This is unbelievably bad. The real problem is : why aren't there incremental off site backups to another server farm? A weekly binary difference snapshot would have made this failure less catastrophic.
Ultimately, with a complex application like this, you can't guarantee 100% that the code doesn't have a bug in it that could result in loss of user data. You can be ALMOST sure it won't, but 100% is not possible with current analysis techniques. (even a mathematical proof of correctness wouldn't protect you from a hacker)
But a properly done set of OFFLINE backups, stored on racks of tapes or hard disks in a separate physical facility : you can be pretty sure that data isn't going anywhere.
Toast and Pi and various other CPU stability test programs will let you test the CPU.
Go into system configuration with windows and turn off auto-reboot, so that if the machine blue screens, you can see what the error code is. Sometimes that will let you isolate it to graphics or the motherboard.
Ultimately, the way to find out IS to replace the components one by one. If you have several machines, or spares from an older machine, you should swap each component and run the machine until either you get a crash or it's been long enough that you must have found the problem.
Sorry, wrote that comment in a hurry. I meant the following :
1. Basically all HDTVs sold today post process the video digitally, and remove the interlacing. Some remove it more effectively than others.
2. 1080i is better for golf tournaments than 720p.
With the interlacing removed, 1080i is kind of like 30 frames per second 1080p. For a lot of content, that's pretty good...film is only 24 fps, and there's various processing magic you can perform to get content to look very good at 1080i.
It's not a bad format. It is a pity they didn't wait until h.264 encoding was available, and make the high def broadcast format scale higher, with all the available resolutions in a progressive format. But, at least it is available.
1080p "broadcast" is entirely practical on a fiber optic TV network...there may be some channels like that in the U.S.
If the publisher doesn't sell you a copy of the work, they haven't made a first sale. Say what you like, they aren't breaking the law. They are working around it....what's the harm in that?
Variable pricing is a mechanism for maximizing revenue by charging buyers who are willing to pay more, more. Another method of variable pricing is the collector's edition of a game, or hardcover books.
This new method has a distinct advantage, however. When you purchase the DLC online, bioware's publisher receives a MUCH larger percentage of the take (basically 100% minus payment processing and bandwidth fees) than they get if you purchase the game in a store. A publisher only receives 30-50% of the sale price of a game sold in stores.
And no, game developers and publishers aren't trying to raise the stack of C-notes they sleep on at night : for the most part, they are trying to stay in business like everyone else. A triple AAA* title like Dragon Age costs tens of millions of dollars to produce, and is an inherently risky endeavor because the game is not a sequel. Games fail in the marketplace all the time, even top notch games that should have sold better.
* A triple A title is one that has high end graphics, voice acting, art work, technology, and essentially is near top of the line in all areas. It is impossible to create a triple AAA title today without a large team of people to build it, any more than you can create the special effects of the Lord of the Rings movies with 2 guys in a garage. Note that there are some great games out there released recently (Mount and Blade, Sins of a Solar Empire) that are NOT AAA titles because they do not have the graphics and voice acting. Half Life 2 is an example of an AAA title.
According to the wiki, Robert Mueller is a lawyer. He received his law degree in 1973, and spent a good chunk of his career as a federal prosecutor. Prosecutors in general are vicious people who use their power to extort guilty pleas from defendants. ('plead guilty and take the deal for 3 years, or I'll ask for a life sentence')
The man has no direct investigative experience, nor any training or work experience with computers. I would suspect he barely knows how to turn one on and to open up powerpoint, word, or outlook.
He specifically is one of the key men who CARRIED OUT the warrantless wiretapping, while declining to tell the public that he had broken his Oath to the Constitution of the United States.
Furthermore, he was the lead prosecutor on the Lockerbie bombing case. That's the one that sent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to prison for life, under evidence SO WEAK that the Scottish courts released this alleged mass murderer from prison under compassionate release. (the main reason this man was convicted came from the 'testimony' of a man paid 2 million dollars to give it, and of course Mueller had to have been right in the middle of this)
The head of the FBI isn't a superman, or an expert on every form of crime. It's entirely possible the man spent his investigative entire career focusing on a particular type of crime, before working his way up through management. Furthermore, the computers the FBI uses are probably quite similar to the ones used in a bank or comparable corporate activity. One would hope that their records security is at least as good as a bank. Unlike a bank, the FBI is mostly not subject to liability if they screw up, nor do they receive a larger budget if they do a better job one year. (in fact, Congress might CUT the FBIs budget if they do exceptionally well a particular fiscal cycle)
It's a popular meme in the media to give federal agents of all stripes super skills and technology that ordinary citizens don't have. Yet, for the most part, I suspect this isn't the case. (the exception to the rule is that the FBI DOES have enormous power to spy on and harass ordinary citizens who are never charged with a crime, and has abused this power many, many, many times in the past)
In general, the problem with the Borg is that they have subsumed a stupendous diversity of species and technology. They have a tech toy or a countermeasure for nearly ANYTHING you could try against them. Sure, you might be able to ram starships into Borg cubes and blow up one or two. But, if you tried to do it on a large scale, the Borg would communicate among one another and search their data banks for a countermeasure to your attack.
That rule goes for virtually ANYTHING you might try...in the series finale for Voyager, the Borg were even able to counter a super weapon specifically designed for killing Borg brought back in time from the future.
If you watch on a digital HDTV capable of 1080i (which ALL of them are), various filters and post processing magic removes most of the interlacing. 1080p is superior in detail for static scenes to 720p. That's why they televise golf tournaments in that resolution - the postcard like backgrounds of a golf course look much more detailed at 1080i.
However, despite the post processing, 720p shows motion better than 1080i - 60 fps instead of 30, and less artifacts introduced by the interlacing.
For a show like this one, it doesn't really matter. The sets and backgrounds and computer graphic shots aren't really detailed enough to look better in 1080 resolution.
Laser launch would now. Cutting the cost for a Mars mission from 2 trillion dollars to 1 trillion IS something to sneeze at. If you could make laser launch work, you'd slash your total costs by at least a factor of 10. (because launch costs would be 100 times cheaper or more, and you would be able to launch lots of lower quality hardware and save money on your spacecraft and satellites)
In pointing out my logical fallacy, you've committed a much bigger one. Orbital manufacturing and retrieving resources is science fiction. The amount of infrastructure you need to process raw materials into finished products, much less aerospace grade hardware, is immense. You can't even imagine the amount of machine tools and people, spread between thousands of firms, that all contribute to manufacturing something like spacecraft parts. Before you can start orbital manufacturing on a large scale, you basically have to lift some serious infrastructure into orbit in the first place - which is flat out impossible if you have to pay 10k/kilogram. A real orbital manufacturing plant would probably be thousands, if not millions of tons - at current launch prices, more than the entire economy of the world combined could afford.
Yes, we could set up a simple automated plant to make the return fuel for a manned mission to mars. That only lowers the stupendous cost of a manned mission slightly. More likely than not, a manned mission would use a large nuclear reactor and power some kind of high ISP engine, such that propellant would not be the main driver of launch cost. And no, you aren't going to be manufacturing components for a nuclear power plant using orbital manufacturing - all that heavy, bleeding edge technology stuff has to be made on earth.
Yes, some day there will be orbital factories that can process resources on an immense scale. They'll be AI driven, and self replicating. But for today, we need to work out a way to get a stinking primate in a can into orbit without requiring the labor of a million other primates.
The problem with space travel, that has been true for the past 60 years since the first rockets reached the edge of space, has been it costs a HUGE amount of finite resources to get anything into orbit. At least $10,000 a kilogram for a man rated launcher. Better engines that only work out in space do utterly nothing to solve this problem.
Laser launch, space elevators, cheap rockets made in China....whatever solution works, we need to be spending every dollar on that. Once we finally have a technology that is cost effective, THEN we can start sending missions to other planets and setting up space hotels and building plasma engines that only work in vacuum.
Why don't they just put an option to disable this check in a configuration file, with a comment above it that says : UNSUPPORTED FEATURE, ENABLE AT OWN RISK. It would cost a negligible amount of programmer time (I assume there will be people reading this comment that could write in this feature in under 10 minutes)and it could HELP nvidia. If it's possible to get more value out of Nvidia products, even if you also have a competitor's card in your machine, you are going to increase sales for nvidia products in the long run. Furthermore, if the effective install base for PhysX is larger, there's a greater chance that it will become a standard.
What Sony ought to do is offer to give you the electronic license to a PSP game if you sent in the original UMD. They could charge a small ($1-$2 per game) fee to cover the costs of this service.
I predict that there would be almost as much griping by gamers and here on slashdot if they offered something like this. (because there would still be DRM, you'd be paying (a small fee) to continue using your current games, etc.
It seems like every news announcement out there about material science advances involves carbon nanotubes. Is there anything they can't do???
Possible uses : 1. As an ideal semiconductor 2. As an ideal, super-lightweight conductor 3. As a drug delivery device 4. As an antibiotic 5. As a super strong space elevator cable 6. As the tip of an SEM 7. In electrically conductive clothing 8. As a super-strong super armor 9. Part of a super capacitor 10. Part of a super fast charging lithium ion battery 11. Part of a super-efficient solar cell
And like 50 uses besides! What CAN'T you do with carbon nanotubes? Cure cancer? No, I think someone is working on that....
If this was the technology tree in a strategy game, carbon nanotubes would be THE tech to research to unlock the good stuff.
Forget the Sony jokes for a minute. I can think of a great use for this technology : recharging smartphones!
Essentially, if they can miniaturize the receiver coils sufficiently enough, you could pack them so that they are integrated inside the batteries used in a smartphone. (yes, yes, it is somewhat inconvenient to swap the battery in certain Apple phones...)
Imagine the possibilities. You could have one of these transmitters in your car, plugged into the cigarette lighter and stuck between the driver's seat and the cupholders. Another could be on top of your nightstand in your bedroom, or wherever you tend to toss your keys, wallet, and phone at the end of the day. A third one would be in your office on your desk.
If the range is enough (100 centimeters or so) your phone would get recharged while it's still in your pocket! You'd never have to remember to plug it in, and you would be able to use the various power sucking features (games, turn by turn GPS, etc) all you wanted and would almost never run out of battery. It would neatly solve the battery problems with the current generation of smart-phones without having to make the phones bulkier or heavier.
Problems :
1. The receiver coil might take up too much space inside the phone. 2. The range might not be 100 centimeters due to various scaling laws 3. The electromagnetic charging fields might cause biological tissue damage, making it dangerous to use while in your pocket. It might interfere with pacemakers. 4. The fields might wipe credit cards or interfere with electronics in your car or office.
But if these problems aren't that bad, or can be avoided somehow, it would be great!
Except that your reasoned argument doesn't change the fact that people are scared of things like this. Undoubtedly in 20 years someone will do some kind of research study that implies harm from the extra minerals.
I mean, cell phone radiation is in the milliwatts, and shouldn't cause more than a trivial amount of heating. Yet, there's a big scare over it, and some legitimate appearing scientific evidence implying that cell phone radiation is very dangerous.
Unlike in a certain X-men movie, this "metallic glass" is NOT going to be injected into living human bodies while molten. It'll be carefully forged in a factory into parts that are currently made out of steel or titanium : various plates, screws, and other orthopedic hardware. For injuries that require surgery, orthopedic surgeons would use these metallic glass parts instead of what they currently use.
The problem is obvious : it's doubtful that this alloy will be as strong as steel or titanium, and so the screws or plates would have to be thicker and heavier to have the same strength. There's an obvious tradeoff : do you make a bigger incision and drill out bigger holes in the bone to use this dissolvable metallic glass, or do you use conventional hardware? Also, undoubtedly there will be decades of debate over whether the trace minerals leached into the body cause harm or not.
Bottom line : even if this technology turns out to be safe and effective and is approved for use, it will probably be decades until it is used most of the time.
This failure can be described very simply. From an information theory perspective, an ideal thinking being should complete a task more efficiently if he or she can stay synchronized with collaborators more often. In theory, google wave's technology is superior to email and check in/check out document collaboration tools. Real time chatting would in theory prevent wasted time and mistakes and allow all the collaborators to stay synchronized, analogous to a bank of CPUs running in parallel.
The problem is that the human mind's fundamental structure has not changed significantly in thousands of years, because evolution is a slow process and adding new features takes aeons. So this tech appears to be a failure.
Exactly. Gaming parts have gotten cheaper over the years. As it stands, $646 is enough to buy an entire machine that could run the latest games with all settings on "High". You don't need to be on the very bleeding edge...the $200 graphics cards and the $150 CPUs will run the games just fine.
Sorry, was referring to U.S. hookers. And yeah, in Argentina the smoking hot hookers are about $50 an hour if you know how to negotiate. So about 14 hours with one for $700, which is probably more cost effective than dating in the USA...
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This is unbelievably bad. The real problem is : why aren't there incremental off site backups to another server farm? A weekly binary difference snapshot would have made this failure less catastrophic.
Ultimately, with a complex application like this, you can't guarantee 100% that the code doesn't have a bug in it that could result in loss of user data. You can be ALMOST sure it won't, but 100% is not possible with current analysis techniques. (even a mathematical proof of correctness wouldn't protect you from a hacker)
But a properly done set of OFFLINE backups, stored on racks of tapes or hard disks in a separate physical facility : you can be pretty sure that data isn't going anywhere.
Toast and Pi and various other CPU stability test programs will let you test the CPU.
Go into system configuration with windows and turn off auto-reboot, so that if the machine blue screens, you can see what the error code is. Sometimes that will let you isolate it to graphics or the motherboard.
Ultimately, the way to find out IS to replace the components one by one. If you have several machines, or spares from an older machine, you should swap each component and run the machine until either you get a crash or it's been long enough that you must have found the problem.
Sorry, wrote that comment in a hurry. I meant the following :
1. Basically all HDTVs sold today post process the video digitally, and remove the interlacing. Some remove it more effectively than others.
2. 1080i is better for golf tournaments than 720p.
With the interlacing removed, 1080i is kind of like 30 frames per second 1080p. For a lot of content, that's pretty good...film is only 24 fps, and there's various processing magic you can perform to get content to look very good at 1080i.
It's not a bad format. It is a pity they didn't wait until h.264 encoding was available, and make the high def broadcast format scale higher, with all the available resolutions in a progressive format. But, at least it is available.
1080p "broadcast" is entirely practical on a fiber optic TV network...there may be some channels like that in the U.S.
If the publisher doesn't sell you a copy of the work, they haven't made a first sale. Say what you like, they aren't breaking the law. They are working around it....what's the harm in that?
And also to avoid further hearings to determine if he was innocent.
Gripe all you want.
This strategy allows the publisher to more effectively perform variable pricing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_pricing
Variable pricing is a mechanism for maximizing revenue by charging buyers who are willing to pay more, more. Another method of variable pricing is the collector's edition of a game, or hardcover books.
This new method has a distinct advantage, however. When you purchase the DLC online, bioware's publisher receives a MUCH larger percentage of the take (basically 100% minus payment processing and bandwidth fees) than they get if you purchase the game in a store. A publisher only receives 30-50% of the sale price of a game sold in stores.
And no, game developers and publishers aren't trying to raise the stack of C-notes they sleep on at night : for the most part, they are trying to stay in business like everyone else. A triple AAA* title like Dragon Age costs tens of millions of dollars to produce, and is an inherently risky
endeavor because the game is not a sequel. Games fail in the marketplace all the time, even top notch games that should have sold better.
* A triple A title is one that has high end graphics, voice acting, art work, technology, and essentially is near top of the line in all areas. It is impossible to create a triple AAA title today without a large team of people to build it, any more than you can create the special effects of the Lord of the Rings movies with 2 guys in a garage. Note that there are some great games out there released recently (Mount and Blade, Sins of a Solar Empire) that are NOT AAA titles because they do not have the graphics and voice acting. Half Life 2 is an example of an AAA title.
According to the wiki, Robert Mueller is a lawyer. He received his law degree in 1973, and spent a good chunk of his career as a federal prosecutor. Prosecutors in general are vicious people who use their power to extort guilty pleas from defendants. ('plead guilty and take the deal for 3 years, or I'll ask for a life sentence')
The man has no direct investigative experience, nor any training or work experience with computers. I would suspect he barely knows how to turn one on and to open up powerpoint, word, or outlook.
He specifically is one of the key men who CARRIED OUT the warrantless wiretapping, while declining to tell the public that he had broken his Oath to the Constitution of the United States.
Furthermore, he was the lead prosecutor on the Lockerbie bombing case. That's the one that sent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi to prison for life, under evidence SO WEAK that the Scottish courts released this alleged mass murderer from prison under compassionate release. (the main reason this man was convicted came from the 'testimony' of a man paid 2 million dollars to give it, and of course Mueller had to have been right in the middle of this)
The head of the FBI isn't a superman, or an expert on every form of crime. It's entirely possible the man spent his investigative entire career focusing on a particular type of crime, before working his way up through management. Furthermore, the computers the FBI uses are probably quite similar to the ones used in a bank or comparable corporate activity. One would hope that their records security is at least as good as a bank. Unlike a bank, the FBI is mostly not subject to liability if they screw up, nor do they receive a larger budget if they do a better job one year. (in fact, Congress might CUT the FBIs budget if they do exceptionally well a particular fiscal cycle)
It's a popular meme in the media to give federal agents of all stripes super skills and technology that ordinary citizens don't have. Yet, for the most part, I suspect this isn't the case. (the exception to the rule is that the FBI DOES have enormous power to spy on and harass ordinary citizens who are never charged with a crime, and has abused this power many, many, many times in the past)
In general, the problem with the Borg is that they have subsumed a stupendous diversity of species and technology. They have a tech toy or a countermeasure for nearly ANYTHING you could try against them. Sure, you might be able to ram starships into Borg cubes and blow up one or two. But, if you tried to do it on a large scale, the Borg would communicate among one another and search their data banks for a countermeasure to your attack.
That rule goes for virtually ANYTHING you might try...in the series finale for Voyager, the Borg were even able to counter a super weapon specifically designed for killing Borg brought back in time from the future.
If you watch on a digital HDTV capable of 1080i (which ALL of them are), various filters and post processing magic removes most of the interlacing. 1080p is superior in detail for static scenes to 720p. That's why they televise golf tournaments in that resolution - the postcard like backgrounds of a golf course look much more detailed at 1080i.
However, despite the post processing, 720p shows motion better than 1080i - 60 fps instead of 30, and less artifacts introduced by the interlacing.
For a show like this one, it doesn't really matter. The sets and backgrounds and computer graphic shots aren't really detailed enough to look better in 1080 resolution.
Laser launch would now. Cutting the cost for a Mars mission from 2 trillion dollars to 1 trillion IS something to sneeze at. If you could make laser launch work, you'd slash your total costs by at least a factor of 10. (because launch costs would be 100 times cheaper or more, and you would be able to launch lots of lower quality hardware and save money on your spacecraft and satellites)
In pointing out my logical fallacy, you've committed a much bigger one. Orbital manufacturing and retrieving resources is science fiction. The amount of infrastructure you need to process raw materials into finished products, much less aerospace grade hardware, is immense. You can't even imagine the amount of machine tools and people, spread between thousands of firms, that all contribute to manufacturing something like spacecraft parts. Before you can start orbital manufacturing on a large scale, you basically have to lift some serious infrastructure into orbit in the first place - which is flat out impossible if you have to pay 10k/kilogram. A real orbital manufacturing plant would probably be thousands, if not millions of tons - at current launch prices, more than the entire economy of the world combined could afford.
Yes, we could set up a simple automated plant to make the return fuel for a manned mission to mars. That only lowers the stupendous cost of a manned mission slightly. More likely than not, a manned mission would use a large nuclear reactor and power some kind of high ISP engine, such that propellant would not be the main driver of launch cost. And no, you aren't going to be manufacturing components for a nuclear power plant using orbital manufacturing - all that heavy, bleeding edge technology stuff has to be made on earth.
Yes, some day there will be orbital factories that can process resources on an immense scale. They'll be AI driven, and self replicating. But for today, we need to work out a way to get a stinking primate in a can into orbit without requiring the labor of a million other primates.
This doesn't solve ANYTHING.
The problem with space travel, that has been true for the past 60 years since the first rockets reached the edge of space, has been it costs a HUGE amount of finite resources to get anything into orbit. At least $10,000 a kilogram for a man rated launcher. Better engines that only work out in space do utterly nothing to solve this problem.
Laser launch, space elevators, cheap rockets made in China....whatever solution works, we need to be spending every dollar on that. Once we finally have a technology that is cost effective, THEN we can start sending missions to other planets and setting up space hotels and building plasma engines that only work in vacuum.
Why don't they just put an option to disable this check in a configuration file, with a comment above it that says : UNSUPPORTED FEATURE, ENABLE AT OWN RISK. It would cost a negligible amount of programmer time (I assume there will be people reading this comment that could write in this feature in under 10 minutes)and it could HELP nvidia. If it's possible to get more value out of Nvidia products, even if you also have a competitor's card in your machine, you are going to increase sales for nvidia products in the long run. Furthermore, if the effective install base for PhysX is larger, there's a greater chance that it will become a standard.
What Sony ought to do is offer to give you the electronic license to a PSP game if you sent in the original UMD. They could charge a small ($1-$2 per game) fee to cover the costs of this service.
I predict that there would be almost as much griping by gamers and here on slashdot if they offered something like this. (because there would still be DRM, you'd be paying (a small fee) to continue using your current games, etc.
LOL. MOD parent up!
It seems like every news announcement out there about material science advances involves carbon nanotubes. Is there anything they can't do???
Possible uses :
1. As an ideal semiconductor
2. As an ideal, super-lightweight conductor
3. As a drug delivery device
4. As an antibiotic
5. As a super strong space elevator cable
6. As the tip of an SEM
7. In electrically conductive clothing
8. As a super-strong super armor
9. Part of a super capacitor
10. Part of a super fast charging lithium ion battery
11. Part of a super-efficient solar cell
And like 50 uses besides! What CAN'T you do with carbon nanotubes? Cure cancer? No, I think someone is working on that....
If this was the technology tree in a strategy game, carbon nanotubes would be THE tech to research to unlock the good stuff.
Forget the Sony jokes for a minute. I can think of a great use for this technology : recharging smartphones!
Essentially, if they can miniaturize the receiver coils sufficiently enough, you could pack them so that they are integrated inside the batteries used in a smartphone. (yes, yes, it is somewhat inconvenient to swap the battery in certain Apple phones...)
Imagine the possibilities. You could have one of these transmitters in your car, plugged into the cigarette lighter and stuck between the driver's seat and the cupholders. Another could be on top of your nightstand in your bedroom, or wherever you tend to toss your keys, wallet, and phone at the end of the day. A third one would be in your office on your desk.
If the range is enough (100 centimeters or so) your phone would get recharged while it's still in your pocket! You'd never have to remember to plug it in, and you would be able to use the various power sucking features (games, turn by turn GPS, etc) all you wanted and would almost never run out of battery. It would neatly solve the battery problems with the current generation of smart-phones without having to make the phones bulkier or heavier.
Problems :
1. The receiver coil might take up too much space inside the phone.
2. The range might not be 100 centimeters due to various scaling laws
3. The electromagnetic charging fields might cause biological tissue damage, making it dangerous to use while in your pocket. It might interfere with pacemakers.
4. The fields might wipe credit cards or interfere with electronics in your car or office.
But if these problems aren't that bad, or can be avoided somehow, it would be great!
Except that your reasoned argument doesn't change the fact that people are scared of things like this. Undoubtedly in 20 years someone will do some kind of research study that implies harm from the extra minerals.
I mean, cell phone radiation is in the milliwatts, and shouldn't cause more than a trivial amount of heating. Yet, there's a big scare over it, and some legitimate appearing scientific evidence implying that cell phone radiation is very dangerous.
Unlike in a certain X-men movie, this "metallic glass" is NOT going to be injected into living human bodies while molten. It'll be carefully forged in a factory into parts that are currently made out of steel or titanium : various plates, screws, and other orthopedic hardware. For injuries that require surgery, orthopedic surgeons would use these metallic glass parts instead of what they currently use.
The problem is obvious : it's doubtful that this alloy will be as strong as steel or titanium, and so the screws or plates would have to be thicker and heavier to have the same strength. There's an obvious tradeoff : do you make a bigger incision and drill out bigger holes in the bone to use this dissolvable metallic glass, or do you use conventional hardware? Also, undoubtedly there will be decades of debate over whether the trace minerals leached into the body cause harm or not.
Bottom line : even if this technology turns out to be safe and effective and is approved for use, it will probably be decades until it is used most of the time.
This failure can be described very simply. From an information theory perspective, an ideal thinking being should complete a task more efficiently if he or she can stay synchronized with collaborators more often. In theory, google wave's technology is superior to email and check in/check out document collaboration tools. Real time chatting would in theory prevent wasted time and mistakes and allow all the collaborators to stay synchronized, analogous to a bank of CPUs running in parallel.
The problem is that the human mind's fundamental structure has not changed significantly in thousands of years, because evolution is a slow process and adding new features takes aeons. So this tech appears to be a failure.
Exactly. Gaming parts have gotten cheaper over the years. As it stands, $646 is enough to buy an entire machine that could run the latest games with all settings on "High". You don't need to be on the very bleeding edge...the $200 graphics cards and the $150 CPUs will run the games just fine.
Well, I've never tried it. What I do know is, an awesome computer probably doesn't help you AT ALL in getting some.
Sorry, was referring to U.S. hookers. And yeah, in Argentina the smoking hot hookers are about $50 an hour if you know how to negotiate. So about 14 hours with one for $700, which is probably more cost effective than dating in the USA...
I'd like to hear where you shop for hookers, because I hear that $700 might get you....3 hours with a decent quality hooker.