I have a flashed ATI 4870 (1GB) in my early 2008 Mac Pro.
Love it, works great, both screens supported perfectly with DVI, get the boot screens and everything. Dual-height card with an exhaust instead of scatter-fan, which is nice.
I know, flashed card, not exactly a standard option...
(a) Sorry, no. Registration does not affect your rights/ability to own or shoot a gun UNLESS you're not supposed to have one in the first place, just like backgrounds checks do now. Unless you're advocating for an/all people to be able to own a gun, you are incorrect.
Also, assuming you (yes, YOU) are legally allowed to purchase a gun, registration would make 0 difference in your ability to own/fire a gun.
(b) Seeing as there is no registration for firearms in the US, I fail to see how you can reach that conclusion. Secondly, registering of cars/licensing of drivers works pretty damn well. Get pulled over without a license, go to jail. Get pulled over in a car that's not registered to you (i.e. stolen), go to jail.
But second, while the excuse for registration has always been to ensure proper and responsible use, in practice the actual use of registration has often -- almost invariably, in fact -- ended up being to restrict.
Yes, JUST LIKE CARS. Dangerous items should be registered so as to keep them out of the hands of crazies/incapable people.
That repertoire turns out to be more intriguing than Thompson could have imagined. Although the configuration program specified tasks for all 100 cells, it transpired that only 32 were essential to the circuit's operation. Thompson could bypass the other cells without affecting it. A further five cells appeared to serve no logical purpose at all--there was no route of connections by which they could influence the output. And yet if he disconnected them, the circuit stopped working.
It appears that evolution made use of some physical property of these cells--possibly a capacitive effect or electromagnetic inductance--to influence a signal passing nearby. Somehow, it seized on this subtle effect and incorporated it into the solution.
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Another challenge is to make the circuit work over a wide temperature range. On this score, the human digital scheme proves its worth. Conventional microprocessors typically work between -20 0C and 80 0C. Human designers set the clock so that chip components have enough time to settle into a digital value. As many computer hackers know, they can turn up the clock speed if they keep the temperature of the microprocessor low because the transistors settle into their on or off states more quickly when cold.
Thompson's evolved circuit only works over a 10 0C range--the temperature range in the laboratory during the experiment. This is probably because the temperature changes the capacitance, resistance or some other property of the circuit's components. Whatever the cause, this is a serious drawback. If the circuit needs a temperature controller to enable it to operate, then it is no longer a cheap, low-power device. But evolution could come to the rescue here as well. In a future genetic algorithm, Thompson plans to score circuits not only on how well they perform an electronic task, but also on how well they cope with temperature variation. Evolution might, for example, create a design that includes a set of subcircuits each of which operates over a different temperature range. If this fails to solve the problem, Thompson will try giving the FPGA a clock. But he won't tell the circuit what to do with it. "It will be a resource--we'll see what use evolution makes of it," he says.
We are very complex machines with LOTS of unexpected connections. Take out one little bit of "junk" DNA, the whole thing collapses because of the utterly bizarre inter-dependencies that have evolved over millions of years.
Not to take food from other people and become a warlord, but to off myself if civilization falls apart. No desire to star in a real life version of "The Road", thank you very much!
I don't have the hubris to think that my uninformed whims and impulses are the best possible moral decisions anyone could make. So it's useful to have a handbook, even a set of fairy tales as you put it, to put things in perspective.
So any handbook will do? If I wrote a handbook today, and gave it to you, would that be just as good as the Bible?
Why do you believe people from 2000 years ago had a better handle on morality than modern people do?
No fumbling with cords or trying to align it just right in the dock.
As soon as I read this, imagining one of those crappy infomercials with a lady (in black and white, of course) hopelessly fumbling with a USB cable while trying to plug in a phone, then she looks at the camera with a "there's got to be a better way" expression.
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CFLs are more like $1.50 each:
http://www.amazon.com/GE-13-Watt-Energy-SmartTM-replacement/dp/B000NISDNU/
I have a flashed ATI 4870 (1GB) in my early 2008 Mac Pro.
Love it, works great, both screens supported perfectly with DVI, get the boot screens and everything. Dual-height card with an exhaust instead of scatter-fan, which is nice.
I know, flashed card, not exactly a standard option...
I flew out of Chicago Midway to LAX about a month after 9/11.
The food area of the airport had plastic forks, plastic spoons....but plastic knives were not allowed. Insanity.
because HPV is preventable in behavior
Right, which is why states with abstinence-only sex ed have the highest incidence of teen pregnancy...
From everything I've read about dirty bombs, their radiological damage is negligible...it's all about creating panic.
They're awesome. Fuck the Cards.
Please compare the kinetic energy of a swung hammer vs a speeding car. I'll wait.
(a) Sorry, no. Registration does not affect your rights/ability to own or shoot a gun UNLESS you're not supposed to have one in the first place, just like backgrounds checks do now. Unless you're advocating for an/all people to be able to own a gun, you are incorrect.
Also, assuming you (yes, YOU) are legally allowed to purchase a gun, registration would make 0 difference in your ability to own/fire a gun.
(b) Seeing as there is no registration for firearms in the US, I fail to see how you can reach that conclusion. Secondly, registering of cars/licensing of drivers works pretty damn well. Get pulled over without a license, go to jail. Get pulled over in a car that's not registered to you (i.e. stolen), go to jail.
But second, while the excuse for registration has always been to ensure proper and responsible use, in practice the actual use of registration has often -- almost invariably, in fact -- ended up being to restrict.
Yes, JUST LIKE CARS. Dangerous items should be registered so as to keep them out of the hands of crazies/incapable people.
Registering guns does not reduce your right to bear or shoot guns. At all.
I'm pretty sure those guys are still civilians...right?
Um, I don't think there is such a thing as a non-civilian, non-government job...
Meh, it can actually be pretty useful once you get to where you can deal with both visual fields.
Get used to looking through a scope with both eyes open, you get zoom detail from one and and wide-field/situational awareness from the other.
That repertoire turns out to be more intriguing than Thompson could
have imagined. Although the configuration program specified tasks for
all 100 cells, it transpired that only 32 were essential to the
circuit's operation. Thompson could bypass the other cells without
affecting it. A further five cells appeared to serve no logical
purpose at all--there was no route of connections by which they could
influence the output. And yet if he disconnected them, the circuit
stopped working.
It appears that evolution made use of some physical property of these
cells--possibly a capacitive effect or electromagnetic inductance--to
influence a signal passing nearby. Somehow, it seized on this subtle
effect and incorporated it into the solution.
-------------
Another challenge is to make the circuit work over a wide temperature
range. On this score, the human digital scheme proves its
worth. Conventional microprocessors typically work between -20 0C and
80 0C. Human designers set the clock so that chip components have
enough time to settle into a digital value. As many computer hackers
know, they can turn up the clock speed if they keep the temperature of
the microprocessor low because the transistors settle into their on or
off states more quickly when cold.
Thompson's evolved circuit only works over a 10 0C range--the
temperature range in the laboratory during the experiment. This is
probably because the temperature changes the capacitance, resistance
or some other property of the circuit's components. Whatever the
cause, this is a serious drawback. If the circuit needs a temperature
controller to enable it to operate, then it is no longer a cheap,
low-power device. But evolution could come to the rescue here as well.
In a future genetic algorithm, Thompson plans to score circuits not
only on how well they perform an electronic task, but also on how well
they cope with temperature variation. Evolution might, for example,
create a design that includes a set of subcircuits each of which
operates over a different temperature range. If this fails to solve
the problem, Thompson will try giving the FPGA a clock. But he won't
tell the circuit what to do with it. "It will be a resource--we'll see
what use evolution makes of it," he says.
Junk DNA is basically this:
http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.2965-001/geneticalgex
We are very complex machines with LOTS of unexpected connections. Take out one little bit of "junk" DNA, the whole thing collapses because of the utterly bizarre inter-dependencies that have evolved over millions of years.
**THUNKA CHUNKA THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK**
Man those things were so fucking loud.
PS - Lameness filter, I'm yelling on purpose!
Hm. Ok, well, more for us, then.
Enjoy hell on Earth! :)
We may all be survivalists someday.
Fuck that. That's the reason I have a gun.
Not to take food from other people and become a warlord, but to off myself if civilization falls apart. No desire to star in a real life version of "The Road", thank you very much!
I don't have the hubris to think that my uninformed whims and impulses are the best possible moral decisions anyone could make. So it's useful to have a handbook, even a set of fairy tales as you put it, to put things in perspective.
So any handbook will do? If I wrote a handbook today, and gave it to you, would that be just as good as the Bible?
Why do you believe people from 2000 years ago had a better handle on morality than modern people do?
Great! Please name the church so I can go check for myself.
A quick phone-call would verify/not, correct?
Otherwise, I do believe you are full of shit, sir.
All the dust and microscratches scatter the light across the surface, and the pilot can no longer see out.
Yeah, for about 2 milliseconds. Are pilots also not allowed to blink?
LURKS behind you....sheesh. :)
Rooting is nice (.hosts ad blocking, etc), but other than that, I agree....meh. No need for crazy custom firmwares.
Hypertalk is a lot like that.
No fumbling with cords or trying to align it just right in the dock.
As soon as I read this, imagining one of those crappy infomercials with a lady (in black and white, of course) hopelessly fumbling with a USB cable while trying to plug in a phone, then she looks at the camera with a "there's got to be a better way" expression.