Firstly, improving the gas millage of low millage vehicles actually saves far more gas and saves far more on emissions output in the big picture then minor gains in high millage vehicles. Yes, I hate seeing people driving cars 10 times heaver then what they need them for, especially here in Southern California where it's usually so totally unnecessary. There are people and companies however who DO need heavy vehicles, to haul and tow. I for one won't mind seeing the reduction of those inefficient, dirty, noisy pull start generators, either.
By that time though, I would think it would hardly have to be much larger to exchange heat with the air to begin with. Just use those long hoses to put it outside a window in the summer, and inside to help with heating in the winter.
You ever seen the kinds of shit they do release? What they did to Chile.. helping Saddam's rise to power, the countless things that have been made passing mention of that are really astonishing. Yet, nobody much cares. I guess people don't much care about history, no matter how relevant or intrinsic to the events of today they were.
McKay has been one of the few SG characters that have shown any sort of development, having to learn to BE social, respect other people, work as part of a team both in the field and in the lab. Carter on the other hand, seems some sort of super human, is almost exactly the same as she was when the series started, and is about the most boring character on the show.
Yes, the technical mumbo-jumbo thing is irritating, but thats simply a sign of bad writing. It's a plot device or easy deis ex machena that they try and legitimize, but they are by far not the only show to be guilty of it.
I'd by far rather see an end to the lame warrior-types, I've seen more character depth from pre-gen D&D character sheets.
I suppose this is going to get lost into comments, which is a shame, I think, because I think it's important.
This is problem we've had for the last, oh, I'd say, 50 years. We have artiest in the academic since, and artiest in the colloquial since. The words have become bogged down in I guess what can only be called a cultural clash, one side takes it as elitist, the other side leaving little room for other sorts of artistic exploration. Thing is, being a performer, a painter, or whatever and not being called an artiest isn't an insult, so, I think we should start to again use the word craftsmen, and people should run with it, its not a evaluation of talent or social status, its just about what you DO.
It very closely compares to say, an engener and a research physicist. One of them applies what they know, they know it well, they do it well, and they know how to make it WORK. The other is out, testing new things, bringing new ideas to the table even if those ideas may be some time off from practicality. Are either of them bad? Is one smarter or better then the other? Not at all, they just apply how and what they know differently, building different skillets to do what they do the best, and in the end, the research physicist may really not be the best at applying his work, nor does the engener necessarily have the knowledge to churn deep deep into the math to find new ideas and connections. Sometimes there is some arrogance that can build up on both sides, but in the end, the difference is pretty clear in the big picture.
It's the same way in art, there is the artiest, and the craftsmen. The composer might be a decent musician, but probably not as good as the first chair violinist. The first chair violin, might be a pretty good composer were they to try, but likely not quite having the skill and practice for something really new and original. There are countless painters who are incredibly talented craftsmen (check out a book on hyperrealism sometime, its astonishing), but they aren't really doing anything new, they are refining their craft. I suppose most people here will disagree with me, but I think there is some really interesting stuff going on even in the academic art world if you look for it, stuff that can really make you think. It's always nice to see good, strong craftsmanship, it can really make something fantastic, but that's not all that is going on.
So now we get to this guy, he's obviously an artiest of a bit of talent, stepping back and using what he has to make something really interesting, but he's no craftsmen. It's not an insult, he doesn't even pretend to be, in fact, that's part of his art. There is nothing wrong with that, it is what it is. Certainly, we shouldn't close the doors for people that are crossing from one to the other, from the craft to the art and vice versa, there is considerable overlap, and tremendous talent on both sides. It's silly though, to redefine or force yourself into the other side just because you or someone else thinks one or the other is better.
So, maybe you think artists are elitist and snooty, or maybe you think that these craftsmen who never push the envelope are boring and uninspired; I think we should still take our titles and be proud of them. Let's just get on with it, and the rest of us can enjoy them both.
Well, I'm tired, and it's a bit late for me to proofread this, so sorry, I just hope that people, well, lighten up a little and maybe open their mind a bit to the great things that many people are doing out there.
Oooh, I can see it now, big print, big button game controllers, redesigned for arthritus for an increasingly elderly gamers market... hey wait... that's actually true. Any venture capitalists out there looking for a new market?;)
Well, that's really the crux of the issue. It's much less about what color it is, but rather, about who is using that color. A color gets picked up by a high end manufacturers with a good design, and so it looks good. Pretty soon, every cheap Chinese knockoff is using that color, designs are poor, quality is cheap, while the high end manufacturers have already moved onto a new color or design. So now, what was 5 years ago trendy, is now associated with the cheap knockoffs. 10 years ago nothing but the cheapest junk was brushed aluminum in look, now it's back in style.. in a few years it'll be back out again.
Variations on metallic, white, beige, black and clear mono-chromatics tend to be in a cycle like this. Added to a few particular palates of colors between or concurrently, Fiesta style rainbows, earth tones, pastels, wood veneers, dark blues blacks, greens, etc.. None of these are bad, but all have countless examples of being done very badly, very often. After a while, the bad ones will have faded, leaving on the best of the old ones, spurring that style to come back and the cycle to happen all over again.
Add to this the fact that changes in color, light level, design and arraignment are shown to give a emotional pick me up and an increase in productivity.. in a few years a "Nice, pleasant beige" will probably be what folks are looking for.
I have a good friend who is a police officer here at a local community collage. Collage police to to the same academy and are required to meet the same standards as officers serving in the city police departments. They have full powers to cite, arrest, and are armed, and they are by no means limited to the limits of the campus to exercise these powers when appropriate. They fill out the same paper work, have the same radios, have access to the same police databases as city police. From what I hear, yes, there are in fact hold overs from the "rent - a - cop" days in this particular district, but they are in by far the minority, and I believe they went to the academy at some point, regardless.
Other then the people that sign their paycheck (and well, an easier beat), the distinction is blurrier then I think you even make it out to be, at least here in California.
"GPUs have dedicated circuitry to do math, math, and more math - and to do it *fast*. In a single cycle, they can perform mathematical computations that take general-purpose CPUs an eternity, in comparison."
Sounds like there is a lot of untapped potential. I propose we move GPUs off the external cards, and give them their own dedicated spot on the motherboard. Though, since we will allowing it be used for more general applications, we could just call it a Math Processor. Then again, it's not really a full processor like a duel core, so, we'll just call it a Co-Processor. This new "Math Co- Processor" will revolutionize PCs like nothing we have ever seen before. Think of it, who would have thought 20 years ago we could have a whole chip just for floating point math!
Professional audio software is designed to get work done.
WMP is designed to sell you stuff. Sort of like how casinos are built like mazes and the exits hidden away so you have to pass by as many shiny machines to dump your money into as possible.
I will agree with some other folks, the story summery was a little over the top, especially considering that iTunes certainly is guilty of a lot of the same, and yet, still seems a far better player to me.
Honestly, and I don't mean this as a troll, I'd like a response: who uses WMP other then people too lazy to download something else? What does it have to offer?
It's not actually louder. TV shows are just as loud, but they tend to be momentary. What commercials do is, among other things, dynamic level compression meaning they push the entire sound track up to just under the redline. On top of music, editing any space out, and other tricks, the VU meter pretty much hovers just at and under 0 dB. While lets say, Battlestar Galactica, even simple dialogue does hover into the 0db range in even quiet parts, but it's not pegged up there. There isn't music/effects maxed out filling in the space, quiet parts of the speech aren't pumped up, but it is still leveled to use the maximum dynamic range of the media, not just during the explosions and combat; that's when all the compression, effects, music etc get pumped in.
Perhaps, just perhaps, there are so many liberals because we're tired of this shit in our homes, and that, contrary to the slandering, we don't want to want to live in teepees and tree houses to get away from it?
I completely agree. Anyone here who says that this is ready for public consumption is nuts. I may not be close to an advanced Linux user, but setting up MythTV was an enormous hassle. Eventually, thinking I had a handle on it I recommended it to a friend, and it was horrible. IVTV kept crashing the system and now and again he'd lose power, corrupting the database even if nothing was being recorded. If anything goes wrong with the MySQL configuration, how much work is that trying to research and resolve the problem for people that have no experience with database administration? This is not something ready for the average person in any sense of the word.
However, this has improved over time, and the pre-made packages are getting better. Another big help was my PVR250 worked nearly "out of the box" in SuSE 10.1 which I highly recommend for people that are using their machines for more then a DVR.
I know that they did a bunch of CGI work for the new release of the first Star Trek movie. I know this was something like two years ago, but I am curious, does anyone own it? The first Star Trek:TMP had some of the finest model work I have ever seen in sci-fi, IMHO.. did this all get ditched for some crappy CGI?
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Uh, undersea cables ARE 19th century tech.
Sexist: Assuming females only deal with household concerns and arn't themselves scientists and business people dealing internationally.
That would imply that you couldn't use lookalikes. I mean, would there be a legal problem if they found a perfect Ford lookalike?
So I imagine, they could make a little artistic licance and say, "That isn't Harrison Ford, it's an original character."
Firstly, improving the gas millage of low millage vehicles actually saves far more gas and saves far more on emissions output in the big picture then minor gains in high millage vehicles. Yes, I hate seeing people driving cars 10 times heaver then what they need them for, especially here in Southern California where it's usually so totally unnecessary. There are people and companies however who DO need heavy vehicles, to haul and tow. I for one won't mind seeing the reduction of those inefficient, dirty, noisy pull start generators, either.
By that time though, I would think it would hardly have to be much larger to exchange heat with the air to begin with. Just use those long hoses to put it outside a window in the summer, and inside to help with heating in the winter.
"this year, includes RFID, graphics processing engines, server virtualization, Web services, and mobile security."
By my count, thats 5.
You ever seen the kinds of shit they do release? What they did to Chile.. helping Saddam's rise to power, the countless things that have been made passing mention of that are really astonishing. Yet, nobody much cares. I guess people don't much care about history, no matter how relevant or intrinsic to the events of today they were.
Those only run on JiggaWatts, not GigaWatts.
McKay has been one of the few SG characters that have shown any sort of development, having to learn to BE social, respect other people, work as part of a team both in the field and in the lab. Carter on the other hand, seems some sort of super human, is almost exactly the same as she was when the series started, and is about the most boring character on the show.
Yes, the technical mumbo-jumbo thing is irritating, but thats simply a sign of bad writing. It's a plot device or easy deis ex machena that they try and legitimize, but they are by far not the only show to be guilty of it.
I'd by far rather see an end to the lame warrior-types, I've seen more character depth from pre-gen D&D character sheets.
I suppose this is going to get lost into comments, which is a shame, I think, because I think it's important.
This is problem we've had for the last, oh, I'd say, 50 years. We have artiest in the academic since, and artiest in the colloquial since. The words have become bogged down in I guess what can only be called a cultural clash, one side takes it as elitist, the other side leaving little room for other sorts of artistic exploration. Thing is, being a performer, a painter, or whatever and not being called an artiest isn't an insult, so, I think we should start to again use the word craftsmen, and people should run with it, its not a evaluation of talent or social status, its just about what you DO.
It very closely compares to say, an engener and a research physicist. One of them applies what they know, they know it well, they do it well, and they know how to make it WORK. The other is out, testing new things, bringing new ideas to the table even if those ideas may be some time off from practicality. Are either of them bad? Is one smarter or better then the other? Not at all, they just apply how and what they know differently, building different skillets to do what they do the best, and in the end, the research physicist may really not be the best at applying his work, nor does the engener necessarily have the knowledge to churn deep deep into the math to find new ideas and connections. Sometimes there is some arrogance that can build up on both sides, but in the end, the difference is pretty clear in the big picture.
It's the same way in art, there is the artiest, and the craftsmen. The composer might be a decent musician, but probably not as good as the first chair violinist. The first chair violin, might be a pretty good composer were they to try, but likely not quite having the skill and practice for something really new and original. There are countless painters who are incredibly talented craftsmen (check out a book on hyperrealism sometime, its astonishing), but they aren't really doing anything new, they are refining their craft. I suppose most people here will disagree with me, but I think there is some really interesting stuff going on even in the academic art world if you look for it, stuff that can really make you think. It's always nice to see good, strong craftsmanship, it can really make something fantastic, but that's not all that is going on.
So now we get to this guy, he's obviously an artiest of a bit of talent, stepping back and using what he has to make something really interesting, but he's no craftsmen. It's not an insult, he doesn't even pretend to be, in fact, that's part of his art. There is nothing wrong with that, it is what it is. Certainly, we shouldn't close the doors for people that are crossing from one to the other, from the craft to the art and vice versa, there is considerable overlap, and tremendous talent on both sides. It's silly though, to redefine or force yourself into the other side just because you or someone else thinks one or the other is better.
So, maybe you think artists are elitist and snooty, or maybe you think that these craftsmen who never push the envelope are boring and uninspired; I think we should still take our titles and be proud of them. Let's just get on with it, and the rest of us can enjoy them both.
Well, I'm tired, and it's a bit late for me to proofread this, so sorry, I just hope that people, well, lighten up a little and maybe open their mind a bit to the great things that many people are doing out there.
My database program is far smaller, faster, cheaper, has ZERO bugs, and will never corrupt your data.. so long as your data is "Hello" and "World".
Oooh, I can see it now, big print, big button game controllers, redesigned for arthritus for an increasingly elderly gamers market. .. hey wait... that's actually true. Any venture capitalists out there looking for a new market? ;)
Well, that's really the crux of the issue. It's much less about what color it is, but rather, about who is using that color. A color gets picked up by a high end manufacturers with a good design, and so it looks good. Pretty soon, every cheap Chinese knockoff is using that color, designs are poor, quality is cheap, while the high end manufacturers have already moved onto a new color or design. So now, what was 5 years ago trendy, is now associated with the cheap knockoffs. 10 years ago nothing but the cheapest junk was brushed aluminum in look, now it's back in style.. in a few years it'll be back out again.
Variations on metallic, white, beige, black and clear mono-chromatics tend to be in a cycle like this. Added to a few particular palates of colors between or concurrently, Fiesta style rainbows, earth tones, pastels, wood veneers, dark blues blacks, greens, etc.. None of these are bad, but all have countless examples of being done very badly, very often. After a while, the bad ones will have faded, leaving on the best of the old ones, spurring that style to come back and the cycle to happen all over again.
Add to this the fact that changes in color, light level, design and arraignment are shown to give a emotional pick me up and an increase in productivity.. in a few years a "Nice, pleasant beige" will probably be what folks are looking for.
I have a good friend who is a police officer here at a local community collage. Collage police to to the same academy and are required to meet the same standards as officers serving in the city police departments. They have full powers to cite, arrest, and are armed, and they are by no means limited to the limits of the campus to exercise these powers when appropriate. They fill out the same paper work, have the same radios, have access to the same police databases as city police. From what I hear, yes, there are in fact hold overs from the "rent - a - cop" days in this particular district, but they are in by far the minority, and I believe they went to the academy at some point, regardless.
Other then the people that sign their paycheck (and well, an easier beat), the distinction is blurrier then I think you even make it out to be, at least here in California.
God damn, you're brilliant! We should have saved ourselves from racial tensions all these years and just kept the black people enslaved.
"GPUs have dedicated circuitry to do math, math, and more math - and to do it *fast*. In a single cycle, they can perform mathematical computations that take general-purpose CPUs an eternity, in comparison."
Sounds like there is a lot of untapped potential. I propose we move GPUs off the external cards, and give them their own dedicated spot on the motherboard. Though, since we will allowing it be used for more general applications, we could just call it a Math Processor. Then again, it's not really a full processor like a duel core, so, we'll just call it a Co-Processor. This new "Math Co- Processor" will revolutionize PCs like nothing we have ever seen before. Think of it, who would have thought 20 years ago we could have a whole chip just for floating point math!
Professional audio software is designed to get work done.
WMP is designed to sell you stuff. Sort of like how casinos are built like mazes and the exits hidden away so you have to pass by as many shiny machines to dump your money into as possible.
I will agree with some other folks, the story summery was a little over the top, especially considering that iTunes certainly is guilty of a lot of the same, and yet, still seems a far better player to me.
Honestly, and I don't mean this as a troll, I'd like a response: who uses WMP other then people too lazy to download something else? What does it have to offer?
It's not actually louder. TV shows are just as loud, but they tend to be momentary. What commercials do is, among other things, dynamic level compression meaning they push the entire sound track up to just under the redline. On top of music, editing any space out, and other tricks, the VU meter pretty much hovers just at and under 0 dB. While lets say, Battlestar Galactica, even simple dialogue does hover into the 0db range in even quiet parts, but it's not pegged up there. There isn't music/effects maxed out filling in the space, quiet parts of the speech aren't pumped up, but it is still leveled to use the maximum dynamic range of the media, not just during the explosions and combat; that's when all the compression, effects, music etc get pumped in.
Perhaps, just perhaps, there are so many liberals because we're tired of this shit in our homes, and that, contrary to the slandering, we don't want to want to live in teepees and tree houses to get away from it?
Black dosn't go with my sheets.
"We are interested in them to see if they have any synergistic elements that we might benefit from."
Am i the only one who had trouble taking the author seriously after that phrase was uttered?
New Volkswagon SUV?
(Ok sorry, latenight at work)
I completely agree. Anyone here who says that this is ready for public consumption is nuts. I may not be close to an advanced Linux user, but setting up MythTV was an enormous hassle. Eventually, thinking I had a handle on it I recommended it to a friend, and it was horrible. IVTV kept crashing the system and now and again he'd lose power, corrupting the database even if nothing was being recorded. If anything goes wrong with the MySQL configuration, how much work is that trying to research and resolve the problem for people that have no experience with database administration? This is not something ready for the average person in any sense of the word.
However, this has improved over time, and the pre-made packages are getting better. Another big help was my PVR250 worked nearly "out of the box" in SuSE 10.1 which I highly recommend for people that are using their machines for more then a DVR.
I know that they did a bunch of CGI work for the new release of the first Star Trek movie. I know this was something like two years ago, but I am curious, does anyone own it? The first Star Trek:TMP had some of the finest model work I have ever seen in sci-fi, IMHO.. did this all get ditched for some crappy CGI?
Engineers researching past work before they begin working on the best solution available to them?
Shocking.