Does anyone remember in the IMAX documentary Solarmax where a super solar flare is mentioned? If I remember correctly, a super-duper solar flare is long overdue, and it has the potential of wiping out our entire satellite fleet.
Also, here you can find a more detailed account of the recent solar flare than the AP article that appears on CNN:
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/050908_solar_fla re.html
Projected? Alex Smith WAS drafted #1 pick to the 49ers...that's a reality. Bogut is coming up, and is almost a sure bet to go quick in the NBA draft. And Chandrashekhar has nowhere to get drafted to except...well...the annals of history. All important ventures, right?
I agree the church tries to stay out of religious matters, but to say the church doesn't have influence in Utah politics is ridiculous. It has a lot of influence, but does not operate in a top-down approach. It's more of a majority opinion that already existed instead of receiving a revelation from the Church's First Presidency.
You're right and wrong. Yes, Mormon's as a whole are very pro-science and love technology and accept wholeheartedly any human advancement. Milo was a Mormon and he invented the television. John Huntsman Senior (Utah's Governor's Daddy) is Mormon and he invented a whole slew of things, including the styrofoam thingies that hold your coffee cup and pancakes at McDonalds.
You're wrong about Mormon's believing about the lost tribes of Israel being extraterrestrials. Although we believe the lost tribes will come back in a remarkable way.
Five percent market share increase? Whooped-dee-doo. Dell already won the race.
You can count me out of the Mac world. The only outstanding products are their monitors. They have superior display resolution, period, unless anyone else can show me a product that's better. Aside from that, Macintosh as a brand would have to grow much faster to overtake any PC ground, and that seems unlikely with their otherwise equivocal or inferior products, including the IPOD or the Mac Mini.
And then one day Wikipedia will go through puberty and finally become WIKIPEDIA GALACTICA, with 10^17 entries, even more stubs and peer-reviewed by not just individuals, but meta-moderated by civilizations..."We who became one", "We who survived" and, of course, "Humanity".
From the press release:
"Informed gamers and PC enthusiasts know that NVIDIA SLI graphics technology and NVIDIA nForce MCPs are synonymous with incredible performance and exceptional features," said Drew Henry, general manager of platform business at NVIDIA. "I am excited to provide IDF attendees with a preview of the features and performance that NVIDIA nForce MCPs can bring to Intel-based PCs."
Will nVidia continue to pursue SLI configurations in Intel mobos? I think it makes sense to do so. Intel chipsets have a much bigger market, and SLI is just barely coming of age. SLI would certainly distinguish nVidia from other Intel chipset manufacturers. Sounds like nVidia is doing well enough to expand into the Pentium/Celeron/Xeon market. Finally some options for P4 users! But what will they call it??? Will they call their Intel chipsets "nForce" or something else? Waiting for benchmarks...
I concur. PC's rock and will always be cutting edge because they're scalable. PCs have the best games at better resolutions with more multiplayer games played online than any console, ever. PC users are probably early-adopters too, more so than console-ites.
And yes, the article sucked and is deservedly getting slammed.
I'd like to go up against you to see what you're made of.
Acknowledge.
Flynn: [gesturing at his video game arcade] The kids are putting eight million quarters a week into the paranoid machines. I don't see a dime except for what I can squeeze outta here.
Alan: I still don't understand why you want to break into the system.
Flynn: Because, man! Somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence! If I got in far enough, I could reconstruct it.
Console and PC gamers are different market audiences ALBEIT OVERLAPPING. I for one am in the PC camp (PC's are scalable/upgradable). I see your logic in combining them/emulating which has been done, but commercially speaking, as long as there are chances to diversify their market saturation companies will keep 'em seperated. Once again we return to the common denominator of money.
Bring back Jeff Bridges. He may be up to doing more Tron stuff. He single-handedly redeemed the film anyway. He has had nothing but good things to say about his memories of making the film and added some great, interesting insight in the DVD interviews. www.JeffBridges.com is one of the most creative websites on the Internet by the way...nearly completely handwritten.
Lisberger's original script is the most original screenplay I've ever read. A Tron remake would obviously stick to elements that made the orginal so interesting, but like any remake will undoubtedly make its own statement.
This actually happened to our family this past August. My 19 year-old sister died in a car accident. I think my mother wanted access to her email to spread the news to her friends since she was very active on the Internet and had international friends. My mother had purely altruistic motives. My sister had actually told my mother her password, but because of the trauma of the situation, my mother couldn't remember. My mother ended up remembering it a few days later when she could think clearly.
I didn't realize it until it happened, but when your sister dies, you want people who loved her to know. There's this need to want people to know what happened, no matter how traumatic. We still can't reach one of her old friends.
I understand the privacy issue, and I treasure my online privacy too, but I agree with other Slashdotters...when you're dead you're dead and the secrets you leave behind don't matter much anymore. There's not much use for it there. But if there's a use for the family, perhaps looking for things to hold on to even for momentary comfort, I think that's the right thing to do.
I think the real issue is ownership. Yahoo owns the servers, and thus our web-based e-mail, no? When in that case, the analogy of say my father dying and me inheriting his car wouldn't work with e-mail since e-mail isn't owned like a car.
Secret combinations, like secret organizations, secret societies, loosely organized or tightly knit, government-funded or not. There are secrets we don't know about but need to crack because they're evil, that's what I'm advocating.
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Libraries won't be replaced by the Internet. They'll be replaced by electronic archiving, which of course be distributed on the Internet. You're right, accuracy and reliability of online resources is questionable, but isn't truth, truth?
It doesn't matter that newspapers survive.
"As loyal as I am to newspapers, I confess it's not even essential that the ink-on-paper medium survives. What matters is that journalism survive, that the craft of speaking truth to power with factual care not be snuffed out."
-Chris Satullo, editorial-page editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004
Are you calling me conservative? How'd you guess.
I have nothing against book clubs, liberal or otherwise. I do, however, have something against terrorists.
Let's explore an inane analogy...of course the net has dark alleys, and Gotham-like recesses and ghettos and city centers and mesas and pastoral pastures and green forests and mountain peaks and an extension of reality, a realm for the imaganation for humanity called the Internet. It's just a medium! And yes, humanity has terrorists, a cancerous evil. This isn't news. It's a modern day reality, and we're dealing with it. Secret combinations of people, the underworld, plot and execute and it's morbid to watch it on the news, and yet it's real. And yet they're right here, perhaps perusing Slashdot, browsing placidly. But I believe no matter where they are, just like anything these secret combinations can be cracked. We'll win this war because they're cowards.
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Does anyone remember in the IMAX documentary Solarmax where a super solar flare is mentioned? If I remember correctly, a super-duper solar flare is long overdue, and it has the potential of wiping out our entire satellite fleet. Also, here you can find a more detailed account of the recent solar flare than the AP article that appears on CNN: http://space.com/scienceastronomy/050908_solar_fla re.html
What year did ya graduate? Or are you currently attending?
I concur. High Five. *SLAP
Projected? Alex Smith WAS drafted #1 pick to the 49ers...that's a reality. Bogut is coming up, and is almost a sure bet to go quick in the NBA draft. And Chandrashekhar has nowhere to get drafted to except...well...the annals of history. All important ventures, right?
I resent that.
BCS and Math busters, yeah! (Utah Alum, 2003)
If IKEA is furnishing the moon base, cancel the invasion order.
I agree the church tries to stay out of religious matters, but to say the church doesn't have influence in Utah politics is ridiculous. It has a lot of influence, but does not operate in a top-down approach. It's more of a majority opinion that already existed instead of receiving a revelation from the Church's First Presidency.
You're right and wrong. Yes, Mormon's as a whole are very pro-science and love technology and accept wholeheartedly any human advancement. Milo was a Mormon and he invented the television. John Huntsman Senior (Utah's Governor's Daddy) is Mormon and he invented a whole slew of things, including the styrofoam thingies that hold your coffee cup and pancakes at McDonalds. You're wrong about Mormon's believing about the lost tribes of Israel being extraterrestrials. Although we believe the lost tribes will come back in a remarkable way.
Five percent market share increase? Whooped-dee-doo. Dell already won the race. You can count me out of the Mac world. The only outstanding products are their monitors. They have superior display resolution, period, unless anyone else can show me a product that's better. Aside from that, Macintosh as a brand would have to grow much faster to overtake any PC ground, and that seems unlikely with their otherwise equivocal or inferior products, including the IPOD or the Mac Mini.
And then one day Wikipedia will go through puberty and finally become WIKIPEDIA GALACTICA, with 10^17 entries, even more stubs and peer-reviewed by not just individuals, but meta-moderated by civilizations..."We who became one", "We who survived" and, of course, "Humanity".
Apparantly you haven't seen recent benchmarks on SLI: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/ index.html and here for Doom 3, Counterstrike and FarCry benches:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2258 &p=4
The store you work probably isn't selling SLI because the new SLI PCI-Express mobos were just released. They're available on Newegg, CDW, etc.
From the press release: "Informed gamers and PC enthusiasts know that NVIDIA SLI graphics technology and NVIDIA nForce MCPs are synonymous with incredible performance and exceptional features," said Drew Henry, general manager of platform business at NVIDIA. "I am excited to provide IDF attendees with a preview of the features and performance that NVIDIA nForce MCPs can bring to Intel-based PCs."
Will nVidia continue to pursue SLI configurations in Intel mobos? I think it makes sense to do so. Intel chipsets have a much bigger market, and SLI is just barely coming of age. SLI would certainly distinguish nVidia from other Intel chipset manufacturers. Sounds like nVidia is doing well enough to expand into the Pentium/Celeron/Xeon market. Finally some options for P4 users! But what will they call it??? Will they call their Intel chipsets "nForce" or something else? Waiting for benchmarks...
I concur. PC's rock and will always be cutting edge because they're scalable. PCs have the best games at better resolutions with more multiplayer games played online than any console, ever. PC users are probably early-adopters too, more so than console-ites. And yes, the article sucked and is deservedly getting slammed.
I'd like to go up against you to see what you're made of. Acknowledge. Flynn: [gesturing at his video game arcade] The kids are putting eight million quarters a week into the paranoid machines. I don't see a dime except for what I can squeeze outta here. Alan: I still don't understand why you want to break into the system. Flynn: Because, man! Somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence! If I got in far enough, I could reconstruct it.
Console and PC gamers are different market audiences ALBEIT OVERLAPPING. I for one am in the PC camp (PC's are scalable/upgradable). I see your logic in combining them/emulating which has been done, but commercially speaking, as long as there are chances to diversify their market saturation companies will keep 'em seperated. Once again we return to the common denominator of money.
"Borgish" management methods? You assimilated them? Fut the wuck?
Bring back Jeff Bridges. He may be up to doing more Tron stuff. He single-handedly redeemed the film anyway. He has had nothing but good things to say about his memories of making the film and added some great, interesting insight in the DVD interviews. www.JeffBridges.com is one of the most creative websites on the Internet by the way...nearly completely handwritten. Lisberger's original script is the most original screenplay I've ever read. A Tron remake would obviously stick to elements that made the orginal so interesting, but like any remake will undoubtedly make its own statement.
This actually happened to our family this past August. My 19 year-old sister died in a car accident. I think my mother wanted access to her email to spread the news to her friends since she was very active on the Internet and had international friends. My mother had purely altruistic motives. My sister had actually told my mother her password, but because of the trauma of the situation, my mother couldn't remember. My mother ended up remembering it a few days later when she could think clearly. I didn't realize it until it happened, but when your sister dies, you want people who loved her to know. There's this need to want people to know what happened, no matter how traumatic. We still can't reach one of her old friends. I understand the privacy issue, and I treasure my online privacy too, but I agree with other Slashdotters...when you're dead you're dead and the secrets you leave behind don't matter much anymore. There's not much use for it there. But if there's a use for the family, perhaps looking for things to hold on to even for momentary comfort, I think that's the right thing to do. I think the real issue is ownership. Yahoo owns the servers, and thus our web-based e-mail, no? When in that case, the analogy of say my father dying and me inheriting his car wouldn't work with e-mail since e-mail isn't owned like a car.
Secret combinations, like secret organizations, secret societies, loosely organized or tightly knit, government-funded or not. There are secrets we don't know about but need to crack because they're evil, that's what I'm advocating.
Libraries won't be replaced by the Internet. They'll be replaced by electronic archiving, which of course be distributed on the Internet. You're right, accuracy and reliability of online resources is questionable, but isn't truth, truth? It doesn't matter that newspapers survive. "As loyal as I am to newspapers, I confess it's not even essential that the ink-on-paper medium survives. What matters is that journalism survive, that the craft of speaking truth to power with factual care not be snuffed out." -Chris Satullo, editorial-page editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004
Libraries will be a waste of space and vacation time by the year 2000. Woops, what year are we in?
Are you calling me conservative? How'd you guess. I have nothing against book clubs, liberal or otherwise. I do, however, have something against terrorists.
Let's explore an inane analogy...of course the net has dark alleys, and Gotham-like recesses and ghettos and city centers and mesas and pastoral pastures and green forests and mountain peaks and an extension of reality, a realm for the imaganation for humanity called the Internet. It's just a medium! And yes, humanity has terrorists, a cancerous evil. This isn't news. It's a modern day reality, and we're dealing with it. Secret combinations of people, the underworld, plot and execute and it's morbid to watch it on the news, and yet it's real. And yet they're right here, perhaps perusing Slashdot, browsing placidly. But I believe no matter where they are, just like anything these secret combinations can be cracked. We'll win this war because they're cowards.