I also thought that there's a bigger problem with electric cars (and hybrid cars) in that their efficiency and capacity/range decreases permanently as the batteries deteriorate over time. If you're leasing the car, that cost is just part of the lease and depreciation. If you're purchasing the car, then you have to consider the cost of replacing the battery-pack-system after X years. Tesla shows the battery pack replacement prices as being $8000 for the 40kWh pack, $10k for the 60kWh, and $12k for the 85-kWh pack at http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options . However... .
that optimistic pricing plan does not say how much Tesla will charge you to perform the battery pack replacement, or that those $8k to $12k battery pack prices must be purchased as an option within 90 days of the purchase of the car as article at says:
...much be purchased within 90 days of taking ownership, but only will be honored âoeafter the end of the eighth yearâ of ownership, according to Blankenship. ...In other words, folks taking ownership, and paying for the replacement coverage now, will not be eligible for the replacement until the end of 2020. So Tesla's calculation to some degree represents an assessment of where battery prices will be in the next decadeâ"not where they are right now.
And if you look at what Toyota did with the Prius battery system: they initally sold the car as getting 50 mpg, but they noticed that the battery systems got run down quickly, so they reconfigured the car computer so that the battery systems are used less and thus will last longer. But this decreased usage of the battery system greatly decreases that promised high mileage efficiency. So now the battery lasts longer, but you're not saving as much gas as they promised you would. Some people are just getting a little over 35 mpg, which they could get with a pure combustion engine alone.
No, I opened up a new tab to reply to the comment, not having seen the other poor formatting comment. I took the time to read the poorly formatted comment, which had some interesting points that were hard to pick out because of the run-on nature of the writing style. I took the trouble to make a joking comment, and actually pointed out what things would make their comment better: carriage returns and paragraph breaks which would organize the parts of "good" vs. "bad" vs. "ugly", and embedded all of that in a joke. .
Too bad you can't take a joke. My comments were not "burgle blah blah blah. I pointed out that good formatting would have preserved and presented the sensibility of the post. I don't know why you've got a knee-jerk response that any joking disparagement of the "form" or "style" of a comment implies automatic disagreement with and disparagement of the "content" of a comment. Seems like a knee-jerk response and poor inferencing on your part.
:>p
That's a tongue being stuck out at you, just in case you can't infer the implication of the emoticon created by the serial concatention of a colon, a greater-than-sign, and the lower-case letter 'p'.
Yep. It's like accepting the validity of the christian terms "pagan" or "heathen" to refer to nonchristians as being inferior. Simply the use of the term implies the use of a point of view in which christianity is "the correct religion" and the superiority of the validity of one religion over others. In a similar vein, the use of "Dutch" and "English" by the "Pennsylvania Dutch" Amish to refer to those within their own group (the "Dutch" / deutsch speakers) and to those outside of their own group (the "English" being non-Dutch, whether they speak english or not). I've seen Spaniards being called "English" by Pennsylvia Dutch. .
Words take on a cultural meaning and nuancing that may be very different from the literal meanings of those words. That's also a reason why new religions often use the name or wording of an established religion in their names: e.g. "Christian Science" or the LDS/Mormons calling themselves "Christians". sarcasm begins: Why any right-minded Christian knows that neither Mormons or Christian Scientists are christian at all. Why even them durned Catholics aren't christians!/sarcasm
No, I never indirectly said or implied that. My wording provides the implication (my implication) that wikipedia.org is an American organization situated and hosted in the USA. That is the full reason for my use of the phrase "the USA wikipedia". :>)
You've got to be able to recognize when haters use straw man arguments. First they put words in your mouth in an attempt to make you look foolish for saying something stupid (setting up the straw man). Then they point out how stupid what (they say which) you said really is (pushing the straw man which they had erected down). They do this while hoping that the audience does not notice that you never said what they claim you said (in other words, the straw man argument was actually made by them). .
For an example, see "think of the children" type arguments, when any point of argument is countered with "Oh my god, you want children to be molested by pedophiles!" which uses hyperbole and putting words in your mouth to create a straw man argument.
IMHO, Brown University's "Meal Service Accounts" for its students may be the issue here. .
Here's an update from Brown University's student newpaper blog article from April 2nd about the "revamping of the Spicy-With delivery" service from CrunchButton. It mentions that CrunchButton is now sourcing the sandwich from Mirano Grill which performs the delivery function. .
It appears that "Jo's", the original source and supplier of "Spicy With" for crunch-button's one-button app is an official Brown University food-service location which does not supply delivery service at all. So in the original situation, Crunch-button was providing the delivery service, while the student's student-ID-card-information was being used for charging food-service for the food item (and possibly also for the delivery charge). None of the articles I've seen or crunch-button's site makes clear whether the charge is paid COD (cash on delivery) or billed as an addon to the student's Brown University account in the original situation when the sandwich came from Jo's.
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With the introduction of an off-campus supplier for the sandwich, the payment option must have been changed to credit-card or some other option, as off-campus restaurants don't usually get access to the "dining options" accounts held by students on a university campus. So IMHO, I think the brouhaha was about accessing the students' "dining card accounts" and with the use of an on-campus official Brown university food-service restaurant.
Did you post this from your RT POS machine? Or do you need to pause and take a breath because you talk nonstop like that? I ask because somehow you neglected to put line-breaks at anyplace appropriate in your posting, like perhaps just before the "good" and the "bad". :>p
Line breaks, and paragraph marks, or even emoticons of a face sticking a tongue out at you, help break a document into logical parts and make it easier for people to read. Oh, wait, I get it. You were trying to demonstrate another failing of your RT tablet. Thanks!
That comment you're referring to was posted 13 minutes after my comment which is currently a +4 informative comment. I just hadn't followed the thread and seen it. Nyah. so there.:>p
Okay, thanks for the info. But where exactly is the link for and where exactly is the source code for the "open source" API to this proprietary firmware code blob? I agree that open sourcing the interface is useful alone: knowing what the hooks are lets you access more of the capabilities of the card.
Nope, no source code. Just binary blobbage. :>(
linky http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html leads to
linky http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ .
which is a directory full of.bin files of Radeon microcode patches. Does not appear to be source at all, even though the article at Phoronix claims that there is a release of "open source driver code":
Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding
A comment on their discussion page is more insightful and likely to be right:
This should read "AMD Releases UVD Support For (Partially) Open Source Driver" instead, since likely 90% (the exciting part; if it's anything like on NV) of the UVD code is pre-compiled in the blob firmware...
(the percentage may be open for debate)
So it looks like that comment is right: everything's hidden in a binary blob and there is no source code released at all at this time.
People used to be able to make actual useable software on their own as Hypercards stacks which they could then share freely (or for cost) with others. There was no restriction on how to share or requirement for approval and okey-dokeys and blessings from the Mother-ship in order to be allowed to do so. You could install software from whatever sources you wanted. It's that type of freedom to tinker that I believe Mr Kay is talking about and not seeing in the way the iPad money-sucking and "closed up" walled garden which is specifically designed by Apple.
Forgot one very interesting link about the TSA's abuse of authority:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204556804574261940842372518.html
In the second case, Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political organization launched from Ron Paulâ(TM)s presidential run, was detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying $4,700 in a lock box from the sale of tickets, T-shirts, bumper stickers and campaign paraphernalia. TSA screeners quizzed him about the cash, his employment and the purpose of his trip to St. Louis, then summoned local police and threatened him with arrest because he responded to their questions with a question of his own: What were his rights and could TSA legally require him to answer?
Wow. Can you claim that "every low priced item for sale in the real world" must be stolen, because why else would someone offer to sell something for a low value if it might have a higher value? No, sometimes people don't know the intrinsic value of something. So everyone who buys something cheaply off craigslist does not have to be complicit in the purchase of stolen goods if they didn't know the goods were stolen. You're reaching a conclusion which may seem reasonable but which, IMHO, is unreasonable. . Banks have mandated reporting of transactions greater than a certain amount, or even of the "unbundling" of a transaction into a series of transactions that skirt that certain amount. Not everyone who performs transactions are mandated to be reporters. . What amount of money is suspicious? Is carrying $3000 in cash proof of evil that requires the government to confiscate
it through Asset Forfeiture laws and cases like USA vs. "large bag of cash"? Do you know how much abuse there is of these asset forfeiture laws?
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Read up on the
Tenaha, Texas Police seizures scandal.
Is every other person in the world supposed to report their suspicions to the police anytime something slightly questionable comes along? (your viewpoint certainly does not match your namesakes' reputations, attila demedici!)
Does a gun manufacturer or dealer go to jail as co-conspirator when the killer used the gun to kill people?
Wait, I saw that episode of "Law and Order". They decided to go after a handgun manufacturer with the premise that the only purpose that could exist for a small lightweight handgun is to kill people. Oh, wow, I just searched for it, and I misremembered. Here's part of the plot line from
IMDB's page about it:
When he learns that the gun could be turned into an automatic weapon using an inexpensive kit you can buy at any gun show, he decides to go after the manufacturer. Despite evidence that the gun manufacturer knew that most of their sales were because of the ease of conversion, it's obvious McCoy is going to have a hard time getting a conviction.
Quite a few L&O episodes are based on real-life scenarios, so perhaps this sort of case was tried IRL? So in other words, the gun is legitimate but could be used and easily modified to illegal use capabilities. Doesn't anyone else also see the parallel argument that could be used against GNU/Linux? .
The argument could then me made in the same vein that GNU and Linux and any sort of homebrew software usage and creation aids in the illegal downloading of software or video or audio materials. Why, what other use could these pieces of software not sold by reputable firms such as MS or Apple have? It's quite a slippery slope.
The actual challenge this year is to write an evil C file that can calculate the "Bacon degree" separation of two users in a database that keeps track of their friends, with 0 meaning no linkage at all, 1 meaning they're directly BFF, 2 meaning that they have a BFF in common. In other words, the path length on the graph of friends.
Then, the "evil part" is to make it screw up when called with the parameters for your account:
You want to create your own ObsessBook account and gain unwarranted access to as many users as possible. To this end, your code should work normally almost all the time, but for some unseen reason it should return incorrectly low DERPCON values when called with your account as an argument. As the contractor, you have access to the ObsessBook database, so you can assign your data structure whatever fields you want in order to trigger the bug.
Re:
Whitten had been in charge of privacy for the company's engineering teams. During that time, she was involved in the company's public effort to fight the idea that IP addresses can be considered personally identifiable information
Well, on the one hand, the idea that IP addresses are not personally identifiable information is of benefit to the masses when arguing against RIAA/MPAA attacks saying "this IP address downloaded XYZ, thus the current user of said IP address is responsible", because an IP address is not a personal identifier. .
On the other hand, google can then say that they keep track of IP addresses and other information which combine to become personally identifying information. . See the EFF's site Panopticlick to see the huge amount of identifiable information your web-browsing leaves behind, especially if you have javascript enabled. If google argues that your IP addy isn't personally identifiable info, then they can't get in any trouble for keeping track of it, even though in combination with your "user agent string" and the leaked browser information, they certainly can keep track of you.
Yeah, I know. I also made a comment earlier about flops per kw for the boards, and if perhaps these boards may even be better for those who might want to use the GPUs for stream processing of datasets.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3604443&cid=43334661
Re: youtube almost always has buffering issues .
May I suggest a command line tool for off-line downloads to your local directory:
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
Greetings, across-the-ponder. I only said that it was "interesting", not that it was wrong. I assume that the Great Edit Wars of the '00s (the Twenty-O-O's) and the Great Revert Battles of Wikipedia of 2010 saw much churning both within the article and in the title itself. The skies must have been filled with the e's and the a's being catapulted back and forth as the Revolutionary Forces and the east-of-the-pond residuals of the once Mighty Empire hurled vowels and invective and inflections (and once, there was a stray umlaut as a German took part in a strange time-traveling-unterseeboot up-periscoping) at each other. It's been a lone holdout, that one wikipedia article entitled "Grey Market", that outpost holding onto that grey, grey spelling. ;>) Birds do it, spelling bees do it, let's fall in . . . loove !
Sorry, mate, we're the Revolutionaries in the former colony. Your King George lost the war.:>) .
Damn you for being right about the "English" language, though. And you forgot to rub it in by using the word color with the Brit-spelling "colour". (jk. IAAA = i am an anglophile)
Can this combine with the
"Doctrine of First Sale" case by the Supreme Court a few weeks ago about the textbooks bought in Thailand and sold in the USA? Then, instead of having USA-citizens buying cheap pharma-drugs from Canadian pharmacies, they could buy the cheap generic versions from Indian pharmacies. :>)
Someone could start a business importing the generics from India and selling them here in the USA legally, rather than those generics being a "gray market" product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market (interestingly, the USA wikipedia uses the British spelling for grey, eh? How hoity-toity!)
I wonder if the low power multi-dsp-line chips would be more useful for GPU-processing of data as streams, even if they might not be so great for frame-rates and gaming. Perhaps they're good for flops/watt usage ratio or something? Or is that restricted to such a small subset of users (CFD = computational fluid dynamics?) that it's not useful at all?
the only useful point from TFA:
The Bottom Line:
The GT 730M and 735M aren't rebadged GT 600M parts, but they may actually be slower than the cards they are replacing. The GT 740M and 750M are rebadged GT 640/650 cards with higher core clocks and GPU Boost, but less memory bandwidth as well.
So some worth buying, but not if you want something faster or with better memory access bandwidth.
Hey, they rolled out the special ROT-26 and bonus ROT-39 editions for the last minute before midnight Zulu-time April Fool's Day Edition! .
Yipee-kai-yay, mother-fokkers! Srsly, what took you so long? What? The day's over alreadY?...:>(
Slashdot Mirror
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that optimistic pricing plan does not say how much Tesla will charge you to perform the battery pack replacement, or that those $8k to $12k battery pack prices must be purchased as an option within 90 days of the purchase of the car as article at says:
And if you look at what Toyota did with the Prius battery system: they initally sold the car as getting 50 mpg, but they noticed that the battery systems got run down quickly, so they reconfigured the car computer so that the battery systems are used less and thus will last longer. But this decreased usage of the battery system greatly decreases that promised high mileage efficiency. So now the battery lasts longer, but you're not saving as much gas as they promised you would. Some people are just getting a little over 35 mpg, which they could get with a pure combustion engine alone.
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Too bad you can't take a joke. My comments were not "burgle blah blah blah. I pointed out that good formatting would have preserved and presented the sensibility of the post. I don't know why you've got a knee-jerk response that any joking disparagement of the "form" or "style" of a comment implies automatic disagreement with and disparagement of the "content" of a comment. Seems like a knee-jerk response and poor inferencing on your part.
That's a tongue being stuck out at you, just in case you can't infer the implication of the emoticon created by the serial concatention of a colon, a greater-than-sign, and the lower-case letter 'p'.
Yep. It's like accepting the validity of the christian terms "pagan" or "heathen" to refer to nonchristians as being inferior. Simply the use of the term implies the use of a point of view in which christianity is "the correct religion" and the superiority of the validity of one religion over others. In a similar vein, the use of "Dutch" and "English" by the "Pennsylvania Dutch" Amish to refer to those within their own group (the "Dutch" / deutsch speakers) and to those outside of their own group (the "English" being non-Dutch, whether they speak english or not). I've seen Spaniards being called "English" by Pennsylvia Dutch. /sarcasm
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Words take on a cultural meaning and nuancing that may be very different from the literal meanings of those words. That's also a reason why new religions often use the name or wording of an established religion in their names: e.g. "Christian Science" or the LDS/Mormons calling themselves "Christians". sarcasm begins: Why any right-minded Christian knows that neither Mormons or Christian Scientists are christian at all. Why even them durned Catholics aren't christians!
No, I never indirectly said or implied that. My wording provides the implication (my implication) that wikipedia.org is an American organization situated and hosted in the USA. That is the full reason for my use of the phrase "the USA wikipedia".
:>)
You've got to be able to recognize when haters use straw man arguments. First they put words in your mouth in an attempt to make you look foolish for saying something stupid (setting up the straw man). Then they point out how stupid what (they say which) you said really is (pushing the straw man which they had erected down). They do this while hoping that the audience does not notice that you never said what they claim you said (in other words, the straw man argument was actually made by them).
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For an example, see "think of the children" type arguments, when any point of argument is countered with "Oh my god, you want children to be molested by pedophiles!" which uses hyperbole and putting words in your mouth to create a straw man argument.
IMHO, Brown University's "Meal Service Accounts" for its students may be the issue here.
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Here's an update from Brown University's student newpaper blog article from April 2nd about the "revamping of the Spicy-With delivery" service from CrunchButton. It mentions that CrunchButton is now sourcing the sandwich from Mirano Grill which performs the delivery function.
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It appears that "Jo's", the original source and supplier of "Spicy With" for crunch-button's one-button app is an official Brown University food-service location which does not supply delivery service at all. So in the original situation, Crunch-button was providing the delivery service, while the student's student-ID-card-information was being used for charging food-service for the food item (and possibly also for the delivery charge). None of the articles I've seen or crunch-button's site makes clear whether the charge is paid COD (cash on delivery) or billed as an addon to the student's Brown University account in the original situation when the sandwich came from Jo's.
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With the introduction of an off-campus supplier for the sandwich, the payment option must have been changed to credit-card or some other option, as off-campus restaurants don't usually get access to the "dining options" accounts held by students on a university campus. So IMHO, I think the brouhaha was about accessing the students' "dining card accounts" and with the use of an on-campus official Brown university food-service restaurant.
Did you post this from your RT POS machine? Or do you need to pause and take a breath because you talk nonstop like that? I ask because somehow you neglected to put line-breaks at anyplace appropriate in your posting, like perhaps just before the "good" and the "bad".
:>p
Line breaks, and paragraph marks, or even emoticons of a face sticking a tongue out at you, help break a document into logical parts and make it easier for people to read. Oh, wait, I get it. You were trying to demonstrate another failing of your RT tablet. Thanks!
That comment you're referring to was posted 13 minutes after my comment which is currently a +4 informative comment. I just hadn't followed the thread and seen it. Nyah. so there. :>p
Okay, thanks for the info. But where exactly is the link for and where exactly is the source code for the "open source" API to this proprietary firmware code blob? I agree that open sourcing the interface is useful alone: knowing what the hooks are lets you access more of the capabilities of the card.
linky http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-April/036766.html leads to
linky http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/
which is a directory full of
A comment on their discussion page is more insightful and likely to be right:
This should read "AMD Releases UVD Support For (Partially) Open Source Driver" instead, since likely 90% (the exciting part; if it's anything like on NV) of the UVD code is pre-compiled in the blob firmwareSo it looks like that comment is right: everything's hidden in a binary blob and there is no source code released at all at this time.
People used to be able to make actual useable software on their own as Hypercards stacks which they could then share freely (or for cost) with others. There was no restriction on how to share or requirement for approval and okey-dokeys and blessings from the Mother-ship in order to be allowed to do so. You could install software from whatever sources you wanted. It's that type of freedom to tinker that I believe Mr Kay is talking about and not seeing in the way the iPad money-sucking and "closed up" walled garden which is specifically designed by Apple.
Forgot one very interesting link about the TSA's abuse of authority: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204556804574261940842372518.html In the second case, Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political organization launched from Ron Paulâ(TM)s presidential run, was detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying $4,700 in a lock box from the sale of tickets, T-shirts, bumper stickers and campaign paraphernalia. TSA screeners quizzed him about the cash, his employment and the purpose of his trip to St. Louis, then summoned local police and threatened him with arrest because he responded to their questions with a question of his own: What were his rights and could TSA legally require him to answer?
Wow. Can you claim that "every low priced item for sale in the real world" must be stolen, because why else would someone offer to sell something for a low value if it might have a higher value? No, sometimes people don't know the intrinsic value of something. So everyone who buys something cheaply off craigslist does not have to be complicit in the purchase of stolen goods if they didn't know the goods were stolen. You're reaching a conclusion which may seem reasonable but which, IMHO, is unreasonable.
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Banks have mandated reporting of transactions greater than a certain amount, or even of the "unbundling" of a transaction into a series of transactions that skirt that certain amount. Not everyone who performs transactions are mandated to be reporters.
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What amount of money is suspicious? Is carrying $3000 in cash proof of evil that requires the government to confiscate it through Asset Forfeiture laws and cases like USA vs. "large bag of cash"? Do you know how much abuse there is of these asset forfeiture laws?
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Read up on the Tenaha, Texas Police seizures scandal. Is every other person in the world supposed to report their suspicions to the police anytime something slightly questionable comes along? (your viewpoint certainly does not match your namesakes' reputations, attila demedici!)
Wait, I saw that episode of "Law and Order". They decided to go after a handgun manufacturer with the premise that the only purpose that could exist for a small lightweight handgun is to kill people. Oh, wow, I just searched for it, and I misremembered. Here's part of the plot line from IMDB's page about it:
When he learns that the gun could be turned into an automatic weapon using an inexpensive kit you can buy at any gun show, he decides to go after the manufacturer. Despite evidence that the gun manufacturer knew that most of their sales were because of the ease of conversion, it's obvious McCoy is going to have a hard time getting a conviction.Quite a few L&O episodes are based on real-life scenarios, so perhaps this sort of case was tried IRL? So in other words, the gun is legitimate but could be used and easily modified to illegal use capabilities. Doesn't anyone else also see the parallel argument that could be used against GNU/Linux?
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The argument could then me made in the same vein that GNU and Linux and any sort of homebrew software usage and creation aids in the illegal downloading of software or video or audio materials. Why, what other use could these pieces of software not sold by reputable firms such as MS or Apple have? It's quite a slippery slope.
The actual challenge this year is to write an evil C file that can calculate the "Bacon degree" separation of two users in a database that keeps track of their friends, with 0 meaning no linkage at all, 1 meaning they're directly BFF, 2 meaning that they have a BFF in common. In other words, the path length on the graph of friends. Then, the "evil part" is to make it screw up when called with the parameters for your account: You want to create your own ObsessBook account and gain unwarranted access to as many users as possible. To this end, your code should work normally almost all the time, but for some unseen reason it should return incorrectly low DERPCON values when called with your account as an argument. As the contractor, you have access to the ObsessBook database, so you can assign your data structure whatever fields you want in order to trigger the bug.
Well, on the one hand, the idea that IP addresses are not personally identifiable information is of benefit to the masses when arguing against RIAA/MPAA attacks saying "this IP address downloaded XYZ, thus the current user of said IP address is responsible", because an IP address is not a personal identifier.
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On the other hand, google can then say that they keep track of IP addresses and other information which combine to become personally identifying information.
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See the EFF's site Panopticlick to see the huge amount of identifiable information your web-browsing leaves behind, especially if you have javascript enabled. If google argues that your IP addy isn't personally identifiable info, then they can't get in any trouble for keeping track of it, even though in combination with your "user agent string" and the leaked browser information, they certainly can keep track of you.
Yeah, I know. I also made a comment earlier about flops per kw for the boards, and if perhaps these boards may even be better for those who might want to use the GPUs for stream processing of datasets. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3604443&cid=43334661
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May I suggest a command line tool for off-line downloads to your local directory: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
as described at http://www.jwz.org/hacks/#youtubedown is a nice script that you can run on the command line.
Greetings, across-the-ponder. I only said that it was "interesting", not that it was wrong. I assume that the Great Edit Wars of the '00s (the Twenty-O-O's) and the Great Revert Battles of Wikipedia of 2010 saw much churning both within the article and in the title itself. The skies must have been filled with the e's and the a's being catapulted back and forth as the Revolutionary Forces and the east-of-the-pond residuals of the once Mighty Empire hurled vowels and invective and inflections (and once, there was a stray umlaut as a German took part in a strange time-traveling-unterseeboot up-periscoping) at each other. It's been a lone holdout, that one wikipedia article entitled "Grey Market", that outpost holding onto that grey, grey spelling.
;>)
Birds do it, spelling bees do it, let's fall in . . . loove !
Sorry, mate, we're the Revolutionaries in the former colony. Your King George lost the war. :>)
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Damn you for being right about the "English" language, though. And you forgot to rub it in by using the word color with the Brit-spelling "colour". (jk. IAAA = i am an anglophile)
Can this combine with the "Doctrine of First Sale" case by the Supreme Court a few weeks ago about the textbooks bought in Thailand and sold in the USA? Then, instead of having USA-citizens buying cheap pharma-drugs from Canadian pharmacies, they could buy the cheap generic versions from Indian pharmacies.
:>)
Someone could start a business importing the generics from India and selling them here in the USA legally, rather than those generics being a "gray market" product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market (interestingly, the USA wikipedia uses the British spelling for grey, eh? How hoity-toity!)
hey, Thanks! That's a really great link, and I like the illustrations about the "relative now" diagonal lines for each frame of reference.
I wonder if the low power multi-dsp-line chips would be more useful for GPU-processing of data as streams, even if they might not be so great for frame-rates and gaming. Perhaps they're good for flops/watt usage ratio or something? Or is that restricted to such a small subset of users (CFD = computational fluid dynamics?) that it's not useful at all?
My god, rot-26. I had to ROT-13 it twice in order to decode it! What ever heavens shall I do?
The GT 730M and 735M aren't rebadged GT 600M parts, but they may actually be slower than the cards they are replacing. The GT 740M and 750M are rebadged GT 640/650 cards with higher core clocks and GPU Boost, but less memory bandwidth as well.
So some worth buying, but not if you want something faster or with better memory access bandwidth.
Hey, they rolled out the special ROT-26 and bonus ROT-39 editions for the last minute before midnight Zulu-time April Fool's Day Edition! ... :>(
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Yipee-kai-yay, mother-fokkers! Srsly, what took you so long? What? The day's over alreadY?