As has been pointed out, you don't need two graphics cards. A graphics card and a mainboard with onboard graphics is enough; CUDA and PhysX are supported for a number of IGPs. And yes, you find that kind of setup. I will have such a computer with my next upgrade as I specced out mine without discrete graphics to keep the price down.
So I take it HTML doesn't exist, then, as that wasn't really designed in America.
Besides, if you follow the "this is MY network and you do with it as I please" line of thought, the logical conclusion would be for the EU, China, India etc. all running their own DNS roots, complete with their own registrars etc. So unless you register your website with ten different registrars (or pay ten times the fee to your registrar), only people within your country and maybe a few bordering them can see it. Hilarity ensues when yourcompany.com is registered to two different organizations on various DNS roots. Or when they deicde they don't really need a compatible IP address space. While not being able to talk to China doesn't seem dramatic now, China is rapidly rising in importance.
In short, if you had wanted to make the internet your network, you should've worked harder to keep the rest of the world out. Apparently that wasn't what was intended.
Yeah, and then they have to discuss something actually useful and things like IPv6 won't get used for more than a decade after it's been introduced. Wait...
Once again I feel justified in not buying games until they hit the bargain bin. I'm currently playing X-Com: Apocalypse (no DLC there), VtMB (none there, either, and this one even has fairly high-end graphics) and the Wakfu open beta (justified in that the beta doesn't cost me anything). Lots of fun for very little money.
Not needing the latest graphics can save you a lot of money on this kind of nonsense - by the time I'll get around to playing Fallout 3, all the content will have been released and will hopefully already be included in the bargain bin edition.
Could PCRAM SSDs replace Flash SSDs? If so, I'd be rather happy as Flash's lack of longevity is one of the things keeping me from getting an SSD (well, the still enormusly high price point is the bigger one). Of course we don't have any real-world data but it still sounds interesting.
PCRAM's properties also make it sound interesting for archival storage. As long as you can keep the temperature at a sensible level it appears to be stable.
Except Scientology offers you peace of mind, or at least they pretend to. This was a briefing video for Microsoft marketing personnel. Nothing more, nothing less. Only Microsoft for some reason decided to point it at random people hoping they will just decide they need to market Windows for them.
It's not exactly breaking news that marketing people have no connection to reality but this is bad even for marketing people. It's like they fed an AI with all the scrapped concepts from the paper can of a marketing firm and told it to acript them an advertisement.
Given the Songsmith video and the Seinfeld ads I think that might actually be the case.
After seeing this (and reading about what the "party kit" contains) I looked up the launch party website and was disappointed that you can't sign up anymore (at least for Germany the parties are scheduled between last thursday and today and I doubt you can still sign up). I definitely would have held a party for a free copy of Win7 Ultimate. Okay, so the only other people on the party would be my family and they wouldn't actually be in the same room... and I wouldn't actually boot up Win7 during the party... but hey, I'd have so many fun activities like playing Windows games in CrossOver Games or bringing it all together by ending the party on http://slashdot.org/, where you can find many helpful tips about how to optimally despise Microsoft.
Youre losing out, Microsoft. At least my party would've genereated much less contempt for you than this video did.
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The BIOS was probably not set up to check the optical drive for bootable media first. So they insert the CD, boot up and stare at GRUB. Given what I heard about those guys, it probably didn't immediately occur to them that the bootable media order is not fixed and so they decide it must be a hardware problem. They probably tried to hotplug the hard drive before ever checking the BIOS.
1. Ethernet does not have a small, convenient, robust plug. RJ-45 is humungous for peripherals, LC-like connectors probably dont' last for 10,000+ plug-unplug cycles. Once you have to invent a new kind of plug for peripherals you already have a half-compatible new standard (or extend the old one in ways it wasn't intended to be).
2. Nobody does Power over Ethernet. At least that's the consumer perspective. You need the cable to deliver power in order to make this standard work - plus, Power over Ethernet was designed only for RJ45 and not whatever you'd have to use to make the thing work with a mobile phone. PoE is completely tangential to fibre-based Ethernet so you'd probably have to come up with entirely new cables and plugs anyway.
Essentially, Light Peak is a superset of what you'd get if you made 10GigE work with HID peripherals.
I'd also comment on whether the Ethernet stack is the best thing to drive a mouse on but I don't know how elegant Ethernet HID would be vs. USB HID.
Also, the bank will probably not have sent the account details as plaintext but rather in something like an attached spreadsheet. Even my retired parents are tech-savvy enough to delete mails coming from banks they don't know, especially when they contain attachments.
Actually, real Mac users will tell you that the latest OS X version greatly annoys them because of [insert list of resons here] but it's still awesome. Hey, Stacks not following symlinks in all display modes is a big deal!
Until you run into a 150 KB ten-line behemoth of a file that mixes three different languages complete with conditionals in one language containing blocks of another language with their own conditionals that contain blocks of the first language. You know you deal with a pathologically planning-averse coder when you need to draw a map on a sheet of paper just to figure out how many conditionals deep you currently are.
Extra bonus when they somehow manage to implement an O(n^2) problem in O(n^4).
Exactly what I thought when reading this: Have the OS on a read-only disk (or a central server) and applications on a read-only network share if the OS is local (on the same server otherwise). Bonus points for making the OS refuse to run any executable not found on one of those two volumes. Data files lie on a network share but are never be considered executable (if possible).
That would still not completely protect against botnets but the only people capable of getting them established are te IT department and you have no way of defending against them anyway.
The only exemption would be admin and development computers as these restrictions would severely hinder the latter and can't be properly enforced on the former anyway.
"Will" is the verb. When the revolution comes, the US border patrol will develop psychic powers with which they will push very old thugs against the wall. The GP merely used the wrong tense; "will will" would've been correct.
No, not really. They are being overly harsh on video games but that's only an artifact of them being overly harsh on video games in every way.
In fact, the only game I know of, besides Wolfenstein 3D, that has been seized for being too Nazi-like is called "KZ Manager", which should say everything that needs to be said about the game. It's more common to see games get shot down for excessive violence (Mortal Kombat 2, Manhunt, Dead Rising).
By the way, "seized" means "can't be sold, advertised for or distributed"; possession and use are legal. Yes, I know that banning games like Dead Rising is... fairly eccentric. Usually such games merely end up on the "index" - they get an age rating of 18+ and simply can't be advertised for or sold to minors.
Sorry if this offends you, but I don't agree that a nation that doesn't put absolutely free speech above everything else is morally degenerate. Especially not when free speech is one of its core values.
Banning all films, games, novels, drawings, etc. which are set in Nazi Germany does not protect dignity.
Good thing we aren't doing it. I can go to the video rental shop and rent Raiders of the Lost Ark, Call of Duty etc. to my heart's content. Or I just watch the TV show Switch where one recurring sketch turns the Third Reich into an office comedy/reality show. Also, there's a number of completely legal German movies, documentations etc. about the Third Reich, complete with swastikas.
Turns out it's actually pretty hard to run afoul of the censorship law nowadays. Unless you're a video game, but that's just because our government has a rather strong aversion against violent video games (other violent media are A-okay, though).
Essentially, if you show the swastikas etc. in some kind of historical context nobody's going to complain. Thus, CoD and Indiana Jones are legal. However, the bar for what's considered a historical context is set much higher for video games than for movies. Hellboy might just get away with showing swastikas while Wolfenstein might not. However, it actually might be okay - remember that Activision is calling back the game, not the German government; Activision just doesn't want to risk anything.
This law very much serves aid in the denial of history, as it makes much discussion of history illegal.
No, it doesn't. Also, considering that history is a mandatory part of any German school curriculum and German history class consists to about 50% of the Third Reich and why we shouldn't repeat it, discussion of history is not illegal but mandatory. I'd also expect that a documentary about the Reich (complete with swastikas) would be just as legal as one about the Namib Desert, as long as it doesn't glorify the Nazis.
In short: Please don't try to lecture people about things you know nothing about.
I don't quite defend our government; it's as much a bunch of morons as any. I also didn't criticize your nonexistant criticism of our government, I criticized your assumption that all Germans pretend that WW2 never happened (which is not only a serious crime over here but also grounds for a justified beating). I do defend our censorship laws in that they are sharply defined and in place for a very specific reason; there is no way of expanding the censorship that isn't immediately obvious (and will be widely reported and discussed). The grunds for those laws are simply that when Germany was built, the occupying nations ensured that our values are based on the human right to dignity first and the human right to free expression second (unlike in the States, where free expression comes first).
I don't say it's perfect but no system is perfect. Ours did what it was designed to do and it has formed us. Asking us to throw away the central value our society was built upon just because you do it differently is exactly the same as when I tell you that America needs to place human dignity over absolute freedom of speech because we do (ignoring that this is partially the case, cf. libel laws).
As for nationalism: Apart from me not being a Nazi (and yes, most Germans don't see much of a difference between nationalism and fascism) I'm contemplating moving to Sweden because of the saner privacy and internet laws over there. Germany ain't terribly bad but there is much room for improvement.
- People were poor. Germany was in a rather bad shape when Hitler rose to power.
- Poor people are willing to listen to anything if you feed them.
- Poor people are willing to do normaly unacceptable things if you also give them work.
- Lots of safeguards we take for granted today weren't in place, from the 5% hurdle (the lack of which made the parliament a fragmented mess) to laws against anti-constitutional parties. A bunch of thugs was all it took to essentially overtake the severely weakened government.
- Also, people were very open to the idea of war, especially against France (reparations to france were one of the reasons why many Germans were poor; also, WW1 ended with France forcing a very embarrassing peace treaty onto Germany).
In the end, however, the most important factor might have been "poor people plus a good orator make a mob".
As for WW2 etc. being off limits: That's quite age-specific. Older people are generally more averse to discussing it. Many of them grew up during the end of the war and the postwar era; it's understandable that they would have the Nazi aversion internalized to a degree younger people don't have.
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As has been pointed out, you don't need two graphics cards. A graphics card and a mainboard with onboard graphics is enough; CUDA and PhysX are supported for a number of IGPs. And yes, you find that kind of setup. I will have such a computer with my next upgrade as I specced out mine without discrete graphics to keep the price down.
So I take it HTML doesn't exist, then, as that wasn't really designed in America.
Besides, if you follow the "this is MY network and you do with it as I please" line of thought, the logical conclusion would be for the EU, China, India etc. all running their own DNS roots, complete with their own registrars etc. So unless you register your website with ten different registrars (or pay ten times the fee to your registrar), only people within your country and maybe a few bordering them can see it. Hilarity ensues when yourcompany.com is registered to two different organizations on various DNS roots. Or when they deicde they don't really need a compatible IP address space. While not being able to talk to China doesn't seem dramatic now, China is rapidly rising in importance.
In short, if you had wanted to make the internet your network, you should've worked harder to keep the rest of the world out. Apparently that wasn't what was intended.
Er, you do know that international domain names already exist? Look up the Wikipedia articles on IDNs and Punycode. It's bound to be enlightening.
Yeah, and then they have to discuss something actually useful and things like IPv6 won't get used for more than a decade after it's been introduced. Wait...
Don't worry. Your sensitive data is stricty a secret between you and Google's marketing division. And their shareholders and strategic partners.
Once again I feel justified in not buying games until they hit the bargain bin. I'm currently playing X-Com: Apocalypse (no DLC there), VtMB (none there, either, and this one even has fairly high-end graphics) and the Wakfu open beta (justified in that the beta doesn't cost me anything). Lots of fun for very little money.
Not needing the latest graphics can save you a lot of money on this kind of nonsense - by the time I'll get around to playing Fallout 3, all the content will have been released and will hopefully already be included in the bargain bin edition.
Could PCRAM SSDs replace Flash SSDs? If so, I'd be rather happy as Flash's lack of longevity is one of the things keeping me from getting an SSD (well, the still enormusly high price point is the bigger one). Of course we don't have any real-world data but it still sounds interesting.
PCRAM's properties also make it sound interesting for archival storage. As long as you can keep the temperature at a sensible level it appears to be stable.
Except Scientology offers you peace of mind, or at least they pretend to. This was a briefing video for Microsoft marketing personnel. Nothing more, nothing less. Only Microsoft for some reason decided to point it at random people hoping they will just decide they need to market Windows for them.
It's not exactly breaking news that marketing people have no connection to reality but this is bad even for marketing people. It's like they fed an AI with all the scrapped concepts from the paper can of a marketing firm and told it to acript them an advertisement.
Given the Songsmith video and the Seinfeld ads I think that might actually be the case.
After seeing this (and reading about what the "party kit" contains) I looked up the launch party website and was disappointed that you can't sign up anymore (at least for Germany the parties are scheduled between last thursday and today and I doubt you can still sign up). I definitely would have held a party for a free copy of Win7 Ultimate. Okay, so the only other people on the party would be my family and they wouldn't actually be in the same room... and I wouldn't actually boot up Win7 during the party... but hey, I'd have so many fun activities like playing Windows games in CrossOver Games or bringing it all together by ending the party on http://slashdot.org/, where you can find many helpful tips about how to optimally despise Microsoft.
Youre losing out, Microsoft. At least my party would've genereated much less contempt for you than this video did.
The BIOS was probably not set up to check the optical drive for bootable media first. So they insert the CD, boot up and stare at GRUB. Given what I heard about those guys, it probably didn't immediately occur to them that the bootable media order is not fixed and so they decide it must be a hardware problem. They probably tried to hotplug the hard drive before ever checking the BIOS.
1. Ethernet does not have a small, convenient, robust plug. RJ-45 is humungous for peripherals, LC-like connectors probably dont' last for 10,000+ plug-unplug cycles. Once you have to invent a new kind of plug for peripherals you already have a half-compatible new standard (or extend the old one in ways it wasn't intended to be).
2. Nobody does Power over Ethernet. At least that's the consumer perspective. You need the cable to deliver power in order to make this standard work - plus, Power over Ethernet was designed only for RJ45 and not whatever you'd have to use to make the thing work with a mobile phone. PoE is completely tangential to fibre-based Ethernet so you'd probably have to come up with entirely new cables and plugs anyway.
Essentially, Light Peak is a superset of what you'd get if you made 10GigE work with HID peripherals.
I'd also comment on whether the Ethernet stack is the best thing to drive a mouse on but I don't know how elegant Ethernet HID would be vs. USB HID.
I thought Mass Effect was the most important discovery of human history!
You lied to me, Bioware!
Also, the bank will probably not have sent the account details as plaintext but rather in something like an attached spreadsheet. Even my retired parents are tech-savvy enough to delete mails coming from banks they don't know, especially when they contain attachments.
Don't bother. The existence of spoons has already been disproved by Wachowski, Reeves et al. in 1999.
Actually, real Mac users will tell you that the latest OS X version greatly annoys them because of [insert list of resons here] but it's still awesome. Hey, Stacks not following symlinks in all display modes is a big deal!
Until you run into a 150 KB ten-line behemoth of a file that mixes three different languages complete with conditionals in one language containing blocks of another language with their own conditionals that contain blocks of the first language. You know you deal with a pathologically planning-averse coder when you need to draw a map on a sheet of paper just to figure out how many conditionals deep you currently are.
Extra bonus when they somehow manage to implement an O(n^2) problem in O(n^4).
Exactly what I thought when reading this: Have the OS on a read-only disk (or a central server) and applications on a read-only network share if the OS is local (on the same server otherwise). Bonus points for making the OS refuse to run any executable not found on one of those two volumes. Data files lie on a network share but are never be considered executable (if possible).
That would still not completely protect against botnets but the only people capable of getting them established are te IT department and you have no way of defending against them anyway.
The only exemption would be admin and development computers as these restrictions would severely hinder the latter and can't be properly enforced on the former anyway.
Ah. Well, I expected the function name to make sense as provided - after all, that's what the interpreter does.
"Will" is the verb. When the revolution comes, the US border patrol will develop psychic powers with which they will push very old thugs against the wall. The GP merely used the wrong tense; "will will" would've been correct.
No, not really. They are being overly harsh on video games but that's only an artifact of them being overly harsh on video games in every way.
In fact, the only game I know of, besides Wolfenstein 3D, that has been seized for being too Nazi-like is called "KZ Manager", which should say everything that needs to be said about the game. It's more common to see games get shot down for excessive violence (Mortal Kombat 2, Manhunt, Dead Rising).
By the way, "seized" means "can't be sold, advertised for or distributed"; possession and use are legal. Yes, I know that banning games like Dead Rising is... fairly eccentric. Usually such games merely end up on the "index" - they get an age rating of 18+ and simply can't be advertised for or sold to minors.
Sorry if this offends you, but I don't agree that a nation that doesn't put absolutely free speech above everything else is morally degenerate. Especially not when free speech is one of its core values.
I wonder how long it will take until someone has implemented a botnet that uses SideWiki as its C&C channel. Probably about a week.
Thank you, Google, for pimping my website. Out to your advertisement partners.
Good thing we aren't doing it. I can go to the video rental shop and rent Raiders of the Lost Ark, Call of Duty etc. to my heart's content. Or I just watch the TV show Switch where one recurring sketch turns the Third Reich into an office comedy/reality show. Also, there's a number of completely legal German movies, documentations etc. about the Third Reich, complete with swastikas.
Turns out it's actually pretty hard to run afoul of the censorship law nowadays. Unless you're a video game, but that's just because our government has a rather strong aversion against violent video games (other violent media are A-okay, though).
Essentially, if you show the swastikas etc. in some kind of historical context nobody's going to complain. Thus, CoD and Indiana Jones are legal. However, the bar for what's considered a historical context is set much higher for video games than for movies. Hellboy might just get away with showing swastikas while Wolfenstein might not. However, it actually might be okay - remember that Activision is calling back the game, not the German government; Activision just doesn't want to risk anything.
I don't quite defend our government; it's as much a bunch of morons as any. I also didn't criticize your nonexistant criticism of our government, I criticized your assumption that all Germans pretend that WW2 never happened (which is not only a serious crime over here but also grounds for a justified beating). I do defend our censorship laws in that they are sharply defined and in place for a very specific reason; there is no way of expanding the censorship that isn't immediately obvious (and will be widely reported and discussed). The grunds for those laws are simply that when Germany was built, the occupying nations ensured that our values are based on the human right to dignity first and the human right to free expression second (unlike in the States, where free expression comes first).
I don't say it's perfect but no system is perfect. Ours did what it was designed to do and it has formed us. Asking us to throw away the central value our society was built upon just because you do it differently is exactly the same as when I tell you that America needs to place human dignity over absolute freedom of speech because we do (ignoring that this is partially the case, cf. libel laws).
As for nationalism: Apart from me not being a Nazi (and yes, most Germans don't see much of a difference between nationalism and fascism) I'm contemplating moving to Sweden because of the saner privacy and internet laws over there. Germany ain't terribly bad but there is much room for improvement.
It actually boils down to a few things:
- People were poor. Germany was in a rather bad shape when Hitler rose to power.
- Poor people are willing to listen to anything if you feed them.
- Poor people are willing to do normaly unacceptable things if you also give them work.
- Lots of safeguards we take for granted today weren't in place, from the 5% hurdle (the lack of which made the parliament a fragmented mess) to laws against anti-constitutional parties. A bunch of thugs was all it took to essentially overtake the severely weakened government.
- Also, people were very open to the idea of war, especially against France (reparations to france were one of the reasons why many Germans were poor; also, WW1 ended with France forcing a very embarrassing peace treaty onto Germany).
In the end, however, the most important factor might have been "poor people plus a good orator make a mob".
As for WW2 etc. being off limits: That's quite age-specific. Older people are generally more averse to discussing it. Many of them grew up during the end of the war and the postwar era; it's understandable that they would have the Nazi aversion internalized to a degree younger people don't have.