Whatever it is, the songs all had better have the same beat - preferably around 110-120bpm, depending upon where the cyclist feels most comfortable in cadence. My sweet spot is around 105-110 usually.
I usually don't listen to music on the bike because a) it's REALLY unsafe to road ride without both ears on the road and b) more often than not it's a distraction and c) I can't hear it for the wind whooshing through my ears and d) cops are always giving people riding with headphones a hard time due to the fact that it also happens to be illegal in my state...
Amen... I wanted Toomey, too... Specter does some good things, but he also does some incredible bone-headed things. Toomey seemed much more in touch with reality, as do most centrists and moderates. I think that if you're anything BUT a centrist or a moderate, then you're not doing it right. It is almost always the case that both sides of any argument have some merit, so a compromise can be achieved that is meritorious to both arguing parties. Political extremism, republican/authoritarian or democratic/socialist, is no different than religious extremism in terms of being detrimental to society as a whole.
When was there a war? There certainly hasn't been a war since I've been born. If my history class serves, the US hasn't been involved in a war since the mid 20th century.
Who the F! uses a soldering GUN on any modern applications?!
I can see it now - some poor technician with a 150W gun trying to mount a 208QFP on a board... May as well try to mount a BGA by sticking it in a nuclear reactor...:)
"If it ran on straight DC that would eliminate the spikes"
No, it wouldn't, not at all. Here's why: All DC sources have a finite output impedance. Computers, being digital devices, are not DC loads. They pull current in gulps really really fast. Every time the memory bus switches, there is a HUGE current drain for a miniscule amount of time. That causes a voltage drop across the output resistance of the supply. So you will still get ripple. This is also why you'll see tons of small capacitors surface mounted all around the ICs on a motherboard.
Why hasn't your post been modded down as Flamebait/Troll, anyway?;p
"Could it be that Intel is keeping DDR2-667 support for yet another revision of their new chipsets even though the memory support is clearly here today?"
Of course it could be. Why release DDR2-667 support today when you're still making reams of cash on DDR-533? The only way to make technology profitable, since margins are so low on hardware, is to squeeze every penny you can out of one technology before releasing another.
Besides, I doubt that they had "no problems" with DDR2-667. The memory likely was not designed to run at that speed, and I am sure that eventually it would fail, and by fail I mean there being an error, not necessarily the complete failure of the memory device. Signal integrity is a major problem at these speeds and unless the memory busses are terminated specifically for the speed at which they are intended to operate, it is unlikely that reliable operation can be expected.
Terminations at the higher speed would most certainly be different than at the lower speed because of the reduced reactance of the input capacitance at the bus loads. It is likely that a smaller series terminator would be necessary to prevent overdamping, which might cause the memory to miss a transition.
I would personally feel much more comfortable knowing that my memory was terminated specifically for 667. Now, if you have a high-speed scope, surface mount soldering skills, and lots of time, you could change the resistor packs on your motherboard and DIMM and check signal integrity yourself. It would certainly be a fun project worthy of a slashdot article.
You obviously are the "engineer" bean counter and I am the "MBA" bean counter. I am striving to make good numbers "this quarter" while you are striving to make good numbers "always".
Of course, I am an engineer, but was just playing devil's advocate.
Look at it from the bean counter's point of view. The mission has lasted twice as long as intended. The rovers were supposed to fail after 90 days, but they didn't. NASA obviously spent too much money on R&D and made them too well. That was a waste of money. Next time, we'll give them less to ensure the project ends on schedule instead of having to pay the high cost of continuation.
I still cringe deeply to the core of my being every time I see the replay of Joseba Beloki's fateful crash in Stage 9 last year. Indeed, Armstrong put his cyclocross skills to good use to avoid that crash, but I remember hearing Beloki's screams of agony as he lay there on the ground, both himself and his bike, broken.
He had a compound fracture of his elbow and broke his Femur (in two places, IIRC). That was by far one of the worst crashes I have ever seen involving only one rider, and is one of the many reasons I will never ride tubulars.
What had happened was that, in braking down the hill, the rear rim heated enough to soften the glue that was holding his tire on... he lost the tire, and down he went.
Just one minor argument, however. I think that if you lose 1/3 of your body mass in water, you're dead. Usually if you lose just 3-4% of your bodyweight in water, you lose the ability to move effectively. 33% is just fatal:)
"Winning (5 and possibly now 6) in a row", not "Winning 5 (and possibly now 6 in a row)"... sorry for the confusion..
Only Indurain has won 5 in a row (1991-1995) prior to Mr. Armstrong... The two Frenchmen came close, but had one win off in some other, yet nearby, year...
Well, for starters, there is no state-supported religion here, due of course to the Separation given in the constitution. There is nothing preventing people of any religion obtaining a government job; and we all know that in fact it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of religion. There are also no laws that say a $RELIGIOUS_ADJECTIVE person can't do this or that, because that is also what is covered in the Separation clause.
I'd be interested in hearing of any cases of someone not being able to do what they want to do because of a religiously-inspired law..
First of all, Lance makes more money than that for just _showing up_ at the race, and winning 5 and possibly now 6 of them in a row is completely unprecedented, and certainly a much more impressive feat than answering a bunch of questions about information nobody cares about (the definition of trivia - it does not matter). There is MUCH more strategy involved, much more brainpower, in winning a TdF. You not only have to be stronger, but smarter, than all of your competition - and there are 191 of them in 21 opposing teams at the start, not just two who are not even working together against you.
I, for one, would take the TdF over Jeopardy any day... it's much more exciting and certainly more newsworthy.... IMHO:)
I find the Separation issue very interesting. There is nothing in the constitution that says religion cannot be involved with the government. All it says is that the "Congress shall make no laws regarding an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof," which means that the government cannot establish a state-sponsored religion, nor prevent someone from practicing a religion not sponsored nor recognized by the state.
I've always found the notion that there can be no intermingling of religion and government to be quite ludicrous - for example the ACLU's lawsuit to have a small cross removed from the Los Angeles seal. There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution preventing a lower government from putting a cross on its seal, nor does that act establish a state-sponsored religion, nor does it prevent free exercise...
The current administration is authoritarian, whereas the Taliban is more fascist. There's a difference. Under authoritarian rule, the population is expected to obey without question the head of state (Bush) and to not question their actions; and personal liberties are subordinate to the rule of the State. Fascist rule is marked by the suppression of opposition through terror, violence, intimidation, and other strict social and economic controls.
The broadcasters do not own the content, so what if the people who DO own the content don't want the broadcaster to record it? In the eyes of the publisher, the broadcaster is just a consumer with redistribution rights, but not necessarily retention rights. Can the FCC mandate that the owner of the entertainment property grant a broadcaster the right to record/duplicate the material?
What sucks even more is that those late payments are going to f! up your credit for the next 7 years, especially since you had two in a row. Two 30+ payments in a row can take big points off your score.
You know, I started doing this in 1992 when I started college. This was before the BB days, but I went to a HiFi Buys (which subsequently became Tweeter) and bought a receiver. It was cheap, but they still offered the PSP... I declined, but then got the idea to just take that $40 or whatever it was and stick it in a savings account. So, for the past 12 years, for big ticket items like TV's and Laptops and other stuff that would suck to have to replace, I've declined the PSP, but put the cost of the PSP in that savings account. Whenever something has broken beyond repair, I've used that money to replace it.
Today, 12 years later, I'm SO ridiculously far ahead of the game. By simply self-insuring on breakage, I've managed to amass about $4K in that account (and a lot of it is interest).
Just think about all of the cell phones, TVs, appliances, CD players, and other crap the average person buys in 12 years... a PSP is usually about 25% of the cost of an item, so you can well imagine that can add up to a large sum. With a failure rate of around 3% (infant mortality excluded because it's covered under manufacturer's warranty), that's a gigantic profit...
I did some more research on my own argument and came up with the following correction: The company is actually a joint venture between my company and Tata, and my company owns 40% of that joint venture, not of Tata. I apologize for the inaccuracy. In any case, it is irrelevant to my original post.
Besides, your argument is specious and lacks merit. You didn't pay attention to the fact that these workers are brought in on L-1 visas, which means they are already employees of our company. They have already been through our rigorous selection process. The differences are culturally based and more global in scope than you are realizing. This should have been obvious to you, except that you were responding in the typical slashdot fashion, focusing on what you interpreted as being a particularly boastful comment that you felt the compulsive need to "knock down."
I'd be perfectly happy to continue this discussion on an intelligent and civilized level if you'd care to ascend from your reactionist paradigm. In the meantime, I'm going to go start a vendor review request to examine our selection process for offshore IT vendors.
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Whatever it is, the songs all had better have the same beat - preferably around 110-120bpm, depending upon where the cyclist feels most comfortable in cadence. My sweet spot is around 105-110 usually.
:)
I usually don't listen to music on the bike because a) it's REALLY unsafe to road ride without both ears on the road and b) more often than not it's a distraction and c) I can't hear it for the wind whooshing through my ears and d) cops are always giving people riding with headphones a hard time due to the fact that it also happens to be illegal in my state...
Oh well
Amen... I wanted Toomey, too... Specter does some good things, but he also does some incredible bone-headed things. Toomey seemed much more in touch with reality, as do most centrists and moderates. I think that if you're anything BUT a centrist or a moderate, then you're not doing it right. It is almost always the case that both sides of any argument have some merit, so a compromise can be achieved that is meritorious to both arguing parties. Political extremism, republican/authoritarian or democratic/socialist, is no different than religious extremism in terms of being detrimental to society as a whole.
When was there a war? There certainly hasn't been a war since I've been born. If my history class serves, the US hasn't been involved in a war since the mid 20th century.
What? I don't understand... ;p
Wicked crashes yesterday, eh? I wonder what today will bring... it's been a crappy wet tour so far..
I spoke to some length about what I *think* you are referring to here.
It has a lot to do with tayloring your bus terminations to the speed you intend to run the RAM at.
Who the F! uses a soldering GUN on any modern applications?!
:)
I can see it now - some poor technician with a 150W gun trying to mount a 208QFP on a board... May as well try to mount a BGA by sticking it in a nuclear reactor...
"If it ran on straight DC that would eliminate the spikes"
;p
No, it wouldn't, not at all. Here's why: All DC sources have a finite output impedance. Computers, being digital devices, are not DC loads. They pull current in gulps really really fast. Every time the memory bus switches, there is a HUGE current drain for a miniscule amount of time. That causes a voltage drop across the output resistance of the supply. So you will still get ripple. This is also why you'll see tons of small capacitors surface mounted all around the ICs on a motherboard.
Why hasn't your post been modded down as Flamebait/Troll, anyway?
"Could it be that Intel is keeping DDR2-667 support for yet another revision of their new chipsets even though the memory support is clearly here today?"
Of course it could be. Why release DDR2-667 support today when you're still making reams of cash on DDR-533? The only way to make technology profitable, since margins are so low on hardware, is to squeeze every penny you can out of one technology before releasing another.
Besides, I doubt that they had "no problems" with DDR2-667. The memory likely was not designed to run at that speed, and I am sure that eventually it would fail, and by fail I mean there being an error, not necessarily the complete failure of the memory device. Signal integrity is a major problem at these speeds and unless the memory busses are terminated specifically for the speed at which they are intended to operate, it is unlikely that reliable operation can be expected.
Terminations at the higher speed would most certainly be different than at the lower speed because of the reduced reactance of the input capacitance at the bus loads. It is likely that a smaller series terminator would be necessary to prevent overdamping, which might cause the memory to miss a transition.
I would personally feel much more comfortable knowing that my memory was terminated specifically for 667. Now, if you have a high-speed scope, surface mount soldering skills, and lots of time, you could change the resistor packs on your motherboard and DIMM and check signal integrity yourself. It would certainly be a fun project worthy of a slashdot article.
Considering that I *have* an MBA, no, it would not occur to me that I would be wrong. ;p
You obviously are the "engineer" bean counter and I am the "MBA" bean counter. I am striving to make good numbers "this quarter" while you are striving to make good numbers "always".
Of course, I am an engineer, but was just playing devil's advocate.
Look at it from the bean counter's point of view. The mission has lasted twice as long as intended. The rovers were supposed to fail after 90 days, but they didn't. NASA obviously spent too much money on R&D and made them too well. That was a waste of money. Next time, we'll give them less to ensure the project ends on schedule instead of having to pay the high cost of continuation.
and by this I mean "Visit every location of store X," why not make it more meaningful, like visit all of the Brothels in Las Vegas?
This guy should have set up some kind of pay-per-impression advertising before making slashdot, in any case..
I still cringe deeply to the core of my being every time I see the replay of Joseba Beloki's fateful crash in Stage 9 last year. Indeed, Armstrong put his cyclocross skills to good use to avoid that crash, but I remember hearing Beloki's screams of agony as he lay there on the ground, both himself and his bike, broken.
:)
He had a compound fracture of his elbow and broke his Femur (in two places, IIRC). That was by far one of the worst crashes I have ever seen involving only one rider, and is one of the many reasons I will never ride tubulars.
What had happened was that, in braking down the hill, the rear rim heated enough to soften the glue that was holding his tire on... he lost the tire, and down he went.
Just one minor argument, however. I think that if you lose 1/3 of your body mass in water, you're dead. Usually if you lose just 3-4% of your bodyweight in water, you lose the ability to move effectively. 33% is just fatal
What I meant to say was
"Winning (5 and possibly now 6) in a row", not "Winning 5 (and possibly now 6 in a row)"... sorry for the confusion..
Only Indurain has won 5 in a row (1991-1995) prior to Mr. Armstrong... The two Frenchmen came close, but had one win off in some other, yet nearby, year...
Well, for starters, there is no state-supported religion here, due of course to the Separation given in the constitution. There is nothing preventing people of any religion obtaining a government job; and we all know that in fact it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of religion. There are also no laws that say a $RELIGIOUS_ADJECTIVE person can't do this or that, because that is also what is covered in the Separation clause.
I'd be interested in hearing of any cases of someone not being able to do what they want to do because of a religiously-inspired law..
I say all of this with a smile on my face...
:)
First of all, Lance makes more money than that for just _showing up_ at the race, and winning 5 and possibly now 6 of them in a row is completely unprecedented, and certainly a much more impressive feat than answering a bunch of questions about information nobody cares about (the definition of trivia - it does not matter). There is MUCH more strategy involved, much more brainpower, in winning a TdF. You not only have to be stronger, but smarter, than all of your competition - and there are 191 of them in 21 opposing teams at the start, not just two who are not even working together against you.
I, for one, would take the TdF over Jeopardy any day... it's much more exciting and certainly more newsworthy.... IMHO
I find the Separation issue very interesting. There is nothing in the constitution that says religion cannot be involved with the government. All it says is that the "Congress shall make no laws regarding an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof," which means that the government cannot establish a state-sponsored religion, nor prevent someone from practicing a religion not sponsored nor recognized by the state.
I've always found the notion that there can be no intermingling of religion and government to be quite ludicrous - for example the ACLU's lawsuit to have a small cross removed from the Los Angeles seal. There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution preventing a lower government from putting a cross on its seal, nor does that act establish a state-sponsored religion, nor does it prevent free exercise...
just my offtopic $0.02...
The current administration is authoritarian, whereas the Taliban is more fascist. There's a difference. Under authoritarian rule, the population is expected to obey without question the head of state (Bush) and to not question their actions; and personal liberties are subordinate to the rule of the State. Fascist rule is marked by the suppression of opposition through terror, violence, intimidation, and other strict social and economic controls.
The broadcasters do not own the content, so what if the people who DO own the content don't want the broadcaster to record it? In the eyes of the publisher, the broadcaster is just a consumer with redistribution rights, but not necessarily retention rights. Can the FCC mandate that the owner of the entertainment property grant a broadcaster the right to record/duplicate the material?
This post evoked thoughts of Ignatius J. Riley...
What sucks even more is that those late payments are going to f! up your credit for the next 7 years, especially since you had two in a row. Two 30+ payments in a row can take big points off your score.
You know, I started doing this in 1992 when I started college. This was before the BB days, but I went to a HiFi Buys (which subsequently became Tweeter) and bought a receiver. It was cheap, but they still offered the PSP... I declined, but then got the idea to just take that $40 or whatever it was and stick it in a savings account. So, for the past 12 years, for big ticket items like TV's and Laptops and other stuff that would suck to have to replace, I've declined the PSP, but put the cost of the PSP in that savings account. Whenever something has broken beyond repair, I've used that money to replace it.
Today, 12 years later, I'm SO ridiculously far ahead of the game. By simply self-insuring on breakage, I've managed to amass about $4K in that account (and a lot of it is interest).
Just think about all of the cell phones, TVs, appliances, CD players, and other crap the average person buys in 12 years... a PSP is usually about 25% of the cost of an item, so you can well imagine that can add up to a large sum. With a failure rate of around 3% (infant mortality excluded because it's covered under manufacturer's warranty), that's a gigantic profit...
"So far in 7 months I have received $500+ in rebates."
This only means that you've spent at least $500 more at Best Buy than you could have spent elsewhere.
Rule #1 of economics - nothing is free. Any cost concession made by a retailer in one place is more than made up for in another.
"What next, a massive government database system to track every message and contacts between people?"
Don't you mean orkut?
I did some more research on my own argument and came up with the following correction: The company is actually a joint venture between my company and Tata, and my company owns 40% of that joint venture, not of Tata. I apologize for the inaccuracy. In any case, it is irrelevant to my original post.
Besides, your argument is specious and lacks merit. You didn't pay attention to the fact that these workers are brought in on L-1 visas, which means they are already employees of our company. They have already been through our rigorous selection process. The differences are culturally based and more global in scope than you are realizing. This should have been obvious to you, except that you were responding in the typical slashdot fashion, focusing on what you interpreted as being a particularly boastful comment that you felt the compulsive need to "knock down."
I'd be perfectly happy to continue this discussion on an intelligent and civilized level if you'd care to ascend from your reactionist paradigm. In the meantime, I'm going to go start a vendor review request to examine our selection process for offshore IT vendors.