Funny. That was the start of my disenchantment with him. Rising Sun wasn't science. At all. Just a murder mystery. Yawn. And it was VERY anti-Japanese. Offensively so. Before that I always just bought his hardcovers immediately without even reading a review or even the cover of the book. After that I carefully read about the book before buying. I think his best book was Sphere. Nothing he ever wrote after that even came close.
From a small group of drives that I have had in my computer, my Samsung drives have been the least reliable. Both drives failed within 1 year. One after only about 5 months. Both of my Western Digital drives also failed but at least it took them a few years to do so. I also had a Maxtor fail, but after more than 5 years. None of my Seagates have ever failed. Not a single one. However this may very well be the luck of the draw. I just bought 4 1.5 TB drives. So now I am getting nervous. Also this is yet another reason not to use RAID. I care about my data too much to use RAID. It's better just to do incremental backups. Daily if necessary.
I wonder what this will mean for net neutrality. Obama says he's for it. Is Comcast and company worried? Also Biden is known to be in bed with the RIAA and MPAA. If Obama gets shot be some white supremacist group, which seems likely, will it be like having Jack Valenti as president?
And when you get rid of all regulations, they're going to start buying out all competitors in short order, and quickly become international monopolies, stronger than any government, able to fix prices,
I was following you up to this point. Now you are contradicting yourself. If they raise prices then they lose their advantage of economies of scale. Any mom and pop business could compete with them. Anyway, what laws are on the books now that prevent your scenario from occuring? As far as I can see what you are talking about has already happened except for the part about Walmart and other mega retailers jacking up their prices. After all they have to compete against other mega retailers (Target etc).
Actually HiDef (not specifically bluray) is that much better when played full screen on a computer. Do the comparison sometime yourself and you will see that the difference is not subtle. However, I concede that the difference is not so great or obvious on many TVs. Also the degree of difference depends on the title. Some transfers are better than others and some of the older prints do not do so well on HiDef. On those titles there may be virtually no difference at all.
You are missing the point. If you would make such an offer THEY DON'T WANT YOU as a customer. Should I repeat that? You pay the same or nearly the same as little granny who just checks her email a few times per week. Granny costs them nothing. With customers like her it's pure profit. To the extent that they pay an upstream provider for bandwidth or to the extent that they must upgrade their network for the bandwidth users, they make a lot more money if you leave than if you stay. You cost them more than granny if you download even 2 gigs per month let alone 250+. So yes. The whole point of this measure is to get rid of anyone who actually uses their bandwidth. Because most people don't. It is actually smart from a business perspective. Lucky for me I have two other providers here (including Verizon Fios) who don't cap at all. I live just outside of a major city. Of course if this turns into a trend we are all fucked. It will change the nature of the internet.
But are you actually getting 6 mbits? Until yesterday the fastest download speeds I ever get if I'm not downloading directly from, say, Microsoft have been around 100-150 KB/sec. Strangely as soon as the new cap was in place on 10/1 my top speed jumped automagically to around 800 KB/sec (around 6 mbits). Haha. Can you say "throttling"? So no. I don't believe most people have been getting higher and higher speeds. Only the advertised speeds have been going up. Now that they have introduced the cap I guess they feel free to lift the bandwidth throttling. Although maybe that's just temporary.
Courts generally will not favor solutions that revolve around you fraudulently entering into an agreement with email service providers who require you to provide accurate information when signing up and agreeing to their service contracts.
But of course they have no problem with you sending out millions of emails with inaccurate fraudulent information asserting that you are someone who you are not. In fact it is far worse because it is quite likely that the forged headers do in fact represent the identity of some innocent party, whereas supplying "Fred Flintstone at 1010 Bedrock Place" for an identity to the email provider doesn't involve an actual 3rd party in the transaction. In addition email providers can require verification for signup if they so choose.
The following ratings are from the fueleconomy.gov site and are all using the new standards. The older cars are estimated. A 1989 Geo Metro and a 1992 Geo Metro XFI both get 43 city, 51 highway. A 1989 Honda Civic CRX HF gets 41 city 50 highway. A 1993 Honda Civic HB VX gets 39 city 49 highway. A 2000 Honda Insight gets 49 city 61 highway . A 2008 Toyota Prius gets 48 city 45 highway. The new standards utterly killed the Prius but the Insight still does well.
Like China, Iran is not exactly known for starting wars. You would have to go back earlier than the 20th century to find one. In 1855 Iran (AKA Persia) invaded Afghanistan and succesfully occupied Herat until they were driven out by the ever-badass British. That was the last time they started a war. And Iraq started the infamous Iran-Iraq war. So I am not as worried by these developments as I might otherwise be. However the idea that a theocracy is so interested in space exploration is a bit hard for me to accept. Doesn't the Koran tell them every thing about the heavens that they might wish to know? If there is any question about astronomy or cosmology that they are curious about surely they could just pose the question to their all-knowing deity. I just don't buy their sudden interest in science. And why did they all of a sudden become interested only after their sudden interest in peaceful nuclear power? The timing of all of these interests just after an American occupation of their next door neighbor is also awfully suspicious. Of course none of this speaks to their right to develop inter-continental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. It is hard to argue that they don't have that right but we do. Still, the mixing of fervent religious belief with nuclear missiles is not going to make the world a safer place. Remember that the Chinese leaders are atheists. As were the Soviets.
I don't know how much water it was. In the first case I was swimming and accidentally breathed in while my head was still in the water. The other incident involved a high pressure garden hose shooting water up my nose. All I know is that I couldn't breathe in or out for a minute or two (which seemed like a very long time) and that eventually in both cases I was able to breathe in slightly (just enough to cough) with the feel and sound of some water gurgling around as I did so. Maybe what I experienced was merely a sort of mini-laryngospasm? Maybe there were actually only trace amounts of water in my lungs. I don't imagine that this is the sort of thing that medical researchers experiment with an awful lot. Could the standard explanation be wrong? Thanks for the link though. Now I am really wondering what happened. Do you have an alternate explanation (other than my inventing the story)?
What problem was solved by the establishment of Israel?
My understanding was that after hundreds of years of being persecuted and murdered by the Christians in Europe and then on a far more massive scale by Hitler and the rest of WWII era Christians in Germany and by pretty much everyone else, it was supposed to be a small piece of land where they could feel safe from such persecution and actually have the power of a government to defend themselves. It is not surprising that the rest of the world should object to such a refuge. After Hitler, I think it was supposed to be a sort of "enough is enough!" kind of thing. I'm not clear on whether people who object to the existence of Israel are doing so on the basis of the particular spot that was chosen (The Holy Land! LOL) or on the fact that a refuge for Jews should exist at all.
Disclaimer: I don't mean to imply that waterboarding is not torture and I don't think we should be torturing anyone for any reason whatsover. I don't care if we are sure that they know the location of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb that will detonate in NYC in an hour. Torture is NEVER justified. People die. Deal with it. There is no end that justifies such barbarism.
Twice in my life I have accidentally inhaled a sufficient quantity of water into my lungs that I was not able to breathe in or out for a while. Probably no more than a minute or so or I would have passed out. But I didn't panic in the slightest during either experience. I just calmly accepted that I was going to die. It did seem sort of inconvenient and embarrassing though to die right there and then. There were people in the area but not right nearby. I couldn't cough of course because I didn't have enough air in my lungs. So instead in both cases I sort of tried to do get my torso upside down. So yes even though I wasn't breathing I had the presence of mind to think that maybe gravity would allow the water to drain enough so I could take a gurgly breath in. And in fact in both cases it worked eventually. I was able to very slowly take in enough air to cough. But in neither case did I believe that it would work. In both cases I genuinely believed that I was going to be dead in a few minutes. I didn't find the experience to be traumatic in the slightest. So at this point I have almost no fear of drowning. It seems like it must be one of the least painful ways to die. If I wanted to commit suicide I might very well just inhale some water.
Each puzzle is a test. The same puzzle that is too easy for a more intelligent player may be utterly impossible for a less intelligent one. Only players within a certain IQ range will enjoy any given puzzle. You can offer puzzles with a wide range of difficulty in your games so that nearly all of the players will be challenged at least some of the time, but the smarter players will be bored most of the time and the less intelligent players will be stuck and frustrated most of the time. So even with clever, utterly ingenious and creative puzzles only players on a very narrow portion of the bell curve are going to find them challenging but not impossible. I suppose you could offer different versions of a game written exclusively for players withing a given IQ range, but it still wouldn't get around the fact that you are writing for a niche market and the more you try to make your puzzle game appeal to a wider audience the more the players are going to be experiencing either frustration or boredom as their typical game emotion.
Of course I am talking here about good puzzles. Bad puzzles are solvable by anyone. They are an issue of tedium (or guessing the how the puzzle writer thinks) instead of complex problem solving. I am referring to the find the red key and all those kinds of "puzzles", the point of which is to not challenge even the bottom 1% of the market. It does seem the only practical way to try to escape the exclusionary nature of puzzles. So it is easy to imagine why puzzle games are not being written more.
It is true that solving a puzzle at the upper end of your IQ range will require some patience and perseverance, two qualities that do seem to be getting even more scarce than they used to be. When the answer to even relatively obscure questions can nearly always be found in less than 15 seconds, perhaps it doesn't exactly encourage more P&P. I certainly don't believe for a second that people have gotten any less intelligent in the last quarter century, but I think we have all been infected by the Google disease. Even old geezers like myself. Yet all of the difficult, unsolved problems still require just as much P&P.
As computer gaming becomes a large industry, more and more like the movie industry, we are seeing the games become more and more simplistic and dumbed down in order to promote an "embrace and extend" philosophy which tends to produce the highest profits. So it is not at all surprising if we don't see as many puzzle games as before. From a profitability POV the entire genre has failed, and what I am proposing here is that it was doomed to failure from the start due to its inherently exclusionary nature.
REDUCTION OF OXYGEN CONTENT TO BELOW TWO PARTS PER MILLION WITHIN FIFTY KILOMETER RADIUS OF SOURCE AFTER DIATOM BLOOM MANIFESTS AEMRUDYCO PEZQEASKL MINOR POLLUTANTS PRESENT IN DEITRICH POLYXTROPE 174A ONE SEVEN FOUR A COMBINES IN LATTITINE CHAIN WITH HERBICIDES SPRINGFIELD AD45 AD FOUR FIVE OR DU PONT ANALAGAN 58 FIVE EIGHT EMITTING FROM REPEATED AGRICULTURAL USE AMAZON BASIN OTHER SITES OTHER LONG CHAIN MOLECULAR SYNERGISTS POSSIBLE IN TROPICAL ENVIRONS OXYGEN COLUMN SUBJECT TO CONVECTIVE SPREADING RATE ALZNRUD ASMA WSUEXIO 829 CMXDROQ VIRUS IMPRINTING STAGE 3 THREE WEEK DELAY IF DENSITY OF SPRINGFIELD AD45 AD FOUR FIVE EXCEEDS 158 ONE FIVE EIGHT PARTS PER MILLION THEN ENTERS MOLECULAR SIMULATION REGIME BEGINS IMITATING HOST CAN THEN CONVERT PLANKTON NEURO JACKET INTO ITS OWN CHEMICAL FORM USING AMBIENT OXYGEN CONTENT UNTIL OXYGEN LEVEL FALLS TO VALUES FATAL TO MOST OF THE HIGHER FOOD CHAIN WTESJDKU AGAIN AMMA YS ACTION OF ULTRAVIOLET SUNLIGHT ON CHAINS APPEARS TO RETARD DIFFUSION IN SURFACE LAYERS OF THE OCEAN BUT GROWTH CONTINUES LOWER DOWN DESPITE CONVECTIVE CELLS FORMING WHICH TEND TO MIX LAYERS IN XMC AHSU URGENT MADUDLO 374 ONLY SEGMENT AMZLSOUDP ALYN YOU MUST STOP ABOVE NAMED SUBSTANCES FROM ENTERING OCEAN LIFE CHAIN AMZSUY RDUCDK BY PROHIBITIONS OF FOLLOWING SUBSTANCES CALLANAN B471 FOUR SEVEN ONE MESTOFITE SALEN MARINE COMPOUND ALPHA THROUGH DELTA YDEMCLW URGENT YXU CONDUCT TITRATION ANALYSIS ON METASTABLE INGREDIENTS PWMXSJR ALSUDNCH
By what percentage does the HD4780 "spank" the GTX280 exactly? Are we talking twice as fast? Maybe 10 times as fast? Just curious. And the ATI purchase was a bad move because they simply didn't have the money. It is the reason why AMD may be closing up shop by 2009. It doesn't matter how badass their cards are when they are gone. But I guess you can email all the out of work AMD employees and congratulate them on what a fabulous decision it was to buy ATI. I'm sure they will appreciate it. And which part about losing over a billion dollars last quarter did you miss exactly?
I agree that the ATI purchase made some logical sense. I also think that my purchase of a $500,000 electric roadster would makes sense. In the long run it would save me money on gas. AMD simply couldn't afford it. It doesn't matter how desirable a purchase is in the long term when you don't have the money to buy it. If AMD closes its doors in the next few months would you still believe that the ATI purchase made sense? If AMD survives long enough to start making money again and pays off their insanely high debt then we will all agree that the ATI purchase made sense in retrospect. If not, then they will be fondly remembered and missed while we have to deal with monopoly pricing and lack of innovation from an Intel without even a hint of competition. Hector seems to sink every company that he is at the helm of. Maybe he's a communist and lives to bring down giant corporations. I wonder who's next.
We are not able to resolve images of extrasolar planets directly at all. Our detection of such planets relies mostly on orbital perturbations of stars from large gas giants and gravitational microlensing in addition to a few other more esoteric methods that can be found at that wiki entry. We are hoping that with some new ambitious space based imaging we might be able to image one of the closer extrasolar planets like Epsilon Eridani b. Although that is a Jupiter sized planet. I'm not sure what kind of tech would be required to image something the size of Gliese 581 d, but we don't have it yet. I guess if we had such good imaging capabilities our need to invent interstellar space drives to power interstellar missions would be less compelling. Of course if we had a way to extinguish the nearby star it would make imaging the nearby planets a lot easier.
but if there is a hidden volume, it is possible that the suspect's reaction as their hidden data is destroyed will give them away. Even if you do have a backup, it could be difficult to not react to such a scenario when put on the spot.
But what reaction? In that situation I would be having to hide my relief that they are destroying my incriminating (albiet encrypted) data for me. Only a moron would be cringing. I guess either cringing or relief could be suspicious to an investigator observing you closely. I think most people smart enough to be using truecrypt hidden partitions with secure passwords in the first place would also be smart enough to not react greatly to anything they say or do. Unless they tell you you are going to prison. I think it would make you seem like a sociopath if you don't seem at least a little depressed about heading off to the Guantanamo Detention Camp for some "re-education".
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Funny. That was the start of my disenchantment with him. Rising Sun wasn't science. At all. Just a murder mystery. Yawn. And it was VERY anti-Japanese. Offensively so. Before that I always just bought his hardcovers immediately without even reading a review or even the cover of the book. After that I carefully read about the book before buying. I think his best book was Sphere. Nothing he ever wrote after that even came close.
From a small group of drives that I have had in my computer, my Samsung drives have been the least reliable. Both drives failed within 1 year. One after only about 5 months. Both of my Western Digital drives also failed but at least it took them a few years to do so. I also had a Maxtor fail, but after more than 5 years. None of my Seagates have ever failed. Not a single one. However this may very well be the luck of the draw. I just bought 4 1.5 TB drives. So now I am getting nervous. Also this is yet another reason not to use RAID. I care about my data too much to use RAID. It's better just to do incremental backups. Daily if necessary.
I wonder what this will mean for net neutrality. Obama says he's for it. Is Comcast and company worried? Also Biden is known to be in bed with the RIAA and MPAA. If Obama gets shot be some white supremacist group, which seems likely, will it be like having Jack Valenti as president?
And when you get rid of all regulations, they're going to start buying out all competitors in short order, and quickly become international monopolies, stronger than any government, able to fix prices,
I was following you up to this point. Now you are contradicting yourself. If they raise prices then they lose their advantage of economies of scale. Any mom and pop business could compete with them. Anyway, what laws are on the books now that prevent your scenario from occuring? As far as I can see what you are talking about has already happened except for the part about Walmart and other mega retailers jacking up their prices. After all they have to compete against other mega retailers (Target etc).
Actually HiDef (not specifically bluray) is that much better when played full screen on a computer. Do the comparison sometime yourself and you will see that the difference is not subtle. However, I concede that the difference is not so great or obvious on many TVs. Also the degree of difference depends on the title. Some transfers are better than others and some of the older prints do not do so well on HiDef. On those titles there may be virtually no difference at all.
So you are basically talking about replacing movies with cartoons?
You are missing the point. If you would make such an offer THEY DON'T WANT YOU as a customer. Should I repeat that? You pay the same or nearly the same as little granny who just checks her email a few times per week. Granny costs them nothing. With customers like her it's pure profit. To the extent that they pay an upstream provider for bandwidth or to the extent that they must upgrade their network for the bandwidth users, they make a lot more money if you leave than if you stay. You cost them more than granny if you download even 2 gigs per month let alone 250+. So yes. The whole point of this measure is to get rid of anyone who actually uses their bandwidth. Because most people don't. It is actually smart from a business perspective. Lucky for me I have two other providers here (including Verizon Fios) who don't cap at all. I live just outside of a major city. Of course if this turns into a trend we are all fucked. It will change the nature of the internet.
But are you actually getting 6 mbits? Until yesterday the fastest download speeds I ever get if I'm not downloading directly from, say, Microsoft have been around 100-150 KB/sec. Strangely as soon as the new cap was in place on 10/1 my top speed jumped automagically to around 800 KB/sec (around 6 mbits). Haha. Can you say "throttling"? So no. I don't believe most people have been getting higher and higher speeds. Only the advertised speeds have been going up. Now that they have introduced the cap I guess they feel free to lift the bandwidth throttling. Although maybe that's just temporary.
Courts generally will not favor solutions that revolve around you fraudulently entering into an agreement with email service providers who require you to provide accurate information when signing up and agreeing to their service contracts.
But of course they have no problem with you sending out millions of emails with inaccurate fraudulent information asserting that you are someone who you are not. In fact it is far worse because it is quite likely that the forged headers do in fact represent the identity of some innocent party, whereas supplying "Fred Flintstone at 1010 Bedrock Place" for an identity to the email provider doesn't involve an actual 3rd party in the transaction. In addition email providers can require verification for signup if they so choose.
In other news, the next manned mission is to rendezvous with an asteroid on track for a near collision with earth.
Spaciba, Russian hacker comrades!
It was a Russian cracking group that cracked Spore? How do you know?
Yes. Because the typical gamer only owns one computer in their lifetime and never upgrades that computer.
The following ratings are from the fueleconomy.gov site and are all using the new standards. The older cars are estimated. A 1989 Geo Metro and a 1992 Geo Metro XFI both get 43 city, 51 highway. A 1989 Honda Civic CRX HF gets 41 city 50 highway. A 1993 Honda Civic HB VX gets 39 city 49 highway. A 2000 Honda Insight gets 49 city 61 highway . A 2008 Toyota Prius gets 48 city 45 highway. The new standards utterly killed the Prius but the Insight still does well.
Like China, Iran is not exactly known for starting wars. You would have to go back earlier than the 20th century to find one. In 1855 Iran (AKA Persia) invaded Afghanistan and succesfully occupied Herat until they were driven out by the ever-badass British. That was the last time they started a war. And Iraq started the infamous Iran-Iraq war. So I am not as worried by these developments as I might otherwise be. However the idea that a theocracy is so interested in space exploration is a bit hard for me to accept. Doesn't the Koran tell them every thing about the heavens that they might wish to know? If there is any question about astronomy or cosmology that they are curious about surely they could just pose the question to their all-knowing deity. I just don't buy their sudden interest in science. And why did they all of a sudden become interested only after their sudden interest in peaceful nuclear power? The timing of all of these interests just after an American occupation of their next door neighbor is also awfully suspicious. Of course none of this speaks to their right to develop inter-continental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. It is hard to argue that they don't have that right but we do. Still, the mixing of fervent religious belief with nuclear missiles is not going to make the world a safer place. Remember that the Chinese leaders are atheists. As were the Soviets.
I don't know how much water it was. In the first case I was swimming and accidentally breathed in while my head was still in the water. The other incident involved a high pressure garden hose shooting water up my nose. All I know is that I couldn't breathe in or out for a minute or two (which seemed like a very long time) and that eventually in both cases I was able to breathe in slightly (just enough to cough) with the feel and sound of some water gurgling around as I did so. Maybe what I experienced was merely a sort of mini-laryngospasm? Maybe there were actually only trace amounts of water in my lungs. I don't imagine that this is the sort of thing that medical researchers experiment with an awful lot. Could the standard explanation be wrong? Thanks for the link though. Now I am really wondering what happened. Do you have an alternate explanation (other than my inventing the story)?
My understanding was that after hundreds of years of being persecuted and murdered by the Christians in Europe and then on a far more massive scale by Hitler and the rest of WWII era Christians in Germany and by pretty much everyone else, it was supposed to be a small piece of land where they could feel safe from such persecution and actually have the power of a government to defend themselves. It is not surprising that the rest of the world should object to such a refuge. After Hitler, I think it was supposed to be a sort of "enough is enough!" kind of thing. I'm not clear on whether people who object to the existence of Israel are doing so on the basis of the particular spot that was chosen (The Holy Land! LOL) or on the fact that a refuge for Jews should exist at all.
Disclaimer: I don't mean to imply that waterboarding is not torture and I don't think we should be torturing anyone for any reason whatsover. I don't care if we are sure that they know the location of a 50 megaton nuclear bomb that will detonate in NYC in an hour. Torture is NEVER justified. People die. Deal with it. There is no end that justifies such barbarism.
Twice in my life I have accidentally inhaled a sufficient quantity of water into my lungs that I was not able to breathe in or out for a while. Probably no more than a minute or so or I would have passed out. But I didn't panic in the slightest during either experience. I just calmly accepted that I was going to die. It did seem sort of inconvenient and embarrassing though to die right there and then. There were people in the area but not right nearby. I couldn't cough of course because I didn't have enough air in my lungs. So instead in both cases I sort of tried to do get my torso upside down. So yes even though I wasn't breathing I had the presence of mind to think that maybe gravity would allow the water to drain enough so I could take a gurgly breath in. And in fact in both cases it worked eventually. I was able to very slowly take in enough air to cough. But in neither case did I believe that it would work. In both cases I genuinely believed that I was going to be dead in a few minutes. I didn't find the experience to be traumatic in the slightest. So at this point I have almost no fear of drowning. It seems like it must be one of the least painful ways to die. If I wanted to commit suicide I might very well just inhale some water.
But nobody believes them. They don't even believe it themselves. They can't even say it with a straight face.
Each puzzle is a test. The same puzzle that is too easy for a more intelligent player may be utterly impossible for a less intelligent one. Only players within a certain IQ range will enjoy any given puzzle. You can offer puzzles with a wide range of difficulty in your games so that nearly all of the players will be challenged at least some of the time, but the smarter players will be bored most of the time and the less intelligent players will be stuck and frustrated most of the time. So even with clever, utterly ingenious and creative puzzles only players on a very narrow portion of the bell curve are going to find them challenging but not impossible. I suppose you could offer different versions of a game written exclusively for players withing a given IQ range, but it still wouldn't get around the fact that you are writing for a niche market and the more you try to make your puzzle game appeal to a wider audience the more the players are going to be experiencing either frustration or boredom as their typical game emotion.
Of course I am talking here about good puzzles. Bad puzzles are solvable by anyone. They are an issue of tedium (or guessing the how the puzzle writer thinks) instead of complex problem solving. I am referring to the find the red key and all those kinds of "puzzles", the point of which is to not challenge even the bottom 1% of the market. It does seem the only practical way to try to escape the exclusionary nature of puzzles. So it is easy to imagine why puzzle games are not being written more.
It is true that solving a puzzle at the upper end of your IQ range will require some patience and perseverance, two qualities that do seem to be getting even more scarce than they used to be. When the answer to even relatively obscure questions can nearly always be found in less than 15 seconds, perhaps it doesn't exactly encourage more P&P. I certainly don't believe for a second that people have gotten any less intelligent in the last quarter century, but I think we have all been infected by the Google disease. Even old geezers like myself. Yet all of the difficult, unsolved problems still require just as much P&P.
As computer gaming becomes a large industry, more and more like the movie industry, we are seeing the games become more and more simplistic and dumbed down in order to promote an "embrace and extend" philosophy which tends to produce the highest profits. So it is not at all surprising if we don't see as many puzzle games as before. From a profitability POV the entire genre has failed, and what I am proposing here is that it was doomed to failure from the start due to its inherently exclusionary nature.
No they are called phase change systems. Much more expensive than water cooling.
REDUCTION OF OXYGEN CONTENT TO BELOW TWO PARTS PER MILLION WITHIN FIFTY KILOMETER RADIUS OF SOURCE AFTER DIATOM BLOOM MANIFESTS AEMRUDYCO PEZQEASKL MINOR POLLUTANTS PRESENT IN DEITRICH POLYXTROPE 174A ONE SEVEN FOUR A COMBINES IN LATTITINE CHAIN WITH HERBICIDES SPRINGFIELD AD45 AD FOUR FIVE OR DU PONT ANALAGAN 58 FIVE EIGHT EMITTING FROM REPEATED AGRICULTURAL USE AMAZON BASIN OTHER SITES OTHER LONG CHAIN MOLECULAR SYNERGISTS POSSIBLE IN TROPICAL ENVIRONS OXYGEN COLUMN SUBJECT TO CONVECTIVE SPREADING RATE ALZNRUD ASMA WSUEXIO 829 CMXDROQ VIRUS IMPRINTING STAGE 3 THREE WEEK DELAY IF DENSITY OF SPRINGFIELD AD45 AD FOUR FIVE EXCEEDS 158 ONE FIVE EIGHT PARTS PER MILLION THEN ENTERS MOLECULAR SIMULATION REGIME BEGINS IMITATING HOST CAN THEN CONVERT PLANKTON NEURO JACKET INTO ITS OWN CHEMICAL FORM USING AMBIENT OXYGEN CONTENT UNTIL OXYGEN LEVEL FALLS TO VALUES FATAL TO MOST OF THE HIGHER FOOD CHAIN WTESJDKU AGAIN AMMA YS ACTION OF ULTRAVIOLET SUNLIGHT ON CHAINS APPEARS TO RETARD DIFFUSION IN SURFACE LAYERS OF THE OCEAN BUT GROWTH CONTINUES LOWER DOWN DESPITE CONVECTIVE CELLS FORMING WHICH TEND TO MIX LAYERS IN XMC AHSU URGENT MADUDLO 374 ONLY SEGMENT AMZLSOUDP ALYN YOU MUST STOP ABOVE NAMED SUBSTANCES FROM ENTERING OCEAN LIFE CHAIN AMZSUY RDUCDK BY PROHIBITIONS OF FOLLOWING SUBSTANCES CALLANAN B471 FOUR SEVEN ONE MESTOFITE SALEN MARINE COMPOUND ALPHA THROUGH DELTA YDEMCLW URGENT YXU CONDUCT TITRATION ANALYSIS ON METASTABLE INGREDIENTS PWMXSJR ALSUDNCH
By what percentage does the HD4780 "spank" the GTX280 exactly? Are we talking twice as fast? Maybe 10 times as fast? Just curious. And the ATI purchase was a bad move because they simply didn't have the money. It is the reason why AMD may be closing up shop by 2009. It doesn't matter how badass their cards are when they are gone. But I guess you can email all the out of work AMD employees and congratulate them on what a fabulous decision it was to buy ATI. I'm sure they will appreciate it. And which part about losing over a billion dollars last quarter did you miss exactly?
I agree that the ATI purchase made some logical sense. I also think that my purchase of a $500,000 electric roadster would makes sense. In the long run it would save me money on gas. AMD simply couldn't afford it. It doesn't matter how desirable a purchase is in the long term when you don't have the money to buy it. If AMD closes its doors in the next few months would you still believe that the ATI purchase made sense? If AMD survives long enough to start making money again and pays off their insanely high debt then we will all agree that the ATI purchase made sense in retrospect. If not, then they will be fondly remembered and missed while we have to deal with monopoly pricing and lack of innovation from an Intel without even a hint of competition. Hector seems to sink every company that he is at the helm of. Maybe he's a communist and lives to bring down giant corporations. I wonder who's next.
We are not able to resolve images of extrasolar planets directly at all. Our detection of such planets relies mostly on orbital perturbations of stars from large gas giants and gravitational microlensing in addition to a few other more esoteric methods that can be found at that wiki entry. We are hoping that with some new ambitious space based imaging we might be able to image one of the closer extrasolar planets like Epsilon Eridani b. Although that is a Jupiter sized planet. I'm not sure what kind of tech would be required to image something the size of Gliese 581 d, but we don't have it yet. I guess if we had such good imaging capabilities our need to invent interstellar space drives to power interstellar missions would be less compelling. Of course if we had a way to extinguish the nearby star it would make imaging the nearby planets a lot easier.
but if there is a hidden volume, it is possible that the suspect's reaction as their hidden data is destroyed will give them away. Even if you do have a backup, it could be difficult to not react to such a scenario when put on the spot.
But what reaction? In that situation I would be having to hide my relief that they are destroying my incriminating (albiet encrypted) data for me. Only a moron would be cringing. I guess either cringing or relief could be suspicious to an investigator observing you closely. I think most people smart enough to be using truecrypt hidden partitions with secure passwords in the first place would also be smart enough to not react greatly to anything they say or do. Unless they tell you you are going to prison. I think it would make you seem like a sociopath if you don't seem at least a little depressed about heading off to the Guantanamo Detention Camp for some "re-education".