To be more specific, the motherboards are $200+ on the low end of the spectrum whereas there are a wealth of Phenom II supporting motherboards for $100; and 4GB of DDR3 is only now approaching $100. 4GB of DDR2, OTOH, (which works with the AMD Phenom II), can be had for $20 if you look for it. If you're too lazy to look for these deals, it can be had for $40 no rebates.
I for one don't like it thrashing my harddisk all the time. How do I know the Vista defragging is good? I like my O&O Defrag software, it defrags based on times that the files were accessed. How do I turn off this auto-defragging? I have yet to find an option for this. So, instead of bothering to google for how to do it, I just run XP. I have full control that way.
I had a digg.com account from about 4 years ago registered to one of my email addresses. I have since moved on to another email address. For some reason my account was banned (I didn't follow the leftist groupthink on digg? I seriously did nothing wrong). Then 3 days ago I get an email at my current address telling me someone became a fan of me.
So how did they get my new email, and know it's me? I hated digg anyways (it and reddit are far too polluted now to bother wish), this is even worse. They somehow got my new address, and updated my old account's email to it. Can I sue? I don't want companies doing things like that.
The Internet isn't very useful if the delivery guy can't bring your ThinkGeek toys to you because the roads are broken.
You have a point. The roads aren't broken though. They're better than ever. In the last 10 years infrastructure spending has increased 50%. I'm sure you can find some town somewhere where the roads need to be relaid. Find that in 2000 towns and we can talk about roads being broken. As it is, it's perfectly fine.
Oh, and for goodness sakes we don't need to spend it on schools; funding is not the problem. We need to move to move to a voucher system. Re-localize schooling. Give parents the power to get involved. Good schools would flourish and kids would get better educations, bad schools would die. This alone would increase future GDP more than any spending measures.
I had a 12-cell battery, this battery life is with screen brightness all the way down (but not off), not running Vista, and forcing the CPU to run at the lowest speed all the time (because if I'm reading a PDF I don't care about performance). Depending on your processor one can also undervolt it using RMClock and extend battery life ~45m.
My jaw dropped when I saw that page. Until I saw "The quoted income tax rate is, except where noted, the top rate of tax: Most jurisdictions have lower rate of taxes for low levels of income." That was the difference between the stated 54.3% that page states and my 18% taxes paid. I live in Norway BTW, which arguably has one of the best healtcare systems in the world.
So it's not a fantasy. It's a reality.
And who do you think is going to be spending the R&D money to find new cures and ways to treat uncured illnesses? If America switches to universal government healthcare, then all the money spent in the industry will go to curing known illnesses and fixing people. None will be spent on R&D. So then you'll propose more government involvement for that, for sure.
Thanks, I'd rather have my big Pharma's like Phizer blowing billions on research, because with our system there is a MARKET for new cures. Thanks to our privatized healthcare system, if there a cure developed and you have normal health insurance, the health insurance has to pay for that cure for you. That cure would never have been developed if all the money spent on medicine over here went to curing people like it does in your country. Trust me-- you don't want us moving to universal healthcare. Our government would stipulate how much it thinks the cure is worth-- and it would base that solely on the cost of production, ignoring any R&D costs. You could say bye-bye to any new cures then.
This is truly exciting. While for a desktop I may be more interested in having the most powerful CPU, in a laptop the important thing is the whole package. And in that area AMD wins hands down. Now that AMD has 45nm chips (better battery life!), there's really not much that Intel has on them (besides wireless maybe) that would make me want to pick an Intel laptop. AMD has perfectly-fast-for-everything-I-need-to-get-done processors, and they've got Intel beat in the graphics card department, heck they had Intel's chips available today beat with ATI/AMD GPUs made 5 years ago.
This is why I just don't see Windows surviving on the desktop. And especially not the laptop. This opening of 3d GPU drivers is going to bring a whole new kind of integration between programs and hardware; and it's going to happen a lot faster on Linux (simply because everything is open and available for immediate change) than on Windows. Can't wait!
Perfect time to get them a graphing calculator. I started with a TI-83+, like the rest of our high school. I was bright, and always bored in math. My teacher said if we could program our own functions to solve problems we would be solving on tests, then we could use them ON the test. Of course I wasn't allowed to sell them to other students; but it was nice that I got to goof off for most of class. So I spent the first 5 minutes of class figuring out what we were learning for the day, and the last 50 playing calculator games, programming functions to solve the stuff we were being given on tests, and doing homework.
The fun thing was finishing my test in 20 minutes when the rest of the class took 45:)
I wouldn't get them a TI-83+ though, those can't do much useful beyond Algebra; get them a Casio or possibly a TI-89 (be warned though, the TI-89 is terrible for complex equations because a). it's not RPN, and b). you can't see more than about 30 characters in your equation at once, and scrolling from the beginning to halfway through a complex circuits equation with imaginary numbers and all that to fix some parentheses takes about 15 seconds, but you have to do it about 4 times because you inevitably put the parentheses in the wrong places the first 3 times. HUGE waste of time on tests).
Just wondering, who do you think you that you can run around getting government involved in everything? Seriously, tax it? Where did that come from? Because more government is all we need, right? If people want to put crap into their bodies, so be it. Are you going to tax healthy restaurants too? Which menu items will you tax? I hope you won't tax the Salad+Vinegarett combos. I suppose if you support universal healthcare then you could make a case for taxing unhealthy foods. I love people that think we need the government to baby our citizens into behaving and eating well.
On a side note, I haven't RTA, but my guess is they correlate these two, and do not find the cause. IANABiologist, but I've read some papers that make a fairly convincing case that Alzheimers is simply diabetes in the brain. Fast foods (and candy of course) are terribly rich in starch. The starch/sugar-> glucose process takes very little effort on behalf of your body, and is very fast. Result is tons of glucose spikes in your blood, which over time decreases insulin sensitivity of your (muscles, brain). That's not even mentioning the free radicals (cancer agents) released when processing the starches.
So the answer is not a blanket "avoid fast food" (or, heaven forbid tax it) but when you go out to eat, choose what you eat carefully. Stay away from the simple carbs like fries, get proteins and fibers.
This reminds me of all the demos of holographic disc technology. It'll be on the market in just 1 year! But it never is, and it's never affordable for us/. browsing types.
You're interested in doing something simply to create discord? That's awfully childish...how does this make you any better than these "religious nutters"?
No I think he's right. Someone will write some incredible indexing software that can practically read our minds and tell us what we need to know. Lawyers are insanely overpaid. This is a very interesting idea Kupfernigk. You've got me excited.:)
Someone else made a good point about this Obama thing, that you can't just "push back" the date 5 years when you cut funding. Because after those 5 years, you can't just call up all the guys you laid off and say "hey we want you back!" and expect them to drop their job and reform the exact development team you had going before you did the budget cuts. These teams take 5-10 years to form and get on the ground running. You either keep up the funding or push the moon plans back 15 years. There is no 5.
I wouldn't be so dismissive of someone with salary expectations. If they're expecting you to do some serious work, then they should be offering legitimate pay. Quitting a coop and finding a new one is a pain. If they're not going to give you serious work, they should at least be willing to pay you for wasting your time. Legitimate pay is a good way of gauging how serious they are about using your talents and Tech education.
I'd recommend the Coop program, spydabyte, over the Internship program. Better pay (from what I've seen), more opportunities for serious work (because you're coming back), you get to know more people in the company, and if you do it right, you can pretty much depend on having a job offer. The coop program is now only 3 semesters at Tech (of course you can keep going if you need the money, I'll be doing 5), so there's really no reason not to. Get to add more nice things to your resume, while you're at it.
Salary expectations-- My first coop company paid $16/hr a few years ago. Friend's coop last year was paying him $20/hr. Now I'm making $18/hr at my second coop. GE starts you at $17.
Don't forget-- YOU CAN NEGOTIATE. This is no different from any other job. Be bold about it. There aren't many students involved in the Coop program at Tech. You are in demand, ESPECIALLY if your GPA is at or above 3.0 (if you go to Tech).
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To be more specific, the motherboards are $200+ on the low end of the spectrum whereas there are a wealth of Phenom II supporting motherboards for $100; and 4GB of DDR3 is only now approaching $100. 4GB of DDR2, OTOH, (which works with the AMD Phenom II), can be had for $20 if you look for it. If you're too lazy to look for these deals, it can be had for $40 no rebates.
AMD has a real winner on their hands here.
I for one don't like it thrashing my harddisk all the time. How do I know the Vista defragging is good? I like my O&O Defrag software, it defrags based on times that the files were accessed. How do I turn off this auto-defragging? I have yet to find an option for this. So, instead of bothering to google for how to do it, I just run XP. I have full control that way.
I had a digg.com account from about 4 years ago registered to one of my email addresses. I have since moved on to another email address. For some reason my account was banned (I didn't follow the leftist groupthink on digg? I seriously did nothing wrong). Then 3 days ago I get an email at my current address telling me someone became a fan of me.
So how did they get my new email, and know it's me? I hated digg anyways (it and reddit are far too polluted now to bother wish), this is even worse. They somehow got my new address, and updated my old account's email to it. Can I sue? I don't want companies doing things like that.
The Internet isn't very useful if the delivery guy can't bring your ThinkGeek toys to you because the roads are broken.
You have a point. The roads aren't broken though. They're better than ever. In the last 10 years infrastructure spending has increased 50%. I'm sure you can find some town somewhere where the roads need to be relaid. Find that in 2000 towns and we can talk about roads being broken. As it is, it's perfectly fine.
Oh, and for goodness sakes we don't need to spend it on schools; funding is not the problem. We need to move to move to a voucher system. Re-localize schooling. Give parents the power to get involved. Good schools would flourish and kids would get better educations, bad schools would die. This alone would increase future GDP more than any spending measures.
I disagree. If you posted something negative about a company, does that mean troll? Not if it's true.
I had that thought as well a while back, I like it very much.
I had a 12-cell battery, this battery life is with screen brightness all the way down (but not off), not running Vista, and forcing the CPU to run at the lowest speed all the time (because if I'm reading a PDF I don't care about performance).
Depending on your processor one can also undervolt it using RMClock and extend battery life ~45m.
If I recall correctly, we only charged him on his first visit, before realizing what the true nature of his problem was.
Yeah but you charged him 5 times for that visit, I bet. Uh huh, I'm on to you. Don't worry I won't tell ;)
And my AMD cpu+GPU laptop gets 5h40m doing the same...
My jaw dropped when I saw that page. Until I saw "The quoted income tax rate is, except where noted, the top rate of tax: Most jurisdictions have lower rate of taxes for low levels of income."
That was the difference between the stated 54.3% that page states and my 18% taxes paid.
I live in Norway BTW, which arguably has one of the best healtcare systems in the world.
So it's not a fantasy. It's a reality.
And who do you think is going to be spending the R&D money to find new cures and ways to treat uncured illnesses? If America switches to universal government healthcare, then all the money spent in the industry will go to curing known illnesses and fixing people. None will be spent on R&D. So then you'll propose more government involvement for that, for sure.
Thanks, I'd rather have my big Pharma's like Phizer blowing billions on research, because with our system there is a MARKET for new cures. Thanks to our privatized healthcare system, if there a cure developed and you have normal health insurance, the health insurance has to pay for that cure for you. That cure would never have been developed if all the money spent on medicine over here went to curing people like it does in your country. Trust me-- you don't want us moving to universal healthcare. Our government would stipulate how much it thinks the cure is worth-- and it would base that solely on the cost of production, ignoring any R&D costs. You could say bye-bye to any new cures then.
This is truly exciting. While for a desktop I may be more interested in having the most powerful CPU, in a laptop the important thing is the whole package. And in that area AMD wins hands down. Now that AMD has 45nm chips (better battery life!), there's really not much that Intel has on them (besides wireless maybe) that would make me want to pick an Intel laptop. AMD has perfectly-fast-for-everything-I-need-to-get-done processors, and they've got Intel beat in the graphics card department, heck they had Intel's chips available today beat with ATI/AMD GPUs made 5 years ago.
This is why I just don't see Windows surviving on the desktop. And especially not the laptop. This opening of 3d GPU drivers is going to bring a whole new kind of integration between programs and hardware; and it's going to happen a lot faster on Linux (simply because everything is open and available for immediate change) than on Windows. Can't wait!
Perfect time to get them a graphing calculator. I started with a TI-83+, like the rest of our high school. I was bright, and always bored in math. My teacher said if we could program our own functions to solve problems we would be solving on tests, then we could use them ON the test. Of course I wasn't allowed to sell them to other students; but it was nice that I got to goof off for most of class. So I spent the first 5 minutes of class figuring out what we were learning for the day, and the last 50 playing calculator games, programming functions to solve the stuff we were being given on tests, and doing homework.
The fun thing was finishing my test in 20 minutes when the rest of the class took 45 :)
I wouldn't get them a TI-83+ though, those can't do much useful beyond Algebra; get them a Casio or possibly a TI-89 (be warned though, the TI-89 is terrible for complex equations because a). it's not RPN, and b). you can't see more than about 30 characters in your equation at once, and scrolling from the beginning to halfway through a complex circuits equation with imaginary numbers and all that to fix some parentheses takes about 15 seconds, but you have to do it about 4 times because you inevitably put the parentheses in the wrong places the first 3 times. HUGE waste of time on tests).
*and much higher taxes.
Wow. The electrical bill savings could pay for the LN2.
Where do you two work, I want to come join you so I can browse /. instead of doing my job. :p
My subscription plan is capped at 8megabits/second.
I'm not getting that speed even on the best torrents.
Complain to your ISP, not to other bittorrent users.
They also said the same thing when UDP streaming internet video became a hit-- their servers couldn't keep up.
They just had to upgrade.
Hopefully the same thing will happen now.
Just wondering, who do you think you that you can run around getting government involved in everything? Seriously, tax it? Where did that come from? Because more government is all we need, right? If people want to put crap into their bodies, so be it.
Are you going to tax healthy restaurants too? Which menu items will you tax? I hope you won't tax the Salad+Vinegarett combos. I suppose if you support universal healthcare then you could make a case for taxing unhealthy foods. I love people that think we need the government to baby our citizens into behaving and eating well.
On a side note, I haven't RTA, but my guess is they correlate these two, and do not find the cause.
IANABiologist, but I've read some papers that make a fairly convincing case that Alzheimers is simply diabetes in the brain.
Fast foods (and candy of course) are terribly rich in starch. The starch/sugar-> glucose process takes very little effort on behalf of your body, and is very fast. Result is tons of glucose spikes in your blood, which over time decreases insulin sensitivity of your (muscles, brain). That's not even mentioning the free radicals (cancer agents) released when processing the starches.
So the answer is not a blanket "avoid fast food" (or, heaven forbid tax it) but when you go out to eat, choose what you eat carefully. Stay away from the simple carbs like fries, get proteins and fibers.
This reminds me of all the demos of holographic disc technology. It'll be on the market in just 1 year! But it never is, and it's never affordable for us /. browsing types.
You're interested in doing something simply to create discord? That's awfully childish...how does this make you any better than these "religious nutters"?
"And what if you encounter lag!? You're basically DEAD!"
--FPS Doug
No I think he's right. Someone will write some incredible indexing software that can practically read our minds and tell us what we need to know. Lawyers are insanely overpaid. This is a very interesting idea Kupfernigk. You've got me excited. :)
Someone else made a good point about this Obama thing, that you can't just "push back" the date 5 years when you cut funding. Because after those 5 years, you can't just call up all the guys you laid off and say "hey we want you back!" and expect them to drop their job and reform the exact development team you had going before you did the budget cuts. These teams take 5-10 years to form and get on the ground running. You either keep up the funding or push the moon plans back 15 years. There is no 5.
I wouldn't be so dismissive of someone with salary expectations. If they're expecting you to do some serious work, then they should be offering legitimate pay. Quitting a coop and finding a new one is a pain. If they're not going to give you serious work, they should at least be willing to pay you for wasting your time. Legitimate pay is a good way of gauging how serious they are about using your talents and Tech education.
I'd recommend the Coop program, spydabyte, over the Internship program. Better pay (from what I've seen), more opportunities for serious work (because you're coming back), you get to know more people in the company, and if you do it right, you can pretty much depend on having a job offer. The coop program is now only 3 semesters at Tech (of course you can keep going if you need the money, I'll be doing 5), so there's really no reason not to. Get to add more nice things to your resume, while you're at it.
Salary expectations-- My first coop company paid $16/hr a few years ago. Friend's coop last year was paying him $20/hr. Now I'm making $18/hr at my second coop. GE starts you at $17.
Don't forget-- YOU CAN NEGOTIATE. This is no different from any other job. Be bold about it. There aren't many students involved in the Coop program at Tech. You are in demand, ESPECIALLY if your GPA is at or above 3.0 (if you go to Tech).
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