Sure they make gyroscope augmented GPS tracking units. They are used in commercial airliners and some other applications. They are not as cheap as say a Garmin eTrex but they aren't so prohibitivly expensive that they couldn't be used in a lojack type application.
Actually the police using your vehicles navigation system (such as Onstar) would possibly be more protected. They would have to obtain a warrant to get the information, and even then there are possible fifth amendmant grounds, can you sign up for a service which may tend to incriminate you without your knowledge?
Actually it was the Supreme Court of the United States in Kyllo V. U.S. that the majority stated:
"Thus, obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the home's interior that could not otherwise have been obtained without physical intrusion into a constitutionally protected area constitutes a search"
This can be logically extended to cover any activity not occouring in full public view and to any technological augmentation of the police's natural abilities. That case was arguably the most important one heard by this supreme court because they basically decided that advancement of technology does not give the police an unlimited liscense to observe the populace.
You are right about deregulation sucking, but the reason the David Besse plant is shut down is that it is bar none the worst run plant in the country. They had a FOOTBALL size hole in the reactor containment unit. Furthermore First Energy is losing a LOT of money having that plant down, check their most recent SEC report. The problem is that most of us within the 50 mile death zone do NOT want to see it restarted unless there is a wholesale change of management and lots of government oversight. Ralph Nadar says that it should be closed permenantly, I disagree but I think a lot has to change before I am willing to let them operate a nuclear reactor near me.
Only 24+ hours behind fark.com Maybe eventually Slashdot will get some mods who care again (Hemos and Taco used to, I think they burnt out at some point)
Basically it comes down to MS partnered with Nvidia for DX8 and XBox-1, Nvidia asked MS to use some KY so MS chose ATI for DX9 and XBox-2.
p.s. If you don't get this, MS was losing money on the XBox for a long time, some analysts say they still are, to minimize those losses they asked Nvidia to take a hit on the contract terms for the XBox hardware agreement, Nvidia being a relitivly small company said no thanks and that effectivly ended their relationship for now.
Bullshit, it's been out for months, see This article. As to the rest of your argument check out TPC-C results and say that MS SQL doesn't scale, it's the second highest scorer and has 6 of the top 10 results. This is a real world load testing benchmark that many companies base purchasing decisions on. (ok the MS solutions are a little unusual in that they are shared-nothing but the other competitiors are free to do likewise).
MS trackball optical. Great precision, easy to clean when needed, fast acceleration. Basically the best game playing pointing device I've ever tried. Sniping in Team Fortress is almost too easy =) Also works well for photediting.
That was a design flaw with the Gen 1 Intellimouse. There is a point just inside the mouse where the cord enters where the cord gets pinched around a corner and breaks. If it has been less than 3 years since you bought it you can call up MS support and get a new one sent to you by supplying the serial number. We had about 50 of them go dead in 9 months, so I just got the serial numbers of all the series one intellimice and sent em in bulk, couple days later I had a case of new mice and a work queue three pages long.
An engineer who specializes in computer aided design and manufacturing as apposed to say designing circuits, power supplies, or any of the other myriad of engineering positions a company may have. Basically at my last gig they had engineers whos job it was to take the specs and designs from the other engineers and work them into real products which could be efficiently manufactured given the limitations of the assembly plant. They specialized in process flow, materials, and some other stuff as apposed to other areas of engineering.
21-24" The Sony Trinitron CPD-G500 21" monitors can do 2048*1536 @ 75Hz. Their 24" widescreen does 2304 x 1440 @ 80Hz. Someone else may have a better monitor but I haven't seen em =)
Nah, almost all P0rn is shot with equipment like Sony Handicam's. Low budget rules the sleazy underworld, so projecting a lousy picture on a big screen just makes you realize how poor the quality is. It's even worse with Divx rips, ugh. But I have to agree with you, 2,000 lumens for even $500 would be great.
They likely couldn't afford the X thousand dollar liscense for Maya, let alone one for Autocad, Solidworks, etc. The best place to get info on what video card to purchase is from you software vendor. All of the CAD/DCC companies have a short list of recomended cards which are the ones they test the most with and which are best supported by their products. You're spending big cash on the software and the talent, through a little time and money at getting the right hardware.
Yeah, but if you need support on a video card, then someone fucked up somewhere big time. That's one of those things that's supposed to "just work".
Bzzzzt. Not only do CAD companies dictate a short list of supported graphics cards but they often dictate a specific set of one or two driver revisions that they support per application revision. Trust me when you are spending near six figures for an annual liscense and paying a CAD engineer well over six figures you simply don't CARE what the card costs, if it is the best performing card on the supported list you will probably buy it.
For a little perspective here's a quote from one of Nvidia's driver authors:
I use a Quadro FX 3000 with 256MB of VRAM, which is the absolute high end of NVIDIA's professional graphics series. It's basically a souped-up FX 5900 core manufactured for the CAD, DCC and visualization markets. There are many decent used vehicles that cost less than a Quadro FX 3000.
Hmmm. A car or a video card.... For me it's an easy question to answer, but for work the equation works out a bit differently. There the CAD engineers are paid well into six figures, the annual liscenses for the CAD apps are almost six figures, so anything that is going to increase those engineers productivity is WELL worth the cost. If you have an equipment budget of around a million a year for engineering PC's a couple thousand for a video card that will make the engineers more productive is a no brainer, their workstations already cost around $10k, what's $2k more?
I personally never pay much more than $100 for a video card. I look at what's available at that price point and decide if it fits my needs, every time I've looked it has =) Besides I buy games that keep me interested for years instead of months like most console offerings. I have played Moo3, Diablo2, Diablo, Civ, MoM, HoMM3, and several other computer games many years after their release, Soul Caliber and Dragon Warrior are the only console titles I can say that about. My annual outlay for my PC including games and hardware upgrades is still less than what my friends spend on consoles and games despite the fact that I use my PC for work, education, and other leisure activities besides just playing games on it (for instance I VJ at local underground parties). Besides this is NOT a game card, it's a CAD/prerendering card.
Ain't that the truth, for my home account in the last 3.5 months I have recieved 192 legit emails. By contrast I have recieve 421 spam's, viruses and other unwanted email, in the last 11 DAYS.
Yep, since Bush took office the economy has lost 2.8 million jobs, if you count in population growth we are at an ~5 million job deficit vs where we should be with normal growth. Add in the number of people who are underemployed and the job situation in the US is pretty grim. On top of all this NONE of the things Bush has done or proposed are the things you do to get a country out of a slump.
What are you talking about? OpenGL is ahead of DX and always will be. You get faster access to new features through vendor extensions and often better access to them. For instance Carmack has talked about how he is better able to access some of the advanced shader features on Nvidia cards through the OpenGL exposed elements than through MS's DX9 interface which was coauthored with ATI (Nvidia cowrote DX8, notice which is used of the current XBox and which will be used on the upcoming XBox2). Until ATI stops writing crappy drivers and prematurly killing still sold hardware I won't be supporting them. (ATI cards that were still on the shelves 9 months after windows 2000 shipped NEVER had w2k drivers written, wtf?)
Hiroshima was nothing, the cities of Dresden, Kobe, Osaka, and others were destroyed in a MUCH worse fashion by the carpet firebombing of the allies. My German teacher was a little girl in Dresden during WWII and saw firsthand the horrors of those attacks. The percentage of Hiroshima affected even by the fallout was small compared to the destruction wrought on those other cities.
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Sure they make gyroscope augmented GPS tracking units. They are used in commercial airliners and some other applications. They are not as cheap as say a Garmin eTrex but they aren't so prohibitivly expensive that they couldn't be used in a lojack type application.
Read the ruling they specifically dealt with that issue.
Actually the police using your vehicles navigation system (such as Onstar) would possibly be more protected. They would have to obtain a warrant to get the information, and even then there are possible fifth amendmant grounds, can you sign up for a service which may tend to incriminate you without your knowledge?
Actually it was the Supreme Court of the United States in Kyllo V. U.S. that the majority stated:
"Thus, obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the home's interior that could not otherwise have been obtained without physical intrusion into a constitutionally protected area constitutes a search"
This can be logically extended to cover any activity not occouring in full public view and to any technological augmentation of the police's natural abilities. That case was arguably the most important one heard by this supreme court because they basically decided that advancement of technology does not give the police an unlimited liscense to observe the populace.
You are right about deregulation sucking, but the reason the David Besse plant is shut down is that it is bar none the worst run plant in the country. They had a FOOTBALL size hole in the reactor containment unit. Furthermore First Energy is losing a LOT of money having that plant down, check their most recent SEC report. The problem is that most of us within the 50 mile death zone do NOT want to see it restarted unless there is a wholesale change of management and lots of government oversight. Ralph Nadar says that it should be closed permenantly, I disagree but I think a lot has to change before I am willing to let them operate a nuclear reactor near me.
Actually if you read the report they maintained ACID compliance, that's a requirement of the test.
Just use the stuff packaged by Annheiser Bush or any of the other major US beverage distributors. It's not really beer so no harm done.
Only 24+ hours behind fark.com
Maybe eventually Slashdot will get some mods who care again (Hemos and Taco used to, I think they burnt out at some point)
Basically it comes down to MS partnered with Nvidia for DX8 and XBox-1, Nvidia asked MS to use some KY so MS chose ATI for DX9 and XBox-2.
p.s.
If you don't get this, MS was losing money on the XBox for a long time, some analysts say they still are, to minimize those losses they asked Nvidia to take a hit on the contract terms for the XBox hardware agreement, Nvidia being a relitivly small company said no thanks and that effectivly ended their relationship for now.
There is no 64 bit version os MS SQL
Bullshit, it's been out for months, see This article. As to the rest of your argument check out TPC-C results and say that MS SQL doesn't scale, it's the second highest scorer and has 6 of the top 10 results. This is a real world load testing benchmark that many companies base purchasing decisions on. (ok the MS solutions are a little unusual in that they are shared-nothing but the other competitiors are free to do likewise).
MS trackball optical. Great precision, easy to clean when needed, fast acceleration. Basically the best game playing pointing device I've ever tried. Sniping in Team Fortress is almost too easy =) Also works well for photediting.
That was a design flaw with the Gen 1 Intellimouse. There is a point just inside the mouse where the cord enters where the cord gets pinched around a corner and breaks. If it has been less than 3 years since you bought it you can call up MS support and get a new one sent to you by supplying the serial number. We had about 50 of them go dead in 9 months, so I just got the serial numbers of all the series one intellimice and sent em in bulk, couple days later I had a case of new mice and a work queue three pages long.
An engineer who specializes in computer aided design and manufacturing as apposed to say designing circuits, power supplies, or any of the other myriad of engineering positions a company may have. Basically at my last gig they had engineers whos job it was to take the specs and designs from the other engineers and work them into real products which could be efficiently manufactured given the limitations of the assembly plant. They specialized in process flow, materials, and some other stuff as apposed to other areas of engineering.
21-24"
The Sony Trinitron CPD-G500 21" monitors can do 2048*1536 @ 75Hz. Their 24" widescreen does 2304 x 1440 @ 80Hz. Someone else may have a better monitor but I haven't seen em =)
Nah, almost all P0rn is shot with equipment like Sony Handicam's. Low budget rules the sleazy underworld, so projecting a lousy picture on a big screen just makes you realize how poor the quality is. It's even worse with Divx rips, ugh. But I have to agree with you, 2,000 lumens for even $500 would be great.
They likely couldn't afford the X thousand dollar liscense for Maya, let alone one for Autocad, Solidworks, etc. The best place to get info on what video card to purchase is from you software vendor. All of the CAD/DCC companies have a short list of recomended cards which are the ones they test the most with and which are best supported by their products. You're spending big cash on the software and the talent, through a little time and money at getting the right hardware.
Yeah, but if you need support on a video card, then someone fucked up somewhere big time. That's one of those things that's supposed to "just work".
Bzzzzt.
Not only do CAD companies dictate a short list of supported graphics cards but they often dictate a specific set of one or two driver revisions that they support per application revision. Trust me when you are spending near six figures for an annual liscense and paying a CAD engineer well over six figures you simply don't CARE what the card costs, if it is the best performing card on the supported list you will probably buy it.
For a little perspective here's a quote from one of Nvidia's driver authors:
I use a Quadro FX 3000 with 256MB of VRAM, which is the absolute high end of NVIDIA's professional graphics series. It's basically a souped-up FX 5900 core manufactured for the CAD, DCC and visualization markets. There are many decent used vehicles that cost less than a Quadro FX 3000.
Hmmm. A car or a video card.... For me it's an easy question to answer, but for work the equation works out a bit differently. There the CAD engineers are paid well into six figures, the annual liscenses for the CAD apps are almost six figures, so anything that is going to increase those engineers productivity is WELL worth the cost. If you have an equipment budget of around a million a year for engineering PC's a couple thousand for a video card that will make the engineers more productive is a no brainer, their workstations already cost around $10k, what's $2k more?
I personally never pay much more than $100 for a video card. I look at what's available at that price point and decide if it fits my needs, every time I've looked it has =) Besides I buy games that keep me interested for years instead of months like most console offerings. I have played Moo3, Diablo2, Diablo, Civ, MoM, HoMM3, and several other computer games many years after their release, Soul Caliber and Dragon Warrior are the only console titles I can say that about. My annual outlay for my PC including games and hardware upgrades is still less than what my friends spend on consoles and games despite the fact that I use my PC for work, education, and other leisure activities besides just playing games on it (for instance I VJ at local underground parties). Besides this is NOT a game card, it's a CAD/prerendering card.
Ain't that the truth, for my home account in the last 3.5 months I have recieved 192 legit emails. By contrast I have recieve 421 spam's, viruses and other unwanted email, in the last 11 DAYS.
Yep, since Bush took office the economy has lost 2.8 million jobs, if you count in population growth we are at an ~5 million job deficit vs where we should be with normal growth. Add in the number of people who are underemployed and the job situation in the US is pretty grim. On top of all this NONE of the things Bush has done or proposed are the things you do to get a country out of a slump.
What are you talking about? OpenGL is ahead of DX and always will be. You get faster access to new features through vendor extensions and often better access to them. For instance Carmack has talked about how he is better able to access some of the advanced shader features on Nvidia cards through the OpenGL exposed elements than through MS's DX9 interface which was coauthored with ATI (Nvidia cowrote DX8, notice which is used of the current XBox and which will be used on the upcoming XBox2). Until ATI stops writing crappy drivers and prematurly killing still sold hardware I won't be supporting them. (ATI cards that were still on the shelves 9 months after windows 2000 shipped NEVER had w2k drivers written, wtf?)
This is false. My uncle lives in his wifes family home which is more than 150 years old. This house is on the outskirts of Nagoya, a large city.
You and the others are correct it was OpenBSD with the one exploit record, though I don't believe Free has had many more.
Hiroshima was nothing, the cities of Dresden, Kobe, Osaka, and others were destroyed in a MUCH worse fashion by the carpet firebombing of the allies. My German teacher was a little girl in Dresden during WWII and saw firsthand the horrors of those attacks. The percentage of Hiroshima affected even by the fallout was small compared to the destruction wrought on those other cities.