Consoles are now AMD's niche market that they have nailed down. If I need GPU performance, the fiasco I've gone through with AMD's Catalyst drivers glitching out my AMD cards (ie HDMI audio crapping out for 3 or 4 driver iterations before it was finally working again in the update from September (I think)) dictates that for my Discrete needs, nVidia is my only choice. If I don't care to splurge on a system for running games or CUDA processes, then I'm going with Intel Integrated through their i7 line...or even more likely, completely headless through Xeon and set up WYSE or LIN terminals. Fuck AMD until they prove over at least 6 months to a year they've finally got themselves straightened out.
Jedi started out with the strength of Empire; the middle mostly held it together; but then they went to Endor. The movie would have been able to hold its own much better against ESB if they just cut out all the scenes on Endor and focused on the battle above it interspersed with Luke being further lead down the path to darkness by the Emperor.
Dr. Who came up with a unique way to explain why his face changes through the course of the series that makes sense within the series. For this reason, the changing of the actors and Dr. Who's personality is explicitly written into the role.
James Bond on the other hand, while the explanation isn't explicitly cannon, had a workable one that could explain the change in character that would assist in the audience's suspension of disbelief. This one was brought up by a friend of mine who is a tremendous Bond fanatic, and I have to admit, re-watching the Bond films with this in mind actually helped my appreciation of the films (well, except for Skyfall... that one broke the suspension of disbelief I had using this method). The explanation was that Bond was actually a pseudonym for the Agent. When an agent was assigned the 007 number, the name came with it. Of course, he also had this irrational love for Sean Connery and he brought the John Patrick Mason character from "The Rock" into the 007 franchise using this explanation (according to him Mason was supposed to be Connery's Bond after having been captured by American Intelligence and sent to Alcatraz as a political prisoner). My thoughts on that one is my friend was just using that to excuse the fact the only role that Connery has ever played in any movie he's ever done was Connery.
This is off-topic, but I've the Karma to burn. Every time I see your signature, I cringe from the formula proving the exact opposite of the statement you're trying to make... My OCD just got the better of me today. If the error was deliberate, I congratulate you on a successful troll.
// Declarations
Knowledge = Power AS K = P;
Time = Money AS t = M;
Work AS W
//Solve for M
P=W/t;
K=W/M;//The substitution of K for P and M for t
KW = M;
therefore: Money is equal to Knowledge multiplied by Work.
I'd love to know what state so I can avoid it just because of the 4mph thing. In any reasonable state "Following too closely" is only applicable as a tack on ticket in an actual collision where you rear-end someone else as that's the only way to prove that you were following too close. If you're following someone and they slam on the brakes and you're able to come to a complete stop getting your vehicles within millimeters of each other but never touching, you're not following too close because you demonstrated you had the reaction time to justify your judgement in spacing. Because of its subjective nature in the definition of the law, the only admissible evidence to prove that one really was in violation isn't the Officer's perception, but an actual collision.
I have the distinct feeling you're not telling us something though. Speeding 23 mph above the limit in Georgia, USA nabbed my roomate a $276 fine. I've never had one go above $170 myself. My wife got one that would have been ~$120 for doing 16 over (had to pay the court 2x as much as "bail" for the Not Guilty plea... when we finally had the hearing the Judge threw it out due to the location that the officer stated he tagged her as being illegal since the curve was sharp enough that there was no way for the officer's vehicle to be visible for the requisite 500 foot minimum; got all the money back).
Doctors get their perks and I don't have to see the standard formula medical prescription commercial where it's a bunch of Smiling Geriatrics doing everyday mundane crap while some hushed voiceover gives the rundown of the possible side-effects that are generally worse than the symptoms it's trying to alleviate.
Prescription costs? The hell is that? My insurance just pays their negotiated rate and I don't pay a dime out of pocket (premium deducted out of my paycheck...so technically the "dime" never got into my pocket in the first place).
Can't route around a horrible network design. 90% of the country's network was all routed to a single building with evidently no redundant links. Great for spying...not so great for disaster recovery and avoidance. But there's good news on multiple levels: The rest of the world's network didn't go down because of it!
Crud...just noticed that I forgot one multiple of 60 in my initial calculation. I'd blow by the 2TB cap in one day if I consistently pegged the Con. But even with that fudge, the rest of the post is the truth of my usage. We have to struggle to pull down more than 30Gigs of usage.
No shit there's no free lunch, dipshit troll. This isn't about a free lunch. This is about me getting the full goddamn meal that I fucking paid for!
Monthly download/upload limit should not have any cap except by the speed limitations of the data plan. For instance: My Cox account has a 2TB soft cap limit on my plan. My maximum bandwidth is 200Mb/s (~25MB/s). If I could peg that connection to maximum for 24 hrs a day, 30 days per month, that's roughly 1,080,000 MBs in a month (~1.03 TB). Roughly only half of my data cap. I'll never see the cap (and I've yet to even come close to half).
More realistically on a daily average: Pulling down 4K video from Netflix for about 4hrs in a day at the same time my roommate plays Destiny for 12hrs has only maxed out at a daily usage of 29.8GBs. Multiply that by even 31 days (again, extreme use case as the mega-Netflix/Hulu pulldowns only happen on weekends...while Destiny tends to run at most 5GB daily by itself), and that's 923.8 Gigs....Less than half the cap. In other words, this connection doesn't even need, and should not even have, the cap
My point is this: If companies offer data package tiers that give a hard limit to the data speed ONLY, there wouldn't be a need for the data cap, because there'd only be so much data that a saturated connection to ever pull down. If a company is having trouble providing a given speed tier to all their customers..then guess what... They've oversold the line, and they need to put money into improving the infrastructure to meet demand at even peak times or suffer the consequences of failure. Being a TNSTAAFL libertarian, you should be on board with that one. Meet your customers' demands, or get steamrolled and killed off by someone who will.
Hint: You're supposed to put the Big 1 over the Big 2 and read the number under the Big 3.
I know what you did since I reproduced your results. You put the Big 1 over the little 2 and read the number under the little 3 which was the little 5.5 (the real value of that position is 1.55)(.
To help you with the exercise, when you move the cursor you'll see the "digital" readout on the two rows below the ruler. Reading the D(x) value, place the cursor where it reads 2 or very near 2. Then slide the rule so C(x') reads 1 or very near 1. Now you can find the Big 3 (you'll see the pi symbol next to it; the little 3 doesn't have that symbol nearby), underneath it you'll see the 6.
Once you have yourself calibrated to the machine, it should fall into place.
And oddly, in my 20 years of computer building experience, I've only had a WD drive fail once. I'm still using a 10 year old 40 Gig WD as an OS drive in a Dell Inspiron that I'm using as a BIND server. I also have several other WD drives from the late 90's and early 2K's that are just too small to be useful anymore, but they all still work and didn't have any bad sectors when I did my last scan on them (roughly a year ago). They're mostly used for archival purposes now, since I'll never discard an HD in any manner where someone else can get access to the platters.
To contrast, I don't have any of my old Seagates in working condition. Maxtors generally failed with the click of death within weeks of installation; though I do have a couple of 5 year old Maxtor drives that still work. Toshiba drives have been hit or miss too.
In my experience with more current WD drives and watching what happens with friends that purchase WD products, pay the extra to get Black. WD Green is absolute garbage, and Blue seems to be hit or miss.
I think it's a general problem with Autocorrect on various phone models. It's something I have to watch when I'm using Swype on my phone (Galaxy S5). It never uses "an" by default; always "and" or "any". Another one that ticks me off is when it can't decide if I mean "or", "our", or "out". It almost always chooses the wrong one for the context.
They cancelled the panels due to harassment and threats.
They reinstated the panels due to several organizations saying that if the panels weren't reinstated, the organizations wouldn't show up to the event.
So...to paraphrase your second statement: They reinstated the panels due to several organizations harassing them with threats of not showing up to the event...which would have been at least a short term financial blow and could put the financial future of SXSW into question due to lack of funding and sponsorship.
Yup...definitely a difference there./sarcasm>
Scared into cancelling the harassment panels because of Internet Trolls (which most people know better than to take seriously. If you're really that scared of a remote possibility of a problem, hire more security.)...then scared into bringing the panels back as a single giant day-long panel giving it more focus than it deserves because of marketing trolls (who are more likely to act on their threats). In both cases, the panel organizers gave in to terrorism.
Watching the other Americans around me I think the term "Ignorance is Bliss" applies. I'm just along for the ride at this point. Aware of the currents sucking me into the whirlpool, but helpless to fight against the current brought by the willfully ignorant that live by "It's the end of the world as we know it..but I feel fine." Well, if you can't beat them, join them... and ride the tide of human suffering to come.
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He was modded up because he deserved positive points...but there's no "+1 Epic Sarcasm" option.
If only they had Star Wars Flame-throwers. The kids woulda loved that one!
Consoles are now AMD's niche market that they have nailed down. If I need GPU performance, the fiasco I've gone through with AMD's Catalyst drivers glitching out my AMD cards (ie HDMI audio crapping out for 3 or 4 driver iterations before it was finally working again in the update from September (I think)) dictates that for my Discrete needs, nVidia is my only choice. If I don't care to splurge on a system for running games or CUDA processes, then I'm going with Intel Integrated through their i7 line...or even more likely, completely headless through Xeon and set up WYSE or LIN terminals. Fuck AMD until they prove over at least 6 months to a year they've finally got themselves straightened out.
Jedi started out with the strength of Empire; the middle mostly held it together; but then they went to Endor. The movie would have been able to hold its own much better against ESB if they just cut out all the scenes on Endor and focused on the battle above it interspersed with Luke being further lead down the path to darkness by the Emperor.
Dr. Who came up with a unique way to explain why his face changes through the course of the series that makes sense within the series. For this reason, the changing of the actors and Dr. Who's personality is explicitly written into the role.
James Bond on the other hand, while the explanation isn't explicitly cannon, had a workable one that could explain the change in character that would assist in the audience's suspension of disbelief. This one was brought up by a friend of mine who is a tremendous Bond fanatic, and I have to admit, re-watching the Bond films with this in mind actually helped my appreciation of the films (well, except for Skyfall... that one broke the suspension of disbelief I had using this method). The explanation was that Bond was actually a pseudonym for the Agent. When an agent was assigned the 007 number, the name came with it. Of course, he also had this irrational love for Sean Connery and he brought the John Patrick Mason character from "The Rock" into the 007 franchise using this explanation (according to him Mason was supposed to be Connery's Bond after having been captured by American Intelligence and sent to Alcatraz as a political prisoner). My thoughts on that one is my friend was just using that to excuse the fact the only role that Connery has ever played in any movie he's ever done was Connery.
This is a fucking family site asshole. We don't fucking swear here. And for the last time...don't call me Shirley, Clarence!
This is off-topic, but I've the Karma to burn. Every time I see your signature, I cringe from the formula proving the exact opposite of the statement you're trying to make... My OCD just got the better of me today. If the error was deliberate, I congratulate you on a successful troll.
// Declarations
//Solve for M //The substitution of K for P and M for t
Knowledge = Power AS K = P;
Time = Money AS t = M;
Work AS W
P=W/t;
K=W/M;
KW = M;
therefore: Money is equal to Knowledge multiplied by Work.
I've even heard it pronounced post-gres-kul.
I'd love to know what state so I can avoid it just because of the 4mph thing. In any reasonable state "Following too closely" is only applicable as a tack on ticket in an actual collision where you rear-end someone else as that's the only way to prove that you were following too close. If you're following someone and they slam on the brakes and you're able to come to a complete stop getting your vehicles within millimeters of each other but never touching, you're not following too close because you demonstrated you had the reaction time to justify your judgement in spacing. Because of its subjective nature in the definition of the law, the only admissible evidence to prove that one really was in violation isn't the Officer's perception, but an actual collision.
I have the distinct feeling you're not telling us something though. Speeding 23 mph above the limit in Georgia, USA nabbed my roomate a $276 fine. I've never had one go above $170 myself. My wife got one that would have been ~$120 for doing 16 over (had to pay the court 2x as much as "bail" for the Not Guilty plea... when we finally had the hearing the Judge threw it out due to the location that the officer stated he tagged her as being illegal since the curve was sharp enough that there was no way for the officer's vehicle to be visible for the requisite 500 foot minimum; got all the money back).
excite
A Rose by any other name still smells as sweet.
Adobe Flash by any other name still reeks of shit.
So it's win-win.
Doctors get their perks and I don't have to see the standard formula medical prescription commercial where it's a bunch of Smiling Geriatrics doing everyday mundane crap while some hushed voiceover gives the rundown of the possible side-effects that are generally worse than the symptoms it's trying to alleviate.
Prescription costs? The hell is that? My insurance just pays their negotiated rate and I don't pay a dime out of pocket (premium deducted out of my paycheck...so technically the "dime" never got into my pocket in the first place).
Can't route around a horrible network design. 90% of the country's network was all routed to a single building with evidently no redundant links. Great for spying...not so great for disaster recovery and avoidance. But there's good news on multiple levels: The rest of the world's network didn't go down because of it!
Have to admit though...it has a certain rhythm to it's syllables that make it ideal for a repetitive chant.
su.per.son.ic
ac.ro.ba.tic
Ro.ket.pow.ered
batt.le.cars
Kinda reminds me of a pep-rally.
So do many H1B's, I'm told.
Microsoft: Satya Nadella
So it begins...
Crud...just noticed that I forgot one multiple of 60 in my initial calculation. I'd blow by the 2TB cap in one day if I consistently pegged the Con. But even with that fudge, the rest of the post is the truth of my usage. We have to struggle to pull down more than 30Gigs of usage.
No shit there's no free lunch, dipshit troll. This isn't about a free lunch. This is about me getting the full goddamn meal that I fucking paid for!
Monthly download/upload limit should not have any cap except by the speed limitations of the data plan. For instance: My Cox account has a 2TB soft cap limit on my plan. My maximum bandwidth is 200Mb/s (~25MB/s). If I could peg that connection to maximum for 24 hrs a day, 30 days per month, that's roughly 1,080,000 MBs in a month (~1.03 TB). Roughly only half of my data cap. I'll never see the cap (and I've yet to even come close to half).
More realistically on a daily average: Pulling down 4K video from Netflix for about 4hrs in a day at the same time my roommate plays Destiny for 12hrs has only maxed out at a daily usage of 29.8GBs. Multiply that by even 31 days (again, extreme use case as the mega-Netflix/Hulu pulldowns only happen on weekends...while Destiny tends to run at most 5GB daily by itself), and that's 923.8 Gigs....Less than half the cap. In other words, this connection doesn't even need, and should not even have, the cap
My point is this: If companies offer data package tiers that give a hard limit to the data speed ONLY, there wouldn't be a need for the data cap, because there'd only be so much data that a saturated connection to ever pull down. If a company is having trouble providing a given speed tier to all their customers..then guess what... They've oversold the line, and they need to put money into improving the infrastructure to meet demand at even peak times or suffer the consequences of failure. Being a TNSTAAFL libertarian, you should be on board with that one. Meet your customers' demands, or get steamrolled and killed off by someone who will.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an envelope stuffed to the limit of being able to seal with 200GB microSD cards.
Hint: You're supposed to put the Big 1 over the Big 2 and read the number under the Big 3.
I know what you did since I reproduced your results. You put the Big 1 over the little 2 and read the number under the little 3 which was the little 5.5 (the real value of that position is 1.55)(.
To help you with the exercise, when you move the cursor you'll see the "digital" readout on the two rows below the ruler. Reading the D(x) value, place the cursor where it reads 2 or very near 2. Then slide the rule so C(x') reads 1 or very near 1. Now you can find the Big 3 (you'll see the pi symbol next to it; the little 3 doesn't have that symbol nearby), underneath it you'll see the 6.
Once you have yourself calibrated to the machine, it should fall into place.
And oddly, in my 20 years of computer building experience, I've only had a WD drive fail once. I'm still using a 10 year old 40 Gig WD as an OS drive in a Dell Inspiron that I'm using as a BIND server. I also have several other WD drives from the late 90's and early 2K's that are just too small to be useful anymore, but they all still work and didn't have any bad sectors when I did my last scan on them (roughly a year ago). They're mostly used for archival purposes now, since I'll never discard an HD in any manner where someone else can get access to the platters.
To contrast, I don't have any of my old Seagates in working condition. Maxtors generally failed with the click of death within weeks of installation; though I do have a couple of 5 year old Maxtor drives that still work. Toshiba drives have been hit or miss too.
In my experience with more current WD drives and watching what happens with friends that purchase WD products, pay the extra to get Black. WD Green is absolute garbage, and Blue seems to be hit or miss.
Because the legal Idiots at CBS say they don't have and can't get the rights to a show that was canceled by the executive Idiots at Fox?
I think it's a general problem with Autocorrect on various phone models. It's something I have to watch when I'm using Swype on my phone (Galaxy S5). It never uses "an" by default; always "and" or "any". Another one that ticks me off is when it can't decide if I mean "or", "our", or "out". It almost always chooses the wrong one for the context.
They cancelled the panels due to harassment and threats.
They reinstated the panels due to several organizations saying that if the panels weren't reinstated, the organizations wouldn't show up to the event.
So...to paraphrase your second statement: They reinstated the panels due to several organizations harassing them with threats of not showing up to the event...which would have been at least a short term financial blow and could put the financial future of SXSW into question due to lack of funding and sponsorship.
Yup...definitely a difference there. /sarcasm>
Scared into cancelling the harassment panels because of Internet Trolls (which most people know better than to take seriously. If you're really that scared of a remote possibility of a problem, hire more security.)...then scared into bringing the panels back as a single giant day-long panel giving it more focus than it deserves because of marketing trolls (who are more likely to act on their threats). In both cases, the panel organizers gave in to terrorism.
Watching the other Americans around me I think the term "Ignorance is Bliss" applies. I'm just along for the ride at this point. Aware of the currents sucking me into the whirlpool, but helpless to fight against the current brought by the willfully ignorant that live by "It's the end of the world as we know it..but I feel fine." Well, if you can't beat them, join them... and ride the tide of human suffering to come.