Let's turn that "logic" on to the Chicago situation: how many murders are committed in Chicago with semi-automatic handguns or revolvers? Answer= IDK A LOT > 0.
Yet Chicago has been banning the legal sale to lawful owners of handguns for a long time. Gun Control fails. Criminals Murder.
Fortunately where I used to live I was empowered with freedoms and I got my first gun at about age 8 or 10. I learned responsible gun safety and marksmanship at a good age and my parents kept it for me so that I was only allowed to use it under supervision.
2 or 3 decades later after continuous gun ownership I still haven't shot any people or had any firearms accidents resulting in human injury. Additionally I retain the ability to secure meat for food and the ability to defend my home and family against malicious intruders.
Snowden is the man. He accomplished what many previous whistleblowers attempted who were told "you don't have any proof, shut up." The shills who froth and scream traitor are on the side of evil, or they simply don't see that others had tried and failed and he did what he had to to expose the truth that needed exposing.
Surely the list must include the "Angry Fruit Salad" operating system that sucks worse than anything previously offered?
Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.
Everybody has made fun of the garbage-can-like appearance. It does look pretty silly, but the design is innovative when you look at the innards. I guess if you want a really small desktop and you don't know about hard drive failure rates, then it could be an attractive choice.
Personally I don't like anything about it except for the dual-gpu support. I love the old Mac Pro / PowerMac G5 chassis series. Because I'm always like "fuck it, I've got room" when it comes to desktops and their largitude. I have a sweet hackintosh in a PowerMac G5 chassis that I custom-built and it's not as pretty inside but it can trounce several Mac Pro models in benchmarks while I paid less than half the price for it. And BTW when I say custom, I mean that Dremels and JB-weld were involved. It's fully ATX-motherboard-compliant now. I have room for 4 video cards and about 8 hard drives. I have 16GB quad-channel DDR3. It is a great case design for airflow and therefore overclockers.
Apple dropped the ball, when it comes to expandability, and that's what I liked about the Mac Pro design. Sad face.
you eloquent bastard, you have simply nailed the paradigm, and I applaud your truthiness
Also for the other person mentioning doing IT work for rape shelter stuff - I bet it wouldn't be very hard to find volunteer armed guards for those types of safe houses. I personally, having known a few abuse victims, would view sitting around with a shotgun to ward off rapist/beaters as an honorable task. That would be a good community-outreach-volunteer program to get going in a lot of places: volunteer rape victim guard services etc
it would still look stupid if done with the "new comma" way or whatever they call the Anti-Oxford way, but they didn't even do that right because in that case it would have had to be "to repel water, ice, insects and other debris"
and the correct overall way would be "to repel water, ice, insects, and other debris"
Also this technology (not the commas) sounds pretty cool. I would like to have it all over my car so that no parts of it get dirty.
Yes I second the mobile Carmageddon recommendation! It's just like the original game, except with semi-clumsy touchscreen controls but with more levels and more cars.
Oh gosh I hope this doesn't result in some poor sap attempting to play Battlefield 4.7 and while thinking they should achieve a pure 115fps they only hit a measly 92fps and their lives are ruined forever. The consequences will never be the same.
Also FYI the octane requirement can be related to timing advance, where a lower-compression turbocharged engine with more advanced timing would need higher octane gas to make longer burns from each spark (higher octane gas burns longer than lower octane gas). The earlier spark sets off a longer-burn time of gas timed to the timing, needing the longer-burn ability of the 92+ octane. An old simple truck with 0 BDC timing would be happy with 87 octane, where a newer engine with 15 BDC timing advance would be better with 92+ octane.
Fuck this is way off topic from hard drives, sorry. Just needed to fill in some missing info.
As for hard drives, the more, the better. RAID is for safety now, and SSD's are for speed where we used to have RAID-0. ETC
I have said for years that we should have a tiered system of drivers' licenses, allowing for more advanced drivers to drive faster or use a better lane or similar benefit
Don't bring your Nazi stereotypes down to cover us all, freund von mir. See what I did there? You are all Nazis. Just kidding, I know it's a terrible thing to say but this is the Internet and it's funny to say such things with no repercussion.
Some of us can drive, is my real point. My vehicles are not in good enough shape for daily 100+MPH speeds, but I do maintain above 75 regularly and all the while obeying the important road rules like use of turn signals, minimum safe braking distance, proper lane usage (keep right unless passing and no faster cars are approaching in the left etc).
It is true that an unfortunate amount of people don't obey the basic road rules because there are no license re-tests and they forgot how all the important details work with regard to the symbols and orders years ago. But that's just a symptom of general ignorance. A lot of these same ignorant people also drive too slow.
Sounds to me like he "drove like a genius" instead of a fool, because he made it _literally_ from one end of our vast nation to the other at top speed without hurting himself or anyone else AND he didn't get caught while obviously breaking the law. Not exactly the kind of "fool" you hear of on those Dumb Crook News segments in the media
Very nice troll there, and I surely wish it was the truth. +100 Internets to you watcher
fuckin' politicians - worst enemy causing the most harm to our country in existence. I believe at least 3/5 of congress is on the take (taking bribes for their votes, in case you don't understand)
No, I'm not spending that much on video cards actually. I've never spent more than $160 on one if I recall correctly. This is precisely the effect of the point of the OP - you don't need all that for gaming. The so-called "mid range" cards quite sufficient for gaming on any size monitor nowadays.
1920x1080 is the resolution that DUMBASSES have settled upon. Ha ha. My cell phone can do 4k already BOOYAAA!
OK that was just joke-trolling. But I don't agree that we should settle for 1080p regardless. I found myself a $200 deal on a Dell Ultrasharp U2410 for my big system, where the important graphics happen. It does 1920x1200 and it's very nice. I would surely rather have a 27" monitor with the 1600p or whatnot resolution, but money has to be spent on practical things sometimes.
This also sounds like a previous Slashdot discussion about GPUs...
I was going to comment on here that the question nobody seems to be asking is "HOW FAR AWAY ARE THESE PLANETS?" but finally somebody did think of it I guess. I couldn't find it in the article anywhere, but I just skimmed over it a couple of times with the pattern recognition goggles brain application.
If it really is 2500 light years away, then we have no hope of getting there without quantum teleportation etc. But if we could do that, then sending a well-equipped spacecraft out there somewhere in that solar system to check it out would be a good plan I think. Get to work, folks.
yeah, you must not have played the last one. My installation with all of the expansions (that came with "Premium") of BF3 came out to at least 34GB of hard drive storage. Pretty darn redonkulous.
But hey, I only paid about $20 or something like that for all that content. No way in hell would I pay the $60-80 they are wanting for this new game. I tried the beta and didn't play it more than a couple of times and let it expire without a care. It was nifty and stuff, but it's just more of the same for the most part to me.
The other day I bought a fresh copy of Doom 3 for $2 to add to Steam, and having not played that one for several years, I was pretty impressed with the quality of it. That's a damn-well-made game right there. 1.5GB of disk space.
Slashdot Mirror
Yet Chicago has been banning the legal sale to lawful owners of handguns for a long time. Gun Control fails. Criminals Murder.
2 or 3 decades later after continuous gun ownership I still haven't shot any people or had any firearms accidents resulting in human injury. Additionally I retain the ability to secure meat for food and the ability to defend my home and family against malicious intruders.
Plus the TV industry is far away from upgrading their equipment to produce the content.
Also, Internet pricing and availability sucks in America, yes.
Big nerd with big balls, Snowden.
Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.
Personally I don't like anything about it except for the dual-gpu support. I love the old Mac Pro / PowerMac G5 chassis series. Because I'm always like "fuck it, I've got room" when it comes to desktops and their largitude. I have a sweet hackintosh in a PowerMac G5 chassis that I custom-built and it's not as pretty inside but it can trounce several Mac Pro models in benchmarks while I paid less than half the price for it. And BTW when I say custom, I mean that Dremels and JB-weld were involved. It's fully ATX-motherboard-compliant now. I have room for 4 video cards and about 8 hard drives. I have 16GB quad-channel DDR3. It is a great case design for airflow and therefore overclockers.
Apple dropped the ball, when it comes to expandability, and that's what I liked about the Mac Pro design. Sad face.
Also for the other person mentioning doing IT work for rape shelter stuff - I bet it wouldn't be very hard to find volunteer armed guards for those types of safe houses. I personally, having known a few abuse victims, would view sitting around with a shotgun to ward off rapist/beaters as an honorable task. That would be a good community-outreach-volunteer program to get going in a lot of places: volunteer rape victim guard services etc
yeah they don't last worth a shit anymore, WTF?
and the correct overall way would be "to repel water, ice, insects, and other debris"
Also this technology (not the commas) sounds pretty cool. I would like to have it all over my car so that no parts of it get dirty.
is not a rare element - "There is more titanium in the earth's crust than there is nickel, zinc, chromium, tin, lead, mercury, and manganese combined!" http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/titanium/overview.php
Yes I second the mobile Carmageddon recommendation! It's just like the original game, except with semi-clumsy touchscreen controls but with more levels and more cars.
Nobody even brought up the monitor refresh rate.
Oh gosh I hope this doesn't result in some poor sap attempting to play Battlefield 4.7 and while thinking they should achieve a pure 115fps they only hit a measly 92fps and their lives are ruined forever. The consequences will never be the same.
Also FYI the octane requirement can be related to timing advance, where a lower-compression turbocharged engine with more advanced timing would need higher octane gas to make longer burns from each spark (higher octane gas burns longer than lower octane gas). The earlier spark sets off a longer-burn time of gas timed to the timing, needing the longer-burn ability of the 92+ octane. An old simple truck with 0 BDC timing would be happy with 87 octane, where a newer engine with 15 BDC timing advance would be better with 92+ octane.
Fuck this is way off topic from hard drives, sorry. Just needed to fill in some missing info.
As for hard drives, the more, the better. RAID is for safety now, and SSD's are for speed where we used to have RAID-0. ETC
I hear they have bones of a long-dead race of giants with multiple rows of teeth and stuff.
in that case you would presume incorrectly. Gun safety is not a gray area of risk, like speeding is.
I have said for years that we should have a tiered system of drivers' licenses, allowing for more advanced drivers to drive faster or use a better lane or similar benefit
Some of us can drive, is my real point. My vehicles are not in good enough shape for daily 100+MPH speeds, but I do maintain above 75 regularly and all the while obeying the important road rules like use of turn signals, minimum safe braking distance, proper lane usage (keep right unless passing and no faster cars are approaching in the left etc).
It is true that an unfortunate amount of people don't obey the basic road rules because there are no license re-tests and they forgot how all the important details work with regard to the symbols and orders years ago. But that's just a symptom of general ignorance. A lot of these same ignorant people also drive too slow.
Sounds to me like he "drove like a genius" instead of a fool, because he made it _literally_ from one end of our vast nation to the other at top speed without hurting himself or anyone else AND he didn't get caught while obviously breaking the law. Not exactly the kind of "fool" you hear of on those Dumb Crook News segments in the media
fuckin' politicians - worst enemy causing the most harm to our country in existence. I believe at least 3/5 of congress is on the take (taking bribes for their votes, in case you don't understand)
No, I'm not spending that much on video cards actually. I've never spent more than $160 on one if I recall correctly. This is precisely the effect of the point of the OP - you don't need all that for gaming. The so-called "mid range" cards quite sufficient for gaming on any size monitor nowadays.
OK that was just joke-trolling. But I don't agree that we should settle for 1080p regardless. I found myself a $200 deal on a Dell Ultrasharp U2410 for my big system, where the important graphics happen. It does 1920x1200 and it's very nice. I would surely rather have a 27" monitor with the 1600p or whatnot resolution, but money has to be spent on practical things sometimes.
This also sounds like a previous Slashdot discussion about GPUs...
What a piss-poor excuse for a product launch. Don't these piss-ant Dell people have noses in their quality control department.
ETC
If it really is 2500 light years away, then we have no hope of getting there without quantum teleportation etc. But if we could do that, then sending a well-equipped spacecraft out there somewhere in that solar system to check it out would be a good plan I think. Get to work, folks.
But hey, I only paid about $20 or something like that for all that content. No way in hell would I pay the $60-80 they are wanting for this new game. I tried the beta and didn't play it more than a couple of times and let it expire without a care. It was nifty and stuff, but it's just more of the same for the most part to me.
The other day I bought a fresh copy of Doom 3 for $2 to add to Steam, and having not played that one for several years, I was pretty impressed with the quality of it. That's a damn-well-made game right there. 1.5GB of disk space.