Since Moore's law is about doubling processing power, but doubling the display resolution means quadrupling the number of pixels, you may find the relationship is in fact much closer than you'd think.
No it isn't. It is about the # of transistors doubling which isn't always indicative of CPU calculation ability. From Wikipedia: Moore's Law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware: that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
In the case of the SSA, I'm surprised the false death rate is only 35 a year, I actually think that's an error rate to be proud of (out of 300,000,000 people in the US)
There are 2 problems with your statement.
From the article:
Laura Todd is not alone. She is one of tens of thousands of living, breathing Americans whom the federal government has wrongly declared dead by one measure, more than 35 a day.
So it is 35+ per *day*, not per year.
Also, I wouldn't compare the wrong records to the total population of the US because it is the wrong number to compare to. You need to compare the # of records that are wrong to the total # of records that are modified each day. They don't modify every single person's record every day (or even every year). These errors occur when [from the article] "Social Security determines that an eligible current or future beneficiary has died, it closes the persons entry in its Case Processing and Management System, or CPMS."
And what, exactly, is wrong with having sex, if a condom is used? It's true that condoms are not foolproof -- if you don't know how to use them. Used correctly, there is very little (almost non-existent) chance of failure.
In the case of teenagers, they shouldn't to be told that it is okay to have sex so long as they use a condom. Promotion of sex for teenagers is a bad idea and if you think it is actually a good idea then I think you have bigger issues to sort out first. Adults using condoms with sex is a different issue.
Always Remember: AIDS is Deadly. It is not a "chronic condition." It is a death sentence, maybe it'll take 5, even 10 years to kill some small group of victims, for many it is as few as 6-24 months. Way, way to many young people somehow manage to remain ignorant of this.
Because young people have a hard time realizing their own mortality or simply mortality in the first place. It usually doesn't hit home until their friend(s) die in a car crash due to alcohol or a relative dies. Young people are wreckless and careless and think they are invincible until it is too late. Unfortunately this is propagated by school systems which do not teach abstinence in many schools but instead say it's fine to have sex as long as a condom is used. The problem is that a condom isn't foolproof as I'm sure not many people on here would have ever been able to experience given the user base. By promoting sexual activity it just increases the odds that a young person will start being sexually active earlier in life and therefore have more time to experiment which, if anything, would just include more partners (and probably more extreme activities) and thus a higher likelihood of infection.
Most people familiar with their favorite couple who moved on up, to the East Side, and finally found their piece of the pie, aren't aware that the sitcom actually started as a spin-off of All in the Family, on which Family Guy is itself heavily based. Even the piano playing sequence at the beginning of Family Guy is a callback to the opening sequence of All in the Family.
Yes, I miss the episodes of All in the Family where the greased up deaf guy runs across the stage or where Edith is shown many times naked or, the greatest ones are where Archie is naked multiple times in the same episode but you can't see anything besides a butt because he is so freaking fat. Ahh, the 70s.
But how does one simulate gravity? It has to propagate in every direction at the something like speed of light or else -- god forbid -- information could travel faster than light. The whole concept of gravity, that every individual particle affects however slightly every other particle, is not possible to compute directly.
Gravity has nothing to do with whether information can travel faster than light. Gravity can change the direction of light but, just like a car moving at the speed of light with it's headlights on w/o affecting the speed of light from the headlights, gravity doesn't speed up light particles. Gravity affects the energy of light but that only affects its frequency not its velocity.
That rules out any Congressman from ever coming up with the law.
So? Writing laws isn't their job.
Really now? That's news to me. If they don't do that then what is their job? I guess they aren't the ones who came up with the DMCA or any other bill that has been signed into law by the President? Congress (legislative) makes the laws. They pass the bills so the President (executive) signs them into law. The Supreme Court (judicial) then enforces those laws.
The Legislative part of our government is called Congress. Congress makes our laws. Congress is divided into 2 parts. One part is called the Senate. There are 100 Senators--2 from each of our states. Another part is called the House of Representatives. Representatives meet together to discuss ideas and decide if these ideas (bills) should become laws. There are 435 Representatives. The number of representatives each state gets is determined by its population. Some states have just 2 representatives. Others have as many as 40. Both senators and representatives are elected by the eligible voters in their states.
because next week is Daytona Bike Week and a few more hundred thousand people would have been visiting the city at that point. Depending on whether the entire city was affected it wouldn't have been good for a city with that many *extra* people to lose power.
This is what a PARENT should be doing. PARENTS should be telling their children what they can and can not see. Not the government, not some company, not anyone else. It's the parents job to raise their children, teach them what's right and wrong, and to allow the to see what they can and can't see. Nobody elses.
True, but in many ways the government is already taking away responsibilities of parents and bestowing them upon themselves and parents have yet to be able to do anything about it. For example, thousand of local school districts believe in teaching sex education at school despite whether parents believe their child is ready or whether they want their child to know the information. This isn't an issue of parents not wanting the responsibility but more about how the government wants to control what children know. Obviously some parents are better than others but the majority of parents do care about their child and are responsible parents and don't need the government's help.
Haha... I am waiting for them to actually ban evolution, not the theory but the phenomenon. That law would have to be intelligently designed.
That rules out any Congressman from ever coming up with the law. But then again it is useless to ban something that can not be seen or proven to be occurring right now in the first place so our Congressman have an excuse to get out of this one.
companies have taken advantage of the free and open source network protocols (Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP) to make money so I say it's time that open source is finally getting the (good) attention it deserves.
The opt out link is conveniently at the very bottom of the page and in small font. This started approximately 4-6 weeks ago for me and I'm in north-central WV using the ma.rr.com domain. I go thru the columbus, ohio route I believe. I first noticed it in the evening one day and was mad they hijacked my request. Instead of my browser giving me an error I instead get directed to a page that is supposed to "help" me and make my "user experience better". I say leave me the hell alone.
And of course, like the other poster pointed out, the children have no say in whether or not a perfectly healthy part of their body is permanently removed.
Wow, we're complaining about infants who don't have a choice in whether a perfectly healthy part of their body is permanently removed when unborn babies who are perfectly healthy are being killed based on a woman's decision that having the baby is a bit too inconvenient for her. I would hope the people who are against circumcision are also pro-choice or else they need to sit down with themselves and sort some things out before speaking up about circumcision. It seems to me that we have our priorities mixed up. Suffice it to say, not that I have any experience to the contrary but being circumsized myself, I think I'd prefer it over not having it done. It seems cleaner to me to be circumsized than not.
Mr. Riccitiello said his offers timing reflected a desire to integrate Take-Twos operations with E.A.s before the all-important holiday shopping season.
Um, this is February last I checked. What holiday shopping season is being referenced? Valentine's day is over. Christmas (the holiday that is now being relegated to the name "holiday" for idiots who think calling it by its name is offensive) is still 10 months away. Is he referring to Easter?
What? I'm sorry, I couldn't here you over cleaning my SNES cartridge.
Actually, I only had trouble with the NES cartridges. The SNES ones were fine but maybe others had trouble with both. And Iu would think if either of those consoles would have trouble it would have been the SNES since its cartridge slot was on top of the system even though it did have a cover.
The interesting thing is that if the US had a health care system based more around prevention rather than treatment (and that includes insurance companies as well), costs would probably be lower since it's often cheaper to 'treat' illness factors before they become a full disease. In the case of DNA testing, if it revealed I had a predisposition for a certain disease it's stupid for insurance companies to "punish" me for finding this out since I may be able to prevent it from ever becoming a really expensive problem, thus saving them money.
Insurance companies look as far ahead as the US government. They both look near-term and don't look at the bigger picture to plan in such a way to spend a little money up front to save more costs down the line. They just don't like spending any money (well, at least the insurance companies in this case) so they gamble by not spending money in the near-term in the hopes that maybe they won't have to spend anything in the long-term either because there wouldn't be guarantee having a genetic predisposition for a disease guarantees you get the disease. Of course, not spending anything in the near-term for prevention can come back to bite them in higher treatment costs but that's the game they play.
With that said, universal health care is not the solution unless you are a socialist and then you would be into that sort of thing under the belief that anything that can be universally provided by the government should be. A UHS doesn't pay for itself and of course the logical answer is to pay for it with taxes so just as millions of working Americans already pay taxes so others can receive welfare, SSI, etc., a UHS would just take more taxes out of my paycheck (and I already have 33% or so taken out already for multiple things; my parents have about 40-45% taken out due to being self-employed and in a higher tax bracket). Of course, many who receive welfare, SSI, etc. really need it but in many cases those who receive that free money abuse the system but that is only a secondary response to a UHS. A UHS would require taxing working Americans even more just so the money can be redestributed to other Americans and that's where the socialist part of this rears its ugly head.
Of course, many problems arise for those uninsured just by having a normal visit to the doctor because those visits cost so much. By making doctors less vulnerable to law suits (and thus high insurance fees for their practice) and also making medical education cheaper, I think a lot of the reason for having a UHS would disappear or be diminished.
So basically my point is, we shouldn't focus so much on network security measures as we should on user education. Network security is great, but when your users can be tricked into giving away their most personal information no amount of network security is going to protect them from themselves.
User education is needed but you can only teach those who want to be know or are willing to accept the responsiblity once they are given knowledge. This is still part of the bigger issue of users not knowing enough about something they buy and want to jump right into using it (computer) without having any knowledge of it. I think we are getting the point where it would be real nice to require users of a computer (even a home computer) to have a license to actually use it. It is getting dangerous to use one almost as much as driving vehicle (financial losses are occuring, luckily no deaths, yet) and yet we require tests to be taken before a person can drive a vehicle. A Continuing Education exam should be used every year or so so that the users don't get dumb again. Yeah I know, this is a pipe dream.
Yeah, that's real specific. How many holidays are there in a calendar year? And the 'pre' means any non-specific period of time before one of those, just wish the editors could have narrowed down to which one. Any particular reason why whichever holiday was being referenced just wasn't mentioned by name? Anyone? Bueller?
It's not free but what about Pixel? From Wikipedia: Pixel supports grayscale, RGB, CMYK, CIE Lab and HDR image models, color management, layers, adjustment layers, layer effects, filter effects, web page authoring, photo retouching and animations. Even though it isn't free it isn't expensive either (a loan for Photoshop anyone?). Note that I haven't used it myself but I've read about it in Linux Journal a few months back.
But for most users, why bother converting? Just keep watching it on your current player.
Until that current player breaks which may or may not be a while given the current 1 year warranty on a lot of electronics which means they tend to stop working just after that period is over.
For most things, no 3 cores isn't really going to be much benefit at this point. While there are now multithreaded games out there that make use of 2 cores pretty well, they don't really scale past that at this point. I imagine that'll change as time goes on since quad core processors are getting more common, but it hasn't yet. As for desktop apps, well they don't tend to use much power so it won't help much. I suppose it might help responsiveness in some cases a tiny bit, but I doubt it.
A little more than a year ago I went to a Core 2 Duo from an aging Athlon 64. Although I don't have many apps that support multiple threads my system overall is more responsive because, as you stated, the system as a whole can take advantage of the multiple cores by running threads from multiple applications. I consider the difference to be more than a tiny bit because it was definitely noticeable by me the first time I did something using the new CPU that I used to do with the Athlon and I'd have to wait up to 10 seconds for it to happen and now that's down to probably 2 seconds.
I do some video processing but I don't have to do much encoding because the format I work with is already DVD-compliant but TMPEGEnc Editor does support multiple threads if I ever have to re-encode. The other thing is the Core 2 Duo runs much much much cooler than the Athlon64 even under load. The only issue a 3 core system would have is less cores for the job scheduler to spread jobs across, just like a 2 core system has 1 less than a 3 core. The scheduler doesn't care since it isn't doing the real work anyway.
Last I checked it was 2 processors for workstation versions, 4 for server, 8 for advanced server and 32 for datacentre. Not sure if that's changed.
Well, the names have changed for one thing. There is Web (for R1 only), Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions. From the horse's mouth:
R2 Standard Edition supports up to 4 processors
R2 Enterprise Edition supports up to 8 processors
R2 Datacenter Edition supports up to 32/64 processors depending whether the CPUs are 32-bit or 64-bit.
MS used to require Data Center to not even install on anything that had less than 16 CPUs if I remember correctly but based on the above it seems that they allow it but you would be wasting your money by doing anything less than 32 CPUs with it.
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No it isn't. It is about the # of transistors doubling which isn't always indicative of CPU calculation ability. From Wikipedia: Moore's Law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware: that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
Hey don't worry about it. I saw the other messages you posted about it afterwards. No big deal.
There are 2 problems with your statement.
From the article:
Laura Todd is not alone. She is one of tens of thousands of living, breathing Americans whom the federal government has wrongly declared dead by one measure, more than 35 a day.So it is 35+ per *day*, not per year.
Also, I wouldn't compare the wrong records to the total population of the US because it is the wrong number to compare to. You need to compare the # of records that are wrong to the total # of records that are modified each day. They don't modify every single person's record every day (or even every year). These errors occur when [from the article] "Social Security determines that an eligible current or future beneficiary has died, it closes the persons entry in its Case Processing and Management System, or CPMS."
In the case of teenagers, they shouldn't to be told that it is okay to have sex so long as they use a condom. Promotion of sex for teenagers is a bad idea and if you think it is actually a good idea then I think you have bigger issues to sort out first. Adults using condoms with sex is a different issue.
Because young people have a hard time realizing their own mortality or simply mortality in the first place. It usually doesn't hit home until their friend(s) die in a car crash due to alcohol or a relative dies. Young people are wreckless and careless and think they are invincible until it is too late. Unfortunately this is propagated by school systems which do not teach abstinence in many schools but instead say it's fine to have sex as long as a condom is used. The problem is that a condom isn't foolproof as I'm sure not many people on here would have ever been able to experience given the user base. By promoting sexual activity it just increases the odds that a young person will start being sexually active earlier in life and therefore have more time to experiment which, if anything, would just include more partners (and probably more extreme activities) and thus a higher likelihood of infection.
Don't forget the spelling and grammar nazi mods.
Yes, I miss the episodes of All in the Family where the greased up deaf guy runs across the stage or where Edith is shown many times naked or, the greatest ones are where Archie is naked multiple times in the same episode but you can't see anything besides a butt because he is so freaking fat. Ahh, the 70s.
Gravity has nothing to do with whether information can travel faster than light. Gravity can change the direction of light but, just like a car moving at the speed of light with it's headlights on w/o affecting the speed of light from the headlights, gravity doesn't speed up light particles. Gravity affects the energy of light but that only affects its frequency not its velocity.
Really now? That's news to me. If they don't do that then what is their job? I guess they aren't the ones who came up with the DMCA or any other bill that has been signed into law by the President? Congress (legislative) makes the laws. They pass the bills so the President (executive) signs them into law. The Supreme Court (judicial) then enforces those laws.
From this site:
The Legislative part of our government is called Congress. Congress makes our laws. Congress is divided into 2 parts. One part is called the Senate. There are 100 Senators--2 from each of our states. Another part is called the House of Representatives. Representatives meet together to discuss ideas and decide if these ideas (bills) should become laws. There are 435 Representatives. The number of representatives each state gets is determined by its population. Some states have just 2 representatives. Others have as many as 40. Both senators and representatives are elected by the eligible voters in their states.because next week is Daytona Bike Week and a few more hundred thousand people would have been visiting the city at that point. Depending on whether the entire city was affected it wouldn't have been good for a city with that many *extra* people to lose power.
True, but in many ways the government is already taking away responsibilities of parents and bestowing them upon themselves and parents have yet to be able to do anything about it. For example, thousand of local school districts believe in teaching sex education at school despite whether parents believe their child is ready or whether they want their child to know the information. This isn't an issue of parents not wanting the responsibility but more about how the government wants to control what children know. Obviously some parents are better than others but the majority of parents do care about their child and are responsible parents and don't need the government's help.
That rules out any Congressman from ever coming up with the law. But then again it is useless to ban something that can not be seen or proven to be occurring right now in the first place so our Congressman have an excuse to get out of this one.
companies have taken advantage of the free and open source network protocols (Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP) to make money so I say it's time that open source is finally getting the (good) attention it deserves.
The opt out link is conveniently at the very bottom of the page and in small font. This started approximately 4-6 weeks ago for me and I'm in north-central WV using the ma.rr.com domain. I go thru the columbus, ohio route I believe. I first noticed it in the evening one day and was mad they hijacked my request. Instead of my browser giving me an error I instead get directed to a page that is supposed to "help" me and make my "user experience better". I say leave me the hell alone.
Wow, we're complaining about infants who don't have a choice in whether a perfectly healthy part of their body is permanently removed when unborn babies who are perfectly healthy are being killed based on a woman's decision that having the baby is a bit too inconvenient for her. I would hope the people who are against circumcision are also pro-choice or else they need to sit down with themselves and sort some things out before speaking up about circumcision. It seems to me that we have our priorities mixed up. Suffice it to say, not that I have any experience to the contrary but being circumsized myself, I think I'd prefer it over not having it done. It seems cleaner to me to be circumsized than not.
From TFA:
Mr. Riccitiello said his offers timing reflected a desire to integrate Take-Twos operations with E.A.s before the all-important holiday shopping season.Um, this is February last I checked. What holiday shopping season is being referenced? Valentine's day is over. Christmas (the holiday that is now being relegated to the name "holiday" for idiots who think calling it by its name is offensive) is still 10 months away. Is he referring to Easter?
Yes, very interesting that the World Health Organization would have a cell phone on Jupiter.
Actually, I only had trouble with the NES cartridges. The SNES ones were fine but maybe others had trouble with both. And Iu would think if either of those consoles would have trouble it would have been the SNES since its cartridge slot was on top of the system even though it did have a cover.
Insurance companies look as far ahead as the US government. They both look near-term and don't look at the bigger picture to plan in such a way to spend a little money up front to save more costs down the line. They just don't like spending any money (well, at least the insurance companies in this case) so they gamble by not spending money in the near-term in the hopes that maybe they won't have to spend anything in the long-term either because there wouldn't be guarantee having a genetic predisposition for a disease guarantees you get the disease. Of course, not spending anything in the near-term for prevention can come back to bite them in higher treatment costs but that's the game they play.
With that said, universal health care is not the solution unless you are a socialist and then you would be into that sort of thing under the belief that anything that can be universally provided by the government should be. A UHS doesn't pay for itself and of course the logical answer is to pay for it with taxes so just as millions of working Americans already pay taxes so others can receive welfare, SSI, etc., a UHS would just take more taxes out of my paycheck (and I already have 33% or so taken out already for multiple things; my parents have about 40-45% taken out due to being self-employed and in a higher tax bracket). Of course, many who receive welfare, SSI, etc. really need it but in many cases those who receive that free money abuse the system but that is only a secondary response to a UHS. A UHS would require taxing working Americans even more just so the money can be redestributed to other Americans and that's where the socialist part of this rears its ugly head.
Of course, many problems arise for those uninsured just by having a normal visit to the doctor because those visits cost so much. By making doctors less vulnerable to law suits (and thus high insurance fees for their practice) and also making medical education cheaper, I think a lot of the reason for having a UHS would disappear or be diminished.
User education is needed but you can only teach those who want to be know or are willing to accept the responsiblity once they are given knowledge. This is still part of the bigger issue of users not knowing enough about something they buy and want to jump right into using it (computer) without having any knowledge of it. I think we are getting the point where it would be real nice to require users of a computer (even a home computer) to have a license to actually use it. It is getting dangerous to use one almost as much as driving vehicle (financial losses are occuring, luckily no deaths, yet) and yet we require tests to be taken before a person can drive a vehicle. A Continuing Education exam should be used every year or so so that the users don't get dumb again. Yeah I know, this is a pipe dream.
From the submission:
In the 2006 pre-holiday season,Yeah, that's real specific. How many holidays are there in a calendar year? And the 'pre' means any non-specific period of time before one of those, just wish the editors could have narrowed down to which one. Any particular reason why whichever holiday was being referenced just wasn't mentioned by name? Anyone? Bueller?
It's not free but what about Pixel? From Wikipedia: Pixel supports grayscale, RGB, CMYK, CIE Lab and HDR image models, color management, layers, adjustment layers, layer effects, filter effects, web page authoring, photo retouching and animations. Even though it isn't free it isn't expensive either (a loan for Photoshop anyone?). Note that I haven't used it myself but I've read about it in Linux Journal a few months back.
Until that current player breaks which may or may not be a while given the current 1 year warranty on a lot of electronics which means they tend to stop working just after that period is over.
A little more than a year ago I went to a Core 2 Duo from an aging Athlon 64. Although I don't have many apps that support multiple threads my system overall is more responsive because, as you stated, the system as a whole can take advantage of the multiple cores by running threads from multiple applications. I consider the difference to be more than a tiny bit because it was definitely noticeable by me the first time I did something using the new CPU that I used to do with the Athlon and I'd have to wait up to 10 seconds for it to happen and now that's down to probably 2 seconds.
I do some video processing but I don't have to do much encoding because the format I work with is already DVD-compliant but TMPEGEnc Editor does support multiple threads if I ever have to re-encode. The other thing is the Core 2 Duo runs much much much cooler than the Athlon64 even under load. The only issue a 3 core system would have is less cores for the job scheduler to spread jobs across, just like a 2 core system has 1 less than a 3 core. The scheduler doesn't care since it isn't doing the real work anyway.
Well, the names have changed for one thing. There is Web (for R1 only), Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions. From the horse's mouth:
R2 Standard Edition supports up to 4 processors
R2 Enterprise Edition supports up to 8 processors
R2 Datacenter Edition supports up to 32/64 processors depending whether the CPUs are 32-bit or 64-bit.
MS used to require Data Center to not even install on anything that had less than 16 CPUs if I remember correctly but based on the above it seems that they allow it but you would be wasting your money by doing anything less than 32 CPUs with it.