With Linux or any *nix its even easier than this. I've used this method for years using Squid for web. Now with the SOCKS 5 proxy built into new ssh implementations, even all my IM clients go through ssh. This is the best way to go to cover your butt IMO.
Ceaser is a good general, there are a few I'd place above him non-euro centric. The Mongolian warlords of Ghengis Khan and his descendents Kublai Khan and Tamerlane were successful by any measure. The Chinese general Wudi of Western Han would be the closest I can think of in the east to Ceaser... both helped push their respective civilizations to near the top. From the Mid East you have names like Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenian line in Persia and Ottoman conquerer Suleman and Mehmed II. Heck, I'd place Scipio Africanus above Ceaser in terms of generalship and his rival Hannibal was pretty damn good too. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Frankly, William doesn't belong near the top with these fellows and just Anglo centricism.
Point is, any of the past "great" (read: militarily successful) civilizations back in their day had a good list of conquerors. Otherwise, they wouldn't of been successful. Ceaser conquers the imagination because of the romance with Rome and the political intrigue of the time.
I'm not a graphics professional, but my entire college went SGI when I entered freshman year back in 94.
I remember touring the campus to decide where I wanted to go and entering the Unix Lab which was full of SGI Indy workstations. I remember someone showing me a shark swimming through the water, rendered in real time! This was amazing back then before the era of our high powered GPU cards. When I finally was taking classes there, we replaced entire VAX Clusters with a "little" SGI 6-CPU Challenge L. I also had the chance to relax and goof off with friends junior year playing GL-Quake multiplayer on Indys and Indigos with 20" monitors which was just incredible.
Goodbye SGI.. in your heyday, you were an even cooler computer than a Mac. They were more exclusive and had cooler looking case/keyboard designs.
All I'm doing is posing questions to add to the discussion. I'm not any expert on economics, I know history fairly well but not on the economic side of things.
That's how we want to see ourselves. I suspect that we're more the cultural descendents of the Huns, the Vandals, The Norse, etc. I always found it interesting that as a conquered part of Rome, we (Western European not including Italy) seem to be the "true" inheritors of their culture. Rome extended as far East as West, but it seems in the East they haven't had as profound an effect as the Romans did on us.
I've heard the climate theory before and it was pretty interesting indeed. But I thought about it and it really doesn't explain why most of the major regional "superpowers" before the industrial revolution were fairly moderate in climate. Rome, India, China from Han to Ming dynasties, Ottomans, the Caliphates, Egypt, Helenistic period, etc etc all pretty much existed in pretty nice weather conditions.
I personally think, to explain the industrial revolution, you first have to explain why capitalism took off, which was the catalyst to pursue industrialization. That's a tough issue altogether to figure out. One has to keep in mind, Western Europe (except Italy, which was really a Mediterrean power) was pretty much a backwater until the Industrial Revolution. Before the middle ages, Gaul, Iberia, Germania, the British Isles were populated in the Roman era by warring tribes. Rome always knew where the real prize was east. Most notably the Greek successors, Parthia, and what little they knew of India and the Seres (the Han). The way we are taught in history class makes Western europe seem like the successors of Grecco-Roman culture and in many ways we are. But those same people back then regarded that part of the world as barbarian tribes to be conquered. So we're left with the same question as before.. why and how did this neglected part of the world revolutionize the rest of the world?
I would say the primary reasons are:
1) the non-centralized/socialized telecoms and
2) every consider the size of our country compared to the other ones? We are alot larger and have people living in much more remote areas.
No historian is 100% why its Western Europe that had the Industrial Revolution and the advent of capitalism. Many historians and historical economists debate this left and right with no conclusive answer. Argubly, Western Europe was pretty backwater compared to the rest of the world until the Rennesscense(sp?). The Ottomans, India, China all had larger more powerful economies. That fact is the basis of some historians that the other empires and civilizations of the time didn't need one since they were already doing quite well so they became complacent. For an excellent history (and future predictions) of our sociological and economic system, check out Immanuel Wallerstein's "The End of the World as we know it." Its a scholarly work, a bit hard to follow at times, but a very, very interesting read that will change the way you think about how things were and are.
The conclusion? I went with FSP power supplies labeled as Fortron or Sparkle Power. Yes, you can get nicer more expensive ones, but for a very low price, these beasts couldn't be beat for price/performance. I opened up 300w Sparkle, a cheapie 400watt free with case, and my friends ThermalTake which was fairly pricey rated at 350watt. In terms of size of capacitors, mosfets, heat sinks, etc, the Sparkle definately had the edge in size (size does matter with this stuff!). I replaced all 3 of my systems with these and they are humming along great.
Most definately.
Except for IMAX theaters, which truly do kick ass, my home theater is better than the movie theater for the most part anyway. The theaters here are old, with relatively smallish screens, and a sound system that sounds like an AM radio compared to my Paradigm setup at home.
Its a shame that most folks (in the US anyway) think all electronic music is all instrumental. There's a fairly big genre of music called synthpop, which is basically the descendents of the 80s new wave bands such as Depeche Mode and New Order.
vannevar/van'*-var//n./
A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar Bush's prediction of 'electronic brains' the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and relays, a prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, videotex, and a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later.
And this is why future predictions are nearly almost wrong. Think about it. What would someone from the 20s think life is like today only 65 years from then?
Instantaneous communication all over the world? Yes, that has happened (more or less) but not the way they predicted it. Its not through some star trek phone but rather using machines *completely* unthinkable in interface and design.
General computation machines on our desktop? Nope. Flying cars? Nope but would they of predicted hybrid electrics? Nanotech wasnt even an idea yet but we're approaching slowly going that way. GPS system? Quantum physics? The list goes on and on...
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With Linux or any *nix its even easier than this. I've used this method for years using Squid for web. Now with the SOCKS 5 proxy built into new ssh implementations, even all my IM clients go through ssh. This is the best way to go to cover your butt IMO.
It's only overhyped if noone buys it.
Ceaser is a good general, there are a few I'd place above him non-euro centric. The Mongolian warlords of Ghengis Khan and his descendents Kublai Khan and Tamerlane were successful by any measure. The Chinese general Wudi of Western Han would be the closest I can think of in the east to Ceaser... both helped push their respective civilizations to near the top. From the Mid East you have names like Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenian line in Persia and Ottoman conquerer Suleman and Mehmed II. Heck, I'd place Scipio Africanus above Ceaser in terms of generalship and his rival Hannibal was pretty damn good too. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Frankly, William doesn't belong near the top with these fellows and just Anglo centricism. Point is, any of the past "great" (read: militarily successful) civilizations back in their day had a good list of conquerors. Otherwise, they wouldn't of been successful. Ceaser conquers the imagination because of the romance with Rome and the political intrigue of the time.
I for one am waiting for the mixed reality World of Warcraft party. Can't wait to see what combustion+pyroblast plus epic trinkets will do to a car!
I remember touring the campus to decide where I wanted to go and entering the Unix Lab which was full of SGI Indy workstations. I remember someone showing me a shark swimming through the water, rendered in real time! This was amazing back then before the era of our high powered GPU cards. When I finally was taking classes there, we replaced entire VAX Clusters with a "little" SGI 6-CPU Challenge L. I also had the chance to relax and goof off with friends junior year playing GL-Quake multiplayer on Indys and Indigos with 20" monitors which was just incredible.
Goodbye SGI.. in your heyday, you were an even cooler computer than a Mac. They were more exclusive and had cooler looking case/keyboard designs.
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All I'm doing is posing questions to add to the discussion. I'm not any expert on economics, I know history fairly well but not on the economic side of things.
That's how we want to see ourselves. I suspect that we're more the cultural descendents of the Huns, the Vandals, The Norse, etc.
I always found it interesting that as a conquered part of Rome, we (Western European not including Italy) seem to be the "true" inheritors of their culture. Rome extended as far East as West, but it seems in the East they haven't had as profound an effect as the Romans did on us.
I personally think, to explain the industrial revolution, you first have to explain why capitalism took off, which was the catalyst to pursue industrialization. That's a tough issue altogether to figure out. One has to keep in mind, Western Europe (except Italy, which was really a Mediterrean power) was pretty much a backwater until the Industrial Revolution. Before the middle ages, Gaul, Iberia, Germania, the British Isles were populated in the Roman era by warring tribes. Rome always knew where the real prize was east. Most notably the Greek successors, Parthia, and what little they knew of India and the Seres (the Han). The way we are taught in history class makes Western europe seem like the successors of Grecco-Roman culture and in many ways we are. But those same people back then regarded that part of the world as barbarian tribes to be conquered. So we're left with the same question as before.. why and how did this neglected part of the world revolutionize the rest of the world?
I would say the primary reasons are: 1) the non-centralized/socialized telecoms and 2) every consider the size of our country compared to the other ones? We are alot larger and have people living in much more remote areas.
No historian is 100% why its Western Europe that had the Industrial Revolution and the advent of capitalism. Many historians and historical economists debate this left and right with no conclusive answer. Argubly, Western Europe was pretty backwater compared to the rest of the world until the Rennesscense(sp?). The Ottomans, India, China all had larger more powerful economies. That fact is the basis of some historians that the other empires and civilizations of the time didn't need one since they were already doing quite well so they became complacent. For an excellent history (and future predictions) of our sociological and economic system, check out Immanuel Wallerstein's "The End of the World as we know it." Its a scholarly work, a bit hard to follow at times, but a very, very interesting read that will change the way you think about how things were and are.
See my post above. Yeah, most of the high price PSUs are generally good but there are some great pretty cheap bargains out there.
About 6 months ago, one of my cheap free-with-case PSU's died. I went on a mission to find a good bang for the buck PSU to replace all 3 of my systems with high quality PSUs. I read several tests and reviews, including the one on Toms and another http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=3598 67 and another http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/psus/index.x? pg=1 and not to mention http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=-270.
The conclusion? I went with FSP power supplies labeled as Fortron or Sparkle Power. Yes, you can get nicer more expensive ones, but for a very low price, these beasts couldn't be beat for price/performance. I opened up 300w Sparkle, a cheapie 400watt free with case, and my friends ThermalTake which was fairly pricey rated at 350watt. In terms of size of capacitors, mosfets, heat sinks, etc, the Sparkle definately had the edge in size (size does matter with this stuff!). I replaced all 3 of my systems with these and they are humming along great.
Most definately. Except for IMAX theaters, which truly do kick ass, my home theater is better than the movie theater for the most part anyway. The theaters here are old, with relatively smallish screens, and a sound system that sounds like an AM radio compared to my Paradigm setup at home.
Its a shame that most folks (in the US anyway) think all electronic music is all instrumental. There's a fairly big genre of music called synthpop, which is basically the descendents of the 80s new wave bands such as Depeche Mode and New Order.
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And this is why future predictions are nearly almost wrong. Think about it. What would someone from the 20s think life is like today only 65 years from then?
Instantaneous communication all over the world? Yes, that has happened (more or less) but not the way they predicted it. Its not through some star trek phone but rather using machines *completely* unthinkable in interface and design. General computation machines on our desktop? Nope. Flying cars? Nope but would they of predicted hybrid electrics? Nanotech wasnt even an idea yet but we're approaching slowly going that way. GPS system? Quantum physics? The list goes on and on...