The cops don't come out into the rural parts of the country, and throw concussion grenades into cribs, killing little babies. They only do that in the cities
You really have no clue what the fuck you're talking about. It sounds like you're referring to the recent incident in Georgia, but somehow assumed it was in Atlanta instead of rural north Georgia where it actually occurred. This article about it even has a depressingly-long list of instances where police used grenades like that, including instances in places like Wyoming and Montana.
The cops are goddamn thugs that are out of control, and encouraging private gun ownership is (part of) the answer, but the idea that rural cops suck any less than urban ones is laughable.
Getting divorced isn't dumb luck, you know. The divorce rate "on average" may be 50%, but that's because you're averaging together poor uneducated people who got married as teenagers (high likelihood of divorce) with rich educated people who got married in their 20s (low likelihood of divorce). I'm still over-simplifying, of course, but I assume you get the idea.
And even if you don't agree that it should be legal for recreational use, it's blatantly fucking obvious that it does in fact have legitimate medical uses, meaning its current status as a DEA Schedule I drug simply factually and scientifically wrong.
We haven't done it in awhile because it's usually boring. Like, half of us are gonna fall into one of two categories:
1) Something like 4 or 5 years old that still works fine for whatever we do.
2) Something newer and probably mid to high-end which will allow us to give answer 1 in 4 or 5 years.
Exactly.
I fall mostly into the first category:
AMD Phenom II X4 840 (I think -- it's not important enough to remember for sure)
16 GB of RAM (upgraded from 8 a few months ago)
128 GB SSD + a couple of 0.5TB hard drives
The closest thing to interesting is that I just decided to upgrade to 4K, so I'm having to replace my video card (a Radeon HD 4850) even though it's fast enough, just because it doesn't have the right ports to output a high enough resolution. I'm replacing it with a Radeon R7 260X because that's (as far as I know) currently both the best performance per dollar card right now, and pretty much the cheapest available with DisplayPort 1.2 (to do 3840 x 2160 x 60p). I'll be using it with a Quasar SQ4201U TV that I got for $300, and will be limited to 30 FPS until DP 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 adapters come out in another few months. (If I'm running a full-screen game I'll run it in 1920x1080 mode for better framerates, both because the interim HDMI 1.4 connection can't handle 60 FPS and because the card wouldn't be fast enough rendering newish games at 4k anyway.)
I have no plans for a new CPU until after AMD Zen comes out, at the earliest.
That's because R2D2 is a portable device. Fixed holographic projectors in Star Wars were shown to have a much larger projection area (e.g. the star map in the Jedi academy, the communications devices on starship bridges in The Clone Wars animated series, etc.).
Of course, Star Wars projectors' resolution and color depth sucks, and WTF is up with the analog-looking static?!
Ditto. I just bought a 42" 4K TV to use as a monitor ($300 at Brandsmart USA, by the way), and it's going to be great. (I use future tense because I'm still waiting on Newegg to deliver my new video card capable of driving it, so it's running at 1080p until Thursday... and even then, it'll temporarily be 30FPS until somebody comes out with a DisplayPort 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 converter in a few months).
Anyway, for those who don't understand why 4K is great, the key is not to think of it as a sharper "regular monitor," but rather as four freaking monitors in an array, but without the bezels getting in the way. I couldn't care less about gaming in 4K, but I do care about (for example) being able to see my IDE, the interface of the appplication I'm developing, and a couple of browser windows at the same time without overlapping. Or four 1920x1080 VM or remote desktop windows. Or a 1920x1080 video, 1920x1080 game, and a couple of web browsers.
Old CRTs were great: I had one that did something like 2048x1536 with real 24-bit color 15 years ago! Sure, it took up my whole desk, weighed a ton and sucked power, but it had a better picture than most of the flat panel monitors I've had since (and way better than the average shitty monitor that comes with people's Dells!).
As a programmer, nothing annoys me more than running into bugs and thinking, "I could fix this in two minutes if I had the source," and not being able to fix it because I don't.
That's actually why the entire Free Software movement exists: RMS was pissed that he couldn't fix his printer driver because it was closed-source.
How about if your phone company listens in to your conversations, and cuts you off when they disapprove of your conversation?
The phone company isn't allowed to do that because it's legally defined as a "Common Carrier."
Facebook et al., on the other hand, aren't. I'm not sure, but I doubt most email services are either.
It may be arbitrary, unfair and anti-democratic, but that what happens when citizens can't be fucking bothered to pay attention and give the goddamn lobbyists free reign to write the laws!
Not to mention, that "Pipes" thing actually looks pretty cool... too bad they never marketed it, so I didn't know it existed until after they decided to shut it down!
Cat 3 is pointless. If you want old analog phones, just run another Cat 6 and terminate it differently. Then, when you eventually decide you'd rather have another Ethernet jack, the wiring is already there.
Ideas from a local builder:
2x6 framing - allows for more insulation and is more durable.
16" poured reinforced concrete foundation - recommended by structural engineers as ideal for residential construction.
Remember this - building to code is like getting a C on a report card - you're doing the bare minimum to make sure the house won't fall apart, flood or catch fire.
Better yet, use structural insulated panels (SIPs) and/or insulated concrete forms (ICFs).
240V/30A line to the garage. Who knows, you may get an electric car in the future.
I'd run four of them: two for the EV chargers, one for a big air compressor, and one for a welder. (The latter two might also be appropriate to go in the basement, depending on your house's design.)
Even if (for some reason) you want actual plain-old telephone service, you should still install home-run ethernet instead of cat-3 phone cable because cat-5 (or better) 8-conductor cable can carry two lines of POTS signals anyway. Terminate half the wires to one jack and half to the other. Then when you want to use it for data, all you have to do is re-terminate instead of re-running the cable.
As an Atlantan, I'll tell you that while black people are common, black software engineers are still pretty rare. Of the three black people [in technical roles] I work with, two are actual immigrants from Africa and the third is a QA person, not a developer. I think black engineers are more common in other fields, such as civil engineering.
Also, the historically black colleges around here, such as Morehouse and Spelman, are excellent places to look if you want to hire a doctor, lawyer or businessperson, but if they even offer computer science as a major they're certainly not well-known for it.
Nevertheless, I'll certainly agree with the idea that Google should open a development office in Atlanta! (Or that they should allow full-time telecommuting, like the other responder suggested.)
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A chocolate candy? A cartoon Martian? Two-thirds of an adhesives company? Massively Multiplayer? WTF are you talking about?
That's because it is strange (at least for IT jobs, not McJobs). Having multiple clients at a time, however, is not.
You really have no clue what the fuck you're talking about. It sounds like you're referring to the recent incident in Georgia, but somehow assumed it was in Atlanta instead of rural north Georgia where it actually occurred. This article about it even has a depressingly-long list of instances where police used grenades like that, including instances in places like Wyoming and Montana.
The cops are goddamn thugs that are out of control, and encouraging private gun ownership is (part of) the answer, but the idea that rural cops suck any less than urban ones is laughable.
Getting divorced isn't dumb luck, you know. The divorce rate "on average" may be 50%, but that's because you're averaging together poor uneducated people who got married as teenagers (high likelihood of divorce) with rich educated people who got married in their 20s (low likelihood of divorce). I'm still over-simplifying, of course, but I assume you get the idea.
Can't you just use the newer compiler, but turn off the optimization?
And even if you don't agree that it should be legal for recreational use, it's blatantly fucking obvious that it does in fact have legitimate medical uses, meaning its current status as a DEA Schedule I drug simply factually and scientifically wrong.
ARM itself might not count, but Samsung, Apple, and all the other folks manufacturing ARM-licensed chips probably.
So, is your backup NAS located in a different physical location than your main NAS?
Exactly.
I fall mostly into the first category:
The closest thing to interesting is that I just decided to upgrade to 4K, so I'm having to replace my video card (a Radeon HD 4850) even though it's fast enough, just because it doesn't have the right ports to output a high enough resolution. I'm replacing it with a Radeon R7 260X because that's (as far as I know) currently both the best performance per dollar card right now, and pretty much the cheapest available with DisplayPort 1.2 (to do 3840 x 2160 x 60p). I'll be using it with a Quasar SQ4201U TV that I got for $300, and will be limited to 30 FPS until DP 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 adapters come out in another few months. (If I'm running a full-screen game I'll run it in 1920x1080 mode for better framerates, both because the interim HDMI 1.4 connection can't handle 60 FPS and because the card wouldn't be fast enough rendering newish games at 4k anyway.)
I have no plans for a new CPU until after AMD Zen comes out, at the earliest.
That's because R2D2 is a portable device. Fixed holographic projectors in Star Wars were shown to have a much larger projection area (e.g. the star map in the Jedi academy, the communications devices on starship bridges in The Clone Wars animated series, etc.).
Of course, Star Wars projectors' resolution and color depth sucks, and WTF is up with the analog-looking static?!
With 4K, I can watch 225 144p cat videos at the same time!!!!
I can haz a beowulf cluster of cheezburger!
Ditto. I just bought a 42" 4K TV to use as a monitor ($300 at Brandsmart USA, by the way), and it's going to be great. (I use future tense because I'm still waiting on Newegg to deliver my new video card capable of driving it, so it's running at 1080p until Thursday... and even then, it'll temporarily be 30FPS until somebody comes out with a DisplayPort 1.2 -> HDMI 2.0 converter in a few months).
Anyway, for those who don't understand why 4K is great, the key is not to think of it as a sharper "regular monitor," but rather as four freaking monitors in an array, but without the bezels getting in the way. I couldn't care less about gaming in 4K, but I do care about (for example) being able to see my IDE, the interface of the appplication I'm developing, and a couple of browser windows at the same time without overlapping. Or four 1920x1080 VM or remote desktop windows. Or a 1920x1080 video, 1920x1080 game, and a couple of web browsers.
Old CRTs were great: I had one that did something like 2048x1536 with real 24-bit color 15 years ago! Sure, it took up my whole desk, weighed a ton and sucked power, but it had a better picture than most of the flat panel monitors I've had since (and way better than the average shitty monitor that comes with people's Dells!).
That depends. Would having less resolution get me better battery life? If so, I'll take it!
First of all, there is nothing for which Javascript is "good enough" but Logo isn't! (In fact, the last three words are unnecessary...)
Second, you link to a comment by getting the url from the hyperlink in the header (the "#49857789" part):
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That's actually why the entire Free Software movement exists: RMS was pissed that he couldn't fix his printer driver because it was closed-source.
The phone company isn't allowed to do that because it's legally defined as a "Common Carrier."
Facebook et al., on the other hand, aren't. I'm not sure, but I doubt most email services are either.
It may be arbitrary, unfair and anti-democratic, but that what happens when citizens can't be fucking bothered to pay attention and give the goddamn lobbyists free reign to write the laws!
<Chekov>In Soviet San Francisco, Admiral Kirk would call a "double dumb-ass on you!"</Chekov>
Okay, fine. In that case, it's protected by the Second Amendment and government [or at least the US Government] can fuck right off!
Cameras actually used to work like that! Of course, they used chemicals instead of electricity and each 'sensor' only worked for one image...
Not to mention, that "Pipes" thing actually looks pretty cool... too bad they never marketed it, so I didn't know it existed until after they decided to shut it down!
Cat 3 is pointless. If you want old analog phones, just run another Cat 6 and terminate it differently. Then, when you eventually decide you'd rather have another Ethernet jack, the wiring is already there.
Better yet, use structural insulated panels (SIPs) and/or insulated concrete forms (ICFs).
I'd run four of them: two for the EV chargers, one for a big air compressor, and one for a welder. (The latter two might also be appropriate to go in the basement, depending on your house's design.)
Even if (for some reason) you want actual plain-old telephone service, you should still install home-run ethernet instead of cat-3 phone cable because cat-5 (or better) 8-conductor cable can carry two lines of POTS signals anyway. Terminate half the wires to one jack and half to the other. Then when you want to use it for data, all you have to do is re-terminate instead of re-running the cable.
As an Atlantan, I'll tell you that while black people are common, black software engineers are still pretty rare. Of the three black people [in technical roles] I work with, two are actual immigrants from Africa and the third is a QA person, not a developer. I think black engineers are more common in other fields, such as civil engineering.
Also, the historically black colleges around here, such as Morehouse and Spelman, are excellent places to look if you want to hire a doctor, lawyer or businessperson, but if they even offer computer science as a major they're certainly not well-known for it.
Nevertheless, I'll certainly agree with the idea that Google should open a development office in Atlanta! (Or that they should allow full-time telecommuting, like the other responder suggested.)