I call bullshit. I regularly try to get older content on bit torrent, I have all but given up for a lot of stuff. While finding the torrent is easy, it is pot luck as to whether there are any seeders, the older the content the less likely to be a seeder. basically I find it at best a 50-50 chance of finding it, usually much lower for anything not mainstream.
sounds like a comparison that the F-35 can't win. It is more expensive to fly, can't hang around for long period's like the A-10 and is relatively fragile by comparison. The only way I see the F-35 coming out on top is with some very carefully crafted scenarios to favour it and some creative weightings on victory conditions.
It isn't "your" money. As others have commented. It gets parked offshore due to the fact is was earned and generated in other countries and the moronic tax laws in the US that deem income earned anywhere in the world by a US Citizen/Company to be taxable in US if you bring the money back to the US. The US is one of the only countries on the planet with such insane outlook in how taxation should work and they deservedly suffer the penalty for not changing it (companies keep money OUT of the country and they invest elsewhere instead of the US).
some commenters believe Obama is an alien, the moon landings were faked and that the government is personally out to get them. seriously thousands of organisations run the OS where the desktop can't even access the internet at all, they work fine, including the ones where I work. conspiracy theorists are amazing in the shit they will make up, isn't there already enough REAL issues where we don't have to make up shit like that and look like tinfoil hat wearers.
upgrades have definitely reduced in performance gains. But if you can't find a SIGNIFICANT upgrade from a 560 for under $250 then you simply don't understand how to compare cards correctly.
personally I buy what I want to play at the time not wait 5 years to try and hopefully save $50. that may be a $5 game or a $60 game just released. $60 isn't a lot to pay for something I will spend many many hours on. cheaper than going to the movies and most other forms of entertainment I engage in. I find gaming saves me money as I would be spending far more on other activities.
If this is targeted at MOBA players, then it is probably overkill. I've got a 2011 Mac Pro with a Radeon 5870 (850Mhz GPU, 1GB VRAM). Playing League of Legends at 1920x1200, 60fps is no problem for this setup. These games are not graphically intensive, nor do they require much CPU horsepower. If you are going to drop money on hardware for MOBA gaming, spend it on a nice keyboard/mouse and the lowest latency ISP you can find. If your machine is less than 5 years old, whatever came stock is more than enough to play the game.
^this. it is not something you should buy as an upgrade, you should only get this sort of card if you are buying a new machine and that is your target gaming area. upgrading from a 650ti as the summary/article suggests to this would be brain dead moronic.
For fucks sake. Make your minds up, it is either a currency or it is a commodity. It seems bitcoin tards change the definition on a daily or hourly basis depending on what they want to argue against at the time.
Never attribute malice to something that can easily be explained by incompetence. Nvidia and AMD have a long history of incompetence when it comes to drivers (and not just on Linux).
I suspect you are still living in the 90's or you need to get out more. Suspend and hibernate are perhaps the most commonly used method in windows laptops nowadays. It is even heavily used in the corporate world. full shutdowns have not been necessary since pre win 7 days.
These are laws aimed at commercial pirate operations not home users. Though I would still argue longer sentences really aren't going to do much as these people don't ever believe they are going to be caught anyway.http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/08/16/2116237/legal-scholars-warn-against-10-year-prison-for-online-pirates#
So your healthcare will pay a couple of million to cover you for 24x7 homecare when you are crippled in an accident? or loss of ability to work and provide for your family etc etc? you must have an awesome healthcare system. Insurance main benefit is not the short term hospital care or car, it is the really expensive liability and long term expenses that can be incurred from an accident which can and do run into the millions.
IT DOES apply to taxis too. Taxi's are generally required by laws and regulations to have commercial insurance and must be able to produce proof of said insurance. The corner cutting is one of the big reasons so much regulation exists in taxi industry, uber like your hand waving approach of "we don't need regulation, I am sure our drivers will do the right thing", which we all know from experience is BULLSHIT, when money is concerned many people will always take shortcuts regardless of long term consequences.
Totally automatic updates are incredibly stupid for everyone, but that's only partially what is wrong with the steaming pile that is Windows 10.
Yes but it is not applied to everyone. It is applied to home users. For them it is most definitely the lesser evil. home users are a collection of people that 75% have no clue and know it, 20% think they have a clue but are wrong and then a tiny percentage of people that actually know what they are doing. That small percentage can live with the auto updates, move to a different version of the OS or even go to a different OS entirely. Why sacrifice the many to placate the few.
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
- Brian Kernighan
I used to use this as my signature a few years back to try and make devs think about what they are writing. It is nearly always better to make the code simple and readable than to try and produce the best possible code. No it isn't as fun, but it is a damn side better for those that have to try and decipher your clever coding tricks later.
You are mistaking healthy caution and understanding of dangers for fear. plenty of people have idiotic fears where they change and live there lives around those fears. I also don't poke king brown snakes and funnel web spiders in my garden when I find them there (some times do), I am not afraid of them, I just know I don't have the skill to deal with them personally if they decide to become grumpy.
As for they don't attack, that is bullshit, they have and do attack and many have been caught with failed plots to attack even in my country, I am not afraid of them as I don't think I have any reason to be, I live in a country that is relatively low priority on most anyones hitlist and even within that country I live somewhere that would be one of the last places to be targeted by anyone but that doesn't mean I go out of my way to make myself a target.
There are organisations that individuals simply aren't equipped to deal with. ISIS, Al Qaeda, The Mexican Drug cartels, various other crime families and some gangs. You can speak out against most of them without repercussion most of the time. But if you are a dumb enough to act out alone against any of them then you either need to hope to be very lucky or should they so choose to make a point they will swat you like a fly without a second thought, the likelihood of the swatting only increases with how much publicity they will get from using you as an example.
So you think somehow the gangs of LA are going to magically protect you from someone driving a garbage truck full of explosives into your neighbourhood or from a stranger walking up to you hacking at your head with a machete? man you must walk around with a 1 kilometer perimeter where the only people you ever see are LA Gang members.
If someone wants to kill you bad enough then they CAN, embarrassing organisations like ISIS is a good way to not only get yourself killed but others around you. ISIS are a bunch of sadistic pricks with seriously warped moral compasses and they have a bunch of blind followers who will happily sacrifice their lives just to make a point that you can't fuck with them should they choose to do so, or are you really so niave that you think ISIS members don't exist in just about every country of the world?
VistA is a shit legacy system, so it seems DoD made Half a right choice. However given the companies they got involved they will just end up with something almost as bad, if not worse.
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Because that's what BitTorrent is, and it's free.
I call bullshit. I regularly try to get older content on bit torrent, I have all but given up for a lot of stuff. While finding the torrent is easy, it is pot luck as to whether there are any seeders, the older the content the less likely to be a seeder. basically I find it at best a 50-50 chance of finding it, usually much lower for anything not mainstream.
sounds like a comparison that the F-35 can't win. It is more expensive to fly, can't hang around for long period's like the A-10 and is relatively fragile by comparison. The only way I see the F-35 coming out on top is with some very carefully crafted scenarios to favour it and some creative weightings on victory conditions.
It isn't "your" money. As others have commented. It gets parked offshore due to the fact is was earned and generated in other countries and the moronic tax laws in the US that deem income earned anywhere in the world by a US Citizen/Company to be taxable in US if you bring the money back to the US. The US is one of the only countries on the planet with such insane outlook in how taxation should work and they deservedly suffer the penalty for not changing it (companies keep money OUT of the country and they invest elsewhere instead of the US).
we really don't know how common/rare habitable planets are let alone how far apart they are.
seriously you reckon aerial photography by drones is the most important new industry of the 21st century? wtf?
some commenters believe Obama is an alien, the moon landings were faked and that the government is personally out to get them. seriously thousands of organisations run the OS where the desktop can't even access the internet at all, they work fine, including the ones where I work. conspiracy theorists are amazing in the shit they will make up, isn't there already enough REAL issues where we don't have to make up shit like that and look like tinfoil hat wearers.
http://www.broadinstitute.org/
upgrades have definitely reduced in performance gains. But if you can't find a SIGNIFICANT upgrade from a 560 for under $250 then you simply don't understand how to compare cards correctly.
personally I buy what I want to play at the time not wait 5 years to try and hopefully save $50. that may be a $5 game or a $60 game just released. $60 isn't a lot to pay for something I will spend many many hours on. cheaper than going to the movies and most other forms of entertainment I engage in. I find gaming saves me money as I would be spending far more on other activities.
If this is targeted at MOBA players, then it is probably overkill. I've got a 2011 Mac Pro with a Radeon 5870 (850Mhz GPU, 1GB VRAM). Playing League of Legends at 1920x1200, 60fps is no problem for this setup. These games are not graphically intensive, nor do they require much CPU horsepower. If you are going to drop money on hardware for MOBA gaming, spend it on a nice keyboard/mouse and the lowest latency ISP you can find. If your machine is less than 5 years old, whatever came stock is more than enough to play the game.
^this. it is not something you should buy as an upgrade, you should only get this sort of card if you are buying a new machine and that is your target gaming area. upgrading from a 650ti as the summary/article suggests to this would be brain dead moronic.
For fucks sake. Make your minds up, it is either a currency or it is a commodity. It seems bitcoin tards change the definition on a daily or hourly basis depending on what they want to argue against at the time.
US crica 2008 was a disasterous crash. Yet it was less of a drop/fluxuation than what occurs daily for bitcoin
yes but this split could damage the user base, if the money launderers and scammers move elsewhere the currency could collapse....more.
Never attribute malice to something that can easily be explained by incompetence. Nvidia and AMD have a long history of incompetence when it comes to drivers (and not just on Linux).
I suspect you are still living in the 90's or you need to get out more. Suspend and hibernate are perhaps the most commonly used method in windows laptops nowadays. It is even heavily used in the corporate world. full shutdowns have not been necessary since pre win 7 days.
These are laws aimed at commercial pirate operations not home users. Though I would still argue longer sentences really aren't going to do much as these people don't ever believe they are going to be caught anyway.http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/08/16/2116237/legal-scholars-warn-against-10-year-prison-for-online-pirates#
So your healthcare will pay a couple of million to cover you for 24x7 homecare when you are crippled in an accident? or loss of ability to work and provide for your family etc etc? you must have an awesome healthcare system. Insurance main benefit is not the short term hospital care or car, it is the really expensive liability and long term expenses that can be incurred from an accident which can and do run into the millions.
IT DOES apply to taxis too. Taxi's are generally required by laws and regulations to have commercial insurance and must be able to produce proof of said insurance. The corner cutting is one of the big reasons so much regulation exists in taxi industry, uber like your hand waving approach of "we don't need regulation, I am sure our drivers will do the right thing", which we all know from experience is BULLSHIT, when money is concerned many people will always take shortcuts regardless of long term consequences.
Totally automatic updates are incredibly stupid for everyone, but that's only partially what is wrong with the steaming pile that is Windows 10.
Yes but it is not applied to everyone. It is applied to home users. For them it is most definitely the lesser evil. home users are a collection of people that 75% have no clue and know it, 20% think they have a clue but are wrong and then a tiny percentage of people that actually know what they are doing. That small percentage can live with the auto updates, move to a different version of the OS or even go to a different OS entirely. Why sacrifice the many to placate the few.
$1 million prize money is NOT spending big, it is dunking their toe in the water. that would not even be close to 1% of halo's marketing budget
The full quote is
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
- Brian Kernighan
I used to use this as my signature a few years back to try and make devs think about what they are writing. It is nearly always better to make the code simple and readable than to try and produce the best possible code. No it isn't as fun, but it is a damn side better for those that have to try and decipher your clever coding tricks later.
You are mistaking healthy caution and understanding of dangers for fear. plenty of people have idiotic fears where they change and live there lives around those fears. I also don't poke king brown snakes and funnel web spiders in my garden when I find them there (some times do), I am not afraid of them, I just know I don't have the skill to deal with them personally if they decide to become grumpy.
As for they don't attack, that is bullshit, they have and do attack and many have been caught with failed plots to attack even in my country, I am not afraid of them as I don't think I have any reason to be, I live in a country that is relatively low priority on most anyones hitlist and even within that country I live somewhere that would be one of the last places to be targeted by anyone but that doesn't mean I go out of my way to make myself a target.
There are organisations that individuals simply aren't equipped to deal with. ISIS, Al Qaeda, The Mexican Drug cartels, various other crime families and some gangs. You can speak out against most of them without repercussion most of the time. But if you are a dumb enough to act out alone against any of them then you either need to hope to be very lucky or should they so choose to make a point they will swat you like a fly without a second thought, the likelihood of the swatting only increases with how much publicity they will get from using you as an example.
So you think somehow the gangs of LA are going to magically protect you from someone driving a garbage truck full of explosives into your neighbourhood or from a stranger walking up to you hacking at your head with a machete? man you must walk around with a 1 kilometer perimeter where the only people you ever see are LA Gang members.
If someone wants to kill you bad enough then they CAN, embarrassing organisations like ISIS is a good way to not only get yourself killed but others around you. ISIS are a bunch of sadistic pricks with seriously warped moral compasses and they have a bunch of blind followers who will happily sacrifice their lives just to make a point that you can't fuck with them should they choose to do so, or are you really so niave that you think ISIS members don't exist in just about every country of the world?
VistA is a shit legacy system, so it seems DoD made Half a right choice. However given the companies they got involved they will just end up with something almost as bad, if not worse.