I don't know the Australian rationale but I wonder when Americans discuss the need for patents and copyrights. Why do content creators want to abolish patents? America is rich today because of patents and copyrights. If every second guy could rip off a great idea, we'd have nothing left to offer. We cannot compete on prices. The innovation and creativity of Americans is what has made US powerful. Why would you want to create a law that will affect your livelihood in the future? The rest of the world is just waiting for something like this to happen. I don't get it.
By the time enough Chinese and Indian Americans return to their countries, the developed world will be so far ahead that it will be impossible to catch up.
Apart from the fact that it was extremely pathetic to be watching an astronaut in a pub, I would like to say that the future is happening very slowly, much slower than I thought it would. I thought we would at least have robotic servants and flying cars by now, and not running stuff that pollutes the environment and is exhaustible.. Watching video live isn't rocket science. It was available in the 60s along with the moon landing right.
I don't get the obsession with SC. With WOW ok, there's huge potential to waste a lot of time on it. With SC after you finish the game once I don't see a good reason to play it again. With wow there are many ways to play the game, and many things to do in the game even when you're not playing, like the auction house, training, fishing etc. I can easily play wow for 7 hrs continuously, but even 1 hr of starcraft is pushing it for me.
it's pathetic for computer hardware to kill itself by overheating, but if you know that it can happen, you should still do your best not to overheat it.
Not if you are within warranty. I purposely run such tests on new machines. I don't want to NOT use my system *for what it is supposed to be designed* cause some corporate fucks couldn't spend a few bucks on proper component engineering or cooling.
No, it shouldn't. The card should be designed such that it is impossible to reach that temperature in the first place. If they can't do that, they shouldn't rate the card to do X when it can only do 0.3X under continuous load. I face this shit problem regularly when I encode video, the CPU goes into overheat and then downclocks to 1/3rd of full speed. I paid for 2100MHz continuously, you dumb fcuk, NOT 2100 for 2 minutes and then 798 for the rest of the time. This crap has to stop.
My provider allows third party modems. Absent a conspiracy between manufacturers and providers, there is no way they can force updates on my equipment.
Actually they can even with third party modems. Cox is able to flash the firmware on my cable modem which I purchased externally. They actually did it many times. Once I was having problems and they said they will update the firmware remotely. After that completed, all settings including security were all reset to factory defaults.
THE TORINO IMPACT HAZARD SCALE No Hazard (White Zone) 0
The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero. Also applies to small objects such as meteors and bodies that burn up in the atmosphere as well as infrequent meteorite falls that rarely cause damage.
Actually there are many objects we are monitoring, please see http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/. This object's impact probability is 7.1*10E-4. That's 0.00071, and not 1/1000. The Torino Scale Color says white, which means impact is almost impossible. Most of the times even if the probability is increased, it is quickly reduced after some investigation. Currently the most dangerous object is 2007 VK184 (2048-2057) which gets green rating. This article is nothing more than sensationalist and stupid.
Cars have been turning well for decades now. It isn't rocket science anymore. The real improvements in cars have come in the field of safety, nothing much has changes elsewhere.. And electric cars aren't exactly new, they're just popular now cause we have this environment/oil problem.
What matters is what you leverage it for, not how many use it- China has like 1.3 billion people right. And still it hasn't produced the great scientists, inventors, or respected companies. They are implementers and consumers, not innovators and are treated as such
Forget about fair moderation from Slashdot nowadays. Moderation has gone to the dogs with mass idiots joining this site. My previous account got modded down so severely to Karma terrible that my posts could not be read by anyone unless they browsed at -1. This new account has bad karma too. I now plan on trying a new system, view at 0 and mod up all on my friends list to +5,
I would like to know this too. PC batteries are the worst, they last 1 year or 300 cycles. Macs are far better, rated at 1000 cycles. But it's still not good enough considering the life of the product.
This is flamebait? This goes to show that this moderation system sucks.
Have you realized how Apple is making these birthday gifts more and more expensive? First the ipod, then ipod touch/ iphones, now ipads that go all the way to $900.. jeez
These are the use cases that i see for an ipad 1. When you need long battery life 2. Anyone who is humiliated carrying a sub $400 full fledged computer, anyone with acute herd mentality i.e "must have this popular item to be cool" etc
Unless your trike is as safe as a car, you might as well buy a motorcycle.. But the trike wouldn't be as sexy as a car or a bike so it should be fine as you'd prolly be alone anyway
I would like to know this too. PC batteries are the worst, they last 1 year or 300 cycles. Macs are far better, rated at 1000 cycles. But it's still not good enough considering the life of the product.
Correct. For something like this to succeed, we need many people breaking the law. We need a whole country of people videotaping police officers in public, and posting the videos on Youtube. This is what will be required if this guy loses the case or is put in jail.
Online education is for people who pay to get degrees. If learning were so easy, there would be no full time students. The fact that you expected more actually, is surprising.
The problem is that not everyone has been recorded on the Internet doing something which might meet the disapproval of others, even though everyone has done such a thing. Once no-one is able to cast the first stone, everyone's equal again.
The winners are only those who aren't caught - usually by chance rather than design - and those who have the influence to erase history.
How about people like me, who haven't one anything, let alone getting caught?
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I don't know the Australian rationale but I wonder when Americans discuss the need for patents and copyrights. Why do content creators want to abolish patents? America is rich today because of patents and copyrights. If every second guy could rip off a great idea, we'd have nothing left to offer. We cannot compete on prices. The innovation and creativity of Americans is what has made US powerful. Why would you want to create a law that will affect your livelihood in the future? The rest of the world is just waiting for something like this to happen. I don't get it.
By the time enough Chinese and Indian Americans return to their countries, the developed world will be so far ahead that it will be impossible to catch up.
Apart from the fact that it was extremely pathetic to be watching an astronaut in a pub, I would like to say that the future is happening very slowly, much slower than I thought it would. I thought we would at least have robotic servants and flying cars by now, and not running stuff that pollutes the environment and is exhaustible.. Watching video live isn't rocket science. It was available in the 60s along with the moon landing right.
I don't get the obsession with SC. With WOW ok, there's huge potential to waste a lot of time on it. With SC after you finish the game once I don't see a good reason to play it again. With wow there are many ways to play the game, and many things to do in the game even when you're not playing, like the auction house, training, fishing etc. I can easily play wow for 7 hrs continuously, but even 1 hr of starcraft is pushing it for me.
Story title should read: "Faulty video cards with inadequate cooling are freeze when run at their full potential".
Then we'd have other problems, like perhaps wrong English?
it's pathetic for computer hardware to kill itself by overheating, but if you know that it can happen, you should still do your best not to overheat it.
Not if you are within warranty. I purposely run such tests on new machines. I don't want to NOT use my system *for what it is supposed to be designed* cause some corporate fucks couldn't spend a few bucks on proper component engineering or cooling.
No, it shouldn't. The card should be designed such that it is impossible to reach that temperature in the first place. If they can't do that, they shouldn't rate the card to do X when it can only do 0.3X under continuous load. I face this shit problem regularly when I encode video, the CPU goes into overheat and then downclocks to 1/3rd of full speed. I paid for 2100MHz continuously, you dumb fcuk, NOT 2100 for 2 minutes and then 798 for the rest of the time. This crap has to stop.
My provider allows third party modems. Absent a conspiracy between manufacturers and providers, there is no way they can force updates on my equipment.
Actually they can even with third party modems. Cox is able to flash the firmware on my cable modem which I purchased externally. They actually did it many times. Once I was having problems and they said they will update the firmware remotely. After that completed, all settings including security were all reset to factory defaults.
Well, maybe you should start with http://www-personal.umich.edu/~scheeres/conferences/AIAA-2004_1446.pdf , http://www.b612foundation.org/papers/wpdynamics.pdf etc. Most of the posts on this thread are ignorant and clueless. Don't treat everything you don't understand with scorn.
Please also see this http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/torino_scale1.html
THE TORINO IMPACT HAZARD SCALE
No Hazard
(White Zone)
0
The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero. Also applies to small objects such as meteors and bodies that burn up in the atmosphere as well as infrequent meteorite falls that rarely cause damage.
Actually there are many objects we are monitoring, please see http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/.
This object's impact probability is 7.1*10E-4. That's 0.00071, and not 1/1000.
The Torino Scale Color says white, which means impact is almost impossible.
Most of the times even if the probability is increased, it is quickly reduced after some investigation.
Currently the most dangerous object is 2007 VK184 (2048-2057) which gets green rating. This article is nothing more than sensationalist and stupid.
More like 72 years. NASA says that they would need to start actual diversion operations 100 years in advance, which leaves 72 years to figure it out.
Cars have been turning well for decades now. It isn't rocket science anymore. The real improvements in cars have come in the field of safety, nothing much has changes elsewhere.. And electric cars aren't exactly new, they're just popular now cause we have this environment/oil problem.
What matters is what you leverage it for, not how many use it- China has like 1.3 billion people right. And still it hasn't produced the great scientists, inventors, or respected companies. They are implementers and consumers, not innovators and are treated as such
Do you per chance walk around in an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt?
Forget about fair moderation from Slashdot nowadays. Moderation has gone to the dogs with mass idiots joining this site. My previous account got modded down so severely to Karma terrible that my posts could not be read by anyone unless they browsed at -1. This new account has bad karma too. I now plan on trying a new system, view at 0 and mod up all on my friends list to +5,
I would like to know this too. PC batteries are the worst, they last 1 year or 300 cycles. Macs are far better, rated at 1000 cycles. But it's still not good enough considering the life of the product.
This is flamebait? This goes to show that this moderation system sucks.
Have you realized how Apple is making these birthday gifts more and more expensive? First the ipod, then ipod touch/ iphones, now ipads that go all the way to $900.. jeez
These are the use cases that i see for an ipad
1. When you need long battery life
2. Anyone who is humiliated carrying a sub $400 full fledged computer, anyone with acute herd mentality i.e "must have this popular item to be cool" etc
Any motor vehicle doing decent speed would require licenses and such, unless it's the 2mph kind that old people use.
Unless your trike is as safe as a car, you might as well buy a motorcycle.. But the trike wouldn't be as sexy as a car or a bike so it should be fine as you'd prolly be alone anyway
I would like to know this too. PC batteries are the worst, they last 1 year or 300 cycles. Macs are far better, rated at 1000 cycles. But it's still not good enough considering the life of the product.
Correct. For something like this to succeed, we need many people breaking the law. We need a whole country of people videotaping police officers in public, and posting the videos on Youtube. This is what will be required if this guy loses the case or is put in jail.
Online education is for people who pay to get degrees. If learning were so easy, there would be no full time students. The fact that you expected more actually, is surprising.
The problem is that not everyone has been recorded on the Internet doing something which might meet the disapproval of others, even though everyone has done such a thing. Once no-one is able to cast the first stone, everyone's equal again.
The winners are only those who aren't caught - usually by chance rather than design - and those who have the influence to erase history.
How about people like me, who haven't one anything, let alone getting caught?