I'm shopping for a new eye Dr. and would like to find one with one of these. I've been reading about them for years and I think it'd do good for me since I can never tell if 1 is better than 2.
That's to be expected. The processors are of different architecture, each one is going to be a little better at something than the other. Being that they're also similar in terms of speed, you're going to get some back-and-forth to the benchmarks. See also: Intel vs. AMD.
Keep in mind all of those Dells that ship with time limited anti virus trial software. Even if people know they need virus protection, they may not know that it's expired.
Being a Windows user, I went to the manufactures website for the driver, so my install process followed these lines:
1. Go to Nvidia website 2. Download driver 3. Attempt to compile 4. Download GCC 5. Compile 6. Spend an hour and a reinstall of OS wondering why SU doesn't seem to work, and why I was never prompted for a root password during install 7. fdisk
The problem isn't really with the package manager or me not using it. Most of my problems were because the "su" command existed, but didn't work, and nowhere was there a message telling me to use "sudo" instead. The built by geeks part, relating to poor documentation, comes from that
You mean the distro that replaces 'su' with 'sudo', but doesn't display any error messages when you try to 'su' along the lines of "I have no su like EVERY OTHER DISTRO."
I'm a Windows user, with a pretty decent *nix exposure. I've taken classes and read books. It still takes me the better part of an Aqua Teen marathon to install a new driver for a video card on Linux (GeForce 6800). Why?
Because it was built by geeks! Come on! If there is anything that geeks are known for, it's poor communication (Nick Burns). This shouldn't be surprising or insulting to any geek who has any level of self realization.
Traffic lights in my city run coser to 25 watts than 200, not sure what others do. But by my research on the subject, involving a light I 'found', they come with sub 25W bulbs and are blinding over that. Street lights using CCFT can be kept to about 60W and output "200 watts" of light.
Google is getting people used to storing files externally, and earning a ton of trust from being one of the best search engines around. They have a huge user base and have some truly amazing market penetration. Google has become a verb. We have this innate trust for Google. They run BSD. They aren't Microsoft. They must be good.
My money is on a Google dumb terminal within the next 3 years.
//slightly off topic, but just had a big discussion about it yesterday.
You forgot, backed by an application that will most likely break when ever it feels like it.
I have an Ati TV Wonder, oldest app version available requires task manager to close it 2/3s of the time, second oldest bitches about me not having Radeon drivers installed (no shit, I have a GF4!), and the newest version won't even get past the MSI screen.
As far back as I can remember, Ati has never been able to build its software to the level where its hardware is.
From what I've been reading now, it is now active, but it has had some pretty long streches of inactivity in the past. The info I had on the abandonment was from an old interview posted back when I was a big time Area 51 buff. The word was, back then, that the base was suffering too many work stoppages from contamination to stay operational.
Then again, the intarweb might have been wrong. Stranger things have happened.
Why would the government abandon a multi-billion/trillion/+ base because a few people the public regards as fools are talking about it? If anything, they would leave it there and let the UFO nuts dig their own hole by making "absurd" statements, thereby reducing the credibility of the statements and the nuts. The kicker would be that the so called "nuts" are the ones actually in the know!
</Tin foil>
Really though, you don't build something that big to test slingshots...
During the Clinton era it was acknowledged that Area 51 (Dreamland, Groom Lake, etc) existed. This was about the same time that Area 51 buffs reported a dramatic decrease in activity at and around the base. It was acknowledged in a very generic manner, but was acknowledged none the less.
Supposedly, the reason for the abandoning of the base was because the radiation from atomic tests wasn't going the "China Syndrome" way, back into the earth, but coming back up (area 51 was the 51st grid on a map used for nuke testing).
I haven't followed it for a while, but last I heard, the experts were pointing at Arizona and New Mexico as the new locations for many, mini, Area 51s.
In 10,000 years, neither you, your offspring, or any other trace of you save for the possibility of a few strands of DNA will be around.
Who is to say that in 10,000 years we won't have found a way to clean this stuff up anyway? I doubt that the concept of a geiger counter and lead vest will be lost never to be rediscovered.
I'm all for living so that my children have a future, but 1,000 generations away can fend for themselves.
You want firewall software to block outbound connections for many reasons.
I, personally, do not want NetBIOS broadcasts hitting my cable modem from 5 different computers when I'm only supposed to have one connected (yeah, I know, non routable, tin foil hat all the same). I like the idea that if my computer happens to get a bug, chances are minimal that I will pass it on.
Personally, I use VisNetic firewall for home use, and although it has a little bit of a steep learning curve does the job I need it to, and is quiet about it.
AMD is hardly the new kid on the block(I assume this is what you meant by "upstart").
In fact, I once gave a 286(?) that read, stamped on the bottom, "(c)Intel 1982 (c)AMD" to a friend of mine that loves AMD. He still has it on a shelf in his room, as far as I know.
Lets say that you were a volunteer firefighter. The safety of others depends on how fast you can get your butt on that truck and out the door. 30 seconds isn't a lot of time when you're heading to the grocery store to pick up some ramen noodles, but it is a hell of a long time when you're waiting for help. What if there is a false reading or an error in the system? Now you have a full minute wasted, sitting in your driveway.
Another situation. Your kid is sick. You need to take him to the hospital, your hands are shaking. Are you going to be able to activate some interlock?
Most likely, people living on the border will just travel to another state to buy a car, that'll do wonders for the economy. Now car dealers will loose money because they have to install interlocks, and can't sell cars because most people just go out of state anyway.
These issues haven't come up much because of the few people that have interlocks installed, but will become much more common if a whole state has them installed.
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I'm shopping for a new eye Dr. and would like to find one with one of these. I've been reading about them for years and I think it'd do good for me since I can never tell if 1 is better than 2.
You mean that for all His infinite intelligence, God couldn't come up with a decent compression algorithm?
"What's to say some brilliant scientist won't come along in the near future with a model predicting quasar behavior?"
Or a lucky idiot.
That's to be expected. The processors are of different architecture, each one is going to be a little better at something than the other. Being that they're also similar in terms of speed, you're going to get some back-and-forth to the benchmarks. See also: Intel vs. AMD.
Like they learned from Happy99?
Keep in mind all of those Dells that ship with time limited anti virus trial software. Even if people know they need virus protection, they may not know that it's expired.
Being a Windows user, I went to the manufactures website for the driver, so my install process followed these lines:
1. Go to Nvidia website
2. Download driver
3. Attempt to compile
4. Download GCC
5. Compile
6. Spend an hour and a reinstall of OS wondering why SU doesn't seem to work, and why I was never prompted for a root password during install
7. fdisk
The problem isn't really with the package manager or me not using it. Most of my problems were because the "su" command existed, but didn't work, and nowhere was there a message telling me to use "sudo" instead. The built by geeks part, relating to poor documentation, comes from that
(K)ubuntu?
You mean the distro that replaces 'su' with 'sudo', but doesn't display any error messages when you try to 'su' along the lines of "I have no su like EVERY OTHER DISTRO."
I'm a Windows user, with a pretty decent *nix exposure. I've taken classes and read books. It still takes me the better part of an Aqua Teen marathon to install a new driver for a video card on Linux (GeForce 6800).
Why?
Because it was built by geeks! Come on! If there is anything that geeks are known for, it's poor communication (Nick Burns). This shouldn't be surprising or insulting to any geek who has any level of self realization.
Traffic lights in my city run coser to 25 watts than 200, not sure what others do. But by my research on the subject, involving a light I 'found', they come with sub 25W bulbs and are blinding over that. Street lights using CCFT can be kept to about 60W and output "200 watts" of light.
That's lower than inflation. The price is actually decreasing when compared to earnings by a few points per year.
Why would they make their own?
We already know that they're Linux experts over there, and Google is a household name. Think about this in terms of a WebTV mentality.
"You use Linux!?"
"No, it's GoogleOS. WTF is Linux?"
Google will. Probably harnessing *nix.
//slightly off topic, but just had a big discussion about it yesterday.
Google is getting people used to storing files externally, and earning a ton of trust from being one of the best search engines around. They have a huge user base and have some truly amazing market penetration. Google has become a verb. We have this innate trust for Google. They run BSD. They aren't Microsoft. They must be good.
My money is on a Google dumb terminal within the next 3 years.
You forgot, backed by an application that will most likely break when ever it feels like it. I have an Ati TV Wonder, oldest app version available requires task manager to close it 2/3s of the time, second oldest bitches about me not having Radeon drivers installed (no shit, I have a GF4!), and the newest version won't even get past the MSI screen. As far back as I can remember, Ati has never been able to build its software to the level where its hardware is.
Tried three times now and the game won't let me use the paint thinner on the paint splotch. Tried two different characters, restarted game, etc.
What am I missing that's making this game kick my ass?
(Been playing for the past two hours... at work.)
Worked for this guy.
From what I've been reading now, it is now active, but it has had some pretty long streches of inactivity in the past. The info I had on the abandonment was from an old interview posted back when I was a big time Area 51 buff. The word was, back then, that the base was suffering too many work stoppages from contamination to stay operational.
Then again, the intarweb might have been wrong. Stranger things have happened.
Either way, I'm not drinking the well water.
I'm so cool I had to reply to myself.
Cool pictures and stuff here.
Does the general public trust UFO nuts?
Why would the government abandon a multi-billion/trillion/+ base because a few people the public regards as fools are talking about it? If anything, they would leave it there and let the UFO nuts dig their own hole by making "absurd" statements, thereby reducing the credibility of the statements and the nuts. The kicker would be that the so called "nuts" are the ones actually in the know!
</Tin foil>
Really though, you don't build something that big to test slingshots...
During the Clinton era it was acknowledged that Area 51 (Dreamland, Groom Lake, etc) existed. This was about the same time that Area 51 buffs reported a dramatic decrease in activity at and around the base. It was acknowledged in a very generic manner, but was acknowledged none the less.
Supposedly, the reason for the abandoning of the base was because the radiation from atomic tests wasn't going the "China Syndrome" way, back into the earth, but coming back up (area 51 was the 51st grid on a map used for nuke testing).
I haven't followed it for a while, but last I heard, the experts were pointing at Arizona and New Mexico as the new locations for many, mini, Area 51s.
In 10,000 years, neither you, your offspring, or any other trace of you save for the possibility of a few strands of DNA will be around.
Who is to say that in 10,000 years we won't have found a way to clean this stuff up anyway? I doubt that the concept of a geiger counter and lead vest will be lost never to be rediscovered.
I'm all for living so that my children have a future, but 1,000 generations away can fend for themselves.
You want firewall software to block outbound connections for many reasons.
I, personally, do not want NetBIOS broadcasts hitting my cable modem from 5 different computers when I'm only supposed to have one connected (yeah, I know, non routable, tin foil hat all the same). I like the idea that if my computer happens to get a bug, chances are minimal that I will pass it on.
Personally, I use VisNetic firewall for home use, and although it has a little bit of a steep learning curve does the job I need it to, and is quiet about it.
AMD is hardly the new kid on the block(I assume this is what you meant by "upstart").
In fact, I once gave a 286(?) that read, stamped on the bottom, "(c)Intel 1982 (c)AMD" to a friend of mine that loves AMD. He still has it on a shelf in his room, as far as I know.
AMD is new to being big, but not new.
That God... Always getting away on a technicality.
I'm gonna have to keep a close eye on him... he's a tricky bunch.
Lets say that you were a volunteer firefighter. The safety of others depends on how fast you can get your butt on that truck and out the door. 30 seconds isn't a lot of time when you're heading to the grocery store to pick up some ramen noodles, but it is a hell of a long time when you're waiting for help. What if there is a false reading or an error in the system? Now you have a full minute wasted, sitting in your driveway.
Another situation. Your kid is sick. You need to take him to the hospital, your hands are shaking. Are you going to be able to activate some interlock?
Most likely, people living on the border will just travel to another state to buy a car, that'll do wonders for the economy. Now car dealers will loose money because they have to install interlocks, and can't sell cars because most people just go out of state anyway.
These issues haven't come up much because of the few people that have interlocks installed, but will become much more common if a whole state has them installed.
He actually just hit refresh and ended up double posting.