What she needed was a companion cat. We found her a friend, and she was *much* happier.
QFT. While not universally true, most cats do need a companion where they're living. Cats get lonely, and having another cat live with them makes it bearable. They have someone to talk with, to cuddle up to when they're cold, and to play with.
As to whether they inherit the cry, in my experience they do, all of my Siamese mixes inherited the annoying cry of the Siamese but as I said, none of my cats cry unless you give them a good reason to.
Well, we did adopt ours when she was 7 or 8, so she probably learned to whine a long time ago. We looked online and saw tons of other people who had their Siamese do the same cries, so we figured it was normal.
Otherwise, I agree with Chabo, though I'll add that you also need to worry about companionship for your cat, some do fine, but most need one other feline in the area to keep them company. Gender doesn't matter, they just need someone to play with when the humans aren't interested and that they can understand easily. Imagine if you lived by yourself and only saw your pets for most of your life, most people couldn't handle that and the same is true about most domesticated animals.
10BASE-T is unshielded twisted pair, similar to what we use for 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, and now 10GBASE-T. (though obviously with higher cable standards at each speed)
In addition: as much as it's great to bring a cat home from the shelter so they can take in another one (especially now, with people abandoning cats when their houses get foreclosed... who would do that?!?), ask yourself why you're getting the cat.
Make sure that you're not just getting the cat to be a roving rattrap. You're going to be responsible for the care of a living being, remember -- regardless of whether the cat is actually a good mouser, it's your responsibility to give it a good home.
Also, just to warn you, Siamese cats are very loud and whiny. We just got one, and she's very needy, and talks your ear off if she wants something. Look at some Youtube videos of Siamese cats. I have no idea how a mix would be, but I just wanted to warn you...
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Then there's a stack trace that goes on for pages.
AC was talking about traditional conservatives, who were socially conservative, but economically conservative too. Neo-cons are still socially conservative, but economically liberal, so they're happy to expand government spending in order to fund their social desires.
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are the only two major presidential candidates from 2008 that I really respect, because they're far less authoritarian than any of the others (Nader wasn't a real contender, IMO -- too many people bitter about 2004).
To be pedantic, it's still true though. Inflation means that buying a $50 item today is less of a financial burden than it was 4 years ago -- hence, it's cheaper now.
Of course, that's not what I meant; I just wanted to be the smart-alec.:)
"Gamers" do not all fall in the stereotype of the single guy who has tons of disposable income, and spends it all on hardware. Did you miss the section of text you quoted from my post? I'm a gamer, and it's been so long since I upgraded my machine that I'm still running single-core.
Today, only 11% of gamers who play Valve's games have a quad-core processor. 35% are still running single-core, just in case you were to counter that most gamers still go for high-clocking dual-core machines rather than relatively lower-clocking quad-cores.
Some gamers have school or a family to pay for and can't afford new hardware, or have other hobbies and would rather put their money towards cars, sports, or music.
Additional disclaimer: I'm not a CPU engineer, and this is still based on things I read on public websites.
I can't find the article, but Anandtech explained this well. Apparently the high-k+ process that's used in 45nm and smaller Intel chips make for incredibly low leakage currents.
If someone made a CPU with many cores (>25, let's say), then one easy way to use all those cores would be to have each NPC have their own pathfinding thread.
The problem right now in game design is the wide variety of hardware on the market. You still have gamers like me who are still running on single-core machines, and you have people who are running quad-core hyper-thread machines. As a game studio, you have to code for everyone. If you make a thread for each NPC now, then the task switching alone would choke the CPU for most games.
You can read about Valve's difficulties making the Source engine multi-threaded in their paper "Dragged Kicking and Screaming: Source Multicore". http://valvesoftware.com/publications.html
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but have no bearing on company-wide decisions, and I'm not trying to make a marketing pitch. I'm merely making observations based on what I read on public websites like/. and Anandtech.
That's why I'd like to see prices starting to fall, instead of having same prices, more power PCs.
Prices are falling. Price cuts were just made nearly across the board.
Plus you can buy a $50 CPU today that's cheaper and more powerful than a CPU from 4 years ago.
Die shrinks necessarily make CPUs cheaper to make, because more chips can fit onto a wafer. Also, if you take a 65nm chip of a certain speed, and move it to 45nm, then power consumption is reduced. The same will be true moving to 32nm.
Another thing that's puts people off-balance when debating is that I'm a deist -- one who believes that the universe was created, then left alone, rather than being subject to constant divine intervention. Since I'm not an atheist, they can't just dismiss my arguments with "you're a heathen!";)
Basically, I believe that the universe was created 13.x billion years ago, with a set of rules that we know as physics, and those rules set the universe down a deterministic path to where we are now.
If a Supreme Being wanted to change an animal, they can't just "zap" down a new one, they have to Ctrl+C, recompile the universe, and re-run.;)
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The Boston Museum of Science has one -- they have it set up to knock over small rods to mark the time.
Still one of the most memorable things I ever saw at that museum. That was so COOL!
Well, in my experience, female cats tend to be fairly sharp, while male cats tend to be pretty dumb. Maybe you've only had males?
What she needed was a companion cat. We found her a friend, and she was *much* happier.
QFT. While not universally true, most cats do need a companion where they're living. Cats get lonely, and having another cat live with them makes it bearable. They have someone to talk with, to cuddle up to when they're cold, and to play with.
As to whether they inherit the cry, in my experience they do, all of my Siamese mixes inherited the annoying cry of the Siamese but as I said, none of my cats cry unless you give them a good reason to.
Well, we did adopt ours when she was 7 or 8, so she probably learned to whine a long time ago. We looked online and saw tons of other people who had their Siamese do the same cries, so we figured it was normal.
Otherwise, I agree with Chabo, though I'll add that you also need to worry about companionship for your cat, some do fine, but most need one other feline in the area to keep them company. Gender doesn't matter, they just need someone to play with when the humans aren't interested and that they can understand easily. Imagine if you lived by yourself and only saw your pets for most of your life, most people couldn't handle that and the same is true about most domesticated animals.
An Engineer's Guide to Cats
Possibly as a clever way of getting around your tradename for it, I've also heard it referred to as "Thick-net", then "Thin-net" for 10BASE2.
What if the fiber carries 100BASE-FX, and 802.11n would likely be faster?
I think you mean 10BASE5
10BASE-T is unshielded twisted pair, similar to what we use for 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, and now 10GBASE-T. (though obviously with higher cable standards at each speed)
In addition: as much as it's great to bring a cat home from the shelter so they can take in another one (especially now, with people abandoning cats when their houses get foreclosed... who would do that?!?), ask yourself why you're getting the cat.
Make sure that you're not just getting the cat to be a roving rattrap. You're going to be responsible for the care of a living being, remember -- regardless of whether the cat is actually a good mouser, it's your responsibility to give it a good home.
Also, just to warn you, Siamese cats are very loud and whiny. We just got one, and she's very needy, and talks your ear off if she wants something. Look at some Youtube videos of Siamese cats. I have no idea how a mix would be, but I just wanted to warn you...
The blackhats try to exploit the whole contest so that nobody can win. :)
Then they continue to use the holes they only they know about.
http://xkcd.com/166/
Heh... looks like her site got slashdotted:
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CFCatch from error process - struct
Detail If the component name is specified as a type of this argument, its possible that a definition file for the component cannot be found or is not accessible.
Message The ISMENU argument passed to the CreateMilonicItem function is not of type boolean.
Then there's a stack trace that goes on for pages.
Hooray for IIS!
AC was talking about traditional conservatives, who were socially conservative, but economically conservative too. Neo-cons are still socially conservative, but economically liberal, so they're happy to expand government spending in order to fund their social desires.
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are the only two major presidential candidates from 2008 that I really respect, because they're far less authoritarian than any of the others (Nader wasn't a real contender, IMO -- too many people bitter about 2004).
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
True, that would be almost as pointless as putting "President Obama (D-IL)".
I thought Anandtech's recent buyer's guides did an excellent job of showing the kind of performance hardware you can get for cheap these days:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3486
Not the best wording, I now realize. ;)
To be pedantic, it's still true though. Inflation means that buying a $50 item today is less of a financial burden than it was 4 years ago -- hence, it's cheaper now.
Of course, that's not what I meant; I just wanted to be the smart-alec. :)
"Gamers" do not all fall in the stereotype of the single guy who has tons of disposable income, and spends it all on hardware. Did you miss the section of text you quoted from my post? I'm a gamer, and it's been so long since I upgraded my machine that I'm still running single-core.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Today, only 11% of gamers who play Valve's games have a quad-core processor. 35% are still running single-core, just in case you were to counter that most gamers still go for high-clocking dual-core machines rather than relatively lower-clocking quad-cores.
Some gamers have school or a family to pay for and can't afford new hardware, or have other hobbies and would rather put their money towards cars, sports, or music.
Additional disclaimer: I'm not a CPU engineer, and this is still based on things I read on public websites.
I can't find the article, but Anandtech explained this well. Apparently the high-k+ process that's used in 45nm and smaller Intel chips make for incredibly low leakage currents.
I did, however, find a graph that shows total system power consumption moving from 65nm (Conroe) to 45nm (Penryn), at the same clock speed: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3137&p=6
If someone made a CPU with many cores (>25, let's say), then one easy way to use all those cores would be to have each NPC have their own pathfinding thread.
The problem right now in game design is the wide variety of hardware on the market. You still have gamers like me who are still running on single-core machines, and you have people who are running quad-core hyper-thread machines. As a game studio, you have to code for everyone. If you make a thread for each NPC now, then the task switching alone would choke the CPU for most games.
You can read about Valve's difficulties making the Source engine multi-threaded in their paper "Dragged Kicking and Screaming: Source Multicore". http://valvesoftware.com/publications.html
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but have no bearing on company-wide decisions, and I'm not trying to make a marketing pitch. I'm merely making observations based on what I read on public websites like /. and Anandtech.
That's why I'd like to see prices starting to fall, instead of having same prices, more power PCs.
Prices are falling. Price cuts were just made nearly across the board.
Plus you can buy a $50 CPU today that's cheaper and more powerful than a CPU from 4 years ago.
Die shrinks necessarily make CPUs cheaper to make, because more chips can fit onto a wafer. Also, if you take a 65nm chip of a certain speed, and move it to 45nm, then power consumption is reduced. The same will be true moving to 32nm.
... AMD has 45nm.
Have fun when your frying pan spits grease onto your touch screen... ;)
Another thing that's puts people off-balance when debating is that I'm a deist -- one who believes that the universe was created, then left alone, rather than being subject to constant divine intervention. Since I'm not an atheist, they can't just dismiss my arguments with "you're a heathen!" ;)
Basically, I believe that the universe was created 13.x billion years ago, with a set of rules that we know as physics, and those rules set the universe down a deterministic path to where we are now.
If a Supreme Being wanted to change an animal, they can't just "zap" down a new one, they have to Ctrl+C, recompile the universe, and re-run. ;)
Hmm... maybe I just saw the "Mozilla doesn't want Firefox bundled with Windows" article, and inferred that Opera did want that... Dunno. :/
Great, so now you have to somehow download and install cygwin just so you can download mozilla! ;)
Well, last I'd heard, Opera was asking for their product to be bundled with Windows, in addition to IE.