"High Temperature"? I wouldn't call 55K a very warm temp at all. Although, this is a significant break through in getting a material closer to "at room temp" superconducting. They need to get to the range of 273-310K before it will be of widespread feasibility to use. However, a 55K superconductor would be useful in several spaceflight applications. This might lead to the development of a new propulsion system or much more powerful ion drives.
You make a good point with an excellent, albeit extreme as you stated, example. Am I saying that the guy didn't download tunes, No. However, do I think it sends the wrong message to people when someone is given multiple trys to convict you of something, Yes.
You're correct, I did over-simplify it to a certain extent. I agree that in general, our courts aren't broken and that they need a few corrections. However, as far as the press goes, the stories they publicize are what send the message of "Don't download tunes, but its ok to kill somebody." Guy I went to high school with got in a fight with his Dad one day and ending up shooting his Dad to death (7 or 8 shots). Numerous eyewitnesses and enough physical evidence to sink the Titanic, but he got off scott free because the Prosecuting attorney made a clerical error (IANAL and I don't know the exact details of the error) in the paper work to file charges. And now, in this RIAA case, a homeless man is being sued for music he supposedly downloaded and now that the judge has given them a second chance, they might be successful in winning the case.
That's what has got me about the whole situation and the moral that will be drawn by people out of stories like the 2 I've discussed (the murder and this case): Its ok to kill someone (not really, but quiet a few people take it that way), but you download tunes and you stand a really good chance of losing all that you have.
Couldn't the defendant claim "Double-Jeopardy" since the RIAA is techinically being given a second chance at trying the him for the same charge?
How in the world can you sue someone who is homeless and has no internet access, take them to court, get shot down, and then have a district judge say "We think you, the RIAA, had the right intentions but the wrong paper work."? They let murders off for clerical errors, but get caught downloading tunes and its a trip to the financial electric chair.
If this isn't proof positive that our court system is completely wanked, I don't know what is. And people wonder why our society is going to hell in a hand basket.... Kill someone and get off scott free vs. download tunes and go bankrupt paying the fines.
I've been studying Architectural Design for the past 3 years, and all I can say is engineering is alot more fun. Every engineering class I had to take involved not only designing and building a test object, but doing all the math by hand to prove that it would work (not only that but we also had to test these objects to failure). These people who complain about how much it sucks shouldn't be involved in this field to begin with. However, I do agree that the teacher does have a significant influence on the class. My engineering teacher spent 15 years in the Air Force as a flight test engineer and the guy is a complete hardass in class: he'll let you make a fool of yourself, tell you to sit down and shut-up, then make it a point to tell you why your math failed. That man was honestly the best teacher I've ever had.
What happened to games like MechWarrior and Fighters Anthology? The only game on that list that I think deserves to be there is COH. We need better game players to pick all time favorites IMHO.
Everyone's seen Star Wars and what Anikin did to the Sandpeople after they killed his mother right? Well if the RIAA suing his mom is equal to Anikin's mom being killed, then I can only imagine what a 16yr old boy with raging hormones and adrenaline his veins is capable of. Probably would give an angry Jedi a serious run for his money.
With this new rail gun technology, the US Navy now has a serious fire support asset in its Iowa and North Carolina class battleships. All they have to due is overhaul the power generation systems to handle these things and an Iowa class battleship would be capable of launching 90 16" projectiles and 200 5" projectiles a day via modifying the the main and secondary batteries for rail gun tech. In much more significant terms a Iowa class battleship would be able to deliver a broadside salvo of 9 16" rounds and 10 5" rounds on a target. Thats a lot of firepower!
After reading the updated article at Security Watch (http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attac ks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html) , I'm begining to think that the target of the attack was Phish Tank itself. Why else would a hacker or hackers launch such a large scale assault on one the worlds largest free DNS providing groups if only to knock them offline for only a few hours? I think that the domains in question are just cover for the attackers attempt at taking Phish Tank offline, i.e. divert System Admins attention and resources, backdoor you way into the Phish tank server, upload botnets and virus, then push your little red button and watch years worth of work in the security field go down in a flaming death-throe. This, IMVO, to me, seems the more likely reason other than just a few kids jacking around. Why else would such a high profile target be selected by the everyday hacker if he knew the full brunt of the FBI was going to come down on him? These people that launched this assault seem to know what they wanted and went about it knowing full well what they were getting into. Also they attacked the entire DNS groups world wide system. These things seem to indicate to me that they wanted Phish Tank to go offline but just weren't able to pull it off.
I recommend you convience your company to buy Zone Alarm, AVG Anti-virus, Ad-Aware, and use the free program called Hijack This. Now Hijack This requires a third pary web forum for the program to be used correctly, because if you don't know what you're reading and deleting you could very well remove requiered registries. So after you finish scanning each system with Hijack This, upload the scan log to this forum (several other are recommended on CNET but this is the first one I found) http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ These guys know what they're doing and are very helpful from what I've read.
I'm actually quiet through in what I say and what I do. And when I make a mistake, I own up to it. A fellow slashdotter posted links to wiki's defining VGA (although I use VGA as shorthand for video card because VGA stands for Video Graphics Array), RAMDAC (Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter), and processess performed by the VGA core (Barrle Shifter & Rastering). And I still have one question for you, If you could blatantly see I didn't know what I was talking about why didn't you give me some sources to look at to steer me in the right direction? It probably wouldn't surprise you that 8 months ago a PC to me was pop-corn and the fact that people can actually build there own PC was an impossibility. I'm a noob to PC's and VGA's aren't as talked about as a new CPU so I had less user data to draw from and even less of a direction to look in.
I do understand that it isn't very economic to increase pixle pipeline efficiency vs adding more pixle pipes, but retrofitting an old card with more efficient pipes is a user friendly upgrade solution. An example of this would be to take a F-106 Delta Dart and give it updated avionics and engines vs develope a fighter that costs 2x more to build.
I also saw you reference my attitude as the worst for an engineer. Well I'm studying to be an architect and am currently in a statics class, so its pop quiz time for you since referencing engineering is your way to put me down:
1. List the 3 equations requiered to prove that an object is static (not dynamic).
2. How much % of tolerance or deviation do you allow for cost, material (both quality & quantity),and time?
3. What is the worst engineering disaster of all time?
And believe me when I say you can find all the answers in less than an hour.
As for my slashdot ID, no one can figure out where I got it or what it means to me, so goodluck to those people background checking me when I interview for an internship. I'll give you bonus points on the quiz if you can tell me where my slashdot ID came from.
Thanks, I honestly was pretty sure what a RAMDAC was when the guys from Nvidia and Autodesk came to our college and did a Q&A with us. I thought they knew what they were talking about. And it did make sense to me then. I did know what VGA stands for before now and I also knew that geometry is in series and rendering is in parallel so thats why I was pretty sure they were right and didn't look it up. Just goes to show that because someone works for somebody dosen't mean they know what they're talking about. Also, thanks for the info instead of the blasting comments of "grow up man". VGA's really aren't an area that I know ALOT about, but I'm very through in my reasearch before I start using the vocab., guess this means I need to do more reasearch on VGA's.
If the VGA is a brain-dead frame-buffer, why is it a stand-alone system? Also if its a brain-dead frame-buffer, why does it do nearly all of the associated rendering operations for games while the CPU processes the games AI? And from what I've heard from the people at Autodesk and Nvidia is that a RAMDAC core is a stand-alone geometry processor where-as the GPU core is begining to become more of a floating-point processor than a render engine driver. These 2 processors work in series and create the modle and basic elements of a frame before it reaches the pixile pipelines. Oh BTW, if you increase pipxle pipline efficiency, you need less and can do more for less user cost.
Oh BTW, I'm a junior in college.
Also BTW, my 7900GTX has dual DVI ports and it has 2 RAMDAC cores at 400mhz each.
Yep, that's what I've read also. I was refering to the possiblity of AMD working there magic on the operations per clock cycle completed on a stand-alone VGA such as the upcoming new ATI card that's to kill the 8800gtx. Imagine AMD using a Hammer style chip as a VGA core, whooo thats fast.
Now to get things straight, I'm not bashing Nvidia here or criticizing AMD ATI as I own products from both and am very impressed.
Ok, on to the meat of the topic. I read about this card on Tom's Hardware about a month ago and was very impressed. The specs Nvidia gave Tom's for the 8800GTX was 768mb of GDDR4 memory, 128 pixle pipelines, dual 384 bit memory busses (768 bit total), 4 RAMDAC cores at 450mhz and 2 G80 cores at 550 mhz with the memory at 1000mhz (2000mhz for DDR). The card probably won't have a aftermarket cooling solution for sometime as the user can only apply one HSF to one G80 core. Also I understand the G80 is a 75nm chip instead of a 90nm chip. This provides reduced power consumption.
Now what I'd like to see happen is AMD get on-board with ATI and do there magic on the operations per clock view of a VGA and help ATI churn out some killer VGA's that are smaller and cheaper yet rival monsters like the 8800 GTX.
Overall, both companies are kings in there own rights, for now anyway. AMD holds ground in the CPU market like none other and Nvidia churns out next gen products at better prices and performances. Who knows what these guys have in store for us, but one thing is certain only user demands and time will tell us what the next gen VGA will be.
Is there anyone else who fail's to see the logic in such things as global warming and mass extinctions affecting the orbit of the Earth? I mean come on guys come up with something that actually has the ability to be proven and/or not able to be biased souley to the opinion of the Ph.D.'s in that feild. Come up with something that can be physically proven, repeated several times with same results, and don't setup the test so that it's so tipped in your favor that nobody else but you can be proven right. Now I know I'll get modded for being off-topic but this example is from personal experience and shows exactly whats going on here. One of my co-workers at Wal-Mart is studying enviromental science and we got into a heated debate over global warming. She told me that after 1 hour of operation a car produces more CO2 than there is in 1 cubic KM of air at 35,000 feet. As soon as I began to attack the method of testing that proved her data true, she immediatley began the "I'm right, you're wrong!" course of thinking and wouldn't hear of anything that might actually prove global warming wrong. She said that if that test method isn't used (geusstimation and very closely rounded numbers made to fit there uses), then we are all doomed to live through another Ice Age in the very near future.
Yes I agree that things like these need to be taken seriously, to a certain degree though. If its out of our control why worry about it and make others lifes suck, just to justify our own point of view?
To help you all understand what a Gauss gun, or more specifically a Gauss Rifle is, one only need look at the rifling on modern firearms today. A Gauss rifle operates on the same principles as a rail gun but uses many more magnets and a much denser projectile. A Gauss rifle is a magnetic linear induction accelerator that uses 6-8 twisted rails to accelerate a ferro-tungsten or ferro-depleted uranium projectile to a considerable fraction of the speed of light. The reason the rails are twisted is to emulate the rifling on modern firearm barrles, hence the name Gauss Rifle. The US Navy is currently experimenting on the Iowa class battleships with converting the 9 16" guns into Gauss Rifles. The Navy estimates that if it is successful, a Iowa class battleship's 16" guns would have a max range of about 500-650 nautical miles. In other words the USS Missouri could hit Bagdahd from the middle of the Persian Gulf with range to spare.
First off nothing went wrong for AMD, they just released later than they wanted to. AMD isn't about to throw it's legendary reliability, stability, and capibility out the window just to satisfy the market. Instead, AMD wanted to maintain that level quality and make the CPU more compatible with DDR2. When I started to reasearch parts for my PC in Dec. 05 I came across DDR2 and thought it was neat, but because Intel didn't have many capable 64-bit CPU's and dual core I opted for AMD. Also a full blown DDR2 Intel system is about $800-$1000 more due to the fact that DDR2 is so new. Also it is my understanding that DDR2 is still getting the kinks worked out so to speak. Also another factor is that a 939 DDR setup has far more suppot and options avaliable than an AM2 system. On Newegg there are 4 types of mobo for AM2: 570 SLi, 570 MCP, 590 SLi, 590 SLi Pro. Now don't get me wrong AM2 is great but there just isn't the avalibility of options to speak of out there. But in about 6 months AM2 will make up lost ground with AMD's 4x4, AM2 CPU sockets being compatible with AM3 CPU's, and the DDR3 RAM spec set to launch in Jan. 07. This is just a case of Intel hyping Conroe then having problems from day 1. An AM2 DDR2 setup is about $250-$500 more than a 939 DDR setup and its got AMD reliability. The problem here isn't the CPU but a lack of mobo and RAM options. DDR2 needs to mature thats all.
My family has been adamit users of the auto update tool for years, as was I. During my junior year of High School my now 10 year old Dell crashed and died. A couple of my friends were nice enough to fix it for me and they put a legal VLK copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on my system (they asked to borrow the High School's VLK image CD and they were given the OK). 3 months before my Dell's video card started to die, I got the WGA pop-up. Being in college now and having no time for a WGA shutdown, I busted the security by restoring to a pre WGA time frame and had no more problems. I then preceded to turn my auto updates to notify and continued the download process like normal. After the video card in my Dell died, I built my first ever PC and Windows XP Pro SP 2 Retail showed it's true colors to me. After a month and 12 reformats Windows finally works, but the WGA isn't on this system because I found out from a very reliable friend that after only 2 installs a Windows copy (same disk and key) with WGA gets shutdown. So for those of you out there with WGA on your system beware.
American chemists are familiar with Celcius, everyone else just likes to think they know what Celcius is. I told my math teacher who comes from India, a Celcius using nation, that Celcius is based off Kelvin and the -273 C is absolute zero and she actually told me I was wrong until the next problem we did in class was a Celcius to Kelvin problem and she said "Op, you're right."
Portable Firefox, Portable Ai Robo Form, and school stuff.
Now for the long list of extesions for Portable Firefox that I've got:
DOM Inspector Show IP Distrust AiRoboForm Toolbar Fire Encrypter Infocon Monitor No Script Foxy Proxy ClearPrivateData Fasterfox DownThemAll TabMixPlus IE Veiw Forecastfox RSS Ticker
As one can tell, I don't put security at the top of my "Priorities" list.
Version numbers would've been included, but got a lameness filter applied and had to remove them, hahah!!
It's not the lack of hardware capability. It's the lack of developers wanting to develope software to exploit the hardware potential. We've been using 32-bit programming for what, the past 10-15 years. Now, all of the sudden, there seems to be a major want to move to 64-bit programs and multi-threaded apps in the consumer feild, but not in the developer feild. As sad as it might be for me to say this, Microsoft is the ONLY company trying to move to the 64-bit, multi-threaded standard. The only reason that quad cores are being considered is the amount of processing power for the server market. Like WD-40 (the multi-purpose lube): SCSI, Dual-core CPU's, 64-bit processing and programming, SLI, and liquid cooling are all way ahead of their time. But like WD-40 these things will have a trickle down effect. Example: A company gets rid of excess computers and severs, a couple of employees take home a workstation or two and a server and refit them for home use. Their friends are impressed and want the same, so they go sink X amount of $ on parts and tell more people about it. Rinse, lather, repeat and soon everyone wants 3-4 workstation class PC's and an at home file server with the above listed technologies. A previous/. poster on another topic got it right, "The faster hardware gets faster, the faster software gets slower!"
If one were to input this common bacteria into a operating nuclear reactor, would that mean that the reactor would clean itself the longer it operated? Of couse there would have to be a way to seperate core material from already used fuel to prevent the bacteria from shutting it down. But if it were possible, wouldn't this be be more efficent than summarily throwing away the whole fuel rod assembly? Look forward to seeing your all's response's.
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"High Temperature"? I wouldn't call 55K a very warm temp at all. Although, this is a significant break through in getting a material closer to "at room temp" superconducting. They need to get to the range of 273-310K before it will be of widespread feasibility to use. However, a 55K superconductor would be useful in several spaceflight applications. This might lead to the development of a new propulsion system or much more powerful ion drives.
You make a good point with an excellent, albeit extreme as you stated, example. Am I saying that the guy didn't download tunes, No. However, do I think it sends the wrong message to people when someone is given multiple trys to convict you of something, Yes.
You're correct, I did over-simplify it to a certain extent. I agree that in general, our courts aren't broken and that they need a few corrections. However, as far as the press goes, the stories they publicize are what send the message of "Don't download tunes, but its ok to kill somebody." Guy I went to high school with got in a fight with his Dad one day and ending up shooting his Dad to death (7 or 8 shots). Numerous eyewitnesses and enough physical evidence to sink the Titanic, but he got off scott free because the Prosecuting attorney made a clerical error (IANAL and I don't know the exact details of the error) in the paper work to file charges. And now, in this RIAA case, a homeless man is being sued for music he supposedly downloaded and now that the judge has given them a second chance, they might be successful in winning the case.
That's what has got me about the whole situation and the moral that will be drawn by people out of stories like the 2 I've discussed (the murder and this case): Its ok to kill someone (not really, but quiet a few people take it that way), but you download tunes and you stand a really good chance of losing all that you have.
Couldn't the defendant claim "Double-Jeopardy" since the RIAA is techinically being given a second chance at trying the him for the same charge?
When talking about the RIAA, mind-boggling acts of stupidity are just par for the course.
How in the world can you sue someone who is homeless and has no internet access, take them to court, get shot down, and then have a district judge say "We think you, the RIAA, had the right intentions but the wrong paper work."? They let murders off for clerical errors, but get caught downloading tunes and its a trip to the financial electric chair.
If this isn't proof positive that our court system is completely wanked, I don't know what is. And people wonder why our society is going to hell in a hand basket.... Kill someone and get off scott free vs. download tunes and go bankrupt paying the fines.
I've been studying Architectural Design for the past 3 years, and all I can say is engineering is alot more fun. Every engineering class I had to take involved not only designing and building a test object, but doing all the math by hand to prove that it would work (not only that but we also had to test these objects to failure). These people who complain about how much it sucks shouldn't be involved in this field to begin with. However, I do agree that the teacher does have a significant influence on the class. My engineering teacher spent 15 years in the Air Force as a flight test engineer and the guy is a complete hardass in class: he'll let you make a fool of yourself, tell you to sit down and shut-up, then make it a point to tell you why your math failed. That man was honestly the best teacher I've ever had.
What happened to games like MechWarrior and Fighters Anthology? The only game on that list that I think deserves to be there is COH. We need better game players to pick all time favorites IMHO.
Everyone's seen Star Wars and what Anikin did to the Sandpeople after they killed his mother right? Well if the RIAA suing his mom is equal to Anikin's mom being killed, then I can only imagine what a 16yr old boy with raging hormones and adrenaline his veins is capable of. Probably would give an angry Jedi a serious run for his money.
Just thought I should state the obvious.
With this new rail gun technology, the US Navy now has a serious fire support asset in its Iowa and North Carolina class battleships. All they have to due is overhaul the power generation systems to handle these things and an Iowa class battleship would be capable of launching 90 16" projectiles and 200 5" projectiles a day via modifying the the main and secondary batteries for rail gun tech. In much more significant terms a Iowa class battleship would be able to deliver a broadside salvo of 9 16" rounds and 10 5" rounds on a target. Thats a lot of firepower!
After reading the updated article at Security Watch (http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attac ks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html) , I'm begining to think that the target of the attack was Phish Tank itself. Why else would a hacker or hackers launch such a large scale assault on one the worlds largest free DNS providing groups if only to knock them offline for only a few hours? I think that the domains in question are just cover for the attackers attempt at taking Phish Tank offline, i.e. divert System Admins attention and resources, backdoor you way into the Phish tank server, upload botnets and virus, then push your little red button and watch years worth of work in the security field go down in a flaming death-throe. This, IMVO, to me, seems the more likely reason other than just a few kids jacking around. Why else would such a high profile target be selected by the everyday hacker if he knew the full brunt of the FBI was going to come down on him? These people that launched this assault seem to know what they wanted and went about it knowing full well what they were getting into. Also they attacked the entire DNS groups world wide system. These things seem to indicate to me that they wanted Phish Tank to go offline but just weren't able to pull it off.
My BMI is 31% fat. Would this mean that I taste like sausge or do I fall in between it and bacon?
I recommend you convience your company to buy Zone Alarm, AVG Anti-virus, Ad-Aware, and use the free program called Hijack This. Now Hijack This requires a third pary web forum for the program to be used correctly, because if you don't know what you're reading and deleting you could very well remove requiered registries. So after you finish scanning each system with Hijack This, upload the scan log to this forum (several other are recommended on CNET but this is the first one I found) http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ These guys know what they're doing and are very helpful from what I've read.
Hope this helps.
I'm actually quiet through in what I say and what I do. And when I make a mistake, I own up to it. A fellow slashdotter posted links to wiki's defining VGA (although I use VGA as shorthand for video card because VGA stands for Video Graphics Array), RAMDAC (Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter), and processess performed by the VGA core (Barrle Shifter & Rastering). And I still have one question for you, If you could blatantly see I didn't know what I was talking about why didn't you give me some sources to look at to steer me in the right direction? It probably wouldn't surprise you that 8 months ago a PC to me was pop-corn and the fact that people can actually build there own PC was an impossibility. I'm a noob to PC's and VGA's aren't as talked about as a new CPU so I had less user data to draw from and even less of a direction to look in.
I do understand that it isn't very economic to increase pixle pipeline efficiency vs adding more pixle pipes, but retrofitting an old card with more efficient pipes is a user friendly upgrade solution. An example of this would be to take a F-106 Delta Dart and give it updated avionics and engines vs develope a fighter that costs 2x more to build.
I also saw you reference my attitude as the worst for an engineer. Well I'm studying to be an architect and am currently in a statics class, so its pop quiz time for you since referencing engineering is your way to put me down:
1. List the 3 equations requiered to prove that an object is static (not dynamic).
2. How much % of tolerance or deviation do you allow for cost, material (both quality & quantity),and time?
3. What is the worst engineering disaster of all time?
And believe me when I say you can find all the answers in less than an hour.
As for my slashdot ID, no one can figure out where I got it or what it means to me, so goodluck to those people background checking me when I interview for an internship. I'll give you bonus points on the quiz if you can tell me where my slashdot ID came from.
Thanks, I honestly was pretty sure what a RAMDAC was when the guys from Nvidia and Autodesk came to our college and did a Q&A with us. I thought they knew what they were talking about. And it did make sense to me then. I did know what VGA stands for before now and I also knew that geometry is in series and rendering is in parallel so thats why I was pretty sure they were right and didn't look it up. Just goes to show that because someone works for somebody dosen't mean they know what they're talking about. Also, thanks for the info instead of the blasting comments of "grow up man". VGA's really aren't an area that I know ALOT about, but I'm very through in my reasearch before I start using the vocab., guess this means I need to do more reasearch on VGA's.
If the VGA is a brain-dead frame-buffer, why is it a stand-alone system? Also if its a brain-dead frame-buffer, why does it do nearly all of the associated rendering operations for games while the CPU processes the games AI? And from what I've heard from the people at Autodesk and Nvidia is that a RAMDAC core is a stand-alone geometry processor where-as the GPU core is begining to become more of a floating-point processor than a render engine driver. These 2 processors work in series and create the modle and basic elements of a frame before it reaches the pixile pipelines. Oh BTW, if you increase pipxle pipline efficiency, you need less and can do more for less user cost.
Oh BTW, I'm a junior in college.
Also BTW, my 7900GTX has dual DVI ports and it has 2 RAMDAC cores at 400mhz each.
Stick this in your pipe and smoke it!!
Yep, that's what I've read also. I was refering to the possiblity of AMD working there magic on the operations per clock cycle completed on a stand-alone VGA such as the upcoming new ATI card that's to kill the 8800gtx. Imagine AMD using a Hammer style chip as a VGA core, whooo thats fast.
Now to get things straight, I'm not bashing Nvidia here or criticizing AMD ATI as I own products from both and am very impressed.
Ok, on to the meat of the topic. I read about this card on Tom's Hardware about a month ago and was very impressed. The specs Nvidia gave Tom's for the 8800GTX was 768mb of GDDR4 memory, 128 pixle pipelines, dual 384 bit memory busses (768 bit total), 4 RAMDAC cores at 450mhz and 2 G80 cores at 550 mhz with the memory at 1000mhz (2000mhz for DDR). The card probably won't have a aftermarket cooling solution for sometime as the user can only apply one HSF to one G80 core. Also I understand the G80 is a 75nm chip instead of a 90nm chip. This provides reduced power consumption.
Now what I'd like to see happen is AMD get on-board with ATI and do there magic on the operations per clock view of a VGA and help ATI churn out some killer VGA's that are smaller and cheaper yet rival monsters like the 8800 GTX.
Overall, both companies are kings in there own rights, for now anyway. AMD holds ground in the CPU market like none other and Nvidia churns out next gen products at better prices and performances. Who knows what these guys have in store for us, but one thing is certain only user demands and time will tell us what the next gen VGA will be.
Is there anyone else who fail's to see the logic in such things as global warming and mass extinctions affecting the orbit of the Earth? I mean come on guys come up with something that actually has the ability to be proven and/or not able to be biased souley to the opinion of the Ph.D.'s in that feild. Come up with something that can be physically proven, repeated several times with same results, and don't setup the test so that it's so tipped in your favor that nobody else but you can be proven right. Now I know I'll get modded for being off-topic but this example is from personal experience and shows exactly whats going on here. One of my co-workers at Wal-Mart is studying enviromental science and we got into a heated debate over global warming. She told me that after 1 hour of operation a car produces more CO2 than there is in 1 cubic KM of air at 35,000 feet. As soon as I began to attack the method of testing that proved her data true, she immediatley began the "I'm right, you're wrong!" course of thinking and wouldn't hear of anything that might actually prove global warming wrong. She said that if that test method isn't used (geusstimation and very closely rounded numbers made to fit there uses), then we are all doomed to live through another Ice Age in the very near future.
Yes I agree that things like these need to be taken seriously, to a certain degree though. If its out of our control why worry about it and make others lifes suck, just to justify our own point of view?
Just my $.02!
To help you all understand what a Gauss gun, or more specifically a Gauss Rifle is, one only need look at the rifling on modern firearms today. A Gauss rifle operates on the same principles as a rail gun but uses many more magnets and a much denser projectile. A Gauss rifle is a magnetic linear induction accelerator that uses 6-8 twisted rails to accelerate a ferro-tungsten or ferro-depleted uranium projectile to a considerable fraction of the speed of light. The reason the rails are twisted is to emulate the rifling on modern firearm barrles, hence the name Gauss Rifle. The US Navy is currently experimenting on the Iowa class battleships with converting the 9 16" guns into Gauss Rifles. The Navy estimates that if it is successful, a Iowa class battleship's 16" guns would have a max range of about 500-650 nautical miles. In other words the USS Missouri could hit Bagdahd from the middle of the Persian Gulf with range to spare.
First off nothing went wrong for AMD, they just released later than they wanted to. AMD isn't about to throw it's legendary reliability, stability, and capibility out the window just to satisfy the market. Instead, AMD wanted to maintain that level quality and make the CPU more compatible with DDR2. When I started to reasearch parts for my PC in Dec. 05 I came across DDR2 and thought it was neat, but because Intel didn't have many capable 64-bit CPU's and dual core I opted for AMD. Also a full blown DDR2 Intel system is about $800-$1000 more due to the fact that DDR2 is so new. Also it is my understanding that DDR2 is still getting the kinks worked out so to speak. Also another factor is that a 939 DDR setup has far more suppot and options avaliable than an AM2 system. On Newegg there are 4 types of mobo for AM2: 570 SLi, 570 MCP, 590 SLi, 590 SLi Pro. Now don't get me wrong AM2 is great but there just isn't the avalibility of options to speak of out there. But in about 6 months AM2 will make up lost ground with AMD's 4x4, AM2 CPU sockets being compatible with AM3 CPU's, and the DDR3 RAM spec set to launch in Jan. 07. This is just a case of Intel hyping Conroe then having problems from day 1. An AM2 DDR2 setup is about $250-$500 more than a 939 DDR setup and its got AMD reliability. The problem here isn't the CPU but a lack of mobo and RAM options. DDR2 needs to mature thats all.
My family has been adamit users of the auto update tool for years, as was I. During my junior year of High School my now 10 year old Dell crashed and died. A couple of my friends were nice enough to fix it for me and they put a legal VLK copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on my system (they asked to borrow the High School's VLK image CD and they were given the OK). 3 months before my Dell's video card started to die, I got the WGA pop-up. Being in college now and having no time for a WGA shutdown, I busted the security by restoring to a pre WGA time frame and had no more problems. I then preceded to turn my auto updates to notify and continued the download process like normal. After the video card in my Dell died, I built my first ever PC and Windows XP Pro SP 2 Retail showed it's true colors to me. After a month and 12 reformats Windows finally works, but the WGA isn't on this system because I found out from a very reliable friend that after only 2 installs a Windows copy (same disk and key) with WGA gets shutdown. So for those of you out there with WGA on your system beware.
To contradict your statement:
American chemists are familiar with Celcius, everyone else just likes to think they know what Celcius is. I told my math teacher who comes from India, a Celcius using nation, that Celcius is based off Kelvin and the -273 C is absolute zero and she actually told me I was wrong until the next problem we did in class was a Celcius to Kelvin problem and she said "Op, you're right."
Portable Firefox, Portable Ai Robo Form, and school stuff.
Now for the long list of extesions for Portable Firefox that I've got:
DOM Inspector
Show IP
Distrust
AiRoboForm Toolbar
Fire Encrypter
Infocon Monitor
No Script
Foxy Proxy
ClearPrivateData
Fasterfox
DownThemAll
TabMixPlus
IE Veiw
Forecastfox
RSS Ticker
As one can tell, I don't put security at the top of my "Priorities" list.
Version numbers would've been included, but got a lameness filter applied and had to remove them, hahah!!
It's not the lack of hardware capability. It's the lack of developers wanting to develope software to exploit the hardware potential. We've been using 32-bit programming for what, the past 10-15 years. Now, all of the sudden, there seems to be a major want to move to 64-bit programs and multi-threaded apps in the consumer feild, but not in the developer feild. As sad as it might be for me to say this, Microsoft is the ONLY company trying to move to the 64-bit, multi-threaded standard. The only reason that quad cores are being considered is the amount of processing power for the server market. Like WD-40 (the multi-purpose lube): SCSI, Dual-core CPU's, 64-bit processing and programming, SLI, and liquid cooling are all way ahead of their time. But like WD-40 these things will have a trickle down effect. Example: A company gets rid of excess computers and severs, a couple of employees take home a workstation or two and a server and refit them for home use. Their friends are impressed and want the same, so they go sink X amount of $ on parts and tell more people about it. Rinse, lather, repeat and soon everyone wants 3-4 workstation class PC's and an at home file server with the above listed technologies. A previous /. poster on another topic got it right, "The faster hardware gets faster, the faster software gets slower!"
If one were to input this common bacteria into a operating nuclear reactor, would that mean that the reactor would clean itself the longer it operated? Of couse there would have to be a way to seperate core material from already used fuel to prevent the bacteria from shutting it down. But if it were possible, wouldn't this be be more efficent than summarily throwing away the whole fuel rod assembly? Look forward to seeing your all's response's.