apart, which would mean you need a display with approx 8800 pixels per inch. Computer monitors are just pushing 150 pixels per inch, with some speciality products in the 200-300 pixels per inch. Which is why in a 2-3 inch screens on a wearable eyeglasses type display, you are only seeing 640x480 resolution.
As the subject says. "Online" backups and replication are simply tools to try and minimize downtime. They are NOT a backup solution. They never were and never should be touted as one, just as this example shows. The only good backup is one that occurs frequently, is verified that it worked, and is stored in a secure location such as a fire-proof safe, and even better in two different fire-proof safes in two different locations, preferably more than 100 miles apart.
There are no easy exits from a skyscraper nor should there be. This wouldn't have saved many lives... if any at all. People would be too scared to jump until absolutely sure the planes are going to hit them.
You are joking right? While it may not have saved everyone, it would have saved a lot of people. Now lets face it, jumping from a building with a parachute is dangerous especially to people untrained (you are essentially facejumping) and in a urban environment, without much room to move, along with possibly hundreds or thousands of other jumpers is not something without major risks. But for all those people where were trapped on the upper floors who couldn't get out of the building because the stairwells and elevators were destroyed below them, well, they would have at least had an option to attempt a first time jump without training with high risk, or if not, die anyway, I would personally be strapping on the parachute and jumping.
It all comes down to whether or not he knew of his condition before he signed up for and received the insurance policy. But I would say from the sounds of it, he didn't know most likely because he would not have gone to a doctor to be tested for something like this as he probably could not afford it, and most likely did not have health insurance. So if the insurance company did not require a health screening, it is their fault for not properly vetting people who are taking out a policy, not his.
I think the whole point is that they kept going with it without stopping. Going over the top and continuing onward just to prove that point was the ingenious way of discussing the censorship debate. It was to show that this stuff really only happens when you have this enforced censorship requirements on people all the time, so that when they don't have those requirements, they will take it to the absolute limit. But would that really be the case normally if there was not those censorship requirements in the first place. This might actually be a good topic for some social interactive physiology studies. Personally, I would believe that the writers would never feel the need to push the limit if there was no limit in the first place. And as a result they would never have to change things around or see if they can get something slipped in "the backdoor" because they knew the front door had a guard scanning for "shoes and shirts".
lol... now that is classic, and just yet another point that people don't pay any freaking attention to the RATING SYSTEMS!!!!! It was R for a REASON. Like, "F*** you f***ing face uncle f***er.", and my personal favorite, "Well F*** my A** and call me a B****."
Read it again, he was very correct. A LOT more so than anyone has ever been in the past. The devastating event did happen. His models were saying that a devastating earthquake was imminent. A small quake relieved some of the stresses last week, which postponed the major event a few days. But his models also detected that the event was going to happen again with enough time to warn people, but he was not allowed to raise the alarm because they would have arrested him.
Actually, he didn't alert anyone of the one that happened today/yesterday because he was warned that he would be arrested if he raised an alarm again, even though his last alarm was accurate, even if it wasn't as large an event that he initially thought, the mini-quake relieved some of the stresses his model was predicting. But his model predicted that the massive event was to happen as it did now, but he could not raise the alarm about it.
He is absolutely right that the officials should be apologising, not only to him, but to all the people who lost their lives or were injured.
The only problem with this theory is that the video card companies have been called out on this every time they have done it in the past. It is very simple for a review site, once seeing allegations like this, to go to their local store and simply buy a card. And the other problem is that there are simply too many review sites for companies like ATI or Nvidia to send review samples. There is almost a new review site up almost every 2-3 months, and if one of those picks up a retal product (or as is the case of all the real good review sites, they always purchase a normal retal product), will very quickly see the shenanigans going on with the review samples. So I call BS on the article.
Both agree that the Nvidia 275 outperforms the ATI 4890, so really, both sites agree. The differences between the sites performances for the ATI card are probably related to the differences in platforms (CPU, motherboard, RAM, FSB) that the card was installed.
Since for us to pass a law like this would take a constitutional amendment for it to not get stricken down by the courts.
Also did anyone else notice that if the idiot countries who didn't vote because they were protesting the vote had in fact simply voted against the measure, it would not have passed?
Problem is that there is no current known way to produce paint which meets these requirements with for black paint or many other dark tinted paints. The end result is a mud-brown for black paint.
If the technology existed, then I would be all for this. However, at this time, it does not exist. And for the small, minuscule, savings this will produce for emissions, I have to say that this is ridiculous. You will save more on emissions by forcing all cars sold in the state to have limiters on their engines to restrict it from reving past 4000RPM and limiters on the max speed of 65MPH (or whatever the speed highest speed limit in the state is), than by banning cars with paint schemes that do not reflect 20% of UV and IR just to reduce the amount of time the AC has to turn on due to the heat added to the car from UV and IR light.
I don't think they really thought this through. And I hope that real scientists grill them on this because I can't believe that a reduction of 20% UV and IR will make any real difference on the temperature inside a vehicle when compared against the other primary sources of the heat (ambient temperature, radiated heat from the engine/exhaust, number of occupants in the car). And even then, the overall factors in how much this will reduce emissions has more to do with the efficiency of the AC in the vehicle and the temperature settings that the occupants use than how much sunlight is absorbed by the car's paint!
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Its the next logical solution... Those T5440 servers with 256 processing threads are MONSTERS in terms of handling simultaneous connections which make them very good web servers, database servers, and file servers, all of which means they are very good for a company who's product is a website.
I guess he had ever had to make a presentation in a conference room or lecture hall, and had to use an already in place computer which he had to log in, or had his laptop go into screen saver mode because it was on battery and you talked more than 30 seconds on a single slide. Because he would then immediately say, "Gee, I sure wish I didn't have to show the 200 people here my password." Especially since at least a large portion of those same people will likely have access to the internet and potentially the same computer network his account is and can log in even while the presentation is on-going...
You need to drive out of the city into the subburbs then. I'm 10 minutes from Philly and I goes to one of 3 different theaters, all of which have digital projectors that display movies in 4096Ã--2160 resolution.
Have you realized that in CA, the fact that CA had been refusing to build baseload power plants in the state for a number of years is the reason for the rolling brownouts? (Note: a baseload plant is one which produces continual energy need, and is a major component of what is needed for a stable power grid... wind and solar are NOT baseload plants because they are affected by the weather conditions and can not be relied upon to continuously output power 24/7)
CA just finally started building new plants again. But if you look at what came online during the last 20 years, you will see that they were not building as many plants as needed and instead were importing more and more energy from neighbouring states to meet their energy needs (at a HUGE cost to consumers due to the transmission line losses). It was basically the not in my backyard issue for plants in CA. Well, if you don't have one in your backyard, then you will either deal with no power or extremely expensive power... Which they have both of.
I have to agree with the parent on this one. You need to go learn something that isn't taught at pump and dump schools or tech institutions. There are a thousand people with window's certs for every one that actually knows something about Unix/Linux. There is almost never a shortage for the need of a good Unix/Linux admin in the job market. A lot of the first generation admins are retiring now and in the next 5-10 years which means there will be a lot of need for experienced admins. Another thing you can do is focus on something like High Performance Computing (HPC). Again, there is more and more demand for this, and guess what, ~87% of the top 500 supercomputers run linux, ~5% run Unix, and around 1% run Windows. Again, this just says, go learn a Unix/Linux distribution. Get you foot in the door at a company that uses it. Yeah, you might have to do helpdesk, but you can actually learn Unix/Linux from helpdesk due to the fact that most problems are not something that a scripted conversation will normally fix. While there are some issues that you will run into time and time again, those things will almost always present themselves in a different form. You are also dealing with managing systems which can easily have an uptime of years. The systems were designed and built to last and have an OS that had the same stability requirements as well. It is typical to see systems go a year or more between reboots.
Seriously, do not use the Cisco gear to handle the DHCP. There are several ways to handle this, either have a system with an interface on all the networks, or setup your Cisco gear to forward the HDCP requests to the one subnet that does have your system.
With using Unix/Linux you can setup failover servers so that if one does not respond, the other will take over the requests and that way you will not lose DHCP across your entire network due to hardware/software issues on a single system. Go read up on dhcpd, it is not too difficult to understand, and is really probably your best low cost solution.
And, on an unrelated note, could anyone tell me why the HTML "li" code now works erratically? Is there another code that just gives me a simple new paragraph?
"BR""BR" (replace "'s with angle brackets)
As for your statement about when data was added to the wireless networks. I can understand that happening in the beginning. In the beginning there were no data standards. There were just a bunch of different companies with different handsets which sent data all in different ways. But, now there are these things called standards. Like GSM, GPRS, HSDPA, CDMA, 2G, 3G, EDGE, 3.5G, 1xRTT, and EV-DO. And many phones support multiple standards or can be configured to support a specific standard. All that should matter now is what standard your cellular network supports and that is it. ANY phone that happens to support that standard should be allowed to be used. It doesn't matter if you are AT&T, Verizon, or Joe's Fancy Wireless... If they all happen to use 3G, then any phone that supports 3G should be allowed to be purchased and used on that carrier, because they are just that, a carrier. They are selling access to a network service. They are not and should not be the gatekeepers of what device is allowed on that network as long as it follows the communications standard (just like the internet providers, and cable TV networks, they can not say that only Comcast Cable users can purchase the 70" Sony XRB8 OLED LCD TV, and if you want to use that TV to watch DirectTV satellite, well FU).
The cellular companies are a carrier and service provider who provides a wireless access for phone and data. They should be held to the same requirements as other providers of services in which the hardware that connects to the service is freely usable by anyone on any provider that has a network which supports the same standards that the hardware supports.
I'm sure glad that he is a senator then. I would love to see how he would feel if he was convicted in a trial and it turned out that the Judge was a high ranking member of the puppeteers of the prosecutor. Talk about trying to stack the deck. I know lets make sure the Judge is on our side and already believes us, that will make it much easier to make sure the outcome is the one we want.
As may have been pointed out, organizing the files is really the best way. Develop a strict schema for naming conventions as well as a hierarchical directory structure for maintaining and organizing. Something like:
/projectname/projectpart/data (contains the final draft of any document) /projectname/projectpart/working (contains files that people are modifying so that they can be merged/checked in to the data dir) /projectname/projecttpart/misc (contains misc. notes or files that need to be filed with the project)
The "projectpart" dirs are really just logical groupings of data/files for the project. Say you are designing a plane, well, break it up into relevant systems, like electronics, power plant, structure, etc., and each of those are the "projectpart" directories. The "projectname" is simply the overall project itself, be it the name of the plane, maybe the name of the contract, etc.
Not sure where you have been buying your copies of XP or Vista, but my last 3 copies of XP cost $85, $110, and $110 respectively, and that was a couple years ago. My last copy of Vista Ultimate cost me $114 and the one before that cost $149. Did I find some deals, heck yes, but that doesn't mean that you can't do as well as I did. So, I stand by my ~$100 for the OS.
In fact, without doing more than a google products search, you can get a full version (not upgrade) of MS XP Pro w/SP2 for ~$70 right now. I am sure you can get Vista Home or Premium in the neighborhood of $120 without too much trouble. While I manged to score Vista Ultimate in that ballpark range, I got them from when Circuit City went out of business and when CompUSA went out of business respectively.
Well, aside from the fact that the software you pointed to requires a second video card, which for gaming, should be the most expensive part of the computer, you will also have the issue of game license issues due to only having one computer, running 2 instances of the same game at the same time will be very difficult if not impossible for many games. Most will check to see if multiple license keys are in use at the same time with online play, and to my knowledge, installing 2 copies of the same game on the same computer using different keys is not something that will work either since that is a use that was never designed into the games and they will usually check to se if it is already installed and basically say that it is already installed on the computer. And for most MMORPGs you are not allowed to connect two sessions/characters online at the same time, so that will be something you need to look at as well.
It is probably just better to build a cheap game rig. Simply do a budget gaming PC:
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Wolfdale ~$70
Asus P5QL Motherboard ~$90
4GB DDR2 RAM ~$20
320GB hard drive ~$45
DVD+/-RW ~$25
SIGMA La Vie LBYWBP computer case with 500W power supply ~45 after rebate
ATI HD4770 video card ~$100
Total: ~$395
If you need an extra copy of XP or Vista, well that will be another ~$100, and if you need a monitor, another $100-150.
As my title says, the pixel/inch (or cm) has not greatly improved in the last 10 years or so. Look at any small LCD or other video screen technology and there has not been much of a push for higher pixel count per inch. This is mainly due to the fact that the normal viewing distance of the devices that are driving display technologies are measured feet, not millimetres. The human eye's ability to resolve individual bits of light is limited to about 1 arc minute (1/60 of a degree) (or approximately 1/16 of an inch at 20 feet distance). Since distance from the eye is a major contributing factor as to how much detail the eye can resolve on the object, and given the fact that the display devices for the eye are driven by devices that are meant to be seen from several feet away, there is no reason to produce a higher density of resolution display device as the human eye can not discern the difference at several feet away.
As a result, all display devices have their pixel density limited to the about the same as what is used for the dominant devices (in our case, computer monitors and HD TV screens). The only devices that are pushing the pixel density are HD LCD projectors and digital camera LCD view-finders. However, they have only just started to really make strides in pushing the pixel density. For wearable displays, due to being millimetres away from the eye, 1 arc minute is a significantly small linear distance between points, with the display 1cm away from the eye, the distance between two points that the human eye can detect is 0.00291 millimetres apart, which would mean you need a display with approx 8800 pixels per inch. Computer monitors are just pushing 150 pixels per inch, with some speciality products in the 200-300 pixels per inch. Which is why in a 2-3 inch screens on a wearable eyeglasses type display, you are only seeing 640x480 resolution.
As the subject says. "Online" backups and replication are simply tools to try and minimize downtime. They are NOT a backup solution. They never were and never should be touted as one, just as this example shows. The only good backup is one that occurs frequently, is verified that it worked, and is stored in a secure location such as a fire-proof safe, and even better in two different fire-proof safes in two different locations, preferably more than 100 miles apart.
There are no easy exits from a skyscraper nor should there be. This wouldn't have saved many lives ... if any at all. People would be too scared to jump until absolutely sure the planes are going to hit them.
You are joking right? While it may not have saved everyone, it would have saved a lot of people. Now lets face it, jumping from a building with a parachute is dangerous especially to people untrained (you are essentially facejumping) and in a urban environment, without much room to move, along with possibly hundreds or thousands of other jumpers is not something without major risks. But for all those people where were trapped on the upper floors who couldn't get out of the building because the stairwells and elevators were destroyed below them, well, they would have at least had an option to attempt a first time jump without training with high risk, or if not, die anyway, I would personally be strapping on the parachute and jumping.
It all comes down to whether or not he knew of his condition before he signed up for and received the insurance policy. But I would say from the sounds of it, he didn't know most likely because he would not have gone to a doctor to be tested for something like this as he probably could not afford it, and most likely did not have health insurance. So if the insurance company did not require a health screening, it is their fault for not properly vetting people who are taking out a policy, not his.
Well, this is hardly "news"... Heck my friends made a flash video about it 9 months ago, and they were working on it for about a month...
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I think the whole point is that they kept going with it without stopping. Going over the top and continuing onward just to prove that point was the ingenious way of discussing the censorship debate. It was to show that this stuff really only happens when you have this enforced censorship requirements on people all the time, so that when they don't have those requirements, they will take it to the absolute limit. But would that really be the case normally if there was not those censorship requirements in the first place. This might actually be a good topic for some social interactive physiology studies. Personally, I would believe that the writers would never feel the need to push the limit if there was no limit in the first place. And as a result they would never have to change things around or see if they can get something slipped in "the backdoor" because they knew the front door had a guard scanning for "shoes and shirts".
lol... now that is classic, and just yet another point that people don't pay any freaking attention to the RATING SYSTEMS!!!!! It was R for a REASON. Like, "F*** you f***ing face uncle f***er.", and my personal favorite, "Well F*** my A** and call me a B****."
I seem to remember something about "educational use" in Section 107 of the Copyright Act....
Read it again, he was very correct. A LOT more so than anyone has ever been in the past. The devastating event did happen. His models were saying that a devastating earthquake was imminent. A small quake relieved some of the stresses last week, which postponed the major event a few days. But his models also detected that the event was going to happen again with enough time to warn people, but he was not allowed to raise the alarm because they would have arrested him.
Actually, he didn't alert anyone of the one that happened today/yesterday because he was warned that he would be arrested if he raised an alarm again, even though his last alarm was accurate, even if it wasn't as large an event that he initially thought, the mini-quake relieved some of the stresses his model was predicting. But his model predicted that the massive event was to happen as it did now, but he could not raise the alarm about it.
He is absolutely right that the officials should be apologising, not only to him, but to all the people who lost their lives or were injured.
The only problem with this theory is that the video card companies have been called out on this every time they have done it in the past. It is very simple for a review site, once seeing allegations like this, to go to their local store and simply buy a card. And the other problem is that there are simply too many review sites for companies like ATI or Nvidia to send review samples. There is almost a new review site up almost every 2-3 months, and if one of those picks up a retal product (or as is the case of all the real good review sites, they always purchase a normal retal product), will very quickly see the shenanigans going on with the review samples. So I call BS on the article.
Both agree that the Nvidia 275 outperforms the ATI 4890, so really, both sites agree. The differences between the sites performances for the ATI card are probably related to the differences in platforms (CPU, motherboard, RAM, FSB) that the card was installed.
Since for us to pass a law like this would take a constitutional amendment for it to not get stricken down by the courts.
Also did anyone else notice that if the idiot countries who didn't vote because they were protesting the vote had in fact simply voted against the measure, it would not have passed?
Problem is that there is no current known way to produce paint which meets these requirements with for black paint or many other dark tinted paints. The end result is a mud-brown for black paint.
If the technology existed, then I would be all for this. However, at this time, it does not exist. And for the small, minuscule, savings this will produce for emissions, I have to say that this is ridiculous. You will save more on emissions by forcing all cars sold in the state to have limiters on their engines to restrict it from reving past 4000RPM and limiters on the max speed of 65MPH (or whatever the speed highest speed limit in the state is), than by banning cars with paint schemes that do not reflect 20% of UV and IR just to reduce the amount of time the AC has to turn on due to the heat added to the car from UV and IR light.
I don't think they really thought this through. And I hope that real scientists grill them on this because I can't believe that a reduction of 20% UV and IR will make any real difference on the temperature inside a vehicle when compared against the other primary sources of the heat (ambient temperature, radiated heat from the engine/exhaust, number of occupants in the car). And even then, the overall factors in how much this will reduce emissions has more to do with the efficiency of the AC in the vehicle and the temperature settings that the occupants use than how much sunlight is absorbed by the car's paint!