This may come as a shock, but the people working on this stuff also don't want to destroy the earth, and they are pretty careful about making sure that it doesn't happen.
They aren't perfect, of course, but their imperfection also makes it less likely that they would create the perfect agent to destroy the earth, even on accident.
> Intel's GPUs are shit, and still choke on any complex video files
Do you have benchmarks backing this up? You can look up HD graphics benchmarks for video decoding and see they are about on-par with low end nVidia and ATI graphics cards. I've never heard of or seen "complex" video files degrading under DXVA acceleration.
I know of quite a few people using Intel HD graphics in home theater setups with no problems at all, using both windows media center and MythTV.
Intel HD graphics has full video acceleration. I was running a Core i3 with integrated video for a while that ran full 1080p 264 video without breaking a sweat.
> If anything, we need LESS of cable solutions and more slots.
'Cause that's what consumers are looking for, great big huge desktops with loads of slots. That's what's filling the aisles at Best Buy.
No, the majority of consumers want tiny, unobtrusive PC's that they have to mess with as little as possible.
> Look up at what's missing inside laptops in comparison to desktops.
Uh-huh. That's why nobody buys laptops. Oh wait, laptops are almost more popular than desktops these days. If only there was some technology that would bring PCIe level expandability to laptops without eating up a bunch of space like ExpressCard...
Go up two more levels. The thread is about tea party support for the repealing a section of the bill, as though they are the driving force behind it. They aren't, a law firm with strong Democratic ties is.
Ranting about astroturfing is kind of pointless when the minority leader of the house of reps is in the pocket of special interests.
They stand by their principles, otherwise they are not mavericks.
Dennis Kucinich brought up impeachment as a possibility for Obama, for ignoring presidential responsibility to ask congress for permission to bomb the crap out of Libya.
Ron Paul votes down nearly every piece of legislation he doesn't agree with, even when it's backed by Republicans.
> . A company that holds a patent on transmitting check numbers over the Internet (I am not kidding) lobbied Tea Party leaders and launched an astroturf campaign targeted at Tea Party members and depicting the provisions as "another bank bailout" (I am not kidding).
Tea party leaders like Nancy Pelosi, the first senator to come out against the bill? Or Ben Barnes, one of the largest Democratic fundraisers, who also opposed the amendment? Or that arch-republican, Maxine Waters?
But, sure, blame it all on the tea party if it makes you feel better. Keep on pretending that Democrats aren't every bit as beholden to special interests as Republicans.
> Basic assumption is that as long as they are toys, the numbers and sizes will remain small.
Seriously? You're saying that commercial use will outpace recreational use? Think of who is going to be using these things. A couple of news organizations per town, maybe?
Did you read the article at all? The "drone" the daily is using isn't that much larger than a large toy plane, and that's just because it's hauling an SLR. I've seen standard toy planes fitted with remote cameras as well - a large RC craft isn't absolutely required.
Precisely. Because piloting a small RC aircraft for fun is entirely safe. Piloting one for commercial gain turns them into unstoppable killing machines.
> Some plugins would even show additional information there, like the fact that certain content was blocked, or that the page doesn't contain valid HTML.
Yeah, like Noscript, Greasemonkey, and Firebug, all of which are still running up next to my URL bar. Now the messages only show up when there is something to show, instead of eating up a line that usually shows nothing.
Seriously, it sounds like you are looking for something to complain about. Or trolling.
How about this - the attacks are traced to China, or at least, they endpoint at their firewall. China monitors all internet traffic coming into and going out of their country. Their ISPs retain logs of all internet traffic as well. Governments ask for China's help tracking down an attack - China says "didn't come from here."
So what are we to believe? Either China's government is covering up the attacks, they are behind them, or they are incompetent at running a network.
>Graphic designers have turned it into an absolutely unusable pile of shit recently. By default, the menu bar and status bar are now gone.
Right Click -> Customize -> Menu bar.
Seriously, that's what you are complaining about? And what are you missing the status bar for? Links still show up when you hover, they just go away when you aren't.
There's a great essay by Leonard Read about how incredibly difficult it is to make a pencil from scratch. A steam turbine and generator are a bit more complicated than a pencil.
> I thought it was too little regulation that allowed our banking system to collapse, greatly reducing funding for risky, innovative new ideas, as well as basic research.
The banking industry is regulated eight ways from Sunday. You can argue that, through the backing of the government, the banks felt that they could take on huge amounts of risk, as well as being pressured to do so by the fed keeping interest rates very low reducing the profit banks made on their core businesses. In other words, the government was making it so the banks couldn't make money on traditional loans, but would back them up if they decided to make risky, complicated loan investments. So what did you expect them to do?
> You'll note that the regulated economies are the richest ones. The developing and poor nations have much less regulation.
You treat regulation as if it were one thing, and it is always good. A lot of the regulation in the US isn't designed to keep people safe or secure, it's designed to protect incumbent industries or artificially generate revenue for private enterprise by creating artificial scarcity. Look at most state's liquor laws for a fantastic example of this.
Other side of the state, but still cool. That thing is startling to see walking around a corner for the first time. Grand Rapids has a really cool art competition that has huge installations scattered through the city. I think the steam pig was a winner one year.
I bought some oddball Iberian cheese from a local shop a couple of years ago. It was supposed to be some mild blue cheese. It was really intense, and I thought it had gone bad. I took it back and they gave me a credit, and I bought something else.
Crazy, right? I managed to fix the situation without the government testing all the cheese in the counter to make sure it isn't bad, is what the label says it is, and is what I thought it was going to be.
The guy at the shop said he had a couple people return that cheese, and he wasn't going to carry it anymore. This signals to the distributor, and to the manufacturer, that something is wrong with that cheese, and if enough shops do this, they'll either fix the problem or stop making it.
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This may come as a shock, but the people working on this stuff also don't want to destroy the earth, and they are pretty careful about making sure that it doesn't happen.
They aren't perfect, of course, but their imperfection also makes it less likely that they would create the perfect agent to destroy the earth, even on accident.
I'm sure the N9 will be a great investment in an already dead platform.
> Intel's GPUs are shit, and still choke on any complex video files
Do you have benchmarks backing this up? You can look up HD graphics benchmarks for video decoding and see they are about on-par with low end nVidia and ATI graphics cards. I've never heard of or seen "complex" video files degrading under DXVA acceleration.
I know of quite a few people using Intel HD graphics in home theater setups with no problems at all, using both windows media center and MythTV.
Intel HD graphics has full video acceleration. I was running a Core i3 with integrated video for a while that ran full 1080p 264 video without breaking a sweat.
> If anything, we need LESS of cable solutions and more slots.
'Cause that's what consumers are looking for, great big huge desktops with loads of slots. That's what's filling the aisles at Best Buy.
No, the majority of consumers want tiny, unobtrusive PC's that they have to mess with as little as possible.
> Look up at what's missing inside laptops in comparison to desktops.
Uh-huh. That's why nobody buys laptops. Oh wait, laptops are almost more popular than desktops these days. If only there was some technology that would bring PCIe level expandability to laptops without eating up a bunch of space like ExpressCard...
I know, the author wrote of is understand to hard the submission to me.
Go up two more levels. The thread is about tea party support for the repealing a section of the bill, as though they are the driving force behind it. They aren't, a law firm with strong Democratic ties is.
Ranting about astroturfing is kind of pointless when the minority leader of the house of reps is in the pocket of special interests.
They stand by their principles, otherwise they are not mavericks.
Dennis Kucinich brought up impeachment as a possibility for Obama, for ignoring presidential responsibility to ask congress for permission to bomb the crap out of Libya.
Ron Paul votes down nearly every piece of legislation he doesn't agree with, even when it's backed by Republicans.
Standard Oil was broken up. So was Bell and American Tobacco. Microsoft was smacked around quite a bit.
When was the last time the government ceded control of anything?
Corporate monopoly control exists as long as consumers, or the government, permit it. Governmental control is unending.
Not exactly. There are mavericks. Look for the members that the other members call crazy. Those are the people to vote for.
> . A company that holds a patent on transmitting check numbers over the Internet (I am not kidding) lobbied Tea Party leaders and launched an astroturf campaign targeted at Tea Party members and depicting the provisions as "another bank bailout" (I am not kidding).
Tea party leaders like Nancy Pelosi, the first senator to come out against the bill? Or Ben Barnes, one of the largest Democratic fundraisers, who also opposed the amendment? Or that arch-republican, Maxine Waters?
But, sure, blame it all on the tea party if it makes you feel better. Keep on pretending that Democrats aren't every bit as beholden to special interests as Republicans.
+1. Even with the spike in rare earth prices recently, it's still cheaper to get it from China than to source it locally.
> Basic assumption is that as long as they are toys, the numbers and sizes will remain small.
Seriously? You're saying that commercial use will outpace recreational use? Think of who is going to be using these things. A couple of news organizations per town, maybe?
Did you read the article at all? The "drone" the daily is using isn't that much larger than a large toy plane, and that's just because it's hauling an SLR. I've seen standard toy planes fitted with remote cameras as well - a large RC craft isn't absolutely required.
Precisely. Because piloting a small RC aircraft for fun is entirely safe. Piloting one for commercial gain turns them into unstoppable killing machines.
> Some plugins would even show additional information there, like the fact that certain content was blocked, or that the page doesn't contain valid HTML.
Yeah, like Noscript, Greasemonkey, and Firebug, all of which are still running up next to my URL bar. Now the messages only show up when there is something to show, instead of eating up a line that usually shows nothing.
Seriously, it sounds like you are looking for something to complain about. Or trolling.
How about this - the attacks are traced to China, or at least, they endpoint at their firewall. China monitors all internet traffic coming into and going out of their country. Their ISPs retain logs of all internet traffic as well. Governments ask for China's help tracking down an attack - China says "didn't come from here."
So what are we to believe? Either China's government is covering up the attacks, they are behind them, or they are incompetent at running a network.
16MB - sure, but .NET isn't the most compact code in the world. Nor is the framework - even the "compact" framework sucks up several megs.
>Graphic designers have turned it into an absolutely unusable pile of shit recently. By default, the menu bar and status bar are now gone.
Right Click -> Customize -> Menu bar.
Seriously, that's what you are complaining about? And what are you missing the status bar for? Links still show up when you hover, they just go away when you aren't.
There's a great essay by Leonard Read about how incredibly difficult it is to make a pencil from scratch. A steam turbine and generator are a bit more complicated than a pencil.
What did win? That crazy pencil drawing? That was cool and all, but two story steampunk pig! C'mon!
> I thought it was too little regulation that allowed our banking system to collapse, greatly reducing funding for risky, innovative new ideas, as well as basic research.
The banking industry is regulated eight ways from Sunday. You can argue that, through the backing of the government, the banks felt that they could take on huge amounts of risk, as well as being pressured to do so by the fed keeping interest rates very low reducing the profit banks made on their core businesses. In other words, the government was making it so the banks couldn't make money on traditional loans, but would back them up if they decided to make risky, complicated loan investments. So what did you expect them to do?
> You'll note that the regulated economies are the richest ones. The developing and poor nations have much less regulation.
You treat regulation as if it were one thing, and it is always good. A lot of the regulation in the US isn't designed to keep people safe or secure, it's designed to protect incumbent industries or artificially generate revenue for private enterprise by creating artificial scarcity. Look at most state's liquor laws for a fantastic example of this.
LOL yeah a little different :)
> Not to mention the Gouda from CostCo that had e-coli.
So even with all the regulation we have now, bad stuff still happens? What regulation would have prevented this?
Other side of the state, but still cool. That thing is startling to see walking around a corner for the first time. Grand Rapids has a really cool art competition that has huge installations scattered through the city. I think the steam pig was a winner one year.
I bought some oddball Iberian cheese from a local shop a couple of years ago. It was supposed to be some mild blue cheese. It was really intense, and I thought it had gone bad. I took it back and they gave me a credit, and I bought something else.
Crazy, right? I managed to fix the situation without the government testing all the cheese in the counter to make sure it isn't bad, is what the label says it is, and is what I thought it was going to be.
The guy at the shop said he had a couple people return that cheese, and he wasn't going to carry it anymore. This signals to the distributor, and to the manufacturer, that something is wrong with that cheese, and if enough shops do this, they'll either fix the problem or stop making it.