Sorry, never was Iraq specifically mentioned. I was merely commenting on how America gets drawn into so many conflicts that seem to have nothing to do with us. In the case of Iraq, to my knowledge, that was our own doing and did not involve allied action to initiate. Although in a convoluted manner it was related to retalitory action on Afganistan, but frankly not even I agree that the transition to Iraq was handled properly there.
In truth, this is entirely because of the different set of standards applied in the military than in the government. Politicians, save for the president and others with active roles in the military and politics both, are civilians held to civilian law. Manning is a soldier held to the UMCJ and as such is held to different expectations than Holder. Different expectations result in different outcomes, which is why Manning is in jail and on trial and Holder got his wrist slapped.
Little bit of education here. The US is involved in many of these "no attack" aggressions because while the enemy may not have attacked us, they have attacked US allies in the NATO organization. As a member of NATO we are obligated to come to the defense of other NATO members and shocking as it may seem, the US is considered the strongest military power in the NATO organization. This means that more times that not, the US is called upon to defend NATO members and thier allies.
Actually, the point I was trying to get across was that these photos are documented, real photos. Granted they are staged publicity shots for the data center owners. The originals with high res TIF versions are avialable here. This means that although they are the real facility, they are using lighting effects and such that are not present during normal operation.
Actually, this is a pretty well documented "green" datacenter. Covered by networkworld magazine and a host of others. It is not owned by wikileaks, they just host there.
It is highly likely the mother knew nothing of this man's criminal history. Last time I checked people didn't just go around background checking thier dates. Hell I dated a woman for 2 months before I even knew her last name, much less SSI # that is required to do a proper background check.
Get a clue folks. The press is supplied by the cops and public record. Of course THEY know about this guys history. The woman was likely totally clueless to it.
Not to mention, since when was check fraud (something easily committed on accident) grounds to suspect a violent nature?
I think he was refering to the fact that the beam looks cut. However, it is just as likely to have broken and had metallic flow from melting steel above cover it.
This is because the people with enough money to buy these cars tend to be older and want cars similar to thier childhood. Classic cars are classic for a reason. Give me a 66 mustang over this new stuff any day.
I'd be willing to bet that overall mustang sales jumped with Gen 5 (the current car).
I agree with you whole heartedly. However, that very same standing army is part if not the largest part, of why noone has openly attacked us since pearl harbor. Japan knew if had made a mistake, and we proved it. Although criminal more than warlike, the swift retaliation of 9/11, once again established that we are not to be meddled with. Unfortunately whatever premise that set was lost in the ludicrous followup that came with it. It should have been left as was after the initial retaliation. But, I digress, I am very much in support of expanding NASA's budget. I also strongly agree that our current military spending is rampant and criminal in more cases than we would like to know about.
In closing, Yes we need to lower military spending, but not by entirely dismantling our defenses. I wonder how much really gets wasted in "corruption cost"? Perhaps we should start there.
This is off topic, but generally so was your post.
Even if we have no military at all, there would still be wars, there would still be hate. Not to mention we are caught in a vicious cycle. If we were to dismantle our military or even just cut it back people out there would take that as a time to attack. It's a never ending cycle of brutality that will never cease.
I work for a non content providing consumer ISP based in midstate IL. So I feel I am qualified to comment here.
It's based on the users of bandwidth paying for that bandwidth. How do you explain consumer-only ISPs that don't host content? How do they stay afloat?
Tell me how "flat rate" equates to "noone[sic] pays". ISPs charge the cost of their bandwidth divided by the number of customers, plus a little on top for their operations. Put frankly, it's by massive oversell just as the parent stated. We currently use a ratio of 8:1, but lately have been leaned toward 5:1 for bandwidth allocations. I can't count the number of times a supervisor has insisted I call a customer when thier bandwidth graphs peak on a T1 just to make sure it is legitimate traffic.
So what are those "max connections" and "max bandwidth" settings I've seen in every BitTorrent client I've ever used? Settings that at least most of my customers would ignore or not even know where there. Settings that aren't there at all in more specialized applications such as the WoW downloader.
We're in agreement there. But why does your unbiased simple explanation contain numerous factual inaccuracies which all back up the terrible business practices and fraud of the ISPs? He never really claimed to be unbiased, just not toting a pitchfork with comcasts name on it. Why must your opening and closing statements be attacks? Facts, as most people see them, are just what someone else with acceptable reputation says is correct. Your different opinions could very well both be wrong. Just because you do not agree doesn't really make his statements "utter hogwash" as you put it.
Different ISPs have handled the idea of users using thier bandwidth differently since ISP became a common term. It also varies per customer in some cases. Parts of our network here use traffic shaping, some do not. Do we advertise this? Of course not. We don't deny it either however if asked. What makes comcast in a bad light here, seems to be that they lied about having the technology in place. Not so much what it is doing. This is of course my opinion, if you choose to take the things I have said as fact and attack my inaccuracies too, so be it.
Alienware pioneered this afaik but others are picking up the reigns. As others have stated this is because most laptops have the video IC built into the motherboard and it is not able to be replaced.
Deuterium is widely available in lighting sources. It is not that hard once obtained to produce the gas form. A quick google will net the required information.
I am sure you are aware but "bleeding edge" refers to the damage and pain that current, unstable software can cause to a business when used in a production environment. It is a direct parody of leading edge and refers to software even more untested than those termed this way. Gentoo up until recently was considered very bleeding edge because during the install it processed and installed the most current version of a package in it's production trees. This led to many unstable systems and a high number of failed installs (compared to most "stable" linux OSes) in my experiences.
Last I knew it was not a term in any way associate with the recent "fast and the furious" x-treme crap that has been invading every facet of life lately.
Let me first state two things. First, I am a gentoo user. Second I have only vaguely played with the BSDs.
That said, allow me to elaborate on the things I have seen. The most drastic difference between the BSD's and ANY other OS I have seen is stability. They are rock freaking solid. This however comes are a great cost to thier tech currency. Lets face it, new software although bright and shiny, is not stable. The BSD release trees have always been sluggish but only because they insist that packages be as stable as reasonably possible.
This is a very stark contrast to Gentoo's "bleeding edge" approach. Even the "stable" tree of gentoo is considered bleeding edge by most standards in a network OS.
Both standards have thier place and I am not really for or against the BSD architecture. I prefer gentoo only because it is what i started with and rpm is horribly flawed in it's base incarnation. YUM has worked to improve this alot and the newest Suse distros are not bad.
Never actually had one of the 6500's. Just connecting thier insanity of technology to the downfall of 3Dfx. Thier equally insane price point did not assist the company's survival much either.
My apologies, I stand corrected. However this new information on the origin of Glide makes me all the more curious as to why, despite still outperforming directX OpenGL (which I DID know was still fully supported and very much visually alive) is not used more extensively. All major OSes, all major cards support it, but noone uses it even though it has been around WAY longer than and apparently is even more supported (hardware wise) than directx?
I am not being pretentious, this is an honest question. Anyone in the industry have any answers to this?
Thats because Nvidia did a very foolish thing and quashed Glide. Glide spawned OpenGL(ide) which is still far superior to directX like nvidia uses today.....guess what...thats pretty well dead too. No developers seem to like it unless you are on linux.
Why did 3Dfx slump then? The same thing that made them famous. They had one really badass 16mb graphics card. How can this be bad one might ask? Because they had it when everyone else has 8mb..it kicked ass. So they kept it alive while everyone else had 16mb too. It still kicked ass. So they kept it alive when everyone else moved to 32mb. This is where the downward spiral started because they lost the "must have biggest numbers" geeks. Despite still defeating most 32mb cards in performace and almost always in quality. Then all hell broke loose when 64mb cards and games that used them started to hit mainstream. Although still arguably better quality the performance simply wasn't there. So 3Dfx responsed witht he Voodoo4 and Voodoo5. The V4 was substandard and fairly shunned right out of the gate. The V5 was overly power hungry (aka edselish ahead of it's time type stuff) requiring it's own PSU connection. This scared some people as did it's quad processors. Strangely, both of these things are very standard today. But even if 3Dfx had managed to not scare people off there the damage was already done. They had lost the trust of the market and as seems to happen frequently in this business, a much loved, superior company fell and vanished. Leaving in it's wake ATI, which survived all this time solely on it's onboard server IC GPU market, to pic up where 3Dfx left off in duking it out with Nvidia. ATI lacks the one thing that made 3Dfx shine though, Glide.
My last Voodoo died over 2 years ago, it was still in my retro gaming machine and was running strong. Still giving me chills of excitement when the glide logo would announce it's godly presence upon launching my favorite older games. Games that only recently have been eclipsed in overall graphical smoothness and depth. Tribes for example was beautifil if not simple while Glide was enabled. It took 5 years almost of Direct3D to catch up to Glide, why? The better question though is why OpenGL died when Glide did. I suspect Redmond hill had a hand in this and many many dollars, but I digress.
By the way, as some of you probably guessed. I was, am, and always will be a 3Dfx fanboy. Why not support the best out there? Even if it is a dead product?
Mod me OT/Troll if you must, but I prefer Insightful, maybe even informative.
IF you look into the history of corporate america you will realize that current and past executives serve on the boards of many many companies. This is nothing new and never has been. In fact, alot of todays companies would not exist if not for such things.
I am willing to bet you own little to no stock at all. If you did you would realize just how foolish your comment was. Saying that someone should be tied to only one company is like saying a stockholder should be able to only buy stake in one company. As a stock holder in 20+ firms, I for one know this would equal noone making any money on stocks (not that many are as it is).
Brainshare is a huge part of what drives companies yesterday, today, and most assuredly tomorrow.
This is a vewry very common question as of late. With the genuine (dis)advantage tool released many users who didn't even know thier 3 year old whitebox, built by bobs computer shack, was pirated, are finding thier windows all but unusable. I believe slashdots intent here was to address this issue for the many people that are going to run into it.
Personally I have never felt that ANY "ask slashdot" post was intended to be "news" as much as it was meant to be a community awareness post. Help one guy specifically and many others in the overall.
actually the reason for this as far as i have seen is because the australian observatory was the only valid relay point with equipment capable of receiving the signal fromt he video feeds for the lander. During certain orbital positions the US would not have signal contact with the crew, this just happened to be in one of those windows is what most likely happened.
Isn't that what josh just said?
But it is not just about marketing. What better way to publicly beta test a new engine than to release a game that most GTA players and hardcore gamers will never touch? You avoid the "hardcore" crowds criticism if it sucks, and manage to get feedback enough to make sure it doesn't when it hits that "hardcore" market.
A brilliant strategy in my opinion.
This is actually not the same, as noted in the original brief. The wasp does not carry off the paralyzed insect, it instead "drives" or "guides" it to the burrow. As referenced on page 2 of the brief:
The wasp grabs one of the cockroach's
antennae and walks to a suitable oviposition location.
The cockroach follows the wasp in a docile manner like
a dog on a leash (Williams 1942; Fouad et al. 1994). A
few days later, the cockroach serves as an immobilized
and fresh food source for the wasp's offspring.
This is strikingly different behavior than the cicada killers, which simply paralyze and then haul off thier, effectively frozen, prey.
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Sorry, never was Iraq specifically mentioned. I was merely commenting on how America gets drawn into so many conflicts that seem to have nothing to do with us. In the case of Iraq, to my knowledge, that was our own doing and did not involve allied action to initiate. Although in a convoluted manner it was related to retalitory action on Afganistan, but frankly not even I agree that the transition to Iraq was handled properly there.
In truth, this is entirely because of the different set of standards applied in the military than in the government. Politicians, save for the president and others with active roles in the military and politics both, are civilians held to civilian law. Manning is a soldier held to the UMCJ and as such is held to different expectations than Holder. Different expectations result in different outcomes, which is why Manning is in jail and on trial and Holder got his wrist slapped.
Little bit of education here. The US is involved in many of these "no attack" aggressions because while the enemy may not have attacked us, they have attacked US allies in the NATO organization. As a member of NATO we are obligated to come to the defense of other NATO members and shocking as it may seem, the US is considered the strongest military power in the NATO organization. This means that more times that not, the US is called upon to defend NATO members and thier allies.
Actually, the point I was trying to get across was that these photos are documented, real photos. Granted they are staged publicity shots for the data center owners. The originals with high res TIF versions are avialable here. This means that although they are the real facility, they are using lighting effects and such that are not present during normal operation.
That said, more realistic photos can be seen Here
Actually, this is a pretty well documented "green" datacenter. Covered by networkworld magazine and a host of others. It is not owned by wikileaks, they just host there.
It is highly likely the mother knew nothing of this man's criminal history. Last time I checked people didn't just go around background checking thier dates. Hell I dated a woman for 2 months before I even knew her last name, much less SSI # that is required to do a proper background check. Get a clue folks. The press is supplied by the cops and public record. Of course THEY know about this guys history. The woman was likely totally clueless to it. Not to mention, since when was check fraud (something easily committed on accident) grounds to suspect a violent nature?
I think he was refering to the fact that the beam looks cut. However, it is just as likely to have broken and had metallic flow from melting steel above cover it.
This is because the people with enough money to buy these cars tend to be older and want cars similar to thier childhood. Classic cars are classic for a reason. Give me a 66 mustang over this new stuff any day. I'd be willing to bet that overall mustang sales jumped with Gen 5 (the current car).
I agree with you whole heartedly. However, that very same standing army is part if not the largest part, of why noone has openly attacked us since pearl harbor. Japan knew if had made a mistake, and we proved it. Although criminal more than warlike, the swift retaliation of 9/11, once again established that we are not to be meddled with. Unfortunately whatever premise that set was lost in the ludicrous followup that came with it. It should have been left as was after the initial retaliation. But, I digress, I am very much in support of expanding NASA's budget. I also strongly agree that our current military spending is rampant and criminal in more cases than we would like to know about.
In closing, Yes we need to lower military spending, but not by entirely dismantling our defenses. I wonder how much really gets wasted in "corruption cost"? Perhaps we should start there.
This is off topic, but generally so was your post. Even if we have no military at all, there would still be wars, there would still be hate. Not to mention we are caught in a vicious cycle. If we were to dismantle our military or even just cut it back people out there would take that as a time to attack. It's a never ending cycle of brutality that will never cease.
Different ISPs have handled the idea of users using thier bandwidth differently since ISP became a common term. It also varies per customer in some cases. Parts of our network here use traffic shaping, some do not. Do we advertise this? Of course not. We don't deny it either however if asked. What makes comcast in a bad light here, seems to be that they lied about having the technology in place. Not so much what it is doing. This is of course my opinion, if you choose to take the things I have said as fact and attack my inaccuracies too, so be it.
Alienware pioneered this afaik but others are picking up the reigns. As others have stated this is because most laptops have the video IC built into the motherboard and it is not able to be replaced.
Deuterium is widely available in lighting sources. It is not that hard once obtained to produce the gas form. A quick google will net the required information.
I am sure you are aware but "bleeding edge" refers to the damage and pain that current, unstable software can cause to a business when used in a production environment. It is a direct parody of leading edge and refers to software even more untested than those termed this way. Gentoo up until recently was considered very bleeding edge because during the install it processed and installed the most current version of a package in it's production trees. This led to many unstable systems and a high number of failed installs (compared to most "stable" linux OSes) in my experiences.
Last I knew it was not a term in any way associate with the recent "fast and the furious" x-treme crap that has been invading every facet of life lately.
Let me first state two things. First, I am a gentoo user. Second I have only vaguely played with the BSDs.
That said, allow me to elaborate on the things I have seen. The most drastic difference between the BSD's and ANY other OS I have seen is stability. They are rock freaking solid. This however comes are a great cost to thier tech currency. Lets face it, new software although bright and shiny, is not stable. The BSD release trees have always been sluggish but only because they insist that packages be as stable as reasonably possible.
This is a very stark contrast to Gentoo's "bleeding edge" approach. Even the "stable" tree of gentoo is considered bleeding edge by most standards in a network OS.
Both standards have thier place and I am not really for or against the BSD architecture. I prefer gentoo only because it is what i started with and rpm is horribly flawed in it's base incarnation. YUM has worked to improve this alot and the newest Suse distros are not bad.
Never actually had one of the 6500's. Just connecting thier insanity of technology to the downfall of 3Dfx. Thier equally insane price point did not assist the company's survival much either.
My apologies, I stand corrected. However this new information on the origin of Glide makes me all the more curious as to why, despite still outperforming directX OpenGL (which I DID know was still fully supported and very much visually alive) is not used more extensively. All major OSes, all major cards support it, but noone uses it even though it has been around WAY longer than and apparently is even more supported (hardware wise) than directx?
I am not being pretentious, this is an honest question. Anyone in the industry have any answers to this?
Thats because Nvidia did a very foolish thing and quashed Glide. Glide spawned OpenGL(ide) which is still far superior to directX like nvidia uses today.....guess what...thats pretty well dead too. No developers seem to like it unless you are on linux.
Why did 3Dfx slump then? The same thing that made them famous. They had one really badass 16mb graphics card. How can this be bad one might ask? Because they had it when everyone else has 8mb..it kicked ass. So they kept it alive while everyone else had 16mb too. It still kicked ass. So they kept it alive when everyone else moved to 32mb. This is where the downward spiral started because they lost the "must have biggest numbers" geeks. Despite still defeating most 32mb cards in performace and almost always in quality. Then all hell broke loose when 64mb cards and games that used them started to hit mainstream. Although still arguably better quality the performance simply wasn't there. So 3Dfx responsed witht he Voodoo4 and Voodoo5. The V4 was substandard and fairly shunned right out of the gate. The V5 was overly power hungry (aka edselish ahead of it's time type stuff) requiring it's own PSU connection. This scared some people as did it's quad processors. Strangely, both of these things are very standard today. But even if 3Dfx had managed to not scare people off there the damage was already done. They had lost the trust of the market and as seems to happen frequently in this business, a much loved, superior company fell and vanished. Leaving in it's wake ATI, which survived all this time solely on it's onboard server IC GPU market, to pic up where 3Dfx left off in duking it out with Nvidia. ATI lacks the one thing that made 3Dfx shine though, Glide.
My last Voodoo died over 2 years ago, it was still in my retro gaming machine and was running strong. Still giving me chills of excitement when the glide logo would announce it's godly presence upon launching my favorite older games. Games that only recently have been eclipsed in overall graphical smoothness and depth. Tribes for example was beautifil if not simple while Glide was enabled. It took 5 years almost of Direct3D to catch up to Glide, why? The better question though is why OpenGL died when Glide did. I suspect Redmond hill had a hand in this and many many dollars, but I digress.
By the way, as some of you probably guessed. I was, am, and always will be a 3Dfx fanboy. Why not support the best out there? Even if it is a dead product?
Mod me OT/Troll if you must, but I prefer Insightful, maybe even informative.
IF you look into the history of corporate america you will realize that current and past executives serve on the boards of many many companies. This is nothing new and never has been. In fact, alot of todays companies would not exist if not for such things. I am willing to bet you own little to no stock at all. If you did you would realize just how foolish your comment was. Saying that someone should be tied to only one company is like saying a stockholder should be able to only buy stake in one company. As a stock holder in 20+ firms, I for one know this would equal noone making any money on stocks (not that many are as it is). Brainshare is a huge part of what drives companies yesterday, today, and most assuredly tomorrow.
This is a vewry very common question as of late. With the genuine (dis)advantage tool released many users who didn't even know thier 3 year old whitebox, built by bobs computer shack, was pirated, are finding thier windows all but unusable. I believe slashdots intent here was to address this issue for the many people that are going to run into it.
Personally I have never felt that ANY "ask slashdot" post was intended to be "news" as much as it was meant to be a community awareness post. Help one guy specifically and many others in the overall.
actually the reason for this as far as i have seen is because the australian observatory was the only valid relay point with equipment capable of receiving the signal fromt he video feeds for the lander. During certain orbital positions the US would not have signal contact with the crew, this just happened to be in one of those windows is what most likely happened.
Isn't that what josh just said? But it is not just about marketing. What better way to publicly beta test a new engine than to release a game that most GTA players and hardcore gamers will never touch? You avoid the "hardcore" crowds criticism if it sucks, and manage to get feedback enough to make sure it doesn't when it hits that "hardcore" market. A brilliant strategy in my opinion.
It's L. Ron Hubbard, just for the record. No, I'm not some whacked ass Scientologist, I am an anal retentive scifi literature fan :)
My apologies, the opriginal brief is located at http://www.bgu.ac.il/life/Faculty/Libersat/pdf/JCP .2003.pdf