Learned on 3.0 in college, we moved to 3.5 when it came out. (psionics were much much better in 3.5, as were a few other things). Haven't even looked at the 4.0 stuff and played a game of AD&D. I found AD&D very limiting coming from a full set of 3.5 books. You had to start as one of 3 classes, and all you could do was hit a thing with a stick at that point... Granted we could have started a few levels in, but to be honest some of the most fun I've had in 3.5 has been the lvl 2 - 7 bracket. enough tools to do something, but not enough to make you spend ours figuring out which spells to take with. enough health that you can make a mistake and not die, and not so much that you don't even need to keep track.
Gaming laptops don't use integrated graphics. Compute laptops (which is the other use for an i7) usually don't need high-performance graphics.
Hmm sorry, but I've just been looking at CFD stuff (CFDesign), and that i7 looks really nice (or a dual xeon but that's very spendy), and yep need the GPU as well as you have to set up a 3d CAD model before you run the sim.... it's too bad that the package we got doesn't seem to use the GPU yet.
Next rig is looking like intel (as soon as they start giving me sata3 and USB3 only), on mini-itx. AMD seems to not care about the form factor at all. Granted in either case it will have an nvidia GPU because I like working graphics in wine and linux.
swap that i5 out for a high end 8 core amd or i7 quad, bump up to 16GB of ram and SSD and see how much faster things will compile... It does mean that you will have to have a highly parallel build system, but that's the price you pay.
I'm under thirty, and have a desktop* as my main computer... I'm not ready to cut out the desktop for a laptop yet. I can't ever seem to get enough grunt in a laptop for even a 50% markup over a home built desktop.
*as long a a AMD Phenom II 1055T X6 in an Asus mini-itx board in a silverstone SG05 counts as "desktop".
please realize that AMD and Intel TDPs can not be compared apples to apples. My understanding last time i looked was that Intel was a bit optimistic about how low their TDP was.
where is the laptop with better than 1080P screen (apart from the 17" macbookpro)? for that matter where is my 20" desktop monitor with 3840x2160 or so? and don't give me that shit about font being hard to read; pixels != points. 12point font should always be 1/6" tall reguardless of the DPI of the screen... Granted I don't know of any desktop system that does this correctly, so here we are stuck at about 96DPI for screens. In fact higher DPI screens should make smaller font sizes more readable.
bigger != safer... I wish people would start to understand this. In fact I would argue, low CG == safe, high CG == unsafe. In the low CG cars you can make fairly aggressive maneuvers and not roll/lose control of the car, try that in an suburban some time...
Oh also low weight is also safer than high weight due to the ability to change speed/direction faster.
and excel needs to understand that i have two monitors and want to be able to use both and copy fscking things between them(excels on different screens), or link the workbooks..../rant.
care to show me where the screen is on the Raspberry pi? or how about the stereo speakers? or the case? anyways, I'd bet the screen is $75-150 of the cost.
all of the POE switches I've seen have had super annoying tiny high speed fans... No way that will work in my apartment going WIRRRRRRRRRR all the time. My current un-managed switch is fanless and I think I'll keep it that way.
Care to tell me what I can do about my power conditions in my apartment? Ohh right, nothing because I own none of it. So I need the bulbs to do the power conditioning or tolerate just about anything that could show up on the line, so basically anything within the power company specs. If that means more hardware on their end, well too bad for them.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
I'm not sure you understand how R&D works... sometimes all you get out is 5 paths you know won't work and 10 more to look at. It would be pretty easy to go through quite a bit of money developing power generation equipment just to find out something doesn't scale up like you though for your first full scale test.
So in the post-nuclear, post-oil world what will we use for base load power generation?
Wind doesn't work, too intermittent (even off shore wind, and that won't cover the midwest) Solar isn't dense enough for major cities, think eastern seaboard of the USA, NYC, DC, Boston, etc. or any other major city, Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Louis. Hydro, great baseload if you happen to live in the right place. Not a good choice in the plain states. Methane(from cows), we'll need a lot more cows.
So how about we scrap the Nuke plates from the 70's and start looking at some of the modern designs and learn from events like fukushima, Three Mile Island, etc. It would also seem that making nuclear power plants a comercial venture, corners will be cut, plants will operate longer than designed to, back up and spare power will not get tested as often as it should.
Disclaimer: I live in Minnesota and we have at least 2 nuclear power plants, and not once have I really been concerned. In fact I toured one of them 15 years ago or so, before they locked them down in 2001.
So how would they retrofit the charger into their current cars. Do they even have a road map that extends 4 months let alone 5+ years it will take to roll this out?
you clearly haven't stumbled around the internet clicking links on an interesting topic. 20 minutes later, you have no idea where you are or how you got there, or why despite your paper being on helicopters, you are looking at a rare flower that can only be found in a single square mile deep in the middle of an inaccessible jungle.
I have yet to see a forest clear-cut for a wind farm. I see lots of farmland "clear-cut" for wind farms, and I've seen forests cut for timber and farming...
Last I knew this had only happened once, and the next year the birds diverted around the turbines. Perhaps building them, and then turning most of during the first migration would solve most of this.
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sounds like the 3.0 psions to me....
Learned on 3.0 in college, we moved to 3.5 when it came out. (psionics were much much better in 3.5, as were a few other things). Haven't even looked at the 4.0 stuff and played a game of AD&D. I found AD&D very limiting coming from a full set of 3.5 books. You had to start as one of 3 classes, and all you could do was hit a thing with a stick at that point... Granted we could have started a few levels in, but to be honest some of the most fun I've had in 3.5 has been the lvl 2 - 7 bracket. enough tools to do something, but not enough to make you spend ours figuring out which spells to take with. enough health that you can make a mistake and not die, and not so much that you don't even need to keep track.
Gaming laptops don't use integrated graphics. Compute laptops (which is the other use for an i7) usually don't need high-performance graphics.
Hmm sorry, but I've just been looking at CFD stuff (CFDesign), and that i7 looks really nice (or a dual xeon but that's very spendy), and yep need the GPU as well as you have to set up a 3d CAD model before you run the sim.... it's too bad that the package we got doesn't seem to use the GPU yet.
Next rig is looking like intel (as soon as they start giving me sata3 and USB3 only), on mini-itx. AMD seems to not care about the form factor at all. Granted in either case it will have an nvidia GPU because I like working graphics in wine and linux.
right but can ICC target a FX-8150 instead of an i7? hmm no? right...
On linux that leaves you on generic x86_64 or hardware optimized...
so will the gforce 210 do DTS master audio over HDMI and does it have enough grunt for high bit rate 1080P h264 streams (35-40Mbps)?
swap that i5 out for a high end 8 core amd or i7 quad, bump up to 16GB of ram and SSD and see how much faster things will compile... It does mean that you will have to have a highly parallel build system, but that's the price you pay.
I'm under thirty, and have a desktop* as my main computer... I'm not ready to cut out the desktop for a laptop yet. I can't ever seem to get enough grunt in a laptop for even a 50% markup over a home built desktop.
*as long a a AMD Phenom II 1055T X6 in an Asus mini-itx board in a silverstone SG05 counts as "desktop".
please realize that AMD and Intel TDPs can not be compared apples to apples. My understanding last time i looked was that Intel was a bit optimistic about how low their TDP was.
where is the laptop with better than 1080P screen (apart from the 17" macbookpro)? for that matter where is my 20" desktop monitor with 3840x2160 or so? and don't give me that shit about font being hard to read; pixels != points. 12point font should always be 1/6" tall reguardless of the DPI of the screen... Granted I don't know of any desktop system that does this correctly, so here we are stuck at about 96DPI for screens. In fact higher DPI screens should make smaller font sizes more readable.
bigger != safer... I wish people would start to understand this. In fact I would argue, low CG == safe, high CG == unsafe. In the low CG cars you can make fairly aggressive maneuvers and not roll/lose control of the car, try that in an suburban some time...
Oh also low weight is also safer than high weight due to the ability to change speed/direction faster.
and excel needs to understand that i have two monitors and want to be able to use both and copy fscking things between them(excels on different screens), or link the workbooks.... /rant.
my tegra 2 tablet and even lower power phone do just fine.
care to show me where the screen is on the Raspberry pi? or how about the stereo speakers? or the case? anyways, I'd bet the screen is $75-150 of the cost.
all of the POE switches I've seen have had super annoying tiny high speed fans... No way that will work in my apartment going WIRRRRRRRRRR all the time. My current un-managed switch is fanless and I think I'll keep it that way.
Care to tell me what I can do about my power conditions in my apartment? Ohh right, nothing because I own none of it. So I need the bulbs to do the power conditioning or tolerate just about anything that could show up on the line, so basically anything within the power company specs. If that means more hardware on their end, well too bad for them.
if they are tanks, they could afford to toss on a 2 year warranty or something....
China won't have to invade. It will simply and publicly call in our debt on short notice.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953
I'll just leave these in this thread...
I'm not sure you understand how R&D works... sometimes all you get out is 5 paths you know won't work and 10 more to look at. It would be pretty easy to go through quite a bit of money developing power generation equipment just to find out something doesn't scale up like you though for your first full scale test.
So in the post-nuclear, post-oil world what will we use for base load power generation?
Wind doesn't work, too intermittent (even off shore wind, and that won't cover the midwest)
Solar isn't dense enough for major cities, think eastern seaboard of the USA, NYC, DC, Boston, etc. or any other major city, Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Louis.
Hydro, great baseload if you happen to live in the right place. Not a good choice in the plain states.
Methane(from cows), we'll need a lot more cows.
So how about we scrap the Nuke plates from the 70's and start looking at some of the modern designs and learn from events like fukushima, Three Mile Island, etc. It would also seem that making nuclear power plants a comercial venture, corners will be cut, plants will operate longer than designed to, back up and spare power will not get tested as often as it should.
Disclaimer: I live in Minnesota and we have at least 2 nuclear power plants, and not once have I really been concerned. In fact I toured one of them 15 years ago or so, before they locked them down in 2001.
So how would they retrofit the charger into their current cars. Do they even have a road map that extends 4 months let alone 5+ years it will take to roll this out?
you clearly haven't stumbled around the internet clicking links on an interesting topic. 20 minutes later, you have no idea where you are or how you got there, or why despite your paper being on helicopters, you are looking at a rare flower that can only be found in a single square mile deep in the middle of an inaccessible jungle.
I have yet to see a forest clear-cut for a wind farm. I see lots of farmland "clear-cut" for wind farms, and I've seen forests cut for timber and farming...
Last I knew this had only happened once, and the next year the birds diverted around the turbines. Perhaps building them, and then turning most of during the first migration would solve most of this.