The device independent graphics is a software issue not hardware. The graphics system on the Amiga was not abstracted enough to make it easy to expand to higher resolution without loosing compatibility.
Actually you are correct about high octane's energy rating but wrong about mileage. Some cars are designed to run on higher octane fuel for best performance and mileage. When given a lower octane fuel the retard the spark so that they do not suffer damage or pre-ignition. knocking is caused by the peak pressure reaching the point that you get detonation retarding the spark reduces that along with power and mileage. It is also why every modern car has a knock sensor so they cute the safety margin on the ignition as close to the limit as possible to get the best performance. You where correct on engines before computer controlled ignition , boost control, and fuel injection but your information is out of date for modern motors.
"This guy was misguided rather than intentionally malicious" Really? I wounder how many other people fit that category. Honestly he broke into government computers knowingly. It is a crime. Truth is that he will probably get time served or less and be sent back home. He is in all reality a harmless nut case. The issue is can the US and UK work out a way to deal with his punishment. You know if you do it again you will be put under the prison and some kind of probation? That is the problem since he commuted a crime in the US while in the UK just how do you deal with it without him having to sit in the US? I just don't see a US judge wanting to put this guy into a supermax for 70 years. It would cause issues with our relations with the UK and wouldn't really benefit anybody.
Actually these are from the ROVs and not from the camera at the well head. You can pick from the different ROVs which is kinda cool. Even if it is government mandated it is cools to pick from the ROVs. Dude I didn't call it a kindness so stop being universally mad at everything BP does. This is at worst a so what they are trying to put the best spin on this they can. Which is totally to be expected. You can be mad all you like at them not following safety regulations, using the BOP that had a known hydraulic leak, and even keeping the press at a distance. But getting mad over this is like getting pissed that they are spending money on toilet paper in their offices and not using the money for the cleanup. Good grief folks as I said this is such a none story and the venom that is being shown dilutes the justifiable dislike of the real issues BP has caused. In other words people need to not be mindless flaming hate machines. Instead say this is what they did wrong and this is what they need to do.
Never said don't be angry. Just trying to see that people are only angry with cause. There are things that BP is doing worthy anger but this isn't really one of them.
Actually here is the NOTAM http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_2957.html#restrictions Yep flight restrictions from surface to 3000 ft. But dudes that is what telephoto lenses are for. 3000 ft isn't that bad of a restriction but it is still a restriction.
I will agree that things there are strange at best. To me when you have people with RPGs exchanging fire with gunship helicopters you have a battlefield and not a peaceful city. I don't know who is to blame because I just don't have the data. The thing is that Wikileaks also doesn't have all the data or the right to pronounce judgment. But they sure as shoot did and they also added material and commentary to at least one version of the video to slant it to that judgment. Once they did that they are no longer journalists in my opinion. They are now nothing more than a tabloid.
I do think that if Commodore had used Concurrent for the OS of the Amiga things would have gone better. Truth is a huge amount of it was just marketing. Commodore never got the press it deserved of the developer attention. One simple reason is that no PC magazine could risk giving good coverage to the Amiga. Think about the Amiga compared to a PC of the time. Dos was single tasking, limited to 33MB hard drives and offered NO memory protection as well. Graphics? You had to write code for every graphics card on the planet or at least for CGA, EGA, and HGA yeck.. Sound? beep beep. Printers? A print driver for every printer you could get your hands on or just tell them to buy an Oki82 or and Epson and hope for the best. But computer magazines could get ad money from all those PC makers or from Commodore.... Guess where the money was.
Of course Commodore made a lot of mistakes. They should have made device independent graphics a priority from the start as well as vector fonts to compete with Apple in the print market from the start. Also the Amiga 1000 should have had more memory expansion built in and support for hard drives.
Oh heavens I fit into a few of those categories. I think they left out a few. What of NetBeans vs Eclipse.org? The anti Monoites. Those that hate all things Mono and C# like that pollutes the purity of Linux. The Church of Theo The Brotherhood of St Clive of Sinclair. The Flash haters which now seem to be having issues that Apple has joined them since many are also Apple haters. The Flash faitful or those poor fools that that don't understand that the only reason people keep Flash is Farmville. And the Twitteroti.
When the van entered the picture it was mistaken for a combatant. It was not an ambulance it was a vehicle moving onto the field of battle. At least that is one way to look at it. Thing is we are not the judge or jury in this case and only have one piece of evidence. Simple truth is I do not know if they are guilty or not. I just know trying them in the press wrong.
Someone aiding the enemy is a legitimate target. Just because you are coming to a wounded persons aid does not mean you are protected. I soldier helping a wounded soldier is a legitimate target. In this kind of insurrection who is a soldier and who is a civillian gets really blurry. Also in this case the gunners considered the wounded as combatants which is why they fired on them. So your statment about civilians helping wounded none combatants doesn't really apply.
Not really even nationalist bickering. But this is how it really is supposed to work with free trade. If once country imports a lot of stuff the value of it's currency goes down. When that happens imports cost more but your exports cost less. You start to export more and or buy more from internal sources. The end result is things should start to equal out. China has been preventing their currency from rising because they don't want their exports to cost more and do not want their people buying imports.
Really? So you have also tired them as well. What you have is a video of someone shooting someone. You do not yet know if it was self defence, murder, manslaughter, or a tragic mistake. But that is why you do not just release evidence being used in an investigation. People deserve better than to be tried in the court of the press. BTW the part about why is also show why you don't release it. You too have also prejudged not just the people involved but the JAG all based on one video.
Actually US soldiers do heed that. And have for a long time. There are always exceptions to the rule and people that break the rules. Most nations tend to honor that rule. Of course if you put a red cross on and are holding an RPG or an AK you will be toast. You must display that symbol and be unarmed and acting as a none combatant. Put a big RED CROSS on a bunker or tank and it will not fly.
I don't know about the insurgents but yes in most wars people do give a crap about the Red Cross rule. You don't want your hospitals and or hospital ships shot up so you do not shoot up the other guys hospitals or hospital ships. That rule again with exceptions has been followed in most wars since WWI and followed pretty well by most western nations. And yes there are or where exceptions when it was not followed or when it was pushed. A prime example was of a German Submarine that actually rescued a lot of people from a ship it sunk. They put the Red Cross on the sub but got attacked "the attack was halted before the sub was sunk" because even though they had the Red Cross they where still an attack sub.
Funny but you seem to think that is already a war crime and that the people involved have all ready been tried. Oh so a trial by media is good enough for them. Well I hope you find it good enough for you if it comes to that. Seems like this video was in the hands of the JAG so some kind of investigation was going on. Also I assume that you have no problem with the added cometary to the video, the title, or how it was used for fund raising. As to the solders involved I do not have enough data. I disagree with many of the comments on here. I watched the video. You hear lots of people taking about shooting up the kids in the van but when I watched the video I didn't see any kids in the van. I know they where their but the gunners couldn't see them anymore than I could. This needs to be worked and professionally investigated. Your comments clearly show that you are sure that it would have been covered up because you are also sure they are guilty. I just hope you never go to trial with someone like yourself sitting on the jury! BTW this would be tried by a military court so no it doesn't go to a jury. It would be a court marshal offense.
Actually I just carry a spare battery powered light for my road bike in the winter. I just ride for fun so I get to pick when I ride. My off road bike has a monster gel cell powered setup and I leave that battery when it is daytime. It is a beast. In Holland I can see why a dynamo could still be of use.
"Is it me or is it patently DUMB to wear a bright, red "shoot here for best effect" aiming mark?" That is kind of the idea. If you have the RED CROSS you are not armed and are a none combatant. AKA you freaking stand out so nobody shoots at you. Just how else would you do it? I know you wear cameo so you blend but look just like any other personal. Just how would you know not to shoot at them?
"Now, how nearby combat affects whether you can shoot at people retrieving the wounded without violating the Geneva Conventions is a different question. " Actually it is covered. None combatant medical people must display the red cross or red crescent. Anybody else is a valid target in combat. The question here is this action happening in a war or are they acting as civil police in some crazy world.
Actually he is going to go to jail for this for a very long time. And he should. If nothing else it is evidence. Should police offers release evidence just because they should to the press? How would you feel if you where under investigation by the DA and somebody felt they should leak evidence in your case to the news?
Then we can start on how the way Wikileaks presented the data in the most biased and sensational way possible. And how they used it for fund raising! Over all just a cascade of abuses everywhere.
Well right now the fastest Supercomputer is an AMD. Next year maybe it will be Intel. I think you are a correct in many ways one AMD is the choice in desktops that use CPUs in the under $250 mark. Which is probably close to 90% by volume. AMD is or had better performance in visualization which is a huge market in servers. Frankly the need for big fast CPUs is dropping. I work at a software company. Our flagship product was a monster. It really could use just about all the CPU, memory, and IO you could throw at it. Graphics really doesn't matter but everything else does. It runs well on an Atom is you don't have a bunch of other crap running at the same time. Why do you think visualization is so popular? Most servers these days are running at well under 10%. You might as well run six servers on one box and save power, money, and space.
Fusion could be a huge win for AMD. The laptop and netbook market are the big ones today. If they can create the best value mobile x86 solution people will buy a ton of them, They will even help in the desktop market because more companies will use them in small form factor PCs.
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The device independent graphics is a software issue not hardware.
The graphics system on the Amiga was not abstracted enough to make it easy to expand to higher resolution without loosing compatibility.
Really?
http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Fiesta/FueleconomyandCO2emissions
From Ford UK and it has MPG listed.
And Fiat UK http://www.fiat.co.uk/showroom/comparator.aspx?id=3740&vars=169,169,169&ses=true&hash=showroom/panda/compare
Just in case you think it is only Ford UK that does it.
So in 3 minutes two EU companies that US MPG on their UK websites.
So yes you do sell fuel in liters but your advertise mileage in MPG.
Actually you are correct about high octane's energy rating but wrong about mileage.
Some cars are designed to run on higher octane fuel for best performance and mileage. When given a lower octane fuel the retard the spark so that they do not suffer damage or pre-ignition.
knocking is caused by the peak pressure reaching the point that you get detonation retarding the spark reduces that along with power and mileage. It is also why every modern car has a knock sensor so they cute the safety margin on the ignition as close to the limit as possible to get the best performance.
You where correct on engines before computer controlled ignition , boost control, and fuel injection but your information is out of date for modern motors.
Funny but I thought the UK was part of Europe. So Europeans do use gallons and miles.
"This guy was misguided rather than intentionally malicious"
Really? I wounder how many other people fit that category. Honestly he broke into government computers knowingly. It is a crime.
Truth is that he will probably get time served or less and be sent back home. He is in all reality a harmless nut case.
The issue is can the US and UK work out a way to deal with his punishment. You know if you do it again you will be put under the prison and some kind of probation?
That is the problem since he commuted a crime in the US while in the UK just how do you deal with it without him having to sit in the US?
I just don't see a US judge wanting to put this guy into a supermax for 70 years. It would cause issues with our relations with the UK and wouldn't really benefit anybody.
Actually these are from the ROVs and not from the camera at the well head. You can pick from the different ROVs which is kinda cool. Even if it is government mandated it is cools to pick from the ROVs.
Dude I didn't call it a kindness so stop being universally mad at everything BP does.
This is at worst a so what they are trying to put the best spin on this they can. Which is totally to be expected. You can be mad all you like at them not following safety regulations, using the BOP that had a known hydraulic leak, and even keeping the press at a distance.
But getting mad over this is like getting pissed that they are spending money on toilet paper in their offices and not using the money for the cleanup.
Good grief folks as I said this is such a none story and the venom that is being shown dilutes the justifiable dislike of the real issues BP has caused.
In other words people need to not be mindless flaming hate machines. Instead say this is what they did wrong and this is what they need to do.
Never said don't be angry. Just trying to see that people are only angry with cause.
There are things that BP is doing worthy anger but this isn't really one of them.
Actually here is the NOTAM
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_2957.html#restrictions
Yep flight restrictions from surface to 3000 ft.
But dudes that is what telephoto lenses are for.
3000 ft isn't that bad of a restriction but it is still a restriction.
I hate to even ask but have you gone to the site they linked to their ad? http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055&nicam=USCSBaselineCrisis&nisrc=Google&nigrp=Non_Branded_Crisis_Management-_General&niadv=General&nipkw=oil_spill
It isn't a terrible site. It is clearly marked as a BP site as well.
No Astroturfing just a site about what they are doing.
Totally expected and frankly people would be screaming if they had not done it.
They also have live feeds from the ROVs which seems pretty cool
This is so not a story but hey what do you expect?
I will agree that things there are strange at best.
To me when you have people with RPGs exchanging fire with gunship helicopters you have a battlefield and not a peaceful city.
I don't know who is to blame because I just don't have the data. The thing is that Wikileaks also doesn't have all the data or the right to pronounce judgment. But they sure as shoot did and they also added material and commentary to at least one version of the video to slant it to that judgment. Once they did that they are no longer journalists in my opinion. They are now nothing more than a tabloid.
I do think that if Commodore had used Concurrent for the OS of the Amiga things would have gone better.
Truth is a huge amount of it was just marketing. Commodore never got the press it deserved of the developer attention. One simple reason is that no PC magazine could risk giving good coverage to the Amiga.
Think about the Amiga compared to a PC of the time. Dos was single tasking, limited to 33MB hard drives and offered NO memory protection as well.
Graphics? You had to write code for every graphics card on the planet or at least for CGA, EGA, and HGA yeck..
Sound? beep beep.
Printers? A print driver for every printer you could get your hands on or just tell them to buy an Oki82 or and Epson and hope for the best.
But computer magazines could get ad money from all those PC makers or from Commodore.... Guess where the money was.
Of course Commodore made a lot of mistakes. They should have made device independent graphics a priority from the start as well as vector fonts to compete with Apple in the print market from the start.
Also the Amiga 1000 should have had more memory expansion built in and support for hard drives.
Oh heavens I fit into a few of those categories.
I think they left out a few.
What of NetBeans vs Eclipse.org?
The anti Monoites. Those that hate all things Mono and C# like that pollutes the purity of Linux.
The Church of Theo
The Brotherhood of St Clive of Sinclair.
The Flash haters which now seem to be having issues that Apple has joined them since many are also Apple haters.
The Flash faitful or those poor fools that that don't understand that the only reason people keep Flash is Farmville.
And the Twitteroti.
When the van entered the picture it was mistaken for a combatant. It was not an ambulance it was a vehicle moving onto the field of battle. At least that is one way to look at it. Thing is we are not the judge or jury in this case and only have one piece of evidence.
Simple truth is I do not know if they are guilty or not. I just know trying them in the press wrong.
Someone aiding the enemy is a legitimate target. Just because you are coming to a wounded persons aid does not mean you are protected.
I soldier helping a wounded soldier is a legitimate target.
In this kind of insurrection who is a soldier and who is a civillian gets really blurry.
Also in this case the gunners considered the wounded as combatants which is why they fired on them.
So your statment about civilians helping wounded none combatants doesn't really apply.
Not really even nationalist bickering. But this is how it really is supposed to work with free trade.
If once country imports a lot of stuff the value of it's currency goes down. When that happens imports cost more but your exports cost less. You start to export more and or buy more from internal sources.
The end result is things should start to equal out.
China has been preventing their currency from rising because they don't want their exports to cost more and do not want their people buying imports.
Really? So you have also tired them as well.
What you have is a video of someone shooting someone. You do not yet know if it was self defence, murder, manslaughter, or a tragic mistake.
But that is why you do not just release evidence being used in an investigation. People deserve better than to be tried in the court of the press.
BTW the part about why is also show why you don't release it. You too have also prejudged not just the people involved but the JAG all based on one video.
Actually US soldiers do heed that. And have for a long time. There are always exceptions to the rule and people that break the rules.
Most nations tend to honor that rule.
Of course if you put a red cross on and are holding an RPG or an AK you will be toast. You must display that symbol and be unarmed and acting as a none combatant.
Put a big RED CROSS on a bunker or tank and it will not fly.
I don't know about the insurgents but yes in most wars people do give a crap about the Red Cross rule. You don't want your hospitals and or hospital ships shot up so you do not shoot up the other guys hospitals or hospital ships. That rule again with exceptions has been followed in most wars since WWI and followed pretty well by most western nations.
And yes there are or where exceptions when it was not followed or when it was pushed.
A prime example was of a German Submarine that actually rescued a lot of people from a ship it sunk. They put the Red Cross on the sub but got attacked "the attack was halted before the sub was sunk" because even though they had the Red Cross they where still an attack sub.
Funny but you seem to think that is already a war crime and that the people involved have all ready been tried.
Oh so a trial by media is good enough for them. Well I hope you find it good enough for you if it comes to that.
Seems like this video was in the hands of the JAG so some kind of investigation was going on.
Also I assume that you have no problem with the added cometary to the video, the title, or how it was used for fund raising.
As to the solders involved I do not have enough data. I disagree with many of the comments on here. I watched the video. You hear lots of people taking about shooting up the kids in the van but when I watched the video I didn't see any kids in the van. I know they where their but the gunners couldn't see them anymore than I could.
This needs to be worked and professionally investigated. Your comments clearly show that you are sure that it would have been covered up because you are also sure they are guilty.
I just hope you never go to trial with someone like yourself sitting on the jury!
BTW this would be tried by a military court so no it doesn't go to a jury. It would be a court marshal offense.
Actually I just carry a spare battery powered light for my road bike in the winter. I just ride for fun so I get to pick when I ride. My off road bike has a monster gel cell powered setup and I leave that battery when it is daytime. It is a beast.
In Holland I can see why a dynamo could still be of use.
"Is it me or is it patently DUMB to wear a bright, red "shoot here for best effect" aiming mark?"
That is kind of the idea. If you have the RED CROSS you are not armed and are a none combatant.
AKA you freaking stand out so nobody shoots at you.
Just how else would you do it? I know you wear cameo so you blend but look just like any other personal. Just how would you know not to shoot at them?
"Now, how nearby combat affects whether you can shoot at people retrieving the wounded without violating the Geneva Conventions is a different question. "
Actually it is covered. None combatant medical people must display the red cross or red crescent. Anybody else is a valid target in combat.
The question here is this action happening in a war or are they acting as civil police in some crazy world.
Actually he is going to go to jail for this for a very long time.
And he should.
If nothing else it is evidence. Should police offers release evidence just because they should to the press?
How would you feel if you where under investigation by the DA and somebody felt they should leak evidence in your case to the news?
Then we can start on how the way Wikileaks presented the data in the most biased and sensational way possible. And how they used it for fund raising!
Over all just a cascade of abuses everywhere.
The ten commandments are not a Christian only artifact. You know Moses and all that...
You are having way to high of a failure rate.
Fusion is going into notebooks first which don't tend to get a lot of cpu or gpu swaps.
Well right now the fastest Supercomputer is an AMD. Next year maybe it will be Intel.
I think you are a correct in many ways one AMD is the choice in desktops that use CPUs in the under $250 mark. Which is probably close to 90% by volume.
AMD is or had better performance in visualization which is a huge market in servers.
Frankly the need for big fast CPUs is dropping. I work at a software company. Our flagship product was a monster. It really could use just about all the CPU, memory, and IO you could throw at it. Graphics really doesn't matter but everything else does.
It runs well on an Atom is you don't have a bunch of other crap running at the same time.
Why do you think visualization is so popular? Most servers these days are running at well under 10%. You might as well run six servers on one box and save power, money, and space.
Fusion could be a huge win for AMD. The laptop and netbook market are the big ones today. If they can create the best value mobile x86 solution people will buy a ton of them,
They will even help in the desktop market because more companies will use them in small form factor PCs.