Ah but if it was 'free', with nobody making money off pushing it, then the music will have to survive on its own merits. People will listen to it because/if they want to, not because its being marketed to them.
So... to give our (great?) grand-children a free world, we should be killing off all the creators now right?:)
"Well you see son, there used to be this thing called a 'rock star', and they made music. But we had to kill them all to set the music free. It was the only way."
If you send a photo containing someone driving while using phone/electronic device to the police you will get 10% of the fine
I've love it if a law was introduced making it allowable for you to hold down your car horn if you saw someone driving with a phone held to their ear, until they stopped. Road rage would become a huge issue, as would burnt out horns, and there are a stack of other things wrong with such a law, but it would be a laugh:)
no problem at all adapting and blending into our modern society
Don't they keep changing their mind about whether the Neanderthals had the physical capacity for speech as we know it? That doesn't make what you said completely wrong (plenty of people who can't speak get along just fine) but given how we tend to treat people different from us they might have a little bit more of a problem than "no probably at all" would seem to suggest.
Depends on where in the world you are - in parts of Europe horse meat is readily available. It's a little bit like venison, and less fatty than beef steak.
I just got my iPhone and i'm wondering what SSH client I should install on it. There are a few of them and I suspect that the choice is more personal than most other apps. I would love to see all apps available for a trial period, even if it was just a few hours from first use. I suspect that it won't happen though, as 90% of everything is crap, and if you actually tried it before you bought it you wouldn't buy it:)
objects do not become radioactive unless they are bombarded with neutron radiation
Contrary to what you might have heard, plants don't just absorb water from their roots - they also absorb minerals etc. If any of the minerals in the soil that the plant absorbs happen to be radioactive then we have a problem. If the plant then enters any part of the food chain that ends with humans then we have a bigger problem.
And to think that when our parents went to university, it was totally free!
I'm in my mid 30's now... when I went to university in 1994 my 3-year computer degree cost me around $10k from memory, and i'd paid that back within 3 or 4 years of graduating. Compared to $8k/semester, my fees were next to free.
The university attendance rate in the U.S. is way, way too high, and will get even worse if interest rates on student loans are lowered further below the free market rate.
Yes but think of how good the youth unemployment figures look with so many young people studying!
But that just assumes that we really want to judge the performance of the graphics hardware in isolation
Which is why I suggested that benchmark apps be able to test with the offload on or off. That way, when the benchmark results are read you can know how applicable the results are to your system, which may or may not have CPU cycles to burn.
Well, if the GPU becomes saturated, I could imagine the rest of the load spilling over to the CPU (one or many cores). Obviously the GPU is more efficient at video tasks, but if the video task is priority for the user, why not offload to the CPU as well? Makes sense to me.
If you do that for a benchmark app then you are not really testing (just) the performance of the graphics hardware, so turning on that optimization without disclosing it is probably not really a fair comparison of the hardware. To make it 'fair' you really need to make the benchmark app to be aware of the feature and be able to turn it on or off under software control, or at least know if it is enabled or not. I wonder if similar optimisations could be made to any 3D video driver...
In the real world, if the user wants high graphics performance and there are CPU cores doing nothing then like you said, offloading to them makes perfect sense.
A better solution would be for robots.txt (or a more secure equivalent) to allow google to know that they need to pay when their results come up in your search results. Of course, google will require the searcher (eg you) to pay to see those results. A simple click through would work ("click here to see this pay-per-view result - your account will be debited $0.01c"). Add another link at the top (and bottom) of the results for "Never, ever, show me pay-per-view search results again. It's a stupid idea and I hate it.".
The users are happy because they get to exclude search results from people who just don't get it.
Media empires will be happy because they got what they wanted (and unhappy as they go broke as they become invisible to the internet without understanding why, but that's not google's problem).
Google will be happy because all the companies that want this feature will finally stfu and go broke.
We have a few class C networks with about 30-50% usage. Any attempted by an IP address to hit port 22 on an unused IP gets put on an iptables 'recent' block list and it stays there until it hasn't been heard from for 5 minutes. It isn't a bulletproof security measure by any means but it sure cuts down the noise, which makes reviewing the logs a bit more useful.
I wish I had IPv6... assuming you can't axfr my dns zone to determine active hostnames, you have a in 2^48 chance of hitting an actual host, and a (2^48 - ) in 2^48 chance of being blocked for 5 minutes after the last time my firewall hears from you. The downside is that the hackers/bots probably have 2^48 addresses to choose from too, making my block list overflow. oh well:)
I was thinking that too. "300-mile range of gasoline powered cars" sounds like something someone with an agenda would say, especially as 300 miles would be at the lower end of range and their 500 miles for batteries would be at the higher end. To translate it "out battery pack will give you 500 miles of constant 45mph speed which is much better than the 300 miles you get out of petroleum powered vehicles when they spend all day driving in stop-start city traffic".
My Citroen C4 Diesel gets up to 1200km (~700 miles?) on a 60L tank of fuel. I'm not so familiar with the US use of the word 'gasoline', but I assume it equates to petroleum and not diesel, so maybe that's not a fair comparison (diesel has more energy per L than petroleum). My previous car - a Ford Falcon Ute could go around 700km (~450 miles?) on a 70L tank of petroleum, and that was below average and is still 50% higher than the 300 mile figure quoted in the article.
That's a false dichotomy. At 10 MPH, a belted person has the choice of hitting nothing or the airbag, and the airbag is much worse than nothing.
That's not what I meant. The accident itself would be at a higher speed. 10mph was an example of an impact of your head with something in the car - I doubt the airbag wouldn't even deploy if the car speed at the time of impact was only 10mph.
If two cars travelling in opposite directions at 40 MPH slam into each other, that's exactly equivalent, in terms of energy dissipation and momentum transfer, to one car travelling at 80MPH slamming into a stationary vehicle. Each vehicle, in its own reference frame, sees another vehicle travelling at 80MPH.
Well put. I think where people get mixed up is that it's also equivalent to the same car travelling at 40MPH and hitting a brick wall, provided that the brick wall is a classic 'unmovable object' and doesn't deform or anything.
Here in Victoria, Australia (and maybe the rest of Australia too?) new laws are just about to be introduced to put kids in the back seat where they belong. And in decent restraints too. Little kids with their big heads (relative to the rest of their bodies) and little necks die very easily in very minor accidents.
because they were being fraudently sold as "safe" and "pillow-like.". Airbags should have been sold as the explosives aimed at someone's face
Tell you what, smash your head into the dashboard at 10mph, then, when you have recovered (if you ever do), smash your head into a deployed airbag at 10mph. I bet the airbag feels much safer and pillow like in comparison.
and they should have been spec'd for belted passengers, not unbelted.
I read that somewhere. Is it really true that airbags in some/most/all of the US are designed to protect unbelted passengers?
My current car is a Citroen C4 which has the center of the steering wheel fixed, allowing for a a shaped airbag. Hopefully I never get to find out if that's a good thing or not:)
I guess it varies from person to person, but I have driven while talking on a hands free cell phone, driven while having technical discussions with coworkers, driven with a wife who loves to talk, and driven with 4 tired grumpy kids who just wouldn't leave each other alone. The grumpy kids ranks below all the other things on my distract-o-meter.
You can easily tune out to grumpy kids stabbing each other with pointy things, and if it gets to the point that you can't tune it out then it's probably worth pulling over anyway before one of them requires medical attention. And you can tune it out because you want to tune it out. If you are tuning out the cell phone conversation then why are you on the phone in the first place?
Personally, I think a movement sensor should automatically lock the keypad on your phone as soon as it detects that you are moving over a certain speed. Add a simple (but slightly tedious) override to use when you are on a train or bus or are a passenger or something and make sure that the override broadcasts something to the network with the call. The idea of the latter is to make it easier to record a conviction against all those fucktards with a phone stuck to their ear driving at 110kph down the freeway. Failing that, make it legal for me to be able to shoot out their tyres:)
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Ah but if it was 'free', with nobody making money off pushing it, then the music will have to survive on its own merits. People will listen to it because/if they want to, not because its being marketed to them.
Cannibalism
Cannibilism is people! We've got to stop them somehow!
Life + 70 means the creator's life + 70 years
So... to give our (great?) grand-children a free world, we should be killing off all the creators now right? :)
"Well you see son, there used to be this thing called a 'rock star', and they made music. But we had to kill them all to set the music free. It was the only way."
If you send a photo containing someone driving while using phone/electronic device to the police you will get 10% of the fine
I've love it if a law was introduced making it allowable for you to hold down your car horn if you saw someone driving with a phone held to their ear, until they stopped. Road rage would become a huge issue, as would burnt out horns, and there are a stack of other things wrong with such a law, but it would be a laugh :)
On a more positive note, a woman in Australia was recently convicted under new laws that make it a crime to smoke in a car with children present.
Don't they keep changing their mind about whether the Neanderthals had the physical capacity for speech as we know it? That doesn't make what you said completely wrong (plenty of people who can't speak get along just fine) but given how we tend to treat people different from us they might have a little bit more of a problem than "no probably at all" would seem to suggest.
Depends on where in the world you are - in parts of Europe horse meat is readily available. It's a little bit like venison, and less fatty than beef steak.
Well... i learned something new today!
Except for horses. There won't be any meaningful limits on horse owners.
Well, horses are one of the few "pets" we do eat after all.
Close. Horses are one of the few "pets" our pets eat.
I just got my iPhone and i'm wondering what SSH client I should install on it. There are a few of them and I suspect that the choice is more personal than most other apps. I would love to see all apps available for a trial period, even if it was just a few hours from first use. I suspect that it won't happen though, as 90% of everything is crap, and if you actually tried it before you bought it you wouldn't buy it :)
objects do not become radioactive unless they are bombarded with neutron radiation
Contrary to what you might have heard, plants don't just absorb water from their roots - they also absorb minerals etc. If any of the minerals in the soil that the plant absorbs happen to be radioactive then we have a problem. If the plant then enters any part of the food chain that ends with humans then we have a bigger problem.
And to think that when our parents went to university, it was totally free!
I'm in my mid 30's now... when I went to university in 1994 my 3-year computer degree cost me around $10k from memory, and i'd paid that back within 3 or 4 years of graduating. Compared to $8k/semester, my fees were next to free.
The university attendance rate in the U.S. is way, way too high, and will get even worse if interest rates on student loans are lowered further below the free market rate.
Yes but think of how good the youth unemployment figures look with so many young people studying!
another Kennedy assassination.
Are there any of those left?
But that just assumes that we really want to judge the performance of the graphics hardware in isolation
Which is why I suggested that benchmark apps be able to test with the offload on or off. That way, when the benchmark results are read you can know how applicable the results are to your system, which may or may not have CPU cycles to burn.
Well, if the GPU becomes saturated, I could imagine the rest of the load spilling over to the CPU (one or many cores). Obviously the GPU is more efficient at video tasks, but if the video task is priority for the user, why not offload to the CPU as well? Makes sense to me.
If you do that for a benchmark app then you are not really testing (just) the performance of the graphics hardware, so turning on that optimization without disclosing it is probably not really a fair comparison of the hardware. To make it 'fair' you really need to make the benchmark app to be aware of the feature and be able to turn it on or off under software control, or at least know if it is enabled or not. I wonder if similar optimisations could be made to any 3D video driver...
In the real world, if the user wants high graphics performance and there are CPU cores doing nothing then like you said, offloading to them makes perfect sense.
A better solution would be for robots.txt (or a more secure equivalent) to allow google to know that they need to pay when their results come up in your search results. Of course, google will require the searcher (eg you) to pay to see those results. A simple click through would work ("click here to see this pay-per-view result - your account will be debited $0.01c"). Add another link at the top (and bottom) of the results for "Never, ever, show me pay-per-view search results again. It's a stupid idea and I hate it.".
The users are happy because they get to exclude search results from people who just don't get it.
Media empires will be happy because they got what they wanted (and unhappy as they go broke as they become invisible to the internet without understanding why, but that's not google's problem).
Google will be happy because all the companies that want this feature will finally stfu and go broke.
You, on the return of your wife: "Now honey, you're going to hear a lot of crazy talk about our son working in a burlesque house"
Sounds like somebody had too much candy as a child...
We have a few class C networks with about 30-50% usage. Any attempted by an IP address to hit port 22 on an unused IP gets put on an iptables 'recent' block list and it stays there until it hasn't been heard from for 5 minutes. It isn't a bulletproof security measure by any means but it sure cuts down the noise, which makes reviewing the logs a bit more useful.
I wish I had IPv6... assuming you can't axfr my dns zone to determine active hostnames, you have a in 2^48 chance of hitting an actual host, and a (2^48 - ) in 2^48 chance of being blocked for 5 minutes after the last time my firewall hears from you. The downside is that the hackers/bots probably have 2^48 addresses to choose from too, making my block list overflow. oh well :)
I was thinking that too. "300-mile range of gasoline powered cars" sounds like something someone with an agenda would say, especially as 300 miles would be at the lower end of range and their 500 miles for batteries would be at the higher end. To translate it "out battery pack will give you 500 miles of constant 45mph speed which is much better than the 300 miles you get out of petroleum powered vehicles when they spend all day driving in stop-start city traffic".
My Citroen C4 Diesel gets up to 1200km (~700 miles?) on a 60L tank of fuel. I'm not so familiar with the US use of the word 'gasoline', but I assume it equates to petroleum and not diesel, so maybe that's not a fair comparison (diesel has more energy per L than petroleum). My previous car - a Ford Falcon Ute could go around 700km (~450 miles?) on a 70L tank of petroleum, and that was below average and is still 50% higher than the 300 mile figure quoted in the article.
They can't do that. I purchased that crater over the internet. I paid good money for it and I have the deed to prove it.
That's not what I meant. The accident itself would be at a higher speed. 10mph was an example of an impact of your head with something in the car - I doubt the airbag wouldn't even deploy if the car speed at the time of impact was only 10mph.
If two cars travelling in opposite directions at 40 MPH slam into each other, that's exactly equivalent, in terms of energy dissipation and momentum transfer, to one car travelling at 80MPH slamming into a stationary vehicle. Each vehicle, in its own reference frame, sees another vehicle travelling at 80MPH.
Well put. I think where people get mixed up is that it's also equivalent to the same car travelling at 40MPH and hitting a brick wall, provided that the brick wall is a classic 'unmovable object' and doesn't deform or anything.
No decapitated babies from overpowered airbags
Here in Victoria, Australia (and maybe the rest of Australia too?) new laws are just about to be introduced to put kids in the back seat where they belong. And in decent restraints too. Little kids with their big heads (relative to the rest of their bodies) and little necks die very easily in very minor accidents.
because they were being fraudently sold as "safe" and "pillow-like.". Airbags should have been sold as the explosives aimed at someone's face
Tell you what, smash your head into the dashboard at 10mph, then, when you have recovered (if you ever do), smash your head into a deployed airbag at 10mph. I bet the airbag feels much safer and pillow like in comparison.
and they should have been spec'd for belted passengers, not unbelted.
I read that somewhere. Is it really true that airbags in some/most/all of the US are designed to protect unbelted passengers?
My current car is a Citroen C4 which has the center of the steering wheel fixed, allowing for a a shaped airbag. Hopefully I never get to find out if that's a good thing or not :)
I guess it varies from person to person, but I have driven while talking on a hands free cell phone, driven while having technical discussions with coworkers, driven with a wife who loves to talk, and driven with 4 tired grumpy kids who just wouldn't leave each other alone. The grumpy kids ranks below all the other things on my distract-o-meter.
You can easily tune out to grumpy kids stabbing each other with pointy things, and if it gets to the point that you can't tune it out then it's probably worth pulling over anyway before one of them requires medical attention. And you can tune it out because you want to tune it out. If you are tuning out the cell phone conversation then why are you on the phone in the first place?
Personally, I think a movement sensor should automatically lock the keypad on your phone as soon as it detects that you are moving over a certain speed. Add a simple (but slightly tedious) override to use when you are on a train or bus or are a passenger or something and make sure that the override broadcasts something to the network with the call. The idea of the latter is to make it easier to record a conviction against all those fucktards with a phone stuck to their ear driving at 110kph down the freeway. Failing that, make it legal for me to be able to shoot out their tyres :)