Advent children was awesome and the sound track is great..
I don't knock the original FF movie because of a couple of things.. First it was way ahead of it's time in terms of render and animation quality - as far as i'm concerned it put toy story to shame (especially when you look at the time lines for when rendering started) It's only major flaw was being called FF.. people expected something like Advent Children and not what they got.. if they had given a better name it don't think people would bash it as much.. but then again not nearly as many people would have watched it.
So the AMD was 23 months late - all they did was tack on to existing x86 where as Intel was trying and did develop a whole new architecture.
almost all of the complaints for the Itanium being slow was due to it having to emulate x86 for software that was not written specifically for the IA64 - Code that was and is written for IA64 runs fast as hell and there is a reason why they are still used today - just is specific applications.
Intel's failure was due to them trying to jump to a whole new computing architecture and expecting programmers to go with them - instead programmers resisted and AMD jumped on that by just extending the existing x86.
Development on what became the IA64 started in 1989 by HP and Intel was brought in in 1994 and the first implementation was in 1998 - hell it is the reason we don't see Alpha's anymore.
AMD64 started in 1999.
So in computing terms AMD had many generations to watch Intel actually Innovate - and then take the short cut to market. Please note I'm not putting AMD down for AMD64, I'm just pointing out that you can not compare the success of it VS the Itanium because they are not the same by a long shot.
Also if you want to learn something new - read up on why IA-64 is so different form x86 and you will see why it is worth investing in. Not for the current project but rather for the knowledge gained by doing it. You would be surprised how much of the R&D that went in to the Itanium is currently running in your newer computers and servers.
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I wish we would use more Bamboo than we do.. while it is harder to process than Pine.. it is by far a more renewable resource. (for a given land area over a given time) with the benefit of being stronger and more durable..
I would love to get bamboo based boards and plywood
NYC to Miami is only 19-20 hours.. not that bad of a drive - moves quick really.. just sucks when you get to Florida.. feel like its over but you still have 6 hours to go.. i always had it alittle worse.. didn't stop at Miami but rather went to the Keys/..// damn its a long way down there...
Personally it depends to me if it is a public service or not.
we as a society pay taxes to keep police and fire emergency services running - and we don't pay bills to them we pay Taxes... in a lot of places (county hospitals) we also pay money in to the hospital via Taxes..
While i understand cost of healthcare as a cost of usage - and i agree on getting a bill for the materials used and the manpower - (aka drugs/bandages/doctors).. i don't think they charge should be any different if the EMS picks me up and takes me in or if i came staggering in to the ER door..
My justification for this is that the EMS part is the emergency service that my taxes pay for.
Now i also agree that we should bill at full cost people who abuse (aka use when there is no need for) emergency services.. Around here you get 1 false alarm fire call a year.. after that it's billed through.. and they can be 6-10k each.
Making them smaller uses less raw materials - which makes them cheaper
Making them larger can allow for them to be faster (using multi path writing instead of single to simulate a larger available path - write to 2 chips instead of 1 in the same amount of time can effectively double your overall speed)
Making them hold more (more raw space) does increase the reliability by giving more free sectors to be used in ware leveling operations to ensure sectors don't fail early, or if they do fail they have a spare to relocate to..
do One thing?? not so much as to make them better - each step they take is a step in the right direction - while you might not think it is the direction you want in reality it just may be the step that enables what you are wanting..
why? that i have no clue.. a couple of months ago i had a Volvo - disconnected the radio and it caused an SRS Airbag fault... cost me couple hundred to get cleared so they would work.. i sold the car the day after that...
Gas Dia. Ft. Vol. l Lift gr. Lift Lbs. Helium 24 204976.41 210369 463.79 Hydrogen 24 204976.4 228550.5 503.87
503.87/463.79 = ~1.09
so using Hydrogen over Helium is a net gain of ~9% lift.. don't get be wrong but 9% is a lot of extra it isn't nearly 2x aka 100%. I think the added safety of having a Non reactive gas over the most reactive - is worth the loss of extra lift..
Part of the reason Hydrogen doesn't provide the extra lift people think it should is because while in Gas form Helium is just He, Hydrogen is H2 which is still smaller (almost 1/2) in volume than He
any time you cover open ground - with a building or a pool you are reducing the grounds ability to absorb run off..
ever wonder why there are large ponds near the walmart and it's paved area is slopped towards it?
commercial buildings are required to normally to provide their own run off - residential is allowed to rely on their own property + public storm drains.. in cases like this they require a permit to build things that cover land or in a way change the water run off characteristics of your land so that they can ensure that the public storm drains can handle the changes and not cause flash floods.
now a yearly tax or fee associated with it.. yea thats bull shit.. but a permit and the associated processing only fee for the permit.. that is acceptable.
You can set it up with a point in time and set it to restore original at reboot.. - and it actually works.. very well - it's specifically designed for use on kiosks and things of that nature.
I like it because you can set it to allow/apply windows updates and virus/custom updates and not have to make a new image...
well what if i was looking to buy an iPhone.. and they have the display units to test with to see if i t will do what i want before i buy it.. and one of the things i want to test is if it can be JailBroken?? there is no physical damage being done.. and they can reset it back to the state it was before "testing"..
not to mention Apple has that nice reassurance of the DOJ looking at MS.. prior to that MS could do what they want and get away with it.. (think about it.. the IE integration debate JUST recently finished in court, how long ago did that kill Netscape?)
so you are doing internal billing -.. you are letting other departments assume the cost and justify the expense.. maybe your IT department hasn't gotten to the point where they set a fixed cost for something but it is only a matter of time.
While i agree it is great to work with other departments to work up solutions - but there is a point where you will need more people and not have a way to justify it.. then your going to get managers from other departments that get tired of looking at the proposed solutions and will ask for a fixed rate base done XYZ.. and an IS manager will think that is a great way to get more budget allocated so he can hire more people.. and will provide a over stated cost per XYZ and that will be the start of the end of it.
Managers and bean counters love fixed cost per XYZ because it is easy to work with and doesn't require them to understand what they are trying to control.
trust me i'm not an advocate of doing internal billing as a fixed cost per XYZ but i am in support of IT/IS doing internal billing for cost justification - so that when the bean counters come we can point to a rack or support persons and point to a department and redirect them.
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Advent children was awesome and the sound track is great..
I don't knock the original FF movie because of a couple of things.. First it was way ahead of it's time in terms of render and animation quality - as far as i'm concerned it put toy story to shame (especially when you look at the time lines for when rendering started) It's only major flaw was being called FF.. people expected something like Advent Children and not what they got.. if they had given a better name it don't think people would bash it as much.. but then again not nearly as many people would have watched it.
i want this
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ /. posted it here ~5 years ago.. still waiting
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/21/2316216.shtml?tid=126&tid=152
the first AMD64 CPU shipped in April 2003
the first Itanium Shipped June 2001
So the AMD was 23 months late - all they did was tack on to existing x86 where as Intel was trying and did develop a whole new architecture.
almost all of the complaints for the Itanium being slow was due to it having to emulate x86 for software that was not written specifically for the IA64 - Code that was and is written for IA64 runs fast as hell and there is a reason why they are still used today - just is specific applications.
Intel's failure was due to them trying to jump to a whole new computing architecture and expecting programmers to go with them - instead programmers resisted and AMD jumped on that by just extending the existing x86.
Development on what became the IA64 started in 1989 by HP and Intel was brought in in 1994 and the first implementation was in 1998 - hell it is the reason we don't see Alpha's anymore.
AMD64 started in 1999.
So in computing terms AMD had many generations to watch Intel actually Innovate - and then take the short cut to market. Please note I'm not putting AMD down for AMD64, I'm just pointing out that you can not compare the success of it VS the Itanium because they are not the same by a long shot.
Also if you want to learn something new - read up on why IA-64 is so different form x86 and you will see why it is worth investing in. Not for the current project but rather for the knowledge gained by doing it. You would be surprised how much of the R&D that went in to the Itanium is currently running in your newer computers and servers.
god i haven't heard that in a looooong time
I wish we would use more Bamboo than we do.. while it is harder to process than Pine.. it is by far a more renewable resource. (for a given land area over a given time) with the benefit of being stronger and more durable..
I would love to get bamboo based boards and plywood
No it isn't "southern" - i'm not sure what it is but i know southern and it isn't this.
NYC to Miami is only 19-20 hours.. not that bad of a drive - moves quick really.. just sucks when you get to Florida .. feel like its over but you still have 6 hours to go.. i always had it alittle worse.. didn't stop at Miami but rather went to the Keys/..// damn its a long way down there...
Or we can get it via Alpha decay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_decay
that is how most of ours was formed in the oil reserves in the US as a lot of them are encased in layers of extremely low grade radio active uranium.
Personally it depends to me if it is a public service or not.
we as a society pay taxes to keep police and fire emergency services running - and we don't pay bills to them we pay Taxes... in a lot of places (county hospitals) we also pay money in to the hospital via Taxes..
While i understand cost of healthcare as a cost of usage - and i agree on getting a bill for the materials used and the manpower - (aka drugs/bandages/doctors).. i don't think they charge should be any different if the EMS picks me up and takes me in or if i came staggering in to the ER door..
My justification for this is that the EMS part is the emergency service that my taxes pay for.
Now i also agree that we should bill at full cost people who abuse (aka use when there is no need for) emergency services.. Around here you get 1 false alarm fire call a year.. after that it's billed through.. and they can be 6-10k each.
you COMPLETELY missed the point of SED screens// i recommend reading up on them..
i Think he died with a lot of the other people on the plane
well
Making them smaller uses less raw materials - which makes them cheaper
Making them larger can allow for them to be faster (using multi path writing instead of single to simulate a larger available path - write to 2 chips instead of 1 in the same amount of time can effectively double your overall speed)
Making them hold more (more raw space) does increase the reliability by giving more free sectors to be used in ware leveling operations to ensure sectors don't fail early, or if they do fail they have a spare to relocate to..
do One thing?? not so much as to make them better - each step they take is a step in the right direction - while you might not think it is the direction you want in reality it just may be the step that enables what you are wanting..
this isn't ethanol it's Butanol
different substance - different properties...
but i agree Ethanol is shit - and i make a point not to buy gas from places that have it.
not really.. the MS one has an actually keyboard (moving keys) that one is nothing but a big touch screen.
why would it not be legal for sale again???
.. i get 35mpg around town... it has all of 4 fuses and no computing power at all..
crash tests?? hey if people can still legaly ride motor cycles then i don't see the problem with not having air bags in my car.
sorry i drive a 70's MG
and if your excuse is emissions - well i pass that too (well did until 2 years ago when they got rid of doing sniffer testing)
I honestly haven't seen any real gains from what they are doing - they say that this and that gives x and y but i just don't see it.
and as for reliability.. i've had more trouble with cars with ECU's than cars with out.. to the point that i don't buy them.
why? that i have no clue.. a couple of months ago i had a Volvo - disconnected the radio and it caused an SRS Airbag fault... cost me couple hundred to get cleared so they would work.. i sold the car the day after that...
actually they realized that they could make a market for their self encrypting disks where the nvram to store the keys was bad...
Not Quite
Using the lift tables here
http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/lift.html
Gas Dia. Ft. Vol. l Lift gr. Lift Lbs.
Helium 24 204976.41 210369 463.79
Hydrogen 24 204976.4 228550.5 503.87
503.87/463.79 = ~1.09
so using Hydrogen over Helium is a net gain of ~9% lift.. don't get be wrong but 9% is a lot of extra it isn't nearly 2x aka 100%. I think the added safety of having a Non reactive gas over the most reactive - is worth the loss of extra lift..
Part of the reason Hydrogen doesn't provide the extra lift people think it should is because while in Gas form Helium is just He, Hydrogen is H2 which is still smaller (almost 1/2) in volume than He
any time you cover open ground - with a building or a pool you are reducing the grounds ability to absorb run off..
ever wonder why there are large ponds near the walmart and it's paved area is slopped towards it?
commercial buildings are required to normally to provide their own run off - residential is allowed to rely on their own property + public storm drains.. in cases like this they require a permit to build things that cover land or in a way change the water run off characteristics of your land so that they can ensure that the public storm drains can handle the changes and not cause flash floods.
now a yearly tax or fee associated with it.. yea thats bull shit.. but a permit and the associated processing only fee for the permit.. that is acceptable.
it isn't supported with 7? didn't know that.. knew it worked with vista.. figured it would work with 7 too.
it surprises me what MS drops.. SS worked exactly as advertised.. and i've never had problems with it.. one of their few apps that is like that.
may i recommend Steady State (if your using Windows)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d077a52d-93e9-4b02-bd95-9d770ccdb431
You can set it up with a point in time and set it to restore original at reboot.. - and it actually works.. very well - it's specifically designed for use on kiosks and things of that nature.
I like it because you can set it to allow/apply windows updates and virus/custom updates and not have to make a new image...
well what if i was looking to buy an iPhone.. and they have the display units to test with to see if i t will do what i want before i buy it.. and one of the things i want to test is if it can be JailBroken?? there is no physical damage being done.. and they can reset it back to the state it was before "testing"..
not to mention Apple has that nice reassurance of the DOJ looking at MS.. prior to that MS could do what they want and get away with it.. (think about it.. the IE integration debate JUST recently finished in court, how long ago did that kill Netscape?)
so you are doing internal billing -.. you are letting other departments assume the cost and justify the expense.. maybe your IT department hasn't gotten to the point where they set a fixed cost for something but it is only a matter of time.
While i agree it is great to work with other departments to work up solutions - but there is a point where you will need more people and not have a way to justify it.. then your going to get managers from other departments that get tired of looking at the proposed solutions and will ask for a fixed rate base done XYZ.. and an IS manager will think that is a great way to get more budget allocated so he can hire more people.. and will provide a over stated cost per XYZ and that will be the start of the end of it.
Managers and bean counters love fixed cost per XYZ because it is easy to work with and doesn't require them to understand what they are trying to control.
trust me i'm not an advocate of doing internal billing as a fixed cost per XYZ but i am in support of IT/IS doing internal billing for cost justification - so that when the bean counters come we can point to a rack or support persons and point to a department and redirect them.
i'm not talking about bandwidth.. but rather Total Cost of Owership per GB of storage.. over 5 years.
This is servers to serve it - SAN to control it - disks to store - it network to deliver it - backups to protect it and power to run it all.
I am not including the cost of labor.. as that is applied else where here..