But it is poisonous BECAUSE it is radioactive. You have been listening to the wrong sources... It is an alpha emitter, which means outside of the body it does virtually no harm, inside the body right up next to important stuff it can do a hell of a lot of damage.
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You realize that you just listed a lot of small niches in a typical Wal-Mart and complained that they didn't have great prices.
You say that the CDs are about the same price as you can find in the virtually no overhead online stores. That sounds like they are cheaper than any B&M stores in your area.
Electronics CAN be cheaper than those other places, but Best Buy and CostCo are giant marketers too. The main thing is to realize that there are many places where the nearest Wal-Mart is three miles away and the nearest Best Buy is 150+ miles away.
Wal-Mart has extremely cheap clothing, unfortunately it definitely shows.
Wal-Mart has cheaper home/kitchen/bathroom goods and also generally cheaper food. Those two areas make up well over 70% of a typical super center.
Technically true, but to GROW hemp requires one to grow marijuana plants which DO contain THC. If the plant were completely without psychoactives, then it would be a much easier sell.
I'm sure there are many among us that spent their spare time in the early 90s pouring over the thousand plus pages of a ~$2 Computer Shopper just for the ads. Once I filled out the giant product advertiser card for every product in the magazine, a month later I wasn't the most popular person in the house when about 90% of the mail was absolute junk that even I wasn't interested in.
You didn't do a very good job of buying your upgrades then...
A 9800 Pro will run it nicely at 1024x768 and can be had for less than $200. A decent Athlon XP and mobo for around $120 together (maybe less, I haven't priced them lately). That's $320 and will kick ass at 800x600...I use a very similar system and play at 1024x768 with everything on except for the completely uncompressed texture mode and it plays like a dream.
Wasn't GLQuake released more for the 3Dfx Voodoo cards? I owned a Virge GX and I definitely don't remember it being able to do much besides look goofy in PCWorld's 3D benchmark...
This looks the have the exact same form fact as the Tungsten E I carry every day in my wallet (well, I use an old Palm III leather case as my wallet...). It is far from large. It isn't quite as thin as a Palm V, but it isn't very large though. Definitely smaller than most competing PocketPC devices (then again, they aren't MEANT to be as small...).
Well, you better hope they don't use those Verbatim dual layer DVD writables...they only last a few years...20 at best. Actually stamping the DVDs would be MUCH better, but would cost a LOT more. Hopefully we are in an intermediate phase where we don't really have a good, high capacity, and permanent digital storage medium. Maybe in a few years there will be something a bit better for this.
The only problem is that providing safe water to all the developing nations, saving millions of people from AIDS, or feeding half the people in the world that are starving would make the problem a hell of a lot worse. There are too many people on this planet as it is, if we elevated the entire current population to US/Western Europe/Japan standards or living, we would bankrupt the natural resources of this planet in very short order. The real solution is to lower the US/Western Europe/Japan resource demand and do our best to help the developing countries deal with their overpopulation problem...feeding them won't do it though.
SF isn't all that bad... LA is a pimple on the ass of society though, I think it would be better if the whole basin completely crumbled on its way out to sea... The only problem is the worst people in the city are the ones who would have aircraft to make a quick getaway...
I wasn't touting the benefits of sugary water, I was simply stating the economics of the situation of how people are willing to pay MORE for LESS. Personally I very rarely drink soda type drinks either, I'm a 75% tap water 25% tea kind of guy.
It's not really as hard to standardize a "taste" for water as you might think. They all start off with different water sources, but when they send it through reverse osmosis they are pretty much left with pure H20, then they can add in their trace minerals that give it the mouthfeel they are after. I would actually be amazed if it DIDN'T all taste the same...
Yea, it's always amazed me that people will pay MORE (sometimes the water costs the same, but a lot of the times it is more) for Coca-Cola or Pepsi WITHOUT the flavoring, coloring, carbonation, sugar, etc added to it...basically just the water.
The cache and TLBs are there because of slow RAM, but the pipelining and branch prediction isn't really. Now if you removed pipelining you would remove the need for branch prediction, but you would have to have 1 cycle memory for that to be faster. Even L2 cache isn't 1 cycle (hell, L1 cache isn't always 1 cycle). If you removed these things from a CPU though, it would run FASTER not slower (GHz wise at least) and so the RAM would need to run even that much faster to keep up.
Ten years ago, the cards were little more than dumb framebuffers. Modern GPU cards cost more because they DO more, a WHOLE LOT MORE. I assume you meant more like 4-5 years ago...
S3 went out of business because they didn't understand the above, they thought they could keep on doing what they HAD been doing and be OK. Matrox did the same thing, but actually succeeded to an extent. ATi did this for a few years while 3Dfx, Nvidia, and Rendition innovated. They saw the error in their ways and pumped a hell of a lot more money into real R&D.
Intel never really meant to make graphics chips/cards, they just did it a couple times by accident. Their real goal is to provide integrated graphics so that they can minimize the cost on cheap Dell/HP/etc business desktops.
3Dfx had an extremely good start and then tried to milk those same ideas for a very long time.
ATi, Nvidia, and Intel succeeded because they innovated and made the market what it is today (or because they are Intel, which is a whole different ballgame...even though they have the largest portion of the gfx chipsets sold, we are talking about GAMING here, not Word).
You can get a decent card now for LESS than you could ten years ago that does a whole lot more, it just isn't nearly top of the line. The big difference is that ten years ago the difference between cards was VERY minimal, some 2D performance differences that barely mattered, some minor visual quality differences, possibly a short lived anti-aliasing scheme, etc.
Well, that would be the "fair chance" part of his argument. Not all files will be actually 100% out there, but most are. I've definitely downloaded things which there was no one complete source many were things that only a couple of people were trying to get. I've definitely seen the old persistant red slice of death, but more often than not rare files will eventually finish. Once they DO finish, it is common courtesy to leave it on your drive for a month or two...maybe give it a chance to actually spread a bit more.
Well, that would depend on the message itself. There are definitely situations where having the message not arrive at all is infinitely better than having it overheard.
At the same time though, the only profit in the Clie is actually the Clie itself (well, not counting indirect stuff like potential music sales). The PSP doesn't even have to turn a profit on the hardware if the software sales are good enough, given past console history they could even loose a bit of money on each and still turn a profit in that segment of their business.
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But it is poisonous BECAUSE it is radioactive. You have been listening to the wrong sources... It is an alpha emitter, which means outside of the body it does virtually no harm, inside the body right up next to important stuff it can do a hell of a lot of damage.
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You realize that you just listed a lot of small niches in a typical Wal-Mart and complained that they didn't have great prices.
You say that the CDs are about the same price as you can find in the virtually no overhead online stores. That sounds like they are cheaper than any B&M stores in your area.
Electronics CAN be cheaper than those other places, but Best Buy and CostCo are giant marketers too. The main thing is to realize that there are many places where the nearest Wal-Mart is three miles away and the nearest Best Buy is 150+ miles away.
Wal-Mart has extremely cheap clothing, unfortunately it definitely shows.
Wal-Mart has cheaper home/kitchen/bathroom goods and also generally cheaper food. Those two areas make up well over 70% of a typical super center.
=) What can I say, stupidity travels in packs...
Technically true, but to GROW hemp requires one to grow marijuana plants which DO contain THC. If the plant were completely without psychoactives, then it would be a much easier sell.
I'm sure there are many among us that spent their spare time in the early 90s pouring over the thousand plus pages of a ~$2 Computer Shopper just for the ads. Once I filled out the giant product advertiser card for every product in the magazine, a month later I wasn't the most popular person in the house when about 90% of the mail was absolute junk that even I wasn't interested in.
You didn't do a very good job of buying your upgrades then...
A 9800 Pro will run it nicely at 1024x768 and can be had for less than $200. A decent Athlon XP and mobo for around $120 together (maybe less, I haven't priced them lately). That's $320 and will kick ass at 800x600...I use a very similar system and play at 1024x768 with everything on except for the completely uncompressed texture mode and it plays like a dream.
What about this one too?
"since both language is built to support"
Wasn't GLQuake released more for the 3Dfx Voodoo cards? I owned a Virge GX and I definitely don't remember it being able to do much besides look goofy in PCWorld's 3D benchmark...
How about we wait until a viable alternative to petroleum plastics are found before we decide how many people this planet can support.
This looks the have the exact same form fact as the Tungsten E I carry every day in my wallet (well, I use an old Palm III leather case as my wallet...). It is far from large. It isn't quite as thin as a Palm V, but it isn't very large though. Definitely smaller than most competing PocketPC devices (then again, they aren't MEANT to be as small...).
Well, you better hope they don't use those Verbatim dual layer DVD writables...they only last a few years...20 at best. Actually stamping the DVDs would be MUCH better, but would cost a LOT more. Hopefully we are in an intermediate phase where we don't really have a good, high capacity, and permanent digital storage medium. Maybe in a few years there will be something a bit better for this.
The only problem is that providing safe water to all the developing nations, saving millions of people from AIDS, or feeding half the people in the world that are starving would make the problem a hell of a lot worse. There are too many people on this planet as it is, if we elevated the entire current population to US/Western Europe/Japan standards or living, we would bankrupt the natural resources of this planet in very short order. The real solution is to lower the US/Western Europe/Japan resource demand and do our best to help the developing countries deal with their overpopulation problem...feeding them won't do it though.
SF isn't all that bad... LA is a pimple on the ass of society though, I think it would be better if the whole basin completely crumbled on its way out to sea... The only problem is the worst people in the city are the ones who would have aircraft to make a quick getaway...
I wasn't touting the benefits of sugary water, I was simply stating the economics of the situation of how people are willing to pay MORE for LESS. Personally I very rarely drink soda type drinks either, I'm a 75% tap water 25% tea kind of guy.
It's not really as hard to standardize a "taste" for water as you might think. They all start off with different water sources, but when they send it through reverse osmosis they are pretty much left with pure H20, then they can add in their trace minerals that give it the mouthfeel they are after. I would actually be amazed if it DIDN'T all taste the same...
Yea, it's always amazed me that people will pay MORE (sometimes the water costs the same, but a lot of the times it is more) for Coca-Cola or Pepsi WITHOUT the flavoring, coloring, carbonation, sugar, etc added to it...basically just the water.
The cache and TLBs are there because of slow RAM, but the pipelining and branch prediction isn't really. Now if you removed pipelining you would remove the need for branch prediction, but you would have to have 1 cycle memory for that to be faster. Even L2 cache isn't 1 cycle (hell, L1 cache isn't always 1 cycle). If you removed these things from a CPU though, it would run FASTER not slower (GHz wise at least) and so the RAM would need to run even that much faster to keep up.
Ten years ago, the cards were little more than dumb framebuffers. Modern GPU cards cost more because they DO more, a WHOLE LOT MORE. I assume you meant more like 4-5 years ago...
S3 went out of business because they didn't understand the above, they thought they could keep on doing what they HAD been doing and be OK. Matrox did the same thing, but actually succeeded to an extent. ATi did this for a few years while 3Dfx, Nvidia, and Rendition innovated. They saw the error in their ways and pumped a hell of a lot more money into real R&D.
Intel never really meant to make graphics chips/cards, they just did it a couple times by accident. Their real goal is to provide integrated graphics so that they can minimize the cost on cheap Dell/HP/etc business desktops.
3Dfx had an extremely good start and then tried to milk those same ideas for a very long time.
ATi, Nvidia, and Intel succeeded because they innovated and made the market what it is today (or because they are Intel, which is a whole different ballgame...even though they have the largest portion of the gfx chipsets sold, we are talking about GAMING here, not Word).
You can get a decent card now for LESS than you could ten years ago that does a whole lot more, it just isn't nearly top of the line. The big difference is that ten years ago the difference between cards was VERY minimal, some 2D performance differences that barely mattered, some minor visual quality differences, possibly a short lived anti-aliasing scheme, etc.
But you alluded to it being a rightly banned relationship, which it definitely is not...
I think you mean bestiality...animal husbandry has been an acceptable practice for a few thousand years now...
Well, that would be the "fair chance" part of his argument. Not all files will be actually 100% out there, but most are. I've definitely downloaded things which there was no one complete source many were things that only a couple of people were trying to get. I've definitely seen the old persistant red slice of death, but more often than not rare files will eventually finish. Once they DO finish, it is common courtesy to leave it on your drive for a month or two...maybe give it a chance to actually spread a bit more.
Well, that would depend on the message itself. There are definitely situations where having the message not arrive at all is infinitely better than having it overheard.
At the same time though, the only profit in the Clie is actually the Clie itself (well, not counting indirect stuff like potential music sales). The PSP doesn't even have to turn a profit on the hardware if the software sales are good enough, given past console history they could even loose a bit of money on each and still turn a profit in that segment of their business.
Of course it is, don't you pay attention in school??? I guess next you'll have to ask if that turtle is on a much larger turtle...kids today!