Could the near light speed rotation of the SMB be equivalent in some way to having extra mass at the core of the galaxy? In other words, does this change how much dark matter there must be?
In addition, requiring college degrees for mindless jobs ensures that the person you hire will be unhappy with the job. "I have a college degree and I'm asked to sweep the floor? I quit!" But then, this works in favor of those doing the hiring, doesn't it? A job position that keeps coming up open means they have work today. Hiring people actually suited to their job would quickly put the HR person on half wages.
I was walking down the computer aisle at Costco today and saw the following: 27" touchscreen (2560x1440) with an i7 3770. As I am in the market for both a 2560x1440, and an i7 3770, I was quite impressed. Too bad it is $1,800 but dang that is an awesome system.
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Anyway, these will be the future common machines. Huge touchscreen and otherwise state-of-the-art. And your ma and pa will snap them up without thinking.
I would too if it was $1,200.
Touch, & Win8, make a lot more sense on a massive monitor. Maybe, hopefully, that will be the next big "fad" -- giant monitors that leave 2560x1440 far behind. I'll take a 4000x2500, please.
Relates to the retry interval, that doubles with each retry (per the RFC), so the "progress" bar at that point is a retry bar, with retry times doubling for each progress bar update...not good.
What doesn't make sense is the average rugby whistle. It is perhaps the most unintuitive sport there is. The average sports person has no idea what a "knock on" is, yet these stop the play far too frequently.
Brutality: The scrum is pretty savage, yet little is ever said about it. Such a rough game puts it out of reach for most. Football can be as well, but personally I only played tackle with my friends -- college intramurals were flag football, and I "coached" some K5ers in 2-hand touch.
Rugby has a lot of potential for greatness. Very exciting to see the "end" trying to break free. But there is the problem as well. You see the same basic things happening over and over -- kicks, scrums & tackles that look damaging, and attempted runs. Few passes, little strategy, and bandaged ears.
"Mommy, why do they bandage their ears?"
"Because they are not smart enough to use helmets, son."
Returning to whistles...
Each sport has a rhythm. Someone took a stopwatch to baseball and measured 9 minutes of true action in an entire 9-inning game. Basketball and hockey can have a minute or two of intense action. Soccer can have steady "action" with at least one or two players running, but I think lack of substantial action (by most players) is its biggest downfall. Football is "unique" when it comes to action -- lengthy delays between plays, for sure.
But what are you getting for your delay? You are getting one team reading the other team's defense, finding a weakness and exploiting it. You are getting maximum effort, thanks to the rest they just had. Soccer lacks this, so you get cheap stuff like players throwing the ball the wrong way, or holding on to it, so they can recover. And of course lining up 5 yards away on free kicks...only to be moved to 8 yards away.
I would be surprised if anyone on/. purely watches sports without doing something else at the same time. Delays in sports, or shows, are pretty meaningless to me...in fact I like predictable commercial breaks -- mute TV, get up and do 5 things, return to work.
One other huge plus of delays between plays -- instant replays and analysis. There was a time, 40 years ago anyway, when replays were few and far between -- we used to beg the TV to show them to us. Now we get 3 or 4 views of a play, slow motion, highlighting, and expert analysis.
What sport comes close to this level of analysis and coverage? The Olympics (and maybe golf). Yet the amount of effort to win a given Olympic sports varies hugely. Team sports like olympic hockey, for example, see them playing round robin with every other team -- maybe 20 hours of brutal play. In another sport you jump in the water ten times. Try googling "easiest olympic sport" -- all kinds of pages talking about this alone.
Ok, here are a few comments, right before kickoff, on why I like football more than other sports:
-1- A true team sport. Not sure any other sport comes close.
-2- The personal commitment required to play it well. I recall some golfer who never practiced in the off season, just tossed his clubs in the garage...yet he was a world class golfer. Hockey comes closest on this one -- nothing like losing teeth or getting gashed up yet coming back for the rest of the game to show your commitment level.
-3- Complexity: 40 odd players on a team, kickers & punters, receivers & tight ends, half backs and fullbacks, etc. etc. Soccer loses badly here -- basically a 3 position game. Baseball is maybe second worst (of the major sports). Basketball? Well just check out what they figure are the highlights each night -- Another dunk!!!1! Will you look at that! Hockey is more complex than it appears, and I love the game (fastest team sport of 'em all), but still there are just 4 unique positions.
-4- Unpredictability: "Any given Sunday". Soccer: hmmm, Messi (brilliant Messi) will score a goal or two. Basketball: it will be a close score at the end with _fouls_ determining who wins -- only sport where fouling benefits a team. Baseball: mildly unpredictable but face it, who really cares? Baseball has too many games, too many per week (and even day), for legions of fans to be fully vested in it. So we all watch the World Series and... Hockey is fairly unpredictable but then hockey lacks scoring, with the last decade or two seeing a swing to a more defensive style of play.
-5- Influence of a good coach. Basketball ranks up there on this one. But how many movies have been made about baseball coaches versus this recent one that comes to mind.
-6- Intensity. Soccer player gets "injured" and gets carted off, drinks some Gatorade and then rejoins the game. No big deal. Baseball: no need to comment. Hockey can be super intense, at its best, but when all that intensity doesn't lead to a score (i.e. 95% of the time)...let down. Football players diving for passes, 350 pound guys running faster than you or I ever will, runners sprinting up to a 100 yards at a time.
-7- "Pass down" -- parent to child, that is. I think baseball has a lot to offer here. Football is just deeper, more intense, more meaningful.
Given more time I could probably list 4 or 5 more points. Game has started. AFK.
Played it for just shy of 50 years...so far. Coached it, sideline ref'd it. Took up punting as a solo/zen hobby. You name it, I love it.
I played soccer when young (English parents), but it is not one-tenth of the game football is.
I played more tennis, from age 6 to 16, than any other sport and than anyone I knew. I got good at it and am still good at it. I've take time off work to watch the majors. And it is not one-fifth of the game football is.
I suck at golf so nuff said.
It is funny to hear people praising rugby instead of football. Talk about whistle-prone. Rugby has its moments, as does Aussie rules football. But they are not one-third of the game football is.
World cup soccer only comes once every four years. Same for the Olympics. Pity, or they might come close to American football
But there can be only one. Long live football. American football.
...a former Canuck who always hated the Canadian version -- the 3 downs forcing the game to be unbalanced toward passing, the ultra wide field that made the game hard to appreciate up close and the imperfect football -- try throwing one of each country's footballs and you'll see what I mean.
Do you sleep more when you are bored? That is what I do. Nothing like having projects to work on to have me up early. Then I catch up a bit on sleep when things slow down.
The speed difference alone (vs 7) makes it highly desirable on my new, under $300, Lenovo "pack around laptop". I want that thing up and running, and shutting down, in seconds and Win8 does this to perfection.
Heck, Windows 8 doesn't even have a keyboard shortcut for Shut Down. Sure, you can DO it; but it's a multi-step procedure.
The last thing I want is a keyboard shortcut that shuts down my computer -- something I almost never do (maybe once every 3 or 4 months, when I vacuum the dust out of it).
Similar to my learning, early on, to not automate deletions.
Target has a red card, that gives you a 5% discount [they bill you at the end of the month]. So, not much incentive to use a charge card even before this Sunday.
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Could the near light speed rotation of the SMB be equivalent in some way to having extra mass at the core of the galaxy? In other words, does this change how much dark matter there must be?
In addition, requiring college degrees for mindless jobs ensures that the person you hire will be unhappy with the job. "I have a college degree and I'm asked to sweep the floor? I quit!" But then, this works in favor of those doing the hiring, doesn't it? A job position that keeps coming up open means they have work today. Hiring people actually suited to their job would quickly put the HR person on half wages.
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Anyway, these will be the future common machines. Huge touchscreen and otherwise state-of-the-art. And your ma and pa will snap them up without thinking.
I would too if it was $1,200.
Touch, & Win8, make a lot more sense on a massive monitor. Maybe, hopefully, that will be the next big "fad" -- giant monitors that leave 2560x1440 far behind. I'll take a 4000x2500, please.
Relates to the retry interval, that doubles with each retry (per the RFC), so the "progress" bar at that point is a retry bar, with retry times doubling for each progress bar update...not good.
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In addition, IE also spawns/loads multiple copies of itself at times, and this definitely chokes the windpipe of the computer pretty effectively.
I live in Opera, run Firefox for those few pages Opera has trouble with...and I run IE, when forced, about 3 times a year.
Threadkiller!
You have no offline-only machines? I have 3 of them, just at home.
And how many download once to thumb drive and install on multiple machines?
http://www.just-think-it.com/sal_08.htm
What happened to Henri was a travesty indeed.
But is the same temperature as a jacuzzi. TOTC.
Any deal?
Brutality: The scrum is pretty savage, yet little is ever said about it. Such a rough game puts it out of reach for most. Football can be as well, but personally I only played tackle with my friends -- college intramurals were flag football, and I "coached" some K5ers in 2-hand touch.
Rugby has a lot of potential for greatness. Very exciting to see the "end" trying to break free. But there is the problem as well. You see the same basic things happening over and over -- kicks, scrums & tackles that look damaging, and attempted runs. Few passes, little strategy, and bandaged ears.
"Mommy, why do they bandage their ears?"
"Because they are not smart enough to use helmets, son."
Returning to whistles...
Each sport has a rhythm. Someone took a stopwatch to baseball and measured 9 minutes of true action in an entire 9-inning game. Basketball and hockey can have a minute or two of intense action. Soccer can have steady "action" with at least one or two players running, but I think lack of substantial action (by most players) is its biggest downfall. Football is "unique" when it comes to action -- lengthy delays between plays, for sure.
But what are you getting for your delay? You are getting one team reading the other team's defense, finding a weakness and exploiting it. You are getting maximum effort, thanks to the rest they just had. Soccer lacks this, so you get cheap stuff like players throwing the ball the wrong way, or holding on to it, so they can recover. And of course lining up 5 yards away on free kicks...only to be moved to 8 yards away.
I would be surprised if anyone on /. purely watches sports without doing something else at the same time. Delays in sports, or shows, are pretty meaningless to me...in fact I like predictable commercial breaks -- mute TV, get up and do 5 things, return to work.
One other huge plus of delays between plays -- instant replays and analysis. There was a time, 40 years ago anyway, when replays were few and far between -- we used to beg the TV to show them to us. Now we get 3 or 4 views of a play, slow motion, highlighting, and expert analysis.
What sport comes close to this level of analysis and coverage? The Olympics (and maybe golf). Yet the amount of effort to win a given Olympic sports varies hugely. Team sports like olympic hockey, for example, see them playing round robin with every other team -- maybe 20 hours of brutal play. In another sport you jump in the water ten times. Try googling "easiest olympic sport" -- all kinds of pages talking about this alone.
-1- A true team sport. Not sure any other sport comes close.
-2- The personal commitment required to play it well. I recall some golfer who never practiced in the off season, just tossed his clubs in the garage...yet he was a world class golfer. Hockey comes closest on this one -- nothing like losing teeth or getting gashed up yet coming back for the rest of the game to show your commitment level.
-3- Complexity: 40 odd players on a team, kickers & punters, receivers & tight ends, half backs and fullbacks, etc. etc. Soccer loses badly here -- basically a 3 position game. Baseball is maybe second worst (of the major sports). Basketball? Well just check out what they figure are the highlights each night -- Another dunk!!!1! Will you look at that! Hockey is more complex than it appears, and I love the game (fastest team sport of 'em all), but still there are just 4 unique positions.
-4- Unpredictability: "Any given Sunday". Soccer: hmmm, Messi (brilliant Messi) will score a goal or two. Basketball: it will be a close score at the end with _fouls_ determining who wins -- only sport where fouling benefits a team. Baseball: mildly unpredictable but face it, who really cares? Baseball has too many games, too many per week (and even day), for legions of fans to be fully vested in it. So we all watch the World Series and... Hockey is fairly unpredictable but then hockey lacks scoring, with the last decade or two seeing a swing to a more defensive style of play.
-5- Influence of a good coach. Basketball ranks up there on this one. But how many movies have been made about baseball coaches versus this recent one that comes to mind.
-6- Intensity. Soccer player gets "injured" and gets carted off, drinks some Gatorade and then rejoins the game. No big deal. Baseball: no need to comment. Hockey can be super intense, at its best, but when all that intensity doesn't lead to a score (i.e. 95% of the time)...let down. Football players diving for passes, 350 pound guys running faster than you or I ever will, runners sprinting up to a 100 yards at a time.
-7- "Pass down" -- parent to child, that is. I think baseball has a lot to offer here. Football is just deeper, more intense, more meaningful.
Given more time I could probably list 4 or 5 more points. Game has started. AFK.
Played it for just shy of 50 years...so far. Coached it, sideline ref'd it. Took up punting as a solo/zen hobby. You name it, I love it.
I played soccer when young (English parents), but it is not one-tenth of the game football is.
I played more tennis, from age 6 to 16, than any other sport and than anyone I knew. I got good at it and am still good at it. I've take time off work to watch the majors. And it is not one-fifth of the game football is.
I suck at golf so nuff said.
It is funny to hear people praising rugby instead of football. Talk about whistle-prone. Rugby has its moments, as does Aussie rules football. But they are not one-third of the game football is.
World cup soccer only comes once every four years. Same for the Olympics. Pity, or they might come close to American football
But there can be only one. Long live football. American football.
And yes, he did innovate, a la Newton, along the way.
He wasn't talking about the "govt", he was talking about the Federal Reserve.
Do you sleep more when you are bored? That is what I do. Nothing like having projects to work on to have me up early. Then I catch up a bit on sleep when things slow down.
The speed difference alone (vs 7) makes it highly desirable on my new, under $300, Lenovo "pack around laptop". I want that thing up and running, and shutting down, in seconds and Win8 does this to perfection.
The last thing I want is a keyboard shortcut that shuts down my computer -- something I almost never do (maybe once every 3 or 4 months, when I vacuum the dust out of it).
Similar to my learning, early on, to not automate deletions.
Target has a red card, that gives you a 5% discount [they bill you at the end of the month]. So, not much incentive to use a charge card even before this Sunday.
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Citation please.
Hydra does not have a recognizable brain or true muscles. Ergo, heartless.
Careful on the temperature of that inferno.
WHERE do you add Gigabyte to the list? Parent's list included three categories: "Ok", "junk" and "completely solid".