I started taping near WWoE with the similar plans in mind (you look to be in the Calgary area, e-mail me and we can arrange something). I'm just glad that there are just enough days left in July for them to finish WoF.
Drives spinning at 7200 rpm will still kick data out at the same speed,
No. Larger size in the same form factor == higher density. Assuming the platter spins at a constant linear velocity, and constant data density on disk, higher density means more bits per inch of circumference to read off and transfer. Of course there are ways to get around this by magicing with non-sequential sectors etc. but you want faster transfers on larger disks anyway, or have fun waiting for large (#/size) disk ops to finish.
For performance and redundancy (I can't imagine that nothing in your 128GB dataset is not valuable), you need to go multi-spindle, i.e. RAID. Case in point:
Local screwdriver shop has 40GB deskstars for $120. They have a 75 GB for $240. The obvious solution = buy 2x40 and stripe them. Same $$, more capacity, and 2x the speed.
Most RAID(-like) striping schemes double the READ speed (two apertures seeking one piece of data) but reduce the write speed (two apertures writing the same piece of data and/or redundancy structures on to two disks) plus there's I/O overhead. Plus you have to get added/expensive goodlier controller(s) for decent performance.
If that next generation includes copy protection, we'll have to live with it.
... Or abstract the preferred file system somewhat more than we do now unless market forces (read BOFHs who don't want to hand-install WindowsNG/OfficeNG on each of 3,000 machines) force rights management crap to become stillborn (likely).
Yeah, then we could give the differently-colored units names of fruits. And every year we shall gather here in this special place and bring Kenny tidings of soap sculptures and macaroni pictures.
And those little shaker things where you put beans inside of paper plates that are glued together.
And let us put patterns of glue on the outside of those paper plates so we can then pour glitter on them so they look nice and sparkley.
"Whether it's aimbots for Unreal Tournament or techniques for improving response times over the Internet, the potpourri of cheats shows how pervasive online cheating has become."
I'm sorry, but having a faster connection or tweaking your stack isn't cheating.
"A drawback of encryption is that it can slow down the game by stuffing the communications pipe with more data."
Uhm... Encryption doesn't require more bandwidth except when sending keys/pads back and forth (which is a marginal amount of the total game bandwidth anyway).
"But game developers also have themselves to blame. For years, programmers put hidden codes into their single-player games so that they could take shortcuts as they tested them. Game magazines and Web sites began a lucrative side business telling players how to use these codes to cheat. InterAct Accessories, for instance, sells GameShark, a "video game enhancer" that has thousands of cheat codes for beating PlayStation video games."
Isolation is a good thing, but not for the obvious reasons.
1) Anything that grows on the harsh conditions on Mars have adapted to them over the corse of umpteen years. Chances are, they won't grow on earth unless provided a Mars-like climate.
2) Most viruses suck at cross-infecting species most of the time, even on Earth, because of the interface specificity (receptors, ligands, etc) required for infection. So licking Mars rocks won't do anything, even if Mars life is DNA based...
3) Protecting the rocks from earth viruses would be a good thing to minimize the number of false 'life found on mars rock' discoveries, and isolation does that.
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My biggest gripes about Star Trek are about the unreliability of Transporters and Holodecks. Nothing turns me off faster than "our transporters don't work because of a [particle] field on this planet", with the exception of the Holodeck program run amok. If the damned Transporters and Holodecks broke down that often, why would you ever use them? I'd be like Bones McCoy too, and stick to Shuttlecraft.
If they could only combine the inability of holodecks to turn off when needed, and the transporters, they would have something:-)
Also, why they don't put critical systems (like the bridge, transporters, engineering) inside holodecks is beyond me since those would be things that should have the bullet-proofness of most holodecks.
At this moment, there is legislation in place to ensure that your first two examples do not happen. As it stands, there are no laws to force a company to traffic goods or packets to/from any point. If an ISP or backbone is legislated to carry arbitrary traffic, that level of service becomes a standard, and a whole host of other Internet standards could (not will) fall under government control (not necessarily yours) and that would not be a Good Thing.
Even if you claim you have an MS site license and then put Linux on them, you could still very well be defrauding the computer company, because they may only sell without an OS if you plan to use a site license for the OS.
Uhm... What I do with a piece of merchandise after I own it is none of the computer company's business. c.f. CueCat
My great uncle, who lives near Johannesburg, has had one for ages. I've stayed there a few times, and I came very quickly to the conclusion that it's not economically viable.
Numbers please.
The initial installation cost, maintenance and insurance outweigh the financial benefits of having your own nuclear fission power plant in the back yard.
Numbers? And is this a PBMR-type reactor, or something completely unrelated to the story?
They use lots of electricity during the day time for cooking, computers, stereo equipment, and of course the air-conditioning. But they don't have a single light-bulb in the house.
Sounds like a great story, but if "[e]verything glows in the dark", how do most of the electronics you've mentioned above remain functional?
Everything glows in the dark anyway, so there's absolutely no need for lighting. In fact, only the other day I was bemoaning the fact the I lost a floppy disk under the bed (must have got kicked under there somehow), and that it was alright for him, it would show up in the dark becuase of it's radioactivity. What are you on about he exclaimed exasperatedly, Maybe in the first two months of us having it, yes, but after that the floor glows, the bed glows, the disk glows, we glow, how the hell do you spot a glowing thing amongst a whole host of other glowing things! Besides, I have to keep floppies in lead-lined boxes, to say nothing of the case of my computer!
If _everything_ glows as you claim, more than just the contents of the house would glow. Have the neighbours (or local airport authority) not complained of this?
If it's so fscking dangerous, why do you go back, repeatedly? And why is your uncle still living there?
Currently, my uncle is suing the insurance company, as they won't pay for his chemotherapy
He who fails to read documents he signs should not blame his power source...
(he has developed a malignant tumour, in fact several).
So do a lot of people. Coincidence does not imply causation!
He's also being prosecuted by the hospital,
Wow, the hospitals in/near Johannesburg have the authority to bring criminal proceedings? I learn something new every day...
after a nurse explained that his radiotherapy treatment involved being bombarded with radiation - she needed 85 stitches in the end I think, and is just returning to full fitness.
Your uncle going postal or being unable to conduct himself in a civilised manner has nothing to do with his nuclear power source (if he has one, which, from your story, I doubt).
You've cited nothing about the economics of operating a personal nuclear reactor and have somehow used your uncle's follies to justify the bad economics of personal nuclear reactors.
No, I take that back. You have proven your point. His reactor affected your ability to argue coherently more than I gave it credit for.
LINE strikes me as something that can both help and hurt efforts to inform people about the benefits of linux.
If LINE sucks, the implication (to the average windows user) is that linux sucks. If LINE is good, then there is less motivation to move to native linux.
They invented the language. I think they know how it works.
English was invented much like the cat was, in that it wasn't. No one sat down umpteen years ago and decided that there would be one English with properties [x..z], it evolved through hundreds of years of additions, modifications, and deletions through use. Trying to find a proper English, if there is such a thing, would be like trying to find a proper C++: some individuals/groups may establish standards as to how they think it should be written but as long as it is mostly compatable with how the rest of the world uses English, it's all good.
it is really important? did you know, so that it returns? we speak English. All is cultivated the anyways. With the arrival of Internet and adoption whole Slang, does not import in one way or another the orthography of the errors and Emoticons and a true representation whatnot..the of the contents more. IF YOU C REACH C THE POINT WHICH C EAST A PROBLEM FUCKING? **time-out** surely, it have always a there the letter of quality which be clear and short, but, if one of come with this one nitpicky Bullshit, it import not. It does not lower lisiblement, not caused him disorders. It seems right, of fodder for jealous the people with the command to place to you who seem for you on training sad people to feel duty, which it like (Timothy), as they wants it. It, why they do not embrace it are you want him to him measured value him? The feeling which is sad for you, one complains one complains about the manner, in which it is slashdot unprofessional. Whos of larger imbecile? All we soap the answer.FUCKING PROBLEM?
I mean, instead of reading 3 bits a normal drive would get 1. If it's done right, a stripped down version of what's on the CD ought to be available.
Uhm... If I read the article correctly, that would require that each spot (which could take one of 8 states) default up to a 1 or down to a 0 (to be comb^Hpatable with the old drives) AND that each spot encode the proper state out of the eight (shade of grey) for the new drives to read it.
To efficiently do this en masse would be somewhat difficult.
I believe that Linux based computers have their own problems around 2004. (I think.)
Using 31 bits for seconds since 01-01-1970, you run into problems in early Feb, 2038. Using 32 bits, things break in 2106 (it would really suck if embedded programming created now using this lasted ~106 years...).
It was written for the Observer, so blinding techspeak isn't called for, but neither is the totally irrelevant pap that was added, most likely just to fill column inches=£££.
Leave out the padding and you'd have an interesting article about a fifth of the length.
"The Journal Science" is not spelt "Observer". Sure, it could have been written as a strictly scientific piece, but that's not the point of the publication. By wrapping the scientific details in something the average non-PhD-in-plasma-physics-holding person can understand, the author is making the science available to more people.
As for length, publications which focus on making ad revenue generally want short pieces which are easily placed in a sea of ads whereas publications which focus on delivering news want quality reporting which often (but not always) requires more space than running news releases through a thesaurus (*cough*SunMedia*cough*).
You don't have to know his credentials, because he includes specific examples of common code that executes slower on the P4, and then describes the architectural features that lead to it. He backs up pretty much every claim he makes, so you are free to draw your own conclusions of the veracity of his assertions.
If by "specific examples" you mean "handwaving", then yes, I would agree.
On many occaisions, he fails to provide or cite any code or data to support his claims. For example, in "Why the AMD Athlon doesn't suck", he claims that "The AMD Athlon has no partial register stall" while he does not state how he determined that this is the case, either from an empirical or engineering standpoint. That screams either "This part of my thesis is not important enough to support with facts or data" or "I don't/really/ know how the AMD chip gets around this, but Tom/AMD/whomever said it does."
And in "The Benchmarks", he states that "Running other tests using various emulators, I found that in general the Pentium 4 runs emulators such as SoftMac 2000 SLOWER in most cases than the 650 MHz Pentium III and 600 MHz AMD Athlon." Which tests and emulators? (And why do we care about emulators since the great majority of end users don't?)
Additionally, he advocates changing/adding/increasing execution units without addressing what that might do to the cost of the chip or any of the physical effects(heat/die size/factor/power consumption).
It is also rather annoying that he repeatedly states "CLOCK SPEED IS NOT EVERYTHING" while making comparisons such as "Pentium 4 fails to keep up with even the 600 MHz chips".
Another solution would be to require the availability of older versions. I mean, if "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" is that much better than "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1995", then let the public speak.
The truth is that when a certian share of the market is had, then some sort of regulation should kick in. The situation in changing the book layout and certain wording should be no different to changing the position of controls on a motor car.
I suggest that "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs" be frozen at certian levels, and upgraded by add-on revisions. Periodically, these revisions will be examined by some external committee (corporate, private, government...), and those deemed essential will be made into a standard patch, to be distributed with all copies of "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000".
Users would then be able to read "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" or the "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" with the standard revisions. The level of revisionism will be such that any of the last x versions, or the last x years, might be restored from a given copy. That is, if I buy "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2002" , I should be able to roll out the standard "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1995", "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1998", &c.
New facts would be distributed under separate cover. These will be greatly restricted, because they may only be added under the result of an external committee.
Sounds great... Replace the obvious with "car" or "diamond ring" or other products produced by a mono/oligopoly to see how silly the idea is.
I want the people who deliver my news to *think* about what they are reporting, and since reporters are *different*, they will have different opinions. If and when everyone at a news source arrive at the same opinion about a product or service (where the opinion is non-obvious or one of several equally sound opinions), they fail to be an independent and *reliable* news source and I move on.
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I started taping near WWoE with the similar plans in mind (you look to be in the Calgary area, e-mail me and we can arrange something). I'm just glad that there are just enough days left in July for them to finish WoF.
Drives spinning at 7200 rpm will still kick data out at the same speed,
No. Larger size in the same form factor == higher density. Assuming the platter spins at a constant linear velocity, and constant data density on disk, higher density means more bits per inch of circumference to read off and transfer. Of course there are ways to get around this by magicing with non-sequential sectors etc. but you want faster transfers on larger disks anyway, or have fun waiting for large (#/size) disk ops to finish.
For performance and redundancy (I can't imagine that nothing in your 128GB dataset is not valuable), you need to go multi-spindle, i.e. RAID. Case in point: Local screwdriver shop has 40GB deskstars for $120. They have a 75 GB for $240. The obvious solution = buy 2x40 and stripe them. Same $$, more capacity, and 2x the speed.
Most RAID(-like) striping schemes double the READ speed (two apertures seeking one piece of data) but reduce the write speed (two apertures writing the same piece of data and/or redundancy structures on to two disks) plus there's I/O overhead. Plus you have to get added/expensive goodlier controller(s) for decent performance.
If that next generation includes copy protection, we'll have to live with it.
... Or abstract the preferred file system somewhat more than we do now unless market forces (read BOFHs who don't want to hand-install WindowsNG/OfficeNG on each of 3,000 machines) force rights management crap to become stillborn (likely).
Yeah, then we could give the differently-colored units names of fruits. And every year we shall gather here in this special place and bring Kenny tidings of soap sculptures and macaroni pictures.
:-)
And those little shaker things where you put beans inside of paper plates that are glued together.
And let us put patterns of glue on the outside of those paper plates so we can then pour glitter on them so they look nice and sparkley.
Oh wait, that's something else
Wow, a business model built around mtr, isn't that fan-freaking-tastic
If you pronounce it badly, it becomes Psi Corps, and we all know what their agenda aregarding inferoir humans was :-)
"Whether it's aimbots for Unreal Tournament or techniques for improving response times over the Internet, the potpourri of cheats shows how pervasive online cheating has become."
I'm sorry, but having a faster connection or tweaking your stack isn't cheating.
"A drawback of encryption is that it can slow down the game by stuffing the communications pipe with more data." Uhm... Encryption doesn't require more bandwidth except when sending keys/pads back and forth (which is a marginal amount of the total game bandwidth anyway).
"But game developers also have themselves to blame. For years, programmers put hidden codes into their single-player games so that they could take shortcuts as they tested them. Game magazines and Web sites began a lucrative side business telling players how to use these codes to cheat. InterAct Accessories, for instance, sells GameShark, a "video game enhancer" that has thousands of cheat codes for beating PlayStation video games."
GameShark: Off-line. Unsanctioned.
Isolation is a good thing, but not for the obvious reasons.
1) Anything that grows on the harsh conditions on Mars have adapted to them over the corse of umpteen years. Chances are, they won't grow on earth unless provided a Mars-like climate.
2) Most viruses suck at cross-infecting species most of the time, even on Earth, because of the interface specificity (receptors, ligands, etc) required for infection. So licking Mars rocks won't do anything, even if Mars life is DNA based...
3) Protecting the rocks from earth viruses would be a good thing to minimize the number of false 'life found on mars rock' discoveries, and isolation does that.
My biggest gripes about Star Trek are about the unreliability of Transporters and Holodecks. Nothing turns me off faster than "our transporters don't work because of a [particle] field on this planet", with the exception of the Holodeck program run amok. If the damned Transporters and Holodecks broke down that often, why would you ever use them? I'd be like Bones McCoy too, and stick to Shuttlecraft.
:-)
If they could only combine the inability of holodecks to turn off when needed, and the transporters, they would have something
Also, why they don't put critical systems (like the bridge, transporters, engineering) inside holodecks is beyond me since those would be things that should have the bullet-proofness of most holodecks.
At this moment, there is legislation in place to ensure that your first two examples do not happen. As it stands, there are no laws to force a company to traffic goods or packets to/from any point. If an ISP or backbone is legislated to carry arbitrary traffic, that level of service becomes a standard, and a whole host of other Internet standards could (not will) fall under government control (not necessarily yours) and that would not be a Good Thing.
Hatten är din, hatten är din, Hatt-baby, hatt-baby.
:-)
Hatten är din looks cool but why am I finding it funny?
-M5B
Even if you claim you have an MS site license and then put Linux on them, you could still very well be defrauding the computer company, because they may only sell without an OS if you plan to use a site license for the OS.
Uhm... What I do with a piece of merchandise after I own it is none of the computer company's business. c.f. CueCat
My great uncle, who lives near Johannesburg, has had one for ages. I've stayed there a few times, and I came very quickly to the conclusion that it's not economically viable.
Numbers please.
The initial installation cost, maintenance and insurance outweigh the financial benefits of having your own nuclear fission power plant in the back yard.
Numbers? And is this a PBMR-type reactor, or something completely unrelated to the story?
They use lots of electricity during the day time for cooking, computers, stereo equipment, and of course the air-conditioning. But they don't have a single light-bulb in the house.
Sounds like a great story, but if "[e]verything glows in the dark", how do most of the electronics you've mentioned above remain functional?
Everything glows in the dark anyway, so there's absolutely no need for lighting. In fact, only the other day I was bemoaning the fact the I lost a floppy disk under the bed (must have got kicked under there somehow), and that it was alright for him, it would show up in the dark becuase of it's radioactivity. What are you on about he exclaimed exasperatedly, Maybe in the first two months of us having it, yes, but after that the floor glows, the bed glows, the disk glows, we glow, how the hell do you spot a glowing thing amongst a whole host of other glowing things! Besides, I have to keep floppies in lead-lined boxes, to say nothing of the case of my computer!
If _everything_ glows as you claim, more than just the contents of the house would glow. Have the neighbours (or local airport authority) not complained of this?
If it's so fscking dangerous, why do you go back, repeatedly? And why is your uncle still living there?
Currently, my uncle is suing the insurance company, as they won't pay for his chemotherapy
He who fails to read documents he signs should not blame his power source...
(he has developed a malignant tumour, in fact several).
So do a lot of people. Coincidence does not imply causation!
He's also being prosecuted by the hospital,
Wow, the hospitals in/near Johannesburg have the authority to bring criminal proceedings? I learn something new every day...
after a nurse explained that his radiotherapy treatment involved being bombarded with radiation - she needed 85 stitches in the end I think, and is just returning to full fitness.
Your uncle going postal or being unable to conduct himself in a civilised manner has nothing to do with his nuclear power source (if he has one, which, from your story, I doubt).
You've cited nothing about the economics of operating a personal nuclear reactor and have somehow used your uncle's follies to justify the bad economics of personal nuclear reactors.
No, I take that back. You have proven your point. His reactor affected your ability to argue coherently more than I gave it credit for.
CH2O being formaldehyde, not the best thing to be spewing out as waste...
LINE strikes me as something that can both help and hurt efforts to inform people about the benefits of linux. If LINE sucks, the implication (to the average windows user) is that linux sucks. If LINE is good, then there is less motivation to move to native linux.
They invented the language. I think they know how it works.
English was invented much like the cat was, in that it wasn't. No one sat down umpteen years ago and decided that there would be one English with properties [x..z], it evolved through hundreds of years of additions, modifications, and deletions through use. Trying to find a proper English, if there is such a thing, would be like trying to find a proper C++: some individuals/groups may establish standards as to how they think it should be written but as long as it is mostly compatable with how the rest of the world uses English, it's all good.
The consumer diamond market has artificially high prices, and is controlled almost entirely by a single family in South Africa.
DeBeers, England, with large mines in South Africa.
it is really important? did you know, so that it returns? we speak English. All is cultivated the anyways. With the arrival of Internet and adoption whole Slang, does not import in one way or another the orthography of the errors and Emoticons and a true representation whatnot..the of the contents more. IF YOU C REACH C THE POINT WHICH C EAST A PROBLEM FUCKING? **time-out** surely, it have always a there the letter of quality which be clear and short, but, if one of come with this one nitpicky Bullshit, it import not. It does not lower lisiblement, not caused him disorders. It seems right, of fodder for jealous the people with the command to place to you who seem for you on training sad people to feel duty, which it like (Timothy), as they wants it. It, why they do not embrace it are you want him to him measured value him? The feeling which is sad for you, one complains one complains about the manner, in which it is slashdot unprofessional. Whos of larger imbecile? All we soap the answer.FUCKING PROBLEM?
-babelfish(French, English, German, French, English)
I mean, instead of reading 3 bits a normal drive would get 1. If it's done right, a stripped down version of what's on the CD ought to be available.
Uhm... If I read the article correctly, that would require that each spot (which could take one of 8 states) default up to a 1 or down to a 0 (to be comb^Hpatable with the old drives) AND that each spot encode the proper state out of the eight (shade of grey) for the new drives to read it.
To efficiently do this en masse would be somewhat difficult.
My bad.
http://www.gsp.com/2038/ states 19 Jan 2038 at 03:14:07 as the rollover date.
I believe that Linux based computers have their own problems around 2004. (I think.)
Using 31 bits for seconds since 01-01-1970, you run into problems in early Feb, 2038. Using 32 bits, things break in 2106 (it would really suck if embedded programming created now using this lasted ~106 years...).
It was written for the Observer, so blinding techspeak isn't called for, but neither is the totally irrelevant pap that was added, most likely just to fill column inches=£££. Leave out the padding and you'd have an interesting article about a fifth of the length.
"The Journal Science" is not spelt "Observer". Sure, it could have been written as a strictly scientific piece, but that's not the point of the publication. By wrapping the scientific details in something the average non-PhD-in-plasma-physics-holding person can understand, the author is making the science available to more people.
As for length, publications which focus on making ad revenue generally want short pieces which are easily placed in a sea of ads whereas publications which focus on delivering news want quality reporting which often (but not always) requires more space than running news releases through a thesaurus (*cough*SunMedia*cough*).
You don't have to know his credentials, because he includes specific examples of common code that executes slower on the P4, and then describes the architectural features that lead to it. He backs up pretty much every claim he makes, so you are free to draw your own conclusions of the veracity of his assertions.
/really/ know how the AMD chip gets around this, but Tom/AMD/whomever said it does."
/adding /increasing execution units without addressing what that might do to the cost of the chip or any of the physical effects(heat/die size/factor/power consumption).
If by "specific examples" you mean "handwaving", then yes, I would agree.
On many occaisions, he fails to provide or cite any code or data to support his claims. For example, in "Why the AMD Athlon doesn't suck", he claims that "The AMD Athlon has no partial register stall" while he does not state how he determined that this is the case, either from an empirical or engineering standpoint. That screams either "This part of my thesis is not important enough to support with facts or data" or "I don't
And in "The Benchmarks", he states that "Running other tests using various emulators, I found that in general the Pentium 4 runs emulators such as SoftMac 2000 SLOWER in most cases than the 650 MHz Pentium III and 600 MHz AMD Athlon." Which tests and emulators? (And why do we care about emulators since the great majority of end users don't?)
Additionally, he advocates changing
It is also rather annoying that he repeatedly states "CLOCK SPEED IS NOT EVERYTHING" while making comparisons such as "Pentium 4 fails to keep up with even the 600 MHz chips".
(And he needs an editor really, really, badly.)
Another solution would be to require the availability of older versions. I mean, if "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" is that much better than "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1995", then let the public speak.
The truth is that when a certian share of the market is had, then some sort of regulation should kick in. The situation in changing the book layout and certain wording should be no different to changing the position of controls on a motor car.
I suggest that "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs" be frozen at certian levels, and upgraded by add-on revisions. Periodically, these revisions will be examined by some external committee (corporate, private, government...), and those deemed essential will be made into a standard patch, to be distributed with all copies of "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000".
Users would then be able to read "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" or the "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2000" with the standard revisions. The level of revisionism will be such that any of the last x versions, or the last x years, might be restored from a given copy. That is, if I buy "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 2002" , I should be able to roll out the standard "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1995", "Current State of Geopolitical Affairs 1998", &c.
New facts would be distributed under separate cover. These will be greatly restricted, because they may only be added under the result of an external committee.
Sounds great... Replace the obvious with "car" or "diamond ring" or other products produced by a mono/oligopoly to see how silly the idea is.
It's not funny.
I want the people who deliver my news to *think* about what they are reporting, and since reporters are *different*, they will have different opinions. If and when everyone at a news source arrive at the same opinion about a product or service (where the opinion is non-obvious or one of several equally sound opinions), they fail to be an independent and *reliable* news source and I move on.