Agreed. I briefly ran a mostly current Nouveau on my work desktop when I updated to Fedora 16, and everything auto-detected and came up nicely.
This was shortly before I pulled the PCIe card out because the Radeon driver finally works too with my display, and now supports the AMD APU I bought last June.
The only thing I acutally want at this point is lower power consumption, by utilizing as much silicon as possible (which will also help the gamers). Functionality seems to finally be mature at least! Sure, I have 2008 performance but that's all I need.
It's not a revolution, but it's one checkbox for the revolution.
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies. Susan: So we can believe the big ones? Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing. Susan: They're not the same at all. Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged. Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point? Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
There's a utilitarian argument for not being a complete deconstructional existential nihilist.
Perhaps there are better cultural memes available but getting rid of culture (which is entirely synthetic) isn't an advisable position.
There's also lots of chaos in early solar systems. Something knocked Uranus on its side and some models show it and Neptune originally orbiting inside of Jupiter's orbit.
As you say, the models of the mature stable solar system don't apply.
its called 'asset seizure' and they LOVE taking your shit if they can link you to some 'bad stuff'. its trivial to link any citizen to bad stuff; any cop can (and sadly, many do) pull it off. its the new way to enrich their funding. and yes, they DO get to keep most of what is seized.
if it's cash, they'll just claim it's drug money. Once in a while a judge tells them to produce proof or give the money back, but not always (usually?)
It is sad that the current generation is so self absorbed that they cannot think of anything beyond the dollars they have to spend to keep the US great.
Sorry to say, but they ain't got lots of spare dollars anymore. China is the biggest manufacturing country now - maybe they should take a turn.
There's no real reason NASA has to do all the work for humanity. OK, so the ESA has a few nice contributions, but not in relation to their GDP. And they don't even waste all their money on an absurd military.
Oh, baloney, they really don't. They're just pointing out that white Americans are all still racist. Of course voting for Obama again in November will prove that you're not. Unless you are, and then just go vote for Romney.
More selection would be nice but my first monitor buy was $739, for a 17" flatscreen that could do 1024x768. This was in 1994 dollars when gas was 89 cents a gallon, and I got it for cost because I worked at a retailer.
Eizo makes a nice 24" 1900x1200 for about the same nominal money and it's probably the best LCD on the market. I have an LG from 2007 with the same specs (and there is the real crime - nothing better in 5 years) but next time I need a monitor, I'll get a decent one.
The hourly rate on that thing is going to be on the order of a cent.
Ah, thanks. Do I read that page right such that it's a 'folder' as in one of the shared resources I add to XBMC (e.g./net/fileserver/movies) but not on arbitrary paths (e.g./net/fileserver/movies/rated-r)?
I guess I could re-organize the movie paths on the MythTV side and change the NFS exports struture... sure would be great if it could understand ratings and categories, though!
Yeah, well I argued with the clerk for two minutes then with the supervisor for five and the manager refused to talk to me.
Their claim was that I entered a contract with them because they had terms posted in a 9-point font 10 feet over the cash register and on their website.
Meanwhile, I've got a $40 RCA cable in a cable box instead of $40 in my pocket (I bought extra not knowing which ones I'd use), so I'm the one getting screwed by their different-than-everybody-else-in-the-world return policy. Having Best Buy's unscrupulous IT people holding my drivers license data is likely to cost me more than $40 in the long run, so it's my least-bad option, but also I'm never shopping there again (btw, chasing customers away is a great way to lose money).
I can't seem to find the old story or my comment on it, but when Google acquired a 'stealth' startup a year or so ago the most interesting thing about it was that the primary investigator had a few patents for packet-switched CPU's.
Unless you have a sucrase deficiency, the limiting factor is the speed that monosaccharides are transported into the bloodstream (it's an active transport) rather than the speed that the sucrose can be broken down. The paper the AC pointed to is a good one.
Doesn't Figure 2 in that paper (oddly labeled/constructed charts on that one...) show that Glucose-Fructose solution absorbs faster than sucrose?
On close inspection, the notion that HFCS is inherently harmful, or worse than sucrose in any way, evaporates like a fart in the wind.
It's not inherently harmful but it is worse than sucrose:
This discussion [alanaragonblog.com] is by far the best in-depth debate over the evidence that I have found, by people who know how to analyze it.
But it's wrong, at least in part. For instance:
The bonds in sucrose are quickly broken when sucrose hits the acid environment of the stomach. This means that once sucrose hits the stomach, itâ(TM)s no different from HFCS. Once you get to the small intestine, metabolism is *exactly* the same. This *little bit of difference* does not lead to the problems Dr. Lustig talks about. The fact is, HFCS and sucrose are identical as far as your body is concerned.
This is old thinking. The current thinking is that there is not enough time/water in the stomach to do this, and if you think about it, if this were true, sucrase in the small intestine wouldn't have much to do. The effect of this is a change in absorption rate, which affects the liver's processing modes.
By the way, don't all census areas have about a quarter million people? I feel like they're designed to have equal population, just like Congressional districts.
Oh, good question - they do follow State boundaries so the number can't be always exactly balanced, but they might get rearranged from time to time. On the to-do list to check out sometime.:)
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The year where an apartment in manhattan is sold for an amount that can feed a small country for a month.
It's impossible - there's a fixed amount of NYC real estate, so the total value can't increase over time. The Keynesians have told me so!
Gee, this is new, how many times have we seen officials make statements about this regarding any of the current 'War on ______' policies?
So we're gonna wise up and stop giving these Peter-Principled bureaucrats power, right?
Ah, nevermind, I wonder who's on Dancing with the Idols tonight.
Oh, good point. Is Don still doing clusters? Don't they all use GPU's now ? ;)
Agreed. I briefly ran a mostly current Nouveau on my work desktop when I updated to Fedora 16, and everything auto-detected and came up nicely.
This was shortly before I pulled the PCIe card out because the Radeon driver finally works too with my display, and now supports the AMD APU I bought last June.
The only thing I acutally want at this point is lower power consumption, by utilizing as much silicon as possible (which will also help the gamers). Functionality seems to finally be mature at least! Sure, I have 2008 performance but that's all I need.
It's not a revolution, but it's one checkbox for the revolution.
There's a utilitarian argument for not being a complete deconstructional existential nihilist.
Perhaps there are better cultural memes available but getting rid of culture (which is entirely synthetic) isn't an advisable position.
Hey, I rarely reply to A/C's, but since you're real, check out the Atheism 2.0 TED talk, which touches on some of the issues you raise.
as it avoids the question of God's existence
And yet I've still not met anybody who can truly define the word.
Theological noncognativism - c'mon in, we think we understand what warm water is.
Since it formed very early on
There's also lots of chaos in early solar systems. Something knocked Uranus on its side and some models show it and Neptune originally orbiting inside of Jupiter's orbit.
As you say, the models of the mature stable solar system don't apply.
its called 'asset seizure' and they LOVE taking your shit if they can link you to some 'bad stuff'. its trivial to link any citizen to bad stuff; any cop can (and sadly, many do) pull it off. its the new way to enrich their funding. and yes, they DO get to keep most of what is seized.
if it's cash, they'll just claim it's drug money. Once in a while a judge tells them to produce proof or give the money back, but not always (usually?)
They need a networked version, USB and PCI don't play well in a modern virtualized datacenter.
It's what, a 25-line perl script to hook up a character device to ZeroMQ?
(hurry, somebody release it before the patent is filed!)
It's not random, in fact the trend is predictable - by November the numbers will be much lower than they are today.
It is sad that the current generation is so self absorbed that they cannot think of anything beyond the dollars they have to spend to keep the US great.
Sorry to say, but they ain't got lots of spare dollars anymore. China is the biggest manufacturing country now - maybe they should take a turn.
There's no real reason NASA has to do all the work for humanity. OK, so the ESA has a few nice contributions, but not in relation to their GDP. And they don't even waste all their money on an absurd military.
Those fools who signed up - don't they get anonymity? I mean, it's the Internet!
Oh, wait, I don't have to preview?
I can't understand the hate for something that most of you haven't even tried.
We just assume it's like every other product they've produced since 1992. It would be great if this were a turning point but the odds are unlikely.
The media wants a circus. A race riot.
Oh, baloney, they really don't. They're just pointing out that white Americans are all still racist. Of course voting for Obama again in November will prove that you're not. Unless you are, and then just go vote for Romney.
Not many, and too much
You're kidding, right?
More selection would be nice but my first monitor buy was $739, for a 17" flatscreen that could do 1024x768. This was in 1994 dollars when gas was 89 cents a gallon, and I got it for cost because I worked at a retailer.
Eizo makes a nice 24" 1900x1200 for about the same nominal money and it's probably the best LCD on the market. I have an LG from 2007 with the same specs (and there is the real crime - nothing better in 5 years) but next time I need a monitor, I'll get a decent one.
The hourly rate on that thing is going to be on the order of a cent.
The locks are on folders, not content ratings.
Ah, thanks. Do I read that page right such that it's a 'folder' as in one of the shared resources I add to XBMC (e.g. /net/fileserver/movies) but not on arbitrary paths (e.g. /net/fileserver/movies/rated-r)?
I guess I could re-organize the movie paths on the MythTV side and change the NFS exports struture ... sure would be great if it could understand ratings and categories, though!
MythTV has great backend and XBMC has a great frontend
Are parental controls or any kind of privilege levels working in this setup yet?
Screw those who ruin things for everyone else.
Yeah, well I argued with the clerk for two minutes then with the supervisor for five and the manager refused to talk to me.
Their claim was that I entered a contract with them because they had terms posted in a 9-point font 10 feet over the cash register and on their website.
Meanwhile, I've got a $40 RCA cable in a cable box instead of $40 in my pocket (I bought extra not knowing which ones I'd use), so I'm the one getting screwed by their different-than-everybody-else-in-the-world return policy. Having Best Buy's unscrupulous IT people holding my drivers license data is likely to cost me more than $40 in the long run, so it's my least-bad option, but also I'm never shopping there again (btw, chasing customers away is a great way to lose money).
I can't seem to find the old story or my comment on it, but when Google acquired a 'stealth' startup a year or so ago the most interesting thing about it was that the primary investigator had a few patents for packet-switched CPU's.
Unless you have a sucrase deficiency, the limiting factor is the speed that monosaccharides are transported into the bloodstream (it's an active transport) rather than the speed that the sucrose can be broken down. The paper the AC pointed to is a good one.
Doesn't Figure 2 in that paper (oddly labeled/constructed charts on that one...) show that Glucose-Fructose solution absorbs faster than sucrose?
Dosage is everything
Exactly.
On close inspection, the notion that HFCS is inherently harmful, or worse than sucrose in any way, evaporates like a fart in the wind.
It's not inherently harmful but it is worse than sucrose:
This discussion [alanaragonblog.com] is by far the best in-depth debate over the evidence that I have found, by people who know how to analyze it.
But it's wrong, at least in part. For instance:
This is old thinking. The current thinking is that there is not enough time/water in the stomach to do this, and if you think about it, if this were true, sucrase in the small intestine wouldn't have much to do. The effect of this is a change in absorption rate, which affects the liver's processing modes.
By the way, don't all census areas have about a quarter million people? I feel like they're designed to have equal population, just like Congressional districts.
Oh, good question - they do follow State boundaries so the number can't be always exactly balanced, but they might get rearranged from time to time. On the to-do list to check out sometime. :)
www.toyota.com/compare
I chose the LE trim level for each.
Of course they don't give you an easy way to share URL's with parameters...
Or I mean like an indestructible Toyota Hilux [again with a Diesel], a la Top Gear
I'd really like to have one of those for an insurance vehicle in case gas gets scarce!