I'm not sure it's widely known, but several years ago while he was visiting Germany for a convention he was mugged and badly beaten to the point where he had to have a metal plate in his skull. Bill Mumy mentioned that on Facebook in his memorium. Until the autopsy results are released it's impossible to know but to have a steel plate attached to your skull he suffered significant head trauma, it may be related to that but I'm sure we'll find out.
I've often wondered that myself, the only other instance I can remember of something like this is the cast of the John Wayne movie The Conqueror. The movie was filmed in the desert where atomic testing was done and many of the cast including John Wayne fought and ultimately died of cancer. So many of the stars of B5 have died it's like the show was cursed or something, it's pretty terrible.
Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't sure if that was true or not but I really find Apple's lack of real "specs" i.e. what i7 is under the hood for the price you're paying on their product pages strange especially when you're closing in on 3 grand for a high end iMac. I build my own but every once in a while I look at Dell's site for friends who want to buy a Dell and they give you multiple processor options and name the chip. Having to go to a third party site to find out what's inside the iMac you're looking to buy because the manufacturer doesn't tell you on their own site just seems wrong.
I know there are still a lot of ATI/AMD fans but they've been taking a drubbing both on their drivers not being very stable and having frame rate problems (or so I read in the tech news) as well as price / performance compared to nVidia. I know that nVidia makes some really good graphics for notebooks which would fit in an iMac (I read that the 1070, 1080 will be coming to gaming notebooks in the near future), again it just seems strange that Apple doesn't offer an nVidia graphics option.
The guys says "Apple has 3 year old components", is that actually the case? When I look the iMac 27 inch on Apple's website under "technical specs" it mentions the i5 and i7 and just speeds (3.3GHz i5 turbo boost up to 3.9GHz) and when you finally put it in your the cart and go to "Check Out" it gives you the option for a 4GHz i7 Turbo boost up to 4.2GHz but no where does it say what chip you are actually getting. If I select the 4GHz i7 and 16GB model it totals $2,749 but it never really says what you're getting under the hood. For that price if I got a 4th or 5th Generation i7 I'd be pretty mad and it doesn't even offer an option for nVidia graphics, just AMD R9 M395 or M395X.
Given the price I think that it's meant for a very select audience.
How many compilers support multi-threaded compiling? I can't find any reference that says Visual C++ complies using multiple threads, but of course that doesn't mean that it doesn't (just that I'm not hitting on the right question) but I'm curious if it does? Most references that I found mentioned that compiling a large project is pretty disk intensive and people recommended a SSD and more ram to speed compilation?
I'm always skeptical about new products and how good they are purported to be before the actual release, but you're saying the 1080 is about the same performance for more money? Yet EndGaget seems to be saying "GTX 1080 GPU is faster than Titan X" and I thought the Titan X was faster than the 980 TI (although not by much). Also lets take the Gigabyte GTX 980 TI, it's MSRP is like $659.99 and yet Amazon sells it for $594.99, so if the MSRP of a 1080 is $599.99 the retail price should be under $500, that makes it less than the 980 TI?
I've been saving to buy a 980 TI but this is kind of interesting.
So is this 1080 faster for less money than the 980 TI? I'm looking at one manufacturers specs for the 1080 versus their 980 TI (overclocked edition) and it looks like the 1080 has more memory and higher clock speeds but also less cuda cores.
I'm going to be interested to see what the end users reviews are when it's available.
Yeah, that was my reaction too. Why is everyone's answer to anything a new Tax? If the fossil fuel industry receives so many subsidy's how about slowly phasing those out and giving them manufacturers, the states and the general public to make electric cars cheaper and more affordable then gas powered cars? Give incentives to the states to put more recharging stations along the highways so you can drive an electric car almost anywhere and not be afraid that you won't be able to find a charging station.
I mentioned the panel because the most commonly talked about problem on the LG, Dell and Asus 32inch curved models seems to be a serious backlight bleeding problem which I figure is a problem with the panel. I'm sure (as you say) that some of the other issues such as the 60hz issue and intermittent link problems are controller related.
I'm not guessing because multiple bad reviews on sites for all of the brands I mentioned plus the model you have says these monitors still need some work, I'm not laying out $900-$1,200 for a monitor that potentially has serious issues.
On Amazon people have these complaints about the B326HK:
-This panel has a forced overdrive setting that you cannot turn off. Whenever you move a window/anything around there will be a very noticeable almost flashing purpleish shadow following anything you move around (this drove me crazy/caused eye fatigue for me) - Mine had dead pixels - Colors are muted, even with calibrations this monitor didn't have clear quality color representation - AVHA Panel seems to bottom out on the low end of the color scale, things that are dark are way too dark (you lose quite a bit of detail in the blacks) -Flashing in some games (Skyrim, ARMA3, etc) and certain Google maps areas, just like the BL3200PT. -Very poor black uniformity. The one I received had clouding issues, and the one side of the screen was lighter than the other. -Very poor gray uniformity. This display has the same banding issues as the BL3200PT, and it is noticeable in normal use. -Noticeable inverse ghosting and unadjustable overdrive. You can see a blue trail on the mouse cursor. It is noticeable in games as well.
I'm glad someone is getting a good experience with these, but it really seems to be hit and miss, you can read reviews of LG, Dell and Asus with plenty of people complaining about the issues I mentioned. Then some people seem to be fine like yourself but also plenty of people with issues, if I'm going to lay out $1,200 I want something that's guaranteed to be problem free.
I'm guessing that most 32inch 4K display's use an LG panel but a lot of user reviews I see of the LG, Dell and Asus complain of moderate to severe backlight bleed not to mention other assorted issues i.e. could not display at 60hz via displayport using the correct certified cables; some people say displayport on these monitors is broken and even with certified cables the computer and monitors don't see each other all the time. For what people are paying for there should not be these problems.
My question is: If you're running a small business with 20-50 computers running 10 Pro and each machine is phoning home even 1,000 times a day, how much is that effecting your internet connection? How much more traffic is your network having to handle? What kind of performance hit are your computers, network and internet taking?
I mean really, a day doesn't go by without an article with serious spelling and or grammatical mistakes. But then again it wouldn't be Slashdot without those features.
There have been plenty of instances where people have tried to pry open the "secret" door number 3" and look at whats inside. In lots of news articles each agency (state and federal) has cited a legally binding nondisclosure agreement with the manufacturer as to why they aren't allowed to disclose any information regarding the use and specifications of the so called Stingray device. Until some court invalidates the NDA good luck getting any information on those things. It seems to me since federal and state money is being spent on these things the public has a certain right to know how much. Also I believe that there are several court cases pending where stingrays were used to catch the perpetrator and the defense has tried to subpoena data about them and has never been successful.
Given how vilified Oracle is especially for it's licensing practices, which were discussed here: http://developers.slashdot.org... I'd think people who can would be migrating away in droves and voting it down rather than database of the year.
Absolutely, with the right production values, casting and writing it could be good but historically it's not easy. Usually somewhere along the way someone makes a bad decision, I always feel like casting is the hardest. The two parts that will be hardest to cast are Professor Robinson and Dr. Smith, Guy Williams was awesome and Jonathan Harris was amazing.
There was an attempted remake in 2004 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07... but the pilot was so terrible it was never picked up. You can find some clips on Youtube but it's painful to watch.
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I'm not sure it's widely known, but several years ago while he was visiting Germany for a convention he was mugged and badly beaten to the point where he had to have a metal plate in his skull. Bill Mumy mentioned that on Facebook in his memorium. Until the autopsy results are released it's impossible to know but to have a steel plate attached to your skull he suffered significant head trauma, it may be related to that but I'm sure we'll find out.
I've often wondered that myself, the only other instance I can remember of something like this is the cast of the John Wayne movie The Conqueror. The movie was filmed in the desert where atomic testing was done and many of the cast including John Wayne fought and ultimately died of cancer. So many of the stars of B5 have died it's like the show was cursed or something, it's pretty terrible.
Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't sure if that was true or not but I really find Apple's lack of real "specs" i.e. what i7 is under the hood for the price you're paying on their product pages strange especially when you're closing in on 3 grand for a high end iMac. I build my own but every once in a while I look at Dell's site for friends who want to buy a Dell and they give you multiple processor options and name the chip. Having to go to a third party site to find out what's inside the iMac you're looking to buy because the manufacturer doesn't tell you on their own site just seems wrong.
I know there are still a lot of ATI/AMD fans but they've been taking a drubbing both on their drivers not being very stable and having frame rate problems (or so I read in the tech news) as well as price / performance compared to nVidia. I know that nVidia makes some really good graphics for notebooks which would fit in an iMac (I read that the 1070, 1080 will be coming to gaming notebooks in the near future), again it just seems strange that Apple doesn't offer an nVidia graphics option.
The guys says "Apple has 3 year old components", is that actually the case? When I look the iMac 27 inch on Apple's website under "technical specs" it mentions the i5 and i7 and just speeds (3.3GHz i5 turbo boost up to 3.9GHz) and when you finally put it in your the cart and go to "Check Out" it gives you the option for a 4GHz i7 Turbo boost up to 4.2GHz but no where does it say what chip you are actually getting. If I select the 4GHz i7 and 16GB model it totals $2,749 but it never really says what you're getting under the hood. For that price if I got a 4th or 5th Generation i7 I'd be pretty mad and it doesn't even offer an option for nVidia graphics, just AMD R9 M395 or M395X.
Given the price I think that it's meant for a very select audience.
How many compilers support multi-threaded compiling? I can't find any reference that says Visual C++ complies using multiple threads, but of course that doesn't mean that it doesn't (just that I'm not hitting on the right question) but I'm curious if it does? Most references that I found mentioned that compiling a large project is pretty disk intensive and people recommended a SSD and more ram to speed compilation?
You want to step outside and say that to my face coward
This is Slashdot remember, the day that everything is spelled right and the grammar is all correct will be the internet apocalypse
Your comment is really not relevant to this discussion.
GWX control panel http://ultimateoutsider.com/do... it'll remove the Windows 10 upgrade app and prevent an automatic upgrade.
I'm always skeptical about new products and how good they are purported to be before the actual release, but you're saying the 1080 is about the same performance for more money? Yet EndGaget seems to be saying "GTX 1080 GPU is faster than Titan X" and I thought the Titan X was faster than the 980 TI (although not by much). Also lets take the Gigabyte GTX 980 TI, it's MSRP is like $659.99 and yet Amazon sells it for $594.99, so if the MSRP of a 1080 is $599.99 the retail price should be under $500, that makes it less than the 980 TI?
I've been saving to buy a 980 TI but this is kind of interesting.
So is this 1080 faster for less money than the 980 TI? I'm looking at one manufacturers specs for the 1080 versus their 980 TI (overclocked edition) and it looks like the 1080 has more memory and higher clock speeds but also less cuda cores.
I'm going to be interested to see what the end users reviews are when it's available.
Yeah, that was my reaction too. Why is everyone's answer to anything a new Tax? If the fossil fuel industry receives so many subsidy's how about slowly phasing those out and giving them manufacturers, the states and the general public to make electric cars cheaper and more affordable then gas powered cars? Give incentives to the states to put more recharging stations along the highways so you can drive an electric car almost anywhere and not be afraid that you won't be able to find a charging station.
Yeah, it really is!
I mentioned the panel because the most commonly talked about problem on the LG, Dell and Asus 32inch curved models seems to be a serious backlight bleeding problem which I figure is a problem with the panel. I'm sure (as you say) that some of the other issues such as the 60hz issue and intermittent link problems are controller related.
I'm not guessing because multiple bad reviews on sites for all of the brands I mentioned plus the model you have says these monitors still need some work, I'm not laying out $900-$1,200 for a monitor that potentially has serious issues.
On Amazon people have these complaints about the B326HK:
-This panel has a forced overdrive setting that you cannot turn off. Whenever you move a window/anything around there will be a very noticeable almost flashing purpleish shadow following anything you move around (this drove me crazy/caused eye fatigue for me)
- Mine had dead pixels
- Colors are muted, even with calibrations this monitor didn't have clear quality color representation
- AVHA Panel seems to bottom out on the low end of the color scale, things that are dark are way too dark (you lose quite a bit of detail in the blacks)
-Flashing in some games (Skyrim, ARMA3, etc) and certain Google maps areas, just like the BL3200PT.
-Very poor black uniformity. The one I received had clouding issues, and the one side of the screen was lighter than the other.
-Very poor gray uniformity. This display has the same banding issues as the BL3200PT, and it is noticeable in normal use.
-Noticeable inverse ghosting and unadjustable overdrive. You can see a blue trail on the mouse cursor. It is noticeable in games as well.
I'm glad someone is getting a good experience with these, but it really seems to be hit and miss, you can read reviews of LG, Dell and Asus with plenty of people complaining about the issues I mentioned. Then some people seem to be fine like yourself but also plenty of people with issues, if I'm going to lay out $1,200 I want something that's guaranteed to be problem free.
I'm guessing that most 32inch 4K display's use an LG panel but a lot of user reviews I see of the LG, Dell and Asus complain of moderate to severe backlight bleed not to mention other assorted issues i.e. could not display at 60hz via displayport using the correct certified cables; some people say displayport on these monitors is broken and even with certified cables the computer and monitors don't see each other all the time. For what people are paying for there should not be these problems.
My question is: If you're running a small business with 20-50 computers running 10 Pro and each machine is phoning home even 1,000 times a day, how much is that effecting your internet connection? How much more traffic is your network having to handle? What kind of performance hit are your computers, network and internet taking?
I mean really, a day doesn't go by without an article with serious spelling and or grammatical mistakes. But then again it wouldn't be Slashdot without those features.
There have been plenty of instances where people have tried to pry open the "secret" door number 3" and look at whats inside. In lots of news articles each agency (state and federal) has cited a legally binding nondisclosure agreement with the manufacturer as to why they aren't allowed to disclose any information regarding the use and specifications of the so called Stingray device. Until some court invalidates the NDA good luck getting any information on those things. It seems to me since federal and state money is being spent on these things the public has a certain right to know how much. Also I believe that there are several court cases pending where stingrays were used to catch the perpetrator and the defense has tried to subpoena data about them and has never been successful.
Rob Malda just had an aneurysm either that or he's laughing his ass off.
Given how vilified Oracle is especially for it's licensing practices, which were discussed here: http://developers.slashdot.org... I'd think people who can would be migrating away in droves and voting it down rather than database of the year.
Absolutely, with the right production values, casting and writing it could be good but historically it's not easy. Usually somewhere along the way someone makes a bad decision, I always feel like casting is the hardest. The two parts that will be hardest to cast are Professor Robinson and Dr. Smith, Guy Williams was awesome and Jonathan Harris was amazing.
There was an attempted remake in 2004 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt07... but the pilot was so terrible it was never picked up. You can find some clips on Youtube but it's painful to watch.
If anyone doesn't like it then just replace the Microsoft start menu with Classic Shell, problem solved.