About AMD's upcoming dual systems is that each processor has a seperate bus to the memory, unlike intel systems where all the chips share the same bus.
The bad thing is that so far only Tyan has announced a MB based on the 760MP chipset and that MB is definitely suited for servers, won't fit in a standard ATX case.
One of my college roomates who wasn't really a computer guy discovered Duke3d his senior year. He got so addicted to the game that he ended up dropping out of a very prestigious school with 1 semester left to go. I've seen a lot of people pulling all nighters just to play 'one more turn' or just to get 'one more level'.
I think it would be great to have games that actually teach you things along the way. Sort of like Capitalism Plus crossed with The Sims. The best way to learn is when it doesn't feel like a chore.
The biggest threat to MS from linux is in the server and the handheld environmets, the 2 areas where MS doesn't have a monopoly right now. I'm sure that they're not too concenrned about the destop yet.
The law still allows someone to access the material with proper permission. What percentage of public employees have a legit reason to look at porn? Employers have a right to restrict how their resources are used, in this case the State of Virginia is the employer. I'm sure that psychologists dealing with sexual behaivour problems would still be able to access the material. Also, the law doesn't prevent people in Virginia from using their personal computers to access the material, that would be going too far.
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I have to say that the tech industry is as close to a merit based system as you can get. If you know your stuff you will get ahead. Although I've never worked at microsoft I know several people who have, I've never heard any complaits of this sort.
Things like e-mail should remain private, barring some criminal investigation. If I ever found out that an employer was peeking at my e-mails, I would quit. Of course limits could be placed on large attachments, etc so that the network isn't stressed too much by the 50th forward of that salmon with bears commercial.
Things like web browsing should be open to monitoring.
No system connected to the outside is 100% secure, be it unix, windows, MACOS, whatever. If it's a national security issue then the machines shouldn't be on the internet. Regarless, the biggest security threat is the lack of dilligence displayed by users and admins. Far too many people use their name as the password or use no password.
Once enough of their users say "Hey, what's wrong with doing that?" They'll back track and try to make nice. There's not much they could do about it regardless.
In other words all the genes in the human body make up only about 3% of DNA. What the human gemome project did was identified where the genes were, not what the genes do. It's the first baby step to re-writing our own source code.
It won't even use the BG2 engine, it will use the newer engine that I believe will be first used in the Pool of Radiance remake/sequel. By far the coolest aspect of NWN is that you'll be able to set up your own server with adventures on it and have up to 64 people log in. It's supposed to have a decent scripting language for events, etc. You can also do any god things to the people while they are in your world. They're also supposed to have some sort of a character vault to limit the amount of character editing.
I knew that we were in trouble when I saw the additions to the re-released original movies. In the Cantina scene when Han shoots the bounty hunter. In the re-release they have the bounty hunter shoot first, since the hero shouldn't take the first shot? THAT was what made han Solo cool.
The Phantom Menace was aweful, and I didn't even go in expecting much, I was still disappointed.
Lucas needs to hand the reigns off to someone else and keep his hands off.
On a better note, I heard the Salvadore (author of the Dark Eld Forgotten Realms books) might be re-doing the screenplay.
There are two areas where virtual communities make a lot of sense. One is for discussing specialized issues for which there aren't many experts I.E. Martial arts discussion by various Sensei, scientists discussing (when not under NDA) things that most people within walking distance of them wouldn't understand, etc.
The other use is for people who live in the boonies and can't always socialize.
The same argument could be made in 10 years. Why even bother with space at all??? IMHO it's an extremely near sighted view. Research in microgravity can possible yeild new medicines, alloys, etc. It's about gaining knowledge, and the more the better and the sooner the better.
There are always people who are against even the most obviously good ideas. There were people who opposed the Luisianna purchase because 'why should be spend 15 million on all that useless land?"
There is no god, I haven't heard him, spoken to him, or seen him:-
I saw the most brilliant bumper sticker the other day. It had a smily face licking it's lips and it read "Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him."
All right, I'll stop exaggerating, if you stop (what's the reverse of exaggerating?)
The B2 costs about 1.3 Billion according to the US Air Force site.
http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/B_2_Spirit.html
Sarcasm aside, NASA needs more money. Space is not profitable right now, and won't be for some time. The federal Gov't needs to fund viable research areas that won't be profitable for years to come, since our private industry will avoid them.
That is what I was trying to say. The arms are mostly supplied by private firms (Lockheed, Boeing, Ratheon, etc), not by the federal government. The spending I mentioned and the treaties are the doing of the federal government, that's the difference. We have a wonderful history of upholding the treaties that we make (just ask some native tribes), here's hoping for a change.
Doing another mission to the jovian moons or to Titan. A couple of Jupiter's moons may have life on them. Pluto's pretty uninteresting by comparison. Although its moon has a pretty cool name.
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for a massive party at the end.
Of course we should probably start using the metric system before we worry about re-doing our calendar.
The problem with SETI is that most life out there isn't intelligent enough or advanced enough to broadcast anything. The window for a civilization to use broadcast methods is relatively small, if you look at earth as an example. I'm sure that point to point communications will replace broadcast within the near future (100 years), a mere instant on the cosmic scale.
I would love to see distributed computing used to help the human genome project, protein folding, etc. There are much clearer benefits to doing so.
This story was appeared about a few weeks ago. Immortal skin that's not cancerous. Apparently the result of a small mutation.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHar d/dyehard001121.html
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And proving that they have mass would help us account for a lot of the 'missing' or 'dark' matter that we think should exist.
About AMD's upcoming dual systems is that each processor has a seperate bus to the memory, unlike intel systems where all the chips share the same bus.
The bad thing is that so far only Tyan has announced a MB based on the 760MP chipset and that MB is definitely suited for servers, won't fit in a standard ATX case.
One of my college roomates who wasn't really a computer guy discovered Duke3d his senior year. He got so addicted to the game that he ended up dropping out of a very prestigious school with 1 semester left to go. I've seen a lot of people pulling all nighters just to play 'one more turn' or just to get 'one more level'. I think it would be great to have games that actually teach you things along the way. Sort of like Capitalism Plus crossed with The Sims. The best way to learn is when it doesn't feel like a chore.
The biggest threat to MS from linux is in the server and the handheld environmets, the 2 areas where MS doesn't have a monopoly right now. I'm sure that they're not too concenrned about the destop yet.
The DVD recorder is damn cool. Nice that the systems ship with 256 MB of RAM, now if they only came with a nice 1.2 Ghz Tbird. Maybe when OS X ships.
The law still allows someone to access the material with proper permission. What percentage of public employees have a legit reason to look at porn? Employers have a right to restrict how their resources are used, in this case the State of Virginia is the employer. I'm sure that psychologists dealing with sexual behaivour problems would still be able to access the material. Also, the law doesn't prevent people in Virginia from using their personal computers to access the material, that would be going too far.
I have to say that the tech industry is as close to a merit based system as you can get. If you know your stuff you will get ahead. Although I've never worked at microsoft I know several people who have, I've never heard any complaits of this sort.
Things like e-mail should remain private, barring some criminal investigation. If I ever found out that an employer was peeking at my e-mails, I would quit. Of course limits could be placed on large attachments, etc so that the network isn't stressed too much by the 50th forward of that salmon with bears commercial. Things like web browsing should be open to monitoring.
No system connected to the outside is 100% secure, be it unix, windows, MACOS, whatever. If it's a national security issue then the machines shouldn't be on the internet.
Regarless, the biggest security threat is the lack of dilligence displayed by users and admins. Far too many people use their name as the password or use no password.
Once enough of their users say "Hey, what's wrong with doing that?" They'll back track and try to make nice. There's not much they could do about it regardless.
In other words all the genes in the human body make up only about 3% of DNA. What the human gemome project did was identified where the genes were, not what the genes do. It's the first baby step to re-writing our own source code.
It won't even use the BG2 engine, it will use the newer engine that I believe will be first used in the Pool of Radiance remake/sequel. By far the coolest aspect of NWN is that you'll be able to set up your own server with adventures on it and have up to 64 people log in. It's supposed to have a decent scripting language for events, etc. You can also do any god things to the people while they are in your world. They're also supposed to have some sort of a character vault to limit the amount of character editing.
I knew that we were in trouble when I saw the additions to the re-released original movies. In the Cantina scene when Han shoots the bounty hunter. In the re-release they have the bounty hunter shoot first, since the hero shouldn't take the first shot? THAT was what made han Solo cool. The Phantom Menace was aweful, and I didn't even go in expecting much, I was still disappointed. Lucas needs to hand the reigns off to someone else and keep his hands off. On a better note, I heard the Salvadore (author of the Dark Eld Forgotten Realms books) might be re-doing the screenplay.
There are two areas where virtual communities make a lot of sense. One is for discussing specialized issues for which there aren't many experts I.E. Martial arts discussion by various Sensei, scientists discussing (when not under NDA) things that most people within walking distance of them wouldn't understand, etc. The other use is for people who live in the boonies and can't always socialize.
The same argument could be made in 10 years. Why even bother with space at all??? IMHO it's an extremely near sighted view. Research in microgravity can possible yeild new medicines, alloys, etc. It's about gaining knowledge, and the more the better and the sooner the better. There are always people who are against even the most obviously good ideas. There were people who opposed the Luisianna purchase because 'why should be spend 15 million on all that useless land?"
There is no god, I haven't heard him, spoken to him, or seen him :-
I saw the most brilliant bumper sticker the other day. It had a smily face licking it's lips and it read "Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him."
All right, I'll stop exaggerating, if you stop (what's the reverse of exaggerating?) The B2 costs about 1.3 Billion according to the US Air Force site.
http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/B_2_Spirit.html
Sarcasm aside, NASA needs more money. Space is not profitable right now, and won't be for some time. The federal Gov't needs to fund viable research areas that won't be profitable for years to come, since our private industry will avoid them.
That is what I was trying to say. The arms are mostly supplied by private firms (Lockheed, Boeing, Ratheon, etc), not by the federal government. The spending I mentioned and the treaties are the doing of the federal government, that's the difference. We have a wonderful history of upholding the treaties that we make (just ask some native tribes), here's hoping for a change.
NY and LA are a bit too far of a trip for me to see the movie. TIA
Doing another mission to the jovian moons or to Titan. A couple of Jupiter's moons may have life on them. Pluto's pretty uninteresting by comparison. Although its moon has a pretty cool name.
for a massive party at the end. Of course we should probably start using the metric system before we worry about re-doing our calendar.
So that we can help cure cancer, als, old age, etc.
The problem with SETI is that most life out there isn't intelligent enough or advanced enough to broadcast anything. The window for a civilization to use broadcast methods is relatively small, if you look at earth as an example. I'm sure that point to point communications will replace broadcast within the near future (100 years), a mere instant on the cosmic scale. I would love to see distributed computing used to help the human genome project, protein folding, etc. There are much clearer benefits to doing so.
How long before ATI and and Videologic succomb to the new empire?
This story was appeared about a few weeks ago. Immortal skin that's not cancerous. Apparently the result of a small mutation. http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHar d/dyehard001121.html