It's an interesting time in CISC processors. With fabs having to spend exponential amounts of money for incremental gains in performance and power savings, a smaller company like AMD may be able to make a chip that's 90% as fast, at a much lower price, which I hope it does because it's good for customers on both sides.
It would be nice if AMD would catch up. Their biggest problem currently is their massive debt.
I refinanced a couple of years ago with Quicken Loans. They told me if mortgage rates dropped within two years they would automagically lower my rate. What they didn't tell me is that they would immediately sell my mortgage. Turns out they sold it to Chase. So now I am stuck with these bastards unless I want to refinance again. I will probably do it but I will ask more questions this time.
Damn, I haven't posted here for a while. =D
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4. Move 100MB files - Move 100MB of JPEG files from one hard drive to another
5. Move 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another
6. Network transfer 100MB files - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device
7. Network transfer 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from test machine to NAS device
8. Move 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to.ISO file
9. Move 2.5GB files under load - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to.ISO file
10. Network transfer 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device while ripping DVD to.ISO file
There are 28 dishes, 27 of which are used in the array and one is always out on service rotation.
I visited the VLA a couple of years ago. Those dishes are freaking huge and you can't get a good prospective of how big they really are until you stand under one. They had a small building for tourists and my friends and I spent about an hour inside learning about the array. They spoke of the impending upgrades on some of the displays. The original design left huge gaps in the radio spectrum and the upgrades are supposed to fill in all the gaps. If I remember correctly, until the upgrades are completed the array wasn't able to see even half the available spectrum.
It really is an interesting site and should be on every nerd's list of "Things to see before I die". =)
You could get an Asus laptop. Owned by the Taiwanese, and made in Taiwan (or at least that's what's stamped on the bottom of mine).
Why just buy from not-China when you can buy from their enemies? Ok, that was pretty good! =)
But... I have talked to a Chinese co-worker. According to him, Taiwan is just part of China and not a separate country. Interesting... the different viewpoints.
Exactly!
I used to run folding@home on 4-5 PC's 24/7. Then I realized that I *might* be able to save some money by not doing that. It turned out to be around $40 a month. In the summer months, you have to get rid of the excess heat produced by all the PC's running in addition to running the PC's. I decided I really shouldn't be doing this as long as I am an underpaid apartment dweller.
As the saying goes, "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then."
He is just one of those people that spouts off all the time. He was bound hit one one eventually.
My ex-wife had an uncle that was into local politics. He would do something stupid shortly before election day so people would remember his name. Of course they couldn't remember why they remembered his name, but that didn't seem to matter much. Once he was found half naked and passed out drunk in his car that was parked in a grocery store parking lot. He won that election too!
How would you calulate the tax for 5% of say a Slackware download? It's free so 0*.05=0.
I guess you could calculate it from what it would have been if you had purchased it, but if that's the case I would just buy the boxed set.
According to the article, you would have to buy the Gigabyte motherboard too. Unless you were willing to do that, you haven't lost anything.
From the aritcle:
The drawbacks to the 3D1 are its limited application (it will only run on the GA-K8NXP-SLI), the fact that it doesn't perform any better than 2-card SLI, and the fact that the user loses a DVI and an HD-15 display connection when compared to the 2-card solution.
You have a good point. Here in Nashville, TN (USA)
"December 16, 2004
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An advertising executive for a weekly alternative newspaper was charged Thursday with six counts of promoting prostitution in connection with adult ads he accepted and coordinated.
A grand jury indicted Nels Noseworthy, 29, following an investigation that spanned more than a year. Police said Noseworthy was the contact person for anyone placing ads in the "Personal Adult Services" section of the Nashville Scene."
I bought the game and it will be there when I get home today ($35 shipped from Fry's Outpost). I buy all the games that I play even though I can get cracked versions from my friends. They say they are "disappointed" that I pay for games I don't have too. I will admit I have been playing a cracked version CSS for the past couple of weeks and it is sweet. This is the reason I bought the game. Funny, isn't it?
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I am outraged at the unbelievably gory violence, gratuitous explicit sex, perversion and filthy language on the FX Network series "Nip/Tuck" -- a program your company is bankrolling by agreeing to be sole sponsor of its season premiere episode.
American families are being poisoned by the extremely offensive content in this show. Such TV programming is seriously harming America's children and grandchildren, and SPONSORS LIKE YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT WITH YOUR ADVERTISING BUDGET!
I applaud Carfax, Orbitz, Castrol, Progressive Insurance, Capital One, Cingular Wireless, Gateway Computers, Schering-Plough, Chattem, Orange Glo and Alcon Laboratories -- early sponsors during "Nip/Tuck's" first season -- for their decisions to stop paying for commercials on the show. By showing true corporate responsibility, these sponsors have earned the thanks of every parent and grandparent in America.
But by making the opposite decision and striking a deal with "Nip/Tuck" to bankroll its season premiere, XM SATELLITE RADIO HAS DISPLAYED CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY.
The creator of "Nip/Tuck" has declared that it is his aim to remove every barrier to depiciton of explicit sex on TV. By paying for "Nip/Tuck," you are supporting him in this aim.
Therefore, I am hereby joining with the Parents Television Council in calling upon you to stop paying for the shameful gross-out content of "Nip/Tuck."
I suggest that you read the summary of "Nip/Tuck's" content which the Parents Television Council has compiled (see below), and then decide whether this is the image you want American consumers -- your potential customers -- to have of your company.
With my support, if XM SATELLITE RADIO persists in its financial backing of "Nip/Tuck," the Parents Television Council will do everything possible to ensure that your potential customers become aware of the "Nip/Tuck" content that your company's commericals are paying for.
Here is a summary of the first-season content on "Nip/Tuck."
[WARNING: The following content summary during "Nip/Tuck's" first season is explicit and will be EXTREMELY offensive to many. Bear in mind that it appeared on basic-cable television where it was available to millions of children.]
GRAPHIC SELF-CIRCUMCISION SCENE: Dr. McNamara's son, Matt, performs a circumcision on himself at home. Since his girlfriend is turned off by his extra foreskin, Matt decides to go to a website and learn how to perform the operation on himself. Matt removes his pants. We see Matt's upper body. We hear the instructions going on in his head: "For the first cut, grip the foreskin and pull it out. Cut in circular motion in a thin quarter inch strip." We see him looking down as he cuts at the foreskin of his penis. We see him shudder, then he looks at his hand, which is covered in blood. He faints.
FOUL LANGUAGE: In describing a liposuction he did on a patient's chin, Dr. Troy says: "I sliced that bitch's waddle off 15 months ago."... Drs. McNamara and Troy talk about a patient who wants to have sex with the latter in return for not reporting a surgical error; Troy says, "Are you actually telling me to stick my dick in the Crypt Keeper to make your mistake go away?"...Words like asshole, shit, tit, and dick are commonplace...
In a recent episode, Kimber says: "I'm the one with candle wax burns on her ass. I'm the one standing out on the street corner with her tits hanging out. I bust my butt to fulfill every sexual desire you have. I want a little goddamn appreciation."
Other examples of foul language:
Troy: "20 milligrams of Vicodin and a blowjob will clear that right up."
Troy: "You know what they say, for every beautiful woman there is a guy who is tired of screwing her."
Troy: "You are the hottest piece of ass in this place. And you're mine. But if I am going to do this one woman thing, I can't be with just one woman."
Lexy: "I read this thing in People about 12 year-olds giving blow jobs to
...is a huge fan of legos. He has a ton of the regular bricks and has built some trully amazing things with them. He even built a Madcat from the image on the box of Mechwarrior 3. I wish I had taken a picture of that. When these Bionicles and other things came out I thought they were cool and so did he. I noticed that after a while, he didn't play with his legos as much and then I realized that the Starwars and Bionicle sets were basically one-time builds. The special pieces (can't really call them blocks) weren't much good for anything except what they were designed for.
I am a Controls Engineer. One of my duties is to write software for automatated manufacturing equipment. I am going to have to do FDA validation on my software for functionality, mostly for faults and fault recovery.
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It's an interesting time in CISC processors. With fabs having to spend exponential amounts of money for incremental gains in performance and power savings, a smaller company like AMD may be able to make a chip that's 90% as fast, at a much lower price, which I hope it does because it's good for customers on both sides.
It would be nice if AMD would catch up. Their biggest problem currently is their massive debt.
I refinanced a couple of years ago with Quicken Loans. They told me if mortgage rates dropped within two years they would automagically lower my rate. What they didn't tell me is that they would immediately sell my mortgage. Turns out they sold it to Chase. So now I am stuck with these bastards unless I want to refinance again. I will probably do it but I will ask more questions this time. Damn, I haven't posted here for a while. =D
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4. Move 100MB files - Move 100MB of JPEG files from one hard drive to another
5. Move 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another
6. Network transfer 100MB files - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device
7. Network transfer 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from test machine to NAS device
8. Move 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to .ISO file
9. Move 2.5GB files under load - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to .ISO file
10. Network transfer 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device while ripping DVD to .ISO file
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Hey, us 5 digit people are old. Give the guy a break will ya?
what were the dinosaurs REALLY like?
"Barney" was frighteningly accurate.
Wow! Finally... someone that is older than ME!
There are 28 dishes, 27 of which are used in the array and one is always out on service rotation.
I visited the VLA a couple of years ago. Those dishes are freaking huge and you can't get a good prospective of how big they really are until you stand under one. They had a small building for tourists and my friends and I spent about an hour inside learning about the array. They spoke of the impending upgrades on some of the displays. The original design left huge gaps in the radio spectrum and the upgrades are supposed to fill in all the gaps. If I remember correctly, until the upgrades are completed the array wasn't able to see even half the available spectrum.
It really is an interesting site and should be on every nerd's list of "Things to see before I die". =)
But... I have talked to a Chinese co-worker. According to him, Taiwan is just part of China and not a separate country. Interesting... the different viewpoints.
LargeWu pretty much nailed it. Good job!
So, when is the correct time to discuss it? Two hours from now?
This new chipset and motherboard is for the Intel Core 2 Duo. What had that got to do with AMD or did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
Exactly! I used to run folding@home on 4-5 PC's 24/7. Then I realized that I *might* be able to save some money by not doing that. It turned out to be around $40 a month. In the summer months, you have to get rid of the excess heat produced by all the PC's running in addition to running the PC's. I decided I really shouldn't be doing this as long as I am an underpaid apartment dweller.
Try dscaler.
http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
Yeah, I know... I can filter him out.
As the saying goes, "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then."
He is just one of those people that spouts off all the time. He was bound hit one one eventually.
My ex-wife had an uncle that was into local politics. He would do something stupid shortly before election day so people would remember his name. Of course they couldn't remember why they remembered his name, but that didn't seem to matter much. Once he was found half naked and passed out drunk in his car that was parked in a grocery store parking lot. He won that election too!
How would you calulate the tax for 5% of say a Slackware download? It's free so 0*.05=0. I guess you could calculate it from what it would have been if you had purchased it, but if that's the case I would just buy the boxed set.
From the aritcle: The drawbacks to the 3D1 are its limited application (it will only run on the GA-K8NXP-SLI), the fact that it doesn't perform any better than 2-card SLI, and the fact that the user loses a DVI and an HD-15 display connection when compared to the 2-card solution.
"December 16, 2004
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An advertising executive for a weekly alternative newspaper was charged Thursday with six counts of promoting prostitution in connection with adult ads he accepted and coordinated.
A grand jury indicted Nels Noseworthy, 29, following an investigation that spanned more than a year. Police said Noseworthy was the contact person for anyone placing ads in the "Personal Adult Services" section of the Nashville Scene."
linkage: http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2702608
Maybe YOU don't need top performace these days, but you aren't everyone are you? That is a very narrow minded view.
Some of my friends on IRC were talking about it.
I bought the game and it will be there when I get home today ($35 shipped from Fry's Outpost). I buy all the games that I play even though I can get cracked versions from my friends. They say they are "disappointed" that I pay for games I don't have too. I will admit I have been playing a cracked version CSS for the past couple of weeks and it is sweet. This is the reason I bought the game. Funny, isn't it?
American families are being poisoned by the extremely offensive content in this show. Such TV programming is seriously harming America's children and grandchildren, and SPONSORS LIKE YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT WITH YOUR ADVERTISING BUDGET!
I applaud Carfax, Orbitz, Castrol, Progressive Insurance, Capital One, Cingular Wireless, Gateway Computers, Schering-Plough, Chattem, Orange Glo and Alcon Laboratories -- early sponsors during "Nip/Tuck's" first season -- for their decisions to stop paying for commercials on the show. By showing true corporate responsibility, these sponsors have earned the thanks of every parent and grandparent in America.
But by making the opposite decision and striking a deal with "Nip/Tuck" to bankroll its season premiere, XM SATELLITE RADIO HAS DISPLAYED CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY.
The creator of "Nip/Tuck" has declared that it is his aim to remove every barrier to depiciton of explicit sex on TV. By paying for "Nip/Tuck," you are supporting him in this aim.
Therefore, I am hereby joining with the Parents Television Council in calling upon you to stop paying for the shameful gross-out content of "Nip/Tuck."
I suggest that you read the summary of "Nip/Tuck's" content which the Parents Television Council has compiled (see below), and then decide whether this is the image you want American consumers -- your potential customers -- to have of your company.
With my support, if XM SATELLITE RADIO persists in its financial backing of "Nip/Tuck," the Parents Television Council will do everything possible to ensure that your potential customers become aware of the "Nip/Tuck" content that your company's commericals are paying for.
Here is a summary of the first-season content on "Nip/Tuck."
[WARNING: The following content summary during "Nip/Tuck's" first season is explicit and will be EXTREMELY offensive to many. Bear in mind that it appeared on basic-cable television where it was available to millions of children.]
GRAPHIC SELF-CIRCUMCISION SCENE: Dr. McNamara's son, Matt, performs a circumcision on himself at home. Since his girlfriend is turned off by his extra foreskin, Matt decides to go to a website and learn how to perform the operation on himself. Matt removes his pants. We see Matt's upper body. We hear the instructions going on in his head: "For the first cut, grip the foreskin and pull it out. Cut in circular motion in a thin quarter inch strip." We see him looking down as he cuts at the foreskin of his penis. We see him shudder, then he looks at his hand, which is covered in blood. He faints. ... Drs. McNamara and Troy talk about a patient who wants to have sex with the latter in return for not reporting a surgical error; Troy says, "Are you actually telling me to stick my dick in the Crypt Keeper to make your mistake go away?" ...Words like asshole, shit, tit, and dick are commonplace...
FOUL LANGUAGE: In describing a liposuction he did on a patient's chin, Dr. Troy says: "I sliced that bitch's waddle off 15 months ago."
In a recent episode, Kimber says: "I'm the one with candle wax burns on her ass. I'm the one standing out on the street corner with her tits hanging out. I bust my butt to fulfill every sexual desire you have. I want a little goddamn appreciation."
Other examples of foul language:
Troy: "20 milligrams of Vicodin and a blowjob will clear that right up."
Troy: "You know what they say, for every beautiful woman there is a guy who is tired of screwing her."
Troy: "You are the hottest piece of ass in this place. And you're mine. But if I am going to do this one woman thing, I can't be with just one woman."
Lexy: "I read this thing in People about 12 year-olds giving blow jobs to
Hey, you would do the same thing. If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't. There are too many other things I would rather do.
PCillin caught it on my system two days ago when I installed it.
I didn't know this was new, but I had been running my Win2k machine without an AV software for a while. Yeah, I know...
...is a huge fan of legos. He has a ton of the regular bricks and has built some trully amazing things with them. He even built a Madcat from the image on the box of Mechwarrior 3. I wish I had taken a picture of that. When these Bionicles and other things came out I thought they were cool and so did he. I noticed that after a while, he didn't play with his legos as much and then I realized that the Starwars and Bionicle sets were basically one-time builds. The special pieces (can't really call them blocks) weren't much good for anything except what they were designed for.
I am a Controls Engineer. One of my duties is to write software for automatated manufacturing equipment. I am going to have to do FDA validation on my software for functionality, mostly for faults and fault recovery.
my $.02