for the individual it doesn't make sense. When applied nationally it's huge. Just like switching everyone to florescent light bulbs. You save $20/yr, but the power company saves billions because they don't have to open a new plant to meet peak demand.
Who the heck cares when for most people it's just empty space? I've got a terabyte harddisk that's not even 15% full. I only got it because it was the smallest 7200 rpm harddrive in it's class. The only folks I know who use that space are pulling high res video. Not a lot of people do that. If you don't need the space, why not get the speed?
What I wonder about is durability. Last I heard SSDs didn't last long in consumer grade devices because Windows thrashes the page file so much it kills the drive (limited # of writes per cell).
That's what the insurance companies spent burying health care reform. How the fuck is Obama suppose to compete with that kind of money? Fuck, 70% of Americans want socialized medicine but we can't have it.
I remember playing Tomb Raider accelerated on my 4 Meg S3 Virge and it was better than the PSX version (at the time a PSX was $300 and the Virge was $50).
After WWII Russia didn't even have enough fuel to drive their tanks home, they used Horses & Mules. Russia never was and never would be a threat to anyone. We made them a threat because Truman was afraid without a strong enemy our economy would stagnant like it is now (e.g. all the wealth gathered into the hands of 1% of the populace). In his own sick little way he was helping the average joe by creating what we call the Military Industrial Complex.
As for 'Soviet style communism', Russia never was a communist country. It was a dictatorship using Marx's Rhetoric. For Americans communism == socialism == evil stuff we learned about in school. Thing is, all that 'socialism' is the only thing between the average American and the 'nasty, brutal and short' life of the 1800s. Maybe you're one of the 'haves'. Maybe you've got a trust fund and you're set for life. But if not, you're a freakin' idiot, and you're part of the problem. The socialists want to protect you (and themselves, they're realists, not altruists). The capitalists want to grind you into hamburger. Of course, you're probably too busy planning on being they guy cranking the grinder to notice they've got your arm in it.
So, it's OK to have a society where a group that produces absolutely nothing (e.g. what we call a 'parasitic class') can pocket 2/3 of our wealth? This the really what's wrong with America. Instead of asking how we can fix this awful situation we're busy asking how we can be the guy that gets paid $400k to fill out a little paperwork.
Most of the budget is Defense, e.g. the military. This is fact. All this talk of 'waste' is a smoke screen to keep you from seeing the billions and billions handed off to defense contractors for free. What happened to rebuilding Iraq? Why is it after all these years their CAPITAL CITY still doesn't have electricity and running water for fsck's sake?
It's been all over the forums for months that they broke it in 10. Lots of 'fixes' and lots more people who the fixes don't work for. It's kept me on 9 the whole time.
I couldn't disagree more. Getting into the nuts and bolts of coding first thing and reinventing wheels isn't the way to start out. You need to learn basic code organization and good practices first, and it's hard to do that when you're spending all you're energy an memory management or what have you.
Put another way, you can take the 'learn how stuff works' approach you're suggesting as far back as you like. If it's great to know how printf & link lists work, wouldn't you want to know how your C code breaks into assembly? Then why not take it a step further to machine language, and then how about the processor and registers? What about the electronics. I saw a/. story about cosmic rays affecting memory, shouldn't you know how to troubleshoot that? See, there's really no end to it
Of course, part of me is also responding to changing times in the US. It's damn near impossible to get the sort of cushy corporate programming job where having general skills pays off. Yeah, if I worked for IBM I'd want to know how to roll my own linked lists in case they handed me a project where I couldn't just pull an OSS library, but IBM isn't hiring in America except at the top end. All the programmer grunt work is in India. Yeah, it's easy to say I should become a superb programmer like you suggest above, but frankly I don't want to work that hard. I'd rather spend my time learning what I need to know to write my own programs and start my own business:). And anyway, as Microsoft has proven time and again good enough is good enough.
My Bro's a PC gamer, bought himself a nice rig. Now it's gathering dust because everything's a frickin' port from the 360. Even Starcraft II kinda stunk. Nothing wrong with it, but it's just Starcraft + Warcraft III. He finished the single player in 12 hours (doesn't like multi, and if he did he could get the same experience from Starcraft I).
Anyway, games, except for the social games, don't matter anymore. PC gaming isn't dead, but it's just added value and for most not worth the effort.
you're just mistaken about the purpose. One of the key benefits to drug and prostitution control is segregation. It keeps the wealthy and the poor separate, because if you're poor and you drive up to a wealthy neighborhood to use their (very nice) parks and schools chances are you or one of you're friends has drugs/is a prostitute. Our 'zero tolerance' property seizure laws make you guilty by association.
Churches exists so the wealthy can come up with a reason for the poor to work hard for no reward (see protestant work ethic, divine right of kings, etc). The church and gov't are against prostitution because if a guy can just go out and have sex he won't work 3 job supporting a wife and kids to get it.
I'd love to replace my old server with one of these, but I wonder if they can keep up. I've seen ones with USB for use as file servers, but I haven't read good things about the first gen hardware...
when foxconn brands it's own stuff it's the seconds, the stuff that barely passed inspection. The Intel stuff is generally the A grade (although there's been some crap lately...).
Until DRM made it so a boxed copy of a game wouldn't 'activate' on any computer but mine (I'm lookin' at you, Chronicles of Riddick). So much for right of first sale.
TIDserve gets right past virtualization. It uses a privilege escalation in IE to find the virtual OS' drivers and then it follows the driver chain down to atapi.sys (which it can exploit).
I didn't say there was a successful one. The owners of these 'schools' are buying off legislatures left and right with the money they get from said legislatures.
It's been going on for some time. A bunch of wealth asshats bought out a ton of regionally accredited schools and turned them into diploma mills for soaking up taxpayer money in exchange for fake educations. IT is really popular with these bastards because it's cheap as hell to train and the rubes these 'schools' prey on think there's lots of easy money in computers because they find them hard to understand.
There's a movement in the Obama admin to take away these pseudo-school's eligibility for gov't if they can't show 80% of their graduates get jobs in their field and actually enforcing it. Right now they're skirting around these regulations by claiming stuff like call center work is 'IT'.
Anyway, if the gov't really gave a flying fsck they'd stop the H1-B Visa program dead. At any rate this is just more free money for the rich. Yea America.
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for the individual it doesn't make sense. When applied nationally it's huge. Just like switching everyone to florescent light bulbs. You save $20/yr, but the power company saves billions because they don't have to open a new plant to meet peak demand.
Who the heck cares when for most people it's just empty space? I've got a terabyte harddisk that's not even 15% full. I only got it because it was the smallest 7200 rpm harddrive in it's class. The only folks I know who use that space are pulling high res video. Not a lot of people do that. If you don't need the space, why not get the speed?
What I wonder about is durability. Last I heard SSDs didn't last long in consumer grade devices because Windows thrashes the page file so much it kills the drive (limited # of writes per cell).
That's what the insurance companies spent burying health care reform. How the fuck is Obama suppose to compete with that kind of money? Fuck, 70% of Americans want socialized medicine but we can't have it.
I remember playing Tomb Raider accelerated on my 4 Meg S3 Virge and it was better than the PSX version (at the time a PSX was $300 and the Virge was $50).
After WWII Russia didn't even have enough fuel to drive their tanks home, they used Horses & Mules. Russia never was and never would be a threat to anyone. We made them a threat because Truman was afraid without a strong enemy our economy would stagnant like it is now (e.g. all the wealth gathered into the hands of 1% of the populace). In his own sick little way he was helping the average joe by creating what we call the Military Industrial Complex.
As for 'Soviet style communism', Russia never was a communist country. It was a dictatorship using Marx's Rhetoric. For Americans communism == socialism == evil stuff we learned about in school. Thing is, all that 'socialism' is the only thing between the average American and the 'nasty, brutal and short' life of the 1800s. Maybe you're one of the 'haves'. Maybe you've got a trust fund and you're set for life. But if not, you're a freakin' idiot, and you're part of the problem. The socialists want to protect you (and themselves, they're realists, not altruists). The capitalists want to grind you into hamburger. Of course, you're probably too busy planning on being they guy cranking the grinder to notice they've got your arm in it.
Moron.
Jeff Vogel does pretty well for himself.
So, it's OK to have a society where a group that produces absolutely nothing (e.g. what we call a 'parasitic class') can pocket 2/3 of our wealth? This the really what's wrong with America. Instead of asking how we can fix this awful situation we're busy asking how we can be the guy that gets paid $400k to fill out a little paperwork.
Most of the budget is Defense, e.g. the military. This is fact. All this talk of 'waste' is a smoke screen to keep you from seeing the billions and billions handed off to defense contractors for free. What happened to rebuilding Iraq? Why is it after all these years their CAPITAL CITY still doesn't have electricity and running water for fsck's sake?
It's been all over the forums for months that they broke it in 10. Lots of 'fixes' and lots more people who the fixes don't work for. It's kept me on 9 the whole time.
I couldn't disagree more. Getting into the nuts and bolts of coding first thing and reinventing wheels isn't the way to start out. You need to learn basic code organization and good practices first, and it's hard to do that when you're spending all you're energy an memory management or what have you.
/. story about cosmic rays affecting memory, shouldn't you know how to troubleshoot that? See, there's really no end to it
:). And anyway, as Microsoft has proven time and again good enough is good enough.
Put another way, you can take the 'learn how stuff works' approach you're suggesting as far back as you like. If it's great to know how printf & link lists work, wouldn't you want to know how your C code breaks into assembly? Then why not take it a step further to machine language, and then how about the processor and registers? What about the electronics. I saw a
Of course, part of me is also responding to changing times in the US. It's damn near impossible to get the sort of cushy corporate programming job where having general skills pays off. Yeah, if I worked for IBM I'd want to know how to roll my own linked lists in case they handed me a project where I couldn't just pull an OSS library, but IBM isn't hiring in America except at the top end. All the programmer grunt work is in India. Yeah, it's easy to say I should become a superb programmer like you suggest above, but frankly I don't want to work that hard. I'd rather spend my time learning what I need to know to write my own programs and start my own business
My Bro's a PC gamer, bought himself a nice rig. Now it's gathering dust because everything's a frickin' port from the 360. Even Starcraft II kinda stunk. Nothing wrong with it, but it's just Starcraft + Warcraft III. He finished the single player in 12 hours (doesn't like multi, and if he did he could get the same experience from Starcraft I). Anyway, games, except for the social games, don't matter anymore. PC gaming isn't dead, but it's just added value and for most not worth the effort.
they want their jobs market back.
you're just mistaken about the purpose. One of the key benefits to drug and prostitution control is segregation. It keeps the wealthy and the poor separate, because if you're poor and you drive up to a wealthy neighborhood to use their (very nice) parks and schools chances are you or one of you're friends has drugs/is a prostitute. Our 'zero tolerance' property seizure laws make you guilty by association.
Churches exists so the wealthy can come up with a reason for the poor to work hard for no reward (see protestant work ethic, divine right of kings, etc). The church and gov't are against prostitution because if a guy can just go out and have sex he won't work 3 job supporting a wife and kids to get it.
Is it 99 cents to 'rent' one episode? That's way, way too much.
and I get regular notices that "composting was too slow and has been disabled".
You need to upgrade you're chipper-shreder to a quad core.
I'd love to replace my old server with one of these, but I wonder if they can keep up. I've seen ones with USB for use as file servers, but I haven't read good things about the first gen hardware...
when foxconn brands it's own stuff it's the seconds, the stuff that barely passed inspection. The Intel stuff is generally the A grade (although there's been some crap lately...).
foxconn branded boards look good on paper, but they fail in about year. Like everyone keeps saying, just buy a well built Intel Atom based system.
Until DRM made it so a boxed copy of a game wouldn't 'activate' on any computer but mine (I'm lookin' at you, Chronicles of Riddick). So much for right of first sale.
TIDserve gets right past virtualization. It uses a privilege escalation in IE to find the virtual OS' drivers and then it follows the driver chain down to atapi.sys (which it can exploit).
I didn't say there was a successful one. The owners of these 'schools' are buying off legislatures left and right with the money they get from said legislatures.
It's been going on for some time. A bunch of wealth asshats bought out a ton of regionally accredited schools and turned them into diploma mills for soaking up taxpayer money in exchange for fake educations. IT is really popular with these bastards because it's cheap as hell to train and the rubes these 'schools' prey on think there's lots of easy money in computers because they find them hard to understand.
There's a movement in the Obama admin to take away these pseudo-school's eligibility for gov't if they can't show 80% of their graduates get jobs in their field and actually enforcing it. Right now they're skirting around these regulations by claiming stuff like call center work is 'IT'.
Anyway, if the gov't really gave a flying fsck they'd stop the H1-B Visa program dead. At any rate this is just more free money for the rich. Yea America.
I've played around with wine for IE, but not had much luck, and my bank is IE only :(. Back to Windows...
it's weight. They're moving to FF all over.