I apologize for this comment. It was not me who wrote the parent comment. This is what happens when you leave./ open with a vindictive coworker lurking about.
Anyone with half a brain should realize the mass of the atmosphere is quite huge. In order for these so-called chemtrails to be able to saturate the atmosphere to the point where everyone would get a good dose of mind control agents (or whatever), the amount needed would be staggering. Probably more than is feasible both economically and industrially. Then add to that the upper atmospheric air is warmer and thus will not fall to the surface bringing any poisons with it. Nevermind that there is different wind flows above the surface (jetstream, etc.). And I am not a weather expert or enthusiast.
I'm not even going to bother with HAARP because there is no theory to even ponder. HAARP simply can not manipulate the weather.
Wait, the point I was trying to make is that not all Romanians are Gypsies otherwise known as Roma people, a subgroup of the Romani people. I never claimed anything. I merely pointed out Gypsies are Roma peoples. Maybe I needed to spell that out better.
In many parts of the world it is often mistaken that Roma = Romanians, meaning all Romanians are mistaken for Gypsies.
Simple: WoW gold or FB credits are only useful to those who are vested in said economies. If someone offered me WoW gold to buy my car I would have no use for it outside of the game. I could turn it into dollars by selling it but again to me WoW gold does not hold any value. If I were a hardcore WoW player and I saw that the transaction of WoW gold for my car was worth it, would sell my car for WoW gold.
But you could go on to argue that even though WoW gold is worthless to me it is worth money to others. That is true, I could sell my car for WoW gold and then sell the gold to a WoW player or players but that becomes tedious. I need a WoW account to accept the gold and then I need to coordinate the transactions with other players. And on top of that, large sums of gold would be difficult to sell as a lump sum for a "real" currency such as Dollars or Euros. How much WoW gold is in a million dollars? Could I sell that much gold if I wanted? I am sure the answer is NO and that is again a problem the scope of the currency's value. If there was an off-line WoW bank that simply needed an online account and offered a fast way to turn dollars into WoW gold and vice-versa then yes, WoW gold could very well become a currency but again, without many people seeing the value in such an economy, its scope will remain limited.
Bitcoin is very liquid and you can easily exchange BT for Euros, Dollars or whatever currency you want. It can be useful as a medium of exchange for anybody and transactions are easy. I can also pay for goods and services directly using BT. I am sure if you had a million dollars worth of bitcoin you could easily turn it into a million actual dollars.
All there is to know is a sudden influx of application for 501C4 applications with the same damn name in them is a minefield for tax fraud. It was the duty of the IRS to sort through these applications to weed out possible fraud groups which are nothing more than scams looking to rob potential conservative voters of their campaign donations. I am sure you are smart enough to understand that over 100 applications all with the name "tea party" in them may very well contain a fraud or scam group looking to get lost in the crowd. Then the right gets its panties in a bunch and turns it into a conspiracy when their "team" lost. What a joke.
Everytime I look to buy something I am not not an expert on or are on the fence about quality, I look up reviews and sort by rating. And I look at negative ratings first because a vendor or retailer won't pad a product with negative reviews. And even though there will always be negative reviews from people who dont have a clue or give little to no info, there are som rea gems out there that give you a clear picture of what you are getting into.
Obligatory anecdotes: When looking on newegg I sort by lowest score first and read the reviews. You always have some dummies who obviously have no idea what they are doing and rate 1 star because of a mistake they made. But you also run across some genuinely informative negative reviews which are more influential to me than positive reviews. For example, I was looking to buy a uATX board from ECS that had the AMD bobcat CPU onboard. It was perfect, had extra PCI shots for SATA cards for a low power Linux server box. It turns out in a few of the negative reviews there was an IRQ bug that severely impacted performance. I was close to buying it but then scratched it off my list.
Recently I was also looking to purchase a generator from a coworker who bought it after hurricane sandy but never used it, the box is unopened. The brand name was Generac and I have owned two other Generac products, a power washer and a 4kw generator. Both of those machines went south after little use, the generators exhaust valve stuck open when the valve seal went bad and allowed oil to seep down the valve and seize it (I fixed that but it never ran quite right, stalled and was a bitch to start). The power washer engine needed its carb rebuilt and then the water pump blew a shaft seal. But that was 6+ years ago and I figured Generac got their shit together by now. After reading negative reviews on Amazon I came to understand that Generac will try to weasel out of warranty repairs and "authorized" repair shops frequently change as they get shafted after Generac refuses to reimburse them for warranty repairs already performed. There were also negative reviews that warned of blown stator coils after a few hours use and lemons that wouldn't start out of the box. Since the generator could not be returned to the original vendor I took a pass even though I would get a sweet deal ($200 off retail as he wanted to dump it). Maybe it would have worked fine but I didn't want to risk losing 800 bucks and damage my business reputation.
"The DVR that my provider game me would start and stop at a few minutes before or after a show. It couldn't be predicted, but about 10% of the time I'd miss the start or the end of the show."
That could be a problem of the station you are recording and not the DVR. Take Comedy Central for example. They start their programs upward of a minute late or early and you get your programs cut off. At first I was cursing the DVR but after watching Live TV and looking at the DVR clock, it was Comedy Central who was screwing up their times. Hell I even went to the NIST site to make sure my DVR clock was correct and it certainly was.
Most if not all DVR's allow you to set a pre and post time so you can start a minute or more early and/or end a minute or more late. But if you have another program recording while you are trying to pre record, it will finish your current program first and then start the new program preventing the pre record. Same goes if your post record interferes with another program scheduled, it will make the new recording a priority and bypass your post recording. Dual tuners alleviate that problem but when your like me and DVR everything, you can have two programs starting or ending at the same times which causes a problem.
Its confusing because different Power architecture versions may support both PowerPC and Power ISA's or PowerPc or Power only. Power 1/2 evolved into PowerPC which was renamed to Power ISA. Both Freescale and AMCC call their processors Power processors and support the Power ISA v.2.03 spec which also supports PowerPC. Newer Power ISA versions are called both PowerPC and Power, e.g. CPU's which comply with Power ISA v.2.05 are called POWER6 and the PowerPC 476. The latest power spec, Power ISA v.2.07, does not have a PowerPC name. So it can be confusing. Bottom line is PowerPC and Power are very close and in some cases interchangeable depending on how the code was compiled.
PowerPC (short for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC â" Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Appleâ"IBMâ"Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been renamed Power ISA but lives on as a legacy trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture based processors.
and:
PowerPC is largely based on IBM's earlier POWER instruction set architecture, and retains a high level of compatibility with it; the architectures have remained close enough that the same programs and operating systems will run on both if some care is taken in preparation; newer chips in the POWER series implement the full PowerPC instruction set.
The headline and summary are confusing, Power is licensed and Power based chips are produced by third parties. Applied Micro (AMCC) along with Freescale make power core based CPU's/SoC's for embedded use and Xilinx has power cores in their high end Virtex 5 FPGA's. A-EON uses the AMCC Power CPU on mATX motherboards for modern Amiga systems. What they mean is that IBM is making it easier for others to license and adopt Power for their needs. Though the Gamecube, Wii, Wii-U, Xbox 360 and PS3 use power processors, they are all made by IBM like the Apple Power CPU's.
Its good to see more RISC architectures that have been around for a while becoming more popular. The mobile market pretty much bought RISC back into the spotlight and is giving x86 a run for its money. And more interesting are the partners and the task Power is looking to solve: the cloud (I feel dirty using that phrase). Intel better watch out, with everyone pushing software as a service and mainfr^H^H^H cloud computing, companies are looking to create hardware targeted towards those tasks while also reducing power.
"and a criminal has no particular desire to carry a gun unless he thinks he'll otherwise be confronted by someone with a larger weapon.""
Its not that the other guy has a larger gun but that the other guy probably has a gun as well. The gun levels the playing field. Muggers target people who they perceive as non threatening and will easily give up their money, the knife is fear insurance. Guns aren't as cheap or easy to obtain and if you're caught with an unlicensed gun you're up shits creek. A loaded illegal gun will get you a lot more jail time. I have heard of people sentenced according to the number of rounds in the gun; 15 rounds = 15 years in the can.
I know there are PCIe SSD's but they are either way too expensive or the cheaper ones are simply "naked" SATA SSD's tied together with a RAID controller and nearly as slow as SATA attached drives. The Intel 910 is a PCIe->SAS->SSD 400/800GB, 1-2GB sec read and costs $2000 for the 400GB and $4000 for the 800GB. Its fast compared to the OCZ RevoDrive but not worth the money no matter how you look at it from a consumer standpoint. They can certainly do better in terms of transfer speed, PCIe x8 Gen 3 has a bandwidth of nearly 8GB/sec.
Apples SSD is not worth including because as far as I can tell, the paper towel roll sized Mac Pro uses proprietary components. So its not using an off the shelf SSD that anyone can pop into their PC. Though, the controller might find its way onto standard consumer boards.
I wish we could actually use that performance instead of being hamstrung by the limits of SATA 6gb. Even with today's flash memory we have hit the limits of SATA 6gb (around 600MB/sec). Can we please get cheap bootable PCIe x4/x8 cards instead of SATA. And stop making PCIe cards that are nothing more than SATA RAID + SATA SSD's. Design an ASIC that looks like an ATA or SCSI controller and directly talks to the memory and PCIe bus. If a 1 terabyte PCI card which has at least 2GB sec read speed for around $300 came out I would buy it immediately on impulse. I want to jump into a game and not even realize its loading. I want my programs to simply pop up. I want to forget that there is a difference between main memory and storage speeds.
At that point I won't have to worry about space limits on my SSD and eliminate the need for mechanical storage for non critical stuff like multimedia, backups, archives etc. That is how I do it today, one 256GB SSD for just my games, 1TB for boot/programs/VM's etc. I also use a 2TB eSATA drive for extra stuff when I ran out of room on my 1TB (too many experimental VM's). A high capacity SSD would allow me to stop juggling which games I have installed on my SSD. I mainly use steam so its not that big a deal but sucks when you want to dust off a game and wait for it to download.
Maybe in the future AMD or intel can provide Hypertransport or QPI connections to SSD's or like in that article a few months back, put the non-volatile memory on the main memory controller along with RAM. Then we can finally shed the need for mechanical disks.
Link to the past was by far my favorite of the series. The Wind Waker is my second favorite and in terms of fun I would say the two are a tie. Link's Awakening was another good addition as well on GBC. For some reason I couldn't get into the N64 releases like Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask but my brother did. Haven't played any of the Zelda's after Wind Waker as that was past my point of caring about console games.
I understand the convenience of home automation and all but I can't help seeing scenes of Maximum Overdrive playout in my head. But instead of aliens it's some little prick kid.
I have a Russian friend who has told me that cell phones work in the Moscow stations. It was part of his argument as to why the NYC subways stations don't have cell reception but should.
Just because your employees cant afford the product you sell does not mean its okay for them to steal. You cant justify theft. Should every person who works for Ferrari be entitled to afford an Ferrari (Car analogy!)? If Apple chooses to pay shit then don't work for them. Retail jobs are high turnover because its unskilled labor and they don't want to pay 30k+/yr + benefits to someone who could be replaced by any schmuck who walks in of the street. So they pay shit in the hopes that the employee gets tired of making nothing and moves on to a new job. Its a job for young kids out of high school or college looking for pocket money while still living at home with mom and dad. Its not a job that supports an independent life or family.
It would be nice if every job could enable someone to live independently but it simply doesn't work like that.
The managers are probably the thieves and blaming the employees. Employees are a major source of theft but as you stated the managers also employees and just as culpable. So who is watching them? Its then easy for them to blame the kids working for peanuts when stuff goes missing. The searching may be a method of diverting attention from the manager to the employees. I would be curious if after the lawsuit the search policy is dropped along with a reduction in "lost" merchandise.
Now we could hack into the controller and reprogram it to direct the sun to a single point and voila! Instant death ray. Might help with the tourist problem.
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I apologize for this comment. It was not me who wrote the parent comment. This is what happens when you leave ./ open with a vindictive coworker lurking about.
Thank god we yet again have another epidemic to cleanse those shit colored monkeys from the face of the earth. Hail AIDS.
Anyone with half a brain should realize the mass of the atmosphere is quite huge. In order for these so-called chemtrails to be able to saturate the atmosphere to the point where everyone would get a good dose of mind control agents (or whatever), the amount needed would be staggering. Probably more than is feasible both economically and industrially. Then add to that the upper atmospheric air is warmer and thus will not fall to the surface bringing any poisons with it. Nevermind that there is different wind flows above the surface (jetstream, etc.). And I am not a weather expert or enthusiast.
I'm not even going to bother with HAARP because there is no theory to even ponder. HAARP simply can not manipulate the weather.
Wait, the point I was trying to make is that not all Romanians are Gypsies otherwise known as Roma people, a subgroup of the Romani people. I never claimed anything. I merely pointed out Gypsies are Roma peoples. Maybe I needed to spell that out better.
In many parts of the world it is often mistaken that Roma = Romanians, meaning all Romanians are mistaken for Gypsies.
Romainians are NOT Gypsies. The Roma people are the peoples called Gypsies who originated from India.
Dupes are part of /. tradition. Without dupes, what is /.?
Simple: WoW gold or FB credits are only useful to those who are vested in said economies. If someone offered me WoW gold to buy my car I would have no use for it outside of the game. I could turn it into dollars by selling it but again to me WoW gold does not hold any value. If I were a hardcore WoW player and I saw that the transaction of WoW gold for my car was worth it, would sell my car for WoW gold.
But you could go on to argue that even though WoW gold is worthless to me it is worth money to others. That is true, I could sell my car for WoW gold and then sell the gold to a WoW player or players but that becomes tedious. I need a WoW account to accept the gold and then I need to coordinate the transactions with other players. And on top of that, large sums of gold would be difficult to sell as a lump sum for a "real" currency such as Dollars or Euros. How much WoW gold is in a million dollars? Could I sell that much gold if I wanted? I am sure the answer is NO and that is again a problem the scope of the currency's value. If there was an off-line WoW bank that simply needed an online account and offered a fast way to turn dollars into WoW gold and vice-versa then yes, WoW gold could very well become a currency but again, without many people seeing the value in such an economy, its scope will remain limited.
Bitcoin is very liquid and you can easily exchange BT for Euros, Dollars or whatever currency you want. It can be useful as a medium of exchange for anybody and transactions are easy. I can also pay for goods and services directly using BT. I am sure if you had a million dollars worth of bitcoin you could easily turn it into a million actual dollars.
Good lord.
All there is to know is a sudden influx of application for 501C4 applications with the same damn name in them is a minefield for tax fraud. It was the duty of the IRS to sort through these applications to weed out possible fraud groups which are nothing more than scams looking to rob potential conservative voters of their campaign donations. I am sure you are smart enough to understand that over 100 applications all with the name "tea party" in them may very well contain a fraud or scam group looking to get lost in the crowd. Then the right gets its panties in a bunch and turns it into a conspiracy when their "team" lost. What a joke.
Simple: asp.net. Plenty of half assed coders out there can, with little effort, build a website using Visual Basic or C#.
Everytime I look to buy something I am not not an expert on or are on the fence about quality, I look up reviews and sort by rating. And I look at negative ratings first because a vendor or retailer won't pad a product with negative reviews. And even though there will always be negative reviews from people who dont have a clue or give little to no info, there are som rea gems out there that give you a clear picture of what you are getting into.
Obligatory anecdotes:
When looking on newegg I sort by lowest score first and read the reviews. You always have some dummies who obviously have no idea what they are doing and rate 1 star because of a mistake they made. But you also run across some genuinely informative negative reviews which are more influential to me than positive reviews. For example, I was looking to buy a uATX board from ECS that had the AMD bobcat CPU onboard. It was perfect, had extra PCI shots for SATA cards for a low power Linux server box. It turns out in a few of the negative reviews there was an IRQ bug that severely impacted performance. I was close to buying it but then scratched it off my list.
Recently I was also looking to purchase a generator from a coworker who bought it after hurricane sandy but never used it, the box is unopened. The brand name was Generac and I have owned two other Generac products, a power washer and a 4kw generator. Both of those machines went south after little use, the generators exhaust valve stuck open when the valve seal went bad and allowed oil to seep down the valve and seize it (I fixed that but it never ran quite right, stalled and was a bitch to start). The power washer engine needed its carb rebuilt and then the water pump blew a shaft seal. But that was 6+ years ago and I figured Generac got their shit together by now. After reading negative reviews on Amazon I came to understand that Generac will try to weasel out of warranty repairs and "authorized" repair shops frequently change as they get shafted after Generac refuses to reimburse them for warranty repairs already performed. There were also negative reviews that warned of blown stator coils after a few hours use and lemons that wouldn't start out of the box. Since the generator could not be returned to the original vendor I took a pass even though I would get a sweet deal ($200 off retail as he wanted to dump it). Maybe it would have worked fine but I didn't want to risk losing 800 bucks and damage my business reputation.
"The DVR that my provider game me would start and stop at a few minutes before or after a show. It couldn't be predicted, but about 10% of the time I'd miss the start or the end of the show."
That could be a problem of the station you are recording and not the DVR. Take Comedy Central for example. They start their programs upward of a minute late or early and you get your programs cut off. At first I was cursing the DVR but after watching Live TV and looking at the DVR clock, it was Comedy Central who was screwing up their times. Hell I even went to the NIST site to make sure my DVR clock was correct and it certainly was.
Most if not all DVR's allow you to set a pre and post time so you can start a minute or more early and/or end a minute or more late. But if you have another program recording while you are trying to pre record, it will finish your current program first and then start the new program preventing the pre record. Same goes if your post record interferes with another program scheduled, it will make the new recording a priority and bypass your post recording. Dual tuners alleviate that problem but when your like me and DVR everything, you can have two programs starting or ending at the same times which causes a problem.
This is california we are talking about. Your lucky if you can get to 60 MPH without rear ending a traffic jam.
Its confusing because different Power architecture versions may support both PowerPC and Power ISA's or PowerPc or Power only. Power 1/2 evolved into PowerPC which was renamed to Power ISA. Both Freescale and AMCC call their processors Power processors and support the Power ISA v.2.03 spec which also supports PowerPC. Newer Power ISA versions are called both PowerPC and Power, e.g. CPU's which comply with Power ISA v.2.05 are called POWER6 and the PowerPC 476. The latest power spec, Power ISA v.2.07, does not have a PowerPC name. So it can be confusing. Bottom line is PowerPC and Power are very close and in some cases interchangeable depending on how the code was compiled.
From Wikipedia:
and:
The headline and summary are confusing, Power is licensed and Power based chips are produced by third parties. Applied Micro (AMCC) along with Freescale make power core based CPU's/SoC's for embedded use and Xilinx has power cores in their high end Virtex 5 FPGA's. A-EON uses the AMCC Power CPU on mATX motherboards for modern Amiga systems. What they mean is that IBM is making it easier for others to license and adopt Power for their needs. Though the Gamecube, Wii, Wii-U, Xbox 360 and PS3 use power processors, they are all made by IBM like the Apple Power CPU's.
Its good to see more RISC architectures that have been around for a while becoming more popular. The mobile market pretty much bought RISC back into the spotlight and is giving x86 a run for its money. And more interesting are the partners and the task Power is looking to solve: the cloud (I feel dirty using that phrase). Intel better watch out, with everyone pushing software as a service and mainfr^H^H^H cloud computing, companies are looking to create hardware targeted towards those tasks while also reducing power.
"and a criminal has no particular desire to carry a gun unless he thinks he'll otherwise be confronted by someone with a larger weapon.""
Its not that the other guy has a larger gun but that the other guy probably has a gun as well. The gun levels the playing field. Muggers target people who they perceive as non threatening and will easily give up their money, the knife is fear insurance. Guns aren't as cheap or easy to obtain and if you're caught with an unlicensed gun you're up shits creek. A loaded illegal gun will get you a lot more jail time. I have heard of people sentenced according to the number of rounds in the gun; 15 rounds = 15 years in the can.
I know there are PCIe SSD's but they are either way too expensive or the cheaper ones are simply "naked" SATA SSD's tied together with a RAID controller and nearly as slow as SATA attached drives. The Intel 910 is a PCIe->SAS->SSD 400/800GB, 1-2GB sec read and costs $2000 for the 400GB and $4000 for the 800GB. Its fast compared to the OCZ RevoDrive but not worth the money no matter how you look at it from a consumer standpoint. They can certainly do better in terms of transfer speed, PCIe x8 Gen 3 has a bandwidth of nearly 8GB/sec.
Apples SSD is not worth including because as far as I can tell, the paper towel roll sized Mac Pro uses proprietary components. So its not using an off the shelf SSD that anyone can pop into their PC. Though, the controller might find its way onto standard consumer boards.
Should have said I played it on GBC, I didn't buy a GB until GBC (shared with my brother who was a big pokemon player).
"20 times the write performance"
I wish we could actually use that performance instead of being hamstrung by the limits of SATA 6gb. Even with today's flash memory we have hit the limits of SATA 6gb (around 600MB/sec). Can we please get cheap bootable PCIe x4/x8 cards instead of SATA. And stop making PCIe cards that are nothing more than SATA RAID + SATA SSD's. Design an ASIC that looks like an ATA or SCSI controller and directly talks to the memory and PCIe bus. If a 1 terabyte PCI card which has at least 2GB sec read speed for around $300 came out I would buy it immediately on impulse. I want to jump into a game and not even realize its loading. I want my programs to simply pop up. I want to forget that there is a difference between main memory and storage speeds.
At that point I won't have to worry about space limits on my SSD and eliminate the need for mechanical storage for non critical stuff like multimedia, backups, archives etc. That is how I do it today, one 256GB SSD for just my games, 1TB for boot/programs/VM's etc. I also use a 2TB eSATA drive for extra stuff when I ran out of room on my 1TB (too many experimental VM's). A high capacity SSD would allow me to stop juggling which games I have installed on my SSD. I mainly use steam so its not that big a deal but sucks when you want to dust off a game and wait for it to download.
Maybe in the future AMD or intel can provide Hypertransport or QPI connections to SSD's or like in that article a few months back, put the non-volatile memory on the main memory controller along with RAM. Then we can finally shed the need for mechanical disks.
Link to the past was by far my favorite of the series. The Wind Waker is my second favorite and in terms of fun I would say the two are a tie. Link's Awakening was another good addition as well on GBC. For some reason I couldn't get into the N64 releases like Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask but my brother did. Haven't played any of the Zelda's after Wind Waker as that was past my point of caring about console games.
I understand the convenience of home automation and all but I can't help seeing scenes of Maximum Overdrive playout in my head. But instead of aliens it's some little prick kid.
I have a Russian friend who has told me that cell phones work in the Moscow stations. It was part of his argument as to why the NYC subways stations don't have cell reception but should.
Just because your employees cant afford the product you sell does not mean its okay for them to steal. You cant justify theft. Should every person who works for Ferrari be entitled to afford an Ferrari (Car analogy!)? If Apple chooses to pay shit then don't work for them. Retail jobs are high turnover because its unskilled labor and they don't want to pay 30k+/yr + benefits to someone who could be replaced by any schmuck who walks in of the street. So they pay shit in the hopes that the employee gets tired of making nothing and moves on to a new job. Its a job for young kids out of high school or college looking for pocket money while still living at home with mom and dad. Its not a job that supports an independent life or family.
It would be nice if every job could enable someone to live independently but it simply doesn't work like that.
The managers are probably the thieves and blaming the employees. Employees are a major source of theft but as you stated the managers also employees and just as culpable. So who is watching them? Its then easy for them to blame the kids working for peanuts when stuff goes missing. The searching may be a method of diverting attention from the manager to the employees. I would be curious if after the lawsuit the search policy is dropped along with a reduction in "lost" merchandise.
Now we could hack into the controller and reprogram it to direct the sun to a single point and voila! Instant death ray. Might help with the tourist problem.
The NSA should simply host their email with Google and it will be instantly searchable through PRISM.
Infact the NSA should compete with google and offer its own free email and search engine, PRISM. Just PRISM it!