"If you hit the wall in an Indy Car and don't take your hands off the wheel, you'll break your wrists. Our wheel is a one-to-one replication of that, but we don't turn it up that high.
If you don't turn it up that high, it's not really a one-to-one replication then, is it?
It is, up to its limit. One-to-one just means they aren't scaling back ALL outputs to fit them in their dynamic range, they're allowing them to clip to the safety limits.
I can foresee asymmetric travel. In the mornings, you'd have people going north, and in the evenings, people going south, more than the reverse. It's easier to get around the SF Bay without a car than it is to get around L.A. without a car. Thus, a lot of the people coming south are going to drive, because even if a train can get them 90% of the way there, they still have a last mile problem.
Of course, but letting the doctors from outside do their work uninhibited IS to their credit. The same cannot be said of all such operations in the region.
This may have something to do with the fact that Liberia itself has an internal image that it is a modern nation with a money problem, rather than a "developing nation".
You: "Okay, let me rephrase this. The hard drive in your server is failing. Do you want to schedule downtime for replacement, or let it fail unpredictably? Your call."
The standards body for the microelectronics industry has found that Solid State Drives (SSD) can start to lose their data and become corrupted if they are left without power for as little as a week. According to a recent presentation (PDF) by Seagate's Alvin Cox, who is also chairman of the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), the period of time that data will be retained on an SSD is halved for every 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in temperature in the area where the SSD is stored.
Were LinkedIn profiles used in the little games of Spot The Fed at DEF CON? Seems that if you could tie someone to their profile, you could determine a lot more about them than they're actually willing to tell you directly.
Of all the Cheap Chinese Crap I've had to deal with, remote controls have probably been the least troublesome. They generally live as long as the devices they control, and who knows what's left in them after that?
Now if only the Rii Touch keyboard had been as reliable...
Pundits have been saying that at least since 90nm, you know. Then 65, and again at 45, 32, 33, and now at 14.
And those limits were dodged by some new process: SOI, copper interconnects, what have you. He's not saying we won't see 10 nm, he's just saying there's a good chance it will have to be something other than CMOS.
Moving up to a 1090T or 1100T Black Edition could be nice. 3.2 or 3.3 out of the box, but 3.8 or 3.9 is almost a given without worrying about voltage bumps and awesome cooling. My 1090 was throttling at 3.8 when running SuperPi on the stock cooler, but have no such problems with a Hyper212. I would need more cooling to run all-day-every-day at 4.0.
Granted, 2.8 to 3.8 may not make a lot of real world difference when memory bandwidth comes into play, and as you pointed out, the GPU has a lot to do with it (when it's relevant at all, which it isn't when, say, running six sessions of WinRAR at once).
AMD can hold their own in the mid-high end, though they aren't cranking out the high-margin "extreme" processors. Those are more of a status symbol anyhow, for both manufacturer and consumer, and I doubt that even Intel makes enough of them to be a big chunk of its gross income. That's why they're so damn expensive. Why make them any cheaper if you can't make them rapidly enough as it is?
Sure you can give 110%, just like an engine can deliver 110% of sustained power (which is how marine and aviation engines are rated, not instantaneous power). It just can't do that indefinitely, and it decreases reliability. Either service must be more frequent, or it's going to fail sooner, or both. Nonetheless, many marine engines are held in excess of 100% for hours or days on end.
Similarly, if you take work output divided by calendar time, you can deliver 110%... for a while. If you try to sustain this, you burn out. Just look at the game development industry for an example. They expect 110% or more, all the time, consequences be damned (so long as they fall on the hapless employees).
Say I'm a business owner, and I get burned by younger women who take the job, get knocked up, take the maximum legal maternity leave (while I pay for the medical insurance), and then decide to quit at the end and not come back. You think that's not going to dissuade me from hiring members of their class (young women likely to become mothers) when there are other applicants in front of me who can't burn me that way?
Yes, it's discrimination. No, I wouldn't tell anyone I'm doing it. I'd fix the demographics by hiring women in their 40s and beyond, when available, thus meeting both gender quotas AND age quotas in one fell swoop. Obviously, I'd have to accept younger women when they're the only ones qualified for (or possibly the only ones seeking) a certain job, but I wouldn't invest the same degree of training in them, knowing they have a propensity to abandon the working world as is convenient to them. It wouldn't be personal, and I wouldn't blame them, but it's still bad for my business to dump money into training employees who are likely to leave at the drop of a hat.
Now if I ran a business where everyone was replaceable, and nobody worked enough hours to get covered medical, I wouldn't give a shit. In fact, the propensity of those same women to leave the job would help reduce the overhead of people staying on too long and expecting ever increasing wages.
I'm not a business owner, and I have no plans to do anything of the sort, but I'd have to be a blithering idiot not to at least consider the problem. I've certainly seen this play out in the real world.
Depends on the game. For some games, the skill is all about quickly executing certain key combinations, for others it involves elements of timing. For others, that include a lot of scripting hooks just so you can make common things easier, they don't want you going overboard and writing complex interactions that do conditionally respond to stuff.
That still won't stop anyone. Write a macro that gets you to a conditional branch, then two or three or however many more you need based on the situation faced. "Oh, it's going THAT way, better use the Blue layer."
I'm not an elite gamer, and I never will be, but I do like my particular flavor of hardware. If you as an organizer were to tell me I had to use the same Razer Black Widow as you're saddling everyone else with, I'd be saying "no thanks, can I get my entry fee back?" because I don't even use QWERTY, or a staggered layout for that matter. I use a tweaked Dvorak layout in a rectilinear matrix, with my cursor pad on the left. It also happens to have 32 leftover keys for programming (41 if I want to fill every available space at the cost of comfort). I can add another 30 macros in the form of the Xkeys 16 strip I paid way too much for a few years back. Telling me I can't use these would be very similar to saying I couldn't use a mouse with twelve thumb buttons – which can also be used for macros. (I don't, I actually have just a six-button mouse and use the thumb buttons as modifiers, but I wouldn't complain about someone who did.)
You can play Limit without worrying about chip stacks, but yeah, No Limit is heavily dependent on having to decide when to go all in and when to live to fight another hand. I have to assume there are re-buys.
However, keyboards and keyboard converters are easily available which can do macros in the hardware.
Soarer's. Blue Cube. Tipro. Cherry G86 (and even some G80 and G81). Xkeys. All hardware-programmable (and that's just off the top of my head). Even if you can detect the use of "illegal macro software", what about the hardware options?
Which makes me ask, what the hell is an "illegal macro" anyhow? If something is so predictable that it can be scripted and bound to a single key, then it shouldn't really take multiple presses of a key to do it in the first place. This is not just limited to games, it extends to all software where I want to do a single, moderately tortuous task efficiently and often.
I would agree that particular scenario is unlikely. I was just making the point that there may be a conflict between what is best on a local scale and what is best on a global scale, and there may even be severally equally flawed proposals which apportion the damage differently. The ones taking the brunt of the pain aren't going to be overly sympathetic, even if it needs doing.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
