If the friction remained the same then there would be no sense in wider tires as friction with the ground = traction. They have produced tires that are Low Rolling Resistance as well. LRR tires increase MPG.
That said - a cambered tires sounds interesting. Just not sure how having a cambered tire compensated for by an adjustment in camber on the suspension is going to do anything a properly adjusted suspension couldn't already do. WTF?
Gee, less contact patch equals less friction and rolling resistance - and less traction with more treadwear on a narrower part of the tire if you get stupid about it. The car may also feel darty in a straight line but caster can also cause this. Auto manufacturers set alignments for more than just ride comfort and I'm pretty sure zero is NOT how many are set. Sheesh!
I know, lets put bicycle tires on cars and bump pressure to 120PSI. Bet it will get great MPG! Never mind the side effects...
Meh, in Eve it's nto that big a deal. You can stay in High Sec - an area where "police" respond to attacks - and be mostly safe. However if you're going to do this it behooves you not to carry really valuable things in a VERY fragile ship. You see the police do not respond super quickly, it takes them as much as say 20 seconds to get there. Once they arrive the attackers are toast. However if they successfully blow you up and friends of theirs are around who were not involved in the "festivities" they can then loot and salvage your wreck. So - the lesson here is to drive a ship that is not easily blown up when carrying expensive cargo lest you tempt someone to sacrifice their ship in order to see what's in yours! And as it happens this was done in an area where this is somewhat common because much trade is done there and idiots DO use fragile ships to move expensive goods...
Contract can be accepted but his point about the other player having to get to the location where they are stored still stands. A contract can be completed just fine but the item doesn't move and I doubt that PLEX are special and DO move. That would be kind of silly so yeah maybe he needed to complete a deal and move them. Flying in Jita with that much PLEX in your hold, at war or not, is STUPID. People get ganked in Jita all the time...
No, one is a more immediate threat and the other requires long-term thinking which most people do poorly at. One is something you have to think about every day and the other is one you have to plan for. I don't think being concerned for personal safety is a bad thing, don't do enough of it and all of the planning in the world for long term care won't matter...
Yes, I had dogs, as many as four at a time, for 15 years and one night I came home and surprised them and they defended my home. This person wasn't a guest she was someone who lived there and had she understood that growling wasn't a warm welcome and had so much as said a word to the dog it would have been fine. In the end she wasn't harmed more than a bruise and she understood her part in the misunderstanding. Sorry but I don't see where the dog made some huge mistake here.
Seriously if you cannot understand the dynamics at work then yeah don't get a dog. We'll all be better off not having to take care of it when you get bored and dump it at the pound.
If someone in your country wants a gun and is intending to break the law with it then they will get access to one and the laws of your country will stop you, the law abider, from being able to do anything about it. I seriously doubt that any law passed in your country is preventing the use of guns. One need only look to say the UK to hear about gun deaths in a country known for it's gun laws.
And if not a gun then perhaps you face a knife or sharpened screwdriver. That's much much better isn't it? Again, one needs only to look at the UK to see this occurring and the ever more silly attempts to stop it that infringe upon the privacy of those abiding the law....
A friend of mine came home one day and his cat was strutting around with the tail all puffed out. He couldn't figure out WTF was up with the cat until he went upstairs and noticed the window in his spare bedroom was open. When he looked closer he found cat hair, blood, and some skin. It seems someone managed to jimmy his window open and when they stuck their head in the cat went hog wild with the claws! So yeah, cats CAN repel invaders, it just doesn't happen very often:-)
I agree on getting a dog. I once came home a bit late and surprised my dogs who had been sleeping. The male charged the door growling but I managed to calm him - that is until the girlfriend made a noise by the gate and he charged her. She didn't recognize the growling as a threat and I was too surprised to stop him. She bent down and he leaped at her face and bit her just below the eye. He realized too late what was up but managed not to break the skin at least. He was pretty contrite and she was pretty upset but so far as I'm concerned he proved his worth that night! He was a pretty sweet pup and weighed maybe 50lbs. He was a Shar-Pei which are actually usually pretty kewl dogs but that night surprised by our arrival he sure did try to defend the place!
Dogs make for good home protection and you had better believe the whole neighborhood knew I had them. Only my closest neighbors knew just how sweet they were - everyone else was terrified:-)
No not so much why? FOX is a joke and CNN not much better. The day the news industry realized they could make money on news, thank you 60minutes, was a very sad day indeed...
People are smart when they act as individuals, crowds on the other hand are dumb as dirt when they act together no matter how smart any individual is. If you think that wishing will make something so then great - you first. I make no excuses for the things that my country has done but at the same time I note then whenever the shit hits the fan somewhere we're asked to help - and that probably includes whatever country you live in right now. So, want us to be pacifists? Make sure you recognize what that does to your own safety. Want us to stay out of foreign affairs? Better check and see what that will be doing for your economy. This all sounds great on paper until a tank rolls down your street doesn't it?
In order for that to actually work we'd all have to do it - all at once. By all means go ahead and try to convince the Chinese, the Russians, the Koreans, the Taliban etc. to all sing along and be friends with one another. Don't forget the Palestinians and Israelis too. Go over there and try to talk this sense to them, we'll be seeing you on TV shortly after I'm betting and not in the good way either. What exactly different is it that you propose?
If you think that somehow leading by example and becoming pacifists is going to get it done be prepared to be crushed as every other country rolls over you. What you're looking for is a fantasy and it's the sort of fantasy that's dreamed up by folks who have a warm bed, enough food, plenty of water, education, and free time to have have such thoughts. Many places in this world have very little of any of that and you had better believe they aren't going to get it overnight.
Want to win in places like Afghanistan? Start by raising their standard of living to something akin to ours. School them, build roads, develop their industries and resources, maybe give them something worthwhile to lose! When they have the luxuries that the "developed" worlds do then and only then will we begin to see progress. The Taliban and other tyrants know that an educated populace is their worst enemy. If we give Iran enough time I bet we will see this happen, trying badly to strangle them with by withholding needed supplies will work as well for us as it's working in Palestine I fear...
Re:The day after 9/11 you found a rock?
on
Top Secret America
·
· Score: 1
Aw come on are you going to ruin it with facts?
You're exactly correct. We didn't immediately begin bombing anyone and we attempted to enlist the aid of others before we finally went over and began trashing the place. However it's so much easier for folks who want to argue to remember it otherwise....
Been there, done that - my CPU was faster and I get more options. I use x.264 to compress my video - meGUI is my frontend of choice. I have tested GPU renders in the past that leveraged CUDA and my CPU beat them - this was even before I went to liquid cooling too! I'll grant that a GTX275 is no barn burner but it's no slouch either and when I purchased it was fairly expensive. I'm willing, and will, look at CUDA rendering again but frankly if it's not combined with the CPU then it's worthless to me. Using both together would make the most sense IMO. x.264 is free too which is nice!
Oh and yeah I run 64bit x.264 and have CoreAVC onboard too but it's really no help. Neither is using an SSD - the bottleneck IS the CPU. x.264 has slowly gotten better for sure though but a BD still takes hours although 3 hours sure beats the 20+ hours I used to get n my C2D!
Umm, my overclocked 920 beat my (high but not highest end at the time) NVIDIA GPU at encoding and it offers me FAR more options for how I want the video encoded rather than a few out of the box profiles. That said sure I'd love to use my GPU to encode - WITH my CPU. So far it's been either or but if you've got a solution by all means share it. Until then I'll also keep piling on more cores and more clock.
I want 6 cores and if possible I'd like it unlocked for a reasonable price. Their current "extreme" 6core is actually looking attractive to me but I keep waiting for the price to come down. I had hoped that a new 6core would come in that would be reasonably priced and that even if locked could be clocked up pretty good. But at $880+ I dunno' - I will wait for the street price to hit before I get interested.
Why do I want 6cores? Because I compress video pretty often and it's an hours long chore while keeping the quality and resolution high - file sizes plummet though. Hi Def video compression is intensive on the CPU and I often see rates as low as 13fps when compressing. That's on a 920 clocked to 4.2ghz. On water this thing hits 80C with a good sized radiator and multiple fans - I'll be moving to a bigger radiator soon in hopes of solving that. A 6core would give me at least a 30% increase in speed if not more depending on if Hyperthreading continues to buy me anything (it does now). If this new CPU can hit speeds like the unlocked Extreme and hits NewEgg for say $750 I'll score one but not when it's within $100 or so of the unlocked Extreme.
Frankly, if there was decent code to chain multiple machines together to process video I'd try that but the last I saw of code to do that it was old and not worth my time. Since I also happen to be doing this on Windows chances of finding good code to slave machines together is even slimmer.
So yeah - I care and I agree this new number scheme SUX! But hey in the end it's the performance I care about and how high it will clock without melting down. These Extremes are sick fast but wow are they pricey:-(
P.S. Were it not for video processing I'd still consider a C2D just fine or maybe an overclocked i5. This 920 STOMPED my 3.8GHZ C2D though so was well worth the investment and it has also beaten a few dual XEON Macs:-)
Since when has a law ever stopped someone determined to break it? If it weren't guns it would be knives which is why the UK has laws that allow officers to shake down people on the street looking for knives. If you somehow manage to stop knives it will be phillips head screwdrivers. If someone wants to hurt someone else they WILL find a way to threaten, intimidate, and yes kill.
I'm not a gun nut, I don't own one and have only shot one once or twice. But I'm not stupid either and thinking that laws will somehow stop people from buying or building something as simple as a gun is silly. Laws stopped drug use right? I don't do that either but I see pretty clearly that that didn't work either. I mean really how are you going to lower the circulation of illegally owned weapons exactly? That's a serious question - if people want one and are willing to break laws anyway they will get one. Then what? UK has some pretty decent gun laws you might like - and yet people are shot fairly frequently and even more of them are stabbed. From what I have read and from what I have heard listening to the BBC it's not quite the panacea you might think it is.
Perhaps what we need instead of fewer guns is MORE guns. Perhaps if the chances of encountering a trained gun armed homeowner was say 90% instead of say 10% thieves would think twice? What's the rate of home robbery in a place like say Israel like?
I've watched several specials about the Gyre including the one you linked - NONE of them show anything like the picture you linked which I suspect was taken elsewhere and not in open water. It's not good and probably pretty bad but sadly it's not picture fantastic else you better believe the CNNs of the world would be going nutz to photo it much as they have the birds BP has harmed...
No officer I wasn't "speeding" because you see MY definition doesn't match yours and don't you go forcing your chosen definition on me either! Yes, that sounds workable....
His point about accepted terms for clear and un-muddled communication was a good one. If these folks have chosen to create and use their own definition that no one else recognizes that's their business but it's not good business...
Because the more magnification you use the more sensitive the camera is to movement. Like trying to hand hold a telescope and look at a star, not going to work well. Longer lenses are also poorer at gathering light which is why the ones that DO gather light are honking heyuge and cost a few grand.
That said, this isn't a ban on photography and I don't think the rule is too odious.
Slashdot Mirror
If the friction remained the same then there would be no sense in wider tires as friction with the ground = traction. They have produced tires that are Low Rolling Resistance as well. LRR tires increase MPG.
That said - a cambered tires sounds interesting. Just not sure how having a cambered tire compensated for by an adjustment in camber on the suspension is going to do anything a properly adjusted suspension couldn't already do. WTF?
Gee, less contact patch equals less friction and rolling resistance - and less traction with more treadwear on a narrower part of the tire if you get stupid about it. The car may also feel darty in a straight line but caster can also cause this. Auto manufacturers set alignments for more than just ride comfort and I'm pretty sure zero is NOT how many are set. Sheesh!
I know, lets put bicycle tires on cars and bump pressure to 120PSI. Bet it will get great MPG! Never mind the side effects...
Meh, in Eve it's nto that big a deal. You can stay in High Sec - an area where "police" respond to attacks - and be mostly safe. However if you're going to do this it behooves you not to carry really valuable things in a VERY fragile ship. You see the police do not respond super quickly, it takes them as much as say 20 seconds to get there. Once they arrive the attackers are toast. However if they successfully blow you up and friends of theirs are around who were not involved in the "festivities" they can then loot and salvage your wreck. So - the lesson here is to drive a ship that is not easily blown up when carrying expensive cargo lest you tempt someone to sacrifice their ship in order to see what's in yours! And as it happens this was done in an area where this is somewhat common because much trade is done there and idiots DO use fragile ships to move expensive goods...
where do you see it being reported that there was a War Dec? From the above linked article it looks liek he was ganked...
Contract can be accepted but his point about the other player having to get to the location where they are stored still stands. A contract can be completed just fine but the item doesn't move and I doubt that PLEX are special and DO move. That would be kind of silly so yeah maybe he needed to complete a deal and move them. Flying in Jita with that much PLEX in your hold, at war or not, is STUPID. People get ganked in Jita all the time...
No, one is a more immediate threat and the other requires long-term thinking which most people do poorly at. One is something you have to think about every day and the other is one you have to plan for. I don't think being concerned for personal safety is a bad thing, don't do enough of it and all of the planning in the world for long term care won't matter...
Yes, I had dogs, as many as four at a time, for 15 years and one night I came home and surprised them and they defended my home. This person wasn't a guest she was someone who lived there and had she understood that growling wasn't a warm welcome and had so much as said a word to the dog it would have been fine. In the end she wasn't harmed more than a bruise and she understood her part in the misunderstanding. Sorry but I don't see where the dog made some huge mistake here.
Seriously if you cannot understand the dynamics at work then yeah don't get a dog. We'll all be better off not having to take care of it when you get bored and dump it at the pound.
I wonder what they will do about all of those Phillips Head screws when this is all said and done...
If someone in your country wants a gun and is intending to break the law with it then they will get access to one and the laws of your country will stop you, the law abider, from being able to do anything about it. I seriously doubt that any law passed in your country is preventing the use of guns. One need only look to say the UK to hear about gun deaths in a country known for it's gun laws.
And if not a gun then perhaps you face a knife or sharpened screwdriver. That's much much better isn't it? Again, one needs only to look at the UK to see this occurring and the ever more silly attempts to stop it that infringe upon the privacy of those abiding the law....
A friend of mine came home one day and his cat was strutting around with the tail all puffed out. He couldn't figure out WTF was up with the cat until he went upstairs and noticed the window in his spare bedroom was open. When he looked closer he found cat hair, blood, and some skin. It seems someone managed to jimmy his window open and when they stuck their head in the cat went hog wild with the claws! So yeah, cats CAN repel invaders, it just doesn't happen very often :-)
I agree on getting a dog. I once came home a bit late and surprised my dogs who had been sleeping. The male charged the door growling but I managed to calm him - that is until the girlfriend made a noise by the gate and he charged her. She didn't recognize the growling as a threat and I was too surprised to stop him. She bent down and he leaped at her face and bit her just below the eye. He realized too late what was up but managed not to break the skin at least. He was pretty contrite and she was pretty upset but so far as I'm concerned he proved his worth that night! He was a pretty sweet pup and weighed maybe 50lbs. He was a Shar-Pei which are actually usually pretty kewl dogs but that night surprised by our arrival he sure did try to defend the place!
Dogs make for good home protection and you had better believe the whole neighborhood knew I had them. Only my closest neighbors knew just how sweet they were - everyone else was terrified :-)
No not so much why? FOX is a joke and CNN not much better. The day the news industry realized they could make money on news, thank you 60minutes, was a very sad day indeed...
People are smart when they act as individuals, crowds on the other hand are dumb as dirt when they act together no matter how smart any individual is. If you think that wishing will make something so then great - you first. I make no excuses for the things that my country has done but at the same time I note then whenever the shit hits the fan somewhere we're asked to help - and that probably includes whatever country you live in right now. So, want us to be pacifists? Make sure you recognize what that does to your own safety. Want us to stay out of foreign affairs? Better check and see what that will be doing for your economy. This all sounds great on paper until a tank rolls down your street doesn't it?
In order for that to actually work we'd all have to do it - all at once. By all means go ahead and try to convince the Chinese, the Russians, the Koreans, the Taliban etc. to all sing along and be friends with one another. Don't forget the Palestinians and Israelis too. Go over there and try to talk this sense to them, we'll be seeing you on TV shortly after I'm betting and not in the good way either. What exactly different is it that you propose?
If you think that somehow leading by example and becoming pacifists is going to get it done be prepared to be crushed as every other country rolls over you. What you're looking for is a fantasy and it's the sort of fantasy that's dreamed up by folks who have a warm bed, enough food, plenty of water, education, and free time to have have such thoughts. Many places in this world have very little of any of that and you had better believe they aren't going to get it overnight.
Want to win in places like Afghanistan? Start by raising their standard of living to something akin to ours. School them, build roads, develop their industries and resources, maybe give them something worthwhile to lose! When they have the luxuries that the "developed" worlds do then and only then will we begin to see progress. The Taliban and other tyrants know that an educated populace is their worst enemy. If we give Iran enough time I bet we will see this happen, trying badly to strangle them with by withholding needed supplies will work as well for us as it's working in Palestine I fear...
Aw come on are you going to ruin it with facts?
You're exactly correct. We didn't immediately begin bombing anyone and we attempted to enlist the aid of others before we finally went over and began trashing the place. However it's so much easier for folks who want to argue to remember it otherwise....
Been there, done that - my CPU was faster and I get more options. I use x.264 to compress my video - meGUI is my frontend of choice. I have tested GPU renders in the past that leveraged CUDA and my CPU beat them - this was even before I went to liquid cooling too! I'll grant that a GTX275 is no barn burner but it's no slouch either and when I purchased it was fairly expensive. I'm willing, and will, look at CUDA rendering again but frankly if it's not combined with the CPU then it's worthless to me. Using both together would make the most sense IMO. x.264 is free too which is nice!
Oh and yeah I run 64bit x.264 and have CoreAVC onboard too but it's really no help. Neither is using an SSD - the bottleneck IS the CPU. x.264 has slowly gotten better for sure though but a BD still takes hours although 3 hours sure beats the 20+ hours I used to get n my C2D!
Umm, my overclocked 920 beat my (high but not highest end at the time) NVIDIA GPU at encoding and it offers me FAR more options for how I want the video encoded rather than a few out of the box profiles. That said sure I'd love to use my GPU to encode - WITH my CPU. So far it's been either or but if you've got a solution by all means share it. Until then I'll also keep piling on more cores and more clock.
I want 6 cores and if possible I'd like it unlocked for a reasonable price. Their current "extreme" 6core is actually looking attractive to me but I keep waiting for the price to come down. I had hoped that a new 6core would come in that would be reasonably priced and that even if locked could be clocked up pretty good. But at $880+ I dunno' - I will wait for the street price to hit before I get interested.
Why do I want 6cores? Because I compress video pretty often and it's an hours long chore while keeping the quality and resolution high - file sizes plummet though. Hi Def video compression is intensive on the CPU and I often see rates as low as 13fps when compressing. That's on a 920 clocked to 4.2ghz. On water this thing hits 80C with a good sized radiator and multiple fans - I'll be moving to a bigger radiator soon in hopes of solving that. A 6core would give me at least a 30% increase in speed if not more depending on if Hyperthreading continues to buy me anything (it does now). If this new CPU can hit speeds like the unlocked Extreme and hits NewEgg for say $750 I'll score one but not when it's within $100 or so of the unlocked Extreme.
Frankly, if there was decent code to chain multiple machines together to process video I'd try that but the last I saw of code to do that it was old and not worth my time. Since I also happen to be doing this on Windows chances of finding good code to slave machines together is even slimmer.
So yeah - I care and I agree this new number scheme SUX! But hey in the end it's the performance I care about and how high it will clock without melting down. These Extremes are sick fast but wow are they pricey :-(
P.S. Were it not for video processing I'd still consider a C2D just fine or maybe an overclocked i5. This 920 STOMPED my 3.8GHZ C2D though so was well worth the investment and it has also beaten a few dual XEON Macs :-)
Since when has a law ever stopped someone determined to break it? If it weren't guns it would be knives which is why the UK has laws that allow officers to shake down people on the street looking for knives. If you somehow manage to stop knives it will be phillips head screwdrivers. If someone wants to hurt someone else they WILL find a way to threaten, intimidate, and yes kill.
I'm not a gun nut, I don't own one and have only shot one once or twice. But I'm not stupid either and thinking that laws will somehow stop people from buying or building something as simple as a gun is silly. Laws stopped drug use right? I don't do that either but I see pretty clearly that that didn't work either. I mean really how are you going to lower the circulation of illegally owned weapons exactly? That's a serious question - if people want one and are willing to break laws anyway they will get one. Then what? UK has some pretty decent gun laws you might like - and yet people are shot fairly frequently and even more of them are stabbed. From what I have read and from what I have heard listening to the BBC it's not quite the panacea you might think it is.
Perhaps what we need instead of fewer guns is MORE guns. Perhaps if the chances of encountering a trained gun armed homeowner was say 90% instead of say 10% thieves would think twice? What's the rate of home robbery in a place like say Israel like?
I think if you check you will find that many of those laws have been removed or weakened. This is now much less of an issue...
I've watched several specials about the Gyre including the one you linked - NONE of them show anything like the picture you linked which I suspect was taken elsewhere and not in open water. It's not good and probably pretty bad but sadly it's not picture fantastic else you better believe the CNNs of the world would be going nutz to photo it much as they have the birds BP has harmed...
Because it's easy to setup, uses strong AES crypto, goes through firewalls, and is free....
No officer I wasn't "speeding" because you see MY definition doesn't match yours and don't you go forcing your chosen definition on me either! Yes, that sounds workable....
His point about accepted terms for clear and un-muddled communication was a good one. If these folks have chosen to create and use their own definition that no one else recognizes that's their business but it's not good business...
crap, mis-modded you redundant so this post fixes that :-(
Because the more magnification you use the more sensitive the camera is to movement. Like trying to hand hold a telescope and look at a star, not going to work well. Longer lenses are also poorer at gathering light which is why the ones that DO gather light are honking heyuge and cost a few grand.
That said, this isn't a ban on photography and I don't think the rule is too odious.