Then once you get down to a gift card, you can spend it. Or you can sort through the whole stack till you found all the gift cards. A slightly more rewarding activity;)
Sadly, this is too true. I noticed this especially with the womens athletics. The announcers and commentators are too hung up on what they think these athletes owe their country to notice that these defeats were crushing those girls. The interviewers would purposefully stake out the one girl on a team that messed up worst and ask "So how did it feel to make mistakes XYZ and possibly cost your team a medal?".
I think the poor girl handled the situation admirably and has done her country more than proud. In one defeat she has contributed more to her country than that damned announcer will ever contribute. By even trying she has contributed more than I ever will.
The commentators and announcers need to have more respect for the athletes involved. A person does not get sent to the olympics just because they were the only one who tried out... for some it is a once in a life time opportunity, and a lifelong dream. I cannot fathom how it would feel to have a dream so far within reach and then absolutely shattered. Not even nearly.
If you're confident in the ammount of ram you have, just turn off swap.
God I wish that was possible. I get *so* tired of windows sending firefox.exe into swap. I wish there was a way to pin a process in RAM. But as far as I know, there's not. And as my experience goes, windows will not lett you disable all swap.
I have turned off all swap files in WinXP. And yet, I see: PF Usage: 274Mb Physical Memory (K) Available: 392240
There should be no reason for it to even go to swap. But to swap it goes. Where the swap is, nobody knows... I have two two hard drives, and both of them are set to "No paging file."
The sad truth of the matter is that windows will never let you choose not to have any swap. Even setting it to a pitifully small amount will not override it.
Saying that Apple can't control the formats on the iPod, or that Lexmark can't control the origin of replacement cartridges, is equivalent to saying that mobile carriers have to give you a free phone and then let you cancel the service contract (at no cost to you) so you can take it to a new carrier.
The two situations you described are not equal; herein I will explain why.
Let's look at phones first, so we can clear up exactly what is happening with phones. Then we will look at the situation experienced with printers and music players.
When you buy a phone, you sign a (n) year contract. You are thereby not able to cancel the contract without paying a cancellation charge. This charge is made known before you sign the contract. You agree in advance that you will not be able to get service for this phone from another vendor for (n) years without penalty.
When you purchase a printer or a music player, you sign no such contract. There is no agreement between you and the vendor you purchased the device from stating that you will use them and only them as the primary supplier of consumable items for use in conjunction with the device you purchased from them.
It is important to note that the difference is that in the first case, you are legally bound by a contract, where as in the second you are bound only by market avaialability.
It is simply a bad business plan to rely on lack of market availability as a limit for purchasing consumable items for use in conjunction with a device. If your business plan relies on you being the only supplier for those consumable items, then your business plan should be similar to the cellular phone business model. Get a written contract.
I'm not here to argue the merits of a business model that involves selling an item at a loss with the intent to make up the loss by selling consumable items. I'm just saying that if you are going to do it, do it by means other than market availability, or you will get screwed. When it happens, and it will will happen, you have no right to complain about it at all. You set yourself up for it the moment you sold that first device.
Absolutely. The BFGTech card is... as best I can put it... blurry.
Perhaps nVidia just didnt detect a dud chip and it got sent to BFGTech... I know that in some games, the 3D structures do not look the same. there will be "gaps" between polys. Everything will be exceptionally blurred...
The difference physically between the two cards is even obvious. PNY put a heatsink on everything. And not small ones. HUGE. And they work, they dissipate the heat exceptionally well. The two heatsinks on the new card dont seem to do the job as well, but in all honesty, that could just be because the chip runs at a higher clock rate. I know it probably doesnt add too much to the price for the heatsinks, but it seems to help a lot. At this point in time, I believe that the RAMDACs on the PNY card were superior as well.
I will never again think of the higher price of PNY cards as a "brand" premium. PNY make solid, quality cards, and I would be thrilled to have one again.
Please bear in mind they are using a BFGTech card. I have personal experience with both PNY cards, and BFGTech cards... My PNY FX5200Ultra passed on, and to replace it, I got a BFGTech 5600Ultra.
I am here to tell you today that in terms of FPS, the BFGTech is better. As it should be, it's a 5600 ultra, and the PNY card was a 5200 ultra. However, in terms of image quality, the BFGTech is far, FAR, FAR below the PNY card. Using the exact same drivers.
BFGTech cards are inferior. I would never recommend anyone buy one, and I would certainly call into question any comparison which used a BFGTech as the baseline image for the nvidia line. The image is simply too far degraded below what the same chip from a quality manufacturer such as PNY would put out.
Yes, this is subjective, I have no screen shots to back it up, but I've been meaning to share my experience for a while, so there it is.
What about every app that uses svgalib having to be suid root, or run as root. Those mythTV boxes and advanceMAME cabs are just big fat fuckin backdoor waiting to be exploited.
Contrary to what your post implied, MythTV does not use svgalib, nor does it require to run as root/suid root.
It is quite possible to setup MythTV to run as its own unprivileged user that only has access to QT libs, X, the tv tuner, video out and some form of large scale storage.
In fact, that is the most common way to set it up, because that is how the very verbose documentation instructs you to set it up.
I freely acknowledge that it is time consuming to set MythTV up; but I would heatedly dispute that it has to be insecure because of any reason issued in your post.
Not related to machine learning, but something that bugs me often is that when you close a tab you are returned to the tab before the one that you closed... It would be absolutely fantastic if FireFox would return you to the last most recently used tab.
This is implemented in in the form of an extension by FLST; but it would be a great was built in option.
You don't have to click Yes. The security holes in the browser allow them to install it for you.
Just the other day I got hit with a SearchNow! installation. The only reason I noticed is because I saw activity in the system tray. I have no idea why they did that, because otherwise I would have been none the wiser.
I didnt click *anything*. I was unexpectedly redirected to another page by a page I was visiting, and bam... it was installing.
I routinely tell any popup not to install software. I berate my in-laws who click "Yes, install Gator, we love Gator aka Gain aka Claria". I'm a computer programmer who uses ie at work by day, but uses firefox at home by night because he Knows Better(tm).
Firefox has *never* installed a "plugin" automatically on me because of a security hole. And I trust that it never will.
You are saying that there is a two year lifetime to a video card. No problem there.
How does that make what I said untrue?
I said buying a six month old video card would play the games currently available. Nothing you have said here refutes that point except "That isn't really true". A six month release cycle has no bearing on whether or not a two year old video card can play todays games. They could release video cards annually and you would have the exact same scenario.
All your post has done is prove my point... but at the same time you're trying to say I'm wrong! Please; think before you post.
I mean, anybody who buys a video card knows EXACTLY what you mean. If you buy a six month old video card, you can GUARANTEE it wont work with any game made six months after the card was.
Sure thing.
Excuse me while I go use my obsolete video card to play games that don't work all the while somehow being subconsciously demanded to buy a new product until I cave in and do so.
Why do you think that the "moron" is modded insightful, and you haven't been moderated up at all? I'll give you a hint: It's not because he posted "tripe".
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do a google search on monsanto. It's not hard to find out their primary product is Roundup Ready Canola. It's also not hard to figure out that Roundup Ready Canola is resistant to Roundup.
If you get sued by somebody, first thing you should do is try to figure out who they are and why they are suing you.
If you were even half-way searching you would have figured out that monsanto sell canola that is genetically modified to resist roundup within minutes.
I've seen a lot of videos that HammerHead puts out, and (as most people are) I'm very impressed and usually completely overwhelmed. Are you able to tell us which productions were these machines involved in rendering?
Also, in the interest of understanding how much it costs to set up a significant render farm, how much does this sort of thing cost? Is it all in the PCs, or would the backplane infrastructure cost surprise us a lot?
Really I guess what I'm asking is if you could do a cost-per-node breakdown to show how much these things really cost, as opposed to a blunt "this is how much a machine costs"... I'm interested in what was needed above the cost of the machine and if it scales linearly.
Thanks for the insight so far. I find fascinating to read about this stuff and its not often I can find people with with such amazing real world experience who are in a position to share said experience.
If you would take a slight logic step sideways though, you would see that it will stop google from increasing the other sites pagerank, because google will not index that page.
So no, it wont stop you having bogus users being created, but yes, you will get a warm fuzzy knowing that your (popular and high pageranked) site is not helping their nefarious techniques..
Interestingly enough, this explanation was also in a round about way the last line of the OP's comment. Fancy that.
The secret is to find something they like playing. It won't neccessarily be obvious either.
My wife turned her nose up at the cute fluffy games that I thought she would like. At first blush I thought perhaps computer games were not going to be something she would like. Then she saw me playing Quake3 Arena one day and has become quite adept at it.
Most importantly is to talk about your game playing habits. Find out why it is a problem for them. This will prevent countless hours of arguing and pouting (on both parts!).
If the problem is "just" because your chores are suffering, then the solution may be as easy as finishing your chores quicker; not finding a game for her so you can say "You play too!".
At least 75% of the noise pollution that I encounter emanating from inside of vehicles is noise of the so-called "urban" variety. I would like to say a higher percentage, but I couldn't swear it was just because of the noise level... To clarify, I consider anything loud to be noise pollution, not just musica that are not to my taste.
Driving behind someone (urgh, even past!) who has something playing at 160db is about the only thing that makes me wish we had pain stimulators in the fashion of the Bond world domination game on steering wheels. To deliver the 'what the HELL were you thinking?!?!'
Although I guess all that would change for urban listeners would be the addition of the 'Rap SUCKS!!!!' zap. Who knows how much voltage you'd need though, given the pain that much db must be inflicting on their deafened eardrums.
Even techno/dance crap doesn't sound as bad at those high db as 'urban' "music". </OFFTOPIC>
BTW, in case you hadn't heard... rap sucks. Yep. This part is on topic.
Gradually, those efforts became regarded as unnecessary. Today, connectivity is generally better, but when a link goes down for whatever reason, it all too often happens that a number of domains go down with it. Yeah, my webhost is about to get the boot. Their name server is unreachable to the general internet about once or twice a month. But it's been free, so how do you complain? =) People tend to get what they pay for.
Thanks for the note though. It'll hasten my change! And also make sure that I remember to ask that all-important question: "Are you name servers multi-homed?"
On an unrelated note, you didn't miss much on the website. It's a very simple looking php site that isn't (even nearly) finished and attempts to look like a slash-dot forum =) Maybe on my new host I'll find the next language-of-the-month and half-implement another half-baked idea!
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Ever see a version of MS Office, IE, Outlook for anything other then a MS operating system
Microsoft used to distribute Internet Explorer For Unix, specifically having had experience with it on Solaris.
I'm not saying it was a good product, but it was a product.
Then once you get down to a gift card, you can spend it. ;)
Or you can sort through the whole stack till you found all the gift cards. A slightly more rewarding activity
Sadly, this is too true. I noticed this especially with the womens athletics. The announcers and commentators are too hung up on what they think these athletes owe their country to notice that these defeats were crushing those girls. The interviewers would purposefully stake out the one girl on a team that messed up worst and ask "So how did it feel to make mistakes XYZ and possibly cost your team a medal?".
I think the poor girl handled the situation admirably and has done her country more than proud. In one defeat she has contributed more to her country than that damned announcer will ever contribute. By even trying she has contributed more than I ever will.
The commentators and announcers need to have more respect for the athletes involved. A person does not get sent to the olympics just because they were the only one who tried out... for some it is a once in a life time opportunity, and a lifelong dream. I cannot fathom how it would feel to have a dream so far within reach and then absolutely shattered. Not even nearly.
If you're confident in the ammount of ram you have, just turn off swap.
God I wish that was possible. I get *so* tired of windows sending firefox.exe into swap. I wish there was a way to pin a process in RAM. But as far as I know, there's not. And as my experience goes, windows will not lett you disable all swap.
I have turned off all swap files in WinXP.
And yet, I see:
PF Usage: 274Mb
Physical Memory (K)
Available: 392240
There should be no reason for it to even go to swap. But to swap it goes. Where the swap is, nobody knows... I have two two hard drives, and both of them are set to "No paging file."
The sad truth of the matter is that windows will never let you choose not to have any swap. Even setting it to a pitifully small amount will not override it.
Saying that Apple can't control the formats on the iPod, or that Lexmark can't control the origin of replacement cartridges, is equivalent to saying that mobile carriers have to give you a free phone and then let you cancel the service contract (at no cost to you) so you can take it to a new carrier.
The two situations you described are not equal; herein I will explain why.
Let's look at phones first, so we can clear up exactly what is happening with phones. Then we will look at the situation experienced with printers and music players.
When you buy a phone, you sign a (n) year contract. You are thereby not able to cancel the contract without paying a cancellation charge. This charge is made known before you sign the contract. You agree in advance that you will not be able to get service for this phone from another vendor for (n) years without penalty.
When you purchase a printer or a music player, you sign no such contract. There is no agreement between you and the vendor you purchased the device from stating that you will use them and only them as the primary supplier of consumable items for use in conjunction with the device you purchased from them.
It is important to note that the difference is that in the first case, you are legally bound by a contract, where as in the second you are bound only by market avaialability.
It is simply a bad business plan to rely on lack of market availability as a limit for purchasing consumable items for use in conjunction with a device. If your business plan relies on you being the only supplier for those consumable items, then your business plan should be similar to the cellular phone business model. Get a written contract.
I'm not here to argue the merits of a business model that involves selling an item at a loss with the intent to make up the loss by selling consumable items. I'm just saying that if you are going to do it, do it by means other than market availability, or you will get screwed. When it happens, and it will will happen, you have no right to complain about it at all. You set yourself up for it the moment you sold that first device.
Absolutely. The BFGTech card is ... as best I can put it ... blurry.
Perhaps nVidia just didnt detect a dud chip and it got sent to BFGTech... I know that in some games, the 3D structures do not look the same. there will be "gaps" between polys. Everything will be exceptionally blurred...
The difference physically between the two cards is even obvious. PNY put a heatsink on everything. And not small ones. HUGE. And they work, they dissipate the heat exceptionally well. The two heatsinks on the new card dont seem to do the job as well, but in all honesty, that could just be because the chip runs at a higher clock rate. I know it probably doesnt add too much to the price for the heatsinks, but it seems to help a lot. At this point in time, I believe that the RAMDACs on the PNY card were superior as well.
I will never again think of the higher price of PNY cards as a "brand" premium. PNY make solid, quality cards, and I would be thrilled to have one again.
Please bear in mind they are using a BFGTech card. I have personal experience with both PNY cards, and BFGTech cards... My PNY FX5200Ultra passed on, and to replace it, I got a BFGTech 5600Ultra.
I am here to tell you today that in terms of FPS, the BFGTech is better. As it should be, it's a 5600 ultra, and the PNY card was a 5200 ultra. However, in terms of image quality, the BFGTech is far, FAR, FAR below the PNY card. Using the exact same drivers.
BFGTech cards are inferior. I would never recommend anyone buy one, and I would certainly call into question any comparison which used a BFGTech as the baseline image for the nvidia line. The image is simply too far degraded below what the same chip from a quality manufacturer such as PNY would put out.
Yes, this is subjective, I have no screen shots to back it up, but I've been meaning to share my experience for a while, so there it is.
What about every app that uses svgalib having to be suid root, or run as root. Those mythTV boxes and advanceMAME cabs are just big fat fuckin backdoor waiting to be exploited.
Contrary to what your post implied, MythTV does not use svgalib, nor does it require to run as root/suid root.
It is quite possible to setup MythTV to run as its own unprivileged user that only has access to QT libs, X, the tv tuner, video out and some form of large scale storage.
In fact, that is the most common way to set it up, because that is how the very verbose documentation instructs you to set it up.
I freely acknowledge that it is time consuming to set MythTV up; but I would heatedly dispute that it has to be insecure because of any reason issued in your post.
Not related to machine learning, but something that bugs me often is that when you close a tab you are returned to the tab before the one that you closed... It would be absolutely fantastic if FireFox would return you to the last most recently used tab.
This is implemented in in the form of an extension by FLST; but it would be a great was built in option.
You don't have to click Yes. The security holes in the browser allow them to install it for you.
Just the other day I got hit with a SearchNow! installation. The only reason I noticed is because I saw activity in the system tray. I have no idea why they did that, because otherwise I would have been none the wiser.
I didnt click *anything*. I was unexpectedly redirected to another page by a page I was visiting, and bam... it was installing.
I routinely tell any popup not to install software. I berate my in-laws who click "Yes, install Gator, we love Gator aka Gain aka Claria". I'm a computer programmer who uses ie at work by day, but uses firefox at home by night because he Knows Better(tm).
Firefox has *never* installed a "plugin" automatically on me because of a security hole. And I trust that it never will.
You are saying that there is a two year lifetime to a video card. No problem there.
How does that make what I said untrue?
I said buying a six month old video card would play the games currently available. Nothing you have said here refutes that point except "That isn't really true". A six month release cycle has no bearing on whether or not a two year old video card can play todays games. They could release video cards annually and you would have the exact same scenario.
All your post has done is prove my point... but at the same time you're trying to say I'm wrong! Please; think before you post.
Wow. You are SO right.
I mean, anybody who buys a video card knows EXACTLY what you mean. If you buy a six month old video card, you can GUARANTEE it wont work with any game made six months after the card was.
Sure thing.
Excuse me while I go use my obsolete video card to play games that don't work all the while somehow being subconsciously demanded to buy a new product until I cave in and do so.
Why do you think that the "moron" is modded insightful, and you haven't been moderated up at all? I'll give you a hint: It's not because he posted "tripe".
do a google search on monsanto. It's not hard to find out their primary product is Roundup Ready Canola. It's also not hard to figure out that Roundup Ready Canola is resistant to Roundup.
If you get sued by somebody, first thing you should do is try to figure out who they are and why they are suing you.
If you were even half-way searching you would have figured out that monsanto sell canola that is genetically modified to resist roundup within minutes.
p.s we don't do Videos, we make Films.
My apoogies. I interchange the two words entirely too frequently... old habits die pretty hard.
I've seen a lot of videos that HammerHead puts out, and (as most people are) I'm very impressed and usually completely overwhelmed. Are you able to tell us which productions were these machines involved in rendering?
Also, in the interest of understanding how much it costs to set up a significant render farm, how much does this sort of thing cost? Is it all in the PCs, or would the backplane infrastructure cost surprise us a lot?
Really I guess what I'm asking is if you could do a cost-per-node breakdown to show how much these things really cost, as opposed to a blunt "this is how much a machine costs"... I'm interested in what was needed above the cost of the machine and if it scales linearly.
Thanks for the insight so far. I find fascinating to read about this stuff and its not often I can find people with with such amazing real world experience who are in a position to share said experience.
Because everyone knows that RISC is RISC, and deep down, they're all compatible.
And BSD is dying too.
Nice try.
If you would take a slight logic step sideways though, you would see that it will stop google from increasing the other sites pagerank, because google will not index that page.
So no, it wont stop you having bogus users being created, but yes, you will get a warm fuzzy knowing that your (popular and high pageranked) site is not helping their nefarious techniques..
Interestingly enough, this explanation was also in a round about way the last line of the OP's comment. Fancy that.
That depends. Did John Grisham and Tom Clancy force their publishers to only publish their books?
Probably not... they don't have that kind of a monopoly over the book-reading market.
The problem some of us are running into is that our significant others aren't too happy with us gaming all the time.
Possibly about the only time you definitely do NOT want to imagine a beowolf cluster of something!
YIKES.
The secret is to find something they like playing. It won't neccessarily be obvious either.
My wife turned her nose up at the cute fluffy games that I thought she would like. At first blush I thought perhaps computer games were not going to be something she would like. Then she saw me playing Quake3 Arena one day and has become quite adept at it.
Most importantly is to talk about your game playing habits. Find out why it is a problem for them. This will prevent countless hours of arguing and pouting (on both parts!).
If the problem is "just" because your chores are suffering, then the solution may be as easy as finishing your chores quicker; not finding a game for her so you can say "You play too!".
Lower cost of living, large taiwanese government subsidies and lower specialized and manual labor costs.
Much cheaper labor.
At least 75% of the noise pollution that I encounter emanating from inside of vehicles is noise of the so-called "urban" variety. I would like to say a higher percentage, but I couldn't swear it was just because of the noise level... To clarify, I consider anything loud to be noise pollution, not just musica that are not to my taste.
Driving behind someone (urgh, even past!) who has something playing at 160db is about the only thing that makes me wish we had pain stimulators in the fashion of the Bond world domination game on steering wheels. To deliver the 'what the HELL were you thinking?!?!'
Although I guess all that would change for urban listeners would be the addition of the 'Rap SUCKS!!!!' zap. Who knows how much voltage you'd need though, given the pain that much db must be inflicting on their deafened eardrums.
Even techno/dance crap doesn't sound as bad at those high db as 'urban' "music".
</OFFTOPIC>
BTW, in case you hadn't heard... rap sucks.
Yep. This part is on topic.
Gradually, those efforts became regarded as unnecessary. Today, connectivity is generally better, but when a link goes down for whatever reason, it all too often happens that a number of domains go down with it.
Yeah, my webhost is about to get the boot. Their name server is unreachable to the general internet about once or twice a month. But it's been free, so how do you complain? =) People tend to get what they pay for.
Thanks for the note though. It'll hasten my change! And also make sure that I remember to ask that all-important question: "Are you name servers multi-homed?"
On an unrelated note, you didn't miss much on the website. It's a very simple looking php site that isn't (even nearly) finished and attempts to look like a slash-dot forum =) Maybe on my new host I'll find the next language-of-the-month and half-implement another half-baked idea!
How nice to hear the voice of of logical reasoning.
Too many people around here are quite obviously not familiar with the architecture of what they are talking about.
Thank you for your well thought out contribution. Of course, given your UID it could almost be expected, but still... Thank You.