Nah, there are some hookups that deal exclusively with marijuana, especially those who grow their own, but in general people tapped into the illegal drug trade can get you whatever you want. The distinction from my POV is that most marijuana users don't feel a huge need to do other drugs, they tend to get the mind altering experience they are after from a rather harmless short acting and non-addictive (physically) drug.
So? His point was if you have access to cheap, legal, high grade cocaine there is little incentive to make/use crack. Crack exists to get the user high for a cheap price, legal cocaine does that without the negative consequences of crack use. Current crack users are going to use crack regardless of its legal status so you aren't helping things by making cocaine illegal.
Some people have a problem with money, so let's ban it! Face it, you can't stop drugs so why even try? The people that will become addicted to the point of it affecting their lives are likely to do so anyways, so why throw people in jail? How about we set aside a certain percentage of the tax revenue from the legal sale of drugs for drug treatment programs which actually have a chance of helping the addicts? The current system isn't working so why don't we try something different, because ruining peoples live because they like to alter their state of mind is just asinine.
Repeat after me, drug use is not the same as drug abuse. Heck, our last three presidents have all done drugs and yet it hasn't put an end to their lives or heck even their rise to prominence. Can we please stop acting like all drug users have or are a problem? Also most of the problems with the distribution system go away and the 'problem' goes from being a drain on taxpayers to a source of revenue for the government thus providing a double bonus to ending the stupidest concept the government has ever come up with, the war on (some) drugs.
WiMax mobile adapters should be out by ~Q2'09 barring everyone deciding not to develop chips due to the economy. LTE first generation chips will be late 2010 even under optimistic predictions. The big problem is there is no credit, and won't be any in the near future, for big risky projects like 4G networks so I'm not holding my breath for either technology.
Nope, Verizon is Rev.A currently and it maxes at 3.1/1.8 with real world speeds being in the 1-2Mbit/500kbit upload range. Unless they are field testing Rev.B somewhere and haven't released ANY press about it I think you must have been fooled by the lying download calculator =) The DSL Reports speedtests bear that out too, I just checked and the top speed listed for myvzw.com is 2.3m/796
Yes, going from ~1-3Mbps to 20-40Mbps DOES justify getting labeled as a next generation service! Heck if they have decent enough coverage this will be a huge deal for us. We currently have a few 3G routers that we sendout whenever we open a new field office with no notice or where a sites internet service is down with no ETA for repair, having upload speeds in excess of 1Mbps will mean we could use it even for our large offices.
Android is just Googles back burner artillery. They just have to keep it alive enough to remind the carriers to keep their network open or they will threaten to release a completely open platform that the carriers won't have control over.
Hehe, my AT&T Blackberry 8820 is completely unencumbered other than being carrier locked, but after 90 days all it takes is a called to support to undo even that. Heck I'm currently running the software from another carrier because AT&T hasn't provided a branded version of OS 4.5 yet and I wanted the bigger memory card support and the ability to play youtube content. I'm really not sure why people put up with things like disabling MP3 ringtones and broken OBEX profiles.
Now that DSLR's are getting video support there is a real need for a 64bit filesystem because the 4GB filesize limit for FAT32 is limiting as it means you can only record around 15 minutes at a go. I would guess that if MS doesn't charge too much for licensing that the next gen of DSLR's will support exfat at least as an optional feature.
What you described is exactly how AMD's CPU's work today, there are two memory controllers for 4 cores on each chip. The problem is that outside data lines and memory modules are expensive. That's why SUN servers were always vastly more expensive per MIP than Xeon's, they were designed to do real work and so had much wider memory busses whereas all Xeon's in the system went through a single FSB memory controller (well that and lower volume meant design work needed to spread over fewer units).
The problem is that going forward we will add significantly more cores per memory controller. There's also the relationship between cores, L2, and L3 cache to consider. The L3 cache on a 32 core chip could become a VERY dirty area with certain workloads.
Try a clean profile, there might be something wrong with yours. I keep 99 days of history and even with 20+ tabs open in FF3.0.4 with 9 addons installed I'm only using 151MB on a 2GB XP SP2 machine.
Do you drive? The reason I ask is you seem to think that there is someone actually getting the idiot drivers off the road! There isn't a week that goes by that I don't come into work and complain about the general stupidity of the people I share the roads with during my commute. By comparison the number of WTF moments I have with my userbase is probably more like 1-2 per month, but this company seems to be better than most I have worked at (or perhaps it's the fact that I don't field frontline calls anymore and so the things I work on are generally actually broken).
All multiplayer console games just tie a license key to your online account which is exactly the same concept, you can't resell the game because it has basically no value without the ability to use it in multiplayer.
According to Dell's system it WAS shipped, it just never arrived. That means it's either lost in USPS or within the APO system. Both are examples of government bureaucracy and inefficiency at their finest though at least the APO has the excuse of operating with a highly mobile and often combat engaged clientele. Btw this is exactly why many retailers have a no APO address policy, it's not worth the headache. Dell probably only ships to APO due to riders in place on their large federal contracts.
WTF who measures things like MP3 compression time when testing a filesystem?!? As far as I can tell they only ran one real I/O test and that was the Intel IOMeter based fileserver test which showed EXT4 is really fast for that profile. I would have loved to have seen the DB profile run. Their other artificial tests could have been summed up by running the streaming media profile since they were just large contiguous reads and writes.
The problem is last time we tried deflation and negative growth it lasted a decade and had huge swaths of the population unemployed and many starving. I personally don't have any love for the boom bust cycle model we've been in, but the alternative is SO much worse that it just doesn't seem like something we should do to people. If I thought the people responsible for the cycle were going to suffer I might be willing to let it happen, but there is no way that will occur so I see no reason to punish large chunks of the middle and lower class. It seems better to just let the stock prices stagnate and keep people employed and therefore fed and housed.
You DO know that there is an open source DOS workalike called FreeDOS right? Also DOS had ethernet and TCP/IP support through NDIS and a variety of TCP/IP stacks including the still downloadable group networking pack from MS. The fact that the last standalone release of MS DOS was 15 years ago and that new NDIS drivers are still being released is a testament to just how much the PC industry works to support old system.
How can the individual spend if they have a negative savings rate, a 1 in 7 chance of being unemployed, and no institution will make loans because they can't.
Oracle IS NUMA aware, but at least in early 2006 the code extensions that made it NUMA aware were immature and had significant issues in our environment. I'm not sure if that was code that was ported to Windows from the UNIX codebase or new code that was Windows specific, all I know is it caused us issues and the performance increase on our DL585 G1 was in the low double digits so the tradeoff was a non-starter. A financial system that is down is infinitely slower than even the slowest of systems.
Windows 2003 is NUMA aware. My problem is the Oracle NUMA patches are not very well tested and hence less stable. We quickly backed out the NUMA commands from our 10GR2 systems after experiencing a number of issues. Perhaps Oracle's code has gotten better in the last ~2 years, but for us the slight performance increase wasn't worth the headaches.
So basically the pirates will have a version that has nothing to trip people up but the legit customer who happens to not get activated by the minimum wage clerk is screwed and must wait AND waste gas to take it back? Yeah, please video game industry, make it easier and easier to justify piracy. I have plenty of money and like to support the people who make games I enjoy but it's really easier to just pirate this stuff since the game industry is more and more anti-consumer all the time.
Yeah, 2/3 rd's of my budget for the camera I bought with my rebate check was lense and I was still wishing for more glass when I went out to Yellowstone this fall. Decent quality 400+mm glass with autofocus and image stabilization is really freaking expensive. My 18-200VR lense was the best all around piece of glass I could afford and it's only OK quality.
Probably not what you meant but check out this work for some HDR videos (granted time lapse). Also I think Peter Jackson and company would argue that at the high end digital has plenty of dynamic range, and with camera's like the D90 and 5D Mark II it's actually coming to the prosumer market.
No, ~20MP is equivalent to full frame 35mm film in all aspects including the ability to crop and blow up to wall sized prints. In practice 6-8MP is good enough for almost all work even for most professionals. There are of course exceptions but unless you are shooting medium format today 22MP is likely going to fulfill all your needs.
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Nah, there are some hookups that deal exclusively with marijuana, especially those who grow their own, but in general people tapped into the illegal drug trade can get you whatever you want. The distinction from my POV is that most marijuana users don't feel a huge need to do other drugs, they tend to get the mind altering experience they are after from a rather harmless short acting and non-addictive (physically) drug.
So? His point was if you have access to cheap, legal, high grade cocaine there is little incentive to make/use crack. Crack exists to get the user high for a cheap price, legal cocaine does that without the negative consequences of crack use. Current crack users are going to use crack regardless of its legal status so you aren't helping things by making cocaine illegal.
Some people have a problem with money, so let's ban it! Face it, you can't stop drugs so why even try? The people that will become addicted to the point of it affecting their lives are likely to do so anyways, so why throw people in jail? How about we set aside a certain percentage of the tax revenue from the legal sale of drugs for drug treatment programs which actually have a chance of helping the addicts? The current system isn't working so why don't we try something different, because ruining peoples live because they like to alter their state of mind is just asinine.
Repeat after me, drug use is not the same as drug abuse. Heck, our last three presidents have all done drugs and yet it hasn't put an end to their lives or heck even their rise to prominence. Can we please stop acting like all drug users have or are a problem? Also most of the problems with the distribution system go away and the 'problem' goes from being a drain on taxpayers to a source of revenue for the government thus providing a double bonus to ending the stupidest concept the government has ever come up with, the war on (some) drugs.
WiMax mobile adapters should be out by ~Q2'09 barring everyone deciding not to develop chips due to the economy. LTE first generation chips will be late 2010 even under optimistic predictions. The big problem is there is no credit, and won't be any in the near future, for big risky projects like 4G networks so I'm not holding my breath for either technology.
Nope, Verizon is Rev.A currently and it maxes at 3.1/1.8 with real world speeds being in the 1-2Mbit/500kbit upload range. Unless they are field testing Rev.B somewhere and haven't released ANY press about it I think you must have been fooled by the lying download calculator =) The DSL Reports speedtests bear that out too, I just checked and the top speed listed for myvzw.com is 2.3m/796
Yes, going from ~1-3Mbps to 20-40Mbps DOES justify getting labeled as a next generation service! Heck if they have decent enough coverage this will be a huge deal for us. We currently have a few 3G routers that we sendout whenever we open a new field office with no notice or where a sites internet service is down with no ETA for repair, having upload speeds in excess of 1Mbps will mean we could use it even for our large offices.
Android is just Googles back burner artillery. They just have to keep it alive enough to remind the carriers to keep their network open or they will threaten to release a completely open platform that the carriers won't have control over.
Hehe, my AT&T Blackberry 8820 is completely unencumbered other than being carrier locked, but after 90 days all it takes is a called to support to undo even that. Heck I'm currently running the software from another carrier because AT&T hasn't provided a branded version of OS 4.5 yet and I wanted the bigger memory card support and the ability to play youtube content. I'm really not sure why people put up with things like disabling MP3 ringtones and broken OBEX profiles.
Now that DSLR's are getting video support there is a real need for a 64bit filesystem because the 4GB filesize limit for FAT32 is limiting as it means you can only record around 15 minutes at a go. I would guess that if MS doesn't charge too much for licensing that the next gen of DSLR's will support exfat at least as an optional feature.
What you described is exactly how AMD's CPU's work today, there are two memory controllers for 4 cores on each chip. The problem is that outside data lines and memory modules are expensive. That's why SUN servers were always vastly more expensive per MIP than Xeon's, they were designed to do real work and so had much wider memory busses whereas all Xeon's in the system went through a single FSB memory controller (well that and lower volume meant design work needed to spread over fewer units).
The problem is that going forward we will add significantly more cores per memory controller. There's also the relationship between cores, L2, and L3 cache to consider. The L3 cache on a 32 core chip could become a VERY dirty area with certain workloads.
Try a clean profile, there might be something wrong with yours. I keep 99 days of history and even with 20+ tabs open in FF3.0.4 with 9 addons installed I'm only using 151MB on a 2GB XP SP2 machine.
Do you drive? The reason I ask is you seem to think that there is someone actually getting the idiot drivers off the road! There isn't a week that goes by that I don't come into work and complain about the general stupidity of the people I share the roads with during my commute. By comparison the number of WTF moments I have with my userbase is probably more like 1-2 per month, but this company seems to be better than most I have worked at (or perhaps it's the fact that I don't field frontline calls anymore and so the things I work on are generally actually broken).
All multiplayer console games just tie a license key to your online account which is exactly the same concept, you can't resell the game because it has basically no value without the ability to use it in multiplayer.
According to Dell's system it WAS shipped, it just never arrived. That means it's either lost in USPS or within the APO system. Both are examples of government bureaucracy and inefficiency at their finest though at least the APO has the excuse of operating with a highly mobile and often combat engaged clientele. Btw this is exactly why many retailers have a no APO address policy, it's not worth the headache. Dell probably only ships to APO due to riders in place on their large federal contracts.
WTF who measures things like MP3 compression time when testing a filesystem?!? As far as I can tell they only ran one real I/O test and that was the Intel IOMeter based fileserver test which showed EXT4 is really fast for that profile. I would have loved to have seen the DB profile run. Their other artificial tests could have been summed up by running the streaming media profile since they were just large contiguous reads and writes.
The problem is last time we tried deflation and negative growth it lasted a decade and had huge swaths of the population unemployed and many starving. I personally don't have any love for the boom bust cycle model we've been in, but the alternative is SO much worse that it just doesn't seem like something we should do to people. If I thought the people responsible for the cycle were going to suffer I might be willing to let it happen, but there is no way that will occur so I see no reason to punish large chunks of the middle and lower class. It seems better to just let the stock prices stagnate and keep people employed and therefore fed and housed.
You DO know that there is an open source DOS workalike called FreeDOS right? Also DOS had ethernet and TCP/IP support through NDIS and a variety of TCP/IP stacks including the still downloadable group networking pack from MS. The fact that the last standalone release of MS DOS was 15 years ago and that new NDIS drivers are still being released is a testament to just how much the PC industry works to support old system.
How can the individual spend if they have a negative savings rate, a 1 in 7 chance of being unemployed, and no institution will make loans because they can't.
Oracle IS NUMA aware, but at least in early 2006 the code extensions that made it NUMA aware were immature and had significant issues in our environment. I'm not sure if that was code that was ported to Windows from the UNIX codebase or new code that was Windows specific, all I know is it caused us issues and the performance increase on our DL585 G1 was in the low double digits so the tradeoff was a non-starter. A financial system that is down is infinitely slower than even the slowest of systems.
Windows 2003 is NUMA aware. My problem is the Oracle NUMA patches are not very well tested and hence less stable. We quickly backed out the NUMA commands from our 10GR2 systems after experiencing a number of issues. Perhaps Oracle's code has gotten better in the last ~2 years, but for us the slight performance increase wasn't worth the headaches.
So basically the pirates will have a version that has nothing to trip people up but the legit customer who happens to not get activated by the minimum wage clerk is screwed and must wait AND waste gas to take it back? Yeah, please video game industry, make it easier and easier to justify piracy. I have plenty of money and like to support the people who make games I enjoy but it's really easier to just pirate this stuff since the game industry is more and more anti-consumer all the time.
Yeah, 2/3 rd's of my budget for the camera I bought with my rebate check was lense and I was still wishing for more glass when I went out to Yellowstone this fall. Decent quality 400+mm glass with autofocus and image stabilization is really freaking expensive. My 18-200VR lense was the best all around piece of glass I could afford and it's only OK quality.
Probably not what you meant but check out this work for some HDR videos (granted time lapse). Also I think Peter Jackson and company would argue that at the high end digital has plenty of dynamic range, and with camera's like the D90 and 5D Mark II it's actually coming to the prosumer market.
No, ~20MP is equivalent to full frame 35mm film in all aspects including the ability to crop and blow up to wall sized prints. In practice 6-8MP is good enough for almost all work even for most professionals. There are of course exceptions but unless you are shooting medium format today 22MP is likely going to fulfill all your needs.