As a Mustang driver (2001 Bullitt), I say go for it, but consider what you want the car for. In terms of fuel-economy, the GT and V6 models are nearly identical. Obviously, insurance for the GT is higher. For all-season driving, I'd honestly recommend a V6 unless you're really good with managing the power of a V8. The V6's narrower tires and lower torque make it much easier to handle on wet or snow-covered roads. The wider tires on the GT make it hydroplane like mad, and it doesn't cut through snow as well, so you really need to be careful. On dry days, though, that V8 is a real kick in the pants.:)
Yes, I'm aware of that. The problem is that the task being depicted was clearly a Coast Guard responsibility, and the Coast Guard doesn't operate little black boats with "HOMELAND SECURITY" emblazoned across them. Their surface craft are all, to my knowledge, white with a diagonal red stripe with the Coast Guard logo. Maybe it's just incompetence on the part of the show's producers and fact checkers, but the whole shot just screamed "hey, look, DHS are the good guys, you must love them," complete with a big zoom in on the words "HOMELAND SECURITY." Oh, wait, this is the show that had a bunch of county crime scene folks working a plane crash instead of the NTSB, who were nowhere to be found. Maybe it is incompetence.
I've hated CSI: Miami since its first episode, but I really grew to loathe it for exactly what you're citing. There was this scene I saw, when my wife was still giving the show a chance, where a flotilla of small black boats with "HOMELAND SECURITY" in bright yellow letters written on them triumphantly rode in to root out the badguys. I had never seen, before this, a more blatant case of propaganda in a TV show.
I'm not worried about pins, I'm worried about incompatibility. A certain amount of obsolesence is expected, but here's what I used to think of as a great upgrade path (and one I was able to use at least once through Socket A's lifetime)
Buy new CPU, RAM, motherboard to start.
Upgrade CPU, keep RAM and MB
Upgrade motherboard, keep CPU and RAM
Upgrade RAM, keep CPU and MB
Upgrade CPU, keep RAM and MB
Lately, it seems like you need to get all three at once, and maybe you can upgrade your CPU once, but that's about it.
Key word being "some." Anyhow, those funky dialogs wireless drivers use are more or less easy for anybody to figure out just by looking at them. In the Linux world, you need to do a little research first, which average users just aren't willing to do.
And to the mod on crack who can't handle somebody pointing out a weakness in Linux, suck it. I could point out weaknesses in Windows all day long and get lots of + mods, but one little "Linux doesn't do this so well" post and it gets stomped on. If you disagree, post about it like decent thinking folks do.
That works for most of us, but what about people who don't want to, and currently don't have to, "try" to make it work? Jim Bob goes to Staples, picks a wireless NIC, slaps it in his WinXP machine, inserts the install CD, and that's about all there is to it. Until Linux has that same kind of experience, it will not be mainstream and it will not take over the world.
Yeah, but is that what all of these new pins are for? More pins for more memory bandwidth is one thing. More pins for inegrating all kinds of extra stuff into the CPU that may or may not actually show real-world benefit (integrated memory or SATA controller) seems like a waste to me. Then again, I'm still on Socket A, so what do I know.
Way back when the Pentium II moved L2 cache from the motherboard to the CPU module there were benefits gained, but that had more to do with the high-speed bus to the cache than by physically moving it to the CPU. Again it happened when everyone went back to a socket for CPUs. Is this just another repeat? Is there a real performance reason for moving system controllers onto the CPU that couldn't be gained with a little motherboard design change? Or is it just easier, or more cost effective, to get the same benefit from putting these things on the CPU?
Yay. I'm still on the fence if all of these different sockets are a good thing or not. I've gone from Socket 7 to Super Socket 7 to Socket A over the course of the last several years. Now it seems that there are way too many different sockets to choose from, and who knows which will show the same kind of longevity that my past choices have. What's a guy to do?
Ars Technica did an interesting roundup of some wireless desktop devices back in August. If you're interested in this new model, you might want to have a look at their roundup, too.
Why can't #2 be true for a creator if it can be true for the universe? This is the core of the problem I'm getting at. If I can follow a chain of thought like this:
What is a tree made of? Various elements.
What are elements made of? Protons, neutrons, electrons.
What are those made of?
I can stop asking, for all practical purposes, with the answer "various elements." Protons, neutrons, quarks and the rest may not matter for my purposes. As far as I'm concerned, the chemical elements are sufficient explaination for the composition of a tree. Sub-atomic particles are not neccessary for me to explain the tree.
Likewise, I can say that the universe doesn't have a creator because it's not required. I can stop with "the universe has always existed" because the answer is good enough for me. Asking any further just introduces all kinds of difficult questions.
I see this argument constantly, but it has a fundamental flaw. With any question, you will inevitable get to a point where the abstract logic dancing has to stop. For instance:
What is a tree made of?
What is that made of?
What is that made of?
What is that made of?
And so on ad ininitum. Eventually, you have to come to a point where you can say this is what it's made of, be it quarks, strings, whatever. There has to be a fundamental limit to the "what is that made of" question. We may not have an answer, but there has to be one, otherwise nothing exists.
We do. I don't remember what our employee count is, exactly, but it's quite a bit over 15,000. As others have said, great for file, print, email, and directory services. Novell's eDirectory (formerly NDS) is the most mature, stable, and powerful directory service package out there. Their clustering and SAN solutions are also quite excellent. Novell's Linux products aren't ready for prime time, yet, but they're coming along. By the time Netware 7 is out (_all_ Suse under the hood), the Novell Linux Desktop should be mature enough for real use. Then I can ditch my Win2K box for work tasks. *yay!*
If the water cools too much too fast, it's unlikely that a helpful mutation will occur and the species will just die off if they are unable to sustain themselves in their ever-shrinking habitat. They might get lucky, but in the event of a sudden shift of environment, evolution seems to favor the generalists. Specialists arise over long periods of relative calm in their environment, filling every singe niche. They can continue if changes are gradual, but throw in a quickie ice age and lots of things die. I don't know if a couple centuries is too short or not, but that's just a game of statistics.
...is the norm in my company in addition to teeny raises. At my last performance review, I scored what, based on the managers handbook (which I guess is supposed to be a big secret) should have netted me a minimum of 5% raise in addition to a market adjustment that my position received this year. I was told that I was one of 2 people in my region to receive this kind of raise. After I received my statement of compensation, which is supposed to outline how much the marketing adjustment was, and how much my performance increase was, I learned I had been lied to, and my statement of compensation had been altered. I got the exact same pay increase everyone else in my group got; enough to keep me at the bottom of my newly adjusted pay scale. Yes, I'm a fine, valued, skilled employee with and outstanding performance record, and I make the same that somebody new coming in off the street with no experience would, and I've been doing this job for 3 years. I've decided to be patient and wait and see what happens with next year's performance review, but I have learned that it doesn't pay to be exceptional at my job. It pays to be barely adequate. This is the lesson burnt-out, over-worked, under-paid corporate servants have learned over the last few decades. Don't be exceptional, just be barely good enough to not get fired.
Look, don't end up like that lady who invented a pot that cooks and drains pasta but didn't get a patent. Go get your free inventor's kit and get started!
Yeah, it's called an "Oops!" Now somebody needs to make an acronym for this type of event using those letters. The two "O"s next to each other are giving me a hard time.
They never explicity said they don't want to be objectified, but part of women's lib, treating women the same as men, being equal and evaluated for ability, is not to be objectified as a sex object.
I have no problem with a good-looking female gamer. The problem I have is the imagery they use to depict themselves is the same kind of stuff some women rail against as objectifying them. Hence the conflicting message.
The name is pretty funny, but if their goal is to have women taken seriously in the gaming world and to not have people point and stare at them because they're women, drawing attention to the fact that they're women in so many ways isn't helping.
Good to see a PMS member contribute to this thread!
So now I wonder, is there a division in your ranks between the gamers and the "Frag Dolls"? (btw, this is great, I have two new phrases to use thanks to this thread)
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As a Mustang driver (2001 Bullitt), I say go for it, but consider what you want the car for. In terms of fuel-economy, the GT and V6 models are nearly identical. Obviously, insurance for the GT is higher. For all-season driving, I'd honestly recommend a V6 unless you're really good with managing the power of a V8. The V6's narrower tires and lower torque make it much easier to handle on wet or snow-covered roads. The wider tires on the GT make it hydroplane like mad, and it doesn't cut through snow as well, so you really need to be careful. On dry days, though, that V8 is a real kick in the pants. :)
I've just spent the better part of my afternoon looking at the author's website and other writings. I'm so buying this book when it comes to the USA.
Yes, I'm aware of that. The problem is that the task being depicted was clearly a Coast Guard responsibility, and the Coast Guard doesn't operate little black boats with "HOMELAND SECURITY" emblazoned across them. Their surface craft are all, to my knowledge, white with a diagonal red stripe with the Coast Guard logo. Maybe it's just incompetence on the part of the show's producers and fact checkers, but the whole shot just screamed "hey, look, DHS are the good guys, you must love them," complete with a big zoom in on the words "HOMELAND SECURITY." Oh, wait, this is the show that had a bunch of county crime scene folks working a plane crash instead of the NTSB, who were nowhere to be found. Maybe it is incompetence.
I've hated CSI: Miami since its first episode, but I really grew to loathe it for exactly what you're citing. There was this scene I saw, when my wife was still giving the show a chance, where a flotilla of small black boats with "HOMELAND SECURITY" in bright yellow letters written on them triumphantly rode in to root out the badguys. I had never seen, before this, a more blatant case of propaganda in a TV show.
Wumpus. That bastard scared the piss out of me when I was 5. Those teeth... Those horrible teeth!!!
*sigh* I have a baaaad feeling about this...
F$#%in-A, brother...F$#%in-A...
- Buy new CPU, RAM, motherboard to start.
- Upgrade CPU, keep RAM and MB
- Upgrade motherboard, keep CPU and RAM
- Upgrade RAM, keep CPU and MB
- Upgrade CPU, keep RAM and MB
Lately, it seems like you need to get all three at once, and maybe you can upgrade your CPU once, but that's about it.And to the mod on crack who can't handle somebody pointing out a weakness in Linux, suck it. I could point out weaknesses in Windows all day long and get lots of + mods, but one little "Linux doesn't do this so well" post and it gets stomped on. If you disagree, post about it like decent thinking folks do.
That works for most of us, but what about people who don't want to, and currently don't have to, "try" to make it work? Jim Bob goes to Staples, picks a wireless NIC, slaps it in his WinXP machine, inserts the install CD, and that's about all there is to it. Until Linux has that same kind of experience, it will not be mainstream and it will not take over the world.
Way back when the Pentium II moved L2 cache from the motherboard to the CPU module there were benefits gained, but that had more to do with the high-speed bus to the cache than by physically moving it to the CPU. Again it happened when everyone went back to a socket for CPUs. Is this just another repeat? Is there a real performance reason for moving system controllers onto the CPU that couldn't be gained with a little motherboard design change? Or is it just easier, or more cost effective, to get the same benefit from putting these things on the CPU?
Yay. I'm still on the fence if all of these different sockets are a good thing or not. I've gone from Socket 7 to Super Socket 7 to Socket A over the course of the last several years. Now it seems that there are way too many different sockets to choose from, and who knows which will show the same kind of longevity that my past choices have. What's a guy to do?
That's great! I will now refer to myself as "Rogue Catholic" instead of "Lutheran" when the topic of denomination comes up.
Ars Technica did an interesting roundup of some wireless desktop devices back in August. If you're interested in this new model, you might want to have a look at their roundup, too.
I can stop asking, for all practical purposes, with the answer "various elements." Protons, neutrons, quarks and the rest may not matter for my purposes. As far as I'm concerned, the chemical elements are sufficient explaination for the composition of a tree. Sub-atomic particles are not neccessary for me to explain the tree.
Likewise, I can say that the universe doesn't have a creator because it's not required. I can stop with "the universe has always existed" because the answer is good enough for me. Asking any further just introduces all kinds of difficult questions.
And so on ad ininitum. Eventually, you have to come to a point where you can say this is what it's made of, be it quarks, strings, whatever. There has to be a fundamental limit to the "what is that made of" question. We may not have an answer, but there has to be one, otherwise nothing exists.
We do. I don't remember what our employee count is, exactly, but it's quite a bit over 15,000. As others have said, great for file, print, email, and directory services. Novell's eDirectory (formerly NDS) is the most mature, stable, and powerful directory service package out there. Their clustering and SAN solutions are also quite excellent. Novell's Linux products aren't ready for prime time, yet, but they're coming along. By the time Netware 7 is out (_all_ Suse under the hood), the Novell Linux Desktop should be mature enough for real use. Then I can ditch my Win2K box for work tasks. *yay!*
If the water cools too much too fast, it's unlikely that a helpful mutation will occur and the species will just die off if they are unable to sustain themselves in their ever-shrinking habitat. They might get lucky, but in the event of a sudden shift of environment, evolution seems to favor the generalists. Specialists arise over long periods of relative calm in their environment, filling every singe niche. They can continue if changes are gradual, but throw in a quickie ice age and lots of things die. I don't know if a couple centuries is too short or not, but that's just a game of statistics.
...is the norm in my company in addition to teeny raises. At my last performance review, I scored what, based on the managers handbook (which I guess is supposed to be a big secret) should have netted me a minimum of 5% raise in addition to a market adjustment that my position received this year. I was told that I was one of 2 people in my region to receive this kind of raise. After I received my statement of compensation, which is supposed to outline how much the marketing adjustment was, and how much my performance increase was, I learned I had been lied to, and my statement of compensation had been altered. I got the exact same pay increase everyone else in my group got; enough to keep me at the bottom of my newly adjusted pay scale. Yes, I'm a fine, valued, skilled employee with and outstanding performance record, and I make the same that somebody new coming in off the street with no experience would, and I've been doing this job for 3 years. I've decided to be patient and wait and see what happens with next year's performance review, but I have learned that it doesn't pay to be exceptional at my job. It pays to be barely adequate. This is the lesson burnt-out, over-worked, under-paid corporate servants have learned over the last few decades. Don't be exceptional, just be barely good enough to not get fired.
Look, don't end up like that lady who invented a pot that cooks and drains pasta but didn't get a patent. Go get your free inventor's kit and get started!
Yeah, it's called an "Oops!" Now somebody needs to make an acronym for this type of event using those letters. The two "O"s next to each other are giving me a hard time.
Sorry, couldn't resist...
I have no problem with a good-looking female gamer. The problem I have is the imagery they use to depict themselves is the same kind of stuff some women rail against as objectifying them. Hence the conflicting message.
The name is pretty funny, but if their goal is to have women taken seriously in the gaming world and to not have people point and stare at them because they're women, drawing attention to the fact that they're women in so many ways isn't helping.
So now I wonder, is there a division in your ranks between the gamers and the "Frag Dolls"? (btw, this is great, I have two new phrases to use thanks to this thread)
Werner von Braun was in the exact same position.