An interesting fact is that 100% of the people that died while playing video games had consumed substances containing dihydrogen monoxide in the last 6 hours.
Seriously though, with so many millions of people playing games upwards of 20-30 hours a week, it's expected that some people that would have died randomly anyway (heart defect, whatever) would wind up dying in front of the screen.
No one much bats an eye when some teenage athelete dies on the field, it happens all the time. Pushing yourself is more likely to cause latent disorders to surface.
There was about a year though, in which the entire Red Hat world was in limbo. That flushed out a lot of users, like myself.
It's easy to forget, but fedoralegacy didn't come about until Red Hat 7 through 9 were EOL, as in, unsupported by no one other than progeny's pay service.
Thankfully fedoralegacy finally took off, started supporting 7.3, 8, 9 and legacy fedora releases, and the world was OK again.
But people like me that had to make tough decisions about the future direction of my server room... well I started moving some servers to Debian, and the rest to White Box. Now we run a mix of CentOS and Debian.
And to think, before Red Hat pulled all this shit, we paid them $1000+ a year for RHN for our RH 7,8,9 boxes. Now they get nothing from us, and we are migrating mainly to Debian.
Are you dense? The parent post correctly pointed out, you get *no* support from Red Hat unless you pay upward of $500 per server, per year.
Red Hat fucked small to medium businesses. I'm glad their gamble worked out for them financially, but that doesn't mean us small-to-medium businesspeople aren't pissed.
I was just going on the first thing I saw on crucial.com, Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, 512MB DDR2 PC2-8000 5-5-5-15 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-1000 2.2V 64Meg x 64, $210.
I see now that is the highest end stuff, but what you linked to was 256megs. Looks like a more realistic price is somewhere in the middle, $80 or $90.
With CPU development practically stagnating, but RAM and HD storage still growing fast
What?
I could believe HD, but RAM sizes have not kept up at all. You might have gotten a system with 128 megs with a 20 gig hard disk with a CPU running 800 mhz a few years ago. These days you get a system generally with something like 512 megs and 200 gigs storage running 3Ghz. Also RAM prices have not dropped all that much. 512megs of DDR2 is over $200.
Yes, CPU speeds have stagnated in the last year or so, only growing by 10-20%, but RAM hasn't advanced all that much in the size department.
Suppose you click a link to a huge (say 10 meg) image from a slow server or on dial up. Then you want to right click and save as. Since firefox might not keep a copy of the image in it's compressed form, you may very well wind up downloading that file from the server again.
It may or may not get cached, I've definitely noticed situations where it does not get cached and must download completely again. There's a bug report on this behavior but I think it's closed as not a bug.
Why prioritize support for 16 bit tiffs? Most of the viewers don't yet. Really bugged me when a newer imagemagick made a 16 bit tiff without me asking it to, and it wouldn't work with any of my other applications, and I had to waste hours to figure out why IM was spitting out a tiff that didn't work with anything.
I think that beeping was their flammable environment alarm they were using for the experiment. They had a gas meter that would start beeping at the lower explosive limits in air.
I personally think they most dangerous one they did so far was the tree trunk cannon. When they turned it into a pipe bomb, large heavy chunks of wood flew well past where they were standing. If luck would have had another course, someone could have caught a 100 pound chunk of wood to the head and that would have been that.
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They actually were splitting wooden dowels like you'd get from the hardware store, in the later stages of the myth.
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I think Scottie quit. I don't remember seeing her in any newer episodes. She did rock though. I admire any woman that can weld like that.
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You mean for the all of 5 minutes before the law is declared unconstitutional?
The retired FBI agent guy probably just has the proper ATF licenses to handle and transport high explosives. They aren't that hard to get, it's mostly a lot of recordkeeping.
Drag always diminshes your returns. It's incorrect to say it isn't a factor at low speeds. It does go up more sharply at higher speeds, and I do agree it's less of a factor at lower speeds.
As for your final statement, I'd say it would depend on a lot of things, like the transmission, the shifting profile, the amount of speed variance tolerated on hills, etc.
If you have an automatic with cruise control set at 60mph and you hit a hill, your automatic will downshift out of overdrive, and possibly even downshift again before cresting the hill, all to maintain 60mph +-5mph. That's going to use a lot of gas.
In a 5 speed manual, if you keep it in 5th (that usually is 1:1 ratio like overdrive) all the way up the hill, you might drop down to 50mph but the engine will never have to spool up from downshifting.
So fuel economy isn't always best at the "air drag sweet spot", there's way too many factors involved to make a statement like that.
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You are wrong generally. The usual concern is direct RF induced detonation from the blasting wires acting as antennas.
My wife tested out the "open source" keylogger from sourceforge because one of her clients requested she find a keylogger for their systems to catch suspected abuse. After 8 hours it used up every bit of virtual memory. I put open source in quotes because last I checked there was a question whether the source had ever been released.
So yeah, it's entirely possible a keylogger could fuck up your system and make it slow or unusable. Just look at how adware and spyware (which do extremely simple things, really) can really screw your system.
Have you worked for the game industry? I haven't, but how "it should be" and how it is could be two different things. I know it sure is in IT/development in my industry. It's been a long uphill battle to get better procedures in place.
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An interesting fact is that 100% of the people that died while playing video games had consumed substances containing dihydrogen monoxide in the last 6 hours.
Seriously though, with so many millions of people playing games upwards of 20-30 hours a week, it's expected that some people that would have died randomly anyway (heart defect, whatever) would wind up dying in front of the screen.
No one much bats an eye when some teenage athelete dies on the field, it happens all the time. Pushing yourself is more likely to cause latent disorders to surface.
There was about a year though, in which the entire Red Hat world was in limbo. That flushed out a lot of users, like myself.
It's easy to forget, but fedoralegacy didn't come about until Red Hat 7 through 9 were EOL, as in, unsupported by no one other than progeny's pay service.
Thankfully fedoralegacy finally took off, started supporting 7.3, 8, 9 and legacy fedora releases, and the world was OK again.
But people like me that had to make tough decisions about the future direction of my server room... well I started moving some servers to Debian, and the rest to White Box. Now we run a mix of CentOS and Debian.
And to think, before Red Hat pulled all this shit, we paid them $1000+ a year for RHN for our RH 7,8,9 boxes. Now they get nothing from us, and we are migrating mainly to Debian.
Are you dense? The parent post correctly pointed out, you get *no* support from Red Hat unless you pay upward of $500 per server, per year.
Red Hat fucked small to medium businesses. I'm glad their gamble worked out for them financially, but that doesn't mean us small-to-medium businesspeople aren't pissed.
The memory in question is not taken by firefox process per se, it's memory resources in X11 or Windows that are never freed.
I was just going on the first thing I saw on crucial.com, Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, 512MB DDR2 PC2-8000 5-5-5-15 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-1000 2.2V 64Meg x 64, $210.
I see now that is the highest end stuff, but what you linked to was 256megs. Looks like a more realistic price is somewhere in the middle, $80 or $90.
With CPU development practically stagnating, but RAM and HD storage still growing fast
What?
I could believe HD, but RAM sizes have not kept up at all. You might have gotten a system with 128 megs with a 20 gig hard disk with a CPU running 800 mhz a few years ago. These days you get a system generally with something like 512 megs and 200 gigs storage running 3Ghz. Also RAM prices have not dropped all that much. 512megs of DDR2 is over $200.
Yes, CPU speeds have stagnated in the last year or so, only growing by 10-20%, but RAM hasn't advanced all that much in the size department.
Suppose you click a link to a huge (say 10 meg) image from a slow server or on dial up. Then you want to right click and save as. Since firefox might not keep a copy of the image in it's compressed form, you may very well wind up downloading that file from the server again.
It may or may not get cached, I've definitely noticed situations where it does not get cached and must download completely again. There's a bug report on this behavior but I think it's closed as not a bug.
Why prioritize support for 16 bit tiffs? Most of the viewers don't yet. Really bugged me when a newer imagemagick made a 16 bit tiff without me asking it to, and it wouldn't work with any of my other applications, and I had to waste hours to figure out why IM was spitting out a tiff that didn't work with anything.
I think that beeping was their flammable environment alarm they were using for the experiment. They had a gas meter that would start beeping at the lower explosive limits in air.
It's illegal though.
At least in theory. The predatory pricing laws have been pretty well neutered by the supreme court.
And you are right, predatory pricing is a huge gamble that doesn't often pay off.
I personally think they most dangerous one they did so far was the tree trunk cannon. When they turned it into a pipe bomb, large heavy chunks of wood flew well past where they were standing. If luck would have had another course, someone could have caught a 100 pound chunk of wood to the head and that would have been that.
They actually were splitting wooden dowels like you'd get from the hardware store, in the later stages of the myth.
I think Scottie quit. I don't remember seeing her in any newer episodes. She did rock though. I admire any woman that can weld like that.
You mean for the all of 5 minutes before the law is declared unconstitutional?
I'd imagine they feel like having a beer.
Yes, it's totally possible.
Especially with older monitors with fixed sync, or very limited sync range.
I killed an SGI VGA monitor once running it on a PC outside of it's capabilities.
The retired FBI agent guy probably just has the proper ATF licenses to handle and transport high explosives. They aren't that hard to get, it's mostly a lot of recordkeeping.
Drag always diminshes your returns. It's incorrect to say it isn't a factor at low speeds. It does go up more sharply at higher speeds, and I do agree it's less of a factor at lower speeds.
As for your final statement, I'd say it would depend on a lot of things, like the transmission, the shifting profile, the amount of speed variance tolerated on hills, etc.
If you have an automatic with cruise control set at 60mph and you hit a hill, your automatic will downshift out of overdrive, and possibly even downshift again before cresting the hill, all to maintain 60mph +-5mph. That's going to use a lot of gas.
In a 5 speed manual, if you keep it in 5th (that usually is 1:1 ratio like overdrive) all the way up the hill, you might drop down to 50mph but the engine will never have to spool up from downshifting.
So fuel economy isn't always best at the "air drag sweet spot", there's way too many factors involved to make a statement like that.
You are wrong generally. The usual concern is direct RF induced detonation from the blasting wires acting as antennas.
I'll let you be lazy this time.
The penny's terminal velocity is too low to cause any damage. It tumbles through the air.
It would sting, like getting hit by a airsoft or paintball, but it wouldn't injure anyone seriously.
It might help to actually watch the show, or at least search the previous show listings. They already did this one.
Are Kari and Grant a couple? I noticed Grant let Kari use his TI-30Xa calculator. I can't imagine such a sacrifice would be made lightly.
It sucks to be poor.
It's supposed to suck. If it didn't suck, then there'd be no motivation to get off their lazy asses and get jobs, training, or schooling.
My wife tested out the "open source" keylogger from sourceforge because one of her clients requested she find a keylogger for their systems to catch suspected abuse. After 8 hours it used up every bit of virtual memory. I put open source in quotes because last I checked there was a question whether the source had ever been released.
So yeah, it's entirely possible a keylogger could fuck up your system and make it slow or unusable. Just look at how adware and spyware (which do extremely simple things, really) can really screw your system.
Have you worked for the game industry? I haven't, but how "it should be" and how it is could be two different things. I know it sure is in IT/development in my industry. It's been a long uphill battle to get better procedures in place.