We've heard that talk before, and I'm skeptical. Intel doesn't have any designs for a graphics chip on die or off that doesn't suck. Otherwise we'd already have one released. Putting it on die is not going to fix the problems of poor architecture and a lack of expertise.
AMD's solution, at least as far as the graphics chip integration, is almost certain to be significantly better. Which won't matter seeing as Intel will probably go back to bribing companies not to use AMD products like they did last time AMD got ahead of them.
Don't forget that the on die graphics core should be a lot better than whatever crap Intel tries to put on Sandy Bridge. Why they haven't given up on providing a graphics solution is beyond me. It's been well over a decade since they released anything that could be confused as a competent graphics chipset. Seriously, in the time it took Apple to develop OSX and the iterations since then, Intel hasn't had any that didn't totally suck balls.
Precisely, there's been a fair number of games in recent times taking that approach. The ones which allowed access to content that couldn't be gotten without donating tended to fair poorly. The problem being that either the content was pointless and trivial or it ended up breaking the game for people that couldn't afford to pay. And if they have to pay in order to get the content in order to keep up, you may as well require that people play.
I don't think those words mean what you think they mean. I must have missed the memo, when did the working class get a raise to cover the efficiency gains? The actual pay rate of working class Americans has been stagnant for years now.
A progressive tax system is one where the tax cuts aren't going to predominantely richer people, but in a way which is either equal or benefits the lower classes by requiring higher income earners to pay proportional to the benefit they receive from the state not folding.
As for your last point, you can't save money if you don't have it to begin with. There's plenty of people out there that are barely squeaking by, and that means that even with cost cutting they don't have any extra to save.
I'm actually in the process of getting my TESL certificate and probably the relevant teaching certificate as well to teach English domestically.
A large part of the problem is that we're moving towards a system where teacher compensation is tied to student performance without any particular justification. Teachers, depending upon level, might bet between 5 and 30 hours or so a week with a student.
Worse, the time and resources available to the teacher and the standards tend to make it rather challenging to actually make any progress. Teachers have little say in whether or not the standards for advancement are adhered to, and are competing with a society that seems to think that it's really fun to make things up like Intelligent Design.
The concept of rape doesn't really apply outside of humans. It's a social construct which really requires a lot of sophistication in order to apply. Most animals are in a situation that's probably best described as might makes right. Trying to bring rape, the product of a pretty sophisticated social system, into a social grouping without demonstrating that it makes sense is just plain silly.
If that's the case, who can blame them? Rather than efficiency gains going to pay better wages or reduce hours, the efficiency gains are largely going to the upper class. And it's not being replaced by any alternative means of getting money for food, clothing or shelter either.
Investing isn't a viable option for those that don't have a job, or are just squeaking by with the bare essentials.
Drug grow operations are usually pretty big. The reason being that it makes no sense for most growers to only cultivate a few plants, if you're going to get busted for the felony, you may as well grow a lot of the stuff. Otherwise you're spreading the risk of them finding all the plants, but greatly increase the likelihood that they'll find one of them and bust you.
Actually, they would. As it is there's a short period of time between when you start the operation and when the meter reader checks the metere. Between which time the power company doesn't have a clear idea as to which house in particular it is that's sucking down the extra juice.
It's increasingly common up here in Seattle for drug growers to rent a house with somebody else's information and grow pot there. A system like this would likely make the period of time between moves shorten dramatically and make it far more risky.
It's a minimal issue compared to the other problems. The total labor costs of UAW workers versus their non-union counterparts down south are actually pretty minimal. Certainly a lot less than the money that they were wasting on overproduction.
The reason why they almost ran out of business was that they were relying too heavily on SUVs and trucks for profit and were trying to produce more vehicles than the market could bear at the price. Additionally, they were slow to recognize the interest in more fuel efficient vehicles.
Precisely what part of that is the UAW's fault? It's easy to union bash when you don't actually know what you're talking about.
It's largely an issue of political tinkering. In WA state we have an assortment of standards that lead one to the logical conclusion that a zombie Dr. Seuss is running things. But, the bigger problem is that the standards may or may not be adhered to. People may be allowed to continue in classes without meeting the requirements, and those that are able to hit the standards for several years in the future aren't allowed to skip grades, due to the perception that it's harmful. Unfortunately, it's not always harmful, I fit in a lot better once I got to college, even though I was over a decade younger than the average age of 27 was for that campus.
But, there's also the issue of increasing homework loads. Students aren't going to spend a lot of time contemplating the meaning of the work if they're spending several hours every day on homework. It's just not realistic, and represents a serious failing on the educational establishment to deal with that.
That's a problem. But it's more of a symptom really. The big problem with science and education is that the educational establishment doesn't do scientific analysis of the teaching methodology that they're looking at implementing or ones that they've already put in place.
The issue there is that some things despite being complete bunk, end up living in the districts for long periods of time. And assumptions about how students as a whole function and learn are never actually tested for any sort of validity, nor are the outliers ever evaluated to see if there's a reason to change.
Science is a fairly high level skill in some respects, and while you can introduce elements of it quite early, you have to be really mindful of boring kids away from it with stupid things like meal worms.
All in all, I'd be more concerned with the exposure to bunk studies that the media seems fascinated by. If it hasn't been peer reviewed, replicated at a minimum, it shouldn't be reported outside the academic establishment, or publications catering to the same.
Which countries are these? Yes, our education system sucks, but we are still ahead of most other countries in the ways that count. People come to that conclusion reading headlines, but the reality is that our students get compared against the top students in other countries, not a representative sampling.
Meaning that it would be a bit like us comparing our APP students against our students in general. Of course we end up looking stupid, if there's any validity at all in the assessments they're making to make the decision about who to allow into advanced classes it should be that way.
If we were really in trouble in that respect, then why is it that other countries are trying to make their system more like ours? I'll give you a hint, it's not a vote of sympathy for us.
Yes, but in college I had a faculty member in genetics, the man definitely knew his stuff, but as a teacher he was more or less a complete flop. Yes, the requirements do need to be reasonable, but just because somebody knows their field doesn't mean that they're qualified to teach. I know that there's this common conception that teaching is easy if you know how to do the tasks, but that's really not true.
The point is, that having to demonstrate capability exists for a reason. Sure it is cumbersome and probably could use a modernization and culling of some of the requirements, but it's there to try and minimize the cases where teachers are thrown into a classroom environment without being able to teach.
He could, however that doesn't deal with network congestion after that point. If you've got an ISP that is over sold, i.e., all of the ones in the US, then this is a real problem and I don't think that QoS is going to solve that. At least not the stuff that your end user gets to fiddle around with.
It seems there are two kinds of stories posted here lately -- science and tech stories written for the non-nerd by non-nerds like one last week that explained what a CPU was (!), and stories like this that coin new jargon and don't explain it, or use an acronym that most folks here will misunderstand, like using BT when referring to Britich Telecom when most of us think of BitTorrent when we see BT.
Maybe I'm just getting old.
I missed that, did they finally explain that the CPU is the box with the goobins into which the keyboard, mouse and monitor are plugged? Or did it continue to repeat the oft mistaken notion that the CPU is a chip inside that case?
No, it wasn't, at least not the stuff that I saw. What it was meant to do was allow people to do things like watch video streams before they had finished downloading the entire clip. And there were entire technologies being devised to make that more efficient.
Nobody credible ever said that the process of starting to play the media a bit after the download started would increase the speed of you watching the movie, just the consistency once you started.
It's Germany, they aren't exactly known for being loosy goosy with bureaucracy. It's not at all shocking that they'd be very by the book even if it's kind of silly. This is a bit like going to Italy and complaining because they don't know how to wait in lines.
The problem in cases like that is that the state doesn't provide any sort of reasonable way of paying. It should be collected by the retailer, but there again, they don't provide a reasonable way for the retailer to know how much to charge, and given the disparity and the ability of local taxing authorities to tack on extra sales tax, it ends up being a daunting challenge.
Imagine sending the state a check every time you bought something online, even if it were for a few dollars. One of the problems is that the amount of money that it would cost the state to collect those checks would easily cost the tax payers more than the actual tax for most purchases.
Electromagnetic fields of sufficient power will definitely make people think that there are ghosts in the area or at least weird paranormal phenomena. What's really happening is more or less that the magnetic field is interfering with the brain's ability to send messages about the body, resulting in anything from weird feelings to outright hallucination to seizures.
That doesn't however mean that there aren't ghosts, it's just a common explanation which is more plausible in many cases.
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. Such perks aren't unusual for high-rollers, who can wager anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars in one day.
This is what makes it theft. Or more specifically it's being charged as wire fraud, if I'm understanding that correctly.
They weren't just lucky or observant, from the article they had to have knowledge of a software glitch and for the glitch to be internally activated. Which they arranged to be done by persuading technicians to activate the glitch.
This isn't a matter of somebody exploiting a bug they found and failing to turn over the proceeds. This is a case where they were causing the glitch to be activated on purpose.
Or at least that's the allegation and the basis for charges being filed. If true it's not something that's going to happen just because you got lucky, this was apparently a scam that was committed all over the world.
No, we're not surprised, but the house doesn't need to cheat in order to win. What they typically do when they want to juice profits is find ways of making the gambling process go faster.
The only exception that I can think of is blackjack, and that's a game that provided as a sort of community service. People want to play it, but it's pretty much the only game where the house isn't assured of winning over the longterm on any given player. Poker would also be in that category were it not for the fact that the house doesn't represent a particular player and instead profits via the rake.
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We've heard that talk before, and I'm skeptical. Intel doesn't have any designs for a graphics chip on die or off that doesn't suck. Otherwise we'd already have one released. Putting it on die is not going to fix the problems of poor architecture and a lack of expertise.
AMD's solution, at least as far as the graphics chip integration, is almost certain to be significantly better. Which won't matter seeing as Intel will probably go back to bribing companies not to use AMD products like they did last time AMD got ahead of them.
Or the lack of integrity to work in HR.
Don't forget that the on die graphics core should be a lot better than whatever crap Intel tries to put on Sandy Bridge. Why they haven't given up on providing a graphics solution is beyond me. It's been well over a decade since they released anything that could be confused as a competent graphics chipset. Seriously, in the time it took Apple to develop OSX and the iterations since then, Intel hasn't had any that didn't totally suck balls.
It used to be like that until the union movement broke it up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU
I just wonder what it will take to stop it next time. People tend to tolerate that sort of behavior for quite a while.
Precisely, there's been a fair number of games in recent times taking that approach. The ones which allowed access to content that couldn't be gotten without donating tended to fair poorly. The problem being that either the content was pointless and trivial or it ended up breaking the game for people that couldn't afford to pay. And if they have to pay in order to get the content in order to keep up, you may as well require that people play.
I don't think those words mean what you think they mean. I must have missed the memo, when did the working class get a raise to cover the efficiency gains? The actual pay rate of working class Americans has been stagnant for years now.
A progressive tax system is one where the tax cuts aren't going to predominantely richer people, but in a way which is either equal or benefits the lower classes by requiring higher income earners to pay proportional to the benefit they receive from the state not folding.
As for your last point, you can't save money if you don't have it to begin with. There's plenty of people out there that are barely squeaking by, and that means that even with cost cutting they don't have any extra to save.
I'm actually in the process of getting my TESL certificate and probably the relevant teaching certificate as well to teach English domestically.
A large part of the problem is that we're moving towards a system where teacher compensation is tied to student performance without any particular justification. Teachers, depending upon level, might bet between 5 and 30 hours or so a week with a student.
Worse, the time and resources available to the teacher and the standards tend to make it rather challenging to actually make any progress. Teachers have little say in whether or not the standards for advancement are adhered to, and are competing with a society that seems to think that it's really fun to make things up like Intelligent Design.
The concept of rape doesn't really apply outside of humans. It's a social construct which really requires a lot of sophistication in order to apply. Most animals are in a situation that's probably best described as might makes right. Trying to bring rape, the product of a pretty sophisticated social system, into a social grouping without demonstrating that it makes sense is just plain silly.
If that's the case, who can blame them? Rather than efficiency gains going to pay better wages or reduce hours, the efficiency gains are largely going to the upper class. And it's not being replaced by any alternative means of getting money for food, clothing or shelter either.
Investing isn't a viable option for those that don't have a job, or are just squeaking by with the bare essentials.
Drug grow operations are usually pretty big. The reason being that it makes no sense for most growers to only cultivate a few plants, if you're going to get busted for the felony, you may as well grow a lot of the stuff. Otherwise you're spreading the risk of them finding all the plants, but greatly increase the likelihood that they'll find one of them and bust you.
Actually, they would. As it is there's a short period of time between when you start the operation and when the meter reader checks the metere. Between which time the power company doesn't have a clear idea as to which house in particular it is that's sucking down the extra juice.
It's increasingly common up here in Seattle for drug growers to rent a house with somebody else's information and grow pot there. A system like this would likely make the period of time between moves shorten dramatically and make it far more risky.
It's a minimal issue compared to the other problems. The total labor costs of UAW workers versus their non-union counterparts down south are actually pretty minimal. Certainly a lot less than the money that they were wasting on overproduction.
The reason why they almost ran out of business was that they were relying too heavily on SUVs and trucks for profit and were trying to produce more vehicles than the market could bear at the price. Additionally, they were slow to recognize the interest in more fuel efficient vehicles.
Precisely what part of that is the UAW's fault? It's easy to union bash when you don't actually know what you're talking about.
It's largely an issue of political tinkering. In WA state we have an assortment of standards that lead one to the logical conclusion that a zombie Dr. Seuss is running things. But, the bigger problem is that the standards may or may not be adhered to. People may be allowed to continue in classes without meeting the requirements, and those that are able to hit the standards for several years in the future aren't allowed to skip grades, due to the perception that it's harmful. Unfortunately, it's not always harmful, I fit in a lot better once I got to college, even though I was over a decade younger than the average age of 27 was for that campus.
But, there's also the issue of increasing homework loads. Students aren't going to spend a lot of time contemplating the meaning of the work if they're spending several hours every day on homework. It's just not realistic, and represents a serious failing on the educational establishment to deal with that.
That's a problem. But it's more of a symptom really. The big problem with science and education is that the educational establishment doesn't do scientific analysis of the teaching methodology that they're looking at implementing or ones that they've already put in place.
The issue there is that some things despite being complete bunk, end up living in the districts for long periods of time. And assumptions about how students as a whole function and learn are never actually tested for any sort of validity, nor are the outliers ever evaluated to see if there's a reason to change.
Science is a fairly high level skill in some respects, and while you can introduce elements of it quite early, you have to be really mindful of boring kids away from it with stupid things like meal worms.
All in all, I'd be more concerned with the exposure to bunk studies that the media seems fascinated by. If it hasn't been peer reviewed, replicated at a minimum, it shouldn't be reported outside the academic establishment, or publications catering to the same.
Which countries are these? Yes, our education system sucks, but we are still ahead of most other countries in the ways that count. People come to that conclusion reading headlines, but the reality is that our students get compared against the top students in other countries, not a representative sampling.
Meaning that it would be a bit like us comparing our APP students against our students in general. Of course we end up looking stupid, if there's any validity at all in the assessments they're making to make the decision about who to allow into advanced classes it should be that way.
If we were really in trouble in that respect, then why is it that other countries are trying to make their system more like ours? I'll give you a hint, it's not a vote of sympathy for us.
Yes, but in college I had a faculty member in genetics, the man definitely knew his stuff, but as a teacher he was more or less a complete flop. Yes, the requirements do need to be reasonable, but just because somebody knows their field doesn't mean that they're qualified to teach. I know that there's this common conception that teaching is easy if you know how to do the tasks, but that's really not true.
The point is, that having to demonstrate capability exists for a reason. Sure it is cumbersome and probably could use a modernization and culling of some of the requirements, but it's there to try and minimize the cases where teachers are thrown into a classroom environment without being able to teach.
He could, however that doesn't deal with network congestion after that point. If you've got an ISP that is over sold, i.e., all of the ones in the US, then this is a real problem and I don't think that QoS is going to solve that. At least not the stuff that your end user gets to fiddle around with.
It seems there are two kinds of stories posted here lately -- science and tech stories written for the non-nerd by non-nerds like one last week that explained what a CPU was (!), and stories like this that coin new jargon and don't explain it, or use an acronym that most folks here will misunderstand, like using BT when referring to Britich Telecom when most of us think of BitTorrent when we see BT.
Maybe I'm just getting old.
I missed that, did they finally explain that the CPU is the box with the goobins into which the keyboard, mouse and monitor are plugged? Or did it continue to repeat the oft mistaken notion that the CPU is a chip inside that case?
No, it wasn't, at least not the stuff that I saw. What it was meant to do was allow people to do things like watch video streams before they had finished downloading the entire clip. And there were entire technologies being devised to make that more efficient.
Nobody credible ever said that the process of starting to play the media a bit after the download started would increase the speed of you watching the movie, just the consistency once you started.
It's Germany, they aren't exactly known for being loosy goosy with bureaucracy. It's not at all shocking that they'd be very by the book even if it's kind of silly. This is a bit like going to Italy and complaining because they don't know how to wait in lines.
The problem in cases like that is that the state doesn't provide any sort of reasonable way of paying. It should be collected by the retailer, but there again, they don't provide a reasonable way for the retailer to know how much to charge, and given the disparity and the ability of local taxing authorities to tack on extra sales tax, it ends up being a daunting challenge.
Imagine sending the state a check every time you bought something online, even if it were for a few dollars. One of the problems is that the amount of money that it would cost the state to collect those checks would easily cost the tax payers more than the actual tax for most purchases.
Electromagnetic fields of sufficient power will definitely make people think that there are ghosts in the area or at least weird paranormal phenomena. What's really happening is more or less that the magnetic field is interfering with the brain's ability to send messages about the body, resulting in anything from weird feelings to outright hallucination to seizures.
That doesn't however mean that there aren't ghosts, it's just a common explanation which is more plausible in many cases.
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. Such perks aren't unusual for high-rollers, who can wager anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars in one day.
This is what makes it theft. Or more specifically it's being charged as wire fraud, if I'm understanding that correctly.
They weren't just lucky or observant, from the article they had to have knowledge of a software glitch and for the glitch to be internally activated. Which they arranged to be done by persuading technicians to activate the glitch.
This isn't a matter of somebody exploiting a bug they found and failing to turn over the proceeds. This is a case where they were causing the glitch to be activated on purpose.
Or at least that's the allegation and the basis for charges being filed. If true it's not something that's going to happen just because you got lucky, this was apparently a scam that was committed all over the world.
No, we're not surprised, but the house doesn't need to cheat in order to win. What they typically do when they want to juice profits is find ways of making the gambling process go faster.
The only exception that I can think of is blackjack, and that's a game that provided as a sort of community service. People want to play it, but it's pretty much the only game where the house isn't assured of winning over the longterm on any given player. Poker would also be in that category were it not for the fact that the house doesn't represent a particular player and instead profits via the rake.