All the women I know entered into a crisis when their oldest child became 13 years of age. Their "loving, adorable child" was replaced by an alien entity is how one of them describes it. Also they enter the "is this all there is?" stage about the same time and have to face up to living with the reality of their earlier choices. So what the 13 year old girl describes is pretty common, whether the internet is a factor or not.
This finding is more speculative than you would think from the articles hitting the mainstream press. I have seen the passage about the eclipse translated as "the sun was blotted out from the sky, and unlucky darkness covered the land" and as "the sun was blotted out from the sky, and deadly mist covered the land". Obviously, the second implies a volcanic eruption more than an eclipse. My astronomical software does confirm the eclipse on April 16, 1178BC over Greece.
No it works just as well with very high "self-esteem" as with the low "self-esteem" chicks. It works with all of them, thats the beauty. Over-analysis is not replacement for a good old fashion pussy-pounding.
so I am not really surprised by this. They have big posters of Peter Jackson on all the buildings instead of Kim Jung Ill, but more cannibalism and sheep.
Most of the software we use doesn't work correctly on Vista, hell sometimes it doesn't work correctly on XP after a patch. It will never be updated to run on Vista and is expensive, $5k-$40k per seat, depending upon the specific tool. Most of the vendors do provide ports to Linux and other nix versions.
I have yet to see a photo that was large enough to tell much detail. The buildings in the picture look like they have been abandoned for a season or two to me. As usual, I am skeptical.
That's one of the fundamental problems with Intellectual "Property". Presumably your actually talking about Patents and Copyrights, that's the other fundamental problem with IP; it's a vague marketing term used by dotcoms to suggest value where none actually existed and by law firm to bill retainer fees.
Copyright worked as long as the material that was copyrighted was associated with a physical medium. Without that association to something tangible, any laws are unenforceable in practice. The first companies to sale recorded music, also had to sale the devices to play the music. For the music and movie industry that's probably the only answer. i.e. proprietary high-fidelity analog recordings and proprietary players are the only way to prevent widespread piracy.
Fixing the patent system is easy. If it isn't a tangible object and the entity seeking the patent can't display a working model - no patent. Give 30 years to exploit the patent - no extension. Having a government that works to enforce the patent holders rights on trading partners is a plus.
BTW - If you believe in any type of property rights, you are, by definition, not an anarcho-anything. In the future you should do some research about the nature of political movements before declaring yourself to be a member.
DISD management and the school board are remarkably corrupt and incompetent. The district has been cited for "accounting irregularities" for the last 20 years and doesn't meet federal guidelines for grants.
The DISD school board is a joke. The first thing I saw on the news after moving to the area 12 years ago, was a brawl at a school board meeting. Two separate factions, Hispanics and Blacks, are viaing for control of the board and block any attempts at reform. Members of the school board and DISD managers view the district finances as their own bottomless piggy bank. Its common practice for them to raid funds that are raised by the students for extracurricular activities. Any one who cares about their children's education fled the district long ago or sends their children to private school.
This deal with NovaTracker to supply ankle bracelets smells like a typical DISD boondoggle.
It's a freaking red subdwarf with 50% of the mass of Sol. The luminosity is probably 1/400th of our star. Any planet close enough to have liquid water would probably get slammed by massive flares on a regular basis - it might even be tidally locked to the star.
Until we can detect planets in the mass range of Earth, I don't think there is any point in speculating about the prevailance of systems that might support life in a carbon-based, water-saturated ecology like Earth.
There are dozens of modeling systems that will map algorithms across an arbitrary number of homogeneous processors. Most of these development tools don't target x86 instruction set based machines, so I guess thats why Intel doesn't seem to have a clue they exist. Or perhaps this is a bunch of hype to lay the ground work for a future marketing campaign.
seriously, look into getting a coop position. The pay is good(possibly great), for a college student, and there are no strings attached. If you don't like the place, you don't have to go back and if they don't like you they won't offer to hire later - they are not gonna write you a bad review unless you torch the place or something such. Its a great way to find the right match and get some real exposure to being a working programmer/software engineer.
at each power step up. This has been common practice as each new experiment is designed. I agree that there is no risk with the LHC. The cosmic events that have been recorded are higher energy than the LHC will produce, but I do believe that strange matter is possible; there is some evidence of degenerate stellar objects at density ranges that imply quark stars. This stuff probably can't exist outside the core of a neutron star, but for all we know every planet where intelligent life preceded us is a little ball of strange quarks now. The best course of action is to take a realistic look at possible problems that could arise when a new accelerator with increased energy output is brought on line.
Hamilton writes a 200 page plot draft and then inflates it to 2400 pages. A great writer, produces 2400 pages of material and then condenses it to 400 pages.
The Neutronium Alchemist series is a plot worthy of a single 400 page novel, no more. The pressures on a modern author of sci-fi to crank out the page count are greater than ever, but a writer with the talent of Hamilton, and he is talented, needs to say NO to the publishing house. Eventually, quality far exceeds quantity when it comes to selling books. The long term profitability of an unforgettable novel like Dune far exceed the profitability of a good, but forgettable novel like Thomas Covenant (whatever it was called, I forget).
Use some of the extra silicon space to add support for JTAG or some other on-chip debug interface. Add performance monitoring registers and register stacks where running tasks can deposit their ID and other state information. I would much rather develop on a 28 core processor with 4 core worth of silicon devoted to debug circuitry than on a 32 core processor with no debug hardware support.
I know everyone want to develop a new language or model that will make parallel programming easy and cheap. Maybe they will succeed where everyone else has failed. Adding increased support for development and debug tools to the silicon isn't sexy, but it will have a real impact when it comes to making parallel software development cheaper and quicker.
"Here's the thing, if I buy a PC to play DVD's, browse the Internet, etc, I can get something for $400-600 that does the job adequately. However, that system will not play games. If I want to play games I'm looking at a $1000-1500 box at a minimum."
No, just add a $150 video card to your $600 computer and you are good to go. It's all about the video card when it comes to PC gaming. My gaming rig is almost 4 years old. The processor is very slow compared to todays machines, but processor doesn't matter when it come to PC games. I put a new video card in it about every 18 months. It runs Oblivion(outside) at 30+ fps @1680x1050 resolution.
The last console I bought that didn't have to be replaced or repaired every 15 months was a Nintendo 64. Everyone I know that has a 360 and/or a PS3 has had to send them in for repair right after the warranties expired. Not only that, but the early 360s etched game disks on a regular basis. For what I have spent on consoles the last 3 years I could have built three gaming PCs.
The entry point for gaming on some consoles is cheaper than on a PC, but over the lifetime of the system the high cost of ownership on the console is gonna even things out.
I have it on good authority that the next Windows Driver Model will run Crysis on 3 SLI 8800GTs and render it in 8-bit color at 640x480 resolution at over 50 FPS! So take that you Linux/Unix hippy beatnik freaks!
Good Summary, here is a little more detail that is of interest.
The words "not ever" and "if ever" get used several times by Steven Sinofsky when he is writing about drivers for Vista. Intel is still a generation away from having an embedded graphics chip set that can deal with Aero and they knew it when they got MS to change the requirements on the capable logo. 915 is a non-starter and 945 doesn't run it well enough that you would want to try. It's pretty obvious that Intel is gonna be joining MS in court to face the class-action, as they both conspired to sell under-powered boxes as "Vista Capable".
In the future I think MS is gonna have problems getting OEMs to go along with changes to driver models, seeing how they screwed HP over.
Visual Studio is the best IDE I have ever worked with, but I don't use them (IDEs) much any more. Most of the work I do requires coding and building software in multiple programming languages for multiple targets and UltraEdit is flexible enough and powerful enough to organize the code files and display build output so I can one-click error messages to go right to the offending statement. It offers book-marking, code-folding and easy to use and powerful search/replace. So there is my shameless plug for my favorite editor.
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Hittite correspondence also mentions Attarisiyas (Atreus) by name. Agamemnon and Menelaus were Atreus's sons.
This does provide some more (circumstantial) evidence that the events described by Homer occurred during the Bronze Age Catastrophe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse.
No it works just as well with very high "self-esteem" as with the low "self-esteem" chicks. It works with all of them, thats the beauty. Over-analysis is not replacement for a good old fashion pussy-pounding.
Thanks for raising my kids to stupid bastards!
so I am not really surprised by this. They have big posters of Peter Jackson on all the buildings instead of Kim Jung Ill, but more cannibalism and sheep.
Most of the software we use doesn't work correctly on Vista, hell sometimes it doesn't work correctly on XP after a patch. It will never be updated to run on Vista and is expensive, $5k-$40k per seat, depending upon the specific tool. Most of the vendors do provide ports to Linux and other nix versions.
There have been rumors of a Firefly MMO in development for a while now. Either that or Andromeda Strain Online :{
I have yet to see a photo that was large enough to tell much detail. The buildings in the picture look like they have been abandoned for a season or two to me. As usual, I am skeptical.
Copyright worked as long as the material that was copyrighted was associated with a physical medium. Without that association to something tangible, any laws are unenforceable in practice. The first companies to sale recorded music, also had to sale the devices to play the music. For the music and movie industry that's probably the only answer. i.e. proprietary high-fidelity analog recordings and proprietary players are the only way to prevent widespread piracy.
Fixing the patent system is easy. If it isn't a tangible object and the entity seeking the patent can't display a working model - no patent. Give 30 years to exploit the patent - no extension. Having a government that works to enforce the patent holders rights on trading partners is a plus.
BTW - If you believe in any type of property rights, you are, by definition, not an anarcho-anything. In the future you should do some research about the nature of political movements before declaring yourself to be a member.
Oh wait... that's already a reality.
The DISD school board is a joke. The first thing I saw on the news after moving to the area 12 years ago, was a brawl at a school board meeting. Two separate factions, Hispanics and Blacks, are viaing for control of the board and block any attempts at reform. Members of the school board and DISD managers view the district finances as their own bottomless piggy bank. Its common practice for them to raid funds that are raised by the students for extracurricular activities. Any one who cares about their children's education fled the district long ago or sends their children to private school.
This deal with NovaTracker to supply ankle bracelets smells like a typical DISD boondoggle.
Until we can detect planets in the mass range of Earth, I don't think there is any point in speculating about the prevailance of systems that might support life in a carbon-based, water-saturated ecology like Earth.
There are dozens of modeling systems that will map algorithms across an arbitrary number of homogeneous processors. Most of these development tools don't target x86 instruction set based machines, so I guess thats why Intel doesn't seem to have a clue they exist. Or perhaps this is a bunch of hype to lay the ground work for a future marketing campaign.
seriously, look into getting a coop position. The pay is good(possibly great), for a college student, and there are no strings attached. If you don't like the place, you don't have to go back and if they don't like you they won't offer to hire later - they are not gonna write you a bad review unless you torch the place or something such. Its a great way to find the right match and get some real exposure to being a working programmer/software engineer.
6) Goto 5, until profit gone
at each power step up. This has been common practice as each new experiment is designed. I agree that there is no risk with the LHC. The cosmic events that have been recorded are higher energy than the LHC will produce, but I do believe that strange matter is possible; there is some evidence of degenerate stellar objects at density ranges that imply quark stars. This stuff probably can't exist outside the core of a neutron star, but for all we know every planet where intelligent life preceded us is a little ball of strange quarks now. The best course of action is to take a realistic look at possible problems that could arise when a new accelerator with increased energy output is brought on line.
as opposed to 2 college students/chinese gold farmers playing a blood-elf paladin around the clock to go from level 1 to 70 in 15 days?
Is there really that much difference in between a bot and some poor bastards in a mmo sweatshop in beijing?
The Neutronium Alchemist series is a plot worthy of a single 400 page novel, no more. The pressures on a modern author of sci-fi to crank out the page count are greater than ever, but a writer with the talent of Hamilton, and he is talented, needs to say NO to the publishing house. Eventually, quality far exceeds quantity when it comes to selling books. The long term profitability of an unforgettable novel like Dune far exceed the profitability of a good, but forgettable novel like Thomas Covenant (whatever it was called, I forget).
A true visionary and one of my favorite sci-fi writers. The world is a lesser place without Sir Arthur.
I know everyone want to develop a new language or model that will make parallel programming easy and cheap. Maybe they will succeed where everyone else has failed. Adding increased support for development and debug tools to the silicon isn't sexy, but it will have a real impact when it comes to making parallel software development cheaper and quicker.
No, just add a $150 video card to your $600 computer and you are good to go. It's all about the video card when it comes to PC gaming. My gaming rig is almost 4 years old. The processor is very slow compared to todays machines, but processor doesn't matter when it come to PC games. I put a new video card in it about every 18 months. It runs Oblivion(outside) at 30+ fps @1680x1050 resolution.
The last console I bought that didn't have to be replaced or repaired every 15 months was a Nintendo 64. Everyone I know that has a 360 and/or a PS3 has had to send them in for repair right after the warranties expired. Not only that, but the early 360s etched game disks on a regular basis. For what I have spent on consoles the last 3 years I could have built three gaming PCs.
The entry point for gaming on some consoles is cheaper than on a PC, but over the lifetime of the system the high cost of ownership on the console is gonna even things out.
I have it on good authority that the next Windows Driver Model will run Crysis on 3 SLI 8800GTs and render it in 8-bit color at 640x480 resolution at over 50 FPS! So take that you Linux/Unix hippy beatnik freaks!
The words "not ever" and "if ever" get used several times by Steven Sinofsky when he is writing about drivers for Vista. Intel is still a generation away from having an embedded graphics chip set that can deal with Aero and they knew it when they got MS to change the requirements on the capable logo. 915 is a non-starter and 945 doesn't run it well enough that you would want to try. It's pretty obvious that Intel is gonna be joining MS in court to face the class-action, as they both conspired to sell under-powered boxes as "Vista Capable".
In the future I think MS is gonna have problems getting OEMs to go along with changes to driver models, seeing how they screwed HP over.
Visual Studio is the best IDE I have ever worked with, but I don't use them (IDEs) much any more. Most of the work I do requires coding and building software in multiple programming languages for multiple targets and UltraEdit is flexible enough and powerful enough to organize the code files and display build output so I can one-click error messages to go right to the offending statement. It offers book-marking, code-folding and easy to use and powerful search/replace. So there is my shameless plug for my favorite editor.