Sure. In a nutshell, you've been lied to. I would never assert that the Republican party has always vote pro-Freedom (yeah, we wrote the Patriot Act. Sorry about that.), but censorship has often been a Democratic pastime. Remember, the DMCA was signed by a Democrat president, and the PMRC was a pet project of Tipper Gore.
The DMCA was introduced by a Republican, and passed 99-0 in the Senate. A veto would have been pointless (not that Clinton wanted to veto it).
The PMRC was not only a "pet project" of Tipper Gore, but also of James Baker's wife and Strom Thurmond's wife.
The truth is far more complex, but how often do you hear of both parties' sins?
My definition is "a collection of hardware that provides a non-trivial level of performance on a single problem"
OK, so a "lot of processors" could be a supercomputer, depending on the software running. And, apparently, the presense of InfiniBand.:)
I'll agree that rendering is embarrassingly parallel.
(I've been poking around ClusterMonkey this afternoon. I work at the Ohio Supercomputer Center @ Ohio State, and am currently implementing a SVM classifier in MATLAB to run on a Linux cluster.)
One Friday, I had gotten my tongue pierced, by Monday, my tongue had swelled up so much, I could barely talk.
We were in a meeting that day, I received my assignments for the day with a slight mumble grumble - I guess my boss thought I was overtly stressed or just not happy with what I had to do.
I poorly scheduled my tongue piercing - did it a few days before I was scheduled to give a presentation at the weekly intern meeting at the company I was interning at. The only way I could talk was to pop a bunch of aspirin and nurse ice water to keep the swelling down. Unfortunatly, the president of the company attened my briefing.
My boss (who thought the whole thing was hilarious) told me the prez asked him if I was dipping during the brief - he thought I was discretely spitting when I was taking tiny sips of water all the time. I'm not sure if the truth would've been worse, but I can only imagine what he thought of me.:)
Tatooed like a human cartoon? Or showing your pierced tongue at any occasion just to make sure others know you're friggin cool-looking?
Most people have no idea I have a tattoo, and I hid my tongue piercing thruout my interview process when I was getting out of school, apparently successful. I kept the "stealth" fitting in until I moved to a position on a military base, where I decided to remove it altogether. Too many ultra-conservative people who can negatively impact my income and career progress.
I kinda wish I didn't remove it, but... I did. I'm itching to get a new tattoo tho, and this one might not be on my upper arm.
I'm certain that kind of quality hasn't come down far enough in price, nor shall it in the next 3 years for me to even consider buying one (probably only when I get HD Soccer on FSC or such.)
Actually, you can already catch MLS games on HDNet. Usually about one per week. I don't have HDTV, but I understand it's stunning.
I currently work with Dr. Draper who did that project while working on his PhD. We've moved from VR to AR (Augmented Reality), because the technology isn't there to increase performance in our application domain using VR. Sim sickness was prevalent, and operator performance wasn't any better than baseline.
I'm not sure what papers we've written are out there in the world about it - they've recently cracked down on what we *can* say, due to who we do research for - but you might want to poke around Google Scholar to see what turns up. We've done an awful lot of research on this.
Gore won 115 Ohio counties? Kerry 114? There is some serious election fraud going on by both parties then - because there are only 88 counties in Ohio. Yet Kerry won more counties than there are in the state, and somehow Bush won the state. Hrm.
I fail to see why a person from Ohio or Oklahoma should have a vote in preventing terrorism, since the likelihood of their being a victim in an attack is essentially zero. Dear rest of America: you aren't here, you aren't at risk of a terrorist attack, please don't go to the polls and vote based on some vague fear that has no personal relevance to you.
Well, I live in Ohio and just a few miles from one of the biggest military bases in the country. Work there too. While the risk of terrorist attack is low here, it is higher than that of some guy in Podunk, Indiana. As a tactical target, it's hard to find a better one than where I work, but terrorists don't usually pick targets for their tactical value.
That said, I'm voting Kerry on Tuesday. He is the better choice for America, by any metric. Except if you are a rich, religious dickbag. Then I can see why you'd prefer Bush.
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As a Danish citizen I noticed a lowered quality of (parts of) the US press after September 11th and particularly during the run-up to the Iraq war (there seemed to be no room for doubt). From my point of view it was clear that the evidence for weapons of mass destruction were poor. My impression was that a discussion of the quality of the evidence was hardly allowed space in US media outlets. Is that also your impression in 20-20 hindsight?
As a US citizen, that was my impression at the time, much less in hindsight.
New York, directly after 9/11 is not the place where policy that influences the next century or so should have been written. Approaching world affairs with a revenge mindset is unlikely to lead to good outcomes.
I'm a little late to the party, but - sadly - that policy was written long before 9/11. 9/11 has just become a good excuse to drag normal Americans into supporting putting it into action.
I personally know a guy who once strung TWELVE projectors together on one print. He did it just to see if he could, but stringing multiple projectors together is very common. They can put 20 minute delays between projectors too. In newer houses, it's just a matter of pressing a button on a computer to fire up all the projectors in the array and start the film rolling.
The films also aren't on reels anymore - they splice everything together and put it on a giant variable-RPM platter. When viewing the film is spools from one platter to another, meaning there is no rewinding - just grab the start of the film, loop it thru the projector and back onto the first reel, and run it again.
Not always. The two companies involved in my previous example are private companies - one of only a few employees. While there are situations that follow your profile, there are many that do not. Gov't research makes a point of involving small businesses. There is a contracting process called "Small Business Innovative Research" (SBIR) which amounts to a HUGE percentage of technical support to gov't labs.
And the findings of the research is published, so the knowledge learned is very much public. If my lab finds a better way to alert pilots to critical aircraft conditions (one of our current research areas) than a buzzer and a flashing light, we will publish our study and results for others to learn from.
I concur. I also work at a defense contractor, and my gov't customer's prime product (that I help produce) is a stack of scientific papers from 6-2 research. We publish probably 5 papers a year - and that's a team of 3 human factors people, 1 general purpose Lt., and 1 software/EE person (myself).
We mostly do applied technologies research, but occasionally do "basic" research, and even less often do targeted research aiming for deployment (when we have a "winner" technology). There is plenty of good tech research in the gov't, and a [i]lot[/i] of it transfers to civilian use (my father works in an Air Force Tech Transfer office).
In fact, a bit of privately-developed technology was recently improved and applied by work in my lab, and it is currently being transferred back out to the private sector.
I find that RAM and hard-drive "memory" are intellectually interchangable to non-techies.
The way I describe it is such - hard drive storage is similar to file cabinets, and RAM to desktop/workspace. The bigger your file cabinets (hard drive), the more stuff you can store, while the bigger your desk (RAM), the more stuff you can work on at one time.
It's like flipping a light switch - people get that analogy.
I don't know, but I've never heard that it's stopped working. You just enter that sequence while playing something back from the "Now Playing" list, and you should hear three "dong" tones in rapid succession.
You can still skip to tick - just hit fast-forward and then the "skip" button, and it'll skip to the next tickmark rather than 30 sec. Pretty cool.
The "select-play-select-3-0-select" macro "permanently" (until a reboot or you use the macro to change the time again) changes the "skip to tick" button on the remote to a 30sec skip button.
You do it once, and forget about it until after a power outage.
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The DMCA was introduced by a Republican, and passed 99-0 in the Senate. A veto would have been pointless (not that Clinton wanted to veto it).
The PMRC was not only a "pet project" of Tipper Gore, but also of James Baker's wife and Strom Thurmond's wife.
Indeed, and not near often enough.
OK, so a "lot of processors" could be a supercomputer, depending on the software running. And, apparently, the presense of InfiniBand.
I'll agree that rendering is embarrassingly parallel.
(I've been poking around ClusterMonkey this afternoon. I work at the Ohio Supercomputer Center @ Ohio State, and am currently implementing a SVM classifier in MATLAB to run on a Linux cluster.)
Out of curiousity, what does make a supercomputer then? That statement, combined with your URL, intrigued me.
I poorly scheduled my tongue piercing - did it a few days before I was scheduled to give a presentation at the weekly intern meeting at the company I was interning at. The only way I could talk was to pop a bunch of aspirin and nurse ice water to keep the swelling down. Unfortunatly, the president of the company attened my briefing.
My boss (who thought the whole thing was hilarious) told me the prez asked him if I was dipping during the brief - he thought I was discretely spitting when I was taking tiny sips of water all the time. I'm not sure if the truth would've been worse, but I can only imagine what he thought of me. :)
I kinda wish I didn't remove it, but ... I did. I'm itching to get a new tattoo tho, and this one might not be on my upper arm.
Donald Sutherland? You really were asleep, weren't you?
I currently work with Dr. Draper who did that project while working on his PhD. We've moved from VR to AR (Augmented Reality), because the technology isn't there to increase performance in our application domain using VR. Sim sickness was prevalent, and operator performance wasn't any better than baseline.
I'm not sure what papers we've written are out there in the world about it - they've recently cracked down on what we *can* say, due to who we do research for - but you might want to poke around Google Scholar to see what turns up. We've done an awful lot of research on this.
Newspeak is fun!
Two "+5 Funny" out of the same post? I bow down to your slash-skills.
Gore won 115 Ohio counties? Kerry 114? There is some serious election fraud going on by both parties then - because there are only 88 counties in Ohio. Yet Kerry won more counties than there are in the state, and somehow Bush won the state. Hrm.
Well, I live in Ohio and just a few miles from one of the biggest military bases in the country. Work there too. While the risk of terrorist attack is low here, it is higher than that of some guy in Podunk, Indiana. As a tactical target, it's hard to find a better one than where I work, but terrorists don't usually pick targets for their tactical value.
That said, I'm voting Kerry on Tuesday. He is the better choice for America, by any metric. Except if you are a rich, religious dickbag. Then I can see why you'd prefer Bush.
Parent is not "insightful", it's "funny". In the present political climate I'd be considered a liberal, and it made me laugh.
I personally know a guy who once strung TWELVE projectors together on one print. He did it just to see if he could, but stringing multiple projectors together is very common. They can put 20 minute delays between projectors too. In newer houses, it's just a matter of pressing a button on a computer to fire up all the projectors in the array and start the film rolling.
The films also aren't on reels anymore - they splice everything together and put it on a giant variable-RPM platter. When viewing the film is spools from one platter to another, meaning there is no rewinding - just grab the start of the film, loop it thru the projector and back onto the first reel, and run it again.
Believe it or not, I work at a gov't site and cannot access that page because the "xxx" in the URL triggers the proxy filters.
God, sometimes I love the irony of this job.
Not always. The two companies involved in my previous example are private companies - one of only a few employees. While there are situations that follow your profile, there are many that do not. Gov't research makes a point of involving small businesses. There is a contracting process called "Small Business Innovative Research" (SBIR) which amounts to a HUGE percentage of technical support to gov't labs.
And the findings of the research is published, so the knowledge learned is very much public. If my lab finds a better way to alert pilots to critical aircraft conditions (one of our current research areas) than a buzzer and a flashing light, we will publish our study and results for others to learn from.
I concur. I also work at a defense contractor, and my gov't customer's prime product (that I help produce) is a stack of scientific papers from 6-2 research. We publish probably 5 papers a year - and that's a team of 3 human factors people, 1 general purpose Lt., and 1 software/EE person (myself).
We mostly do applied technologies research, but occasionally do "basic" research, and even less often do targeted research aiming for deployment (when we have a "winner" technology). There is plenty of good tech research in the gov't, and a [i]lot[/i] of it transfers to civilian use (my father works in an Air Force Tech Transfer office).
In fact, a bit of privately-developed technology was recently improved and applied by work in my lab, and it is currently being transferred back out to the private sector.
Shit, my wife considers Entertainment Tonight the news!
Your point? That's money spent, not what was purchased.
So Saddam got his tanks, rifles, and aircraft from the USSR. Tell us something we didn't already know!
I find that RAM and hard-drive "memory" are intellectually interchangable to non-techies.
The way I describe it is such - hard drive storage is similar to file cabinets, and RAM to desktop/workspace. The bigger your file cabinets (hard drive), the more stuff you can store, while the bigger your desk (RAM), the more stuff you can work on at one time.
It's like flipping a light switch - people get that analogy.
I don't know, but I've never heard that it's stopped working. You just enter that sequence while playing something back from the "Now Playing" list, and you should hear three "dong" tones in rapid succession.
You can still skip to tick - just hit fast-forward and then the "skip" button, and it'll skip to the next tickmark rather than 30 sec. Pretty cool.
The "select-play-select-3-0-select" macro "permanently" (until a reboot or you use the macro to change the time again) changes the "skip to tick" button on the remote to a 30sec skip button.
You do it once, and forget about it until after a power outage.