I'm not disagreeing with you by saying this, just asking a question. For 99% of the illegals employed in the USA, how many of those jobs would ever be done by a legal citizen?
It ends up being a circular argument. The jobs are low paying and labor intensive, few "legals" want to do them. So the illegals gobble them up, live together as cheaply as possible, and send the money to their families back in mexico.
But, the wages are low BECAUSE there are illegals to do them.
If all of the illegals disappeared overnight there would be pandemonium in the construction and agricultural industries. Prices would go up (I presume), and if you believe the arguments of the Pro-Illegal camp, the US economy would collapse.
So which came first: the hard, low paying jobs or the illegal immigrants to do them?
I can see the headlines - "Florida destroyed, but scientists harvested enough free energy for decades" With the subtitle "Environmentalists don't know what to think"
you can get a cheap portable cd player that also plays CD-R, CD-RW with mp3's, maybe even wma. Like $20 or something. Great way to cheaply add mp3 to a car, eh?
Also I seriously doubt a cd/mp3 would ever have DRM. (unless it was a sony...)
No matter how efficient *I* get, I will still emit carbon dioxide also. Not to mention the critters in the ocean, the animals in the forests, and volcanoes. And pigs with lipstick.
The nasty stuff that cars emit are carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen, which can be controlled by a precise mixture, proper engine timing control and a decent catalytic converter. Which, 2 of the three, are directly impacted by the tech featured in the article.
Save the forests, emit more CO2. They LOVE the stuff.
Neither creator James Cameron or original star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the project, which picks up with John Connor in his 30s leading what's left of the human race against the machines.
Nah, man, the above is what will make this good. There's been what, 2 minutes, shown of this timeframe of the universe? That whole part of the terminator universe is the basis for all of the movies, yet it is largely left to our imagination. They are going to explore that. No dead horse. They're, uhh, beating a mostly new horse...
or maybe put it under a cover or lid. Fire alarms many times have a "break glass, pull lever" kind of thing. I think a "lift lid, push button" would be just fine for a EPO. An EPO is different than an E-stop, it's computers, not moving machinery, right?
Personally, I would like to see the map. And play it.
We had a little lan in the house we were renting my senior year in college ('97 timeframe), and me and my roommates played a LOT of deathmatch. I once, way back in the day, made a map for doom2. I made up a simple house with a few rooms in it, even put in furniture. It was crude, the level editors back then were pretty chunky, but seriously it was sort of eerie to walk around in this house and look out the window and see monsters coming after you. Way better play experience than I expected.
I can only imagine, it would be quite cool to play CS on a map of a very familiar TRW space.
Another thought: This kid needs to spin his map like the Columbine RPG guy did his game. "No, I'm not a psycho killer - I'm making a political statement!"
Very interesting. -if I may post offtopic.... I'm an amateur (technically...) but I sure do a lot of video. I haven't upgraded my board/chip for something like 3 years.
What kind of render time improvement did you see moving to quad? What did you have before?
What about for the last few upgrades you did, from what to what and how much did it help? (sorry if I'm asking to much, a wag is fine)
I did a comparison rendering a benchmark.veg file on my main edit box, an athlon XP 2500+ and then did the same on my laptop, a dell (maybe I'm not offtopic now) inspiron with a core duo 1.66 ghz. The laptop was (only?) twice as fast. I would attribute part of it to hard drive, but the benchmark barely used the HD.
To post on-topic now - I once purchased a gateway laptop from a gateway store. This was PRECISELY because I had a special application and very much needed to choose the product in person to guarantee it could do what I wanted. I have also purchased a dell desktop online. The application for that box didn't matter a whit, I knew the dell would be fine. In most cases a computer is like a toaster. It only really matters if you're really into toast.
DVD is fine for end user, but it's actually pretty lossy. The studios need to store their stuff losslessly so they can do "something" with them later. When I'm doing a video I take it from DV tape (which is compressed, about 4:1 IIRC, but losslessly) edit it on the computer, render it back to DV, and put it back to tape. (for reference, DV is about 15 gigs per hour, and that's 720x480 w/ 2 channel audio) I then put the tape on my hermetically sealed and climate controlled "shelf" storage unit. Then I render again to whatever format suits the end user for the project.
Codecs like DVD (mpeg2), divx, wmv, etc, pretty much preclude ever doing anything with the footage again once it's in that state. For casual stuff I've reused clips I only had in mpeg2 in a new project, but a studio would never do that for master footage...
Is holographic still too new? If the medium is right don't you all think that holographic storage should last a LOOOOONG time and store LOOOOOTS of stuff in a small space?
At the risk of being redundant, the idea of distributed storage is good. Tie in the concepts of ubiquitous computing, prolific high speed internet, vast amounts of unused HD space and clock cycles - Why not?
Doesn't google use massively distributed and redundant storage and processing now?
And when I say why not, I'm not talking about putting it in a rootkit, I'm talking about something along the lines of seti@home + bit torrent + whatever = a global data ether of our collective digital valuables forever being stored by everyone.
I think a workaround is to remove the array when installing ubuntu and then put it back on and edit the bootloader to open up your access to the windows install.
At least that helped me out, but I wasn't using raid. I was however using PATA and SATA drives in the same system, and I think my SATA controller is actually in raid mode while not doing raid. (I was installing ubuntu on the PATA) At any rate, just thought I'd share my nugget of linux install wisdom.
Two hikers are in the woods and come across a bear. The bear gets real angry and rears up ready to attack. One hiker takes off his backpack and begins to change from his hiking boots to running shoes. The other guys says "what are you thinking? You know you can't outrun a bear!" The first guy says "that's right, I can't outrun a bear, but I can outrun YOU!"
So, you just need to be sure that there is always someone out there who uses their connection more....
Wouldn't it be fun to call the abuse guy every Monday morning at 9:00 am to check and make sure you aren't using too much of the "interweb".... Get on a first name basis, or even so friendly you don't even have to introduce yourself... "Hi, it's me! What was my bandwidth usage last week? Am I still ok? Just checking! Thanks! Bye Bye!"
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From my traveling experience, the time it takes from hitting the gas at the start of the runway to "wheels up" is meaningless. It could take 16 seconds or 160 seconds.
What really matters to travelers are the 45 minute "air traffic control" delays into O'Hare, or the 9+ hours stuck on the runway in a JetBlue, or the hour it takes to check in and the 2nd hour to get through security. It's the hours waiting at the beginning of the trip followed by the sprint across the airport because your 45 minute layover was consumed by delays, followed by the wait to (hopefully) get your luggage at the end.
It's not a powerful airframe that would impress me or any other frequent flyer, it would be a quick and smooth trip.
I wonder what kind of review this new jet would get if they had to park it and wait for 30 minutes after pushing back, or had to pay $2 for a bag of nuts on a 3 hour flight, or arrived at your connecting airport and found out their next flight was cancelled for no reason, their luggage nowhere to be found.
I'm an engineer so I certainly appreciate any new piece of shiny kit like this, but even a posh jet can suck if the airline that buys it makes your trip miserable.
I think you are pretty well right on. I've been looking for an upgrade, and for my application (video editing) I need the processor that's the best at video for the dollar. That's the core 2 duo. So, I'm shopping on Newegg. To build a basic c2d box (no other peripherals, and no windows) you're basically looking at $800 minimum, maybe $1000 to get something worth the effort. E6400, 2 gigs, 500 gigs, cheep PCI-E video with 256 megs, good board, case, etc.
Or, I found that I can go to HP and "get a box" for the same money and have it already put together! With windows. And a warranty. Hmmmmm......
I did find however that I liked the features/price at HP better than Dell. The features/price just didn't mesh for me on Dell for this project, it was either too low end or too expensive, HP seems to be able to do it my way at the moment.
I still haven't bought anything yet tho. Seeing what happens w/quad core.
Here in Northeast Indiana I live in a small town/city with approximately 5 to 7 thousand people. It seems to be more white collar, possibly higher average per-capita income. 20 miles to the east, there is another small town/city with probably about the same number of people, maybe more. It is a more blue collar type of town, and it may be a more diverse population.
It is a known fact that the Wal-Mart in the town 20 miles to the east of here charges noticeably lower prices than the wal-mart in this town where I live.
That does seem to be a plausible explanation, but is almost more insane.
What kind of maniac manager would try to increase retention by suing someone for quitting in the hopes of intimidating existing employees? Yeah, it's possible but the company would have to be a bizarre, tormented hellhole to work in before this happened - because this person was around before, and insanity like that doesn't usually happen overnight...
The submitter makes no mention of leg irons or whippings. "Hey Vern, the canings aren't working, Fred just quit. Time to sue!"
I'm going to have to side with the idea that there is something missing from the story. My guess is he got cocky and was talking about how he is taking key concepts or technology with him to help his new employer. Not that he stole, but the info that is in his head...
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"You forgot the US Citizen she replaced."
I'm not disagreeing with you by saying this, just asking a question. For 99% of the illegals employed in the USA, how many of those jobs would ever be done by a legal citizen?
It ends up being a circular argument. The jobs are low paying and labor intensive, few "legals" want to do them. So the illegals gobble them up, live together as cheaply as possible, and send the money to their families back in mexico.
But, the wages are low BECAUSE there are illegals to do them.
If all of the illegals disappeared overnight there would be pandemonium in the construction and agricultural industries. Prices would go up (I presume), and if you believe the arguments of the Pro-Illegal camp, the US economy would collapse.
So which came first: the hard, low paying jobs or the illegal immigrants to do them?
If the RIAA had an army, they probably would go to war. If they increased their lobbying enough, perhaps they would have their army.
Literally LOL. I lived in FLA for 2.5 years...
I can see the headlines - "Florida destroyed, but scientists harvested enough free energy for decades" With the subtitle "Environmentalists don't know what to think"
Well, when I read the headline the first thought that came to mind was "gee, that sounds like some goofball thing that SCO tried to do...."
But I didn't link MS to SCO's actions - that's pretty interesting! Anyone got any proof?
"As business strategies go, suing your customers in order to make a profit is not one of the better strategies."
I could make a MPAA or RIAA comment, but that would be too easy.
you can get a cheap portable cd player that also plays CD-R, CD-RW with mp3's, maybe even wma. Like $20 or something. Great way to cheaply add mp3 to a car, eh?
Also I seriously doubt a cd/mp3 would ever have DRM. (unless it was a sony...)
Walmart has (or used to) have them.
No matter how efficient *I* get, I will still emit carbon dioxide also. Not to mention the critters in the ocean, the animals in the forests, and volcanoes. And pigs with lipstick.
The nasty stuff that cars emit are carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen, which can be controlled by a precise mixture, proper engine timing control and a decent catalytic converter. Which, 2 of the three, are directly impacted by the tech featured in the article.
Save the forests, emit more CO2. They LOVE the stuff.
Nah, man, the above is what will make this good. There's been what, 2 minutes, shown of this timeframe of the universe? That whole part of the terminator universe is the basis for all of the movies, yet it is largely left to our imagination. They are going to explore that. No dead horse. They're, uhh, beating a mostly new horse...
or maybe put it under a cover or lid. Fire alarms many times have a "break glass, pull lever" kind of thing. I think a "lift lid, push button" would be just fine for a EPO. An EPO is different than an E-stop, it's computers, not moving machinery, right?
Personally, I would like to see the map. And play it.
We had a little lan in the house we were renting my senior year in college ('97 timeframe), and me and my roommates played a LOT of deathmatch. I once, way back in the day, made a map for doom2. I made up a simple house with a few rooms in it, even put in furniture. It was crude, the level editors back then were pretty chunky, but seriously it was sort of eerie to walk around in this house and look out the window and see monsters coming after you. Way better play experience than I expected.
I can only imagine, it would be quite cool to play CS on a map of a very familiar TRW space.
Another thought: This kid needs to spin his map like the Columbine RPG guy did his game. "No, I'm not a psycho killer - I'm making a political statement!"
Very interesting. -if I may post offtopic.... I'm an amateur (technically...) but I sure do a lot of video. I haven't upgraded my board/chip for something like 3 years.
.veg file on my main edit box, an athlon XP 2500+ and then did the same on my laptop, a dell (maybe I'm not offtopic now) inspiron with a core duo 1.66 ghz. The laptop was (only?) twice as fast. I would attribute part of it to hard drive, but the benchmark barely used the HD.
What kind of render time improvement did you see moving to quad? What did you have before?
What about for the last few upgrades you did, from what to what and how much did it help? (sorry if I'm asking to much, a wag is fine)
I did a comparison rendering a benchmark
To post on-topic now - I once purchased a gateway laptop from a gateway store. This was PRECISELY because I had a special application and very much needed to choose the product in person to guarantee it could do what I wanted. I have also purchased a dell desktop online. The application for that box didn't matter a whit, I knew the dell would be fine. In most cases a computer is like a toaster. It only really matters if you're really into toast.
Sounds almost like time shifting to me... Like a DVR you can get from your cable company. Almost.
DVD is fine for end user, but it's actually pretty lossy. The studios need to store their stuff losslessly so they can do "something" with them later. When I'm doing a video I take it from DV tape (which is compressed, about 4:1 IIRC, but losslessly) edit it on the computer, render it back to DV, and put it back to tape. (for reference, DV is about 15 gigs per hour, and that's 720x480 w/ 2 channel audio) I then put the tape on my hermetically sealed and climate controlled "shelf" storage unit. Then I render again to whatever format suits the end user for the project.
Codecs like DVD (mpeg2), divx, wmv, etc, pretty much preclude ever doing anything with the footage again once it's in that state. For casual stuff I've reused clips I only had in mpeg2 in a new project, but a studio would never do that for master footage...
Is holographic still too new? If the medium is right don't you all think that holographic storage should last a LOOOOONG time and store LOOOOOTS of stuff in a small space?
At the risk of being redundant, the idea of distributed storage is good. Tie in the concepts of ubiquitous computing, prolific high speed internet, vast amounts of unused HD space and clock cycles - Why not?
Doesn't google use massively distributed and redundant storage and processing now?
And when I say why not, I'm not talking about putting it in a rootkit, I'm talking about something along the lines of seti@home + bit torrent + whatever = a global data ether of our collective digital valuables forever being stored by everyone.
Easy.
Subspace.
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I think a workaround is to remove the array when installing ubuntu and then put it back on and edit the bootloader to open up your access to the windows install.
At least that helped me out, but I wasn't using raid. I was however using PATA and SATA drives in the same system, and I think my SATA controller is actually in raid mode while not doing raid. (I was installing ubuntu on the PATA) At any rate, just thought I'd share my nugget of linux install wisdom.
I'm sure it's in a nice location though.
Reminds me of the old joke:
Two hikers are in the woods and come across a bear. The bear gets real angry and rears up ready to attack. One hiker takes off his backpack and begins to change from his hiking boots to running shoes. The other guys says "what are you thinking? You know you can't outrun a bear!" The first guy says "that's right, I can't outrun a bear, but I can outrun YOU!"
So, you just need to be sure that there is always someone out there who uses their connection more....
Wouldn't it be fun to call the abuse guy every Monday morning at 9:00 am to check and make sure you aren't using too much of the "interweb".... Get on a first name basis, or even so friendly you don't even have to introduce yourself... "Hi, it's me! What was my bandwidth usage last week? Am I still ok? Just checking! Thanks! Bye Bye!"
Downgrading - by using a downloaded cracked copy of XP? Really??
Does the EULA define what a downgrade is? Just wondering.
How Naive would you have to be to drink Pschitt?
So, how long have you worked at MS?
From my traveling experience, the time it takes from hitting the gas at the start of the runway to "wheels up" is meaningless. It could take 16 seconds or 160 seconds.
What really matters to travelers are the 45 minute "air traffic control" delays into O'Hare, or the 9+ hours stuck on the runway in a JetBlue, or the hour it takes to check in and the 2nd hour to get through security. It's the hours waiting at the beginning of the trip followed by the sprint across the airport because your 45 minute layover was consumed by delays, followed by the wait to (hopefully) get your luggage at the end.
It's not a powerful airframe that would impress me or any other frequent flyer, it would be a quick and smooth trip.
I wonder what kind of review this new jet would get if they had to park it and wait for 30 minutes after pushing back, or had to pay $2 for a bag of nuts on a 3 hour flight, or arrived at your connecting airport and found out their next flight was cancelled for no reason, their luggage nowhere to be found.
I'm an engineer so I certainly appreciate any new piece of shiny kit like this, but even a posh jet can suck if the airline that buys it makes your trip miserable.
I think you are pretty well right on. I've been looking for an upgrade, and for my application (video editing) I need the processor that's the best at video for the dollar. That's the core 2 duo. So, I'm shopping on Newegg. To build a basic c2d box (no other peripherals, and no windows) you're basically looking at $800 minimum, maybe $1000 to get something worth the effort. E6400, 2 gigs, 500 gigs, cheep PCI-E video with 256 megs, good board, case, etc.
Or, I found that I can go to HP and "get a box" for the same money and have it already put together! With windows. And a warranty. Hmmmmm......
I did find however that I liked the features/price at HP better than Dell. The features/price just didn't mesh for me on Dell for this project, it was either too low end or too expensive, HP seems to be able to do it my way at the moment.
I still haven't bought anything yet tho. Seeing what happens w/quad core.
Is true.
Here in Northeast Indiana I live in a small town/city with approximately 5 to 7 thousand people. It seems to be more white collar, possibly higher average per-capita income. 20 miles to the east, there is another small town/city with probably about the same number of people, maybe more. It is a more blue collar type of town, and it may be a more diverse population.
It is a known fact that the Wal-Mart in the town 20 miles to the east of here charges noticeably lower prices than the wal-mart in this town where I live.
That does seem to be a plausible explanation, but is almost more insane.
What kind of maniac manager would try to increase retention by suing someone for quitting in the hopes of intimidating existing employees? Yeah, it's possible but the company would have to be a bizarre, tormented hellhole to work in before this happened - because this person was around before, and insanity like that doesn't usually happen overnight...
The submitter makes no mention of leg irons or whippings. "Hey Vern, the canings aren't working, Fred just quit. Time to sue!"
I'm going to have to side with the idea that there is something missing from the story. My guess is he got cocky and was talking about how he is taking key concepts or technology with him to help his new employer. Not that he stole, but the info that is in his head...