He's got a problem of drawing the box too big... Where does AC2 run anyhow?
PS3? 360? mid-to-high end Windows PC?
If your definition of gaming is that, yeah, there's nothing handheld (yet...) that can meet that criteria, even netbooks. With OMAP4 and other Cortex-A9 SoC's about to show up in gear sometime this year, that story might change considerably.
Depends on your definition of gaming. If you're talking about AC2, no, it's not a gaming machine. If you're talking something indie like Overgrowth, Osmos, Caster3D, Cortex Command and others- it's a gaming machine...
Because mainly the netbooks have XP or Linux on them and anything that will run on a similarly classed PC (think low to mid-end from 3 years ago...) will very probably run on a netbook- well, so long as you're not using Linux on a Poulsbo configuration, that is...
With the Smartbooks maybe showing up this year, you're going to start seeing games written specifically for netbooks or explicitly ported from other platforms to them, right along with the build-up going on for the high-end Androids and for iPhones.
If you force-grow heirloom cultivars, you end up with a similar tasteless, lower nutrition result.
In the end, the food industry isn't helping us any- with basically the farming equivalent of strip-mining, GMOs, and substances like HFCS in the mix, it's not unsurprising we're seeing things like Diabetes on the upswing in the Western world.
Quite honestly, I would like to know if there's GM food in the mix.
In one case, they peel off something from peanuts and apply it to some unrelated food, while I'm not allergic to peanuts, I do believe that there are those that are and the GM food COULD kill them. Aspartame, I'm allergic to (couple that with being a Type II Diabetic...fun...) and I do STRONGLY appreciate the labels as simply as much as that in 1-2 sodas causes a risk of a nasty migraine for me.
Food's a minefield and there was a reason to label ingredients for the aforementioned reasons. GM food ISN'T the same thing as the food that isn't GM'ed- it's got other things spliced in for good measure and you can die from an allergic reaction or PKU like problems if you don't know what is in the mix.
It's NOT quite the same problem you try to map it to.
Heh... They only last 28 years right now. The main problem is that Monsanto has taken to suing farmers for infringement/theft (and winning)- who didn't "steal" their seeds when the stupid pollen from Monsanto's GM crops cross-pollenated.
The courts are, in many of the cases, clueless about crucial details like the aforementioned, or other things in the agricultural space. I've some first-hand knowledge about what the Legal system appears to know and understand about many of these issues- and they're ignorant of a lot of things outside their sphere, namely the law. And, even when the law's explicit, they oftentimes don't have a clue as to how it applies to a given situation.
And this doesn't get into idiot things Monsanto's done like "terminator" wheat. (Excuse me, you're risking the entire friggin' planet's food supply so you can make a buck and enforce doing so? NICE.)
What they won't tell you is that there's a risk they'll peel part of the proteins, etc. that you might be allergic to from some other unrelated plant or animal matter and apply it to that other food that you thought was safe.
Sorry, the risks are quite high, really, for GM foods because of that alone- and we won't get into your line of thinking, because I concur with it and it's a whole level of risks above the ones I just alluded to.
Actually an A9 is an out-of-order, superscalar implementation of the same thing they're used to with the ARM9 and ARM11, with a few embellishments you might/might not use.
As far as the software people are mostly concerned, it's the same thing- and it's most definitely not niche as it'll run your stuff quite a bit faster than the older ARMs would.
And I'm sure where you live is a State full of people just like you...
You went out of your way to accost someone for their Sig- which is a statement of the fact that I choose to claim and use my sovereignty as opposed to being a good little sheeple and being a source of money for those people that claim to be our leaders and those of business. I did nothing, nor stated anything remotely inflammatory, past that sig that might have even merited the response you made- especially not in my post you responded to. I'm still quite a bit at a loss as to why you singled me out for such a verbal assault- but then this is/., where there seems to be no end of poo flinging monkeys to abuse and amuse you.
A Citizen is a sovereign individual of the state in question, a citizen is more akin to what you refer to.
I am the former instead of the latter and you should understand the consequences thereof. So many do not and it's part of the reason the country is in the current shape it is in.
If you get access to the management interface, you can do damned near anything to it including deorbiting the thing. It's just that simple. The management interface is on a computer likely to be accessible via the Internet in some fashion, through a botnet compromised machine or similar. Given a bit of effort, I probably could do that much myself- and I'm little more than an old-school grey-hat.
In truth, they only have qualified immunity with respects to their doing their job. Within the confines of their work and so long as they don't willfully violate the Bill of Rights protections (Typically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, as applied by the Fourteenth...) they have a large amount of civil immunity to their conduct. Their organization might have to face the music if they used excessive force within that- keep in mind, though, that's IF they're found doing their jobs like they're supposed to and have a mistake.
If, for example, though, it's found that they lie regularly on things like their Affidavit's for their Warrants, serve defective ones (i.e. They got the address wrong, believed it to be right, and when finding out they had the wrong address, serving said Warrant anyhow, that sort of thing...), and the like- or do what we're discussing here. THAT, is an entirely different kettle of fish and they LOSE their immunity and face at least the music of their misconduct, possible official misconduct charges levied at their org and themselves, and possibly even Color of Law charges.
Just because they've immunity to things, doesn't mean it's complete- or that you can't go after them for misconduct or outright criminal actions.
Yes, but trying to prove that is entertaining (in the deeply sarcastic sense) and expensive because you'll have to retain counsel, etc.
In the end, it's a balancing act asking if you're free to go or if you're under arrest (and under what charges)- most LEOs will back down from their position they're taking if they can't find a charge (nailing you for "resisting arrest" when there's nothing else they can do to you opens them up to the selfsame sort of "fun" they exposed YOU to...) and the ones that won't, typically will find some bogus charge to hit you with in the first place, regardless of whether you back down or not.
They DO allow the controls to be accessible in that way. Even with the best designed systems, screwups occur and with disturbing frequency in this space.
I concur that they should be designed in the right way for this sort of stuff, by the way, but again, they're not and probably won't be for a while yet to come. FUD? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The problem is that there's a disturbing amount of truth within it that people keep dismissing here and elsewhere. It IS quite as bad as people have been claiming it is within this space- and unless you work with the segment, whether it be with the utilities or things like subways, you might not get that there REALLY is a problem that needs fixing and think it purely conjecture or outright lies to generate money for themselves.
It's not. With the grid in the shape it's in and with them carelessly exposing the control networks in manners that they can be manipulated via remote, there is a possibility, very real, very distinct, that someone could manage something that'd make the 2003 East Coast Blackout look like a Sunday picnic.
Unfortunately, the problem is one that we can't seem to get the government on the right page on UHC. The truth of the matter is that part of the REASON it is as screwed up as it is- happens to be the Government's Healthcare option, Medicare.
Medicare often pays only 20-30% of the billed amount. On some things they pay out amazing, almost crazy things- like power chairs, for example. But in the large something that would be billed for 1k is paid out for 200. It's why the cash price is often insane for uninsured people in this country.
Now, ponder that for a moment and let it soak in for a bit so it'll really register with you.
Now, it should be noted that all insurance companies will only pay out 30 or so percent OVER what Medicare pays on things. Seriously. There is a reason for this. It's the same sort of reason that's been driving offshoring and a whole host of other things. Why pay right or charge down to the levels in question when it's "so expensive"- when you can gouge for the amount people believe is getting paid out for healthcare and then pay out the way they really do?
Combine this with the costs of rationed care in the countries you mention (for most medical care, Canadians go to their doctors there...for complicated medical procedures, they save up their money and come to the US because they can get it immediately and in many cases, you can get procedures done that won't be happening anytime soon in Canada.) you end up with a mixed view of things.
In the end, it's not as rosy as you make it out to be, nor is it the nice picture others paint of it being over here in the States when they argue against UHC. It should be noted that what our government has tried to do with getting to UHC isn't anything remotely resembling it and it will just enrich those jokers that're paying 30% over Medicare payout and charging as much as they do for premiums.
No, but they're spending it on other things. Mind, at least in Texas, food doesn't have sales tax applied to it. It should also be noted that New Hampshire doesn't have ANY appreciable taxes whatsoever- and manages just fine in other ways. (Buy a bottle of booze at one of their Liquor Outlets and you help pay for education, amongst other things...)
In the end, a Sales Tax or a Flat Tax would end up resulting in a fair system and would actually produce more money (or, do you honestly believe that 1M/yr family is paying their fair proportion of income taxes that the 25k/yr one is...if so, I've got some nice beachfront property in Arizona to sell you...:-D )
Ah... But define "economically unfeasible". I contend we're already there with things and just don't see it yet.
It's a race to the bottom and it's unsustainable- and it cannibalizes much of the country that you do it in, enriching the people that were in charge and as often as not the countries they shift the work to. And it also ends up being substandard work and all- which also is economically unfeasible.
The driver stack for the FOSS side is just now beginning to learn how to crawl properly- something you need to do before you can walk or run.
Previously, we'd reverse engineered the stuff. Based on what I've learned doing work for one of the Big Two (that'd be AMD or NVidia...), they're barking up the right tree, doing things in the large the same way they do things within the driver. When the community gets to those first few stumbling steps instead of crawling around, the speed of development will increase- and AMD's stuff will suddenly become quite valuable to anyone on Linux or other FOSS OS.
Like we've been told before in the past- doing 3D drivers isn't exactly an easy thing to do. It takes some time before you can get to the same level of support we see with the proprietary drivers from NVidia and AMD. Unfortunately, you either have to choose pretty robust drivers, slightly less robust/speedy hardware, coupled with closed drivers- or choose much more unstable drivers (some people have GREAT results with AMD's stuff, I've got decent results with some issues in my case- but some have pure HELL with the drivers in question...) and the promise of 6-12 months down the line having 60% of the peak performance with an open source driver, coupled with the promise of seeing as much as 85% of the peak performance or more in another 12-24.
Many will choose the shiny solution that works right now. Some don't need and can't afford to fidget with the hardware to make it work and will buy something for business that will work right now (AMD's stuff is less robust in the laptop space until recently- which translated into an NVidia purchase on my i7 laptop I'd bought a while back.
If AMD's closed source solution was a full-on winner (it's not...) there'd be a lot less people buying NVidia right now because they opened up and it's coming together for everyone on that space, albeit slowly.
It's an overzealous cop filing a bullshit charge that the Judge is as liable as not to throw right on out as long as the lady or her counsel don't fubar themselves out of the gate on.
However, it does show that we've got a problem on our hands as a nation- and it needs to have the people wake up from the sleep of the intellect and walk away from the bread and circuses going on over the Television and the Internet.
Lest one think of me as doing a projection of things...
"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent." -John Dewey
“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed customs. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.” -William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.
"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." -William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.
“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.” -Stuart Chase, The Proper Study of Mankind, 1948.
"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare." -Justice H. Walter Croskey, 2008.
Both sides are very guilty of fostering their agendas and neither side of that crowd is going to be at all helpful towards the American Intellect; and it's been ongoing for a long, long time if you look at the comments from Harris and Dewey.
Content "creation" with Flash is really a poor substitute for the real tools that are completely available on all the mainstream OSes- to the point of some of the better answers being available for free or next to it on all of the aforementioned.
If you're doing "content creation" on something like Haiku, I might understand slightly, but you should already understand that you might be on your own on things like this if you choose to run things like Haiku and other up-and-coming OSes.
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He's got a problem of drawing the box too big... Where does AC2 run anyhow?
PS3?
360?
mid-to-high end Windows PC?
If your definition of gaming is that, yeah, there's nothing handheld (yet...) that can meet that criteria, even netbooks. With OMAP4 and other Cortex-A9 SoC's about to show up in gear sometime this year, that story might change considerably.
Depends on your definition of gaming. If you're talking about AC2, no, it's not a gaming machine. If you're talking something indie like Overgrowth, Osmos, Caster3D, Cortex Command and others- it's a gaming machine...
Because mainly the netbooks have XP or Linux on them and anything that will run on a similarly classed PC (think low to mid-end from 3 years ago...) will very probably run on a netbook- well, so long as you're not using Linux on a Poulsbo configuration, that is...
With the Smartbooks maybe showing up this year, you're going to start seeing games written specifically for netbooks or explicitly ported from other platforms to them, right along with the build-up going on for the high-end Androids and for iPhones.
Which means you can do similar with VP8...
It's actually a combination of both.
If you force-grow heirloom cultivars, you end up with a similar tasteless, lower nutrition result.
In the end, the food industry isn't helping us any- with basically the farming equivalent of strip-mining, GMOs, and substances like HFCS in the mix, it's not unsurprising we're seeing things like Diabetes on the upswing in the Western world.
Quite honestly, I would like to know if there's GM food in the mix.
In one case, they peel off something from peanuts and apply it to some unrelated food, while I'm not allergic to peanuts, I do believe that there are those that are and the GM food COULD kill them. Aspartame, I'm allergic to (couple that with being a Type II Diabetic...fun...) and I do STRONGLY appreciate the labels as simply as much as that in 1-2 sodas causes a risk of a nasty migraine for me.
Food's a minefield and there was a reason to label ingredients for the aforementioned reasons. GM food ISN'T the same thing as the food that isn't GM'ed- it's got other things spliced in for good measure and you can die from an allergic reaction or PKU like problems if you don't know what is in the mix.
It's NOT quite the same problem you try to map it to.
Heh... They only last 28 years right now. The main problem is that Monsanto has taken to suing farmers for infringement/theft (and winning)- who didn't "steal" their seeds when the stupid pollen from Monsanto's GM crops cross-pollenated.
The courts are, in many of the cases, clueless about crucial details like the aforementioned, or other things in the agricultural space. I've some first-hand knowledge about what the Legal system appears to know and understand about many of these issues- and they're ignorant of a lot of things outside their sphere, namely the law. And, even when the law's explicit, they oftentimes don't have a clue as to how it applies to a given situation.
And this doesn't get into idiot things Monsanto's done like "terminator" wheat.
(Excuse me, you're risking the entire friggin' planet's food supply so you can make a buck and enforce doing so? NICE.)
What they won't tell you is that there's a risk they'll peel part of the proteins, etc. that you might be allergic to from some other unrelated plant or animal matter and apply it to that other food that you thought was safe.
Sorry, the risks are quite high, really, for GM foods because of that alone- and we won't get into your line of thinking, because I concur with it and it's a whole level of risks above the ones I just alluded to.
Actually an A9 is an out-of-order, superscalar implementation of the same thing they're used to with the ARM9 and ARM11, with a few embellishments you might/might not use.
As far as the software people are mostly concerned, it's the same thing- and it's most definitely not niche as it'll run your stuff quite a bit faster than the older ARMs would.
And I'm sure where you live is a State full of people just like you...
You went out of your way to accost someone for their Sig- which is a statement of the fact that I choose to claim and use my sovereignty as opposed to being a good little sheeple and being a source of money for those people that claim to be our leaders and those of business. I did nothing, nor stated anything remotely inflammatory, past that sig that might have even merited the response you made- especially not in my post you responded to. I'm still quite a bit at a loss as to why you singled me out for such a verbal assault- but then this is /., where there seems to be no end of poo flinging monkeys to abuse and amuse you.
A Citizen is a sovereign individual of the state in question, a citizen is more akin to what you refer to.
I am the former instead of the latter and you should understand the consequences thereof. So many do not and it's part of the reason the country is in the current shape it is in.
If you get access to the management interface, you can do damned near anything to it including deorbiting the thing. It's just that simple. The management interface is on a computer likely to be accessible via the Internet in some fashion, through a botnet compromised machine or similar. Given a bit of effort, I probably could do that much myself- and I'm little more than an old-school grey-hat.
It's a lot less BS than you'd think.
In truth, they only have qualified immunity with respects to their doing their job. Within the confines of their work and so long as they don't willfully violate the Bill of Rights protections (Typically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, as applied by the Fourteenth...) they have a large amount of civil immunity to their conduct. Their organization might have to face the music if they used excessive force within that- keep in mind, though, that's IF they're found doing their jobs like they're supposed to and have a mistake.
If, for example, though, it's found that they lie regularly on things like their Affidavit's for their Warrants, serve defective ones (i.e. They got the address wrong, believed it to be right, and when finding out they had the wrong address, serving said Warrant anyhow, that sort of thing...), and the like- or do what we're discussing here. THAT, is an entirely different kettle of fish and they LOSE their immunity and face at least the music of their misconduct, possible official misconduct charges levied at their org and themselves, and possibly even Color of Law charges.
Just because they've immunity to things, doesn't mean it's complete- or that you can't go after them for misconduct or outright criminal actions.
Yes, but trying to prove that is entertaining (in the deeply sarcastic sense) and expensive because you'll have to retain counsel, etc.
In the end, it's a balancing act asking if you're free to go or if you're under arrest (and under what charges)- most LEOs will back down from their position they're taking if they can't find a charge (nailing you for "resisting arrest" when there's nothing else they can do to you opens them up to the selfsame sort of "fun" they exposed YOU to...) and the ones that won't, typically will find some bogus charge to hit you with in the first place, regardless of whether you back down or not.
Unfortunately, your supposition is incorrect.
They DO allow the controls to be accessible in that way. Even with the best designed systems, screwups occur and with disturbing frequency in this space.
I concur that they should be designed in the right way for this sort of stuff, by the way, but again, they're not and probably won't be for a while yet to come. FUD? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The problem is that there's a disturbing amount of truth within it that people keep dismissing here and elsewhere. It IS quite as bad as people have been claiming it is within this space- and unless you work with the segment, whether it be with the utilities or things like subways, you might not get that there REALLY is a problem that needs fixing and think it purely conjecture or outright lies to generate money for themselves.
It's not. With the grid in the shape it's in and with them carelessly exposing the control networks in manners that they can be manipulated via remote, there is a possibility, very real, very distinct, that someone could manage something that'd make the 2003 East Coast Blackout look like a Sunday picnic.
Unfortunately, the problem is one that we can't seem to get the government on the right page on UHC. The truth of the matter is that part of the REASON it is as screwed up as it is- happens to be the Government's Healthcare option, Medicare.
Medicare often pays only 20-30% of the billed amount. On some things they pay out amazing, almost crazy things- like power chairs, for example. But in the large something that would be billed for 1k is paid out for 200. It's why the cash price is often insane for uninsured people in this country.
Now, ponder that for a moment and let it soak in for a bit so it'll really register with you.
Now, it should be noted that all insurance companies will only pay out 30 or so percent OVER what Medicare pays on things. Seriously. There is a reason for this. It's the same sort of reason that's been driving offshoring and a whole host of other things. Why pay right or charge down to the levels in question when it's "so expensive"- when you can gouge for the amount people believe is getting paid out for healthcare and then pay out the way they really do?
Combine this with the costs of rationed care in the countries you mention (for most medical care, Canadians go to their doctors there...for complicated medical procedures, they save up their money and come to the US because they can get it immediately and in many cases, you can get procedures done that won't be happening anytime soon in Canada.) you end up with a mixed view of things.
In the end, it's not as rosy as you make it out to be, nor is it the nice picture others paint of it being over here in the States when they argue against UHC. It should be noted that what our government has tried to do with getting to UHC isn't anything remotely resembling it and it will just enrich those jokers that're paying 30% over Medicare payout and charging as much as they do for premiums.
No, but they're spending it on other things. Mind, at least in Texas, food doesn't have sales tax applied to it. It should also be noted that New Hampshire doesn't have ANY appreciable taxes whatsoever- and manages just fine in other ways. (Buy a bottle of booze at one of their Liquor Outlets and you help pay for education, amongst other things...)
In the end, a Sales Tax or a Flat Tax would end up resulting in a fair system and would actually produce more money (or, do you honestly believe that 1M/yr family is paying their fair proportion of income taxes that the 25k/yr one is...if so, I've got some nice beachfront property in Arizona to sell you... :-D )
The biggest problem there is that if you don't have people to BUY your stuff, how can you survive either?
No jobs? No money.
No money? No stuff bought.
No stuff bought? You lose.
Ah... But define "economically unfeasible". I contend we're already there with things and just don't see it yet.
It's a race to the bottom and it's unsustainable- and it cannibalizes much of the country that you do it in, enriching the people that were in charge and as often as not the countries they shift the work to. And it also ends up being substandard work and all- which also is economically unfeasible.
The driver stack for the FOSS side is just now beginning to learn how to crawl properly- something you need to do before you can walk or run.
Previously, we'd reverse engineered the stuff. Based on what I've learned doing work for one of the Big Two (that'd be AMD or NVidia...), they're barking up the right tree, doing things in the large the same way they do things within the driver. When the community gets to those first few stumbling steps instead of crawling around, the speed of development will increase- and AMD's stuff will suddenly become quite valuable to anyone on Linux or other FOSS OS.
Like we've been told before in the past- doing 3D drivers isn't exactly an easy thing to do. It takes some time before you can get to the same level of support we see with the proprietary drivers from NVidia and AMD. Unfortunately, you either have to choose pretty robust drivers, slightly less robust/speedy hardware, coupled with closed drivers- or choose much more unstable drivers (some people have GREAT results with AMD's stuff, I've got decent results with some issues in my case- but some have pure HELL with the drivers in question...) and the promise of 6-12 months down the line having 60% of the peak performance with an open source driver, coupled with the promise of seeing as much as 85% of the peak performance or more in another 12-24.
Many will choose the shiny solution that works right now. Some don't need and can't afford to fidget with the hardware to make it work and will buy something for business that will work right now (AMD's stuff is less robust in the laptop space until recently- which translated into an NVidia purchase on my i7 laptop I'd bought a while back.
If AMD's closed source solution was a full-on winner (it's not...) there'd be a lot less people buying NVidia right now because they opened up and it's coming together for everyone on that space, albeit slowly.
Who needs to light it? For many, the methane, combined with the other elements that come out with it are lethal enough as is...
It's an overzealous cop filing a bullshit charge that the Judge is as liable as not to throw right on out as long as the lady or her counsel don't fubar themselves out of the gate on.
However, it does show that we've got a problem on our hands as a nation- and it needs to have the people wake up from the sleep of the intellect and walk away from the bread and circuses going on over the Television and the Internet.
Lest one think of me as doing a projection of things...
"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent."
-John Dewey
“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed customs. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.
"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.
“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”
-Stuart Chase, The Proper Study of Mankind, 1948.
"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
-Justice H. Walter Croskey, 2008.
Both sides are very guilty of fostering their agendas and neither side of that crowd is going to be at all helpful towards the American Intellect; and it's been ongoing for a long, long time if you look at the comments from Harris and Dewey.
And if you believe it is solely that, you'd be mistaken. The domestic liberal organizations have as much to blame on that front as the others.
Specious argument, really.
Content "creation" with Flash is really a poor substitute for the real tools that are completely available on all the mainstream OSes- to the point of some of the better answers being available for free or next to it on all of the aforementioned.
If you're doing "content creation" on something like Haiku, I might understand slightly, but you should already understand that you might be on your own on things like this if you choose to run things like Haiku and other up-and-coming OSes.
"Creating content" is a straw man.