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AMD's net income was 471 million and Dell's net income was 1.4 billion; I have no idea where you get your information...
Add this to the fact that using their own product to build all their systems would save them quite a bit on every CPU and video card they bundle in a sold system means that this could be a big deal for Dell.
Now, all that aside, I don't know how I feel about Dell owning AMD/ATI. However, it could push AMD into more marketshare which means more R&D and as long as Dell still sells wholesale, too, it might not be so bad.
Probably using wi-fi assisted gps. it had wi-fi at your house so had a coordinate. you leave; it dies off. (pretty sure you were joking and knew this, however:P)
I always felt Bear Grylls was a hack; Les Stroud I enjoy watching because he actually walks you through what he is doing to survive. If Bear gets screwed somehow, he's got people to back him up. Bear goes for the crazy shit to sell TV. Les doesn't have that luxury; he can't even contact help. If he doesn't show up in the seven days, they go look for him. Les Stroud is much more believable. That feces water thing is bullshit... Bear is completely stupid.
The first thing I thought of was just put the "buy at amazon.com and get 30% off instantly!" on any order page in their app. do what apple wants but make sure your customers know they can get it cheaper elsewhere.
Time Warner is listed at 2400kbps; that's 300KB/s. I regularly grab large files at 2-3MB/s (big B). I'd like to know more about their testing methods because these seem a bit suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if it were throttling of the netflix content by said providers, though.
I'm in the group of people who just recently saw the first movie just yesterday, in fact. I was born the year after the original was released so was too young to get to see it early on. I also grew up with computers and scifi/fantasy and can say that I knew what Tron was going in. It was a move from the early 80's. It was groundbreaking for the time. I did feel it was a bit cheesy, but I blame that more on Disney than anything else. If you expect something amazing and epiphany-making, you're going to get let down. If you expect it for what it was at the time, you'll enjoy the hour-and-a-half you spend watching it.
I've been hoping for this exact change for years. They add rules stating that line owners have to sell their bandwidth wholesale to anyone for phone companies for a while now but nothing for cable companies.
Disallow the infrastructure owner from selling services and split up Comcast/Time Warner/etc into a utility company with a regional monopoly and a services company. Then, allow any company to come in and sell services.
Honestly, in real life, if I don't remember something perfectly (or even if I do but NEED to make sure something is correct) I can look it up with whatever resource I need to. Tests should be the same way (well, I believe tests should be project-based. business would be to take a fake company and make some decisions etc or something similar I guess). Knowing where key information is or how to obtain it quickly and understanding the concept is much more useful than memorizing random facts just to pass a grade. That's why SAT-type tests are bullshit. Teachers teach you what you need to remember to pass the test and that's it. There is no lasting knowledge that comes from that.
tl;dr version: using your book for a test should be allowed because it would be in real life
Honestly, I don't even read the subjects until I see a message that clearly is missing something at the beginning. The worst offenders are those that only send a message in a subject line of an email (which I almost never read)
So, if he says it's a horribly written piece of software or it just doesn't do what he wants or whatever his reasons are; is he going to write something better? Because if this is the only option, why should people stop using it? Just because this guy says he doesn't like it means that we should do what he says without any information as to an alternative he approves of? Hell, people saying that you should do x over y "just because" is bullshit.
Oh, also, there is a non-alpha version that has been around for a while. That version is free to play. If you pay, you get early access to the alpha version.
I've heard of it and I know a friend who plays it for hours. I also know he paid for the privilege to play the alpha and loves it.
As for a synopsis: You "mine" rocks, get minerals, build other stuff, and make your part of the world how you see fit. Some places outside, there are monsters that attack you.
You shouldn't try to get out of jury duty. If you're an intelligent person, you should be there fighting for objectivity. Honestly, aside from removing people for knowing someone involved with the case or emergency issues (hospitalization, out of the country, etc) then you should be required to participate. The prosecution/defense should have zero say in what jurors are chosen; how is that fair? Also, if you knew you couldn't get out of it, people might take it more seriously.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
So you're saying that the speed of light has more to do with the lack of increased clock speeds (going from 3GHz to 6GHz) than heat dissipation? Let's go ask those overclockers and their 7GHz i7 why don't we and see what they think... (http://www.nordichardware.com/news/79-overclocking/40487-intel-core-i7-980x-overclocked-to-7041-mhz.html)
I was under the assumption that the decay rates were an average over time. I mean, what's stopping every atom spontaneously deciding, "hey! it's my turn to decay!" and the whole lump of uranium you have immediately turns to lead. Wow, outside forces affect natural processes; who would have thought that was possible...
Burning lighter fluid is a chemical reaction, the same amount of matter exists before and after, it just exists in new compounds. Nuclear explosions actually destroy matter.
Seriously? Nuclear explosions don't destroy anything. They split atoms into smaller atoms (or merge two atoms into a larger atom with fusion) which releases energy held up in the atom itself. Matter is definitely not destroyed. The only way to "destroy" matter (turn matter into energy; you can't completely destroy it) is with anti-matter.
CCP: The company that makes EVE Online (akin to Blizzard for WoW)
ISK: In-game currency
PLEX: Pilot License Extension. It's basically an in-game item that can be redeemed for a month's subscription. People basically buy them from CCP for real money and sell them for in-game money. A legitimate way of buying in-game currency that is sanctioned by CCP
That's a difference of $5464.94. The difference for car price alone is more than that. Jump up to a Camry (most akin to the Prius anyway) at $19,595 and 22/33 mpg and that savings goes away. For the numbers 19,595 + 16442.31 (26mpg avg) = 36,037.31 which is more than 5 grand more expensive than the Prius.
When I bought my 2008 Prius, I had to drive ~110 miles roundtrip to work. Right now, the 2010 Yaris (the other model I was looking at) is $12,605 base price and the 2010 Prius is $22,300 base price on Toyota's website. Doing 110 miles every day for 260 days equals 28,600 miles every year. Adding in non-work related driving, lets go with 32,500
Yaris: 29/36 mpg. Let's say 33 average.
Prius: 51/48 mpg. Let's say 49 average.
Gas: 2.85 (near me)
Yaris + gas cost (10yr): 40,673.20
Prius + gas cost (10yr): 41,203.00
$529.80 for a larger car. Seriously, the Yaris' dashboard was hideous... Now, add in interest costs, etc and it widens a bit. But for the amount of car you get, it's definitely worth it. The Yaris is REALLY small...
If he keeps his car for 15 years, whats the difference in buying new vs used? That used car will last 5 years; the new might last 15. Even if he sells it at 5, someone else will buy it and drive it until it's dead.
Also, buying that used car that does 15mpg that couldn't pass the current pollution standards isn't helping anyone, either. Same for Escalades and Trucks. The only reason you should own a truck is if you regularly need to move shit. If you only do it occasionally; go to U-Haul.
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AMD's net income was 471 million and Dell's net income was 1.4 billion; I have no idea where you get your information...
Add this to the fact that using their own product to build all their systems would save them quite a bit on every CPU and video card they bundle in a sold system means that this could be a big deal for Dell.
Now, all that aside, I don't know how I feel about Dell owning AMD/ATI. However, it could push AMD into more marketshare which means more R&D and as long as Dell still sells wholesale, too, it might not be so bad.
I just wrote him a (polite) email (please be polite). His address is jklacy at ncdot dot gov.
Probably using wi-fi assisted gps. it had wi-fi at your house so had a coordinate. you leave; it dies off. (pretty sure you were joking and knew this, however :P)
I always felt Bear Grylls was a hack; Les Stroud I enjoy watching because he actually walks you through what he is doing to survive. If Bear gets screwed somehow, he's got people to back him up. Bear goes for the crazy shit to sell TV. Les doesn't have that luxury; he can't even contact help. If he doesn't show up in the seven days, they go look for him. Les Stroud is much more believable. That feces water thing is bullshit... Bear is completely stupid.
The first thing I thought of was just put the "buy at amazon.com and get 30% off instantly!" on any order page in their app. do what apple wants but make sure your customers know they can get it cheaper elsewhere.
/. should delete accounts of people who use the word "twitterverse"
Time Warner is listed at 2400kbps; that's 300KB/s. I regularly grab large files at 2-3MB/s (big B). I'd like to know more about their testing methods because these seem a bit suspect. I wouldn't be surprised if it were throttling of the netflix content by said providers, though.
I'm in the group of people who just recently saw the first movie just yesterday, in fact. I was born the year after the original was released so was too young to get to see it early on. I also grew up with computers and scifi/fantasy and can say that I knew what Tron was going in. It was a move from the early 80's. It was groundbreaking for the time. I did feel it was a bit cheesy, but I blame that more on Disney than anything else. If you expect something amazing and epiphany-making, you're going to get let down. If you expect it for what it was at the time, you'll enjoy the hour-and-a-half you spend watching it.
I've been hoping for this exact change for years. They add rules stating that line owners have to sell their bandwidth wholesale to anyone for phone companies for a while now but nothing for cable companies.
Disallow the infrastructure owner from selling services and split up Comcast/Time Warner/etc into a utility company with a regional monopoly and a services company. Then, allow any company to come in and sell services.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
Honestly, in real life, if I don't remember something perfectly (or even if I do but NEED to make sure something is correct) I can look it up with whatever resource I need to. Tests should be the same way (well, I believe tests should be project-based. business would be to take a fake company and make some decisions etc or something similar I guess). Knowing where key information is or how to obtain it quickly and understanding the concept is much more useful than memorizing random facts just to pass a grade. That's why SAT-type tests are bullshit. Teachers teach you what you need to remember to pass the test and that's it. There is no lasting knowledge that comes from that.
tl;dr version: using your book for a test should be allowed because it would be in real life
Honestly, I don't even read the subjects until I see a message that clearly is missing something at the beginning. The worst offenders are those that only send a message in a subject line of an email (which I almost never read)
So, if he says it's a horribly written piece of software or it just doesn't do what he wants or whatever his reasons are; is he going to write something better? Because if this is the only option, why should people stop using it? Just because this guy says he doesn't like it means that we should do what he says without any information as to an alternative he approves of? Hell, people saying that you should do x over y "just because" is bullshit.
Oh, also, there is a non-alpha version that has been around for a while. That version is free to play. If you pay, you get early access to the alpha version.
I've heard of it and I know a friend who plays it for hours. I also know he paid for the privilege to play the alpha and loves it.
As for a synopsis: You "mine" rocks, get minerals, build other stuff, and make your part of the world how you see fit. Some places outside, there are monsters that attack you.
You shouldn't try to get out of jury duty. If you're an intelligent person, you should be there fighting for objectivity. Honestly, aside from removing people for knowing someone involved with the case or emergency issues (hospitalization, out of the country, etc) then you should be required to participate. The prosecution/defense should have zero say in what jurors are chosen; how is that fair? Also, if you knew you couldn't get out of it, people might take it more seriously.
Me, I wish voting/jury duty was reserved for those that can prove they know something about whats going on instead of getting the most retarded people in the country deciding the fate of everyone.
So you're saying that the speed of light has more to do with the lack of increased clock speeds (going from 3GHz to 6GHz) than heat dissipation? Let's go ask those overclockers and their 7GHz i7 why don't we and see what they think... (http://www.nordichardware.com/news/79-overclocking/40487-intel-core-i7-980x-overclocked-to-7041-mhz.html)
Yeah, 3ghz doesn't come close to the light speed barrier. i think the issue is more from heat dissipation and electron bleed...
moving the gpu on-die will fix the latency associated with the pci-e bus, but it's not because of the reasons you seem to believe
I was under the assumption that the decay rates were an average over time. I mean, what's stopping every atom spontaneously deciding, "hey! it's my turn to decay!" and the whole lump of uranium you have immediately turns to lead. Wow, outside forces affect natural processes; who would have thought that was possible...
Burning lighter fluid is a chemical reaction, the same amount of matter exists before and after, it just exists in new compounds. Nuclear explosions actually destroy matter.
Seriously? Nuclear explosions don't destroy anything. They split atoms into smaller atoms (or merge two atoms into a larger atom with fusion) which releases energy held up in the atom itself. Matter is definitely not destroyed. The only way to "destroy" matter (turn matter into energy; you can't completely destroy it) is with anti-matter.
CCP: The company that makes EVE Online (akin to Blizzard for WoW)
ISK: In-game currency
PLEX: Pilot License Extension. It's basically an in-game item that can be redeemed for a month's subscription. People basically buy them from CCP for real money and sell them for in-game money. A legitimate way of buying in-game currency that is sanctioned by CCP
After I posted, I realized most people don't drive that much. Here's an updated version @ 15,000 miles a year.
Yaris: 12,605 + 12,954.55 = 25,559.55
Prius: 22,300 + 8,724.49 = 31,024.49
That's a difference of $5464.94. The difference for car price alone is more than that. Jump up to a Camry (most akin to the Prius anyway) at $19,595 and 22/33 mpg and that savings goes away. For the numbers 19,595 + 16442.31 (26mpg avg) = 36,037.31 which is more than 5 grand more expensive than the Prius.
When I bought my 2008 Prius, I had to drive ~110 miles roundtrip to work. Right now, the 2010 Yaris (the other model I was looking at) is $12,605 base price and the 2010 Prius is $22,300 base price on Toyota's website. Doing 110 miles every day for 260 days equals 28,600 miles every year. Adding in non-work related driving, lets go with 32,500
Yaris: 29/36 mpg. Let's say 33 average.
Prius: 51/48 mpg. Let's say 49 average.
Gas: 2.85 (near me)
Yaris: 32,500 / 33 * 2.85 = $2806.82
Prius: 32,500 / 49 * 2.85 = $1890.30
Yaris + gas cost (10yr): 40,673.20
Prius + gas cost (10yr): 41,203.00
$529.80 for a larger car. Seriously, the Yaris' dashboard was hideous... Now, add in interest costs, etc and it widens a bit. But for the amount of car you get, it's definitely worth it. The Yaris is REALLY small...
If he keeps his car for 15 years, whats the difference in buying new vs used? That used car will last 5 years; the new might last 15. Even if he sells it at 5, someone else will buy it and drive it until it's dead.
Also, buying that used car that does 15mpg that couldn't pass the current pollution standards isn't helping anyone, either. Same for Escalades and Trucks. The only reason you should own a truck is if you regularly need to move shit. If you only do it occasionally; go to U-Haul.