30 Rise is if all arctic and antarctic glaciers melt. Its not on that site. I was looking for a map of Lousiana, not a dissertation on global warming. It's out there, go find it. I've done enough searching.
Global warming has nothing to do with it, this is pure risk management and making informed choices.
Global Warming should have something to do with it though. Take current sea level, add 30 feet, recalculate.
At that level, the coast will be dozens of miles inland of where New Orleans is now. The city will be in a hole out in the middle of the ocean with no surge protection at all. This can be expected before the end of the century.
Now is a pretty good time to take a deep breath and decide whether New Orleans needs to be saved or abandoned. If they do a half assed job of rebuilding, then they will only be doing this again every few years until they are just flat under water and nowhere to go. Even if they do it rght, New Orleans will be just a hole in the ocean with a city in it. Take this as a sign and get out while the getting is good. If they want to do a half assed job of rebuilding the walls, then do it and use the time you have left to salvage anything worth salvaging from the city.
BTW: New Orleans is not the only city within 30 feet of sea level.....
We all know that popcorn doesn't cost $3 a bucket. A soda is not $3 either. And a dollar pack of candy shouldn't be $3.
Commercials. I shouldn't have to pay for my movie twice. I paid the ticket at the door - lose the commercials.
Because you are paying two different organizations for two different things. The movie ticket price goes to the move company. The theatre does not get any of that money. The theatre gets its money from popcorn and commercials. That is what pays for the building, employees, utilities.
So when you pay the ticket price to see the movie, that pays for the show only. The rest of the cost (food, commercials) is what you pay to be in the theatre while watching that movie.
Well, the movie studio does set the ticket price, for the most part. And the movie studio gets all of that money too. The theatre chain pays the cashiers to sell you the ticket, but they do not keep any of that money. Plus they usually have to pay a lump sum up front just to get the film in the first place.
So how does the theatre chain pay for the lump sum and cashier and electricity and popcorn and everything else? Not the ticket. They get it from the popcorn and drinks. The markup is so ridiculous because that is most of their income for an otherwise very expensive operation. Others include commercials and promotions before the films. All the stuff you mostly don't like about theatres are there because it is their income.
A generated digital film has new opportunities for multilanguage (if you plan ahead).
If you have all of the original material, models, images and so forth, you can recreate scenes of the movie with different text showing, with mouth motions different, relevant to a dfifferent language, and even with different cloths or cloth patterns on the characters. You control the emersion of the characters completely, so take advantage of it.
Make the film in one language. But when the time comes, change those elements that are relevant to another language and remake it in that language completely.
These days, all you get is the spoken language dubbed in, and that usually does not match the mouths of the characters speaking it. Text is untouched. That is a relic of live action movies. It doesn't have to be in digital also.
The first thing I thought of after reading that is "Is this safe?"
With HT and Memory, the CPU is only connected directly to things on the main board. Adding PCIe to the mix means the CPU is now directly connected to external devices (PCIe slots). Having spiked a MB myself through careless handling of addin cards, I imagine it would be very easy to scrap your CPU by doing the same thing. And it wouldn't even have to be the users fault. A badly designed card could do it. If they put in some sort of surge protection on the MB around the CPU, would that just increase the latency they are trying so hard to cut?
As mentuioned elsewhere in this forum, it may be more about cost than performance, in which case adding surge protection may be acceptable for performance but would also add its own price.
Back in the late 80's I was an operator at a retail company running Prime mini-computers. They were in the middle of a quarter million dollar upgrade when they hit a wall. One of their key applications ran in a business basic package called BP99. BP99 was licensed by system model. It would detect the model and only run in the type of system is was licensed for. Well, BP99 was out of business, we had a new model, and the old one was already out and downstairs in the basement before they figured out what happened.
At this point everyone is sitting around stairing dazed at each other wondering what the hell they were going to do. After everyone else was out of options, I piped in with "Let me try!". They said "Don't break it." In less than half an hour I had it running like a dream.
Basically, BP99 called a system API for model identification. I wrote a DLL (called an EPF on Prime) that immulated the system call but returned the expected model type. I then edited the application binary to call my API rather than the system API for that call. I fired it up and it called my library, got the expected model, and ran fine.
I saved them buko bucks on that one and didn't get much more than "Good, now we can continue" for it. But who cares, it was fun.
There are lots of good answers here concerning RISC vs CISC. But I doubt that is really what Apple was attracted to. In the early 90's when the 68K architecture was running out of steam and Apple was contemplating the switch to PowerPC, what they were looking for was performance. At that time, RISC design had a decent performance advantage over X86. It was thought that the baggage that was the X86 instruction set would hold that architecture back in the speed wars against RISC while the more elegant RISC designs around at the time would continue to have their speed advantage.
So Apple, thinking Intel would languish in their fat and happy X86 monopoly and X86 architecture difficulties, made the move to Power. It was fast and it had the backing of IBM.
What changed? Why didn't that hold up? AMD.
Prior to Athlon, Intel was on a fairly steady schedule of speed upgrades. You get a few 33's of Mhz every once and a while. They could take their time. Speed bumps were about money, not a race. When Athlon hit and Intel suddenly found themselves behind in the speed race with a processor that could run the same software, Windows, then their attitude shifted drasticly. From the 500Mhz intorduction of Athlon straight through to the 3+Ghz finalies. It was a rapid race to the top of the speed charts. Without that competition, I doubt Intel would have reached 3 Ghz by now.
That speed race also introduced enough new designs to overcome some of the advantages the RISC architectures had, either through redesigning the internal pipelining, or through material design and pure Mhz maddness that other less cash rich chip makers simply could not keep up with. So Intel caught up with PowerPC in the speed race and is in a position to provide cheaper prices to Apple. With the performance advantage gone, so is the incentave to go with something other than Intel.
AMD improved Intel enough to make them competative with all the RISC out there. They should thank AMD for the boost. Somehow I doubt they would be gracious enough to do it though.
I find it highly telling that AMD is pushing their prices up so much.
Just a year or two ago, Intel processors were the high priced monsters, and AMD was trying to gain recognition and volume with low priced competition.
With the introduction of the dual core processors, the tables were turned. AMD came in from $500 to $1000 on all their dual core models, while Intels entire line was way down, some aroune $200.
It would normally be that the market leader with the best product/name recognition would have the higher price, while the wanna-bes use low prices to gain some market. By switching ends, AMD and Intel have both stated publicly who is the leader and who is the follower.
I do like AMD, and it was great while their prices were down. But the good times are over and it's gonna be a while before I can get one of these babys though.
I'm not talking about the books, or classics in general. Of course there are people who will read them. Of course there are people who love these classics, and will read them over and over. My father in law has a five story house filled with books on every wall, hall, closet and open space. And he has read them all.
But those people will buy the books they want, they will choose them, and they know what they want. And they are not the target audienace of this promotion. This promotion is for people who do not already know what classics to choose, so they need someone to choose for them.
This promotion is for the people who want "the classics" but don't know what the classics are or why. So who is going to buy a thousand books, not knowing what they are, and still have the stamina to read them all? Darn few. The ones who can read that much already know what they want. The ones who need it handed to them most likely don't have the stamina to read it all.
Books are great, and they are for everyone. This promotion specifically is for the ones who think they want something, but don't really know what that is, but believe that it will somehow improve them to have it. What does that sound like to you?
Putting it in paperback is not going to get it read any more than the hardback edition. When you sell someone a thousand preselected books of a particular category, they are not going to read them all.
This is just as much snob appeal as Books by the yard. If someone buys a thousand books because they are "classics", they are buying them for about the same reasons. "I have all the classics" is not the same as "I've read all the classics". It does not matter what kind of cover it has. Are they really going to read them?
They have a nice quote about reducing snob appeal, but this is little more than reducing the price of snobism to the level where more people can enjoy it. And that nice little quote is an excelant way to let people buy it without realising it is snobism.
If it was not specifically targetted to the snobs, it would not be a single large set. It would be broken out more by interest and genre. And why are there duplicates? Are you going to read the same book four times? This is shelf stuffing at its best.
Those 1,082 books also contain a few duplicates: By our count, if you weed out the multiple translations, different editions and compilations ("The Iliad" is there four times), as well as the "portable" volumes for well-represented authors, you wind up with 1,031 books. Still, at a book a week (an easy pace when you're reading "This Side of Paradise," not so easy if tackling "The Brothers Karamazov"), that's nearly 20 years' worth of reading headed for your shelves.
Sorry, no. This has snobism written all over it. They just brought the price down for the rest of us.
Many years ago, one of my friends worked in a used book store (Half Price Books, in north Texas). They bought and sold lots of used books.
When they would get older classical type books, the kind noone really wanted to buy used to read, but that have the nice old decorated hardback spine, they would line them in a seperate area for "decorative books". People would buy them by the yard as filler, either to fill their library with impressive looking books, or for theater props or whatever. All they really needed to do was look good filling a shelf.
To hell with Bush judges.
George W. Bush himself pulled some of this crap.
In the early 90's, GWB was part owner of the Texas Rangers Baseball team in Arlington, TX. After buying the team, he and his co-owners made a deal with the city to:
Condemn surrounding land, take it, and essentially give it to the Baseball Team Owners for a new stadium.
Raise city sales taxes to build the new baseball stadium, that would eventually become the property of the team owners.
So Bush and co got land and a new stadium, and the people of Arlington got some land taken and their sales taxes raised, all for the "benefit of the people". The arguement for all this taking was that it would improve tourist money in the area, which never panned out. Bush got the value and the city got very little benefit.
So if you think a GW Bush appointed judge will be better than that, think again. Bush loves this crap, and so will anyone he appoints.
In the 60's Space Race, lots of people went into science to be "Rocket Scientists". It was a popular and prized profession. When I went through high school and college in the 70's and 80', plenty of people talked about the great surge in interest in science "just a few years ago" and how it had deminished recently. Younger professors had been educated right in the middle of all that greatness. The 80's were a bit of a let down for all of them.
More recently, science has been put on the back burner due to political issued. It seems the popularity of science has more to do with what it can do for you than for what it is. In the 60's they needed science to accomplish something. The way to do that is to unleash it with all the resources it needed. It worked great.
Today, political hacks don't want truth and they don't want progress. They want to push their own agendas. And for the most part science does not support their agendas. It either contradicts, or is mearly immaterial. The needs of the politician is to sweep science out of the way and let them do what they want. Thus you get the current pitiful state.
When we get another major goal that only science can achieve, then we'll see the rise of the "Rocket Scientist" again.
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Think of Walt Disney as the Bill Gates of his day. He tried and failed several times to start up various businesses. His one success was the Mickey Mouse cartoon. With that start, he levreged into the movie business and grew quickly.
Once he had some power, he used it for all it was worth. He dominated the film channels and forced theatres not to show any competing anmation on threat of loss of rights to show Disney. He dominated his company, employees and competators. Old disney was all business, and The Mouse is sacred because it is what got him off the ground in the beginning.
However, he at least did have a good idea about what types of shows to produce, and he did make some very great advances in technology and style. The Disney company has always been a bunch of bastards, but under Walt Disney they at least had some direction and quality. Under Eisner it's just a bunch of greedy bastards with no idea how to carry the company other than "Follow the money".
In the beginning there was one Cringely. It was a pen name used in a gossip column in Infoworld magazine. Several people went through that job using that name.
One of those people (I think his name was Mark Williams, or something like that, but I'm not sure) who was fairly popular in that job in the early nineties left the job. When he did, he took the name with him and used it in other publishing. He had a big spat with Infoworld but eventually earned the right to continue using the name.
So now he is with PBS, has made several TV specials on the history of computing, and writes this column for them.
Meanwhile Infoworld continues the way they allways have with their gossip column. I have not read it regularly since Mark left, prefering to read his PBS column instead.
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30 Rise is if all arctic and antarctic glaciers melt. Its not on that site. I was looking for a map of Lousiana, not a dissertation on global warming. It's out there, go find it. I've done enough searching.
Global Warming should have something to do with it though. Take current sea level, add 30 feet, recalculate.
At that level, the coast will be dozens of miles inland of where New Orleans is now. The city will be in a hole out in the middle of the ocean with no surge protection at all. This can be expected before the end of the century.
Now is a pretty good time to take a deep breath and decide whether New Orleans needs to be saved or abandoned. If they do a half assed job of rebuilding, then they will only be doing this again every few years until they are just flat under water and nowhere to go. Even if they do it rght, New Orleans will be just a hole in the ocean with a city in it. Take this as a sign and get out while the getting is good. If they want to do a half assed job of rebuilding the walls, then do it and use the time you have left to salvage anything worth salvaging from the city.
BTW: New Orleans is not the only city within 30 feet of sea level.....
If you don't know the answer, then either:
A. It does not exist.
B. You have not looked hard enough.
look here. Holland most likely has different distribution fees and share percentages than the US.
Commercials. I shouldn't have to pay for my movie twice. I paid the ticket at the door - lose the commercials.
Because you are paying two different organizations for two different things. The movie ticket price goes to the move company. The theatre does not get any of that money. The theatre gets its money from popcorn and commercials. That is what pays for the building, employees, utilities.
So when you pay the ticket price to see the movie, that pays for the show only. The rest of the cost (food, commercials) is what you pay to be in the theatre while watching that movie.
Well, the movie studio does set the ticket price, for the most part. And the movie studio gets all of that money too. The theatre chain pays the cashiers to sell you the ticket, but they do not keep any of that money. Plus they usually have to pay a lump sum up front just to get the film in the first place.
So how does the theatre chain pay for the lump sum and cashier and electricity and popcorn and everything else? Not the ticket. They get it from the popcorn and drinks. The markup is so ridiculous because that is most of their income for an otherwise very expensive operation. Others include commercials and promotions before the films. All the stuff you mostly don't like about theatres are there because it is their income.
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If you have all of the original material, models, images and so forth, you can recreate scenes of the movie with different text showing, with mouth motions different, relevant to a dfifferent language, and even with different cloths or cloth patterns on the characters. You control the emersion of the characters completely, so take advantage of it.
Make the film in one language. But when the time comes, change those elements that are relevant to another language and remake it in that language completely.
These days, all you get is the spoken language dubbed in, and that usually does not match the mouths of the characters speaking it. Text is untouched. That is a relic of live action movies. It doesn't have to be in digital also.
What? so you can look like This?
He also did an English voice for "Castle in the Sky", another great movie from the creator of Nausica.
With HT and Memory, the CPU is only connected directly to things on the main board. Adding PCIe to the mix means the CPU is now directly connected to external devices (PCIe slots). Having spiked a MB myself through careless handling of addin cards, I imagine it would be very easy to scrap your CPU by doing the same thing. And it wouldn't even have to be the users fault. A badly designed card could do it. If they put in some sort of surge protection on the MB around the CPU, would that just increase the latency they are trying so hard to cut?
As mentuioned elsewhere in this forum, it may be more about cost than performance, in which case adding surge protection may be acceptable for performance but would also add its own price.
Plus one for performance, minus one for safety.
At this point everyone is sitting around stairing dazed at each other wondering what the hell they were going to do. After everyone else was out of options, I piped in with "Let me try!". They said "Don't break it." In less than half an hour I had it running like a dream.
Basically, BP99 called a system API for model identification. I wrote a DLL (called an EPF on Prime) that immulated the system call but returned the expected model type. I then edited the application binary to call my API rather than the system API for that call. I fired it up and it called my library, got the expected model, and ran fine. I saved them buko bucks on that one and didn't get much more than "Good, now we can continue" for it. But who cares, it was fun.
So Apple, thinking Intel would languish in their fat and happy X86 monopoly and X86 architecture difficulties, made the move to Power. It was fast and it had the backing of IBM.
What changed? Why didn't that hold up? AMD.
Prior to Athlon, Intel was on a fairly steady schedule of speed upgrades. You get a few 33's of Mhz every once and a while. They could take their time. Speed bumps were about money, not a race. When Athlon hit and Intel suddenly found themselves behind in the speed race with a processor that could run the same software, Windows, then their attitude shifted drasticly. From the 500Mhz intorduction of Athlon straight through to the 3+Ghz finalies. It was a rapid race to the top of the speed charts. Without that competition, I doubt Intel would have reached 3 Ghz by now.
That speed race also introduced enough new designs to overcome some of the advantages the RISC architectures had, either through redesigning the internal pipelining, or through material design and pure Mhz maddness that other less cash rich chip makers simply could not keep up with. So Intel caught up with PowerPC in the speed race and is in a position to provide cheaper prices to Apple. With the performance advantage gone, so is the incentave to go with something other than Intel.
AMD improved Intel enough to make them competative with all the RISC out there. They should thank AMD for the boost. Somehow I doubt they would be gracious enough to do it though.
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Just a year or two ago, Intel processors were the high priced monsters, and AMD was trying to gain recognition and volume with low priced competition.
With the introduction of the dual core processors, the tables were turned. AMD came in from $500 to $1000 on all their dual core models, while Intels entire line was way down, some aroune $200.
It would normally be that the market leader with the best product/name recognition would have the higher price, while the wanna-bes use low prices to gain some market. By switching ends, AMD and Intel have both stated publicly who is the leader and who is the follower.
I do like AMD, and it was great while their prices were down. But the good times are over and it's gonna be a while before I can get one of these babys though.
But those people will buy the books they want, they will choose them, and they know what they want. And they are not the target audienace of this promotion. This promotion is for people who do not already know what classics to choose, so they need someone to choose for them. This promotion is for the people who want "the classics" but don't know what the classics are or why. So who is going to buy a thousand books, not knowing what they are, and still have the stamina to read them all? Darn few. The ones who can read that much already know what they want. The ones who need it handed to them most likely don't have the stamina to read it all.
Books are great, and they are for everyone. This promotion specifically is for the ones who think they want something, but don't really know what that is, but believe that it will somehow improve them to have it. What does that sound like to you?
This is just as much snob appeal as Books by the yard. If someone buys a thousand books because they are "classics", they are buying them for about the same reasons. "I have all the classics" is not the same as "I've read all the classics". It does not matter what kind of cover it has. Are they really going to read them?
They have a nice quote about reducing snob appeal, but this is little more than reducing the price of snobism to the level where more people can enjoy it. And that nice little quote is an excelant way to let people buy it without realising it is snobism.
If it was not specifically targetted to the snobs, it would not be a single large set. It would be broken out more by interest and genre. And why are there duplicates? Are you going to read the same book four times? This is shelf stuffing at its best.
Those 1,082 books also contain a few duplicates: By our count, if you weed out the multiple translations, different editions and compilations ("The Iliad" is there four times), as well as the "portable" volumes for well-represented authors, you wind up with 1,031 books. Still, at a book a week (an easy pace when you're reading "This Side of Paradise," not so easy if tackling "The Brothers Karamazov"), that's nearly 20 years' worth of reading headed for your shelves.
Sorry, no. This has snobism written all over it. They just brought the price down for the rest of us.
When they would get older classical type books, the kind noone really wanted to buy used to read, but that have the nice old decorated hardback spine, they would line them in a seperate area for "decorative books". People would buy them by the yard as filler, either to fill their library with impressive looking books, or for theater props or whatever. All they really needed to do was look good filling a shelf.
Amazons version of this sounds a bit expensive.
George W. Bush himself pulled some of this crap.
In the early 90's, GWB was part owner of the Texas Rangers Baseball team in Arlington, TX. After buying the team, he and his co-owners made a deal with the city to:
Condemn surrounding land, take it, and essentially give it to the Baseball Team Owners for a new stadium.
Raise city sales taxes to build the new baseball stadium, that would eventually become the property of the team owners.
So Bush and co got land and a new stadium, and the people of Arlington got some land taken and their sales taxes raised, all for the "benefit of the people". The arguement for all this taking was that it would improve tourist money in the area, which never panned out. Bush got the value and the city got very little benefit.
So if you think a GW Bush appointed judge will be better than that, think again. Bush loves this crap, and so will anyone he appoints.
More recently, science has been put on the back burner due to political issued. It seems the popularity of science has more to do with what it can do for you than for what it is. In the 60's they needed science to accomplish something. The way to do that is to unleash it with all the resources it needed. It worked great.
Today, political hacks don't want truth and they don't want progress. They want to push their own agendas. And for the most part science does not support their agendas. It either contradicts, or is mearly immaterial. The needs of the politician is to sweep science out of the way and let them do what they want. Thus you get the current pitiful state.
When we get another major goal that only science can achieve, then we'll see the rise of the "Rocket Scientist" again.
Those were not wrist braces.
Once he had some power, he used it for all it was worth. He dominated the film channels and forced theatres not to show any competing anmation on threat of loss of rights to show Disney. He dominated his company, employees and competators. Old disney was all business, and The Mouse is sacred because it is what got him off the ground in the beginning.
However, he at least did have a good idea about what types of shows to produce, and he did make some very great advances in technology and style. The Disney company has always been a bunch of bastards, but under Walt Disney they at least had some direction and quality. Under Eisner it's just a bunch of greedy bastards with no idea how to carry the company other than "Follow the money".
Nope, I wrote mine (paraphrasing Tolkein of course, but nothing else between).
That sure looks familiar.
One of those people (I think his name was Mark Williams, or something like that, but I'm not sure) who was fairly popular in that job in the early nineties left the job. When he did, he took the name with him and used it in other publishing. He had a big spat with Infoworld but eventually earned the right to continue using the name.
So now he is with PBS, has made several TV specials on the history of computing, and writes this column for them.
Meanwhile Infoworld continues the way they allways have with their gossip column. I have not read it regularly since Mark left, prefering to read his PBS column instead.