Though Grayson is nearly too smug, I like him over all. And maybe the party can use a few people like him who are good at giving the media the sort of shocking and/or funny sound bytes they love reporting on. Usually they also happen to be true.

But didn't it seem weasely when he wasn't willing to admit that health care reform will cost anything? I think insuring millions of lower income Americans is worth the expense. But it's just disingenuous when asked so point blank about it to repeat the line that it will lower the deficit.

Yes it will lower the deficit, because it's actually paid for. Everything the government does responsibly should be paid for; but that doesn't mean it's free or actually making us money. It's paid for primarily through taxes. Trying to deny such a basic fact makes them seem like republicans.

You have to understand the political climate is putting some pretty heavy restrictions on what Weiner can say.

My interpretation is that your base tax rate will be increased (for those above a certain income), then proving your health coverage will allow you a deduction which will bring your tax rate down to where it was before.

But Weiner can't give them the sound byte "Your tax rate will increase" because they won't pay attention to anything else that might come after those words. They will scream "Democrat admits health care reform increases taxes!!!"

So he has to talk around the point. It sucks, but that's the kind of Fox News mentality that he is up against.

I shall wear it with pride on digitized bits and bytes...in rather....a brief mooovie...whilst panties are tossed hither and yon-

In reply to this comment by dag:
Hi Choggie - sorry for the delay. The shirt's in the mail - cheers.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
Uhhh, by the by old man....you mail that tshirt yet??....got the address right??

Weird DNS glitch at work. I can't connect to VS with its www. prefix, but can without it. I noticed IP addresses are different when I ping both:

C:\>ping www.videosift.com

Pinging www.videosift.com [69.55.231.118] with 32 bytes of data:
Control-C
^C
C:\>ping videosift.com

Pinging videosift.com [216.18.199.34] with 32 bytes of data:
Control-C
^C


There's a problem. VS' home page uses www. prefix for most of the links.

I loved my VIC-20, it was all I could afford so I made the most of it. I think it was a 22 character column display. And I only had 2.5 kilobytes of RAM. I was getting my Associates in Electronics when I got the VIC-20, from 1982 to 1984 so it was perfect for learning to program BASIC and writing programs to solve electronics and algebra problems.

I pushed it to its limits, sometimes storing data in the 500+ bytes of screen memory when I didn't have to display anything and using one letter variables to save memory, like A=A+1, Z=Z-6. My computer teacher commended me for my resourcefulness and creativity for finding ways to maximize the limited power of the VIC-20. But he also criticized me for bad programming habits, like using one letter variables that were non-descriptive of the info they stored. He always said BASIC was horrible and I should focus on getting proficient with Pascal.

I didn't understand what he meant until I got my first computer job, part of which involved trying to fix a program someone had written in BASIC. It was a total mess, undocumented spaghetti code with GOTO statements that felt like you were watching a pinball ricocheting inside a pinball machine. I finally understood what he meant.
Anyway I miss my VIC-20.

TV is all about sound bytes that fit between commercials. Solutions to our problems do not fit in a sound byte. TV is the conduit between much of the public and information. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_civil_marriage_in_the_U.S.

I was disappointed with the often silent Mr. Perez who should rightly be outraged but did not do an effective job of expressing that. And Perez had plenty of opportunities to jump all over Hilton:

-He kept bringing religion into the debate but at the same acknowledging that he was only talking about civil unions

-He actually said "the same does not mean equal"

-His argument that a woman can give something to a child that a man cannot doesn't hold water. (It's just like saying "Steve can be a different father than Ted" which is of course true but it's not an argument against gay marriage just because a woman can offer something 'different')

This is a nice representation of what not to do in the face of a bigot (let them drag on and on and on) Hold your ground and don't just memorize sound bytes.
*promote

Include Starcraft, clicking on the terran academy also produces this overused sound-byte.

Processor core frequencies have been nearly stagnant for 3 years. They're building more and more parallelism instead. The capacity to directly simulate a human brain is still far beyond the most powerful supercomputer. Storing only an abstract representation of all of the connections between neurons in a human brain would require 5 petabytes (10^11 neurons * 10^4 connections per neuron * 5 bytes per connection)

higher taxes, lower spending
hmm makes sense.
but, the entire country has to start thinking like this, and i highly doubt that everyone has the mental capacity to adopt this thought and hang buy now pay later on the rack. Perhaps $20 trillion will do the trick.

>> ^mrk871:
Err. It does help both of those things. How about a game without limitations on storage /size. Without having to wait for it to load.

I think you are massively overestimating the storage potential of this tech.

Envision a simple FPS using your system with a level which is a 100ft^2 room, with a move granularity of 1", so assuming you can't duck or jump, and your POV dose not move or pan up and down you would need 3 HD bitmaps, at 120degrees view each, to have horizontal panoramic viewing, so that's 1200^2 locations * 3 bitmaps * 2,073,600 (1080i frame) pixels * 4bytes (32 bit color) = ~32TiB data for an empty room.

To get the level of interactivity we are currently used to you would need at least 100(probably 1000) times more points making the movement smother and allowing for vertical movement and panning. So at least 3.2PiB, and you still have an empty room.

To add objects raise that to the power of the number of movable objects/characters (including projectiles) you have in the room, say 50 objects, and we are looking at ~5x10^777 bytes.

Remember the known universe has only about 10^80 atoms. If we assuming that this memristor can store a byte per atom(not possible given the description), you are going to have to deconstruct about 5x10^693 universes in order to find the material to build the memory you require.

The current bottle neck for both porn and video games is bandwidth and latency in transmission, not generation or storage. Storage getting better is good™ but it is not, as a storage/memory medium, groundbreaking.

People have said that we will all soon be using memory for everything since computers stored data on paper tapes, but disks are likely to be much cheaper than RAM until we are at least 3-4 moore cycles beyond the physical disk data density limit. Always take often repeated decades old claims with a grain of salt.

If it allows new models of computation, then I'll buy its potential, but barring such a claim, this tech changes approximately nothing.

^Here, here. The Obama camp has largely become pushy chest-thumpers, in my opinion. The debates are nothing more than a smattering of party-bashing and sound bytes. We're in a growing economic crisis and the best the two candidates can come up with to solve it is buying toxic loans or cutting taxes for the middle class. And party zombies eat that shit up like it was the gospel, all the while vehemently labeling the other party's candidate as the muslim anti-christ terrorist or the old warmongering bushie.

This is why I'm voting third party.

First step, don't try to understand the Middle East through western eyes. You won't succeed. Second step. The Muslim religion is quite diverse, very much like Christianity. You'll have some serious trouble trying to identify/count all of the various factions/flavors of each religion around the globe. Thirdly, one's tribe/roots takes priority. The religious faction comes -close- second (i.e. Sunni or Shia). Then comes national loyalty LAST.

It is very difficult to summarize this explanation in a catch phrase or sound byte, as is so common in the US media, and especially the US President. That is one reason why the majority of the US population has been completely clueless regarding Iraq's (lack of) ties to Al Qaeda, and how they falsely believed the US would be welcomed as liberators after charging into Muslim holy lands bearing big guns and bombs. They were using western logic, which doesn't apply there.

Iran has factions (89% Shia, 9% Sunni). Iraq has factions (65% Shia,20% Sunni.. smaller percentages as don't forget the Kurds). Another example is Pakistan in reverse percentages (70% Sunni, 25% Shia).

Iran is a religiously (Shia) dominated state. The Mullahs have power akin to congress (or presidential level) when compared to the United States.

Iraq was a repressive, dictatorial BUT secular state under Saddam Hussein which was put in power through US influence (via assassination of it's former leader). Yes. That statement is factual and is backed up by historical evidence often disregarded by US citizens. Anyway, since Saddam has flown to la la magical religious land after his death, the ongoing civil war has been a result of Sunni/Shia factions trying to gain domination and control over the remnants of Iraq.

Saddam's roots are Sunni. The -minority- group of Iraq and Iran. Lest we not forget Saddam attacked Iran with US support. Remember those chemical weapons? That is right. The West supplied those for Iraq to use against Iran... and as a result vast numbers of people died on both sides in that war. Saddam then had some extra left over to toss onto the Kurds and other dissidents. Supplied by the good old US of A and their buddies.

Put that formula together.

A US endorsed/supplied Sunni dictator (Saddam) turns on the US. The US invades and tosses Iraq into Chaos. Who wants power now? The Shia that is who. Who is in the majority? The Shia. Who supports them? Iran. Who wants to form a religious state in Iraq? Iran AND the vast majority of Shia who live in Iraq.

Now that is why Muqtada Al Sadr, a powerful Iraqi politician, religious leader, and Anti-US, Pro-Iran individual is so powerful. He has a militia that numbers in the many tens of thousands. Easily rivaling the ragtag Iraqi military.

Remember when Talabani invaded southern Iraq to stamp out Al Sadr's militia? What was not covered in the US media was that it was orchestrated, coordinated, planned, and closely supported by the US. It was a propaganda tool to 'supposedly' prove that Iraq was able to handle its own. What really happened? They got their asses handed to them, and Al Sadr's militia stood firm. A cease fire was then brokered, because Talabani knew damn well that if he didn't back off, the poop would hit the fan even worse than they already had. He walked away with egg on his face and was humiliated, but the western media simply omitted the facts. I should mention Cheney secretly (not too successful at remaining secret) met Talabani not long before the operation, and those connected with the incident claim he was directly involved. This event proves that the Iranian influenced Shia had power now. During Saddams reign, such a move would have been impossible.

Now that is why Iran now has power. The Shia and pro-Iran majority now have strong grasp in a part of the world they did not. The US cannot stay in Iraq forever. Iran has patience, and proximity. Al Sadr has the militia and the political/religious influence.

So there you are. The US' crusade for WMD... liberation.. or whatever the story is on a given day.... their crusade for Oil resulted in this situation.

Where will it go in 5-10-15 years time? We'll have to see. I can guarantee in 10 years time, as I predicted multiple wars prior to Bush's first election (talk to my family/friends about that one and they'll validate it), that the US won't be in the position it planned to be in. The trillions the US spent on this stupid war which had NOTHING to do with Usama Bin Laden won't be paid back, the US taxpayer will STILL be paying interest on the massive loans made to us by China/Japan.. and yes, Russia... to finance this dead-end project.. and Bin Laden will die of old age before he is ever found. Why? Because the US government simply doesn't care about Usama. Oil resources is their priority.

Fallout is the BEST franchise EVER. I've got some hesitations about about Bethesda developing FO3, but we'll see how it goes.

XPlay/G4 is a bunch of ignorant morons. PC is dead? Tell that to Blizzard. The PC gaming market is starting to evolve the way the music business is trying to and some people (like Crytek) just can't see far enough past a sound byte to understand how it really works. By all calculations, there are more PC gamers than console gamers. Problem is, there's also more PC pirates than console pirates....

PS: I really hope the hit box was being affected by bloody mess. Hopefully, headshots won't normally result in ALL the limbs disintegrating. That's just dumb.

>> ^ant:
1000 vs. 1024
Kb vs. KB
kB vs. kb
Confusing, eh? Remember bytes vs. bits.


Theres no diff between kb and Kb.
k and K both mean Kilo