I used a PII laptop up until January this year as my sort of regular email, browsing, Word machine. I might still be using it, but simple web browsing had become a chore, and trillien had become endlessly bloated. Sure, I could have sped things up with flash blocker, moving to Gaim, digging up some more ram, and being more vigilant about background applications, but more and more sites are requiring flash, and it was getting irritating having to start up my gaming machine just to look at a link a friend sent me.
So sure, I know a lot of people still quite happy on their PIIs like I was with just a little extra effort, but I ended up biting the bullet and upgrading. It's sort of sad though, to think of the resources wasted with computers getting trashed because of lazy programmers, and overzealous website designers.
Most I've known can't stand them, but its a much more effective to try and stop something before it starts, rather then years after its become common practice.
The examples of huge, poorly planed projects are countless; government, private or otherwise. I admit it, unlike what seems to be the primarily Libertarian Slashdot, I'm pro big government, but I sure don't trust any big organization implicitly to consider even the obvious. Greed and pork, internal and external political pressures, orignzational lappses, all kinds of things can happen, even if most of the people are bright and well meaning.
Besides the fact this (and Russia) is a democratic government. We, the people, should be informed, and there is really nothing wrong with making sure the obvious isn't left unsaid along with healthy debate, even if it is more then a healthy dose of cynicism. If the planners have done their home work, they should be able to address these criticisms, and we can move on.
I know your post was tongue in cheek, but somehow a trailer with a soldier exploding button to be captured on the battle field might not be the best of ideas.. yet, morbidly amusing.
Yet other then a bump in the 80s, the violent crime rate has continued to plummet since the 40s. Incarceration is not a direct indication of crime. It means more crimes are caught and prosecuted, longer sentences for crimes, or that the prison system here is more likely to lead people back into a life of crime.
It's unfortunate, because the 'both parties suck' thing is a pretty self defeatist attitude. All political parties have problems, hypocrisies, and their share of corruption. I'd defy you to find any similar organization with more then a hand full of people without their share of those problems. We shouldn't give up, and we should be just as furious, if not MORE so when we see it in our own party.
The difference is, when that corruption becomes not just individuals, or even individual leaders, but something that is systemic, then we have to take an even closer look at those cases of corruption as a whole. All parties are vulnerable to organizational corruption, and we need to always remain vigilant.
It has a video of the shake as well as high def video of the simulations themselves. It's pretty damn cool, you can watch the whole building flex and sway about on top of the the shake table, and the waves propagate through the building. (Each colored dot is a GPS sensor, 10 per floor, over 7 floors).
1. Putting a GPU on the processor immediately divides the market for it. Unless this is only going to be a laptop processor it probably won't sell well on desktops.
Here is a little experiment, go to bestbuy.com or some other large retailer, find a machine with something better then integrated graphics.
Until you get into their "gaming" machines, you aren't going to find a lot. The first one I found was a 7300LE, and that was a $1200 machine (or the X1600 in the iMac for the same). When faced with the plethora of sub $800 machines, I think that is what most people would consider a premium purchase. To the average gamer, a video card is considered an "add-on" from the start.
Seeing as BOTH parties entered into a contract on the hardware and they are legally bound to honor it, I pretty well believe that entitles me to it. This was an unrelated problem, and regardless of what the fine print says, it is wrong to void the contract under those reasons. Do they have the legal right? Probably, but the poster is doing exactly the right thing, warning others before they make the same mistake and stay away from HP, as clearly, the fine print allows them to renig on their obligations on hardware for unrelated reasons. Having inadequate staffing and training is not an excuse why they should be able to back out of their responsibilities.
The pro audio market is completely different then the 'audiophile' one, and well taken care of by several manufacturers, high low end, and until low noise, balanced connectors start appearing on motherboards (possible, but no where in sight), it's not going anywhere. While there is a lot of marketing speak abound, the occasional gold connectors, vacuum tubes and other Voodoo, it's a much different market then who creative sells to.
Actually, if I were a "tree hugger"... someone who only cares about wildlife then humans, I would love nuclear power. A major accident in a large populated place would likely cause an evacuation, the trees and fauna wouldn't give a shit, and would quickly take back the area. It's the quality of life of the people in that city and the surrounding areas after such an accident that concerns me.
How about we put an end to crappy spy wear, ad wear, bloated OSs and websites full of useless flash in countless annoying adds over 20 unnecessarily pages, and I can go back to using my perfectly good little PII laptop rather then these monstrosities that suck up power and blow out heat enough to raise the indoor temp a couple degrees in the summer just so I can freaken read an article on how to save power./angry rant in run on sentence
It's not all about color temperature, there is also the issue of color rendering. Some of those CFLs in the tungsten color temperature range often have awful color rendering in my anecdotal evidence, especially the cheep ones (and most florescent lights are listed with a rather low CRI, objectively). ]
My approach is to just get used to the daylight ones, it's actually kind of nice once you do, it really is like extending daylight hours, and nice for lighting up dark corners. Even still, I keep a few incandescents around in key places to be used as the mood strikes.
We're paranoid because time and time again we see companies, big and small, are pulling that kind of crap. Some how it's become ingrained in our culture that once your sitting at a board room table, all normal rules of ethics and decency cease to apply, some just forget to bother with laws, either. And hey, guess what company is building the power plants?
I'm curious, how many people use their yards? In particular, use BOTH yards. How many people use their yards for things that couldn't be done if there were a small grassy park within an easy walk? My neighbors NEVER use their front yards. The backyards do get some use: pools, parties, etc. Even half of those are with other neighbors anyways, and almost always with neighbors when the kids use them. The only activity that front yards seem to have is getting mowed.
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I used a PII laptop up until January this year as my sort of regular email, browsing, Word machine. I might still be using it, but simple web browsing had become a chore, and trillien had become endlessly bloated. Sure, I could have sped things up with flash blocker, moving to Gaim, digging up some more ram, and being more vigilant about background applications, but more and more sites are requiring flash, and it was getting irritating having to start up my gaming machine just to look at a link a friend sent me.
So sure, I know a lot of people still quite happy on their PIIs like I was with just a little extra effort, but I ended up biting the bullet and upgrading. It's sort of sad though, to think of the resources wasted with computers getting trashed because of lazy programmers, and overzealous website designers.
Most I've known can't stand them, but its a much more effective to try and stop something before it starts, rather then years after its become common practice.
The examples of huge, poorly planed projects are countless; government, private or otherwise. I admit it, unlike what seems to be the primarily Libertarian Slashdot, I'm pro big government, but I sure don't trust any big organization implicitly to consider even the obvious. Greed and pork, internal and external political pressures, orignzational lappses, all kinds of things can happen, even if most of the people are bright and well meaning.
Besides the fact this (and Russia) is a democratic government. We, the people, should be informed, and there is really nothing wrong with making sure the obvious isn't left unsaid along with healthy debate, even if it is more then a healthy dose of cynicism. If the planners have done their home work, they should be able to address these criticisms, and we can move on.
I know your post was tongue in cheek, but somehow a trailer with a soldier exploding button to be captured on the battle field might not be the best of ideas.. yet, morbidly amusing.
Hey now, I played Rainbow Six, that makes me a MUCH bigger expert... right?
Looking at those little wheels, I'm not sure that it could get very far to hide in my house.
Which is the very reason I don't need to spend $50 TO lose something, when I seem to be doing a damn fine job myself.
Yet other then a bump in the 80s, the violent crime rate has continued to plummet since the 40s. Incarceration is not a direct indication of crime. It means more crimes are caught and prosecuted, longer sentences for crimes, or that the prison system here is more likely to lead people back into a life of crime.
It's unfortunate, because the 'both parties suck' thing is a pretty self defeatist attitude. All political parties have problems, hypocrisies, and their share of corruption. I'd defy you to find any similar organization with more then a hand full of people without their share of those problems. We shouldn't give up, and we should be just as furious, if not MORE so when we see it in our own party.
The difference is, when that corruption becomes not just individuals, or even individual leaders, but something that is systemic, then we have to take an even closer look at those cases of corruption as a whole. All parties are vulnerable to organizational corruption, and we need to always remain vigilant.
A coworker of mine is in the department, and showed me this page: http://visservices.sdsc.edu/projects/nees/article. php
It has a video of the shake as well as high def video of the simulations themselves. It's pretty damn cool, you can watch the whole building flex and sway about on top of the the shake table, and the waves propagate through the building. (Each colored dot is a GPS sensor, 10 per floor, over 7 floors).
So long as the people in charge are smarter than that, we should be okay.
You must be new here. Welcome to the Untied States, I'm sure learnig how the government works for the first time must be exciting.
We might want to re-think our use of the verb 'killer' ..
I mean not that it's bad, just, rather disappointing when you realize the poster didn't mean a battle bots style show down in my living room!
1. Putting a GPU on the processor immediately divides the market for it. Unless this is only going to be a laptop processor it probably won't sell well on desktops.
Here is a little experiment, go to bestbuy.com or some other large retailer, find a machine with something better then integrated graphics.
Until you get into their "gaming" machines, you aren't going to find a lot. The first one I found was a 7300LE, and that was a $1200 machine (or the X1600 in the iMac for the same). When faced with the plethora of sub $800 machines, I think that is what most people would consider a premium purchase. To the average gamer, a video card is considered an "add-on" from the start.
Seeing as BOTH parties entered into a contract on the hardware and they are legally bound to honor it, I pretty well believe that entitles me to it. This was an unrelated problem, and regardless of what the fine print says, it is wrong to void the contract under those reasons. Do they have the legal right? Probably, but the poster is doing exactly the right thing, warning others before they make the same mistake and stay away from HP, as clearly, the fine print allows them to renig on their obligations on hardware for unrelated reasons. Having inadequate staffing and training is not an excuse why they should be able to back out of their responsibilities.
The pro audio market is completely different then the 'audiophile' one, and well taken care of by several manufacturers, high low end, and until low noise, balanced connectors start appearing on motherboards (possible, but no where in sight), it's not going anywhere. While there is a lot of marketing speak abound, the occasional gold connectors, vacuum tubes and other Voodoo, it's a much different market then who creative sells to.
Actually, if I were a "tree hugger" ... someone who only cares about wildlife then humans, I would love nuclear power. A major accident in a large populated place would likely cause an evacuation, the trees and fauna wouldn't give a shit, and would quickly take back the area. It's the quality of life of the people in that city and the surrounding areas after such an accident that concerns me.
Goatee trimming technology still remains elusive.
How about we put an end to crappy spy wear, ad wear, bloated OSs and websites full of useless flash in countless annoying adds over 20 unnecessarily pages, and I can go back to using my perfectly good little PII laptop rather then these monstrosities that suck up power and blow out heat enough to raise the indoor temp a couple degrees in the summer just so I can freaken read an article on how to save power. /angry rant in run on sentence
First time I read that headline, I wondered for a second why it was significant it was compromised by a white guy.
Fortunately Shover Robot is there to save him from the terrible secret of space.
It's not all about color temperature, there is also the issue of color rendering. Some of those CFLs in the tungsten color temperature range often have awful color rendering in my anecdotal evidence, especially the cheep ones (and most florescent lights are listed with a rather low CRI, objectively). ]
My approach is to just get used to the daylight ones, it's actually kind of nice once you do, it really is like extending daylight hours, and nice for lighting up dark corners. Even still, I keep a few incandescents around in key places to be used as the mood strikes.
We're paranoid because time and time again we see companies, big and small, are pulling that kind of crap. Some how it's become ingrained in our culture that once your sitting at a board room table, all normal rules of ethics and decency cease to apply, some just forget to bother with laws, either. And hey, guess what company is building the power plants?
Some small features an incremental improvement over previous versions. Will MS ever stop innovating?
Dear god, this new technology can even predict the future!
Clearly without the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, high energy particles are free to knock vowels into higher orbits.
I'm curious, how many people use their yards? In particular, use BOTH yards. How many people use their yards for things that couldn't be done if there were a small grassy park within an easy walk? My neighbors NEVER use their front yards. The backyards do get some use: pools, parties, etc. Even half of those are with other neighbors anyways, and almost always with neighbors when the kids use them. The only activity that front yards seem to have is getting mowed.