If you're going to the hospital to ask them why you can only breathe through one nostril most of the time, yeah, you better have insurance for that. But for emergencies, in the USA:
[...] if the hospital is a "Participating Hospital", i.e., takes any government program funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, such as Medicare, and Medicaid, they must treat for emergency care or active labor regardless of the patients' ability to pay, citizenship, etc, and they must treat them like they would any other patient. This bill passed in 1986 and was called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) under COBRA. This effectively covers all hospitals, profit or non-profit since the hospitals can not make it without the patients under government health care programs. The exceptions are the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Veterans Affairs Hospitals, and Indian Health Service.
This will vary state to state, too, since states have amended to include additional rerquirements and define what services must be included.
"Just because I noticed that you didn't provide adequate safeguards, lol" isn't a valid reason to commit a crime.
It doesn't remove the ill effects from the lives of everyone you just affected with your crime, either. Just because your conscience lets you do something, doesn't mean it is harmless to yourself or other people.
I think he was referring to the way people react to the news that someone was arrested in connection with a thing - they don't presume innocence until proven guilty, unless they are the ones in the hotseat. There hasn't been a trial, so the process hasn't been completed, yet people are passing judgment as if it were over. So you're right about the thought police, but the unfortunate reality is that the public's mob justice tends to ruin lives whether those lives were actually guilty or not. Let's all just wait and see what the courts decide before we assign guilt or innocence.
When he's saying "the new i7s", he is talking about the 2000 series i7s, not the 800/900 series.
There have been a lot of improvements since those four years ago. Check out AVX, for example: Sandy Bridge has 256 bit vector operations. Sure, if you can crank integer math along at 4.2 GHz overclocked, you can probably beat the pants off a 3.4 GHz machine, but... when that 3.4 GHz machine includes operations that take the same amount of time to execute but process twice as much data, or reduce a multiple-instruction process significantly, then you're talking about a totally different ballgame. SSE4.2 came out on the Nehalem i7s, so you missed those extensions that process int and float values, and move data around more efficiently. And if you missed out on SSE4.1, which was just starting to come out four years ago, then you're really missing a lot. Also, the memory controllers have been revamped quite considerably twice now. Then there's the electrical efficiency of the product, which has improved significantly.
So really, even if your older system may be able to compete on one of the many benchmarks, it doesn't mean it's competitive on all fronts. But I suppose that you should consider what makes you happy instead - if you're okay with what you've got, then you're good! No sense in upgrading for the sake of numbers. I built a 3.0 GHz P4 back in 2003, and finally replaced it this year because I was working on a project that exceeded its processing capacity. Otherwise, it was fine.
New $engine: Now with more jiggawatts! Hey, I have an idea. Let's also re-invent the multithreading wheel by putting a totally new code you guise scheduler into our awesome for real browser. That ought to run nice and smooth... wait, the OS and that other site that pings the twittlers is pre-empting it, so now my mp3 is all skippy.
My point is: Software that needs to keep a buffer filled in real-time should probably not be written in Javascript. While you CAN do it under ideal circumstances (powerful enough CPU, low system load, enough RAM, no other websites open contending for the browser's JS engine's time) there are far better ways to do such a thing that can guarantee the CPU time you need. You know, like all those other audio plugins and standalone apps, which have more direct access to the audio hardware.
I do agree though that it's pretty cool to see someone actually try something so brain-wrecking as to implement mp3 decoding in Javascript. I wonder what the licensing situation is when that happens?
I suppose so. You can't just get a blanket IR filter - what frequency would you have to block, and can you easily come by such a filter? I'm pretty sure Wratten filters for iPhone don't exist:)
I read TFA, which was on Fox "News" and it had nothing to do with the Times, btw... nice job, editors.
Look, people keep saying that encryption will prevent backups. No, it won't. If you make a bit-accurate copy of an entire disc, and include the parts that normal writers don't write like the bar code area, it will be completely indistinguishable from the original. Nintendo switches things up by altering the disc's rotation speed and direction, which makes it even harder. Then there's the media identifier - you can see what factory the media came from, even after you burn a disc. The difficulty lies in the fact that most consumer-level disc writers can't write discs that way and/or write every last feature of a pressed disc, and that the media ID is always going to rat you out as some evil person who wanted a backup copy, not that the disc was encrypted.
MDX was rather unpleasant to work with, though. Based upon what I saw (which may not have been a representative sample) the encapsulation didn't really work at its best unless you were using managed C++, which was an unfortunate perpetration by itself.
Yeah, you thought the "War on Terror" was vague? How about a "War on Anonymous?" Anyone and everyone could be an "enemy combatant."
Yes, that is an enormous problem. Following this to its logical and historically-proven conclusion: The police could randomly arrest anyone who had an opinion contrary to or offensive to the state's position, with great impunity. Your spouse or best friend could be walking down the street or across a parking lot, on their way to buy groceries, when suddenly two officers escort him/her away potentially never to be seen or heard from again.
Just like China and a lot of other nations, especially communist states and dictatorships. I was hoping we could somehow avoid going that route but the more corporation-influenced we supposed first-world countries get, the more we align to backwards ideologies like this. The wheels are in motion, and the momentum has built. We are not at critical mass yet, but it's not far off.
These are certainly interesting developments... What a dangerous edge we tread as a society that's supposed to be more enlightened than that. I would hope that given due process of deliberation and voting, this notion is defeated, because of the potential (and looking at the entirety of human history, completely inevitable) consequences.
We all see the problem, but who's doing anything? It's time to move beyond reactionary debate and into political action. What do we do now? Without joining or eschewing "anonymous", which can potentially be a red herring in a political arena anyway since it's by definition not an identity or entity, what can be done?
The problem is that it could melt through the earth into the water table. Imagine what would happen if something that hot and dirty melted its way into the water table... untold radioactive steam explosions would then ensue!
It translates instructions from one instruction set to another instruction set. It's not very far removed from being a straight-up emulator, in fact you might reasonably be able to call it one.
Their solution isn't that great. Streaming video is hardly an attractive alternative to renting a physical disc if the quality falls below a certain point. I don't want to watch dancing blocks making trails across my screen to telephone-quality audio. I want high quality A/V.
You're right, though, that Netflix doesn't have the necessary pull to force the hand of an ISP. ISPs might care if the only reason anyone was subscribing was to use Netflix, but that just isn't the case. ISPs are trying really hard to find a bulletproof way to edge competing services like Netflix out of the way of their own on-demand premium services while maintaining an innocent "Who, ME?" face. Think of how much data they send across the line to send you your on-demand movie... It isn't magically less than Netflix.
Well... some people buy a LOT of games, watch a lot of preview trailers, and download a lot of demos when new stuff comes out. It's not a matter of saving the installers (which you should) when you keep buying new ones that you've never owned before. The scale of the influx of new games on Steam is impressive.
If anything, they will increase a few cryptic line items on your bill to "support" the rollout of the technology, then cackle all the way to the bank while you use up your monthly cap in only a few seconds.
Disclaimer: I like FrozenCPU, but I'm not affiliated with them. Just using it as an example of a real-world, purchasable Peltier device, with comments that explain it in a bit more detail.
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The Javascript will still be just as awful, though.
If you're going to the hospital to ask them why you can only breathe through one nostril most of the time, yeah, you better have insurance for that. But for emergencies, in the USA:
[...] if the hospital is a "Participating Hospital", i.e., takes any government program funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, such as Medicare, and Medicaid, they must treat for emergency care or active labor regardless of the patients' ability to pay, citizenship, etc, and they must treat them like they would any other patient. This bill passed in 1986 and was called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) under COBRA. This effectively covers all hospitals, profit or non-profit since the hospitals can not make it without the patients under government health care programs. The exceptions are the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Veterans Affairs Hospitals, and Indian Health Service.
This will vary state to state, too, since states have amended to include additional rerquirements and define what services must be included.
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Yes, exactly.
"Just because I noticed that you didn't provide adequate safeguards, lol" isn't a valid reason to commit a crime.
It doesn't remove the ill effects from the lives of everyone you just affected with your crime, either. Just because your conscience lets you do something, doesn't mean it is harmless to yourself or other people.
I think he was referring to the way people react to the news that someone was arrested in connection with a thing - they don't presume innocence until proven guilty, unless they are the ones in the hotseat. There hasn't been a trial, so the process hasn't been completed, yet people are passing judgment as if it were over. So you're right about the thought police, but the unfortunate reality is that the public's mob justice tends to ruin lives whether those lives were actually guilty or not. Let's all just wait and see what the courts decide before we assign guilt or innocence.
When he's saying "the new i7s", he is talking about the 2000 series i7s, not the 800/900 series.
There have been a lot of improvements since those four years ago. Check out AVX, for example: Sandy Bridge has 256 bit vector operations. Sure, if you can crank integer math along at 4.2 GHz overclocked, you can probably beat the pants off a 3.4 GHz machine, but... when that 3.4 GHz machine includes operations that take the same amount of time to execute but process twice as much data, or reduce a multiple-instruction process significantly, then you're talking about a totally different ballgame. SSE4.2 came out on the Nehalem i7s, so you missed those extensions that process int and float values, and move data around more efficiently. And if you missed out on SSE4.1, which was just starting to come out four years ago, then you're really missing a lot. Also, the memory controllers have been revamped quite considerably twice now. Then there's the electrical efficiency of the product, which has improved significantly.
So really, even if your older system may be able to compete on one of the many benchmarks, it doesn't mean it's competitive on all fronts. But I suppose that you should consider what makes you happy instead - if you're okay with what you've got, then you're good! No sense in upgrading for the sake of numbers. I built a 3.0 GHz P4 back in 2003, and finally replaced it this year because I was working on a project that exceeded its processing capacity. Otherwise, it was fine.
I suspect that they are the chaps to talk to when you need a chip that absolutely hasn't been backdoored in china
Right on! You get a chip that has been backdoored in the good old US of A instead.
New $engine: Now with more jiggawatts! Hey, I have an idea. Let's also re-invent the multithreading wheel by putting a totally new code you guise scheduler into our awesome for real browser. That ought to run nice and smooth... wait, the OS and that other site that pings the twittlers is pre-empting it, so now my mp3 is all skippy.
My point is: Software that needs to keep a buffer filled in real-time should probably not be written in Javascript. While you CAN do it under ideal circumstances (powerful enough CPU, low system load, enough RAM, no other websites open contending for the browser's JS engine's time) there are far better ways to do such a thing that can guarantee the CPU time you need. You know, like all those other audio plugins and standalone apps, which have more direct access to the audio hardware.
I do agree though that it's pretty cool to see someone actually try something so brain-wrecking as to implement mp3 decoding in Javascript. I wonder what the licensing situation is when that happens?
I need to get in on that.
I could use another mansion on the Mediterranean. (Seeing as how I have zero mansions on the Mediterranean, currently.)
I suppose so. You can't just get a blanket IR filter - what frequency would you have to block, and can you easily come by such a filter? I'm pretty sure Wratten filters for iPhone don't exist :)
I read TFA, which was on Fox "News" and it had nothing to do with the Times, btw... nice job, editors.
Look, people keep saying that encryption will prevent backups. No, it won't. If you make a bit-accurate copy of an entire disc, and include the parts that normal writers don't write like the bar code area, it will be completely indistinguishable from the original. Nintendo switches things up by altering the disc's rotation speed and direction, which makes it even harder. Then there's the media identifier - you can see what factory the media came from, even after you burn a disc. The difficulty lies in the fact that most consumer-level disc writers can't write discs that way and/or write every last feature of a pressed disc, and that the media ID is always going to rat you out as some evil person who wanted a backup copy, not that the disc was encrypted.
MDX was rather unpleasant to work with, though. Based upon what I saw (which may not have been a representative sample) the encapsulation didn't really work at its best unless you were using managed C++, which was an unfortunate perpetration by itself.
Perhaps even tip our waiters?
Yeah, you thought the "War on Terror" was vague? How about a "War on Anonymous?" Anyone and everyone could be an "enemy combatant."
Yes, that is an enormous problem. Following this to its logical and historically-proven conclusion: The police could randomly arrest anyone who had an opinion contrary to or offensive to the state's position, with great impunity. Your spouse or best friend could be walking down the street or across a parking lot, on their way to buy groceries, when suddenly two officers escort him/her away potentially never to be seen or heard from again.
Just like China and a lot of other nations, especially communist states and dictatorships. I was hoping we could somehow avoid going that route but the more corporation-influenced we supposed first-world countries get, the more we align to backwards ideologies like this. The wheels are in motion, and the momentum has built. We are not at critical mass yet, but it's not far off.
These are certainly interesting developments... What a dangerous edge we tread as a society that's supposed to be more enlightened than that. I would hope that given due process of deliberation and voting, this notion is defeated, because of the potential (and looking at the entirety of human history, completely inevitable) consequences.
We all see the problem, but who's doing anything? It's time to move beyond reactionary debate and into political action. What do we do now? Without joining or eschewing "anonymous", which can potentially be a red herring in a political arena anyway since it's by definition not an identity or entity, what can be done?
Huh, I wonder what broke it with the newer version of Virtual PC.
I know, but that would have messed up the meter of the song. Couldn't quite think of a better one to fit there.
All your cluster grits are belong to Cowboy Neal, you insensitive clod!
The problem is that it could melt through the earth into the water table. Imagine what would happen if something that hot and dirty melted its way into the water table... untold radioactive steam explosions would then ensue!
Cisco for my men, T3 for my horses
It translates instructions from one instruction set to another instruction set. It's not very far removed from being a straight-up emulator, in fact you might reasonably be able to call it one.
Their solution isn't that great. Streaming video is hardly an attractive alternative to renting a physical disc if the quality falls below a certain point. I don't want to watch dancing blocks making trails across my screen to telephone-quality audio. I want high quality A/V.
You're right, though, that Netflix doesn't have the necessary pull to force the hand of an ISP. ISPs might care if the only reason anyone was subscribing was to use Netflix, but that just isn't the case. ISPs are trying really hard to find a bulletproof way to edge competing services like Netflix out of the way of their own on-demand premium services while maintaining an innocent "Who, ME?" face. Think of how much data they send across the line to send you your on-demand movie... It isn't magically less than Netflix.
Well... some people buy a LOT of games, watch a lot of preview trailers, and download a lot of demos when new stuff comes out. It's not a matter of saving the installers (which you should) when you keep buying new ones that you've never owned before. The scale of the influx of new games on Steam is impressive.
If anything, they will increase a few cryptic line items on your bill to "support" the rollout of the technology, then cackle all the way to the bank while you use up your monthly cap in only a few seconds.
Peltier cooling devices need power, though, and tend to amplify the heat output quite a bit more than you'd expect.
Example: Something like this product: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2408/exp-01/245W_Potted_Peltier.html
Disclaimer: I like FrozenCPU, but I'm not affiliated with them. Just using it as an example of a real-world, purchasable Peltier device, with comments that explain it in a bit more detail.
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