It's just that our news media decided that they supported the war and that serious foreign policy thinkers were those that 1) supported the war, and 2) show up in the same cozy Washington/NYC cocktail party circuit as the reporters. Wait a minute wait a minute... I think you just stumbled on something. Didn't China just recently stop blocking western English-language news agencies? I wonder if this anti-west anti-pro-tibet might be related.
One of the most vocal appeals by the Chinese blogs, forums, and text-messages has been to boycott French goods . . . Many analysts believe that the protests over Tibet have only served to strengthen Chinese nationalism rather than evoke sympathy for the Tibetan cause. And 5 years ago just about every American was in favor of war against Iraq, and boycotting French goods due to their being "against us" in the UN?
I'd like to say nationalism is the new evil, but, unfortunately it's been around for as long as there has been nations.
So, how would your school react to a student doing disruptive things like squirting a watergun at other classmates or breaking a stinkbomb or chatting away on a cell phone? The professor would likely demand they leave at a minimum, probably recommend disciplinary action if it's a regular occurrance up to an including expulsion.
I don't see why they can't treat electronically disruptive individuals the same way they would treat conventionally disruptive individuals.
The professor should be running the class: why is he slowing it down because of the people who aren't paying attention? Why would he allow people who sleep in class get access to him during office hours? Why would he have one iota of care beyond the students which are engaged and actually, you know, part of the class?
Aren't we supposed to be adults at that level of education?
I know I've had a few classes in college that didn't teach me anything I didn't already know but had to take them anyway due to prerequisites. Should I have been forced to show up to class beyond the exams and stare at a wall for 90 minutes?
Heh, maybe I just had the dignity to sleep late instead of coming in to class and playing Quake in the lecture hall.
You conclude correctly: those public services have to happen. It's anarchy otherwise. The poor cannot be expected to pay for them because they're poor, ultimately those that can afford to pay more do pay more.
When consumption of public services go down (say, government cuts some of those programs in that book Matthew Lesko keeps throwing around on TV about how to bilk government cash), the reduction of costs are going to be distributed in proportion to how they were taken. So the rich, the ones who paid the most, get the most back. Meanwhile everyone looks at their bit returned (which obviously would be nothing if they paid nothing in to the system) and gets all pissed off that the rich got such a huge break when they're already rich.
I find it amusing an observation on progressive taxes and human nature gets marked "troll" while a completely inaccurate post about the poor having to pay the rich's tax cuts gets "insightful".
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers", he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?" They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings). Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!" "That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And if the registered developer takes the code and tries to get it signed by Apple and they decline doing so? How is that free (as in speech) software? How about being able to run whatever code on your hardware that you see fit? How about not having to pay an extra tax on top of your hardware purchase to run what you want on it? The fact that ANYONE has to pay, even in a collective where only ONE developer publishes freely distributed software is an insult. An insult on top of every other Apple insult in recent months: Buggy Leopard, denying Mag-safe power problems, discoloring MacBooks, gimping Time Machine, the list keeps going.
Apple broke down and said they were releasing an SDK to eliminate legitimate reasons for wanting to jailbreak, but it turns out the SDK they release has all these gotchas attached to them where, for that, the only real alternative is jailbreaking. And having Apple fly overhead and bombing you with a silent firmware upgrade bricking your hardware, or at the minimum countering your jailbreak.
What a joke, and I'm sick of it. Is it too late to change my username?
Unfortunately Nvidia set the pace for all video card manufacturers when they spouted they were going to do 6 month product cycles. Trying to go faster than Moore's Law had resulted in top end cards being massively more expensive than yesteryear's top end cards and taking exponential amounts more of energy than they used to... to the point where the high end can't even sustain itself without not one but TWO specificly designed supplmental power leads from the PSU.
Multi GPU is the only way to keep that breakneck pace, just like the CPU world is trying to deal with hitting the wall (or, depending on who you ask, the low hanging fruit has already been picked). But the penalties for the reach exceeding the grasp is absolutely catching up with them.
Not when it affects those in society. Ie, if you overdose and cannot afford health insurance, are rushed to the ER and tax payer money pays for your treatment and recovery, then it is our business. I would heartlessly argue that someone who's rushed to the ER because they were partying too hard and spending all their money on drugs instead of health insurance shouldn't be treated with the bill paid by society's safety net the same way as, say, a homeless person hit by a car should be treated.
That whole "my body my business" should cut both ways when you have the means by which to abuse said body.
I'd mod you up, but the damn marble I let go to drop into the basket to pull the string through the pully to release the pin to pop the spring to strike the match against the abrasive pad to burn the rope that releases the weight to hit the macro key on my keyboard that selects the dropdown item, scrolls to the bottom, and hits the "Moderate Posts" button came off its track.
Sorry about that.
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You must be new here. The sport of pointing out redundancies, errors, and speling mistakes is a wonderful sport, like NASCAR.
Unfortunately integrated audio tends to be noisier and consume more CPU time to drive them.
ASUS has been releasing descrete audio cards for like a year or so and I've been wanting to take a dip in that pool and see how it goes. As long as I stay with XP though I'll probably stick with my original non-5.1 SB Live because it features selecting "What You Hear" as an input source for ripping audio from the unrippable without resorting to the analog hole or looping signal around with patch cables.;)
Apple should say upfront if a TFT is using dithering or not, but it's never stopped the likes of dell, or gateway or any other oem from selling 'dithering' displays as 'millions of colors TFT displays.' I really hope Apple leads the charge in getting non 8-bit panels marked as such. Supposedly, there's only a few manufacturers of LCD panels that OEMs buy from and integrate into products. Right now I have a CRT and would LOVE to get into the LCD game and save me some electricity but some companies (I'm looking at you, Samsung) actually make panels and STILL can't/won't/don't conclusively tell me if they support true true-color or untrue true-color.
I suppose if POV-Ray would freeze at it's current stage in development, sure, you'd be right.
That entry in the FAQ comes from an era when those plucky Voodoo cards started coming out. If there ever comes a 3D card that supports the types of raytracing calculations POV-Ray needs, and if it represented a real chance to offload some work from the CPU with measurable time savings, and it worked cross-platform, they'd add support for it.
"Scientific developments that could cause serious problems if done wrong or misused." So, in other words, every scientific development ever? That makes it less of a tag and more of a blanket IMO.
The problem is that unless OEMs start including these drives in computers, they probably won't sell very well. If someone is looking at an OEM machine, they probably don't know what performance parameters a hard drive could possibly have other than space. They do know "green" so it might make the consumer feel better that it's got a nice eco-friendly label and a picture of a rainforest or something on the box.
. . . the geek who does buy one will end up offsetting the savings by throwing it in his machine with a 750W power supply and monster graphics card(s). If they're that serious about gaming, they probably would be solely focused on the performance of the drive and what the benchmarks say, skipping version emblazoned with the aforementioned logos and nature pictures.
Only the relatively well off among the Chinese are educated enough to be literate in English. You know: heads of state-owned companies, those in high levels of government, espionage, and maybe some repatriotized persons. In any case, relatively few people. Of those, they are all in comfortable surroundings made possible by the state. If they start learning about "democracy" and "freedom" they realize that, all in all, they aren't doing too bad themselves. And if those learnings lead to funny ideas about bringing them to within China, the state could easily replace them and any one of their peers would jump at the new opportunity.
The majority of Chinese, the only ones with a smidgen of possibility of success to revolt and start a revolution due to their sheer numbers, are the ones the Chinese establishment wants to keep dumb and oblivious. The ones with perhaps most to gain from a new democratic China.
So much for the classless society communism promises.
If I want to buy a gadget and fear disapproval from SWMBO, I buy some yatching mags to leave round the house and I am home free. Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
The problem is the firmware. They purchased equipment from Meraki that had the EULA changed but would have been ok had the company not silently upgraded all the units to the newer, locked down firmware. The original RoofNet code is good, but what about the existing hardware that now can't run anything but Meraki's official code?
It's way better to be good at math, though, if you have to pick one. Sure, computers are quite practical for solving difficult problems, but you don't get nearly as much insight from simulation as you do from deriving an analytical formula for something (assuming such a formula is possible). True, but the math needed to draw one frame of Doom alone took me a week, and I still haven't finished filling the boxes on my sheet of graph paper.
The loss of such profound examples will cut off the joy of home electronic projects to another generation. The future generation will have other things to work with. Budding EEs play with microcontrollers that interpret BASIC, tap logic signals inside their toys, hack up keyboards to attach arcade joysticks and buttons, etc. They'll also take a liking to loitering on your lawn.
Thankfully, I've spent many years building a resistance to such attacks by being grossly overweight with liver disease, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperactive sweat glands.
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I'd like to say nationalism is the new evil, but, unfortunately it's been around for as long as there has been nations.
So, how would your school react to a student doing disruptive things like squirting a watergun at other classmates or breaking a stinkbomb or chatting away on a cell phone? The professor would likely demand they leave at a minimum, probably recommend disciplinary action if it's a regular occurrance up to an including expulsion.
I don't see why they can't treat electronically disruptive individuals the same way they would treat conventionally disruptive individuals.
The professor should be running the class: why is he slowing it down because of the people who aren't paying attention? Why would he allow people who sleep in class get access to him during office hours? Why would he have one iota of care beyond the students which are engaged and actually, you know, part of the class?
Aren't we supposed to be adults at that level of education?
I know I've had a few classes in college that didn't teach me anything I didn't already know but had to take them anyway due to prerequisites. Should I have been forced to show up to class beyond the exams and stare at a wall for 90 minutes?
Heh, maybe I just had the dignity to sleep late instead of coming in to class and playing Quake in the lecture hall.
You conclude correctly: those public services have to happen. It's anarchy otherwise. The poor cannot be expected to pay for them because they're poor, ultimately those that can afford to pay more do pay more.
When consumption of public services go down (say, government cuts some of those programs in that book Matthew Lesko keeps throwing around on TV about how to bilk government cash), the reduction of costs are going to be distributed in proportion to how they were taken. So the rich, the ones who paid the most, get the most back. Meanwhile everyone looks at their bit returned (which obviously would be nothing if they paid nothing in to the system) and gets all pissed off that the rich got such a huge break when they're already rich.
I find it amusing an observation on progressive taxes and human nature gets marked "troll" while a completely inaccurate post about the poor having to pay the rich's tax cuts gets "insightful".
An old analogy:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers", he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20". Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And if the registered developer takes the code and tries to get it signed by Apple and they decline doing so? How is that free (as in speech) software? How about being able to run whatever code on your hardware that you see fit? How about not having to pay an extra tax on top of your hardware purchase to run what you want on it? The fact that ANYONE has to pay, even in a collective where only ONE developer publishes freely distributed software is an insult. An insult on top of every other Apple insult in recent months: Buggy Leopard, denying Mag-safe power problems, discoloring MacBooks, gimping Time Machine, the list keeps going.
Apple broke down and said they were releasing an SDK to eliminate legitimate reasons for wanting to jailbreak, but it turns out the SDK they release has all these gotchas attached to them where, for that, the only real alternative is jailbreaking. And having Apple fly overhead and bombing you with a silent firmware upgrade bricking your hardware, or at the minimum countering your jailbreak.
What a joke, and I'm sick of it. Is it too late to change my username?
Unfortunately Nvidia set the pace for all video card manufacturers when they spouted they were going to do 6 month product cycles. Trying to go faster than Moore's Law had resulted in top end cards being massively more expensive than yesteryear's top end cards and taking exponential amounts more of energy than they used to... to the point where the high end can't even sustain itself without not one but TWO specificly designed supplmental power leads from the PSU.
Multi GPU is the only way to keep that breakneck pace, just like the CPU world is trying to deal with hitting the wall (or, depending on who you ask, the low hanging fruit has already been picked). But the penalties for the reach exceeding the grasp is absolutely catching up with them.
That whole "my body my business" should cut both ways when you have the means by which to abuse said body.
I'd mod you up, but the damn marble I let go to drop into the basket to pull the string through the pully to release the pin to pop the spring to strike the match against the abrasive pad to burn the rope that releases the weight to hit the macro key on my keyboard that selects the dropdown item, scrolls to the bottom, and hits the "Moderate Posts" button came off its track.
Sorry about that.
You must be new here. The sport of pointing out redundancies, errors, and speling mistakes is a wonderful sport, like NASCAR.
Unfortunately integrated audio tends to be noisier and consume more CPU time to drive them.
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ASUS has been releasing descrete audio cards for like a year or so and I've been wanting to take a dip in that pool and see how it goes. As long as I stay with XP though I'll probably stick with my original non-5.1 SB Live because it features selecting "What You Hear" as an input source for ripping audio from the unrippable without resorting to the analog hole or looping signal around with patch cables.
I suppose if POV-Ray would freeze at it's current stage in development, sure, you'd be right.
That entry in the FAQ comes from an era when those plucky Voodoo cards started coming out. If there ever comes a 3D card that supports the types of raytracing calculations POV-Ray needs, and if it represented a real chance to offload some work from the CPU with measurable time savings, and it worked cross-platform, they'd add support for it.
Only the relatively well off among the Chinese are educated enough to be literate in English. You know: heads of state-owned companies, those in high levels of government, espionage, and maybe some repatriotized persons. In any case, relatively few people. Of those, they are all in comfortable surroundings made possible by the state. If they start learning about "democracy" and "freedom" they realize that, all in all, they aren't doing too bad themselves. And if those learnings lead to funny ideas about bringing them to within China, the state could easily replace them and any one of their peers would jump at the new opportunity.
The majority of Chinese, the only ones with a smidgen of possibility of success to revolt and start a revolution due to their sheer numbers, are the ones the Chinese establishment wants to keep dumb and oblivious. The ones with perhaps most to gain from a new democratic China.
So much for the classless society communism promises.
The problem is the firmware. They purchased equipment from Meraki that had the EULA changed but would have been ok had the company not silently upgraded all the units to the newer, locked down firmware. The original RoofNet code is good, but what about the existing hardware that now can't run anything but Meraki's official code?
Thankfully, I've spent many years building a resistance to such attacks by being grossly overweight with liver disease, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperactive sweat glands.
It is officially now a race to produce a link to Snopes discussing kidney thieves.