Is it just me or are Intel chipset motherboards CRAZY expensive? All the enthusiast level boards are >$200. Which is crazy.
I have three friends (None are particularly broke) waiting for a killer motherboard to build a rig...
Intel get your house in order, Nvidia is eating you from the inside with motherboards that are more expensive than your processors.
SLI is overrated, especially with the dearth of decent mid range graphics cards...
Components are getting better but they're making it such a pain to put together a decent mid range system this generation, there aren't any new features (Same old raid setups, NCQ, PCI-E, DDR2 etc are old hat)... so why the sudden increase in motherboard prices...
Considering how much the media industry spends on lobbying it's very easy for governments to confuse the industry with the musicians and even with the arts.
I'd be willing to deal with a complete meltdown in the music industry to revamp it, but maybe we won't have to. That should be our line, seperate the two and don't confuse them. Piracy -> Copywrite Violation, and anti-media-industry sentiment starts to make sense to everyone.
Artists are trout feeding on flies and minnows, the industry are Pike, if we tighten our belts the top of the food chain will suffer most... and more quickly.
I think boycotting the industry is a really good idea, if we're right the industry will die... wrong and the arts will dry up... if the latter happens we can recover anyway. The former and everyone wins.
Sorry to be spelling Nazi but I think the parent meant Atheros (confirmed by quick google search).... I have that chipset in my laptop, it has a good reputation because it worked in Dapper but my edgy upgrade broke it and each new kernel requires me to set it up again... bummer.
Ah but the joyous things like linking to an app or RMIing in or whatever in C/C++ is really easy in VB... it's a fine language.
All he's saying is that most types of functions have been written before, sorting of various types mathematical functions etc.
Once you know exactly what you want to do in words it's trivial to find an example that has already completed the math (I find it easier to do the math myself[I have a crappy memory, it's easier to figure it out again than remember it] but it's reinventing the wheel).
As far as VB being a fine language goes, I'd say it's really not... it leads to general solutions taking over your code, you never achieve precisely what you set out to accomplish, I just find in big projects I end up making too many sacrifices to it's interface driven style:(
Every industry is doing the same shit we see every day coming out of the electronics industry, ask an automotive fan about any car company they probably have the same shit happening (And an Apple vs Microsoft battle too)...
Welcome to Capitalism America... IF they are successfully made to share this fiber then yay! But this should still be the fiber American's PAID the teleco's to install all those years ago, it's ironic they've found a way to make it WORSE than nothing:P
Obvious vs proof, I live in Canada I've noticed my ISP (Rogers) limits bit torrent (specifically uploading to a single peer is 40-70KBps while multiple peers get 2-10KBPS)... How would I prove that?
There is already significant throttling going on, why wouldn't they prioritize some traffic very highly, simply cache the site and show your last mile bandwidth.
Totally underhanded, but these are fooking telecos
If Intel decided to take a hit this processor generation (Say they were willing to take a $300 million dollar hit, no profits and quite a bit of losses they could drive AMD out of busines next generation no competition. With this new legislation they can do that in a specific city!
So Shell can decide that next generation there will be no Exxon stations in Chicago, take the hit take the competition out and then put the prices up in Chicago to get the money back.
The customer wins any way you look at it! Go Capitalism!
With this massive increase in the length of time robots can survive on solar power on Mars (without meeting to clean each other)... what could they have built or done?
Could they have gathered the materials to make a 3rd rover ?:)
Question: there's a video above in which an airframe gets tested. The testing applies the force to the end of the wing, if the force was more concentrated (Say 1/3 of the way from the fuselage) the flexibility would be limited. Such a force could theoretically snap the wing before the force was transfered to the fuselage, why is the testing conducted in the manner it is?
Why is this useful, the plane is not supposed to be anchored. These stressed are passed to the entire plane, if the wing can sustain more than 101 % of the planes maximum weight (And isn't flexible enough not to transfer the force immediately) Then it's totally useless.
On the other hand I miss the days when we could overengineer something 2x or 3x by accident, such major breakthroughs are too uncommon these days.
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Is it just me or are Intel chipset motherboards CRAZY expensive? All the enthusiast level boards are >$200. Which is crazy.
I have three friends (None are particularly broke) waiting for a killer motherboard to build a rig...
Intel get your house in order, Nvidia is eating you from the inside with motherboards that are more expensive than your processors.
SLI is overrated, especially with the dearth of decent mid range graphics cards...
Components are getting better but they're making it such a pain to put together a decent mid range system this generation, there aren't any new features (Same old raid setups, NCQ, PCI-E, DDR2 etc are old hat)... so why the sudden increase in motherboard prices...
Considering how much the media industry spends on lobbying it's very easy for governments to confuse the industry with the musicians and even with the arts.
I'd be willing to deal with a complete meltdown in the music industry to revamp it, but maybe we won't have to. That should be our line, seperate the two and don't confuse them. Piracy -> Copywrite Violation, and anti-media-industry sentiment starts to make sense to everyone.
Artists are trout feeding on flies and minnows, the industry are Pike, if we tighten our belts the top of the food chain will suffer most... and more quickly.
I think boycotting the industry is a really good idea, if we're right the industry will die... wrong and the arts will dry up... if the latter happens we can recover anyway. The former and everyone wins.
Sam The Record Man = A giant condominum on YOUNG...
I think we can all do the math and let the conspiracy theories go...
ME: "Sniff Sniff"
You: "What's that?"
Me: "Dark Fiber"
Suggestion for when that happens in an acedemic paper, go back and read something YOU wrote earlier on the same subject.
Taking bets this guy's gonna get an AWSOME documentary someday... I need a camera and a ticket to Sweden.
Sorry to be spelling Nazi but I think the parent meant Atheros (confirmed by quick google search).... I have that chipset in my laptop, it has a good reputation because it worked in Dapper but my edgy upgrade broke it and each new kernel requires me to set it up again... bummer.
Ah but the joyous things like linking to an app or RMIing in or whatever in C/C++ is really easy in VB... it's a fine language.
:(
All he's saying is that most types of functions have been written before, sorting of various types mathematical functions etc.
Once you know exactly what you want to do in words it's trivial to find an example that has already completed the math (I find it easier to do the math myself[I have a crappy memory, it's easier to figure it out again than remember it] but it's reinventing the wheel).
As far as VB being a fine language goes, I'd say it's really not... it leads to general solutions taking over your code, you never achieve precisely what you set out to accomplish, I just find in big projects I end up making too many sacrifices to it's interface driven style
It's like OO, but totally insane and shitty.
Small ISPs are anti-major news sources. Legislate for big ISP big media...
He's a nerd, he'll die off for sure.
:P
The small print on Mountain Dew is a killer.
Every industry is doing the same shit we see every day coming out of the electronics industry, ask an automotive fan about any car company they probably have the same shit happening (And an Apple vs Microsoft battle too)...
Welcome to Capitalism America... IF they are successfully made to share this fiber then yay! But this should still be the fiber American's PAID the teleco's to install all those years ago, it's ironic they've found a way to make it WORSE than nothing
Obvious vs proof, I live in Canada I've noticed my ISP (Rogers) limits bit torrent (specifically uploading to a single peer is 40-70KBps while multiple peers get 2-10KBPS)... How would I prove that?
There is already significant throttling going on, why wouldn't they prioritize some traffic very highly, simply cache the site and show your last mile bandwidth.
Totally underhanded, but these are fooking telecos
That's nasty .
Et tu anonymous blogging internet marketoids?
If Intel decided to take a hit this processor generation (Say they were willing to take a $300 million dollar hit, no profits and quite a bit of losses they could drive AMD out of busines next generation no competition. With this new legislation they can do that in a specific city!
So Shell can decide that next generation there will be no Exxon stations in Chicago, take the hit take the competition out and then put the prices up in Chicago to get the money back.
The customer wins any way you look at it! Go Capitalism!
Not in the sense of feeling sorry for other European countries, more the way we feel sorry for people living under facism and poverty.
With this massive increase in the length of time robots can survive on solar power on Mars (without meeting to clean each other)... what could they have built or done?
:)
Could they have gathered the materials to make a 3rd rover ?
Question: there's a video above in which an airframe gets tested. The testing applies the force to the end of the wing, if the force was more concentrated (Say 1/3 of the way from the fuselage) the flexibility would be limited. Such a force could theoretically snap the wing before the force was transfered to the fuselage, why is the testing conducted in the manner it is?
Why is this useful, the plane is not supposed to be anchored. These stressed are passed to the entire plane, if the wing can sustain more than 101 % of the planes maximum weight (And isn't flexible enough not to transfer the force immediately) Then it's totally useless.
On the other hand I miss the days when we could overengineer something 2x or 3x by accident, such major breakthroughs are too uncommon these days.
http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/CoalMinin gandRailways.htm
My mistake, both were quite close together.
Well I'd say it should do a check for early versions of IE. Everyone else knows how to upgrade.
Unions were developed when they found that machines could replace 90% of workers in factories.
The ancient debate over whether the un-educated masses need busy-work continues.
Each time technology replaces a workforce there is a massive recession, prices need to adjust for the lower wages being paid (overall)...
I'm a fan of it but it's tough for a while.
Americans did the same thing, then there was a mysterious 2 day B lackberry outage caused by software updates.
Servers were moved to the U.S.
Of course CSIS is a totally hidden agency, almost no one has ever heard of them, or Canada for that matter. Sigh...
Note To self
1.)Improvise Turtleneck
2.)Ebay
3.)Profit
4.)... lynched by apple fanboys?
Sniff, what's that? Smells like PS3.
It costs > $600 and there'll be a better phone out in 4-5 months tops! The thing is HUGE Apple itself will release a smaller model.
And it sucks, basically they are filtering out P2P by killing your upload if you are connected to more than 2 or 3 peers.