What stood out to me is that AMD seems to have a fairly consistent price:performance ratio. Is this policy?
Most of their offerings fall pretty close to a line (not quite a zero crossing, but close). If this holds true for all their current and future offerings, you don't have to have test metrics for every processor. You can use price as a reasonable estimate of performance. i.e. Double the price gets you twice the performance.
Intel on the other hand, you can't trust price to indicate performance. A lot more research is involved. OR else you have to assume there's a high likelihood that the AMD offering for the same price will be better.
Ever see the opening ceremony of the Seoul Olympics? They released hundreds of doves, which flew off and landed around the stadium. Including the torch. Well, let the video speak for itself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdrSKor-Qs jump to about 3:10 in.
Yes and no. Depends on what age you pick. At 18, Americans are a bit behind the rest of the world. But the US has a much better non-traditional system than other countries. GEDs, junior colleges, and so on. By age 25, Americans are more educated than most other nationalities. Still lots of room for improvement though.
Because they will just shift to buying forks. Personally, I'm more afraid of fork crime than knife crime. Someone pulls a knife on you, you know you can just do what they say and live. Someone pulls a fork on you and you can be pretty sure they are a bit unbalanced. Worse, if someone pulls a spoon on you, odds are they will dig your shallow grave with the same spoon.
Or a positive correlation. Games are more expensive, so knife crime is down. Might even be causative: no money left after buying games to buy knives. Should be easy to check. Is spoon or fork crime up?
Gourmet or some such magazine had an article recently about bourbon. The article's main point is that bourbon quality is counter intuitive. The mass produced stuff is often better than the boutique stuff and the cheap brands compare well to the expensive ones. Their thought is that small batches just can't replicate some of the conditions of mass production that give it good flavor.
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
As you said, it's a preference thing that shouldn't be justified by some metric such as price.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on the circumstances, the 1st amendment doesn't say there can't be consequences for speaking freely. Just that laws can't be passed preventing free speech. Relative merit, such as it being solid scientific evidence has no bearing on whether the speech is permitted (no "especially" clause). But it does have a bearing on consequences.
In this instance, the legislature is stating that they are going to be pissed. The implication is that the university may not get the support is wants next time it comes calling. They aren't putting anyone in prison. Not taking any property. Just hinting they may not give money.
You might say not giving money money to the university is the same as taking it, but it's not. Any organization that takes in money has to keep their benefactor happy. Golden handcuffs are part of the bargain. Even when the benefactor is a douchebag. Solid scientific evidence means the consequences are that everyone now knows the OK legislature is filled with douchebags. That's the consequence of their free speech.
It's rare, but exists. My theory is that 99% of people in most groups are nice, but the 1% give that group a bad reputation. Rather than paint a whole group with a reputation, I've just decide that 1% of people are jerks no matter where you go.
In a decade of traveling internationally, the only 2 examples of hated towards Americans I can recall:
1) Nearly got my ass kicked by some old drunk guy for saying hi to a girl in a pub in Sydney (not hitting on her, saying hi). From his foul mouthed commentary, he didn't seem to like Americans and decided it was time to take one out. Eventually he chilled out and everyone else in Australia I ever met was cool.
2) Despite smooth flying, the pilot never turned of the seatbelt sign on a flight from Paris to Atlanta on Air France. After being stuck in our seats for almost 4 hours, the girl next to me was having some serious bladder issues. In serious pain and begging the flight attendant to let her go to the bathroom. After listening to a short commentary from the attendant on how despicable Americans are, he finally let her go.
I had a boss that would tell me one thing on day 1, forget and tell me the opposite on day 2 (sometimes hour 2 or sentence 2), forget again by day 3. I took that to mean I could flip a coin or decide which I thought was better.
IANAL, but it appears 20 years has elapsed internationally, and that US patents 5,021,945 and 4,847,755 are beyond their 17 year life. This is assuming these are the only live applications or continuations.
That's kind of what I figured. Anything of value will be striped off. Didn't realize they reused entire platforms (other than multiple horizontal wells drilled from one rig). Always figured the important stuff was modular and only the skeleton was left. In any case, the legs are pretty interesting if left in place.
They are sunk. Stuck right to the ocean floor. Knocking them over in deep water would just put them down so deep they wouldn't be nearly as much use to ocean life. Just another rusting hulk. If you mean detach them, tow them to shallow water, clean then sink em again, that may be a bit more trouble than anyone is willing to get into.
Yeah, but they are submarines. How are they going to see each other's starboard running lights? Just kidding. I grew up sailing, so you actually caught the joke better than most.
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0/0 gives me a headache. Have to keep carrying the zero.
What stood out to me is that AMD seems to have a fairly consistent price:performance ratio. Is this policy?
Most of their offerings fall pretty close to a line (not quite a zero crossing, but close). If this holds true for all their current and future offerings, you don't have to have test metrics for every processor. You can use price as a reasonable estimate of performance. i.e. Double the price gets you twice the performance.
Intel on the other hand, you can't trust price to indicate performance. A lot more research is involved. OR else you have to assume there's a high likelihood that the AMD offering for the same price will be better.
Maybe pipe the hot water to the toilets too. Maybe the lawn sprinklers. And so on. Think of the wasted cooling capacity of all that water.
Ah, brings back memories of Count Floyd and Dr. Tongue's, 3-D House of Slave Chics in SMELL-A-RAMA
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_walks_away_from_yahoo_deal.php
Ever see the opening ceremony of the Seoul Olympics? They released hundreds of doves, which flew off and landed around the stadium. Including the torch. Well, let the video speak for itself ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdrSKor-Qs
jump to about 3:10 in.
You couldn't have said it better! http://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm#amend07
Really. You couldn't.
Yes and no. Depends on what age you pick. At 18, Americans are a bit behind the rest of the world. But the US has a much better non-traditional system than other countries. GEDs, junior colleges, and so on. By age 25, Americans are more educated than most other nationalities. Still lots of room for improvement though.
Firefox 3.X being awful on a Mac is an understatement ... when running OSX 10.3.9
Both, if you're trying to justify more spending.
Because they will just shift to buying forks. Personally, I'm more afraid of fork crime than knife crime. Someone pulls a knife on you, you know you can just do what they say and live. Someone pulls a fork on you and you can be pretty sure they are a bit unbalanced. Worse, if someone pulls a spoon on you, odds are they will dig your shallow grave with the same spoon.
Or a positive correlation. Games are more expensive, so knife crime is down. Might even be causative: no money left after buying games to buy knives. Should be easy to check. Is spoon or fork crime up?
Gourmet or some such magazine had an article recently about bourbon. The article's main point is that bourbon quality is counter intuitive. The mass produced stuff is often better than the boutique stuff and the cheap brands compare well to the expensive ones. Their thought is that small batches just can't replicate some of the conditions of mass production that give it good flavor.
On a related note, I had a tequila expert/snob tell me to never ever ever use good tequila in a margarita. A waste of money.
As you said, it's a preference thing that shouldn't be justified by some metric such as price.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on the circumstances, the 1st amendment doesn't say there can't be consequences for speaking freely. Just that laws can't be passed preventing free speech. Relative merit, such as it being solid scientific evidence has no bearing on whether the speech is permitted (no "especially" clause). But it does have a bearing on consequences.
In this instance, the legislature is stating that they are going to be pissed. The implication is that the university may not get the support is wants next time it comes calling. They aren't putting anyone in prison. Not taking any property. Just hinting they may not give money.
You might say not giving money money to the university is the same as taking it, but it's not. Any organization that takes in money has to keep their benefactor happy. Golden handcuffs are part of the bargain. Even when the benefactor is a douchebag. Solid scientific evidence means the consequences are that everyone now knows the OK legislature is filled with douchebags. That's the consequence of their free speech.
It's rare, but exists. My theory is that 99% of people in most groups are nice, but the 1% give that group a bad reputation. Rather than paint a whole group with a reputation, I've just decide that 1% of people are jerks no matter where you go.
In a decade of traveling internationally, the only 2 examples of hated towards Americans I can recall:
1) Nearly got my ass kicked by some old drunk guy for saying hi to a girl in a pub in Sydney (not hitting on her, saying hi). From his foul mouthed commentary, he didn't seem to like Americans and decided it was time to take one out. Eventually he chilled out and everyone else in Australia I ever met was cool.
2) Despite smooth flying, the pilot never turned of the seatbelt sign on a flight from Paris to Atlanta on Air France. After being stuck in our seats for almost 4 hours, the girl next to me was having some serious bladder issues. In serious pain and begging the flight attendant to let her go to the bathroom. After listening to a short commentary from the attendant on how despicable Americans are, he finally let her go.
So my 1% is rounded up.
Conflicting advice is a good thing.
I had a boss that would tell me one thing on day 1, forget and tell me the opposite on day 2 (sometimes hour 2 or sentence 2), forget again by day 3. I took that to mean I could flip a coin or decide which I thought was better.
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This sucks! No C02 means: 1) All plants will soon die 2) All animals die soon after (including us) 3) ? 4) !profit
Does that count as a patch?
IANAL, but it appears 20 years has elapsed internationally, and that US patents 5,021,945 and 4,847,755 are beyond their 17 year life. This is assuming these are the only live applications or continuations.
That's kind of what I figured. Anything of value will be striped off. Didn't realize they reused entire platforms (other than multiple horizontal wells drilled from one rig). Always figured the important stuff was modular and only the skeleton was left. In any case, the legs are pretty interesting if left in place.
They are sunk. Stuck right to the ocean floor. Knocking them over in deep water would just put them down so deep they wouldn't be nearly as much use to ocean life. Just another rusting hulk. If you mean detach them, tow them to shallow water, clean then sink em again, that may be a bit more trouble than anyone is willing to get into.
In short, kids and governments need spankings?
Yeah, but they are submarines. How are they going to see each other's starboard running lights? Just kidding. I grew up sailing, so you actually caught the joke better than most.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891770.stm