I second this. If your life follows a common trajectory, you'll be very busy with school, and then with establishing your career, and then with kids, and then with paying for their college.
The next time you have a big break could very well be when you retire.
If you can afford to, enjoy your summer and build good memories.
Basically, I saw the "bloody red carpet" thing, and the pun occurred to me.
The "... which get us in trouble" part was just some random filler I came up with to present the pun. The assumptions underlying that filler material were not remotely my main point, or even something I particularly endorse.
In fact, it was a toss up between "... which gets us in trouble." and simply "I see what you did there."
You seem to have a big chip on your shoulder about the PC thing, and assumed I was buying into it when I was not.
But how far back to we go for giving design credit? To the Arabs, Persians, Greeks, or Egyptians for the fundamental mathematics used? My point is just that even if Intel pioneered this technology, it doesn't strongly imply much about the U.S.'s current prowess.
Also, I know Intel has chip design facilities at least in Israel. Not sure where else.
You can overclock a processor. I haven't seen this successfully tested on humans yet. The results of own experiments with my Tesla Tower and the neighborhood kids were rather unpleasant.
I'll bet you forgot to first bathe them in liquid nitrogen. Don't feel bad - common newbie mistake.
I call a 60% increase in computing power marginal because of the amount of time it is likely to hold the crown. I apologize for not being clearer about that.
Regarding the China funding, here you go, and also here. Also, this is a year in which about 1/3 of the Federal government's funding came from deficit spending (i.e., bond sales).
I was not claiming the China and only China paid fro Sequoia. I was pointing out that it a valid symbol of neither or technical prowess nor our economic prosperity.
I don't normally respond to AC"s, but I'm intrigued by your response.
In what way did my post demonstrate a staggeringly poor understanding of economics?
Also, I disagree about the "marginal" claim. At least according to this source, the computing power of top-end supercomputers doubles about every 1.2 years, and hardly a year goes by without a new super-computer coming online. So a 60% increase in performance is likely to keep the crown for no more than a year or two.
I think this scheme only works as long as you keep on getting a stream of new people submitting the fees. Otherwise, there's a decent chance that the journal will fold, well before its submitters have written the last paper of their lifetimes.
Presumably, from the standpoint of the "Get the Facts" site, the only reason the European public dislikes ACTA is because they don't have, well, the facts.
Like the way a rape victim's only basis for fighting back is that they don't realize how good the rape will feel if they just accept it.
Who the hell is going to pay real money for gear in a single player game?
Lots and lots and lots of morons, more morons than Blizzard could ever piss off.
It seems to me we're seeing the difference between pre- and post-Activision Blizzard. Pre-Activation Blizzard was all about the gamers. Post-Activision Blizzard is all about the profit.
I have a Dell M6500 laptop with an i7 chip and a (2010-era) workstation-class AMD m7740 GPU. I'm running Linux Mint 13, with AMD's fglrx driver installed.
All of the other desktop environments I've tried have perfectly decent responsiveness. But for some reason, the Kubuntu desktop is *way* slower. Enough so that I chose to forgo it's other benefits.
I disagree with you regarding the particular kind of misfit they come across as.
In my mind, Microsoft is a stodgy, big company representing most of the evils of old men corrupted by wealth. They use patents and lobbyists to lock out competitors, they screw of customers and business partners, they belong to the BSA, etc.
So to me, it would like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons paid for the high-school prom, and then demanded all students stand around him to watch him do a Dirty Dancing version of the Charleston.
I remember when they rolled out the Microsoft Mambo #5, it was so bad I had to leave the room so I wouldn't laugh in front of the customers. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but they should be dragged to death behind a truck.
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I second this. If your life follows a common trajectory, you'll be very busy with school, and then with establishing your career, and then with kids, and then with paying for their college.
The next time you have a big break could very well be when you retire.
If you can afford to, enjoy your summer and build good memories.
Golly did you ever miss my point.
Basically, I saw the "bloody red carpet" thing, and the pun occurred to me.
The "... which get us in trouble" part was just some random filler I came up with to present the pun. The assumptions underlying that filler material were not remotely my main point, or even something I particularly endorse.
In fact, it was a toss up between "... which gets us in trouble." and simply "I see what you did there."
You seem to have a big chip on your shoulder about the PC thing, and assumed I was buying into it when I was not.
Woooshhh!!
...because women and hard logic are such a natural mix.
You're not making a great case for men and hard logic, either.
See, it's jokes like that which get us in trouble.
Now if there was only some way we could find out. Hmmm....
Well sure, if they legalize pot...
But how far back to we go for giving design credit? To the Arabs, Persians, Greeks, or Egyptians for the fundamental mathematics used? My point is just that even if Intel pioneered this technology, it doesn't strongly imply much about the U.S.'s current prowess.
Also, I know Intel has chip design facilities at least in Israel. Not sure where else.
I'll bet you forgot to first bathe them in liquid nitrogen. Don't feel bad - common newbie mistake.
No, I think you're misunderstanding my point.
I call a 60% increase in computing power marginal because of the amount of time it is likely to hold the crown. I apologize for not being clearer about that.
Regarding the China funding, here you go, and also here. Also, this is a year in which about 1/3 of the Federal government's funding came from deficit spending (i.e., bond sales).
I was not claiming the China and only China paid fro Sequoia. I was pointing out that it a valid symbol of neither or technical prowess nor our economic prosperity.
I don't normally respond to AC"s, but I'm intrigued by your response.
In what way did my post demonstrate a staggeringly poor understanding of economics?
Also, I disagree about the "marginal" claim. At least according to this source, the computing power of top-end supercomputers doubles about every 1.2 years, and hardly a year goes by without a new super-computer coming online. So a 60% increase in performance is likely to keep the crown for no more than a year or two.
I don't see how that would matter. I'm pretty sure some guy from Uganda would win with or without including the point.
Moore wasn't an IBM employee, so Turek hasn't really heard that much about him.
I'd rather have a big fraction of our workforce be highly competent in mathematics, than have a computer that's marginally faster than any other.
One wins a pointless pissing match, the other provides a much more solid basis for real strength and prosperity.
Besides, all this really shows is that China will lend us enough money for us to buy computer components built an assembled throughout the world.
I think this scheme only works as long as you keep on getting a stream of new people submitting the fees. Otherwise, there's a decent chance that the journal will fold, well before its submitters have written the last paper of their lifetimes.
Presumably, from the standpoint of the "Get the Facts" site, the only reason the European public dislikes ACTA is because they don't have, well, the facts.
Like the way a rape victim's only basis for fighting back is that they don't realize how good the rape will feel if they just accept it.
Okay, I'd like to get the facts about who was involved in the treaty planning, and what they said.
Oh, I'm sorry. By "facts", they apparently meant their talking points. My mistake - I assumed we were using the normal meanings of words today.
Who the hell is going to pay real money for gear in a single player game?
Lots and lots and lots of morons, more morons than Blizzard could ever piss off.
It seems to me we're seeing the difference between pre- and post-Activision Blizzard. Pre-Activation Blizzard was all about the gamers. Post-Activision Blizzard is all about the profit.
Good business, but poor art.
I second this. I haven't played the TL2 beta, so I can't really say anything about that.
But I managed to get TL1 (on Steam, I think) for $5, and it was plenty of fun. It was a far, far better value proposition than is D3.
Hopefully TL2 will be as well.
The scary thing is just how often this new meme could seem insightful on Slashdot or vagina
My gosh, you're right.
I have a Dell M6500 laptop with an i7 chip and a (2010-era) workstation-class AMD m7740 GPU. I'm running Linux Mint 13, with AMD's fglrx driver installed.
All of the other desktop environments I've tried have perfectly decent responsiveness. But for some reason, the Kubuntu desktop is *way* slower. Enough so that I chose to forgo it's other benefits.
I disagree with you regarding the particular kind of misfit they come across as.
In my mind, Microsoft is a stodgy, big company representing most of the evils of old men corrupted by wealth. They use patents and lobbyists to lock out competitors, they screw of customers and business partners, they belong to the BSA, etc.
So to me, it would like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons paid for the high-school prom, and then demanded all students stand around him to watch him do a Dirty Dancing version of the Charleston.
I remember when they rolled out the Microsoft Mambo #5, it was so bad I had to leave the room so I wouldn't laugh in front of the customers. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but they should be dragged to death behind a truck.
Too soon, man, too soon.
I was just kicking out one idea, because we don't know a ton about his competence or other qualifications.
I figured that as a community, we were collectively trying to throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall.