I can count the number of PCs I've seen with good cases with good airflow on one hand. It's almost always a win with a generic PC case to just open the thing up--at least from a cooling perspective.
Stock Case fans are remarkably weak too, even if the case is well designed it's not unusual for the airflow to just be insufficent, especially if it's an OEM case and the user has added just about any hardware. HDDs are the worst too, because they are among the most thermally sensitive pieces of equipment in a modern computer and yet when just two of them are loaded into the 3.5" HDD bay, they will tend to overheat unless you jury-rig some sort of extra cooling for them. If you see three stacked up inside of a drive cage with no fan in front of them, you just know the middle drive will be dead in 9 months.
The point is, in most cases taking the cover off and letting convection do its thing will result in lower temperatures than leaving the cover on and relying on the case fans.
It's hard to compare the Kosovo War to Iraq. I don't fault G.W. Bush for going to Afghanistan for instance, that was justified like Kosovo. I'm talking about the obsession with Iraq that caused him to make up some flimsy excuse to invade the country and throw the whole region into termoil.
For the us v. them mentality, I'm referring to the labelling of dissenters are unpatriotic.
Another point to consider: There are two viewpoints to cover and two factions. No matter which way you put it (monster/war human/peace or monster/peace human/war) you're going to have this perceived bias. I really can't fault the designers for going with the one that has more internal consistency in the storyline.
I think it's an outcropping of the Neo-con obsession with invading countries and deposing their leaders. Also, their "you're either for us or against us" mentality tends to lump anyone opposed to invading Iraq in the "dirty hippy liberal" crowd, including more moderate (traditional) conservatives.
Am I the only one who thought the last couple of books needed some serious editing? Although I've forgotten the specifics (they were forgettable), I distinctly remember wishing JKR would get on with the story near the beginning of the last book and remembering just how annoyed I was that Harry and Crew seemed to forget every magic trick they learned near the end of the book.
There was definatly a good solid story in there, but it was padded with all of this fat that served to really bog the book down. IMHO, most of the time he spends with his adoptive family is wasted (yes, summers suck, we get it), and that time has been getting longer and longer in each book. Even the time he spent in the House before going to Hogwarts was largely a waste of time IMHO.
I wouldn't count on your cable company doing this. They wouldn't even have the DVRs if TiVo didn't force their hand. Even the DirectTV TiVos may not support downloading because DirecTV doesn't allow users to enable the home networking option on their boxes. In general, Cable Companies are very reluctant to embrace new technologies, especially ones that give you more freedom; there is a deep seated dread that they might be obsoleted by the next thing that comes along and the last thing they want to do is speed their own demise.
Besides, NetFlix already competes with their overpriced and crappy PPV system, why would they make Netflix any more attractive than it already is?
I recognize all of the words, but it still doesn't make sense.
Re:13 isn't really a good number for NASA
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T-43 Hours and Counting
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I doubt it was Intels engineers that were complaining about the 666Mhz clock speed. I'm sure it was the marketing guys going nuts knowing that a sizable chunk of the population will never buy anything with "666" on it. No need to cut out a segement of your userbase needlessly.
You're planning to compensate for misspellings by grouping all similar words together? Even the examples in the paper do a pretty good job of explaining why this is a bad idea for your project.
Cttle is further from Cattle than Battle is!
It seems like a conventional spell-checker would be superior.
This doesn't even touch on the real problem though: People learn this information automatically (kinda) as children through interaction with the real world. This way they don't miss important facts (they're necessary in the real world). Your project is limited, however, to what people can think up on your website. Nobody is going to want to spend time putting in the bulk of this mundane knowledge (Trees are hard, pavement is flat, you can see through glass, etc...). There is basically an unlimited number of "facts" you can input in this form, and at the same time it's basically impossible to get even a toddlers level view of the world without far more input data than you are ever going to get.
In other words, you need to devise some automated method of inputting data into this project. A robotic baby in essence. The knowledge you'll get from this project is basically a drop in the bucket compared to what an automated system should be setting up. I suspect you'll need a better classification system for your knowledge than just a bunch of yes/no questions as well. A simple hardness sensor and object identifier (good luck the the latter) will create thousands of entries like:
Desk is hard
USB Key is hard
Pillow is not hard
Phone is hard
Carpet is not hard
etc...
Nobody is going to spend the time to input data like that on your website (especially since it can be relative, not all desks are hard!) and yet without basic information like that such a knowledge base is useless except as a source of trivia. Common sense isn't built out of tiny loosely connected bits of trivia, it's a far more extensive general understanding of the fundamentals of the world itself.
You did not look at the map nor how it was made. This is a continuous vector map. Spelling does not matter.
I stopped reading right here. It's like a bad episode of Star Trek, where they try to explain away some fundamental limitation with technobabble. No amount of vectorizing the data is going to help the computer sort out misspellings. It's like trying to fix a flat tire by changing the oil.
Re:Cyberspace?
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The Escapist
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Tad needs to fire his editor. His novels tend to ramble on and on pointlessly. He has some really good ideas that translate fairly well on book form (although at times it feels like reading a summer action movie), but his books tend to bog down rather badly in the middle.
And why do I have to pay for the schools when I don't have any kids in them?
Oh yeah, because otherwise all schools are effectively private schools and most people can't afford private school. The burden has to be shared for the betterment of the community.
With stuff like trash pickup, are you sure your condo association doesn't have a deal with the city where they are refunded the cost of pickup because they do their own? That's normally how those things work (although sometimes the condo association pockets the money instead of giving it back to you. Always double check the finances of any HOA or Condo Association you join, an amazingly large number of them basically rip off the homeowners under the assumption that nobody ever goes to the meetings or double checks the finances.).
On the other hand, the last few times the industry tried this (DAT, 8-Tracks, SVHS...) have not been that well recieved. The industry would have to cut the prices on the DVD-Audio discs below that of CDs to get people to swich, and there is no way those greedy bastards are going to do that.
I'd be all for this, except that the people fighting for removal of "Judicial Activism" invariable turn out to be highly conservative types who are pissed off that some Judge said they couldn't hold christian revivals in the local public schools during school hours and stuff like that. When judgements go their way, even if they expand judicial powers, they stay quiet.
It's the same tactic as repeating the phrase "Liberal Media bias" over and over and hope that people start to believe it. The sad thing is that it works and we see a gradual shifting of the media from the center to the right to compensate for this percieved imbalance. The whole position that the media is liberal and activist is rediculous when you realize that they're just parroting GOP talking points and prepackaged news reports without even offering countering views so much of the time.
Yeah, it must suck for those pundits when they can't predict what position someone is going to take based solely on their political party. No wonder she aggrivated them so much.
The PS2's main processor and memory are a little wimpy for emulation, and emulators can't make much use out of the Emotion Engine, so yeah, getting a good quality emulation out of it is probably pretty difficult.
That's one of the tough things about the community though. If you're only relying on stuff that's licensed you're not going to be able to take part in the discussions online with your peers. By the time something is licensed and released in the States it's already half forgotten in Japan and nearly impossible to talk about with anybody.
Now that you're going to conventions, ask yourself how many One Piece and Naruto cosplayers you see. Now consider when those shows first started airing and when the US release will _finally_ get started. Don't even try to think about when the final DVD will come out in the States and how much you'll be paying for the whole set.
Even if you want to support the US industry as much as possible, it's basically impossible to ignore Fansubs and yet consider yourself part of the community. Also, don't forget that a lot of the new fanbase can't really afford $30 for each three or four episodes of a 26 episode series (usually 4-4-3-3-3-3-3-3), they are younger and younger these days and don't have the same purchasing power the old early-twenties demographic had. Half of the time they can't even afford the manga, at least if all of the kids reading the mangas back to back in the aisles of the bookstores is any indication.
The other advantage is that the late adopter allows the thousands of early adopters to do extended beta testing for them and let the company fix early wear items and whatnot. It took Sony a few generations to get decent spindle motors in the PS2 for instance.
It's a shame that it looks like both platforms will be performing behind even PCs of today by a good margin once they are finally released.
The Cell has a shot though. If the developers figure out ways to make the cells useful for more than trivial parts of the game the PS3 could see a noticeable boost, but being hamstrung by a limited amount of working memory is a tough obstacle to hurdle, especially if calls to main memory are ridiculously slow (as they apparently are).
It looks like the Xbox might be up a creek though.
Both players are apparently optimizing for games with fancy graphics but not much below the hood though, which is a real shame.
According to the article, Physics calculations might be squeezed onto Cells which should help the PS3 quite a bit. If only the Cells weren't so memory limited (didn't Sony learn from the PS2? Huge main memory is only good if you can get that data where it is needed quickly! Well, at least it HAS a huge main memory back.)
Sony was hyping up the Cell so much it was almost guarenteed to suck.
It's almost like the Cell architecture was designed to score the highest possible score on trivial benchmarks (like the ones that give you FLOPS) without worrying about real world performance. Where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, the Emotion Engine (PS2)!
Wasn't Sony saying that we'd be sticking Cell processers in everything because they were going to be so great? I seem to recall talk about personal computers switching over to Cell because it was going to blow regular processors away. In a way, it does (FLOPS), but in practice it's way slower than even processers from last year.
Reading a reflective TFT is pretty easy on the eyes. It's not like an actively lit source like a CRT, certainly no worse than a book, especially compared to printed material on glossy paper (magazines).
Slashdot Mirror
Anymore? I can't remember a time when the Slashdot maintainers ever did much editing. I'm not even sure they're properly called editors.
I can count the number of PCs I've seen with good cases with good airflow on one hand. It's almost always a win with a generic PC case to just open the thing up--at least from a cooling perspective.
Stock Case fans are remarkably weak too, even if the case is well designed it's not unusual for the airflow to just be insufficent, especially if it's an OEM case and the user has added just about any hardware. HDDs are the worst too, because they are among the most thermally sensitive pieces of equipment in a modern computer and yet when just two of them are loaded into the 3.5" HDD bay, they will tend to overheat unless you jury-rig some sort of extra cooling for them. If you see three stacked up inside of a drive cage with no fan in front of them, you just know the middle drive will be dead in 9 months.
The point is, in most cases taking the cover off and letting convection do its thing will result in lower temperatures than leaving the cover on and relying on the case fans.
G.H.W. Bush was a traditional conservative.
It's hard to compare the Kosovo War to Iraq. I don't fault G.W. Bush for going to Afghanistan for instance, that was justified like Kosovo. I'm talking about the obsession with Iraq that caused him to make up some flimsy excuse to invade the country and throw the whole region into termoil.
For the us v. them mentality, I'm referring to the labelling of dissenters are unpatriotic.
Another point to consider: There are two viewpoints to cover and two factions. No matter which way you put it (monster/war human/peace or monster/peace human/war) you're going to have this perceived bias. I really can't fault the designers for going with the one that has more internal consistency in the storyline.
I think it's an outcropping of the Neo-con obsession with invading countries and deposing their leaders. Also, their "you're either for us or against us" mentality tends to lump anyone opposed to invading Iraq in the "dirty hippy liberal" crowd, including more moderate (traditional) conservatives.
Am I the only one who thought the last couple of books needed some serious editing? Although I've forgotten the specifics (they were forgettable), I distinctly remember wishing JKR would get on with the story near the beginning of the last book and remembering just how annoyed I was that Harry and Crew seemed to forget every magic trick they learned near the end of the book.
There was definatly a good solid story in there, but it was padded with all of this fat that served to really bog the book down. IMHO, most of the time he spends with his adoptive family is wasted (yes, summers suck, we get it), and that time has been getting longer and longer in each book. Even the time he spent in the House before going to Hogwarts was largely a waste of time IMHO.
Maybe I'm just getting cranky though.
I wouldn't count on your cable company doing this. They wouldn't even have the DVRs if TiVo didn't force their hand. Even the DirectTV TiVos may not support downloading because DirecTV doesn't allow users to enable the home networking option on their boxes. In general, Cable Companies are very reluctant to embrace new technologies, especially ones that give you more freedom; there is a deep seated dread that they might be obsoleted by the next thing that comes along and the last thing they want to do is speed their own demise.
Besides, NetFlix already competes with their overpriced and crappy PPV system, why would they make Netflix any more attractive than it already is?
...cute female EE grad student...
I recognize all of the words, but it still doesn't make sense.
I doubt it was Intels engineers that were complaining about the 666Mhz clock speed. I'm sure it was the marketing guys going nuts knowing that a sizable chunk of the population will never buy anything with "666" on it. No need to cut out a segement of your userbase needlessly.
Cttle is further from Cattle than Battle is!
It seems like a conventional spell-checker would be superior.
This doesn't even touch on the real problem though: People learn this information automatically (kinda) as children through interaction with the real world. This way they don't miss important facts (they're necessary in the real world). Your project is limited, however, to what people can think up on your website. Nobody is going to want to spend time putting in the bulk of this mundane knowledge (Trees are hard, pavement is flat, you can see through glass, etc...). There is basically an unlimited number of "facts" you can input in this form, and at the same time it's basically impossible to get even a toddlers level view of the world without far more input data than you are ever going to get.
In other words, you need to devise some automated method of inputting data into this project. A robotic baby in essence. The knowledge you'll get from this project is basically a drop in the bucket compared to what an automated system should be setting up. I suspect you'll need a better classification system for your knowledge than just a bunch of yes/no questions as well. A simple hardness sensor and object identifier (good luck the the latter) will create thousands of entries like:
- Desk is hard
- USB Key is hard
- Pillow is not hard
- Phone is hard
- Carpet is not hard
- etc...
Nobody is going to spend the time to input data like that on your website (especially since it can be relative, not all desks are hard!) and yet without basic information like that such a knowledge base is useless except as a source of trivia. Common sense isn't built out of tiny loosely connected bits of trivia, it's a far more extensive general understanding of the fundamentals of the world itself.Tad needs to fire his editor. His novels tend to ramble on and on pointlessly. He has some really good ideas that translate fairly well on book form (although at times it feels like reading a summer action movie), but his books tend to bog down rather badly in the middle.
And why do I have to pay for the schools when I don't have any kids in them?
Oh yeah, because otherwise all schools are effectively private schools and most people can't afford private school. The burden has to be shared for the betterment of the community.
With stuff like trash pickup, are you sure your condo association doesn't have a deal with the city where they are refunded the cost of pickup because they do their own? That's normally how those things work (although sometimes the condo association pockets the money instead of giving it back to you. Always double check the finances of any HOA or Condo Association you join, an amazingly large number of them basically rip off the homeowners under the assumption that nobody ever goes to the meetings or double checks the finances.).
I think you are a little too enthusiastic about the adoption rate of HDTV.
On the other hand, the last few times the industry tried this (DAT, 8-Tracks, SVHS...) have not been that well recieved. The industry would have to cut the prices on the DVD-Audio discs below that of CDs to get people to swich, and there is no way those greedy bastards are going to do that.
Make sure your firewall doesn't block incoming bittorrent traffic. If you aren't sharing you will get terrible performance.
I'd be all for this, except that the people fighting for removal of "Judicial Activism" invariable turn out to be highly conservative types who are pissed off that some Judge said they couldn't hold christian revivals in the local public schools during school hours and stuff like that. When judgements go their way, even if they expand judicial powers, they stay quiet.
It's the same tactic as repeating the phrase "Liberal Media bias" over and over and hope that people start to believe it. The sad thing is that it works and we see a gradual shifting of the media from the center to the right to compensate for this percieved imbalance. The whole position that the media is liberal and activist is rediculous when you realize that they're just parroting GOP talking points and prepackaged news reports without even offering countering views so much of the time.
Yeah, it must suck for those pundits when they can't predict what position someone is going to take based solely on their political party. No wonder she aggrivated them so much.
The PS2's main processor and memory are a little wimpy for emulation, and emulators can't make much use out of the Emotion Engine, so yeah, getting a good quality emulation out of it is probably pretty difficult.
That's one of the tough things about the community though. If you're only relying on stuff that's licensed you're not going to be able to take part in the discussions online with your peers. By the time something is licensed and released in the States it's already half forgotten in Japan and nearly impossible to talk about with anybody.
Now that you're going to conventions, ask yourself how many One Piece and Naruto cosplayers you see. Now consider when those shows first started airing and when the US release will _finally_ get started. Don't even try to think about when the final DVD will come out in the States and how much you'll be paying for the whole set.
Even if you want to support the US industry as much as possible, it's basically impossible to ignore Fansubs and yet consider yourself part of the community. Also, don't forget that a lot of the new fanbase can't really afford $30 for each three or four episodes of a 26 episode series (usually 4-4-3-3-3-3-3-3), they are younger and younger these days and don't have the same purchasing power the old early-twenties demographic had. Half of the time they can't even afford the manga, at least if all of the kids reading the mangas back to back in the aisles of the bookstores is any indication.
The other advantage is that the late adopter allows the thousands of early adopters to do extended beta testing for them and let the company fix early wear items and whatnot. It took Sony a few generations to get decent spindle motors in the PS2 for instance.
It's a shame that it looks like both platforms will be performing behind even PCs of today by a good margin once they are finally released.
The Cell has a shot though. If the developers figure out ways to make the cells useful for more than trivial parts of the game the PS3 could see a noticeable boost, but being hamstrung by a limited amount of working memory is a tough obstacle to hurdle, especially if calls to main memory are ridiculously slow (as they apparently are).
It looks like the Xbox might be up a creek though.
Both players are apparently optimizing for games with fancy graphics but not much below the hood though, which is a real shame.
According to the article, Physics calculations might be squeezed onto Cells which should help the PS3 quite a bit. If only the Cells weren't so memory limited (didn't Sony learn from the PS2? Huge main memory is only good if you can get that data where it is needed quickly! Well, at least it HAS a huge main memory back.)
Sony was hyping up the Cell so much it was almost guarenteed to suck.
It's almost like the Cell architecture was designed to score the highest possible score on trivial benchmarks (like the ones that give you FLOPS) without worrying about real world performance. Where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, the Emotion Engine (PS2)!
Wasn't Sony saying that we'd be sticking Cell processers in everything because they were going to be so great? I seem to recall talk about personal computers switching over to Cell because it was going to blow regular processors away. In a way, it does (FLOPS), but in practice it's way slower than even processers from last year.
Reading a reflective TFT is pretty easy on the eyes. It's not like an actively lit source like a CRT, certainly no worse than a book, especially compared to printed material on glossy paper (magazines).