I remember reading a few years ago that they had evidence of African fishermen getting lost at sea and arriving in South America. I think they even had minor evidence this had occured many thousands of years before the whole land bridge thing.
Also, I remember hearing about genetic evidence that some of the tribes in S.A. had been there before the land bridge. Who was on the continent first is a big pride issue for some people. They want to say their people were around before the nomads up north, and some don't want to have descended from them.
I don't have links for any of this, so this post isn't informative... but it might be insightful.
Whoops, I didn't see the single quotes in his post (that's why I typically quote with double quotes or italics instead of single). I also didn't see the original, incorrect post.
Only possessive prononouns use an "s" with no apostraphe (as far as I know). His, hers, its, ours are all examples of possessive words with no apostraphe. English is a stupid language, but the original poster mentioned he was studying it as a major; so he should be aware of such oddities.
One doesn't use "it's" in a possessive form... ever. It's one of the largest mistakes in the English language. To make "it" possessive, one just adds an "s."
OK, so apparently the people who replied think that "out of stock" means that there aren't any available. I apologize for not linking every single retailer selling every single 64bit laptop out there. My bad.
Instead of asking them to just google themselves, here is one that is available: At Tiger Direct with a gaming video card.
That one has the 3200+ cpu (2.0GHz), and here is one that is faster (3700+): at best buy even.
Well, you can get an ATI 9800 Pro for $119+tax+shipping right now. That card will easily play any game out there, especially HL2. I'm currently using a 9500 Pro for HL2/CS:S, FarCry and Battlefield, and it runs absolutely beautifully. It struggled on Doom3, but that game sucked anyway. Hell, even if you don't think a last gen card can serve your needs when it serves mine and all of my friends just fine, you should STILL return your $300 card and get a $170 geforce 6600 GT... current gen, half the price, runs everything (HL2: 1280x1024, 4xAA 8xAF, 53+fps).
- Increased longevity - try comparing a 5yr old laptop screen to a 5yr old desktop screen
Done and done. The result? The 5 year old laptop screen is washed out and has dead pixels all over the place. Another older laptop has a completely dead screen. I just replaced an LCD with a giant blackish blob from being bumped while moving. My CRTs? Well, I have had one for 10 years working like a champ, one that looked perfect for 7 years before a cap popped and it wouldn't turn on (probably could easily be fixed), and one that is currently in use after 3 years with no degradation... I'll update this post in 2 years for you.
One of the major reasons people replace laptops are because of bad LCD screens, so how can you say that they have better longevity? Hell, go look at those 40 year old TVs at the houses of a million midwesterners; they look just as good as they did back then (not great, but no degradation).
And, yes, the LCD does have a significantly sharper image... until it's not in its native resolution, then it isn't as sharp.
Though I'm not a biologist and have no idea about the truth of this, according to many posts here on/. the hormones in the uterus can influence the sex of the fetus. Apparently, sperm with Y chromosomes aren't very strong in off-nominal conditions (high/low PH, temp, etc), and sperm with X chromosomes aren't that great in high testosterone environments. You can do the research on google for yourself, but I would guess that certain hormones make the Y sperm swim slower or die off, while others are detrimental to X sperm.
I'm guessing that you are a software developer based on your reading/. and the link to ReactOS, so who are you to say a specialist in biology is inconcievably ridiculous?
I think, if I understand the problem correctly, that they don't HAVE a directory of each zip code's appropriate 911 center. The phone companies are fighting them by not giving them this info. This is one of only two reasons that VOIP providers don't have good 911 service... no straightforward way of telling where you are and the fighting of the phone co in letting them find the 911 center.
Nice post... too bad it is about 2 years out of date. Ever since the Thoroughbred core came out, AMD has been beating Intel on power usage in the desktop arena. The newest Intel chips are using a ton more power (which turns into heat):
Also, instead of using a jet engine cooler, why don't you just use a modern cooler? Those things are so silent and have good enough performance that I'm probably going to ditch my watercooling setup.
People always make jokes about how hot the AMD chips are, but that is based on old products. I pretty much know whether a person is an intelligent consumer based on statements like yours. It only takes a quick minute to research on Google to find that your post is no longer pertinent to the real world.
all the textures you see in a game have to be rendered and then stored. a game like doom3 can have textures as high quality as 500MB per. if you don't have that much memory, then the game stutters... the obvious way to stop the stuttering is to lower the texture size, but that lowers the visual quality. john carmack even said that, in order to play doom3 at highest quality settings, you'd need a 512MB vid card.
why, then, does doom3 not perform better with this card than the 256M? dunno, maybe since this is a mid level card and not the highest end, it was gpu limited. why does hl2 benefit when it doesn't have textures as large as doom3? dunno, maybe there are just so many textures or the game isn't as gpu limited.
If you are really thinking about buying a tv, you should read it a second time before making any decisions.
First off, this is only in reference to 720p native sets. My TV is 1080i native and doesn't have this issue at all.
Second, TFA specifically states that no side by side comparisons have been seen (old downscale vs new downscale), so the visual difference might not be noticeable.
Instead of making decisions based on a single article, you should go out and look for yourself. Can you tell a difference? Does it still look pretty and neat to you? Are there enough HD channels in your area at a price you can afford? Comcast just added TNT HD for the NBA playoffs, so they have around 15 HD channels available (4 are premium). Do you have a gaming system or watch DVDs? I can tell you that just watching a progressive scan DVD on my new HDTV looks a lot better to me, and playing xbox games on an HD set is 10x better than normal.
Read a bunch of articles and do some visual tests of your own. Don't go by what you see at Best Buy or places like that. They massively split signals or send SD signals to their HD displays. They also "sabotage" cheaper sets by not calibrating them out of the box or, worse, calibrating them badly INTENTIONALLY and putting them next to expensive sets.
I absolutely agree that neither format will take off until the other dies. The projected cost for the "cheaper" of the two, HD-DVD, will be $1000 for a player. I don't know many people who will buy at that cost.
If MS had chosen HDDVD for the Xbox2, then it might've given more momentum to the cheaper and first out the door choice. As it is, I think having the PS3 come in with BD and be 1/4 cheaper than the $2000 of expected other BD players will help the BD camp.
Both choices will be backwards compatible, so existing libraries won't be harmed. I'm not sure a universal player will help either... it would just create what we have with dvd+-rw: nobody cares which format is which as long as they both work. Which do the studios choose? Which do the hardware makers focus the compatibility on? The universal players will be more expensive and not much of a need for most folks, as you said.
I think it will be the "killer app" that decides it. Will the PS3 be the killer app? Will HD Porn do it? Will Nintendo come out with a system using one or the other (probably neither)?
On the contrary, it looks like there is a bounds to fake lawyerism on/. Almost all of the posts so far have been in the form of "uhhhh... what?" and "that l33t l4wy3r sp33k means nothing."
Well the first reply pretty much smacked down two of your points, so let me smack down another. While you are right that HDDVD will be cheaper to build players and cheaper to produce disks, you are incorrect about BD's ability to play legacy DVDs.
The format is not backward compatible with current recordable DVDs, but it will be possible to use blue lasers to read prerecorded DVD-videos. Therefore, most Blu-ray recorders probably will be developed to read both Blu-ray and legacy DVD-video discs.
That pic is probably not real, as TFA specifically says:
"although the prototype is pale mauve, it is the first rose in the world with the genetic potential to produce 'true blue' roses, spanning the spectrum from palest blue to Mediterranean blue, or even navy blue."
and this:
"The new rose is an attractive shade of mauve, similar to the current generation of mauve-lilac roses like 'Blue Moon' and 'Vol de Nuit'. But where these cultivars express cyanidin, and are thus incapable of yielding blue flowers, the new rose, with further 'tweaking', has the genetic potential to be truly blue.
Blue shades should be achievable if Florigene and Suntory researchers can make the rose's petals less acidic. Rose petals are moderately acidic, with a pH around 4.5, while carnation petals are less so, with a pH of 5.5."
So unless this story is old and that picture is really new, I'm guessing it is fake or just an "artist's conception."
"The plaintiff in this suit is suing because the defendant reported the plaintiff's violation of the law."
I believe YOU'VE missed the point, actually. How about you actually read wtf is really going on before posting stupid bullshit.
From TFA: "Omega World Travel has argued that Mumma violated their trademark and copyright by using images of the company's founders and the company's logo on his website, and they also allege that Mumma defamed individuals associated with Cruise.com by posting personal insults on his site."
The guy had a website where he insulted them, posted images of them, threatened them with what amounts to entrapment, and used copyrighted logos.
Sure, what he did was fine in my book, but it might not be legal in the U.S. His biggest mistake was to use their logo in his page. Also, he should've just gone through the courts first, then made a website talking about them (that way it can't be considered defamation if the courts found them guilty of it).
"Sigh... I wonder if there's a website where lawyers can spend their time making ill-informed comments about tech issues."
Yes, there kind of is... it's called the US court system. I guess it's not really a website, but lawyers from around the country spend their time making ill-informed comments about tech issues in front of ill-informed judges who get to set precidents on them. These rulings eventually get placed on websites, though.
Not to say anything about your knowledge of tech issues, but I think there should be a separate set of courts for tech issues with judges who know more about them. I know there are lawyers with tech law specialties, so why not judges and why not tech informed jurors? I'm asking, so if my idea of a tech court is flawed, please tell me why.
Well, I wasn't able to find a $200 waterblock, but I found one for $130 with a solid silver base. Most that I just now found were in the $60 range, and the one I have sells for $35 brand new. Even the top of the line ones, completely chromed out, are only $85. Check out these sites for waterblocks if you are only able to find $200 ones (five sites specifically for modders and water coolers who like the blinged out products, and not one has a $200 block):
While I paid twice what I would've had I done it myself with a local machine shop, I think the extra $20 was worth the testing and build experience of a mass market block.
My point wasn't whether the Shuttle launches are worth it or not (I'm an aerospace engineeer and know how inefficient they are), it was that the accident wasn't saving him much, if any, money.
Your point about how much a shuttle costs is silly, since none of your examples of competing lifters have BOTH a human and heavy cargo launch capability. The Energia launcher is great, as is the Soyuz, but neither can do what the Shuttle does. I'm not saying the Shuttle is a great design, but it is the only thing we have right now that can do the job. Ever wonder why the current astronauts on the space station are having such a hard time? It's because the Shuttle did so much for them that other launch vehicles can't.
Whether we get our money's worth is a whole different argument. It would've been nice if budget cuts at the time of GW's first months in office (not blaming him, but that IS when they happened) hadn't cut out the CRV budget and some of the other X projects that could've more quickly replaced the Shuttle.
Slashdot Mirror
In case anyone cares to read more, I dug up some links:
Skulls, boats and genocide
Multiple Migrations
I remember reading a few years ago that they had evidence of African fishermen getting lost at sea and arriving in South America. I think they even had minor evidence this had occured many thousands of years before the whole land bridge thing.
Also, I remember hearing about genetic evidence that some of the tribes in S.A. had been there before the land bridge. Who was on the continent first is a big pride issue for some people. They want to say their people were around before the nomads up north, and some don't want to have descended from them.
I don't have links for any of this, so this post isn't informative... but it might be insightful.
Whoops, I didn't see the single quotes in his post (that's why I typically quote with double quotes or italics instead of single). I also didn't see the original, incorrect post.
No.
Only possessive prononouns use an "s" with no apostraphe (as far as I know). His, hers, its, ours are all examples of possessive words with no apostraphe. English is a stupid language, but the original poster mentioned he was studying it as a major; so he should be aware of such oddities.
I believe you are an idiot.
One doesn't use "it's" in a possessive form... ever. It's one of the largest mistakes in the English language. To make "it" possessive, one just adds an "s."
"The dog licked its balls."
Also, possessive has a fourth "s" in it.
I hope YOU aren't a college graduate.
OK, so apparently the people who replied think that "out of stock" means that there aren't any available. I apologize for not linking every single retailer selling every single 64bit laptop out there. My bad.
Instead of asking them to just google themselves, here is one that is available:
At Tiger Direct with a gaming video card.
That one has the 3200+ cpu (2.0GHz), and here is one that is faster (3700+):
at best buy even.
Is there a 64-bit x86 laptop available now?
Yes.
Many.
at walmart even
Well, you can get an ATI 9800 Pro for $119+tax+shipping right now. That card will easily play any game out there, especially HL2. I'm currently using a 9500 Pro for HL2/CS:S, FarCry and Battlefield, and it runs absolutely beautifully. It struggled on Doom3, but that game sucked anyway. Hell, even if you don't think a last gen card can serve your needs when it serves mine and all of my friends just fine, you should STILL return your $300 card and get a $170 geforce 6600 GT... current gen, half the price, runs everything (HL2: 1280x1024, 4xAA 8xAF, 53+fps).
- Increased longevity - try comparing a 5yr old laptop screen to a 5yr old desktop screen
Done and done. The result? The 5 year old laptop screen is washed out and has dead pixels all over the place. Another older laptop has a completely dead screen. I just replaced an LCD with a giant blackish blob from being bumped while moving. My CRTs? Well, I have had one for 10 years working like a champ, one that looked perfect for 7 years before a cap popped and it wouldn't turn on (probably could easily be fixed), and one that is currently in use after 3 years with no degradation... I'll update this post in 2 years for you.
One of the major reasons people replace laptops are because of bad LCD screens, so how can you say that they have better longevity? Hell, go look at those 40 year old TVs at the houses of a million midwesterners; they look just as good as they did back then (not great, but no degradation).
And, yes, the LCD does have a significantly sharper image... until it's not in its native resolution, then it isn't as sharp.
Though I'm not a biologist and have no idea about the truth of this, according to many posts here on /. the hormones in the uterus can influence the sex of the fetus. Apparently, sperm with Y chromosomes aren't very strong in off-nominal conditions (high/low PH, temp, etc), and sperm with X chromosomes aren't that great in high testosterone environments. You can do the research on google for yourself, but I would guess that certain hormones make the Y sperm swim slower or die off, while others are detrimental to X sperm.
/. and the link to ReactOS, so who are you to say a specialist in biology is inconcievably ridiculous?
I'm guessing that you are a software developer based on your reading
I think, if I understand the problem correctly, that they don't HAVE a directory of each zip code's appropriate 911 center. The phone companies are fighting them by not giving them this info. This is one of only two reasons that VOIP providers don't have good 911 service... no straightforward way of telling where you are and the fighting of the phone co in letting them find the 911 center.
Nice post... too bad it is about 2 years out of date. Ever since the Thoroughbred core came out, AMD has been beating Intel on power usage in the desktop arena. The newest Intel chips are using a ton more power (which turns into heat):
See this graph
Also, instead of using a jet engine cooler, why don't you just use a modern cooler? Those things are so silent and have good enough performance that I'm probably going to ditch my watercooling setup.
People always make jokes about how hot the AMD chips are, but that is based on old products. I pretty much know whether a person is an intelligent consumer based on statements like yours. It only takes a quick minute to research on Google to find that your post is no longer pertinent to the real world.
textures.
all the textures you see in a game have to be rendered and then stored. a game like doom3 can have textures as high quality as 500MB per. if you don't have that much memory, then the game stutters... the obvious way to stop the stuttering is to lower the texture size, but that lowers the visual quality. john carmack even said that, in order to play doom3 at highest quality settings, you'd need a 512MB vid card.
why, then, does doom3 not perform better with this card than the 256M? dunno, maybe since this is a mid level card and not the highest end, it was gpu limited. why does hl2 benefit when it doesn't have textures as large as doom3? dunno, maybe there are just so many textures or the game isn't as gpu limited.
Well, I also thought of the bike first, then Terk antennae second, then read the blurb before realizing it was about a tv show I never liked.
If you are really thinking about buying a tv, you should read it a second time before making any decisions.
First off, this is only in reference to 720p native sets. My TV is 1080i native and doesn't have this issue at all.
Second, TFA specifically states that no side by side comparisons have been seen (old downscale vs new downscale), so the visual difference might not be noticeable.
Instead of making decisions based on a single article, you should go out and look for yourself. Can you tell a difference? Does it still look pretty and neat to you? Are there enough HD channels in your area at a price you can afford? Comcast just added TNT HD for the NBA playoffs, so they have around 15 HD channels available (4 are premium). Do you have a gaming system or watch DVDs? I can tell you that just watching a progressive scan DVD on my new HDTV looks a lot better to me, and playing xbox games on an HD set is 10x better than normal.
Read a bunch of articles and do some visual tests of your own. Don't go by what you see at Best Buy or places like that. They massively split signals or send SD signals to their HD displays. They also "sabotage" cheaper sets by not calibrating them out of the box or, worse, calibrating them badly INTENTIONALLY and putting them next to expensive sets.
I absolutely agree that neither format will take off until the other dies. The projected cost for the "cheaper" of the two, HD-DVD, will be $1000 for a player. I don't know many people who will buy at that cost.
If MS had chosen HDDVD for the Xbox2, then it might've given more momentum to the cheaper and first out the door choice. As it is, I think having the PS3 come in with BD and be 1/4 cheaper than the $2000 of expected other BD players will help the BD camp.
Both choices will be backwards compatible, so existing libraries won't be harmed. I'm not sure a universal player will help either... it would just create what we have with dvd+-rw: nobody cares which format is which as long as they both work. Which do the studios choose? Which do the hardware makers focus the compatibility on? The universal players will be more expensive and not much of a need for most folks, as you said.
I think it will be the "killer app" that decides it. Will the PS3 be the killer app? Will HD Porn do it? Will Nintendo come out with a system using one or the other (probably neither)?
On the contrary, it looks like there is a bounds to fake lawyerism on /. Almost all of the posts so far have been in the form of "uhhhh... what?" and "that l33t l4wy3r sp33k means nothing."
Well the first reply pretty much smacked down two of your points, so let me smack down another. While you are right that HDDVD will be cheaper to build players and cheaper to produce disks, you are incorrect about BD's ability to play legacy DVDs.
The format is not backward compatible with current recordable DVDs, but it will be possible to use blue lasers to read prerecorded DVD-videos. Therefore, most Blu-ray recorders probably will be developed to read both Blu-ray and legacy DVD-video discs.
Also, this link
but only recently did its leading developers, among them Sony, announce that Blu-ray machines will also play old DVDs.
Here is the post I made to an earlier request for photos:
my post
Basically, they now have the chance to produce blue roses but haven't actually done it yet. The new roses are mauve.
"although the prototype is pale mauve, it is the first rose in the world with the genetic potential to produce 'true blue' roses, spanning the spectrum from palest blue to Mediterranean blue, or even navy blue."
and this:
"The new rose is an attractive shade of mauve, similar to the current generation of mauve-lilac roses like 'Blue Moon' and 'Vol de Nuit'. But where these cultivars express cyanidin, and are thus incapable of yielding blue flowers, the new rose, with further 'tweaking', has the genetic potential to be truly blue.
Blue shades should be achievable if Florigene and Suntory researchers can make the rose's petals less acidic. Rose petals are moderately acidic, with a pH around 4.5, while carnation petals are less so, with a pH of 5.5."
So unless this story is old and that picture is really new, I'm guessing it is fake or just an "artist's conception."
Like me.
Scoff.
"The plaintiff in this suit is suing because the defendant reported the plaintiff's violation of the law."
I believe YOU'VE missed the point, actually. How about you actually read wtf is really going on before posting stupid bullshit.
From TFA:
"Omega World Travel has argued that Mumma violated their trademark and copyright by using images of the company's founders and the company's logo on his website, and they also allege that Mumma defamed individuals associated with Cruise.com by posting personal insults on his site."
The guy had a website where he insulted them, posted images of them, threatened them with what amounts to entrapment, and used copyrighted logos.
Sure, what he did was fine in my book, but it might not be legal in the U.S. His biggest mistake was to use their logo in his page. Also, he should've just gone through the courts first, then made a website talking about them (that way it can't be considered defamation if the courts found them guilty of it).
"Sigh... I wonder if there's a website where lawyers can spend their time making ill-informed comments about tech issues."
Yes, there kind of is... it's called the US court system. I guess it's not really a website, but lawyers from around the country spend their time making ill-informed comments about tech issues in front of ill-informed judges who get to set precidents on them. These rulings eventually get placed on websites, though.
Not to say anything about your knowledge of tech issues, but I think there should be a separate set of courts for tech issues with judges who know more about them. I know there are lawyers with tech law specialties, so why not judges and why not tech informed jurors? I'm asking, so if my idea of a tech court is flawed, please tell me why.
Well, I wasn't able to find a $200 waterblock, but I found one for $130 with a solid silver base. Most that I just now found were in the $60 range, and the one I have sells for $35 brand new. Even the top of the line ones, completely chromed out, are only $85. Check out these sites for waterblocks if you are only able to find $200 ones (five sites specifically for modders and water coolers who like the blinged out products, and not one has a $200 block):
xoxide
SVC
DangerDen
high speed PC
frozen cpu
While I paid twice what I would've had I done it myself with a local machine shop, I think the extra $20 was worth the testing and build experience of a mass market block.
My point wasn't whether the Shuttle launches are worth it or not (I'm an aerospace engineeer and know how inefficient they are), it was that the accident wasn't saving him much, if any, money.
Your point about how much a shuttle costs is silly, since none of your examples of competing lifters have BOTH a human and heavy cargo launch capability. The Energia launcher is great, as is the Soyuz, but neither can do what the Shuttle does. I'm not saying the Shuttle is a great design, but it is the only thing we have right now that can do the job. Ever wonder why the current astronauts on the space station are having such a hard time? It's because the Shuttle did so much for them that other launch vehicles can't.
Whether we get our money's worth is a whole different argument. It would've been nice if budget cuts at the time of GW's first months in office (not blaming him, but that IS when they happened) hadn't cut out the CRV budget and some of the other X projects that could've more quickly replaced the Shuttle.