I see someone here has absolutely no clue about the old Geforce 6 series - 6800 AGP had 16 pixel pipelines but only 12 were active, and it took a BIOS hack to get all pipelines active.
Not ALL 486SX processors were failures because of the FPU - some had a slightly fucked cache instead where only 3/4 of it was usable, the rest got locked. Some shit got locked even though it worked fine.
A faulty FPU would cause all sorts of noticable problems - odds are the FPU was fine.
The internet archive seems to tell a different story about some of the cached content on Sony's website. My 60GB was advertised as BC but it most certainly is NOT.
Oh, hey, it still says that a diamond can conduct electricity, dipshit.
"some blue diamonds are natural semiconductors"
Now shut the fuck up. That's why we're moving towards using diamonds and laser interconnects in processors. You must not read slashdot very often, or you're way out of date with technology. See, I'm already at the level of using the glass substrate in RW optical discs to produce super-speed flash memory with a couple of levels more read/write cycles (10^8 to be precise) than your regular silicon NAND flash. Still waiting on 4-state memory, though. I'm tired of just 0 and 1.
For epileptics and such, I would say yes they should have that issue listed on their license. As for proof of treatment, a current prescription should be enough to prove treatment. Of course, that raises the issue of training police to identify and know which drugs get used for which conditions, most likely not feasible.
So that does end up leading us to no tests whatsoever, and letting nature take your number if it's time.
How the hell did you get PS2 gaming to work on a 60GB model, when the only PS3 with PS2 capability was the older 80GB models and the newer 80GB ones have no PS2 capability at all?
Besides that, I agree - Sony advertised PS2 emulation capability but they've removed it. They need to bring it back before they get nailed with a slew of false advertising lawsuits.
"Can you cite any studies that show that 'inebriation' is more dangerous than any other mental state?"
No study, just well-documented medical proof that shows excessive alcohol consumption (thus inebriation,) can result in coma or death, and that's before the inebriated person even gets behind the wheel. They are a danger to themselves before they are a danger to others. Add on that most accident-related deaths involving substance abuse are caused by alcohol, and that's been pretty much public knowledge for decades, and yes, you could make a strong argument that inebriation is more dangerous than many other mental states. I knew a guy back when I was in high school, he was pretty slow. He could still drive rather well, and obeyed the traffic laws pretty much to a T.
In order to determine inebriation, there are multitudes of tests, sadly they will all have one con or another. For example, I've got weak legs and my balance is off due to my being hit by a drunk driver and needing my right leg rebuilt (balance is fine on left leg,) so a 'walk the line' test would discriminate against me. An epileptic would probably not respond well to the random blinking light test discussed earlier. I don't think a one-solution-fits-all approach is possible for testing for inebriation or ability to drive. After all, look at most 'driving tests' today. Pass a written multiple guess exam and do a lap around the block was my driving test, and that took me less than 15 minutes total.
I do have the ENTIRE surgery bill. TLSO brace was 4,000, each screw was 800-1200, anesthesia and drugs were actually the cheapest, with the x-rays being more expensive.
"Yes, new APIs are a serious problem... Sorry, what?!"
Think of it like the legal system. Too many fucking laws nobody can be bothered to remember them all.
Too many fucking APIs nobody can be bothered to settle on one implementation, let alone support multiple implementations, let alone remember which API does which, etc., etc.
I don't think I'd want something that melts as easily as bismuth and is as electrically conductive as bismuth anywhere near potential electrical contacts. You know that little hole in the top of the packaging of most processors? I'd rather not have that dripping into that breather hole and clogging it up at a colossally slow pace.
Forget ease of removal or cooling, don't use metal or diamond thermal compounds because they're electrically conductive and a misapplication can hose your entire system. Most good ceramic thermal compounds do not conduct electricity.
Not so sure about the divided attention test. Some people can easily multitask better than others, even when totally plastered. I'd still say looking for the signs of inebriation and havnig a test to confirm that would be better.
One thing I never understood, how can you measure blood alcohol content through your breath? That makes no sense given yeast can colonize your body and start fermenting things inside you. I'm pretty sure I could blow a 0.05 without needing a drink.
I can still hold Sony to the fact that they advertised their 80GB model PS3 to play PS2 games, or I could nail their ass for false advertisement. That little issue has not been addressed in court, yet. Right then and there it becomes DMCA versus Truth in Advertising, which one are they going to sacrifice first? Neither, the provision will be made to allow owners of the model of PS3 that could play PS2 games (80 GB model) to be legally allowed to modify their systems in order to achieve the originally advertised functionality. I'll be willing to bet on it, just like I bet on being able to force EA to change their EULA and I fucking did it. It's pretty easy once you get down to raw absolute truth - Sony advertised it, then pulled it without issuing a recall on those units with PS2 capability. That advertisement is still in effect as far as any informed consumer is concerned.
"Just out of curiosity, do you know how many feet of stopping distance a 1/10 of a second difference in reaction time will make for a car traveling at 65 MPH?"
9.53 feet.
My criteria for a good driver is one that can use some common sense, common courtesy, and actually pays attention. Those three things are pretty much key to being a safe driver. I do agree to either test or don't test at all as an either/or option. However, one problem with alcohol is that it does more than what pot would do in most cases (always depends upon the person and their body chemistry.) One example is that alcohol will make people black out and go on 'autopilot' or make them go into a major rage if someone acts like an asshole and cuts them off. Pot doesn't have that side effect occur almost ever. I hallucinated once on some awesome homegrown pot but after that even stronger stuff never did that to me.
"Fact is, when your number is up, your number is up"
That's my main thing. When you drive, any number of things could kill you that you wouldn't be able to know about or anticipate - for example OHSHITAMETEORINTOTHEROOFOFYOURCAR. In reality, just testing is stupid, but there is at least one very well-known dangerous thing that drivers can do and that is drive while drunk, or completely wiped out on opiates. The cokeheads and methheads and potheads I know can pay attention, those doped up on jim beam and oxycontin can barely keep their eyes open.
Testing for drugs is agreeably asinine. The testing for impairment seems arguably asinine without firm determined levels of impairment and a specific thing to test for. After all, those who require glasses to drive will have that impairment noted on their license. Test for inebriation, not impairment, if we're going to test for anything at all.
Why should they not be driving because they have poor reaction time, hm? Given the poor state of public transport in most major cities, driving is pretty much a necessity of life. Why should someone be penalized for a slow reaction time? Most drivers I know with a slow reaction time pretty much drive slowly and carefully, and have no accidents because they watch the road like they're supposed to, unlike the typical LA douchebag in a ricer doing 110 down fucking I-10 that's smashed their car five or six times because despite fast reactions they're morons that can't be bothered to pay full attention to what they're doing while on the cell phone and changing tracks on the radio.
Sorry, your suggestion doesn't fly. Too many extenuating circumstances and too many exceptions for it to ever be feasible. Slow reaction times are not a reason to keep people off the road. If it was a valid reason we wouldn't have half of our police force.
The ability to anticipate something happening is far more valuable than a fast reaction time. In fact, if you're driving properly (keeping at least two seconds between you and the vehicle in front of you, watching the road, looking around before you ever consider changing lanes, etc.) you don't ever NEED a fast reaction time, because you can pretty much anticipate what's going to happen next and move to avoid the situation before it occurs. I call it 'Traffic Zen' and I've avoided many bad accidents because I saw it coming (idiot 18-wheelers that won't move over to the empty lane beside them to let onramp traffic merge, forcing cars into the ramp wall, etc.)
I didn't find it all that difficult to educate the people. I had to train people that couldn't program the clock on a VCR how to diagnose and repair laptops. It didn't take me more than a few weeks. Some of these people were pushing their sixties. Knowing how to effectively translate from technical to layman is the critical thing.
Yea, right. That's why I can walk into the house of a licensed demolitionist and see all sorts of made bombs on shelves and such, and the police know and never arrest him.
PLEASE. Laws vary depending upon the state. How else are you supposed to blast big holes in the sides of mountains, huh?
"But there's no question at all that hacking your consoles is illegal."
Which definition of hack? The moronic one everyone uses now, or the real one by the group that coined the term, the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT?
The true definition of hack is "any useful modification to a system that improves efficiency and functionality or reduces complexity." (paraphrased)
Also, I bought the hardware. It is in my possession. At that point and time, they have no legal authority to interfere with my consumer right to modify that hardware as I see fit. This is not digital software, there is no license. I own this hardware physically and they have NO RIGHT to stop me from doing what I please with it. If that includes hacking the damned PS3 to play PS2 games (As they advertised originally but never got right so they scrapped it in later models, I'm just fulfilling their advertised ability,) then they have no legal authority to stop me.
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
1. is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
2. has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;"
Better brakes wouldn't help much considering the whole inertia thing taking over if you lock the brakes, but wider tires to put more surface area on the ground would because of friction between the vehicle and the surface it's traveling upon.
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I see someone here has absolutely no clue about the old Geforce 6 series - 6800 AGP had 16 pixel pipelines but only 12 were active, and it took a BIOS hack to get all pipelines active.
Not ALL 486SX processors were failures because of the FPU - some had a slightly fucked cache instead where only 3/4 of it was usable, the rest got locked. Some shit got locked even though it worked fine.
A faulty FPU would cause all sorts of noticable problems - odds are the FPU was fine.
Every moderation should be made visible so we can see who is abusing their mod powers and report them.
Nope, my 60GB is model CECHH01 - not BC and not listed on the Wiki.
The internet archive seems to tell a different story about some of the cached content on Sony's website. My 60GB was advertised as BC but it most certainly is NOT.
Oh, hey, it still says that a diamond can conduct electricity, dipshit.
"some blue diamonds are natural semiconductors"
Now shut the fuck up. That's why we're moving towards using diamonds and laser interconnects in processors. You must not read slashdot very often, or you're way out of date with technology. See, I'm already at the level of using the glass substrate in RW optical discs to produce super-speed flash memory with a couple of levels more read/write cycles (10^8 to be precise) than your regular silicon NAND flash. Still waiting on 4-state memory, though. I'm tired of just 0 and 1.
For epileptics and such, I would say yes they should have that issue listed on their license. As for proof of treatment, a current prescription should be enough to prove treatment. Of course, that raises the issue of training police to identify and know which drugs get used for which conditions, most likely not feasible.
So that does end up leading us to no tests whatsoever, and letting nature take your number if it's time.
How the hell did you get PS2 gaming to work on a 60GB model, when the only PS3 with PS2 capability was the older 80GB models and the newer 80GB ones have no PS2 capability at all?
Besides that, I agree - Sony advertised PS2 emulation capability but they've removed it. They need to bring it back before they get nailed with a slew of false advertising lawsuits.
"Can you cite any studies that show that 'inebriation' is more dangerous than any other mental state?"
No study, just well-documented medical proof that shows excessive alcohol consumption (thus inebriation,) can result in coma or death, and that's before the inebriated person even gets behind the wheel. They are a danger to themselves before they are a danger to others. Add on that most accident-related deaths involving substance abuse are caused by alcohol, and that's been pretty much public knowledge for decades, and yes, you could make a strong argument that inebriation is more dangerous than many other mental states. I knew a guy back when I was in high school, he was pretty slow. He could still drive rather well, and obeyed the traffic laws pretty much to a T.
In order to determine inebriation, there are multitudes of tests, sadly they will all have one con or another. For example, I've got weak legs and my balance is off due to my being hit by a drunk driver and needing my right leg rebuilt (balance is fine on left leg,) so a 'walk the line' test would discriminate against me. An epileptic would probably not respond well to the random blinking light test discussed earlier. I don't think a one-solution-fits-all approach is possible for testing for inebriation or ability to drive. After all, look at most 'driving tests' today. Pass a written multiple guess exam and do a lap around the block was my driving test, and that took me less than 15 minutes total.
Diamond is carbon, carbon conducts electricity, numbskull.
Learn how to 'pop sockets'
I do have the ENTIRE surgery bill. TLSO brace was 4,000, each screw was 800-1200, anesthesia and drugs were actually the cheapest, with the x-rays being more expensive.
Dude, a titanium screw in my leg no larger than a couple of BBs side by side cost me $1200. Screw the tests, it's the fucking HARDWARE that costs.
"Yes, new APIs are a serious problem... Sorry, what?!"
Think of it like the legal system. Too many fucking laws nobody can be bothered to remember them all.
Too many fucking APIs nobody can be bothered to settle on one implementation, let alone support multiple implementations, let alone remember which API does which, etc., etc.
AGREE ON A FUCKING *STANDARD* AND STICK TO IT.
I don't think I'd want something that melts as easily as bismuth and is as electrically conductive as bismuth anywhere near potential electrical contacts. You know that little hole in the top of the packaging of most processors? I'd rather not have that dripping into that breather hole and clogging it up at a colossally slow pace.
Forget ease of removal or cooling, don't use metal or diamond thermal compounds because they're electrically conductive and a misapplication can hose your entire system. Most good ceramic thermal compounds do not conduct electricity.
Hey, my nVidia 9800GTX+ has over 120 processing cores of one form or another in one package..
Show me an Intel offering or AMD offering in the CPU market with similar numbers of cores in one package.
Not so sure about the divided attention test. Some people can easily multitask better than others, even when totally plastered. I'd still say looking for the signs of inebriation and havnig a test to confirm that would be better.
One thing I never understood, how can you measure blood alcohol content through your breath? That makes no sense given yeast can colonize your body and start fermenting things inside you. I'm pretty sure I could blow a 0.05 without needing a drink.
I can still hold Sony to the fact that they advertised their 80GB model PS3 to play PS2 games, or I could nail their ass for false advertisement. That little issue has not been addressed in court, yet. Right then and there it becomes DMCA versus Truth in Advertising, which one are they going to sacrifice first? Neither, the provision will be made to allow owners of the model of PS3 that could play PS2 games (80 GB model) to be legally allowed to modify their systems in order to achieve the originally advertised functionality. I'll be willing to bet on it, just like I bet on being able to force EA to change their EULA and I fucking did it. It's pretty easy once you get down to raw absolute truth - Sony advertised it, then pulled it without issuing a recall on those units with PS2 capability. That advertisement is still in effect as far as any informed consumer is concerned.
"Just out of curiosity, do you know how many feet of stopping distance a 1/10 of a second difference in reaction time will make for a car traveling at 65 MPH?"
9.53 feet.
My criteria for a good driver is one that can use some common sense, common courtesy, and actually pays attention. Those three things are pretty much key to being a safe driver. I do agree to either test or don't test at all as an either/or option. However, one problem with alcohol is that it does more than what pot would do in most cases (always depends upon the person and their body chemistry.) One example is that alcohol will make people black out and go on 'autopilot' or make them go into a major rage if someone acts like an asshole and cuts them off. Pot doesn't have that side effect occur almost ever. I hallucinated once on some awesome homegrown pot but after that even stronger stuff never did that to me.
"Fact is, when your number is up, your number is up"
That's my main thing. When you drive, any number of things could kill you that you wouldn't be able to know about or anticipate - for example OHSHITAMETEORINTOTHEROOFOFYOURCAR. In reality, just testing is stupid, but there is at least one very well-known dangerous thing that drivers can do and that is drive while drunk, or completely wiped out on opiates. The cokeheads and methheads and potheads I know can pay attention, those doped up on jim beam and oxycontin can barely keep their eyes open.
Testing for drugs is agreeably asinine. The testing for impairment seems arguably asinine without firm determined levels of impairment and a specific thing to test for. After all, those who require glasses to drive will have that impairment noted on their license. Test for inebriation, not impairment, if we're going to test for anything at all.
Why should they not be driving because they have poor reaction time, hm? Given the poor state of public transport in most major cities, driving is pretty much a necessity of life. Why should someone be penalized for a slow reaction time? Most drivers I know with a slow reaction time pretty much drive slowly and carefully, and have no accidents because they watch the road like they're supposed to, unlike the typical LA douchebag in a ricer doing 110 down fucking I-10 that's smashed their car five or six times because despite fast reactions they're morons that can't be bothered to pay full attention to what they're doing while on the cell phone and changing tracks on the radio.
Sorry, your suggestion doesn't fly. Too many extenuating circumstances and too many exceptions for it to ever be feasible. Slow reaction times are not a reason to keep people off the road. If it was a valid reason we wouldn't have half of our police force.
The ability to anticipate something happening is far more valuable than a fast reaction time. In fact, if you're driving properly (keeping at least two seconds between you and the vehicle in front of you, watching the road, looking around before you ever consider changing lanes, etc.) you don't ever NEED a fast reaction time, because you can pretty much anticipate what's going to happen next and move to avoid the situation before it occurs. I call it 'Traffic Zen' and I've avoided many bad accidents because I saw it coming (idiot 18-wheelers that won't move over to the empty lane beside them to let onramp traffic merge, forcing cars into the ramp wall, etc.)
I didn't find it all that difficult to educate the people. I had to train people that couldn't program the clock on a VCR how to diagnose and repair laptops. It didn't take me more than a few weeks. Some of these people were pushing their sixties. Knowing how to effectively translate from technical to layman is the critical thing.
"Building bombs is indeed illegal."
Yea, right. That's why I can walk into the house of a licensed demolitionist and see all sorts of made bombs on shelves and such, and the police know and never arrest him.
PLEASE. Laws vary depending upon the state. How else are you supposed to blast big holes in the sides of mountains, huh?
"But there's no question at all that hacking your consoles is illegal."
Which definition of hack? The moronic one everyone uses now, or the real one by the group that coined the term, the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT?
The true definition of hack is "any useful modification to a system that improves efficiency and functionality or reduces complexity." (paraphrased)
Also, I bought the hardware. It is in my possession. At that point and time, they have no legal authority to interfere with my consumer right to modify that hardware as I see fit. This is not digital software, there is no license. I own this hardware physically and they have NO RIGHT to stop me from doing what I please with it. If that includes hacking the damned PS3 to play PS2 games (As they advertised originally but never got right so they scrapped it in later models, I'm just fulfilling their advertised ability,) then they have no legal authority to stop me.
The Cartridge TI computer you speak of is the TI-99/4A. The TI-92 was a graphing calculator.
I still own my TI-99/4A. Still works, too. Sadly my LCDTV doesn't have a co-axial input on the back. Doesn't matter, I just emulate it for fun.
The US Drug Czar is required by law to lie.
"Responsibilities. --The Director-- [...]
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
1. is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
2. has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;"
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/about/98reauthorization.html
Picked from http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2007/10/09/theDrugCzarIsRequiredByLaw.html
Better brakes wouldn't help much considering the whole inertia thing taking over if you lock the brakes, but wider tires to put more surface area on the ground would because of friction between the vehicle and the surface it's traveling upon.