Well we are approaching are limits for transistors per nm, probably another 20 years or so and we'll be at the end of that. We'll end up going in a seperate direction, quantum computers are nice but expensive. I have a strong feeling that computing will split in two directions. Quantum for government/business/industrial use, and optronic for personal use. The second being that it'll cover the whole lightweight energy efficient mode.
Now *that* would have made an interesting "what we lost..." article.
Libraries here in the UK discarded the microfiche equipment several years ago to make way for New Media services such as DVDs and audio books on CD.
Really? Damn. My library is a local small thing, but we have the dvd's, audio books, and ebooks as well as a functioning microfiche section because our librarians fought tooth and nail over their archives. Mostly because, none of the information is digitized and is still in use.
I'd agree with that, or a corrupted.blob file. I had my clientregistry.blob get corrupted by a failing harddrive that was the only time I ever saw memory use skyrocket, up around 1GB of use.
Seriously...I guess maybe this would have affected access to save games and settings for some people briefly? I was actively playing games and didn't even notice till I saw this story.
Nope. If it can't connect after being connected, it'll revert to stand-alone mode for 90 days. There are ways to force it to go into stand-alone mode all the time but you can google them. Saves are stored locally, and cloud saves are cached locally until it can connect. Settings the same deal.
Car enthusiasts in the '20s probably complained about Ford and GM
Actually a really good point. I've got some opinion articles from the early 1900's and 1920's from automotive hobbyists about Ford and GM buying up other auto companies like Buick and Lincoln. People could probably find the same at their local library in the microfiche section.
For how many years in a row, now, has each year been the hottest year on record?
According to the media, every year. Never mind that 1988 was hotter in the midwest than 2012, and 1930 dustbowl was hotter than the drought and lack of rain in 1988.
Really, it was a bumper crop for most stuff where I live in Southern Ontario. Some places didn't get rain here, or were just outside the belted zones. And got hit hard just like in '88 but for others this was an awesome year for apples,wheat, rye and soy.
It is a user problem, Windows 8 also works fine for me. And it seems to work fine for a buddy of mine who I just built a computer for. I gave him the choice of Win7 or Win8. And he took Win 8 and was off doing what he was doing before with minimal difficulty.
Does that mean it's perfect? Hardly, but people stuck in their ways with the UI or have a bug up their ass over it are going to continue to throw a hissy fit no matter what.
Canada created the "mass shooting" spree. Just as a tip, we also paved the way for several other things--none of them happy or fun, people are as batshit crazy here as they are in the US. The only differences between the US and Canada are population density. Usually if someone freaks out and starts doing things that can harm the public, the numbers are smaller. But it does happen.
This looks more like a case of "shit happened, we need to blame somebody
I suggest then they look at the dismal state of the mental healthcare system. It's piss poor in the US, just like it is in Canada. People who should be in supervisory care, aren't. People who should be institutionalized aren't. And people who shouldn't be in the care of family when they can't care for them, are. I could go on, and on, and on with stories from friends who are EMT's, EMS, Police and Fire, on both sides of the border about how they deal with this shit every freaking day, week after week.
It's right down terrible where I live(Southern Ontario), being that London is near the St. Thomas mental health centre. And it's simply a revolving door. These are supposed to be committed individuals, with some cases a temporary day leave. Who walk out of the facility. End up in London, and end up endangering themselves or the public. They end up at Victoria under police escort--sometimes with the EMS being treated for serious injuries too, go right back in, two weeks later it's rinse and repeat. And my friends down south relate the same things.
Doesn't help of course that they've gutted the mental healthcare system. 400k+ in care and custody even 30 years ago, it's 40k now. People aren't less crazy, they're simply being dumped out with the public.
PC gamers should have paid for their software more often if they wanted dev's attention.
Oh, hey there troll. I guess you missed the part that PC gaming will be outselling the entire console industry by the first quarter of next year.
Never mind that piracy is rampant on consoles, so rampant that it makes the stuff on PC's look like kids stuff. But hey, what do us elitist PC gamers know. Oh I know what we know, the industry has turned from "taking risks" to "taking no risks."
It's only true of the plastic. 2-stroke is awful and foul because by definition it spews unburned hydrocarbons from the exhaust.
HPG 2-strokes don't really have this problem, and they're non-catalytic. They work by reintroducing 50-60% of the exhaust gas back into the combustion chamber for reburning, similar to what was done to gasoline engines back in the late 70's when the first generation cat's were coming out.
Really the reason why 2-stroke is so common is because they're cheap to fix, rebuild, and maintain compared to a 4-stroke. Not forgetting that a 4-stroke is a pain in the ass to run on a single cylinder for heavy jobs unless you've got at least two pistons. Really the best option would be a miniaturized wankel.
Well don't forget the complete lack of pollution controls either, or open air burning of garbage, and so on. 2-Stroke isn't the evil devil that it's made out to be, it's dirty sure. But compared to open air incineration of garbage there's nothing on it.
Yep, I agree. But I don't like the idea of the government owning the infrastructure unless it's needed. I do live in Canada, so crown corporations(government run businesses that fill niches where private industry refuse to run--or are run because they screwed over the public so badly that their licenses have been revoked to operate in that area) are a way of life up here. The biggest problem I have with the government owning the infrastructure is I don't trust the government not to abuse it. Unless an independent 3rd party is monitoring it to ensure that they're not trying to screw people over with warrantless searches/tapping.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
Don't be surprised at this. This is the standard mantra of the left today, any speech that doesn't fit within the bubble is "not good" thus needs to be silenced. It's the "shout it down" method favored by radicals via alinsky.
The irony of course, is that these people have never lived in a country with hate crime laws. I live in such a country(Canada), let me say that not being able to openly speak your mind for being prosecuted is not enjoyable.
My gut tells me it is more than slightly possible that mom was buying those weapons for her son,
That's possible, but I know no shortage of women from when I was down in the US that were avid shooters. Either in competition, sport, or even recreational. They were devout enough that they handload their own rounds to save money, which should say something.
I am sorry, but that is total BS. Yes there's some extra cost from subsidizing solar power in Germany
Right, keep believing that. I've posted a few articles on this in the past and what it boils down to is FiT programs, and the high-cost buy in which drives up the cost of power. Solar is the main contributor to this, in the last 3 years power prices in Germany have jumped nearly 50%. It's so bad that nearly 1m germans can no longer afford power, at all.
Hell, we're seeing the same thing here in Ontario due to mcguinty's "green initiative" where the wind and solar companies are selling into the grid at 40-80c/Kwh. Ontario, still on track to be the most expensive place for electricity in North America by 2016.
Can someone kindly place a link that explain "Syberian Post Office"?
Without finding the original article, I've looked on a couple of the JP dailies and I can't find it yet. Only the english version on english sites, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's something *seriously* lost in translation--I'm guessing translated by google, fair warning that google doesn't translate Japanese slang into anything approaching english, so you get weird words like that. And what they're referring to is boards like 2ch there's more than 2ch and futaba though. Which are used by a lot of kids, teens and hikikomori as outlets.
Yeah Antec is good generally, most of their stuff is made by seasonic. So is OCZ(generally), mushkin, and a few others. I'd recommend looking through here. And see who is making what it can change sometimes between revisions. And generally the reviews are quite good. And each PSU has a teardown, including what's being jammed inside the guts. So you have a fairly good idea of what components are being used.
Yeah, but when the government takes at least half every dollar extra you make, is it really that much better?
Well I've lived and worked in the US, and I live in Canada and work in Canada. I still have to pay US income tax on my various investments and securities, and the same for my canadian ones. But 10 years ago I was paying less in taxes, talking to friends who live in the same areas now. They pay more than I do in taxes here in Ontario, minus the HST. Roughly it works out to being the same, sometimes less. Especially on investments.
Why? It still gets Canadians all pissed off when you use it.
Why would we get pissed? Easier to mock you that your median income has decreased by nearly $4k in the last 4 years, while ours has increased by nearly $5k. In turn, you're going to make more money in Canada than in the US.
When I hear that copyright enforcers are going after a little player like TekSavvy, I can't help but wonder if the larger ISP's are in collusion.
I'm guessing you didn't pay attention to the CRTC proceedings for the last few years on things like GAS, speed matching and throttling. There was a huge pile of crap on it all, quite a few people have been fighting against it and the closed-backdoor crap from the incumbents. JF Mezi for example has done quite a bit of work on all this.
Funny, I hear a lot less end-of-the-world rhetoric than I hear accusations of end-of-the-world rhetoric.
Really? I mean, there's at least one list that I can think of off the top of my head. Never mind the on-going hysteria and end of the world rhetoric that we've been hearing for the last 25 years.
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Well we are approaching are limits for transistors per nm, probably another 20 years or so and we'll be at the end of that. We'll end up going in a seperate direction, quantum computers are nice but expensive. I have a strong feeling that computing will split in two directions. Quantum for government/business/industrial use, and optronic for personal use. The second being that it'll cover the whole lightweight energy efficient mode.
Now *that* would have made an interesting "what we lost..." article.
Libraries here in the UK discarded the microfiche equipment several years ago to make way for New Media services such as DVDs and audio books on CD.
Really? Damn. My library is a local small thing, but we have the dvd's, audio books, and ebooks as well as a functioning microfiche section because our librarians fought tooth and nail over their archives. Mostly because, none of the information is digitized and is still in use.
I'd agree with that, or a corrupted .blob file. I had my clientregistry.blob get corrupted by a failing harddrive that was the only time I ever saw memory use skyrocket, up around 1GB of use.
Seriously...I guess maybe this would have affected access to save games and settings for some people briefly? I was actively playing games and didn't even notice till I saw this story.
Nope. If it can't connect after being connected, it'll revert to stand-alone mode for 90 days. There are ways to force it to go into stand-alone mode all the time but you can google them. Saves are stored locally, and cloud saves are cached locally until it can connect. Settings the same deal.
This is a complete non-story.
Car enthusiasts in the '20s probably complained about Ford and GM
Actually a really good point. I've got some opinion articles from the early 1900's and 1920's from automotive hobbyists about Ford and GM buying up other auto companies like Buick and Lincoln. People could probably find the same at their local library in the microfiche section.
For how many years in a row, now, has each year been the hottest year on record?
According to the media, every year. Never mind that 1988 was hotter in the midwest than 2012, and 1930 dustbowl was hotter than the drought and lack of rain in 1988.
Really, it was a bumper crop for most stuff where I live in Southern Ontario. Some places didn't get rain here, or were just outside the belted zones. And got hit hard just like in '88 but for others this was an awesome year for apples,wheat, rye and soy.
It is a user problem, Windows 8 also works fine for me. And it seems to work fine for a buddy of mine who I just built a computer for. I gave him the choice of Win7 or Win8. And he took Win 8 and was off doing what he was doing before with minimal difficulty.
Does that mean it's perfect? Hardly, but people stuck in their ways with the UI or have a bug up their ass over it are going to continue to throw a hissy fit no matter what.
Canada created the "mass shooting" spree. Just as a tip, we also paved the way for several other things--none of them happy or fun, people are as batshit crazy here as they are in the US. The only differences between the US and Canada are population density. Usually if someone freaks out and starts doing things that can harm the public, the numbers are smaller. But it does happen.
This looks more like a case of "shit happened, we need to blame somebody
I suggest then they look at the dismal state of the mental healthcare system. It's piss poor in the US, just like it is in Canada. People who should be in supervisory care, aren't. People who should be institutionalized aren't. And people who shouldn't be in the care of family when they can't care for them, are. I could go on, and on, and on with stories from friends who are EMT's, EMS, Police and Fire, on both sides of the border about how they deal with this shit every freaking day, week after week.
It's right down terrible where I live(Southern Ontario), being that London is near the St. Thomas mental health centre. And it's simply a revolving door. These are supposed to be committed individuals, with some cases a temporary day leave. Who walk out of the facility. End up in London, and end up endangering themselves or the public. They end up at Victoria under police escort--sometimes with the EMS being treated for serious injuries too, go right back in, two weeks later it's rinse and repeat. And my friends down south relate the same things.
Doesn't help of course that they've gutted the mental healthcare system. 400k+ in care and custody even 30 years ago, it's 40k now. People aren't less crazy, they're simply being dumped out with the public.
PC gamers should have paid for their software more often if they wanted dev's attention.
Oh, hey there troll. I guess you missed the part that PC gaming will be outselling the entire console industry by the first quarter of next year.
Never mind that piracy is rampant on consoles, so rampant that it makes the stuff on PC's look like kids stuff. But hey, what do us elitist PC gamers know. Oh I know what we know, the industry has turned from "taking risks" to "taking no risks."
It's only true of the plastic. 2-stroke is awful and foul because by definition it spews unburned hydrocarbons from the exhaust.
HPG 2-strokes don't really have this problem, and they're non-catalytic. They work by reintroducing 50-60% of the exhaust gas back into the combustion chamber for reburning, similar to what was done to gasoline engines back in the late 70's when the first generation cat's were coming out.
Really the reason why 2-stroke is so common is because they're cheap to fix, rebuild, and maintain compared to a 4-stroke. Not forgetting that a 4-stroke is a pain in the ass to run on a single cylinder for heavy jobs unless you've got at least two pistons. Really the best option would be a miniaturized wankel.
Well don't forget the complete lack of pollution controls either, or open air burning of garbage, and so on. 2-Stroke isn't the evil devil that it's made out to be, it's dirty sure. But compared to open air incineration of garbage there's nothing on it.
Yep, I agree. But I don't like the idea of the government owning the infrastructure unless it's needed. I do live in Canada, so crown corporations(government run businesses that fill niches where private industry refuse to run--or are run because they screwed over the public so badly that their licenses have been revoked to operate in that area) are a way of life up here. The biggest problem I have with the government owning the infrastructure is I don't trust the government not to abuse it. Unless an independent 3rd party is monitoring it to ensure that they're not trying to screw people over with warrantless searches/tapping.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
Don't be surprised at this. This is the standard mantra of the left today, any speech that doesn't fit within the bubble is "not good" thus needs to be silenced. It's the "shout it down" method favored by radicals via alinsky.
The irony of course, is that these people have never lived in a country with hate crime laws. I live in such a country(Canada), let me say that not being able to openly speak your mind for being prosecuted is not enjoyable.
Is that why there's first, second, and third degree murder charges and convictions then - because it's not a matter of degree?
No, because of mens rea and culpability.
Here's mom. A schoolteacher.
Really? I mean come on. Stop fishing for news at the tit of the MSM, she wasn't even a teacher, and no one at the schoolboard knows who she was.
My gut tells me it is more than slightly possible that mom was buying those weapons for her son,
That's possible, but I know no shortage of women from when I was down in the US that were avid shooters. Either in competition, sport, or even recreational. They were devout enough that they handload their own rounds to save money, which should say something.
A far bigger reason Germans can't afford power would be the rate of inflation in food prices.
Good of them to cherry pick their numbers when the price per/Kwh increased from last year by 29%.
I am sorry, but that is total BS. Yes there's some extra cost from subsidizing solar power in Germany
Right, keep believing that. I've posted a few articles on this in the past and what it boils down to is FiT programs, and the high-cost buy in which drives up the cost of power. Solar is the main contributor to this, in the last 3 years power prices in Germany have jumped nearly 50%. It's so bad that nearly 1m germans can no longer afford power, at all.
Hell, we're seeing the same thing here in Ontario due to mcguinty's "green initiative" where the wind and solar companies are selling into the grid at 40-80c/Kwh. Ontario, still on track to be the most expensive place for electricity in North America by 2016.
Can someone kindly place a link that explain "Syberian Post Office"?
Without finding the original article, I've looked on a couple of the JP dailies and I can't find it yet. Only the english version on english sites, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's something *seriously* lost in translation--I'm guessing translated by google, fair warning that google doesn't translate Japanese slang into anything approaching english, so you get weird words like that. And what they're referring to is boards like 2ch there's more than 2ch and futaba though. Which are used by a lot of kids, teens and hikikomori as outlets.
Yeah Antec is good generally, most of their stuff is made by seasonic. So is OCZ(generally), mushkin, and a few others. I'd recommend looking through here. And see who is making what it can change sometimes between revisions. And generally the reviews are quite good. And each PSU has a teardown, including what's being jammed inside the guts. So you have a fairly good idea of what components are being used.
Yep! Just think, they've discovered a way to pay down the debts of every nation on earth!
Yeah, but when the government takes at least half every dollar extra you make, is it really that much better?
Well I've lived and worked in the US, and I live in Canada and work in Canada. I still have to pay US income tax on my various investments and securities, and the same for my canadian ones. But 10 years ago I was paying less in taxes, talking to friends who live in the same areas now. They pay more than I do in taxes here in Ontario, minus the HST. Roughly it works out to being the same, sometimes less. Especially on investments.
Why? It still gets Canadians all pissed off when you use it.
Why would we get pissed? Easier to mock you that your median income has decreased by nearly $4k in the last 4 years, while ours has increased by nearly $5k. In turn, you're going to make more money in Canada than in the US.
When I hear that copyright enforcers are going after a little player like TekSavvy, I can't help but wonder if the larger ISP's are in collusion.
I'm guessing you didn't pay attention to the CRTC proceedings for the last few years on things like GAS, speed matching and throttling. There was a huge pile of crap on it all, quite a few people have been fighting against it and the closed-backdoor crap from the incumbents. JF Mezi for example has done quite a bit of work on all this.
Funny, I hear a lot less end-of-the-world rhetoric than I hear accusations of end-of-the-world rhetoric.
Really? I mean, there's at least one list that I can think of off the top of my head. Never mind the on-going hysteria and end of the world rhetoric that we've been hearing for the last 25 years.