For you and the sibling posters who said the same thing: no, that doesn't work. All it does is set the current refresh rate. STALKER was badly written; when run, it tries to set the current refresh rate to the maximum refresh rate. Because I didn't have the Windows "drivers" (they're really just a list of supported resolution/refresh rate tuples) for my monitor, Windows made the retarded assumption that my monitor's max refresh rate was 85 MHz when in reality it can't do more than 60 MHz. Thus, STALKER would run, set the current refresh rate to 85 MHz, and my monitor would crap out, refusing to show anything. Reforce lets you directly edit what Windows thinks your monitor is capable of, so I was able to use that to tell it that no, this monitor can't actually do 85 MHz ever. After that, STALKER worked fine.
I actually had more fun figuring that out than I've had playing STALKER. There's probably something wrong with me.
Hah, it's even better than that. Pretend you're a terrorist, using that blog to communicate somehow - apparently in this case it was to disseminate bomb making information and target lists.
All of a sudden, the blog you're visiting every day or so gets shut down. What does that tell you? If you're a paranoid terrorist cell, it most likely means that the government has noticed you use the blog to communicate and ordered the hosting provider to shut it down.
So now you know that the government knows about that communications channel. The government doesn't really know anything besides your IP address, which is pretty useless if you've been using Tor or something similar. Who comes out ahead here?
Eh? What exactly is harder in Ubuntu than it is on Windows?
I mean, just consider this problem I had: I was trying to run STALKER: Shadow of Cernobyl on my Windows desktop. It refused to work; my monitor would just pop up an error message saying that the refresh rate was higher than it could display when I tried to run the game. How could I fix that? There were no Windows monitor "drivers" for the monitor (it's old and shitty), so there didn't seem to be any way to force Windows to use a lower maximum refresh rate. I couldn't find an option that would force STALKER to use a lower refresh rate, either.
Eventually I had to download a sketchy third-party program named Reforce that, despite being written for Windows 2000/XP, managed to do its job in Windows 7; I used it to manually set the highest refresh rate to something my monitor could handle, and STALKER finally respected that.
That's not "just works"; other people completely gave up on the problem (STALKER had just been on sale on Steam, so there was a thread about this in the forums). Sure, it was due to a combination of old hardware and missing drivers, but it still stumped quite a few people who otherwise use Windows.
Of course, in Ubuntu this just isn't a problem because there's no games at all, but that's another issue entirely.
Hah! I see you've never heard of the Bechdel Test. Almost all modern media inherently promotes a surprisingly patriarchal view of women; they're either the token girl, or talking to men, or talking about men - it's basically all about the guys. Even supposed "chick flicks", despite in theory being about women, generally have female characters whose sole purpose in life is to give the lead woman someone to talk to about the lead man.
And these are the things we show children; almost no Disney movie, for instance, will pass the test.
Given that sort of insidious bullshit, porn is refreshingly straight to the point.
How, exactly, do you think all those millions of Facebook pictures make it onto people's profiles? How do you think all those Youtube videos get uploaded? How do you think Skype works, or any other voice chat software? How long do you think it will take for Apple to release an offsite backup version of Time Machine?
These things are common nowadays, and will become more and more common in the future. People are getting more and more used to tossing large files around willy-nilly. Hell, a guy at work was talking about how the new thing in his job is e-mailing people videos to walk them through some difficult financial documentation (it works significantly better than the old school method of faxing the documents and calling them). How will we support that sort of thing, with our creaky informational infrastructure?
Seriously, unless the US telecom companies get their thumbs out of their asses and cut off their CEO's hooker faucets, our Internet is going to implode under the load in a decade or so.
I prefer case 3: our politicians don't put the world's best killing force in a position where killing people is not appropriate.
Our army is not trained in non-violence; they are trained to kill people and blow shit up. When killing people and blowing shit up is not on the menu, then they should not be involved in the situation.
Once we begin your scenario, where our military is facing down a bunch of civilian protesters, everyone has already lost. It should be police forces facing them down, because that is police-work. It doesn't matter if we have an ADS or a magical calm-the-fuck-down ray - our military should not be involved in the situation at all.
On the other hand, publicly opposing the people who are already completely blinkered by religion shows fence sitters that there is another option - far too many people don't even realize that in the lifelong multiple choice question of religion, "None of the above" is a valid option.
Also, it's fun! It's like you get to turn on debate IDKFA mode - after all, the theistic position has zero evidence to support their position, which means that all their arguments are fundamentally variations on the bottom half of this. There's basically no way to lose the argument unless you give up or are especially careless.
Well that's part of Aikido, though not a part that's taught especially well since Aikido nowadays doesn't have much unrestricted sparring (as another poster points out). In theory, you're supposed to learn how to throw someone and control their fall such that they don't suffer some grievous injury when they land; in practice, the people you're throwing both already know how to fall and are prepared to fall in the first place, so those skills aren't exercised much.
Oh come on. The fence will boot up the laptop, see that it's not already running Windows, and stick in a pirated WinXP install disk. They aren't going to fuck around with Linux, and they probably aren't going to be able to move it if it's not running Windows.
Once you've figured out how to make the BIOS do all this, then we're talking.
Presumably, the misinterpretations were explained and people learned more about what was actually going on. This is a bad thing?
Yeah right, that's never what happens. These kooks latch on to whatever data you give them that they think proves their point, and none of your explanations ever budge them from their a-priori position.
That's why Mann didn't want to release his data; it wasn't the first time that that jerk McIntyre had asked him for it. The first time, Mann gave it willingly - and was then amazed at how it was misinterpreted, because McIntyre doesn't have the background to do this sort of thing. Seriously, look up his qualifications - he's got BS in Mathematics from the 1960s, and that's it.
That's why Mann was apathetic towards the idea of giving McIntyre (or really any of those people) his data - they just don't know what to do with it. Of course, now that this has become an issue, he's made the data publicly available, but for some reason you don't see McIntyre talking about that.
Instead, they just listen for key words and index those to stories they can reply with, such that a conversation is just one story after another, related only by key words, not key ideas.
Seriously, if you listen to most political speeches, this is exactly what goes on. Just look at Palin's "debate" with Biden - it couldn't actually be called a debate, because Palin wasn't really talking to Biden; she was just rattling off politically charged words strung together with other, interstitial words.
Shouldn't be making up titles that don't fit an IT department size of 2 or 3. How about "I run the IT department". That's like me in my one-person company calling myself CEO, COO, CIO, Chairman, etc. It's BS. Someone asking for help should leave out the fake title crap and avoid these type of responses.
Although I agree that if he's asking for help he probably should have gone for the more humble "I'm a one-man IT department" approach, but I just wanted to point out that quite frequently when it's a small company and there isn't much money coming in people get "paid" with lofty titles. "Sure, it may only be a 10 person company, but I'm the Director of IT!" sort of thing. If nothing else, it looks good on your resume when the company folds.
Plus, Scandinavia is one of them ebul sociamolist places without poor people, so getting your tires changed is ~$100 (cost of labour only), and I'm paying 60% tax.
Also, the only Scandinavian country where tax rate even goes to 60% is Denmark, and even there it tops at 62.28%, which would require you to be a top earner - according to Wikipedia, even the equivalent of $138,000 wouldn't hit even 50%, much less 60%.
I most certainly would care. You are confounding average tax and marginal tax. Once I have hit an income of 59000 dollars(I'm just about there) a year I pay 60% tax on everything earned beyond that.
I think you're the one who's confounded average tax and marginal tax. You originally claimed to be paying 60% tax, but now you're clearly stating that you are not paying that much in tax at all.
A simple example: let's say you earn $100. There's a 50% tax on your $100 with no other caveats, so you're paying a 50% tax. Once you earn $110, you're charged a 60% tax on everything over $100. That means that you're being charged 60% on those ten dollars, and 50% on the rest of your earnings. This means that you are paying 56/110, or 50.9% of your earnings in taxes. If you earn $120, you pay 51.6%, and so on - the effective tax rate converges on 60% as your income goes goes to infinity, but doesn't ever actually reach it for any finite income.
Clearly, once you hit that income of $59001, you will not be charged 60% in taxes. Your effective tax rate will slowly increase as you earn more and more money, but unless there's another, higher tax rate over 60% you will (by definition) never be taxed at 60%.
So no, claiming you're paying 60% in taxes is incorrect, unless you're literally earning an infinite amount of money.
I was talking about effective physical aggression. A woman who fights 'like a girl' stereotypically (slapping, hair-pulling, etc.) is not going to be as effective as the masculine approach of attacking with powerful blows, blocking, feigning, etc. There's a reason why women take self-defense courses to learn how to handle themselves in a fight, it does not come naturally to most of them. Don't misread that, I'm not saying that fighting doesn't come naturally, I'm saying that fighting effectively does not come naturally, and men are the gatekeepers of that experience.
Sorry, but that's complete and utter bullshit. Men have to be taught to fight effectively just as much as women do. Almost nobody has an instinctive understanding of "how to fight". Pit two businessmen who've never raised a fist before against each other, and they'll slap and pull hair just as much as any untrained women (well not so much on the hair pulling, genetics and hairstyles being what they are); those are just the simplest ways of "fighting", and they're what basically everyone will do unless trained.
I know this is true because I was a karate instructor at one point. When they first start sparring, little boys resort to slapping just as much as little girls, and only a little bit less than untrained men and women. I can't tell you the number of sparring matches I've had to stop not because someone got a touch, but because both people were just slapping at each others' gloves.
The only difference is that it is far more acceptable for men to fight than it is for women, so you find more men who know how to fight then women. Little girls are told off for fighting, but when the punching starts - well, boys will be boys.
There is no "more masculine approach" - there's only experienced and inexperienced.
The RealSSD C300 costs 660$ or Corsair Nova 349$. They buy ~6 or ~3, WD 2Tbs. at RAID0 you can expect about 4x and 2-2.25x performance in RAID0 config.
What? No. RAID0 is like Hitler: as soon as you mention it, you lose the argument. Yes, it is very performant - but as soon as either of your drives dies, you lose all your data. That is not acceptable at any time, be it for work or home use.
On the other hand, RAID 1 is kind of okay. As performant as RAID0 on the reads, and nobody really cares that much about write speed at home. The only problem is that you literally sacrifice the capacity of an hard drive for that speed, which most people will object to.
Seriously? Did you even look at the Wikipedia citation you provided? The Wii had sold 13.4 million units as of 14 November 2008. The Xbox 360 had sold 18.6 million units as of 31 December 2009, more than a year later. In other words, all your source proves is that the Xbox360 manages to beat the Wii if you give it a year's head start.
Look at the actual current data, from like VGChartz or something. The Xbox360 sold 170,000 units last week versus the Wii's 80,000; however, total sales are 33 million for the Wii and 23 million for the Xbox360. Like I said, although the Xbox360 is selling more right now, that's more likely to be due to a recent price drop that was advertised. This is blatantly obvious if you compare the chart from 12 June vs 19 June - Xbox360 sales move from a steady 50,000/wk to 130,000/wk after the price cut is implemented. In terms of total sales, on the other hand, the Wii is has won quite handily.
Anyway, they didn't just produce the second most popular console in the world - they also produced the second least popular console in the world. Coming second place in a three-way contest isn't that great (and in this case, all it really seems to mean is that the PS3 is kind of a commercial flop - it's got half the sales of the Wii!), and it gets significantly worse when you account for the (large!) mobile gaming market.
I can take a disk image of any of our production servers, reload the database(s) and tweak a few settings (like IP address and/or host name) to roll out another system. Hassle? No. I can build an image just by re-enabling Raid 1 on an otherwise active partition and have my new server up, pre-configured. Total time per system might be 1 or 2 hours, without incurring any downtime, licensing costs, or (possibly most importantly) any licensing headaches.
This, exactly.
Let's say I've spent three or four hours getting Windows computer set up just the way I want it; now, I want to take an image of this computer, and deploy it to new computers so I don't have to spend hours every time we have a new hire.
Can I (legally) take an image of the computer and deploy it? I don't know, because Microsoft doesn't really support imaging (they've only recently even released tools for it!). How does the Office licensing (and Office is pretty much required in a business setting) interact with the imaging process? I have no idea, I'm no lawyer. Do I need to change the SID on the computer once I've deployed the image? Who knows? Apparently not even Mark Russinovich - he recently changed his mind on whether or not it's necessary, and he's the guy who wrote newsid.
The whole thing is murky and fraught with peril. I live in fear that someday one of the computers I deploy Windows 7 to will fail activation - and not because of something I've done wrong (though it took forever, I know all my licenses are in order), but just because the Microsoft activation servers are having a bad day and decide to hate me.
On the other hand, deploying a Linux image is quite easy. There's guides splattered all over the Internet for whatever flavor of Linux you want to use, and as a bonus if there's any first boot configuration you need to do (like applying new patches, etcetera) the built in command-line tools on Linux are far far easier to use. No agonizing over activation, no worrying that someday Microsoft will decide they hate your license key, no worrying that some new hardware will throw a monkey wrench in whatever Rube Goldberg-esque imaging process you come up with - it all just works, like an operating system should.
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For you and the sibling posters who said the same thing: no, that doesn't work. All it does is set the current refresh rate. STALKER was badly written; when run, it tries to set the current refresh rate to the maximum refresh rate. Because I didn't have the Windows "drivers" (they're really just a list of supported resolution/refresh rate tuples) for my monitor, Windows made the retarded assumption that my monitor's max refresh rate was 85 MHz when in reality it can't do more than 60 MHz. Thus, STALKER would run, set the current refresh rate to 85 MHz, and my monitor would crap out, refusing to show anything. Reforce lets you directly edit what Windows thinks your monitor is capable of, so I was able to use that to tell it that no, this monitor can't actually do 85 MHz ever. After that, STALKER worked fine.
I actually had more fun figuring that out than I've had playing STALKER. There's probably something wrong with me.
Hah, it's even better than that. Pretend you're a terrorist, using that blog to communicate somehow - apparently in this case it was to disseminate bomb making information and target lists.
All of a sudden, the blog you're visiting every day or so gets shut down. What does that tell you? If you're a paranoid terrorist cell, it most likely means that the government has noticed you use the blog to communicate and ordered the hosting provider to shut it down.
So now you know that the government knows about that communications channel. The government doesn't really know anything besides your IP address, which is pretty useless if you've been using Tor or something similar. Who comes out ahead here?
Eh? What exactly is harder in Ubuntu than it is on Windows?
I mean, just consider this problem I had: I was trying to run STALKER: Shadow of Cernobyl on my Windows desktop. It refused to work; my monitor would just pop up an error message saying that the refresh rate was higher than it could display when I tried to run the game. How could I fix that? There were no Windows monitor "drivers" for the monitor (it's old and shitty), so there didn't seem to be any way to force Windows to use a lower maximum refresh rate. I couldn't find an option that would force STALKER to use a lower refresh rate, either.
Eventually I had to download a sketchy third-party program named Reforce that, despite being written for Windows 2000/XP, managed to do its job in Windows 7; I used it to manually set the highest refresh rate to something my monitor could handle, and STALKER finally respected that.
That's not "just works"; other people completely gave up on the problem (STALKER had just been on sale on Steam, so there was a thread about this in the forums). Sure, it was due to a combination of old hardware and missing drivers, but it still stumped quite a few people who otherwise use Windows.
Of course, in Ubuntu this just isn't a problem because there's no games at all, but that's another issue entirely.
Hah! I see you've never heard of the Bechdel Test. Almost all modern media inherently promotes a surprisingly patriarchal view of women; they're either the token girl, or talking to men, or talking about men - it's basically all about the guys. Even supposed "chick flicks", despite in theory being about women, generally have female characters whose sole purpose in life is to give the lead woman someone to talk to about the lead man.
And these are the things we show children; almost no Disney movie, for instance, will pass the test.
Given that sort of insidious bullshit, porn is refreshingly straight to the point.
How, exactly, do you think all those millions of Facebook pictures make it onto people's profiles? How do you think all those Youtube videos get uploaded? How do you think Skype works, or any other voice chat software? How long do you think it will take for Apple to release an offsite backup version of Time Machine?
These things are common nowadays, and will become more and more common in the future. People are getting more and more used to tossing large files around willy-nilly. Hell, a guy at work was talking about how the new thing in his job is e-mailing people videos to walk them through some difficult financial documentation (it works significantly better than the old school method of faxing the documents and calling them). How will we support that sort of thing, with our creaky informational infrastructure?
Seriously, unless the US telecom companies get their thumbs out of their asses and cut off their CEO's hooker faucets, our Internet is going to implode under the load in a decade or so.
I prefer case 3: our politicians don't put the world's best killing force in a position where killing people is not appropriate.
Our army is not trained in non-violence; they are trained to kill people and blow shit up. When killing people and blowing shit up is not on the menu, then they should not be involved in the situation.
Once we begin your scenario, where our military is facing down a bunch of civilian protesters, everyone has already lost. It should be police forces facing them down, because that is police-work. It doesn't matter if we have an ADS or a magical calm-the-fuck-down ray - our military should not be involved in the situation at all.
And according to Jobs during the Q&A after this announcement, the Bloomberg story (that Gizmodo cites) is bullshit.
Unfortunately, all the other pages contain bollocks. It's kind of a tradeoff, like when you accidentally surf gay porn.
When you read that title, pretend J.C. Denton is saying it. You'll have a pretty good idea of how the BP executives feel, I think.
On the other hand, publicly opposing the people who are already completely blinkered by religion shows fence sitters that there is another option - far too many people don't even realize that in the lifelong multiple choice question of religion, "None of the above" is a valid option.
Also, it's fun! It's like you get to turn on debate IDKFA mode - after all, the theistic position has zero evidence to support their position, which means that all their arguments are fundamentally variations on the bottom half of this. There's basically no way to lose the argument unless you give up or are especially careless.
It's made from the journalist's incompetence.
Well that's part of Aikido, though not a part that's taught especially well since Aikido nowadays doesn't have much unrestricted sparring (as another poster points out). In theory, you're supposed to learn how to throw someone and control their fall such that they don't suffer some grievous injury when they land; in practice, the people you're throwing both already know how to fall and are prepared to fall in the first place, so those skills aren't exercised much.
Oh come on. The fence will boot up the laptop, see that it's not already running Windows, and stick in a pirated WinXP install disk. They aren't going to fuck around with Linux, and they probably aren't going to be able to move it if it's not running Windows.
Once you've figured out how to make the BIOS do all this, then we're talking.
Man, what a synecdouche.
(Because I'm afraid that sentence will be too short to get past the lameness filter, here's some clarification)
Yeah right, that's never what happens. These kooks latch on to whatever data you give them that they think proves their point, and none of your explanations ever budge them from their a-priori position.
That's why Mann didn't want to release his data; it wasn't the first time that that jerk McIntyre had asked him for it. The first time, Mann gave it willingly - and was then amazed at how it was misinterpreted, because McIntyre doesn't have the background to do this sort of thing. Seriously, look up his qualifications - he's got BS in Mathematics from the 1960s, and that's it.
That's why Mann was apathetic towards the idea of giving McIntyre (or really any of those people) his data - they just don't know what to do with it. Of course, now that this has become an issue, he's made the data publicly available, but for some reason you don't see McIntyre talking about that.
Seriously, if you listen to most political speeches, this is exactly what goes on. Just look at Palin's "debate" with Biden - it couldn't actually be called a debate, because Palin wasn't really talking to Biden; she was just rattling off politically charged words strung together with other, interstitial words.
I'm going to go with the Military-Industrial Complex.
And the courts have said it doesn't, at least not in the way NetApp said it did the first and second time.
So that's the end of that, I guess.
Although I agree that if he's asking for help he probably should have gone for the more humble "I'm a one-man IT department" approach, but I just wanted to point out that quite frequently when it's a small company and there isn't much money coming in people get "paid" with lofty titles. "Sure, it may only be a 10 person company, but I'm the Director of IT!" sort of thing. If nothing else, it looks good on your resume when the company folds.
Deus Ex just barely falls out of your age range - its tenth birthday was late last month :)
I think you're the one who's confounded average tax and marginal tax. You originally claimed to be paying 60% tax, but now you're clearly stating that you are not paying that much in tax at all.
A simple example: let's say you earn $100. There's a 50% tax on your $100 with no other caveats, so you're paying a 50% tax. Once you earn $110, you're charged a 60% tax on everything over $100. That means that you're being charged 60% on those ten dollars, and 50% on the rest of your earnings. This means that you are paying 56/110, or 50.9% of your earnings in taxes. If you earn $120, you pay 51.6%, and so on - the effective tax rate converges on 60% as your income goes goes to infinity, but doesn't ever actually reach it for any finite income.
Clearly, once you hit that income of $59001, you will not be charged 60% in taxes. Your effective tax rate will slowly increase as you earn more and more money, but unless there's another, higher tax rate over 60% you will (by definition) never be taxed at 60%.
So no, claiming you're paying 60% in taxes is incorrect, unless you're literally earning an infinite amount of money.
Sorry, but that's complete and utter bullshit. Men have to be taught to fight effectively just as much as women do. Almost nobody has an instinctive understanding of "how to fight". Pit two businessmen who've never raised a fist before against each other, and they'll slap and pull hair just as much as any untrained women (well not so much on the hair pulling, genetics and hairstyles being what they are); those are just the simplest ways of "fighting", and they're what basically everyone will do unless trained.
I know this is true because I was a karate instructor at one point. When they first start sparring, little boys resort to slapping just as much as little girls, and only a little bit less than untrained men and women. I can't tell you the number of sparring matches I've had to stop not because someone got a touch, but because both people were just slapping at each others' gloves.
The only difference is that it is far more acceptable for men to fight than it is for women, so you find more men who know how to fight then women. Little girls are told off for fighting, but when the punching starts - well, boys will be boys.
There is no "more masculine approach" - there's only experienced and inexperienced.
What? No. RAID0 is like Hitler: as soon as you mention it, you lose the argument. Yes, it is very performant - but as soon as either of your drives dies, you lose all your data. That is not acceptable at any time, be it for work or home use.
On the other hand, RAID 1 is kind of okay. As performant as RAID0 on the reads, and nobody really cares that much about write speed at home. The only problem is that you literally sacrifice the capacity of an hard drive for that speed, which most people will object to.
Seriously? Did you even look at the Wikipedia citation you provided? The Wii had sold 13.4 million units as of 14 November 2008 . The Xbox 360 had sold 18.6 million units as of 31 December 2009 , more than a year later. In other words, all your source proves is that the Xbox360 manages to beat the Wii if you give it a year's head start.
Look at the actual current data, from like VGChartz or something. The Xbox360 sold 170,000 units last week versus the Wii's 80,000; however, total sales are 33 million for the Wii and 23 million for the Xbox360. Like I said, although the Xbox360 is selling more right now, that's more likely to be due to a recent price drop that was advertised. This is blatantly obvious if you compare the chart from 12 June vs 19 June - Xbox360 sales move from a steady 50,000/wk to 130,000/wk after the price cut is implemented. In terms of total sales, on the other hand, the Wii is has won quite handily.
Anyway, they didn't just produce the second most popular console in the world - they also produced the second least popular console in the world. Coming second place in a three-way contest isn't that great (and in this case, all it really seems to mean is that the PS3 is kind of a commercial flop - it's got half the sales of the Wii!), and it gets significantly worse when you account for the (large!) mobile gaming market.
This, exactly.
Let's say I've spent three or four hours getting Windows computer set up just the way I want it; now, I want to take an image of this computer, and deploy it to new computers so I don't have to spend hours every time we have a new hire.
Can I (legally) take an image of the computer and deploy it? I don't know, because Microsoft doesn't really support imaging (they've only recently even released tools for it!). How does the Office licensing (and Office is pretty much required in a business setting) interact with the imaging process? I have no idea, I'm no lawyer. Do I need to change the SID on the computer once I've deployed the image? Who knows? Apparently not even Mark Russinovich - he recently changed his mind on whether or not it's necessary, and he's the guy who wrote newsid.
The whole thing is murky and fraught with peril. I live in fear that someday one of the computers I deploy Windows 7 to will fail activation - and not because of something I've done wrong (though it took forever, I know all my licenses are in order), but just because the Microsoft activation servers are having a bad day and decide to hate me.
On the other hand, deploying a Linux image is quite easy. There's guides splattered all over the Internet for whatever flavor of Linux you want to use, and as a bonus if there's any first boot configuration you need to do (like applying new patches, etcetera) the built in command-line tools on Linux are far far easier to use. No agonizing over activation, no worrying that someday Microsoft will decide they hate your license key, no worrying that some new hardware will throw a monkey wrench in whatever Rube Goldberg-esque imaging process you come up with - it all just works, like an operating system should.