So basically they suck. I shouldn't need to tweak my os thread scheduler just so a cpu can suck less. AMD needs to fix their shit instead of lame excuses.
It's good for a low end multi core, but after a lot of research I've decided to go with the proven Phenom II processor.
When I drive around in the vicinity of the Mohave Desert I see houses scattered - a line of poles provides a telephone line may extend to 20 miles, or more to a lone dwelling. So to provided High Speed there will need to be either fibre or a series of amplifiers and power to them. Not something a phone company would enjoy doing, for one dwelling.
Of course, they would have told us of the hackers took control of the satellites that had the death rays. Oh, never mind, they told us that those satellites don't exist.
Except, we have a house full of popcorn that says otherwise.
Title: Hacker
Publisher: Activision
Year: 1985
Player attempts to take over robot to gather information to save world, and has to intereact with a security satellite.
carving a pumpkin, putting a flicker-LED light in it... and then just before dusk, raising the dead with a mad, cackling incantation to swoop upon the innocents. very little tech involved.
Couldn't get Westboro Baptist Church people, either, huh?
Once there was an actual criminal going around a large office park at a place where I previously worked that would walk in wearing a VERY fancy suit and kindof wander around stealing laptops, electronics, etc. and then walk out. Nobody could ever identify him except that he was in a fancy suit, and nobody dared question what he was doing so as not to get in trouble for offending somebody important. Not saying any of these places were supposed to be highly secure, but was quite a problem for a while and he always got out before anyone noticed or realized what was going on.
Then he walked into our office which was a startup, and he was obviously not familiar with the "atmosphere". As soon as he got in by following behind somebody, several people said "What the **** are you wearing a suit for and what the **** are you doing here?", took a picture of him, and escorted him out.
The lesson is: You can steal more with a suit and tie than you can with a gun.
So did banking. The masters are utterly corrupt, which has removed any moral reason to respect them or their property. I shed no tears for the rich when they lose what to them is a pittance.
The bad bankers (and I don't mean inept, they're bad in a different way) have figured how to game the system. It's like they found the cheat codes to Super Mario to make him run faster, fly better or be invulnerable. It's the position of government to enact laws, as demanded by the people, and to place auditors in place, as also demanded by the people, to see this sort of gaming the system doesn't take place. The problem is the bankers have realized they can openly weep crocodile tears and certain people within the government will say, 'There, there, we'll back off with the mean old auditors and regulations so you can do business the way you want to'
In my experience the bigger than bank, the bigger the team of auditors and the sharper their pencils should be.
The really big criminals work in top positions of banks and are well connected in government, so they only have to look slightly admonished for a few weeks after nearly bringing down the entire economy of the West and then it's back to business as usual.
Welcome to world where you do what's good for you at the moment. It's not like this is a new concept for US either. China practically owns US now, and in 10-20 years it will start to really show. In the end, they will probably fall again, but it will be China who controls the world soon (again). It's the cycle of life.
Back in the eighteenth century Lord Macartney approached the Emperor with the finest goods of Britain - which paled in comparison to the riches of the asian court. There's a saying, "China already has everything, would could you possibly offer China", ultimately the answer was Opium.
China is returning to glory days, where China will have everything everyone else has and the question will be, "What can you possibly offer to the Chinese?" Tough question to answer.
I bought 6 Seagate Savvio 300GB (2.5" SAS 10k spin) drives yesterday. They were $199 (relatively cheap) and now are $267 or higher at most eTailers.
I'm sure most of it's fear mongering but some "analysts" have suggested it may take "several quarters" for the drive mfg's to recover from this. So I figured why chance it and bought what I needed rather than deal with potential inflation for 2 years.
As the economic model plays out (unlike the ways politicians make stuff up) if other manufacturers have untapped capacity they will ramp up their capacity to take advantage of realizing higher sales (and potentially profit) The market is elastic and prices will adjust again. (This is the stuff I found so utterly fascinating while studying economics, when you see real markets behave as expected.)
Went to buy a 2TB hard disk today. The price was 50% higher than yesterday. Got a 750GB 2.5" external hard disk instead, which cost the same as before the flood. Damn disaster profiteers.
Yep. But did you really have to buy now?
I'm putting my purchase off for a bit. The flood didn't damage the HDD plant, once they have power back it'll be business as usual.
15%-30% price spikes? The 2TB drives I bought on Tuesday increased 46% in price (from $80 to $117) and not too long before them the had them on sale for $69.99.
So much for my plans of system upgrade any time soon.
Does "bipartisan support" mean that it has the support of both the major parties, or simply that it has the support of a couple of guys in each but will get voted down by a majority in both?
Usually, when used by a politician, it means it is supported by that politician and at least one politician that caucuses with the other major party in one of the houses of Congress.
...and there's either little or no attached cost to approval. That's the reality of things today.
Exactly. Obama at least shows no signs of taking this seriously if he thinks it's OK to just laugh off the top suggestion.
So that's a dead subject. Doesn't mean they all will be. I'll be starting up one on Monosodium Glutamate this evening - use in restaurants, labelling, etc. I suffer migranes and know there are others who suffer side effects from this cheat to make food more appetizing.
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Actually promoted when it's found there's nothing else near it's orbital path.
Elf planet?
This is making my head spin...
Then that opens up the whole field to "faerie" planets, and I have no idea what that would be. (But I bet it sparkles.)
"... we announce the faerie planet Tinkerbell."
Ummmm.
Demoted to "Dwarf-Protoplanet" by a minority of IAU in a meeting held after all the sensible people have left the conference ...
So basically they suck. I shouldn't need to tweak my os thread scheduler just so a cpu can suck less. AMD needs to fix their shit instead of lame excuses.
It's good for a low end multi core, but after a lot of research I've decided to go with the proven Phenom II processor.
Cricket anyone?
When I drive around in the vicinity of the Mohave Desert I see houses scattered - a line of poles provides a telephone line may extend to 20 miles, or more to a lone dwelling. So to provided High Speed there will need to be either fibre or a series of amplifiers and power to them. Not something a phone company would enjoy doing, for one dwelling.
Of course, they would have told us of the hackers took control of the satellites that had the death rays. Oh, never mind, they told us that those satellites don't exist.
Except, we have a house full of popcorn that says otherwise.
Title: Hacker
Publisher: Activision
Year: 1985
Player attempts to take over robot to gather information to save world, and has to intereact with a security satellite.
Aliens from an another UNIVERSE.
Yours In Escanaba,
Kilgore T.
This wouldn't hava happened if they stuck with programming these things in COBOL.
This is how it began, self aware computers, etc.
carving a pumpkin, putting a flicker-LED light in it... and then just before dusk, raising the dead with a mad, cackling incantation to swoop upon the innocents. very little tech involved.
Couldn't get Westboro Baptist Church people, either, huh?
Once there was an actual criminal going around a large office park at a place where I previously worked that would walk in wearing a VERY fancy suit and kindof wander around stealing laptops, electronics, etc. and then walk out. Nobody could ever identify him except that he was in a fancy suit, and nobody dared question what he was doing so as not to get in trouble for offending somebody important. Not saying any of these places were supposed to be highly secure, but was quite a problem for a while and he always got out before anyone noticed or realized what was going on.
Then he walked into our office which was a startup, and he was obviously not familiar with the "atmosphere". As soon as he got in by following behind somebody, several people said "What the **** are you wearing a suit for and what the **** are you doing here?", took a picture of him, and escorted him out.
The lesson is: You can steal more with a suit and tie than you can with a gun.
"It sounds almost like a respectable profession."
So did banking. The masters are utterly corrupt, which has removed any moral reason to respect them or their property. I shed no tears for the rich when they lose what to them is a pittance.
The bad bankers (and I don't mean inept, they're bad in a different way) have figured how to game the system. It's like they found the cheat codes to Super Mario to make him run faster, fly better or be invulnerable. It's the position of government to enact laws, as demanded by the people, and to place auditors in place, as also demanded by the people, to see this sort of gaming the system doesn't take place. The problem is the bankers have realized they can openly weep crocodile tears and certain people within the government will say, 'There, there, we'll back off with the mean old auditors and regulations so you can do business the way you want to'
In my experience the bigger than bank, the bigger the team of auditors and the sharper their pencils should be.
So when did con men become "social engineers"? It sounds almost like a respectable profession.
Beg pardon, mate, but con is short for confidence, as in, they gain your confidence before nicking your lunch money.
Social Engineering is just a new-fangled label for probably the 3rd or 4th oldest profession in the world.
by the banks, I'm ok with the role reversal.
Old bumper sticker: Don't Steal - The Government Hates Competition
New bumper sticker: Don't Steal - The Banks Hate Competition
The real big criminals own the banks.
Own?
Nooooo....
The really big criminals work in top positions of banks and are well connected in government, so they only have to look slightly admonished for a few weeks after nearly bringing down the entire economy of the West and then it's back to business as usual.
They don't own banks, they pwn banks.
Welcome to world where you do what's good for you at the moment. It's not like this is a new concept for US either. China practically owns US now, and in 10-20 years it will start to really show. In the end, they will probably fall again, but it will be China who controls the world soon (again). It's the cycle of life.
Back in the eighteenth century Lord Macartney approached the Emperor with the finest goods of Britain - which paled in comparison to the riches of the asian court. There's a saying, "China already has everything, would could you possibly offer China", ultimately the answer was Opium.
China is returning to glory days, where China will have everything everyone else has and the question will be, "What can you possibly offer to the Chinese?" Tough question to answer.
I bought 6 Seagate Savvio 300GB (2.5" SAS 10k spin) drives yesterday. They were $199 (relatively cheap) and now are $267 or higher at most eTailers.
I'm sure most of it's fear mongering but some "analysts" have suggested it may take "several quarters" for the drive mfg's to recover from this. So I figured why chance it and bought what I needed rather than deal with potential inflation for 2 years.
As the economic model plays out (unlike the ways politicians make stuff up) if other manufacturers have untapped capacity they will ramp up their capacity to take advantage of realizing higher sales (and potentially profit) The market is elastic and prices will adjust again. (This is the stuff I found so utterly fascinating while studying economics, when you see real markets behave as expected.)
What am I bid for this classic 5 MB 5 1/4 Full Height drive?!? Muah ha ha ha haaaa!
Of course I'm kidding - it's a collectors item!!
Went to buy a 2TB hard disk today. The price was 50% higher than yesterday. Got a 750GB 2.5" external hard disk instead, which cost the same as before the flood. Damn disaster profiteers.
Yep. But did you really have to buy now?
I'm putting my purchase off for a bit. The flood didn't damage the HDD plant, once they have power back it'll be business as usual.
15%-30% price spikes? The 2TB drives I bought on Tuesday increased 46% in price (from $80 to $117) and not too long before them the had them on sale for $69.99.
So much for my plans of system upgrade any time soon.
I can wait.
Jason is not a D-UT he is a R-UT. Please fix the post and do a little fact checking next time...
...at least last time he reported in. Could be an I-UT before you know it.
Usually, when used by a politician, it means it is supported by that politician and at least one politician that caucuses with the other major party in one of the houses of Congress.
...and there's either little or no attached cost to approval. That's the reality of things today.
Zzzz..... WoW bores me to no end these days. A new expansion will not help.
PvP is gear based, which requires grinding, Dungeons are gear based which requires grinding, crafting requires grinding....
Same crap, different day.
I was saying the same thing about MUDs back in the 1990's. Life suck. Only MUDs were free.
Except you can do racial changes.
And if Death Knights, Goblins and Worgen were any indication, the starter zones are worth the time of trying out a new character.
They really need to move on from this dungeon crawl stuff.
Maybe something like World of Banking - take your group down a dangerous trail of betting on derivatives and making high risk loans ...
Exactly. Obama at least shows no signs of taking this seriously if he thinks it's OK to just laugh off the top suggestion.
So that's a dead subject. Doesn't mean they all will be. I'll be starting up one on Monosodium Glutamate this evening - use in restaurants, labelling, etc. I suffer migranes and know there are others who suffer side effects from this cheat to make food more appetizing.