I have an Athlon 3700+ and a 7800GT and I am completely CPU bound on most games (most notably CoD2 and FS2004). What makes them think this is even practical? Dual-core CPUs don't run a single process any faster, so unless gaming software starts being multi-processed (NOT multi-threaded), a dual-core doesn't help either.
So, what's the point? If the data can't get to the cards fast enough for them to process it, it's a complete and utter waste of money.
I have two neices, 8 and 10. They each got a DS for Christmas with Nintendogs. One thing that is majorly annoying with the multiplayer, at least on the dogs, is that it is not concurrent. The slave DS just makes a second dog having the parameters from the master DS, but that's the end of it. The dog that lives on the master is doing completely different things on the two DSes. I wonder if this is also true for other collaborative, multiplayer games. Do you just play the same game that the master DS is playing, but in a completely different context, or do you actually get to interact with other players?
I saw a bittorrent-like system a while back that was for private sharing, with a really nice GUI and everything. I even downloaded it, but my machine crashed before I could install it, and now I can't remember what it was called. I know this post is useless, but maybe it'll get someone's attention... and they'll remember... hope...
Windows Vista kernel has architecture? Since when? I thought the windows kernel was just a bunch of amateurish spaghetti code... you'd think so anyway since you need 2GB of memory just to boot it.
That's funny, because most of the papers that defined modern physics were a dozen or so pages or less. My paper that disproves the use of physical optics in numerical modeling of penetrable scatterers is only about 20 pages long. I don't bother reading papers that are more than a few pages long because, in general, any paper that is longer than that is so because the author is blowing hot air and padding length to satisfy the complete myth that quantity means something.
If you can't explain a concept in a page or less, you don't understand it yourself. If you feel the need to write your dissertation so that a first year physics student can understand it, you're not writing for the correct audience.
Google swears users will not see any negative changes as a result of the AOL buyin...
of course, the word "negative" is subject to interpretation. Of course, Google and AOL execs would view banners and even more biased search results as a POSITIVE change, because it will give users what they want and offer them more opportunities to save blah blah blah.... or some other similar drivel...
You've got to be fucking kidding me. If google search results were unbiased, I wouldn't get search result summaries that have nothing to do with my search, except that have my exact search term inserted in the text. Of course, these biased results link to link trap sites or other sites that generate revenue for google...
Corporations have to steal BILLIONS to get criminal charges, and those criminal charges never end up being against the company, but rather against individuals within that company...
a keyboard that might come with a childrens' toy computer... too cute for me, and the alphabetical keyboard has been proven time and time again to be very inefficient, difficult to learn, and counterintuitive.
QWERTY is more efficient, but still not the best, as its primary design philosophy was to keep typewriters from jamming by keeping commonly adjacent letters far away from each other on the keyboard
DVORAK supporters say that it was designed to minimize the distance that your fingers travel, but for some reason, I could just never get used to having to type all vowels with my left hand (and hence the right brain). Language is predominantly handled in the left brain, and vowels are sort of mathematical in language, so it stands to reason that the building blocks of words (vowels) should be handled by the left brain.
Aren't you using the word "editor" a little loosely there? If you recall, Slashdot isn't really journalism.. it's just a bunch of 1990's left-over wanna-be importants pretending...
Actually, Bill and Melinda gates give hundreds of millions of dollars to charities every year, and they have an incredible influence on improving the lives of impoverished people everywhere. Bill and Melinda don't go around looking for people to pat them on the back for it - they almost always refuse media coverage for their big donations. As much as we despise Microsoft, Bill and Melinda give more to charity in one day than you and I will in a lifetime.
Besides, Bill is not exactly a mediocre businessman anyway. The mediocre businessman is the one who agrees to the restrictive terms of microsoft licensing (i.e. IBM and the whole DOS fiasco that got M$ started).
I love the "spirit of the law" crowd. The spirit of the law doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that matters, and the only thing that EVER holds water in court, is the LETTER of the law. The "spirit" of the law is something that liberals came up with in order to justify breaking whichever laws they feel don't apply to them..
It's not illegal to wiretap international calls. The government is constitutionally allowed to tap any call to the US that originates from a foreign country, and also to tap any call originating in the US that terminates in a foreign country. A court order is only requred for calles originating in and terminating in the United States, that are not routed outside the United States and its possessions (including satellites, regardless of whose airspace they are in).
Also, the Patriot Act authorizes domestic and international wiretaps if either of the subjects in the call are suspected of being involved in terroristic activity.
You can't take heat from the catalytic converter because that heat is required to catalyze the gasses. That's why emissions suck for the first 5 or so minutes that you run your car - the catalyst is cold and not doing its job. That's also why urban areas use MTBE and other oxygenates in fuel in the winter time - so that the mal effects of the cold catalyst are mitigted.
What you don't realize is that the actual physical assembly of the boards (the part currently done in China) is only a very small part of the manufacturing process. There is development, prototyping, unit test, system test, verification, validation, compliance testing, rework, packaging, and much much more. This is currently done in the US but is fair game for offshoring. My company has been on an offshoring rampage for a few years now, and more and more of these tasks are moving overseas.
It's not too tricky at all, you were just not clear in your definition of "haves." Leftists generally refer to two classes, rich and poor, in their worldview.
For example, we always hear the battlecry of the left: "The rich don't pay their fair share!" This is in direct contradiction to the facts unless you consider "rich" to mean "not poor."
Fact: Above average wage-earners pay 96% of all income tax. The top 25% pays 84% of all income tax. The top 1% pays more than one third of all income tax at 34%. (Source: IRS 2003 Figures: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03in05tr.xls)
Returning to the main topic, yes I am guilty of lumping you in with my perception of the average leftist, and for that I withdraw my comments, except to add that it would have been helpful if you had been less ambiguous in your definitions. I will also add that the current facts do not support your hypothesis of middle-class to lower-class monetary flux. The government takes the most money from the top earners, so the tax system would have to change dramatically to support your theory. Either that or the definition of middle class would have to change.
According to Wikipedia, the (middle) middle class are those who make up to $75,000 but aren't considered "working poor," so for the sake of this argument we'll call the middle class those who make above the median income but below $75,000. Extrapolating from the IRS data, people in this class range pay approximately 14% of all income tax. So, there is really no tax on the middle class at all, at least not in the US.
The reason leftist redistribution of wealth never works is because you cannot demotivate those who are capable of driving societal advancement. Why should one work 80 hours per week to run a corporation, sacrifice family and personal life, and generally be a slave to the shareholders, unless there is a significant reward attached? Leftists love to present the notion that it's easy to be rich. Let me tell you, running the affairs of a large corporation is not easy by any strech of the imagination. It is hard to manage a corporation that employs 100,000 people, and the risks are huge. The CEO holds the livelihoods of all of those people and their families in their hands, and to a less direct extent, the financial wellbeing of society at large. That requires a lot of talent and generates a lot of stress.
This is the first step towards offshoring their design and manufacturing operations. All of those USA jobs at nVidia are now in jeopardy as once the corporation owns an Asia entity, they can a) transfer design tasks overseas, b) import cheap labor on L-1 visas to avoid paying prevailing wage, c) exert downward pressure on US payroll, d) reduce benefits, e) freeze US hiring.
I have seen too many companies do this to believe their goal is anything other than to nix American jobs in favor of cheap foreign labor. They'll bring over a sea of L-1 visa people to learn how to do the job, then send them back to Asia with a trial design task. If that succeeds, boom, no more American jobs at nVidia except for upper management.
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$2.8B compensatory plus 3 x 2.8B treble punitive = $11.2B
Just a hypothesis.
I have an Athlon 3700+ and a 7800GT and I am completely CPU bound on most games (most notably CoD2 and FS2004). What makes them think this is even practical? Dual-core CPUs don't run a single process any faster, so unless gaming software starts being multi-processed (NOT multi-threaded), a dual-core doesn't help either.
So, what's the point? If the data can't get to the cards fast enough for them to process it, it's a complete and utter waste of money.
I have two neices, 8 and 10. They each got a DS for Christmas with Nintendogs. One thing that is majorly annoying with the multiplayer, at least on the dogs, is that it is not concurrent. The slave DS just makes a second dog having the parameters from the master DS, but that's the end of it. The dog that lives on the master is doing completely different things on the two DSes. I wonder if this is also true for other collaborative, multiplayer games. Do you just play the same game that the master DS is playing, but in a completely different context, or do you actually get to interact with other players?
I saw a bittorrent-like system a while back that was for private sharing, with a really nice GUI and everything. I even downloaded it, but my machine crashed before I could install it, and now I can't remember what it was called. I know this post is useless, but maybe it'll get someone's attention... and they'll remember ... hope...
100MB of Ram? What version do you have that uses only 100MB of Ram? Where can I download it? :)
A 2008 Presidential Win by some combination of Hillary and Nader...
Windows Vista kernel has architecture? Since when? I thought the windows kernel was just a bunch of amateurish spaghetti code... you'd think so anyway since you need 2GB of memory just to boot it.
I can just see the MythBusters trying to bust or prove the myth that Bumblebees can fly - or likewise come up with a way to make a bumblebee fly.
That's funny, because most of the papers that defined modern physics were a dozen or so pages or less. My paper that disproves the use of physical optics in numerical modeling of penetrable scatterers is only about 20 pages long. I don't bother reading papers that are more than a few pages long because, in general, any paper that is longer than that is so because the author is blowing hot air and padding length to satisfy the complete myth that quantity means something.
If you can't explain a concept in a page or less, you don't understand it yourself. If you feel the need to write your dissertation so that a first year physics student can understand it, you're not writing for the correct audience.
Paris Hilton is a prime example
nyuk nyuk
Will there be another mediocre white male scientist who exploits the intellectual breakthroughs of his wife in order to gain fame and infamy?
I would say most certainly yes..
Google swears users will not see any negative changes as a result of the AOL buyin...
of course, the word "negative" is subject to interpretation. Of course, Google and AOL execs would view banners and even more biased search results as a POSITIVE change, because it will give users what they want and offer them more opportunities to save blah blah blah.... or some other similar drivel...
You've got to be fucking kidding me. If google search results were unbiased, I wouldn't get search result summaries that have nothing to do with my search, except that have my exact search term inserted in the text. Of course, these biased results link to link trap sites or other sites that generate revenue for google...
No, that's not biased. Not at all.
I'll answer you once and for all:
NEVER...
Corporations have to steal BILLIONS to get criminal charges, and those criminal charges never end up being against the company, but rather against individuals within that company...
I thought lying was a job requirement for congress?
In the period 11/1/2005 through 11/30/2005, I received:
81 legitimate emails (3/day)
4339 SPAM emails (144/day!)
398 Virus emails
Yes, I would call that a COMPLETE success
a keyboard that might come with a childrens' toy computer... too cute for me, and the alphabetical keyboard has been proven time and time again to be very inefficient, difficult to learn, and counterintuitive.
QWERTY is more efficient, but still not the best, as its primary design philosophy was to keep typewriters from jamming by keeping commonly adjacent letters far away from each other on the keyboard
DVORAK supporters say that it was designed to minimize the distance that your fingers travel, but for some reason, I could just never get used to having to type all vowels with my left hand (and hence the right brain). Language is predominantly handled in the left brain, and vowels are sort of mathematical in language, so it stands to reason that the building blocks of words (vowels) should be handled by the left brain.
Aren't you using the word "editor" a little loosely there? If you recall, Slashdot isn't really journalism.. it's just a bunch of 1990's left-over wanna-be importants pretending...
Actually, Bill and Melinda gates give hundreds of millions of dollars to charities every year, and they have an incredible influence on improving the lives of impoverished people everywhere. Bill and Melinda don't go around looking for people to pat them on the back for it - they almost always refuse media coverage for their big donations. As much as we despise Microsoft, Bill and Melinda give more to charity in one day than you and I will in a lifetime.
Besides, Bill is not exactly a mediocre businessman anyway. The mediocre businessman is the one who agrees to the restrictive terms of microsoft licensing (i.e. IBM and the whole DOS fiasco that got M$ started).
I love the "spirit of the law" crowd. The spirit of the law doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that matters, and the only thing that EVER holds water in court, is the LETTER of the law. The "spirit" of the law is something that liberals came up with in order to justify breaking whichever laws they feel don't apply to them..
It's not illegal to wiretap international calls. The government is constitutionally allowed to tap any call to the US that originates from a foreign country, and also to tap any call originating in the US that terminates in a foreign country. A court order is only requred for calles originating in and terminating in the United States, that are not routed outside the United States and its possessions (including satellites, regardless of whose airspace they are in).
Also, the Patriot Act authorizes domestic and international wiretaps if either of the subjects in the call are suspected of being involved in terroristic activity.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
You can't take heat from the catalytic converter because that heat is required to catalyze the gasses. That's why emissions suck for the first 5 or so minutes that you run your car - the catalyst is cold and not doing its job. That's also why urban areas use MTBE and other oxygenates in fuel in the winter time - so that the mal effects of the cold catalyst are mitigted.
Yes, tongue and cheek commentary from slashdot...
What you don't realize is that the actual physical assembly of the boards (the part currently done in China) is only a very small part of the manufacturing process. There is development, prototyping, unit test, system test, verification, validation, compliance testing, rework, packaging, and much much more. This is currently done in the US but is fair game for offshoring. My company has been on an offshoring rampage for a few years now, and more and more of these tasks are moving overseas.
It's not too tricky at all, you were just not clear in your definition of "haves." Leftists generally refer to two classes, rich and poor, in their worldview.
For example, we always hear the battlecry of the left: "The rich don't pay their fair share!" This is in direct contradiction to the facts unless you consider "rich" to mean "not poor."
Fact: Above average wage-earners pay 96% of all income tax. The top 25% pays 84% of all income tax. The top 1% pays more than one third of all income tax at 34%. (Source: IRS 2003 Figures: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03in05tr.xls)
Returning to the main topic, yes I am guilty of lumping you in with my perception of the average leftist, and for that I withdraw my comments, except to add that it would have been helpful if you had been less ambiguous in your definitions. I will also add that the current facts do not support your hypothesis of middle-class to lower-class monetary flux. The government takes the most money from the top earners, so the tax system would have to change dramatically to support your theory. Either that or the definition of middle class would have to change.
According to Wikipedia, the (middle) middle class are those who make up to $75,000 but aren't considered "working poor," so for the sake of this argument we'll call the middle class those who make above the median income but below $75,000. Extrapolating from the IRS data, people in this class range pay approximately 14% of all income tax. So, there is really no tax on the middle class at all, at least not in the US.
The reason leftist redistribution of wealth never works is because you cannot demotivate those who are capable of driving societal advancement. Why should one work 80 hours per week to run a corporation, sacrifice family and personal life, and generally be a slave to the shareholders, unless there is a significant reward attached? Leftists love to present the notion that it's easy to be rich. Let me tell you, running the affairs of a large corporation is not easy by any strech of the imagination. It is hard to manage a corporation that employs 100,000 people, and the risks are huge. The CEO holds the livelihoods of all of those people and their families in their hands, and to a less direct extent, the financial wellbeing of society at large. That requires a lot of talent and generates a lot of stress.
This is the first step towards offshoring their design and manufacturing operations. All of those USA jobs at nVidia are now in jeopardy as once the corporation owns an Asia entity, they can a) transfer design tasks overseas, b) import cheap labor on L-1 visas to avoid paying prevailing wage, c) exert downward pressure on US payroll, d) reduce benefits, e) freeze US hiring.
I have seen too many companies do this to believe their goal is anything other than to nix American jobs in favor of cheap foreign labor. They'll bring over a sea of L-1 visa people to learn how to do the job, then send them back to Asia with a trial design task. If that succeeds, boom, no more American jobs at nVidia except for upper management.