The Turkish government really, really doesn't want to talk about this. Bring it up too forcefully in Turkey and it can get you killed. So the subject is censored in Turkey, effectively enough that most of today's generation of Turks just can't believe that their great grandparents could have done anything so vile. I'd imagine that today's generation of Germans would have the same reaction if Germany hadn't been forced to face up to what the National Socialist German Workers Party did.
PBS did a pretty impressive special on the subject, available on DVD.
So... it's likely that the Turkish government will keep on censoring away. It's not like anyone's going to do anything effective about it. Sure, eventually they'll figure out that censoring the 'net is a fool's errand, but they'll kick that can down the road as long as they can. And even then, will enough Turkish citizens care enough to look?
The student matters more than the teacher. If the student doesn't do the work, the teacher can't help. If the teacher is incomprehensible, the student can still RTFM. Alas, I didn't get that point through my head as an undergrad.
The one thing I'd like to add: learn how to do testing. Learn how to write testable code. Perhaps start at the JUnit website? Add unit tests, for starters, to your homework projects when it makes sense to you to do that. See if it impresses your professors.
I'd go with four of AMD's upcoming Barcelona quadcore CPUs, max out the RAM capacity, a pair of the upcoming ATI R600 video cards in Crossfire mode, one or two 30" widescreen monitors (I'm not sold on the dual screen thing), a RAID of those new 32GB Sandisk flash drives for the boot partition and a RAID of the upcoming terabyte SATA HDs for data storage so I'd never have to delete MythTV HDTV recordings (using a 3Ware SATA RAID controller?), at least a couple of HD-5500 HDTV tuners, dual boot 64-bit Vista Ultimate (for games) and Fedora 7 (for everything else, running 32-bit WinXP in a KVM instance when I have to), maybe a X-Fi audio card, probably a PC Power & Cooling kilowatt power supply, a Blu-ray burner, watercooling by DangerDen, and a suitable case (maybe a Thermaltake Mozart TX?).
And a naquada generator so I could power it all off-the-grid.
Ah, I see, but they're trying to weasel out of it, having come to the same conclusion I did. I'm also not clear on how many American companies had to pony up for new 3G spectrum vs. reuse spectrum they already had, etc. I'd want to look at the total amount spent buying cellular spectrum, not just 3G.
which was effectively a tax that the cell phone providers must collect from their customers. Most Americans are too economically illiterate to understand that though. Heck, there's $8.10 in taxes listed on my cell phone bill in addition to the hidden taxes.
I read an article about a rural cell phone company that's providing cheap phone and cellular Internet access. They can do that because the big companies weren't all that interested in serving the area and thus the feds couldn't extort much money at the spectrum auction.
A land-rush model would have worked better than an auction model for divvying up spectrum, as recommended in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
My landline went out about a day into that outage. That's when I decided that landline reliability was overhyped. I figure it's easier to haul generators to cell stations than it is to keep a landline grid powered. (Cell phones might have been down too, I didn't have one then.)
Not that cell phones don't have their problems. Mine keeps locking onto a distant tower and dropping calls rather than picking one of the three closer towers when I'm at home. Works perfectly everywhere else. (The GPS coordinates of the connected tower are listed in one of the service menus, which can be plugged into Google Maps.)
I added my parents to my cell phone family plan. My Dad, who swore up and down that he didn't need no stinkin' cell phone, decided that they were kinda neat after I bought one for Mom. Now they've gone cell-phone-only too. It helps that landlines are much more expensive than average here in Michigan and that you don't pay extra for long distance calls on the cell.
AT&T could get me back as a customer if they'd build fiber optic Internet access like Verizon's FiOS, but noooooo. Screw 'em.
Nolo. No contest. They have quite a bit of free information and you can buy their eBooks in DRM-free.pdf format in addition to the usual dead trees versions.
Upper management was convinced that rather than writing decent software they should just "throw hardware" at the problem. So they threw lots of $25K Compaq Pentium Pro WinNT 3.51 servers at the unholy mix of 16-bit MFC and COBOL code they bought from another company (who used the $millions to write something modern). If you're familiar with that generation of Intel hardware and Microsoft software you'll know why that strategy didn't work so well. When sales came in well short of expectations, they downsized R&D to protect the company's "consistent 15% EPS growth rate!".
I think the main reason that company is still around is that they're blessed with less than competent competitors and are (or were) protected by the Democrat senator who cofounded the company.
For myself (and as a practicing physician), I don't have a problem with it - if you like your flavored spoiled milk with extra bacteria, by all means, partake. Nearly all food is nonsterile. Much of it has quite a lot of bacteria, and most of them (Taco Bell notwithstanding) are relatively harmless. Personally, I rather prefer Pop-Tarts.
Mix a high-sugar diet (Pop-Tarts?) and antibiotics over time and watch what happens. The antibiotics will wipe out much of the "good" bacteria in your large intestine, making room for yeast (candida albicans, fed by sugar) to grow and cause all sorts of problems. Switching to a low-sugar diet, taking antifungals (Nystatin, Diflucan, or possibly some of the "natural" antifungals), and taking probiotics to recolonize the gut is a plausible way to restore the system. In my case merely cutting out refined sugar made a HUGE difference. Losing weight was a nice bonus.
It'd be nice if proper scientific studies were done to prove all of this rather than having to rely on mere experience, but there's no magic patentable drug likely to result so nutritional solutions are usually dismissed. The doctor who figured out that hand-washing was a good idea was fired for his heresy too.
BTW, I hope you're enjoying the petroleum in your Pop-Tarts. That's what the synthetic coloring is made from. So are most artificial flavorings and preservatives (BHA, BHT, TBHQ), which I didn't see in the Pop-Tarts ingredients list but I bet most of the rest of your processed foods contain them. See the Feingold Association website for info on how that stuff is contributing heavily to ADHD and other neurological disorders. No wonder Whole Foods Market is growing like crazy.
Perish the thought! I can see it now: Indiana Jones (Ford) united with his illegitimate son (Justin Timberlake) go after the Lost Chalice of Talent. K-Fed leads the cast of bad/worse guys in pursuit. Working title: "Indiana Jones 4: The Audience is Doomed!"
food coloring, flavoring, and preservatives. If you see things like FD&C-anything, BHA, BHT, TBHQ, etc. in the ingredients list, it's derived from petroleum. Suffice it to say that it's bad for your neurology, but how bad depends on your genetics. See Feingold Association for details.
And then there's sulfite preservatives, which aren't synthetic but certainly overused...
All cloning does is decrease genetic diversity and lead to bovine versions of the Clone Wars. One day, when the right code is transmitted to their RFID tags, the cows will turn on their protectors and/.'ers will hastily print banners saying "I for one welcome our bovine overlords"...
Not if you have the usual consumer-class cable or DSL. Those IPs are assumed to be spambots by Earthlink and Yahoo, for starters. Speakeasy would probably work, or colo a box, but that seems a bit extreme.
I was having trouble with Yahoo! losing my mail a while back so I decided to keep my Earthlink account since they've always been clueful. D'oh...
C'mon guys, if a few $grand for an Opteron server or two is going to break the bank it's time to hang it up. Just give us fair warning.
So the 35-Watt X2 consumes 1.53 times as much power as the 65-Watt X2? Something is wrong there...
A 65nm 65W X2 idles with lower power consumption than a 90nm 35W X2. At full CPU load the 35W X2 would still have the edge. Since your average desktop PC spends most of its time idling this is not insignificant.
I have high-deductible insurance but I haven't bothered with a HSA yet as I don't have enough income to tax shelter.
I pay less than $100/mo. Routine expenses aren't covered, but when I had a MRI done the insurance paid the entire bill. To me that's the perfect system: very little paperwork/bureaucracy, big expenses covered. For a multiple of the money I could have the insurance company "pay" for everything. Umm, I don't think so.
Of course if more people knew about the HDHP + HSA combo then there'd be less demand for nationalizing health care so the Democrats hate it.
My bills still go up quite a bit percentage-wise every year but it's off of a relatively small base.
I'd go with the QuadFX platform just so I could swap in two quadcore AMD chips mid-2007, or one quadcore and one Torrenza platform coprocessor... if I had a few $thousand lying around and could make proper use of all that firepower. I suspect that quadcore + coprocessor combination is going to be really, really interesting within a year.
So to the scare. First, the UN implies that carbon dioxide ended the last four ice ages. It displays two 450,000-year graphs: a sawtooth curve of temperature and a sawtooth of airborne CO2 that's scaled to look similar. Usually, similar curves are superimposed for comparison. The UN didn't do that. If it had, the truth would have shown: the changes in temperature preceded the changes in CO2 levels.
Next, the UN abolished the medieval warm period (the global warming at the end of the First Millennium AD). In 1995, David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, had written an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data. He later wrote: "With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' "
So they did...
It's not that we're discounting the possibility of global warming, we're just skeptical of the idea of man-made global warming. Especially when it's elevated to the status of a pseudo-religion.
The American hostages in Iran were relased the day Reagan took office. It was not merely coincidence.
Yes, because the Iranian theocrats, unlike bin Laden, understood the difference between Democrat and Republican Commanders-in-Chief.
I'm just surprised it's taken this freakin' long to convict Saddam. I think the Romanians had the right idea: when they got ahold of their Communist dictator they propped him up against the nearest wall and shot the bastard. A trial serves no constructive purpose in these unusual cases. OTOH, swift execution has a nice demoralizing effect on his comrades. Unfortunately finding Saddam's rathole took considerable time so a swift execution was not in the cards, but still. Psychology is extremely important in war.
They trying to say that all 4 cores get traction or something?
Actually, that's not a bad analogy. Each AMD CPU has its own memory controller and bank of memory so there's lots of memory bandwidth to go around, whereas an Intel dual CPU config has both processors accessing memory through an obsolete FSB architecture. Accordingly, an Intel dual CPU machine will be spinning its wheels in situations where an AMD 4x4 has memory bandwidth to spare.
Couldn't this sort of beast be aimed at the Server Market? I have an application that would eat up this sort of config. Curently we use a Dual Xeon or a Quad Xeon and these get maxed out at times.
4x4 uses low-latency unbuffered RAM while servers use ECC RAM. More importantly, you can already buy dual CPU Opteron motherboards and chips. They've been capturing LOTS of market share from the Xeon, especially at the quad chip (8 core) level where the Xeon's obsolete FSB architecture falls down. Some vendors even have 8 CPU (16 core) boxes. And then there's Cray's Opteron-based supercomputers...
4x4 is basically an Opteron 2xx-series platform adapted for the desktop enthusiast market.
I asked a similar question on Howard Forums and they do sound like a good idea. My problem turned out to be my phone locking onto a distant tower rather than one of three nearer ones (your phone will tell you the GPS coordinates of the tower it's connected to in its service menu, or some phones at least, see the link). I never did buy a repeater.
malord may need a Motorola 484095-001-00 Signal Booster. Check your cable modem's internal webserver at http://192.168.100.1/ and if you do have a weak signal problem like I suspect (see Comcast's support forum and/or the Comcast forum on dslreports.com for how to do the diagnosis) then buy the amp. Yes, you shouldn't have to, but it's your best chance to actually fix the problem. Install the amp at the earliest possible point, before any cable splitters (if you have any).
If Comcast had any brains they'd keep a whole bunch of these in every Comcast service guy's truck and train their people to read the cable modem's signal status page. It'd be a helluva lot cheaper than repeated truck rolls to the same very annoyed customer. Better yet, they'd replace more of their aging copper with fiber before FiOS poaches all their best customers (alas, I'm in SBC/AT&T territory), but that's another rant entirely. Overall I'm reasonably happy with Comcast in my area but I'm still jealous of folks who can get FiOS.
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The Turkish government really, really doesn't want to talk about this. Bring it up too forcefully in Turkey and it can get you killed. So the subject is censored in Turkey, effectively enough that most of today's generation of Turks just can't believe that their great grandparents could have done anything so vile. I'd imagine that today's generation of Germans would have the same reaction if Germany hadn't been forced to face up to what the National Socialist German Workers Party did.
PBS did a pretty impressive special on the subject, available on DVD.
So... it's likely that the Turkish government will keep on censoring away. It's not like anyone's going to do anything effective about it. Sure, eventually they'll figure out that censoring the 'net is a fool's errand, but they'll kick that can down the road as long as they can. And even then, will enough Turkish citizens care enough to look?
Very good points. Someone mod the parent post up.
The student matters more than the teacher. If the student doesn't do the work, the teacher can't help. If the teacher is incomprehensible, the student can still RTFM. Alas, I didn't get that point through my head as an undergrad.
The one thing I'd like to add: learn how to do testing. Learn how to write testable code. Perhaps start at the JUnit website? Add unit tests, for starters, to your homework projects when it makes sense to you to do that. See if it impresses your professors.
so they use college credentials instead. It's horribly wasteful but the EEOC won't sue you over it.
I'd go with four of AMD's upcoming Barcelona quadcore CPUs, max out the RAM capacity, a pair of the upcoming ATI R600 video cards in Crossfire mode, one or two 30" widescreen monitors (I'm not sold on the dual screen thing), a RAID of those new 32GB Sandisk flash drives for the boot partition and a RAID of the upcoming terabyte SATA HDs for data storage so I'd never have to delete MythTV HDTV recordings (using a 3Ware SATA RAID controller?), at least a couple of HD-5500 HDTV tuners, dual boot 64-bit Vista Ultimate (for games) and Fedora 7 (for everything else, running 32-bit WinXP in a KVM instance when I have to), maybe a X-Fi audio card, probably a PC Power & Cooling kilowatt power supply, a Blu-ray burner, watercooling by DangerDen, and a suitable case (maybe a Thermaltake Mozart TX?).
And a naquada generator so I could power it all off-the-grid.
Alternatively, a Tyan Personal Supercomputer might be fun too.
Ah, I see, but they're trying to weasel out of it, having come to the same conclusion I did. I'm also not clear on how many American companies had to pony up for new 3G spectrum vs. reuse spectrum they already had, etc. I'd want to look at the total amount spent buying cellular spectrum, not just 3G.
which was effectively a tax that the cell phone providers must collect from their customers. Most Americans are too economically illiterate to understand that though. Heck, there's $8.10 in taxes listed on my cell phone bill in addition to the hidden taxes.
I read an article about a rural cell phone company that's providing cheap phone and cellular Internet access. They can do that because the big companies weren't all that interested in serving the area and thus the feds couldn't extort much money at the spectrum auction.
A land-rush model would have worked better than an auction model for divvying up spectrum, as recommended in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
My landline went out about a day into that outage. That's when I decided that landline reliability was overhyped. I figure it's easier to haul generators to cell stations than it is to keep a landline grid powered. (Cell phones might have been down too, I didn't have one then.)
Not that cell phones don't have their problems. Mine keeps locking onto a distant tower and dropping calls rather than picking one of the three closer towers when I'm at home. Works perfectly everywhere else. (The GPS coordinates of the connected tower are listed in one of the service menus, which can be plugged into Google Maps.)
I added my parents to my cell phone family plan. My Dad, who swore up and down that he didn't need no stinkin' cell phone, decided that they were kinda neat after I bought one for Mom. Now they've gone cell-phone-only too. It helps that landlines are much more expensive than average here in Michigan and that you don't pay extra for long distance calls on the cell.
AT&T could get me back as a customer if they'd build fiber optic Internet access like Verizon's FiOS, but noooooo. Screw 'em.
They're waiting for Intel to develop the exploding plasma conduit components. They got close with the P4.
Mark Steyn: How Gore's Massive Energy Consumption Saves the World
Talk about inconvenient truths...
Nolo. No contest. They have quite a bit of free information and you can buy their eBooks in DRM-free .pdf format in addition to the usual dead trees versions.
BTW, you almost certainly want to go LLC.
Upper management was convinced that rather than writing decent software they should just "throw hardware" at the problem. So they threw lots of $25K Compaq Pentium Pro WinNT 3.51 servers at the unholy mix of 16-bit MFC and COBOL code they bought from another company (who used the $millions to write something modern). If you're familiar with that generation of Intel hardware and Microsoft software you'll know why that strategy didn't work so well. When sales came in well short of expectations, they downsized R&D to protect the company's "consistent 15% EPS growth rate!".
I think the main reason that company is still around is that they're blessed with less than competent competitors and are (or were) protected by the Democrat senator who cofounded the company.
For myself (and as a practicing physician), I don't have a problem with it - if you like your flavored spoiled milk with extra bacteria, by all means, partake. Nearly all food is nonsterile. Much of it has quite a lot of bacteria, and most of them (Taco Bell notwithstanding) are relatively harmless. Personally, I rather prefer Pop-Tarts.
Mix a high-sugar diet (Pop-Tarts?) and antibiotics over time and watch what happens. The antibiotics will wipe out much of the "good" bacteria in your large intestine, making room for yeast (candida albicans, fed by sugar) to grow and cause all sorts of problems. Switching to a low-sugar diet, taking antifungals (Nystatin, Diflucan, or possibly some of the "natural" antifungals), and taking probiotics to recolonize the gut is a plausible way to restore the system. In my case merely cutting out refined sugar made a HUGE difference. Losing weight was a nice bonus.
It'd be nice if proper scientific studies were done to prove all of this rather than having to rely on mere experience, but there's no magic patentable drug likely to result so nutritional solutions are usually dismissed. The doctor who figured out that hand-washing was a good idea was fired for his heresy too.
BTW, I hope you're enjoying the petroleum in your Pop-Tarts. That's what the synthetic coloring is made from. So are most artificial flavorings and preservatives (BHA, BHT, TBHQ), which I didn't see in the Pop-Tarts ingredients list but I bet most of the rest of your processed foods contain them. See the Feingold Association website for info on how that stuff is contributing heavily to ADHD and other neurological disorders. No wonder Whole Foods Market is growing like crazy.
Perish the thought! I can see it now: Indiana Jones (Ford) united with his illegitimate son (Justin Timberlake) go after the Lost Chalice of Talent. K-Fed leads the cast of bad/worse guys in pursuit. Working title: "Indiana Jones 4: The Audience is Doomed!"
I'll take CGI over that, thank you very much.
food coloring, flavoring, and preservatives. If you see things like FD&C-anything, BHA, BHT, TBHQ, etc. in the ingredients list, it's derived from petroleum. Suffice it to say that it's bad for your neurology, but how bad depends on your genetics. See Feingold Association for details.
/.'ers will hastily print banners saying "I for one welcome our bovine overlords"...
And then there's sulfite preservatives, which aren't synthetic but certainly overused...
All cloning does is decrease genetic diversity and lead to bovine versions of the Clone Wars. One day, when the right code is transmitted to their RFID tags, the cows will turn on their protectors and
Not if you have the usual consumer-class cable or DSL. Those IPs are assumed to be spambots by Earthlink and Yahoo, for starters. Speakeasy would probably work, or colo a box, but that seems a bit extreme.
I was having trouble with Yahoo! losing my mail a while back so I decided to keep my Earthlink account since they've always been clueful. D'oh...
C'mon guys, if a few $grand for an Opteron server or two is going to break the bank it's time to hang it up. Just give us fair warning.
I think 42% will be more meaningful.
So the 35-Watt X2 consumes 1.53 times as much power as the 65-Watt X2? Something is wrong there...
A 65nm 65W X2 idles with lower power consumption than a 90nm 35W X2. At full CPU load the 35W X2 would still have the edge. Since your average desktop PC spends most of its time idling this is not insignificant.
I have high-deductible insurance but I haven't bothered with a HSA yet as I don't have enough income to tax shelter.
I pay less than $100/mo. Routine expenses aren't covered, but when I had a MRI done the insurance paid the entire bill. To me that's the perfect system: very little paperwork/bureaucracy, big expenses covered. For a multiple of the money I could have the insurance company "pay" for everything. Umm, I don't think so.
Of course if more people knew about the HDHP + HSA combo then there'd be less demand for nationalizing health care so the Democrats hate it.
My bills still go up quite a bit percentage-wise every year but it's off of a relatively small base.
HardOCP QuadFX Review.
I'd go with the QuadFX platform just so I could swap in two quadcore AMD chips mid-2007, or one quadcore and one Torrenza platform coprocessor... if I had a few $thousand lying around and could make proper use of all that firepower. I suspect that quadcore + coprocessor combination is going to be really, really interesting within a year.
What about the medieval warm period? From Climate chaos? Don't believe it by Christopher Monckton:
So to the scare. First, the UN implies that carbon dioxide ended the last four ice ages. It displays two 450,000-year graphs: a sawtooth curve of temperature and a sawtooth of airborne CO2 that's scaled to look similar. Usually, similar curves are superimposed for comparison. The UN didn't do that. If it had, the truth would have shown: the changes in temperature preceded the changes in CO2 levels.
Next, the UN abolished the medieval warm period (the global warming at the end of the First Millennium AD). In 1995, David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, had written an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data. He later wrote: "With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them, someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. One of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said: 'We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.' "
So they did...
It's not that we're discounting the possibility of global warming, we're just skeptical of the idea of man-made global warming. Especially when it's elevated to the status of a pseudo-religion.
The American hostages in Iran were relased the day Reagan took office. It was not merely coincidence.
Yes, because the Iranian theocrats, unlike bin Laden, understood the difference between Democrat and Republican Commanders-in-Chief.
I'm just surprised it's taken this freakin' long to convict Saddam. I think the Romanians had the right idea: when they got ahold of their Communist dictator they propped him up against the nearest wall and shot the bastard. A trial serves no constructive purpose in these unusual cases. OTOH, swift execution has a nice demoralizing effect on his comrades. Unfortunately finding Saddam's rathole took considerable time so a swift execution was not in the cards, but still. Psychology is extremely important in war.
They trying to say that all 4 cores get traction or something?
Actually, that's not a bad analogy. Each AMD CPU has its own memory controller and bank of memory so there's lots of memory bandwidth to go around, whereas an Intel dual CPU config has both processors accessing memory through an obsolete FSB architecture. Accordingly, an Intel dual CPU machine will be spinning its wheels in situations where an AMD 4x4 has memory bandwidth to spare.
Couldn't this sort of beast be aimed at the Server Market? I have an application that would eat up this sort of config. Curently we use a Dual Xeon or a Quad Xeon and these get maxed out at times.
4x4 uses low-latency unbuffered RAM while servers use ECC RAM. More importantly, you can already buy dual CPU Opteron motherboards and chips. They've been capturing LOTS of market share from the Xeon, especially at the quad chip (8 core) level where the Xeon's obsolete FSB architecture falls down. Some vendors even have 8 CPU (16 core) boxes. And then there's Cray's Opteron-based supercomputers...
4x4 is basically an Opteron 2xx-series platform adapted for the desktop enthusiast market.
I asked a similar question on Howard Forums and they do sound like a good idea. My problem turned out to be my phone locking onto a distant tower rather than one of three nearer ones (your phone will tell you the GPS coordinates of the tower it's connected to in its service menu, or some phones at least, see the link). I never did buy a repeater.
malord may need a Motorola 484095-001-00 Signal Booster. Check your cable modem's internal webserver at http://192.168.100.1/ and if you do have a weak signal problem like I suspect (see Comcast's support forum and/or the Comcast forum on dslreports.com for how to do the diagnosis) then buy the amp. Yes, you shouldn't have to, but it's your best chance to actually fix the problem. Install the amp at the earliest possible point, before any cable splitters (if you have any).
If Comcast had any brains they'd keep a whole bunch of these in every Comcast service guy's truck and train their people to read the cable modem's signal status page. It'd be a helluva lot cheaper than repeated truck rolls to the same very annoyed customer. Better yet, they'd replace more of their aging copper with fiber before FiOS poaches all their best customers (alas, I'm in SBC/AT&T territory), but that's another rant entirely. Overall I'm reasonably happy with Comcast in my area but I'm still jealous of folks who can get FiOS.